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Hugh Fitzgerald: You Don’t Have To Be Muslim To Love Ramadan

Jun 8, 2016 3:48 pm By Hugh Fitzgerald

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Why is it that Western politicians, including Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and David Cameron, think they must send out messages of such heartfelt solidarity to the world’s Muslims on Ramadan? Of course they send out messages as well for Diwali (Hindus and Buddhists), Passover (Jews), Christmas and Easter (Christians), but not with the suggestion that this or that religious holiday is somehow meant to include all of us as well-wishers, when some of us only wish to be counted out, or – equally disturbing – to sing the praises of a religious observance that is insufficiently understood.

Why does Ramadan appear to get special treatment? And why do these politicians presume to speak for us, as when Hillary Clinton sends a brief message that starts “As we begin Ramadan,” with that “we” implicating non-Muslims in what is, after all, a religious observance for Muslims only. That “we” is properly a “they.” Why did she not write, more accurately because less inclusively: “As Ramadan begins, I wish all Muslims….”or “As Ramadan begins for Muslims, I wish them…,” thus being polite, but no longer implying that “we” all share in Ramadan?

David Cameron offered an especially treacly and “inclusive” Ramadan greeting this year, and the very first sentence of his message to Muslims everywhere insists on implicating all of us in what should only be their epithet:

It’s the holy month of Ramadan…

Why did Cameron have to say that Ramadan is “holy” to non-Muslims? Why could he not have said “It’s Ramadan, that month holy to Muslims,” or “It’s the month of Ramadan, holy to Muslims”?

– a time when mosques open their doors, community centers welcome in their neighbors, and even churches and synagogues offer up their spaces as Muslims break their fasts – and people of all faiths and none are often asked to join.” (But these open-to-all iftars are not just for simple breaking-bread fellowship, but occasions for propagandizing, or even proselytizing, for Islam, as those who have attended these affairs well know.)

Coventry Cathedral is holding its own multi-faith iftar. In Manchester, they’re combining an iftar with England’s European Championships appearance. And homeless shelters up and down the country are holding ‘Iftars with the Homeless’.

Of course, fasting is what comes to mind when we think of Ramadan.

Not all Muslims agree; what comes to mind for some of them, when they think of Ramadan, is that it’s the perfect time to conduct Jihad: “The month of Ramadan in the life of the Prophet (pbuh) and the righteous ancestors was a month of forthcoming. The greatest battles during the lifetime of the Prophet (pbuh) occurred in this blessed month, the month of jihad, zeal, and enthusiasm.” For more on Ramadan as the month of Jihad, see here.

It’s part of the month that really puts Muslims’ faith to the test, especially during these long, warm days. But there is much more to it. There is all the energy and money people donate to those who are less fortunate, and all the extra time spent in prayer and contemplation.

Cameron ought to know, but may not, that Muslim charity is directed only toward fellow Muslims; he ought to have said “all the energy and money Muslims devote to less fortunate fellow Muslims” — which changes the sense considerably.

Uppermost in all our minds…

“All our minds”? Are we all Muslims now?

…this Ramadan are those whose lives have been torn apart by the twin evils of Assad and Daesh,…

Are these equivalent evils — the Alawite aligned with Shi’a Muslim Iran and hereditary despot, Assad, and the Sunni Muslim fanatics of Daesh (the Islamic State)? Or are the latter far more dangerous to non-Muslims than the former?

…all those families spending this holy month…

The epithet is again imposed on non-Muslims for whom Ramadan is not “holy.” Why?

…in refugee camps, mourning loved ones, yearning to go back to school or to work…

News of the scandal of the “Syrian refugees,” so many of whom are not from Syria, but assorted Muslims from as far away as Pakistan and Afghanistan, many of them seeking “refuge” in those European countries offering the most generous benefits, where they need not trouble themselves to seek work, has apparently not reached 10 Downing Street. Just consider the demonstration of the Muslim migrants’ “yearning for work” in Sweden where, last year, out of 162,000 “refugees” who arrived, exactly 464 are now employed. Some yearning.

…wondering whether they’ll ever return home again.

And how many of those Muslim “refugees” have given any sign, over the last decade, of wanting to return home from Europe?

Our thoughts, whatever our backgrounds or beliefs, are with them.

Again Cameron presumes to speak for all of us: “Our thoughts.” Notice, too, the casual feelgood dismissal of differences – “whatever our backgrounds or beliefs” — which no Muslim would endorse.

And we must continue to support the people of Syria and the region, as we work towards a lasting political solution. Because that’s who we are as a country. We won’t walk on by again.

