Posted on 02/03/2006 8:16:15 PM PST by suspects
I offer the following recent news items, in no particular order:
The Council on American-Islamic Relations is demanding an apology from a Los Angeles talk show host for making fun of Muslims. In reference to the oft-repeated spectacle of Muslim pilgrims stampeding each other to death during the Hajj, KFI’s Bill Handel suggested the annual Hajj should feature a “Hajj In The Sky” traffic copter.
This is a joke. It is not allowed.
On Monday, armed Muslim gunmen stormed an office of the European Union in Gaza, in protest of a series of editorial cartoons in a Danish newspaper. The comics featured 12 different artistic visions of Muhammed, including one where the Prophet’s turban is also a bomb with a lit fuse; and another showing Muhammed in heaven telling newly-arrived suicide bombers “Stop! We have run out of virgins!” In addition to the armed assault on the EU, Saudi Arabia recalled its Danish ambassador, Syria demanded the cartoonists be punished and Danish products were pulled from store shelves across the Middle East.
These cartoons are jokes. They are not allowed.
Just days before they were kicking in doors over cartoons, the Palestinians voted 70% for Hamas, a group previously identified by both the US and the EU as a terrorist organization responsible for the deaths of hundreds of civilians, including some Americans. Hamas won this election over the Fatah Party, whose armed wing—the Al Aqsa Brigades—is responsible for hundreds of civilian deaths, including Americans. On 9/11, Palestinians watching 3,000 Americans die live on satellite television were so overjoyed they danced in the streets and handed out candy to children.
Last year, American taxpayers gave more than $400 million to the Palestinians.
That is not a joke. It’s a foreign policy.
When CAIR sent out their press release attacking LA’s Bill Handel over his “Hajj in the Sky” joke, they also complained that Handel referred to Islam as a “strange religion.” And they didn’t like his suggestion that Muslims had a problem with anti-semitism.
Now, where’d he ever get THAT crazy idea…
“Strange religion” seems pretty mild to me. If masked Methodists were hijacking newsrooms over the latest installment of “Doonesbury,” I’d consider that a bit odd. If cracking jokes about Christian Scientists led their members to threaten public safety, I’d view that as somewhat out of the ordinary.
If Scientologists started getting all freaky about…well, that’s a bad example.
My point is, when you’re talking about the only religion in the world currently linked to suicide bombings, honor killings, the stoning of homosexuals and a return to the electoral ideology of the Nazi Party, it’s hard to avoid mildly-judgmental terms like “strange,” “disconcerting,” and “Holy crap, what they hell are these whackjobs thinking?”
If you can’t use the words “strange” and “religion” in a conversation about Islam’s influence on the world, then you can’t have an honest conversation about Islam. That doesn’t mean that the conversation has to be negative. But the potential for negative, critical and harsh comments must exist for the conversation to be worthwhile. How can there be open, meaningful discourse with people who are ready to blow your brains out if Charlie Brown and Lucy misquote the Koran?
Don’t Muslims ever kid around? Doesn’t anyone in the Islamic world ever crack a joke? I mean, other than the classic “These two Jews walk into a bar…AND ARE BLOWN TO SMITHEREENS BY A MARTYR! ALLAH AKBAR! ALLAH AKBAR!”
Comedy is, by its very nature, critical. For there to be a joke, there must be somebody or something to joke about. Big boys and girls understand this. When people crack wise about us, we take our licks and go on.
If, for example, the Billy Graham Crusades resulted in a parking lot pile-up of crazed, car-crashing Christians year after year, I wouldn’t be offended if radio talk hosts made fun of it. I would expect it. Then again, I would also expect the Billy Graham folks to figure out how to prevent another crash before the next crusade.
It’s not talk radio’s fault that Muslim pilgrims being stampeded to death while throwing stones at a symbol of Satan has become almost an annual event. It’s shameful and embarrassing, and the Saudi government and others responsible should be ashamed. Instead, they’re outraged that somebody noticed it and snickered.
