The messages were anti-Semitic and anti-Christian. My latest in PJ Media:
Is there any sphere of life where one can be spared Leftist cultural indoctrination?
Comic book website Bleeding Cool reported Saturday that Indonesian Muslim artist Ardian Syaf hid subtle anti-Jewish and anti-Christian messages in an X-Men comic. Marvel Comics has apologized and withdrawn the issue, but nonetheless the message is clear: when it comes to Western self-hatred, it’s open season.
Syaf drew a scene of X-Men Gold #1, which was published last Wednesday, in which the character Colossus is depicted wearing a shirt that bears the legend “QS 5:51.”
That refers to Qur’an, surah 5, verse 51:
O you who have believed, do not take the Jews and the Christians as allies. They are allies of one another. And whoever is an ally to them among you — then indeed, he is of them. Indeed, Allah guides not the wrongdoing people.
That’s bad enough on its face, and it isn’t generally mitigated in mainstream Qur’anic interpretation. The revered Qur’an commentator Ibn Kathir explains it this way:
Allah forbids His believing servants from having Jews and Christians as friends, because they are the enemies of Islam and its people, may Allah curse them.
Bleeding Cool notes:
A more common Indonesian translation of the verse, however, states that “Muslims should not appoint the Jews and Christians as their leader.”
That is correct, and this understanding isn’t limited just to Indonesia. The word in the Qur’an verse that is translated above as “allies” and frequently as “friends” is awliya, which means friend and protector — i.e., someone entrusted with another’s safety, or one’s leader or liege lord.
This is particularly relevant for Indonesia today, as the nation is embroiled in a controversy over the Governor of Jakarta, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, popularly known as Ahok. He was put on trial for blasphemy after hundreds of thousands of Indonesians demonstrated in the streets last December 2, demanding he be tried. Ahok’s supposed blasphemy was to refer to Qur’an 5:51 in criticizing Muslim leaders who told Indonesians not to vote for him because he was a Christian.
Syaf referred to that in X-Men Gold #1 as well. In one scene, Kitty Pryde, a Jewish character, declares herself the leader of the X-Men. On a nearby building “212” is written large; Syaf was referencing those December 2 demonstrations.
According to Bleeding Cool:
Marvel has issued a retraction — stating that the Syaf will be disciplined and that the scenes will be amended digitally and in future prints (though a quick check with ComiXology reveals that this is yet to happen.)
How did all this happen in the first place? It happened because Marvel was anxious to signal its virtue by standing against the alleged rising tide of “Islamophobia.”
In November 2013, Marvel introduced female Muslim superhero Kamala Khan, the creation of G. Willow Wilson, a convert to Islam. Early in 2015, the image of Kamala Khan was used in a campaign of defacement against bus ads in San Francisco. The ads called attention to Islamic anti-Semitism and the World War II collaboration of the Mufti of Jerusalem, Hajj Amin al-Husseini, with Hitler and the Nazis. Kamala Khan was plastered over the ads, calling such information “racist.”
Wilson wholeheartedly approved the use of her work in this fascist act of vandalism. Marvel Comics, of course, did not utter the slightest murmur of disapproval regarding how their character was being used.
And now this. Would Marvel Comics have ever published a comic containing subtle anti-Muslim messages? Of course not. But if such a comic had ever slipped through its internal political correctness tribunal, the artist responsible would have immediately been fired and ostracized, not just “disciplined.”
And Syaf doesn’t seem all that chastened by this “discipline.” Bleeding Cool reports:
[Syaf] seems not to accept he may have done anything wrong, and indeed is relishing in the fact that the first print may ( and is) becoming a collectible. It has now sold copies on eBay for $17 for the regular first print. Though he has been locking down some of his Facebook threads.
Further demonstrating his pride, he changed his Facebook profile picture to a cartoon of a man wearing a hat on which is emblazoned “212.”…
Read the rest here.
Kiel says
Even the all-American Marvel Comics is invaded by the perverted Muslim scribblers and subversive lefties. But this can’t be done without the liberals’ outstretched hand.
Dry Academy says
Marvel turned to shit in the mid 90’s. Very,very sad. They used to put out amazing work. Now I can’t even stand to look at the trash they produce.
mortimer says
We need an online version of these comics with ALL THE KORANIC and HADITHIC REFERENCES and their meanings so that people can learn first-hand about ISLAMIC SUPREMACISM.
A super hero Muslim will be a super hero KILLER ZOMBIE JIHADIST MASS MURDERER!
