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		<title>The Koran and Eternal War</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2014 05:04:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raymond Ibrahim]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If some Islamic texts are banned for inciting terrorism, what about the Koran?]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #202021;"><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Koran-book.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-246203" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Koran-book.jpg" alt="Koran-book" width="308" height="216" /></a>Originally published by </em><em><a style="color: #cf0000;" href="http://www.vieinter.com/otherregions/the-quran-and-eternal-war/">VIE.</a></em></p>
<p style="color: #202021;">News recently emerged that Russia was banning key Islamic scriptures—including Sahih Bukhari—on the charge that they promote “exclusivity [supremacism] of one of the world’s religions,” namely Islam; or, in the words of a senior assistant to the prosecutor of Tatarstan Ruslan Galliev, “a militant Islam” which “arouses ethnic, religious enmity.”</p>
<p style="color: #202021;">If Sahih Bukhari, a nine-volume hadith collection compiled in the 9th century and seen by Sunni Muslims as second in importance only to the Koran itself is being banned for inciting hostility, where does that leave the Koran?</p>
<p style="color: #202021;">After all, if <a style="color: #cf0000;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/is-russia-banning-islam/">Sahih Bukhari contains pro-terrorism</a> statements attributed to the prophet of Islam and calls to kill Muslims who leave Islam, the Koran, Islam’s number one holy book itself is full of intolerance and calls for violence against non-believers. A tiny sampling of proclamations from Allah follows:</p>
<ul style="color: #202021;">
<li>“I will cast terror into the hearts of the unbelievers, so strike [them] upon the necks [behead them] and strike from them every fingertip’” (Koran 8:12).</li>
<li>“Fight those among the People of the Book [Christians and Jews] who do not believe in Allah nor the Last Day, who do not forbid what Allah and His Messenger have forbidden, and who do not embrace the religion of truth [Islam], until they pay the jizya with willing submissiveness and feel themselves utterly subdued” (Koran 9:29).</li>
<li>“Then, when the sacred months have passed, slay the idolaters wherever you find them—seize them, besiege them, and make ready to ambush them!” (Koran 9:5).</li>
<li>“Fighting has been enjoined upon you [Muslims] while it is hateful to you” (2:216).</li>
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<p style="color: #202021;">That Islam’s core texts incite violence and intolerance has many ramifications, for those willing to go down this path of logic.</p>
<p style="color: #202021;">For example, as I <a style="color: #cf0000;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/how-religious-defamation-laws-would-ban-islam/">argued more fully here</a>, although Muslims around the world, especially in the guise of the 57-member state Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), continue to push for the enforcement of “religious defamation” laws in the international arena, one great irony is lost, especially on Muslims: if such laws would ban movies and cartoons that defame Islam, they would also, by logical extension, need to ban the religion of Islam itself—the only religion whose core texts actively defame other religions.</p>
<p style="color: #202021;">Consider what the word “defamation” means: “to blacken another’s reputation” and “false or unjustified injury of the good reputation of another, as by slander or libel,” are typical dictionary definitions.</p>
<p style="color: #202021;">What, then, do we do with Islam’s core religious texts—not just Sahih Bukhari but the Koran itself, which slanders, denigrates and blackens the reputation of other religions?</p>
<p style="color: #202021;">Consider Christianity alone: Koran 5:73 declares that “Infidels are they who say God [or “Allah”] is one of three,” a reference to the Christian Trinity; Koran 5:72 says “Infidels are they who say God is the Christ, [Jesus] son of Mary”; and Koran 9:30 complains that “the Christians say the Christ is the son of God … may Allah’s curse be upon them!”</p>
<p style="color: #202021;">Surely such verses defame the Christian religion and its central tenets—not to mention create hostility towards its practitioners.</p>
<p style="color: #202021;">In short, the argument that some Islamic books should be banned on grounds that they incite segregation and violence is applicable to the Koran itself, which unequivocally defames and creates hostility for unbelievers, that is, non-Muslims.</p>
<p style="color: #202021;">That said, in the “real world” (as it currently stands), the very idea of banning the Koran—believed by over a billion people to be the unalterable word of God—must seem inconceivable.</p>
<p style="color: #202021;">For starters, whenever Muslims are pressed about the violent verses in the Koran, they often take refuge in the argument that other scriptures of other religions are also replete with calls to violence and intolerance—so why single out the Koran?</p>
<p style="color: #202021;">To prove this, Muslim apologists almost always point to the Hebrew Scriptures, more widely known as the “Old Testament.”  And in fact, the Old Testament is replete with violence and intolerance—all prompted by the Judeo-Christian God.</p>
<p style="color: #202021;">The difference between the violent passages in the Koran and those in the Old Testament (as more <a style="color: #cf0000;" href="http://www.meforum.org/2159/are-judaism-and-christianity-as-violent-as-islam">comprehensively explained here</a>) is this: the Old Testament is clearly describing historic episodes whereas the Koran, while also developed within a historical context, uses generic, open-ended language that transcends time and space, inciting believers to attack and slay nonbelievers today no less than yesterday.</p>
<p style="color: #202021;">Thus in the Old Testament God commands the Hebrews to fight and kill “Hittites,” “Amorites,” “Canaanites,” “Perizzites,” “Hivites,” and “Jebusites”—all specific peoples rooted to a specific time and place; all specific peoples that have not existed for millennia.  At no time did God give an open-ended command for the Hebrews, and by extension their Jewish descendants, to fight and kill all “unbelievers.”</p>
<p style="color: #202021;">To be sure, Muslims argue that the verses of the Koran also deal with temporal, historical opponents, including the polytheists of Mecca, and to a lesser extent, the Byzantine and Sassanian empires.</p>
<p style="color: #202021;">The problem, however, is that rarely if ever does the Koran specify who its antagonists are the way the Old Testament does.  Instead, Muslims were (and are) commanded to fight the “People of the Book,” which Islamic exegesis interprets as people with scriptures, namely, Christians and Jews—“<em>until</em> they pay the jizya with willing submissiveness and feel themselves utterly subdued” (9:29) and to “slay the idolaters <em>wherever</em> you find them” (9:5).</p>
<p style="color: #202021;">The two Arabic conjunctions “until” (<em>hata</em>) and “wherever” (<em>haythu</em>) demonstrate the perpetual and ubiquitous nature of these commandments: There are still “People of the Book” who have yet to “feel themselves utterly subdued” (especially all throughout the Americas, Europe, and Israel) and “idolaters” to be slain “wherever” one looks (especially Asia and sub-Saharan Africa).</p>
<p style="color: #202021;">In fact, the salient feature of almost all of the violent commandments in Islamic scriptures is their open-ended and generic nature: “Fight <em>them</em> until there is no more chaos and [all] religion belongs to Allah” (Koran 8:39).</p>
<p style="color: #202021;">This fact will ensure that as long as the Koran proliferates and is read as God’s literal word, its readers will continue to exist in a dichotomized world, themselves versus the rest.</p>
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		<title>The Hound of Jihad</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jan 2014 05:07:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raymond Ibrahim]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How the victims of jihad continue to be hounded—even beyond the grave.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/pc.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-215285" alt="pc" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/pc.jpg" width="280" height="175" /></a>The relentlessness of Islamic jihadi enmity for non-Muslims appears to know no bounds—sometimes even pursuing “infidels” beyond the grave.  While the West may hear of the more spectacular attacks on non-Muslims—bombed and burned churches and other places of worship, beheaded and slaughtered “infidels,” and <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/largest-massacre-of-christians-in-syria-ignored/">wholesale massacres</a>—lesser known is the fact that, far from receiving succor, the survivors often continue to be targeted.</p>
<p>Thus, just last New Year’s Eve, December 31, 2013, as several “Christians were praising God in a field near their church building” in central Nigeria’s Plateau, Muslim ethnic Fulani gunmen arrived and <a href="http://morningstarnews.org/2014/01/once-widowed-christian-in-nigeria-loses-second-husband-to-muslim-extremists/">opened fire</a> on the worshippers, killing a 41-year-old mother of six children and a 14-year-old girl.</p>
<p>Kore Usman, a 34-year-old man, was also killed.  His 34-year-old wife, Faith Kore Usman, explains how he was her second husband to be killed by Muslims, widowing her twice over:</p>
<blockquote><p>My first husband, Davou Philip, was killed by Muslim Fulani herdsmen in Jol Village in Riyom Local Government Area in 2002,” she said. “I had only a son with him. However, God brought me and Kore Usman together [nine years ago], and we got married. God has blessed us with four children. <i>I thought my burden has been lifted as a widow, and now, again my second husband has been killed by Muslim gunmen” </i>[emphasis added].</p></blockquote>
<p>Such stories of the same Christian minority groups being attacked once, twice, three or even more times are not uncommon in the Muslim world.  Aside from the unrelenting woes of the Nigerian widow, consider some recent events in Pakistan.</p>
<p>After last September’s <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/bloody-weekend-trend-of-muslim-rage-against-infidels-continues/">bombing of the Church of All Saints in Peshawar</a>, where as many as <a href="http://www.bosnewslife.com/30875-christians-threatened-after-mourning-suicide-attack-victims-pastor-detained">171 died</a>—including many women and children—and 150 were injured, Agenzia Fides reported that,</p>
<blockquote><p>[T]he situation remains tense in the Pakistani society: not only tragedy but also horror. The Christians said they were ‘horrified’ by the rumors that link the bombs in Peshawar to the vast problem of organ trafficking: this is what some members of NGOs in civil society in Pakistan told Fides. Some of the ‘jackals,’ presumably local paramedics, seem to have taken advantage of the high number of deaths and injuries in order to steal the bodies of victims and <a href="http://www.fides.org/en/news/34381-ASIA_PAKISTAN_After_the_bombs_atrocities_against_Christians_organ_trafficking_concerning_victims_of_Peshawar#.UpFB-sSTioP">exploit them for the illegal organ trade</a>. ‘If this were true, it would mean that <i>there are criminals who are taking advantage of the suffering of Christian victims in a truly blasphemous and sacrilegious manner</i>,’ notes Fr. Mario Rodrigues, a priest of Karachi [emphasis added].</p></blockquote>
