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Robert Spencer’s support for Harry’s (Dhimmi)  Place “unwanted and unneeded”

Dhimmitude is no defense: Hamas UK sues dhimmi blog

At the UK blog Harry’s Place, it is slowly dawning upon them that not just “Robert Spencer and his ilk” are responsible for people getting the idea that the Islamic concept of jihad may have something to do with terrorism. Somehow it seems to have escaped their notice — up until that item was posted in May 2008 — that Muslims are not committing acts of terror around the world because I told them to, but because they are able to explain and justify those acts of terror to peaceful Muslims by reference to the Islamic jihad theology that is embedded within the Qur’an, Sunnah, and rulings of all the schools of Islamic jurisprudence (madhahib).

Over at Harry’s Place, however, they still think that “jihad is what you make of it,” as if words have no meaning and Islamic theology has no content — as if you could easily read The Brothers Karamazov as a cookbook or Mein Kampf as an adventure novel, or of course the Qur’an and Sunnah and rulings of all the madhahib as not counseling warfare against and the subjugation of unbelievers. And they approvingly quote the mendacious Sheila Musaji as an authority for all this. Now they have been appropriately rewarded for their cluelessness and dhimmitude: Harry’s Place is being sued by a jihadist.

Details here.

Even  (proudly)  clueless dhimmis have the right to free speech, and if it is curtailed for them, it is curtailed for everyone. Thus Harry’s Place deserves the support of all free people.

UPDATE: With customary graciousness, Harry’s Place says our support is “unwanted and unneeded” — without, of course, specifying anything we say or have ever said about Islamic jihad as inaccurate, and tarring us with the familiar “Islamophobia” brush that jihad propagandists and their witless dupes (like Harry) wield against anyone who speaks accurately about the elements of Islam that jihadists use to incite violence. Harry asks if being a clueless dhimmi is a “bad thing.” Yes, Harry, it is, and the fact that you don’t know why is only the beginning of your troubles.

Ingrid Mattson vs. Freedom of Speech

by Robert Spencer

The idea that Wilders’ straightforward film against Islamic jihad terrorism constitutes a “racist and hateful” attack on the Muslim community echoes the statements of Islamic leaders worldwide, as they push for international restrictions on free speech. “In confronting the Danish cartoons and the Dutch film ‘Fitna’,” explained Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, Secretary General of Organization of the Islamic Conference, in June 2008, “we sent a clear message to the West regarding the red lines that should not be crossed. As we speak, the official West and its public opinion are all now well-aware of the sensitivities of these issues. They have also started to look seriously into the question of freedom of expression from the perspective of its inherent responsibility, which should not be overlooked.”[7]

* Does the fact that the dominant media from the BBC to CNN, from The Guardian to The New York Times – those cowards that refuse to republish the twelve original Muhammad cartoons – have offended our religion, our traditions, our values in the past, mean that we now have to submit to a “deadly serious religion that answers insults with “action?”

Continue reading Freedom of Expression or Slavery under Islam?

* They’re all Mormons or Methodists, (but don’t take my word for it)

Italy grapples with polygamy

A boom in the illegal marriages is a byproduct of voluminous immigration by Muslims. Authorities largely ignore the unions, leaving the women in a murky world with no recourse when things go wrong.
By Tracy Wilkinson
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

July 15, 2008

ROME — A few miles from the Vatican, Najat Hadi kept house with her husband, his other wife and their assorted children, an unhappy home with a hateful woman 10 years her junior and a cruel spouse who left her with a jagged scar peeking from her collar.

Finally, she says, her Egyptian-born husband, who worked in Rome making pizzas, beat her so badly that she left him. But he kept her children.

Thousands of polygamous marriages like Hadi’s have sprung up throughout Italy as a byproduct of a fast-paced and voluminous immigration by Muslims to this Roman Catholic country.

Despite the obvious culture clash, Italian authorities largely turn a blind eye, leaving women in a murky semi-clandestine world with few rights and no recourse when things go especially badly, as they did in Hadi’s case.

* Take My Wives, Please: “Polygamy Heads West” from the excellent Sharia Finance Watch

“It is absurd that in a civilized country like Italy, so little is acknowledged about this,” said Souad Sbai, a Moroccan-born Italian lawmaker who has emerged as a one-woman champion of female Muslim immigrants here.

Italy is one of several European nations faced with the issue of polygamy. In Britain and Spain, where large Muslim communities have also settled, some officials favor recognizing polygamous marriage as a way to ensure the wives’ access to pensions, medical care and other state benefits.

Continue reading "14,000 polygamous families in Italy" Report

AN extremist Muslim preacher has called for death sentences and flogging in a rant at Britain’s best-known mosque.

* Why ‘extremist?’ He is is just following the teachings of the Koran and the sunnah…and btw: isn’t the Regents Park mosque where ‘Lord’ Ahmed goes to find ‘spiritual enlightenment?’

Abu Zahra declared: “Male and female thief – amputate their hands. Those who kill – their life is not secure.” And he slammed unmarried sex, saying: “Lash them.”

His demand for Islamic-style punishments was revealed as the row continues over the Lord Chief Justice’s support for Sharia law.

