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Coptic Priest Zakaria Botros Speaks Out

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And I am listening…

by Jim Turner

Make no joke about it, when Zakaria Botros speaks, he means business.

Mr. Botros speaks from experience as he lives and breathes the tyranny of Islam daily; I mean after all he didn’t get the title, “Public Enemy #1” in the Islamic world for nothing.

Thinking about this, how does one get this title?

Mr. Zakaria Botros Speaks

Muslims Pretend to Be Nice People

Ok, I see, so if you tell the truth about what they believe without fear, without compromise, then I guess that puts you on the most wanted list, especially if others leave Islam for another religion like say Christianity?

Yup, so much for freedom of speech ; luckily we here in the west still live in a country that doesn’t believe in the removal of our freedom of speech or the partnering with an organization – (OIC) – that would wish that type of tyranny on any nation.

Unless, that freedom of speech puts Islam in any kind of negative light; weird how tolerance works for one group of people, but not another. It almost sounds like intolerance towards everything except Islam, but hey what do I know, I am just an ignorant westerner.

On a lighter note, I would like to give a SHOUT out to the Obama House, located near Capitol Hill where they just had the Islamic Day of Prayer.

And while we are speaking of the Islamic Day of Prayer that took place on our nation’s capitol, shall we watch some footage of the days events?

Oh yes, I think we shall…


ACT catches Sheikh Gilani extremist in a series of lies at Muslim Prayer Day Washington, DC

And that my friends is CHANGE you can believe in.

America, are you starting to get it; is it finally starting to sink in? If it isn’t, then we better wake up very quickly and pull our heads from the sands in which they are buried, or Sharia will be knocking at our doors demanding each of us to embrace Islam, or, how can I say this gently, have your, “head cut off“.

Yes, in 2009 people are still being beheaded in Islamic countries for no other reason than being a person of different faith, especially if those people are of the Christian faith. You know the faith that America was founded on, a faith where recently a team of, “Christian Orphanage Workers”, in an Islamic country were executed for simply refusing to accept the peaceful beautiful tolerant ways of Islam .

I know, I can hear you all say; Jim, dude, this is America, and this will never happen here. There isn’t a single person of the Islamic faith that would ever want Sharia Law in this country, or Islam as the only religion in America.

And of course I would have to respond with the elegant words so eloquently spoken by the founder of CAIR, “Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant,” and, “The Koran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth.”

Yup, there goes that tolerance again, refreshing isn’t it? My favorite part on tolerance is how the Koran should be the highest authority in America and Islam the only religion on Earth. Unfortunately there might be just one issues with that statement, just thinking out loud here for second of course, is that if the Koran is religious then how could it become the law of the land especially with that little pesky separation of Church and State clause that we have here in America. You know the same clause that will not allow Christmas carols to be sung in school, the same clause that forbids the mention of God or prayer at certain events, yet the Koran as the highest authority in America?

Again only thinking out loud here, but maybe Islam isn’t only just a religion after all, maybe it is both a political system and a religion rolled into one?

Of course not, what was I thinking? For that to be the case, you would need someone elected to office in the branch of the government as some type of community organizer in order to be a political entity.

I mean come on, when have you ever heard of a Special Representative for Christians; remember the separation of Church and State thing?

Source

ACT catches Sheikh Gilani extremist in a series of lies at Muslim Prayer Day Washington, DC, 2009.
http://www.youtube.com

“AMERICA: CHRISTIAN NATION OR ISLAMIC BACKWATER?.”
The Last Crusade, October 5, 2009.
http://thelastcrusade.org

Andrew G. Bostom. “FrontPage Magazine – The Sacred Muslim Practice of Beheading.”
FrontPage Magazine, May 13, 2004.
FrontPage.com

Art Moore. “Did CAIR founder say Islam to rule America?.”
WorldNetDaily, December 11, 2006.
http://www.wnd.com

