Afghanistan: cleric offers $300K for the head of anti-jihad film maker

First a Pakistani member of the parliament offers $100K, then ups it to $200K for the death of the movie producer.  Now Afghanistan puts its dog in the ring, hoping there will be enough money to get someone to avenge the insult to Muhammad and Islam.

How weak does your religion have to be in order to offer up money for the death of anyone who insults you or your God?

From Khaama Press October 7 by Sadaf Shinwari

Afghan cleric offer $300k bounty on Anti-Islam filmmaker

An Afghan religious cleric announced $300,000 bounty to kill the producer of the American film which insulted prophet Muhammad.

This is the first time Afghan religious clerics jointly announce bounty in a bid to defend insulting the Islamic values.

Anti-Islam film sparked deadly protest across the Muslim countries and the producer of the film was widely criticized for desecrating the Islamic values.

A number of Afghan religious students, clerics and members of the civil society following a demonstration urged to arrest and try the producer of the Anti-Islam film.

Mir Farooq Hussainy a religious cleric in western Herat province of Afghanistan vowed to offer bounty for killing the producer of the Anti-Islam film.

He said the bounty will be collected from the local traders and investors of western Herat province.

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Popsicle Jihad

I can't make this stuff up.

From BikyaMasr October 4 by Joseph Mayton

Egypt Salafists attack schoolgirls, tell them no to popsicles

CAIRO: Two bearded ultra-conservative men in Egypt attacked four elementary schoolgirls walking down a street eating ice popsicles. The men knocked the popsicles from the girls hands and began yelling at them.

They told them to stop eating the popsicles and go home, Bikyamasr.com witnessed. The girls, shocked at what was happening, stood frozen in their movement.

The two men continued their yelling, telling them to be “modest.” The girls began to cry.

A group of men across the street watching the incident were quick to enter the fray, pushing the two men away and kicking them as a yelling match ensued.

One of the men, protecting the girls, continued to shove the two men until they were heading in the opposite direction.

The incident on Thursday highlights the growing influence Salafists, or Islamic puritans, are attempting to have on the streets.

Many women have reported incidents of conservatives in Egypt attempting to force their will on them across the country, attacking them for their “immodesty.”

And all this happening amidst the emergence of the new, secular and democratic Egypt.  Well, that's what Obama tells us, isn't it?

Arizona: attempted honor murder by mom, dad and sister

Nothing says love and tolerance than beating your daughter because she was seen talking to a unrelated male.  We will see more of this as Muslims grow in population.

From MyFoxPhoenix October 5 by Mia Garcia

Woman claims family beat her for talking to a man

PHOENIX - A woman claims she was beat by her family for talking to a man and on Friday, those family members were in court.

All three family members plead guilty. The 20-year-old victim had an outburst in court and interrupted the hearing.

She was crying and told the judge this was all her fault and she wants her mother back.

Stockholm Syndrome.

The judge repeatedly asked her to stop interrupting.

The alleged incidents happened when she was 19. Court records show she was burned on her face and chest with a hot spoon after refusing to participate in an arranged marriage with a 38-year-old man.

Records also state that victim was tied to a bed with a rope secured with a padlock until Feb. 8, when she was released to go to school.

The mother, 50-year-old Yusra Farhan, plead guilty to unlawful imprisonment. The father, 45-year-old Mohammed Altameemi, plead guilty to disorderly conduct and her 18-year-old sister, Tabarak Altameemi, plead guilty to misdemeanor assault.

Sentencing is scheduled for November 6th. The judge told the victim she'll get her chance to talk at the sentencing.

Farhan and the Altameemis will most likely get probation.

"Egypt's Grand Mufti, Ali Gomaa, once wrote that drinking Muhammad's urine was considered "a great blessing"

Since Muhammad has been dead since 632AD, drinking camel urine is the next best thing.

From raymondibrahim.com October 1 by Raymond Ibrahim

'Sharia-Medicine'
Egyptian Clinic Treats People with Camel Urine Per Prophet's Advice

A recent Egyptian TV program showed how Islamic Sharia law's many prescriptions do not merely clash with modern-day concepts like free speech and religious freedom, but even with medicine and science.
On September 16, popular TV persona Wael El-Ibrashi hosted Dr. Zaghlul al-Naggar, a prominent Islamic thinker and Chairman of Egypt's Committee of Scientific Notions in the Quran, on the topic of medical science and Islam. Inevitably the idea of drinking camel urine as a form of therapy—first proposed in the 7thcentury by Muslim prophet Muhammad—came up.

