Winds of Jihad

Liam Houlihan from the Sunday Herald Sun:

Radical clerk: Sheik Mohammed Omran blames the drought on lack of faith in Allah

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What I like about this primitive above is that he is honest: He’s on record for telling us that his ‘religion doesn’t tolerate other religions’- and when asked what happens when Muslims have critical mass, he said that he will ‘ship us out’- for starters. Weren’t you hoping that we would be allowed to live while ‘paying the Jiziyah with willing submission while feeling humiliated and subdued?’
But that’s all cool in the brave new world of multicultural political correctness, where the nutroots insist that criticizing the ideology of a hostile cult is the same as racism.

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Hate-literature:

There’s so much of it, authorities are powerless to stop it. And no one is asking why the Vast Majority of Peaceful Muslims isn’t doing anything to stop it, either, which is strange considering that it is all supposed to be a mockery of the principles in which they believe.

RADICAL Islamic literature, DVDs and websites are proliferating across Melbourne while authorities are seemingly helpless to stop the underground trade in hate talk.

In tucked away Melbourne bookshops and prayer rooms, as well as online, text and recordings commonly slur Jews and urge followers to Islamise the world.
The faithful are told to obey only Sharia law.

A Sunday Herald Sun audit of Islamic bookshops found dozens of books, pamphlets, DVDs and CDs with radical and sometimes violent messages.

One book, Man-Made Laws Vs. Shari’ah, urges Muslims not to “accept anything from their governments and rulers except sharia”, stating any other system is heresy.

The book prescribes stoning for adultery and drinking alcohol and advocates flogging for casual sex.

The same text claims the Jews have always waged a war against Islam.

Another booklet, The Conditions of La Ilaha Illa Allah, states all children of Israel are going to hell.

“A painful torment is theirs because they used to tell lies,” it states.

It describes a Muslim’s aim as “to strive for a returning to the true Islamic way of life . . . and to bring about a society guided upon the Revelation and for the Laws of Allah to be applied upon the earth.”

More on Sheikh Omran here…

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Update:

A Sunday Herald Sun investigation also found clerics railing against “evil” democracy, vilifying Jews and Christians and encouraging jihad and polygamy.

And in a popular DVD selling locally, a foreign sheik exhorts Muslims to take control of Australia by out-breeding non-believers.

British-based Sheik Abdul Raheem Green forbade Muslims from having fewer than four children so Australia would become an Islamic state.

Behind the closed doors of some Melbourne mosques and bookshops, sheiks push for Sharia law, declare Islam at war with the “sick” West and gloat that September 11 boosted Muslim numbers.

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Read it all…

With thanks to the gorgeous Pamela of Atlas Shrugs:

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“Civil” European society is having hissy fits. The oppression of women in Islam, honor killings, spousal abuse, honor killing death threats to the first Druze Miss Israel, Jew hatred – check! They are down with that. But Dolce Gabbana? Unspeakable!

The ad has caused a huge controversy in Spain, France2 was scandalized into reporting on it, and now Amnesty International in Italy is asking that the ad be pulled from Italian magazines.

I think the ad is a metaphor. The woman is Europe, the men are jihadis. Rape is a weapon of Islamic Jihad isn’t it? And Europe is being raped by Islam. Europe can speak up and out about this terrible Dolce ad but hey let’s be frank, it is sexy – and it is supposed to be fantasy. They color themselves all righteous and rail against the Dolce boys but they can not or will not speak out against the Islamization of Europe? Think about it.

UPDATE: Multicultural Europe and its Suicide By Samir Khalil Samir

So-called dialogue with the Islamic world and relativism regarding marriage, the dignity of women, and sexual equality in the name of multiculturalism is destroying European identity and doing away with womens rights. hat tip Al

A lot of posters on the Andrew Bolt blog are onto what’s happening in their backyard. They understand how the country has been systematically invaded by Islamists who hate us, our liberal laws, democracy and the freedom of the individual. It is nothing new that they employ any means including terrorism, to destroy Australia and to bring it into the fold of Islam. The soldiers of Allah have been trying to conquer Europe since the inception of Islam. Spain, “Al Andaluz’- has been under Islamic Islamic rule for for nearly 800 years. They are adamant to reconquer it. Sicily was occupied for 300 years and Greece has been attacked again and again, most recently by Turkey when Northern Cyprus was overrun 25 years ago. Only 300 years ago The Muhammedan armies tried to take Vienna.