Zahra belongs to hard-line Hizb Ut Tahrir, which once faced a ban.

At London’s Regent’s Park mosque he slated British democracy as criminal.

Tory MP Philip Davies said: “It’s unacceptable.”

*  By SIMON HUGHES/The Sun

The hidden face of political Islamism Islam

Dean Godson/Times Online

*  Dean Godson takes a look at the ridiculous Da’awa Expo organized by the slaves of Allah, where the usual Islamic terrorists believers do their best to put lipstick on a pig, which prompts the Bunglawussi to smear him in what Muslims call ‘self-defense’:

“Dean Godson of the CIA  – sorry, I meant Policy Exchange – continues the witch-hunt against Islam Expo, and throws in an attack on Osama Saeed for good measure.“

Who says that Islamists can’t learn a trick or two from the West when they have to? Take a glance at the glossy brochure of Islam Expo – billed as Europe’s “biggest Islamic cultural festival” – which ended at Olympia yesterday. You could be forgiven for thinking that you were looking at the catalogue for the forthcoming Boden sale that comes to the venerable London exhibition centre in a few weeks’ time.

* Lets take a look at what Osama Saed has to say: The return of the caliphate

Visitors to Islam Expo would have witnessed such innocent activities as an Islamic arts and crafts workshop for under 12s, live Islamic storytelling performances and lute-playing and poetry recitals in the pomegranate and date gardens.

* What they don’t show you in the Islam Expo: how AP stringers make snuff movies for the Taliban. Killing women is a small matter for the soldiers of Allah…

The old Comintern would have instantly recognised the first rate tradecraft involved in organising all this. Just as Moscow and its allies knew how to organise a “popular front” to draw non-communist progressives and liberals into their orbit of influence, so some Islamists have honed a keen sense of how to present a non-threatening face to the West and to the many hundreds of decent, apolitical Muslims who turned up for a family day out.
Continue reading It is increasingly hard to draw a line between the agendas of the violent and non-violent

The superbly insightful Bill Warner discusses the Dalai Lama’s dhimmitude:

The Dalai Lama said Sunday that “it’s totally wrong, unfair” to call Islam a violent religion. This is not the first time that the Dalai Lama has spoken up to say that Islam is not violent. Where does he get his information? He bases his statements on what his Muslim friends have told him.

For the Dalai Lama these Muslims represent the real Islam. They are not violent, and therefore, there is a peaceful Islam.

The Dalai Lama does not recognize the existence of a civilization called Islam. Islam has a highly detailed political doctrine that determines 100% of what a Muslim does to kafirs (kafirs is what the Koran calls unbelievers). This political doctrine includes what being “nice and moderate” to kafirs really means.

His opinions are of no consequence to Islam. Islam defines absolutely everything about a Muslim, down to how to say, “Hello”.

Continue reading Hey Mister Dalai-man: Muslim-ology is Not Islam

Turning their Backs on Jihad

* An absurd piece of disinformation and shallow journo-crock based on wishful thinking pits hope against cold facts,  which has become typical for the Western media:

By Britta Sandberg/Spiegel

More and more prominent terrorists are defecting from the cause. The Egyptian theologian Dr. Fadl is the best known, but many others are likewise reconsidering. Experts see it as a delayed reaction to the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

* Is Fadl a ‘moderate?’ Check this out…

RELIGIOUS LEARNING IN PAKISTAN
Antenna up on Islamic schools
U.S. officials wary of possible al-Qaida recruiting

By STEWART M. POWELL Chron.com

WASHINGTON — It’s a nightmare scenario that awakens some U.S. intelligence officials at night: Pakistani-American youths will enter the country to carry out terrorist attacks after spending time at radical religious schools and al-Qaida training camps in Pakistan.

Officials say it hasn’t happened, and some experts warn against labeling all young Americans who study in Pakistan as potential terrorists.

* U.S. accused of depriving bin Laden driver of sleep

* Anti American hate being taught in US Islamic Schools, inciting hatred and violence

* Up to 700 American born Pakistani boys are being turned into headbangers in these madrassahs…

But the high-profile return home of two U.S.-born Pakistani-American teenagers last week who spent four years at a radical Islamic madrassa in Karachi has focused fresh attention on the potential threat, even though the brothers have no known ties to terrorism.

Their saga stirred concern among some members of Texas’ congressional delegation, prompting a call for congressional hearings and a request by 10 Republican members of the House for Pakistan to deport the estimated 700 Americans studying at the madrassas.

“From al-Qaida’s standpoint, Pakistanis with American nationality are very attractive targets to recruit,” says Bruce Riedel, a former career intelligence officer whose assignments included responsibility for South Asia. “They would have American passports that mean when they get to Dulles International Airport (outside Washington, D.C.) or George Bush International Airport (in Houston), they just sail right through.”

Draws attention of FBI

Continue reading U.S. smells the coffee: Antenna up on Islamic indoctrination centers in Pakistan

* Looks like some people woke up and realized what the mad mullah’s are doing to the kids in Pakistan:

Denmark: Supervisors to visit Muslim private schools