Archive for February, 2006
Muslims Say The Darndest Things
The following sayings are the contribution of the members participating in the forum, on FaithFreedom.org.
Insist that violent passages in the Quran only apply to long-ago historical incidents (like the battle of Badr), but then also insist that the Quran is a book of guidance “for all times and all people.”
Insist that Muhammad ‘s actions can’t be judged by today’s more humane human rights standards, while at the same time, insist that he is the perfect “Model for all Mankind” today.
Insist that Islam is a “religion of peace”, while at the same time, brag about the great military victories of Muhammad, Abu Bakr, Umar, Khalid bin Al-Waheed and Saladin.
Insist that Islam is “not a missionary religion”, while at the same time publish endless articles about “how to do dawah” on hundreds of dawah websites. (dawah means invitation to Islam)
Insist that “truth stands from error” and that Islam can stand on its own merits as the “one true religion”, while laboring endlessly to squash all criticism and discussion of Islam.
Insist that the laws in Saudi Arabia, Iran and Afghanistan are unIslamic while trying to get them implemented in the west, India and other kafir societies.
Insist that women achieve TRUE liberation through Islam! Never mind those pesky ideas about real equality with men in all areas of life, men and women are so different, and shari’ah “realistically” acknowledges these differences, unlike those evil man-made law systems that suggest otherwise! Read the rest of this entry »
Students Document Abuse of Black History Month on Campuses
Being polically correct on today’s campuses goes to far when elevating one group of people over another group through abuse.
Cross-posted from The National Ledger
By Jim Kouri
Feb 25, 2006
Parents will be surprised — at times shocked — to learn that leading colleges and universities have used the February Black History Month to lash out angrily at whites, to spread socialist and Marxist ideas, and to honor the Black Panthers, according to a statement released by the Young America’s Foundation.
They claim that missing from many Black History Month campus activities were positive messages and discussions about the accomplishments that blacks have made in business, education, government, and science. They also complain that "too few black conservative speakers, such as Ward Connerly, Walter Williams, and Star Parker, were invited to provide a balanced and uplifting message of Black Americans."
Fewer even mention such African-American luminaries as Secretary of State Condi Rice and General Colin Powell.
Young America’s Foundation researched the Black History Month calendars of 83 leading colleges and universities in the United States. The 12 schools listed below highlight the most flagrant instances of left-wing activism’s hijacking of an entire month. Instead of applauding the accomplishments of blacks in history, students were fed a steady diet of "victim politics" and anti-white sentiment.
The list will shock some, but most conservatives and moderates have come to expect such politically-motivated shenanigans from the institutions of higher learning in America.
STATEMENT FROM MRC PRESIDENT STATEMENT FROM MRC PRESIDENT RACIST COMMENTS BY BRYANT GUMBEL
Alexandria, VA—Media Research Center President Brent Bozell issued the following statement regarding Bryant Gumbel’s racist comments about the Olympics looking like a Republican Party convention due to its lack of black athletes.
“Gumbel’s remarks reek of racism and arrogance,” said Bozell. “On HBO’s Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel, he actually said we should ‘try not to laugh when someone says these are the world’s greatest athletes, despite a paucity of blacks that makes the Winter Games look like a GOP convention.’ That’s racial bean-counting. It’s also morally skewed because it says that to be among the greatest athletes you have to be black.
"What if Gumbel had said ‘a paucity of whites makes the NBA look like a Democratic convention?’ Rush Limbaugh was roundly denounced by the media when he made allegedly racist remarks about a football player. So where are the media condemnations now against Gumbel?
“Judging people by race is just plain wrong. Will HBO have the temerity to – at a minimum – publicly reprimand Gumbel for his racist statements or will they cower to a has-been who has proven he can’t hold a job in network news?”
Inquiring Gringos Ask A Mexican or Dear Gabacho
The Los Angles Times has been publishing since 2004 the politically incorrect column, "Dear Gabacho" or "Ask a Mexican". It started as a one-time spoof, but quickly caught on and the questions keep rolling in.
