Author: sheikyermami

By Jonathan Wynne-Jones and Patrick Sawer/Telegraph UK

Hat tip: Weasel Zipper

Muslims must do more to integrate, says poll

* Well, we all know they won’t do that. Because that would defeat the purpose of what Islam is all about.

Heavy breeders for jihad…

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A majoirty of Britons believe that Muslims need to do more to integrate into society and want tighter restrictions on immigration, an opinion poll commissioned by The Sunday Telegraph shows.

Bishop Nazir-Ali expressed concern that attempts had been made in some areas to impose an Islamic character, for example by amplifying the call to prayer from mosques.

One in three of those questioned in the poll said that they would be unhappy to have a mosque built in their neighbourhood compared with a quarter who would support such a move.

Now it comes:

Church leaders in communities with large concentrations of Muslims said that Christians were being targeted. An east London vicar who had delivered Christmas leaflets in his parish said he was told to stay away from “Muslim areas”.

He said: “Despite this being a mixed area, where Muslims make up only about 15 per cent of the population, I was told that the leaflets were offensive and could make people angry.”

Another churchman said his path had been blocked by Muslim youths as he drove through a district of Oldham, Lancashire, last year. “They wanted to know why I was coming into ‘their’ area,” he said.

A priest ministering in the Manchester district of Rusholme said he knew of “dozens of cases” in which Muslim converts to Christianity had been attacked.

Another church leader said that Asian Christians in Leicester feared being identified when leaving churches.

“They are scared of being stopped and beaten up if they are found carrying Bibles,” he said.

None of the church leaders we spoke to wished to be identified for fear of retaliation, but Don Horrocks, of the Evangelical Alliance, said: “It’s increasingly difficult for non-Muslims to live in areas of high Muslim density, especially if they are practising Christians.”

Some commentators fear that the aim of Islamist groups such as Tablighi Jamaat, Hizb-ut-Tahir and the Deobandi sect is to drive non-Muslims out of areas such as Dewsbury, in West Yorkshire, and Oldham along with neighbourhoods in Luton, Leicester, Birmingham and Leyton, in east London.

Dr Patrick Sookhdeo, the director of the Barnabas Trust, which helps persecuted Christians, said: “Muslims are being told not to integrate into British society, but to set up separate enclaves where they can operate according to sharia law.”

He said the process of “cleansing” Muslim-majority areas of non-Muslims had already begun, with white residents urged to leave and churches threatened.

‘I feel like an alien in my home town’

Oak Lane: Among the new stores, the clothes shops sell Muslim dress, the butcher stocks halal meat and even the local takeaway advertises halal pizza.

“I feel like an alien, like I’m on a street in Karachi,” Mr Carbin says, awkwardly.

“I don’t feel I have anything in common with this area. It’s like I’ve never been here before. I knew it would be different but I knew, too, that I would feel uncomfortably like I don’t belong.”

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* All this while Gordon Browns government engages in bullshit & obfuscation and refuses to tackle the problem, while being real suckers for the Islamic (block) vote.

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* Now watch for the Christians to burn down embassies, kill unbelievers and run amok because Jesus has been blasphemed!

* Muslims believe Jesus will return, abolish the jiziyah, smash the crosses and kill the pigs. After that, the Islamic utopia is complete. The pigs, that’s us. Just in case you’re wondering.

Murder & Mayhem till the very last day:

Canon Patrick Sookhdeo, a convert from Islam to Christianity in 1969, said: “How would the Muslim community respond if I made a programme challenging Muhammad as the last prophet?’ He asserts that the Qur’an’s denial of Jesus’s divinity is ‘unacceptable’, not least because at his Second Coming it says he will destroy all the crosses.

Christians ought to revolt and demand a documentary on the alternative view to the hagiographical Islamic account of the life of Mohammed. One that might examine (impartially and objectively, of course) the historical assertions that he was a mass murderer, a torturer, rapist, child molester, thief, and a liar; that he was not a prophet, and that he plagiarised vast sections of the Qur’an from contemporary literature, and developed ‘Islam’ out of the primitive worship of a pagan moon god.

If one may broadcast a blasphemous documentary on the Qur’anic view of Jesus, then a fortiori ought one to be allowed to broadcast one on the biblical view of Mohammed, which would have to assert that he was not merely not the last prophet; he was not a prophet at all. Indeed, he manifests all the attributes of what the Bible terms a false prophet and an antichrist.

