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Ezra Levant is on “trial” today for insulting Mohammed and hurting a Saudi Imam’s feelings. The Saudi is complaining specifically because Mr. Levant is challenging his view of Mohammed as a man who: “was never a terrorist he always preached love and respect...”

The timing is funny, because of what you can find in yesterday’s National Post. The bearded angry fellow in the picture is none other than Mohammed (fleas be upon him). With MacLean’s being brought before the “human rights” tribunals, how long before radical Mohammedans charge the National Post?

A failed outreach attempt is causing controversy in Oklahoma.  The state “Ethnic American Advisory Council” sent out copies of the Quran to lawmakers in the Oklahoma state legislature.

At least 18 of them have returned the book – one of them saying he was returning it becasue:

“most Oklahomans do not endorse the idea of killing innocent women and children in the name of ideology”

The reaction asside, why would a government agency hand out copies of the Quran?  Well, take a look at the make-up of the “Ethnic” Advisory Council and it’ll make some sense:

Dr. Riaz Ahmad
Mohammad Farzaneh
Dr. Fayyaz H. Hashmi
Dr. Basel S. Hassoun
Dr. Mohammad Karami
Dr. Sandra Kaye Rana
Wes Salous

Everyone of them a muslim name. 

Kind of curious that an organization supposedly out to advance tolerance for all “Ethnic” Amerians would be composed of only one group.  It’s even more curious that their first order of business would be to use state funds to propagandize for their religion.   

It would be curious at least until you find out more about some of their … connections.

The Dutch security service the AIVD, has reported that Salafism is gaining ground in Holland. Salafism – aka Wahabbism or radical Dawa – is a ‘purist’ version of Islam, that believes that life was most perfect in the time of Mohammed, and every society should reject modernity and strive to be like 7th century Arabia.

In an earlier report, the AIVD described Salafism – or radical dawa – thus:

Despite its non-violent character, the radical dawa is an extremely intolerant and anti-democratic movement. Followers of the radical dawa strive for a large degree of isolation, combined with intolerance towards dissenters. The AIVD emphasizes that the group of individuals which is sensitive and open to the radical Islamic message is growing.

The latest report puts that number at between 20,000 and 30,000 Dutch Muslims. Or, rather, 20,000-30,000 Muslims resident in the Netherlands. Put another way, the population density of radical Muslims is 2 per square mile. A virtual Mongolia of hate.

The Dutch security services monitor the rise of radicalism in the mosques, but when confronted with actual Jihadis, their primary response appears to be to offer employment assistance . Because of course as every right thinking person knows, poverty causes radicalism. Deportation is not considered practical and sterner measures are likely not to be considered as the whole debate is already too rough for the government to take.

And what does this mean? Ask Western Europe’s first refugee since the Nazi Era:

As you read this, Ayaan Hirsi Ali sits in a safe house with armed men guarding her door. She is one of the most poised, intelligent and compassionate advocates of freedom of speech and conscience alive today, and for this she is despised in Muslim communities throughout the world. The details of her story bear repeating, as they illustrate how poorly equipped we are to deal with the threat of Muslim extremism in the West.

Hirsi Ali may be the first refugee from Western Europe since the Holocaust. As such, she is a unique and indispensable witness to both the strength and weakness of the West: to the splendor of open society and to the boundless energy of its antagonists. She knows the challenges we face in our struggle to contain the misogyny and religious fanaticism of the Muslim world, and she lives with the consequences of our failure each day. There is no one in a better position to remind us that tolerance of intolerance is cowardice. [SOURCE]

Ramadan-ul-Mubarak! to all of my Mohammedan readers.

This is from the Brussels city council’s website on “Taking Part in Public Life“:

All too often, you hear people complaining that this is wrong and that is wrong, and that ‘they’ are not doing the things they should for us. ‘They’ are the politicians, heads of associations, all those who should be working for us…

So in many cases, instead of ‘moaning’, why not take the time to act, to do something about the things we’re not happy with: why shouldn’t we too take part in public life?

That’s a rhetorical question in Europe’s Muslim-controlled capital. To commemorate September 11th, people from around Europe had planned to do something about the things they weren’t happy with – in this case, it was to demonstrate against the Islamization of Europe. Naturally, their demonstration was banned by Brussels’ government and the riot police were sent out to meet the demonstrators:

From the Brussels Journal:

Here are some video images. The grey-haired man whom we see being attacked by the police first is Luk Van Nieuwenhuysen, the Vice-President of the Flemish Parliament. Shortly afterwards we see the police maltreating Frank Vanhecke, a member of the European Parliament and the party leader of the Vlaams Belang. We see how he is handcuffed and pushed into a police bus. Afterwards we also see the police “taking care” of Filip Dewinter, the VB group leader in the Flemish Parliament. We see how his arm gets caught between the closing doors of the bus. An Italian MEP and a French MEP were also arrested. The demonstrators were kept in cells for seven hours and released this evening.

Read the rest…

[UPDATED:]

That image is from Richard Dawkins’ website. It’s offensive, but sometimes you should be offensive. I’m writing this blog post on 9-11. For me, all the bad parts of the war happened long after 9-11. The bombs in Nuweiba, in Dahab, in Najaf, each killing people I knew – those happened years later. But still this is the day that matters most and the day that you think about those other bad days.

People I meet don’t seem to appreciate the real importance of this day – that today, 9-11, was the start of a war. They treat it like a volcano, or a hurricane. But it is a war, and its perpetrators are our enemy.The chief proponents of the war haven’t been good at explaining this. They have fallen prey to a faith-based blindness. To put it in their terms, the problem of the proponents is that ‘they hate the sinner but love the sin’.

