Saturday, September 30, 2006
More Muslim Threats Against Western Intellectuals
More Muslim Threats Against Western Intellectuals...
Seems all the geunine intellectuals these days are former liberals who went over to the conservative side, and now get threats of death from the reactionary religious nutters, allied with the Stalinist Left.
Two articles from clear-minded and brave Europeans, Robert Redeker and Egon Flaig, which like Rushdie and Fallaci before them, have acquired death-fatwas against them from the "religion of peace" crowd. These articles appeared in the Western press, and those editions were banned from distribution in Egypt and elsewhere. A bracing dose of politically-incorrect truth, reproduced in full with some prefacing comments by those bloggers who made the translations. Go to the original items for numerous weblinks.
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Tunisia: Muslims Ban French Newspaper For Questioning Islamic Intimidation
Today, according to Deutsche Presse Agentur via The Raw Story and also from Reporters Without Borders (RSF) news comes that the French right-leaning newspaper Le Figaro has been banned in Tunisia. The reason for the ban is an article by French philosopher Robert Redeker (pictured), entitled: "Face aux intimidations islamistes, que doit faire le monde libre?" or "What should the free world do in the face of Islamist intimidation?".
The decision was announced by an official from the Tunisian government's interior ministry. RSF claims that the piece is aggressive against Muslims, but having spent nearly two hours translating it into English, I do not think it is aggressive. It is honest.
RSF states: "Without taking a position on the content of the op-ed piece, which was very aggressive towards Muslims, we point out that it is up to Tunisian readers to form their own opinion and not for the Tunisian authorities to filter information."
The Tunisian newspaper La Presse said that copies of the offending edition, which appeared yesterday, were removed because Redeker's article contained "harmful content offensive to the Prophet, Islam and Muslims." How long the ban will last is unknown.
There is no point arguing over whether or not the piece insults Islam, as my translation can be found beneath. For those who can read French, this is a link to the ORIGINAL TEXT.
I will merely state that Robert Redeker was born in 1954 in the south of France, in the Pyrenees. He teaches, writes articles and books, lectures around the world, and is a member of philosophical boards, he is on the editing board of Marianne and also the newspaper Tageblatt, which is published in Luxembourg.
His website (in French) can be found HERE, along with a list of his articles.
This is my translation of his article:
The decision was announced by an official from the Tunisian government's interior ministry. RSF claims that the piece is aggressive against Muslims, but having spent nearly two hours translating it into English, I do not think it is aggressive. It is honest.
RSF states: "Without taking a position on the content of the op-ed piece, which was very aggressive towards Muslims, we point out that it is up to Tunisian readers to form their own opinion and not for the Tunisian authorities to filter information."
The Tunisian newspaper La Presse said that copies of the offending edition, which appeared yesterday, were removed because Redeker's article contained "harmful content offensive to the Prophet, Islam and Muslims." How long the ban will last is unknown.
There is no point arguing over whether or not the piece insults Islam, as my translation can be found beneath. For those who can read French, this is a link to the ORIGINAL TEXT.
I will merely state that Robert Redeker was born in 1954 in the south of France, in the Pyrenees. He teaches, writes articles and books, lectures around the world, and is a member of philosophical boards, he is on the editing board of Marianne and also the newspaper Tageblatt, which is published in Luxembourg.
His website (in French) can be found HERE, along with a list of his articles.
This is my translation of his article:
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What should the free world do in the face of Islamist intimidation?
The reactions caused by the analysis of Benoit XVI on Islam and violence highlight the underhanded maneuver carried out by the same Islam to stifle what the West has of more value than anything which exists in any Moslem country: the freedom to think and to express oneself.
Islam tries to impose on Europe its rules: opening of swimming pools at certain hours exclusively for women, prevention of caricaturing this religion, requirement of a particular dietary treatment for Moslem children in canteens, the battle to wear the veil at school, accusations of Islamophobia against free spirits.
How can one explain the ban on the wearing of thongs on Paris-Beaches*, this summer? The reasoning put forth was bizarre: the risk of "disturbing public order". Did this mean that bands of frustrated youths would become violent, faced with displays of beauty? Or were they scared of Islamist demonstrations by the brigades of virtue on the approaches to Paris-Beaches?
Moreover, the non-prohibition of the veil on the street is, by inviting complaints for upholding the oppression of women more properly "disturbing public order" than the wearing of a thong. It is not inappropriate to think that this ban represents an Islamization of sensibilities in France, a more or less conscious submission to the diktats of Islam. Or, at the very least, that it is the outcome of the insidious Muslim pressure on the senses: even those who protested the introduction of a "Jean Paul II Square" in Paris would not be opposed to the construction of mosques. Islam attempts to force Europe to yield to its vision of humanity.
Islam tries to impose on Europe its rules: opening of swimming pools at certain hours exclusively for women, prevention of caricaturing this religion, requirement of a particular dietary treatment for Moslem children in canteens, the battle to wear the veil at school, accusations of Islamophobia against free spirits.
How can one explain the ban on the wearing of thongs on Paris-Beaches*, this summer? The reasoning put forth was bizarre: the risk of "disturbing public order". Did this mean that bands of frustrated youths would become violent, faced with displays of beauty? Or were they scared of Islamist demonstrations by the brigades of virtue on the approaches to Paris-Beaches?
Moreover, the non-prohibition of the veil on the street is, by inviting complaints for upholding the oppression of women more properly "disturbing public order" than the wearing of a thong. It is not inappropriate to think that this ban represents an Islamization of sensibilities in France, a more or less conscious submission to the diktats of Islam. Or, at the very least, that it is the outcome of the insidious Muslim pressure on the senses: even those who protested the introduction of a "Jean Paul II Square" in Paris would not be opposed to the construction of mosques. Islam attempts to force Europe to yield to its vision of humanity.
As in the past with Communism, the West finds itself under ideological scrutiny. Islam presents itself, in the image of defunct Communism, as an alternative to the western world. In the manner of Communism before it, Islam, to conquer spirits, plays on a sensitive nerve. It prides itself on a legitimacy which troubles the western conscience, attentive to others: to be the voice of the oppressed of the planet. Yesterday, the voice of the poor claimed to come from Moscow, today it comes from Mecca! Today again, intellectuals express the views of the Koran, as they expressed the views of Moscow yesterday. They excommunicate people for Islamophobia, as yesterday they did for anti-communism.
In the opening up to others, specific to the West, a secularization of Christianity appears, whose bottom line is summarized as follows: the other person must always pass in front of me. The Westerner, the heir to Christianity, is to be the one to make his soul exposed. He runs the risk of passing himself off as weak. With the same ardor as Communism, Islam treats generosity, broadmindedness, tolerance, gentleness, freedom of women and of manners, democratic values, as signs of decadence.
These are the weaknesses that it seeks to exploit, by means of "useful idiots", those of good consciences imbued with fine sentiments, in order to impose the Koranic order on the Western world itself.
The Koran is a book of unparalleled violence. Maxime Rodinson states, in Encyclopedia Universalis, some truths that in France are as significant as they are taboo. On one hand: "Mohammed revealed in Medina unsuspected qualities as political leader and military chief (...) He resorted to private war, then the current institution in Arabia (....) Mohammed soon sent small groups of partisans to attack the Meccan caravans, thus punishing his unbelieving compatriots and simultaneously acquiring the booty of a wealthy man."
Additionally: "Mohammed profited from this success by eliminating from Medina, by means of massacre, the Jewish tribe which resided there, the Quarayza, whom he accused of suspect behaviour." Finally "After the death of Khadija, he married a widow, fine domestic, (called) Sawda, and also little Aisha, barely ten years old. His erotic predilections, held in check for a long time, led him to embark on ten marriages jointly."
The exaltation of violence; a merciless war chief, plunderer, slaughterer of Jews and a polygamist, such is the man revealed through the Koran.
