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In writing about the Khawaja trial in Canada, Christie Blatchford exposes with a single observation the utter intellectual vacuity of the "Islam Is A Religion Of Peace That Has Been Hijacked By A Tiny Minority Of Extremists" idea: "Not a soul appears to have said, 'Brother, you know this stuff ain't sanctioned by the old Koran.'"
Because, of course, it is.
"'Down with the J,' and out of their senses," by Christie Blatchford in the Globe and Mail, June 24 (thanks to Mentat):
[...] Though the group was arrested for the specific bomb plot, they spoke of other possible targets, everything from assassinating Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf to sending one man to Israel on a suicide mission to dreamy operations such as contaminating the English waterways with poison, poisoning the beer at soccer stadiums (how British!) or opening up fast food stands that would sell - guess what - poisoned food. [...]He allegedly convinced an Ottawa Muslim woman to do some terrorist banking for him (she will testify here later) and he told the ex-fiancée (she will testify via video link) once that "Not a day goes by that I don't wish to be on the front lines with the mujahadeen" and that "civilian deaths are inevitable and permissible" in the Koran. He allegedly told the fiancée's online replacement that Osama bin Laden was his "most beloved person" and that he longed "to kiss his beloved hand." When he heard, once, that Pakistani troops had Al-Qaeda members cornered, he allegedly was on the phone to the cell leader, offering to ride to the rescue.
And of all the people in all the places that Mr. Khawaja went, in person or online, in Ottawa or London or Pakistan or cyberspace, the fiercest resistance he seems to have encountered consisted of gentle, qualified cautions - to tone down the rhetoric or take more precautions.
Not a soul appears to have said, "Brother, you know this stuff ain't sanctioned by the old Koran."
No surprise to anyone who is informed on these issues -- as few as those people may be. Read it all.
Posted by Robert at June 24, 2008 10:26 AM
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No one dares to ask!
And guess who is coming to teach at Yale?
Teaching
Yale University announced on March 7, 2008 that Blair will teach a course on issues of faith and globalization at the Yale Schools of Management and Divinity as a Howland distinguished fellow during the 2008–2009 academic year.[39]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Blair
If he doesn't shut down any discussion on islam and slam the doors shut on critical thinking and inquiry on the subject of islam -- no one can!
The big "J" continues through intellectual terrorism courtesy of former traitors who destroyed Western governments in the first place!
Now, they are going to destroy what's left of the universities.
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at June 24, 2008 10:56 AM
Want to contemplate something REALLY scarey?
http://tonyblairfaithfoundation.org/
Some cancers just don't go away!
Posted by: witness at June 24, 2008 10:58 AM
Tony Blair faith foundation? We're expected to find faith from someone who converted? Brilliant!
Posted by: Infidel Pride at June 24, 2008 11:13 AM
Christie Blatchford raised no fewer questions or challenges about Islam in this article than Mark Steyn did in America Alone, and the fascists in Canada drug him before a Human Rights Tribunal for it. Looks like Blatchford is insisting on being "free" yet defiant. Good.
Posted by: Sounder at June 24, 2008 11:13 AM
Surely, "poisoning beer" is not mentioned in the Koran, Islamic defenders could say, and this is just another example our prejudice against Islam.
Posted by: Spot on at June 24, 2008 11:32 AM
Violence spirals in Kashmir over Hindu trust land
"Allahu Akbar (God is Great), we want freedom," the protesters shouted. Shopkeepers shut their businesses in Srinagar, Kashmir's summer capital.
"Half a dozen vehicles and two government offices were damaged by miscreants," Shameem Ahmad, a police official said.
Kashmiri separatists say the transfer of land to the Hindu group is aimed at changing the demography of Kashmir, mainly Hindu India's Muslim-majority region.
Posted by: anti islamocommunist at June 24, 2008 12:07 PM
"or opening up fast food stands that would sell - guess what - poisoned food. [...]"
Sorry, been done already - by guess who.
