IceViking

Goodbye once again

2010-03-17T08:18:00.001+01:00

Dear All,

I have to leave blogging again and as stated on previous
occasions I don`t know if I will return or not. I`m sorry.

Best Wishes,

IceViking

Quote by Cal Thomas

2010-03-17T08:15:00.002+01:00

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jan/30/once-more-into-the-breach/

Once more into the breach
by Cal Thomas
Friday, January 30, 2009
Washington Times

Quote:

Back to the Somalians in Minneapolis, and growing Muslim communities throughout the country. In the forthcoming book "Al-Hijra: The Islamic Doctrine of Immigration: Accepting Freedom or Imposing Islam?"(Pilcrow Press), written by two former Muslims, Sam Solomon and Elias Al Maqdisi, "The Hijra was enshrined by Muhammad from the outset within Islam as the 'Doctrine of Immigration,' or the 'peaceful' means of extending the Islamic political state garbed and girded in religious terminology. Hijra and military conquest are two components of Islamic expansion." The cover art is of a Trojan horse. We can awaken to this twin threat, or we can, like Linus, keep waiting for the Great Pumpkin.

This book has since become available and you can order it here, for instance and you can read a review here.

Why Beauty Matters

2010-03-17T08:10:00.000+01:00

"Why Beauty Matters", written and presented by philosopher and writer Roger Scruton.

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Bluffen om sjukskrivningsexplosionen skymmer fortfarande den viktiga frågan?

2010-03-16T14:44:00.000+01:00

Klicka här för att besöka hemsidan för "Aktionsgruppen för de sjukförsäkrades rätt" angående sjukförsäkringen.

Från Newsmill:

http://www.newsmill.se/artikel/2010/03/15/bluffen-om-sjukskrivningsexplosionen-skymmer-fortfarande-den-viktiga-fr-gan

Bluffen om sjukskrivningsexplosionen skymmer fortfarande den viktiga frågan

av Björn Johnson
Publicerad: 2010-03-15, Uppdaterad: 2010-03-15

Björn Johnson är forskare vid Malmö högskolas Centrum för tillämpad arbetslivsforskning och aktuell med boken "Kampen om sjukfrånvaron" (Arkiv förlag).

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I min nya bok "Kampen om sjukfrånvaron" har jag visat att varken arbetsmiljöförklaringen eller överutnyttjandeförklaringen håller streck. De kan inte förklara den kraftigt ökade sjukfrånvaron, helt enkelt eftersom de utgår från att denna hängde samman med att allt fler människor sjukskrev sig.

Men så var inte fallet. Sverige upplevde aldrig någon "explosion" av nya sjukskrivningar. Mellan 1996 och 2002 fördubblades visserligen antalet sjukdagar, men merparten av denna ökning - 80-85 procent enligt flera oberoende beräkningar - berodde på längre sjukskrivningsperioder, inte på att fler blev sjukskrivna. Den höga sjukfrånvaron var till allra största delen en effekt av att människor fick svårare att ta sig tillbaka till arbetslivet efter sjukskrivning.

Orsaken till detta var ett havererat system för arbetsanpassning. Sociologen Tor Larsson har visat att statliga beslut - fattade i bred enighet över blockgränserna - och kommunala besparingar under krisåren på 1990-talet tillsammans bidrog till att anpassnings- och rehabiliteringsåtgärderna ute på arbetsplatserna fungerade allt sämre.

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Tor Larssons förklaring pekar alltså ut förändringar på arbetsmarknaden som avgörande för nivån på sjukfrånvaron. Staten frånsade sig sitt ansvar för aktiva rehabiliteringsinsatser och drog in statsbidragen till företagshälsovården, samtidigt som arbetsgivarna genomförde stora nedskärningar och slimmade organisationerna.

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Före de förändringar Tor Larsson beskrivit var det inte aktuellt med någon bortre gräns i den svenska sjukförsäkringen - de allra flesta långtidssjukskrivningarna var ändå avslutade inom ett år, den gräns som är vanlig i de utländska systemen. Men när rehabiliterings- och anpassningsarbetet slutade fungera fortsatte de långa sjukfallen, år efter år.

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När sjukskrivningsdebatten var som hetast i början av 2000-talet påpekades det ofta att ökad sjukfrånvaro inte är samma sak som ökad sjukdom. Det är förvisso korrekt. Men det kan vara på sin plats att påminna om att det omvända också gäller: minskad sjukfrånvaro innebär inte automatiskt att fler personer blivit friskare och kunnat återvända till arbetslivet.

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Weapon Of Mass Instruction

2010-03-16T09:18:00.001+01:00

http://www.politicalislam.com/blog/a-weapon-of-mass-instruction

Weapon Of Mass Instruction
(Printed in the New English Review)
by Bill Warner (May 2008)

The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism: From Sacred Texts to Solemn History
By Andrew G. Bostom
Prometheus Books, 768 pp.

Andrew Bostom's new book, The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism, is an historic work. It is an encyclopedia of both the doctrine and practice of Islamic Jew hatred. Jew hatred is Bostom's usage and it is accurate. The word Semitic refers to the Semitic language group, which includes both Arabic and Hebrew. No one hates the Hebrew language; so the term, antisemitism is a misnomer.

The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism is a reference book that is divided into eight sections with two grand divisions—sacred texts (doctrine) and history (the result of the doctrine).

SACRED TEXTS

Dr. Bostom does not use his own essays to persuade the reader. He lets Mohammed and Islam tell the story by using the actual source documents. In the first half of the book, we see how the Koran, the Sira (the life of Mohammed) and the Hadith (the Traditions of Mohammed) lay out a complete doctrine of Jew hatred.
Mohammed originally used the Jews as a proof of his prophet-hood. At first, Mohammed is portrayed as the last in the line of Jewish prophets. Noah, Abraham, Moses, and even Jesus are figures used to establish that all of their work pointed to the arrival of the true prophet, Mohammed.

Mohammed is portrayed in Islamic scripture as the “real” Jew and the Koran is the real Torah. Of course, Allah is portrayed as the real Yahweh.

It may be said that, while in Mecca, Mohammed stole both Yahweh and the Torah.

Then when Mohammed moved to Medina, he found a town that was half Jewish, unlike Mecca where there were no Jews to contradict him. There the Jews did something that they would not repeat over the next 1400 years. They stood up to Mohammed and denied his messiah-ship. When Mohammed could not persuade the Jews of his message or what he thought was his divinely ordained status, he showed the world that the sword is mightier than the Jewish pen.

In about a year’s time, as the Jews refused to help each other, Mohammed kidnapped, raped, enslaved, tortured, assassinated, robbed and mass murdered the Jews who denied him. His dying words were to get the Jews and Christians out of Arabia.

Hitler was a student of Jew hatred, but Mohammed was the master. Jews are still found in Germany, but not a single one is in Arabia.

All of this accounting is taken from Islam's sacred texts; the actual source material doctrine of Islam found in the Koran, Sira and Hadith.

THE HISTORY OF JEW HATRED

Well, that was then and this is now, right? Nobody really believes sacred texts, do they? Well, as the last half of The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism shows, Muslims believe every single syllable of the sacred texts and follow the example of the perfect pattern of Islam, Mohammed to the letter.
The historical documents show that the pattern of Islamic Jew hatred is seamless from Mohammed to the present.

Bostom provides massive documentation of 1400 years of Jewish suffering as dhimmis under Islam. In the process he annihilates a favorite Jewish myth of how great Jews had it during the so-called Islamic “Golden Age.” Islam's grand culture was built on the slavery and dhimmitude of non-Muslims. Why was that so golden for Jews and Christians?

Again The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism does not argue about the Golden Age, but lets its victims speak the truth buried under the historic fantasy of Islam's glory. The truth is that of grinding humiliation for the Jews, who have been so spiritually crushed that they are now one of the biggest defenders of their oppressors.
Another Jewish myth is that modern Islamic Jew hatred was derived from the Nazis and those terrible European Christians. Part of this myth is how well Islam treated the Jews before modern times. Even Bernard Lewis, the patriarch of the dhimmi-scholars, actively promotes this historical lie today. Dr. Bostom lets the source documents show that Islam has been violently involved with Jew hatred since 613 A.D. and that Muslims can give lessons on antisemitism and do not need any help from latecomers.

The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism is overpowering in its detail. The history lessons start right after Mohammed's death and go forward in time until today. Dr. Bostom lets Islam speak for itself and it is a very ugly story.

THE READERS

The tragedy of this book, is that it is such powerful medicine that the patient is unlikely to swallow. Its message is the only key to saving Israel. The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism shows the very foundation of Israeli thought and its doctrine of war with the Arab world is wrong. It shows that it is jihad, not intifada, and it is Muslims, not Palestinians, who are fighting Jews and the Jewish state. Jihad is not a war between nation states. Israel is in a state of denial and dhimmitude and is fighting and losing the wrong war. Israel cannot beat Mohammed because they will not declare war on Mohammed. Hamas and the PLO are not the enemies; Mohammed is the enemy. Hamas and the PLO are his children.

The only way to win a war is to know the enemy and by the evidence, Israel and the Jews do not have any idea of who their enemy is. The most valuable strategic strike would be to give every rabbi, the ADL, the Jewish Federation, the ACLU and every Jewish professor a copy of Bostom's The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism, a weapon of mass instruction. At the very least, the ignorant rabbis who now claim that Muslims and Jews worship the same god would be silent. The question every Jewish person in a position of influence must now answer is: “How do you, as a Jew, justify your ignorance about the doctrine and history of Islamic Jew hatred?”

Bill Warner is spokesman for Political Islam.com

US Representative Ted Poe on Dutch party leader Geert Wilders

2010-03-15T09:07:00.003+01:00

From Diana West`s blog:

http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/1316/US-Representative-Poe-on-Dutch-Parliamentarian-Wilders.aspx

US Representative Poe on Dutch Parliamentarian Wilders
Mar
12 Written by: Diana West
Friday, March 12, 2010 7:59 AM

On the floor of the House yesterday, Rep. Ted Poe, Texas Republican, had this to say about Geert Wilders:

Mr. Speaker, freedom of speech continues to be shouted down by the politically correct police. In the Netherlands, it is against the law to say something that offends someone else’s religion. That is why Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders is on trial for hurting people’s feelings.He made a movie about terrorists and radical Islamic clerics encouraging violence in the name hate. Now he is on trial for insulting Islam.

He is charged with discrimination and incitement to hatred. Because Dutch law is intolerant of intolerance.The Dutch courts say even truthful insult speech is a crime. Sounds like the law has become the enemy of free speech and a protector of the radicals.

Geert Wilders boldly brings to the world’s attention the dangers of religious radicals who believe in hateful violence, and he gets in trouble for it. He ought to be commended rather than condemned and charged with a crime.

Freedom of speech is a universal human right, granted by God, especially if that speech is political, religious or truthful. A free people won’t tolerate intolerance for freedom for very long.

And that's just the way it is.

Religionsfrihet åt muslimer!

2010-03-13T12:36:00.002+01:00

Från Newsmill:

http://www.newsmill.se/artikel/2010/01/10/religionsfrihet-t-muslimer

Religionsfrihet åt muslimer
Publicerad: 2010-01-10, Uppdaterad: 2010-01-10
av Mats Tunehag, Ledarskribent, Världen idag
Citat:

Förra våren pågick en debatt på en arabisk webbsida om två apostater (avfällingar) i Algeriet. En man och hans dotter hade lämnat islam och blivit kristna. De angav själva skälen: islam fyllde honom med fruktan och ångest, men Jesus gav honom frid i tanke och psyke. Dottern ansåg att islam behandlade kvinnor som tjänarinnor och älskarinnor. Som kristen kände hon sig upprättad till mänsklig värdighet som kvinna. De algeriska islamska ledarna dömde snabbt att dessa apostater skulle bestraffas med döden.

Detta är bara ett av tiotusentals exempel. Den som lämnar islam riskerar att straffas eller mördas av antingen staten eller familjen eller andra muslimer. Detta gäller även de som bor i Sverige.

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Sudan och Malaysia har dödsstraff inskrivet i lagboken för den som lämnar islam. I Egypten säger lagen att en apostat får sitt äktenskap upphävt, man förlorar arvsrätten och vårdnaden om sina barn. Saudiarabien, Mauretanien och Iran saknar tydliga lagar men apostater riskerar att dödas. I Bahrain, Jordanien, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar och Jemen väntar olika stränga straff för den som lämnar islam: upphävandet av äktenskap, förlorat medborgarskap, förlust av sociala och ekonomiska rättigheter. I Turkiet används lagen om "att kränka turkiskheten" mot apostater och i Pakistan har man en sträng hädelseparagraf. Är detta lika med "inget tvång i religionen"?

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Detta är daglig verklighet från Jakarta till Johannesburg, från Senegal till Sverige.

Bl.a här kan man läsa om muslimer som trots allt lämnar islam. Kan islam ses som en slags sekt?

Citat av Per Gudmundson

2010-03-13T12:08:00.001+01:00

http://www.svd.se/opinion/ledarsidan/varna-asylratten_4416503.svd

Värna asylrätten
av Per Gudmundson
Publicerad: 13 mars 2010, 04.33. Senast ändrad: 13 mars 2010, 08.27

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Jag måste vara uppriktig och säga att det är ett stort antal av de personer, klienter jag möter, som varit över 18, säger Sara Darabi, ungdomscoach på boenden för ensamkommande flyktingbarn, till P4 Örebro (7/3). ”Det kan skilja på tio år.”

Hennes vittnesmål är trovärdigt. Migrationsverkets åldersbestämning sker i princip via okulär kontroll på ett möte där man normalt accepterar den ålder sökanden anger. När norska Utlendingsdirektoratet lät göra tandtester, förvisso också en osäker metod, visade dessa i nio fall av tio en högre ålder än den uppgivna. Hälften av dem som sade sig vara minderåriga befanns vara över 20.

År 2009 kom 2250 ensamkommande flyktingbarn till Sverige. 2000 var det 350, och 2008 var det 1510. Under januari och februari i år kom 392. Andelen närmar sig nu 10 procent av samtliga asylsökande.

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I Sverige kan de som definieras som ensamkommande flyktingbarn, vare sig de har asylskäl eller ej, enklare få permanent uppehållstillstånd än andra – exempelvis om det saknas anhöriga i hemlandet att skicka tillbaks personen till. Följden tycks ha blivit en mångdubbling av antalet sökande med oklar ålder, bristande identitetshandlingar och svårlokaliserade släktingar.

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Enkelt uttryckt betalar staten för själva boendet 1900 kronor per asylsökande och dygn. Därtill kommer skolgången, som schablonersätts med 64300 kronor per gymnasieelev och år, samt andra kompensationer, för utredningar, för gode män, för särskilda behov och för extraordinära kostnader. Därutöver kommer en årlig grundersättning till kommunen om 500000 kronor för att ”underlätta mottagandet samt öka kvalitén”, samt dagpenningen till den asylsökande själv.

"Vilks doesn't stand alone in this conflict. A threat against him is, in the long term, also a threat against all Swedes."

2010-03-11T17:51:00.000+01:00

From ynetnews.com:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3860733,00.html

Swedish papers publish Prophet Muhammad drawing
Associated Press Published: 03.10.10, 13:31 / Israel News

At least three Swedish newspapers on Wednesday published a cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad with the body of a dog after an alleged plot to murder the artist who created it was uncovered in Ireland.

The controversial drawing by Swedish artist Lars Vilks was printed in Stockholm papers Dagens Nyheter and Expressen and the Malmo daily Sydsvenska Dagbladet.

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Dagens Nyheter said in an editorial that "Vilks doesn't stand alone in this conflict. A threat against him is, in the long term, also a threat against all Swedes."

Vilks has faced several death threats since the drawing was first printed by a Swedish newspaper in 2007, a year after separate cartoons of Muhammad in a Danish newspaper sparked furious protests in Muslim nations. Al-Qaeda put a $100,000 bounty on his head.

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Vilks said it was possible he was also being targeted by an American woman accused by US authorities of recruiting jihadist fighters online. Colleen R. LaRose had discussions her alleged plans with at least one of the suspects apprehended in Ireland, according to a US official who spoke on condition of anonymity because the official wasn't authorized to discuss details of the investigation.

"Jihad Jane går in i raden av muslimska kvinnor som har ett visst inflytande på den radikaliseringen av islam som pågår genom Internet."

2010-03-11T17:09:00.011+01:00

Det finns givetvis många moderata muslimer, men var islams "profet" Mohammed en moderat muslim?

Från Newsmill:

http://www.newsmill.se/artikel/2010/03/11/jihad-jane-har-f-r-ndrat-bilden-av-den-muslimska-kvinnan

Så radikaliseras kvinnliga konvertiter
Publicerad: 2010-03-11, Uppdaterad: 2010-03-11
av Ann-Sofie Roald

Anne Sofie Roald är religionshistoriker och islamolog vid Malmö högskola. Hon har själv konverterat till islam.

Citat:

Historien om "Jihad Jane", som i dagarna finns att läsa på löpesedlarna världen över bryter med bilden av den muslimska kvinnan som offer; kvinnan som inte kan ta egna beslut och som frivilligt eller ofrivilligt underställer sig mannens vilja som om vore den gudomlig. Oavsett om "Jihad Jane" konverterade till islam för att hon såg "ljuset" eller för att hon mötte en muslimsk man som hon förälskat sig i eller för att konversionen till islam för henne blev en civilisationskritik mot den västerländska världen eller för att islam blev en räddning i ett psykiskt ostabilt läge, eller för att hon rätt och slätt blev värvad av CIA eller FBI för att leta rätt på muslimska terrorister, så har hon bidragit till att ändra synen på den passiva muslimska kvinnan.

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I dag har muslimer blivit den "problematiska minoriteten". Den muslimska gruppens storlek, de patriarkaliska strukturerna och de olika sociala problem som finns i många muslimska invandrargrupper medverkar till att muslimer per definition har blivit "den andra" i den offentliga debatten och i majoritetsdiskursen. Fortfarande är det att ingå en relation med en muslim, man eller kvinna, huvudorsaken till att människor i Skandinavien konverterar till islam.

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I den danska undersökningen om ansiktsslöja som nyligen blev offentliggjort kom det t.ex. fram att ett stort antal av de kvinnor som hade valt att täcka ansiktet var danska konvertiter till islam.

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Men många konvertiter, särskilt kvinnor som har anammat den mer strikta salafitiska formen av islam, där yttre uttryck för religiös tillhörighet, såsom klädedräkt, matreglar och strikt segregation mellan könen har fått en framträdande plats och intagit en mer osynlig om än viktig plats i debatten. Det är på Internet som dessa kvinnor kan utöva inflytande på den inomislamiska debatten.

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Jihad Jane går in i raden av muslimska kvinnor som har ett viss inflytande på den radikaliseringen av islam som pågår genom Internet.

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"Stop all immigration to America"

2010-03-11T14:20:00.007+01:00

http://www.americandaily.com/article/11105

STOP ALL IMMIGRATION INTO AMERICA
By Frosty Wooldridge (01/08/06)
American Daily

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In December, 2005, in Sydney, Australia, immigrant Muslim youths set fires to scores of cars and buildings in another rampage of violence. Aussie police clamped down in a headlock on all citizens to contain the violence. It would not have happened in the first place if leaders had not allowed incompatible cultures to immigrate into Australia.

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One leader who lost his son to violence in Bergen, Norway said, â€œThis is the cost of bringing about multiculturalism.â€

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In Denver, Colorado in May of 2005, 65 percent of the Denver Public Schools graduating class flunked out or dropped out. Why? No teachers could educate the linguistic fiasco of 40 different languages, cultures and tension in the classrooms. One in five quit every nine month cycle. The American kids that did graduate thanked their lucky stars to get out of high school alive. Because of dumbing down classrooms, few were prepared for college.

In the highly liberal and welcoming of â€˜diversity and multiculturalismâ€™ Mecca of Boulder, Colorado, a phenomenon of â€˜White Flightâ€™ reported in the Rocky Mountain News, December 19, 2005, www.rockymountainnews.com, showed that the neighborhood around Columbine Elementary was 87 percent Caucasian, but that the school contained 83 percent Hispanic kids.

While very rich and very white parents driving $50,000 SUVs sporting â€œCelebrate Diversityâ€™ bumper stickers love the concept of â€˜multiculturalismâ€™, they carted their kids off to other area schools that would educate them instead of dumb down their kids to the illegal immigrant classrooms.

In California, Arizona and Texas, Mexican immigrants, both legal and illegal, wave Mexican flags in their vehicles, homes, parties, demonstrations and school classrooms. They speak Spanish and demand everything be translated in their native language. Now with over 10 million illegal alien Mexicans, the United States suffers colonization by sheer numbers and bows to their demands while it spends billions on language classes for children and parents who will never honor English of their host country

In Detroit, Michigan, hundreds of thousands of Muslim immigrants refuse to speak English nor do they honor Americaâ€™s culture by separating from their former countries.

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How can anyone think that a documented violent religion that dominates the Middle East and is bent on destroying Israelâ€”is something we want or need in America?

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While hundreds of thousands flee Los Angeles and other cities with millions of immigrants, at some point, thereâ€™s no place to run or escape in America.

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Can you think of any positive reasons why we need one more immigrant whether legal or illegal? Name a single valued point of adding more foreigners to our country in the 21st century. Give one single merit on how our nation will survive multiple languages? How will we survive violent religions? Since we have 10 million illegal alien Mexicans today, how will we survive the next 10 million or even 20 million? Have you seen any good to the growing gridlock, educational crisis, hospital crisis, disease crisis, crime, acid rain, air pollution or loss of quality of life in America? Do we want to add another 100, 200, 300 million people to our country?

Will more immigrants working at minimum wage be able to pay off our $7.9 trillion debt? Will more insourced immigrants pay off our pending Social Security crisis? Will more immigrants solve Californiaâ€™s $38 billion debt? Will more immigrants with hundreds of languages help our nation remain cohesive? Will more of our working poor be able to survive millions of more immigrants? Will importing millions from those countries sending us immigrants stop their adding 85 million more annually? Give one single good reason for more immigration! Canâ€™t?

What do you do to stop the sinking of the Titanic? Stop the water from pouring in! What do you do to keep a failing hot air balloon aloft? Patch the hole! What do you do to avoid a head-on accident? Turn sharply in another direction! How do you stop from catching tuberculosis? Keep people with tuberculosis out of your house and schools!

Frosty Wooldridge possesses a unique view of the world, cultures and families in that he has bicycled around the globe 100,000 miles, on six continents in the past 26 years. He has written hundreds of articles (regularly) for 17 national and 2 international magazines. He has had hundreds of editorials published in top national newspapers including the Rocky Mountain News, Denver Post, Albany Herald and Christian Science Monitor.

Site: http://www.frostywooldridge.com/

Qaddafi, Wilders, and the Jihad Against Switzerland

2010-03-10T17:09:00.000+01:00

From Pajamas Media:

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/qaddafi-wilders-and-the-jihad-against-switzerland/?singlepage=true

Qaddafi, Wilders, and the Jihad Against Switzerland
Qaddafi's declaration of jihad against Switzerland is an action with centuries of precedence within Islam.
March 10, 2010 - by Andrew G. Bostom

Click here to read the whole thing.

Quotes:

Ever since the triumphs of Islam’s prophet became the ultimate inspiration for jihadism almost 14 centuries ago, Muslims have especially revered the bellicose, conquering Muhammad of Medina. (For a pious contemporary example, see Yusuf al-Qaradawi’s “The Prophet Muhammad as a Jihad Model.”) According to a canonical hadith (Sahih Muslim, Book 001, Number 0272), Islam in essence belongs to Medina, as a serpent to its lair, the specific words being, “Verily the faith [i.e., Islam] would recede to Medina just as the serpent crawls back into its hole.”

Consistent with the accepted virtues of predatory Medinan Islam and the sacralized jihadism of Muhammad, Libyan despot Muammar Qaddafi recently marked the Muslim prophet’s birthday by declaring a jihad against Switzerland “with all means,” including violent jihad.

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Over the past two months, Qaddafi’s government has cut its oil supplies to Switzerland, withdrawn Libyan capital from Swiss banks, and moved to close all Swiss companies active in Libya — Swiss Air having already been shut down. And within a week, by Thursday, March 4, Qaddafi’s call for jihad against Switzerland — manifested as economic jihad, for now — was endorsed by Arab League ministers meeting in Cairo. Ministers from Somalia, Sudan, Egypt, Morocco, Mauritania, Algeria, Djibouti, Syria, Yemen, Bahrain, Kuwait, theUAE , Jordan, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Tunisia each signed a document in support of Libya’s actions, which also denounced Switzerland as “racist.”
Qaddafi’s jihad-sanctioning diatribe and its endorsement by the Arab League ignores the Swiss electorate’s legitimate concerns expressed through their political leadership, notably the Swiss People’s Party (SVP). These actions towards the Swiss and Western Europe in general by Qaddafi, his Arab League supporters, and other Muslim political and religious leaders illustrate simultaneous denial and imperialistic threat — archetypal Islamic behaviors toward infidel civilizations.

For example, the brutal Arab jihad conquest, colonization, and Sharia-based rule of a swath of Western Europe for eight centuries (the 8th through the 15th), although centralized in the Iberian peninsula of mythically tolerant Muslim Spain, included jihadist ravages that beset what is now modern Switzerland.

Charles Emmanuel Dufourcq, the pre-eminent historian of the Arab Muslim jihad campaigns in Medieval Western Europe, has described how Muslim invaders reached Switzerland from their well-established bastion in Provence. Penetrating toward the north, the east, and the northeast:

They reached Gap [~ 100 miles northeast of Marseille] and Grenoble (which they would seize for almost twenty years in the middle of the tenth century), advanced as far as the mountain passes in the Alps, which they controlled, making everyone who traveled through them pay a tax, in particular at the Grand-Saint-Bernard [between Italy and Switzerland]. … They arrived in LeValais [a Swiss canton], up to the Abbey of Saint Gall [presently in the Swiss city of St. Gallen], becoming … “the masters of Switzerland” for a decade or so (during the late 9th century).

Major contemporary Muslim clerics and leaders such as Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi (“spiritual” leader of the Muslim Brotherhood), former Turkish Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan, and Qaddafi himself have openly extolled this imperialist past as a prologue to modern efforts seeking Europe’s Islamization. Qaradawi’s public fatwa issued December 2, 2002 urged Muslims to conquer Europe, stating: “Islam will return to Europe as a conqueror and a victor after being expelled from it twice — once from the south, from Andalusia, and a second time, from the east, when it knocked several times on the doors of Athens.”Sheikh Qaradawi ruled, in addition, that Muslims should reconquer “former Islamic colonies to Andalus (Spain), southern Italy, Sicily, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean islands.”

Such sentiments were reiterated with equal stridency by European Muslim leaders at a conference entitled “Islam in Europe” that accompanied the July 10, 2003 opening of the new Granada Mosque. The keynote speaker at this putatively “ecumenical” conference, Umar Ibrahim Vadillo, a Spanish Muslim leader, implored Muslims to cause an economic collapse of Western economies (by switching to gold dinars, and ceasing to use Western currencies), while the German Muslim leader Abu Bakr Rieger told attendees not to adapt their Islamic religious practices to accommodate European (i.e., Western Enlightenment?) values.

These blatant, repeated exhortations for the Islamic subjugation of Europe — a context ignored by mainstream media “analyses” — motivated the Swiss Freedom Party’s (SVP’s) successful referendum to ban minarets.

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Wilders celebrated these local electoral gains and optimistic national prospects during a remarkable address given in London at the British Parliament’s House of Lords on Friday, March 5. He invoked Winston Churchill’s 1899 commentary on Islam from “The River War” — a first hand narrative of the great British prime minister’s encounters with jihadism in The Sudan as a young military officer:

No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science — the science against which it had vainly struggled — the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.

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Wilders’ keen, if blunt, conceptions articulate contemporary realities while restating seminal insights on Islam observed by great scholars whose works antedate the present day morbid affliction of cultural relativism.

Jacob Burckhardt (d. 1897), an iconic figure in the annals of Western historiography, believed it was the solemn duty of Western civilization’s heirs to study and acknowledge their own unique cultural inheritance — starting with the culture and heritage of classical Athens. Burckhardt emphasized how the Western conception of freedom was engendered in Athens, where its flowering was accompanied by the production of some of history’s most sublime literary and artistic works. Moreover, while Burckhardt affirmed the irreducible nature of freedom, and upheld equality before the law, he decried the notion — a pervasive, rigidly enforced dogma at present — that all ways of life, opinions, and beliefs were of equal value. Burckhardt argued that this conceptual reductio ad absurdum would destroy Western culture, heralding a return to barbarism. And contra the Western legacy of Athens — epitomized by freedom –Burckhardt referred to Islam as a despotic, totalitarian ideology:

All religions are exclusive, but Islam is quite notably so, and immediately it developed into a state which seemed to be all of a piece with the religion. The Koran is its spiritual and secular book of law. Its statutes embrace all areas of life … and remain set and rigid; … [imposing] this nature on many nationalities and thus [remolding] them for all time (a profound, extensive spiritual bondage!). This is the power of Islam in itself. At the same time, the form of the world empire as well as of the states gradually detaching themselves from it cannot be anything but a despotic monarchy. The very reason and excuse for existence, the holy war, and the possible world conquest, do not brook any other form.

The strongest proof of real, extremely despotic power in Islam is the fact that it has been able to invalidate, in such large measure, the entire history (customs, religion, previous way of looking at things, earlier imagination) of the peoples converted to it. It accomplished this only by instilling into them a new religious arrogance which was stronger than everything and induced them to be ashamed of their past.

G.H. Bousquet (d. 1978), one of the foremost 20 century scholars of Islamic Law, explained how Islam’s unique institution of jihad war and its eternal quest to impose the Shari’a on all of humanity represented the quintessence of Islamic totalitarianism. Writing in 1950, Bousquet ( p. 104) further warned that these ancient Muslim doctrines remained alive, and relevant to the modern era:

Islam first came before the world as a doubly totalitarian system. It claimed to impose itself on the whole world and it claimed also, by the divinely appointed Muhammadan law, by the principles offiqh , to regulate down to the smallest details the whole life of the Islamic community and of every individual believer … Viewed from this angle, the study of Muhammadan Law (dry and forbidding though it may appear to be to those who confine themselves to the indispensable study of thefiqh), is of great importance to the world of today.

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By the early 1990s, Bat Ye’or had already observed that European Islam was adhering to its traditional supremacist orthodoxy, making no effort to eliminate doctrines incompatible with true ecumenism and core Western Enlightenment values:
I do not see serious signs of a Europeanization of Islam anywhere, a move that would be expressed in … a self-critical view of the history of Islamic imperialism … we are light years away from such a development … On the contrary, I think that we are participating in the Islamization of Europe, reflected both in daily occurrences and in our way of thinking …

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But the Swiss minaret referendum, and even more emphatically, burgeoning Dutch support for Wilders and his PVV, indicate that ordinary Europeans reject the capitulation to Islamic supremacism their cultural relativist media and political elites deliberately abet.

Andrew Bostom (http://www.andrewbostom.org/blog/) is the author of The Legacy of Jihad: Islamic Holy War and the Fate of Non-Muslims (2005/2008) and The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism: From Sacred Texts to Solemn History (2008).

"The "science" which these Qur'anic verses and prophetic ahadith support is the science of the knowledge of Allah and his power and nothing else."

2010-03-10T11:42:00.002+01:00

From "Translating Jihad":

http://translating-jihad.blogspot.com/2010/02/moderate-muslim-can-change-into.html

Saturday, February 27, 2010
A Moderate Muslim Can Change into an Extremist Muslim or Terrorist in a Single Night"

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This is a great article from al-Watan Voice, in which the author makes a passionate plea for a turn to secularism in the Islamic world.

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"Yes" to Secularism
by Dr. Majid al-Balushi
al-Watan Voice, 25 February 2010

The truth is that the difference between the moderate Muslim and the extremist Muslim is quantitative and not qualitative. In other words, a moderate Muslim can change into an extremist Muslim or terrorist in a single night, provided he delve deeper into Qur'anic verses, especially the verse of the sword, and the prophetic ahadith (sayings) calling for fighting and jihad in the path of "establishing the word of truth." Or by attending the "principles of fiqh" or "studies of fiqh" which are held in mosques normally after the evening prayers. It is here that attendees are brainwashed with a list of Qur'anic verses and prophetic ahadith and books of Islamic jurisprudence, and more, related to what is halal and haram, to apostasy and jihad... and the torment of the grave and the horrors of the hell-fire...and the Houris (wide-eyed women of paradise that will be given to the believers).

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...the Islamists claim that Islam fosters science, and forcibly call attention to Qur'anic verses that mention science. They resort to these Qur'anic verses and prophetic ahadith which repeat in them the word "science" and its derivatives, as if this "science" is the science of chemistry or physics or engineering, etc. The "science" which these Qur'anic verses and prophetic ahadith support is the science of the knowledge of Allah and his power and nothing else. For thus is the saying of the Prophet: "Who knows a knowledge of something other than Allah, or desired a knowledge of something other than Allah, let him take his place in hell," and also the saying, "The scientists are the heirs of the prophets."

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This is not all, for why do we find that everything around us is invented and manufactured in secular nations? Take as an example the machinery for printing the Qur'an and its pages, and its ink in various colors, does this not come from the inventions and manufacturing of secular nations? And also the loudspeakers which we use to announce and read the Qur'an, weren't these invented and manufactured in secular nations?

Hat Tip: Jihad Watch

Son of Hamas founder, former Israeli spy and Christian convert on Hamas and Islam

2010-03-09T08:34:00.004+01:00

Hat Tip: Kent Ekeroth

Male psychology?

2010-03-08T09:56:00.000+01:00

Hat tip: The Anti-Feminist

Re-post: Modern Day Trojan Horse: The Islamic Doctrine of Immigration

2010-03-07T11:00:00.003+01:00

Modern Day Trojan Horse: The Islamic Doctrine of Immigration
by Sam Solomon and Elias Al Maqdisi
Publisher: Advancing Native Missions
2009

“I hope that every person in the Western world reads it, including the sleeping political elite. This book should bring about a much needed awakening.”

- Geert Wilders MP
Chairman Party for Freedom (PVV)

“Sam Solomon and E Al Maqdisi have provided the general Western public a valuable service in publishing this book.”

- Rev Dr Patrick Sookhdeo
Director of the Institute for the Study of Islam and Christianity

“If only one piece of information pertaining to Muslims and Islam is ever read, it would be this book on Al-Hijra.”

- N Keas Phd
Lecturer and Communication Consultant

Here is the website of the book.

From the website:

The Islamic Doctrine of Immigration
Accepting Freedom or Imposing Islam?

The first fundamental principle for the creation
of a successfully visible Islamic society
is to be separate and distinct…

The meaning of Al-Hijra is ‘to immigrate’, and the Islamic calendar starts with that date, i.e., the date Muhammad ‘immigrated’ from Mecca to Medina, for which he had planned carefully and meticulously laying down the groundwork for the Islamic State, soon to grow after his death into a formidable empire ruled by the laws and regulations laid out by him, called the Shariah. Today as we see staggering numbers of immigrants from Muslim countries in Europe and in the Americas, we have to ask the questions as in the title of this book, “Are these communities wanting to join the free societies? Or, are they extending the ‘Abode of Islam’ as per the ‘Doctrine of Immigration’ which was modeled by Muhammad in the initial Hijra?”

Free immigration by various groups to Western Europe and the Americas has long been a welcome part of national growth, as immigrants were searching primarily for opportunities for a better life and were quick to identify with their host nations and so to contribute their talents to the national good. So why does this book focus on the subject of ‘Islamic Immigration?’ Why should this be an issue at all? After all, aren’t the Muslim immigrants just like any other immigrants from China, the Indian subcontinent or Africa? After all, these other immigrants try to preserve their ethnic identity and even form lobby groups to fend for their rights and special requirements. The authors of this book argue that ‘Islamic Immigration’ (Al-Hijra, in Arabic) is tied organically and inseparably to a form of immigration which is an integral part of the Islamic call (da’wa) to establish an Islamic state or political power base and to spread Islam.

The authors provide the painstaking detail of how the Hijra was not a sudden desperate attempt by Muhammad and his followers to flee Mecca for a better life in Medina. In fact it was a methodically planned event whereby Muhammad used his shrewd political manoeuvring and leadership skills to transform every development into an advantage without losing his focus on the final goal. In the process he unified the pagan Arabs as Muslims and placed the Jewish and Christian Arabs in a subservient condition. Prior to becoming subservient they were masters in their own towns and oases. More importantly, Muhammad developed a ‘model’ to be emulated by generations to come — for 1400 years and still counting! This model is called the ‘Doctrine of Immigration,’ and it provides the mechanisms and processes to be followed by dedicated and pious Muslims to transform the world into the abode of Islam.

If this is the case, as demonstrated by one example after the other, then does the image of a ‘Trojan Horse’ apply? In Greek history, the Trojan horse was a fake ‘gift’ by the Trojans as they made the appearance of lifting their siege on Troy. But that allowed the toughest Trojan fighters to hide inside that horse, only to take on the fully drunk and sleepy enemy by surprise and inside the walls of their city. Is Islamic immigration then a deceptive effort to take over Western societies while they are unaware of what is going on? The authors point to the gradual attempts to spread Islamic influence in small steps, but with the aim of making Islamic Shariah laws fully functional.

Modern Islamic intellectuals and planners have been actively working on applying the Doctrine of Immigration to the Muslim societies in Europe, North America, and Latin America. The advocated mechanisms and tools are not mere ‘parallels’ of what Muhammad did in Medina some 1400 years ago, but actually are precise imitations and applications of what he did and developed, as you will see in this book.

