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		<title>Do We All Believe in the Same God?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2014 05:14:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dr. Stephen M. Kirby]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A reflection on what Allah say in the Koran about Jews and Christians.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/bible_quran.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247929" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/bible_quran.jpg" alt="bible_quran" width="263" height="150" /></a>A commonly heard claim is that Jews, Christians and Muslims all believe in “the same God.” These are comforting words and of great assistance to those wishing to engage in interfaith dialogues and tri-faith ventures. But is this true? To answer that question, let’s look at what is said and taught about Jews and Christians by Allah, the god of Islam, and Muhammad, Allah’s prophet. We’ll start with the Koran.</p>
<p><strong>The Koran</strong></p>
<p>Muslims believe the Koran is the infallible, timeless and perfect word of Allah. So what does Allah say in the Koran about Jews and Christians?</p>
<p>To set the stage, Allah states that the only religion acceptable to him is Islam (e.g., 3:19 and 3:85). And Allah states that Islam is to be made superior over all other religions, even if the non-Muslims don’t like it (e.g., 9:33, 48:28, and 61:9).</p>
<p>Allah states that he is angry with the Jews, and the Christians are misguided in their beliefs (1:7). In fact, Allah curses the Jews and Christians (9:30). He states that the Jews and Christians are among the worst of creatures who “will abide in the fire of Hell” (98:6), while Muslims are the best of creatures (3:110 and 98:7). He forbids Muslims from being friends with Jews and Christians (5:51). Instead, Allah commands Muslims to fight the Jews and Christians until those Jews and Christians pay the <em>jizyah</em> (protection tax), with willing submission and feeling themselves subdued (9:29).</p>
<p>Allah specifically states that the Jews are among the worst enemies of Islam (5:82).</p>
<p>Allah states that Christianity is a false religion. Allah says that Jesus was not crucified, but it only appeared so (4:157-158). Allah states that he took Jesus bodily into paradise and made one of Jesus’ disciples look like Jesus; it was that disciple who was crucified. So Muslims who know their religion look at a crucifix or a painting of the Crucifixion and see an imposter hanging on the cross. And of course, if there was no Crucifixion, there was no Resurrection. So Islam teaches that Christianity is based on a fraud.</p>
<p>Allah also states that those who believe that Jesus is the Son of God commit the one unforgiveable sin in Islam, <em>Shirk</em> (e.g., 4:48 and 4:116). In fact, Allah curses Christians specifically for this belief (9:30) and says that those who so believe will go to Hell (e.g., 3:151 and 5:72-73).</p>
<p><strong>Muhammad</strong></p>
<p>Islam teaches that Muhammad spoke for Allah (4:80), and Allah commands Muslims to obey Muhammad (59:7). And Muhammad is considered the timeless standard by which Muslims should conduct themselves (33:21). So what did Muhammad have to say?</p>
<p>He said Jews and Christians are worth only half as much as a Muslim,<sup><sup>[1]</sup></sup>and he gave the following advice about what to do when meeting Jews and Christians:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>Do not greet the Jews and the Christians before they greet you and when you meet any one of them on the roads force him to go to the narrowest part of it.</em><sup><sup>[2]</sup></sup></p></blockquote>
<p>Muhammad said that the Jews were grave robbers,<sup><sup>[3]</sup></sup> and he said,</p>
<blockquote><p><em>The Hour will not be established until you fight against the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say, &#8216;O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him.</em><sup><sup>[4]</sup></sup></p></blockquote>
<p>Muhammad said that on the Day of Resurrection, mountains of sins would be removed from the backs of Muslims and put onto the Jews and Christians.<sup><sup>[5]</sup></sup> Muhammad even said that Jews and Christians would take the place of Muslims in Hell.<sup><sup>[6]</sup></sup></p>
<p>And on his death bed Muhammad said:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>I will expel the Jews and Christians from the Arabian Peninsula and will not leave any but Muslims.</em><sup><sup>[7]</sup></sup></p></blockquote>
<p>These are timeless commands and statements from Allah and Muhammad, and Muslims are not allowed to disagree with them (33:36).</p>
<p>So if Allah is God and the Koran consists of statements and commands from Allah, if Muhammad spoke for Allah, and if Jews, Christians and Muslims all believe in that same God, then Jews and Christians believe in and worship a God who hates and curses them, orders Muslims to fight them, and condemns them to Hell simply because they are not Muslims.</p>
<p>Either we are talking about a pagan god of multiple, compartmentalized personalities, or the claim that Jews, Christians and Muslims all believe in the same God is theological nonsense.</p>
<p><strong>Notes:</strong></p>
<p>[1] Muhammad bin Yazeed ibn Majah Al-Qazwini, <em>Sunan Ibn Majah</em>, trans. Nasiruddin al-Khattab, Vol. 3 (Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Darussalam, 2007), No. 2644, p. 521.</p>
<p>[2] Abu&#8217;l Hussain &#8216;Asakir-ud-Din Muslim bin Hajjaj al-Qushayri al-Naisaburi, <em>Sahih Muslim</em>, trans. Abdul Hamid Siddiqi, Vol. 6 (New Delhi: Adam Publishers and Distributors, 2008), No. 2167, p. 439.</p>
<p>[3] Muhammad bin Ismail bin Al-Mughirah Al-Bukhari, <em>Sahih Al-Bukhari</em>, trans. Muhammad Muhsin Khan, Vol. 4 (Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Darussalam, 1997), Book 60, No. 3452, p. 413.</p>
<p>[4] <em>Sahih Al-Bukhari</em>, Vol. 4, Book 56, No. 2926, p. 113.</p>
<p>[5] <em>110 Ahadith Qudsi: Sayings of the Prophet Having Allahs Statements</em>, 3<sup>rd</sup> ed., trans. Syed Masood-ul-Hasan (Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Darussalam, 2006), No. 8, titled <em>Superiority of the believers in the Oneness of Allah and the punishment of Jews and Christians</em>, pp. 19-20.</p>
<p>[6] <em>Sahih Muslim</em>, Vol. 8, No. 2767R1, p. 269.</p>
<p>[7] <em>Sahih Muslim</em>, Vol. 5, No. 1767, p. 189.</p>
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		<title>Allah: The Greatest Deceiver? &#8212; on The Glazov Gang</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2014 05:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The significance of Islam's teaching to smile in unbelievers' faces, but to curse them in one's heart.]]></description>
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<p>This week&#8217;s <em>Glazov Gang</em> was guest-hosted by Scholar of Islam <strong>Louis Lionheart </strong>and joined by Scholar of Comparative Religion<strong> <strong> <strong>Anthony Rogers.</strong> </strong></strong></p>
<p>Mr. Rogers joined the show to discuss <strong>Allah: The Greatest Deceiver?</strong>, analyzing the significance of Islam&#8217;s teaching to smile in unbelievers&#8217; faces &#8212; but to curse them in one&#8217;s heart. The discussion occurred within a focus on <strong>Islamic Literary Sources: Their Application,</strong> in which Mr. Rogers dissected a religion&#8217;s teachings and their earthly incarnations.</p>
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		<title>“Divine Inspiration” in the Qur’an and in the Bible – on The Glazov Gang</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2014 05:14:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The significant difference -- and what it explains about Islam and the Judeo-Christian tradition.]]></description>
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<p>This week&#8217;s <em>Glazov Gang</em> was guest-hosted by Scholar of Islam <strong>Louis Lionheart </strong>and joined by Scholar of Comparative Religion<strong> <strong><b>Anthony Rogers</b>.</strong></strong></p>
<p>Mr. Rogers discussed <strong>“Divine Inspiration” in the Qur’an and in the Bible, </strong>shedding light on the significant difference and what it explains about Islam and the Judeo-Christian tradition.</p>
<p>The discussion occurred within the context of a focus on <strong>Islamic Literary Sources: What They Are, </strong>in which Mr. Rogers crystallizedthe theological materials that Muslims base their beliefs on.</p>
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		<title>Is Allah the Same as the God of the Bible? &#8212; on The Glazov Gang</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2014 05:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scholar of Islam I.Q. Al-Rassooli lifts the veil and reveals the true faces of Muhammad and Islam.]]></description>
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<p>This week&#8217;s <em>Glazov Gang</em> was joined by <strong>I.Q. Al-Rassooli,</strong> a scholar of Islam who was born in Iraq. He is the author of the trilogy, “<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Lifting-Veil-Faces-Muhammad-Islam/dp/1434392023"><em>Lifting the Veil: The True Faces of Muhammad and Islam</em></a>.” The book is based on his YouTube series, &#8220;<em>Idiot’s Guide to Islam</em>.&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Mr. Al-Rassooli joined the show to discuss<strong> “Is Allah the Same as the God of the Bible?”</strong></p>
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		<title>Islam: More ‘Like the Mafia’ than Bill Maher Knows</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2014 04:50:43 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/la-ol-bill-maher-ben-affleck-islam-20141008.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-243247" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/la-ol-bill-maher-ben-affleck-islam-20141008-450x310.jpg" alt="APphoto_Real Time With Bill Maher" width="302" height="208" /></a><strong>Editor&#8217;s note: The following is Part One of a three-part series examining the many parallels between Islam and the mafia. Click the following for <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/raymond-ibrahim/loyalty-and-enmity-parallels-between-islam-and-the-mafia/">Part Two</a> and <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/raymond-ibrahim/islam-and-the-mafia-making-an-offer-you-cant-refuse/">Part Three</a>. </strong></p>
<p>During a <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/other-matters/ben-affleck-portrait-of-islams-clueless-apologetics/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">recent debate on HBO’s <i>Real Time</i></span></a>, host Bill Maher declared that Islam is “the only religion that acts like the mafia, that will f***ing kill you if you say the wrong thing, draw the wrong picture, or write the wrong book.”</p>
<p>Maher was apparently referring to Islam’s “blasphemy” laws, which ban on pain of death any “insult”—as found in a statement, a picture, a book, etc.—to Islam and especially its prophet, Muhammad.</p>
<p>While Maher has been criticized for his “Islamophobic” assertion, he and others may be surprised to learn that the similarities between Islam and the mafia far exceed punishing those who say, draw, or write “the wrong thing.”</p>
<p>In the following three part article, we will examine a number of these similarities.</p>
<p>In this article, Part One, we will look at the relationship between Allah, his messenger Muhammad, and the Muslims, and note several parallels with the relationship between the godfather, his underboss, and the mafia.</p>
<p>In Part Two (forthcoming), we will examine the clannish nature of the mafia and compare it to Islam’s concept of “Loyalty and Enmity”—including how in both Islam and the mafia, those members who wish to break away, to “apostatize,” are killed.</p>
<p>In Part Three (forthcoming), we will examine how both the mafia and Islam have historically both profited from the “protection” racket.</p>
<p><b>Allah as Godfather; Muhammad as Underboss</b></p>
<p>The <i>padrino</i> of larger mafia organizations and families—literally, the godfather or “boss of bosses”—has absolute control over his subordinates and is often greatly feared by them for his ruthlessness.  He has an “underboss,” a right-hand man who issues his orders and enforces his will.  The godfather himself is often inaccessible; mafia members need to go through the underboss or other high ranking associates.</p>
<p>Compare this with the relationship between Allah and his “messenger” Muhammad (in Arabic, Muhammad is most commonly referred to as <i>al-rasul</i>, “the messenger”). Unlike the Judeo-Christian God—a personal God, a Father, that according to Christ is to be communed with directly (Matt 6:9)—Islam’s god, Allah, is unreachable, unknowable, untouchable.  Like the godfather, he is inaccessible.   His will is enforced by his messenger, Muhammad.</p>
<p>If the Judeo-Christian God calls on the faithful to “come now, let us reason together” (Isaiah 1:18), Allah says “Do not ask questions about things that, if made known to you, would only pain you” (Koran 5:101).  Just follow orders.</p>