<p>In other words, and in keeping with the Islamic supremacist notion that <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/islamic-racism-muslim-blood-superior-to-infidel-blood/">non-Muslims are subhuman</a> “infidels” to be <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/are-slave-girls-in-islam-equivalent-to-animals/">exploited with impunity for the benefit of “superior” Muslim</a>s, even after being slaughtered by self-styled “jihadis,” the remains of slain Christians are used to make a profit and prevented a decent burial.</p>
<p>As for some of those who survived the church bombing in Pakistan, they were attacked, beat, and threatened with death for mourning the deaths of their loved ones <a href="http://www.bosnewslife.com/30875-christians-threatened-after-mourning-suicide-attack-victims-pastor-detained">too openly</a>: “A Pakistani Christian family was hiding Sunday, October 13, after allegedly receiving death threats for protesting against twin suicide attacks at a historic church in the violence-plagued city of Peshawar, in which their friends were killed.  According to one of these Christians, Muslim “militants” “<i>were angry that he was openly expressing grief at an anti-violence demonstration about the loss of his friends and those who were injured in the suicide attacks</i>” (emphasis added).</p>
<p>Thus, on the westernmost fringes of the Islamic world, in Nigeria, a Christian woman loses her husband to Muslim gunmen; and when she picks up the pieces of her life, remarries, and has several children, the same Islamic tribesmen gun down her second husband, even as he worships; to the eastern fringes of the Islamic world, in Pakistan, after a church is bombed, some of those killed are ghoulishly harvested for their organs while those who survived are attacked and threatened for daring to mourn too openly.</p>
<p>Such is the hound of jihad and its relentless enmity for “infidels.”</p>
<p><strong>Raymond Ibrahim is author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1621570258/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1621570258&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=uhurnetw-20"><i>Crucified Again: Exposing Islam’s New War on Christians.</i></a></strong></p>
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		<title>Muslim Cleric: ‘I Hate Christians and Am Disgusted by Them’</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 04:25:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Egyptian scholar preaches the malevolent Islamic doctrine of "Love and Hate."]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/raymond-ibrahim/muslim-cleric-i-hate-christians-and-am-disgusted-by-them/picture-6-39/" rel="attachment wp-att-184079"><img class=" wp-image-184079 alignleft" title="Picture 6" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Picture-6-450x318.png" alt="" width="270" height="191" /></a><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/militant-muslims-cutting-out-tongues/">Dr. Abdullah Badr</a>—an Egyptian Muslim scholar, Al Azhar graduate, and professor of Islamic exegesis, who spent ten years in prison under Mubarak, but, along with any number of Islamic terrorists and agitators, <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/president-morsi-smuggling-al-qaeda-leader-zawahiri-to-egypt/">was released under Morsi</a>—recently gave an excellent summation of the second half of the highly divisive Muslim doctrine of <em>wala’ wa bara’ </em>(or, “Love and Hate”)—namely, that the true Muslim should love and help fellow Muslims, while hating and being disgusted by non-Muslims.</p>
<p>During a conference last week (see video below, with English subtitles) he explained how he is so “disgusted” by Christians, to the point that, if a Christian were to touch his cup, he would not drink from it:</p>
<blockquote><p>[It’s] not a matter of piety, but disgust. I get grossed out.  Get that?  Disgust, I get grossed out man, I cannot stand their smell or … I don’t like them, it’s my choice.  And they gross me out; their smell, their look, everything.  I feel disgusted, disgusted.  I get disgusted not only by that, but by many things.</p></blockquote>
<p>He kept stressing that, while Sharia law does not ban Muslims from eating food prepared by Christians, he personally is sickened by them.  Badr explained how he once entered a store in Egypt to buy food, but when he saw the crosses and Christian icons on the wall, and understood that the owner was Christian, he immediately gave the food away on the street.</p>
<p>Even so, the pious Badr went on to warn that any Muslim who goes out of his way to make a show of his disgust for Christians is a hypocrite.  His logic was perversely similar to Jesus’s teaching that those who show off their piety—Christ was talking about fasting, not <em>hating</em>—are hypocrites.</p>
<p>Instead, according to Badr, the disgust, and as he later explained in the video, the <em>hate </em>for Christians and other infidels, must come from the heart—as it does with him—and not be a mere matter of showing off around other Muslims.</p>
<p>Such is the Islamic doctrine of Love and Hate—a doctrine the West would do well to become acquainted with, a doctrine that sheds light on the alarming extent of <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/the-threat-of-islamic-betrayal/">Islamist deceit and treachery</a>.  (See Ayman Zawahiri’s nearly 60 page treatise, “Loyalty and Enmity,” to use another translation of <em>wala’ wa bara’</em>, in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Qaeda-Reader-Essential-Organization/dp/076792262X/ref=rec_dp_0"><em>The Al Qaeda Reader</em></a><em>, </em>p. 63-115, for a comprehensive review of this doctrine.)</p>
<p>Portions of Badr’s video follow, with English subtitles. If they do not appear, you may need to click on “cc” (closed caption) on YouTube.</p>
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		<title>Ramadan: Islam&#8217;s &#8216;Holy Month&#8217; of Christian Oppression</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2012 04:20:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No respite for infidels in Muslim territory. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_141600" style="width: 385px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/222.gif"><img class="size-full wp-image-141600" title="222" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/222.gif" alt="" width="375" height="227" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Egyptian Christian, Maher Rizkalla: Before and After Ramadan</p></div>
<p><em>Originally published by the <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/3723/guest-column-ramadan-islam-holy-month">Investigative Project on Terrorism</a>. </em></p>
<p>The month of Ramadan, which ended earlier this week, proved to be a month of renewed Muslim piety on the one hand, and renewed oppression of non-Muslim minorities on the other. In Nigeria, for example, Islamic militants are living up to the assertion that &#8220;<a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/07/jihad-group-claims-credit-for-bulgaria-mass-murder-ramadan-is-a-month-of-holy-war-and-death-for-alla.html">Ramadan is a month of jihad and death for Allah</a>,&#8221; proving that killing Christians is not only reserved for Christian holidays—like <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/10947/nigeria-christmas-present-blown-up-christians">Christmas </a>and <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/11530/death-to-churches">Easter</a>, when militants bombed churches killing dozens—but is <a href="http://www.persecution.org/2012/07/25/boko-haram-kills-six-at-ramadan-start/">especially applicable </a>during Islam&#8217;s Ramadan.</p>
<p>Usually, however, Ramadan-related oppression has to do with Muslim perceptions that Christians do not &#8220;know their place&#8221;—either because the latter openly do things forbidden to Muslims during Ramadan, or because they dare object to the things Muslims do during their holy month.</p>
<p>When it comes to these aspects of dhimmitude, Egypt offers countless examples, past and present, simply because it houses the Middle East&#8217;s largest Christian minority, the Copts, and thus offers more opportunities for the intolerant face of Ramadan to reveal itself. Two recent examples follow:</p>
<p>First, according to <a href="http://www.light-dark.net/vb/showthread.php?p=1040156598&amp;fb_source=message#.UCPYN01lRf_">Coptic websites</a>, on July 27, a diabetic man in Egypt was driving his car in Maadi, a suburb of southern Cairo, when he was struck with great thirst, &#8220;which he could not bear&#8221; (a side-effect of diabetes, further exacerbated by Egypt&#8217;s July weather). He pulled over by a public water source and started drinking water. Soon three passer-bys approached him, inquiring why he was drinking water (among the many things forbidden to Muslims during daylight in Ramadan). The diabetic man replied, &#8220;Because I am a Christian, and sick,&#8221; to which they exclaimed &#8220;you&#8217;re a Christian, too!&#8221; and begun beating him mercilessly. Other passer-bys began to congregate to see what was happening, but no one intervened on behalf of the diabetic non-Muslim, until he managed to make a dash for his parked car and fled the scene.</p>
<p>Though water is not forbidden to him, this infidel Christian openly violated a principle of Islamic Ramadan, which was deemed a great affront and punished accordingly. This idea that non-Muslims must show respect for Islamic observances is commonplace. Around the same time this story took place, a Christian Lebanese singer was taken to police while in Algeria for smoking in public, and &#8220;<a href="http://gulfnews.com/news/region/lebanon/lebanese-star-reported-for-smoking-in-ramadan-1.1059825">failing to show due respect to Muslims</a>.&#8221; She was released after police warned her that &#8220;she was not allowed to smoke in public during Ramadan in Muslim Algeria, even though she was a Christian.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Oslo Muslims Demand Sharia-Controlled Zone</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2012 04:33:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bruce Bawer]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["We don't want to live together with filthy beasts like you."]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Sharia-zone-4X3.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-140923" title="Sharia-zone-4X3" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Sharia-zone-4X3.gif" alt="" width="375" height="281" /></a>After the one-two punch, on a single day last summer, of a deadly explosion in the center of Oslo and an even more deadly shooting spree on a nearby island, the Norwegian government did what it does best: it formed a commission.  This one was charged with figuring out just how one man had been able to get away with inflicting so much damage.  The other day the commission finally issued its <a href="http://www.regjeringen.no/nb/dep/smk/dok/nou-er/2012/nou-2012-14.html?id=697260">report</a>.  More than a few higher-ups seemed surprised by its honesty.  Perhaps they&#8217;d expected something more like the internal police report on the same subject, which had exonerated the police and everyone else in authority.  Or perhaps they&#8217;d expected, at worst, a rap on the wrists.  But this report was a punch in the guts.  It was, in a word, devastating.  And it could hardly have been more richly deserved.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve mentioned before that I marveled for years at the chronic lack of security outside Norway&#8217;s main government building, next to which Anders Behring Breivik was able to park a vehicle packed with explosives on July 22 of last year.  The report quite rightly pointed out that the attack on this building could have easily been prevented if only a few simple, commonsensical security measures – which had been officially recommended years ago – had been implemented.  The report also faulted the police for their slow, feeble response to the news that people were being gunned down on the island of Utøya.  The police took a long time to drive to the lake in which the island is located, and then took a long time to figure out a way to cross over to the island.  They might&#8217;ve jumped on a helicopter in Oslo and flown to the island in a trice – but, no, their only (!) helicopter was unusable because the pilot was on vacation.  Equally <a href="http://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/22-juli/artikkel.php?artid=10059908">incredible</a>, the Norwegian police didn&#8217;t decide until a couple of hours after the Oslo bombing to close the Swedish border, just in case the bomber tried to leave the country; but their slow thinking hardly mattered, because their decision was somehow never conveyed to anybody anyway.  The border did get sealed, but only because Swedish police, after hearing about Breivik&#8217;s atrocities, took it upon themselves to set up checkpoints and barriers.</p>