Sam Solomon, a convert to Christianity and an expert on Islam, is a senior lecturer and research coordinator, a human rights activist and an advisor to British as well as European parliamentarians. Sam has authored a number of thought-provoking books and numerous articles on Christian Muslim relations.

E Al Maqdisi is a prolific writer and debater, an author of some 15 books, and a regular contributor to many Internet sites on this complex subject of Islam and its teachings.

Återpostning: Nutida Trojansk Häst: Al Hijra, Den Islamiska Doktrinen Immigration

2010-03-06T10:36:00.002+01:00

Det har 2009 kommit ut en bok på engelska med titeln Modern Day Trojan Horse: Al Hijra, The Islamic Doctrine of Immigration (på svenska ungefär "Nutida Trojansk Häst: Al Hijra, Den Islamiska Doktrinen Immigration") skriven av Sam Solomon och Elias Al Maqdisi.

Ett citat om boken:

"Jag hoppas att varje person i västvärlden läser den, inklusive den sovande eliten. Den här boken borde frammana ett mycket behövligt uppvaknande."

Geert Wilders, parlamentsledamot och ordförande för nederländska Partij voor de Frijheid (eller "Partiet för Frihet")

Janet Levy recenserade boken i amerikanska American Thinker under titeln "The Hijra" och skriver då bl.a så här:

"I deras fängslande bok "Nutida Trojansk Häst: Al Hijra, Den Islamiska Doktrinen Migration" förklarar författarna Sam Solomon, en före detta professor i Sharia och konvertit till kristendomen och Elias Al Maqdisi, en expert på islam, migrationen av muslimer till Dar-al-Harb "krigets hus" som ett religiöst påbud med utgångspunkt i islamisk doktrin. De beskriver den stegvisa processen av den här 1400 år gamla erövringsstrategin. Det är en övergångs-strategi vilken de karakteriserar som det viktigaste steget i spridandet av islam och förberedandet av Jihad. Av deras omsorgsfulla avhandling om Hijra står det klart att migration tillsammans med militär erövring utgör den islamiska expansionismens bokstöd."

På bokens egna hemsida står det bl.a så här:

Innebörden av Al-Hijra är "att emigrera" och den islamiska kalendern börjar med det datumet. Datumet då Mohammed "emigrerade" från Mecca till Medina. För det planerade Mohammed omsorgsfullt och minutiöst och gjorde det grundläggande förarbetet för den islamiska staten vilken efter hans död snart skulle växa till ett avskräckande imperium styrt av de lagar och regler Muhammed la fram, Sharia.

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Författarna till den här boken menar att "islamisk migration" (Al-Hijra på arabiska) är organiskt och oskiljbart bundet till en form av migration som är en väsentlig del av den islamiska kallelsen (da’wa) att upprätta en islamisk stat eller politisk maktbas och att sprida islam.

Författarna tillhandahåller det noggranna detaljerandet av hur Hijra inte var ett plötsligt desperat försök av Muhammed och hans följeslagare att fly från Mecca till ett bättre liv i Medina. Det var i själva verket en metodiskt planerad händelse varigenom Muhammed använde sitt listiga politiska manövrerande och ledarskapsförmågor till att förvandla varje utveckling till en fördel utan att förlora sitt fokus på det slutgiltiga målet. Under förloppet enade han de hedniska araberna som muslimer och förpassade de judiska och kristna araberna till en underordnad ställning. Innan de blev underordnade var de herrar över sina egna samhällen och oaser. Ännu viktigare var att Muhammed skapade en "förlaga" som skulle emuleras av generationer - i 1400 år till idag! Den här förlagan kallas "doktrinen migration" och den tillhandahåller mekanismerna och processerna att följas av de hängivna och devota muslimerna för att omgestalta hela världen till "islams hus".

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Nutida islamiska intellektuella och planerare har aktivt arbetat med att tillämpa "doktrinen migration" till de muslimska samhällena i Europa, Nordamerika och Sydamerika. De förespråkade mekanismerna och verktygen är inte bara "paralleller" av vad Muhammed gjorde i Medina för 1400 år sedan, utan faktiskt exakta imitationer och tillämplingar av vad han gjorde och utvecklade, vilket du kommer att förstå av den här boken.

Finkelstein's Bigotry

2010-03-05T09:41:00.001+01:00

Finkelstein's Bigotry
by Alan Dershowitz
The Wall Street Journal
May 4, 2007

http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110010034
http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/3293

In her 1951 best seller, "The Groves of Academe," Mary McCarthy fictionalized a failed academic who, realizing he wouldn't get tenure, became a communist so that he could claim that he was being denied tenure because he was a Red rather than a lousy scholar.

A version of that ploy is being used today. Norman Finkelstein brags that "never has one of [his] articles been published in a scientific magazine." By his own account he has been fired by "every school in New York," including Brooklyn College, Hunter and NYU. His chairman at one of these colleges said that Mr. Finkelstein was fired for "incompetence," "mental instability" and "abuse" of students with politics different from his own. His prospects seemed bleak, so when radical Islamist Aminah McCloud -- a follower of Louis Farrakhan -- helped him land a job at DePaul, a school that Mr. Finkelstein describes as "a third-rate Catholic university," he accepted "exile."

His prospects did not improve when he wrote a screed against Holocaust survivors called "The Holocaust Industry." The scholar whose work on the Holocaust was the "stimulus" for this volume, University of Chicago professor Peter Novick, warned that: "No facts alleged by Finkelstein should be assumed to be really facts, no quotation in his book should be assumed to be accurate, without taking the time to carefully compare his claims with the sources he cites. . . .[S]uch an examination reveals that many of those assertions are pure invention." Nor was he helped when New York Times reviewer Prof. Omer Bartov, an authority on genocide, characterized his book as "a novel variation on the anti-Semitic forgery, 'The Protocols of the Elders of Zion' . . . brimming with indifference to historical facts, inner contradictions, strident politics . . . [I]ndecent . . . juvenile, self-righteous, arrogant and stupid."

On the other hand, Mr. Finkelstein is supported by hard-leftists like Noam Chomsky and Alexander Cockburn. They regard him as a scholar in a class with Ward Churchill (the Colorado professor who called the 9/11 victims "little Eichmanns") -- a characterization with which I would not quarrel.
Facing tenure denial, Mr. Finkelstein opted for a tactic that fit the times. He expressed views so ad hominem, unscholarly and extreme that he could claim the decision was being made not on the basis of his scholarship, but rather on his politics.

Mr. Finkelstein does not do "scholarship" in any meaningful sense. Although his writings center on Israel (which he compares to Nazi Germany) and the Holocaust, he has never visited Israel and cannot read or speak German -- precluding the possibility of original scholarship.

Prof. Bartov characterized his work as an irrational Jewish "conspiracy theory." The conspirators include Steven Spielberg, NBC and Leon Uris. The film "Schindler's List," Mr. Finkelstein argues, was designed to divert attention from our Mideast policy. "Give me a better reason! . . . Who profits? Basically, there are two beneficiaries from the dogmas [of Schindler's List]: American Jews and American administration." NBC, he says, broadcast "Holocaust" to strengthen Israel's position: "In 1978, NBC produced the series Holocaust. Do you believe, it was a coincidence, 1978? Just at this time, when peace negotiations between Israel and Egypt took place in Camp David?" He argues that Leon Uris, the author of "Exodus," named his character "Ari" in order to promote Israel's "Nazi" ideology: "[B]ecause Ari is the diminutive for Aryan. It is the whole admiration for this blond haired, blue eyed type." (Ari is a traditional name dating back to the Bible.) He has blamed Sept. 11 on the U.S., claiming that we "deserve the problem on our hands because some things Bin Laden says are true.") He says that most alleged Holocaust survivors -- including Elie Wiesel -- have fabricated their past.

Like other anti-Semites, Mr. Finkelstein generalizes about "the Jews"; for example: "Just as Israelis . . . courageously put unruly Palestinians in their place, so American Jews courageously put unruly Blacks in their place." He says "the main fomenters of anti-Semitism "are 'American Jewish elites' who need to be stopped." Normally, no one would take such claims seriously, but he boasts that he "can get away with things which nobody else can" because his parents were Holocaust survivors.

And then, of course, there is me. In a recent article, "Should Alan Dershowitz Target Himself for Assassination?" Mr. Finkelstein commissioned a cartoon by a man who placed second in the Iranian Holocaust-denial cartoon contest. The Hustler-type cartoon portrayed me as masturbating in joy while viewing images of dead Lebanese on a TV set labeled "Israel peep show," with a Star of David prominently featured.

Mr. Finkelstein has accused me of not having written "The Case For Israel" but when I sent his publisher my handwritten draft, they made him remove that claim. He has accused virtually every pro-Israel writer, including me, of "plagiarism." I asked Harvard to conduct an investigation of this absurd charge. Harvard rejected it, yet he persists.

The final part of Mr. Finkelstein's quest for tenure is to blame his tenure problems on "outsiders." He claims that I intruded myself into the DePaul review process, neglecting to mention that I was specifically asked by the former chairman of DePaul's political science department to "point [him] to the clearest and most egregious instances of dishonesty on Finkelstein's part." I responded by providing hard evidence of made-up quotes and facts -- a pattern that should alone disqualify him from tenure.

Nevertheless, Mr. Finkelstein's radical colleagues voted for tenure, having cooked the books by seeking outside evaluations from two of his ideological soulmates. The dean, however, recommended against tenure. Mr. Finkelstein then used my letter to stimulate a "Solidarity with Finkelstein" campaign.
Like the character in the "Groves of Academe," Mr. Finkelstein generated protests by students and outsiders. He has encouraged radical goons to email threatening messages; "Look forward to a visit from me," reads one. "Nazis like [you] need to be confronted directly." He has threatened to sue if he loses -- while complaining about outside interference. No university should be afraid of truth -- regardless of its source -- especially when truth consists of Mr. Finkelstein's own words.

Whether or not he receives tenure, Mr. Finkelstein will persist in his unscholarly, ad hominems against supporters of Israel, Holocaust survivors and the U.S. But for the time being, the question remains: Will his bigotry receive the imprimatur of the largest Catholic university in the America?

A Christian cannot vote for Geert Wilders' anti-immigration party PVV, said 75% of church leaders in a poll of 1,200 ministers and church workers in the Nederlands Dagblad

2010-03-04T09:26:00.001+01:00

From DutchNews.nl:

http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2010/02/christians_cant_vote_for_wilde.php

Christians can't vote for Wilders, say vicars
Thursday 25 February 2010

Quotes:

A Christian cannot vote for Geert Wilders' anti-immigration party PVV, say 75% of church leaders in a poll of 1,200 ministers and church workers in the Nederlands Dagblad.
The ministers represent a cross-section of all the Netherlands' Protestant churches, representing 2.3 million people, the paper says.

Højre-hook til islamforsker

2010-03-03T08:31:00.000+01:00

http://www.berlingske.dk/kultur/hoejre-hook-til-islamforsker

Højre-hook til islamforsker
Af Bent Blüdnikow
Mandag den 28. januar 2008, 22:30

Bloggeren Kim Møller skrev et universitetsspeciale, som sætter kritisk lys på islamforskeren Jørgen Bæk Simonsen. Det gav en dårlig karakter - men nu slår han igen og udgiver specialet som bog.

Citat:

Da Journalistforbundets blad, »Journalisten«, i denne måned offentliggjorde en liste over Danmarks mest magtfulde mediepersoner, var bloggeren Kim Møller nr. 217. Det lyder måske ikke så imponerende, men til gengæld er han den eneste »rene« blogger på listen, og hans blog, Uriasposten.net, bliver daglig læst af ca. 2.300 læsere.

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Det er nu ikke i hans egenskab af blogger, at Berlingske Tidende har opsøgt Kim Møller i Århus, men fordi han netop har udgivet en bog om islamforskning i Danmark, »Vejen til Damaskus. Dansk islamforskning 1885-2005«. Internationalt er der opbrud i udforskningen af islam, og senest har islamforskere i to bøger debatteret islamforskningen. Det er Robert Irwin i bogen »Af begær efter viden« (2008) og Ibn Warraqs netop udgivne »Defending The West: A Critique of Edward Said’s Orientalism«.

Begge forfattere retter en skarp kritik mod den palæstinensiske professor Edward Said, der i godt 30 år satte sit tydelige fodaftryk på vestlige universiteter med sin påstand om, at vestlige forskere så på Orienten med arrogante, imperialistiske øjne. Said snød – ifølge forfatterne – på vægten og manipulerede sin forskning for at få dén pointe hjem, at Mellemøstens folk var stakkels ofre for vestlige forskere og vestlig imperialisme.

Kim Møller forsøger med sin bog at placere denne debat midt i det danske spinatbed. Han gennemgår i sin bog »Vejen til Damaskus. Dansk islamforskning 1885-2005« en række af de kendte danske islamforskere, men slår en aktuel krølle med Jørgen Bæk Simonsen, der er lektor ved Carsten Niebuhr Instituttet på Københavns Universitet. I debatten om den radikale islams udfordring til Europa har Jørgen Bæk Simonsen været en af de centraler skikkelser herhjemme. Jørgen Bæk Simonsen er tidligere leder af det danske kulturhus i Damaskus, og han betragtes af mange som en forsvarer af islam, som da han f.eks. fordømte Jyllands-Postens offentliggørelse af en række tegninger af Muhammed.

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Der står sikkert grufulde ting i Koranen, men det gør der jo også i Det gamle Testamente, og nogle jøder anser jo også det skrift for at være givet af Gud?

»Det er rigtigt, men Koranen er i langt højere grad en krigsmanual, der opfordrer til mord på f.eks. jøder. I Koranen går Muhammed ind for at myrde Medinas jøder, og Koranen har vital betydning for muslimers praksis. Det er ikke noget tilfælde, at hadsk propaganda mod jøder florerer blandt muslimer den dag i dag, og at de kan hente retorisk inspiration i Koranen.«

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Du mener, at danske islamforskere generelt ikke tør gå kritisk til islam og Koranen. Men bliver det ikke ophævet af mediernes kritiske holdning?

»Det er en misforståelse at tro, at medierne går kritisk til islam. Imamer, der går ind for stening, beskrives som moderate, andre, der sympatiserer med terrorister, beskrives som personer, der understøtter integrationen. Proportionerne er gået fløjten, og politiserende forskere har i høj grad et medansvar.«

Inget moraliskt dilemma att stötta Israel

2010-03-02T12:30:00.003+01:00

För att förstå Israels predikament behöver man också studera islam.

Från Newsmill:

http://www.newsmill.se/artikel/2010/03/01/intet-moralsk-dilemma-st-tte-israel

Intet moralsk dilemma å stötte Israel
av Roar Sørensen

Citat:

Men her kommer vi til det andre viktige poenget. Det faktum at enkelte sionistledere har uttalt seg i termer av transfer gjør ikke fenomenet til en vedtatt policy. Det stemmer at det fantes en debatt om denne saken, men ingen har til nå kunnet bevise at det ble tatt en formell avgjørelse i favør av det. Tvert imot finnes det mengder av bevis på at de jødiske lederne oppmuntret araberne til bli værende mens forskjellige arabiske ledere oppfordret, beordret, og i mange tilfeller tvang, sine brødre til å forlate sine hjem.

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Bostom's legacy

2010-03-01T11:39:00.000+01:00

From The Jerusalem Post:

http://www.andrewbostom.org/content/view/70/43/

Bostom's legacy
May 22, 2008 at 04:30 PM
RAPHAEL ISRAELI , THE JERUSALEM POST May. 15, 2008
The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism
By Andrew Bostom
Prometheus
768 pages; $39.95

Following the recent publication of his massive compendium The Legacy of Jihad - a breakthrough inasmuch as the enormous task of assembling together all the major sources which govern the holy war in Islam had never been attempted before - this amazingly prolific writer has completed another, no less imposing, collection of sources, Islamic and others, which testify to the long and sorry history of anti-Semitism in Islam. This too had never been undertaken before on such a scale, mainly due to the constrictions of political correctness that posited that Islam, unlike Christianity, had not entertained a systematic persecution of the Jews.

This apologetic for Islam has now been shattered by Andrew Bostom, who painstakingly but thoughtfully collected and collated this documentation that would have been a stunning and innovative undertaking for any scholar of Islam to pursue, let alone for a professional in medicine whose research on Islam has been merely a secondary career.

Appropriately, Bostom begins his volume with a well-tailored survey of the theological, historical and juridical origins of Islamic anti-Semitism, including the Koran, the Hadith and the Sirah, then proceeds to an insightful description of the dhimmis in the main lands of Islam, to test the theory of the cited sources against the practice of Muslim rulers in the entire area spanning the Middle East, North Africa, the Iberian Peninsula (Andalusia) and the Ottoman Empire.

The picture these documents give reverses in a dramatic way many of the ill-conceived and misjudged information that had attempted in the past to ascribe to the lands of Islam a much more benign and idyllic image of their (mis)treatment of the Jews. The coalition between the Palestinian mufti of Jerusalem and the Nazis during World War II is conjured up to conclude this introduction.

Secondly, the author delves in considerable detail into the main sources of Islamic jurisprudence - the Koran and the Hadith, complemented by the Sirah (the earliest pious Muslim biographies of Muhammad), where an abundance of references, usually not complimentary but rather derogatory, are made to Jews, collectively known as Israi'liyyat (Israelites' stories). This is a trove of anti-Jewish stereotypes that have become the Shari'a-based uncontested "truth" about the People of the Book. Those accounts are invariably cited in sermons during Friday prayers, thus assuring their universal diffusion among Muslim constituents and the constant poisoning of the souls of young and adult Muslims alike, something that renders their fundamentally negative attitudes to Jews and Israel unchangeable.

This extremely important collection from the holy sources is supplemented by the thinking and judgment of the most authoritative jurists whose every word has been awaited and avidly digested by Muslim constituencies the world over. The great medieval masters, such as Tabari and Jahiz, are reinforced by more recent ones such as the Egyptian Tantawi and Egyptian-in exile Qaradawi, who represent the two poles of established Islam and popular Islam in our contemporary world.

An impressive selection of observations made by prominent Western scholars, complemented by the eyewitness reports of travelers, consular representatives and journalists and writers about the condition of the Jews in Arab lands, are adduced to support the basic and well-documented thesis of the author, that the anti-Semitic record of the Islamic world leaves much to be desired.

Bostom provides the first full English translation and detailed analysis of a seminal, if repellent 1942 essay ("Judaism and Islam as Opposites") by Johannes von Leers, the infamous Nazi propagandist of extermination. The essay (and its explication by Bostom) demonstrates Leers's thorough, reverential understanding of the sacralized Islamic sources. Leers's personal career trajectory - as a favored contributor in Goebbels's propaganda ministry, to his eventual adoption of Islam (as Omar Amin von Leers, in 1956) while working as an anti-Western and anti-Semitic propagandist under Nasser's regime from the mid-1950s until his death in 1965 - epitomizes the modern convergence of Islamic anti-Semitism, and racist, Nazi anti-Semitism.

It is worth noting that the blood libel, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and the world Jewish conspiracy, which were borrowed by Muslims from classic European anti-Semitism since the 19th century and the infamous Damascus blood libel (1840), are still recurrent and popular themes in books, posters, cartoons, sermons in mosques, TV series and radio programs produced throughout the Islamic world, including in countries that concluded peace with Israel (Jordan and Egypt). Moreover, the fortunes of the Arab-Israeli conflict, especially the escalation of latter years, have by themselves occasioned an unprecedented campaign of demonization of Israel in the Islamic media and public discourse. The main argument being, of course, that Israel, being a Nazi accursed regime, draws its inspiration from the traditional Jewish sources and from the more recent colonialist, oppressive and imperialist nature of Zionism. The nation of Israel and its movement of national liberation, according to this rationale, cannot be better than the sum total of its members.

One can hardly exaggerate the vast importance of this volume, which will henceforth become indispensable for any student of Islam, of Judeo-Islamic relations, of anti-Semitism in particular and of hate-literature in general. The variety of materials assembled here, which makes a fascinating, if disagreeable, reading, for all the splendid and insightful overview offered by this incredibly energetic and imaginative author, will continue for times to come to constitute a mainstay of Muslim sources which will have to be referred to by future researchers, scholars and the general educated public which aspires to comprehend the significance of the new outburst of anti-Semitism, clearly articulated by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, among Muslims worldwide.

The writer is a professor of Islamic, Middle Eastern and Chinese history at the Hebrew University.

Clip of Libyan Leader Mu'ammar Qadhafi: Jihad Should Be Declared against Switzerland, a Sinful Infidel Country

2010-02-28T19:06:00.002+01:00

Click here to watch the clip from the Middle East Media Research Institute TV Monitor Project.

Below follows the transcript:

http://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/2401.htm

February 25, 2010 Clip No. 2401
Libyan Leader Mu'ammar Qadhafi: Jihad Should Be Declared against Switzerland, a Sinful Infidel Country

Following are excerpts from an address delivered by Libyan Leader Mu'ammar Al-Qadhafi, which aired on Al-Jazeera TV on February 25, 2010.

Mu'ammar Al-Qadhafi: We will not give up Jihad, because it is a religious duty. Jihad constitutes a religious duty and self-defense. It is the defense of the religion, fighting for the sake of Allah, defense of the Prophet Muhammad, of the Koran, of the mosques, defense of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and of our independence. As for terrorism – we all reject it. We also reject the confusion between Jihad and terrorism. This should be made clear.

Terrorism, which is perpetrated by the so-called Al-Qaeda, and by the death squads, which Ayman Al-Zawahiri claims to be heading – this is a kind of crime. It is a mental illness.

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Whoever destroys the mosques of Allah before the eyes of the Muslims is worthy of having Jihad launched against him. If Switzerland were situated on our border, we would fight it, for destroying the mosques of Allah. Jihad against those who destroy the mosques of Allah and their minarets is [true] Jihad, and not terrorism.

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What is the meaning of "wage Jihad with your property and your souls"? It means Jihad, not terrorism. It means that you wage Jihad against Switzerland, against Zionism, and against foreign aggression, with your property, if you cannot do it with your soul. Does this constitute terrorism? It does not.

Jihad must be clear. The sacred Palestinian struggle constitutes Jihad. This is not terrorism. Like the difference between heaven and earth is the difference between the struggle of the Palestinians and terrorism.

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Any Muslim who buys Swiss products is an infidel. Let Muslims all over the world know this. There are people here from all over the Islamic world. Any Muslim anywhere in the world who deals with Switzerland is an infidel against Islam, Muhammad, Allah, and the Koran.

Switzerland is an infidel and sinful country which destroys mosques. Jihad, with all possible means, should be declared against it. Boycott Switzerland, its products, its planes, its ships, and its embassies. Boycott this sinful infidel community, which attacks the mosques of Allah.

They portrayed the Prophet Muhammad in their newspapers in the most abominable way. Yet the Islamic world watches from the sidelines. You think that you are still Muslims? No, you're not. Your Islam is in doubt. You need to reexamine your Islam, your faith.

If you continue to have dealings with Switzerland, and the people who portrayed the Prophet Muhammad in the most abominable way in their newspapers... If you continue to have dealings with them, to buy their products, to support them, to accept their tourists, to accept their planes, to accept their ships, and to host their embassies – you are not Muslims.

Any Muslim must boycott them. The Muslim masses must head towards all the airports in the Islamic world, and prevent any Swiss plane from landing. They should head to the ports, and prevent any Swiss ship from coming in. They should comb the shops and markets and remove the Swiss products.
Allah said: "Let them find harshness in you." Instead, they find flexibility and submission in you. You have nothing to do with Islam whatsoever.

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The Christianity of Africa is not really Christianity. This is merely what Colonialism taught them at school. They taught the children some rites, but it has no roots in Africa. Jesus was not sent to Africa. The same goes for Latin America. Spain and Europe conquered Latin America, and taught them all this.

The Telegraph: The Islamic Forum of Europe (IFE) infiltrates the Labour Party

2010-02-28T11:20:00.007+01:00

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/labour/7333420/Islamic-radicals-infiltrate-the-Labour-Party.html

Islamic radicals 'infiltrate' the Labour Party
By Andrew Gilligan
Published: 10:00PM GMT 27 Feb 2010

Quotes:

The Islamic Forum of Europe (IFE) — which believes in jihad and sharia law, and wants to turn Britain and Europe into an Islamic state — has placed sympathisers in elected office and claims, correctly, to be able to achieve “mass mobilisation” of voters.

Speaking to The Sunday Telegraph, Jim Fitzpatrick, the Environment Minister, said the IFE had become, in effect, a secret party within Labour and other political parties.

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“They are acting almost as an entryist organisation, placing people within the political parties, recruiting members to those political parties, trying to get individuals selected and elected so they can exercise political influence and power, whether it’s at local government level or national level,” he said

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Mr Fitzpatrick, the MP for Poplar and Canning Town, said the IFE had infiltrated and “corrupted” his party in east London in the same way that the far-Left Militant Tendency did in the 1980s. Leaked Labour lists show a 110 per cent rise in party membership in one constituency in two years.

In a six-month investigation by this newspaper and Channel 4’s Dispatches, involving weeks of covert filming by the programme’s reporters:

IFE activists boasted to the undercover reporters that they had already “consolidated … a lot of influence and power” over Tower Hamlets, a London borough council with a £1 billion budget.

We have established that the group and its allies were awarded more than £10 million of taxpayers’ money, much of it from government funds designed to “prevent violent extremism”.

IFE leaders were recorded expressing opposition to democracy, support for sharia law or mocking black people. The IFE organised meetings with extremists, including Taliban allies, a man named by the US government as an “unindicted co-conspirator” in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, and a man under investigation by the FBI for his links to the September 11 attacks.

Moderate Muslims in London told how the IFE and its allies were enforcing their hardline views on the rest of the local community, curbing behaviour they deemed “un-Islamic”. The owner of a dating agency received a threatening email from an IFE activist, warning her to close it.

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The IFE has particularly close links to Tower Hamlets council. Seven serving and former councillors said Lutfur Rahman, the current council leader, gained his post with the group’s help.
Some said they were canvassed by a senior IFE official on his behalf. After Mr Rahman was elected, a man with close links to the group, Lutfur Ali, was appointed assistant chief executive of the council with responsibility for grant funding.

This was despite a chequered employment record, a misleading CV and a negative report from the headhunters appointed to consider the candidates. The council’s white chief executive was subsequently forced from his post.

Since Mr Rahman became leader, more council grants have been paid to a number of organisations which our investigation established are closely linked to the IFE.

Funding for other, secular groups was ended or cut. In the borough’s well-known Brick Lane area, council funds were switched from a largely secular heritage trail to a highly controversial “hijab sculpture”, angering many residents who accused the council of “religious triumphalism”.
Schools in Tower Hamlets are told by the council should close for the Muslim festival of Eid, even where most of their pupils are not Muslim.

"Under sin anstaltsvistelse upplevde Tito trakasserier varje dag"

2010-02-27T11:25:00.013+01:00

Falska anklagelser om våldtäkt kan man läsa om t.ex här och här utifrån en allmän kontext.

På Newsmill hävdar Jenny Beltran att hennes man blev oskyldigt dömd och även blev utsatt för "trakasserier varje dag" under sin anstaltsvistelse:

http://www.newsmill.se/artikel/2010/02/27/tito-fick-l-ngre-straff-eftersom-han-var-oskyldig

Tito fick längre straff eftersom han var oskyldig
Publicerad: 2010-02-27, Uppdaterad: 2010-02-27
av Jenny Beltran

Jenny Beltrán är gift med Tito, jurist och styrelsemedlem i Rättssäkerhetsorganisationen.

Under sin anstalts vistelse upplevde Tito trakasserier varje dag. Allt från att nekas personliga tillhörigheter till nekande av livsviktig medicin, besökstillstånd till familjen som "försvann" nekande av akut vård, och ren misshandel. Allt för att försvåra vistelsen så mycket som möjligt.

Att få besöka läkare eller tandläkare känns som en självklar rättighet. Men inte inom Kriminalvården. Människor kan få vänta månader med tandvärk tills de själva på grund av värken drar ut den onda tanden- då kan man plötsligt ordna fram transporten snabbt. Titos egen erfarenhet var att han på grund av den outhärdliga smärtan till slut fick ta till en kökskniv och framför vakten fick göra sönder den infekterade tanden för att de skulle förstå att det verkligen gjorde ont.

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Beviljas transporten kan det många gånger ske med villkor- fotboja, handklovar och halskedja- så ska personen fraktas som ett djur. Det låter som det vi uppfattar händer i andra länder som ligger långt långt bort ..... men faktum är att det händer här i Sverige , som av alla uppfattas som ett civiliserat välfärdsland. Nu behövde inte Tito transporteras med halskedja, men det krävdes många brev och samtal för att få till ett akut läkarbesök- något som borde vara en självklar rättighet. Och tro inte att det var en engångsföreteelse. Trots läkarintyg från fem ortoped specialister som konstaterade allvarlig knäskada, godkändes inte detta av Kriminalvården utan Tito tvingades trots extrem smärta att arbeta. Om han inte arbetade hotades han med att han skulle få en rapport om arbetsvägran. Först efter en anmälan till HSAN togs problemet på allvar

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Det har krävts otaliga överklaganden, och JO anmälningar för att få minsta lilla rättighet tillgodosedd.

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Lagstiftningen ställer faktiskt inga som helst krav på deltagande i programverksamhet för att få fotboja. Ändå ställer kriminalvården detta krav - fall efter fall.

När Tito Beltrán anlände till anstalt fick han information om att programmet förvisso var "frivilligt" men fick varningar om att verkställigheten skulle bli mycket svårare och kunde förlängas om han inte deltog i rosprogrammet. Hans permissioner kunde dras in och fotboja skulle han inte kunna få.

Programmet går i grova drag ut på att man ska erkänna sitt brott. Om man inte erkänner sitt brott, anses man inte ha "klarat" programmet och får inte godkänt. Då får man inte heller fotboja trots att man underkastat sig programmet i 6 månader.

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Nu har förvaltningsdomstolen i Malmö fastslagit att rosprogrammet inte kan ställas som krav för att få fotboja.

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Klicka här för att läsa hela Jenny Beltrans text.

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi called on Thursday for a ”jihad” or armed struggle against Switzerland

2010-02-26T19:22:00.002+01:00

From Reuters:

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE61O53820100225

Libya's Gaddafi urges jihad against Switzerland

Thu Feb 25, 2010 2:43pm EST
BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi called on Thursday for a "jihad" or armed struggle against Switzerland, saying it was an infidel state that was destroying mosques.

Quotes:

"Any Muslim in any part of the world who works with Switzerland is an apostate, is against (the Prophet) Mohammad, God and the Koran," Gaddafi said during a meeting in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi to mark the Prophet's birthday.

"The masses of Muslims must go to all airports in the Islamic world and prevent any Swiss plane landing, to all harbors and prevent any Swiss ships docking, inspect all shops and markets to stop any Swiss goods being sold," Gaddafi said.

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Libya's relations with Switzerland broke down in 2008 when a son of Gaddafi was arrested in a Geneva hotel and charged with abusing domestic servants.

He was released shortly afterwards and the charges were dropped, but Libya cut oil supplies to Switzerland, withdrew billions of dollars from Swiss bank accounts and arrested two Swiss businessmen working in the North African country.

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"There is a big difference between terrorism and jihad which is a right to armed struggle," he said.

Gaddafi accused Switzerland of being an "infidel, obscene state which is destroying mosques," in reference to a Swiss referendum verdict barring construction of minarets.

He called for a "jihad against it with all means."

Hat Tip: Ted Ekeroth and Forum mot Islamisering

Speech about Islam by Lieutenant Colonel Allen West (US Army, Retired)

2010-02-26T16:53:00.001+01:00

Here is Mr. West`s campaign site.

Jews leave Swedish city after sharp rise in anti-Semitic hate crimes

2010-02-25T15:01:00.001+01:00

From the Telegraph:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/sweden/7278532/Jews-leave-Swedish-city-after-sharp-rise-in-anti-Semitic-hate-crimes.html

Jews leave Swedish city after sharp rise in anti-Semitic hate crimes
By Nick Meo in Malmo, Sweden
Published: 7:30AM GMT 21 Feb 2010

Sweden's reputation as a tolerant, liberal nation is being threatened by a steep rise in anti-Semitic hate crimes in the city of Malmo.

Quotes:

In 2009, a chapel serving the city's 700-strong Jewish community was set ablaze. Jewish cemeteries were repeatedly desecrated, worshippers were abused on their way home from prayer, and "Hitler" was mockingly chanted in the streets by masked men.

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Malmo's Jews, however, do not just point the finger at bigoted Muslims and their fellow racists in the country's Neo-Nazi fringe. They also accuse Ilmar Reepalu, the Left-wing mayor who has been in power for 15 years, of failing to protect them.

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The future looks so bleak that by one estimate, around 30 Jewish families have already left...

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Mrs Popinski, an 86-year-old widow, said she has even encountered hostility when invited to talk about the Holocaust in schools.

"Muslim schoolchildren often ignore me now when I talk about my experiences in the camps," she said. "It is because of what their parents tell them about Jews. The hatreds of the Middle East have come to Malmo. Schools in Muslim areas of the city simply won't invite Holocaust survivors to speak any more."

Hate crimes, mainly directed against Jews, doubled last year with Malmo's police recording 79 incidents and admitting that far more probably went unreported.

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Muslims are now estimated to make up about a fifth of Malmo's population of nearly 300,000.

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Today the Jewish population is about 18,000 nationally, with around 3000 in southern Sweden.

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One who has had enough is Marcus Eilenberg, a 32-year-old Malmo-born lawyer, who is moving to Israel in April with his young family.

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"This is happening all over Europe. I have cousins who are leaving their homes in Amsterdam and France for the same reason as me.

Pakistan: "drivers prefer young boys, as they are easily available and are cheaper as compared to women"

2010-02-25T10:46:00.003+01:00

http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=224957

95% truckers ‘indulge in sex with helpers’
Friday, February 19, 2010
Myra Imran
The News

Quotes:

Transportation terminals and bus stands are the hubs of Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC), with 95 per cent of truck drivers, who have to be away from home for an average of 21.5 days in a month, considering indulging in sexual activities during rest time as their main entertainment.
These deplorable findings were shared at the launch of a report titled ‘A Situational Analysis of Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in Transport Industry of Pakistan’, organised by Sahil, an NGO working for child rights. The survey was conducted with 505 persons including 170 drivers, 169 helper boys and 166 driver hotel owners.

To determine the status of the issue and unveil the reality, the working group conducted a research in six major cities including Lahore, Rawalpindi, Peshawar, Sukkur, Karachi and Quetta, where transportation hubs exist.

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Highlighting the main findings of the research, chairman of the working group Dr Muhammad Tufail said though having such a relationship with women is also very much prevalent at such spots, drivers prefer young boys, as they are easily available and are cheaper as compared to women. Citing some other reasons for this preference, he said there is also no issue of pregnancy or provision of safe space for such activities with boys.

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Apart from the relatives of drivers, Dr Tufial said almost all helper boys accompanying the drivers are sexually exploited. Disclosing another shameful trend at these terminals, he said the older helper boys also tend to exploit young boys that are new in the profession. He said these boys are at a high risk of sexually transmitted diseases including HIV, as according to the research findings, drivers ignore using preventive measures while dealing with boys.

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The helper boys are mostly adolescents in their late teens and their majority is either illiterate or had dropped out of school at an early age. He said the sexual exploitation of children in the transport sector exposes them to multiple forms of violence at different levels.

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The mean schooling of the helpers was three years, while only six per cent had completed the 10-year schooling. The main reasons quoted were poverty (43 per cent), harsh school environment (20 per cent), physical abuse at home (10 per cent) and the desire to learn a marketable skill (22 per cent).

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Apocalyptic Muslim Jew Hatred

2010-02-23T13:58:00.002+01:00

Hyper-links in the original:

http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=3533

Apocalyptic Muslim Jew Hatred
By: Andrew G. Bostom
FrontPageMagazine.com
Tuesday, July 18, 2006

Dr. Walid Phares, a perspicacious expert on modern jihad terrorism, has elucidated the practical, short-term considerations that likely motivated Hizbollah’s aggressive actions across Israel’s internationally recognized northern border with Lebanon (kidnapping of Israeli soldiers; katyusha rocket attacks on Israeli civilian populations), which precipitated the ongoing conflagration:

*Iran is concerned about the nuclear crisis and wants to distract attention from the issue.

*Syria is concerned about the Hariri murder investigation and wishes to postpone its results.

*Hizbollah is concerned about the call for disarming its militias and therefore decided to flare up the conflict with Israel.

*Finally, Hamas, whose own kidnapping and rocketing exploits lead to a retaliatory Israeli invasion of Gaza (albeit of limited scope), was also embroiled in a critical confrontation with their Palestinian rivals, Mahmoud Abbas and Fatah.

Phares argues that Hizbollah’s strategic solution was, not surprisingly, open resumption of the jihad against Israel. Ultimately, this chronic, annihilationist jihad being waged against Israel by both Hizbollah and Hamas, is driven by orthodox Islamic theology, and eschatology.
Georges Vajda—in a seminal 1937 essay 1—provides an overall assessment of the portrayal of the Jews in the hadith collections (the putative words and deeds of the Muslim prophet Muhammad, as recorded by pious transmitters), complemented by Koranic verses, and observations from the earliest Muslim biographies [or “sira”] of Muhammad.

