Fire...? I thought only Allah was supposed to punish with fire. Will this be considered 'anti-Islamic', by the authorities?

Posted by: duh_swami at June 19, 2008 11:17 AM

If they can tell us the truth about the color and make of his car, as if that matters, why won't they tell the truth about the religion which inspired the torching of the man who owns it?

Posted by: undaunted at June 19, 2008 11:58 AM

It is interesting that the article specifies that the victim was Hindi and (albeit not directly) that the aggressors were Muslims, rather than using the customary politically correct designation "Asian". Perhaps the UK is waking up to the fact that "Asian" Hindus are as much victims of "Asian" Muslims as everybody else (Christian, Jew, or Buddhist, black or white) and have been for centuries.

Posted by: StrulZigelboim at June 19, 2008 12:06 PM

Note from the link that this is the THIRD such attack in a WEEK! Although they do not say the other two were the work of muslims it would be interesting to know if it was or if other minorities going in for this sort of thing.

Suprised to see it reported even if if did not make the MSM. It is possible the editor is a little green and may yet get a visit from the thought police, sorry I mean the Community Relations Council.

Posted by: Fred at June 19, 2008 12:53 PM

When I saw the report yesterday in the local paper the Newham Recorder from the victim and his father's names I didn't take them to be Hindus.

A FATHER is appealing for witnesses and information after his son was turned into a human fireball outside their house in Forest Gate.
Iqbal Arshed told the Recorder that his son, 20-year-old Furqan Iqbal, is in a critical but stable condition following the attack in St George's Road.
Whatever the victim's religion does not stop this being a nasty crime. His condition is said to now be stable.

Posted by: Esmerelda Weatherwax at June 19, 2008 1:22 PM

The assailants were "released on bail". Just what does one have to do in the UK to get locked up. It is difficult to imagine a more horrific thing to do to someone. If he does not die in agoony from shock and infection he is likely to be grossly disfigured and require multiple surgeries. Bail my arse.
/Isn't diversity grand?

Posted by: MP at June 19, 2008 1:32 PM

I'm am sure that they will blame the Hindu for being 'combustable'.

No one will help the police, because the police will not help theirselves or protect anyone that comes forward.

Posted by: alaskan1000 at June 19, 2008 2:13 PM

Not a word of this on al-BBC or in any of the mainstream media. NOW, had it been a muslim man set on fire by someone, even a hindu, it would have received total coverage. Who runs the UK media? You decide.

Welcome to the UK, run by marxists, controlled by Islam.

Posted by: DaveMate at June 19, 2008 2:39 PM

It's that ol' religion of peace agin!

Posted by: tanstaafl at June 19, 2008 2:40 PM

As with cartoons, muslims are insulting Hindu's. Saying they are not good enough to date muslim girls. The police better look to protect the girl now that they have let the assasins out.
What, me worry?

Posted by: maunalio at June 19, 2008 2:41 PM

"Nothing to see here, let's move along." How many more incidents like this and so many others of Muslim violence and bullying before people start admitting Islam is a very real and serious threat to the world at large? What will it take for people to stop this nonsense about "just a handful of radicals" and "not all Muslims are like that"?

Posted by: Madame Vengier at June 19, 2008 3:24 PM

If caught, perhaps the defendants can ask the judge to decide the case based on sharia law.

Posted by: special_guest at June 19, 2008 4:19 PM

Ah, the joys of multiculturalism.

Posted by: Crusader at June 19, 2008 5:31 PM

Looks like Forest Gate is a hotbed for muslims:

Forest Gate Two awarded £60,000 damages from police

THE two brothers at the centre of the bungled Forest Gate anti-terror raid are to receive more than £60,000 in compensation from Scotland Yard, the Mail can reveal.

Following six months of negotiations, Mohammed Abdul Kahar, 25, and Abul Koyair, 23, will get the payout as a 'goodwill gesture'.

Last night it emerged that although the legal advice to the Yard was that they could fight the action, senior officers have decided to settle to avoid sparking 'community' tensions.

