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Islamic Terrorism in the West ( Mega thread)

The world is no longer simple, if it ever was.

It never was.  It is always the sum of individuals whose first and foremost obligation is to their personal offspring.  Everything else just has to be managed.

No matter how attractive that character on the white horse is - they will never come up with a plan that meets all needs, everywhere, all the time.

My Grandfather's line: we'll all go to hell our own way.  I'll drop you a line when I get there and let you know how I made out.
 
If I were God(s), I would turn on my trans lingual intercontinental public address system, and the message would go something like this;
My dearest children, I love you all equally, and it is my fondest wish that you all live together on the wonderful place I have provide for you in peace and tranquility.  To that end, the next one of you motherfuckers that so much as looks sideways at another of my children because you think it is my will, I will send a lightning bolt straight up your ass, as well as the ass of all your offspring, and will remove all your ancestors from the collective memory. Your line, along with your defective DNA will be purged.  This will not be a figurative lightning bolt in the form of some asshole wearing semtex underoos, this will be full on ten kajillion volts of divine fury.  Don't make me go all 40 days of rain on your asses.  That is all, have a nice day.  Oh, and leave the fucking whales alone, they've suffered enough"
 
Kat Stevens said:
If I were God(s), I would turn on my trans lingual intercontinental public address system, and the message would go something like this;
My dearest children, I love you all equally, and it is my fondest wish that you all live together on the wonderful place I have provide for you in peace and tranquility.  To that end, the next one of you motherfuckers that so much as looks sideways at another of my children because you think it is my will, I will send a lightning bolt straight up your ***, as well as the *** of all your offspring, and will remove all your ancestors from the collective memory. Your line, along with your defective DNA will be purged.  This will not be a figurative lightning bolt in the form of some ******* wearing semtex underoos, this will be full on ten kajillion volts of divine fury.  Don't make me go all 40 days of rain on your asses.  That is all, have a nice day.  Oh, and leave the ******* whales alone, they've suffered enough"

Aside from punishing innocents and that bit about the whales... I completely understand.

But uh why the whales?
 
AbdullahD said:
Aside from punishing innocents and that bit about the whales... I completely understand.

But uh why the whales?

for the first part, I find if I'm going to threaten someone, it's best to go all in, "I'll give one of your grandchildren a mild allergy to kitten dander"  wouldn't pack the same punch.  As for the whales, do you not agree they've had enough?  I mean, I know their sense of direction makes it pretty hard for them to face Mecca five times a day, and the ocean floor is a long way down to kneel on anyway, if they had knees at all, but why not leave them alone?  They don't eat bacon cheeseburgers or any of that other food that makes them worthy of death, as far as I know.
 
Kat Stevens said:
for the first part, I find if I'm going to threaten someone, it's best to go all in, "I'll give one of your grandchildren a mild allergy to kitten dander"  wouldn't pack the same punch.  As for the whales, do you not agree they've had enough?  I mean, I know their sense of direction makes it pretty hard for them to face Mecca five times a day, and the ocean floor is a long way down to kneel on anyway, if they had knees at all, but why not leave them alone?  They don't eat bacon cheeseburgers or any of that other food that makes them worthy of death, as far as I know.

Hmm, you do have a good arguement here...

Off with their heads!

Now I'll go sign up with PETA ;) you will see me on the next whaling protest boat... guess i better go navy :S
 
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Off with their heads!


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A little  kill them wherever you find them  with some  strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them  ;D
 
Jarnhamar said:
A little kill them wherever you find them with some  strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them  ;D

Okay I set myself up there... lol

Ps i was thinking alice in Wonderland
 
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/09/18/us/minnesota-mall-stabbing/

One possible way to prevent backlash against the Muslim community would be if a Muslim decides they are going to go out and murder other people (like this asshole on the way to buy an Iphone7) they could do the community a solid and leave a note and say hey I have nothing to do with ISIS and I'm not killing people in the name of Allah, I'm just a murderer.
 
Remember this story from Buffalo, N.Y.?

