Today's Hate Mail Bag entry comes from beautiful Halifax, Nova Scotia. It contains the usual projection: I know nothing, and "hate" and "oppress" Muslims by reporting on jihad activity and on how jihadists use the Qur'an to teach violence against unbelievers. It is virtually certain that this Hate Mailer never directed any similar indignation at the jihadist "crazies" who are supposedly misunderstanding her religion of "forget and forgive" (and where exactly does the Qur'an say that)?
What i hear and read from this website sounds like it comes from uneducated people of hate.. how can one talk about a subject, create a website, and know absolutley nothing about the topic. I have heard things and read things that can only come form one who is purposely lying and creating a false hateful image of people only to get others to follow or believe what they hear and see. why not get educated first then work on this. I have never read or heard anything about Islam preaching to kill everyone who is a non-believer, when it clearly says in the quran forget and forgive and continues to say that He(God) is the one that will bring justice to the oppressed. And by oppressed i mean the opression all muslims, and non-muslims feel because of people like you. This is all because of the jelousy, that real practicing muslims, and not the crazies that think its ok to kill everyone, real muslims treat their parents with respect, they respect themselves and everyone else, the girls dont walk around exposed on the streets, they dont have babies when they are 13.. all these reasons plus more are why you and people like you hate muslims... How about you learn the real Islam, and not blindly follow what you are fed. Knowledge is the key to understanding and acceptance. We are all humans and why can people not see that. We do not all need be the same religion we only need to respect each others decision to the religion they choose. Islam is justice it is peace it is acceptance.. Learn something..
Islamic Hatred vs. Infidelic Love
9/11 Jumpers Tribute
As I close my eyes at night to sleep
The planes and jumpers never cease
Crushed to death and burnt alive
Smoke-filled lungs as they took the dive
We are different, so they say
It's in their book, that's their way
We're pigs and apes and oh so vile
Now I know why they never smile
Hate to love and love to hate
Taught from birth that horrible fate
Rest at:
http://crazyislam.typepad.com/home/poems-and-songs/
Islam is justice it is peace it is acceptance.....
What planet does this person live on? Does anyone remember ever being told that islam is a religion of peace before 9/11?
nabi ZK (pbum)
Just a couple o' things. Firstly, the only muslims that are worthy of hatred are the ones that kill innocents in the name of the moon god.
Your average muslim receives no hatred here. islam however is reviled. It enslaves you in all ways. Born in to it many do not see it. Never having tasted real freedom, the slavery of islam seems natural. It's not.
I know it's slavery. That's why I will never submit in any way. No jizya. No conversion...and you know very well what that means.
Are you guys all cut out with a cookie cutter? Are your brains all programmed by the same ayatoilet?
It gets so boring reading and refuting the same crap over and over. I could easily open a file and save my replies and those of others here to the questions and lies that are told here by muslim apologists. Just copy and paste.
Come up with some real arguments so I can be entertained a little.
Really though...ultimately, the ravings of a perverted mass murderer put down in a book have no meaning or value. Debating the meaning of the insanity surrounding islam in the koran is kinda like discussing a turd and the various writings that surround it.
islam is a lie and
Truth is killing it.
islam is peace...justice. Join the body. Know the peace of Landru... Be of the body or face the Lawgivers.
I'm always reminded of that Star Trek Episode, the Return of the Archons when someone speaks of the peace of islam.
Mindless obedience in all things. Submission. Insane and violent behaviour occasionally accepted and expected. There are parallels there, unintentional I'm sure.
islam is a lie and
Truth is killing it.
Islam is justice it is peace it is acceptance.. Learn something..
Oops... It seems that one of those edited copies of Mein Qurampf, with lots of page ripped out and violent verses whited out, that CAIR leaders keep close at hand to mail to politicians who are ignorant of mahoundianism whenever their interest in "the real thing" gets too deep, must mistakenly have been sent to a newbie revert in Nova Scotia.
If only all unedited/original copies of Mein Qurampf could be replaced with that one...
The islam I see as practiced by about 40,000+ muslims 3 miles down the road is the real islam I know.
That includes driving out the kuffur, screwing the social security system, using their 10 year old kids as drug mules and telling us there is no need to for them to integrate into UK society because in 60 years our town will be their town.
