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Anjem Choudary to speak at Hay-on-Wye festival

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From here:

Anjem Choudary – who praises Osama bin Laden and insists Islam will rule the world – has been invited to talk at a leading philosophy and music festival in Hay-on-Wye.

The former leader of the banned Islam4UK group is famous for planning to protest through the town of Wootton Bassett, where fallen British soldiers are honoured on their return from Afghanistan, and leading a prayer meeting to dead al-Qaeda leader bin Laden in London on Friday……

On its website, the festival says Choudary is “an outspoken advocate of Sharia law” and “a spokesperson for the group Islam4UK before it was banned by the Terrorism Act in 2010”.

Choudary advocates sharia law, a perniciously totalitarian mental and spiritual straightjacket that discourages listening to music and makes philosophy impossible because it disapproves of thinking. So it’s a bit odd that he has been invited to speak at a philosophy and music festival.

The Hay-on-Wye festival used to be a celebration of culture and civilisation: no more, it seems.

Many years ago, I lived in the Wye valley, a very pretty part of South Wales; at the time, the river was polluted with coal dust – a shame, but a more benign pollution than lunatic Islamists.

Why dress like a sausage?

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To prevent body heat loss, shaking, swaying and an upset in the body’s equilibrium. It only works for women, though.

From here:

Veil is a legitimate right of a woman to protect her modesty as per Qur’anic and Hadith injections. Apart from this, there are a number of health and moral benefits that wearing the veil can provide. Many behavioral science studies that suggest that the veil is the best attire for women.

Protecting the head is very important from a health perspective. Results of medical tests show that 40-60 percent of body heat is lost through the head, so persons wearing head coverings during cold months are protected about fifty-percent more than those who do not.  Wind is said to cause sudden changes within the body and shaking, swaying and other movements that potentially upset the body’s equilibrium; thus, creating bad health.

A 70 day prison sentence for burning a Koran

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Not in Saudi Arabia – in Carlisle!

From here:

A former soldier has been sentenced to 70 days in prison for setting fire to a copy of Muslim holy book the Koran in the centre of Carlisle.

Andrew Ryan had previously admitted religiously aggravated harassment and theft of a Koran from a library.

Ryan was exercising a form of free speech – his version of Fatwa 40378 – a commodity that is evidently in short supply in the politically correct madhouse that has become the UK.

As a Christian, I can’t bring myself to endorse the deliberate desecration of another religion’s paraphernalia – but I’m finding that increasingly difficult to say with conviction.

A police inspector sagely noted:

After sentencing, Insp Paul Marshall, of Cumbria Police, said: “This incident was highly unusual for Cumbria as we have such low levels of hate crime in the county.”

This leads one to speculate on whether Inspector Marshall would recognise a “hate crime” – which surely has to involve someone being injured as opposed to merely offended – if it paraded itself in front of him and took up lodging in his helmet.

Fatwa 40378

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This particular Fatwa saw the light of day – in a manner of speaking – in 2003, so it isn’t exactly news. What makes it interesting is to view its description of Islamic contempt for the Bible in the light of Islam’s maniacal protectiveness of the Koran.

Here are the Rabelaisian ruminations on new uses for the Bible, courtesy of Fatwa 40378. Emphasis mine:

Judgment: Despising the Torah or the New Testament

Question: “Does someone who insults the Torah or the New Testament engage in apostasy, given that these include some words of God?”

Answer: “It would be impermissible to disdain the Torah and New Testament if they contained the truth and the name of the exalted, such as the name of God the Most High. Whoever does this [i.e., disrespect the books] knowingly and by choice would be considered an apostate and would be despised by God. But [in fact] the Torah and New Testament do not have anything exalted in them. They are known to have been corrupted, so there is no problem disdaining them.

Ash-Shams[ad-Din] Ar-Ramli [d.1004 A.D.] said in [his book of fiqh] Nihayat al-Muhtaj: “It is impermissible to use respected books like those of hadith and fiqh for anal cleansing after defecation (al-istinja’,الأستنجاء ), but non-respected books like philosophy, Torah and the New Testament, which are known as corrupt and which do not contain exalted names, can be used for anal cleansing after defecation.”

 

Muslims kill U.N. staff because of Koran Flambé

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The difference between a nutty Christian and a nutty Muslim is that when the nutty Christian loses his head, everyone else gets to keep theirs; with Muslims it’s the reverse.

