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From AP:
An Iranian holds a flag of the Lebanese Hezbollah guerrilla group outside the Netherlands Embassy to condemn the production and broadcast of the film 'Fitna' by right-wing Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders, in Tehran, April 5, 2008. (AP Photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian)
All right, let me get this straight. This guy is upset about the film Fitna because it shows Muslims committing acts of violence in the name of Islam. And no doubt he believes, or wants us to believe, that Islam is a religion of peace. So in service of that he goes to protest the film at the Dutch embassy, carrying a flag from Hizballah.
Isn't it ironic that someone would protest against linking Islam with violence by carrying a Hizballah flag? After all, Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hizballah (party of Allah), has called the destruction of Israel a “sacred” goal: “One of the central reasons for creating Hizbullah was to challenge the Zionist program in the region. Hizbullah still preserves this principle, and when an Egyptian journalist visited me after the liberation and asked me if the destruction of Israel and the liberation of Palestine and Jerusalem were Hizbullah’s goal, I replied: ‘That is the principal objective of Hizbullah, and it is no less sacred than our [ultimate] goal.’"
Nasrallah roots his bloodlust squarely within the Islamic tradition: “Anyone who reads the Koran and the holy writings of the monotheistic religions sees what they did to the prophets, and what acts of madness and slaughter the Jews carried out throughout history ... Anyone who reads these texts cannot think of co-existence with them, of peace with them, or about accepting their presence, not only in Palestine of 1948 but even in a small village in Palestine, because they are a cancer which is liable to spread again at any moment.”
His demonization is explicitly of Jews as such, and not simply of Israeli “occupiers”: “If we searched the entire world for a person more cowardly, despicable, weak and feeble in psyche, mind, ideology and religion, we would not find anyone like the Jew. Notice, I do not say the Israeli.” He has also dehumanized Jews, using Qur’anic language in calling them “grandsons of apes and pigs” (cf. Qur’an 2:62-65; 5:59-60; 7:166), and characterizing them as “Allah’s most cowardly and greedy creatures.”
Not surprisingly, therefore, Nasrallah has also said that “there is no solution to the conflict in this region except with the disappearance of Israel.” He has accordingly exhorted his followers: “Put a knife in your shirt, then get close to an Israeli occupier and stab him,” and has proclaimed that “the Palestinian National Charter will live on as long as there is a knife in a Palestinian woman’s hand with which she stabs an Israeli soldier or settler ... as long as there are suicide bombers in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv ... and as long as there is a child who throws a stone in the face of an Israeli soldier.”
Nor does he intend to stop there, apparently: Nasrallah has also made no secret of his desire to destroy all Jews, not just those in Israel. He has said: “[I]f they [the Jews] all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide.” Similarly, a 1992 Hizballah statement vowed “open war until the elimination of Israel and until the death of the last Jew on earth.”
Yet not only are there no protests among Muslims against Hizballah's genocidal intentions, but instead they direct their indignation against a Westerner who has dared to point out that this hatred and bloodlust exists among many Muslims.
Posted by Robert at April 5, 2008 10:36 AM
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Despite the best efforts of "moderate" (ie, apologist) Muslims, this sort of thing is bound to leak through whatever media control the "brothers" come up with.
You see, if Islam is perceived (not proven) to be "insulted", it is the duty of its followers to kill the offenders. Mohammed repeatedly had his critics murdered and that tradition reoccurs today. In recent times, it all started with Khomeini's fatwa against Salamon Rushdie.
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at April 5, 2008 11:01 AM
"Put a knife in your shirt, then get close to an Israeli occupier and stab him"
This from a chickenshit coward who not only will not personally come within 100 yards of an Israeli, but who won't even make a public appearance among his own minions.
Posted by: Infidel33 at April 5, 2008 11:05 AM
Oppression is worse than killing. All these poor, oppressed Muslims are merely resisting, resisting oppression, you see. Oppression in the form of resistance to Islam. They are merely resisting oppression by following the Quran, in which the Almighty instructs them to "fight in the way of Allah until there is no more fitna in the land [world], and all religion is for Allah alone."
