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September 25, 2008

"Kill the gays! Allahu akbar!"

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Bruce Bawer kindly sends in an Islamic tolerance alert from Bosnia:

September 25, 2008 (11:30 A.M., CET): Jyllands-Posten reports that yesterday, shortly after the opening ceremonies of a gay festival in Sarajevo -- the first such event ever held in Bosnia -- Muslim men fell upon participants and beat them up, shouting "Kill the gays" and "Allahu akbar." Some were dragged out of their cars. Among those assaulted were journalists; worst hurt was a visitor from Denmark. There is no mention of the number of victims or assailants, though the report indicates that it took a "massive" number of police to stop the violence.

The story has been picked up by VG in Norway, but I've looked for it in vain in several major American and British newspapers.

No surprise there. As far as the mainstream media in the West is concerned, this story has the wrong perps, and so is no story at all.

UPDATE: As the second commenter below notes, this story has indeed been picked up by mainstream sources -- apparently after Bruce wrote his memo. I apologize for the wrong assumption -- although it was founded upon numerous examples of mainstream sources ignoring or downplaying jihadist activity.

Posted by Robert at September 25, 2008 5:59 AM
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Wow a Gay Pride march gets assualted in backwards Bosnia ...how unpredictable... lets run a Gay Pride march in small town Montana and see what we get.( OK even the rednecks have been neutered). Bruce Brawer the man who deserted his country for 'tolerant' Europe now complains of the very 'growing' pains that nations go through , which he NEVER experienced ( it was the 'vibe ' that sent him to Europe). Still to stay to bash Europe I gues is lucrative... after all redneck USA is so passe.

Posted by: David Xavier [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 25, 2008 6:13 AM

As far as the mainstream media in the West is concerned, this story has the wrong perps, and so is no story at all.

Have you heard of Google? It's rather good:

BBC

ABC

AFP

MSNBC

Posted by: mww [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 25, 2008 6:33 AM

Did you miss this?

The Jihad Against Serbia: Muslims Demand ‘Abolition of the Serb Entity’

http://sheikyermami.com/2008/09/25/the-jihad-against-serbia-muslims-demand-abolition-of-the-serb-entity/

Posted by: sheik yer'mami [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 25, 2008 6:47 AM

You know, gay folk are official PC victims, too. So is it possible our liberal media will notice this uncivilized behavior?

I think that the choice that all "moderate" muslims face is - do you want to keep living in the 7th century?

Posted by: tanstaafl [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 25, 2008 7:53 AM

Feel the love. In a multicultural EU when will they feel the love?

sarc/

Posted by: Battle_of_Tours [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 25, 2008 9:09 AM

"I think that the choice that all "moderate" muslims face is - do you want to keep living in the 7th century?

Posted by: tanstaafl"


The evidence (as indicated by the lack of objection to Muslim violence and the lack of anti-Muslim violence action)clearly indicates that most Muslims prefer to live in the 7th Century, complete with the bruta Shari'a law replacing all forms of government judicial system...

Even worse...The Muslims want you to live the same way....subjected to every insane whim of the Muslim clerics, every insane Shari'a law, and every brutal punishment for whatever the Muslims decide is need for whatever offense they deem you committed...you will have no legal recourse and you will be unable to win any case...

Civilization may never recover...

Posted by: pulsar182 [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 25, 2008 9:26 AM

Interesting that a couple of commenters here instead of just provide MSM links to you Mr Spencer, have to attack your intelligence instead. Sure you made a small gaff but from the way the MSM downplays islamic violence it is not like you called the sky green or anything. Besides if the MSM actually reports about the koran, hadiths etc, and explains how this violence is NOT just a perversion of their " religion of peace and candy canes and huggable bears" then it would be a downright miracle.

To the commenters, save the feign offense for your momma. If the MSM ACTUALLY reported honestly about jihad about all jihadist attacks then you can be offended. Since they don't it is only you who look like you fell off the daily kos short bus of dhimmitude.

Posted by: AME2 (AW/SW/NAC) Baker [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 25, 2008 9:28 AM

"* Strange kind of ‘genocide’ when Muslims take over Christian lands by jihad and by outbreeding infidels, don’t you think?"

in the link provided by sheik yer'mami


believe it or not the Muslim weapon that can ultimately conquer the real world would be Muslim breed females...the Muslim plan to conquer the world simply by massive reproducing appears to be working..

Posted by: pulsar182 [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 25, 2008 9:42 AM

"the daily kos short bus of dhimmitude"
Stealing that over here Boss.:-)

Posted by: robert in england [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 25, 2008 10:05 AM

" Strange kind of ‘genocide’ when Muslims take over Christian lands by jihad and by outbreeding infidels, don’t you think?" From: Winds of Jihad

Sheik yer'mami,

Yeah, and when they run out of Muslim females, they grab a couple of little girls of any other faith, and declare that they've "reverted" to Islam. Pretty neat, isn't it?

Is this Islamic Human Resources, or what? ;)

Posted by: Abscedere [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 25, 2008 10:11 AM

OT, but you'uns might be interested.

A West African student I teach has informed me that I should now use her religiously neutral middle name rather than her very Islamic first name in addressing her because she has become a Christian. This was said openly while I was taking attendance.

She is not alone among the West African immigrants where I teach. Another girl has reported that she and her sisters are now studying the Bible after school; while a couple of boys have been switching to "American" nicknames in day-to-day interactions rather than their official Arabic ones.

Today Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Senegal; tomorrow, Mecca and the reopening of the Hagia Sophia! Christos Anesti!

Posted by: Kepha [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 25, 2008 10:51 AM

As I have with other gay-related postings on JW/DW and "Islam in Europe", I've sent the BBC link to this story to the newsroom @ The Advocate, which handles the news pages at gay.com.