<p>Norway&#8217;s only remotely serious major newspaper, the business daily <em>Dagens Næringsliv (DN), </em>ran an illuminating feature on Saturday about how the Norwegian police culture made this absurd Keystone Kops situation possible.  <em>DN </em>described a cartoonishly dysfunctional bureaucracy – a “paper mill” – plagued by a lack of communication and coordination, preoccupied with niggling details and petty offenses, and devoted to the production of detailed action reports that were never acted upon.  In short, a police department bizarrely removed from the reality of actual policing.  It was also a force in which there was a great deal of pressure from the top to keep quiet about any problems or deficiencies and to pretend that “everything was perfect.”</p>
<p>For the last decade or so the Norwegian police have been subordinated, more or less, to an entity called the Police Directorate, which from May 2011 until the other day was headed up by one Øystein Mæland.  In the U.S., a guy in such a position would almost certainly be a cop with decades of wide-ranging police experience.  Mæland, when he was appointed to this job, had no police experience whatsoever.  He was a psychiatrist and – more important – a longtime Labor Party politician who, in his teens, was head of the Oslo branch of Labor Party Youth and, as an adult, headed up the Oslo Labor Union and worked in several government ministries.  He is also a <a href="http://www.bi.no/bizreview/artikler/ta-ansvar---eller-lope-fra-det-/">pacifist</a>.  (Instead of performing his obligatory year of military service in his teens, he chose the option of doing civilian work instead.)</p>
<p>In short, as <em>DN </em>put it, and as Per Sandberg of the Progress Party objected at the time, Mæland was a prime example of “political nepotism.”  This in a time of terrorism – and in a country that, thanks to the Labor Party&#8217;s twisted budgetary priorities, is awash in graduates of the police academy who can&#8217;t get work as police officers.  The fact that under the Labor Party the job of running the police in Norway is a political appointment is – like the chronic understaffing of police precincts – just another sign of the utter lack of seriousness with which Laborites have viewed the role of the police.  And indicative of the lack of seriousness with which Øystein Mæland viewed his position is this: not only did he go on <a href="http://www.dagbladet.no/2012/08/18/nyheter/innenriks/22_juli_kommisjonen/vidar_refvik/politi/23019302/%20">vacation</a> after just two weeks on the job; last October – less than two months <em>after </em>the atrocities of July 22 – he <a href="http://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/22-juli/artikkel.php?artid=10040126%20">took</a> five months of paternity leave.  So clueless, indeed, was Mæland, and so bereft of any concept of personal responsibility, that after the commission&#8217;s devastating report was released, he emerged from an emergency meeting with Norway&#8217;s police chiefs grinning ear to ear because they&#8217;d assured him of their support; not until later that day, the truth of his own disgrace having finally been made clear to him (it is no surprise to me, by the way, that a Norwegian psychiatrist could be so breathtakingly obtuse), did he finally resign his position as head of the Police Directorate.</p>
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		<title>Muslim Brotherhood &#8216;Crucifies&#8217; Opponents</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2012 04:40:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raymond Ibrahim]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Under President Morsi, Egypt returns to the dark ages.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/728_large.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-140696" title="728_large" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/728_large.gif" alt="" width="375" height="267" /></a>Originally published by the <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/3711/muslim-brotherhood-crucifies-opponents-attacks">Investigative Project on Terrorism</a>. </strong></p>
<p>Last week in Egypt, when Muslim Brotherhood supporters terrorized the secular media, several Arabic websites—including <a href="http://arabnews.ca/NEWS1/2010-10-08-05-24-32/2010-10-08-05-28-00/12897-2012-08-09-00-12-38.html">Arab News</a>, <a href="http://www.alkhabrnews.com/view/?q=4906">Al Khabar News</a>, <a href="http://www.dostorwatany.com/content/%D8%B5%D9%84%D8%A8-%D9%85%D8%B9%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%B6%D9%8A%D9%86-%D8%A3%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%85-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D8%B5%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B1%D8%A6%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%8A-%D8%A8%D9%85%D8%B5%D8%B1">Dostor Watany</a>, and <a href="http://egy-now.blogspot.fr/2012/08/blog-post_189.html">Egypt Now</a>—reported that people were being &#8220;crucified.&#8221; The relevant excerpt follows in translation:</p>
<blockquote><p>A Sky News Arabic correspondent in Cairo confirmed that protestors belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood crucified those opposing Egyptian President Muhammad Morsi naked on trees in front of the presidential palace while abusing others. Likewise, Muslim Brotherhood supporters locked the doors of the media production facilities of 6-October [a major media region in Cairo], where they proceeded to attack several popular journalists.</p></blockquote>
<p>That there were attacks and violence—both in front of Egypt&#8217;s presidential palace and at major media facilities—is well-documented. An August 9 report by <a href="http://www.el-balad.com/237197">El Balad</a>, a widely read Egyptian website, gives the details:</p>
<p>Last Wednesday, August 8, &#8220;thousands of the Muslim Brotherhood&#8217;s supporters&#8221; attacked 6-October&#8217;s media facilities, beat Khaled Salah—chief editor of the privately-owned and secular <em>Youm 7 </em>newspaper—prevented Yusif al-Hassani, an On TV broadcaster, from entering the building, and generally &#8220;terrorized the employees.&#8221;</p>
<p>El Balad adds that the supporters of Tawfik Okasha, another vocal critic of President Morsi—the one who widely disseminated the <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/11798/graphic-video-tunisian-muslims-slaughter-convert">graphic video </a>of a Muslim apostate being slaughtered to cries of &#8220;Allahu Akbar&#8221;—gathered around the presidential palace, only to be surrounded by Brotherhood supporters, who &#8220;attacked them with sticks, knives, and Molotov cocktails, crucifying some of them on trees, leading to the deaths of two and the wounding of dozens.&#8221;</p>
<p>Far from condemning these terrorists, Al Azhar, Egypt&#8217;s most authoritative Islamic institution, has just issued <a href="http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/al-azhar-cleric-fighting-anti-brotherhood-demonstrators-obligatory-0">a fatwa </a>calling for more violence and suppression, saying that &#8220;fighting participants in anti-Muslim Brotherhood demonstrations planned for 24 August is a religious obligation.&#8221;</p>
<p>Most of the aforementioned Arabic sites point out that these attacks are part of the Muslim Brotherhood&#8217;s campaign to intimidate and thus censor Egypt&#8217;s secular media from exposing the group&#8217;s Islamist agenda, which Youm 7, On TV, and Okasha do daily. [Note: the latter&#8217;s channel was recently shut down, despite Morsi&#8217;s <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOP7f2mQ6Ng&amp;feature=player_embedded">previous reassurances </a>that &#8220;no station or media will be shut down in my era.&#8221;]</p>
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		<title>The Obama Administration’s War on Persecuted Christians</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2012 04:24:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raymond Ibrahim]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why is the State Department opposing policies that would help the victims of Islam?]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Picture-2.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-139705" title="Picture-2" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Picture-2.gif" alt="" width="375" height="243" /></a>The Obama administration’s support for its Islamist allies means lack of U.S. support for their enemies, or, more properly, <em>victims</em>—the Christian and other non-Muslim minorities of the Muslim world.  Consider the many recent proofs:</p>
<p>According to Pete Winn of <a href="http://cnsnews.com/news/article/state-department-purges-religious-freedom-section-its-human-rights-reports">CNS</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>The U.S. State Department removed the sections covering religious freedom from the Country Reports on Human Rights that it <a href="http://www.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/">released </a>on May 24, <em>three months past the statutory deadline Congress set for the release of these reports</em>.  The new human rights reports—<em>purged of the sections that discuss the status of religious freedom in each of the countries covered</em>—are also the human rights reports that include the period that covered the Arab Spring and its aftermath.  Thus, the reports do not provide in-depth coverage of what has happened to Christians and other religious minorities in predominantly Muslim countries in the Middle East that saw the rise of revolutionary movements in 2011 in which Islamist forces played an instrumental role.  <em>For the first time ever, the State Department simply eliminated the section of religious freedom</em> <em>in its reports covering 2011</em>… (emphasis added).</p></blockquote>
<p>The CNS report goes on to quote several U.S. officials questioning the motives of the Obama administration.  Former U.S. diplomat Thomas Farr said that he has “observed during the three-and-a-half years of the Obama administration that the issue of religious freedom has been distinctly downplayed.”  Leonard Leo, former chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, said “to have pulled religious freedom out of it [the report] means that fewer people will obtain information,” so that “you don’t have the whole picture.”</p>
<p>Of course, censoring information is a regular theme under Obama: if the administration is suppressing knowledge concerning the sufferings of religious minorities under Islam, earlier it <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/10797/obama-administration-bans-knowledge-of-islam">suppressed knowledge concerning Islam itself</a> (see here for a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU6n1mrpAGY">surreal example</a> of the effects of such censorship).</p>
<p>In “<a href="http://www.newsmax.com/JamesWalsh/Coptic-Christians-persecution-Egypt/2012/05/24/id/440236">Obama Overlooks Christian Persecution</a>,” James Walsh gives more examples of State Department indifference “regarding the New Years’ murders of Coptic Christians in Egypt and the ravaging of a cathedral,” including how the State Department “refused to list Egypt as ‘a country of particular concern,’ even as Christians and others were being murdered, churches destroyed, and girls kidnapped and forced to convert to Islam. ”</p>
