* 6th Pillar of Islam *

Allah commands in the Koran, and Mohammed demonstrated in the Hadiths, that Moslems must contribute to a pervasive fear among Infidels, everywhere and always, that criticizing Islam will entail personal ruination, injury, or murder, and might also result in the same for the critic’s family, colleagues, neighbors, and, if warranted, even their descendants, until such time that the humiliating stain the criticism placed on Islam is cancelled out, and it is guaranteed that no such criticism will be ever leveled at Islam again.

Posted by: Alarmed Pig Farmer at August 25, 2007 9:47 AM

I am so sick of censorship "for fear of offending muslims".

Are we so afraid of what they will do? If they react, riot in the streets, blow up buildings, themselves or whatever....let them do it, and then deal with it! Bring out the riot police, the National Guard, or whatever force is necessary, and arrest them, throw them in jail, and show them we will not be intimidated any longer.
We will not submit!

Posted by: ImNoDhimmi at August 25, 2007 10:08 AM

Threaten to cancel your subscription. No, do better: cancel it. Make sure they know why.

Posted by: Hugh at August 25, 2007 10:19 AM

A little OT but not much. Excellent column in Toronto's Saturday Sun, Aug 25, by a muslim columnist, Salim Mansur about the folly of Western appeasment of Islam:

There comes a point at which diminishing returns on most issues begin to go negative.

Such a point in denouncing Islamist terrorism and equally the Muslim majority's silence against this menace was reached sometime ago.

As Islamist terrorism, however despicable, became mundane occurrence in the daily news cycle, the deafening silence of Muslims -- except for lonely voices of feeble opposition -- has given credence to growing numbers of non-Muslims that Islam is as much a religion of peace as the Klanmen's politics is an expression of multiculturalism.

But there is another side to this abject reality. The Muslim majority's silence is greatly compounded by the appeasement mentality in the West of the mainstream liberal-left media, politicians trolling for ethnic votes and bureaucrats running public institutions.

An evidence of this comes from Scotland. Theodore Dalrymple, a retired physician and prolific writer, in New York's City Journal reports:

"In an effort to ensure that no Muslim doctors ever again try to bomb Glasgow Airport, bureaucrats at Glasgow's public hospitals have decreed that henceforth no staff may eat lunch at their desks or in their offices during the holy month of Ramadan, so that fasting Muslims shall not be offended by the sight or smell of their food. Vending machines will also disappear from the premises during that period."

It is as if more diversity training for public officials, more accommodation of demands made by fundamentalist Muslims, greater willingness to self-flagellate for sins long past of western colonialism, more policing of what might be politically incorrect speech and writing about Islamists or Saudi Arabia's official cult (Wahhabism) of bigotry masquerading as a world religion, will somehow mysteriously translate into taming suicide-bombers and their masters to reciprocate kindly to the liberal-left sensibilities of people in the West.

Dalrymple observes stories such as the one from Scotland tell us something about how civilizations commit suicide -- they "collapse not because the barbarians are so strong, but because they themselves are so morally enfeebled."

What do barbarians do? Kill indiscriminately as in the recent Aug. 14 massacre in northern Iraq reported by the New York Post with the headline "Savages Kill 175 in Iraq Bombings."

Four trucks were exploded west of Mosul -- Iraq's third largest city in the Kurdish north -- in an area predominantly inhabited by Yazidis, a people practising pre-Islamic faith. The toll of dead and wounded among this poor dwindling minority living at the edge of the Iraqi society far exceeds the numbers first reported.

This savagery is the work of al-Qaida associates preparing more predictable bombings ahead of the mid-September report in Washington to be given by Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq.

There is now a pattern in al-Qaida bombings arranged to influence American public opinion during key moments in public policy debates and general elections.

But the liberal-left media, such as the New York Times, remains fixated with faulting the Bush administration for the savagery of Islamists while providing oxygen to apologists of terror spinning their endless refrain of "root cause" being oil and Israel for violence originating in the Middle East.

How morally enfeebled, as Dalrymple opines, is the West? Imagine the uproar denouncing any suggestion that the mainstream liberal-left media, in appearance at least, is treasonously on side with the newest enemies of freedom and democracy. (end of Article)

Posted by: j_not_a at August 25, 2007 10:35 AM

Shouldn't all infidels stop breathing for fear of offending Muslims?

Posted by: profitsbeard at August 25, 2007 10:44 AM

I have always admired Salim Mansur's columns. He tells it like it is, and is not afraid to point out how blind most of the West's politicians are regarding the threat of islam.

Posted by: ImNoDhimmi at August 25, 2007 10:57 AM

j_not_a,

Have you noticed that things have quieted down a bit in Iraq? Could it be because the people the AQ of Iraq depend on, sunni are now turning against them? Heard a couple of weeks back that up to 25 tribes have sign on to work with the US armed forces to help out.

Posted by: bigcatgirl13106 at August 25, 2007 11:01 AM

Wait till September 15th or thereafter, when Gen. Patraous presents his long awaited report. Then we might see some trouble.

