Islamism & Islamophobia Abroad - News & Analysis

[shravan]

25 Muslims Fired Over Prayers at Hertz
http://abcnews.go.com/US/hertz-fires-mu ... d=14788124

[Altair]

Please enlighten me. I have seen many beheadings and the latest torture of Gaddafi. I have observed that while those very extreme violent moments people shout " Allah o Akbar". Their voice appears as if they were in a sexual climax and shouting the slogan. Extreme violence is sexually stimulating for sociopaths. But I failed to connect why they shout " Allah o Akbar" during those moments. Why shout "Allah o Akbar" while beheading or torturing anybody?

[Dipanker]

To me it seems in general that oppression of women is most essential component of "Islamism". Thus as and when women become more emancipated in Islamic societies "Islamism" will wane over a period of time.

Chechnya Coerces Women on Dress, Activists Say

MOSCOW — Women in Chechnya are under pressure to adopt Islamic dress, according to human rights activists and an Islamic fundamentalist video circulating on the Internet in the latest example of deteriorating women’s rights under Ramzan A. Kadyrov, the president of the restive southern Russian republic.

Activists in Chechnya, where Russia has waged two wars against separatists in the past 16 years, said intimidation reached a peak during the fasting month of Ramadan. There was also a crackdown on violations of Islamic law such as the sale of food before sundown and any sale of alcohol, they said.

[Aditya_V]

To me it seems in general that oppression of women is most essential component of "Islamism". Thus as and when women become more emancipated in Islamic societies "Islamism" will wane over a period of time.

Chechnya Coerces Women on Dress, Activists Say

MOSCOW — Women in Chechnya are under pressure to adopt Islamic dress, according to human rights activists and an Islamic fundamentalist video circulating on the Internet in the latest example of deteriorating women’s rights under Ramzan A. Kadyrov, the president of the restive southern Russian republic.

Activists in Chechnya, where Russia has waged two wars against separatists in the past 16 years, said intimidation reached a peak during the fasting month of Ramadan. There was also a crackdown on violations of Islamic law such as the sale of food before sundown and any sale of alcohol, they said.

Then why India and west are Liberals and Feminists on the side of Islamism?

I relive Men everywhere love to have control over women. and when given unquestionable, unlimited power without a democratic set up such laws are bound to be in place.

[Aditya_V]

the article by Hall or Crosby or whomever, is fairly well written. However, it also shows a lack of maturity and honourablity. How could the writer have missed including Hindus(and Buddhists) among the victims of the murderous Islamists? Surely, by now, he would have heard of the multiple Mumbai attacks at least?

There is this major American mainstream mental block, when it comes to including Hindus and India as a reference point on the matter of terrorism. It's all "Christians and Jews". That old American parochialism and insularity doesn't go away.

In the West, Hinduism is seen by many as Evil(partly due to their education systems), so it is difficult for them to see Hindus as victims of terror or genocide.

Many in the US have asked why India and Pakistan look similar- why do the idiots fight? Never will they bother to see who started the wars, conflicts etc.

[wig]

meanwhile the arab spring become sharia compliant

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... c-law.html

Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, the chairman of the National Transitional Council and de fact president, had already declared that Libyan laws in future would have Sharia, the Islamic code, as its "basic source".

But that formulation can be interpreted in many ways - it was also the basis of Egypt's largely secular constitution under President Hosni Mubarak, and remains so after his fall.

Mr Abdul-Jalil went further, specifically lifting immediately, by decree, one law from Col. Gaddafi's era that he said was in conflict with Sharia - that banning polygamy.

In a blow to those who hoped to see Libya's economy integrate further into the western world, he announced that in future bank regulations would ban the charging of interest, in line with Sharia. "Interest creates disease and hatred among people," he said.

Libya's liberation: interim ruler unveils more radical than expected plans for Islamic law = Libya's interim leader outlined more radical plans to introduce Islamic law than expected as he declared the official liberation of the country.

[Varoon Shekhar]

"In the West, Hinduism is seen by many as Evil(partly due to their education systems), so it is difficult for them to see Hindus as victims of terror or genocide."

