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Robert Spencer in FrontPage Mag: Muslims, Our Natural Allies?

Feb 6, 2014 6:40 am By Robert Spencer

NaturalAllies

In FrontPage this morning I discuss how First Things and National Review turn a blind eye to jihad violence and Sharia injustice.

World Hijab Day was February 1, and Princeton Professor Robert P. George marked the occasion by publishing a piece in the Catholic journal First Things entitled “Muslims, Our Natural Allies.” He included in his article a video in which a World Hijab Day organizer stoutly defended her right to cover her hair; George proclaimed: “I stand with the young woman in the above video in defense of modesty, chastity, and piety.” Michael Potemra at National Review led the cheering: “Let’s take a moment to praise the intellectual fearlessness of NR’s friend Robby George.”

George acknowledges that “in certain cultures, including some Muslim cultures, the covering of women is taken to an extreme and reflects a very real subjugation, just as in sectors of western culture, the objectification of women (including the sexualization of children at younger and younger ages) by cultural pressures to pornify reflects a very real (though less direct and obvious) subjugation.” Yet are these really our only choices? Women who choose modesty, chastity and piety, and women who “pornify” themselves?

Modesty is a virtue only when it is freely adopted, not enforced by threats. Yet George takes no notice of the fact that many Muslim women don the hijab not out of modesty, but out of fear. The woman in his featured video defends her freedom to wear the hijab, but it is far more likely that women will be victimized for not wearing it than for wearing it. Aqsa Parvez’s Muslim father choked her to death with her hijab after she refused to wear it. Amina Muse Ali was a Christian woman in Somalia whom Muslims murdered because she wasn’t wearing a hijab. Forty women were murdered in Iraq in 2007 for not wearing the hijab.

Will Robert George and Michael Potemra pause to say a few words in memory of Aqsa, Amina, and the forty Iraqi women? Will they honor the memory of Amira, an Egyptian girl who committed suicide after being brutalized for her family for refusing to wear the hijab? Will they defend the freedom of Alya Al-Safar, whose Muslim cousin threatened to kill her and harm her family because she stopped wearing the hijab in Britain; and of Amira Osman Hamid, who faces whipping in Sudan for refusing to wear the hijab; and of the Muslim and non-Muslim teachers at the Islamic College of South Australia who were told that they had to wear the hijab or be fired; and of the women in Chechnya whom police shot with paintballs because they weren’t wearing hijab; and of the women also in Chechnya who were threatened by men with automatic rifles for not wearing hijab; and of the elementary school teachers in Tunisia who were threatened with death for not wearing hijab; and of the Syrian schoolgirls who were forbidden to go to school unless they wore hijab; and of the women in Gaza whom Hamas has forced to wear hijab; and of the women in Iran who protested against the regime by daring to take off their legally-required hijab; and of the women in London whom Muslim thugs threatened to murder if they didn’t wear hijab; and of the anonymous young Muslim woman who doffed her hijab outside her home and started living a double life in fear of her parents, and all the other women and girls who have been killed or threatened, or who live in fear for daring not to wear the hijab?

“I am a Catholic,” George proclaims, and adds: “My Church teaches me to esteem our Muslim friends and to work with them in the cause of promoting justice and moral values. I am happy to stand with them in defense of what is right and good.” He lauds several Muslim leaders for standing against abortion and pornography, and in defense of religious liberty.

It is good that a Muslim, Asma Uddin, is standing for religious liberty, but she is doing so in defiance of her own religious tradition. Muhammad himself commanded: “Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him” (Bukhari 9.84.57). This is still the position of all the schools of Islamic jurisprudence, both Sunni and Shi’ite. Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the most renowned and prominent Muslim cleric in the world, has stated: “The Muslim jurists are unanimous that apostates must be punished, yet they differ as to determining the kind of punishment to be inflicted upon them. The majority of them, including the four main schools of jurisprudence (Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi`i, and Hanbali) as well as the other four schools of jurisprudence (the four Shiite schools of Az-Zaidiyyah, Al-Ithna-`ashriyyah, Al-Ja`fariyyah, and Az-Zaheriyyah) agree that apostates must be executed.” There is only disagreement over whether the law applies only to men, or to women also – some authorities hold that apostate women should not be killed, but only imprisoned in their houses until death.

