Bill Warner: Some excellent insights on mockery and Islam

28 May from Political Islam.

Mohammed’s Kartoon Kafirs

Mohammed’s Kartoon Kafirs

by Kenneth Roberts

May 28, 2010

In the TV sitcom ‘Green Acres’, Oliver Wendell Douglas, a New York attorney runs for public office against the popular incumbent. A rumor starts, suggesting that Douglas had been debarred as a lawyer. Though not true, the rural folk keep repeating the lie during the campaign, until everyone accepts it as an established fact… and besides, it’s highly amusing to repeat the slander. Candidate Douglas is frustrated beyond endurance. Even though he is an accomplished attorney, he doesn’t stand a chance against this entrenched prejudice.

In the Koran, Mohammed uses the same technique. All sorts of things in the Koran are no more than cartoonish misrepresentations of people and other religions, but Moslems have no problem accepting them as established facts, merely because Mohammed said so and repeated them over and over, giving them divine authority… and besides, Mohammed’s caricatures are highly amusing! Cartoons work. Hyperbole works. They entertain. They work viscerally by circumventing the intellect and appealing directly to the emotions through laughter and sneering mockery. A thing doesn’t have to be true to be fun!

Mocking outsiders is fun! It puts ‘them’ down, puts ‘us’ above them and thus dehumanizes ‘them’. ‘We’ get control of ‘them’.

According to Mohammed, not only do kafir-subhumans deserve to be mocked, but they basically lack a right to share the earth with Moslems. They are on earth by the kind permission and mercy of Moslems who magnanimously restrain themselves from removing the kafirs altogether. By mocking their legitimate overlords (the Moslems), kafirs lose their right to exist on earth. That is the Sunna, the example, of Mohammed.

In the TV episode, lawyer Douglas starts shouting, ‘I was not debarred!’ but no one hears him over the howls of bemused laughter. Mohammed discovered how effective laughing at one’s opponents could be. He mocked all who didn’t follow him, starting with the Jews, calling them sons of pigs and apes, and at other times calling them ‘donkeys carrying the Taurat’. Mohammed refused to pronounce it ‘Torah’. He distorted the names of people in the Bible as well, no doubt to make them sound funny. He told humiliating stories about Biblical heroes. Abraham had a humorous scrotal hernia. Talking rocks stole Abraham’s clothes and ran away with them. Solomon bends over and overhears the language of ants. Trees, clouds and other objects in nature come alive and speak. Such imagery could come out of Tom and Jerry, but it is there in Mohammed’s holy book revealed by his god, who only communicated with Mohammed. Mohammed also hired writers to lampoon his enemies in limericks. Mohammed could not take a joke at his own expense. No! Mohammed’s narcissism was sacred! And poking fun at it was an unforgivable act of high treason punishable by death! He had writers assassinated who lampooned him.

Of course, as with other matters, Mohammed gave himself a monopoly on cartoons. He wanted his opponents to be unarmed in the matter of satirizing him…as do pious Moslems today. Today, Moslems claim the right to satirize Jews, Americans, the British, the Pope and anyone else. But no one may satirize them. Moslems place themselves and their collective offended narcissism above comment. To criticize Moslems is an act of high treason against our divinely-appointed overlords!

We are never told why Mohammed’s narcissism needs defending more than another’s narcissism. We are merely told that Mohammed taught his followers to defend his narcissism by assassinating critics…and that this is confirmed in Islamic law. Continue Reading →

Syria using secret bases to arm Hizbulah against Israel

From Israel Insider:

Israel is likely to send a “calibrated signal” to Hezbollah and Syria by launching a precise airstrike against a weapons convoy are increasing, the Times of London reported Friday, following reports of Israeli plans to bomb a Syrian arms convey as it crossed the border into Lebanon. The Israeli strike was reportedly called off at the last minute.