Sick people and mentality. Who are these 'many', the evangelical Christians? I sure hope the common people in the West, including America, do see Hindus as victims of terror and genocide, and if they don't, that it is due to horrendous ignorance, not some kind of deviousness or mental connivance. Without becoming overly loud , Indians themselves should take the time to inform people of the fact of India-as-victim.

[RamaY]

^

It is also to do with how Hindus project themselves. There is no historical recognition of Hindu persecution in Muslim and Christan hands within India itself. Most of the NRI Hindus do not recognize and accept this fact themselves. So why blame others for this lack of awareness?

Ask any NRI Hindu/Indian if he feels that the past/current persecution/terrorism is directed Hindu India, and you will know why things are the way they are.

[abhischekcc]

There is a clear line of descent in any country in which the west interferes - they all devolve politically and morally.

[Varoon Shekhar]

Ramya:
There is also one non-Indian who tries to dismiss or mitigate the whole Islamic invasion( and perhaps European colonisation) of India by referring negatively to the Hindu groups' advocacy of greater pride, organisation and awareness of wrongdoings against Hindus. Martha Nussbaum resorts to pop-psycology theories about male perceptions about their inadequacy, to explain the behaviour. Again, denial of injustice and wrongdoing toward Hindus. Hindus are expected to look at their history and just lap it all up, without having any strong feelings about it. "Deeply hurt sentiments" are reserved only for Blacks, Jews, Aboriginals, the LGBT community and perhaps even Moslems in India with respect to Gujarat.

[Dipanker]

Then why India and west are Liberals and Feminists on the side of Islamism?

I relive Men everywhere love to have control over women. and when given unquestionable, unlimited power without a democratic set up such laws are bound to be in place.

I don't particularly believe that the liberals and feminists in India or West support Islamism. Talebans are Islamism personified yet you will not see the liberals or feminists anywhere supporting these neanderthals. You can't generalize on the basis of a few attention seekers and others who have agendas.

The point was that if the Islamic societies (places like Af-Pak) are transformed to adopt liberal values ( through long term social engineering ) then they will not pose a threat to the rest of the world.

Imagine an Islamic society ( Af-Pak likes ) where women have freedom to wear mini-skirts, such an Islamic nation can only be possible where the religious fundamentalists have been totally marginalized and have no sway over the mainstream.

[chetak]

meanwhile the arab spring become sharia compliant

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... c-law.html

Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, the chairman of the National Transitional Council and de fact president, had already declared that Libyan laws in future would have Sharia, the Islamic code, as its "basic source".

But that formulation can be interpreted in many ways - it was also the basis of Egypt's largely secular constitution under President Hosni Mubarak, and remains so after his fall.

Mr Abdul-Jalil went further, specifically lifting immediately, by decree, one law from Col. Gaddafi's era that he said was in conflict with Sharia - that banning polygamy.

In a blow to those who hoped to see Libya's economy integrate further into the western world, he announced that in future bank regulations would ban the charging of interest, in line with Sharia. "Interest creates disease and hatred among people," he said.

Libya's liberation: interim ruler unveils more radical than expected plans for Islamic law = Libya's interim leader outlined more radical plans to introduce Islamic law than expected as he declared the official liberation of the country.

Neatly going according to plan.

The US and NATO wanted an islamic republic in Libya so that it can easily be controlled with tried and tested methods. If it's sunni in character all the more better.

[Prem]

http://volokh.com/2011/10/23/in-egypt-t ... ing-islam/
In Egypt, Three Years in Prison for “Insulting Islam”

An Egyptian court sentenced a man to three years in jail with hard labour on Saturday for insulting Islam in postings on Facebook, the official MENA news agency reported.The Cairo court found that Ayman Yusef Mansur “intentionally insulted the dignity of the Islamic religion and attacked it with insults and ridicule on Facebook,” the agency reported.The court said his insults were “aimed at the Noble Koran, the true Islamic religion, the Prophet of Islam and his family and Muslims, in a scurrilous manner,” the agency reported.It did not provide details on what he had written that was deemed to be offensive....In 2007, a court sentenced blogger Kareem Amer to jail for insulting the Muslim prophet and then president Hosni Mubarak. He was released last year....

[Prem]

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/ne ... bled=false
Rare Muslim manuscripts go on display at Israel's National Library
Among the texts to be displayed as part of a special series on the history of Islam, are two Korans from the ninth century, just 200 years or so after the writing of the first Koran.

