After I made my Mohammad trading cards available, people were interested in Mohammad playing cards, and I just heard back from a maker of playing cards that they will, indeed, make them. Like my trading cards, there are No playing cards like this in the world. It’s a 54 card deck of custom made playing cards, with Mohammad as the king, queen, joker, etc., all within a custom made designed card box that I will initial and number. Order them at my store.
Westman says
Here in the US, CAIR must be having convulsions over what is happening to the Image of Islam. Perhaps the reality that they will ultimately have no more respect than any other mainline religion will finally sink into their minds. The US was founded on principles that favor no religion, no matter how sensitive or demanding are the adherents.
Although “Muhammad” playing cards might seem brutal to Muslim “sensitivities”, such things are required until Muslims understand they have no special standing for being Muslim in the US. They are either loyal Americans or something else. Other religions have also had their previous attitudes of superiority challenged; that is expected in a truly free society and only seems to shock those whose lives were formerly dictated by religion.
Islam lacks tolerance for unbelievers and won’t have peace until it learns to drop its apartheid attitudes. America has always dished out intolerance for the intolerant.
CRUSADER says
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“The US was founded on principles that favor no religion, no matter how sensitive or demanding are the adherents.”
However, as with the majority of founders and framers, and particularly in the case of the Black Robed Regiment, those Americans who made the most difference in crafting, protecting, defending, coming to aid, turning the tides, and overall sacrificing for the USA at its creation — they were DISTINCTLY God-fearing men (and women) !!
The point wasn’t that God-inspired faith didn’t parallel with governance, but that government wasn’t to institute a particular religion upon people — but to allow for the people to freely pray, and practice their individual consciousness ….which is itself God given.
That had been the belief which formulated the greatness upon which America stood, and developed — alas, due to dilution of standards, yet we see now, how that foundation has become eroded and further dismantled over time and by neglect and intentional distortion.
“In God We Trust” is still the official motto of the USA.
James Lincoln says
Excellent post, CRUSADER. My compliments.
I do have a question, however…
Back in the day when the US was founded and framed, the number of Muslims in the US was probably negligible.
I’m wondering if our founding fathers would have tweaked documents like the U.S. Constitution if they had been confronted with the presence of Islam in their homeland…
gravenimage says
James, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams certainly understood early on about Islam, when Muslims began pirating our ships and enslaving our crews right after we declared our independence and no longer had “protection” from British tribute after 1776.
Since the Bill of Rights–which includes the First Amendment–was not written until 1791, I’d say that the existence of evil Islam was indeed taken into account.
Many appear to believe that the First Amendment means that anyone acting in the name of their faith can ergo sacrifice their children or mass slaughter unbelievers, but this is simply not the case. It is not legal to violate our laws in the name of religion.
James Lincoln says
Much thanks for your reply, gravenimage.
Yes, the Barbary pirates…
Sure enough, it is not legal to violate US law in the name of religion.
The basic tenets of Islam go against the U.S. Constitution, as we all know. Therefore, Muslims in the United States, cannot practice the basic core practices of Islam without violating US law.
I suppose they can practice a very watered-down version of Islam. The problem is a lot of Muslims do not want to do that… a large percent prefer sharia law – and want to force it on non-Muslims…
gravenimage says
Agreed, James–thanks.
CRUSADER says
Morocco, for instance, is credited with being the first modern state to officially recognize the USA, ironically enough.
The founders were wrestling with many issues from past history lessons, and Islam was something a few had tackled and tried to bring to bear as the scope of US foreign policy quickly grew.
Many modern Muslims will want to claim Islam came to the American colonies early in the 1600s, but then the slaves were enslaved by Muslim authorities and sold off to Western traffickers. Muslims aren’t to sell fellow Muslims. If some slaves were Moslem, then they weren’t considered so by their trappers and traders. Bogus claims from CAIR, for instance.
Interesting to study the origin of the word “SLAVE”
—- hint: Slav.
