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Islam bashing part of racist war for empire
Islam bashing has ignited a firestorm of Muslim protest. The vicious mockery of Mohammad in a Danish newspaper last September first lit the fuse. The conflagration now circles the planet.
“We are now facing a growing global crisis,” Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen told a Feb. 7 media conference. Rather than apologize, which Muslims around the world demand, Rasmussen urged “dialogue.” He said President George W. Bush had called him that day and agreed that was the way to go.
Too little, too late. Yet until protests turned up the heat, Rasmussen had refused to talk with Muslim leaders.
Last September, after the center-right publication Jyllands-Posen—a major Danish daily newspaper—published the “cartoons,” Muslims protested to the editor. But they were ignored.
On Oct. 12, the ambassadors of Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Indo nesia, Libya, Morocco, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Yemen, the Palestinian Authority—and even Bosnia and Herzegovina, an imperialist puppet after the destruction of socialist Yugoslavia—wrote Rasmussen, characterizing the depictions as part of a smear campaign against Muslims.
Rasmussen—who Bush has referred to as a “steadfast ally”—refused to meet with ambassadors from 11 countries with large Muslim populations on Oct. 21.
In December, a delegation from 21 Muslim organizations in Denmark traveled to Cairo for support. They prepared a 43-page dossier to back their assertion: “There is currently a climate [in Denmark] that is contributing to an increase in racism.” The group met with Muslim leaders, including Egypt’s foreign minister and the general secretary of the Arab League.
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http://www.workers.org/2006/world/islam-0216/
Too little, too late. Yet until protests turned up the heat, Rasmussen had refused to talk with Muslim leaders.
Last September, after the center-right publication Jyllands-Posen—a major Danish daily newspaper—published the “cartoons,” Muslims protested to the editor. But they were ignored.
On Oct. 12, the ambassadors of Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Indo nesia, Libya, Morocco, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Yemen, the Palestinian Authority—and even Bosnia and Herzegovina, an imperialist puppet after the destruction of socialist Yugoslavia—wrote Rasmussen, characterizing the depictions as part of a smear campaign against Muslims.
Rasmussen—who Bush has referred to as a “steadfast ally”—refused to meet with ambassadors from 11 countries with large Muslim populations on Oct. 21.
In December, a delegation from 21 Muslim organizations in Denmark traveled to Cairo for support. They prepared a 43-page dossier to back their assertion: “There is currently a climate [in Denmark] that is contributing to an increase in racism.” The group met with Muslim leaders, including Egypt’s foreign minister and the general secretary of the Arab League.
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http://www.workers.org/2006/world/islam-0216/
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If "Islam bashing part of racist war for empire", what is the Judaism bashing that occurs daily in sp many Arab and Muslim media? Let's see if the person who posted the article can attempt an intelligent answer.
The Muhammad caricatures had been published in an Egyptian newspaper months before the current Muslim uproar, yet didn't provoke violence then. What gives? Let's see if the person who posted the article can attempt an intelligent answer to this too.
The Muhammad caricatures had been published in an Egyptian newspaper months before the current Muslim uproar, yet didn't provoke violence then. What gives? Let's see if the person who posted the article can attempt an intelligent answer to this too.
Maybe that's because there are no Egyptians troops in Iraq.
Denmark is part of the Anglo-American imerialist terror force. They deserve whatever they get.
Denmark is part of the Anglo-American imerialist terror force. They deserve whatever they get.
Denmark leads the 'racist reaction'
By Toby Helm in Copenhagen
(Filed: 06/04/2002)
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By Toby Helm in Copenhagen
(Filed: 06/04/2002)
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For more information:
http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jh...
On Monday, the Guardian of London revealed that the Danish newspaper that first published the cartoons refused to run drawings lampooning Jesus Christ. In April 2003, a Danish illustrator submitted a series of cartoons dealing with the resurrection of Christ. He received an email back from the paper's editor which said: "I don't think our readers will enjoy the drawings. As a matter of fact, I think that they will provoke an outcry. Therefore, I will not use them."
During feudalism, workers worked fewer days a year and paid lower taxes.
The idiot rioters were religious fascists. The world workers party's positions are a sad joke. The anti-war movement will go nowhere with them in the lead.
