23 februar 2006
What 20 Mill Will Get You
What can a $20 million “donation” to an American university buy a Saudi billionaire?
How about this little piece by Georgetown professor John Esposito a token down payment. One thing you can say about Esposito: he never bites the hand that feeds him.
According to Esposito, insisting on the principle of free speech is “secular fundamentalism.” The European media “reflects and plays to an increasingly xenophobic and Islamaphobic society.” The Danish cartoonists were only interested in generating profits for the newspaper and subjecting Muslims to public humiliation. And don’t forget about the villainous US:
Fra XDA
Sympatitilkendegivelse foran den danske Ambassade i Washington
Gad vide om de danske medier ved noget om det, og om de møder op?
Update, Feb. 22: Thank you all who’ve written. Please be outside the Embassy of Denmark, 3200 Whitehaven Street (off Massachusetts Avenue) between noon and 1 p.m. this Friday, Feb. 24. Quietness and calm are the necessities, plus cheerful conversation. Danish flags are good, or posters reading “Stand By Denmark” and any variation on this theme (such as “Buy Carlsberg/ Havarti/ Lego”) The response has been astonishing and I know that the Danes are appreciative. But they are an embassy and thus do not of course endorse or comment on any demonstration. Let us hope, however, to set a precedent for other cities and countries. Please pass on this message to friends and colleagues.
Skriver dem lige en mail 🙂
Mail sendt til DR-Nyhederne og TV2-nyhederne. Lad os se om de overhovedet bringer noget. Kunne være rart med noget positivt for en gangs skyld.
Bogudsalg og Muhammed
Sidder og bladrer i bogudsalgskataloget – sandelig – det er ikke så støvet som det plejer.
På side 4: Ebbe Kløvedal Reich: Fortællinger fra Dante. Den guddommelige komedie illustreret af Gustave Dore. 119.90 kr.
Gad vide om Dores billede af Muhammed i helvede er med i bogen? Så bliver den måske revet bort.
Hvor synd for muhammedanerne, at både Dante, Dore og Reich er døde alle 3.
Dore. Det er Muhammed, der har fået sprættet maven op.
Findes der nogen organiseret boykot af Q8 – Mahmoud Al-Jassar
Kan det overhovedet betale sig – rammer det kun de danske tankbestyrere?
Er OK benzin en del af Q8?
Er der andre firmaer der kan rammes – ikke pizzeriaer o.l. men fx internationale?
Araberne må jo have aktier i masser af virksomheder.
Her er landekoder for de arabiske landes stregkoder – så kan du jo selv se efter 🙂
Støtteside for ytringsfriheden oprettet
Minut skriver idag at der er oprettet en støtteside for ytringsfriheden med underskriftindsamling, men linket virker åbenbart ikke endnu for mig?
De har envidere en glimrende avisforside.
Jeg tror enhver lighed med en velkendt avis er tilsigtet 🙂
Sidder du godt i sofaen?
Kaj Munk:
Vi er trætte af den gode tone, vi vil have sandhed
"Sandheden er ikke for forsigtige folk, de skal ikke have sandhed men
sofa. Spørg aldrig, aldrig, aldrig om det kan nytte, spørg om det er
sandhed. Jeg spørger ikke om følgen. Jeg spørger om sandheden.
Sandheden er ikke rolig og værdig og ophøjet, den bider og river og
slår."
Ny intelligent tyngdelov
Evangelical Scientists Refute Gravity With New ‘Intelligent Falling’ Theory
KANSAS CITY, KS—As the debate over the teaching of evolution in public schools continues, a new controversy over the science curriculum arose Monday in this embattled Midwestern state. Scientists from the Evangelical Center For Faith-Based Reasoning are now asserting that the long-held “theory of gravity” is flawed, and they have responded to it with a new theory of Intelligent Falling.
“Things fall not because they are acted upon by some gravitational force, but because a higher intelligence, ‘God’ if you will, is pushing them down,” said Gabriel Burdett, who holds degrees in education, applied Scripture, and physics from Oral Roberts University.
Burdett added: “Gravity—which is taught to our children as a law—is founded on great gaps in understanding. The laws predict the mutual force between all bodies of mass, but they cannot explain that force. Isaac Newton himself said, ‘I suspect that my theories may all depend upon a force for which philosophers have searched all of nature in vain.’ Of course, he is alluding to a higher power.”
