Fareed Zakaria Paints Hezbollah as More ‘Tolerant’ Than GZM Protesters
It is a day, he makes quite clear, for vowing to destroy Israel. Judaism, he tells his audience, clearly stands for the end of Israel’s existence, which is only a creation of the Zionist conspiracy. Citing the Quran, he says:
As for the criminal and murderous limb of Abraham’s progeny, who killed the prophets, spread corruption in the land, and committed atrocities and sins… these were not given any promises to start with for promises to be withdrawn. They were not given promises from the onset. It is found in the Old Testament and in history books, that after Moses brought the Israelites across to the blessed land of Palestine, they began to worship the calf and idols, disobeyed God, hurt and conspired against his prophet and his brother Aaron. Consequently, God ordered them out to wander through the desert for 40 years, away from the reaches of their land.
So, no promises were made to them.
His beliefs could not be more clear. Is Mr. Zakaria familiar with this passage in his speech?:
First: Historic Palestine, from the sea to the river belongs to the people of Palestine and to the whole nation.
Second: It is impermissible for anyone and no one has the right, whoever he may be, whether Palestinian, Arab, Muslim or Christian, no matter who it is, regardless of the claims of representation anyone makes, whether representation claims of historic legitimacy, revolutionary, popular, legal or constitutional, no one in this world is entitled to give up a grain of soil from the land of Palestine, nor a drop of water from the waters in Palestine, nor a single character from the name of Palestine.
Third: the “Israeli” entity currently existing on the land of Palestine is a usurper and occupation entity, aggressive, cancerous, illegitimate and illegal presence.
Fourth: It is impermissible for anyone, whoever they may be, to recognize this entity, grant it legitimacy or recognize an existence for it.
Fifth: Collaboration and normalization with “Israel” are forbidden sins. All scholars, Islamic reference authorities are in consensus about this, and anyone that says otherwise, let him step forward and present his case.
These principles and constants are unalterable by time, circumstances, conditions, strengths or weaknesses at all.
At another time, CAMERA reminds us, Nasrallah was quoted in Lebanon’s Daily Star saying that if the Jews “all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide.”
Writing in The New Yorker some years ago, Jeffrey Goldberg called Hezbollah “the most successful terrorist organization in modern history.” And he went on to write that a Lebanese Shiite scholar named Amal Saad-Ghorayeb has advanced what in Lebanon is a controversial argument: that Hezbollah is not merely anti-Israel but deeply, theologically anti-Jewish.
Her new book, Hezbollah: Politics & Religion, dissects the anti-Jewish roots of Hezbollah ideology. Hezbollah, she argues, “believes that Jews, by the nature of Judaism, possess fatal character flaws.” The organization, she adds, holds “a real antipathy to Jews as Jews.”
I assume this means that the supposedly informed Zakaria is not familiar with the reporting and analysis of Jeffrey Goldberg. Of course, we know that this is not the case.
Somehow, he has obviously chosen to disregard what he probably does know, in order to score cheap shots and make Hezbollah seem more tolerant than the United States. They allow a synagogue to be restored; most Americans oppose and are trying to stop a mosque from being built near Ground Zero. For Zakaria, the Hezbollah controlled Lebanon is more tolerant than the democratic United States.
This “insight” of his is supposed to be “food for thought.”
So please. Flood the CNN network brass with protests, demand they correct his crude hosanna to a group our own government condemns as terrorist, and ask that others be invited on to correct the horrendously false impression he gave to viewers. You can reach CNN by linking to its complaint site.
And finally, as the current incarnation of the almost defunct Newsweek seeks to rebuild itself after being bought by billionaire Sidney Harman, we got the bad news that Zakaria has already jumped ship and moved immediately to the still surviving Time, which last week did its best to paint Americans as crude Islamophobic zombies.
Now, its subscribers will have to read his words along with the already anti-Israel and anti-neocon screeds of Joe Klein. Perhaps in another year, with such an august group of pundits, Time too will need to find another Sidney Harman to save them.
Mr. Radosh, it is essential to give your readers the link by which they can register their outrage directly to CNN. Go here: http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form5.html?97
Zakaria and CNN are made for each other. It should be called the Suckers’ News Network. Islam has a huge vocabulary that specifies the many ways to deceive the non believers while the Jihad engineers their destruction and submission. Fareed should know that. This blindness of the ruling class and their flunkies will be their destruction. Meanwhile mainstream America gets it more and more every day and pays attention less and less to anything the ruling class media have to say.
Zakaria belongs to the Helen Thomas school of journalism.
On his show GPS aired on March 21 ,2010 he opened with a segment regarding Israel. and its relations with the United States.
Prior to dialogue with a number of guests Mr. Zakaria offered his “ take “ on the current political climate.
Israel is “ not truly serious “ about “ its claims that” Iran is an existential threat “.
Why , he asks, does Israel allow “ petty domestic considerations “ get in the way of warmer relations with Arab neighbors that also view Iran as a threat?
Mr. Zakaria asks why Israels “ motley collection of political parties “ is allowed to get in the way of peace efforts?
Zakaria then, with opprobrium never tossed at an Ahmadinejad or Chavez , called Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu a “ hack “.
Zakaria has neither the intellect or fair mindedness his enablers claim he has.
” Hack “is a word which comes to mind regarding his abilities.
