tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26589891995373154332024-02-07T04:48:19.505+01:00Solkhar's World - Views from the AtlasSettled in Marrakech with inspiring views of the Atlas Mountains I begin to reflect on why the world is not as beautiful and peaceful as it could be.
Here is a small part showing some elements that are wrong with people, society and politics - the world over.
There is no "comment" section on my blog, I am not a hypocrit like some that allow it but will only chose those that suit them. Email me at solkharsworld@yahoo.com if you want, but if you do, be warned it may be published.Solkharhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12445656162108723757noreply@blogger.comBlogger47125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2658989199537315433.post-74310739510120595742009-10-09T17:07:00.004+00:002009-10-26T00:16:29.109+00:00NOBEL PEACE PRIZE – MEDIA GETS ITSELF CONFUSED AND AGENDAS TAKE OVER THE SIMPLE TRUTH<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0gd9gDAHmXUFXQemJqZz2sZmY55xmEdFundOPtjVm3mfxUUNDkjoMbZpEcAzhz-eSjEAVIttRuLecOMHuJuelwqz4NUJ6TWTrhYiCzasj_vXZUMsxIruhKiTBrIv-iIVOGPTz5bhzBAyY/s1600-h/imagesCAISMYM2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5390648688220523442" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 100px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 120px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0gd9gDAHmXUFXQemJqZz2sZmY55xmEdFundOPtjVm3mfxUUNDkjoMbZpEcAzhz-eSjEAVIttRuLecOMHuJuelwqz4NUJ6TWTrhYiCzasj_vXZUMsxIruhKiTBrIv-iIVOGPTz5bhzBAyY/s400/imagesCAISMYM2.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:130%;color:#330033;">Today’s news from the Norwegian based Nobel Prize Committee that US President Barrack Obama won the Peace Prize was certainly a surprise to most, probably to Obama most of all. The reasons for giving the Prize for the media even more so, well it must be – simply because as the journalists, pundits, politicians and political commentators are making their views known – they are getting it all wrong. Why?</span><br /><div><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#330033;">Some are predictable of course; a Republican Party politician played his rather sleazy hit on one part of the President’s acknowledgement of the honor and carefully avoiding the points given altogether. The President said he did not consider himself deserved of being put amongst the names of other Nobel Laureates - the sleazy comment was that <em>“he acknowledges that he did not deserve it”.</em> What a great example of how low political point-scoring will go.</span></div><br /><div><span style="font-size:130%;color:#330033;">But what surprises me is how the media is stuck on the word ‘accomplishments’ and ‘achievements’ and cannot accept that the Nobel Committee used the word “vision” and that under the guidelines and aspirations of that Committee, the President deserved and merited the prize.</span></div><div><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#330033;">Readers will know that I stay away from and have no opinion on domestic US politics, and thus am neither pro-Republican nor pro-Democrat. I am after all neither American nor do I live there. I have expressed, though, my support for Obama’s (and his Administration’s) recognition, vision for change and understanding of the correct place that the US and West has in the make up of this world. It is because of this vision for change and the forcing of a great u-turn in returning not only the US but the world back to constructive engagement that the Noble Committee has chosen President Obama as its laureate. </span></div><br /><div><span style="font-size:130%;color:#330033;">The arrival of Obama on the seen simply altered everything, particularly the eight years of stubborn, hawkish and self-centered Bush doctrine. It is not simply that the US became the obstinate, hard smacking, go-it-alone nation that disregarded the views of others’ during that period; it was that it had cemented a 30-year-long confusion in global-diplomatic-direction that started with the Iranian Revolution, oil crises and a dying cold-war. It needed the single survivor of the Cold-War super-powers to come on board with the desperate and tireless pleadings of professional diplomats everywhere. It certainly is only the beginning, and reform in the way nations deal with each other and the management of international institutions is still very lacking. </span></div><br /><div><span style="font-size:130%;color:#330033;">Considering that there are two major conflict zones in the world, global economic chaos, wide-spread religious and political radicalism as well as a multitude of other concerns, this change of direction is not only and important beginning, but in fact a globally critical move.<br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size:130%;color:#330033;">The media, however, is unable to fathom this at this early stage and as I write this note, the BBC, Al Jazeera and CNN are still asking “experts” and others what has the Obama Administration “achieved” and “accomplished” to merit this award. I do not understand why is the BBC commentator talking about not having Guantanamo Bay closed as yet being a non-achievement – it is not the point nor is it relevant. Good Morning America and the BBC both started their opening news item as “within only nine months in office”. They also did not get the point. It is the overall vision or should we say recognition - the speech in Cairo, the example of reaching out to the non-Western world as equals, drawing the line between how countries can deal with each other over issues, being united in standards such as non-proliferation, drawing the line with issues like climate change. </span></div><br /><div><span style="font-size:130%;color:#330033;">Certainly the motive and granting of this prize is both symbolic and as only a few have gathered, it is also there to motivate. As Obama put it, a “call to action”, or better put the Noble Committee said he received it for what he stood for. It is not Obama that won the prize; it is the vision that he and others of his ilk, that won it. </span></div><br /><div><span style="font-size:130%;color:#330033;">As an American President and his value and success domestically, I know not, that is perhaps something that needs to be judged on achievements and there is something to say about how he deals with the international issue and justifying his leadership as a Commander in Chief, but that is another issue and should never be confused to why he was awarded the Noble Peace Prize.</span></div>Solkharhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12445656162108723757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2658989199537315433.post-28952595070875551222009-10-04T20:10:00.011+00:002009-10-09T17:52:15.002+00:00UPDATE - WERNER CRACKS UP A BIT.....MORE<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjRoIGvxV1WPzVE7UGtIZUkj_4srnTKH3mQ1b0BdWVhWQPZ0eiy-3t-VeiwtDmcta1KPqEVsygRG9VqWQbXQfhw01uPZ-WaD2NV06_3IpSms0wAnMAZTBPZkWrlDHV-30v5_EejqP6CFb6/s1600-h/orthodoxjewparking.bmp"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5388845144959353762" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 270px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 206px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjRoIGvxV1WPzVE7UGtIZUkj_4srnTKH3mQ1b0BdWVhWQPZ0eiy-3t-VeiwtDmcta1KPqEVsygRG9VqWQbXQfhw01uPZ-WaD2NV06_3IpSms0wAnMAZTBPZkWrlDHV-30v5_EejqP6CFb6/s400/orthodoxjewparking.bmp" border="0" /></a> <div><span style="font-size:130%;color:#333300;">Has Werner, aka the Sheik, gone even a bit more radical than usual?<br /><br />Perhaps knowing he has been properly exposed and does not allow any postings from a <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Moroccan</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">ISP</span></span> to avoid my reminding people who and what he really is, has made him a bit ....... annoyed.<br /></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#333300;">His posting style has changed and is certainly more aggressive and frankly more ludicrous.</span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#333300;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#333300;">In a posting with a photo showing the US President meeting on AF1 with his top General managing the war in Afghanistan, Werner makes the comments that it is despicable that he was given 25 minutes with the President.</span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#333300;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#333300;">What is <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">despicable</span> is the fact that Werner, presuming there is some semblance of intelligence with the man from tropical Queensland's Cairns, that he very well knows from basic news watching that Obama two days before and on a regular bi-weekly basis has a 3 hour video conference with the General and his main staff along with all the Chiefs and experts back in Washington. We know that Werner <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Reimann</span></span> is far-right, but in this case he may have fell over.</span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#333300;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#333300;">Another interesting thing, from the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Kahane</span></span> supporting radical Jew who professes on a number of times that he knows more than any Imam or other Muslim scholar on the subject of Islam and the history of Muslims, that he is unable to distinguish between the differences of the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Hagia</span></span> Sophia Cathedral of <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Byzantium</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">that</span> became the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Aya</span></span> Sofia Mosque in Istanbul and he called it The Blue Mosque. I thought perhaps that it was a simple accident but actually no, considering he went to great lengths to criticise the minarets and basically condemn it as a bastion of some pro-Sharia, Caliphate symbol. For such an "expert", we can assume then that it is all a deliberate lie, because any research or basic knowledge will come out with the fact that the Mosque/Cathedral was closed as a place of worship and has been a Museum to the City's great history and the two religions for many, many years now. The Blue Mosque is the city's principle Mosque and well known for its "state supporting" <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">moderates</span>. So, did Werner lie or was he just producing more and more foolish bullshit?</span></div><div><span style="font-size:130%;color:#333300;"></span></div><div><span style="font-size:130%;color:#333300;"></span></div><div><span style="font-size:130%;color:#333300;"></span></div><div><span style="font-size:130%;color:#333300;"></span></div><div><span style="font-size:130%;color:#333300;">.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:130%;color:#333300;">To be honest, he is a liar for his known agenda. On the above issue that was about bashing Turkey in any format possible he states that country has been put on the Watch List of </span><span style="font-size:130%;color:#333300;"><a href="http://www.uscirf.gov/index.php?option=com_jcalpro&Itemid=32&extmode=view&extid=25">U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom </a>or <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">USCIRF</span>. Now, notwithstanding the fact that Turkey was put on the list and has been not allowing religious freedoms of certain groups, the fact is that Werner <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Reimann</span> avoids pointing out that of the 12 countries on this Watch List, six are Muslim and six are not. Here is the item from the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">USCIRF</span> website set below:</span><span style="font-size:130%;color:#333300;"></div></span><span style="font-size:130%;color:#333300;"><div><br /><span style="color:#660000;"><em><span style="font-size:85%;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">USCIRF</span> Watch List<br /><br />In addition to its <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">CPC</span> recommendations, the Commission has established a </span></em></span><a href="http://www.uscirf.org/countries/publications/currentreport/2006annualRpt.pdf#page=91"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#660000;"><em>Watch List</em></span></a><span style="font-size:85%;color:#660000;"><em> of countries where religious freedom conditions do not rise to the statutory level requiring <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">CPC</span> designation but which require close monitoring due to the nature and extent of violations of religious freedom engaged in or tolerated by the governments.<br /><br /></em></span><a href="http://www.uscirf.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1417&Itemid=1" target="_self"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#660000;"><em>Afghanistan</em></span></a><span style="font-size:85%;color:#660000;"><em>, </em></span><a href="http://www.uscirf.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1393&Itemid=1" target="_self"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#660000;"><em>Belarus</em></span></a><span style="font-size:85%;color:#660000;"><em>, </em></span><a href="http://www.uscirf.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1424&Itemid=1" target="_self"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#660000;"><em>Cuba</em></span></a><span style="font-size:85%;color:#660000;"><em>, </em></span><a href="http://www.uscirf.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1410&Itemid=1" target="_self"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#660000;"><em>Egypt</em></span></a><span style="font-size:85%;color:#660000;"><em>, </em></span><a href="http://www.uscirf.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1420&Itemid=1" target="_self"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#660000;"><em>India</em></span></a><span style="font-size:85%;color:#660000;"><em>, </em></span><a href="http://www.uscirf.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1384&Itemid=1" target="_self"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#660000;"><em>Indonesia</em></span></a><span style="font-size:85%;color:#660000;"><em>, </em></span><a href="http://www.uscirf.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1385&Itemid=1" target="_self"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#660000;"><em>Laos</em></span></a><span style="font-size:85%;color:#660000;"><em>, </em></span><a title="Russia" href="http://www.uscirf.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1402&Itemid=1" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#660000;"><em>Russia</em></span></a><span style="font-size:85%;color:#660000;"><em>, </em></span><a title="Somalia" href="http://www.uscirf.gov/images/AR2009/somalia.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#660000;"><em>Somalia</em></span></a><span style="font-size:85%;color:#660000;"><em>, </em></span><a title="tajikistan" href="http://www.uscirf.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2497&Itemid=1" target="_self"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#660000;"><em>Tajikistan</em></span></a><span style="font-size:85%;color:#660000;"><em>, </em></span><a title="Turkey" href="http://www.uscirf.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2216&Itemid=1" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#660000;"><em>Turkey</em></span></a><span style="font-size:85%;color:#660000;"><em> & </em></span><a href="http://www.uscirf.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2349&Itemid=1" target="_self"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#660000;"><em>Venezuela</em></span></a></span></div><div><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#333300;">I was pulling the plug on watching Werner's blog because of its basic <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">Kahanist</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">propaganda</span>, but now it has become rather an interesting <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12"><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">exercise</span></span> in desperate actions of a madman exposed.</span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#333300;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#333300;">.........</span></div><div><span style="font-size:130%;color:#333300;"></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:130%;color:#333300;">UPDATE Oct 8.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:130%;color:#333300;"></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:130%;color:#333300;">Werner Reimann puts in his blog an item/comment by Jordan's King Abdullah that unilateral action by Israel could ignite a tinderbox in Jerusalem. A logical comment from someone who is up-to-date on the issue.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:130%;color:#333300;"></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:130%;color:#333300;">What does Werner comment - "no Arabs - no tinderbox".</span></div><div><span style="font-size:130%;color:#333300;"></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:130%;color:#333300;">Just more confirmation that Werner Reimann is in fact a violent-supporting radical of the same ilk as - Kahane, Bin Laden, Hitler and Stalin. We can all be thankfull that the businessman from Cairns in sunny Queensland, Australia is just that.</span></div>Solkharhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12445656162108723757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2658989199537315433.post-54635932484411815832009-10-04T13:55:00.006+00:002009-10-04T14:20:47.153+00:00CHRISTOPHER LOGAN - CHECK-UP RESULT - STILL ILL<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxesuBDcTLy5Tk33txsfBZ1yIdt5HfTqXtrZfgt3ZJYzh4cCn9kEzEw7QguW8NbF_yHA5mOl0hSVmarJO6gwyeM_8kEJ2UL_ciHxXzL0dd_jf377AxV82j9wI2dFgtQQXFJ7ZhY9wtty-3/s1600-h/BigotWarning2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5388748719946033122" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 213px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 121px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxesuBDcTLy5Tk33txsfBZ1yIdt5HfTqXtrZfgt3ZJYzh4cCn9kEzEw7QguW8NbF_yHA5mOl0hSVmarJO6gwyeM_8kEJ2UL_ciHxXzL0dd_jf377AxV82j9wI2dFgtQQXFJ7ZhY9wtty-3/s400/BigotWarning2.jpg" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-size:130%;">Christopher Logan's "Islam in Action" is <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">unfortunately</span> still producing the same agenda-based garbage, mind you I think it because he is a wanna-be Spencer or Fitzgerald (of the Jihad-Watch <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">hate-site</span>).</span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Christopher says in his About Me the following:</span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#000066;"><em>For those of you who do not know me, I have been researching Islamic theology, Islamic history and the current events of the Islamic community for approximately six years now. I have been speaking out on the worldwide problem of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Islamofascism</span> across the net, on talk radio shows and was also an administrator at <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">JihadChat</span>. I have studied from various sources including the Koran and the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Hadiths</span>. Also I am a content manager and writer for Right Side News, Infidels are Cool and have had several articles published on Ali <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Sinas</span> popular Faith Freedom site. Most recently I have been asked to be a co-host and co-producer for the Evil Conservative Radio Show, based out of NY.</em></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">For someone who claims to know so much about Islam, the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"><em>Qur'an</em></span> (note he does not spell it as someone who studied it would) and the Muslim world in general, he fails to show it and in fact, based on his claim about knowledge, deliberately lies.</span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">One point that I had made clear to Christopher on a number of <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">occasions</span> is that his <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">careful</span> and deliberate avoidance of showing the reality and certain facts is unprofessional and immoral. His <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">pathological</span> obsession of building the Shari'a Law issue is the basic one that those who follow this hate-agenda abuse. Of course anyone who has actually studied the Muslim World knows that the majority of Muslim countries do not have Shari'a Legal systems but are in fact SECULAR. Not only that, but of those that do, again the majority of them only have Shari'a Family Courts, with the rest being secular.</span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">The other popular avoidance that is never mentioned by these hate-posters is that the average Muslim sitting in <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">cafés</span> in the Middle-East, North Africa and West Asia - discuss and debate with <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">surprise</span> why Europe allows such radicals to live there, let alone demand <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">ridiculous</span> things that do not exist in the real and actual Muslim world! Such demands, like a Caliphate, are only myths and perhaps not even known by the vast mass of the Muslims around the world.</span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">So we can be sure, that six years of reading Spencer, Fitzgerald, blogs and being unable to correctly spell "<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">Qur'an</span>", that Christopher does not really know Islam. Thus, he is either a <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">braggart</span> or a liar. </span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Which one Christopher?</span><br /><div></div><br /><div><span style="font-size:130%;">I also told Christopher that his main introduction is a lie in itself and that he should be honest and change it.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="font-size:130%;">It says:</span></div><br /><div><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></div><div><span style="font-size:130%;color:#000066;"><em>Islam in Action is a site dedicated to exposing the worldwide issue of Islamofascism. The owner of this site is not calling for any violence or harassment of Muslims. He is looking for political solutions. One being putting a moratorium on Muslim immigration.