"A true American "moderate" Muslim beheads wife"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpMPz9JF5b8
 
On the other side of the coin, in France, there are Muslims like :


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Interview with Waleed Al-Husseini
by Grégoire Canlorbe
September 20, 2016 at 4:30 am
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/8953/waleed-al-husseini-interview

  • "The world is changing, and more and more Muslims wish to live without the oppressing "tutelage" of Islam." — Waleed Al-Husseini.
  • "I find it difficult to speak of Muslim integration in France. In fact, except for a tiny minority, they are not really looking to integrate themselves." — Waleed Al-Husseini.
  • "The only ones who create stigmatization are the Muslims themselves... I cannot see one scintilla of evidence of a plot against Islam." — Waleed Al-Husseini.
  • "In addition, more and more Islamists refuse to integrate into a society that they deem godless and that they wish to convert." — Waleed Al-Husseini.
  • "Unfortunately, with rare exceptions, Muslims discreetly approve or at least try to justify the attacks." — Waleed Al-Husseini.
  • "According to their speeches, the Islamists indeed have set themselves the goal of conquering and ruling the entire world. If they manage to do it, they will owe their success not to their intellectual power or their faith, even less to their military force, but to their adversaries' cowardice." — Waleed Al-Husseini.
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Waleed Al-Husseini is a Palestinian blogger and essayist, as well as the founder of the Ex-Muslim Council of France. He garnered international fame in 2010 when he was arrested by the Palestinian Authority, imprisoned and tortured for articles he posted, in which he criticized Islam. He has received threats and death threats. He is one of the most celebrated cyber-activists from the Arab world and now lives in France, where he sought refuge. He continues to be a defender of its secular, republican values.

Grégoire Canlorbe: Could you start by reminding us of the circumstances and motives of your dissent?

Waleed Al-Husseini: My atheism is the result of a long quest for the truth about what I saw happening in front of me. Obviously, nobody holds all of the truth, but during my research, I realized that religion in general, and Islam in particular, was highly incompatible with the values of human life. That was the beginning of my rejection of Islam. As time goes by, the horrors and crimes committed against mankind in the name of Islam seem to have proven me right. They have strengthened my conviction that it was the right choice to make.

Grégoire Canlorbe: Despite being jailed, tortured, threatened, persecuted and socially pressured, you have never given up your opinions or curbed your determination to defend them. How come?

Waleed Al-Husseini: Once I had made up my mind, I had to defend my new convictions against all sorts of pressures, whether in prison or in the street. To do so, I gathered my strength out of the weakness and archaism of the religious speech. I simply used intelligence against faith. The former opens the mind, the latter puts human beings in prison. It feels as if religious leaders practice some sort of psychological torture on their followers in order to dominate them. In Muslim societies, all the citizens live in a huge prison called Islam. I wish to remind the readers that, if I am deeply hostile to Islam as a religion, I respect Muslims as human beings and deplore the situation in which they have to survive.

Grégoire Canlorbe: "Mahometism," writes Tocqueville in his Writings on the Koran, "is the religion that has mixed both political and religious powers, and in a way that the high priest is necessarily a prince, and the prince is the high priest, and all the acts of civil and political life are ruled more or less according to religious law... This concentration and confusion established by Mahomet between both powers... was the primary cause of despotism and social immobility... which has always been a characteristic of Muslim nations."

Do you think that things can change? Or that Islam — and the Islamic world — cannot be reformed?

Waleed Al-Husseini: During the genesis of Islam — which looks in many aspects like a sect — the political power relied on religion in order to control and dominate society. Subject to certain exceptions, the situation has not changed in 1,400 years.

In his time, the prophet Mohammad had already made use and abuse of many fatwas, attributed to the angel Jibril, in order to justify what can never be justified. He awarded himself the right to rape young girls, in the name of polygamy, and used religious discourse to wage his wars, which he called "Islamic conquests." He also committed the first war crimes in the name of Allah — upon, he claimed, divine command!

