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“Sinful”: Video of British Muslims dancing to Pharrell Williams’s hit Happy comes under attack

Apr 19, 2014 6:22 pm By Robert Spencer

“Allah did not create man so that he could have fun. The aim of creation was for mankind to be put to the test through hardship and prayer. An Islamic regime must be serious in every field. There are no jokes in Islam. There is no humor in Islam. There is no fun in Islam. There can be no fun and joy in whatever is serious.” — Ayatollah Khomeini

“‘Sinful’: Video of British Muslims dancing to Pharrell Williams’s hit Happy comes under attack,” by Jamie Merrill, the Independent, April 17 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

They are male and female, young and old, black, white and Asian, with hijab and without, but they are all Muslims. And they are all happy.

That’s the message of a new video which shows dozens of British Muslims dancing their hearts out, laughing, singing and smiling along to Pharrell Williams’ hit single “Happy”.

Produced by a group of young Muslims called Honesty Policy, the four-minute video is infectious and its unashamedly positive message has gone viral more than 300,000 hits (and rising) on YouTube this week. Just try and watch it without smiling – you’ll fail.

Aside from making you grin, the point of the video, according its creators, is to show that British Muslims are just as happy, eclectic, cosmopolitan, diverse, creative, fun and outgoing as anyone else. “This video was joining the global movement of happiness inspired by Pharrell,” the Honesty Policy group tells me in an email. “It’s part of something that we as Muslims could find ourselves relating to: happiness. We, too, are happy people, and we promote a message of happiness.”

That happiness movement and Pharrell’s happiness day collaboration with the United Nations last month inspired Honesty Policy, which closely guards the identity of its members, to hit the road and film ordinary “happy Muslims” from all over the country dancing to the hit.

“We’ve been completely blown away by the positive reaction,” says one of the Honesty Policy team in a telephone interview with The Independent. He declines to give his name, adding that the group, which is made up of men and women from all Muslim branches, puts its “message before any identity”.

The group admits it expected “a backlash” from some quarters, but the feel-good project seems to have struck a chord with the majority of the 300,000 viewers so far on YouTube, with Tweets and Facebook messages of support from celebrities, MPs and the wider public.

That hasn’t stopped a vocal minority attacking the project as haram (an Arabic term meaning sinful), though, and yesterday the BBC Asian Network held a vigorous debate asking whether the video was halal (an action that is permissible to engage in).

“The issue with this video is that it touches on a lot of deeply entrenched issues within the Muslim community,” adds the group’s unnamed spokesman. “Lots of people have an idea of Islam that you have to conform to prescribed rules to be a good Muslim, but to us, as young second and third generation British Muslims, that’s not the case. We’re thankful to have grown up in a British society with freedom of expression… And we’re thankful that our faith gives us the room to be British and to be a Muslim. Some people don’t see that. They don’t see Islam as pluralistic [as we do].”

One high-profile contributor to the video is Timothy Winter (he’s the chap pictured above holding an “I’m happy” sign), who in the Muslim community is more commonly known as Sheikh Abdul-Hakim Murad. He’s one of country’s foremost Muslim theologians and lectures at Cambridge University.

Within days of the video first appearing online, a post appeared on Muslim news website Shaam Post claiming that the academic had distanced himself from the video and labelled it improper.

According to Honesty Policy these reports are “untrue”. The mysterious spat deepened further when Winter himself told The Independent that he was “happy to be involved” in the project, which he said cuts the Muslim community free of the “negative images which oppress it”….

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  1. Champ ✿ says

    Apr 19, 2014 at 6:41 pm

    Wanna be truly ‘Happy’ and FREE? …then leave islam!

    islam and FREEDOM do NOT mix.

    • mortimer says

      Apr 19, 2014 at 7:29 pm

      ‘Islam’ is a euphemism for ‘slavery’. No one is as ‘submitted’ as a slave. ‘Slave’ is a good word in Islam.

