Qaddafi, Wilders, and the Jihad Against Switzerland
Ever since the triumphs of Islam’s prophet became the ultimate inspiration for jihadism almost 14 centuries ago, Muslims have especially revered the bellicose, conquering Muhammad of Medina. (For a pious contemporary example, see Yusuf al-Qaradawi’s “The Prophet Muhammad as a Jihad Model.”) According to a canonical hadith (Sahih Muslim, Book 001, Number 0272), Islam in essence belongs to Medina, as a serpent to its lair, the specific words being, “Verily the faith [i.e., Islam] would recede to Medina just as the serpent crawls back into its hole.”
Consistent with the accepted virtues of predatory Medinan Islam and the sacralized jihadism of Muhammad, Libyan despot Muammar Qaddafi recently marked the Muslim prophet’s birthday by declaring a jihad against Switzerland “with all means,” including violent jihad. This was ostensibly in response to the Swiss referendum banning construction of minarets:
We will not give up Jihad, because it is a religious duty. Jihad constitutes a religious duty and self-defense. It is the defense of the religion, fighting for the sake of Allah, defense of the Prophet Muhammad, of the Koran, of the mosques. … Whoever destroys the mosques of Allah before the eyes of the Muslims is worthy of having Jihad launched against him. If Switzerland were situated on our border, we would fight it, for destroying the mosques of Allah. Jihad against those who destroy the mosques of Allah and their minarets is [true] Jihad, and not terrorism. … Switzerland is an infidel and sinful country which destroys mosques. Jihad, with all possible means, should be declared against it.
He decried as “infidels” all Muslims who continued dealings with Switzerland, or the European publishers of the banal Muhammad caricatures which originally appeared in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten:
Any Muslim who buys Swiss products is an infidel. Let Muslims all over the world know this. There are people here from all over the Islamic world. Any Muslim anywhere in the world who deals with Switzerland is an infidel against Islam, Muhammad, Allah, and the Koran. If you continue to have dealings with Switzerland, and the people who portrayed the Prophet Muhammad in the most abominable way in their newspapers. … If you continue to have dealings with them, to buy their products, to support them, to accept their tourists, to accept their planes, to accept their ships, and to host their embassies — you are not Muslims. Any Muslim must boycott them.
Qaddafi’s statement exhorted the global Muslim community:
Boycott Switzerland, its products, its planes, its ships, and its embassies. Boycott this sinful infidel community, which attacks the mosques of Allah. The Muslim masses must head towards all the airports in the Islamic world, and prevent any Swiss plane from landing. They should head to the ports, and prevent any Swiss ship from coming in. They should comb the shops and markets and remove the Swiss products. Allah said: “Let them find harshness in you.”
Libya’s own example indicates these are not idle threats. Over the past two months, Qaddafi’s government has cut its oil supplies to Switzerland, withdrawn Libyan capital from Swiss banks, and moved to close all Swiss companies active in Libya — Swiss Air having already been shut down. And within a week, by Thursday, March 4, Qaddafi’s call for jihad against Switzerland — manifested as economic jihad, for now — was endorsed by Arab League ministers meeting in Cairo. Ministers from Somalia, Sudan, Egypt, Morocco, Mauritania, Algeria, Djibouti, Syria, Yemen, Bahrain, Kuwait, the UAE , Jordan, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Tunisia each signed a document in support of Libya’s actions, which also denounced Switzerland as “racist.”
Qaddafi’s jihad-sanctioning diatribe and its endorsement by the Arab League ignores the Swiss electorate’s legitimate concerns expressed through their political leadership, notably the Swiss People’s Party (SVP). These actions towards the Swiss and Western Europe in general by Qaddafi, his Arab League supporters, and other Muslim political and religious leaders illustrate simultaneous denial and imperialistic threat — archetypal Islamic behaviors toward infidel civilizations.
For example, the brutal Arab jihad conquest, colonization, and Sharia-based rule of a swath of Western Europe for eight centuries (the 8th through the 15th), although centralized in the Iberian peninsula of mythically tolerant Muslim Spain, included jihadist ravages that beset what is now modern Switzerland.
Charles Emmanuel Dufourcq, the pre-eminent historian of the Arab Muslim jihad campaigns in Medieval Western Europe, has described how Muslim invaders reached Switzerland from their well-established bastion in Provence. Penetrating toward the north, the east, and the northeast:
They reached Gap [~ 100 miles northeast of Marseille] and Grenoble (which they would seize for almost twenty years in the middle of the tenth century), advanced as far as the mountain passes in the Alps, which they controlled, making everyone who traveled through them pay a tax, in particular at the Grand-Saint-Bernard [between Italy and Switzerland]. … They arrived in LeValais [a Swiss canton], up to the Abbey of Saint Gall [presently in the Swiss city of St. Gallen], becoming … “the masters of Switzerland” for a decade or so (during the late 9th century).
