Virtue that is mandated by force is not virtue. It does not make people good. It only creates an empire of fear. That is what Sharia creates.
“Bahraini charged with smoking during Ramadan,” by Neil Halligan, ArabianBusiness.com, July 24, 2014 (thanks to Twostellas):
A Bahraini man, who was caught smoking a cigarette while driving his car, was charged [with] denigrating Ramadan, according to a report in Bahrain’s Daily Tribune newspaper.
Police caught the man smoking and holding a juice can in his hand in public and was immediately referred to the Lower Criminal Court, where he was remanded in custody for seven days, pending an investigation.
Earlier this month, an Egyptian woman was charged with smoking in public during daylight hours, as she was being questioned by a Customs officer at Bahrain International Airport.
The 32-year-old had been escorted into the lieutenant’s office after she tried to avoid having her bags checked at the airport, claiming she was late for her flight.
Gulf Daily News reported that she allegedly insulted the officer, knocked his hat off and lit a cigarette in his office.
She said that she lit the cigarette as she was not fasting. She also claimed that she accidentally knocked the policeman’s hat off, as she wave her hands explaining that she was late for her flight. She was released on BD500 bail.
Bahrain, like other Islamic countries, prohibits smoking, drinking and eating in public in the daylight hours during the holy month of Ramadan.
ireminisces says
Asalamu alaikum,
thanks for sharing interesting, have you heard of ‘Prayer of the oft-Repentant’ ?
Take Care
gravenimage says
ireminisces wrote:
Asalamu alaikum,
thanks for sharing interesting, have you heard of ‘Prayer of the oft-Repentant’ ?
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What makes you think that anyone here is interested in “reverting” to your vicious creed?
Instead, we are sickened that supremacist Muslims force the “observance” of Ramadan and Shari’ah onto others.
And the story above is comparatively mild—Muslims elsewhere have bombed markets and cafes that dared to open during daylight hours during Ramadan, and other of your pious coreligionists have attacked people who have dared to eat during the day, including victimizing diabetics.
As for the “Prayer of the Oft-Repentant” (Salat al-Awwabin), you have to understand that we are decent Infidels here, who *do not* repent for not having become ravening Mohammedans.
We are *proud* of the fact that we do “marry” nine-year-old girls, strap on suicide vests, beat our wives, murder Jews, “Honor Kill” our daughters, oppress the Kuffar or “insufficiently Islam” (as here), stone rape victims to death, or mass-slaughter Infidels.
The question is, why are *you* proud of this savagery? Instead, *you* are the one who should consider repenting of this evil.
Peter Shearer says
Hi. G.I. good reply as always but not quite perfect (close enough for cigars though).
I think your question, “What makes you think that anyone here is interested in “reverting” to your vicious creed?” would be better served by phrasing it as:
“What makes you think that anyone here is interested in “perverting” to your vicious creed?”
I think that appropriately manifests the moral repugnance we all feel towards ireminisces’ disgusting suggestion.
By the way, I just loved your recent takedown of Inane Mouthbarf Kak in the article covering Pat Condell’s support for Israel. It was a classic deconstruction if there ever was one.
Hopefully, Robert or someone else one day will create a “Best of Jihad Watch” magazine or book. I suspect if that ever happens there will be an entire chapter devoted to someone with the initials G.I. Of course there would be a chapter of equal size for someone with the initials D.D.A. I suspect there would be no problem creating several chapters each dedicated to longtime Jihad Watchers.
ARE YOU LISTENING ROBERT?!
islamisdeath says
you take care minion of satan.
MacUalraig says
“Virtue that is mandated by force is not virtue.”
Indeed! Through my non -virtuous behavior, or through the opportunity for non-virtuous behavior, I experience evolution of consciousness when I choose it.
And that is amazing. Truly, truly amazing.
Edward Cline says
Gee, living in Bahrain sounds almost as bad as living in Virginia or in any other state that’s banned smoking in “public” places. And who “nationalizes” private places like bars and restaurants and even private homes? Our totalitarian liberals and their “smoke sensitive” voting blocs and supporters. No wonder the liberals are sympathetic to Islam, because, Islam, too, is totalitarian.
nacazo says
i don’t smoke but i did not know that you get arrested in virginia for smoking in your own car. in my state they may only give you a ticket (no arrest unless you dont pay) if you smoke in clearly designated no smoke areas. sometimes they dont even give you a ticket just warn you.