<p>Though largely invisible and operating behind the scenes, the godfather and his underboss get a “piece of the action”—a “cut”—of all spoils acquired by their subordinates, the mafia.</p>
<p>So do Allah and his messenger Muhammad.  Koran 8:41 informs Muslims that “one-fifth [a “cut”] of all plunder you acquire goes to Allah and the messenger” (followed by Muhammad’s family and finally the needy).</p>
<p>The godfather, through his underboss, regularly sends his followers to make “hits”—to assassinate—those deemed enemies of the family.</p>
<p>So did Allah and his messenger.  One example:  A non-Muslim poet, Ka‘b ibn Ashraf, insulted Muhammad, prompting the latter once to exclaim, “Who will kill this man who has hurt Allah and his messenger?” A young Muslim named Muhammad ibn Maslama volunteered on condition that to get close enough to assassinate Ka‘b he be allowed to lie to the poet.</p>
<p>Muhammad <a href="http://www.sacred-texts.com/isl/bukhari/bh4/bh4_274.htm"><span style="color: #0433ff;">agreed</span></a>. Ibn Maslama traveled to Ka‘b and began to denigrate Islam and Muhammad until his disaffection became so convincing that Ka‘b took him into his confidence. Soon thereafter, Ibn Maslama appeared with another Muslim and, while Ka‘b’s guard was down, slaughtered the poet, bringing his head to Muhammad to the usual triumphant cries of “Allahu Akbar!” (“Allah is greater”).</p>
<p>Similarly, mafia members are expected always to be available for the family, “<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7086716.stm"><span style="color: #0433ff;">even if your wife is about to give birth</span></a>,” and to defend the godfather and his honor—even if it requires their lives.</p>
<p>Compare this to the widespread violence and upheavals that occur whenever Allah or his prophet are offended—whenever non-Muslim “infidels” blaspheme them.  Or, as Bill Maher put it: “Its’ the only religion that acts like the mafia, that will f***ing kill you if you say the wrong thing, draw the wrong picture, or write the wrong book.”</p>
<p>Finally, while the family adheres to a general set of rules, the godfather also issues more fluid orders to address situations as they evolve.</p>
<p>This is reminiscent of the entire “revelation” of the Koran, where later verses/commands contradict earlier verses/commands, depending on circumstances (known in Islamic jurisprudence as <i>al-nāsikh wal-mansūkh</i>, or the doctrine of abrogation).</p>
<p>Thus, whereas Allah supposedly told the prophet that “there is no compulsion in religion” (Koran 2:256), once the messenger grew strong enough, Allah issued new revelations calling for all-out war/jihad on the entire world till Islam became supreme (Koran 8:39, 9:5, 9:29, etc.).</p>
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<p><strong>Pastor Tolle</strong> joined the show to discuss <strong>Allah as Deceiver</strong>, analyzing the justification of lies in Islam &#8212; in contrast to Christianity’s emphasis on truthfulness.</p>
<p>The discussion also focused on <strong>The Notion of “Sin” in Islam and Christianity</strong><em><strong>,</strong> </em>crystallizing how the stark contrast in two religions’ values fosters peace and forgiveness in one &#8212; and violence and killing in the other:</p>
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<blockquote><p>&#8220;In his devotion to bhang, with reverence, not with the worship, which is due to Allah alone, the North Indian Mussulman joins hymning to the praise of bhang. To the follower of the later religion of Islam the holy spirit in bhang is not the spirit of the Almighty, it is the spirit of the great prophet Khizr.&#8221;</p>
<p>J.M. Campbell<br />
Indian Hemp Drugs Commission Report, 1893-1894</p></blockquote>
<p>Bhang is better known as Cannabis. And in an alignment between the War on Terror and the War on Drugs, it turns out that <a href="http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/05/09/almighty-allah-powerless-to-prevent-arrest-for-large-marijuana-stash-during-byron-traffic-stop/">Allah is surprisingly fond of it</a>. (via<a href="http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/"> Religion of Peace</a>)</p>
<blockquote><p>A driver who was stopped by sheriff’s deputies in Byron for driving with expired registration tags was arrested after he was found to be carrying several large bags of marijuana, according to authorities.</p>
<p>A post on the San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office Facebook page said the driver, identified as 37-year-old Antioch resident Almighty Allah, was also driving with a suspended license and had a no-bail warrant for his arrest out of Contra Costa County.</p>
<p>The post said inside Allah’s black BMW were 20 large bags of processed and packaged marijuana weighing a total of about 20 pounds.</p>
<p>Allah was arrested for possession and transportation of marijuana as well as cited for driving with a suspended license and expired registration.</p></blockquote>
<p>Sounds like Islamophobia to me. A number of Allahs have been arrested over the years. Since Antioch is mentioned, it&#8217;s <a href="http://mugshots.com/US-Counties/Idaho/Ada-County-ID/Almighty-Rasun-Allah.5007272.html">probably Almighty Rasun Allah</a>.</p>
<p>Allah was not only charged with having a lot of pot in his car, but <a href="http://mugshots.com/US-Counties/California/San-Joaquin-County-CA/Almighty-Rasun-Allah.72650967.html">violating his Work Release Program </a>which suggests that the Muslim deity has been in jail before.</p>
<p>An earlier story suggests that<a href="http://newspaperarchive.com/us/texas/new-braunfels/new-braunfels-herald-zeitung/2011/11-13/page-2"> Allah really likes green </a>for a reason.</p>
<blockquote><p>Looking for Rodriguez, Lone Star Task Force Deputies turned up two men identified as  Richardson, of San Antonio and Almighty Rasun Allah, of California in a San Antonio residence. A warrant on the residence was executed turning up 12 pounds of hydroponic marijuana.</p></blockquote>
<p>Proof that Islam is really taking hold in America. They came looking for Rodriguez and found Allah.</p>
<p>The Islamic deity also appears to go by other names including</p>
<blockquote><p>GRANGER, PAUL<br />
GRANGER, PAUL ANTHONY<br />
GRANGER, SHAWN<br />
JOHNSON, PAUL<br />
WILLIAMS, RONALD JR</p></blockquote>
<p>I don&#8217;t know what this means exactly. I will leave that up to an Islamic scholar to understand why Allah uses so many aliases.</p>
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<p>However over in New Jersey there&#8217;s also <a href="http://mugshots.com/US-Counties/New-Jersey/Ocean-County-NJ/Almighty-Divine-Sun-God-Allah.4677911.html">Almighty Divine Sun God Allah </a>who has a penchant for burglary. If you&#8217;re a Muslim looking for answers to the big theological questions, <a href="http://www.writeaprisoner.com/inmate-profiles/pnf.aspx?f=z-192206b&amp;p=E">he has a prison pen-pal profile</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;I come in the supreme attribute Awareness of Almighty-Divine Sun-God Allah. And I greet you with the highest universal language of supreme mathematics.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>No pot involved here, I&#8217;m sure.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2014 04:52:29 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/article-2620615-1D96060100000578-523_634x382.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-224852" alt="article-2620615-1D96060100000578-523_634x382" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/article-2620615-1D96060100000578-523_634x382-450x271.jpg" width="315" height="190" /></a>Abubakar Shekau, the leader of the Nigerian jihad group named the Congregation of the People of the Sunnah for Dawah and Jihad and better known as Boko Haram (“Western Education Is Sinful,” or “Books Bad”), has horrified the world by abducting over three hundred schoolgirls and selling them into sex slavery. Shekau has even published a video in which he gloats about the abduction, telling the girls’ grieving families: “I abducted your girls. I will sell them on the market, by Allah….There is a market for selling humans. Allah says I should sell.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Does Allah really say that? The mainstream media is, true to form, steadfastly ignoring Shekau’s references to the acceptability in Islam of sexual slavery, and it’s easy to understand why, given its anxiety always to portray Islam in a favorable light – for the Qur’an really does allow for the owning of sex slaves:</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">If you fear that you will not act justly towards the orphans, marry such women as seem good to you, two, three, four; but if you fear you will not be equitable, then only one, or </span><b style="line-height: 1.5em;">what your right hands own</b><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">; so it is likelier you will not be partial. (Qur’an 4:3)</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">This verse is the basis for Islamic polygamy, allowing a man to take as many as four wives, as long as he believes he is able to “deal justly” with all of them. But justice in these circumstances is in the eye of the beholder. The renowned Qur’an commentator Ibn Kathir says this the requirement to deal justly with one’s wives is no big deal, since treating them justly isn’t the same as treating them equally: “it is not obligatory to treat them equally, rather it is recommended. So if one does so, that is good, and if not, there is no harm on him.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The verse goes on to say that if a man cannot deal justly with multiple wives, then he should marry only one, or resort to “what your right hands own” — that is, slave girls.</span></p>
<p>The twentieth-century Qur’an commentator Maulana Bulandshahri explains the wisdom of this practice, and longs for the good old days:</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">During Jihad (religion war), many men and women become war captives. The Amirul Mu’minin [leader of the believers, or caliph -- an office now vacant] has the choice of distributing them amongst the Mujahidin [warriors of jihad], in which event they will become the property of these Mujahidin. This enslavement is the penalty for disbelief (kufr).</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">He goes on to explain that this is not ancient history:</span></p>
<blockquote><p>None of the injunctions pertaining to slavery have been abrogated in the Shari’ah. The reason that the Muslims of today do not have slaves is because they do not engage in Jihad (religion war). Their wars are fought by the instruction of the disbelievers (kuffar) and are halted by the same felons. The Muslim [sic] have been shackled by such treaties of the disbelievers (kuffar) whereby they cannot enslave anyone in the event of a war. Muslims have been denied a great boon whereby every home could have had a slave. May Allah grant the Muslims the ability to escape the tentacles of the enemy, remain steadfast upon the Din (religion) and engage in Jihad (religion war) according to the injunctions of Shari’ah. Amen!</p></blockquote>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">This is by no means an eccentric or unorthodox view in Islam. The Egyptian Sheikh Abu-Ishaq al-Huwayni </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.translatingjihad.com/2011/05/egyptian-shaykh-jihad-is-solution-to.html">declared in May 2011</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> that “we are in the era of jihad,” and that as they waged jihad warfare against infidels, Muslims would take slaves. He clarified what he meant in </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.translatingjihad.com/2011/06/video-shaykh-al-huwayni-when-i-want-sex.html">a subsequent interview</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">:</span></p>
