“The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.” -Marcus Aurelius
Here is a CTV clip on the riots with some out of date stats. Stratfor is reporting 20 dead in these riots. Mostly UN workers but some locals as well.
Below, a teaser from CTV news promising to show the story right after a short news break on Libya’s rebels. Five hours later, there is no sign of the story. But the teaser was interesting enough for me to play with a bit…
$2.2 million fatwa on Terry Jones after Quran burning
Dove World Outreach Center ‘executes’ the Quran.
Terry Jones, the Florida evangelical pastor who threatened to hold a Quran burning last Sept. 11 only to back down in the face of international outrage, finally went ahead and burned one.
And now there’s a 2.2-million-dollar price on his head.
Jones appointed himself “judge” and presided over a trial hearing evidence and testimony against Islam’s holy book. A “jury” found the book guilty of crimes against humanity; promoting terrorist acts; raping, torturing and killing people “whose only crime was not being of the Islamic faith.” Also, its treatment of women was found lacking.
Interestingly, lethal injection and electrocution, the two forms of capital punishment in Florida, were not offered to the convicted holy book. Instead, an online Facebook poll picked the sentence from these choices – burning, shredding, drowning or firing squad. Burning won.
Sentence was carried out by soaking the convicted in kerosene, placing it a metal tray and igniting it with a barbecue lighter. Thirty people witnessed the execution.
Jones’ kangaroo court stunt was obviously aimed at provoking a response, but the Council on American-Islamic Relations didn’t take the bait.
“Terry Jones had his 15 minutes of fame and we’re not going to help him get another few minutes,” said Spokesman Ibrahim Hooper.
Unfortunately, Pakistan did.
Pakistani Islamists respond to the Florida Quran burning with their own U.S. flag and pastor effigy barbecue.
President Asif Ali Zardari condemned the desecration of the Quran during his address to a joint sitting of parliament. The country’s Foreign Office in Islamabad called it a “despicable act.”
Pakistanis are already angry at the United States over the release last week of an American CIA employee who was arrested after he shot and killed two men who he says were trying to rob him.
Pakistan’s Jamaat-ud-Dawah, a banned Islamic organization and suspected terrorist group, announced a reward of 10 crore rupees (about $2.2 million) for anyone who kills the preacher.
Jones is probably pleased that at least the terrorists are taking him seriously.
Frankly, I’m torn on this one. Ok not really, I just thought that would make a decent pun. First watch the video, then I would really like to see a discussion on this idea. I think its interesting and deserving of debate.
I believe that everyone should read the Koran for the exact same reason I think everyone should have read Mein Kampf back when it mattered and someone could have done something about Hitler before fifty million people died over the ideas he implemented in that book. However I also think that burning and shredding Mein Kampf is a perfectly reasonable non-violent form of protest and had we done it near German embassies and cultural centres so much the better or perhaps more accurately, Nazi embassies and cultural centres had their been any. It might have drawn more attention to what was in the book and more people might have fought against it when it could have done some good.
In this case with the Koran, as with the little Austrian, an Oz. of prevention was worth fifty million X 170 Lbs of cure.
Sadly, many nations have managed to make protest of tyranny and genocidal hatred illegal as a hate crime as if pointing out and showing contempt for hate is the same thing as spreading hatred itself. However I think we should do it anyway. Because in this case the spirit of the law, and not wacky far leftist interpretations of it must be what is obeyed. If we let them win at the level of not being allowed to shred or burn or otherwise mistreat a book because the enemy holds that book sacred, then what chance do we have to win the preservation of our freedoms and indeed, win back the freedoms already lost.
I am so glad, the EDL is doing this. It is an abomination and an outrage that two standards and legal systems apply to the people of England and the fact is, when you add those systems together, you get Sharia for all.
This march, perhaps of all the marches the EDL have organized, is at least in my opinion the most important and moral one. In any given jurisdiction, there only ever can be one standard and set of laws. Anything else is slavery. If you can at all make it to join this march on Dec. 15th please do so. This is a crucial issue.
British people are being arrested for legally disposing of their own personal property because it is offensive to 7th century barbarians. Barbarians it is to be remembered, who routinely preach hatred and destruction not only of Western and specifically British symbols, but also frequently attempt to murder random people and occasionally succeed at it, in the cause of furthering the total destruction of England, it’s culture and even its history. Now a teenage girl is arrested for protesting these actions (presumably but it hardly matters why) by burning the source of inspiration to these invaders. This is no different than burning a copy of Meine Kampf during the bombing of London to show contempt for Hitler’s hate mongering, the inspiration for WW2.