Arellano, a 27-year-old reporter and fourth-generation Orange County resident, has taken his "Ask a Mexican" personality to radio and other print outlets. He has found receptive audiences in unlikely places, even conservative talk radio.
"Ask a Mexican" is historically and culturally accurate, in some cases painfully so, while pushing the edges of modern political correctness. Its logo depicts a stereotypical Mexican peon, complete with bushy mustache, large sombrero and a single shiny gold tooth.
"There isn’t any politically correct bridge that you have to walk over; you’re just right there," Sasha Anawalt, director of arts journalism fellowship programs at USC’s Annenberg School for Communication, said about Arellano’s column. "His writing kind of tackles you."
No topic or question is left unanswered No matter how offending it may appear, the answer is always the truth. Most of the questions are from "gringos". A sample question from the column reads:
Dear Mexican,
As an Asian person, would I be considered a gabacho? Or do I fall into the yellow bucket labeled chinito, even though I’m not Chinese?
Dear Chino,
Like Americans assume all Latinos are Mexican, Mexicans think all Asians are chinos — Chinese. When I used to go out with a Vietnamese woman, my aunts would speak highly of mi chinita bonita — my cute little Chinese ruca…. Chinese were the Mexicans of the world before there even was a Mexico, migrating to Latin America a couple of decades after the fall of Tenochtitlán.
Article source: Los Angles Times
Kids Say The Darndest PC Things
In last week’s column I wrote that if Illinois’ governor succeeds with his preschool scheme, the kiddies would be sent "off for a fun filled day of government indoctrination on the state’s dime." A teacher who disagrees kindly took the time to tell me why I’m wrong about that.
For one thing, she said, most teachers aren’t inclined to peddle a single political view. Despite the liberal positions taken by the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers, many teachers are not activists. There are, she asserted, even some who don’t vote a straight (if you’ll pardon that unPC term) Democrat ticket at elections.
Setting political views aside, there’s barely enough time for educators to teach the minimum skills children need to make it in life according to my correspondent. There are already so many demands on teachers that even if they wanted to proselytize, there aren’t sufficient minutes in the school day to do so.
I thought of that this weekend as I spent some quality time with my favorite five-year-old. She’s in kindergarten and when I asked her what she was learning, she was eager to share her knowledge.
"In 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King gave a speech in front of a quarter million people in Washington, D. C," she stated. "He said:
‘I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.’ Dr. King was a great American."
Incredible. They’re teaching quotations from King’s speech in kindergarten. I doubt that the teacher had talked about King calling the United States "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world" and comparing our troops in Vietnam to Nazis.
The Treatment of Infidels in Saudi Arabia —a Time to Apologize?
By Khaled Waleed
This is how we treat the infidels in Saudi Arabia :
We abuse the non-Muslims living and working in Saudi Arabia all the time, especially the Christians and the Jews.
We call them grandsons of pigs and monkeys. We say this openly, everywhere, particularly in mosques.
We do not respect any religions except Islam. This is the Saudi official policy: all religions other than Islam are false. Only Islam is the true religion. To accomplish this extremely bigoted notion, the Saudi state policy is to convert to Islam as many infidels as possible. So, proselytizing for Islam is a major activity of the government and the religious department. Those who convert to Islam are rewarded handsomely. This is a kind of bribe, you might say—to force infidels into Islam. Those preachers and Islamic workers who succeed in converting the loathsome infidels to Islam might also expect to be richly rewarded.
In Saudi Arabia , discrimination against the non-Muslims is absolutely rampant, very clear and open. It starts with aqama (red cards for the non-Muslims and green cards for the Muslims). The rule on taxation is also different for the Muslims and the non-Muslims. This is open, clear and meticulously planned Islamic apartheid which might even surpass the enormity of the apartheid policies of the erstwhile South African government.