<blockquote><p>…Jihad is only between Muslims and infidels. Spoils, slaves, and prisoners are only to be taken in war between Muslims and infidels. Muslims in the past conquered, invaded, and took over countries. This is agreed to by all scholars–there is no disagreement on this from any of them, from the smallest to the largest, on the issue of taking spoils and prisoners. The prisoners and spoils are distributed among the fighters, which includes men, women, children, wealth, and so on.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">When a slave market is erected, which is a market in which are sold slaves and sex-slaves, which are called in the Qur’an by the name milk al-yamin, “that which your right hands possess” [Qur’an 4:24]. This is a verse from the Qur’an which is still in force, and has not been abrogated. The milk al-yamin are the sex-slaves. You go to the market, look at the sex-slave, and buy her. She becomes like your wife, (but) she doesn’t need a (marriage) contract or a divorce like a free woman, nor does she need a wali. All scholars agree on this point–there is no disagreement from any of them. [...] When I want a sex slave, I just go to the market and choose the woman I like and purchase her.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Right around the same time, on May 25, 2011, a female Kuwaiti activist and politician, Salwa al-Mutairi, </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.translatingjihad.com/2011/06/video-kuwaiti-activist-i-hope-that.html">also spoke out</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> in favor of the Islamic practice of sexual slavery of non-Muslim women, emphasizing that the practice accorded with Islamic law and the parameters of Islamic morality.</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">…A merchant told me that he would like to have a sex slave. He said he would not be negligent with her, and that Islam permitted this sort of thing. He was speaking the truth. I brought up (this man’s) situation to the muftis in Mecca. I told them that I had a question, since they were men who specialized in what was halal, and what was good, and who loved women. I said, “What is the law of sex slaves?”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The mufti said, “With the law of sex slaves, there must be a Muslim nation at war with a Christian nation, or a nation which is not of the religion, not of the religion of Islam. And there must be prisoners of war.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">“Is this forbidden by Islam?,” I asked.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">“Absolutely not. Sex slaves are not forbidden by Islam. On the contrary, sex slaves are under a different law than the free woman. The free woman must be completely covered except for her face and hands. But the sex slave can be naked from the waist up. She differs a lot from the free woman. While the free woman requires a marriage contract, the sex slave does not–she only needs to be purchased by her husband, and that’s it. Therefore the sex slave is different than the free woman.”</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">While the savage exploitation of girls and young women is an unfortunately cross-cultural phenomenon, only in Islamic law does it carry anything approaching divine sanction. Here is yet another human rights scandal occasioned by Islamic law that the international human rights community and the mainstream media cravenly ignore. The abduction of the Nigerian schoolgirls could have been an opportunity to call upon Muslim leaders to work for genuine reform, so that the justifications for this savagery are definitively removed. Instead, Western leaders and the mainstream media are doing what they always do: pretend that this is an isolated incident and there is no problem.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">And that only ensures that there will be more such incidents.</span></p>
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		<title>Top Islamic Leader Calls on U.S. to Wage ‘Jihad for Allah’</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2014 05:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raymond Ibrahim]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Does Sheikh Qaradawi know something about U.S. leadership that Americans don’t?]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/quaradawi2Xart503.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-217683" alt="quaradawi2Xart503" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/quaradawi2Xart503-450x306.jpg" width="270" height="184" /></a>A video of </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/obey-the-prophet-even-if-he-tells-you-to-kill-top-islamic-leader-yusuf-qaradawi/">Dr. Yusuf al-Qaradawi</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> calling on the U.S. government to wage jihad for Allah in Syria, is currently making the rounds on Arabic media and Facebook, to mockery and dismay. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In the </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjrAdEPNrX8">recorded speech</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, Qaradawi—one of the most influential Islamic clerics in the world, spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, author of over 100 books on Muslim doctrine, and head of the International Union of Muslim Scholars—sarcastically thanks the U.S. for supporting the “freedom fighters” in Syria, adding that “Allah willing, your [U.S.] aid will increase.” </span></p>
<p>Then, while working himself up because the U.S is only providing weapons to the jihadis in Syria, as opposed to directly intervening, Qaradawi declares in frustration: “<i>We want America to take a manly stand—a stand for Allah!</i>”</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Needless to say, all Muslim Brotherhood opponents in the region are pointing to this as yet more proof that Qaradawi and the Brotherhood are mercenaries who interpret jihad any which way, so long as it helps them consolidate power: otherwise, how can “infidel” America take “a stand for Allah” by waging jihad on fellow Muslims?</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">It should further be noted that the classic formulation of the Arabic word </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">jihad</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, as in “fight,” appears in the Koran with the addition </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">fi sabil Allah</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, that is, “fight </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">in the cause of Allah</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In other words, calling on the U.S. to strike Syria’s Bashar Assad—and calling it “</span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">a stand for Allah</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">”—is essentially synonymous with calling on the U.S. to fight “in the cause of Allah.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Amazingly, then, Qaradawi employs classical jihadi rhetoric to incite American leadership to action.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">As one televised political </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfSVYe85U48">commentator</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> in Egypt discussing this anecdote put it,</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Sheikh Qaradawi of course is the great and prominent Sheikh of Jihad, who issues those famous fatwas we all know of </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.thenational.ae/thenationalconversation/comment/hatred-violence-and-the-sad-demise-of-yusuf-al-qaradawi">to kill and destroy on his orders</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">.  Really, the man has reached the point where he is now calling on America to wage jihad and take a stand for Allah.  No comment; what’s there to say at this point?&#8230;  Now jihad is being asked of America and to be waged against Muslims.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">But there is a more pertinent observation, from an American perspective: By openly asking U.S. leadership to wage jihad in the cause of Allah, is Qaradawi, as many in the Mideast are saying, </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/qaradawi-summons-foreign-jihadis-to-martyrdom-in-egypt/">losing his mind in desperation</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, or could it be that he unwittingly let out a “Freudian slip”: namely, that he knows U.S. leadership, hand in hand with the global Islamist movement, </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">is</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> “taking a stand for Allah” throughout the Middle East in the context of “liberating” it.  (</span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/confirmed-u-s-chief-facilitator-of-christian-persecution/">As documented here</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, Muslim countries that the U.S. has invaded and “liberated”—Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and ongoing Syria—have all become much more radicalized and hostile to non-Muslims, chief among them Christians.)</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Nor is it any secret that this administration does act on the calls of  Qaradawi.  As Clare Lopez summarizes for the </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3850/america-joins-jihad">Gatestone Institute</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">:</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">[T]he current administration consistently and repeatedly appeared to </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3785/us-intervention-jihad">respond eagerly</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> to the calls for revolution from the Muslim Brotherhood&#8217;s senior Islamic scholar, Yousef al-Qaradawi. When al-Qaradawi said that </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://globalmbreport.org/?p=3797&amp;print=1">Mubarak had to go</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, the U.S. waited a whole three days before throwing America&#8217;s key ally in the Middle East for over three decades </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.voanews.com/content/obama-tells-mubarak-that-transition-must-begin-now-115068399/134370.html">under the bus</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">. When al-Qaradawi called for Libyan rebels to </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2011/feb/21/libya-uprising-middle-east-protests">kill Muammar Qaddafi</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> (so the al-Qa&#8217;eda jihadis in his jails could get out and join the revolution), the U.S. led the </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/30/us-libya-usa-order-idUSTRE72T6H220110330">Western military campaign</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> that brought al-Qa&#8217;eda, the MB, and chaos to Libya. And when al-Qaradawi issued a call for </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.memritv.org/favicon.ico">jihad in Syria</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, in early June 2013, the U.S. quickly issued an invitation to </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/4055/exclusive-banned-cleric-outspoken-deputy-visits">Abdullah bin Bayyah</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> (al-Qaradawi&#8217;s vice president at the International Union of Muslim Scholars), who told an Al-Jazeera reporter that, “We demand Washington take a greater role in [Syria].” It took the U.S. less than one week after al-Qaradawi&#8217;s </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">fatwa</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> to announce </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://news.yahoo.com/obama-steps-military-aid-syrian-rebels-071542046.html">authorization of stepped-up military aid</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> to the al-Qa&#8217;eda-and-Brotherhood-dominated Syrian rebels. The White House announcement came just a single day after bin Bayyah met with National Security and other senior administration officials.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The problem, then, is not that Qaradawi has in desperate senility confused the U.S. with the jihadis, but rather that he may </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">know</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> that U.S. leadership is committed to struggling “in the cause of Allah”—and so he unwittingly employed jihadi rhetoric to remind it of its duty.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Unfortunately, in today’s surreal climate of U.S. politics, no interpretation is so absurd as to be implausible.</span></p>
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		<title>Smiling to the World While Preparing with the Sword</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Aug 2013 04:25:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raymond Ibrahim]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One picture that captures the essence of the Muslim Brotherhood. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/photo.png"><img class=" wp-image-201814 alignleft" alt="photo" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/photo-436x350.png" width="305" height="245" /></a>In many ways, the above picture of a known pro-Brotherhood protester, Walid al-Khatab, is representative of the two faces of the organization.  As reported by <em>Al Dalil</em>, he earlier called into a live show calling for the “slaughter” of every police officer in Egypt, to background cries of “Allahu Akbar!”  and then later apologized, saying he was just “angry” and “didn’t really mean it.”  Here he is, however, holding the famous yellow smiley face, with the words “Smile to the world, and it will smile back at you.”</p>
