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“Tolerance” and “respect” are to be a one-way street where Islamic supremacism holds sway. Any sense of reciprocal duties implies an equality of responsibility which could detract from the subjugated status of unbelievers. And that’s clearly just… intolerable. “Muslim extremists against movie that promotes tolerance and dialogue,” by Mathias Hariyadi…
He also says that Christians in Egypt will have to submit and pay the jizya in a state of humiliation. And that there will be no art or tourism in the Egyptian Sharia State. Sheikh ‘Adel Shehato is a severe Misunderstander of Islam. He says things that I get branded…
Jihadist groups are allied with the National Transitional Council anyway. They would not have thrown in their lot with the NTC unless there were something in it for them, and there has been plenty. This, of course, is the same NTC that won’t extradite al-Megrahi. One can’t help but note…
Will Honest Ibe Hooper or Boy Reza Aslan or some other giant of Moderate Islam denounce the Jama’at al-Tawhid wa’l-Jihad as Misunderstanders of Islam or even as Greasy Islamophobes? Or are they not misusing the Qur’an and Muhammad’s words at all? “Gaza-Based Salafi Group Launched Rockets at Israel,” by Chana…
An update on this story. Which occupation caused this suicide bombing?”Algeria attack claimed by al-Qaida offshoot,” from the Associated Press, August 28: ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb claimed responsibility Sunday for the attack on a military academy in Algeria that killed at least 18 people including…
Zinjibar has now been in jihadist hands since the end of May. “Four Yemeni soldiers killed in clash with ‘Qaeda’,” from Agence France-Presse, August 28: Four soldiers were killed and 12 wounded in a a fierce firefight between Yemeni troops and suspected Al-Qaeda gunmen near the southern city of…
Here is yet another example of an oft-repeated phenomenon: whenever there is any problem, declare that it was caused by rebellion from Allah, and that the only remedy is more Islam. This is a recurring feature of Islamic history, and it leads to ever-increasing fanaticism and violence. “Root cause of…
Jihad waged by Muslims against other Muslims tends to blow a hole in the usual theories of “underlying causes” for Islamic jihad outside of the imperative to wage jihad against unbelief and impose Sharia. That imperative includes variant Islamic beliefs. Who is “occupying” whose land here? “Suicide attack kills at…
Doubtless the NAMF is widely reputed to be “moderate.” After all, the Ontario government wouldn’t play ball with a non-moderate group. And so under the guise of moderation, all kinds of evils are perpetrated. We have seen this before, and recently. Dhimmitude in Ontario: “McGuinty Government Gives $150,000.00 Tax…
Yesterday I posted here about the Ground Zero Mosque Imam Faisal Abdul Rauf’s appearance in Scotland, where he said this: Rauf points out that “the only truly clashing area is the penal code, and no Muslim has the intention of introducing that to America. The penal code is the…
Recognition of the State of Israel has always been one of the stated conditions of the United States for any accord with Israel. Israel has been pressed again and again to make concessions, and has made them, in exchange for empty promises and the hope of this recognition. Even Obama,…
Here is one way Belgium is “building bridges” with its Muslim population. “NGO Monitor slams Belgium funds for ‘anti-Israel’ group,” by Benjamin Weinthal for the Jerusalem Post, August 14 (thanks to Tanguy Veys): BERLIN – The Jerusalem-based watchdog organization NGO Monitor has issued a report alleging that Belgium taxpayer funds…
The United States has recognized the Transitional National Council (TNC) of Libya as the provisional government of that country. Deputy Secretary of State William Burns addressed the Libyan Contact Group meeting–where else?–in Turkey, the Obama Administration’s favorite Middle East mediator despite that regime being a pro-Iran Islamist government that is turning Turkey into a police state. Turkey as a role model for the Arab world, anyone?…
Precisely because Burns, a serious professional diplomat, has stated the problems so well, I’m skeptical. For rebel commanders, the TNC is a bunch of corrupt guys with expensive suits, many of whom worked with the dictator, Muammar al-Qadhafi, in an oppressive dictatorship, and lived luxuriously abroad while the rebels were fighting and dying (and looting and burning, too). The rebels are undisciplined; there’s no chain of command; and the tribes in many cases hate each other. Burns describes a utopian situation that I think has very little to do with the reality of Libya.
