In this context above the brain is a better thing to smother than covering up the body.
Posted on 07/20/2005 8:34:45 PM PDT by Piefloater
Western liberals must rethink their attitudes towards the causes of religious tension, writes Miranda Devine.
AT LENNOX Head Public School on the North Coast, children have for decades recited a prayer at assembly. The prayer begins "O God Our Heavenly Father" and asks that the school be blessed "so that one day we may do great work for you, Australia and all mankind". Sentiments to be proud of. Only now the prayer has been dropped, pending a review, after complaints from a parent or two.
Keeping the sweet, uplifting words out of the school has become a holy mission for some, encouraged by The Daily Telegraph commentator and former primary school principal Maralyn Parker, who derided the prayer yesterday as "19th century Christian gobbledygook".
It seemed likely the NSW Education Department would bow again to the demands of the intolerant extreme - in this case, the radical secularists. Instead, it has sensibly allowed the school's parents and citizens committee to decide next month whether to restore the prayer or dump it for good, a department spokeswoman said yesterday.
Kowtowing to the unreasonable demands of intolerant minorities trying to impose their will on the majority is not going to safeguard Australia from "fanatical religious hate, exclusion, death and terror", as Parker seems to think. Quite the opposite.
Concepts of tolerance, freedom and loving one's neighbour as oneself don't exist in a vacuum, any more than "ethics" exist without a moral framework.
Trying to erase the long-established culture of Australia, permanently rooted as it is in the Judeo-Christian tradition, and replacing it with vapid, secularist nothingness is not going to help. It simply creates a vacuum for radical Islam to rush in and fill.
And it is doing its best. At the weekend, at Belmore Mosque, Melbourne's radical Sheik Mohammed Omran criticised Australia and its "half-naked" women, and predicted "they" would start turning Muslims against each other. "Don't believe this is a free country," he railed. "It's only a free country for the Bondi Beach people."
While responsible Muslim clerics such as Lakemba Mosque's mufti, Sheik Taj el-Din al Hilaly, have declared themselves firmly on the side of Australia against extremists and those who preach hate, there are other up-and-comers spreading a different message to young Sydney Muslims, warning against the evil temptations of decadent mainstream Australia.
The Sydney-born Sheik Feiz Mohammad of the Global Islamic Youth Centre in Liverpool made a name for himself in March when he told 1000 people at Bankstown Town Hall that rape victims have "no one to blame but themselves".
"A victim of rape every minute somewhere in the world," he said. "Why? No one to blame but herself. She displayed her beauty to the entire world … strapless, backless, sleeveless, nothing but satanic skirts, slit skirts, translucent blouses, miniskirts, tight jeans … to tease man and appeal to his carnal nature."
He later apologised after a fashion, but the fact remains that he has a big following of young men who are open to the idea that they are separate and superior to a corrupt and decadent Australian culture whose women are sluts.
The Australian-born young Muslim gang rapists who plagued Sydney a few years ago were said by police to have deliberately targeted non-Muslim "Australian" girls and referred to one victim as an "Aussie pig". They were also avid consumers of internet pornography. The London bombers, mostly British-born, Muslim, middle-class, educated and newly devout, were also said to hold contempt for what they regarded as a decadent British culture whose women they saw as no better than prostitutes.
The American commentator Thomas Friedman, exploring why so many young angry Sunni Muslim males are prepared to become suicide bombers, writes: "They are, on the one hand, tempted by Western society, and ashamed of being tempted."
Their inner conflict leads them to become vulnerable to terrorist recruiters and the kind of hate-talk found in books for sale at Islamist fundamentalist bookshops in Lakemba and Melbourne, praising Osama bin Laden as a hero and suicide bombing as noble.
The increasing permissiveness of Western culture, coupled with a multiculturalism that encourages ethnic ghettoes, can only fuel the inner conflicts of alienated young Muslim men.
And with secularists hell-bent on removing any religious influence, no matter how benign, from daily life, it is no wonder that decadent displays in the Big Brother Uncut tradition now seem commonplace, and fashion increasingly aims to make little girls look like hookers. This is the view of Australian culture that causes traditional Muslims and Christians alike to pull away.
As Salmaan, a Muslim Australian, told me in an email recently: "Most Muslims who have migrated to this country have been shocked by how universal values [and] gender etiquettes lasting a thousand years have been tossed aside in an orgiastic free for all in the last 20.
