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Jihad Watch : Jihad Watch: Dhimmitude at Yale University Press: Muhammad cartoons self-censored from book about Mu

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 07:37:37 +0000

Thanks, interesting link!

Jihad Watch : Jihad Watch: Dhimmitude at Yale University Press: Muhammad cartoons self-censored from book about Mu

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 05:04:10 +0000

I sent the following to YUP: (yup.email.news@yale.edu) I have just read reports that Mr John Donatich has taken the decision not to include the 12 Cartoons in the book “the Cartoons that shook the world”. This is disturbing. It is giving in supinely to the worst in radical Islam, those who would kill people whose opinions are different from theirs. Could you not have shown some spine? Why did you have to go out to a group of “experts, including diplomats and experts on Islam”? Surely your own common sense should have told you that to fail to publish cartoons which satirise the violence inherent in Islam -- because you are worried about violent Islamists -- is an irony too far. As for “diplomats”, I speak as a former diplomat for many years in saying: diplomats are the last people you’d go to if you wanted robust and unbiased views, as their views on most issues are conciliatory to the point of appeasement and you can bet they’re going to be bending-over-backwardsly so on this one. I hope you’ll change your mind and include the cartoons. After all, failing to include the cartoons is probably not going to stop the Muslim anger you fear; so you may as well go for the unbowdlerised version and in doing so stand up for the vaunted rights of free and open speech.

Jihad Watch : Jihad Watch: Dhimmitude at Yale University Press: Muhammad cartoons self-censored from book about Mu

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 04:22:46 +0000

A tad OT, but have you seen the news of rare bit of spine being shown in France, where "Carole" the muslema has been banned from a public swimming pool for wearing a "burkini". She disingenuously says "it's a pity it's become political" (as if that's not what you wanted all along; as if that's not the whole purpose of political/stealth Islam). She also says that if she can't get the decision reversed she will "consider leaving the country". At which I'm sure all les francais will be saying "bon riddance, mademoiselle"! http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2585456...

Jihad Watch : Jihad Watch: Indonesia\'s Islamic Defenders Front: "Indonesia is a peaceful country and does not nee

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 07:44:56 +0000

DDA: What a zinger! Well said! BTW (and a bit OT): i think it was you who offered to direct me to a study done in Australia of the Lebanese community, which showed the different levels of unemployment and crime amongst the Muslim and the Christian Lebanese communities in Australia. It was buried cause it was so incendiary. You can imagine who came out worse: an almost perfect "experiment" in that they were the same ethnically, from same country; the only difference was whether they bowed down, arses in the air five times a day or not... Can you direct me to that, if you still have it?

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Fri, 7 Aug 2009 13:10:01 +0000

The comments at the beginning relate to something three days ago, can that be fixed?..... Pat Condell, as usual, wonderful! I must be about the same age as he, and seem to have made the same sort of journey (if I can presume to call it that) from the leftie to the somewhere in the middley, and of a mind with him 100% on the views of Islam, and contempt for the Islamo-appeasers, the dhim-wits.... For those who haven't see other stuff by Condell, it's worth a look, great stuff!

Jihad Watch : Jihad Watch: Australia jihad bust: "The alleged offenders were prepared to inflict a sustained attac

Tue, 4 Aug 2009 09:19:25 +0000

Revolting! They're setting it up for a case of these "brothers" being framed, I'll bet. How long before we hear that it's all some sort of conspiracy to get at Muslims..... Really disgusting...

Jihad Watch : Jihad Watch: Australia jihad bust: "The alleged offenders were prepared to inflict a sustained attac

Tue, 4 Aug 2009 09:16:37 +0000

The usual self-interested victimhood. Same as in the Mumbai attacks -- when the Jews were slaughtered (including a the pregnant wife -- if I recall -- of the head of the Jewish community -- they could only think about what the downsides might be for them, no sympathy at all for those killed....

Jihad Watch : Jihad Watch: Australia jihad bust: "The alleged offenders were prepared to inflict a sustained attac

Tue, 4 Aug 2009 09:13:24 +0000

As always, Dumbledore, you add interesting and learned info... I admire you from afar (Hong Kong)

Jihad Watch : Jihad Watch: Australia jihad bust: "The alleged offenders were prepared to inflict a sustained attac

Tue, 4 Aug 2009 09:11:17 +0000

Last I knew, "The Australian" was owned by Rupert Murdoch, so would be pretty strange if it were "left-leaning".... (mind, I haven't read it regularly for many years, and interested to read Gramfan that it's balanced).