Friday’s report covered tensions in the region, and cited satellite images of secret arms depots in Syria, in which surface-to-surface missiles destined for Hezbollah are stored. The report said the Times has been shown images of one such site, located in a compound near the town of Adra, northeast of Damascus. The site reportedly includes living quarters for Hezbollah fighters, arms sheds and a fleet of trucks used for transferring weapons. The facility is believed to be one of several used as a base for weapons deliveries.

“Hezbollah is allowed to operate this site freely,” a security source told the paper. “They often move the arms in bad weather when Israeli satellites are unable to track them.” The weapons in question are either of Syrian origin, or are delivered from Iran by sea or by air. A UN report obtained by the AP indicated that North Korea is supplying nuclear and other military technology in large quantities to Syria and Iran. Continue Reading →

Push to let Australian doctors mutilate genitals of baby girls

This of course has been happening all over the Western world where Muslims have migrated with sufficient numbers to change the ‘it’s a crime’ to, ‘this is our cultural right’ ratios.

From News.Com AU

  • Genitals would be cut in clinical setting
  • Attempt to stop backstreet mutilations
  • Practice common among African immigrants

AUSTRALIAN doctors are considering a controversial form of genital mutilation on baby girls.

The practice involving cutting a girl’s genitals, sometimes with razors or pieces of glass, could be allowed in a clinical setting to stem illegal backyard procedures which are leaving young girls scarred for life.

The Royal Australian New Zealand College of Obstetricians will next month discuss backing “ritual nicks”, a modified form of genital mutilation. Continue Reading →

War on terror over. Now, war is against CO2

Now Greenpeace and Obama are both at war with actual elements. Good luck on that.

H/T to oxAO with thanks

From the Telegraph:

Barack Obama declares the ‘War on Terror’ is over

President Barack Obama has rejected George W. Bush’s doctrine that placed the “war on terror” at the centre of American foreign policy,

By Toby Harnden in Washington
Published: 10:00PM BST 27 May 2010

Barack Obama declares the 'War on Terror' is over

Barack Obama Photo: REUTERS

The US president has instead replaced it with a softer approach stressing “new partnerships” and multilateral diplomacy.

“Our long-term security will not come from our ability to instill fear in other peoples but through our capacity to speak to their hopes,” Mr Obama said in a message introducing a new national security strategy.

Continue Reading →

Poland: Muslim Brotherhood to construct new mega mosque in Warsaw

From Sheikyermami:

by sheikyermami on March 28, 2010

Polish protest Saudi financed mosque: “Today, the mosque – tomorrow the Jihad”

“We oppose a mosque built with Saudi money when it’s illegal to have a Bible or cross in Saudi Arabia,” said Rafal Zak, a 31-year-old real estate agent. + (Islamization Watch)

Smelling the coffee?  ”Radical Islam, no thanks.” On posters said “Stop the Radicals” and “Political Islam is a threat to Europe.”

Another Dragon Egg for EUrabia. Earlier today we posted about Austria, here

Update 1. Stockholm: Saudi prince to finance mosque

The ‘million program’ district of Tensta, is about to have Stockholm’s largest mosques. A giant building (11,000 sqm) of Andalusian style is planned at the outskirts of the suburb, clearly visible from the E18

“There are lots of Muslims in northern Stockholm who today have to have to be content with going to associations [mosques] in cellars. We’ll build a big mosque for them with place for 3,000 visitors,” says imam Abdel Karim Laallam of the Stockholm’s Grand Mosque Foundation, which bought the land already in the 1990s.

For the rest of this important article please visit the good Sheik

Calculating the Cost of Cultural Enrichment in the Netherlands

by Baron Bodissey

“The second generation of non-Western immigrants makes greater use of collective provisions and contributes less in taxes and social security premiums than the average citizen.”

Last year Geert Wilders asked the Dutch government to prepare a cost-benefit analysis of immigration into the Netherlands, so that voters could make an informed decision about whether mass immigration from the Third World should be halted. The government refused his request, so his party commissioned a report from NYFER, a private research firm, to assess the overall net cost of immigration.