500 years ago they took Constantinople.

Engraving of clashes between the Austrians and Ottomans outside Vienna, 1529

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This war is different: The soldiers of Allah will never be able to win militarily against the West. But they have never before been allowed to immigrate in large numbers, to infiltrate behind enemy lines, deep inside the Dar-al Harb, a fifth column deep inside enemy countries, where they are treated like friends, where they are protected by infidel laws which they use to subvert and attack these infidel countries from inside. Terror, as we have seen in London, Madrid, Beslan, Bali 1 + 2, Bombay etc. is just one strategy to bring these infidel lands into the fold of Islam. Fighting a ‘War on Terror’ is foolish. Terror is just a strategy. First we must identify the enemy.

An example: During the cold war, during a standoff with Communism, (another totalitarian ideology) would anyone have allowed Communist agents from Russia to settle in large numbers in western countries and allowed them to use the liberal laws of the west against us?

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But terror is not the worst threat: Peaceful Da’awa, (proselytizing) to the psychologically marginal in the prisons (In Europe and America most new converts to Islam are found in the prisons) and finally the jihad by demographics: Outbreeding the native infidels until the Muslims have critical mass. And there are Imam’s and mufties like sheik Omran, Feiz Mohammed and the ‘catmeat’ sheik Halali who make no beef about ‘shipping us out’ (or worse) once the Muslims have critical mass. It is no secret that demographic Jihad is the greatest threat to us. By producing as many children as possible with as many women (Muslims are allowed 4, but that does not include all those which ‘their right hand possesses’-which are the slave-women captured in battle)

The recessive native populations of Europe and Australia have little chance of survival if they don’t wake up and smell the coffee.

But look at the comments at Bolt’s blog: Quite a few people in the comments section are wide awake:

“MY SHEIK IS A FLAKE”

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SINGAPORE – Three Muslim mothers who persuaded their daughters to have sex with their father wept in a Singapore court when the rape victims pleaded for leniency for the women, news reports said on Thursday.

The three “wives” are charged with abetting the 46-year-old businessman and religious teacher in committing incest between December 2003 and June 2005.

Letters written by the daughters were read out in district court on Wednesday, The Straits Times reported. The three mothers pleaded guilty and will be sentenced on March 21.

The father is serving a 32-year jail sentence with 24 strokes of the cane for raping his young daughters.

The victims told of their mothers’ love in spite of what had happened to them, the newspaper reported, and expressed worries that they and their younger siblings would suffer even more if their mothers were jailed.

“My mother is not to be blamed for what happened to me,” according to one letter cited by the paper. “She herself is a victim. She was really being manipulated heavily by my father.”

Deputy Public Prosecutor Eugene Lee said the husband told his multiple wives and scores of children that according to the Quran, a father “owned” his children and this extended to having sex with his daughters, the report said.

The three women, aged 39, 38 and 41, had abused their daughters’ trust, Lee said.

The offences came to light in June 2005 when the daughter of the first wife, then 15, made a police report. Investigations showed that five of her half-sisters also had sex with their father.

Lee said the three women married the man in 1988 and 1989. Two of the daughters became pregnant and underwent abortions.

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Here’s the link from the Kaleej Times…

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Winston Churchill knew what he was talking about:
“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy.

The effects are apparent in many countries, improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.

A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement, the
next of its dignity and sanctity.

The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.

Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the
religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it.

No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytising faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.”

Hi Guys,

From a German site – thanks to all who sent it in
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“STOP ISLAMIFICATION OF EUROPE
Demonstration outside the European Parliament
September 11th 2007
Europeans are saying
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
NO SHARIA HERE
So join the call
All European nations must be represented

Großdemonstration vor dem Europäischen Parlament in Brüssel gegen die Islamisierung Europas geplant

Am 11. September 2007 soll es die erste öffentliche Großdemonstration gegen die schleichende Islamisierung Europas vor dem Europäischen Parlament in Brüssel geben. Die Genehmigung für die Großdemonstration wird derzeit von verschiedenen europäischen Vereinen und Bürgerinitiativen beantragt. Die Veranstalter kommen aus allen europäischen Ländern. Wir von Pax Europa e.V./Akte Islam organisieren den deutschen Teil der Großdemonstration. Auch aus Großbritannien, Dänemark, Schweden, Norwegen, Frankreich, Belgien, den Niederlanden, Österreich, Italien, Spanien, Luxemburg, Portugal und Griechenland liegen schon Anfragen für Anmeldungen zur Großdemonstration vor. Wir werden alle Mitglieder von Pax Europa e.V. rechtzeitig über das weitere Vorgehen unterrichten. (Quelle: Eigenbericht Akte Islam 3. März 2007)

http://www.akte-islam.de/3.html
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translation:

Big anti-islam demonstration in front of European Parliament in Brussels.