It's an old established historical reality
Who has rights to Greenland? Why is that?
Iceland is another old danish colony, now independent
Also:
Accra
The Danish East India Company's holdings (Tranquebar; Nicobar Islands)
The Danish West Indies (a.k.a. "US Virgin Islands") before 1917
They're not big ruthless players like the brits and Americans, but they definitely have the Western European planet-grabbing proclivity
Who has rights to Greenland? Why is that?
Iceland is another old danish colony, now independent
Also:
Accra
The Danish East India Company's holdings (Tranquebar; Nicobar Islands)
The Danish West Indies (a.k.a. "US Virgin Islands") before 1917
They're not big ruthless players like the brits and Americans, but they definitely have the Western European planet-grabbing proclivity
And when it comes to the West smashing Arabs into a blood-bone purée, this is just fine with Magon
The rioting isnt oevr cartoons, they just set it off. In Pakistan the rioting is over the dictator Musharraf's support for the US even while the US bombs NW Pakistan without its permission. Musharraf came to power by overthrowing an elected government and opposition to him isnt constraiend to fundamentalists who were his original backers during the days when he had ties to the Taliban.
Going after Denmark is smart. Will another riot against the US make any difference or get any media coverage? Will a boycott of US goods have any impact on the US economy? The best way to end a war like that in Iraq is to target the weakest allies and work your way up, between Afghanistan and Iraq Denmark would seem to have more troops engaged in acts of agression than most other Continental European countries. Denmarks right leaning government supports the Iraq war because it supports the US but it also is pretty openly antiMuslim (even though they try to pretend not to be now) so Denmark's status in Iraq was already on a weak footing due to the new fundamentalist leadership in Baghdad. Its hard to see how the Danish right will stomach even symbolic Iraqi controls over troops when the US has to give into those in the next few years...
Going after Denmark is smart. Will another riot against the US make any difference or get any media coverage? Will a boycott of US goods have any impact on the US economy? The best way to end a war like that in Iraq is to target the weakest allies and work your way up, between Afghanistan and Iraq Denmark would seem to have more troops engaged in acts of agression than most other Continental European countries. Denmarks right leaning government supports the Iraq war because it supports the US but it also is pretty openly antiMuslim (even though they try to pretend not to be now) so Denmark's status in Iraq was already on a weak footing due to the new fundamentalist leadership in Baghdad. Its hard to see how the Danish right will stomach even symbolic Iraqi controls over troops when the US has to give into those in the next few years...
good analysis by
by Irshad Manji • Monday, Feb. 13, 2006 at 1:21 AM
How Muslims are caricaturing ourselves
By Irshad Manji
At the World Economic Forum in January, I observed something revealing. In a session about the U.S. religious right, a cartoonist satirized one of America’s most influential Christian ministers, Pat Robertson. In the audience, chuckling with the rest of us, was a prominent British Muslim. But his smile disappeared the moment we were shown a cartoon that ridiculed Muslim clerics.
Since then, a fierce fight has erupted between the European Union and the Muslim world over caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad. Months ago, the Danish newspaper, Jyllands-Posten, published cartoons that showed Islam’s messenger wearing, among other things, a turban-turned-time bomb. Although the paper has apologized, the controversy has metastasized: A Norwegian magazine and French paper recently re-printed the drawings, as have other broadcasters and publications while covering this story.
In response, Muslim rioters torched Scandinavian missions in Syria, Lebanon and Iran. Bomb threats have hit the offices of more than one European newspaper. Various Arab countries have recalled their ambassadors from Copenhagen. Chechnya has banned Danish humanitarian workers from its borders. Boycotts of Danish products have swept across supermarkets in the Arab world, and Muslims as far away as India and Indonesia are pouring into the streets to burn Danish flags – which feature the cross, among the holiest of Christian symbols. Early in the furor, thousands of Palestinians shouted “Death to Denmark!” Copenhagen evacuated Danish citizens from the Gaza Strip and sternly warned nationals in the West Bank to get out as well. Muslims themselves are getting pummeled in the riots: four died in Afghanistan alone on February 7. More will perish now that some Scandinavian NGOs are suspending tsunami relief efforts thanks to security problems.
