I think they have gotten this backwards I believe that the Muslims have been conducting campaigns and jihads against Western societies for the past thousand years, because of the quotation from the Koran. That tells them to fight until our religion is for àllha or the infidels submit and pay the poll tax(jizha) with willing submission

Posted by: doglover at February 17, 2008 8:02 AM

These folks don't appear to care too much for the truth. Revealing the truth about Islam insults it. Does that tell you anything?

Posted by: Alaskan at February 17, 2008 8:07 AM

Support Denmark!

http://sheikyermami.com/2008/02/17/action-in-denmark-car-bcue-riots-cops-blame-unusually-mild-climate/

http://sheikyermami.com/2008/02/17/shyster-jihad/

Posted by: sheik yer'mami at February 17, 2008 8:20 AM

these campaigns against Islam and Muslims can never be justified by freedom of expression.

How about right to life?
How about freedom?

Why is it okay for Muslims to carry out deliberate campaigns against Christians and Jews living in their midst but no one can even say one word about Muslims' stupid (and lying and murdering and pedophile) "prophet" without being threatened?

They burned down a YMCA and all Christian books within it (after looting the building of everything else), saying they didn't need these "missionary" activities. Why not? No one needs to learn about the love of Jesus Christ more than Muslims.

Posted by: PMK at February 17, 2008 8:47 AM

Since the Jordanians seem to have so much spare time and money on their hands, perhaps they no longer need the "Foreign Aid" (a.k.a. Jizya) from us stupid Najis Kafur.

End all "Foreign Aid"

Right of return of the Byzantine people is a non-negotiable position.

Posted by: senor doeboy at February 17, 2008 8:54 AM

Physician, heal thyself. Before complaining about Western societies, why not go to the Muslim world and advise its members to stop their own campaigns against Islam, like the latest suicide bombing of Muslims by Muslims in Afganistan. At least eighty members of the ROP killed at a dog show. Ho-hum.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8US3SH00&show_article=1

Posted by: PMK at February 17, 2008 9:05 AM

"dog show" --posted by PMK

PMK, it was dog-FIGHTING, you know, cruelty to animals and barbarism extraordinaire.

I hate people who are cruel to animals. They're sick and evil. So, as to these 80 blown-up dog-fighters? Good Riddance, Barbarians.

Posted by: darcy at February 17, 2008 9:11 AM

"which insult Prophet Mohammed,"

Newsflash to Mohammedans: Mohammed is NOT a "prophet." He's a Con Man Mass-Murderer. He DESERVES to be "insulted." Bring on the Motoons!

Posted by: darcy at February 17, 2008 9:13 AM

Maybe, just maybe, the bomber was a dog lover.

Posted by: DP111 at February 17, 2008 9:30 AM

Yeah, Michael Vick got off easy. In Afghanistan they would have blown him away.
I wonder how many dogs were killed. And how many people were victims of crazed or injured dogs running amok after the blast.
Will the Jordanians have anything to say about this ISLAMIC "campaign against Islam"? Or do they reserve their indignation for Danish cartoonists who so far have not killed a single person?

Posted by: ebonystone at February 17, 2008 9:32 AM

Dog show, dog fight, market place, mosque, soccer game, YMCA bookstore; when you're with muslim friends, you'll have a blast no matter where you go.

Posted by: witness at February 17, 2008 9:36 AM

Any news on how the campaigns against the Jews are going in "Palestine", Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Iran and oh, um, Jordan?

They're not offensive or insulting to anyone are they? Apes and pigs don't count after all, they're najis aren't they.

It is hard to imagine how insulting a murdering, raping, psycopathic, sex-crazed paedophile can be offensive but hey, that's the intelligence level of muslims for you.

Does it not occur to them that God is highly unlikely to choose a violent nonce as his prophet? And why does the west tolerate this, we must be madder than they are.

Paedo Mo: May pus be upon him for eternity the dirty, filthy little pervert.

