Posted on 04/23/2012 4:47:09 AM PDT by SJackson
Yes, I saw him in a Dutch cartoon depiction for a gutter religious cult.
Speaking from his hidden bunker at an undisclosed and heavily secured location, I hope.
Robert Spencer is a great man. The muzzies absolutely hate him and his friend, Hugh Fitzgerald, also an editorial contributor to www.jihadwatch.org .
Never heard of Hugh Fitzgerald? Maybe you know him by his former name? The name he had before he renounced Islam and became a Catholic. Hugh used to be a popular movie star named Omar Sharif.
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WOW - never heard this before! What was catalyst that caused him to make the change?
As recently as the 1950s the religion was referred to in history classes in my state as “Mohammedanism” and it was taught that Mohammed became a Christian and brought Christianity to the Arabs but they corrupted his teachings and placed Mohammed himself above Jesus.
That and five dollars will get you a cup of coffee but that is the way it was in my youth.
> WOW - never heard this before! What was catalyst that caused him to make the change?
Don’t know, but I’m pretty sure the reason is available online somewhere as public record.
If I were going to research the why, I’d probably start with the JihadWatch.org website and start digging.
“”Never heard of Hugh Fitzgerald? Maybe you know him by his former name? The name he had before he renounced Islam and became a Catholic. Hugh used to be a popular movie star named Omar Sharif.””
Do you have a source for this information?
Please cite source for Omar.
That’s backwards. Shariff was born Roman Catholic and converted to Islam as an adult. He is not Hugh Fitzgerald. The misunderstanding might come from just reading a headline (and not the article) at jihadwatch:
> Please cite source for Omar.
It’s from an article that I read on JihadWatch 7 or 8 years back when Hugh Fitzgerald joined JihadWatch.org. Can I locate the original source? Not gonna try. Go to jihadwatch and do your own looking up.
See post 13 which is the correct info.
“””Never heard of Hugh Fitzgerald? Maybe you know him by his former name? The name he had before he renounced Islam and became a Catholic. Hugh used to be a popular movie star named Omar Sharif.”””
Your source is wrong. See info below-—
Omar Sharif, the Franco-Arabic actor best known for playing Sherif Ali in Lawrence of Arabia and the title role in Doctor Zhivago, was born Michel Demitri Shalhoub on April 10, 1932 in Alexandria, Egypt to Joseph Shalhoub, a lumber merchant, and his wife, Claire. Of Lebanese and Syrian extraction, the young Michel was raised a Roman Catholic...
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001725/
Not this stupidity again!
I’m disappointed in Spencer, as I’ve admired his past work.
Look, the Arabs had been a peripheral despised people for literally millenia.
Suddenly, around 600, they turned into a dynamic revolutionary force, conquering much of the known world. Such things do not happen without something causing them to happen.
If Mohammed never existed, I’ll be interested in Spencer’s explanation of what caused the sudden change in Arab character. It is also interesting that after the century of initial Muslim Arab conquest the Arabs returned to their somnolence. Almost none of the great Muslim figures since have been Arab by birth or culture.
Turkish, Berber, Persian, Kurdish, Mongol, etc., yes. But not Arab.
So why were Arab different during that century?
I’s also like to point out others have made similar arguments about the actual existence of Jesus Christ.
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