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Compare and contrast:
"Terrorism: Italian PM and Christian convert targets of Islamist death threats," by Hamza Boccolini for AKI, June 17 (thanks to Bat Ye'or):
Dubai, 17 June (AKI) - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and a prominent Italian journalist who recently converted to Christianity, are the targets of new death threats posted on one of the most popular Islamist websites said to be close to al-Qaeda, on Tuesday.The threats are aimed at Berlusconi and Magdi Allam, an Egyptian-born newspaper editor who converted from Islam to Roman Catholicism during the Vatican's Easter vigil in April 2008.
A writer and deputy editor of Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, Allam was named the winner of the prestigious Oriana Fallaci journalism award on Monday night for writing about immigration, Muslim integration and terrorism.
Previous threats to the Italian premier were made in Arabic but Tuesday's internet message was for the first time posted completely in Italian with the title, 'Berlusconi and Magdi Allam'.
"They are two dead men walking.. just like Falcone .." an apparent reference to the anti-Mafia judge, Giovanni Falcone, who prosecuted the Sicilian Cosa Nostra. He and his wife were assassinated in a bombing in 1992....
"Uganda: Islamic Meeting Discusses Terrorism," by Henry Mukasa for New Vision (Kampala), June 17, via AllAfrica.com (thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist):
THE Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) council of ministers meeting in Kampala will discuss conflicts in member countries, Islamophobia (fear of Islam) and international terrorism, the head of the national task force has said."The OIC's position on terrorism is clear: It does not condone the killing of civilians," Ambassador James Mugume told The New Vision yesterday.
Referring to the Dakar Declaration, passed in Senegal last year, he said the OIC wanted to combat Islamophobia and the general belief that Islam stands for violence.
"When there is a terrorist attack, the picture that comes to one's mind is a man in a turban. That is Islamophobia, equating Islam to terrorism," Mugume said....
Why does that picture come to one's mind, Mugume? Might it have anything to do with the violence committed by Muslims daily in the name of Islam? Might it have anything to do with the threats to Berlusconi and Magdi Allam, and so many other threats like them?
Here again we see the OIC pretending, like so many Muslim spokesmen in the West, that it is non-Muslims, not Muslims themselves, who have equated Islam with terrorism. Even worse is that so many non-Muslims fall for this.
Posted by Robert at June 18, 2008 8:11 AM
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They promote assassinations and "peace" at the same time.
Islam - do as I say, not as I do. Don't make me come and kill you.
What more can be expected from a religion whose very definition is "surrender"?
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at June 18, 2008 8:45 AM
I hope that Berlusconi and Allam will remember Oriana Fallaci's motto, chosen from Pericles, for 'Force of Reason': "the secret of happiness is freedom; and the secret of freedom is courage".
I do not know whether Berlusconi identifies himself as a church going Catholic. I do know that Allam has consciously, deliberately and publicly chosen to commit himself to Christ.
Therefore, I hope that whatever Berlusconi is doing, Magdi Cristiano Allam will be reading and taking heart from St Paul's Letter to the Ephesians, chapter 6, verses 10-18. I am sure Signore Allam fully understands, also, these words, from the Letter to the Ephesians: "For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord; walk as children of light".
May he and Berlusconi walk in the light. May they have courage to speak, and act, for the defence of spiritual and political freedom.
Posted by: dumbledoresarmy at June 18, 2008 9:04 AM
Here is, I think, a relevant perceptive description of the complex situation:
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JF17Ak01.html
So the Pope really hopes to subtly convert Muslims out from that horrid & obvious 7th century con job to Christianity? Posssible, but he needs to tell certain Jesuits to shut up.
Posted by: FM at June 18, 2008 11:09 AM
Rome is high on the Islamic take over list.
The Vatican would make a fine palace for the Caliph of Rome...
at June 18, 2008 11:10 AM
When there is a terrorist attack, the picture that comes to one's mind is a man in a turban. That is Islamophobia, equating Islam to terrorism," Mugume said....
