Like Black Lives Matter riots, Muslim mobs don’t spread the virus.
Every year, Shiite Muslims in Flushing, Queens conduct the Arbaeen, a procession in honor of Mohammed’s grandson whose death at the hands of a Sunni caliph marked the pivotal break between Shiites and Sunnis, slapping their faces and chests for their beheaded Imam Hussein.
Queens, once the borough that gave birth to President Trump and David Horowitz, now has a large Muslim population, and the fall processions of wailing crowds are a regular event.
The coronavirus didn’t change that.
In early October 2020, videos show a huge knot of Muslim men packed closely together in circles, not wearing masks or with masks down, chanting and furiously beating their chests in memory of Hussein’s martyrdom. Some are shirtless in the traditional fashion. The slaps are meant to be hard enough to cause real pain and there’s plenty of reddened skin on display.
The Shiite procession marches down Flushing’s Main Street, past rows of Chinese stores without a police officer in sight. The media also doesn’t stop by to document the event.
It’s one of a number of Shiite mass gatherings in New York and New Jersey, including more mourning events for Imam Hussein on Manhattan’s Park Avenue in August, where few of the participants wear masks, and another in Kensington, Brooklyn around the same time.
Unlike the Orthodox Jewish prayers of the High Holy Days and the Sukkot celebrations, these Shiite Muslim gatherings were not written up by the New York Post, the New York Daily News, or the New York Times as a public threat. Governor Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio did not blame Muslims for the spread of the virus or declare a crackdown that would close mosques.
The Ashura Jaloos event took place in late August in the Kensington 11218 zip code which is listed on the “orange zone” on De Blasio’s coronavirus watchlist. The Queens procession took place in another watchlist neighborhood where coronavirus rates have been rising.
At the end of August, Governor Cuomo threatened to crack down on Orthodox Jewish weddings and blamed the “Jewish community” and the “Catholic community” for spreading the coronavirus, but made no mention of any action against Muslim events like the one in Manhattan that had taken place a few days before his threats against Orthodox Jews.
On October 4th, the Queens procession took place. A day later, Cuomo held his infamous antisemitic press conference in which he threatened, “I have to say to the Orthodox community tomorrow, ‘If you’re not willing to live with these rules, then I’m going to close the synagogues.’”
To bolster his argument that Chassidic Jews were to blame for the spread of the virus, Cuomo used a photo of a funeral from 2006. Once again, he made no reference to Muslim mass gatherings taking place even right before the release of the new data and his press conference.
The media widely and wrongly claimed that the outbreaks were only taking place in zip codes with large Orthodox Jewish communities. This was false, especially when it came to Queens.
There are plenty of mosques to be found in the targeted zip codes in Brooklyn and Queens, in the red, the orange, and the yellow areas, on De Blasio’s watchlist. Some are quite large and in the red zone, but Orthodox Jews made a good target. Muslims make a politically incorrect one.
No Democrat would be caught dead threatening Muslims or shutting down mosques.
And the same papers that scold, sneer, and mock at men in fur hats would never dream of ridiculing shirtless Muslim men slapping their chests in public. That would be racist.
Like the Black Lives Matter riots and the Sharpton 50,000 rally in Washington D.C., Islamic religious rituals somehow don’t spread the virus. Not even when they’re taking place in areas on the watchlist. Orthodox Jewish prayers, like Trump rallies, are blamed for spreading it.
The same hypocritical doublethink extended not only to the rituals, but to the reactions.
When a group of Chassidic Jews protested the discriminatory restrictions by Governor Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio, by burning masks and waving Trump flags, the media was furious.
“Brooklyn’s Orthodox Jews burn masks in violent protests as New York cracks down on rising cases,” a Washington Post headline blared. That’s the same paper which has repeatedly described Black Lives Matter riots that wrecked entire cities as being “mostly peaceful”.
