We're often told that poverty causes jihadist terrorism -- a claim for which numerous counterexamples are readily available. But much less attention is paid to how jihad and the strictures of Sharia help to perpetuate poverty, illness, misery, and underdevelopment, as in this case. "Doctors Without Borders Clinic Attacked in Somalia," from VOA News, May 6:
Officials with the aid group Doctors Without Borders say they do not know why Islamist insurgents attacked one of the group's clinics near the Somali capital, Mogadishu. The attack Wednesday forced the clinic to shut down.
There is growing concern for thousands of internally displaced people who relied on the clinic for free medical care.
The aid group Doctors Without Borders says it is still investigating the attack on its Hawa Abdi clinic, located about 20 kilometers south of Mogadishu, on a road that connects the capital to the town of Afgoye. Officials with the group, known by its French acronym MSF, declined to speculate on a motive for the attack.
Perhaps they figure the ill, the crippled, and the dead are less inclined to engage in haram behavior, or to resist the imposition of Sharia.
Witnesses say heavily-armed Hizbul Islam insurgents fired rocket-propelled grenades at the clinic before storming it. The attack sparked a firefight between the insurgents and security guards at the clinic, killing one guard and wounding others.
Hizbul Islam fighters briefly detained 20 local staff before shutting down the clinic. The closure has reportedly spread fear and panic among tens of thousands of internally displaced people who have received free consultations and medical care at the clinic since 2007. Hizbul Islam, one of Somalia's two main radical Islamist insurgent groups, has not responded to claims it targeted the clinic.
More than 250,000 internally displaced people live along the Afgoye corridor in harsh conditions. The majority fled there from Mogadishu three years ago, following the start of the violent, Islamist-led insurgency against the U.N.-backed Transitional Federal Government....
It does not say but, I wonder if they took the medical supplies?
The probably mistook the clinic for a girls school, but once committed to the attack, had to continue...They can get to the girls school later in the week...
Doctors heal, and jihadists murder. What a contrast.
Medical care must be unIslamic.
And somebody forgot to tell that to Obama.
A story from the Buddhist tradition, but with the addition of the prophet (BBOH).
The Buddha was walking in the woods one day when he came across Mohammed, a bandit. Mohammed was swinging his big sword around and shouting, "I am the most powerful prophet in this forest."
The Buddha asked, "Can you cut the limb of that tree (pointing to a plant near Mohammed)"?
"Of course," bellowed the prophet and cut the limb clean off the tree.
"Now put it back." instructed the Buddha.
"What?!" ejaculated Mohammed. "No one can do that!"
The Buddha paused and then said, "Now you have learned that the ability to heal is more powerful than the ability to destroy."
Well said tanstaafl
The Buddha was walking in the woods one day when he came across Mohammed, a bandit. Mohammed was swinging his big sword around and shouting, "I am the most powerful prophet in this forest."
The Buddha asked, "Can you cut the limb of that tree (pointing to a plant near Mohammed)"?
"Of course," bellowed the prophet and cut the limb clean off the tree.
"Now put it back." instructed the Buddha.
"What?!" ejaculated Mohammed. "No one can do that!"
The Buddha paused and then said, "Now you have learned that the ability to heal is more powerful than the ability to destroy."
Let me finish it for you:
Note how both Jesus and the Buddha are portrayed as healers in their separate faiths. Mohammed on the other hand....................... Nope, no portraits of the prophet (BBOH) healing anybody. Killing Jews, sure. No calling Lazarus back from the grave, healing the sick or anything.
If you study religions at all, you will find common threads between them, save Islam. I am no expert, but I really believe (a billion or so Muslims may disagree) that Islam is more political ideology than religious faith.
Wait, what does BBOH mean?
Very true story by the way.
Officials with the aid group Doctors Without Borders say they do not know why Islamist insurgents attacked one of the group's clinics
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I do. There may be no Kufr in the purely Islamic land of Somalia—especially Kufr who are not cowed, but acting with purpose and confidence.