He proves, once again, that talent and real intellect are not required for either financial success or popularity.
He gives the dim witted hope that they too, one day, may host a network television show of their own.
Fareed Zakaria gives the dim witted hope that they too, one day, may host a network television show of their own.
Wrong.
Sayiid Fareed gives the every dim witted other hope, that he, too, may one day host his own network television show.
The gullibility and mendacity of the intellectuals has been documented again and again in the modern period from the historians, philosophers, doctors, lawyers, university presidents, writers, editors, literary critics, journalists, musicians and artists who supported Hitler to the same group that has supported and still supports the Soviet Union, Stalin, and Mao. Zakaria among innumerable others is just a latter day species of the Sophist-poseur. Thank goodness there are always some who can uncover their hypocrisy, ignorance and opportunism. Thank goodness for Ron Radosh.
It is interesting the way that the liberal media has adopted both the cause of the Ground Zero mosque and an image of Islam as just another religion, no worse than Christianity and probably better. Of course, this provides August fodder for columns and talk shows, as well as giving the usual pundits an opportunity to display their convictions that they are all that stand between the American people and lynch law hysteria.
I think that the right kind of mosque/community center at Ground Zero could be a good thing, but I would like to know much more about the promoters of this one and have a sense of just where the money is coming from.
As for the good deeds of Hezbollah and other bloodthirsty terrorist groups, please spare us, Mr. Zakaria, and don’t insult our intelligence.
Is there a ‘right’ kind of islam?
Nope.
In Islam it is wrong to kill “innocents” sounds great hey and a very Christian ideal and its one verse that Taqqiya spouting Muslims and their gullible naive Islamophile left wing PC,MC moonbat apologists are so very keen for you to see . But dig deeper and use your brain to THINK and look at the definition of “innocence’ in Islam and you will see that Muslims and ONLY Muslims can be considered innocent which puts that oh so nice verse clearly in to context .
Christians, Jews and other religions followers are ‘Apes and Pigs’ and either have to convert (Muslims call it ‘REVERT’ as they consider everyone is BORN a Muslim) be killed or become a Dhimmie (a second class submissive cash cow for Islam with no rights under Shariah Law) . The Jews of course get no choice they all have to be KILLED after all antisemitism is at the very core of Islam.
“I think that the right kind of mosque/community center at Ground Zero could be a good thing…”
What would be the right kind? If it was the right kind would the exact location be an issue. There are issues about church building locations and most churches will seek an acceptable place rather than demand a right they may or may not have. Take heed that we are not distracted by the bait and switch crowd.
Joh 8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
Since I understand that it is permissible for a Muslim to lie under certain circumstances where does this verse put said Muslim. How can the untruth be justified? This is not at all restricted to the Muslim but to all those who deal in the deciet.
Hezbollah’s view on the renovation goes like this. “We respect divine religions, including the Jewish religion. The problem is with Israel’s occupation of Arab lands … not with the Jews.”
Which explains very well why Hezbollah bombed Jewish centers in Buenos Aires. Argentina is an Arab land,no?
According to mo/allah, all the earth belongs to muslims.
“The CNN pundit makes an outrageously false comparison which deserves a flood of complaints to his employer.”
I disagree, his employer will welcome the complaints, what is needed is a flood of complaints to his employer’s sponsors, along with the promise of lost business.
Does anyone know who sponsored this POS?
To send a complaint to CNN would send the erroneous message that I may have actually watched his show. I won’t do it.
Isn’t CNN supported by Arab money? For example, during the month of Ramadan they keep with a continuous coverage showing videos on how beautifull Ramadan is, etc, etc. (At least CNN International is doing it).
Fareed Zakaria’s book, The Post-American World, was released in 2008. He seems to think that the Israeli/Palestinian problem is a minor diversion. The rest of the planet is going in the right direction. Those strange people in the Middle East merely need to get with the program.
Yup, a secularized Pakistani-American with a reliable fondness for Muslim causes and an uncanny ability to rationalize Jihad finds Israel backwards, nothing but a bunch of retrogrades to be shown the way by Fareed and others. An Obama operative is Zakaria, a Sharia-compliant man in full flower.
“The Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982, sparked backlashes against Lebanese Jews. While the State of Israel offered citizenship, often declined, Lebanese Jews were frequent targets of Islamic militant groups since 1984. Synagogues were often attacked, and eleven Jewish community leaders were kidnapped and executed. In 1991, due to mass emigration of Lebanese Jews into foreign countries, only two Jews remained in Wadi Abu Jamil Street, and with a population of around sixty, the community more or less ceased to exist.[7] Those who still remained now live in Beirut, Aley, bechamoun, Byblos, and Bhamdoun.”–wiki
Yeah, those Lebanese Muslims are some tolerant rascals, all right.
As an opponent to the Ground Zero Victory Mosque and supporter of the Counter-Jihad, I am offended by JournOlistas like CNN and their heroes like Fareed Zakaria calling me Islamophobic. When scandals like the Prophet Muhammed cartoon being published in Europe broke out, JournOlist media outlets would not publish copies of the objectionable illustration in question. The didn’t because they were AFRAID of Muslim backlash against them, e.g., perhaps they’d be murdered in the street like Theo van Gogh. So, it is they who are truly ISLAMOPHOBIC, i.e., frightened of Islam. (I think psychologists call this ‘projection’.)
