PING!
Maybe it’s just me, but I’ve always found jetliners flying into and destroying tall buildings and killing thousands of innocent people somewhat offensive.
JIHAD WATCH.org (REUTERS) - Snippet: ""I call on Muslims around the world, if you run into the maker of the film, kill him," said one of the speakers at the rally, Awit Mashuri. "Geert Wilders is a Christian terrorist," declared a placard held up by a protester. "Kill Geert Wilders," read another..." (March 31, 2008)
Al-Qaeda Vows More Attacks, UN, Europe Beg for Mercy
Al Qaeda’s Ayman al-Zawahri declared the United Nations an enemy to Muslims and vowed attacks on Jews “wherever they may be found—as prescribed in the Quran.” Zawahiri called twin bomb attacks on U.N. buildings in Algiers which killed 41 people in December and the bombing of a U.N. building in Baghdad in 2003 which killed 22, “down payments on the debt of blood owed by these unbelievers.”
UN General Secretary Ban Ki-moon issued an urgent plea for mercy to al-Qaeda. “We’re not your enemy, really, we’re not,” Ban insisted. “Look, our Human Rights Commission just voted 32-0 to punish those who insult Islam. Please tell us what more we can do. We’ll do whatever you say. Just don’t hurt us.”
The government of Austria made its own bid ward off Islamic terror by pressing charges against Susanne Winter, a member of the Austrian Freedom Party, for saying that Islam is “a totalitarian system of domination that should be cast back to its birthplace on the other side of the Mediterranean.” If convicted, Winter could be sentenced to up to two years in prison.
“Better we sacrifice the free speech of the few, rather than expose the many to the wrath of these fanatics,” said prosecutor Otto Kleinlaut. “If we don’t do something to placate them they’ll kill many more than just this one woman.”
In Holland, the Federation of Dutch Employers is looking into the possibility of suing Geert Wilders. “This man’s insistence on focusing on the violence committed in the name of Allah is endangering our profits,” said Federation chairman Hans Geldgier. “What if Muslims boycott Dutch products? Shouldn’t Wilders be held liable?”
In related news, two Iranian immigrants’ accusation of discrimination has sparked a federal investigation of the Oklahoma Department of Public Safety. The crux of the complaint is that the refusal to provide the state driver’s license test in the Farsi language violates their right to equality under the law. “Everyone’s going to have to learn Farsi eventually anyway once Iran conquers America, so what’s the big deal” asked Arash Jahandar, one of the complainants.
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http://www.azconservative.org/Semmens1.htm
It’s hilarious that they should complain about the content of the film - 90% of it is Muslims in their own words!
Most parents know saying yes to a child is much easier than saying no. A No response results in temper tantrums, constant harrassing and a liteny of other objections.
Even though the hard facts can’t be disputed, our world leaders have chosen to take the easy road, seemingly without a thought about the disastrous consequences that will arise when indulging and appeasing the muslims.
Blasphemers Unite!
http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/2008/04/blasphemers-uni.php
Michael J. Totten
4/4/08
Egypt’s Grand Imam Mohammed Sayyed Tantawi threatened “severe” consequences if the Dutch government doesn’t ban Parliamentarian Geert Wilders’ anti-Islamic film Fitna. It makes no difference to Tantawi and other perpetually outraged Islamists that the Netherlands is a sovereign country with its own laws. Ever since Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini condemned Salman Rushdie to death for writing the supposedly offensive Satanic Verses – and sent death squads after him and his publishers around the world – radical Islamists have seen it as their right and duty to enforce their own unilateral anti-blasphemy laws on the human race. (Meanwhile, liberal American Muslim Aziz Poonawalla hosts Fitna on his own Web site even though he, as should be expected, doesn’t like it.)
Fitna isn’t the only recent movie hard-line Islamists hope to squelch beyond their own borders. The other is Persepolis, an animated film based on Iranian author Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel of the same name about repression under both the Shah Reza Pahlavi and the Ayatollah Khomeini. General Wafik Jizzini at Lebanon’s Ministry of the Interior banned it because, he said, Shia officials (read: Hezbollah) said it was offensive to Islam and – you guessed it – Iran. Islamic Republic officials and their proxies are true to form here, considering it was they who kicked off the international anti-blasphemy campaign in the first place.
“The heart of every culture-loving Lebanese breaks with every ban,” writes Abu Kais, a Lebanese Shia who lives now in Washington and writes the indispensable blog From Beirut to the Beltway. Beirut is a genuinely cosmopolitan and culturally rich city, more so than any other Arab capital. And Lebanon, true to its form, fought back. Tarek Mitri, Lebanon’s Minister of Culture, managed to overturn the ban and get Persepolis on the big screen after all.
It’s too bad Fitna and the reaction to it sucked all the media oxygen out of the room. I haven’t seen Geert Wilders’ short film, but he’s sounds like a reactionary who makes a poor poster boy for free expression (he wants to ban the Koran in the Netherlands). He not only thinks radical Islamists shouldn’t be able to buy their own copy, but neither should moderate Muslims or people like you and me who might want to study it for our own reasons. The man has a death threat hanging over his head from nutjobs the world over, as do employees at the Internet company LiveLeak that hosts the film, yet an enormous amount of the public discussion revolves around whether or not his film is offensive. It is offensive to some people, including many reasonable people. But that’s beside the point.
Read the rest in Commentary Magazine.