pritchet1 wrote:What would happen to you if you downloaded a copy of the Qur'an, and then perhaps deleted it off of your computer (virtual book burning) in the presence of an Islamist in an Islamic controlled country?
pritchet1 wrote:Aussie;
As Cleon Skousen observantly noted in "Hidden Treasures of the Book of Mormon", Jesus the Christ did away with the Law of Moses through his Atonement, so the items in Deuteronomy, etc. have been "done away"
The anti-freedom and anti-Christian and anti-Jew items in Islamist scriptural texts have not been "done away" and are taken literally by those who would seek total control and destruction of our lives.
Sharia has penetrated our financial system, in the form of sharia-compliant financial instruments offered by the likes of Citi Group and AIG. In an example of government accommodating sharia, Minnesota offers sharia-compliant mortgages for Muslims.
Muslim prison employees, law enforcement officials, and even a Disneyland employee, have sued for the right to wear the hijab as part of their uniforms.
Muslim parents in New Jersey are demanding private prayer rooms for their children in the PUBLIC elementary schools.
According to a National Public Radio report in 2007, as many as 100,000 Muslims are living in polygamous marriages here in America.
Harvard provided women-only gym hours to accommodate the demands of Muslims
The Islamic Court of Justice has an international mandate and could try foreigners, both Muslims and non-Muslims (blasphemers, apostates, resisters to jihad) who have broken the laws of Shari'a anywhere. Moreover, the claim by the OIC to be the guardian and protector of Muslim immigrants living in all countries that are not members of the OIC implies an extension of its jurisdiction and political influence over all the Muslims of Europe, North and South America, and the other non-Member States. This situation exacerbates the danger incurred by non-religious European Muslims, whether atheists, apostates, or free thinkers.
Within its organization, the Charter presents characteristics similar to those of the EU; however, in terms of its spirit, functions, principles, and objectives, it is the EU's very antithesis. Even if it employs the language of international organizations, the meaning of the words is different by their being rooted in the conceptual world of the Koran, which contradicts the basis of secular Western thought. Thus, Article 32-2 states, "The Council of Foreign Ministers [of OIC countries] shall recommend the rules of procedures of the Islamic Summit." This implies an Islamic view and understanding on policy.
Such a combined political and religious institution is at the very outer rim of Western thinking, anchored as it is in the separation between politics and religion. Even if interference between the two fields has persisted, the principle of such separation has facilitated emancipation in the intellectual and political arenas from religious authority and the development of critical thought.
Present-day aspiration of the Ummah to submit to a caliphate which embodies a combined political-religious institution can only surprise the Westerner and highlight the gap that separates the two. Rooted in individualism, Europeans cultivate the search for happiness and cherish freedom of thought and of rational, scientific exploration, which are perceived as a human being's greatest privilege and finest adventure.
Conversely, aspiring to the Caliphate indicates the longing for a supreme authority owing its infallibility to Allah and his human intermediary, Mohammed. According to Ibn Khaldoun, this institution placing politics at the service of worldwide, religious expansionism was created as instrument for the mandatory Islamization of mankind. Faced today with this political archaism, a divided and broken West seeks refuge in denial and grasps at the demise of tiny Israel as though at a lifebelt. Taking in water from every side, this West that abandons its own identity for multilateralism and multiculturalism and ruins its citizenry by buying security has little chance of survival.
A ‘hudna' is a temporary peace entered into by an Islamic force when it is weaker than its enemy. Its purpose is to buy the Islamic side time to rearm and regroup. But don't think of it as a ceasefire as Westerners understand the concept, because there are fundamental differences.
First, according to Islamic thought, the Muslim side is entitled to break the hudna at any time without giving notice to its adversary. However, the non-Muslim side is entitled to no such change of mind.
"If I take an oath and later find something else better, I do what is better and break my oath," Muhammad said. "If you ever take an oath to do something and later on you find that something else is better, then you should expiate your oath and do what is better."