To judge the root problem here, let us first determine how the cartoons became an international incident. Last September, these comics ran beside a story about the hurdles encountered by a Danish author in finding someone – anyone – to illustrate his children’s book about the Prophet. Every artist he approached declined the job out of fear of having to contend with Islamist extremists.
As if on cue, two of the people who produced these drawings received death threats in October 2005. We Muslims love to lecture about the need to assess touchy matters -- such as offensive Koranic verses -- “in context.” The context in which the Muhammad cartoons first appeared suggests that frustration, not malice, was the motive
Regardless, the cartoons met with howls of protest from Danish Muslims. Ten ambassadors of Muslim countries issued a letter demanding that Denmark’s prime minister punish Jyllands-Posten. Apparently, it didn’t occur to them that in a free society, media are generally independent of government. The paper continued to operate. Thus, the controversy continued to simmer.
Then a group of Danish imams took the cartoons to the Middle East. Complaining of press bias, they distributed the drawings – and fabricated a few of their own to ensure that unrest would be sown. One of the extra sketches, for example, portrays the Prophet with a pig’s snout.
All hell soon broke loose. From missionary manipulation, the imams achieved in the Arab world what they couldn’t accomplish from exercising their democratic freedoms in Denmark.
But it’s not just the Danish imams who choreographed this passion play. Arab elites also got in on the game. Why wouldn’t they? Such controversies provide convenient opportunities to channel anger away from daily crimes. No wonder President Lahoud of Lebanon insisted that his country “cannot accept any insult to any religion.” That’s rich. Since the late 1970s, the Lebanese government has licensed Hezbollah-run satellite television station al-Manar, among the most viciously anti-Semitic broadcasters on earth.
Similarly, the Justice Minister of the United Arab Emirates has said that the Danish cartoons represent “cultural terrorism, not freedom of expression.” This from a country that promotes its capital as the “Las Vegas of the Gulf,” yet blocks my website – muslim-refusenik.com -- for being “inconsistent with the moral values” of the UAE. Presumably, my site should be an online casino.
Muslims have little integrity demanding respect for our faith if don’t show it for others. When have we demonstrated against Saudi Arabia’s policy to prevent Christians and Jews from stepping on the soil of Mecca? They may come for rare business trips, but nothing more. As long as Rome welcomes non-Christians and Jerusalem embraces non-Jews, we Muslims have more to protest than these cartoons.
None of this is to dismiss the need to take my religion seriously. Hell, Muslims even take seriously the need to be serious: Islam has a teaching against “excessive laughter.” I’m not joking. But does this mean that we should cry “blasphemy” over less-than-flattering depictions of the Prophet Muhammad? God, no.
For one thing, the Koran itself points out that there will always be non-believers, and that it's for Allah, not Muslims, to deal with them. More than that, the Koran says there is "no compulsion in religion." Which suggests that nobody should be forced to treat Islamic norms as sacred.
Fine, many Muslims will retort, but we’re talking about the Prophet Muhammad – Allah’s final and therefore perfect messenger. However, Islamic tradition holds that the Prophet was a human being who made mistakes. It’s precisely because he wasn’t perfect that we know about the so-called Satanic Verses; a collection of passages that the Prophet reportedly included in the Koran. Only later did he realize that those verses glorified heathen idols rather than God. According to Islamic legend, he retracted the idolatrous passages, blaming them on a trick played by Satan.
When Muslims put the Prophet on a pedestal, we’re engaging in idolatry of our own. The point of monotheism is to worship one God, not one of God's emissaries. Which is why humility requires people of faith to mock themselves -- and each other -- every once in a while.
Here’s my attempt: A priest, a rabbi, and a mullah meet at a conference about religion, and afterwards are sitting around discussing their different faiths. The conversation turns to the topic of taboos.
The priest says to the rabbi and the mullah, "You guys can't tell me that you've never eaten pork."
"Never!" intones the rabbi.
"Absolutely not!" insists the mullah.
But the priest is skeptical. "Come on, not even once? Maybe in a fit of rebellion when you were younger?"
"Okay," confesses the rabbi. "When I was young, I once nibbled on bacon."
"I admit it," the mullah laughs (not excessively). "In a fit of youthful arrogance, I sampled a pork chop."
Then the conversation turns to the priest's religious observances. "You can't tell me you've never had sex," says the mullah.
