Egyptian stabs two Hungarian tourists who kissed outside Cairo mosque

From AP, with thanks to Treehugger:

CAIRO, Egypt - An Egyptian stabbed a Hungarian man and woman, slightly wounding them, after the couple kissed while pausing for a photograph near a mosque at Cairo's popular tourist bazaar, police said Tuesday.

Hesham Mohammed, 36, apparently was upset by the kiss Monday in front of Al-Hussein Mosque, a security official said on customary condition of anonymity. The mosque is adjacent to the Khan el-Khalili market where foreign tourists flock to buy souvenirs and locally made crafts.

The Hungarians, who were not identified, were treated at a nearby hospital for minor wounds, the official said, and Mohammed was being questioned. He was described as unemployed and suffering from severe
depression....

Well, I know when I get depressed, my first impulse isn't necessarily to stab somebody...

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A reasonable Muslim - an oxymoron ? - would have simply asked them not to do that in public, especially in front of a mosque.

Over here (Middle East), the OTHER really common excuse for incidents like this is "mental illness".

But any upset, any setback, any reversal of fortune, any perceived insult, can to a Muslim, who carries within him the grid of Islam, or perhaps the prism of Islam, through which the entire universe can be viewed, will always be able to blame, not himself, not his parents, not his children, not the stars, the moon, not Fate, not The System, not anything at all -- but rather, the Infidels, whoever they are, wherever they are, whatever they do.

That is what our leaders fail to understand. They are so far from comprehending -- because so ill-schooled in history and literature -- the nature of Islam, its all-encompassing nature, its effect on molding the psychology of Muslims that is so very different from that of non-Muslims, so mired in rumor and conspiracy theories involving Infidels, and dreams of an imaginary Past Glory, and so full of resentments and hatreds that are encouraged, at every turn, and in every way, by the theory and practice of Islam.

This is not a surprise. The Jordanian soldier who killed six little Israeli girls from an elementary school as they went on a school outigng to a "Peace Garden" was not, as was claimed, "insane" -- he was simply someone at that moment spurred on by his belief. And there are thousands of other such cases, most of them unreported. When Muslims streaming out of Friday Prayers in Bangladesh grab, and then beat to death (those not doing the actual beating standing around, in the hundreds, to enjoy the spectacle) a Hindu who had the misfortune to be walking by when the Friday Prayers ended, they are not "madmen" but merely people who, having just listened to some inspired whipping-up by an imam (which whipping-up consists entirely of reading Qur'anic passages, and referring to the events of Muhammad's life), they are not crazy -- they are seeing things islamically.

Those Hungarians were misbehaving. They were kissing in public. They were kissing near Al-Azhar. They were Infidels. They deserved death. Too bad the stabber was not strong, or accurate, enough -- he was only acting on his deepest beliefs and attitudes. Just like the two Muslim clerics who lead the raid on the students in Basra, who were merrymaking in mixed company which, of course, is absolutely intolerable, and so the students beaten to death had it coming to them.

OF course these Hungarians having been fed the "Islam is a religion of peace" doctrines of school education, would see nothing wrong in their ignorance of islam. in the exchange of a kiss outside a Mosque.
Just as well they did not relieve themselves against the walls of the mosques , as So many muslims do in Italy to the historic churches.
Perhaps this incident will wake them up and they will start reading the history books.
Then we can only hope they will enlighten their freinds too.

"Just as well they did not relieve themselves against the walls of the mosques , as So many muslims do in Italy to the historic churches."

In Bethlehem, the "Palestinian" Arab terrorists seized a famous church, vandalized much of it, and defecated all over the floors. In Italy, as Oriana Fallaci has pointed out, left-wing priests have in some cases provided refuge in churhces to Muslim squatters, who have then vandalized and urinated and defecated all over the place -- and did not spare art works including the Gates of Paradise by Ghiberti, ast the Baptistery in Florence. They don't care. Far from it -- for them, it is a source of pleasure to be able to treat Christian sites with complete contempt.

And why not? Infidels should be in a state of degradation and humiliation, for making the terrible mistake of not accepting the Word of God as they had a chance to -- for everyone is born a Muslim, and turns away from Islam only out of perversity.

Islam, in my opinion, represents a distorted view of God's will. Why wouldn't God want a man and woman to show natural affection towards one another? Lets all go back and live in the Dark Ages. Let civilization go backwards.

Distorted alright, juice. Insanely distorted is Islam. Everything about it. Difficult to accept such a belief system exists and is so fervently followed in this day and age. I think that's why many people are in denial as to the true danger to our world today: Islam. They can't accept that Islam is all about war on the rest of us, to kill, convert or subjugate us. It sounds too much like some crazy fiction novel. The atrocities committed by Muslims on an almost daily basis is difficult to believe. We readily accept excuses of them being insane, or disturbed, or a "tiny minority of extremists distorting the true Islam". To accept any other reason is too uncomfortable, since there are over a billion of them, and many of them live amongst us. People aren't supposed to act like that and not have something wrong with them. Like this guy stabbing the Hungarian couple. Of course, he must have been cuckoo. That's not Islam. Islam is Peace. Blah, blah, blah.

Natural affection btwn men and women would naturally be forbidden by such a cult. It seems they prefer to keep men in a state of sexual frustration. Makes them more bloodthirsty and enraged, more amenable to kill. And with the promise of Allah's whorehouse where anything goes, you solve the problem of the nervous jihadi who might be afraid to die while in battle with the infidel. Don't worry, Ahmed, you'll get lots of nookie in paradise. So sexually repressed and frustrated Ahmed happily slaughters infidels knowing that he'll be bonking his brains out into eternity. That part of Islam, to me, is so unbelievably sick and evil - murder for your "god" and this "god" rewards you with uninhibited sex and other goodies.