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Why Does the Crucifix 'Provoke' Muslims?
RaymondIbraham.com ^ | Nov 2, 2011 | Raymond Ibrahim

Posted on 11/06/2011 9:36:47 AM PST by bayouranger

For a religion that is perpetually "misunderstood," the consistency of Islam is remarkable. Consider how ostensibly diverse issues—complaints of "human rights" abuses at an American university and murder in an Egyptian classroom—are interconnected.

Egypt: Muslims destroying a cross atop a church.

First, the American story. According to Fox News:

The Washington, D.C. Office of Human Rights confirmed that it is investigating allegations that Catholic University of America [CUA] violated the human rights of Muslim students by not allowing them to form a Muslim student group and by not providing them rooms without Christian symbols for their daily prayers. The investigation alleges that Muslim students "must perform their prayers surrounded by symbols of Catholicism – e.g., a wooden crucifix, paintings of Jesus, pictures of priests and theologians which many Muslim students find inappropriate."

Behind the complaint is John F. Banzhaf III, a George Washington University professor whose website boasts that his "enemies" call him a "Legal-Terrorist" and "the Osama bin Laden of Torts." He asserts that Muslim students are "particularly offended" because they have to "meditate" at the school's chapels and cathedral, where they pray while "having to stare up and be looked down upon by a cross of Jesus."

Of course, as a private Christian institution, even Banzhaf admits "that it is technically not illegal for Catholic University to refuse to provide rooms devoid of religious icons." Still, according to this so-called "Legal-Terrorist," that CUA refuses to compromise its Catholic image "suggests they are acting improperly and probably with malice."

The reader is left to decide who really is acting "with malice": a private institution operating under private—in this case, Christian—principles, or reportedly "offended" Muslims who are free to attend non-Christian institutions?

Banzhaf further tried to denigrate CUA by boasting of how neighboring Georgetown University, a nominally "Christian" university, "provides its Muslim students with a separate prayer room and even a Muslim chaplain"—as if it is not well known that Georgetown's Arab and Islam departments receive much largesse by way of donations from the radical Wahhabis of Saudi Arabia (who, incidentally, refuse to permit churches on Saudi ground).

As Newt Gingrich observed regarding this affair: "Are you [Muslims] prepared to sponsor a Christian missionary in Mecca? Because if you're not prepared to sponsor religious liberty in Saudi Arabia, don't come and nag us with some hypocritical baloney."

Notable, too, why Muslim students are seeking to create Islamic havens (or enclaves) in universities: as one of them put it, "Arab [code for "Muslim"] and American students have a difficult time befriending each other because people naturally gravitate towards others with similar backgrounds and interests." In fact, this is a product of Islam's own doctrine of wala' wa bara', which commands Muslims to be loyal to one another, while completely disassociating themselves from non-Muslims.

Now, consider Muslim behavior toward Christian symbols, specifically the crucifix, where Muslims are the majority and thus in charge—where might not only makes right, but often exposes true sentiments.

Days ago it was revealed that a Christian student in Egypt was strangled and beaten to death by his Muslim teacher and fellow students—simply for refusing to obey the teacher's orders to cover up his cross. When the headmaster was informed of the attack in progress, he ignored it and "continued to sip his tea." And, as usual, Egyptian media covered it up, insisting the "conflict" was "non-sectarian" (worse, it was straightforward "Christian persecution").

17-year-old Ayman Nabil Labib: Murdered by teacher and classmates for refusing to remove his crucifix.

In the words of prominent Egyptian columnist Farida El-Shobashy, writing in the independent newspaper Masry Youm: "I was shaken to the bones when I read the news that a teacher forced a student to take off the crucifix he wore, and when the Christian student stood firm for his rights, the teacher quarreled with him, joined by some of the students; he was beastly assaulted until his last breath left him."

Indeed, the Maspero massacre, where the Egyptian military killed dozens of demonstrating Christians—including by running them over with armored-vehicles—began with hostility for Christian symbols: Muslims insisted a Coptic church be stripped of its dome and cross, so it would not resemble a church; as one Muslim elder put it, "the Cross provokes us and our children." When Christians refused, Muslims destroyed the church. This is what Christians were protesting when the Egyptian military mowed them down to cries of "Allahu Akbar."

These two stories—one in Washington, D.C., the other Egypt—demonstrate remarkable consistency; only methods differ, according to circumstances. Where Islam is weak, "terrorist-lawyers" and Islamist organizations like CAIR complain about "human rights" abuses against Muslims; where Islam is dominant, Muslims take matters into their own hands, violating the human rights of others.

Yet if the methods differ, the motivation is one: the victory of Islam over all else; or, in the words of the Quran (8:39)—"Make war on them ["infidels"] until idolatry shall cease and Allah's religion [Islam] shall reign supreme."


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
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1 posted on 11/06/2011 9:36:50 AM PST by bayouranger
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To: bayouranger

Bloodsucking vampires?