Jihad Watch : Jihad Watch: Australia jihad bust: "The alleged offenders were prepared to inflict a sustained attac

Tue, 4 Aug 2009 01:16:11 +0000

I wonder if we will see any reference to Islamic doctrine's influence on these terrorists? I wonder..... hmmm.... Just like in Pakistan, maybe, where they're saying that they have "no idea" of the motivation of the Muslims who have been rampaging in Christian quarters and killing them in their homes, yelling "die dogs!". Anything sound familiar there, from Islamic teachings?? But will anyone (dare to) make the connection?? Of course they won't; only the Islamists themselves, yelling "death the the infidel" and "God is Great" as they blow themselves up, will make that connection.... Crazy, but sadly true....

Jihad Watch : Jihad Watch: US Consulate in Jerusalem website assumes Jerusalem is Palestinian, says nothing about

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:53:39 +0000

Don't forget the Nasty Nazi-lover Amin al-Huseini the Jew-hating mufti of Jerusalem, who did much to turn the Arab world against Israel, and who was specifically and murderously Jihadist.

Jihad Watch : Jihad Watch: US Consulate in Jerusalem website assumes Jerusalem is Palestinian, says nothing about

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:41:05 +0000

The US Congress, at least believes that a UNITED Jerusalem is the Capital of Israel: http://bulk.resource.org/gpo.gov/laws/104/publ45.... See also "East Jerusalem is NOT Arab". http://jiw.blogspot.com/2009/07/east-jerusalem-is...

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Fri, 31 Jul 2009 01:19:13 +0000

this is a test to imbed a link to xena's site

Jihad Watch : Jihad Watch: Why it matters that honor killing has Islamic sanction

Sun, 26 Jul 2009 01:27:10 +0000

I found the following stats online at a source I considered reliable enough to note the figures down, though (grrrrr....) can't find the link again.... they tell us that the overwhelming majority of "honour killings" that occur in the west are in the Muslim community. Enough of this "tribalism & vigilantism" stuff Muzzi! (unless, of course, by "tribalism & vigilantism" we mean "Islam"....). In the US, recent years (to 2007) 12 out of 14 "honour killings" were Islamic (85%) In the EU in the same period, 21 out of 23 "honour killings" were Islamic (91%). Average = 89% of all “honour” killings were Islamic -- note: so classified by politically correct authorities in these countries... -- in the period.

Jihad Watch : Jihad Watch: Why it matters that honor killing has Islamic sanction

Sun, 26 Jul 2009 01:16:37 +0000

Absolutely right MuBear! It's actually grotesque, when you think about it, that the only two verses that Muzza could quote allow such a huge loophole; that it, don't kill your kids cause you're afraid they'll impoverish you..... so it's ok in other circumstances. It's grotesque that there's no clear and unambiguous proscription of any murder, let alone infanticide. It's a bit like the ban on killing "innocents", which is such a huge loophole too, as non-Muslims can be deemed to be non-innocent. It's just this sort of sophistry that infuses Islam, in which the Is-apologists are so good at, and which fools so many dhimmi-wits in the west....

Jihad Watch : Jihad Watch: Brave Sir Ahmed ran away: Hamas-linked CAIR op passed up a chance to be on ALA panel, a

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 01:13:51 +0000

I posted a comment over at Loonwatch: Why is it that people use the term "self-educated" as a pejorative term? I have seen Spencer talk at many venues over the years and have read all that he’s written (as well as the writings of many Islamic apologists and primary Islamic sources). I do think that Spencer is an expert on Islam, even if he is “self-educated” (and shouldn’t “self-educated” be something to be lauded?) His writings and speeches are in contrast to the pap that one often sees from many tertiary-trained “scholars”. He speaks and writes well, cogently, lucidly and trenchantly. He most certainly does not spout “hate” speech. He simply points out the dangers to our free speech and tolerance of an ideology (and, yes, it is an ideology) that would seek to silence criticism, that represses women, abhors gays and suppresses other religions. The evidence for those views is everywhere in the statements of Muslims themselves. Spencer is certainly no hater of Muslims. Rather he critiques the underlying ideology of a belief system that is more than a religion but a “whole way of life”, which seeks to bring Sharia to the west by any means possible. And if you don’t think Sharia is a worry, read the Classic Manual of Islamic law (“The Reliance of the Traveller” available at Amazon). From the editorial review of that book “…It represents the fiqh rulings according to the Shafi'I school of jurisprudence. The appendices form an integral part of the book and present original texts and translations from classic works by prominent scholars such as al-Ghazali….-”

Jihad Watch : Jihad Watch: Profs try to block Spencer appearance at American Library Association conference

Wed, 8 Jul 2009 05:10:54 +0000

Hesperado: "One must reasonably suppose that Prof. Godlas, being a scholar of the history of Sufism, knows full well that al-Ghazali wrote these kinds of things, and that he is purposefully concealing those parts of Sufism from the audience he is "educating"." You're right, he must know and so must many other apologists, when they practice their own form of *Kitman*. Which gets me wondering: why? Why on earth do they do so?? Cause it's better for their career, perhaps? But they're not all careerists, these apologists; I just don't get it....