A classic for you all:
WHAT THE HECK IS “CNN” ????
CNN=Crescent NEWS Network
Mayor Bloomberg announces, “We are all Muslims.” Now this.
I think that Americans are getting tired of being lectured about tolerance by people who refuse to condemn the people who have attacked us repeatedly over a twenty year period. We don’t have to, nor should we, tolerate terrorism and sedition and liberals and Muslim spokesmen in this country increasingly seem to be justifying both.
“…people who refuse to condemn the people who have attacked us repeatedly over a twenty year period.”
It’s ludicrous to accuse people who defend the rights of Moslems of failing to condemn Islamic terrorists.
Oh, finally Farid is showing his true Islamic colors. All this pretension of a “moderate Muslim” is off now and people can see that all those pretend moderate Muslims are nothing but radical at heart.
So what is any one of you going to do about it? Every thread I read is the same: Whinning about what the left has done or is doing. But NOBODY is doing anything back except bellyaching.
While CNN will not listen to our opinions, their advertisers would listen.
The CNN advertisers need an audience so why be part of that audience?
Classic neocon M.O.: if someone disagrees with you, get him fired. You guys are the greatest defenders of freedom of speech since Stalin.
Uh, I’m sorry but the Left created political correctitude and you should know not only this but a lot about Batoni Jughashvili.
Stalin: Class-based International Socialism
Hitler: Race-based National Socialism
al-Bama: Class- and Race-based Post-National Socialism
Complaining to CNN will not only do no good, they will see it as vindication.
It is as counterproductive as Jews complaining to Ahmedinejad about Iran’s Jew-hatred.
CNN sees us average Americans the same way that Nazis and Muslims see the Jews — as something less than human for which they have no regard.
CNN’s core audience is the Islamic world and the international left. They don’t give a rat’s ass what we think.
Let me guess, and the CNN motto is “Work will set you free?” Or in the German, “Arbeit Macht Frei” Hey, Fareed?
Hezbollah says Jew occupy Arab lands. If so, why is it that there is a synagogue to be restored? Why would there be an old synagogue, if Jews had not been there before?
Zakaria forever disgraced himself by returning the award the ADL had given him years prior to the mosque dispute. Never use someone’s generosity against them, is an old Jewish adage I believe.
What is really funny is that people like Zakaria, and Peter Beinart and Andrew Sullivan have antennae finely attuned to shifting political winds. And when influence seems to be pointing in a new direction, they simply shift course ideologically and paint their their change of views as an act of conscience, rather than of transparent desire for popularity.
Zakaria is worthless.
“When Christian Arabs ruled Lebanon, Jews enjoyed relative toleration. In the mid-50’s, approximately 7,000 Jews lived in Beirut. As Jews in an Arab country, however, their position was never secure, and the majority left in 1967.”
“Fighting in the 1975-76 Muslim-Christian civil war swirled around the Jewish Quarter in Beirut, damaging many Jewish homes, businesses and synagogues. Most of the remaining 1,800 Lebanese Jews emigrated in 1976, fearing the growing Syrian presence in Lebanon would curtail their freedom. Most Jews went to Europe (particularly France), the United States and Canada.”
“In the mid-1980’s, Hizballah kidnapped several prominent Jews from Beirut — most were leaders of what remained of the country’s tiny Jewish community. Four of the Jews were later found murdered.”
“Nearly all of the remaining Jews are in Beirut, where there is a committee that represents the community.2 Because of the current political situation, Jews are unable to openly practice Judaism. In 2004, only 1 out of 5,000 Lebanese Jewish citizens registered to vote participated in the municipal elections. Virtually all of those registered have died or fled the country. The lone Jewish voter said that most of the community consists of old women.”
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-semitism/lebjews.html
The idea that Muslim dominated Lebanon is some sort of oasis of tolerance towards Jews is a bald-faced lie. There used to be more than 20,000 Jews living in Lebanon in the 1940s, there’s now thought to be less than 1,000 left, and most of those are in hiding to avoid being killed. Almost the entire Jewish population has been murdered, or has fled the country to avoid being murdered, by the oh-so-tolerant Arab/Muslims.
Hezbollah would love to see the synagogue reopen, because they know that the few remaining Jews in Lebanon will be tempted to come there…and then Hezbollah will know who they are and right where to find them.
And, Zakaria is a fatuous idiot.
He has a Muslim world-view in secular Western clothes, Dave. In Fareed’s world Muslims are most gracious to tolerate Jews. And it is a view that many non-Muslims and some Jews are inclined towards as well, so it’s a good line for him.
I would be curious to know the career trajectory of Mr. Zakaria, his background in Pakistan, and what if any ties he has to the Jihad-devoted Pakistani elites.
Islam offers the Jews three options. Convert to Islam; accept the 2nd Class Dhimmi status or die. Nothing else. As the Israelis stubbornly refuse to do any of the three Israel’s continuiing existence, indeed prosperity is not just an affront but a blasphemy.
Well if nothing else, we certainly know that Hezbollah’s marching orders come from a tolerant lot:
http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/08/ladies-night-with-mahmoud-ahmadinejad/#comments
Up until 9-11, the party of Allah the moon god had murdered more Americans than any other terrorist organization.