Rep. Jerrold Nadler, who had falsely claimed that Antifa violence was a myth, and expressed support for Black Lives Matter, despite the repeated riots, demanded that, “those responsible must be held to account for such violence” and expressed support for Cuomo’s crackdown.
Nadler also tweeted a petition of support for Cuomo and De Blasio’s crackdown on Jews from “300 Rabbis” representing something called the New York Jewish Agenda which had been created earlier this year to fight for “social justice.”
The letter was headed by Sharon Kleinbaum of Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, a gay temple, much of whose membership defected when it decided to pray for Hamas terrorists.
“Recent events have demonstrated that CBST is far more committed to a progressive political agenda than to the Jewish people,” Bryan Bridges, a former board member, wrote. “I couldn’t imagine raising a child in this congregation, and have that child hear, just before we recite Kaddish, the names of people who are trying to kill her grandparents.”
But, to give Sharon Kleinbaum credit, she doesn’t limit her antisemitism to Jews in Israel.
Kleinbaum supported providing space to Queers Against Israeli Apartheid, but is quite happy to see apartheid implemented by her Democrat political allies against Orthodox Jews in America.
The differing treatment meted out to Orthodox Jewish and Shiite Muslim religious gatherings is a troubling demonstration of how antisemitism is baked into the intersectionality of the Left.
It’s not about Israel. And it never was.
Pierre Leroux, who coined the term ‘Socialism’, wrote, “Every government having regard to good morals ought to repress the Jews”. This was a century before the rebirth of the modern State of Israel. It wasn’t Zionism that the founder of Socialism was objecting to, but Judaism.
Is it any wonder that Leroux’s socialist successors like Bill de Blasio are taking him at his word?
There is no systemic racism in America. But there’s no question that when you look at the very different treatment for Black Lives Matter rallies, Shiite Muslim gatherings, and Orthodox Jewish events, that systemic antisemitism is alive and well. Especially among New York Democrats.
“My message to the Jewish community, and all communities, is this simple: the time for warnings has passed,” Bill de Blasio had tweeted in April.
There was no such warning for Muslims who, unlike the Chassidic Jews of Brooklyn, were not harassed or threatened in any way. They went on conducting Islamic events with no interference. The New York Post did not spy on their weddings, the New York Daily News did not ridicule their religion, and the mayor and governor did not threaten to come after them.
Cuomo threatened to close synagogues. He did not threaten to close mosques. Nor did he display any pictures, like the one above, of mass Muslim religious gatherings. Instead, he found a photo of a Jewish funeral from 2006 to suggest that Jews were spreading the coronavirus.
Systemic racism is a lie. Systemic antisemitism is real. Just ask Cuomo.
Munroe says
We have the same in England this virus doesn’t transfer during their gatherings, this is a very clever virus it seems to know what faith we are it even knows the time too.
Alydia says
I think the virus’ name is satan…
James Foard says
Church Lady.
maria says
Yes and it has many other names like Cuomo, de Blasio Hiden Biden, Cameltoe , Pelosi AOC, Omar ,Tlaib, and many other
Wellington says
Cuomo is both an ignoramus and a hypocrite. He’s also a killer since he put Covid-19 patients in nursing homes with disastrous results. His father, Mario, was bad enough, but this guy is Beyond the Pale. He also demonstrates that New York state is the second weakest link among the fifty states. California, a once great state but now ruined by Leftism (and the Leftists aren’t finished yet in CA) is the weakest link among all fifty.
I take no delight in stating what I have but I have to convey the truth as I see it. Minus New York and California, America would be much better off. Whatever good still resides in these two states has now, clearly, been outweighed by their many negatives, which include a direct assault on freedom itself.
Just as some people are better than others. Just as some ideas are better than others. So is it the case that some US states are better than others. No way getting around this I would contend.