Vajda’s research demonstrates how Muslim eschatology emphasizes the Jews supreme hostility to Islam. Jews are described as adherents of the Dajjâl—the Muslim equivalent of the Anti-Christ—and as per another tradition, the Dajjâl is in fact Jewish. At his appearance, other traditions state that the Dajjâl will be accompanied by 70,000 Jews from Isfahan wrapped in their robes, and armed with polished sabers, their heads covered with a sort of veil. When the Dajjâl is defeated, his Jewish companions will be slaughtered— everything will deliver them up except for the so-called gharkad tree. Thus, according to a canonical hadith (Sahih Muslim, Book 40, Number 6985), if a Jew seeks refuge under a tree or a stone, these objects will be able to speak to tell a Muslim: “There is a Jew behind me; come and kill him!”
As Vajda observes,

Not only are the Jews vanquished in the eschatological war, but they will serve as ransom for the Muslims in the fires of hell. The sins of certain Muslims will weigh on them like mountains, but on the day of resurrection, these sins will be lifted and laid upon the Jews.

But it is the Jews stubborn malevolence, Vajda further notes, that is their defining worldly characteristic:
Jews are represented in the darkest colors [i.e., in the Koran, hadith, and sira]. Convinced by the clear testimony of their books that Mohammed was the true prophet, they refused to convert, out of envy, jealousy and national particularism, even out of private interest. They have falsified their sacred books and do not apply the laws of God; nevertheless, they pursued Mohammed with their raillery and their oaths, and harassed him with questions, an enterprise that turned to their own confusion and merely corroborated the authenticity of the supernatural science of the prophet. From words they moved to action: sorcery, poisoning, assassination held no scruples for them.

Examples of this archetypal Jew hatred from the sacred Islamic texts, sira, and main early Sunni historiographical accounts, include: Koranic verses labeling Jews as malevolent enemies of Islam (5:82), and disobedient slayers of their own prophets who suffered justifiable abasement (2:61), including, for some, transformation into apes and swine (5:60); or the more profoundly hateful narratives (in the hadith, sira, and early histories, for example by Tabari) which maintain that the perfidious Jews fomented sectarian strife in early Islam by promoting heresies—including Shi’ism itself—that threatened the unity of the Muslim community (umma), and the canonical hadith (Sahih Muslim Book 026, Number 5431) that the Jews caused Muhammad’s protracted, excruciating death from poisoning (“The Jews discussed about poisons and became united in one poison. She [a Khaybar Jewess, Zaynab Bint al-Harith] poisoned the goat putting more poison in the forelegs..The Apostle of Allah took the foreleg, a piece of which he put into his mouth...The Apostle of Allah sent for Zaynab Bint al-Harith [and]…handed her over to [those] who put her to death…The Apostle of Allah lived after this three years, till in consequence of his pain he passed away. During his illness he used to say: I did not cease to find the effect of the poisoned morsel I took at Khaybar…” 2). Vajda’s analysis indicates that all these archetypes in turn justify Muslim animus towards the Jews, and the admonition to, at best, “subject [the Jews] to Muslim domination”, as dhimmis, treated “with contempt”, under “humiliating arrangements”.

Hizbollah and Hamas have constructed core ideologies based upon this Islamic theology of Jew hatred, which one can glean readily from their foundational documents, and subsequent pronouncements, made ad nauseum. Hamas further demonstrates openly its adherence to a central motif of Jew hatred in Muslim eschatology—Article 7 of the Hamas Charter concludes with a verbatim reiteration of the apocalyptic hadith alluded to earlier: “The Last Hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: `Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him'; but the tree Gharkad would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews.” (Sahih Muslim, Book 40, Number 6985). Both jihadist terror organizations believe they can now take advantage of their political gains in Lebanon (Hizbollah), and the Palestinian controlled areas of Gaza and the West Bank (Hamas), and succeed in their goal to destroy Israel—motivated by a primordial hatred of Jews, sanctioned in Muslim theology and eschatology.
Hizbollah’s name, “The Party of Allah” derives from Koran 5:56—“And whoever takes Allah and His messenger and those who believe for a guardian, then surely the party of Allah are they that shall be triumphant.”. In a public statement issued February 15, 1986, Hizbollah conceived of itself as a “nation” linked to Muslims worldwide by “…a strong ideological and political bond, namely Islam”. Expressed in the political language of the Koran, Hizbollah’s ideology encompasses, triumphally (as per the slogan adorning the party emblem, “The Party of Allah is Sure to Triumph”) at least three major objectives: transforming Lebanon into a Shari’a state; destroying Israel; establishing regional, followed by international Islamic hegemony, i.e., bringing the region, then the world under Shari’a law.

Demonizing Israel and Jews—via motifs in the Koran and hadith—Hizbollah views the jihad against the “Zionist entity” as an annihilationist war intrinsic to broader conflicts: the struggle between the Islamic world and the non-Muslim world, and the historical struggle between Islam and Judaism. The most senior clerical authority for Hizbollah, Husayn Fadlalah has stated, “We find in the Koran that the Jews are the most aggressive towards the Muslims…because of their aggressive resistance to the unity of the faith.” Fadlallah repeatedly refers to anti-Jewish archetypes in the Koran and the hadith: the corrupt, treacherous and aggressive nature of the Jews; their reputation as killers of prophets, who spread corruption on earth; and the notion that the Jews engaged in conspiratorial efforts against the Muslim prophet Muhammad. Fadlallah argues, ultimately, “Either we destroy Israel or Israel destroys us.”

Hizbollah is viscerally opposed to Judaism and the existence of Israel, stressing the eternal conflict between the Jews and Islam. Eradicating Israel represents an early stage of Hizballah’s Pan-Islamic ambitions, and its jihad against the rest of the non-Muslim world.

Since 1989, historian David Littman has made repeated appeals to the UN Human Rights Commission alerting its members to the dangers inherent in the binding Hamas Charter (circa 1988). Recently Littman elucidated some of key the motifs of Islamic Jew hatred contained in this document which amount to no less than a “direct and public incitement to commit genocide”, punishable under article 4 of the 1948 Genocide Convention. Article 7 contains the apocalyptic hadith (Sahih Muslim, Book 40, Number 6985) referred to earlier—reflecting the annihilationist Jew hatred of Islamic eschatology. As Littman observes, Article 8, “…a blueprint for jihadist terrorism”, is the slogan of the Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas: “Allah is its target, the Prophet is its model, the Koran its Constitution; Jihad is its path, and death for the sake of Allah is the loftiest of its wishes.” Article 28 targets all Jews: “Israel, Judaism and Jews challenge Islam and the Muslim people: ‘May the cowards never sleep.’” The Charter in its preface quotes Hassan al-Banna, founder of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, as saying: “Israel will exist and continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it.” The conclusion has a subheading: The Islamic Resistance Movement is Composed of Soldiers stating that the Islamic Resistance Movement “will only serve as a support for all groupings and organizations operating against the Zionist enemy and its lackeys (…) “The Islamic Resistance Movement adopts Islam as its way of life. Islam is its creed and religion. Whoever takes Islam as his way of life, be it an organization, a grouping, a country or any other body, the Islamic Resistance Movement considers itself as their soldiers and nothing more.”

Finally, this transcript from the June 22, 2006 pronouncement by Yasser Ghalban, a Hamas terrorist leader makes clear how, as with Hizbollah, the liquidation of Jews in Israel by jihad is linked to Hamas’ own universal ambitions: “The Jihad for Allah... is the way of Truth and the way for Salvation and the way which will lead us to crush the Jews and expel them from our country Palestine. Just as the Jews ran from Gaza, the Americans will run from Iraq and Afghanistan and the Russians will run from Chechnya, and the Indian will run from Kashmir.”

Unfortunately, the orthodox Islamic archetypes of Jew hatred promulgated by Hizbollah and Hamas, are also being disseminated by the most respected, mainstream Islamic institutions. For example, Muhammad Sayyid Tantawi wrote these words in his 700 page treatise rationalizing Muslim Jew hatred, Banu Isra’il fi al-Qur’an wa al-Sunna [Jews in the Koran and the Traditions], originally published in the 1970s, and then re-issued in 1986:

[The] Koran describes the Jews with their own particular degenerate characteristics, i.e. killing the prophets of Allah, corrupting His words by putting them in the wrong places, consuming the people’s wealth frivolously, refusal to distance themselves from the evil they do, and other ugly characteristics caused by their deep-rooted lasciviousness…only a minority of the Jews keep their word….[A]ll Jews are not the same. The good ones become Muslims, the bad ones do not. 3

Tantawi was apparently rewarded for this scholarly effort by being named Grand Imam of Al-Azhar University in 1996, a position he still holds. These are the expressed, “carefully researched” views on Jews held by the nearest Muslim equivalent to a Pope—the head of the most prestigious center of Muslim learning in Sunni Islam, which represents 90% of the world’s Muslims. And Sheikh Tantawi has not mollified such hatemongering beliefs since becoming the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar as his statements on the Jews as “enemies of Allah, descendants of apes and pigs”, the legitimacy of homicide bombing of Jews, or “dialogue” with Jews (just below), make clear.

…anyone who avoids meeting with the enemies in order to counter their dubious claims and stick fingers into their eyes, is a coward. My stance stems from Allah’s book [the Koran], more than one-third of which deals with the Jews…[I] wrote a dissertation dealing with them [the Jews], all their false claims and their punishment by Allah. I still believe in everything written in that dissertation. [see above, and citation 3]

Tantawi’s case illustrates the prevalence and depth of sacralized, “normative” Jew hatred in the contemporary Muslim world which can no longer be ignored.

The neutered compromise statement of the G-8 Summit leaders on “Middle East violence”, despite being a far better pronouncement than the predictably craven dhimmitude of Spanish Prime Minister Zapatero, or the miserable immoral equivalence of official Vatican spokesman Cardinal Angelo Sodano, is a poor substitute for the moral clarity desperately needed now. Although this memorable December 2002 jeremiad “I Stand With Israel. I Stand With The Jews” surely fits the bill, never could such words be uttered in public by the current generation of rather dull-witted, and fortitude-challenged world leaders, Western and Eastern alike. Until such a moral awakening occurs (if ever), perhaps it is best for Israel to heed the existential, street-wise advice of songwriter extraordinaire Bob Dylan:

Well, he's surrounded by pacifists who all want peace,
They pray for it nightly that the bloodshed must cease.
Now, they wouldn't hurt a fly.
To hurt one they would weep.
They lay and they wait for this bully to fall asleep.
He's the neighborhood bully…

Well, he knocked out a lynch mob, he was criticized,
Old women condemned him, said he should apologize.
Then he destroyed a bomb factory, nobody was glad.
The bombs were meant for him.
He was supposed to feel bad.
He's the neighborhood bully.

Well, the chances are against it and the odds are slim
That he'll live by the rules that the world makes for him,
'Cause there's a noose at his neck and a gun at his back
And a license to kill him is given out to every maniac.
He's the neighborhood bully.

Notes:

1. Georges Vajda. Juifs et Musulmans selon le hadit [Jews and Muslims according to the hadith]. Journal Asiatique, 1937, Vol. 229, pp. 57-129. English translation by Susan Emanuel.
2. Ibn Sa’d. Kitab Al-Tabaqat Al-Kabir. Volume 2, New Delhi, 1993; pp. 249-252. English translation by S. Moinul Haq and H.K. Ghazanfar.
3. Banu Isra’il fi al-Qur’an wa al-Sunna [Jews in the Koran and the Traditions], 1986. English translation by Dr. Michael Schub.

Islam Question & Answer: Should he go back and live in a kaafir country?

2010-02-22T13:49:00.006+01:00

http://www.islam-qa.com/en/ref/islamqapages/2

"About the Site"

"Welcome to Islam Question & Answer! This site aims to provide intelligent, authoritative responses to anyones question about Islam, whether it be from a Muslim or a non-Muslim, and to help solve general and personal social problems. Responses are composed by Sheikh Muhammed Salih Al-Munajjid, a known Islamic lecturer and author. Questions about any topic are welcome, such as theology, worship, human and business relations, or social and personal issues."

http://www.islam-qa.com/en/ref/27211/???%20?????%20???%20

"I have been advised by several muslims who are knowledgable in islam against living in a kaffir country (America). I am an American/Arab who has lived in America all my life but for a few months now was living in arabic country , however things are getting hard for me to continue living here (lack of income, housing etc) and am considering going back to America, also another strong reason is that the Health care system is better and free for my wife who is ill. Please give me as much a detailed answer from the hadith and quran as you can as I don't know for sure if I should strive to continue living here or go back to America regarding Islam."

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"There are two basic conditions which must be met before staying in kaafir countries:

The first condition is: that the person must be secure in his religious commitment, so that he has enough knowledge, faith and will power to ensure that he will adhere firmly to his religion and beware of deviating or going astray, and that he has an attitude of enmity and hatred of the kaafirs and will not befriend them and love them, for befriending them and loving them are things that contradicts faith."

Click here to read the whole thing.

For more also see here and here

If Israel Killed Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, Did it Have the Right To?

2010-02-21T17:55:00.002+01:00

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alan-dershowitz/if-israel-killed-mahmoud_b_467506.html

If Israel Killed Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, Did it Have the Right To?
by Alan Dershowitz, lawyer and author

Quotes:

Not all extrajudicial killings are unlawful. Every soldier who kills an enemy combatant engages in an extrajudicial killing, as does every policeman who shoots a fleeing felon. There are several complex legal questions involved in assessing these situations.

First, was the person who was killed a combatant, in relation to those killed him? If Israel killed Mabhouh, there can be absolutely no doubt that he was a combatant. He was actively participating in an ongoing war by Hamas against Israeli civilians. Indeed, it is likely that he was killed while on a military mission to Iran in order to secure unlawful, anti-personnel rockets that target Israeli civilians. Both the United States and Great Britain routinely killed such combatants during the Second World War, whether they were in uniform or not. Moreover, Hamas combatants deliberately remove their uniforms while engaged in combat.

But Mabhouh was not killed in Gaza. He was killed in Dubai. It is against the law of Dubai for an Israeli agent to kill a combatant against Israel while he is in Dubai. So the people who engaged in the killing presumptively violated the domestic law of Dubai, unless there is a defense to such a killing based on international principles regarding enemy combatants. It is unlikely that any defense would be available to an Israeli or someone working on behalf of Israel, since Dubai does not recognize Israel's right to kill enemy combatants on its territory.

So if the Israeli Air Force had killed Mabhouh while he was in Gaza, there would be absolutely no doubt that their action would be lawful. It does not violate international law to kill a combatant, regardless of where the combatant is found, whether he is awake or asleep and whether or not he is engaged in active combat at the moment of his demise.

If it could be proved that Israel was responsible for the hit--an extremely unlikely situation--then only Dubai could lawfully bring Israelis to trial. They would not be properly subjected to prosecution before an international tribunal. But what if a suspect was arrested in England, the United States or some other western country and Dubai sought his extradition? That would pose an interesting legal, diplomatic, political and moral dilemma. Traditional extradition treaties do not explicitly cover situations of this kind. This was not an ordinary murder. It was carried out as a matter of state policy as part of an ongoing war. A western democracy would certainly have the right and the power to refuse to extradite. But they might decide, for political or diplomatic reasons, to turn the person over to Dubai.

Click here to read the whole thing.

Hat Tip: Fred i Mellanöstern

Var operationen i Dubai laglig enligt folkrätten?

2010-02-21T17:33:00.002+01:00

http://fredimellanostern.wordpress.com/2010/02/19/var-operationen-i-dubai-laglig-enligt-folkratten/

Var operationen i Dubai laglig enligt folkrätten?
av Fred i Mellanöstern

Citat:

Hamasledaren Mahmud al-Mabhuh har hittats död på ett lyxhotell i Dubai. Han var med och grundade Hamas Izzedin al-Qassambrigaderna, och har i en bandupptagning som publicerats av al-Jazira efter händelsen själv erkänt och skrutit om att det var han som låg bakom kidnappningen och mordet på två israeliska soldater 1989. Det vara bara en del av de brott han var efterlyst för. Han bodde i Damaskus, och har sedan många år varit inblandad i vapensmuggling från Iran till Gaza för terroranfall mot Israel, och misstänktes befinna sig i Dubai för att organisera iranska leveranser av långdistansmissiler till det av FN terrorstämlade Hamas.

Oavsett vem som ansvarade för hans död, och oavsett om man anser att det var det smartaste tillvägagångssättet eller inte, så är frågan om det var olagligt eller inte.

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Dershowitz konstaterar att operationen inte är ett brott mot internationell lag och krigets lagar om den genomfördes av en stat gentemot vilken Hamasterroristerna förklarat krig (dvs. Israel). Eftersom Hamasledaren dödades i Dubai är operationen dock ett brott mot Dubais lagar.

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The passing of Mary Daly

2010-02-19T16:39:00.047+01:00

http://www.enlightennext.org/magazine/j16/daly.asp?page=3

No Man's Land
An interview with Mary Daly
by Susan Bridle
EnlightenNext Magazine

Quotes:

MD: What I try to do is speak to women on the highest level of vibration that there is, and those who can hear, who can sense, on that level do get it. And then they can spread it to others; there's a ripple effect. Women, my tribe, radical lesbian feminists—the women who get it—are overjoyed to have their lives affirmed.

WIE: In your latest book, Quintessence, you describe a utopian society of the future, on a continent populated entirely by women, where procreation occurs through parthenogenesis, without the participation of men. What is your vision for a postpatriarchal world? Is it similar to what you described in the book?

MD: You can read Quintessence and you can get a sense of it. It's a description of an alternative future. It's there partly as a device and partly because it's a dream. There could be many alternative futures, but some of the elements are constant: that it would be women only; that it would be women generating the energy throughout the universe; that much of the contamination, both physical and mental, has been dealt with.

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WIE: In Quintessence, your idyllic continent is inhabited by women only, but the rest of the world is inhabited by women and men.

MD: I didn't say how many men were there.

WIE: Which brings us to another question I wanted to ask you. Sally Miller Gearhart, in her article "The Future—If There Is One—Is Female" writes: "At least three further requirements supplement the strategies of environmentalists if we were to create and preserve a less violent world. 1) Every culture must begin to affirm the female future. 2) Species responsibility must be returned to women in every culture. 3) The proportion of men must be reduced to and maintained at approximately ten percent of the human race." What do you think about this statement?

MD: I think it's not a bad idea at all. If life is to survive on this planet, there must be a decontamination of the Earth. I think this will be accompanied by an evolutionary process that will result in a drastic reduction of the population of males. People are afraid to say that kind of stuff anymore.

WIE: Yes. I find myself now thinking that's a bit shocking.

MD: Well, it's shocking that it would be shocking.

WIE: So it doesn't sound like your vision of a separate nation for women is something you see as an interim stage that would eventually lead to men and women living together in true equality.

MD: No. That's a very old question. I answered that to audiences twenty-five, thirty years ago. I just don't think that way. See, right now, I would be totally joyous to have a great community of women—whether men are somewhere out on the periphery or not. I don't have this goal of: "Oh, then we can all get together again!" That doesn't seem to be a very promising future. So why would I think about it? I think it's pretty evident that men are not central to my thought.

From the Ignatius Press blog, "Insight Scoop":

http://insightscoop.typepad.com/2004/2010/01/mary-daly-radical-elemental-feminist-godhater-manbasher-selfdescribed.html

Mary Daly, radical elemental feminist, God-hater, man-basher, self-described...
by Carl Olson
Wednesday, January 06, 2010

Quotes:

But, in case you're not familiar with her writings and think I am being sensational or overly sensitive, here are a few quotes from Daly's books and interviews:

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The catholic Mary is not the Goddess creating parthenogenetically on her own, but rather she is portrayed /betrayed as Total Rape Victim—a pale derivative symbol disguising the conquered Goddess. ... The rape of the rarefied remains of the Goddess in the christian myth is mind/spirit rape. In the charming story of "the Annunciation" the angel Gabriel appears to the terrified young girl, announcing that she has been chosen to become the mother of god. Her response to this sudden proposal from the godfather is totaled nonresistance: "Let it be done unto me according to thy word." Physical rape is not necessary when the mind/will/spirit has already been invaded. In refined religious rapism, the victim is impregnated with the Supreme Seminal Idea, who becomes "the Word made flesh." Within the rapist christian myth of the Virgin Birth the role of Mary is "utterly minimal; yet she is "there." She gives her unqualified "consent." (Gyn/Ecology, 84, 84)

• [Writing about abortion:] Males do indeed deeply identify with "unwanted fetal tissue," for they sense as their own condition the role of controller, possessor, inhabitor of women. Draining female energy, they feel "fetal." Since this perpetual fetal state is fatal to the Self of the eternal mother (Hostess), males fear women's recognition of this real condition, which would render them infinitely "unwanted." For this attraction/need of males for female energy, seen for what is is, is necrophilia—not in the sense of love for actual corpses, but love for those victimized into a state of living death. (Gyn/Ecology, 59).

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If life is to survive on this planet, there must be a decontamination of the Earth. I think this will be accompanied by an evolutionary process that will result in a drastic reduction of the population of males. (Interview with EnlightenNext magazine, Fall-Winter 1999)

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The "gentle Jesus" who offers the faithful his body to eat and his blood to drink is playing Mother Goddess. And of course this fetal-identified male behind this Mother Mask is really saying: "Let me eat and drink you alive." This is no mere crude cannibalism but veiled vampirism. (Gyn/Ecology, 81)

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This madness is described and analyzed in some Ignatius Press books over the years, most notably What Will Happen to God? Feminism and the Reconstruction of Christian Belief (1988), by William Oddie; Ungodly Rage: The Hidden Face of Catholic Feminism (1991), by Donna Steichen; The Politics of Prayer: Feminist Language and the Worship of God (1992), edited by Helen Hull Hitchcock; and God or Goddess? Feminist Theology: What Is It? Where Does it Lead? (1995), by Manfred Hauke.

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A bit more from a piece in the New York Times:

Daly wrote about her intellectual formation in a 1996 article in the New Yorker ''Sin Big,'' in which she recalled being mocked by a male classmate, and altar boy, at her parochial school because she could never ''serve Mass'' because she was a girl.

''(T)his repulsive revelation of the sexual caste system that I would later learn to call 'patriarchy' burned its way into my brain and kindled an unquenchable Rage,'' she wrote.

Daly described herself as a pagan, an eco-feminist and a radical feminist in a 1999 interview with The Guardian newspaper of London. ''I hate the Bible,'' she told the paper. ''I always did. I didn't study theology out of piety. I studied it because I wanted to know.''

The Flight from Beauty

2010-02-19T09:49:00.002+01:00

From the Swedish publication Axess Magazine (article in English), Theme: The taboo of beauty, No. 7, 2008:

http://www.axess.se/magasin/english.aspx?article=290

The Flight from Beauty
By Roger Scruton

Quote:

The disruptive, the transgressive and the disturbing are celebrated by the art of our time, with beauty often downgraded as something too sweet, too escapist and too far from realities to deserve our undeceived attention.

Click here to read the whole thing.

Child Preacher Delivers a Speech on Children's Love of Martyrdom on Egyptian TV

2010-02-17T10:31:00.001+01:00

Click here to watch the clip on The Middle East Media Research Institute TV Monitor Project site.

Here is the transcript:

http://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/2383.htm

February 5, 2010 Clip No. 2383
Child Preacher Delivers a Speech on Children's Love of Martyrdom on Egyptian TV

The following are excerpts from a speech given by an Egyptian child preacher, Abd Al-Fattah Marwan, which aired on Al-Rahma TV on February 5, 2010, and from a TV children's show, which aired on Al-Nas TV on June 15, 2006.
Al-Rahma TV, February 4, 2010:

Show host: Let us begin with our son, Abd Al-Fattah Marwan, who will tell us about the love of martyrdom for the sake of Allah. Can you do this, Abd Al-Fattah?

Abd Al-Fattah Marwan: Allah willing.

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We meet today to talk about the love of martyrdom for the sake of Allah. Yes, the love of martyrdom for the sake of Allah... Dearly beloved, Allah said: "Allah has bought from the believers their lives, their property, because they shall have Paradise. They shall fight for the sake of Allah, and slay and be slain." Dearly beloved, a woman came to [the commander] Abu Qudama Al-Shami holding two braids of her hair, and said: "Abu Qudama, I cut off two braids of my hair, so that you could make them into reins for your horse, for the sake of Allah. Abu Qudama took the braids from her.

Abu Qudama says: When we wanted to set out for Jihad the next day, a boy stood in my way, and said: I implore you, in the name of Allah, to take me with you on the Jihad for the sake of Allah. Abu Qudama said: You are but a child, and cannot carry a weapon. The boy said: I implore you, in the name of Allah, Abu Qudama. My mother has given me as a gift to Allah. Do not return the gift. Abu Qudama said: I will take you on one condition. The boy said: On what condition? Abu Qudama said: If Allah decrees that you be martyred, you should vouch for me before Allah. The boy said: You got it. I will vouch for you before Allah, if he decrees that I be martyred.

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Abu Qudama says: One day, the boy went to prepare food. He was late coming back, so I went to see that he was safe. I discovered that the boy had lit the fire, placed the pot on it, and fallen asleep next to the fire. I looked at the boy, and saw that he was smiling. Then he smiled some more. Then he began to laugh until he woke up.

Abu Qudama said: What was that about, boy? The boy said: To Allah we belong, and to Him we return. By Allah, Abu Qudama, my mother considered me [a martyr] next to Allah. My father was martyred last year, and my brother and uncle the year before that. My mother has presented me as a gift to Allah this year.

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The boy said: While I was asleep, I dreamt that the Resurrection had occurred, and that Allah had ordered me to enter Paradise. The boy continued: When I entered Paradise, I saw a scented bouquet of black-eyed virgins, whose beauty I could never even begin to describe, Abu Qudama. By Allah, I could never even begin to describe their beauty, Abu Qudama.

One of them looked at me, and said: This is the husband of Al-Mardhiya. I asked her who Al-Mardhiya was, and she said: Don't you know her? I said that I didn't. She said: She is your wife in Paradise. I asked her: Where is Al-Mardhiya? She pointed to one of the palaces of Paradise, and said: In that palace. Go inside, so you can see Al-Mardhiya.

The boy said: I knocked on the palace door, and went in. I saw a black-eye virgin. I swear, Abu Qudama, if Allah had not ordained that we should not be blind in [Paradise], I would have become blind from the light radiating from her face. If Allah had not ordained that we should not be blind in Paradise, I would have become blind from the light radiating from her face. If Allah had not ordained that we keep our sanity, I would have gone mad from the intensity of her beauty.

I asked her: Are you Al-Mardhiya? She said: Yes, my love. I have been raised for you in the palaces of Paradise for the past 500 years. When I tried to touch her with my hand, she said: No. May Allah spare you the disgrace and the depravity. We have a date tomorrow, after the noon prayer, in the Paradise of the All-Merciful God.

Dearly beloved, Abu Qudama said: At the exact time set by the black-eyed virgin, the boy said to me: By Allah, give me three arrows. I said: You will waste them. The boy said: Allah willing, I won't. The boy took the three arrows and put them in his quiver.

During the Jihad, he said: "May God be with you, Abu Qudama," and he shot one arrow, killing a Byzantine soldier. Then he said it again, shot another arrow, and killed another Byzantine soldier. Then he said it a third time, shot another arrow, and killed a third Byzantine soldier. Then the Byzantines saw him and killed him.

The boy fell from his horse, and when Abu Qudama saw him, stained with the blood of martyrdom, he dismounted from his horse behind the boy, and said: Boy, don't forget your pledge. The boy said: I will not forget. I will vouch for you before God.

The boy said: By God, Abu Qudama, I ask you to take this shirt, stained with the blood of martyrdom, and bring it to my mother. Abu Qudama said: Who is your mother, boy? The boy said: My mother is the woman who gave you the two braids. Allahhhhhhh. My mother is the woman who gave you the two braids. Yes, one generation after another was brought up to obey Allah, on glory, and on fighting for the sake of the religion of Allah.

Abu Qudama said: When the Jihad was over, I went to the village of the boy's mother. The mother said: Give me the good news. Abu Qudama said: By Allah, he died fighting. He died killing three Byzantine soldiers. He killed them and was killed. May Allah's mercy be upon him. He sent you this shirt, stained with the blood of martyrdom, and said: Rejoice, oh mother. Your gift has been accepted, and Al-Mardhiya has been wedded to me in God's Paradise.

When his sister heard the news, she dropped dead. The mother looked at her daughter and said: Blessed be Allah, who has not sent any offspring of mine to the Hellfire.

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From the MEMRI TV archives – Al-Nas TV, June 15, 2006:

Egyptian cleric Sheik Muhammad Nassar: They dug a small ditch in the ground like a grave, and they put Sa'id in it, and covered it with earth. Then they began to walk away. All of a sudden, the grave shuddered, and they were frightened. What happened? The grave shuddered and ejected Sa'id. They said: "Allah be praised, what's going on?" The corpse got out of the grave all by itself. They were amazed, and said: "Allah be praised."

Abu Qudama said to them: "Wait just a moment. Let's try again. How can we possibly leave his corpse like this?" So they put him into the ground once again, and covered him with earth. After they covered him and began to walk away, the ground shuddered, and threw out the corpse again. They were all frightened, and began to shiver. Allah be praised. Allah Akbar. Then they all stood there in amazement.

Abu Qudama said: "We cannot leave him like this. This is my beloved Sa'id. He instructed me to bury him when he dies, and to stay with him, and not to tell his mother anything. I must do it. I must bury Sa'id. I cannot leave him. Bury him again." So he dug the grave himself, and said: "My Lord, reveal this thing to us, my Lord. We want to bury him, my Lord." They put him into the grave again, and began to walk away. Then the earth shuddered once again, and the corpse got out. So they said: "Allah Akbar. This is Allah's doing."

Några ord om massinvandringen

2010-02-15T18:23:00.005+01:00

Från kapitel 1. av boken "Exit Folkhemssverige" (som finns att läsa på nätet med författarnas tillstånd):

http://exitsverige.blogspot.com/2007/04/kapital-1-sverige-blir-mngetnisk.html

Kapitel 1. : Sverige blir mångetnisk
Av Jan Elfverson

Citat:

År 1994 gjorde jag en beräkning av Sveriges framtida befolkningsstruktur.[74] Den utgick från 1990 års befolkningssammansättning, där de etniska svenskarna i ungefärliga tal var 7 400 000, andra européer 700 000 och utomeuropéer 300 000. Andra förutsättningar var en fortsatt nettoinvandring av 32 000 personer per år samt folkökningstalen 0% för svenskar och européer och 2,5% för utomeuropéer. Folkökningstalet 2,5% var ett vägt genomsnitt av folkökningstalen för de länder som 1990 års invandrare kom från och grundade sig på FN:s demografiska statistik.

Med reservationer för en rad faktorer, som kunde påverka hastigheten i förändringsprocessen, blev beräkningens resultat att år 2 056 skulle de etniska svenskarna inte längre vara i majoritet.

Här kan man läsa om författarna och här om källor och litteratur.

För att förstå problematiken föreslår jag att man även studerar islam.

Från Newsmill:

http://www.newsmill.se/artikel/2009/12/07/hog-invandring-och-mangkulturella-ideal-hotar-valfardsstaten

Hög invandring och mångkulturella ideal hotar välfärdsstaten
Publicerad: 2009-12-07, Uppdaterad: 2009-12-07
av Gunnar Sandelin, socionom och frilansjournalist

Citat:

Ett nyligt exempel på medias ovilja att problematisera sådant är federala amerikanska myndigheters beräkningar att muslimernas andel av EU:s befolkning kommer att fyrdubblas fram till 2050.

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Idag kommer en majoritet av de utomeuropeiska invandrarna till Sverige genom anhöriginvandring. Under 2008 var den tre gånger så stor som asylinvandringen.

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Det innebär att mellan 700 000 och cirka en miljon personer fått PUT till följd av asylprocessen under närmare 30 år, men att de flesta av dem vare sig är flyktingar, skyddsbehövande eller anhöriga till sådana

Enligt Migrationsverkets årsrapport 2008 saknar 96 procent av de asylsökande handlingar som styrker vilka de är!

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Nyligen presenterade professor emeritus Jan Ekberg sin rapport till regeringen, där de offentliga kostnaderna vad gäller invandrarbefolkningen för året 2006 beräknades till mellan 1.5 och 2 procent av BNP, vilket är mellan 44 till 58 miljarder.

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I den statliga utredningen Egenansvar - med professionellt stöd (SOU 2008:58) antar utredaren att hälften av de nyanlända asylsökande som fått stanna inte har någon eller endast kortare skolgång eller liten arbetslivserfarenhet.

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Sveriges Radios reporter Katarina Gunnarsson avslöjade för drygt ett år sedan att bland de irakier som varit här i mer än tio år hade 73 procent av kvinnorna och 60 procent av männen ingen sysselsättning.

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När folkpartiet bad SCB att kartlägga så kallade utanförskapsområden - där i praktiken hälften av de arbetsföra inte har någon sysselsättning - fann man 1990 tre sådana områden. 2006 hade siffran ökat oerhört, då var det 156 områden som var segregerade och "utanför"!

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Flykten från skönheten

2010-02-15T15:00:00.000+01:00

Från Axess Magasin, NR 7, 2008, Skönhetens Tabu:

http://axess.se/magasin/default.aspx?article=24

Flykten från skönheten
Av Roger Scruton

Citat:

Vår tids konst hyllar det uppslitande, överskridande och oroande, medan skönheten ofta nedvärderas som något alltför ljuvt och alltför verklighetsfrämmande för att förtjäna vår illusionslösa uppmärksamhet. Kvaliteter som tidigare innebar konstnärligt misslyckande anförs nu som kriterier på framgång, medan strävan efter skönhet ofta betraktas som en reträtt från det konstnärliga skapandets sanna uppgift, som är att utmana ortodoxin och frigöra sig från konventionens begränsningar. Arthur Danto har till och med hävdat att skönheten är både bedräglig som mål och på något sätt står i konflikt med den moderna konstens uppgift (The Abuse of Beauty).

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Citat av Karin Eder-Ekman angående radikalfeminismen

2010-02-13T11:43:00.011+01:00

Från Newsmills blogg:

http://www.newsmill.se/node/17521

Dags för lite radikalfeminism
2010-02-02 av Karin Eder-Ekman

Citat:

Igår slet jag rätt hårt för att få ut lämplig kvinna som apropå "polischefens" vidrigheter vågade skriva det som uppenbarligen ett gäng feminister just nu tänker: Dags att återta radikalfeminismen. Sakernas Tillstånd talar för att det är lika bra att skita i männen. Det är ju ett krig därute.

Nej, det var ingen som vågade. "Jag vill, men det går inte. Frågan är fortfarande för känslig", som en namnkunnig ordförande uttryckte sig. Jag förstår henne.

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Som Millanredaktör och när jag var Bangchef har jag verkligen haft anledning att sörja detta. Varenda kvinna har ju erfarenheter som bekräftar den radikalfeministiska våldsanalysen (läs Eva Lundgren i ämnet!) Vad är det som skaver så - och därför inte får uttalas?

55 percent of Danish Muslims want to forbid criticism of religion

2010-02-12T10:26:00.003+01:00

Quotes from a Danish news item from April 27th 2009 (the translation into English is mine):

55 percent of Danish Muslims think it should be forbidden to criticize religion.

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These are the results of an opinion poll that Capacent har conducted for DR from a sample of 523 Muslims.

Source:

http://jp.dk/indland/article1675049.ece

Muslimer i Danmark: Forbudt at kritisere religion
Af ORLA BORG
Offentliggjort 27.04.09 kl. 09:19

Et flertal på 55 pct. af danske muslimer mener, at det bør være forbudt at kritisere religion.

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Det viser en meningsmåling, som Capacent har foretaget for DR i en holdningsundersøgelse blandt i alt 523 repræsentativt udvalgte, herboende muslimer.

"Et flertal på 55 pct. af danske muslimer mener, at det bør være forbudt at kritisere religion."

2010-02-11T08:52:00.007+01:00

http://www.dr.dk/Nyheder/Indland/2009/04/27/073848.htm

Muslimer vil have ytringsfrihed med håndbremse
27. apr. 2009 07.42 Indland Opdat.: 27. apr. 2009 10.00
Skrevet af: Thorleif Ravnbak

Et klart flertal af muslimerne i Danmark bryder sig ikke, at religion bliver kritiseret. Det viser en undersøgelse Capacent har lavet for DR.

I undersøgelsen, Din muslimske nabo, der er foretaget blandt muslimerne i Danmark, bliver der spurgt til om det bør være forbudt at kritisere religion.

Det mener 55 procent, at det skal, mens 34 procent er uenige.

Capacent har også spurgt resten af den danske befolkning om det samme, og her mener ti procent, at det skal være forbudt at kritisere religion.

Direkte adspurgt om ytringsfriheden bør begrænses i visse tilfælde, svarer 66 procent af muslimerne i Danmark ja, mens 10 procent af resten af den danske befolkningen mener det samme.

http://jp.dk/indland/article1675049.ece

Muslimer i Danmark: Forbudt at kritisere religion
Af ORLA BORG
Offentliggjort 27.04.09 kl. 09:19

Et flertal af danske muslimer ønsker ytringsfriheden indskrænket. Skulle danske muslimer alene sammensætte Folketinget, ville der være overvældende, rødt flertal.

Et flertal på 55 pct. af danske muslimer mener, at det bør være forbudt at kritisere religion.

Samtidig mener 64 pct. af de danske muslimer, at ytringsfriheden i visse tilfælde bør indskrænkes.
Det viser en meningsmåling, som Capacent har foretaget for DR i en holdningsundersøgelse blandt i alt 523 repræsentativt udvalgte, herboende muslimer.

Selv om et flertal af muslimerne i Danmark mener, at det bør være forbudt at kritisere religion, og at ytringsfriheden bør indskrænkes, går de ikke som sådan imod demokratiet. 72 pct. af de danske muslimer erklærer sig helt enig eller enig i formuleringen om, at »et demokrati kan have problemer, men det er bedre end andre styreformer«.

