Posted on 04/13/2008 2:40:58 PM PDT by Doctor13
While the United Nations has disgraced itself over the years with sporadic eruptions of the first three negatives, it added another one last March 28 when its Human Rights Council passed a disturbing resolution that directs the bodys expert on free speech to report on individuals and news media for negative comments on Islam. In effect, the UN will now become the Islamic worlds censorship watchdog, snooping out undefined acts of Islamophobia around the globe.
No other religion is covered by the Muslim-backed resolution that will most likely see the curtailing of free speech in some countries. But perhaps more ominously, although the UNHRC has no power of enforcement, lists of alleged malefactors will be drawn up, giving the Councils recent action a definite, totalitarian ring.
Motioned by Egypt and Pakistan, not the sturdiest pillars of human rights themselves, and supported by Islamic and African countries, the resolution passed by a 32-0 vote. Muslim countries were upset by the Danish cartoons, published in 2005, depicting the prophet Muhammad and have been demanding limitations on free speech since then. The recent release of the Geert Wilders film, Fitna, reinforced their insistence on such restrictions, which FrontPage Magazine columnist Robert Spencer says are all part of the 57-member Organization of the Islamic Conferences strategy to protect Islam from alleged defamation.
Journalist Caroline Glick wrote in her column in the Jewish World Review that the United Nations had violated its own Declaration of Human Rights, which guarantees freedom of expression, when it passed the March 28 resolution. Glick also pointed out that it was surprising when the UNHRCs European members abstained from the vote, since they are such staunch supporters of the UN.
By abstaining, the European nations, those supposed bastions of human rights and free speech (especially when it comes to blaspheming Christianity), simply showed what moral cowards they truly are, putting their dhimmi status on display once more in failing to stand up to Islamic bullying.
Several countries that still have a backbone did speak out against this atrocious violation of human rights and freedom of expression. The United States, which does not have a seat on the 47-nation UNHRC but has observer status, did not stay silent. Warren Tichenor, Americas ambassador in Geneva, told the body: The resolution seeks to impose restrictions on individuals rather than to emphasize the duty and responsibility of governments to guarantee, uphold, promote and protect human rights.
A Canadian delegate supported Tichenors view with his statement: The job of a special rapporteur is not to police the action of individuals.
But that is exactly what is going to happen. Up until now, the duty of the UNHRCs free speech watchdog was to report on efforts by despotic governments and dictatorships (like many of those on the UNs Human Rights Council) to restrict freedom of expression. With the March 28 resolution, the tip of the spear has now been turned around against individuals, like Wilders and the Danish cartoonists, who practise their basic right to freely express themselves.
Western observers also believe the resolution will give repressive regimes, both Islamic and non-Islamic, a further excuse to crack down on dissent in their own countries. But even worse, it will give such states an opportunity to meddle in the affairs of democratic countries, using a phoney victim status as cover for their aggression.
In defence of the resolution, Muslim representatives like Pakistans ambassador, Masood Khan, said the measure was only trying to make freedom of expression responsible, while protecting Islam from its worst practices that only defame the Muslim faith and incite religious hatred and racism.
But if Islamic countries passed this resolution to protect religion from hatred and intolerance, then they and their motion have a severe credibility problem. Muslim discrimination against other religions in Islamic countries has been well documented. For example, in Pakistan and Egypt, the two countries that proposed the anti-free speech motion, Christians are a persecuted minority.
In Pakistan, according to a story in the German newspaper, Die Welt, a form of religious apartheid is practised against Christians, who are regarded as fair game for those who wish to maltreat them. While Muslim women need four male witnesses to convict a man who rapes them, a Muslim man who rapes a Christian woman is never convicted. As well, the persecution has become so intolerable Christians have committed suicide in Pakistani courtrooms in front of judges out of protest.
Caroline Glick writes that, in Egypt, the persecution of the Christian Coptic Church has been institutionalized and liberal critics of the Egyptian government have been silenced. In both countries, Muslim persecution even extends to fellow Muslims who wish to leave Islam, since this could result in their deaths.