Second, 10 years is the longest time authorized for a hudna before the Islamic side is obliged to resume making war. And since the last Islamic assault on Washington and New York, our political and economic capitals, respectively, we have now passed the nine-year mark.
The process of settlement is a “Civilization-Jihadist Process” with all the word means. The Ikhwan (brothers) must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and “sabotaging” its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God’s religion is made victorious over all other religions. Without this level of understanding, we are not up to this challenge and have not prepared ourselves for Jihad yet. It is a Muslim’s destiny to perform Jihad and work wherever he is and wherever he lands until the final hour comes.
Even the simplest person can deduce that classical Islamic Shari’ah law cannot possibly fit into the modern world anywhere on the globe. But it is especially impossible to apply this system in America, the land that created modern religious freedom, and let millions escape oppression. Most alarming, the Islamic law does not change to fit into other cultures, but is always offered as a “perfect gift,” delivered at the edge of a sword.
Is it not the most obvious fact imaginable that American law is a thousand times fairer and safer than Shar’iah? Therefore, what kind of a mentality would want to force so much injustice, punishment and destruction upon the American people—in the name of God &¬† the “Religion of Peace”? That Rauf claims this antiquated, unsophisticated and brutal legal system agrees with American law and society says much more about his intentions for his Ground Zero mosque than it does any other topic he will ever discuss.
Here is what he left out— He has to have several armed guards with him at all times. He has to move constantly to avoid being located and killed by islamists. This was an awesome speech– very sober and truthful in its content. It makes me so sad to think about muslims taking over Europe and destroying and defiling all of what once was a treasure trove of great cathedrals, great art, architecture and history. We haven’t really begun to count the cost that islam will exact upon ALL Europeans once muslims become the dominant population. That free people would allow themselves to be duped by the massive immigration of muslims is more than a warning to the USA.
We must stop muslim immigration NOW!! All of what Europe was and is will change under islam. A whole history of nations will be rubbed out, rewritten and pronounced as the new historical truth under islam. What the violence of islam has done to make slaves of women and children is so depressing I can’t even say it.
The enemy is here and growing. We cannot fall back to sleep if we want our culture, our one nation under God, and our Constitutional Republic to survive. muslims are not here to assimilate. They are here to dominate. Don’t be fooled by their forays which purport to seek interfaith dialogue and togetherness. You will be going down a no exit, one-way street. That kumbaya “outreach” will all change when they grow to sufficient numbers!!
The big mistake Christians make with Islam is to assume that Islam is like any other religion. Christians, especially in this country, are so defensive and insecure that they can't bring themselves to criticize Islam because they are so used to having to defend themselves against accusations of radicalism everytime some nutjob opens his mouth.
The problem with Islam is not "radicalism" of prison inmates or anyone else. Islam has not been "hijacked" by anyone. The problem with Islam are Muslims who practice it faithfully. The basic premise of Islam is the notion that there is only one God and Mohammed was God's last messenger. That's really it. Terrorism is just the most sincere expression of the basic tenents of Islamic supremacy, which is the only point of Islam. Islam means submission, and what many religious people don't understand is that Muslims do not submit to God, they submit to Islam.
Prime Minister Haji Abdul Razak of Malaysia has offered to help Obama overcome “Islamophobia” by sending “experts in Islamic studies” to America in order to correct misconceptions about Islam. Malaysia’s Deputy Education Minister, Datuk Saifuddin Abdullah, stated, “We qualify to send our experts as we have the experience of administering a country which is multi-ethnic, multicultural and multi-religious like the US.”
Of course by multi-religious, he means Malaysia is an Islamic state which pervasively discriminates against non-Muslims. Malays are automatically treated as Muslims and subject to Sharia law. They are not allowed to become members of another faith, without applying to an Islamic Sharia court. And without official recognition, the law forbids them from marrying Christians or Buddhists. The Lina Joy case is an example of how non-Muslims can remain in limbo under a legal system which is based on Islamic law, and denies equal rights to non-Muslims.