Posted by: Britannia's Lion at February 17, 2008 9:40 AM

Muslims have great respect for Prophet Mohammed. At the mention of his name, they always say, "Prophet Mohammed (peace be upon him)."

Since Muslims believe that pissing a death Muslim will send him to hell. From now on we all need to say, "Mohammed the Swine (piss be upon him)."

I have great respect for Mohammed the swine (piss be upon him).", and I am giving him my one-finger salute.

Posted by: ssa at February 17, 2008 9:42 AM

PMK -
The YMCA library was NOT Christian books it was a general library with a range of fiction and non-fiction, books of great writers, books in Arabic and English, how-to manuals and other useful books and the only such resource left in Gaza.

Posted by: poetcomic1 at February 17, 2008 9:48 AM

End all "Foreign Aid"

Posted by: senor doeboy at February 17, 2008 8:54 AM

USofA just gives away $2bil of tax-dollars to Jordan, EVERY YEAR (so Jordan can intimidate freedom). ofcourse, even if dubya as much as thought of stopping the jizya, his Saudi masters are sure to give commander-in-chief and president of USA, leader-of-the-free-world, a beat-down whoopass, while daddy Bush scolds dubya for disobeying the wahhabbis.

Posted by: Alert at February 17, 2008 9:50 AM

"It is hard to imagine how insulting a murdering, raping, psycopathic, sex-crazed paedophile can be offensive but hey, that's the intelligence level of muslims for you.

Does it not occur to them that God is highly unlikely to choose a violent nonce as his prophet?"

But, Britannia's Lion, Mo is the "perfect man!" Mohammedans are madder than the proverbial hatter.

Posted by: darcy at February 17, 2008 9:54 AM

Kosovo Establishes Islamic Heroin Republic With EU & US Blessing right smack in the middle of EUrabia:

http://sheikyermami.com/2008/02/17/kosovo-establishes-islamic-heroin-republic-with-eu-us-blessing/

Posted by: sheik yer'mami at February 17, 2008 10:08 AM

Being a kafir who only recently began to study the madness that is Islam, I didn't know what "najis" means, so I Googled it and found at wikipedia: "According to the Shafi'i school of Sunni Islamic jurisprudence, as systematised by al-Nawawi in his book Minhadj, the following things are najis: wine and other spirituous drinks, dogs, swine, dead animals that were not ritually slaughtered, blood, excrements, and milk of animals whose meat Muslims are not allowed to eat. Spirituous drinks are not impure according to the Hanafi school, while living swine are not impure according to the Malikis.

To the list of impure things enumerated by al-Nawawi, Shi’a jurists traditionally add dead bodies and kafirs.

Additionally, any meat of animal which is killed in a manner other than that prescribed by Islam is najis.

Najis things cannot be purified, in contradistinction to things which are defiled only (mutanajis), with the exception of wine, which becomes pure when made into vinegar, and of hides, which are purified by tanning."

What to make of this? Well, it provides a motive to the suicide bomber at the Afghan "dog show." Clearly the folks there, even if they weren't wagering on the dogs (which would be even worse), were apostates who deserved to be blown to bits.

Speaking of "animals whose meat Muslims are not allowed to eat," why, just the other day I read an excerpt from Ayatollah Khomeini's "Little Green Book," "A man can have sex with animals such as sheeps, cows, camels and so on. However, he should kill the animal after he has his orgasm. He should not sell the meat to the people in his own village; however, selling the meat to the next door village should be fine."

Ignorance is bliss, eh? I guess there is no "Truth in Advertising" law
that govern such transactions in Islam, the perfect religion. "Waiter! This sausage tastes funny!"

Posted by: Lex at February 17, 2008 10:17 AM

Crying for a dog is the same as crying for each slaughtered pig. Dogs are najis to Muslims. Only in the US, a dog can be considered a family member. I have a nice dog for a pet, but it is never included as a family member.

