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“Every year when Valentine’s comes around, the Muslim world erupts with ferocious rage”

Feb 14, 2014 9:05 am By Robert Spencer

novalentinesIn “Hating Valentine’s” at FrontPage this morning, Jamie Glazov explains why Leftists and Islamic supremacists hate this day:

Today, Friday, February 14, is Valentine’s Day, the sacred day that intimate companions mark to celebrate their love and affection for one another. If you’re thinking about making a study of how couples celebrate this day, the Muslim world and the milieus of the radical Left are not the places you should be spending  your time. Indeed, it’s pretty hard to outdo jihadists and “progressives” when it comes to the hatred of Valentine’s Day. And this hatred is precisely the territory on which the contemporary romance between the radical Left and Islamic fanaticism is formed.

The train is never late: every year when Valentine’s comes around, the Muslim world erupts with ferocious rage, with its leaders doing everything in their power to suffocate the festivity that comes with the celebration of private romance. Imams around the world thunder against Valentine’s every year — and the celebration of the day itself is literally outlawed in Islamist states.

This year, the Indonesian Ulema Council in Dumai, Riau, and the Education, Youth and Sport Agency in Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara, issued a dire warning to people against celebrating Valentine’s Day, stating that the Day of Love “is against Islam.” This is because, as the Indonesian Ulema Council 2011 judgment explained, Valentine’s Day takes young people into a “dark world.”

Malaysia’s State mufti chief assistant Mat Jais Kamos keeps his mind focused on that dark world and so, a few days ago, he ordered young people to stay clear of Valentine’s Day: “The celebration emphasizes the relationship between two individuals rather than the love between family members or married couples,” he affirmed, and department officials backed up his command by distributing leaflets to remind Muslims of the 2006 ban on Valentine’s Day issued by the state fatwa council.

In Islamic Uzbekistan this year, several universities have seen to it that students actually sign contracts promising not to celebrate Valentine’s.

In Pakistan on Valentine’s Day last year, supporters of Jamat-e-Islami, Pakistan’s main religious party, took to the streets in Peshawar to vehemently denounce the day of love. Demonizing it as “un-Islamic,” the Muslim protestors shouted that the day has “spread immodesty in the world.” Shahzad Ahmed, the local leader of the student wing of Jamat-e-Islami, declared that the organization will not “allow” any Valentine’s Day functions, warning that if Pakistani law enforcement did not prevent Pakistanis from holding such functions, that the Jamat-e-Islami would stop them “in our own way.” Khalid Waqas Chamkani, a leader in Jamat-e-Islami, calls Valentine’s a “shameful day.”

These Islamist forces in Pakistan cannot, of course, completely succeed in preventing couples from showing love to each other on this special day, and so many Pakistanis still cryptically celebrate Valentine’s Day and exchange presents in secret.

All these Islamic outcries against Valentine’s Day reflect myriad other efforts to suffocate the day of love throughout the Muslim War. For instance, in Aceh province in Indonesia every year, Muslim clerics issue stern warnings to Muslims against observing Valentine’s Day. Tgk Feisal, general secretary of the Aceh Ulema Association (HUDA), stated two years ago that “It is haram for Muslims to observe Valentine’s Day because it does not accord with Islamic Sharia.” He added that the government must watch out for youths participating in Valentine’s Day activities in Aceh. One can only imagine what happens to the guilty parties.

The Saudis consistently punish the slightest hint of celebrating Valentine’s Day. The Kingdom and its religious “morality” police always officially issue a stern warning that anyone caught even thinking about Valentine’s Day will suffer some of the most painful penalties of Sharia Law. This is typical of the Saudis of course. As Daniel Pipes has reported, the Saudi regime takes a firm stand against Valentine’s every year, and the Saudi religious police monitor stores selling roses and other gifts. They arrest women for wearing red on that day. Every year the Saudis announce that, starting the week of Valentine’s and until a certain day in the future, it is illegal for a merchant to sell any item that is red, or that in any way hints of being connected to Valentine’s Day. As Claude Cartaginese has reported, any merchant in Saudi Arabia found selling such items as red roses, red clothing of any kind (especially dresses), toys, heart-shaped products, candy, greeting cards or any items wrapped in red, has to destroy them or face the wrath of Saudi justice.

Christian overseas workers living in Saudi Arabia from the Philippines and other countries always take extra precautions, heeding the Saudis’ warning to them specifically to avoid greeting anyone with the words “Happy Valentine’s Day” or exchanging any gift that reeks of romance. A spokesman for a Philippine workers group has commented: “We are urging fellow Filipinos in the Middle East, especially lovers, just to celebrate their Valentine’s Day secretly and with utmost care.”

The Iranian despots, meanwhile, consistently try to make sure that the Saudis don’t outdo them in annihilating Valentine’s Day. Iran’s “morality” police consistently order shops to remove heart-and-flower decorations and images of couples embracing on this day — and anytime around this day.