And then there’s the case of Revathi Massosai, a true example of what Muslim tolerance holds for the kind of “multi-religious” society that those “experts in Islamic studies” would love to inflict on us.
Revathi Massosai, a Hindu whose parents had converted to Islam, was considered a Muslim under Malaysian law, despite the fact that she had been raised and was a Hindu. When she tried to get the government to recognize that fact, the Islamic authorities put her into an “Islamic Re-education Camp”. There she was forced to wear a burqa, read Muslim prayers and eat beef. Since then she has been prevented from living with her husband and her daughter has no birth certificate. Nor is her case unique. Families have been broken up, children have been seized, even bodies have been dragged out of funeral homes because of Malaysia’s Islamic law.
Under Malaysian law, only Muslims were permitted to use the word, “Allah”. (This incidentally puts the lie to the common Muslim claim, that Allah is the universal word for God, rather than for the Muslim deity alone.) When in response to a Catholic lawsuit, the Malaysian court struck down the law, Malaysian Muslims responded in their usual tolerant fashion by firebombing churches. All of this without any protest from the same useful idiots, who go mad at the latest news from Gaza, and tramp down to Ground Zero in their Keffiyahs in support of Religious Freedom for the Ground Zero Mosque backed by a man with his own extensive ties to Malaysia.
But what will Malaysia’s “experts in Islamic studies” tell us to defuse our horrible Islamophobia? Perhaps they will tell us how Malaysia broke up and criminalized the Sky Kingdom compound and charged with practicing a “deviant religion”. Will they tell us whether Revathi Massosai has finally been allowed to see her daughter, and maybe explain to us how Islam’s famous religious tolerance accords with forcing a Hindu woman to eat beef. And maybe fill us in on how, if there is “no compulsion in religion” under Islam, why do there have to be Islamic Reeducation Camps? Can we also discuss Malaysia’s destruction of Hindu temples and how this differs from the behavior of the Taliban?
pritchet1 wrote:Geert Wilders, Member of the Dutcch Parliament wrote the following;
http://americangrandjury.org/islam-is-t ... -existence
Now he runs for his life;
Here is what he left out— He has to have several armed guards with him at all times. He has to move constantly to avoid being located and killed by islamists. This was an awesome speech– very sober and truthful in its content. It makes me so sad to think about muslims taking over Europe and destroying and defiling all of what once was a treasure trove of great cathedrals, great art, architecture and history. We haven’t really begun to count the cost that islam will exact upon ALL Europeans once muslims become the dominant population. That free people would allow themselves to be duped by the massive immigration of muslims is more than a warning to the USA.
We must stop muslim immigration NOW!! All of what Europe was and is will change under islam. A whole history of nations will be rubbed out, rewritten and pronounced as the new historical truth under islam. What the violence of islam has done to make slaves of women and children is so depressing I can’t even say it.
The enemy is here and growing. We cannot fall back to sleep if we want our culture, our one nation under God, and our Constitutional Republic to survive. muslims are not here to assimilate. They are here to dominate. Don’t be fooled by their forays which purport to seek interfaith dialogue and togetherness. You will be going down a no exit, one-way street. That kumbaya “outreach” will all change when they grow to sufficient numbers!!
Yet an entire phalanx of furrow-browed editorialists can't manage to even acknowledge the existence of these wildly noxious characters. You'll be fascinated to read the Fourth Estate's Olympian musings, offering mild rebukes of the Wellesley school system, much harsher criticism for the parent who took the video (hey, I thought whistle-blowers were supposed to be heroes), and caustic blasts for the organization that had the audacity to release the video and break the story.
Oddly, the only actors in this drama who remain virginally pristine and rebuke-free in the liberal media are the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center and its ancestor organization, the Muslim American Society -- or as federal prosecutors like to call it, "the overt arm of the Muslim Brotherhood." Somehow, the press can't even whisper a reproach to the guys who actually invited the students to learn about Islam and have an "authentic experience," then fed the kids ludicrous Islamist propaganda, broke the law by separating the genders, and got sixth-grade boys to join in prayers to Allah, going full throttle with their foreheads on the floor.
