Author: sheikyermami

“She Said Unbearable, Ghastly Things That Made My Hair Stand On End”

 Sheikh Yousuf Al-Qaradhawi: Wafa Sultan “had the audacity to publicly curse Allah, His Prophet, the Koran, the history of Islam, and the Islamic nation”

* Transcript of  Wafa Sultan Interview on Al Jizz 

“Many brothers here and abroad – more from abroad than from here – have called to ask me about the ‘Opposite Direction’ [show on Al-Jazeera TV], and that woman [Wafa Sultan], who leveled accusations against Islam and the Muslims, and cursed Allah, His Prophet, the Islamic nation, the shari’a, and the Islamic faith and culture. She did not omit anything. She was insolent and stopped at nothing.

“I know that our colleague Dr. Faysal Al-Qassem apologized on the following show. I did not watch the [original] show, but I was given a recording. She said unbearable, ghastly things that made my hair stand on end. She had the audacity to publicly curse Allah, His Prophet, the Koran, the history of Islam, and the Islamic nation. She did not spare anything.

* She is good. She gets better every time…

“It was all based on ignorance. If only she had some knowledge… But she doesn’t have any knowledge. She doesn’t know the Koran or the Sunna. When she cited a hadith to back up her statements, she used a hadith that scholars consider unreliable.”

Spencer:

Ain’t it always the way? I’ll let you in on a little secret: any and every critic of Islamic jihad and Islamic supremacism is “ignorant.” Any Hadith that someone like Wafa Sultan (or someone like me) quotes is ipso facto unreliable, just as any Qur’an quotation she might adduce would be ripped out of context.

“If She Had Read The Koran, She Would Have Known That It Forbids Killing People… She Should Read The Torah And Tell Us What It Says”

* Right. Like ‘kill the unbelievers wherever you find them’ and ‘wipe the unbelievers out to the last…’  But what has that got to do with the Torah..?

“The Prophet said: ‘Allah has given me sustenance under the shadow of my sword.’ This hadith is unreliable. The Prophet did not get sustenance by the sword. If she had read the Koran, she would have known that it forbids killing people: ‘Anyone who kills another person for any reason other than manslaughter or spreading corruption in the land – it is as if he has killed all of mankind.’

* Yeah! But why doesn’t Qaradhawi cite the whole verse? Why does he stop here?

Robert Spencer explains: “Other than manslaughter or spreading corruption in the land [fasaad].” That’s a big exception right there, particularly given the Islamic understanding of what constitutes fasaad. Qaradawi is quoting Qur’an 5:32, which, incidentally, immediately precedes the verse about amputation that Wafa quoted, 5:33. 

* Strange that there are so many ‘unreliable hadiths’ but none of them must be omitted, and no reform of the belief-system of Islam must ever be allowed.

Read it all from JW 

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So said a representative of Pakistan at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on March 13, 2008.

In a follow up to IHEU’s written statement to the UN Human Rights Council describing Islamic efforts to undermine the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Roy Brown, IHEU’s main representative at the UN in Geneva, prepared an oral statement for Council debate on 13 March but was prevented from giving it in full because of repeated objections from two Islamic delegations.

IHEU “ambushed” at Human Rights Council

* Islamic Law vs Human Rights

Negative consequences

Continuing interruptions have a negative effect on any statement because the audience quickly becomes absorbed by the interruptions, and both speaker and audience can quickly lose track of the speaker’s argument. Worse, the speaker is often reduced to simply stating his main conclusion without being able to provide his supporting evidence. In this case, without the benefit of the quotations from the Cairo Declaration, a well-reasoned argument was reduced to sounding like mere polemics. Objections also act as a warning to others against raising sensitive issues and have a chilling effect on those who might wish to cover similar ground. No doubt all of these effects are well understood by the Islamic delegates.