"This is not what my parents expected when they came to this country. I am also sure that this is not what John Locke envisaged when he championed individual liberty."
Left-liberals are always banging on about "root causes" of terrorism, generally finding the United States and "Western imperialism" to blame; most recently they have claimed Britain's involvement in the Iraq war prompted the latest atrocity in London.
But they dare not confront this possible root cause of young Muslim male rage in their own countries and their own role in fomenting hatred of Western values.
I hate to break it to the author, but Muslim rage burns everywhere! That's all they have: rage and fear and hatred!
"A victim of rape every minute somewhere in the world," he said. "Why? No one to blame but herself"
This is sadly Islam's view of women--it is always the women who are tempting men; hence, the need for them to be covered up, in order to protect men from temptation.
This is right on.
One cannot discount the fact that clever and subtle bribery is an honorable Arab technique for controlling behaviour. From that undisputed fact follows the possibility that for at least twenty years, Arab interests have been clandestinely (the best way) bribing Western journalists, filmmakers, etc. to do the things that corrupt the Western culture.
In this context above the brain is a better thing to smother than covering up the body.
This photo is a perfect example of the insanity of Islam.
I thought this is a picture from Star Wars..
The True God I know and i worship is the God who loves me and my sister and my mother, my neighbor's mom and sis and all women...he does not allow them to wear this kind of stuff...:-)
With this phrase, and this phrase only, I agree. Most Christians do agree that a certain degree of modesty is valuable and that our daughters shouldn't be running around dressed like child porn-stars.
That photo is of Islam's Matrix for women.
I hereby nominate this bloke as crocodile food.
I have long ceased having a care about what these creatures think, feel, fear, or care about anymore:
Islam, The Alleged Religion of Peace® ( TARP™ )? Click this picture:
No, I am not exaggerating.
I am not joking- this is life and death, freedom versus slavery that we are talking about.
Click the pic, go to "last," and read backwards.
If you are not informed about this stuff, you will be made sick. If you are informed, you will be made mad, all over again.
...and then, there's this little matter still on the books, waiting to be accounted for:
Where It's 9-11 All the Time...
Click the picture...
"Where it's nine-eleven all the time
and no Sun sets, and no clocks chime
where no voice speaks and no bird trills
the Moon hangs frozen o'er the hills
The winds are still, they seem to say,
Reflect, remember, stop to pray..."
"Imam's fiery message speaks to radical British Muslims"
I wrote this some time ago, and while I wish I could change what is said, I cannot retract a single word of it:
From my file, "Fire & Blood & Iron:"
The entire West ( dare I say "the civilized World?" ) is locked in a fight to the death with militant Islam.
There will be no second-place winner, no "third way" solution-- it is March or Die time, folks.
It is Us versus an eighth-century "culture" of plunder & pillage, forced religious "conversions," and the mistreatment of women.
The sooner we face up to this fact realistically and quit dancing around PC talking-point nonsense about diversity and tolerance, the better off we'll all be.
We did not pick this fight- which really has roots in Jimmy Carter's appeasement in 1979 of militants- but we had damned well better see it for what it is, and be prepared to face it and finish it.
I'll put it in raw, personal terms-- I don't want Sharia law visited upon my women, and I don't want a goat-roper "culture" infesting my land.
I don't want their vile, nasty, loathsome weapons of mass destruction loosed upon my fair country, either.
They picked the fight, and now it is up to us to finish it- balls to the wall, hammer and anvil, fire and blood and iron... freedom is never, ever free, and the coin you pay it in is men's lives and tears and blood.
What we saw during Gulf War I was our military doctrine ( high tech ) versus Soviet doctrine ( throw a lot of low tech iron at the problem )-- and we all know how that turned out.
What we saw in the 3-Week War is Information-Tech,
( What some are calling it Hyperwarfare... )
or 21st Century warfare versus 20th Century...
What I would suggest, and call your attention to, is the fact that we, and Israel, are capable of waging 21st Century warfare, and the entire Arab world is not.
Proven fact, by recent events.
One more thing- this will be a war where we are all called to be warriors- so I very strongly suggest to you that the time has come to get hard, and stay hard... it really is the time for Fire and Blood and Iron...
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