Major contemporary Muslim clerics and leaders such as Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi (“spiritual” leader of the Muslim Brotherhood), former Turkish Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan, and Qaddafi himself have openly extolled this imperialist past as a prologue to modern efforts seeking Europe’s Islamization. Qaradawi’s public fatwa issued December 2, 2002, urged Muslims to conquer Europe, stating: “Islam will return to Europe as a conqueror and a victor after being expelled from it twice — once from the south, from Andalusia, and a second time, from the east, when it knocked several times on the doors of Athens.” Sheikh Qaradawi ruled, in addition, that Muslims should reconquer “former Islamic colonies to Andalus (Spain), southern Italy, Sicily, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean islands.”
Such sentiments were reiterated with equal stridency by European Muslim leaders at a conference entitled “Islam in Europe” that accompanied the July 10, 2003, opening of the new Granada Mosque. The keynote speaker at this putatively “ecumenical” conference, Umar Ibrahim Vadillo, a Spanish Muslim leader, implored Muslims to cause an economic collapse of Western economies (by switching to gold dinars, and ceasing to use Western currencies), while the German Muslim leader Abu Bakr Rieger told attendees not to adapt their Islamic religious practices to accommodate European (i.e., Western Enlightenment?) values.
These blatant, repeated exhortations for the Islamic subjugation of Europe — a context ignored by mainstream media “analyses” — motivated the Swiss Freedom Party’s (SVP’s) successful referendum to ban minarets.
The SVP has referred to minarets as both an accessory to worship, i.e., an instrument for the Muslim call to prayer (or “adhan”), and “a sign of domination.” Does this claim have merit? Indeed it does, according to the official entry on minarets from the venerable Encyclopedia of Islam. Ottoman minarets, in particular, epitomized their dual role “as a sign of power, and as an instrument for the adhan.” Despite orthodox Islamic views that minarets were garish and unnecessary — most notably, by the convenient bogeymen for “radical Islam” in our era, the Wahhabis — the Ottomans built:
… gigantic, needle-sharp lances clustered protectively, like a guard of honor, around the royal dome, have a distinctly aggressive and ceremonial impact, largely dependent on their almost unprecedented proportions; the pair of minarets flanking the Süleymaniye dome are each some 70m high.
Thus objective historical reality supports SVP’s claim that “Islam makes no distinction between Church and State, such that minarets become the expression of influence not only religious, but political, in nature. This conception is incompatible with Western secular tradition.”
SVP Parliamentarian Oskar Freysinger further rejects any anti-Muslim bias, but re-asserts:
We don’t want minarets. … The minaret is a symbol of a political and aggressive Islam; it’s a symbol of Islamic law. The minute you have minarets in Europe, it means Islam will have taken over.
These SVP arguments are bolstered by the brazen speech of then Istanbul mayor and current Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan, who declared in 1997: “The mosques are our barracks, the domes are our helmets, the minarets are our bayonets and the faithful are our army.”
On Wednesday, March 3, 2010, Dutch voters delivered an even stronger democratic message rejecting Europe’s Islamization, ironically just hours before Qaddafi’s declaration of jihad against Switzerland was joined by his co-religionists in the Arab League. Geert Wilders’ Party for Freedom (PVV), participating for the first time in local municipal elections, won handily in Almere, a city of 200,000. The PVV also became the second biggest party in The Hague, the country’s third largest city. Polling data now indicate that the PVV could become the Netherlands’ largest political party after June’s national parliamentary elections.
Wilders celebrated these local electoral gains and optimistic national prospects during a remarkable address given in London at the British Parliament’s House of Lords on Friday, March 5. He invoked Winston Churchill’s 1899 commentary on Islam from “The River War” — a first-hand narrative of the great British prime minister’s encounters with jihadism in the Sudan as a young military officer:
No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science — the science against which it had vainly struggled — the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.
Wilders agreed with Churchill’s historical assessment, and then provided an accurate doctrinal rationale for Islam’s bellicose nature and its contemporary relevance to Europe, which fittingly referred to Qaddafi’s statements from 2006:
I don’t have a problem and my party does not have a problem with Muslims as such. There are many moderate Muslims. The majority of Muslims are law-abiding citizens and want to live a peaceful life as you and I do. I know that. That is why I always make a clear distinction between the people, the Muslims, and the ideology, between Islam and Muslims. There are many moderate Muslims, but there is no such thing as a moderate Islam. Islam strives for world domination. The Quran commands Muslims to exercise jihad. The Quran commands Muslims to establish Shariah law. The Quran commands Muslims to impose Islam on the entire world. … Islam is merely not a religion, it is mainly a totalitarian ideology. Islam wants to dominate all aspects of life, from the cradle to the grave. Shariah law is a law that controls every detail of life in a Islamic society. From civic and family law to criminal law. It determines how one should eat, dress, and even use the toilet. Oppression of women is good, drinking alcohol is bad. I believe that Islam is not compatible with our Western way of life. Islam is a threat to Western values. The equality of men and women, the equality of homosexuals and heterosexuals, the separation of church and state, freedom of speech, they are all under pressure because of Islamization. Islam and freedom, Islam and democracy are not compatible.