Why does that picture come to one's mind, Mugume? Might it have anything to do with the violence committed by Muslims daily in the name of Islam?
As the old saying goes: "Actions speak louder than words." Non-Moslems may SAY that Islam is the source of violence and terrorism. But it's Moslems who ACT, who commit the acts of violence and terrorism. It's not the "Islamophobes" who are: fire-bombing Western embassies, or raping non-Moslem girls in Swedish towns and on Australian beaches, or murdering Christian clergy in Turkey and Indonesia and Pakistan, etc.
at June 18, 2008 12:20 PM
Allam seems well aware of this eventuality already. It makes his courage all the more remarkable.
Keep him in your prayers.
Posted by: A Simple Sinner at June 18, 2008 12:45 PM
Gosh, this really makes me want to be a Muslim - NOT!
Posted by: tanstaafl at June 18, 2008 12:53 PM
ebonystone,
Right.
Two more reasons that terrorism brings to mind the picture of a man in a turban:
Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri.
Three more:
Khomeini, Khamenei and Rafsanjani
Posted by: PMK at June 18, 2008 1:16 PM
FM: Thanks for the link to the article you recommended. Well worth the read. It's a tribute to Pope Benedict and also, to some extent, to President Bush, who, I am convinced, understands the complexities of the world far more than he is given credit for by many, though Bush, like virtually every other Western politician, does not see or does not want to see Islam for what it really is. As for the Jesuit, Paolo dall'Oglio, he's a super dhimmi to be sure. Oriana Fallaci would have had nothing but contempt for such a man. Again, thanks.
Posted by: Wellington at June 18, 2008 1:27 PM
Viva Silvio!
Evviva Italia!
At least one Western nation got it right in the elections this year.
I just wish the American people had the most basic sense to vote for owr own awesome Italian this year instead of swiftly limiting their choices to the usual Bad and Worse.
Ruslan Tokhchukov, EnragedSince1999.
Posted by: Enragedsince1999 at June 18, 2008 3:11 PM
When there is a terrorist attack, the picture that comes to one's mind is a man in a turban. That is Islamophobia, equating Islam to terrorism," Mugume said...
BINGO!! Common Sense say, ISLAM is VIOLENT!
Posted by: ZenaWarriorPrincess at June 18, 2008 6:27 PM
These islamophobia conferences are becoming weekly events despite the continuation of islamic terrorism or to be more specific, violence committed by muslims. These guys are looking dumber and dumber every day; don't they read the news?! I hate to tell these devout muslim hypocrites and liars but it is obvious to everyone but them that 99% of today's violence and terrorism are committed by muslims. It stands to reason that islam is part of the equation.
When I hear about terrorism, I don't see a guy in a turban. I see a crazed, bearded maniac with a qur'an in one hand, a rifle in the other, and a dagger between his rotten teeth, which he spits out long enough to scream "allah akbar" as he murders his innocent victims in cold blood. Or I see a muslima covered in yards of black cloth concealing the explosives she will detonate to spill innocent blood for the vampire allah. To me and millions of others, terrorism and islam are synonomous. Denial of the obvious only makes the deniers look like the deceitful miscreants they are.
Posted by: Susanp at June 18, 2008 11:23 PM
They finally had to come up with some label for the westerners who see through the islamic jihadi game. They were labeled as Zionists in Israel, Hindu communalists in India. They toyed with the term "Crusader" for a while but it only seemed to please the Westerners. Calling someone in Europe or US a Running Dog of Israeli Zionism/Hindu Communalism is such a mouthful and so Cold-Warish. So hard to spit out at an adversary in a fit of anger too. Now, allah be thanked, someone has invented the term Islamophobe. The Lefty Liberal press will take up the refrain and then you can shut up any critic by calling him/her an Islamophobe. By shutting up I mean the press will refuse to publish your view without a profuse sprinkling of adjectives, adverbs and quotation marks - make the critic sound like Al Capone saying "I ain't done nothin'."
JW and others should keep ridiculing the term "Islamophobe" and knocking it before it becomes an acceptable epithet.
at June 19, 2008 10:29 AM
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