270 million dirty kafirs have been killed by jihad. How many do Muslims want to kill?
How many KAFIRS must be killed before Western people WAKE UP?
gravenimage says
Super villain, not superhero.
gravenimage says
Robert Spencer in PJ Media: Marvel Withdraws Comic Containing Hidden Jihad References
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Yes–good news. I noted this in the thread on the first story.
Westman says
QS 5:51 is just one of many self-creating statements of Allah(aka Muhammad) to produce animosity between Muslims and unbelievers. He has assured, by demanding that Muslims not be friends with non-believers, that Muslims, as a group, will form enclaves in non-Islamic countries and then be considered, “other”.
No amount of promotion, good intentions or otherwise, by CAIR, SPLC, or other insistor will influence unbelievers to trust puposefully unintegrated, sub-set, communities.
Muhammad has charged Muslims to take over administration of the world – to “dream the impossible dream” – that he, as Allah, has made quite impossible by rejecting unbelievers with masochistic predjudice.
Having the majority of the (entire) world, as believers, has never been, nor will ever be, achieved by any religion. Islam has been left behind in a modern world where its jihadists struggle for relevancy and its youth leave its primitive, Islam produced, environments; going to the West for improvement.
Cameron says
Looking at articles in the mainstream press on this…there is an odd reticence about actually quoting the verse. They merely say it’s a verse that’s been “interpreted to mean that Muslims can’t have Jewish or Christian leaders.
The only two publications I’ve found that will actually quote the Quran verse are Jihad Watch (duh) and (to its great credit) Bleeding Cool. What’s that I hear about the death of traditional media? May it come all the sooner. They dug their own graves the day they decided to be political evangelists before journalists. Does anyone believe they would take this tack with Bible verses that come up in the news?
FYI says
Shouldn’t the kamala khan creature be wearing a burqa?
allah does not approve of women going out in public.
And given that mahomet famously stated that most of the souls in hell are women
she cannot have much a future.
Certainly not as a heroine.
Perhaps she should have additional powers.Since she is a shape-shifter,the islamic art of lying{taqqia-kitman}should be easy as well as the islamic science of murdering innocent people in the name of that counterfeit god of hate,allah.
(Actually you don’t need superpowers for that.You just need the koranic instructions to murder innocents and a suicide bomb vest).
{Spoiler alert}In the end kamala khan goes to Egypt and blows up a Coptic church before shaitan ensnares her demonic soul in the Dungeon of Doom(where Hitler and all those unfortunate devout women that mahomet mentioned are still there today..)
Colossus,having stupidly and mistakenly converted to islam, seeks revenge on kamela khan,blaming her for the fact that Superman,that great all-American,beer drinking infidel,sent him to hell with his face looking like a camel’s backside…so now colossus and kamela khan have to endure eternity in the fires of hell,in the ironic punishment department where bacon and beer,and mahomet’s famous medicinal golden camel juice are the only form of nutrition available.
Dov Berrol says
The Indonesian Muslim artist has rightfully been fired:
http://www.jpost.com/Not-Just-News/X-Men-artist-fired-over-antisemitic-messages-hidden-in-comic-book-art-486881
gravenimage says
*Excellent* news, Dov–thank you!
UNCLE VLADDI says
MARVEL IS NOW OWNED BY DISNEY.
DISNEY IS (STILL) AN OPENLY RACIST ORGANIZATION.
Angering Norsemen and religious pagain Scandinavians everywhere, they made Heimdall (whose thousands-of-years-old, official title is “the Whitest of the Gods”) into a black man.
Ditto for Nick Fury. Ditto for both MERLIN and LANCELOT in their “Once Upon a Time” TV show.
NOTICE HOW THEY HAVEN’T BEEN QUITE AS “DIVERSELY INCLUSIVE” BY CHANGING FAMOUS WESTERN HEROES AND CHARACTERS INTO FOR INSTANCE, ASIANS!!!
They only pander to blacks, due to white liberal guilt, and muslims out of sheer fear.
So, did they really “discipline” this taqiyya artist, or did they immortalize him by creating a new muslim superhero (perhaps “JIHADIMAN”) in his honor?!
(Personally, I’m betting on the latter result). Terrorism works!
😉
gravenimage says
I do graphic novels–this is important stuff. Glad this ugly work has been withdrawn, and that the Mohammedan will not be free to sneak in more savager Muslim Da’wa.