From the article in the NY Daily News,
"I saw with my own eyes and heard with my own ears, one of the lowlifes of the Jews, and one of their pigs, mocking one of the leaders of the mujahedeen," writes the author, who calls himself Umar al-Basrawi.
The obsessive anti-Semite provides would-be assassins a dated photo of Letterman bearing his trademark gap-toothed grin and wire-rim glasses, describing him as "a sick Jew with defined features."
Anti-Semitism and Islamic fundamentalism are mutually inclusive. The joke of course is that David Letter is not Jewish, but that doesn't matter to a fanatic. Throughout the course of this blog, I feel fairly confident that I will somewhere along the line be accused of being some crypto-Jewish international financier by a Muslim fundamentalist. Accusations of being Jewish probably come in the mail with free samples of Tide in the Muslim world.
"In general, you can not write any of these off as a non-viable threat. These Internet threats have been a rallying cry to 'have the guy's head,'" Borelli said. "If I am the guy targeted in one of those things, I would be taking it seriously and hunker down."
It is imperative threats such as these be taken seriously and the posters be tracked down and prosecuted should they happen to be posting from Western countries.
As Raymond Ibrahim points out, from standard mainstream evidence,
ReplyDeleteHomeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano recently said about American Muslims (as well as visiting Muslims):
“We are also seeing a rise of activities by individuals who are actually in the country.”
While a few months ago, Attorney General Eric Holder said about that same subpopulation:
...that “the threat has changed... to worrying about people in the United States, American citizens — raised here, born here, and who for whatever reason, have decided that they are going to become radicalized and take up arms against the nation in which they were born.”
And how are we to discern the difference between the harmless ones among them, and the dangerous ones forming cells, or going off "lone wolf" style? Perhaps we can rest assured that the harmless ones smile and seem friendly, are clean-shaven, have middle-class all-American lifestyles with their kids in Little League -- like, for example, the Muslim-American software engineer "Mike" Nawash, who one day suddenly felt the call of jihad, let his wife and kids and went off to Afghanistan to kill American and other Western soldiers.
Eh, I'd certainly be quickly out of breath if I continually called on Muslims to not make death threats. Besides, it's not like I can actually control them like the hive mind or Muslim pope or some such. We do certainly need a segment of our co-religionists to stand up and ask "quoi the fuck?" every now and then in relation to moonbat terrorists.
ReplyDeleteHesperado said, "And this is not "stupidity"; that's far too mild a word. It's an evil sickness, and it infects the marrow, the bloodstream, the nerves, the sinews, the brain, the heart and the soul of Islam. "
I think you're right that I used too lax of a word. The sickness mentioned in relation to Islam is the hateful intolerance of fundamentalists. Islam lends itself extremely well to such an interpretation, because it offers an absolute view of the universe. It's all there in the book, you see, which is a clear guidance for all mankind etc etc.
How do you propose that non-Muslims can stem the tide of Muslim fundamentalists?
In relation to your second post, you seem to be of the opinion that Muslims are all suspect a priori, yes? I suppose that may even include myself, since I may flip like a lightswitch into a wife beatin', head sawin', suicide vest wearin' Muslim fanatic. There's certainly a problem with treason among Muslims here in the West. In America, for such a tiny population, we've seen more than a few cases of open sedition. Is this inherently a trait of Muslims, or does it have to do with Muslim perceptions about Muslim oppression?
ReplyDeleteEssentially, Muslims in the West claim/feel/say that they are being oppressed. Personally, I haven't felt oppressed, but when I wear a taqiyyah (skullcap, not dissimulation, I'll get to THAT later) people assume I'm Jewish. What matters though is the perception that they are being persecuted for their beliefs as this has long been a means to galvanize support. The persecution needn't be real, just the belief in it. It creates a dynamic whereby treasonous Muslims view their own nation as being against the ultimate authority, their own fanatical religion.