As former Turkish Prime Minister Erbakan said: “The whole of Europe will become Islamic. We will conquer Rome.” Libyan dictator Qaddafi said: “There are tens of millions of Muslims in the European continent today and their number is on the increase. This is the clear indication that the European continent will be converted into Islam. Europe will one day soon be a Muslim continent.” Indeed, for once in his life, Qaddafi was telling the truth.
Wilders’ keen, if blunt, conceptions articulate contemporary realities while restating seminal insights on Islam observed by great scholars whose works antedate the present day morbid affliction of cultural relativism.
Jacob Burckhardt (d. 1897), an iconic figure in the annals of Western historiography, believed it was the solemn duty of Western civilization’s heirs to study and acknowledge their own unique cultural inheritance — starting with the culture and heritage of classical Athens. Burckhardt emphasized how the Western conception of freedom was engendered in Athens, where its flowering was accompanied by the production of some of history’s most sublime literary and artistic works. Moreover, while Burckhardt affirmed the irreducible nature of freedom, and upheld equality before the law, he decried the notion — a pervasive, rigidly enforced dogma at present — that all ways of life, opinions, and beliefs were of equal value. Burckhardt argued that this conceptual reductio ad absurdum would destroy Western culture, heralding a return to barbarism. And contra the Western legacy of Athens — epitomized by freedom –Burckhardt referred to Islam as a despotic, totalitarian ideology:
All religions are exclusive, but Islam is quite notably so, and immediately it developed into a state which seemed to be all of a piece with the religion. The Koran is its spiritual and secular book of law. Its statutes embrace all areas of life … and remain set and rigid; … [imposing] this nature on many nationalities and thus [remolding] them for all time (a profound, extensive spiritual bondage!). This is the power of Islam in itself. At the same time, the form of the world empire as well as of the states gradually detaching themselves from it cannot be anything but a despotic monarchy. The very reason and excuse for existence, the holy war, and the possible world conquest, do not brook any other form.
The strongest proof of real, extremely despotic power in Islam is the fact that it has been able to invalidate, in such large measure, the entire history (customs, religion, previous way of looking at things, earlier imagination) of the peoples converted to it. It accomplished this only by instilling into them a new religious arrogance which was stronger than everything and induced them to be ashamed of their past.
G.H. Bousquet (d. 1978), one of the foremost 20th century scholars of Islamic law, explained how Islam’s unique institution of jihad war and its eternal quest to impose the Shari’a on all of humanity represented the quintessence of Islamic totalitarianism. Writing in 1950, Bousquet ( p. 104) further warned that these ancient Muslim doctrines remained alive, and relevant to the modern era:
Islam first came before the world as a doubly totalitarian system. It claimed to impose itself on the whole world and it claimed also, by the divinely appointed Muhammadan law, by the principles offiqh , to regulate down to the smallest details the whole life of the Islamic community and of every individual believer. … Viewed from this angle, the study of Muhammadan Law (dry and forbidding though it may appear to be to those who confine themselves to the indispensable study of thefiqh), is of great importance to the world of today.
Geert Wilders’ appropriate perspective on Islamic totalitarianism leads him to formulate equally direct positions — ideological and political — which he also enumerated in the March 5 speech to the House of Lords:
First, we will have to defend freedom of speech. It is the most important of our liberties. In Europe and certainly in the Netherlands, we need something like the American First Amendment. Second, we will have to end and get rid of cultural relativism. To the cultural relativists, the Shariah socialists, I proudly say: our Western culture is far superior to the Islamic culture. Don’t be afraid to say it. You are not a racist when you say that our own culture is better. Third, we will have to stop mass immigration from Islamic countries. Because more Islam means less freedom. Fourth, we will have to expel criminal immigrants and, following denaturalization, we will have to expel criminals with a dual nationality. And there are many of them in my country. Fifth, we will have to forbid the construction of new mosques. There is enough Islam in Europe. Especially since Christians in Turkey, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan and Indonesia are mistreated, there should be a mosque building-stop in the West.
In 1978, Dufourcq was concerned (even then) that historical and cultural revisionism might precipitate a recurrence of:
… the upheaval carried out on our continent (i.e., Europe) by Islamic penetration more than a thousand years ago … with other methods.
By the early 1990s, Bat Ye’or had already observed that European Islam was adhering to its traditional supremacist orthodoxy, making no effort to eliminate doctrines incompatible with true ecumenism and core Western Enlightenment values:
I do not see serious signs of a Europeanization of Islam anywhere, a move that would be expressed in … a self-critical view of the history of Islamic imperialism … we are light years away from such a development. … On the contrary, I think that we are participating in the Islamization of Europe, reflected both in daily occurrences and in our way of thinking. … All the racist fanaticism that permeates the Arab countries and Iran has been manifested in Europe in recent years.