Calling for religious tolerance and responsible freedom of expression in international forums is obviously much easier than practicing it at home. The scene in the film Fitna where a three-year-old girl says she learned from the Koran that Jews are monkeys and pigs is all one really needs to know about the true attitude toward these two virtues the UNHRCs Islamic countries are espousing.
But this incredible hypocrisy does not stop at the United Nations and at the borders of Islamic countries. Last month, just prior to Easter weekend, the president of Libya, Muammar Gaddafi, insulted Christians and Jews worldwide when he went to Uganda and called the Bible a forgery.
In a country that is 85 per cent Christian, the Libyan leader told Ugandan Muslims in a stadium where they had gathered to celebrate the prophet Muhammads birthday that since the Bible did not mention Muhammad, it was not the real Bible, because both Moses and Jesus had foretold the coming of Islams prophet.
The Bible we have now is not the one that was revealed to Issa (Jesus) and the Old Testament is not the one that was revealed to Musa (Moses). It means that it has been forged, Gaddafi said, adding the real Bible has yet to be discovered.
Unsurprisingly, there was no angry outcry from fellow Muslim leaders over Gadaffis hurtful remarks. No members of the OIC, which strongly condemned the Geert Wilders film and to which Libya belongs, censured Gaddafi and called him to account. Neither did any of those abstaining European countries or even the Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, who called Fitna offensively anti-Islamic.
Just imagine, though, if Australias or Canadas prime minister had called the Koran a forgery. Islamic moral outrage and European condemnation would know no boundaries. Cyprian Kizito, the Catholic archbishop of Kampala, Ugandas capital, rightly pointed out: Had the Christians said something similar about the Koran, there would have been war.
But while the religious feelings of Ugandas Christians were deeply hurt by their Muslim guest, who had arrived in their country to open a new mosque, their peaceful, non-violent response was instructive.
I hope by doing this, we shall be giving a lesson to our Muslim brothers to always stay calm, said a Ugandan bishop.
But it is a safe bet that the Ugandan example is a lesson the OIC and the Muslim-dominated UNHRC will never learn, let alone take to heart.
Stephen Brown is a columnist for Frontpagemag.com. A scholar and former news reporter, his field of expertise is Muslim forced marriages and honor killings. Email him at alsolzh@hotmail.com.
Gaddaffi is deluded by mad mo - and he doth err ...
The Koran / Hadiths on Jews, Christians, Christianity, Jesus Christ, the Gospel,
The Deity of Christ, the Holy Trinity, the Bible (the Book) and Infidels
Note: Because of variances in korans, some verses may be slightly off in different versions. For example, 3:85 is found as 3:84 in certain korans. Also, since the events of 9/11/2001, the University of Michigan has tried to sanitize some of the following passages by changing the word jihad to battle though the obvious context of the passages remains abundantly clear.
Reference URLs
http://www.hti.umich.edu/k/koran/
http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/reference/searchhadith.html
The Women [4.89] They desire that you should disbelieve as they have disbelieved, so that you might be (all) alike; therefore take not from among them friends until they fly (their homes) in Allahs way; but if they turn back, then seize them and kill them wherever you find them, and take not from among them a friend or a helper.
[3.85] And whoever desires a religion other than Islam, it shall not be accepted from him, and in the hereafter he shall be one of the losers.
[4.91] You will find others who desire that they should be safe from you and secure from their own people; as often as they are sent back to the mischief they get thrown into it headlong; therefore if they do not withdraw from you, and (do not) offer you peace and restrain their hands, then seize them and kill them wherever you find them; and against these We have given.you a clear authority.
[5.51] O you who believe! do not take the Jews and the Christians for friends; they are friends of each other; and whoever amongst you takes them for a friend, then surely he is one of them; surely Allah does not guide the unjust people.
The Cattle - [6.146] And to those who were Jews We made unlawful every animal having claws, and of oxen and sheep We made unlawful to them the fat of both, except such as was on their backs or the entrails or what was mixed with bones: this was a punishment We gave them on account of their rebellion, and We are surely Truthful.
[9.5] So when the sacred months have passed away, then slay the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them captives and besiege them and lie in wait for them in every ambush, then if they repent and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate, leave their way free to them; surely Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.