In fact, the Catholic church is not above reproach. Its history is strewn with dark pages, for which it has made repentance. The Inquisition, the hounding of witches, the execution of the philosophers Bruno and Vanini, those wrong-thinking Epicureans, even well into the 18th century the (execution of the) knight of La Barre for impiety, do not plead in the church's favor. But what differentiates Christianity from Islam is apparent: it is always possible to bring forth the evangelical values, the mild personage of Jesus against the deviations of the Church.
None of the faults of the Church have their roots in the Gospel. Jesus is non-violent. Turning back to Jesus is turning against the excesses of the ecclesiastic institution. Turning to Mahomet, by contradiction, reinforces hate and violence. Jesus is a master of love, Mahomet is a master of hatred.
The stoning of Satan, each year at Mecca, is not just a superstitious phenomenon. It not only sets the scene for a rabble flirting with barbarity. Its scope is anthropological. Here in effect is a rite, which each Muslim is invited to submit himself to, emphasizing violence as a sacred duty in the heart of the believer.
This stoning, annually accompanied by the trampling to death of the faithful, sometimes in several hundreds, is a ritual which nurtures archaic violence.
Instead of getting rid of this archaic violence, in imitation of Judaism and Christianity, by neutralizing it (Judaism starts with the abandonment of human sacrifice, that is to say by entering into civilization, and Christianity transforms sacrifice in the Eucharist), Islam builds a nest for this violence, where it can be incubated. When Judaism and Christianity are the religions whose rites conjure violence, delegitimizing it, Islam is a religion which, even in its sacred text, as well as in its definingl rituals, exalts violence and hatred.
Hatred and violence inhabit the book with which every Muslim is brought up, the Koran. As in the Cold War, where violence and intimidation were the methods used by an ideology intent on forcing hegemony, so too does Islam, to place its leaden cloak over the world. Benedict XVI suffered a cruel experience. In these times, one must call the West the "free world" compared to the Muslim world, for in these times, the enemies of the "free world", zealous functionaries of the Koran's vision, are swarming at its center.
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(* translator's note - the Paris Beaches were artificial "beach fronts" on the banks of the Seine, where women were forbidden from going topless. "String" has been translated as "thong".)
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With great thanks to Robert O, my very good (and bilingual) friend, for proof-reading the translation and amending my errors.
UPDATE: Since the publication of this article in Le Figaro, Robert Redeker, his wife and three children have been subjected to death threats by Muslim extremists. For details, see HERE.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2381435,00.html
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Germany: The Text That Muslims Had To Ban
We reported on September 24 that Egypt had banned three newspaper editions, the current issue of the international Guardian Weekly, the September 19 edition of Le Figaro, and one edition of the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
The reason for the banning of these newspapers was because they contained articles which were "offensive" to Islam. The articles may have offended Islam, but they were 100% true. We have already presented our translation of the article from Le Figaro by Robert Redeker, which has now led to the French philosopher being subjected to death threats.
The September 15 edition of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung contained an article by German historian Egon Flaig. Not able to translate the original German article we did not present our readers with a translation. Flaig's article is long, it is intense, but it is searingly truthful and historically accurate.
We are very proud on Western Resistance to bring you the full translation of Egon Flaig's article, "Der Islam will die Welteroberung". The translation has been made by a delightful German friend, who does not wish to be named. Let me just call her the delicious Diotima. She did the entire translation in one day, a staggering achievement.
Here is Diotima's superb translation of a stunning article.
The reason for the banning of these newspapers was because they contained articles which were "offensive" to Islam. The articles may have offended Islam, but they were 100% true. We have already presented our translation of the article from Le Figaro by Robert Redeker, which has now led to the French philosopher being subjected to death threats.
The September 15 edition of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung contained an article by German historian Egon Flaig. Not able to translate the original German article we did not present our readers with a translation. Flaig's article is long, it is intense, but it is searingly truthful and historically accurate.
We are very proud on Western Resistance to bring you the full translation of Egon Flaig's article, "Der Islam will die Welteroberung". The translation has been made by a delightful German friend, who does not wish to be named. Let me just call her the delicious Diotima. She did the entire translation in one day, a staggering achievement.
Here is Diotima's superb translation of a stunning article.
Islam wants to conquer the world
by Egon Flaig
"For we want the flag of Islam to fly over those lands again, who were lucky enough, to be ruled by Islam for a time, and hear the call of the muezzin praise God. Then the light of Islam died out and they returned to disbelief. Andalusia, Sicily, the Balkans, Southern Italy and the Greek islands are all Islamic colonies which have to return to Islam's lap. The Mediterranean and the Red Sea have to become internal seas of Islam, as they used to be".
These are not the words of Al Qaeda, they were taken from the programme formulated by the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hassan Al Banna, in a speech. The Brotherhood today has millions of adherents and spread out far beyond Egypt. Its intellectuals are working in Europe and the United States; they count as "moderates" and are treated accordingly by the media. Re-conquest of "lost" territory according to plan is part of the agenda of states, that is political communities, fighting about territorial power. How can it be part of a religion's programme? Is Islam a religion like any other?
Since the beginning of the classical period between the ninth and the eleventh century Islamic jurists have divided the world into two parts, namely the "House of Islam" and the "House of War". This dichotomy is independent of where Muslims live in large numbers, or even form the majority, but depends on where Islam rules supreme - by applying Shariah - or where it does not rule. So, this dichotomy is not religious in nature, but political. Between these two parts of the world naturally exists a state of war, until the House of War is no more and Islam rules the world (Sura 8, 39 and 9, 41). Thus, according to classical teaching, for the Muslim community there is a duty to wage war against the disbelievers, until those either convert, or submit. This war is called jihad.
"For we want the flag of Islam to fly over those lands again, who were lucky enough, to be ruled by Islam for a time, and hear the call of the muezzin praise God. Then the light of Islam died out and they returned to disbelief. Andalusia, Sicily, the Balkans, Southern Italy and the Greek islands are all Islamic colonies which have to return to Islam's lap. The Mediterranean and the Red Sea have to become internal seas of Islam, as they used to be".
These are not the words of Al Qaeda, they were taken from the programme formulated by the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hassan Al Banna, in a speech. The Brotherhood today has millions of adherents and spread out far beyond Egypt. Its intellectuals are working in Europe and the United States; they count as "moderates" and are treated accordingly by the media. Re-conquest of "lost" territory according to plan is part of the agenda of states, that is political communities, fighting about territorial power. How can it be part of a religion's programme? Is Islam a religion like any other?
Since the beginning of the classical period between the ninth and the eleventh century Islamic jurists have divided the world into two parts, namely the "House of Islam" and the "House of War". This dichotomy is independent of where Muslims live in large numbers, or even form the majority, but depends on where Islam rules supreme - by applying Shariah - or where it does not rule. So, this dichotomy is not religious in nature, but political. Between these two parts of the world naturally exists a state of war, until the House of War is no more and Islam rules the world (Sura 8, 39 and 9, 41). Thus, according to classical teaching, for the Muslim community there is a duty to wage war against the disbelievers, until those either convert, or submit. This war is called jihad.
While Jesus' missionary call meant to convert all peoples, but to leave their political order untouched, Islam's aim is to submit all non-muslims politically, but to leave their religion untouched, if it is a religion of the book. God's general call to jihad is based on surah 9, 29. It is true though, that minute factions of islam did not accept this interpretation. The Shiites accept it, but demand that a true imam must be leading the Muslim community (and has been waiting for such a one for more than 13 centuries), so that for the time being they only feel bound to defensive jihad, in the case of attacks on the Muslim community.