Edward Cline says
No, you can’t be arrested for smoking in your own car (or anyone else’s car, if you’re a passenger). I live in Virginia and smoke in my car all the time. Never heard of the law. I’ve passed many cop cars while smoking and nothing has ever happened. The law may even exist, but it’s basically unenforceable. They may as well try to enforce a law against wearing green shirts while driving.
dumbledoresarmy says
Mate
if I saw people smoking inside a restaurant there is no way I would go inside and eat there, because I have asthma and also because I find the smell of tobacco smoke, in quantity, extremely unpleasant and it affects my ability to smell and taste the food.
You want the right to blow clouds of smoke into the faces of asthmatics and little babies?
I can remember visiting my academic supervisor, who used to smoke a pipe. By the time I got halfway through the consultation about my thesis, I would be coughing helplessly. You, I assume, would assert his right to smoke in “his” office whether I – or any of his other students – liked it or not?
It was a great relief when, after having suffered viral sinusitis, my supervisor decided to give up smoking. His office smelt much more pleasant after that, and I had no more coughing fits.
And I am very, very happy that here in Australia in enclosed spaces both private and public – buses, trains, planes, restaurants and cafes, and the workplace – smoking is banned.
Edward Cline says
I was surprised that Australia went wussy and banned smoking. And there Oz was supposed to be more individualistic than America. Yes, I go out of my way to blow smoke in the faces of asthmatics and babies. It’s my mission in life. But I’m willing to give up reading books, because producing books also produces green house gases. Make sense? Sound creidlbe? Yeah? Right. Look, asthmatics are not a significant percentage of any population and the only reason they have the political clout is because politicians like to exercise power, in this case to “socialize” private property. They can further “socialize” it by imposing mandatory price controls and the contents of a menu, etc. And all you get in the end is a sanitized population with sanitized minds ready to swallow the next load of pseudo-science.
dumbledoresarmy says
Mate, I’d see the laws against smoking in confined spaces – private or public – as being about common civility.
Kind of like having laws about how loud you can play your portable boom-box in public when you’re within earshot of other human beings who *don’t* want to have to listen at top decibel to whatever it is that *you’re* listening to.
I don’t want to breathe your smoke. In my case – and in fact, in the case of more people than perhaps you’re willing to acknowledge – it makes me feel ill. Not because I’m some kind of wimp, but because it *does*. And the thing is, if you – and worse, if it isn’t only you but two or three or four others – insist on smoking inside a confined space, e.g. a restaurant or a public bus, then there is *no way* that I can *avoid* breathing in your smoke, any more than I could avoid having to listen to a boom-box playing full blast.
If someone next to me is drinking in moderation, that doesn’t bother me, because they’re not *forcing* me to take a swallow of their beer – I don’t like beer, though I do drink wine occasionally – every time *they* do. The beer stays in the bottle, and then they drink it. And the smell of the beer, even if not particularly pleasant, doesn’t contain enough alcohol to have any effect on me; in any case, it doesn’t travel very far.
But if someone next to me is smoking like a chimney – or worse, more than one person is smoking – then *I have no choice* but to breathe in the smoke as well.
Just because mohammedans forbid alcohol and smoking point blank, or forbid smoking anywhere during daylight hours in Ramadan, doesn’t mean that any and all *Infidel-country* laws regulating when and where drinking and smoking should take place, are eeevil and ought to be scrapped in favour of a “free for all”.
Mirren10 says
It’s nice to know that not **everyone** in islamic cess pits is ‘sharia compliant’.
Kudos to the lass who knocked off the sharia goon’s hat off, and lit a fag in his face ! 🙂
gravenimage says
Bahrain: Man caught smoking cigarette while driving his car charged with denigrating Ramadan
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He wasn’t just charged with smoking in his car—he was charged with “denigrating Ramadan”—a subset of “denigrating Islam”.
And this might be applied to every person who eats or drinks during daylight hours during Ramadan, who appears unveiled, who fails to attend Mosque, who ducks a public stoning.
It also applies Shari’ah to Muslims and Infidels alike—which, after all, is the whole purpose of Shari’ah to begin with.
Ultimately, this has nothing to do with failing to be “sensitive” to Muslims who are fasting—instead, it has *everything* to do with enforcing Shari’ah norms on everybody.