The Congregation [62.6] Say: O you who are Jews, if you think that you are the favorites of Allah to the exclusion of other people, then invoke death If you are truthful. (PLEASE COMMIT SUICIDE)
The Cow - [2.111] And they say: None shall enter the garden (or paradise) except he who is a Jew or a Christian. These are their vain desires. Say: Bring your proof if you are truthful.
The Dinner Table - The Dinner Table [5.14] And with those who say, We are Christians, We made a covenant, but they neglected a portion of what they were reminded of, therefore We excited among them enmity and hatred to the day of resurrection; and Allah will inform them of what they did.
[5.72] Certainly they disbelieve who say: Surely Allah, He is the Messiah, son of Marium; and the Messiah said: O Children of Israel! serve Allah, my Lord and your Lord. Surely whoever associates (others) with Allah, then Allah has forbidden to him the garden, and his abode is the fire; and there shall be no helpers for the unjust.
Quran tells Muslims to kill the disbelievers wherever they find them (Q. 2:191), to murder them and treat them harshly (Q. 9:123), slay them (Q. 9: 5), fight with them, (Q. 8: 65 ) even if they are Christians and Jews, humiliate them and impose on them a penalty tax (Q. 9: 29). Quran takes away the freedom of belief from all humanity and tell clearly that no other religion except Islam is accepted (Q. 3: 85). It relegates those who disbelieve in Quran to hell (Q. 5: 11), calls them najis (filthy, untouchable, impure) (Q. 9: 28). It orders its followers to fight the unbelievers until no other religion except Islam is left (Q. 2: 193).
Fight those who do not profess the true faith [ISLAM], till they pay the jiziya with the hand of humility. - Koran 9: 29
.... I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them. - Koran 8:12
Prophet, make war on the unbelievers and the hypocrites, and deal rigorously with them. Hell shall be their home: an evil fate. - Koran 9: 73
When you meet the unbelievers in the Jihad strike off their heads [CUT OFF THEIR HEADS] and, when you have laid them low, bind your captives firmly. - Koran 47:4
The only reward of those who make war upon Allah and his messenger and strive after corruption in the land will be that they will be killed or crucified, or have their hands and feet and alternate sides cut off, or will be expelled out of the land. Such will be their degradation in the world, and in the Hereafter theirs will be an awful doom.... - Koran 5: 33-34
Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last day, nor hold the forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and his messenger, nor acknowledge the Religion of Truth from among the People of the Book, until they pay the Jiziyah with willing submission. And feel themselves subdued. - Koran 9: 29
....the People of the Book and the pagans shall burn for ever in the fire of Hell. They are the vilest of all creatures. - Koran 98: 1-8
Garments of fire have been prepared for the unbelievers. Scalding water shall be poured upon their heads, melting their skins and that which is in their bellies. They shall be lashed rods of iron. Whenever, in their anguish, they try to escape from Hell, back they shall be dragged, and will be told: Taste the torment of the Conflagration! - Koran 22: 19-22, 23
And burn ye him in the blazing fire. Further, make him march in a chain, whereof the length is seventy cubits. This was he that would not believe in allah Most high and would not encourage the feeding of the indignant. So no friend hath he here this day. Nor hath he any food except the corruption from the washing of wounds. - Koran 31-37
The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and his messenger and strive after corruption in the land will be to be killed or crucified, or have their hands and feet and genitals cut off, or to be expelled out of the land. Such will be their humiliation in the world, and in the next world they will face an awful horror. - Koran, 5:33-34)
In order that Allah may separate the pure from the impure, put all the impure ones [all non-Muslims] one on top of another in a heap and cast them into hell. They will have been the ones to have lost. - Koran, 8:37
According to the New Testament of the Bible, the God of Israel has a Son
- Jesus Christ of Nazareth; but Allah has no son according to the Koran
Therefore the Biblical New Testament Christian God of Israel is not Allah