"Shop-owners sold chocolate cake sprinkled with human faeces"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-513621/Shop-owners-sold-chocolate-cake-sprinkled-human-faeces.html
at June 24, 2008 12:16 PM
Muslim terrorist Prophet Mohammed Pedophillia accepted by a Saudi Marriage Officiant
http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/1798.htm
Posted by: anti islamocommunist at June 24, 2008 12:18 PM
Australia:
Recognise polygamous marriages, says Sheikh Khalil Chami
MEMBERS of Sydney’s Islamic community believe polygamous marriages should be recognised to protect the rights of women.
* Yep. Women in Islam have the right to be whacked into submission. We need more unemployable breeders on the dole...
at June 24, 2008 12:31 PM
Not a soul appears to have said, "Brother, you know this stuff ain't sanctioned by the old Koran."
I'll bet that's because it IS sanctioned by the old Koran!
Posted by: PersonOfTheBook at June 24, 2008 1:03 PM
"Yale University announced on March 7, 2008 that Blair will teach a course on issues of faith and globalization at the Yale Schools of Management and Divinity as a Howland distinguished fellow during the 2008–2009 academic year."
-- from a posting above
The Blairs and their money-making projects -- which Blair project, that of Tony or that of his helpmeet Cherie, hardly matters -- may remind some of the Clintons. The nonstop self-aggrandizement, self-promotion, the goddam foundations or libraries or "charitable funds" that these people are so careful to name after themselves, but do not endow, ever, with their own funds -- oh, it's all been seen before.
And seen before, as well, has been the alacrity with which Yale in particular seems to offer space for all kinds of people. Irshad Manji, for example, given a fellowship to spend a year at Yale, and no doubt learning a lot about the convivencia of Islamic Spain from none other than Maria Rosa Menocal. And Raymond Close -- whom google -- who was just two years ago a Stimson Fellow, even though it has been clear for years that Raymond Close has been a shill for the Saudis and Saudi-related enterprises ever since his that early retirement he took, back in 1977, from being the C.I.A. station chief in RIyadh to join two Saudi businessmen (one of them a former Saudi intelligence head) and then to go on from there to the B.C.C.I. business, and other louche untertakings). What is it about Yale? Perhaps if we shed a little more lux on this sort of thing, we will end up with a lot more useful veritas.
Posted by: Hugh at June 24, 2008 1:49 PM
witness: Thanks for the link to Blair's faith foundation. The former Prime Minister is a good and intelligent man but he doesn't get it about Islam, just like virtually every other Western politician. And having looked over his foundation site, I couldn't help but think how naive and sentimental it seemed. Not good because Islam is so awful and pretending otherwise is unwise.
Posted by: Wellington at June 24, 2008 1:59 PM
The money buys access and can destroy a generation via Yale:
Blair on Islam: Standard-Bearer of Tolerance
From the desk of The Brussels Journal on Wed, 2006-12-27 09:43
A quote from Tony Blair in Foreign Affairs, January/February 2007To me, the most remarkable thing about the Koran is how progressive it is. I write with great humility as a member of another faith. As an outsider, the Koran strikes me as a reforming book, trying to return Judaism and Christianity to their origins, much as reformers attempted to do with the Christian church centuries later. The Koran is inclusive. It extols science and knowledge and abhors superstition. It is practical and far ahead of its time in attitudes toward marriage, women, and governance.
Under its guidance, the spread of Islam and its dominance over previously Christian or pagan lands were breathtaking. Over centuries, Islam founded an empire and led the world in discovery, art, and culture. The standard-bearers of tolerance in the early Middle Ages were far more likely to be found in Muslim lands than in
Christian ones.
I'm not so sure that Blair is as naive as we are tempted to believe. After all, the man will be teaching at Yale; naive people don't do things like that!
This guy IS part of the intellectual jihad.
The nonstop self-aggrandizement, self-promotion, the goddam foundations or libraries or "charitable funds" that these people are so careful to name after themselves, but do not endow, ever, with their own funds -- oh, it's all been seen before.
