…there are still pockets of resistance:

Ernesto Rojas Abbate was arrested in October 2010 after posting footage of himself wearing a devil mask and tearing pages from the Islamic holy book before setting it on fire and later urinating on it to extinguish the flames.

French Appeals Court allows acquittal ruling to stand for man who posted a video of himself burning and urinating on quran  (Barenaked)

Watch your feelings:

The appeals court ruled that, while the video was “willfully outrageous and deliberately provocative”, there was no evidence Rojas Abbate had intended   “to arouse feelings of hostility… aimed at provoking discrimination, hate, or violence towards Muslims.”

His lawyer, Renaud Bettcher, hailed the ruling, saying: “In a secular and republican society, it is incomprehensible that my client was prosecuted. Blasphemy does not exist in France.”

Police arrested Rojas Abbate after local Muslim leaders in Strasbourg reacted with outrage at the video. (When DON’T Muslims react with outrage?)

 But that rewriting of French history is coming along nicely:

France wipes out its past to make new arrivals feel at home

Andrew Bolt:   No to Napoleon, but yes to the African kingdom of Monomotapa… A country that refuses to teach its past, gives its citizens no sense of what binds them, which makes France seem suicidal:

Political Correctness, French Style. (Pay particular attention—starting at 2:15 in the video—as to why the French history textbook is being “updated” and, following that, notice who is dictating some of the changes to the new French history textbook.)

Keep in mind that Sarkozy himself is on record saying “Arabic is the language of the future…” 

 Every time I travel to France, I am amazed that the only attractions are the palaces built prior to their pathetic Revolution.   Nothing (except Tour D’Eiffel & Moulin Rouge) was created after the socialist revolution and the so-called Republic governs  the country.    French get what they deserve. Besides, a more socialist president will win the next elections and France will submerge into worse economic chaos and fade into oblivion.

Same applies here in Australia with KRudd,  JooLiar Gillard,Bobby Brown and all the other progressives in the Australian gubmint  who are hellbent to take away our personal freedoms and brainwash our children.

If we succumb to political correctness and group think, a reversal of Western decline is unlikely.

Before the era of political correctness, intellectuals with opposing political views still tried to learn from each other.

Lord, enlighten thou our enemies…; sharpen their wits, give acuteness to their perceptions and consecutiveness and clearness to their reasoning powers. We are in danger from their folly, not from their wisdom; their weakness is what fills us with apprehension, not their strength.   

continue reading  (Brussels Journal)

Islamo-logic at work:

• along the lines of  “those who oppose Islam cause wars for which they are responsible…….”

Pakistan: Cleric says assassinated governor “responsible for his own murder” as tens of thousands rally for blasphemy law

The pic on the left shows image of Al Qaeda mama Aafia Siddiqe, a hero for Islamic terrorists….

Tiny Minority of Excremists Update, and while we’re at it, an Impotent Islamabad Update, as the prime minister reiterates Pakistan’s commitment to doing nothing. “Thousands rally in Pakistan for blasphemy laws,” by Ashraf Khan for the Associated Press, January 9 via JW:

Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched in Pakistan’s largest city on Sunday to oppose any change to national blasphemy laws and to praise a man charged with murdering a provincial governor who had campaigned against the divisive legislation.

The rally of up to 50,000 people in downtown Karachi was one of the largest demonstrations of support for the laws, which make insulting Islam a capital offense. It was organized before the governor of Punjab province, Salman Taseer, was shot dead on Tuesday in Islamabad by a bodyguard who told a court he considered Taseer a blasphemer.

Muslim groups have praised the bodyguard, Mumtaz Qadri, and have used Taseer’s death to warn others not to speak out against the much-derided laws.

The size of the Karachi rally, which was large even by the standards of the city of 16 million, showed how bitter the argument is over the decades-old laws.

Although courts typically overturn blasphemy convictions and no executions have been carried out, rights activists say the laws are used to settle rivalries and persecute religious minorities.

Amid the threats from groups defending the law, the prime minister ruled out any changes to the legislation on Sunday, even as one of his key Cabinet ministers promised reforms were still on the agenda.

“This huge rally today has categorically signaled that nobody could dare to amend the blasphemy law,” said Fazlur Rehman, the key speaker at Sunday’s demonstration and head of the Taliban-linked conservative religious party Jamiat Ulema Islam.