American animal lovers are obsessed. When Arafat blew up a donkey, packed with explosive, at an Israeli check point, the animal-rights activists sent fax to Arafat complaining about the cruelty, but when an Israeli got killed they said nothing.

There was another instance of stupidity: A woman was rescued from a burning house, she cried, "Oh, please my baby is in the house." She sent the fireman back into the burning house putting him in harms way. Later, the fireman came back empty handed, and when she was questioned by an investigator, the she said her kitten was her baby.

There are many dogs and cats being put to sleep in the US everyday, and there are many dogs being slaughtered for food in China everyday. Oh, my baby! I am crying my heart out!

Don't be cruel, and please don't cry unneccessarily either.

Posted by: ssa at February 17, 2008 10:28 AM

Stupidity upon stupidity:

The only campaign by the evil force upon the West (which is only a campaign in the West and is not a Western campaign) - is to try and squelch our free speech, say like our telling the truth about islam and its murdering pedophile leader Mohammed.

What will the stupids promulgate next ? Sharia for the Hollywood crowd ?

Posted by: dgene at February 17, 2008 10:30 AM

poetcomic1, how Nazi-esque and Pol Pot-like of the Hamas Ignorati to burn a library, and, as you note, "the only such resource left in Gaza." On the other hand, why haven't these Hamashittes outlawed learning how to read and write, since Mohammad, "the perfect man," could do neither? EVERYONE should (be forced to) emulate his "perfect" example, right?

Posted by: Lex at February 17, 2008 10:48 AM

PMK, it appears to me that Muslims prefer the Jesus of Luke 22:36, "Then he said to them, "But now, the person who has a wallet and a traveling bag should take them along. The person who doesn't have a sword should sell his coat and buy one."

An apparent endorsement of violent jihad, no?
No, as the very next verse explains, ""For I tell you that this which is written must be fulfilled in Me, 'AND HE WAS NUMBERED WITH TRANSGRESSORS' (re.: Isaiah 53:12); for that which refers to Me has its fulfillment."

Of course, verse 37 would have to be one of the MANY verses that the Christian writers of the Gospels corrupted, while verse 36 would be "Allah approved and worthy of Muslim acceptance."

Posted by: Lex at February 17, 2008 11:02 AM

From article: The organizations pointed out that these biased campaigns stand as a witness for the existing fanatic racial mobilization against the Muslims and their sanctities.

Playing the race card? What race is he talking about?

OT about animals...
You can tell a lot about a person by the way they treat their animals and their attitudes about them.
Comments such as these from above, "American animal lovers are obsessed". Is an unnecessary, and uncalled for insult to people who have a brain large enough to include love of animals.
Those who feel nothing for animals, feel nothing.
Meister Ekhardt, a sixteeth century priest whose works are in print and studied today, said that , 'God does not love creatures as creatures, God loves creatures as God'. If we claim we love, or worship God, then how can we kill and brutalize his beloved, and tell him how much we love him at the same time? If a person who brutalizes animals, or condones it, tells me they love me, I would seriously doubt it, and move away from that person quickly. If you don't have the capacity to love a duck, you have no capacity to love at all...

Posted by: duh_swami at February 17, 2008 11:09 AM

Speaking of ducks...from http://halal.50megs.com/halal.html
"Animals such as cows, sheep, goats, deer, moose, chickens, DUCKS, game birds, etc., are also Halal, but they must be Zabihah (slaughtered according to Islamic Rites) in order to be suitable for consumption. The procedure is as follows: the animal must be slaughtered by a Muslim by putting the animal down on the ground (or holding it if it is small) and slitting it's throat with a very sharp knife to make sure that the main blood vessels are cut. While cutting the throat of the animal without severing it, the person has to recite "Bismillah Allah-u-Akbar".

If you don't say "Bismillah Allah-u-Akbar" then you must throw the dead thing out and start over with a live one. It doesn't count if you are an infidel butcher and you say "Bismillah Allah-u-Akbar." Of course, you can have sex with all of the above animals before slaughtering them Islamic style and selling them to a neighboring village.