They say: Allah has taken a Son (to Himself)! Glory be to Him: he is the Self-sufficient: his is what is in the heavens and what is in the Earth; you have no authority for this; do you say against Allah what you do not know? Say: Those who forge a lie against Allah shall not be successful. - Koran 10:68-69 [SAYS JESUS IS NOT THE SON OF GOD AND WHOEVER SAYS SO IS A LIAR]
....the Christians call Christ the Son Of God. That is a saying from their mouth; (In this) they but intimate what the unbelievers of old used to say. Allahs curse be on them: how they are deluded away from the Truth. - Koran 9: 30
The Women - [4.171] O followers of the Book! do not exceed the limits in your religion, and do not speak (lies) against Allah, but (speak) the truth; the Messiah, Isa son of Marium is only an apostle of Allah and his Word which he communicated to Marium and a spirit from Him; believe therefore in Allah and his apostles, and say not, Three. Desist, it is better for you; Allah is only one god; far be It from his glory that he should have a son, whatever is in the heavens and whatever is in the earth is His, and Allah is sufficient for a Protector. (CLEARLY STATES THAT JESUS IS **NOT** THE SON OF GOD)
The Immunity - Denial of Deity of Christ and His Messiahship - [9.30] And the Jews say: Uzair is the son of Allah; and the Christians say: The Messiah is the son of Allah; these are the words of their mouths; they imitate the saying of those who disbelieved before; may Allah destroy them; how they are turned away! (MAY ALLAH DESTROY JEWS AND CHRISTIANS)
Say: Praise be to Allah Who begets no son and has no partner in (His) dominion: nor (needs) he any to protect him from humiliation: Yea magnify him for his greatness and glory! - Koran 17: 111
Further that he may warn those (also) who say Allah hath begotten a son: - Koran 18: 4
It is not befitting to (the majesty of) Allah that he should beget a son. Glory be to Him! When he determines a matter he only says to it Be and it is. - Koran 19: 35
They say: (Allah) Most Gracious has begotten a son! Indeed ye have put forth a thing most monstrous! - Koran 19: 88-89
For it is not consonant with the majesty of (Allah) Most Gracious that he should beget a son. - Koran 19: 92
No son did Allah beget nor is there any god along with Him: (if there were many gods) behold each god would have taken away what he had created and some would have lorded it over others! Glory to Allah (he is free) from the (sort of) things they attribute to Him! - Koran 23: 91
he begetteth not nor is he begotten; - Koran 112: 3
Jihad the Best Deed - Hadiths say Muslims will kill all Jews at the Last Hour
Hadith Sahih Bukhari Volume 4, Book 52, Number 176:
Narrated Abdullah bin Umar:
Allahs Apostle said, You (i.e. Muslims) will fight with the Jews till some of them will hide behind stones. The stones will (betray them) saying, O Abdullah (i.e. slave of Allah)! There is a Jew hiding behind me; so kill him.
Hadith Sahih Bukhari Volume 4, Book 52, Number 177:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allahs Apostle said, The (Final) Hour (last human battle on Earth) will not be established until you fight with the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say. O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him.
Hadith Sahih Bukhari Volume 2, Book 26, Number 595:
Narrated Aisha:
(the mother of the faithful believers) I said, O Allahs Apostle! We consider Jihad as the best deed. The Prophet said, The best Jihad (for women) is Hajj Mabrur.
Hadith Sahih Bukhari Volume 2, Book 26, Number 594:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
The Prophet was asked, Which is the best deed? He said, To believe in Allah and His Apostle. He was then asked, Which is the next (in goodness)? He said, To participate in Jihad in Allahs Cause. He was then asked, Which is the next? He said, To perform Hajj-Mabrur.
Hadith Sahih Bukhari [4:56:791] Narrated Abdullah bin Umar: I heard Allahs Apostle saying, The Jews will fight with you, and you will be given victory over them so that a stone will say, O Muslim! There is a Jew behind me; kill him!
Hadith Sahih Muslim [41:6981] Ibn Umar reported Allahs Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: You will fight against the Jews and you will kill them until even a stone would say: Come here, Muslim, there is a Jew (hiding himself behind me); kill him.