</em></span></div><br /><div><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></div><div><span style="font-size:130%;">What it should say is:</span></div><br /><div><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></div><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color:#003333;"><em>Islam in Action is a site dedicated to denouncing Islam. The owner of this site seeks harassment of Muslims especially by openly condemning the faith of the more than billion faithful. He is not looking for a political solutions as that would be silly, either Islam exists or does not. Muslims, he believes, are not welcome in the West.</em></span></span></div><br /><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color:#003333;"><em><br /></em></span>...</span></div>Solkharhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12445656162108723757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2658989199537315433.post-52682030237435822102009-09-29T12:47:00.003+00:002009-09-29T13:03:08.672+00:00FINAL NOTE ON THE WINDS OF JIHAD SITE OF WERNER REIMANN<span style="font-size:130%;">So that is my wrap up on <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">WoJ</span>, I <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">dwelled</span> a little to long but did so to fish out some more details and motives. Now that I have done so and have no longer need to spend my time playing the stupid tit-for-tat game with such fringe low-<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">lifes</span>, I can fill in gaps that some have been asking me.</span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">The blog-owner is <strong><em>Werner <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Reimann</span> of Cairns</em></strong> in the northern Australian State called Queensland. It is understood that the almost 60 year old <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Reimann</span> owns or owned a shop at the local Airport. His identity was exposed a few years ago by journalist Gavin King whom in my part risked his reputation of <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">independent</span> journalism to point out that a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Kahanist</span> and avid Palestinian and Islam hater lived in his city and was publishing hate-filled bull shit under anonymity. Only for that reason alone, do I understand King's decision.</span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">I had known the blog-owner's identify before starting the postings but did not point it out because he will certainly cut my posts and my real objective would have been lost. I note that now that I have posted his real name on his blog that the posts are instantly <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">disappearing</span> and the poor little "k" <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">kahanist</span> must be sweating. He was already very, very angry (and it showed in his postings) that I <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">refered</span> to the commonly known and accepted terminology of calling Islam one of the Three <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">Abrahamic</span> Religions (also known as The <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">Abrahamic</span> Tradition).</span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">Aparantly</span>, there are such low-<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">lifes</span> whom will do anything to fulfill their semi-political agenda and it is a shame that in this case it is a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">religeo</span>-<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">zionist</span> whom has chosen to in the end only <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16">vilify</span> his own religion instead of my own.</span><br /><br />...Solkharhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12445656162108723757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2658989199537315433.post-6697872457143219952009-09-24T14:30:00.002+00:002009-09-24T15:01:15.720+00:00WINDS of JIHAD’S AGENDA EXPOSED – RADICAL JEWISH SUPPORTER OF KAHANE<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyrUo-ylkA8TGA4206k1FjbYKQqJwohl6qegRdfqRkggWBp6gB179J1mApTDH-5ZWiW9lWiSgK1Vv5mV0rJ-jD0M7p-n6nK5ZbaN5dAahy5RAWUxb_Nll6Ja5rtGbQ-_sA_8Dyrf8jjUYy/s1600-h/dbb69447d4516c98c33e522de363fb20.jpeg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5385048979229753650" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 71px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 79px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyrUo-ylkA8TGA4206k1FjbYKQqJwohl6qegRdfqRkggWBp6gB179J1mApTDH-5ZWiW9lWiSgK1Vv5mV0rJ-jD0M7p-n6nK5ZbaN5dAahy5RAWUxb_Nll6Ja5rtGbQ-_sA_8Dyrf8jjUYy/s400/dbb69447d4516c98c33e522de363fb20.jpeg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;">As I continue my inquiries into the cause, methods and reasoning behind anti-Islam hate-blogs, I have noticed how more and more radical, cynical and direct they are becoming. Why? Thus, instead of pulling the plug after my last post, I smelt a rather sinister rat behind the rather poorly run but nasty Winds of Jihad (WoJ) blog.</span><br /><div><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;">Thus, my pressing continued, simple prodding and provoking and drawing the rather gullible blog-owner into identifying his real reasoning and source, it worked of course.</span></div><br /><div><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;">On five separate threads the blog-owner confessed to supporting the religious-Zionist theorem of Israel expanding its borders to include the biblical lands of Samaria, Judea and Hebron. </span></div><br /><div><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;">Thus, carefully provoking a cut-out, I quoted ultra-orthodox Sabbath rules, talked about their similar violence to radical Muslims (since the subject was about a female Italian ultra-right politician who got punched during Ramadan and everyone said shame – but you get the same in west Jerusalem if you break the Sabbath there….). I then said did you hear about Kahane and a few others I named and out it came……… “I respect the teachings of Kahane very much.”<br /></span></div><br /><div><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;">It is clear that this is the sole driving force behind this blog and perhaps even financially. His material source, being the typical right-wing anti-Islam propaganda from the same sources has for my part shown a lack of independent thought or seriousness. Also WoJ’s blogger continued to defend his position with the usual five methods which confirm that there is no logic and genuine independent concern that would normally be created. These, namely <strong><em>“single sources”</em> </strong>(in this case the Spencer/Fitzgerald/Gellar group), <em>“<strong>repetitive emotional half-quotes out of context”</strong></em> (single lines from the Qur’an and Hadiths), <em><strong>“your speaking taqiyya”</strong></em> (the laughable escape clause that no matter what you say I will call you a liar), <em>“<strong>I don’t care”</strong></em> (emotional avoidance disregarding the fact that they raised the subject themselves) and lastly by <strong><em>simply changing the subject quickly over and over and to older posters and back again</em>.</strong> In this case the WoJ blog-owner did that constantly. He added one more, saying that aspects of his blog is satirical.<br /></span></div><br /><div><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;">Only two posters on the blog, though with strong opinions and on leaning to the right of political views, had interesting and genuine opinions and were willing to agree to points or argued logically and coherently. I had no problem with them at all, but do admit that I read one (named tjwork) wrong and incorrectly presumed he was another mindless ratbag. I, as I always do, admitted my error and apologised.<br /></span></div><br /><div><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;">Last time I gave the blog a <strong><em>D-</em></strong> for unoriginality and lack of quality sourcing (completely relying on others to do the work for them) but in line with the fact that this poster is actually doing so for a known purposeful agenda and cause, it obviously has been re-rated as a complete <strong><em>F</em></strong> for fail as it is no longer considered a blog but a propaganda rag for <strong><em>someone else’s cause</em></strong>. The <strong><em>blog-owner does not actually own his blog.</em></strong></span></div><br /><div><strong><em><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;"></span></em></strong></div><br /><div><strong><em><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;">.</span></em></strong></div>Solkharhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12445656162108723757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2658989199537315433.post-89452241671465980742009-09-20T19:58:00.007+00:002009-09-20T21:18:37.035+00:00SPENCER & JIHAD-WATCH - DOWNWARDS SPIRAL OVER BARY FIX<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYUQhBLsPGc520j71LmDjd1AImd8L9LIgiIXNqjXW4t1JXx7b4C_WhyphenhyphenmtqMRdjUD1qRNmcD0NSJKHI1TXTphOY7pheT01ZpHEzgO6etMwc5Zz6dnR6a9A8eIBK6snIuwjADTdambt6zGEp/s1600-h/STUPIDITY%2520DOING%2520THE%2520SAME%2520THING%2520(0681).jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5383648370217157986" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 222px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 213px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYUQhBLsPGc520j71LmDjd1AImd8L9LIgiIXNqjXW4t1JXx7b4C_WhyphenhyphenmtqMRdjUD1qRNmcD0NSJKHI1TXTphOY7pheT01ZpHEzgO6etMwc5Zz6dnR6a9A8eIBK6snIuwjADTdambt6zGEp/s400/STUPIDITY%2520DOING%2520THE%2520SAME%2520THING%2520(0681).jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><span style="font-size:130%;">Attached is a well placed item over a debate between a journalist Michael Kruse and far-right Spencer confident Andrew Bostom and how clearly the Rafiq Bary has been hijacked by Spencer ..... er I mean Bostom. Kruse had been covering the case of the Muslim girl who converted to Christianity and noticed not all has been correct.</span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Quoted in total with appreciation, link at end.</span><br /><br />......<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Andrew Bostom Takes on Michael Kruse–Loses<br /></span></strong><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Andrew Bostom (well over due for a LoonWatch piece), a close friend of </span><a href="http://www.loonwatch.com/2009/04/robert-spencer-wanna-be-conquistador/"><span style="font-size:130%;">Robert Spencer’s</span></a><span style="font-size:130%;">, and another self-proclaimed “Islamic scholar” is lauded on JihadWatch as having “taken on and crushed” </span><a href="http://www.tampabay.com/writers/michael-kruse" modo="false"><span style="font-size:130%;">Mchael Kruse</span></a><span style="font-size:130%;">, the St.Petersburg Times reporter who has been covering the </span><a href="http://www.loonwatch.com/tag/fathima-rifqa-bary/"><span style="font-size:130%;">Fathima Rifqa Bary</span></a><span style="font-size:130%;"> case.<br />It’s a popular tactic amongst Islamophobes, especially Robert Spencer to try and twist what is clearly a negative outcome for themselves into a self-declared victory with a peppering of congratulatory self-adulation. This was the case with Spencer in his confrontation with </span><a href="http://www.loonwatch.com/2009/08/robert-spencer-self-declared-scholar-v-real-scholar-on-the-fatimah-rifqa-bary-case/"><span style="font-size:130%;">Professor M. Cherif Bassiouni</span></a><span style="font-size:130%;">, when his alter-ego Hugh Fitzgerald proclaimed “victory” for Spencer and “defeat” for Bassiouni.<br />The truth is Spencer and company are ever more becoming isolated on the fringes of an increasingly radicalized segment of the Right-Wing, the company he keeps consists of neo-fascists, birthers, conspiracy theorists, Glenn Beck types, etc.</span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">In this </span><a href="http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:a_d8SW0q7KsJ:www.jihadwatch.org/archives/027509.php+jihad+watch+mike+kruse&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a" modo="false"><span style="font-size:130%;">recent episode</span></a><span style="font-size:130%;"> Bostom says that Kruse was wrong for stating that Spencer believes that “Muslims are in America to take over,” which from the body of Spencer’s work and the company he keeps is more than likely an accurate presumption, in context it is also the impression that he was trying to give at the press conference outside the courtroom of the Fathima Rifqa Bary case.<br />A case which is proving to be very embarrassing for Spencer, as </span><a href="http://www.loonwatch.com/2009/09/fathima-rifqa-bary-update-no-abuse-found/"><span style="font-size:130%;">evidence</span></a><span style="font-size:130%;"> after </span><a href="http://www.tampabay.com/news/courts/fdle-no-evidence-ohio-muslim-family-abused-runaway-christian-convert-teen/1036122"><span style="font-size:130%;">evidence</span></a><span style="font-size:130%;"> keeps coming out that the charges made by bloggers such as him and </span><a href="http://www.loonwatch.com/2009/08/pamela-geller-the-looniest-blogger-ever/"><span style="font-size:130%;">Pamela Geller </span></a><span style="font-size:130%;">that Rifqa’s life was/had to be in danger and that she was abused by her parents turn out to be bogus. Spencer’s reputation has taken a big hit and he is doing everything in his power to try to salvage some face.<br /></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Let’s look at an interesting part of the exchange between Bostom and Kruse:</span><br /><br /><strong>Kruse to Bostom:</strong><br /><br /><em><strong>It’s my job to listen to everybody. It’s not my job to assign everybody equal credibility. When it comes to Robert Spencer scholars of Islamic studies outright dismiss him and his body of work. They call him an unreliable ideologue at best and a divisive bigot at worst. I can’t do that, though, can’t just ignore him like that, because he, and Pam Geller, too, are so much a part of this story, and certainly reasons it’s turned into what it’s turned into. Judging from his e-mails and how he talks in person, Rob strikes me as a pretty smart guy, but he’s a pretty smart guy with a very specific worldview. Everything he writes or says gets filtered through that static narrowness. Here is a relatively new dynamic: The other day in Orlando, Rob and Pam were speakers at a news conference, advocates for one “side” of this whole thing, and THEN they covered it as members of the press. They’re covering a story they’ve helped create, or at the very least stoke. The front row of the courtroom was for media, and there was the AP, some newspaper reporters, some TV reporters, some radio reporters, and there was Pam, a woman who last fall wrote a story on her blog saying Barack Obama was the illegitimate son of Malcom X. All of it is an interesting piece of the sprawling Rifqa Bary story, worth watching and considering now, and during the next story like it, and the next one after that.</strong></em><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Here Kruse devastates Bostom and Spencer by pretty much objectively telling it like it is, or as Dave Chapelle used to say Keepin’ it real. This is incomprehensible to polemicists and subjective ideologues such as Bostom and Spencer. It is incontrovertibly true that Spencer (and Bostom for that matter) is completely and thoroughly rejected by academics, we have noted that before here.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Yet, Kruse makes the point that he as a reporter cannot reject Spencer and Pamela Geller out of hand because <strong>THEY ARE PART OF THIS STORY</strong>. In fact, he points out they have in many ways <strong>CREATED</strong> this story or at the very least stoked it.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">That is absolutely true, ever since the story broke Spencer and Pam have been on a crusade, whipping up their supporters in the blog world to “save Fathima Bary” from a sure “honor killing.” They knew nothing about the family or the context, they cared nothing for this little girl or her future, but eager to make Muslims and Islam look barbarous they attempted to castigate this family in front of the public thereby destroying any chance in those early days of reconciliation.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">When fact after fact came out confirming the family’s story, supported by the Ohio police and Children Services, Pamela Geller resorted to making accusations which she claimed she heard from “anonymous sources” that Rifqa Bary was abused throughout her whole life, and that she was even sexually abused by her uncle.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Spencer applauded her in all this, extolling that the mainstream media was ignoring this “mountain of evidence” secured by Pamela Geller that showed that Rifqa Bary’s family was fundamentalist crazy and had abused her. For some reason the police were unable to unearth any evidence of these libelous accusations? Probably because they are made up whole-cloth.<br />Kruse, highlights how incongruous it is for a woman such as Pamela Geller, who claims Obama is a Mooslim, anti-Semite, Socialist son of Malcolm X to be in the press area covering a story that she is actively creating. Bostom responds with more polemic,</span><br /><br /><strong>Bostom to Kruse:</strong><br /><br /><em><strong>I deal with your non-sequiturs about Robert and Pamela, below. But first, you deliberately and grossly misrepresented what Robert said and the very specific context in which he made his statement–despite standing right next to him, as one can see in the videotape. That reflects very poorly on your own credibility and your ability to judge anyone else’s for that matter.<br />Do you not see that? Do you not see your own transparent–certainly to me– “static narrowness?”</strong></em><br /><br /><em><strong>As for scholarship, who are you to judge? What do you know about Islamic doctrine and history??</strong></em><br /><br /><em><strong>I asked you to contact Ibn Warraq via e-mail–He says he never heard from you, and judging from your responses to my repeated questioning you never obtained his definitive scholarly assessment of apostasy, “Leaving Islam”–so clearly real scholarship on the subject matter at hand—apostasy from Islam–does not even appeal to you.</strong></em><br /><br /><em><strong>Have you attempted to contact another high profile apostate from Islam, Nonie Darwish, who recently published “Cruel and Usual Punishment,” and wrote about a high profile apostasy case ongoing NOW in her native Egypt, in early August??</strong></em><br /><br /><em><strong>I have compiled, edited, and introduced two critically acclaimed scholarly compendia–one on the jihad, the other on Islamic Antisemitism. I have also read and on several occasions reviewed Robert’s books, and they easily exceed most of what passes for “scholarship” on Islam in today’s academy–despite targeting, deliberately, the larger lay audience. Regardless, they are solid works in their own right that are meticulously documented. Have you read them and found identifiable flaws in any of them??</strong></em><br /><br /><em><strong>As for Pamela, excuse me, but from my where I sit, she is doing the basic shoe leather investigative reporting those like yourself have thus far refused to do.<br />How many of Rifqa’s friends have you interviewed, starting for example with the now publicly identified Jamal Jivangee? What sort of of financial investigation of Mr. and Mrs. Bary’s businesses have you conducted??</strong></em><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">I think you are being very disingenuous, and your pretense of “objectivity” is simply ludicrous.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">As we mentioned Kruse did not misrepresent Spencer, Spencer just spoke very badly and it is not a stretch for Kruse to say that Spencer believes “Muslims are in America to take over” because that is exactly what he was insinuating at that right-wing blogger “press conference.” </span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Then Bostom attempts to accuse Kruse of being ill-informed and not knowing anything about Islam (ironic) and then lists himself (in a bit of shameless self-promotion) and another Islamophobic writer, Ibn Warraq as “experts” that Kruse should have contacted.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">This is a highly rich and whiny statement at the same time, what part of discredited do Bostom and Spencer not get? People don’t choose you guys as experts in the field of Islam because you are a pair of polemicists with deep hatred for Islam and Muslims. You can’t blame people for not considering you suitable candidates. He also trots out Nonie Darwish who believes there is no such thing as a moderate Muslim, she dumps all Muslims in the radical camp, she also compares Islam to Nazism amongst other interesting Islamophobic anecdotes.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">By this time Kruse is almost done, knowing by now where Andrew Bostom comes from, i.e. the far right lunatic camp and says,</span><br /><br /><strong>Kruse to Bostom:</strong><br /><br /><em><strong>I should stop, I know this, but I just have to ask: We’ve talked on the phone, we’ve e-mailed, and you seem like an intelligent person, so how can you possibly take Pam Geller seriously?<br /></strong></em><br /><strong>Bostom to Kruse:</strong><br /><br /><em><strong>Excuse me, but just as you have calumniated Spencer–with a live video record to debunk you and prove your deliberate misrepresentation—you’ve now done the same with Geller.</strong></em><br /><br /><span style="color:#003300;"><strong>From here:http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/10/how-could-stanl.html</strong></span><br /><br /><span style="color:#003300;"><strong>“The ‘Atlas says that Barack Obama is Malcolm X’s love child’ charge has gone viral among leftards and lizards. The only problem with it is that it is false. I am not the author of this post, and I posted it because the writer did a spectacular job documenting Obama’s many connections with the Far Left. The Malcolm X claim is one minor part of this story, and was of interest to me principally as part of the writer’s documentation that Stanley Ann Dunham could not have been where the Obama camp says she was at various times. I do not believe that Barack Obama is Malcolm X’s love child, and never did — but there remain many, many unanswered questions about his early life and upbringing.”