Posted by: DJM at June 19, 2008 6:15 PM

BBC's description:
" a man arrested over a man set alight"
here
And they appeal for information? Like have you seen a man?

Posted by: whiteelefant at June 19, 2008 6:50 PM

Crusader says,

Ah, the joys of multiculturalism.

Not only multiculturalism, but nasty "political correctness".

It is so pervasive that I must relate a not-so-on-topic experience of mine today.

I'll try to be brief.

There is a person I work with that has no problem whatsoever in public hocking up goobers, blowing snot rockets, hacking in one's face or just being completely indecent.

Well, you see, I have a big PROBLEM with folks like that. Why? Because it doesn't conform to the social etiquette in which I was raised.

I didn't make a formal complaint (not my style), but I did mention it to my "boss". His response?

"Try not to notice it. Give the guy a chance. THINK about what his "issues" are."

Really?

What does MC (as if this guy has culture) and PC (he ain't even political) have to do with something like I've just described?

The reason is because no one is willing to be honest and direct anymore.

No one is allowed to say that he/she is offended by obviously offensive behavior.

My little scenario is just the tip of the MC and PC ice berg.

Society is NOT EVEN ALLOWED to condemn mass murderers like Islamic fanatics.

We refer to them as "Suicide Bombers" like there is some justification in their murderous acts.

The aren't "Suicide Bombers", they are MURDERERS.

A rhetorical question: How did this now topsy-turvy world come about?

Posted by: Aiken Bryce at June 19, 2008 10:17 PM

"How did this now topsy-turvy world come about?"

It happened because we abandoned Christianity in the West. It's only going to get worse. We are only a couple years from priest being imprisoned in Canada for saying homosexuality is a sin or that Islam is a false religion.

It's time to stop supporting relativism and start supporting the Roman Catholic Church. They are the only institution that really believes in the truth anymore.

Peace.

Posted by: James Martel at June 19, 2008 11:14 PM

MP:

The assailants were "released on bail". Just what does one have to do in the UK to get locked up.

There are three reasons why dangerous criminals don't get locked up:

1. The prisons are full.

2. Greedy judges, lawyers, barristers and solicitors in the Criminal Justice System Cash Cow need a constant throughput of bad guys to ensure a steady income. Locking them up means they can't commit crimes so can't generate revenue.

3. Criminals have had a "raw deal in life" so are to be "understood", "empathised with" and "counselled" so that they can come to terms with their "issues". This is why we observe the bizarre phenomenon of criminals getting more help than victims do.

According to The Telegraph:

Foreign prisoners now make up almost one in six of Britain's jail population and are costing the taxpayer almost £400 million a year to keep, new figures show.

and:

The prison population is now made up of people from 164 different countries, with the largest number from Jamaica (1,490), followed by Nigeria (1,070).

Our Communist leaders must be laughing themselves to sleep at night as they reflect on how successful they have been at destroying our nation. And they haven't finished yet.

Posted by: watling at June 20, 2008 5:07 AM

James Martel wrote"How did this now topsy-turvy world come about?"

It happened because we abandoned Christianity in the West.

Um, I'd have to say a resounding "NO".

It's time to stop supporting relativism and start supporting the Roman Catholic Church. They are the only institution that really believes in the truth anymore.

Religion has caused enough problems through the ages, let's try logic for a few thousand years. If you look to the Roman Catholic Church for 'truth' you are in real trouble.

Posted by: Abu_Lahab at June 20, 2008 6:12 AM

Exactly Abu_Lahab!
I keep pushing for proof of the existence of Allah but that is about the most uncomfortable thing to discuss because it indirectly reflects on all faiths. Key distinction of course is that the mythology of Allah is bereft of unconditional love and charity (unless you're already a member of club Islam). Force Muslims to provide the reproducable results of any or all miricles or predictable power of Allah. Either validate the true power Muslims profess so much of or deny them every last religious consideration FOREVER. Enough rational logic and reason applied over a sufficient duration of time alone will defeat any herd-minded culture, hopefully to a degree that the sick inspiration to incinerate another life no longer exists. This man is suffering and disfigured for no good reason. An all powerful god didn't do it, human thugs desperate to protect their imaginary beliefs and thuggish group-think alive did it. Just like every other greivous act of Islamic violence in history.
For the love of all precious life in this world, admit it! Allah does NOT EXIST! Bring on the hardest war of ideas Muslims could ever imagine and wipe out this piñata of the sky once and for all.

