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February 9, 2006
More On Arab Bedouin Mentality Influencing Today's Islamic News (Updated)
Topics: Understanding Islam
Here is a brief summary of today's events in the world that have been influenced by or are related to the irrational and harsh Arab Bedouin mindset so characteristic of radical Islam, and exhibited by an ever-growing percentage of Muslims throughout the world. And to think that they want truly moderate Muslims, and all non-Muslims, to be like THEM, not vice versa!
Let's see, so many radical Muslims, so many stories, but let's try to take a look at just a few. After all, there are only so many hours in a day:
Iran Focus: "Iran to hang teenage girl attacked by rapists." - An Iranian court has sentenced a teenage rape victim to death by hanging after she weepingly confessed that she had unintentionally killed a man who had tried to rape both her and her niece. (Obviously, this evil girl should have let the man rape her and her niece, after all, he art man, they are mere women. How dare them defend themselves!) [More here]
Charlotte Observer: "Muslim world's reaction far more appalling than cartoons' publication" - ... questions raised by the caricatures, published after the newspaper's editor invited Danish cartoonists to submit drawings of Muhammad, have been asked with increasing frequency in European capitals: How much must a society change to welcome immigrants from different cultures and religions, and how much must newcomers have to change in order to become members of that society? The Danish editor wondered how much Islam was affecting traditional Danish values such as freedom of expression and tolerance. (... the big problem here is that those that follow the Islamist's totalitarian ideology believe that it is superior to our liberal democracy, and whenever there's a difference between their approach and (the West's) approach, they want (the West) to become like them and not vice versa.)
The Grand Rapids Press: "Cartoons 'a direct attack on the faith,' Muslim leader says; violence reaction also denounced." - Imam Sharif Sahibzada says he does not have to see the cartoons. Any depiction of the Prophet Muhammad, not just those derogatory images published in European and a few U.S. newspapers, is blasphemous, the West Michigan Muslim leader says. "It's a direct attack on the faith," Sahibzada said of the cartoons that have touched off Muslim protests and violence worldwide. "They should stop playing with the faith of more than 1 billion people." (Although this group does renounce the violent protests, the alarming thing is that these are supposedly "moderate" American Muslim clerics, that want Americans to adopt Islamic rules that ignore freedom of speech and democratic values, not to mention the fact that such an ideology is in direct conflict with Western values and culture. It's not for us to adopt to them, it's up to them to adopt to us!)
The Counterterrorism Blog (Opinion), by Walid Phares: "The Cartoonesque Jihad." - Freedom of speech cannot be reversed by any ideology that doesn't believe in the latter's value. And at the same time, hurting the core feelings of any religion, including Islam, is acceptable by coexistence standards. But the question is this: Is it really about the drawings themselves or between the drawers of cartoons and the drawers of fatwa? Phares examines this.. (This is an important article that I highly recommend)
Al-Ahram Weekly, Cairo: "Prophetic misreading" - To depict the most revered figure in Islam as a terrorist is to fan the flames of religious hatred, writes Anjali Kamat. to depict the most revered figure in Islam as essentially and fundamentally violent, to reduce the Prophet to the level of media-spewed images of terrorists and Islamic radicals, is deeply offensive and about much more than distorting the life and teachings of the seventh-century figure. Leaving aside the fact that many devout Muslims through history have seen no contradiction between their faith and visually depicting the Prophet, fixating on the rigidity of Islam and over- simplifying its impact on the lives of Muslims avoids a crucial point. It is, after all, Muslims who are overwhelmingly at the receiving end of Western violence. (I included this in our little news brief, because it's written by an Arab Muslim, and because it exemplifies the mentality of what rational thought is up against. Saying that "Muslims who are overwhelmingly at the receiving end of Western violence" deserves an award of some kind for being the best example of closed circular reasoning one could possibly come up with. The writer totally avoids the issue - Islam IS associated with terrorism, all over the world. Islam IS associated with beheadings, Islam IS associated with intolerance, and Islamists themselves say that the Islamic civilization and culture is completely and absolutely incompatible with the West's: The Islamic faith does not allow unconditional freedom of speech, and the Islamists believe that the Islamic faith is above the value system of the West.)
Times Republican, Central Iowa's Daily Newspaper, Michelle Malken: "Fight The Bullies of Islam" - Something very important is happening in Denmark - a showdown over freedom, tolerance, and their wolfish menaces in religious clothing. So, please, turn off "American Idol," put down the Game Boy for a moment, and pay attention. This does affect you. on Tuesday afternoon in advance of the State of the Union address, the Council on American-Islamic Relations issued an ultimatum warning President Bush to "avoid the use of hot-button terms such as 'Islamo-fascism,' 'militant jihadism,' 'Islamic radicalism' or 'totalitarian Islamic empire"' in his speech - in other words, advising Bush not to identify our enemies for the sake of tolerance and diversity. First, they came for the cartoonists. Then, they came for the filmmakers and talk show hosts and namers of evil. Next, who knows? (I've included this because Michelle's piece it is directly related to the Arab Bedouin Islamic fundamentalism that threatens us all, moderate Muslims and non-Muslims, alike.)
The Daily Star Middle East, Beirut: "Let's admit to a growing Islamist problem" - In the aftermath of the rioting Sunday that led to the ransacking of several neighborhoods in Ashrafieh and the burning of a building housing the Danish embassy, there was a consensus in official Beirut that Syria was to blame. Perhaps it was, in part, but many adopted that expedient line to cover-up something far more disturbing: There is a growing Sunni Islamist movement in Lebanon, some of whose members are violent, and no one has control over them. (Here we're looking at recognition of a growing Islamist problem in - Beirut, which is of course in the Middle East. If even Middle Easterners are seeing the problem, shouldn't we?)
News Telegraph UK: "100,000 Muslims to vent anger in London at cartoon protest" - "It is a way of showing the depth of anger that Muslim communities feel about being continually insulted by the publication of these images." (More of the "same old same old" attack on Western culture and an agenda to have the West be like intolerant Muslims, instead of the intolerant Muslims, adjust and assimilate into modern Western culture)
OhMy News: Rice: Syria and Iran Inflame Protests - Condoleezza Rice, directly accused Syria and Iran of masterminding the violence in the global protests that have killed at least 10 people around the world, sparked by the series of cartoons caricaturing the Prophet Mohammed. "Iran and Syria have gone out of their way to inflame sentiments and to use this to their own purposes, and the world ought to call them on it," she said at a joint news conference with Israel's foreign minister, Tzipi Livni, according to CNN. (The importance of this news piece lies in the fact that the U.S. is laying the blame on Syria and Iran, but failing to identify the Islamist imams in Denmark and accomplices in the conspiracy to incite the gullible Muslim masses into rage)
Tomorow we'll look at a fresh set of events related to the harsh Arab Bedouin mindset so characteristic of radical Islam, and exhibited by an ever-growing percentage of Muslims throughout the world.
Posted by Richard at February 9, 2006 2:09 PM
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