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April 8, 2005

Exercise in Dhimmitude 101: Journalists Afraid To Criticize Islam?

Topics: Understanding Islam

Here's a good piece on the NRO act of dhimmitude, written at the Washington Times. Rich Lowry and NationalReviewOnline have caved-in to CAIR(controversial, Muslim lobby group -- three of whose former associates have been indicted on terrorism-related charges, and whose executive director, Niwad Awad, has publicly declared his support for Hamas), and removed a book(one of two) that according to advertising copy, offered "the dark mind of Mohammed," his multiple wives (among them a little girl), "rapine," "warfare," "conquests" and "butcheries." As well  known expert and scholar-author of Islam Robert Spencer has written, "Everything with which CAIR took issue can be readily established from Islamic sources." What did it take for CAIR to bring Lowry and the NRO to their knees? All it took was a CAIR letter about the books to Boeing Corp., a big National Review advertiser -- that did the dirty little trick. (CAIR promised to copy its letter to ambassadors of Muslim nations that buy Boeing planes). Islamism wins and fredom of speech looses - every time a journalist caves-in to the Islamic agenda.

- By Diana West in The Washington Times
If Kafka met Monty Python, and George Orwell edited their collaboration, they might have come up with something like the following real-life exchange.

    It took place in an Australian court where two Christian pastors were found guilty of "religious vilification" of Muslims by lecturing to their flock on Islam. At one point during the trial, defendant Daniel Scot began to read Koranic verses in his own defense. The Pakistani-born pastor hoped to prove to the judge that his discussion of the inferior status of women under Islam, for example, had a specific textual basis in the Koran. As he began to read, a lawyer for the Islamic Council of Victoria, the plaintiff in the case, objected. Reading these verses aloud, she said, would in itself be vilification. Poor, ultimately convicted, Mr. Scot put it best: "How can it be vilifying to Muslims when I am just reading from the Koran?"

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Posted by Hyscience at April 8, 2005 11:30 AM

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