Imagine inviting someone into your home on a nice summer day and after a few minutes of pleasantries your "guest" launches into a diatribe about how your furniture is terrible, your decorating sucks, the meal had better be something he likes and can eat, why do you allow your daughters to run around in bathing suits?, and why does your wife have to join in our conversation or for that matter, be in the same room? Then, when you ask him to leave he calls you a racist and an intolerant bastard...
Judeoscope.ca notes an article in the Montreal Muslim News on Australian Treasurer Peter Costello’s statement that Muslim immigrants should adapt to Australian values, in which the author expresses utter contempt for Western civilization: link: 129 comments "Calling on Muslim to embrace western values, or in this case Australian values, is merely coded speech calling on us to leave our faith." " The "faith" that condones polygamy, genocide, lying, slavery, and an inability to coexist with others?" This actually says, "We are the Borg."
Fine.
Keep your faith and get the hell out.
With all due respect I've had it up to here with Allah and and all of his f*cking demands.
Remember the days of the so-called "Ugly American"? Can we simply reverse it, and say the "Ugly Muslim"?
Islamism is irreconcilable with western values.
Although some civilized people would dispute this assertion, the Islamists are proud to insist upon it...
At Canada Free Press, an article by David J. Jonsson raises some serious issues with the UAE port deal I have not seen discussed elsewhere: Dubai Ports — Strategic Implications. (Hat tip: Newsbeat1.) Read the whole thing... link: 295 comments |
If you’re unaware of its context, this New York Times editorial might seem amazingly clear-headed: Silenced by Islamist Rage.
Typical "I am right behind you" 'leadership'.
Do they think people are so stupid that we'd forget that when the time to stand up and be counted came they hid?
Have these morons heard of the blogosphere? Don't they know that they are being watched now?
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I'm glad the NY Times never published the cartoons. It simply forced everyone to go online and see them there. It drove more readers away from the Times to the blogosphere. I've had well over a million visitors to the Archive in February. That's a million people that didn't go to the Times site. Continue your headlong plunge into irrelevance, MSM. Be my guest. |
UPDATE at 2/25/06 5:03:41 pm:
Another reaction to this jawdropper of an editorial at All Things Beautiful.
More comments at Captain’s Quarters.
Judith Apter Klinghoffer says the New York Times’ chutzpah takes the cake.
Michelle Malkin’s stomach is churning.
Muslims seethe anyway...
The New York Times Rubbing Salt into Muslim Wounds
One of my favorite bloggers, Egyptian Sandmonkey, covered this yesterday.
February 28, 2006
Salman Rushdie, Ayaan Hirsi Ali et al Slam Islamic Totalitarianism
Filed under: islamo-fascists, censorship, mohammed cartoons, muhammed cartoons, muhammad cartoons, iran, islamic countries, egypt, pakistan, dhimmification, dhimmi, turkey, sudan
This just in, stay tuned as the story develops. I think we’ll be seeing people die in the coming days. You know, from "reactions"….
Update: This will be brought in the French weekly Charlie Hebdo tomorrow, Wednesday. Charlie Hebdo has urged other papers to print it, as a show of solidarity. (Via: Jyllands-Posten)
Update: That means you, people. Republish this everywhere.
Update: Follow the reactions in the blogosphere at the bottom of this post.
Update: Though I am much flattered by the praise, I didn’t do the translation. I just cut’n'pasted from Jyllands-Posten’s website.
MANIFESTO:
Together facing the new totalitarianism
After having overcome fascism, Nazism, and Stalinism, the world now faces a new totalitarian global threat: Islamism.
We, writers, journalists, intellectuals, call for resistance to religious totalitarianism and for the promotion of freedom, equal opportunity and secular values for all.
The recent events, which occurred after the publication of drawings of Muhammed in European newspapers, have revealed the necessity of the struggle for these universal values. This struggle will not be won by arms, but in the ideological field. It is not a clash of civilisations nor an antagonism of West and East that we are witnessing, but a global struggle that confronts democrats and theocrats.