Now it's one thing to cover your head, take off your shoes, and sit silently during prayer, but this prostration business is really showing multicultural respect! For a thousand years, even the second-class citizens known as dhimmis who lived under Muslim sovereignty did not submit to that! But don't expect the press to bat an eyelash over it. After all, we're liberals -- we don't offend non-Westerners, only our own.
But let's give our good friends in the Boston press a break. The days of Sam Adams, Paul Revere, and other brave Bostonians are ancient history. Today's media mavens are much milder types, who long ago happily donated their backbones to be auctioned off at the Benefit for Multicultural Insanity.
Perhaps the press is worried that if they even hint at criticism of the Boston Mosqueteers, they might wind up like Molly Norris. She is -- excuse me, she was -- the Seattle cartoonist whose satirical work inspired a Facebook page called "Everybody Draw Mohammed." Molly's cartoon was a response to Comedy Central's cancellation of a "South Park" show in which Mohammed was depicted in a bear suit, prompting death threats against "South Park's" creators.
Now Molly Norris has been driven into hiding after calls for her assassination from U.S.-born Yemeni cleric Anwar al-Awlaki. "You may have noticed that Molly Norris' comic is not in the paper this week," the Seattle Weekly wrote. "That's because there is no more Molly."
The disappearance of this young woman and erasure of her entire life was greeted with a universal shrug by America's press and creative class. So far, no professional union or prominent artist has offered a word on her behalf. In fact, the American Society of News Editors explicitly refused to do so when asked point-blank.
Alas, poor Molly. She tried to fight back. She didn't realize that it's a whole lot easier to just offer up our children without a whimper of protest, as did the good folks in Wellesley. After all, the gods of political correctness must be appeased.
Loved reading your article on this middle school, study trip rip off. Just sing along with the mosqueteer's rendition of the old Disney song, altogether now: M-O-S, (because we kill you) -Q-U-E ( because we hate you) and you've said it all. Sentient persons were not fooled by this attempt at muslim proselytizing. All would be accomplished or so the muslims thought, by hiding behind a trip to supposedly study architecture!! The tape gave ample proof of what their real intent was---submission, misinformation and subterfuge. Gee, I'm surprised there wasn't a guest appearance by obama's favorite cartoon characters---the 99 names for Lucifer. Here, try this dry poison, kiddies. You'll like it! Come on, your parents won't mind.......!
Everything in Zaytuna's publicity history indicates that it is intended as a religious facility to train preachers and clerics in Hanson's fundamentalist brand of Islam rather than, as it is portrayed on NPR, as an "Islamic liberal arts college." Hanson had a long and ugly career as one of the most radical Muslim speakers in the U.S., which he abandoned after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Yet he still advertises his attachment to the Saudi-based cleric Sheikh Abdallah bin Bayyah, who was born in Mauritania in 1935 and is a member of the European Council for Fatwas and Research, headed by the notorious Egyptian-born and Qatar-based fundamentalist cleric Yusuf Al-Qaradawi. Al-Qaradawi, for his part, is distinguished by his fatwas in support of wife-beating and female genital mutilation, as well as Islamist radical positions in general.
Al-Qaradawi has praised bin Bayyah, Hamza Yusuf Hanson's mentor, and the legal authority to whom Hanson and students at Zaytuna will turn in their teaching of Islamic jurisprudence, as "between Salafism and Sufism." "Salafism" is a term appropriated from a group of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Muslim reformers who were pro-European and non-jihadist. The term is currently used as a cover for the Wahhabi sect in Saudi Arabia, the most violent, exclusionary, and fundamentalist phenomenon in the history of Sunni Islam, and the inspirer of al-Qaeda. Al-Qaradawi, soon after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, praised Osama bin Laden as "a symbol of the world uprising against American hegemony."