The National Library in Jerusalem is to begin displaying old Muslim religious texts from its collections, including some that are quite rare. Among the texts to be displayed as part of a special series on the history of Islam, are also two Korans from the ninth century, just 200 years or so after the writing of the first Koran.
In addition, the public will be able to view three Korans from the 11th and 12th centuries that come from Antalya, Andalusia and Persia. Most of the manuscripts are part of the collection of the Jewish scholar Abraham Shalom Yehuda. Upon his death, Shalom Yehuda, a prominent early 20th century Islamic studies researcher, donated his collection to the National Library. The collection includes 1,184 old manuscripts, of which around 100 are Korans, and is deemed one of the Western world's most important collections of ancient Muslim manuscripts.An important manuscript to be displayed during the series is an antique Koran which is apparently the first text featuring the Persian language in Arabic script, as it is written today. Another Koran, from the 15th century, written in Persia by a Shi'ite believer, made its way during one of the wars to the library of the Ottoman sultan, Salim I, whose seal appears on it. Ukeles explains that this Koran was "Sunni-ized" in the sultan's library and all the Shi'ite references in it were removed. So every time the name of the prophet Ali, the founder of Shi'ite Islam, appears, there is a gold smear across it.

( A Yahoodi own it all )

[ramana]

Mohammad R. Salama, "Islam, Orientalism and Intellectual History: Modernity and the Politics of Exclusion since Ibn Khaldun"
Tauris Academic Studies | 2011-04-15 | ISBN: 1848850050 | 304 pages

As the events and aftermath of 9/11 have shown, the relationship between Islam and the West is deeply troubled. Here Mohammad Salama calls for a new understanding of Islam as a historical condition that has existed in relationship to the West since the seventh century. Salama compares the Arab-Islamic and European traditions of historical thought since the early modern period, focusing on the watershed moments that informed their ideas of intellectual history and perceptions of one another. Islam, Salama argues, has played a major role in enabling and positioning Western historiography at key points, leaving palpable imprints on Islamic historiography in the process. Focusing on Ibn Khaldun, the complexities of orientalism and modernity, and recent European as well as Arab writings on such themes, this book is essential for all those interested in Islamic and Middle Eastern studies, Western and Islamic philosophies of history, questions of modernity, colonial Egypt, as well as the postcolonial conditions of the Arab world.

'This is a fresh look at debates such as Ibn Khaldun's theory of history, Hegel's understanding of Islam and the Anglo-French occupation of Egypt. Tying them together is a powerful argument about Islam's relation to intellectual history. Here is a literary scholar of great erudition skillfully redeploying the postcolonial critique of Orientalism in the face of a renewed demonization of Islam.' - Partha Chatterjee, Professor, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University

'An artfully written, colloquially vibrant work of demystifying scholarship. Salama has written the best study I know on the nagging misrecognition of Arabs and Muslims in the West by brilliantly re-thinking the much-maligned concepts of historyA" and modernityA" across the East/West divide.' - Timothy Brennan, Professor, Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota

'[A] groundbreaking work ... accessible to a broad audience despite its formidable ideas and its scope. Salama goes to great lengths to make it compelling for both specialists and students.' - Emily Gottreich, Associate Adjunct Professor, Department of History and International and Area Studies, University of California, Berkeley

'Well-written in an engaging style that expresses complex concepts in an eloquent yet accessible manner, this book examines key encountersA" between East and West in depth, with nuance, and using a wide range of sources from an abundance of disciplines, geographical locations and theoretical orientations. This book will be invaluable to scholars of Literature, History and Islamic Studies, to name just a few fields.' - Ghada Osman, Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics and Asian/Middle Eastern Languages, San Diego State University

'This is a book of tremendous insight and erudition. Dr Salama's analysis is both provocative and expertly rendered, and he writes astutely about matters that have largely been ignored in both scholarly and popular discourses.' - Steven Salaita, Associate Professor, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

'Cleverly interrogating the many assumptions about Islam that pervade current discourse, this book will be indispensable for students and scholars interested in Islam, European colonialism, postcolonial studies and intellectual history.' - Dustin Cowell, Professor, Department of Arabic Language and Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Looks like lot of expert comments and acclaim.