Vladimir says
California should be broken up, many people out there are working on that; probably North, South, and Coastal Californias will exist in the future. Coastal California would be Liberal, but the other new States would not.
gravenimage says
Vladimir, when I was a child generally southern California was conservative, and northern California was liberal. Some suggested dividing the state on that basis, which if it had been done then would be pretty much beside the point now.
The “six Californias” thing is pretty much just venture capitalist Tim Draper, who has invested heavily in China and Bitcoin–he was also an early investor in Theranos, a blood testing system that turned out to be a scam–and in 2014 he wasn’t even able to collect enough signatures to get his proposal on the ballot.
Rod says
So Californians are yearning for Republican leadership? These figures might impress them –
Highest Numbers of Total Covid cases
per million residents
by State, up to 2 October
Florida 30,600
Alabama 28,500
Mississippi 28,400
Arizona 27,600
South Carolina 26,800
North Dakota 26,500
Arkansas 26,100
Tennessee 25,400
Texas 25,200
Georgia 24,500
Do you see what a great job Republican Governors are doing for their people? Or should the Spreader in Chief get the credit? The Blue states are lagging far behind.
The moral of the story is – voting Republican is bad for your health. I suspect Californians know that.
wpm says
Those are people who tested positive. The highest death rates are in New York and New Jersey because of the governors of those state policy of sending Covid positive elderly patients back from the hospitals when they were still very sick to infect other people in the nursing home. The exposure of the very veritable to save money on paying out Medicare (state tax dollars) to hospital bill verses cheaper care in a nursing home.
LB says
Yes, Californians do seem to know the best, seeing how they’re all fleeing en masse to red states. But that’s not the limit of their vast intellect. Not only are the rich Californian Dem voters emigrating to Republican states, in their new home states they are STILL voting Democrat — the same Democrats that turned their home state into a literal 3rd world garbage dump. Real brain power there.
Giacomo Latta says
Rod is suddenly concerned about America and Americans? What a conversion! Which one of us is responsible for that? Let me buy you a beer. But, of course, it is Rod’s MO to take sides at random by the second.
Rod chastised me for jumping to conclusions about his being a fan of Thomas Friedman. ‘’Giacomo, if Friedman (or Sam), says something pertinent, I pass it on for your edification. No, I’m not a fan, and you are jumping to conclusions again. More confusion.’’ Even though Rod states ‘’Friedman is a respected author and journalist, thrice Pulitzer Prize winner’’ immediately after quoting him. Not a fan? Better off to say ‘’not a bromance about to blossom into something much deeper’’ and with a firm tone if you want anyone to believe you’re not a fan. Confusion? Absolutely. Just keep it all inside your skull and stop dumping it on this website.
If you don’t recall reading this ejaculation of Rod’s previously it is because Rod has the habit of giving his opinion two full days after the last reply. Oh, he is just so brave, Sir Rod.
James Lincoln says
Rod,
The most relevant statistic is the “case fatality rate”.
The two highest are New Jersey and New York – both states run by Democrats.
Try taking a course in biostatistics…
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1109011/coronavirus-covid19-death-rates-us-by-state/
Demsci says
IMO it is not so black and white in those numbers being only bad, Rod.
Yeeeeees, let US protect the high-risk-people and cautious citizens as good as possible.
But if the herd immunity theory is by and large true and effective,
then high numbers of “Cases’ not only portend more chronic illness and death,
although death percentages are very low and for 94% accounted for by high-risk-people,
but also deliver fresh immune people, in high numbers. The higher the number of infections the higher the number of “Immunes” And these immunes in turn will protect the high risk-people much better.
Meanwhile the cost to low risk people’s freedom and prosperity is sooooo high with all these “reckless” measures to desperately control the spread of the virus, while the risk of death for the low-riskers is sooooo low, about 1/10 promille of the population maybe.
And now ivor Cummins, a well informed blogger from Ireland on youtube, reasoned that only 10 % or so of those positively tested were actually TRANSMITTING the virus!
