tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71103332024-03-13T17:56:28.595-05:00The FlansteinFlansteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06275368284777146959noreply@blogger.comBlogger299125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7110333.post-60467597652761205392007-03-22T16:13:00.000-05:002007-03-22T16:14:43.156-05:00Islam - religion of peace...Mar 22, 2007 02:13 PM Associated PressLONDON — British counter-terrorist police said today they arrested three suspects in the deadly suicide bomb attacks on the London transit system in 2005. Two of the men were picked up just before boarding a plane to Pakistan.<br />No one has ever been charged in connection with the July 7, 2005, bombings, which were the deadliest attack on London since World War II. The four bombers and 52 commuters died in blasts on three subway trains and a double-decker bus, and more than 700 people were injured.<br />London’s Metropolitan Police said two men, ages 23 and 30, were arrested at Manchester Airport in northwest England as they prepared to board a flight to Pakistan. The third man, 26, was detained at a house in Leeds, a city in northern England where police were searching five houses.<br />All were arrested on suspicion of committing, preparing or instigating acts of terrorism, and authorities aid they were being taken to a central London police station for questioning.<br />The houses being searched were all in Beeston, a working-class area of Leeds that was home to three of the 2005 bombers. Officers also were searching an apartment and a business in east London.<br />The coordinated attacks on London commuters were the first suicide bombings on European soil. The attack was followed two weeks later by a copycat plot in which four bombs failed to detonate.<br />Three of the suicide bombers — Mohammed Sidique Khan, 30, Shehzad Tanweer, 22, and Hasib Hussain, 18 — were British-born men of Pakistani descent who grew up in the ethnically mixed Leeds area, about 200 miles from London. The fourth, Germaine Lindsay, 19, was born in Jamaica and raised in Britain.<br />The revelation that seemingly unremarkable British residents could become suicide bombers caused soul-searching across the country and raised fears of a threat from homegrown terrorists.<br />An official account of the attacks published last year concluded the plotters who inspired and prepared the bombers were likely still at large.<br />The investigation seemed to have stalled, but the Metropolitan Police said officials remained “determined to follow the evidence wherever it takes us to identify any other person who may have been involved, in any way, in the terrorist attacks.’’<br />Two suspects were previously detained by British police in 2005. One was released without charge, and the other was charged with wasting police time.<br />In addition, Magdy el-Nashar, an Egyptian chemist, was taken into custody by Egyptian authorities a week after the attack when British officials said he was suspected of possibly having links with some of the bombers.<br />He was let go after three weeks, and Egyptian authorities said he had no involvement in the attack. El-Nashar told reporters then that he casually knew two of the suicide bombers while earning a doctorate in biochemistry at the University of Leeds.Flansteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06275368284777146959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7110333.post-1169392322682891762007-01-21T09:11:00.000-06:002007-01-21T09:12:02.700-06:00Islam = Evil...The timing could not be more apposite. After the humorless banalities of the CBC's Little Mosque on the Prairie come the grotesque realities of Channel 4's Undercover Mosque in the U.K. <br /><br />Journalists from Channel 4's Dispatches programme conducted a 10-month undercover assignment in several of Britain's leading mosques. The resulting segment, Undercover Mosque, was aired on Jan. 15. <br /><br />What is particularly relevant is that Dispatches has an international reputation for excellence and, important this, for its general left-wing approach to political issues. As such, the producers decided to investigate not those Muslim centres renowned for their extremism but various large, influential and allegedly moderate Islamic holy places. <br /><br />What it found has provoked waves of shock. Several preachers and imams call for holy war, tell congregations that Muslims have to brainwash people, demand that homosexuals be murdered, insist that girls who refuse to wear the hijab should be beaten, and routinely demand that Christians and Jews be killed. <br /><br />At one mosque in Birmingham, Abu Usama, one of the most popular speakers, says that Muslims have to "form a state within a state, until we take over." He says that in this state any Muslim who tried to leave Islam would be killed. "If the Imam wants to crucify him he could crucify him. The <br /><br />person is put up on the wood and he's left there to bleed to death." <br /><br />The documentary also shows a preacher joking about harming gay people secretly so as not to break the law. He laughs as he tells Muslim dentists to thrust extra- large needles into the faces of gay patients. <br /><br />This is all especially embarrassing for the government because one of its main advisors on Islam, a Muslim member of the House of Lords, attends this particular mosque and speaks highly of it. <br /><br />Another preacher in Birmingham, Dr. Billal Phillips, explains that as Muhammad married Aisha, a nine-year-old girl, all such marriages are condoned. "The prophet Muhammad practically outlined the rules regarding marriage prior to puberty. With this practice, he clarified what is permissible." <br /><br />Referring to non-Muslims, another preacher says that, "No one loves the kuffaar [i.e., non-Muslims]. We hate the kuffaar! Allah has not given those people who are kuffaar a way over the believer. They shouldn't be in authority over us. Muslims shouldn't be satisfied with anything other than a total Islamic state." <br /><br />The book store of the Regents Park Mosque, the largest in London, sells popular videos of the Saudi-trained Sheikh Faiz calling Jews "pigs" who will all be slaughtered. He then makes the sound of a pig and the audience laughs. In fact, throughout the sermons and lessons there is no sign of disagreement or discomfort from anyone in the packed congregations. <br /><br />The Taliban is praised for killing British soldiers, and followers are repeatedly told to despise Western society. Muslims are condemned if they send their children to kuffaar schools or allow them to play with kuffaars. <br /><br />The response so far has been that the documentary is mere propaganda. Tragically, it is not. It appears to be an accurate and objective expose of common teaching within those mosques that were until now considered to be standing on the front line against extremism. We would be foolish not to listen to what these Muslims are telling us. <br /><br />- Michael Coren is a writer and broadcaster. www.michaelcoren.com.Flansteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06275368284777146959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7110333.post-1162221217881233472006-10-30T09:12:00.000-06:002006-10-30T09:13:37.906-06:00Muslim Extremist Wants Flag of Islam Over IrelandBy now it should come as no surprise that Islamic extremists aren’t content to peacefully live out their lives on holy Islamic soil, but rather insist that the entire world succomb to the joys of sharia law. Nonetheless, the things some of them say and do never fails to amaze. Nor can one fail to be amazed at the openness with which they are received into Western society in the name of extreme multiculturalism and free, open debate.<br /><br />It would seem that no Western European country is free from the possibility of becoming predominantly Muslim by mid-century, if not by conquest, then by simple demographics. European populations seem strangely averse to reproducing themselves while the attitude on that subject of the Muslim immigrants in their midst is basically no holds barred.<br /><br />But that doesn’t mean that a little violence isn’t fully justified along the way of that seeming demographic inevitability and even the Emerald Island of Ireland is vulnerable, at least according to one Islamic extremist who recently spoke in Dublin. The following excerpts come from an article in an Irish paper:<br /><br />The flag of Islam should be flown over Leinster House, an Islamic extremist said tonight.<br /><br />Speaking in Dublin before addressing a Trinity College debate, Anjem Choudray also reiterated controversial views that Muslim violence is justified in certain circumstances.<br /><br />The British-born lawyer, 39, angered the Irish Government last year when he said that Ireland risked becoming a target for a 9/11 style attack because it allowed US war planes to refuel at Shannon Airport.<br /><br />Mr Choudray said: “As a Muslim, I believe Islam is superior to every other way of life and that it can resolve all the social and economic problems that Ireland suffers from.<br /><br />“And as a symbol of that, the flag of Islam should be flown over the Dáil.<br /><br />“This is symbolic of the fact that all societies will be run better according to God’s law.”<br /><br />Mr Choudray, who has visited Ireland several times, was invited by the Philosophical Society at Trinity College to debate Islamic violence with other speakers.