More worrying still are the implications for rational discussion of Islamic interpretations of human rights. Any criticism, indeed, any discussion of Shari’ah law at the Human Rights Council is now considered an “insult to Islam”. The problem is the extremely close relationship between Islam as a religion, and Sharia which, although a system of law, holds a central position in that faith. The continuing efforts by the Islamic states at the Human Rights Council, in the UN General Assembly and elsewhere to silence “defamation” of religion can be seen in this context. Should these efforts succeed, any criticism of the Shari’ah, of its entrenched inequalities or brutal punishments will be condemned as defamation of Islam. Rational discussion – indeed any mention of the Shari’ah – will have become impossible.

For the time being, then, the Islamic States can continue to pretend that Islamic declarations of human rights are compatible with international standards. But that claim should seen for what it is.

“When we want to know about human rights we do not go to the UN, we go to the Holy Qur’an”. Ayatollah Khomeni.

Italy takes al Qaeda’s Pope threat seriously-agency

ROME, March 20 (Reuters) – Italian security officials are treating Osama bin Laden’s new accusations against Pope Benedict as a serious threat, Ansa news agency said on Thursday, quoting a source at the interior ministry’s anti-terrorism unit.

An interior ministry spokesman said security officials will meet on Friday to examine the Al Qaeda leader’s taped message, in which he said offending cartoons of Islam’s Prophet Mohammad were part of a “new crusade” involving Pope Benedict.

* Pamela has more:

CONVERTING THE POPE TO ISLAM

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Bin Laden’s threat uncovers Jihadist message for Europe

By Walid Phares

In an audiotape posted on Internet, Osama Bin Laden threatened Europe with punishment because of its “negligence in spite of the opportunity presented to take the necessary measures” to stop the republishing of the Danish cartoons. It also menaced the Vatican with retribution for an alleged role in incitement “against religion.” This al Qaeda warning would have been normal in Salafi Jihad logic.

Intimidating EUrabia

Vatican denies bin Laden charge that Pope is leading “new Crusade,” but still worried

And they are worried with good reason. The Pope certainly isn’t leading a new Crusade, but Rome is nevertheless the apple of the jihadist eye. One of the most influential Muslim clerics in the world, Sheikh al-Qaradawi, said this a few years ago:

The friends of the Prophet heard that two cities would be conquered by Islam, Romiyya and Constantinople, and the Prophet said that ‘Hirqil [i.e. Constantinople] would be conquered first.’ Romiyya is Rome, the capital of Italy, and Constantinople was the capital of the state of Byzantine Rome, which today is Istanbul. He said that Hirqil which is Constantinople, would be conquered first and this is what happened…All right, Constantinople was conquered, and the second part of the prophecy remains, that is, the conquest of Romiyya. This means that Islam will return to Europe. Islam entered Europe twice and left it… Perhaps the next conquest, Allah willing, will be by means of preaching and ideology. The conquest need not necessarily be by the sword… [The conquest of Mecca] was not by the sword or by war, but by a [Hudabiyya] treaty, and by peace…
Perhaps we will conquer these lands without armies.

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From the department of flying pigs:

Catholics Want to Reclaim St. Paul’s Birthplace

By Peter Wensierski/Spiegel Online

Pope Benedict XVI

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The Catholic Church is pushing for the construction of a Christian meeting center at the birthplace of the Apostle Paul in Turkey. German bishops are demanding tolerance for Christians in Turkey in exchange for their support for mosques in Germany.

* Good luck with that. More…

Saudis: No churches here unless Pope accepts Muhammad as a prophet

Which would make him a Muslim, and the churches mosques. But in their eyes, it would simply make him one of the authentic Christians as envisioned in the Qur’an — one who rejects the divinity and redemption of Christ, and reveres him along with Muhammad as one of the prophets.

“Saudi Arabia: No churches unless prophet Mohammed recognised, says expert,” from AKI

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* Saudis say they’re going to retrain 40,000 imams who Misunderstand Islam

“But critics are sceptical about whether such initiatives would work as long as the powerful, and ultraconservative, religious establishment in Saudi Arabia continues to exert enormous influence over society.” Uh huh.

