en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/302131 Comments by dumbledoresarmy http://frontpagemag.com/2012/eric-allen-bell/the-high-price-of-telling-the-truth-about-islam/#IDComment286668669 Small correction to the above. Albert Elmarry's child, born seven months after its father's death in the Twin Towers, will be turning ten in March this year, not eleven. Wed, 8 Feb 2012 01:43:47 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/2012/eric-allen-bell/the-high-price-of-telling-the-truth-about-islam/#IDComment286668669 http://frontpagemag.com/2012/eric-allen-bell/the-high-price-of-telling-the-truth-about-islam/#IDComment286666861 Mr Bell - good article. Thank you in particular for heeding - and taking seriously - your Coptic Christian taxi driver, and for following up on what he told you. I think you owe him. You might even like to consider talking to others like him - and perhaps to non-Muslims (Hindu, Buddhist, Christian) who have fled from places like Pakistan and Bangladesh, and who are also fleeing from places like Malaysia and Indonesia as those places become more strongly Islamified and more and more people push for sharia-in-full. Bear in mind, however, that some who have experienced life inside the lands of Islam as de facto dhimmis can be as deeply in denial about the real extent and agent/s of the abuse they suffered, as any severely-battered spouse or abused child. Further thought. Here's a poignant story that might be worth pursuing, and documenting: Albert Elmarry, one of the Canadian citizens killed in NYC on 9/11 was a Coptic Christian who had escaped Egypt to settle in Canada, and then got a job in the USA, in NYC, in the Twin Towers no less. On the strength of that job, enormously pleased with himself, he visited back home and scooped up a beautiful wife (also a Coptic Christian) whom he brought back to live in peace and safety - as he thought - in the USA. They bought the house, they started the baby; and then, when his wife was only two months pregnant, he was killed in the attack on the Twin Towers in 2001. He had fled all the way to the Americas to escape Muslim persecution of his people in his ancestral homeland; and yet he died as a victim of Jihad, in the very heart of what he thought was a place of refuge, where he had begun a new life. Perhaps you could find his wife and child - the child (born March 2002) would be eleven years old - and the two families concerned, and the people he worked for and the church where he worshipped in Egypt and then in Canada and NYC, and use his story as a way of introducing English-speaking westerners to the long tragedy of the Copts, the indigenous non-Muslim people of Egypt, reduced (by 1200 years of Muslim invasion, occupation and oppression) to a minority in their own country - who right now, I fear, are facing nothing less than genocide, to exceed what was done to the Armenians. There are so many stories that cry out for a gutsy film-maker to tell them. For that matter, you mentioned Theo Van Gogh - who's doing a doco about him, and about all the others who've been targeted - e.g. Kurt Westergaard, Lars Vilks, Taslima Nasreen, Molly Norris? Do a doco on Islam's denial of free speech - its threats against and murder of critics and 'blasphemers' - and call it 'The Heirs of Asma Bint Marwan'. Wed, 8 Feb 2012 01:40:27 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/2012/eric-allen-bell/the-high-price-of-telling-the-truth-about-islam/#IDComment286666861 http://frontpagemag.com/2011/05/27/who-can-beat-obama/#IDComment163763941 I'm an Aussie, so I just have to chew my fingernails, cross my fingers and toes, and pray like blazes that our great friend and ally across the Pacific Ocean wakes up and gets a clue and finds a guy for the top job who 'gets' the Meaning and Menace of Islam and won't be afraid to do what's necessary to defend his own country against the Jihad...and others, too. And I will say that from what I've seen and heard of Allen West, if he *were* to run, and per miraculum get into the White House, I would sleep a lot more peacefully o' nights than I do now...All you folks here that say you like him, I hope you're putting money in his campaign chest. And