The same methods are still common practice today, in the main Islamic countries. Iran is ruled by the Wali e-Faguih, the Supreme Leader, who claims he is "God's vicar on Earth". Saudi Arabia is under the rule of the "Keeper of the Holy Places". The king of Morocco is the self-proclaimed "Commander of the Believers". In the other Muslim countries, the rulers call themselves Wali al-Amr, "the tutor", a title that works as a deterrent, allowing imams to use religion in order to ban any possible objection to the tutor's authority.

The world is nevertheless changing and more and more Muslims wish to live without the oppressing "tutelage" of Islam. One can hope that the mentality of many will start to change for good, perhaps through the Internet and the social networks. They are the only space for free speech available to citizens; there is merciless opposition by the powerful against this "mass weapon." Faced with the horrors perpetrated in the name of Islam, more and more Muslims are turning their backs on this religion and are trying to release themselves from its yoke. It seems, unfortunately, there is still a long way to go.

Grégoire Canlorbe: What is your opinion of the behavior and integration of Muslims in France? Is the Muslim community generally eager to proclaim and practice an open and enlightened Islam — even in spite of the alleged stigmatization and exclusion that are the daily lot of French Muslims according to the press?

Waleed Al-Husseini: The only ones who create stigmatization are the Muslims themselves. This is a tested strategy which consists of turning oneself into a so-called "victim" in order to tighten the links within the Muslim community and to claim that it is being targeted because of its faith. They try to blame the fight on their identity.

Otherwise, how can we explain the absence of firm, frank, sincere and massive condemnations after the attacks perpetrated by a Muslim minority in the name of Islam? The Muslim masses seem to have difficulty distancing themselves from violent activists; they give the impression that their activists are defending the majority of Muslims against some sort of attack. But I cannot see one scintilla of evidence of a plot against Islam.

We must also stop confusing Arabs with Muslims. All Arabs are not Muslims, and not all Muslims are Arabs. Iranians, Egyptians and Turks, for example, are not Arabs. The Arabs, ethnically speaking, are a minority in Islam.

I find it difficult to speak of Muslim integration in France. In fact, except for a tiny minority, they are not really looking to integrate themselves. To Muslims, by definition, the Koran and Sharia (Islamic law) are superior to any law drafted by men. Islam claims to transcend borders and does not recognize nationalities. It is a view that partly fuels the radicals. Hence there is the difficulty for Muslims to speak about the wish for an open and tolerant Islam and to practice it. They are immediately accused of treason and apostasy.

As long as the founding texts of Islam are not reformed and rewritten in a sound way, that allows Islam to acquire an enlightened ecclesiastical authority at its head, integration seems unreachable. In addition, more and more Islamists refuse to integrate into a society that they deem godless and that they wish to convert.

Grégoire Canlorbe: It is sometimes argued that Wahhabism, the doctrine that historically inspires the terrorists who claim to belong to Islam, is a form of heresy and not a return to the "basics" and the literal meaning of Islam. In other words, there is nothing traditional or fundamentalist in the doctrine of Wahhabism, which appeared belatedly in the 18th century, professed by Mohammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab and denounced by his own brother Sulayman ibn Abd al-Wahhab and other respected ulemas — religious scholars — within the Hanbali School, the most austere of the four Islamic law schools. How would you sum up the defects and merits of the Islamophile argument?

Waleed Al-Husseini: It is true that the "drifts" of Mohammad Ibn Abdel Wahhab were vividly denounced by his brother. It is also true that the Wahhabi doctrine served as a social and religious basis for the al-Saud family to establish its power in Arabia — a typical example of the connection between religion and politics. But it is not the only instance in that field.

In the 20th century, Hassan al-Banna, founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, was also taken to task by his own brother over the sectarian and violent drifts of his writings. More recently, the grandson of Ayatollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, denounced the policy of the Supreme Leader, who has been using religious power to strengthen his political and economic influence on Iran. But these dissenting robins do not necessarily indicate the arrival of spring. For Islam, regardless of all its stripes — whether it is Wahhabi, Salafist, Muslim Brotherhood or Iranian Shi'ite — feeds on the same source, the Koran.