Not only did Dr. Naggar promote this practice, but he made the staggering announcement that right now in Egypt a medical center in Marsa Matrouh actually specializes in treating people with camel urine, all in accord with the prophet's advice.

Other Egyptian thinkers joined the show via satellite, including Khaled Montaser (who earlier exposed the Islamic world's "inferiority complex"). At one point, while delineating how science and medicine work, Montaser reminded that urine is where all the body's toxins are carried out, asking "so, shall we drink it for health?" Naggar simply responded with arrogance: "I am older than you and more learned than you: you are not going to teach me; I will teach generations of people like you."

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US District Judge Rosemary Collyer eviscerates the 1st amendment, regards free speech as hate speech

om Jihad Watch

UPDATE: Judge Collyer was not able to find a way to uphold her own beliefs that the first amendment needed to be censored.  She gave her ruling today, and we can rejoice; the absolute right of free speech is upheld!  Bravo to Pamela Geller and the rest who did not stop until this case was seen through to the end.  Read the actual judgement (from Jihad Watch) here.  It's a good day for the constitution!
DC: Free speech victory for AFDI -- against all odds

Judge Collyer should be immediately removed from the bench.  She knows nothing of the first amendment and has shown, by her words and actions that she is a threat to the freedoms we hold sacred.  She knows nothing of Islam, or jihad or anything pertinent to understanding the motives of the enemy.  Clueless dhimmi, and too dangerous to be left to adjudicate anything beyond school yard scuffles.

Judge Collyer is another judge in a growing line of judges who are actively trying to destroy the freedoms and liberties they should be actively defending.

From Atlas Shrugs October 4 by Pamela Geller

FREE SPEECH UNDER SIEGE IN U.S. DISTRICT COURT IN THE NATION'S CAPITAL

Today was a dark day in American history, but you'd never know because the media is complicit in this sharia enforcement. I had a front-row seat to witness the rape of the First Amendment in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Judge Rosemary Collyer, presiding. Robert Spencer and I went down to Washington as defenders of America's most fundamental and unalienable right. And in return, we had the sad misfortune of watching a U.S. District Court Judge discard, denigrate, downplay and dismiss our most basic law of the land: the freedom of speech.

The Judge went out of her way to validate and substantiate the ridiculous premise of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA), that the AFDI pro-freedom ad would endanger passengers on the D.C. subways and thus must not be posted, or at least delayed until some (fanciful) time when the jihad threat would subside. It was painful to watch Judge Collyer almost physically wrestling with the First Amendment, trying to tackle it and pin it to the floor. But the First Amendment was much too wily for the wrongheaded, utterly subjective, and clueless judge.

Philip Staub, the lawyer for WMATA, invoked the international Muslim riots that have been blamed (falsely) on the Muhammad video, and said the WMATA had received an email threatening them if they posted our ad. He was, in other words, counseling submission to violent Muslim intimidation, and the curtailing of the freedom of speech to appease savages. He made the laughable argument that if the ad ran after November 1, the threat would have subsided by then, and would be well -- as if the jihad terror threat would completely die down by then. Judge Collyer then asked him if the ads could be posted sooner if they were moved away from the train platforms, so that passengers would be less likely to get caught up in fights or terrorist attacks over them. He seemed open to that idea.

The whole issue about moving the ads represented the judge’s attempt to find a way to accommodate the WMATA’s fearmongering argument that the ad would endanger passengers. And is that now the American response to threats of violence from a fascist ideology – to accede and submit to that very same fascist ideology? The judge was an embarrassment to every proud American who understands what is at stake. I can’t speak for our lawyer, Robert Muise, but his frustration was palpable.

Staub also argued that the ad constituted fighting words, but here even Judge Collyer couldn’t go along with what he was saying, although she struggled mightily to do so. She gently pointed out to Staub, whom she treated with kid gloves and like a special-needs child the whole afternoon, leading him by the hand to the disbelief of the open court (in sharp contradistinction to her frequent interruptions and contradictions of Robert Muise – stop making sense!), that for the ad to constitute fighting words, there had to be an imminent threat of violence. But the ads have run without incident in San Francisco and New York – they were vandalized in New York in an attempt to shut down free speech, but there was no violence aside from Muslim Brotherhood poster girl Mona Eltahawy’s pink spray can) – and so it was impossible for Staub or Collyer to sustain the idea that they constituted an imminent threat to the safetyof the passengers. But Collyer certainly tried, coaching and coaxing Staub, and at one point saying to him, “The imminence issue is hard for me to get to. Just trying to tell you where I am going.” She never gave Muise any such hints.

