Local Muslims upset by campus event: "Islamo-Facism Awareness Week" begins at 100 colleges

The Seattle Times ^ | 10/20/2007 | Janet I. Tu

[2banana]

Wonder why these sorts of things don’t get them upset?

Saudi Arabia - Conversion by a Muslim to another religion is punishable by death. Bibles are illegal. Churches are illegal. Easter celebrations are illegal. It is punishable by death for a non-mulsim to enter the “holy” muslim cities of Medina and Mecca.

Yemen - Bans proselytizing by non-Muslims and forbids conversions. The Government does not allow the building of new non-Muslim places of worship.

Kuwait - Registration and licensing of religious groups. Members of religions not sanctioned in the Koran may not build places of worship. Prohibits organized religious education for religions other than Islam.

Egypt - Islam is the official state religion and primary source of legislation. Accordingly, religious practices that conflict with Islamic law are prohibited. Muslims may face legal problems if they convert to another faith (up to and including death). Requires non-Muslims to obtain what is now a presidential decree to build a place of worship.

Algeria - The law prohibits public assembly for purposes of practicing a faith other than Islam. Non-Islamic proselytizing is illegal, and the Government restricts the importation of non-Islamic literature for distribution. The country has passed the “Regulation of Religious Practice” law, which stipulates a punishment of two to five years’ imprisonment and heavy fines for anyone convicted of urging a Muslim to change his religion.

Syria - The constitution requires the president to be a Muslim and specifies that Islamic jurisprudence is a principal source of legislation. Sharing your Christian faith is discouraged as “posing a threat to the relations among religious groups” and carries a penalty of up to life in prison. A Christian is not allowed to proselytize – ever. Churches who want to hold an extra service must get a government permit. Sermons are routinely monitored, as is church fundraising.

Jordan - Has the death penalty for any Muslim selling land to a Jew.

Sudan - Conversion by a Muslim to another religion is punishable by death.

Pakistan - Conversion by a Muslim to another religion is punishable by death. Bans proselytizing by non-Muslims. Christians regularly put in prison for charges of blasphemy. Islam is the state religion, and in a court of law the testimony of a Christian carries less weight than that of a Muslim. Section 295(c) of the Penal Code calls for a death sentence for anyone who defiles the name of the Prophet Muhammad and requires the testimony of four Muslims for a conviction. This fosters an environment in which Muslims can feel free to use intimidation and violence against religious minorities for personal gain. Also, if any criminal Muslim rape with any Christian female and then take plea that she has accepted Islam and marry with him. Such person is not culpable under Pakistani criminal law

Qatar - Islamic instruction is compulsory in public schools. The government regulates the publication, importation, and distribution of non-Islamic religious literature. The government continues to prohibit proselytizing of Muslims by non-Muslims.

Malaysia - Under Malaysian law, any convert to Christianity must apply to a shariah (Muslim law) court to legally renounce Islam. Many Christians prefer to remain silent converts rather than take their battle to the shariah courts, where apostasy or conversion out of Islam is punishable by whipping, fines, imprisonment and—in the most extreme application—death. In a country where Muslims account for more than half of the population, conversion from Islam is punished with a 5-year prison sentence and a $3,000 fine. A Malaysian Muslim who marries a non-Muslim and who converts the non-Muslim to Islam is rewarded with an apartment, a car, a one-time payment of $2,700, and a monthly stipend of $270.

The Maldives - In the island paradise visited by tens of thousands of tourists each year, Christianity is simply not tolerated. While local Christians – said to number around 300 out of a total population of 300,000 – do get together to worship, they do so at the risk of imprisonment or worse if discovered by the Muslim authorities. Bibles are banned, and tourists can be arrested for trying to bring them into the country.

England - Bradford, Yorkshire, UK. Pop. 300,000 - 20% Islamic. Local police required to tell community elders the location of girls who run away to escape arranged marriages. Bars and liquor stores in the Lumb Lane / Manningham Lane area of the city ‘requested’ to close on Fridays. Schools, colleges, and health clinics have to have separate areas for women, with a copy of the Koran available. Public critcism of Islam or it’s adherents, such as letters to the local paper, emails to friends, speeches etc, can and has led to criminal charges ‘Using words intentionally and wilfully to cause fear, hate, or distress. Christmas decorations not to be put up, as this may make the Moslems feel ‘culturally overshadowed’. Shops ‘requested’ not to display easter eggs for the same reason. The term ‘requested’ means not legally enforceable but local police warn that they cannot intervene if your premises get ‘damaged’ somehow. Local councillors and MPs have encouraged all this for the past 15 years. Bradford Northwest MP Ann Cryer regularly appears with long sleeves and her head covered. She once stated that women in Islam are properly liberated and that Islam is an example to us all.

