Islamic groups in the US have successfully protested against shoes that they claim bear the name of Allah. Will they protest against this? What do you think?
“It is a pity that empty slogans about tolerance and mutual respect, intended for naive Europeans, find fertile soil in Western media and mislead the public.” Indeed. The Kurds have become sainted martyrs since they can be used as ammunition against Trump. But this is the reality.
“Kurdish Authorities Allow Anti-Christian Shoes to Be Sold in North Iraq,” AINA, December 30, 2019:
(AINA) — According to an article published on a Polish language website, shop windows in a region dominated by Kurds in northern Iraq displayed footwear with a crucifix embossed on the sole.The shoes are sold, among others, in a center called “Mega Mall” in Erbil. The website reports that an investigation conducted by some local Assyrian activists revealed that the footwear was produced by a Turkish company called FLO, located in Gaziantep, in southeastern Turkey.
Kurdish shops import the shoes and distribute them in their stores, entice their customers to trample the cross, holy symbol of Christianity and sign of hope and peace.
It is impossible to understand the meaning of such an act in view Europe’s view of alleged Kurdish democracy, freedom of religion, tolerance of Muslims towards Christianity in Iraq’s Kurdish region. With such acts, Kurdish Muslims show their real attitude towards Christians as native population of the country and their values. “It is a pity that empty slogans about tolerance and mutual respect, intended for naive Europeans, find fertile soil in Western media and mislead the public,” says the article.
The article goes on to explain how a cross on a shoe sole is perceived in Muslim culture, regardless of which nation represents it. Usually, when Muslims enter the room, they take off their shoes – and then when someone accidentally removed the shoe turns over with the sole up, spits on the sole and places the shoe into the normal position. When there is a cross on the sole, the cross is spitted on. Shoes generally are seen as despised garments. One of the most offensive phrases in that culture is: “You are a shoe.” This statement often leads to serious conflicts.
The range of the offensive assortment included in previous years even more products: women’s footwear, socks, and slippers “decorated” in many places with symbols of the cross.
After protests from the Assyrian Christian population against such acts, the local Kurdish authorities demonstratively withdraw these shoes from one store, usually in front of cameras of foreign correspondents, while allowing them to be sold in others….
This attitude towards fellow citizens reveals the true face of the “good-neighbor” attitude of Muslim Kurds to Christian Assyrians, dominated by racism and expansionism….
Lightship Chaplain says
They’ll get theirs in the end, the Lord God doesn’t miss things!
Lydia Church says
Exactly.
They can’t hurt us as we are in a win-win situation.
They can’t hurt God by this either.
But one day they will answer to Him for it…
and that WILL hurt THEM!
StacyGirl says
Regardless of their apology, the Kurds were part of the Armenian Genocide.
gravenimage says
This is grimly true, StacyGirl. Even though the Kurds were themselves oppressed under the Ottoman Empire and successive regimes in Turkey, they were among the most savage murderers during the Armenian Genocide.
Michael Pillon says
What? You actually thought that your heroic Kurds were any different to any other Muslim filth? I celebrate the extinction of every single one of them.
Infidel says
Yeah, I was somewhat on the fence on them, but now, I completely support the Kurds too being caught up in the internecine Muslim civil war. Don’t want any more American blood to be shed on their behalf either
ElderlyZionist says
“Shoes generally are seen as despised garments.”
This is because the streets in most pre-technical cultures are filthy with human sewage and animal waste. Shoes protect the feet from the filth, and filth is on the soles of shoes. That’s why in many cultures you remove your shoes when you enter a home, and why throwing a shoe at someone is a capital insult.
Michael Copeland says
In UK one judge takes a sympathetic view:
SHOE-THROWING
Judge Denniss agreed that the act of shoe-throwing
should not be considered in a charge of violent disorder
against the student because it was “a symbolic” political gesture.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/04/uk-police-bow-to-islamic-sensitivities-allow-muslim-protesters-to-throw-shoes
Now we know how to make a “symbolic” political gesture towards a judge.