Here is the Ur example of this. President Bush in September of 2001:

The terrorists are traitors to their own faith, trying, in effect, to hijack Islam itself. The enemy of America is not our many Muslim friends; it is not our many Arab friends. Our enemy is a radical network of terrorists, and every government that supports them. [source]

Is that true?

Think about it this way: imagine that a group of violent terrorists were murdering their way through China with goal of restoring Tibet to the Dalai Lama. They bomb civilians and murder politicians. Do you support their methods? Hopefully, no. Do you support their goal of a free Tibet? Hopefully, yes. The terrorists in this case have a just goal – is it moral to oppose them because of their tactics?

Put another way, does opposing the British tactic of area bombing German cities in World War II make you a Nazi? Or can you oppose the tactics while still praying for a British victory?

Here are some illuminating numbers, coming from a poll of the Islamic world earlier this year:

Between 64% and 94% of the Islamic world wants our values to fail. And between 49% and 79% of Muslims share Al Qaeda’s goal of Islamic law ruling over a global Muslim nation.

So what does that mean? Look at the numbers, if you are a Muslim man in Nablus, who do you want to win? America and its western judeo-Christian values, or Al Qaeda and its Islamic values and sharia law?

So why ‘white-wash’ it? Why deny that our enemy is fundamentalist Islam?

Well, start with the assumption that believing in a magic space man makes you moral and see where that leads you:

1. Al Qaeda is evil.

2. Believing in God makes you good.

3. Al Qaeda believe in God.

4. But Al Qaeda is evil…

A little cognitive dissonance later and you end up with stupid phrases like “War on Terror”, and the myth of a hijacked Islam. By refusing to name our true enemy, we end up fighting the wrong war. I understand why a Christian would do this, but I have no idea why an atheist would.

I’m an atheist, so I won’t, I’ll state it plainly right here: fundamentalist Islam is my enemy.

Islam like Christianity and Judaism are wrong and are – in large parts – morally repugnant. Unlike, Christianity and Judaism though, fundamentalist Islam is actively trying to kill me and people like me around the world. If I were a politician, now would be the time that I went out to find an Imam who would claim to stand up for me while sharing the misogyny and irrationality of my would-be assassin.

But I’m not a politician yet, so instead let me introduce you to Ehsan Jami. Ehsan is the key to how we should fight this war. He is an apostate ex-Muslim. Today he is launching a campaign to spread apostasy. This is something we all should support. Between Al Qaeda and the West, an apostate has only one choice – and that is the West.

And this is the real war – the war to spread apostasy and divide the people of the Muslim nations from their corrupted faith. To do this our soldiers should not just guard Mosques in Baghdad, but should also guard apostates in Kabul and in Ehsan Jami’s home of Amsterdam.

On this 9-11 I hope that some leader of the West, any of them would come out and admit it – that this war isn’t against a fringe, but against a whole faith. Bombing terrorist camps won’t win this for us [though we should keep bombing them], defending apostates like Ayan Hirsi Ali, Ehsan Jami, and Ibn Warraq will.

So before I close, let me summarize to avoid confusion:

• 9-11 was the start of a war
• Our leaders refused to correctly identify who this war was against
• They did this because of their own religious faith
• Our war is against fundamentalist Islam
• Fighting Muslims is a waste, it’s immoral and we can’t win that way
• Yes, continue to battle terrorists in their camps, but…
• The only way we will really ‘win’ this war, is if we can spread apostasy and weaken fundamentalist Islam so that it is not a threat.

For more on this, read Ibn Warraq here.

From LGF:

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?

A’dam losing gay-friendly reputation
AMSTERDAM – Nowhere in the world are homosexuals confronted with violence so regularly as in Amsterdam. Gay men and women are now staying away from the Dutch capital because of all the reports on violent incidents recently. This is costing the Amsterdam economy a great deal of money.

Youth sentenced for anti-gay attack
AMSTERDAM – The court in Amsterdam sentenced 19-year-old Hazim A. to six months in prison on Monday, three months suspended, for an attack on a gay couple. The youth was also sentenced to 180 hours of community service.

Church fined for bell ringing
TILBURG (AP) – In a ding-dong battle between a Catholic church and city fathers, a priest is being slapped with a EUR 5,000 fine each time he rings his church bell to call his flock to early morning Mass.

Jami’s comments went too far
THE HAGUE – Co-founder of the committee for ex-Muslims Loubna Berrada thinks that Ehsan Jami has taken it too far with his comments on Islam. She says this in the AD on Thursday. “It was much too extreme and his comments put us in danger. Not only him, but me too.”

Suspicious package stops train service
HEERENVEEN – A suspicious package disrupted train service to and from Heerenveen in Friesland for three hours on Tuesday afternoon. The unattended piece of baggage had Arabic characters on the outside. Train service was gradually resumed from about 7 pm.

Call him ‘Allah,’ bishop says
Bishop Martinus “Tiny” Muskens told Dutch television reporters this week that God did not care what he was called and suggested that people of all faiths refer to God as Allah to generate greater understanding and acceptance of Muslims.

[Via the Allahpundit] Much like the Germans before them, after seeing the alternative up close – Iraqi’s appear to have chosen sides:

“The escalating violence in Iraq gives a bleak impression of that country’s future,” Moaddel said. “Sectarian conflict seems to be increasing on a daily basis, with militias massacring hundreds of Sunnis and Shi’is solely on the basis of their religious identities.

“Yet it would be a mistake to think that this bloodlust represents widespread sentiment among Iraqis as a whole. While neither American nor Iraqi security officials have yet found a way to tame the militias, the Iraqi public is increasingly drawn toward a vision of a democratic, non-sectarian government for the country.”

Download the PowerPoint of their report here.