Founded in 1987, the ECFR is the world’s leading institution of evangelical physics, a branch of physics based on literal interpretation of the Bible.
According to the ECFR paper published simultaneously this week in the International Journal Of Science and the adolescent magazine God’s Word For Teens!, there are many phenomena that cannot be explained by secular gravity alone, including such mysteries as how angels fly, how Jesus ascended into Heaven, and how Satan fell when cast out of Paradise.
Hele artiklen The Onion
Ny Muhammed film Don’t touch this
“You can’t touch this”, un clip réalisé par “les Nébuleux ” (23 Mo…) :
http://cantinebivouac.free.fr/vid%e9os/Can%20t%20touch%20this.wmv
Linket virker åbenbart kun hvis du kopierer det og paster det ind i din browser?
Copy the link and paste into your browser.
Keith Windschuttle: Howard, cultural warrior
By standing up to radical Muslims at home, the Prime Minister is a role model for other Western leaders
February 21, 2006 YESTERDAY two political leaders responded to the big issue of our time. In Australia, Prime Minister John Howard observed that radical Islam is “utterly antagonistic to our kind of society”.
In India, the Minister of Minority Welfare of Uttar Pradesh, Yaqoob Qureshi, offered a $14 million reward to anyone who beheaded one of the Danish cartoonists who drew images of Mohammed. In their own distinct ways, both may contribute to Western countries recognising how serious, and how long-standing, is the challenge of radical Islam to the core of their culture.
For the past three decades, most members of our political class have been ensconced within the cultural relativism of multiculturalism. If there has been a problem within an ethnic community, few political leaders have ever blamed its members. Instead, they have told the rest of us it is unacceptable to censure social groups except one – mainstream Australia.
As the debate about the Cronulla riots on Channel Nine’s Sixty Minutes on Sunday night demonstrated, the spokesmen for the Muslim community share this perspective.
Australians don’t give them a fair go, they claim, and politicians are only too ready to play the race card by appealing to the worst xenophobic instincts of the majority.
Around the Western world, the response to the Danish cartoons demonstrated that even when Muslims go on violent rampages, burn down embassies and, in Britain, march with placards threatening death to their fellow citizens, many people regard this as somehow understandable, even acceptable, since we have no right to judge another religion and culture.
In Australia, Attorney-General Philip Ruddock urged newspaper editors to treat the cartoons with caution, asking them not to act “gratuitously with a view to try [to] provoke a response”. In New Zealand, Prime Minister Helen Clark accused the newspapers who reproduced them of “bad manners”.
British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said: “The republication of these cartoons has been unnecessary, it has been insensitive, it has been disrespectful and it has been wrong.”
However, the causes of the violence are now fairly clear. The riots, arson and death threats were not spontaneous outbursts from passionate religious believers but carefully stage-managed devices by Muslim leaders some five months after the cartoons were published.
Danish imams travelled to the Middle East where they generated support for a campaign targeted quite deliberately at Western culture.
Since September 11 and Bali, most commentators have seen the objectives of radical Islam as focused largely on change within Islamic counties: to force the West out of Saudi Arabia, to shut down decadent Western tourist attractions in Muslim countries and, in its most utopian dreams, to re-establish the medieval Islamic empire that stretched from Spain to the East Indies.
The uproar over the Danish cartoons should remind us that another long-standing goal has been cultural change in the West. Radical Islam wants to accord Muslims in western societies privileges not available to the faithful of other religions. Instead of them changing to integrate into our way of life, they want to force us to change to accept their way of life.
Their ideal within the West is to establish sharia law in areas where Muslims congregate. As London’s Sunday Telegraph survey revealed yesterday, four out of 10 British Muslims now want sharia law introduced in Muslim-dominated parts of the country. This is an objective that long predates the rise of al-Q’aida.
As no one should need reminding, the first target in the contemporary rise of Islamic radicalism was the novelist Salman Rushdie. In 1989 he was the subject of a death edict by Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini for satirising Mohammed in his novel The Satanic Verses. A number of Muslims living in the West declared they were willing to carry out the death sentence on behalf of their religion.
Many writers gave Rushdie vocal support and pointed out how such a fatwa offended the very core of Western culture, its right to free expression. But prominent politicians took a different line. President George Bush Sr adopted the moral equivalence of the political class, declaring both the death edict and the novel equally “offensive”. Former president Jimmy Carter responded with a call for Americans to be “sensitive to the concern and anger” of Muslims. Rushdie had to spend the next decade in disguise, living in secret locations, under police protection. No one else followed him by writing a novel critical of Mohammed.