<br /><br />Referring to the US military stopovers at Shannon Airport, he said tonight: “If US warplanes are using Irish soil, then Ireland is seen as aiding and abetting the war on so-called terror.<br /><br />“Ireland says it has a position of neutrality but I don’t think it is seen that way in the Muslim world at all.”<br /><br />Mr Choudray also warned that the Pope must be careful with his public statements so that he doesn’t offend Islam.<br /><br />And taking top honors for Mr. Choudray’s most harebrained remark: “As a Muslim, I believe Islam is superior to every other way of life and that it can resolve all the social and economic problems that Ireland suffers from.”<br /><strong><br />Sure, just look what it’s done for that vast swath of the planet that stretches from Morocco to Indonesia. A wretched, ignorant, violent, poverty-ridden fever swamp from end to end. That’s Islam for you: quashing human potential for 14 centuries! Allahu Akbar!</strong><br />And it can do the same for the Emerald Isle.<br /><br />It would all be doubled-over, falling-down hilarious if it weren’t for two worrisome factors (in addition to the demographic one already mentioned): 1.) Europe’s inexplicable unwillingness to defend its own culture and heritage; and 2.) Islam’s aggressive tendencies combined with extreme irrationality and lack of moral boundaries (i.e., suicide bombings).<br /><br />Suffice it to say, unless the West wakes up, its civilization, which has brought the world almost every blessing of modernity it enjoys, can be replaced in short order by something far less palatable.<br /><br />Greg Strange provides conservative commentary with plenty of acerbic wit on the people, politics, events and absurdities of our time. See more at his website: http://www.greg-strange.com/Flansteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06275368284777146959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7110333.post-1158619670408159942006-09-18T17:46:00.000-05:002006-09-18T17:47:50.433-05:00Islam - religion of peace...Al-Qaida in Iraq" and its allies issued a statement addressing the Pope as "a cross-worshipper" and warning, "You and the West are doomed, as you can see from the defeat in Iraq, Afghanistan, Chechnya and elsewhere. <br /><br />"You infidels and despots, we will continue our jihad (holy war) and never stop until God avails us to chop your necks and raise the fluttering banner of monotheism, when God's rule is established governing all people and nations," said the statement by the Mujahedeen Shura Council, an umbrella organization of Sunni Arab extremist groups in Iraq. <br /><br />Another Iraqi extremist group, Ansar al-Sunna, challenged "sleeping Muslims" to prove their manhood by doing something other than "issuing statements or holding demonstrations." <br /><br />"If the stupid pig is prancing with his blasphemies in his house," the group said in a web statement, referring to the Pope, "then let him wait for the day coming soon when the armies of the religion of right knock on the walls of Rome." <br /><br />In Iran, supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei used the comments to call for protests against the United States. He argued that while the Pope may have been deceived into making his remarks, the words give the West an "excuse for suppressing Muslims" by depicting them as terrorists.Flansteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06275368284777146959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7110333.post-1150641317459123672006-06-18T09:34:00.000-05:002006-06-18T09:35:17.476-05:00'Nice' people finish last'Nice' people finish last <br /><br />By Hartley Steward<br /><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />So, have you dropped the idea of sewing a cute little Canadian flag onto your backpack to endear yourself to strangers when you holiday this year? There goes another precious Canadian conceit. <br /><br />It seems that even the unbearable niceness of being Canadian won't keep you safe in this dreadful new world of ours. The smug Canuck smile has surely been wiped off your face by the gory details of the alleged Muslim terrorists' plans uncovered in Toronto. <br /><br />Two weeks out, it is apparent from police and security services reports that this may be just the beginning. There are still wannabe terrorists out there, determined to explode a few bombs, kill a few Canadians, maybe behead a politician or two. <br /><br />It's difficult to find anyone involved in security who won't guarantee a deadly attack of some sort or other. Any day now. <br /><br />All that hatred, all those evil vibes, unleashed here in little old Canada, where we wouldn't say Shiite if they were coming through the windows with knives clenched in their teeth. <br /><br />Canada is the inoffensive international nice guy, kicking in with foreign aid by the millions and an enlightened immigration policy. <br /><br />We've been had, folks. <br /><br />All that time we've been employing euphemisms and politically-correct speak so as not to antagonize the Muslim world, the radical Islamist leaders have been recruiting every malcontent and schizoid they can find to kill us and our children. Like a pack of crazed salesmen for jihad, they have been searching for weak minds and strong backs to do their dirty work. <br /><br />It is clear that to extremist Muslims, we are no more or less than Americans with more snow and a trusting nature. We are white, rich, soft and decadent. We are infidels. <br /><br />But don't be fooled. Their rage is not really born of religious principles or even extreme Islamic visions. It's not the result of American intervention in some Muslim nations. <br /><br />That these extremists have apparently set up operations on such a broad scale here in Canada shows them for what they really are -- thugs, enraged by our standard of living, jealous of our freedom and our good life. Thugs, drawn to the zealotry like flies to excrement, fascinated by gruesome tales of mass killings and twisted promises of virgins at the end of it all. <br /><br />They may have been fed propaganda by the truck load, they may have been taught that America is the great Satan, responsible for their every ill, they may have been filled to overflowing with the notion that Islam is the one true religion. But they are, nonetheless, still just thugs. <br /><br />We flatter them <br /><br />To impugn to them motives any more noble is to flatter them. To muse about the root causes of their discontent is to waste time while they gather even more recruits and strength. To think a little understanding and a few more foreign aid dollars will help is downright foolish. Thugs will be thugs. <br /><br />The time has come for the international Muslim community to take some responsibility. It's time to squeal their heads off to security forces everywhere when they know something. Time to drop the dime on friends, neighbours, associates -- to show some courage and old-fashioned fortitude. Time to stop whining about a possible backlash against ordinary, law-abiding Muslims and begin to participate in the solution. <br /><br />We don't need another lecture on our insensitivity to the Muslim world. We need help. <br /><br /><strong>Muslims have got to root out the thugs hiding in their midst, as several of their leaders in Canada have stated. Unless this happens, we will really see a backlash -- or worse.</strong> <br /><br />Canadians may be nice, but we're not stupid. <br /><br />hsteward@canoemail.comFlansteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06275368284777146959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7110333.post-1145821296401386612006-04-23T14:40:00.000-05:002006-04-23T14:41:36.416-05:00Islam, the prohibition against singingProhibition of Songs<br /> <br />First Khutbah <br /><br />Dear brothers, the battle between Satan, supported by his human and jinn soldiers, and the believers is endless; it never ceases. We experience this battle each day, hour and even each minute. On the very day that Allaah cursed him and dismissed him down to earth, Satan swore that he would wage a bitter war in which he would mobilize all those he could manage to corrupt. He adopted many methods and different means in order to trap the children of Aadam. Among such traps through which he snares people with little religious knowledge and understanding is listening to songs accompanied by prohibited musical instruments. Songs make the heart deviate from the Holy Qur'aan and turn towards ugly deeds and vices. They are the "holy books" of Satan and the thick veil that stands as a stumbling block between a person and his Lord. It is the gate to adultery and sodomy. It is the means adopted by dissipated lovers in order to attain their ends. It is the method through which vicious jinns harm mankind. <br /><br /> <br /><br />Almost all people, save those whom Allaah chose, are taken to singing to the extent that you may find a father teaching his child how to sing and encourage him to do this ugly deed. It has more than ten different names in religion. It is called idle tales, nonsense, falsehood, whistling and clapping, the gate to adultery, the holy book of Satan, the source of hypocrisy in hearts, the foolish voice, the dissolute voice, the voice of Satan, the piper of Satan, and Sumood (singing in the dialect of the old people of Yemen). <br /><br /> <br /><br />Its names indicate its characteristics. What evil and wicked names! As for its first name, it has been mentioned in Allaah's saying which means: "But there are, among men, those who purchase idle tales, without knowledge (or meaning), to mislead (men) from the Path of Allaah and throw ridicule (on the Path): for such there will be a humiliating Penalty. When Our Signs are rehearsed to such a one, he turns away in arrogance, as if he heard them not, as if there were deafness in both his ears: announce to him a grievous Penalty." ( Luqmaan: 6-7).