I wrote this piece this morning over at PamelaGeller.com about the deceptive and dishonest British Islamic supremacist Mehdi Hasan:
Mehdi Hasan is Britain’s answer to Reza Aslan: a mainstream media darling whose fawning sycophants never challenge him on his numerous misstatements and deceptive claims about Islam. He once infamously claimed that Muslims always keep the moral high ground, and declared that non-Muslims live like animals. He claims Islam is a Religion of Peace, making his case with the usual half-truths, distortions, and outright lies.
And also like Aslan, he is a foe of the freedom of speech; like other Islamic supremacists, he wants Islam’s blasphemy laws brought to the West in the guise of “hate speech” laws, and applied in order to silence all criticism of Islam, including examinations of how Islamic texts and teachings incite people to acts of hatred and violence. What he calls for here is of a piece with the Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s years-long campaign to intimidate the West into criminalizing “incitement to religious hatred” — that is, criticism of Islam and opposition to jihad terror.
More below.
“Mehdi Hasan: sanctions for ‘dishonest, demonising press coverage’ of Muslims,” by Oscar Williams, the Guardian, November 14, 2014:
Misrepresentative portrayals of Muslims and other minorities will not stop unless newspapers are threatened with sanctions, Mehdi Hasan said yesterday.
“Misrepresentative” here and in other cases like this refers to reports that are completely accurate, but that discuss facts that people like Mehdi Hasan would prefer not be known, such as the fact that the Qur’an contains passages exhorting believers to wage war against unbelievers, etc. In Islamic law, “slander” doesn’t mean lying about someone; it means “to mention anything concerning a person that he would dislike, whether about his body, religion, everyday life, self, disposition, property, son, father, wife, servant, turban, garment, gait, movements, smiling, dissoluteness, frowning, cheerfulness, or anything else connected with him.” (Reliance of the Traveller r2).
The columnist and political director of the Huffington Post UK said the press has proven “singularly unable or unwilling to change the discourse, the tone or the approach” towards Muslims, immigrants and asylum seekers.
In reality, coverage of Muslims in the mainstream media is universally fawning and positive. Reporters constantly go to groups such as Hamas-linked CAIR and deceptive Islamic supremacists such as Hasan and Aslan as if they were reliable sources. They constantly denigrate and demonize opponents of jihad terror, and report Islamic supremacist smear claims that such opposition constitutes “bigotry” and “racism” as fact. The treat “Islamophobia” as if it were a genuine phenomenon and not a propaganda term designed to intimidate people into thinking there is something wrong with opposing jihad terror. And when reporting on acts of jihad terror, they refer to jihadis as “youths,” or “militants,” or “insurgents,” or (in the UK) “Asians,” doing everything they can to obscure what they really are: Muslims acting in the name of Islam and in accord with Islamic texts and teachings.
But even all that isn’t enough for Mehdi Hasan. Apparently he wants all reporting of acts of jihad terror, Muslim rape gangs, etc. to cease, and for us non-Muslims to acquiesce quietly to conquest and Islamization.
Hasan, who was speaking in a personal capacity at a media industry event hosted by Mindshare UK, said: “We’re not going to get change unless there is some sanction, there is some penalty. This is not just about Muslims; it is about all minorities.”
This is how a fascist like Hasan makes his case to destroy the freedom of speech: he situates speaking honestly about jihad terror within the context of racism and the plight of minorities, as he knows that will make it a much easier sell to the political elites. If you tell them, “Criminalize criticism of Islam,” they might balk. But if you tell them, “Do something to protect minorities,” they’ll be all over it.
“Therefore you have to ask questions about: does it need to be externally imposed, either by better regulation or via some form of commercial imperative? Though, that requires a separate campaign to get companies to give a damn about this stuff,” Hasan added.
He suggested advertisers would have boycotted newspapers over the publication of certain headlines about Muslims, had they been about other minorities.
In a session titled “The Muslims are coming!”, Hasan presented to a group of media industry figures a slideshow of British newspaper headlines and front pages, which he said ostracised the Muslim community, presenting Muslims as “the other”. Hasan also highlighted the factual inaccuracy of some of the stories and accused newspapers of peddling misinformation.
They are peddling misinformation, but not in the way Hasan is claiming. The misinformation they peddle is the same that Hasan peddles: that jihad terror has nothing to do with Islam, etc. You know who else peddles misinformation? Mehdi Hasan. See here and here.
He said the practice was not just morally wrong, but also “dangerous and counter-productive […] because it increases alienation, […] and it also confirms the extremist narrative, the Islamist narrative that there is some kind of inevitable clash between the West and all of the Muslims living in the West, that there can never be any kind of reconciliation, that there is always going to be some kind of war between Muslims and non-Muslims.”
There are, of course, Muslims who believe that. One of them was Muhammad: “I have been commanded to fight against people till they testify that there is no god but Allah, that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah, and they establish prayer and pay zakat.” (Sahih Muslim 33). It’s also in the Qur’an: “And fight them until there is no fitnah and [until] the religion, all of it, is for Allah” (8:39). Many jihadis and Islamic supremacists have repeated it in our own day. But for Mehdi Hasan, if non-Muslims note that and report on it, that is offensive and must be suppressed. The effect of that would be that the jihadis would advance while non-Muslims stood by mute, unable to say a word in opposition to them.
He added: “To pretend that all this negative, mad, crazy, over the top, dishonest, demonising press coverage is justified is wrong. To pretend that it has no impact on a minority community living in the UK or on our multicultural society, on relations between communities is naive, if not disingenuous.”
The only people who actually get negative, mad, crazy, over the top, dishonest, demonizing press coverage are foes of jihad terror. And yes, it is dangerous.
In addition to commercial pressure from advertisers and stricter press regulation, Hasan said a drive for greater diversity in the industry was essential to changing culture: “If you’re a Daily Express journalist writing some sort of anti-Muslim headline and the guy sitting opposite you is a Muslim it makes it much more difficult I would imagine.”
Indeed. And it also makes it much more difficult for the non-Muslim to write anything that the Muslim might find offensive.
Finally, Hasan called for “similar sized apologies for similar sized nonsense headlines”. He told the Guardian he is a proponent of front page apologies for incorrect front page stories.
Sounds like a great idea — but then the front pages will be full of apologies to foes of jihad terror for all the demonization of us as “bigots,” “racists,” “hatemongers” and “Islamophobes.”
Hasan is a prominent critic of Islamophobia. In 2008, while working at Channel 4, he commissioned and produced an episode of Dispatches on the danger of Islamophobia titled, It Shouldn’t Happen to a Muslim. He has also written regularly about the issue of Muslims’ portrayal in the media.
“Islamophobia” is a term designed to frighten people into thinking it is wrong to oppose jihad terror.
mortimer says
The crocodile said, “Just give me your freedom of speech and I promise no crocodile will bite you or your family. We crocodiles are peace-loving reptiles. There may be a small minority of rogue crocodiles, but they do not represent all crocodiles. Whenever a rogue crocodile bites a human, ignore it, and praise the peace-loving crocodiles. Talking about it makes crocodiles more likely to go rogue.”
mortimer says
‘Islamophobia’ is another word for Sharia law: the CENSORSHIP that dare not speak its name.
john spielman says
excellent analogy! We need to call a”spade, a spade”. Or more succinctly; islam is a doctrine of Satan/(allah to muslims), and muhammad-pbuh* was a demon possessed mass murderer, thief, liar, misogynist and pedophile!
pbuh*-perpetual banishment unto HELL!
Coolio says
Morty, thank you. I shall repay your telling of this excellent analogy by brazenly stealing it for my new book.
Coolio says
A better analogy might be HIV and AIDS. Global society is like a human body, doing all the wonderful things that a human can do. The body is continually attacked by diseases like crime, poverty, corruption, violence etc. It deals with these diseases by attacking them with the body’s defenders – white blood cells – People’s personal defences, law enforcement, diplomacy, culture and ultimately, free speech and military might.
The body has become infected with the HIV virus. Human society is HIV positive, Islam-friendly and tolerant. At some point, there is an outbreak of an especially virulent disease – Islam. The body has not developed responses to earlier infections like the 1972 Palestinian attack on the civilian Israeli Olympics team in Munich (although Mossad did hunt down and kill the surviving terrorists). The body did nothing against the Ayatollah Khomeini’s contract on Salman Rushdie – for pointing out one of many of Islam’s Achilles Heel’s – abrogation. Busy trying to figure out the new, mob-manifested Islamic State of Iran, the body World didn’t even register the December 1979 Whabbi/Moslem Brotherhood take-over of Saudi Arabia, the royal family being in turn addicted, with their fabulous new wealth, to unimaginably decadent fleshpots of the West. The House of Saud traded wealth for power.