Dale Hurd. “Is ‘Islamophobia’ a Worldwide Free Speech Threat?.”
CBN News, September 24, 2009, sec. World News.
http://www.cbn.com

Heather Maher. “U.S. Confirms First Special Representative To Muslim Communities.”
Radio Free Europe, September 16, 2009.
http://www.rferl.org

Jim Turner. “Islam on Capitol Hill, NO, oh YES!.”
The Chronicle Watch, September 20, 2009, sec. News / US / Islam.
http://www.chroniclewatch.com

Joe Berkofsky. “Was Berg targeted as a Jew? | JTA – Jewish & Israel News.”
JTA, November 30, 1999.
http://jta.org/

Muslim Prayer at the Capital, 2009.
http://www.youtube.com

“Muslims Behead Four Christian Orphanage Workers in Somalia.”
AINA, August 11, 2009.
http://www.aina.org

Obama speaks, but are you really listening?, 2009.
http://www.youtube.com

“Organization of the Islamic Conference ( OIC ).” Informational.
Discover The Networks.
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org

Raymond Ibrahim. “Islam’s ‘Public Enemy #1’ by Raymond Ibrahim on National Review Online.”
National Review Online, March 25, 2008.
http://article.nationalreview.com

Syed Kamran Mirza. “Killing by Beheading is Islamic!.”
FaithFreedom.org
http://www.faithfreedom.org

The New Freedom Of Speech Czar – Mark LLoyd, 2009.
http://www.youtube.com

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Christians and Muslims; Different God

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NO COMPROMISE MEDIA Contributor


Christians and Muslims; Different God

By Mr. H

source Christians and Muslims; different God

According to the teaching of the Qur’an it is stated that Jesus Christ was not crucified nor did He die:

Surah 4.157

And because of their saying (in boast), “We killed Messiah ‘Iesa (Jesus), son of Maryam (Mary), the Messenger of Allâh,” – but they killed him not, nor crucified him, but the resemblance of ‘Iesa (Jesus) was put over another man (and they killed that man), and those who differ therein are full of doubts. They have no (certain) knowledge, they follow nothing but conjecture. For surely; they killed him not [i.e. 'Iesa (Jesus), son of Maryam (Mary)]

The Qur’an then states that Jesus Christ is not the Son of God, but just a man.

Surah 9.030

And the Jews say: ‘Uzair (Ezra) is the son of Allâh, and the Christians say: Messiah is the son of Allâh. That is a saying from their mouths. They imitate the saying of the disbelievers of old. Allâh’s Curse be on them, how they are deluded away from the truth!

Surah 4.171

O people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians)! Do not exceed the limits in your religion, nor say of Allâh aught but the truth. The Messiah ‘Iesa (Jesus), son of Maryam (Mary), was (no more than) a Messenger of Allâh and His Word, (“Be!” – and he was) which He bestowed on Maryam (Mary) and a spirit (Rûh) created by Him; so believe in Allâh and His Messengers. Say not: Three (trinity)!” Cease! (it is) better for you. For Allâh is (the only) One Ilâh (God), Glory be to Him (Far Exalted is He) above having a son. To Him belongs all that is in the heavens and all that is in the earth. And Allâh is All¬Sufficient as a Disposer of affairs.

With these surahs from the Qur’an we can verify exclusively that Christians and Muslims DO NOT worship the same God.

Why?

Because the Christian faith clearly states that Jesus Christ is the only begotten Son of God, and that whoever believes in Jesus Christ, the Son of God, will not perish, but have eternal life.

Jesus was not just a man.

John 3:16-17 “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. (17) “For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.

In addition, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, did in fact die of the cross for the sins of the world, and His Father in heaven raised Him from the dead on the third day.

These truths are not refutable as they are spoken from the true Word of God – The Holy Bible.

Jesus Upon the Cross

Matthew 27:35 And when they had crucified Him, they divided up His garments among themselves by casting lots.

