Media shockingly ignorant of Muslims among us (Steyn)

Chicago Sun Times ^ | 03/12/06 | Mark Steyn

[aynrandfreak]

This week's Voldemort Award goes to the New York Times for their account of a curious case of road rage in North Carolina:

"The man charged with nine counts of attempted murder for driving a Jeep through a crowd at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill last Friday told the police that he deliberately rented a four-wheel-drive vehicle so he could 'run over things and keep going.' "

The driver in question was Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar.

Whoa, don't jump to conclusions. The Times certainly didn't. As the report continued:

"According to statements taken by the police, Mr. Taheri-azar, 22, an Iranian-born graduate of the university, felt that the United States government had been 'killing his people across the sea' and that his actions reflected 'an eye for an eye.'"

"His people"? And who exactly would that be? Taheri-azar is admirably upfront about his actions. As he told police, he wanted to "avenge the deaths or murders of Muslims around the world."

And yet the M-word appears nowhere in the Times report. Whether intentionally or not, they seem to be channeling the great Sufi theologian and jurist al-Ghazali, who died a millennium ago but whose first rule on the conduct of dhimmis -- non-Muslims in Muslim society -- seem to have been taken on board by the Western media:

The dhimmi is obliged not to mention Allah or His Apostle. . . .

[jocon307]

"Take him at his word: He's upset about "the treatment of Muslims around the world"... So what does he do to avenge Islam? He goes to the rental agency, takes out the biggest car on the lot, drives it to UNC and rams it into the men and women he's spent the last few years studying with and socializing with -- the one group of infidels he knows really well."

And we've got the actual Taliban at Yale, wonder what gift he'll deliver to his University upon graduation. I realize the man in NC had lived here for almost his whole life, but the Taliban at Yale got a visa to come here. Now, how is this possible, that we are still giving Visas to young Muslim men to come to this country to do anything?

[Dr.Deth]

"He needs to be medicated."

With about 10,000mg/kg sodium pentothal.

How about some good old fashioned non-Muslim Western-style medication:

[SquirrelKing]

Awesome post.

[cloud8]

Here's the real deal on dhimmitude.

"Dhimmitude is the status that Islamic law, the Sharia, mandates for non-Muslims, primarily Jews and Christians. Dhimmis, "protected people," are free to practice their religion in a Sharia regime, but are made subject to a number of humiliating regulations designed to enforce the Qur'an's command that they "feel themselves subdued" (Sura 9:29). This denial of equality of rights and dignity remains part of the Sharia, and, as such, are part of the law that global jihadists are laboring to impose everywhere, ultimately on the entire human race." Dhimmi Watch

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[aculeus]

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[Ninian Dryhope]

"it does not follow that every Muslim wants to kill or subjugate infidels."

Every Muslim who follows the commands of Mohammad does.

"Fight the unbelievers in your surroundings, and let them find harshness in you." (9:123)

"Kill the unbelievers wherever you find them, capture and besiege them and prepare for them every kind of ambush." (9:5)

'O Prophet, make war on the unbelievers and hypocrites and deal rigorously with them; their home shall be Hell' (IX.73).

'O believers, fight the infidels who dwell around you, and deal rigorously with them' (IX.124).

'Do not yield to unbelievers, but strive against them in a strenuous Jihad' (XXV.54).

'Fight for the cause of Allah with the devotion due to Him' (XXII.77).

'Whether unarmed or well-equipped, march on and fight for the cause of Allah with your wealth and your person's (IX.41).

'Fight against the (idolaters) until idolatry is no more and Allah's religion reigns supreme' (II.189 and VIII.40).

'Fighting is obligatory for you, and you dislike it. But you may dislike a thing although it is good for you, and love a thing although it is bad for you' (II.212).

'Allah loves those who fight for His cause' (I.XI.4).

'The true believers are those...who fight for His cause with their wealth and their persons' (XLIX.15).

'When you meet the unbelievers, smite at their necks; ' (XLVII.4).

'Allah has given those that fight with their goods and their persons a higher rank than those who stay at home. He has promised all a good reward, but far richer is the recompense of those who fight for Him; rank of His own bestowal, forgiveness and mercy' (IV. 97).

'Those who...fought in the path of God have the hope of the mercy of God...' (II.215).

'Those that . . . fought and died for My cause shall be forgiven their sins and admitted to gardens watered by running streams...' (III.194).

'As for those who are slain in the cause of Allah, He will not allow their works to perish...He will admit them to the Paradise' (XLVII.5).

[zzen01]

Can ANYONE here tell me what valuable contributions Moslems have made to the United States? I mean most "immigrant groups" have made at least some contributions to life here.

[bnelson44]

And this is suppose to make us more comfortable?

[observer5]

" it does not follow that every Muslim wants to kill or subjugate infidels."

But they don't mind it going on either!!!

Where are the protests?

[Big Guy and Rusty 99]

The mooselims have declared war on us, so why haven't we declared war back? They know that we are the enemy, why haven't we figured it out about them yet?

When any liberal woman starts going off on the war and how we are opressing that "religion of peace", I always ask them what size burka they wear.

[Cicero]

Great article, EXCEPT where he complains that there aren't any radical Muslims writing for the New York Times.