Posted by: Lex at February 17, 2008 11:19 AM

"You can tell a lot about a person by the way they treat their animals and their attitudes about them.
Comments such as these from above, "American animal lovers are obsessed". Is an unnecessary, and uncalled for insult to people who have a brain large enough to include love of animals.
Those who feel nothing for animals, feel nothing."

--duh swami

Thanks, swami. Your description fits "ssa" to a tee.

I'd take that kitten over you any day, ssa. Got that? Any day. You're the stupid one, and heartless.

Posted by: darcy at February 17, 2008 11:21 AM

"Speaking of "animals whose meat Muslims are not allowed to eat," why, just the other day I read an excerpt from Ayatollah Khomeini's "Little Green Book," "A man can have sex with animals such as sheeps, cows, camels and so on. However, he should kill the animal after he has his orgasm. He should not sell the meat to the people in his own village; however, selling the meat to the next door village should be fine." --Lex

It's fitting that the man most revered in Islam after Mohammed should be a heartless barbarian.

Posted by: darcy at February 17, 2008 11:23 AM

from the article:
"The organizations said the Danish government is fully aware of the fact that these campaigns against Islam and Muslims can never be justified by freedom of expression."

I don't know what people are bent out of shape about. After all, as Charles Bogle pointed out yesterday at JW,
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/019985.php#comments
bush's statements on the subject of limits on the freedom of speech aren't that different from those expressed in the above quote. From bush's remarks to Jordan's king 2 years ago:

"We also talked about a topic that requires a lot of discussion and a lot of sensitive thought, and that is the reaction to the cartoons. I first want to make it very clear to people around the world that ours is a nation that believes in tolerance and understanding. In America we welcome people of all faiths. One of the great attributes of our country is that you're free to worship however you choose in the United States of America.

"Secondly, we believe in a free press. We also recognize that with freedom comes responsibilities. With freedom comes the responsibility to be thoughtful about others. Finally, I have made it clear to His Majesty and he made it clear to me that we reject violence as a way to express discontent with what may be printed in a free press. I call upon the governments around the world to stop the violence, to be respectful, to protect property, protect the lives of innocent diplomats who are serving their countries overseas."
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/02/20060208-1.html

So while bush doesn't condone a violent reaction to offensive speech, he apparently believes that freedom of speech is limited by a responsibility to be considerate toward others who might find the speech offensive. The Founding Fathers would find such a statement by an American president absolutely astonishing. But bush's saudi overlords are problably pleased.

I return to the question: Is there really that much difference between bush's statement & the first one quoted in this comment by the islamic organizations?

Posted by: sheik yer booty at February 17, 2008 11:34 AM

Darcy

No he isn't perfect he's a paedophile. No matter what the moonbats say about al insan al kamil they cannot ever get away from this shame.

What kind of idiot worships a paedophile?

What kind of society allows idiots to worship a paedophile as he founded a "great religion"?

May I say that I think your remarks to SSA are out of order. SSA certainly is not stupid and raised a good point about fools who place animal welfare above the welfare of a human. SSA is also correct: cruelty in all forms is to be abhorred. I feel nothing for animals at all but I wouldn't be cruel to them and I suspect most people who care as little for animals as I do are the same.

Reacting in the way you did to ssa's valid point does nothing for you or your love of animals.

Just had an idea. I may be tempted to keep several pigs, have 2 or 3 pit bulls and start my own chimpanzee sanctuary for obvious reasons :-)

Posted by: Britannia's Lion at February 17, 2008 12:12 PM

What "Western campaigns against Islam"?

It is not a bad idea. Maybe we really need a western campaign against islam!