<p>In the upper corner the sign also displays the Brotherhood’s banner, two swords crossed over the Koran, with the word “prepare” underneath — a reference to Koran 8:60: “And <em>prepare</em> against them whatever you are able of power and of steeds of war by which you may terrorize the enemy of Allah and your enemy and others besides them whom you do not know [but] whom Allah knows. And whatever you spend in the cause of Allah will be fully repaid to you, and you will not be wronged.”</p>
<p>In other words, smile to the world so that it smiles back, but prepare with the sword so “you may terrorize the enemy of Allah and your enemy” — a perfect summation of the Muslim Brotherhood and “<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/sharias-sinister-smiles/" target="_blank">Sharia’s Sinister Smiles</a>.”</p>
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		<title>Islam’s Cartoon Jihad Strikes Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jul 2013 04:25:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not even universities are safe havens for free speech. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Picture-12.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-196996" alt="Picture 12" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Picture-12.png" width="211" height="136" /></a>A Muslim student’s vandalization of a university seminar’s cartoon exhibit at the <a href="http://www.uni-due.de/en/">Universität Duisburg-Essen</a> (UDE) in Germany’s Ruhr region has once again manifested Islamic intolerance of critical commentary and independent intellectual inquiry.  The affair’s aftermath, moreover, sadly shows yet again how democratic public authorities are often less than vigilant in defending freedom against the encroachments of Muslim faith.</p>
<p>The controversy began with the exhibit “<a href="http://www.uni-due.de/~hy0555/weblog/inhalt/ausstellung-what-comics-can-do-recent-trends-graphic-fiction">What comics can do &#8211; Recent trends in graphic fiction</a>,” opened by UDE’s <a href="http://www.uni-due.de/anglistik/">Department of Anglophone Studies</a> (DAS) on May 23, 2013, in the university library.  In the exhibit department students used posters to analyze the cartoon genre Graphic Novels.  The students examined 14 of these novels in which book-length cartoon series treat mature subject matter.</p>
<p>One of the Graphic Novels examined in collage posters was <a href="http://www.habibibook.com/about/"><i>Habibi</i></a>, a tale of child (sex) slaves in Muslim Arab society by the award-winning American graphic novelist <a href="http://www.habibibook.com/author/">Craig Thompson</a>.  As the <i>Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung</i> (WAZ) <a href="http://www.derwesten.de/staedte/essen/comic-ausstellung-an-uni-duisburg-essen-sorgt-fuer-eklat-id8123031.html">reported</a>, this widely available, 2011 published book has aroused no indication “of being orient-hostile.”  Thompson himself in a 2011 German <a href="http://www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/comics/interview-ich-bin-ein-hoffnungsloser-romantiker/5811122.html">interview</a> described <i>Habibi</i> as “among other things a reaction to the increasing Islamophobia in the United States after 2001.”</p>
<p>A <a href="http://www.derwesten.de/staedte/essen/uni-duisburg-essen-erstattet-nach-plakat-eklat-strafanzeige-gegen-muslimin-id8172671.html">Muslim doctoral student</a>, though, complained to library personnel multiple times that the UDE student poster presenting <i>Habibi</i> hurting her “religious feelings.”  The <i>Habibi</i> collage showed a rape scene from the book juxtaposed next to the word “Allah” in Arabic calligraphy along with an English-text explanation.  The doctoral student, <a href="http://www.derwesten.de/staedte/essen/ranghoher-uni-mitarbeiter-gibt-nach-plakat-eklat-erstmals-fehler-zu-id8152139.html">who had previously obtained notoriety</a> by devoting one of her class presentations to “Allah,” <a href="http://www.taz.de/!119656/">finally took it down on June 17, 2013</a>.</p>
<p>The following June 24, the doctoral candidate used scissors to cut out part of a poster analyzing the award-winning graphic novel <a href="http://www.drawnandquarterly.com/shopCatalogLong.php?item=a451165f22c05b"><i>Exit Wounds</i></a> by Israeli <a href="http://www.icexcellence.com/prodtxt.asp?id=32">Rutu Modan</a>.  The destroyed book scene, viewable above and in a July 10, 2013 <a href="http://www.taz.de/!119656/">story</a> by Berlin’s left-wing <i>Tageszeitung</i> (TAZ), showed Israeli peace rally participants packing their bags with three signs inscribed with “Stop the Occupation” in Arabic, English, and Hebrew.  TAZ author <a href="http://www.beucker.de/">Pascal Beucker</a> speculated that the doctoral student&#8217;s anger derived from seeing the Arabic language depicted in the much-hated Israel.  “It is more than probable,” Beucker suggested in <a href="http://www.taz.de/Streit-um-Comic-Ausstellung-in-Essen/!119282/">an earlier TAZ article</a>, that the Muslim student had an “anti-Israeli, if not anti-Semitic motive,” given that <i>Exit Wounds</i> deals with the Palestinian terror threat faced by Israelis.  The UDE student government publication <a href="http://akduell.de/2013/07/eine-einseitig-gefuhrte-debatte/"><i>ak[due]ll</i></a>, in contrast, countered TAZ, stating that library director Albert Bilo explained to the student senate that the Muslim student took offense at what she considered as a depiction of a sign with “Allah” on it going into the trash.</p>
<p>The vandalism led to a <a href="http://www.derwesten.de/staedte/essen/professoren-der-uni-in-essen-verteidigen-das-vorzeitige-ende-der-comic-ausstellung-id8145373.html">premature closing of the exhibit</a>, described on its website as scheduled to last until the end of July but in various press accounts as only lasting a few more days.  DAS also took down an exhibit Internet posting.  DAS managing director <a href="http://www.uni-due.de/anglistik/heyl/">Christoph Heyl</a> stated that he wanted to avoid any impression of acquiescing in partial censorship.  Moreover, Heyl cited a desire to protect the involved students and normal operations of the library.  Security concerns at the university could be particularly acute, as that WAZ noted that over one-third of UDE’s student population comes from an immigrant background.</p>
<p>Yet although UDE social sciences dean <a href="http://www.uni-due.de/philosophie/ag-hartmann/ag-hartmann.shtml">Dirk Hartmann</a> understood in a <a href="http://www.derwesten.de/staedte/essen/ranghoher-uni-mitarbeiter-gibt-nach-plakat-eklat-erstmals-fehler-zu-id8152139.html">July 7, 2013 WAZ story</a> that security concerns prompted the exhibit’s closing in a “heated atmosphere,” he complained that UDE had not yet taken legal action against the perpetrator.  Hartmann considered her “active repression of freedom” to be “unacceptable.”  Likewise, an internal DAS letter to UDE rector <a href="http://www.uni-due.de/en/university_board_rector.php">Ulrich Radtke</a> considered the affair’s academic freedom implications “scandalous.”</p>
<p>UDE’s student government (<a href="http://www.asta-due.de/de/suche.html"><i>Allgemeiner Studierenden-Ausschuss</i></a> or AStA) similarly expressed “concern and astonishment” at the exhibit closure.  A July 10 <a href="http://www.taz.de/Kommentar-Comic-Streit-Uni-Essen/!119654/">Beucker TAZ editorial</a> as well judged university refusal to resume display of the posters as a “scandalous act of self-censorship.”  The conservative Christian Democrats (<a href="http://www.cdu.de/">CDU</a>) and libertarian Free Democrats (<a href="http://www.fdp.de/">FDP</a>) in Essen’s city government <a href="http://www.derwesten.de/staedte/essen/nach-eklat-uni-gegen-neue-ausstellung-mit-comics-id8142211.html">also expressed disappointment at the exhibit’s premature end</a>, proposing thereby that Essen’s city hall exhibit the posters.</p>
<p>A <a href="http://www.uni-due.de/de/presse/meldung.php?id=8107">July 3, 2013 UDE press release</a> on the affair, meanwhile, emphasized in the words of Radtke that a university could not tolerate “thought prohibitions.”  After the doctoral student refused to meet university officials, UDE lodged a criminal complaint on July 10.  “Whoever violates hard won basic rights like freedom of opinion and scholarship,” Radtke stated, “must count on serious consequences with us.”  Radtke <a href="http://www.derwesten.de/staedte/essen/uni-duisburg-essen-erstattet-nach-plakat-eklat-strafanzeige-gegen-muslimin-id8172671.html">apologized</a> for the delay in bringing charges for property destruction, citing a prudent desire to become fully informed of the case.  <a href="http://www.derwesten.de/staedte/essen/strafanzeige-gegen-studentin-nach-eklat-bei-comic-schau-in-der-uni-essen-aimp-id8134702.html">Already on July 1</a> the Essen lawyer <a href="http://www.kanzlei-essen.de/index.php?id=126">Marc Grünebaum</a> had brought charges in light of this “attack upon freedom of opinion and art by a religious fanatic,” his letter to authorities stated.</p>
<p>Yet the release stated that Islamic scholars would nonetheless examine how the posters might have offended Muslim sensibilities.  Beucker’s editorial deemed this step “ludicrous,” as it “implied that there could be a substantial justification for the censorship.”  A less than resounding defense of freedom also came from Ali Nuhi, chair of UDE’s Islamic Student Union (<a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/ISB-Islamischer-Studierendenbund-Campus-Essen/146771025398771"><i>Islamischer Studierendenbund</i></a> or ISB).  Citing UDE Muslim sentiment against the <em>Habibi</em> collage, Nuhi stated that “<a href="http://akduell.de/2013/06/verletzte-gebote-verletzte-gefuhle/">it was a good sign that the poster was not hung up again</a>.”  The two contributions of <i>ak[due]ll</i> on the affair, meanwhile, saw in the matter a need to discuss “<a href="http://akduell.de/2013/07/eine-einseitig-gefuhrte-debatte/">anti-Muslim racism</a>.”  Such is Germany’s uncertain chorus of freedom as the posters remain concealed from view pursuant to the perpetrator’s original <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heckler's_veto">heckler’s veto</a>.</p>
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		<title>One Nation Under Allah &#8212; on The Glazov Gang</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why are our children in a Colorado public school saying the Pledge of Allegiance to Islam's Allah in Arabic?]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/liberty1.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-194831" alt="liberty" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/liberty1-267x350.jpg" width="267" height="350" /></a>This week&#8217;s <em>Glazov Gang</em> had the honor of being joined by <strong>Nonie Darwish</strong>, author of &#8220;<a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Devil-Dont-Know-Revolutions/dp/1118133390">The Devil We Don&#8217;t Know</a>,&#8221; <strong>Michael Chandler</strong>, an American Patriot, and <strong>Dwight Schultz</strong>, a Hollywood actor (<a href="http://www.dwightschultzfansite.nl/">dwightschultzfansite.nl</a>).</p>
<p>This week our Gang members gathered to discuss <em>One Nation Under Allah, </em>wondering why our children in a Colorado public school are saying the Pledge of Allegiance to Islam&#8217;s Allah in Arabic.</p>
<p>The guests also discussed <em>The Brotherhood Game, </em>focusing on how Islamists play the “moderate” charade that we desperately embrace.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Islam.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-186814" alt="Islam" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Islam.jpg" width="280" height="188" /></a>Writing in <i>Islamist Watch</i> for April 17, 2013, David Rusin draws our attention to a <a href="recent%20case">recent case</a> in an Australian court which would beggar belief if we had not grown inured to such outrages through repetition and cultural submission. As Rusin writes, “Esmatullah Sharifi, an Afghan refugee who came to Australia in 2001 and launched a career as a sexual predator, has been <a href="http://www.islamist-watch.org/12804/sex-attacker-wins-right-to-appeal-over-cultural">granted leave to appeal</a> his sentence for raping an intoxicated young woman in 2008. Robert Redlich, an appellate judge, explained that the sentencing judge had focused primarily on ‘the protection of the community’ and improperly ‘rejected any suggestion [Sharifi] didn&#8217;t have a clear concept of consent in sexual relations’ due to cultural differences.” Rusin suggests that a double standard is in effect, “whereby a Muslim upbringing can excuse horrible behavior that would never be tolerated from non-Muslims.”</p>
<p>There have been a growing number of cases throughout the West, in which Muslim felons, charged with various crimes that would normally entail vigorous sentencing, have seen their cases dismissed or subject to appeal on the grounds of differing cultural norms, customs and assumptions. While convictions can sometimes be made to stick, even then the authorities are prone to react with reluctance and only after charges cannot be reasonably deferred. As Soeren Kern <a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3068/muslim-child-rape-gangs-britain">reports</a> at <i>The Gatestone Institute</i>, in a case involving a gang of Muslim “groomers” in Manchester, the Crown Prosecution Service was provided with DNA evidence of rape but “twice decided not to prosecute” while government lawyers also refused to proceed.</p>