Like all totalitarianisms, Islamism is nurtured by fears and frustrations. The hate preachers bet on these feelings in order to form battalions destined to impose a liberticidal and unegalitarian world. But we clearly and firmly state: nothing, not even despair, justifies the choice of obscurantism, totalitarianism and hatred. Islamism is a reactionary ideology which kills equality, freedom and secularism wherever it is present. Its success can only lead to a world of domination: man’s domination of woman, the Islamists’ domination of all the others. To counter this, we must assure universal rights to oppressed or discriminated people.
We reject « cultural relativism », which consists in accepting that men and women of Muslim culture should be deprived of the right to equality, freedom and secular values in the name of respect for cultures and traditions. We refuse to renounce our critical spirit out of fear of being accused of "Islamophobia", an unfortunate concept which confuses criticism of Islam as a religion with stigmatisation of its believers.
We plead for the universality of freedom of expression, so that a critical spirit may be exercised on all continents, against all abuses and all dogmas.
We appeal to democrats and free spirits of all countries that our century should be one of Enlightenment, not of obscurantism.
12 signatures
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Chahla Chafiq
Caroline Fourest
Bernard-Henri Lévy
Irshad Manji
Mehdi Mozaffari
Maryam Namazie
Taslima Nasreen
Salman Rushdie
Antoine Sfeir
Philippe Val
Ibn Warraq
Presentations:
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, from somilian origin, is member of Dutch parliement, member of the liberal party VVD. Writter of the film Submission which caused the assasination of Theo Van Gogh by an islamist in november 2004, she lives under police protection.
Chahla Chafiq
Chahla Chafiq, writer from iranian origin, exiled in France is a novelist and an essayist. She’s the author of "Le nouvel homme islamiste , la prison politique en Iran " (2002). She also wrote novels such as "Chemins et brouillard" (2005).
Caroline Fourest
Essayist, editor in chief of Prochoix (a review who defend liberties against dogmatic and integrist ideologies), author of several reference books on « laicité » and fanatism : Tirs Croisés : la laïcité à l’épreuve des intégrismes juif, chrétien et musulman (with Fiammetta Venner), Frère Tariq : discours, stratégie et méthode de Tariq Ramadan, et la Tentation obscurantiste (Grasset, 2005). She receieved the National prize of laicité in 2005.
Bernard-Henri Lévy
French philosoph, born in Algeria, engaged against all the XXth century « ism » (Fascism, antisemitism, totalitarism, terrorism), he is the author of La Barbarie à visage humain, L’Idéologie française, La Pureté dangereuse, and more recently American Vertigo.
Irshad Manji
Irshad Manji is a Fellow at Yale University and the internationally best-selling author of "The Trouble with Islam Today: A Muslim’s Call for Reform in Her Faith" (en francais: "Musulmane Mais Libre"). She speaks out for free expression based on the Koran itself. Née en Ouganda, elle a fui ce pays avec sa famille musulmane d’origine indienne à l’âge de quatre ans et vit maintenant au Canada, où ses émissions et ses livres connaissent un énorme succès.
Mehdi Mozaffari
Mehdi Mozaffari, professor from iranian origin and exiled in Denmark, is the author of several articles and books on islam and islamism such as : Authority in Islam: From Muhammad to Khomeini, Fatwa: Violence and Discourtesy and Glaobalization and Civilizations.
Maryam Namazie
Writer, TV International English producer; Director of the Worker-communist Party of Iran’s International Relations; and 2005 winner of the National Secular Society’s Secularist of the Year award.
Taslima Nasreen
Taslima Nasreen is born in Bangladesh. Doctor, her positions defending women and minorities brought her in trouble with a comittee of integrist called « Destroy Taslima » and to be persecuted as « apostate »
Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie is the author of nine novels, including Midnight’s Children, The Satanic Verses and, most recently, Shalimar the Clown. He has received many literary awards, including the Booker Prize, the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel, Germany’s Author of the Year Award, the European Union’s Aristeion Prize, the Budapest Grand Prize for Literature, the Premio Mantova, and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature. He is a Commandeur of the Ordre des Arts et Lettres, an Honorary Professor in the Humanities at M.I.T., and the president of PEN American Center. His books have been translated into over 40 languages.