So this Ramadan, let’s renew our resolve to help those victims. Let’s continue to come together for iftars and community events. Let’s celebrate the proud, multi-racial, multi-faith democracy we live in.

Cameron attributes to Ramadan a significance for non-Muslims that it does not as yet possess: it’s because it’s Ramadan that, he suggests, we renew, we continue, we celebrate. That is, all of us, in first-person-plural harmony. He might have written more to the real point: “Both Muslims and non-Muslims should renew their resolve to fight fanaticism and to ensure that minorities everywhere are safe.” Not a sentiment to which Muslims could openly object, even if they know to whom – themselves — it is really being addressed. And the distinction between Muslim and non-Muslim is usefully maintained.

To everyone in Britain and around the world, Ramadan Mubarak.

Ramadan Mubarak “to everyone,” not just Muslims? Are we all Muslims now? And greetings not only in Britain but “around the world”? Why not at least limit greetings, if greetings there must be: “To Muslims in Britain, Ramadan Mubarak”?

Muslims would not have taken kindly to having Cameron presume to speak for them by having them appear to share in his Christmas or Easter or Passover or Diwali greetings, and he has been careful not to do so. Muslims are taught not to acknowledge the religious observances of others. But he does presume to speak for all non-Muslims in his specious sharing of the observance of Ramadan.

As for his “proud, multi-racial, multi-faith democracy,” this is a pollyannish figment of Cameron’s imaginative multicultural boosterism. Not everyone in Britain has forgotten the Muslim terrorist attacks on the buses and Underground, the butchering of Fusilier Rigby, and the sex-grooming gangs up and down the land, all contributing to a justified and growing anxiety over the Muslim presence in the country.

Barack Obama has issued his own equally fulsome Ramadan greetings:

For many…

Should this not be “For many Muslims…”?

…this month is an opportunity to focus on reflection and spiritual growth, forgiveness, patience and resilience, compassion for those less fortunate, and unity across communities.

To repeat yet again: “compassion” — i.e., charity — “for those less fortunate” is, in Islam, limited to fellow Muslims; Muslims are not supposed to give alms (zakat) to non-Muslims. This is often overlooked, because many non-Muslims are unaware of it, and even if they do know about the rules for Muslim “charity,” it seems churlish for non-Muslims to mention them (“Muslims are supposed to aid only other Muslims”), and Obama does nothing to set things straight. He might, however, simply have omitted that misleading phrase about “compassion for those less fortunate,” or he might have praised Muslims for “making a special effort during Ramadan to support less fortunate members of their own community,” which is less stark than “Muslims offering support for less fortunate Muslims.”

As for Ramadan being the perfect time to “focus on…unity across communities,” Obama presumably means a “unity” of Muslims with other faith groups. But Muslims are taught to regard themselves as the “best of peoples,” and non-Muslims as the “vilest of creatures” for whom all manner of punishments await. What “unity” could there possibly be between the “best of peoples” and the “vilest of creatures”?

Obama also remarks on the history of Muslims in America: “There are those whose heritage can be traced back to the very beginning of our nation, as well as those who have only just arrived.” This fits in with incessant Muslim attempts at backdating their presence in America, to insert themselves into the historical narrative much earlier, as a means of legitimizing their presence, and then pushing that “Islam has always been part of America” nonsense. This campaign reached its absurd zenith when State’s Phyllis McIntosh issued a report in 2004 entitled “Islamic Influence Runs Deep in American Culture.” In this report, she found a non-existent Muslim in Columbus’s crew: “Islamic influences may date back to the very beginning of American history. It is likely that Christopher Columbus, who discovered America in 1492, charted his way across the Atlantic Ocean with the help of an Arab navigator” (flatly untrue). “May date back” and “It is likely that” are weasel words designed to protect from criticism a claim that is made up entirely out of whole cloth. Then there is the other dubious claim — made with very slight supporting evidence — that, among the African slaves brought to America were some who had been Muslims in Africa. But even were that to have been true, a handful of Muslim slaves, living in an overwhelmingly Christian environment, outside a Muslim community, without either mosques or the texts necessary to help perpetuate the faith, would have had their Islam extinguished by the next generation.

In fact, a scarcely discernible, and very tiny, Muslim presence came very late to America. The first community of Muslims to have founded a mosque in the United States did so in a building borrowed for that purpose, in 1929; the first building erected as a mosque dates to 1935. Obama ought to have left out claims that Muslims arrived “at the very beginning of our nation,” rather than transmit what is a staple of Muslim propaganda. Or he might have written, with studied vagueness: “While many American Muslims have only just arrived, others can trace their heritage to earlier periods of our history.”