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The Jerusalem Post columnist Larry Derfner was fired today because he wrote on his blog a statement many readers saw as justifying Palestinian terrorism against Israelis. As so often happens when people focus on a single sentence of an article, they’re missing the point, or at least the most important point. It also throws away what President Barack Obama calls a teachable moment.
The issue here is not “left” versus “right” but rather what is true and what is not.
In addition, columnists should not be continued in their jobs if their writing is not interesting or is factually inaccurate, not because they write something that people don’t like.
All too often nowadays the response to disagreement is to try to destroy people on the other side of the argument, to delegitimize them with name-calling and to silence them. That’s not the way democratic debate is supposed to work. If you think someone is wrong then answer the substance of the statements being made.
I don’t think Derfner should have been fired. Rather the point is that people should have answered what he said. Like Gideon Levy of Haaretz he is still arguing the line that terrorism is basically Israel’s fault. They hate us and want to kill us because we haven’t made enough concessions and because we are oppressing them. That’s the issue, not “justifying” terrorism.
Of course, Derfner’s position implies that if Israel ended the “occupation” and accepted a Palestinian state, terrorism, incitement, and hatred would stop. Many people throughout the world think the same thing.
That is a point worth debating. Since 1993, Israel has been trying out that theory and it has proven to be false. Unfortunately, and I wish things were different, we learned that the Palestinian leadership doesn’t want compromise and is unable to deliver it.
There are two problems here. First, the Palestinian leaders seek to wipe Israel off the map and are not in favor of a lasting, stable, and peaceful two-state solution. We know this by reading their words in Arabic, watching the institutions they direct, and observing their actions.
Secon, the Palestinian leaders–including those like Prime Minister Salam Fayyad–who do want negotiated compromise solution are too weak to bring it about. They fear their own people who they’ve been inciting toward extremism for years; the hardline mainstream within Fatah; and, of course, their Hamas rivals.
So, no, giving more territory; accepting a Palestinian state unconditionally; letting terrorist attacks on Israel go unanswered by retaliation; and so on will not solve the problem. I genuinely wish it were otherwise. It would be far better if Israel’s left-wing was correct and there was an easy and quick way to achieve full peace through a two-state solution this week.
Unfortunately, this wishful thinking is wrong and we have seen massive evidence to that effect. That’s why the vast majority of Israelis–including those who in the past voted for people like Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin, and Ehud Barak to be prime minister (for example, me), also know this is true.
Let’s examine the issue. Derfner says that the “denial of independence” to the Palestinians is so bad that it’s helping drive them to try to kill us.
1. But wait! Didn’t they used to say that it was the occupation that is helping drive them to try to kill us?
But now there’s no “occupation” (except in 20 percent of Hebron and east Jerusalem) and they are still trying to kill us!
And guess what? If they get independence they will still try to kill us because it will be Israel’s existence and the status of the “pre-1948″ Palestinians that is “so bad that it’s helping drive them to try to kill us.”
2. There’s another way to look at this, too. If denying them independence is, “so bad that it’s helping drive them to try to kill us.”
Thus, if they obtained independence would they be so grateful, so happy, or so busy building up their country that they would stop trying to kill us?
No. We know–even many of the most dovish and leftist of us–that they will continue to try to kill us from a better strategic position that would make it more likely they would succeed. So what good would that step do? And that is precisely why Israelis are not eager to support independence without any preconditions.
Indeed, a few minutes after writing this piece, I noticed that Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas has stated that even if the UN recognizes the independence of Palestine, he and his government will still demand that all Palestinians who lived within Israel’s borders before 1948 or any descendants of such people can demand to go live in Israel and Israel must let them in. Or there cannot be peace.
source: http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=235789
You see, there’s no end to this.
What happens when two weeks after independence there are more cross-border attacks? What happens if incitement continues? What happens if Hamas or radical Fatah forces seize power? What happens if the state of Palestine invites in foreign Arab forces or imports missiles or forms an alliance with Egypt or other sttes? I said “if” but I mean “when.”
And the lack of an agreed and defined border, as well as the presence of Hamas rule in the Gaza Strip (which the Fatah-led leadership of Palestine would support against Israel) would guarantee tension and a likely crisis before long and periodically thereafter.
At that point, if Israel were to retaliate for an attack or act against a build-up of military forces against itself, that would constitute international aggression in the eyes of many, including a majority in the UN General Assembly. Nobody would help Israel deal with this threat, including the current government of the United States,
To leap into such a situation in the hope–without evidence–that they would then “stop trying to kill us” is insane. No Israeli government would do it and that’s the correct decision.
