Islamic supremacists don’t just want to bypass and denigrate Valentine’s Day. They want you to do so also, and if you don’t, the stones and bullets will start flying. Here again we see that morality in Islamic culture is not so much a matter of virtue freely chosen, but of people living in terror of committing a transgression that could get them killed. Contrary to the fond of imaginings of non-Muslims such as Robert P. George and Dinesh D’Souza, it is not a Republic of Virtue, but an Empire of Fear.
“Valentine’s Day vs Haya Day: 3 Peshawar University students injured in clash,” from AFP, February 14 (thanks to Pamela Geller):
PESHAWAR: While one group of students of Peshawar University celebrated Valentine’s Day, another celebrated Haya Day (modesty day) leading to a clash that turned violent, Express News reported on Friday.
Students threw rocks at fellow students, forcing the police to intervene. Violence escalated as the students pulled out weapons and started firing at police officers as well.
The police also fired back and thirteen students were taken into custody.
The students also set three rooms of the hostel on fire.
“The situation is under control now. Three students were wounded in the clash,” local police official Fazalur Rehman told AFP, adding that police were searching for the students involved to arrest them.
One student had a gunshot wound to his hand, he added.
Valentine’s Day is increasingly popular among younger Pakistanis, many of whom have taken up the custom of giving cards, chocolates and gifts to their sweethearts to celebrate the occasion.
But Pakistan remains a deeply traditional Muslim society where many disapprove of Valentine’s Day as a Western import.
No kidding, really?
Champ says
On a positive note …
We are made “in His image” which means we have within us the same basic make-up of who God is. Romance is built into every human being, male or female, because God is romance. It is who He is; just as He is Love and Truth and Peace and Imagination. The Bible is full of romance, and here are a few examples listed:
http://www.openbible.info/topics/romance
boakai ngombu says
The Only God is Love.
The Allah god (unknowable; the best of all deceivers) is NOT, for it is “sin” to not murder for the Allah god, to not rape, to not despoil, to not destroy … it is ruinous of the brothers down at the mosque to not seek to destroy civilizations.
john spielman says
this is because Allah is Satan in disguise and the Bible says Satan has been a murderer and a liar and deceiver from the beginning.
fair_dinkum says
i predicted a mob attack on someone over this..
ah pakistan .. happy valentines day x
Defcon 4 says
I predict muslimes will be killing Christians somewhere next week. I wonder if my magical prescience will come true!
JIMJFOX says
Here are a few snippets from the muslim fatwa in Malaysia:
“Practices such as the inverse of this is already a teenager and annual Taqwim necessarily Christian”. Yup, no idea what it means.
“Day celebration to celebrate the act is contrary to the syara Belong ‘because it has elements of Christian faith and lead to moral kebobrokkan. In addition, the response was not favorable diary with scenes such as two evil-doubled, berpeleseran hatta lead to sex act”.
A total brain-wrecker. Even the inclusion of Malay/Indonesian words doesn’t help anyone to comprehend what is being said here.
How about: “Attitude to exit town and holding each other beloved ceremony to celebrate the day by holding a party or simmer event”. Did you get that?
This is the level of intellect in Islam. Brain dead, dangerous bastards.
Bettina says
This jihad crap is really escalating! During my youth growing up in Morocco, NOBODY knew about Valentine’s Day, including us Westerners. So there were no Arab protests even in the land of our North African neighbors. Now, these evil protests are breaking all past boundaries. I can’t fathom why, since the days of 9/11 or right before, Islamists have propagated (as militants and terrorists, way beyond the mere fact of being Muslim) to such an extent. They can’t blame the 1948 birth of Israel, which precedes by far this global aberration. They blame our “foreign policies” as usual, but beyond their lame excuses, why have they become so emboldened, simultaneously in their own cursed lands, and on our own continents in the West?
Know Thy Enemy says
They have emboldened because they encounter little to no resistance from non-Muslims or from ‘moderate’ Muslims. Non-Muslims, both influential and others, do not dare to even correctly name the root cause of all jihad terrorism. With such cowardice on our part, why won’t the bullies break past whatever boundaries they wish!
dumbledoresarmy says
I think it’s been ‘building’ for a long time, and has now reached some kind of tipping point. To alter the metaphor, we’re seeing a “phase shift”. I don’t think it’s happening out of the blue.
There’s been *at least* fifty years of petrodollar-fuelled propaganda building up to this, getting Muslims back to that old-time religion, and at the same time, grooming non-Muslims for dhimmitude and infiltrating and subverting non-Muslim institutions of all kinds (the UN, churches, education system, media, judiciary, governments, military, police force – these last two especially in otherwise Christian African countries but also more and more within the West). And don’t forget the Hajj. A significant percentage of the Muslim gestalt converges on their command-and-control centre *every year*…I think that, formally or informally, they kind of get their ‘marching orders’ there, and take them back home.
