Speaking of the lengths to which some people will go to make sure that the truth doesn't come to you, consider this: this is exactly what the Organization of the Islamic Conference and other entities want to bring to the West. When they speak about banning "hate speech," they mean banning any speech that they consider insulting to Islam. That will mean speech about religious freedom, not killing apostates, and much, much more.
"Supreme Council Bans Hassan Saeed’s Book," by Judith Evans in Minivan News, June 18 (thanks to M.):
The government’s Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs has banned a book co-authored by former attorney general and presidential candidate Dr Hassan Saeed, Freedom Of Religion, Apostasy and Islam, on the grounds that it “violates Islamic principles”.It is the first time the Council has banned a specific title since a short-lived bar on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 2005, which was retracted a week later.
Ah yes, the week the mask slipped.
The ban was requested by the Islamic Democratic Party (IDP), which has now called for Saeed to stand down as a presidential candidate – but denies its action was politically motivated.Banned
According to a Wednesday press release from the Supreme Council, importing copies of Freedom Of Religion, Apostasy and Islam or possessing the book in the Maldives is now forbidden.
As well as “violating Islamic principles”, the book contains “phrases that may mislead the public”, according to the council. But it has not specified which parts of the book are at fault.
“If anyone sees the book in the country, please inform the Supreme Council,” the press release continues. “And if anybody has the book, please send your copy to the council without delay.” [...]
Hey, will do!
The party is now calling for websites that show the text of the book to be blocked.
If anyone has it, please send it here and I will post it.
Time to organize a travel boycott of the Maldives. I'll have to contact my co-conspirators in the worldwide Zionist network.
A society that wants to drive while blind censors books. Pedestrians, get out of the way...
When are people going to catch on to the Muslims' psycho-trickery? This is a trick to play with peoples' minds: Declare criticism of Islam as "hate speech" becuase people naturally don't want to be considered or accused of "hatred". And because people are more concerned with not being accused, they fail to see what is really right under their noses: The reason Muslims want to defend Islam against criticism is because they KNOW Islam is all the very same hateful things that Muslims are accusing others of. Islam is truly a hate-fueling religion and the Muslims themselves are the very last ones who will deny that. Everyone denies that EXCEPT the Muslims! What a strange, backwards way of thinking. While liberals and other weak-willed people are declaring that Islam is a religion of peace and that "most" Muslims want to co-exist peacefully, the Muslims are continuing to act out in every way EXCEPT peacefully and continuing to show just how un-willing they are to co-exist (prayer rooms in shopping malls, foot baths in universities, refusal to wear proper hospital scrubs in hospital operating rooms, wanting to be photographed for ID cards with their faces covered, and on and on). They don't care if the whole friggin' world sees how hateful, violent and intolerant they are, they just want you to stop complaining and making a stink about it. So they achieve this not by DEFENDING Islam, but by crying "hate speech" so we will STOP TALKING. And it's working. Psycho-trickery, you see?
Let those global warming scientists beware: research in the Maldives may be dangerous to their health.
a strange thing has happened, I watched several MSM news reports on TV and not one mentioned this...go figure..
"violates Islamic principles" - get in line, practically everything does.
The government’s Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs has banned a book co-authored by former attorney general and presidential candidate Dr Hassan Saeed, Freedom Of Religion, Apostasy and Islam, on the grounds that it “violates Islamic principles”.
Orrrr.....
The government's Supreme Council of Stone Age Affairs has found another way to prove that Islam sucks really, really bad. They have banned a book co-authored by former attorney general and presidential candidate Dr Hassan Saeed, Freedom Of Religion, Apostasy and Islam, on the grounds that it "reveals truths about Islam that we prefer people not be aware of".
"Books, other than the Koran, are bad and make people do bad things. All books except for the Koran should be burned with their authors".
Peace toward Muslims only. Hatred for everyone else.
This one not blocked yet.
http://books.google.ca/books?id=HzFZKWc9SCgC&dq=%22freedom+of+religion+apostasy+and+islam%22&pg=PP1&ots=fFQucqVd0j&sig=B16IUoZYMEd0ZPsjqKukyrtY9D0&hl=en&prev=http://www.google.ca/search%3Fhl%3Den%26q%3D%2522Freedom%2BOf%2BReligion,%2BApostasy%2Band%2BIslam%2527%26btnG%3DGoogle%2BSearch&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title&cad=one-book-with-thumbnail#PPP1,M1
This reminds me of someone who used to post here, long long ago, calling himself 'the pig-loving Maldivian'. I wonder what happened to him?