[Prem]

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article ... 81,00.html
NYPD Checking Muslims Who Change Names

For Muslims in New York, that rite of assimilation is now seen by police as a possible red flag in the hunt for terrorists.The New York Police Department monitors everyone in the city who changes his or her name, according to interviews and internal police documents obtained by The Associated Press. For those whose names sound Arabic or might be from Muslim countries, police run comprehensive background checks that include reviewing travel records, criminal histories, business licenses and immigration documents.All this is recorded in police databases for supervisors, who review the names and select a handful of people for police to visit.The program was conceived as a tripwire for police in the difficult hunt for homegrown terrorists, where there are no widely agreed upon warning signs. Like other NYPD intelligence programs created in the past decade, this one involved monitoring behavior protected by the First Amendment.
(See "NYPD to Scour Facebook and Twitter for Evidence of Crimes.") Since August, an Associated Press investigation has revealed a vast NYPD intelligence-collecting effort targeting Muslims following the terror attacks of September 2001. Police have conducted surveillance of entire Muslim neighborhoods, chronicling daily life including where people eat, pray and get their hair cut. Police infiltrated dozens of mosques and Muslim student groups and investigated hundreds more.Monitoring name changes illustrates how the threat of terrorism now casts suspicion over what historically has been part of America's story. For centuries, foreigners have changed their names in New York, often to lose any stigma attached with their surname.
The Roosevelts were once the van Rosenvelts. Fashion designer Ralph Lauren was born Ralph Lifshitz. Donald Trump's grandfather changed the family name from Drumpf.
David Cohen, the NYPD's intelligence chief, worried that would-be terrorists could use their new names to lie low in New York, current and former officials recalled. Reviewing name changes was intended to identify people who either Americanized their names or took Arabic names for the first time, said the officials, who insisted on anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the program.

[ramana]

Man two towers downed and the whole structure of enlightenment is coming down.

Makes you wonder if Reformation ->> Post modernism were cloaks donned to pass through the chaos of fedualism to capitalism and are now being shed to reveal the core?

[Gerard]

New York's Met Museum showcases a world of Islamic treasures

At the official ribbon-cutting ceremony for the galleries, Thomas P Campbell, the British-born director of the museum, was clear about the political urgency of the galleries. "We must recognise," he told the assembled great and good, politicians and donors who had gathered in the Met's central foyer, "that we live in a nation where a widespread consciousness about the Islamic world really did not exist until 10 years ago, and that awareness came at one of the darkest hours in American history." He added: "It is our job and the great achievement of these galleries to educate our audience about the depths and magnificence of the Islamic tradition."

[Aditya_V]

Then why India and west are Liberals and Feminists on the side of Islamism?

I relive Men everywhere love to have control over women. and when given unquestionable, unlimited power without a democratic set up such laws are bound to be in place.

I don't particularly believe that the liberals and feminists in India or West support Islamism. Talebans are Islamism personified yet you will not see the liberals or feminists anywhere supporting these neanderthals. You can't generalize on the basis of a few attention seekers and others who have agendas.

The point was that if the Islamic societies (places like Af-Pak) are transformed to adopt liberal values ( through long term social engineering ) then they will not pose a threat to the rest of the world.

Imagine an Islamic society ( Af-Pak likes ) where women have freedom to wear mini-skirts, such an Islamic nation can only be possible where the religious fundamentalists have been totally marginalized and have no sway over the mainstream.

Foreget Taliban , do liberals ever take on Islamists who run a parallel Sharia courts in India- the answer is a Big 'No".

Many so called "liberals" are actually digging the grave and expecting others will prevent a full sharia takeover while they themselves happily court these guys.

Meanwhile, More Pakistanyat from some Pakis

JuD 'teaching' Islam to Hindu flood victims

[SSridhar]

A threat to multilayered secular cultures - Madanjeet Singh

Please do read.