Posted by: Quantum Infidel at June 20, 2008 9:07 AM

Muslims love the most unmanly and cowardly sneak attacks on their enemies. What a heinous crime. This man's life is ruined. Will be a living death if he stays alive. Another example of Muslim cowardice are the suicide bombings and other mass murder via bombings in Iraq. Innocent Shiite civilians were killed by the score. The surge seems to have ended this as we defeat Al Quaeda there

My conclusion is Muhammad also was such a low coward. That he also slaughtered this way-- After all his famous quotation is - "War is deceit"

Posted by: dennisw at June 20, 2008 9:47 AM

Quantum Infidel:

Though I know it's probably superstition, I do subscribe to a religious creed. It's my own self delusion, and I'm sticking to it. ;)

That said, you're right! Islam isn't going to be 'religioned' out of existence. Not even the powerful Roman Catholic Church could accomplish this feat.

Though I believe it is cruel to attempt to deprive another person of his religious convictions, in the case of Islam, which really isn't a religion at all, I say: Send in the rational atheists!

Only the atheists are bullet-proof if and when it comes down to a tu-qouque argument. (My Allah is Better Than Yours--Sorry Sheik, couldn't resist!)

Posted by: Abscedere at June 20, 2008 11:06 AM

Quantum Infidel...Attacking the veracity of Allah is the right direction. There are a number of reasons that Allah is not God. Some equate Allah with Satan. I don't give Allah that much credit. Allah is a mental construct of a dead guy, and nothing more. On 'that', a religion and numerous empires have been built. If I have to equate Allah with religious/spiritual/occult ideas, he most identifies as the 'Lord of Matter'. Since all evil happens in matter, he is the 'Lord of Evil'. He/it is not Satan, but Satan rules in Allah's realm.
But I don't want to give Allah even that much credit. He's not really even a moon god...he's got no place even in the underworld, he is only Mohammad's invention...

Posted by: duh_swami at June 20, 2008 11:07 AM

Released on BAIL? Released on bail????? ON BAIL?!?!?

Posted by: poetcomic1 at June 20, 2008 3:23 PM

Now let me see, this can't be a Brit, Brits don't do such things, must be a Frenchmen, come over here on holiday, to enlighten us on the finer points of French culture, the Carbeque

Posted by: Holger Dansker at June 20, 2008 3:59 PM

As exsgtbrown used to say here everyday,

.....Ban Muslim Immigration....

Whatever happened to exsgtbrown, anyway?

Posted by: Lt. Presley O'Bannon at June 20, 2008 6:15 PM

poetcomic1

"Released on BAIL? Released on bail????? ON BAIL?!?!?"

As Watling posted above the practice of granting asylum to anybody who asks for it means the jails are bursting with quite dangerous forign criminals. Last year they had to release several hundred early just to make room for those coming in. Compared to what some of the ones inside are doing time for setting someone fire is nothing much.

Posted by: Fred at June 20, 2008 7:02 PM

James Martel wrote"I'd rather small children were shagged anally by priests and nobody talked about it than a society where such things were addressed"
Your theological bigotry is part of the problem, not part of the solution.
It's people like you with your whining grievance culture that allow Islamists to get away with their continual whining as well.
To quote Jesus. "All the power should be in Rome, and should come from some half witted old fool, fuck injustice."
That's what I love about Jesus, he allowed nasty little bigots like you to prosper. You can always switch to Islam, you will hardly notice the difference.