<br /><br /> <br /><br />Ibn Mas`ood said: "I swear by Allaah that these "idle tales" are nothing but songs." He repeated it thrice. Ibn `Umar and Ibn `Abbaas, may Allaah be pleased with them, said the very same thing. These Companions were living when the Qur'aan was revealed and hence they are among the most versed in interpreting the words of Allaah. They interpreted these "idle tales" as songs. You will never find any person taken to singing and listening to musical instruments without at least a degree of deviation from true guidance. He does not have the desire to listen to the Qur'aan and even prefers songs to it, to the extent that if he had to choose between the two, he would listen to songs. Even if he listens to the Qur'aan, he finds it hard to understand and assimilate it, and this may lead him to ask the one reciting to stop his recitation session because he feels that it is too long. As for songs, he asks the singer for more and feels that the song was very short. <br /><br /> <br /><br />A man came to Ibn `Abbaas, may Allaah be pleased with him, and asked him: “What is the legal judgment pertaining to singing? Is it permissable or prohibited?” Ibn `Abbaas replied: “On the Day of Judgment, will singing be classified with truth or falsehood?” The man said: “With falsehood”. Ibn `Abbaas commented: “You have reached the judgment yourself”. <br /><br /> <br /><br />Songs are the gateway to adultery as they contain inviting the beloved to an appointment, sitting with him (her) alone, practicing love, friendship, and lamentation over missing him (her). Besides this, songs call for dissolution of the veiling of women. Al-Fudhayl Ibn `Iyaadh said: “Songs are the gate to adultery”. Yazeed bin Al-Waleed also said: “O Bani Umayyah, beware of songs. They decrease decency, increase lust, and do away with one's integrity. It has the very same effect of wine and even replaces it. If you have no alternative but to listen to songs, do not let your women do the same, because songs are the gateway to adultery”. <br /><br /> <br /><br />Women are more affected by songs, musical tunes and the meanings of their words than any one else. Listening to songs may lead a girl to fall in love with the singer, to the degree that his songs and pictures are never far away from her mind. Is there an evil temptation greater than this? Many are the decent girls who have become prostitutes because of such songs. <br /><br /> <br /><br />Songs cultivate hypocrisy in one's heart just like grains grow and thrive in the presence of water, as Ibn Mas`ood said. Songs and Qur'aan can never co-exist in a believer's heart because of their contradictory nature. The Qur'aan enjoins us not to follow our lusts, or the footsteps of Satan and to stick, instead, to virtuousness. As for songs, they invite us to the opposite. <br /><br /> <br /><br />Is it not true that songs encourage one to satisfy his lusts? Don't they motivate one to practice each and every bad deed? Don't they tempt a person to have an affair with a woman or even a child? Songs and wine are companions, and they tempt one to commit sins and evil deeds. Satan made a bargain between these two evils so that, together, they will support each other in calling to corruption. Songs lead to prohibited adoration and committing ugly deeds. O Allaah, keep us away from Your Wrath and things which lead to Your Punishment. Hereby I end my sermon and ask Allaah for forgiveness. <br /><br /> <br /><br />Second Khutbah <br /><br /> <br /><br />All praise be to Allaah, the Lord of the Worlds Who guides whomever He wills to His straightforward path. May Allaah have peace, mercy and blessings on His slave and Messenger, Muhammad, his family and Companions. <br /><br /> <br /><br />Our Prophet sallallaahu 'alaihi wa sallam warned against listening to songs and musical instruments, as he said: "There will be people of my Community who will hold fornication, silk, wine, and musical instruments to be lawful'' (Bukhaari) <br /><br /> <br /><br />If such things mentioned in the hadith had been lawful, the Prophet sallallaahu 'alaihi wa sallam would have never condemned those who consider them legal, and he would not have mentioned them along with the already prohibited wine and silk. <br /><br /> <br /><br />Sahl bin S`ad As-Sa`di reported that the Prophet sallallaahu 'alaihi wasallam said: "This Community will experience the swallowing up of some people by the earth, the metamorphosis of some into animals, and being rained upon with stones.'' Someone asked, ``When will this be, O Messenger of Allah?''. He said, ``When female singers and musical instruments appear and wine is held to be lawful.''(Ahmad & Tirmithi)<br /><br /> <br /><br />The four Imaams ruled singing to be prohibited. Imaam Maalik used to prohibit it and say: It is done by wicked people. He also said: If one bought a slave girl and found that she is a singer, he has the full right to return her because of this defect. <br /><br /> <br /><br />Abu Haneefah hated singing and considered it a sin. His followers believed that listening to all musical instruments, such as the pipe (wind instrument) is prohibited. They also said that it is a sin that makes the person to be considered dissolute and his testimony is not accepted. <br /><br /> <br /><br />As for Shaafi`i, his followers believe that listening to songs is prohibited. They also said that hiring a singer, practicing songs as a profession, giving money to a singer as a remuneration are all prohibited just like giving money in return of the already prohibited animal's blood and corpse. They also believe that using a pipe is prohibited. If the pipe, which is the simplest of all musical instruments is prohibited, what about the flute and other instruments? <br /><br /> <br /><br />As for Ahmed's School of Jurisprudence, his son `Abdullaah said: I asked my father about singing, and he replied: It cultivates hypocrisy in hearts and therefore I do not like it. Then he mentioned the saying of Imaam Maalik: It is done by dissolute (loose or evil) people. <br /><br /> <br /><br />As for listening to songs sung by a female or a beardless lad, it is considered as one of the gravest sins that corrupts one's religion. <br /><br /> <br /><br />Dear brother, if you commit this sin or your family does it at home, hasten to repent to Allaah for He is the Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful as He said which means: "Tell My servants that I am indeed the Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful." (Al-Hijr: 49).<br /><br /> <br /><br />Hasten to sincere repentance and know that whenever a person gives up an evil act for the sake of Allaah, Allaah will compensate him with far better than what he abandoned. I would like to express my gratitude to those who abstain from committing sins and abandon evil acts and deeds practiced by the people of our time. They are the ones who have attained true happiness.Flansteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06275368284777146959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7110333.post-1144369644577890282006-04-06T19:23:00.000-05:002006-04-06T19:27:24.590-05:00Islam IS our enemy...<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3918/421/1600/jumpers.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3918/421/320/jumpers.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />Former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani has described seeing the horror of the 9/11 attacks on the city's twin towers.<br /> <br />He told the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui he had been unwilling to believe people were jumping from the buildings until he saw it with his own eyes. <br /><br />The jury has to decide whether the self-confessed al-Qaeda member Moussaoui should be executed. Mr Giuliani testified for the prosecution. <br /><br />The court will also hear from relatives of some of those killed in the attacks. <br /><br />Mr Giuliani told the jury the image of two people jumping together from the World Trade Center, holding hands, remained with him every day. <br /><br />Describing the moment he saw people falling, he said: "I froze. I realised that in a couple of seconds, it switched my thinking and emotions. I said 'We're in uncharted territory'." <br /><br /><br />During Mr Giuliani's testimony, the jury was played video clips of the planes crashing into the twin towers, and people jumping from the buildings. <br /><br />It was the worst thing I have ever seen in my life <br /> <br /><br />The former mayor, who was sitting next to scale models of the World Trade Center in court, said: "By the time the second plane hit, we knew for sure it was a terrorist attack." <br /><br />He added that after the towers collapsed, it looked like a "nuclear cloud" was going through Manhattan, Reuters news agency reported. <br /><br />The scene at the World Trade Center site was "horrid". <br /><br />"It was the worst thing I have ever seen in my life," Mr Giuliani told the jury. <br /><br />"You could see parts of human bodies, hands and legs, a lot of injured... this was a war, this was a battle, we were attacked," the AFP news agency quoted him as saying. <br /><br />News agencies reported that during a morning break in proceedings when the judge and jury were out of the court, Moussaoui sang "Burn in the USA" - apparently adapting the lyrics of the Bruce Springsteen song "Born in the USA". <br /><br /><br /><em>If there was any doubt that this cocksucker and his religion of death were antithetical to civilization - this was it.