From here:

MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan — Stirred up by a trio of angry mullahs who urged them to avenge the burning of a Koran at a Florida church, thousands of protesters overran the compound of the United Nations in this northern Afghan city, killing at least 12 people, Afghan and United Nations officials said.

The dead included at least seven United Nations workers — five Nepalese guards and two Europeans, one of them a woman. None were Americans. Early reports, later denied by Afghan officials, said that at least two of the dead had been beheaded.

The attack was the deadliest for the United Nations in Afghanistan since 11 people were killed in 2009, when Taliban suicide bombers invaded a guesthouse in Kabul. It also underscored the latent hostility toward the nine-year foreign presence here, even in a city long considered to be among the safest in Afghanistan — so safe that American troops no longer patrol here in any numbers.

Unable to find Americans on whom to vent their anger, the mob turned instead on the next-best symbol of Western intrusion — the nearby United Nations headquarters. “Some of our colleagues were just hunted down,” said a spokesman for the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, Kieran Dwyer, confirming the attack.

Montreal parish does Lenten study on Islam

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The Parish of St. Andrew and St. Mark studied Islam during Lent:

Understanding Islam:

Conversations with our Muslim Brothers and Sisters

Everyone who is interested in learning about another faith is invited to come and share in our Tuesday Lenten Series on Islam, The evening will begin with a talk given by our local Imam, Dr. Ahmad Shafaat,  on the basics of the Islam faith.  It will be followed by a question period, and opportunities for more conversation in small groups, with invited visitors from our local mosque.

Three Tuesdays in Lent

February 23, March 2, March 9.

7:30  PM

St Andrew and St. Mark’s Anglican Church

To make sure they had the hang of Islam, 23 parishioners attended prayers at the Dorval Mosque:

 

There is no word on whether the 23 Anglicans converted to Islam or not. Either way, it probably wouldn’t make much difference.

Thousands of Christians displaced in Ethiopia after Islamists set fire to churches and homes

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From here:

Thousands of Christians have been forced to flee their homes in Western Ethiopia after Muslim extremists set fire to roughly 50 churches and dozens of Christian homes.

At least one Christian has been killed, many more have been injured and anywhere from 3,000 to 10,000 have been displaced in the attacks that began March 2 after a Christian in the community of Asendabo was accused of desecrating the Koran.

In the midst of all this terrorising of Christians by Muslims, there is at least some good news: only one Koran has been damaged – and even that appears inconclusive.

World leaders won’t have to write notes imploring copy-cat desecrators to show more sensitivity to Koran lovers, the heads of bishops and archbishops won’t implode as they contemplate the enormity of possible hate crimes against the Koran and, something we can all be thankful for, Obama won’t make another speech about how, in this teachable moment, Christians should show restraint so as not to inflame worldwide Islamophobia.

Celebrating the murder of children

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After the terrorist butchering of an Israeli family, residents in Gaza celebrated the fact by passing out sweets in the street.

While war is horrible and the death of children in war even more horrible, it doesn’t compare to the especially insidious evil needed to deliberately murder your enemy’s children – particularly at close range.

And it takes an especially odious religion – Islam – to fuel the impulse to celebrate such an atrocity.

From here:

Do you think the State Department noticed that no one in Arizona, Mexico, or even Mars took to the streets to celebrate the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords? No one seemed to think it was a “natural” act — the Islamic term du jour to rationalize the throat-slitting massacre of a sleeping Jewish family: 36-year-old Udi Fogel, his 35-year-old wife, Ruth, and, yes, their three children: 11-year-old Yoav, 4-year-old Elad, and Hadas, their 3-month-old baby……..

Muslims, in fact, are more often exhorted by their scriptures to brutalize non-Muslims than Christians are urged by the gospels to love their enemies and turn the other cheek. Yet, though we assume the latter are meant to take the message to heart, we are somehow sure Islam doesn’t really mean what it says — that when Muslims strike terror into the hearts of the unbelievers, it must be Israel’s fault, or America’s, or something, anything, other than Islam, the only common denominator in these attacks.

Beauty tips for the human bomb

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From here:

Would-be female Islamist extremists Sunday were awaiting copies of Al Qaeda’s newly-launched women’s magazine, which mixes tips on skin care with articles on marrying suicide bombers and waging electronic jihad.

Al Shamikha magazine — its title means “The Majestic Woman” — features beauty and fashion tips alongside articles on “marrying a mujahedeen” and carrying out suicide attacks.

Everything for the modern female Islamist who doesn’t want to be blown to smithereens with a rough skin.