I ask you good people of England. Show support for this young girl and for freedom from the leftist-Islamic axis of tyranny you now know you are under, and burn a Koran for freedom soon. Here is one way you can do it. Make a candle out of it. Then you can give candles to all your friends with Koran inside.
Fifteen-year-old questioned and bailed after allegedly posting footage of incident at school in West Midlands on Facebook
A 15-year-old girl has been arrested after allegedly burning an English language version of the Qur’an. Photograph: Emilio Morenatti/APA teenage girl was arrested on suspicion of inciting religious hatred after allegedly burning an English language version of the Qur’an, police said today.
The 15-year-old was questioned and bailed by detectives last Friday after the alleged incident at a school in the Sandwell area of the West Midlands.
She is alleged to have posted footage of the act on Facebook.
A 14-year-old boy was also arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of making threats on the social networking site in connection with the alleged incident. He was released on bail, a spokeswoman for West Midlands police said.
“The local neighbourhood team have strong links with the school and have been working closely with key partners from the community and the local authority to resolve the matter locally,” she said.
“West Midlands police will investigate and monitor any crime reported by individuals who may have been targeted because of their disability, gender, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation or transgender.”
So. One day, a Canadian systems analyst decides to read the Quoran. He knew nothing about Islam except some mild nagging misgivings about the religion, and he was inspired to read it by a chance encounter, in Montreal, with an East African prostitute who had come to Canada to escape a forced marriage. Mr. Payeur decided that he needed to dispel his own misgivings about Islam by reading the Quoran so he could relax about it and join the chorus of people who argue that the violent, hate filled, war like, violent aspects of Islam or at least the Koran, are misinterpretations.
After his fourth time through an Al-Azaar approved translation of Islam’s holiest book, he decided to use his skills as a systems analyst and do a complete layman’s guide to this book as he feels, and I agree, that everyone should read this thing if they are old enough to be able to read it objectivly and not be influenced by the misogyny, hatred violence and sex in it.
In other words, this book, the Koran, may not be suitable for children.
After reading this book, I think it should be re-titled, or at least add it to the cover, ‘A quiver full of arrows’ as reading this book will indeed allow the reader to argue successfully with any apologist of Islam and even Muslims themselves and likely win the debate.
Typically, I do not like the approach of developing scholarship of Islam to argue the issue of Islam in the West. It is, I feel, always a bad idea to play the enemies game by the enemies rule. We do not need, for example, to know if the Burka is truly a requirement of Islam should a govt. choose to ban it. We just need to decide if its good to allow it in our own cities.
By the same reasoning we do not need to know if Islam truly demands the killing, enslaving, raping and subjugation of ‘unbelievers’ in order to say that typically it is Muslims who do this claiming it is their religion to do so, and it should never be our place to argue the fine points of their religion with them, as that is a fight we will nearly always lose, unless you are Robert Spencer and are ready to dedicate a substantial part of your life to developing that scholarship and frankly, debate is not part of Islam. Blind obedience is. Debate is a Jewish-Greek-Christian thing.
Even so, Mr. Bernard’s most excellent book is an entertaining way to gather the materials and facts you need to debate Islam with those apologists for it that insist it is a religion of peace or more typically, make false moral equivalences with the bible etc. Bernard dispels that notion in chapter 1.
The book is also full of fascinating observations. Here is one that even Phyllis Chesler might have missed:
‘The Koran does not mention one woman by name except Mary and that is to say that Mary claims she is not the mother of god.’
Thats right the Koran does not have one woman in it as an actual named person, except where one can be ventriloquised to suit Mohamed’s agenda. A fact I am rather stunned has not been pointed out, at least to my knowledge, before now.
Payeur’s book is full of useful observations like this and as it is not based on the work of authors familiar to us already, it is quite a refreshing approach to the usual explanations of the facts and workings of traditional Islam, as prescribed by the Koran.
All this to say that I very much recommend getting Pain, Pleasure and Prejudice and getting settled in for several hours worth of highly entertaining and informative reading and analysis on the book which may well herald the return of the dark ages, The Quoran.