The other thing is that the Muslims have reached “critical mass” (mostly by migrating and/ or overbreeding) both within many countries where they previously didn’t have a presence at all and also within countries where they were previously a rather smaller minority.
Peter Hammond, who wrote a book about “Islam, Jihad and Slavery”, once calculated that the trouble starts in earnest as soon as the Muslim percentage anywhere reaches ten percent.
And the thing is – Muslims now constitute *twenty-five percent” of the *world* population…and jihad is breaking out all over, because they’re well over that ten percent threshold. They feel *strong* – numbers, petrodollars fuelling jihad incitement – and they are going into “attack” mode.
Ima Valentine says
Modesty means you don’t draw attraction to yourself. When you are modest, your dress is conservative and your actions reflect self-control, and humility.
If these students wanted to protest Valentine’s Day, they could have held a peaceful protest and candlelight vigil. Or done street outreach to talk to, and educate peers about Haya Day. The could have stayed in prayer, and fasting. Being an example of modesty in speech, dress would have encouraged others to consider their message.
These violent protestors are a disgrace to Haya Day. Maybe in jail they will learn some “modesty”!
gravenimage says
“Ima Valentine” wrote:
Modesty means you don’t draw attraction to yourself. When you are modest, your dress is conservative and your actions reflect self-control, and humility.
If these students wanted to protest Valentine’s Day, they could have held a peaceful protest and candlelight vigil. Or done street outreach to talk to, and educate peers about Haya Day. The could have stayed in prayer, and fasting. Being an example of modesty in speech, dress would have encouraged others to consider their message.
These violent protestors are a disgrace to Haya Day. Maybe in jail they will learn some “modesty”!
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What a steaming pile of Taqiyya. “Ima Valentine”—nice swerve—acts as though these Jihadiists were besmirching the sanctity of “Haya Day”.
But what is “Haya Day”? This is not some ancient Islamic holiday that happens to fall on Valentine’s Day—instead, Jihadists Jamaat-e-Islami decided to institute “Haya Day” in opposition to Valentine’s Day.
In other words, “Haya Day” is not being “misunderstood” by Jihadists—it was *instituted* by Jihadists.
http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-5-232409-Haya-Day
So their attacking people trying to celebrate romantic love *is* how the ‘holiday’ is celebrated.
Also, note “Ima Valentine’s” taking it as a given that “Haya Day” should supercede Valentine’s Day—just that it should do so through “education”.
In other words, she wants the threat of violence while supposedly denouncing violence itself. That makes her a “slow Jihadist”, while she can pretend to tut-tut at the fast Jihadists of Jamaat-e-Islam.
Somehow I very much doubt we are going to see “Ima Valentine” here at Jihad Watch again, at least not under this username. Most likely this is “drive by” Taqiyya.
Jay Boo says
Islam is not a race or even a nation.
Islam is just a flaw of human weakness tempted by Satan.
Islam is just an ideology that feeds on character flaws noting more.
Islam is just an opportunistic virus.
Christians and Jews Buddhists and Hindus are not inherently ‘better’ than Muslims.
When the ideology is shown for what it is separated from the individual it loses its ability to hide in a host carrier or ‘convert’.
Islam tries to hide behind a mutated public image but truth is relentless.
Champ says
Thumbs up, Jay Boo!
Jay Boo says
Thanks Champ,
“Satan has something in us to perplex us with, for we have all sinned; but when he would disturb Christ, he found nothing sinful to help him.”
Salah says
Things are changing, Jay Boo. Many Muslims are fed up with Jihad and Sharia, the fall of the MB in Egypt is a great proof. Egyptians were ruled by a pro-sharia government, yet, they sent it, as well as his sharia, to the dustbin of history.
Here’s another recent example, this time in Lebanon:
Lebanese rally behind Olympic skier who posed nude
http://sports.ca.msn.com/winter-olympics/news/lebanese-rally-behind-olympic-skier-who-posed-nude
P.S. Thanks for backing me up on another thread!
Jay Boo says
No problem Salah,
When it comes to seeing through Islamic ideology you have x-ray vision.
(In my opinion) Some well meaning folks inadvertently elevate Islam by attacking Muslims allowing Islamic ideology to slither away free in the chaos.
AlreadyDead says
Aw gee, I knew two Lebanese Christians whose entire families have left Lebanon. Why? Islamonazi persecution. Yet you try to tell me the reform of islam0nazism is right around the corner and islam0nazism is getting better. The once majority population of Lebanon is shrinking annually, ask any Lebanese Christian why. Get bent.
Nick says
Islam is the way of life—believed by Muslim to be the ideal—of a murderous, raping, pedophilic, sociopathic, psychopathic, narcistic, marauding desert pirate conartist named Mohammed. And requires its followers to force others submit to it or be killed.
Cindy Mccoy says
These people have lost their minds!! Really, they are demon possessed. Why else would a person try to and succeed in killing others for showing that they have love for someone???? They are off the deep end. I pray that the God of Abraham, Issac and Jacob would set things right in the Middle East. It will never be right until He does. Come quickly, Lord Jesus!!!
