Let us start in that model of Islamic life, Pakistan: This weekend in Lahore, crowds burned down two Christian churches, a priest's house, a school dorm, and the school, because someone started a rumor that a Christian had burned a Koran. Turns out there was no Koran burned. Instead, a Muslim man was angry because he had lost money gambling with a Christian man. So to get revenge, he started the rumor.
It amazes me that Muslims get to bent out of shape and go on murderous rampages simply because someone started a rumor that someone out there doesn't like their religion.
Egypt: In Alexandria, riotious crowds attacked a church and stabbed a nun, simply because someone started a rumor that the church was selling a DVD of a play from two years ealrier. The play about a Christian, who switched to Islam, got disillusioned, and switched back.
In Islam, you are not allowed to switch back. Doing so is punishable by death is most Islamic countries. And you thought your cell phone contract was bad!
Indonesia: The father of one of last month's Bali suicide bombers, who walked into a Bali restaurant and blew himself up, claims that his son was "just a normal kid".
If that is normal, then you have some pretty f**ked-up kids dude.
Indonesia (again!): Last week the Indonesian police found and killed one of JI's master bomb makers, Azahari Husin's. In his house, police found 30 bombs that he had made. It appears that he was planning for a mass bombing "party" over Christmas of Christian chuches in Java.
What a nice guy. That is the way to show those evil Indonesian Christians what you think of them.
Indonesia (once more!): Recently, 3 teenage girls were ambushed and beheaded by local Muslim fanatics who want to start a religous war. On Tuesday, two more teenager grisl were shot in the face in the same area, for being Christian.
Phillipines: For the last few days, the Phillipine Army has been engaged in all out warfare with al-Qaeda linked Islamic insugency rebels. 20 people have been killed in the last 3 days.
Jordan: As you know, Iraqi suicide bombers walked into 3 hotels in Amnan and blew themselves up, killing dozens of people.
Here is the sick part. A husband and wife team of suicide bombers walked into the middle of a wedding to do this. The husband suceeded. His wife's bomb failed, and she fled.
I can't comprehend how screwed up one has to be to think that this is good. What on earth motivated her to try to kill as many innocent people as possible. Didn't it occur to her, even for a second, as she walked into the wedding reception and saw the familes, wives, children, grandparents, etc, that murdering them for no reason might be wrong.
She claims that after she tried to detonate her vest, and it failed, her husband pushed her out of the room and blew himself up. What was up with that? This is what I think. I think he rigged her vest to not blow. He knew it was not going to work. He didn't want her to come along for his journey because he was convinced that he was going to heaven and get his 72 virgins. Why in the hell would he want his wife around He was looking forward to his personal orgy in the sky.
These are really sick times, people.
Lastly, I ran across a LA Times article that asks muslims WHY... Why are they tolorating this madness done in their name? The author asks five questions of Muslims who claim that Islam is the relgion of peace.
November 13, 2005
THE RIOTING IN France by primarily Muslim youths and the hotel bombings in Jordan are the latest events to prompt sincere questions that law-abiding Muslims need to answer for Islam's sake, as well as for the sake of worried non-Muslims.
Here are five of them:
(1) Why are you so quiet?
Since the first Israelis were targeted for death by Muslim terrorists blowing themselves up in the name of your religion and Palestinian nationalism, I have been praying to see Muslim demonstrations against these atrocities. Last week's protests in Jordan against the bombings, while welcome, were a rarity. What I have seen more often is mainstream Muslim spokesmen implicitly defending this terror on the grounds that Israel occupies Palestinian lands. We see torture and murder in the name of Allah, but we see no anti-torture and anti-murder demonstrations in the name of Allah.
There are a billion Muslims in the world. How is it possible that essentially none have demonstrated against evils perpetrated by Muslims in the name of Islam? This is true even of the millions of Muslims living in free Western societies. What are non-Muslims of goodwill supposed to conclude? When the Israeli government did not stop a Lebanese massacre of Palestinians in the Sabra and Chatilla refugee camps in Lebanon in 1982, great crowds of Israeli Jews gathered to protest their country's moral failing. Why has there been no comparable public demonstration by Palestinians or other Muslims to morally condemn Palestinian or other Muslim-committed terror?
(2) Why are none of the Palestinian terrorists Christian?
If Israeli occupation is the reason for Muslim terror in Israel, why do no Christian Palestinians engage in terror? They are just as nationalistic and just as occupied as Muslim Palestinians.
(3) Why is only one of the 47 Muslim-majority countries a free country?
According to Freedom House, a Washington-based group that promotes democracy, of the world's 47 Muslim countries, only Mali is free. Sixty percent are not free, and 38% are partly free. Muslim-majority states account for a majority of the world's "not free" states. And of the 10 "worst of the worst," seven are Islamic states. Why is this?
(4) Why are so many atrocities committed and threatened by Muslims in the name of Islam?
Young girls in Indonesia were recently beheaded by Muslim murderers. Last year, Muslims — in the name of Islam — murdered hundreds of schoolchildren in Russia. While reciting Muslim prayers, Islamic terrorists take foreigners working to make Iraq free and slaughter them. Muslim daughters are murdered by their own families in the thousands in "honor killings." And the Muslim government in Iran has publicly called for the extermination of Israel.
(5) Why do countries governed by religious Muslims persecute other religions?
No church or synagogue is allowed in Saudi Arabia. The Taliban destroyed some of the greatest sculptures of the ancient world because they were Buddhist. Sudan's Islamic regime has murdered great numbers of Christians.
Instead of confronting these problems, too many of you deny them. Muslims call my radio show to tell me that even speaking of Muslim or Islamic terrorists is wrong. After all, they argue, Timothy McVeigh is never labeled a "Christian terrorist." As if McVeigh committed his terror as a churchgoing Christian and in the name of Christ, and as if there were Christian-based terror groups around the world.
As a member of the media for nearly 25 years, I have a long record of reaching out to Muslims. Muslim leaders have invited me to speak at major mosques. In addition, I have studied Arabic and Islam, have visited most Arab and many other Muslim countries and conducted interfaith dialogues with Muslims in the United Arab Emirates as well as in the U.S. Politically, I have supported creation of a Palestinian state and supported (mistakenly, I now believe) the Oslo accords.
Hundreds of millions of non-Muslims want honest answers to these questions, even if the only answer you offer is, "Yes, we have real problems in Islam." Such an acknowledgment is infinitely better — for you and for the world — than dismissing us as anti-Muslim.
We await your response.
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