Cairo’s Al-Azhar University, the most prestigious and influential institution in the Sunni world, certifies as a reliable guide to the practice and faith of the orthodox Sunni Muslim community a manual of Islamic law that states: “When a person who has reached puberty and is sane voluntarily apostatizes from Islam, he deserves to be killed” (Reliance of the Traveller o8.1). Although the right to kill an apostate is reserved in Islamic law to the leader of the community and other Muslims can theoretically be punished for taking this duty upon themselves, in practice a Muslim who kills an apostate needs to pay no indemnity and perform no expiatory acts (as he must in other kinds of murder cases under classic Islamic law). This accommodation is made because killing an apostate “is killing someone who deserves to die” (Reliance of the Traveller o8.4).

Qaradawi even said last year: “If they had gotten rid of the apostasy punishment, Islam wouldn’t exist today.” The persecutions of apostates from Islam (including, but by no means limited to, Mohammed Hegazy in Egypt, Youcef Nadarkhani in Iran, and Said Musa and Abdul Rahman in Afghanistan) demonstrates that for all too many Muslim authorities, there is no religious liberty in Islam. In working for religious liberty, Asma Uddin would be putting her life in jeopardy in many Muslim countries.

It is taken for granted these days even among many conservatives (including, apparently, those at First Things and National Review) that to point out such unpleasant facts reflects more poorly on the one pointing out the atrocities than on those committing them, and is a manifestation of “hatred,” “bigotry,” “intolerance” and “Islamophobia.” George goes even farther, grounding his naïve and uncritical stance in the teachings of the Second Vatican Council about how Muslims “worship God, who is one, living and subsistent, merciful and almighty, the Creator of heaven and earth, who has also spoken to men,” and who “highly esteem an upright life and worship God, especially by way of prayer, almsgiving, and fasting.”

That’s fine, but did the fathers of the Second Vatican Council really mean by these words to exempt Islam and Muslims from justifiable criticism for human rights abuses sanctioned by Islamic law, to say nothing of the increasing violent persecution of Christians in Egypt, Nigeria, Syria, Iraq, Pakistan and elsewhere? So many Catholics like George invoke Vatican II to say of Muslims, “We both worship the same God,” as if that forecloses all discussion of jihad terror and Muslim persecution. Yet it could also be said of child-molesting Roman Catholic priests and the members of the Westboro Baptist Church – don’t both groups worship God who is one and esteem an upright life, or at least pay lip service to uprightness?

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  1. Beagle says

    Feb 6, 2014 at 8:12 am

    The comments are running about 100 to 1 against that bit of idiocy allowed to despoil what was once a significant political publication.

    How many acid facials, rapes, and “uncovered meat” stories are enough to clue in a National Review writer? Nobody knows, but I am leaning toward infinity.

  2. jerryj26 says

    Feb 6, 2014 at 8:20 am

    Natural allies? Tell that to the very first US Marines who took the fight to the Barbary Pirates in order to free US citizens from muslim slavery.

  3. mortimer says

    Feb 6, 2014 at 8:51 am

    Princeton Professor Robert P. George is an enabler of evil. By turning a blind eye to the oppression of women, Christians, Bahai’is, Zoroastrians, Ahmadis, atheists, Buddhists, Jews.

    Muslims against PORN??? What a howler!!! An organizer for visiting Islamic preachers to London found foreign imams, especially from Pakistan and Egypt, to be ADDICTED TO PORN!!! They refused to preach in the evening, because they spent their evenings watching porn!!! Ha.

    Islam is our ‘friend’ the way Nazism and communism are our friend. A Princeton professor who thinks this way has made his name a mockery for generations to come!

    • Salah says

      Feb 6, 2014 at 10:38 am

      “Muslims against PORN??? What a howler!!!”