</em>Flansteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06275368284777146959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7110333.post-1143848529968499322006-03-31T17:37:00.000-06:002006-03-31T17:42:09.980-06:00A muslim speaks the truth<em>This happens so rarely, that I was shocked when I read this. An American muslim aknowledging that islam needs reformation. How many muslim bloggers can admit, as he does, the crimes of islam? Not many I suspect...</em><br /><br />'Cancer in its midst'<br />TODAY'S COLUMNIST<br />By M. Zuhdi Jasser<br />March 30, 2006 <br /><br /><br />During the dark days of our Revolution, Thomas Paine wrote, "That these are the times, that try men's souls." As an American Muslim, I feel the sentiment of these words like a red-hot brand on my brain.<br /> <br /> <strong>I have watched horrified as assassins have read out the words from my Holy Koran before slitting the throats of some poor innocent souls. To my non-comprehending eyes, I have seen mothers proudly support their sons' accomplishment of blowing up innocent people as they eat or travel. It shatters some part of me, to see my faith as an instrument for butchery.</strong><br /> <br /> It makes me hope and pray for some counter-movement within my faith which will push back all this darkness. And I know that it must start with what is most basic -- the common truth that binds all religions: "Do unto others, as you would have them do onto you." The Golden Rule.<br /> <br /> But that is not what I am seeing taught in a great deal of the Muslim world today, and, unfortunately, in America it's just not much better. <br /><br /> <strong>Night after night, I see Muslim national organizations like the Council for American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, cry out over and over about anecdotal victimization while saying and doing absolutely nothing about the most vile hate-speak and actions toward Jews and Christians in the Muslim world. It is the most self-serving of outrage. </strong><br /><br /> The question I ask myself in the darkness of my own night is, "How did my beautiful faith become so linked with such ugliness." To me, the answer is both deep and simple. A spiritual path must be only about the spiritual while a worldly path must be about this world. When the two get mixed together, it brings out the very worst in both. <br /><br /> Much of what passes today for religious thought and action is actually political. When I hear a sermon in a mosque about the horrors of Israeli occupation, I know that the political arena has taken over the spiritual one. When I see the actions of suicide bombers praised or excused by religious leaders, I know that this politicization is complete. But the current Muslim leadership in groups like CAIR and others want only to talk of victimization. So, it is now high time for a new movement by Muslims in America and the West. <br /><br /> We in the Muslim community need to develop a new paradigm for our organizations and think tanks which holds Muslims publicly accountable for the separation of the political from the spiritual. Gone should be the day where individuals and their organizations can hide behind the cloak of victimization as a smoke screen for what they really believe.<br /> <br /> I do believe that religions have cycles that they go through. Christianity was once a highly intolerant faith. Jews were labeled as "Christ killers" and the colored peoples of the Third World were people whose native faith was like ragged clothes to be torn off their bodies. <br /><br /> Thank God those days are over. Now my faith community must do the same. It should be the true test of a Muslim, not so much how he treats a fellow Muslim but how he treats someone of another faith. <br /><br /> Time is not on our side and the volatile radical minority of Muslims could strike again at any time. But, while true change among Muslims may take generations, our history teaches us that once we start the ideological battle, nothing can counter the power of freedom, pluralism and the desire for human rights.<br /> <br /> There are some small signs that my community is finally beginning to wake up to the cancer in its midst. We are learning something that was the central lesson of World War II -- that once aroused, evil never stays self-contained. <br /><br /><strong>For many in my faith, it was all right to blow up innocent Israelis as they sat in their cafes and pizza parlors. Through some tortured act of logic, these suicide bombings were seen as some sort of legitimate religion-sanctioned acts.</strong> (All the while, notice how few Muslim organizations like CAIR will denounce Hamas by name). But, as evil always does, it migrates, and soon radical Muslims were blowing up little children in Russia, commuters in Spain and worshippers in one of Iraq's holiest mosques.<br /> <br /> Maybe our first true wake-up call was Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's homicide attack on the wedding party in Jordan. Because now, the evil unleashed on the occupying Jews had landed on the doorstep of Muslims as they partook in a joyous wedding day.<br /> <br /> That is the lesson that we in the Muslim community are now learning. Do evil to anyone and eventually it will boomerang on you. Perhaps, that's a good place to start. Let the barometer of our faith be how we treat our Jewish friends, because in the end, that is how we will eventually treat ourselves. <br /> <br /> M. Zuhdi Jasser is chairman of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy. A former Navy lieutenant commander, he currently is an internist in private practice in Phoenix.Flansteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06275368284777146959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7110333.post-1143730694006599422006-03-30T08:35:00.000-06:002006-03-30T08:58:14.096-06:00Even moderate muslims love death...<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3918/421/1600/adulterer.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3918/421/200/adulterer.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />I was debating on another blog with well-known jihadi apologist Abu Sinan about why some lone Afghani convert to Christianity needs to die. He amusingly claimed that:<br /><br /><strong>"First of all, death for apostasy is not mandated by The Qur'an, that is obvious by all. Those who claim it is Sunnfh(the sayings and actions of the Prophet) stand on shaky ground."</strong> <em>In fact, it does NOT seem obvious to an entire country Abu - and why? For the Shariah principles in question are shared by all four of the Sunni schools of jurisprudence (Maliki, Hanbali, Hanafi, and Shafi'i), plus the Shia school. </em><br /><br /><br />And then he admitted (but not directly of course because he <strong>is</strong> a muslims after all:<br /><br /><strong>"As to homosexuality and adultery, Islam takes the same stand as tradition Christianity and Judaism. So yes, like practicing Jews and Christians who follow a traditional following of their religions, I support the ban and punishment for these crimes."</strong><br /><br />Yes, our moderate muslim wants death for gays, lesbians and adulterers. Know of any Christian countries where they stone women to death for adultery? How about ONE western nation that executes gay people? No, me either. In fact, the amputations, executions and torturing of adulterers and homosexuals is the almost exclusive monopoly of Muslims. Religion of peace dontchaknow..Flansteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06275368284777146959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7110333.post-1143564273941889512006-03-28T10:41:00.000-06:002006-03-28T10:44:33.956-06:00Religion Of Peace?<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3918/421/1600/Karzai.0.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3918/421/320/Karzai.0.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br /><em>Some good questions about the <strong>"Religion of Peace</strong>" from Investors Business Daily.</em><br /><br /><br />Religion Of Peace?<br /> Posted 3/27/2006<br /><br />War On Terror: In the wake of the cartoon jihad and mosque-on-mosque violence in Iraq, most Americans now think Islam has more violent believers than any other faith. Yet many still view it as a "peaceful religion."<br /><br />Psychologists might call this cognitive dissonance — a state of mind where rational people essentially lie to themselves. But in this case, it's understandable. In our politically correct culture, criticizing any religion, even one that plots our destruction, is still taboo. And no one wants to suggest the terrorists are driven by their holy text.<br /><br />Which explains a Washington Post-ABC News poll showing that Americans are becoming more aware of the broader threat (58% associate terrorists with Islam), but are still convinced terrorists are radicalizing Islam and not the other way around (54% don't think Islam itself encourages violence).<br /><br />The new poll, however, still doesn't sit well with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a group dedicated to improving public perceptions of Islam. It has denounced increasingly negative views as "Islamophobic" and vowed to redouble its "education" efforts.