Muammar Qaddafi embodies such quintessential Islamic supremacism and belligerence — witness his call for jihad against Switzerland being validated by representatives of the entire Arab Muslim umma. Tangential, bizarre aspects of his behavior — obsessively highlighted by mainstream media and so-called analytical publications, alike — are conflated with this disturbing reality as a willful distraction from the jihadist threat Qaddafi’s Libyan regime has posed continuously for over four decades. Geert Wilders’ portrayal by the same chattering classes and analysts is an equally deliberate simulacrum of reality constructed with the opposite intent. The transparent agenda in characterizations of Wilders is to demonize Western Europe’s most informed and courageous politician resisting the actual jihadism Qaddafi represents, independent of Qaddafi’s mere odd behaviors. But the Swiss minaret referendum, and even more emphatically, burgeoning Dutch support for Wilders and his PVV, indicate that ordinary Europeans reject the capitulation to Islamic supremacism their cultural relativist media and political elites deliberately abet.
How dumb do you have to be to declare war on Switzerland? Switzerland always stays neutral because they earned that right with a militia encompassing every able bodied man in the country. Being able to kick the ass of anyone who tries to invade gives you the ability to stay out of other people’s wars, because they generally aren’t stupid enough to drag you in to them. Now watch as the jihadis get their clocks cleaned.
I enjoyed the read, but take issue with moderate Muslims. If Muslims are going to be moderate,(not following Mohammed), then they are Apostate. Shouldn’t they get another religion?
We now know the depth of Islam’s goal. It would be good to see a post on which secular groups poured Muslims into the West, as well as other illegal aliens from the third world to live on the tax payer dime.
It would show everyone who the enemys are. For example, in America it would be the CFR filled State Department flooding this country with Islam, and Congress not controling the border for votes.
Gert Wilders for POTUS!
Well, this seems clear enough to me.
If Libya declares a war on Switzerland, then Switzerland surely has every right to wipe Libya off the map. Once complete, a simple procedure of exporting every practicing moslem in that country to a then unoccupied pile of sand should relieve Switzerland from the concern of islamo encroachment.
You go Switzerland. We’ll follow next.
we should send Obama the link. he really needs to read this article–he might learn something.
So, daffy Qaddfi, the head of state of Libya, a member of the UN, has essentially declared “terrorism” against another state and sitting member of the UN. Looks like an issue for the Hague and the World Court to me. About time those judges did something besides picking on Serbians in there own backyard. Maybe those Europeans can have some fun with “universal jurisdiction” and get an Interpol warrant issued for the arrest of the daffy one. Maybe the Brits or Spain can hook up Qaddfi when on one of his health care visits, instead of just picking on Israeli soldiers. But I suspect oil talks and BS walks, and Libya has lots of it.
Europe is lost to Islam. The demographics of births per couple by the Europeans have doomed them to Sharia in the next 50 years, maybe sooner by decades. Because the Europeans have stopped having babies in favor of socialism, there is not a chance their cultures will survive. For a clear picture, read “America Alone” by Mark Steyn, I believe. The US, too, will meet this fate if we do not come awake as to what is happening here. In many ways I am glad that I will not live to see such a world.
May God, not allah, continue to bless our nation, and may the people awake to this threat. We need to send these people back to their sand dunes. If the west had not discovered oil there, they would still be living in the first millennium.
We need to stop sending a trillion dollars a year to those who do not like us. We have ample resources and technology in this country to supply all of our energy needs. Drill baby Drill!!!
‘As former Turkish Prime Minister Erbakan said: “The whole of Europe will become Islamic. We will conquer Rome.”’
Two days ago we drove the Muslim invader out of Spain, yesterday out of Greece, today Israel…and tomorrow it’ll be Constantinople. Enjoy your temporary stay in Anatolia…’cause it ain’t going to last forever.
Andrew – The best line in Geert Wilders’ speech is the following: ‘Islam is merely not a religion, it is mainly a totalitarian ideology.” I would amend that slightly, though, to say, it is a totalitarian ideology in religious garb, much like the wolf in sheep’s clothing.
frank @ #6: Alas, I think you are right. Europe will soon be Eurabia.
The BBC article on the Swiss referendum provides another example of nihilist, pro-jihad “journalism”:
“After Christianity, Islam is the most widespread religion in Switzerland…”
Reading this, you’d think the two were roughly on par. Not so.
Christians make up over 80% of Switzerland’s population; Muslims… 4%.
This, combined with the immigration problems Europe has been dealing with over the past decade, plus ongoing reports of genocidal attacks like this one, make it pretty easy to understand how the MAJORITY of Swiss citizens would choose to stop creeping islamism.
These days, as more people come to understand the meaning and goal of “Islam” – literally, enforced submission to the mullahs’ definition of God’s Will – I wouldn’t doubt the same outcome here in the U.S. if the question were put to a national referendum. The same would likely happen with a referendum on socialism or socialized medicine.
Africa and Europe are beset by creeping islamism, promoted by their leaders. America is beset by creeping socialism, likewise promoted by its leaders. Coincidence? Not likely.