Posted by: David England at February 17, 2008 12:12 PM

Uh, "Britannia's Lion" - apparently you don't understand sarcasm. Mohammedans consider Mohammed to be the "perfect man" and I was being sarcastic about that. Not too bright, are you? Yeah - I know Mo is a pedophile. Learn about sarcasm, why don't you?

As for my ssa remarks, your sentence using the word "fools" says it all. Humans can be and often are quite bad and evil - on the contrary, animals never are. My reaction to ssa is just fine, thank you. Also your "I feel nothing for animals at all." Wow. Well, at least you wouldn't be cruel to them. Thank God for that.

As for your last sentence, I have no idea what you mean - it's not "obvious."

Posted by: darcy at February 17, 2008 1:19 PM

What "Western campaigns against Islam"?

It is not a bad idea. Maybe we really need a western campaign against islam!

Posted by: David England at February 17, 2008 12:12 PM

I'll second that!

Posted by: darcy at February 17, 2008 1:22 PM

Alright pilgram , meet me in the street at high noon.

Posted by: OLD SARGE at February 17, 2008 2:07 PM

I am rapidly getting the impression that lots of people on this website don't like:

Being blown up when conducting their lawful business in their own countries and then having people celebrating on the streets

Paedophile prophets

Being treated as less than scum by a bunch of uneducated peasants

Homophobic, sexist, racist, mysoginystic religions

Paying lots of money to people who do nothing to earn it

People who don't like anything about western culture but live here and complain about everything

People who fly jetliners into buildings and kill lots of people

People who demand respect for their religion but give nothing but contempt in return and treat your religion as less than a piece of shit

People who riot & kill whenever they feel offended by cartoons or for any other reason

People who are mollycoddled by stupid multiculturalist politicians and their acolytes

Having their cars burnt when it gets too warm for certain people

People demanding special rights because they hold a certain religion that was not previously common in the countries they are trying to invade

People raping Kufr sluts

I must say YOU LOT are completely unreasonable and deserve to be deported to Saudi Arabia, where in the land of the paedophile prophet you will be re-educated into the one and only true religion.

You will come back (allah willing) completely changed.

Aluha Akbar & GOOD LUCK !

Posted by: ericthekuffar at February 17, 2008 2:11 PM

Darcy

Why are you insulting me? Are you so insecure you have to play cyber-warrior behind your keyboard?

No one has insulted you yet because some people feel differently about animals, you resort to the gutter and hurl insults.

Also, as for your sarcasm, yes I did get it but you are not seeing the more weighted point I'm trying to make. You're too interested in bigging yourself up and belittling others to see anything other than your own sarcasm.

When you are swimming in a sewer you're not in a position to educate people and the way you rant and rile at others who don't share your views but who have not stooped to your level is similar to the irrational way moonbats react.

A tad ironic don't you think?

Lose the insults. They don't belong here, it is poor conduct and try to tolerate people who don't share your views on certain topics. Isn't that what we're telling the moonbats and the whole point of the original article?

Posted by: Britannia's Lion at February 17, 2008 2:26 PM

Explosion Rocks U.N. Building After Kosovo Declares Independence Sunday, February 17, 2008

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,330980,00.html

Another victory for islam.

Posted by: witness at February 17, 2008 3:13 PM

Worthy of another thread:

Ethnic Albanians, who are mostly Muslim, saw Sunday's declaration as a final victory over Serbs in their decades-long struggle over the impoverished territory.

Kosovo's minority Serbs, mostly Christian Orthodox, vowed to defend the province they consider the heart of their medieval statehood and religion.

The Serb attachment to Kosovo dates to 1389, when the province, then the seat of a Serbian state, fell to the Ottoman Turks.

"Another Kosovo battle awaits the Serbian people, this time without swords but with candles, songs and prayers," Milomir Vlaskovic, a priest, said at a Serbian Orthodox church.

Ahmet Jashari, 55, whose shabby house is surrounded by garbage and decorated with the red Albanian flag, said he had been waiting for this "historic" day all his life.