<p>And the evidence keeps mounting.  Legislation to create a special envoy for religious minorities in the Near East and South Central Asia—legislation that, in the words of the <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/virginia-politics/post/frank-wolf-jim-webb-split-over-creating-special-envoy-post/2012/07/13/gJQAGaG0hW_blog.html"><em>Washington Post</em></a><em>, </em>“passed the House by a huge margin,” has been stalled by Sen. James Webb (D-Va):</p>
<blockquote><p>In <a href="http://wolf.house.gov/uploads/webb%20special%20env_20120711164533.pdf">a letter </a>sent to Webb Wednesday night, Rep. Frank Wolf [R-Va, who introduced the envoy bill] said he “cannot understand why” the hold had been placed on a bill that might help Coptic Christians and other groups “who face daily persecution, hardship, violence, instability and even death.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Yet the ultimate source of opposition is the State Department.  The <em>Post </em>continues:</p>
<blockquote><p>Webb spokesman Will Jenkins explained the hold by saying that “after considering the legislation, Senator Webb asked the State Department for its analysis.”  In a position paper issued in response, State Department officials said “<em>we oppose the bill as it infringes on the Secretary’s [Hillary Clinton’s] flexibility to make appropriate staffing decisions</em>,” and suggested the duties of Wolf’s proposed envoy would overlap with several existing positions.  “<em>The new special envoy position is unnecessary, duplicative, and likely counterproductive</em>,” the State Department said (emphasis added).</p></blockquote>
<p>But as Wolf explained in his letter: “If I believed that religious minorities, especially in these strategic regions, were getting the attention warranted at the State Department, I would cease in pressing for passage of this legislation.  Sadly, that is far from being the case. We must act now….  Time is running out.”</p>
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		<title>The Persecution of Pakistan’s Christians</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2012 04:25:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Faith J. H. McDonnell]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Terrorizing the "People of the Book" has become big business for the resurgent Taliban. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/pak-christian.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-136191" title="pak-christian" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/pak-christian.gif" alt="" width="375" height="260" /></a>“The People of the Book” is Islam’s distinctive name for non-Muslim monotheists such as Jews and Christians. It sounds like a title given to those respected and revered. Unfortunately, the opposite is true. “Protected People,” another such term, sounds so reassuring. Who doesn’t want to be protected? But for the Islamic world’s “Protected People” there is no protection.</p>
<p>Nowhere is this truer than for Pakistan&#8217;s tiny minority Christian population. Rather than being protected, Pakistani Christians are disadvantaged and victimized in every way. Dhimmis, treated as second-class citizens, they live with grinding poverty and Muslim contempt, deprived of education and employment opportunities. Vulnerable to threats and lacking the means to defend themselves, they are the inevitable targets of Islamist attacks, even victimized by those who are supposed to protect them, merely because they are Christians.</p>
<p>Christians in northern Pakistan, such as the precarious Afghanistan-bordering Northwest Frontier Territory Province (now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) and Punjab Province have long suffered and continue to suffer oppression and persecution. But increasingly, Christians in southern Pakistan’s Sindh Province are being persecuted under the “Talibanization” of Karachi. Afghani and Pakistani Pashtun militants that <a href="http://www.ctc.usma.edu/posts/karachi-becoming-a-taliban-safe-haven">have been flooding Pakistan’s largest city</a> forthe last few years are causing problems for the whole city, but especially for the impoverished, minority Christian community. They and other Islamists subject southern Pakistan’s Christians to horrific violations of their human rights and dignity.</p>
<p>Fleeing from military offenses against the Taliban in the Swat Valley and South Waziristan, the militants have used Karachi&#8217;s slum neighborhoods as a place to regroup and raise funds. But they also use their presence in southern Pakistan as an opportunity to attack the Christian community in Sindh Province. Karachi’s Christian poor live in these same slums.</p>
<p>Soon after their arrival in southern Pakistan, the Taliban militants attempted to impose the same Islamic law in Karachi that <a href="http://www.religiontoday.com/articles/taliban-inspired-attacks-in-pakistan-hit-christians-11602933.html">they had achieved through a “peace agreement” in the Swat Valley</a>. In the spring of 2009, the militants wrote slogans and threats such as “Long live the Taliban” and “Infidels – convert to Islam” on the walls of the churches and houses of Christians in Taiser town, <a href="http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&amp;art=15068&amp;size=A">a Karachi community of about 750 Christian families</a>. According to <a href="http://www.christiantoday.com/article/pakistan.persecution.watchdog.fears.talibanisation.of.karachi/23183.htm"><em>Christian Today</em></a>, Dr. Nazir Bhatti, the President of the Pakistan Christian Congress, revealed that although for months the Christians had feared an attack was coming and had alerted the police, the police ignored them.</p>
<p>On the evening of April 21, 2009, Christians who were attempting to clean the graffiti off their buildings were attacked by a mob of over 100 masked Taliban gunmen. The gunmen shot into the crowd, seriously wounding three people. One of the shooting victims, 11 year-old Irfan Masih, died from his injuries several days later. As recalled in <a href="http://undhimmi.com/2009/04/26/taliban-threaten-karachi-christians-with-death/"><em>UnDhimmi</em></a><em>, </em>the <em>Pakistan Christian Post </em>reported the gunmen shouted, “You infidels have to convert to Islam or die!” They demanded to know why the Christians had removed the warnings they wrote and declared, “How dare you stage a procession against the Taliban!” Then the militants <a href="http://www.religiontoday.com/articles/taliban-inspired-attacks-in-pakistan-hit-christians-11602933.html">ransacked and set fire to houses and churches,</a> burning Bibles and beating women in the streets.</p>
<p>Recently, kidnapping and other forms of extortion have become <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-17492255">big business</a> for the Pashtun Taliban and other criminal elements in the city. According to <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-17492255">BBC News</a>, Karachi police report that “the Taliban are generating funds through bank robberies, protection rackets, and kidnapping.” Even here, the Taliban targets poor Christians, as well as wealthy, influential Muslims. According to grassroots activist for minority rights in Sindh Province, Elvis Steven, such payments – whether for ransom or to a protection racket – are extremely difficult, if not impossible, for most Christians. Few are like Irvin John, a wealthy Catholic layman in Karachi <a href="http://www.news.va/en/news/asiapakistan-kidnapping-emergency-muslims-and-chri">who was kidnapped in early 2011</a>. He paid a ransom and was released unharmed after being held for three weeks.</p>
<p>No ransom demand was made, however, in a more recent kidnapping of two Christian hospital employees in Karachi. In March 2012, Compass Direct News Service <a href="http://www.compassdirect.org/english/country/pakistan/article_1436466.html">reported</a> that Indrias Javaid, 42, the general manager, and Isaac Samson, 26, from the finance office, of South Korean-based Good Samaritan Hospital were taken from the hospital van en route to work by four “fair-skinned” Pashtu-speaking suspects. Police believe that the kidnappers took them to Pakistan’s tribal areas. According to a senior police investigator, “most radical groups believe that Christian NGOs are involved in evangelizing ‘under the guise of charity’ and have been targeted for that reason.”</p>
<p>Pashtun Taliban militants are not the only Islamists attacking Christians in southern Pakistan. Jameel Sawaan was gunned down on the morning of November 16, 2011, when he and his assistant were opening up his cosmetics shop in the Gulshan-e-Iqbal neighborhood. A young man approached and shot the lay evangelist in the neck and the face and then fled on a motorcycle with two other men. Sawaan’s son, Zahid Jameel, told <a href="http://www.compassdirect.org/english/country/pakistan/article_123411.html">Compass Direct</a> that his father was killed “because of his preaching of the Bible.” “There is no other reason,” he said. He explained that for several years Sawaan had been reaching out to “share the Good News” with people.</p>
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		<title>Refuting Apologetics Over Islamic &#8216;Creative Lying&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 04:17:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raymond Ibrahim]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Muslim activist dissembles about Islamic dissembling.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/tumblr_le6iesA6If1qeq028o1_500_large.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-125707" title="tumblr_le6iesA6If1qeq028o1_500_large" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/tumblr_le6iesA6If1qeq028o1_500_large.gif" alt="" width="375" height="249" /></a><a href="http://answering-islam.org/authors/shamoun.html">Sam Shamoun </a>of Answering Islam recently forwarded me an article titled &#8220;<a href="http://thedebateinitiative.com/2012/03/02/tawriya-islamic-doctrine-of-creative-lying-response-to-raymond-ibrahim/">Tawriya: Islamic Doctrine of &#8216;Creative Lying&#8217;? Response to Raymond Ibrahim</a>,&#8221; appearing on a website called Muslim Debate Initiative, and written by one Shadid (&#8220;Severe&#8221;) Lewis in response to my recent exposition on the <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/11267/tawriya-lying">doctrine of tawriya</a>. Although this response—poorly written, poorly argued—would normally be ignored, I address it for three reasons: 1) To date, it is the only rebuttal I have seen from a Muslim concerning tawriya; 2) Far from rejecting tawriya, it actually validates it (the author spends his time chasing red herrings, not disproving the doctrine); 3) It is a good example of the speciousness and sophistry employed by those who try to downplay or rationalize some of Islam&#8217;s more problematic doctrines, in this case, tawriya. (Note: Although Shadid&#8217;s <a href="http://thedebateinitiative.com/2012/03/02/tawriya-islamic-doctrine-of-creative-lying-response-to-raymond-ibrahim/">original article </a>is littered with grammatical and punctuation errors, in the interest of readability, I have corrected the more egregious when quoting him.)</p>
<p>At the start, after informing readers that he &#8220;read the article of Raymond Ibrahim posted on Frontpagemag.com and I just had to respond,&#8221; Shadid argues that tawriya really &#8220;means deliberate ambiguity rather than creative lying.&#8221; Discerning readers understand such euphemisms change nothing about the doctrine.</p>
<p>After I pointed out that most Muslim scholars (or ulema) are agreed that tawriya should not be used to commit an &#8220;injustice,&#8221; I added &#8220;&#8216;injustice&#8217; as defined by Sharia, of course, not Western standards.&#8221; To this, Shadid responds: &#8220;Says who? None of the sources he [me] cited said as only defined by Sharia. A commonly known wrong is a commonly known wrong just the same in Islam (stealing, cheating, murder, etc. is wrong and accepted as such in Islam).&#8221;</p>