From Arab News/thanks to Mullah

TEHRAN, Jan 13, 2008 (AFP) – A director who shares the ideas of Iran’s hardline president has produced what he says is the first film giving an Islamic view of Jesus Christ, in a bid to show the ‘common ground’ between Muslims and Christians.

Nader Talebzadeh sees his movie, ‘Jesus, the Spirit of God,’ as an Islamic answer to Western productions like Mel Gibson’s 2004 blockbuster ‘The Passion of the Christ,’ which he praised as admirable but quite simply ‘wrong’.

‘Gibson’s film is a very good film. I mean that it is a well-crafted movie but the story is wrong — it was not like that,’ he said, referring to two key differences: Islam sees Jesus as a prophet, not the son of God, and does not believe he was crucified.

Talebzadeh said he even went to Gibson’s mansion in Malibu, California, to show him his film. ‘But it was Sunday and the security at the gate received the film and the brochure and promised to deliver it,’ though the Iranian never heard back.

Even in Iran, ‘Jesus, The Spirit of God’ had a low-key reception, playing to moderate audiences in five Tehran cinemas during the holy month of Ramadan, in October.

The film, funded by state broadcasting, faded off the billboards but is far from dead, about to be recycled in a major 20 episode spin-off to be broadcast over state-run national television this year.

Talebzadeh insists it aims to bridge differences between Christianity and Islam, despite the stark divergence from Christian doctrine about Christ’s final hours on earth.

‘It is fascinating for Christians to know that Islam gives such devotion to and has so much knowledge about Jesus,’ Talebzadeh told AFP.

* Drawbridge alert:

‘By making this film I wanted to make a bridge between Christianity and Islam, to open the door for dialogue since there is much common ground between Islam and Christianity,’ he said.

The director is also keen to emphasise the links between Jesus and one of the most important figures in Shiite Islam, the Imam Mahdi, said to have disappeared 12 centuries ago but whose ‘return’ to earth has been a key tenet of the Ahmadinejad presidency.

Talebzadeh made his name making documentaries about Iran’s 1980-1988 war against Iraq, an important genre in the country’s post-revolutionary cinema.

But such weighty themes, and his latest film on Jesus, compete with domestic gangster thrillers and sugary boy-meets-girl love stories, the movies that continue to draw the biggest audiences in the Islamic Republic.

The bulk of ‘Jesus, the Spirit of God’, which won an award at the 2007 Religion Today Film Festival in Italy, faithfully follows the traditional tale of Jesus as recounted in the New Testament Gospels, a narrative reproduced in the Koran and accepted by Muslims.

But in Talebzadeh’s movie, God saves Jesus, depicted as a fair-complexioned man with long hair and a beard, from crucifixion and takes him straight to heaven.

‘It is frankly said in the Koran that the person who was crucified was not Jesus’ but Judas, one of the 12 Apostles and the one the Bible holds betrayed Jesus to the Romans, he said. In his film, it is Judas who is crucified.

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by Abul Kasem

From the ‘Muhammedanism is a mental disorder’ department

* Heard about the blessings of zam-zam water? Heard about the blessings of Islamic medicine like camel urine etc? Heard about Islamic discoveries? You must have, because Muhammad worshipers discovered America, don’t you know?

* Today we will educate you about Islamic hygiene

* hope you’re sitting down:

Many visitors to Islamic Paradises are often taken aback when they observe the horrifying hygienic condition in these countries, either in public places, or in the privacy of its Islamic citizens. For example, in Islamic countries such as Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sudan, Nigeria, Mauritania…and so on, people often spit anywhere they like; urinate and defecate in public places, whenever opportunity permits, oblivious to the fact that human saliva and excrement are potential carriers of deadly germs and viruses. In many Islamic Paradises, public places, such as parks, recreation centres, sports facilities etc., are often littered with obnoxious objects including human faeces. The open sewers on both sides of the road, the raw sewage infested railway tracks, the dirt, and litter in uncultivated or unoccupied spaces often produce revulsion to any visitors who dare to experience such horrible unhygienic conditions in many Islamic Paradises.

Has Islam anything to do with such a terrible health hazard? Or is this due to poverty?