The infection of Islam, like all most deadly viruses and bacteria, is benign at first so that it may spread more virulently. An infection which kills immediately would not spread very far.
Like many HIV+ sufferers, the body is an intravenous drug addict. And this addict’s drug of choice is oil. Unfortunately, the dealers makes the cocaine cartels of Columbia look positively benevolent. The Columbian gentlemen simply kill and torture anyone who stands in the way of their business. Islam has the same modus operandi, but also has a grand plan, stated in its Koran, and more recently, in the Moslem Brotherhood’s Project. This plan is quite clearly stated now in a final, dying effort to recruit Moslems and dhimmis to embrace the enslavement of the entire planet under a satanic global caphilate of fear, loathing, rape, torture, beheadings and totalitarian submission to an Arabian idol of hatred and death. Jihadists are created like the reproduction of an antisocial, antipersonal virus, through rape, enslavement, threats, intimidation and mass breeding programmes. If you think this is some kind of exaggeration, then perhaps you would like to go shopping in a Kenyan mall? Or send your daughter to a remote boarding school in Northern Nigeria? Perhaps a drunken kiss and embrace on a Dubai beach? The body’s defences, white blood cells, have become cowardly, persecuted, infected themselves and emasculated. The only hope is to exploit Islam’s weaknesses by ridicule, education and mass disobedience of dhimmi Western governments.
Mirren10 says
Good analogy, mortimer.
voegelinian says
Only two months ago, mortimer wrote:
Most Muslims are much nicer and more moral than Mohammed. They believe theoretically, but most do not practice all the things required by Islam. Perhaps 85% of Muslims are non-practicing ‘hypocrites’. Only 15% are observant.
What’s his game?
tpellow says
Hasan-Guardian-BBC-Organization of Islamic Cooperation all seem to be on the same page in wanting to ban criticism of Islam.
It seems to be part of the the Islam-‘Left’ political agenda.
It not only seems that Islamic interests are diametrically opposed to democracy.
But that Islamic interests are diametrically opposed to freedom of speech too.
mortimer says
“It seems to be part of the the Islam-‘Left’ political agenda.” … as TP says.
The cultural Marxist, Georg Lukacs asked, “Who will save us from Western civilization?”
George Orwell wrote: “Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed, will be expressed by exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten.”
The UK government is using supremacist Mehdi Hasan to spread DISINFORMATION about Islam’s prime directive of world conquest.
Disinformation is INTENTIONALLY false or inaccurate information that is spread deliberately. It is an act of deception and false statements to convince someone of untruth. Disinformation should not be confused with misinformation, information that is UNINTENTIONALLY false.
Mehdi Hasan and the UK government know full well that Islam teaches warfare of conquest against the disbelievers. It does no good to spread disinformation for the sake of cheap oil from the Gulf states.
Coolio says
Morty mate,
Doubleplusgood! I had to repress a grin as I read your words just in case the security services have hacked into my webcam though…
By an amazing cooincidence, I just started re-reading 1984 this afternoon, havig purchased it at a flea market this morning for 50c. Required reading for all Lovers of Freedom.
Morty, are you Morty out of Snatch? Got out of the powder and protection business now then and into ultra vs. the jokehadists?
I’ve actually been thinking a lot about Islam in relation to a certain movie. Let’s consider the world as a pig farm run by Brick Top, the legendary gangster from Guy Richie’s awesome movie Snatch.
Brick Top’s pig farm has a lot of pigs. He needs them, to enable disposal of troublesome ex-business associates. He therefore has a lot of pig shit and piss to deal with. The waste is contained in old cesspits, leaking their toxic contents into the ground and giving off toxic and flammable vapours. The whole arrangement stinks to high heaven, and is contaminating all the ground around, and a water table underneath to boot. Brick Top’s henchmen and visitors are occasionally blown up or decapitated when a stray whiff of methane is ignited from one of their cigarettes, spliffs, crack pipes, or an unwisely-used Taser. It must be said, this is an inconvenience, but Brick Top doesn’t really give a shit. He instructs ‘arold, after making him a nice cuppa tea, to deal with the troublesome vapours, whenever they randomly occur, by burning them off or venting them away with a few knock-off fans. Whenever anyone complains about people getting blown up by the exploding methane gas, he shrugs it off as a one-off random occurrence. “Accidents ‘appen”. If they complain again, “Feed ‘em to the pigs, ‘arold”.
Although Brick Top has balls and our so-called leaders don’t, in this analogy, he represents the leaders of the relatively free World, i.e. for the sake of argument, that portion of it with a <50% Muslim population and not run by other mafia/communist thugs.
The pig waste (digested human beings) represent… people.
The cesspits represent… Islam.
The cesspit vapour represents… jihadists, and the resulting explosions represent jihad terror.
Complainants represent… ‘racists’ and ‘islamophobes’.
It’s clear to see from this analogy that the cess-pit vapours are an inevitable by-product of the cesspits, and that they will always be a problem so long as the pig shit is dumped in cesspits.
The answer is clearly to close down the cesspits and use the waste in a properly-managed composting system as part of a permaculture cycle. In this way, the waste is not waste at all, but a living and vital component of a living ecosystem.
cheekturner says
Just another mendacious, grievance-mongering taqquiya artist. Welcome to the club Mr Hasan and be assured that your rhetoric is taken note of and duly consigned to the pig swill. Whatever the outcome of your lies, whether the dhimmi press take notice of you or no, you are and will always be taken for what you really are, (mendacious etc. etc.) by all sane people.
shabeer_hassan says
Freedom of Expression
Islam gives the right of freedom of thought and expression to all citizens of the Islamic State on the condition that it should be used for the propagation of virtue and truth and not for spreading evil and wickedness. This Islamic concept of freedom of expression is much superior to the concept prevalent in the West. Under no circumstances would Islam allow evil and wickedness to be propagated. It also does not give anybody the right to use abusive or offensive language in the name of criticism. The right to freedom of expression for the sake of propagating virtue and righteousness is not only a right in Islam but an obligation. One who tries to deny this right to his people is openly at
war with God, the All-Powerful. And the same thing applies to the attempt to stop people from evil. Whether this evil is perpetrated by an individual or by a group of people or the government of one’s own country, or the government of some other country; it is the right of a Muslim and it is also his obligation that he should warn and reprimand the evil-doer and try to stop him from doing it. Over and above, he should openly and publicly condemn it and show the course of righteousness which that individual, nation or government should adopt.
The Holy Quran has described this quality of the Faithful in the following words: “They enjoin what is proper and forbid what is improper” (9:71).
In contrast, describing the qualities of a hypocrite,
the Quran mentions: “They bid what is improper and forbid what is proper” (9:67).
The main purpose of an Islamic Government has been defined by God in the Quran as follows:
“If we give authority to these men on earth they will keep up prayers, and offer poor-due, bid what is proper and forbid what is improper” (22:41).
The Prophet (pbuh) has said: “If any one of you comes across an evil, he should try to stop it with his hand (using force), if he is not in a position to stop it with his hand
then he should try to stop it by means of his tongue (meaning he should speak against it). If he is not even able to use his tongue then he should at least condemn it in his heart. This is the weakest degree of faith” (Muslim).
This obligation of inviting people to righteousness and forbidding them to adopt the paths of evil is incumbent on all true Muslims. If any government deprives its citizens of this right, and prevents them from performing this duty, then it is in direct conflict
with the injunction of God. The government is not in conflict with its people, but is in conflict with God. In this way it is at war with God and is trying to usurp that right of its people which God has conferred not only as a right but as an obligation. As far as the government which itself propagates evil, wickedness and obscenity and interferes with
those who are inviting people to virtue and righteousness is concerned, according to the Holy Quran it is the government of the hypocrites.
Boston Tea Party says
Well, I agree that the Islamic concept of “freedom of expression” is necessary for the very survival of Islam. Without violent penalties for blasphemy and apostasy, Islam would collapse. Like any false, shallow, brittle ideology, its values and beliefs can’t survive in the open arena of free debate and ideas. Once people are free to actually examine Islam without fear of violence, they will see that according to Islam’s own sacred texts, Muhammad was an evil, violent, petty, dishonest figure who mainly sought worldly power, wealth and sexual conquests. If Islam isn’t enforced with threats of violence, and actual violence, it will disappear. Most Muslims know this at heart.
terry says
Boston Tea Party,
Thanks for this very true, accurate and intelligent comment!
terry says
Shabeer Hassan,
I dare you to open the links included below, about the four ex Muslims and why they left Islam!