<p>Even a brief internet search will yield innumerable such episodes. The distinction seems to apply only to Islamic offenders; immigrants from non-Islamic countries can generally expect the full weight of the law to be levied against them. But Muslim cases are far more often regarded as special cases and Muslim perps granted unique prerogatives in the eyes of the law.</p>
<p>Thus a Muslim who attacks an American citizen for insulting the Prophet has the assault case <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/penn-judge-muslims-allowed-attack-people-insulting-mohammad-210000330.html">thrown out of court</a> by a sympathetic judge. The judge, Mark Martin, claimed that the accused, a certain Talaag Elbayoni, was justified and even obligated by his religion to respond to perceived provocation with violence. Apparently, in the opinion of this Pennsylvania judge, Sharia law trumps the First Amendment. Similarly, a Muslim who rapes a 13-year-old girl receives a suspended sentence because, in the <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/muslim-who-raped-13-year-old-uk-girl-spared-jail-because-he-didnt-know-it-was-wrong/"><i>words</i></a> of the presiding judge, “it is quite clear from the reports that you are very naive and immature when it comes to sexual matters.” Indeed, Muslim rape of young girls has become a veritable epidemic in <a href="Scandinavia">Scandinavia</a>, the <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/bruce-bawer/the-truth-about-gang-rape-in-the-u-k/">U.K</a>. and elsewhere, and Muslim assaults of one sort or another—workplace harassment, physical beatings, intimidation, unpatriotic and even treasonable acts and utterances—are legion. Yet in far too many of these instances our judicial system may be plausibly described as double-jointed, two-tiered, and appallingly lenient—in a word, <i>Islamophiliac</i>.</p>
<p>Such conduct on the part of our judiciary leads to an inevitable question and a logical conundrum, namely, where does it end? If rape, physical assault, and other crimes are dismissed as instances of different cultural values that need to be acknowledged and that generate privileges and exemptions pertaining to no other group or cohort, why stop there? Islam requires its adherents to behave in certain specific ways, the Koran and the ancillary literature prescribe right and permissible forms of conduct and proscribe others, the religion excuses and vindicates particular acts that many of us find intolerable and reprehensible. Nevertheless, the paradigms and ideals inherent in the faith are considered by an increasing number of judges and lawmakers to be sacrosanct.</p>
<p>If that is the case, why should an Islamic terrorist be held to account by Western jurisprudence for flying a plane into a skyscraper or detonating bombs among a civilian population? Does not the Koran, in innumerable pssages, enjoin the believer to <a href="http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/quran/023-violence.htm">slay the infidel</a>? (See, for example, suras 2:191, 193; 8:39; 9:5; 9:29; 9:73; 47:4; 66:9; etc. etc.) Is not violence and slaughter an intrinsic part of a canonical imperative when it comes to Islam and its holy scriptures? Unlike in the Hebrew and Christian scriptures, the commands to maim and kill in the Koran are truly extraordinary. The major passages dealing with violence in the two Testaments are chiefly narrative and descriptive, whereas in the Koran they are largely hortatory and prescriptive. The disparity is critical. “Islam,” <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/nonie-darwish/the-nice-muslim-family-next-door/">writes</a> former Muslim Nonie Darwish, “is the only religion that requires its followers to kill those who do not believe in Allah.”</p>
<p>The question remains. If a man is acting according to his faith, that is, his Muslim faith—raping women and assaulting passersby and demonstrators—for which he is frequently reprieved by the courts for reasons of cultural and religious practice and doctrine, why should he be punished for wreaking havoc among unbelievers and skeptics and targeting those by whom he feels offended or whom he has been taught to regard as fair game? After all, he is not individually responsible for his ostensible depravity or malfeasance; educated under different auspices, he is innocent of malice aforethought. He is the product of a society, religion or civilization which we must perforce respect within the multicultural context we have embraced.</p>
<p>Where, in short, does one draw the line between the perpetrating of a presumably “minor” offense—raping, beating, burning cars—and the infliction of a major cataclysm—blowing people up—<i>if the exonerating factor is cultural usage or religious dogma, or both?</i> What principle is in place that would allow us to escape the aneurysm of cognitive dissonance and evade the charge of palpable hypocrisy? For if “principle” is interpreted as the embodiment and expression of a policy of consistent extenuation, then there is no moral or legitimate principle at work whatsoever. Principle has been waived in the interests of expediency and collusion. With respect to Islam, such is the scandal of Western jurisprudence, which tends to act as the domestic arm of Western diplomacy, foreign adventurism and political appeasement of a clever and remorseless adversary.</p>
<p>If God is dead, said Dostoevsky’s <a href="Ivan%20Karamazov">Ivan Karamazov</a>, all is permitted. Whether or not one agrees with this dictum, there can be no doubt that when pride in one’s civilization and gratitude to the precursors who built and defended it weaken and erode, the spirit of the culture is broken and all is permitted to the enemy who would destroy us. He can violate the common law and receive only a mild reprimand or be acquitted wholesale. He can preach subversion and jihad in the mosque and be allowed to pass under the radar. He can kill the innocent in their thousands and be defended by a decadent but influential elite as a holy warrior extracting justice from a colonial oppressor. He is the beneficiary of a selectively applied multicultural ethos that allows him, quite literally, to get away with murder.</p>
<p>Such is the cultural pathology that heralds the decline and fall of a civilization. Given our indifference, our passion for conciliation, our frivolous disregard of both reality and conscience, and the attendant corruption of our judiciary, the Muslim <a href="http://www.islamreview.org/korankafir/chapter14.html"><i>ghazzua</i></a> on our way of life seems likely to succeed.</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2012 04:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 04:03:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Noam Chomsky gets turned away by the country he works to destroy.]]></description>
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<p>Noam Chomsky was one of the organizers and promoters of the MIT-Harvard campaign to boycott and “divest” Israel a few years back.  Well, last week Israel decided to boycott one of its own boycotters. Chomsky was refused entry into the country when he tried to cross over from Jordan, for purposes of giving an anti-Israel speech at a Palestinian “university” in Ramallah.  As such, Chomsky joined the very select club of people who have been prevented from entering Israel because of their blatant anti-Israel activities and their open collaboration with terrorists.</p>
<p>Chomsky was on his way to give an anti-Israel speech at Birzeit University.  (Instead <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100518/wl_mideast_afp/mideastconflictchomskyban">he gave the speech</a> by videoconference from Jordan.)   Now, Chomsky had been in Israel for visits before, and was even hosted at Ben Gurion University in Beer Sheba.  In fact the entire “ban” <a href="http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/05/201051904343834346.html">was evidently nothing more</a> than some bureaucratic glitch in the instructions to Israeli border passport checkers.  Chomsky was invited at the Jordan River Crossing to enter the country instead through the Tel Aviv airport.  Ironically, the Israeli bureaucratic glitch resulted in Israel accidentally doing the right thing.</p>
<p>But this did not prevent a worldwide campaign of anti-Israel vilification by the usual crowd, denouncing Israel for the “banning” of Chomsky, complete with denunciations of “Israeli fascism.”   <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/5/16/162840/765">Led by the Daily Kos</a>, the leftist <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/5/16/162840/765">blogs</a> declared, “Chomsky was banned by the occupation army,” even though the Israeli army had nothing to do with it. Far leftists inside Israel joined in the brouhaha. Chomsky groupies accused Israel of suppressing freedom of speech.  Never mind that there are sufficient reasons to keep Chomsky out of Israel that have nothing to do with his anti-Israel opinions, such as his friendly ties and meetings with the Hezb’Allah terrorist group or his long track record of celebrating and promoting Holocaust deniers.  In fact, no sooner was Chomsky denied entry into Israel than he popped over to Lebanon, and there met with the Hezb’Allah terrorists and attended a salute to Hezb’Allah chief murderer Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, <a href="http://www.yalibnan.com/2010/05/23/chomsky-met-with-hezbollah-official-in-lebanon/feed">as reported in the <em>Ya Libnan,</em> a Lebanese news service</a>.</p>
<p>Chomsky himself <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/after-denied-entry-to-west-bank-chomsky-likens-israel-to-stalinist-regime-1.290736">denounced the Israeli decision</a> to block his entry as “Stalinism.”  To tell the truth, when I first heard that Chomsky accused Israel of Stalinism I assumed he meant it as a compliment.  Chomsky has gone out of his <a href="http://oliverkamm.typepad.com/blog/2006/05/chomsky_on_milo.html">way to defend Stalin</a> and he publishes his own articles in all the prominent Stalinist websites.  But like most Stalinists these days, Chomsky prefers to label himself an “anarchist.” This, of course, is the very same individual who spent <a href="http://www.paulbogdanor.com/chomskyhoax.html">much of his career as the academic spokesman</a> for the Khmer Rouge regime, the ultra-communists who can only be described as Stalinists on steroids.  Chomsky defended Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge as they annihilated the Cambodian population and he still doubletalks his way out when asked about the genocide that the Khmer Rouge conducted. He once <a href="http://www.paulbogdanor.com/chomsky/cambodiacomments.pdf">claimed the Khmer Rouge actually SAVED</a> millions of Cambodian lives.  Even <a href="http://www.jim.com/chomsdis.htm">far-leftist <em>The Nation</em></a> demolished Chomsky for his toadying up to Pol Pot.</p>
<p>There have only been a few other cases of people being prevented from entering Israel because of their ties to terrorists or their involvement in anti-Semitic or anti-Israel campaigns.  Norman Finkelstein, the unemployed hate-monger fired by DePaul University, was banned from entering Israel a couple of years back because of his intimate collaboration with Hezb’Allah terrorists. Others banned from Israel include <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2009/12/04/collaborators-in-the-war-against-the-jews-richard-a-falk-by-steven-plaut/feed"> Richard Falk</a>, the retired Princeton propagandist who has made a career out of denouncing Israelis as Nazis. He was denied entry into Israel as a UN “investigator,” because that UN “investigation” was nothing more than a campaign of lies and smears about Israeli “war crimes.” Falk earlier had been allowed to enter Israel as a private citizen.</p>
<p>Chomsky has, in the past, been welcomed to enter Israel even though he proclaims that he <a href="http://www.paulbogdanor.com/chomsky/fatefultriangle.html">considers both the US and Israel to be far worse</a> than Nazi Germany.  When not dealing with linguistics, Chomsky may be best known for his <a href="http://www.paulbogdanor.com/chomskyhoax.html">obsessive cheering on of terrorists</a> and occasionally holding meetings with them.  Chomsky has pow-wowed with Hezb’Allah terrorists.  He has also long been a major promoter of Holocaust deniers. Like Falk and Finkelstein, Chomsky has long <a href="http://tech.mit.edu/V122/N25/col25dersh.25c.html">led the campaign to boycott</a> and “divest” Israel.  Even a free speech absolutist must concede that there is some logic to a victim of a boycott boycotting that boycotter.  Chomsky <a href="http://oliverkamm.typepad.com/blog/2007/01/chomsky_on_pale.html">has led the jihad against Israel’s</a> existence <a href="http://www.paulbogdanor.com/chomsky/bogdanor.pdf">for as long as he</a> has been a public figure.  He is also <a href="http://www.paulbogdanor.com/chomsky/200chomskylies.pdf">a pathological serial liar</a>.</p>