3. And who is “them” when we discuss the Palestinians? Because obviously “them” doesn’t apply to Hamas (the group that happens to run almost half of the Palestinian territories) or to many other Palestinian groups and leaders that aren’t Islamist. It doesn’t even apply to most of Fatah.
In short, Derfner’s formulation is nonsense. And to understand why it is nonsense is the essential point to understanding the conflict, the failure of the “Peace Process,” and the Middle East.
Name Meaning-Jael means “wild or mountain goat” or “gazelle,” and as Dean Stanley expresses it, “a fit name for a Bedouin’s wife-especially for one whose family had come from the rocks of Engedi, the spring of the wild goat or chamois.”
Family Connections-The only association given of this woman who sprang from obscurity by a single deed which, because of its nature, hardly deserved fame, is that she was the wife of Heber, the Kenite. In those days everything connected with a tent was a woman’s job and the women became expert in all the phases of making, pitching and striking tents. This was why Jael was able to turn her skill to good account, as with a tent pin in one hand and with a maul in the other, she drove the pin home through the skull of Sisera as he slept-a deed not allotted to divine leading although the victory over Sisera was ( Judges 5:10).
How can we explain or justify such an act deemed treacherous according to the morals of Jael’s own time? “Hospitality was one of the most strictly adhered to, of all desert obligations, and was a matter of honor among the Hebrews,” says Mary Hallet. “In betraying Sisera, Jael broke this code of hers; but to us that is more easily understood than the revolting cruelty of her method of murder!” “So Sisera died”-and Jael’s treachery was forgotten in the more important fact of her courage. The circumstances occasioning such an act have already been touched upon. Israel chafed under the severe rule of Jabin, king of the Canaanites, and Deborah arose and with Barak went out against the armed force of Jabin. God intervened, and unleashing the powers of nature completely disorganized Jabin’s army. Sisera, captain of the host, and Israel’s cruel oppressor escaped and fell into the hands of a woman (4:9).
Sisera fled to the tent of Heber the Kenite, whose wife Jael met Sisera and urged him not to be afraid but to turn in and rest. Seeing how worn and weary Sisera was, Jael covered him with a mantle, and when he asked for water to slake his thirst she opened a bottle of milk for him to drink. Then, assuring him that she would shield him from any searchers, she watched him as he fell asleep. Going softly to his side, Jael drove the tent nail through his head and pinned it to the ground. Shakespeare says of woman that “she can smile and smile and be a villain.” Jael was not a crude or coarse woman, or a tiger of a woman. But with a husband who had allied himself with the enemy, she was caught in the politics of Israel and felt that she had to defend herself She resorted to trickery, for although she met Sisera with a beaming face, there was murder in her heart. Had Sisera attempted to rape Jael, and in defense of her honor she had killed him, that would have been another matter, but to kill him as an assassin kills a victim was something different. Her murder of Sisera reminds us of Judith of Behulia, who drove a sword through Olopernes’ throat as he slept.
While divine judgment fell upon Sisera, Jael erred in that she did not allow God to designate the means of punishment. Perhaps she felt an irresistible impulse to slay the persistent enemy of God’s people, but she remains forever censurable for the cruel way she killed Sisera, even though Deborah gloated over the act and praised it in poetic form. When Deborah said, “Blessed above women shall be Jael,” perhaps she was only praising her faith and not her treachery. Any woman killing the country’s enemy must be the friend of Israel, and so the method of Sisera’s death mattered little to Deborah who doubtless thought that all was fair in time of war. What atrocious crimes have been committed in the name of patriotism! Jael had no conception that she was the one person at the opportune moment to render “stern justice on an enemy of God.” Knowing that the tide of battle had turned against the Canaanites she realized that Sisera would be captured and killed, therefore she acted as the executioner herself, thereby cementing a friendship with Deborah, the conqueror, who thought Jael worthy of praise because of her love for Israel.
When Dr. Carey was suffering from a dangerous illness, the enquiry was made, “If this sickness should prove fatal, what passage would you select as the text for your funeral sermon?” He replied, “Oh, I feel that such a poor sinful creature is unworthy to have anything said about him; but if a funeral sermon must be preached, let it be from the words, Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness; according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.’” In the same spirit of humility he directed in his will that the following inscription and nothing more should be cut on his gravestone:–
William Carey, Born August 17th, 1761: Died – -
“A wretched, poor, and helpless worm
On thy kind arms I fall.”