AS A HUMAN BEING, I AM RESPONSIBLE FOR PROTECTING PEOPLE FROM THE THREE ENEMIES OF ALLAH:
1) ABU BAKR AL BAGHDADI, NEW ISLAMIC KHALIFA, FOUNDER OF ISLAMIC STATE, DETAINING PHD IN ISLAMIC AND QURANIC STUDIES! SHABEER, YOU DON’T KNOW QURAN AND ISLAM MORE THAN HIM, DO YOU?
2) WELL INTENTIONED, SINCERE MUSLIMS TRYING TO DEFEND ISLAM, LIKE YOU!
3) ISLAM ITSELF, THE MOST ANTI HUMAN, SELF SERVING, HUMAN KILLER, EVIL THAT EVER EXISTED OR WILL EVER EXIST. THOUSANDS OF US FEEL SORRY FOR THE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS WHO DIED SINCE ITS START, 1400 YEARS AGO TILL NOW.
N.B. ALMOST 24, 500 ACTS OF TERRORISM, AROUND THE WORLD, SO FAR AND COUNTING, SINCE THE ATTACKS OF 09/2001!
THE FOLLOWING FOUR LINKS ARE ABOUT FOUR RESPECTED EX MUSLIMS AND WHY THEY LEFT ISLAM, A MUSLIM CLERIC, THE EX MUFTI OF ALL TURKEY, THE SON OF AN IMAM AND AN IMAM!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUtDpYfDdG4
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/08/turkish-ex-mufti-on-muhammad-so-many-people-cant-live-properly-because-of-him
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/09/ex-muslim-and-son-of-imam-islamic-state-following-steps-of-islams-prophet-muhammad-to-the-letter
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/08/confronting-the-muslim-brotherhood-in-the-american-heartland-on-the-glazov-gang
First, concerning your claim that I know zero things about Islam, I simply tell you this: You’re talking to the wrong guy!
Second for your claim that we can’t provide verses from the Quran to support our claims about Islam, I simply tell you this: for every verse talking about peace in the Quran, there are, literally, between eight and ten verses talking about fighting non Muslims, spelling their blood, striking their necks, declaring Jihad on them tell they submit, Halal are their land, material possessions and their wives and daughters, and…… so on!
Secondly, and that’s very important: All four schools of thought in Islam, which the whole Muslim world follow agree that the Medina verses, the more violent, Jihad exhorting, blood spelling, necks stricking verses, take precedence over the more peaceful Meccan’s!
Why all Muslims, wherever they lived from, Morocco, in the west, to Indonesia and the Philippines, in the east; the Caucuses, Russia, in the north, to Somalia, Kenya, Congo and Nigeria, in the south; even, recently, western Europe and North America, commit these same atrocious, terrorist crimes against humanity!
http://www.christianpost.com/news/christian-father-commits-suicide-after-isis-members-rape-wife-and-daughter-in-front-of-him-because-he-couldnt-pay-poll-tax-122220/
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/08/iraq-muslims-shoot-family-of-8-in-face-for-refusing-to-convert-to-islam
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/08/yemen-woman-burned-to-death-by-brother-for-converting-to-christianity
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/08/nigeria-islamic-jihadists-behead-six-year-old-boy-because-he-was-christian
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/08/kenya-convert-from-islam-to-christianity-beaten-thrown-off-balcony
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/08/islamic-state-gives-iraqi-christians-one-week-to-convert-pay-jizya-or-die
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/08/poll-92-of-saudis-believe-that-islamic-state-conforms-to-the-values-of-islam-and-islamic-law
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/08/new-zealand-saudi-convert-from-islam-to-christianity-kidnapped-by-saudi-agents-and-forcibly-flown-back-to-saudi-arabia
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/08/new-york-friday-sermon-muslims-are-obligated-to-fight
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/08/allah-commands-us-to-rule-gwoza-by-islamic-law-in-fact-he-commands-us-to-rule-the-rest-of-the-world-not-only-nigeria-and-now-we-have-started
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/08/arizona-imam-incites-hatred-against-moderate-muslim
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/08/he-threatened-to-beat-me-and-even-said-that-he-will-shoot-me-if-i-refuse-to-convert-into-islam
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/08/kenya-jihadists-kidnap-traders-release-muslims-behead-christian
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/09/uk-woman-beheaded-in-broad-daylight-by-machete-wielding-muslim-police-rule-out-terrorism
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/10/video-robert-spencer-on-sun-tv-on-the-oklahoma-beheading
The following small group of Christians, in Iraq, needed help:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/08/islamic-state-gives-iraqi-christians-one-week-to-convert-pay-jizya-or-die
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/christianattacks.htm
Coolio says
Shabeer,
Hey, that was brilliant! You are some creative writer! No sooner than Morty mentions newspeak and you put a whole essay of it together, all about the M.O. of Mo (Piss Be Upon Him).
QuadruplePlusGood!!!
epistemology says
Haven’t you got a barber to tell this bullshit to? Do you think anyone posting here accepts your rubbish? Pat Condell got it right, when he said that Islam is only a third-rate copycat of Judaism and Christendom. He’s also right saying that “Sharia law in the West is like urine in a water hole. Any amount is too much.” Sharia is incompatible with civilization. Keep that in mind, any civilization, not only the Western one. Return to your tent and leave the civilized people alone, bloody moron.
Btw no other minority complains about racism or being slandered, neither here in Europe nor in the States. Return to your tent and pick your nose with a screwdriver.
Rob Crawford says
As high as third rate?
I used to work with a piece of software which seemed to mimic some features of software available for free — but did it poorly. We joked that the developers were given incomplete descriptions of the free software then went ahead and wrote a really horrible version from that description.
That’s what Islam strikes me as: an illiterate psychopath was given an incomplete description of Judaism and Christianity, melded it with his own inadequacies, and then his followers tacked on a lot more BS to build a totalitarian code of obedience.
CogitoErgoSum says
And if I say there is nothing holy about the Quran, what then? What if I say I do not accept your prohpet and I say that your god is evil? What if I say to hell with your prophet and your religion? What if I say these things for the purpose of spreading virtue and rightousness? What if I say what you say is improper and what I say is proper? What if I say you are the hypocrite? What then? What would you do about it if I said these things standing before you face to face? According to what you have written I have no doubt we would be engaged in mortal combat right now. Thank you for letting me know that I must prepare myself for the possibility that I may run across you or someone like you.
mortimer says
Islam does not contain the Golden Rule so it needs to be criticized. Islam is obscurantist. It removes evidence. It creates its own facts to justify its blood-soaked darkness, its evil, sadistic savagery.
Islam is odious because it worships the twisted, muddled mind of a pathetic, posturing, prevaricating, plagiarizing, puffed-up, primitive, psychotic, polygamous, poisonous, prevaricating pedophile pirate.
Islam needs to be criticized because it is a dark, devious, depraved, deceptive, diddling, debauched, defamatory, deceptive, demented, delirious, delusional, disabling, dysfunctional, discriminatory, debilitating, decapitating, double-dealing, dastardly, diabolical Death Cult.
Islam needs to be criticized because the five oldest and most trusted Islamic sources don’t portray Muhammad as a ‘superior being’ or even faintly ‘the mercy of God among mankind’. Islam’s original sources reveal that he was a plagiarist, a con artist, a highwayman, a liar, an assassin, a pedophile, a shameless womanizer, a promiscuous, cheating husband, a rapist, an enslaver, a genocidal mass murderer, a desert pirate, a psychopathic warmonger, an anti-Semite, an intolerant bigot, a spineless coward, and a calculating and ruthless tyrant. This portrait is certainly not the character profile of the founder of a true religion, but that of an amoral cultist and scheming politician.
Nothing good, nothing noble, nothing progressive, nothing merciful, nothing admirable, nothing just comes from Islam. Islam is misogynistic, xenophobic, persecutory, narrow-minded, intolerant and backward.
Islam needs to be criticized and collapses completely when criticized. Islam cannot survive being criticized because it is extremely fragile and extremely flawed in every way.
Darren says
ab·ro·gate
ˈabrəˌɡāt/
verb
formal
verb: abrogate; 3rd person present: abrogates; past tense: abrogated; past participle: abrogated; gerund or present participle: abrogating
repeal or do away with (a law, right, or formal agreement).
Auckland says
Hassan, you keep mentioning this ‘prophet’ person… this wouldn’t be the same ‘prophet’ that ruptured the hymen of a 9-year-old girl, would it? You see, there are quite a lot of us out here who have a BIG problem with calling someone a ‘prophet’ who lied, stole, murdered, raped, tortured, etc., etc. What we are not clear on, however, is why 1.6 billion others DON’T have a problem with this. Can you explain please?