      • Cicero says

        Apr 19, 2014 at 10:30 pm

        Actually, “Islam” is NOT a euphemism (i.e. a nicer-sounding word) for anything.

        The word “islam” (small “i”) straight out means “submission”. A person who has submitted his will to this belief is a “mu-slim”. Note that both words are based on the same three-consonant Arabic root s-l-m.

        • Maria says

          Apr 19, 2014 at 10:49 pm

          Music is forbidden under Islam.

    • laura r says

      Apr 19, 2014 at 9:54 pm

      possibly there will be a reformed islam. dont tell these people what to do. they will break away like the very relgious jews did. not all muslims were (& are) ignorant killers.

      • Champ ✿ says

        Apr 20, 2014 at 1:56 am

        possibly there will be a reformed islam. dont tell these people what to do. they will break away like the very relgious jews did. not all muslims were (& are) ignorant killers.

        ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

        A “reformed islam” is such a pie-in-the-sky notion that will NEVER happen; since evil can never be reformed. Better to completely *leave* islam and be FREE from slavery.

      • anglosaxondude says

        Apr 20, 2014 at 7:17 am

        Islam cannot be reformed, because the quran cannot be changed or denied in any way. To do so leaves it’s followers open to the charge of apostacy – punishable by death under shariah law.
        Any other questions? That pretty much answers that one, I think.

    • kikorikid says

      Apr 20, 2014 at 2:01 pm

      Islam was “Happy” and danced in the streets
      on 9/11/01. How many Christians and other
      non-believers were murdered by the hand of Islam
      during the time it took to make this “Happy” video.
      UK “Happy” Muslims, you are not significant to
      the issues at hand and you’d better hide before
      you are the focus of a “blaspheme Fatwa”.
      The video looked fun, that is why your Islamic
      Totalitarian-Supremacist ideology will kill you.

      • Brian Hoff says

        Apr 20, 2014 at 9:26 pm

        Nothing will happen to then as it great PR for Islam as than peaceful religion.

  2. duh_swami says

    Apr 19, 2014 at 6:42 pm

    When you can’t dance and it’s too wet to plow, what do you do? Why make a music video of course. Mahoundians got rhythm. I liked the video, but please don’t show it to Mahound, I don’t think he will understand.

    • mortimer says

      Apr 19, 2014 at 7:31 pm

      Someone should do a parody version of this with a series of suicide bombers!

  3. Jay Boo says

    Apr 19, 2014 at 6:44 pm

    Islam is coming apart at the seems.
    If Muslims are allowed to be Happy what will be next is the worry of the Islamic DUTY POLICE
    Will Muslims forget to spy on other Muslims?
    Will apostasy no longer be punishable by death?
    Will Islam become peaceful? (no longer Islam)
    HAPPYNESS vs DUTY
    stay tuned

    • Jay Boo says

      Apr 19, 2014 at 6:45 pm

      seams

      • jihad3tracker says

        Apr 19, 2014 at 7:26 pm

        Hello Jay — My spelling goofs greatly outnumber yours.

        Back to the point, as so clearly shown in this post : the JOYLESSNESS of Islam is a huge problem for teen and early twenties Muslims.

        They see and hear our happiness and creativity — but imams and parents cage them in the 7th Century.

        Each time one young Muslim sends a message to a friend with hotlinks to music or vids, that message branches out to dozens, hundreds, thousands more….

        BTW, hello to imam Suhaib Webb — Yo dude. Giving you a shout out because you are my fave urban thug smooth-moves stylin’ sword lovin’ beheader.

        • Jay Boo says

          Apr 19, 2014 at 8:17 pm

          @jihad3tracker

          The imam wizards of IZ are in a fit because Toto is pulling back their curtains to reveal a bunch of clowns like that imam Homer Simpson look-alike Suhaib Webb who tries to play the blame game and act as if Ayaan Hirsi Ali is the problem with Islam’s pathetic image.