Traitors should be dealt with in an extremely harsh manner. At the same time, we must be exceedingly careful when calling a "group" a fifth column. There's tremendous historical precedent against doing such, from groups that may have actively harbored traitors to groups who have largely been innocent victims. In either case, it's extremely dangerous to demonize the whole group.
Finally, how am I supposed to voice my support for the institutions of the West and her attending values if I am a de facto traitor? You've not claimed that I am one, though perhaps you may presuppose that I am. Yesterday, Sagunto said as much. I can be the best American possible, and still I'll be lumped in with religious fanatics due to fears that I'm some secret jihad sympathizer.
ReplyDeleteIn all of my days of commenting on blogs with or speaking directly to anti-Islamic folks, the one constant has always been that at the end of the day I get accused of dissimulation. Never mind that such a concept is largely forbidden to Sunni Muslims and almost no Sunni jurists support it and it's almost entirely a Shi'ite thing, I'm told that I'm engaged in "taqiyyah". When anti-Islam folks simply can't wrap their minds around my rejection of violence in the name of God, it's taqiyyah. I'm told that I am purposely seeking to deceive them to advance religious goals, effectively that I am secretly attempting to undermine their defenses.
That's probably the most frustrating hurdle I have to overcome, because it's so intensely stupid. No matter how valid my argument, no matter how much I sympathize with sane freedom loving people, I'm *actually* aligned with terrorists. How are Muslims supposed to have any meaningful exchange with non-Muslims if we our "secret nature" is that we're all terrorists?
It's the exact same phenomenon as anti-Semites who claim that kol nidre is some method by which Jews can deceive gullible goyim. Never mind that kol nidre is nothing of the sort, anti-Semites have for ages now claimed that this proves all Jews are disloyal. Much like taqiyyah, the claim is applied whenever Jews are being genuine. Kol nidre, you see, exposes how they "really are".
This is the reasoning of anti-Semites, and it has become the reasoning of anti-Muslims as well.
Muslim Unicorn,
ReplyDeleteTo most of us in the anti-Islam movement, Islam is indefensible; and the reasons why we have come to that conclusion are so massive and richly detailed, we experience it as an insult to our intelligence, as well as profoundly tedious, to be disputed.
Since we see it as indefensible, any defense of it must be either deception or some form of madness where the patient is sincere (though the sincerity cannot mitigate the serious damage being done).
There is no third alternative.
Unless you can marshal at least over 500 million Muslims in a week (and I'm being obscenely generous here) to demonstrate irrefutably otherwise -- it's over.
Not so off-topic in the scheme of things:
ReplyDeleteFrom "moderate" Indonesia:
Guidelines on how to perform female genital mutilation/cutting issued by the Indonesian Ministry of Health could cause an increase in the practice, medical experts and rights groups fear.
“This will give doctors a new motivation to circumcise [girls] because now they can say the Ministry of Health approves of this, and the Indonesian Council of Ulema [MUI] approves of it,” said Jurnalis Uddin, a doctor and lecturer at Yarsi University in Jakarta.
Though FGM/C was banned in 2006, two of Indonesia’s Muslim organizations, including the largest and mostly moderate, Nahdlatul Ulama, ultimately condone the practice advising “not to cut too much,” [as did Mohammed according a Hadith] and, as a result, many continue to perform the procedure. [...]
Experts say there has been increasing support for the practice from Muslim groups since the downfall of authoritarian leader Suharto in 1998, resulting in greater religious and political freedom, known as “Reformasi”.
Source for the above story:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.thejakartaglobe.com/home/fears-indonesian-female-circumcision-guidelines-could-increase-practice/462996
Hesperado, sorry my blog has been dormant. I can talk about this briefly.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to know which "kind" of circumcision this is. Some excise the clitoris, others simply excise the clitoral hood. The latter is merely a prepuce and is comparable to male circumcision. The former is pure mutilation and should be banned everywhere.
I'm not a supporter of any kind of circumcision, mind you, and under most forms of Islamic law circumcision is considered beneficial but not wajib.