“If the rulers are out to defend Taseer, so we also have the right to legally defend Mumtaz Qadri,” he told the crowd.

He said Taseer “was responsible for his own murder” because he had criticized the law. [...]

Many marchers waved the flags of conservative and radical Islamist parties and chanted: “Courage and bravery, Qadri, Qadri.”

Many wore head and arm bands inscribed: “We are ready to sacrifice our lives for the sanctity of the prophet.”

Minister for Minorities Shahbaz Bhatti said such demonstrations would not deter the government from amending the laws, which he said were being abused by Muslim extremists to victimize minorities. He warned that religious leaders who preach violence could be charged with inciting murder if the debate claims another life.

“We will not be intimidated,” Bhatti told The Associated Press. “We cannot remain silent on the victimization and growing extremism.”

Bhatti, a member of Pakistan’s Christian minority, did not give any timeframe for changing the laws and said details on how they might be amended had yet to be discussed with interest groups.

Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani, however, later told reporters in Islamabad that his government would not tamper with the contentious legislation.

“Government doesn’t have any such intention,” Gilani said in response to a question about whether his government is bringing any amendment to the laws. “I have also said it before categorically.” [...]

During a visit to Islamabad on Saturday, German Foreign Minister Guide Westerwelle described Taseer’s murder as “a terroristic act.”[...]

Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi declined to tell AP whether he agreed with his counterpart’s assessment.

“It’s very sad what happened. The matter is being investigated … and I would not like to comment on that at this stage,” Qureshi told AP.

Fanatical Frenzy Watch

Juvenile accused of blasphemy granted bail

LAHORE: The Lahore High Court granted bail to a juvenile accused of blasphemy under the Juvenile Justice System against bail bonds worth Rs100,000. (Tribune)

All non-Muslims must be killed:

Sharia forbids a non-Muslim to have authority over a Muslim.

Lahore—The outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has threatened the Punjab government to remove all non-Muslim officials from their posts, otherwise such officials would either be killed or their offices would be targeted.  (Paki Observer)

Islamic cleric offers $5,800 for hit-job if blasphemy accused Christian is released

ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s minister for minorities has condemned a hard-line cleric for offering cash to anyone who kills a Christian woman convicted of blasphemy against Islam.

The minister, Shahbaz Bhatti, says the offer is “immoral, unjust and irresponsible” and should be condemned in the “strongest possible manner.”A Pakistani court sentenced Asia Bibi to death last month, triggering protests from human rights groups and Christian organizations. Islamist political parties have demonstrated in support of the sentence and the blasphemy laws.

Supporters of Pakistani religious parties rally against Christian woman Asia Bibi in Multan, Pakistan on Friday, Dec. 3, 2010. Pakistan’s president will not immediately pardon the Christian woman sentenced to die for insulting Islam but may do so later if an appeals court delays her case too long, an official said. Placard reads “we are ready to die for the sanctity of Prophet.”

Cleric Yousef Qureshi said Friday that if the government did not execute Bibi, his mosque would pay anyone who killed her $5,800.  (WaPo)

WikiLeaks: Pakistan continues to support Mumbai terror attack group

Pakistan continues to support the militant group which carried out the 2008 terrorist attacks on Mumbai despite its claims to have launched a crackdown on the organisation, the United States Ambassador to Islamabad wrote in a cable. (Telegraph)

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(eye on the world/Islamization Watch)

Christian Convert Faces Persecution in Afghanistan

Update: Pakistan Leader May Free Condemned Christian Woman Faith

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• If we’re going to give Pakistan all those billions, it should repeal its blasphemy laws now

• Pakistan Christian Congress files petition with United Nation Office for Refugee Status for Pakistani Christians ~ over Constitutional Genocide and Persecution by Muslims

“No Muslim tolerates a man who commits blasphemous acts.”

Mob allowed to attack Christians accused of blasphemy in broad daylight ~ 7 were burnt alive in Gorja massacre 2009.

“Man accused of blasphemy killed in Pakistan,” from Indian Express, November 18 (thanks to Weasel Zippers)

As for the billions ~ after $$100 million$ were sent to Pakistan ~ for the SWAT refugee crisis ~ Pakistan Christians were turned away from official camps ~ they were told their food was ‘unclean’ ~ and that they could not cook next to Muslims. As a result they never gained refugee status ~ and did not receive compensation for property loss as Muslim citizens got.