In 1995, when a Pakistani writer living in the West decided to write a book, Why I Am Not a Muslim, rejecting Islam and praising Western culture, he knew he had to adopt the pseudonym, Ibn Warraq, and keep his identity secret.
In the Netherlands, the former Somali woman, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, wrote a book, The Son Factory, about the Muslim oppression of women. The book generated a spate of death threats. Although she subsequently became a member of parliament, the threats to her life mean she still lives under permanent armed guard in a secret government safe house. Police later found she was at the top of a Muslim hit list of Dutch public figures.
The assassin Mohammed Bouyeri had her as his preferred victim but, when he couldn’t reach her, he went to the name second on the hit list, the film-maker Theo van Gogh. Bouyeri shot, stabbed and almost beheaded van Gogh, whose offence had been to collaborate with Hirsi Ali on a film entitled Submission critical of Muslim violence towards women.
The tactic of targeting individuals who criticise Islam has been very effective in the Netherlands. In 2005, for instance, the Dutch law professor and newspaper columnist Paul Cliteur announced he would no longer write or speak in public because of death threats to his wife and children.
This personal terrorism affects not just those directly under threat, but all writers and intellectuals. Most are unable to afford the security costs and the state cannot protect them all. The result is that they are silenced by self-censorship. Until now, the Western response has consistently been to raise one more white flag in the surrender of Western cultural values that we have been making since Khomeini’s fatwa against Rushdie in 1989.
That is why Howard’s statement yesterday is so remarkable. In Europe, comments like that have seen government ministers in several countries condemned by their colleagues. Some have lost their jobs. Howard’s comments may signify that a line has finally been drawn in the Western political mentality.
Keith Windschuttle’s most recent book is The White Australia Policy (Macleay Press, 2004). His website is www.sydneyline.com
Fra The Australian via Democracy Frontline
Abu Hamza – Imam
Thankfully, the kindly and tolerant British are now doing what they should have done six years ago, and that is to prosecute the one-time Imam of the Finsbury Park Mosque in North London for
nine counts of soliciting murder, four charges of inciting racial hatred and one charge of owning a document useful to a person committing or preparing acts of terrorism.
O
pening the prosecution, David Perry said Mr Hamza had used his position as a spiritual leader within the Muslim community to preach hate and encourage the murder of non-believers, and particularly Jews. The cleric allegedly told worshippers at mosques, and audiences at private meetings, that violent jihad was their duty, praising suicide bombers as martyrs and urging followers to terrorise those Mr Hamza branded enemies of Islam.
He first came to the attention of UK police back in the late ’90’s, but for reasons unknown, possibly to do with “not offending the local Muslim population”, he was never prosecuted. However, with the exception of his fan club of the lonely, the inadequate and the confused, the local Muslim population will be delighted that he is removed from their midst, and they are hopefully no longer tarred with the same brush.
He’s a real little charmer, so I deliberately picked the least flattering photo I could find. Here are some of his reported gems:
On suicide bombings
“It’s not called suicide, it is called shaheed operation. People call it suicide to put people off, it is not called suicide, it is martyrdom … If the only way to hurt the enemies of Islam is to take your own life, it is permissible … If you don’t use terrorism and torture, what are you going to use?”
On killing apostate rulers of Islamic lands
“Of course it is permissible to kill them, any person who hinders Allah, this man must be eliminated because he is a menace and this menace must be removed.”
On Jews
“Because of their [Jews] treachery, blasphemy and filth, is why Hitler was sent into the world.”
On Islam’s enemies
“You have to stab him here and there until he bleeds to death.”
But, just to show that he does have a sense of humor after all…
On his arrest
“I am a preacher and I have spoken on religious matters. It is unfortunate they have been taken out of context.”
Apparently he lost his hand and left eye in Afghanistan. When he finally goes to gaol, I hope and pray that the other convicts will treat him to endless repetitions of the the old joke, updated in his honor.
Jihadi 1: So what happened to your hand?
Jihadi 2: I got some Russian shrapnel in it and it turned to gangrene so they had to amputate it and fit a hook instead.
Jihadi 1: And what happened to your eye?
Jihadi 2: First day with the hook, I got some dust in my eye.
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