2 posted on 11/06/2011 9:38:58 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Stop Government Greed Now!!!!)
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To: bayouranger
Koranimals are the vilest form of walking evil but it's their apologists/sympathizers that I detest even more.
3 posted on 11/06/2011 9:40:40 AM PST by bayouranger (The 1st victim of islam is the person who practices the lie.)
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To: bayouranger
Muslims take matters into their own hands, violating the human rights of others.

the religion of aggression

4 posted on 11/06/2011 9:41:08 AM PST by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: bayouranger
I agree. And I am so sick of the idiots who keep spouting the cr*p about tolerance.
5 posted on 11/06/2011 9:42:25 AM PST by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis (Want to make $$$? It's easy! Pimp your blog for hits on Free Republic!)
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To: bayouranger
Our troops have even been instructed not to spit in the direction of Mecca. How the heck would they know where it is?

Oh! There's an app for that!


6 posted on 11/06/2011 9:42:47 AM PST by rlmorel (The Rats won't be satisfied until every industry in the USA is in ruins and ripe for nationalization)
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To: bayouranger

Why Does the Crucifix ‘Provoke’ Mormons?


7 posted on 11/06/2011 9:44:18 AM PST by Tennessee Nana
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8 posted on 11/06/2011 9:44:26 AM PST by SkyDancer ("If You Don't Like What I Say Or Do, Tough, Deal With It")
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To: bayouranger
it seems to rankle our evangelical friends, too.

cuz fundamentalism is mindless.

9 posted on 11/06/2011 9:44:49 AM PST by the invisib1e hand (Hail to the Thief)
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To: bayouranger
doesn't matter what happens... the goathumpers are safety wired to the terrorist/murderous thug position anyway

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10 posted on 11/06/2011 9:44:57 AM PST by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: bayouranger

Muzzies are werewolves?


11 posted on 11/06/2011 9:45:45 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

“Our troops have even been instructed not to spit in the direction of Mecca. How the heck would they know where it is?”

What if the wind changes direction?


12 posted on 11/06/2011 9:46:31 AM PST by Bed_Zeppelin
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
Tolerance is intolerant. One of my students wanted to give a speech about why we should be punished for intolerance toward gays (yes he is gay) and I would not let him give the speech. I told him he was being intolerant. I still don't think he gets what I told him.
13 posted on 11/06/2011 9:47:26 AM PST by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: bayouranger

Same reason a toddler provokes a pitbull.

In other words, it doesn’t.

The pitbull is just plain mean.


14 posted on 11/06/2011 9:49:31 AM PST by Cringing Negativism Network (America First)
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To: bayouranger

Demons fear and despise Holy symbols. The demon allah is no exception.


15 posted on 11/06/2011 9:50:52 AM PST by Dr.Zoidberg (Warning: Sarcasm/humor is always engaged. Failure to recognize this may lead to misunderstandings.)
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To: Paladin2

Muzzies are inbred sociopaths.


16 posted on 11/06/2011 9:51:43 AM PST by abclily
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"Why Does the Crucifix 'Provoke' Muslims?"

Because they hate Jesus and Christians? Just a thought.

17 posted on 11/06/2011 9:55:31 AM PST by NoGrayZone (Stay involved..because stupid people are running America! - Herman Cain - Amen!!!)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
Want to know why? I'll tell you why.

Because the entity they ultimately worship is Satan. Satan is an enemy of the true God of Hosts. The Bible tells the story of this cosmic chessgame... from the beginning of man.

The cross represents the true God's salvation to man through the sacrifice of Jesus, the Messiah. The Bible tells that there is no forgiveness of sin without the shedding of innocent blood. It's that serious. Jesus, the Christ, was God's final sacrifice to save man and bring humanity back to Him. Satan hates that God has trumped his plan to rule humanity. The muslim trusts their false prophet that got his revelation through a fallen angel that came to him in a cave and chocked the words of the quran out of him. (I'm not making this up... go read it for yourself). They mixed the words of Mo, the Bible and their previous pagan religion. That is why they still run in circles around the Kabbah and kiss the black rock. They believe the black rock takes away their sin. God says the only way to salvation is through His Son. That is why they hate the cross. Part of their theology is that the final prophet will come, break all the crosses and the entire world will worhip allah/satan.

And the final battles will shortly ensue. The OT spells it all out. It involves Israel and all the antichrist anticross antiIsrael forces. All those muslim nations that are now forming to attack Israel are the same ones that the prophet Ezekiel spoke of in Chapters 38 and 39. Revelation spells out the final battles that spill out from those going on in the heavenly dimensions to earth. And at the appointed time, Jesus the Christ, will return to earth to gather His saints, put all His enemies under His feet and the Kingdom will begin. That is why they hate the cross.

18 posted on 11/06/2011 9:58:31 AM PST by BigFinn (BigHat wisdom: Always drink upstream from the herd.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
Bloodsucking vampires?

No, but Vlad Tepes knew how to deal with them.

19 posted on 11/06/2011 9:59:41 AM PST by magslinger (To properly protect your family you need a Bible, a twelve gauge and a pig.)
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To: bayouranger

No matter what you do for or to a muslim, at the end of the day, you are still the infidel (or Jew).


20 posted on 11/06/2011 10:00:38 AM PST by umgud
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