Let us examine the sources of Islam to gauge the truth. The readers will note that many unhygienic practices followed in such Islamic Paradises (Dar al Islam) emanate directly from the practices of Muhammad as described in a number of ahadith (Muhammad’s act or sunna). These ahadith tell us that Muhammad and his companions, including his wives, lived in terrible unhygienic conditions. They had very little regard for a healthy, clean and disease free environment. They were inured to the dirty, unclean, and often unhealthy practices of the desert Bedouins.

Here are three ahadith to learn about the pathetic personal hygiene of Muhammad and his followers:

Some jihadist’s lice fell from their heads on their faces…(Sahih Bukhari, 5.59.503)

Sahih Bukhari, Volume 5, Book 59, Number 503
Narrated Kab bin Ujra:
The Prophet came to me at the time of Al-Hudaibiya Pledge while lice were falling on my face. He said, “Are the lice of your head troubling you?” I said, “Yes.” He said, “Shave your head and fast for three days, or feed six poor persons, or slaughter a sheep as sacrifice.” (The sub-narrator, Aiyub said, “I do not know with which of these three options he started.”)

Muhammad visited Umm Haram and she looked for lice in his head…(Sahih Bukhari, 9.87.130)

Sahih Bukhari, Volume 9, Book 87, Number 130:
Narrated Anas bin Malik:
Allah’s Apostle used to visit Um Haram bint Milhan she was the wife of ‘Ubada bin As-Samit. One day the Prophet visited her and she provided him with food and started looking for lice in his head. Then Allah’s Apostle slept and afterwards woke up smiling.

Muhammad’s companions were manual labourers; they had stinky body odour…(Sahih Bukhari 3.34.285)

Sahih Bukhari, Volume 3, Book 34, Number 285:
Narrated Aisha:
The companions of Allah’s Apostle used to practise manual labor, so their sweat used to smell, and they were advised to take a bath.

No wonder then, that, today, most of Muhammad’s ardent followers carry on with his tradition or Sunna—because it is compulsory for every Muslim to emulate Muhammad in all aspects, including his personal hygiene habits (see verses 3:31, 3:132, 4:13, 33:21, 33:36, and 68:4).

“70 rules to shit & piss” 

Muhammad’s Obsession with Saliva, Dirt, and Polluted Water

To prove his divinity and supernatural power Muhammad often resorted to horrid practices. Such practices involved asking people to use the water he had polluted through ablution, bath, or mouthwash, or even by spitting on it.

Sahih Bukhari (1.4.187) sates that people used to collect the leftover water after Muhammad’s ablution. He asked people to drink the water from the tumbler on which he had washed his hands, and threw a mouthful of water in it.

To prove his divine authority, Muhammad even let a sick boy drink the leftover water after he had performed ablution (Sahih Bukhari, 1.4.189). Another boy drank the leftover water/milk that Muhammad had drunk (Sahih Bukhari, 3.40.541, 554).

One grotesque unhygienic practice of Muhammad was the use of his saliva to influence illiterate, unformed believers to his claim of possession of supernatural power. In earlier episodes we already witnessed many examples of this extremely unhygienic practice. Here are a few more samples of Muhammad’s fixation with his spittle.

Muhammad used his saliva to soften a date, and then gave it to an infant to suck… (Sahih Bukhari, 25.5340, 5341, 5345)

When Anas’s son was born Muhammad fed him with dates mixed with his (Muhammad’s) saliva and gave him the name Abdullah… (Sahih Bukhari, 31.6013)

Muhammad’s saliva is good for children. He used to spit into the mouth of suckling children, and his saliva would satisfy them until nightfall… (Ash Shifa, p.184)

If a baby sucked Muhammad’s tongue, the baby became quiet… (Ash Shifa, p.184)

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* Remember that old Zappa song?

Ezra Levant, a Canadian publisher, found out soon after he printed the dreaded Muhammad-cartoons of blasphemy in his paper (the Western Standard) which got him cited before one of these ridiculous ‘anti-discrimination commissions’ that are nothing more than far left PC-cesspools, usurpers of powers that would be, -if we let them-, mutate into a full blown inquisition for thought crime.

But Ezra is not a guy who takes any s#*t: This hearing is an outrage, and Levant comes out guns blazing:

In the second video in this series, Levant answers a bizarre Kafkaesque question from his inquisitor:

* What was your intent?