IQ al Rassooli says
Shabir you really an excellent Taqyiah artist full of Bull Crap, Mendacities, Illusions, Stupidity and out right distortion of all Facts & Reality
NEVER in the history of Muhammadan Islam was there freedom of expression
Never in the History of Muhammadan Islam was there JUSTICE
Muhammad, his Quran, his Sunna, Sharia and ALL his followers (such as yourself) are Hatemongering Duplicitous Warmongering Misogynist Disloyal, Hypocritical, Racist Intolerant Vile and hence totally Ungodly because no God called Allah and no Angel called Gabriel ever revealed anything to Muhammad
The whole of the Quran is the product of the secretions of Muhammad’s Warped mind BUT cleverly projected into the unsuspecting mouths of Allah & Gabriel to give them the aura of sanctity & divinity
Please try your utmost to disprove the following (by the way if you Google ‘al rassooli’ try and pick up some of over $1,500,000 worth of challenges)~
Al Tauba 9:29 “Fight [qatiloo] those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His apostle [Muhammad] nor acknowledge the religion of truth [ISLAM] (even if they are) of the People of the Book [Christians & Jews] until they pay the Jizya [onerous Tax for not being a Muslim] with willing submission and feel themselves humiliated”
*** Just to make sure that the listeners would believe what I am revealing, I would like to put forth a challenge worth $100,000 to the first person who can show us all a SINGLE OPERATIVE verse in Muhammad’s Quran that demonstrates any Compassion & Mercy to all UNBELIEVERS!
Currently, Unbelievers represent 80% of humanity: All Christians Buddhists Hindus Jews Atheists Agnostics etc. That is any and all those who are NOT Muslims! $100,000 for just ONE verse from among over 6200 verses in Muhammad’s Quran!***
Al Mai’da 5: 51 “O ye who believe (Muslims)! take not the Jews [Yahood] and the Christians [Nasara] for your friends and protectors: they are but friends and protectors to each other.
And he amongst you that turns to them (for friendship) is of them…”
*** The implications of the last sentence is of immense importance “And he amongst you that turns to them (for friendship) is of them…” meaning that any followers of Muhammad who befriend or under the rule of Christians or Jews (or any none Muslim group) would be considered Apostates to Islam, outsiders to Islam, enemies of Islam who must be slaughtered.
In a nutshell, no Muslim can ever be loyal to ANY Constitution if it is NOT from Allah nor can any Muslim be a loyal citizen to none Muslims considered Infidels/ Kuffar/ Unbelievers/ Kafiroon ***
Muslims are running SCARED because the internet is most definitely waking millions of people up and slowly Lifting the Veil about Muhammad & Islam
IQ al Rassooli
Kafir & Proud!
Al Tauba 9:33 “It is He (Allah) who hath sent His apostle (Muhammad) with guidance and the religion of truth (Islam) to proclaim it over all other religions …”
Muhammad 47:4 “Therefore when ye meet the Unbelievers chop off their necks…”
pumbar says
Why are you providing quotes from the koran in English, when we are told that the koran can only be quoted in classical Arabic?
Auckland says
Who ever said that it had to be quoted in Arabic? This Allah god was pretty stupid to choose a language that very few people spoke and that for some reason cannot be translated into other languages. Didn’t really think this thru when he created islam, did he?
pumbar says
It’s a pretty standard response when the muzzies are getting into a bit of a pickle. I even asked why allah would choose classical Arabic as it is less flexible and less expressive than modern English to one mohammedan on YouTube. His response was to mute the conversation and disappear.
I think the problem is that allah “took himself out of context” because he couldn’t speak other languages and he only wrote one book (half of which he got wrong and had to abrogate at a later date). In a line up of gods allah is the gopher; he’s the god that Zeus sends out for a packet of cigarettes or Wotan sends his burger back to when it isn’t cooked properly.
Savant says
Your apparently sane qualification of Islamic violence and hatred is not based on Truth.
Truth is exactly what Muslims don’t have. Muslims don’t have the Truth about equality. They don’t have the Truth about Judgement, and they don’t have the Truth about Love and therefore they don’t have Love or Truth or the True God who IS very Truth and LOVE.
All Muslims have is their sin nature, and law from a god that uses religion to marshal them into an army of sexually suppressed and grotesquely channelled bigoted fascists, using physical violence and social and political domination and control and all the other fallen sinful human vices against anyone who supposedly dares to resist the God of terrorism and sex slavery etc etc etc.
Any semblance to truth based Islamic law that purports to uphold righteousness is NOT enough to validate Islam, because the power of SIN is the law, and the only way Muslims have to try and suppress their sinful tendencies is by community Sharia vigilantism through physical, social and political violence,and intimidation while justifying and channelling their frustrated sinfulness exacerbated by the Sharia, into attacking non-Muslims – also condoned by the Sharia. A perfect system of totalitarian WICKEDNESS based on religious law with no basis of redemption apart from Killing or being killed in the way of allah the bringer of death, the most proud one, and he greatest deceiver,- traditionally know as the Devil.
Mark says
Please explain why you think satan is god?
Joginder Singh says
mr hasan until non-muslims are allowed to freely practice their beliefs and build their places of worship in muslim countries or muslims are allowed to freely abandon pisslam for another religion or none without fear of death then i will treat the whinging of the likes of you and your fellow intellectual retards with some degree of belief untill then please feel free crawl back into the sewer of islam along with your useful idiots at the BBC, Al Guardian and the rest of the UK’s treasonous and corrupt print and broadcast MSM. You and them will not be missed by the free educated, reasoning and intellectual people who are fed up with the likes of you who are trying to ram paedophile mohammad and his fake islamic master-race cult down our throats
Beagle says
Even the Guardianistas are not buying his snake oil. The comments are heartening.
Coolio says
The ‘latest’ Gruniad comments are no different in tone to those here. Very heartening. The message is mainstream. MSM may still be PC, but friendface, twits and MSM unmoderated comments are on fire with understanding and hatred of Islam. ( I’d reccommend ‘latest’ comments before they get ‘community moderated’).
Guest says
LOL, very true! I only skim mainstream articles these days – the meat is in the comments. Here’s a good one, by Aj108: “This Mehdi guy is a first class fascist and fool. Of course such an advanced concept as ‘free speech’ is an alien concept to the backwards societies of Islam. The media and establishment make him dangerous by taking him seriously. He clearly considers his deranged gangster philosophy of hatred, sexism, homophobia and violence acceptable and beyond criticism, but sane free-thinking people have now had it up to here with his moon-idol Allah, his paedophile warlord halucinating prophet Mo and those traitorous dhimmis who claim our allegence, welcome and protect evil sharia law and its proponents.”
Coolio says
Thanks, that was of course mine
abad says
Collectively, Muslims have murdered more people than the Nazis, Pol Pot, Idi Amin, Simon de Montfort, and everyone in between. Hasan needs to understand why non-Muslims are so critical of Islam and why NO Muslim in the western world has spoken against the ISL and 9-11 atrocities but instead chose to remain silent over these criminal acts.
And Islam really needs to stop claiming they worship the same God as the one in the Bible. Muslims have violated every single Commandment, they reject the divinity of Jesus, they have no moral compass (!), and will continue to be treated the way they behave.
Richie says
England will do whatever the Muslims say- so soon it will be a crime in England to criticize Muslims in any way. After all, the media there will only refer to Muslim rapists as Asians.
How about sanctions against Muslims who criticize Jews? Funny how Muslims constantly Jews and engage in rabid Jew bashing, but the leftist media never point out their Jewishphobia,. The narrative of curse is that Muslims are always the victim- even when they rape, kill and destroy
shrugger says
“He suggested advertisers would have boycotted newspapers over the publication of certain headlines about Muslims, had they been about other minorities.”
The problem with this statement is that there are no other minorities attempting to subvert and destroy their adopted Countries.
Richie says
the media in the UK bend over to appease Muslims. Muslim rapists are only identified as Asians. and Muslims are always painted as victims.
Strange though so few people in the media are calling out Muslims for their hate speech against Jews
Caped Crusader says
When Hitler marched into Poland, he called himself a man of peace.
We laughed it off back then but that’s because the media showed him for what he was and wasn’t on his side, unlike now…
cs says
AL JAZEERA MAN, what do you expect?
somehistory says
The snake who slithers into the bunny warren doesn’t want the poor bunnies to know the truth: that he is only there for the warmth that will keep him alive through the winter and when spring comes, he will kill and eat as many bunnies as he is able.
He is a beast and can only act like the beast he is. Cries the snake: Put out a call to all the bunny news outlets that snakes are only looking for warmth and cuddliness.
mortimer says
Are you a cartoon? You are certainly delusional. Western people were very deferential to Hitler’s goons because he was best friends with Stalin! When that changed it took several months more for Churchill to be called to lead the government.