On the other hand, the other factions, e.g. the so-called Kharijites, have radicalised the content of Sura 9.29: for them, jihad is an individual duty of each able-bodied muslim, which counts as a sixth pillar next to the other five cardinal duties. In the consequence of such teachings: when everyone has to either take part in the collective war against the unbelievers, or, should the Muslim community be too weak for the time being, has to wage war alone or in small groups, then assassinations and terror attacks are right. What the Kharijites demand for offensive jihad, most proponents of orthodox Sunnah-teachings demand for defensive jihad: when Islam is being attacked, or islamic territory is being invaded by infidels, jihad becomes an individual duty, e.g. a fatwa of the Grand Mufti of Cairo's Al-Azhar university - against Israel - leaves no doubt about that. Any enemy power that acts according to the Hague rules of warfare and strictly distinguishes combatants and non-combatants will be in great difficulty. The state of war lasts so long, until the House of War is destroyed, and the world is conquered. This is why Majid Khadduri calls Islam a "divine nomocracy on imperialist foundations". Peace treaties, which Islamic rulers closed with non-Islamic rulers, were only considered as cease-fires; this is why as a rule, they were only closed for no more than ten years. Two schools of jurisprudence permit no more than three to four years of peace. The short deadlines made it possible for the militarily superior Muslims to constantly blackmail their adversaries; this way throughout the centuries huge amounts of money and humans went to the Muslim side. When the paradigm of power shifted, Muslim rulers had to change their practice.
Thus in 1535 Suleiman the Magnificent made a peace with the French king which was to last for the lifetime of the Sultan - a break with tradition. Christian theologians tried to define, in the face of a plurality of states, what could be deemed a "just war" and what could not be deemed such. To wage war just in the interest of faith for the most part was not considered just. For Muslim scholars on the other hand, the "house of islam" is a political unit, which does not permit internal war, therefore only war for the sugjugation of infidels was considered legitimate and even a duty, as the famous fourtheenth-century scholare Ibn Chaldun categorically states: "In Islam the jihad is prescribed by law, because it has a universal calling and is supposed to convert all of humanity to Islam, be it of their own free will, or by force".
The rules of engagement for jihad are flexible. According to Khadduri, anything is possible, from mercy to mass enslavement to mass killing, just like with Greeks and Romans. This is a fundamental difference between the holy war of islam and of Old Testament Judaism, which prescribed the killing of all males outside of Israel, and the killing of every living thing within Israel (Deuteronomy 20, 10-20). We usually are outraged at what the Crusaders did in Jerusalem in 1099. Yet, the Crusaders acted in accordance with the ius bellum of the times, Muslim conquerors did the same all the time and everywhere: 698 they hit Carthage, in 838 Syracuse; the notorious vesir of the Cordoban Caliphate, Al Mansur, led 25 wars in 27 years against the Christian realms of northern Spain, enslaving, destroying, laying waste. They hit Zamora (981), Coimbra (987), Leon, Barcelona twice (985 and 1008), then Santiago de Compostela (997).
The worst destruction was wreaked by the jihadis on Byzantine Anatolia, which was then still full of cities; the massacre of Amorium (838) has remained a symbol for a long time; the urban culture of Anatolia never recovered from it. The Seljuk Alp Arslan had entire Armenian cities massacred, the worst being the capital Ani in 1064. Bat Ye'or's evaluation therefore is more than justified: "Its lack of measure, its regularity and the systematic character of the destructions, which Islamic theologians had decreed to be law, make the difference between jihad and other wars of conquest".Certainly, mass enslavement remained the favourite aim of the wars. That was the way in which, as early as the eight century, the biggest slave-holder society developed that world history has ever known; it demanded a permanent influx of new slaves, transformed the African continent into the biggest supplier of slaves, a destiny which Europe narrowly avoided.
The incredible speed, in which in 90 years an Arabian empire spanning from the south of France to India developed, with no single conqueror guiding the expansion, is unique. The world's most succesful imperialism was admired by no less than Hegel: "Never has enthusiasm as such done bigger deeds". If "enthusiasm" could do such a thing - what was its source? The answer is simple: martyrdom. Something happening in 963 in Constantinople may illustrate this: the emperor Nikephoros Phokas had just swept the Muslim invaders from Crete; now, he was planning a big war, to liberate eastern Anatolia and northern Syria from muslim rule. A council should help him: he pleaded with the bishops, to elevate soldiers dying in the war to the status of martyrs. Paradise would then have been assured for those soldiers. The patriarch stood up against the emperor: no church council could be empowered to anticipate God's decision, only God could decide on eternal salvation.
A scene of historical significance. The emperor knew what was at stake. Again and again, the Byzantians had to witness the Muslim troops fighting with a ferocious courage that the Christians could not emulate. Fallen Muslims were considered martyrs of the faith and marched straight to paradise. The concept of a martyr is fundamentally different in the two religions. Christian martyrs imitate the passion of Jesus, passively submit to torture and death; Muslim martyrs are active fighters.
Decisive for the warriors' acceptance of death was the firm promise of eternal salvation for those who die for the faith (surah 4, 74-76). Muslims should withstand a tenfold force (surah 8, 66-67); retreat was judged to be acceptable by later scholars if the enemy was at least double as strong, as Khadduri describes. As the decisive factor in any war is the fighting human being and his readiness to sacrifice himself, being on a par technically with the Arabs and Seljuks - in the long run, they had to succumb, if their morale was not of the same kind. Higher readiness to die is an enormous advantage in a fight- foolhardy operations can be waged and dashing manoeuvers to surprise and confuse the enemy; in that way, victory can be forced, that is technically and materially almost impossible, and battles are won, that would be lost under the usual circumstances.
Nikephoros knew about the military consequences of surah 4, 74-76; he was the first who tried to correct the conceptual military disadvantage of the Christian religion. But the bishops of the Eastern Church found themselves incapable of manipulating their theology in a way to create warlike martyrdom. This was it. The Byzantine emperors had to wage their heavy defensive wars against the permanent Saracen and Seljuk aggression without the help of religion, where they needed that help most.
Only the Western Church changed the theological-political situation: when Pope Urban II called the first crusade in 1095, he promised the Christian warriors forgiveness for their sins: fallen crusaders avoided divine judgement and were put on a par with martyrs in that respect, although they were denied that name. The Pope as head of a monarchic church did just that, what the Council of Eastern bishops had not been able to do: he dispensed salvation. The papal church now could have the kind of "holy war" islam had been waging for centuries. What is the difference between Crusade and jihad? A Crusade could only be called by the Pope, and thus remained a rare occurence - compared to the countless, neverending and ubiquitarian jihads of the islamic world.
And the goals of the Crusades remain precisely defined; in November 1095, Urban II defined reason and aim of the crusade: "it is obvious, we must give help to our brothers in the east as soon as possible. The Turks and Arabs have attacked them and have invaded the realm of Romania (Constantinople) and by invading the lands of these Christians ever more deeply, they won seven battles, killed or captured a huge number of the Christians. If you don't oppose them now, the faithful servants of God in the Orient will not withstand this storm much longer". The first Crusades were meant to either help Christians in need, or to liberate the holy places in Palestine or to liberate Christians that had been subjugated by Muslims. On the other hand, the Muslim scholars always kept firm to their final goal, to conquer the "house of war" and subjugate all infidels.
Urban II was right. Had Constantinople fallen in 1100, the enormous military power of the Turk armies would have plagued Europe four hundred years earlier. Then the manifold European culture probably would never have been: no free urban constitutions, no constitutional debates, no cathedrals, no renaissance, no scientific boom, because in the Islamic world, free - Greek! - thinking was dying just at this time. Jacob Burckhardt's evaluation - "A stroke of luck, that Europe as a whole could ward off Islam" - means, we owe about as much to the Crusades, as to the Greeks' victory against the Persians.
