“The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.” -Marcus Aurelius
Classic Muslim strategy. Force host culture to bend till it breaks, then sue them.
There is more here but the video shown tells me it is not available at this time. If you are in the US please try it and tell me if it works there. Otherwise, one must wonder why this particular video gives that unusual error.
The following is an article from Muslimlink, an Ottawa based on-line community newspaper for Muslims. The article is a summary of the “major concerns facing the Muslim community in Canada”, written by Yahya Abdul Rahman one of the papers’ columnists and blogger. It is a response to a request from the organizers of the ‘Reviving the Islamic Spirit Conference’ that was held in the Toronto area this past December 24-26.
What kind of magazine is Muslimlink? Blazingcatfur sums it up nicely.
Many of the major concerns facing Canada’s Muslim community reflect the concerns of Canada’s population at large including employment, health care, the rising cost of living and education. Other concerns specific to the Muslim community include, but are not limited to:
Islamic Group Declares War on Religious Films Written by David E. Miller
Published Wednesday, January 05, 2011
A new ruling reiterates ban on religious character depiction in film and televison
An international Islamic organization has declared war on cinematic depictions of the prophet Muhammad and his companions, arguing they denigrate Islam’s most revered characters.
The Fiqh (Islamic Jurisprudence) Council, a body of the Muslim World League, said in a statement issued Sunday that the images not of the prophet himself but of his companions were creeping into films and television series and prompted the new ruling, which was adopted during the 20th conference of the Council in late December.
“The council reiterates its previous decision banning the production, promotion … and viewing of these films and series,” the statement read. “These [portrayals] may cause the denigration and devaluation of the figures and be used as an excuse to ridicule them.”
The Quran, Islam’s divine book and primary source of law, doesn’t explicitly forbid the depiction of Muhammad or other prophets, which include figures like Abraham, Moses and Jesus from the Jewish and Christian traditions. But some oral traditions, known as hadiths, ban any such visual representation. The main concern cited by jurists was that depicting Muhammad would encourage idolatry.
Based in Mecca, the Muslim World League is one of the largest Islamic NGOs. Its missions include Islamic proselytizing, coordination of Islamic preaching and support of needy Muslims worldwide.
The statement dismissed the argument that the films were a means of educating the public about Islamic figures, saying “the holy scriptures contain sufficient information.”
Film industry officials and observers said the council had nothing to worry about because producers and directors wouldn’t dare test the ban. Mousaad Fouda, president of the Egyptian Film Syndicate, said that work on an excellent film about the life of Jesus was stopped recently in Egypt mid-production, adding that Egyptian audiences preferred action movies and dramas.
“There are no producers in Egypt that would make a film depicting the Prophet or his companions,” Fouda told The Media Line. “They would be too worried that such films will not succeed commercially.”
Sariel Birnbaum, an Arab film researcher at the State University of New York in Binghamton, said the Arab film industry has gradually become more conservative regarding the depiction of Islamic figures.
“In 1951, when religious films were first produced, only the Prophet and his close companions were banned from the screen,” he told The Media Line. “Today, there are hundreds of characters from the dawn of Islam who cannot be shown.”
Among the most common cinematic methods of depicting the prophet are showing the scene through his eyes, or focusing on his enemies in seventh-century Mecca and his Jewish rivals, Birnbaum said.
In a rare instance when Hollywood took on the Muhammad story, American actor Anthony Quinn depicted the prophet’s uncle, Hamza, in the 1976 epic film “The Message” directed by Moustapha Akkad. The presence of the prophet was symbolized in the film by organ music, and his words – unheard – were repeated by other characters.
Birnbaum attributed the growing orthodoxy of Sunni jurists regarding the film industry to a battle being waged on two fronts: one with Christianity and the other with Shiite Islam, both of which encourage artistic depiction of their revered figures.
Offensive caricatures of Muhammad published in Danish daily Jyllands-Posten in 2005 caused widespread protests in the Arab and Muslim world, including the burning of Danish embassies in Syria, Lebanon and Iran. The cartoon continues to inspire Muslim anger. Denmark and Sweden courts last week ordered four people held in custody for allegedly planning a “Mumbai-style” terrorist attack on the newspaper.
“Religious censorship rules supreme,” Birnbaum added. “If an official religious authority bans a film post-production, the investment is lost.”
Joseph Fahim, the arts and culture editor at Daily News Egypt, said the timing of the statement was strange, as religious programming was at an all time low.
“Religious TV dramas have been declining in popularity for six or seven years,” Fahim told The Media Line. “Programs come and go and no one notices them. They are placed in time slots where viewership is minimal.”