          Every time Toto tears down a curtain the young Muslims are embarrassed by Islam’s stench.

        • Jay Boo says

          Apr 19, 2014 at 8:19 pm

          in reference to
          “JOYLESSNESS of Islam is a huge problem for teen and early twenties Muslims.”

  4. Guy Macher says

    Apr 19, 2014 at 6:59 pm

    Haram! Smite them at their necks!

    • mortimer says

      Apr 19, 2014 at 7:27 pm

      Guy, it’s just more taqiyya.

      The mullahs will soon set them straight.

      • Brian Hoff says

        Apr 20, 2014 at 9:38 pm

        Nothing will happen to then or be said to then mostly likely the mullahs are happy that the video was make asnd shown on u-tude.

  5. Wellington says

    Apr 19, 2014 at 7:17 pm

    Ah, where to begin? Well, I think I will decline because when maudlin meets malevolence, such as here, no comment is really necessary.

    Res ipsa loquitur.

  6. mortimer says

    Apr 19, 2014 at 7:26 pm

    “They don’t see Islam as pluralistic [as we do].”

    Nah! The religion of peace (TM) is obviously pluralistic…except in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Pakistan, Chad, Somalia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Jordan, Syria, Iran, Brunei…hold it…none of those is pluralistic!

    What gave them the idea that Islam was ‘pluralistic’?

    • PJG says

      Apr 19, 2014 at 8:13 pm

      Well, there is a list of feel-good PC expressions they can draw on like “diverse”, “multicultural”, “tolerant”, “plural” and so on, and it doesn’t matter which words they choose, the kuffar is happy because he can go back to sleep.

    • bill says

      Apr 20, 2014 at 6:03 am

      “Some people don’t see that. They don’t see Islam as pluralistic [as we do].”

      Can you read? ‘Some people’ that is what they say. However that ‘some people’ is the majority of Muslims who are brainwashed from the moment they can talk. For every dancing teenager there are thousands of girls and boys living under the tyranny of paternalistic fathers who are the law in the house as Allah has ‘given’ them the power over their families. Parents who do not wish a bright future for their children but that they submit to Allah, devote their lives to Allah and if necessary die for Allah

    • kikorikid says

      Apr 20, 2014 at 2:12 pm

      Yep!, I looked it up. “Plualistic” is not in the
      “Handbook of Neat Islamic Words “.(see:Our way or Die)

  7. Jay Boo says

    Apr 19, 2014 at 7:36 pm

    Even though the video is a bit staged, it is encouraging because it shows that Muslims have enough shame to know they have an image problem and are not able to dictate duty dogma everywhere they go.

    However/
    Of course, if Huff Post ever gets a hold of this they will say see we told you so, Islam really is the ROP.

    • laura r says

      Apr 19, 2014 at 10:03 pm

      what do you mean a bit “staged”? it is a very professional vid which had auditions. it was reheared many times. there are 1000s of muslim kids who listen to rap, rocknroll. dont hate gays & so on. dont be naive bumpkins.

      • Guy Macher says

        Apr 19, 2014 at 10:40 pm

        They can’t ignore the teachings of Mohamed and still be Muslim!

      • Jay Boo says

        Apr 19, 2014 at 11:36 pm

        Some of the adults seem to be uncertain about this, but it is all ok because the mere concept of joy and freedom must be a bit foreign to followers of a religion such as Islam.
        Let them sing along celebrate this happy song.

      • Buraq says

        Apr 20, 2014 at 9:36 am

        @ laura r

        You wrote that there are 1,000s of Muslim kids who listen to rap etc…

        Yup, and what’s Islam’s take on that? It’s forbidden!

        • Brian Hoff says

          Apr 20, 2014 at 9:46 pm

          Rap is allow as it is mostly words like poetry. The Koran is prefect Arabic poetry.