* The real violence

* ‘I don’t answer to the state’

Ezra Levant’s Blog: 

 The limits of free speech, and the power to order me to apologize 

By Richard Elias/the Scotsman

* Thanks to Robert

Armies of Jihad Jacks, Hicks & Gadahns… 

HUNDREDS of British non-Muslims have been recruited by al-Qaeda to wage war against the West, senior security sources warned last night.
As many as 1,500 white Britons are believed to have converted to Islam for the purpose of funding, planning and carrying out surprise terror attacks inside the UK, according to one MI5 source.

Lord Carlile, the Government’s independent reviewer of anti-terrorism legislation, said many of the converts had been targeted by radical Muslims while serving prison terms.

Security experts say the growing secret army of white terrorists poses a particularly serious threat as they are far less likely to be detected than members of the Asian community.

Since the 7/7 and 21/7 London bombings, police and intelligence services have had considerable success in identifying, disrupting and stopping extremist plots. As a result, groups such as al-Qaeda, Lashkar-e-Taiba and Harkat-ul-Mujahideen have been forced to change tack. Converting white non-Muslims has been one response.

The trend is well established in the United States. American-born Adam Gadahn is one of the FBI’s top 10 most-wanted terrorists after converting to Islam and rising through al-Qaeda’s ranks to become a prominent spokesman.

One British security source last night told Scotland on Sunday: “There could be anything up to 1,500 converts to the fundamentalist cause across Britain. They pose a real potential danger to our domestic security because, obviously, these people blend in and do not raise any flags.

“The exact figure of those who have converted to Islam and turned to terror is not precisely known. Not everyone who converts becomes radicalised and it may be that just two-fifths go down that path, but it remains a significant and dangerous problem.”

Carlile said he was not aware of specific numbers, but confirmed to Scotland on Sunday that Whitehall was aware of the new threat and was actively tackling it. He said: “These people are an issue and are potentially very dangerous. There have been cases of non-Muslims converting before, and of these, Richard Reid, the so-called Shoebomber, is the most obvious example.

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“They are more difficult to detect and the security services are right to place some focus on this issue.”

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A bishop caused uproar last week by exposing ghettos of Islamist extremism. But Muslims everywhere are cutting themselves off from society in other, equally dangerous ways

Shiraz Maher/Times Online

* Shiraz Maher is a former member of Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT), a radical organisation campaigning for the creation of caliphate – an Islamic state. It operates in many countries.

Perhaps it had to be someone like Michael Nazir-Ali, the first Asian bishop in the Church of England, who would break with convention and finally point out the elephant in the room.

His comments last week about the growing stranglehold of Muslim extremists in some communities revived debate about the future of multiculturalism and provoked a flurry of condemnation. Members of all three political parties immediately clamoured to dismiss him. “I don’t recognise the description that he’s talked about – no-go areas and people feeling intimidated,” said Hazel Blears, the communities secretary.

A quick call to her Labour colleague John Reid, the former home secretary, would almost certainly have helped her to identify at least one of those places. Just over a year ago Reid was heckled by the Muslim extremist Abu Izzadeen in Leytonstone, east London, during a speech on extremism, appropriately. “How dare you come to a Muslim area,” Izzadeen screamed.

That picture is mirrored outside London. One of our country’s biggest and most deprived Muslim areas is Small Heath, in Birmingham, where Dr Tahir Abbas, director of the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Culture, was raised. With a dominant Asian monoculture, low social achievement and high unemployment, Small Heath is precisely the kind of insular and disengaged urban ghetto Nazir-Ali was talking about.

Reflecting on his experiences there, Abbas is critical of his peers who don’t stray beyond their area. “They haven’t seen rural Devon, a stately home or Windsor Castle,” he says. That refusal to engage with anything beyond the community is suffocating young Muslims by divorcing them almost entirely from Britain’s cultural heritage and mainstream life.

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* More on Shiraz Maher

* A failure to confront radical Islam

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Does this face look familiar? 

Bin Laden’s son wants British visa – so he and his grandmother bride can live in Cheshire and have a surrogate baby

By DANIEL BOFFEY / Daily Mail

Osama Bin Laden’s son has applied for a British visa so he can live in Britain with his wife.
Omar Bin Laden, 26, who admits attending terror training with the Al Qaeda leader in Afghanistan, has been interviewed with his wife Jane Felix-Browne, 52, by British Embassy officials in Cairo, where he is currently living.