Collyer further coached Staub by saying that she assumed – assumed! – that he was arguing (since he was so inept at actually doing so, the point wasn’t clear) that the government’s “compelling interest” in refusing or delaying these ads was concern for the safety of the passengers. She then said, with obvious reluctance, that against that concern there had to be balanced “the very broadly read First Amendment,” and asked him how he thought this could be done.

Staub answered that the safety of the passengers could be balanced against the First Amendment by delaying the ads. He said that he thought things would cool down in Africa, Asia and the Middle East by November 1, and that the ads could run then. Remember, guys, we’re talking about four little ads here, and the WMATA is talking about unrest on two continents. That’s how paralyzed with fear of savages the U.S. Government has become.

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The past is the future

In my latest History class, one paper we were to read and write on was an essay...actually a memo, from White House Special Council Clark Clifford to President Truman.  Written in 1946, it speaks of the growing Soviet threat, and how the US needs to respond in order to survive the coming war.  As I read it, I was struck with the similarities we now face with Islam.  Clifford spoke of containment, military build-up and the thinking driving the Soviets, all closely relating to today's clash with Islamic doctrine.  I decided to change a few words, to reflect today's missing viewpoint on what is needed to protect and defend ourselves from our own stupidity.  Clifford's words are just as prescient today as they were in 1946, I can only pray that those in power take these words to heart and make the tough decisions that will guarantee our future as a free society.

There was no title for this memo, so I have titled it;

Future Survival; Do we have what it takes to make it?

It is perhaps the greatest paradox of the present day that the leaders of Islam, now convinced that Islam is stronger than it has ever been before, should embark on so aggressive a course because their caliphate is "weak." And yet Islam and its adherents proclaim that "The West" threatens the world with war and that Islam must strengthen her defenses against the danger of foreign attacks. Islam, according to the Qur’an and the hadiths of Muhammad, is imperiled so long as it remains demonized by the “Zionist/American Plan." This idea is absurd since for 1400 years Islam has been trying to control what is, by doctrine their own planet. With a global population of 1.4 billion and not one non-Islamic country willing or able to speak the truth about Islamic hegemony, the conquest moves along. The process of injecting this poisons propaganda into the minds of Muslims goes on with increasing intensity, and will continue until the West will be powerless to stop the spread of Islamic supremacy. 

The Qur’an acknowledges no limit to the eventual power of Islam, but it is practical enough to be concerned with the actual position of Islam today. In any matter deemed essential to the security of Islam and Muslims, Islamic leaders will prove adamant in their claims and demands. In other matters they will prove grasping and opportunistic, but flexible in proportion to the degree and nature of the resistance encountered.

Recognition of the need to postpone the "inevitable" conflict is in no sense a betrayal of Islamic doctrine. Qur’an sura 3 verse 28 tells Muslims not to have dealings with non-Muslim, and sura 60 verse 1 tells Muslims that showing affection to non-believers will get them their place in Hell instead of paradise. There is little compromise and collaboration with non-Muslims for the accomplishment of ultimate Islamic purposes, except where Islam can use the laws and regulations of the non-Islamic country to their own ends. Islamic leaders will continue to collaborate whenever it seems expedient, for time is needed to build up the strength needed to wage jihad and weaken the opposition. Time is on the side of Islam, since population growth and economic development will, in the Islamist view, bring an increase many times over in its relative strength.

A direct threat to American security is implicit in Islamic hegemonic policy through the Qur’an, which is written and understood by many Muslims to be the manual for war with the leading capitalistic/Western nations of the world. Islamic leaders recognize that the United States will be the Islam’s most powerful enemy if such a war as that predicted by Islamic texts and tenets ever comes about, and therefore the United States and their friends and allies, especially Israel are the chief target of Islamic jihad and global Islamic hegemony.

The most obvious Islamic threat to American security is the growing ability to wage an offensive war against the United States. This has not hitherto been possible, in the absence of concerted, organized and directed global jihad. Now, however, Islam is rapidly developing elements of military strength which was hitherto lacking in the form of a growing Al-Qaeda presence in North Africa and the growing influence of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafist movement. Islam has declared his intention of sparing no effort to build up the military strength of its jihadists. Development of specific jihads; pen, word, classroom, media, internet, soft, mind as well as sword are extending the effective range of Islamic power, power well into areas which the United States regards as vital to its security.