Eeyore for Vlad Tepes.
Below, a very rare interview with the author that I scavenged from the Internet.
When I watch this clip I am reminded of how the UN-OIC published a cartoon of a Pig-Mohamed to try and show how awful ‘Islamophobia’ was, and when Tundra Tabloids pointed out the brutal hypocrisy of it, that it was perfectly fine to show blasphemy when it advantaged Islam, while when a Non-Muslim publishes one of these drawings it results in riots, death threats and occasionally actual murders.
Here we see that burning a Quoran is just fine unless infidels do it. It means why ‘kufaar’s have forgotten our places and must be punished. In any case, its fun to watch this large American force these Muslims to change their position so fast.
Last I checked, blasphemy is not illegal in the UK.
Clearly any attempt to charge them with ‘racial hatred’ in this context is nothing more than a new ‘taqiyya’ way of reintroducing blasphemy laws. Welcome to the dark ages.
it should be noted that as more and more Muslims achieve positions of authority in Western nations, we will, and in fact are, seeing more and more applications of sharia law by authority as we did with the USD $10,000 reward offered by a Muslim police chief and many many more examples such as Muslim police stopping people from burning korans in England, a perfectly legal thing to do, while allowing Muslims to burn US and UK flags and call for the destruction of the British state in favour of the umma.
This is actually happening, not a prediction for the future, except the frequency and degree of Islamic law being applied in our nations will and is going up.
Here is just the example of the moment:
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 3:25 PM on 23rd September 2010
A gang of men have been arrested after filming themselves burning a copy of the Koran on the anniversary of 9/11 – and posting it on YouTube.
Six suspects were seized after allegedly setting fire to the Muslim holy book in the backyard of a pub.
The men, who hid their faces, then posted the video of the burning on the popular website.
Six men have been arrested after filming themselves burning a copy of the Koran on the anniversary of 9/11 – and posting it on YouTube
In the film the gang are seen gathered round a copy of the Koran in the backyard of The Bugle pub in Leam Lane, Felling, Gateshead.
Appearing with what seems to be tea towels wrapped around their heads, the men show the holy book to the camera before dousing it with fuel from a red can and lighting it.
One man in a grey Adidas tracksuit and white trainers, who has a blue cloth wrapped around his head makes a series of obscene gestures towards the book as it burns.
Laughing, the track-suited gang shouts ‘This is for the boys in Afghanistan. September 11, international burn a Koran day, for all the people of 9/11.
‘This is how we do it in Gateshead, right.’
One man then attempts to add more fuel, but instead sets the plastic petrol can on fire.
He then kicks the book across the yard, leaving a trail of flames which he is forced to hastily stamp out.
The men hid their faces behind what appear to be tea towels and claimed the action was ‘for the boys in Afghanistan’
The men claimed ‘This is how we do it in Gateshead!’ during the sick stunt
Police visited The Bugle last Wednesday after the video was posted online.
Two men were arrested on suspicion of stirring racial hatred, and have since been released on bail. Continue Reading →
The world is becoming a sharia state much faster than expected. At least by me. I really think as many of us as humanly possible should get korans and burn them. There is only one way to preserve freedoms and that is use them. If we allow every thug to determine what our limits are, we will be slaves in no time at all.
Eeyore
Two Gateshead men arrested for watching 9/11 Koran burning video
20th September 2010
Civil Liberty correspondent
Warning from those practitioners of a peaceful religion 
In a disturbing development, Northumbria Police in Gateshead last week arrested two men after they watched and shared a video on Facebook of a man burning the Koran in the US during the recent 9/11 commemoration at Ground Zero in New York.
The men were drinking in the Bugle pub, Leam Lane, Gateshead, when they were arrested after watching and sharing the videos.
Around 30 people staged a protest outside Gateshead police station on Wednesday evening, the 15th of September, following the arrests.
The group stood outside the doors to the police station with an England flag for about three hours watched by a contingent of uniformed officers.The protesters had gathered at around 8pm after the two men were arrested earlier in the day on ‘suspicion of inciting racial hatred’.
The protest continued until around 11pm when the two arrested men were bailed pending further enquiries.
h/t TL
h/t to reader, OxAO
Police Identify Individual Responsible for Qur’an Desecration
Police have positively identified the individual responsible for the desecration of the Qur’an on Saturday, Sept. 11.
