Govt to detain blogger for “defamation”

Pic thanks to ZIP

* Defamation of the profiteer Muhammad, of course. A sign of things to come? 

The Jakarta Post   |  Wed, 11/19/2008 6:27 PM  |  National

* Just in with thanks to Shiva

Communication and Information Minister Muhammad Nuh on Wednesday pledged that his office would arrest a blogger for creating a site that defaming the Prophet Muhammad.

Muhammad Nuh said his office had a tool to detect the blogger’s whereabouts.

* Thai govt plans to block inappropriate Web sites

* Iran admits to blocking millions of websites

* Atlas Shrugs: STEALTH CENSORSHIP: THE NEW BROWNSHIRTS

 Kurt Westergaard’s new cartoon: (more…)

* 3 articles here!

The Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) is an Islamist supremacist organization.  Composed of 57 member states with Muslim majority populations, the OIC is the largest Islamic body in the world.  It is also the largest international organization of any kind, second only to the United Nations.  It represents an estimated 1.5 billion Muslims across the Middle East, Asia and Africa. 

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* Google, which owns youtube, has just censored Pat Condell’s latest vid. you can still get it on Blip.tv:

                                             Pat Condell

              Don’t let these friggin’ cowards get way with it!

*  But wait: there’s more (there’s always more from the cult of evil and its useful idiot supporters)

Plans for the British publication of a controversial novel about a young the child wife of the Prophet Mohammed have been postponed following a fire bomb attack at the publisher’s London office.

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* A hard look at Wllie Clitman’s legacy:

By John Ziegler
Writer/Director/Producer
“Blocking the Path to 9/11″

Just less than seven years ago it would have been impossible to predict that the horrific events of September 11, 2001 would be as forgotten as they now seem today. In those heady days of national unity that marked the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on America, we made a communal pledge that we would never forget the victims or the lessons of that fateful day. There is little doubt that we have long ago betrayed that promise.

* BS-peddlers & da’awa doctors: “Terrorists hijacked the Muslim faith”

There is no more dramatic example of this distressing reality than what has happened to the one major film that attempted to answer a very simple and yet extremely complex question: How was that day allowed to happen?

In 2006, exactly five years after the attacks, ABC attempted to broadcast “The Path to 9/11.”  The extraordinary mini-series was a $40 million, five-hour-plus production that aired, commercial-free, over two nights, in prime time.

However, prior to broadcast, Bill Clinton and members of his former administration went ballistic after discovering that one scene in the film dealt with the many opportunities during his presidency to kill or capture Usama bin Laden. A two-week firestorm erupted and the film had several key scenes edited out of the completed and legally vetted version before finally airing with numerous disclaimers.

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* Now lets see if this gets into the MSM. This is from Israel Today:

Muslim students at the University of Southern California are enraged by the school’s recent decision to remove from a student group’s website an Islamic text that encourages the murder of Jews.

Until recently, the website of the now-defunct Muslim Student Association, which is hosted on the university’s servers, had featured the full text of the hadiths, the words of Mohammed that are not found in the Koran.

* More here

One of those hadiths calls on Muslims to “fight against the Jews and…kill them,” and promises that even the stones and the trees will assist Muslims in that gruesome task.

A statement issued by the Muslim Student Union at USC suggested that the hadith was being taken out of context, and called the school’s decision to remove it from the website “unprecedented and unconscionable.”

The Muslim Student Union accused the USC administration of practicing unfair censorship.

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*  It is quite encouraging that the provost of Southern California University comes out publicly and denounces Muhammads teachings as ‘truly despicable’- but having them removed doesn’t change the doctrine. Removal is censorship, and censorship is no cure. It  merely prevents those who want to learn about how awful and vile this belief-system is from accessing those texts.

University of Southern California provost: Muhammad’s words “truly despicable”

*  Robert Spencer:

The US News and World Report blog picks up on the USC MSA’s removal of the genocidal ahadith — at least some of them — after we at the David Horowitz Freedom Center called upon them to renounce these Islamic teachings. When I posted about this before, many people missed the point. They lamented that these texts would no longer be available, and that taqiyya artists would attempt to claim that they did not exist.

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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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Ayesha with pedophile profit Muhammad

* If anything, its a crappy book. Books like that don’t help our cause in any way. But then again, what Random House is doing here is blatant pre-emptive censorship. And more than anything, its shameless cowardice in the face of an implacable enemy.

Given this excerpt from the book, I’m ready to say good riddance:

“The novel, for example, includes a scene on the night when Muhammad consummated his marriage with Aisha: ”the pain of consummation soon melted away. Muhammad was so gentle. I hardly felt the scorpion’s sting. To be in his arms, skin to skin, was the bliss I had longed for all my life.”

Update to this story. “Random US: no regrets over Islam book,” by Philip Jones, from the Book Seller, August 12:

Random House US has said that it has no regrets about pulling out of publication of Sherry Jones’ Islam-inspired romantic novel, The Jewel of Medina, despite the growing controversy about the decision. The news, which broke in the US last week, has led to widespread criticism, and drawn comparisons with The Satanic Verses and the Danish Mohammed cartoons row. 

But Stuart Applebaum Random House US spokesman told The Bookseller that the publisher had had “no second thoughts“. “It was a difficult decision: one that we have seldom had to take before and one that we hope not to have to take again,” he said. Applebaum said that the decision had been taken by Gina Centrello, president and publisher of the Random House Publishing Group in the US, after several “credible and unrelated sources” warned that it might be offensive to some in the Muslim community, and could incite acts of violence by a small, radical segment.

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