[Prem]

Jihad Jane plot details revealed: recruited men online to “wage violent jihad” in south Asia and Europe
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/10/jihad ... urope.html

American and Irish misunderstanders of Islam came together over Motoon rage, and plotted murder to defend their religion and prophet. Here again, it is odd how those who consider themselves to be most devout and active in the defense of Islam are those who tend to violence; this is never, ever explained by those who claim that they're misunderstanding the Religion of Peace. "Irish journalist reveals details of Jihad Jane plot: New details of Islamic terrorists in Ireland revealed," by Antoinette Kelly for Irish Central, October 31.according to the indictment, "Damache, Khalid and others 'devised and co-ordinated a violent jihad organisation consisting of men and women from Europe and the US divided into a planning team, a research team, an action team, a recruitment team and a finance team; some of whom would travel to south Asia for explosives training and return to Europe to wage violent jihad.'"The indictment alleges that Damache, Khalid, LaRose and others recruited men online to “wage violent jihad” in south Asia and Europe. In addition, Damache, Khalid, LaRose and others allegedly recruited women who had passports and the ability to travel to and around Europe in support of such activity.The indictment further alleges that LaRose, Paulin-Ramirez and others travelled to and around Europe to “participate in and support violent jihad”, and that Khalid and LaRose and others solicited funds online for terrorists."...

(JLMGWLMBG)

[Prem]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1H58ufRy54
Catholic University Controversy To Bash Muslims

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_xGdakT ... re=related
( Leftists in Cahoot with Islamist)

[svinayak]

A threat to multilayered secular cultures - Madanjeet Singh

Please do read.

When foriegn education and foriegn media is brought into the country - this is what happens.

[ramana]

Why Does the Crucifix "Provoke" Muslims?

by Raymond Ibrahim
Hudson New York
November 2, 2011
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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.

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").

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, Islamists 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."

Raymond Ibrahim is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center and an Associate Fellow at the Middle East Forum.

http://www.meforum.org/3089/crucifix-provokes-muslims

[Prem]

FRANCE: MUSLIMS STONE CHRISTIANS AS THEY GO TO CHURCH
http://ibloga.blogspot.com/2011/11/mich ... about.html

Comment
"Interfaith dialog in it's natural habitat"?
( DOPE AND DOLE DANCE)

[member_19686]

Does bombing Charlie Hebdo denote rise of militant Islam in France, then Europe?

The continuing and also raging debate whether it’s better to call Europe or term it as Eurabia has intensified (to a new level) with the destruction of the office of Charlie Hebdo, highly popular French weekly in Paris. The office was completely ravaged by a petrol-bomb attack on early Wednesday – only a day after it adverted Prophet Mohammed as its "editor-in-chief" for this week's issue. However, the magazine, in a hushed tone, has stated that the entire approach was made for rejoicing the sensational victory of Ennhada, known Islamist party in the recent election in Tunisia.

It is worthwhile to mention that Charlie Hebdo, prominent satirical political weekly newspaper, successor of Hara-Kiri, in France was created in 1960 and has been maintaining a high standard in the arena of journalism. Known also for its strong anarchist and left-wing perspective, the newspaper has always been derisive and radical in tenor.

The present editor of Charlie Hebdo is Charb, cartoonist who told France Info radio without reservation: "We no longer have a newspaper. All our equipment has been destroyed or has melted." However, he was found to be firm while saying, "We cannot, today, put together a paper. But we will do everything possible to do one next week. Whatever happens, we'll do it. There is no question of giving in,"

In accordance with police, the Molotov cocktail or gasoline bomb was thrown into the office at 1 am. And even if the (following) wild fire was extinguished shortly and there was no injury, the attack claimed destruction of a large amount of materials in office of Charlie Hebdo. On the word of Europe 1 radio, police are in a desperate search of two suspects perceived close to the scenario.

The website of Charlie Hebdo was also hacked with a message in English and Turkish doggoning the magazine. The message stated unequivocally: "You keep abusing Islam's almighty Prophet with disgusting and disgraceful cartoons, using excuses of freedom of speech. Be God's curse upon you!"

Charb, on the other hand, during his conversation with BFM TV said, "The arsonists haven't read this paper, nobody knows what's in the paper except those who buy it this morning. People are reacting violently to a paper without knowing anything of its contents, that's what's most abhorrent and stupid."

Here is the main cause or merriment. It’s the victory of Ennahda – the moderate Islamist party won the majority of seats in the October election of Republic of Tunisia and is, at the moment, busy in contemplating and endeavoring to form a coalition caretaker government.