That is what islam means in most of Europe. I guess its not like that in Halifax NS but try being a kuffur in somewhere like the original Halifax in Yorkshire.
Don't tell us what the "Real islam" is like. Get your real beautiful islamic a** over here and tell these guys - they are the ones who have really got it wrong.
OT but relevant.
How do you send stories to JW with this new system? I cannot see the "Contact us" panel/e-mail section anywhere on screen.
From the Mohammedan ranter - "real muslims treat their parents with respect, they respect themselves and everyone else, the girls dont walk around exposed on the streets, they [i.e. Muslim girls] dont have babies when they are 13...".
Obviously this person thinks we don't know about the Brides of Death in dar al Islam - in, among other places, Saudi Arabia and Mali and northern Nigeria and Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan and Yemen: all those obscenely-young prepubescent and barely-pubescent girls who are pimped-off by their daddies to be ruthlessly and repeatedly raped by their much-older rock-spider Mohammedan husbands/ slavemasters. Many of those who survive this violent introduction to sex, will conceive on their first cycle ever: only to die during pregnancy or when attempting to give birth, because their immature bodies simply cannot sustain a pregnancy or a labour.
Here is the link for the story that ran here on jihadwatch only a little while ago, about the Brides of Death in Yemen - the twelve-year-old Yemeni bride, impregnated by her 24 year old husband, who perished in unsuccessful childbirth.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2009/09/yemen-12-year-old-girl-pregnant-by-24-year-old-husband-dies-in-childbirth.html
And here is the shocking first-hand testimony of a former US army medic, prompted by a story about a Muslim child bride, describing what he saw in deepest, darkest sharia-steeped Afghanistan:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/015207.php#c347770
'Sick indeed.
'He [adult husband] might have already deflowered her. If not she still has the bad social stigma of being divorced and she is only four. He just has to wait a few more years then she is legal.
'While in Afganistan, we ran a clinic for people in the village.
'You wouldn't believe the number of abused women that were brought there.
*Young girls around six to 14* {my emphasis added - dda}.
'They were burned with scalding water, beat, *had all kinds of damage to their reproductive organs.
Some women within an inch of their life* {my emphasis added - dda}.
'I am sure a lot are killed and there is no reprocussions [sic] for the husbands.
'They were often brought by their husbands, *who were about 20 to 30 years their senior* {my emphasis added - dda}.
'They [the husbands] freak out when their young brides don't get pregnent or for any reason under the sun.
'I think most [of] these girls by nature just try to be kids, which they are, and their adult husbands can't take it.
'*A women thats older than 14 and not married is an old maid* {my emphasis - dda}.
'Any westren woman that would convert to Islam, should live in Afganistan.
- Posted by: American_soldier at February 10, 2007 9:56 AM
- and our Mohammedtroll professes itself shocked by teen pregnancies in the West? (Never mind, too, that in the UK Mohammedan males deliberately prey upon the more vulnerable early-teen girls among the Infidel population...).
Hmm, usually I can do you one up, Robert, but today I got a rather weak one:
Jimmy Ozark
ceco454@yahoo.com
203.191.175.12
Submitted on 2009/09/23 at 1:40am
Wow. I’m an American living in Aus, and damn if you ain’t just a wanna-be American redneck… just not as good at it.
You aren’t helping anyone, buddy. Writing batshit comments about muslims, may make your no-doubt sad life seem a little more interesting, but you are definitely part of the problem.
You can’t act just as stupid as the jihadis. Even our rednecks know that.
Oh, and from my very fat e-file, "Child Brides in Islam", another story, that also appeared here on Jihadwatch, this August, titled thus:
"Afghanistan: 60 % of women married as children, often at age 9 or 10".
Now let's go over to Saudi Arabia, where we find that a 'Saudi judge upholds 47 year old man's marriage to an 8 year old'.
How about Nigeria, the Muslim-dominated north.
See 'Nigeria: Child Brides, Broken Lives', on 2 January 2009,
Mr Spencer posted a link to a TV documentary about Muslim child brides in N Nigeria. In one village - "half the villagers have had a wife or daughter die because of marriage too young".
Stats again: "Northern Nigeria has one of the highest rates of child marriage in the world: nearly half of all girls here are married by the age of 15." (many at 12, or even earlier).