</strong></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">As a scrupulously honest, painstakingly objective journalist you must know that Pamela has written “I do not believe that Barack Obama is Malcolm X’s love child, and never did”? Would you even care if you did know?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">We know the answer to that, as your calumny against Spencer makes plain.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">As we demonstrated Kruse didn’t calumny against Spencer or Geller but Bostom does by trying to defend Pamela. Pamela is thoroughly discredited for more then her posting of the Malcolm-X-is-the-father-of-Barack-Obama-conspiracy, which she attempts to half-heartedly disavow now, but also for her other conspiracies that Barack Obama is a Muslim, that he was indoctrinated into Jihad in Pakistan, that he hates Jews and is an anti-Semite, that he is not an American citizen and was not born in America; all that doesn’t even touch a bit of what she says about Palestinians, Arabs, and real Muslims.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">On her post about Barack Obama being the illegitimate son of Malcolm X, which she now claims she doesn’t support, there are some troubling questions that it seems Bostom doesn’t want to raise or answer. Like the obvious as day and night, why did she post that crazy article in the first place? Is that any way to prove that there was “no way that Obama’s mother could have been in America when Obama was born?” The fact is that Pam posted the piece with out any qualifiers, she posted it in her name without attributing it to anyone else. That brings her story of never having supported it into high doubt, the attempt to cover it up now and sweep it under the rug is not going to work especially when her track record has been loonier than the loons.</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.loonwatch.com/2009/09/andrew-bostom-takes-on-mike-kruse-loses/"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.loonwatch.com/2009/09/andrew-bostom-takes-on-mike-kruse-loses/</span></em></a><br /><br />.</div>Solkharhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12445656162108723757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2658989199537315433.post-38154849522693551642009-09-01T13:15:00.002+00:002009-09-01T13:25:20.765+00:00An email from Peter<strong>Yesterday I read an email from someone whom I have posted here (with permission) that includes my response. Peter has been polite, civil and though we have ideology differences over the subject of faith and religion, we share an understanding that it is important to know and understand people and probably more - be civil about it. If only those bloggers that I point out were so inclined....</strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong>.....</strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#000066;"><strong>Solkhar<br /><br />I found your blogspot after reading your posts on the Winds of Jihad site..<br /><br />I wouldn't mind hearing your opinion on a couple issues and you certainly sound like you know what you are talking about ..<br /><br />Would you agree that never in the history of mankind has a particular religion or ideology come under so much scrutiny as Islam.?<br /><br />It seems the whole world is looking at Islam under a microscope. Every time you turn the TV on in Australia there is some documentary about it, a day doesn't go by without every major newspaper at least having some articles on Islam/muslims and it has certainly been the hot topic for political and social analysts since 9/11.<br /><br />I myself have purchased a number of books on Islam including Karen Armstrongs "Mohammed", not to mention the Koran itself. In fact I feel I know as much about Islam now as i do about Christianity - the religion I was born into and grew up with ( I am now an atheist ).<br /><br />The point I am tring to make is that the more we scrutinise the world's major religions the more we realise that they are just based on ancient superstitions that have absolutley no relevance to the way the world is today.<br /><br />Australia has an atheist population of 25pc however only 10pc of the population are regular churchgoers. The numbers keep declining by the day and I can't ever see this trend reversing as long as technology and science keeps improving. In some western European countries the atheist population is as high as 70pc ( this is true for all of the Scandinavian countries). In Japan it is also about 70pc.<br /><br />I honestly believe if every man, woman and child in countries like Iran, Pakistan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia had access to the internet the decline of Islam would be rapid. One hundred years ago the atheist population of Australia was less than 1pc. Currenlty in many Islamic countries the atheist population is zero.<br /><br />I have been trying to google information on atheists movements in the Middle East and other Islamic countries and it almost impossible to find any information at all.<br /><br />Do you know if countires like Egypt, Iran , Pakistan etc etc have atheists? Are there any well known atheists who live in Islamic countries?. I mean surely there must be free thinking people like Christopher Hitchens, Ayan Hrisi Ali and Wafa Sultan even in countires like Saudi Arabia. It is just plain human nature and natural for humans to question why we are here and whether there is a god .</strong></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#000066;"><strong>I would love to hear your opinions and comments on what I have written.<br /><br />kind regards<br /><br />Peter</strong></span><br /><br />......<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#660000;">Peter,<br /><br />thanks for the email, questions and your civility, I mention that because like the blog you referred to, some do not have civility but rather ugly agendas.<br /><br />I agree, Islam is under the greatest of scrutiny, it has to do with many factors I believe, the current war on terrorism, globalization (ie the now constant interaction between cultures and faiths) and global media - before the Internet and access to other and traditional media is dominating life.<br /><br />It would be correct, I think, to add that with the interactions from globalization, mass migration and conflict also comes politicizing the issues, thus it has become a subject of scoring for domestic consumption - ie the far right, radical leftists, radical evangelism etc. There is, of course, war going on as well and mankind has always uses the "us versus them" emotion in times of crisis.<br /><br />That you purchased a Qur'an (note the spelling, it is closer phonetically to the correct pronunciation), is good - not that I am trying to sell my faith (I do not do that) - I would rather talk to someone who has attempted to read it than those that simply read blogs.<br /><br />Peter, the subject of faith for me is a personal one and as the word implies in all its variations, it is a matter of faith. I have no issue with you being an atheist by the way. But I would say and take you to task on your comment about "ancient superstitions that have absolutely no relevance to the way the world is today", considering that faith is also a subject of culture, history, identity, community and social cohesion (or disruption). I would go further and say that the basis of moral standards comes from religion and faith.<br /><br />I have no knowledge of the statistics of atheism but I would be certain that there are of course Muslims whom declare they are but in fact are atheists. As I am sure you are aware, atheism is under the haddiths that control most of the clerical and present religious habits of Muslims worse than apostasy and in many of the more backward nations, a death sentence. So you can imagine, inside many Muslim countries, declaring oneself especially say to a statistic count that they are an atheist is simply not going to happen for the foreseeable future.<br /><br />A last few points, I find Christopher Hitchens interesting, I certainly allow him his right to his opinion but I am one who says it is not religion that is evil and has caused hate and wars in the world, it is in fact mankind that is capable of evil, hate and wars and they will automatically declare faith and religion is on their side. That is radicalism, extremism and fundamentalism.<br /><br />As for Ayan Hrisi Ali (whom I know) and Wafa Sultan - I think they are sell-outs and use and abuse Islam to sell books and be famous, simple.<br /><br />p.s. may I post your question and my response on my blog? In this case with the civility of your question, I will give the same in asking. I would cut your full name and no email, just the name Peter.<br /><br />kind regards<br /> </span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"><span style="color:#660000;">Solkhar</span> </span>Solkharhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12445656162108723757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2658989199537315433.post-57198298253160037182009-08-31T13:27:00.004+00:002009-08-31T13:37:31.932+00:00Dinah Babbitt, 1923-2009<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp4_jxJ-CehKiTDvjQP2gjybEG_P4_Z17bKzDhw0KG9jnCQySR0t9WjvMzO6Zl8kHmTki5Tk4Kyq6WIknxqIWD2kV8L08WWGICbsm0pUqx2eeBKOEoZ5ChzXAX6aPRqpTd8fzpsX7RUuoc/s1600-h/dinababbittcrop-200x0.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376120572852154066" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 281px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp4_jxJ-CehKiTDvjQP2gjybEG_P4_Z17bKzDhw0KG9jnCQySR0t9WjvMzO6Zl8kHmTki5Tk4Kyq6WIknxqIWD2kV8L08WWGICbsm0pUqx2eeBKOEoZ5ChzXAX6aPRqpTd8fzpsX7RUuoc/s400/dinababbittcrop-200x0.jpg" border="0" /></a>The following is repeat from an article sent to me about the life of Dinah Babbitt whom recently died. Who is she?<br /><br />This short obituary from the Sydney Morning Herald says it all. It shows the greatest and the most basest of what mankind is capable of, but most of all it tells of survival. I give full credit, reference and acknowledge rights to <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">SMH</span> and hope they do not mind my putting this out in full. Reference and link as at the end of the docuement.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong><em><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;">The artist <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Mengele</span> spared to document his wicked work<br />August 28, 2009 </span></em><br /></strong><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><br /></span><em><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;">Dinah Babbitt, 1923-2009</span></em> <span style="font-family:times new roman;"><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></span><br /><em><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;">DINAH BABBITT'S life was spared at Auschwitz by Josef <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Mengele</span>, the infamous Nazi physician known as the Angel of Death, because of her skills as a portrait painter.<br /><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Mengele</span>, with a flick of his hand, selected Dinah for survival on the basis of a fresco she had painted in the children's barracks of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Birkenau</span>. In 1943 her skills were deemed to be superior to colour photography. The fresco was a reconstruction of a scene from the film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which she had seen in Prague; she had removed her yellow star, which Jews were forced to wear, to get into the cinema.<br /><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Mengele</span> provided Dinah with watercolours and said that she was to illustrate his experiments. He fancied himself as an anthropologist and told her that he wanted to document the inferior physiognomy and organs of Jews and Gypsies.<br />She bargained for the life of her mother, threatening to run into the camp's electric fence unless she, too, was spared. ''I'm not staying here without my mother alive,'' Dinah said she told <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Mengele</span>.<br />While painting a portrait of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">Mengele</span>, he asked her if she had noticed something about him that only his wife had ever observed. Without pause, she mentioned a flat, round birthmark, which she had likened to the tags inserted in the ears of stuffed dachshunds sold as children's toys. He laughed and nodded.<br />Such was the wit, intelligence and manipulative genius of the painter, who spent two years in Auschwitz - a feat of survival matched by few others. She said humour and a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">tradable</span> skill were keys for survival. Locksmiths, plumbers, doctors or artists survived; so, too, did twins.<br />Babbitt, who has died of cancer in <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">Felton</span>, California, at 86, was born Annemarie Dinah <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">Gottliebova</span> in Brno, Czechoslovakia, and studied art in Prague until Jews were turned away from school. She spent a year as a prisoner in <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">Theresienstadt</span>, where she fell in love and, despite the terror, described that time as the happiest year in her life. She was then shipped to Auschwitz.<br />Babbitt liked to describe a scene that exemplified the use of humour of concentration camp life. A double latrine with two stalls stood in the family compound, separated by a flimsy piece of see-through material. As Dinah was leaving one stall and a man the other, he said to her: ''My lady, not to anger the gods by saying so, you look still well.'' This was a panegyric. He was referring to the fact that he had seen her backside through the partition.<br />Her lover from <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">Theresienstadt</span> died from typhus in the last few days of the war. After a few months in Paris, where she scandalously, at the time, had an affair with a black musician in Duke Ellington's band, she worked as an animator with Warner Brothers in California and married Art Babbitt, the animator who had worked on Snow White. She worked on characters including Wile E. Coyote, Daffy Duck and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">Tweety</span> Bird.<br />Dinah Babbitt reared two children, attended wild Hollywood parties, divorced and later loved again. She prolonged her good looks with several <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">facelifts</span>, told bawdy jokes and even in her 80s talked about death, sex and life.<br />A sad aspect was that, in 1973, she learnt that the Auschwitz Museum held some of her Gypsy portraits. She travelled to Auschwitz, determined to finally liberate at least the memory of those she had painted by taking the portraits home and perhaps to the Holocaust Museum in Washington but the Polish museum authorities refused, saying that if the paintings belonged to anyone, it was <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">Mengele's</span> descendants.<br />Her nephew and a pair of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16">Mengele</span> twins, Annetta Able and Stephanie Heller, live in Melbourne. Babbitt and her mother helped the twins survive Auschwitz. Two daughters survive her.</span></em><br /><br /><br /><br />(<a href="http://www.smh.com.au/national/obituaries/the-artist-mengele-spared-to-document-his-wicked-work-20090827-f14n.html">http://www.smh.com.au/national/obituaries/the-artist-mengele-spared-to-document-his-wicked-work-20090827-f14n.html</a><br /><br />..Solkharhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12445656162108723757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2658989199537315433.post-29534394431085551202009-08-30T14:44:00.006+00:002009-08-30T15:50:30.479+00:00Acceptance, Tokenism or Hypocrisy<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlX75slYUVcGvSmxavlFU8EXmalc224UzcB8GKJf-g-_TgcVLT2WWjb6diuGVbQ_xxICu02gczfDEy_SuR0ReuWVuAHifFfpMp6kOJmQKW731GJlsLTCoLTqcKRZZK1e-ml3xUKdyR3uoG/s1600-h/Hazem%2520El%2520Masri-300x368.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375780733992833634" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 277px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 342px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlX75slYUVcGvSmxavlFU8EXmalc224UzcB8GKJf-g-_TgcVLT2WWjb6diuGVbQ_xxICu02gczfDEy_SuR0ReuWVuAHifFfpMp6kOJmQKW731GJlsLTCoLTqcKRZZK1e-ml3xUKdyR3uoG/s400/Hazem%2520El%2520Masri-300x368.jpg" border="0" /></a>I was sent from Australia the photo and Sydney Morning Herald (smh.com.au) front page item about <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Hazem</span> El <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Masri</span> the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">NSW</span> Rugby League play-maker's final match. It came with a wonderful photo (displayed) that shows him, <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">justifiably</span> proud and his wife (in <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">hijab</span>) and children. That is great and I am happy for him and rather proud to see Aussie celebration directed at a Muslim family and there is no comments or pointing fingers at the wife in her <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">hijab</span>. Great!<br /><br />But it raises a question, how much is normal and justifiable happiness for a sports celebrity and how quickly it is forgotten and the bigotry and the usual "us & them" <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">rhetoric</span> comes back. This is not about Australia but about the West at all.<br /><br />Westerners, like other parts of the world, follow the human habit of madly adoring sports. I wonder how many of the bigots and radical right-wing agenda freaks and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">blogers</span> whom demand the shutting down, eradication or deportation of Islam and Muslims - then goes and supports their favourite football team that has a number of Muslims as part of their integral team. Are the French right-wingers aware that the super-star status Nicolas <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">Anelka (see photo below with Samir Nasri)</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">Éric</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">Abidal</span> and Franck <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">Ribéry</span> are all <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">Muslim</span> converts, let alone those born Muslim such as <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">Zinadine</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">Zidane</span>? In fact <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">Zidane</span> is a perfect example of being identified with France and Football but is he identified and acknowledged as being Muslim?<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUW4m5FSP4uZL6bc4fDHHIb8-gYxzYaQlwltmbZA97ppUu74_KzG5K7q1L8p-2vYKlzYyMYkcDzmx56EfidH0RjuRWkisyn4nDJ1furI-dp1JnFrmuogDzTnemGDa-PVvVj9vkkYnTf_ku/s1600-h/010607_nasri_anelka_dos.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375784162562654338" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 273px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 178px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUW4m5FSP4uZL6bc4fDHHIb8-gYxzYaQlwltmbZA97ppUu74_KzG5K7q1L8p-2vYKlzYyMYkcDzmx56EfidH0RjuRWkisyn4nDJ1furI-dp1JnFrmuogDzTnemGDa-PVvVj9vkkYnTf_ku/s400/010607_nasri_anelka_dos.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Perhaps the greatest ever boxer <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16">Mohammed</span> Ali has been clearly identified as Muslim because of his public battle to do so, but how much of that latter support, enthusiasm and loyalty actually included the value that he took so seriously - and how many that supported him in the ring actively <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17">despise</span> his faith as "evil". Was it the case with fellow boxers Anthony <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18">Mundine</span> from Australia, <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19">Britain's</span> Danny Wilson and American boxers Bernard Hopkins and Mike Tyson.<br /><br />Football is probably the thing that catches out the armchair bigots whom declare a hatred (and worse) <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20">against</span> Islam but will go out and celebrate and get drunk over a football match, hypocritically ignoring the bigotry for the duration of the match. Even British hooligans who will later go out and punch a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21">Paki</span> or two but will sing the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_22">Notts</span> County Anthem not realising that their star striker Lee Hughes is a Muslim convert and most <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_23">Rotterdamers</span> like myself do not realise that their famous "son" and international footballer Robin Van <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_24">Persie</span> is a Muslim (and married to a Moroccan like <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_25">myself</span> as well).<br /><br />Apart from the many African favourites playing in the European football leagues many of the great personalities are just "footballers" and are forgotten that they have faiths and beliefs that some of these bigoted fans ignore. Frederick <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_26">Kanoute</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_27">Sevilla</span> , El <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_28">Hadji</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_29">Diouf</span>, Salomon <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_30">Kalou</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_31">Nihat</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_32">Kahveci</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_33">Diomansy</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_34">Kamara</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_35">Samir</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_36">Nasri</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_37">Zlatan</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_38">Ibrahimovic</span> and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_39">Hassan</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_40">Salihamidzic</span> are all sung and cheered and then later condemned.