WPM says
Would the good judge feel” offended” if someone threw a shoe or heavy boot at him in court ?Would it only be only symbolic violence to get a dirt boot thrown to the face?
gravenimage says
What insanity, Michael.
Save Europe says
Every Kurd I’ve met in the U.K., are rude, arrogant and unfriendly, in my experience. All they do are run Kebab takeaways, and over the last 5 years started to appropriate British fish and chip ships.
They’re also very proud to tell you how they’re very Muslim.
Infidel says
A very good explanation, ElderlyZionist, which most Western people don’t grasp, since streets are pretty clean so people don’t usually dirty their homes by not removing their shoes. This actually is there even in more Eastern countries, like Burma, where people are famous for being barefoot in indoor environments. Only difference that people there don’t use shoes to insult deities like they do in Islam
ELI says
One shop sells offensive footwear turns all Kurds into Shariah supremacists. Next week, some Kurdish guy said he does not like Americans which infers that all Kurds are jihadis.
Infidel says
No, it doesn’t, but the fact that the Kurdish authorities didn’t consider them worth banning on the grounds that they’re anti-Christian does make Kurds people less worthy of fighting for. Kurds also have participated in the persecution of Assyrian Christians and Yazidis, so we should oppose the bipartisan beatification of them.
Heck, they could even have banned them on the grounds of them being made in Turkey
ELI says
So they should be banning this? understood. Similarly we should ban things offensive to Islam or other religions in our own societies right?
Or not?
Infidel says
Let’s get one thing straight: ‘Kurdistan’ is not the West. They have nothing like the bill of rights, the first or second amendments or any of that. So to pretend that they don’t ban anything b’cos they love the open marketplace of ideas is being delusional.
gravenimage says
What claptrap from ELI. It is the Kurdish authorities themselves allowing this–this is not some unpopular guy selling these shoes off the back of a truck.
Do you think they would allow shoes that trampled the name of “Allah” or the “Prophet”?
And in this environment, this is incitement to violence against Christians.
CogitoErgoSum says
Islam is Islam — and this is Islam.
Kilauea says
Let the heathen rage! God laughs at their plans and holds them in derision.
FYI says
Always remember that the muslims worship the pagan god al Lah[“The BEST of deceivers” k3:54},a god who has One shin{leg} ,TWO RIGHT HANDS{sahih muslim 1827} and can only speak Arabic.
A god whose “perfect” koran is so full of errors that,in its imperfections,by allah’s own criterion of k4:82 ,it couldn’t possibly come from the Actual God.
A god who insists that authentic prophets must be from the {k45:16}Children of Israel and yet his prophet muhammed …wasn’t from the Children of Israel.
So ,according to allah’s own criterion of perfection of k4:82,the koran cannot come from the Actual God
And according to allah’s own criterion of prophethood of k45:16,muhammed{since he wasn’t a Jew} couldn’t be a real authentic prophet.
God laughs indeed…
I wonder if you asked a muslim shoemaker to tell us what size shoe do they think allah wears..but they wouldn’t get the reference since they don’t read the koran.
what size shoe does allah wear ?
mortimer says
The author of the Koran was NOT all-knowing or all-seeing and thus, was a human. The Koran is of human origin.
These shoes that insult Christians are meant to blame Europeans and Americans for fighting ISIS or even for creating ISIS. The Muslims of the Middle East don’t want to take any credit for ISIS, Al Qaeda or other terrorist groups. They want to blame the targets of Islamic supremacism, namely, people of non-Muslim faiths.
According to the designer of the shoes, Muslims are always innocent … so someone else must be punished and scapegoated. Islam has this very unjust attitude towards its intended victims: Muslims believe ‘They have it coming to them’.
gravenimage says
Muslims have always hated and victimized Christians, from the earliest days of Islam.
Student of History says
One could take the contrarian view that if these shoes are worn, at least the western world, those shoes leave pro-christian little crosses in the wake of every moslem’s footstep .