Zaytuna's "academic" apparatus, as catalogued on its September 2010 website, details no more than Hanson and his cohort had offered students in the past through his "Zaytuna Institute." As a college, Zaytuna includes only four faculty members: Hanson; Shakir; UC Berkeley adjunct professor Hatem Bazian, who bears the title of chair for Zaytuna's "Academic Affairs Committee"; and Abdullah bin Hamid Ali. An American-born Muslim, Abdullah bin Hamid Ali was formerly "assistant head chaplain for 5 years at the Chester State Correctional Institution" in Pennsylvania and claims to be "the only Western graduate of the Shariah Faculty of the University of al-Qarawiyin located in Fes, Morocco." Bazian, unlike Hamza Yusuf Hanson, remains an unapologetically radical exponent, perhaps best-known for his 2004 summons to an "intifada" in the United States.
...Consider the term "Islamophobe." The payload of this verbal barb has two parts. The "Islamo-" part refers to a supposedly harmless foreign religion, and the "-phobe" part refers to an irrational fear. Liberals and jihadists wish to classify us as unsophisticated rubes, xenophobes. Users of this moniker should be corrected -- forcefully and quickly. We are not "Islamophobes," but we can be called "Shariaphobes." The first refers to a religion; the second refers to a legal system.
Sharia Law is a target which the liberals cannot defend. After all, without Sharia Law, Islam would be a harmless religion -- almost benign. Even though liberals might not mind that Sharia Law treats Christians and Jews like garbage, atheists, polytheists, and pagans are treated even worse. And how could any liberal defend the way it treats women and homosexuals?
Another important verbal barb is the term "hate." Liberals will often scold Christians by telling us that it's against our rules to hate. We should politely suggest that their ignorance of Western religions is matched only by their ignorance of non-Western religions: Christians are certainly allowed to hate; we just can't hate people. Historically, Christians have hated a lot of bad stuff. Take for instance slavery and Jim Crow laws.
However, the best example of hateful foreign laws would be the Apartheid laws of South Africa. Once liberals use the word "hate," ask them whether they hated the Apartheid laws of the 1980s. If they answer yes, then ask them: if Apartheid was hateful treating non-whites as subhuman, why isn't Sharia Law hateful for treating non-Muslims as subhuman? Furthermore, you can remind them that South African whites never crashed planes into skyscrapers or attempted to export their laws to Europe or America.
Since Sharia Law was the moral justification used by Mohamed Atta on Nine-Eleven, Americans are more than entitled to fear Sharia Law. Are we not perfectly justified in hating Sharia Law with the same passion the Mr. Ahmadinejad hates Jews? Just at the Iranian president is an anti-Semite, shouldn't patriotic Americans be "anti-Sharia-ites"?
Finally, consider the word "racist." This implies that we, "evil white racists," are now harassing Arabs, not on the basis of their outrageous behavior, but purely because of their slightly darker complexions. We should remind them that under our laws, people are held accountable for their actions as individuals regardless of membership in any ethnic or religious group. We call this equal protection under the law. This is exactly the opposite of Sharia Law. Furthermore, one should suggest (as politely as possible) that if Muslim immigrants find it unbearable to live under a legal system in which they are not given special privileges, they are free to leave.
We can also remind our liberal friends that the poison of Sharia Law crosses ethnic and national boundaries. Some of the world's most vicious jihadists are from Chechnya in the Northern Caucasus Mountains. We must ask our liberal critics how it is possible for American white racists to bring themselves to "hate" these genuine Caucasians.
The 99 is produced in Kuwait and is now scheduled to premiere on The Hub (an American television network that is a co-venture between Hasbro, the toy company, and Discovery Communications) as an animated series produced by Endemol. While Obama promotes the comic series as an honest attempt at bridging gaps, the series preview, viewable here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiYU3DZCepQ, is anything but. Frankly, it's chilling -- in fact, breathtaking -- in its obvious intent to brainwash American children.
