Saturday, September 18, 2010

Thursday, September 16, 2010

Doing it The Australian Way

...is the right way.




Blasphemy in the UK

An advert featuring a pregnant nun and the text ''Immaculately conceived''  was banned for being offensive to Catholics ahead of the visit of The Pope.



Wait, no papal decree calling for the ad creators to be executed? No angry demonstrations, burning of flags, embassies, cars, storming and smashing of advertising agencies (wouldn't be a bad idea..)?



Well, it doesn't say whether they burned or smashed anything on the way...

"The Koran clearly comes out to be a manual of loot, rape, torture and murder"

Koran-The Ultimate Truth



Because You Know, Women Are Respected in Islam...




This must be the equivalent of the pole dance...






Arabic Ass-Pogo Dance





Double Standard




Wednesday, September 15, 2010

More on "Honour" Killings

Honour killings: The genocide that Muslims inflict on themselves

Hat tip:
...and as she says:
 The Bible is the story of a people's journey out of barbarism.
The Koran is the story of a people's embrace of it.



"Bridge Building"

"No one walks the streets of Manhattan fearing a Methodist may blow up his office, hijack his flight, or kill his son fighting in Afghanistan."

Hat tip:

Recommended: The eternal flame of Muslim outrage by Michelle Malkin

Read here

Shameful "Honour" Killings: The Honour - Shame Paradigm

A masterful  page on the subject, and a report about it.


"The guilt/innocence perspective in which westerners live dictates much of our thinking in the west. However, not everyone in the world operates within this paradigm. As I mentioned earlier, while living in the Middle East I noticed that when the lifeguard at a swimming pool blew his whistle, the westerners all stopped to see who was guilty, but the Arabs kept right on swimming."
"As I observed this and other phenomena, I began to realize that Arabs and Arab society were operating in another whole dimension. Guilt did not have the same power and influence as it did in the west. While they were aware of guilt, it didn't have the same strong connotations for them as it had for me."
"If a policeman pulled me over, I immediately felt guilty, thinking that perhaps I had done something wrong. But when my Arab friends were pulled over, they didn't display any sign of guilt. They talked boldly to the policeman, and even argued loudly with him over the issues at hand."
"It was only after many years of living in a Muslim culture that it started to dawn on me that the Arabs around me were not operating on a level of guilt versus innocence. Nor were they operating in a fear versus power paradigm. I had heard much about this from missionaries living in Africa but it didn't seem to apply to the Arabs of the Levant. Rather, I discovered that Arabs were living in a worldview where the predominant paradigm was shame versus honor."


 (From Honor and Shame in a Middle Eastern Setting by Roland Muller)

“Peace will come to the Middle East when the Arabs love their children more than they hate us.” (Golda Meir)

My Muslim patients used to be pleasant and religion was not discussed...


""I am a physician in practice for twenty years.

I am also Jewish. I have never hidden this from my patients.

Not too long ago, I had a Muslim lady, wearing a veil, bring a young child to me. The patient had been having long-standing bowel problems and was losing weight. No other physician had been able to help.

In one visit the problem was solved. The mom called to make an appointment for me to see her other young child who also had a health problem that other physicians had been unable to help.

Before I saw the second patient the mother sent me a long e-mail. She announced that she had joined an international effort to boycott anyone, group or business that supports Israel. She wrote that if I support Israel she would no longer allow me to care for her children. She went on at length about how the Israelis are oppressing Muslims and are criminals who must be brought to justice.

I replied that I do support Israel as a Jewish state. I added that I question the wisdom of any mother who would deny her children quality medical care based on her politics.

She then sent me a short email saying that I am arrogant and that the real reason she will not return is that her kids hate me.

In twenty years of practice caring for people from many backgrounds I have never experienced such a situation.

My Muslim patients used to be pleasant and religion was not discussed. However, in the last few years something has changed with many of them. They are now demanding that I act according to their view of things or be punished in some way.

This ideology is demanding power and will never accept "No" for an answer."