Mark, Mark, don't challenge them on that basis! They'll hire a Muslim Op-Ed columnist, or a Muslim religion columnist, soon enough. And then we'll have to listen to his rants twice a week for the next twenty years.

After all, the BBC and the Guardian and all the British leftist media have Muslim commentators now. They started hiring them right after the London tube bombings, to explain what was happening.

Maureen Dowd is bad enough.

[Reily]

One need not be that specific when discussing the mental capability of the media !
"The Media is Abysmally Ignorant" is appropriate enough.

It starts in journalism school (I think the new academic buzzword for a journalism major is communications major !), the curriculum of a journalism major is utterly devoid of any real content or rigor. When I was a undergraduate (also as a graduate student) the biggest 'party animals' I knew (also many were on the 6 or 7 year plan for their BS degree !) were journalism majors.

[Shooter1001]

And we've got the actual Taliban at Yale...

Hey, my kid achieved 1170 on his SAT's took all sorts of college level math and science classes in Don Bosco Prep HS in NJ and was unable to gain entrance into Rutgers (NJ's state university). Of course, HE's white, speaks only English, name's NOT Patel and the only thing I ever saw on his head was a baseball cap or a football helmet. So I paid the full ride for his first masters degree at an out-of-state school. Neither of my 2 kids ever spent a nanosecond in public K-12. Still had to pay RE taxes though. Now I see this raghead who's devotion in life is to kill me and you gets into Yale. He's got a 4th grade education, damnit!!! He can barely read (left to right, anyway) and forget about multiplication. I'm sure he isn't paying for it either. Then the Schumers and Hillarys start whining about the UAE and the ports' security. This guy IS official Taliban. What's he doing here at all? Don't they put these guys in Guantanamo?? Sort of like 'Hi, my name is Hermann Goering. I'm taking a course in Aeronautical Engineering at M.I.T'

[Question_Assumptions]

Haven't heard a peep from them.

How many Muslims have you talked to? And have you noticed how many Iraqis are turning in insurgents and so forth? Or the dissidents in Iran? They aren't hard to find.

[danamco]

33% of Americans think Mohammedanism is a violence-prone religion, which means that 67% of Americans do not. I can't blame this entirely on the media, although they take the greater part of the blame.



I believe that the responsible "girlymen" for the 9/11 attack all were 100% mohamedans, or call them "muzzies," !!!
And could you NOT picture them all wearing their head-rags including dynamites, like the Danish cartoons??? KEEP ON BUYING "DANSK."

[Question_Assumptions]

But every muslim supports every other muslim, including the estimated 130,000,000 who identify themselves as islamists and who are open about their desire to kill all Jews, Christians and other infidels. A muslims first allegiance is to islam not the US or the UK or wherever they happen to live.

How many Muslims have you spoken to about this? Is a Christian's first allegiance to Christianity or the United States? If their first allegiance is to Christianity, does it follow that they defend the various horrible things that Christians have done to Jews throughout the ages? What you are seeing is fear. Yes, other Muslims fear the fanatics just as much as the editors of Western newspapers do.

[knews_hound]

There are none so blind as those who will not see BTTT.

Cheers,

knewshound

http://www.knewshound.blogspot.com/

[Question_Assumptions]

You are posting that 60 percent of muslims advocate violence, since Sharia law IS violent and requires the killing of anyone who does not convert, but at the same time you are saying this is no cause for Brits to worry!

I believe the 40% overlaps with the 20%, so it's more like 40%. Yes, that's still reason for the Brits to worry and I'm not defending those nuts. But if you attack all Muslims because 40% of them are bad, you are attacking 60% who aren't. Even if it is the 60% you think it might be, that's still 40% who are innocent. Since when do we punish the innocent for the thought crimes of others? Isn't that sort of like punishing all white people because some white people are racist and enslaved and lynched black people?

It doesn't matter if you "believe" that islam requires all non believers to covert or die, it is the truth. You can't change the truth by not believing it, though many left wing dummies think they can.

What is the theological basis in Islam for that requirement? Do you think that male circumcision is a requirement of Islam? A Muslim friend tells me it isn't, and his son isn't circumcised. His wife doesn't wear a veil. He votes libertarian. If he can distinguish between the Quran, the Sunnah, and the Haddith, why can't other Muslims? Supposedly Islam forbids depiction of Muhammed, yet as some authors pointed out, you can buy such pictures in the Islamic world. How can that be if Islam is monolithic?

If 60 percent of muslims(in UK) think killing non muslims is a good thing, then there is a HUGE problem there for the Brits. Your reasoning is faulty and in line with the NY times.

The Brits certainly have a problem, but if 40 percent or 60 percent of English Muslims aren't fundamentalists and can live peacefully and happily in Western societies, then punishing them for the crimes of the fanatics is also a huge problem. Your reasoning is faulty and is in line with the thinking of affirmative action and other "group guilt" ideas -- that if a person is a member of a guilty group, they are guilty of what the group does regardless of whether they've personally done something wrong or not. I'm sorry but I'm not a big fan of punishing the innocent. And in the worst case scenario, just as affirmative action creates resentment in whites for blacks, you'll help turn those 40% to 60% of non-fantatics into anti-Western fanatics.