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by Bunk X ( 181 Comments › )
Filed under Art, CAIR, Censorship, Christianity, Dhimmitude, Free Speech, Humor, Islamists, Open thread, Political Correctness, Politics, Religion at May 20th, 2010 - 10:30 pm
While perusing the internest on “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day” I stumbled upon a story I’d missed from 2003. Apparently Johnny Hart (1931-2007) had voiced his coded opinion in his long-running strip “B.C.” and garnered complaints from CAIR and others.
The cartoon, which appeared Nov. 10 [2003] in more than 1,200 newspapers worldwide—including The Washington Post—shows a caveman entering an outhouse at night, and then saying, from inside, “Is it just me, or does it stink in here?” … [T]he cartoon contained six crescent moons—three in the sky, and three on the outhouse door—and wondered if this might have been a veiled slur on the world’s 1 billion practicing Muslims. … [An email] noted that Hart had drawn a prominent sound effect—”SLAM”—between two frames to accompany the closing of the outhouse door. The SLAM was stacked vertically, in the shape of an I, and could be seen to signify “Islam.” The cartoon appeared on the 15th day of Ramadan, the Muslim holy month.
The Washington Post asked six well-known cartoonists—all admirers of Johnny Hart—to look at the strip. Most said they had no idea what the joke was supposed to be. When the religious interpretation was suggested, five of the six thought it was probably right, even given Hart’s denial. “It’s highly, overwhelmingly, incontrovertibly suspicious,” said Berkeley Breathed, creator of “Bloom County” and the new Sunday-only strip “Opus.” “There’s no explanation for that gag without Islam. It’s meaningless.”
“That vertical SLAM is completely unnecessary to whatever surface gag is there,” said Jef Mallett, creator of the nationally syndicated cartoon “Frazz.” The cartoon would work equally well, and far more efficiently, Mallett said, without the prominent sound effect. “And other than the excuse to add three more crescents, there was no need to set the scene at night.”
Kathleen Parker added:
In answer to the question he posed in “B.C.,” it’s not the outhouse that stinks. It’s our virtuous “sensitivity” and the demand for tolerance by the manifestly intolerant that reeks.
Image from here, quotation from here, both found via link from here, and this is an Overnight Open Thread.
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Posted in Art, CAIR, Censorship, Christianity, Dhimmitude, Free Speech, Humor, Islamists, Open thread, Political Correctness, Politics, Religion | 181 Comments »
by m ( 204 Comments › )
Filed under Dhimmitude, Islamic Invasion, Islamic Supremacism, Islamic hypocrisy, Islamists, Multiculturalism, Political Correctness at May 7th, 2010 - 1:00 pm
I’m not even sure what I can say about this article that won’t get me into trouble. WE shouldn’t be the ones that try to “prove American tolerance”. How about they PROVE TO US THAT THEY CAN LIVE PEACEFULLY AMONG NON-MUSLIMS?!
This makes me sick.
NEW YORK (CBS) ― In a building damaged by debris from the Sept. 11 airliners that brought down the World Trade Center and soon to become a 13-story mosque, some see the bridging of a cultural divide and an opportunity to serve a burgeoning, peaceful religious population. Others see a painful reminder of the religious extremism that killed their loved ones.
Anything having to do with that day, that place, carries enormous meaning. Now two Islamic organizations have partnered to build something that they say will bring some good from something very bad.
Organizers say the project will create a venue for mainstream Islam and a counterbalance to radicalism. It earned a key endorsement this week from influential community leaders.
“This is a community center, a community and cultural center, which would include certainly prayer space for Muslims and we hope for non-Muslims as well, to bring about a new discourse in the relationship between the United States, New York City, and the Muslim world,” said Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf of the Cordoba Initiative.
He’s hoping the 13-story, $100 million Islamic center will join the other buildings; the banks, offices, and apartments, going up at ground zero. It will serve a growing Muslim population in lower Manhattan.
The closest mosque to this area is a dozen blocks away and very over-crowded, but this site was also chosen for exactly what happened here on 9/11, and what America stands for, Rauf told CBS station WCBS-TV in New York City.
“Definitely, this is a victory of American tolerance over hatred,” Rauf said.
But some 9/11 victims’ families say the issue isn’t tolerance.
It’s sensitivity.