  8. Jacksonl03 says

    Apr 19, 2014 at 8:03 pm

    I’m willing to believe, at least for the moment, the youngsters are having real fun in this video. The older folks look a little strained, as though they are putting on a show they really don’t agree with in order to sell a falsehood: Muslims are good folks, see. Nothing to worry about.

    That is to say they are selling a lie to the kafir (sp?) just as their ideology instructs. In Islam you can pretend to be carefree and have fun . . . as long as it’s just pretend.

  9. duh_swami says

    Apr 19, 2014 at 9:23 pm

    Man, I have never seen Mahoudians that happy. Usually they are dour and look depressed. That’s the ones you can see. Interesting not one niqab, not one veil in the whole thing. I guess if they wore veils no one could see how happy they are.

  10. Faye says

    Apr 19, 2014 at 10:03 pm

    Oh, they are happy alright, Not that Miley Cyrus-happy or Lady Gaga-Happy. And who’s that Khomeini. He ain’t pope that represent 1.500.000.000 muslims

    • Brian Hoff says

      Apr 20, 2014 at 9:50 pm

      80% of these muslin are Sunnie. 10% Shira and 5% all other sects conbin together.

  11. Theb Nyip says

    Apr 19, 2014 at 11:43 pm

    A video of young and old muslims engaging in activities considered haram by many devout muslim authorities – what a great opportunity!

    The brave muslims involved in this video should be applauded by all for so clearly demonstrating that western culture and ideas make them happy.

    This video and its subliminal message, that muslims around the world should follow western culture to be happy, should be promulgated throughout the muslim world.

    Sayyud Qutb was outraged at the American dances he attended in the US, and it helped generate his ideas about rejecting western culture. This video, produced, made by, and displaying muslims, demonstrates that they are indeed happy singing and dancing along to a pop song with no mention of Allah or Mohammed in the song whatsoever.

    This is a clear challenge to Sharia and Islamic religious authority and will likely result in an instance of Islamic cognitive dissonance. It will be interesting to observe the ongoing theological debate about whether this is truly haram or not.

    The video should be distributed as widely as possibly throughout the muslim world, to encourage all muslims to start singing and dancing along to this great song. It should be pushed out to all Islamic religious authority sites, to all social media sites from Indonesia and Malaysia (and newly Sharia-izing Brunei), through to Iran, Egypt, Saudi Arabia; get Al Jazeera to broadcast it etc.

    “Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth…”

  12. Salah says

    Apr 20, 2014 at 12:13 am

    “..the point of the video, according its creators, is to show that British Muslims are just as happy, eclectic, cosmopolitan, diverse, creative, fun and outgoing as anyone else. ”

    The reality is different: British Muslims, as well as the vast majority of Muslims, WANT to be as happy, eclectic, cosmopolitan, diverse, creative, fun and outgoing as anyone else. But they can’t.
    To enjoy happiness Muslims need:
    1- Education (about the filthy teachings of Muhammad.)
    2- Protection (if they decide to leave Islam.)
    3- Time (after 14 centuries of brainwashing, they can’t change overnight.)

    http://crossmuslims.blogspot.ca/2014/01/egyptian-muslims-tear-up-quran.html

    • Jay Boo says

      Apr 20, 2014 at 3:21 am

      Ideologies such as Islam exploit the preexisting flaws of human weaknesses.
      Thankfully humans also have virtues to overcome such flaws.

      “In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. ”
      Anne Frank
      http://www.annefrank.org/

      • jihad3tracker says

        Apr 20, 2014 at 4:37 am

        Thank you, Jay, for inviting the inextinguishable soul of Anne Frank to our conversation here.

        I agree with Salah’s caution about how hard it is for Muslims to break free of Islam’s chains.

        But I am unshakably convinced that for an ever-growing majority of young Muslims the internet’s liberty will prevail.