Posted by: Ian at June 20, 2008 7:41 PM

Abscedere

You're right as rain to believe in a golden rule that espouses love and charity. Not a damn thing superstitious or delusional about it - or the quality of your faith. While I feel no desire to believe in any god, miracles, afterlife ect.ect. I'd lay my life down for those principles just the same. Moral beings that we are, we're equally insulted by Islamicly inspired violence - this is our common denominator and unbreakable bond.

Regarding the religious convictions of others, it's hardly cruel to to deprive one of their faith if that faith ultimately deprives others of their very precious lives. If Muslims insist the world bloodily fall under a caliphate, they'd better damn well bring on indisputable proof for the existence of their god or face eternal insults to their "prophet" and his imaginary friend. To hell with what Muslims screech about until they tell their co-religionists to stop being murderous animals!!!

I see only one single religion committing repeatable offenses sanctioned by...the Quran. Not the Bible, Analects, Tao Te Ching, Upanishads, Bhagavad Gita, Talmud...none of them in this 21st century. Only the Quran, the least holy of any text I've ever studied. The credibility of only one faith is on the stand and it's neither of ours.

I myself could only imagine a being that loves regardless of whether it's offspring believes in it or not and loves all life equally without distinction, condition or club membership. Those qualities point in the right direction if a god exists and Allah ain't it. PERIOD.

Through a more benevolent lens, Allah appears to me the construct of ancient, superstitious human minds. The idea of an immortal, all knowing "lord of all worlds" somehow enraged by the misgivings of mortal, slighty enlightened shaved apes only makes me chuckle my transhumanist ass off ("atheist"...so dated a box to be put in).

duh_swami, Matter itself is the result of fundamental forces, it is neither good nor evil. Gasoline, as an example, can be used to swiftly transport an expectant mother to the hospital or it can be doused upon a man to torch him alive. Good and evil is the providence of sentient life and therefore it is consious choice of self-determining beings whos actions determine good or evil. This matter universe is one massive mechanism that is neither good nor evil, sentient life determines this through our manipulation of matter to either spread life throughout the totality of it, or ultimately fall into mindless oblivion. Our choice.

As for any Muslims reading this - want respect for Islam? Want provisions for your culture? Want consideration beyond the normal scope of western civilization? Prove Allah or STFU - Welcome to America.

Posted by: Quantum Infidel at June 20, 2008 8:32 PM

They released these Islamic scumbags on bail? Yet if someone criticized Islam for encouraging this kind of brutal violence, that person would get jailed with no bail. England sux!

Posted by: Dumbo at June 21, 2008 1:11 AM

Maybe the British will learn their lesson and institure strict petrol, or gasoline, control. It's reckless unlicensed gas sales like that that cause these horrific crimes.

Posted by: Dumbo at June 21, 2008 1:21 AM

"In Islamic law, a Muslim man may marry a non-Muslim woman. But a Muslim woman may not marry a non-Muslim man"

with typical dishonesty Robert attempts to conceal the truth. Muslim men may only marry Christian or Jewish women and even in that case it isnt encouraged especially in non-Muslim lands

Where is the concrete evidence this was the motive? nothing but innuendo and speculation that Spencer and his mob thrive on

The irony is that when Robert's prozed Hindu extremists do such things he and the dhimmiwatch crowd and rather more reticent to mention it (perhaps they find it praiseworthy)

" New Delhi - Hindu girls who went out with Muslim boys would have their noses chopped off, a rightwing Hindu group warned, according to a news report on Friday.

The diktat was issued in a letter sent out by the rightwing Hindu Bajrang Dal to its cadre in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, which has the largest Muslim population in the country.

At first, Dal members would attempt to dissuade Hindu girls from dating Muslims. But if the gentle persuasion didn't work, their noses would be cut off, the Dal warned.

