Month: August 2009

What Islam Says about Music

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From Islam-Watch: Big H/T to jdamn for this.

When non-Muslims, particularly Westerners, hear the news of Islamists burning/vandalizing music stores in Pakistan, they get struck with disbelief. How could this be possibly true a religion prohibit music? Here’s what Islam truly says about music…

Islam bans, prohibits, music
Star singer Cat Steven (Yusuf Islam) gave up music
after converting to Islam, but later realized it’s hard
being pure Muslim and returned to singing.

Is music forbidden in Islam? This article will consider this question.

It is often said that music is prohibited in Islam. Upon hearing this statement most people doubt that such an absurd claim could possibly be true.

If the religion of Islam actually does forbid music, even the majority of devout Muslims would probably find this to be very strange and a cause for concern. Why in the world would a religion prohibit Music? Do any other minor or major religions prohibit music? What did Muhammad have to say about this matter? This article will also consider the many benefits of music.

Let’s examine what the Islamic texts and traditions have to say about this subject. The first two hadiths that we will consider have been selected from Sahih Bukhari, what, Muslims believe, to be canonical text of Islam. Muslims believe them to be authentic utterances of the Islamic prophet and should therefore be obeyed.

Hadith: Sahih Bukhari: Volume 7, Book 69, Number 494v:

Narrated Abu ‘Amir or Abu Malik Al-Ash’ari:
that he heard the Prophet saying, “From among my followers there will be some people who will consider illegal sexual intercourse, the wearing of silk, the drinking of alcoholic drinks and the use of musical instruments, as lawful. And there will be some people who will stay near the side of a mountain and in the evening their shepherd will come to them with their sheep and ask them for something, but they will say to him, ‘Return to us tomorrow.’ Allah will destroy them during the night and will let the mountain fall on them, and He will transform the rest of them into monkeys and pigs and they will remain so till the Day of Resurrection.”

Hadith: Sunan Abu-Dawud: Book 41, Number 4909:

Narrated Abdullah ibn Mas’ud:

Salam ibn Miskin, quoting an old man who witnessed AbuWa’il in a wedding feast, said: They began to play, amuse and sing. He united the support of his hand round his knees that were drawn up, and said: I heard Abdullah (ibn Mas’ud) say: I heard the apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) say: Singing produces hypocrisy in the heart.

Hadith Qudsi 19:5:

“The Prophet said that Allah commanded him to destroy all the musical instruments, idols, crosses and all the trappings of ignorance.”

Muhammad also said:

  1. “Allah Mighty and Majestic sent me as a guidance and mercy to believers and commanded me to do away with musical instruments, flutes, strings, crucifixes, and the affair of the pre-Islamic period of ignorance.”
  2. “On the Day of Resurrection, Allah will pour molten lead into the ears of whoever sits listening to a songstress.”
  3. “Song makes hypocrisy grow in the heart as water does herbage.”
  4. “This community will experience the swallowing up of some people by the earth, metamorphosis of some into animals, and being rained upon with stones.” Someone asked, “When will this be, O Messenger of Allah?” and he said, “When songstresses and musical instruments appear and wine is held to be lawful.”
  5. “There will be peoples of my Community who will hold fornication, silk, wine, and musical instruments to be lawful ….” — ‘Umdat al-Salik r40.0 Continue Reading →

British police attacked by Muslim mob

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Strange that the Muslim community asks for and gets protection from protesters that committed no violence the last time they marched. Not so strange is the fact that the Muslims have enough influence to force Britons to change the laws concerning having demonstrations. Also not so surprising that as there were no anti Islam protesters to attack the Muslim mob attacks the dhimmi police force sent to protect the Muslim community.

BBCNEWS… Police have condemned a mob of 200 Asian youths who attacked officers and threw fireworks in Luton.

Riot police were called to Bury Park after youths attacked local police on Sunday. Two people were arrested.

Local officers were there at the request of the Asian community to protect the group from a right wing march, but no protesters turned up.