        • kikorikid says

          Apr 20, 2014 at 2:52 pm

          The still living cannot wait for this
          techno-evolution of Islam to occur.
          Islam has ceaselessly commited murder
          in the name of Allah. Message to “The Global Jihad”,
          You can cease and desist at any time up
          to the counter Pogrom. After which these
          concerns no longer exist.

  13. jane smith says

    Apr 20, 2014 at 1:48 am

    Why does the group spokesman remain nameless? The only logical reason is fear. The video was great it is what we all want Islam to become, a threat to standard Islam.

  14. Ian Marshall says

    Apr 20, 2014 at 8:05 am

    No acid comment on this, Robert? C`mon, give these guys credit and give us a smile.

  15. cjmccoy says

    Apr 20, 2014 at 8:46 am

    No wonder these people want to kill themselves. Who wants to walk around dead serious all the time??? In th Bible, the true Word of the True God, it says He gave life abundant, meaning with joy, not necessarily wealth but life to the fullest!!!! Where we enjoy our children and grand-children. Where we are blessed by God. The muslim religion seems dead. Nothing to it like a white washed tomb.

  16. Jan says

    Apr 20, 2014 at 1:36 pm

    “Just try watching it without smiling – you’ll fail”

    Oh, I was *easily* able to watch it without smiling.

    This is a very clever and dangerous bit of taqyya.

    It shows what many of us would *like* to believe about islam, and as such, is dangerous, because so many foolish, wishful thinking people will take it at face value, and conclude that islam isn’t really a danger to us, and our freedoms. Which, of course, is why they made the video.

    A bunch of attractive looking young people singing and dancing, does *not* abrogate what is clearly written in the koran, the hadith, and the career of mohammed, paedophile, murderer, torturer , rapist and thief, who made up this foul ‘religion’ out of whole cloth, whilst plagiarising bits from the Bible.

    It does *not* gloss over what mohammedans are doing all over the world, every day, in the name of islam and mohammed.

    It does *not* erase the memories of 9/11, 7/7, Mumbai, Beslan, Kenya, China, and so many more. I can’t list them all.

    It doesn’t erase the ongoing jihad against Israel, and the murderous, genocidal posturings of Iran.

    If this ‘Honesty’ bunch of meretricious wankers had *any* honesty, they would address all the injunctions to hate and murder non-mohammedans in the koran and hadith. They would address the career of the evil mohammed. They would address what their co-religionists are doing in Africa, China, Burma, Thailand, and all murderous, foul, mohammedan cess pits.

    “British muslims” ! Faugh.

    Where are the dancing, singing, happy clapping mohammedan bints swathed in black cloaks, in masks, that one can see every day on the streets of Bradford, Birmingham, London, Keighley, and so many more places?

    Where are the dancing, singing imams that preside over the *more than 85 sharia courts* in the UK, that hand down such justice as refusing divorces to wives of abusive husbands, and advise ‘parents’ where to go to get their daughter’s clitorises sliced off ?

    Where is dancing, singing anjem choudhary, and the mohammedans who spat at, and cursed, our soldiers ?

    Why didn’t they include the murderers of Lee Rigby in their video ?

    This video didn’t make me ‘smile’, it made me **sick to my stomach**.

    • Jay Boo says

      Apr 20, 2014 at 3:05 pm

      Do we focus only on the rose?
      Do we focus only on the thorns?

      While a little cynicism may be healthy too much cynicism can lead down a path to paranoid insanity.

      • Defcon 4 says

        Apr 20, 2014 at 3:19 pm

        “Paranoid insanity.” Yeah, why don’t you try telling that to:

        1. the 2.5 to 3 million Hindus slaughtered by muslimes in Bangladesh in the 1970’s
        2. the najjis kuffar who had their property and rights stripped from them in the 40% of Cyprus annexed and ethnically cleansed by Turkish muslimes in the 1970’s
        3. Coptic Christians
        4. Nigerian Christians
        5. anyone non-muslime in Pakistain or Bangladesh
        6. the najjis kaffir who are being ethnically cleansed by Indonesian islam0nazis in W. Papua New Guinea.