The couple plan to set up house in Jane’s £550,000 home in Moulton, Cheshire, have a child through a surrogate mother and work as “peace activists”.

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‘The Decider’ gets ready to carve up Israel:

” Imam George W Bush welcomed in Bahrain,” from Reuters

DAVID BEN-GURION

“No Jew is at liberty to surrender the right of the Jewish Nation and the Land of Israel to exist. No Jewish body is sanctioned to do so. No Jew alive today has the authority to yield any piece of land whatsoever. This right is preserved by the Jewish people throughout the generations and cannot be forfeited under any circumstance. Even if at some given time there will be those who declare that they are relinquishing this right, they have neither the power nor the jurisdiction to negate it for future generations to come. The Jewish Nation is neither obligated by nor responsible for any waiver such as this. Our right to this land, in its entirety, is steadfast inalienable and eternal. And until the coming of the Great Redemption, we shall never yield this historic right.”
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Australia:

Muslim policies divide party

A SENIOR Christian Democrat says the party is bitterly split over calls to end Muslim migration and close all Islamic schools in NSW.

Mr Nile has continued his anti-Muslim attack and now leads a campaign against the Quranic Society’s proposal to build a Muslim school for 1200 students near Camden.

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Germany: Fears of terror attack

* Arresting terrorists and putting them on trial is oppressive to Muslims and leads to -you guessed it-; more terror attacks.

BERLIN, Germany (AP) — Lebanese authorities have warned of terrorist attacks being planned on targets within Germany, prompting the Justice Ministry in Berlin to increase its security measures, authorities said Saturday.

A German-Turk, a Saudi and an Australian were already in Germany planning an attack on Berlin’s Justice Ministry or other such agencies in order to avenge the prosecution of al Qaeda suspects in Germany, Focus reported, without citing sources. The report said explosives for the plot were already within Germany.

Weasel Zippers:

* German Teachers: ‘Holocaust? Which Holocaust?

* German Teachers Glossing Over Holocaust to Avoid Being Viewed as Supporters of Israel by Muslim Students….
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France: Terror plot to blow up Eiffel Tower uncovered

A plot by Islamic terrorists to blow up the Eiffel Tower has been uncovered.Paris’s socialist mayor, Bertrand Delanoe, has been given extra security protection after an Islamist website used by Al Qaeda members listed him as a target.

Mr Delanoe – one of France’s few openly gay politicians – was stabbed in an anti-gay attack in 2002.

In January 2005, French intelligence officers arrested three French-born Algerians suspected of plotting to blow up the Eiffel Tower.

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Italy: Halal butcher gets a shoe in the ass

(ANSA) – Turin, January 9 – Italy on Wednesday deported to Morocco a Muslim cleric who the interior ministry said posed a risk for national security.

Mohamed Kohaila, 44, was an imam or prayer leader at a
mosque in Turin who was secretly filmed last year giving what
was considered to be an anti-Western sermon.
The video was broadcast by state television on a news
talk show in March after which both local judicial
authorities and the interior ministry opened investigations.
Although the magistrates here decided the case should be
shelved, a probe by the interior ministry, which
re-translated the video footage, concluded that the imam was
dangerous and should be expelled.
Kohaila had been in Italy for the past 15 years and
operated a specialised butcher shop in Turin.
He was considered to be the right hand of another Turin
imam, Bouriki Bouchta, who was expelled from Italy in
September 2005.

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The interior ministry probe said the taped sermon had an
”extreme anti-West slant”, with the imam telling his
followers not to integrate with Christians and Jews because they were ”infidels”.

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Iran: Mad Mullah’s & Sinister Midget Really Comfy With Mohammed (ElBaradei)

* From the “Fox guarding Chickenshack” Department

Iran says IAEA, rather than UN Security Council, should deal with its nuclear program

By Dudi Cohen

The Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said on Saturday that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) – not the UN Security Council – should be the international body responsible for dealing with Iran’s nuclear program in a meeting with IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei in Tehran.