Posted by: bigcatgirl13106 at August 25, 2007 11:08 AM

I am so disgusted about "Opus" I don't know what to do.

NEWSFLASH: I AM OFFENDED BY MUSLIMS!

Posted by: darcy at August 25, 2007 11:32 AM

I wonder if a muslim would understand the cartoon. But when did thay ever wait to understand anything.

Posted by: Ruebacca at August 25, 2007 11:40 AM

j_not_a -- Thanks for heads-up re. the column. I check the online Sun on Saturdays to read Michael Coren's column but I don't usually read anything else.

Posted by: Josephine at August 25, 2007 11:56 AM

This is not the first time Breathed has mocked Islam. There was a cartoon which appeared on October 15, 2006, which mocked the "religion of peace." I was so amazed I cut it out, but somehow I only have a piece of it left. So, can anyone FIND it for me and reprint it here?

Breathed has a Muslim man holding a bag of groceries, and he says to the penguin, "I am fountain of peace." To which Opus replies, "A Gusher!" Definite mockery, so where were all the protests against "Opus" then?

I would love to find that October 15, 2006, "Opus" and reprint it here with a link. If anyone knows how to find said cartoon, please.

Posted by: darcy at August 25, 2007 12:01 PM

Wow, the cartoon linked to by Hot Air is so mild, I can't believe newspapers would refuse to run it.

AllahPundit wrote on Hot Air:

"Exit question: Who wants to bet that 'Fatima Struggle' and 'God willing' were originally 'Fatima Jihad' and 'Insh’allah' before someone in his syndicate pulled Berke Breathed aside and had a word with him?"

If he's right, I think the cartoon would have been funnier that way.

Posted by: Josephine at August 25, 2007 12:04 PM

Islam speaks softly and carries a "Big stick", "The terrorism stick" It is part of the cache of being a member of the largest and fastest growing street gang in the world.

Posted by: KAOSKTRL at August 25, 2007 12:50 PM

Does anyone have a list of the 25 newspapers not printing "Opus" tomorrow?

Posted by: darcy at August 25, 2007 12:55 PM

People - Write Berkeley your thoughts about the shameful censorship of "Opus" tomorrow in 25 U.S. newspapers (maybe more).

http://www.berkeleybreathed.com/pages/index.asp

Posted by: darcy at August 25, 2007 2:49 PM

http://www.comics.com/comics/diesel/archive/diesel-20070815.html

above is a cartoon that I found myself amazed that it was in the paper. Showed some very truth at what was supposed to be only a cartton

Posted by: pegg696 at August 25, 2007 4:32 PM

Unfortunately, pegg696, that is a PC cartoon.

The implication is that Muslims DON'T want people to be "scared" of them. Which is, of course, a total falsehood. Apparently, this PC Dhimmicrat cartoonist has never heard of Islamic Terrorism.

I'm glad you posted that link. It's good to be reminded of the PC idiocy that's out there. I sent the cartoonist an e-mail with my comments.

Posted by: darcy at August 25, 2007 5:08 PM

KAOSKTRL,

...And also one large gang who get all bent-out-shape by the smallest issue to offen them.

Posted by: bigcatgirl13106 at August 25, 2007 5:26 PM

If even Berkeley Breathed can overcome his Leftist thinking habits and recognize the threat Islam poses our liberal society, then perhaps there's hope after all.

The Left has every reason to loudly object (with customary emotionality) to virtually everything Islam offers/threatens. Its present "taking of Islam's side" is entirely a misunderstanding.

In fact, I have new respect for Berkeley Breathed.

Posted by: WestwardHo at August 25, 2007 6:00 PM

profitsbeard

"Shouldn't all infidels stop breathing for fear of offending Muslims?"

Strange as it may seem this is not a bad idea.

Five years ago I had to visit an old Muslim who despite 30+ years in the UK spoke no English and wore full “traditional” dress. Every time I came close to him he kept grabbing the end of his turban and holding it across his mouth and nose and I just thought it was odd because I do not suffer from halitosis. Some time later a less traditional Moslem told me that the reason was a he had no wish to breathe air which had been polluted by an infidel and was filtering it with the cloth.

So you see it would make life easier for some of them if we could actually stop breathing.

Posted by: Fred at August 25, 2007 6:15 PM

If even Berkeley Breathed can overcome his Leftist thinking habits and recognize the threat Islam poses our liberal society, then perhaps there's hope after all.

The Left has every reason to loudly object (with customary emotionality) to virtually everything Islam offers/threatens. Its present "taking of Islam's side" is entirely a misunderstanding.

In fact, I have new respect for Berkeley Breathed.

The liberal public must reach this realization - first, that Islam is out of bounds, and poses compatibility issues (which the cartoon expresses), and then beyond that, that Islam requires handling with confidence and spine.

I think this is the next audience, the next primary discussion, now that the Christian equivalence argument has been soundly debunked by Robert's latest book!