Only on the footing of free grace can the most experienced and most honoured of the saints approach their God. The best of men are conscious above all others that they are men at the best. Empty boats float high, but heavily laden vessels are low in the water; mere professors can boast, but true children of God cry for mercy upon their unprofitableness. We have need that the Lord should have mercy upon our good works, our prayers, our preachings, our alms-givings, and our holiest things. The blood was not only sprinkled upon the doorposts of Israel’s dwelling houses, but upon the sanctuary, the mercy-seat, and the altar, because as sin intrudes into our holiest things, the blood of Jesus is needed to purify them from defilement. If mercy be needed to be exercised towards our duties, what shall be said of our sins? How sweet the remembrance that inexhaustible mercy is waiting to be gracious to us, to restore our backslidings, and make our broken bones rejoice!
Evening
“All the days of his separation shall he eat nothing that is made of the vine tree, from the kernels even to the husk.” Numbers 6:4
Nazarites had taken, among other vows, one which debarred them from the use of wine. In order that they might not violate the obligation, they were forbidden to drink the vinegar of wine or strong liquors, and to make the rule still more clear, they were not to touch the unfermented juice of grapes, nor even to eat the fruit either fresh or dried. In order, altogether, to secure the integrity of the vow, they were not even allowed anything that had to do with the vine; they were, in fact, to avoid the appearance of evil. Surely this is a lesson to the Lord’s separated ones, teaching them to come away from sin in every form, to avoid not merely its grosser shapes, but even its spirit and similitude. Strict walking is much despised in these days, but rest assured, dear reader, it is both the safest and the happiest. He who yields a point or two to the world is in fearful peril; he who eats the grapes of Sodom will soon drink the wine of Gomorrah. A little crevice in the sea-bank in Holland lets in the sea, and the gap speedily swells till a province is drowned. Worldly conformity, in any degree, is a snare to the soul, and makes it more and more liable to presumptuous sins. Moreover, as the Nazarite who drank grape juice could not be quite sure whether it might not have endured a degree of fermentation, and consequently could not be clear in heart that his vow was intact, so the yielding, temporizing Christian cannot wear a conscience void of offence, but must feel that the inward monitor is in doubt of him. Things doubtful we need not doubt about; they are wrong to us. Things tempting we must not dally with, but flee from them with speed. Better be sneered at as a Puritan than be despised as a hypocrite. Careful walking may involve much self-denial, but it has pleasures of its own which are more than a sufficient recompense.
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RATES of mental illnesses including depression and post-traumatic stress will increase as a result of climate change, a report to be released today says.
The paper, prepared for the Climate Institute, says loss of social cohesion in the wake of severe weather events related to climate change could be linked to increased rates of anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress and substance abuse.
As many as one in five people reported ”emotional injury, stress and despair” in the wake of these events.
[...]
The paper suggests a possible link between Australia’s recent decade-long drought and climate change. It points to a breakdown of social cohesion caused by loss of work and associated stability, adding that the suicide rate in rural communities rose by 8 per cent.
The report also looks at mental health in the aftermath of major weather events possibly linked to climate change.
It shows that one in 10 primary school children reported symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder in the wake of cyclone Larry in 2006. More than one in 10 reported symptoms more than three months after the cyclone.
Correlation between the very real chemical and biological changes in the mind as a result of trauma and theoretical climate change may be the most nonsensical connection warmists have tried to make yet. It isn’t a question of apples and oranges – more like elephants and ants. In order for this theory to work, you must show climate change as a given fact – the only possible explanation for the weather events catalogued – when any scientist worth their salt can give alternative explanations for droughts, cyclones, and other weather events. If there are reasonable alternative explanations, the theory collapses as a result of its reliance on the wholly theoretical.
It’s desperation time for warmists. Space alien attacks, hurricane tracks, earthquakes – the list of events tied to global warming recently has been staggeringly stupid.
I miss a good old fashioned hot spell being blamed on global warming. Times have changed and so have the tactics of the warmists.
Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan’s government was one of the few that did not come out and condemn President Assad for his brutal crackdown on protestors. The tone employed by Turkey – up until now – was decidedly less frosty than any other nation except perhaps Iran.
That appears about to change as Turkey now says they have “lost confidence” in the Syrian regime:
Turkey said Sunday it had lost confidence in the regime in Syria after months of trying to broker an end to the bloodshed there and warned it could become the Arab Spring’s next casualty.