Let us see how all of this plays out, but I am optimistic for us overcoming the virus in reasonable safety and time. As I should as a believer and hoper in and for “herd immunity’.
Rod says
Lots of attempts to distract from the facts, as expected. The numbers of cases don’t matter? Or why there might be lots of them in Trumpland? And why so many of your fellow citizens have died, and will die, unnecessarily?
I’ll just point out that the “herd immunity” theory is utter nonsense, has been declared so by innumerable epidemiologists, and has not been adopted, let alone proved, by any government of any political persuasion. But, as always, some “know” better.
(Apart from its being obviously absurd to anybody with a modicum of common sense).
Rod says
wpm, the story I heard was that hospitals in NY and elsewhere were overwhelmed by covid cases, and many could not be admitted. And they lacked equipment. Hence, high death rates – what a surprise!
Could that suggest that it’s high time the USA developed a public health system half as good as those that have functioned smoothly for decades in probably every other progressive western democracy?
And don’t try telling me they don’t, because I make use of ours whenever I need it. (It’s free, too).
Giacomo Latta says
Rod the Antifaman, statistics are facts, just try reading the ones offered to you by James Lincoln. And what is either the case rate or the mortality rate in your part of the universe? What is the number of people who deserved to die with not even one excessive death?
BTW, still waiting for your description of the Islamic race.
gravenimage says
“Rod” also doesn’t explain why things have been so bad in the UK, Belgium, and other non-US parts of the West–he just wants to distract from the Jihad and its enablers.
Rod says
I’m sorry you don’t like my statistics, Giacomo, but I can’t do much about them. Nor the horrifying totals and death rates you have built up for the USA.
Mortality rate in my country? It’s sad, and I wish it wasn’t, but how is it relevant to Trump’s catastrophe? Aren’t the stats much, much better than yours, nearly everywhere?
People “who deserved to die”?
I’m continually stunned at the atmosphere of casual, intentional dishonesty and malice that seems to permeate discourse in the USA, and this is typical. Does it all come down from the Pussy-grabbing Liar-in-Chief, or is it part of modern American culture? You should know better.
Speaking of statistics (and lies) – Have you heard the one about 85% and mask wearers? You’ll enjoy that. James too.
And gravy, if you don’t know why things are so bad in other places, you’re not keeping up. Do you even know that things in Trumpland are even worse, or why? Everybody else seems to.
Giacomo Latta says
Antifaman, your sincerity is almost touching, but scarcely believable. Why do you have such a sudden love for America and Americans that you have never shown up till now? Come on, show us the statistics for your country or at least name your country if you are so proud. BTW, I’m still awaiting your description of the muslim race. Is that so difficult to a genius like you? You don’t like Trump? So what?
gravenimage says
“Rod’s” claim that things are worse in the US than in Belgium is quite false, as is much of his other claptrap.
And once again, he refuses to answer the question as to whether he has any problems with enforcing Covid strictures on ideological grounds. It seems not…
Rod says
Giacomo, re my “sudden” concern for Americans, you know perfectly well that I’ve agonised many many times about the appalling rates at which Americans kill each other, and what it indicates about your level of civilisation. Likewise about incarceration rates, racism, your primitive health system, etc. It can take people 10 hours to vote? In the world’s greatest democracy! In over 50 years, I doubt that it’s ever taken me more than 10 minutes.
I sincerely feel for those who have to live in your society and who know that vastly superior systems exist elsewhere. I’ve worked with Yanks in years gone by who were decent, likeable, rational people. Now, I worry about them and their families. 220,000 dead and sure to increase much more – the whole world is concerned for Americans, and why not! Victims of an incompetent, ignorant charlatan.
Meanwhile, I see that Covid infections are up by 50% in Florida, and that other Red states are following suit, while the Orange Truth-teller assures you “We’ve turned the corner” and “It’s perfectly under control.”
