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‘Irrational Anti-Science Lunatics . . .’

Posted on | March 8, 2010 | 12 Comments

‘. . . like Tim Blair.’

Can you guess who said that about Australia’s most popular blogger? Maybe you need some clues:

That last quote was from ex-sycophant Wild Irish Rose, who was responsible for the banning of Zombie. Still no guess? Maybe if I told you he was recently the subject of a Los Angeles Times column and a New York Times profile? OK, well, how about this clue?

So if “irrational anti-science lunatics” like Tim Blair are the biggest threat in Australia, what about Zachariah Matthews?

Elements of Islamic law – the sharia – should be legally recognised in Australia so that Muslims can live according their faith, a prominent Muslim leader says.
Addressing an open day at Lakemba Mosque on Saturday, the president of the Australian Islamic Mission, Zachariah Matthews, said parts of sharia could be recognised as a secondary legal system so that Muslims were not forced to act contrary to their beliefs. ”Sharia law could function as a parallel system in the same way that some traditional Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander law was recognised in the Northern Territory,” Dr Matthews told the Herald after the session. . . .
“I don’t think we are so unsophisticated that we cannot consider a multilayered legal system as long as it doesn’t conflict with the existing civil system.”

The “unsophisticated” Robert Spencer at JihadWatch has more. And Tim Blair’s colleague Piers Akerman has a report about the Lakemba Mosque from former Reuters reporter Alison Bevege:

[B]ooks on sale in the basement below the mosque reflected the awful truth about the values broadly supported by those who fully embrace Islam and its holy book, the Koran.
Bevege found most of the books on offer were in Arabic but among those in English were publications which exposed the wide cultural gap that would be legalised under sharia law: Islamic intolerance for homosexuality, for equal rights of women and for individual freedoms.
She quoted from the “The Lawful and the Prohibited in Islam” by Yusuf al-Qaradawi, which says: “Because of his natural ability … the man is the head of the house … He is entitled to the obedience and cooperation of his wife, and accordingly it is not permissible for her to rebel against his authority.”
And what happens if she does? . . .
The book then quotes Imam al-Hafiz ibn Hajar who says “To be specific, one may beat only to safeguard Islamic behaviour and if he (the husband) sees deviation only in what she must do or obey in relation to him.”
Bevege, who has worked in North Africa, said despite Dr Matthew’s public support for multiculturalism and diversity, the books in the basement state Muslim women are not allowed to marry non-Muslim men.

Obviously, you’d have to be some kind of white supremacist to believe that the Islamicization of Australia is more dangerous than “irrational anti-science lunatics like Tim Blair,” right?

THE FLEMISH MENACE!

UPDATE: Hey, remember that “libertarian extremist” who went nuts at the Pentagon last week? What’s up with him using Arabic script on his Internet page?

Category: Charles Johnson, Foreigners, The Flemish Menace

Comments

12 Responses to “‘Irrational Anti-Science Lunatics . . .’”

  1. Charles Foster Johnson extends his Blogger McCarthyism to me | Political Byline
    March 8th, 2010 @ 1:41 pm

    […] said all of the above, I happen to come across this article by Robert Stacy McCain this morning and I figured that it would be a good set up for relaying a bit […]

  2. dicentra
    March 8th, 2010 @ 8:22 pm

    I still maintain that Charles pivoted upon the acquisition of his new squeeze/fiancee.

    Cherchez la femme and all that…

  3. dicentra
    March 8th, 2010 @ 3:22 pm

    I still maintain that Charles pivoted upon the acquisition of his new squeeze/fiancee.

    Cherchez la femme and all that…

  4. gsr
    March 8th, 2010 @ 9:03 pm

    Allowing or not allowing Sharia Law is a function of a greater, undiscussed issue: Whether it is wise or not to allow large numbers of Mooooslims into one’s country.

    I vote it is not wise. It’s the immigration, stupid.

  5. gsr
    March 8th, 2010 @ 4:03 pm

    Allowing or not allowing Sharia Law is a function of a greater, undiscussed issue: Whether it is wise or not to allow large numbers of Mooooslims into one’s country.

    I vote it is not wise. It’s the immigration, stupid.

  6. Patrick
    March 8th, 2010 @ 9:32 pm

    Oh, he pivots alright. *snicker* *Chortle* *snort*

  7. Patrick
    March 8th, 2010 @ 4:32 pm

    Oh, he pivots alright. *snicker* *Chortle* *snort*

  8. I Don’t Like Mondays
    March 8th, 2010 @ 4:35 pm

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  9. Joe
    March 8th, 2010 @ 10:52 pm

    Charles tried ignoring you and now mentions you all the time. If anyone is in anyone’s head, it is you in Charles’ noggin. It must be scary in there.

  10. Joe
    March 8th, 2010 @ 5:52 pm

    Charles tried ignoring you and now mentions you all the time. If anyone is in anyone’s head, it is you in Charles’ noggin. It must be scary in there.

  11. Charles Johnson
    March 9th, 2010 @ 7:13 am

    What I says goes. When it is said by me, you know it is the truth. I am the only arbitrator of right and wrong.

  12. Charles Johnson
    March 9th, 2010 @ 2:13 am

    What I says goes. When it is said by me, you know it is the truth. I am the only arbitrator of right and wrong.