Jesus Dies on the Cross

Matthew 27:50 And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice, and yielded up His spirit.

Jesus Recognized as the Son of God

Matthew 27:54 Now the centurion, and those who were with him keeping guard over Jesus, when they saw the earthquake and the things that were happening, became very frightened and said, “Truly this was the Son of God!

Jesus Has Risen!

Matthew 28:5-10 The angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid; for I know that you are looking for Jesus who has been crucified. (6) “He is not here, for He has risen, just as He said. Come, see the place where He was lying. (7) “Go quickly and tell His disciples that He has risen from the dead; and behold, He is going ahead of you into Galilee, there you will see Him; behold, I have told you.” (8) And they left the tomb quickly with fear and great joy and ran to report it to His disciples. (9) And behold, Jesus met them and greeted them. And they came up and took hold of His feet and worshiped Him. (10) Then Jesus *said to them, “Do not be afraid; go and take word to My brethren to leave for Galilee, and there they will see Me.”

Matthew 28:18-20 And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. (19) “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, (20) teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”

By testing what the Qur’an claims as truths against Biblical teachings,

Acts 17:11 Now the Bereans were of more noble character than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true.

We can clearly see that the Qur’an contradicts the teachings of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior as the Qur’an claims that God did not have a Son and that Jesus Christ did not die on the cross for the sins of man.

Therefore we can conclude that the followers of the Qur’an do not worship the God of the Bible as the evidence shows that the God of the Christians is different than that of Islam.

Ravi Zacharias Full Length

source Is the Qur’an Accurate? Ravi Zacharias explains

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OB Gives Philippines Residents Sense of Hope

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NO COMPROMISE MEDIA Contributor

Are you willing to do the same even though they may persecute you?

by Roberto Santiago

What is OB? OB stands for Operation Blessing . They are a Christian based organization that helps all types of people who are in need.

What caught my attention to this article is the group of people that Operation Blessing helped in a time of need.

source OB Gives Philippines Residents Sense of Hope

MINDINAO, Philippines – This summer, flash floods in the southern Philippines have left hundreds of families homeless, while an ongoing war between the government and Muslim rebels has forced thousands more into evacuation centers.

Even though Christians are persecuted by Muslims in this part of the world:

source Muslims Kill 10 in Philippines Christmas Day

COTABATO: Ten people were killed when Muslim separatist guerrillas launched attacks and occupied a village in the southern Philippines, military and police officials said on Thursday.

Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) rebels attacked Midtungo village in the southern island of Mindanao with rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles on Tuesday, military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Julieto Ando said. The militants killed nine residents and wounded another, he said, updating an earlier toll of six after three more deaths were discovered.

source Philippines Rebels Kill Christians, report

MANILA, PHILIPPINES (BosNewsLife)– Two men are dead and another remained missing Saturday, April 25, after some 40 Muslim militants raided the predominately Christian village of Sitio Arco in Basilan province in the southern Philippines, a Christian rights group said.

source Philippines: Christians forbidden to display cross, sing hymns in Muslim south

… many Filipinos were shocked to learn from a privileges speech of Senate Minority Leader Aquilino Piumentel Jr., the untiring advocate of federalism (out of concern for the Muslim Filipinos), that in Marawi City and Sulu province it is forbidden to display the cross—the symbol of Christianity—at the top or frontage of buildings, including church spires.

Christians are also proscribed from singing religious hymns. This makes it impossible for Catholics to hold sung High Masses and Protestants to melodiously exclaim their joy at the blessings of Amazing Grace.

Is intolerance toward Christian symbols and hymns in Marawi and Sulu the specter of Talibanization rearing its ugly head? Some Marawi City people are proud of their city being the Philippines’ “lone Islamic City.” They exult over trycyles there that proclaim their being the “Gift of Allah” and not of Jesus.

Christian men and women put their feelings aside and came to the aid of those in need; even if some of those who were in need harbored hatred against them in their hearts.