“Actually (the situation in Syria) has reached a level that everything is too little, too late. We lost our confidence,” Turkish President Abdullah Gul said.
“Everyone should know that we are with the Syrian people… What is fundamental is the people,” he was quoted as saying by the Anatolia news agency.
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan echoed his president’s comments with a warning that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime could become the latest one to tumble in a string of revolts across the Arab world.
“A regime cannot survive by force, brutality, by shooting and killing unarmed people taking to the streets. The only solution is to silence arms immediately and listen to the demands of the people,” Erdogan said in a televised address to the nation.
“We saw the end of those who did not choose this way in Tunis and Egypt, and now we observe with sorrow what is being lived in Libya,” Erdogan said, stopping just short of calling for his departure.
Erdogan made a similar call to authorities in Yemen.
Can Assad survive total isolation? He can for a while, certainly. But eventually, as in other revolts we’ve seen, a turning point arrives and things can go downhill very rapidly afterward. What that turning point might be is unknown, but with there being no sign the population is losing courage about facing down live ammunition for Assad’s thugs, it will no doubt come sooner rather than later.
The Muslim Brotherhood has just issued an ultimatum to the Israeli ambassador in Egypt, telling him to “leave Egypt or die.” Brotherhood activists have rallied together, emboldened by their rise to prevalence in the political vacuum created by Mubarak’s resignation, to show the world that “[r]evolution is stronger than the Zionist attackers,” and they go on to say that “the entire Egyptian people are Hamas.”
Interestingly enough, this statement might remind the reader of the powerful words of John F. Kennedy, when he stood against the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1963, where he related: “All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words, “Ich bin ein Berliner.”"
The Muslim Brotherhood’s new message is very similar: all Islamic men in Egypt, whoever they may be, should stand and be counted as members of Hamas. Whether one sees this message as analogous in the sense of ideology, however, would likely be a matter of perspective.
There are the Western apologists for Hamas, who fight against all logic and evidence to portray the group as a viable representative in the Palestinian bid for statehood. People of this mindset generally believe Palestinians to be under the thumb of Zionist oppression, much like the West Berliners who lived in exclaves within East Germany at the time of Kennedy’s speech. To them, the Muslim Brotherhood shares Kennedy’s message of freedom from oppression.
But here’s the problem. Though these apologists willingly embrace the concept of freedom and perhaps cannot imagine how anyone could not do so, the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas stand for anything but “freedom.” Carrying forth “the torch of liberty” may have been a defining factor in JFK’s ideology, but to the Brotherhood and Hamas, all is secondary to carrying forth Allah’s will, which, according to the Quran, is for all Muslim men to fight unbelievers until religion is “only for Allah” (Surah 2:193).
Freedom does not hold the same value in fundamental Islamic practice as it does for the Western world that has really come to fancy the concept in the last five centuries. Submission, the very translation of Islam, is far superior to “freedom” for fundamentalist Muslims like those that make up the Brotherhood.
The aim of the Muslim Brotherhood, as it is with other anti-Zionist Muslims throughout the world, is to have the followers of Islam hold dominion over the holy land that Israel now occupies, to be governed by Islamic law. To them, having the Jewish “apes” and “pigs” govern with the notion of “freedom” and allowing equal worship at holy sites in Jerusalem is a slap in the face to the prophet who has promised the right to govern that region to Muslims. Therefore, they would much rather see Islamic clerics and mullahs allowing preferential rights to be granted for Muslims, while non-Muslims are subjugated, as Allah intended (Surah 9:29).
Some might read this criticism and find it offensive. They might suggest that these statements about these influential Islamic groups are too broad. Sure, some members of Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood want to see Israel destroyed by any means necessary, they might say. In fact, Hamas’ foundational charter says that very thing in plain language. And sure, maybe the Muslim Brotherhood has been calling to institute the Sharia practices of executing gays and stoning adulterers. But they would argue that this doesn’t mean that all members of these groups are for Islamic hegemony and the persecution of Jews.
But the truth is, what I’ve written to this point isn’t the half of it. What the Muslim Brotherhood really wants is not just the ability to institute the social standards of Sharia and for Muslims to hold dominion over Israel. Their ambition, which has been made frighteningly clear, is much, much darker.