Ch Supt Andy Frost said he was “extremely disappointed” his officers had been attacked.

He said: “Although this incident was contained within Bury Park it has again put Luton under the spotlight for the wrong reasons.

“The town has enjoyed excellent community relations for a number of years but it seems a small minority has let Luton down.”

A police spokeswoman said one person arrested during the disorder had been released and the second was waiting to be questioned.

Angry scenes

Police said protesters had been deterred from the planned march by a banning order approved by Home Secretary Alan Johnson last week.

Luton Borough Council and Bedfordshire Police were granted a three-month banning order on public processions by four named organisations or associated groups.

Police previously said residents and businesses feared a repeat of the violence and disorder which erupted when the groups previously marched in the town and elsewhere.

Protest plans by March for England, UK Casuals United, United People of Luton and English Defence League had increased tensions in Luton, they added.

Angry scenes broke out in March when a small number of Muslims held an anti-war protest during a homecoming parade of British troops.

[Addendum: here is another post by BBC. Amuse thyself at the refrences to “asian Youngsters.” Im surprised they didnt use the word ‘capricious’ in there. No mention of Muslims at all. If I happened to be Japanese or Chinese, Korean etc. I think I would be fuming and possibly suing the BBC about now.  Eeyore]

Police evict illegal Iraqis from church basement in Denmark. Video:

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Below the video and fold I will post a fair amount of information and links to this event. But you may also learn in the video itself why the Islamic world never really developed any serious piano virtuosos.

First, the video:

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Gang of black youths beat up 11 year old Jewish girl. Use anti semitic slurs

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From Vosizneias.com:

h/t The Baron:

Crown Heights, NY – An 11-year-old Jewish girl was attacked at a Crown Heights playground by a band of black youths who slammed her into a metal slide, kicked her repeatedly – and pelted her with anti-Semitic invective, the girl’s mom said.

“Dumb Jew! B—-! Why are you here? Why are you in this world?” the boys screamed as they pummeled Nechama Benjamin at a Montgomery St. playground.

The shocking attack by at least three boys is being investigated by police. The beating caused Nechama to black out and left her with a bloody nose – and a terrible fear of leaving home, her mom said.

“My daughter told me she is afraid to go out, to go to the park – to go anywhere,” said Elka Benjamin, 31. Continue Reading →

New UK documentary segment on the rapid Islamification of England.

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I used to like horror films. Not so much now:

Suicide bomber gets a bum rap in Saudi Arabia:

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Here is something you just don’t read ever day:

Okaz sources said the bomb was implanted in the attacker’s rectum, which could explain why he refused to drink coffee at the Prince’s Court.

H/T Fred over at Gay and right. (Now now, no jokes please.)

From The Saudi Gazzette:
Qaeda attack on Prince part of wider plot
By Abdullah Al-Orefij

RIYADH – The failed assassination attempt on Prince Muhammad Bin Naif, Assistant Minister of Interior for Security Affairs, Thursday night was planned by Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula which operates from Yemen, sources confirmed.
The suicide bomber was recruited by Yemeni Nasser Al-Wohaishi, known also by the nom de guerre Abu Baseer, the sources said.
Al-Wohaishi is the head of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, which had announced in an Internet posting last January the merger of the Saudi and Yemeni branches of Al-Qaeda.
The merger was seen by analysts as an attempt to consolidate after the Saudi branch of Al-Qaeda was practically wiped out following a vigorous counter-terrorism campaign led by Prince Muhammad.
According to Okaz sources, the bomber who detonated himself only a meter away from the Prince was part of a terrorist cell formed to target oil installations and public figures.
The sources said the bomber stayed in an apartment on Sari Street, northwest of Jeddah, Thursday.
He had slipped into the Kingdom from Mareb, east of Sana’a, Yemen’s Foreign Minister Abu-Bakr Al-Qirbi told The Associated Press.
“He was in Yemen,” said Al-Qirbi. “He claimed that he was going to hand himself over to Saudi authorities and make a statement to his followers to abandon Al-Qaeda principles.”
Okaz sources said the bomb was implanted in the attacker’s rectum, which could explain why he refused to drink coffee at the Prince’s Court. Continue Reading →

Political Islam: Bulletin of Jew hatred Aug 29 09

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Bill warner produces a few excellent and well researched bulletins on a regular basis. Please go to Political Islam and sign up for them. This is information that people need to know, yet the news simply will not report.