      What Muslims watch…according to Google Trends!!!

      http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2010/08/what-muslims-watchce-que-les-musulmans.html

      • Champ says

        Feb 6, 2014 at 2:51 pm

        LOL!!! ..no kidding Salah; especially since muslims embrace SEX HEAVEN …jeez they have sex on the brain!

  4. mortimer says

    Feb 6, 2014 at 9:00 am

    Princeton Professor Robert P. George’s ‘natural ally’ is busy destroying churches and murdering Catholics and other Christians wherever it is unrestrained by government. This low level of study and knowledge of Islam’s history of persecution and CURRENT EVENTS is appalling and unacceptable in a tenured PROFESSOR.

    Shame on Princeton! Shame on other professors if they do not speak out!

  5. Tradewinds says

    Feb 6, 2014 at 9:01 am

    Here is this clueless Princeton professor:

    http://web.princeton.edu/sites/jmadison/people/george.html

    • Jerry says

      Feb 6, 2014 at 9:58 am

      And here is what the esteemed Professor defends as “Natural Allies”:

      http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/hamas.asp

      In particular Article Seven thereof where Hamas,
      as the self proclaimed “Palestinian Branch of the Muslim Brotherhood”
      re-affirm their commitment to and dedication to the killing of all
      Jews of this Planet.

      But what has all to do with me? you may ask, especially if your are not a Jew, but a Christian, a Catholic perhaps?

      Not much. The Jews are the prime and first target.

      You, are only next!

      BTW: Aisha was only six when the Plundere for Profit PBUH (P… Be Upon Him) “married” her.

      Was she wearing a Hijab when that paedophile “consumated” that “marriage” when she was only nine?

  6. Jay Boo says

    Feb 6, 2014 at 9:37 am

    World Hijab Day
    to honor the young women who are murdered by their incestuous fathers and brothers who succumb to perversion because they were not wearing the hijab.
    World Hijab Day
    All young girls over a certain age and all pretty camels must wear the hijab lest Muslim men lose all self control.

  7. RodSerling says

    Feb 6, 2014 at 10:05 am

    77% of Muslim women who wear hijab (veil, etc.) in France say they were threatened by Islamists into wearing it.
    http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/999jpabw.asp

  8. gfmucci says

    Feb 6, 2014 at 10:13 am

    The ignorance of especially conservative media, which I presumptuously thought knew better, never ceases to surprise me and reduce any sense of hopefulness for the salvation of our culture. Beginning with the naive proclamations of the Catholic Church, and especially those of the current Pope, the wishful thinking of commonality of Christian and Islamic doctrine, morality, and tolerance is thoroughly erroneous and disgusting.

  9. duh_swami says

    Feb 6, 2014 at 10:16 am

    So many Catholics like George invoke Vatican II to say of Muslims, “We both worship the same God…

    Allah is not God.
    One of the roots of delusion and error. If they worship Allah then they have to accept the Quran as Holy writ. That means they have to accept every aya as the ‘word of God’, in the same way they see the Bible as the word of God. That means, that in order not to be hypocrites, they cannot disagree with Allah’s orders as expressed in Q 5:33, 24:2, 8:12, 4:74, and dozens more. As a true worshipper of the same God, the Catholic, in order not to be a hypocrite, must also advocate or at least agree these brutalities ordered by Allah, are not only desirable, but preferable. After all, they are the holy words of God, aren’t they?
    In the painting business, this is called, ‘painting yourself into a corner’. In the janitorial world, it is called, ‘a janitorial nightmare’…

    • Defcon 4 says

      Feb 7, 2014 at 4:22 pm

      Yep and admitting that any part of islam is wrong, is almost as good as admitting its all wrong.

      I think the rabid, pervasive antisemitism in Islam is required in order to clear the prophet of all blame in killing, enslaving or expelling all the Jews of Saudi Arabia — after stealing all their earthly possessions of course. Because if these Jews weren’t evil, mendacious and perfidious, then why did muhammad attack them at all?