Iran wants to host an international conference to determine the REAL facts about the Holocaust. Of course I’m going to laugh. What else—take them seriously?
The insurgents in Iraq insist that American soldiers are “forcing” good Muslims to violate their faith and participate in democracy. “The Americans have no right to force us to choose our own leaders! They can’t boss us around by making us be our own bosses!” What, you want me to pretend that’s an argument?
No, that’s a punchline.
It is impossible to look honestly at the current state of Islam in the world and not either laugh or cry. I choose to laugh. What the leaders of the Muslim world choose to do, we’ll have to wait and see.
Then bounced off some simpletons head...
Someone said he wasn't fit to sleep with a pig.
I icily informed him that he bloody well was!
But would the pig think Mohammad was fit to sleep with?
I wouldn't, were I a pig.
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Well, of course they do. The recent "Allah Made Me Funny" comedy show had these side splitting gut-busters:
* Airport security didn't find explosives in anybody's shoes, but some of those feet should have been destroyed.
* I'm worried that natural disasters will be blamed on Muslims, too. (Switching to a newscaster's voice) "And here we are in Orlando, Fla., waiting for the arrival of Hurricane Abdu-mali."
*People in America are afraid of two things: blacks and Muslims. I got the best of both worlds.
* My friends said they thought it was beautiful that I converted to Islam. They said, "Dog, I heard you could have four wives!"
Their kids blow up fast, don't they.
May they be punted back to the sand dunes of the old country...
People are offended by cartoons of Muhammad because he is not supposed to be even shown for fear of idolatry, yet the same images are treated as graven and desecrated idols in their complaints?
Yet burning images of our presidents, and our flags, and outright destroying bibles seems to be not only allowed, but taught as basic to some Muslim children?
As some who are Christians are tolerant and patient for others to come around to a Christians point of view, none run out and behead others who don’t take communion.
Furthermore Christians are not just supposed to be victims who are not allowed to speak when they see wrong, which in the case of the Muslim point of view for salvation by working to earn the merit of God and by forcing others to do so is exactly opposite to the Christian view of salvation by grace as a gift of God for those who repent .
But now we have to be silent, because we have let a certain group of wackos take us hostage by the worlds economy by letting them have control of the worlds oil supply?
Welcome to taliban style rule, we are now just getting a taste of things to come where free speech and common sense are tossed out the window by foreign wacko extremists.
But then again we have bigger wackos here at home with no common since we have the capability to drill for our own oil and also unlimited capability to teach our children to tap the energy of nuclear reactors , but we seem more interested in teaching them other things such as diversity to be respectful of other cultures whom are bent on destroying us, and that Christianity is wrong...
Thanks for the subtitled pictures and the laugh. I can't take these guys seriously anymore -- at least as far as their being rational.
Either that or 7 sniper's bullets should have been expended.
First thing I noticed. I thought they were Photoshopped.
I've never read Graham, but if this is any indication he's outstanding.
No, I don't think they were Photoshopped. You can see the stripes of the marker pen used to make them. It would be difficult to achieve that effect in Photoshop (though I do agree that almost anything is possible with PS). No, this just seems awfully well-organized to me, not a spontaneous outpouring of emotion. Note also the pictures of demonstrators holding Danish flags and walking on a Danish flag. Where the heck did they get those Danish flags in the Middle East? And so quickly?
Muslims stampeding to death reminds me of the idiots who stampede ahead of the stampeding bulls in Spain.
Well, I used to think that too. Until I found out about the fact that most do not want to use the eeeevil Western invention of toilet paper and instead use left hand and water..blech.
Back in my college days I use to wonder why our arabic suite-mate had a strange pungent smell to him.
Anyone who would seriously contend that these creatures be allowed to run loose in a civilized country is as deranged and dangerous as the mohammedans are.
Thursday, February 02, 2006
Islamic Society of Denmark Used Fake Cartoons to Create Story!