The Caliphate

It's a stated principle of Islamic Fundamentalism that all lands which were once occupied by Muslims should be reconquered; the stated goal is then to return to the Caliphate days.
Nevertheless, according to this  Wikipedia entry, the Caliphate hasn't been well regarded by Muslim scholars:


"The Umayyads have met with a largely negative reception from later Islamic historians, who have accused them of promoting a kingship (mulk, a term with connotations of tyranny) instead of a true caliphate (khilafa). In this respect it is notable that the Umayyad caliphs referred to themselves, not as khalifat rasul Allah ("successor of the messenger of God", the title preferred by the tradition) but rather as khalifat Allah("deputy of God"). The distinction seems to indicate that the Umayyads "regarded themselves as God's representatives at the head of the community and saw no need to share their religious power with, or delegate it to, the emergent class of religious scholars."
"In fact, it was precisely this class of scholars, based largely in Iraq, that was responsible for collecting and recording the traditions that form the primary source material for the history of the Umayyad period. In reconstructing this history, therefore, it is necessary to rely mainly on sources, such as the histories of Tabari and Baladhuri, that were written in the Abbasid court at Baghdad."
"Modern Arab nationalism regards the period of the Umayyads as part of the Arab Golden Age which it sought to emulate and restore. This is particularly true of Syrian nationalists and the present-day state of Syria, centered like that of the Umayyads on Damascus. White, one of the four Pan-Arab colors which appear in various combinations on the flags of most Arab countries, is considered as representing the Umayyads."


Theological disputes concerning the Umayyads


Sunni opinions

"Sunni opinions of the Umayyad dynasty after Muawiyah are typically dim, viewing many of the rulers as sinners and the cause of great tribulation in the Ummah. For example, in the section concerning Quran 17:60 in the exegesis by al-Suyuti entitled Dur al-Manthur, the author writes that there exist traditions which describe the Umayyads as "the cursed tree". There are some exceptions to this -- Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz is commonly praised as one of the greatest Muslim rulers after the four Rightly Guided Caliphs."

Shi'a opinions






"The negative view of the Umayyads of Shiites is briefly expressed in the Shi'a book "Sulh al-Hasan". According to some sources Ali described them as the worst Fitna."

Stifling Debate Actually Equals Pouring Petrol on the Fire

The lack of criticism, the lack of discussion, and moreover the persecution of it, is what makes Islam a backward, intolerant religion, and the Arab world a miserable failed place.
The shutting down of criticism as "Islamaphobia" doesn't protect the Muslims, and it smacks of reverse racism*. It's like taking for granted that they will always be prone to tantrums, and therefore we should accord them preferential treatment. 
Muslims had better get used to the ways of civilization, where everything is questioned and brought up to rational discussion, and where everything may be made fun of. In other words: you towel headed, goat-fuckers, get used to being slap-bitched!!  

*"That black kid started a fight with that white kid but we're only going to suspend the white kid because we don't want to be racist against black people." - Liberal Principal (or Conservative Principal scared of a lawsuit) 

"Wait, isn't that reverse racism?" - White kid 

"Shut up, you're suspended too!" - Principal

Do We Need to Be Less Polite About Religion?

Posted by Frank J. on September 13, 2010 at 1:03 pm
Maybe part of the problem these days is we’re too polite about religion. Basically, in society you either ignore religious differences and act like all religions are the same or you burn Korans, but there isn’t really anything in between. There is no actual public, polite discussion of whether some religions are flawed or some are better than others. That just isn’t done. You all remember the reactions when Brit Hume actually suggested that maybe Christianity was superior Buddhism; that’s something every Christian should believe, but mentioning out loud was national news.
In this country, the civilized view is that religions teach pretty much the same thing and the differences are just a cultural thing — one religion is no better than the other. To even question religion is like making fun of someone’s clothing from their native country (except if you’re an atheist questioning Christians, as they’re not the minority and known to be used to that sort of thing). And if anything bad pops up about a religion, it’s just waved off as extremists without even checking if those tenets are core to the religion or not. But religion is supposed to be more important than that in this country. Most people here call themselves Christians, and Christianity is in direct conflict with the beliefs of Islam, but how many Christians are actually able to argue for the beliefs of Christianity over that of Islam? That’s left for a few kooks shouting about how Mohammad was a pedophile.
Anyway, maybe the reason so many Muslims freak out over silly things like pictures of Mohammad is they aren’t as used to their religion being questioned as Christians in this country are. And they are going to continue to be that way if they get coddled. Basically, the only way to ensure moderation in a religion is to make sure it’s used to polite questioning. There needs to be more of a discussion of religion in this country, and not just in a happy, “Yay all religions!” way. But also not in a shouting “Islam is of the devil!” way. An academic discussion — something you’d think a country as religious as this one would be used to.