A refreshing burst of decency and candor from an unexpected source: Dr. Khaled Al-Haroub, a Palestinian researcher at Cambridge University, writing a column in the PA daily Al-Ayyam that I doubt is going to win him many friends back home. "Palestinian Researcher: A Legal Victory in Ground Zero Mosque Could Cause the Muslims to Lose the Battle that Counts - The One for Coexistence," from MEMRI, August 23:
"We Keep Increasing Our Religious Demands Vis-a-Vis the West, While Refusing to Meet Even a Few of the Demands Made by Religious Minorities Living among Us""We must take stock and do some soul-searching by asking ourselves the opposite question, [namely] how people in a Muslim country would react if the Christians wanted to pray in a mosque on Sunday due to an insufficient number of churches. Or let's ask an even simpler [question]: What is the reaction in most Arab and Muslim countries to the demand of religious minorities - not only Christians but also Hindus and Sikhs - to build their own houses of worship? In practice, our countries exhibit hypocrisy and a double standard. We keep increasing our religious demands vis-à-vis the West, while refusing to meet even a few of the demands made by religious minorities living among us."
Endnote:
[1] Al-Ayyam (PA), August 16, 2010.
Woman severely burned after acid-like liquid thrown into her face by total stranger.
Was this stranger Muslim by any chance? LOL
It's just like a millions of monkeys with typewriters. None of them will turn out Shakespeare, but every once and while one of them might turn out an accurate statement.
IT probably was a moohamidan since they enjoy the suffering of women and have been known all over the Middle East to do such evil things.
Not hardly a "LOL" moment there, you idiot!
Wonder how long this Doctor remains ALIVE and WELL since one of the moohamidans will place a fatwa on his head for saying the OBVIOUS about islamic hypocrisy!!
The Muslims make demands and their demands are always satisfied.
We should try denying them something -- see what happens.
The predictable will happen. Muslims will react negatively and disproportionately.
But in my view denying Muslim demands is exactly what we should begin to do. State that when in Rome you do as the Romans do. We have a set of laws that have come about through hard work and we intend to live by them.
Satisfying Muslim demands simply kicks the can down the road since Muslims will come up with yet another demand. Not unlike the blackmailer. Confrontation is better addressed sooner than later.
@ Islamic Empire
Was it you.....?
BTW, you still haven't answered the question I put to you yesterday: namely,
"Which is more likely -- that a man should be used as a transmitter by God to deliver some already existing revelations, or that he should utter some already existing revelations and believe himself to be, or claim to be, ordered by God to do so?"
David Hume 1711 - 1776
Seemingly a rare example by a Muslim extolling truth and fairness over falsehood and hypocrisy.
"In practice, our countries exhibit hypocrisy and a double standard." Dr. Khaled Al-Haroub, a Palestinian researcher at Cambridge University.
Dr. Al-Haroub has obviously been brainwashed and corrupted from the True Path of Allah by the perfidious human-centered laws and traditions of the Ultimate Satan, Western rational thought. Muslims practice no double standard when they, by their own lights quite righteously, demand special privileges and subservience from the enemies of Allah, the despicable kuffar.
Where's Defender been lately? I have an idea! I'll just "channel" his likely response to this story:
haeters,
D.r. Khaloed Al-Harboobie isthan aportate from Ismal if he say suck things! He shuld be behededthan prumptly. haeter koffurs lyke Robart Speenster andthan Huge Fitzsimons and Mortisol on Jehood Warsh are noting but lyars when they speeked abort Imsal inthan way, than. We moslime peple are good, desent peple who only wunt heds ofthan infideuls, so stop yuor haet so much, yuo evul peple!
Than,
DenfederOfImsal
"....denying Muslim demands is exactly what we should begin to do."
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Well said & I completely agree. Any ideas of how to kick the "ruling elite" into gear and get them to move on this? Or should we start somewhere else?
If it's the "little guy" who must deny demands, how does he make a difference? I have a couple of ideas but I'd like to hear yours.
"BTW, you still haven't answered the question I put to you yesterday: namely,
"Which is more likely -- that a man should be used as a transmitter by God to deliver some already existing revelations, or that he should utter some already existing revelations and believe himself to be, or claim to be, ordered by God to do so?"
David Hume 1711 - 1776"
Still doing that copy-paste thing, eh? You do know that asking a question isn't the same as presenting an argument, right? (Ironic!)
"It's just like a millions of monkeys with typewriters. None of them will turn out Shakespeare, but every once and while one of them might turn out an accurate statement."
Hey, if it's easier to dismiss all Muslims as sub-human so you don't have to bother with rational arugment, that's fine. Just don't be surprised when you're also dismissed.
Remember that during the anti-Jewish disturbances in "Palestine" in the late 30s, more Arabs were murdered by their Muslim neighbors for alleged collaboration than there were Jewish victims. The same held true for the First and Second Intifadas. Currently, Palestinian Arabs who want co-existence and who are willing to compromise with Israelis are also being persecuted, silenced, and murdered in what is basically a tribal, violent society.
Any individual who speaks out against stupidity and hypocrisy has a short lifespan.
We keep increasing our religious demands vis-à-vis the West, while refusing to meet even a few of the demands made by religious minorities living among us"
Someone asked a prominent Saudi cleric why the West should allow muslims to build mosques and practice islam when the perfidious 'kingdom' forbids the practice of all religions except islam. His laconic reply: " Because islam is the only true religion".
All religions are considered the real McCoy by those who believe them but that fact is lost on muslims, as if they had irrefutable proof to buttress their inexorable certitude of islam's supremacy. Islam is the only religion that compels its followers to destroy all other religions and forcibly impose islam. Islam can't tolerate competition, scrutiny, criticism, or ridicule because it is the most violent, decadent and immoral creed on earth and will never be accepted by decent people who understand it. There is no tolerance, good will, or reciprocity to be found among muslims and it is evil and suicidal to tolerate the intolerant.
I really wish you wouldn't show up here anymore, Yusef. You clearly don't like what you read here...and you seem to look upon us infidels with disdain.
So, why don't you find another place more sympathetic to Islam, and shoot your sh t there?