The poll on that page shows an overwhelming majority of people who have taken the poll think it’s totally inappropriate. I’d like to know in what kind of universe something like that is appropriate.
Tallon wants to teach her son, Paddy, to be tolerant of other religions. But she wonders if other religions, like Islam, are teaching their children to be tolerant of hers. There are other places in the city, she said, for another mosque.
“I don’t think that they would build a German cultural center right near Auschwitz. Just because you’re looking at what happened to the people that died there. That’s all that should be focused on,” Tallon said.
Amen sister.
Read the rest here: New Yorkers Wary Of Future Ground Zero Mosque
(Link found at Jihad Watch)
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Posted in Dhimmitude, Islamic Invasion, Islamic Supremacism, Islamic hypocrisy, Islamists, Multiculturalism, Political Correctness | 204 Comments »
by Rodan ( 230 Comments › )
Filed under Al Qaeda, Islamic Invasion, Islamic Supremacism, Islamic Terrorism, Leftist-Islamic Alliance, Media, Progressives, Republican Party, Taliban, Terrorism at May 6th, 2010 - 12:32 pm
When the attempted car bomb at Times Square was reported American officials told us not to rush to judgment. Even when the Pakistani Taliban claimed credit in a pre-recorded video, officials were down playing it. When the video was released of the suspect they immediately described him as a white male, implying it wasn’t Islamic aggression. Of course, the male being white doesn’t rule out Islamic involvement as Albanians, Bosnians, Turks and Chechen are white and Muslim. The media was hoping and praying it was an angry Rightwinger Militia type. To their regret, it was just another case of Islamic aggression against the United States. As usual, the authorities and the media have egg on their faces in their denial of Islamic Imperialism.
AMERICANS CAN handle the truth. But when it comes to terrorist acts on American soil, government officials are reluctant to give it to us straight from the start.
Instant analysis of the Times Square bomb scare kicked off with the usual official disclaimers: Don’t presume a Muslim extremist had anything to do with it.
It was likely a “lone wolf’’ operation, suggested Senator Charles E. Schumer of New York, or, as New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg speculated, “somebody with a political agenda who doesn’t like the health care bill or something.’’ Janet Napolitano, secretary of Homeland Security, said it was being treated as a “potential terrorist attack’’ but it could be a “one-off’’ or isolated incident.
The arrest of Faisal Shahzad, a Pakistani-American, quickly ended alternative theories. Shahzad is not a Tea-Partier-gone-wild or someone unable to take the pressure of home foreclosure, as some news reports intimated. He told authorities his efforts to blow up innocent people are connected to the Pakistani Taliban.
Read the rest: Denial over the bomb plot
American officials and media types can deny the obvious all they want. Dar Al Islam is an expansionist entity based on domination and subjugation. After 1400 years of non stop Islamic aggression and recent attacks on America soil, how long will our elites keep pushing this tolerance nonsense? How much longer will we keep allowing and in some cases giving preference to people of this genocidal Ideology to immigrate here? Their intentions are clear, it is to colonize and dominate the whole globe.
Our Progressive and Compassionate Conservative elites can live in all the denial they want but reality is a different story. Luckily most Americans know who the enemy is and are rapidly growing intolerant of this danger.
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Tags: Denial, Dhimmitude, Islamic Colonialism, Pakistani Taliban
Posted in Al Qaeda, Islamic Invasion, Islamic Supremacism, Islamic Terrorism, Leftist-Islamic Alliance, Media, Progressives, Republican Party, Taliban, Terrorism | 230 Comments »
by tqcincinnatus ( 91 Comments › )
Filed under Dhimmitude, Islamic Invasion, Multiculturalism, Political Correctness, Sharia (Islamic Law), UK at August 20th, 2009 - 3:30 pm
Ann Huggett over at Renew America has a great essay about the continuing encroachment of shari’a law in the UK,
Summer 2009 may be half way over but there’s still time to work on that tan down by the public swimming pool. Unless, of course, you happen to live in the UK and then sunburn and tan lines will be the least of your worries. It turns out that non-Muslim recreational swimmers must adhere to sharia approved swim wear or be turned away from taxpayer funded municipal pools and state schools. It’s the UK’s latest move to accommodate its increasingly demanding, never-satisfied, always-probing-for-weaknesses Islamic community.