<br /><br />Good. What better time for CAIR and other Muslim leaders to step up, cut through the politically correct fog and provide factual answers to the questions that give so many non-Muslims pause?<br /><br />Generally speaking, those questions focus on whether the Quran does indeed promote violence against non-Muslims, and how many of the terrorists' ideas — about the violent jihad, the self-immolation, the kidnappings, even the beheadings — come right out of the text? But even more specifically:<br /><br />Is Islam the only religion with a doctrine, theology and legal system that mandates warfare against unbelievers?<br /><br />Is it true that 26 chapters of the Quran deal with jihad, a fight able-bodied believers are obligated to join (Surah 2:216), and that the text orders Muslims to "instill terror into the hearts of the unbeliever" and to "smite above their necks" (8:12)?<br /><br />Is the "test" of loyalty to Allah not good acts or faith in general, but martyrdom that results from fighting unbelievers (47:4) — the only assurance of salvation in Islam (4:74; 9:111)?<br /><br />Are the sins of any Muslim who becomes a martyr forgiven by the very act of being slain while slaying the unbelievers (4:96)?<br /><br />And is it really true that martyrs are rewarded with virgins, among other carnal delights, in Paradise (38:51, 55:56; 55:76; 56:22)?<br /><br />Are those unable to do jihad — such as women or the elderly — required to give "asylum and aid" to those who do fight unbelievers in the cause of Allah (8:74)?<br /><br />Does Islam advocate expansion by force? And is the final command of jihad, as revealed to Muhammad in the Quran, to conquer the world in the name of Islam (9:29)?<br /><br />Is Islam the only religion that does not teach the Golden Rule (48:29)? Does the Quran instead teach violence and hatred against non-Muslims, specifically Jews and Christians (5:50)?<br /><br />There are other questions, but these should do for a start. If the answers are "yes," then at least Americans will know there's no such thing as moderate Islam, even as they trust that there are moderate Muslims who do not act out on its violent commands.Flansteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06275368284777146959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7110333.post-1143394753775283072006-03-26T11:36:00.000-06:002006-03-26T11:39:13.790-06:00Facing down a culture where they talk like craziesFacing down a culture where they talk like crazies ... Mark Steyn<br />Chicago Sun-Times ^ | 26 March 2006 | Mark Steyn<br /><br /><br />Fate conspires to remind us what this war is really about: civilizational confidence. And so history repeats itself: first the farce of the Danish cartoons, and now the tragedy -- a man on trial for his life in post-Taliban Afghanistan because he has committed the crime of converting to Christianity. <br /><br />The cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad were deeply offensive to Muslims, and so thousands protested around the world in the usual restrained manner: rioting, torching, killing, etc. <br /><br />The impending execution of Abdul Rahman for embracing Christianity is, of course, offensive to Westerners, and so around the world we reacted equally violently by issuing blood-curdling threats like that made by State Department spokesman Sean McCormack: "Freedom of worship is an important element of any democracy," he said. "And these are issues as Afghan democracy matures that they are going to have to deal with increasingly." <br /><br />The immediate problem for Rahman is whether he'll get the chance to "mature" along with Afghan democracy. The president, the Canadian prime minister and the Australian prime minister have all made statements of concern about his fate, and it seems clear that Afghanistan's dapper leader Hamid Karzai would like to resolve this issue before his fledgling democracy gets a reputation as just another barbarous Islamist sewer state. There's talk of various artful compromises, such as Rahman being declared unfit to stand trial by reason of insanity on the grounds that (I'm no Islamic jurist so I'm paraphrasing here) anyone who converts from Islam to Christianity must ipso facto be out of his tree. <br /><br />On the other hand, this "moderate" compromise solution is being rejected by leading theologians. Let this guy Rahman cop an insanity plea and there goes the neighborhood. "We will not allow God to be humiliated. This man must die," says Abdul Raoulf of the nation's principal Muslim body, the Afghan Ulama Council. "Cut off his head! We will call on the people to pull him into pieces so there's nothing left." Needless to say, Imam Raoulf is one of Afghanistan's leading "moderate" clerics. <br /><br />For what it's worth, I'm with the Afghan Ulama Council in objecting to the insanity defense. It's not enough for Rahman to get off on a technicality. Afghanistan is supposed to be "the good war," the one even the French supported, albeit notionally and mostly retrospectively. Karzai is kept alive by a bodyguard of foreigners. The fragile Afghan state is protected by American, British, Canadian, Australian, Italian, German and other troops, hundreds of whom have died. You cannot ask Americans or Britons to expend blood and treasure to build a society in which a man can be executed for his choice of religion. You cannot tell a serving member of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry in Kandahar that he, as a Christian, must sacrifice his life to create a Muslim state in which his faith is a capital offense. <br /><br />As always, we come back to the words of Osama bin Laden: ''When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by nature they will like the strong horse.'' That's really the only issue: the Islamists know our side has tanks and planes, but they have will and faith, and they reckon in a long struggle that's the better bet. Most prominent Western leaders sound way too eager to climb into the weak-horse suit and audition to play the rear end. Consider, for example, the words of the Prince of Wales, speaking a few days ago at al-Azhar University in Cairo. This is "the world's oldest university," though what they learn there makes the average Ivy League nuthouse look like a beacon of sanity. Anyway, this is what His Royal Highness had to say to 800 Islamic "scholars": <br /><br />"The recent ghastly strife and anger over the Danish cartoons shows the danger that comes of our failure to listen and to respect what is precious and sacred to others. In my view, the true mark of a civilized society is the respect it pays to minorities and to strangers." <br /><br />That's correct. But the reality is our society pays enormous respect to minorities -- President Bush holds a monthlong Ramadan-a-ding-dong at the White House every year; the immediate reaction to the slaughter of 9/11 by the president, the prince, the prime ministers of Britain, Canada and everywhere else was to visit a mosque to demonstrate their great respect for Islam. One party to this dispute is respectful to a fault: after all, to describe the violence perpetrated by Muslims over the Danish cartoons as the "recent ghastly strife" barely passes muster as effete Brit toff understatement. <br /><br />Unfortunately, what's "precious and sacred" to Islam is its institutional contempt for others. In his book Islam And The West, Bernard Lewis writes, "The primary duty of the Muslim as set forth not once but many times in the Koran is 'to command good and forbid evil.' It is not enough to do good and refrain from evil as a personal choice. It is incumbent upon Muslims also to command and forbid." <br /><br />Or as the shrewd Canadian columnist David Warren put it: "We take it for granted that it is wrong to kill someone for his religious beliefs. Whereas Islam holds it is wrong not to kill him." In that sense, those blood-curdling imams are right, and Karzai's attempts to finesse the issue are, sharia-wise, wrong. <br /><br />I can understand why the president and the secretary of state would rather deal with this through back-channels, private assurances from their Afghan counterparts, etc. But the public rhetoric is critical, too. At some point we have to face down a culture in which not only the mob in the street but the highest judges and academics talk like crazies. <br /><br />Rahman embodies the question at the heart of this struggle: If Islam is a religion one can only convert to not from, then in the long run it is a threat to every free person on the planet. What can we do? Should governments with troops in Afghanistan pass joint emergency legislation conferring their citizenship on this poor man and declaring him, as much as Karzai, under their protection? <br /><br />In a more culturally confident age, the British in India were faced with the practice of "suttee" -- the tradition of burning widows on the funeral pyres of their husbands. General Sir Charles Napier was impeccably multicultural: <br /><br />''You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: When men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows.You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours." <br /><br />India today is better off without suttee. If we shrink from the logic of that, then in Afghanistan and many places far closer to home the implications are, as the Prince of Wales would say, "ghastly."Flansteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06275368284777146959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7110333.post-1143211623072484922006-03-24T08:42:00.000-06:002006-03-28T10:44:58.706-06:00Islam - the barbarity continues...