<br /><br />I wonder with all the <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_41">remembrance</span>, memorials and rebuilding of Michael Jackson and the Jackson Five that anyone cares that Jermaine Jackson is also a Muslim convert.Solkharhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12445656162108723757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2658989199537315433.post-61326287952321919192009-08-23T18:16:00.005+00:002009-08-23T18:55:46.014+00:00Winds of Jihad - Scrutinized with a D- for originality<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYuEA9vb6V93nXs-ZE8e_Nyl4au8wWnmNnP9KZO6zPtpsa5P6j1XH6us0EvgCJfZ_yXX6BFdwyAnUq_7ry7HvSc1sNNHQw9ZL_F1X-tKmQqXBBDHFDcaZKu31eDmUDF7GT58nlJCNTxq5M/s1600-h/Hypocrisy_Meter_03-21-07.png"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373232401899140418" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 455px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 327px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYuEA9vb6V93nXs-ZE8e_Nyl4au8wWnmNnP9KZO6zPtpsa5P6j1XH6us0EvgCJfZ_yXX6BFdwyAnUq_7ry7HvSc1sNNHQw9ZL_F1X-tKmQqXBBDHFDcaZKu31eDmUDF7GT58nlJCNTxq5M/s400/Hypocrisy_Meter_03-21-07.png" border="0" /></a>The continuing processes of looking at hate-sites and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">agenda</span>-based blogs has brought out in me a level of expectations. The usual format is now common-place with misquotes, mixed with mostly right-wing politics and the often well-written but still misguided and questionably motivated blame that Islam is the evil in this world.<br /><br />It is with this expectation that coming the Winds of Change blog by <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">sheikyermami</span> is such a great <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">disappointment</span>! As mentioned in my postings before, here we have the master of unoriginality and in fact the question is given to why it exists in the first place.<br /><br />The blog <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">owner</span> does not come up with items himself but copies the works of others - we can only assume because it will make his own blog look a bit more better than it really is. His postings are rather <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">mouthing</span> off when he actually does attempt to write himself and he makes wild allegations and mixes them with pretty poor history examples.<br /><br />I took him to task a few times over his understanding of history. He goes under the basis that everything and anything touched by Islam is and must be backwards and thus he found it unacceptable to contemplate facts and events that tell us otherwise. He chose to pick on the history of Al <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Andalus</span> and quoted the failed academic Spencer whom is detested by the academic world. When I pointed out that Al <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Andalus</span> at times during its 800 year existence in the south of Iberia was the most <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">culturally</span> advanced community in Europe - he attempted to defend the <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">indefensible</span>. His constant and <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">irrational</span> attempt to prove otherwise by quoting subjects like slavery and events in the 11<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">th</span> century as evidence was laughable to say the least. Of course there were events in every nation that were dark hours and quoting one period out of 800 years is not a cheap shot but an academic and intellectual failure. "<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">sheikyermami</span>" in fact had tried to copy the style of Robert Spencer and did a piss poor job of it. Spencer being the master of making accurate quotes and descriptions of events but ensuring that he <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">chooses</span> out a long history only those that suit his point (and carefully avoiding those more numerous events that would prove otherwise).<br /><br />The blog-owner obviously became rather afraid that his non-serious but ugly Islam bashing and hate-mongering was being pointed out and thus more and more avoided answering directly any points I made - knowing well enough that he had failed. But he made some rather stupid <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">accusations</span> and I would not let him lose on it.<br /><br />He tried to falsely accuse me of avoiding his own questions - that did not exist. He sort of asked a non-serious one and since I did not answer he stated "<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">Solkhar</span> did not answer my 10 questions!". Going through the entire blog, there was no ten questions so I said give them to me. No such thing, eventually a "question 2" <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">occurred</span>. So much for the <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16">existence</span> of the now infamous 10. In fact he later remarked on the Question no.4 posting (yep he is still trying) that he acknowledges and thanks those that have contributed possible questions, confirming that of course the original 10 did not exist.<br /><br />He made one <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17">accusation</span> on Islam that I decided to take him to task on and not let go, knowing full well that he would rather have me cut from posting than answer. He stated that the Jihad (Jihad <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18">al</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19">Sghrir</span>) is an integral part of Islamic doctrine and that all Muslims must support it and to do otherwise is <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20">apostasy</span> or <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21">heresy</span>. So I returned the favour and asked him the question and told him that I will not answer his invisible and still not existing 10 questions on Islam until he answers me. So I asked:<br /><br />"Where in the official <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_22">institutions</span> of Islam, such as the Five Schools of Islam, is there support, declaring of or sanction any Jihad?". Before I asked that question he tried to quote individual clerics, mostly radicals whom at various times mentioned the word Jihad. When pointing that out, he did the usual squirm and talked about violence in Pakistan or the like.<br /><br />He will not answer that question because he will avoid denying that he simply lied to support his no-holds-barred mouth-off on Islam. It is a sign of <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_23">unprofessionally</span> and I simply am <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_24">disappointed</span>, considering how cheap and nasty his blog is compared to others whom at least try and be smart about their hate-mongering.<br /><br />A D- is given in this instance because frankly speaking the quality and content are shit.<br /><br /><strong><em><span style="font-size:85%;">As a footnote, he has come up with the "I set the conditions for you to post here, Solkhar, not you." Plus added the threat "From now on I will delete any and every post of yours unless you answer the 5 questions I posted for you. Give it your best shot or take your camel and ride!" which is the confirmation that he will avoid answering and not tolerate anyone pointing out what a hypocrit he is. He not only sets nothing but flooding his blog with hate-rhetoric but also allows Christian prosthelitizing along with it.</span></em></strong>Solkharhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12445656162108723757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2658989199537315433.post-59633299716508031602009-08-15T18:37:00.003+01:002009-08-15T20:24:38.525+01:00The marriage of religious radicalism with militancy and when it failsI have spoken before about the theory that the current explosion of radicalism and terrorism comes from the horrid marriage between radical and extremist Islam and militancy. These events of 1978 in Iran had created an excuse for every radical cleric to search for a militant force willing to follow it. The catastrophic merge and its success also created fear amongst those countries with a strong radical presence, such as Saudi Arabia and Sudan to capitulate to its own radical clerics with results that are still dominating its society and also producing the backbone of terrorists as well as some of the worse terrorists themselves.<br /><br />But that marriage is a costly one and both parties have to give something and sacrifice others. In the case of the Iranian Revolution, the militants that became the Revolutionary Guards that still control much of the security infrastructure of Iran to this day were not always just subservient slaves to the founder Ayatollah Khomeini. During those very first days of that event, the revolutionaries stormed the United States Embassy in Tehran and that was not at the order of the Supreme Leader, in fact he was angry and tried to have it cancelled. As we all now know the story well, he wanted to stop this infringement of International Law and he feared the legitimacy of the Islamic Revolution was now at doubt but when he witnessed the support and anti-American sentiment amongst the crowds (and that it had already occurred) that it was impossible to back-down. Most certainly though, Khomeini recognized that the newly named Revolutionary Guard was a power to be reckoned with, or to put it another way – he was stuck with them as much as they were with him.<br /><br />We have witnessed now in present day Islamic Republic of Iran that the current President is a former member of the Revolutionary Guard – and was one of those that stormed the US Embassy. His revolutionary rhetoric is classic, somewhat like that of Saddam Hussein’s phrases that are certainly only important for domestic consumption targeting the bulk of the less literate population that is the backbone of support. Thus when in an international audience is listening in or gathered around him there is an instant clash and confusion to what is being said or to be blunt, sounds ludicrous and stupid.<br /><br />But this image should not be played too lightly, he is an important figure with a great deal of power and he represents that ever present factor in current Iranian power – the Revolutionary Guards. Even now the current Supreme Leader is obviously not happy with the rather clumsy international Statesmanship of the President but is not willing to deal with him, even though he has the option of more moderate but still patriotic and pro-theological politicians such as former Presidents.<br /><br />The above examples is how the union between radical religious groups and revolutionary militants is not always simple marital bliss, now we will see a recent example of how a militant group has rejected the marriage proposal of a radical religious group – because they are not needed.<br /><br />Yesterday’s announcement by the radical <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Jund</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Ansar</span> Allah Cleric and founder Abdel-<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Latif</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Moussa</span> in <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Rafah</span> (<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Hamas</span> controlled Gaza Strip) of a declaration of an Islamic Emirate and Shari’a Law resulted in a gun-battle by <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Hamas</span> killing the Cleric and 21 other supporters. Why?<br /><br />Simply put there was no need by the militants to declare God is on their side as they were already on in power and they have an infrastructure. To add to that, they are now over the phase of gaining control “no-matter-what” and are now in the phase of trying to legitimize their status. Thus it is not only a bad move to side with radicals of the religious side but they want to show that they are in control and the authority, not seeking to introduce a new one. That is why <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">Hamas</span> is no friend of most other militant groups connected to religious ideologies – such as Al <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">Qaeda</span>.<br /><br />Another way to look at it and coming back to the main principle of this theory – they are not religious – though they may claim it anyhow, but are in fact a radical political militant group.<br /><br />Either way, we see the birth of an interesting situation, a terrorist-linked militant group not only refusing to join the marriage game with a radical and extreme religious group but attacking it based on recognition that such unions are literally a “marriage made in hell”.Solkharhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12445656162108723757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2658989199537315433.post-69539959617822388052009-08-15T14:59:00.003+01:002009-08-15T15:07:21.307+01:00The Bigot Word and the Taqqiya Escape Clause<div align="justify"><span style="font-size:130%;">I noticed on a far right-wing blog site the following phrase to try and defend against the now regular use of the accusation of Bigotry.</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size:130%;"><em><strong><span style="color:#000066;">“The left should be warned: The libelous smear of racism has lost its sting. If everything is racism, then nothing is. The charge has lost its power. The more that leftists pull this evil trick, the more folks will shrug.”</span></strong></em><br /></div></span><span style="font-size:130%;"></span><div align="justify"><span style="font-size:130%;">Perhaps the word is overused by the leftists in their battles against them, but I certainly have seen many bigoted statements against Muslims and Islam in general.</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size:130%;">I thought of something though, the <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">incredible</span> use of the word "<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">taqqiya</span>" as being an escape clause by far right-wingers (whom are classic text-book bigots) that any response given by a Muslim is a well planned lie or "<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">taqqiya</span>". I bet you most Muslims, even native Arabic speakers would not even know that word means.</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size:130%;">Thus, using the above format, I put on that blog site the comment below:</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#000066;"><strong><em>“The far-right should be warned: The libelous escape clause of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">taqqiya</span> has lost its sting. If every response is <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">taqqiya</span>, then nothing is. The excuse has no value and is diminishing. The more that agenda based far-rightists pull this evil trick, the more folks will laugh for what rubbish it is”.</em></strong></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size:130%;">..</span></div>Solkharhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12445656162108723757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2658989199537315433.post-62263589216731866222009-08-15T12:55:00.003+01:002009-08-15T13:09:22.774+01:00War Crimes, Attrocities, Blame and the IDF-Gaza Issue<div><p align="justify">This morning I read a well put article by Petra <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Marquardt</span>-<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Bigman</span> called "Israel responds to war crimes allegations", on the Harry's Place <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">blog site</span>. It identifies and critiques the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">IDF</span> report and response and perhaps that is correct, but I think there is a bigger picture and I <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">expressed</span> it as a comment. Here it is.....</p></div><div>.. <div><br /></div><p align="justify"><em>The item by Petra <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Marquardt</span>-<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Bigman</span> is very well presented and correct in all its reporting and I commend it.<br />Having said that, it shows how as another mentioned, the international processes are not geared towards insurgency, revolution, terrorism and the like.<br />There is no doubt that civilians were <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">targeted</span>, illegal weapons were used, brutalities and murders had <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">occurred</span> by <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">IDF</span> forces and there is also no doubt that the Israeli people are subjected to bombings, rocket attacks, threats of violence by organized militant groups and more. All are not only without doubt, they are documented.<br />The problem is dealing with it, or not. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1ONIIVPUPBOvNnd7m5um37MGexZMn20nlaEGvtJzQyS8PDb3mZQDVyz2Fr06O5OpXfqTGdjTkImPuFSF7K0fKzec4s6hNL1SboN6gDfeTdjD2hya3HYu_S8B-o9GYyr_3M6-GkaRZFKEf/s1600-h/settlersavagery19o7imemc.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370160735639942818" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 274px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 164px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1ONIIVPUPBOvNnd7m5um37MGexZMn20nlaEGvtJzQyS8PDb3mZQDVyz2Fr06O5OpXfqTGdjTkImPuFSF7K0fKzec4s6hNL1SboN6gDfeTdjD2hya3HYu_S8B-o9GYyr_3M6-GkaRZFKEf/s400/settlersavagery19o7imemc.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />War is brutal, deadly - that is a reality. Since the onset of open media, journalism, the video camera and now the mobile phone and <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">Internet</span> reporting the realities that happen in war, we are now all aware of what is happening. This started during the Vietnam War and since then war has become unpopular and ugly and every act has been scrutinized, judged and condemned and every military and their government has been trying to <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">suppress</span> it. This has not been altered.<br />Again, the question is the problem of dealing with it or not.<br />The proof is that a military <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">exercises</span> has victims, the target may be a legitimate military but often enough it is civilian or civilian infrastructure. The <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">targeting</span> of the Taliban in Afghanistan and P</p><p align="left"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1qFs_0MuOWeMVcun2VPE8U28LWa6xEoUPmq8nDDdaIEXkM4rSLtDaUnCB9axoqeYc_pL6JO4YsseF_VN_bsShkxkrBYUtvlbTLqJYTL7b7KTDkPzjou83sd9kLmZVX13Ac4nz8UJ_SY5q/s1600-h/orthodoxjewparking.bmp"></a> </p><p align="justify">akistan by drones has been successful militarily but the civilian targets are politically a failure. The sending of thousands of troops into a zone to fight and occupy, particularly when the enemy are indistinguishable from the civilians, results in frustration and anger by the troops and indiscriminate killings will certainly follow and you see that everywhere.<br />So these are difficult realities but there are those that can be worked on, <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">targeted</span> as unacceptable and this should be perhaps the focus.<br />There are instigators and politicians that provoke the <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">targeting</span> of peoples and if combined with military force ensures the <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16">atrocities</span> and there are military forces that are driven by <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRIcGXLq64NeLHkSh0ALEMJup6rPu3PwrVPPiudDorVoV3x7Kgo7PSkM9tEeWYbKllgWqLHZnDs9tZDCIYO5cwLno2tswpB5GLDEayJ-5OeehTqBaFewylq07yUMkz8Zxl2gr5OvHMU3TN/s1600-h/karadzic-en-mladic.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370160742960298210" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 289px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 168px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRIcGXLq64NeLHkSh0ALEMJup6rPu3PwrVPPiudDorVoV3x7Kgo7PSkM9tEeWYbKllgWqLHZnDs9tZDCIYO5cwLno2tswpB5GLDEayJ-5OeehTqBaFewylq07yUMkz8Zxl2gr5OvHMU3TN/s400/karadzic-en-mladic.jpg" border="0" /></a>ideologies, radicals and extremists that are capable of anything. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17">Rawanda</span> and Bosnia are perfect examples as is what is happening in <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18">Darfur</span>. By making the politicians, <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19">ideologues</span> and rogue generals responsible, the <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20">targeting</span> of war criminals is <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21">easily</span> achieved and will go a far way towards distinguishing between the ugly realities of war and the deliberate horrors of crime through the deliberate use of the ugliness of war.<br />Terrorist groups, such as Al <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_22">Qaeda</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_23">Hamas</span> and Hezbollah have crossed the line a multitude of times and its leadership are respon<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1qFs_0MuOWeMVcun2VPE8U28LWa6xEoUPmq8nDDdaIEXkM4rSLtDaUnCB9axoqeYc_pL6JO4YsseF_VN_bsShkxkrBYUtvlbTLqJYTL7b7KTDkPzjou83sd9kLmZVX13Ac4nz8UJ_SY5q/s1600-h/orthodoxjewparking.bmp"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370160728019090498" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 310px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 231px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1qFs_0MuOWeMVcun2VPE8U28LWa6xEoUPmq8nDDdaIEXkM4rSLtDaUnCB9axoqeYc_pL6JO4YsseF_VN_bsShkxkrBYUtvlbTLqJYTL7b7KTDkPzjou83sd9kLmZVX13Ac4nz8UJ_SY5q/s400/orthodoxjewparking.bmp" border="0" /></a>sible. The issue of the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_24">IDF</span> force should not so much be about the individual <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_25">actions</span> on the battle-field but how much of that was simple military brutality but what was organized and provoked from within - how much of it was political and by whom?<br /></p></em><div><br /><br /><br /></div><div align="justify"></div></div>Solkharhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12445656162108723757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2658989199537315433.post-18540268072516405452009-08-13T17:11:00.004+01:002009-08-13T17:43:50.116+01:00The tour of anti-Islamic sites continues - so does the banning....