The primary objective of United States policy toward Islam is to convince itself that Islam is a religion of peace, that it is in our best interest to participate in a system of dhimmihood, that there are no fundamental causes for war between our two nations except what we say and do, and that the security and prosperity of America, and that of the rest of the world as well, is being jeopardized by the aggressive militaristic imperialism that Western powers, and Jews show towards the peaceful and victimized Muslims.

However, these same Islamic leaders with whom we hope to achieve an understanding on the principles of our own appeasement and self-censorship stridently tell us that a war with the United States and the other leading capitalistic nations is inevitable. They are increasing their military power and the sphere of Islamic influence in preparation for the "inevitable" conflict, and they are trying to weaken and subvert their potential opponents by every means at their disposal. So long as these clerics adhere to these beliefs, it is highly dangerous to conclude that hope of international peace lies only in "accord," "mutual understanding," or "solidarity" with Islam. One only has to look at the Pact of Umar, a 7th century treatise on how non-Muslims must act while living among Islam to see just how much “equality” resides within Islamic doctrine.

Islam will never be easy to "get along with." The American people must accustom themselves to this thought, not as a cause for despair, but as a fact to be faced objectively and courageously. If we find it impossible to enlist Islamic cooperation in the solution of world problems, we should be prepared to join with the British and other Western countries in an attempt to build up a world of our own which will pursue its own objectives and will recognize the Islamic orbit as a distinct entity with which conflict is theologically predestined and with which we cannot pursue common aims.

Nigerian Update; October 3

"Nigeria is becoming a killing field"

From the Christian Post October 3 by Katherine Weber

Christian Students Executed by Boko Haram in Nigeria; Believers Pray for 'Change of Heart'

Multiple sources have confirmed that about 25 to 30 Christian college students were massacred at a university in northeastern Nigeria late Monday night, causing Christians to pray for a "change of heart" among the extremist Islamist group Boko Haram to put a stop to the continued violence.

While there is speculation as to the motive of the massacre, sources close to the human rights watchdog Open Doors USA confirm that the massacre was performed by Boko Haram.

Emily Fuentes, the communications and public relations coordinator for Open Doors who recently visited Nigeria and spoke to Christian leaders about Boko Haram, told The Christian Post that believers around the world can agree that prayer is the "only thing that will change the people of Boko Haram."

"There are people who are turning to Christ who used to be in the Boko Haram, and God is changing their hearts," Fuentes told CP.

"A lot of Christians believe that God will change these peoples' hearts," she added.

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Forest fires in Europe the work of Al-Qaeda

Part of the plan to destroy Western civilization by "a thousand cuts."

Could some of our fires here in the North West be a result of this jihad by a thousand cuts?  Lightening does start most fires here, and we know some campers and hunters have been known to have inadvertently started fires, but do we really know for sure?

From the Telegraph October 3

Al-Qaeda blamed for Europe-wide forest fires

"One should note that setting fires to forests in the countries of the European Union is a new tendency in al-Qaeda's strategy of a 'thousand cuts'," Alexander Bortnikov said, according to state news agency RIA Novosti, at a meeting of heads of security agencies.
"This method allows (al-Qaeda) to inflict significant economic and moral damage without serious preliminary preparations, technical equipment or significant expenses."
In linking al-Qaeda to the deadly wildfires, Mr Bortnikov pointed to calls to launch a "forest jihad" by various extremist websites which he said also publish detailed instructions about how and where to best carry out arson.
He said it was very difficult for special services to find and prosecute such arsonists.

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Flammable flags flame fanatics firelight

Making 500 an hour, and all guaranteed to burn.

What a country.  Pakistan, I mean.

From AGI October 3

Feel the Love, Islam Style

US "inflammable" flags sold out in Pakistan

(AGI) Islamabad - In Pakistan, the US flags are a hot item. In fact, they are burned by the thousands in protest against the movie on Mohammed. The student wing of the Shiite party Majlis-e-Wahadatul Muslimeen, for example, has stated that in the most active days of protest reached a pick production of 500 per hour. That same group has produced a US flag 500 meter long and 60 meter wide, that will be displayed in the near future on a Lahore street, ready to be walked upon by the protesters. The anti-US demonstrations continued during the whole month of September and caused over 20 deaths. Warranted to be flammable, every Stars and Stripes fetches between 120 and 1500 rupees (1-12 euros), but often the parties and the various religious movements buy entire stocks to be distributed to the protesters. . .