But, have the Crusades not been abused? Certainly. Crusades "derailed" and were "abused", like the one that led to the conquest of Christian Constantinople in 1204. But that happened much more often with jihads. When slaves became scarce, emirs did not merely wage wars against non-Muslim peoples, who had to be enslaved anyway, but more and more often against Islamized peoples, under the pretext, that they were no true Muslims. That happened mainly in Africa and against black Africans, e.g. when first in 1468 Songhay and then the Moroccans in 1552 invaded Mali, or when in the 18th century religious reformers waged their jihad against Muslimized Hausa cities, which led to the creation of the Sokoto-caliphate - containing the third largest number of slaves after Brazil and the American south. Africa to this day suffers from the consequences of this permanent jihad with its genocides and mass-enslavements
Well, and what was the political order that the Muslims waged their holy wars for with such vehemence and success? For Shariah. A political order, which for one strictly separates masters from the subjugated and secondly takes political and social order away from human influence for the most part. Let's talk about the first aspect: According to the Shariah, the Muslims are masters, the followers of other "book religions" - Christians, Jews, Parsees, Buddhists, are subjugated, Dhimmi. These were not religious minorities, but huge majorities, especially in Syria, Anatolia or the Christians of North-Africa.
The subjugated were not allowed to carry weapons, they were unarmed, thus not 'real men'. Christians and Jews had to wear special colours or pieces of clothing (this discrimination was the origin of the "Judenstern") so as to be visibly "dhimmi"; they were not allowed to ride on horseback, only on mules, to remind them of their subjugation; they paid a special tribute (jizyah), that they had to pay personally, while being given a slap on the head. They had to let themselves be beaten by any Muslim, without being allowed to defend themselves; if a dhimmi retaliated, his hand would be cut off, or he would be executed. A dhimmi's witness did not count against a Muslim, who only had to pay half the fine for any crime committed against a dhimmi, and could never ever get executed for any such crime. On the other side, the most cruel methods of execution were reserved for the dhimmie.
Even the discrimination against the Jews, installed by the Western Church in the 4th Lateran Council in 1215, four hundred years after Islam, and which seems so barbarian to us, did not intend and did not lead to such a degree of humiliation and demeaning of people. A special horror was brought by the Turkish rule: from 1360 up to a fifth of Christian children were abducted into slavery. They were forcefully converted. The number of slaves through four centuries must have been millions; hundreds of thousands of choice boys among those were raised to be fanatical Muslims and elite fighters, the notorious Janissaries: a politic meant to systematically increase the Muslim population and slowly exterminate Christians. It was successful. "Dhimmitude" put non-muslims in a state of radical "otherness". To call people in this state "second class citizens" is a euphemism.
In the same way national socialism divided humans into master-race and subhumans on racial grounds, so Shariah did it on religious grounds. As the first world-religion, Islam created an apartheid, where Christian or Parsee majorities were colonised and slowly Islamized. Islamic tolerance meant: tolerate the subjugated as humiliated and demeaned. All this is well known via studies about "dhimmitude". But who wants to hear about the millions of victims?
Islam religiously "cleansed" huge territories: the second Caliph made the Hijaz, Arabia except Yemen "judenrein" and "christenrein"; the alternative was either to convert, or to be forced into emigration. Except for some Old Testament cases no religion ever before had done that. In the same way the Almohadis and Almoravids "cleansed" Spain after the breakdown of the Caliphate in 1031: tens of thousands of Jews and Christians had to either convert or flee to the Christian north of Spain, or the Levant. Certainly, English and French kings and the kings of Spain later on did the same - they applied the Muslim recipe in doing it. And the pogroms? Since the Caliph Al-Mutawakkil (847-861) waves of persecution again and again hit the Orient and North Africa, where Jews and Christians were forcibly converted, kicked out or massacred. The destruction of churches went on and on right until the century before last. Slowly, the rosy picture of Muslim Spain created by European anti-imperialism in the 19th century loses its fake colours. A scrupulous study of documents shows a different picture below that. In 889 in Elvira and in 891 in Seville, there were massive pogroms against Christians. In Moroccan Fez in 1033, 6000 Jews were massacred. 1058 Christian Antioch was forcefully Muslimized with torture and threats of death.
The first large pogrom against Jews on European soil happened in 1066 in Muslim Granada, 1500 Jewish families were killed. In 1135 the Jewish quarter of Cordoba was burnt down, it might be good not to know the number of people massacred then. In 1159 all the Christians in Tunis had to chose between conversion or death. At this time, the vital Christianity of North Africa was completely wiped out. The pogroms in Christian lands are nothing to be proud of in European history, but their scope lags behind the ones in the Muslim world. We urgently need a comparative study of religious oppression.
Let's talk about integration of the Jews? Nowhere under the rule of Islam, not even in the Spanish Caliphate, were Jews citizens of their own cities, they always remained subjugated. In some German cities - Worms, Augsburg and others - during the high Middle Ages the Jews were citizens, albeit of special legal satus. They had the right to carry arms and were better off than poorer Christian people. Right until the 14th century, when their situation got worse, they were far better integrated than Jews in Muslim Spain could ever hope to be. Who thinks highly of political integration cannot but prefer Augsburg to Cordoba. All this has been well known in academic circles for fifteen years. But who wants to hear it?
To ignore the past means to re-live it. He who keeps on spreading the fairytale of Muslim tolerance, stands in the way of those Muslim intellectuals, who seriously work towards a reformation of islam, which started out so promisingly in the 19th century. He steals away their chance to overcome a past, which threatens to become a horrible present. If the reformers could achieve a radical de-politicization of Islam, the Muslims could become real citizens of their states. That would leave the highly spiritual religion, which fascinated not only Goethe. Hegel called Islam the "religion of the sublime". It could become that.
Monday, September 25, 2006
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TAKING A BREAK!
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Over the last month I have conducted another "social experiment", with a reasonably thorough searching out of reports on sex-economic and violence-related issues within the Saharasian region, as a means of comparison to other major world regions. These materials are gathered for my own archive and files, in preparation for a long-term book project "Saharasia Since 1900". A lot of material was located, most all of which never saw the light of day in the mainstream media -- but I do detect a slow change, in that as the Islamic violence gets worse, it is increasingly difficult for the apologists to ignore it, or to blame it upon the West. The effort has proven educational, though not particularly uplifting in any emotional sense, which has been the factual situation for my entire Saharasian research project which began in 1979, and led in directions which, at the time, I could hardly have imagined. http://www.saharasia.org Nonetheless, clarity is important, and a scholar's first duty is to the facts, no matter where they lead. While regular postings of this information will temporarily cease, in the meanwhile you are invited to consult the same major websites and information sources, and do your own future tracking on these issues. A full list of resources materials on Middle-East and Saharasia-related subjects are found on the OBRL "links" page, on the lower left-hand side. http://www.orgonelab.org/links.htm
Thanks for being a supporter and participant-observer to our research efforts.
James DeMeo, Ph.D.
Director of OBRL
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Number of Saharasian Terrorist Attacks on Infidels since 9-11-2001: 5909
Nearly Six Thousand Attacks, with perhaps ten or more times as many people killed, and this excludes regions such as Darfur, where the dead from Muslim Jihad violence cannot be easily counted.
Only For the Week of 9/10-9/16
Global Jihad Terror Attacks: 44
Number of Dead: 301
Critically Injured: 374
For a daily Update on Muslim Murders of Infidels and the Impure, around the world, in numbers and incidents far to numerous to be listed here, see the "Religion of Peace" website:
Articles of Interest:
Muslim "Holy Day Bomb" Incinerates 37+ Women and Children... Allah Wants More Blood!
But of course, this is the fault of those "bad Americans". Just like Hitler's death camps were the fault of Churchill! And Stalin's gulag was the fault of the capitalists! Why, if the USA and UK had not defended themselves against Islamic terrorists, there would be no terrorism! (not)
Afghani Jihadis not to be outdone, throat-cut 19 unarmed workers... Allah still not satisfied.
A Jihad Every Muslim Agrees has Gone Too Far!