Let’s pray that Europe is not lost to Islam. Likewise, that Geert Wilders, and similar others, are just the beginning of a new Renaissance in Europe, one that will flower with a return to Christianity, a love for all that is Christian, and a total rejection of the Muslim faith and Islam. (There is no such thing as a moderate Muslim. Read Wahlid Shoebat’s books. FYI, Mr. Shoebat is a former Palestinian terrorist who converted to Christianity and dedicates his life to exposing the treachery in everything that is Muslim.)
It is true that there are moderate Muslims, but so what, who cares? They are nothing but irrelevant bystanders in this struggle.
Excellent article, thank you.
I would add that the socialist elites do not understand that the only chance for islam to go through a substantial reformation (that could transform it from a totalitarian ideology into a religious culture) is that totalitarian islam meet a strong and unrelenting resistance all over the world.
Such resistance, the worlwide ANTI-jihad, is the only way to stop islamic imperialism and to compel the islamic elites to decide if it is in their best interest to engage in a thousand -years war against Freedom. In which they will be certainly defeated.
No coincidence for sure. It’s the alliance that I call the CHIMERA, an alliance between all the forces that hate Freedom and are moved by a (pseudo) philosophy of nihilism.
The european elites that are allowing the islamization of Europe are moved by the same (pseudo) philosophical nihilism of the American socialist elites. WHAT THEY HATE IS THE TRADITION that lives in the ancient European civilization and that the Founding Fathers have strengthened in America.
The godless fanatics and the fanatics of a “god” that is invented out of hate and ignorance stem from the same poisonous root.
Hmmm … now how many of those Arab League politicians are going to remove their assets from those secret Swiss accounts?
And meanwhile, Switzerland is expanding its identity politics to include animals and trying to figure out how to assign attorneys in their class-action lawsuits. I think after the Muslims take over Europe they’re going to dial such things back just a tad, no?
13 centuries of Islam in Egypt and they have done absolutely nothing. The French deciphered the hydrographs, built the cannel and the Russians built the dam. Pre Islamic Egypt was a bread basket and a cultural dynamo. In the 5th century BC an Egyptian calculated the diameter of the world. Today Egypt can’t feed itself.
myth buster (1):
How dumb do you have to be to declare war on Switzerland? Switzerland always stays neutral because they earned that right with a militia encompassing every able bodied man in the country….
Which is only effective – just like the U.S. military – if said military is mobilized against the threat! The whole strategy behind the modern Islamic conquest of the West is that (as Geert Wilders implied) they are using our own laws and customs against us. We have declared freedom of religion, so we cannot forbid Islamic practice; we have declared open borders and easy citizenship, so we cannot forbid their immigration; we have declared tolerance for all things, so we must tolerate them also.
frank (6):
Europe is lost to Islam. … For a clear picture, read “America Alone” by Mark Steyn,
See also “Caliphate” (albeit fictional) by Tom Kratman. Why do Baen’s authors seem so prescient?
I have a suggestion-Ive sent the same one to even Robert Spencer, the head of Jihad Watch. Instead of calling them Jihadists, lets label them what they truly are. ISLAMIC SUPREMACISTS. Islam is not and NEVER WILL BE interested in co-existence. The Koran is not a book about religion. It is a book about conquest, subjagation, and hatred of non-moslems. Tell me, has ANYONE ever heard a Moslem say the Koran is EVER WRONG? NOT ONCE have I EVER heard a Moslem ever say anything in the Koran is wrong. Islam does NOT WANT PEACE-they never have and never will. They must be crushed. Islam only stops when stopped(Charles Martel, the Holy Roman Empire, King Joseph Sobieski of Poland). The Israelis understand this, particulary Bebe Netanyahu. Look at it this way-we have to fight a commie moslem right now(Obama) , a commie media and academia and Islamic Supremacists. And by the way commie perverts-the mooselimbs hate YOU every bit as much as they hate us. After all, I beleive Ayatollah Khomeini once referred to the USSR as an “abortion of a nation”-not very kind words. We need a Charles the Hammer or at least a King Richard the lion hearted. They knew the enemy. Right now too many of us refuse to see it.
One last thing-the author says there are many “moderate” moslems-sorry, but one of the things that seperate Islam from say, communism is the FACT that most all moslems are basically BRAINWASHED to believe the Koran is ALWAYS correct no matter what. Just look at how “ordinary” moslems react to the Mohammead Cartoons-violently. Same with Geert Wilders himself, or with the murderer of Theo Van Gogh. Always EXCUSING Islam. Islam is NEVER at fault. Sorry, Islamic supremacist scum, but the one thing they all have in COMMON is ISLAM. Note how the author here points out how so-called “moderate” Islamic states like Turkey, Egypt,UAE, and Bahrain include themselves in this jihad against the Swiss? Some “moderates”.
Great to hear from you Dr. Bostom. There maybe moderate Muslims but there is no such thing as moderate Islam. Was the evil prophet a moderate?