Today, Muslims apply the same methods that prevailed in the time of the Prophet. The barbaric acts perpetrated by ISIS, al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, Iran, Saudi Arabia and many other Muslim countries that behead and violate human rights, had already occurred during the Islamization of the Arabian Peninsula and the Islamic conquests.

Grégoire Canlorbe: Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Napoleon and Adolf Hitler all tried to conquer the world. They all failed. An illiterate prophet from the desert also tried to achieve what Alexander and his successors dreamed of. How do you assess the spread of Islam? Do you think Islamists could finally achieve Mohammad's world domination scheme — and subject the West?

Waleed Al-Husseini: According to their speeches, the Islamists indeed have set themselves the goal of conquering and ruling the entire world. If they manage to do it, they will not owe their success to their intellectual power or their faith, even less to their military force, but to their adversaries' cowardice.

Except for Iran, Islamic countries or organizations produce no weapons, no culture, no food and no civilization. Without the West's contribution, they would starve. Please let me remind you that the Western companies discovered and exploited the oil that enabled these countries to develop.

The idea that the influence of Islam would go beyond the borders of the ancient Empires does not seem an appropriate comparison.

Grégoire Canlorbe: After the attacks in Paris on the magazine Charlie Hebdo and the Bataclan Theater in 2015, a lot of Muslims around the world raised their voices to exonerate Islam from any ideological responsibility and to blame the massacres on a so-called "judaeo-masonic conspiracy," the aim of which was supposedly to discredit Islam.

Two psychological options seem possible. Either these individuals, deep down in, condemn the attacks but turn a blind eye to the responsibility of Islamic ideology because they cannot bear thinking that the terrorists are also Muslims. Or they approve of those attacks, at least unconsciously, and actually desire to see Islam conquer the West and sap Christianity of its power — a wish they cannot openly declare in public.

Of these two options, which one is the most plausible or widespread in your view?

Waleed Al-Husseini: Unfortunately, with rare exceptions, Muslims discreetly approve or at least try to justify the attacks. The adherence of Muslims to Islam prevails over their adherence to a nation or a country. It is inconceivable at this stage that Islam will side against those who strictly apply its teachings. However, some leaders brilliantly handled taqiyya, or "dissimulation": they verbally condemned the attacks while refraining from castigating Islamic ideology.

Regarding conspiracy theories, they are denied by the Islamists themselves who keep on promoting terrorist attacks and promising more. The attack against Charlie Hebdo was first established by an Iranian fatwa issued in 2006 against a Danish cartoonist and his magazine — accusing him of insulting the Prophet — as well as against any media, including Charlie, that dared to publish the cartoons.

Terrorists are also indoctrinated in mosques, then enroll in terrorist groups where they can put what they were taught into practice.

Grégoire Canlorbe: It is now fashionable among intellectuals sensationalized by universities and the media, such as Tariq Ramadan and Michel Onfray, to acknowledge a positive side to the ideology embraced by terrorists. They imply that "radical Islam", apparently a code name for Islam itself, promotes a warlike ideal of self-sacrifice and heroism which, since the advent of capitalism and the consumer society, has deserted our Western way of life. They also imply that Islam, which prohibits wine, gambling activities and statues, constitutes a remedy for the "decadent" permissiveness of Western societies.

What would you reply to this fashionable speech?

Waleed Al-Husseini: Tariq Ramadan, who is the grandson of Hassan al-Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, delivers a public speech which pretends to be peaceful, but which is totally contrary to the content of the conferences he discreetly held in the suburban areas, notably after the 9/11 attacks. There, he exhorted young girls to wear the veil, vigorously criticized the laws of the French Republic that were against ostensible signs of religion in public areas, and he raised the issue of a supposed American-Zionist plot against Islam. I have not seen one scintilla of evidence of that, either.

It is worth here reminding everyone that the strategy of the Muslim Brotherhood, tested in Egypt, consisted in surfing on the wave of extremism among terrorists, systemically defended by lawyers paid by the Brotherhood, in order to gain notoriety and go ahead with its political agenda. Egyptians have been suffering from this complicity ever since. French Islamists and their spokesmen seem to be tempted by the same scenario: paying lip services by condemning barbaric acts while defending terrorists in a hidden manner and continuing on their path.