What was once wrong has become right, and what was once right has become wrong. The New Age is here, and the world calls forth it’s leader whose symbol is the crescent moon. Archeology, and history shows this leader to be Tammuz. The son of the Sun god.
It’s Arab money. The gulf Arabs learned American politicians are for sale. The Clinton library was built by Bahrain. Hillary loaned her campaign $13 million just as Bahrain was paying Bill $13 million for an “investment”. Obama sold the lockerby bomber for 72k to BP. BP got an $800 billion oil concession fom Libya.
As for the media. A reporter mentioned the $72k Obama got from BP and he was put on leave.
Who pulled the money out of our banks just as McCain was going ahead in the pols? WHO? No one is asking this question. I think this explains Obamas bow to the Saudi King.
Again Mcartherism emerges in the US attempting to prevent any other opinion ,keeping a totalitarian view for all the country (is not this what was in Germany in the thirties of the last century?).Again holding responsibility on Islam for any crime or felony or violation of a Moslem or a Moslem organisation,is like holding responsibility on the Christians because of Hitler persecution of the Jews.
This is called a “big lie.” When it is repeated like this by well known political commentators, it damages not only his own credibility, but those who attempt to refute it. The only good answer for this outrage is to ask him or someone from CNN to go there and show us this wonderful place.
In other words, rub his nose in it. Fighting facts like this with facts from the other side is counterproductive. It muddies the water for those who do not understand what is really going on in the Middle East.
I have rarely ever agreed with Mr. Zakaria. To the extent that his views are based upon opinion, I’m willing to give him an audience. When he spouts lies like this, however, he’ll have to prove that he is capable of investigating his own assumptions before he’ll get credibility of any sort from me. That’s how I treat every commentator. He is no different.
As a resident of Beirut living near the Magen Abraham synagogue i can attest to the support Hezbollah has lent to this religious and cultural restoration project. The above comments, mainly seem to accept the Zionist occupation of Palestine and the pending expulsion of US forces from the region given our open ended support to Israel’s serial aggressions. They miss an important point. Before European Zionists invaded and stole Palestine from its rightful inhabitants and owners and then ethnically cleaned 60% of Palestine destroying 531 villages in the process, Jews and Arabs lived as neighbors without serious conflict. The brutal occupation of others lands will always lead to resistance. That is why Hezbollah was organized to expel invading and occupying Zionist forces form Lebanon. When the Zionists leave the Arab lands of Palestine there will be peace. Not before.
stop mentioning that hezbollah has killed more american civilians that any other terrorist organization prior to 9/11. why dont mention instead, the countless number of people killed by israeli warplanes and tanks…u make it seem as if amerian lives are at most value and carry true human blood. israeli kills women and children with bombs… stop asking for ur soldiers back if u hold thousands of prisoners in ur dungeons. israel will vanish from the pages of time for it atrocities on the palestinian people and the arab world….
u cannot blame hezbollah for the jewish attack in argentina because there is no proof. u also cannot blame them for killing israeli civilians in general…u must first see the israeli warcrime on the arab people before u can judge arab nation or organization for the crimes… the problem is that youtr all brainwashed.. u dont like islam because you see it as a religion that oppresses women and a muslim person has “no life” but the truth is that we dont want our sons to grow up being pimps and our women to grow up being skanks so we keep them under control with this great religion. to preserrve our dignity….
When PM encourages readers to register their complaints with the offending media it would be useful if the identity of the sponsoring commercial companies were included….
Only Cowards Stone People to Death: An Islamic Religious Ritual
August 19, 2010 – by Phyllis Chesler
Yesterday, I appeared on Fox News’ The Strategy Room to discuss a recent stoning in Afghanistan and the issue of stoning in general. Kimberly Guilfoyle interviewed me both skillfully and graciously. The subject is a very distressing and somewhat mysterious one for most westerners.
What does it mean when a mob of men, numbering anywhere from 50 to 200, stone a female child to death — as happened in October of 2008 in Somalia? That poor soul was not only a 13-year-old child, she had also just been raped. Indeed, that was her sole “crime” and the reason for her torture-execution. She was forced into a hole and buried nearly up to her neck. She took a long time to die and kept crying out for her life. In addition to the 50 active stoners, 1000 more men cheered them on.
What does this tell us?
First, that barbarians are mainly cowards who do not view themselves as responsible for their actions. Everyone is the murderer and therefore, no one is the murderer. The group both absorbs and atones for any possible guilt or hesitation that even one individual might have felt. However, as we shall see, there is also another way of looking at this.
For a culture presumably so concerned with “honor,” so consumed with concepts of responsibility towards the family, clan, or “ummah” (Muslim people), those who stone a living being to death utterly shrink from any individual responsibility for carrying out their bloody deeds. Entire families become conspirators in an honor killing; village and religious councils collaborate to issue a death sentence; Muslim men sexually harass women in the streets (of Egypt) — and in large mosque-inflamed mobs (in Algeria).
In terms of stoning, which is primarily a contemporary Muslim-only custom, not only do cowardly men hide behind each other, clearly they lack the ability to act as individuals. That power is reserved for one man, one leader, one ruling cabal only. In Afghanistan, the Taliban hooligans threw the first stones.