Typical of this whole pathology in the Islamic world was a development witnessed back on February 10, 2006, when activists of the radical Kashmiri Islamic group Dukhtaran-e-Millat (Daughters of the Community) went on a rampage in Srinagar, the main city of the Indian portion of Kashmir. Some two dozen black-veiled Muslim women stormed gift and stationery shops, burning Valentine’s Day cards and posters showing couples together….

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  1. London Jim says

    Feb 14, 2014 at 9:37 am

    The concept of love must be hard for Muhammedans to grapple with, let alone get their collective heads around Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116.
    Chumps.

  2. fair_dinkum says

    Feb 14, 2014 at 10:07 am

    these bastards would boo santa claus.

  3. fair_dinkum says

    Feb 14, 2014 at 10:08 am

    there’s an ‘aussie-ism’ for u LJ 😉

    • Naruq says

      Feb 15, 2014 at 11:13 am

      Hooker?

  4. mortimer says

    Feb 14, 2014 at 10:18 am

    The Golden Rule is alien to Islam.

  5. Charli Main says

    Feb 14, 2014 at 10:48 am

    The wiring of the “brains” ?? of Muslim women defies any sane comprehension. These brain dead zombies actually fight to be socially worthless and the sexual slaves of Muslim men.
    Beaten, raped, abused and treated like worthless garbage but that’s all wonderful because we are happy Muslimas.

  6. Richard Parmene says

    Feb 14, 2014 at 4:12 pm

    Love is a concept totally foreign to the muslim mind. Women are chattel created for the male’s enjoyment. The Quhran mostly teaches hate of non muslims and fear of eternal punishment. Read the Quhran and you’ll find very few instances of the word “love”. But you’ll find over 400 instances of “punishment” and “eternal fire”, i.e. almost on every page!

    • eib says

      Feb 16, 2014 at 12:54 pm

      Too true.
      They despise love because they have nothing of it.
      I also believe that they despise God for the same reasons, and bring closer their desert demon.

  7. JIMJFOX says

    Feb 14, 2014 at 6:49 pm

    Here’s what the Koran says about love, hate and fear:
    “While there are over 300 references in the Koran to Allah and fear, there are 49 references to love. Of these love references, 39 are negative such as the 14 negative references to love of money, power, other gods and status.
    Three verses command humanity to love Allah and 2 verses are about how Allah loves a believer. There are 25 verses about how Allah does not love kafirs.
    This leaves 5 verses about love. Of these 5, 3 are about loving kin or a Muslim brother. One verse commands a Muslim to give for the love of Allah. This leaves only one quasi-universal verse about love: give what you love to charity and even this is contaminated by dualism since Muslim charity only goes to other Muslims.
    So much for love. Fear is what Allah demands.”
    – (Bill Warner from symposium ‘A New Koran?’)

  8. JIMJFOX says

    Feb 14, 2014 at 6:51 pm

    No wonder- they’ve had their clitorises hacked away and feel no pleasure in sex.

  9. gravenimage says

    Feb 14, 2014 at 8:12 pm

    “Every year when Valentine’s comes around, the Muslim world erupts with ferocious rage”
    ……………………………….

    *This* is what causes pious Muslims to feel ferocious rage—the specter of anyone expressing love, affection, or friendship.

    More:

    “The celebration emphasizes the relationship between two individuals rather than the love between family members or married couples”
    ……………………………….

    Even were this true, it would be utterly innocuous. But it is also a lie. Young children give cards to their parents, especially their mothers—often ones they have made themselves.

    And married couples celebrating is s major part of Valentine’s Day—my husband and I are going out this evening for dinner and a film, as are thousands of other couples. Valentine’s Day is also a celebration of married love. But Islam rejects married love, as well.

    ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

  10. jassy says

    Feb 15, 2014 at 3:24 am

    i respect the fact Valentine is banned for Muslims but why jeopardize the whole occasion by stopping others to celebrate it as well? that’s just mere evil and selfish.

  11. Carmen Sporidis says

    Feb 15, 2014 at 4:32 am

    I grow up under dictatorship in East-Germany and live with hypocrisy all the time. When they erect the Berlin Wall they name it Antifascist Protection Fence. Each time I read Burka or something for cover woman this reminds me the communist cover words, euphemistic terms. Because I speak German and Greek I was thinking a name in this languages, but than I came up with “Cotton Jail”, because its from cotton and its a real Jail too. I hope I find except my own family and friends more people using this name too. I see a picture from 2 Afghan woman alone in a place nowhere, wearing this cotton jail and it touch me deeply, I put this picture on my facebook. I hope some day they can share our freedom too.

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 15, 2014 at 6:12 pm

      Carmen Sporidis wrote:

      I grow up under dictatorship in East-Germany…
      …………………………

      I’m so glad you’re now living in freedom, Carmen. I believe that those who have known tyranny often understand better than most the threat of Islam to our liberties.

      A bit belated, but Glücklicher Valentinstag! ♥

    • Uncle Vladdi says

      Feb 16, 2014 at 6:39 pm

      Others sarcastically and euphemistically call the burka the “FREEDOM SACK.”