Most of the West believed Hitler was ‘good for Germany’. DO NOT MAKE UP YOUR OWN FACTS.
Coolio says
Morty, be carefull what you say about cartoons. Some offensive cartoons upset people’s deeply-held beliefs, making them very angry.
Darren says
Ones like this?
https://www.google.com/search?q=muhammad+bomb+turban+cartoon&biw=1366&bih=657&tbm=isch&imgil=YJuZwY7_iXD_1M%253A%253BNa_gZBO7atqtqM%253Bhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fwww.freerepublic.com%25252Ffocus%25252Ff-news%25252F1969544%25252Fposts&source=iu&pf=m&fir=YJuZwY7_iXD_1M%253A%252CNa_gZBO7atqtqM%252C_&usg=__u-x6yjrCuMACBbk7Or-om7PrAPA%3D&ved=0CD4Qyjc&ei=oPpoVJzeGIeuyASbh4HoCg#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=YJuZwY7_iXD_1M%253A%3BNa_gZBO7atqtqM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fstatic.flickr.com%252F41%252F95654111_3cd98d2eb6_o_d.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.freerepublic.com%252Ffocus%252Ff-news%252F1969544%252Fposts%3B1350%3B1688
Salah says
Free speech and Islam:
Asma bint Marwan (Marwan’s daughter), composed disrespectful verses about the prophet of Islam. Muhammad sent a friend of his in the middle of the night to kill her. He drew a sword into her chest while she was breastfeeding her baby.
That’s how Islam managed to survive throughout the last 14 centuries.
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2012/03/assassin-english.html
Jay Boo says
Surely you must be wrong about this Salah.
How could Muslims dare call such a man as Muhammad a prophet with sincerity after knowing that Muhammad shamelessly sent someone to commit such a lowly despicable act?
Are Muslims really that foolish?
Coolio says
Is the Pope a Catholic?
zaba says
How could Muslims dare call such a man as Muhammad a prophet……?
Mainly…….fear.
Salah says
You forgot the “sarc/off” thing, Jay Boo!
Jay Boo says
sarc/off
Thanks
cs says
we are responding him at the guardian, I invite you to do the same.
http://www.theguardian.com/media-network/2014/nov/14/mehdi-hasan-demonising-press-coverage-of-muslims#comment-43728963
cs says
Just to confirm, 95% of the responses are in fact attacking him dearly.
Mirren10 says
”Just to confirm, 95% of the responses are in fact attacking him dearly.”
Which explains why they have now closed the comments. Embarrassing for them !
”This discussion is closed for comments”
Coolio says
I’ve never seen anything like it on Guardian comments. If the dhimmis can’t even control their house publication (much as I much respect much of the Gruniad’s reporting), they have completely and utterly lost the plot.
My comment there:
This Mehdi guy is a first class fascist and fool. Of course such an advanced concept as ‘free speech’ is an alien concept to the backwards societies of Islam. The media and establishment make him dangerous by taking him seriously. He clearly considers his deranged gangster philosophy of hatred, sexism, homophobia and violence acceptable and beyond criticism, but sane free-thinking people have now had it up to here with his moon-idol Allah, his paedophile warlord halucinating prophet Mo and those traitorous dhimmis who claim our allegence, welcome and protect evil sharia law and its proponents.
change watch says
I’d love to respond in the a Guardian but my account was permanently suspended after asking the Guardian why they had not reported on Alexis Jays report to Parliament which happen the same day as Parliaments vote to recognise Palestine in the future.
They did report Jays speech 3 days later in a very lack lustre manner. The legal drive to make it illegal to criticize Islam has all but succeeded. Some brave authors are still trying to ring the bells of warning. Read A Consequence of Apathy by NR Baldwin.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Consequence-Apathy-Jihad-UK.
Joginder Singh says
Your account has been “Permanantly suspended” standard response for Al-Guardian when faced with someone pointing out the truth to Al-Guardian, you are not alone here as my account was permanantly suspended and anything I post when logging on via my Twitter account goes to pre-moderation and on neither occasion was I given any explaination as to why I was banned and neither occasion was the islamic master-race involved. So I promptly stopped posting on Al-Guardian’s”Komment Macht Frei” there and then and that was about 4 years ago, though I had ceased to purchase the rag about 10 years ago , It would be most interesting to see Al-Guardian’s komment macht frei censorbots explain themselves in a court of law pity I’m an Mech Engineer and not a lawyer otherwise I would try it and see how far I could have gotten, would be nice to see Al-Guardian explaining the activities of its komment macht frei censorbots in court
Jay Boo says
No more criticism of Muslims.
That seems reasonable enough assuming they wish to behave accordingly.
In other words:
1 No more (reading most of the Qur’an) which insults non-Muslims and also insults (women as well).
2 Of course, no more (reciting the ‘Profession of Faith’ ) which is by its careful wording is designed to reinforce all of Islam’s religious bigotry and provoke hatred and violence against non-Muslims.
And finally,
3 No more beheadings, honor killings, child brides, sex slaves, pimping of British children, and jihad attacks on civilians all of which are an insult to humanity.
If followers of the (Religion of Sleaze) will agree to conditions such as these, then there will be ample room to make accommodation to their vanity. In fact, most people would feel no need to criticize Muslims in the first place if they began to act like decent human beings.
Blameitonthemoonligh says
Thank you Robert. Please let us all keep up the pressure on this deluded trickster.
Remember he tried to get a job at the right wing daily Mail newspaper (Google it). Meaning either he has no moral political scruples and is a careerist using the ‘Muslim ticket’ to journalist ‘ fame’OR he wanted to work at the mail to damage from the inside the (so called) right wing press.
Finally, search his rant on YouTube when calls non believers animals and is crying and shaking in some very weird disturbing Islamic ‘trance’. This footage says it all! Every British person needs to view this footage.
He gets on the bbc all the time. Last time I saw him he was having a pseudo intellectual Islamic rant at a very polite gay atheist man and a poor old nun!
Keep up the pressure. He is already exposed. More people just need to know about it.
Thanks again.
AnneM says
Doubt it. In this age of the internet, it WILL NOT HAPPEN.
Jayell says
“To pretend that all this negative, mad, crazy, over the top, dishonest, demonising press coverage is justified is wrong. To pretend that it has no impact on a minority community living in the UK or on our multicultural society, on relations between communities is naive, if not disingenuous.”
1. Wherever UK press coverage of stories that involve muslims in a ‘negative’ way, the reporting is invariably factual, in no way ‘crazy’, ‘exaggerated’ or ‘mad’ and is honest to a ‘T’.
2. The fact that any ‘negative’ reporting of muslims appears in the UK press means that it has been impossible to repress it. A lot of ‘negative’ stories involving muslims that SHOULD have reached the public domain have not done so because they HAVE been repressed – e.g., the numerous paedophile sex gangs, which were for decades ignored, or passed off as an ‘Asian’ (code-word) problem or buried underneath patently deliberately contrived spurious ‘celebrity sex scandal’ cases until that particular ruse wore too thin and facts broke out; and (just another example) the recent outrageous firework-rocket-attack-on-the-police incident in east London which EVEN NOW has not appeared in the press!!!
3. Accusations of ‘dishonesty’ from the muslim community are rather strange, when in their own ideology this is seen as a ‘virtue’ (when it suits their purposes, that is!!)
4. One seriously has to question the intellectual integrity of a person who fails to accept the logically predictable ‘negative’ effects of the straightforward reporting of criminal or antisocial behaviour of members of a particular identifiable community as reasonable, unless this person believes that his community has no duty to respect the rights of the wider public and therefore no reason to be criticised for or to suffer the consequences of any such breach of respect.
5. The conduct of members of a particular identifiable community towards others in the wider community is going to have consequences as a matter of course, good or bad. Where this conduct is featured in the course normal free public reporting the impact will of course be amplified, which is what you would expect in a free society with a free press. If members of a community do not like the consequences of the reporting of their behaviour, the answer is to improve their behaviour and not attempt to stifle the communication channels that report their goings-on. To do this, or attempt to do this, or even THINK about doing this, is a quite outrageous attack on the democratic rights of the wider community.
6. The term ‘multicultural society’ has always been an absurd oxymoron, and has now been totally discredited by mainstream political thinkers and writers in the UK. The fact that it has been resurrected here is a mark of the Hasan’s intellectual vacuity or/and his vain attempt to promote or defend his now-utterly-discredited cause.
6. I should like to meet and have a conversation with Hasan. A little bit of intellectual demolition should be quite entertaining, assuming that there was an ‘intellect’ there to demolish in the first place.
terry says
Jayell,
Indeed, a very solid argument!