"To fittingly celebrate the victory of the Islamist Ennahda party in Tunisia... Charlie Hebdo has asked Mohammed to be the special editor-in-chief of its next issue", the magazine said. "The prophet of Islam didn't have to be asked twice and we thank him for it," the formal statement said. The cover of this week's issue shows Prophet Mohammed saying: "100 lashes if you don't die of laughter."

The magazine also included an editorial by the Prophet titled "Halal Aperitif".

http://hinduactivist.blogspot.com/2011/ ... -rise.html

[Suppiah]

This man writes extraordinarily sensible and intelligent articles but even by his high standards, this one is in a class of is own...

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php? ... 2011-11-03

In one of my previous articles I invented the term “Muslim-meter” in reference to pious Muslims’ powerful belief that only “they” have the monopoly to judge if another Muslim is Muslim or Muslim enough

for instance Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his always pious comrades – are too pious for secular Turks and too secular for, say, Arab, Iranian, Pakistani or Afghan Muslims.

There won’t be peace in the Muslim world before an overwhelming majority of Muslims throw away their Muslim-meters

[sum]

Gotta admire these paper folks:

Defiant French paper reprints Prophet cartoon

French satirical weekly whose office was fire bombed after it printed a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad has reproduced the image with other caricatures in a supplement with one of the country’s leading newspapers.

The weekly Charlie Hebdo defended the “freedom to poke fun” in the four-page supplement, wrapped around copies of the left-wing daily Liberation on Thursday, a day after an arson attack gutted the Paris headquarters of Charlie Hebdo.

One headline in the supplement said: ‘After their office blaze, this team defends the freedom to poke fun’.

“We thought the lines had moved and that maybe there would be more respect for our satirical work, our right to mock. Freedom to have a good laugh is as important as freedom of speech,” Charlie Hebdo editor Stephane Charbonnier said in the supplement.

If this was "secular" India, the paper would have been hounded by the govt and all the staff arrested and thrown behind bars!!

[ranjbe]

Meanwhile, the jihadi group Boko Haram goes on an anti-Government rampage in Nigeria, killing 67 people, because Sharia law has not been implemented.

http://news.yahoo.com/officials-67-dead ... 51011.html

[arun]

The deep hold that Religion inspired Mohammadden on Mohammadden sectarian violence has on peoples psyche on display.

In Iraq a Sunni Mohammadden mother is arrested for sending her 9 year old son on a suicide mission to bomb a mosque used by Shia Mohammadden co-relgionists that killed 9 people back in 2006:

Mother of 9-year-old Iraqi suicide bomber arrested

[arun]

Meanwhile, the jihadi group Boko Haram goes on an anti-Government rampage in Nigeria, killing 67 people, because Sharia law has not been implemented.

http://news.yahoo.com/officials-67-dead ... 51011.html

The death toll in the rampage by Mohammaddens in Nigeria is reported to have reached at least 150.

Included as targets in the Mohammadden rampage were 6 Churches in Damaturu:

150 die in ‘heinous’ Islamist attacks in Nigeria

[arun]

In the Sharia compliant Land of Bad Teeth and Monthly Shower

Imam in the U.K. found guilty of abusing young girls

If the offending imam had committed his acts of pedophilia in a country with a high degree of sharia compliance, then of course the imam would not have been convicted at all, as the founder of Islam consummated his own marriage to his child bride Aisha when she was but nine (Sahih Bukhari Volume 7, Book 62, Number 64). Not that the British government or its legal system is about to acknowledge this, of course. Note that the convictions are for crimes that occurred 25-30 years ago, and no one in the Muslim community stepped forward in all that time save one brave victim herself. At the lightning rate that sharia is advancing in Britain, however, what are the chances of another imam being similarly convicted in the U.K. in 25 to 30 years' time?A ‘DESPICABLE’ paedophile who abused three girls when he was an Imam at a town centre mosque has been convicted by a jury. Ebrahim Yusuf Kazi, 67, was found guilty of five counts of indecent assault on three girls aged under the age of 13. The offences took place between 1979 and 1986 at Broad Street Mosque, where Kazi was an Imam before moving to Gloucester.