Ahmadinejad: We won’t cave in to pressure

The Iranian news agency FARS reported that ElBaradei praised Iranian cooperation with his agency in recent months. He stressed that it is Iran’s right to use nuclear power for the development of their country and noted that negotiations are the only way to resolve the nuclear issue.

Earlier on Saturday, ElBaradei met with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who called upon the IAEA “not to cave in to pressure from Western powers” and said that the UN nuclear watchdog must “fulfill his obligations in a just and legal manner.”

The Iranian president went on to say that “We must annul the Western powers’ view that nuclear energy is equal to an atom bomb.”

* The annulation annihilation clock is ticking…

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Update:

Baradei slip of the tongue: ‘The Syrian Brothers’

“So far, we have not received any information about any nuclear programs in Syria,” he said, according to a transcript posted on the newspaper’s Web site. Dr. ElBaradei said he had asked for the Syrians’ permission “to allow the agency to visit the facility and to verify that it was not nuclear.”

He added: “The Syrian brothers did not allow us to visit and inspect the location.”

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Anti-Gitmo Wankfest Near Ground Zero Attracts The Usual Suspects

The Torture Never Stops…

Bleeding Hearts Go Apesh#*t over Gitmo:

Guantanamo detainees are not human beings – US judges

* Nutroots concerned about the humanity of mass-murderers:

On the sixth anniversary of the imprisonment of detainees at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base, a United States judge threw out lawsuit brought by four former British detainees against Donald Rumsfeld and senior military officers for ordering torture and religious abuse, ruling that th the detainees are not “Persons” under U.S. Law, which according to another judge, means that they are less than “human beings”.

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The Real Gitmo

Dhimmitude at Gitmo: Kid-gloves for the Qur’an

The always brilliant Diana West reveals the ridiculous dhimmi lengths that American soldiers must go to at Gitmo to avoid offending Muslims by touching the Qur’an with their unclean infidel hands: “Gonzo Gitmo charade” in the Washington Times (thanks to Andrew Bostom):

Since all of Guantanamo’s inmates, mirabile dictu, happen to be members of the same famed band of Muslim extremists, the Army has seen fit to distribute Korans. So far, so good, I guess. But the Army doesn’t just distribute its Korans like any other religious book. That is, the Bible may get passed around, rifled through, dropped, tossed and stuffed into hotel room drawers. But not the Koran. According to Army policy, the standard operating procedure is: “Handle the Koran as if it were a fragile piece of delicate art.”

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What’s going on here? By official order, a whole lot of “respecting the dignity of the Koran.” According to Section 6-5-c(3), should a Koran need to be removed from a detainee’s cell — you know, carried somewhere — and the detainee is personally unable to move it (best option), and the Muslim chaplain, librarian and interpreter are also unable to move it (second-best option), then the U.S. Army guard, as a very last resort, may take action — but only “after approval by the DOC (who notes this in the DIMS).”

Then the insanity really begins. The guard is directed to don “clean gloves … in full view of the detainees prior to handling.” He must use “two hands … at all times when handling the Koran in a manner signaling respect and reverence.” Why “respect” alone isn’t abundantly sufficient isn’t mentioned. While signaling two-handed respect and reverence, however, the guard must be mindful that “care should be used so that the right hand is the primary one used to manipulate any part of the Koran due to the cultural association with the left hand.”

It goes on…

* Childish, silly, obsessive and delusional: frere Tariq, this ‘world reknown scholar of Islam’, gives us a deep look into his twisted and irrational psyche, while he sings with typical oriental hyperbole the praises of the Koran, that awful book that keeps more than a billion Muhammadans worldwide in shackles.

* Now this PoS is what Islamofascists call a ‘scholar’: Western dimwits pay him handsomely to lecture at time honored institutions of higher learning, but all it ever amounts to is da’awa, proselytizing in the name of Islam, because Islam must dominate, because Islam, Islam is all that matters…

Tariq Ramadan Derailment Watch

The Islamist Argument on the Koran

By Douglas Farah

In the January 6 issue of the New York Times Book Review, Tariq Ramadan has an essay that argues, in its essence, that non-believers cannot really read or understand the Koran-because it speaks exclusively to believers.

One’s heart, Ramadan argues, is one’s guide for understanding the Koran, and the heart can only lead you once “the heart has made the message of Islam its own.”

So, in essence, an outsider (infidel) cannot understand the text, therefore an outsider really cannot have a valid opinion about the text because an outsider does not understand what he or she is talking about, because it is not on a rational plane.