Afghanistan: Convert from Islam to Christianity arrested, tortured, faces trial for apostasy

But wait! I thought all the learned analysts had assured us that there is no death penalty for apostasy in Islam! Isn’t that right, Dr. Bassiouni? Mr. Kruse? Ms. Heagney?

Afghanistan’s U.S.-backed government has done this before. Remember Abdul Rahman?

“Mossa’s day in court,” by Mindy Belz in World Magazine, November 13 (thanks to JW)

Absolute insanity. Not one of our soldiers should have to die to establish “Democracy Under Sharia” – Mission Impossible  in a corrupt and hopeless land such as Afghanistan.

Pakistan: Christian woman sentenced to death for “blasphemy” (not to worry, the pope is onto it. If he cannot save her, who will?

The family of a Pakistani Christian woman sentenced to death for blasphemy is appealing the verdict with the Lahore High Court. Asia Bibi, a mother of two and field hand, was sentenced to death for allegedly making slanderous remarks about the Prophet Muhammad. (JW)

Update: “The campaign to confront the country’s blasphemy laws…is hampered by the danger of being accused of undermining Islam” (JW)

Religion of gun-fighting clerics

QUETTA, Pakistan — A shootout inside a mosque in southwestern Pakistan wounded 18 people Wednesday in a dispute over who should lead prayers for one of Islam’s most important holidays, police said. (Canadian Press)

Don’t judge this too harshly. After all, don’t we hear about shootouts in churches all the time, over who has to clean up after the potluck supper, or who gets to be head of the parish council? Don’t Believe Your Lying Eyes, It’s Really A Religion of Peace Update: “Pakistan mosque shootout leaves 18 injured,” from the Associated Press, November 17:

A shootout in a mosque in south-western Pakistan, caused by a dispute over who should lead prayers on one of Islam’s most important holidays, has left 18 people injured, police said today.Followers of the two rival religious leaders pulled out weapons and began shooting after arguing over which one should start Eid al-Adha prayers at a small mosque in the Khuzdar district of Baluchistan province, Javed Ahmed, a police official, said….

And given the ever-present journalistic imperative to whitewash Islam, AP hastens to assure us that this is not the norm in a paragraph that would never find a counterpart in a story about a pedophile priest or money-grubbing evangelist:

Millions of people throughout Pakistan have been peacefully celebrating Eid al-Adha….

Oh, well, then!

Turkish Muslims Steal Sheep for Eid ‘Sacrifice’… (TROP)

It’s the Islam, Stoopid!

In German: Nächste Watschen für Aygül Özkan

Thanks to PI, slightly edited

Lawyer-by-training and German by naturalisation Aygül Özkan  sees German courts as an “alien authority” and would like to see more Turkish Muslims in the judiciary. Özkan recently caused an uproar when she called for the removal of cruzifixes from German classrooms. Since German police is unable to cope with large numbers of increasingly aggressive, criminal gangs of Mohammedan ‘youth’ the import of Turkish policemen is being suggested. Nobody seems to realize that Turkish police would side with the criminals, because Muslim loyalties always lie with other Muslims, never with the infidel nation state.

Now Aygül Özkan is about to introduce a “Media Charter” for Lower Saxony. During a collective act on August 16 in Hannover, the invited media representatives are supposed to sign this so-called “Media Charter on Integration”. The written invitation says that the collective declaration of intent is supposed to generate a publicity effect and all undersigned will have to pledge themselves to “strongly support the integration process in Lower Saxony”.

Özkan’s ministry demands the media use “culturally sensitive” language  to further “intercultural openness (which is, of course, humbug, because the term “intercultural” is a one-way-street and don’t we all know the “intercultural openness” of Muslims towards the West), to improve their “intercultural competence” (ditto), to initiate relevant projects and to cover them as journalists.

The NWZ goes on:

It is so far unique in Germany for the government of a federal state to pledge the media to a collective content and even the language used for that.

How very daring! But while Özkan had gotten a lot of backslapping by the media for her attempt at removing the crucifix from the public eye (who wants religion anyway, at least as long as it’s Christian), by getting at the media itself, she went too far and didn’t come by the usual fawning reception to which she must be used by now.