  10. Wellington says

    Feb 6, 2014 at 10:31 am

    Another useful idiot with a doctorate. Such folks abound.

  11. CogitoErgoSum says

    Feb 6, 2014 at 11:37 am

    I was curious to know just what Vatican II said about Muslims so I did a Google search and a link to some of what I found is below. The Roman Catholic Church makes a distinction between Muslims as individual human beings and Islam as a religion. I don’t believe that the Church endorses either Muhammad as a prophet or the Quran as being the word of God. I think it sees Muslims as being children of God and a people who do pray to the same God that Christians do (since there is only one God) but who have “quarrels and dissensions” with Christians. The Vatican II Council then asks for “mutual understanding”….which has yet to come about. If you are interested in reading more a link is below.

    • Fran800 says

      Feb 6, 2014 at 4:56 pm

      I find it strange that so many Christians say “We worship the same God as Muslims” for the reason that there is only one God. How about “We clearly do not worship the same God. Theirs is false.”

      • CogitoErgoSum says

        Feb 6, 2014 at 5:58 pm

        I too have a problem believing that the Allah that Muslims worship and the God that Christians worship are one and the same. Muslims believe Christians are polytheists because of the concept of the Holy Trinity and Christians obviously cannot accept the Quran’s teaching that Jesus is not the Son of God. Upon close examination it is clear (at least to me) that Muslims and Christians do not believe in the same god. But both Christians and Muslims (and Jews) do all believe there is only one God and when they pray it is to this one Supreme Being (whatever His name or nature really is). So where do the prayers go and by whom are they heard? Well…..I think they must go to this one true God no matter whether the one doing the praying knows God’s exact nature or not. Now to me this does not mean that the one true God is the author of the Quran. I believe in both a God and a Devil (also known as Lucifer or Satan) who is the adversary of God and who either tricked or made a bargain with Muhammad into spreading lies and a false and distorted image of the true God. However, many people simply cannot accept the idea of the existence of a devil…….even some of those who do say they accept the idea that God does exist. So….right or wrong….that’s how I have come to look at it.

        • John Stefan Obeda says

          Feb 7, 2014 at 6:13 pm

          CogitoErgoSum, Thank you for giving everyone here the Vatican link. I spent some time in it. God help us all to see and to believe the truth that God Himself gives us in His Book. The pope and many Christians cannot declare to the Islamists that they worship a figment of their imagination even though they spend a lot of time worshipping what they think is God. Anyone, no matter how he may shine with his “good” works in man’s sight, does not worship the true God if he rejects the atonement of Jesus and he thinks that it is by his own efforts that he can win the forgiveness of his sins. Praying in Jesus’ name opens the Father’s ears to our prayers. I would think that God is not at all obligated to hear the prayers of anyone who rejects His Son’s blood and His work of redemption since the blood of His Son is so very precious to Him. I must disagree with much what is written in the “Nostra Aetate” concerning the views that the R.C. church expresses there about Islam.

        • John Stefan Obeda says

          Feb 7, 2014 at 9:25 pm

          I’d like to add something to what I’ve written to CogitoErgoSum. At the link of the Roman Catholic document which Cogito has given us, someone at the document summarized what was written which I quote, 3 points.

          1) “Muslims acknowledge the Creator.” Islam rejects the promise that the Creator made: “it [her Seed] shall bruise thy [the devil’s] head, and thou shalt bruise His [Jesus’s] heel”.(Gen.3:15). Since Islam rejects this promise of the Creator, then, their god is not this Father Who made that precious promise.

          2) “Muslims profess to hold the faith of Abraham (i.e. they claim that they have the same faith Abraham had)” The faith of Abraham was that he would be the father of many nations. (Gen.18:18) The people of many nations today that trust in Jesus, a descendant of Abraham, as the One Who crushed the power of the devil and saved us from our sins, this saving faith makes us to be spiritual children of Abraham. Islam rejects Christ’s salvation and, therefore, the Islamists cannot be spiritual children of Abraham. So their god is not the God of the Christians who worship Christ as their God and Saviour.