An ancestor of mine bravely took part in these early Barbary Coast battles.
Guess on which side…
A recommended read:
“Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates:
The Forgotten War That Changed American History”
Book by Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger
gravenimage says
Good post, CRUSADER.
Westman says
Crusader, sorry you misunderstood that I meant no religion at all when my meaning was no (particular) religion. I should have elaborated. I am agnostic, not atheist.
CRUSADER says
Well, being a deist would be closer to some of the framers and founders, but most did find inspiration and rationality from following Scriptures and attending annual ELECTIONS SERMONS, having to do with practicalities such as politics and liberty, etc.
Protestant ethics were highly supported from such moral guidance of clergyman and academic (Princeton) president John Knox Witherspoon….
That successful (high risk) nation-founding happened with distinct
Divine Guidance, according to the early patriots!
I’d recommend giving God a chance.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Witherspoon
JW_Reader says
Well Put Westman! I liked the last sentence. Intolerance is what the Muslims deserve. Their abhorrent behavior is being permitted everyehere in the name of tolerance. But no more. It is time to put a stop to all these and put them where they belong – in the trash!
James Lincoln says
JW Reader,
Recall that the “paradox of tolerance” is a paradox that states that if a society is tolerant without limit, its ability to be tolerant is eventually ceased or destroyed by the intolerant.
gravenimage says
So true, James.
“Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.”
― Thomas Mann
“Evil preaches tolerance until it is dominant, then it tries to silence good.”
― Charles J. Chaput
CRUSADER says
James Lincoln, you seem to be quite a fascinating gent,
that I could tolerate a shared bottle of brew or bourbon
over good conversation sometime — somehow.
Cheers!
James Lincoln says
Likewise, CRUSADER.
Best wishes!
Stuart A Richards says
Mr. Westman
You are spot on…It is not others intolerance of Islam that is the problem it is Islam’s intolerance of others.
It does not need to be said but, I will….Islam’s sectarian violence is the greatest danger to Muslims.
My years working in Pakistan for the State Department taught me that people are not the issue it is the ideology.
CRUSADER says
It’s the stupid ideology!
CRUSADER says
I had just dreamt a couple of nights ago about such cards being made available – and I wasn’t even dreaming whilst riding upon a flying donkey!
Very cool, looking forward to the deck.
CRUSADER says
Question:
Will these playing cards only have illustrations for head of suits,
or will each card be illustrated?
Bosch Fawstin says
Thanks, and yes, each playing card is illustrated be me, with Mohammad as the king, queen, joker, etc., as well as my custom designed box.
CRUSADER says
Imagine if every member of Congress got a deck!
Ren says
“Mohammad Playing Cards” are gonna be a hit worldwide.
CRUSADER says
I would deem so.
Amazing there isn’t such yet.
Given the special ops hit cards….
http://www.psywarrior.com/DeathCardsAce.html
The Pentagon’s “55 most wanted” playing cards are turning into the hottest collector’s item ….
(article from 2003, when coincidently Jihad Watch began)
https://www.stripes.com/news/buyers-beware-the-real-iraq-most-wanted-cards-are-still-awaiting-distribution-1.4525
Mary Fran says
I hope you keep your head after this. The joker card has to be the best.
Stuart A Richards says
Mary
Sad that the Charlie Hebdo and Salman Rushdie events are exactly why your comment carries so much weight. Trying to define what will be found offensive is almost impossible.
Rarely says
Not impossible in this case. These cards are clearly being created to offend. The offended will be met with the “Freedom of Speech” defence and a competitive game of victimhood.
Hey! It’s what makes life interesting, isn’t it?
P.S. In no way does the creation of these cards parallel either Hebdo or Rushdie.
CRUSADER says
I hope that heroic Tommy Robinson gets a deck to play with whilst whiling away time in jail for false crimes.
Hey, Trump — free Tommy !