Here we have a woman, young, “modern”, seemingly perfectly assimilated, educated to university level, the lot, yet the first thing she sets her mind on in her high office, even before she is sworn in, is the banning of the Christian symbol from schools and, not even three months later, the abolition of the freedom of the press in favour of her fellow Muslims. Because in spite of all the “integration” and “people with a migration background” hogwash it’s just about one thing: Islam. Just as for this woman, young, “modern”, seemingly perfectly assimilated, educated to university level, everything is about Islam.  Islam, nothing else matters……

Other links from EUrabia:

• Basel: Parents fined for missed swimming lessons
• UK: Surge in tax-funded ‘virginity repair’ operations
• France: The threats facing Jews
• Switzerland: Swiss People’s Party surveys Swiss on foreigner policy (at least they ask)
• Germany: Soccer authorities get ruling on Ramadan fasting
• EU: Islam in Europe now has strong local leadership

Germany:  Token Muslim Minister (Turkish agent) Calls for Blasphemy Laws, Threatens Media To Use “Culturally Sensitive Language”

That’s right after she tried to get crucifixes banned from German classrooms. She’s pushing it; because she can:

Aygul Ozkan, minister of integration in Lower Saxony state, had asked media to sign a charter to abstain from “racist” reporting. (Islam is not a race. But striking terror in the hearts of all Islam-critics is official policy of the OIC and the UN, and this Islamo agit-prop is doing their bidding….)

The draft proposed that signatories ‘use culturally sensitive language,’ educate readers to think ‘interculturally’ and devote news attention to ‘the challenges of integration.’ She suggested leading editors meet in August to publicly sign the charter.

As the outcry grew, Ozkan appealed for calm, saying the text was ‘just a first possible draft as a basis for discussion.’ (Monsters & Critics)

Pakistan: Christians murdered outside courthouse had been acquitted of blasphemy

But enraged Muslims in the area demanded blood for (alleged) pamphlets. “2,000 Muslim militants go on rampage in Faisalabad; acquitted Christians murdered,” from Catholic Culture via JW

“2,000 Islamic militants– urged at local mosques to ‘fight the infidels’”

Related links:

• 60-Year-Old Woman Spends 14 Years in Prison for Blasphemy… (RoP)
• UK Muslims Hot about ‘Qur’an Slamming’ Scene on TV Show… (RoP)
• Pakistan Christians Mourn Brothers Murdered for Blasphemy, Police Use Teargas on… Christians!
• Previous: Lawyer Threatens to Kill Christian Charged with ‘Blasphemy’

When Aygül Özkan was appointed by former Prime Minister Christian Wulff to become the first Muslim minister in Germany, there was doubt whether the contradiction between Islamic teachings and our Basic Law could always be regulated in the secular sense. For the first time in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany this minister would like to shake down the freedom of the press granted in the Basic Law. Media are to commit themselves officially to only report to certain topics in a sense specified first and with arranged language. Guess  which topics this could be….?

Excerpts from the 2009 International Religious Freedom Report on PAKISTAN

“…Freedom of speech is constitutionally, ‘subject to any reasonable restrictions imposed by law in the interest of the glory of Islam.’ …”

“…Law enforcement personnel abused religious minorities in custody. Security forces and other government agencies did not adequately prevent or address societal abuse against minorities. Discriminatory legislation and the Government’s failure to take action against societal forces hostile to those who practice a different religious belief fostered religious intolerance, acts of violence, and intimidation against religious minorities… ”

“…religious minorities are legally restricted from public display of certain religious images…”

“…The consequences for contravening the country’s blasphemy laws are death for defiling Islam or its prophets; life imprisonment for defiling, damaging, or desecrating the Qur’an; and 10 years’ imprisonment for insulting another’s religious feelings…”

“…Some individuals bring charges under these laws to settle personal scores or to intimidate vulnerable Muslims, sectarian opponents, and religious minorities… ”

“…The Ministry of Religious Affairs…has on its masthead a Qur’anic verse: ‘Islam is the only religion acceptable to God…’ ”

“…Authorities routinely used blasphemy laws to harass religious minorities and vulnerable Muslims and to settle personal scores or business rivalries… ”

“…Mobs occasionally attacked individuals accused of blasphemy and their families or their religious communities. When blasphemy and other religious cases were brought to court, extremists often packed the courtroom and made public threats against an acquittal. Religious extremists continued to threaten to kill those acquitted of blasphemy charges. High-profile accused persons often went into hiding or emigrated after acquittal…”