Why do the words flammable and inflammable mean the same?  Just wonderin...

Egypt demands Germany follow the Sharia and send back a German Copt accused of "insulting" Islam

If Germany sends Maikel Nabil back to Egypt for prosecution, they will be complicit in whatever happens to him.  They will also be the first non-Islamic country that agrees to follow the sharia regarding its own citizens, in the hope that all will be well.

Madness.

From BikyaMasr September 30 by Joseph Mayton

Egypt Coptic Christian Maikel Nabil charged with “insulting” Islam, Germany requested to send home

CAIRO: Egyptian Coptic Christian activist Maikel Nabil, who is known internationally as the first prisoner of conscience in the post-Hosni Mubarak Egypt after the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) jailed him for “insulting the military” now faces charges of insulting Islam, he reported on Saturday while in Germany.

The Egyptian government have requested that the German government return Nabil as soon as possible so he can stand on the charges, Egypt’s Youm al-Saba’a newspaper reported.

He is being accused of “contempt of the Islamic religion and abuse of the divine.” Also among the charges, the newspaper reported are “insulting the Prophet and his followers.”

Under coming blasphemy laws, reporting on this at this blog would net me jail time.

The lawsuit against Nabil says that he “consistently” insults Islam through his online activities, including his Twitter account.

It is unclear if Germany will respond to the request or if Nabil will return to the country in the near future as he now faces charges that could see him return to prison.

Nabil was jailed by the military junta in early 2011, but was freed ahead of the one-year anniversary of the January 25 revolution that ousted the Mubarak government from power.

The Egyptian government and military council had received fierce criticism domestically and abroad for their detention and sentencing of Nabil, who was jailed for comments he made in a blog post entitled “The army and the people are not one hand.”

I can see why Islam was insulted.  I certainly would not let that one stand.

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"It's impossible to retouch women out of reality"

But Islam will try, oh how they will try.

From The Local October 1

Ikea 'sorry' for erasing women in Saudi bookIn the Saudi version of Ikea's annual furniture booklet, all the women who appear in the catalogue published in other countries have been removed via photo retouching.

The altered images caused a stir when revealed in Swedish media, prompting an apology from Ikea’s head office in Sweden.

“We apologize and understand that people are upset,” said Ulrika Englesson Sandman, a spokeswoman for the Inter IKEA Systems, which owns the Ikea trademark and concept, to the Expressen newspaper.

“This is really unfortunate. We have been in contact with Saudi Arabia to discuss this issue. It should be possible to balance Ikea’s values so that we don’t discriminate people. At the same time, we try to adapt to the cultures and the legislation that are there," she told Sveriges Radio (SR).

The removal of the women, including a young girl who was pictured studying at her desk, has prompted a strong response from many prominent women in Sweden:

"You can't remove or airbrush women out of reality. If Saudi Arabia does not allow women to be seen or heard, or to work, they are letting half their intellectual capital go to waste," Swedish minister for trade, Ewa Björling, said in a statement.

"It's impossible to retouch women out of reality," she told the Metro newspaper.

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Egypt: Muslim Brotherhood Preacher says secularists and liberals must be punished

Wait.  He is calling for the prosecution of those very people who supported the change-over from the Mubarrak to the now Islamist MB government, So we have been fooled with the mistaken belief that the new government would be secular and liberal.  I can hear those liberals now, supporters of the "Arab Spring" explaining that Wagdy Ghoneim couldn't mean what he says, and that there must be some mistake because we all know Islam is a religion of peace, right?

Right?

From the Egypt Independent September 30


Liberal, secular 'infidels' must be prosecuted, says Brotherhood preacher

Liberals, modernists and secularists are infidels and must be brought to trial for abandoning Islam, according to an ultra-conservative preacher in the Muslim Brotherhood.

In a video posted on the YouTube channel of the privately owned newspaper Al-Shorouk newspaper on Sunday, preacher Wagdy Ghoneim said: “If they do not repent, the judge must apply the penalty for apostasy.

“If anyone tells you that he is liberal, tell him directly that he is infidel.”

Earlier this month, Ghoneim caused controversy after issuing a fatwa — an Islamic religious edict — that said joining the Constitution Party, led by Nobel laureate Mohamed ElBaradei, is forbidden by Islam. Calling it an “infidel” party, Ghoneim said he refused to recognize secular, liberal or leftist political movements.