How did 40,000 clerics — 40,000 — get The Religion of Peaceâ„¢ so drastically wrong in the first place?

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Tiny Minority of Extremistsâ„¢ Update: “Saudis to retrain 40,000 clerics,” by Magdi Abdlehadi for the BBC via JW*

In Rome´s Main Mosque, One Imam Is Calling for Jihad

Incendiary sermons are being preached to the Muslims in the pope´s diocese. And this is no isolated case – the mosques are in the hands of Islamic radicals

* Islamic radicals? Are there any others? 

“O Allah, grant victory to the Islamic fighters in Palestine, Chechnya, and elsewhere in the world! O Allah, destroy the homes of the enemies of Islam! O Allah, help us to annihilate the enemies of Islam! O Allah, make firm everywhere the voice of the nation of Islam!” 

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* Australia’s labor hacks don’t get it: isolated in their ivory towers, mentally lazy, -but freshly reelected after a considerable time in the opposition-, the old commies just can’t come to terms with reality:

Push to tackle ‘white flight’

Jewel Topsfield / The Age

Lausi Ferguson

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REFUGEES should be housed across a wider spread of suburbs to halt the so-called “white flight” from some government schools, according to a senior Federal Government MP.

* But that “white flight” link is again a misnomer, which encourages sloppy, stereotypical thinking on race. The “whites” fleeing ghettoised schools actually include many Asian children.

Laurie Ferguson, parliamentary secretary for multicultural affairs, said white flight — where Anglo-European parents shun state schools that have a high proportion of students from other racial backgrounds — had become a big challenge for multicultural Australia.

* Link: ‘Multiculturalism cannot survive’ by Salim Mansur

“People fear there is a monoculture in some suburbs. They believe there is an over-dominance of some cultures in schools, which is denigrating the quality of education,” Mr Ferguson told The Age.

* Fergie doesn’t have to live there…

“So they are withdrawing their kids from government schools and sending them to religious or selective high schools. This leads to further concentration of marginalised communities in government schools and the further stigmatisation of these schools.”

The term “white flight” was coined in the US. It was applied to schools after desegregation began in the 1960s, when many white people who could afford private schools pulled their children from mixed public schools.

Mr Ferguson said the “concept of white flight from the government school system” had now become a big challenge in Australia, particularly in western Sydney and parts of Melbourne.

* Andrew Bolt has some great comments: “Immigrant scatter” rather than “white flight”

A confidential survey conducted by the NSW Secondary Principals Council in 2006 raised concerns about white flight undermining the public education system and threatening social cohesion.

The report showed the percentage of Anglo-European students in public schools had decreased by a third in western NSW, by 42% in North Sydney and 37% in New England.

Mr Ferguson told The Age more needed to be done to avoid children from places such as Africa, who had grown up in refugee camps and had limited education, being so heavily concentrated in some areas and schools. “Deliberate policy decisions” needed to be made about diversifying the location of housing for refugees and humanitarian entrants.

He said settlement workers should also try harder to find private rental properties for their clients in a broader range of areas, rather than simply dealing with the same real estate agents.

* Welcome to KRuddistan

Mr Ferguson said that in contrast to the hostility of the former Howard government, the Rudd Government was committed to making multiculturalism work, and he had been talking with the Immigration Department about how to tackle white flight.

He said while people could not be forced to live in certain areas and rent was prohibitively high in wealthy suburbs, more could be done to broaden resettlement.

“There also needs to be work from state education departments, otherwise we are going to see a worsening spiral of high unemployment, stigmatisation by employers and denigration of and further retreat from public education,” Mr Ferguson said.

The president of the Victorian Association of State Secondary Principals, Brian Burgess, said the exodus from state schools in Victoria was “more like a middle-class flight” than a white flight.