"Serbs have oppressed us, taken our homes, killed our people and downgraded us for decades," Jashari said. "Now this has formally come to an end. We finally have our country."

Hang on to your wallets -- the US government is about to invest another $250 billion of taxpayer dollars for the newest European nation no doubt.

Haven't seen any specific reports on this, but when it comes to giving muslim country's cash -- old habits are hard to break.

On the bright side if this happens -- it least whatever money is shelled out won't help out the American economy -- heck, that would be inflationary.

Posted by: witness at February 17, 2008 3:24 PM

Right of return of the Byzantine people is a non-negotiable position.
Posted by: senor doeboy

------

I'll second that. And all moslems OUT of Europe. Kosovo MUST be returned to Serbia whom it rightfully belongs to.

These useless moslems are a stain wherever they go. They do nothing but complain and they suck money out of the economies.

And now they want to tell us what to say or not to say?!

I wish that our "leaders" would reject these outrageous attempts at censorship LOUDLY and CLEARLY.

We carry the bigger stick and we do more than walk softly at this time. Enough is enough.

Posted by: Allah Schmallah at February 17, 2008 3:29 PM

When I first saw a CNN broadcast of scenes from the Kosovar declaration of independence today, I could scarcely believe my eyes, because a crowd, presumably of grateful Muslims, was waving a bunch of US flags instead of burning them.

Gee, I wonder how Islamic Rage Boy will square that circle? His professional services aren't required....yet.

Posted by: Lex at February 17, 2008 4:04 PM

"Jordanian ... cultural organizations"

A debatable concept, in and of itself.

Posted by: RalphInfidel at February 17, 2008 4:08 PM

"The organizations pointed out that these biased campaigns stand as a witness for the existing fanatic racial mobilization against the Muslims and their sanctities."

Absolutely. I have been wondering for some time now how long it would be before the Islamic countries stood up to our fanatic racial mobilization against the Muslims and their sanctities. No, really.

It's the regular frenzied chants of "Death to muslims" and "Death to the Arabs" that are led by Christian Ministers throughout the land at Sunday prayers that I object to most.

It's the way our President tells us at mass rallies that "Arabia must be wiped off the map" that must really worry them.

It's the way that Christians throughout the Middle East are constantly demanding special treatment and concessions for their religious beliefs that must really piss them off.

It's the demonstrations of masked Western radicals on the streets of Jeddah and Tehran waving provocative banners saying "Behead all those who insult Christianity" that should alert us all to the intolerance and hatred of the west towards our peaceful muslim brothers.

And of course, last but not least, it's the way that Christians do absolutely nothing, nothing I tell you, to stop the Christian fanatics in their midst from strapping bombs to their chests and blowing up innocent women and children that must surely awaken the rest of the world to the need to do everything it can to stop such "fanatic racial mobilization" before it's too late.

Muslims would never dream of behaving in such irrational ways, and I'm frankly amazed it's taken them this long to complain about it.

Oh no, wait just a second...

I've got that all wrong haven't I?

Posted by: Rab at February 17, 2008 5:15 PM

poetcomic1,

The YMCA library was NOT Christian books it was a general library with a range of fiction and non-fiction, books of great writers, books in Arabic and English, how-to manuals and other useful books and the only such resource left in Gaza.

This wasn't an attack on a library. It was an attack on the Young Men's Christian Association.

They destroyed Christian books and only Christian books. I refer you to WND:

http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=56475

Muslims destroy YMCA, Christian books
'We don't need any of these missionary institutions'

In the latest attack on Christians in Gaza, 16 Palestinians forced their way into the YMCA library, stole everything but Christian books and then burned down the building.

According to Palestinian terrorist sources in Gaza, the attack was carried out by Hamas and its ally, the Popular Resistance Committees. Israeli security sources said Hamas knows exactly who was behind the attack.