With such blatant favoritism guaranteed to stir up even greater antipathy towards Muslims than already exists, the politically correct pool fool administrators across the country are now insisting on sex-segregated access, that men, yes men, “…cover themselves from the navel to the knee…” and that women show only their faces, hands and feet. It doesn’t matter if you aren’t Muslim; you either wear “modest” Muslim approved dress during the days or hours designated for Muslim swimmers or you don’t so much as dip your big toe in the water.
Large, baggy swim wear for men has been a regrettable sportswear staple for years and even topping those trunks off with a tee shirt won’t impede the swimmer too much. However, on the distaff side of the equation, form fitting wet suits aren’t modest enough and Doctor Denton jammies are right out because they have drop door rear ends. So it’s the burkini for you, baby, or else!
Ruled Britannia, Britannia ruled by knaves. Britons ever, ever, ever shall be slaves?
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Posted in Dhimmitude, Islamic Invasion, Multiculturalism, Political Correctness, Sharia (Islamic Law), UK | 91 Comments »
by tqcincinnatus ( 11 Comments › )
Filed under CAIR, Dhimmitude, Islamic Invasion at July 2nd, 2009 - 6:00 am
You know, if Rudy were still Hizzoner in NYC, he’d be breaking a few windows of his own over this – NY City Council backs closure of schools for Islamic Feast on Sept. 11th
The New York City Council June 30 called on Mayor Bloomberg to add the Islamic feast days of Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha to the New York Public School calendar. The non-binding council vote, Resolution 1281, passed with only councilmember G. Oliver Koppel opposing, urges the schools be closed to celebrate the two Islamic feast days. The vote comes as the culmination of a three-years lobbying effort by New York Islamist groups and what supporters such as the Council on American-Islamic Relations describe as “over 80 Labor and Community Organizations.”
The New York Times July 1 noted:
Supporters also say that since the Ids (pronounced eeds) are floating holidays whose timing is set by the lunar calendar, they often fall on other religious holidays, on weekends or during the summer. During the next decade, for instance, at least one of the two Ids each year is expected to coincide with summer recess or an existing school holiday, according to a report by the Immigrant Rights Clinic at New York University.
While assiduously digging into Islamic lunar calendar for the future timing of the Islamic feast days, The Times fails to mention that Eid al-Adha falls on Sunday, September 11 in the year 2016 and Eid al-Fitr will begin at sunset on September 9 and continue to sunset on Friday September 10 in the year 2010.
These “civil dates” for the two feast days are projected by the Islamic Umm al-Qura calendar maintained by the Saudi Government. They are the earliest possible dates for sighting of the crescent moon at Mecca. The feasts may fall one or two days later depending on a Saudi “hilal committee” responsible to spot the first visible crescent moon at Mecca—so Eid al-Fitr could possibly begin at sunset on September 10 or 11 and continue into September 11 or 12, 2010. Resolution 1281 makes no mention of the date on which the Islamic feast days will be celebrated.
The Umm al-Qura calendar gives the modern “Georgian” calendar dates of six Islamic feast days and holidays until the year 2029. Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha are the two which will fall on September 11 soonest. The next will be Islamic New Year–1 Muharram–which will be September 11, 2018. No others fall on September 11 through 2029.
This is not the only example of Islamists convincing local authorities to celebrate Islam on September 11. Earlier this year the Hawaii State Legislature voted to celebrate “Islam Day” on September 24, 2009—a day which corresponds to absolutely nothing in the Islamic calendar but is September 11, 2009 on the old Julian calendar favored by the Eastern Orthodox Christians conquered by Islam.
But remember folks, people on the Left aren’t traitors to America. No way. No how. Hunh uh. Not ever.
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by Rodan ( 107 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Islamic Supremacism, Sharia (Islamic Law) at June 4th, 2009 - 6:59 pm
I have just finished reading this article. To my knowledge in Sharia law Muslims are supposed to give zakat. This is supposed to be money for charity. This sounds good, but under Islamic law it is mandatory.
US Muslims: Obama speech a 1st step in fixing ties
CHICAGO (AP) – Muslim cabbies who gathered at a 24-hour Chicago cafe moments after daybreak Thursday to watch President Barack Obama’s address from Egypt described his words as an important first step toward repairing the United States’ strained relations with Muslims.