Finally, I do not understand why the Islamists, who seek asylum in the West in order to benefit from its wealth as well as freedom of religion and speech, want to impose the Islam they ran away from. If the decadence and materialism of the West do not suit them, they would do better to go back home. Those who stay should comply with the laws of the Western country they chose, and respect them.

Grégoire Canlorbe: In addressing Muslims, if you had to recall only one argument in favor of pluralistic mores and beliefs, individual freedom and the prohibition of "any interference by any family, parental or official public authorities in the private lives of men and women", what would it be?

Waleed Al-Husseini: I kindly invite them to embrace democracy which guarantees freedom in all its forms, and which necessarily goes along with secularism: it leaves religion to religious followers, politics to politicians, justice to judges. This separation between secular and religious affairs on the one hand, and between legislative, executive, judicial powers on the other, is the best driver of creative and economic development and consequently the best driver of human development.

Grégoire Canlorbe: Thank you for your time. Would you like to add a few words?

Waleed Al-Husseini: I would just like to say to Muslims that Islam is not an accident of fate. Since they did not choose it when they were born, they can leave it at any time. But although many of them have made the leap, they are not always ready to claim it openly. Professed apostates are indeed persecuted in traditional Muslim societies. Some, like me, get arrested. Others get killed. That's the situation prevailing in Muslim countries. Meanwhile, in Western countries, apostates are regularly reproached for supposedly being "racist" or "Islamophobic." We should get support, not be ostracized. We know what Islam really is. If you want to be informed on Islam, you should listen to ex-Muslims, not to any type of Muslim. We should get more support to share our view and our experience in the public debate and to fight against terrorism and fundamentalism. Thank you for your good questions.

Waleed Al-Husseini is the author of an autobiography, Blasphemer! Allah's prisons! edited by Graset in 2014 (re-issued in 2015), as well as articles in Le Monde, La Règle du jeu and Libération. His blogs are "la voie de la raison" and "I'm proud to be atheist".

Grégoire Canlorbe, a journalist, currently lives in Paris.

Initially published in French in slightly different form on the website of the Institut Coppet.


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Sad to see this happen in Jordan, the only Islamic nation in the Middle East that I thought of as being relatively free from fanatical elements. 

This cartoon has resulted in a prominent Jordanian writer being murdered on the steps of the Courthouse:

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Gunman Kills Jordanian Writer Nahed Hattar Before Trial Over Cartoon
The journalist was about to enter court for a trial on a caricature that was deemed blasphemous by authorities.
Jack Khoury and Reuters Sep 25, 2016 12:24 PM

REUTERS - A gunman shot dead Jordanian writer Nahed Hattar on Sunday outside the court where he was to stand trial on charges of contempt of religion after sharing on social media a caricature seen as insulting Islam, state news agency Petra said.

Hattar, a Christian and an anti-Islamist activist, was a prominent writer in Jordan. He was well-known for his opposition to the government – and its peace agreement with Israel – and to political and radical Islamist organizations. He was arrested a number of times in the 1990s, and survived an assassination attempt in 1998.

The Jordanian government banned Hattar from writing for the Jordanian press, and in recent years he wrote for the Lebanese, Hezbollah-affiliated Al-Akhbar newspaper. He was considered a staunch supporter of Syrian President Bashar Assad, and was invited to Damascus meeting with the president three years ago.

Hattar's assassination could be linked to recent articles in which he mocked Islamic State. His death has caused a social media storm, and raised concern that those who oppose the same organizations as Hattar may be harmed as well.

Haatar was arrested last month after he shared a caricature that depicted a bearded man in heaven smoking in bed with women and asking God to bring him wine and cashews.

Many conservative Muslim Jordanians considered Hattar's move offensive and against their religion. The authorities said he violated the law by sharing the caricature.