I do know that some Maldivians study abroad - I once met a Maldivian girl (named Aisha! - back when I didn't know the full significance of that name) who was studying at an Australian university. So it is not impossible that someone like our 'pig-loving Maldivian' (who was either an apostate, or the next thing to it) may have been accessing the internet not from the Maldives but from a western university library, say, while studying abroad.
If the sheeple start reading books other than the unholy qur'an, they might start thinking and God forbid that should ever happen! Islam is so pathetically insecure and with globalization, the islamic establishment is terrified that muslims will begin to notice the many pleasures and benefits forbidden by islam. Muslims might develop a taste for temporal pleasure and happiness instead of world conquest and martyrdom if they are exposed to alternative opinions and critical assessments of islam.
They have successfully censored what muslims read, hear, and see on television in islamic countries but as they are slowly learning, censorship is frowned upon in enlightened Western societies. Their efforts to silence critics of islam will fail and the harder they try, the more obvious it will be to the general public that they are desperately trying to hide the harsh and hideous reality of islam.
Muslims have impacted our societies in many adverse ways and they are despised more every day, not just because they are mendacious, deceitful, supremacist megalomaniacs, but because they are duplicitous, inscrutable, and volatile. Who knows when the nice muslims next door will rediscover their islamic roots and go berserk? Who knows which muslims will engage in violent jihad and which ones will merely proffer money and moral support? Both are equally insidious because they share the same goal---to steal and squander our wealth and kill or subjugate us.
What sane, advanced society needs uncivilized, incompatible savages turned loose in its midst and given all the rights and freedoms our ancestors fought and died for? Why are Western countries the only ones that deliberately and suicidally invite disordant immigrants to pollute their societies, disrupt and despoil their institutions, and threaten the security of their citizens?
There are no "multicultural" islamic countries because they intend to preserve their nefarious cultures and contemptible religious identity, and that's just fine with the rest of the world. But we are reminded every day by the social engineers that we must not only accept as our fellow citizens people who despise us, we must also give them special advantages and privileges because they add to the "diversity" of our population. That's like saying we should appreciate tainted food from China because it's cheap and we signed a trade agreement with them. It might kill us, but it was a good deal.
But muslims aren't even a good deal; they contribute absolutely nothing but disharmony, security threats, malice, and unreasonable demands for special treatment. They do not enhance or improve our society; they're just one more grievance-ridden minority group inculcated with hate and a mentality of victimhood and superiority. We're expected to feel guilty because they are chronic malcontents, appease their demands, and allow them to enjoy the fruits of affirmative action at our expense. Why?
People from all over the world want to immigrate to America and would assimilate and become patriotic Americans. They would work hard to make America stronger instead of devoting their lives to its destruction as muslims do. They would threaten nobody and demand nothing, unlike whining, aggressive muslims. They are kept out while hordes of unassimilable muslim Somalis and muslims from every sect of islam and their putrid, savage cultures are ushered in to enrich our lives with diversity. Muslims do not enrich anything but themselves with the blood, sweat, tears, and accomplishments of superior civilizations and when they bleed them dry, another desolate islamic hellhole is born.
Heh, with the oil price as-is you won't have to organise a travel ban to the maldives ...
That one will organise itself automatically.
Unfortunately Hawaii has the same problem.
Amazon has the book listed at $117.92 and rated at 2 stars. I'm skeptical of any rating of any anti-Islam tract, though, knowing how many illiterate Muslims log on just to trash fabulous books they've never read, like Ali Sina's 'Understanding Muhammad,' rated at 3 stars.