September 11th 2007 we will have the first public and large demonstration against the ever increasing islamisation of Europe in front of European Parliament in Brussels.
Permissions are currently being applied for. We – Pax Europe – will realise the German part. But also from other countries like Great Britain, Denmark, Sweden,
Norway, France, Belgium, Holland, Austria, Italy, Spain, Luxemburg, Portugal and Greece permissions are being asked. Members of Pax Europe will be informed on further developments.
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Update:
“IF YOU LOVE FREEDOM
IF YOU LOVE YOUR COUNTRY
BE THERE!!”

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The organisers of the demonstration are:
SIAD (Denmark) sioe@siad.dk phone: +45 96771784
No Sharia Here (England) sioe.nsh@btinternet.com
We have contact with Akte-islam in Germany who organizes the german participation: http://akte-islam.de/1.html
We seek people/organisation from all other european countries who will organize participation from their own country.
For questions or coordination inbetween the countries contact SIAD or No Sharia Here.

STOP ISLAMIFICATION OF EUROPE
ORIGINS

Stop Islamification Of Europe (SIOE) is an alliance of people across Europe with the single aim of preventing Islam becoming a dominant political force in Europe.
It originated with the joining of Stop Islamseringen Af Danmark (SIAD) a political party dedicated to stopping the Islamification in Denmark with a loose association of people in England whose rallying cry “No Sharia Here” who want to maintain English law and stop the creeping growth of sharia law in England.
SIOE is growing in Europe with the amalgamation of similarly minded group

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SIOE exists to legally combat the overt and covert expansion of Islam in Europe.
SIOE condemns racism as the lowest form of human stupidity, but considers Islamophobia to be the height of common sense.
SIOE states that Islam and democracy are incompatible due to teachings within the Koran itself and some of the hadiths which comprise sharia law.
SIOE sees that such incompatibility is self-evident when those tenuous democracies in countries where Islam is the dominant religion are scrutinized.
Such “democracies” have only existed in the post European colonial period, since the end of World War Two.
It has always been the case, but also increasingly so, that in Islamic countries, whether “democratic” or not, non-Muslims are at best treated as second class citizens, or at worst oppressed.
SIOE believes this to be due to the teachings of Islam, which encourages Muslims to feel superior to non-Muslims, and that Islam must prevail over any other religion and political system, by any means.
SIOE finds the concept of “moderate” Muslims difficult because of the Islamic practises of Taqiyya and Kitman which are designed to deceive and mislead non-Muslims in order to promote the ascendance of Islam over any other religion and political system.
Therefore, if a political party’s leaders and members may be accused of lying and their policies challenged, then so should a religion’s, especially Islam, which considers lying to be not only acceptable, but obligatory in the furtherance of its doctrine.
Furthermore, SIOE wants all religions to be treated in law the same way as political parties with no special legal protection. This should apply especially to Islam because it is a combined political, legal and judicial system administered and overseen by un-elected theologians, completely contrary to Western concepts of democracy.
This is why democracy is failing in Islamic countries and giving way to Islamic theocracy.
SIOE considers that those Western politicians, journalists, academics and social groups, who support Islam, are deliberately misleading Europeans as to the nature of Islam. This is particularly evident in the non-reporting of Islamist atrocities around the world, but also in the re-writing of history to portray Islam in a favourable light as a non-aggressive religion.
SIOE reflects the attitude of most people in Europe that Islam is being favoured above indigenous European cultures and that Muslims are being selectively protected by politicians and lawyers at the expense of non-Muslims who often find themselves unprotected.
SIOE challenges the funding by Saudi Arabia for the building of mosques and other Islamic institutions in Europe and elsewhere around the world, when that country outlaws religions other than Islam, politics other than Islam and legislature other than Islam. Such asymmetric funding must be stopped.
No more mosques until we see churches in Mecca.