The warning said nothing about Hindu boys going out with Muslim girls. The group said the step was necessary to prevent marriages between the two groups, according to a report in the Hindustan Times. "

http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1627288,00.html

Posted by: istanbulnotconstantinople at June 21, 2008 10:53 AM

James Martel,
Your promotion of your religion has no place here. I am Jewish, and however commendable Pope John Paul's attempts at reconciliation, your imperial, paganistic faith's long history of anti-Semitism is a matter of fact, as well your faith's tormenting of Protestants. Our country was built by people who rejected your imperial voodoo undemocratic ways. Please save your papist drivel for fellow robots.

Posted by: Dumbo at June 21, 2008 11:39 AM

istanbulnotconstantinople

Nobody believes the Indian media anymore when it comes to their reporting on the Hindu-Muslim conflict, because the MSM in India is as a rule pro-Muslim and has in the past falsely blamed Hindus. And this incident was seemingly only reported in a single newspaper, making it all the more questionable.

-An excerpt about this media bias from Koenraad Elst: "To offset this failure, critics of the BJP tried to make the most of a supposed wave of minor incidents between Hindu tribals and Christians in 1998-2000. There were only a handful of mortal victims, far fewer than the dozens of Christians killed in Pakistan after September 11, 2001, but with the media as amplifiers, an impression of terrible oppression of a poor hapless minority was created. Unfortunately (or rather, fortunately), the key allegations made initially under the international spotlights turned out to be untrue. Yes, an Australian missionary and his two sons died in an arson incident, but neither the governmental inquiry nor the judicial investigation could confirm the eager secularist indictment of the Bajrang Dal. Yes, four nuns in Jhabua were raped, but no Hindu activists were involved: it was an inter-tribal and inter-Christian affair. Yes, a Christian teenage girl and her little brother were assaulted, but the man turned out to be a Christian himself. Indeed, this turned out to be a pattern: all inter-Christian incidents in this period, including those between the older and quieter churches (Syrian, Catholic, Anglican) and the intruding American fundamentalist sects, were suddenly blamed on the evil hand of the Hindus.

This game of blaming the Hindus for the suffering of Christians was so successful that it inspired a third party to try its own hand at it. A series of bomb attacks against churches in South India did take place, wounding some worshipers. It was duly blamed on the Hindutva forces, but the perpetrators turned out to be a Pak-based Muslim organization, the Deendar Anjuman. Please note the chain of guilt here: the Islamic terrorists are of course responsible for their own acts, but they would not have committed these but for the encouragement given to them by the secularists. After all, the latter had proven that any unpleasant incident can successfully be blamed on the Hindus, and that the blame could not be washed off by any amount of official refutation, which would remain under-reported while the original allegation would go on being repeated. This way, the secularists have blood on their hands, viz. the blood of the Christian victims of these Islamic bomb attacks.

In each of these cases, the original allegations against Hindus were splashed across the front pages in India and also reported in the world press, whereas the true story, once it came out, was reported on an inside page in India and not at all abroad. Even then, Christian spokesman John Dayal repeated the discredited allegations before the US Commission on International Religious Freedom, and they keep on reappearing in secularist sources. I am not aware of a single secularist who publicly withdrew the allegations and offered apologies for his slander to the maligned Hindus. Nor of one who has drawn attention to Christian violence against Hindus in the same period, such as the abduction of four RSS activists by Christian separatists in Tripura (the four dead bodies were found two years later) or the ethnic cleansing of the Hindu Riang tribe from Christian-majority Mizoram. Even so, the propaganda line of Hindu violence against Christians is no longer pursued with the same vigour, partly because its proponents seem to be embarrassed by their crying wolf a few times too often, and partly because it remains a relatively small affair even if all the allegations had been true."
http://koenraadelst.bharatvani.org/articles/Religious.html

Posted by: dee at June 21, 2008 12:47 PM

OTOH, there are thousands of such cases done by Muslims around the world, and not just warnings, but real killings.

In Kashmir Muslims throw Acid in womens faces because they dont wear the veil. It's not difficult to see why, when such practice is encouraged by the Quran and Hadith.