All true, but the funds are in dangerous hands!
at June 24, 2008 2:40 PM
The money buys access and can destroy a generation via Yale:
Blair on Islam: Standard-Bearer of Tolerance
From the desk of The Brussels Journal on Wed, 2006-12-27 09:43
A quote from Tony Blair in Foreign Affairs, January/February 2007To me, the most remarkable thing about the Koran is how progressive it is. I write with great humility as a member of another faith. As an outsider, the Koran strikes me as a reforming book, trying to return Judaism and Christianity to their origins, much as reformers attempted to do with the Christian church centuries later. The Koran is inclusive. It extols science and knowledge and abhors superstition. It is practical and far ahead of its time in attitudes toward marriage, women, and governance.
Under its guidance, the spread of Islam and its dominance over previously Christian or pagan lands were breathtaking. Over centuries, Islam founded an empire and led the world in discovery, art, and culture. The standard-bearers of tolerance in the early Middle Ages were far more likely to be found in Muslim lands than in
Christian ones.
I'm not so sure that Blair is as naive as we are tempted to believe. After all, the man will be teaching at Yale; naive people don't do things like that!
This guy IS part of the intellectual jihad.
The nonstop self-aggrandizement, self-promotion, the goddam foundations or libraries or "charitable funds" that these people are so careful to name after themselves, but do not endow, ever, with their own funds -- oh, it's all been seen before.
All true, but the funds are in dangerous hands!
at June 24, 2008 2:41 PM
A prediction, whether you agree with it or not. This nefarious person will NOT be convicted, or if he is, he will be pardoned on appeal for Human Rights Violations by the Supreme Court of Canada.
Since we stand for nothing (Mark Steyn's very correct view of multiculturalism), we have to accept everything, and since no one was hurt in the process, therefore, it must be OK. So until you actually carry through and manage to behead, rape, or bomb, there is no foul in talking about it.
You heard it here first.
And no, I don't agree one iota with this load of tripe.
Posted by: OolongChung at June 24, 2008 4:43 PM
Blair isn't so much naive as he is willfully blind. See no evil, hear no evil. Maybe then, no evil will attack you.
It's not even dhimmi. It's just plain DUMB.
Posted by: PMK at June 24, 2008 5:38 PM
The Canadian trial has convinced me that something is really rotten in the Canadian Muslim community. There has been little renunciation of these suspects, but rather lots of fund raising to defend them. Only an idiot or someone who is sympathetic to these terrorists would believe that they were not really evil young men.
Sure, they are still innocent until found guilty of the charges, but I've read enough about their talk to charge anyone who supports them as being the equivalent of the KKK. Whether the charges stick or not, these men are evil guys!
Why doesn't the media get that there is a movement within Islam that is 1000 times more popular than the KKK and many times worse than these racist KKK scumbags? Why aren't Canadian Muslims being called to account for their tacit approval of terrorism?
Oops, I forget, you can be brought before a tribunal for casting contempt or hatred on Muslim supremacists! Wake up Canadians, good people should hate the KKK and Muslim supremacism!
Posted by: James Martel at June 24, 2008 5:56 PM
So Khawaja adores Bin Laden and wants to kiss his beloved hand. In hell, Khawaja. In hell.
Posted by: ImNoDhimmi at June 24, 2008 6:57 PM
From the article: "Mr. Khawaja is charged with seven terrorism {i.e. jihad}-related charges in connection with the same fertilizer bomb plot that saw five of his pals arrested, charged and convicted in London. He is 29 years old,.. and said all of 14 words yesterday - "Not guilty" times seven. Radio reporters declared that he spoke in a "clear, firm voice, as though it meant he was more innocent than most. His folks were in court."
To understand his perception of himself as 'not guilty' we need to understand Islamspeak and jihadthink and shariathink.
KAFIR - that's you and I, that's all non-Muslims - are GUILTY by definition. We have rejected allah and we detest sharia and we do NOT want Muslim tyrants ruling over us: so we are evil, rebellious, GUILTY people who deserve to be punished to the limit, in this world and the next. NOTHING that can be done to us is cruel enough to be a sufficient punishment for our wickedness.
MUSLIMS, on the other hand, are innocent, qua Muslims. The more pious and devout they are, the more devoted to allah and to the imitation of Mohammed, the purer and more 'innocent' they are.
They are innocent even if they slit the throat of a kafir child in front of its parents.