This is an argument that, of course, means looking at the historial record of Islam, the more explicit verses on killing Jews and infidels, and waging _jihad_, as well as the true meaning of _jihad_, cannot be debated by infidels.

Islamists themselves will define the texts and their meaning for us, on their terms exclusively. We need not bother even trying.

That is akin to saying that, if one is not a born again Christian one should not attempt biblical scholarship, and perhaps some argue that. In reality, the historical texts can be read, examined, looked at for internal consistencies and inconsistencies, debated and dissected.

That is the rational response to the endeavor to understand history. One can have a different interpretation of texts one believes to be divine, but that does not negate the validity of scholarship.

This leads directly to the issue raised by the decision of the Joint Chiefs to not allow attorney and US Army intelligence reserve Major Stephen Coughlin to continue with his work on Islamic law in the Pentagon.

The main problem for the Islamists such as Hasham Islam, and their fellow travelers, such as ISNA, MPAC, Fiqh Council and AMCE, inside and around the Pentagon who worked to get rid of him, is that Coughlin, as a non-Muslim, and a legal scholar, with decade of experience in legal texts working for Westlaw and LexisNexis, as well as in military intelligence, often knew the Islamic texts better than the Islamists themselves. Coughlin’s MA thesis is in Islamic law.

How embarrassing to have a non-believer who is an expert on Sharia law, and the Islamic texts, be able to debate intelligently and articulately, and use the texts themselves to inform their analysis and argument.

The answer, of course, is to say he cannot understand because he is not a Muslim. This is a classic logical fallacy. Nevertheless, this argument seems to have prevailed, at least for the moment, in Coughlin’s case. As Bill Gertz has reported, there seems to be some rallying to his defense and against the indefensible action of silencing the only true scholar in these issues that the Pentagon has.

* This is important! Read the whole thing!

Update:

In last years conference ‘Islam in Europe’ it was  Tariq Ramadan who proclaimed the most worrying statement: The real intentions of Euroislam must be concealed from the general public. Quite a harsh and frank statement, considering that he must anticipate being quoted in the media. But maybe he just cynically relies on the negligence of “the infidels”?

Although much embarrassing criticism has been published about Tariq Ramadan and his version of Euroislam, it hasn’t done much harm to his reputation as a modern and moderate European Muslim who sincerely wants to work for the peaceful integration of Muslims into Western societies. Tariq Ramadan continues to be a frequent and acknowledged guest at official conferences all over Europe, not least in the Nordic countries, where he lately has been used as an expert on countering the radicalization of Muslim youths, among other things. He is held in high esteem among young educated Danish Muslims.

More from Gates of Vienna

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More ‘Interfaith’ Schlock from the UN

Thanks to Mullah

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Infiltration:

Winds of Jihad reported: ‘West Point bows to Islam’

* Waiting for WoJ operative Eddie to upload the video, stay tuned!

By Bill Gertz – Coughlin backed by many!

* Support for ousted Joint Staff counterterrorism analyst Stephen Coughlin is growing. Watch this scandal unfolding:

Some Pentagon and military leaders, along with lots of working-level officials, are quietly rallying to support ousted Joint Staff counterterrorism analyst Stephen Coughlin.

Pentagon officials said a number of generals and admirals who share Mr. Coughlin’s well-reasoned assessment of the Islamic law underpinnings of Islamist terror are voicing support for the lawyer and former military intelligence official.

Mr. Coughlin was fired as a Joint Staff contractor after his confrontation with Hasham Islam, a special assistant to Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England, was reported here last month.

* Infil-traitor Hesham Islam

Mr. Islam, a Muslim, referred to Mr. Coughlin as a “Christian zealot with a pen” during the meeting several weeks ago, a slur rejected by Mr. Coughlin’s supporters.

Critics of Mr. Coughlin are spreading word — falsely — that he is being let go because he talked out of school to the press. One official suggested the action was due to budget cuts.

But defense and military officials supportive of Mr. Coughlin said the real reason is that critics, like Mr. Islam. want him sidelined because they oppose his hard-to-refute views on the relationship between Islamic law and Islamist jihad doctrine. Those views have triggered a harsh debate challenging the widespread and politically correct view of Islam as a religion of peace hijacked by extremists.