Socialdemokratiet, SF og Enhedslisten ville tilsammen få 83 pct. af stemmerne. Men Socialdemokratiet ville ikke engang behøve at kigge til hverken venstre eller højre i folketingssalen for at samle et flertal, for partiet kunne regere alene med hele 58 pct. af stemmerne bag sig.

De nuværende regeringspartier vil stort set være udslettet, hvis de danske muslimer skulle sammensætte Folketinget. Venstre ville få 5,7 pct. og de konservative blot 1,1 pct. af stemmerne. Dansk Folkeparti står til 4,7 pct.

Jihads Tårar

2010-02-08T13:42:00.005+01:00

Nedan följer min översättning av texten "Tears of Jihad" från Political Islam, utgiven av islam-experten Bill Warner:

http://www.politicalislam.com/blog/tears-of-jihad/

Jihads Tårar

De här sifforna är ungefärliga uppskattningar av antalet döda icke-muslimer pågrund av den politiska handlingen jihad.

Afrika

Thomas Sowell (Thomas Sowell, Race and Culture, Basic Books, 1994, p. 188) uppskattar att 11 miljoner slavar fördes över atlanten och 14 miljoner fördes till de islamiska nationerna i nordafrika och mellanöstern. För varje slav som togs till fånga dog många andra. Uppskattningar av det här "spillet" varierar. Den ryktbare missionären David Livingstone uppskattade att för varje slav som nådde plantagen blev fem andra dödade i den inledande räden eller dog av sjukdom och umbäranden under den påtvingade vandringen. (Woman`s Presbyterian Board of Missions. David Livingstone, p. 62, 1888) De som lämnades kvar var de mycket unga, de svaga, de sjuka och de gamla. Så för 25 miljoner slavar som levererades till marknaden så har vi uppskattningsvis 120 miljoner döda människor. Islam skötte mass-slavhandeln i Afrika.
120 miljoner afrikaner

Kristna

Antalet kristna som fått plikta med sina liv för sin tro pågrund av islam är nio miljoner (David B. Barrett, Todd M. Johnson, World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200, William Carey Library, 2001, p. 230, table 4-10). En ungefärlig uppskattning av Raphael Moore i "History of Asia Minor" är att ytterligare 50 miljoner dog av jihad-krig. Så om vi räknar in den miljon afrikanska kristna som dödats under 1900-talet så får vi:
60 miljoner kristna

Hinduer

Koenraad Elst uppskattar i "Negationism in India" att 80 miljoner hinduer dödats allt som allt av jihad mot Indien. (Koenraad Elst, Negationism in India, Voice of India, New Delhi, 2002, pg. 34.) Det som idag utgör Indien är pågrund av jihad bara hälften så stort som det forna Indien. Bergen nära Indien kallas Hindu Kush, vilket betyder "hinduernas likbål".
80 miljoner hinduer

Buddister

Buddister hänger inte med krigets historia. Ha i åtanke att i jihad tilläts bara kristna och judar leva som dhimmi-folk (islams tjänare); alla andra var tvungna att konvertera eller dö. Jihad dödade buddisterna i Turkiet, Afganistan, längs sidenvägen och i Indien. Den sammanlagda siffran är ca tio miljoner. [David B. Barrett, Todd M. Johnson, World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200, William Carey Library, 2001, p. 230, table 4-1.]
Tio mijoner buddister

Judar

Egendomligt nog dödades inte tilläckligt många judar av jihad för att påverka slutsumman för "Den Stora Förintelsen". I Arabien var jihad 100 procent effektivt, men sifforna låg på tusental, inte miljoner. Efter det gav sig judarna och blev dhimmi-folk (tjänare och andra klassens medborgare) och hade ingen geografisk politisk makt.

Detta ger den ungefärliga siffran 270 miljoner dödade av jihad.

Islam og jødene

2010-02-07T09:35:00.002+01:00

http://honestthinking.org/no/pub/VL.2005.03.21.JTA.Islam_og_jodene.html

Denne artikkelen sto på trykk i Vårt Land 21.03.2005

Islam og jødene

En anmeldelse av Mark A. Gabriel’s bok, Islam and the Jews – The Unfinished Battle, Charisma House, Florida 2003; oversatt til norsk med tittelen Islam og jødene – kampen som ikke er over, Prokla Media 2004.

Jens Tomas Anfindsen, redaktør HonestThinking.org

Mark A. Gabriel er den omstridte forfatteren bak boken Islam og terrorisme; boken Kari Vogt nektet omtale på Institutt for Kulturstudiers debattsider, men som ble diskutert i nær sagt alle norske riksaviser; boken som er blitt delt ut til alle våre stortingsrepresentanter, men som bare Carl I. Hagen innrømmer å ha lest; boken som nå har fått en oppfølger, Islam og jødene.

Islam og jødene er dels en personlig beretning, dels et faglig dokument. Disse to aspektene av boken må vurderes hver for seg og med ulike kriterier.

På det personlige planet er denne boken beretningen om hvordan egypteren og ex-muslimen Mark Gabriel forvandlet sinnelag fra å være en innbitt jødehater, til å føle vennskap, kjærlighet og sympati med det jødiske folk. Ifølge Gabriel selv gikk dette til ved at Jesus Kristus utførte et mirakel i ham, slik at hat fikk vike plassen for kjærlighet. Dette aspektet ved Gabriels bok må tas for akkurat hva det er, et personlig vitnesbyrd.
På det faglige planet er Islam og jødene en innføring i Koranens og hadithenes overlevering om jødene, skrevet av en tidligere imam og professor i islamsk historie ved Al Azhar universitetet. Plottet Gabriel presenterer oss for er omtrent som følger.

Koranen består av en rekke åpenbaringer som engelen Gabriel skal ha diktert Profeten Muhammed. Disse åpenbaringene kom stykkevis, over en periode fra år 610 til Muhammeds død i 632. I en tidlig fase, mens Muhammed bodde i Mekka, forsøkte Muhammed å verve jødene til sitt nystiftede, religiøse parti. I denne fasen var åpenbaringene Muhammed mottok positive overfor jøder. Men jødene avviste Muhammed, gjorde narr av ham og behandlet ham som noe av en kvakksalver. Etter dette, og kronologisk sett sammenfallende med at Muhammed slo seg ned i Medina, begynte Muhammeds åpenbaringer å endre karakter, og ble stadig mer fiendtlige overfor jødene. I en siste fase befaler Koranens åpenbaringer muslimer å bekjempe jødene med sverd.

Et vesentlig punkt i Gabriels fremstilling vedrører et anerkjent tolkningsprinsipp i islamsk teologi, kalt nasikh. Et Koranvers er nasikh hvis det annullerer et annet Koranvers. Det regulerende prinsippet for nasikh er at i tilfeller der Koranens vers motsier hverandre, så har de senere versene gyldighet. I forlengelsen av dette forklarer Gabriel at de tidlige Koranenversene som taler vennlig om jødene, annulleres av de senere. Koranens siste ord om saken, ifølge Gabriel, er at jødene er islams evige fiender som er forbannet av Gud og som må bekjempes med sverd.

Gabriel vier også et eget kapittel til en rent historisk fremstilling av hvorledes Muhammed og hans hær gjennomførte flere omfattende nedslaktninger av jødiske stammer i Arabia.

På overflaten ser det ut til at Mark Gabriel vet hva han snakker om. Hvem som helst som er trent i eksegese og som vet hva det innebærer å arbeide med tekstfortolkning, merker at det er en kunstens kjenner som her uttaler seg. Det springende punkt ved denne boken er om den kan sies å tegne et sakssvarende bilde av islam. Å undersøke dette krever en sammensatt vurdering.

Skal man tro Gabriel, pålegger islam alle muslimer å bekjempe jødene. Imidlertid er Gabriel selv den første til å påpeke at det bare er de færreste muslimer forstår og praktiserer islam på denne måten. Ifølge Gabriel kan dette forklares ved at den største gruppen av verdens muslimer er en slags ”kulturmuslimer” som ikke har noen særlig dyp forståelse av sin egen religion. Disse holder fast ved de fine, hyggelige sidene ved islam, men er uvitende om- eller fortrenger islams aggressive elementer. Dernest finnes en stor gruppe muslimer som faktisk har innsikt i islams helligkrigsteologi, men som likevel ikke praktiserer sin tro fullt ut, fordi dette koster mer enn det smaker. Til sist har vi en tallmessig liten, men ikke uvesentlig gruppe av ihuga fundamentalister som har reell innsikt i islams teologiske fundament og som dessuten er villig til å sette dets lære ut i livet. Det er i denne siste gruppen vi finner ekstremisten, selvmordsbomberen, terroristen og jihadisten.

Ifølge Gabriel er det denne siste gruppen som praktiserer islam på en riktig måte. Det er dette som er det sanne islam, ifølge Gabriel. Her støter vi på bokens dristigste og viktigste tese, og, samtidig, dets svakhet. For hva er ”Det Sanne Islam”? Hvem definerer hva det sanne islam er, og finnes det bare én korrekt utlegning av denne religionen? I antagelsen av at det finnes én tolkning som utgjør det egentlige islam, gjør Gabriel seg skyldig i en overforenkling.

Dette betyr imidlertid ikke at bokens bærende tese ikke må tas på alvor. Man må huske at Gabriel er ikke ute etter å gi en sosiologisk beskrivelse av hvilke former islam opptrer i; Gabriel inntar teologens perspektiv og sikter mot en beskrivelse av religionens lære. Videre må man ta i betraktning at Gabriel kommer fra- og behandler sunni-islam. Sunniene utgjør riktignok bare én retning innen islam, men tross alt en gruppe som representerer ca 85 prosent av verdens muslimer. Til sist får man også legge inn litt takhøyde for at Gabriel har skrevet en populærvitenskapelig bok, beregnet på et bredt publikum som har lite forkunnskaper om islam. At boken nok har hoppet over visse nyanser og distinksjoner svekker den som et faglig dokument, men kan på ingen måte rettferdiggjøre en avvisning av den. En saklig vurdering av bokens bærende tese vil måtte bestå i en vurdering av om Gabriel gir en sakssvarende beskrivelse av en dominerende utlegning av sunni-islamsk teologi. Undertegnedes vurdering av dette tilsier at Gabriel har uttalt seg med slående presisjon.

Khoury/Hagemann/Heine’s store og sakkyndige Islam-Lexikon inneholder flere artikler som berører forholdet mellom islam og jødene, skrevet av muslimske lærde. Opplysningene disse artiklene gir er på en prikk (!) tilsvarende dem som oppgis av Gabriel; og saken ser ut til å nyte full konsensus blant sunni-islams lovskoler. En rekke andre originalkilder bekrefter deler av samme bildet. Dessuten det åpent for enhver å konstatere at en form for ”jødehatsteologi” spiller en nøkkelrolle i den moderne islamistiske vekkelse. Det er dette siste som gjør at Gabriels bok ikke bare er interessant, men også svært aktuell.
Islam og jødene er altfor overbevisende og altfor utfordrende til å bli tiet i hjel eller ignorert. Det får ikke hjelpe at Gabriel er en glødende nykristen eller at boken hans tegner et forskrekkelig bilde av islams primærkilder. Bokens påstandsinnhold er saklig og ligger åpent for saklig dementi. Undertegnedes vurdering tilsier at eventuelle kritikere har en vanskelig oppgave foran seg.

Dutch politician Geert Wilders launches websites on political trial

2010-02-04T14:27:00.002+01:00

From http://www.wildersontrial.com/:

http://www.wildersontrial.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=35:dutch-politician-geert-wilders-launches-websites-on-political-trial-&catid=11:general&Itemid=2

Dutch politician Geert Wilders launches websites on political trial

Wednesday February 3rd 2010 Dutch politician Geert Wilders launches two websites on the political trial against him and the freedom of speech. From now on both the Dutch (http://www.wildersproces.nl/) and the international public (http://www.wildersontrial.com/) are able to keep up with the trials’ proceedings.

Both websites not only include the latest news on the trial but also provide background information on the trials’ participants, the summons, the cause and the importance of this trial for freedom of speech in the Netherlands and –possibly- for the whole of Europe.

Geert Wilders: “This trial is not just about me. It is about the future of freedom of speech in the Netherlands. The outcome of this trial affects the freedom of all Dutch citizens. With these websites, I want to make it possible for people to follow the latest developments concerning the trial.”

Links to both websites:
http://www.wildersontrial.com/ (International version)
http://www.wildersproces.nl/ (Dutch version)

Hat tip: Jihad i Malmö

Moskéns Roll i Samhället

2010-02-04T09:25:00.008+01:00

Relevant för förståelsen av min översättning är att "The Mosque Exposed" ungefär betyder "Moskén blottad" och "Truth for Muslims" betyder ungefär "Sanning till muslimer".

http://truthformuslims.com/articles/braun_marion%202007_07_the_role_of_the_mosque_in_society.htm

MOSKÉNS ROLL I SAMHÄLLET
av Richard Braun och John Marion

Eftersom islams inflytande i Europa och Amerika växer bör all icke-muslimer känna till moskéns roll i samhället. Richard Braun och John Marion summerar moskéns betydelse och dess centrala roll i islams tillväxt och främjande. Mycket av informationen som publiceras i den här artikeln är tagen från boken "The Mosque Exposed" av Sam Solomon och Elias Alamaqdisi, vilken Richard Braun var med och kollaborerade på.

Klicka här för att beställa ditt exemplar av The Mosque Exposed.

De flesta amerikaner antar att moskén helt enkelt är en plats dit muslimer går på gudstjänst nästan som en "muslimsk kyrka", men det är inte riktigt hela sanningen. Du förstår, islam är övervägande ett handlingsbaserat system till skillnad från kristendomen som är ett trosbaserat system. Och hur vet den vanliga muslimen hur han eller hon ska handla? Allah har gett dem det perfekta exemplet i Mohammed. Muslimer bör ta efter honom.

Mohammeds livsnorm

Medan muslimer tror att koranen är Allahs uppenbarade ord är det "perfekta föredömet" som Mohammeds liv, undervisning och karaktär utgör dokumenterat i en annan samling skrifter vid namn hadith. De här skrifterna, vilka benämns sunna, dokumenterar hur Mohammed levde och lärde och används för att tolka koranen och utarbeta islamisk ideologi. 1.

Eftersom muslimer uppfattar moskén genom Mohammeds liv kan man bara förstå sig på den genom att undersöka hur den användes av honom. Om vi skulle utgå ifrån att moskén fungerar som en kyrka vore det ett farligt misstag. Mohammeds liv är istället kontexten som vi ska betrakta den genom.
Mohammed gick till moskén för andakt. Därför är det ett andaktshus. Han utträttade sina böner i moskén och lärde ut till alla muslimer att det var en viktig plats att utträtta böner i. Varje fredag går muslimer från hela världen till deras lokala moské och vänder sig mot Mecka för att utträtta sina rituella böner.

Befallning och Kontroll

Men tillbedjan för Mohammed handlade inte bara om religösa ritualer. Tillbedjan är en hel livsföring. För Mohammed handlade tillbedjan om att realisera Allahs lag. Det här benämns sharia och det omfattar alla livets områden. Sharia betyder "väg". I ökenkontexten från vilket det kommer innebär det "en väg som leder till vatten". För kristna är Jesus ord "levande vatten", men för muslimen är det denna lag som är en livsbevarande kraft och vatten i öknen.

Mohammed agerade utifrån sin roll som den högste ledaren av gruppen och moskén var hans verksamhets bas eftersom tillbedjan inte endast är religiös ritual. Här följer exempel på hur Mohammed använde moskén för att realisera sharian:

Han stiftade där lagar. Det är den lagstiftande maktens säte.

Han undervisade sina anhängare i sin ideologi i där.

Han skickade iväg och tog emot officiella delgationer i moskén.

Han skötte den islamiska statens affärer, tog emot statsöverhuvuden och utnämnde domare där. Det är den verkställande maktens säte.

Han utfärdade domar och utarbetade Sharia där. Det är den högsta domstolen.

Han utfärdade sociala påbud. Det är gemenskapens sociala centrum.

Han deklarerade muslimernas överlägsenhet gentemot icke-muslimerna, utfärdade dödsdomar mot de som satte sig emot honom och skickade ut bödlarna att utföra deras plikt. Det är det islamiska styrets plats och symbol.

Han deklarerade mäns överlägsenhet gentemot kvinnor i moskén. Det är en ojämlik plats.

Det var där han gav marschordrar, påbjöd jihad och värdesatte sina krigare. Det är en militär bas.

I korthet är moskén islams befallning-och-kontroll-centrum.

Hijra och Taqiyah

Antalet moskéer i USA har ökat dramatiskt de senaste åren. Enligt Mohammeds förlaga ska alla gå till moskén som han gjorde. Därför behövs det en moské i varje omgivning. I större områden behövs det en moské i varje del. Dessutom, eftersom muslimer som lever i icke-muslimska nationer befinner sig i ett permanent jihad 2. behöver moskéns roll förstås i denna kontext, tillsammans med två andra begrepp: migration (hijra) och döljande eller maskering (taqiyah).

Migration

Den islamiska kalendern börjar året 610 då Mohammed med sina följeslagare emigrerade från staden Mecka till staden Medina på den arabiska halvön.

Koranen talar väl om de som emigrerade till Medina för islams skull i bl.a surorna 2:218, 3:195, och 4:100.
Hijra används av muslimer för att sprida islam. Processen har en metod.

Som Solomon och Alamaqdisi skriver i deras book,

Migration är juridiskt obligatorisk för en muslim som en förberedelse till andra former av jihad för islams och muslimers seger i andra länder... Migration föregår jihad och båda är oupplösligt förenade... Det är inte möjligt att konsolidera den islamiska religionen utan migration. Det finns inget sätt att höja islams profil i apostasins boning utan muslimers hjälp och ett ökande av deras antal. 3.

Eftersom moskéns roll är så avgörande för att säkra segern över icke-muslimer är moskéer ibland byggda för att höja medvetenheten om islam hos icke-muslimer snarare än att tjäna den muslimska gemenskapens behov som ett andaktshus. Det är därför som en liten grupp muslimer i en icke-muslimsk grupp ibland bygger en stor moské som vida överstiger deras behov.

Migration och byggandet av moskéer tjänar syftet att vittna till icke-muslimer att islam är överlägset.

Maskering

Solomon och Alamaqdisi skriver,

Trots den uppenbart grymma, hårda och intoleranta koraniska synen på andra, det vill säga judar och kristna, finns det ålägganden i koranen vilka möjliggör för den islamiska gemenskapen att maskera, tona ner, och om nödvändigt, förneka både intensiteten och validiteten av dessa antisemitiska och anti-kristna läror hos dess religiösa system.

Det här specifika åläggandet är taqiyah, vilket genomsyrar nästan alla muslimers verksamheter och förbindelser i icke-muslimska samhällen, vare sig de är religiöst heliga, religiöst temporala, världsliga eller medborgerliga, eftersom... islam skiljer inte mellan det andliga och det världsliga. 4.

Av denna anledning bör man inte förlita sig på att de så kallade moderata muslimska ledarna i amerika ska stödja och försvara den amerikanska konstitutionens principer. Deras ledarskapsposition i den muslimska gemenskapen gör dem till beskyddare och främjare av islamisk ideologi även om de måste dölja och maskera deras egentliga avsikter.

Moskén i Amerika

Här i USA uppmuntrar vi inte bara byggandet av moskéer, vi stödjer deras byggande i toleransens och religionsfrihetens namn. Vi måste inse att vi då hjälper fienden bygga sina högkvarter inne i vårt land.

Våra politiska ledare verkar inte förstå problemet som vi står inför i det här avseendet - eller så vill de helt enkelt inte ingripa.

Det här är varför det är livsviktigt för amerikaner att de lär känna islams sanna natur. Vi behöver utbilda oss själva och föra vidare kunskapen.

För att hjälpa er att bygga på informationen som nämndes i den här artikeln erbjuder "Truth for Muslims" S. Solomons och E. Alamaqdisis bok "The Mosque Exposed". Klicka här för att beställa ditt exemplar med detsamma.

1. Från ordet sunna kommer ordet sunni. Sunnimuslimerna är majoriteten av muslimerna. Ortodoxa sunnimuslimer söker efterlikna Mohammed.

2. See The House of War, Truth Messenger, Vol. 3, No. 1, Spring 2007.

3. Solomon & Alamaqdisi, 2007. The Mosque Exposed, ANM Press. 52-54.

4. Solomon & Alamaqdisi, page 58.

Raymond Ibrahim: Constantinople saves Western Civilization from Islam

2010-02-03T09:05:00.001+01:00

From Jihad Watch:

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2008/08/raymond-ibrahim-today-in-history-constantinople-saves-western-civilization-from-islam.html

Today in History, Constantinople saves Western Civilization from Islam
Posted by Raymond Ibrahim on August 15, 2008 2:05 PM

Since certain Muslim media are fond of rehashing old history, reminding Muslims of the “atrocities” committed by the hated Crusader—past and present—it seems only logical that we here in the West also remember the past. Today in history, Christendom secured a great victory over Islam—one that is responsible for the very existence of Western civilization.

The year was 715, and one Suleiman had risen to the caliphate. He immediately made it clear that he would be the one Muslim who would fulfill Muhammad’s prophecy that Constantinople would eventually be subsumed into the umma. After spending nearly two years mustering the Muslims and preparing a massive navy, he unleashed the full might of the caliphate: the chroniclers say that 120,000 infantry and cavalry, along with 80,000 seamen, were sent to seal Constantinople’s fate. To further give his “blessing” to this campaign, and evincing how seriously he took it, he appointed his own brother, Maslama, at the head of the land army.
While making their way through that great desolate no-man’s land between the Byzantine and Umayyad empires, where certain Turkic tribes (then mushrikin) frequented the region, the Muslims would often wait till near dawn, and then shout in mass “Allahu Akbar!” (God is greatest), attacking and slaying all in their path. According to the Muslim chronicler al-Tabari, “The inhabitants of the city were filled with terror the likes of which they had never experienced before. All they saw were Muslims in their midst screaming ‘Allahu Akbar!’ Allah planted terror in their hearts…. The men were crucified over the course of 24 km.” (Al-Tabari goes on to explain that they did so, and were successful, in accordance to Koranic verse 3:151: “We shall cast terror into the hearts of infidels!”)

Simultaneously, the Muslim fleets were on their way to the Bosporus. Luckily for Constantinople, Leo II came to power, since it was in part due to his many stratagems that the Muslims were repulsed. (Tabari simply relates that Leo continuously duped Maslama, as if the latter were “a silly plaything of a woman.”)

At any rate, the Byzantine war-ships, which had recently come to utilize a new “secret weapon” commonly known as “fire-water” or “Greek fire,” according to Theophanes, set ablaze almost the entire Muslim fleet. After this Christian victory, the Byzantines settled into their fortified city for the winter, and let the elements have their way with Maslama’s massive land force. According to the chroniclers, this was by far one of the harshest winters; many thousands of Muslims perished of starvation and disease. Says Theophanes: “Some even say they put dead men and their own dung in pans, kneaded this, and ate it. A plague-like disease descended on them, and destroyed a countless throng.” The second sentence verifies the veracity of the first.
The new caliph, Omar II (the ambitious Suleiman had by now died of “indigestion,” apparently after consuming two baskets of eggs and figs, followed by marrow and sugar for dessert) had just assumed the caliphate. After many Muslims had died out on the frontiers (where snow lasted on the earth for 100 days), Omar finally sent reinforcements and supplies. It was by now spring, and the Muslims tried one last effort. The chroniclers relay that some 800 ships were sent from Alexandria and North Africa to the Bosporus, this time on guard against the Greek fire. Maslama had also renewed the siege.

Delivery for Constantinople came from the least expected source—the Egyptian crew of the Alexandrian ships. During the night, they all fled to Constantinople, acclaiming the Christian emperor. Why? Because they were all primarily still Christian—Copts—and, contrary to the many apologetics that suggest the Copts “welcomed” the invading Muslims, as this anecdote clearly reveals, had no great love for Islamic rule. Theophanes says that, as the Copts were fleeing in desertion to the city, “the sea looked entirely made of wood.” Taking advantage of this, Leo released from the citadel once again the fire-ships. Considering the loss of manpower with the Copts’ desertion, the confrontation was more a rout than a battle.
Finally, and due to Leo’s “diplomatic” overtures to the warlike Bulgars, he managed to get this Turkic people to attack Maslama’s already wearied army—killing, according to the chroniclers, 22,000 Muslims. It was over, and, on August 15th, 718, the siege was lifted, and the dejected Muslim army made its way back to Dar al-Islam.

Though many historians have rightly hailed the somewhat contemporary Battle of Tours of 732, where Charles the Hammer repulsed the invading Muslim armies, as one of the most decisive victories for Western civilization, in fact, the Byzantine victory over the Muslims is more important: it had the full backing of the caliphate, and consisted of far greater manpower. Had the Muslims won, and since Byzantium was the bulwark of Europe’s eastern flank, there would have been nothing in their way from turning the whole of Europe into the north-western appendage of Dar al-Islam.

This has been a "Today in History" moment.

"Över 65 procent, två av tre muslimer i Danmark, anser alltså att man inte kan vara nog försiktig i umgänget med judar"

2010-02-02T07:37:00.006+01:00

Från Sveriges Radio:

http://www.sr.se/ekot/artikel.asp?artikel=3409064

12:30
söndag 31 januari 2010
Antisemitism bland grupper i Danmark
av Christer Fridén, SR:s Nordenkorrespondent

Citat:

Antisemitismen är mycket stark bland invandrare från muslimska länder i Danmark. Två av tre av dessa anser att man inte kan vara nog försiktig i umgänget med judar, visar en undersökning gjord vid universitetet i Århus.

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Över 65 procent, två av tre muslimer i Danmark, anser alltså att man inte kan vara nog försiktig i umgänget med judar...

Tipstack till: Politiskt Inkorrekt

Female Sunni jihad/martyrdom bomber murders 41 at Shi'ite shrine in Baghdad

2010-02-01T17:01:00.002+01:00

From Jihad Watch and the New York Times:

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/02/female-sunni-jihadmartyrdom-bomber-murders-41-at-shiite-shrine-in-baghdad.html

Female Sunni jihad/martyrdom bomber murders 41 at Shi'ite shrine in Baghdad
by Robert Spencer

Quote:

"The bomber, perhaps because she was a woman, was able to mingle among Iraqis making an annual pilgrimage to Shiite Islam's holiest shrine..." That is, she was covered up in an abaya, and thus no one saw the explosives.

Scores Die as Iraq Bomber Targets Shiite Pilgrims
by Steven Lee Myers for the New York Times, February 1

A female suicide bomber attacked a column of Shiite pilgrims on the outskirts of Baghdad on Monday, part of a convulsion of violence that has hit the capital in advance of national elections in March.

At least 41 people died and more than 100 were wounded in the attack, which took place in an industrial district on the northern edge of the city, according to initial reports from security officials, who said the toll could rise.

The bomber, perhaps because she was a woman, was able to mingle among Iraqis making an annual pilgrimage to Shiite Islam’s holiest shrine before detonating a hidden vest packed with explosives, an Interior Ministry official said.

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The suicide bomber in this case struck near a tent in Bob al-Sham, filled with pilgrims making their way from Diyala Province northeast of Baghdad. The toll was one of the highest in months by an individual suicide bomber.

"Muslims Leaving Islam in Droves"

2010-02-01T08:22:00.001+01:00

Quotes from a 2008 item:

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/muslims-leaving-islam-in-droves/

Muslims Leaving Islam in Droves
April 3, 2008 - by Andrew Walden

Quotes:

Interviewed by al-Jazeera in 2006, Ahmad al-Qataani, leader of the Companions Lighthouse for the Science of Islamic Law in Libya, explains the decline:
Islam used to represent … Africa’s main religion and there were 30 African languages that used to be written in Arabic script. The number of Muslims in Africa has diminished to 316 million, half of whom are Arabs in North Africa. So in the section of Africa that we are talking about, the non-Arab section, the number of Muslims does not exceed 150 million people. When we realize that the entire population of Africa is one billion people, we see that the number of Muslims has diminished greatly from what it was in the beginning of the last century.

On the other hand, the number of Catholics has increased from one million in 1902 to 329 million 882 thousand (329,882,000). Let us round off that number to 330 million in the year 2000.

As to how that happened, well there are now 1.5 million churches whose congregations account for 46 million people. In every hour, 667 Muslims convert to Christianity. Everyday, 16,000 Muslims convert to Christianity. Every year, 6 million Muslims convert to Christianity. These numbers are very large indeed.

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Islam can point to little in the way of recent conversions. Its claim to be the world’s fastest-growing religion stems mostly from the high birth rate in Islamic countries, whose infant mortality rates have been cut by the introduction of Western medicine. Christian growth is based on adult conversion. As leading Christian evangelist Wolfgang Simpson writes, “More Muslims have come to Christ in the last two decades than in all of history.”

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Although al-Qataani points to Africa, there is another phenomenon based on repulsion from Islamist dictatorship, corruption, and terrorist violence. In Iran as many as 1 million people have surreptitiously converted to Evangelical Christianity in the last five years. Pastor Hormoz Shariat claims to have converted 50,000 of them through his U.S.-based Farsi-language satellite ministry. He contrasts the upswing to the efforts of evangelical missionaries in Iran between 1830 and 1979, whose 149 years of work built a Christian community of only 3,000.

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After years of al-Qaeda war on Iraq, a similar phenomenon is growing. The New York Times March 4 reports: “After almost five years of war, many young people in Iraq, exhausted by constant firsthand exposure to the violence of religious extremism, say they have grown disillusioned with religious leaders and skeptical of the faith that they preach.”

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A 19-year-old man says: “The religion men are liars. Young people don’t believe them. Guys my age are not interested in religion anymore.”

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A 24-year-old female college student says, “I used to love Osama bin Laden. Now I hate Islam. Al-Qaeda and the Mahdi Army are spreading hatred. People are being killed for nothing.”

In southern Russia the same pattern is emerging. According to Roman Silantyev, executive secretary of the Inter-religious Council in Russia, freed from atheist control, two million Muslims converted to Christianity. Repulsed by bloody terrorist attacks, those living in areas such as Beslan have converted to Christianity in the greatest numbers of all. As many as 100,000 have converted to Christianity in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan.

After decades of Islamist war, evangelicals report thousands of sub-rosa converts in rural areas of Kashmir. Says one churchgoer: “I am interested in this religion. I hate violence. I hate fundamentalists in Islam. I come here to seek peace.” An Indian newspaper headline reads: “Urban Muslim Youth Out to Junk Faith.”

Following decades of terrorist rule, Palestinians are being quietly converted, holding in-home services to avoid detection. Says one evangelist: “I’ve been working among these people for thirty years, and I promise you I’ve never seen anything like this.”

Islam is also losing adherents in areas where Islamist harassment is heavy on the streets. The London Times estimates 15% of Muslims living in Western Europe have left Islam — 200,000 in the UK alone. Those who leave often face harassment, threats, and attack.

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The mufti of Perak, Malaysia, estimates about 250,000 people have abandoned Islam, making formal application for apostasy to the state — a right allowed to Malaysian citizens who are not ethnic Malays. Says he: “This figure does not include individuals who don’t do solat, doesn’t fast and breaks [sic] all the tenets of Islam.”

Review: The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism

2010-01-30T11:40:00.002+01:00

http://www.meforum.org/2568/islam-history-anti-semitism

The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism -
From Sacred Texts to Solemn History
by Andrew Bostom
Prometheus Books, 2008. 766 pp. $39.98

Reviewed by Raymond Ibrahim
Washington Times
May 20, 2008

Is there such a thing as Islamic anti-Semitism? That is the implicit question that Andrew Bostom's new book, "The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism," tackles. The regrettable answer that presents itself is not based on conjecture, political correctness, anachronisms or wishful thinking — increasingly the domains and paradigms of modern academia — but rather primary texts that speak for themselves. Dr. Bostom, whom I have met and who evinces a passion for the subject of his book, still manages to approach it objectively. A medical doctor by profession, he applies the scientific method and bases his conclusions on the data — as all scholars used to.
And his data is significant: This consists of approximately 700, double-column pages of mostly primary text material, loosely divided into two genres: 1) Islamic law's stance toward the Jew, as delineated by Muslims (lest the charge of "bias" be made) and 2) historical texts documenting Jewish life under Islamic rule.

What does one learn from this approach? The historical documents make clear that, from day one, Jews and Christians have been systematically treated as second-class citizens, "dhimmis," in the regions conquered by Islam. Thus even if there were some sort of Andalusian "golden age" — as academics are fond of reminiscing and insisting — that's exactly all it was, an "age," an "aberration."

How else to explain the many documents, across the centuries and from all around the Islamic world, that demonstrate the substandard treatment and contempt Jews were made to live with, centuries before the Arab-Israeli conflict? The book debunks the popular thesis that Islamic enmity for Jews is a Western import.

The two main factors behind Western anti-Semitism — "Christian" hostility and racial theories — can have no influence on the Arab-Islamic world, which does not identify with Christianity. Nor can it, in any form of racial hierarchy, look down on its fellow Semites as inferior. If Nazis made Jews wear special insignias identifying them, so did some Muslims — 1,200 years earlier.

What, then, is the primary impetus behind Islam's antipathy for Jews? This is where Dr. Bostom's theological documents are key. We come to discover that, far from being a by-product of Western anti-Semitism or the creation of Israel, animosity toward the Jews has a firm doctrinal base tracing back to Islam's most authoritative texts.

Koranic verse after verse, hadith after hadith, castigate, condemn and curse the Jews; they are called "corrupters," "exploiters," "distorters," "prophet-killers," and, most infamously, "pigs and monkeys." Such slanderous words are contained in the Koran (the eternal words of Allah) and the Hadith (the words of Islam's prophet). Thus, Muslim hostility for Jews clearly has little to do with circumstance or politics.

In short, were Israel to disappear tomorrow — indeed, had it never been founded — Jews would still, according to the eternal words of Islam, be deemed "corrupters," "exploiters," "pigs," "swine," et.al., who, along with Christians, must live in submission to Islam. (It is amazing that this latter point is seen as being lenient on Jews; "polytheists"— like Hindus and Buddhists, for example — must either convert or be put to the sword.)

This is what ultimately makes Islam's position toward the "Other" troubling. While so-called Christian anti-Semitism does exist, it has absolutely no doctrinal backing in the New Testament, and so cannot truly be linked to Christianity. Jesus and his apostles never issued edicts commanding Christians to subjugate Jews — or anyone else, for that matter. One cannot say this about Muhammad. Nearly 200 pages of the book document Muhammad's animus — often manifested in bloody detail by his biographers — toward the Jews.
The juridical decrees and exegeses of Islam's most celebrated theologians also confirm the Jews' reprobate status within Islam. Nor is this limited to the past. Today's closest equivalent to a Muslim "pope," Sheikh Tantawi, after besmirching Jews with all the usual epithets — "monkeys," "swine" — concludes that "[A]ll Jews are not the same. The good ones become Muslims, the bad ones do not."

The value of Dr. Bostom's book is that it is a vast collection of important documents — what historians have traditionally prioritized — all of which make clear that enmity for Jews has a firm grounding in the Islamic tradition, with its own rationale and motifs. More troubling, it is not just history, but immutable theology, which transcends time and space and needs to apply today no less than yesterday.
Still, one should not conflate Islam's mandates with the beliefs of the average "Muslim"; nor should all of these texts be construed as representative of all Muslims. Yet the vast majority of academia has been belaboring these points — while apologizing, distorting and especially ignoring Islam's most authoritative texts regarding Jews. "The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism" is a welcome contribution, in that it at least brings balance.

Citat av Paulina Neuding angående Reepalu

2010-01-29T21:35:00.002+01:00

Från Expressen:

http://www.expressen.se/debatt/1.1860594/reepalu-hycklar-om-judehatarna

Reepalu hycklar om judehatarna
av Paulina Neuding

Citat:

Skånska Dagbladet har i dagarna publicerat en artikelserie om hoten och våldet mot Malmös judar. Om Malmöbor som inte vågar gå i kippa eller bära davidsstjärna. Som flyttar för att fly trakasserierna och ofriheten. Och som berättar att hoten inte längre härrör främst från högerextremister, utan från invandrare från Mellanöstern. Det handlar om människor med rötterna i diktaturer där antisemitism är en accepterad del av det offentliga samtalet.

Därmed ställer den tilltagande antisemitismen i Malmö en fråga på sin spets som inte bara är avgörande för Sverige, utan för en stor del av Europa: Hur slår vi vakt om liberala värderingar i mötet med en stor invandring från en ickeliberal, eller snarare antiliberal del av världen? Ilmar Reepalu har gett sitt svar på den frågan.

Review: Islam and the Jews

2010-01-29T12:39:00.003+01:00

An item from 2005:

From Honest Thinking:

http://www.honestthinking.org/en/pub/VL.2005.03.21.JTA.Islam_and_the_Jews.htm

This article was published in the Norwegian daily Vårt Land 2005.03.21

Islam and the Jews
A review of Mark A. Gabriel’s book, Islam and the Jews – The Unfinished Battle, Charisma House, Florida 2003.
By Jens Tomas Anfindsen, editor, HonestThinking

Mark A. Gabriel is the controversial author of the book Islam and Terrorism, the book of which Islam-scholar Kari Vogt forbade chatting on the web-pages of the University of Oslo, but which was debated in all of Norway’s major newspapers; the book which has been distributed to all of Norway’s parliamentarians, but which only Progress Party-leader Carl I. Hagen admits to having read; the book that now has got a follow-up: Islam and the Jews.

