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Sodomy “For the Sake of Islam”
I have sent the clip mentioned in this article out for translation for titles. We shall see if it can be managed. In the meantime, as the British say…
H/T Don L
From Gatestone Inst:
by Raymond Ibrahim
July 12, 2012 at 4:30 am
As a possibly convenient way of rationalizing what one desires while still being able to feel “pure,” anything and everything that is otherwise banned becomes permissible. All that supposedly matters is one’s intention, or niyya.
Not only did the original “underwear bomber” Abdullah Hassan al-Asiri hide explosives in his rectum to assassinate Saudi Prince Muhammad bin Nayef—they met in 2009 after the 22-year-old holy warrior “feigned repentance for his jihadi views“—but al-Asiri apparently had fellow jihadis repeatedly sodomize him to “widen” his anus in order to accommodate the explosives— all in accordance with the fatwas [religious edicts] of Islamic clerics.
A 2010 Arabic news video that is making the rounds on the Internet gives the details. Apparently a cleric, one Abu al-Dema al-Qasab, informed jihadis of an “innovative and unprecedented way to execute martyrdom operations: place explosive capsules in your anus. However, to undertake this jihadi approach you must agree to be sodomized for a while to widen your anus so it can hold the explosives.”
Others inquired further by asking for formal fatwas. Citing his desire for “martyrdom and the virgins of paradise,” one jihadi, (possibly al-Asiri himself) asked another sheikh, “Is it permissible for me to let one of the jihadi brothers sodomize me to widen my anus if the intention is good?”
After praising Allah, the sheikh’s fatwa began by declaring that sodomy is forbidden in Islam,
However, jihad comes first, for it is the pinnacle of Islam, and if the pinnacle of Islam can only be achieved through sodomy, then there is no wrong in it.
Calls to Destroy Egypt’s Great Pyramids Begin
h/t Don L
Raymond Ibrahim:
According to several reports in the Arabic media, prominent Muslim clerics have begun to call for the demolition of Egypt’s Great Pyramids—or, in the words of Saudi Sheikh Ali bin Said al-Rabi’i, those “symbols of paganism,” which Egypt’s Salafi party has long planned to cover with wax. Most recently, Bahrain’s “Sheikh of Sunni Sheikhs” and President of National Unity, Abd al-Latif al-Mahmoud, called on Egypt’s new president, Muhammad Morsi, to “destroy the Pyramids and accomplish what Amr bin al-As could not.”
Has the sun finally set for Egypt’s Great Pyramids?
This is a reference to the Muslim Prophet Muhammad’s companion, Amr bin al-As and his Arabian tribesmen, who invaded and conquered Egypt circa 641. Under al-As and subsequent Muslim rule, many Egyptian antiquities were destroyed as relics of infidelity. While most Western academics argue otherwise, according to early Muslim writers, the great Library of Alexandria itself—deemed a repository of pagan knowledge contradicting the Koran—was destroyed under bin al-As’s reign and in compliance with Caliph Omar’s command.
However, while book-burning was an easy activity in the 7th century, destroying the mountain-like pyramids and their guardian Sphinx was not—even if Egypt’s Medieval Mamluk rulers “de-nosed” the latter during target practice (though popular legend naturally attributes it to a Westerner, Napoleon).
Now, however, as Bahrain’s “Sheikh of Sheikhs” observes, and thanks to modern technology, the pyramids can be destroyed. The only question left is whether Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood president is “pious” enough—if he is willing to complete the Islamization process that started under the hands of Egypt’s first Islamic conqueror.
New Egyptian TV station
Of course, the purpose of it will be to make sure women study nothing but their subservient role to men, using the proxy of Islamic teachings to hammer that message home. Unless that doesn’t work. Then of course they will use an actual hammer.
Hey when the Beatles wrote Maxwell’s Silver Hammer, was there any Arabic names in the lyrics?
A husband and his family have been found guilty of murdering a pregnant young wife – Birmingham
First, a little note to express appreciation for the fantastic work tons of people do, sending me links. EDL Buck is one, UK-Pete another, Hermes, Michael Laudahn and many many more, some of whom I do not know if they want even a nick or initials mentioned publicly so I won’t but you know who you are. Really, thank you very much.
West Midlands Police:
A HUSBAND and his family have been found guilty of murdering a pregnant young wife at her Birmingham home, in the belief that she had been possessed by Jinn spirits.
Naila Mumtaz died in hospital on 8 July 2009, after being found collapsed at her home in Craythorne Avenue. Paramedics were called to the address by family members, however the 21-year-old could not be saved and she was pronounced dead a short time later.
Naila, who was six-months pregnant at the time of her death, died as a result of smothering, according to a post mortem examination, and the trial heard that members of her husband’s family had deliberately caused her death.
The court heard how Naila’s husband, father-in-law, mother-in-law, and her sister-in-law’s husband believed that the young woman, who had arrived in Birmingham some two years earlier from Pakistan, had been possessed by Jinn spirits.
No tomatoes for Muslims and new proof of Allah as supreme being
By now most people will have read the story about a new fatwa forbidding Muslims from eating tomatoes as they are a “Christian Fruit”.
See the cross? See it? Why are you laughing?But few of you will have seen this religious symbol miracle from a Canadian farm proving that Allah is the only true god
Hey little girl, whats the schmatta?
The oddest form of religious prestidigitation I think I have ever seen.
H/T Don L. Thanks. I think.
Madonna has meeting with conspiracy theorist in Turkey
…and what is with the chicks? Are they even in the same room?
From People of Shambala:
Adnan Oktar, a Creationist and conspiracy theorist says he had a meeting with American pop star Madonna in Turkey, during her recent tour.