advertising him by word of mouth and in cyberspace every chance you get. Sat, 18 Jun 2011 03:50:40 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/2011/05/27/who-can-beat-obama/#IDComment163763941 http://frontpagemag.com/2011/05/27/who-can-beat-obama/#IDComment163763895 I'm an Aussie, so I just have to chew my fingernails, cross my fingers and toes, and pray like blazes that our great friend and ally across the Pacific Ocean wakes up and gets a clue and finds a guy for the top job who 'gets' the Meaning and Menace of Islam and won't be afraid to do what's necessary to defend his own country against the Jihad...and others, too. And I will say that from what I've seen and heard of Allen West, if he *were* to run, and per miraculum get into the White House, I would sleep a lot more peacefully o' nights than I do now...All you folks here that say you like him, I hope you're putting money in his campaign chest. And advertising him by word of mouth and in cyberspace every chance you get. Sat, 18 Jun 2011 03:50:26 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/2011/05/27/who-can-beat-obama/#IDComment163763895 http://www.israellycool.com/2011/05/27/g-d-bless-canada/#IDComment157494676 I have written to the Canadian High Commissioner in Australia, expressing my admiration for his Prime Minister's principled stand in this matter. It is very inspiring. I hope Mr Harper can manage to go on as he has begun. Mon, 30 May 2011 10:41:15 +0000 http://www.israellycool.com/2011/05/27/g-d-bless-canada/#IDComment157494676 http://frontpagemag.com/2011/05/25/netanyahu-shines-in-speech-to-congress/#IDComment156261412 Not quite the only one. Stephen Harper of Canada looks possible. Long may he govern. And if Dutch MP Geert Wilders in Holland can avoid being sent to jail for blasphemy against Islam (he merely dared to tell things like they are), and his party continues to gain ground, then one day it might be Geert Wilders PM of the Netherlands. And then wouldn't it be fun at the UN if there were one of those horrible 'let's lynch Israel' resolutions pushed by the Islamintern, and the Dutch rep and the Canadian rep stood up and voted a resounding NO to it and then invited the Israeli rep out to dinner afterwards...? Thu, 26 May 2011 07:21:50 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/2011/05/25/netanyahu-shines-in-speech-to-congress/#IDComment156261412 http://frontpagemag.com/2011/05/25/netanyahu-shines-in-speech-to-congress/#IDComment156260634 Ever heard about Orde Wingate? If you haven't look him up. Maybe Israel needs to create something analogous to the French Foreign Legion; and name it after Orde Wingate. I think they'd find themselves with quite a lot of folks eager to sign on. Thu, 26 May 2011 07:18:05 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/2011/05/25/netanyahu-shines-in-speech-to-congress/#IDComment156260634 http://www.newsrealblog.com/2011/05/17/violent-jihadists-the-contemporary-lefts-freedom-riders/#IDComment153686498 One of the best ways to sum up the nature of 'dhimmitude' - the condition of segregation, degradation, humiliation and exploitation - imposed upon non-Muslims by Muslims in Muslim-majority lands historically (and de facto, in many Muslim lands, today) - is to describe it as being like the 'Jim Crow' system...only worse. Much worse. To understand dhimmitude, the best intro is Dr Mark Durie's "the Third Choice: Islam, Dhimmitude and Freedom". He has reflected upon and absorbed Bat Yeor's pioneering work and extended it with his own research and reflection, and then distilled all of that into a lucid - and devastating, and profoundly disturbing - book. Thu, 19 May 2011 01:53:58 +0000 http://www.newsrealblog.com/2011/05/17/violent-jihadists-the-contemporary-lefts-freedom-riders/#IDComment153686498 http://www.newsrealblog.com/2011/05/07/cuny-trustees-set-to-honor-anti-israel-playwright-do-they-dare-accept-my-challenge/#IDComment153678042 I think this is a great idea. Ayaan Hirsi Ali as the author of two major books - Infidel and Nomad - as well as the essay collection 'The Caged Virgin' and the screenplay of the brief yet powerful film 'Submission', and as a graduate of the great University of Leiden in the