Posted by: John C at April 5, 2008 11:08 AM
“Anyone who reads the Koran and the holy writings of the monotheistic religions sees what they did to the prophets, and what acts of madness and slaughter the Jews carried out throughout historyYou mean, the holy writtings God inspired through the Jews ? Posted by: Crusader
at April 5, 2008 11:44 AM
It's my bet, that if Wilders or some other enterprising film maker, released a film with nothing but murderous and sickening quotes from the Koran and Ahadieth, with no video of Muslim atrocities, you'd still get the same insane reaction from the Islamic world.
It would be interesting to watch as they condemn their own holy books as blasphame.
Posted by: rational at April 5, 2008 1:23 PM
The American People could stand to smell that Skunk Nasrallah's scent more often. A steady reminder of just how rotten that smell is. Force the Western World to ask themselves by what right they have to incest Israel continue to live with it.
Posted by: flowerknife_us at April 5, 2008 1:45 PM
Robert
You miss the point. In his mind, Hizbullah is an organization that provides social services, sort of like the Red Crescent, and hence, showing support to Hizbullah is like demonstrating the peacefulness of Islam.
Posted by: Infidel Pride at April 5, 2008 2:34 PM
As a side effect of Fitna, Hezbollah lost its web page.
Nice :)
Posted by: Henrik at April 5, 2008 3:47 PM
Allow me to relate what happened when I wrote to my local newspaper, the Times Herald- Record (Orange County, New York) in regard to an Associated Press article it ran concerning Fitna. I was prompted to write because the article stated that the movie, which had just been released a few days earlier, contained "elements and symbols calculated to offend Muslims."
My letter goes as follows:
An AP article (3/29) describes the just-released film, "Fitna" as "employing elements and symbols calculated to offend Muslims." I have viewed the film; it merely demonstrates how jihadists cite and employ Koranic verses to justify bombings, murders, and calls for genocide against the Jews. The film's producer, Geert Wilders, did not have to search through the Koran for passages that matched the actions documented (including decapitation, the destruction of the Trade Center here, and attacks on the mass transit systems in European cities) - Muslims have already done so, in their sermons and hate-filled oratory, where such verses are quoted extensively. Wilders is being villified simply for reporting what Muslims are doing: using Islamic texts to foment and justify the commission of atrocities. If Muslims find this offensive, then they should, properly, condemn the proponents of religious-based violence and hatred within their own communities, and not Wilders, who is merely the messenger.
The following day, I received a reply via e-mail from Ken Hall, Editorial Page Editor for the newspaper, (khall@th-record.com) reproduced here in its entirety:
"Your letter contains blanket condemnations for which there is no support."
This prompted me to write to Hall again:
Kindly elaborate on your response to my letter - what blanket condemnations are you referring to, for which, you claim, "there is no support?" I do not understand your reply.
In "Fitna" not a single word until the very end that was heard, or that was seen on screen, was spoken or written by a non-Muslim. Every passage displayed was from the Koran. Every speaker was a devout Muslim. The only words spoken by a non-Muslim are at the very end: the words that explain that the sound of the ripping page was of one not from the Koran, but from a phone book, because "it is not for" non-Muslims to rip a symbolic page - the page of violence, hatred, jihad to subdue the Infidel and ensure the dominance of Islam and Muslim hegemony - from the Koran, but for Muslims to metaphorically do so - a challenge to them, a task for them.
Have you even seen the film?
(I confess to having drawn upon one of Hugh Fitzgerald's posts for some of the above. I hope he will not mind.)
So this is what we are up against, folks. Dhimmitude, cowardice, laziness, and dishonesty from American newspapers. This is journalism at its worst - an editor of a major regional daily newspaper with a circulation of around one hundred thousand passes judgment about a film he almost certainly did not bother to see, and suppresses the voices of those who try to warn others about the danger of Islam and the absurdity of those within Islam who take offense at the reportage of their belief system where the words and deeds of Muslims are the source of, and the basis for, such reportage. We are losing our country, inexorably, and we cannot entirely blame Muslims for this.
Posted by: commonsense at April 5, 2008 9:01 PM
could it be that no Western newspaper to print the truth about Mr. Wilder's film being true because of political correctnessand the fear that what is shown in the film might happen to them
Posted by: crusader at April 5, 2008 10:41 PM
How can anyone accept what the AP writes about. Fitna was intended to upset the Infidel. NOT the other way around.
Posted by: flowerknife_us at April 6, 2008 7:58 AM
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