Members of the Constitution Party subsequently filed a complaint against Ghoneim, saying that he had defamed and insulted their party and its members.

George Ishaq, a founding member of the Constitution Party, told Al-Masry Al-Youm that Ghoneim is inciting sedition.

Former liberal MP Amr Hamzawy refused to comment on Ghoneim’s remarks, telling Al-Masry Al-Youm that “we shouldn’t respond to such fatwas.”

"You shall not regain Al-Aqsa and Palestine without preparations, rockets, and guns. You shall not regain Palestine through negotiations, capitulations, kisses, or hugs...The one thing that will restore Palestine to you is Jihad, Jihad, and more Jihad"

He said it.

From MEMRI September 7

Top Palestinian Islamic Cleric in Lebanon Zaghmout Calls upon Muslims to Unite in Jihad

Following are excerpts from an interview with Sheik Muhammad Zaghmout, head of the Palestinian Islamic Council in Lebanon, which aired on Mayadeen TV on September 7, 2012.

Sheik Muhammad Zaghmout: I say to myself, to the Islamic scholars, to the Muslims themselves, and to the viewers all over the world – from north to south, and from east to west: Oh Muslims, unite! Unite! Unite! Unity is the key to your strength, while disintegration will lead to your death.

Implement the words of Allah: "Prepare for them what force and steeds of war you can, to strike terror in the hearts of the enemies of Allah...

Muslim is insulted, head of ice cream company resigns in Montana

Be resolute in your stand to protect the 1st amendment.  Without it, we are at the mercy of theological tyrants.  Matt Schaeffer took the bullet, but in the process lost his livelyhood to the hecklers veto, courtesy of Islam.  More of this is coming...wait for it...

From the Billings Gazette September 28 by Jan Falstad

Facebook trouble for a Montana company

The president of Livingston-based Wilcoxson’s Ice Cream, which runs a plant in Billings, offered to resign Friday following social-media fury over a one-sentence Facebook response.

Although he insists he meant nothing derogatory, Wilcoxson’s president Matt Schaeffer, of Livingston, offered to step down to save the company from fallout over his response to a Muslim customer who asked if the company used any gelatin containing pork in its ice cream.

The meltdown started the evening of Sept. 21 when a man in Sheridan, Wyo., posted a Facebook comment about Wilcoxson’s “cookies and cream” flavor ice cream containing gelatin.

“Does it contain pork? I am a Muslim and love your ice cream and when I read it today I was shocked. I look forward to you writing me back. Thank you. If possible, if it does have pork gelatin please tell me what flavors do so I can avoid them thanks again :)”

A valid question for anyone trying to respect one's religiosity.

Schaeffer said he was tired that night, was responding to a series of posts and only read to the “pork” part of the sentence before clicking on the writer’s Facebook page where he saw a map of Pakistan and quickly wrote this response:

“We don’t deliver outside of Montana, certainly not Pakistan.”

And the insult takes shape in the mind of the Muslim.

Schaeffer said he didn’t see the address of Sheridan, Wyo., because he didn’t read that far.

“There was a map on his Facebook page with a map of Pakistan, with a balloon in the center. I presumed he was sending this from Pakistan,” Schaeffer said.

The commenter took offense and wrote:

“What are u talking about!!??? I think.ur comment is rude to assume I live in Pakistan.”

The man said “just because of your ignorance, I wont buy your ice cream and definitely wont recommend it.”

If blasphemy laws were enacted, Schaeffer would go to jail for making a wrong assumption, and the reason is below...

Alisa Prigge, of Denver, who said she and her husband are friends of the Wyoming man who asked about the gelatin, sent a letter on Sept. 26 to Wilcoxson’s calling for a boycott to “stand up to racism, ignorance and intolerance” and sent copies to Montana reporters. She said that her friend is an American citizen who was born in this country.

Schaeffers comment is now racist (what race are Muslims again?), ignorant and intolerant.  We have demonization of the kuffir!

Prigge said she hadn’t talked to Schaeffer to hear his version of the story before she sent the email.

This was an honest mistake, Schaeffer said, adding he apologized to the man on Wednesday and again Friday during an interview with Sheridanmedia.com

“It was wrong. I screwed up,” he said, calling himself a social-media beginner who has only used Facebook for four months. Schaeffer actually took over the Wilcoxson’s Facebook page from a fan who created it after the fan said it became too much work.