Very Polite UK Cops Empathetic to Muslim Sensitivity, Will Warn Terrorist-Sympathizers (oops, I mean "Muslim community leaders") of Impending Terror Raids. Will also take off hats and shoes when entering mosques, say "bang bang" instead of using real bullets, and ask very, very nicely that women not be stoned in the public square.
UK undertakers also very polite, will orient all graves to face Mecca,.. next, all dead to be circumcised.
A Muslim Coup in Thailand? time will tell...
Afghanistan: As Europe and America Withdraw, Honor Killings & Child-Marriage Increasing to Taliban Levels
http://www.westernresistance.com/blog/archives/003009.html
Belittling Little Turkish Boys (oops, I mean, the Honorable Turkish Men!) Brings Prosecution, Prison Threat, especially if you are an outspoken woman. Author dared to suggest the Armenian Massacre actually occurred! The Nerve!
"Moderate" Muslims: Defined by their Silence in the face of Genocide, Mass-Murder, Atrocity...
Hezbollah's Terrorist-Leader (oops, I mean "peace-seeking militant") Nasrallah:
To Hell With The Agreed-Upon Lebanon & UN Cease-Fire Resolution: Won't Surrender Arms
Still has 20,000 Rockets Aimed at Israel, and BTW, Palestinians Won't Recognize Israel Either. So there!
Is anyone really surprised at this? If so, I've got a really great deal for you, an entire bridge for sale... honest!
Lebanese Christian leader: War was disaster, Hizballah must disarm
Islamic Cartoon Show, exposing the hypocrisy
Controversial Analysis-Commentary on Canadian Teen-Shooters - The Ignored Islam-Sikh Connections
What if the Largest Muslim Advocacy Group in the USA (CAIR) was "a Terrorist-Supporting Front Organization", that "wishes nothing more than the implementation of Sharia law in America" and was "founded by Hamas supporters which [seek] to overthrow Constitutional government in the United States and replace it with an Islamist theocracy using our own Constitution as protection?" Thanks to Jihadwatch.org for the quotes. And yes, it is true.
Toxic Hate-TV: Expose on Al-Jazeera International. If it was Nazi-TV or KuKluxKlan-TV, it would already have been banished. But the same hate speech and incitement to violence against Jews and Americans of all colors by Muslims is, to some, "A-OK, let's have more!"
Islamic Lethal Tantrums: Don't upset Big Angry Baby, as he is likely to burn down the house, or behead someone.
Iraqi Kurdistan: An Island of Relative Peace and Stability, and so is not in the news much.
http://www.theotheriraq.com/
Islam is Designed to be in Total Control: Otherwise, Expect Chaos and Violence...
A Report on Authentic Muslim Reformers (who rarely are given attention by the MSM).
More authentic Arab-Muslim Reformers, also ignored by the MSM.
UK Minister Critical of Child Suicide Bombers, Muslims Outraged!
Sex for Murder, Islamic Mystery Solved: Women Go to Heaven, Become Sex-Slaves for Jihad Martyrs
Polygamous arranged marriages in heaven also, 72 per man, women get no choice there either
Fascist Spectacle at the UN -- Little Men Get Soapbox, Squeak Loudly!
http://vitalperspective.typepad.com/vital_perspective_clarity/2006/09/ahmadinejad_ran.html
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=22648_Chavez_Spews_Hatred_at_UN&only
Chavez cites the Nazi-apologist Noam Chomsky, after embracing the Nazi-imitator Ahmadinejad, and also invokes the name of Allah when cursing the USA. Demands more "democracy" at UN while ending it in Venezuela, where an email like this would land a writer into prison for "Insulting the Divinity of El Presidente"! Below are several exposes of Comrade Chavez, who models himself along the lines of Castro, but appears more like the strutting buffoon Mussolini, who while denouncing the USA and Israel, cuddles up with neo-Nazis and Islamofascists, and appears organizing for a larger military take-over in South America. Another reason to rid ourselves of imported petroleum dependency, especially from Venezuela-owned Citgo.
Citgo Boycott Developing: Esp. after the company held parties in honor of the proto-dictator.
Ahmadinejad openly prayed at UN for Islamic 'Armageddon' referencing the coming of the "12th Imam" who will wipe the world clean of filthy infidels... but everyone in the diplomatic corps and press is too lame and ignorant to know it.
Return of the (Muslim) Nazi-Saluting Hitlerjugend
Growing Jew-Hatred Attack-Incidents at University of California: Leftists and Islamists to Blame.
Stockholm Muslims "2030, then We Take Over" With Help from Socialists
Screenwriter of "Path to 9-11" Responds to Attacks, Death-Threats from Liberals and Muslims
Minneapolis Muslim Taxi Drivers Refuse Fare to Anyone Carrying Alcohol -- will soon refuse unveiled women?
Australian Muslim Clerics Secretly Teaching Violent Suicide Jihad to Young Students!
Unbelievable! We are Shocked! Simply Shocked! Can't Believe It!
But Australian Muslims Read the Riot Act No cookies and milk for terrorists.
Stephen Hayes: How Bad Is the Senate Intelligence Report (denying an Iraq/Al-Qaeda link)? Very bad.
Hitchins: Saddam's Man in Niger -- What was the Iraqi regime's nuclear expert doing in Africa?
He was seeking bomb-grade uranium in Africa, and Joe Wilson was a incompetent, or a liar, or both.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/713yamai.asp
Muslims Probing for Weaknesses During Airline Flights -- Passengers Alarmed, Public Officials In Denial
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/691djxhx.asp
Critics Applaud, Give Prize to Film Advocating (oops, I mean Depicting) Assassination of Bush
Highway Signs in Saudia Arabia: Muslims-only lane here, Non-Muslims lane there...
unbelievable, but that's only the start of it... here's what life is like for the non-fanatic Muslim or non-Muslim
Homa Arjomand of the Int. Campaign Against Sharia Court in Canada Demands: Arrest Ahmadinejad!
These are the authentic (ex-)Muslim reformers, whom the liberal-left news media treats with contempt.
http://www.nosharia.com/
More Muslim Rocket Attacks into Israel -- Here we go again...
Al-Qaida warning: Muslims leave U.S. ... Afghan terror commander hints at big attack on N.Y., Washington
Could be hot-air, or something more...nuclear in nature.
Dictators Agree: America Very Bad, Iran Very Good, and Should Get Nukes!
The International Left organizations finally discover a genocide they can oppose... only twenty years too late and after-the-fact, but better late than never. How to pull it off is the big question. Sudan is giant nation, vast distances. The need is for both guns and butter, but the UN is unlikely to provide the first, without which the second is meaningless for halting a Jihad-genocide.
More From the Angry-Muslim-Madhouse-Mob-In-The-Street Department:
Here's the text of the Pope's speech -- a theological treatise which will bore most people, "offensive" only to the most fanatical hot-head Islamofascist who goes ballistic when Muhammed is criticized.
Chanting Ranting Muslims in London Threaten Catholics Going to Westminister Cathedral
More Priests, Nuns Murdered by ROP Fanatics - Two "Brave Islamic Warrior Men" shoot unarmed nun in the back four times, while she worked at a children's hospital. Allah is pleased.
Greek Orthodox Archbishop Denounces Widespread Murder of Christians by "Islamic Fanatics"
Article: Swapan Dasgupta: The Pope is Right On Islam
Daniel Pipes dissects the Pope's speech & Muslim reactions to it
Muslim Shooter of Pope John-Paul Warns Pope Benedict, "Don't Come to Turkey"!
Muslims Spit on Pope's Apologetic Gestures, Call for Holy War
AP Photographers Assist ROP Killers with Propaganda Photos of Head-Shootings, IED Explosions, etc. AP very pleased.
Photographer caught with explosives, top Al-Qaeda leaders in Iraq. AP furiously spinning the story (lying).
9-11 Conspiracy Theories Get Big Support... from another ignorant ranting radical Imam and his clueless boys.