Islam and the Jews is partly a personal story, partly a professional document. These two aspects of the book must be evaluated separately and by different criteria. On the personal level Islam and the Jews is the story about how the Egyptian ex-Muslim Mark Gabriel changed attitude from being a vehement Jew-hater, to feeling friendship and sympathy towards the Jewish people. According to Mr. Gabriel himself, this change of heart came about by Jesus Christ performing a miracle within him so that hatred yielded place for love. This aspect of his book must be taken for precisely what it is: a personal testimony. On the professional level Islam and the Jews is an introduction to the Koran’s and the Hadiths’s teachings with respect to the status of the Jews, written by a former Imam and professor of Islamic history at the Al Azhar University in Cairo. The scheme to which Mr. Gabriel presents us is roughly the following.

The Koran consists of a series of revelations which the angel Gabriel supposedly granted the Prophet Mohammed. These revelations came progressively over a period from A.D. 610 and until Mohammed’s death in 632. In an early phase, while Mohammed lived in Mecca and attempted to recruit the Jews to his newly formed religious party, the angel’s revelations were positive towards the Jews and the Jewish religion. But the Jewish community rejected Mohammed, ridiculed him and treated him as just another quack. Following this, and coincidental with Mohammed’s moving to Medina, his revelations gradually changed character, becoming increasingly hostile towards the Jews. Ultimately the Koran’s revelations instruct Muslims to fight the Jews by the sword.

With regard to the latter, Mr. Gabriel dedicates a separate chapter to a purely historical account of how Mohammed and his armed forces performed several genocidal slaughters of Jewish tribes in Arabia.

An important feature of Gabriel’s exposition concerns a widely acknowledge principle of Islamic theology called nasikh. Basically put, the principle of nasikh entails that whenever two pieces revelatory text contradict each other, the later revelations carry juristic overweight. So later verses will sometimes annul or cancel prior ones. With regard to the Koran’s revelations about the Jews, Gabriel explains that the early, accommodating verses are annulled by later verses in which Allah ventilates heavy curses on the entire Jewish people. The Koran’s last word on the matter is that Jews are eternal enemies of Islam, and that they must be violently fought and subjugated. Gabriel further explains how an influential hadith by al-Bukhari adds to this picture, relaying that judgment day will not come before the Muslims exterminate the Jews entirely!

It appears that Mr. Gabriel knows well what he is writing about. Anyone trained in textual interpretation will recognize an expert at work, here. The crucial question concerning his book is whether it can be said to present the reader with a true picture of Islam. Evaluating this requires a complex assessment.

According to Mr. Gabriel, Islam imposes on all Muslims to wage war against the Jews. But we all know that not all Muslims support that idea. However, Mr. Gabriel himself is the first to point out that only a minority of the Muslims understand and practice Islam in this radical manner. Gabriel explains this by recourse to a threefold socio-religious distinction. The majority of Muslims he describes as some kind of “cultural Muslims”, lacking any particularly deep understanding of Islam. These hold on to the more humanitarian and sympathetic aspects of their religion, but remain ignorant of or suppress its aggressive elements. Secondly there is also a large group of Muslims which in fact have insight into the Jihad-theology of Islam, but who nevertheless refrain from practicing their beliefs fully, simply because acting them out would require too much sacrifice. Finally we have a numerically small but in no way insignificant group of enthusiastic fundamentalists who have real insight into the theological foundation of Islam, as well as the will to implement its directives. It is within this last group that we find the extremist, the suicide bomber, the terrorist and the jihadist.

According to Mr. Gabriel, it is this last mentioned group that practices Islam in a correct way. Radical Islamism is the true Islam, so says Mr. Gabriel. Here is where we confront the most daring thesis of the book, and at the same time, a vulnerable point. For what is “the True Islam”, who defines “the True Islam” and is there only one correct interpretation of this religion, one might object. In the assumption that there exists some one absolute Islam, might not Mr. Gabriel have committed an oversimplification?

I think not. What Mr. Gabriel says about the nature of Islam is not intended as a sociological description of its manifold manifestations; Mr. Gabriel takes on a theologian’s perspective and aims at a normative description of Islam’s teachings. Further, it should be kept in mind that Mr. Gabriel comes from and deals with Sunni-Islam. The Sunnis represent only one fraction within Islam, but after all, they constitute about 85% of the world’s Muslims. Finally, Mr. Gabriel has written a popular science book, targeting a wide segment of a public market which could not be presumed to have much prior knowledge of Islam. The fact that the book might be said to gloss over certain (academically celebrated) nuances and distinctions in no way justifies its rejection. A rational evaluation of the book’s basic thesis should rest upon an assessment of whether it corresponds to a dominant interpretation of Sunni-Muslim theology with respect to Jews. And in that respect, Mr. Gabriel has presented his case with powerful precision.
Given the loudly explicit way in which anti-Jewish theology permeates the modern Islamist movement, Islam and the Jews is not only interesting, but also highly currant. The book is way too convincing and way too challenging to be silenced or ignored, irrespective of the fact that Mr. Gabriel is an “on-fire” convert to Christianity or that his book presents a horrific picture of Islam’s prime sources. The scholarly content of Islam and the Jews concerns claims over matters of fact and can be discussed, rejected or vindicated as such. The evaluation of the undersigned says that potential critics face a difficult mission(*).

* In the spring of 2006, Islam-scholar Oddbjørn Leirvik (University of Oslo) initiated a passionate campaign in the columns of Vårt Land, aimed at discrediting Mark Gabriel as an authoritative source of knowledge on Islam. According to Leirvik, Gabriel’s contention that something in the order of 4 million Egyptians were killed under the Arab, Muslim invasion, is inflated.

Shari'ah

2010-01-28T07:10:00.003+01:00

From the Pilcrow Press Official Website:

http://pilcrowpress.com/shariah

SHARI'AH

Shari'ah is the body of Islamic religious law. It is the legal framework within which the public and some private aspects of life are regulated for those living in a legal system based on Islamic principles of jurisprudence and for Muslims living outside the domain. It deals with many aspects of day-to-day life, including politics, economics, banking, business, contracts, family, sexuality, hygiene and social issues. There is no strictly static codified set of laws of shari'ah. It is based on the Qu'ran, the sayings and doings of Muhammed, consensus, analogy and centuries of debate, interpretation and precedent.

Many of you will have read the Archbishops of Canterbury's comments on shari'ah law being inevitable in the UK with concern. He had said that he just intended to start a debate and what a debate it is! Page upon page of our newspapers have been written to explain what exactly is shari'ah law and how it would effect us living in the UK. According to a number of reports, even the Queen is reported to have expressed her concern at the Archbishop's comments and its implications for the Anglican Church's future as the established church. So what exactly is all the fuss about? For this article, Senior Minister Colin Dye asked Islamic expert Sam Solomon to explain shari'ah.

Shari'ah is an Arabic word which comes from a root word meaning 'a pathway for water', as that was the only road everyone needed to know. Anywhere, but particularly in the desert, water is a life-saving, life-sustaining agent - so the concept is that of life-imparting.

Shari'ah, from an Islamic prospective, is directives given by Allah to mankind through his final prophet - allegedly Muhammad - to organise and establish their relationship with him and among themselves in their human institutions.

As these directives are given by Allah they cannot be regarded as laws in the modern sense of the word. They are directives made not by any human parliament, elected or nominated. They are believed to be inspired, given by Allah who never reveals himself but only his will, therefore they are at best a set of infallible doctrines.

Muslim Scholars decree that as they are inspired, they are to be received in a worship-like attitude without raising any questions or objections, despite the inconsistencies they contain because they are beyond human reason and understanding.

Shari'ah governs the life of its adherents from birth to death and beyond. As for non-Muslims, they are tolerated with a minimum of rights and freedoms so long as their existence and activities do not threaten the wellbeing of the Islamic society. So if the Christians in an Islamic state were to undertake evangelism that would be a serious breach and may be punishable by death. Shari'ah covers all public and private laws, including that of war and peace, constitutional and commercial affairs, marriage, divorce, child custody, inheritance laws, etc.

There are two primary sources of the shari'ah: the Qur'an and the Sunnah and Muslim scholars have classified the directives under five main categories:

Ibadat: all religious observances

These include not only the religious practices from ceremonial purification to ritual prayers, to pilgrimage, mosques and their regulations, but also dress code, dietary laws, and even jihad. So when the Muslims demand the right of the hijab they are literally demanding that part of shari'ah be implemented, so it is with halal meat, be it for school meals, prisons or hospitals. Ritual prayers, Islamic festivals (including circumcision) all come under ibadat. As Azan, or the prayer call, is part of ibadat, it too is part of shari'ah, and the proposed application in Oxford for the right of Azan is just the beginning for the rest of the mosques UK wide. Marriage too is regarded to be part of ibadat as Muhammad had reported to have said, "Marriage is half of a man's religion."

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Madrasses or religious schools come under ibadat as well as ahkam (see below). These religious schools are not subject to British or European educational systems or laws, including those relating to corporal punishment, but are fully run under the Islamic law.

Mu'amalat: all legal and civil transactions

These would govern all business transactions as well as many of the international treaties; Islamic banking also would come under this section. The British government's proposed sale of Islamic sukuk security bonds would therefore have be overseen by Muslim scholars and it would be run and ruled under Islamic shari'ah principles, where the shar'iah will take precedence over the existing British banking and financial regulations. Already some of the high street banks provide shari'ah banking covering bank accounts, mortgages, and insurances, etc. these too are run by shari'ah.

It has been reported in the British press that since 2002 the treasury has systematically ensured that our tax laws are made compatible with that of shari'ah. Further Islamisation of our financial systems was first brought to the nation's attention of by the Sunday Telegraph in 2005 with regular articles appearing ever since.

Ukud: contracts

These, with ibadat, would form another subgroup governing some other aspects but including marriage, For in Islam marriage is seen to be a contract between two parties, as dowry and its payment are both customs as well as required by Qur'anic injunctions (suras 4:25, 2:221 -241).

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Ahkam: miscellaneous directives

Akham are miscellaneous directives covering a number of categories that are complex and modern such as traffic laws, people movement. etc.

Ukubat: penal codes
According to the Islamic penal code there are two rights, haqq: the right of Allah and the right of a man. The codes are: hudud, ta'zir, kisas, diya and kaffara. Hudud is the harshest and covers offences such as:
- adultery: the punishment is 100 lashes on one's back administered publicly (sura 24:2)
- theft: the punishment is chopping of the right hand (sura 5:38)
- drinking, making or marketing alcohol: the punishment may vary from 40 to 80 lashes according to the Islamic denominational school
- accusing a chase woman of lewdness: the punishment is 80 lashes (sura 24:4)
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- rebellion or any kind of religious dissention against an Islamic state specially conversion from Islam to another religion or no religion: the punishment is a death sentence.
These types of punishments are on the increase in the UK and many of them have been carried out by zealous Muslim families on members of their own families as we have recently seen in number of police arrests and court cases. Though they have been put forward as 'cultural' or 'tribal' customs it is really shari'ah issue. Shari'ah forbids a Muslim's allegiance to a non-Muslim state, as it regards it as an enemy of Islam under the doctrine of 'Alwala wa al bara' - the doctrine of allegiance, renunciation and denunciation.

It is clear that shari'ah does not come in parts from which we can pick and choose. It is a complete legal system which covers every area of life. Don't believe those advocates of shari'ah law who say that all they want is shari'ah for family and marriage matters. This will only be the beginning and in no time it will spread to cover all other areas of life. But worst of all, Islamic law does not accept any other belief system. In every country where shari'ah law operates, Islam reigns supreme and is dominant over every other religion. Let's continue to pray that Islamic law will not get a foothold in our legal system, that Christian values will continue to underpin our society and that the Gospel of Jesus Christ will continue to be preached throughout this land.

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Quran ('recitation') = the scriptures of Islam 'revealed' to Muhammad
Sunnah ('trodden path') = practice and traditions of Muhammad through the narrations of what he did

Taqiyyah – Det är tillåtet att ljuga enligt Islam

2010-01-27T12:30:00.002+01:00

Från Answering Islam (på svenska):

http://answering-islam.net/svenska/islam/allah-och-islam/taqiyyah.html

Taqiyyah – Det är tillåtet att ljuga enligt Islam
av Team Sverige

I följande artikel ska vi titta närmare på en islamistisk doktrin som tillåter och uppmanar muslimer att ljuga. Detta koncept kallas för "taqiyyah".

Vi börjar med att läsa följande koraniska vers som säger att en muslim får ljuga om sin identitet och förneka sin tro om han utsätts för tvång:

16:106

Den som förnekar Gud efter att ha antagit tron - inte den som är utsatt för tvång, fastän hans hjärta förblir tryggt i sin övertygelse, utan den som frivilligt öppnar sig för otron - sådana [människor] ådrar sig Guds vrede och ett hårt straff väntar dem. (Mohammad Knut Bernström, Koranens budskap)

Se vad den autentiske exegeten Ibn Kathir skriver om detta i sin utläggning av verser:

Allahs vrede mot de avfallna, förutom den som tvingas till misstro

… (förutom den som tvingas medan hans hjärta är i fred med tron) Detta är ett undantag vad gäller en som säger uttalanden av misstro och verbalt håller med Mushrikin (icke-muslimer) eftersom han är tvungen att göra det på grund av den misshandel och smädelse till som han utsätts för, men hans hjärta vägrar att godta vad han säger, och han är, i verkligheten, i fred med sin tro på Allah och Hans budbärare… [vår översättning] Länk

De två exegeterna Jalal håller med Ibn Kathir och skriver följande i sin gemensamma utläggning av versen ifråga:

Vem om än slutar att tro på Gud efter att [ha bekräftat] sin tro – förutom han som är tvingad, att säga [ett uttalande av] otro och säger det, medan hans hjärta är i vila med tron… [vår översättning] Länk

En muslim får alltså verbalt ljuga och förneka sin tro i kritiska situationer, vilket med andra ord betyder att muslimen gör "taqiyyah".

Herren Jesus Kristus däremot förbjuder Sina följare att förneka Honom även om deras liv står på spel:

Matt 10:16-18, 22, 26-28, 31-33

Jag skickar er som får in bland vargar. Var därför kloka som ormar och oskyldiga som duvor. Akta er för människorna. De skall utlämna er åt domstolar, och de skall piska er i sina synagogor. Och ni kommer att ställas inför ståthållare och kungar för min skull och stå som vittnen inför dem och hedningarna… Ni skall bli hatade av alla för mitt namns skull. Men den som håller ut till slutet skall bli räddad… Var alltså inte rädda för dem. Det finns ingenting gömt som inte skall komma i dagen och ingenting dolt som inte skall bli känt. Vad jag säger er i mörkret, det skall ni säga i dagsljuset, och vad jag viskar i ert öra, det skall ni ropa ut från taken. Var inte rädda för dem som kan döda kroppen men inte kan döda själen. Frukta i stället honom som kan förgöra både själ och kropp i helvetet.… Var alltså inte rädda: ni är mer värda än aldrig så många sparvar. Var och en som känns vid mig inför människorna, honom skall jag kännas vid inför min fader i himlen. Men den som förnekar mig inför människorna, honom skall jag förneka inför min fader i himlen. (Bibeln 2000)

I följande bibliska text läser vi om den första kristna martyren Stefanos som blev stenad till döds, för att han bekände sin tro, och vägrade att ljuga:

Apg 7:54-60

När de hörde detta blev de så ursinniga på Stefanos att de skar tänder. Men fylld av helig ande riktade han blicken mot himlen och såg Guds härlighet och Jesus som stod på Guds högra sida, och han sade: "Jag ser himlen öppen och Människosonen stå på Guds högra sida." Då ropade de högt och höll för öronen, och alla störtade sig över honom på en gång och släpade ut honom ur staden för att stena honom. Vittnena lade sina mantlar framför fötterna på en ung man som hette Saul. Så stenade de Stefanos, som åkallade Herren och sade: "Herre Jesus, ta emot min ande." Han föll på knä och ropade högt: "Herre, ställ dem inte till svars för denna synd." Med de orden dog han. (Bibeln 2000)

Vi kristna fruktar inte döden och behöver inte förneka vår tro för att vi vet vad som väntar oss, nämligen ett evigt liv med Herren Jesus som är vår Gud och Frälsare.

Somliga muslimer brukar svara att en muslim endast får ljuga när hans liv står på spel, vilket enligt kristna fortfarande är oacceptabelt. Vi håller dock med att Islam lär ut att en muslim får ljuga när hans liv står på spel, men detta är inte hela sanningen. En muslim får också ljuga för att försvara intoleranta och hemska läror i Islam, vilket följande data får demonstrera.
Följande koraniska vers säger att en muslim inte får förena sig med icke-muslimer och ta de till vänner:

4:144

O ni som tror, ni ska inte förena er med de icke troende i stället för de troende. Vill ni ge GUD ett klart bevis mot er? (Khalifa, se även: 5:51; 5:57; 9:23; 60:1; 60:13)

Den autentiske exegeten Ibn Kathir konstaterar i sin utläggning att en muslim inte får förena sig med icke-muslimer och ta de till vänner:

Förbud mot att ingå Wilayah med otroende

Allah förbjuder sina troende tjänare att ta otroende till vänner i stället för de troende. Detta innefattar att vara deras vän och medhjälpare, ge de råd, vara intim med de och avslöja de troendes hemligheter framför de… [vår översättning] Länk

Följande koraniska vers säger faktiskt att en muslim inte får förena sig och etablera vänskap med sin egen familj om de är icke-muslimer:

58:22

Du kan inte finna [sådana] människor som tror på Gud och den Yttersta dagen och som [samtidigt] söker VÄNSKAP med dem som trotsar Gud och Hans Sändebud – INTE ENS OM DET GÄLLER DERAS EGEN FADER ELLER SON ELLER BROR ELLER [ANDRA] SOM STÅR NÄRA. Det är i deras hjärtan som Han har skrivit in tron och de som Han har stärkt med Sin ande, och dem skall Han föra till lustgårdar, vattnade av bäckar, där de skall förbli till evig tid. Gud är nöjd med dem och de är nöjda [där de njuter] Hans [gåvor]. De är Guds trogna och Guds trogna skall det sannerligen gå väl i händer! (Mohammad Knut Bernström, Koranens budskap)

Islam förbjuder alltså en muslim att förena sig med icke-muslimer och ta de till vänner, även om de är hans familj, men det finns dock ett undantag. Följande koraniska vers säger nämligen att en muslim får förena sig med icke-muslimer och ta de till vänner om han fruktar "hot" från dem:

3:28

DE TROENDE skall inte ta förnekare av sanningen snarare än sina trosbröder till bundsförvanter - den som gör så skär av banden till Gud - om inte ert syfte är att med detta [skydda er] mot ett hot. Men Gud uppmanar er att inte ta lätt på Hans varningar; Gud är målet för er färd. (Mohammad Knut Bernström, Koranens budskap)

Muslimer får alltså inte ta icke-muslimer till vänner och beskyddare. Men om en muslim känner sig "hotad" då är det tillåtet för honom att begå "taqiyyah", vilket innebär att muslimen får ljuga om sin identitet, tycke och förhållningssätt till icke-muslimer. Hotet här innebär inte bara att muslimens liv står på spel, utan även att icke-muslimer börjar ana och ifrågasätta Islams hemska läror, som tillexempel den intoleranta föreskriften som förbjuder muslimer att etablera vänskap med icke-muslimer. Se vad exegeten Ibn Kathir rapporterar i sin utläggning av Koranen (3:28):

Förbud mot att stödja otroende

… Allah säger sedan,

(såvida du inte verkligen upplever en fara från dem) betyder, förutom de troende som i vissa områden eller tidpunkter fruktar för sin säkerhet från de otroende. I detta fall, är sådana troende tillåtna att visa vänskap till otroende ytligt, men aldrig i sitt inre. Till exempel, Al-Bukhari berättade att Abu Ad-Darda sa, "Vi ler i ansiktet på vissa människor fastän våra hjärtan förbannar de.'' Al-Bukhari sa att Al-Hasan sa: "Taqiyyah är tillåtet fram till uppståndelsens dag.''… [vår översättning] Länk

Muslimer som befinner sig i ett land där Islam är en minoritet – exempelvis Sverige – får ljuga för icke-muslimer, ta de till vänner och därigenom dölja det faktum att Islam förbjuder muslimer att etablera vänskap med icke-muslimer. Notera även att Ibn Kathir åkallar Abu Ad-Darda (Muhammeds kompanjon) som säger att muslimerna brukade le i ansiktet på somliga icke-muslimer samtidigt som deras hjärtan förbannade dem. Detta koncept är tillåtet för muslimer att utöva fram till domedagen.
Ibn Abbas, den första muslimska exegeten och Muhammeds kusin, säger följande om konceptet "taqiyyah" och versen ifråga:

… (såvida (det är) att ni garderar er mot de) skydda er själva från de, (ta det (som om det vore) säkerhet) rädda er från de genom att tala på ett vänligt sätt med dem, medan era hjärtan ogillar detta… [vår översättning] Länk

Ibn Abbas säger att en muslim kan "skydda sig" mot icke-muslimer genom att tala vänligt med de och därigenom få de att tro att han är deras vän, fastän han avskyr det. Detta visar att en muslim får ljuga för icke-muslimer i syfte att dölja Koranens intoleranta föreskrift som förbjuder honom att ta icke-muslimer till vänner.

Det finns mer. Muslimer får även ljuga och söka falsk vänskap med icke-muslimer i syfte att locka de till Islam. Se följande islamistiska hemsida – som utfärdar islamistiska juridiska utlåtanden – för bevis. En muslim frågar om det är tillåtet att vara vän med icke-muslimer. Hemsidan svarar att det inte är tillåtet och citerar koraniska verser samt andra autentiska källor. Sedan citerar hemsidan Sheikh Uthaymeen (död 2001), som anses vara en av århundradets främsta lärda muslimer. Han var även en salafi, vilket är en term som betonar de muslimer som noga följer de tre första generationerna muslimer. Han har skrivit omkring 50 böcker vad gäller islamistisk rättsvetenskap. Se vad Sheikh Uthaymeen säger om att söka vänskap med icke-muslimer:
"… Shaykh Muhammad al-Saalih al-‘Uthaymeen (må Allah vara honom barmhärtig) blev tillfrågad om lagen att blanda sig med de otroende och behandla de väl i hopp om att de ska bli muslimer. Han svarade:
Muslimer är utan tvekan skyldiga att hata Allahs fiender och förkasta de, för att detta är budbärarnas handlingssätt och deras följares. Allah säger (tolkning av mening):

“Ett gott föredöme har ni verkligen i Abraham och de som följde honom, när de sade till sina landsmän: ‘Sannerligen, vi är inte ansvariga för er och för det som ni dyrkar vid sidan om Allah och vi har avvisat er, och det ska råda fiendskap och hat mellan oss och er ända till dess ni tror på Allah själv’”

[al-Mumtahanah 60:4]

“Du (O Muhammed) kommer inte att finna människor som tror på Allah och den Sista dagen och som samtidigt söker vänskap med dem som trotsar Allah och Hans Budbärare (Muhammed), fastän det gäller deras egna fäder eller söner eller bröder eller andra som står dem nära. Det är i deras hjärtan som Han har skrivit in tron, och stärkt de med Ande (bevis, ljus och sann vägledning) från Honom.”

[al-Mujaadilah 58:22]

Utifrån detta är det inte tillåtet för en muslim att känna någon kärlek i sitt hjärta mot Allahs fiender som faktiskt också är hans fiender. Allah säger (tolkning av mening):
“O ni som tror! Ta inte mina fiender och era fiender (alltså otroende och avgudadyrkare) till vänskap, och visa inte dem affektion, medan de har avvisat den sanning som ni har fått del av”

[al-Mumtahanah 60:1]

Men om en muslim behandlar de vänligt och godhetsfullt i hopp om att de ska bli muslimer och tro, då är det inget fel (med att ta de till vänner), för att det sker i syfte att öppna deras hjärtan för Islam. Men om han förtvivlar att de ska bli muslimer, då ska han behandla de följaktligen (enligt ovan). Detta är något som har diskuteras i detalj av de lärda, speciellt i boken Ahkaam Ahl al-Dhimmah av Ibn al-Qayyim (må Allah vara honom barmhärtig)

Majmoo’ Fataawa al-Shaykh Ibn ‘Uthaymeen, 3, fråga nr. 389." [vår översättning] Länk

En muslim får inte bara ljuga när han fruktar sitt liv eller för att dölja Islams intoleranta föreskrifter, utan även i syfte att locka icke-muslimer till Islam!
Och enligt följande utlåtande från samma islamistiska hemsida får en muslim etablera vänskap med icke-muslimer om syftet är att bjuda in de till Islam, dock inte för vänskapens och nöjets skull:

"Prisad vare Allah.

Att äta med en otroende är inte förbjudet om det är nödvändigt att göra det, eller om det tjänar något för lagens intresse. Men de bör inte tas som vänner, så du bör inte äta med de utan någon laglig anledning eller utan något lagligt ändamål. Du bör inte sitta och chatta med de och skratta med dem. Men om det finns en anledning att göra det, till exempel att äta med en gäst, eller att bjuda in de till Islam eller att leda de till sanningen, eller om de finns någon annan laglig anledning, då är det okey… " [vår översättning] Länk

Kan det bli värre? Ja, det finns mer. Muslimer kan nämligen även muta och erbjuda icke-muslimer pengar för att locka de till Islam. Se följande vers och notera den understrukna delen:

9:60

Offergåvorna är avsedda enbart för de fattiga och de nödställda och för dem som har hand om insamlandet av dem och för att vinna hjärtan [för tron] och för att friköpa människor ur fångenskap och slaveri och [för att lätta] de skuldtyngdas [bördor] och för [kampen för] Guds sak och för vandringsmannen. Detta har Gud föreskrivit; Gud är allvetande, vis. (Mohammad Knut Bernström, Koranens budskap)

Offergåvor ska alltså spenderas för att vinna hjärtan. Här följer Ibn Kathirs utläggning av den understrukna delen som tydliggör att dessa hjärtan bland andra är icke-muslimer som ges pengar för att på så sätt lockas in i Islam:

De anställda som samlar in allmosa

… (Al-Mu'allafatu Qulubuhum) Det finns flera typer av Al-Mu'allafatu Qulubuhum. Det finns de som ges allmosa för att acceptera Islam… [vår översättning] Länk

De två exegeterna Jalal håller med Ibn Kathir i deras utläggning av versen ifråga:

Den frivilliga allmosan, allmosan som ska delas ut, är endast för de fattiga… och de vars hjärtan bör förliknas, så att de kan bli muslimer, eller så att Islam kan etableras, eller att deras like kan bli muslimer… [vår översättning] Länk

Se även följande hadith som säger att Muhammed gav hedningarna från Quraysh förmögenheter så att de skulle bli muslimer:

Sahih Muslim

Book 5, Number 2303

Anas b. Malik rapporterade att Allah under Hunain dagen tilldelade sin apostel (må frid vara över honom) rikedomar tillhörande (stammen) Hawazin (utan beväpnat möte), Allahs budbärare (må frid vara över honom) delade ut 100 kameler till vissa personer i Quraish. I samband med detta sa (de unga från Ansar): må Allah förlåta Allahs budbärare (må frid vara över honom) för att han skänker (dessa kameler) till folk i Quraish och för att han ignorerade oss, medan våra svärd fortfarande droppar blod. Anas b. Malik sa: Deras uttalande förmedlades till Allahs budbärare (må frid vara över honom) och han skickade (någon) till Ansar och samlade de under ett tält av läder. När de hade samlats, kom Allahs budbärare (må frid vara över honom) till de och sa: Vad är det för nyheter som har nått mig angående er? De kloka människorna i Ansar sa: Allahs budbärare, de klocka bland oss har inte sagt någonting, men vi har bland oss omogna personer, de sa: Må Allah förlåta Allahs budbärare (må frid vara över honom) för att han gav till Quraish och ignorerade oss (trots) att våra svärd är fläckade med deras blod. I samband med detta sa Allahs budbärare (må frid vara över honom): Jag ger (ibland materiella gåvor) till personer som nyligen befinner sig i otro, så att jag kan göra de benägna till sanningen… [vår översättning] Länk

Herren Jesus Kristus säger följande om pengar:

Matt 6:19-20, 22

Samla inte skatter här på jorden, där mal och mask förstör och tjuvar bryter sig in och stjäl. Samla skatter i himlen, där varken mal eller mask förstör och inga tjuvar bryter sig in och stjäl. Ty där din skatt är, där kommer också ditt hjärta att vara… Ingen kan tjäna två herrar. Antingen kommer han att hata den ene och älska den andre eller att hålla fast vid den ene och inte bry sig om den andre. Ni kan inte tjäna både Gud och mammon. (Bibeln 2000)

Islam lär alltså ut att en muslim får (1) förneka sin tro när hans liv står på spel. (2) Ljuga för icke-muslimer i syfte att dölja Koranens intoleranta föreskrifter (3) och i syfte att locka de till Islam. Muslimen får även (4) ge icke-muslimer pengar i syfte att locka de till Islam. Det tar inte slut här.
Följande hadith säger att Muhammed tillät sin lärjunge att ljuga i syfte att bedra och mörda juden Ka'b bin Al-Ashraf:

Sahih Bukhari

Volume 5, Book 59, Number 369

Berättad av Jabir bin 'Abdullah: Allahs apostel sa, "Vem är villig att döda Ka'b bin Al-Ashraf som har skadat Allah och Hans apostel?" Muhammad bin Maslama steg upp och sa, "O Allahs apostel! Skulle du vilja att jag dödar honom?" Profeten sa, "Ja," Muhammad bin Maslama sa, "Tillåt mig i sådana fall att säga en (falsk) sak (alltså i syfte att lura Kab)." Profeten sa, "DU FÅR SÄGA DET."… [vår översättning] Länk

Muhammed lärde vidare ut att krig handlar om vilseledning, lögn och bedrägeri:

Sahih Bukhari

Volume 4, Book 52, Number 268

Berättad av Abu Huraira: Allah's Apostle sa: "Krig är vilseledning" [vår översättning] Länk

Muhammed lärde även ut att muslimer får ljuga för varandra:

Sahih Muslim

Book 032, Number 6303

Humaid b. 'Abd al-Rahman b. 'Auf rapporterade att hans moder Umm Kulthum, dotter till 'Uqba b. Abu Mu'ait, och hon var en av de första emigranterna som förpliktade trohet till allahs budbärare (må frid vara över honom), sa att hon hörde Allahs budbärare Allahs budbärare (må frid vara över honom) säga: En lögnare är inte någon som försöker bringa försnongin mellan folk och pratar (för att förhindra tvister), eller förmedlar gott. Ibn Shihab sa att han inte hörde att undantag beviljades vad gäller att ljuga annat än i tre fall: I strid, för att bringa försoning mellan personer och mannen när han pratar med sin hustru och hustrun när hon pratar med sin man (på ett vridet sätt för att uppnå försoning). [vår översättning] Länk

Enligt ovannämnda hadith får muslimer ljuga i krig och för varandra i syfte att skapa försoning. Det är även tillåtet för två gifta par att ljuga för varandra i syfte att skapa försoning!

Herren Jesus säger att satan är lögnens fader:

Joh 8:44

Ni har djävulen till fader, och ni vill göra vad er fader önskar. Han har varit en mördare från första början, och han står utanför sanningen därför att någon sanning inte finns i honom. När han ljuger talar han med egna ord, ty han är en lögnare och lögnens fader. (Bibeln 2000)

Genuine skepticism?

2010-01-26T12:59:00.001+01:00

Click here to visit the website of Alex Tsakiris` "Skeptiko" which has this description on it`s front page:

"This podcast is a leading source for intelligent, hard-nosed skeptic vs. believer debate on science and spirituality. Each episode features lively discussion with leading researchers, thinkers, and their critics."

And here is the "About" page.

“Det finns andra som är kvar där ute som har utbildning och som har “rena skinn” – det vill säga människor som vi inte har ett förflutet med, som kanske inte ser ut som al-Qaidas terrorister, som kanske inte är araber, och behöver inte vara män. “

2010-01-25T10:34:00.007+01:00

"Israel i Sverige" översätter den här texten från DEBKAfile:

17 länder har höjt sin terrorberedskap, inte bara England.
av Israel i Sverige

http://israelisverige.info/2010/01/24/17-lander-har-hojt-sin-terrorberedskap-inte-bara-england/

Citat:

Kaskad av terrorvarningar på tre kontinenter plus Mellanöstern
DEBKAfile Särskild rapport
23 Januari 2010, 9:27 (GMT +02:00

Under de senaste tre dagarna, har regeringarna i elva länder skyndat sig att höja sina beredskapsnivåer för islamistisk terror, eller antagit ovanligt stränga säkerhetsåtgärder. Ytterligare sex regeringar har följt dessa steg utan att basunera ut det.

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Även om Obamas administration inte formellt har höjt larmnivån för terrr har vaksamheten på alla amerikanska flygplatser och gränsstationer radikalt ökat sedan en nigeriansk terrorist försökte spränga Northwest passagerarplan på juldagen. Sedan januari 4, måste flygbolag och passagerare från 14 specificerade länder krppsvisiteras innan de går ombord flyg till USA. Förra veckan lades sex personer till den nyligen utökade flygförbudslistan sm inte får gå mbord plan till USA.

Lördag, blev amerikanska flygplatsmyndigheter varnade att minst två kvinnliga självmordsbombare med “icke-arabiskt utseende” och västerländska pass kan ha skickats till USA av al Qaida-Jemen – antingen för att spränga USA-flyg eller begå självmordsattentat inne i landet.

Med hänvisning till det misslyckade flygattentatet, berättade Richard Clarke, tidigare Vita Husets rådgivare angående terroristbekämpning, för ABC: “Det finns andra som är kvar där ute som har utbildning och som har “rena skinn” – det vill säga människor som vi inte har ett förflutet med, som kanske inte ser ut som al-Qaidas terrorister, som kanske inte är araber, och behöver inte vara män. “

Reflections on Islamic Culture

2010-01-25T09:53:00.001+01:00

The item below is from Professor Paul Eidelberg`s e-mail list:

Reflections on Islamic Culture
by Paul Eidelberg

Bat Ye’or, an outstanding scholar of Islam, calls Islam a “culture of hate.” If this is racism it is also the truth. Another scholar, Dore Gold, describes Saudi Arabia as “Hatred’s Kingdom.” If this is racism, it is also the truth. Saudi Arabia has established thousands of mosques—engines of hatred, hatred of the West, of America, of Jews, of Israel.

As a culture of hate, Islam may be more accurately described as culture of murderous hatred. Who does not know that Sunni Saudi Arabia and Shiite Iran are the world’s leading patrons of Jihad?

Since the Quran exalts the Muslim who “slays and is slain” for Allah (Sura 9:111), we may also say that Islam is a culture that fosters a love of death, a culture in which the love death surpasses the love of life. Perhaps because martyrdom, for Muslims, is the gateway to eternal life or paradise.

It follows that the purpose of bringing Muslim children into the world is to teach them that their highest goal in life is to slay and be slain for Allah, hence to become suicidal murderers of infidels!

This Muslim imperative cannot be overcome by logical reasoning, which means that devout Muslims are incorrigible. Thus, if an infidel refuses to convert to Islam, the Muslim imperative to slaughter him is inexorable—impervious to moral suasion.

You can no more talk a Muslim out of his murderous faith than you can talk a paranoid schizophrenic out of his fear of others. Some say Islam is a form of psychosis. One may then conclude that just as an individual can become a psychotic, so a nation can become psychotic if its people are educated, from infancy on, to believe in the Manichean world of Islam.

To enable Muslims to cope with their evil enemies, it is necessary to educate them in taqiyya—dissimulation and deceit—an art in which Muslims have no equals. Taqiyya is a military tactic Muslims employ to deceive and eventually conquer their enemies.

The late Professor Y. Harkabi, once head of Israel Military Intelligence, quotes Arab sociologist Sonia Hamady: "Lying is a widespread habit among the Arabs, and they have a low idea of truth"

Indeed, whereas truthfulness (in principle) is a Western virtue, mendacity is an Islamic virtue. This is why treaties Muslims have with infidels as well as with other Muslims are worthless. But this means that Israeli prime ministers who engage in negotiations with Muslims are fools.

Because truthfulness is not an Islamic virtue, Muslims have a tendency to believe in their own lies. Hence Muslims can lie with sincerity, which makes them the most effective liars. Unsurprisingly, Muslims have been called pathological liars in contradistinction to Western leaders, many of whom may be deemed “conventional” liars.

Is there a psychological nexus between the mendacity of Muslims and their love of death? Yes. A lie negates the connection between speech and reality.

Since the essence of speech is a sharing of one’s thoughts and feelings with others, false speech, like death, severs any bond with others. It is a denial of the “other,” of the other’s humanity. This is spiritual murder, which conduces to physical murder. In other words, lying is a denial of the “other” as a human being, and this makes his murder of no moral consequence.

People in the West are incapable of dealing with Muslims on a moral level. Western elites live under the illusion that all peoples are equal, meaning, equally amenable to Socratic dialogue and equally receptive to notions of right and wrong. This is not true.

For example, to reward good deeds with evil is abhorrent to people in the West. We have learned this is not the case of Muslims who sought to destroy Israeli hospitals that have healed them. (For an example of Muslim ingratitude, see Brigitte Gabriel, Because They Hate.)
It is futile to counter by citing exceptions. We are speaking of a culture, not of individuals who have not lost, or who have recovered, their humanity.

If these reflections on Islamic culture appear like racism, so be it. Islam’s love of death strikes me as a mental disorder, which places in question the sanity of any democracy that prohibits ethnic profiling?