Back to Yemen:" A 2006 field study revealed that child marriage among Yemeni girls reached 52.1%, compared to 6.7% among males."
What that means, in a story posted here on April 17, 2009:
"— She was 2 years old when her father promised her in marriage to a man in his 30s. It was a swap, so the father could marry the man's sister without paying the obligatory bride-price.
At age 9, the girl was put on a sack of rice to appear taller next to the bridegroom in the wedding picture. At 11, she was taken to her husband's house to live. Despite promising not to consummate the marriage before she reached puberty, he tied her to a bed, stuffed a rag in her mouth and raped her, she says."
AAh, the beauty of Islam! Ah, the respect it shows to women!
All over dar al Islam, for 1400 years, the terrified screams of immature little girls being ruthlessly used, night after night, every which way, by much older men.
Hmm, maybe I can do you one up after all. How about this one from our self-appointed Moroccan polit-commissar Solkhar, who also snitches on Christian missionaries whom he calls "white turds" and gets them thrown out of the dar-al Islam?
Solkhar
solkhar.blogspot.com
solkharsworld@yahoo.com
196.12.245.182
Submitted on 2009/09/22 at 9:22pm
Interesting blog-owner that you are so easy to declare – because it is your blog – that I avoid debate and lie.
We should remember that you claimed that the Five Schools of Islam declare, support and instigate a jihad that actually does not exist.
Also that you have declared that the Qur’an was not turned into the Book that it is until 200 years alter, though there were in that time two universities built (and still running) , thus without its prime text book, let alone all the other references to something non-existant.
You have also stated other rubbish and lies simply because the word Islam is attached. That includes assuming that an individual whom is not just a patriot but an awarded and successful crime-fighter and has improved and helped the US’s battle against terrorism is a traitor and deserves the death penalty.
I think we know whom is spouting lies. In fact I want you to name one that I have given.
As for your logic on searches with the word Allah and hate in it, the logic that comes from that is very simple, in fact the simple answer is often the right one. Muslims constantly saying that there are so much hatred showing, bias and histeria, then perhaps there is a point. If there is a lot of smoke, there will be certainly be a fire, or there is some truth behind all the rumours. The same goes both ways and of course we do know there are militants and radicals blowing up people and demanding the unacceptable.
The other point is that the organisation and strength of right-wingers and other agenda based groups is very well documented. Since 9/11 over 3,800 hate-sites were created in 12 months, almost all of them in the southern US Bible-belt and by religio-Zionist groups with similar agendas as this one.
No spinning here, just facts – something lacking in your posts.
from this posting here:
http://sheikyermami.com/2009/09/21/nothing-to-do-with-islam-islamic-suicide-bombers-kill-21-african-union-peacekeepers/
There's a Muslim in Halifax, Nova Scotia?
We do not all need be the same religion we only need to respect each others decision to the religion they choose.
Given that the transliteral for the word Islam is Surrender, this statement may be incorrect. To check, let’s consult with the great one himself, Allah:
I will terrorize the unbelievers.
Well, that settles that. Don’t these Moslems read the Koran anymore?
*** 8:12 ***
Islam is justice it is peace it is acceptance.
Given that the transliteral for the word Islam is Surrender, this statement may be incorrect. Let’s check with another expert on Islam, Mohammed:
Jihad is compulsory.
Whoops, he musta been talking that inner spiritual struggle Jihad, not the one all the Moslem activists talking about.
And why exactly are there Moslems in Nova Scotia?
"And why exactly are there Moslems in Nova Scotia?" -- Alarmed Pig Farmer
Really. They're getting this Global Jihad thing down. Sending 'em to the four corners.
Another pathetic Mohammedan nut. Yes I clearly see that this crazed Mohammedan is following the dictates of the vile and despicable murderous ideology of Islam. I guess he must be getting thrills from praising the blood thirsty Allah and having to love that pedophile rapist prophet of his Mohammad, may puss and piss be upon him. This Mohammedan loves to scream Allah U Akbar as his murderous thugs go on a killing rampage of murder and bombings. He enjoys raping non Muslim women as commanded by the violent hate filled war manual called the Koran.
Darcy,
http://ezralevant.com/2008/07/worth-1000-words.html
http://ezralevant.com/2008/05/the-battle-of-khartoun-comes-t.html
Trouble, like everywhere else.