Oktar, who believes practitioners of the Jewish Kabbalah are responsible for both world wars and Darwinism (to which he’s opposed) described his 30 minut meeting with the pop star and her children.
Oktar says the meeting was arranged by Yehuda Berg, the founder of the Kabbalah Center, a popular, modernized form of the ancient Jewish mystical system. “Through Yehuda Berg, madonna came here, to Istanbul,” Oktar said, talking on his television show. “He was instrumental in [arranging] our meeting.”
Although he acknowledged that the pop star is a follower of Kabbalah, he said that Madonna “loves Allah” and “someone who is awaiting the Mahdi,” Oktar claims during the television broadcast. By this, Oktar appears to mean that Madonna is a religious person, not a Muslim per se.
Two pork stories.
Here are two, pork related stories.
1. England
From the Daily Mail:
A ban on bangers: Hundreds of school pupils denied pork because of ‘religious reasons’
By Pamela Owen
PUBLISHED: 08:11 GMT, 17 June 2012 | UPDATED: 14:24 GMT, 17 June 2012
Roast pork and sausages have always been a staple of British diets.
But now hundreds of school children will be denied them for school lunches because of ‘religious reasons’.
Pork, which is not eaten by devout Jews or Muslims, has been banned by councils across the country to satisfy the needs of staff and pupils who are not allowed contact with it.
However, it is thought many schools do not serve halal or kosher meat, so Jewish and Muslim children would not be able to eat it anyway.
No longer on the menu: Hundreds of school children will be denied pork because of their religious peersThe decision has been criticised by MPs who have said the ban will cause unnecessary resentment among pupils and religious leaders who said they never asked for a ban in the first place.
John Benjamin, chief executive of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, said it was simply not an issue and added that Jews of a certain level would choose not to eat in non-kosher environments.
(H/T Don L)
2. U.S.A.
Ottawa Sun:
Burger King invents the Bacon Sunday!
BURGER KING HAS INTRODUCED THE BACON SUNDAE
Credits: HANDOUT PHOTO
QMI AGENCY
Move over double-down.Nice try deep-fried butter.Burger King is upping the ante this summer by introducing a new bacon sundae.
On Tuesday, the fast food chain introduced the new menu item – featuring real bacon bits on soft vanilla ice cream.
But sorry, Canadians — there’s no plan for the cool summer treat to come north of the border just yet.
A spokeswoman for Burger King told QMI Agency the dessert is still only booked for a limited time in the U.S.
The chain says the salty-sweet dessert has 510 calories, 18 grams of fat, and 61 grams of sugar.
Burger King has been revamping its menu over the past year, launching other new products such as sandwiches, salads, sweet potato fries, smoothies and specialty coffees.
Muslim group wishes to ban tomatoes as they are a “Christian fruit”
I think these people do not go nearly far enough. I think they should ban all food for Muslims as pretty much every single edible thing today is a direct result of genetic engineering, reaching back to the Catholic monk, Gregor Mendel, and right up to the (probably) atheist, Norman Borlogue, probably the greatest human being who ever lived by any rational standard. So I say “Go Muslim morons go! Ban all food altogether for Muslims! That will sure show us!
[Ed. note]
The link for Norman Borlogue goes to an exceptionally good episode of Penn & Teller’s Bullshit about feeding the third world and the lone scientist who made it possible.
I put the link in to go right to that spot. But I recommend seeing the whole episode from the start.
Somali workers walk out of Minnesota bakery in protest of new dress code
FOX:
H/T Hermes:
Published June 07, 2012
Somali employees walked out of a bakery plant after refusing new dress code implemented after accident. (MyFoxTwinCities.com)
More than 30 Somali employees at a bakery walked out in protest Monday after the owner ordered female workers to wear mid-calf skirts after a woman’s long dress recently got caught in a boot washer, MyFoxTwinCities.com reported.
Mike Knowles, the owner of Dianne’s Fine Desserts, told the Faribault Daily News that the new guidelines were installed for safety concerns. Somali workers, however, call the new rules an attack on their Muslim religion.
The women reportedly showed up to work in their full-length attire and were given the option to adjust their skirts or leave. About a dozen women left and they were joined by 20 men who say the dress code goes against teachings in the Koran.
The boot washer is a sanitation device that cleans footwear before workers enter the plant. The Somali women said they’d be willing to pull up their skirts during the brief process. Knowles says the safety issue was addressed and the company made a reasonable accommodation.
True story of a false prophet
I can’t wait to see this one!
H/T Don Laird
Canadian courts now the perfect setting for sectarian knife fights
Religious freedom, the the hundredth time, was never meant to mean this. It was meant to mean that the government cannot prosecute or persecute a person for their beliefs, even if they are not protestant. That is all.
Belgium court charges six people in deadly exorcism of Muslim woman
The Iconoclast:
This from Al Arabiya is the only English language report I can find of this. The Moroccan press reports in french and the local press in Flemish.
A court in Brussels opened on Monday the trial of six people charged in connection with the 2004 murder of a young Muslim woman in a deadly act of exorcism, a practice of evicting demons or other spiritual entities from a person believed to be possessed.
The woman was reportedly deceived into believing that she could not have children because she was possessed and that she had to undergo a practice of exorcism. But the woman apparently could not stand the severe punishment the exorcism allegedly entails to scourge the demon out of the body, and she lost her life.
The detainees in the case include two self-appointed exorcists, the victim’s husband and three female members of a radical Muslim group, (I would like to know what radical group) will be standing trial for three weeks and facing charges of “torture leading to death.”