“It has more to do with middle-class people living in lower socio-economic areas moving into private education or what they would view to be a more upmarket secondary school in the next suburb,” he said.

But teachers at racially diverse schools, who asked not to be named, told The Age white flight was occurring in Melbourne.

* “Australia needs more Africans”

Meanwhile, Mr Ferguson said one of his first tasks as parliamentary secretary had been to reassure the African community the Government would continue to accept African refugees, after former immigration minister Kevin Andrews claimed the Sudanese were struggling to integrate. “The biggest area of damage control was to try to counter the anxiety in the African community after Andrews’ statements,” Mr Ferguson said.

He said Africans had interpreted Mr Andrews’ “reprehensible” comments to mean the Government was completely cutting the African refugee intake.

The Immigration Department was also composing a multicultural policy statement to replace the former government’s policy.

John Howard was famously suspicious of the word “multicultural”, saying he preferred to use “integration”. He also dropped “Multicultural Affairs” from the Immigration Department’s title.

Mr Ferguson said that while it would be nice if the name was reinstated, the fact he had been appointed secretary for multicultural affairs and was pushing the agenda underlined its importance to the Government.

* That boomerang will come to bite you in the arse, boyz…

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Where are the Muslim enclaves in our towns and cities? Are they really no-go areas and are they forcing others out? John Cornwell, one of Britain’s leading historians and commentators on religion, navigates the multicultural minefields that are polarising the nation.

 Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar (Allah is the greatest, Allah is the greatest). Ash-hadu alla ilaha illa-llah (I bear witness that there is none worthy of worship but Allah).

The call to prayer resounds across the rooftops before dawn, bringing echoes of the Levant to provincial Luton and its 30,000 Muslims. But for infidel locals, the holy wake-up is a curse. “I’d like to pull the plug on that caterwauling,” a second-generation Luton Irish woman tells me. “I go to work, and I’ve got two small kids. It’s just not fair on non-Muslim families around here.”

While nearly three out of four people in Britain claim some form of Christian affiliation, Christianity makes ever less demands on the public space. Even nativity plays are surrendering to the sensitivities of secularists and other faiths. But the impact of Britain’s estimated 1.6m Muslims is increasingly assertive. Asian Muslims account for about 1 in 50 of British citizens, yet they dominate entire districts in the vicinities of their more than 1,350 mosques: 10 of them in Luton alone. Are Muslim enclaves making a contribution to a flourishing multicultural mosaic? Or are they undermining the cohesion of Britain’s civil society?

When Archbishop Rowan Williams delivered his ratiocinations on adoption of sharia, it sent shockwaves through the nation. His initiative was emphatically rebuffed. Earlier, Michael Nazir-Ali, the Pakistani-born Anglican Bishop of Rochester, caused a rumpus by calling for an end to “‘no-go’ areas” for non-Muslims in Britain, suggesting Islam must integrate with us. He was applauded and disparaged in equal measure by faith leaders and community activists. Muslim extremists issued death threats. But where are the alleged “no-go” areas?

And how do they constitute a danger to the fabric of British society?

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* Judge Bernard Buongiorno has been featured here previously. It seems what Australia lacks in lefty loony wakademia is more than compensated for in the judiciary:

“You must not start reading about Islam or Muslims or terrorism or anything of that nature”

In other words, you must not educate yourselves about the context of these men’s actions. To do so would be prejudiced. Of course, Justice Bernard Bongiorno is himself pre-judging that no such material would be relevant or illuminating in this case, and assuming that Islam has nothing to do with it on a priori grounds and almost certainly in defiance of the defendants’ own sentiments. But that’s not prejudice.

“Judge in Australia jihad terror case: “You must not start reading about Islam or Muslims or terrorism or anything of that nature”

* Buongiorno is a lunatic activist judge who sees himself above the law:

THE 12 defendants in Australia’s largest terrorism prosecution “are not getting a fair trial”, the judge overseeing the case has admitted.

