Fitzgerald: Muslims and America

“We have a message: Muslim Americans are as American as apple pie” – from this article in The Guardian about Muslims at the Democratic National Convention in Denver

*  Musulmaniacs discovered America long before Columbus? NOT!

If Muslims are “as American as apple pie,” are they as American as pumpkin pie, the pumpkin pie traditionally served at Thanksgiving, which like Independence Day, Memorial Day, and other national holidays, are not to be observed by observant Muslims, for only Muslim holidays, Muslim history, Muslim everything, counts?

And one more question. If Muslims have no trouble at all being “as American as apple pie” then surely they have no trouble viewing the defining document of the American polity, the Constitution of the United States, as worthy of their complete loyalty. And that includes, of course, the guarantees of individual rights in the Bill of Rights. And since the Bill of Rights is so very close, in so many of its key provisions — freedom of speech, freedom of conscience (which naturally includes the right to apostatize) — to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, can we conclude that American-as-apple-pie American Muslims find it puzzling that all of the Muslim countries (save for the Shah’s Iran, and most temporarily and temporizingly) have failed to subscribe to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and instead have concocted a Muslim version, the so-called Cairo Declaration, which in every essential respect, involving individual rights, fatally vitiates the original, Universal Declaration?

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UK: Historic sports club to become mosque

by Emma Davison, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

* Regents Park Mosque:  ”Loyalty is only to the Muslim, not to the kaffir [disbeliever]“

CONTROVERSIAL plans to turn an historic sports club site into a mosque have been given the green light by councillors.

Hundreds of people objected to the Ahmadiyya Muslim Association’s plan to transform The Pavilion at Fartown into a mosque and community centre.

But yesterday, members of Huddersfield’s planning sub-committee granted permission, agreeing that the association’s plans would breathe new life into the site off Spaines Road and be of huge benefit to the community.

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134 new mosques planned for Germany 

* Update: Jihad Fritz will be charged with terrorism

Muhammad worshippers at Shitlik mosque in Berlin

Currently there are 134 in Germany under construction.   For several years the security and Islam expert Dr. Udo Ulfkotte on behalf of investors, industry and banking is developing scientific studies on the impact of mosques.

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Sherry Jones:

“I wrote my novel to honor Islam”

*   “The Jewel of Medina” is not meant to be the definitive version of A’isha’s life, or of Muhammad’s character. It is only my interpretation of history, based on my research, experiences and imagination. I do not fear the consequences of publishing this book, because I believe that anyone who reads it will discern, and perhaps share, my admiration for Muhammad; his cousin and son-in-law, Ali; A’isha; her sister-wives; her father Abu Bakr, and so many other fascinating figures from Islamic history. 

*  Well, Sherry: you did some pretty crappy ‘research’. And while censorship is deplorable, crap remains crap. The last thing we need is a novel that ‘honors Islam’ , glorifies child-rape and distorts the ugly truth.

 

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By EMILY ANDREWS in Calais/Times online

A gangmaster believed to have raped a journalism student in a squalid Calais migrants’ camp could be on the loose in Britain.

Police say they think the people smuggler has already left the area and may have fled to the UK to avoid detection.

As horrific details emerged of the 31-year-old student’s ordeal, detectives issued a photo e-fit provided by the victim to all UK ports, as well as British and European police.

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*  BNP to honour martyr with rally as Asian neighbour gets eight years for manslaughter

*  Man denies racist abuse allegation (because Islam is not a race)

*  Lionheart: Al Qaeda’s Luton and Dunstable Frontline

*  Suspected Terrorist Arrested in Britain Acted as an Imam in Finland…….

 

By TOM HARPER/ Daily Mail

* Watch out: it won’t be long before the wankers from the MCB come out in force to tell us its all the fault of the media!

 Muslim women caught on tape promising death and destruction to Christians, Brits, ex-Muslims, secular Muslims, moderate Muslims, adulterers, fornicators, scantily-clad women, and gays

* Living up to the Koran’s dictum: “The Believers, men and women, are protectors one of another: they enjoin what is just, and forbid what is evil” (9:71). “Revealed: Saudi women preaching hate in the British mosque that promised to clean up its act 18 months ago,”

* Here’s the link to JW

Hardline female ‘preachers of hate’ are radicalising Muslim women at one of Britain’s top mosques.

The Saudi Arabian preachers were secretly filmed ordering women to murder gays and ex-Muslims.

Undercover reporters from Channel 4’s Dispatches recorded the lectures in the women’s section of Regent’s Park Mosque in London.

An unnamed Saudi woman is seen mocking other religions – labelling Christianity ‘vile’ and an ‘abomination’. Another, known as ‘Angelique’, claims Britain is a ‘land of evil’.

Undercover: Regent’s Park Mosque was at the centre on an investigation

The investigators attended lectures for two months at the mosque, which had promised a clean-up after another Dispatches probe just 18 months ago exposed it for spreading extreme Islamic views.

During one sermon, a woman called Um Amira says: ‘He is Muslim, and he gets out of Islam…what are we going to do? We kill him, kill, kill.’ 

* She’s only saying what her prophet taught. Said Muhammad: “Whoever leaves his religion, kill him.”

In the programme, to be screened tomorrow, she adds that women adulterers should be stoned to death and people who have sex before marriage should get ‘100 lashes’.

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Pakistan suspends military operations for Ramadan

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ISLAMABAD, Aug 30: Pakistan announced on Saturday a suspension of military operations against Islamist militants for the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, but a senior official said security forces would respond if attacked.

* Pakistan: “Nobody has ever known [Peshawar] so fearful” of Taliban takeover

Violence has intensified in Pakistan in recent weeks with the military battling militants in three different parts of the northwest - Kurram, Bajaur, and Swat. The militants have responded with bomb attacks on the security forces.

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* Delusional squeamishness:

Philippines: Military vows to “respect Ramadan”

* Watch the MILF’s  return the favor in kind:

The military’s Joint Task Force Comet based in Sulu assured Saturday that it will respect the observance of Ramadan that will begin next week.

CBS/CBN

* Police arrest suspected Islamic bomber in Philippines

* 4 Marines killed, 10 injured in Sulu ambush 

“We respect the traditions and faith of our Muslim brothers and sisters. We have Muslim soldiers, who along with others have brought honor and prestige to the military organization,” Maj. Gen. Juancho Sabban, task force commander, said.

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Islamabad: Women ‘vow to raise kids for holy war’

Breeder chicks with Sticks

*   “peaceful inner struggle” of course, not what you’re thinking, you Islamophobe, you!

HUNDREDS of Islamist women gathered at the radical Red Mosque in Pakistani capital today and vowed to raise their children for holy war, days after a suicide bomber killed 18 people after a similar rally.

Chanting slogans of “jihad is our way”, burqa-clad women, some with babies, listened to fiery speeches from the daughter of the mosque’s jailed cleric on the eve of the anniversary of a commando raid on the complex in which more than 100 people died. 

“Our mujahideen (fighters) laid down their lives for the enforcement of the Islamic system in Pakistan. We are left behind to carry forward their mission,” the daughter of cleric Abdul Aziz told the tightly guarded rally in the mosque compound. 

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