Bill Kristol and Charles Krauthammer shamelessly attacked the heroic Geert Wilders calling him a fascist. Well, my Ivy League “friends”, tell me how a man who fights for limited government and Christian values is a fascist? The two NEOcons then started to blast Wilders for not knowing the difference between Islam and “Islamists”!!
Well ask these two politically correct buffoons – Did Muhammad know the difference??? NO.
There is no excuse for people calling Rush and praising PC useful idiots like Krauthammer and Kristol. Its 8 1/2 years since 9/11 and those who watch Fox News and listen to talk radio are still moronically ignorant when it comes to Islam. We have Spencer Christian, IBN Waraq, Bat Y’oer, Serge Trifkovic, Andrew Bostom, Gregory Davis etc. etc. as current scholars. If that’s not enough how about Churchill who like Wilders said that the Koran was more evil than Mein Kampf. Need more, look at John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, John Quincy Adams, Ben Franklin and on and on.
A Saudi Muslim prince owns a large portion of Fox News. Beware. Screw these sellouts. If you depend on Hannity, Levin, Medved and the gang for your rah rah BS about national security, you’re part of the problem. Go read the brain dead at townhall.com. They still think Condi Rice was a conservative.
BTW this is no rec for our communist/black supremacist in the White House. At best he was just one of them for half of his life. At worst…..
This article ostensibly about the androgynous “madman” Qaddafi is yet another apologia for Islam. Qaddafi is not mad, he is Muslim.
The only moderate Muslim is an apostate. Islam is not a religion, it is a totalitarian political ideology wrapped around a barbaric 7th century Arabist culture. In the final analysis, all Muslims are terrorists… 10% do the actual dirty work, and the rest insist it’s not their problem.
Islam and classically liberal Western culture are intrinsically incompatible, and no amount of wishful thinking by liberals of any stripe will ever change it. All immigration by Muslims should be stopped immediately, and Muslims already residing here should be given the following option: renounce Sharia, the Sunna, and all non-abrogated portions of the Koran, or else leave the country.
@ 22: Charles;
But you’re forgetting out national gross ignorance – we’ve elected BHO (3 years, 11 months remaining, maybe) who runs around bowing and kissing hands to leaders of Islamic nation…
It all leaves much to be said for our media, and more to be said about our single-digit-IQ populous.
From Bush to BHO, we call Islam “the religion of peace”, ever so regularly. Their words were very well trained. The bit of reading I’ve done shows me a very different picture.
It would be good to see a post on which secular groups poured Muslims into the West, as well as other illegal aliens from the third world to live on the tax payer dime.
@23. Patrtick Martin: – … (3 years, 11 months remaining, maybe) …
So il Duce‘s planning on single-handedly amending the Constitution to give himself a 5-year term?
I did not know that.
What a joke Qaddafi is. Declaring jihad against Switzerland is similar to Mike Tyson picking a fight with my Pee Wee Herman.
Qaddafi is gutless and showed his true colors when Ronald Regan put a couple of missiles through his tent door. He is nothing but a brainless megalomaniac wimp who craves world attention.
It’s time for the nations of the free world to get a backbone and make a stand against the Islamic agenda of a global Caliphate.
The Muslim nations know they can use an economic strategy to make Western nations back down. It’s time for the Western nations to STAND UP FOR WHAT IS RIGHT.
Wake up nations. Tiny Switzerland has shown it ain’t the size of the dog in the fight that counts but the size of the fight in the dog.
If all the Moslems currently living in Switzerland now leave the country in response to Qaddafi’s boycot,would it not be a wonderful idea for the rest of Europe, Australasia and N.America natoins to ban the building of mosques?
In no time,Europe’s greatest threat would be removed.
Qaddafi and the other Muslim nations who would boycott Switzerland are a pack of hypocrites.
When Saudi Arabia the bastion of Islam forbids the building of any religious place of worship other than Islamic mosques, how do these jerks have the audacity to act as though they are being unfairly treated in Switzerland.
Qaddafi why don’t you crawl back into your lair !
we call Islam “the religion of peace”, ever so regularly. Their words were very well trained. The bit of reading I’ve done shows me a very different picture.good article …
Qaddafi is a radical. It’s not fair to judge Islam by listening to Qaddafi, just like it’s not fair to judge Christianity by listening to the KKK or Irish people by listening to the IRA.
If you look at the Qur’an as a whole, you would see that it is indeed a religion of peace. And to all you Islam-bashers, why don’t you read the Qur’an for yourself than read what other people say about it. I can read plenty of stuff that says the Bible is evil, but that doesn’t mean it is.
Adrian or is it Ishmael or Mohammad perhaps. You guys are so predictable. Using an Anglo name was a lame disguise to put across the “Islam is Peace” drivel.
I can quote you a hundred verses from the Quran or the Hadiths to verify that Islam is the most bloodthirsty religion in 6000 years of recorded history.