"Of course not!" the priest protests. "I took a vow of chastity."
The mullah and the rabbi roll their eyes. "Maybe after a few drinks?" the rabbi teases.
"Perhaps, in a moment of temptation, your faith waned?" the mullah wonders.
"Okay," the priest confesses. "Once, when I was drunk in seminary school, I had sexual relations with a woman."
"Beats pork, huh?" say the rabbi and the mullah.
Clearly, I’m as impure a feminist as I am a Muslim. The difference is, offended feminists won’t threaten to kill me. The same can’t be said for many of my fellow Muslims.
What part of "no compulsion" don't they understand?
http://www.muslim-refusenik.com/
by Irshad Manji • Monday, Feb. 13, 2006 at 1:21 AM
How Muslims are caricaturing ourselves
By Irshad Manji
At the World Economic Forum in January, I observed something revealing. In a session about the U.S. religious right, a cartoonist satirized one of America’s most influential Christian ministers, Pat Robertson. In the audience, chuckling with the rest of us, was a prominent British Muslim. But his smile disappeared the moment we were shown a cartoon that ridiculed Muslim clerics.
Since then, a fierce fight has erupted between the European Union and the Muslim world over caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad. Months ago, the Danish newspaper, Jyllands-Posten, published cartoons that showed Islam’s messenger wearing, among other things, a turban-turned-time bomb. Although the paper has apologized, the controversy has metastasized: A Norwegian magazine and French paper recently re-printed the drawings, as have other broadcasters and publications while covering this story.
In response, Muslim rioters torched Scandinavian missions in Syria, Lebanon and Iran. Bomb threats have hit the offices of more than one European newspaper. Various Arab countries have recalled their ambassadors from Copenhagen. Chechnya has banned Danish humanitarian workers from its borders. Boycotts of Danish products have swept across supermarkets in the Arab world, and Muslims as far away as India and Indonesia are pouring into the streets to burn Danish flags – which feature the cross, among the holiest of Christian symbols. Early in the furor, thousands of Palestinians shouted “Death to Denmark!” Copenhagen evacuated Danish citizens from the Gaza Strip and sternly warned nationals in the West Bank to get out as well. Muslims themselves are getting pummeled in the riots: four died in Afghanistan alone on February 7. More will perish now that some Scandinavian NGOs are suspending tsunami relief efforts thanks to security problems.
To judge the root problem here, let us first determine how the cartoons became an international incident. Last September, these comics ran beside a story about the hurdles encountered by a Danish author in finding someone – anyone – to illustrate his children’s book about the Prophet. Every artist he approached declined the job out of fear of having to contend with Islamist extremists.
As if on cue, two of the people who produced these drawings received death threats in October 2005. We Muslims love to lecture about the need to assess touchy matters -- such as offensive Koranic verses -- “in context.” The context in which the Muhammad cartoons first appeared suggests that frustration, not malice, was the motive
Regardless, the cartoons met with howls of protest from Danish Muslims. Ten ambassadors of Muslim countries issued a letter demanding that Denmark’s prime minister punish Jyllands-Posten. Apparently, it didn’t occur to them that in a free society, media are generally independent of government. The paper continued to operate. Thus, the controversy continued to simmer.
Then a group of Danish imams took the cartoons to the Middle East. Complaining of press bias, they distributed the drawings – and fabricated a few of their own to ensure that unrest would be sown. One of the extra sketches, for example, portrays the Prophet with a pig’s snout.
All hell soon broke loose. From missionary manipulation, the imams achieved in the Arab world what they couldn’t accomplish from exercising their democratic freedoms in Denmark.
But it’s not just the Danish imams who choreographed this passion play. Arab elites also got in on the game. Why wouldn’t they? Such controversies provide convenient opportunities to channel anger away from daily crimes. No wonder President Lahoud of Lebanon insisted that his country “cannot accept any insult to any religion.” That’s rich. Since the late 1970s, the Lebanese government has licensed Hezbollah-run satellite television station al-Manar, among the most viciously anti-Semitic broadcasters on earth.