Also, Bosch, send a deck to the White House Executive Mansion…
and to Rush Limbaugh, Joe Pags, Greg Gutfeld, Sean Hannity,
Laura Ingraham, and Seb Gorka,
and thereby, gain some valuable and appreciated quality press!
gravenimage says
Rarely wrote:
P.S. In no way does the creation of these cards parallel either Hebdo or Rushdie.
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These playing cards hardly represent the total of Bosch Fawstin’s work. His main Anti-Jihad work is The Infidel, which I would put up alongside *any* work anywhere in the Counter Jihad. His Mohammad cartoons are pretty amazing, as well.
gravenimage says
No doubt that this will piss off pious Muslims.
Paul J says
I hope so, because they piss me off ,(muslims that is). These cards will make a great conversation starter when playing poker with a mussie apologist.
gravenimage says
🙂
gravenimage says
Mohammad Playing Cards
……………….
Sounds like another great offering, Bosch!
I gotta order the trading cards…
gravenimage says
Just ordered all three trading cards today.
Nathan Dunning says
They are great, a little pricey for me as exchange from USD to AUD is like $100
CRUSADER says
1 United States Dollar equals
1.47 Australian Dollar …
CRUSADER says
Will our esteemed Robert Spencer get a deck of cards — gratis?
eduardo odraude says
Yes, but you should be the one to pay for them, not Bosch. Bosch has already paid his dues ten thousand times over.
CRUSADER says
Just dandy. Figured that Bosch would know where to send such a deck!
You also don’t know of my dues, by the way…
But thanks for the confirmation on the concept that Robert Spencer
should be getting a deck.
gravenimage says
This is a great idea! I will purchase a deck and have it sent to Mr. Spencer if he hasn’t already gotten one.
gravenimage says
I just found out that Robert will be receiving all of these items shortly.
eduardo odraude says
Muhammad Beer, Muhammad wine, Muhammad vodka etc., might be pretty cool too. Not to mention Muhammad gummies, Muhammad bacon, Muhammad clock faces, and so on. A whole line of products might be called for…
CRUSADER says
Clever Palindrome ,
Are YOU going to start these enterprises now that you came up with these ideas?
eduardo odraude says
There is a difference between challenging Bosch to pay for a deck of cards for Robert Spencer, which you seemed to do in your 1:49 am comment, and what I did in my 2:16 am comment. All I did was brainstorm a few ideas without challenging anyone to do anything. It seems to me a mistake on your part to challenge Bosch to pony up a free deck, as if that were his obligation, when in fact he is someone who in order to publicly criticize Islam has already probably sacrificed what could have been a lucrative artistic career (considering the awards he won), and of course Bosch also has to absorb plenty of death threats and be on guard about potential violence against him. Now, if your comment was not challenging Bosch to pony up a free deck, or if you have done anything equivalent to what Bosch has done, I humbly withdraw my criticism of your 1:49 am comment and apologize. Otherwise, I stand by my original response to what you said.
CRUSADER says
“Challenging” ?
It was just a QUESTION to Bosch!
Sheeeesh!
Not only that, but if Bosch has plans to give a deck to RS (who is the director at JW) already, then great…. How am I to know otherwise, except by asking/suggesting/prompting?
And since he has to gain from sales as well as from augmenting an already stalwart reputation of publicly going after jihadist psychopaths, he would be the one to get the criticism anyway if Members of Congress were to receive decks of cards, I figured he could take up that idea and figure out some path to advancing that.
It’s not out of any ballpark to make some suggestions to the ACTUAL provider of such an enterprise, as opposed to making vague notions about somehow someway some-who producing a sundry and myriad of products under such a “look at Muhammad” theme, e.o.
Those concepts sure are fun, however, and could be fleshed out and embellished upon with details.
Given your response, e.o., many folks might likely not come up with ideas and post them here b/c of your “go do that yourself and leave Bosch alone” projection!
Bosch is a big boy, as anyone here can note, and probably doesn’t need that cover from you, e.o. Bosch certainly can reply and has responded on his own, in his own terminology, for our understanding, here.