Don’t try to bring Christianity into this as I have NO affiliation with ANY Christian organization. I am simply a seeker of TRUTH.
After diligently studying Islam for many years I know that Islam is the most deceptive, conniving, ruthless political system (in a religious veneer)ever invented.
For your information I have several versions of the Quran and will happily back up my statements from the Quran.
30. You lie. I have read enough of that hellspawned garbage called the (un)holy Koran to know that the only peace Islam promises is the peace of the grave. The Koran is pure evil, and Mohamed is no prophet. Qaddafi is simply practicing Islam as Mohamed taught it.
haha how sad the muslims are.
they are just pissed off cause they fail at life.
from what ive been seeing after trying to study the
history of muslims of the last 1000 years they have only been
circling the kaaba and killing people no progress what so ever.
unless the progress was forced upon them from other nations.
Ps: they circle it anti clockwise. Irony?
Ahmadinejad’s “The Cyber Zone” – the search for Weapons of Mass Communication
On Saturday Iran claims to have dismantled opposition networks – networks that Iran’s Cyber-security forces claim were U.S.-backed for the purpose of collecting intelligence on scientists and Iran’s nuclear endeavors. Additionally, in a play taken straight from a Tom Clancy political and military thriller, there is also a charge that the U.S. was seeking means to circumvent controls on the Internet that Iranian Cyber-security forces put into place last fall to deprive any oppositional voices of their most crucial means to discover and disseminate real news on Iranian President Ahmadinejad’s totalitarian actions.
Foxnews.com reports the official Iranian news agency’s statement (IRNA) on the most recent crackdown -
A number of organized American cyber war networks were dismantled and 30 influential suspects were arrested … in a series of complicated security operations in the information technology and communications field. The new intelligence battle known as cyber warfare was made part of the U.S. government’s agenda. Members of the network, after being identified and arrested, confessed that their proxy anti-filter software … was employed and unfortunately extensively used for espionage purposes.
The Iranian statement did not say when the suspects were arrested but it accused the U.S. of using such networks to undermine Iran’s ruling system under a policy that it asserted originated in 2006 during George W. Bush’s presidency.
By President Ahmadinejad’s actions since Iran’s “elections” last summer it’s possible to see some playfully suitable parallels to Matt Damon’s just released “The Green Zone.” The film is a “based on history” fictionalized take on America’s search for WMD’s (weapons of mass destruction) in the early days of the Iraqi War and occupation in 2003. The film has several notable (and specious) plot points including a subtle “it’s Bush’s fault” intimation as well as requisite enforcers including a standard-issue manipulative administration official, pervasive private enterprise Black Water jackboots, and Special Forces as “tip of the spear” mercenaries employed under the auspices of power brokers both political and private. Amidst the chaos there’s a running gun battle with American forces to apprehend or eradicate a high-ranking Iraqi military officer. There’s no danger in not issuing a “spoiler alert” – namely, the premise that WMD’s were a false pretext to war. The film has not found much of an audience.
It seems that President Mahmoud “The Madman” Ahmadinejad is a fabricator of “conspiracy” stories as well and is living out a cheap “Green Zone” knock-off with his own take on events unfolding in Iran, ostensibly much of it under his own “direction.” The Iranian leader has been conducting a nine month “running gun battle” with his nefarious opposition (former presidential candidate and active opponent Mir Hossein Mousavi and crew) whom he accuses of employing WMC’s (weapons of mass communication – the Internet, email, and cell phones) to subvert his demagogic regime. In Mahmoud’s “The Cyber Zone” we also have a requisite administration heavy (Cyber force Police Colonel Mehrdad Omidi), pervasive Basij Militia jackboots, and Cyber-security forces as “tip of the spear” internet jackboots employed to ferret out and shut down the opposition. No “spoiler alert” is necessary here either – WMC’s are also a false pretext to a crackdown. Oh, and Iran trots out the same well-worn American liberal saw – “it’s Bush’s fault.”
Consider Deputy Head of Revolutionary Guards Political Office Brigadier Yadollah Javani words regarding America’s “manipulations” in Iran by means of electronic subterfuge –
In the soft war we should not permit the enemy to influence the minds of the public and… we need to try to eliminate the effect of that ambiguity. The means in the soft war are the media and the virtual space and today the Basiji forces have the capability of entering the virtual space, enter the scene of the soft war against the enemy, and to eliminate the ambiguities. With the establishment of the Islamic Republic as the fruit of the Islamic Revolution the oppression system got highly nervous and worried, and came to the scene with its entire might aimed at staging a full scale confrontation.
The U.S. government denies the charges. By means of a “WMC” (his own website) Mousavi continues the good fight –
We all stand until reaching our goals.
Based on President “Islam is a religion of peace” Obama’s own words there’s a seeming irony in Mahmoud’s charge of direct U.S. electronic interference in the Islamic state of Iran. Obama has claimed a personal Muslim faith and has been apologetic and favorable towards Muslim leaders and nations throughout his first year in office. See his “World Apology Tour.” Any perceived tension between Obama and Mahmoud is more likely a result of professional jealousy as to which is the better Muslim.
