A shame he wasnt as offended by those who "misunderstand" Islam. In the Islamic world, it seems more Muslims are offended by Wilder than Osama, AQ, Hamas and the hate preachers in the mosques.

Posted by: Elric66 at March 29, 2008 11:18 AM

Maybe I 'be an ignorant' too but I at first feared that Islam had the basic smarts to at least ignore Fitna and 'let it go away'. Doesn't seem so. Nothing gives me more hope than this Islamic 'calling attention to' Wilders. They be an ignoranter ignorant than I be. If they don't learn to control themselves they are going to ruin the entire Muslim Brotherhood Project just when it's going gangbusters.

Posted by: poetcomic1 at March 29, 2008 11:20 AM

"We need scholarly refutations to claims that Prophet Muhammad incited the killing of men and women," he stressed.”

Really? Please start with the following;

“when the forbidden months are past, then fight and slay the Pagans wherever ye find them, and seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem”

Is this guy serious?

Posted by: patagonianplato at March 29, 2008 11:31 AM

"We need scholarly refutations to claims that Prophet Muhammad incited the killing of men and women," he stressed...

Good luck with that.

"Sheikh Qaradawi, the president of the International Union for Muslim Scholars, regretted that many Muslims project a distorted image of their religion though their wrong understand of the Qur'an."

The only thing that I can say is that the Islamofacist jihadist extermist "misunderstanders" of Islam have going for them is their honesty about the Qur'an. They cite suras that anyone in the West with a Qur'an can read which justify their use of violence and terror towards the infidel. Is it possible that the Sheikh is the real "misunderstander" of Islam?

Posted by: tanstaafl at March 29, 2008 11:34 AM

"We need scholarly refutations to claims that Prophet Muhammad incited the killing of men and women,"

This is exactly what they need. Since no one can debate Robert on the merits. I don't think this will happen.

I hope the information age will kill Islam. It can't take honest scrutiny.

Posted by: Ruebacca at March 29, 2008 11:34 AM

"We need scholarly refutations to claims that Prophet Muhammad incited the killing of men and women," he stressed...

Good luck with that.

"Sheikh Qaradawi, the president of the International Union for Muslim Scholars, regretted that many Muslims project a distorted image of their religion though their wrong understand of the Qur'an."

The only thing that I can say is that the Islamofacist jihadist extermist "misunderstanders" of Islam have going for them is their honesty about the Qur'an. They cite suras that anyone in the West with a Qur'an can read which justify their use of violence and terror towards the infidel. Is it possible that the Sheikh is the real "misunderstander" of Islam?

Posted by: tanstaafl at March 29, 2008 11:37 AM

Mohammad terrorized for Islam.

If Muslims renounce this, they renounce Mohammad.

The Qaradawi double-bind.

Posted by: profitsbeard at March 29, 2008 11:42 AM

"We need scholarly refutations to claims that Prophet Muhammad incited the killing of men and women," he stressed

- The fact that he is admitting there aren't scholarly refutations to the claims (in the first place), demonstrates that all current rebuttals against said claims, have thus far been on the basis that they don't want to believe that Muhammad incited the killing of men and women, rather than rebuttals based upon authoritative fact.

It's like trying to rhetorically defend Islam, without having read the Qur'an.

Posted by: Rogster at March 29, 2008 11:56 AM

If the ummah is getting its shorts in a knot over Fitna - just wait for this:

"Former Dutch Labour Party politician Ehsan Jami, the founder of the Committee of ex-Muslims, has announced that he is producing an anti-Islamic cartoon called The Life of Muhammad. It will be released on the 20th of April. he film will show a sexually aroused Prophet Muhammad with his nine-year-old wife Aisha."

"Members of the Dutch Muslim and government contact organisation, CMO, who have viewed a section of the film, say they will go to court in an attempt to have The Life of Muhammad banned. The organisation has described the film as totally unacceptable and extremely offensive."
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-mohammad-cartoon-film-will-be.html

Posted by: johnb at March 29, 2008 11:57 AM

Remember who Qaradawi is. He is the Sunni cleric man who defended, by defining out of existence, suicide-bombers. For him their modus operandi is akin to that of the Muslim warrior who, sword in hand, attacks a much larger group of Infidels. He knows he will likely die, but cannot be certain of it, and besides, he is killing Infidels as part of Jihad -- a sure way, the surest way, to Paradise. Qaradawi is the one who, hands shaking with rage, denounced Wafa Sultan on Al-Jazeera, in a broadcast you can find at MEMRI. He is the one whom Ken Livingstone famously has played host to, for Qaradawi likes to visit England. After all, he has two daughters who live there. And why not? It's their country, isn't it? The world belongs to Allah, doesn't it?