Netherlands, would be a very worthy recipient of an Honorary Doctorate. Ibn Warraq's book 'Defending the West' could surely be deemed equivalent to a doctoral thesis. And so could Nonie Darwish's "Cruel and Usual Punishment", her examination of the theory and practice of Sharia. These people should surely be considered as having earned an honorary degree. Thu, 19 May 2011 01:29:44 +0000 http://www.newsrealblog.com/2011/05/07/cuny-trustees-set-to-honor-anti-israel-playwright-do-they-dare-accept-my-challenge/#IDComment153678042 http://frontpagemag.com/2011/03/30/anti-israel-agitprop-on-the-silver-screen/#IDComment144051091 There are a couple more things to read, to add to Stosh's suggested reading list. 1. Martin Gilbert's new book, 'In Ishmael's House' - 'the tale of Gilbert's book is that of the humiliation heaped on Jews by Muslim rulers over 1, 400 years, largely through the subjugation known as 'dhimmitude'. Under Sharia law, non-Muslims are referred to as 'dhimmis', regarded as a lower category of people, and therefore subject to institutionalised discrimination (which, btw, includes the fact that dhimmis are forbidden to keep and bear arms, and are not permitted to strike a Muslim under any circumstances - i.e. they have NO right of self-defence - and in court the word of a Muslim always trumps that of a dhimmi, which means that Muslims were essentially free to prey upon dhimmis with absolute impunity - my note, dda). In many cases the rigorous codes set up to enforce this were more humiliating even than the segregationist rules imposed on black South Africans by the apartheid system". [From the review of 'In Ishmael's House' which appeared in The Times]. And here is the testimony of Maimonides in his letter to the - cruelly persecuted - Jews of Yemen, who were being threatened with forced conversion to Islam, ca. 1200 AD: "God has hurled us in the midst of this people, the Arabs, who have persecuted us severely, and passed baneful and discriminatory legislation against us...Never did a nation molest, degrade, debase and hate us as much as they...we were dishonoured by them beyond human endurance and had to put up with their fabrications..our sages instructed us to bear the prevarications and preposterousness of Ishmael in silence...We have acquiesced, both old and young, to inure ourselves to humiliation...All this notwithstanding, we do not escape this continual maltreatment [that is, maltreatment inflicted on the Jews **by the Arab Muslims** - dda] which well nigh crushes us. NO matter how we suffer and elect to remain at peace with them, they stir up strife and sedition..." - Iggertet Taiman, Epistle to Yemen, ed A S Halkin, trans. B Cohen, New York, 1952, p. 18. Oh yes, and the massacre (including gang rapes of minor girls, and gross mutilations of the living and dead victims) of the Jews of Hebron by the Arabs in 1929 was not the first such pogrom by Muslims against Jews in eretz Israel, by a long chalk. At the end of the 18th century the local Arabs violently persecuted the dhimmi Jews in the Land, causing many to flee. In 1833-34, Arab Muslim mobs carried out murderous pogroms against the unarmed, peaceful, scholarly dhimmi Jews of Safed in the Galilee. That was under Turkish rule; yet bad as it was, it was preferable to life in Muslim Persia - in that same year, 1834, Jews from Persia fled to eretz Israel after others had been forced to convert to Islam in Persia. Note - in the yeas before 1840 there were systematic attacks upon Jews in eretz Israel, carried out both by Muslim authorities and also by the local Arab Muslim mobs. All of this, of course, happening when the Jewish community in the land was essentially defenceless, unarmed, deeply dhimmified, and BEFORE any significant migration of Jews from Eastern or Western Europe into the Land. We can go back to 1625-1627 and discover that under the Ibn Farouk Muslim family's rule of Jerusalem, the Jewish community was persecuted unmercifully - Muhammad ibn Farukh persecuted the entire Jewish community in the land of Israel, extorting huge sums of money, and jailing and torturing anyone who could not pay what he demanded. There were 2500-3000 Jews in Jerusalem in 1625 - by 1627 the Farukh