There was this story on gay.com the other day about an incident in Serbia:

http://www.gay.com/news/article.html?2008/09/22/1

Two arrested in attack on Serbian gay event

published Monday, September 22, 2008

The Serbian government has condemned a nationalist attack on gay activists in which three people were injured, including a U.S. citizen.

A government statement says that "increasing organized attacks" on minority groups show that the state must act to punish, but also to prevent such incidents.

The government statement was issued Monday, three days after a group of masked assailants beat up participants in the "Queer Festival," a gay gathering in a cultural center in downtown Belgrade.

Nongovernment groups have reported that an unidentified U.S. citizen suffered a concussion and had his arm broken. Two female activists were also reportedly injured.

The groups are demanding that Serbia's pro-Western government curb extremism to "show they are for democracy, rule of law and respect of human rights."

Police have said they detained two suspects. (AP)


Posted by: skevin [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 25, 2008 11:09 AM

Ah, but there's a reason why MSM would cover this story. You see, Bosnia's Muslims are "white", ie you can't tell them apart from Balkan Christians. "White" Muslims aren't a protected species, on those with more pigmentation. You have to go to journalism school to learn such subtlties.

Posted by: sonomaca [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 25, 2008 11:19 AM

Just the normal day in the park for the religion of peace and its adherents. Ha ha...gosh how silly. Honestly, to even say that Islam is peace is absolutely ridiculous and very, very, very dangerous. As we all know with this denial and whitewashing many more non Muslim lives are being lost at the cost of appeasing this barbaric religion. Very sad.

Posted by: savsiv [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 25, 2008 11:43 AM

Islam is not a religion!

Stop arguing to their false premise!

Posted by: mike trivisonno [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 25, 2008 12:23 PM

While the gay angle to this is one part of the story, the Bosnian angle is another. Remember all the lectures many here in JW itself were giving us all about how Bosnian and Albanian Mohammedans were different from the Wahabis or Salafists, and they should not be looked at in the same manner as the Iranians or Palis or Pakis or Saudis? In other words, they were/are more European than Islamic?

Well, the jury is now out, and here are Bosnians behaving not like Europeans would (forget Netherlands or Spain - even Italy or Bulgaria is nowhere near this type of behavior), but exactly as they would in Iran, except that they are short of coming to power so far (have to keep that taquiyya thing going, lest the people of Srpska get their way to secede from Bosnia).

So once again - which of the Kosovo supporters out here want to make the case that this sort of activity won't be repeated in Kosovo?

Posted by: Infidel Pride [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 25, 2008 1:32 PM

Michael Totten has it that Kosovo is "The Israel of the Balkans"

The Israel of the Balkans

MICHAEL J. TOTTEN

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/the-israel-of-the-balkans-11266

He isn't alone in this morally relative insanity. Bosnia certainly isn't Kosovo, after all, Muslims are the clear 90% majority now in Kosovo (having waged successful murderous Jihad there...), while they remain a minority (for now) in Bosnia. But somehow, magically, Totten and others believe that the Muslims in the region are somehow different from all the other bigot Muslims who inhabit planet earth. So much so, that their trumped up plight in the Balkans, and despite the periodic murderous flareups of their centuries long Jihad, is somehow brushed aside, and they are compared now to the Jews of Europe who were almost exterminated.

Our world is upside down. Our world is insane. And these truculent Muslims in Bosnia are just the tip of the Jihad iceburg. Some will say they're just radical rabble rousers. I don't agree, of course, with that naive assessment. But even assuming there's some truth to that accusation, without the tacit support or utter indifference of their fellow Muslims in the region, without the interference those Muslims constantly confer by their denials of the involvement of Islam in such hatred, such Islamic storm troopers would have no foothold in the area.

The violent filth that arrives when Islam arrives is part and parcel of Islam itself. The world is insane to pretend otherwise. Individuals are insane to pretend otherwise.

Posted by: jsla [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 25, 2008 1:37 PM

Another Inconvenient Truth.

Posted by: MP [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 25, 2008 3:04 PM

Alythos anesti!

Posted by: jewcat [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 25, 2008 6:18 PM

Update: The Advocate posted the story on gay.com:

http://www.gay.com/news/article.html?2008/09/25/2

Dunno if my heads up helped.

Posted by: skevin [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 25, 2008 7:38 PM

I guess as long as the Muslims were on the attack, this will not make the Human Rights Court in Strassbourg.
It's worthy of note how the largesse of the social democracies has come almost full circle.
Frankly, I think picking a reasonable venue for a gay life celebration might have been considered with more prudence. I enter this idea as a gay male myself.
Expecting the streets to be draped in rainbow banners in hot beds (terrible pun) of religio-political strife is pushing human understanding.

Posted by: Shawmut [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 25, 2008 8:40 PM

jsla,

I feel your pain. It's so frustrating. Every day I think the world is insane. And who will stop the insanity?

Posted by: ImNoDhimmi [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 25, 2008 8:48 PM

I HATE ISLAM!!!

Posted by: champ [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 26, 2008 12:36 AM

"Islam is not a religion!

Stop arguing to their false premise!"

Good point. Shall we start just calling it the Political Islamic System of Theocracy - PIST for short?

Posted by: Lili [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 26, 2008 3:18 AM

Stonewall was a hot bed (terrific pun) of religio-political strife, Shawmut.

Posted by: skevin [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 26, 2008 9:59 AM

PIST, that's good Lili. Or perhaps, Political Islamic System of Subjugation

Posted by: KrazyKafir [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 26, 2008 11:10 AM

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