Unson Demaguil is Muslim and the town’s municipal secretary.

“The people here have nothing to go back to because their houses have been burned,” Demaguil said. “The people are economically depressed and they are dependent on the NGO’s for their food.”

…Operation Blessing’s Albino Mercado Jr. believes that the disaster relief efforts sow peace and hope to the region.

“This is our way of showing the Muslims that we Christians care for them,” the pastor said. “We share the love of Jesus to them.”

source OB Gives Philippines Residents Sense of Hope

Final Thoughts

For those of you who have not experienced Islam as others have in the different parts of the world, violence and terror towards Christians is all too common by those who follow its teachings of Islam:

Al-Qitâl

4. So, when you meet (in fight Jihâd in Allâh’s Cause), those who disbelieve smite at their necks till when you have killed and wounded many of them, then bind a bond firmly (on them, i.e. take them as captives). Thereafter (is the time) either for generosity (i.e. free them without ransom), or ransom (according to what benefits Islâm), until the war lays down its burden. Thus [you are ordered by Allâh to continue in carrying out Jihâd against the disbelievers till they embrace Islâm (i.e. are saved from the punishment in the Hell-fire) or at least come under your protection], but if it had been Allâh’s Will, He Himself could certainly have punished them (without you). But (He lets you fight), in order to test you, some with others. But those who are killed in the Way of Allâh, He will never let their deeds be lost…

Whereas the teachings of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior are the complete opposite.

Matthew 5:43-48 NIVYou have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ (44) But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, (45) that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. (46) If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? (47) And if you greet only your brothers, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that? (48) Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

I am a firm believer that actions speak louder than words, and the actions of Operation Blessing shows the love of Jesus, and that message they sent by example of the Christian walk was powerful.

They loved those they helped as Jesus would love them, and showed them what Jesus can bring to everyone. Are you willing do the same?

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Mr. Obama and His Christian Faith

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No Compromise Media contributor…

So he says, or does he?

by Jim Turner

Isn’t this what Mr. Obama claims? Interview after interview, speech after speech he expresses his Christian faith from the pulpit from which he preaches; the television screen where we hear Mr. Obama clearly claims that he is a Christian.

So without further ado let’s look to Mr. Obama speak in his own words on his profession of faith in the religion he claims to be following – Christianity.

I present to you Mr. Obama


source My Muslim Faith

Ok, all right then, yeah, maybe this is just a huge mistake, a slip of the tongue.

I mean come on I am sure that each one of us at one time or another has went on record claiming to be of one faith, and then accidentally, because we forgot, claimed to belong to another. I mean everyone has done it right? So let’s be fair and cut Mr. Obama some slack in order to afford him the opportunity to clear things up, you know to get his facts straight.

So with that said let’s take a little deeper look as to what Mr. Obama has to say about his Christian prayer life. A Christian who thinks the Christian Islamic call to prayer is, and I quote, “ one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset ”.

Hmm, I wonder when in his Christian life he heard this pretty sound? Could it have been during his Cairo speech? Well maybe, but highly unlikely as his statement was made in March of 2007, before his Cairo speech that was delivered in June of 2009.

Mr. Obama recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer, reciting them with a first-rate accent. In a remark that seemed delightfully uncalculated (it’ll give Alabama voters heart attacks), Mr. Obama described the call to prayer as “one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.”

source Obama: Man of the World

Let me also point out that Mr. Obama, a self proclaimed Christian, recited the opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer with a first rate Arabic accent. A prayer, that according to Islamic beliefs is the Muslims profession of faith the Sahada, which Mr. Obama spoke in a perfect Arabic accent.

My question is that if Mr. Obama is a Christian like he claims to be, then how can someone who claims to believe in the Christian Bible speak a prayer that proclaims the Islamic faith which follows the Qur’an?

Doesn’t the Bible clearly state, “You shall have no other gods before Me Exodus 20:3, I believe it does, so I wonder what Bible is Mr. Obama reading from? Apparently it doesn’t seem to be the one with Exodus 20:3 in it, now does it.