A kafir is guilty and deserving of punishment by the very act of continuing to breathe while disbelieving in allah.
Furthermore - under sharia, the word of a non-Muslim is always trumped by that of a Muslim, because all Muslims always tell the truth and all non-Muslims are liars and deceivers...
This jihadi DOES NOT RECOGNISE the laws of Canada, nor of any other kafir state. He does not believe he has done anything wrong or bad at all. How dare the nasty wicked lying kafir defy Mohammed, refuse to embrace Islam, insist on clinging to their nasty wicked kafir ways!! / sarc/
And so he stands there in the court, with his huge family cheer squad watching him, and says 'Not Guilty' seven times. And he truly, sincerely believes that he has done nothing wrong at all; had his plot succeeded, he would have felt not the least twinge of pity for any of his victims. Or if he did, he would have regarded it as a sin, something to be grimly stifled.
The anti-kafir hate teaching of Islam has obliterated his capacity to feel empathy or compassion for any human being other than a fellow Muslim. People who are not Muslims are not people: they are to be treated with hatred, disgust and contempt.'
A while ago, Mr Hugh Fitzgerald unearthed the following useful information, from eighty years ago, and posted it on jihadwatch; it bears re-posting, for it perfectly illuminates the attitudes and conduct of Mr Khawaja.
"Samuel Zwemer (d. 1952), an American scholar of Islam, and former editor of Moslem World, wrote the following in 1920 (in "Moslem World," Vol. 10, pp. 154-155):
"A few years ago one of the leading Moslems of Baghdad wrote an article for a French journal entitled, The Final Word of Islam to Europe :
‘For us in the world there are only believers and unbelievers; love, charity, fraternity toward believers; contempt, disgust, hatred, and war against unbelievers.
‘Amongst the unbelievers the most hateful and criminal are those who, while recognizing God, attribute to Him earthly relationship, give Him a son, a mother.
‘Learn then, European observers, that a Christian of no matter what position, from the simple fact he is a Christian is in our eyes a blind man fallen from all human dignity.'”
Posted by: Hugh at October 16, 2007 1:28
Posted by: dumbledoresarmy at June 25, 2008 2:37 AM
I read the whole thing.
You know what really sent shivers down my spine?
The following paragraphs:
"Mr. Khawaja, for instance, worked as a contract employee for the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, or DFAIT.
"After his arrest and the execution of search warrants upon his work station at DFAIT's Albert Street offices in Ottawa, and his parents' Ottawa home, police discovered he had allegedly used his office computer to e-mail other members of the terrorist {jihad} cell.
"Wiretaps and e-mails which formed much of the evidence in the British case, and will here as well, showed that he pondered using the DFAIT internal courier system to ship a prototype of his "Hi-Fi Digimonster," the remote-control detonator he built, to group members in London; ultimately, he thought the better of it.
"But once, when going through what he called the usual bother at British customs (one hopes he wasn't a victim of racial profiling), Mr. Khawaja produced his DFAIT employee card as evidence of his bona fides."
How many OTHER Mr (and Ms) Khawaja's do we have burrowed into the Departments of Foreign Affairs and Trade of, for example, Australia, or New Zealand, or...[insert names here]? How many of them are using their position, and their workplace equipment, to either actively plot jihad themselves, or to 'cover' for other jihadis? And how many - currently 'slack' in their profession of faith, not doing jihad at all - may BECOME jihadis in the future and commence the imitatio Mohammedi?
The awful truth is this: EVERY person with a Muslim name, anywhere in any such area of Infidel government - Intelligence, Foreign Affairs, Social Security, Health, Transport, Trade, Immigration, you name it - might be a Mr or Ms Khawaja.
That isn't paranoia. It is the obvious deduction from everything Mr Spencer is teaching us about the doctrines of classical, traditional, mainline Islam.
Posted by: dumbledoresarmy at June 25, 2008 3:14 AM
Thank you for this.
Christie Blatchford is an exceptional reporter: she is intelligent, has a keen eye for detail, understands human nature and is a brilliant writer. She notices, and writes about, key details that other reporters consistently miss.
Posted by: Josephine at June 25, 2008 12:06 PM
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