<p>First, of course the Muslim authorities do not bother pointing out that they mean justice and injustice as defined by Sharia; that&#8217;s a given. Likewise, anyone familiar with Islamic law and doctrine—presumably Muslims like Shadid himself—know that many of Islam&#8217;s views on &#8220;right&#8221; and &#8220;wrong&#8221; do not agree with &#8220;universal standards.&#8221; One example: Islamic law holds that any Muslim who converts out of Islam and refuses to return is an apostate to be executed. Whereas in Islam, such executions are deemed &#8220;just,&#8221; from a Western point of view, which acknowledges religious freedom, they are unjust. In this context, then, it is &#8220;just&#8221; to use tawriya (lying) to enable the execution of an apostate.</p>
<p>Next, Shadid distracts the issue by making irrelevant points: &#8220;Sheikh Al-Munajjid, another source cited by the article&#8217;s author, said excessive use of puns leads to lying. So the claim that this [tawriya] can be used whenever and wherever is a lie in itself.&#8221;</p>
<p>Yes, at the very end of his fatwa, after giving many proofs validating tawriya, Munajjid warned that too much tawriya can &#8220;lead one to slip into a lie,&#8221; meaning that, by getting caught up in one&#8217;s own dissembling game, one can end up committing an actual lie—one that is not &#8220;technically&#8221; true, a criterion of tawriya—without realizing it. More to the point, saying that some ulema warn against using tawriya too much, does not change the fact that Islam permits lying through tawriya, and that it is up to the individual Muslim to decide how much is too much.</p>
<p>Shadid continues: &#8220;Al Munajjid said this [tawriya] is used for embarrassing circumstances. Yet the author would have us believe Muslims can use this to lie in business transactions, and to take peoples&#8217; property and other commonly accepted wrong activities.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Tawriya: Islamic Doctrine of ‘Creative Lying’</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 04:17:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raymond Ibrahim]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A brand of Islamic deception known by few in the West -- and more widespread than most realize. ]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>The following article was originally published by the <em><a href="http://www.stonegateinstitute.org/">Stonegate Institute</a></em>. </strong></p>
<p>Perhaps you have heard of <a href="http://www.meforum.org/2538/taqiyya-islam-rules-of-war"><em>taqiyya</em></a>, the Muslim doctrine that allows lying in certain circumstances, primarily when Muslim minorities live under infidel authority.  Now meet <em>tawriya</em>, a doctrine that allows lying in virtually <em>all</em> circumstances—including to fellow Muslims and by swearing to Allah—provided the liar is creative enough to articulate his deceit in a way that is true to him. (Though tawriya is technically not “new”—as shall be seen, it has been part of Islamic law and tradition for centuries—it is certainly new to most non-Muslims, hence the need for this exposition and the word “new” in the title.)</p>
<p>The authoritative <em>Hans Wehr Arabic-English Dictionary</em> defines tawriya as, “hiding, concealment; dissemblance, dissimulation, hypocrisy; equivocation, ambiguity, double-entendre, allusion.”  Conjugates of the trilateral root of the word, <em>w-r-y</em>, appear in the Quran in the context of hiding or concealing something (e.g., 5:31, 7:26).</p>
<p>As a doctrine, “double-entendre” best describes tawriya’s function.  According to past and present Muslim scholars (several documented below), tawriya is when a speaker says something that means one thing to the listener, though the speaker means something else, and his words technically support this alternate meaning.</p>
<p>For example, if someone declares “I don’t have a penny in my pocket,” most listeners will assume the speaker has no money on him—though he might have dollar bills, just literally no pennies. Likewise, say a friend asks you, “Do you know where Mike is?” You do, but prefer not to divulge.  So you say “No, I don’t know”—but you keep in mind <em>another</em> Mike, whose whereabouts you really do not know.</p>
<p>All these are legitimate according to Sharia law and do not constitute “lying,” which is otherwise forbidden in Islam, except in three cases: lying in war, lying to one’s spouse, and lying in order to reconcile people.  For these, Sharia permits Muslims to lie freely, without the strictures of tawriya, that is, without the need for creativity.</p>
<p>As for all other instances, in the words of <a href="http://islamqa.info/ar/ref/45865">Sheikh Muhammad Salih al-Munajid</a> (based on scholarly consensus): “Tawriya is permissible under two conditions: 1) that the words used fit the hidden meaning; 2) that it does not lead to an injustice” (“injustice” as defined by Sharia, of course, not Western standards).  Otherwise, it is permissible even for a Muslim to swear when lying through tawriya.  Munajid, for example, cites a man who swears to Allah that he can only sleep under a roof (<em>saqf</em>); when the man is caught sleeping atop a roof, he exonerates himself by saying “by roof, I meant the open sky.” This is legitimate.  “After all,” Munajid adds, “Quran 21:32 refers to the sky as a roof [<em>saqf</em>].”</p>
<p>Here is a recent example of tawriya in action: Because it is <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=FFW3ZNC8sjw">a “great sin</a>” for Muslims to acknowledge Christmas, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=-ssc7MB32Sk">this sheikh</a> counsels Muslims to tell Christians, “I wish you the best,” whereby the latter might “understand it to mean you’re wishing them best in terms of their [Christmas] celebration.” But—here the wily sheikh giggles as he explains—“by saying <em>I wish you the best</em>, you mean in your heart <em>I wish you become a Muslim</em>.”</p>
<p>As with most Muslim practices, tawriya is traced to Islam’s prophet.  After insisting Muslims “need” tawriya because it “saves them from lying,” and thus sinning, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0XZxF7uvSo">Sheikh Uthman al-Khamis</a>  adds that Muhammad often used it.  Indeed, Muhammad is recorded saying “Allah has commanded me to equivocate among the people inasmuch as he has commanded me to establish [religious] obligations”; and “I have been sent with obfuscation”; and “whoever lives his life in dissimulation dies a martyr” (Sami Mukaram, <em>Al Taqiyya Fi Al Islam</em>, London: Mu’assisat al-Turath al-Druzi, 2004, p. 30).</p>
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		<title>Shock Horror: Saudi Textbooks Teach Islam!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 04:35:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Spencer]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What exactly did anyone expect? ]]></description>
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<p>Catherine Herridge of <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/12/21/extremist-teachings-remain-in-saudi-textbooks-despite-kingdoms-claims-reform/#ixzz1hFKF1iCs">Fox News</a> reported last week that “despite Saudi Arabia&#8217;s promises to clean up textbooks in the kingdom, recent editions continue to raise alarms in the West over jihadist language.” The story of the Saudis’ supposed duplicity has been circulating widely, but what is more surprising than the contents of the Saudi textbooks is that anyone would be surprised by them. The Saudi textbooks teach Islam. What else did anyone expect?</p>
<p>Ali Al-Ahmed, director of the Institute for Gulf Affairs, correctly pointed out that “this is where terrorism starts, in the education system.” He stated, quite rightly, that “if you teach 6 million children in these important years of their lives, if you install that in their brain, no wonder we have so many Saudi suicide bombers.”</p>
<p>But there is nothing in the least unusual about what the Saudis are teaching given the fact that the official religion of the Kingdom is Islam. For example, Al-Ahmed explained that tenth-grade textbooks “show students how to cut [the] hand and the feet of a thief.”</p>
<p>Why not? The Qur’an says: “As for the thief, both male and female, cut off their hands. It is the reward of their own deeds, an exemplary punishment from Allah. Allah is Mighty, Wise” (5:38). Is the problem that tenth graders are too young to learn this sort of thing? But why should anyone be too young to learn the ins and outs of the eternal and perfect law designed by the supreme being for all human societies in all times and places?</p>
<p>Al-Ahmed also noted that a ninth-grade text called on Muslims to kill Jews in order to bring about the hour of judgment: “The hour [of judgment] will not come until the Muslims fight the Jews and kill them. &#8230; There is a Jew behind me come and kill him.”</p>
<p>Here again, why is anyone surprised? The hadith collection that Muslims consider most reliable, Sahih Bukhari, quotes Muhammad saying this: “Allah’s Apostle said, The Hour will not be established until you fight with the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say. ‘O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him’” (4.52.177).</p>
<p>Should Saudi ninth graders not be learning about what they must do in order to bring about the blessed day and hour in which all things will be consummated and the golden age will dawn? Yes, it’s genocidal, anti-Semitic and monstrous, but then again, so is the original statement attributed to Muhammad. To condemn the Saudi textbooks is to condemn Muhammad and Islam. Yet the mainstream media stories that wrung their hands over the Saudi textbooks never pointed out that the noxious elements of those textbooks came straight from the Qur’an and the Islamic prophet.</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 04:40:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[’Tis the season for great folly… ]]></description>
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<p>A recent <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/12/09/mob-attacks-on-christian-businesses-raise-security-concerns-as-iraq-enters-new/">Fox News report</a> tells of how “a rash of attacks on Christian-owned businesses in <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/topics/politics/iraq/northern-iraq.htm#r_src=ramp">northern Iraq </a>has raised troubling questions about the future safety of the country&#8217;s shrinking Christian community, particularly as U.S. forces withdraw completely from the nation they’ve refereed since 2003.”</p>
<p>In fact, “questions about the future safety of the country’s shrinking Christian community”  have been raised ever since the U.S. toppled secular strongman Saddam Hussein, thereby unloosing the forces of jihad previously corked.  The report continues:</p>
<blockquote><p>The attacks, which have received little international attention, raged through northern cities following a sermon last Friday by a local mullah. Video purportedly from the riots posted online shows mobs burning and wrecking businesses, which included liquor stores, hotels and hair salons.</p></blockquote>
<p>Note the two important facts here that play over and over whenever Christians are persecuted under Islam: 1) Despite their frequency and severity, they “receive little international attention” (indeed, only the most spectacular of terrorist attacks on Christians—such as the 2010 Baghdad church attack which left some 60 dead—ever receive mainstream media attention); and 2) as usual, the attacks followed “a sermon last Friday by a local mullah” (in other words, are Islamic in nature).</p>
<p>As if the situation wasn’t bad enough, after pointing out that “Iraqi Christians &#8230; are living in fear,” U.S. Rep. Frank Wolf said:</p>
<blockquote><p>“Now with the [U.S.] forces leaving &#8230; I think the Iraqi Christians are going to go through a very, very difficult time.” … He urged the Obama administration to do more to speak up on the issue.   “They know this is a problem. Our government ought to be advocating and ought to be pushing.”</p></blockquote>
<p>It ought to, but it’s not.   After calling the U.S. government’s silence concerning the blatant persecution of Iraq’s Christians “disturbing,” the founder of the Iraqi Christian Relief Council added: “We’re on the verge of extinction.”</p>