Fahim said the only recent Islamic production he was aware of was announced in Qatar at the opening of the Doha Tribeca Film Festival in 2009. The epic $150 million, English-language production about the life of Muhammad was meant to bridge cultures, but Fahim said no news about casting or production was released since the initial announcement.
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OTTAWA – As RCMP investigators searched through homes, computers and the seized equipment of three terror suspects arrested at the end of August, the RCMP’s community outreach office in Ottawa was calling an emergency meeting of the cultural diversity consultative committee to apologize to local Muslims.
“To show support to our Muslim brothers and sisters during RAMADAN, there will be no food or drink during this most important meeting. This meeting is for one hour only, in order to observe prayer time and the breaking of the fast during RAMADAN,” wrote Cpl. Wayne Russett.
The committee, especially Cpl. Russett, went into high gear after the arrest of Hiva Mohammad Alizadeh and Misbahuddin Ahmed in Ottawa’s west end on Aug. 25. The two men, along with Khurram Syed Sher, were charged with several terrorism-related offences in a plot the Mounties say was aimed at launching a terrorist attack in Canada and supporting terrorism abroad.
At the Aug. 26 meeting, one day after the terror bust, RCMP and Ottawa police officials apologized that arrests had taken place during Ramadan.
In the days after the arrests, Cpl. Russett held more than a dozen meetings with Muslim groups in Ottawa including visits to mosques, community centres and several meals to break the Ramadan fast. Continue Reading →
We know that in France in over 40 cities, Muslims take over whole streets and sometimes multiple streets for ‘prayer’ and usually for several hours, reportedly not allowing people access to their own homes and businesses. In the comments to the videos I have posted at youtube on this, I frequently get a lot of people, rightfully outraged, but also puffing their chests and insisting this could never happen in their home country/city. Here is a few clips from Moscow and Washington DC. But this takes place wherever Muslims wish to establish their primacy in a location. They of course have a language they use for the press using the typical set of logical fallacies which I attempt to address in this short video, but the real reason is military.
By Christian Gysin
Last updated at 9:06 AM on 30th December 2010
A notorious Muslim fanatic has been accused of fiddling the benefits system by working while claiming jobseekers’ allowance.
Abdul Rehman Saleem, known as Abu Yahya, is working on a market stall at the same time as collecting the £60 a week benefit, a friend of his estranged wife claimed.
The 35-year-old was freed from prison last year after being convicted of inciting racial hatred during protests in London against cartoon depictions of the prophet Mohammed.
Abu Yahya selling clothes at the New Covent Garden Market in Vauxhall earlier this month
Yahya is thought to have been claiming benefits while working on clothing stalls in both Stratford, East London, and another outlet at London’s New Covent Garden Market in Vauxhall.
At the same he time, he has failed to provide any maintenance for his five children with his former wife Kay.
She is the younger sister of actress Laila Rouass who has starred in Footballers’ Wives, Spooks and last year’s series of Strictly Come Dancing.
When the Daily Mail approached Kay, she refused to discuss her ex-husband or the provision he makes for their children.
But a family friend said: ‘He works illegally, claims benefits and sees virtually nothing of his children.
Abu Yahya aka Abdul Rahman Saleem, spokesperson for the Al Muhajiroun group, holds a flyer for the’ Magnificent 19′ conference that is being held on Sept 11 Continue Reading →
Thanks to KitmanTV for this one
Scandinavian authorities claim this is the most serious plot yet
The Tundra Tabloids updates this post by Vlad:
UPDATE: Here is the map where the Muslims are praying in the street along the length of the Poissonnier.
Rue Polonceau with the mosque on the right side
Looking up the Poissonnier with the mosque on the right
Looking down the Poissonnier in the opposite direction
NOTE: This latter part of the street where they were (and are still) praying faces closer to Mecca than the rest, with the middle to latter end completely off. This is all in the same vicinity of the Myrha street praying. The TT didn’t really understand the magnitude of the area being taken over by these Muslims, it extends a major portion of the latter end of the poissonier street. It’s no wonder why they’re now incorporating the use of loud speakers, the size of the take over has increased.
The day that the various British government officials are put on trial for high treason, for deliberately working to destroy England as a culture, as a people, as a history and set of religions representing the Western intellectual and spiritual tradition the better.
From The Daily StarA Catholic school faces being taken over by a mosque after it was revealed that 95% of its pupils are Muslim<
28th December 2010
A CATHOLIC school faces being taken over by a mosque after it was revealed that 95% of its pupils are Muslim.
It is believed to be the first case of its kind in Britain.
Church leaders say it is no longer “appropriate” for them to run Sacred Heart RC Primary School which has just six Christian pupils.
Just 10 years ago more than 90% of pupils were Catholic. But now most are of Asian origin, do not speak English as their first language and follow Islam.