persecution had reduced this to a few hundred. So much for SND's claim that the Arabs/ Muslims loved the Jews as their 'brothers' and 'protected' them, prior to the formation of the modern Jewish state of Israel. SND is nothing more than a typically brazen, stony-hearted Muslim Big Liar: lying till he's black in the face, using Turnspeak and projection from start to finish. I bet he knows damn well that Muslims - Arab Muslims, Persian Muslims, any kind of Muslims - suck in Jew-hatred with their mothers' milk and that Jews in Muslim lands were hated and humiliated, ruthlessly exploited and periodically mass-murdered - and sometimes force-'converted' - and that Jewish girls were constantly kidnapped, raped, and forcibly 'married' to Muslims, all the way through Islamic history, starting with what Mohammed did to the peaceful Jewish farmers of the Khaybar Oasis. Tue, 19 Apr 2011 01:13:36 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/2011/03/30/anti-israel-agitprop-on-the-silver-screen/#IDComment144051091 http://www.israellycool.com/2011/04/10/can-you-help/#IDComment141867690 I am praying most fervently for him and for his family. Mon, 11 Apr 2011 10:11:44 +0000 http://www.israellycool.com/2011/04/10/can-you-help/#IDComment141867690 http://www.israellycool.com/2011/03/17/murder-most-foul-reaction-worse/#IDComment135788791 I know a lady - a well-educated middle-aged matron - who has been to a number of EDL rallies and got to know some of the lads. She's talked to them and sussed them out and she likes them. She says they're OK. They're mostly plain working-class blokes who live in the parts of the UK that are the most heavily Muslim-occupied and Islamoformed, and they have seen what the Mohammedans are doing to ordinary non-Muslim Brits of all varieties; and they decided they were just fed up, and they'd had enough, and chose to do something about it. They are strongly pro-Israel; indeed, they have set up a Jewish Division (they are well aware that it is Muslims who are, more and more, physically attacking Jews on the streets of Britain). They have also formed a GLBT division as well, since Muslims on the street in Britain are increasingly attacking those who are visibly gay. (And remember, working class families have gay kinfolk, too). One Rabbi Shifren, the 'surfing rabbi', has attended an EDL rally and made a speech which was enthusiastically received. And they *loved* Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff, who is very savvy about Islam - she came to one of their rallies, and spoke, and she talked about her experiences with the lads, afterward - they were all very polite. They're not thugs; they're Tommies. Or if you know Tolkien, think of them as angry Hobbits. Fri, 18 Mar 2011 09:13:52 +0000 http://www.israellycool.com/2011/03/17/murder-most-foul-reaction-worse/#IDComment135788791 http://frontpagemag.com/2011/03/15/j%e2%80%99accuse-palestinians-of-war-crimes-and-genocide/#IDComment135041378 I am with you, Phyllis. Only - don't say 'Palestinian war crimes'. Say, 'local Arab Muslim war crimes..'. Furthermore: This cowardly jackal-like murder, of the Jewish parents and children who were sleeping in their beds, unarmed, shows us what all the jihad gang bosses, world-wide, would like to do to every single human on the planet who a. refuses to convert to Islam and b. refuses to live as a dhimmi near- slave. Joseph Schacht put it like this, in 'An Introduction to Islamic Law': 'the Islamic attitude towards unbelievers is the law of war: they must be converted, or subjugated, or killed'. The Fogel family was murdered as Armenian families were murdered in the early 20th century, or as Coptic families were murdered down through the centuries, or as Sudanese and INdonesian Christian families were murdered in the late 20th century, and as children at Beslan were murdered, and for the same reason: because the Muslim killer or killers was high as a kite on murderous, Islamically-inculcated hatred of everything not-Islam. Tue, 15 Mar 2011 10:16:06 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/2011/03/15/j%e2%80%99accuse-palestinians-of-war-crimes-and-genocide/#IDComment135041378 