The individual voluntarily surrendered to police officials on Wednesday, Sept. 15 following the establishment of a $10,000 reward fund. None of the reward funds were paid out to obtain the information leading to the individual’s identity. The individual continues to cooperate with police and FBI officials. The investigators have determined that this was an isolated incident.
It is expected that the police investigation will be completed early next week. The case will be forwarded to the Ingham County Prosecutor’s Office for review. No further information will be released until a decision is made about filing charges.
The US seems to be slipping into using the machinery of state to enforce the sharia more and more these days.
This is one trial I would like to watch. Try and wrap your heads around the wording of the charge as they list it. Last time I looked, “desecration of a Koran” is not a crime in the U.S of A.
H/T to Vlad reader DP11 and to Jihad Watch for this story:
The East Lansing Police Department is seeking the publics help to find who is responsible for burning and desecrating a Koran. The incident happened on September 11. It was found at the front door of the Islamic Center of East Lansing.
The department is offering $10,000 for any information that would lead to the identification and prosecution of those responsible for this act.
Those with information are asked to call Det. Sherief Fadly at 517-319-6814.
A deeply disturbing development. Now, governments can bill citizens for costs incurred defending their constitutional rights as a way of disposing of those same rights. I do not see them billing any of the people making threats to break the law.
As I see it, there is only one answer to this. All of us need to burn Korans as publicly as possible, where you are not breaking any fire laws or litter etc. The more of us that do it, the less the Muslims and leftists and Obama can do about it. Freedom is something we all have to fight for continually. I need to know, are people still willing to do it? Or have people been tricked into thinking that somehow, its a Nazi thing to burn a Koran. One you bought or are otherwise in legal possession of, and wish to make a political or moral statement with. This story frightens me more than anything I have read in a while. This shows that our own governments are truly against us. Thanks to a Vlad reader, DP11, for posting the link in his comment and thanks to the blog that linked to this story.
Orlando, Florida (CNN) — The city of Gainesville, Florida, plans to send a bill estimated at more than $180,000 to Pastor Terry Jones for security costs surrounding his controversial threat to burn Qurans on the anniversary of the September, 11, 2001, attacks, a police spokeswoman said Friday.
Police agencies spent more than a month working on security plans to ensure the community surrounding Jones’ Dove World Outreach Center — the planned site of the burning — was safe, according to Gainesville police spokeswoman Cpl. Tscharna Senn.
Jones also told authorities he received numerous death threats because of the planned protest, which he called off amid increasing pressure from world leaders.
The Gainesville Police Department said it spent more than $100,000 while the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office spent an estimated $80,000 during the weekend of the planned demonstration.
“We have 286 sworn officers and almost everyone was working either at the Dove Center or at other soft targets,” Senn said. “Unless you were sick or injured you were working” the day the burning was to take place.
Officers secured malls in the region, the University of Florida’s football stadium and areas around the church in the days leading up to the planned event.
Jones said Friday that the church was “not aware that we would be billed for security.”
“If we had known this in advance, then we would have refused to have security,” he said. Continue Reading →
After you read this ISESCO report, please stop and think for a moment about what Islam and Muslims do to and about every other religion on earth. Hell by their own rules the Koran should be destroyed for what it says about Judaism, Christianity etc. not to mention the fact that every other religion is actually illegal in Saudi Arabia.
Rabat: 09/09/2010
In a communiqué released today, the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO) called on the United Nations to issue an international law criminalizing all forms of offence against religions under any circumstances.
ISESCO insisted, “The Florida Dove World Outreach Centre Church’s plan to burn copies of the Holy Koran on September 11 was condemned by church authorities, Christian and Jewish clergy, the European Commission, the US government and the Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue, and sparked international protest by Muslims from all over the world. This requires immediate action to outlaw all acts of defamation of religions and religious sanctities.”
The communiqué goes on, “It is a blot on humanity that such discriminatory attack against Islam and Islamic holy sites is continuing in the absence of deterrent legal measures, local and international.”
ISESCO denounced roundly the Dove World Outreach Centre Church’s criminal plan, and called on the Muslim community to abide by the noble values of Islam in responding to such provocative, hostile stance. The best response thereto, ISESCO explained, would be to help spread the core Islamic principles, and redress the distorted image and misconceptions about Islam.