Another such example: "In late 1995, "the Chalvey Muslim boys" in the Chalvey area of Slough (between London and Oxford), circulated a "notice" in and around the Slough & Eton Secondary School, informing the public that: "We Muslims don't want Kafirs such as Sikh and Hindu children to mix with our children, specially our girls. Two years ago a Sikh boy was friendly with a Muslim girl and we made his life so difficult that he committed suicide. If your children come to this school, we will bully your boys the way we did to the boy who committed suicide, and we will make your daughter pregnant and change them into Islam. We mean what we are saying, and if you ignore it you will be very sorry."

Posted by: dee at June 21, 2008 12:52 PM

Quantum Infidel,

Thanks for your kind reply. My belief is in the first being you describe.

Never give up your rationalism! In times of crisis, there's always room for one more person who can, and who does think. Thank you for being one of those--your analytical, pragmatic thinking are not just a gift to yourself, but to everyone around you.

Posted by: Abscedere at June 21, 2008 1:44 PM

Mmmm, surprising they didn't incinerate her, too. Perhaps there are moderate Muslims out there!

Posted by: Guy Macher at June 21, 2008 4:44 PM

dee Koenraad Elst? the far right Hinduvata facist apologist?

The guy whos so tolerant
"When at the beginning of 2007, Buddhist organisations in Belgium disclosed that they were applying for the status of a recognized religion on the same basis as agnosticism, Koenraad Elst started a campaign against the possible recognition of Buddhism in Belgium, using his blog and public speeches in cultural centres [38]. He openly used Maoist sources (mostly dealing with the Dalai Lama and Tibetan Buddhism) to discredit the Buddhist application."

LOL

Posted by: istanbulnotconstantinople at June 21, 2008 7:40 PM

"In Kashmir Muslims throw Acid in womens faces because they dont wear the veil. It's not difficult to see why, when such practice is encouraged by the Quran and Hadith. dee"

really? can you bring one hadith or verse in the Quran that allows that? its not the laws of Manu you know.

Hinduism:

VIII – 270. A shudra (untouchable) who insults a twice born man with gross invective, shall have his tongue cut out; for he is of low origin.

VIII – 271. If he mentions names and castes of the (twice born) with contumely, an iron nail, ten fingers, shall be thrust red hot into his mouth.

XII. 4. If the shudra (untouchable) intentionally listens for committing to memory the veda, then his ears should be filled with (molten) lead and lac; if he utters the veda, then his tongue should be cut off; if he has mastered the veda his body should be cut to pieces.

"Fire...? I thought only Allah was supposed to punish with fire. Will this be considered 'anti-Islamic', by the authorities?"
duh_swami

exactly

Posted by: istanbulnotconstantinople at June 21, 2008 7:45 PM

istanbulnotconstantinople

The Laws of Manu are Smriti, ie. they are not really important in Hinduism, and can be superceded or overruled by other works. The Srutis (Vedas and Upanishads) are much more important. In contempary Hinduism, the Laws of Manu are not really important, indeed, many Hindu leaders would say so.

Contrast this with the Quran and Hadith, which are for eternity to be followed by Muslims. The Muslim law texts are less important than the Quran, but I think they are more important to Muslims than the Laws of Manu are to contemporary Hindus.

Your defamation of Dr. Elst does not wash, at least not until you are capable of showing me this in Elst's own words in English language.

"In Kashmir Muslims throw Acid in womens faces because they dont wear the veil. It's not difficult to see why, when such practice is encouraged by the Quran and Hadith."

What I meant to say (not clearly enough) is that the subjugation of women is encouraged in the Quran and Hadith, as well as other Muslim (law) texts.

Posted by: dee at June 21, 2008 8:41 PM

Muslims have shown over and over again, as in this case, that they lack human empathy. That's why they can pour petrol onto an innocent man and set him alight. That's why one of them can mow down a roomful of seminary students in Jerusalem and the Muslim street dances with joy. This sort of thing does not happen in Judeo-Christian society. If it does it's an aberration. From a civilized perspective, Muslims act with horrible cruelty. These perpetrators have committed a most inhuman act. Yet the British authorities have released them on bail. The family of the young man must be suffering in the worst way. Yet they probably will not attempt to exact revenge. After all, they are Hindu, not Muslim.

