'Islamic law rules you, too'

Jerusalem Post ^ | Sept. 26, 2006 | Daniel Pipes

[Alouette]

The violence by Muslims responding to comments by the pope fit a pattern that has been building and accelerating since 1989.

Six times since then Westerners have done or said something that has triggered death threats and violence in the Muslim world. Looking at them in the aggregate offers useful insights.

1989 - Salman Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses prompted Ayatollah Khomeini to issue a death edict against him and his publishers, on the grounds that the book "is against Islam, the Prophet and the Koran." Subsequent rioting led to more than 20 deaths, mostly in India.

1997 - The US Supreme Court refused to remove a 1930s frieze showing Muhammad as lawgiver that decorates the main court chamber; the Council on American-Islamic Relations made an issue of this, leading to riots and injuries in India.

2002 - American Evangelical leader Jerry Falwell called Muhammad a "terrorist," leading to church burnings and at least 10 deaths in India.

2005 - An incorrect story in Newsweek reporting that American interrogators at Guantanamo Bay "in an attempt to rattle suspects, flushed a Koran down a toilet" was picked up by the famous Pakistani cricketer Imran Khan, and prompted protests around the Muslim world, leading to at least 15 deaths.

February 2006 - The Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published 12 cartoons of Muhammad, spurring a Palestinian imam in Copenhagen, Ahmed Abdel Rahman Abu Laban, to excite Muslim opinion against the Danish government. He succeeded so well that hundreds died, mostly in Nigeria.

September 2006 - Pope Benedict XVI quoted a Byzantine emperor's views that what is new in Islam is "evil and inhuman," prompting the firebombing of churches and the murder of several Christians. These six rounds show a near-doubling in frequency: eight years between the first and second rounds, then five, then three, one and none.

THE FIRST instance - Khomeini's edict against Salman Rushdie - came as a complete shock, for no one had hitherto imagined that a Muslim dictator could tell a British citizen living in London what he could not write about.

Seventeen years later, calls for the execution of the pope (including one at Westminster Cathedral in London) have acquired a too-familiar quality. The outrageous has become routine, almost predictable. As Muslim sensibilities have grown more excited, Western ones have become more phlegmatic.

Incidents started in Europe (Rushdie, Danish cartoons, Pope Benedict) have grown much larger than those based in the US (Supreme Court, Jerry Falwell, Koran flushing), reflecting the greater efficacy of Islamist aggression against Europeans than against Americans.

ISLAMISTS IGNORE subtleties. Rushdie's magical realism, the positive intent of the Supreme Court frieze, the falsehood of the Koran-flushing story (ever tried putting a book down a toilet?), the benign nature of the Danish cartoons or the subtleties of Benedict's speech - none of these mattered.

What rouses Muslim crowds and what does not is somewhat unpredictable. Rushdie's novel was not nearly as offensive to Muslim sensibilities as a host of other writings, medieval, modern and contemporary. Other American evangelists have said worse things about Muhammad than did Falwell (Jerry Vines called the Muslim prophet "a demon-possessed pedophile who had 12 wives") without violence ensuing. Why did Norwegian preacher Runar S gaard's deeming Muhammad "a confused pedophile" remain a local dispute while the Danish cartoons went global?

One answer is that Islamists having international reach (Khomeini, CAIR, Imran Khan, Abu Laban) usually play a key role in transforming a general sense of displeasure into an operational fury. If no Islamist agitates, the issue remains relatively quiet.

The extent of the violence is even more unpredictable - one could not anticipate the cartoons causing the most fatalities and the pope's quote the fewest.

And why so much violence in India?

These incidents also spotlight a total lack of reciprocity by Muslims. The Saudi government bans Bibles, crosses and Stars of David, while Muslims routinely publish disgusting cartoons of Jews.

NO CONSPIRACY lies behind these six rounds of inflammation and aggression, but examined in retrospect they coalesce and form a single, prolonged campaign of intimidation, with more sure to come.

The basic message - "You Westerners no longer have the privilege to say what you will about Islam, the Prophet and the Koran; Islamic law rules you too" - will return again and again until Westerners either submit or Muslims realize their effort has failed.

The writer is director of the Middle East Forum and author of Miniatures. www.DanielPipes.org

[Alouette]

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[facedown]

...will return again and again until Westerners either submit or Muslims realize their effort has failed.

There is a third option.

[elcid1970]

"There is a third option."

Yes. Kill the bastards.