<p>Now, whether or not one agrees with them doing so, democratic countries, in fact, often deny entrance to people whose opinions or politics they find repulsive.  The very same people now whining about Israel refusing Chomsky access to the country to engage in anti-Israel agitation were strangely silent when Britain <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/16-banned-from-britain-named-and-shamed-1679127.html">prohibited 16 people</a> from entering the country on grounds that they held politically incorrect opinions.  These included US radio host Michael Savage.  Before that, the <a href="http://current.com/news-and-politics/89828509_anti-gay-us-preacher-banned-from-entering-uk.htm">UK banned</a> Rev. Fred Phelps from entering the country because he is anti-gay.  Dutch politician Geert Wilders, a candidate for the Prime Minister of the Netherlands, was barred from entering the UK because of his opinions.  The UK has banned a whole host of Israelis from entering their country, including <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/962850.html">activist Moshe Feiglin</a>.</p>
<p>The United States has banned all sorts of people from entering, not limited to those suspected of having ties to terror groups.  In some cases it was because of their political views.  Journalist <a href="http://direland.typepad.com/direland/2005/09/us_bans_robert_.html">Robert Fisk was banned</a> for this reason.  Professor John <a href="http://www.aaup.org/AAUP/pubsres/academe/2006/SO/NB/AnotherProfBarredFromUS.htm">Milios </a>from Greece was banned.  Curiously, few in the world denounced the US for being a fascist country on that basis.  Tariq Ramadan, the darling of the pro-jihad Left, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/29/AR2006092901334.html">was barred until</a> recently from both the US and France.  Liberian President Charles Taylor and other leading Liberians were banned from entering the US because of their support for rebels in Sierra Leone.  Canada has also banned people because of their views or behavior, <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/03/20/galloway-ban-canada-kenney.html">most famously the case of George Galloway</a>, the British Member of Parliament because of his intimate ties to Saddam Hussein.</p>
<p>Germany, Austria and some other European countries routinely ban Neo-Nazis and Holocaust deniers from entering their territories and sometimes jail them when they enter.  Germany banned the Reverend Moon from entering.  And so on.</p>
<p>In the late 1970s, a professor of literature at the University of Lyon named Robert Faurisson wrote two letters to Le Monde claiming that the gas chambers in concentration camps used by the Nazis to exterminate the Jews did not exist and were a Jewish hoax.  Faurisson was convicted of Holocaust denial and hate speech in two trials in France, in 1983 and 1990.</p>
<p>Noam Chomsky has long been the most prominent defender of Faurisson.  Chomsky’s father had been a Hebrew teacher at Gratz College in Philadelphia (which I attended in the 1960s).  Chomsky the younger may be the most academically distinguished <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/Is%20Noam%20Chomsky%20an%20Anti.htm">Jewish anti-Semite</a> on the planet, even though his theories about linguistics have evidently lost much of their favor among researchers in recent years.</p>
<p>In the 1980s Chomsky signed a petition denying that Faurisson was an anti-Semite and saluting Faurisson as a “respected professor.”  Chomsky not only defended Faurisson’s “academic freedom” but endorsed the content of Faurisson’s anti-Semitic diatribes.</p>
<p>Chomsky also wrote the foreword to one of Faurisson’s Holocaust denial books.<em> </em>There Chomsky wrote: “Is it true that Faurisson is an anti-Semite or a neo-Nazi? As noted earlier, I do not know his work very well. But from what I have read &#8212; largely as a result of the nature of the attacks on him &#8212; I find no evidence to support either conclusion. Nor do I find credible evidence in the material that I have read concerning him, either in the public record or in private correspondence. As far as I can determine, he is a relatively apolitical liberal of some sort.”</p>
<p>In defending Faurisson, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faurisson_affair">Chomsky wrote</a>: “I see no anti-Semitic implications in denial of the existence of gas chambers or even denial of the Holocaust. Nor would there be anti-Semitic implications, <em>per se</em>, in the claim that the Holocaust (whether one believes it took place or not) is being exploited, viciously so, by apologists for Israeli repression and violence. I see no hint of anti-Semitic implications in Faurisson&#8217;s work.&#8221;</p>
<p>Now if anyone is looking for another reason why Israel should legitimately prevent Chomsky from setting his paws on the Holy Land, how was that?  Add it to Chomsky’s role in the Israeli boycott movement and his associations with terrorists.</p>
<p>Should Israel have prevented Chomsky from entering?  It was clearly justified in doing so. But was that the right choice?   Personally – I would have let him in and then immediately had him arrested him for Holocaust denial (if not of Jews then surely regarding the genocide of Cambodians) and anti-Semitism.  Like many countries in Europe, Holocaust Denial is illegal in Israel, although the law is never enforced against anyone, even Arab politicians.  And Israel has an “anti-racism” law on the books, albeit one only used against rightwing Jews, and Chomsky is clearly in violation of it.</p>
<p>Indicting Chomsky under that would have made such a wonderful legal precedent.</p>
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		<title>Theology for a Holocaust</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is UC-San Diego student and MSA member Jumanah Imad Albahri being an observant Muslim in promoting genocide against Jews?]]></description>
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<p>UC-San Diego student<a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2010/05/12/i-want-a-holocaust/"> Jumanah Imad Albahri</a> last week, under questioning from David Horowitz, refused to condemn Hamas and Hizballah and <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2010/05/12/i-want-a-holocaust/">endorsed a genocidal statement</a> by Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah. Many were shocked. Albahri’s statement is being treated as a singular utterance, a lapse that has nothing to do with the Muslim Students Association of which she is a part, and certainly not with Islam as a whole.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, Albahri’s support for genocide of the Jews doesn’t reveal that she is a closet Nazi, but that she is an entirely mainstream Muslim. Genocidal statements are painfully common from Muslim leaders today. On January 29, Palestinian Authority TV, which is controlled by the ostensibly moderate Fatah faction of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, broadcast a Friday mosque sermon containing this reference to the notorious genocidal hadith in which Muhammad says that the end times would not come until Muslims started murdering Jews: “The Prophet says: ‘You shall fight the Jews and kill them, until the tree and the stone will speak and say: “Oh Muslim, Oh servant of Allah”’ — the tree and the stone will not say, ‘Oh Arab,’ they will say, ‘Oh Muslim.’ And they will not say, ‘Where are the millions?’ and will not say, ‘Where is the Arab nation?’ Rather, they will say, ‘Oh Muslim, Oh servant of Allah — there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.’ Except for the Gharqad tree, which is the tree of the Jews. Thus, this land will be liberated only by means of Jihad.”<strong> </strong></p>
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<p>In the original hadith, Muhammad says that “the last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him; but the tree Gharqad would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews” (Sahih Muslim 6985).</p>
<p>If the “last hour” will not come until Muslims start murdering Jews wholesale, then what’s to prevent a pious young lady like Jumanah Imad Albahri from believing that speaking approvingly of the mass-murder of Jews, as Nasrallah did, is a holy and pious act?</p>
<p>Clearly other Muslims do. On January 12, a top Iranian official, Mohammad Hassan Rahimian, declared on Al-Manar TV: “We have manufactured missiles that allow us, when necessary, to replace Israel in its entirety with a big holocaust.” And on December 29, 2009, Muhammad Hussein Yaaqub, an Islamic cleric, dashed hopes for the usefulness of interfaith discussions when he said this on Egypt’s Al-Nas TV: “The Jews are our enemies. Allah will annihilate them at our hands. This is something we know for certain. We know this for certain – not because I say so, but because Allah said so. ‘You shall find that the people strongest in enmity to the believers are the Jews and the polytheists.’”</p>
<p>Yaaqub was quoting from the Qur’an (5:82).</p>
<p>Ahmad Al-Barqawi, professor of philosophy from Damascus University, joined the genocidal chorus on Syria TV on December 15, 2009: “If the enemy reaches a stage in which it feels that it is paying a heavy price for its occupation – both in terms of human lives and in terms of resources – it will give up. Without this, there is no chance of reconciliation with the enemy. Therefore, I believe that the annihilation of Israel is easier than reconciliation with it. Annihilating Israel is easier than reconciling with it, because annihilating Israel through a long-term and consistent effort may bear fruit in a society that feels it is alien to this [Arab] world, and does not want to remain in a world that rejects by force.”</p>
<p>None of this should come as any surprise. The genocidal hadith quoted on Palestinian TV is just one element of an anti-Semitism that is deeply rooted in the Qur’an and Sunnah, and which runs through Islamic history with a remarkable consistency. The Qur’an portrays the Jews as the craftiest, most persistent, and most implacable enemies of the Muslims. Three notorious Qur’anic passages depict an angry Allah transforming Jews into apes and pigs: 2:63–66; 5:59–60; and 7:166. The first of those passages depicts Allah telling the Jews who “profaned the Sabbath”: “Be as apes despicable!” It goes on to say that these accursed ones serve “as a warning example for their time and for all times to come.” The second has Allah directing Muhammad to remind the “People of the Book” about “those who incurred the curse of Allah and His wrath, those of whom some He transformed into apes and swine, those who worshipped evil.” The third essentially repeats this, saying of the Sabbath-breaking Jews that when “in their insolence they transgressed (all) prohibitions,” Allah said to them, “Be ye apes, despised and rejected.”</p>
<p>In traditional Islamic theology these passages have not been considered to apply to all Jews. However, that hasn’t stopped contemporary jihadists from frequently referring to Jews as the “descendants of apes and swine.” The implication is that today’s Jews are bestial in character and are the enemies of Allah, just as the Sabbath-breakers were. The grand sheikh of Al-Azhar, Muhammad Sayyid Tantawi, the most respected cleric in the world among Sunni Muslims today, has called Jews “the enemies of Allah, descendants of apes and pigs.” Saudi sheikh Abd al-Rahman al-Sudayyis, imam of the principal mosque in the holiest city in Islam, Mecca, said in a sermon that Jews are “the scum of the human race, the rats of the world, the violators of pacts and agreements, the murderers of the prophets, and the offspring of apes and pigs.”</p>
<p>Another Saudi sheikh, Ba’d bin Abdallah al-Ajameh al-Ghamidi, made the connection explicit: “The current behavior of the brothers of apes and pigs, their treachery, violation of agreements, and defiling of holy places … is connected with the deeds of their forefathers during the early period of Islam—which proves the great similarity between all the Jews living today and the Jews who lived at the dawn of Islam.” A 1996 Hamas publication says that today’s Jews are bestial in spirit, and this is a manifestation of the punishment of their forefathers. In January 2007, Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas stated, “The sons of Israel are mentioned as those who are corrupting humanity on earth,” referring to Qur’an 5:64.</p>
<p>Likewise, Sheikh ‘Atiyyah Saqr, writing in Islam Online, declares of Jews that “Almighty Allah told us that He’d send to them people who’d pour on them rain of severe punishment that would last till the Day of Resurrection.” Then comes a threat: “All this gives us glad tidings of the coming victory of Muslims over them once Muslims stick to strong faith and belief in Allah and adopt the modern means of technology.”</p>
<p>Modern means of technology? Perhaps a nuclear bomb exploded in Tel Aviv? If that happened, Jumanah Imad Albahri would by no means be the only Muslim who would thank Allah for his bounties.</p>