Posted by: Hugh at March 29, 2008 11:57 AM

"We need scholarly refutations to claims that Prophet Muhammad incited the killing of men and women," he stressed.

"This should be done in several languages to reach all those who do not know the truth about the prophet of mercy."

Prophet of Mercy???

Qur'an 21:107

WHAT, pray tell, did he ever do that was merciful?

Because he let Aisha off the hook for zina with Safwan with the "four witnesses" loophole that has gotten innumerable other women flogged or stoned for merely being raped?

Oh, yeah, that would have been embarrassing for Mo to have his main squeeze cheat on him. Had to cover that up (i.e. not merciful).

In fact, I can't think of anything he did "merciful" that wasn't based primarily on his own self interest.

Khokar? Start here (remember, scholarly!

Surat Al-Baqarah
Surah 2 (The Cow)
191. And kill them wherever you find them, and turn them out from where they have turned you out. And Al-Fitnah [polytheism, to disbelieve after one has believed in Allâh, or a trial or a calamity or an affliction.] is worse than killing. And fight not with them at Al-Masjid-Al-Harâm (the sanctuary at Makkah), unless they (first) fight you there. But if they attack you, then kill them. Such is the recompense of the disbelievers.
192. But if they cease, then Allâh is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.
193. And fight them until there is no more Fitnah (disbelief and worshipping of others along with Allâh) and (all and every kind of) worship is for Allâh (Alone). But if they cease, let there be no transgression except against Az-Zâlimûn (the polytheists, and wrong-doers)
194. The sacred month is for the sacred month, and for the prohibited things, there is the Law of Equality (Qisâs). Then whoever transgresses the prohibition against you, you transgress likewise against him. And fear Allâh, and know that Allâh is with Al-Muttaqûn (the pious - See V.2:2).

Bonus Points: Compare and Contrast the above with Jesus:
Love your enemies
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you
Turn the other cheek

More here when you're done with that one. You've got a lot of work ahead!

Posted by: Concerned Citizen at March 29, 2008 12:02 PM

Calling the Qur'an a 'fascist book
is quite true there are peaceable Muslims in the world but unfortunately an awful lot of the ones in the middle east who immigrated to the West still think they are in the Middle East where Muslims ruled the roost so in that sense these Islamists are using passages from the Koran to justify their actions are presenting it as a fascist book
myself I think why the Muslims that are crying the loudest and that Mr. Wilder's film is racist and an insult to Islam are the same ones who will not condemn terrorism done in the name of their god and religion Mr. Wilder's film did show a lot what is happening around the world because the radical or rather more mainstream Islam by Muslims

Posted by: crusader at March 29, 2008 12:09 PM

I was angry when muslims destroyed the beloved World Trade Center Twin Towers filled with hard-working people propelling America forward. I considered it a direct shot me, Mike Trivisonno, personally. I took it personally.

Muslims don't understand what happened on September 11th.

Posted by: mike trivisonno at March 29, 2008 12:14 PM

"We ask them to better understand the Islam's message of peace, mercy and human brotherhood,"

What a lie!

The Qur’an dehumanizes non-Muslims, describing them as “animals” and beasts:

Those who reject (Truth), among the People of the Book and among the Polytheists, will be in Hell-Fire, to dwell therein (for aye). They are the worst of creatures. (98:6)

Surely the vilest of animals in Allah's sight are those who disbelieve, then they would not believe. (8:55)

Verse 5:60 even says that Allah transformed Jews of the past into apes and pigs. Verse 2:65 continues the theme.

Verse 7:176 compares unbelievers to "panting dogs" with regard to their idiocy and worthlessness.

A hadith says that Muhammad believed rats to be "mutated Jews" (Bukhari 54:524, also confirmed by Sahih Muslim 7135 and 7136).

Verses 46:29-35 even say that unbelieving men are worse than demons who believe in Muhammad.

(As for) those who disbelieve, surely neither their wealth nor their children shall avail them in the least against Allah, and these it is who are the fuel of the fire (3:10)

The true demonic evil of Islam is revealed in its implacable hatred & cruelty toward even the good deed doing infidel. Only belief in Muhammad counts:

The parable of those who reject their Lord is that their works are as ashes, on which the wind blows furiously on a tempestuous day: No power have they over aught that they have earned (14:18)

Shall we tell you of those who lose most in respect of their deeds? Those whose efforts have been wasted in this life, while they thought that they were acquiring good by their works? They are those who deny the Signs of their Lord and the fact of their having to meet Him (in the Hereafter): vain will be their works, nor shall We, on the Day of Judgment, give them any weight. That is their reward, Hell, because they rejected Faith, and took My Signs and My Messengers by way of jest. (18:103-106).