“That’ll learn, ’em.”
😀
Noam Cherney says
They think that they trample the cross, while plastering the ground with the sign of the cross with every step.
WPM says
They are wearing a cross(a Christian mark) even if it is on the bottom of their shoes. Will their fellow Moslems have to follow ,them with a broom to wipe out the spreading of a Christian symbol in the dirt and sand everywhere they walk? A problem they could ask their good Imam while drinking camel urine to their cure cancer, wiping their asses with small stones after they taking a shit and watching the sunset in a muddy pool at the end of the flat earth?.
Battle says
Where is the deafening scorn in the left media about the spitting on the cross equal to the throwing of a Koran in a recycle bin?
No deafening scorn. Crickets.
Battle says
How long would a Christian, Hindu or Buddhist shoe maker be allowed by the left media to make shoes with a star and crescent moon on the sole?
James Lincoln says
Battle,
Sounds like a great experiment…
Infidel says
Better yet, print the name of allah or Mohammed in the Nastalīq script on the soles of shoes, and offer them to the Kurds to sell to their people. Use some of the most beautiful fonts featured in Iranian calligraphy, and market them as pieces of art for that reason: if a plate w/ Quranic inscriptions can pass as art just b’cos of the font used, so could this. Print allah on the heel, and Mohammed on the front sole, so that both can hit the dust
Let’s see how willing they are to tolerate that w/o reacting like Muslim rage-boys.
Save Europe says
Well let’s not forget THIS insanity –
Ihttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/07/26/fireman-sam-producer-apologises-after-showing-character-treading/
Battle says
And spitting is allowed in the mosque?
An act of compassion and peace?
Karen says
I knew our Kurdish ‘friends’ were rats,
elee says
In going to paint crescent moons on the soles of my shoes today.
Infidel says
If possible, etch it, rather than paint it, so that you can leave crescent-star footprints in the dust and the sand.
Ann says
Like it. When travelling in Muslim countries place shoes facing up on top of clothes, with soles visible, and add a cross. They won’t touch you!
No Muzzies Here says
The Muslim obsession with trampling on any symbol of any other religion is a sign of mental illness.
gravenimage says
Iraq: Kurdish Muslim authorities allow sale of anti-Christian shoes that allow wearer to trample on cross
………………….
More unhinged hatred from Muslims.
owensgate says
I couldn’t imagine what “Anti-Christian Shoes” might be until I read the article. Then, the only reaction I could feel was kind of a sad amusement. Go ahead, muslims, walk miles in those shoes, it means nothing. I do not worship a “cross”, I Worship my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. What is it with shoe soles and Arabs, anyway? I worked in Saudi Arabia, and at a desk I had my feet up. A Saudi came in, sat down across the room facing me, and in 15 seconds or so he let out a spew of Arabic that would curdle camel milk. Seems he wasn’t supposed to see the soles of my shoes. Not a neuron of common sense they have.
janwog says
Muslem cannot be trusted even if they are secular Kurds. Only ex Muslim can be trusted.
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fumi-e
Crusades Were Right says
I wonder if these shoes are being imported into Western lands?
gravenimage says
I found an article that says they are being sold in Greece, Crusades Were Right. The Church there is not happy:
http://orthochristian.com/78553.html
But as one person says in the comments section, “hard to tell if the purpose of this is protective, to keep evil from rising form (sic) under the ground to the wearer of the shoe, or if the intention is blasphemous”.
I have some relatives who are fundamentalist Christians who might want to buy these shoes–but if they did, it would be in a *very* different, “walking in the footsteps of Jesus” sort of way. Certainly not what these Muslims intend.
OLD GUY says
And they throw a fit if anything negative is said about islam or Muhammad. They should be made aware of what comes around goes around. I see Muhammad shoes in the future, I wonder how they will handle that, I’am sure it will be with protest and murder, that’s their peaceful religion.
gravenimage says
Muslims don’t see this as hypocritical–they are always Muslim supremacists.