I live about 45 minutes away from Halifax, on Nova Scotia's beautiful South Shore, and I wish there weren't any muslims in this province!
There certainly aren't many in my area, which is an old fishing community. There are just 5 mosques in the province, most of them in Halifax, which is the largest city.
This area of the country is pretty Anglo-Saxon. Most people born here are descendants of Scottish, English, Irish, and German settlers. It's one of the reasons so many Anglos are immigrating to NS, and also one of the reasons I love it here!
Let not your daughters have their first blood in your house.
Or words to that effect are from islam. And Mohammad himself took to bed a 9 year old.
How do you expect to take a 9 year old and not have a pregnancy by age 13?
How do you marry off your daughter before her first blood and not expect a pregnancy by age 13?
It seems SHE knows nothing about islam. She's dreaming about something that she wants it to be, not what it is.
Good thing she isn't in a muslim country or she would be pregnant and illiterate.
"How about you learn the real Islam, and not blindly follow what you are fed".
"I have never read or heard anything about Islam preaching to kill everyone who is a non-believer, when it clearly says in the quran forget and forgive and continues to say that He(God) is the one that will bring justice to the oppressed."
What mosque, and on which planet, in which universe does this person attend?
Are they teaching from the same English interpretation of the Qur'an that I have wasted my time on for the better part of my life?
It seems to me that they are brainwashing the converts with the teachings when Muhammad(piss be upon him) was in Mecca and are avoiding the verses of his blabberings in Medina.
Where in the Qur'an does it say "forgive and forget"?
"It is not unlawful in Islam to extract revenge on a perpetrator of cruel crimes. 'Turning the other cheek' portrays a helpless degradation of the victim. This is not what Islam promotes. Victims are empowered to avenge themselves if they so wish. But one is not entitled to give a worse blow than the one he has received." quote from "Forgive and Overlook
By Abu Saqib"
Qur'an 4:8 "Except those who are feeble - men, women and children - who cannot devise a plan nor have the means or power. These are those whom Allah is likely to forgive."
'Sounds very forgiving doesn't it? 'Just touches my heart strings.
So there you have it...if a fellow Muslim punches you in the head then punch him back with the same amount of force.
If, however, a kafir punches you in the head then you have the right to cut off his arm.
They must have a different Qur'an up there in Halifax, NS. I have to assume that this individual is a new convert to Islam. He has not received his secret decoder ring or the true dictates of Islam.
I live in Halifax, NS. A large, and growing, community of Muslims live here.
A new mosque is being built (http://www.ummahmasjid.ca/) in an older part of the city beside a former school that is now a music conservatory (and that once served as a hospital during the Halifax explosion- http://www.cbc.ca/halifaxexplosion/).
As far as I know, there is minimal contact between the Jewish community and the Muslim community, though I do understand that there is at least some contact with certain churches - such as the "enigmatic" United Church - http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/story.html?id=2005847.
There does seem to be a small but vocal group that is anti-Israel and which has aligned itself with the local contingent of self-hating Jews.
the knowledge of the princess of Halifax is lacking. Knowledge is also the key to understanding and rejecting that which is unable to produce, say, something like: PEACE.
how can anyone respect a religion which leaves mostly pieces, let alone, accept it?
dammit i thought we were going to see this peacefull islam explained there ....something must have spooked her
"I have never read or heard anything about Islam preaching to kill everyone who is a non-believer...."
Then read past the cover.
Good posts from dumbledoresarmy up above, definitively and massively refuting the weak claim of the Halifax Muslim.
I do want to comment on AlaskanInfidel's post:
"Just a couple o' things. Firstly, the only muslims that are worthy of hatred are the ones that kill innocents in the name of the moon god.
Your average muslim receives no hatred here. islam however is reviled."
I could not disagree more. Muslims who are not directly engaged in killing innocents in the name of the moon god are nevertheless enabling that killing (and all the other evils innumerable other Muslims are committing around the world). That enablement ranges on a spectrum from passive at the low end up to active at the high end, with degrees in between. Passive enablers get no sympathy from me: I don't let them off the hook. They should know better -- and besides, with the prevalence of taqiyya, we can never know whether a Muslim who professes to be ignorant of the evil side of Islam is telling the truth. I have no qualms about hating a person who insists on supporting an evil system that has been a lethal danger to millions of innocents throughout history, and remains one now -- and in fact is only getting more dangerous to innocents around the world today.