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		<title>Promoting a Genocidal &#8220;Peace&#8221;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is achieved when Israel’s enemies are encouraged in promoting their plans for a Middle East Holocaust? ]]></description>
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<p>Indoctrination to genocidal anti-Semitism is epidemic among Palestinians and in Arab and other Muslim states. &#8220;Peace&#8221; plans that do not recognize this as the major obstacle to genuine peace, but rather push steps which ignore it, inexorably lead to more violence and are doomed to fail. Even worse, by their silence on this issue they pander to and help promote such deadly hate-mongering.</p>
<p>Demonization not only of Israel&#8217;s Jews but of all Jews, and calls for their mass murder, are a staple of Palestinian institutions, those controlled by Mahmoud Abbas’s Palestinian Authority as well as those of Hamas.</p>
<p>Hamas&#8217;s charter quotes a Hadith in which Allah declares that the Day of Judgement will not come until the Jews are all killed and even the stones and trees will help in murdering them. The charter adds that Hamas &#8220;aspires to the realization of Allah&#8217;s promise, no matter how long that should take.&#8221;</p>
<p>Hamas systematically employs its media, mosques and schools to convey the same message. Its schools and children&#8217;s television programming teach their young audience the virtues of killing Jews.</p>
<p>The Palestinian Authority hardly lags behind its Islamist rivals in peddling genocidal Jew-hatred. PA media depict Jews as a cancer that must be excised and, like Hamas, insist it is a religious duty to do so. PA indoctrination includes delineations of the nature of Jews that entail virtually every hoary anti-Semitic caricature. While PA leaders such as Mahmoud Abbas talk of &#8220;peace&#8221; to Western leaders and media, they use their vehicles of incitement to instill in Palestinians not only commitment to annihilating Israel but also dedication to extirpating the Jews.</p>
<p>For example, a recent official Palestinian Authority Friday sermon, broadcast on PA TV and translated by The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), had the preacher declaring: &#8220;The Jews are the enemies of Allah and His messenger&#8230; the enemies of humanity in general&#8230; Our mutual enmity with the Jews is a matter of faith more than an issue pertaining to occupation and land&#8230; The prophet Muhammad said: ‘You will fight the Jews, and you will kill them&#8230;’&#8221;</p>
<p>In the wider Arab world, even in countries allied to the United States, the same message is incessantly promoted. A recurrent feature of Saudi government television is of clerics or other authority figures demonizing Jews, often with the speaker having children present to whom they are imparting their Jew-hating wisdom.</p>
<p>Even in countries with which Israel is officially at peace, such as Egypt, variations on the same theme are prominent in government-controlled media. Egyptian television and government newspapers have, for example, featured clerical and academic authorities confirming the Jews do indeed use the blood of non-Jews in their recipes for Passover matzoh.</p>
<p>Robert Wistrich, a leading authority on the history of anti-Semitism and author of the recently published book on the subject,  <em>A Lethal Obsession</em>, has written:</p>
<p><em>&#8220;In the Middle East, [anti-Semitism] has taken on a particularly dangerous, toxic and potentially genocidal aura of hatred, closely linked to the ‘mission’ of holy war or jihad against the West and the Jews&#8230;</em></p>
<p><em>&#8220;The scale and extremism of the [anti-Semitic] literature and commentary available in Arab or Muslim newspapers, journals, magazines, caricatures, on Islamist websites, on the Middle Eastern radio and TV news, in documentaries, films, and educational materials, is comparable only to that of Nazi Germany at its worst.&#8221;</em></p>
<p>Also noteworthy is that, aside from the exacerbations introduced by the rise of Islamist groups in recent decades, similar anti-Jewish depredations permeated much of the Arab world before the 1967 war and Israel’s presence in the West Bank and Gaza, and even before Israel’s founding.</p>
<p>What has been the Western response to this promotion of genocidal Jew-hatred? Largely silence. In the Palestinian arena, the indoctrination has actually been paid for in part by the European Union and individual European states, the United Nations and even American government funds.</p>
<p>But no less morally obscene is the virtual absence of any acknowledgment of this hate indoctrination from all discussions of &#8220;peace.&#8221; There are, here and there, some bland references to ending &#8220;incitement,&#8221; but no evident outrage over the level and nature of the incitement or discussion of what must be done &#8211; or the time it will take &#8211; to reverse the impact of decades of hate-inculcation.</p>
<p>Nor is there any recognition of Israel’s need to be able to defend itself from the onslaught that it has faced in the past and will inevitably face in the future as a result of this indoctrination. The need for Israel to have defensible borders &#8211; recognized in 1967 by the authors of UN Security Council Resolution 242 in the wake of the Six Day War, and by various U.S. presidents in the ensuing decades &#8211; gets scant recognition from today’s self-styled promoters of peace, even as the intensity and impact of Palestinian and broader Arab genocidal Jew-hatred has only grown.</p>
<p>Territory beyond the pre-1967 cease-fire line that Israel has every right under 242 and under international law to claim for the purpose of national defense, territories that should, given their legal status, be depicted as &#8220;disputed,&#8221; are declared &#8220;Palestinian&#8221; by Western politicians and media.</p>
<p>Israel’s claims are dismissed as illegitimate land-grabs and the threats against her are ignored.</p>
<p>Those interested in a genuine peace would recognize that true peace is a long way off and will never be achieved as long as Israel’s enemies continue to indoctrinate their people in genocidal anti-Semitism. They would draw public attention to this obscenity and to its obstruction of possible movement toward a real peace. And they would seek in the interim lesser, and less murder-enabling, goals entailing a separation of Palestinians from Israel to the degree commensurate with Israel’s retaining strategic territories necessary for its defense; goals that, for example, would not put Israel’s major population centers within range of the type of assaults that have followed upon Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza.</p>
<p>Genuine peace-seekers would aspire to arrangements that enable Palestinians to pursue their own, separate political course without rendering Israel more vulnerable to those whose agenda is the annihilation of its people.</p>
<p>Promoters of anything less, of any plan that is silent about the hate-indoctrination and the existential threat it represents to Israel, or gives it no more than a passing nod of acknowledgment as a problem, are not pursuing peace. Promoters of any formula that talks of &#8220;peace&#8221; as reachable in short order and dismisses Israel’s need for defensible borders are not agents of serious attempts to attain peace. Whether such formulas emanate from gentile or Jew, from the EU, or individual European states, or the UN, or the Quartet, or the State Department or the White House, or are advanced by Israel’s Meretz party, or the devotees of Peace Now, or the beneficiaries of the New Israel Fund, or the groupies of J Street &#8211; their promoters are in reality silent appeasers and accommodators, and not infrequently abettors, of those who are both propagandizing for and actively aspiring to another genocide of the Jews.</p>
<p><strong>Kenneth Levin is a psychiatrist and historian and author of <em>The Oslo Syndrome: Delusions of a People Under Siege.﻿</em></strong></p>
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		<title>The Lessons of Adam Gadahn</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[How a call to jihad shows the duplicity of American “moderate” Muslim groups.]]></description>
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<p>The first American to be charged with treason since World War II was back in the news Sunday, both for a new videotape he released and for reports of his capture that turned out to be false. In the videotape, al-Qaeda operative Adam Gadahn, an American convert to Islam, praised the Fort Hood jihad murderer and called upon Muslims to carry out jihad attacks in the United States. The reports that Gadahn had been captured caused widespread excitement until the arrestee turned out to be a different American convert to Islam, Abu Yahya Mujahdeen Al-Adam, who like Gadahn is an al-Qaeda leader. The videotape and the arrest of the other American-born Muslim demonstrate yet again the cognitive dissonance that prevails at the highest levels regarding the nature of the jihad threat.</p>
<p>In the videotape, Gadahn called Nidal Hasan, who murdered thirteen people in the name of jihad and Islam at Fort Hood in November 2009, “Brother Nidal” and held him up as “the ideal role-model for every repentant Muslim in the armies of the unbelievers and apostate regimes.” And not just military personnel: Gadahn added that “Nidal Hasan is a pioneer, a trailblazer and a role-model who has opened a door, lit a path and shown the way forward for every Muslim who finds himself among the unbelievers.”</p>
<p>Gadahn advised his fellow jihad warriors: “You shouldn’t make the mistake of thinking that military bases are the only high-value targets in America and the West. On the contrary, there are countless other strategic places, institutions and installations which, by striking, the Muslim can do major damage.” He implored jihadis to think out of the box: “As the blessed operations of September 11th showed, a little imagination and planning and a limited budget can turn almost anything into a deadly, effective and convenient weapon.”</p>
<p>The California native also called upon Muslims to disrupt Western societies “by killing or capturing people in government, industry and the media.” These and other acts of jihadist violence would weaken “consumer confidence and stifle spending.” Gadahn grounded this appeal to mayhem in explicitly Islamic terms: “I am calling on every honest and vigilant Muslim in the countries of the Zionist-Crusader alliance in general and America, Britain and Israel in particular to prepare to play his due role in responding to and repelling the aggression of the enemies of Islam.”</p>
<p>Clearly this kind of appeal resonates among some Muslims – as evidenced by the fact that the captive confused with Gadahn was another American convert. And the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the shadowy Hamas-linked group that bills itself (and fools many of the governing establishment and mainstream media in doing so) as a Muslim civil rights organization, seemed anxious to dispel the impression that Gadahn’s message would gain any traction among Muslims in the U.S., or at least among CAIR members. When it looked as if Gadahn had been captured, the organization issued a press release saying: “We welcome the reported arrest of Adam Gadahn and repeat the American Muslim community’s repudiation of all those who would promote or condone terrorism anywhere in the world.”</p>
<p>High-sounding words, but ultimately devoid of substance – and not solely because Gadahn is still at large. Belying its moderate protestations, CAIR (an unindicted co-conspirator in a case involving the funneling of charitable contributions to Hamas by what was once the largest Islamic charity in the U.S., the Holy Land Foundation) and its allied Muslim groups in America have never developed any kind of program for mosques and Islamic schools to teach against the version of Islam that Adam Gadahn and Abu Yahya Mujahdeen Al-Adam believe in and practice. Their vague condemnations contain nothing that would dissuade a young convert from believing that he has a divine responsibility to make war against unbelievers based on numerous Qur’anic commands (9:5, 9:29, 9:123, 47:4, etc.) and the Islamic legal superstructure mandating jihad warfare that is built upon them. Said the Muslim Prophet Muhammad: “Allah assigns for a person who participates in (holy battles) in Allah’s Cause and nothing causes him to do so except belief in Allah and in His Messengers, that he will be recompensed by Allah either with a reward, or booty (if he survives) or will be admitted to Paradise (if he is killed in the battle as a martyr).”</p>
<p>Although they profess to oppose what Gadahn is trying to do in Islam’s name, CAIR and the rest have done nothing to prevent the conversion and recruitment to jihad of more Adam Gadahns. For Gadahn himself discovered Islam by cruising the Internet. The appeals he saw there were much like the one he himself issued Sunday: an assumption of Islamic authenticity and the moral high ground, even when calling for bloodshed and murder.</p>