The Muslim Brotherhood has held rallies recently that have seen the incineration of Israeli flags and the exhibition of Nazi symbols, complete with taunts to Israelis suggesting that “the gas chambers are ready.” It seems rather interesting for a group that has denied the Holocaust to clearly reference the means of its historical practices. Apparently, the infidels’ false history is not without its charms in the Brotherhood’s eyes.
But think about the implications of what we see every day, but fail to recognize. A burgeoning regime in Egypt, under the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood, is threatening the Israeli ambassador’s life. They have openly declared themselves to be not only in league with terrorists, but among the terrorists of Hamas, and therefore they have proclaimed themselves terrorists. Mohamed ElBaradei, a possible Brotherhood candidate for Egyptian leadership, has stated that he would go to war with Israel if it attacks Gaza. This means that any of Israel’s numerous and necessary retaliatory strikes upon Gaza could result in war with Egypt, their historic enemy whose strength Israel has bolstered in efforts to achieve the longstanding peace that the Brotherhood would so readily break.
But now, worst of all, the Muslim Brotherhood is calling for the annihilation of the Jews in Israel. This is not the lunatic diplomat of Iran, who is generally viewed by the West as a tyrant and a madman. This is the Muslim Brotherhood — a group that our president and many other Westerners feel should play an important role in post-Mubarak Egypt. Think about that. Prior to Hitler’s election to the chancellorship in 1933, not even he was so bold in bluntly calling for the mass genocide of the Jewish race. One would have to think that if he had been, not even Neville Chamberlain could mistake his intentions as anything beyond the evils he would later inflict upon humanity. But in the world today, the West knows well that the Muslim Brotherhood condones flagrant terrorism and the genocide of Jews, yet Western leaders encourage the democratic process that will hand them the mandate!
Not only have we not learned from history, but we have regressed to pacifism that must now be considered inexcusable given the template of history. The result we will find of continued pacifism is unmistakable. The only real question is whether or not the damage is reparable without increased hostility.
This is the kind of law that the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is trying to compel Western states to adopt.
The OIC’s campaign, OIC Secretary General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu emphasized in June 2011, was “a matter of extreme priority for the OIC.” And it has met with a good deal of success.
In November 2010, the UN General Assembly voted to condemn what it called the “vilification of religion.” Every majority-Muslim state, without exception, supported the resolution. This wasn’t the first time. The UN has previously passed resolutions condemning the “defamation of religion.” A Reuters report claimed that the language was softened in the November 2010 resolution from “defamation” to “vilification” in order to win more support from Western nations, but these words are essentially synonyms, and both dangerously subjective: if a binding resolution were passed, what constitutes “defamation” or “vilification” would presumably be left up to some UN body, which would mean, essentially, that it would be up to the OIC.
The OIC hopes ultimately to compel Western states to criminalize criticism of “matters regarded by followers of any religion or belief as sacred.” The latest iteration of the UN resolution specifically condemned “Islamophobia, Judeophobia and Christianophobia,” but if anything was a sop to Western nations and their bothersome notions of the freedom of speech, it was the inclusion of the last two. Andres Serrano’s Piss Christ, Chris Ofili’s dung- and pornography-encrusted Holy Virgin Mary, and a thousand anti-Semitic caricatures in the Arabic media vilifying Jews and Judaism in the crudest terms, never gave rise to any calls for United Nations action against “defamation” or “vilification” of religions. The OIC is the driving force behind such resolutions, and its aim is to proscribe “Islamophobia.”
In other words, it wants the U.S. and Europe to adopt Islamic blasphemy laws, such as the one this Facebook commenter fell afoul of in Egypt.
“Egypt police arrest man for Facebook ‘Islam insults,’” from AFP, August 21:
CAIRO (AFP) – Cairo police arrested a man who allegedly ‘insulted Islam’ in postings on Facebook after they tracked him down through his internet address, state news agency MENA reported on Saturday.
The agency said the 23-year-old, identified only as Ayman Y.M., posted comments ‘that were insulting to the Koran and the Prophet Mohammed and Islam and Muslims.’ It did not disclose what he allegedly said.
The youth was referred to the prosecution, which may charge him under a law that penalizes ‘insulting religion.’…
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● Crush The Bones Of the Zionist Regime: Today, is the Iranian inspired Al-Quds day. In Iran, Pakistan, Germany, …. demonstrators shouted death to the State of Israel, death to the Jews. One Iranian minister said, ”The Islamic communities should translate into practice the issue of Palestine and the rescue of… (read more)
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