In Saudi Arabia , non-Muslims are merely tolerated. They have no right to build any places of worship for their customary religious rituals and practices. Non-Muslims are not allowed to observe their rites, celebrate their religious festivals or even extend congratulations to one another in front of any Saudis. If any infidels dare to carry out his religion openly, he is threatened with immediate deportation from Saudi Arabia .
Non-Muslims living in Saudi Arabia cannot marry any Muslim women. This is completely forbidden.
No non-Saudi could acquire Saudi Nationality either by birth or through naturalization. Recently, there have been some minor changes to the Citizenship laws, but no non-Muslim could ever be awarded with Saudi citizenship.
Infidels living in Saudi Arabia cannot build their own schools.
Non-Muslims who are lucky enough to live in their own compounds can practice their religious activities in secret, out-of-sight of Muslims. This means they have to live like prisoners in their abodes. They could never invite any Muslims in their homes.
During the month of Ramadan, non-Muslims are instructed by the Saudi authorities to respect the religious feeling of the Muslims. The infidels are ordered not to consume any food in front of Muslims. Any violation of this requirement might result in expulsion from Saudi Arabia of the infidel culprit—merely for eating in the presence of a Muslim. That is why, at the outset, in the month of Ramadan, to show respect to the Muslims, the government announces that if the infidels want to consume food they must do this in hiding, completely out of view of any Muslims. I have a premonition that the Muslims living in Europe , very soon, might demand such a law from the governments of their host countries.
The law of Sharia in Saudi Arabia forces non-Muslim women to wear Muslim costume abaya. If any non-Muslim women refuse to comply with this rule she will be in deep trouble with the enforcement authority.
Saudi authorities exert enormous pressure on the non-Muslims to convert to Islam. I have personally witnessed this forced conversion right in front of my eyes. And, to tell the truth, to the joy of many Wahabi Islamists, the Islamic authority is quite successful in this subtle forced conversion into Wahabi brand of Islam. To perpetuate such religious propaganda and coercion, these events of Wahabi Islam conversions are advertised in the leading newspapers with great fanfare which includes the photographs of the newly-converted Muslims published in the media.
In Saudi Arabia , unless a non-Muslim had converted to Islam, he/she is not eligible to receive any charity (Zakat) whatsoever. That is why many infidels from poor countries are enticed to convert to Islam so that the rich Saudi Muslims could earn Allah’s blessings by bestowing charity to these poor converts.
Now, contrast those despicable treatments of non-Muslims in Saudi Arabia with the treatment of Muslims in infidel lands.
Saudi Arabia builds mosques all around the world, especially in America and Europe .
Muslims living in infidel lands enjoy full right to marry any women of their choice. They have the right to build their own Islamic Schools.
Muslims are eligible to acquire citizenship either through naturalization or by birth. Remember, non-Muslims in Saudi Arabia have no such right,
Muslims enjoy full entitlement of proselytizing their religion and convert infidels into Islam. True to this spirit, the Muslims in infidel lands are hell-bent to perform just this—they would like to convert all the harami kafirs in infidel countries to Islam
Muslims living in the west can criticize other religions (especially Christianity and Judaism) to the fullest extent, but kafirs living in Muslim countries are legally bound not to mention a single sentence which is critical of pure, serene Islam—it is blasphemous and punishable by death.
But all those rights enjoyed by the Muslims in western countries are not enough for them. They want more. That is why they perpetrate 9/11 on the innocent people of the USA . That is why very few Muslims had ever criticized Bin Ladin’s atrocities on the western people. All those crimes of Bin Laden were holy Islamic acts—in full agreement with the Islamic tenets. That is why majority Muslims are Bin Ladin’s supporters. Until today, I have not heard any Imam in Saudi Arabia who had said Bin Ladin is wrong. No Imam has, so far, declared Bin Ladin a non-Muslim or a kafir. All Imams support him—if not openly, then secretly. Being a native of Saudi Arabia and having lived here since my birth, I can certainly vouch of what I say. I hear people’s (Saudi) conversation, and they are in praise of Bin Ladin’s murder of infidels. I watched on Television a famous Sheikh eulogizing Bin Laden, although the Sheikh admitted that Bin Ladin’s actions hurt the reputation of Saudi Arabia .