The startling admission came as Justice Bernard Bongiorno said the conditions under which the accused are being held are so severe they could cause mental illness and jeopardise their ability to defend themselves.

In a ruling he described as “extraordinary”, Justice Bongiorno ordered the men be moved to a new prison and called for their conditions to be upgraded.

The 12 accused went on trial in Melbourne last month charged with being members of a terrorist organisation and other terror-related offences.

The trial is expected to continue until at least the end of the year, but Justice Bongiorno ordered it not resume until the men’s conditions are improved.

He warned if their conditions were not improved, he would consider releasing them on bail.

Justice Bongiorno ordered the sweeping changes after hearing medical evidence from four psychiatrists supporting the men’s claims that they could not get a fair trial if the severe conditions of their incarceration continued.

“I am satisfied that the evidence before the court establishes that the accused in this case are currently being subjected to an unfair trial,” Justice Bongiorno said.

But he added they had not been disadvantaged so far, saying the impact of the conditions would be cumulative.

It is the first time a Victorian judge has ordered that conditions for prisoners be changed.

In his ruling, Justice Bongiorno accepted the 12 men were already suffering psychiatric problems that had affected their ability to follow proceedings.

* Well protected jihad scum

A continuation of the treatment was likely to affect their ability to defend themselves, he said.

The men have been held in the high security Acacia wing of Barwon Prison, near Geelong, since their arrest two years ago.

To attend court they must travel for up to two hours to Melbourne each day, and two hours back, shackled and handcuffed in small compartments in a prison van.

They are strip-searched when they leave Barwon and again when they return and have little time outside their cells.

Justice Bongiorno ordered the men be transferred from Barwon to the Metropolitan Assessment Prison in central Melbourne, that they be transported directly from there to court each day and that they be allowed out of their cells for 10 hours each day when not in court.

The judge also ordered that they not be shackled or subjected to any other restraining devices other than ordinary handcuffs while being transported.

He said they should not be strip-searched after returning from court and that they be treated as ordinary remand prisoners.

The men are currently classified under the highest security rating of any prisoners in Victoria.

Justice Bongiorno also ordered that Victoria’s Department of Justice make the changes he ordered by March 31 or the trial would be stayed indefinitely and he would consider releasing the men on bail.

“Removal of the source of unfairness in this trial requires either that the accused’s conditions of incarceration be drastically altered or that they be released on bail,” he said.

The trial has been told the 12 intended to undertake “violent jihad” in Australia and had formed a terror cell.

They had discussed killing then prime minister John Howard and had identified railway stations and football grounds as likely targets.

The accused, who have all pleaded not guilty are: Abdul Nacer Benbrika, 47; Abdullah Merhi, 22; Shane Kent, 31; Majed Raad, 23; Aimen Joud, 23; Ahmed Raad, 24; Fadl Sayadi, 28; Ezzit Raad, 26; Hany Taha; Shoue Hammoud, 28; Bassam Raad, 26; and Amer Haddara, 28.

– AAP

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* Collective insanity: multiculti-diversity over powerful loudspeakers:

It is just a few days until Easter, the most important date in the Christian calendar. But for 700 Muslims who have gathered in a rural caravan park, this week has a different religious significance.

And to some of their neighbours, the thrice-daily calls to prayer are proving a strain on a harmonious relationship. The Iranian Muslims have converged on the Trevelgue Holiday Park in Porth, Cornwall, to celebrate yesterday’s Persian New Year.

 The holiday park, where worshippers said seagulls were louder than the call to prayers

Every day at sunrise, noon and sunset they broadcast their prayers Muhammedan war cry, known as Adhan, on a loudspeaker system. But some residents are complaining that the noise is shattering the idyll of the quiet village near Newquay.

Neighbour Emma Brewer, 35, said “the novelty soon wore off” after the group arrived at the camp last weekend.

She said: “It lasts about 20 to 30 minutes and it is rather loud. I’m a bit naffed off by it, to be honest.”