          3)”Like Catholics, Muslims adore (i.e. worship) God, and regard Him as one, merciful, and judging.” Really? Catholics adore and worship God the Father Who promised a Saviour, God the Son our beloved Saviour and God the Holy Spirit Who sanctifies us, I.e. the Holy Trinity which Islam utterly rejects. He who dishonours Christ, dishonours God the Father.
          The god of Islam is a nothing.
          I’m very disappointed that the R. C. Church doesn’t see this. The Muhammadans do NOT worship the true God and neither does anyone else that rejects the God of the Bible.

      • Champ says

        Feb 6, 2014 at 6:25 pm

        True, Fran800 …

        allah is NOT the God of the Bible!

        http://www.kingmessiahproject.com/is_allah_not_God.html

  12. CogitoErgoSum says

    Feb 6, 2014 at 11:38 am

    Well………I forgot to include the link above. Here it is:

    http://www.answering-islam.org/Hoaxes/vatican2.html

  13. Brian C. Hoff says

    Feb 6, 2014 at 3:33 pm

    Here is than video on america style hijab http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFMl2p5aDJU&NR=1.

    • Champ says

      Feb 6, 2014 at 3:51 pm

      I enjoy the ***FREEDOM*** of wearing my beautiful hair any way I please! …and to me the hijab represents repression and ZERO FREEDOM.

      “It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.” — Galatians 5:1

    • Champ says

      Feb 6, 2014 at 4:01 pm

      islam is nothing more than slavery and bondage, so …

      NO THANK YOU.

      I have found true freedom in Jesus Christ!

  14. Candid Progressive says

    Feb 6, 2014 at 4:01 pm

    Muslims are our natural allies in the same way that the Nazis were our “natural allies”, back in the early 1940s. Not all Muslims are waging violent war against us — and not all Nazi Party members did, either. But they ALL support an ideology that is inherently hostile to democracy & human rights & basic human decency (whether they realize it or not).

    FORMER Muslims are our natural allies. And the world needs more former Muslims. Lots more! The trickle of apostates leaving Islam needs to become a flood. That’s the ONLY real, permanent solution to this problem.

    • Defcon 4 says

      Feb 6, 2014 at 8:49 pm

      Millions of Germans had to die to defeat nazism.

  15. nood2 says

    Feb 6, 2014 at 4:37 pm

    The dude in the article stands with her for her show of piety.
    Does he also stand with a pious Muslim terrorist who blows himself up as a sign of his piety?
    Can’t get any more pious for a Muslim than screaming allah uahkbar while detonating his suicide vest.
    Now that’s piety for you

  16. Texan says

    Feb 6, 2014 at 4:56 pm

    Sadly, this seems to be the trend with conservatives. Take the once great Michael Savage (Michael Weiner). He is a big promoter of the lie regarding the superiority of Muslim family values. On his Jan. 13, 2014 show, he even said that Muslim immigration will save the West. Not to restate what has already been mentioned by other commenters, but go ask all the Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu & other victims of these wonderful Muslim values. Rape, pedophilia, porn, honor killings, misogyny and even drugs and alcohol are quite popular with Muslims. Just ask the 13-year-old boy raped by the dope-smoking Saudi, Mazen Alotaibi, at the Circus Circus Hotel in Las Vegas. what he thinks about these great values. Go to any convenience store and the Muslims have no problem selling porn and alcohol. They are nothing but lying hypocrites. We’re really in trouble. I can’t believe so many people believe this nonsense.

  17. Wellington says

    Feb 6, 2014 at 6:36 pm

    Yet another test. Gettin’ tired of this.

    • marclouis says

      Feb 6, 2014 at 6:59 pm

      for some reason your posts are being flagged for moderation, so sit in a queue for a while, are you logging in?

  18. Wellington says

    Feb 6, 2014 at 7:37 pm

    I don’t like this new format. I don’t even know if this comment of mine will be posted. I would welcome other comments, assuming this one goes through and will be read.