However, that said, "hate" is really tangential here. I really don't feel the emotion of hate when I think about Muslims and the evil they zealously support. I mainly feel the emotions of sensible fear (silly me, I'm afraid that the shopping mall I'm walking through might explode and I will find myself suddenly lying amid rubble screaming in pain); and fascination at the grotesque ghoulishness and bizarre fanaticism of Islamic culture; and most importantly, I feel a determined resolve to protect my loved ones, my neighbors, my fellow citizens, my culture, and myself.
As for hate, I do find that I feel that emotion with regard to the problem of Islam -- but not directed at Muslims: rather, I feel hate -- nay, rather a frothing spittling throat-choking fury -- directed at the PC MC idiots all around me in the West.
As for hate, I do find that I feel that emotion with regard to the problem of Islam -- but not directed at Muslims: rather, I feel hate -- nay, rather a frothing spittling throat-choking fury -- directed at the PC MC idiots all around me in the West.
and I said...
Your average muslim receives no hatred here. You said, "As for hate, I do find that I feel that emotion with regard to the problem of Islam -- but not directed at Muslims". We seem to agree there. I continued.. islam however is reviled.
Other than my hatred being directed at islam and you including PC MC idiots...I think we said, mostly, the same thing. It's early for me here. Maybe i need to read it all again later.
islam is a lie and
Truth is killing it.
Miss Directed,
Please take your grievances to the correct complaint department. The "Misunderstander's of Islam Complaint Department" is down the hall, and then turn right (or maybe it's left). Anyway, they will be able to help you with your complaint, and because there is never a line, they should be able to assist you promptly. Their services are Free, but I highly recommend reading the fine print for any hidden costs.
AlaskanInfidel,
I was saying that I personally don't feel much hate toward Muslims -- but that was just a personal comment: I think Muslims deserve to be hated, and I wouldn't criticize anyone for doing so -- I would, rather, respect them. I just happen not to feel it toward Muslims; to me, what they present is analogous to the danger from wild hyenas that threaten me and my family. It would be sort of irrelevant to actually hate those hyenas, even after they had, for example, torn my daughter to pieces and eaten her flesh. It's just in their nature to do that. My primary concern is to protect myself and my family from those hyenas. Now, if there were some neighbors down the road a few acres who kept on trying to tell me that I have nothing to worry about from the hyenas and that in fact we should "respect" them and "embrace" them and not be vigilant about their danger, nor try to do something about their presence in the area, and these neighbors were joined in their stupidity by practically all the folks in the town, I would start to feel mad at my neighbors and fellow citizens, very mad.
"There are just 5 mosques in the province" -- ImNoDhimmi, Nova Scotia.
What, are you joking? There shouldn't be ONE!
"I'm always reminded of that Star Trek Episode, the Return of the Archons when someone speaks of the peace of islam." -AlaskanInfidel
I must have missed that one! Oh, boy, Gene Roddenberry got THAT wrong!
Darcy and others!
"There's a Muslim in Halifax, Nova Scotia?"
There are muslims in ICELAND.
An early morning (about 06.00am) news magazine last year told the story of muslim "refugees" settled there from Syria(?). The line on al BBCera was that some Icelanders resented them but other nice people were helping them settle in.
Reading between the lines it seems the European Union had forced Iceland to take their quota but there was a interesting detail showing they were not too happy. They would only take widows with young or teenage children - no men. Says it all, as well as proving there is a definite policy to islamise every part of Europe.
I wonder if they have got a mosque and madrassa in Reykjavik yet?
Fred - it moves me to tears to read your post.
Why is the West so bent on committing cultural suicide?
"And by oppressed i mean the opression all muslims, and non-muslims feel because of people like you."--from the mailer.
So Robert and others reporting on, describing, and explaining the problems in Islam (i.e., primarily in sharia and jihad), and supporting it with news reports, relevant texts, laws, statistics, etc., is "oppression." Trying to help raise awareness to protect people like Rifqa Bary is, allegedly, "oppression." And as the Quran says, fitna--which can be translated as "oppression," "persecution," etc.--is worse than killing (2:191, 2:217). The mailer of course does not tell us how broadly this ambiguous notion of "oppression" extends.