Moreover, while Medicines Sans Frontiers *does not proselytize*, nonetheless there is always the chance that some few Muslims, receiving such loving care from Infidels who expect no recompense, might come to have a better view of those Kufr, or even—Allah forbid!—wonder what sort of religion or creed might lead them to such loving actions.
In other words, the presence of MSF might *undermine Islam*—the ultimate sin. What's a little death and needless suffering in comparison? sarc/off
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But much less attention is paid to how jihad and the strictures of Sharia help to perpetuate poverty, illness, misery, and underdevelopment, as in this case.
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Excellent point. In every single case, Muslim lands are poorer, more ignorant, and more violent than their Infidel neighbors–and Muslim regions in likewise poorer than Infidel regions in the same country—as in Thailand, Russia, and the Philippines. This is true even in Muslim-run countries such as Malaysia, where—even under the oppressive Bumiputra laws (a "mild" form of "Pact of Umar" Shari'ah) Chinese and Hindu citizens, being more purposeful and hard-working than the Muslim population, tend to excel.
In addition, the more 'purely Islamic' a Muslim country is—the less leavened by the presence of a significant Infidel population or a legacy of decent non-Shari'ah law—the poorer and more miserable it is.
Hence, Pakistan is worse than India, and Afghanistan is worse than Pakistan. Egypt is bad, but not as bad as the Sudan.
And Somalia, with no more than a frightened handful of apostate Christians, and virtually no influence permitted from their more civilized neighbors or the rest of the infidel world, except for occasional forays by brave or foolish aid workers such as those with MSF, may well be the worst hell-hole of all—rife with bloody struggles for power between rival Jihadists, the almost total subjugation of women, and rampant piracy.
*This* is what a purely Islamic country looks like. It is virtually *Hell on earth*.
At a guess, the venerable tanstaafl is ann-oink-ing the prophet with pork forever.
More mohammedan morality.
Tanstaafl wrote:
A story from the Buddhist tradition, but with the addition of the prophet (BBOH).
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Thanks for the parable, Tanstaafl.
I realized early on that building anything decent and useful—even something quite modest–takes hard, purposeful work. Whereas breaking sh*t is easy.
Islam excels at destruction—at *breaking sh*t*. What does Islam create? Systems to oppress and murder Infidels and weak members of the Ummah, but nothing benevolent to humankind.
Medicins sans Frontiers was one of the original, pro-Communist, Tiersmondiste non-gvoernmental organizations that pretend to occupy moral high ground. All I can say to them is "Welcome to the real world".
An equally meaningful headline would be: "Jihadists Without Borders attack Doctors Without Rocket-Propelled Grenades".
Another story about Muslims snarlingly cutting off the hand that heals.
It is the personal testimony of a jihadwatch poster from four years ago, about something that had happened to a man he knew at University (the poster, and his friend, were Australians, btw).
It appeared in the comments thread to a story posted at Jihadwatch, about jihadis burning down a medical clinic in Afghanistan.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2006/07/international-medical-corps-clinic-burned-down-in-southern-afghanistan.html
"In my friendship group at university was a big bear of a man.
"He was a country lad and he studied medicine. He was an average student but quick of smile, warm of heart, compassionate, caring and although totally non-evangelical, a dedicated christian.
"But unlike many others he put his beliefs into practice and he was an excellent doctor.
"After he graduated he did the formal year in hospital and he then joined a missionary medical group in Africa to bring medical care to the darkest of dark Africa - the Sudan near its border with Eritrea.
"One night he was woken by a nurse: there was a Muslim female with a breech delivery, which had "gone wrong". She was in a village miles away and he could have no escort but the midwife at that time of night and it was dangerous country.
"There was no bin laden then but there was always the simmering resentment from the muslims and especially their imams.
"As luck would have it this was one of the wives of the village witch doctor or imam (yes i do know that they are different but it fits) and it was the long awaited boy, as he already had a number of girls.