The video preview begins by telling the children that a group of 99 young superheroes "hold the future in their hands" but that their "struggle against evil goes back through the ages." The video then tells five-year-olds that the story begins in 13th-century Baghdad, where the "Library of Wisdom" contains a "collection of knowledge second to none" but that it isn't to last because "Mongol hordes" swept in to "destroy the empire." The invaders threw the books in the Tigris River, but Muslim scholars, who had 99 special gemstones, infused the stones with the wisdom and power of the books. Today, 99 youngsters find these stones that were scattered around the world, giving them superpowers, but the question is...who will guide these 99 heroes -- "the forces of light or the forces of darkness?"
The video tells a fictionalized historic tale of Islam, in which tolerant and open Muslim empires stretching as far as Spain were attacked by barbaric hordes ranging from the Mongols to King Ferdinand of Spain (of course, nowhere is there an honest accounting of Islam's warrior quest to invade and then dominate non-Muslim lands -- invasions that invited responses). In the video, we are treated to animated scenes of Islamic buildings and mosques on fire, but nary a mention of beheading non-Muslims for not converting to Islam once their lands were conquered or destroying churches and synagogues or converting them into victory mosques. (Picky, picky, I know, but a few facts wouldn't have hurt this venture.)
Finally, the video preview focuses on our main character, one blonde (of course) Alex Higgins, who looks and sounds like Dennis the Menace. Alex proclaims that the forces of evil have made his (WASP-y) father "into a monster." Soon, Alex is saved by the 99 and takes on the Islamic-sounding name Raquid The Watcher, gaining superpowers in the process -- he "can see and hear things that no one else can" -- as he touches one of the gemstones infused with all the knowledge and power of the Islamic books. Pretty cool, right? Well, yeah, if your goal is to teach unwitting and defenseless children that the power of the Koran translates into the ability to walk through walls and the necessity to forsake your own father. Frankly, I think it's the creator of this video who sees and hears things that no one else can...or does...or has.
Al-Mutawa, by the way, is hardly a moderate. On his website, he writes an article about considering naming his newest son Barack, after Obama. In the same article, he writes, "I received another call on my cell phone from a well-meaning relative who told me they heard I'd been blessed with another boy. ... 'You have enough boys to liberate Palestine,' he [said]. ... 'You don't need all five of my boys for that,' I replied. ‘You just need Khalid.' Khalid is my charismatic but accident-prone dynamo of a seven-year-old." He didn't tell his relative to shove it; he didn't suggest to his relative that his children shouldn't be taught to "liberate Palestine." Instead, he tried to restrict the recruitment efforts to a single son who is powerful enough to do it on his own.
Eileen F. Toplansky wrote;What's the problem, you ask? The problem is that another generation of American children will be indoctrinated to believe that all of Islam is by nature moderate and peaceful, and a victim of (Western) evil-doers throughout their history -- a proposition for which there is little or no evidence. Yes, there are moderate and peaceful Muslims, but the doctrine of jihad provides a sea of people who wish that America, Israel, and Western culture would disappear under the rising tide of political Islam.
It was Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Bolshevik party, who said, "Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted." The election of our dhimmi president guaranteed the forces of radical Islam at least four years to sow their seeds.
...These three events {see link} are not isolated occurrences and exemplify the findings of a Center for Security Policy report entitled Shariah: The Threat to America -- An Exercise in Competitive Analysis --Report of Team ‘B' II published in 2010. Some salient features of this 170+ page report include:
Sharia is a totalitarian, socio-political doctrine because it seeks to regulate all manner of behavior in the secular sphere -- economic, social, military, legal, and political. In fact, "shariah is fundamentally about power, namely the enforcement of a body of law, not faith."