      😉

      • richard Sherman says

        Feb 16, 2014 at 7:30 pm

        Try that FGM..There’s a real Islamic love cut!

  12. Cindy Mccoy says

    Feb 15, 2014 at 5:17 am

    These folks are against love!!!! And the Bible says that God is love!! They are against God, the true God. The only true God, Jesus Christ is against violence, this is all the muslim folks are about! They will kill for the wrong or what they think is wrong at the drop of a hat. They do not know love at all. How else could a mother raise a son to kill himself and others????? It is sick just plain sick!!!!

  13. richard Sherman says

    Feb 15, 2014 at 8:31 am

    Muslims love the decapitation of infidels. Period.

    • Mrs McGuire says

      Feb 18, 2014 at 7:18 pm

      Do these infidel haters and killers not realize that the American “infidels” will kill them back?

      • richard sherman says

        Feb 18, 2014 at 7:55 pm

        They do not care. Muslims are only guaranteed Paradise if they kill infidels and are killed while doing it. Good works mean nothing.

  14. Nan says

    Feb 15, 2014 at 10:38 am

    Love is a threat to Islam’s existence.

    • Champ says

      Feb 18, 2014 at 7:51 pm

      Spot on, Nan! …good one 🙂

  15. David from Britain says

    Feb 15, 2014 at 12:58 pm

    It won’t be long before we hear calls from the usual suspects for our gutless government to ban Valentine’s Day for fear of `upsetting’ the fast growing muslim population in the UK!

    • richard Sherman says

      Feb 15, 2014 at 2:09 pm

      Obama and Cameron revere the SOCIOPATH MUHAMMAD who PERSONALLY decapitated 900 unarmed Jews in 627. Soon they will ban Valentine’s Day and promote more Muslim sociopathic ( is that redundant?) Behavior?

  16. fair_dinkum says

    Feb 15, 2014 at 1:20 pm

    i watch moslem couples in public here in sydney. i have never seen one hold hands.. it seems the men are either berating the women or making them walk behind them.

    moslem women.. are terrorised every day. yet they take it. further, if they stand up to it, the anger reaches a whole new level. if only they would just universally say no.. no more.but that they comply and wreck shops etc shows the level of control.

    most young pakistani men are too poor to marry. and there doesnt seem to be any alternative, you cant have a girlfriend or lover.. you have to marry them. which is why moslem men act so abhorrently towards western women when they immigrate desperation and perversion from years of suppression.

    so what do you do? you speak out violently against happiness.. just as you mullahs tell you to.
    and try to mar a day that just wont be stopped in the west. its not only a religious event for some, its just an expression of joy by all.

    love and compassion unite us. hate and destruction unites them.

    happy (belated) St Valentines day.

  17. TeeNtheWildlife says

    Feb 15, 2014 at 1:59 pm

    Sounds as if that “dark world” is better known to the west and the USA in particular as self determination, a personal concept that is anathema to the muslim world.

  18. Bob Wierdsma says

    Feb 15, 2014 at 3:33 pm

    Looks like Islam is a sledgehammer religion where love and compassion are not tolerated and indeed villified.

  19. Marius says

    Feb 15, 2014 at 4:25 pm

    They really are incapable of embarrassment aren’t they? Photos of greasy muzzies burning paper that says “I love you” really says it all.

  20. Linda Wolf says

    Feb 15, 2014 at 4:29 pm

    Harry Potter said it well, “I feel sorry for you…you will never know the meaning of love or friendship”

    • richard Sherman says

      Feb 15, 2014 at 4:47 pm

      They live and die to kill infidels. There is no other purpose for a Muslim’ s life.

      • Defcon 4 says

        Feb 15, 2014 at 7:37 pm

        I’d say some of muslimes would be content to have the najjis kaffir live in eternal subjugation to muslimes — paying jizya to support the islamic states which persecute/subjugate them.

  21. joe says

    Feb 15, 2014 at 10:53 pm

    ok folks
    easy as pie
    drop 1 drone on the cube(kaba) and they(moslems)will follow you, if you can`t do it then back off! and live and let live in peace!

  22. Lobby Ludd says

    Feb 16, 2014 at 3:33 am

    When I was on holiday in Libya, before Gadhafi was deposed, I bought a valentine card and a teddy bear with “Be my Valentine” for my wife. They were widely on sale.
    Now the Country as been liberated by the use of NATO air power, and the despotic regime deposed. There is no tolerance to anyone who does not agree with fundamental islam.
    So much for western democracy and NATO, Europe as now gained enemies of democracy within 200 miles of its borders.

  23. UncleVladdi says

    Feb 16, 2014 at 6:42 pm

    Re:

    “Malaysia’s State mufti chief assistant Mat Jais Kamos keeps his mind focused on that dark world and so, a few days ago, he ordered young people to stay clear of Valentine’s Day: “The celebration emphasizes the relationship between two individuals rather than the love between family members or married couples,”

    ISLAM IS ALL ABOUT GROUP-MIGHT-MAKES-RIGHT CONFORMIST EXTORTION.

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