Am I right in thinking that he insults your intelligence nearly every time he opens his mouth? And moreover endangers your health and the future wellbeing of all those you love? Is he really the leader you need?
Giacomo Latta says
Rod cares about Americans? First he checks out the type of American first. Ones who use their franchise to vote in a presidential candidate of their choice. To hell with them!
Still not interested in telling us the name of the magic part of the world you live in? Why that’s the equivalent in a non-COVID-19 world of knowing the cure for cancer but refusing to reveal it. Is Rod so cruel he doesn’t want the rest of the world to be in as happy a state as his? Well, that too, but for the most part he is too chicken to debate with all the cards on the table.
He is especially too chicken to offer an opinion on the threads dealing with the decapitation of the French school teacher by an appreciative muslim immigrant. Let’s see more of your feigned agony on that subject or have you wasted your yearly supply already.
gravenimage says
Of course, this is not concern for Americans from “Rod”–it is sneering at them while constantly whitewashing the horrors of Islam.
Rod says
Giacomo, you’re now almost as incoherent as gravy. Have I caused that? If so, I’m sorry.
re the beheading in Paris – I wonder how many deaths the Charlie Hebdo fools are responsible for now. With freedoms come responsibilities. Should a schoolteacher lose his life for somebody else’s freedom to pointlessly insult a hundred million others? The killers are irresponsible and criminal, obviously. The provocateurs are irresponsible too. And what’s been achieved?
Where do I live? Can you seriously believe there are no places more civilised than god’s own Trumpland? Do some research – there are more than a few. Far from perfect in my case, but progressing.
But suppose I’m wrong. You’ve still got a Pussygrabbing, narcissistic, lying halfwit tearing your country apart. I haven’t.
gravenimage says
“Rod” wrote:
re the beheading in Paris – I wonder how many deaths the Charlie Hebdo fools are responsible for now. With freedoms come responsibilities.
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“Rod” has always walked a pretty fine line here–but now the mask comes off.
Note that he considers non-violent cartoonists responsible for Muslims murdering this teacher–and many of their own staff.
And this is because they dared to criticize the hideous “Prophet” of Islam–something that he clearly believes the ‘filthy Infidels’ have no right to do.
That means that we cannot say anything critical about Muhammed’s rape of little Aisha, his genocide of the Jews of Banu Quraza, and his demand that all non-Muslims submit to the horrors of Islam. Muslims have murdered people for any criticism of the “Prophet”.
More:
Should a schoolteacher lose his life for somebody else’s freedom to pointlessly insult a hundred million others? The killers are irresponsible and criminal, obviously. The provocateurs are irresponsible too. And what’s been achieved?
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Calling cold blooded murderers “irresponsible”–as though they were, say, texting and driving–is just grotesque.
So “Rod” considers those who dare stand up for freedom of speech and the right to criticize the horrors of Islam to be “provocateurs”–just sickening.
“Rod” may believe that nothing is achieved by standing up for freedom of speech–this does not really surprise. Is he suggesting that the “responsible” thing to do is to roll over for all the bloody horrors of Islam lest they “provoke” Jihadists? Sounds like it.
Giacomo Latta says
Rod,
Can I take a guess that with the freedom to insult Trump, Republicans, Republican voters and whoever else, that if someone were to be offended by your exercise of said freedom, everyone is allowed to decapitate you? Then, hey, just announce your real name and address in your next reply. Oh, you mean that is a different story! I wasn’t expecting anything different from this website’s most renowned hypocrite.
Who are the hundred million others being insulted? Just some muslims? Just the ”Islamists?” Because there are more muslims than that in the world. But who gives a rat’s ass which ones are insulted. The French have the right to build their country as they see fit. And they don’t need muslims of any stripe to tell them how to run it, including those losers who still talk in terms of ”us” and ”them” while expecting ”them” to be subservient and to cater to their every whim.