Jihad Watch : Jihad Watch: Profs try to block Spencer appearance at American Library Association conference

Wed, 8 Jul 2009 02:52:20 +0000

Interesting thread on the Open Letter site. Many Robert supporters. I made my own comment: ****** I recall after 9/11 thinking "I'd better learn something about this religion" and so bought a copy of the Koran. I recall clearly the hairs rising on the back of my neck when I read it: so many supremacist, anti-Semitic and plainly violent verses. I thought “wow, if this is their “bible” then we’ve got a real problem here!”. There were more peaceful verses, to be sure, so I thought I'd better re-read it; this time, with two highlighters in hand, a green one to highlight the positive passages and a yellow one to highlight the negative ones. By the end of my re-reading, the green pencil was still long, while the yellow one was sharpened to a stub. So, the negative (or “troublesome”) passages far outweighed the positive ones. I wondered why there should be such contradictory verses; then I found out about the principle of “abrogation” in which the Medinan, more violent, verses abrogate the more peaceable Meccan verses. (leading one to wonder about the consistency of a supposedly “perfect” book, which came direct from Allah, but no matter…. I know the reasons for the “abrogations”). I proceeded to read more about Islam, and have now accumulated a library in the hundreds: first the primary sources, the Qur’an, the Hadith, the life of Muhammad, the “Reliance of the Traveller” (the Classic Manual of Islamic Jurisprudence) and so on, plus the commentators, both critics and apologists, from Spencer (all of) to Karen Armstrong and the writings of Muslim critics. I’ve come to my own conclusions and they are simply this: that Islam is indeed a threat to our western civilization, to free speech, to tolerance and to human rights for all. The clearly and openly stated desire by many, many Muslim spokesmen for the spread of Sharia is deeply worrying to me and ought to be to all who believe in western ideals of equality and freedom. In all of this, I’m happy to consider Mr. Spencer as an “expert” and one who espouses his opinions clearly, concisely and knowledgably. He presents cogently and authoritatively the reasons that we should all be concerned about many aspects of Islam. So what’s wrong with that, Open Letter writers? That the writers of the Open Letter should aim to prevent him speaking speaks volumes about their real aim: to further whitewash and to present a picture of Islam that is purely peaceful and no threat to the west and to damn (no, ban) anyone who suggests otherwise, no matter what evidence to the contrary there may be. It would be a huge shame and direct hit against free speech if the ALA gives in to the demands of the Open Letter writers. Let Mr. Spencer speak!

Jihad Watch : Jihad Watch: Why we fight on this Independence Day

Sun, 5 Jul 2009 03:50:51 +0000

hear, hear to all the above comments! This is one to print out and hand to those of our family and friends who wonder why we bang on about the dangers of Islam so much (well, *my* wife does, anyway, and this might just give her the best idea of what we face, in beautiful summary!).....

Jihad Watch : Jihad Watch: Shocker: Hamas continues to smuggle arms into Gaza

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:41:57 +0000

Imagine if Islamic states had put this amount of effort and resources over the past 61 years into developing Gaza and the West Bank. They could have created the equivalent of a Monaco or Dubai in those areas ..... '[from Marisol, above] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yes, or even better: a Hong Kong (my hometown). In 1949 hundreds of thousands of Chinese became refugees!! But, they didn't sit around moaning & groaning, being victims, tunnelling across to Guandgong province, lobbing home-made missiles. They set about making this tiny (like Gaza) patch of land into something. They set about it so well that the income per head is now one of the highest in the world. For many years they continued to think of their hometowns as "home", but were not blinded/obsessed by this thought. In due course, China opened up (in the seventies) and they were able to go back. I often think of the contrast between the "refugee" Palestinians and the "refugee" Chinese and how different they are, and how much better off the Palestinians could be if there weren't an obsessive victimhood -- in which much of the dhimmidiotic west is complicit.