Another resident added: “We are going to have to put up with this all week. It’s going off in the morning, at 5am.”

A neighbour from nearby St Columb Minor says he was offended because he could hear the chanting as he made his way back from church.

He said: “Why was this broadcast at such a high level of volume so as to be heard miles away? Do the Christian church bells ring out in amplified volumes on Fridays in areas where they are at prayer?

“This was totally unnecessary especially on such an important day in our Christian calendar.”

*  That’s only the beginning, dhimmi’s: get ready for the jihad! 

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Church opens in Qatar:

Thousands of mosques dot the European landscape, but one church in Arabia gives the resident Christians the jitters, any idea why that is?

First Catholic Church Opens in Qatar, Sparking Fear of Backlash Against Christians

* Strange. There are thousands of mosques in the lands of the infidels, behind enemy lines, and there never was a ‘backlash’. Now, after many years, a church opens far out in the desert and the Christinas are shaking in their shoes:

DOHA, Qatar — Qatar’s first Christian church has no cross, no bell and no steeple.

Full pic of the mosque church in Qatar

And when 5,000 faithful flock to Our Lady of the Rosary to celebrate its historic consecration this weekend, they pray no one will notice.

Father Tom Veneracion, the parish priest, is worried about a backlash.

“The idea is to be discreet because we don’t want to inflame any sensitivities,” he says. “There isn’t even a signboard outside the church. No signs at all.”

Good Dhimmi. Here’s more…

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This, of course, encourages other faiths who also would like to serve their flock…

A Church in Saudi Arabia?

Well, don’t hold your breath…

But its not as if no churches ever existed there: Known as ‘Saudi Arabia’s Petra’, Madain Saleh numbers among the most magical and monumental sites of the Middle East – or it would if it were better known. Built by the Nabataeans in the first century BC, the rock-hewn tombs spread spectacularly over a desert landscape.

The Al-Khuraibah tomb is closed…

From a ‘Lonely Planet’ travel report…

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More from CNN

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Here comes the ‘backlash’

Minarets are provocation, Austrian bishop says

* Yes they are…

Vienna – A high-ranking representative of Austria’s Catholic Church for the first time openly voiced reservations against the construction of minarets. “Mosques with minarets would be a provocation,” Elmar Fischer, bishop of Austria’s westernmost diocese in Vorarlberg, said on Tuesday in a press release.
While Austria’s population had been accepting of prayer rooms and mosques in the past, mosques with minarets would run counter to the feelings of “the majority of Vorarlberg’s population.”

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Austria to limit building of mosques

There is, of course, no reciprocity. While Muslims may build their mosques even in the Royal Parks of the Supreme Governor of the Church of England, Christians may not build churches in Islamic lands. And where they exist, they are firebombed, vandalised, and believers live in fear of the consequences of daring to follow their Lord. And the West utters not a word.

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* but Gaddaffi’s illiterate profit Muhammad said the same thing 1400 years ago when the Jews, his adversaries, were laughing at his newly invented ‘religion’ and couldn’t find the self professed profit pretender anywhere in their scriptures…

By Hussein Bogere
Kampala

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COLONEL Muammar Gadaffi yesterday celebrated the anniversary of the birth of Prophet Muhammad with a two-hour speech in which he attacked the Scandinavian countries for besmirching the Prophet, the Arabs for monopolising the Kaaba and signed off by describing the Bible as a forgery.

* The result of many years of substance abuse & dementia…

Pic & story thanx to Weasel Zippers

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Speaking to the mammoth crowd that braved the afternoon heat in Nakivubo War Memorial Stadium after leading the Thuhur (afternoon) prayer, Col. Gadaffi said any Bible and Tora (Old Testament) that does not mention Prophet Muhammad was written by mankind and therefore a fraud.