Rose B says
Muslims don’t feel love. The males feel lust…the females (lacking a clitoris) feel nothing. Valentine’s Day is meaningless to Muslims.
Eric Snow says
Although many Muslims have a bad sense of priorities (i.e., many promote literal jihad while also condemning observing St. Valentines Day), it is worth remembering that this day is rooted in the ancient Roman observance of Lupercalia. The Catholic Church tamed it and renamed it, although historical disputes continue over which person “St. Valentine” really refers to. The Lupercalia was an immoral fertility festival that dedicated to the Roman god Pan, who was half man, half goat. At the end of the festivities, a man and woman would be randomly matched up for a year by drawing names like lots. Christians who take the Bible seriously should remember the principle of Deuteronomy 12:29-31, which condemned ancient Israel if they copied the pagan practices of the surrounding Canaanite nations. Conscientious Christians shouldn’t rebadge and relabel ancient pagan holidays while still thinking God accepts that.
David says
Dear Mr. Spencer,
Pakistan is a Muslim country, indeed it was the wish of the Muslims in India to have their own country when India was granted it’s independence in 1947. Yes, I agree that from a Western perspective the conduct of the students is reprehencible, but this is their country and the vast majority living in Pakistan do so because it is a Muslim country.
Frankly, I’m sick to death reading about the horrors of Islam perpetrated in Muslim countries, leave them to get on with their lives in the manner they wish. Who are we in the West to tell them how to conduct themselves? I have no intrest in their barbaric ways or the nonsense set out in the tenets of their religion however when these same people come to live in the West and espouse the benefits of their culture and that we in the West should follow their lead, THEN I object in the strongest possible terms and similarly object when our weak and appeasing politicians giving these people house room. They should be sent back from whence they came before they can utter the predictable, and cooool “Allahu Akbar”
gravenimage says
David wrote:
Frankly, I’m sick to death reading about the horrors of Islam perpetrated in Muslim countries, leave them to get on with their lives in the manner they wish. Who are we in the West to tell them how to conduct themselves?
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Who, indeed? If they want to slaughter Christians, and Hindus, and Sikhs, it is certainly their sovereign right to do so. How dare we even consider criticizing them! sarc/off
gravenimage says
Pakistan: Devout Muslim students stone other students for celebrating Valentine’s Day, fire on police, set hostel ablaze
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Given all the frothing-at-the-mouth Fatwas issued against any celebration of romantic love, I knew it was only a matter of time before some hell-hole erupted in violence. *Ugh*.
More:
Islamic supremacists don’t just want to bypass and denigrate Valentine’s Day. They want you to do so also, and if you don’t, the stones and bullets will start flying. Here again we see that morality in Islamic culture is not so much a matter of virtue freely chosen, but of people living in terror of committing a transgression that could get them killed. Contrary to the fond of imaginings of non-Muslims such as Robert P. George and Dinesh D’Souza, it is not a Republic of Virtue, but an Empire of Fear.
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That’s *exactly* what this is.
More:
PESHAWAR: While one group of students of Peshawar University celebrated Valentine’s Day, another celebrated Haya Day (modesty day) leading to a clash that turned violent
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Has anyone else heard of “Haya Day” before now?
My guess is that this was cooked up recently so that anyone caught celebrating Valentine’s Day could be said to be violating “modesty day”.
And what is “modesty in Islam? This is a creed that sacralizes pedophilia, marital rape, and sex slavery, but that considers any expression of romantic love or affection to be Haram.
And it enforces such sick concepts of “modesty” with the Hijab, the Burqa, and “honor Killing”.
Bradamante says
There *is* such a thing as a beneficial concept of modesty, but the image above is pretty much the antithesis of it. Imagine if their so-called modesty day involved people being civil and considerate to one another, engaging in chaste activities to strengthen non-sexual friendships, making gestures of affection with no sexual demands — not everyone would prefer that to Valentine’s Day, but at least they’d be putting forward a positive vision of how people can treat one another in a civilized society, with decency and respect. But no, they want to throw rocks, scream at people, and generally violate other people’s boundaries. So much for “modesty.”
Tommy Peters says
Spitting into a tornado. December is and has always been a proselytizing documentary. It begins mid-November when malls light up and DJs and VJs warm the waves with the holiday sentiment. Children especially, are susceptible to the incessant programming of the Christmas sentiment and when Disney adds to its list of holiday themed thrillers and animations, the old clerics realize that the battle may be lost. Hot on the heels of December is the February documentary. Proselytizing begins mid-January. Malls light up and ‘love bytes’ warm the waves, while Hollywood lines up its ‘romance’ themed bi-sexual offerings for the Oscars. Clerics naturally cringe when they are spitting into a tornado, but as they rant out fatwas to ‘protect’ their susceptible youth from ‘decay’, they scapegoat the ‘real incarnation’ for good measure.