The Liberal needs, through exposure to the facts, to see that Islam is NOT some delicate people of color struggling for life against the evil first-world euro-people of liberal myth, but is an oppressive totalitarian movement like they've never imagined. And moreover one in a position to become dominant in the next century (barring some horrific desperate wars to roll it back, later - wars that are likely to involve serious WMD use and thus be unlike any previous war.). They must recognize that it is a movement that is very seriously incompatible with all they hold dear.

This realization, when it happens, may be the most traumatic shift in a collective state of mind in generations. Like a meteor hitting the planetary surface of our culture. (Now there's a climate change I can believe in!) I believe provoking that shift (before our way of life is "mugged" too painfully) is the number one goal for Jihad resistance.

Posted by: WestwardHo at August 25, 2007 6:46 PM

Darcy:
There was a cartoon which appeared on October 15, 2006, which mocked the "religion of peace... but somehow I only have a piece of it left. So, can anyone FIND it for me and reprint it here?

You can find it at the link below, Darcy. The site has a no-copy programme to stop you
downloading the cartoons, which means you can't view the image if your mouse pointer is over it. Place your pointer in the scroll bar or the task bar, and you'll be able to see the whole thing.

http://www.cartoonistgroup.com/store/add.php?iid=14943

Posted by: Matamoros at August 25, 2007 7:05 PM

Oh, thank you, Matamoros! I got it! Yes, that's it! I printed it out.

"I BOP YOU GOOD ANYWAY!!" It's a great one. I hope everyone here takes a look at it.

So, how come there weren't any bannings of THIS one?

Posted by: darcy at August 25, 2007 9:44 PM

Forget news we normally read! Get NewsMax! Get America's 1st Freedom Magazine (NRA). Blog's I like to read. I like to read Daniel Pipe's messages and book's. I like Robert Spencer..he is a cool dude :). A man for truth! Most of all...I like to read my Holy Bible..the Book of all Book's.

Posted by: Cher at August 26, 2007 1:59 AM

Good News where I live!

The two newspapers we get here (the local, and the bigger city about 2 hrs away) - PRINTED the "Islamic" "Opus" today! Woo Hoo!

I'm thrilled! They didn't "submit!"

Posted by: darcy at August 26, 2007 9:45 AM

People - "The Seattle Times" is a cowardly pos that did not print "Opus" today. You can register your disgust here:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/contactus/newsroom.html

Posted by: darcy at August 26, 2007 12:15 PM

Ditto "Miami Herald," People.

http://www.miamiherald.com/824/

Posted by: darcy at August 26, 2007 1:11 PM

Considering the large muslim population in Fremont, I was delighted and surprised to see the San Jose Mercury News print the cartoon on the front page of the funnies...

...But on 2nd thought I think it wasn't censored because not enough folks in San Jose get the joke (last three panels)

Now it is time for everyone to watch the letters to the editor for the next week in their hometown paper and reply to any comments of a dhimmi nature.

Posted by: RecycledCG at August 26, 2007 10:03 PM

Hooray for the San Jose Mercury News! Also, the Cincinnati Enquirer, the New Orleans Times-Picayune, the Baton Rouge Advocate, the Spokane Spokesman-Review, and, I believe, the LA Times.

The BOSTON GLOBE DID NOT PRINT - COWARDS.

Posted by: darcy at August 27, 2007 8:38 AM

When did we repeal the First Amendment? Did I miss the memo?

Posted by: tanstaafl at August 27, 2007 12:52 PM

MAYDAY:

Islam's 20-point plan to conquer the United States by 2020 is clearly underway (Islam's taking over total control of the American media, if you haven't guessed by now, is part of the game plan!!!). Americans are losing their homeland, guys. This is a nightmare. (HOWEVER-- I Thank GOD for the internet!!! We haven't lost that yet)).

One of the 20 strategies to conquer America is for Muslims to take control of the US media (Preferably by block purchases of US media corporations and/or controlling stocks).
If this is being done (and I am sure it IS) then THAT explains this. Does anyone have any info on this point? If so, please share it with us by all means.

ps--Islam's FIRST strategy to conquer the United States is to replace American freedom of speech with hate crime bills nationwide. And, voila! Just take a look at what our friendliest enemies around (the Democratic Party and the libs) are doing in this field.

Posted by: pythagoras at August 27, 2007 2:56 PM

I still want to believe that many, maybe most, Muslims are like the quite civilized, neighborly, mosque that one of my daughters encountered in Fargo, North Dakota.

The deafening Islamic silence of Muslims rejecting terrorism broken more often now, but you have to be listening for it.

The censorship of "Opus" in the Washington Post and other papers was stupid.

And, if I were a Muslim, I would be insulted that the paper pulled "Opus" for that, and not for the Jerry Falwell gag, not so long ago.

Does the Post think Muslims are too primitive to take a little ribbing in a civilized society?

Posted by: Norski at August 28, 2007 5:41 PM