Then there is Obama’s parting remark about wishing “to honor the contributions of Muslims in America and across the world.” I have no idea what impressive contributions he has in mind, but along with others “in America and across the world,” I await with bated breath President Obama’s detailed list of Muslim Achievers.

To sum up:

Despite their extravagant expressions of solidarity with, and admiration for, Muslims on the occasion of Ramadan, nowhere in their remarks do either Cameron or Obama demonstrate real understanding of Islam. They should be – are they? — aware that Muslims are forbidden to reciprocate, that is, to offer similar greetings to non-Muslims on the occasion of any non-Muslim religious holiday – e.g., Christmas, Easter, Passover, Diwali. Some Muslims become incensed even at the non-religious observances of non-Muslims; campaigns by clerics to convince Muslims not to participate in such innocuous holidays as Valentine’s Day, or Thanksgiving, are not unknown. That being the case, there should be even less felt need or sense of obligation for non-Muslims to offer up such fulsome praise for this Muslim religious observance; a few sentences would have been quite enough.

In their choice of words, both Cameron and Obama make it appear that Muslim charity is extended to non-Muslims, but the only sanctioned object of Muslim alms-giving (zakat), during Ramadan (as at all other times), is fellow Muslims. And neither one explains why, during this month which – Obama informs us – “is an opportunity to focus on reflection and spiritual growth, forgiveness, patience and resilience,” Muslim violence does not recede, but surges.

One hopes that other commentators — freer to speak the truth than do our leaders, or those “taking a leadership role” — will continue to correct the record, dialing back on this insensate Infidel enthusiasm for Ramadan, both silly and sinister, before it becomes “not just for Muslims anymore.”

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Comments

  1. Idania says

    Jun 8, 2016 at 4:15 pm

    It is happening every day, if you are not fasting in Ramadan you are instructed not to eat to respect them. In Italy some refugees are living in a church, the Christians attending that church were instructed not to pray outlaud so Muslim are not offended. In the armed forces you can not be openly Christian because it offend Muslims. What is wrong in this picture? We are in the Western World, in a Judeo Christian culture. We do not have to extend a carpet because they are Muslims, they HAVE TO ADAPT OR LEAVE. We are in our backyard, they are guesses.

    • Phil Horaia says

      Jun 8, 2016 at 6:51 pm

      It is offensive to me to be told to respect them. I’m offended by their taking offence at the Cross and by demands for me to kowtow to them. I wouldn’t hesitate to eat in front of them. The world doesn’t grind to a halt for them; it’s something they ought to acknowledge. I’d like to see a little tolerance and respect from them and from the liberals who promote Islamic garbage for my non-Islamic values. Guests cannot dictate to the hosts.

      • sencit says

        Jun 9, 2016 at 10:59 am

        They are not even ‘guests’. Guests are invited, uninvited persons in your home are intruders.

        • VampireJack says

          Jun 9, 2016 at 11:03 am

          Damn straight.

    • Peggy says

      Jun 8, 2016 at 7:24 pm

      The real question is why does Christianity offend Muslims? If they find Christianity offensive then they have no respect for it but we have to respect Islam.
      Does nobody ask this question? Hans’t one of our spineless leaders or “journalists” asked them why they are so offended by the church?

    • Sandra Lee Smith says

      Jun 9, 2016 at 10:06 pm

      Exactly!

  2. Angemon says

    Jun 8, 2016 at 4:25 pm

    I await with bated breath President Obama’s detailed list of Muslim Achievers.

    Here’s a couple of toys made for muslims:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpZ8rwo8w8I

    Probably made in China or something, but I doubt a non-muslim would have invented such a “game” for children.

    • Jenny H says

      Jun 9, 2016 at 9:30 am

      Angemon, the video you linked to has been blocked or removed.

      • Angemon says

        Jun 10, 2016 at 5:54 pm

        Odd, I can see it here.

  3. gravenimage says

    Jun 8, 2016 at 4:28 pm

    Hugh Fitzgerald: You Don’t Have To Be Muslim To Love Ramadan
    ………………………..

    What’s not to love? Increased Jihad and threats for anyone–including Infidels–not observing the fast:

    “Islamic State hangs two boys for eating during Ramadan”

    https://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/06/islamic-state-hangs-two-boys-for-eating-during-ramadan

    Ramadan Mubarak, everybody!

  4. Hope says

    Jun 8, 2016 at 4:33 pm

    More special treatment for muslims from our dhimmi leaders, soooo eager to kiss up. Hillaroid Clinton, you do not speak for me or my family. We don’t give a hang about Rama-dama-ding-dong or any other muslim holiday. Stuff it.