“…In September 2008 a former federal minister and host of a popular religious television show declared on air that killing Ahmadis was the ‘Islamic duty of devout Muslims;’ at least two Ahmadis were killed in Sindh within 48 hours of this declaration…At the end of the reporting period, the the government continued to stall investigation into the deaths…”

“…Violence against and harassment of Christians continued during the reporting period…”

“…In April 2009, at a district court in Nankana Sahib, Punjab, police cleared three men accused of raping a 13-year-old Christian girl despite eyewitness accounts and medical evidence… ”

“…A March 2009 attack on a church and the surrounding neighborhood in Sangu-Wali, a village in Gujranwala, Punjab, left a woman dead. The attack was believed to be prompted after a Christian filed a robbery complaint against a local Muslim who, along with his friends, indiscriminately preyed on the community…”

“…Hindus faced societal violence, often directed at temples, during the reporting period…”

Etc., etc.

By Patrick Goodenough, CNS News

• Islamic Bloc Says It Faces ‘Smear Campaign’ Over Religious ‘Defamation’ Push
• Islamic Group Backs Tehran, Slams Foreign ‘Interference’

(CNSNews.com) – An Islamic-led campaign against religious “defamation” has taken another blow the United Nations, where support among member states has dropped to a new low amid escalating concerns that defamation resolutions endanger non-Muslims in Islamic societies and harm freedom of expression.

While much of the world’s attention was focused on Copenhagen late last week, the U.N. General Assembly passed a range of human rights-related resolutions. For critics of the world body and its Human Rights Council, the results were mixed.

The latest in a string of religious defamation resolutions considered by the General Assembly and human rights bodies over the past decade saw more countries than ever oppose the measure.

The resolution passed by 80 votes to 61 against, with 42 countries abstaining. The result is the worst ever for the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) member states and their allies, many of them not free democracies. It marks a continuing decline since 2007, when in the wake of the Mohammed newspaper cartoon furor a similar resolution passed by a vote of 108-51, with 25 abstentions.

Not only has the number of countries opposing the move climbed (see graph), but several member states in the developing world have moved from supporting the resolutions to abstaining.

Ten countries in Latin America and the Asia-Pacific moved from abstaining in 2008 to opposing the OIC resolution this year – Chile, Mexico, Uruguay, Panama, St. Lucia, Papua New Guinea, East Timor, Vanuatu, Nauru and Tonga.

Another five states which supported the resolution last year abstained this time – Honduras, Jamaica, Bahamas, Antigua and Barbuda and Lesotho.

Moving in the other direction, Liberia, Cape Verde and Belize abstained this year, having opposed the OIC resolution in 2008; and Congo moved from abstaining last year, to supporting the resolution this time.

The OIC argues that Islam and its teachings, symbols and prophetic figures are being denigrated by non-Muslims as a result of ignorance, fear and prejudice.

But critics charge that the OIC is trying to shield Islam, Islamic practices and clerics from legitimate examination, noting that it is in some Islamic countries themselves that non-Muslim beliefs and activities are proscribed.

The drive to have defamation of religion outlawed has triggered a growing counter-campaign by freedom of expression groups, humanist organizations, and advocates for the rights of Christians and other non-Muslim minorities in the Islamic world, including coverts from Islam who are considered “apostates.”

Although the resolutions are non-binding, they are taking place in conjunction with a separate OIC-led push to have an existing, legally-binding anti-racism treaty, the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD), amended to cover speech deemed as religiously defamatory.

In a letter written to member states ahead of the vote, Angela Wu, international law director of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty – a leading opponent of the resolutions – argued that the measures “provide international support for domestic blasphemy laws that have been used by oppressive regimes to silence, rather than protect, vulnerable minorities and dissenters.”

Wu contested the very concept of religious defamation, saying the human rights law systems is meant to protect individuals, not ideas or religions.

News in brief from the eye-on-the world blogspot:

Update on missing Lockerbie bomber

That MF is a millionaire:

(Times Online) The Lockerbie bomber had £1.8m in a Swiss bank account when he was convicted eight years ago, it has been revealed.  More…

35% of Egyptians and Saudis feel “duty” to support armed jihad around the world

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (UPI) — More than 35 percent of Egyptians and Saudis interviewed in a recent survey considered it their duty to back regional mujahedin financially, a scholar notes. More…

That’s nice, especially in light of Obama’s kissing up to Islam in his Cairo speech in which he said that “throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality.”