The "Incredible Teachings of Muhammed"

2010-01-24T11:19:00.001+01:00

From Islam Review:

http://www.islamreview.com/articles/incredibleteachings.shtml

Incredible Teachings of Muhammed
By Abdullah Al Araby

Quotes:

Mohammed's teachings are included in what is called "Hadith." The "Hadith" is a record of Mohammed's words and deeds according to his wives, relatives, and companions. Next to the Quran, it is the most important part of Islamic law; its teachings are just as binding.

The Hadith is recorded in many books, and by many people, not all of them are agreed upon by all Muslims. All of our quotes here are from "Sahih Al-Bukhari" which comes in nine volumes, and contains thousands of Hadiths. Al Bukhari is accepted by most Muslims as the authentic words of Mohammed. Because of the limited space, we will mention here just a few examples.

Our purpose is to give the reader a taste of the teachings of Mohammed, the prophet of Islam.

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WOMEN

Women may not wear wigs.

Mohammed said, " Don't wear false hair for Allah sends His curse upon such ladies who lengthen their hair artificially." Vol. 7:133

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SEX AND MARRIAGE

Mohammed's sexual strength is equal to 30 men.

Anas said, "The prophet used to visit all his wives in an hour round, during the day and night and they were eleven in number." I asked Anas, "Had the prophet the strength for it?" Anas replied, "We used to say that the prophet was given the strength of thirty (men). " Vol. 1:268

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When a woman is divorced irrevocably, she can not return to her husband until she marries (including having sexual intercourse) with another man.

"Narrated Aisha: The wife of Rifaa Al-Qurazi came to Allah's Apostle and said, 'O Allah's Apostle, Rifaa divorced me irrevocably. After him I married Abdur-Rahman bin Az-Zubair Al-Qurazi who proved to be impotent.' Allah's Apostle said to her, 'Perhaps you want to return to Rifaa? Nay (You cannot return to Rifaa) until you and Abdur-Rahman (the impotent man) engage in sexual intercourse!" Vol. 7:186

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HUMAN RIGHTS

A Muslim must not be killed if he kills a non-Muslim.

Mohammed said, " No Muslim should be killed for killing a Kafir" (infidel). Vol. 9:50

ETERNAL SECURITY

No assurance of Salvation.

Mohammed said. "By Allah, though I am the apostle of Allah, yet I do not know what Allah will do to me." Vol. 5:266

God punishes a deceased if his relatives weep.

Mohammed said, "The deceased is punished because of the weeping of his relatives." Vol. 2:375

When you speak badly about a deceased, the deceased will go to hell.

Mohammed said, "You praised this, so Paradise has been affirmed to him, and you spoke badly of this, so hell has been affirmed to him. You people are Allah's witnesses on earth." Vol. 2:448

Urine on your clothes will bring punishment from God.

Mohammed said, "The deceased person is being tortured in the grave not for a great thing to avoid, it is for being soiled with his urine. " Vol. 2:460

Holy war (Jihad) is a guarantee of heaven.

Mohammed said, "The person who participates in (Holy battles) in Allah's cause and nothing compels him to do so except belief in Allah and His Apostle, will be recompensed by Allah either with a reward, or booty (if he survives) or will be admitted to paradise (if he is killed). " Vol. 1:35

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MEDICINE

Drinking camel's urine will make you healthy.

"The prophet ordered them to follow his camels, and drink their milk and urine , so they followed the camels and drank their milk and urine till their bodies became healthy." Vol. 7:590

Fever is from the heat of hell.

Mohammed said, " Fever is from the heat of hell, so put it out (cool it) with water." Vol. 7:619

A fly in your drink is a cure.

Mohammed said, "If a housefly falls in the drink of anyone of you, he should dip it (in the drink), for one of its wings has a disease and the other has the cure for the disease. " Vol. 4:537

How the baby's looks are determined.

Mohammed said, "As for the child, if the man's discharge precedes the woman's discharge, the child attracts the similarity of the man, and if the woman's discharge precedes the man's, then the child attracts the similarity of the woman." Vol. 5:275

MISCELLANEOUS

If you eat garlic don't come to the place of worship.

Mohammed said, "Whosoever ate from this plant (i.e. garlic) should not enter the mosque." Vol. 1:812

Effect of evil eye

Mohammed said, "The effect of an evil eye is a fact. " Vol. 7:636

Which shoe you should put on first.

Mohammed said, "If you want to put on your shoes, put on the right shoe first, and if you want them off, take the left one first." Vol. 7:747

Breathing in your drink is bad.

Mohammed said, "Don't breath into your drinking utensil." Vol. 1:156

God frightens his devotees with eclips.

Mohammed said, "The sun and the moon are two signs amongst the signs of Allah and they do not eclipse because of the death of someone but Allah frightens His devotees with them. " Vol. 2:158

Satan urinates in people's ears, when they don't wake up for prayer.

Narrated Abdullah: the prophet was told that a person had kept on sleeping till morning and had not got up for the prayer. The prophet said, "Satan urinated in his ears." Vol. 2:245
Yawning is from Satan.

The prophet said, "Yawning is from Satan and if anyone of you yawns, he should check his yawning as much as possible, for if anyone of yuo (during the act of yawning) should say: "Ha", Satan will laugh at him." Vol. 2:158
Stars are missiles which God uses to hit the devils.

The creation of stars is for three purposes, i.e., as decoration of the sky, as missiles to hit the devils, and as signs to guide travelers. Vol. 2:158

Stanley Sjöberg: "Under 2009 var det mer än 150 000 kristna som led martyrdöden i muslimska länder och under kommunistiska regimer."

2010-01-17T10:52:00.000+01:00

Från Hemmets Vän:

http://www.hemmetsvan.se/viewNews.do?NewsID=2156

Väckelsens pionjärer utmanar oss
av Stanley Sjöberg

Citat:

Under 2009 var det mer än 150 000 kristna som led martyrdöden i muslimska länder och under kommunistiska regimer.

Quote by Mark Steyn on Geert Wilders` trial

2010-01-16T11:38:00.000+01:00

From NROs the Corner:

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=OWIyMjdhM2EwNWFjNTEzNjgyZjdhMDJlYWNiMjhlNWI=

Thursday, January 14, 2010
Lights Out on Liberty
by Mark Steyn

Quote:

In other words, this court is explictly attempting to criminalize the political opinions of a large swath of the Dutch electorate.

Aspects of Child Abuse in Islam?

2010-01-16T08:47:00.002+01:00

From "Islam Watch":

http://www.islam-watch.org/MuminSalih/child-abuse-islam.htm

CHILD ABUSE IN ISLAM
by Mumin Salih
13 Jan, 2009

Quotes:

Muslims are not the only people, who pass on their religious beliefs to children; this is a standard practice all over the world. But Islam is a very demanding religion even to adults and assumes total control of its adherents’ lives. Resulting from the mass immigration of Muslims to Western countries, millions of Muslim children now live in the West and their number is bound to increase. This situation creates a dilemma, to which the West is either oblivious or in denial: whilst Muslim children enjoy full protection of the Western laws, and, at the same time, they have to abide by Islamic laws. This article will shed some light on some practices that are forced upon Muslim children living in the West, which amount to "child abuse" of one form or another.

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Indoctrination

Muslims teach their children about the Satan, hell and paradise from the moment they start to communicate with them. These teachings are used as a means to discipline the children and encourage them to be obedient to parents. One of the first words Arab children learn is ‘haram’ meaning forbidden by Allah; indeed, it is one of the most commonly used words by the Arabs. From my own experience as an Arab, the peril of being burnt in hellfire was a real nightmare; it was used an intimidation tool by my elder relatives round the clock to make me listen to them, eat food, wash hands, do work, stop playing or go to bed.

As a child, I had a troubling feeling of guilt because I appeared to be doing wrong things most of the time. I had to struggle to suppress my worries that, unless I work very hard for the rest of my life, my ‘hasanat’ (good doings) vs. ‘sayaat’ (sins) balance may send me to hell. I was not the only child to have such concerns; other children had similar qualms, which we occasionally discussed with each other! Childhood is about playing and having fun with no worries whatsoever. However, Muslim children, even from the preschool age, have a great deal to worry about this life and the life after this. I must say that I was pleasantly surprised to figure out that children do not go to hell anyway in Islam; it was, however, a little too late, because I had already grown up.

One of the most irrational things a Muslim child has to do is to memorize the Quran by heart. I consider myself to be lucky, because, in my days, we were only expected to memorize only a few chapters from the Quran, albeit from the last pages of the Koran that are in the difficult Meccan-style language. Nowadays, thanks to the resurgence of Islamic awareness, children are increasingly required to remember the whole Quran by heart! Memorizing an entire book, often in a foreign language and without understanding it, affects the child’s abilities to comprehend anything else. This memorizing ritual says it all about the Muslims' intellectual reasoning: read everything but understand nothing.

Ibadat: Prayers and Fasting

In theory, all ibadat, like prayers and fasting, are obligatory only to mature Muslims. However, parents are required, not only to teach, but also to force their children to perform those ibadat. According to Bukhari and Muslim and all other hadith books, Mohammed’s order is crystal clear in this regard: “teach your children how to pray from the age of seven, and beat them (if they don’t do it well) at the age of ten”.

Fortunately for me, my parents were not that keen and they did not beat me at all. However, an increasing number of Muslim parents nowadays do beat their children if they don’t pray. Only a few months ago, I heard of a Muslim professional with high level of education and good social standing, who was applying this Islamic rule on all his children. He was caught only when his eleven-year-old son suffered from serious injuries. The real shock, however, is that he is not alone, all strict Muslims would not hesitate to do it and they get away with it.

Young Muslim children in western schools perform prayers and do fasting, which can harm them. The schools do not only allow the children to suffer because of this practice but they also encourage it by providing the special time and special facilities. Soon, the fasting month of Ramadan will fall in the summer months with its long days, in some countries that means about eighteen hours of starvation! I know a Muslim who performs all five daily prayers in the mosque, which is about twenty minutes drive, he wakes up early in the morning to start his journey to the mosque, accompanied by his 14 years old son!

Do the western child protection organizations have the courage to protect these children from such suffering?

Child play

Muslim children are not allowed to join the others and enjoy the fun of playing with dolls or figures because Islam prohibits images of humans or animals. They are not allowed to watch popular children cartoons like the notorious Micky mouse, against which many fatwas have been issued. In Saudi Arabia, they discourage children from committing the sin of painting human or animal figures unless they draw a line across the neck as a sign that the figure has no life in it!

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Violence and Suicide bombing
Muslim children are indoctrinated to believe they are victims of world conspiracy that aims to eliminate them. They are regularly fed on the horrific and disturbing scenes of injuries, blood and death that even adults cannot watch. These children have learned Quranic verse 2:120 that tells them all about this secret world conspiracy: “.. the Jews and the Christians will never be happy about you unless you follow them...”
Having told the Muslims that everyone in the world hates them, the Quran now emphasises in a number of places that Muslims must never trust or befriend the others, like this verse 4:89 “ ....take them and kill them wherever you find them and choose no friends or helpers from them..”

The Quran repeats its orders in a dozen places; the message is important and clear: never trust the unbelievers no matter how nice they may appear to you, even if they were close family members. Verse 9:23 leaves no doubt about the gravity of this message of hate: “...O believers, do not take your fathers or brothers as allies and friends if they prefer to disbelieve...”

Do not be friendly with your father or brothers! So much for the family values in Islam.
Muslim children are often indoctrinated from an early stage to aspire to become martyrs; they have sometimes been used as suicide bombers. Hamas has pioneered the practice of using
young children as frontline soldiers during the Palestinian intifada. The Iranian clerical regime have created child-martyrs brigade. The basic human instinct, the civilized human responsibility, is to protect children during conflicts and wars; but the Islamists have reversed this natural human propensity and responsibility for pushing children to the front lines armed with stones, and sometimes explosive belts, to kill and be killed.

The shia Muslims mourn the death of Al Imam Al Hussain on ashoura day by going to the streets and start beating their chests. They use tools such as knives and swords to self inflict injuries and cause bloodshed, the scenes of blood and sufferings are not for the weak hearted. Shia children do not only see all this but sometimes they are also made to participate in it.

"The government-backed inquiry revealed that only one in four people in Britain feel positively about Islam."

2010-01-15T10:01:00.001+01:00

From the Daily Mail:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1242048/Almost-half-Britons-oppose-mosque-built-area-finds-study.html#ixzz0cPj16k7D

Islam divides us, say the majority of Britons
By Steve Doughty
Last updated at 9:13 AM on 11th January 2010

More than half the population believe Britain is deeply divided along religious lines, according to an official survey.
A majority would also strongly oppose the development of a mosque in their neighbourhood, the research into social attitudes found.

Almost half - 45 per cent - say they do not believe that diversity has brought benefits to the country and that religious diversity has had a negative impact.

The government-backed inquiry revealed that only one in four people in Britain feel positively about Islam.

The warnings on the extent of the divide between Muslims and much of the rest of the country come
come in the annual British Social Attitudes survey, produced with funding from Whitehall.

It found that 55 per cent of people would be 'bothered' if a large mosque was built in their locality. Only 15 per cent said they would have similar qualms about a church.

Some 52 per cent think Britain is deeply divided along religious lines.

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The social attitudes survey is produced by leading academics from interviews with 4,486 people. Its findings, to be published in full later this month, will raise concern that the Government's policy of producing 'social cohesion' by backing moderate Islam and isolating extremism is not working.

Professor David Voas, who analysed the findings, said many people believe the size and nature of Britain's Muslim population presents a threat to national identity.

The survey said those with no educational qualifications were twice as likely to have negative attitudes towards Muslims as university graduates.
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However, the survey suggests that unhappiness over the influence of Islam has spread beyond poor white areas and now concerns a majority of people.

Uppdrag Granskning om sjukförsäkringen på SVT Play

2010-01-14T09:30:00.001+01:00

Klicka här för att se programmet.

Does John Edward communicate with the dead?

2010-01-13T09:09:00.000+01:00

A Grand Fraud?

2010-01-13T08:58:00.000+01:00

From townhall.com

A Grand Fraud
by Thomas Sowell
Townhall

Fraud is as pervasive in arguments for affirmative action for women as in arguments for affirmative action for blacks. In fact, a whole fraudulent history has been concocted to explain the changing economic position of women over the years.

In the feminist movement's version of history, women's changing economic position is explained by women's being repressed by men until they began to be rescued in the 1960s by the women's movement, anti-discrimination policies, and affirmative action.

Hard facts tell a very different story. Women had achieved a higher representation in higher education and in many professions in earlier decades of the twentieth century than they had when the feminist movement became prominent in the 1960s.

This earlier success can hardly be attributed to Gloria Steinem, Betty Friedan and the like. Nor should they be allowed to claim credit for the later resumption of that earlier trend, which had more to do with demographics than politics.

The percentage of master's degrees and doctoral degrees that went to women was never as great during any year of the 1950s or 1960s as that percentage was back in 1930. The percentage of women who were listed in "Who's Who in America" was twice as high in 1902 as in 1958.

Women were also better represented in higher education and in a number of professions in the 1920s or 1930s than they were in the 1950s or 1960s, though none of this fits the fashionable fairy tales of the feminists.

Women received 34 percent of the bachelor's degrees in 1920 but only 24 percent in 1950. In mathematics, women's share of doctorates declined from 15 percent to 5 percent over a span of decades, and in economics from 10 percent to 2 percent.

What was going on? After all, there was no feminist movement and no affirmative action in those earlier years.

What really happened was that, as the birth rate fell from the late nineteenth century into the 1930s, women rose in the professions and in the postgraduate education necessary for these professions. Then, as women began marrying younger and having more children during the years of the baby boom, their representation in both the professions and in the education that led to those professions fell.

There is nothing mysterious about the fact that motherhood is a time-consuming activity, leaving less time to pursue professional careers. It is just plain common sense -- which is to say, it does not provide the moral melodrama needed by movements such as radical feminism.

In later years, as women again began to have fewer children, they rose again in higher education and in the professions, though it was often some years before they regained the position they had achieved decades earlier. But now their rise was accompanied by a drumbeat of feminist propaganda, loudly claiming credit.

Yet the role of motherhood in explaining male-female differences is far more readily demonstrated. Data from more than 30 years ago show that women who remained unmarried and worked continuously from high school into their thirties earned higher incomes than men of the same description.

What about the rise of women's income relative to that of men after the 1960s? Surely that must have been due to the feminist movement or to affirmative action, no? No!

What the hard data show is that more women began working full time, both absolutely and relative to men. Obviously, full-time workers get paid more than part-time workers.

Among those women who worked full-time and year around, their income as a percentage of the income of men of the same description showed no real trend throughout the 1960s and 1970s, despite all the hoopla about the feminist movement and affirmative action.

The income of women who worked full-time and year around began an upward trend relative to the income of men in the 1980s -- during the Reagan administration, which is not when most feminists would claim to have had their biggest impact.

How do the feminists explain away all this earlier history of women's progress? They don't. They ignore it. By the simple expedient of tracing women's progress only since the 1960s, the fraud is protected from contact with inconvenient facts.

Kurt Westergaard och Mohammed

2010-01-12T17:15:00.005+01:00

Pågrund av mordförsöket på Kurt Westergaard kommer här återigen hans Mohammedteckning:

Utbredd självcensur bland danska konstnärer fyra år efter Mohammedteckningarna

2010-01-12T12:05:00.005+01:00

Från "DR":

http://www.dr.dk/Nyheder/Kultur/2010/01/10/154755.htm

Udbredt selvcensur blandt kunstnere
10. jan. 2010 20.00 Kultur Opdat.: 10. jan. 2010 20.10

Citat:

Fire år efter Muhammed-tegningerne blev trykt, er der udbredt selvcensur blandt danske kunstnere og forfattere, viser en undersøgelse fra Ugebrevet A4.

Undersøgelsen er foretaget blandt 654 forfattere, billedkunstnere og museumsledere. Næsten halvdelen af de adspurgte mener, at ytringsfriheden herhjemme er truet, og hver ottende har forkastet "projekter" på grund af selvcensur.

Tipstack till: Politiskt Inkorrekt

Aktionsgruppen för de sjukförsäkrades rätt

2010-01-11T10:48:00.000+01:00

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Quraiza massacre

2010-01-11T07:37:00.006+01:00

References to off-site videos have been removed (but can be found in the original linked below).

From "Islam Review":

http://www.islamreview.com/articles/QURAIZA_MASSACRE_MUSLIM_UMMAS_HAPPIEST_DAY.shtml

QURAIZA MASSACRE, MUSLIM UMMA`S HAPPIEST DAY

The day of Bani Quaiza massacre was the happiest and the most festive day for the Muslim Umma in Medina.
Prophet had ordered beheading of all Quraiza adult men (about 900) and distribution of all their belongings including their women and children.

Tabari VIII:38

"The Messenger of Allah commanded that all of the Jewish men and boys who had reached puberty should be beheaded. Then the Prophet divided the wealth, wives, and children of the Banu Qurayza Jews among the Muslims."

Quran mentions this incident briefly in two ayas:

33.26-27

Many ye slew, and many ye made prisoners.

And Allah gave you their lands, their houses, and their goods and women, and of a land which ye had not frequented (before). And Allah has power over all things.

All jubiliant muslims of Madina had gathered to watch the colorful beheadings and anticipated booty distribution.. A trench was dug in the market place. Several men were in-charge of disrobing the jewish male prisoners and checking out their pubic hair growth. Those growing pubics were marked for beheading and and the ones without pubics were sent to the enslavement camp...

Sunan Abu-Dawud Book 38, Number 4390

Narrated Atiyyah al-Qurazi:

I was among the captives of Banu Qurayzah. They (the Companions) examined us, and those who had begun to grow hair (pubes) were killed, and those who had not were not killed. I was among those who had not grown hair.

Their clothes were salvaged for booty.
Prophet supervised the massacre logistics while many sahabas including Ali, Abu Bakr, Umar and Hamza conducted the beheadings..

. The first ceremonial head of the Quraiza chief Kab Bin Asad was cut by the prophet himself with loud takbirs to commence the festivities. As the blood gushed from the infidel’s throat men and women shouted Allah u Akbar and sang songs praising Allah and Mohammad..

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.. Buck naked Jewish men were brought in batches to the edge of the trench, their heads cut and the bodies pushed into the trench. As each Jew was murdered Muslim men and women danced with joy (remember Palestinians dancing on 9/11)

After the massacre was completed the booty was distributed including real estate personal belongings and women. First Prophet took his 20% prophetic cut. The crowning jewel of his share of booty was the gorgeous teenager Rehana . The remaining booty was then distributed by a fair lottery system among the Jihadis.

Bukhari , Volume 5, Book 59, Number 362:

Narrated Ibn Umar:

Prophet then killed their men and distributed their women, children and property among the Muslims

"Sirat e Rasulullah" by Ishaq, page 464

After 800-900 male adults of Bani Quraiza were beheaded in batches, and thrown in trenches dug in Madina, the apostle divided their property, wives and children as booty... He took Rayhana d. Amr b. Khunafa for himself.

One woman requested that she be slaughtered also as she would rather die than be raped by horny Muslims. Another man Al Zabir was exempted from beheading by Prophet on request of Thabit whose life was saved by Zabir in the past. However Zabir preferred to be beheaded rather than live while his loved ones were murdered in cold blood. That pissed off the Prophet and he shouted “Go join your friends in hell fire” and ordered Thabit to cut the throat of his benefactor friend himself.

Our prophet retired early to enjoy lovely Rehana. After he repeatedly raped the shell shocked teenager who had seen her brothers, father and husband beheaded earlier in the day, he offered to marry her if she converted to Islam. She turned down his offer and refused to be a wife of her husband’s killer. However our prophet, a true admirer of beautiful women, retained her as a concubine in his harem.
That was the happiest night for many bachelor momins who were having a woman for the first time thanks to their prophet. Many shared their booty with other bachelor friends who could not get a woman in the draw themselves.

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QURAIZA MASSACRE, MUSLIM UMMAâ€™S HAPPIEST DAY

The day of Bani Quaiza massacre was the happiest and the most festive day for the Muslim Umma in Medina.
Prophet had ordered beheading of all Quraiza adult men (about 900) and distribution of all their belongings including their women and children.

Tabari VIII:38

"The Messenger of Allah commanded that all of the Jewish men and boys who had reached puberty should be beheaded. Then the Prophet divided the wealth, wives, and children of the Banu Qurayza Jews among the Muslims."

Quran mentions this incident briefly in two ayas:

33.26-27

Many ye slew, and many ye made prisoners.

And Allah gave you their lands, their houses, and their goods and women, and of a land which ye had not frequented (before). And Allah has power over all things.

All jubiliant muslims of Madina had gathered to watch the colorful beheadings and anticipated booty distribution.. A trench was dug in the market place. Several men were in-charge of disrobing the jewish male prisoners and checking out their pubic hair growth. Those growing pubics were marked for beheading and and the ones without pubics were sent to the enslavement camp...

Sunan Abu-Dawud Book 38, Number 4390

Narrated Atiyyah al-Qurazi:

I was among the captives of Banu Qurayzah. They (the Companions) examined us, and those who had begun to grow hair (pubes) were killed, and those who had not were not killed. I was among those who had not grown hair.

Their clothes were salvaged for booty.
Prophet supervised the massacre logistics while many sahabas including Ali, Abu Bakr, Umar and Hamza conducted the beheadings..
. The first ceremonial head of the Quraiza chief Kab Bin Asad was cut by the prophet himself with loud takbirs to commence the festivities. As the blood gushed from the infidel’s throat men and women shouted Allah u Akbar and sang songs praising Allah and Mohammad..

.. Buck naked Jewish men were brought in batches to the edge of the trench, their heads cut and the bodies pushed into the trench. As each Jew was murdered Muslim men and women danced with joy (remember Palestinians dancing on 9/11)
After the massacre was completed the booty was distributed including real estate personal belongings and women. First Prophet took his 20% prophetic cut. The crowning jewel of his share of booty was the gorgeous teenager Rehana . The remaining booty was then distributed by a fair lottery system among the Jihadis.

Bukhari , Volume 5, Book 59, Number 362:

Narrated Ibn Umar:

Prophet then killed their men and distributed their women, children and property among the Muslims

"Sirat e Rasulullah" by Ishaq, page 464

After 800-900 male adults of Bani Quraiza were beheaded in batches, and thrown in trenches dug in Madina, the apostle divided their property, wives and children as booty... He took Rayhana d. Amr b. Khunafa for himself.

One woman requested that she be slaughtered also as she would rather die than be raped by horny Muslims. Another man Al Zabir was exempted from beheading by Prophet on request of Thabit whose life was saved by Zabir in the past. However Zabir preferred to be beheaded rather than live while his loved ones were murdered in cold blood. That pissed off the Prophet and he shouted “Go join your friends in hell fire” and ordered Thabit to cut the throat of his benefactor friend himself.

Our prophet retired early to enjoy lovely Rehana. After he repeatedly raped the shell shocked teenager who had seen her brothers, father and husband beheaded earlier in the day, he offered to marry her if she converted to Islam. She turned down his offer and refused to be a wife of her husband’s killer. However our prophet, a true admirer of beautiful women, retained her as a concubine in his harem.
That was the happiest night for many bachelor momins who were having a woman for the first time thanks to their prophet. Many shared their booty with other bachelor friends who could not get a woman in the draw themselves.

Next morning our prophet noticed that many young jihadis had not showed up for the fajar prayers. Staying awke all night to have fun was not a good excuse for missing the compulsory salat. He ordered the huts of all those who had not showed up for prayer burned down while they slept in it after a fun night.

Bukhari: V1B11N626 “The Prophet said, “burn all those who had not left their houses for the prayer, burning them alive inside their homes.’”

Never seen before were so many naked jihadis running out of burning huts with their beards and pubics on fire .
Burning and killing bad Muslims is a very special sunna and is followed by good Muslims even today.

Prophet s 20% quraiza booty was one of his biggest loot. It included over a hundred women. He kept the best looking younger ones for his personal use and for the use of his friends and relatives .

The History of Tabari, vol 8, pge 29-30

From his share of captive women, prophet gave his son-in-law, Ali a slave girl, Raytah bt Hilal to enjoy her at his will. He also presented Uthman b. Affan, his son-in-law, another slave girl Zainab b. Hayan, and bestowed another girl (name unknown) to his father in-law Omar Ibn Khattab. Omar gave that girl to his son Abdullah. Most of Prophet's other elite companions received slave girls as gifts..

The remaining were sent to Najd to be sold and to purchase arms and horses with the proceeds.

Tabari VIII:39

"Then the Messenger of Allah sent Sa'd bin Zayd with some of the Qurayza captives to Najd, and in exchange for them he purchased horses and arms."

Khaybar, Khaybar

2010-01-10T10:20:00.000+01:00

An item from 2006:

http://www.frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=697A9BB0-C1FF-447B-8910-0A1672A4C04F

Khaybar, Khaybar
By: Robert Spencer
FrontPageMagazine.com
Wednesday, August 09, 2006

As Hizballah fires its Khaibar-1 rockets into Israel, Kuwaiti demonstrators recently chanted, “Khaybar, Khaybar, ya Yahoud, jaish Muhammad sa yaoud” – that is, “Khaybar, Khaybar, O Jews, the army of Muhammad will return.” (The Kuwait Times rendered this as “Khaybar, Khaybar, O Zionists, The Army of Muhammad is coming,” but this is probably sanitized for Western consumption: it is unlikely that the protestors chanted “Zionists” rather than “Jews” – the former doesn’t rhyme in Arabic as does the latter, and the chant with “Jews” is rather common.) Meanwhile, last Thursday, the Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, Lebanon’s leading Shi’ite cleric, praised Hizballah for waging a “new battle of Khaibar.”

Reporting Fadlallah’s remarks, AP blandly noted that “at Khaibar, the name of an oasis in what is now Saudi Arabia, Islam’s prophet Muhammad won a battle against Jews in the year 629.” Reality was somewhat different. As I explain in my forthcoming book, The Truth About Muhammad (coming October 9 from Regnery Publishing), Muhammad was not responding to any provocation when he led a Muslim force against the Khaybar oasis, which was inhabited by Jews – many of whom he had previously exiled from Medina. One of the Muslims later remembered: “When the apostle raided a people he waited until the morning. If he heard a call to prayer he held back; if he did not hear it he attacked. We came to Khaybar by night, and the apostle passed the night there; and when morning came he did not hear the call to prayer, so he rode and we rode with him….We met the workers of Khaybar coming out in the morning with their spades and baskets. When they saw the apostle and the army they cried, ‘Muhammad with his force,’ and turned tail and fled. The apostle said, ‘Allah Akbar! Khaybar is destroyed. When we arrive in a people’s square it is a bad morning for those who have been warned.’”[1]

The Muslim advance was inexorable. “The apostle,” according to Muhammad’s earliest biographer, Ibn Ishaq, “seized the property piece by piece and conquered the forts one by one as he came to them.”[2] Another biographer of Muhammad, Ibn Sa‘d, reports that the battle was fierce: the “polytheists…killed a large number of [Muhammad’s] Companions and he also put to death a very large number of them….He killed ninety-three men of the Jews…”[3] Muhammad and his men offered the fajr prayer, the Islamic dawn prayer, before it was light, and then entered Khaybar itself. The Muslims immediately set out to locate the inhabitants’ wealth. A Jewish leader of Khaybar, Kinana bin al-Rabi, was brought before Muhammad; Kinana was supposed to have been entrusted with the treasure of on of the Jewish tribes of Arabia, the Banu Nadir. Kinana denied knowing where this treasure was, but Muhammad pressed him: “Do you know that if we find you have it I shall kill you?” Kinana said yes, that he did know that.

Some of the treasure was found. To find the rest, Muhammad gave orders concerning Kinana: “Torture him until you extract what he has.” One of the Muslims built a fire on Kinana’s chest, but Kinana would not give up his secret. When he was at the point of death, one of the Muslims beheaded him.[4] Kinana’s wife was taken as a war prize; Muhammad claimed her for himself and hastily arranged a wedding ceremony that night. He halted the Muslims’ caravan out of Khaybar later that night in order to consummate the marriage.[5]

Muhammad agreed to let the people of Khaybar to go into exile, allowing them to keep as much of their property as they could carry.[6] The Prophet of Islam, however, commanded them to leave behind all their gold and silver.[7] He had intended to expel all of them, but some, who were farmers, begged him to allow them to let them stay if they gave him half their yield annually.[8] Muhammad agreed: “I will allow you to continue here, so long as we would desire.”[9] He warned them: “If we wish to expel you we will expel you.”[10] They no longer had any rights that did not depend upon the good will and sufferance of Muhammad and the Muslims. And indeed, when the Muslims discovered some treasure that some of the Khaybar Jews had hidden, he ordered the women of the tribe enslaved and seized the perpetrators’ land.[11] A hadith notes that “the Prophet had their warriors killed, their offspring and woman taken as captives.”[12]

During the caliphate of Umar (634-644), the Jews who remained at Khaybar were banished to Syria, and the rest of their land seized.[13]

Thus when modern-day jihadists invoke Khaybar, they are doing much more than just recalling the glory days of Islam and its prophet. They are recalling an aggressive, surprise raid by Muhammad which resulted in the final eradication of the once considerable Jewish presence in Arabia. To the jihadists, Khaybar means the destruction of the Jews and the seizure of their property by the Muslims
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That Khaybar is repeatedly invoked today as a historical model for Hizballah should be a matter of grave concern for Western analysts and policymakers. It should play a significant role in discussions of whether and how a ceasefire should be pursued, and how much of a Hizballah presence can be tolerated indefinitely in Lebanon. But because most Western analysts are still dogmatically committed to the proposition that Islam has nothing, or nothing important, to do with the present global unrest, they recuse themselves from considering such data.

The costs of this willful blindness will do nothing but continue to mount.

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[1] Ibn Ishaq, The Life of Muhammad: A Translation of Ibn Ishaq’s Sirat Rasul Allah, A. Guillaume, translator, Oxford University Press, 1955. P. 511.

[2] Ibid.

[3] Ibn Sa‘d, Kitab Al-Tabaqat Al-Kabir, S. Moinul Haq and H K. Ghazanfar, translators, Kitab Bhavan, n.d. Vol. II, pp. 132-133.

[4] Ibn Ishaq, p. 515.

[5] Muhammed Ibn Ismaiel Al-Bukhari, Sahih al-Bukhari: The Translation of the Meanings, translated by Muhammad M. Khan, Darussalam, 1997, vol. 1, book 8, no. 371.

[6] Ibn Sa‘d, vol. II, p. 136.

[7] Ibn Sa‘d, vol. II, p. 137.

[8] Bukhari, vol. 4, book 57, no. 3152.

[9] Imam Muslim, Sahih Muslim, translated by Abdul Hamid Siddiqi, Kitab Bhavan, revised edition 2000. Book 10, no. 3761.

[10] Ibn Ishaq, p. 515.

[11] Ibn Sa‘d, vol. II, p. 137.

[12] Bukhari, vol. 5, book 64, no. 4200.

[13] Ibn Sa‘d, vol. II, p. 142.

"Hver fjerde unge muslim sympatiserer med islamisme"

2010-01-09T12:44:00.002+01:00

Från "Kristeligt Dagblad":

http://www.kristeligt-dagblad.dk/artikel/352133:Danmark--Hver-fjerde-unge-muslim-sympatiserer-med-islamisme?all=1

Hver fjerde unge muslim sympatiserer med islamisme
Af Christina Agger
09. jan 2010 00:00
Kristeligt Dagblad

Citat:

Hver fjerde unge muslim i Danmark sympatiserer med eller støtter direkte den yderligtgående islamisme.

Det fremgår af en ny undersøgelse "Krigens Hus – islamisk radikalisering i Danmark", som Shahamak Rezaei, lektor ved Institut for Samfund og Globalisering på Roskilde Universitet, og Marco Goli, lektor ved Professionshøjskolen Metropol, står bag.

Undersøgelsen, der er finansieret af Center for Forskning i Islamisme og Radikaliseringsprocesser (CIR) ved Aarhus Universitet, er den første store kortlægning af radikalisering herhjemme og bygger på interview med 1113 muslimer mellem 15 og 30 år fra 12 forskellige lande.

Svarene viser, at langt hovedparten – 76,5 procent – enten slet ikke er radikaliserede eller radikaliserede i meget mild grad.

Knap hver femte – 17,8 procent – sympatiserer dog med den radikale islamisme, men støtter den ikke direkte. Det gør derimod omkring hver 20. af de unge muslimer – 5,6 procent for at være helt præcis.

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Undersøgelsen tegner også en detaljeret profil af de personer, som betegnes som radikaliserede. Modsat den gængse opfattelse er det ikke de uintegrerede unge, der er mest yderligtgående. Tværtimod.

– Det er ikke mangel på viden eller individuelle ressourcer, der gør, at de vælger, som de gør. De mest radikaliserede er veluddannede, taler godt dansk, ser dansk tv, har arbejde og tjener penge, oplyser Shahamak Rezaei og tilføjer, at det hamrer en pæl igennem forestillingen om, at integration er vejen til at stoppe radikalisering.

For eksperter i radikalisering er dette et velkendt faktum, og flere af dem har derfor kritiseret regeringens handlingsplan mod radikalisering. Den bygger netop på en række initiativer, der søger at bedre integrationen.

Tipstack till: Jihad i Malmö

Money Jihad?

2010-01-09T10:29:00.005+01:00

Here are some writings from the blog "Money Jihad" which I suggest you read by clicking on the links provided below:

"The Zakat", parts 1-3:

http://moneyjihad.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/the-zakat/

http://moneyjihad.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/the-zakat-part-ii/

http://moneyjihad.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/the-zakat-part-iii/

Quote:

Leaf through the indexes of several translations of Korans at your local library or bookstore. You probably won’t find anything listed under “taxes,” and you may not even find an entry for “zakat.” The original Arabic word zakat, rather than being translated for what it actually is—a 2½ wealth tax on Muslims—it is variously translated as “alms,” “the alms levy,” the “impost,” or “charity.”
This deceptive translation of “alms” may stem from the multiple references in the Koran that the zakat may be used to help the poor. But the zakat may be used for purposes other than the amelioration of poverty. Most significantly and most dangerously, the zakat is to be used for jihad:

The alms are only for the poor and the needy, and those who collect them, and those whose hearts are to be reconciled, and to free the captives and the debtors, and for the cause of Allah, and the wayfarer; a duty imposed by Allah. Allah is Knower, Wise.

(Koran, 9:60)

Other translations of the Koran flesh out the phrase underlined above in footnotes or parenthetically by explaining that “the cause of Allah” refers to holy war, and, in the case of the Hilali-Khan Koran, that the mujahidin are eligible zakat recipients.

"The Ushr", parts 1 and 2:

http://moneyjihad.wordpress.com/2009/11/15/the-ushr-part-i-of-ii/

http://moneyjihad.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/ushr-part-ii-of-ii/

Quotes:

The Islamic tax on harvests is derived chiefly from the Koran 6:142:

He it is who produceth gardens of the vine trellised and untrellised, and the palm trees, and the corn of various food, and olives, and pomegranates, like and unlike. Eat of their fruit when they bear fruit, and pay the due thereof on the day of its ingathering: and be not prodigal, for God loveth not the prodigal.

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Again, the Koran stipulates that one of the purposes of the zakat shall be to fund the cause of Allah, or holy war (9:60). Ushr revenues are to be used in precisely the same manner pursuant to Islamic law."

The Jizya, parts 1-3:

http://moneyjihad.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/the-jizya/

http://moneyjihad.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/the-jizya-part-ii/

http://moneyjihad.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/the-jizya-part-iii/

Quotes:

The jizya is collected annually from men whom, were they Muslim, would be subject to military conscription. In other words, women, children, and people with disabilities would be exempt from the jizya. The jizya is referred to as a poll tax because it is a tax on persons, not a tax on income, property, wealth, or sales.