<em>As if any more proof was needed that islam is incompatible with civilization. Makes you wonder if the place is salvageable...</em><br /><br /><br />Top Muslim clerics: <B>Convert must die</b><br />Religious leaders urge courts to ignore West, hang Christian<br /><br />Friday, March 24, 2006; Posted: 12:24 a.m. EST (05:24 GMT) <br /><br /> KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Senior Muslim clerics are demanding that an Afghan man on trial for converting from Islam to Christianity be executed, warning that <strong>if the government caves in to Western pressure and frees him, they will incite people to "pull him into pieces."</strong><br /><br />In an unusual move, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice telephoned President Hamid Karzai on Thursday seeking a "favorable resolution" of the case of Abdul Rahman. The 41-year-old former medical aid worker faces the death penalty under Afghanistan's Islamic laws for becoming a Christian.<br /><br />His trial has fired passions in this conservative Muslim nation and highlighted a conflict of values between Afghanistan and its Western backers.<br /><br /><strong>"Rejecting Islam is insulting God. We will not allow God to be humiliated. This man must die," </strong>said cleric Abdul Raoulf, who is considered a <em>moderate</em> and was jailed three times for opposing the Taliban before the hard-line regime was ousted in 2001.<br /><br />"He is not crazy. He went in front of the media and confessed to being a Christian," said Hamidullah, chief cleric at Haji Yacob Mosque. "The government is scared of the international community. But the people will kill him if he is freed."<br /><br />Raoulf, who is a member of the country's main Islamic organization, the Afghan Ulama Council, concurred. "The government is playing games. The people will not be fooled."<br /><br /><strong>"Cut off his head!"</strong> he exclaimed, sitting in a courtyard outside Herati Mosque. "We will call on the people to pull him into pieces so there's nothing left."<br /><br />He said the only way for Rahman to survive would be for him to go into exile.<br /><br />But Said Mirhossain Nasri, the top cleric at Hossainia Mosque, one of the largest Shiite places of worship in Kabul, said Rahman must not be allowed to leave the country.<br /><br />"If he is allowed to live in the West, then others will claim to be Christian so they can, too," he said. "<strong>We must set an example. ... He must be hanged."</strong><br />The clerics said they were angry with the United States and other countries for pushing for Rahman's freedom.<br /><br />"We are a small country and we welcome the help the outside world is giving us. But please don't interfere in this issue," Nasri said. "<strong>We are Muslims and these are our beliefs.</strong> This is much more important to us than all the aid the world has given us."<br /><br />Afghanistan's constitution is based on Sharia law, which is interpreted by many Muslims to require that any Muslim who rejects Islam be sentenced to death.Flansteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06275368284777146959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7110333.post-1143124612016332862006-03-23T08:30:00.000-06:002006-03-23T17:07:07.423-06:009/11 Conspiracy kooks ...<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3918/421/1600/ordinary1.0.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3918/421/200/ordinary1.0.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br />There are an amusing bunch of conspiracy-minded folks over at <a href="http://www.911blogger.com">Kook Central</a> who believe that 9/11 was caused by:<br /><br />George Bush;<br />The military;<br />The Illuminatti;<br />The Zionists;<br />Masons;<br />The Lochness Monster; or<br />Bigfoot...<br /><br />I guess we should blame David Icke and the rest of the late night talk shows that appeal to the gullible mind...Flansteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06275368284777146959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7110333.post-1142996955189051452006-03-21T21:08:00.000-06:002006-03-21T22:12:31.556-06:00The religion of peace...<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3918/421/1600/Behead.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3918/421/320/Behead.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>Flansteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06275368284777146959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7110333.post-1142639397781021012006-03-17T17:47:00.000-06:002006-03-17T17:49:57.793-06:00Dr. Sultan - shining the light of truth on islam...<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3918/421/1600/06.03.16.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3918/421/320/06.03.16.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>Flansteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06275368284777146959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7110333.post-1142549301090232142006-03-16T16:45:00.000-06:002006-03-16T16:48:46.703-06:00Iran aims to 'set Israel alight'<em>People have often asked me why I believe a clash between the civilized world and the islamic world is inevitable. Here's reason 4,678...</em><br /><br /><br /> <br />By Yossi Verter, Haaretz Correspondent <br /> <br />Former Spanish prime minister Jose Maria Aznar said Tuesday that Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told him five years ago <strong>that "setting Israel on fire" was the first order of business on the Iranian agenda.</strong> <br /><br />Aznar, in Israel as the guest of the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, related the story to Major General (Res.) Professor Yitzhak Ben-Israel, who later confirmed to Haaretz that the remarks had been made. <br /><br />Aznar's aides refused to give Haaretz the exact quote, but mentioned an article Aznar has written in the past on his meeting with Khamenei. <br /> <br />"He received me politely," Aznar wrote, "and at the beginning of the meeting he explained to me why <strong>Iran must declare war on Israel and the United States until they are completely destroyed</strong>. I made only one request of him: that he tell me the time of the planned attack."Flansteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06275368284777146959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7110333.post-1142521751449980172006-03-16T09:06:00.000-06:002006-03-16T09:09:11.466-06:00The Nobel prizeARAB / ISLAMIC NOBEL WINNERS<br /><br />Literature<br />Najib Mahfooz 1988*.<br /><br />Peace<br />1978 Anwar El-Sadat<br />1994 Yasser Arafat... A Joke!!! **<br />2003 - Shirin Ebadi<br />2005 - Mohamed ElBaradei<br /><br />Chemistry<br />1999 - Ahmed Zewail<br /><br />Physics<br />Abdus Salam<br /><br />* Najib was stabbed in the back by Egyptian Moslem fundamentalists in 1997 because he supported the Peace Process between the Arabs ("Palestinians") and Israelis. Najib was partially paralyzed as a result.<br /><br />**The Norwegians played an ugly joke on the world by pretending Arafat was a Man of Peace.<br /><br />Note: Elias James Corey (Chemistry 1990), Peter Brian Medawar (Medicine 1960) and Ferid Mourad (Medicine 1998) are Nobel Prize winners but are Arab-Christians, not Muslims.<br /><br />Kaare Kristiansen was a member of the Nobel Committee. He resigned in 1994 to protest the awarding of a Nobel "Peace Prize" to Yasser Arafat, whom he correctly labeled a "terrorist."<br /><br />JEWISH NOBEL WINNERS<br /><br />Literature<br />1910 - Paul Heyse<br />1927 - Henri Bergson<br />1958 - Boris Pasternak<br />1966 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon<br />1966 - Nelly Sachs<br />1976 - Saul Bellow<br />1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer<br />1981 - Elias Canetti<br />1987 - Joseph Brodsky<br />1991 - Nadine Gordimer<br />2002 - Imre Kertesz<br />2005 - Harold PinterWorld Peace<br />1911 - Alfred Fried<br />1911 - Tobias Asser<br />1968 - Rene Cassin<br />1973 - Henry Kissinger<br />1978 - Menachem Begin<br />1986 - Elie Wiesel<br />1994 - Shimon Peres<br />1994 - Yitzhak Rabin<br />1995 - Joseph RotblatChemistry<br />1905 - Adolph Von Baeyer<br />1906 - Henri Moissan<br />1910 - Otto Wallach<br />1915 - Richard Willstaetter<br />1918 - Fritz Haber<br />1943 - George Charles de Hevesy<br />1961 - Melvin Calvin<br />1962 - Max Ferdinand Perutz<br />1972 - William Howard Stein<br />1972 - C.B. Anfinsen<br />1977 - Ilya Prigogine<br />1979 - Herbert Charles Brown<br />1980 - Paul Berg<br />1980 - Walter Gilbert<br />1981 - Ronald Hoffmann<br />1982 - Aaron Klug<br />1985 - Herbert A. Hauptman<br />1985 - Jerome Karle<br />1986 - Dudley R. Herschbach<br />1988 - Robert Huber<br />1989 - Sidney Altman<br />1992 - Rudolph Marcus<br />1998 - Walter Kohn<br />2000 - Alan J. Heeger<br />2004 - Irwin Rose<br />2004 - Avram Hershko<br />2004 - Aaron Ciechanover<br /><br />Economics<br />1970 - Paul Anthony Samuelson<br />1971 - Simon Kuznets<br />1972 - Kenneth Joseph Arrow<br />1973 - Wassily Leontief<br />1975 - Leonid Kantorovich<br />1976 - Milton Friedman<br />1978 - Herbert A. Simon<br />1980 - Lawrence Robert Klein<br />1985 - Franco Modigliani<br />1987 - Robert M. Solow<br />1990 - Harry Markowitz<br />1990 - Merton Miller<br />1992 - Gary Becker<br />1993 Rober Fogel<br />1994 - John Harsanyi<br />1994 - Reinhard Selten<br />1997 - Robert Merton<br />1997 - Myron Scholes<br />2001 - George Akerlof<br />2001 - Joseph Stiglitz<br />2002 - Daniel Kahneman<br />2005 - Robert J. AumannMedicine<br />1908 - Elie Metchnikoff<br />1908 - Paul Erlich<br />1914 - Robert Barany<br />1922 - Otto Meyerhof<br />1930 - Karl Landsteiner<br />1931 - Otto Warburg<br />1936 - Otto Loewi<br />1944 - Joseph Erlanger<br />1944 - Herbert Spencer Gasser<br />1945 - Ernst Boris Chain<br />1946 - Hermann Joseph Muller<br />1950 - Tadeus Reichstein<br />1952 - Selman Abraham Waksman<br />1953 - Hans Krebs<br />1953 - Fritz Albert Lipmann<br />1958 - Joshua Lederberg<br />1959 - Arthur Kornberg<br />1964 - Konrad Bloch<br />1965 - Francois Jacob<br />1965 - Andre Lwoff<br />1967 - George Wald<br />1968 - Marshall W. Nirenberg<br />1969 - Salvador Luria<br />1970 - Julius Axelrod<br />1970 - Sir Bernard Katz<br />1972 - Gerald Maurice Edelman<br />1975 - David Baltimore<br />1975 - Howard Martin Temin<br />1976 - Baruch S. Blumberg<br />1977 - Rosalyn Sussman Yalow<br />1977 - Andrew V. Schally<br />1978 - Daniel Nathans<br />1980 - Baruj Benacerraf<br />1984 - Cesar Milstein<br />1985 - Michael Stuart Brown<br />1985 - Joseph L. Goldstein<br />1986 - Stanley Cohen [& Rita Levi-Montalcini]<br />1988 - Gertrude Elion<br />1989 - Harold Varmus<br />1991 - Erwin Neher<br />1991 - Bert Sakmann<br />1993 - Richard J. Roberts<br />1993 - Phillip Sharp<br />1994 - Alfred Gilman<br />1994 - Martin Rodbell<br />1995 - Edward B. Lewis<br />1997 - Stanley B. Prusiner<br />1998 - Robert F. Furchgott<br />2000 - Eric R. Kandel<br />2002 - Sydney Brenner<br />2002 - Robert H. Horvitz<br /><br />Physics<br />1907 - Albert Abraham Michelson<br />1908 - Gabriel Lippmann<br />1921 - Albert Einstein<br />1922 - Niels Bohr<br />1925 - James Franck<br />1925 - Gustav Hertz<br />1943 - Gustav Stern<br />1944 - Isidor Issac Rabi<br />1945 - Wolfgang Pauli<br />1952 - Felix Bloch<br />1954 - Max Born<br />1958 - Igor Tamm<br />1958 - Il'ja Mikhailovich<br />1958 - Igor Yevgenyevich<br />1959 - Emilio Segre<br />1960 - Donald A. Glaser<br />1961 - Robert Hofstadter<br />1962 - Lev Davidovich Landau<br />1963 - Eugene P. Wigner<br />1965 - Richard Phillips Feynman<br />1965 - Julian Schwinger<br />1967 - Hans Albrecht Bethe<br />1969 - Murray Gell-Mann<br />1971 - Dennis Gabor<br />1972 - Leon N. Cooper<br />1973 - Brian David Josephson<br />1975 - Benjamin Mottleson<br />1976 - Burton Richter<br />1978 - Arno Allan Penzias<br />1978 - Peter L Kapitza<br />1979 - Stephen Weinberg<br />1979 - Sheldon Glashow<br />1988 - Leon Lederman<br />1988 - Melvin Schwartz<br />1988 - Jack Steinberger<br />1990 - Jerome Friedman<br />1992 - Georges Charpak<br />1995 - Martin Perl<br />1995 - Frederick Reines<br />1996 - David M. Lee<br />1996 - Douglas D. Osheroff<br />1997 - Claude Cohen-Tannoudji<br />2000 - Zhores I. Alferov<br />2003 - Vitaly Ginsburg<br />2003 - Alexei Abrikosov<br />2004 - David Gross<br />2004 - H. David Politzer<br />2005 - Roy Glauber<br /><br /><br />There are a mere 12 Million Jews in the entire world, yet they have received 169 Nobel Prizes.The Muslims number 1.4 Billion (with a very big "B")... or 117 times the number of Jews! Based upon this 117:1 Muslim-to-Jewish ratio, one might expect the Muslims to have 22,260 Nobel Laureates.They have SEVEN! and one of them [Arafat] is a murderer (Allahu Akbar, indeed!).<br /><br />Unless the Swedes and Norwegians start awarding Nobel Prizes for plane hijackings, pizza shop bombings, civilian bus attacks, Jihad suicides/homicides, drive-by shootings, throat-slittings, embassy attacks and other such acts of barbarism, the embarrassingly low level of contributions to the welfare of Civilization and Mankind by the [Arab] Muslim world will continue. The Jewish People, meanwhile, will continue being the Lights Unto All Nations.Flansteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06275368284777146959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7110333.post-1142452372108294512006-03-15T13:48:00.000-06:002006-03-15T13:57:34.550-06:00Islamic death-lovers arrested...<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3918/421/1600/_41298296_protest2-ap-203x300.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3918/421/320/_41298296_protest2-ap-203x300.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br /><br />The appalling nature of islam is on display here:<br /><br /><a href="http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=19405&only" title="lgf: Cartoon Madness on Video">Muslim scumbags</a><br /><br /><br />Five arrested over London cartoons protest<br />By Times Online<br /> <br /> <br />Five men were arrested today over their alleged role in protests outside the Danish Embassy in London last month against cartoons satirising the Prophet Muhammad.<br /> <br />Four of the five were held on suspicion of incitement to murder and all five are suspected of "using threatening words or written material to stir up racial hatred". <br /><br />During the demonstrations in Central London on February 3 and 4, protesters held placards threatening a repeat of the September 11 or July 7 terror attacks. Among the slogans were "Massacre those who insult Islam" and "Europe you will pay, your 9/11 will come".<br /><br />The demonstration attracted widespread political condemnation and among those calling for prosecutions was the Muslim Council of Britain.<br /><br />The Metropolitan Police said today: "A number of specialist evidence gathering officers were deployed who collected video, audio and stills of those within the crowd. A dedicated investigation team, Operation Laverda, was set up that day.Flansteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06275368284777146959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7110333.post-1142181089657722642006-03-12T10:28:00.000-06:002006-03-13T09:08:41.153-06:00David Warren - on the mark again...<a href="http://vwt.d2g.com:8081/uploaded_images/europe_9_11_lessons-777790.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px;" src="http://vwt.d2g.com:8081/uploaded_images/europe_9_11_lessons-777790.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />The non-dialogue<br /><br /><br />A Zogby poll, out this week in the U.S., shows an unprecedented number of Americans now harbour unflattering views of Arabs, Muslims, and Islam. It is still low, compared to similar polls in Europe, but it approaches or just exceeds 50 per cent in each category. The pollster, James Zogby, who is also president of the Arab-American Institute in Washington, attributes the negative numbers -- much worse than what they were just after the terror attacks of Sept. 2001 -- to “demonization of the Arab world” by American politicians, authors, and media. I am unable to find a similar poll for Canada, but on past experience, Canadians tend to poll somewhere in the middle between Europeans and Americans.<br /><br />I will not speak for the politicians, who tend more to respond to public perceptions than to shape them, but will admit that <strong>by having reported many thousand savage and barbaric acts done around the world, explicitly in the name of Allah, the media may have contributed to unfortunate perceptions of Arabs, Muslims, and Islam.</strong><br /><br />Yet, as I know from inside, the media both here and in Europe go to extraordinary lengths to suppress just the sort of material that could incite ill-feeling that way. This began the morning of 9/11/01, with the non-coverage of street celebrations in Arab ethnic neighbourhoods of Brooklyn and Detroit. As recently as last month, mainstream media were editing out London cartoon protesters carrying signs reading, “Behead Those Who Insult Islam”, “Europe You Will Pay”, etc.<br /><br />On the other hand, there is patient, exhaustive coverage of anything that might incite anti-Western hysteria in the Islamic world. For even while the largest media outlets were refusing to show those bland Danish cartoons -- and doing so out of a pretended “respect for Islam” -- they were dredging up additional sordid photos from the Abu Ghraib outrage in 2004, and running those prominently.<br /><br />I have often noted, that editorial decisions in the Western media could not be more useful to fanatical Islam if we were taking instructions directly from some Afghan cave. Ask yourself, when reading or watching, if the consistent message is not: <strong>“Fear Islam, but do not dare to criticize it.”</strong><br /><br />There is no conspiracy, however. The violent audacity of a generation of Muslim neo-jihadis happens to correspond precisely with the self-loathing of a generation of Western post-hippies. Perhaps never before, in the history of interaction between the “Dar al-Islam” (Muslim-ruled world), and the “Dar al-Harb” (the external world with which it is perpetually “at war”), have aspiring Muslim conquerors met such willing candidates for “dhimmitude”.<br /><br />The definition of a “dhimmi” is one who pays the “jizyah” tax to his Muslim rulers; who, in return for this protection money, enjoys an ambiguous special status. This is, as Islamist propaganda is eager to propagate, exactly what is going on when, for instance, governments of the West send foreign aid to Muslim regimes, in the (vain) belief that this will exempt them from the next round of terror hits, or rioting. More generally, the equation of Western aid and domestic welfare payments with the “jizyah” is common in Arab media. It expresses contempt for the West, and our “so-called freedoms”.