What the mailer does not mention explicitly is that there is very likely, in his view, no such thing as a legitimate criticism of Islam. Islam is perfect; only misinterpretation and misunderstanding, "hate," etc., lead people to think there are problems with Islam. Why then, doesn't the mailer just come out and say that he doesn't accept any criticism of Islam, and that Islam forbids criticism of Islam?
This mailer has learned the technique of using terms like "justice," "peace," "respect," and "acceptance," as if the Islamic meanings are the same as Western conceptions. What this mailer probably considers "justice" would be for Islam critics to be criminally prosecuted and punished. Obviously, this mailer does not "accept" or "respect" people who are Islam critics. The mailer perhaps does not deem it to be prudent to admit outright that he/she "hates" critics of Islam, or that criticism of Islam should be illegal.
One small thing the was over looked. Most of the regular posters have taken considerable time outside of the blog to learn about Islam. We are not at all misguided or ill informed on this subject and I am insulted that the hate posted discounts what we know and don't know.
The 'Ah ha moment' for me a number of years ago was when I heard from a man who had been born in a muslim family. He had been a enthusiastic follower as a young boy and man but started thinking for himself and asked some question about physical actions that seem to contradict the Koran. IE something about the sun rising and falling (I don't remember). Anyway the answer he got did not help and I think he was told not to question the Holy Koran. He then became a total atheist and a hedonist for the several years. Finally he came into contact with some Christian and over time converted to Christianity. The phrase that caught me was "If you are a devout muslin and follower of Allah you will be a terrorist."
Simple put;
Islam=Terrorism
The great unwashed majority of muslin's have not progressed that far or unwilling to do so. That does not mean however that they are not sympathetic to the more devout ones. Kind of like we look up to great spiritual men and women like Dr. Graham or Sister Teresa.
The perversion of it all is that they (not knowing right from wrong or by deception) exalt their spiritual martyrs. Like we do to our great men.
Looks like a number of Bluenoses here (myself included, as of this my first post. I have been lurking for a few years) on Jihadwatch.org.
The number of Muslim women in Halifax who now wear the burqa or the hijab has seemingly skyrocketed the past couple of years. One day, hardly any, the next day, they're everywhere, and increasing in number, or so it seems. In addition to the mosque being built in the middle of the Halifax peninsula, there is a also an "Islamic Centre" being built out on Kearney Lake area of the suburbs. Isolated, surrounded by trees, a few hundred yards away from the main road.
I personally have not had any encounters of a confrontational narure with any of the Muslim community. The only things I have heard of anything unusual happening, are a local swimming pool being asked to provide 'women only' swim times so that Muslim women and girls can swim without being ogled by men. That was a few months back, at least. And also, there was Peter March (retired philosophy prof from St. Mary's University, and former local columnist) and his involvement with the Mohammed cartoons. Thus far. If I've missed something, I'd like to know.
There is one more possible incident. Some ten years ago, there was a volunteer program to teach Christian religious classes in the Halifax area. Voluntary attendance only, no one obligated to take part, etc. The program, if I recall correctly, was stopped because of one complaint from a Muslim woman. Now this is but hearsay, but sadly, it would not surprise me.
“I have never read or heard anything about Islam preaching to kill everyone who is a non-believer,”--from the mailer.
More precisely, what the Quran says and what classical Islam legislates is that those who do not embrace Islam must at least be forced to live under Islamic rule under a subjugated a precarious condition (dhimmitude). Those who do not accept this are to be killed through jihad or through various sharia penalties, or subject to other discretionary actions by the Muslim ruler (e.g., slavery or ransom).
“real muslims treat their parents with respect,”
Perhaps, but the Quran says don’t respect those, including parents, who do not follow its Islamic monotheistic view (e.g., 29:8).
“they respect themselves and everyone else,”
The vast majority of Muslims don’t respect non-Muslims who have less than a rosy view of Islam. Muslims who come into the West and demand that sharia standards be implemented obviously do not respect the culture of the West. Poll results suggest that most Muslims reject Western values; yet many Muslims want to emigrate to the West. This is usually for economic and standards-of-living considerations, not for the adoption of modern Western notions of freedom of expression, etc.
