Category: Islam

David Cameron to Brits: ‘They Be Snatching Your People Up Out Here’

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The prime minister channels Antoine Dodson:

David Cameron has criticised “state multiculturalism” in his first speech as prime minister on radicalisation and the causes of terrorism.
At a security conference [Saturday] in Munich, he argued the UK needed a stronger national identity to prevent people turning to all kinds of extremism.
He also signalled a tougher stance on groups promoting Islamist extremism. . . .
“Frankly, we need a lot less of the passive tolerance of recent years and much more active, muscular liberalism,” the prime minister said.

You may wonder how the “hide your kids, hide your wife” angle fits here, but note this part of the story:

The speech angered some Muslim groups, while others queried its timing amid an English Defence League rally in the UK.

Hmmmm. Let’s see, the English Defence League staged an event in Cameron’s home district of Luton and perhaps, indeed, we should question the timing. Why would there be a recent upswing of EDL support in Britain? Why would this “right-wing” sentiment represented by EDL be sufficiently strong that the Tory PM felt obligated to criticize “multiculturalism” and “passive tolerance” toward Islamic extremism?

You won’t find the answer in the respectable mainstream press, but let us turn to the Communist Party’s British publication, the Morning Star:

The EDL . . . tars all Muslims with religious intolerance and systematic criminality based on “cultural” attitudes.
[EDL spokesman Stephen] Lennon would have us believe that Muslim gangs push heroin outside schools, that schoolgirls are forced to wear the burqa, that Muslim gangs murder non-Muslim youth with impunity and that 15-year-old girls are routinely raped and pimped by Muslim gangs.
And this “systematic rape of our youth,” in which Muslim communities are supposedly complicit because of a “cultural thing” goes unchallenged by the authorities “because of a fear of being called racist,” according to the EDL.

Do you perhaps recall the lurid Fleet Street headlines? C’mon, my fellow Americans: Where did you first read about the U.K. Muslim “rape gang” scandals?

Nov. 26: Muslim Men Led U.K. Girl-Rape Gang
Nov. 27: Report: ‘Issues of Culture, Ethnicity and Identity’ Raised in U.K. Rape-Gang Case
Nov. 30: Muslim Columnist: U.K. Rape Gang Case Exposes ‘Disgusting Cultural Beliefs’
Jan. 24: VIDEO: British Girl, 13, Says Rape Threats Are ‘Happening to Lots of Girls’ at School

To borrow a phrase, this blog is on the cutting edge of societal evolution. Continue reading David Cameron to Brits: ‘They Be Snatching Your People Up Out Here’ →

Pakistani Official Who Opposed Sharia Law Killed by His Own Bodyguard

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Not an encouraging development:

The governor of Pakistan’s most populous province was gunned down Tuesday at an upscale marketplace in Islamabad by a member of an elite police security contingent, officials said. The brazen killing threw an already teetering U.S.-backed government into even greater turmoil.
Salman Taseer, the governor of Punjab province and an avowed opponent of religious extremism, was shot to death at an open-air shopping center that is frequented by foreigners and the Pakistani elite. He was a prominent political ally of President Asif Ali Zardari.

Aaron Goldstein at The American Spectator:

Taseer’s assassination comes scarcely 48 hours after the liberal, secularist MQM (Muttahida Qaumi Movement) withdrew from the coalition government led by the Pakistan’s People Party (PPP).
Taseer was part of the PPP . . .
The PPP is trying to form an alliance with the main opposition party led by former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. . . .
[W]hat happens in Pakistan has a direct bearing on the War in Afghanistan as well as on the broader War on Terror . . . Let’s also not forget they have nuclear weapons. As we all know, nukes and a jihadist ideology mixed together does not bode well.

UPDATE: Robert Spencer at Jihad Watch:

Why we don’t see more Islamic reformers, chapter 489. Taseer dared to oppose the blasphemy law that Muslims in Pakistan have used for years now to victimize Christians, and so he has been murdered.

UPDATE II: The BBC has video and reports:

Many were angered by [Tajeer’s] defence of a Christian woman sentenced to death. . . .
Mr Taseer made headlines recently by appealing for the pardon of a Christian woman, Asia Bibi, who had been sentenced to death for allegedly insulting the Prophet Muhammad.
Friends of the governor say he knew he was risking his life by speaking out.

Pamela Geller at Atlas Shrugs:

Consistent with Islam’s 1,400 year history, the moderate, reasoned voices are eliminated. Always. Moderates have no theological leg to stand on in Islam. Period.

This is exactly the problem, isn’t it? Anyone who takes the sacred texts of Islam seriously can see that Islam commands death for both Salmaan Taseer and Asia Bibi. And thus there is a Darwinian effect in Islamic socieities as the unbelievers and the moderates are slaughtered, those who perpetrate jihadist violence are celebrated as heroes, and doubters are intimidated into silence.

Yet anyone in the West who points out these disturbing truths about Islamic culture is denounced as an intolerant bigot, as if Islam’s peaceful critics were more dangerous than Islam’s murderously faithful practicioners.

UPDATE III: Reliapundit:

Is Pakistan collapsing in front of our eyes? Yes!

Now a Memeorandum thread, with further reports from the Associated Press and the New York Times.

OMFG: Katy Couric Says, ‘Maybe We Need a Muslim Version of ‘The Cosby Show’

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Yes, she really said that. When I heard the audio Steve Foley posted at the Minority Report, I could scarcely believe it. How could anyone — even Katie Couric — be so incredibly stupid as to say this aloud?

“Maybe we need a Muslim version of ‘The Cosby Show.’ . . . I know it sounds crazy, but ‘The Cosby Show’ did so much to change attitudes about African-Americans in this country and I think sometimes people are afraid of things they don’t understand.”

Of the many layers of stupid in Couric’s comment, the first that comes to mind is this: Is the real problem America’s attitudes toward Muslims, or rather is the real problem Muslims’ attitude toward America?

But I’m sure the commenters will be able to point out many other nuances of stupidity here. Meanwhile, go to The Minority Report and listen to the whole two-minute audio clip.

Via Memeorandum, there’s more from Mediaite,  Michelle Malkin, The Right Scoop, Gateway Pundit, Scared Monkeys, Ed Driscoll and Weasel Zippers

UPDATE: OK, let’s peel back another layer or two of Katie Couric’s onion of stupidity. Could her analogy of (a) black Americans circa 1984 and (b) Muslims in 2010 possibly be more insultingly unfair to black people? Continue reading OMFG: Katy Couric Says, ‘Maybe We Need a Muslim Version of ‘The Cosby Show’ →