<br /><br />So much of the failing “dialogue” between East and West comes down to misunderstanding each other’s terms. Take “jihad”, for example -- the duty to “struggle against everything that is against Allah”, which has been cited in each Islamic war of conquest, over the last 14 centuries. Contrary to popular belief, traditional Islam does not teach that Muslims have a duty to convert, enslave, or massacre their non-Muslim neighbours. On the contrary, the various Islamic schools agree they have a brotherly duty to “remove impediments” to conversion to Islam, including any worldly power not expressly subject to the will of Allah. The sorting out, afterwards, of who should be massacred and who not, of individual rights to booty, slaves, the enjoyment of captured women, and so forth, are spelt out by the learned jurisprudes in traditional Shariah; but these are secondary considerations.<br /><br />Perhaps if Americans realized that such jihadis as Osama bin Laden are trying to do them a favour, by removing such impediments to their conversion as the existence of the government of the United States, they would not harbour such unflattering views. And perhaps, if they heard great cries of revulsion from across the Arab and Muslim world, against the innumerable acts of violence done in Allah’s name, they would realize that Islam is a “religion of peace”.Flansteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06275368284777146959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7110333.post-1141844918324553512006-03-08T13:07:00.000-06:002006-03-08T13:08:38.336-06:00Which jihadi supporter is this?<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/617/362/1600/jamal%20in%20burqa.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/617/362/1600/jamal%20in%20burqa.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>Flansteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06275368284777146959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7110333.post-1141737185829471882006-03-07T07:09:00.000-06:002006-03-07T07:13:05.843-06:00Islamofascist gets spanked!<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3918/421/1600/MEMRI-1050wmv.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3918/421/320/MEMRI-1050wmv.0.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />MEMRI (http://memritv.org/Transcript.asp?P1=1050) features Arab American psychologist Wafa Sultan completely stomping a bearded Islamofascist.<br /><br />Courtesy of MEMRI TV.Flansteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06275368284777146959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7110333.post-1141614275523086252006-03-05T21:03:00.000-06:002006-03-05T21:04:35.533-06:00How much does islam stink?<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3918/421/1600/20060305Pakistan01.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3918/421/400/20060305Pakistan01.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Quite a lot...Flansteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06275368284777146959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7110333.post-1141583399022521482006-03-05T12:26:00.000-06:002006-03-05T12:46:08.166-06:00David Warren makes sense...<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3918/421/1600/karikaturisten03_cole.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3918/421/400/karikaturisten03_cole.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />Clash of whats?<br /><br /><br />Sometimes I am brought up short by the clarity and courage with which someone else -- with more to lose than I have -- states a truth. I am a Catholic Christian, who often dismisses “secular humanists”. But I’m in awe of people like Canada’s Irshad Manji, the “Muslim refusenik”, who had the courage in her book The Trouble with Islam to directly confront the horrors done in Allah’s name -- in, as she put it, “Pick a country, any Muslim country.”<br /><br />Another is Wafa Sultan, an Arab woman practising psychology, now living in the States. A self-professed “disbeliever in the supernatural”, she has posted essays on the Internet in Arabic, including research into the fate of women under various Islamic regimes. She has willingly and ably confronted Muslim fanatics on Arab TV, most recently on Feb. 21st, when she debated Dr Ibrahim Al-Khouli on Al-Jazeera. A transcript and video clips with English subtitles were made available this week by the Middle East Media Research Institute (“Memri”) -- an indispensable institution, based in Israel, that distributes hard information and accurate translations of documents from the Arab world. (It is useless to condemn it as “Zionist” -- everything Memri publishes is sourced and checkable.)<br /><br />With great bravery, Dr Sultan confronts the “tu quoque” (“you too”) arguments of the apologists for Islamic terror -- refusing to let them change the subject from what they have done, said, and approved, to misty rhetoric against Zionists, Yankees, Imperialists, Crusaders. Boldly on Al-Jazeera, last week, she said what our Western politicians, media flaks, and academic celebrities won’t say, from cowardice in its many forms. Excerpt:<br /><br />“The clash we are witnessing around the world is not a clash of religions, or a clash of civilizations. ... It is a clash between civilization and backwardness, between the civilized and the primitive, between barbarity and rationality. It is a clash between freedom and oppression, between democracy and dictatorship. It is a clash between human rights, on the one hand, and the violation of these rights, on the other. It is a clash between those who treat women like beasts, and those who treat them like human beings. What we see today is not a clash of civilizations. Civilizations do not clash, but compete.”<br /><br />The sparkling TV host interrupts to ask if Dr Sultan insinuates the clash is, “between the culture of the West, and the backwardness and ignorance of the Muslims”. Dr Sultan replies, “Yes, that is what I mean.”<br /><br />The host reminds her that this phrase, “clash of civilizations”, came from Samuel Huntington, not Osama bin Laden. Dr Sultan reminds him that Islamic books and curricula, going back to the Koran, are full of calls for “fighting the infidels”.<br /><br />When her opponent, Dr Khouli, claims he never offends people, Dr Sultan reminds that among other things he calls Westerners “al-Dhimma” (i.e. the Muslims’ natural slaves), that he routinely compares them to apes and pigs, that he calls Christians “those who incur Allah's wrath”, and so forth.<br /><br />He asks if she is a heretic. Dr Sultan says, he can call her what he likes. He continues, “If you are a heretic, there is no point in rebuking you, since you have blasphemed against Islam, the Prophet, and the Koran!” She replies, “These are personal matters that do not concern you. ... Brother, you can believe in stones, as long as you don't throw them at me.”<br /><br />And after the usual banter about Zionism, she notes that since the Holocaust, the Jews have made the world respect them by their work and knowledge, not their crying and yelling. “We have not seen a single Jew blow himself up in a German restaurant. We have not seen a single Jew destroy a church.” Likewise, though professing Muslims turned ancient Buddha statues into rubble, “We have not seen a single Buddhist burn down a mosque, kill a Muslim, or torch an embassy.”<br /><br />Since the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington, many thousand other barbaric acts have been reported, around the world, each one performed explicitly in the name of Allah. This is fact, not prejudice, and our refusal to make Islam an issue plays directly into the fanatics’ hands.<br /><br />It is not our business to “define Islam”, as so many Muslims aver. It is the Muslims’ duty to define it, in such a way that we will not mistake it for a sword held to our own throats. For when it is presented as a sword, it becomes our business.Flansteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06275368284777146959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7110333.post-1141418140269490142006-03-03T14:34:00.000-06:002006-03-03T14:35:40.283-06:00The overwhelming stink of islamic hypocricy<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3918/421/1600/karikaturisten05_gorrell.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3918/421/400/karikaturisten05_gorrell.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>Flansteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06275368284777146959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7110333.post-1141131228247178462006-02-28T06:48:00.000-06:002006-03-03T14:40:10.413-06:00Mohammad was a monster<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3918/421/1600/mo-aisha.0.gif"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3918/421/400/mo-aisha.0.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br />The thought of an old man becoming aroused by a child is one of the most disturbing images in western culture. Yet in islam, their "Holy Prophet" married Aisha when she was 6-years-old and consummated his marriage with her when she was 9. He was then, 54 years old.<br /><br />When it is pointed out that Muhammad had sex with a 9 year old child, Muslims brush it off and claim all sorts of excuses to justify this shameful act. This is the nature of blind faith and cognitive dissonance. Maybe by visualizing it, some of them will come to their senses and realize how evil this fiend they call a "prophet" truly was.Flansteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06275368284777146959noreply@blogger.com