“A single speech is not going to make things better, it takes time,” said Syed Mehdi, a manager at the Flaming Wok’n Grill on the city’s north side, where a handful of taxi drivers gathered over chai to watch the speech broadcast live from Cairo University. “He’s trying to build bridges. He’s trying to be the cure to the damage and wounds that happened after 9-11.”
This is what bothers me:
During the speech, Obama emphasized Muslims’ importance in American history and his commitment to addressing American laws that make it difficult for U.S. Muslims to pay zakat—a religious obligation to donate to charity.
Why would American laws make it hard to give to charity. In fact tax laws encourage this. Something is not right here. Let us discuss what is meant by this.
Update: The consensus is that Obama is referring to making it easier for Islamic charities to operate. As we know these charities are fronts for terrorists. Either way this is bad development.
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by Rodan ( 103 Comments › )
Filed under Blogwars, Dhimmitude, Free Speech, LGF, Leftist-Islamic Alliance at May 1st, 2009 - 10:50 am
Chuckle (Charles Johnson from LGF) again takes a shot at Geert Wilders with the Fascist label. He uses the Jawa Report’s analysis of Geert Wilder’s recent speech in Florida. Jawa applauds Geert Wilders for standing against Islam, but calls some of his ideas Fascist. They don’t call him a Fascist but disagree with some of his ideas like banning the Koran. Nancy however jumps on this and bashes Geert.
Jawa Report Notes Geert Wilders’ ‘Fascist Tendencies’
I see that Robert Spencer is spewing some more insults at me today. Oh well, what are you gonna do?
Meanwhile, there’s at least one “anti-jihad” blogger who isn’t being taken in by Geert Wilders’ call to strip Muslims of their right to freedom of religion: The Jawa Report: Cheers for Geert Wilders’ Bravery at Standing Against the Islamist Tide, Jeers for his Fascist Tendencies.
Kudos to Rusty Shackleford. He correctly points out that it’s “inconsistent” for Wilders to claim to be standing up for freedom of expression at the same time as he calls for banning books and taking away basic rights from people; but I’ll go further. It’s deeply hypocritical, and deeply un-American to call for these things. These are fascist opinions. And American citizens who applaud this kind of rabble-rousing populist garbage should be ashamed of themselves.
Charles it is Americans like you that don’t understand Islam or ever dealt with Muslims that should be ashamed. I have dealt with Muslims in my life, and everyone I have met have been 2 faced lying scumbags. Also having Spaniard and Sicilian blood in me, I will never forget Islam’s attempt to exterminate my ancestors. The Spaniards fought and won a 700 year war to be free of Islam. So I stand with Geert or anyone that fights Islam.
Update: Charles Non Muslims are not tolerated in their nations, why should we be tolerant of them?
Egypt: Security forces demolish church services building, assault Coptic priests, women, and children
(Hat Tip: M)
Update II: Robert Spencer responds
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by Rodan ( 8 Comments › )
Filed under Dhimmitude at February 17th, 2009 - 8:42 am
Hillary who is supposedly a “Hawk” is sure acting like a dove. She is kissing up to the Muslim world. Instead of showing strength, she is displaying weakness.
Clinton Vows to Reach Out to Islamic World
TOKYO, Feb. 17 — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday the Obama administration will make “a concerted effort” to restore the image of the United States in the Islamic world and will seek to “enlist the help of Muslims around the world against the extremists.”
Clinton, who on Wednesday will travel to Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim country, told students at Tokyo University that “this is one of the central security challenges we face — as to how to better communicate in a way that gets through the rhetoric and through the demagogy and is heard by people who can make judgments about what we stand for and who we truly are.”
Clinton’s remarks came in response to a question about the “prejudice” in the United States against Muslims because of terrorism, a term she rejected forcefully, pointing to the history of Christians. “I am a Christian,” she said. “Through the centuries we have had many people who have done terrible things in the name of Christianity. They have perverted the religion.”
I wish Hillary would give an example. If she mentions the Crusades, it was a counter attack against the 7th Century Jihad. This is another example of Dhimmitude.
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by Rodan ( 62 Comments › )
Filed under Dhimmitude, Europe, Free Speech, Geert Wilders, Islamists, LGF at January 22nd, 2009 - 9:16 am
Charles wrote an email to Geert Wilders a while back asking him about his planned alliance with the Vlaams Belang. He hasn’t answered. Now with the Dutch charging him with hate speech, Charles kicks him.