<div align="justify"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkNiuqK849He7o5rvv2FA08ChSpmsz8wfTK3BOebWKZl-x7MrLwNGzTWHgD50knEyilBVnDiRF5eJXB_DFEoNAbjSVrXWHOg-bH__wYZpMzMFoXIFxLlEccvZQVNnV0GKibl4OUXsgXsJS/s1600-h/BigotWarning2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369489261648270178" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 285px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 122px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkNiuqK849He7o5rvv2FA08ChSpmsz8wfTK3BOebWKZl-x7MrLwNGzTWHgD50knEyilBVnDiRF5eJXB_DFEoNAbjSVrXWHOg-bH__wYZpMzMFoXIFxLlEccvZQVNnV0GKibl4OUXsgXsJS/s400/BigotWarning2.jpg" border="0" /></a> I previously mentioned a blogger known as "<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">sheikyermami</span>". He rather thinks of him/herself as some form of expert on a moral <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">crusade</span> to fight Islam and in reality just a cut & paste <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">exercise</span> using the works of others. He is a self-confessed friend and admirer of Robert Spencer - the would-be anti-Islam saviour of America whom created Jihad-Watch.<br /></div><div align="justify">This blogger thinks he knows history but rather believes what he thinks it should be rather than its reality. He wrote an item about Al <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Andalus</span>, quoting Spencer's distortions and though I can commend him for blindly supporting his friend and mentor, he laughingly <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">embarrasses</span> himself constantly defending non-<span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">existent</span> history. Spencer has left him in the lurch so to speak.<br /></div><div align="justify">Spencer argued against recognised academics whom referred to the important periods of Al <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Andalus</span> (Arab Iberia) that lasted 800 years and of course Spencer attacked it citing events in the 11<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">th</span> century as proof. Note only some events out of 800 years! No historian or academic would ever <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">embarrass</span> himself in doing so, unless he is a <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">propagandist</span> with an agenda such as Spencer. Thus when identifying this, the blog-owner in question will flatly deny the historical events and when pressed changes the subject. In this case, the blogger changed it to the Ottomans, a bad move as it is a favourite subject of mine, not to mention being posted there. Wild comments about Ottoman laws and the abuse of Jews and Christians making it out as systematic and binding administrative, <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">coordinated</span> abuse (he tried and failed on that one about Al <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">Andalus</span>) all fell flat when I gave him a lesson on Ottoman <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">jurisprudence</span> and its system. But the entire point was like his beloved mentor Spencer, he quoted an event by a single source and counted as proof of the entire period. No one doubts how horrid and ugly history has been as well as how inspiring it was - it is after all "history" and it takes no sides. The point I make is that there is no problem making statements and identifying events - but do not lie. </div><br /><br /><br /><div align="justify">The blogger "<a href="http://www.sheikyermami.com/" rel="external nofollow"></a><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">sheikyermami</span>" admitted that the "We are the wake-up call. Resisting Islam, raising awareness and demanding a reversal of Mohammedan immigration is self-preservation and a sacred duty for every non-<span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">Muslim</span>. " and that says it all, he has an agenda that is very questionable and ugly, as ugly as radical, extremist Muslims. </div><br /><div align="justify">My last post is now under "awaiting moderation" which means probably he has not the balls to post it, so to not lose the item I have posted it below, I expect to be banned from his blog as well. He and another agenda based <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">commenter</span> laughed when I used the word "music" arguing that there is no music in Islam and the Muslim World, and to back up the point, the blogger tried to pull the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16">Hadith</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17">Qursi</span> items.... as if he is now an expert on Islamic Studies. I should give him the web addresses of the hundreds of Music Video <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18">Satellite</span> stations and magazines........ .</div><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;color:#000066;"><strong>"Two issues there Dear Blogger, I noticed rather than take up points that I <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19">correctly</span> make you carefully change them and avoid the <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20">subject</span> of history altogether to come back to the same theme of the events of today, and I was not aware that you dislike my attempt to put lipstick on your snout?? Sorry, I am not a native English speaker and have no idea what that meant.<br /><br />There is no need to proclaim each time events of history and then <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21">ignore</span> them later on when returned. The Turks committed a genocide against the Armenians and though they like to not admit it, they will and are coming to terms with that rather like the British are still coming to grips with the genocide of the Tasmanian Aboriginals. Yep history is an ugly thing, that is the first thing one learns and placing them as examples for justification for modern behaviour simply does not stick – but then any academic or someone who respects history and politics knows that.<br /><br />I stand by the history that I have given, go seek a real academic and not your beloved Spencer and you will see the <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_22">difference</span>, I do not play up to cut & paste portions, I look at the history as a whole. I acknowledge both the ugly and stupidities of all in history as well as the events that should be admired.<br /><br />Calling me a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_23">jihadist</span> is the funniest of all, I guess that is the sign of an self-admitted anti-Islam <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_24">crusader</span> with a “sacred duty”, when I have spent a good part of my life fighting them. You may have forgotten that I am involved in the tracking of terrorism-financing here in North Africa (mostly by the way via counterfeiting of products for Hezbollah’s battle against Israel) and I have a portion of my right wrist scared for life because of a radical’s letter bomb when I was posted in Jakarta – so your rather obnoxious taunt falls more than flat. Your pipe dream that every Muslim lives in tents and plans jihad is just that and because of that view, you have played into the real radical and militant <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_25">Islamist</span>’s hands by alienating all Muslims.<br /><br />As for your putting <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_26">Hadith</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_27">Qudsi</span>, so what? Are you again trying to put the references of the 7<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_28">th</span> century and considering them <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_29">obligatory</span> for today, does that make you the radical extremist? Why is it that if you put Saudi, Sudanese, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_30">Lybian</span> or even Iranian television you will find music played? Why is it that Al <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_31">Andalus</span> established religious singing and harmonics? Perhaps it is you who wishes to believe that radicalism and extremism is correct and blinding ignore what real Muslims believe and accept because it makes your rantings <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_32">irrelevant</span> and falling flat.<br /><br />Just so you know, to the average non-radical or <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_33">extremist</span> Muslim, the messages from <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_34">Hadith</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_35">Qudsi</span> is very clear, that during the time of the Prophet, entertainment was placed far above faith and devotion and thus at that time he outlawed it. So the average Muslim knows that he can love, adore and enjoy Music, even find devotion to God through it, but when it comes to <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_36">religious</span> obligations, it is not something of importance in comparison. My 5yr old son knows this, but <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_37">aparantly</span> Western right-wingers do not.<br /><br />I was booted off <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_38">GoV</span> for two reasons, the first because I was monitoring them and reporting on it, that I had never denied and second because in the end they did not like the fact that a Muslim was on their blog for a long period and it provoked the bigots and racists that were there and contribute regularly.<br /><br /><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_39">GoV</span> does deserve credit for trying to moderate this bunch of fanatics and for attempting to put as much original material and arguments as possible. I do not care about their political right-wing views or agendas as long as it does not include bigotry or lies.<br /><br />This is frankly were you fall flat on your arse each time. Apart from your subservience to Spencer and using Jihad-Watch as some imaginary authority – like your Islam and Science item above – you come out with items such as your crossed-the-line of <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_40">dignity</span> item on Islam and Females (now closed) that was just a cut & paste dump of agenda based BS and pornographic items.<br /><br />I suggest you stop <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_41">embarrassing</span> yourself in trying to pretend to be sophisticated and educated in your postings when in fact you have failed in both. Your agenda is now self-confessed and your take on the reality of the past and present is more than obvious, it stands out and is smacking you in the back of the head. "</strong></span></em><br /><br /><br /><br /><div align="justify"></div><br /><br /><br /><div align="justify">..</div>Solkharhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12445656162108723757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2658989199537315433.post-85277876535784981602009-08-11T00:48:00.004+01:002009-08-11T01:20:11.352+01:00FGM and the right-wing agenda profitting from it<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFBbY2Orod3QL-xpw8bLoS3GMlmTwTifLionIGOv57gAzYNj1nVrAv0YTfY_YXA8VmI-5_taTS3zCCVi4_pW5lFJR796n6gJ2CQGLEg_R5bwxLwA1BTRmlnRKrX9aDqCl7_eKa4UKAocrf/s1600-h/stopFGM.gif"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368493467363126706" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 330px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 132px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFBbY2Orod3QL-xpw8bLoS3GMlmTwTifLionIGOv57gAzYNj1nVrAv0YTfY_YXA8VmI-5_taTS3zCCVi4_pW5lFJR796n6gJ2CQGLEg_R5bwxLwA1BTRmlnRKrX9aDqCl7_eKa4UKAocrf/s400/stopFGM.gif" border="0" /></a><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">FGM</span> or Female Genital Mutilation is a horrible tribal/cultural habit done in many parts of the world, but mostly in Sub-Saharan Africa and were those communities are linked to.<br /><div align="justify"></div><br /><div align="justify">Though now illegal in most parts of the world, it is a back-door event done in secrecy by those whom do not know better and supported by radicals who want to keep control over the female population. That this is done in many Muslim countries, it is also done by Christians and <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">animists</span> in the same regions.</div><br /><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify">Radical and extremist <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Islamists</span> proclaim that it is <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Sunna</span> (the way of the Prophet) and thus Islamic, though it is not mentioned in the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Qur'an</span> or by the most accepted of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">haddiths</span>. Certainly it is this radical link to ensuring the tribal customs are followed - simply because it keeps control over the population and especially by keeping women locked in the <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">house</span> with no rights and no education. That is why they support the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">burqa</span>, the <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">veil</span> as well as child marriage, wife beating and threats of stoning. All <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">unacceptable</span> by the vast majority of Muslims around the world.</div><br /><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify">I noticed the right-wing <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">bloggers</span> trying to profit from the link to radicals, claiming instantly and like a pronouncement that <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">FGM</span> is Islamic, catching on to the claims by the most radical member of the Al-<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">Azhar</span> university, someone whom also supports the terrorism, destruction of Israel and all the Jews in it and other radical hate-filled rhetoric.</div><br /><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify">The blogger known as <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">Sheikyermami</span> came out with his usual BS and anti-Islamic ranting (mostly copied from other blogs and not actually very imaginative), made such an article.</div><br /><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify">Stating items that came out all over the anti-Islam sites about Cleric <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">Farahat</span> Said Al-<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">Munji's</span> statements on television on 10 May 2007 claiming that it is <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16">Sunna</span> and proscribed. The right-wingers must have loved that making the most of the statement in their blogging rants.</div><br /><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify">What they all ignored was that ........ well let me show you what I posted.</div><br /><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"><em><strong>Al-<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17">Munji</span> declared on 10 May 2007 that it is <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18">Sunnah</span>. He is only one of many clerics of Al-<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19">Azhar</span> and a known radical.<br />What the report did not say was that a month later on 14 June 2007 (a month later) the Grand-Mufti of Egypt, Ali <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20">Goum</span> announced that: “… this custom is prohibited”.<br />Al-<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21">Munji</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_22">arleady</span> had knowledge of this edict by the Mufti and in fact by his boss <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_23">Mohammed</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_24">Sayed</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_25">Tantawi</span> the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_26">Shiek</span> of Al-<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_27">Azhar</span>. It was made clear at a 2006 international conference:<br />“TARGET, a German human rights group, sponsored a conference on <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_28">FGM</span> in Cairo, Egypt. Muslim scholars from many nations attended. At the conclusion of the conference on 2006-NOV-24, their final statement declared <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_29">FGM</span> to be contrary to Islam, an attack on women, and a practice that should be criminalized:<br />“The conference appeals to all Muslims to stop practicing this habit, according to Islam’s teachings which prohibit inflicting harm on any human being. … The conference reminds all teaching and media institutions of their role to explain to the people the harmful effects of this habit in order to eliminate it. … The conference calls on judicial institutions to issue laws that prohibit and criminalize this habit … which appeared in several societies and was adopted by some Muslims although it is not sanctioned by the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_30">Qur</span>’an or the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_31">Sunna</span>.”<br />According to The Age online news source:<br />“Egypt’s two top Islamic clerics, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_32">Mohammed</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_33">Sayed</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_34">Tantawi</span>, the Grand Sheik of Al-<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_35">Azhar</span>, the foremost theological institute in the Sunni Muslim world, and Grand Mufti Ali <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_36">Gomaa</span>, attended the conference, which drew scholars from as far afield as Russia. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_37">Tantawi</span>’s and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_38">Gomaa</span>’s edicts are considered binding. </strong></em></div><br /><div align="justify"></div><br /><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify">Of course the responses from the blogger and some side-kick was "who cares". None of the responses from the blogger or the item in question was about supporting the effort to fight the practice, rather just condemn the entire faith of 1.6 billion people because they have the agenda to discredit and destroy Islam. The blogger went so far as to say that no Muslim<strong><em><span style="font-size:180%;">*</span></em></strong> country convicts those that do it, even though it is not only illegal but a cirminal offense here in Morocco with Sub-Saharan's being imprisoned or expelled (including diplomats) for the practice. The practice is not popular here with only some nomadic Saharans doing so. I recently watched an item on Egypt that suffers a great deal from the FGM practice that a number of women were not only imprisoned but their photos are now on posters in the southern regions of the country to remind everyone the penalty.</div><br /><div align="justify"></div><br /><div align="justify"><em>(<strong><span style="font-size:180%;">* </span></strong><span style="font-size:85%;">The blogger cannot actually say the word Muslim as he thinks that Islam is a Mohammed worshipping personality even though Muslims pray to God rather than many Christians whom pray to Christ or His Mother and thus the name Christian comes out. Also Muslims make a thing about personality and image worship as being haram and Mohammed 'peace be upon Him' made it clear that he was only a human and a servant of God. As the Prophet is the Messenger, we state that "There is no God but Allah and that Mohammed is His Messenger, a sub-servient role and no confussion with God</span> ).</em></div><br /><div align="justify"></div>.<br /><div align="justify"></div><br /><div align="justify"></div><br /><div align="justify"></div>Solkharhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12445656162108723757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2658989199537315433.post-38562206758571998722009-08-07T19:50:00.005+01:002009-08-07T20:47:21.408+01:00Excellent Holidays & Expected Radical Fishing Results<div align="justify">Hi all, back from my lovely holiday in <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Agadir</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Tiznit</span> and region. It was damn hot with the "<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Chirgui</span>" or Sahara Desert Winds that when it strikes can make the <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">temperature</span> go up to <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">over</span> 50 degrees, but anyway, most of the time I was between the swimming pool and the hotels air-conditioned <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">restaurant</span> or secluded corners of the lobby.</div><br /><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify">It was during these cool quiet times that I spent my continued investigations into anti-Islamic websites to further understand the mind-set of these people.</div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367309105039274066" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 117px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhWVlnC8vV1_LC7zsenq_VMZzhpVK5iJSoAM7IacDy8CRIqbTjwdXtxc8z88ui9JmlkxCdPWbGWBuuTjxYyHEjrkNro1f-kar5txEK1Z8PCQX3rSxS8C53YzOlk1gi_75R1-WuiRZxxvYk/s400/vienna0.gif" border="0" /><br /><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify">The target for this time was the Gates of Vienna blog (<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">GoV</span>) and to give the blog credit, it is a well run blog with good conduct rules. The two blog-owners known as Baron <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">Bodissey</span> and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">Dymphna</span> do a pretty good job of running the show.</div><br /><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify">I jumped in with my standard objective and rule - point out factual errors, direct bigoted statements and pointing out the obvious - Islam and its core principles defined the Holy <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">Qur'an</span> are fine but the behaviour of radicals and extremists (as with all religions) are evil and destructive and they should be the target.