But as for those who disbelieve, garments of fire will be cut out for them; boiling fluid will be poured down on their heads, Whereby that which is in their bellies, and their skins too, will be melted; And for them are hooked rods of iron Whenever, in their anguish, they would go forth from thence they are driven back therein and (it is said unto them): Taste the doom of burning. (22:19-22)

What a horror Islam is!

http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/Pages/Quran-Hate.htm

Posted by: FM at March 29, 2008 12:30 PM

The Koran opened fire on us infidels first.

Returning fire is legitimate.

And, in our case, modest.

A film, not a firestorm.

Posted by: profitsbeard at March 29, 2008 12:35 PM

Is Prof. John Esposito still standing by his man Qaradawi?

Posted by: FredIsinglass at March 29, 2008 12:41 PM

Prof. Esposito may be Kneeling while proclaiming he can change our minds. A Mountain his little mind cannot climb no matter how much he is paid.

Time to "put on a happy face".

Posted by: flowerknife_us at March 29, 2008 1:04 PM

Jihadist cleric Omar Bakri: Fitna "could be a film by the Mujahideen"

Qaradawi: "What the Dutch politician did is tantamount to opening fire on the Qur'an"

Okaaay.... Which is it you morons? Not a lot of consistency in the Muslim world...

Posted by: Alaskan at March 29, 2008 1:42 PM

"What the Dutch politician did is tantamount to opening fire on the Qur'an"

The film may be tantamount to opening fire on the Koran but this is what actually opening fire on the Koran looks like:

Actual Fire

Posted by: SaracensAtTheGates at March 29, 2008 1:51 PM

Qaradawi: "What the Dutch politician did is tantamount to opening fire on the Qur'an"

Deal With It!

Posted by: alexon at March 29, 2008 2:15 PM

"We ask them to better understand the Islam's message of peace, mercy and human brotherhood,"

If that were the case, then it seems to me a completely different film would have been produced.

Posted by: Sounder at March 29, 2008 2:17 PM

Crusader: "...an awful lot of the ones in the middle east who immigrated to the West still think they are in the Middle East where Muslims ruled the roost..."

Precisely. The citizens of the West need to remind the guests that they ARE guests and to behave accordingly. The local house rules trump whatever the rules might have been wherever the guests came from. And we don't tolerate threats, intimidation, or extortion/jizya.

Posted by: Eastview at March 29, 2008 3:52 PM

"We ask them to better understand the Islam's message of peace, mercy and human brotherhood,"

Yeah, IF you're a Muslim male, theoretically, there is "peace, mercy and human brotherhood". But, so what, there are many philosophies of "peace, mercy and human brotherhood" that don't require that you hate people who think differently than you do about things like how to pray, and whether or not you need to travel to Mecca at least once in your lifetime. Every time a Muslim opens his mouth about "peace, mercy and human brotherhood", he shows how primitive his understand of those terms is.

Posted by: venividivici at March 29, 2008 3:54 PM

Qaradawi: "What the Dutch politician did is tantamount to opening fire on the Qur'an"

At least one 'critic' has gotten it right.

Posted by: PraiaFlamego at March 29, 2008 4:38 PM

Notice how Qaradawi ignores one key aspect of the film, the link of the hate sermons that encourage the literal interpretation of the violent verses of the Quran.

If you want to look for the true enemies of Islam, look right there.

Posted by: raven_ at March 29, 2008 5:49 PM

Could one of them be specific and let us know precisely what they find offensive in this film?
I never saw any Teddy bears in the movie or anything so is it the motoon thing still?
The rst of the movie is purely factual.

Posted by: Ken CleanAirSystem at March 29, 2008 5:56 PM

What the Dutch politician did is tantamount to opening fire on the Qur'an.

Wow. This sounds like a seriously Good Thing.

Posted by: Henrik at March 29, 2008 6:38 PM

I am tired of people being offended by the truth. Hells bells we cannot call fat people fat anymore. Short people ain't short. Stupid people ain't stupid, and Isalm does not preach violence.

Posted by: Pelayo at March 29, 2008 6:40 PM

"We ask them to better understand the Islam's message of peace, mercy and human brotherhood"...
== == == == == ==

Well from the devout Muslim mindset, it WILL be true, when the whole world accepts Allah. Then the religion of pieces will be done with the bombing and killing necessary to impose Islam on the rest of us. (Of course these guys always ignore that the Sunni-Shia fight will go on and on and on, until there is only one bloody Muslim left--the last human on the face of the planet, crying out in victory from his bomb-cratered citadel, "Oh, Allah, all this is yours!") Ptui!

Posted by: A_Nonny_Mouse at March 30, 2008 5:23 PM