Can you send a copy of it to the BBC and other pertinent media outlets, just to let the folks working there know that many people are aware of the deliberate bias, in their news coverage, in favour of Muslims and Islam.
Mainstream media in western countries is playing a very dangerous game and risking , literally, the future of humanity!
Coolio says
We need to use pro-Islam laws against it, i.e. prosecute for homophobia, sexism, hate speech etc.
Rob says
If what Hasan says, is correct, surely the main repository for anti-Islam comment and action in the UK – Tell Mama UK, would be seen as a beacon against all this hate?
Why then has TMUK been stripped of its funding because of its total lack of integrity and vast overstating of anti-Muslim activities?
See this link:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/journalists/andrew-gilligan/10108098/Muslim-hate-monitor-to-lose-backing.html
Jay Boo says
No need to be concerned about Jihad Watch.
I have looked through many articles and comments.
I could find nothing insulting about Muslims or Islam.
— Not a single thing.
Jaladhi says
Islam is a criminal enterprise and only criminals follow it!!
Jay Boo says
Boot Turkey out of NATO
Invite Russia in to form an alliance against Islam.
Coolio says
We certainly do need to ally with communist states against Islam. Communism is hell, but sharia is millions of times worse. We should even ally with drug mafia if necessary.
Darren says
Russia is less communist that we are these days and they are at least open and honest about it requiring bribes to get things done. We in the west get up on our moral soap box and preach to others about their misdeeds and actions but do the same thing. Human nature cuts across all cultures. The fact the elected prostitutes in the west don’t listen to we the peasants is because there is no money in it. Sure when it’s election time they put on their paper thin masks and pretend to care but as soon as the charade is over it’s back to business as usual. At least Russia has a flat tax. I’m no fan of Putin but at least he doesn’t arm the Islamic State. The people in the leadership positions in the west are a clear and present danger to the rest of the world.
dumbledoresarmy says
Allying with Orthodox Russia to squash the Ummah should have happened long, long ago.
John Quincy Adams – who had been to Russia and who had no illusions about Islam – would probably approve.
Go to this link, which was found and shared here at jihadwatch not very long ago, by poster Sakovt.
Blunt, Joseph (1830), The American Annual Register for the Years 1827-8-9 (New York: E. & G.W. Blunt), 29:267-402 (= chapters X to XIV) [On-line], URL:
http://www.archive.org/stream/p1americanannual29blunuoft.
Then start at p 267 and read Chapter X. Note the first two subheadings: “Russia. Christianity Contrasted with Islamism….”. Note well what he says on p 271 and 272-275.
Keep on reading till you get to page 402. These chapters are Adams’ work.
Adams is discussing the Russo-Turkish wars and the Greek struggle for independence. That is: he is discussing Christian Russia’s war of self-defence against neverending jihad waged by Muslims against its southern flank, and the Christian Greek attempt to break free from the seven hells of dhimmitude.
I hope that Ret.Col Allen West, and a certain Senator Cotton (newly-elected, and a former soldier) will be encouraged to read those particular chapters, slowly and carefully.
Dave J says
Islam allows free speech on condition that it is “right and proper”, which it gets to decide. So no real free speech under Islam, don’t pretend otherwise.
Reporting true facts is not anti-Muslim. I don’t see anti-Muslim headlines but I do see protectionist, obscurantist and apologist reporting in most media.
No other religion is as hypersensitive and defensive as Islam, nor do any have reason to be so. The whole business is based on the teachings of one reprehensible individual, so that makes it a CULT, not a religion.
Coolio says
There have been lots of critical news stories about ISKCON/Hare Krishna, particularly re 80’s abuse at bording schools. ISKCON responded by massive internal debate, apologies, closing most of them down and establishing child protection policies.
What a starK contrast to Islam, ignoring or defending the most horrific acts of genocide and terror
sheik yer'mami says
“If you’re a Daily Express journalist writing some sort of anti-Muslim headline and the guy sitting opposite you is a Muslim it makes it much more difficult I would imagine.”– Mehdi Hasan
Comedy gold, but it would be a nightmare if it happened. The Islamofascist Hasan is calling for no less than a Mohammedan shadow breathing down the neck of every journo who dares to write anything about Islam. Most of them are already cowed, but having Mohammedan plants among the already dhimmified journallie is toxic for liberty and the freedom of information.
Jay Boo says
These side by side articles show that Mehdi Hasan has the same smug expression as Turkey’s Erdogan.
somehistory says
There is another person often in the news with photo that has the same tilt of head and facial expression as the guy from this article.
BlueRaven says
My guess is Britain is rotting to the core with Arab money. These kind of statements come from the Muslims after green lights are given by the Imams who are well connected to the mother of all Islamic networks in the Middle East – Qatar. As you learn more and more about the Qatary connection with the UK in General, that most of the London’s finance services are floated with Arab dollar then it is no surprise David Cameron talks the way he does about Islam, meaning Islam has nothing to do with violence.
Lets hope the Brits do not re-elect the clowns like Cameron again for their country sake.
Darren says
You just gave me a new research project, I’m curious now. I figured it had to do with money why the UK leadership bends over backwards to these savages. So at the end of the day it all comes down to money, I’m shocked I tell ya shocked!
Tradewinds says
To : Deceptive and dishonest British Islamic supremacist Mehdi Hasan:
Islam sucks. You like…? !
Green Infidel says
Would this be the same Mehdi Hasan who once compared “kuffar” to cattle, saying they are stupid because they’re blind to Islam?
How convenient then to find him now pressing for restrictions on media reporting of Islam/Jihad-related items.
As it goes, one such comment on an article by Hasan, quoting extensively from the recording of his “kuffar are like cattle” speech, was disappeared from the Guardian website without trace, after gaining over 1600 recommends. More about that here:
http://greeninfidel.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/criticism-of-mehdi-hasan-censored-at.html
Btw, the above link has also disappeared from Google (here, in the EU). So is Hasan already practicing the censorship he’d like to see, and maybe putting pressure on Google via the EU’s “right to be forgotten” law?
Darren says
Good catch. Us infidels pooling our intel together can go a long way.
Richie says
Interesting how the leftists demands everyone respect and not criticize Islam- but they never call for Muslims to show the same respect to other religions- Islamic ideology drips with Jew hatred, and the belief all other religions are inferior to their fascist Islamic cult
Charli Main says
“Misrepresentative portrayals of Muslims and other minorities will not stop unless newspapers are threatened with sanctions, Mehdi Hasan said yesterday”.
Note how this Muslim POS is associating “other minorities” with Islamic behaviour.
Like those gangs of Hindus that are grooming and raping little white girls across Britain and all those Sikhs that are blowing up women and children on buses and trains and flying planes into buildings.
and of course all those Chinese that are burning poppies, urinating on war memorials and chopping off the heads of soldiers in the street.
Oh yes, the behaviour of these “other minorities” must not be reported by the British MSM.
Judi says
Medhi Hasan is an odious little bastard. Just watch a few of his interviews at the Oxford Union (too numerous to list here). He speaks over anyone who doesn’t agree with his warped views.
Btw, has anyone in the UK seen any person actually reading the HufPo? I haven’t even seen it on sale anywhere!
Jay Boo says
Judi,
The is an online liberal blog over here in the US called the Huffington Post that readers sometimes shorten to HufPo. This might be what you are referring to.
Tony Scott says
What is really fascinating is given the the Guardian/Observer (Publisher of this article) is the Flagship Liberal newspaper if you read down to the comments there is no support for him.Given the lack of defence among these numerous comments it suggests a difference in opinion between Public vs Politics .The Guardian is seen as the liberal anti-islamaphobia paper but it’s reader are beginning to disagree with it.
By the way i think there should be more open debate on these comments ,Islam is shocking and in-defensible but as Islam becomes more sophisticated at defending itself so should we.They do class’s on defending Islam ,and offering misinformed ideas plays into there hands. Muhammad promotes war ,slavery ,Paedophilia, misogyny ,prejudice yes …but people make accusation about Islam that simply aren’t true. The victim of Islam are its followers they should be felt sorry for.
Larry A. Singleton says
GREAT point! I’ve been trying to come up with a “how to respond” package with points that knock down the “religion of peace” claim and the Jewish/Arab “Golden Age”, etc.