“Steve Coughlin is the most knowledgeable person in the U.S. government on Islamic law,” said retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney. “The secretary of defense should ensure that he stays at DOD.”

Another booster is Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Samuel Helland, commanding general of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Corps, who said in November that Mr. Coughlin’s briefing for Marines bound for Iraq “hit the mark in explaining how jihadists use the Koran to justify their actions.”

“Your presentation has armed service men and women with more intellectual ammunition to take the fight to the enemy,” Gen. Helland said in a letter.

A U.S. Central Command analyst, Neal Harper, stated in an e-mail to friends, that if Mr. Coughlin is allowed to become a casualty in the war of ideas “then I’m deeply concerned about the future course of the war on terrorism.”

“Ignoring Steve Coughlin’s honest assessments and terminating his contract sets a dangerous and disturbing precedent,” Mr. Harper stated. “We struggled for many years to get our heads around radical Islam, and Steve has been a leader in the effort.”

Mr. Harper said Mr. Coughlin should be promoted, but instead “Hasham Islam is allowed to insult him publicly.”

* Because Hesham Islam is an Islamic agent supported by Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England, a traitor who needs to be exposed.

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* Update 1. The Implications of the Dismissal of Stephen Coughlin, Joint Staff, Pentagon

Who is the Enemy? Think that’s a silly question?

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Muslims:

“Freedom of Religion Means Freedom to Overthrow the Government”

From the ‘Wankers & Flakes’ Department

American diplomats refuse to serve in Iraq:

Hundreds of US diplomats are refusing to work in Iraq, claiming it is too dangerous. They say Iraq is a “war zone” and working there is a “death sentence”. But we did not hear these voices complaining when their country attacked Iraq and created the war zone. They are not trying to stop their country sending low-paid working-class American soldiers to work, fight and die in Iraq. US diplomats, who are wealthy, well-paid, pampered members of American society, would be working in the secure “Green Zone”, by far the safest place in Iraq. Within the “Green Zone”, the largest and most heavily protected fortress in the history of human civilization, the biggest danger facing American “diplomats” is eating too much at the restaurants, drinking too much at the bars and cafes, or sustaining a sports injury in the leisure facilities. ***

Iraq Assignments Upset Some Diplomats

WASHINGTON (AP) – Several hundred U.S. diplomats vented anger and frustration Wednesday about the State Department’s decision to force foreign service officers to take jobs in Iraq, with some likening it to a “potential death sentence.”

In a contentious hourlong town-hall meeting, they peppered officials responsible for the order with often hostile complaints about the largest diplomatic call-up since Vietnam. Announced last week, it will require some diplomats – under threat of dismissal – to serve at the embassy in Baghdad and in reconstruction teams in outlying provinces.

Many expressed serious concern about the ethics of sending diplomats against their will to work in a war zone – where the embassy staff is largely confined to the protected “Green Zone” – as the department reviews use of private security guards to protect its staff.

``Incoming is coming in every day, rockets are hitting the Green Zone,” said Jack Croddy, a senior foreign service officer who once worked as a political adviser with NATO forces.

* Perhaps putting them up against a wall would get them motivated?

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Mutineering US Diplomats Join Gitmo Protestors

* One would hope they don’t, but how are we to know who these hooded loons are?

* Amnesia Intentional, this Islamofascist ‘human rights’ front for ummah-agit props like Irene Khan, instigated this march of demented fukcwits to get Gitmo closed down. Shouldnt they all be locked up there?

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IRAN: Mullah AIDS

*    ‘There are no homosexuals in Iran’ update

Hat tip: Weasel Zippers/via AKI 

Tehran, 11 Jan. (AKI) – In the past year, the incidence of AIDS has doubled in the holy Shia city of Qom, second only to the Iraqi city of Najaf in religious significance.

“The great share of the newly infected have contracted the HIV virus, not through using infected syringes, but through unprotected sexual relations,” said Amir, Akbari, director of the city’s health centre.

In the past year the number of those affected by AIDS in Qom has risen from 177 to 324.

Forty per cent of those infected are students from the theological colleges in Qom. In Iran, according to official estimates, there are more than 16,000 infected with AIDS in the country, while non-government organisations put the total number above 100,000.

 From the ‘Rockin’ the Casbah’ department