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<p>Over the years I have seen it happen more than once: a plausible &#8220;moderate Muslim&#8221; appears on the scene and becomes the darling of hopeful non-Muslims who believe that he epitomizes the peaceful, reasonable face of Islam upon which they have placed so much hope (and based so much policy). His non-Muslim patrons loudly sing his praises and denounce anyone who is rude or &#8220;Islamophobic&#8221; enough to examine his statements closely and find that they don&#8217;t actually amount to what those patrons think they do or wish they did: a genuinely peaceful and pluralistic version of Islam that is strong enough on Islamic grounds to convince Muslims that they should abandon jihad against Infidels in all its manifestations.</p>
<p>Not infrequently I have been the first to burst the bubbles of these &#8220;moderates,&#8221; thereby arousing the ire of the willfully ignorant and self-deceived, who found my unwillingness to be satisfied with these moderates&#8217; blandly incomplete or deceptive versions of Islam to be evidence of my &#8220;Islamophobia&#8221; or bigotry or what have you. In reality, it was nothing of the kind. It was just an unwillingness to be fooled.</p>
<p>There was <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2005/05/spencer-vs-mohammed-round-ii.html" target="_blank">Khaleel Mohammed</a>, who won many bemused non-Muslim hearts (and opened many non-Muslim wallets) by appearing in <em>Obsession</em>, but who <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2008/09/muslim-obsession-interviewee-throws-obsession-under-the-bus-calls-it-satanic.html" target="_blank">later denounced the film as &#8220;Satanic.&#8221;</a></p>
<p>There was <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2007/11/former-british-jihadist-hirsi-ali-spencer-ibn-warraq-helping-al-qaeda.html" target="_blank">Ed Husain</a>, who continues to bamboozle many in Britain, but not the redoubtable and clear-sighted Melanie Phillips, who saw through him when he began <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2009/01/uk-muslim-leaders-to-gordon-brown-hold-israel-accountable----or-else.html" target="_blank">inciting young Muslims to hate Israel over earlier false charges of atrocities against Gazans</a>.</p>
<p>There was <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2006/11/hamid-mir-and-q.html" target="_blank">Hamid Mir</a>, who wowed audiences in the U.S. with his tales of interviewing Osama bin Laden and avowals of a peaceful, tolerant Islam, who was <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/05/hamid-mir-moderate-top-pakistani-tv-anchor-caught-aiding-taliban-jihadists.html" target="_blank">recently discovered to be aiding the Pakistani Taliban</a>.</p>
<p>There is the cuddly Tarek Fatah, who reassures everyone with his comfortable manner &#8212; but who, when confronted with Wafa Sultan&#8217;s unblinking truth-telling about Islam and Muhammad, <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/03/in-defense-of-wafa-sultan.html" target="_blank">resorted in the blink of an eye to tried-and-true CAIR-like tactics of personal defamation and character assassination</a>.</p>
<p>There have been others also, including a still-prominent, much-ballyhooed moderate who was caught in an interview decrying the Israeli &#8220;occupation&#8221; &#8212; but that is a story for another day. Today there is <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2004/08/al-qaeda-vs-the-quran.html" target="_blank">Mustafa</a> <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2004/08/are-the-beheadings-un-islamic.html" target="_blank">Akyol</a>, a Turkish moderate with whom I had <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2007/09/more-soothing-nonsense.html" target="_blank">several</a> <a href="http://97.74.65.51/Printable.aspx?ArtId=2009" target="_blank">exchanges</a> <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2004/10/akyol-and-spencer-on-islamic-reform.html" target="_blank">a few</a> <a href="http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=10905" target="_blank">years</a> <a href="http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=11037" target="_blank">ago</a>.</p>
<p>Akyol, like Ed Husain and the other moderate I mentioned above, finds one great obstacle in the way of a lucrative and adulation-filled career as a &#8220;moderate&#8221;: Israel. It is one thing to sell unsuspecting and ignorant Infidels on the idea that Islam is peace. But Islamic antisemitism, based on the Qur&#8217;an&#8217;s designation of the Jews as the worst enemies of the Muslims (5:82) and their repeated cursing by Allah (2:62-65; 2:89; 5:59-60; 7:166; 9:30, etc.), is harder for even these &#8220;moderates&#8221; to shake off, and it leads them to take postures toward Israel that are frequently revealing.</p>
<p>I hate to say I told you so, but I don&#8217;t hate it all that much.</p>
<p>&#8220;Who the hell does Israel think she is?,&#8221; by Mustafa Akyol in the <a href="http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=who-the-hell-does-israel-think-she-is-2010-06-01" target="_blank">Hurriyet Daily News</a>, June 1 (thanks to C. Cantoni):</p>
<blockquote><p>Two days ago, Israeli forces attacked a humanitarian aid flotilla in international waters. The whole purpose of the activists on the raided Turkish ship, the Mavi Marmara, and several others around it, were to bring aid and supplies, including playgrounds for children, to Gaza. They paid the price by being the targets of Israeli machine guns.</p></blockquote>
<div><a href="http://idfspokesperson.com/2010/05/31/pictures-of-weapons-found-on-the-mavi-marmara-flotilla-ship-31-may-2010/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.jihadwatch.org/images/Weapons.jpg" alt="Weapons.jpg" width="501" height="333" /></a><strong><em> </em></strong></div>
<div><strong><em>Aid and supplies from the Mavi Marmara</em></strong></div>
<div>&#8220;Flotilla &#8216;Aid&#8217; to Gaza Includes Expired Medicines, Old Equipment,&#8221; by Hillel Fendel for <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/137816" target="_blank">Israel National News</a>, June 1: &#8220;Much of the equipment and supplies aboard the &#8216;humanitarian&#8217; ships for Gaza has been checked and found to be worthless&#8230;.An IDF source said that the poor condition of the supplies renders most of it unusable. &#8216;This once again strengthens the evaluation that the intentions of the flotilla organizers were not humanitarian in the first place,&#8217; he said.&#8221;</div>
<p>Back to Akyol:</p>
<blockquote><p>At least 10 unarmed civilians, most of whom are Turks, were killed. Dozens of others were injured.There is no need to mince words in the face of this atrocity: Israel has committed piracy, barbarism and state terrorism.</p>
<p>Beyond doing all these shamelessly, Israeli spokesmen have also lied shamelessly. One of them, Deputy Foreign Minister Daniel Ayalon, was doing exactly that when he portrayed the ship, and the whole aid flotilla, as full of people &#8220;well-known for their ties with global Jihad, Al-Qaeda and Hamas.&#8221;</p>
<p>Damned lies</p>
<p>In fact, the 600 or so activists in the flotilla were a diverse group from 32 countries and many faiths. They included Christian priests and secular humanists. They included Mairead Corrigan-Maguire, the 85-year-old Nobel peace laureate from North Ireland, and Hedy Epstein, a Holocaust survivor. They included children, including a 1-year-old.</p></blockquote>
<p>Does the presence of these Useful Idiots actually refute the contention that the ship was also full of people tied to Al-Qaeda and other jihad groups? Of course not.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.telegraaf.nl/binnenland/6841211/__Hollandse_Hamasleider_was_erbij__.html" target="_blank">These</a> <a href="http://www.elsevier.nl/web/Nieuws/Nederland/267176/Nederlandse-antiIsraelactivist-is-kopstuk-van-Hamas.htm" target="_blank">two</a> Dutch-language stories (thanks to Denise) reveal that one of the two Dutch citizens on the Flotilla, Amin Abou Rashed, is a Hamas leader who has also worked for the Al-Aksa Foundation, which was suspected of raising money for Hamas. One of the articles mentions that he lost his arm in battle against Israel.</p>
<blockquote><p>Ayalon was also lying when he said, &#8220;we found weapons that were prepared in advance and used against our forces.&#8221; The Turkish authorities had checked the ships thoroughly before their departure, and there were simply no firearms on board. The only &#8220;weapons&#8221; that can be spoken of were the wooden or metal sticks that some of the activists had in their hands, apparently taken from the chairs or other ordinary materials on the vessels.Yesterday, Israel released the photos of some other &#8220;weapons&#8221; on board, which were just knives taken from the ship&#8217;s kitchen.</p></blockquote>
<div><a href="http://idfspokesperson.com/2010/05/31/pictures-of-weapons-found-on-the-mavi-marmara-flotilla-ship-31-may-2010/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.jihadwatch.org/images/knives.jpg" alt="knives.jpg" width="496" height="332" /></a><strong><em> </em></strong></div>
<div><strong><em>Knives from the ship&#8217;s kitchen</em></strong></div>
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<div><a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2010/06/idf-global-jihad-on-flotilla.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.jihadwatch.org/images/knifewielding.jpg" alt="knifewielding.jpg" width="482" height="443" /></a><strong><em> </em></strong></div>
<div><strong><em>The ship&#8217;s chef, no doubt</em></strong></div>
<p>Akyol:</p>
<blockquote><p>The video footage we have seen on TV actually gives a sense of what happened: Israeli commandos raided the ships at dawn, sliding down from helicopters via ropes with machine guns in their hands. Some of the activists on board took this as an assault on their ship, which was, to repeat, in international, not Israeli, waters. (How could they take it otherwise?) Then they tried to resist the commandos with the sticks in their hands. The soldiers, in return, fired on the activists, killing at least 10 people and injuring dozens.</p></blockquote>
<p>Actually, the &#8220;activists&#8221; took it upon themselves to &#8220;resist the commandos&#8221; before the &#8220;commandos&#8221; had done anything. Here is the actual videotape &#8212; see for yourself:</p>
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<blockquote><p>From the Israeli point of view, everything is perfectly fine here: They have a policy of blockading Gaza, and those who defy it have to face the consequences.</p></blockquote>
<p>Note that Akyol utters not a word about the indiscriminate rocket attacks upon Israeli civilians, launched from Gaza for many years.</p>
<blockquote><p>The question is why in the world do people have to obey Israel&#8217;s dictates and recognize its inhumane blockade on Gaza?Who the hell is Israel, in other words, to force 1.5 million people to live in an open-air prison for years?</p></blockquote>
<p>Scenes from that hellish open-air prison:</p>
<p><a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2010/06/another-two-warships-in-antihumanitarian-flotilla-make-their-way-to-the-jewish-state.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.jihadwatch.org/images/Gaza1.jpg" alt="Gaza1.jpg" width="496" height="334" /></a><br />
<a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2010/06/another-two-warships-in-antihumanitarian-flotilla-make-their-way-to-the-jewish-state.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.jihadwatch.org/images/Gaza2.jpg" alt="Gaza2.jpg" width="494" height="335" /></a><br />
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<img src="http://www.jihadwatch.org/images/Gaza3.jpg" alt="Gaza3.jpg" width="495" height="332" /></a></p>
<p>Akyol:</p>