Caught on TV terrorist: “I was framed”

Despite the fact that he was not only caught red handed in the middle of his Allah inspired murderous spree and was also caught on TV, Mohammad Qasab in court has retracted a confession that he took part, saying he had been forced by the police to confess after being repeatedly beaten up. He said he was not the man seen in pictures wielding an assault rifle during the attacks.

Mad Cow fights to save Mohammedan who ran her over

(UK) In the English city of Derby, 19-year-old Stacey Stubley pleaded in court for the judge not to jail her ex boyfriend who, in an episode totally out of character of his obsessive behavior towards his ex girlfriend, ran her over in his car putting her in a hospital bed for over a fortnight.

In court she pleaded with the judge not to jail Asah Shah and stated that the police statement of violence, intimidation, controlling behaviour she made against Shah from her hospital bed cannot be relied upon.   Stupid Cow fights ….More>>

US “Outreach” Madness:

Relying on the Muslim Brotherhood to fight jihad:

CAIR Warns Not To Prosecute 5 American Jihadis: “FBI walks tightrope in outreach to Muslims”

“Charging them and throwing them in jail is not the solution,” said Nihad Awad, national head of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which approached the FBI on behalf of the families. “The government has to show some appreciation for the actions of the parents and the community. That will encourage other families to come forward.” More from WaPo

Whatever it takes to shut you up:

Vlad Tepes Blog

This is much more important than most people are aware of. The UN General assembly is considering a binding resolution on member nations (nearly all countries in the world) making it a criminal matter to say anything which may cast Islam in a bad light. This can actually include accurately reporting Islamic terrorists when they themselves expose their motives for their attack.

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Blasphemy Charges in Finland: 

Jussi Halla-aho to stand trial for blasphemy against Allah

Besides blasphemy, Halla-aho was “ordered to stand trial for publishing on his blog that Islam’s prophet was a pedophile.” Here again we encounter the Orwellian, or perhaps more precisely Alice-In-Wonderland, Through-the-Looking-Glass quality of today’s public discourse.

Helsinki city councilman, Jussi Halla-aho was charged with blasphemy and incitement of an ethnic-group in the Helsinki district court today, and ordered to stand trial for publishing on his blog that Islam’s prophet was a pedophile.

* In Austria, elected politician Susanne Winter was convicted on similar charges. The truth is no defense.  WTF?

The councillor’s blog post here.

Jihad Watch wonders what else you’d call the Prophet by today’s standards:

The collection of traditions of Muhammad that Muslims consider most reliable, Sahih Bukhari, affirms in no less than five places that Aisha was six when Muhammad took her and nine when he consummated the marriage (vol. 5, bk. 58, no. 234; vol. 5 bk. 58 no. 236; vol. 7 bk. 62 no. 64; vol. 7 bk. 62 no. 65; and vol. 7 bk. 62 no. 88). It is also in Sunan Abu Dawud (bk. 41 no. 4915), another of the Sahih Sittah, the six hadith collections Muslims accept as most reliable.

Update from Tundra Tabloids:

* Jussi Halla-Aho Being Tried For Postulating What Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini Freely Espoused…….

* “Prophet Muhammad was a pedophile and islam revers pedophilia as a religion. Islam is a religion of pedophilia. Pedophilia is Allah’s will.”

* Update from Shiva: http://islamonthisday.blogspot.com/2009/03/on-this-day-march-29.html

The concept of pedophilia did not exist in Muhammad’s day. His marriage to Aisha was not unusual in the context of the time; but it becomes extremely problematic, and conducive to pedophilia, when Muhammad is held up as the “excellent example of conduct” (Qur’an 33:21) for all time, and followed in this in our own day. And child marriage is indeed common in some areas of the Islamic world — notably Afghanistan, but it is by no means limited to Afghanistan only.

In any case, in light of all that, Halla-aho was saying something perfectly reasonable. Lets hope he will be able to bring some of this evidence in his own defense.

Free Speech Death Watch Update: “Free Speech Slammed in Finland as Politician is Brought up on Blasphemy Charges…….,” from Tundra Tabloids