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The jizya was administered by Muhammad himself against “pagans” (Sahih Bukhari Book 53 Numbers 384-386 among others). The first caliphs after Muhammad—the Umayyads (7th to 8th Centuries)—even levied the jizya against new converts to Islam from Persia because of the dire straits of Umayyad finances at the time (see Encyclopedia Brittanica’s entry on the Abu Muslim rebellion). The Abbasid caliphs (8th to 13th Centuries) standardized the application of the jizya somewhat in order to maintain social order and public revenues. Under the last caliphate of the Ottoman Empire (16th to 20th Centuries), the Ottomans initially used existing tax rates in the lands they governed, but increased rates to classical jizya levels over time in a failed effort to sustain Ottoman fiscal health, according to Halil İnalcik’s history of the Ottoman Empire.

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The new 2009 Report on International Religious Freedom issued by the U.S. State Department last Monday should remove any doubts about the modern jizya push around the globe.

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The prevalence of the jizya—or threats to pay the jizya—is even more widespread, more frequent, more virulent, and more humiliating than laid out in this report.

What’s so striking about almost all the accounts is the common thread of threats against non-Muslims to convert to Islam, pay the jizya, or be killed. As Money Jihad laid out yesterday, that is precisely the same formulation set forth in the canonical Hadith Sahih Muslim Book 19, Number 4294.

"Jesus the tax reformer. Muhammad the tax collector.":

http://moneyjihad.wordpress.com/2009/12/24/jesus-the-tax-reformer-muhammad-the-tax-collector/

Quotes:

It’s remarkable enough that Muhammad engaged in tax collecting, but even more so for the favor he bestowed upon other individuals involved in the tax process. Muhammad’s tax emissary to Bahrain, Abu ‘Ubaida bin Al-Jarrah, was one of Muhammad’s ten favorite people who was guaranteed to enter paradise. Muslims have glorified Ubaida for his role in building the Islamic state.

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Ubaida was a favorite of Muhammad because he was an effective tax man, not because he had abandoned tax corruption like Matthew had when called by Jesus.

Not all taxes are evil and neither are tax collectors. But the difference between the approaches to taxation by Jesus and Muhammad could not be starker. Jesus said that his kingdom was not of this world (John 18:36), and indeed it wasn’t. But revenue collection was a central objective of Muhammad and to the propagation of Islam to this day.

Muhammad: A Cult Leader

2010-01-08T09:02:00.005+01:00

In this context I also suggest you read this item by Ali Sina.

From Ali Sina`s challenge:

http://www.faithfreedom.org/challenge/cultist.htm

Muhammad: A Cult Leader
by Ali Sina, Mon, 09/28/2009 - 10:42

From Understanding Muhammad: A Psychobiography of Allâh's Prophet by Ali Sina.

We are often taken aback by the level of fanaticism of Muslims. Millions of them riot, burn churches, and kill completely innocent people because a newspaper has published a few cartoons of Muhammad or because the Pope has quoted a medieval emperor saying that violence is not compatible with the nature of God.
People generally are biased towards a belief system that has this many followers. They believe that the sheer size of Islam qualifies it as a religion. But is Islam really a religion?

Some say all religions start as a cult until, with the passage of time, they gradually gain acceptance and the status of religion. However, there are certain characteristics that distinguish cults from religions. Dr. Janja Lalich and Dr. Michael D. Langone have created a list that describes cults fairly well.[1] The more a group or a doctrine has these characteristics the more it follows that it should be defined and labeled as a cult. The following is that list, which I have compared Islam to point by point.

1. The group displays excessively zealous and unquestioning commitment to its leader and (whether he is alive or dead) regards his belief system, ideology, and practices as the Truth, as law.

Muslims are extremely zealous about their faith and have an unquestioning commitment to their prophet, whose book, the Qur’an, for them is Truth and Law.

2. Questioning, doubt, and dissent are discouraged or even punished.

Muslims are forbidden to question and doubt the basic tenets of their faith, and dissent is punishable by death.

3. Mind-altering practices (such as meditation, chanting, speaking in tongues, denunciation sessions, and debilitating work routines) are used in excess and serve to suppress doubts about the group and its leader(s).

Five times during the day Muslims stop whatever they are doing and stand for a repetitive and ritualistic prayer and chant the Qur’an. In addition, for one whole month in the year they must fast and abstain from drinking or eating, from dawn to dusk, a practice that can be particularly taxing in summertime.

4. The leadership dictates, sometimes in great detail, how members should think, act, and feel, Ffor example, members must get permission to date, change jobs, marry—or leaders prescribe what types of clothes to wear, where to live, whether or not to have children, how to discipline children, and so forth.

Every detail of the life of a Muslim is prescribed. He is told what is forbidden (haram) and what is permitted (halal), what food to eat, how to dress, and what rituals to follow in order to pray. A Muslim is not allowed to date, and marriages are arranged. Corporal punishment, including torture for disobedience to the authorities, is enjoined, both for children and adults.

5. The group is elitist, claiming a special, exalted status for itself, its leader(s) and members. Ffor example, the leader is considered the Messiah, a special being, an avatar—or the group and/or the leader is on a special mission to save humanity.

Muslims claim special status for their prophet, while they vilify all other religions. They can become extremely violent if their prophet is slighted. They regard themselves as superior to all others, and when in a non-Muslim country, they constantly lobby for concessions and preferential treatments like the special privilege of having a special room set aside in publicly funded schools so that Muslim students can pray there. They are frequently granted exceptions unavailable to members of other religions. Recently in Ontario , Canada , they tried to make Islamic law (Sharia) recognized and binding, so they could bypass Canadian law. They were defeated, thanks largely to the tireless opposition of ex-Muslims.

6. The group has a polarized us-versus-them mentality, which may cause conflict with the wider society.

Muslims have a very strong us-versus-them mentality. They call all non-Muslims, regardless of faith, kafir, an expressly derogatory term, which means one who blasphemes God. For them, the world is forever divided into Dar al Salam (House of Peace) and Dar al Harb (House of War). The non-Muslim countries are the House of War. It is the duty of every Muslim to wage jihad on the House of War, to fight, kill and subdue non-Muslims and convert that land into the House of Peace. Peace, according to Islam can only be attained by subduing non-Muslims and making them subordinate to Islamic rule. The idea is not so much to convert everyone to Islam, but to make Islam dominant. The non-Muslims can continue practicing their religion, but only as dhimmis, a term which means protected and is only applied to Christians and Jews. The Christians and the Jews (the people of the Book) will be protected, provided they pay the protection tax, known as the jizyah and feel themselves humiliated and subdued, as stated in the Qur’an.[2] If they fail to pay the jizyah, they can be exiled or put to death. This is how the Mafia operates. If you own a business, you could be harassed or even killed, unless you pay them a protection fee to be left alone. As for those unbelievers who are not protected, i.e. the pagans, the atheist, the animists, etc., they have either to convert or be killed.

7. The leader is not accountable to any authorities.

For Muslims, all actions of Muhammad constitute law. He cannot be held accountable for his actions. He was entitled to marry or have sex out of marriage with as many women as he wished. He could raid civilians, kill unarmed men, loot their properties and take their women and children as slaves and even rape them. He could assassinate his critics and torture them to make them reveal where they had hidden their treasures. He could have sex with children. He could lie and deceive his opponents. He could massacre his prisoners of war in cold-blood. None of that bothers his followers. At first they deny all of the above charges vehemently, accusing you of maligning their prophet, but once the evidence is presented, they suddenly change tactic and defend him, justifying his evil deeds, the very deeds they outrageously denied. For Muslims, Muhammad’s actions are not measured by what we humans know as right and wrong. Rather he is the standard, the measure of right and wrong. As the result, if a crime was committed by Muhammad, that crime becomes a holy deed and is emulated by his followers unquestioningly. Muslims are capable of committing the most atrocious acts of indecency and savagery with clear conscience, because it is sunnah (performed by Muhammad).

8. The group teaches or implies that its supposedly exalted ends justify whatever means it deems necessary. This may result in members' participating in behaviors or activities they would have considered reprehensible or unethical before joining the group (for example, lying to family or friends, or collecting money for bogus charities).

In Islam, the ends always justify the means. For example, killing is bad, but if it is done to promote Islam, it is good. Suicide is prohibited, but suicide bombing that will cause the death of non-Muslims is a holy act. Stealing from fellow Muslims is prohibited and the thief’s hand will be chopped, but looting non-believers was practiced by Muhammad and so is considered acceptable by Muslims. Sexual intercourse out of marriage is taboo, but rape of the women of unbelievers is okay. The goal, which is the establishment of the reign of Allâh on Earth, is regarded to be so lofty that everything else becomes secondary. In the history of Islam, we read that people murdered their own fathers or waged war against them. Such actions are praised as the sign of faith and devotion of the believer. Lying in Islam is prohibited, except when it is said to deceive the non-Muslims and advance the interests of Islam.

9. The leadership induces feelings of shame and/or guilt in order to influence and/or control members. Often, this is done through peer pressure and subtle forms of persuasion.

Muslims’ thoughts tend to be overridden with guilt. If a Muslim does something contrary to what is permitted, other Muslims are required to remind him or her of the Sharia law and demand compliance. In most Islamic countries, particularly in Iran and Saudi Arabia , it is the state that makes sure the individuals follow the religious law. In March 2002 Saudi Arabia 's religious police stopped schoolgirls from leaving a blazing building because they were not wearing correct Islamic dress.[3] As a result fifteen girls were burned alive.

10. Subservience to the leader or group requires members to cut ties with family and friends, and radically alter the personal goals and activities they had before joining the group .

Muslim converts are encouraged to cut their ties with family and friends if they are not Muslims. I have received countless heart-rending stories from non-Muslim parents whose children converted to Islam with whom they have lost touch completely. Occasionally, they may receive a call or a cold visit, but the visit may be so restricted, so bereft of any love from their children and their Muslim spouses that the outcome further saddens the already heartbroken parents. The purpose of these visits is usually to ask the parents to convert to Islam. They leave, as soon resistance is encountered.

11. The group is preoccupied with bringing in new members.

Muslims’ main goal is to promote Islam. This practice of promoting Islam is called da’wa. It is the duty of every Muslim to bring new converts, starting with their own family and friends. Expanding Islam is the main obsession of every Muslim.

12. The group is preoccupied with making money.

Raising funds for jihad is one of the main objectives of all Muslims. Today this is done through what are known as Islamic “charities.” However, during the time of Muhammad, and throughout the course of Islam, raising money for jihad was done principally by looting. Islam’s main goal is to establish itself as the pre-eminent earthly power.

13. Members are expected to devote inordinate amounts of time to the group and group-related activities.

Muslims’ main preoccupation is Islam. They are required to regularly go to the mosque, attend obligatory prayers five times a day, listen to the sermons, etc. So enwrapped do they become in their thinking about how to perform their religious duties, what to wear, what to eat, how to perform their prayers, etc. that they are left with very little time for thinking of anything else. In fact, they are even told what to think and what not to think.

14. Members are encouraged or required to live and/or socialize only with other group members.

Muslims are taught to shun kafirs and are encouraged to socialize only with fellow Muslims. The Qur’an prohibits taking friends from among unbelievers (Q.3:28), calls them najis (filthy, impure) (Q.9:28), and orders harshness towards them (Q.9:123). According to Muhammad, the unbelievers are the vilest animals in the sight of God. (Q.8:55)

15. The most loyal members (the “true believers”) feel there can be no life outside the context of the group. They believe there is no other way to be, and often fear reprisals to themselves or others if they leave (or even consider leaving) the group.

The thought of leaving Islam is something so unbearable for true Muslims they can’t even entertain it. Despite the fact that millions of Muslims have left Islam in recent years, hardcore Muslims remain adamant in believing nobody ever really leaves Islam, that such claims are all fabrications and part of the conspiracy to shake the faith of believers. Emails I have received from Muslims share one common theme. They all warn me of hellfire in the afterlife. Between the fear of hell and fear of reprisal, Muslims are trapped in a web of terror of their own making.

Islam was not created to teach humans spirituality, nor make them enlightened. The spiritual message in Islam is secondary or virtually nonexistent. Piety in Islam means emulating Muhammad, a man who was far from pious. Rituals like prayers and fasting are mere window dressings to lure the foolhardy inside, to give Islam the appearance of sacredness and spirituality.

This subject is explained in more detail in my book Understanding Muhammad: A Psychobiography of Allâh's Prophet

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[1] www.csj.org/infoserv_cult101/checklis.htm
[2] Qur’an 9:29 “Fight those who believe not in Allâh nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allâh and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.
[3] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/1874471.stm

Mohammed a butcher?

2010-01-07T14:39:00.002+01:00

From "Faith Freedom" and Ali Sina`s challenge:

http://www.faithfreedom.org/challenge/massmurderer.htm

Muhammad: The Mass Murderer
by Ali Sina

There were three Jewish tribes living in and around Yathrib, the Banu Qainuqa’, the Ban Nadir and the Banu Quraiza. Once Muhammad realized that they are not going to accept him as their new prophet, he turned against them. He banished the first two, after confiscating their properties and wealth and massacred the last one.

Genocide of Banu Quraiza: (From Understanding Muhammad)

The last Jewish tribe of Yathrib to fall victim to Muhammad’s vindictiveness was the Banu Quraiza. Soon after the Battle of the Trench (Khandaq) was over, the Meccans, fed up with Muhammad’s constant raids on their caravans, came to the gates of Medina to punish him. Advised by a Persian believer, they dug trenches around the city making it difficult for Muhammad’s enemies (The Confederates) to enter, causing their retreat. Muhammad set his eyes on the Banu Quraiza. He claimed that the Archangel Gabriel had visited him “asking that he should unsheathe his sword and head for the habitation of the seditious Banu Quraiza and fight them. Gabriel noted that he with a procession of angels would go ahead to shake their forts and cast fear in their hearts,"[1] writes Al-Mubarakpouri. Al-Mubarakpouri continues: “the Messenger of Allâh immediately summoned the prayer caller and ordered him to announce fresh hostilities against Banu Quraiza,”[2]

It is important, in studying Islam, to note that the call to prayer was also the call to war. Muslim’s riots and hooliganism always initiate from the mosques after they offer their prayers. They are most vicious during the holy month of Ramadan and on Fridays. In a sermon commemorating the Birthday of Muhammad, in 1981, the Ayatollah Khomeini said:

Mehrab (Mosque) means the place of war, the place of fighting. Out of the mehrabs, wars should proceed. Just as all the wars of Islam proceeded out of the mehrabs. The prophet had sword to kill people. Our Holy Imams were quite militants. All of them were warriors. They used to wield swords. They used to kill people. We need a Caliph who would chop hands, cut throats, stone people. In the same way that the messenger of Allâh used to chop hands, cut throats, and stone people.[3]

Muhammad headed an army of three thousand infantry men and thirty horsemen of Ansar (Helpers) and Muhajireen (Emigrants). The Banu Quraiza was accused of conspiring against the Muslims with the Quraish. In reality, these Muslim historians deny this charge and say the Meccans withdrew without fighting because they did not receive support from the Banu Quraiza.

When Muhammad made his intentions known, Ali, his cousin and staunch supporter, swore he would not stop until he either stormed their garrisons or was killed. This siege lasted 25 days. Finally the Banu Quraiza surrendered unconditionally. Muhammad ordered the men to be handcuffed, while the women and children were confined in isolation. Thereupon the Aws tribe, who were allies of the Banu Quraiza, interceded, begging Muhammad to be lenient towards them. Muhammad suggested that Sa‘d bin Mu‘adh, a ruffian among them who had been fatally wounded by an arrow, give a verdict on the Jews. Sa’d was a former ally of the Banu Quraiza, but since his conversion to Islam he had a change of heart against them. He also blamed them for the fatal wound he received when a Meccan threw an arrow during the Battle of Trench. Muhammad knew how Sa’d felt about the Banu Quraiza. He was, after all, his bodyguard and slept in the mosque.

Sa'd's verdict was that “all the able-bodied male persons belonging to the tribe should be killed, women and children taken prisoners and their wealth divided among the Muslim fighters.”

Muhammad became pleased with this cruel verdict and said that “Sa‘d (had) adjudged by the Command of Allâh."[4] He often credited Allâh for his own decisions. This time he chose Sa’d to verbalize his whims.

Al-Mubarakpouri adds that “In fact, the Jews deserved that severe punitive action for the ugly treachery they had harbored against Islam, and the large arsenal they had amassed, which consisted of one thousand and five hundred swords, two thousand spears, three hundred armors and five hundred shields, all of which went into the hands of the Muslims.”

What Al-Mubarakpouri forgets to mention is that the Banu-Quraiza had loaned their weapons as well as their shovels and picks to Muslims so they could dig the trench and defend themselves. Muslims will never be grateful to those who help them. They will take your help and will stab you in the back the moment they no longer need you. We shall see in the next chapter the psychology of this pathology.

Muslim historians have been quick to accuse the Banu Quraiza of the usual baseless charges to justify their massacre. They accused them of being mischievous, causing sedition, being treacherous and plotting against Islam. However no specifics exist as to the nature of those sins to warrant such a severe punishment and their total genocide. Trenches were dug in the bazaar of Medina and between 600 to 900 men were beheaded and their bodies dumped in them.

Huyai Ibn Akhtab, the chief of the Banu Nadir whose married daughter, Safiya, Muhammad took as his share of the booty when he invaded Khaibar, was among the captives. He was brought to the victor with his hands tied from behind. In an audacious defiance he rejected Muhammad and preferred death to submission to this brute man. He was ordered to kneel and was beheaded on the spot.

To determine who should be killed, the youngsters were examined. Those who had grown pubic hair were bundled with the men and beheaded. Atiyyah al-Quriaz, a Jew who had survived this massacre later recounted: “I was among the captives of Banu Quraiza. They (the Muslims) examined us, and those who had begun to grow hair (pubes) were killed, and those who had not were not killed. I was among those who had not grown hair.”[5]

Muhammad killed and banished several Jewish tribes, among them are B. Qainuqa’, B. Nadir, B. Quraiza, B. Mustaliq, B. Jaun and the Jews of Khaibar. On his deathbed, he instructed his followers to cleanse the Arabian Peninsula of all non-believers,[6] an order that Omar, the second Caliph carried out later. He exterminated the Jews, the Christians and the pagans, forcing them to convert, leave or put them to death.

Now, enriched with the loot, Muhammad could be even generous to those who believed in him. Anas narrated: “People used to give some of their date palms to the Prophet (as a gift), till he conquered Banu Quraiza and Banu An-Nadir, whereupon he started returning their favors.”[7]

There is a verse in the Qur’an that speaks about the massacre of the Banu Quraiza approving Muhammad’s butcheries of their men and taking women and children as prisoners.

He caused those of the People of the Book who helped them (i.e. the Quraish) to come out of their forts. Some you killed, some you took prisoner. (Q. 33: 26)

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[1] AR-Raheeq Al-Makhtum by Saifur Rahman al-Mubarakpuri http://islamweb.islam.gov.qa/english/sira/raheek/PAGE-26.HTM

[2] Ibid.

[3] Ayatollah Khomeini: A speech delivered on the commemoration of the Birth of Muhammad, in 1981.

[4] Bukhari, Volume 4, Book 52, Number 280:

[5] Sunan Abu-Dawud Book 38, Number 4390. Sunan Abu-Dawud is another collection of hadith regarded to be sahih.

[6] Bukhari Volume 4, Book 52, Number 288

[7] Bukhari Volume 4, Book 52, Number 176

Quote by Carey Roberts

2010-01-06T10:42:00.001+01:00

Climategate, Mediagate, and Abusegate
Monday, December 7, 2009
By Carey Roberts

Quote:

The cover-up of female partner aggression dates back to 1977. That’s when University of Delaware professor Susanne Steinmetz published an article titled “The Battered Husband Syndrome.” Her ground-breaking research revealed women are just as likely to abuse.

But the feminists were not going to allow her research to upset the ideological apple cart. After all, domestic disputes are all about evil men who try to control and dominate their wives with “violence or the subliminal threat of violence.” At least that’s what rad-fem icon Gloria Steinem once said.

So when they got wind of Steinmetz’s apostasy, the libbers began a whispering campaign deriding her work as “anti-feminist.” Then the enlightened souls who aspired to stop the cycle of violence called in bomb threats. Steinmetz soon took the hint and called a halt to her research.

Across the pond in England, abuse-shelter founder Erin Pizzey reached essentially the same conclusion as Steinmetz, going so far as to write a tell-all about rolling-pin wielding wives. “Abusive telephone calls to my home, death threats, and bomb scares, became a way of living for me and for my family. Finally, the bomb squad asked me to have all my mail delivered to their head quarters,” a shell-shocked Pizzey would later reveal.

Review: "The Qur’anic Concept of War"

2010-01-05T13:12:00.002+01:00

From "Islam Watch":

http://www.islam-watch.org/iw-new/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=98:quranic-concept-of-war&catid=78:sujit&Itemid=58

REVIEW: "THE QUR’ANIC CONCEPT OF WAR"
Sunday, 19 July 2009 14:26
by Sujit Das

A honest pro-Jihad book that all readers, concerned about what is wrong with Islam, must read...

Author: Brigadier S.K Malik (Pakistani army) Publisher: Adam Publishers & Distributors, New Delhi, India

In this book, a spiritual but violent subject (war and devastation approved by God) is discussed from the religious point of view of an Islamic confidence. The author, Brigadier S.K Malik attempted to analyze God’s doctrine for war, i.e. Qur’an through the examples of Prophet Muhammad with unequalled insight.
Qur’an is believed to be the words of God as spoken through His chosen Prophet Muhammad. According to Islamic faith, warfare is controlled by one master desire, i.e., pleasing the Lord (Page iii) and since it is not a theory of war derived by man, but of the God of Islam, ie, Allah; the death and destruction caused in the name or Allah is Divine and without sin. Author believes that unlike manmade war philosophies, these Qur’anic concepts are universal in nature and not made especially for a given set of circumstances (Page 1). This is the mindset of the author and from this standpoint he wrote this excellent book exposing Allah’s warfighting principles and commandments. Though controversial, his citations are accurately drawn from Islamic sources and confirm classical Islamic jurisprudence.

This book is also an historical as well as political text which discusses how battles were fought in the name of Islam including the Persian invasion of North Africa and Eastern with specific examination on the Qur’anic concepts and strategies used in these battles. But surprisingly; there is no reference to modern events like 9/11 terrorism, Islamic beheading, Afghan Taliban, suicide bombing etc, which the author had carefully omitted from the discussion. The descriptions of violence are written in a military context and the author had tried his best to soften them by giving a Divine touch.

The former President of Pakistan and Pakistani Army Chief of Staff General M. Zia-ul-haq opens (Foreword) the book where he pointed out, "The professional soldier in a Muslim army cannot become professional if in all his activities he does not take on ‘the [true] color of Allah’". General Haq believes that the concept of war in Islam is not simply a duty of Muslim soldiers but also of common Muslims. He also confirmed that because of this sincere work, the author will be suitably rewarded by Allah.

In the ‘Preface’ by Allah Bukhsh K. Brohi, the concept of Jihad is elaborated even further, "… in Islam war is waged to establish the supremacy of Lord only when every other argument has failed to convince those who reject His will…" (p. v). On the very next page Brohi continues, “Islam views the world as though it were bipolarized in two opposing camps – Darus-Salam facing Darul-Harb”. This thirteen page long preface is indeed very strong and lays the foundation for ten chapters of this book.

Brohi accepts the fact that many western critics believe that Islam is in a state of perpetual struggle with the non-Muslim world, but he dismissed this western thought explaining that man is the slave of God and as per Qur’an defying God is treason. Comparing all nonbelievers with “cancerous malformation”, Brohi wants them to be killed: “It thus necessary to remove the cancerous malformation even if it be by surgical means.” (p. vii).

Brohi advised that Muslims should “invite non-believers to the fold of Islam” by using “persuasion” and “beautiful methods.” He continues: “the first duty” of a Muslim is dawa, a proclamation to conversion to Islam by “handsome ways.” It is only after the nonbelievers refuse dawa and the invitation to Islam, as Brohi specified “believers have no option but in self-defense to wage a war against those threatening aggression.” (p. vii).

Throughout the book, the author has left his mark of thorough understanding of the role Qur’an plays in application of military force within the context of the totality that is ‘Jihad’. Jihad is an Arabic ward, whose literal meaning is ‘endeavor’, but as an Islamic doctrine, it implies fighting in the way of Allah. By refuting the centuries old Muslims’ claim that ‘Islam is a religion of peace’, author declared,

1.…the Divine instruction by the Holy Prophet forms an inseparable part of the Qur’anic concept of war (p. 5).

2.The cause of war is the cause of Allah. (p. 38). A victory in Islam is a victory for the cause of Islam (p. 50).

3.Faith is the main and ultimate strength of a fighting force (p. 146). During war Muslims should resort to prayers more often than in times of peace (p. 71).

The Divinity and Spirituality attached to Islam is exposed with the above that may stun the readers. I appreciate the author for being outspoken. He is amazingly honest. In spite of being a Muslim and hailing from an orthodox Muslim nation like Pakistan (a nation trapped between Allah and Army), he has the courage to tell the truth about Qur’an, Muhammad and Islam but in doing so, (probably unknowingly) he had exposed the true colour of Allah and Islam.

Qur’an (2:216) says “Fighting is prescribed for you… and you dislike it but it is possible that you dislike a thing that is good for you and you love a thing that is bad for you. But Allah knows and you know not”. According to author, this injunction adds new aspects and depths to the concept of total war. Author calls all the Muslims to take arms and fight saying “A Muslim citizen is answerable to Allah in the fulfillment of Divine obligation” (p. 38).

The author discussed on ten general categories inherent in the conduct of Islamic warfare. One of which is ‘Selection of objectives’. Here the author had given several clues on how to kill the enemy soldiers. Qur’an (8:12) says, “Strike them above the necks, smite their finger tips.” Though the author is coming from military background, I doubt if he is at all aware of the modern ethics of war which is embodied in the Geneva Convention, 1864. One of the basic principles of this convention is ‘Humanity’. Despite this convention, the author by citing the above Qur’anic verse, advised the Muslims, “The most sensitive parts of the Human body lie above the neck. An effective strike in these parts can finish of the opponent totally… In battle, therefore, we should first identify and strike at the most sensitive and vulnerable points of our adversary and aim at finishing him off completely” (p. 64).

Author had glorified death in the cause of Allah and mentioned, “… supreme achievement lies in supreme sacrifice… The reward of sacrifice is a life of honor in this world and salvation in the hereafter” (p. 68). Qur’an (3: 169-170) says, “Think not of those who are slain in Allah’s way as dead. . . . Nay, they live finding their sustenance in the Presence of the Lord. They rejoice in the bounty of Allah.” By citing this Qur’anic verse, author advised Muslims not to fear death and wrote, “… death in this world, no doubt inevitable, was nevertheless not to be the end of life. Another life awaited us in the hereafter, and out ultimate return was to our lord… it is Allah that gives life and death, and Allah sees well all that ye do” (p. 42).
Terrorism, war and devastation are integral parts of Qur’anic instruction. The author is very specific on this when he openly concluded, “The Qur’anic military strategy enjoins us to prepare ourselves for war to the utmost in order to strike terror into the hearts of the enemies, known or hidden, while guarding ourselves from being terror –stricken by the enemies” (p. 58). Terrorism is Allah’s will and hence Divine. Author concluded, “When God wishes to impose His will upon his enemies He chooses to do so by casting terror into their hearts” (p. 57) and again, “Terror struck in the hearts of the enemies is not only a means; it is the end in itself … Terror is not a means of imposing decision upon the enemy; it is the decision we wish to impose upon them” (p. 59).

Author also believes in forced conversion after the Muslim army subdues the enemy. He advised to his ideological brothers, “Terror cannot be struck in the hearts of an enemy… [so easily, because]… it is basically related to the strength or weakness of the human soul”, author continued, “It [terror] can be instilled only if the opponent’s faith is destroyed. Psychological dislocation is temporary; spiritual dislocation is permanent. Psychological dislocation can be produced by a physical act but this does not hold good of the spiritual dislocation. To instill terror into the hearts of the enemy, it is essential in the ultimate analysis, to dislocate his faith”. (p. 60).

Author also talked about peace time preparation for war which is not only the part of the war but in fact “vastly more important than the active war” (p. 58). This particular assertion cannot be taken lightly. It means that Muslims are in a perpetual state of war while peace can only be defined as the absence of active war when Muslim armies wait for the resources and opportunities.

This book has many ambiguities. Author wrote that Qur’an makes repeated appeals to mankind to use intellect and reason in its understanding and interpretation (Page ii). But the Qur’anic verses 5:101 and 5:102 clearly prohibit any criticism of Qur’an. The author should tell us, how to use ‘intellect’ and ‘reason’ to understand Qur’an if criticism is prohibited.

There is another point which needs clarification. According to author Islam did not spread by sword. Neither Qur’an nor Muhammad did allow the use of force for conversion (Page 49). But then how did he recommend ‘dislocation of faith’ after terror struck in the hearts of the nonbelievers? On this issue Brohi is much more honest. At least he openly compared non-Muslims with ‘cancerous malformation’ and call for their death, ‘removal by surgical means’.

Though it is a gross insult to the concept of God who needs followers by forced conversion, but several Qur’anic verses (9:29, 9:5, 9:11, 2:193) and Ahadith (Sahih Muslim1:33, 19:4294, 19:4366, 31:5917 and Bukhari 1:387, 1:24, 4:392, 5:643) confirms Allah’s approval for forced conversion. This needs to be corrected in the next edition.

Also, it is difficult to understand, when two different sects of Islam are at war with each other (as example, Shia-Sunni violent clash) in the name of Islam, how to make out which side is following true Qur’anic concept of war.

Perhaps the most devastating confusion is, how I know that it is God’s will that Muslims should call for Jihad, death and destruction on nonbelievers. How do I know that death and destruction really pleases God? All the Qur’anic chapters starts with the phrase ‘In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful’ (except chapter 9 Al-Tauba– Repentance), but throughout author’s scholarly work I never find anything which supports the view that Allah is merciful. Why Allah does not want Muslims to live peacefully with the non-Muslims? Why Allah likes death and destruction to be committed in His name but at the same time likes to be called ‘the Compassionate, the Merciful’? This book gives us no clue on this.

With due regard to the author, I would like to conclude that the violent topics discussed in this book may prove to be harmful to some readers. Sadly, this text has neither any positive thought nor any constructive potential to Humanity. Amongst Muslims, this book will promote fundamentalism, hate, religious bigotry and fanaticism. But the author cannot be blamed for this, because his work is basically a reflection of the Allah’s thought recorded in the Qur’an. Hence this book is bound to be violent because Qur’an is violent. So unless Qur’an is banned universally, this book also should not be banned.

This book should not be banned for another reason. To counteract Islamic terrorism, we must understand its philosophy and the logic of the opponent. After all, if Muslim terrorists are so bloodthirsty and ready to destroy themselves to kill innocents by suicide terrorism, there must be some powerful, evil and destructive force which is motivating them. Those who value freedom and are determined to preserve it must recognize this evil force. Islamic apologists and mainstream media often portray a deceptively rosy picture of Islam. This had successfully misled many third-rated thinkers. But the original and independent thinkers need a treatise that can be reviewed and understood in such a way so that they can get a true picture of the whole problem. In this respect this is the book that stands out from many others.

Bostom: Osama Bin Lenin?

2010-01-03T11:33:00.001+01:00

From Jihad Watch:

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2008/11/bostom-osama-bin-lenin.html

Andrew G. Bostom here offers a brief review of The Mind of Jihad by Laurent Murawiec (Cambridge University Press, 2008, 342 pp).

- Robert Spencer

Ibn Hudayl, a 14th century Granadan Muslim author of an important treatise on jihad war, elucidated the allowable tactics which facilitated the violent, chaotic Islamic conquest of the Iberian peninsula, and other parts of Europe:

It is permissible to set fire to the lands of the enemy, his stores of grain, his beasts of burden – if it is not possible for the Muslims to take possession of them – as well as to cut down his trees, to raze his cities, in a word, to do everything that might ruin and discourage him…[being] suited to hastening the Islamization of that enemy or to weakening him. Indeed, all this contributes to a military triumph over him or to forcing him to capitulate.

And these repeated attacks, indistinguishable in motivation from modern acts of jihad terrorism, like the horrific 9/11/01 attacks in New York and Washington, DC, and the Madrid bombings on 3/11/04, or those in London on 7/7/05, were in fact designed to sow terror. The 17th century Muslim historian al-Maqqari explained that the panic created by the Arab jihadist horsemen and sailors, at the time of the Muslim expansion in the regions subjected to those raids and landings, facilitated their later conquest,

Allah thus instilled such fear among the infidels that they did not dare to go and fight the conquerors; they only approached them as suppliants, to beg for peace.

Contemporary validation of this principle of jihad as described by Ibn Hudayl, and al-Maqqari—rooted in the Koran—(for example, verses 8:12, 8:60, and 33:26)—i.e., to terrorize the enemies of the Muslims as a prelude to their conquest—has been provided in the mainstream Pakistani text on jihad warfare by Brigadier S.K. Malik, originally published in Lahore, in 1979. Malik’s treatise was endorsed in a laudatory Foreword to the book by his patron, then Pakistani President Zia-ul-Haq, as well as a more extended Preface by Allah Buksh K. Brohi, a former Advocate-General of Pakistan. This text—widely studied in Islamic countries, and available in English, Urdu, and Arabic—has been recovered from the bodies of slain jihadists in Kashmir. Brigadier Malik emphasizes how instilling terror is essential to waging successful jihad campaigns:

Terror struck into the hearts of the enemies is not only a means, it is the end in itself. Once a condition of terror into the opponent’s heart is obtained, hardly anything is left to be achieved. It is the point where the means and the end meet and merge. Terror is not a means of imposing decision upon the enemy (sic); it is the decision we wish to impose upon him… “Jihad,” the Koranic concept of total strategy…[d]emands the preparation and application of total national power and military instrument is one of its elements. As a component of the total strategy, the military strategy aims at striking terror into the hearts of the enemy from the preparatory stage of war…Under ideal conditions, Jihad can produce a direct decision and force its will upon the enemy. Where that does not happen, military strategy should take over and aim at producing the decision from the military stage. Should that chance be missed, terror should be struck into the enemy during the actual fighting…the Book [Koran] does not visualize war being waged with “kid gloves.” It gives us a distinctive concept of total war. It wants both, the nation and the individual, to be at war “in toto,” that is, with all their spiritual, moral, and physical resources. The Holy Koran lays the highest emphasis on the preparation for war. It wants us to prepare ourselves for war to the utmost. The test of utmost preparation lies in our capability to instill terror into the hearts of the enemies.

Laurent Murawiec, in a chapter entitled, “Jihad as Terror,” concludes his recently published meditation on contemporary jihadism, The Mind of Jihad, with a discussion of this same treatise by Brigadier Malik. Murawiec reiterates the obvious—Malik’s profound, overriding indebtedness to classical jihad theory and practice, including jihad terrorism. But in the end, Murawiec is betrayed by his book’s preceding shoddily constructed, and illogical narrative. Despite the inclusion of some fascinating texts, letters, speeches, and anecdotes, Murawiec’s study—a rather discursive amalgam—ignores classical (and still omnipresent) doctrines and practices of jihad war, such as the licit taking of infidel “harbi” (from dar al harb, the unvanquished non-Muslims “lands of war”) non-combatant life and property, or even more fundamentally, the goal of submitting the world to Islamic Law. In addition, he clumsily grafts “millenarian Gnostic” motifs on to the unrelated, uniquely Islamic institution of jihad war, and confuses transient, tactical alliances between (primarily) Bolsheviks/Communists, and jihadists, for some “shared vision”—as if the stark differences between the goals of creating Shari’a-based governments (and ultimately, a global Caliphate), versus a centralized, international system of atheistic, Communist bureaucracies, were immaterial. Thus Mailk’s modern primer on Islamic jihadism becomes for Murawiec, a treatise written,

…in pure Gnostic fashion, with a strong dose of Leninist voluntarism, or Nietzschean Wille zur Macht. [Will to Power]

Moreover, central to Murawiec’s overall construct, is the orthodox Pakistani Muslim ideologue Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, influential friend of Ayatollah Khomeini and Sayyid Qutb (the latter, also being Osama bin Laden’s hero). Maududi was a prolific Koranic commentator, and essayist, whose ideas were firmly rooted in classical Islamic formulations of jihad, and the creation of traditional Muslim societies, culminating in his full rendition of how a contemporary Islamic State should appear and function, under the Shari’a. Pace Murawiec, however, Maududi—a pious, traditional Muslim, whose espoused doctrines are entirely consistent with those of a multitude of prototypical Islamic revivalists who have surfaced throughout the history of the creed—must have been nurtured on Lenin, in the author’s own words,

…as if Lenin’s “The State and Revolution” had become [his, i.e. Maududi’s] bedtime reading.

…

From his sober perspective, J.B. Kelly, the great modern historian of the Arabian Gulf—contra Murawiec—viewed (writing in 1980) the aroused spirit of jihad in the Gulf during the 1960s and 1970s—fomented by Faisal b. Abdul Azziz’s implacable hatred for Israel, and the complementary doctrines of the jihadist Muslim Brotherhood—as merely a return to the region’s deep Islamic roots and values, following a brief dalliance with “revolutionary” ideologies:

Yet for all the anathematizing of Arab revolutionary movements by Muslim conservatives, it is extremely doubtful whether these movements are au fond anti-Islamic or irreligious. Marxist dogma sits very lightly and uncomfortably upon the few semi-educated peninsular Arabs who have ostensibly adopted it. Their thoughts and their lives are still shaped by Islam, they themselves are fundamentally Muslim. Nor could it be otherwise, since…Islam is the only real source of moral and intellectual guidance available to Arabs of the peninsula. The present evidence of Islamic revivalism, therefore, may be a more significant indication of the drift of events in the Gulf than sporadic troublemaking by self-styled Marxist revolutionaries.