This tells us something else that is important. The need for a mob is, in a sense, proof that the individuals who compose it are all being held hostage to the will of the psychopathic criminals who rule them. Oppose them, and you yourself might be stoned to death. Hostage-mobs also share the “guilt,” or rather, their leaders’ point of view. The leaders cannot be held accountable for their actions either — everyone did it.
In addition, sharing a so-called Muslim sinner’s blood, especially female blood, is yet another way to forge a blood-brotherhood that is based on male supremacism.
Stoning is practiced in contemporary Afghanistan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, and Nigeria. In 2006, a poll conducted in “moderate” Indonesia found that 50% of Muslims there supported stoning in cases of adultery, however it is defined. Adultery might include: a married woman who is raped by a stranger, or a woman promised in marriage to one man but who chooses another. This is precisely what happened in the recent case in Afghanistan.
The Grand Torturer Khomeini brought stoning back to Iran. Uneducated mullahs in the provinces rather liked it. They also liked drugs, drug trafficking, forcing girls into prostitution and then jailing or hanging them for it; temporary “marriages”; forced veiling, etc. Although stoning is now under legal review in Iran, to date, eight men and three women await stoning execution.
In Iran, one woman, accused of adultery, was sentenced to be lashed 99 times — and then sentenced to be stoned to death. Due to an international campaign and due to the hard work of Iranian dissidents, Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani’s sentence was delayed. But she was lashed 99 times and her teenage son was forced to witness her helplessness, humiliation, and torture — and, in a sense, forced to both share these emotions, second-hand with his mother. Her son’s presence before her nakedness was meant to shame them both and challenged him to become a very hard man as a way of avoiding an eventual nervous breakdown.
I am not sure whether there is any connection, but think about this. When Muslims go on pilgrimage to Mecca, part of their three day ritual includes stoning “The Devil.” Large groups literally throw stones at giant concrete pillars. This suggests that stoning is a Muslim religious ritual, not a tribal custom. Therefore, stoning a living human being is not only an act of human sacrifice — it is a classic religious ritual meant to glorify the stoners’ God.
A little like jihad if you ask me.
Airport Body Scanners Violate the Teachings of Islam, Says Muslim Group
Thursday, February 11, 2010
By Susan Jones, Senior Editor
(CNSNews.com) – A group of Muslim scholars says it supports airline safety, but it is “deeply concerned” about the use of airport scanners that show nude images of the human body.
“The Fiqh Council of North America (FCNA) emphasizes that a general and public use of such scanners is against the teachings of Islam, natural law and all religions and cultures that stand for decency and modesty,” the group said in a Feb. 10 statement posted at Islam Online.
“It is a violation of clear Islamic teachings that men or women be seen naked by other men and women,” FCNA explained. The group noted that Islam emphasizes modesty, considering it part of the faith. “The Qur’an has commanded the believers, both men and women, to cover their private parts” and to be modest in their dress.
Call me Roy:
Let me solve this Airport Security problem for all of undecisive people who can’t decide what color toilet paper to buy. There should be one rule for flying in America. Now, at first glance I know most Americans won’t believe how simple this is because we have to listen to a bunch of pudknocker politicians and news people whine and gasp like a bunch of Hollywood actors, directors, and hair dressers. Here it is people: If you want to fly in America, you will get either a body scan, a pat down or a good old fashioned dog sniff. That’s it. If you don’t like this rule: take the bus, the train, or a cruise. Got it!
PS, if your Muslim and you don’t like this idea, don’t fly. Now, wasn’t that easy?
Creeping Sharia in the United States
In some ways, it speaks of the goodness of America that we have had such difficulty coming to grips with the challenge of radical Islamists. It is our very commitment to religious liberty that makes us uncomfortable with defining our enemies in a way that appears linked with religious belief.
However, America’s commitment to religious liberty has given radical Islamists a potent rhetorical weapon in their pursuit of sharia supremacy. In a deliberately dishonest campaign exploiting our belief in religious liberty, radical Islamists are actively engaged in a public relations campaign to try and browbeat and guilt Americans (and other Western countries) to accept the imposition of sharia in certain communities, no matter how deeply sharia law is in conflict with the protections afforded by the civil law and the democratic values undergirding our constitutional system.
The problem of creeping sharia is most visibly on display in France and in the United Kingdom, where there are Muslim enclaves in which the police have surrendered authority and sharia reigns. However, worrisome cases are starting to emerge in the United States that show sharia is coming here. Andy McCarthy’s writings, including his new book The Grand Jihad, have been invaluable in tracking instances in which the American government and major public institutions have been unwilling to assert the protections of American law and American values over sharia’s religious code. Some examples include:
In June 2009, a New Jersey state judge rejected an allegation that a Muslim man who punished his wife with pain for hours and then raped her repeatedly was guilty of criminal sexual assault, citing his religious beliefs as proof that he did not believe he was acting in a criminal matter. “This court believes that he was operating under his belief that it is, as the husband, his desire to have sex when and whether he wanted to, was something that was consistent with his practices and it was something that was not prohibited.” Thankfully, this ruling was reversed in an appellate court.
In May 2008, a disabled student at a public college being assisted by a dog was threatened by Muslim members of the student body, who were reluctant to touch the animal by the prescription of sharia. The school, St. Cloud State, chose not to engage the Muslim community, but simply gave the student credit without actually fulfilling the class hours so as to avoid conflict.