It is absolutely audacious for the Muslims to criticize the French law banning religious symbols in French public schools. Muslim’s cry on this is nothing but the practice of pure double-standard. They would not allow non-Muslims to exercise their religious freedom in Islamic countries, but they would expect the kafir lands to respect and uphold their archaic religious (Islamic) symbolism. What sheer nonsensical and hypocritical this demand could be, come to think of it!
To illustrate the utter menace of Islam that Europe faces today, perhaps it would be germane to mention the killing of artist/film director Van Gough in the Netherlands , who was brutally murdered, in broad daylight, by an Islamist Jihadist. I am very certain that in the coming months and years many such murders will be committed by the Muslims living in Europe and America . Many innocent western people will have to die in the hands of Islam, just because they happen to be non-Muslims. I am writing this because I am a Saudi and I know very well what Islam is all about.
I understand that many readers are already aware of the grave peril of Islam to the current civilization, thanks to the power of Internet. In fact, I did not write anything new. What prompted me to warn the non-Muslims is that: last week I received a number of e-mails listing the Danish products which I must avoid. I see a great calamity is developing quite fast. I feel that the world is about to face a crisis—a showdown between Islam and the rest of the world. Those non-Muslims who still believe that somewhere there is such a thing called ‘peaceful’ or ‘moderate’ Islam, this cartoon incident should be a wake-up call to them.
It could be argued that the cartoons depicting Muhammad might be offensive to some Muslims .This, to me, seems to be fair enough. But then, the cartoons are the work of a single or a few cartoonists or it might be a newspaper. Then, why should the Muslim world punish the innocent people of Denmark ? Is this a fair treatment? When I ask this question to my friends they become very angry. They told me that entire Europe is the enemy of Islam and all Europeans deserve to be punished. It is because the Europeans would never stop criticizing Islam.
So, I told my friends that many Americans and Europeans consider all Muslims to be terrorists—they must be correct in their opinion. They (my friends) cannot refute me; instead, they grow more irate. They even challenge me to be either with them (Muslims) or with the infidels. But I am on neither side. I am on the side of justice and fairness.
We criticize others, but then, we do worse than what we are criticizing. Truly, Muslims are dim-witted. They do not realize that the USA and Europe could destroy the entire Muslim population if they were to emulate the Islam’s example of apartheid, unfairness and absolute perpetration of hate towards non-Muslims. The Muslims are very lucky that these infidels do not imitate our policies.
Today, Muslims are seeking apology for a dead man (Muhammad) from the government of Denmark .
My question is: who really deserve an apology—Muslims or the non-Muslims around the world?
Source: http://www.faithfreedom.org/
Christian Symbols Ripe for Parody
The right to be religiously offended is the right to be a modern American.
The freedom of speech and parodying religion has been the way of life in the United States. In an article published in theledger.com, Neely Tucker of the Washington Post writes:
Blasphemy!
You want blasphemy, try Christianity in America.
Here’s the latest cover of Rolling Stone, featuring rapper Kanye West wearing Christ’s crown of thorns. Go to the bookstore for "The Da Vinci Code," a thriller that posits Christ had sex.
Television: "South Park’s" notorious "The Spirit of Christmas" short, featuring an obscenity-filled fistfight between Christ and Santa Claus! Sample dialogue: "Holy (expletive), it’s Jesus!"
Radio: "The Tom Joyner Morning Show," which features comedian J. Anthony Brown and his "biblical sayings" from the Last Supper, in which disciples make outrageous quips.
Big hits, one and all. America’s fascinations with comedy, narrative drama, religious fervor and free speech routinely produce the edgy and the heretical in culture both high and low. Sometimes it’s protested, sometimes it’s boycotted, but the right to be religiously offended is the right to be a modern American — most particularly for Christians, as we will see.