[XR7]

http://www.terrorismawareness.org/islamo-fascism-awareness-week/

[IronJack]

Actually, yes.

Then why are all THOSE events universally supported, sometimes even with our tax dollars? Meanwhile, Horowitz and his guys have to fight to be heard, and find funding wherever they can.

[rovenstinez]

For what it is worth: I’ve been traveling here in the Middle East, and I’ve tried REAL hard to find those FOOT BATHS that the American Universities are having to install so Muslims can wash their feet after doing a dump. Most of the bathrooms are really a stench, here in the M.E, and I’ve yet to see one solitary foot wash, some bidets for the ladies, hotels, public restrooms and gov’t offices. Doesn’t exist! Americans YOU are getting milked, mobbed and mocked.

[Beckwith]

Horowitz is baiting these fascists - - and they will bite!

It will all be recorded on video.

[goldstategop]

The Left supports Islam because its a common enemy of Christianity and the West. Its the first fundamentalism liberals have no concern about and no intention of waging war against.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[barb-tex]

I have always felt the same way about the term Homophobia.
barbra ann

[Mr. Mojo]

campus activities such as holding sit-ins outside women's studies departments to protest "the silence of feminists over the oppression of women in Islam"

The militant fem-hags are in a "enemy of my enemy is my friend" situation regarding Islam. Their main enemy is of course America and Western civilization, so Islamists are their friends of convenience. ...for now.

[Beckwith]

She is distributing green armbands and encouraging people to wear T-shirts that are green — traditionally the color associated with Islam



When I was in the 3rd grade (1948), I had a nun who spent a lot of time telling us about Islam. She pointed out that the flag of Saudi Arabia bore the shahada, "There is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is his Messenger," and Mohammed's sword - - the means by which Islam would be spread.

[villagerjoel]

Ask me if I care if they were upset or not. Go ahead.

[Clink]

What are the odds of some type of terrorist actions at one or more of these colleges, by Islamo-fascists or leftists
(is there a difference)?

[Cacique]

btt

[vetsvette]

“But some local Muslims say the week fosters Islamophobia and racism and attempts to paint all Muslims as terrorists.”

As long as “moderate” Muslims refuse to even help clean out their own house, they should expect racism and Islamophobia. Only a suicidal moron would interpret their recalcitrance to help as anything but general agreement, if not actual cooperation with, the terrorists in their midst.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

I saw none either.
In the best hotels they do have American style bathrooms with toilet paper.
Most smaller hotels and public restrooms have what I call low class European toilets. (At least Europe had poilet paper)
They look like a shower with two raised footprints and a hole in the middle.
No toilet paper but a bucket of fluid with a small mop.

My information is about 20 years old so things could have
changed but I doubt it.

[Robert357]

Thank you, nice collection of how Islam is supported by various governments in ways counter to basic human rights.

I am sure that the UN is working on stopping this. (/sarcasm).

for future reference on Islam.

[RichInOC]

I was told there’d be barbecue.

[elcid1970]

The term “Homophobia”

This is half-slang: “fear of homos”. Gee, you get arrested nowadays for calling a fag a `homo’.

But if read for its pure cognates, where `phobos’ means `fear’ and `homos’ means `the same’, then `homophobia’ is an irrational fear of those who are exactly the same as oneself.

Me, I’m not afraid of other God-fearing heterosexual conservative gun-owning FReepers.

;^)

[Redleg Duke]

I’ll wear OD or Brown - traditionally the color associated with the US Military, well-known for kicking Islamo-Fascist asses worldwide!

[dbacks]

[But some local Muslims say the week fosters Islamophobia and racism and attempts to paint all Muslims as terrorists.]

Until I hear a Muslim denounce the terrorists and I mean DENOUNCE, I will consider him to be a terrorist and a potential threat to me and mine!

[dbacks]

[If they aid terrorists, then they are terrorists.]

If they don’t denounce terrorists, they ARE terrorists!