</div><br /><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify">The results were mostly as expected and because of the good control, the hard-core bigots within took their time to start the personal attacks. Mind you some of them were from other blogs whom I have had run-ins before. </div><br /><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify">Unlike other blogs such as <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">Lambeth</span> Walk, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">GoV</span> places items on the examples of radical and militant <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">Islamists</span> and leave it to the <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">commenters</span> to do the dirty bigotry in trying to tarnish the entire faith.</div><br /><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify">Also unlike other blogs, a good portion of the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">GoV</span> items are far-right political postings - something that frankly speaking is not of interest to me. If anything, the blog is just another confirmation that there is an obvious link between the far-right with bigotry and ultra-nationalism whom will by default be anti-Islamic.</div><br /><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify">Justice has to be done to a number of posters whom though obviously right leaning, I had good discussions with. One such discussion about Turkish politics and the issue of the Armenian Genocide was enjoyable with the person in question asking smart questions. My own experiences from being posted to that country for two years and managing the Turkish Desk helped clarify some points. </div><br /><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify">It was not long though before the personal attacks and baiting started from those hard-core bigots - whom objected being identified as such even though their references were text-book bigotry (thus as the saying goes - if the shoe fits!).</div><br /><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify">In the end, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">Dymphna</span> was getting sick of the domination of the topic <strong>(that I did not create nor start)</strong> and rather than halt the bigotry - blamed me for dominating and <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16">proselytizing</span>, obviously false <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17">accusations</span> and she gave me an official warning. Ironically it was the same time that another poster took the initiative of posting my item on this blog about watching <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18">GoV</span> - something that I have not hid.</div><div align="justify"></div><br /><div align="justify">So I am now banned and condemned with ludicrous assumptions which I find funny and using the typical language of those feeling a bit of guilt in what they do. Sort of to justify their hard-line stance that in the end is indefensible.</div><br /><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify">So somehow I was there seeking converts - something that I <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19">in fact</span> hate - a faith should be able to stand on its own legs and attract those by its principles and the behaviour of its followers. Selling sort of cheapens things.... as they say.</div><div align="justify"></div><br /><div align="justify">I am now a "typical" Muslim whom is there to do ...... whatever that means.</div><br /><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify">The self-styled "Baron" thinks that somehow he was proving a point and I was attempting to deny it - the popular method of playing with words because they cannot or are unwilling to look further than what suits their goals. He argued that the examples of horrors committed by radicals and militants are by default a sign of Islamic principles and I showed him otherwise. That he cannot respond - he argues that I am ignoring the events and not condemning them, even though I had done so time and time again. </div><br /><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify">What I have also noticed by the most bigoted - <strong><em>the "Baron" and "<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20">Dymphna</span>" by the way have not themselves shown bigotry </em></strong>- is that they will use the great "escape clause" of claiming <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21">Taqiyya</span>. I find that the most funny of all, considering that I live in and have extensively travelled the Muslim world, that term is not used if not understood by almost all of the Muslim population on the planet. Only theological students, clerics and non-Muslim right-wing extremists ever utter such phrases. The same goes with the desire for a Caliphate. I have learnt very quickly over these months studying the anti-Islam community out there - if they mentioned <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_22">Taqiyya</span>, they will refuse whatever answer you give them and any questions are a trap.</div><br /><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify">The most interesting thing I learnt is how people can build themselves into a frenzy over the concept of Shari'a and this Caliphate threat.</div><br /><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify">Obviously the anti-Islam websites, rumours and other sources are carefully filling in the completely wrong statement that Shari'a exists throughout the Muslim World and will be demanded and attempt to take over the rest of the world.</div><br /><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify">So when I point out that the reality is completely different - that in fact most Muslim countries in the world do not have Shari'a Courts and some have mixed Secular and only Shari'a for family law - they simply thought I was making it up. I guess they know better than the rest of the world and those living it - <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_23">because</span> someone told them.</div><br /><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify">I will have to continue investigating the issue and problem of how this view of Shari'a and somehow the world will face the demand of a Caliphate - even though the Muslim World is not interested - comes about. </div><br /><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify">Much of it is clear though, it is that the radicals in the West are often more radical than those elsewhere and that is a serious problem.</div><br /><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify">Take care all, the investigations continue.....</div><div align="justify"> </div><div align="justify"> </div><div align="justify"><em><span style="font-size:85%;color:#660000;"><strong>(a footnote, I do not apologize to GoV for the study, it was clear if anyone had read my blog and I had a goal. I find GoV not that offensive like others but typical in some aspects - the "we support Israel" emblem and the photo and supportive banner for Geert Wilders, frankly puts down what would be a well presented and simply strong-right blog).</strong></span></em></div><div align="justify"><em><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></em> </div><div align="justify"><em><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></em> </div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify">.</div>Solkharhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12445656162108723757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2658989199537315433.post-4851502325002975492009-07-25T16:21:00.005+01:002009-07-25T17:08:39.884+01:00On holiday but still watching - as bigotry does not stop for holidays<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiurbVH688UCI-u5l0MrzzCGgpXbS373psls6n4hrGH3HG4mm9goeoMNQ7NuGyamxbWPKN9LCEP7KL3HiiITiDpifpJ0pIQxziiBkrrtPQG9ej-r_7zb8JvyfRBoNHCFImsq_itW4Uhd5YD/s1600-h/blogbannerplainTEXT22&11(2).jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5362430183401768530" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 66px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiurbVH688UCI-u5l0MrzzCGgpXbS373psls6n4hrGH3HG4mm9goeoMNQ7NuGyamxbWPKN9LCEP7KL3HiiITiDpifpJ0pIQxziiBkrrtPQG9ej-r_7zb8JvyfRBoNHCFImsq_itW4Uhd5YD/s200/blogbannerplainTEXT22&11(2).jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>Hi all, I am on holidays in <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Agadir</span> (South Morocco) and enjoying myself way to much. That does not mean I have been off the net but certainly limiting it.<br /><br />Today I took a look at the bigoted, racist and down-right <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">neo</span>-<span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Fascists</span> out there that continue there garbage, it did not take long.<br /><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Lambeth</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Walk's</span> low-life certainly has not changed, regardless of his claims of <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">innocence</span>.<br /><br />He loves to put on the blog label the word Islam with those that have an Ali or <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Mohammed</span> as a name even though the article he cites has no reference to <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">religious</span> activity. Of course an item about a probable Christian being posted as was done also on the same blog has no such label - showing his intentions. I told him his <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">singling</span> out makes for text-book bigotry - he did not justify it and of course his solution was to chop my post.<br /><br />On another thread, a terrible and disgusting case of rape of two girls by an elderly man - yep a person of Bangladesh <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">descent</span> and a Muslim was labelled as an item on Islam and the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">neo</span>-<span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">fascist</span> poster Dr.D was allowed that openly referred to all Muslims as "sex obsesses", "animals" and much, much more (<strong><em>remember he is the one on the post preceding this one that says all Muslims must be deported and if they resist - killed</em></strong>).<br /><br />Pointing that out - my post was cut, not his.<br /><br />The blogger of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">Lambeth</span> Walk continues to ensure his keeping the title - "low-lif<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpJSXVoV0-WqOtBXUtyjX4zzqy-Kqp1kHjFBNXFlIyvsY97FeC78jHNFyWFal_2R0EeP7cp6F3B4fAwu3tFWVSMp91cllnldZp1xZhrUKYXM92f62sLtWu-gf5qFy6tfOCmGl7YUkwmda6/s1600-h/Hypocrisy_Meter_03-21-07.png"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5362421612494672754" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 137px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpJSXVoV0-WqOtBXUtyjX4zzqy-Kqp1kHjFBNXFlIyvsY97FeC78jHNFyWFal_2R0EeP7cp6F3B4fAwu3tFWVSMp91cllnldZp1xZhrUKYXM92f62sLtWu-gf5qFy6tfOCmGl7YUkwmda6/s200/Hypocrisy_Meter_03-21-07.png" border="0" /></a>e" with the confirmation of bigotry.<br /><br />Two more weeks of holiday but I have some items that I will post on my exchanges with the Gates of Vienna blog - they will be interesting.</div>Solkharhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12445656162108723757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2658989199537315433.post-20219523183941354952009-07-10T20:12:00.005+01:002009-07-10T20:38:14.322+01:00Lambeth Walk Low-Life - Supporting calling it Illegal to be a Muslim (and worse!)<div align="left"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCYrPV1u4OqpAX6cKPK1DgxNuUd8umIVl8PvHcsuMfN071zN9KHm4LRLN7H02oRZ9R4Fl-S65NMZVPLVfuPHR5AxIhsgZQ7vPCkzEJsqUswJ4nP_RBMdgq02EXo7QlZMXnl4iDzM74V59g/s1600-h/34s.jpg"><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc0000;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5356916495832588098" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 141px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCYrPV1u4OqpAX6cKPK1DgxNuUd8umIVl8PvHcsuMfN071zN9KHm4LRLN7H02oRZ9R4Fl-S65NMZVPLVfuPHR5AxIhsgZQ7vPCkzEJsqUswJ4nP_RBMdgq02EXo7QlZMXnl4iDzM74V59g/s200/34s.jpg" border="0" /></span></a><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="color:#cc0000;">"</span><strong><em><span style="color:#cc0000;">I</span><span style="color:#cc0000;">t should be illegal to be a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">muzlim</span>, and deportation should be the punishment (or death).</em></strong> "</span></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc0000;"></span> </div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Lambeth</span> Walk posted an item <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">remembering</span> the victims of the 7 July 2005 terror bombings in London that killed 52 average ordinary people. A dark event in any world.<br /></div><div align="justify">Doing so is fine, I have no problem with that as long as mindless ranting about race, immigration and blaming an entire religion does not come along with it. In this case, the item started off fine and with clear facts that are well known but of course in the end he had to start ranting about immigration and open borders along with bowing (<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">kow</span>-towing was his word) to the Islamic World. Thus the item was just another disgraceful low-life attempt to gain agenda scoring on the back of real victims - pathetic!</div><div align="justify"><br /></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"><br /></div><div align="justify"><strong>But that is not all</strong> - it gets even more disgusting - but from another angle - the comment section.</div><div align="justify"><br /></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"><br /></div><div align="justify">The <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Lambeth</span> Walk low-life is very smart in allowing comments that only suit his needs, sometimes allowing criticism or alternative responses if he believes that he can either win the argument clearly or that he can abuse them and use that abuse as the closing argument (of course not allowing the response to the abuse). A clever attack on a so-called open discussion and democratic principles claimed by these sick <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">bloggers</span>. That is why I make it clear, no comments so that I cannot either fall into or be blamed for such hypocrisy.</div><div align="justify"> </div><div align="justify">Anyhow - this is when it gets sick. There is an obviously bigoted and probably <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">immature</span> poster going by the name Dr.D. who comes out with sometimes raving and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">idiotic</span> comments, often <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">verbatim</span> to sicko websites and certainly - just off the top of his bigoted head.</div><div align="justify"><br /></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify">He came out with this line <strong><em>"It should be illegal to be a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">muzlim</span>, and deportation should be the punishment (or death). "</em></strong> Now from him I can expect this type of crazed comment.</div><div align="justify"><br /></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify">So I asked the blog owner to cut the item out as it is both disgraceful, demanding the death of Muslims who resist <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">mandatory</span> deportation from Britain and that by not doing so or at least not posting a comment condemning Dr.D. then by proxy you are supporting it.</div><div align="justify"> </div><div align="justify">He first charged <strong><em>"what item"?</em></strong> I replied, he cut out his question (because it was stupid) and mine and the item still sticks. I have, just in case it was a glitch the request three times now, all ignored and the item remains. He continues to post items on his blog, so we know he has seen it.</div><div align="justify"><br /></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#660000;"><strong>Thus it is clear as can be, the low-life blogger of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">Lambeth</span> Walk obviously considers it a valued solution to his bigoted hatred for Muslims and that the British Government should deport all Muslim in the UK and those that resist should be executed.</strong></span></div><div align="justify"><br /></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify">Way to go <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">Lambeth</span> Walk, supporting <strong>a new 'final solution'.</strong></div><div align="justify"><br /> </div><div align="justify"><a href="http://thelambethwalk.blogspot.com/2009/07/7th-july-2005.html">http://thelambethwalk.blogspot.com/2009/07/7th-july-2005.html</a> </div><div align="justify"> </div><div align="justify">..</div><div align="justify"></div>Solkharhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12445656162108723757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2658989199537315433.post-36036675420397283392009-07-08T15:42:00.005+01:002009-07-08T15:59:04.240+01:00Right-wing genie out of the bottle<div align="justify">Below is a disturbing item I found in the Sydney Morning Herald today about the level of far-right extremists in Australia attempting to form Political Parties. It has been four years since the last pathetic experiment with One Nation, now the Australia First Party and the Australian Protectionist Party are attempting to be registered and allowed to enter elections.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtZ1dSK17d-kS78ghw5PzcaIYSJRSkvcShND29LXQAaWtHmEutyESFk00djOHx0-U52IHU9yvTDH-K3ETocSxtJzRWHharNv3yo0fUmBZihWnqMWRlbCA1PNMSx2LVi4t2i-3OrEHzgSC5/s1600-h/logo_nr.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5356100650021123554" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 151px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtZ1dSK17d-kS78ghw5PzcaIYSJRSkvcShND29LXQAaWtHmEutyESFk00djOHx0-U52IHU9yvTDH-K3ETocSxtJzRWHharNv3yo0fUmBZihWnqMWRlbCA1PNMSx2LVi4t2i-3OrEHzgSC5/s200/logo_nr.jpg" border="0" /></a> </div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"><strong></strong></div><div align="justify"><strong>.</strong></div><div align="justify"><strong><span style="color:#990000;"><em>"Mr Saleam, who gained a doctorate in political science while serving a 3½-year-jail term for possessing a firearm and organising a shotgun attack on the home of the African National Congress's Australian representative."</em></span></strong></div><div align="justify"><strong>.</strong></div><div align="justify"><strong></strong></div><div align="justify"><strong>....</strong></div><div align="justify"><strong></strong></div><div align="justify"><strong>Right-wing genie out of the bottle<br /></strong><em>Erik JensenJuly 9, 2009<br />THE party faithful gathered in "the bunker". In a room decorated with Heidelberg School art posters and Ned Kelly figurines, Jim Saleam, the NSW director of the Australia First Party, recited the Eureka Oath.<br />The father of far right politics in Australia told the dozen people gathered around a plastic trestle table - a group too small to entertain registration as a federal political party - that they were on the cusp of return. "We are a genie in the bottle," he said. "When the system itself says it's in trouble we must welcome that.<br />"For, Australia, we are now moving into the most extraordinary of times."<br />Five months since that meeting in a former shop in Tempe, the genie is out of the bottle: today Australia First will announce itself as the first anti-immigration party since One Nation to gain enough members to contest a federal election. The party finished signing the 500 members on Monday and expects its application to be lodged in a fortnight - five years after it was last deregistered and four years since One Nation lost its final federal seat.<br />"The registration of Australia First Party … will be a decisive act in uniting all Australian nationalist and patriotic groups and people," Mr Saleam wrote in a newsletter. "At first in common labour and then into a single movement."<br />The party plans to contest lower house seats in western and southern Sydney, on the Darling Downs and possibly in the Hunter. It expects to attract between 6 and 7 per cent of the primary vote and will run a television campaign aimed at the trucking industry and an anti-immigration policy made more palatable by linking population to environmental issues.<br />The elevation of Australia First into a party capable of winning seats is in line with events overseas. Against the backdrop of the global economic crisis, far right organisations such as the British National Party made a strong showing at last month's European elections.<br />In the past few months skinheads from the Southern Cross Hammerskins have started organising to induct members and set up a record label and an internet radio station. The Ku Klux Klan has established a presence in Victoria with links to the expanding klan in the US. The Australian Protectionist Party - which split from Australia First in 2007 - is preparing to lodge its own federal registration.<br />"Australians tend to be fairly non-political in their outlook," said Darrin Hodges, the protectionist party's NSW chairman and Mr Saleam's key rival. "You have to work on educating people [that] there's a problem there, and we're making progress with that."<br />Australia First began its return to federal politics on Australia Day, when Mr Saleam managed to associate himself with a mob of teenagers chanting nationalist slogans at Manly - a gathering which was played down by politicians and the police media unit, but which is being investigated as possibly the first act of co-ordinated racism since the Cronulla riots in 2005.<br />Working in the background, police were attempting to link the mob to an unnamed nationalist group uncovered in western Sydney a week earlier. The mob of 80 people who raced up and down the Corso on January 26, smashing cars and chanting, appeared to be organised rather than a drunken pack, though there is nothing to suggest that Mr Saleam himself was directly involved in any vandalism.<br />The group split in half at a decisive moment, weakening police efforts to contain them.<br />"Police have played this down significantly. It's just going to be worse next year," a senior police source said. "There is the push on for nationalism and if we don't get a grip on this we will be looking at something we did not think could happen in Australia. You can't put the genie back in the bottle."<br />Two factors are working in favour of the ultra-right. Despite a 20 per cent cut to skilled migration numbers, Australia First and the Australian Protectionist Party expect the recession to create instability and resentment of non-white labour. At the same time, party members disenfranchised by the collapse of One Nation have begun to return to the movement.