The school in Blackburn, Lancs, could be handed to the nearby Masjid-e-Tauheedul mosque.
Harry Devonport of Blackburn with Darwen Council Children’s Services, said the decision to abandon the school was made by the Diocese of Salford.
Diocese education director Geraldine Bradbury said: “We have never experienced a change to this extent before. We would not be serving the local community by insisting that we run the school. It brings things like having a Catholic headteacher and devoting 10% of the timetable to RE.
“It would be wrong of us to insist on putting a school community through that.”
The mosque runs an Islamic girls’ secondary school. Head Hamid Patel said: “Given that almost all of the pupils are Muslim, it makes sense.”
Other organisations are in the race to run the school – in a predominantly Asian populated area of the town – including the Church of England diocese.
But the Tauheedul mosque is favourite to take over. A report to the local council said any attempt to turn Sacred Heart into a non-religious community school would be rejected because of the Coalition Government’s “stated preference for new faith schools and free schools”.
Mr Devonport added: “There will be no disruption for children at the school.”
Check this article by Weasel Zippers. Infuriating is one word for it. Chasing bad legislation with worse legislation would be close to the mark and why I am against a burka ban. Asking governments to solve problems they created by bad, freedom destroying legislation with more of the same creates a number of possible results none of which, is a solution to the initial problem. In any case, expect this kind of CAIR promoted legislation in a town near you.
“Try ringing church bells in Saudi Arabia and see how that works out for you…”
From a Spanish Newspaper. Translation: Marian
Video to follow later today
A teacher of the Institute Menéndez Tolosa of the city of La Línea de la Concepcion has been denounced by a Muslim family in the same city. The family thinks that his son, a student in first year of Secondary school, has been offended during a geography class, it was reported to this newspaper.
The teacher was giving a normal lesson about the different climates of the planet and he used the locality of Trevélez (Granada) as example of a cold and dry climate. for an anecdote, the teacher explained that precisely this climate was best for the curing of hams. Then the student asked the teacher “don’t speak about hams because this subject was offensive for him as he is a Muslim.”
This paper’s sources at the center explained that the teacher answered him that it was ‘simply an example and that he doesn’t bear in mind in his classes the religion that his students practise.’
This might have remained simply in an exchange of opinions, but the family of the minor, who never went to speak with the teacher, did not hesitate to file a complaint against the teacher with the National Police.
Though nobody contacted the teacher, apparently a relative of the minor went to the educational center to speak with the Director of Studies and to protest the example that the teacher had used in geography class.
The agents of the Court officers went yesterday to the secondary school and they took a declaration to the teacher of the facts that happened during his class. In addition, the civil servants have requested the disciplinary and academic documentation of the minor in this educational center and in the previous one in that he was enrolled.
The teacher is accused of being an author of a supposed crime of mistreatment, accusing him of racist motivations and xenophobia
The Provincial Delegation of the Council of Education confirmed also yesterday to this newspaper that really knew that these facts had been produced and that a teacher had been denounced to the National Police but declined to do any declaration.
Teachers and students are infuriated by this situation because the teacher is teaching with devotion for two decades now, and he has never had a problem of this type. These accusations have effected him greatly.
In spite of being crossing a difficult moment, the teacher continues going to the center and he observes his obligation for his students
The State police keeps opened the investigation of these facts denounced by the family of the minor and it will be necessary to wait for the resolution that the judicial authority gives an opinion on the next ‘lacks trial’, (A kind of tribunal with a judge).
The story below is surreal. A few short years ago, there is no way any of us would believe seriously that this could have happened. Now, a teacher in Spain is actually in real trouble, whether it is criminal, fear for his future or job, or a civil suit for just mentioning ham. We are indeed in a state of dhimmitude.
Spanish ham (absolutely offensive to “Ham-o-phobic” Muslims…)
According to the account of the facts, the teacher was explaining the different climates in a geography class and cited the village of Trevelez due to its cold and dry climate. According to the newspaper account, ”as a story, the teacher told his students that such a climate was conducive to making hams (this refers to the procedure that it’s necessary between the pig is killed and the ham is actually ready to be eaten). Then the student asked the teacher not to speak of hams since it offended him, because he was a Muslim. “
The teacher told the students that in his classes, he did not consider the religion of their students, but apparently the family did not stay at home when they learned the facts, to the extent that they went to the National Police to file a complaint without speaking in advance with the teacher.
According to ”El Diario de Cádiz“, the teacher “is accused of being the author of an alleged crime of abuse of workers, also alleging racist and xenophobic motives. “ His school colleagues can’t believe what has happened and speak about the impeccable record of teaching reported.