Moses Maimonides points to one of the reasons for Muslim hatred of Jews:

Inasmuch as the Muslims could not find a single proof in the entire Bible nor a reference or possible allusion to their prophet which they could utilize, they were compelled to accuse us saying, “You have altered the text of the Torah, and expunged every trace of the name of Mohammed therefrom.” They could find nothing stronger than this ignominious argument.

* The above is from Andrew Bostom/The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism

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Gadaffi:

The Bible we have now is not the one that was revealed to Issa [Jesus] and the Old Testament is not the one that was revealed to Musa. Muhammad is mentioned in both (original versions), but the Tora and Bible we have now, there is no mention of him,” the Libyan leader, more known for his controversial statements than his piety, said.

“It means that it (Bible) has been forged. Prophet Muhammad was sent to mankind. Allah wanted mankind to have one religion. The Koran that we have is the only book that was sent by Allah. We believe in the Bible as well as the Tora.”

He said Prophet Musa (Moses) and Issa (Jesus) talked about the coming of Muhammad in the Bible which has been in existence for centuries.

“Issa is mentioned in the Koran 25 times, Musa is mentioned 128 times, Mariam (Mary mother of Jesus) is mentioned 30 times. It is all glorifying and highly respectful. We cannot be Muslims unless we believe in Issa.

We have to look for the Bible and Tora that were sent to Moses and Jesus, but where can you find them? Unfortunately, the holy book that was sent by Allah was written by mankind and forged,” Col. Gadaffi, speaking through a translator said.

* Gaddaffi says the same thing every year. Wonder why it takes him 2 hours…

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Muslims don’t believe Jesus was crucified

* More Islamo-crapola from the Philipines…

* Reality in Muhammedan occupied Philipines:

Church in Filipino Islamic city has no cross

To avoid “misunderstandings,” no doubt with Misunderstanders of Islam.

While Muslims in the West complain about largely trumped-up discrimination, this is life for Christians in majority Muslim areas, where the spirit of the dhimmi laws is alive and well.

Islamic Tolerance Alert: “Philippines’ Islamic city proud to be different,” by Carmel Crimmins for Reuters (via DW)

MARAWI CITY, Philippines (Reuters) – Father Teresito Soganub doesn’t look like a Catholic priest and, from the outside, his cathedral doesn’t look like a church.
In his parish, tucked away in Marawi, the only Islamic city in the Philippines, it’s easier that way.

“To avoid arguments and to avoid further misunderstandings we just plant the cross deep in our hearts,” said the 47-year-old priest, who doesn’t wear a crucifix or a clerical collar and sports a beard out of respect for his Muslim neighbors.

When Christian Dhimmi’s call God ‘Allah’-, read it all…

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* Ann Coulter, totally hated by the left for being right, puts a stiletto heel into the black supremacist turd and comes out smelling like a rose:

Obama, the “post-racial candidate” thinks we need to talk yet more about race. How much more? I had had my fill by around 1974. How long must we all marinate in the angry resentment of black people?

As an authentic post-racial American, I will not patronize blacks by pretending Obama’s pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, is anything other than a raving racist loon. If a white pastor had said what Rev. Wright said — not about black people, but literally, the exact same things — I think we’d notice that he’s crazier than Ward Churchill and David Duke’s love child. (Indeed, both Churchill and the Rev. Wright referred to the attacks of 9/11 as the chickens coming “home to roost.”)

Imagine a white pastor saying: “Racism is the American way. Racism is how this country was founded, and how this country is still run. … We believe in white supremacy and black inferiority. And believe it more than we believe in God.”

Imagine a white pastor calling Condoleezza Rice, “Condoskeezza Rice.”

Imagine a white pastor saying: “No, no, no, God damn America — that’s in the Bible for killing innocent people! God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human! God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme!”

We treat blacks like children, constantly talking about their temper tantrums right in front of them with airy phrases about black anger. I will not pat blacks on the head and say, “Isn’t that cute?” As a post-racial American, I do not believe “the legacy of slavery” gives black people the right to be permanently ill-mannered.

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