    • marclouis says

      Feb 6, 2014 at 7:41 pm

      your comments are being sent to moderation, i replied on a previous post. are you logged in?

      • Jan says

        Feb 7, 2014 at 9:29 am

        Comments are now being sent for ‘moderation’?

        aka **censorship**.

        Well, *that’s* a disturbing development ! On the old format, Mr Spencer had a disclaimer, that comments were mostly **unmoderated**. May one know the reason for the change in policy ?

        I would hate to think that Jihad Watch has gone down the route of the leftard ‘liberal’ blogs, where only comments that pass censorship are allowed, or dissenting commenters are permitted a couple of comments, and are then banned.

        Your reply to Wellington seems to imply that if one is logged in, one’s comments are *not* moderated; is this the case ?

        I have several times tried to access my old account, only to be told my user name or email is “already in use”. Do I have to get a new email account in order to log in ?

        • marclouis says

          Feb 7, 2014 at 9:50 am

          The moderation is about spam protection only, if your logged in and have approved comments, your comments won’t be moderated, it’s purely to allow anonymous commenting and the polar opposite of what you are suggesting. just request a new password, button is top right with the other options.

    • Clare says

      Feb 6, 2014 at 10:44 pm

      I don’t think this format is as cozy somehow. The comments in the other format were such that commentors really conversed with one another which was very interesting; this comment format is more open. The loss for me is that I loved scrolling down the page in the other format, to read Roberts’ comments more than the articles themselves. This is unfortunate that his writings are now cut off and I have to turn the page. It was also enjoyable to get the whole picture (the graphic, Roberts’ comment, where the news article originated) all at once. One thing I like about this format is that it’s easier to comment.

    • John Stefan Obeda says

      Feb 7, 2014 at 6:23 pm

      Wellington, I don’t like it either. I wish someone would take the time to explain why it is the way it is and why the other wasn’t good enough. I don’t like to register every time I want to write a note. But I do like the big letters for my 84 year old eyes.

  19. George says

    Feb 6, 2014 at 9:58 pm

    Aha! Updated my browser and I can finally get back here again.
    Hey, this Kool-Aide drinking fool doesn’t deserve the name “George”…

    • Champ says

      Feb 6, 2014 at 10:21 pm

      I agree! …and I’m so glad you’re back, George 🙂

  20. eib says

    Feb 7, 2014 at 4:15 pm

    Islam has no natural allies of any kind.
    Because it is “perfect” it stands utterly alone.
    Another good reason not to submit.

  21. gravenimage says

    Feb 7, 2014 at 4:39 pm

    In FrontPage this morning I discuss how First Things and National Review turn a blind eye to jihad violence and Sharia injustice.
    ……………………………..

    So many in the West on both the Right and Left turn a blind eye to this barbarism. Shameful.

    More:

    World Hijab Day was February 1, and Princeton Professor Robert P. George marked the occasion by publishing a piece in the Catholic journal First Things entitled “Muslims, Our Natural Allies.” He included in his article a video in which a World Hijab Day organizer stoutly defended her right to cover her hair; George proclaimed: “I stand with the young woman in the above video in defense of modesty, chastity, and piety.” Michael Potemra at National Review led the cheering: “Let’s take a moment to praise the intellectual fearlessness of NR’s friend Robby George.”
    ……………………………..

    Good God, what idiocy. Let’s take a look at this “modesty, chastity, and piety”—what is modest or pious about child marriage? About raping uncovered women? About sacralized rape? About taking sex slaves? George is either completely ignorant or else he is a moral idiot.

    And is George OK with girls and women being “Honor Killed” if they fail to wear the Hijab? If they refuse to marry their cousin, or resist being sold to an old man? If they dare to leave a marriage where they are being beaten and raped?

    And does George actually believe that Western licentiousness presents a bigger threat to cultural conservatives than do pious Muslims?

    I am no fan of porn chic and the hook-up culture, but it is not liberals or gays who are committing genocide against Christians across much of the Muslim world.