Philippe Val
Director of publication of Charlie Hebdo (Leftwing french newspaper who have republished the cartoons on the prophet Muhammad by solidarity with the danish citizens targeted by islamists).
Ibn Warraq
Ibn Warraq , author notably of Why I am Not a Muslim ; Leaving Islam : Apostates Speak Out ; and The Origins of the Koran , is at present Research Fellow at a New York Institute conducting philological and historical research into the Origins of Islam and its Holy Book.
Antoine Sfeir
Born in Lebanon, christian, Antoine Sfeir choosed french nationality to live in an universalist and « laïc » (real secular) country. He is the director of Les cahiers de l’Orient and has published several reference books on islamism such as Les réseaux d’Allah (2001) et Liberté, égalité, Islam : la République face au communautarisme (2005).
International Media Coverage:
Al Jazeera
Independent Online, ZA
Mail & Guardian Online, ZA
Reactions from the Blogosphere:
Atlas Shrugs: "A Manifesto Slams Islamic Totalitarianism"
Pamela adds: Heads are gonna roll………..no pun intended.
My Pet Jawa: "A Manifesto Against Islamofascism"
Jawa adds: Add my name.
Vince Aut Morire: "I’ll Take Your Fatwa And Raise You A Manifesto"
Vince adds: Throw my name on there too.
The Stockholm Spectator: "Rushdie’s Manifesto to Be Printed Tomorrow"
Moynihan adds: Riots to follow, no doubt.
No Pasaran!: "File under: freedom"
Michelle Malkin: "A Manifesto Against Islamism"
Michelle adds: Show Sammenhold. Spread the word far and wide.
Johan Norberg: "Against the New Totalitarians"
Snouck Hurgronje: "Liberal Jihad"
Snouck adds: In order to win the respect of a Muslim, you stand up to him. Death or Victory!"
Queer Conservative: "We Must All Hang Together, Or Assuredly We Shall All Hang Separately"
Captain’s Quarters: "The New Totalitarian Threat"
CQ adds: Salman Rushdie knows firsthand what Islamism has done to free expression. His inclusion in this effort by Charlie Hebdo in France shows a unity that others in the media would do well to emulate.
Small Town Veteran: "Salman Rushdie, Ayaan Hirsi Ali et al: Together facing the new totalitarianism"
SMT adds: Add my name too, Rusty. Islamism delenda est! Death before dhimmitude.
PBS Watch: "No Retreat, No Surrender"
PBS adds: These people are putting their lives on the line. They deserve our support. Pass the word, republish this on your blog. If you have influence with print or electronic media, get them to publish the manifesto and the cartoons.
A Tic In The Mind’s Eye: "On Board With This!"
Tic adds: In support and solidiarity for and with my fellow artists and writers I post this manifesto for freedom of speech printed by Læs Jyllands-Postens.
JunkYardBlog: "Militant Islam and Children"
JYB adds: This is about the only response any freedom-loving person can have to an ideology that goes out of its way to abuse and kill children and destroy everything it comes into contact with. Islamism destroys nations, faiths, families, lives, freedom itself. Read the rest. And sign me up.
The Anti-Corn Law League: "MANIFESTO: Together facing the new totalitarianism"
TACLL adds: Salman Rushdie has more cojones than 10 other men put together.
Slapstick Politics: "A 21st Century Manifesto For Freedom"
House Of The Dog: "A Manifesto Against Islamism"
Little Green Footballs: "A Manifesto Against Islamic Totalitarianism"
LGF adds: And you can add my name to that list.
Tim Blair: "Resistance"
Stop The Aclu: "A Manifesto Against Islamism"
STA adds: What can one say to such a magnificently written, and clear cut message. Wake up America! We are talking about freedom here! Add my name to the list!
FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog: "Muhammad Caricature Watch: Manifesto Against ISLAMISM"
FFDB adds: Spread the Word…… Write and ask these newspapers to print and sign the Manifesto:
New York Times
Washington Post
Los Angeles Times
Oh, and don’t bet the farm on a favorable reply………
The Belmont Club: "Blowback"
Belmont adds: This represents a substantial — but not a total — departure from the strategic idea of treating Islam as a religion of peace and focusing on a narrow group of miscreants within it as the true enemy. The Manifesto shifts the definition of the enemy from a group of people to an ideology. If Jim Geraghty is right the threat to the President’s original strategic focus comes not from a single party or even from the his traditional opponents on the Left, but a kind of populist mood swing engendered by a cumulative disenchantment.
GM’s Corner: "Manifesto Against The New Totalitarianism"
GM adds: Captain Ed and Agora believe that this Manifesto deserves the widest possible circulation. I agree. For those that do not believe that Islamism or Islamofascism is the greatest threat to world peace at the present time, please read this and ponder its message.
Floyd Stuart: "Relegate them to the dustbin of history"
Floyd adds: Salmaan Rushdie and Dutch MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali are among twelve signers of a statement making a resounding denunciation of Islamism. Here’s a jarring left hook.
Tipping Points: "Manifesto Against Islamism!"
TP adds: Michelle Malkin is on it. You can add my name any time you want, guys.
Gateway Pundit: "A Manifesto Against Islamic Totalitarianism"
GP adds: Brave World Writers and Intellectuals Make a Stand Against Islamofascism […] Earlier this month, Charlie Hebdo published the Danish cartoons together with one it had commissioned for its cover showing the Prophet Muhammad muttering, "It’s hard to be loved by morons."
A Blog For All: "The Manifesto Against Islamist Totalitarianism"
ABFA adds: This is one posting that deserves very wide distribution. The twelve people who wrote and signed their names to this letter know first hand what totalitarianism and militant Islam can do in the name of their religious views. It will be interesting to see how big media outlets cover this particular story.[…]As Charles said, I sign my name to this letter as well.
The Party Line: "Together facing the new totalitarianism"
Aaron adds: You can add my name as well.
Strong As An Ox And Nearly As Smart: "Salman Rushdie, Ayaan Hirsi Ali et al Slam Islamic Totalitarianism"
Michael adds: They can protest all they want. Damn, that’s the American way! But threats mean no respect, and violence means that they are disrepecting their own religion far more than an Infidel like I could. If there is an Allah, He has got to be wondering how His work got so screwed up, especially since nothing is supposed to happen without His OK.
The Asylum: "A Manifesto Against Radical Islam"
Syd & Vaugn adds: And once again I say: Sign us onto this manifesto.
The Stoner Pundit: "Couldn’t have said it better"
Andrés Gentry: "Together facing the new totalitarianism"
Myopic Thoughts: "Resistance To Totalitarianism"
Norton adds: The world has seem a number of ideologies that are forms of totalitarianism. Islamism is the totalitarianism that threatens us today.
Tongues of Angels: "A Manifesto Against Islamism"
LTA adds: Bravo.
Instapundit: "A Manifesto Against The New Islamic Totalitarianism"
Glenn adds: Bravo.
Blue Star Chronicles: "Manifesto Against Islam"
Beth adds: Solidarity. The 12 people who wrote and signed this document know very well the risk they take. We need to send a clear message that they don’t stand alone.
Stuck On Stupid: "Manifesto Against Islamist Totalitarianism"
SOS adds: Never Forget 9.1.1
Elder of Ziyon: "A Manifesto Against Islamic Totalitarianism"
EoZ adds: This manifesto is a proper response to the immature and absurd riots that have broken out, meant to show Muslims are not totally impotent. The West needs to understand the threat posed by political Islam and Islamism. Let us hope that other newspapers have the guts to publish and support this.
Freie Gedanken: "Manifest gegen den neuen Totalitarismus"
FG adds: Mehr gibt es dazu nicht zu sagen. Wahrscheinlich ist die Zeit reif dafür, dass es ein Grossteil der Leute begreift.
The Volokh Conspiracy: "Salman Rushdie, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Bernard-Henri Lévy, and Others"
Steel Deal: "They Should Know"
SD adds: I take them at their word - so should the WORLD.