):^(

[montag813]

MY QUESTION FOR AN IMAM:

WHAT IS SHARIA'S PUNISHMENT FOR CHILD RAPE, AND HOW DID MOHAMMED ESCAPE THAT PUNISHMENT?

[vpintheak]

Have you "Asked the Imam" That would only be the beginning for me.

[Tzimisce]

......sighs......

[YdontUleaveLibs]

Islam is a vile religion - Gene Simmons of Kiss

[do the dhue]

When Muslims become sensitive to me and mine, I will be sensitive to theirs.

[Prime Choice]

It is long overdue that those who claim Islam is a "peaceful" religion be made to explain this obvious violent streak that permeates adherents to that "faith" (sic).

I would also challenge Islamist apologists to explain how such a "peaceful" religion would go by the very name which means "Submission."

There is nothing peaceful about being forced to kowtow to a violent people and their false god.

[USF]

WHAT IS SHARIA'S PUNISHMENT FOR CHILD RAPE, AND HOW DID MOHAMMED ESCAPE THAT PUNISHMENT?

Sharia punishment for rape is typically 100 lashes, if the rapist is unmarried. Death by stoning is a real possibility if the rapist is married, since this would then constitute adultery.

But proof is needed... typically 4 male witnesses. You also have to realize sharia came after the fact, based on the koran and hadeeths which were compiled and finalized after mohamMAD's death in 632.

When it comes to Aisha, muslims will of course say nobody reported or witnessed rape, and that both families knew each other and were happy with this union. They'll go further to point out the unholy "prophet" (pork be upon him) did not consummate the marriage until she reached puberty, as if makes the 54 year old pervert, as if this gets mohamMAD, the "perfect man" (al insan al kamil) off the hook, or that such marriages were common at the time.

Another excuse is that the mad Mo showed his compassion by marrying young girls and widows, even marrying a Jewish widow of his opposition (Safiyah) to show his mercy.

What they dont tell you is the swine mohamMAD took Safiyah as war booty when she was 17 years old and forced her to become another one of his "wives" after her father, husband and other relatives were massacred by his forces at Kheibar. The lecherous Mo was reported to be 57 at the time.

Islam is the "religion" of lies for all occasions.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

The liberals, especially the Clintons, do the same. Any criticism of them is met with attacks and threats.

There are a lot of similarities between the left and the Muslim extremists. Could it be they are following the same game plan, the game plan for gaining and keeping tyrannical power?

[Luke Skyfreeper]

The basic message - "You Westerners no longer have the privilege to say what you will about Islam, the Prophet and the Koran; Islamic law rules you too" - will return again and again until Westerners either submit or Muslims realize their effort has failed.

Which is why we need to tell the Islamists to pound sand.

[TheClintons-STILLAnti-American]

"WHAT IS SHARIA'S PUNISHMENT FOR CHILD RAPE, AND HOW DID MOHAMMED ESCAPE THAT PUNISHMENT?"

He escaped by being the one who made the rules, and one of the rules ("revelations") was that he, like Allah, was beyond reproach, under the threat of eternal torture.

[SusaninOhio]

This is an evil, evil, evil cult of evil crazy people.

I will never ever feel comfortable around any of those people again. The 'good ones' are brainwashed, and none of them have ever spoken out against the others.

By their silence, they are agreeing with all the evil, filthy things that are being done in this world in the name of islam. And that makes every one of them terrorists too, in my book.

[Salem]

"...but examined in retrospect they coalesce and form a single, prolonged campaign of intimidation, with more sure to come."

That is why the West needs to stay just as aggressive. First thing we do is convince high-profile Protestant/Catholic leaders to quit apologizing to these people every time they riot and murder over some perceived slight. We would be amazed at how quickly everything else would fall in line.

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"It's time we recognized the nature of the conflict. It's total war and we are all involved. Nobody on our side is exempted because of age, gender, or handicap. The Islamofacists have stolen childhood from the world." [FReeper Retief]

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Paleologus

[VOA]

'Islamic law rules you, too'

Of course it does.
Look at all the Bravo Sierra we have to endure just to take a flight in
an airplane.

Mostly thanks to Muslims.

[VOA]

Given they'll be amongst the first executed when Shari'a is enforced...
you'd think Secular Progressive/Liberals would be running to unfurl their
banner along with those other flags.

Instead, they run to the aid of the poor, oppressed Islamics.

It's just too incredible to understand.

[Fiddlstix]

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[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Why must the world family always walk around on eggshells in fear of the middle eastern child throwing a temper tantrum?