<br />"We'll start seeing a lot of protest voting," said Mr Saleam, who gained a doctorate in political science while serving a 3½-year-jail term for possessing a firearm and organising a shotgun attack on the home of the African National Congress's Australian representative. "We will see not only defence of identity but defence of jobs. If that spills over into reasonable-level confrontation, I would support that.<br />"We want to turn ordinary people - suburban housewives, unemployed youth - into political activists. We seek to mobilise a group of people who have not previously been mobilised. We want to cause disaffection from the regime who govern against their own people. We want to mobilise small-t troublemakers."<br />But despite the recent rise in membership, the new right is very much the old right and Jim Saleam remains at the centre of it. Australian nationalism is a fractal of hyperlinks and blog posts, tied to reality by the occasional post office box.<br />John Moffat, an aged-care worker with tattooed forearms and spiked hair, is a prime example of the movement. He arrived at a meeting of the Australian Protectionist Party in late February.<br />Mr Moffat has previously been an Australia First candidate and ran for the now-defunct Australians Against Further Immigration before it was absorbed into One Nation.<br />"I've just been waiting with my finger up to the wind," he said. "But with the crashing of the economy, let's say the tribes will start to consolidate. From this meeting, I've got a little bit of hope. I just picked up a membership form. More than likely, I will join them."<br /></div></em><div align="justify"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOfZyVqomEq-ph03Vj3UmSxanD1E-O0Z48G_gh5f4-KaqFiD0hy8jTzSz4NLR_kbAW4dx8CiZpdduSuViZyXWKGovkHrZcGzb0zv6ADmJBDSMsWFCsZEwhfhvsUdCGr6o4LAcrFoL8mBr2/s1600-h/saleam.jpg"><em><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5356100644071892866" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 161px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOfZyVqomEq-ph03Vj3UmSxanD1E-O0Z48G_gh5f4-KaqFiD0hy8jTzSz4NLR_kbAW4dx8CiZpdduSuViZyXWKGovkHrZcGzb0zv6ADmJBDSMsWFCsZEwhfhvsUdCGr6o4LAcrFoL8mBr2/s200/saleam.jpg" border="0" /></em></a><em><br /><a href="http://www.smh.com.au/national/rightwing-genie-out-of-the-bottle-20090708-ddfk.html?page=-1">http://www.smh.com.au/national/rightwing-genie-out-of-the-bottle-20090708-ddfk.html?page=-1</a><br /></em></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify">....</div>Solkharhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12445656162108723757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2658989199537315433.post-70147484429356042752009-07-07T12:46:00.004+01:002009-07-07T12:53:08.348+01:00MASh Scam Exposed – Bigots Stealing from other Bigots!!!<div align="justify"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOonot5v6PYMChjMqWDiWAUxlJF0uzWWcjzehCai5YakLbMdb4Oc9cIv7uoxdXcSMzgYClYsKlTqS6OH1gQtbaMyy7oCmPEWuF03PpWM4HIHa5Aj_ztXoexI_SMDF7mZG2s4V0cpHjdOzz/s1600-h/mas1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5355683638175888466" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 157px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOonot5v6PYMChjMqWDiWAUxlJF0uzWWcjzehCai5YakLbMdb4Oc9cIv7uoxdXcSMzgYClYsKlTqS6OH1gQtbaMyy7oCmPEWuF03PpWM4HIHa5Aj_ztXoexI_SMDF7mZG2s4V0cpHjdOzz/s200/mas1.jpg" border="0" /></a> Further investigations into the non-Muslim “Muslims Against Sharia” website has uncovered that this hate-fest is not only run by non-existent people claiming to be Muslims but that the site is also under US federal investigation for – not having business licenses, tax files and that any donations given of course are thus disappearing into the pockets of the criminals running it. </div><div align="justify"><br />A Florida based private investigator (see details and references below) has spent a great deal of time and effort tracking and noting the non-existent activities of MASh and its owner that include false claims of anti-terrorist activities, speeches and meetings and more. </div><div align="justify"><br />Ironically, the site is relying on post 9/11 anti-Islamic sentiment to raise its profile and thus also attacking the general Muslim community but also its own supporters whom both are cheated by its lies (from both angles) as well as the loss of any money donated. </div><div align="justify"><br />I was preparing an example of the ridiculous manifesto and goals that is spouted by the website in regards to “reforming Islam” but instead have chosen to just point out the criminal scam side of the matter as that explains it all. Needless to say that any Muslim, be they the most liberal minded would find the manifesto impossible – as it ask for Islam to recognize that it was responsible for the Crusades and that the actions of the Christians was just a retaliation! Need I say more! </div><div align="justify"><br />Below is a part of a posting on <a href="http://www.billwarnerpi.com/2009/03/muslims-against-sharia-and-khalim_28.html">http://www.billwarnerpi.com/2009/03/muslims-against-sharia-and-khalim_28.html</a> by the Private Investigator Bill Warner: </div><div align="justify"><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;">After thorough investigation into the activity of </span></em><a href="http://www.reformislam.org/support/"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">Muslims Against Sharia and the "President" Khalim Massoud </span></em></a><em><span style="font-size:85%;">corroborated with an agent for the US Secret Service in Omaha NE, there is no doubt that in fact Muslims Against Sharia is not a Muslim advocate group for moderate Muslims, it is in fact not a Muslim Group of any kind and the President of Muslims Against Sharia, the king of the false posters, Khalim Massoud, is using a phony name as there is no such person listed in the USA.</span></em><a href="http://www.reformislam.org/support/"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">Muslims Against Sharia and the "President" Khalim Massoud </span></em></a><em><span style="font-size:85%;">use PO Box 241732 Omaha NE 68124 to collect donations (since 9/11/01) see, "</span></em><a href="http://www.reformislam.org/support/"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">Help Moderate Muslims fight Islamofascists! Please find enclosed my check, made payable to Muslims Against Sharia"</span></em></a><em><span style="font-size:85%;">. Muslims Against Sharia and the "President" Khalim Massoud have become the focus of a IRS and USPS criminal investigation into where the donations went.</span></em><a href="http://www.reformislam.org/support/"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">Muslims Against Sharia and the "President" Khalim Massoud </span></em></a><em><span style="font-size:85%;">do not have a business license in Omaha NE, there supposed HQ, Muslims Against Sharia and the "President" Khalim Massoud do not have a charity listed with the IRS to collect donations, nor did Muslims Against Sharia and the "President" Khalim Massoud ever incorporate their business in the State of Omaha as required to collect donations, fake, fake, and fake, they do not exist in the "real world".There are no listed interviews given by </span></em><a href="http://www.reformislam.org/support/"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">Muslims Against Sharia and the "President" Khalim Massoud </span></em></a><em><span style="font-size:85%;">with any reputable Main Street Media organization, no newspaper, no radio program, no TV station, nothing just "Fake Interviews On The Internet" with groups linked to or closely associated or even those behind the False Posters Muslims Against Sharia and Khalim Massoud.<br /></span></em><br />Aparantly this Khalim Massoud was rather angry at being investigated and started a smear campaign against Mr Warner. I have seen some of the items, they certainly go through a lot of rhetoric and language but actually all references and quotes given are to his own items and blog-sites but of those accusing Warner – none! Warner is no man’s fool – a professional response and a good one is noted below: </div><div align="justify"><br />http://pibillwarner.wordpress.com/2009/03/20/irs-us-secret-service-omaha-nebraska-khalim-massoud-and-muslims-agaisnt-sharia/<br /><a title="Permalink" href="http://pibillwarner.wordpress.com/2009/03/20/irs-us-secret-service-omaha-nebraska-khalim-massoud-and-muslims-agaisnt-sharia/"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">IRS & US Secret Service Omaha Nebraska, Khalim Massoud and Muslims Against Sharia</span></em></a><em><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span></em></div><em><span style="font-size:85%;"><div align="justify"><br />INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE CRIMIANL INVESTIGATIONS, FRESNO, CA 93888<br />US SECRET SERVICE, 2707 N. 108th St. OMAHA NE. 68164, PH 402-965-9670<br />Are the online attacks by the author of the “</span></em><a href="http://www.reformislam.org/contact.php"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">Muslims Against Sharia</span></em></a><em><span style="font-size:85%;">” aka </span></em><a href="http://www.reformislam.org/contact.php"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">Khalim Massoud </span></em></a><em><span style="font-size:85%;">with an email address of </span></em><a href="mailto:reformislam@gmail.com"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">reformislam@gmail.com</span></em></a><em><span style="font-size:85%;"> who has Defamed and Intends to cause an interruption of Bill Warner’s business, WBI Private Detective Agency, by posting libelous messages, linked to the al-Muhajiroun group, same tactics are being used, see Friday, March 20, 2009, </span></em><a href="http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.2802/pub_detail.asp"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">PI BILL WARNER QUOTED IN “FAMILY SECURITY MATTERS” EXPOSE ON MUSLIM JIHAD GROUP “AL-MUHAJIROUN”</span></em></a><em><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span></em></div><em><span style="font-size:85%;"><div align="justify"><br /></span></em>The Chasing Evil website and blog also caught onto the issue of MASh and came out with many interesting facts and opinions, I have put only a portion, the reference is there for anyone interested. Chasing Evil is run by the Reverend Sutter and has good mix of inter-faith contributions. </div><div align="justify"><br /><a href="http://www.chasingevil.org/2009/03/non-muslims-against-sharia.html">http://www.chasingevil.org/2009/03/non-muslims-against-sharia.html</a> </div><div align="justify"><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;">Curiously, the site contains absolutely NO membership or governance information at all. No indication of who created this organization, who its members are, who manages it, who governs it, who sets its policies and direction…nothing. Sort of odd for a non-profit advocacy group - especially one that’s fundraising.There is, however, a page that allows you to donate by Paypal, Mastercard, Visa, or Amex to “help fight Islamofascists”. And that page lists the donors. The first “donor” on the list, if you google it, turns out to be the Executive Director of the organization. The second “donor”, turns out to be a member of the organization who seems to spend most of his time posting anti-Muslim taunts on various blogs. At that point I stopped Googling “donors”. Feel free to continue down the list - I’d be curious. There aren’t many of them.Back to the home page, where the organization’s “Manifesto” is set out. And here again, one is struck by the uncanny similarity between the agenda of this allegedly “Muslim” group, and that of American and European neo-nazi sites that claim to support “moderate” Muslims while actually trashing anything Islamic.Among the elements of this “Muslim” “Manifesto” are such popular right wing talking points as “the Crusades were not unprovoked acts of aggression, but rather attempts to recapture formerly Christian lands controlled by Muslims”, and “We must remove evil passages from Islamic religious texts, so that future generations of Muslims will not be confused by conflicting messages.”</span> </em></div><em><div align="justify"><br /></em>I have sent emails to all the above asking for updates and how I can support and help. Already I have contacted all those linked with MASh to warn them of the scam and the hate-mongering nature of the site, most have returned with shock and dismay (having just took the words of “moderate Islam” as enough and a number said that they will contact demanding their links be removed. </div><div align="justify"><br />I certainly will keep you all up-to-date on the matter.</div>Solkharhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12445656162108723757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2658989199537315433.post-893776700930659972009-07-06T19:44:00.004+01:002009-07-06T20:12:15.560+01:00Christian Action Network - Are they Bigots and Fundamentalists? .<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdyBlhf_EQpTICqTQflXMYleiNtKHmMnAHk9vlvwEAG6Eb_K1_klqXY8maAcq1ODn4WCqHKenvNe_OfIqhPvD-Imd9-sVmyQUkKBgvo0VbmLH-4yHeDnZkaLljasQ_j0LEG6hp7IdSNYGO/s1600-h/can.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5355426689933093074" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 243px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdyBlhf_EQpTICqTQflXMYleiNtKHmMnAHk9vlvwEAG6Eb_K1_klqXY8maAcq1ODn4WCqHKenvNe_OfIqhPvD-Imd9-sVmyQUkKBgvo0VbmLH-4yHeDnZkaLljasQ_j0LEG6hp7IdSNYGO/s320/can.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBg-re6zewoDqTBcKtPJ4udA7EfTKlyG6Sy_JAqOpop2wSuvMgevVYMJ5YYnzAhXve9zUS4nB32hZilPJ9Di57Up6m1Q46ClWQ6_KDl960kzAd90S6lZMiK8j5K4CayErQ9wR3PAuzAHs_/s1600-h/marty_face_photo.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5355426687927333426" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 180px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 193px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBg-re6zewoDqTBcKtPJ4udA7EfTKlyG6Sy_JAqOpop2wSuvMgevVYMJ5YYnzAhXve9zUS4nB32hZilPJ9Di57Up6m1Q46ClWQ6_KDl960kzAd90S6lZMiK8j5K4CayErQ9wR3PAuzAHs_/s320/marty_face_photo.jpg" border="0" /></a> I was very concerned about the <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">organisation</span> called Christian Action Network or CAN, <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">apparently</span> all the wordings are nice, a concerned moral group that seeks a <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">better</span> America.<br /><br />Are they?<br /><br />To confirm my suspicions, <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">particularly</span> with the close association that their founder Martin <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Mawyer</span> had with Jerry Falwell (who casually condemned the Prophet <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Mohammad</span> as a terrorist), I wrote them a letter.<br /><br />The replies came and I have sent a request for <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">confirmation</span> that the views given represent <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">Mawyer</span> and CAN as he did not reply himself. I have placed the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">correspondance</span> here for all to see.<br /></div><div>I am waiting for their response, if the prove me otherwise, great I will post that as well, but I am not confident at all.</div><div><br />.....<br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><em>Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 22:41:03 +0000From: solkhar@yahoo.frSubject: A question for Martin <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">Mawyer</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">pleaseTo</span>: martin@christianaction.orgCC: Amber@christianaction.org; TDCAnalyst@aol.com; JPCampbell70@msn.com<br /><br />Dear Mr. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">Mawyer</span>,<br /><br />Though CAN was created in 1990, I noticed almost <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">exclusively</span> the objective of CAN is identifying and fighting Islamic <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">fundamentalism</span> and terrorist threats within the United States.<br /><br />Though I would certainly join any group with a desire to <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">eliminate</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16">fundamentalism</span> and violent threats, my concern and question to you Mr <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17">Mawyer</span> is that your material in CAN appears to be not only attacking militant <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18">Islamist</span> threats and Muslim <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19">Fundamentalists</span>, but Islam itself. This I would not support but in fact condemn. Are you apposed to Islam the religious faith?<br /><br /><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20">Additionally</span>, I noticed your biography links you to Jerry Falwell, based on you being the "editor of Jerry Falwell's "Moral Majority Report."". Jerry <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21">Falwells</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_22">description</span> of Islam's Prophet as a "Terrorist" is still amongst the great excuses why many in the world use the term 'Ugly American'. In many books, Falwell is considered an extremist and a <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_23">fundamentalist</span>.<br /><br />I also understand that CAN and the Paul Revere Brigade are the one and same <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_24">organisation</span>, which again though under the banner of exposing <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_25">Islamist</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_26">fundamentalism</span>, is in fact associated with anti-Islamic hate sites such as Jihad-Watch. Amongst the goals and efforts claimed by the Paul Revere Brigade is the following statement which in itself is a breach of US civil liberties:<br /><br />"Keep an eye on your schools, government, local laws, newspaper articles and known Islamic activity in your city...."<br /><br />From the above, it is the assumption that all activities of Muslims communities needs to be watched. It would be easy to counter such arguments that considering the FBI has identified that radical <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_27">Evangelist</span> Groups are linked to home-grown-terror and is of concern, and thus it should be fair that Paul Revere Brigade and CAN should concentrate on that as well.<br /><br />I asked this question to gain your views and opinions on Islam and the many moderate Muslims who themselves are not just concerned and working towards <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_28">combating</span> militant <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_29">Islamists</span> and <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_30">fundamentalism</span> within the Muslim community - but suffer having to live amongst them, let alone those poor <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_31">souls</span> living in such theocratic societies run by these people. Why do I ask?<br /><br />My motive for the question is simply to know if I should support or condemn you, to praise and make mention or condemn and expose. Though I have a small <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_32">blogsite</span> of my own, I am linked to many more and though mostly retired, in my domain, I have gained respect and my opinion about the views of those in the west is listened to.<br /><br />Regards with <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_33">anticipation</span>...<br /><br /><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_34">Solkhar</span></em></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><em></em></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><em>......</em></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><em></em></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><em>De : Jason Campbell <jpcampbell70@msn.com>À : solkhar@yahoo.fr; martin@christianaction.orgCc : amber@christianaction.org; tdcanalyst@aol.comEnvoyé <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_35">le</span> : <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_36">Lundi</span>, 6 <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_37">Juillet</span> 2009, 18h41<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_38">mn</span> 00<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_39">sObjet</span> : RE: A question for Martin <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_40">Mawyer</span> please<br /></em></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><em>Very interesting points – well said.<br /><br />Understand, CAN is not an extremist <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_46">organization</span> and we hope to convince you to support our cause. We base all our information on facts in <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_47">understanding</span> that Islam is not a religion – but a social, political and ideological movement that promotes itself in a form of religion in order to force people into submission.<br /><br />I ask this question to you – Should Islam have equal recognition as a religion in America ? I believe, <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_48">fundamentalist</span> Islam’s goal is to overthrow all secular governments including America . Islam will always be a potential ‘5<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_49">th</span> column’ in any non-Muslim society where it resides. And no matter how much moderate Muslims may regret it, fight against it or not wish to participate in it, Holy Jihad as warfare and conquest is basic Islam.<br /><br />Is it not so that 8 of the 10 nations that lead in persecuting Christians in the world today are Islamic. Will America be next?<br /><br />Thanks,<br />Jason Campbell<br />Christian Action Network</em></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><em></em></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><em>.........</em></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><em></em></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><em>Dear Mr Campbell,<br /><br />If CAN bases its information on an <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_50">understanding</span> that Islam is not a religion then I certainly will not support your cause but condemn it. That you claim there are facts that lead you to believe so, suggests your information sources are not factual.