        • voegelinian says

          Apr 20, 2014 at 3:40 pm

          Not only that, Defcon (as if your list there isn’t overwhelmingly enough to refute Jay Boo’s anxious need to save Muslims); just one week of Jihad Watch stories would suffice — let alone the weeks and weeks of the archives, bleeding over into months and months, then years; and even this mountain of ghoulish, grotesque data about Muslims following their Islam is just one small mountain amongst a veritable mountain range of information out there.

          Given the headlines bristling all around us here on Jihad Watch, resting upon the skulls and cadavers of all the thousands of stories in the archives here, I find these various ejaculations by JW Softies like Jay Boo, mortimer, Salah, and others outrageously offensive on so many levels.

      • voegelinian says

        Apr 20, 2014 at 3:32 pm

        Interesting how the asymptotic mask of Jay Boo only slips once in a blue moon (like mortimer’s) — though “asymptotic” may not be the technically correct term, to the degree that what is afoot here is more the psycho-cultural hangover of a familial dhimmitude in his (near, or far) ancestry.

        • Jay Boo says

          Apr 20, 2014 at 4:01 pm

          Reference to the official anti-jihad JW spokesperson
          Well Excuuuuuuse me for implying that Muslims are human beings.

          Given your penchant for framing arguments in an ‘all is lost’ in the battle against Islam.
          Either you are a quitter or a fatalist enabler who unknowingly sows discouragement

      • Jan says

        Apr 20, 2014 at 8:55 pm

        If your “paranoid insanity” remark is directed at me, there is nothing paranoid or insane about seeing clearly what is really going on in this video, and what it’s subliminal message is.

        The fact that you apparently can’t, merely illustrates how neatly they have taken you in. For someone who has made so many insightful comments about islam, I am astonished at your gullibility.

        • Jay Boo says

          Apr 20, 2014 at 11:27 pm

          Jan
          Yes it is true that …
          “A bunch of attractive looking young people singing and dancing, does *not* abrogate what is clearly written in the koran, the hadith”

          However,
          I wish to acknowledge that I do not believe that all Muslims are obsessed with jihad and these (young Muslims in particular) are more likely to simply having fun with a peaceful song.
          It is all about keeping focus.
          There is a temptation to use a scatter-shot approach to Islam to which I myself have been guilty at times. This only opens a door for CAIR & MSM to play the victim card.
          We give too much credit to Islam. Islam is porous and this video won’t even come close to patching up its holes. It is likely to open more holes than it patches.
          I am not afraid of Islam anymore because I see just how vulnerable it truly is when it is forced out into the open.
          The Islamists think they can hide behind NPR & BBC but that too has weak spots.

      • HimalayanPeony says

        Apr 22, 2014 at 4:25 am

        What a lot of nonsense you write, Jay Boo !

  17. Dazed & Confused says

    Apr 20, 2014 at 2:58 pm

    Here’s some more “Happy Muslims”….

  18. Defcon 4 says

    Apr 20, 2014 at 3:15 pm

    I remember reading a story, perhaps right here on JW, or maybe Atlas Shrugged about some Pakistaini muslimahs who were video-taped clapping to music while men danced. The local imam/mullah had them murdered. The men might have escaped, but I’m not sure.

  19. Champ ✿ says

    Apr 20, 2014 at 6:09 pm

    I agree with “Jan” …the video made me sick to my stomach, as well; for giving such a false narrative about islam and company.

    Yeah watch me do a ‘Happy Dance’ for NOT being a muslim!!

    ┏(・o・)┛♪┗ (・o・) ┓

    • Jan says

      Apr 20, 2014 at 8:58 pm

      Hi Champ, hope you are doing well.

      Yep, I do a happy dance too !