I got a great response the other day to my question as to whether people like Maimonides ever documented the hell they experienced living as dhimmis-from Francisco Gil-White himself:
There isn’t much unfortunately. But he suggested I read 17 XVIII of the Epistle to Yemen/Complete. The Introduction to this article is pretty enlightening. Disposing of Muhammed as any kind of prophet. I’ve also got a beautiful volume of Nathan Ausubel’s The Book of Jewish History where he devotes a full chapter to debunking the “Arab/Jewish ‘Golden Age'”. (found it on the back porch of an abandoned house.)
ritamalik says
Guys, have you seen the comments on this news article on the Guardian ( THE GUARDIAN!!!!! OK??!!!) Not even ONE comment defends Hassan! Not even one!! Some commenter there even mentioned that the comments section of the Guardian in response to this article looked exactly like the comment section of Jihad Watch!!! And he said that in a positive way!! The tide is turning! The public opinion is shifting! People are waking up! The mask has come off (or should I say the Niqab has come off?!) Non-Muslims in the west now mostly know what they are dealing with and these phoney moderates are losing the argument badly! This is partly the result of ISIS’ unmitigated and unabashed savagery for all to see on YouTube and elsewhere. But it is also thanks big time to heroic voices in the wilderness like Mr. Robert Spencer’s who for so many years have warned people of this threat and have spread knowledge about authentic Islamic teachings. Congratulations! You are finally becoming vindicated in the eyes of the masses and some Leftist, elitist, multi-culti holdouts will also soon come around under the massive force of evidence! You were right Mr. Spencer; every time Islam wins it loses!
Coolio says
Ha! Knew I should have taken a screenshot earlier but I was in too much exhileration. Much cleaned up now following ‘community moderation’ but they couldn’t have removed all the anti-Islam comments or there would have been literally nothing left.
Mail still in denial and not even publishing anti-Islam comments.
Darren says
We need to keep up the presure. Every jihad watch lurker and commenter needs to expand the fight. Instead of solely commenting on jihad watch where 99.9% of the posters know about islam why not use your knowledge and infest liberal sites and post facts ect. The stealth jihadists do the same thing and try to sway public opinion. Our side needs to go on the offensive on social media. We need to wage a coordinated assault in social media on islam. The liberal sites that delete comments constantly find ways to bypass this filter and share it with the rest of us, ect. Treat this as a war coordinate tactics ect. They can’t win a debate with an infidel versed in knownledge about the death cult. Just an idea. We can go to the most popular liberal sites and begin our campaign and slowly we could make some difference in making this go as mainstream as possible. Even call into liberal talk shows as well as conservative talk shows and bring up islam try engaging in a debate with the hosts. We need to counter their propaganda.
Green Infidel says
Great idea! Sure – why not invade liberal websites and talk shows? Show the wooly liberal reader that his/her views aren’t half as “trendy” as they think…
Bte, Mehdi Hasan has a bit of history with the Guardian readership, as I explained in my previous comment on this thread. This may be part of the reason why isn’t exactly popular over there…
And at the end of the day, what use is it having the “silent majority” on our side, if it stays silent? So why not go out there, and be loud & proud about being pro-freedom and anti-censorship, violence and fascism?! We have nothing to be ashamed of – so let’s not be…
No Fear says
I will listen to Mehdi when I am allowed, as a non-muslim, to visit Mecca.
Charli Main says
I’m sure that you will be able to visit Mecca when Pope Francis and Bishop McManus are invited to Mecca, to hold Mass and preach about the joys of interfaith outreach to the Muslims.
Chris Slater says
Let’s redefine Islamophobia:
“The fear of criticising Islam and offending Muslims due firstly to concerns about being labelled ‘racist’ or ‘culturally insensitive’, and secondly of the threats of repercussions or their realisation through beheadings.”
Larry A. Singleton says
Had an idiot throw an “article” from LoonWatch at me a few minutes ago at 972 Magazine:
Ray Khan
For all you imbicils that rely on our news coverage to put a label on ALL MUSLIMS claiming that the religion is teaching terrorism and blah blah blah… Please read the facts from FBI database. http://www.loonwatch.com/2010/01/not-all-terrorists-are-muslims/
On “So I dug into my letters: (I submitted this and of course I didn’t get a response. Just the usual name calling. “Jew Lover”, etc.)
Hate Crime Stats Deflate ‘Islamophobia’ Myth
by David J. Rusin
National Review Online
January 11, 2013
http://www.islamist-watch.org/12057/hate-crime-stats-deflate-islamophobia-myth
Manufacturing ‘Islamophobia’ at UC Berkeley
by Cinnamon Stillwell
FrontPage Magazine
January 25, 2013
http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/12786
Letter I wrote in response to above “Hate Crime Stats” article:
Letter Re Murtaza Hussain Al-Jazeera Article 1-3-13
“Anti-Muslim violence spiralling out of control in America”
“This includes a string of murders specifically targeting Middle Eastern storekeepers”
I went to the “Middle Eastern” link Hussain hi-lites in his article.
In the picture of those at the funeral; What are those things those people are wearing on their heads? Gee, they look like those Marmaluke hats the Jews wear… …oops. Sorry. “Yarmulke” or “Kippah”.
And what do the cops say in the article?
“NYPD spokesman Paul Browne was hesitant to link the killings to a bias against Middle Easterners, saying the evidence so far does not support the theory.”
And what’s this?:
“Vahidipour, 78, a devout Jew from Iran”
And this:
“On Aug. 6, Isaac Kadare, 59, also from Egypt but of Jewish faith, was discovered shot in the head and slashed in the neck in his Bensonhurst store, Amazing 99 Cent Deal.”
I don’t see that fact that Jews were murdered in this article.
And the picture they have of the suspect; Is it… …I’m not sure. Is that a White Supremist Skinhead? With a swastika tattooed on his face? Nooo. Gee. It looks like a black guy.
And I’m wondering how well adjusted mentally this guy will turn out to be. Like the deranged woman who pushed that man in front of the commuter train. Who was obviously MENTALLY ILL!!!!
It’s incredible how… ….wait a minute. Let me check this out. Nope. Had to make sure; I was wondering if he cited Anders Brevik like so many Looney Toons. And Al-Jazeera being LoonWatch’s big brother well…. ….at least he didn’t stoop that low.
Anyway THAT’s the example he chooses to use as THE example of “out of control anti-Muslim violence.” (It’s that “violence” part that really cracks me up.)
Let’s see; Hussain sites “FBI statistics” through his link “nearing record highs”. Which is nothing but a link to another biased article with this quote:
“FBI’s latest statistics show anti-Muslim crimes in 2011 dipped only slightly from that recent peak”
Which, when I hit the link, has NO mention of “anti-Muslim crimes”. (See what’s happenin’ here?) If you’re going to “quote” something, at least have THOSE WORDS at the end of the link.
As it happens I did go to the links for 2002, 2010 and 2011 on the FBI site.
This is what I found as I spot-checked the “crimes against” catagories:
In 2002 statistics showed that in 2002 there were:
170 crimes of bias against “Islamic” victims.
And 1,039 bias crimes against Jewish victims.
In 2010 of the 1,552 victims of “Hate Crimes” 67% were Jewish and 12.7% were Islamic.
In 2011 of the 1,480 victims of “Hate Crimes” 63.2% were Jewish and 12.5% were Islamic.
Who are the real victims here… …statistically?
While looking up “Yarmulke” in Nathan Ausabel’s “The Book of Jewish Knowledge” I came across some information on Jewish “martyrdom”. Now here are some horrific “statistics. All through history Jews have been hounded and tormented. And it’s the Muslims who have inflicted some of the worst attrocities. Read “Slavery, Terrorism and Islam” by Peter Hammond. He’s got a few statistics in his book as well. Regarding this thing called “jihad”.
I’ll let you work out the “out of the hundreds of millions of Americans” so on and so forth.
The thing is, yet again, it’s not “hate-mongers” or “Islamophopes” who give us reasons to distrust Muslims. It’s Islam itself! Because all they can do is lie and hype anything that MIGHT be the truth. The bottom line is that this entire article is a fraud. Whenever someone starts screaming about “anti-Muslim” this or that I keep thinking about those others who try to mislead you by ommiting those inconvenient facts; like there were JEWISH victims who were murdered by a BLACK GUY!!!
Or that Jews are ten times more likely to be a victim of a “hate crime” than Arabs will ever be.
And to quote The Southern Poverty Law Center about anything… ….puh-leeeeze!
Here are some books. That’s if I get by the Al-Jazeera Censors.
Oh, but before I do that:
Islamists Project Islam’s Worst Traits onto Christians by Raymond Ibrahim
raymondibrahim-com/9669/islamists-project-islam-worst-traits-onto
Muslims Project Islam’s Worst Traits onto Israel and the Jews by Raymond Ibrahim
raymondibrahim-com/8348/muslims-project-islam-worst-traits-onto-israel
The Haj by Leon Uris
Muslim Mafia by Gaubatz and Sperry
Because They Hate by Brigitte Gabriel
“Slavery, Terrorism and Islam” and “Holocaust in Rwanda” by Peter Hammond
The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America by David Horowitz
Ivory Towers On Sand: The Failure of Middle Eastern Studies in America by Martin Kramer
The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism by Andrew G. Bostom
The Legacy of Jihad by Andrew G. Bostom MD
A Concise History of the Crusades by Thomas F. Madden
The Book of Jewish Knowledge by Nathan Ausubel
BC says
Mr Hasan you are living in a democratic society where you are free to publish your opinions, how typically Muslim you are that you use that privilege to call for the criminalisation of that freedom to criticise one minority in particular – your own of course. Nobody and no religion are beyond criticism.