Here's the thing about the Islamic mindset and Arab culture generally, which has come to permeate Islam's conquered cultures such as Pakistan and Indonesia: in order to be a Muslim and to genuinely understand anything about Islam, one necessarily HAS to be a malignant narcissist. In orer to reduce the whole world into Dar-al-Harb and Dar-al-Islam/Muslims and kuffars, one has to have zero conceot of one's own humanity, let alone that of anyone else's. I believe that this is result of being raised by unloving, soulless parents who act out the very abuses to which they were subjected on their children, combined with an environment which is completely devoid of any sort of real, logical morality. This is how "shame cultures" work. They substitute morality with "honor." And being malignant narcissists, Muslims really don't have a problem with the fact that they are/Islam is truly rotten to the core. They think that their way of life is superior because that is how narcissism works. There is no inner being, no real intellect, no soul, no real spirituality, no sense of loyalty to any social structure larger than one's own inbred family, and where there is (the possibility of independent thought, cvilization, and decency) the cult of Islam suppresses it. They genuinely don't care that Islam is wrong and evil, because they have no concept of "wrong" or "evil." This is what happens when people are raised in and live in a society devoid of the Golden Rule. All that matters to Muslims is Islam's outward image. All that is what it LOOKS LIKE. That's narcissism. And that's "honor."
That's why the free world's definition of "slander" is "saying things about people that are not true," but the Muslim world's definition is "saying things about people that they do not like." The truth means nothing. The outward appearance means everything, even if the inside is rotten to the core. Have you ever had a genuine interaction with a devout Muslim? Or did they always operate from behind an impenetrable wall of narcissism that precluded any sort of real interaction with anyone? Did you ever meet someone of Middle Eastern descent and know instantly that he/she was NOT a Muslim simply by the fact that he/she interacted with you in a genuine, effortless manner, like a normal human being who was actually just having a real interaction, instead of playing up their image to a mirror? I can tell who's got a sense of humanity and who's a Muslim. That's another reason why Muslim immigrant don't assimilate. They can't relate to humans being with actual souls. It's all about the image, not what's underneath it. They just want to further their evil cause. If they perceive that anything "negative" has been said about it, they freak because (a) narcissists cannot handle criticism and (b) all they care about is their outward image, their "honor," not the truth. They know that we know the truth. They just want us to SAY it. So go scream it from every mountaintop and carry a beretta.
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you might find it helpful to read M Scott Peck's "People of the Lie" - the chapters on 'Toward a Psychology of Evil', 'The Encounter with Evil in Everyday Life', 'Charlene: a teaching case' and...'Of possession and exorcism'.
Among the features of what Peck calls the 'evil personality', he includes 'abrogation of responsibility' and extreme narcissism, with an inability to handle 'criticism and other forms of narcissistic injury'.
He argues that, of 'those who are evil' that 'theirs is a brand of narcissism so total that they seem to lack, in whole or in part, ...capacity for empathy...their narcissism makes the evil dangerous not only because it motivates them to scapegoat others, but also because it deprives them of the restraint that results from empathy and respect for others.'
'In addition to the fact that the evil need victims to sacrifice to their narcissism, their narcissism permits them to ignore the humanity of their victims as well.'
'As it gives them the motive for murder, so it also renders them insensitive to the act of killing. The blindness of the narcissist to others can extend even beyond a lack of empathy; narcissists may not 'see' others at all."
(People of the Lie [Arrow paperback edn. 1990] 'Encounter with Evil in Everyday Life', pp. 154-55).
I must say that as I typed out that passage I was irresistibly reminded of the dynamic involved in 'sharia killings' of women and girls. The victims are not conceived of as having an separate existence or any feelings; they're treated like things; their male kin simply...annihilate them.
Nevertheless: having said all that (and Peck's description of human evil was worked out through encounters with non-Muslim narcissists that he'd encountered in psychological practice in the USA) don't write off every last Muslim in the world as being beyond deliverance.
If Ali Sina's diagnosis is correct, yes, they are imprisoned within, possessed by, the paradigm of an actual malignant narcissist (or a powerful and convincing fictional portrait of same); a paradigm that inhabits to greater or lesser degree each 'slave of allah', but to some extent is imprinted on the gestalt that is the Ummah.
But as a Christian, I am not prepared to simply write them off. I know of enough who have truly left Islam and become healthy, sane human beings, to know that transformation is possible.
Perhaps Yeshua's words to his followers about giving them authority to raise the dead and cast out demons, need to be remembered by Christians who have become aware of the Jihad, aware of Islam, and of the human beings trapped within that devastating system.
If you are a Christian: make a list of three of the Muslims that you encounter where you study, and pray for them, each Friday, by name.
If you are not: visit Ali Sina's 'faithfreedom' site and try following his advice.