http://www.newsrealblog.com/2011/03/03/the-bloody-beast-salivates-as-pro-islamist-journalists-ring-the-dinner-bell/#IDComment132176584 This is the Third Jihad: the Ummah, or Mohammedan Mob, flush with petrodollars and emboldened by having so many millions of its advance troops behind 'enemy lines' in the dar al harb (every mosque inside the non-Muslim world is a forward base of the Religion of Blood and War) , is making its third great push for Total World Domination. Jacques Ellul saw it coming; he wrote about it in his foreword to Bat Yeor's "The Dhimmi: Jews and Christians Under Islam", which was published in 1983. Thu, 3 Mar 2011 20:03:52 +0000 http://www.newsrealblog.com/2011/03/03/the-bloody-beast-salivates-as-pro-islamist-journalists-ring-the-dinner-bell/#IDComment132176584 http://frontpagemag.com/2011/02/21/a-war-crime-in-cairo/#IDComment129907913 It was Wafa Sultan in her book 'A God Who Hates' who observed that 'allah hates women'. And I think she's right. Islam, at bottom, teaches men to fear and hate women and to treat them with contempt. In Islam, thanatos has devoured eros. Bruce Dunne, in an article, argues that in Islam sex is about a dominant male's achieving pleasure by violently dominating and hurting an inferior (who may be male or female). One can see how this connects with, for example, the prevalence of gang rape, the abuse of young boys, and the preference for underage girls as 'brides' - for if a bully wants to get maximum pleasure by violently dominating another human being, he has to make sure his victim is as weak and small as possible...so he can feel correspondingly powerful, like the all-powerful allah who respects no moral limits or boundaries, whose hand is 'unfettered'. Tue, 22 Feb 2011 19:34:05 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/2011/02/21/a-war-crime-in-cairo/#IDComment129907913 http://www.newsrealblog.com/2011/01/20/freya-stark-intrepid-arabian-adventurer-ardent-jew-hater/#IDComment122586795 If one wants to know what a British Judeophile or friend of Zion looks like, one need go no further than the brilliant and legendary Orde Wingate who - had he survived the war rather than getting killed in an air crash in the Burma campaign - might well have become the only Gentile general in the IDF. Another English friend of Zion was the clergyman and historian the Rev. James Parkes, author of a little book called 'The Story of Jerusalem', and of other books on antisemitism in Christian Europe, and on the human history of the land of Israel, who had no illusions whatever about Islam-on-the-ground. It might be an interesting study in character and history, to compare Freya Stark (or that other notorious Arabophile and British opponent of the Jewish state, 'Glubb Pasha') with Orde Wingate. Orde was a wonderfully eccentric Englishman...and a passionate friend of Zion. Pray that the spirit which animated Orde Wingate may prevail over that which animated Freya Stark. Thu, 20 Jan 2011 20:50:17 +0000 http://www.newsrealblog.com/2011/01/20/freya-stark-intrepid-arabian-adventurer-ardent-jew-hater/#IDComment122586795 http://frontpagemag.com/2011/01/13/punishing-the-victims-of-islamic-gender-apartheid/#IDComment121134640 In the case of the African Christian woman, secretly married to another Christian, who is in danger of being sent back to a forced marriage to a Muslim, and also in the case of the girl who has apostasised from Islam within a western European country and is seeking asylum in America because she fears the sharia-enforcers in Europe: cannot the churches - in Canada and in the USA - be alerted and make noise? Does the 'Barnabas Fund' know about these two cases? They were aware of Rifqa Bary and told her story to their quite extensive membership. Last year they conducted a campaign to raise awareness of Islam's apostasy law - the law that requires death for those who leave Islam - among politicians in the Anglosphere, submitting petitions and writing letters to parliamentarians in Canada, Australia and Britain and, I think, also contacting US politicians. Has anyone brought the African Christian woman's case directly before Canadian PM Stephen Harper? - I would suggest that someone like Nonie Darwish or Barnabas Fund director Canon Patrick