So, if you haven’t figured this out yet, piss on you, your minimal displeasure with the perps, and your equating anything Charlie Hebdo and any of its supporters have done with the murderous everyday muslim.
The true Rod has shown himself to be nothing than an admirer of the throat-slitting muslim hordes who can rise by the millions if not hundreds of millions to seek death for a Christian woman in Pakistan for drinking water from the same bottle as a muslim. And before you go on another anti-Christian rant with me, know that I am an atheist so if you feel so inclined go find yourself another tree to bark up. And if you feel insulted by all this, good! Come and get me.
BTW, it’s ”with rights comes responsibilities” as you alt-righters would say. And I’m still waiting for your description of the muslim race.
gravenimage says
Good points, Giacomo.
Rod says
“Can I take a guess that with the freedom to insult Trump, Republicans, Republican voters and whoever else, that if someone were to be offended by your exercise of said freedom, everyone is allowed to decapitate you? ”
Giacomo, I haven’t said anybody has the right to decapitate anybody (and you know it). What a pointless, stupid suggestion. So, no, you can’t take that guess. It seems that instead of rational discussion, I have only gravy’s loopy logic, or this sort of nonsense.
Have I told the French how to run their country? No. Have I ever defended or approved of throat slitting Muslims? No. Have I equated Charlie Hebdo with a murderous Muslim? No. So, it’s fair to ask you who you’re debating. Somebody you imagine to be me? I am as appalled as anybody by brutal murders, whether they are committed by a Muslim fanatic with a knife, or by a young American, playing out his fantasy with a weapon that belongs on a battlefield. Which is worse? You tell me.
My argument is always that hatred of a hundred million Muslims, (and more if you say so), because of the actions of a few, or because of what they did four hundred years ago, or because of what might or might not be written in a book, is not the way rational people think. Especially when our own record, past and present, is so littered with shameful facts. Believing lies is pretty stupid too.
Insults aren’t arguments, they just emphasise your inability to defend your obsessions.
Giacomo Latta says
Rod,
Clearly you have not taken the time to read the koran. You are busy defending the ”bad” muslims and, you alone would know as to with what sincerity, slamming the ”good” muslims. A ”good” muslim is one who follows the teaching of a certain Muhammad of the seventh century AD. What all does that entail? Read the koran or get someone to read it to you.
Yes it is a difficult read (and No, not because I am asking you to read it in the original Arabic) but those of us who wanted our questions answered had to go through the same painful process. Among many things the koran instructs (not suggests if you have just had a bad day) real muslims to hate Jews at all times because they are inferior people that Allah hates too), to slit their throats and to do the same to other Islamic non-believers or to enslave them by one process or another. So why are you defending muslims? Why were you busy defending this perpetrator at the moment this thread started but now critiquing him? Same guy. His decision to become a ”good” muslim.
”I am as appalled as anybody by brutal murders, whether they are committed by a Muslim fanatic with a knife, or by a young American, playing out his fantasy with a weapon that belongs on a battlefield. Which is worse? You tell me.”
I shall. First a minor detail. Why the reference to a young American in a war setting. Is it only OK for other countries to be involved in wars? Tell me again with all your COVID-19 or American prison statistics about how much you love the American people, provided they aren’t Republicans or who knows what else. Major point, is it worse for two sets of armies to attack each other and slit each other’s throat if that is their MO or is it worse for someone, muslim or otherwise, to attack another human being who has respected the right of the first party’s own right to live? If you can’t tell the difference then that is obviously not a surprise nor (oh I hope I didn’t insult you and now you are going to issue a fatwa on me) a shock. The answer is: the second scenario is worse.
”Have I equated Charlie Hebdo with a murderous Muslim? No.” Perhaps you would care to review your opinion, ”I wonder how many deaths the Charlie Hebdo fools are responsible for now.” So you are no doubt expecting every survivor of the slaughter at Charlie Hebdo and any new employee to be brought to trial for their ”responsibility” (ugh) in this affair? As for the poor muslims? Oh, they have suffered enough already. The apologist you are you no doubt think that all this ”Islamophobia” is forcing muslims to be murderous muslims.