Geert Wilders to Be Charged with Hate Speech in Netherlands
Wilders, however, has called for the Koran to be outlawed. In other words, Wilders wants to ban books with which he doesn’t agree. If there’s one thing we should have learned from history, it’s that book-banning never turns out well—and it’s anathema to the American ideals of free speech and free choice of religion.
This prosecution is disgusting and wrong, but it’s difficult to cast Wilders as an icon of free speech when he explicitly advocates taking away the rights of others.
Charles has now turned on Geert. All becausehe never recieved an answer to his email. This shows Charles isn’t serious about Jihad and is fake. But it gets better! Kilgore and Sharmuta have their say as well!
I’m also having a hard time being sympathetic if he’s going to run with neo-fascists and their sympathizers. But I guess that’s the price one pays for the company they keep.
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Killgore Trout 1/21/09 10:37:49 am
But is agenda to ban the Quran and make Islam illegal is reprehensible. The laws used to prosecute him for free speech are equally awful. He would have a much better moral standing and would be a much better advocate for freedom of speech if he also advocated freedom for others.
Killgore’s Pro-Islamic colors are showing and Sharmuta is just following Charles. This is sick and pathetic. LGF is increasing isolated and irrelevant.
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Update by Arwyn
Online Petition in support of Geert Wilders (thanks, DJM)
Charles trying to keep up with Kos:
(thanks, BuddyG!)
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by DJM ( 38 Comments › )
Filed under Dhimmitude, Europe, Free Speech, Geert Wilders, Islamists at January 21st, 2009 - 8:12 am
Prosecute.
A Dutch court has ordered prosecutors to put a right-wing politician on trial for making anti-Islamic statements.
Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders made a controversial film last year equating Islam with violence and has likened the Koran to Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf.
“In a democratic system, hate speech is considered so serious that it is in the general interest to… draw a clear line,” the court in Amsterdam said.
“…to draw a clear line…”
Between what? Free speech and hate speech? Or between unpopular truth and popular fantasy? Between intolerant hatred and bigotry hidden under the guise of religion?
There is more on the line here than Freedom of speech. It is one thing to limit free speech by prosecuting inciting and hateful comments. But the real danger is to limit free speech that expresses truth.
(Hat Tip: Gateway Pundit)
Below the fold, a short video on the difference between Hate Speech and Religious Right:
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by Rodan ( 4 Comments › )
Filed under Anti-semitism, Dhimmitude, Hate Speech, Islamic Supremacism, Islamic hypocrisy, Israel, Sharia (Islamic Law), United Nations at December 4th, 2008 - 3:04 pm
The UN is having a gathering supposedly stopping racism. In reality when the last time this happened at Durban, It turned into an Israel bashing fest. The US, Israel and other nations need to leave the UN. The UN is a Leftist-Islamic organization whose goal is to a establish a Marxist-Islamic hybrid state.
The U.N.’s Racist Conference On Racism
When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews. You are talking anti-Semitism. –The Rev. Martin Luther King, 1968
The remarks above, which the Rev. King reportedly made at a Harvard University dinner, shortly before his assassination, are quoted in a U.S. State Department report released this past March in response to “rising anti-Semitism worldwide.” I came across them while seeking background on a notoriously anti-Semitic United Nations conference held in 2001 in Durban, South Africa. Billed as an effort to fight racism, that Durban conclave focused instead on vilifying Israel–whipping up hatred to such an extreme that then- Secretary of State Colin Powell ordered the U.S. delegation to walk out.
I wonder what the Rev. King would make of the U.N.’s current drive to reprise that festival of prejudice, in the form of a “Durban Review Conference,” scheduled for April 2009 in Geneva, Switzerland. Even more to the point, because Durban II looms as an early foreign-policy test of the next U.S. administration, what will President-elect Obama do about it?
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Posted in Anti-semitism, Dhimmitude, Hate Speech, Islamic Supremacism, Islamic hypocrisy, Israel, Sharia (Islamic Law), United Nations | 4 Comments »
by savage ( 6 Comments › )
Filed under Geert Wilders, Islamic Supremacism, Islamic Terrorism, Terrorism at November 23rd, 2008 - 4:00 pm
Tags: Dhimmitude, Europe, Fitna, Geert Wilders, Netherlands, Radical Islam, Terrorism
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