<br /><br />The history of Islam is clear and its religious basis along with that of <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_51">Christianity</span> and Judaism certainly give <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_52">confirmation</span> as to an Islamic "religion". A fifth of humanity prays to the same divine God that you do. I certainly do.<br /><br />It appears that your concerns are about the existence of <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_53">fundamentalism</span> and radical militancy and that you have confused the two with mainstream and Islamic theology. Certainly <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_54">fundamentalists</span> in all faiths claim that "God is on our side" when certainly both the teachings and the bulk of the faithful know otherwise. There is no doubt that the bulk of that is now happening within the Muslim World and that is why it is even more important to concentrate on avoiding making the mistake of confusing the issues.<br /><br />The best way ahead for peace in this world is to concentrate on that battle against radical <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_55">fundamentalism</span> in all its forms and from all faiths. <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_56">Fundamentalism</span> by its very nature stops the clock of progress and advancement and considers that it has a right to force others to follow. It assumes the arrogant posturing of being the only true believers and that any method is acceptable to achieve its goals.<br /><br />To confuse and spread <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_57">misinformation</span> about Islam based on incorrect knowledge causes alienation, confusion on truths and <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_58">misdirection</span> on what is the real dangers. It causes moderate Muslims to also then presume that there is neither support for their on-going battle against radicals and to many it provides suspicion that there is another enemy in waiting. What it does most though, is provide ammunition to the <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_59">fundamentalists</span> that their own lies and propaganda is correct - that there are Christian zealots who are striving for some form of Crusade and thus <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_60">justification</span> for their own political version.<br /><br />Frankly speaking, my fears that CAN are linked to Christian <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_61">fundamentalism</span> and anti-Islamic agendas appear to be correct. That if I understand your words correctly, CAN does not join in but in fact actively pursues an agenda that is designed to instill confusion and mistrust between faiths.<br /><br />It also tells me that CAN does not and will not support an existence that has the United States of America as an active and respected participant in the world community. Such a policy also does not make American any safer - because you would prefer to not have America concentrate on the real dangers and issues.<br /><br />Though I would have preferred a response directly from Mr <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_62">Mawyer</span>, I can assume you represent <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_63">CAN's</span> official line. Could you confirm that please.<br /><br />A last point, I think it not very prudent or correct to tell a Muslim that his religion is not one at all but a dangerous political experiment. It is this attitude that certainly confirms my views of a very malign <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_64">fundamentalist</span> superiority.<br /><br />I await your <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_65">confirmation</span><br /><br /><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_66">Solkhar</span><br /><br /><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_67">ps</span>. my letter, your reply and this response is published on my blog-site </em></span><a href="http://www.solkhar.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><span style="font-size:85%;"><em>www.solkhar.blogspot.com</em></span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><em> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_68">Solkhar's</span> World - Views from the Atlas</em></span><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;">.......</span></em><br /><br />I should point out that I did receive from my original email a rather different reply from one of their members which is also why I asked what is the official line. I had no problem with this reply at all.<br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></em><br /><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_69">Solkhar</span>,<br /><br />Thanks for the email. I'll let Martin speak for himself. I'll tell you that the opinions of some staff differ (no two humans agree on everything) and I've personally heard Martin speak very highly of moderate Muslims, although as a Christian he obviously disagrees with Islam (just like you, as a Muslim, disagree with <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_70">Christianity</span>). I'll let him elaborate on his beliefs.<br /><br />But personally, I think if you do some research on my work, you'll find me to be a great ally of moderate Muslims, and as such, would much appreciate if you kept in contact with me. Check out my site, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_71">WorldThreats</span>.com, as I often post reports about the activity of moderate Muslims.<br /><br />Ryan <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_72">MauroFounder</span>, WorldThreats.com.National Security Researcher, Christian Action Network.Director of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_73">Intelligence</span>, Asymmetric Warfare and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_74">Intelligence</span> Center </span></em><a href="http://www.awic.us/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">(<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_75">AWIC</span>)</span></em></a><em><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></div></span></em>Solkharhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12445656162108723757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2658989199537315433.post-64299163097620559222009-06-30T22:52:00.005+01:002009-06-30T23:22:22.689+01:00Honor Killings<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6AAouVbHOwGuruva2yp7nLOjJWZohRSW_eN4LhFkZYO3wNKVky8YhHcmGnlaiB5gDgNwcVjg2dwu56ILovwkCtLp0MC8uDJjjPp6wF8fY4D0DmtCOVGUNQIs9Mb8aqsrLnDJIW8PvoHsP/s1600-h/normal_10002-sunita_and_jasbir.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353248123849844146" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 228px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6AAouVbHOwGuruva2yp7nLOjJWZohRSW_eN4LhFkZYO3wNKVky8YhHcmGnlaiB5gDgNwcVjg2dwu56ILovwkCtLp0MC8uDJjjPp6wF8fY4D0DmtCOVGUNQIs9Mb8aqsrLnDJIW8PvoHsP/s320/normal_10002-sunita_and_jasbir.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-9j3c-mPAr_sBfrXAWPxcGBCwUHNcT05naR51G1UQqG3JND6EiN6OEKqyY7wxgU8k5JRGbWAz04wyWFfUxqA_yEst3HsbsCB4qx9Cf_2ozn4esJpEE-P_EXKIz8993FFwcJYq3vDCtRu8/s1600-h/kannagi.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353245476920571202" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 123px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-9j3c-mPAr_sBfrXAWPxcGBCwUHNcT05naR51G1UQqG3JND6EiN6OEKqyY7wxgU8k5JRGbWAz04wyWFfUxqA_yEst3HsbsCB4qx9Cf_2ozn4esJpEE-P_EXKIz8993FFwcJYq3vDCtRu8/s200/kannagi.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfENreumQwcmA7DxcrRPn82ZK_TPw4Gxm-8b6uOkfjx0sE6K0quabt1c4MwKLfyoIE67P_R6fGxSuhRMqRZNvVFrrcF9kELuDrXBbBvjl3z74tLZSAPdQDiT7_KNE0d2CdBzYNnIJOV-AB/s1600-h/amandeep_atwal.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353245474361501058" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfENreumQwcmA7DxcrRPn82ZK_TPw4Gxm-8b6uOkfjx0sE6K0quabt1c4MwKLfyoIE67P_R6fGxSuhRMqRZNvVFrrcF9kELuDrXBbBvjl3z74tLZSAPdQDiT7_KNE0d2CdBzYNnIJOV-AB/s200/amandeep_atwal.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNQ6QzpZhKsTx04ocQNZd4HNVIpnkZJFqCQ8K8kWviMhNN3tpqh_me7ULWA4oueq358YxrLd-RBVShWydYVU8O5XICbK203cHfqOWUsBlAC6Pzav6ezFOIb2W428Ch_i5UMyIQNQfzL7T5/s1600-h/anita_gindha.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353245473524938290" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNQ6QzpZhKsTx04ocQNZd4HNVIpnkZJFqCQ8K8kWviMhNN3tpqh_me7ULWA4oueq358YxrLd-RBVShWydYVU8O5XICbK203cHfqOWUsBlAC6Pzav6ezFOIb2W428Ch_i5UMyIQNQfzL7T5/s200/anita_gindha.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiccQm28Aq4AvMoJGEHTA16vclC6jRURR5RWAT2FqcUcd7Z5HtYABDvaSqTUnNtBhX5yncGTy8L86Nkwp-9ZibsEh-yszbDfgVsRGvaFNfoPF663VOwv6dZ3opN1vYIEDTskyeerB_N6_lM/s1600-h/10002-surjit.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353245471135710466" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiccQm28Aq4AvMoJGEHTA16vclC6jRURR5RWAT2FqcUcd7Z5HtYABDvaSqTUnNtBhX5yncGTy8L86Nkwp-9ZibsEh-yszbDfgVsRGvaFNfoPF663VOwv6dZ3opN1vYIEDTskyeerB_N6_lM/s200/10002-surjit.jpg" border="0" /></a>Here are a series of photos of tragedy, women (and men) who were all killed under the name of honor. I have posted these photos obtained from the excellent and dedicated site "International Campaign Against Honor Killings (<a href="http://stophonourkillings.com/index.php">http://stophonourkillings.com/index.php</a>) which I recommend to anyone with concern about this horrible pandemic.<br /><br />I make no apologies for bringing the subject up and picking and <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">choosing</span> the following images for a particular reason. </div><br /><div></div><div>The crime of cultural and tribal honor killings is particularly pandemic in certain cultures, not religions. A large portion of Arab and Turkish culture (both Christian and Arab), Eastern European and in the Sub-continent (Hindu, Christian and Muslim India for example as well as the tribal clans of Afghanistan and Pakistan who are mostly but not all Muslim) to name a few who all partake in this horrendous and inexcusable crime. </div><br /><div></div><div>These images were chosen because of the bigotry shown against Muslims and Islam by many in the west and elsewere claiming that the crime rests at the feet of Islam. This is particularly rediculous coming from Hindu agenda groups in India.</div><br /><div></div><div>Such a claim is not only false, an insult to Islam but most of all an insult to the thousands of victims of honor crimes that occur throughout the world by others then those <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">heinous</span> acts done by abusive Muslims breaking their own covenant with the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Qur'an</span>.</div><div> </div><div>These victims shown above, are all non-Muslim and mostly from India, killed due to abusing caste conditions. This is not an attack on Indians or Hindus, but the point I made is clear, and if there were photos of Russian honor killings or from other areas, I certainly would show them and if anyone has, feel free to e-mail me the reference, my address is in the blog summary.</div></div></div></div>Solkharhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12445656162108723757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2658989199537315433.post-25173684602814241322009-06-29T15:29:00.005+01:002009-06-29T16:39:57.314+01:00Images of Fanatics, Extremists and Fundamentalists<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXyOQ8nwyVrktsoPlUACnAEiyj9oqqkLa7epdZe8UnGEwsghaaziu9IgKkGW2_53hyQuwRZ3vTKb5yGK_iTJw-KVKoMdBSF4WNAQikfdoUTYMfWnDMOJWQr4gK2lNLYk1-Y5vyARYnIm78/s1600-h/SheikHilali5-250.jpg"></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfoYHKeZ5nphuw9wsQhClSLT6yg1lyhTU49hSPEw_nKFG06wRCgSea6SUov4_xVwUCwleeFb_W-dS2ti72LR4xNSdHRaJDnan5kcowYobL_oeYRnRCxlWK1HXZeiCmMel2LVxyEoZG94To/s1600-h/wapfb6.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5352774011124786114" style="DISPLAY: block; 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MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 250px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgjVWpRxDNatRLZTYghyhCoJkP4npaww95xYul2Tb9x2ITGGYWsk0mGmFtUCYVEA0jXfME3KeZysk7X8b25bCMDohXK6Ca145GT-2Jo0ILk6H9L4Bj73pEqEDIcFsIETqQZDiakkshJ9eq/s400/Muslim-extremists_1363821c.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmGY0qNRnks1ezZm_ODb1Oszn5lgwAmxnhyO0Hfn_8WPRGU9lwwj_CUlWO3GlJusP0FjDFIO20G4MCic1S0S6cG3izSn0hNj1KeZwCj1hMbK7khtyJdXkO0t3iZDv-u6MTWHxYpdSWinSn/s1600-h/1196718810_34681.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5352759272274811970" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 302px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmGY0qNRnks1ezZm_ODb1Oszn5lgwAmxnhyO0Hfn_8WPRGU9lwwj_CUlWO3GlJusP0FjDFIO20G4MCic1S0S6cG3izSn0hNj1KeZwCj1hMbK7khtyJdXkO0t3iZDv-u6MTWHxYpdSWinSn/s400/1196718810_34681.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><div>No matter what religion, political views, cultural bias, the enemy is always those that consider their views, methods, faith and rights are above those of others.</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Solkharhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12445656162108723757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2658989199537315433.post-29496404795018561802009-06-27T12:49:00.004+01:002009-06-27T13:19:57.960+01:00Do as I say, not as I do or - How to be an "Ass"<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdSrIN0AKKtCCRLax-qjIpRz8tpkV26v57GWM2GS756o_ajjVn8Rw5fGRMmYwarJJqneUb8cnJKW43upuTY9JBxRN0p0Sm7UOSRps9osA-FWT7qfUXx6eVdbp7DSYQSPgdP66z8VK2oaWv/s1600-h/Donkey-2123.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5351978034312111458" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 194px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdSrIN0AKKtCCRLax-qjIpRz8tpkV26v57GWM2GS756o_ajjVn8Rw5fGRMmYwarJJqneUb8cnJKW43upuTY9JBxRN0p0Sm7UOSRps9osA-FWT7qfUXx6eVdbp7DSYQSPgdP66z8VK2oaWv/s200/Donkey-2123.jpg" border="0" /></a> The self-proclaimed but certainly not Muslims Against Sharia did what I consider a pretty disrespectful <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">gaff </span>in one of the many items they are churning out about the situation in Iran. Here in Morocco, they would be referred to as a "Hammar" of donkey, refering to being stupid or an "ass".<br /><div align="justify"></div><br /><div align="justify">MAS (I find it insulting even to spell it out) makes always a big scene to imply they are interested in the rights and liberties of the Iranian people, that the injustices and Islamic system's evil ways thrust upon them. Sounds noble, right? I guess, though it is viewed from a western perspective and automatically assumes that a future Iran will be like a future Iraq and another western-liberal democracy. But remember this site abhors Islam and thus condemns the basic <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">tenants</span> and beliefs of the majority of Iranians who may not love the fundamentalists, suffer from them but are faithful Muslims nevertheless. </div><br /><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify">The <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">hypocrisy</span> comes in the article today called <a href="http://muslimsagainstsharia.blogspot.com/2009/06/sorry-neda-we-have-pedophile-to-worship.html">"Sorry Neda, We Have a Pedophile to Worship"</a>. The article starts off with an interesting point that I have seen in some more respectable blogs, that while Iran burns and world history is being made, the American media dropped it like a lead balloon to concentrate on the death of the "King of Pop" Michael Jackson. I think the media does follow celebrities a bit too much, but if it sells ratings, so be it. I should also point out that his death is a sad event and historical, like his music or not, Thriller is still the highest selling album in history and probably that status will never be beaten.</div><br /><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify">The ugly point of the article is already implied in its name, it <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">apologizes</span> to the now famous victim Neda who died in the street fighting in Tehran that the media and the people are more interested in Michael Jackson - and proclaiming him a <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">paedophile</span>. </div><br /><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify">Jackson was <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">accused</span> and <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">acquitted</span> under the court system of the charge and he denied it to the end. Under the law, he is not and such a claim is <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">libelous</span> as well. This, itself makes the blogger from MAS a low-life, as it denegrates and disrespects those victims and their families of real paedophiles as well as those who have suffered being accussed of it, but are not. </div><div align="justify"></div><br /><div align="justify">My point is simple and I am sure many will understand it immediately. How can you pretend to stand-up for liberties and justice and condemn the actions of fundamentalists who by their very nature assume guilt and then <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">unjustly</span> punish people for "probably" being homosexual, a prostitute, immoral, m<span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">arxist</span>, communist, heretic, revolutionary, etc, and then do the same yourself.</div><br /><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify">I make no opinion about the lifestyle of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">MJ</span>, I trust the court system and assume his innocence, because I believe in justice and liberties.</div>Solkharhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12445656162108723757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2658989199537315433.post-66117394542924687772009-06-26T22:20:00.005+01:002009-06-26T22:38:20.576+01:00Iran and a symbol of how to make it all go terribly wrong<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcqdSa-jJx1YEPcRrTwiubSltaYoyWmoaFEVxvWxP87AD9Fd_pVqO-sXUks51enP9rDUcFZqu02S1NDLopXNbchFXR9AbCwrN2FoY28zntyIIlqLykt6YCiou2OepSaLcEvrLpQ64nf7z0/s1600-h/2511W_BOLTON_narrowweb__300x348,0.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5351753106248760274" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 172px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcqdSa-jJx1YEPcRrTwiubSltaYoyWmoaFEVxvWxP87AD9Fd_pVqO-sXUks51enP9rDUcFZqu02S1NDLopXNbchFXR9AbCwrN2FoY28zntyIIlqLykt6YCiou2OepSaLcEvrLpQ64nf7z0/s200/2511W_BOLTON_narrowweb__300x348,0.jpg" border="0" /></a> There is a far-right website/blog that more than often goes for the radical trash-postings that verge on pure bigotry. It has the ironic name of Atlas Shrugs. Ironic considering that I sit next to the mighty Atlas Mountains and look upon them daily.<br /><br /><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify">Today there is another item on the horrible happenings in Iran and about how the former Bush Administration's <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">controversial</span> Ambassador to the United Nations - John Bolton said in a newspaper item that the US missed an <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">opportunity</span> for regime change in Iran and should basically take-out the Iranian government. </div><div align="justify"> </div><div align="justify">His statements are <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">ridiculous</span> and is the very attitude that helped bring the radical regime in the first place. The man is a war-monger and we can all thank God (Allah) or your lucky stars depending on what you believe, that he is not a man of influence anymore. I think even Bush found him a bit overboard even for his liking.</div><br /><br /><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify">I responded with the following comment:</div><br /><br /><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"></div>. . .<br /><br /><div align="justify"><em>The situation is terrible, the hunger and demand for change is leading to the certain conflict with the government and their fundamentalist ideals will be hard to crack. </em><em>As someone who knows much about the country and its people, it is going to be rough. </em></div><div align="justify"><em><br />Mistakes have been made within and without (apart from the mistake of 1979) and many in the commentaries here as well.</em></div><br /><div align="justify"><em>John Bolton is the first and greatest. Calling for intervention to eliminate the revolution of '79 is doomed to failure and his arrogance in saying so is part of that old-world attitude that to a certain degree created it. It was the combination of abuse and out of touch Shah and the influences of the United States (including the now confirmed forced ousting of a government by the CIA) that was the catalyst for revolution that the fundamentalists jumped on. Perhaps the youth have forgotten much of this but middle-aged and the older Iranians (who are and will be any future government) do not. Bolton's attitude is from the 1970s and his out-of-touch method of dealing with things will only be a backwards step and turn Iran into Iraq or an Afghanistan.</em></div><div align="justify"><br /><em>My concerns is only the violence and how to tell the students and public to stop. Why? Because what was needed (to tell the regime that things have got to change) was done. There is no doubt that government wants to stay in power and are willing to fight for it, so either a full blown revolution will take place (with a probable loss and an even more hard-line government) OR they go home now with some pride and note that the more moderate (but "within the system") politicians (<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani </span>and Co.) will certainly make capital and destabilize from the top down. At <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">worst</span>, let the population suffer another four years and the likelihood is that change will happen. </em></div><br /><div align="justify"><em></div></em><div align="justify"><em>Though I know most on a site like this will disagree, President Obama did the correct and very smart thing. He wished the people of Iran all good will and sent a message to the Muslim World saying that things will change, that United States will lead the West into admitting that there is a world outside their own and that to get respect, the same must be given.</em></div><br /><div align="justify"><em>That, I believe, was one of the catalysts for the actions that happened after the election. The Iranian youth and middle-class just wanted it more quickly than they should have.</em></div><div align="justify"> </div><div align="justify"><em></em></div><div align="justify"><em>. . .</em></div>Solkharhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12445656162108723757noreply@blogger.com