From Political Islam:

Bulletin of Jew Hatred – August 29, 2009

Facts without comments – we collect the dots, you connect them

Please distribute this bulletin and send us events that you find.
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 Summaries:

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Israel: UN witholding details of Iran’s nuclear program

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Very much looking forward to reading Stratfor.com’s report on this. I think Stratfor missed the boat on this by such a wide margin, it may be a deal breaker on my subscription.

Eeyore:

From Haaretz.com:

The Foreign Ministry on Saturday issued a statement accusing the International Atomic Energy Agency of not publishing information gathered against Iran’s nuclear energy program.

The statement alleges that an IAEA report on Iran’s nuclear energy program released on Friday “does not reflect the entirety of the information the IAEA holds on Iran’s efforts to advance their military program, nor their continued efforts to conceal and deceive and their refusal to cooperate with the IAEA and the international community.”

According to the statement, Israel expects the international community “to quickly take significance steps to cancel Iran’s nuclear weapons program.”

The Foreign Ministry statement comes ahead of next month’s annual IAEA committee meeting in Vienna and a special UN Security Council meeting to discuss Iran’s nuclear program.

The statement also accuses Iran of “foot-dragging” and continuing to ignore IAEA questions about its nuclear program and “continues to avoid adhering to Security Council demands to stop enriching uranium.” Continue Reading →

Muslim gangs in Germany.

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This is terrifying at so many levels. The gangs of immigrants have learned the leftist narrative well. They tell us and each other that since the government or ‘the street’ will not give them everything they want, that they have no choice but to commit violent crime, kill police and threaten politicians. The rhetoric is as much or more disturbing than the violence as you know there is a massive government bureaucracy dedicated to propagating and supporting those myths.

Special thanks to E.S.W. for the translation on this:

The bit at the end, about this not being political, amazing nonsense. After the gangs specifically described the problem as a political one and threatening all polititians in Germany. Such emetic dhimmitude.

Sudan, slavery, starvation and Islam.

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So hold on a second…. “We shouldn’t fight Islam because Islam is just where Christianity was a few hundred years ago so since ‘we’ did it, we really should allow ‘them’ to do it and someday ‘they’ will be ‘us’.”

I have heard variants on this preposterous bit of pseudo-reasoning for years now. There is so much wrong with it I do not have the time or patience to type it all out. I will offer two things though, 1. if it was wrong for Christians to do (whatever aspect of Islamic horror we are discussing which most likely Christians NEVER did, and certainly not in accordance with dogma) then, it is wrong for Muslims to do it now. 2. Thanks very much to KitmanTV, we see a contemporary example of Islam in Africa which frankly, any attempt to rationalize away or justify with the intellectual slight of hand of  the kind of historical relativism I illustrated above, is simply repugnant and borderline criminal. Watch this please. And send this link to anyone who gives that obscene argument or any variant of it.

Link: Slavery sudan

It wasn’t all that long ago, that Britian sent its gunboats up various African rivers and shelled the palaces of kings and leaders who would not abandon the slave trade. England has changed quite a bit since then I would say.

Al Qaeda in Brazil, Part 3: The Land of the Dumb and the Stupid

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Another stunning post right from Gates of Vienna:

by Baron Bodissey

Our Brazilian correspondent Rocha has translated a fascinating article about the activities of Al Qaeda in Brazil. Here’s what Rocha has to say about it:

Once in a while I see interesting news stories about Brazil. Here is one of them. The writer is Josias de Souza, a columnist who writes for Folha de São Paulo, the biggest Brazilian newspaper.