    • sencit says

      Jun 9, 2016 at 11:03 am

      Well said! Same goes for Cameron.

    • Mubarak says

      Jun 9, 2016 at 11:53 am

      These foolish and glib talking politicians are just busy clothing the wolf in sheep’s clothing, hoping they will be spared when the real Ramadan starts.

  5. gravenimage says

    Jun 8, 2016 at 4:40 pm

    One more thing about Zakat–it is not that it is just to be used for Muslims. It is often translated as “charity”, but this is not really correct.

    It can be used to fund anything that aids the cause of Islam–and so it is much more likely to be used to fund “those fighting for Allah” than it is, say, hospitals, schools, or orphanages.

    “How Zakat Funds Jihad”

    http://www.shariahfinancewatch.org/blog/2012/08/28/how-zakat-funds-jihad/

    • sencit says

      Jun 9, 2016 at 11:13 am

      Why fund schools, hospitals and orphanages when these are adequately funded by the West?
      After all, isn’t that the way things should be in the Mohamedan mind?

    • Sandra Lee Smith says

      Jun 9, 2016 at 10:10 pm

      Yep, right on the mark!

  6. sliverp says

    Jun 8, 2016 at 4:41 pm

    Prophet (pbuh) ??? WTF? more likely ‘Prophet’ (HELL be upon him – and all his worshipers).

  7. William says

    Jun 8, 2016 at 4:52 pm

    I hope this is the last Ramadan tripe to come out of the White House, thankfully after Hussein is gone come January 2017.

    I am also sick of the politicians speaking on behalf of all Americans. They need to speak for themselves.

    I notice a similar dissonance when it comes to the government giving away money taken from tax-payers. I often hear the politicians say how generous the American people are while they hand out government money. They say the money represents charity from the American people. Can you imagine how ridiculous that sounds? They give away money, not obtained voluntarily from the American tax-payers, but was taken, and they call it charity or generosity. We are living in a world gone mad.

    • Sandra Lee Smith says

      Jun 9, 2016 at 10:12 pm

      Indeed, and the inmates are running the asylum!

  8. Guest says

    Jun 8, 2016 at 5:03 pm

    Yeah, cause it’s so awesome to starve yourself for one month.

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Jun 9, 2016 at 7:38 am

      they DON’T starve themselves, strictly speaking. Yes, they ostentatiously abstain from eating and drinking during *daylight* hours – that is, from sunup to sundown. But THEN, from sundown to sunup, they *stuff themselves*. That is: “fast” by day, *feast* by night.

      • maghan says

        Jun 9, 2016 at 2:36 pm

        It’s just primitive nonsense.

      • abad says

        Jun 9, 2016 at 7:07 pm

        That sort of “fasting” is hardly fasting at all.

        In fact.

        It is outright IGNORANT for sandbox-dwellers to deny themselves water during the hot daylight hours.

        No.

        Their “fasting” is displeasing to God.

        Isaiah Ch 58, Zechariah Ch 7, Matthew Ch 6

        Muslim “fasting” during Ramadan is not true fasting at all. They also seem to have difficulty abstaining from sin during their high holy days:

        Ramadan: A time to fast and a time to kill

        http://observer.com/2016/06/ramadan-time-to-fast-and-time-to-kill/

      • Sandra Lee Smith says

        Jun 9, 2016 at 10:12 pm

        Beat me to it.

  9. Gazzer says

    Jun 8, 2016 at 5:22 pm

    There all at it. Turnball, our Australian PM said almost exactly the same crap as Cameron.

  10. common sense says

    Jun 8, 2016 at 5:39 pm

    The left Can’t Understand Normal Thinking. These might be the most horrible people I know of just a hair above Islamofacists.

  11. Nigel GFF says

    Jun 8, 2016 at 5:48 pm

    Who can forget those Easter messages from islam.

    25 Mar 2016 – Murder of a man of peace: Muslim shopkeeper (Glasgow) who wished his ‘beloved Christian nation’ a Happy Easter was stabbed 30 times by a fellow muslim …..

    Duplicitous b…’s springs to mind.

  12. mortimer says

    Jun 8, 2016 at 5:51 pm

    More WHITEWASHING Ramadan which is the month of JIHAD. The purpose of the fast is to teach warriors to do without food during the day while they fight the enemy, so they can feast after defeating them.

    What is the literal meaning of Ramadan? The name comes from the Arabic root ramiḍa or ar-ramaḍ, which means scorching heat or dryness. Of course, when it’s scorching hot you should fast and abstain from all water during the heat of day, right? Wrong. It’s absurd.