"Unfortunately the child was also already dead and his head could NOT be freed without either killing the mother or decapitating the child (I do not know all of the details so no lectures on obstetrics please).
"The father refused to allow the boy-child to have his head removed or crushed and became quite threatening and as it was her fault anyway he was quite happy just to let her die as she had killed his son.
"My friend threw him out *and realised that she was only 12 or 13 was sinking fast so he did not hesitate and he freed the child* {my emphasis - dda}.
{The poster did not explain, but I think there is a gap in the story at this point - dda{
"He had 50+ stab wounds in his body when they recovered it.
"He also had been decapitated and the young mother had her throat slit.
{I can only assume that the killing of the doctor and the girl must not have happened on the same day as the birth, but at least a day or so later, after the imam had had time to brood and plot his 'revenge': otherwise it is very difficult to see how the details of the exchange between the doctor and the husband can have become known - dda}.
"It was called an "incident with a psychotic tribesman at the time" but his parent later found out that
'the whole medical team had to leave the area under dire threats as someone had dared to examine a woman with a breast abscess without the presence of her husband (100 miles away).
"The murderer was never even charged.
"*They never had any problems with the animists or the christian tribes-people, only the Muslims* {my emphasis - dda}.
"These people do NOT deserve one drop of western blood and we should let them rot.
- Posted by: Zathras at July 2, 2006 7:22 AM
bboh?.....bearded...bomb on head?.....
The doctors were treating "displaced" people, that means the infidels that the jihadists were trying to exterminate. Having someone intervene and treat their wounds would hinder their cause. Know you enemies.
Islamic insurgents attack because they found someone breathing.
Could not have happened to more deserving sociopaths. Doctors Without Borders is a neoliberal-neocon cult which, under the guise of "humanitarianism" did unspeakable evil unto the Serb people, waging a Satanic campaign aggressively calling for the US and NATO to go to war on the Serb Christians on terrorists' side in Bosnia and Kosovo. A group of those repugnations of the human race were actually caught by Serb fighters transporting wapons to International Islamic jihadists in Bosnia in their "ambulances". As always, the misfortunate Serbs released them without punishment, which only encouraged the jihad-aiders to continue causing harm to the Serb people.
Ruslan Tokhchukov, EnragedSince1999.
Mecca was actually a Shiva temple of Hindus. I have brought to the attention several times through anti-islamic web sites. Proof? When hindus go to temple they shave their head- muslims going to Mecca do that. Those who go to Mecca wear a type of dress which is the traditional dress in south India, even now by south indian priests. Hindus circumambulate when they visit temples (circling the temple once,thrice, or nine times. Mecca visitors do that. In some hindu temples animals are sacrificed. It is done in Mecca. Hindu temples contain wells/ponds and water from there is considered holy. Meccans drink water from zam-zam and they say it is holy. Above all, Mohammed destroyed icons from the earlier temple. What else would have been those except hindu deities? It is not my opinion. When one of the great saints of India, Guru Nanak, went to Mecca about 500 years back, he informed Islamic scholars that it was originally the abode of Lord Mahadeva (Shiva). This can be verified from the history of Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikh religion.
Mecca was actually a Shiva temple of Hindus. I have brought to the attention several times through anti-islamic web sites. Proof? When hindus go to temple they shave their head- muslims going to Mecca do that. Those who go to Mecca wear a type of dress which is the traditional dress in south India, even now by south indian priests. Hindus circumambulate when they visit temples (circling the temple once,thrice, or nine times. Mecca visitors do that. In some hindu temples animals are sacrificed. It is done in Mecca. Hindu temples contain wells/ponds and water from there is considered holy. Meccans drink water from zam-zam and they say it is holy. Above all, Mohammed destroyed icons from the earlier temple. What else would have been those except hindu deities? That it was not my imagination. When one of the greatest saints of India, Guru Nanak, went to Mecca about 500 years back, he informed islamic scholars while they engaged him in discussion that this Mecca (temple) was originally belonged to Lord Mahadeva (Lord Shiva). It can be verified from Sikh history.