Category: Religion Of Submission

Those Moderate Muslims!

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A BBC report from Vast Majoritystan:

Azhar had a plan when he first arrived at Islamabad’s infamous Red Mosque seminary: behave like a visitor and build trust very slowly. By making it “quite clear” he was a BBC journalist, he thinks those at the seminary were “pleased” to have a platform from someone potentially “sympathetic to what they were teaching,” he told host Caroline Modarressy-Tehrani on Wednesday.
Soon after, however, Azhar realized that instead of teaching a “softer” type of Islam which is traditional in Pakistan, the Red Mosque was teaching Wahhabi Islam, a much more socially conservative type of Islam from Saudi Arabia.

Showing Up To Riot

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Let’s hope this is true;

Jordan has threatened to fast-track the execution of a would-be suicide bomber the Islamic State is trying to free if the terror group kills its captured pilot, it was reported today.
The government has apparently warned that Sajida al-Rishawi and other jailed ISIS commanders would be ‘quickly judged and sentenced’ in revenge for Muath al-Kaseasbeh’s death.

Those Moderate Muslims!

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Asra Q. Nomani;

Then 38, I had just written an essay for The Washington Post’s Outlook section arguing that women should be allowed to pray in the main halls of mosques, rather than in segregated spaces, as most mosques in America are arranged. An American Muslim born in India, I grew up in a tolerant but conservative family. In my hometown mosque, I had disobeyed the rules and prayed in the men’s area, about 20 feet behind the men gathered for Ramadan prayers.
Later, an all-male tribunal tried to ban me. An elder suggested having men surround me at the mosque so that I would be “scared off.” Now the man across the table was telling me to shut up.
“I won’t stop writing,” I said.

h/t Dave S.

The King Is Dead

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Is popcorn halal?

Abdullah was a reticent monarch, with none of the flamboyant outreach of his predecessor, King Fahd. But within the kingdom, he was deeply respected. He was seen by many Saudi women as their secret champion in a society that rigidly suppresses the rights of women. He was also seen as a modest and pious man who lived by Muslim ideals better than many of his predecessors. He didn’t reform Saudi Arabia, but he was able to maintain a measure of stability.
The nightmare for moderate Saudis is that the extremists of the Islamic State have a significant following among young Saudis, say analysts who follow the Arabic Twitter and Facebook platforms. Young Saudis are among the world’s most active users of these social media, which indicates the pent-up desire in the kingdom for political and social involvement. Attempts to suppress this activism, in the uncertainty of the leadership transition, could be very dangerous.

More – The monarch, believed to be 90, was succeeded by his brother, Crown Prince Salman, according to state television. That put the region’s most important Sunni power and America’s closest Arab ally in the hands of a 79-year-old who is reportedly in poor health and suffering from dementia.

The Selective Outrage at Global Jihad

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Uri Goldflam;

There is terrorism against which the West it outraged, and there is terrorism against which it is not. It so happens that when the same Jihadists in the name of Islam slaughter Jews as we experienced just this morning in Tel Aviv, the world and its opinion shaping media megaphones such as Thomas L. Friedman justify it by their silence or at the very least excuse it away as par for the course.
It is amazing how far some media outlets will go in this self-deceiving game. CNN tried to convince viewers that the attack on the Kosher market was not directed at Jews. BBC correspondent Tim Willcox actually argued with a French woman that it was the Jews’ own fault (as a collective) that they had been attacked because “Palestinians had suffered hugely at the hands of the Jews”. So eager to give the Palestinians a pass they are at the BBC that even the anti-Charlie Hebdo demonstrations by Palestinians in Jerusalem were not reported and little to no attention was given in the main stream media to the burning of French flags on The Temple Mount in Jerusalem and in Gaza.