From the Western Medical Superstition Department -- And I thought we might escape something this week...
Official Medical Quackery Alert! CDC Backs HIV Test for All Between Ages of 13-64 A phoney virus-test for a phoney virus, for a non-infectious lifestyle-related disorder. From the same Medieval medical vampires who today advocate: Mandatory Circumcisions, Bottle-Feeding and Denial of the Breast to Newborn Infants, Condomania, AIDS Prisons, Jailing of HIV-Dissenters, Censorship of Science Journals, and more.
Video Clips of Interest,
most are downloadable from Internet:
Pope Insultifada
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWC7QTBMZKM
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
Return of the (Moslem) Nazi-Saluting Hitlerjugend
Return of the (Moslem) Nazi-Saluting Hitlerjugend
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=24489
If a picture is worth a thousand words, here is an entire set of volumes which the entire collection of international journalists and mainstream news media has willfully and consistently refused to make public in their reporting. These are Hezbollah and Hamas guys, whom the international left, of all people, is embracing. "We are all Hezbollah Now" they screeched in SF and elsewhere only a few months ago, in the midst of a gigantic left-wing and Islamo-fascist international media campaign of lies and distortions, aimed at making the victims of atrocity and attack -- Israel's Jews -- into the aggressors. A swelling tide of totalitarianism, world-wide, led by Jew-haters and America-haters of Islamic and Leftist backgrounds, strutting at the podium only yesterday in a spectacle at the United Nations. Anyone who thinks they will stop at "merely" killing Jews or Americans is dreaming. And every genuinely liberal person who is supportive of democracy, freedom, human rights, women's rights, civil rights, self-determination and so on, will be among the first victims, just as they were in every other case where Islamists or political leftists took over. But even the political left won't be spared in this case, unless they also convert to Islam. J.D.
Monday, September 18, 2006
Head-in-the-Sand Liberals
Head-in-the-Sand Liberals
I'm posting out the full version of this article, as the author Sam Harris is himself a liberal, who came around to understanding the Muslim threat some years back. His words are cogent, and again indicate the challenge being faced by the West is not something fabricated by Christian conservatives, nor as created by anything done or not done by America, or by any Western nation, nor by Israel. It is stunning that one even needs to say such a thing, as if after the Rape of Poland and China, and Pearl Harbor, one needed to be reminded that the real problem was Hitler and Hirohito, and not Roosevelt or Churchill. But that's what the article addresses, the willful blindness of most liberals to where the danger lies. From the L.A. Times, of all places, a very liberal newspaper. JD
Head-in-the-Sand Liberals
Western civilization really is at risk from Muslim extremists.
Western civilization really is at risk from Muslim extremists.
By Sam Harris, SAM HARRIS is the author of "The End of Faith: Religion, Terror and the Future of Reason." His next book, "Letter to a Christian Nation," will be published this week by Knopf. samharris.org.
September 18, 2006
TWO YEARS AGO I published a book highly critical of religion, "The End of Faith." In it, I argued that the world's major religions are genuinely incompatible, inevitably cause conflict and now prevent the emergence of a viable, global civilization. In response, I have received many thousands of letters and e-mails from priests, journalists, scientists, politicians, soldiers, rabbis, actors, aid workers, students - from people young and old who occupy every point on the spectrum of belief and nonbelief.
This has offered me a special opportunity to see how people of all creeds and political persuasions react when religion is criticized. I am here to report that liberals and conservatives respond very differently to the notion that religion can be a direct cause of human conflict.
This difference does not bode well for the future of liberalism.
Perhaps I should establish my liberal bone fides at the outset. I'd like to see taxes raised on the wealthy, drugs decriminalized and homosexuals free to marry. I also think that the Bush administration deserves most of the criticism it has received in the last six years - especially with respect to its waging of the war in Iraq, its scuttling of science and its fiscal irresponsibility.
But my correspondence with liberals has convinced me that liberalism has grown dangerously out of touch with the realities of our world - specifically with what devout Muslims actually believe about the West, about paradise and about the ultimate ascendance of their faith.
On questions of national security, I am now as wary of my fellow liberals as I am of the religious demagogues on the Christian right.
This may seem like frank acquiescence to the charge that "liberals are soft on terrorism." It is, and they are.
A cult of death is forming in the Muslim world - for reasons that are perfectly explicable in terms of the Islamic doctrines of martyrdom and jihad. The truth is that we are not fighting a "war on terror." We are fighting a pestilential theology and a longing for paradise.
This is not to say that we are at war with all Muslims. But we are absolutely at war with those who believe that death in defense of the faith is the highest possible good, that cartoonists should be killed for caricaturing the prophet and that any Muslim who loses his faith should be butchered for apostasy.
Unfortunately, such religious extremism is not as fringe a phenomenon as we might hope. Numerous studies have found that the most radicalized Muslims tend to have better-than-average educations and economic opportunities.
Given the degree to which religious ideas are still sheltered from criticism in every society, it is actually possible for a person to have the economic and intellectual resources to build a nuclear bomb - and to believe that he will get 72 virgins in paradise. And yet, despite abundant evidence to the contrary, liberals continue to imagine that Muslim terrorism springs from economic despair, lack of education and American militarism.
Perhaps I should establish my liberal bone fides at the outset. I'd like to see taxes raised on the wealthy, drugs decriminalized and homosexuals free to marry. I also think that the Bush administration deserves most of the criticism it has received in the last six years - especially with respect to its waging of the war in Iraq, its scuttling of science and its fiscal irresponsibility.
But my correspondence with liberals has convinced me that liberalism has grown dangerously out of touch with the realities of our world - specifically with what devout Muslims actually believe about the West, about paradise and about the ultimate ascendance of their faith.
On questions of national security, I am now as wary of my fellow liberals as I am of the religious demagogues on the Christian right.
This may seem like frank acquiescence to the charge that "liberals are soft on terrorism." It is, and they are.
A cult of death is forming in the Muslim world - for reasons that are perfectly explicable in terms of the Islamic doctrines of martyrdom and jihad. The truth is that we are not fighting a "war on terror." We are fighting a pestilential theology and a longing for paradise.
This is not to say that we are at war with all Muslims. But we are absolutely at war with those who believe that death in defense of the faith is the highest possible good, that cartoonists should be killed for caricaturing the prophet and that any Muslim who loses his faith should be butchered for apostasy.
Unfortunately, such religious extremism is not as fringe a phenomenon as we might hope. Numerous studies have found that the most radicalized Muslims tend to have better-than-average educations and economic opportunities.
Given the degree to which religious ideas are still sheltered from criticism in every society, it is actually possible for a person to have the economic and intellectual resources to build a nuclear bomb - and to believe that he will get 72 virgins in paradise. And yet, despite abundant evidence to the contrary, liberals continue to imagine that Muslim terrorism springs from economic despair, lack of education and American militarism.
At its most extreme, liberal denial has found expression in a growing subculture of conspiracy theorists who believe that the atrocities of 9/11 were orchestrated by our own government. A nationwide poll conducted by the Scripps Survey Research Center at Ohio University found that more than a third of Americans suspect that the federal government "assisted in the 9/11 terrorist attacks or took no action to stop them so the United States could go to war in the Middle East;" 16% believe that the twin towers collapsed not because fully-fueled passenger jets smashed into them but because agents of the Bush administration had secretly rigged them to explode.
Such an astonishing eruption of masochistic unreason could well mark the decline of liberalism, if not the decline of Western civilization. There are books, films and conferences organized around this phantasmagoria, and they offer an unusually clear view of the debilitating dogma that lurks at the heart of liberalism: Western power is utterly malevolent, while the powerless people of the Earth can be counted on to embrace reason and tolerance, if only given sufficient economic opportunities.