Remember John Lennon’s remark about the Beatles being more popular than Jesus Christ? It did cause outrage within the Christian community, but no one was killed and no property was destroyed because of it.
Tucker continues:
John Lennon notoriously opined in 1966 that the Beatles were "more popular than Jesus." There was Monty Python’s "Life of Brian," Andres Serrano’s photo exhibit with an image of a crucified Jesus soaking in urine, Martin Scorsese’s "The Last Temptation of Christ," and Kevin Smith’s "Dogma."
Attempts to ban these things simply didn’t work, or backfired. In 1999, record crowds showed when New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani tried to shut down a museum for featuring a painting of the Virgin Mary besmirched with elephant dung.
Want to see a movie crowd this summer? Try to get into "The Da Vinci Code" on opening day.
So why are the Muslims getting so violent over simple cartoons?
To Mark Galli, managing editor of Christianity Today, the American willingness to offend Christianity, but extend deference to Islam regarding the current batch of Muhammad cartoons, can be understood through a series of cultural and political differences.
First, he notes, Christians worship a man who was persecuted, beaten and killed. The sense that people might persecute Christ’s followers is an inherent part of the Christian ethos, he says, so Christians are inherently likely to tolerate offense.
Muhammad, a prophet who died after an illness, did not leave behind a religion with that mindset, he says.
After Mohammed’s death, the Muslims were left leaderless, without any direction or instructions on how to continue with Mohammed’s concepts on being a Muslim. Contemporaries of Muhammad and historians had to create the mindset of "What Would Muhammad Do?"
Evangelical Christian Pastors Issue Evangelical Climate Initiative On Global Warming
Recently 80 evangelical Christian pastors are endorsing the Evangelical Climate Initiative, a "politically correct" agreement that the United States should abide by the U.N.’s Kyoto Protocol which address the supposedly "green house effect".
Are they blind to the hidden United Nation’s agenda of bringing down, economically the United States to the level of a third world country. All the while third world countries are exempt from the Kyoto Protocol enabling them to gain from the United States loses.
Rev. Jerry Falwell has spoken out against their action. Although many are his friends, he does not believe their action is in the best interest of our nation. In his column in World Net Daily, he writes:
Many of the people who signed this document are my friends – some are dear friends. Nevertheless, I have felt compelled to oppose their effort because I believe that global warming is an unproven phenomenon and may actually just be junk science being passed off as fact.
In addition, I believe that so-called solutions to global warming – and particularly the Kyoto Protocol, which is the politically correct international agreement to fight greenhouse gas emissions – would devastate the American economy if adopted by our nation. Further, studies have shown that costly efforts to stem greenhouse gas emissions would just barely reduce global temperatures.
Paul Driessen, senior policy adviser for the Congress of Racial Equality and author of "Eco-Imperialism: Green Power, Black Death," recently stated, "By making energy less affordable and accessible, mandatory controls (on greenhouse-gas emissions) would drive up the costs of consumer products, stifle economic growth, cost jobs and impose especially harmful effects on the earth’s poorest people."
That’s a bottom line our nation cannot endorse.
I agree with Rev. Falwell that this "greenhouse effect" can not be proven scientifically. In fact he points out that the weather does change through cycles. If you look back 20 to 30 years ago, it was believed we were heading into an ice age.
The only thing we are heading in to if we follow the U.N.’s Kyoto Protocol is economic disaster.
Judge Grants Temporary Restraining Order Against Katy Independent School District
A press release from LibertyLegal.org on the battle over hearts on Valentines Day
Houston – A judge of the 133rd Harris County District Court granted the temporary restraining order (TRO) against Katy Independent School District moments ago, protecting the children’s right to bring religious-themed valentines to a class party on Tuesday, Feb. 14.
