“There is a beating etiquette. – If he beats to discipline her, he must not raise his hand high. He must beat her from chest level. All these things honor the woman.”

Related: Six UK men arrested after video of them burning Koran on 9/11

Via Michael Rubin;

A group armed with tear gas, sticks, and bottles attacked 400 art enthusiasts who filled galas at the Galerinon, Galerioutlet, and Eclitsis, three art galleries in Istanbul’s Beyoglu district. The group chanted religious slogans, cried out “You cannot drink alcohol here,” and broke the windows of the galleries. Dozens of people were battered and five people were wounded. The victims complained that police nearby did not intervene and told them to call the police hotline. None of the assailants was taken into custody.

Continued….

Via

We don’t need no stinking Mohammed cartoons.

At the urging of the FBI, Molly Norris, the Seattle-based illustrator and cartoonist whose satirical drawing marking “Everybody Draw Mohammad Day” resulted in death threats, global protests and impassioned debate about religion and censorship, has been forced to change her name and abandon her former life as a result of her controversial cartoon.

What we need is an “International Burn Ten Thousand Korans Day”.
 

Related.
h/t Atlantic Jim

Heh.

When we got to the correct shelf, there was, indeed, a single hard-cover copy of the Koran. We both immediately noticed some slight damage to the spine of the dust cover, which he began to apologize for. He pulled it off the shelf, and stopped in horror as he saw that someone had, quite obviously and deliberately, cut a large X across the front of the book, through the dust cover and well into the hard cover itself.
(With palpable shock in his voice): ”Someone…someone committed a hate crime…in my store…I don’t believe this…”
I gently took the book from his hands, put my most reassuring face on, and calmly said, “That’s OK. I don’t mind…..”

They could have, at the least, kept their mouths shut;

But this portrayal missed key considerations. In the extent and scope of their criticism of Jones’ aims, senior U.S. officials, including Clinton and Gen. Petraeus, exceeded their constitutional remit in ways that could undermine future security and liberal-democratic ways. The same can be said of Harper and his defence minister.
Their warnings and beseechings raised immeasurably the stakes in this matter. Politicians risked the possibility that a government failure to apparently force Jones to stop — a constitutional impossibility, in any event — would produce more blowback than ever. Now that this pressure has forced Jones to climb down on his own, liberal-democracy’s enemies at home and abroad will be emboldened. The outcome doubtless confirms their doctrinal belief in a soft West that is vulnerable to ever-increasing levels of terrorism and stealth-jihadic demands for endlessly-Islamizing “accommodation.”
There is more to the political overreach problem. The package of freedoms for which the U.S. and Canada sacrifice in South Asia presumably includes the “first freedom” — freedom of expression — in Canada’s Charter and the even more expansive U.S. First Amendment provision. As U.S. Supreme Court decisions remind us, this freedom even protects those wishing to burn the U.S. flag. It is unlikely any ostensibly sacred text could have outranked the flag for such constitutional purposes.
Brief government statements-of-position would have sufficed in the Jones case. Unfortunately, the extremes to which politicians went might encourage future officials to pressure for expanded crisis-driven, religion-based censorship, out of fear of “offending Islam.” Worse, the recent hysteria requires that we ask whether posturing politicians and media are internalizing the Organization of the Islamic Conference’s international objective at the UN of imposing Sharia blasphemy norms on Muslims and non-Muslims worldwide.

Read it all.

And ten [other] surprising facts about the Middle East you may not know.

Indeed.

“The Bible is the story of a people’s journey out of barbarism.
The Koran is the story of a people’s embrace of it.”

And here’s a poll!
Further thoughts. As I was saying to someone just this morning, instead of whining about it, Petraeus should announce a Koran will be burned in Helmand province every Wednesday – use it the way that these guys do it.
A compromise! International Read Aloud From The Koran Day.

Rarely has a man influenced the German public discourse as much as Sarrazin has done with his book “Deutschland schafft sich ab” (“Germany Does Itself In”). In just two weeks, Germany has been hit by three waves of debate stemming from the tome.
Criticism bordering on revulsion dominated the first wave of the reaction. Politicians and opinion leaders condemned Sarrazin almost unanimously.
But then it slowly became apparent that many citizens agreed with Sarrazin.

Odd the way that keeps happening.
h/t Larry.

Oh, boo hoo. A simple Google search will confirm that Muslims have been burning bibles for years.
Admittedly, they’re usually inside a church at the time.

A well-known Australian Muslim cleric has called for the beheading of Dutch anti-Islamic politician Geert Wilders, a newspaper said on Friday. […] The Sydney-born Muhammad has gained notoriety for, among other things, calling on young children to be radicalized and blaming rape victims for their own attacks.

If the Vatican were in Afghanistan*, could priests still be pedophiles?

“How can you fall in love if you can’t see her face,” 29-year-old Mohammed Daud told reporters. “We can see the boys, so we can tell which are beautiful.”

So dance, my sweet little Mohammed – dance!
(Via)

A British actress was among 500 glamorous women invited to a ‘convert to Islam party’ thrown by Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi in Italy yesterday.

I mean, what could possibly go wrong?
h/t Adrian

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