The only Marxist philosopher I admire—i.e., Groucho—is credited with this joke which casts Murawiec’s pretentious gobbledygook in the appropriate light:

“Q: What do you get when you cross an insomniac, an agnostic, and a dyslexic? A: Someone who stays up all night wondering if there is a Dog.”

Allah’s White Faces

2010-01-01T13:47:00.004+01:00

http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=30875BC8-5FB3-4A07-B9B6-644FA28D99EE

Allah’s White Faces
By: Jamie Glazov
FrontPageMagazine.com
Thursday, December 04, 2008

Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Abul Kasem, an ex-Muslim who is the author of hundreds of articles and several books on Islam including, Women in Islam. He was a contributor to the book Leaving Islam – Apostates Speak Out as well as to Beyond Jihad: Critical Views From Inside Islam. His latest contribution is in Why We Left Islam published by WND Books.

FP: Abul Kasem, welcome to Frontpage Interview.

Kasem: Thank you Jamie.

FP: I would like to talk to you today about the racial apartheid that exists in Islam. How is the best way for us to begin this discussion?

Kasem: Jamie, let’s begin with the incredible hypocrisy and double standard that exists on the issue of racism in general. Islamists living in the West often portray Islam as a religion free of racism. They never fail to criticize western countries of its racist attitude and contempt for people who are not of white complexion. It is quite perplexing that these Islamists never look at their own backyard, of blatant, naked racism enmeshed in the Islamic doctrine.

Any non-Arab, non-white, who has been to a Middle East Arab country will tell the story of absolute racism practiced there. It is no secret that in rich Arab countries, (such as Saudi Arabia) people of dark complexion, such those from Africa, South Asia (Pakistan, India, Bangladesh) receive much lower pay than a white person from the western country would. There is strict, unspoken, racial apartheid practiced in the rich Arab countries.

FP: And the lefties that are confronted with this reality immediately say how this has nothing to do with Islam and that it is “cultural.”

Kasem: For sure, and they are completely wrong. The racism practiced in the Arab countries is solidly founded in the very doctrine of Islam.

FP: Tell us about it.

Kasem: Blatant Islamic racism is permeated in the founts of Islam, the Qur’an, ahadith, Sunna, and Sharia.

Let us start the beginning with the end in mind. What I mean is the Islamic Resurrection day.

It is an Islamic day of black and white.

Allah promises in verse 3:185 that life in this world is an illusion, that every person shall die, and every person will receive his judgment on the resurrection day. In verse 5:26, Allah vouches that all that is on earth will perish. Allah says in verse 10:26 that He will reward the doers of good with paradise and much more; their faces will be radiant-stained. They will never be humiliated.

Ibn Kathir says that there will be no blackness or darkness on their faces. In contrast, the faces of the non-believers will be stained with dust, blackness, and darkness. On the Resurrection Day Allah will remove His veil and show His face to the dwellers of paradise. He will make the believers’ faces white

Where are all the radical leftist scholars deconstructing these texts in the way they have done to Western literature?

The Islamic texts clearly reveal that Allah is a white supremacist; He does not like black faces; He likes white faces.

It is clear from the exegesis of these verses that Allah likes white people and dislikes the black people, so much so, in fact, that even when a Black Muslim is entitled to enter Islamic Paradise, he will not enter it until Allah has turned him into a white person. Verse 20:102 says that on the day the trumpet is sounded (resurrection day), the sinners will be gathered together with blue eyes and black faces. A hadith in Mishkat says that on judgment day, Muslims will have white faces, white arms, and white legs (Mishkat al-Masabih, Ibn Abdullah Tabrizi, Sheikh Wali-ud-Din Muahmmad, Tr. Abdul Hameed Siddiqui, Kitab Bhavan, 1784 Kalan Mahal, Daraya Ganj, New Delhi-110002, India.1990, p.1.168).
Allah’s preference for light-skinned people and His disdain for dark-skinned people is repeated in verse 7:46. Ibn Abbas writes that this verse tells the joy of the believers when they know those who enter hell by their darkened faces and blue eyes and those who enter Paradise by their lightened faces: at once handsome and radiant.
Allah says in verse 86:8-9 that He will bring back life for Muhammad to commence judgment. According to ibn Kathir, on resurrection day, a banner will be raised for every deceitful person from his anus; the size of this banner will depend on the size of the perpetrator’s calumny. Thus, Muhammad will have no trouble sifting the believers from the non-believers. All Muslims will be of white complexion, and all infidels will be of black complexion, with a banner on his/her anus.
In verse 18:29 Allah says that He does not care whether people believe or disbelieve in Islam. The disbelievers (non-Muslims) and the wrongdoers will be surrounded by the tent of fire; they will be given water (acid) like molten brass to shower and to scald their faces. Ibn Kathir says that this verse means the water of Hell is black, and it itself is black and its people are black.
In verse 3:107 Allah emphatically pronounces that white faces on the judgment day will receive His mercy. Jalalyn writes that, on judgment day, Muslims’ faces will be white.
In Mishkat (ibid, p.1.76) we read humans were emitted as white ants from Adam; paradise is for the whites, hell is for the blacks.
Islamic Paradise will offer its white male residents unlimited, unbridled, uninterrupted sex with houris of exquisite beauty. These houris will also be of fair (read white), radiant complexion (44:54, 55:70) quite similar to the Hollywood movie actresses. Even the wine-serving boys will be white, like pearls (52:24, 76:19).

FP: How do you explain this kind of racism in Islam?

Kasem: We might wonder why Allah is such a racist—white supremacist, even on Islamic resurrection day. The answer is Muhammad was a white man. Here are a few examples:
Muhammad was white. (Sunaan Abu Dawud, 1.486)

Let us read one hadith from Sahih Bukhari (1.3.63) Narrated Anas bin Malik:
While we were sitting with the Prophet in the mosque, a man came riding on a camel. He made his camel kneel down in the mosque, tied its foreleg and then said: "Who amongst you is Muhammad?" At that time the Prophet was sitting amongst us (his companions) leaning on his arm. We replied, "This white man reclining on his arm." The man then addressed him, "O Son of 'Abdul Muttalib.”
Tabari writes that Muhammad was of white complexion, reddish tinge, deep-black large eyes, long eyelashes. His breast hair was thin and he had thick beard. He had no hair in his armpit. The perspiration on his face was pearl-like (al-Tabari, Abu Ja’far Muhammad b. Jarir, History of al-Tabari, Translated by Ismail K. Poonwala. State University of New York Press, Albany, 1990, p.ix.157).
In Ash-Shifa, Allah, through Sharia, expresses a great disdain for the black people in this manner:
Ahmad ibn Abi Sulayman, the companion of Sahnun said, “Anyone who says that the Prophet was black should be killed. (Ibn Musa al-Yahsubi, Qadi ‘Iyad. Ash-Shifa. Tr. Aisha Abdarrahman Bewley. Medina Press, P.O. Box 5531, Inverness IV5 7YA, Scotland, UK, fifth print 2004, p.375)

FP: So who is Allah then?

Kasem: Allah is a white Arab supremacist. Allah dearly loves the Arabs. He chose them over all other races, making them the best pedigree in the human race.
Does Allah look like an Arab, especially an Arab from Saudi Arabia and from the Quraysh stock? Let us read from ibn Sa’d, the famous biographer of Muhammad:

…Abu Damarah al–Madani Anas Ibn ‘Iyad al–Laythi informed us; he said: Ja’far Ibn Muhammad Ibn ‘Ali informed us on the authority of his father, Muhammad Ibn ‘Ali ibn Husayn Ibn “Ali Ibn Abi Talib, who said: Verily the Prophet said: God divided the earth in two halves and placed (me) in the better of the two, then He divided the half in three parts, and I was in the best of them, then He chose the Arabs from among the people, then He chose the Quraysh from among the Arabs, then He chose the children of ‘Abd al–Muttalib from among the Banu Hashim, then he chose me from among the children of ‘Abd al–Muttalib (Ibn Sa’d, Abu Abd Allah Muhammad. Kitab al-Tabaqat, vol i. Translated in English by S. Moinul Haq, Kitab Bhavan, 1784, Kalan Mahal, Daraya Ganj, New Delhi, India, 1972, p1.2).

According to ibn Sa’d, Allah favours Arab racism—prophet is to be of Quraysh stock and of white complexion (ibid, p1. 95-96).

Here is a hadith from Sahih Muslim which declares Allah’s special love for the white Quraysh Arabs.

Book 020, Number 4483
It has been narrated on the authority of Amir b. Sa'd b. Abu Waqqas who said: I wrote (a letter) to Jabir b. Samura and sent it to him through my servant Nafi', asking him to inform me of something he had heard from the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him). He wrote to me (in reply): I heard the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) say on Friday evening, the day on which al-Aslami was stoned to death (for committing adultery): The Islamic religion will continue until the Hour has been established, or you have been ruled over by twelve Caliphs, all of them being from the Quraish. also heard him say: A small force of the Muslims will capture the white palace, the police of the Persian Emperor or his descendants. I also heard him say: Before the Day of Judgment there will appear (a number of) impostors. You are to guard against them. I also heard him say: When God grants wealth to any one of you, he should first spend it on himself and his family (and then give it in charity to the poor). I heard him (also) say: I will be your forerunner at the Cistern (expecting your arrival).

FP: So Arabs must rule the world?

Kasem: Yes. The ultimate goal of the Islamists is the creation of a Pan Islamic world, which must be ruled by a caliph (the Islamists call it the Khilafat movement) who will be responsible to enforce Islamic laws (Sharia) globally.

FP: What are the requirements to be a caliph?

Kasem: According to Islamic law, (Reliance of the Traveller, published by Amana Publications, Bettsville, Maryland, 1999, pp.640-642, law number o25.3) the mandatory qualifications of an Islamic caliph are:

1. must be a Muslim
2. must be a male
3. must be from the Quraysh tribe of the Arabs
4. must be a freeman (i.e., not a slave)
5. must be of sound mind.

This provision of Islamic law means that the world—the Pan Islamic world must be ruled by an Arab (from the Quraysh stock, probably from Saudi Arabia or Jordan) and no one else.

FP: All this racism must involve rules about marriage I assume.

Kasem: Of course.

A non-Arab Muslim cannot marry an Arab woman

Let us refer to another law of Sharia. This law enforces the supremacy of the white Quraysh Arabs to subjugate all people on earth to their rule. The Sharia law (ibid) cited here stipulates that no other men, even when Muslims, could marry any Arab women. In some Arab countries, this is the law and there is severe punishment if a man from another Islamic country (such as a Muslim man from Bangladesh) marries a Saudi Arabian woman. If he commits such a grave crime (marrying an Arab woman) he might be subjected to harsh punishment and immediate deportation.

Let us read this racist law of Allah:

Law m4.2 The following are not suitable matches for one another:
(1) A non-Arab man for an Arab woman (O: because of the hadith that the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) said: “Allah has chosen the Arabs above others”). (ibid)
Quite akin to the Nazism of Hitler, this Islamic law firmly establishes Allah’s racism. Islamic law is heavily biased to establish the supremacy of the white Arabs much like the idea of Hitler’s of the pure Aryan Germans, which he deemed the most supreme race on earth.

Allah made the white Quraysh Arabs the best of His creation.

Allah is adamant that they (the Arabs) are the purest, the truest, the best and the most superior of all races.

FP: Some more on Allah’s racism?

Kasem: Well, Ibn Sa’d said: Abd al–wahhab Ibn ‘Ata al–‘Ijli informed us on the authority of Sai’d Ibn Abi ‘Aribiah, he on the authority of Qatadh: he said: It has been mentioned to us that the Prophet said: When God wants to raise a prophet He chooses the best tribe of the people and then He chooses the best man (Ibn Sa’d, p.1.8).

Sahih Bukhari (4.56.704) confirms that Allah has chosen the Quraysh Arabs as His agent to rule the world (Islamic Caliphate).

Volume 4, Book 56, Number 704:

Narrated Muhammad bin Jubair bin Mut'im:

That while he was with a delegation from Quraish to Muawiya, the latter heard the news that 'Abdullah bin 'Amr bin Al-'As said that there would be a king from the tribe of Qahtan. On that Muawiya became angry, got up and then praised Allah as He deserved, and said, "Now then, I have heard that some men amongst you narrate things which are neither in the Holy Book, nor have been told by Allah's Apostle. Those men are the ignorant amongst you. Beware of such hopes as make the people go astray, for I heard Allah's Apostle saying, 'Authority of ruling will remain with Quraish, and whoever bears hostility to them, Allah will destroy him as long as they abide by the laws of the religion.'"

FP: How about some historical evidence of Islam’s disdain for black people?

Kasem: Abd. Rahman b. Awf called Bilal the son of a black woman (Tabari, vii.59).

Umar had a profound dislike for black people (Tabari, xii.11).

Tabari writes:

Among them, with Muawiyah b. Hudhayl, were young men of black complexion and straight hair. ‘Umar turned his face away from them several times until it was said to him: “Do you have anything against these people.” He said: “I am perplexed with regard to them. No Arab tribe more hateful to me than these has ever passed by me.” He then let them go, but he frequently mentioned them with hatred, and people were puzzled by ‘Umar’s view.

The Islamic racism is alive and well even today. Even notice the recent news report of Al Qaeda calling Obama a ‘house negro’.

FP: So what do we conclude them?

Kasem: Islamic racism is endemic. It emanates straight from the Qur’an, Sunna, and Sharia. It cannot be eliminated so long the Muslims are enthused by these Holy Scriptures. The Muslims of black complexion will never be equal with the white Arabs. The concept of Islamic ummah, regardless of color and ethnic origin is simply not true.
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Jamie Glazov is Frontpage Magazine's editor. He holds a Ph.D. in History with a specialty in Russian, U.S. and Canadian foreign policy. He is the author of Canadian Policy Toward Khrushchev’s Soviet Union and is the co-editor (with David Horowitz) of The Hate America Left. He edited and wrote the introduction to David Horowitz’s Left Illusions. His new book is United in Hate: The Left's Romance with Tyranny and Terror.

Finlandssvenskar i Nyland och Åboland mest invandringskritiska

2009-12-31T15:46:00.001+01:00

Från HBL:

http://www.hbl.fi/text/inrikes/2009/12/30/w41490.php

Finlandssvenskar i Nyland och Åboland mest invandrarkritiska
Publicerad: 30/12 09:29 ›uppdaterad: 30/12 10:17
Invandrarfrågan delar finlandssvenskarna i två läger, visar en undersökning gjord av Svenska Yle.

Citat:

Av finlandssvenskarna skulle 38 procent gärna ta emot fler invandrare och flyktingar i sin hemkommun medan 39 procent säger nej till tanken.

De mest kritiska till ökad invandring är unga män, nylänningar och åbolänningar. Kvinnor, österbottningar, ålänningar och de äldre är mer toleranta.

"Palestinian" Mothers Express Joy and Satisfaction at son’s Death for Allah

2009-12-31T14:24:00.009+01:00

Click here to visit a page on the Palestinian Media Watch site featuring a collection of clips and transcripts of "Palestinian" mothers expressing joy and satisfaction at their sons Shahada (Martyrdom for Allah).

From the page above:

http://www.pmw.org.il/tv%20part4.html

Hamas Lists Mother of Suicide Terrorists as Candidate

In the lead up to the Palestinian parliamentary elections in January 2006, terrorist group Hamas announced that one of its candidates would be Um Nidal, whose only claim to fame was that she proudly sent three of her sons to die for Allah in terrorist attacks against Israeli targets.

The video linked here is a combination of a video that appeared on a Hamas website in late December, and an interview with Um Nidal before and after she sent her son to die in March 2002, on Bethlehem station ANN. The Hamas video reproduces some of the ANN interview.

[ANN, March 2002]

"In a silence filled with tears, with a mother's warm longing, his mother hugged him goodbye at length. Planting the parting kiss on his cheeks before their final parting, ordering him not to return to her except as a shahid.

he last moments of Um Nidal with her son, the youngest Shahada-seeker [the boy was 17-years-old - Ed.]"

Um Nidal: "I gave my son to Jihad for Allah. It is our religious obligation. If I wanted to have compassion for him, or to make him change his mind, it could be wrong, a mistake. I don't want to be guided by my feelings, a mother's feelings. I put them aside for a while for something greater. Although, this is connected to a mother's feelings. Why? Because I love my son and I want to choose the best for him. And the best is not life in this world. For us, there is the Afterlife, the eternal bliss. So if I love my son, I will choose eternal bliss for him."

[Hamas website, December 2005]

"With the participation of women, a mother no longer stops her son when he goes to battle in Jihad operations."

The son to whom Um Nidal referred killed 5 israeli teenagers.

"2922 Sömlösa Nätter" - om kriget i Gaza

2009-12-31T11:28:00.005+01:00

Jag skulle vilja föreslå ett besök på sidan "2922 Sömlösa Nätter".

Citat därur:

Sidans namn – 2922 nätter – kommer från de åtta år av terrorbeskjutning från Gazaremsan som ledde till Gazakriget. 8 år x 365,25 dygn = 2922 nätter.

Här följer med anledning av det ovan länkade artiklarna 7, 8, 11 och 22 från Hamas stadga:

http://www.sapereaude.se/hamas.html

Den Islamiska Motståndsrörelsens allmängiltighet

Artikel Sju:

Som ett resultat av det faktum, att de muslimer som håller sig till den Islamiska Motståndsrörelsens vägar, sprider sig över hela världen, uppbådar stöd för den och dess ståndpunkter, strävar för att gynna dess strävanden, så är Rörelsen universell. Den är väl utrustad för det till följd av klarheten i dess ideologi, dess ädla syfte och upphöjdheten i dess mål.

Rörelsen ska ses och utvärderas och dess roll erkännas utifrån denna grund. Den som förnekar dess rätt, söker undgå att stödja den och vägra se fakta, vare sig avsiktligt eller oavsiktligt, borde vakna och se att händelserna har hunnit i fatt honom och att det inte finns någon logik som rättfärdigar hans attityd. Man måste förvisso lära från tidigare exempel.

Orättvisan från släktingar är svårare att bära än hugget från ett indiskt svärd.

"Vi hava ock nedsänt skriften med sanningen till dig till bekräftelse på den skrift, som kommit före den, och stadfästelse därpå; så döm då mellan dem efter vad Gud nedsänt och rätta dig ej efter deras hugskott med åsidosättande av den sanning, som kommit dig till del! Var och en av eder hava vi givit en norm och en väg. Om Gud velat, så skulle han hava gjort eder till en enda menighet, men det var för att han skulle pröva eder med avseende på det han givit eder; så tävlen nu med varandra i det goda! Till Gud skolen I allesammans återvända, och han skall tala om för eder det, som I tvistaden om." (Bordet, vers 48. Z: v. 52-53.)

Den Islamiska Motståndsrörelsen är en av länkarna i kedjan av kampen mot de sionistiska inkräktarna. Den går tillbaka till 1939, till uppkomsten av martyren Izz al-Din al Kissam och hans stridande släktingar, medlemmar av det Muslimska Brödraskapet. Den fortsatte att utsträcka sig till att bli ytterligare en länk som inbegrep palestiniernas och det Muslimska Brödraskapets kamp i kriget 1948 och det Muslimska Brödraskapets jihad-operationer år 1968 och därefter.

Dessutom, om länkarna har befunnit sig långt från varandra och om hinder, utplacerade av dem som är sionismens lakejer, i kämparnas väg har försvårat kampens fortsättning, så strävar den Islamiska Motståndsrörelsen att förverkliga Allahs löfte, oavsett hur länge det kommer att ta. Profeten, må Allah välsigna honom och ge honom frälsning, har sagt:

"Domedagen kommer inte förrän muslimerna bekämpar judarna (dödar judarna), när juden gömmer sig bakom stenar och träd. Stenarna och träden ska säga O Muslimer, o Abdulla, det är en jude bakom mig, kom och döda honom. Bara Gharkad-trädet kommer inte att göra det, eftersom det är ett av judarnas träd." (Berättat av al-Bukhari och Muslim.)

Den Islamiska Motståndsrörelsens motto

Artikel Åtta:

Allah är dess mål, Profeten dess föredöme, Koranen dess konstitution; Jihad är dess väg och döden för Allahs sak är den mest upphöjda av dess önskningar.

Den Islamiska Motståndsrörelsens Strategier: Palestina är islamisk waqf

Artikel Elva:

Den Islamiska Motståndsrörelsen anser att landet Palestina är en islamisk waqf vigd åt framtida Muslimska generationer intill domedagen. Den, eller någon del av den, får inte förslösas: den, eller någon del av den, får inte ges upp. Vare sig ett arabland eller alla arabländer, vare sig någon kung eller president, eller alla kungar och presidenter, vare sig någon organisation eller alla av dem, oavsett om de är palestinska eller arabiska, äger rätten att göra det. Palestina är en islamisk waqf vigd åt muslimska generationer intill domedagen. Eftersom det är så, vem kan då göra anspråk på rätt att representera muslimska generationer intill domedagen?
Detta är den lag som styr landet Palestina i den islamiska sharian (lagen) och det samma gäller för varje land som muslimerna har erövrat med våld, eftersom muslimerna under tiden för de (islamiska) erövringarna vigde dessa länder till muslimska generationer intill domedagen.

Det hände på följande sätt: När ledarna för de islamiska arméerna erövrade Syrien och Irak, sände de till muslimernas kalif, Omar bin-el-Khatab, en fråga om råd beträffande det erövrade landet - om de skulle dela det mellan soldaterna, lämna det åt sina ägare, eller vad? Efter konsultationer och diskussioner mellan muslimernas kalif, Omar bin-el-Khatab och Profetens följeslagare, må Allah välsigna honom och ge honom frälsning, blev det beslutat att landet skulle lämnas åt sina ägare som kunde njuta dess frukter. Denna waqf består så länge jord och himmel består. Varje procedur som står i motsats till islamisk sharia såvitt avser Palestina, är ogiltig.

"Detta är sannerligen den säkraste sanning. Så prisa då din Herres, den Stores namn!" (Händelsen, även kallad Det som måste komma, vers 95-96.)

Understödjande krafter bakom fienden

Artikel Tjugotvå:

Under en lång tid har fienderna, skickligt och precist, planerat för utförandet av vad de har uppnått. De tog hänsyn till de skäl som påverkar händelsernas gång. De strävade efter att samla en stor och solid förmögenhet, som de anslog till förverkligandet av sin dröm. Med sina pengar tog de kontrollen över världens media, nyhetsbyråer, tidningarna, förlagen, radiostationerna och annat. Med sina pengar anstiftade de revolutioner på olika håll i världen i syfte att uppnå sina intressen och skörda frukterna därav. De låg bakom den franska revolutionen, den kommunistiska revolutionen och de flesta revolutioner som vi hör och har hört om, såväl här som där. Men sina pengar skapade de hemliga samfund, såsom frimurarna, Rotary, Lions och andra på olika håll i världen till syfte att sabotera samhällen och uppnå sionistiska intressen. Med sina pengar hade de möjlighet att kontrollera imperialistiska länder och förmå dem att kolonisera många länder för att möjliggöra för dem att exploatera deras resurser och sprida fördärv där.

Ni kan tala så mycket ni vill om regionala krig och om världskrig. De låg bakom det första världskriget, när de kunde förstöra det islamiska kalifatet, och gjorde finansiella vinster och kontrollerade resurser. De erhöll Balfour-deklarationen, skapade Nationernas Förbund genom vilket de kunde styra världen. De låg bakom det andra världskriget, då de kunde göra enorma finansiella vinster genom vapenhandel, och jämnade vägen för etablerandet av deras stat. Det var de som anstiftade ersättandet av Nationernas Förbund med Förenta Nationerna och säkerhetsrådet för att möjliggöra för dem att styra världen genom dessa. Det finns inget krig som pågår någonstans, som de inte har ett finger med i.
"Så ofta de tända krigets låga, släcker Gud den; de sträva att anstifta ofärd på jorden, men Gud älskar ej ofärdsstiftarne." (Bordet - även kallad Den himmelska måltiden, vers 64. Z: v. 69.)
De imperialistiska krafterna i det kapitalistiska väst och det kommunistiska öst, stöder fienden med all sin makt, i pengar och i människor. De turas om att göra det. Den dag som islam uppträder, kommer otrons krafter att ena sig för att utmana islam, för de otrogna tillhör samma nation.
"I, som tron, skaffen eder icke vänner utom eder egen krets, de där ej upphöra att vara fördärvliga för eder! De skulle önska, att I förgingens; hatet röjer sig i deras mun, men vad deras sinnen dölja är ännu värre. Vi hava nu förklarat tecknen för eder, om I haven förstånd." (Imrans släkt, vers, 118. Z: v. 114.)

Det är inte förgäves, som denna vers avslutas med Allahs ord "om i haven förstånd".

Här återfinns hela Hamas stadga på svenska och här på engelska.

Islam: Religion or Cult?

2009-12-30T08:37:00.006+01:00

From "Islam Watch":

http://www.islam-watch.org/AliSina/religion_or_cult.htm

Islam: Religion or Cult?
by Ali Sina
20 Nov, 2005

Islam is known as the second largest religion. The very fact that 1.2 billion people call themselves Muslims vests Islam with the mantel of legitimacy and confirms the claim that it is a religion. But is it? In the previous chapters we saw the similarity of Islam with other cults. In this chapter we study this subject more in depth.

Can one billion people be wrong? Well, "argumentum ad numerum" is a logical fallacy and yes millions and even billions of people can be wrong. Truth cannot be established by the consensus of the majority. In fact many arguments have been debunked, even though everyone in the world once accepted them as true. For example, not until a few centuries ago everyone believed that the Earth was flat and was at the centre of the universe. Despite that common belief both geocentricity and the idea of the flat Earth were false. A false belief does not become true even if everyone thinks they are true.

Therefore, not only one billion people, but the entire mankind can be wrong. As Bertrand Russell said: "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible."

After shattering the myth of argumentum ad numerum, let us put Islam under scrutiny and see whether it is a religion or a cult. The word cult has been much used and abused to the extent that people of one religion call other religions that they don't like, cult. But cults have very definite characteristics.

In his best-selling book Combating Cult Mind Control, Steven Hasson, a former Moonie himself, describes the characteristics of cults and how they control minds. Once we analyze his description of Moonie cult and compare it with Islam we see a great deal of similarity, a similarity that is shared by virtually all cults. Let us compare point by point Hasson's description of cult with what we know of Islam:

Steven Hasson's description of cult

The Moonies do a very thorough job of convincing people that former members are satanic and that even being in their presence could be dangerous. [p.3]

It is ironic that whereas Moon's stated goal is to unify the world, many of his strategies foster jealousy and spite among leaders, virtually insuring a lack of unity. [p.23]
The more people opposed us, the more committed we felt. [p.24]

It was as if we were God's army in the middle of a spiritual war--the only ones who could go to the front lines and fight Satan each day. [p.24]
The Moonies wanted to keep me from pursuing some disturbing questions. I had discovered some glaring inconsistencies. It was dangerous for someone in my position in the organization to ask questions that couldn't be answered. [p.25]

Indeed, it was my ideals and my own fantasy of an ideal world that had lured me into the Moonies. Those ideals ultimately enabled me to walk out and publicy condemn cult mind control. [p.33]
They indoctrinate members to show only the best sides of the organization. Members are taught to suppress any negative feelings they have about the group and always show a continually smiling, "happy" face. [p.41]

In some cults, members are systematically made to be phobic about ever leaving the group. Today's cults know how to effectively implant vivid negative images deep within members' unconscious minds, making it impossible for the member to even conceive of ever being happy and successful outside of the group. [p.45] In the same way, cult phobias take away people's choices. Members truly believe they will be destroyed if they leave the safety of the group. They think there are no other ways for them to grow--spiritually, intellectually, or emotionally. They are virtually enslaved by this mind control technique. [p.46]

Islam's characteristics

Apostasy in Islam is the greatest sin. Apostates are to be shunned, ostracized and even killed 4:89, 9:66,

Allah's Apostle said, "The blood of a Muslim who confesses that none has the right to be worshipped but Allah and that I am His Apostle, cannot be shed except in three cases: In Qisas for murder, a married person who commits illegal sexual intercourse and the one who reverts from Islam (apostate) and leaves the Muslims." [Bukhari 9,83,17]

Ali burnt some people [hypocrites] and this news reached Ibn 'Abbas, who said, "Had I been in his place I would not have burnt them, as the Prophet said, 'Don't punish (anybody) with Allah's Punishment.' No doubt, I would have killed them, for the Prophet said, 'If somebody (a Muslim) discards his religion, kill him.'" [Bukhari 9,84,57]

Soon after the death of Muhammad, the fight over power started and tens of thousands of Muslims were killed due to infighting among the leaders and close relatives of Muhammad by fellow Muslims.

Often Muslims claim that after reading my articles their faith in Islam has grown. This is not entirely bluff. Oliver Wendell Holmes said: "The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract". Although Muslims may not regard themselves as observing Muslims, once Islam is criticized they feel their identity is under attack and tenaciously try to hold unto it even though they can't explain why.

Muslims believe Islam is the only true religion and they are the only people who do God's work.
Muslims are not allowed to ask certain questions that go to the core of Muhammad's claim. Questions such as how do we know that Muhammad was telling the truth are taboo. In Islam you are allowed to ask question about modality for example "please tell us about Islam" but you can't ask questions about the validity of Islam. Muslims are very sensitive about this issue and threat and violence may ensue.

Many people who convert to Islam do so because they project their own ideals on this religion but in reality they have very little understanding of Islam, its tenets and its violent history. Most of these converts ultimately leave Islam when they discover the truth.

his is typical of Islam where image is everything. Muslims have a tradition of dissimulation called Taqyyah. Deceiving others to portray Islam in the best lights is something every Muslim, including the newcomers learns to do from early on.

Fear of leaving Islam is inseminated in the mind of the Muslim in various ways. The most heavy-handed method is the fear of hellfire. This fear is so engrained in the mind of the Muslim that virtually paralyzes his thinking ability. Even the most brilliant Muslims become literally powerless vis-a`-vis the fear of the afterlife and facing a vengeful and tyrannical god. Then there is the fear of ostracism, loss of social prestige and even persecution and death. The Muslim is led to believe that life outside Islam does not exist and he is constantly reminded of the tremendous losses hat he would incur, both in this world and the next.

Based on the above, Islam is a cult. It is the biggest and the most successful cult. It practically reunites every feature of cult. Other cults may not be cultic in some of the above points. But Islam is cultic in every way and it would be a mistake to number it among religions just because over a billion people call themselves Muslims.

A Comparison:
Let us choose another cult, and compare it to Islam. Let us see if there are similarities between the two. For the purpose of this comparison I chose Aum Shinrikyo (Supreme Truth), the cult of the Japanese blind Messiah whose followers were involved in killing innocent people as a religious ritual.

AUM SUPREME TRUTH
Shoko Asahara, Japanese man founded a cult called the Aum Supreme truth "This apocalyptic sect and its charismatic, blind leader are suspected of releasing Sarin gas in five Tokyo subway stations the morning of March 20, 1995, killing 12 people (one dying a year after the attack) and sickening more than 5,500 others. The religious cult is also suspected of a similar gas attack in June, 1994 in Matsumoto, a town north of Tokyo, that killed seven people and wounded 144. Furthermore they are suspected of a series of slayings and kidnappings of anti-cult activists and of preparing to overthrow the Japanese government -- all in the name of "good karma."

ISLAM (SUBMISSION)
1400 years ago, Muhammad an illiterate charismatic Arab, founded a monotheistic cult called Islam. To promote his religion he prescribed holy wars (jihad). He taught that next to prayers and fasting, waging war against the disbelievers is the most praiseworthy and meritorious act. He was a single-minded man who stopped at nothing to achieve his goal. He raided villages and looted merchant caravans and killed anyone who stood in his way with no mercy. He won his wars mostly through deceit and by taking his victims by surprise. This prophet of dooms laid siege on Jewish quarters and cut the water to them until they surrendered, and then he either massacred the males including the boys who had reached puberty, taking their women and children as slaves or banished them after taking all their belongings. He ordered the boys be inspected and if they had grown pubic hair he joined them with men and slew them. Muhammad assassinated his opponents and critics. During the last ten years of his life, he waged over 76 wars and slew tens of thousands of people.

AUM SUPREME TRUTH

Asahara justified indiscriminate mass murder through the religious belief of "poa" -- a Tibetan Buddhist term for reincarnation to a higher existence. According to Shoko's twisted doomsday teachings, one can only save their soul through killing. Through the years Asahara developed a mumbo-jumbo collaged religious doctrine that resembled some sort of New Age-Hippie-Bhuddist-Mysticism. He even went on a pilgrimage to see Nostradamus expert Michel Chomarat at Lyon 's municipal library to gain new insights into divination. "

ISLAM

Muhammad justified indiscriminate mass murder through the religious belief of monotheism; a Middle Eastern dogma that claims this universe has a creator called Allah whose purpose of creation is to be known and be worshiped. But this can't be done except through his intermediaries of which Muhammad was the best and the last. According to Muhammad's twisted doomsday teachings, one can only serve Allah by forcing others into submission to his cult, even if that means killing those who differ. Through the years of withdrawal, and spending days at a time in a secluded cave, Muhammad developed a mumbo-jumbo collaged of religious doctrine that was a concoction of Judaism and Christianity and a hefty dose of rituals borrowed from Arabian paganism. He got some rudimentary insights in other monotheistic religions of the Middle East from Warraqa, the cousin of his first wife who was a Christian monk and some of his own followers who were Christian slaves.

AUM SUPREME TRUTH

To the New Age cocktail brewing in his head, Asahara added the incentive of world domination through violence that he taught to his followers. According to Shoko, a "poa" killing relieved victims from everyday life and the inevitable accumulation of bad karma. Thus what we call cold-blooded murder was regarded "as a beautiful 'poa,' and wise people would see that both the killer and the person killed would benefit"

ISLAM

To the monotheistic farce brewing in his head, Muhammad added the incentive of world domination through violence that he taught to his followers. According to Muhammad, killing the disbelievers in the name of Allah was the source of His pleasure. Thus terrorism was regarded as 'eJihad' or holy war. To cajole his followers to participate in these wars he promised them an orgiastic paradise filled with voluptuous celestial whores and "pearly boys", whether they kill or are killed in the battle.

Now let us suppose that there is a true religion. How we would distinguish it from the false cults? Obviously we cannot accept any charlatan and impostor who lays claim to be the messenger of God. How are we supposed to differentiate between the false prophets and the true ones? Why we should accept Islam and reject all other cults?

Muslims' major proof for the truth of Islam is that over one billion people are Muslims. They argue that "not all these people can be wrong." They believe in Islam because, as they say, it is the second biggest religion and it is the fastest growing one.

This is untrue because there are more Muslims who are leaving Islam. Today Over half of Iranians outside Iran do not call themselves Muslims and over 40% of them who still claim to be Muslims do not practice any Islamic rituals, like praying and fasting. We cannot have these statistics from inside of Iran but it is likely that once the present repressive regime of Iran is removed, most of the Iranians will denounce Islam and perhaps Muslims will become the minority in Iran .

Even if we accept revelation as the ultimate source of knowledge and religions as indispensable and the best guidance for human beings, we have to find which religion is true and which one is a cult. What are the parameters that we should use to separate one from the other?

In the final analysis, it is our own logic that should guide us in this uncharted territory. We have to use reason to test the truth. Having faith is not enough. We must put our faith to test of reason. The cult leaders, who fear that their false claims would not stand the test of reason, warn their followers not to question God for this is the greatest sin. They say it is not up to humans to test God but it is God who should test his servants. They would rather demand immediate and steadfast devotion without offering any proof. They assert that the blind faith is the sign of the purity of heart and assure that God loves those who believe without questioning and those who believe at once without questioning will be rewarded. Rewarded for what? Rewarded for gullibility... for credulity?

There are countless number of people who fall prey to the to mentally sick narcissist self-acclaimed messiahs that pup up in ever increasing numbers, every day. They number in thousands. We have to ask ourselves, would a wise and loving god give us a brain and the faculty to reason and then expect us to forgo its use when it comes to the most important decision in our lives, which is finding the right religion, which allegedly is the very purpose of our existence in this world that would determine whether we would have an eternal life in the paradise or would burn forever in the hellfire?

Islam is not the fastest growing religion. Falun Gong is. This Chinese religion, in just a few years has attracted more that 100 million followers. Islam's growth is the result of another social problem and that is the population explosion in the poor countries. Muslims, because of their religious fanaticism have been alienated from science. To them the real knowledge is revealed in the Quran and that is all they need to know. Early Muslims burned books and considered all sciences to be demonic. In fact, except for a short period, this mentality dominated the minds of the Muslims everywhere. Even Khomeini was of the opinion that the Quran is the only book that must be taught in the universities.

Therefore, unless they could find oil underground, Islamic countries remained mostly poor. The population in poor countries grow more rapidly and hence the number of Muslims. The number of westerners converting to Islam compared to the number of born Muslims diverting from it is negligible. Islam mostly appeals to the blacks in USA who are basically reacting against the white dominated Christianity and are in the search for their own identity and to the prison inmates who find Islam more in conformity with their proclivity.
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Ali Sina is the editor of Faithfreedom.org. He is has contributed in 'Beyond Jihad - Critical Voices from Inside Islam'. His latest book is Understanding Muhammad: The Psychobiography of Allah’s Prophet.