Posted on 12/01/2007 12:13:05 PM PST by mojito
Islamofascism: Just when you thought Islam's skin couldn't get any thinner, angry Muslims from Khartoum to London want to execute a British teacher over a blasphemous teddy bear.
Our Muslim community is not calling for her head, but neither is any major Muslim leader rushing to her defense. Such indifference only feeds negative stereotypes and suspicions.
Is it any wonder almost half of Americans believe Islam is more likely than other religions to encourage violence against nonbelievers?
A Sudanese demonstrator carries a sword as he attends a protest in Khartoum on Friday denouncing a verdict handed down to a British school teacher accused of insulting Islam. Sudan jailed the British teacher for 15 days for allowing her students to name a teddy bear Muhammed. But that's not enough for Muslim mobs.
Thousands of Sudanese brandishing machetes and clubs demanded the woman's execution. "Kill her, kill her," one large group chanted as they piled out of a mosque.
British Muslims also want Gillian Gibbons punished more severely, according to the BBC. She avoided the more serious punishment of 40 lashes only after the British embassy pleaded for mercy.
This comes just weeks after a Saudi court sentenced a rape victim to 200 lashes plus six months in jail.
Washington, in typical understatement concerning such Islamic outrages, called the bear jihad an "overreaction." But it seems Muslims always overreact to perceived slights, whether it's rioting over cartoons of Muhammed, beauty pageants or mishandled copies of the Quran.
Is violence integral to Islam? It's a valid question. When the pope raised it, Muslims proved him wrong by threatening to cut off his head. Message: Don't call us intolerant or we'll kill you.
If this sounds "Islamophobic," a favorite retort of the Muslim-rights group CAIR, straighten us out. We looked for a condemnation of the Sudanese troglodytes on its Web site and came up short.
We did, however, find "Action Alerts" calling on Muslims to boycott radio host Michael Savage for intolerance. Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani and the Washington Times were also singled out for attack.
Meanwhile, CAIR is hosting a panel discussion at the National Press Club on "Islamophobia and the Political Cartoon." Apparently CAIR, like other Muslim groups, condones violent reactions to free speech.
CAIR encourages Muslims in America to improve the coverage of Islam in the media. It says they should break the stereotype of Muslims as terrorists, and that of Islam as "archaic, barbaric, irrational" and a "religion of violence."
Well, what are you waiting for? Condemn the Islamic court's punishment of an innocent teacher. Certainly CAIR doesn't agree that naming a toy animal after the Muslim prophet is a crime just because it could be considered by the most extremist hard-liner to be an insult. Or does it?
The vast majority of Americans would change their negative view of Islam if Muslims would strongly condemn such extremism. But for some reason, they won't do it.
Until they do, they can't complain about Islamophobia.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1933163/posts
NOW and others are hiding from this issue too.
It is a sad commentary on American intelligence that only about half the country understands Islam is violent. It preaches violence. It rewards violence. It only survives where freedom is destroyed.
I guess 50% of the country connects all of the killing that Muslims do in the name of Islam, and the childish justification they give for it with "violence". The other 50% will have their heads cut off before they give in to the politically incorrect notion that Muslims are any more violent than the Amish.
The muslims in the US appear to be moderate, but make no mistake, if they were a majority here, we’d have sharia law and I’ll give you a few guesses as to how they would treat infidels, women and other religions here.
This so called religion of peace only has one reputation, one of death, submission, rape, and conquest.
I really don’t think that reputation is at stake.
In truth, plenty of Muslims do not agree with the horrid treatment of this teacher. The author of this story should have done a little checking. It took me two seconds to pull these up.
The Muslim Canadian Congress is organizing a teddy bear mail-in to protest Sudan’s imprisonment of Gillian Gibbons, a British schoolteacher.
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=136705
Multiple Muslim groups in the U.K. have condemned the sentence. Even the popular little boy in Mrs. Gibbons’ class who suggested the name for the bear came to her defense, explaining that he named the bear after himself.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,314401,00.html
What would it mean if CAIR said all the right words?
http://www.foxnews.com/photoessay/0,4644,2794,00.html
religion of pieces
Considering that this is an empirical fact, it is a wonder that the vast majority of Americans (and everybody else) doesn't recognize it.
It's quite clear what it means when they don't.
Yes, it's a wonder. Less than half? I'm disappointed it isn't close to 100%.
Many males in Mexico are named Jesus.
And they ain’t teddy bears.
err... That train left the station a long time ago.
Now the only question is that now that we 'understand' enough about this 'cult' -- what do we do about it?
I wonder what these bastards will do with me? I name a turd “mohammed” every morning. Right before I flush...
Are there Muslims who regard the depredations of the radicals with horror and disgust? Of course there are - I know a half dozen or so. CAIR doesn't want to know them. They aren't useful enough.
Gives me an idea: Mohammad hankies.
A teddy bear mail-in? This should not be necessary. The muslim government where this woman is held should be protecting her - should never have given her a sentence. Why did the muslim government sentence her at all?
What of all the British parents who’ve named their spawn Mohammed this year! Seems the crazed mobs aren’t doing their job! Beatings should be scheduled for weekends, so that parents can be stoned and not miss work!
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