<blockquote><p>The answer from Israel is that &#8220;Hamas fires rockets from Gaza.&#8221; Well, the last time those rockets were flying in the air, Israel was also firing rockets (and phosphorus bombs) into Gaza, killing a hundred times more civilians than Hamas did. According to a United Nations report, the actions of both sides equally amounted to war crimes&#8230;.</p></blockquote>
<p>Akyol doesn&#8217;t mention that that UN report was <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/02/israel-refutes-uns-despicable-oic-funded-goldstone-report.html">funded by the Organization of the Islamic Conference. Nor does he bother to note that it has been thoroughly debunked</a>.</p>
<p>Akyol:</p>
<blockquote><p>There is even a more fundamental question here, relating to the elephant in the Middle Eastern room: Who the hell is Israel to occupy the West Bank and East Jerusalem since 1967, and to systematically steal these territories by building illegal settlements?</p></blockquote>
<p>Question to Akyol: why didn&#8217;t the &#8220;Palestinians&#8221; fight against Egyptian &#8220;occupation&#8221; of Gaza and Jordanian &#8220;occupation&#8221; of the West Bank between 1948 and 1967?</p>
<blockquote><p>And how can she expect the Palestinians, and other nations like us, the Turks, to bow down to this unabashed theft of land? When I asked that question to an Israeli hawk some years ago, I received a very revealing response: &#8220;Might,&#8221; he said, &#8220;makes right.&#8221;</p>
<p>Well, that might be a popular belief in Tel Aviv and Occupied Jerusalem, but not here in Istanbul. In fact our creed tells us that the exact opposite is true: Right, sooner or later, makes might.</p>
<p>The hundreds of heroes who sailed to Gaza last weekend had this faith in their hearts. Here in Turkey, 70 million more stand by them. We mourn for our fallen, but also know that they did not die in vain. Their sacrifice unveiled to the world not just the suffering of the innocents in the Gaza ghetto, but also the brutality of the rogue state that imposes it.</p>
<p>Read my lips: This spirit is really not going to die. We Turks will continue to stand for what is right, regardless of Israel&#8217;s might. None of her lobbying, bullying or killing is going to change that.</p></blockquote>
<p>Nor will truth, evidently.</p>
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		<title>The Saudi Pedophile Chronicles</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jamie Glazov]]></dc:creator>
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<p>The Saudis really need to get an infomercial out there — and the <em>Nation</em> magazine and other leftist sites <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FUnited-Hate-Romance-Tyranny-Terror%2Fdp%2F1935071602%2F&amp;tag=pajamasmedia-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325">that apologize for Islamic gender apartheid</a> can feature it on their webpages. It would go something like this:</p>
<p>A Saudi sheikh dressed slickly in Saudi garb would be sitting confidently in a chair, looking into the camera with an excited smile. He would then begin asking, with earnestness and an encouraging tone:</p>
<blockquote><p>Are you a pedophile? Do you like underage girls? Would you like to rape one of them — or several? And get away with it? Even have it legally sanctioned? Then Saudi Arabia is for you.</p></blockquote>
<p>The screen then shifts to a shopping mall filled with niqab-covered women (only the slit of the eyes showing) walking up and down in front of stores. It remains unclear what message this is supposed to denote, but the camera stays focused on these shrouded women for about ten seconds. Then a warning appears that all infidels who are interested must first convert to Islam. This is followed by a phone number appearing over a black background, indicating a contact person who can be reached. A voice then explains that this person lurks within the Saudi religious police and that he will connect interested parties to Saudi fathers intent on selling their underage girls into marriage — a standard practice in Saudi Arabia.</p>
<p>Saudi fathers, you see, they know what’s up: it’s better to sell one’s daughter at a very young age to get raped under the sanctioning of Islamic law than to risk her getting older and bringing shame to the family — which can happen in a million ways in Saudi Arabia (i.e., she might go outside without permission or <a href="http://www.globalpolitician.com/21879-saudi">attempt to run out of a burning building unveiled</a>). This all gets too needlessly complicated — as you then have to kill her. So why go through all the trouble when you can make some cash while she’s young and get rid of the problem?</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[How the Obama administration nurtures resentment to foster big government.]]></description>
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<p>If eternal vigilance is the price of freedom, incessant distractions are the way that politicians take away our freedoms, in order to enhance their own power and longevity in office. Dire alarms and heady crusades are among the many distractions of our attention from the ever increasing ways that government finds to take away more of our money and more of our freedom.</p>
<p>Magicians have long known that distracting an audience is the key to creating the illusion of magic. It is also the key to political magic.</p>
<p>Alarms ranging from &#8220;overpopulation&#8221; to &#8220;global warming&#8221; and crusades ranging from &#8220;affordable housing&#8221; to &#8220;universal <a href="http://www.creators.com/opinion/thomas-sowell.html#" target="_blank">health care</a>&#8221; have been among the distractions of political magicians. But few distractions have had such a long and impressive political track record as getting people to resent and, if necessary, hate other people.</p>
<p>The most politically effective totalitarian systems have gotten people to give up their own freedom in order to vent their resentment or hatred at other people— under Communism, the capitalists; under Nazis, the Jews.</p>
<p>Under extremist Islamic regimes today, hatred is directed at the infidels in general and the &#8220;great Satan,&#8221; the United States, in particular. There some people have been induced to give up not only their freedom but even their lives, in order to strike a blow against those they have been taught to hate.</p>
<p>We have not yet reached these levels of hostility, but those who are taking away our freedoms, bit by bit, on the installment plan, have been incessantly supplying us with people to resent.</p>
<p>One of the most audacious attempts to take away our freedom to live our lives as we see fit has been the so-called &#8220;health care reform&#8221; bills that were being rushed through Congress before either the public or the members of Congress themselves had a chance to discover all that was in it.</p>
<p>For this, we were taught to resent doctors, insurance companies and even people with &#8220;Cadillac health insurance plans,&#8221; who were to be singled out for special taxes. Meanwhile, our freedom to make our own medical decisions— on which life and death can depend— was to be quietly taken from us and transferred to our betters in Washington.</p>
<p>Only the recent Massachusetts election results have put that on hold.</p>
<p>Another dangerous power toward which we are moving, bit by bit, on the installment plan, is the power of politicians to tell people what their incomes can and cannot be. Here the resentment is being directed against &#8220;the rich.&#8221;</p>
<p>The distracting phrases here include &#8220;obscene&#8221; wealth and &#8220;unconscionable&#8221; profits. But, if we stop and think about it— which politicians don&#8217;t expect us to— what is obscene about wealth? Wouldn&#8217;t we consider it great if every human being on earth had a billion dollars and lived in a place that could rival the Taj Mahal?</p>
<p>Poverty is obscene. It is poverty that needs to be reduced—and increasing a country&#8217;s productivity has done that far more widely than redistributing income by targeting &#8220;the rich.&#8221;</p>
<p>You can see the agenda behind the rhetoric when profits are called &#8220;unconscionable&#8221; but taxes never are, even when taxes take more than half of what someone has earned, or add much more to the prices we have to pay than profits do.</p>
<p>The assumption that what A pays B is any business of C is an assumption that means a dangerous power being transferred to politicians to tell us all what incomes we can and cannot receive. It will not apply to everyone all at once. Like the income tax, which at first applied only to the truly rich, and then slowly but steadily moved down the income scale to hit the rest of us, the power to say what incomes people can be allowed to make will inevitably move down the income scale to make us all dependents and supplicants of politicians.</p>
<p>The phrase &#8220;public servants&#8221; is increasingly misleading. They are well on their way to becoming public masters— like aptly named White House &#8220;czars.&#8221; The more they can get us all to resent those they designate, the more they can distract us from their increasing control of our own lives— but only if we sell our freedom cheap. We can sell our birthright and not even get the mess of pottage.</p>
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<p>Judged simply by their content, it would be easy to misidentify the speaker who uttered the following quotes:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;The effects of global warming have touched every continent. Drought and deserts are spreading, while from the other floods and hurricanes unseen before the previous decades have now become frequent.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Al Gore perhaps?</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;The world is held hostage by major corporations, which are pushing it to the brink. World politics are not governed by reason but by the force and greed of oil thieves and warmongers and the cruel beasts of capitalism.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Sounds a lot like something you might read at the Daily Kos.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;We must also stop dealings in the dollar and get rid of it as soon as possible. I know that this has great consequences and grave ramifications, but it is the only means to liberate humanity from slavery and dependence on America.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>That’s got to be George Soros, doesn’t it?</p>
<p>In fact, all three quotes are part of Osama bin Laden’s <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,584249,00.html">latest appeal to the world</a> in an audio tape released last week by the Arab news network Al-Jazeera. The idea, no doubt, was to appeal to more “mainstream” anti-Americanism around the world. Those who help sabotage American industry and our economy, in other words, punish the infidels. Perhaps not quite as spectacular as <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,582355,00.html">blowing up a CIA outpost</a>, but all contributions are gratefully accepted.</p>
<p>This is not to say that either Al Gore or George Soros are terrorist sympathizers (the jury is out on the Daily Kos). Rather, it’s to observe that radical messages tend to attract radicals. Bin-Laden’s self-serving green activism will resonate with people pre-disposed to distrust America, and alarmists like Gore have created the environment that allows this to occur.</p>
<p>There is much obvious, and laughable, hypocrisy in bin-Laden’s sudden concern for the environment. It was his terrorist organization, after all, that leveled the twin towers, which subsequently created the most horrendous air pollution disaster in the history of New York. If he’s really concerned about the environment, this Islamic warrior might also want to consider how Mother Earth fares in his ancestral home of Saudi Arabia.</p>
