I was reading the ‘Radical Muslim’ blog as I often do, and noticed that he had a list of ‘fatwa-worthy’ sites. Mine wasn’t listed there – though I wish it were. I was listed in recommended sites, which makes me think he hasn’t read this blog too carefully.
Right so what kinds of sites are ‘fatwa-worthy’?
[from Radical Muslim]…We must stop these sites that contain writings that slander Islam, to detail and criticise national and global conflict, poverty, injustice, oppression, the Far Right and the BNP, Zionism, the War on Terror, the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the illegal occupation and oppression of Palestine, the slaughter in Sudan and the persecution of Muslims and the current war on Islam.
Therefore I call on all transgressors to stop publishing anti-Islamic pictures, articles and blasphemous publications against Allah (SWT) and His prophet, Muhammad (SAW).
Two can play at this game. We atheists need a term of some kind, equivalent to ‘fatwa’. I don’t want to just call it ‘atheist fatwa’ that’s derivative. How about fatuus. It’s the Latin root for fatuous – i.e. ’supid’ or ‘insane’. The direct translation would be foolish or insipid. Fatuus can be used to deliniate sites that are balls-out, bat-shit insane.
So, what should we call a fatuus on? Let me borrow a little here:
We must stop these sites that contain writings that slander Atheism and Secularism, to detail and criticise national and global conflict, poverty, injustice, oppression, Crypto-Fascists of the Left and Right, Islamism, the War on Freedom in Europe, the 2001 Declaration of War on the West, the illegal occupation and oppression of people everywhere, including in the Western Sahara and Kurdistan, the slaughter in Sudan and the persecution of atheists, apostates, freethinkers and gays.
Therefore I call on all transgressors to stop publishing anti-Atheist or anti-Secularist pictures, articles and to stop publishing irrational publications.
So – who’s first?
I’m in Vancouver, so let me start at home. That picture is from a site run by a woman in West Vancouver named Bev Kennedy. It’s a hate site called Jihad Unspun. Among other things, it features slide shows that glorify terrorists and glorify the killing of the ‘kuffar’. The ‘kuffar’ is translated as ‘deniers’ or in other words, ‘atheists’.
I declare fatuus on Bev Kennedy, Jihad Unspun and on Google News for choosing Jihad Unspun as one of the sites they index for “News”.
I may also declare a fatuus on myself for being a hypocrite and looking into filling a hate speech complaint against the site.
Any other sites fatuus-worthy? Or any other BC Atheists interested in joining me in filling the complaint against Bev Kennedy?