<p>A young man like Gadahn who gains what he knows about Islam from the internet will find dozens of jihadist websites, many of which feature detailed explications of the Qur’an and Sunnah making the case for jihad warfare — and precious few, if any, Muslim sites that go into any detail to refute this interpretation of Islam in favor of the essentially peaceful upon the existence of which so much American policy is based.</p>
<p>Adam Gadahn’s videotape and the capture of Abu Yahya Mujahdeen Al-Adam thus not only remind us that we must continue to be on guard against the jihad against the U.S. that the Obama Administration would prefer to pretend is not happening; they also underscore the ever-increasing need to call slick groups like CAIR to account, and to implement genuinely workable measures to stop jihadist recruitment in mosques in America.</p>
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		<title>Imprisoned for Saving American Lives</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former U.S. Army Master Sergeant John Hatley is now serving a forty year sentence for allegedly killing terrorists in Iraq.]]></description>
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<p>Former U.S. Army Master Sergeant John Hatley is now serving <a href="http://www.groesbeckjournal.com/news/2009-06-04/Front_Page/Hatley_family_Johns_still_a_hero.html">a forty year sentence</a> in Leavenworth prison. He was convicted by a 2009 Court Martial of murdering four Iraqi insurgent arrestees in Baghdad following a 2007 ambush and firefight, and dumping the bodies into a Baghdad canal.  Two other Sergeants with the Alpha Company 1-18 1<sup>st</sup> Infantry were also convicted and sent to prison.</p>
<p>Hatley&#8217;s wife, Kim Hatley, is leading a crusade to win clemency for her husband. I recently spoke with her by telephone. A veteran of six years as an Intel-analyst and Crypto-analyst with the U.S. Army 18<sup>th</sup> Airborne Corps, Mrs. Hatley has a nineteen-year-old son in the United States Marine Corps in Afghanistan.  She related some details of events that led up to the firefight, the shootings and the investigation that sent her husband to prison:</p>
<p>John Hatley was a highly decorated combat veteran of nineteen years and six months military service. He was deployed in Bosnia, Kosovo, Panama, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, Operation Desert Storm and three tours of duty in Iraq.  The soldiers of Alpha Company 1-18 1<sup>st</sup> Army Infantry knew him to be the first into a hot spot and the last to come out.  Mrs. Hatley says that her husband was a legend in Alpha Company and treated the soldiers under his command as though they were family.</p>
<p>During daily 2007 patrol operations in the West Rasheed area of Baghdad, Hatley’s soldiers often found themselves under enemy fire.  The post-Hussein sectarian “insurgency” was well under way.  Hatley’s soldiers killed some of the attackers and captured many others.  Over the length of the insurgency, snipers and roadside bombs (IEDs) killed or crippled thousands of Americans.</p>
<p>As the war dragged on, tens of thousands of jihadists who were taken prisoner during or after fire-fights in Baghdad went to the Detention Holding Area Annex (DHAA), which is military terminology for a jail.  Astonishingly, the DHAA personnel released nearly all of them shortly after their arrests, for “lack of sufficient evidence to detain.”  Most of the prisoners were released.  The newly-freed insurgents immediately returned to the streets to resume killing and maiming American soldiers.  This insanity became known as the Catch and Release Program.</p>
<p>Adding to the stress of war, Hatley and his soldiers collected the scores of dead bodies that were regularly dumped onto Baghdad streets by terrorists.  Most of the dead were non-combatant civilians who had been tortured and mutilated prior to their executions.</p>
<p>Then, on February 27, 2007, an insurgent sniper killed Staff Sergeant Karl Soto-Pinedo, who was like a beloved son to Hatley.  Mrs. Hatley told me that her husband was grief-stricken to the point of dysfunction by Soto-Pinedo’s death.  On March 17, Spc. Mario Guerrero was killed by a road-side bomb explosion.  All the same, the patrols went on ceaselessly, from 4:00 a.m. to 9:00 or 10:00 p.m. – every day.  For months on end Hatley and his soldiers fought the war on three or four hours of sleep per night.</p>
<p>On a particular April day in 2007, Hatley’s unit once again came under fire. Four insurgents ran from a house where they hid during the fire-fight and the Americans soon captured them.  U.S. troops found small arms, sniper rifles and ammunition within that house. All of the captured insurgents field-tested “positive” for gunshot residue on their hands.</p>
<p>Hatley radioed the DHAA that he was en-route with the four detainees.  The DHAA refused to receive them, citing a “lack of sufficient evidence to hold.”  Hatley was ordered to release these terrorists who had tried to kill American soldiers.  Now, as the alleged story that came out in court goes, he discussed the DHAA release order with two of his subordinates, Sgt. Michael Leahy and Sgt. Joseph Mayo.  The Sergeants decided they had just about had their fill of Catch and Release, and that these four insurgents were not going free to return to kill and maim Americans. They subsequently drove the four terrorists to a nearby canal, fired one shot each into the backs of their heads, and dumped the dead bodies into the water.  Sgt. Jesse Cunningham, seated inside their parked vehicle, apparently watched all of it in the rear-view mirror. The bodies, however, were never found.  No local residents reported anyone missing.</p>
<p>By 2009, the Hatleys were stationed in Germany.  Sgt. Jesse Cunningham got himself into a jam with the Army for assaulting another non-commissioned officer and for falling asleep at his post – both serious offenses if proven.  Under investigation, Cunningham talked to a JAG lawyer and decided to trade what he knew about the 2007 Baghdad shootings to get himself off the hook.  He became “the snitch.”</p>
<p>Using Cunningham’s statement, the Army’s Criminal Investigation Division (CID) extracted confessions from both Leahy and Mayo.  Hatley refused to admit having done anything wrong.  The military trial was in Vilseck, Germany, from April 13 through 16, 2009.</p>
<p>Cunningham, Leahy and Mayo all took the witness stand against their former First Sergeant.  Mrs. Hatley, who was present for the entire trial, told me that Leahy and Mayo, who had already been convicted, looked to be in great distress on the stand during testimony and appeared to everyone that they did not want to testify against their First Sergeant. Both received bad conduct discharges and prison time.  Hatley received a dishonorable discharge to go along with his life sentence.  Members of the press openly wept when the sentence was handed down.</p>
<p>Mrs. Hatley now spends endless hours on the internet and the phone, mustering support for her husband’s release.  She sounds optimistic, despite the terrible situation.  She says that even in prison her husband has received meritorious staff reports, once for saving a choking prisoner’s life by administering the Heimlich maneuver.</p>
<p>The endless conflict goes on.  Soldiers and Marines deal with Rules of Engagement (ROE) that tie their hands and prolong the national agony of our overseas involvement in the eternal war that Islam declared against infidels nearly fourteen-hundred years ago.</p>
<p>Many officers in the military’s upper echelons remain willfully ignorant of Islamic doctrine and oblivious to its dynamics in the war.  They write the crippling ROE and the Catch-and-Release policies that have caused the deaths of innumerable American soldiers and Marines &#8212; and they sit comfortably behind their desks at the Pentagon.  In the meantime, men like John Hatley sit in prison.</p>
<p><strong>[For those wishing to help Kim Hatley win clemency for her husband, visit <a href="http://defendjohnhatley.com/">DefendJohnHatley.com</a>.]</strong><em><br />
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<p><em>John L. Work is a contributor to <a href="http://www.newsrealblog.com/">NewsReal Blog</a>.  He is a retired Colorado Law Enforcement Officer and a free-lance writer.</em></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Netherlands leaves justice behind.]]></description>
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<p>The Stalinist-show-trial aspect of the Geert Wilders “hate speech” trial in the Netherlands was thrown into sharp relief last week when the Amsterdam District Court refused to allow Wilders to call fifteen of the eighteen witnesses he had hoped to bring forward in his defense. Wilders in response was characteristically direct: “This Court is not interested in the truth. This Court doesn’t want me to have a fair trial. I can’t have any respect for this. This Court would not be out of place in a dictatorship.”</p>
<p>The three witnesses the court allowed Wilders are the Dutch Islamic scholars Hans Jansen and Simon Admiraal, along with the Wafa Sultan. Hans Jansen’s work on Islam is superb and groundbreaking, and he will be an excellent witness, as will Admiraal and the exemplary freedom fighter Wafa Sultan.</p>
<p>Nonetheless, this decision indicates the hollowness of Dutch justice and the court’s bias against Wilders. For some who would have been Wilders’s most effective witnesses were disallowed. He had wanted to call Mohammed Bouyeri, the murderer of Theo Van Gogh.</p>
<p>Why Bouyeri? Wilders, in the bizarre inquisition that has replaced justice in the Dutch courts, is accused of offending Muslims by pointing out that Muslims invoke the Qur’an and Muhammad’s example to justify violence. However, Bouyeri quoted the Qur’an in the note threatening Wilders and others that he stabbed into Van Gogh’s body, and invoked the Qur’an repeatedly during his trial as well. “Kill them, and Allah will help you and guide your hand,” he said. “There’s no room there for doubt or interpretation there.”</p>
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<p>Bouyeri would have proven Wilders’ point immediately: he is simply telling the truth about how Islamic teachings incite all too many Muslims to violence – and if telling the truth is now illegal in the Netherlands, so much the worse for the Netherlands. By disallowing Wilders from calling Bouyeri and others, the court has hindered Wilders’ ability to make this case – suggesting (and by no means for the first time) that the Dutch authorities are determined to convict Wilders, and are not going to let any inconvenient facts get in the way of their doing so.</p>
<p>It is not exaggerating to say that the Geert Wilders trial is a defining moment in the history of Western civilization. One would have to go back centuries to find a court case with as much significance for the future course of the free world. If the farrago of “hate” charges against Wilders stick, and he is convicted, it will herald the end of the freedom of speech in the West, as a precedent will have been set that other Western nations (urged on by the Organization of the Islamic Conference, which is the organization most responsible for the global assault on free speech) will be certain to follow. The era of enlightenment and the understanding that all human beings are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights will be definitively drawing to a close, and a new darkness will descend over Europe and the free world in general. For once the precedent is established that a man can be jailed and destroyed for offending a privileged class, the idea that every human being has rights that cannot be infringed will be damaged beyond repair.</p>
<p>And even if Wilders prevails, enough damage has been done already. The Dutch law (and there are others like it in other Western countries) that stipulates that someone can actually be tried and jailed for offending another person will remain on the books. Other trials will follow. The law will be used by the governing elites who developed it in order to maintain their power and silence independent and dissenting voices.</p>
<p>For that is, of course, the point of all this. The Dutch authorities stand arrayed on one side, with Wilders standing alone on the other. Yet despite the fact that he has nothing like their numbers, wealth, or resources, he threatens to topple their entire multicultural house of cards – for he has on his side a weapon that all of their power cannot defeat, the weapon of truth. And so they are desperate to silence him, and end forever his truth-telling about jihad and Islamic supremacism.</p>
<p>Yet even if they do silence him, the truth will still be the truth. They will not be able to obliterate it forever. But will they be able to help initiate a long, perhaps centuries long, period of darkness and oppression in Europe and its civilizational children?</p>
<p>Certainly.</p>
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