“the girls dont walk around exposed on the streets,”
Neither do most non-Muslim girls. But note that what is “exposed” here is the mailer’s strict traditional Islamic dress code for females. This clashes with the mailer’s other attempts to present a moderate anything-goes façade. The mailer's apparent acceptance and approval of the strict Islamic dress codes, and disapproval of violations of that code, does indicate a more strict traditional view of Islam, rather than a modern moderate one.
“they dont have babies when they are 13..”
Underage non-Muslim teen girls in the West giving birth is rare. On the contrary, the medical and social problem of immature young teens giving birth is more widespread in Islamic societies, partly because of Muhammad’s precedent (having sexual intercourse with a nine-year-old girl) and the fact that the Quran implies no lower age limit on child-brides (65:4).
“We do not all need be the same religion we only need to respect each others decision to the religion they choose.”
People rarely choose Islam. They are usually born into it, and have to remain in it, or pretend to remain in it (yes, Islam coerces some people to be hypocrites), or else face severe penalties up to and including death. Why isn’t this mailer arguing for freedom from penalty for the apostates of Islam?
dsh,
Unfortunately, I've only been in Halifax for some brief stop-overs at the airport, but hope to get a chance to have a more lengthy visit in the future. Regarding Islam-related controversies in that area, there was also another cartoon that caused a kerfuffle a while back...
http://ezralevant.com/2008/05/the-battle-of-khartoun-comes-t.html
OT, but interesting: A judge in Italy has ruled that one devout Muslim accusing another Muslim of being a Christian is tantamount to a death threat.
(Link thanks to Pamela)
http://www.telesanterno.com/marocchino-da-della-%E2%80%9Ccristiana%E2%80%9D-ad-una-donna-mussulmana-per-il-giudice-di-bologna-sottintende-una-minaccia-di-morte-0922.html
Part of a Google translation of the article [my addition in brackets]:
"The more orthodox Islam provides for apostates, that is for anyone who leaves the Muslim creed and embraces another religion, only one punishment: death. For this reason a court of Bologna, Alessandro Gnani, considered that [the giving of the label] "Christian" to a Muslim woman by a fervent devotee of Islam, was tantamount to an implied "threat of death." And then it was adjusted accordingly by condemning a Moroccan worker in Imola, Hassan Akran, to pay a heavy penalty for threatening a fellow like that Souad Sbai, a lawmaker and president of the PDL of Moroccan women in Italy (Acmid). The affair dates back to May of 2006, and took place in a forum of the Internet. At that time both Akran, no criminal record and decades in Italy, both Souad Sbai, were enrolled in the same mailing list. In an email exchange turned to the North African woman writing "You went out to scopertosola as a Christian." Expression that, according to Islamic tradition, is a threat because it would allow the Muslims to carry out a death sentence for apostasy against. So a sort of fatwa death. Prosecutors had requested six months imprisonment but the judge opted for the penalty and damages of 10 thousand euros. As stated in the written ruling, published in recent days, the words of Akran express "an assessment of annoyance toward Sbai." Indeed, the court continued, "the opinion of disapproval is clear." And nothing is the justification that the quarrel between the two had started from political and social issues that is the defense of immigrants, because according Gnani, the sentence was "exclusively religious significance." Nor is it to pronounce the phrase was a Muslim without any religious role: "Islam is a religion headless," says the judge, that "even a person without any special qualification in Islamic religious studies may aggregate around them proselytes possibly ready to act on the proceedings of disapproval.
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Yes, learning the koran gets you a ticket to Hell! And there ain't virgins there! The only virgins some muslim men get is by rape - causing a living hell for the victims - thanks mo & allah - what a service you fulfill.
darcy,
I agree, there shouldn't be any mosques in this little ocean paradise, but as other posters have noted, they're everywhere! Like a fast metastasizing cancer, like the choking red weed in "War of the Worlds".......there is no escaping the spread of this evil ideology.
I had almost forgotten that one.
One more disturbing fact, something I first heard several years ago: Arabic is the second most frequently spoken language in Nova Scotia. Not French, not Gaelic, but Arabic. The last I knew, there were at least 30000+ Arabic speakers in the province. Forgive me for being able to remember the source of this.
dsh
Wonder if Rpbert Spencer has ever made comparisons between the Sufi Muslims and the Opus Dei principles of attempting daily living in a context of the Parakletos or 'Holy Spirit' rather than one of Jihad and Crusade?