What makes me wonder is why you choose to remain a total ignoramus about Islam. Is that an insult? It is your choice to be an ignoramus instead of an enlightened commentator on things muslim. Read the koran for this to be otherwise, if otherwise you wish it to be. Otherwise, remain an ignoramus. And, of course, you can never end a reply without an insult for others (racist, bigot, stupid, whatever) while claiming to have been insulted. Typical of hypocrites.
gravenimage says
“Rod” wrote:
Have I equated Charlie Hebdo with a murderous Muslim? No.
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Actually, that’s *exactly* what the appalling “Rod” has done. He wrote:
“re the beheading in Paris – I wonder how many deaths the Charlie Hebdo fools are responsible for now.”
Does he think that no one is paying attention?
Rod says
You despise and fear two billion people because of what somebody wrote in a book twelve hundred years ago?
And if I read what is in that book, I will think as you do?
You want me to take that suggestion seriously?
Giacomo, I don’t know whether you mistake my meanings intentionally, or because your thinking processes are distorted by your obsessions. I said this –
I am as appalled as anybody by brutal murders, whether they are committed by a Muslim fanatic with a knife, or by a young American, playing out his fantasy with a weapon that belongs on a battlefield.
Now pay attention –
Young Americans commit brutal murders, with horrifying frequency, with military style weapons, on American streets, in American schools, in American shopping centres. Such crimes are just as appalling as the recent murder in Paris (or much worse, as when the victims were 20 small children). Perhaps you should focus your outrage on atrocities you could do something to prevent.
Statistics prove that such things happen rarely if ever in other countries. In my country, we have a culture, shared values, regulations and laws, such that such events are almost unthinkable. You might like to think about making some changes at home (perhaps difficult), or just call me a liar and continue hating Muslims (so simple). What a difficult choice!
gravenimage says
“Rod” wrote:
You despise and fear two billion people because of what somebody wrote in a book twelve hundred years ago?
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Pious Muslims continue to carry out Jihad terror attacks on the basis of this book, as “Rod” well knows–pretending this has no relevance today is absurd. Not only have Muslims done over 37,000 Jihad terror attacks just since 9/11, but they include the very attack in the story above.
This Jihadist murdered teacher Samuel Paty because he dared to support free speech, including the criticism of Islam.
More:
And if I read what is in that book, I will think as you do?
You want me to take that suggestion seriously?
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It doesn’t matter whether “Rod” admits this savagery or not–what matters is that pious Muslims continue to take this seriously. In fact, Paty received *large numbers of death threats*–not just from his killer. Then, Muslims all over the world have been celebrating this savage murder:
“Muslims hail beheading of teacher who showed Muhammad cartoons as heroic: ‘A warning to all critics of Islam’”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/10/muslims-hail-beheading-of-teacher-who-showed-muhammad-cartoons-as-heroic-a-warning-to-all-critics-of-islam
“Tunisia: MP glorifies the beheading of a French teacher for showing a Muhammad cartoon”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/10/tunisia-mp-glorifies-the-beheading-of-a-french-teacher-for-showing-a-muhammad-cartoon
There are many more.
More:
Statistics prove that such things happen rarely if ever in other countries. In my country, we have a culture, shared values, regulations and laws, such that such events are almost unthinkable. You might like to think about making some changes at home (perhaps difficult), or just call me a liar and continue hating Muslims (so simple). What a difficult choice!
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Actually, there are Jihad terror attacks *all over the world*, as “Rod” here well knows.
Vladimir says
Jews, move to Israel if you want to live, you and your children. It’s that simple. Being secular and godless won’t protect you. Gentiles are favoring the one-world religion of Islam, and there will be safety for Jews in the Jewish Nation.