“We are very pleased with the judge’s decision to uphold the Constitution and grant the students the right to express their religious beliefs without discrimination,” said Kelly Shackelford, chief counsel for Liberty Legal Institute. “A TRO is a severe remedy, but unfortunately it was necessary because of the extreme violations by the district.”
The parents and the children, whose free speech rights were violated, filed for the TRO to ensure that the students could hand out religious-themed gifts to friends at the Valentine’s Day party. The TRO coincided with a lawsuit, Pounds et. al. v. Katy ISD, filed against the district for years of continued religious censorship against students.
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No Love In Islam: Valentine’s Day Nixed By Women
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
Muslim females are Xing out Valentine’s Day because it furthers vulgarity.
Muslim males however may have several wives and several "temporary wives" they use as sex slaves. That of course is morality maximum. The "temporary wives" live with their parents and the male has no financial obligation to them whatsoever. That’s why they are sex slaves.
Muslim females are so brainwashed in Islam that they yield to the masochistic, which adds another neurotic dimension to the killing cult. However, all this is typical of cults. Reason is not a top priority. Nor is morality.
Therefore when other parts of the world celebrate Valentine’s Day, each year the Muslim females protest with their own boycott. Muslim males of course join in with glee.
It does not take a psychiatric degree to figure out that when females are so oppressed that they react with further submission. The understanding of legalistic Muslims is that females are conceived with ten curses. These curses are defined as exposing one’s genitals in public. If the Muslim female marries, one curse is lifted but the others remain. Therefore, it had been better if the female had never been conceived.
As she lives on Earth, she must garb herself from head to foot, covering her eyes with a see-through shield. Therefore, her identity and self-importance are never known. Her beauty is never seen. She is nothing, worse than dung.
If she shows her ankles, a Muslim male may cane her. If she shames the clan in some way, even if imagined by a male, she can be murdered—bullet through her head or her throat slit. Therefore, when it comes to love, it is no wonder that Muslims have no understanding of love and romance, of tenderness and care.
It reminds me of the Iraqi who voted in the election but told a reporter he had no idea what a democracy is. He had never experienced it; consequently, he could not get hold of it. He voted in a democratic way but really he had no feel for what he was doing. That’s what is frightening about New Iraq. We may end up with an entire nation not understanding democracy because of the entrenched dictatorial mindset of Islam.
Islam is a dictatorship with demonic Mohammed’s imagined deity, Allah, calling the shots. The Koran is laden with killing and maiming verses, all followed to the letter due to demand Allah demanding it. Allah rules. Males rule. Clerics rule. Females and children are slaves to the despotism. Males have a chance at eternity with the forever orgy. Females go to hell.
Therefore, it is understandable that women turn increasingly neurotic, hence their abhorrence of Valentine’s Day. That celebration defines all that they never have, never experience. They therefore respond with a distaste for that Day and all it represents.
There is a particular group called "Daughters of Faith" who vehemently fight against Valentine’s Day because it leads to obscenity. They claim that the Day opposes their "faith." These females fight to the teeth, even invading shops that sell Valentine’s Day cards and gifts. From the loot, they make a fire, burning everything they confiscated.
It is another exposure of Muslim’s extreme provincialism. That is why they cannot integrate with civility. They have been so culturally sheltered, brainwashed into believing they have the full truth on all things, that they cannot assimilate with anything other than Islam. They are creatures of demonic habit because they have been taught from the demonic Koran how to slay and maim.
There are those who email me saying that I am not understanding Islam. However, I wonder if they are simply another part of the Islamic propaganda machine, attempting to convince others and me that there really are "moderates" and "secularists."
If they can convince me that I am incorrect, then I might pull back and not expose Islam as a killing cult. If they can get me to question my own research on Islam, then another voice exposing Islam would be closed down. But I don’t believe them for I have read the Koran, read Mohammed’s biography and now see daily in the news what the killing cultists are doing to dissolve civilization.
Therefore, if you are Muslims reader, don’t bother emailing me unless you come to the awakening that you are a part of a demonic conclave out to annihilate the planet in the name of Satan.
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