    While fasting from dawn until sunset, Muslims refrain from consuming food, drinking liquids, smoking, and engaging in sexual relations (Mohammed didn’t abstain and broke his fast early). Muslims are also instructed to refrain from sinful behavior that may negate the reward of fasting, such as false speech (insulting, backbiting, cursing, lying, etc.) It’s alright, though to kill kafirs during the month of Ramadan. Killing kafirs is a holy deed.

    Apparently, Ramadan predates Islam. Abu Zanad, an Arabic writer from Iraq who lived after the founding of Islam, in around 747 CE, wrote that at least one Mandaean community located in al-Jazira (modern northern Iraq) observed Ramadan before converting to Islam. This is more evidence that Islam was created in Syria, rather than Arabia.

    Laylat al-Qadr (the night of power), is the night in which Muslims believe the first revelation of the Quran was sent down to Muhammad stating that this night was “better than one thousand months [of proper worship], as stated in Chapter 97:3 of the Qu’ran…and thereby gave them the command and power to CONQUER THE WORLD. As we can see, the purpose of Ramadan is to celebrate Islamic supremacism.

    Food prices go up during Ramadan because people eat more food during the nightly eating binges. Many Muslims put on weight and many get sick from dehydration. Productivity is reduced when Muslims fast. So hire Muslims if you can afford it.

    • Peter the Hermit says

      Jun 8, 2016 at 7:02 pm

      You write about the white-washing of Islamic holidays. Try this on for for size. This paper completely “takes the Mickey” out of the Holidays of Islam, exposing them in all their ugliness:

      http://nebula.wsimg.com/423ee53f6a46db5fec744fae5fd83f15?AccessKeyId=4AB376482039B2F3F977&disposition=0&alloworigin=1

      • gravenimage says

        Jun 8, 2016 at 9:23 pm

        Good stuff–thanks for posting. The only thing I would add is that Eid al-Fitr does not just mark the end of Ramadan, but also of the Battle of Badr–the first major Muslim attack on Infidels.

    • Sandra Lee Smith says

      Jun 9, 2016 at 10:20 pm

      Maybe not really; could be, like the RCC, they just incorporated area pagan feasts, fasts, and rites to smoothe the transition of converts. After all, the deity was the ancient moon god of Chaldea (northern Iraq) from whose worship Abram was called away by Yhwh God, to begin what we now know as Judaism. But he (Allah) was worshiped all around the region, possibly left over from the Assyrian and Babylonian empires that had earlier (well before Muhammad), swept over the region.

  13. jewdog says

    Jun 8, 2016 at 5:52 pm

    Muslims indeed have made major contributions to America – a short sample:
    1) Much of the impetus for building the US Navy owes its inspiration to Barbary piracy.
    2) The Marine Corps theme song was inspried by victories over the Barbary pirates.
    3) Airport security technology has greatly advanced.
    4) Cyberwarfare has advanced in response to the terrorism challenge.
    I invite others to add to this…

  14. Champ says

    Jun 8, 2016 at 5:54 pm

    Do muslims become more *devout* during Ramadan?

    “The Basics of Islam 4: Robert Spencer on the Violent Verses in the Qur’an”

  15. Nigel GFF says

    Jun 8, 2016 at 6:08 pm

    There’s that holy word ‘Holy’ yet again.
    Do they, Cameron and co., know what it signifies or means to a Christian, the alpha and omega of it?
    I suspect not. How tempting it is to send them a video by Ann Barnhardt concerning that unholy book and all that follows from it (the quran).

  16. Champ says

    Jun 8, 2016 at 6:16 pm

    “It’s the holy month of Ramadan…”

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

    There is nothing “holy” about islam …in fact, islam is *wholly* evil!

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 8, 2016 at 9:35 pm

      So true, Champ. This is so often used with Islam–and often *just* Islam–is perverse.

  17. jacques sabena says

    Jun 8, 2016 at 6:20 pm

    The average Muslim has nothing but contempt for other religions or those who choose to be non-religious. What Cameron and our political and media elites will not admit publicly is that there are far more Muslims in Britain who hold extremist views than we think. Here in Scotland, a genuinely moderate Muslim newsagent (from a sect severely persecuted in Pakistan) was brutally murdered for daring to wish his Christian friends a Happy Easter on Facebook by a fanatic who travelled hundreds of miles to kill him. The sect were joined by church leaders, community leaders and politicians in a demonstration against Islamic violence. The two main Muslim organisations in Scotland did not attend. What does that tell you?

    • mortimer says

      Jun 8, 2016 at 6:26 pm

      Ayatollah Sheikh Cameron is talking from his hat. He is almost illiterate about Islam.