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REASONS
TO MAINTAIN OUR HARDFOUGHT DEMOCRACY

“ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!” is the rallying cry of all liberty-loving Europeans who are tired of seeing their values and ways of life eroded.
Arguably, more than any other continent, Europe has suffered most to achieve its present happy condition of liberal democracy.
Centuries of international conflicts and civil wars, most notably of course the two world wars of the 20th century, were endured by the ordinary folk of Europe.
However, conflict, strife and warfare are not the preserve of Europe. The USA suffered its own civil war; China and Russia are still staggering out of the rubble of revolution down the rocky road to democracy.
Out of the centuries of Europe’s internal strife blossomed the Renaissance and Enlightenment, which in turn bore the fruits of democracy.
Freethinking men and women fashioned this fragile, imperfect political system, with its many nuances, which nevertheless survives and grows because of its intrinsic fairness and popularity.
Democracy in turn released those lucky people enjoying its benefits, to form the most medically, scientifically and artistically productive part of the world we call “The West”.
Many of the West’s achievements have come in the period since the Second World War, and its people determinedly defended their hard earned principles of democracy and freedom against the totalitarian doctrine of Communism.
In winning both World War Two and the Cold War, the West defeated two of its greatest enemies, one the European cancer of Nazism, the second the contagion of Communism.
Unfortunately, the existence of both has led to the adoption in modern political parlance of the fatuous terms “left” and “right.”
Even more unfortunately, in Europe at least, “left” has misleadingly come to mean “good” and “right” to mean “bad”.
The table of political oppression is a round one, at which the power-ravenous “right” and “left” sit shoulder-to-shoulder, gnawing the bones of freedom’s cadaver.
Rational people know these truths.
Totalitarianism is the antithesis of liberty.
Theocracy is the antipathy of democracy.

OUR OWN POLITICIANS, POLICE AND JUDGES ARE THE DANGER

So why have rational people allowed irrationality to rule?
It is because the main danger to liberal democracy is its inherent liberalism, which opens itself to being hijacked by self-styled liberals.
A Nazi will punch you for the good of the state. A Communist will kick you for the good of the state. A liberal will do both while shaking your hand and telling you it’s for your own good.
Rational people recognise that the only liberality self-styled “liberals” indulge in, is liberally banning everything they disagree with.
Lamentably, top of the banning agenda is free speech.
Understandably, because of the events of World War Two and also our colonial past, Europeans have become wary of persecuting minority groups.
This has led to Europeans encouraging people from around the world to settle in Europe and to share the benefits of Western ideals.
However, this laudable intention has been usurped, not only by some of the groups of people coming to Europe, but worse still by self-loathing, guilt-laden politicians not only of the “liberal” persuasion, but also capitalist free-marketeers.
Such people have inculcated themselves into positions of power.
Together, they undermine our ways of life, stifle dissent from their diktats and spread feelings of political remoteness and hopelessness among the majority of European people.
This is exactly the kind of totalitarianism we fought against in World War Two and the Cold War.

SO WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE?

So what is different about the present battle (some describe it as a war)?
This time around the struggle is against a theocratic totalitarianism called Islam.
The very fact that it is a theocracy, in other words a religion, protects Islam from being challenged.
Political constitutions (written or otherwise) across the West enshrine the principle of freedom to religious practise.
Therefore, religions may not be attacked in the same way as political parties.
In the West, politicians and their parties come under continuous verbal and written onslaughts in the media regarding their policies, performance and personnel.
Religious practise, however, is protected.
Despite this, Christianity, Europe’s main religion, has constantly been ridiculed, criticised and condemned, more often than not with impunity.
This is because Christianity is an easy target, mainly due to the fact that calling for Christian heretics to be killed is deemed more than unacceptable by Christian clergy, and actually killing heretics contravenes laws drawn up by democratically elected legislators.
Certainly leaving Christianity, or any other religion besides Islam, does not merit any punishment, in this world at least.
As we all know, this is not the case with Islam’s sharia law, which stipulates a death sentence for apostates leaving Islam for any reason.
Until recently, religion has been put in its place in Western society. It has become a matter of one’s own personal belief and private conscience.
For generations, offending a religious person has not been regarded as being more than bad manners. One of the fundamental benefits in the West is the right to offend and be offended.
Religion has not been a threat to society and the clergy has not formulated legislation in the West, although it has been allowed to lobby the various elected governments.
All this is changing due to the imposition of Islam.
No other religion demands more from those who do not adhere to its doctrine.
This would not be a problem in the West, if our leaders actually stood up for Western values and insisted that Muslims live within our laws and accepted our cultures and social systems.
Instead, it is we who are told we must abandon our values, cultures and societies in order not to offend Muslims. It is Islam that is being rammed down our throats and the throats of our children.
It is not only in the West that Islam is causing misery and mayhem. All around the world Islam is battling the “infidels”.
In response all our politicians, journalists, social commentators and religious leaders do is avoid mentioning the murderous activities in places like Indonesia, Thailand and sub-Saharan Africa. However, if an Israeli soldiers so much as farts within earshot of a Palestinian mosque the whole world knows about it within minutes and politicians resoundingly condemn Israel.
Such sanctimonious, selective conscience is contemptible and Europeans are fed up with being oppressed for the sake of what most believe to be the most corrosive and intolerant political system ever devised.