Good dhimmi.

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Joe Dolman, Newsday Knucklehead

He believes that if just keep our mouths shut, the alligator will eat us last.

Dolman asks this question of Pamela Geller and the pro-Israel ads now running "...is it really wise to bait them? Right now? After what has happened in Egypt, Libya and Lower Manhattan (more than once)?"  Hey Joe, is there ever a good time to speak about Islam?

Uh huh.

From Newsday September 24 by Joseph Dolman

Dolman: Anti-jihad ads in subway may be legal, but they lack street-smarts

The unwritten code of the subway says that when a situation is fraught with danger, you never want to escalate it. You never want to challenge the angry-looking guy who’s staring at you from across the aisle and muttering under his breath. Is Armageddon erupting in his head? You don’t want to find out.

Today I’m upset with Pamela Geller because she has broken the code. She has an ad going up in 10 New York subway stations that reads: “In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad.” As a New Yorker who was present in Manhattan on 9/11, I can promise you, I don’t like jihadists any more than she does.

But is it really wise to bait them? Right now? After what has happened in Egypt, Libya and Lower Manhattan (more than once)?

I can accept the decision by federal Judge Paul Engelmayer that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority was wrong to reject the ad’s language as demeaning. It’s protected speech, he said.

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions we loathe and believe fraught with death, unless they pose such an imminent threat that an immediate check is required to save the country, wrote Justice Oliver Wendell Homes Jr. Who can say with certainty what the effect of Geller’s signs will be?

The issue isn’t the law. It’s common sense. Why bring this intractable psychodrama to the subway? Life is tough enough.

Joe, your proctologist called, they found your head.

Kenya: children targeted by Islam, one dead and several hurt

My disgust-o-meter always pegs in the red when I see articles where Islam is torturing and killing children.  I have said for years that Islam abuses women and children, and has since 610AD.  Sadly, we have to add this awful example to that 1400 year list.

From the BBC September 30

Deadly Kenya grenade attack hits children in church

One child has been killed and three seriously hurt, police say, in a grenade attack on a church's Sunday school in the Kenya capital, Nairobi.

The attacker targeted St Polycarp's church on Juja Road.

A police spokesman blamed sympathisers of Somalia's al-Shabab Islamist militant group, angry over Kenya's role in the UN-backed intervention force.

A mob later rounded on Somalis living near the church with sticks and stones in a suspected revenge attack.

Police chief Moses Nyakwama told the BBC's Focus on Africa programme that 13 people had been injured in the revenge attack, in the suburb of Eastleigh.

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"Then I stab her, stab her neck...It’s for your good. Let me finish..."

Attempted honor killing in Canada.  We are seeing more and more of this, and no one in power wants to address it, because to do so would be "Islamophobic."  With coming blasphemy laws there will come a time where this will not be allowed to be published, as it insults the sensibilities of Muslims.

We are doomed.

From The National Post September 26 by Graeme Hamilton

‘It’s for your good. Let me finish’: Afghan-Canadian mother told police she stabbed her daughter with a kitchen knife

MONTREAL – For months, Bahar Ebrahimi had been rebelling against her parents, complaining their Afghan culture and Muslim religion were suffocating her. “I want to enjoy my life. I want to feel what the other ones feel,” she told them, according to her mother’s statement to police.

It was June, 2010, Grand Prix weekend in downtown Montreal, and on two straight nights the 19-year-old stayed out past dawn against her parents’ wishes.

For her mother, Johra Kaleki, the behaviour confirmed that all her efforts to steer her eldest daughter on the right path had failed. “I felt like she would never be fixed,” she told Sgt.-Det. Alexandre Bertrand in an interrogation video played Wednesday in Quebec Court.
As her crying husband spoke to Bahar in the basement of their Dorval home, Ms. Kaleki went upstairs and grabbed a large knife from the kitchen counter, the one she used to chop meat, she recounted. “I said, ‘This is the time.’ ”

She hid the knife under her T-shirt, returned to the basement, and told her husband the problem would best be resolved between mother and daughter. “Just leave us alone for five minutes,” she said she told him. “Don’t come until I call you.”