To Call This Threat By Its Name

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Marine Le Pen;

“To misname things is to add to the world’s unhappiness.” Whether or not Albert Camus really did utter these words, they are an astonishingly apt description of the situation in which the French government now finds itself. Indeed, the French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius no longer even dares pronounce the real name of things.
Mr. Fabius will not describe as “Islamists” the terrorists who on Wednesday, Jan. 7, walked into the offices of the newspaper Charlie Hebdo, right in the heart of Paris. Nor will he use “Islamic State” to describe the radical Sunni group that now controls territory in Syria and Iraq. No reference can be made to “Islamic fundamentalism,” for fear that Islam and Islamism might get conflated. The terms “Daesh” and “Daesh cutthroats” are to be favored instead, even though in Arabic “Daesh” means the very thing to be hidden: “Islamic State.”
Let us call things by their rightful names, since the French government seems reluctant to do so. France, land of human rights and freedoms, was attacked on its own soil by a totalitarian ideology: Islamic fundamentalism. It is only by refusing to be in denial, by looking the enemy in the eye, that one can avoid conflating issues. Muslims themselves need to hear this message. They need the distinction between Islamist terrorism and their faith to be made clearly.

Related: “France was one part of the Islamic land and it will be Islamic again.” (h/t Irving)

Stifling Opinions Amongst Muslims in the West

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One common trait amongst Religious Cults is that dissent is not tolerated. Dare to disagree with the prevailing narrative and you’re kicked out of the cult … or worse. Such has also been the case for several decades with the Cult of Leftism. Though they changed their public moniker to “Progressives”, their core tenets and modus-operandi have not changed, and arguably have gotten much worse. When it came to acts of terrorism from Muslim extremists, a constant horde of “Progressive” talking heads could be readily found to regurgitate the same PC pablum:

  • Islam is a Religion of Peace
  • Not all Muslims are terrorists
  • Anyone who dares to criticize Muslims or their religion is an Islamophobe = Racist + Bigot

Different violent event. More innocent people killed or maimed. Same repetitive talking points to not criticize the perpetrators, their motives, or their religion.
What has not been quite as clear to non-Muslim Westerners is what has been going on within the Muslim community. I a recent Washington Post article, journalist Asra Nomani shed a little light on the subject:

Alongside the honor brigade’s official channel, a community of self-styled blasphemy police — from anonymous blogs such as LoonWatch.com and Ikhras.com to a large and disparate cast of social-media activists — arose and began trying to control the debate on Islam. This wider corps throws the label of “Islamophobe” on pundits, journalists and others who dare to talk about extremist ideology in the religion. Their targets are as large as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and as small as me.
The official and unofficial channels work in tandem, harassing, threatening and battling introspective Muslims and non-Muslims everywhere. They bank on an important truth: Islam, as practiced from Malaysia to Morocco, is a shame-based, patriarchal culture that values honor and face-saving from the family to the public square. Which is why the bullying often works to silence critics of Islamic extremism.

Brave woman for speaking out. It’s beyond reprehensible that her non-Muslim sisters of a Leftist bent continue to sabotage her with their inane ramblings. But they’ve consistently shown that they don’t care one whit about “those” brown-skinned women. Sad.

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Immigration and Islam: Europe’s Crisis of Faith

Consider Éric Zemmour, a slashing television debater and a gifted polemicist. His history of the collapse of France’s postwar political order, “Le suicide français,” was No. 1 on the best-seller lists for several weeks this fall. “Today, our elites think it’s France that needs to change to suit Islam, and not the other way around,” Mr. Zemmour said on a late-night talk show in October, “and I think that with this system, we’re headed toward civil war.”

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Your Moral and Intellectual Superiors

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Recent events in France have finally put the nail in the coffin of the philosophical world view of anyone describing themselves as a “progressive” or a “liberal”. In this conversation (podcast) with Charles Adler, the CATO Institute’s Patrick Basham succinctly dissects the phoniness and all encompassing falsehoods that define Leftism in 2015. Here’s one, of many, brilliant things that Basham said (paraphrasing):

In today’s political climate throughout much of the West, the reaction to what one says is determined, not by the content of one’s words and the substance and significance of what one has to say, but rather by the colour of the skin or the religion that’s practiced by the person speaking those words.

What they’re talking about was the recent TV interview of Rotterdam mayor, Ahmed Aboutaleb, which you can watch here.

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