The state news agency quoted a security source as saying Hattar was killed by a man who fired three shots at him on the steps of the palace of justice in the Jordanian capital.

"The assailant was arrested and investigations are ongoing," Petra quoted the security source as saying.

Two witnesses said the gunman, bearded and in his '50s, was wearing a traditional Arab dishashada, worn by ultra conservative Sunni Salafis who adhere to a puritanical version of Islam and shun Western lifestyles.

Hattar had apologized and said he did not mean to insult God but had shared the cartoon to mock fundamentalist Sunni radicals and what he said was their vision of God and heaven. He had accused his Islamist opponents of using the cartoon to settle scores with him.


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A new tactic in the anti-burkini wars?

"Paris on course to open its first nudist park"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/26/paris-set-to-get-its-first-nudist-park/

I may have to head to Paris and check this out.  Just to get a proper sense of how this plays out, you know.  Purely from an anthropological perspective.
 
Full story at link below.

Syrian migrant helps capture ISIS terrorist who tortured him in his home country after spotting the Islamist in GERMANY
- Masoud Aqil, 23, was held captive by ISIS psychopaths for 280 days
- Now safe in Germany he helps intelligence officials track down terrorists
- He has so far identified 30 potential suspects to German authorities

'Germany made a mistake by letting all of these people in,' said Mr Aqil. 'Now, the terrorists are here.

'I had to do something to protect Germany,' Mr Aqil said.

Now, Mr Aqil is working on a number of different cases for two German investigative agencies. He has already been able to deliver the names and locations of several suspects from his time as a prisoner.

'The investigators hold him in high regard,' said Spiegel.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3826991/Syrian-migrant-helps-capture-ISIS-terrorist-tortured-home-country-spotting-Islamist-GERMANY.html#ixzz4MPKl1peJ
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An interesting perspective presented by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, of Harvard University:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AkAGc5nOXw
 
George Wallace said:
An interesting perspective presented by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, of Harvard University:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AkAGc5nOXw

That woman shows a lot of guts. She deserves all the support she can get.
 
jollyjacktar said:
Full story at link below.

BZ to him if he's right, but there have been problems, in various parts of the world, with 'honest brokers' pointing out other people to be arrested by the police.
 
George Wallace said:
An interesting perspective presented by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, of Harvard University:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AkAGc5nOXw

I really can not bring myself to like this lady. The premise she uses to assert Islam is inherently evil, if used on all other religions would create the same result, that they are all evil.

She also confuses culture and religion, which sad to say almost everyone does, Muslim and non-Muslim. Also her ideas of a "reformation" in Islam, would pretty much make all Muslims, non-Muslim and she does not realize that other religions stress the same ideals Islam does or she ignores the fact a religion can stress those ideals and not be violent... like most Muslims already do.

She seems to be of a mind that inherently all Muslim Scholars teach bigotry and intolerance which is not the case, it is only the extremists that do. She also refuses to allow for other factors in the global terrorism realm, she also refuses to acknowledge how small the percentage of terrorists are. Now due to technological advances just a couple terrorists can do a lot of damage yes, but because a small percent of Muslims do a lot of damage does not make the majority terrorists or the religion sympathetic to it.

Islamic teachings are quite similar to orthodox/catholic teachings or orthodox jewish teachings etc. So if Islam is evil, then they all are too. Also Islam is not against the west, that narrative has just been pushed by the extremes in certain groups.. like daesh and the right wing etc many Muslims think that the west and Islam can be reconciled, hell I have already done it fine.

Abdullah

 
For all the troubles that are fermenting there, the introduction of Islam over the centuries is widely recognized as one of the main reasons why northern Africa is generally better off than sub-Saharan Africa, largely due to its generally inclusive and peaceful approach.
 
Pentagon confronts a new threat from ISIS: exploding drones.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/12/world/middleeast/iraq-drones-isis.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0
Heading to a city near you.

Forget guns and bombs, ISIS says just attack random people with knives.
http://abc7chicago.com/news/isis-propaganda-urges-terrorists-to-stage-knife-attacks/1548969/
 
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