Posted on 08/16/2008 2:48:35 PM PDT by pissant
The war on free speech by Islamic fanatics has claimed another victim. This time they did it without killing anyone, staging a riot or even issuing a threat. Fear alone turned out to be enough for Random House to drop plans to publish a novel about a wife of the prophet Muhammad.
Probably the only surprising thing about this story was that Random House had, in the first place, signed on to the idea of publishing The Jewel of Medina by journalist Sherry Jones. The deal was inked last year even though the world already had witnessed the murder of Dutch artist Theo Van Gogh over a film about the plight of women under Islamic fundamentalism, the riots over the Danish cartoons of Muhammad and the years Salman Rushdie spent in hiding out of fear of murder over his novel The Satanic Verses.
Perhaps the editors and publishers were impressed with the work Jones had put into researching the novel. As reported by Asra Q. Nomani in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal that broke this story, Jones had learned Arabic and "studied scholarly works" about the life of Aisha. Random House liked the project enough to give Jones a $100,000 two-book deal and had planned an eight-city book tour this month.
(Excerpt) Read more at suntimes.com ...
And we’re supposed to be afraid of Islam for what reason????
We are not England.
A Look at:
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/globaljihad
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/jihad
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/legaljihad
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/lawfare
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/libeltourism
True, but tipping over a few tables and benches doesn’t really compare to sawing off a persons head with a knife in the fear department.
Political Correctness is a very powerful tool to silence opposition to anti-american, anti-God, anti-common sense ideas.
Hate crimes legislation, hate speech, and all that other HORSESHIT feed right into it. We need to stamp this crap out now!
"It would be easy to lash the publishing house. But it's hard to dispute its fears about "the safety of the author, employees of Random House, booksellers and anyone else who would be involved in distribution and sale of the novel." Free speech is under siege not only from violent Islamists. The Council on American-Islamic Relations monitors the media and is quick to respond to anything it doesn't like."
Here's their e-mail addy: ecustomerservice@randomhouse.com
But, we're working on it.
England no longer has Guts, Guns or God ... but we still do.
(my dad’s words)
I think it’s time to realize that Islam is a threat of such proportion that nobody and I mean nobody can declare themselves neutral entities. This is a war of civilizations which the enemy civilization initiated long ago but only recently has acquired the means to carry their murderous intent into our midst (9-11).
In this war, your are either a victim, or you are a soldier. Soldiers fight back and make it dangerous for the enemy to attack them.
Let’s speak out, loud and publically about the pernicious rqbid cult of Islam. And when the death threats start coming in, look to your arms. CCW, watch your back, lock your car doors whether in it or not, be prepared to shoot to kill.
And since it’s Muslims who are the threat (”moderate muslim = terrorist sleeper) let’s use a little Kryptonite on them. I refer to all their oppressive taboos which they seek to impose on us all (Sharia, anyone), but specifically to.......pork.
I’m Southern, I love barbecue, OTOH pigs are smart clean animals that can now be trained as sentries, but their’s not to reason why.
Where is this leading? How about: carry a revolver with the chambers full of lard (during the War Between The States this prevented cross ignition) in front of the cartridges. Better yet, advertise this practice. Carry Oscar Mayer Real Bacon Bits in your coat pocket. When accosted by a counterprotester jihadi, pelt away!
Give hijabi women and turban/kufi men the hard stare and dare them to react.
Wear a St. George t-shirt (white background, great big cross of two intersecting red stripes. It’s the Crusader cross and Muslims go postal over it).
In other words, get in Muslim face the way they get in ours!
Stand up America! Just do some damn thing!!
(Rant concluded)
Islam is not a religion nor is it a cult. It is a complete system. Islam has religious, legal, political, economic and military components. The religious component is a beard for all the other components. Islamization occurs when there are sufficient Muslims in a country to agitate for their so-called ‘religious rights'.
When politically correct and culturally diverse societies agree to ‘the reasonable’ Muslim demands for their ‘religious rights,’ they also get the other components under the table. Here’s how it works (percentages source CIA: The World Fact Book (2007)).
As long as the Muslim population remains around 1% of any given country they will be regarded as a peace-loving minority and not as a threat to anyone. In fact, they may be featured in articles and films, stereotyped for their colorful uniqueness:
At 2% and 3% they begin to proselytize from other ethnic minorities and disaffected groups with major recruiting from the jails and among street gangs:
From 5% on they exercise an inordinate influence in proportion to their percentage of the population. They will push for the introduction of halal (clean by Islamic standards) food, thereby securing food preparation jobs for Muslims. They will increase pressure on supermarket chains to feature it on their shelves — along with threats for failure to comply. (United States).
At this point, they will work to get the ruling government to allow them to rule themselves under Sharia, the Islamic Law. The ultimate goal of Islam is not to convert the world but to establish Sharia law over the entire world. When Muslims reach 10% of the population, they will increase lawlessness as a means of complaint about their conditions (Paris –car-burnings). Any non-Muslim action that offends Islam will result in uprisings and threats (Amsterdam - Mohammed cartoons).
After reaching 20% expect hair-trigger rioting, jihad militia formations, sporadic killings and church and synagogue burning:
At 40% you will find widespread massacres, chronic terror attacks and ongoing militia warfare:
From 60% you may expect unfettered persecution of non-believers and other religions, sporadic ethnic cleansing (genocide), use of Sharia Law as a weapon and Jizya, the tax placed on infidels:
After 80% expect State run ethnic cleansing and genocide:
100% will usher in the peace of ‘Dar-es-Salaam’ — the Islamic House of Peace — there’s supposed to be peace because everybody is a Muslim:
Of course, that’s not the case. To satisfy their blood lust, Muslims then start killing each other for a variety of reasons.
"Before I was nine I had learned the basic canon of Arab life. It was me against my brother; me and my brother against our father; my family against my cousins and the clan; the clan against the tribe; and the tribe against the world and all of us against the infidel."
– Leon Uris, ‘The Haj’.
It is good to remember that in many, many countries, such as France, the Muslim populations are centered around ghettos based on their ethnicity. Muslims do not integrate into the community at large. Therefore, they exercise more power than their national average would indicate.
Quite correct, sir, and noted. We are facing a total war involving blood-soaked barbarism versus peaceful civilization.
Islam at war against the West; murderous totalitarianistic intolerance versus Judeo-Christian recognition of the inherent G-d given worth of the individual.
I apologize for the apparent moral equivalence in my previous post.
BTW, watch for future Muslim whinings about `victimhood’, `racism’ and `lack of inclusiveness’ during the current political campaign.
Me, I’m ordering more bullets. The price just seems to keep going up. Deus vult!
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