The paedophile Mohammadden cleric in question has been sentenced to a two year jail term with the Judge saying that the Imam would would have been jailed for longer but law prevented it as offences took place so long ago:

Paedophile imam jailed after girls he abused 27 years ago come forward to nail him

[chetak]

{quote="Prem"} In the Sharia compliant Land of Bad Teeth and Monthly Shower

Imam in the U.K. found guilty of abusing young girls

If the offending imam had committed his acts of pedophilia in a country with a high degree of sharia compliance, then of course the imam would not have been convicted at all, as the founder of Islam consummated his own marriage to his child bride Aisha when she was but nine (Sahih Bukhari Volume 7, Book 62, Number 64). Not that the British government or its legal system is about to acknowledge this, of course. Note that the convictions are for crimes that occurred 25-30 years ago, and no one in the Muslim community stepped forward in all that time save one brave victim herself. At the lightning rate that sharia is advancing in Britain, however, what are the chances of another imam being similarly convicted in the U.K. in 25 to 30 years' time?A ‘DESPICABLE’ paedophile who abused three girls when he was an Imam at a town centre mosque has been convicted by a jury. Ebrahim Yusuf Kazi, 67, was found guilty of five counts of indecent assault on three girls aged under the age of 13. The offences took place between 1979 and 1986 at Broad Street Mosque, where Kazi was an Imam before moving to Gloucester.

The paedophile Mohammadden cleric in question has been sentenced to a two year jail term with the Judge saying that the Imam would would have been jailed for longer but law prevented it as offences took place so long ago:

Paedophile imam jailed after girls he abused 27 years ago come forward to nail him

If only the islamic practice of "thighing" is investigated then it is highly likely that many many more convictions will take place.

[RajeshA]

If only the islamic practice of "thighing" is investigated then it is highly likely that many many more convictions will take place.

I read something about it here!

[ranjbe]

Bomb threats, suicide bombs, grenades, murder and mayhem - all while celebrating Id in Nigeria, Kenya, Iraq and Afghanistan in today's news:

http://news.yahoo.com/us-bomb-attacks-p ... 00700.html

http://news.yahoo.com/2-die-grenade-att ... 43441.html

http://news.yahoo.com/three-blasts-iraq ... 07000.html

http://news.yahoo.com/suicide-bombers-k ... 46833.html

[pgbhat]

Women & Islam: The rise and rise of the convert

Record numbers of young, white British women are converting to Islam, yet many are reporting a lack of help as they get used to their new religion, according to several surveys.

As Muslims celebrate the start of the religious holiday of Eid today and hundreds of thousands from around the world converge on Mecca for the haj, it emerged that of the 5,200 Britons who converted to Islam last year, more than half are white and 75 per cent of them women.

In the past 10 years some 100,000 British people have converted to Islam, of whom some three-quarters are women, according to the latest statistics. This is a significant increase on the 60,000 Britons in the previous decade, according to researchers based at Swansea University.

While the number of UK converts accelerates, many of the British women who adopt Islam say they have a daily struggle to assimilate their new beliefs within a wider culture that both implicitly and explicitly positions them as outsiders, regardless of their Western upbringing.

Many of the young women – the average age of conversion is 27 – are also coming to terms with experiences of discrimination for the first time, despite the only visible difference being a headscarf. Yet few find easy sanctuary within the established Muslim population, with the majority forming their closest bonds with fellow converts rather than born Muslims.

Kristiane Backer, 45

Television presenter and author, London

I converted to Islam in 1995 after Imran Khan introduced me to the faith. At the time I was a presenter for MTV. I used to have all the trappings of success, yet I felt an inner emptiness and somewhat dissatisfied in my life.

[Klaus]

(JLMGWLMBG)

Details please

[ramana]

This is what Eid Al Adha( Sacrifice Eid) is all about.

Sacrifice of Issac

[Prem]

(JLMGWLMBG)

Details please

Jo Lahore mei ......Woh Leister mei....

[shiv]

Here is a video entitled "Islam fun". That is why I post it here. Found it while looking for Islam+humor

It is not necessarily family friendly, but it could be funny I guess. Just 67 secs.

I am not embedding, just linking

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqMU8vvc_gM