As Mr. Wilders mentioned in his speech last week, the results are in, and the report has been published. The full NYFER report (in Dutch, pdf) is available online, and the conclusions (in Dutch, pdf) have also been posted.

Our Flemish correspondent VH has kindly translated NYFER’s conclusions for Gates of Vienna. It’s easy to see why the Dutch government was reluctant to look into the matter: for the last ten years, the net cost of immigration to the Netherlands has been €7.2 billion annually.

Below is the PVV’s introduction to the report, followed by the entire text of the conclusions as reported by NYFER and published by the Party for Freedom:

10 years’ immigration in the Netherlands costs 72 billion euros

The Dutch government [the Balkenende Cabinet] refused last year to investigate the cost of mass immigration at the request of the PVV fraction. The research institute NYFER has now conducted this study, as commissioned by the PVV. The results are shocking. The Party for Freedom is pleased that the taxpayers will finally get what they are entitled to: insight into what happens with their money. Continue Reading →

STRATFOR: India: Blast Derails 13 Express Train Coaches

May 27, 2010 STRATFOR
Heavy casualties were feared after an early morning blast caused 13 coaches of a Mumbai-bound express train to derail, PTI reported May 27. The blast hit the railway lines around 1:30 a.m. local time, causing the Howrah-Kurla Lokmanya Tilak Gyaneshwari Super Deluxe Express to fall onto the down line where it was hit by a goods train in West Midnapore district, between Khemasoli and Sardiya stations.

More from NGNEWS:

CALCUTTA, India – Indian media reports say heavy casualties are feared after a passenger train was derailed by an explosion then hit by another train as it travelled through a rebel stronghold of eastern India.

Press Trust of India news agency reports that 13 passenger coaches on a Mumbai-bound train derailed after an explosion early Friday on the railway line. Those coaches were then hit by a cargo train coming from the other direction.

The passenger train, which had left Calcutta, was passing through an area that has faced repeated attacks by India’s Maoist rebels.

Railways officials told the agency that “heavy casualties” were feared.

Al Jazeera:
Deaths in India train collision

Officials say an explosion derailed one train pushing it into the path of an oncoming goods train

At least 15 people have been killed and dozens more injured after an explosion derailed an overnight passenger train in northeastern India, flinging its coaches into the path of an oncoming goods train.

A spokesman for Indian railways said sabotage was suspected as the cause of the collision.

The incident occured early on Friday in an area of West Bengal state known to be a stronghold of Maoist fighters.

Reports from the site described a scene of chaos with several passenger cars badly damaged and many dead and injured.

The Press Trust of India reported that 15 people had been killed, but other reports quoted higher figures. Continue Reading →

Document says number of attempted attacks on U.S. is at all-time high

CNN News: with a thanks to OXAO

From Carol Cratty, CNN
May 27, 2010 — Updated 0538 GMT (1338 HKT)

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STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • DHS memo says number and pace of attempted attacks have surpassed “any other previous one-year period”
  • Attacks are expected to be attempted with “increased frequency,” document warns
  • Report cites recent cases of homegrown terrorism, including failed Times Square bombing
  • Terror groups are increasingly using westerners as operatives, report says

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Washington (CNN) — Just weeks after the failed car bombing of New York’s Times Square, the Department of Homeland Security says “the number and pace of attempted attacks against the United States over the past nine months have surpassed the number of attempts during any other previous one-year period.”

That grim assessment is contained in an unclassified DHS intelligence memo prepared for various law enforcement groups, which says terror groups are expected to try attacks inside the United States with “increased frequency.”

CNN obtained a copy of the document, dated May 21, which goes on to warn, “we have to operate under the premise that other operatives are in the country and could advance plotting with little or no warning.”