    More:

    George acknowledges that “in certain cultures, including some Muslim cultures, the covering of women is taken to an extreme and reflects a very real subjugation…
    ……………………………..

    Really? Who, exactly, is doing this besides Muslims? The Amish? Orthodox Jews? Conservative Christians? What crap…

    More:

    …just as in sectors of western culture, the objectification of women (including the sexualization of children at younger and younger ages) by cultural pressures to pornify reflects a very real (though less direct and obvious) subjugation.” Yet are these really our only choices? Women who choose modesty, chastity and piety, and women who “pornify” themselves?
    ……………………………..

    This is the dichotomy often brought up by Muslims, as well—but it is s false one. Most Western women are not “pornified”—except by the standards of Islam, where a women who does not immure herself in a Hijab is a “whore”.

    The idea that a few risque ads in Vogue or an R-rated movie or two represent “pressure” in the same way that the “Religious Police”, Hudud laws, and the threat of “Honor Killing” do is simply ludicrous.

    *No one* in the West if forced to “pornify” themselves—can you say the same thing about women not being forced to adhere to Hijab and Purdah?

    More:

    Modesty is a virtue only when it is freely adopted, not enforced by threats. Yet George takes no notice of the fact that many Muslim women don the hijab not out of modesty, but out of fear. The woman in his featured video defends her freedom to wear the hijab, but it is far more likely that women will be victimized for not wearing it than for wearing it. Aqsa Parvez’s Muslim father choked her to death with her hijab after she refused to wear it. Amina Muse Ali was a Christian woman in Somalia whom Muslims murdered because she wasn’t wearing a hijab. Forty women were murdered in Iraq in 2007 for not wearing the hijab.
    ……………………………..

    *Very* true. Is George fine with this?

    More:

    “I am a Catholic,” George proclaims, and adds: “My Church teaches me to esteem our Muslim friends and to work with them in the cause of promoting justice and moral values. I am happy to stand with them in defense of what is right and good.”
    ……………………………..

    What a fool. It is one thing to regard Muslims as fellow human beings—as Catholics are rightly exhorted to do—and quite another to believe that brutal Islam leads to the “defense of what is right and good”.

    More:

    He lauds several Muslim leaders for standing against abortion and pornography, and in defense of religious liberty.
    ……………………………..

    Grimly laughable—Muslims are huge consumers of porn, and some of the most disturbing porn, at that, which includes bestiality, pedophilia, and scenes of inflicting pain.

    And even the point about their opposing abortion is equivocal, given that Muslims often target pregnant women for murder.

    As for religious liberty, this is only true when it applies to Infidels accommodating Islam—Muslims themselves oppress and brutalize non-Muslims, seek to eradicate Jews, and are waging a genocide against Christians across the Muslim world. Then there is the death penalty for apostasy. How can George have missed that?

    More:

    [Muslims] “highly esteem an upright life and worship God, especially by way of prayer, almsgiving, and fasting.”
    ……………………………..

    What Vatican II doesn’t mention is that the first prayers Muslims offer curse Jews and Christians? That their “prayer” includes calls for slaughtering the Infidels?

    Moreover, their “almsgiving”—Zakat—chiefly goes to *fund violent Jihad*? Most *actual* charity for the Muslim world—running schools, orphanages, and hospitals and supplying disaster relief—is run and funded by Infidels—Jews, Christians, and atheists.

    As for fasting—really, does anyone consider fasting in and of itself a real sign of leading an “upright life”? In that case, some of the most upright people out there are not the religious, but anorexics and “extreme dieters”.

    And I’m sure it makes the victims of Muslim savagery feel so much better to know that the people abusing them are probably observing Ramadan…sarc/off

  22. George R. Kadlec says

    Feb 8, 2014 at 9:54 pm

    When hearing about articles like the one by Princeton Professor Robert P. George I am so often reminded of Hillaire Belloc’s comment “It is a nice question whether ignorance or stupidity play the greater role in human affairs.”

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