An update in the ongoing Australia jihad book follies. "Hate books seized," from the Daily Telegraph, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist:
BOOKS that glorify suicide bombings, jihad and anti-Australian conspiracies, collected by The Daily Telegraph, were again seized by federal authorities yesterday.Australian Federal Police officers took the books of hate just days after two ministers -- Acting Prime Minister Mark Vaile and Attorney-General Philip Ruddock -- expressed dismay that the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions found the books did not breach the new sedition laws by inciting violence.
It is the second time federal police have seized the books, first discovered by The Daily Telegraph in Lakemba and Auburn book stores last year.
It is the second time federal police have seized the books,
What's the point in just seizing them? Do something about it this time, for God's sake! I was really sickened by the earlier decision that they somehow weren't any big deal. Is this second seizing just in reaction to the negative public reaction? Like they really need to stop and ponder what people think about this sort of vile hatefulness in our country. Books that basically prove what the two Christian pastors were saying, yet were prosecuted for saying it.
This Director of Public Prosecutions, Damian Bugg - who is he? Just some dumb, well-meaning, oblivious dhimmi? Or something worse?
Put the books on public display: a display called "HATE." Have the relevant passages copied out, blown up, put on walls. Make it an event that is well-publicized. Possibly not a temporary exhibit, but a permanent one, so that every Australian can visit, can easily read those texts, those passages taken or naturally based on, passages in the Qur'an and Hadith.
It will be a salutary, "educational" event. It will help inform a wider public. It will also cause those who promote such things to realize that every time they inculcuate hatred of Infidels, those Infidels will be kept well-informed.
Do this. Someone in Australia, and not only in Australia, do this.
God, what the money spent on paperclips at the Pentagon could do -- if it were being spent by the right people, on the right things. Maddening.
Hugh, sounds good to me, now give me a link to where l can get it.... please.
Hugh - rather than call your exhibit "Hate" - I would call it "Islam. The Religion of Peace". And it would consist of nothing but actual hateful passages from Islam's holy books. Should hate speech laws ever get to the point where any criticism of Islam whatsoever is impossible, there remains irony. People could even organize "Islam - Religion of Peace" marches, carrying placards like
"Garments of fire have been prepared for the unbelievers. Scalding water shall be poured upon their heads, melting their skins and that which is in their bellies. They shall be lashed with rods of iron. Whenever, in their anguish, they try to escape from Hell, back they shall be dragged, and will be told: 'Taste the torment of the Conflagration!"
Koran 22:19-22:23
Unfortunately our sedition laws don't go far enough, to allow banning of these books. That's what I understand the problem is. You create laws to try to stop Islamic extremists in your country, but it's never enough. They're talking about strengthening these laws to allow banning of the books. But will that be enough? What about the Internet? TXT messages on cell phones? Video recordings? They find ways to get their message of hate and death across. It's a neverending battle.
Here again is another example of ... what benefit do Muslims bring to our countries? So much time, energy and money wasted on trying to keep them from killing us. We'll run out of money trying to stop them, given the rate they breed. Will there come a time when we run out of patience and just say "GO!" That, to me, seems to be the only solution.
Use this link for a Quran that's readable, and annotated. The annotations aren't exhaustive, and I'm sure that if one reads it all, one would get a far higher number. Still, click on one of the links, like cruelty, violence, intolerance etc. and you'll get a copious number of verses that would nicely fit what Hugh suggested.
And the beauty of it is that not a single verse needs to be cited more than once.
http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/quran/index.html
Ah, but Infidel Pride, it's probably taken "out of context". Or "Arabic is such a poetic language it can't be translated properly into English", you see.
Those are the hoary old excuses they pull out time and time again. Spouted by spokesmen from organisations with such pretty names as The Islamic Friendship Society, or with long and impressive names like Sheik Taj el-Din Al Hilaly, the Mufti of Australia. Such a mouthful! He must be somebody very scholarly and knowledgeable with such a grand title!
Or the other one they love to use: the Bible has violent verses too!
And the discussion always ends there.
If you continue to push, well there's always ... bigot, racist, Islamophobe.
"They're talking about strengthening these laws to allow banning of the books."
Banning the books will not help in the slightest. It'll simply push it more underground. Rather than banning the books, I think it would be better to deport whoever shows support for them - although I know that is not on the cards. Hugh's idea of putting them loudly on public display is an excellent idea. Someone should get too it.
Should hate speech laws ever get to the point where any criticism of Islam whatsoever is impossible
Didn't that happen in Italy? (At least it hasn't happened in Denmark.) Unfortunately that idea seems very plausible.
Feralee says: " . . . it's probably taken "out of context". Or "Arabic is such a poetic language it can't be translated properly into English", you see."
Yes, they love that thesis. It's the childish "I-have-secret-knowledge-that-you-don't-know-about" defense.
The antithesis: Buy the damn Koran at the mosque bookstore. Then when they they try that "It ain't accurate" bullsh*t, you can cram it up their keisters.
Also, buying the book at the mosque gives you an opportunity to scope out their fortress from the inside. Just be sure to go there on the bus so they can't trace your license plates. Oh, yeah, and don't write a check or use a credit card. Pay cash. (For a psychological victory in spite of your financial "assistance" to the bookstore, wipe a little bacon grease on your currency before you leave home. Fold it so the grease is inside the fold and won't get on your pants.)
Fight the bastards everywhere. With everything. Like, drop your chewing gum in the doorway as you leave.
The war goes on.