My Fleeting Thoughts: "MANIFESTO: Together facing the new totalitarianism"
Maximum Advantage Discussed: "Worthless Whores"
SRL adds: Salman Rushdie would know.
Crossing the Rubicon2: "Spreading Quickly Through Political Blogs…"
CTR2 adds: Brave? Foolhardy? We will have to watch the scenario unfold
Protein Wisdom: "A Manifesto Against Islamic Totalitarianism"
PW adds: Yes, I’m thrilled to see others engaging in the same type of argument, which points out the structural problems within the Islamic worldview itself and recognizes the need to counter this structural deficiencies with memetics of western liberalism—namely, the promotion of “universal” individual rights as a counter to pernicious group-based collectivist politicking.
Wizbang!: "Standing up to Islamic Totalitarianism"
Wizbang adds: These 12 brave souls.
Simi Valley Sophist: "Islamism-A Global Threat & the Manifesto"
SVS adds: Many writers, scholars and commentators are on the forefront of recognizing Islamism as the totalitarian challenge of the 21st century. But, it takes a special courage to speak out against Islamism when you come from countries and cultures that are spawning Islamism.
The Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: "While The American Lamestream Media Are Cowering Under Their Desks…"
Misha adds: …a dozen European writers, journalists and intellectuals, Salman Rushdie among them, have decided to stand up and be counted.
Musings of the Geek with a .45: "They Almost Get It Right…"
MOTGWA45 adds: They plead. They plead to the same dark forces they decry "for the universality of freedom of expression, so that a critical spirit may be exercised on all continents, against all abuses and all dogmas." That’s not how it works.
Freedom’s Truth & Liberating Iraq: "A Manifesto Against ‘Islamism’"
FT adds: Sign me up as well.
Snarking Dawg: "Twelve Infidels on Twelve Infidelities"
Dawg adds: Jyllands-Posten, the courageous Danish magazine which originally published the infamous cartoons has served another volley in the form of a manifesto signed by twelve intellectuals, each of whom have had their own unique engagements with Islamism.
I Am, Therefore I Think: "Add My Name, Too"
Sum, Ergo Cogito adds: Having already published the Dirty Dozen cartoons, I now add my own assent to the statement signed by Salman Rushdie, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, and ten other prominent figures who find themselves targeted by radical Islamists.
Urbangrounds: "A Manifesto Against Islam"
Urbangrounds adds: I proudly add my own name to this list in full, unwaivering support of this manifesto.
Hyperstition: "The Desert Grows …"
Hyperstition adds: Lights going out in Europe. Update: Manifesto against Islamic Totalitarianism.
The Dread Pundit Bluto: "A Manifesto Against Totalitarianism"
Bluto adds: Add The Dread Pundit Bluto to the list, with one proviso - I don’t "plead" for freedom of expression, I demand it.
Merry Musings: "Manifesto for Two, Please"
MM adds: Please, sign me up. Vinnie, my dear, you need some competition for your fatwa.
California Patriot: "Manifesto against Islamic Totalitarianism"
Patrick adds: Blogs from all over the world are republishing the document as a show of solidarity. It’s Islam Awareness Week on the Berkeley campus. Perhaps this is the perfect time to discuss this issue. Let’s prove the Daily Cal wrong: symbolic gestures can play an important part in this great debate.
JasonColeman: "A Manifesto for the new millennium…"
JC adds: As an atheist, it makes perfect sense for me to agree with this. As an American, it makes even more sense. As a product of Western Civilization, it makes even more. As one human among 6.5 billion others, even more. In fact, I can’t find a single solitary reason to disagree with any of this. So I’ll make it mine and add my name to the list. Mr. Rushdie and others, I’m proud to stand with you.
The Infidelphian Outpost: "Manifesto to the World (sign it, if you dare)"
Jauhara al-Kafirah adds: "This is important. Read the following statement. INTERNALIZE IT ALL!! Republish it on your blog, pass it around. Make everyone aware of it and goldurnit..SIGN IT!"
The Political Pit Bull: "Standing Up To Islamism"
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