In a similar instance in November 2009, a high school senior in Owatonna, Minn., was suspended in order to protect him from the threat of violence by radical Islamists when he wrote an essay about the special privileges afforded his Somali Muslim counterparts in the school environment.
In order to accommodate sharia’s prohibition of interest payments in financial transactions, the state of Minnesota buys homes from realtors and re-sells them to Muslims at an up-front price. It is simply not the function of government to use tax money to create financial transactions that correspond to a religious code. Moreover, it is a strategy to create a precedent for legal recognition of sharia within U.S. law.
Amazingly, there are strong allegations that the United States now owns the largest provider of sharia financing in the world: AIG.
Last month, police in Dearborn, Mich., which has a large Muslim population, arrested Christian missionaries for handing out copies of the Gospel of St. John on charges of “disturbing the peace.” They were doing so on a public street outside an Arab festival in a way that is completely permissible by law, but, of course, forbidden by sharia’s rules on proselytizing. This is a clear case of freedom of speech and the exercise of religious freedom being sacrificed in deference to sharia’s intolerance against the preaching of religions other than Islam.
Shockingly, sharia honor killings-in which Muslim women are murdered by their husbands, brothers or other male family members for dishonoring their family-are also on the rise in America but do not receive national attention because they are considered “domestic disturbances.” (A recent article in Marie Claire Magazine highlights recent cases and the efforts to bring national attention to this horrifying trend.)
Cases like this will become all the more common as radical Islamists grow more and more aggressive in the United States.
Strange, according to a correct history book, Israel pleaded with Arabs not to abandoned their homes, and not to go to war with them in 1948. Now, with at least five wars against Israel under their belt, the so called Palestinians (Jordanians, and Egyptians) demand property.
Israel gave Arabs all of Gaza, and the Arabs made it into a den of terrorism.
Not all Americans are shanks, and pimps. Unlike Mohammad, we teach our children not to enslave people, molest children, rape women, and murder. We do not want them to grow up like your perfect man, and worship a false god called Hubal, Sin, or Allah.
I enjoy this banter between enemy’s. Have a great Marine Corp day.
Gee, I wonder why the number of viewers has dropped 39% in one year at CNN? Could it be because of shows and comments like these? I think so. When Lou Dobbs left CNN, I knew CNN would change drastically. I guess the comments below should definitely cover this subject thoroughly.
Ann Coulter comments on Muslims
When we were fighting communism, OK, they had mass murderers and gulags, but they were white men and they were sane. Now we´re up against absolutely insane savages.” Ann Coulter comparing the cold war to the war on terror 16/08/04
“Perhaps we could put aside our national, ongoing, post-9/11 Muslim butt-kissing contest and get on with the business at hand: Bombing Syria back to the stone age and then permanently disarming Iran.” Ann Coulter in her column
The amazing part of the great Danish cartoon caper isn’t that Muslims immediately engage in acts of mob violence when things don’t go their way. That is de rigueur for the Religion of Peace. Their immediate response to all bad news is mass violence. That’s a “dog bites man” story and belongs on page B-34, next to the grade school hot lunch menu and the birth notices.
After an Egyptian ferry capsized recently, killing hundreds of passengers, a whole braying mob of passengers’ relatives staged an organized attack on the company, throwing furniture out the window and burning the building to the ground. Witnesses say it was the most violent ocean liner-related incident since Carnival Cruise Lines fired Kathie Lee Gifford.
The “offense to Islam” ruse is merely an excuse for Muslims to revert to their default mode: rioting and setting things on fire. These people have a serious anger management problem.
So it’s not exactly a scoop that Muslims are engaging in violence. A front-page story would be “Offended Muslims Remain Calm.”
What is stunning about this spectacle is that their violence is working. With a few exceptions, the media won’t show the cartoons that incited mass violence around the globe (cartoons available at http://www.anncoulter.com). And yet, week after week, American patriots endure “The Boondocks” without complaint. Where’s the justice here?
Perhaps we could put aside our national, ongoing, post-9/11 Muslim butt-kissing contest and get on with the business at hand: Bombing Syria back to the stone age and then permanently disarming Iran.
The mass violence by Muslims over some cartoons reminds us why we have to worry when countries like Iran start talking about having nukes. Iran is led by a lunatic who makes a big point of denying the Holocaust. Indeed, in response to the Muhammad cartoons, one Iranian newspaper is soliciting cartoons about the Holocaust. (So far the only submissions have come from Ted Rall, Garry Trudeau and The New York Times.)
Iran is certainly implying that it has nukes. Maybe they do, maybe they don’t, but you can’t take chances with berserk psychotics. What if they start having one of these bipolar episodes with a nuclear bomb?
If you don’t want to get shot by the police, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, then don’t point a toy gun at them. Or, as I believe our motto should be after 9/11: Jihad monkey talks tough; jihad monkey takes the consequences. Sorry, I realize that’s offensive. How about “camel jockey”? What? Now what’d I say? Boy, you tent merchants sure are touchy. Grow up, would you?
In addition, I believe we are legally required to be bombing Syria right now. And unlike the Quran’s alleged prohibition on depictions of Muhammad, I’ve got documentation to back that up!
Muslims in Syria torched the Danish Embassy a few weeks ago, burning it to the ground. According to everyone, the Syrian government was behind the attack — the prime minister of Denmark, Condoleezza Rice and White House spokesman Scott McClellan. I think even the gals on “The View” have acknowledged that Damascus was behind this one.