I don't know how many more engineers and architects need to blow themselves up, fly planes into buildings or saw the heads off of journalists before this fantasy will dissipate. The truth is that there is every reason to believe that a terrifying number of the world's Muslims now view all political and moral questions in terms of their affiliation with Islam. This leads them to rally to the cause of other Muslims no matter how sociopathic their behavior. This benighted religious solidarity may be the greatest problem facing civilization and yet it is regularly misconstrued, ignored or obfuscated by liberals.
Given the mendacity and shocking incompetence of the Bush administration - especially its mishandling of the war in Iraq - liberals can find much to lament in the conservative approach to fighting the war on terror. Unfortunately, liberals hate the current administration with such fury that they regularly fail to acknowledge just how dangerous and depraved our enemies in the Muslim world are.
Recent condemnations of the Bush administration's use of the phrase "Islamic fascism" are a case in point. There is no question that the phrase is imprecise - Islamists are not technically fascists, and the term ignores a variety of schisms that exist even among Islamists - but it is by no means an example of wartime propaganda, as has been repeatedly alleged by liberals.
In their analyses of U.S. and Israeli foreign policy, liberals can be relied on to overlook the most basic moral distinctions. For instance, they ignore the fact that Muslims intentionally murder noncombatants, while we and the Israelis (as a rule) seek to avoid doing so. Muslims routinely use human shields, and this accounts for much of the collateral damage we and the Israelis cause; the political discourse throughout much of the Muslim world, especially with respect to Jews, is explicitly and unabashedly genocidal.
Given these distinctions, there is no question that the Israelis now hold the moral high ground in their conflict with Hamas and Hezbollah. And yet liberals in the United States and Europe often speak as though the truth were otherwise.
We are entering an age of unchecked nuclear proliferation and, it seems likely, nuclear terrorism. There is, therefore, no future in which aspiring martyrs will make good neighbors for us. Unless liberals realize that there are tens of millions of people in the Muslim world who are far scarier than Dick Cheney, they will be unable to protect civilization from its genuine enemies.
Increasingly, Americans will come to believe that the only people hard-headed enough to fight the religious lunatics of the Muslim world are the religious lunatics of the West. Indeed, it is telling that the people who speak with the greatest moral clarity about the current wars in the Middle East are members of the Christian right, whose infatuation with biblical prophecy is nearly as troubling as the ideology of our enemies. Religious dogmatism is now playing both sides of the board in a very dangerous game.
While liberals should be the ones pointing the way beyond this Iron Age madness, they are rendering themselves increasingly irrelevant. Being generally reasonable and tolerant of diversity, liberals should be especially sensitive to the dangers of religious literalism. But they aren't.
The same failure of liberalism is evident in Western Europe, where the dogma of multiculturalism has left a secular Europe very slow to address the looming problem of religious extremism among its immigrants. The people who speak most sensibly about the threat that Islam poses to Europe are actually fascists.
To say that this does not bode well for liberalism is an understatement: It does not bode well for the future of civilization.
Sunday, September 17, 2006
"Saharasia Today" links 9-16 September 2006
"Saharasia Today" links 9-16 September 2006
For background, read DeMeo's "Saharasia"
Weekly Roundup: Social Maps of World Violence and Mass Insanity as currently irrupting forth from Saharasia, and from Selected Dark Hearts in the West.
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Articles of Interest:
For a daily Update on Muslim Murders of Infidels and the Impure, around the world, in numbers and incidents far to numerous to be listed here, see the "Religion of Peace" website:
Number of Terrorist Attacks on Infidels since 9-11: 5839
Only For the Week of 9/03-9/09
Jihad Terror Attacks: 60
Number of Dead: 272
Critically Injured: 621
From the Angry-Muslim-Madhouse-Mob-In-The-Street Department:
Pope's Criticism of Islamic Violence Stimulates More Muslim Violence
Muslim Heads Exploding Worldwide - Cartoon Time All Over Again, killings, threats, etc.
(photos thanks from jihadwatch.com -- certainly shows the role of sex-repression...)
Actually all the Pope said was Holy War is Against God's Nature... (maybe, but not Allah's)
but Muslims rioting, threaten Pope with death, suicide bombers... even Taliban are outraged!
"How dare you say Islam should not be spread by the sword! We will cut your head off!
Down on your kness, you filthy Pope! "Know your limits, inferior!"
Meanwhile, Muslim hate-speech and murder of Christians, etc. go ignored
British Muslims: Pope is Hitler, Remarks May Lead to Open War!
Muslims going nutty violent all over... too many stories to report. Churches being shot up, Christians murdered internationally, fanatical leaders magnifying the situation beyond recognition. Stay tuned, as our regular news media isn't covering even a fraction of the madhouse aspect. Their tendency is to blame the hapless Pope, whose comments were quite factual actually.
Meanwhile, the Best-Selling Book in Turkey (aside from Mein Kampf) Calls for Murder of Pope
published well before he made the latest comments.
Canadian Coalition for Democracy Urges: No More Funding for Palestinians
after the plot to cut off the head of the Canadian PM, at least a few have awoken...
Oriana Fallaci Dies, age 78, a brave woman who dared to speak the Awful Truth in a PC world.
Murdering of Lovers -- At Core, This is What Islam Is All About
Al-Qadea Groups "Muslims-Only Day" at Six-Flags Park Banishes "Filthy Infidels".
especially Jews, and of course, now, Catholics.
Africans Apologize for Slavery: Acknowledge it Existed Long Before European Colonialization
but they still don't mention Muslim slavery, which was ten times worse, and still continuing.
Islamist Plans for Somalia: A New Arab Taliban Wahhabi Caliphate
another Darfur in the planning? prepare for more "Religion of Peace" genocide
Bawer: 9/11, Five Years Later: A View from Europe
From the Western Medical Superstition Department
Swaziland: We Need More Genital Mutilations to Fight AIDS!
40% have supposedly "deadly virus" but no mass deaths and population growth soaring
Next on the agenda -- Facial Scarification and Finger Amputation to Fight AIDS!
Leftist Canadian Broadcasting Corp Airs "Bush and the Jews" 9-11 Conspiracy
employee of CBC fired for daring to write letter of objection
Amnesty International (Finally) Acknowledges Hezbollah War Crimes
Jews Versus Muslims - A Comparison Previously posted, but deserving of repetition
Boy Slaves of the UAE - trinkets for the ultra-rich oil shieks.
Muslim Millionaires Encouraged to Buy Up Western Media for Better Propaganda
But Traitor Western Journalist Consultant tells them "keep it hushed up, do it quietly..."
Another Islamist "Moderate Peacenik" Goes Mouth-Foaming Anti-Infidel on Muslim TV
Former head of Wash. DC Islamic Center Says 9-11 was done by "Bush and the Jews"...
More hate-speech from pro-Hezbollah Muslim "activist" given "human relations" award by Los Angeles County -- says Muslim who killed two infidel black cops should go free.
The Al-Qaeda Nuclear Threat
"Peace Group" International Solidarity Movement Caught Brandishing AK-47s...
letting their mask slip, they inform "it always was about nothing more than killing Jews..."
Dutch Official: Sharia Law OK! Seclusion, Murder of Women, Gays, Apparently A-OK!?
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51957
One Arab's Apology for 9-11: "Five Years Late, but..."
Al-Qaedas Trail of Blood: Worst Attacks Since 9-11 (very incomplete, only Al-Qaeda).
Note to "conspiracy buffs" out there: Did "Bush and the Jews" do all these as well?
For a more complete listing, consult here: http://www.thereligionofpeace.com
Nearly 6000 Separate Muslim Attacks on Infidels Since 9-11 with perhaps over 10 times as many people (men, women, children) being slaughtered. Spiegel, like most MSM outlets, still doesn't wish to "offend Muslims" by implying Islam really is an extremely violent ideology.
The Real Unanswered Questions of 9-11
Rules of Evidence: Yes, there Was an Iraq-AlQaeda Link, and Cooperation, and Military Exchange, and intelligence contacts, and, and, and...
