You aren't serious?
These cartoons have been posted almost daily on FR since the holidays.
Do a search, read any of the numerous threads on this subjects you will surely find that what you seek.
Oh what the hey....here they are again...
Posted on 02/03/2006 11:42:27 AM PST by smoothsailing
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No. They'll stop buying Danish ham and bacon.
Daniel Pipes has always said that Islamic Fundamentalism is not fundamentalism at all, that in order for it to be true fundamentalism, it would have to revert to an earlier style of worshipping, which it doesn't.
This so-called "Isamic Fundamentalism" is in actuality a new version of Islam that would be better called Wahhabism, rooted in the Saud expansionism, and funded by Saud petro dollars.
From wikipedia:
Wahhabism in Saudi Arabia was founded by Muhammad ibn Abd al Wahhab, an Arabian cleric who had come to believe that Sunni Islam had been corrupted by innovations (bidah) such as Sufism. He discovered the works of the early Muslim thinker Ibn Taymiyya and started preaching a reformation of Islam based on Ibn Taymiyya's ideas. He was repudiated by his father and brother, who were both clerics, and expelled from his home village in Najd, in central Arabia.
(His brother later wrote a book harshly criticizing al-Wahhab: Divine Thunders Refuting the Wahhabis, or in Arabic, ÇáÕæÇÚÞ ÇáÅáåíÉ Ýí ÇáÑÏ Úáì ÇáæåÇÈíÉ.)
Al-Wahhab then moved to the Najdi town of Diriya and formed an alliance with the Saudi chieftain Muhammad bin Saud. Bin Saud made Wahhabism the official religion in the First Saudi State. Al Wahhab gave religious legitimacy to Ibn Saud's career of conquest. Ibn Taymiyya had been controversial in his time because he held that some self-declared Muslims (such as the Mongol conquerors of the Abbasid caliphate) were in fact unbelievers and that orthodox Muslims could conduct violent jihad against them. Ibn Saud believed that his campaign to restore a pristine Islam justified the conquest of the rest of Arabia.
In 1801, the Saudis attacked the Iraqi city of Kerbala and sacked the Shi'a shrine there. In 1803, Saudis conquered Mecca and Medina and sacked or demolished various shrines and mosques. The Saudis held the two cities until 1817, until they were retaken by Mohammed Ali Pasha, acting on behalf of the Ottomans. In 1818, the Ottoman forces invaded Najd, captured the Saudi capital of Diriya and the Saudi emir Abdullah bin Saud. He and his chief lieutenants were taken to Istanbul and beheaded. However, this did not destroy Wahhabism in Najd.
The House of Saud returned to power in the Second Saudi State in 1824. The state lasted until 1899, when it was overthrown by the Emir of Hayel, Mohammed Ibn Rasheed. However, Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud reconquered Riyadh in 1902 and after a number of other conquests, founded the modern Saudi state, Saudi Arabia in 1932.
In 1924 the Wahhabi al-Saud dynasty conquered Mecca and Medina, the Muslim holy cities. This gave them control of the Hajj, the annual pilgrimage, and the opportunity to preach their version of Islam to the assembled pilgrims. However, Wahhabism was a minor current within Islam until the discovery of oil in Arabia, in 1938. Vast oil revenues gave an immense impetus to the spread of Wahhabism. Saudi laypeople, government officials and clerics have donated many tens of millions of dollars to create Wahhabi-oriented religious schools, newspapers and outreach organizations.
Some Muslims believe that Saudi funding and Wahhabi proselytization have had a strong effect on world-wide Sunni Islam (they may differ as to whether this is a good thing or a bad one). Other Muslims say that while the Wahhabis have bought publicity and visibility, it is not clear that they have convinced even a sizable minority of Muslims outside Saudi Arabia to adopt Wahhabi norms.
In civilized nations all around the world there is freedom of the press, but no freedom of the riot.
You aren't serious?
These cartoons have been posted almost daily on FR since the holidays.
Do a search, read any of the numerous threads on this subjects you will surely find that what you seek.
Oh what the hey....here they are again...
The cornfield is too damn good for him.
One of the best articles by Bill Buckely I've read in a while.
"The question not being ventilated with sufficient thoroughness is: What are Muslim leaders doing to dissociate their faith from the ends to which it is being taken by the terrorists?"
crickets chirping...
IMHO,with Buckley,it's probably tongue-in-cheek.Perhaps a way of mocking the complainers.Buckley gets wierd with words sometimes,as if it's some joke or riddle only he knows.
Who knows.
I'd like to sit down and have a couple of brews with him,though.He has an interesting mind.
Jews get vilified in the Muslim press almost on a daily basis. For years now. The Jews respond to this with... no response. They don't care. Why should they. They're too busy to pay attention. Too busy building successful lives and a thriving society. Envious Arabs stew in their stagnant societies, their attention focused on the Jews and the West instead of on their own problems. Their leaders like it this way.
I saw them on Michelle Maulkins website or a link therein.
Kudo's to FReeper Norman Conquest
"Jews get vilified in the Muslim press almost on a daily basis. For years now. The Jews respond to this with... no response. They don't care. Why should they. They're too busy to pay attention. Too busy building successful lives and a thriving society. Envious Arabs stew in their stagnant societies, their attention focused on the Jews and the West instead of on their own problems. Their leaders like it this way."
I could not agree with you more on this statement. These are CARTOONS -don't they have better things to do than get all up in arms about a cartoon.
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