Fine, maybe this is just a big mistake, because after all wasn’t it Mr. Obama, a Christian, who could not wait to attend the National Day of Prayer so that he could have fellowship with other believers; the Christians and Jews:

President Obama is distancing himself from the National Day of Prayer by nixing a formal early morning service and not attending a large Catholic prayer breakfast the next morning.

source http://www.washingtontimes.com

Did I just say he could not wait to attend? Sorry, I meant he could not wait to NOT ATTEND the National Day of Prayer that mainly Christian and Jewish leaders attended in the White House East Room.

Weird, maybe this was yet just another huge insight on my part as maybe Mr. Obama probably didn’t want to mix religion and politics being in the White House and all.

But wait, wasn’t it the same Mr. Obama, a Christian mind you, who inspired those who want the White House to become a Muslim House:

…supposedly inspired an Islamic rally calling 50,000 Muslims to attend the 4 a.m. event on the National Mall on Sept. 25 who expressed sentiments that , “We are going to the White House, so that Islam will be victorious, Allah willing, and the White House will become into the Muslim house…”

source Apples, peaches, pumpkin pie, I see a nuke in the sky!

The same Mr. Obama, a Christian, who denies the flyover at the God and Country Rally for the first time in 42 years, a rally that has “focused on honoring and paying tribute to those veterans who have served our nation in the past and those who are currently on active duty” [ MetroCatholic ] , all because Mr. Obama believes it is too Christian in Nature?

Now there is an oxymoron for you; a Christian who would not allow an event because it seems too Christian to him.

Yet it was that same Mr. Obama, you know the self proclaimed Christian one, who spoke the first few lines of the Islamic call to prayer with a perfect Arabic accent, that according to Islamic beliefs is the Muslims profession of faith, the same Christian who has no issues whatsoever delivering a speech, from the White House mind you, extending best wishes to Muslims during Ramadan around the world, yet refused a flyover at a time honored event because it seemed too Christian.

But yet there was not an issue honoring a Muslim tradition from the White House; ya I know, weird eh?

Call me crazy or just plain ignoramus, but I am starting to see a really bad pattern here, and the pattern I see does not resemble the ideologies of our Founding Fathers.

Yup, there we go with that CHANGE again…

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Defending the Koran

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What happened to the defenders?

by Travis Michael, a No Compromise Media Contributor

 

Remember the “Muhammad Cartoon Riots” ?

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Muslims worldwide violently protest free speech in an Islamic uprising

Muhammad Cartoon Riots

Muslims worldwide violently protest free speech in an Islamic uprising

And the murder and mayhem that followed Newsweek’s fabricated report about alleged Koran abuse by American GI’s?

“Man arrested for “hate crime” for tossing Koran into toilet”

Newsweek Apologizes

Inaccurate Report on Koran Led to Riots

By Howard Kurtz

Washington Post Staff Writer

Monday, May 16, 2005; Page A01

Newsweek apologized yesterday for an inaccurate report on the treatment of detainees that triggered several days of rioting in Afghanistan and other countries in which at least 15 people died.

How about this;

U.S. General Apologizes for Desecration of Koran

By ANDREW E. KRAMER

Published: May 19, 2008

BAGHDAD — The commander of United States troops in Baghdad asked local leaders and tribal sheiks this weekend for their forgiveness after the discovery that a soldier had used a Koran for target practice at a shooting range…

Or this;

DOJ issues statement “to protect American Muslims;”

 

protector

Utilizing a secure VPN (Virtual Private Network) Dr. Paul L. Williams has been speaking to his Iranian contacts in their besieged Tehran hideouts every few hours during this crisis. Intrigued by photographs showing a burned Koran at the Tehran University, Dr. Williams inquired about the cause of the “desecration”. Paul was told that hundreds of Korans were destroyed by the “religious” police and militias loyal to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

What if a Westerner had done this? 

sharpkorandesecration

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America’s Islamist President

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by Ali Sina

 

I Usurped an Islamic Country!