Iraq's terror against the USA goes back more than a decade before 9-11, in fact. See the works by Mylroie, Hayes, Davis and others at the OBRL on-line bookstore, "Saharasia Today" section:
More on the Left-Wing Falsification of Fact, and Revisionist History on Iraq/Al-Qaeda
Islamic Madrassas: Dens of Infidel-Hatred, Woman-Hatred, Terrorist Indoctrination, Beatings, Pedophilia and Rape. From Pakistan to the UK, the worst possible form of organized child-abuse. THIS and nothing more, is "Why They Hate".
"Filthy" Christian beaten for drinking water from "Muslim-Only" cup: bones broken
9/11 Mastermind KSM 'planned to crash jets into Heathrow'
While others keep trying: Hijacker with one-way ticket to Yemen had knife inside hollow book (sleep easy, it was not a copy of the Koran)
Iran's "Moderate" Khatami, Lecturing on "Ethics" at Harvard Univ., Supported a Massive Govt. Program of Kidnapping & Torture of Jews & other infidels.
And here's what he had to say: Lies they Loved at Harvard
Left-wing "Black Congressional Caucus" to Honor Stalinist Islamo-Fascist
West Bank YMCA Burned Down by Hamas Terrorists - Issues Death Warnings to Christians: Get Out! and this was before the Pope made his little speech.
And even very much after YMCA sided with Muslims, blamed the Jews for every problem...
Saudi Cops Banish Pet Dogs and Cats: A "Dirty Infidel Practice"
Cat Stevens, once a decent fellow, now a Mulsim fanatic renamed "Yusuf Islam", who supports beheading of infidels, funding of child-murdering terrorists and all things Islamofascist...
Muslim groups involved in 7/7 bombings had huge UK govt grants
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=404296&in_page_id=1770
Fjordman: Why We Cannot Rely Upon "Moderate" Muslims
The Islamic "Bloody Borders Project" -- Geographical Study of Muslim Violence
Video Clips of Interest,
most are downloadable from Internet:
OBL's Terror Party: The Al-Jazeera Edition
Coming soon, the full-length video on internet. 9-11 conspiracy "theorists", take note
Teaching Kids Peace - while secular teachers in the West say "don't hit", and Christian teachers say "love thy neighbor", Muslims teach "Kill the Infidels".
Free Muslims Against Terrorism -- Video -- A nice start... hope to see more of this, but the fact is the organization producing this is tiny, and not likely to have any serious influence.
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
In Memoriam, 9-11
In Memoriam, 9-11
Sometimes words are not enough...
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But... for those still in an emotional knot that it was "Bush and the Jews" who planned 9-11 and carried it out, or if you merely want solid factual materials for confronting the local idiot's club, essential resources can be found here:
* Extensive list of website links, debunking the various 9-11 conspiracy theories:
On the upper right side of the page:
http://www.orgonelab.org/links.htm
* Extensive list of books on Islamic culture, history, behavior, and fanaticism:
Go to the "Saharasia Today" section, linked near the lower left side:
http://www.naturalenergyworks.net
* And finally, my own cross-cultural work "Saharasia" which provided clear proof from ethnographic literature, in a study started in 1979 and completed in 1986, that the Islamic world is the carrier of the most extreme-patristic and violent social structure existing on the planet today -- the most extremely armored humans -- covering a geographic region which spreads across nearly a third of the planet, which now is in full-bore, expansionist mode. Only those cultures lying at the geographical border regions of Saharasia, and which thereby developed similar modes of child-abuse, sex-repression, female-hatred, social institutions and extremist ideologies, have shown comparable violent tendencies over the 6000 years of recorded human history.
http://www.saharasia.org
MEMRI has put together a documentary related to the Islamofascism issue: "The Arab and Iranian response to 9-11", which compiles various TV videos and newspaper articles from the Muslim world revealing their near-hysterical happiness and joy about 9-11, the public dancing, singing, ululating, passing out candy, Etc. as the hated Americans died by the thousands. If you are unaware of this material, or in denial about it, then more than others you need to review it. It is stunning, but shows once more, the deep and utter hatred of non-muslim life by the committed Islamofascist. Or more accurately, the absolute hatred against non-Muslims who dare to stand up against Islamofascist agendas. One can gain a "peace" with the Islamic world only by bowing and subordinating to them, which means basically to become a slave to Islam.
The Arab and Iranian Reaction to 9/11: Five Years Later
There is a related book on the subject, available as a pdf download, very much worth the time and read.
James DeMeo, Ph.D.
Director of OBRL
http://www.orgonelab.org
http://www.saharasia.org
http://www.naturalenergyworks.net
Friday, September 08, 2006
OBRL Quarterly #13, September 2006
OBRL News Version
OBRL Quarterly #13, September 2006
This is the infrequent, Quarterly version of the OBRL-News-Bulletin,
from the Orgone Biophysical Research Lab (OBRL) in Ashland, Oregon, USA.
Please responsibly re-post and distribute to other interested persons, groups and websites.
Topical notices:
1. James DeMeo Lectures & Seminars in Germany, October 2006
Munster, Munich, Berlin - in English with German Translation
http://www.orgonelab.org/lectures.htm
Covering the following general topics:
* "Die Forschungstätigkeit des Orgone Biophysical Research Laboratory" ("Orgonomic Research at the Orgone Biophysical Research Laboratory").
* "Update on Saharasia: Neue archäologische Erkenntnisse zur Saharasia-Theorie: Eine Periode friedlichen Zusammenlebens in der Vorzeit und die Implikationen für die moderne Welt" ("Update on Saharasia: New Archaeological Findings on an Ancient Period of Peace, and Implications for the Modern World")
* "Saharasia, die gegenwärtige Ausbreitung der Wüsten, deren Auswirkung auf das Weltklima, die globale Erwärmung und das El Nino-Phänomen" ("Saharasian Desert Expansion: Influences upon the Modern World Climate, including Global Warming and El Nino").
A downloadable printable PDF Flyer is also available from the given webpage, with information in both German and English language.
http://www.orgonelab.org/lectures.htm
2. New Scientific Pulbication Posted to OBRL Website
OBRL Progress Report 2006, by James DeMeo
http://www.orgonelab.org/Report2006.htm
Contents of This Report includes:
The OBRL To-T Experiments: Thermal Anomaly in the Reich Orgone Accumulator.
Anomalous Reactions of an Orgone-Charged Neutron Counter.
Electroscopical Discharge Rate Variations
The Fitzroy Tube Effect
Investigations into the Ether-Drift Experiments
Greensprings Seminars and Orgonomy Conferences: 2007
Publications in Progress
Fund-Raising Appeal
3. Special Offer Holiday Sale for OBRL-News and OBRL-Quarterly Subscribers & OBRL-Blog Viewers.
Discount on James DeMeo's Saharasia: The 4000 BCE Origins of Child-Abuse, Sex-Repression, Warfare and Social Violence, in the Deserts of the Old World. 2nd Edition. Softcover. with over 100 maps, graphs & illustrations. $39 retail. From now until January 1st, buy three copies at 40% off -- $23 each ($69 for three), plus shipping. A great offer for those who might wish to make a gift of Saharasia to family and friends, or to update to the revised 2nd Edition. Mention this email offer in the check-out comments section of the Shopping Cart and we will lower the price before making any charges to your card. Go here for purchase:
4. In Memoriam of the 9-11 Terror Attacks of 2001, and in efforts towards greater clarity on pressing social issues, we have posted an entire list of websites debunking the extremist "9-11 Conspiracy Theory" claims which litter the internet. These are found in the upper-right side of the OBRL "Links" page, here:
And of course, OBRL retains a separate and comprehensive "Resource" listing on the subject of Wilhelm Reich, Orgonomy and Orgone Research at this webpage:
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