      • sencit says

        Jun 9, 2016 at 11:27 am

        Just leave out the word “almost”!

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 8, 2016 at 10:17 pm

      He was considered a “heretic”, and so fair game for orthodox Muslims to murder him.

  18. mortimer says

    Jun 8, 2016 at 6:24 pm

    The Arabs stole their religious practices from all the peoples of Syria and mix them together.

    Much of the paganism in Islam comes from the Sabeans mentioned in the Koran.

    Ibn Hazm, writing in ‘Fisal wa-Milal’, identifies the people then known as ‘Harranians’ as the ‘Sabeans’ mentioned in the Quran. Hazm writes that they honored the seven planets and the twelve constellations, they have 5 times of prayer, (the same times as the Muslims pray), they FAST IN RAMADAN, they venerate and turn to the Kaba in prayer. Hazm also says they also worshipped the stars and idols. Hazm further claims that Allah sent Abraham to turn them away from pagan worship, but Abraham didn’t succeed. Except for the Black Stone which is the idol Muslims still worship.

    Comparing all the early writings on the Sabeans, we find that they inhabited Syria, and spread from there, they were definitely pagans, having a mixture of Babylonian and Helenic religion. The ‘prophets’ they professed to follow were Hermes and Agathodaemon, who they identified in Shahrastani’s time with Seth and Idris (O.T. Enoch). Gods who were worshipped were the gods of the 7 week-days, the god of the Jinn, the lord of the Hour, the god who makes arrows fly, the god Tammuz (a variation of the one previously mentioned), Hamam the prince, the father of the gods, the god ‘North’, the lord ‘Fortune’, etc. They also kept the Eid of their own. Further, the Sabeans made star worship a chief characteristic of their system.

    So, did Islam get the 5 times a day prayer? –From the star worshipping Sabeans. What about fasting during Ramadan? – from the Sabeans. The Eid? – from the Sabeans.

    It seems very odd that Muhammad, the man who’s central doctrine was the oneness of God, would include PAGAN worshippers like the SABEANS as those who were believers in the true God. If Muhammad were truly a prophet, how could he have made such a big mistake? How did ASTRAL worshippers get included into the Quran as those that worship the true God? How could Muhammad’s ‘revelation’ be in such error?

  19. JawsV says

    Jun 8, 2016 at 6:25 pm

    I look at the Three Stooges in the photo and all I feel is: utter contempt.

  20. Peter the Hermit says

    Jun 8, 2016 at 6:54 pm

    Here, finally, is the list of Muslim contributions to America that Obama has been looking for. One-hundred items are listed, so this should give him plenty of food for thought, and enough material for a whole slew of speeches. I found this list on a fairly new and remarkably informative website, http://www.SneakyIslam.com. Someone please forward it to the White House. Here is the direct link:

    http://nebula.wsimg.com/1faa4131d69531f71af99435c3714d48?AccessKeyId=4AB376482039B2F3F977&disposition=0&alloworigin=1

  21. Aussie Madness says

    Jun 8, 2016 at 7:42 pm

    Same from Malcolm Turnbull, Australian Prime Minister:

    “We are a nation that respects each other’s right to freedom of speech, thought and religion. That right, supported by our principles of democracy and law, bind us together into what I believe to be the most successful multicultural society in the world.”

    Except for Islam, which respects none of those things. Allahu akbar!

    http://www.aussiemadness.com

  22. dumbledoresarmy says

    Jun 8, 2016 at 8:16 pm

    I will spend Ramadan praying with special fervour for the deliverance of all the non-Muslim victims of murderous Muslim aggression and oppression.

    I will spend Ramadan praying with special fervour for the utter defeat of the Jihad; for the exposure and failure of mohammedan plots.

    And since I am a Christian I will spend Ramadan praying for the converson of Muslims to Christ; that is; for the *liberation* of Muslims from the mass-murderous death-cult-cum-crime syndicate that holds them in thrall.

    • Kepha says

      Jun 8, 2016 at 8:51 pm

      I think I’ll join you–and add the post-modern idolators who enable Islamic expansion. At the same time, I will try to plow through the book of Proverbs in Hebrew (I’ve forgotten way too much of it since my seminary days) and polish off the letters of Paul in Greek.

      Further, I will pray for revival among Christians.

  23. Kepha says

    Jun 8, 2016 at 8:59 pm

    The three leaders in the post are so solicitous over Muslim sensibilities because they know that Muslim behavior is probably making Muslims more and more odious by the day, and if they don’t try to exercise some “leadership” over the rest of us, we will lose forget to be nice, submissive little lesser clients (rather than citizens) before our wise and noble leaders’ greater clients.

