Posted on 12/01/2007 10:00:18 AM PST by knighthawk
There they go again. Like the avengers who vowed death to novelist Salman Rushdie for his affront to Islam, like those who slew Dutch filmmaker Theo Van Gogh for his, like the mobs who ran mindless riot across Europe in protest of cartoons they deemed offensive to their prophet, now tens of thousands of Sudanese Muslims are demanding the execution by firing squad of British schoolteacher Gillian Gibbons, who made the mistake of letting her 7-year-old charges name a teddy bear Muhammed.
Here is evidence afresh that at the heart of radical Islam there is tinder - so easily ignited by those whose business it is to whip up fury. And make no mistake, the rampage across Khartoum of sword-swinging crowds is no spontaneous uprising: It is an orchestrated exploitation by rabble-rousers who know how effortlessly they can channel popular rage to their own ends.
Indeed, already the Sudanese government appears to recognize how explosive this situation is: Yesterday, sentient enough to understand that any harm that might befall Gibbons will severely fray relations with Britain and the world, officials announced that the teacher has been quietly moved to a secret location, there to finish her 15-day jail sentence in safety before she is expelled from the country.
How bloody decent of the Sudanese regime. These are the same folks who have made a living hell of Darfur - 200,000 dead, 2 million displaced from their homes - and who are going out of their way to hinder even humanitarian aid.
As Khartoum was boiling with rage over the teddy bear, United Nations humanitarian chief John Holmes reported that Sudanese officials intimidated Darfuris as he sought to speak with them in a teeming refugee camp. At the same time, aid workers have been finding it difficult to get visas and travel permits.
"I think the security situation is probably worse now than it was eight months ago," Holmes said.
Back home in Britain, encouragingly, Muslim groups condemned Gibbons' conviction and imprisonment as a grotesque overreaction to a mild and fundamentally harmless misstep.
To the gratification of the British government, such organizations as the Muslim Council of Britain, the Federation of Student Islamic Societies and the Ramadhan Foundation - speaking for many thousands of Muslims in England and Ireland - professed themselves appalled and demanded Gibbons' quick release. And a Muslim member of Parliament is making a private trip to Khartoum in hopes of smoothing things out.
But all this plays out against Khartoum's political need to assert its own Islamic sovereignty with much of its own population. For the moment, let us merely trust that Gillian Gibbons remains safe behind bars and that mob rule does not get out of hand.
Ping
Either declare war or forget all these M Bear threads.
How about little pig dolls with “Mo Ham Made” on the side?
And people wonder why no progress comes to Africa.
For largely the same reason, that it has stalled out in so much of the world elsewhere.
For wherever a Muslim foot has trod, that is Muslim territory forever.
A very barbaric ideology, which makes Stalinism seem almost benign.
Those crowds chanting for the death of this little old English lady were being whipped up into an outrage in the mosques and were being led by the supposedly wise and sober imams.
No individual Muslim dares to say to the crowd, Stop, this is not how we want the world to see us, for he (or she) would be torn apart on the spot.
Fixed.
I thought about naming one of our pigs Mohammed, but thought it was a bit unfair to the pig.
We need to send over teddy-bear brigades of antiwar activists and other liberals (Democrats) to talk some sense into those rampaging mobs — just like they would’ve taken care of the Taliban and Saddam — if given first crack.
The President had his chance in Afghanistan and Iraq. Time to unleash the libs in Sudan and see what miracles they can wrought.
Where’s Cindy Sheehan, Ward Churchill and Al Sharpton when you really need them — at the front?
muslims prove everyday, the 7th and 21st century cannot live together.
You cannot be a muslim and be an American.
Wow...that story needs to be reprinted everyday in our nations newspapers...he is EXACTLY right.
My brother told me that out our church a gentleman who left Iraq under Saddam spoke about Islam. He is now a Christian and mirrored the words in this article I guess. The sheep of our country don’t understand that the Islamic beliefs are precisely what was stated, submit or else.
I don’t understand how people cannot grasp this concept.
And here again is fresh nonsense declaring that this is somehow the face of "radical" Islam. This is the face of "moderate" Islam. There is only one kind of Islam. These are normal everyday "moderate" muslims running around in the the thousands waving their swords calling for the death of a teacher for insulting a teddy bear by naming it Mohammad. It is not possible to "insult" Mohammad, he was a vile, murderous animal, a rapist, a pedophile, a thief Nd a liar. It is an insult to ones sensibilities to suggest that this vile person was a "prophet" to anyone except Satan.
You're probably right, but what that means is we need to kill millions of them, including millions of otherwise 'innocent' muslims.
Wake up...Islam is neither tolerant of other religions nor totally dedicated to peace. Islam after a brief Renaissance in 15th century Spain, retreated to literally the Dark Ages and has had neither a Reformation nor an Enlightenment to shape its world view.
A very barbaric ideology, which makes Stalinism seem almost benign.Did we back the wrong side in Afghanistan in 1979?
It's easy to get caught up in this when there's so little to convince one otherwise.
I do know a Muslim girl who is an American as well. She's a regular church goer now. She's the GF of a very good friend who's a devote Christian. She's from Turkey and is a prime example of what some people would call a moderate Muslim.
Why doesn't she openly advocate against the radical sects of Islam? I suspect that she's both terrified and too attached culturally to make the separation from her heritage. She's terribly upset about the advances the radicals are making in Turkey. She's said that the major cities are mostly bastions of sanity (although overcrowded now beyond belief.) The outskirts are "back to the 12th century" however, and she wouldn't venture to those areas without taking the precautions of actually wearing the culturally accepted garb.
She doesn't own a single burka stateside, to my knowledge. She reminds me of any of the bright, intelligent young ladies I went to college parties with. We'
I'm hoping my friend will marry her, and moreso that she'll accept Christ sooner than later. Suffice to say she has some barriers to overcome before that happens, but the consistent attendance to church is a great sign.
In the future, when Iraq becomes a modern republic, we'll need to reconcile ourselves with the fact that we've created another Islamic republic. Our soldiers have died in an effort that has resulted in a new Iraq. I completely agree that radical Islam must be crushed. Yet we are going to have to prepare ourselves to work with these nations in the future if we are ever to hope for cooperation in defeating the radical sects of Islam.
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