Sheik Abu Saqer, leader of Jihadia Salafiya, an Islamic outreach movement that recently announced the opening of a "military wing" to enforce Muslim law in Gaza, told WND the YMCA had Muslim children in its nursery program.

"Gaza is Muslim, more than 99 percent are Muslim," he said. "We don't need any of these missionary institutions. They have only one goal – to convert our sons and daughter to Christianity."

Abu Saqer said that while he feels some sympathy for parents who can no longer send their children to the program, "Let them send their children only to sharia Islamic nurseries where they will teach the principles of the Quran."

Sources say that in previous attacks against Christians in Gaza, gunmen have worn masks, but in this instance, just four of the 16 shielded their identities, indicating an increased boldness.

Israel Radio said the fire, which destroyed thousands of books, was started with an explosive device.

A second explosive device laid near a computer in the library failed to detonate. Two security guards were taken by the intruders and later released in the northern Gaza Strip, Israel Radio said.

Imposing 'Islamic rule'

Hamas in June seized complete control of the Gaza Strip from Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah faction amid widespread fears it would impose hard-line Islamic rule in the territory and that life for Christians might deteriorate.

The Christian population in Gaza and the West Bank has continued to dwindle, down from an estimated 15 percent 50 years ago to about 1.5 percent today. An estimated 3,000 Christians live in the Gaza Strip, which has a population of over 1 million.

Among the slew of recent alleged anti-Christian attacks in Gaza was the murder in October of a Christian bookstore owner whose beaten, bullet-ridden body was found after his shop had been repeatedly targeted by Islamists.

Abu Saqer's Jihadia Salafiya, the army of Islam, is suspected of carrying out anti-Christian attacks in Gaza, including firebombing the bookstore in April and lobbing of grenades at a church in September.

Abu Saqer told WND in an interview last year that all Christians in Gaza who engage in missionary activity will be "dealt with harshly."

Jihadia Salafiya also is suspected of firebombing Internet cafes and a United Nations school in Gaza that allowed boys and girls to participate together in a sporting event. One person was killed in the attack.

Now that Hamas is in power, "the situation has changed 180 degrees in Gaza," said Abu Saqer.

"Jihadia Salafiya and other Islamic movements will ensure Christian schools and institutions show publicly what they are teaching to be sure they are not carrying out missionary activity," he said.

Abu Saqer accused the leadership of the Gaza Christian community of "proselytizing and trying to convert Muslims with funding from American evangelicals."

"This missionary activity is endangering the entire Christian community in Gaza," he said.

Abu Saqer claimed there was "no need" for the thousands of Christians in Gaza to maintain a large number of institutions in the territory.

He said Hamas "must work to impose an Islamic rule or it will lose the authority it has and the will of the people."

As WND reported in November, Christian leaders in the Gaza Strip were intimidated into attending and expressing support for a speech in which the territory's Hamas leader urged the worldwide spread of Islam.

Posted by: PMK at February 17, 2008 5:25 PM

darcy,
I guess it was the pacifist in me that referred to the occasion as a dog "show". I realized it right after I posted but it was too late.

I first heard about it on C-SPAN early this morning. My only reaction was: so?

Posted by: PMK at February 17, 2008 5:31 PM

poetcomic1,

Hamas did the same thing before - in the West Bank, but there it was YMCA HEADQUARTERS. Again, they were accused of "missionary activities" and the mosques banded together and asked HAMAS to shut them down, even though they didn't carry on any "missionary" work and many of their employees were Muslims. HAMAS did so - with fire.

The PA had allowed the YMCA to operate since 2000.

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51909

One political source in the city told WND, "The identity of the attackers is well known to Hamas. We don't expect the Hamas-controlled police, the Hamas city council or the Hamas Interior Ministry to do anything about this attack."

The source called the arson a "warning to YMCA's and Christian groups in the Palestinian areas that they are not safe."

There's that word again - Christian.

Posted by: PMK at February 17, 2008 5:42 PM

An apparent endorsement of violent jihad, no?