Whether pursued through the violent form of jihad or holy war or stealthier practices referred to as dawa, shariah rejects fundamental premises of American society and values such as freedom of conscience; individual liberty (including in matters of personal privacy and sexual preference; freedom of expression (including the liberty to analyze and criticize shariah), economic liberty (including private property); equal treatment under the law (including that of men and women, and of Muslims and non-Muslims) [and] an abiding commitment to deflate and resolve political controversies by the ordinary mechanisms of federalism and democracy, not wanton violence. In fact, "any system of man-made law is considered illicit under Islamic law[.]" Thus, "Islam and democracy can never co-exist in harmony."
In fact, the unremitting rhetoric of rage emanating from the Muslim world must be viewed as a hypocritical ruse to bully the West. Has the West become so lacking in resolve that it should surrender to these hysterical rants as if there were any merit to them?
Andrew C. McCarthy, Harry Edward Soyster, and R. James Woolsey, authors of Shariah: The Threat to America analysis unequivocally state that American "leadership has ... failed to appreciate the complementary subversion campaigns posed by groups like the Muslim Brotherhood[.]" The Brotherhood "has succeeded in penetrating our educational, legal and political systems, as well as top levels of government, intelligence, the media, and the U.S. military, virtually paralyzing our ability to respond effectively."
Until Americans accept the fact that shariah is "as totalitarian a political program as ever were those of communism, fascism, national socialism, or Japanese imperialism" we will never truly combat the enemy "inside our perimeter." We have abdicated teaching our young people about the timeless ideals of American democracy, while "in many mosques, the overthrow of the U.S. Constitution is being encouraged" through printed material and in textbooks!
Consequently, not addressing the "internal threat that has masked itself as a religion" and permitting Muslim Brotherhood free reign when they "demand that free speech be barred where it gives offense to them, effectively imposes shariah blasphemy laws in this country."
Ostensibly mollifying the Islamic world by changing the name of a nightclub, by complying with shariah financing or by having American women whether they be Laura Bush, Hillary Clinton or Diane Sawyer wear a head covering or hijab is a subtle acquiescence by the West which will only embolden the enemy. Bat Ya'or explains that this "tacit, non-comprehended acceptance of shariah's dictates" in essence "puts the Western public sphere in the position of conforming to one of the basic rules of dhimmitude: the express prohibition of Christians and Jews to criticize Islamic history and doctrine."
We must identify, recognize and defeat every facet of shariah's designs and the people who promulgate it. We must begin to educate ourselves about this existential threat.
Molly Norris published a cartoon proposing an "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day." The cartoon was harmless, unfunny, and didn't actually portray Mohammed. She apologized shortly afterward. None of this served to save her. Anwar al-Awlaki, currently the most active jihadi cleric (he triggered both the attempted Detroit airliner attack and the Fort Hood massacre), issued a fatwa calling for her assassination: "her proper abode is hellfire." Norris consulted with the FBI, who recommended that she go underground and change her name. Apparently the Feds failed to make any serious offer of protection.
Nobody else did, either. Nobody stood with Norris at all. Her editor, Mark D. Fefer, published a note so spineless as to seem satirical, kissing her off and wishing her "the best of luck." So much for left-wing solidarity.
(Compare this to the Danes, who reacted to the threats against the Jyllands-Posten cartoonists with their customary vim. The paper, the Danish government, and the Danish public continue their support to this day.)
A photo of Norris, kindly printed by another Seattle paper for the edification and guidance of jihadi gunmen, reveals her to be a child-woman of a type not at all rare on the left, all broad smile, prominent glasses, and eccentric grade-school haircut -- the type who addresses everything with a combination of whimsy and sweetness. Perhaps for the first time in her life, she encountered men who did not respond as she'd grown to expect, who instead viewed her whimsicality as another aspect of female evil, one that deserves only annihilation. In the wake of that encounter, she has taken the sole path open to her -- she has vanished.
Supposedly facetious;Try as I might, I cannot generate any sympathy for Mollie Norris. At first, when the author was describing her (high school haircut etc) I had some small degree of sympathy. That passed when the author described the "newspaper" she worked for, especially its far, far-Left articles and sex ads. Mollie Morris was nothing but another journalist prostitute who cares little for the truth and earned her salary from a rag that traded in lies and sleeze.