Boycott Turkey says
I need a vaccine against Islam I want to self isolate from Islam
James Lincoln says
Boycott Turkey,
The best “vaccine” against islam is reading all of the feature articles of Jihad Watch on a daily basis.
But you knew that already…
Kepha says
This isn’t any mystery. If Cuomo closes down the mourning for Hassan and Hussein, the Shi’ite Muslims will riot, and possibly burn things down or kill people. Chasidim won’t do any such thing. And I’m curious: does this mourning for Hassan and Hussein include the worshipers beating and cutting themselves with chains, leaving all sorts of cuts to invite in all manner of infection?
maria says
cuomo and deblasio are the real devils, murderers and destroyers of hte US
gravenimage says
While Cuomo Targets Orthodox Jews, Muslim Mass Gatherings Go On
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What a mystery! sarc/off
“Like Black Lives Matter riots, Muslim mobs don’t spread the virus”–yeah–that must be it…
maria says
he targets Orthodox Jews because he is a neo nazi and islam supporter And the same goes for de Blasio
Rod says
Hey folks, I don’r suppose that Mr Greenfield, or any of you, has heard about the “White House Cluster”, or the massed maskless gatherings to hear the adored Orange Idiot proclaim that he has a cure.
Or that any of you would know the meaning of the word Hypocrisy? Or is “collective Insanity” a more appropriate term?
What’s the Trump Total today? 240,000, more or less? Have you overtaken Brazil in deaths per million?
Never mind. Look at the Muslims! Iran, Sweden, Bechuanaland. You can always find something to distract you from the brutal truth.
gravenimage says
Does “Rod” have any problems with enforcing Covid strictures on ideological grounds–something Trump has never suggested? Not so he says…
The Political Oracle says
And, if you were running things we would need to square that number. So, Trump should shut down the country for you? You need a reality check! This number would most likely be the same no matter who is president. You need a president to tell you what to do? Go live under a despot king if you do. Otherwise, act like an American and be responsible and reasonable.
Giacomo Latta says
You were the one with the Remdesivir cure, Antifaman. Remember? No, Rod can never remember his most recent embarrassment. To boldly go onward to his next embarrassment, says brave Sir Ro(d)bin.
Demsci says
Blaming Trump, huh? Huge discussion, with all the now knowns and the so-called “known unknowns”.
But in this conundrum the terms ‘negligent + reckless” go 2 ways; they also apply for Over cautious antI-virus policies that recklessly, ignorantly are damaging people s
income, housing, food supply, education, future tax pressure, inflation risk, social well being, human rights, Other healthcare and lifespan expectation, …
Pres Trump was NOT reckless and negligent on THAT side, but maybe People like you ARE.
And for WHAT? If America has 330 million inhabitants, that means the death toll is still under 1 pro Mille. Belgium, which was quite severe with it’s measures, has a much higher death per capita rate than America. AND the CDC told us that 94 % of the Covid-deaths were high-risk people.
It is all about tough choices, balance, triage. And good information.
Demsci says
For all the criticism of double standards of New York’s authorities, which I agree with, I in this case I don’t criticize the Shia moslims for their large scale coming together without masks. If they protect their elderly, of course.
Demsci says
Oh, and Rod, have YOU heard about the 2 staffers of the Biden campaign that tested positive? Very close to Joe and Kamala, Rod.
JDow says
First thought is that this means Muhammadans will acquire and die of Xi’s Disease more often than Orthodox Jews.
Second thought is that DeBlasio is “tacitly admitting” that Muhammadanism is a political movement not a religion.
There seem to be a lot of possibilities here for giving DeBlasio a hard time other than crying discrimination.
{^_-}
Demsci says
But, JDow, Muhammedans will also acquire “herd immunity’ or personal immunity more. Oh, I DO know second infections DO occur, it is not 100 % secure that it works, but neither is it entirely or even mostly “untrue”.