He is also a leftie, but apart from Reinaldo Azevedo and Olavo de Carvalho, who isn’t in Brazilian newspapers?

And the translated article:

Police chief describes how “terrorism” infiltrates Brazil

  • In the past, extremists used the country as a stopover
  • Then they adopted children of prostitutes to stay in the country
  • After that, they seduced Brazilians with a “radical song”
  • Now they prepare actions from here against targets abroad

The revelations above were made by Police Chief Daniel Lorenz. Until the beginning of June he was the director of intelligence of Policia Federal [Brazilian FBI]. A week after leaving his office, he spoke to an audience at the Commission of Public Safety of the House of Representatives.

The session was convened by Raul Jungmann (PPS-PE), president of the commission, with the purpose of identifying the “actions of members of terrorist groups” in Brazil. The reporter received, last week, copy of the transcript from the audience. This Sunday (23), Jungmann published the full text on his blog.

Lorenz measured his words: “As the session is an open one, I will not enter into details in this matter.” Yet he delineated a crystal-clear scene. He said that PF only began to worry about terrorism in 1995.

Since that time the problem has been aggravated. Lorenz divided the crisis into four stages. In the beginning, Brazil was used by terrorists as a stopover. Today, said the Police Chief, the country is already a headquarters for the preparation of attacks on targets abroad.

Below is a summary of the four stages described by the Police Chief:

1. First stage: It was in this stage that PF determined that foreign “extremists” were using Brazil as an stopover. They passed mainly through the region of the tri-border area (Brazil-Argentina-Paraguay).

Lorenz confirmed something that was already in the news. In 1995 Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, who would be known as the third man in the hierarchy of Al Qaeda, “entered by Rio de Janeiro and left by São Paulo.” The terrorist stayed briefly in Foz do Iguaçu.

The Police Chief was sorry because he could not go into details. But made it clear that Shaikh Mohammed was not here on vacation. “He was there, evidently, not to drink a beer nor to be a part of Carnaval, much less for the end-of-year festivities.”

Arrested in Pakistan in 2003, Shaikh Mohammed was taken to the yankee prison of Guantanamo and accused of participating in the September 11 attacks.

2. Second stage: Extremists used the laxness of Brazilian laws to “legalize” their permanence in the country. “I will not enter into details, because I can’t talk about it,” was the excuse again for Lorenz. But he specified:

“They sought a permanent visa in the country by means of […] adoption of Brazilians. That is, the adoption of the children of other people. They got close to women of easy living [prostitutes], adopted their children, and gained the condition of permanent residence in Brazil. That happened, that was the result, and that was very much followed by us. That would be the second moment.” Continue Reading →

More ‘no go zones’ in Europe and reckless use of force.

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First, from The Gates of Vienna, a story of reckless violence followed by pathetic dhimmitude in Holland. I have been procrastinating on posting this literally all day as I saw it early, but it is so depressing.

Friday, August 28, 2009

Trouble at the Beach

by Baron Bodissey

Our expatriate Dutch correspondent H. Numan files a brief report on la crise du jour in the Netherlands:

We have a major political crisis in development:

Shooting at Hoek van HollandLast weekend a big free dance festival was organized in Hook of Holland (a beach area that is part of Rotterdam). Suddenly a few men drew guns and opened fire. One person got hit and died. Others were injured.

The stinker? It was the police who opened fire!

Plainclothes officers felt threatened by hooligans who recognized them. That was the kick-off.

The mayor of Rotterdam, Mr. Ahmed Aboutaleb (the nice guy with two passports) immediately forbade this kind of public event in his town. Forever.

As panem et circenses are rather important for a socialist party, that doesn’t fly very well, to say the least. Continue Reading →

Keystone Muslims:

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Well, most of us have a good idea of what a Scotsman has under his kilt. But more and more these days what lies under a burka is a gun. Of course, we have no idea if the people committing this robbery are Muslim or not, but we do clearly know the consequences of allowing people to wander the streets completely stripped of any identity.

Link: Burka Bandits