Hadith Sahih Muslim [41:6982] Ubaidullah has reported this hadith with this chain of transmitters (and the Words are): There is a Jew behind me.
Hadith Sahih Muslim [41:6983] Abdullah b. Umar reported Allahs Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: You and the Jews would fight against one another until a stone would say: Muslim, here is a Jew behind me; come and kill him.
Hadith Sahih Muslim [41:6984] Abdullah b. Umar reported that Allahs Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: The Jews will fight against you and you will gain victory over them until the stone would say: Muslim, here is a Jew behind me; kill him.
Hadith Sahih Muslim [41:6985] Abu Huraira reported Allahs Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him; but the tree Gharqad would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews.
Mohammed was about 51 years old when he married a 6-year-old girl. 3 years later when
Mohammed was about 54 years old, he consummated his marriage to the 9-year-old girl
HADITH Sahih Bukhari [5:58:234] Narrated Aisha:
The Prophet engaged me when I was a girl of six (years). We went to Medina and stayed at the home of Bani-al-Harith bin Khazraj. Then I got ill and my hair fell down. Later on my hair grew (again) and my mother, Um Ruman, came to me while I was playing in a swing with some of my girl friends. She called me, and I went to her, not knowing what she wanted to do to me. She caught me by the hand and made me stand at the door of the house. I was breathless then, and when my breathing became Allright, she took some water and rubbed my face and head with it. Then she took me into the house. There in the house I saw some Ansari women who said, Best wishes and Allahs Blessing and a good luck. Then she entrusted me to them and they prepared me (for the marriage). Unexpectedly Allahs Apostle came to me in the forenoon and my mother handed me over to him, and at that time I was a girl of nine years of age.
HADITH Sahih Bukhari Volume 5, Book 58, Number 235: Narrated Aisha:
That the Prophet said to her, You have been shown to me twice in my dream. I saw you pictured on a piece of silk and some-one said (to me). This is your wife. When I uncovered the picture, I saw that it was yours. I said, If this is from Allah, it will be done.
HADITH Sahih Bukhari [7:62:64] Narrated Aisha:
that the Prophet married her when she was six years old and he consummated his marriage when she was nine years old, and then she remained with him for nine years (i.e., till his death).
Its considered OK for a muslim to kill an infidel, even if its another muslim
HADITH Sahih Bukhari [4:52:283] Narrated Abu Juhaifa:
I asked Ali, Do you have the knowledge of any Divine Inspiration besides what is in Allahs Book? Ali replied, ...we have what is written in this paper as well. I asked, What is written in this paper? He replied, ...the judgment that no Muslim should be killed for killing an infidel.
HADITH Sahih Bukhari [4:52:260] Narrated Ikrima:
Ali burnt some people and this news reached Ibn Abbas, who said, Had I been in his place I would not have burnt them, as the Prophet said, Dont punish (anybody) with Allahs Punishment. No doubt, I would have killed them, for the Prophet said, If somebody (a Muslim) discards his religion, kill him.
HADITH Sahih Bukhari [6:61:577] Narrated Ali:
I heard the Prophet saying, In the last days (of the world) there will appear young people with foolish thoughts and ideas. They will give good talks, but they will go out of Islam as an arrow goes out of its game, their faith will not exceed their throats. So, wherever you find them, kill them, for there will be a reward for their killers on the Day of Resurrection.
HADITH Sahih Bukhari [9:84:64] Narrated Ali:
Whenever I tell you a narration from Allahs Apostle, by Allah, I would rather fall down from the sky than ascribe a false statement to him, but if I tell you something between me and you (not a Hadith) then it was indeed a trick (i.e., I may say things just to cheat my enemy). No doubt I heard Allahs Apostle saying, During the last days there will appear some young foolish people who will say the best words but their faith will not go beyond their throats (i.e. they will have no faith) and will go out from (leave) their religion as an arrow goes out of the game. So, where-ever you find them, kill them, for who-ever kills them shall have reward on the Day of Resurrection.
Obama wants to send the UN $845,000,000,000 for his sponsored Global Poverty Act.
Why not? I'm sick and tired of these useless UN organizations without the necessary powers to get anything done.