  20. desidude2 says

    Apr 20, 2014 at 6:11 pm

    Well obviously the Muslims are happy about the abject surrender and dhimmitude shown by British politician, but they forgot to include all their supporters in the British left, who are also happy that Muslims are there sticking it to the British majority.
    The people who are not happy are the British majority who sees their country sliding into Sharia hell every year.

  21. PJG says

    Apr 20, 2014 at 8:02 pm

    It’s a funny thing; in the Sudan I saw Muslims dancing as PEOPLE, dancing in front of their TVs or at weddings, even once or twice in the street when they heard music from, say, a nearby wedding. And I danced with them, and we had a happy time. But in this video they are dancing as MUSLIMS, and this is what I don’t like about it. They are fixated on being “Muslim” in a triumphalist way. If I saw some hijabis dancing at an infidel nightclub I might “smile” but on film here, promoting Islam, no…I’m with Jan here. The difference, I suppose, is that in the Sudan the people are captive, but in the UK they are free to be whatever they want, and they choose to be Muslim and only too often to flaunt their creepy choice.

    • Jan says

      Apr 20, 2014 at 9:13 pm

      Good points, PJG, which I missed. Cheers.

  22. Elsp says

    Apr 20, 2014 at 8:25 pm

    Pleeeease, give us a break! so after hearing about the atrocities commited by Islam each and everyday, we are expected to drop all the negative stereotypes of Islam and be convinced that its a religion that inspires happiness after all??? really??? Too much!

  23. Mirren10 says

    Apr 21, 2014 at 1:01 pm

    Jayboo, yes, not all mohammedans are obsessed with violent jihad. This video, however, is an excellent example of *stealth*jihad, where they get a group of attractive young people together, in order to put a sweet, sugary face on the realities of islam.

    I repeat, I am astonished at your gullibility in taking this blatant piece of propaganda at face value.

    • voegelinian says

      Apr 21, 2014 at 3:04 pm

      I’ve been taking notice over the years of a strange phenomenon that used to astonish me; but after the hundred and seventeenth time, one’s astonishment gives way to wearily unsurprised jadedness punctuated with outbursts of righteously aggrieved anger in solidarity with all the victims of the grotesquely ghoulish, depraved, slyly mendacious, and/or alarmingly lethal behaviors and hate speech of Mohammedans around the world.

      That strange phenomenon is the Counter-Jihad Crusader who otherwise talks tough and knowledgeable about the problem of Islam all the livelong day, then at odd moments blurts out the kind of gullibility we see in Jay Boo. As I say, I noticed this, I kept bumping into it, and I began to think about it and tried to take the time to at least describe it, with an eye to coming up with an analytical explanation of it.

      The latter I’ve not accomplished yet; but at least I’ve done the former. Short of an explanation which would shed light on it, we need to advert to it, call it out, name it and shame it. Lives are on the line. Given all the atrocities of speech and of deed which Mohammedans daily are churning out all over the world, and given the millions of their victims who would cry out if they had a voice, this squishy nougaty center inside the Counter Jihad (someday hopefully to become the Anti-Islam Movement) is simply unacceptable. And I’m fucking fed up with fellow Counter-Jihadists taking time out to chide me for bringing this up.

  24. Geppetto says

    Apr 21, 2014 at 2:24 pm

    To hate the violence, butchery and bloodshed occurring throughout the world as a result Muslims adhering to the unique policies of Islamic Jihad and a strict interpretation of Sharia, is a justified, civilized reaction. At its core Islam defines a violent political, religious cult dedicated to world domination. Sharia, Islamic law, is not a humane legal system but codified butchery; a sanctification and legalization of the cruelest, misogynistic, pedaphilic, pederastic, human behavior which devout Muslims use to justify the exercise of their brutal behavior.

    The inclination is for non-Muslims, infidels, to hate all Muslims accordingly but that is bigotry. It is an immutable fact of human nature that dictates that not all Muslims are adherents of this orthodox version of Islam. Common sense would indicate that this is most especially true for many, if not all, unorthodox Muslims who are 2nd and 3rd generation citizens born and raised in western cultures.