 Cronulla revenge attackers to be freed

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Posted by Martin under Australian Crime Reports

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Four men involved in revenge attacks in the aftermath of the Cronulla riot have each been sentenced to a maximum two years’ jail, but will all be free within weeks.

Michael Ceissman, 22, Mahmoud Eid, 20, Stephen Elmir, 20, and Wael Tahan, 21, bashed Jake Schofield, on December 12, 2005, the day after the Cronulla riot.

Mr Schofield suffered facial injuries and memory loss in the unprovoked attack.

All of the men had pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm in company.

In handing down the sentence in the NSW District Court on Friday, Judge Brian Donovan said it had been a planned attack, but took into account the mens’ remorse and their prospects for rehabilitation.

With time already served, Tahan will be eligible for parole on Saturday, Ceissman and Elmir on March 13 and Eid on April 23.

No justice served in this case. These Middle Eastern scumbags get a light punishment for attacking a innocent Australian while George James Radford sits in jail for 7 months for doing nothing wrong at the Cronulla riots.

Article source

Much could be said about this, but I don’t have time to comment much today. More later.

Say ‘Islam is a Religion of Peace’ or we will kill you:

What better way to prove to Eli Soriano that Islam is peaceful than peacefully to separate his head from his body?

From AP with thanks to Jihad Watch

Filipino Muslims display a banner, which reads ‘Behead Those Who Insult Islam,’ and t-shirts with a wanted sign during a rally Wednesday March 7, 2007, at a downtown Manila square , to protest recent televised preaching by a Christian sect leader Eli Soriano, who alleges that Muslims are killers. More than 1,000 Muslims took part in the rally and demanded Soriano, who is currently in hiding, be extradited back to the Philippines so he can face charges being brought against him. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

LGF has more…

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And here’s an Islamic website that justifies it: 

Phyllis Chesler

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Once I was held captive in Kabul. I was the bride of a charming, seductive and Westernised Afghan Muslim whom I met at an American college. The purdah I experienced was relatively posh but the sequestered all-female life was not my cup of chai — nor was the male hostility to veiled, partly veiled and unveiled women in public.

When we landed in Kabul, an airport official smoothly confiscated my US passport. “Don’t worry, it’s just a formality,” my husband assured me. I never saw that passport again. I later learnt that this was routinely done to foreign wives — perhaps to make it impossible for them to leave. Overnight, my husband became a stranger. The man with whom I had discussed Camus, Dostoevsky, Tennessee Williams and the Italian cinema became a stranger. He treated me the same way his father and elder brother treated their wives: distantly, with a hint of disdain and embarrassment.

In our two years together, my future husband had never once mentioned that his father had three wives and 21 children. Nor did he tell me that I would be expected to live as if I had been reared as an Afghan woman. I was supposed to lead a largely indoor life among women, to go out only with a male escort and to spend my days waiting for my husband to return or visiting female relatives, or having new (and very fashionable) clothes made.

In America, my husband was proud that I was a natural-born rebel and free thinker. In Afghanistan, my criticism of the treatment of women and of the poor rendered him suspect, vulnerable. He mocked my horrified reactions. But I knew what my eyes and ears told me. I saw how poor women in chadaris were forced to sit at the back of the bus and had to keep yielding their place on line in the bazaar to any man.