Having said that, I agree with aposematic. We are failing to stand tall in the face of Islamic threats and bullying. It's just, with Molly Norris, there are Americans and there are Americans. Some love their country and will work and sacrifice for her. Others apparently hate America and are doing their very best to destroy all that is good about her. If a threatened cartoonist/journalist worked for some respected news source, I might feel different. The Molly Norrises of America are an enemy to the country I love just as much as Islam is. I see the small victory that Islam gets by making her disappear but I can generate no sympathy for HER. Petty maybe? Yes, but that is how I feel.
There's a NEW BOOK SET coming out by NASA director Bolden, touted by obama and written for America's children: The Islamic Cow that Jumped Over the Moon God. Also the companion book to it is currently in printing. It's called -- If You Give Muhammad A Rocket.
The second book comes with a special lyrical CD, has a toy bomb and is accompanied by songs from the ever popular ( and quite explosive!) Yemeni Boys Jihadi choir. Featuring memorable and fun tunes such as Rocket Around the Clock and How Much is that Bomb in the Window? Rumors are that not only will it inspire your children's imagination, but the book and the music really POP!! And....It's coming out just in time for Muslimbus Day (formerly Columbus Day).
And listen to this---- Buying the set is equal to having donated 100 al Awlakis to the ZFT fund (zakat for terror fund) Think of the terrorists you'll support. The book purchase also qualifies you for a sura-note that guarantees no waiting (YES!) in line when shopping at the local halal market. Hurry! Fill up that foot bath and jump on your camel NOW, to get your orders in early!! Then you can return home to the enclave, Kick off your kitman and hang up your hadith. Time to Relax! And call in the kiddies!! .... Sarc off.
So now American leftists are surprised when one of them thinks they are being funny and muslims are not amused. Where are Molly's kindred spirits in jounOlism? The radical feminists? The ACLU? The geniuses in Big Academia? Gloria Allred and the rest of Big Legal?
It is so much easier to mock Christians and white males than to criticize a movement that beheads, stones, lashes, hangs, severs limbs, and bombs.
I'm not wishing the woman anything but safety and a long life, but much of the West, now including the USA, has conceded the field of battle to the enemy. So why is anyone surprised when the enemy advances?
Doesn't this sound echo just a bit like deja vu for Mormons of early Missouri?...As Americans are blinded to the dangers of Islam by their experience with multiculturalism, Europeans are blinded to the dangers of Islam by their inexperience with multiculturalism. Both make the mistake of assuming that Islamic violence is part of the multicultural norm, rather than the resumption of an old invasion of Europe. The chaos and confusion in a multicultural society can make it hard to spot real threats against the background noise, frustrations and raw nerves of cultural friction. It becomes easy to lump in complaints about too many Indian restaurants, with complaints about angry mosque worshipers. And it becomes all too easy for authorities to tell people to just make the best of it, while ignoring the situation. The authorities are certain that eventually a natural balance will arise a generation or two down the road. The slow realization that the native born Muslims are actually more radicalized than their fathers and grandfathers is worrying them, but not in a particularly constructive way. Instead they are torn between England’s accommodation policies and France’s integration policies, neither of which get at the heart of the problem.
Debates over swimming classes or a radical mosque here and there are only the smaller branches of a fast growing tree. Because the problem is not merely cultural differences, those can be and have been accommodated. The problem is that Muslims believe that their way of life is morally superior, and that any system or institution that does not follow those laws, is invalid. Furthermore they believe that they have a duty to impose their laws on others in the name of their religion or honor. Attempting to accommodate people who believe this, by accepting their laws in whole or in part, leads to an avalanche effect, with each concession generating demands for new concessions. There is no final point of accommodation to be had, except complete submission to Islam, because those being accommodated never recognize the inherent validity of the system that is accommodating them. Not until it becomes their system...