    I suspect that they are scared to note that the West’s growing mistrust of Muslims and Islam is now out into the open due to a number of groups in Europe and now Mr. Trump’s campaign over here–and it was a mistrust that was not there prior to 09/11/01.

  24. Wellington says

    Jun 8, 2016 at 9:30 pm

    Re the photo above: Indicative of a confederacy of dunces; or, if you like, a most unholy trinity.

    • Kepha says

      Jun 9, 2016 at 9:24 pm

      I’d say Three Stooges, but that would insult the memory of the Howard (nee Horowiz) brothers, Larry Fine, Joe Besser, and Joe De Rita.

  25. Islam_Macht_Frei says

    Jun 8, 2016 at 9:45 pm

    ” I await with bated breath President Obama’s detailed list of Muslim Achievers.”

    Clock Boy.

    So there…..

  26. John Johness says

    Jun 8, 2016 at 9:52 pm

    More importantly it is a solid voting block. The ideology of Sunni Islam is solidarity with each other. The social pressures are enormous and strengthened with every prayer, visit to the Mosque and in every conversation. There is no room for individuality. When you are part of it everything is taken care of. No need for any thinking. That is why they are so dopey happy – this protectionism is particularity attractive to women. Next time you see a female believer, check out that dopey cult smile they have.

    • David says

      Jun 9, 2016 at 11:32 am

      “No individuality allowed”.

      Interestingly where I work as an engineer, New engineers to the company were asked if they were an animal what type of animal would they be?

      All of the non-Muslim engineers (8) answered that they would be a beaver, One non-Muslim engineer answered that he would be a honey badger because of the animals dogged pursuit (of solutions to problems )

      All of the Muslim engineers (4) without exception answered in one way. ” They would Ants. ”

      The company newsletter published everyone’s response, but I wonder to this day how many people realize the class of political ideology within that survey.

    • Sandra Lee Smith says

      Jun 9, 2016 at 9:54 pm

      Not all women, thank-you very much! I want NO PART of Islam!

  27. Nabi says

    Jun 9, 2016 at 12:28 am

    The ‘leaders’ are helping to set up a perfect predator/prey society. Communities based on Judao/Christian ethics seem to require periodic butchering to keep the faith going.

  28. CrossWare says

    Jun 9, 2016 at 2:03 am

    While she celebrated Ramadan, we remembered the heroes of D-day!

    • Sandra Lee Smith says

      Jun 9, 2016 at 10:04 pm

      Got that right! And Flag day is coming up on the 14th, too. That and some birthdays/ anniversaries are what I celebrate or commemorate in June. I don’t recognize Ramadan at all.

  29. dannyboy says

    Jun 9, 2016 at 2:33 am

    My wife got an email from our local Japanese consulate in Germany, advising caution due to the increased risk of jihad terror during Ramadan, in particular on Fridays. Nice to see that the Japanese government still has the unfashionable idea that its first duty is to protect its citizens, rather than to indulge in politically correct fantasy.

  30. Epidermoid says

    Jun 9, 2016 at 3:47 am

    Robert, Your friend Sarah has been havinf a go at you on Harry’sPlace.

  31. Alexander the Grape says

    Jun 9, 2016 at 5:28 am

    Peggy asked the Real Question posted above. Why does Christianity offend Muslims? Why do they hate us? The answer as that they are ordered to by the narrator of their scriptures – Satan. It is Satan who hates and deceives. He hates every human being, even those under his power. And many Muslims are diabolically possessed or in some stage of diabolical possession. Give your soul unreservedly to Satan and this is the result.

    But his most violent and undisguised hatred is for Jews and Christians. God chose to take on a human nature from the Jewish people. All his human nature was taken from the Jewish girl, the Virgin Mary. There was no human father involved. Satan hates Jews because God became a Jew.

    And Satan hates Christians because they carry the name of the Jew-God.

  32. dumbledoresarmy says

    Jun 9, 2016 at 7:46 am

    An Israeli politician, by contrast to the likes of Cameron, Obama, Turnbull, and others, gets pretty close to stating the bleeding and flaming obvious.

    Here:

    http://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/Every-year-the-month-of-Ramadan-is-a-month-of-terror-says-deputy-minister-456342

    Every year the month of Ramadan is a month of terror,’ says deputy minister

    Every year the Islamic holy month of Ramadan turns into a “month of terror,” Deputy Defense Minister Eli Ben-Dahan said Thursday, the morning after Palestinian gunmen (sic: Muslim gunmen – dda) murdered four Israelis (four Jews – dda; they were shot because they were Jews) in a shooting attack in Tel Aviv…”. END QUOTE

    Mr Ben-Dahan is, presumably, going by Israel’s bitter experience over many, many years, of an uptick in Mohammedan aggression during Ramadan. But this observable fact is not confined to Israeli experience; it is the experience of, for example, Thailand and the Philippines, and probably India also.