What if Bosch WERE to say, “Great! I’ll send Robert Spencer a deck!”
That’d be simple and neat. And if he comes up with a different reply, then we’d know what that was to be, as well…. but it originally was kinda addressed to Bosch, himself, not to you, there, e.o.
I didn’t suggest that Bosch send RS an entire box set of a 5 season tv series or a new shiny set of auto parts, as a pun to his namesake.
If this were a conversation at a pub, over friendly beers, this chat wouldn’t’ve necessarily taken this turn….
But it is via an anonymous internet platform, and that renders matters toward the ridiculous at times! Now, don’t it?
Lilith Wept says
I believe that moslems DO practice a watered down version of Islam in the West…..
We do not allow many things that are permitted in Islamic countries …polygamy, marrying under age girls, the inequal inheritance between males and females that is permitted in Sharia, wife beating…..etc.
This is one of the reasons I believe that moslems scream about when they claim they can’t fully practice their religion.
As far as freedom of religion is concerned…IMO, The mistake we are making is in assuming Islam is “ just another religion” like the many other religions that were brought into the US by immigrants, have found a place here.
Islam is most definitely NOT just a religion, and is NOT similar to the other religions that exist in the US.
I don’t think that our Founding Fathers every envisioned a day that Islam would be as prevalent as it is , as much of a threat as it currently is, and welcomed inside our country itself by quislings. I don’t think they ever thought that Islam would have gained a foothold inside our country by using our own freedoms and laws against us, for the purpose of taking over our country …..or they would have made an exception in “freedom of religion “ and excluded Islam.
Because our founding fathers had experienced the sacrifices and the cost of winning the war for our independence , they would not have wanted this country to fall to a worse tyrant.
It’s because our founding fathers wrote so eloquently about their feelings about tyranny and repression, that I believe that they would have wanted us , the current caretakers of this country and our precious rights and freedoms, to guard them and fight for them ….just as vigorously as they did.
In their day it was the tyranny of a parent country to its colony, in our day its the threat that this light of,Liberty, freedom and Rights given to man by our Creator could be extinguished forever……by Islam.
We all are familiar with the destructive and violent ideology inherent to Islam, taught in its mosques, and considered a command from Allah and Muhammed in the Koran and Hadiths, so I won’t go into the details. No other religion has these violent, hatred of non believers, and sanctioned lying and terrorism that Islam does.
Other religions in the US exist peacefully and EQUALLY with other religions, Islam does not.
As the founder of CAIR Omar Ahmad, has said “ Islam is not in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Koran should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on earth.”
Of course , later Ahmad tried to deny he said this ( the Mus,I’m Brotherhood frowns on moslems speaking out this blatantly about their goal to take over the US for Islam) but is an open declaration of Islam’s goal. That goal is to make every country into an Islamic country, to force every person to submit to the yoke of Islam. This goal is a command to moslems by Allah and is in the Koran.
No other religion contains the violence ,religiously sanctioned terrorism, and rabid hatred of non believers that Islam does.
No other religion has this hatred ,violence, killing, terrorism sanctioned lying enshrined in their scripture that Islam does.
No other religion uses this violence, hatred, lying , terrorism and killing to become the dominant religion and then persecuted and obliterates all,other religions.
No where has islam integrated into a society, and coexisted equally and peacefully with other religions. NO WHERE! Every where that Islam has been introduced, Islam uses a variety of violent or Stealth Jihad tactics to become dominate…and then exclusive.
It’s my belief that we will continue to loose the war with Islam as long as we continue treat Islam as “just another religion”.
We will be taking a large step, in the direction of winning this war when we begin acknowledging and treating Islam , not as a religion but as as the dangerous, totalitarian theocracy bent on world domination that Islam is.