I Usurped an Islamic Country!

Obama chose the Islamic university of Al Azhar to deliver his speech to Muslims. He started by talking about the 

tension between Islam and America.

 America sees Islam as a religion. America does not have tension with any particular religion. It’s Muslims – who see Islam as a world government – that have tension with everyone. They see all governments not based on Sharia law as usurpers to the throne of Allah and want to topple them. 

 Then Obama made a wrong diagnosis. He said, “The tension has been fed by colonialism that denied rights and opportunities to many Muslims, and a Cold War in which Muslim-majority countries were too often treated as proxies.”

 

If those were the only reasons, how can we explain Islamic terrorism in India, Indonesia, Somalia, Egypt and the Philippines? These countries were never colonialists nor did they treat Muslims as proxies.   

Obama continued:

America and Islam are not exclusive. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles – principles of justice and progress; tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.

This is not true! Islamic justice does not extend to non Muslims who according to the Quran must be treated harshly.

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The Koran IS a Mind Virus!

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Hat tip to Amil

NC Sez: I do not subscribe to evolution.  Evolution, like the kkkoran,  is a meme.  

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CAIR caught selling Jihadist & anti-Judeo-Christian books to public

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Those Who Ignore History Are Condemned

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by D.L. Adams

On April 6 in an address to the parliament of Turkey, US President Obama said that the relationship between the United States and the “Muslim world” is an important one. “In fact, our partnership with the Muslim world is critical,” the president said. During the same address the President stated, “We will convey our deep appreciation for the Islamic faith, which has done so much over so many centuries to shape the world for the better, including my own country.” Mr. Obama neglected to explain in what way(s) Islam has the shaped and improved the United States. The founding fathers of the United States did not share Mr. Obama’s appreciation for the “Islamic faith”. In fact Jefferson, Adams, JQ Adams, and Benjamin Franklin were all were deeply concerned about the dangers that Islam represented to the new nation. Our ongoing experiences with the 21st century version of the Barbary pirates off the coast of Somalia, most recently today when an American freighter captain was freed from pirate captivity by the US Navy, illustrates a great deal about our prior relations with the “religion of peace” and how our previous leaders reacted. There is little discussion in the mainstream press about the link between Somali Islamism, piracy, and jihad, but the linkage is there nonetheless.

al-qaeda behind piracy

al-qaeda behind piracy

In spite of the news media distancing the recent attack on a cruise ship off the coast of Somalia from global terrorism, intelligence experts believe this is just the latest operation initiated against the United States and the West by Al-Qaeda. (source)

 
The irony perhaps is that Islam did in fact play a very important role in the early stages of the development of the United States – Islam was directly responsible for the development of the United States Navy and for the concepts that allowed for its deployment far from our coasts. The American Navy is not a river navy or coastal defense force; it is a global tool of American power whose origins can be traced directly back to an earlier American-Islam confrontation. After the American Revolution, pirates from the Barbary states (Algiers, Morcoco) attacked American shipping off the coast of North Africa in the Mediterranean and took the crews. This piracy against

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Wilder’s Defense of Free Speech

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by Andrew G. Bostom

Beaumarchais’ Marriage of Figaro, written at the close of the 18th century, included this freedom of speech monologue in Act V, Scene 3,

I cobble together a verse comedy about the customs of the harem, assuming that, as a Spanish writer, I can say what I like about Mohammed without drawing hostile fire. Next thing, some envoy from God knows where turns up and complains that in my play I have offended the Ottoman empire, Persia, a large slice of the Indian peninsula, the whole of Egypt, and the kingdoms of Barca [Ethiopia], Tripoli, Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco. And so my play sinks without trace, all to placate a bunch of Muslim princes, not one of whom, as far as I know, can read but who beat the living daylights out of us and say we are “Christian dogs.” Since they can’t stop a man thinking, they take it out on his hide instead.