    Wherever there are Mohammedans, and they feel strong enough vis a vis the neighbouring or surrounding Infidels, there will be Jihad; and during Ramadan, there will be *even more* Jihad.

  33. Shane says

    Jun 9, 2016 at 10:18 am

    It’s not just Obama and the Democrats that are responsible for flooding our country with muslims; Bush was the one who started bringing in Somali muslims into the USA and we have been bringing in muslims from Pakistan and India for decades. Also, only a few GOP politicians have agreed with Trump that we should cut back on muslim immigration.

  34. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Jun 9, 2016 at 10:31 am

    They speak for us. Whether it’s Cameron, Barack Hussein, Hillary, Hollande, they fill the airwaves with thoughts we ingest into our brains. Mass media is like a rudder on a big sailing vessel, it steers the direction of our thoughts as we float, with never a grounding in fact cuz that’d mean running aground, as the water slips by the rudder there is never any follow up. As the propagandists for Lenin would say: Forward! The long slow motion surrender to Islam we’re witnessing is fluid. When our spokepersons do shut their flapping mouths, they don’t go back to the office to check on the factuality of what they say, they go to dinner, or maybe to a big important meeting with political strategists or bureaucrats.

  35. Tony says

    Jun 9, 2016 at 11:02 am

    have no problem with ramadan just have a big ol bacon and eggs, then later have some pulled pork and for dinner a good meal of bbq pork chops,, make sure to invite a moderate muslim tosee how moderate they really are,, have you weapon close and loaded

  36. Mubarak says

    Jun 9, 2016 at 11:23 am

    In their dhimmitude these hypocrites and false prophets are trying to infuse peace and benevolence into a religion that is noting but an odium generis humani.
    Too late they will realize.

  37. Ali Bey says

    Jun 9, 2016 at 11:51 am

    Tony, perhaps you would be surprised if instead of having a weapon close, you would have some bears at hand…

    • Tony says

      Jun 9, 2016 at 12:06 pm

      how about some wild hogs that have not eaten in about a week,, get high and turn them loose

  38. maghan says

    Jun 9, 2016 at 2:34 pm

    And those Arab despots put beaucoup green$$$$$$ Millions and millions in Hillary’s SLUSH FUND Foundation.

    So she’s gotta sing for those despicable despots.

  39. el Cid 2 says

    Jun 9, 2016 at 3:01 pm

    We are told that ‘only’ 10% of Muslims hold extremist views.
    But “only” 10% of Germans were members of the Nazi party.

    Would we have welcomed all Germans into our country during WW2?

    Why MUST we welcome all Muslims into our country (without the likelihood of adequate screening)?

    How well did America do in the years before mass Muslim immigration?

  40. UNCLE VLADDI says

    Jun 9, 2016 at 5:31 pm

    Democracy is socialism. Politicians are wealth-redistributing extortionist gangster criminals. So are muslims.

    Any more stupid questions?

  41. jewdog says

    Jun 9, 2016 at 8:44 pm

    How could I forget this one: Christopher Columbus discovered America thanks to the Muslims. Columbus was part of the effort to find an alternate trade route to Asia in order to avoid the Muslim pirates of the eastern Mediterranean.

  42. citycat says

    Jun 9, 2016 at 11:38 pm

    Ramadam is ridiculous and dangerous. They are not praying, they are cursing.

    The world is divided by religions.

  43. Tammy says

    Jun 10, 2016 at 11:14 am

    My thought on Obama’s recently declared June gay awareness month is to cause extreme chaos and terror by Muslims on these ppl. And Christians being filled with love and compassion for any fellow human being, will naturally protect the gays, thereby engaging in Obama’s purposed chaotic unrest, war in the streets. To then initiate martial law?
    he’s obviously disappointed that his attempt at getting this bloodshed started by first initiating gay marriage, adding to it discrimination and persecution of Christians who civilly and respectfully decline to support or participate the lifestyle, then forcing the gender craziness…

  44. mortimer says

    Jul 6, 2016 at 12:39 pm

    Have a Glorious, Victorious Month of JIHAD, you-all!

    Hope you brought lots of defeat and suffering to the dirty kafirs who don’t deserve to live.

    RAMADAN! The month of THEOCRATIC SUPREMACISM!

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