McClellan said: “We will hold Syria responsible for such violent demonstrations since they do not take place in that country without government knowledge and support.”
We are signatories to a treaty that requires us to do more than “hold Syria responsible” for this attack. Syria has staged a state-sponsored attack on our NATO partner on Danish soil, the Danish embassy. According to the terms of the NATO treaty, the United States and most of Europe have an obligation to go to war with Syria.
Or is NATO — like the conventions of civilized behavior, personal hygiene and grooming — inapplicable when Muslims are involved? Liberals complain about “unilateral action,” but under the terms of a treaty created by Dean Acheson and the Democrats, France, Germany, Spain and Greece are all obliged to go to war with us against Syria. Why, it’s almost like a coalition! OK, Mr. Commie: Saddle up!
“Before European Zionists invaded and stole Palestine from its rightful inhabitants…”
It’s not Arab/Muslim land, never was Arab/Muslim land, and it never will be Arab/Muslim land. It’s ours…and we’re going to take every square inch of it back.
The Muslims in Turkey, Syria, Israel, Egypt, etc. are temporary invaders, colonialists and imperialists…but, it ain’t going to last forever. We are going to drive them out eventually.
Better learn to deal with it, sonny boy, because that IS how it’s going to be.
I think this is a sign of the fall of the US.A strong lobby allies with the Saudi Wahhabi Qaedi regim and cheat the people,they fund the schools of Taliban in Pakistan and send troops to fight the graduates in Afganistan!, they support Israel in occupying the others land and persecute people under their occupation ,confiscate their houses and drive them out .they talk about human rights and send drones to terrorise people and kill women and chidren in Pakistan.Now trying to terrorise Zakaria because he decided to think in an objective way.
The Junta of Washington spent 2000 billions $ last 9 years in useless lost wars bringing down the economy andmaking people poor in order to implement racial politics in the middleeast .They are still supporting the Wahhabi Qaedi regim in Arabia regardless of the fact that 15 out 0f 19 suiciders of 9,11 were Saudi carrying the Salafi belief that the US funds its schools in Pakistan.
In Zakaria’s opinion, terrorists who kill innocent Israeli women and children are only defending “property rights,” and the truly evil are the Americans who want a New York City mosque to be built a few blocks further away from the site of an Islamist attack on the United States.
It is worth noting that the guest on Zakaria’s April 18, 2009 CNN program was the rabidly anti-Israel Rashid Khalidi, an Obama fundraising pal, dinner companion, and former Palestine Liberation Organization operative.
Zakaria is the author of The Post-American World—a book Obama was seen carrying on the campaign trail in May 2008.
Birds of a feather…
These connections, and many more, are in Part I of the 638-page book, The Obama Timeline. Part II can be read in full online; it is updated on a daily basis.
Simply complain pointing out that the substance of the report is untrue and contrary to the facts. Such as Palestinian grade-schoolers are taught to hate Israel and Israelis.
I find his (arrogant) opinions as insufferable as his “Colgate-commercial” smile on CNN’s website. But hezbollah=tolerance is simply delusional.
For the lesser educated (like Jamal and Franklin) here is the definition of “delusion”:
-An idiosyncratic belief or impression that is firmly maintained despite being contradicted by reality or rational argument, typically a symptom of mental disorder-
looking at hiz-b’allah’s synagogue without looking at the rest of what they’ve done and what they stand for and comparing it to our RESISTANCE to the GZM is immoral postmodernist carp.
by farid’s reasoning (so-called) truman’s and the allies’ desire for an unconditional surrender in the face of japan’s desire for terms makes truman and the allies bloodthirsty ones.
but the truth is that the japs killed more people in nanking and manilla than we did in hiroshima and nagasaki.
and using the nukes SAVED lives. ours and japanese.
before arafat and hizballah came, lebanon was a peaceful place with more pluralism than any other arab nation.
they’ve gone the same way as iran and now turkey.
and farid and the msm make excuses for them.
sickening.
This is what happens when you encourage millions of “the Other” immigrate to your country, do not require them to assimilate but rather celebrate their own cultures, and on top of that assist them in marching through your institutions giving them preferential admission and promotion.
Cultural suicide.
And if you oppose/reject this, you are a xenophobic intolerant hatemonger….to be ostracized from “decent” society.
I hope I’m wrong but Zakaria and other so-called “pundits”, media talking heads, the liberal left “religious freedom” poseurs like Jim Wallis, and of course the usual useful idiots like Michael Bloomberg are intent on leading our country to dhimmitude. Some like Zakaria I suspect, intentionally. Others like Bloomberg and Wallis and other liberal leftists out of sheer cluelessness and short-sightedness. The Kumbaya mindset.
I think it’s significant on how pernicious leftist politics has become in mainstream thought in that gay and womens’ rights are still more concerned about Conservatives than about the possibility of Sharia starting to get any traction in the USA- which would ultimately spell their doom. I refer you to the Aesop’s fable of the Stork and the Frogs. We have a country at least half full of frogs, I’m afraid.
I’ll be blunt with you, nobody other than far-right neo-cons believe your image of Islam so as much as you (and talk-show hosts) shout and hype the threat of sharia nobody cares. There are more believable conspiracies theories to waste our time with than one that has the greatest and most powerful nation on earth being invaded and taken over by a group of people that make up a very small percentage of our population. I’m more likely to buy into UFOs or something like that.