<p>The following is an anecdotal story, but one suspects it’s representative of a larger truth. I worked in Saudi Arabia, on and off, between 1996 and 1998, in the Red Sea port city of Yanbu. During my time there, I had occasion to drive up the coastal highway to observe operations at the <a href="http://www.yanbucement.com/profile.html">Yanbu Cement Company</a>, located about seventy kilometers north of Yanbu. (The bin-Laden family was then rumored to have an interest in Yanbu Cement, but I can not confirm it). At the time, Yanbu Cement operated three large kilns, essentially big rotating drums in which the ingredients that go into cement “cook” at high temperature.</p>
<p>In the United States, and in most all of the western world, cement kilns have to <a href="http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=ecfr&amp;sid=6e49a0f322a1b2a5dc0579dd3386ea91&amp;rgn=div6&amp;view=text&amp;node=40:6.0.1.1.1.17&amp;idno=40">utilize pollution control devices</a> to comply with environmental standards. Without such devices, these kilns would emit truly amazing amounts of air pollution. I was therefore shocked to observe a huge, menacing, dirty brown plume that ran for miles through the air above the Red Sea. Approaching Yanbu Cement, the source of that incredible smear on the atmosphere became obvious: none of the kilns at Yanbu Cement were controlled at all. The stacks belched out filthy plumes of soot at a rate that I have never observed then or since in over twenty five years of environmental practice.</p>
<p>This kind of story can be told again and again throughout the developing and third worlds. Those nations are not nearly rigorous about protecting the environment as the west, because environmental controls cost money to install and to operate. Accordingly, if everyone followed bin-Laden’s advice and, using the power of their purses, effectively transferred manufacturing capacity to such nations, the net result would be a far more polluted world.</p>
<p>But, of course, bin-Laden doesn’t really care about the health and welfare of the planet and its inhabitants. He’s just scrambling for talking points that he hopes will resonate with listeners who hate America. Al Gore and his disciples have unwittingly provided him with more ammunition to do so. That doesn’t make Gore a terrorist, but it’s surely further evidence of the unintended consequences that are bound to occur when you abandon science for the sake of a political agenda.</p>
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<p>In a major victory for the increasingly embattled freedom of speech, the Texas Supreme Court has just denied a petition by the Islamic Society of Arlington, Texas and six other Texas-based Islamic organizations to review their case against human rights activist (and FrontPage Magazine writer) Joe Kaufman. The case has already gone against the Islamic groups in the initial decision as well as on appeal, but they seem determined to silence Kaufman, and could conceivably try now to take the case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. The suit itself is a manifestation of the global assault on free speech that is picking up steam more quickly than ever now, with conservative voices shouted down and physically threatened on college campuses, and warriors for free speech such as the Dutch politician Geert Wilders facing trial for exercising this fundamental right.</p>
<p>The Islamic groups’ suit against Kaufman is a cynical attempt to silence him and prevent his dissemination of truths about them that they would prefer unwary Infidels didn’t know – specifically, the terror ties of Islamic groups in the U.S. Ironically, however, none of the groups that sued Kaufman were actually mentioned in the article they claimed libeled them. Kaufman explains: “In October 2007, I had a lawsuit and a restraining order brought against me by seven Dallas-area Islamic organizations, who objected to an <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=28292">article that I had written for <em>FrontPage</em></a>. Not one of the groups was mentioned in the article. It was concerning information I had personally discovered linking the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) to the financing of terrorism abroad. My allegations regarding this were and are backed up by irrefutable proof.”</p>
<p>As frivolous as their charges against Kaufman manifestly were, their implications were ominous. Leftists and their Islamic supremacist allies, unable to refute the evidence and arguments their opponents present, are resorting to intimidation both legal and physical. While Kaufman has been harassed in the courtroom for over two years now, conservative speakers at campuses all over the country routinely face the specter of being physically attacked simply for expressing views out of sync with politically correct dogma. Speaking at the University of Southern California on November 4, 2009, David Horowitz noted that this was a relatively recent development: “It used to be a pleasure for me to speak on a college campus like USC.  I can remember the days when I could stroll onto the USC campus and walk over to the statue of Tommy Trojan where College Republicans had erected a platform for a rally to support our troops in Afghanistan after 9/11 at which I was to speak.  Now, however, I can’t set foot on this campus – or any campus – without being accompanied by a personal bodyguard and a battalion of armed campus security police to protect me and my student hosts.” He said this while protected by a bodyguard and twelve armed campus security officers.</p>
<p>Both of these forms of intimidation are being directed now at Geert Wilders, the Dutch Parliamentarian who produced the film <em>Fitna</em>, which shows how Islamic jihadists use violent passages of the Qur’an to justify violence and supremacism. For this and other alleged acts of “hate speech,” Wilders goes on trial in the Netherlands on January 20, for charges including having “intentionally offended a group of people, i.e. Muslims, based on their religion.”</p>
<p>It is a sad day for the freedom of speech when a man can be put on trial for causing another man offense. If offending someone were really a crime warranting prosecution by the civil authorities, the legal system would be brought to a standstill. But of course what Dutch authorities and Muslim groups in the Netherlands really want to bring to a standstill by trying Wilders is his truth-telling about the nature of Islamic jihad and Islamic supremacism – an honesty that has made his party one of the most popular in the Netherlands. The trial is an attempt by the nation’s political elites to silence one of their most formidable critics.</p>
<p>Wilders delineates the implications of his trial: “On the 20<sup>th</sup> of January 2010, a political trial will start. I am being prosecuted for my political convictions. The freedom of speech is on the verge of collapsing. If a politician is not allowed to criticise an ideology anymore, this means that we are lost, and it will lead to the end of our freedom. However I remain combative: I am convinced that I will be acquitted.”</p>
<p>Even if he does prevail, however, Wilders is still not free. “I would not qualify myself as a free man,” he has explained. “Four and a half years ago I lost my freedom. I am under guard permanently, courtesy to those who prefer violence to debate.”</p>
<p>Will American defenders of the freedom of speech also soon have to be under permanent guard, and spending thousands of hours defending themselves in court from frivolous charges that are intended only to silence them? We have already started down that road. Joe Kaufman has won another victory this week, but the Islamic supremacist machine in the United States has by no means given up its larger jihad against free speech and free thought. Those who are determined not to be silenced must settle in for a long, hard fight.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why the Left can’t accept the Islamic roots of Nidal Hasan’s shooting spree.]]></description>
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<p><strong>[Editor&#8217;s note: This article is reprinted from </strong><a href="http://www.city-journal.org/"><strong>City Journal</strong></a><strong>]</strong></p>
<p>As the United States prepares to try Nidal Malik Hasan for 13 counts of murder and 32 counts of attempted murder at Fort Hood last month, few question the suspect’s guilt, but many disagree about his motives. Yet the evidence is now <a href="../2009/11/20/major-hasan%25E2%2580%2599s-islamist-life-%25E2%2580%2593-by-daniel-pipes/" target="display">conclusive</a>: the Fort Hood massacre was an act of Islamic terror. Before his shooting spree, Hasan told colleagues that non-Muslims were infidels condemned to hell and that they should be beheaded and have boiling oil poured down their throats. Hasan traded 18 e-mails with <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/10/us/10inquire.html" target="display">Anwar al-Awlaki</a>, an al-Qaida recruiter. On the morning of the massacre, he gave his <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6526030/Fort-Hood-gunman-had-told-US-military-colleagues-that-infidels-should-have-their-throats-cut.html" target="display">neighbor</a> a Koran as he was departing for the base, telling her that he was going to do “good work for God.” Wearing Pakistani garb, Hasan shouted “Allahu akbar” as he began firing at U.S. troops.</p>
<p>Despite the plentiful evidence, however, leftists refuse to accept Hasan’s Islamic inspiration. We’ve heard the <a href="../2009/11/10/hasans-motives-by-dennis-prager/" target="display">rationalizations</a>: Hasan was a nut; the stresses of serving in the military drove him crazy; he experienced anti-Islamic discrimination; anyone is capable of “losing it” under such stressful conditions; and so on. These reflexive denials are a logical continuation of the Left’s long tradition of denying the evil of our totalitarian enemies—or, when forced to acknowledge them, blaming them on the United States. This was the pattern throughout the Cold War, and it’s continued during the War on Terror.</p>
<p>When it’s proven beyond reasonable doubt that jihadism was in fact Hasan’s motive, here’s a prediction: leftists will either fall into apathetic silence or respond that it was American racism, oppression, and Islamophobia that forced Hasan’s hand. To recognize the evil of Nidal Hasan and his ideology, to admit the existence of pernicious enemies, is to concede that there are societies, cultures, and systems that are much more unjust than ours. This is an untenable step for leftists to take, because it means acknowledging that there is something superior about our civilization that’s worth saving and defending.</p>
<p>The notion that his own society is evil and unjust is the bedrock of the leftist’s vision. Wicked capitalists trample on the poor, the oppressed, and the downtrodden; the leftist appoints himself to rescue these victims. He is a self-styled social redeemer, leading a movement to liberate the masses, even if it results in the destruction of his own society. This political mission provides him with immense moral indignation and, therefore, moral superiority, dispositions from which, in turn, he derives emotional self-gratification. His whole belief system provides him with a sense of belonging; he joins other social redeemers, as well as the victims, real or imagined, who wait for him to break their chains.</p>
<p>Thus, the leftist’s political disposition is a faith that reinforces his personal identity and sense of belonging. Admitting that Hasan is a jihadist would undermine that faith. It would also expose the leftist to potential excommunication from his social community. He’d become politically suspect to his peers, perhaps even accused of becoming a reactionary right-winger. That’s why we will continue to witness more Fort Hood denial from the Left, with all of its irrationality and disregard for human life.</p>
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<p><strong>To get the whole story on the Left&#8217;s Jihad Denial, read Jamie Glazov’s new book, <em><a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.amazon.com/United-Hate-Romance-Tyranny-Terror/dp/1935071602');" href="http://www.amazon.com/United-Hate-Romance-Tyranny-Terror/dp/1935071602">United in Hate: The Left’s Romance with Tyranny and Terror.</a></em></strong></p>
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