Sadly, today, over two centuries later, Dutch Parliamentarian Geert Wilders’ free speech rights are under attack in an effort to appease the same irredentist Muslim attitudes—attitudes which are devoid of self-criticism, and violently opposed to any criticism of Islam by non-Muslim “infidels.”

Wilders’ film Fitna—the putative source of this Muslim outrage—includes examples of how various Koranic verses are used by Muslim clerics and political leaders to incite Muslim populations to violence. And Fitna is entirely faithful to classical, mainstream Islamic exegesis on the Koranic verses cited in the film regardless of what cultural jihadists, and their witting or unwitting apologists and abettors, may claim. It is beyond Orwellian to vilify, let alone prosecute Wilders – who simply holds up a mirror to Islamic societies – for being in any way responsible for the Koranic incitement and Muslim violence his documentary faithfully records, and he appropriately condemns.

Moreover, Geert Wilders is opposed to hate speech laws. On February 19, 2009, in Rome, Italy where he received the Oriana Fallaci Free Speech Award, Wilders proposed the withdrawal of all hate speech legislation in Europe, and a European First Amendment.

That is why I propose the withdrawal of all hate speech legislation in Europe. I propose a European First Amendment. Freedom of speech is the keystone of our Western civilization, it is the keystone of our democracies and the keystone of our freedom. That is why freedom of speech should be extended instead of restricted. Salman Rushdie’s ‘The Satanic Verses’, Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s and Theo van Gogh’s film ‘Submission’, Kurt Westergaard’s cartoons and my documentary ‘Fitna’ should never be banned, but should be protected. As George Orwell once said: “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear”.

Earlier, while calling the Koran hate speech with specific reference to the Dutch Penal Code, Wilders was simply asking for consistent application of the Dutch law. And, like Winston Churchill (who wrote that Mein Kampf was “…the new Koran of faith and war: turgid, verbose, shapeless, but pregnant with its message”), Wilders compared the Koran to Mein Kampf, and called it hate speech according to the Dutch Penal Code.

Wilders’ previous demand for consistency, recalls the Calcutta Quran Petition of the 1980s. Like his Hindu predecessors, Wilders was fed up with Muslim abuse of similar Indian laws, and simply saying if one bans hate speech, in accord with existing Dutch Law, then the Koran is hate speech. The Calcutta Quran Petition chronicled how it was the abuse of hate speech laws by Muslims seeking to impose Sharia mandates on non-Muslim majorities that was the source of the problem.

As described in the Calcutta Quran Petition, two Hindus were arrested—under Indian penal code sections exploited by Muslims to prevent public criticism of Muhammad or other aspects of their creed—for publishing a poster which simply cited 24 Koranic verses, with a caption, “Why riots take place in this country.” In this landmark case, the Hindus were eventually acquitted by a sober magistrate who opined,

…a close perusal of the Ayats [verses] shows that that the same are harmful and teach hatred, and are likely to create differences between Mohammedans on one hand and the remaining communities on the other.

It is well past time for the media—across the political spectrum—to stop their grotesque mischaracterization of Wilders’ unequivocal defense of free speech. But demonizing Wilders, and imposing de facto limitations on his free speech criticism of Islam—no matter how reasonable his concerns may be—is a task for which our craven, lemming-like media elites appear far better suited. To amplify the final point on media responsibility, or irresponsibility, let me close with this sobering observation by Professor Robert Conquest, the pre-eminent scholar of Soviet Communist totalitarianism:

One role of the democratic media is, of course, to criticize their own governments, draw attention to the faults and failings of their own country. But when this results in a transfer of loyalties to a far worse and thoroughly inimical culture, or at least to a largely uncritical favoring of such a culture, it becomes a morbid affliction—involving, often enough, the uncritical acceptance of that culture’s own standards.

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