Sookhdeo, once fully briefed, could make a good case. Thu, 13 Jan 2011 20:29:17 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/2011/01/13/punishing-the-victims-of-islamic-gender-apartheid/#IDComment121134640 http://frontpagemag.com/2010/12/13/why-sweden/#IDComment115410279 Rickard you're not the only one. Over at jihadwatch in a thread discussing this very same attempt at a mass-murder jihad raid, there was a person identifying as a Swede, under the nom de plume 'Tvellen', who has woken up to the meaning and menace of Islam. So unless you and he are the same person, that makes two of you. Three, counting Vilks. And there are the Swedish Democrats - vilified as 'far right' merely, so far as I can see, for telling the truth about Islam. So you're NOT alone. Mon, 13 Dec 2010 08:05:47 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/2010/12/13/why-sweden/#IDComment115410279 http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/07/19/syria-bans-face-veil-british-minister-and-american-feminists-defend-the-burqa/#IDComment87800395 The Muslim cloth badge signifying female enslavement to sharia and subordination to one or more Muslim men = Slave Rag. Comes in different varieties - Slave Hood worn with otherwise relatively normal clothing (wimple-like hijab or 'headscarf' - this too may be worn under compulsion - see Aqsa Parvez, who was killed for refusing to wear headscarf), Slave Sack (chador, etc: does still leave face and hands visible), Slave Mask and Sack (= either the Burqa or the Niqab). All forms (but especially the Slave Mask and Sack) when worn in Western countries frequently correspond to the black flag of jihad (and often signal an open threat to all *unveiled* non-Muslim women in the vicinity, for it implicitly classifies them as immodest, as 'whores', as rape-fodder); for more, see Chahdortt Djavann's writings on the subject, and the article 'To Rape an Unveiled Woman' (which google). The Slave Mask, full covering including face, corresponds to high level of jihad-mindedness (this has been pointed out by nominal Muslim Tawfiq Hamid; that the more fully-covered women you see in any given Muslim society or community, the more aggressively jihad-minded/ sharia-minded their menfolk most probably are). Now, Muslim despots such as Assad seem to have a NIMBY attitude toward full-on Jihad; Jihad is fine against somebody else, but not OK if it threatens their own hold on power. Assad doesn't want the vigilante sharia-pushers, what Nonie Darwish calls 'Allah's enforcers', stirring up too much trouble inside Syria and dislodging him and his from power; and the fact that he seems to think that banning the Slave Mask will help him do this, should inspire governments in the West to impose and resolutely enforce a similar ban. Because if it works in Syria to lower the 'jihad temperature' it ought to work elsewhere. Of course, if Assad *really* wanted peace and quiet undisturbed by Allah's enforcers, he would not only ban the niqab and burqa but *also* ban polygamy and forced and/ or child marriage (oh, and punish 'honor' murderers and wife-beaters; I suspect that in about ten years or so his male population would simmer down remarkably). Nonie Darwish in her book on sharia argues that the large pool of surplus, cranky, self-centred sex-obsessed dad-deprived males that polygamy produces, is one of the main engines of jihad - you have a sort of deadly feedback loop by which jihad enforces sharia and sharia fuels jihad by turning most of the men into jihad-fodder; break with part of sharia, break the feedback loop by giving each male a fair chance to find a mate, and requiring him to stick to just one, and voila! (relative) peace and quiet. Wed, 21 Jul 2010 02:54:22 +0000 http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/07/19/syria-bans-face-veil-british-minister-and-american-feminists-defend-the-burqa/#IDComment87800395 http://www.israellycool.com/2010/07/10/protester-of-the-day-3/#IDComment86625005 That picture reminds me of Gollum's answer to one of the riddles in Tolkien's "The Hobbit" - "Teeth! Teeth! But we has only six!" Wed, 14 Jul 2010 11:42:44 +0000 http://www.israellycool.com/2010/07/10/protester-of-the-day-3/#IDComment86625005