Posted by: Rahman bin Rahman at June 21, 2008 9:27 PM

Dating Muslims is hazardous to your health.

Posted by: pulsar182 at June 22, 2008 1:13 PM

"At first, Dal members would attempt to dissuade Hindu girls from dating Muslims. But if the gentle persuasion didn't work, their noses would be cut off, the Dal warned."

posted by istanbulnotconstantinople above.
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The difference is between threats and actions. The Hindu militants only threatened to cut off noses. As far as we know, not a single girl's nose was cut off. Contrast this to the Hindu man who WAS actually set on fire.

BTW: It will ALWAYS be Constantinople and the world will recognize this fact after Russia destroys Turkiye and returns all of Thrace and Anatolia to Orthodoxy.

After that Russian troops along with their Chinese allies will occupy Mecca, blows up the Kaaba, after taking that ugly black meteor that Muslims pray to, and grinding it into dust!

Posted by: Provoslavni at June 22, 2008 11:54 PM

Esmerelda Weatherwax...are you the same redoubtable London lady who was posting here in 2004/2005 as 'Granny Weatherwax'? If so, it's nice to hear from you again. Brilliant choice of nickname.

pulsar182 - you wrote 'dating Muslims is hazardous to your health'.

And marrying them is, much of the time, even MORE hazardous.

Hop on over to the 'Chesler Chronicles'

http://pajamasmedia.com/phyllischesler/

and take a look at her latest piece, put up on 20 June 2008, "American Woman, Arab Man - Tales of Horror in the Harem", which reviews two books written by an American woman who was once married to an Arab (a Christian Arab, the article says, oddly enough), about the experiences of other women who have married Arab Muslims.

Here's part of Phyllis' account:

"Her ('Cassandra''s) visions of danger and doom concern what happens when an American woman marries an Arab and Muslim man.

"Cassandra herself was once married to an Arab Christian and, based on that experience has, so far, written two books: "Escape from an Arab Marriage. Horror Stories of Women Who Fled From Abusive Muslim Husbands" (2006) and "Thirty Three Secrets Arab Men Never Tell American Women" (2008).

"In the first book, she tells the stories of many American women who married Arab Muslim men and what happened to them.

"The stories are gripping, terrifying, highly dramatic–and depressingly similar.

"At first, the men are utterly charming, generous, solicitous of their American girlfriend’s every need.

"After they are married to American citizens and can claim their own citizenship, they revert to form:

"Almost overnight, they become cruel, condescending, physically abusive, suspicious, insanely controlling, unfaithful, deceptive, and highly secretive.

"Look, she is not writing about the happy marriages; as her title suggests, she is writing about 'abusive Muslim Husbands.' The need to balance everything out, to allow every point of view, will prove our undoing.

"These are men who do not support their wives but expect their wives to support themselves, the household, and the children, even while they are pregnant or ill.
" And then, things always take a turn for the worse.

"This behavior accurately describes the family life of double honor murderer, Yasir Said, of Dallas, Texas...".

Do you know what struck me when I read about Phyllis' description of the Dr Jekyll/ Mr Hyde transformation of 'charming Arab Muslim wooer' into 'terrifyingly abusive, over-controlling and downright murderous Arab Muslim husband'?

On the domestic, interpersonal level, it is PRECISELY the same two-faced modus operandi - Mecca/ Medina goodcop/ badcop, stealth jihad/ combat jihad, 'moderate'/ 'terrorist' 'feign peace while preparing jihad' - as is employed by Islam as a whole, against targeted kafir societies.

Da'wa first to get a foot in the door - 'beautiful words', bouquets and chocolates - but then, the moment political power is obtained, off comes the mask, and out comes the scimitar, and...you're a slave, with the door slamming shut.

Posted by: dumbledoresarmy at June 23, 2008 3:17 AM