He left and she cuddled her first-born and told her to lie on her stomach so she could give her a back massage. “Then I stab her, stab her neck,” she confessed. “She said, ‘No Mom!’ I said, ‘It’s for your good. Let me finish.’ ”

Earlier in the interrogation, Sgt.-Det. Bertrand has asked whether the knife blade was sharp. “No, it wasn’t,” she replied. “I wish it was. I wanted to give her the peace that she needed.”
Bahar survived the attack, suffering serious knife wounds to her head and shoulder. Ms. Kaleki, 40, is charged with attempted murder, aggravated assault and illegal use of a weapon.

Her husband, alerted by Bahar’s screams, rushed downstairs and grabbed the knife from Ms. Kaleki, the court heard. “I said to my husband, let me finish her.’ ” She tried to choke her daughter, she said, and after Bahar escaped, she chased her upstairs and tried to break down the locked door to the bedroom where she was calling 911.

She was arrested, and after being treated in hospital for a knife wound on her own arm, she told her story to Sgt.-Det. Bertrand.

The first night Bahar stayed out late, informing her parents she was downtown enjoying a concert, they went to the local police station to file a report, Ms. Kaleki said. The officer told them there was nothing that could be done. “He said, ‘She’s safe. Don’t worry. She’s a teenager.’ ”

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Egyptian Sheikh and member of the assembly charged with creating a new constitution says girls should marry at age 9 and have sex at age 14

Wait for the cries of Islamophobia and racism  because I said something insulting to Muslims and Islam.  Never mind that what this Sheikh is espousing is doctrinally true, if I say it I'm the bad guy. Sheikh Yassir Barhami must then be an Islamophobe as well.

From BikyaMasr September 29 by Joseph Mayton

Egypt sheikh says girls should be married, have children starting at 14-years-old

He likes the young ones

CAIRO: An Egyptian cleric and member of the Constituent Assembly tasked with drafting Egypt’s new constitution has said that girls 14-years-old are permitted to have sexual relations under Islam and has proposed reducing the marriage age limit as a result.

“It is permissible for the girl at the age of 9 or 10 to marry,” Yassir Barhami said in discussing a woman’s sexual reproduction and his interpretation of Islam.

The Salafist – ultra-conservative – preacher claimed that under Islam when a girl begins to ovulate she is ready for marriage.

He added during a television debate on Dream TV last Tuesday that “marriage of a girl would not be a supplement for education,” but added that it “was better” to marry a girl young “than falling into sin with customary marriage.”

The cleric cited the Qur’an in arguing that any girl who is menstruating should be married and begin having children. 

But remember, none of this has anything to do with Islam.

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Why we fight

"To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize." -- Voltaire

Thanks to Jihad Watch and Patricia.

"This column would not be allowed under blasphemy laws. The Register-Guard would not be allowed to print most articles about Islam and Muslims if free speech rights are curtailed under the guise of protecting fragile sensibilities"

My new editorial in today's Register-Guard newspaper.  There are still a few news outlets that stand for free speech, my local hometown paper is one of the few.  Thanks to Jack Wilson and the staff there, well done.

From the Register-Guard, October 1

GUEST VIEWPOINT: Free speech must remain free, despite tyrants

Is the right to freely speak one’s mind absolute, or are there words that demand to be removed from polite society? And if some words are beyond the pale, who decides what is OK and what is banned? Would you support restrictions on your right to speak freely?

These questions are quickly becoming relevant to the future of free speech here in Eugene and across America — and it all stems from a bad Internet movie about the prophet Muhammad.

I asked my fellow students at Lane Community College how they felt about the movie and their position on free speech, and virtually without exception they had no opinion. There was no group-think, but there was also no awareness of the potential problem, either.

I was heartened when, after explaining the situation, some fellow students agreed that free speech should not be abridged. This belief does not apply in many countries today, nor is it part of the “tolerance” espoused here in Eugene.

I know what it is like to be attacked and shouted down when trying to speak. I was censored by LCC because of pressure from the Council on American–Islamic Relations regarding a noncredit class I was to teach on Islam. I was censored as a lecturer during the days of Pacifica Forum, when I dared to speak controversially about the Holocaust and Islam. I had a table at the federal building on Saturday mornings during the summer but was shouted down as well as having a complaint registered against me to the Eugene Human Rights Commission.

I cannot speak about Islam, yet local Judaeophobes can demean Israel and call for its deconstruction with no complaints. Why? My First Amendment rights were curtailed because someone did not like my words. Degrading speech about Israel and Jews is OK because Jews will not kill to avenge a slight. Degrading speech about Islam or Muslims is not allowed, because they kill out of anger and revenge....

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