BC says
The only papers reporting Muslim criminal activity and assaults are the provincial papers and the tabloids like the Mail and Telegraph, unfortunately the latter have a poor reputation for sticking to facts. The main national newspapers like the Independent and Guardian never report anything which may be ‘derogatory’ to Muslims. The exception being the Rotherham sex grooming cases
which they could not ignore as it is a national scandal concerning both local and central government.
Babs says
We shouldn’t forget either that good old Mehdi Hassan was bagman to Lord Ahmed and carried the latter’s apology for his Jewish conspiracy rant following Ahmed’s conviction for dangerous driving (he’d caused a death because he drove while texting) and subsequently said in Pakistan that he’d blamed the allegedJewish conspiracy (so beloved of the Muslim caught in the act) for his imprisonment because there wasn’t a word in Urdu for Zionist.
I remember reading Hasan’s BS faux-apology (which you knew full well was made only because Ahmed had been found out) and being confirmed in my belief that Mehdi Hassan had less than the wits he’d been born with for grovelling to Lord Ahmed and taking us all for fools. (Yes, I know, the media and government are indeed fools, but Joe Public is wising up).
That Hasan still at it proves my point, I think.
khalid says
This article is full of lies and misleading Quotes. Reza aslan never said never said it’s forbidden to criticize islam but he said it’s wrong to make generalizations about muslims which is what he considered bigotry.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7F-SiZt0amg
change watch says
The future will not be nice if we don’t face up to these medieval lunatics. Read A Consequence of Apathy by NR Baldwin. The book the Government is doing cartwheels to supress.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Consequence-Apathy-Jihad-UK
Linda Rivera says
You vile Briton-hater want to destroy the freedom of my nation and people? Get out of my country now and take the rest of the Fifth Column with you.
Bjørn says
Another day, and another reason to add weight to my distasteful realisation that Europe may just have died at Stalingrad. Criminalisation of those who dare to speak truth about a death cult. It almost makes me want to cry. This should NOT be happening. That is the only truth.
Blameitonthrmoomligh T says
Mustapha crap.
I agree but do worry that left wing voters in Britain are too blind to see it! I hope the British public wake up to the fact that this god awful jihad being waged against the UK is way beyond the’ indigenous’ left vs right, Tory vs labour , tribal, ‘benign politics’ that is predominant in the UK?
One thing I know is ….the Grass is NOT greener on the other side. I hope the utopia dreamers on the left (and some on the right) grasp that fact very soon
..”.You don’t know what you’ve got until a psycho Islamic supremist takes it all away from you.”
Dr. Gonzalo de Porras says
Please look at this link:http://www.libertaddigital.com/espana/2014-11-14/la-junta-islamica-amenaza-con-una-querella-a-santiago-abascal-1276533464/
Comment: During the invasion of Spain mususlmana, the invaders destroyed the Basilica of San Lorenzo de Cordoba and on it built a mezquita.Cuando King Fernando III “The Saint” recovery for eEspaña and Christianity, the city of Cordoba, returned to Christian worship what is today called “Mosque of Cordoba”, but really and since about 2000 years ago had always been a place of Christian worship. I add: I have the honor to be descended from Christian warriors who accompanied San Fernando in the reconquest of Cordoba, Seville and Carmona///Please look at this link:http://www.libertaddigital.com/espana/2014-11-14/la-junta-islamica-amenaza-con-una-querella-a-santiago-abascal-1276533464/
Comment: During the invasion of Spain mususlmana, the invaders destroyed the Basilica of San Lorenzo de Cordoba and on it built a mezquita.Cuando King Fernando III “The Saint” recovery for eEspaña and Christianity, the city of Cordoba, returned to Christian worship what is today called “Mosque of Cordoba”, but really and since about 2000 years ago had always been a place of Christian worship. I add: I have the honor to be descended from Christian warriors who accompanied San Fernando in the reconquest of Cordoba, Seville and Carmona
Dr. Gonzalo de Porras says
Please look at this link:http://www.libertaddigital.com/espana/2014-11-14/la-junta-islamica-amenaza-con-una-querella-a-santiago-abascal-1276533464/
Comment: During the invasion of Spain mususlmana, the invaders destroyed the Basilica of San Lorenzo de Cordoba and on it built a mezquita.Cuando King Fernando III “The Saint” recovery for eEspaña and Christianity, the city of Cordoba, returned to Christian worship what is today called “Mosque of Cordoba”, but really and since about 2000 years ago had always been a place of Christian worship. I add: I have the honor to be descended from Christian warriors who accompanied San Fernando in the reconquest of Cordoba, Seville and Carmona
Dr. Gonzalo de Porras says
Please look at this link:http://www.libertaddigital.com/espana/2014-11-14/la-junta-islamica-amenaza-con-una-querella-a-santiago-abascal-1276533464/
Comment: During the invasion of Spain mususlmana, the invaders destroyed the Basilica of San Lorenzo de Cordoba and on it built a mezquita.Cuando King Fernando III “The Saint” recovery for eEspaña and Christianity, the city of Cordoba, returned to Christian worship what is today called “Mosque of Cordoba”, but really and since about 2000 years ago had always been a place of Christian worship. I add: I have the honor to be descended from Christian warriors who accompanied San Fernando in the reconquest of Cordoba, Seville and Carmona
Halla si Ekaf says
Mehdi Hasan is an ISIS member. Someone must report this guy to the CIA. I have opined it on New Statesman many times before.
If there is anyone more dangerous that this Mehdi Hasan in the UK, that person is Mohammad himself.
Julius O'Malley says
Dear Mr Spencer,
There are two aspects I would like to address: the genesis of the term “Islamophobia” and Medhi Hasan’s call for the forced employment, by using mandatory quotas, of Muslims in the media.
Regarding the first matter you and I both know that the term Islamophobia was deliberately concocted at a meeting of Islamic Brotherhood connected American Muslim organizations (in Philadelphia from memory – which is a supreme irony) in the early 1990’s. We know this because the US Department of Justice was eavesdropping the hotel room meeting. They discussed what the purpose of applying the term was: gagging the debate on Islam by tainting those who critically scrutinized and vocalized the conclusions or commented on such scrutiny as suffering from a pseudo mental illness.
It is impossible not to have noticed, and I am personally certain the CAIR founders, ISNA, MSA, etc people also noticed, that the neologisms “homophobia” and “homophobe” were extraordinarily successful recent introductions to the English language on two counts: the acceptance and ubiquitous use of the terms and the perilous taint of pariah-barbarian that attached to anybody publicly called out as a “homophobe”. The inventors of “Islamophobe” I contend were aiming to ride on the coattails of that success.
So may I respectfully suggest that when you refer to “Islamophobia/Islamophobe” you preface such reference with “the pernicious [or descriptor of preference] neologism …”. Just to remind people that this is a very recently invented term and invented for a specific and highly anti-free speech purpose, ie to advance Islam’s agenda in the West.
On the second matter, Hasan’s suggestion of compulsory placement of Muslim journalists in media outlets, this is an exceedingly dangerous proposition which if implemented would have huge adverse ramifications. Apart from being a dictated job-creation scheme for Hasan’s Muslim compatriots, it would be only the beginning in putting Muslim’s in place at crucial information chokepoints in the West. After a few short years there would be a clamour from such Muslim journalists that there are no Muslim News Editors, no Muslim Editors in Chief.
Recall that only a few years ago Hasan applied, in cloying sycophantic terms, for a job at the Daily Mail and was unsuccessful. Predictably he did get a gig at the Guardian and has moved on and up to the Huffington Post. If his quota system had been in place the Daily Mail would have been near-compelled to have hired him. He now agitates on behalf of those Muslim would-be journalists who wish to follow in his wake. And/or so that he may re-enter the British print media in higher, more powerful editorial position.
sidney penny says
“Islamophobia” — “a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.” – Andrew Cummins.
spot on ?
applies to Mehdi Hasan.
Dean says
See related article about Mehdi Hassan, the islamic apologist:
https://geranfarblog.wordpress.com/2015/01/18/response-to-mehdi-hassans-article-titled-as-a-muslim-im-fed-up-with-the-hypocrisy-of-the-free-speech-fundamentalists-and-dated-13-january-2015/