    While there is no doubt that orthodox Muslims will infiltrate, use and operate within these groups, the folks in this video appear to be thoroughly enjoying and immersed in the spirit of “Happy.” They, and all like them around the world, need to be watched closely while given the benefit of the doubt. They represent one of the more effective weapons that, properly engaged, could be a significant part of the effort to put the orthodox Islamic Genie back in its Middle eastern bottle and isolate it from the rest of the civilized world.

    • voegelinian says

      Apr 21, 2014 at 5:26 pm

      “The inclination is for non-Muslims, infidels, to hate all Muslims accordingly but that is bigotry. “

      “Hate” in this context is a red herring. I don’t see any “inclination” of hate among non-Muslims to “hate all Muslims”. Where the hell are you getting this? This red herring is either a sly way to sabotage the Counter-Jihad (much like the carping about ever-nonexistent “backlash”), or it’s an obtusely and needlessly anxious handwringing.

      What’s “Hate” Got To Do With It?

    • Mirren10 says

      Apr 21, 2014 at 10:09 pm

      “The inclination is for non-muslims, infidels, to hate all muslims accordingly, but that is bigotry”.

      Speak for yourself; I don’t hate all muslims. But I unequivocally *do not trust them*; under any circimstances, anytime, anywhere. This is not ‘bigotry’ but a result of simple observation of what they say, what they do not say, and what they do. islam is as islam does.

      “muslims who are 2nd or 3rd generation citizens born and raised in western cultures.”

      This is so witless, I can only assume you never actually read any of the articles posted at JW. It is these “2nd and 3rd generation muslims” who are most often the violent jihadists.

      The 7/7 murderers were 2nd and 3rd generation mohammedans. The murderer of little Miriam Monsenego, the mobs of mohammedan thugs who terrorise the streets of France, Italy, Norway, and other European countries, are “2nd and 3rd generation” mohammedans.

      The planners of the majority of foiled jihad murder plots in Europe and the USA, are “2nd and 3rd generation” mohammedans.

      In fact, iti is just these 2nd and 3rd generation mohammedans who tend to be most fanatical and fundamentalist about their vile ‘religion’.

      It is the 2nd and 3rd generation of mohammedans who are rushing off to Syria, Yemen etc to die for islam, whilst murdering as many others as they can.

      “The folks in this video appear to be thoroughly enjoying and immersed in the spirit of “Happy”.

      Well, duh ! It would hardly be an effective piece of propaganda, otherwise, would it ?

      ” … given the benefit of the doubt.”

      This is what the West has been doing for years, and is one of the biggest reasons stealth jihad, as well as violent jihad, has worked so well for them.

      “They represent one of the more effective weapons that, properly engaged, could be a significant part of the effort …”

      Ah, the old ‘hearts and minds’ illusion. In what way, could they be an “effective weapon” ? And how, exactly, would you go about “properly engaging” it ?

      islam is what it is, and no amount of happy clappy videos is going to polish that turd.

      Does it not occur to you to wonder why, exactly, this meretricious piece of sugary claptrap, has been realised *now* ?

      No, I don’ t imagine it has.

      ” … muslims who are 2nd and 3rd generation citizens born and raised in

      “muslims

  25. Mirren10 says

    Apr 21, 2014 at 10:55 pm

    And the Tsarnaev brothers ? 2nd generation mohammedans who were welcomed into the US, educated, and given all sorts of opportunities, and their response was to murder and maim innocent Americans at a sporting event !

    Yep, if only *they* had been ” properly engaged”, they too could have been “effective weapons”, right ?

  26. ayoob says

    Jul 4, 2014 at 1:08 pm

    hey you christians what do you think about our islam ? you all are born before your parents marrige then how you can proof that you have yours father’s blood ? you all fuck even your moms and sisters like as animals are doing same like you means you all are animals and animals can’t recognise that what is the importance of islam

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