I saw how polygamous, arranged marriages and child brides led to chronic female suffering and to rivalry between co-wives and half-brothers; how the subordination and sequestration of women led to a profound estrangement between the sexes — one that led to wife-beating, marital rape and to a rampant but hotly denied male “prison”-like homosexuality and pederasty; how frustrated, neglected and uneducated women tormented their daughter-in-laws and female servants; how women were not allowed to pray in mosques or visit male doctors (their husbands described the symptoms in their absence).

Individual Afghans were enchantingly courteous — but the Afghanistan I knew was a bastion of illiteracy, poverty, treachery and preventable diseases. It was also a police state, a feudal monarchy and a theocracy, rank with fear and paranoia. Afghanistan had never been colonised. My relatives said: “Not even the British could occupy us.” Thus I was forced to conclude that Afghan barbarism was of their own making and could not be attributed to Western imperialism.

Long before the rise of the Taleban, I learnt not to romanticise Third World countries or to confuse their hideous tyrants with liberators. I also learnt that sexual and religious apartheid in Muslim countries is indigenous and not the result of Western crimes — and that such “colourful tribal customs” are absolutely, not relatively, evil. Long before al-Qaeda beheaded Daniel Pearl in Pakistan and Nicholas Berg in Iraq, I understood that it was dangerous for a Westerner, especially a woman, to live in a Muslim country. In retrospect, I believe my so-called Western feminism was forged in that most beautiful and treacherous of Eastern countries.

Nevertheless, Western intellectual-ideologues, including feminists, have demonised me as a reactionary and racist “Islamophobe” for arguing that Islam, not Israel, is the largest practitioner of both sexual and religious apartheid in the world and that if Westerners do not stand up to this apartheid, morally, economically and militarily, we will not only have the blood of innocents on our hands; we will also be overrun by Sharia in the West. I have been heckled, menaced, never-invited, or disinvited for such heretical ideas — and for denouncing the epidemic of Muslim-on-Muslim violence for which tiny Israel is routinely, unbelievably scapegoated.

However, my views have found favour with the bravest and most enlightened people alive. Leading secular Muslim and ex-Muslim dissidents — from Egypt, Bangladesh, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Pakistan, Syria and exiles from Europe and North America — assembled for the landmark Islamic Summit Conference in Florida and invited me to chair the opening panel on Monday.

According to the chair of the meeting, Ibn Warraq: “What we need now is an age of enlightenment in the Islamic world. Without critical examination of Islam, it will remain dogmatic, fanatical and intolerant and will continue to stifle thought, human rights, individuality, originality and truth.” The conference issued a declaration calling for such a new “Enlightenment”. The declaration views “Islamophobia” as a false allegation, sees a “noble future for Islam as a personal faith, not a political doctrine” and “demands the release of Islam from its captivity to the ambitions of power-hungry men”.

Now is the time for Western intellectuals who claim to be antiracists and committed to human rights to stand with these dissidents. To do so requires that we adopt a universal standard of human rights and abandon our loyalty to multicultural relativism, which justifies, even romanticises, indigenous Islamist barbarism, totalitarian terrorism and the persecution of women, religious minorities, homosexuals and intellectuals. Our abject refusal to judge between civilisation and barbarism, and between enlightened rationalism and theocratic fundamentalism, endangers and condemns the victims of Islamic tyranny.

Ibn Warraq has written a devastating work that will be out by the summer. It is entitled Defending the West: A Critique of Edward Said’s Orientalism. Will Western intellectuals also dare to defend the West?

Phyllis Chesler is an Emerita Professor of Psychology and Women’s Studies at the City University of New York

CBC program The National has an uncommonly honest look at the infiltration of Canadian mosques by militant Islamic front groups, and their threatening behavior toward less extreme Muslims. Scary and worth watching. (In two parts, please watch the second part here…)

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http://illustratedpig.blogspot.com/index.html

Okay, now I have to dash. Blogging will be light for the next couple of days because I’ll be going on a short trip. From Monday on we will be sheikin’ again….

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Meanwhile, mosque-building mania continues in the Dar’al Harb:

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/015556.php

And here’s some more ‘vulgarity’- Mr. Editor:

http://illustratedpig.blogspot.com/2007/03/citadel-of-terror.html