We must see Islam for what it is, and the effect it has on those that follow it, and it’s goal of world domination ….not the “moslems are persecuted victims of irrational islamophobia,” sugar coated, warm and fuzzy feeling version of Islam that moslems and Liberal leftists lie to us about and are trying to cram down our throats at every opportunity!
eduardo odraude says
We must see all that you say, and at the same time understand another fact: that many Muslims raised in the West know relatively little about what is in their own core texts, and a sugar-coated version at that. The Muslim leadership almost always knows and supports the totalitarian goals of Islam, but the rank-and-file often will not believe it when an Islam critic talks about the totalitarian message of the central texts (Qur’an, Hadith, Sira), won’t believe it until a citation is actually given and they can look it up for themselves. That often begins a slow (sometimes quick) apostasization process.
The rank-and-file Western Muslims will only be more thoroughly Islamized when their numbers grow enough that their foothold in the West is secure and no one can stop their population percentage from increasing. For a long time, much of the Muslim leadership will soft peddle Islam’s true character shown not just in the core texts but also in the relative dearth of human rights in the Islamic world and in global polls of Muslim opinion. Along with the process of increasing Islamization of Western Muslims and Western societies however will be a process of apostasization. By some accounts, Muslim leadership at the center of the Islamic world is currently panicking about the level of apostasy currently happening due to the constant exposure to new information from the internet and other sources. How things will turn out in the end in Europe is hard to say. The net outcome might not destroy freedom and democracy entirely, but as we all know, there are already plenty of indications of Islamization’s corrosion of freedom and basic rights in Europe, and the prognosis does not seem good, since Muslim population looks set to become a still larger percentage in Europe than currently. The existence of hundreds of millions of Muslims who want to see the whole world, and in particular the West, Islamized, and the fact that European populations are often relatively oblivious and/or surrendering, is not promising. American populations seem hardly better at resisting Islamization, but our different immigration streams, and our First and Second Amendments, suggest there is more hope for the US to resist Islamization during the coming century. Meanwhile, technology is evolving so fast that predictions about the future are less secure than ever.
gravenimage says
Sadly, too many Muslims know *exactly* what their vicious creed demands.
CRUSADER says
—- assuming Islam is “ just another religion”
Indeed it is not. And, as not, it should be distinctly singled out as an ideology (as Seb Gorka suggests) or paid attention to for its political aspects (which Bill Warner warns about)….
gravenimage says
Lilith Wept wrote:
I believe that moslems DO practice a watered down version of Islam in the West…..
We do not allow many things that are permitted in Islamic countries …polygamy, marrying under age girls, the inequal inheritance between males and females that is permitted in Sharia, wife beating…..etc.
………………..
Unfortunately, Lilith Wept, many Muslims *are* practicing the full horror of Islam, even here in the West. FGM is rife, as is under-the-radar polygamy. We had a case of “Honor Killing” here in California where the victim had been brought in as a “niece”, but was actually the child bride of her eventual murderer.
Shari’ah courts–especially in places like Britain and France–impose inequal inheritance all the time.
Needless to say, wife beating goes on all the time.
And ;pious Muslims here wage violent Jihad–and “lawfare”–to try and make this the law of the land.
My guess is that fewer and fewer Muslims will follow our laws as more Muslims flood in.
TimothySZ says
Would Mohammed’s favorite be the 9 of hearts?
CRUSADER says
Nine of Hearts♥ is known as the “universal love” card as well as the “wish” card and the “disappointment in love” card. AND it is favorable to new beginnings.
I would venture instead that this card is reserved for Irshad Manji….
fredoniahead says
Where’s the Leftist media and their butt buddy Marxists demonstrating and rioting over these cards?. Where are the outrageous Tweets calling you a racist and Islamophobe?.
Keep up the good work. One good thing…I know you won’t bow as soon as they start moaning “racism” & “Islamophobe”. The weakness to PC name-calling is what makes me sick. Like the Army War College recently done with CAIR and their incessant whining over Raymond Ibrahim’s scheduled talk. The same old worn out names and the College pissed right down its leg. To have one’s military that weak and reactionary to PC dogma does not make one feel safe and strong.
Stop Kafirophobia says
I’d love to see Muhammad Toilet Paper!