A couple of videos: Sufis protest a perfume logo, and Dr. Bill Warner on aspects of the five pillars

Sufi students protest at Roberto Cavalli perfume logo’s similarity to sacred symbol

The students say the Italian designer has replicated a sacred Sufi symbol on his Just Cavalli scent and plan to protest in London. The Cavalli company insists it’s done nothing wrong

(And of course they have not. If it is sacred to Sufis then they should be sure not to use it on a perfume bottle. But for those of us to whom it is not sacred, we are under no obligations. Next think you know, McDonalds will be besieged by raging foaming offended tards because they use the sacred letter M, as their logo, the first letter of their avatar’s name to sell cheap burgers only digestible by people under 21) More here

I added the following comment at the Guardian:

I think the central point is missing. A sacred symbol is sacred for those to whom is it sacred and therefore, those people should be careful as to how they use it for the sake of their own world view. For the rest of us, it is not sacred and we have no obligation to consign it to sole use of those to whom it is.

It is insane to allow a group to claim that a thing is somehow magically important and then forbid the rest of the world to use it in any other way. This is a uniquely Islamic thing to do and suggests an underlying tyrannical streak in my opinion.

Notice how widely various people from porn actors to horror films use crosses. No protests by the church. At least they understand the correct limits of ownership of symbols.

The entire value of the enlightenment was to remove this kind of dominance from irrational religious authority. We are dangerously close, in the name of cultural Marxism, to undoing the enlightenment itself. No symbol is sacred except to those who choose to make it so, for their own purposes only. To force it to be sacred to others is to make it a fetish.

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  1. Christian Pastor in Uganda Attacked by Muslims with buckets of Acid

    This man of G-d was born to follow Mohammed and raised to disseminate dawa filth. Then he heard the call of Christ and knew truth. His courage to spread the “good news” was rewarded by a world of pain.

    After 2 years in hospital in Israel, he’s ready to go back to his family and his church. But first he’s asked to say a few words to the public.

    Starting at 6:03 is a message to Christians – a sermon more powerful than any you’re likely to hear at church tomorrow.

    Then he’s asked what he’d tell others watching the video – Jews, secular people in the West. He’s just as direct, just as powerful as a biblical prophet.

    http://youtu.be/X55bcNuMhKI

    (This YankeeKafir cried.)