Intimidation and Harassment is Islamic Way!
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Protesters have attacked Western embassies in
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Protesters also clashed with police in
Islam is “a legitimate subject of historical
inquiry. I think there’s a degree to which Muslims, far more than Christians,
have felt that the foundation myths of their religion are somehow historical
fact, and it seems to me that they’re clearly not.” Tom Holland, author, Islam:
The Untold Story. The BBC has cancelled the screening of a documentary about
the history of Islam after the presenter was threatened with physical violence.
Food for Thought. by Steven Shamrak
They say “Jews
control the world.” Strangely, after 64 years of independence, Jews are still not
even in control of their own country. We are still terrorised by Arabs and most
of our land is still occupied by enemies. Let us give up imaginary control of
the world and take control of our own land and destiny!
Aid Must be Stopped to Islamo-Genocidal
Pakistan
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Pakistani Federal Minister for Railways Ghulam Ahmed Bilour announced a $100,000 bounty for the killing of the
person who produced an online film that denigrates the Prophet Muhammad. He
also asked the Taliban and al-Qaida to extend support to the would-be killer.
The minister said whoever is responsible for blasphemy deserves death:
"The American who produced the sacrilegious film in the
Obama Plans to Free Terrorists, but not Pollard
President Barack Obama is about to release or transfer 55 Gitmo
prisoners, despite reports that the Libyan believed to be behind the killing of
US Ambassador Christopher Stevens was a former
PA: No Peace will Leave Arabs in Apartheid State
PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas warned that the
standstill in peace could lead to PA Arabs being left in an Israeli-run
apartheid state. "Without a tangible shift from a conflict management
approach towards a just and lasting political agreement... Israelis and
Palestinians will inevitably slide into one state governed by the principles of
apartheid." (He is right! PA wants to remove
all Jews from Judea and Samaria, like they were transferred from Gaza - why
can’t Israel transfer them out? The only way avoid the "apartheid state”
is for Israel to start working on transferring all Arabs and fake Palestinians
from Jewish land, by implementing the Sinai option!)
'Terrorist'
Label is Used in a Political Game
The US has decided to remove the Iranian dissident
group Mujahadin-e Khalq (MEK) from its list of terrorist organisations. Many
members of the MEK are stranded in Iraq, even as the group fell out of
Baghdad's favour after the fall of Saddam Hussein. The MEK, also known as the
People's Mujahideen Organisation of Iran (PMOI), led a guerrilla campaign
against the US-backed Shah of Iran during the 1970s, and also opposed Iran's
religious leaders who replaced the shah. (Many
Islamic ‘insurgence’ groups are still not recognised as terrorist organisations
by US and some European countries!)
Time is Right to Remove Enemies from Gaza
Hamas leaders Mahmoud A-Zahar and Deputy
commander of its military arm Marwan Issa spent the
second week of September in Beirut and Tehran finalising and signing protocols
covering a detailed and binding commitment by the radical Hamas rulers of the
Gaza Strip to join Iran, Syria and Hizballah in a war
on Israel.
In his speech to the UN, US President
Barack Obama clarifies his position on
They will Never Stop Inventing
‘Issues’
A
PA official has expressed outrage over Jewish bar mitzvah celebrations at the
Western Wall (Kotel). Ahmed Kariya,
head of a PA committee on
Bibi Shelving Levy Report
The historic Levy Report declared that Judea and
Samaria are not “occupied,” and that Israelis have the legal right to live in
the area. However, in the weeks since, it has been quietly pushed aside. The
report’s findings have not been the subject of discussion in government - not
even in the ministerial committee for settlement.
Anti-Islam film had Nothing to do with Attack
According even to Libya's president,
an anti-Islam film that sparked violent protests in many countries
had "nothing to do with" a deadly attack on the US
Consulate in Benghazi earlier this month. "Reaction should have been, if
it was genuine, six months earlier. So it was postponed until the 11th of
September." Magarief said there were no protesters at the site before the
attack, which he noted came in two assaults, first with rocket-propelled
grenades on the consulate, then with mortars at a safe house. "It's a
pre-planned act of terrorism," he said. (It is obvious, but
Obama is still making apologies, even in UN!)
Quote of the Week:
“The world tells
by Husain Haqqani,
professor of
international relations at Boston University
and Pakistan's former
ambassador to the US.
…the mob violence and assaults should be seen for what
they really are: an effort by Islamists to garner
support and mobilise their base by exacerbating anti-Western sentiments. When
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tried to calm Muslims by denouncing the
video, she was unwittingly playing along with the ruse the radicals set up.
…Protests
orchestrated on the pretext of slights and offences against Islam have been
part of Islamist strategy for decades. Iran's ayatollahs built an entire
revolution around anti-Americanism. While the Iranian revolution was underway
in 1979, Pakistan's Islamists whipped up crowds by spreading rumors that the
Americans had forcibly occupied Islam's most sacred site, the Ka'aba or the
Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Pakistani protesters burned the US Embassy
in Islamabad… In each case, the insult to Islam or its prophet was first
publicised by Islamists themselves so they could use it as justification for
planned violence. …the political intent of Islamists for whom every perceived
affront to Islam is an opportunity to exploit an issue to wedge for their own
empowerment.
…And insults, real
or hyped, are not the problem. At the heart of Muslim street violence is the
frustration of the world's Muslims over their steady decline for three
centuries, a decline that has coincided with the rise and spread of the West's
military, economic and intellectual prowess.
During the 800 years
of Muslim ascendancy beginning in the eighth century - in Southern Europe,
North Africa and much of Western Asia - Muslims did not riot to protest
non-Muslim insults against Islam or its prophet. There is no historic record of
random attacks against non-Muslim targets in retaliation for a non-Muslim
insulting Prophet Muhammad, though there are many books derogatory toward
Islam's prophet that were written in the era of Islam's great empires.
...A religion is what
its followers make it, and Muslims opting for violence have chosen to paint
their faith as one that is prone to anger. Frustration with their inability to
succeed in the competition between nations also has led some Muslims to seek
symbolic victories.
Yet the momentary
triumph of burning another country's flag or setting on fire a Western business
or embassy building is a poor but widespread substitute for global success that
eludes the modern world's 1.5 billion Muslims (for example, the
57 member states of the Organization of Islamic Conference account for
one-fifth of the world's population but their combined gross domestic product
is less than 7% of global output). Violent protest represents the lower rung
of the ladder of rage; terrorism is its higher form.
…Muslims blame
everyone but themselves for this situation. The image of an ascendant West
belittling Islam with the view to eliminate it serves as a convenient
explanation for Muslim weakness.
…Only in a free
democratic environment will the world's Muslims be able to debate the causes of
their powerlessness, which stirs in them greater anger than any specific action
on the part of Islam's Western detractors. Until then, the US would do well to
remember Osama bin Laden's comment not long after the Sept. 11 attacks:
"When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by nature they will like
the strong horse." America should do nothing that enables Islamists to
portray the nation as the weak horse.