Here’s hoping Mahmoud’s twist on “The Green Zone” meets with the same tepid results as the actual film.
Oops! Comment #34 was intended for the “Green Zone” article by Andrew G. Bostom. Here’s what I wanted to say about Gaddafi and his sabre rattling -
US retreats in face of Gaddafi “diplomatic retaliations” threat
Chief State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley certainly puts the crow in “Crowley” and “eating crow pie” after having his chain jerked by the Obama administration. The hullabaloo? Mr. Crowley was presumably ordered to apologize to “reformed” Libyan leader Muammar “The Gadfly” Gaddafi for a snarky but well aimed satirical remark in response to Gaddafi’s saber-rattling about a jihad against Switzerland last month.
What precipitated Muammar’s threat of a holy war against a nation best known for loving neutrality and cuckoo clocks? It certainly couldn’t have been the threat posed by the Swiss’ famed ye olde pikemen – they’re long gone. Gaddafi’s irritant was Switzerland’s passage of a Constitutional ban on the construction of minarets on Islamic places of worship in the fall of last year.
And what was it that P.J. Crowley originally said that resulted in a “face-saving retreat” by way of a follow-up apology? Crowley said that the jihad talk reminded him of Gaddafi’s speech to the United Nations last year when Muammar had gone rabid while ripping pages from the U.N. Charter –
** (It was) lots of words and lots of paper, not necessarily a lot of sense **
That salient observation by Mr. Crowley must have been a poke in the eye for Libya. Which impotent wannabe world dictator likes being called out as a tempest-in-a-teapot yapping Chihuahua? So, Gaddafi threatened “diplomatic retaliation” unless a gift-wrapped apology was received.
When word of this Muslim Brotherhood discord reached the highest seat in our land it most certainly was cause for concern. Less than a week later an appropriately contrite Crowley proffered the global conflagration averting apology that Gaddafi needed to hear –
** The comments do not reflect U.S. policy and were not intended to offend. I apologize if they were taken in that way **
First, Gaddafi trains his sights on the peace-loving, ski-loving Swiss, and now the US. That’s escalation. I can see where an ink spot nation like Lichtenstein might have a concern about a threat from a playground bully but what, other than pressure from on high by a like-striped “Islam is a religion of peace” believer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCAffMSWSzY), could prompt a high ranking Obama administration official to offer an apology for such a wry but innocuous observation about the irrational behavior of a dictator? Sigh… nothing new under the sun I guess. Clearly, Obama’s World Apology Tour continues, coming soon to a dictatorship near you.
Naturally, in a conciliatory spirit, the Libyan leader “accepts the apology and the deep regret” and is “satisfied.” Now that we’ve buckled and ameliorated The Gadfly I guess it’s the Swiss’ turn. Pass the hot chocolate.
No.4.Michiganruth, why do you think Obama wants to know?
The news that Libyan leader want Nigeria to break up was highly welcomed by me.
Against Islam
Hate the Muslims?
After the 9/11, the world view and global persona over Islam has changed dramatically. All blamed and animosity within the world that had adopted such tragedy and blatant resolute over terror, Islam is to be accused, reprimanded and doubted for in many ‘terrorist’ violent.
In an attempt to point out the horrific ‘hysterical phobia towards Islam’ just after the aftermath of the 9/11, the Muslims globally become the scapegoat and a slaughtering house towards a predicament to justify mistreatment. Alas! Islam is put to trial and the Muslims under microscopic apprehension.
The world still today envisage an enigma of how to deal with Islam and the Muslims possibly through despicable threat, treating like the ‘Guantanamo Bay’ and hope to tame the Muslims through series of harsh and cruel satire, until the world commemorate after the annihilation of Islam and the Muslims.
Many had exhorted to extremism, fatal aggression and assault towards Islam and the Muslims without any sense on logic and refute intellectual hegemony. As Islam is to be made defenseless against extensive dominion and fatally obscure by explosive remarks that had plundered against it. What is it that had cause the enmity, animosity and hatred towards Islam and the Muslims at large. The root of the inaptness that confine many to succumb without reason and sound logic.
When this world favors someone it lends him qualifications, attributes and surpassing merits of others and when it turns it face away from him, it snatches away even his own excellence and fame.
I can quote you a hundred verses from the Quran or the Hadiths to verify that Islam is the most bloodthirsty religion in 6000 years of recorded history.
Dear Ilan Ben Menachem
I’m please to hear about what you said , please do make a point on your statement and verify it accordingly with proper knowledge and profound facts not something that is only temperamental remarks like many have written so far. Discussion can only be fruitful within an open mind without remorse to admit towards truth. Righteousness is a matter of true facts vilifying fiction.
One who imagines himself to be all knowing will surely suffer on account of his ignorance. Thank you. I’m on my way to Penang (British called it Pearl of the Orient)will be back within a few days. Bye