Islam: Is There Something Wrong with This Picture?

Imaginative Insults

Finding Allah in Unlikely Places It is bad enough when Islamists insist that Islam win privileges that no other religion enjoys; worse is when they assert Islamic rights on the basis of imaginative insults.

Now, perhaps even more absurdly, British Muslims demanded that Burger King recall a line-drawing of an ice-cream cone, arguing that it resembles (what else?) the Arabic lettering for "Allah." A customer, Rashad Akhtar, branded the design "sacrilegious" and said he was "humiliated" by the design. He added: "This is my jihad. How can you say it is a spinning swirl? You are offending Muslims."

Do not miss the photos of "the offending ice-cream swirl" and a Nike swirl -- both offensive to Muslims. My word, do they search for reasons to be offended everywhere?

We need a photo of a woman in a burqua for something that really offends Western women. I shall be offended. Then, may we call it square?




Real insults that are offensive

"Arab and Muslim Anti-Semitism in Sweden": Mikael Tossavainen documents the extent of Muslim antisemitism in Sweden and the near-blindness to it in the larger society:

[. . . . ] "Sweden threatened with jihad": Videos showing a jihadi group, Ansar al-Sunnah, training for terror attacks, were filmed in what it claims (and does appear) to be the heavily wooded Swedish countryside.

* August 8, 2005 video: An announcer says that viewers are about to watch a "demonstration of the high explosives device, that we will use in the name of Allah." A large explosion then follows.

* August 29, 2005 video: A written message asserts: "Demonstration of real high explosives device, that is filled with gas instead of ammoniate nitrate." Men with blurred-out faces set off mock suicide explosives and roadside car bomb attacks. Men in a forest clearing set off explosions of white smoke. A red vehicle goes down a forest path and is suddenly engulfed in an explosion.

The videos are available for download on infovlad.net, a website that contains blood-curdling threats ("Sweden will suffer in the name of Allah") and shows a bloody knife plunged into the map of Sweden with the threat "We will slaughter all who dared to attack our prophet Mohamed." [. . . . ]

Ice Cream Fortunes September 21, 2005

Now, on the other coast, a Yemeni immigrant, Abad Elfgeeh, 50, has just been found guilty of illegally funneling $21.9 million overseas from his Carnival French Ice Cream in Park Slope, Brooklyn. He faces up to 15 years in prison. This huge amount of money is partly explained by Mohammed Ali Hassan Al-Moayad, the Yemeni imam who funded Al-Qaeda and Hamas, having used Elfgeeh's business to move money around. Still, what is it about ice cream and Islamists?

The Open University in Britain has spawned an Arab Open University, based in Kuwait, with students primarily in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. The contents of the two institutions' teachings are revealingly different , Ferdinand Mount notes in the Daily Telegraph, with the latter "to a greater or lesser extent, adapted, expurgated and bowdlerised in order to avoid offending the authorities in their target countries." This process, known as "versioning," means that all references to pork, alcohol, homosexuality, and unmarried mothers have to be deleted from texts. "Bizarrely, any mention of football stadia seems to be forbidden, too."

[. . . . ] The university's senate, HEFCE, the QAA, even the DfES itself - the entire educational alphabet in fact - seems to have waved through this wholesale censorship without a second thought. [. . . . ]

"Efforts to integrate Muslims into the West upset a benign status quo"

Enforce Islamic Law in Canada? by Daniel Pipes, New York Sun, September 27, 2005 -- [this version differs slightly from the NY Sun's]

[. . . . ] French nuns for the first time must take off their cowls for identity card or passport pictures because of anti-hijab legislation. Likewise, French schoolchildren may not wear crosses or Stars of David to class.

Large populations – British underground riders, American airport passengers, Russian theater-goers – must undergo extensive security checks, thanks to Muslim terrorists.

Danes marrying foreigners face extensive restrictions to bring them into Denmark because of immigration abuses (the "human visa" problem) involving Muslims.

Santas, Nativity plays, Christmas carols, and Bibles are banned in Western countries so as not to offend Muslim sensitivities.

Unremarked upon by most Westerners, Islam's presence has started to change their way of life.

The "Peaceful" Ones are changing our way of life, negatively.

Why must the rest of society--which worked without apparent problems--change to accommodate the fact that unfair treatment of women and Islam's other excesses do not fit into a democracy and thus must be curbed?




"Evil had become good, wrong had become right"

"proving correct Josef Goebbels’ lesson to Hitler that if you repeat the same lie often enough, people will believe it."

Left-wing Monsters: Arafat By David Meir-Levi, FrontPageMagazine.com, Sept. 23, 2005

Yasir Arafat is the founding father of Palestinian nationalism. He is also the godfather of 20th century terrorism. The nationalist movement that he created ab ovo remains unique in history as the only one throughout the entire world whose defining paradigm is terrorism, and whose raison d’etre is the destruction of a sovereign state and the decimation of its Jewish population. Even after its leader’s death, still loyal to his legacy, the Palestinian Authority remains focused on the destruction of Israel rather than on a healthy nationalism and the building of an economically viable, Palestinian state. [. . . . ]

Arafat resuscitated Jew-hatred and made it the official policy of the UN when the Arab bloc leveraged the passage of a UN resolution equating Zionism with racism in 1975. [. . . . ]

Search: protégé of the Communist bloc , created a massive kleptocracy of cronies and loyalists , Early Years , Guerilla Leader , Black September , Arafat Becomes A Soviet Agent , evicted hundreds of thousands of mostly Christian Lebanese

This is a detailed history tour -- worth reading.



Most people won't admit to even thinking Islam is incompatible with democratic principles and tolerant Western societies. I beg to differ. I think it is time to discuss this quite openly. Why is life in the West pussyfooting around for an intolerant bunch of people who are attempting to take us back to the seventh century?

Well, not me, boys!

Consider that 90% of Austrians have decided they don't want to take the first step to admitting Turkey to the EU. Considering Austria's history and how poorly Muslims have integrated into Europe in this last several years, they seem to know what they're talking about. Perhaps they have been taught more history than guilt in their schools?

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