Here’s Pat Condell in fine form, with some refreshing well-targeted brutality. If you want to know more about the Islamist front group he mention, the book is available in hardback or you can visit Anti-CAIR’s website.
The title of this post was the most memorable line for me.
From jesusandmo.net
Mohammed
A recent episode of South Park that is yet to be aired in Australia has been labelled by one Islamist group as offensive, and they have issued a “warning” to the creators of South Park that they may end up like assassinated Dutch filmmaker Theo Van Gogh.
The episode offered a commentary on the way in which Islam is treated with kid gloves by the media. In what I have to assume was a reference to the case in which a teacher was threatened with death for allowing her pupils to name a bear after Mohammed, the South Park crew tried to get around Comedy Central’s unwillingness to depict Mohammedd by putting Islam’s supposed prophet in a bear suit. The Independent describes the episode:
The 200th episode, a celebration of the show’s rich history of causing offence, begins with a piqued Tom Cruise rallying a large group of his fellow celebrities – including Mel Gibson, George Lucas, George Michael, and Barbra Streisand as a berserk giant robot – to bring a class-action lawsuit against the eponymous town.
The only thing that will stop their suit, Cruise tells the townsfolk, is if they arrange for him to meet the Prophet Mohamed. “Mohamed has a power that makes him impervious to being made fun of,” he explains to his fellow celebrities. “What if we could harness that power?”
After detailed negotiations with Jesus, a cocaine-snorting Buddha, and the founder of Mormonism, Joseph Smith, the South Park residents manage to persuade Mohamed to come to town – dressed in a giant bear costume to prevent his appearance bringing the same violent retribution that greeted cartoons of his likeness in a Danish newspaper in 2005.
CNN’s Anderson Cooper interviewed Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who lives under constant threat from Islamic extremists, about the South Park situation.
After the death threats, Comedy Central were gutless and censored the second part of the opisode. Hopefully we’ll see the full version on SBS soon.
I’m all for prosecuting psychics and fortune tellers for fraud and fining them but recent events in Saudi Arabia are, as usual, barbaric and stupid. Ali Sabat, a Lebanese TV psychic, faces execution by beheading for “sorcery”. Sabat would give advice and make predictions on his call-in TV show, which aired across much of the Middle East. He had travelled to Saudi Arabia on a pilgrimage to Islam’s holiest shrines, when Saudi religious police recognised and arrested him.
From Amnesty International UK’s press release:
If Saudi Arabia didn’t already have a frightening record of arresting and sentencing people to death for ‘sorcery’, this case would be almost laughable. As it is, it’s sinister and deplorable.
Nothing is too bizarre when it comes to Saudi Arabia’s application of the death penalty. If JK Rowling lived in Saudi Arabia she could be arrested for practising ‘sorcery’ with her Harry Potter books.
However, despite the case’s ludicrous nature, ‘Ali Hussain Sibat is now at real risk.
The senior courts have got to step in and prevent this horrifying travesty of justice. Anything less will bring shame on the Saudi Arabian authorities.
Sabat was due to be executed this past Friday, but the international attention seems to have caused a delay. Hopefully it will see Sabat released.
The old joke has crossed over into reality. The Daily Times of Pakistan reports that a Taliban afiliated group, the Sarf Mission, has sent the Lahore Press Club a letter warning that if the media “does not stop portraying us as terrorists … we will blow up offices of journalists and media organisations”.
The Sydney Morning Herald reports:
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has urged a Muslim model who faces being caned for drinking beer to appeal the sentence and not be “so willing” to accept her fate.
The model, Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno, is set to be punished under a Sharia law which only applies to Muslims in Malaysia. She has chosen not to appeal, and is daring the authorities to cane her in public.
The punishment has now been postponed until after Ramadan, and I’m assuming many politicians and other leaders in Malaysia are hoping desperately that she can be convinced to appeal during that time, as having her appeal and win a lighter punishment is the only way that the Malaysian government can avoid a black eye. The international publicity should the caning proceed will be bad, and if the authorities step down then it will be a blow against the Sharia court system.
From News.com.au:
MEMBERS of Iran’s feared Basij militia forcibly marry female virgin prisoners the night before scheduled executions, raping their new “wives” and making it religiously acceptable to execute them, a self-professed member of the paramilitary group says.
Many practices in Islamic countries revolt me, so I can’t dismiss this out of hand. It seems odd that the militias would see this as more acceptable than just executing a virgin, but it’s depressingly believable.
I’ve generally held people who abuse their charity work to proselytise in great contempt. Here are some people worthy of even greater contempt:
These people should be handed dishonourable discharges and be sent packing.
Islamic leaders have welcomed the president of Sudan, wanted for war crimes in Darfur, to an Arab League summit in Qatar. These are some of the same nations pushing for the UN to adopt an Islamic version of the Declaration of Human Rights which would criminalise criticism of religion and which will be used to justify abuse of human rights in Islamic countries.
The Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC), which authored the “human rights” document has also criticised the idea of prosecuting the Sudanese leader.
The UN’s Human Rights Council, dominated by Islamic countries and reduced to being a partisan body for criticising Israel, passed the resolution last week in a minority vote due to abstentions. The resolution is non-binding, though the OIC will continue to push for it to be made binding.
Islam’s holy texts say that apostates and infidels should be killed, that Jews and Christians should live as second class citizens (dhimmi) under Islamic rule, and that Mohammed, who the same texts say had sex with a 9-year-old girl, is a role model for morality today.
Bullshit! Such ideas should be exposed and criticised. Check out Jihad Watch to learn about life under Islamic law.
Bad ideas deserve to be criticised, even if they are part of a religion.
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In the press:
“Respect for all religions has always been one of our guiding principles, but the very notion of the ‘defamation of religions’ is a sham,” said AJC Executive Director David Harris. “This is a thinly veiled attempt to outlaw legitimate criticism and trample on the freedom of speech, a core democratic value.”
American Jewish Committee
The discredited UN Human Rights Council is trying to drag the world backward. Instead of the Enlightenment, medievalism. It is disgraceful, though not surprising.
Globe and Mail
Pakistan’s hypocrisy is virtuosic. Even as it appeases the most hateful elements in its society—actually imprisoning and killing its religious minorities for nothing more than civil dissent from orthodoxy—it spouts self-righteous lectures at Europe and America on the stereotyping of minorities and the need to promote diversity.
Religion Dispatches
If the U.N. General Assembly were to make the language in the resolution binding, “it would suck the life’s blood out of religious freedom and freedom of speech in countries around the world,” Land said. “Here in the United States, the resolution stands in complete opposition to the free-exercise clause of the First Amendment.
Baptist Press
Will the United Nations soon be issuing fatwas? Today the U.N. Human Rights Council is expected to vote on a resolution introduced by Pakistan on behalf of the Organization of the Islamic Conference to combat defamation of religion, in particular Islam. This resolution is part of an effort begun in 1999 to establish an international framework that would in practice legitimize religious oppression. It is an assault on the rights of the individual and freedom of conscience.
Washington Times
Via RichardDawkins.net comes this YouTube video in which Pat Condell discusses the introduction of Sharia Law courts in the United Kingdom. The video was temporarily blocked by YouTube after complaints from Muslims, but after review it was made available again.
Information on Sharia courts in the UK is available at the Times Online.
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