Lex,

No.

Posted by: PMK at February 17, 2008 5:47 PM

Britannia's Lion, I don't think Darcy said anything that indicated she is "swimming in a sewer"--far from it. The West in general, and Britain and the US in particular, have an appreciation for animals and a regard for their welfare.

As a rule, concern for animals or humans is not an either/or situation. Personally, I think it is an indication--along with a concern for the welfare of children and the vunerable--of a civilized society.

Another thing, in my opinion, for Brits to be proud of.

Posted by: gravenimage at February 17, 2008 6:45 PM

GravenImage

When you call people "stupid", "get an education in sarcasm" and other such brickbats you're swimming in a sewer.

Your opinion is your opinion and I respect you for it. I feel no particular fondness for animals and I feel no inclanation to be cruel to them either.

But when people raise perfectly valid points as SSA and I have, resorting to the gutter and replying with insults is both disrespectful and somewhat ironic given the original article.

Oh. and "A civilised society" certainly doesn't apply to either the US or the UK and I am more than willing to debate you as to why.

Cruelty - as ssa correctly pointed out - has no place in a civilised society. But in both the US and the UK it isn't just tolerated it is lawful.

However, such a debate is outside the remit of JW but you name a forum and I will clearly demonstrate why the US and the UK are anything but civilised - despite the so-called regard for animals.

Darcy resorted to the gutter to support his/her/its belief. That she/he/it did is shameful.

The word is tolerance - something Darcy seems wholly ignorant of. I don't agree with either you or Darcy but I don't have to call you stupid or tell you to get and education nor do I have to patronise you the way you have tried with me.

People don't share your views. That isn't grounds to resort to gutter tactics no matter how right you think you are. That is the message we're trying to send to the moonbats and if we can't be tolerant betweeen ourselves then what is the point?

Posted by: Britannia's Lion at February 17, 2008 7:15 PM

ATTACKING ISLAM (at·tack·ing is·luhm) verb
Any questioning, examining, discussion, comparison or debate about Islam by anyone, anywhere, anytime.

Posted by: Xero G at February 17, 2008 8:07 PM

'When I first saw a CNN broadcast of scenes from the Kosovar declaration of independence today, I could scarcely believe my eyes, because a crowd, presumably of grateful Muslims, was waving a bunch of US flags instead of burning them.'

From a posting above.

Today they wave the US flag because Clitman & Bush enabled the Islamic Albanian terrorists to evict the Christian Serbs from their homeland.

Tomorrow they will burn the flags over a cartoon or over a desecrated Koran. Flag waving means nothing to these people.

Don't be fooled. The criminal dregs of the Albano-Islamic government put on their best behavior, in cheap suits with red ties and white shirts in parliament. Those of us who took a closer look saw the glowering mullah's and imam's on the back-benches. 'Secular' on the outside, Islamic on the inside. If the remaining 100.000 Serbs were not heavily guarded and protected by some 16.000 KFOR soldiers they would have been wiped out over night.

Posted by: sheik yer'mami at February 17, 2008 11:14 PM

Islam: a campaign against Civilization.

Posted by: profitsbeard at February 18, 2008 12:44 AM

"Western campaigns against Islam."

Now WHERE in the west would THOSE be occurring????

How odd a statement in view of the facts that the United States is about to get an Islamic plant for a president while the European Union has all but become an Islamic dictatorship (and one created by the Euros' own hands, no less).

However, in theory anyway, one good turn deserves another. Islam's genocidal campaign to destroy everything on this planet that is un-Islamic deserves to be followed by a campaign to rid earth of Islam once and for all...

Posted by: pythagoras at February 19, 2008 9:44 PM

Darcy:

'Brittannia's Lion' is rather fibbing to us when by claiming that he feels nothing at all for animals.

If that was the case with this guy, why the hell would he pick the name of an animal to use as his nom de plume??

Posted by: pythagoras at February 19, 2008 9:52 PM