The intelligence note says recent attempted terror attacks have used operatives and tactics which made the plots hard to detect. Continue Reading →

Four MPs on terror hit list

H/T Don with thanks

From Channel 4 news:

By Channel 4 News

Updated on 27 May 2010

Exclusive: Police have warned four east London MPs their names were on a terrorist hit list, Channel 4 News’s political correspondent Cathy Newman has learnt.

Police

Former minister Jim Fitzpatrick, the Labour MP for Poplar and Limehouse, is among the four MPs who have been offered advice and assistance by the police.

Channel 4 News understands Scotland Yard is reviewing security for all 650 members of parliament in the wake of fears over Islamist extremists.

Senior police sources have expressed concern that politicians may be at risk from so-called “self-radicalisers” – lone extremists who are not part of an organised plot but who are inspired by al-Qaida. Scotland Yard tonight declined to comment.

The disclosure comes two weeks after the former minister Stephen Timms was stabbed while speaking to constituents. The attack in east London by a young Asian woman is now being treated as a terrorist investigation. His assailant is believed to have been radicalised by Islamist extremists.

Budget cuts
The home secretary today announced a £10m reduction in this year’s counter-terrorism policing budget, as part of £367m in Home Office savings.

The news, which was buried in a written ministerial answer, has caused fury among Labour and the Conservatives. Continue Reading →

Guantanamo catch and release. Great results.

From STRATFOR:

Yemen: New AQAP Leader Named
May 27, 2010
A new Saudi leader of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula was introduced in a recently released video, Al Arabiya reported May 27. The leader was identified as Uthman Ahmad al-Ghamidi, 31, who was released from Guantanamo in June 2006. He spent more than four years there after he was arrested in Afghanistan.

Fjordman: On US security policy.

From Diana West.net

From Fjordman, a story about the Obama administration’s new security strategy. Call it the rope the Obama adminstration is selling — sorry, making us buy — to hang ourselves.

From today’s Telegraph report

“We’ve seen an increasing number of individuals here in the United States become captivated by extremist activities or causes,” said John Brennan, deputy national security advisor for counter-terrorism and homeland security. “The president’s national security strategy explicitly recognises the threat to the United States posed by individuals radicalised here at home,” Mr Brennan said Wednesday at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Major Nidal Hasan, an American-born army psychiatrist who is the only suspect in the killing of 13 people at Fort Hood army base last year, was allegedly drawn to radical thought while serving in the armed forces.

For the rest please click on over to Diana’s site

Sweden’s integration minister upset about forced ‘marriage’ in Malmo

The Swedish authorities seem to be noticing some of the more illiberal aspects to their multicultural paradise. The following is a machine translation from this Swedish newspaper. While its a tad rough, you will get the idea. Sooner or later, even the Swedes had to notice that Islam will clash with any other notion of basic human rights and the dignity and person-hood of women.

We want to stop forced marriages:

TYRANNY We note that honor repression has been accused of racism, but forced marriages exist in Sweden. (FP). Therefore, the government presents today a new strategy to prevent young are married against their will, writes Nyamko Sabuni (PF).

A girl in Malmö was married when she was in fifth grade.  She was twelve years old. The following year she started in sixth grade.  Still too young to drive a moped, see adult films at the cinema or even get the scores.  By that time she lived with her husband and gave birth to her first child.  This was depicted in a series of articles about forced marriages in Sydsvenska Dagbladet.  At least 25 high school girls Scanian was reported to be married every summer, but that the community responded.

It has long been lacking a solid knowledge of forced marriage in Sweden. Those of us who warned of honor repression has been questioned. Like when the Socialist government investigators Masoud Kamali accused us of fomenting racism.

But culture relative addicts can no longer deny that this oppression affects thousands of young people. A number of institutions on behalf of the Government reported on the prevalence of violence and oppression. According to the Youth Board, there are at least 70 000 young people who feel that parents, religion and culture set limits on who they can marry.