THIS WHOLE DANISH CARTOON CONTROVERSY WAS MADE UP BY THE "ISLAMIC SOCIETY OF DENMARK" WHO SPREAD THE FAKE CARTOONS ON THEIR TRIP TO THE MIDDLE EAST!
The leader of the group is a radical Islamist known for supporting the Anti-Western Islamist struggle!
The organisation Islamic Society in Denmark toured the Middle-East to create awareness about the cartoons, bringing 3 additional images, which HAD NEVER been published in any media source. Evidently, the originals were not offensive enough for the trip so they had to add these three:
The first of the three additional pictures, which are of poor quality, shows Muhammad as a pedophile demon.*
The second shows Muhammed with a pig snout.*
The third depicts a praying Muslim being raped by a dog*.
BBC World also aired a story showing one of the three non-published images, on 2006-01-30, and wrongly claimed it had been published in Jyllands-Posten.
On the tour, the group claimed to represent 21 different Muslim organisations in Denmark, although many of these groups have disclaimed any connection.
Akhmad Akkari, spokesman of the Danish Muslim organisations which organised the tour, explained that the three drawings had been added to "give an insight in how hateful the atmosphere in Denmark is towards Muslims."
Akkari claimed he does not know the origin of the three pictures. He said they had been sent anonymously to Danish Muslims. However, when Ekstra Bladet asked if it could talk to these Muslims, Akkari refused to reveal their identity. These images had however never been published in Jyllands-Posten.
The society also allegedly exaggerated its membership, claiming to represent all of Denmark's 200,000 Muslims, when the actual number of adherents is believed to be fewer than 15,000. [30]. 500-1000 people attend their Friday prayer gathering each week[31].
Imam Ahmad Abu Ladan is involved in an international group of Muslims who are known for supporting the anti-Western Islamist struggle of the school of global Jihad.
Imam Ahmad Abu Ladan also tried to block the re-election of the right-wing government in Denmark in the previous election.
Imam Ahmad Abu Laban, the leader of the organisation stated in Al Jazeera that Muslims should boycott Denmark, despite giving contradictory assurances to Western media. Ahmad Abu Laban, previously declared unwelcome in several Arab states, was one of the front figures on the tour [citation needed].
Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen said of Muslims criticising the country in the Arab territories: "I am speechless that those people, whom we have given the right to live in Denmark and where they freely have chosen to stay, are now touring Arab countries and inciting antipathy towards Denmark and the Danish people"[33].
Further misinformation spread among Arab Muslims include claims that Jyllands-Posten is a government-owned newspaper (it is privately owned) - spokesman for the Danish delegation Muhammed al Samha, and delegation member Ahmed al-Harbi said in the Egyptian newspaper al-Ahram: "Jyllands-Posten, a newspaper belonging to the ruling Danish party - an extreme right-wing party - [was] publishing drawings and sketches of the prophet Muhammad."
* I shrank up the outrageous and fake cartoons from original size. I do not intend to offend.
The Brussels Journal has been following the story closely from Europe.
Shawn Wasson notices the selective outrage.
The Astute Blogger has more on Abu Ladan lying to the media!
Counterterrorism Blog has more on Abu Laden's mideast stunts, today.
Zombietime has the largest collection of Muhammad pictures on the net.
And, Pajamas Media is carrying the story from a variety of blog perspectives.
Michelle Malkin has a huge roundup on the two-faced American media.
Belmont Club has thoughtful analysis on what this all means.
The mainstream news is so out of touch with this story.
They go to the State employment office and are advised that a job awaits them just out of town at a local farm.
They arrive at the farm and the Christian farmer greets them. He gives them each a shovel and points to a pile of manure.
I need you to move the pile 10 ft. to the right.
Grudgingly they begin the task and finish two hours later. The farmer brings out a big lunch and the Muslim and Jew dig in.
Later on the Muslim and the Jew ask the farmer his name. He replies - Oscar Mayer.
As did I. This pommie were mentionin' 'ow 'e 'eard that "That Mohhmedd bloke -'e really stinks!"
I said: "Like &*!t, 'e does!!!"
Priceless.
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