America is a great country and as a proud American, sharia is about as threatening to me as the cricket outside my window. I think hating, being suspicious of, and taking freedoms away from innocent Muslims is much more threatening to the American way of life than sharia law.
Splendid analogy, Radosh, except that Lebanon isn’t gassing any Jews at this temple. And, round up another gaggle of Jewish stenographers on Hezbollah’s recorded Jew hatred except ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS and they’ve lovingly restored the temple. So, we’re left with the impression that Radosh prefers crude infantile hysterical lies to The Real Actuality. The Truth is a bitter pill to swallow and The Truth IS that Hezbollah (Boo! Hiss!) IS INDEED more tolerant and benevolent than the opponents (i.e. neocons and their suckers) of the GZ Mosque. Radosh needs a good liter of castor oil to take with that pill and then a lava soap suppository to clean out the rest of his mind.
The only country which wins laurels at Fareed’ square is India, always painted in rosy colors.
Forgetting that he is hosting a issue on global issues, Fareed uses his programme for promoting his youth-days buddies in India. You never find him analyzing why “a rising economic giant” closes its eyes from the conditions of the poor, the helpless and the destitute.
You never find any of the issues provided in the below links discussed and analysed on the “Global” square:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3jCLNIEVlI&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKY93v9XAkU&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qys_EfmZdnM&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQHlaDssLCA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNiivWoO-v8
WOW
is this really what passes for political discourse in America today? sycophants on both right and left going exclusively to blogs/television that supports their own worldview and immediately denigrating anything that runs counter without even trying to analytically reason if the arguments of the other side has any merit?
first of all i agree that CNN is slipping, that’s about all i agree with. but it’s largely because of the coarsening and politicization of cable “news” which says that you HAVE to take a left/right stance and hem and haw loudly with righteous indignation to carry your argument. CNN obviously does not want to go all left (they are more middle than MSNBC or Fox but they definitely have a liberal perspective) and their attempts at “opinion” have resulted in giving dummies like Rick Sanchez an undeserved platform. simply put MSNBC and FOX KNOW what they are, CNN does not, and it is painfully obvious.
Fareed Zakaria GPS however is one of their few successes. It is one of the MOST insightful, informative and thoughtful shows in ALL of cable “news” today, PERIOD. it is a GLOBAL show and does a great job of highlighting geopolitics and the US’s role and relationships around the world. compare it directly to ANY of the other Sunday morning programs where interchangeable presidential spokesmen, senators, governors, and party officials from both left and right just come on and spew empty talking points without really supplying ANYTHING of true value or substance. some of these people turn up occasionally on GPS but they are few and far between. just intelligent discussion.
there is obviously a pro-Israel, anti-Islam sentiment to many of the comments and this highlights the major problem of that conflict: nobody wants to compromise, to acknowledge wrongdoing and try to work jointly toward a common peace in the Middle East. facts are facts: there was an established country in that region, the Nazis committed a terrible genocide that led to a well-intentioned but not fully thought out plan to place them back in their ancestral home WITHOUT addressing how to compensate of relocate the EXISTING PEOPLE!! that’s a fact. until that is adequately addressed this issue will never be solved. Israel is a necessary ally of the US but being an ally should not mean blanket support. if Israel does something stupid we should call them out of it. physically attacking an aid convoy AT NIGHT was wrong, reacting disproportionately to attacks by a few bad elements by over-punishing everybody in Gaza is not only wrong but fosters continued hatred of Israel and ensues that the cycle of violence will not end.
finally like any religion islam has a radical and very dangerous element, in fact even more so than any other religion, but don’t condemn a billion-strong religion just on the actions of a decided and extremist minority. there are legitimate issues islam has to address like women’s rights but we should work with muslims to peaceably reform instead of alienation and condemenation, which inevitably leads to radicalization.
Farid could only hope to become Secretary of State of Pakistan. He became successful only because he happened to comt to the US where minorities like him are promoted at all times. Back in India, especially Mumbai, where he came from have superior talents including Muslim journalists. All of us are usually given the right direction by GPS. However, Farid’s GPS get his viewers nowhere. Well, CNN has no other choice as they are sinking by the day otherwise.
That guy, I agree with you. It’s clear that Zakaria has a liberal slant on many issues, but his show has a few things going for it that nobody in the FOXnews or MSNBC crowd can claim.
1) His show is mostly focused on other people’s thoughts and ideas not his
2) People from more than one political side are given the opportunity to speak without being attacked for shouted at
3) When he gives his opinion it is always well thought out and based on fact–you might not always agree with his take, but its always clear he is not just repeating ideology
When I browsed the comments it struck me that either people on here are attacking a man they don’t know much about or they have spent many hours watching a show and reading books that they despise.
One last note, for everyone who wants to attack Zakaria as some liberal wonk you should take a look at his “The Future of Freedom.” Which is a highly unpartisan look at how democracies function and dysfunction and if you take a look around the web you’ll see it has received high marks from people of all political inclinations. I am thankful that there is at least a couple of intelligent commentators who accept that the world is not completely painted in black and white and will think out an argument and position with nuance and analysis. Clearly, many people do not appreciate such an approach.
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