In two studies (Socialstyrelsen Stockholm University in 2007 and 2009) found that among young people living with limitations related to marriage are those who are vulnerable to psychological and physical violence by parents or other relatives.  A review of county court judgments, which were seized as young as a result of, for example, domestic violence, shows that one third of all convictions in 2007 were girls (who) were (victims of)  honor (related crimes). Most had been victims of violence by relatives, sometimes for years.  Half had been threatened to death.  Almost all had received themselves take the initiative to seek help.

The picture is alarming. Today the government decides on a strategy for continued work to prevent young people are married against their will. The focus is on strengthening prevention, support and protection, improved collaboration between agencies and increased knowledge.

. • Protection against forced marriages and child marriages are tightened. Investigator of Justice Goran Lambertz Council, has been asked to suggest how including forced marriages and child marriages may be criminalized.

• Rehabilitation of the victims of honor crimes. Children who are disposed to honor because of repression may have been victims of violence for a long time.  They could be threatened by the family and relatives during the time they are placed in special housing.  The government will decide whether to develop a guide for support and rehabilitation of children and young people who are victims of honor related violence or oppression. Support for the girls who seek There are girls who feel intense pressure to prove they have not had sexual intercourse before the wedding night. Therefore, looking for some help in clinical care. My starting point is that these girls need help and support but it is not the way to offer health care operations.  In order to assure the quality of the hospitality of these girls is the National Centre for women’s safety given the task of developing a manual for health care.

• National public awareness campaign. Children and young people should have knowledge of their rights and the ways in which authorities and NGOs are working to strengthen their rights.  The government will decide on a national information campaign targeted at young people in secondary schools in order to prevent and avoid exposure to violence and oppression.

There is more at the original Swedish site. Please click over and use whatever translation tools you prefer.

Eeyore

Ground Zero Imam: ‘I Don’t Believe in Religious Dialogue’

By Walid Shoebat, at Pajamas Media

Is Imam Faisal Abdul Rauf — founder of the hugely controversial Ground Zero mosque — lying to the American public and his fellow New Yorkers?

We have uncovered extraordinary contradictions between what he says in English and what he says in Arabic that raise serious questions about his true intentions in the construction of the mosque.

On May 25, 2010, Abdul Rauf wrote an article for the New York Daily News insisting:

My colleagues and I are the anti-terrorists. We are the people who want to embolden the vast majority of Muslims who hate terrorism to stand up to the radical rhetoric. Our purpose is to interweave America’s Muslim population into the mainstream society. [emphasis added]

Oh, really?

Only two months before, on March 24, 2010, Abdul Rauf is quoted in an article in Arabic for the website Rights4All entitled “The Most Prominent Imam in New York: ‘I Do Not Believe in Religious Dialogue.’”

Yes, you read that correctly and, yes, that is an accurate translation of Abdul Rauf. And Right4All is not an obscure blog, but the website of the media department of Cairo University, the leading educational institution of the Arabic-speaking world.

In the article, the imam said the following of the “religious dialogue” and “interweaving into the mainstream society” that he so solemnly seems to advocate in the Daily News and elsewhere:

This phrase is inaccurate. Religious dialogue as customarily understood is a set of events with discussions in large hotels that result in nothing. Religions do not dialogue and dialogue is not present in the attitudes of the followers, regardless of being Muslim or Christian. The image of Muslims in the West is complex which needs to be remedied.

But that was two months ago. More recently — in fact on May 26, one day after his Daily News column –  Abdul Rauf appeared on the popular Islamic website Hadiyul-Islam with even more disturbing opinions. That’s the same website where, ironically enough, a fatwa was simultaneously being issued forbidding a Muslim to sell land to a Christian, because the Christian wanted to build a church on it.

In his interview on Hadiyul-Islam by Sa’da Abdul Maksoud, Abdul Rauf was asked his views on Shariah (Islamic religious law) and the Islamic state. He responded… Read More.