An organization such as the UN should be able to do what it does best, for its most influential members. At the absolute minimum, the following powers should be given immediately to UNHRC:
1. Power to declare FATWA's.
2. Power to order anti-cartoonist riots in the streets.
3. Power to rule that guilty parties be made one head shorter.
I can just see it now: goose stepping Jihnazi’s who will face Mecca,click their heel together, stick one arm up in the air and chant “Heil Mohammed”. The yellow spines in the blue hats tremble some more and attempt to appease the Islamofacists further, by banning bacon, ham, and booze in Europe. But encouraging sex with goats, camels, and blow up dolls wearing Burhkas.
Between the UN and OPEC and the multicultural secularists - we are not doing well at all...in fact, we are already paying the infidel dhimmi tax - the Jizyah - to our overlords.
AND EVEN MORE INSIDIOUS... we have already used our own military to do the Islamic work for them in forcing the creation of islamic entities in Europe ————Kosovo and Bosnia.
Try telling that to Christians who have literally been crucified for their belief in Christ. Try telling that to the Coptic Christians in Egypt - yet we roll out the red carpet when President Mubarak comes to Washington with his hand out.
Tell it to the Christian Serbs in Kosovo whose Jerusalem has been bequeathed to a bunch of Muslim war criminals gratis President Bush and to add insult to injury, our President intends to send these war criminals even more weapons as though they are not criminal enough
Too much! Too much!!!!
Obama $845,000,000,000 tax increase is only the beginning. There are other proposals that take it to nearly $1,000,000,000,000 and thats just him getting warmed up.
‘yet we roll out the red carpet when President Mubarak comes to Washington with his hand out.”
Indeed, and we should. If he falls, we lose a valuable silent ally government and what replaces him is going to be a nightmare.
Get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US.
We are not the worlds savior! These spend free liberals are not happy spending our tax dollars on the illegal immigrants, the lazy and unmotavatable, the families that have made entitlement programs a way of life for generations he now plans on spending our money to support the worlds poverty.
USE YOUR OWN MONEY! IT IS APPARENT THAT YOU ARE AS CHEAP AS THEY COME ON PERSONEL DONATIONS 1% OF A FEW MILLION. SHAME ON YOU!
Singing lessons for pigs.
1. Non productive, pigs cant sing
2. Expensive, do you have any idea what it costs to pay someone to give singing lessons to pigs?
3. Counterproductive, it just annoys the pig!
You are right on the money there:
Islam: Nazis 'sowed seeds of anti-Semitic hatred in Arab world' (1)
Islam: Nazis 'sowed seeds of anti-Semitic hatred in Arab world' (2)
And precisely that has happened before.
In 1943, Amin Al Husseini heads the Hanzar Division of Nazi Muslims. It was Hitler's largest SS Division and was responsible for the genocide of Serbians, Gypsies and Jews.
Hold on here. Your aggregate number is not very good for comparative purposes. You have to consider a tax increase in terms of annual GDP.
That is, what is important is when government spending exceeds the rate of the macro-economy's growth on a percentage basis.
“You have to consider a tax increase in terms of annual GDP.”
nope, I don’t. All I have to consider is what the purpose of the tax is.
“That is, what is important is when government spending exceeds the rate of the macro-economy’s growth on a percentage basis.”
Nope, all I have to consider is whether the money is being spent properly and on a valid cause.
What the heck is $845,000,000,000 gonna do in a place where the average person makes about $300 a year. Why should America pay more money to the dictators and corrupt leaders of Africa?
You didn't say that in your original statment...Line item veto...sure I'm with you.
“You didn’t say that in your original statment...Line item veto...sure I’m with you. “
Not even that complex. Taxes take money away from the people that earn it. If those people wish to give money to Africa then they are free to. The govt shouldn’t be taking money from us in order to give it to the corrupt.
Oh gosh, thanks for the (unfortuante) reminder. That is, tomorrow is April 15-th and I haven't done my income taxes yet!...:-)
...It all comes down to the fact that Islam is the creation of the ENEMY, SATAN, THE DEVIL via worship of a MOON ROCK.
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