Similarly, the Justice Minister of the United Arab Emirates has said that the Danish cartoons represent “cultural terrorism, not freedom of expression.” This from a country that promotes its capital as the “Las Vegas of the Gulf,” yet blocks my website – muslim-refusenik.com -- for being “inconsistent with the moral values” of the UAE. Presumably, my site should be an online casino.
Muslims have little integrity demanding respect for our faith if don’t show it for others. When have we demonstrated against Saudi Arabia’s policy to prevent Christians and Jews from stepping on the soil of Mecca? They may come for rare business trips, but nothing more. As long as Rome welcomes non-Christians and Jerusalem embraces non-Jews, we Muslims have more to protest than these cartoons.
None of this is to dismiss the need to take my religion seriously. Hell, Muslims even take seriously the need to be serious: Islam has a teaching against “excessive laughter.” I’m not joking. But does this mean that we should cry “blasphemy” over less-than-flattering depictions of the Prophet Muhammad? God, no.
For one thing, the Koran itself points out that there will always be non-believers, and that it's for Allah, not Muslims, to deal with them. More than that, the Koran says there is "no compulsion in religion." Which suggests that nobody should be forced to treat Islamic norms as sacred.
Fine, many Muslims will retort, but we’re talking about the Prophet Muhammad – Allah’s final and therefore perfect messenger. However, Islamic tradition holds that the Prophet was a human being who made mistakes. It’s precisely because he wasn’t perfect that we know about the so-called Satanic Verses; a collection of passages that the Prophet reportedly included in the Koran. Only later did he realize that those verses glorified heathen idols rather than God. According to Islamic legend, he retracted the idolatrous passages, blaming them on a trick played by Satan.
When Muslims put the Prophet on a pedestal, we’re engaging in idolatry of our own. The point of monotheism is to worship one God, not one of God's emissaries. Which is why humility requires people of faith to mock themselves -- and each other -- every once in a while.
Here’s my attempt: A priest, a rabbi, and a mullah meet at a conference about religion, and afterwards are sitting around discussing their different faiths. The conversation turns to the topic of taboos.
The priest says to the rabbi and the mullah, "You guys can't tell me that you've never eaten pork."
"Never!" intones the rabbi.
"Absolutely not!" insists the mullah.
But the priest is skeptical. "Come on, not even once? Maybe in a fit of rebellion when you were younger?"
"Okay," confesses the rabbi. "When I was young, I once nibbled on bacon."
"I admit it," the mullah laughs (not excessively). "In a fit of youthful arrogance, I sampled a pork chop."
Then the conversation turns to the priest's religious observances. "You can't tell me you've never had sex," says the mullah.
"Of course not!" the priest protests. "I took a vow of chastity."
The mullah and the rabbi roll their eyes. "Maybe after a few drinks?" the rabbi teases.
"Perhaps, in a moment of temptation, your faith waned?" the mullah wonders.
"Okay," the priest confesses. "Once, when I was drunk in seminary school, I had sexual relations with a woman."
"Beats pork, huh?" say the rabbi and the mullah.
Clearly, I’m as impure a feminist as I am a Muslim. The difference is, offended feminists won’t threaten to kill me. The same can’t be said for many of my fellow Muslims.
What part of "no compulsion" don't they understand?
http://www.muslim-refusenik.com/
And see how this westernized money-chasing whore has swung herself a gig as a "token Moslem" for the American fascist propaganda machine. You don't have to go far, just sample the shit from the right-hand column of her home page
Go to her 'about me' page and see her shamelessly promoting herself while shmoozing with any famous person she can get her hands on, including other prominent westernized whores of middle eastern descent
http://www.muslim-refusenik.com/aboutirshad.html
If this disgusting self-centered sellout -- or to use her phrase, 'social entrepreneur' -- were other than that, the above zionist would not have stuck her shit on here
Go to her 'about me' page and see her shamelessly promoting herself while shmoozing with any famous person she can get her hands on, including other prominent westernized whores of middle eastern descent
http://www.muslim-refusenik.com/aboutirshad.html
If this disgusting self-centered sellout -- or to use her phrase, 'social entrepreneur' -- were other than that, the above zionist would not have stuck her shit on here
It's not sexist to call a woman a 'whore' when she actually deserves it
She grew up a practicing Muslim. She knows a helluva lot more about it than you and I. Whatcha think of the Salaam Rushdie quote at the begining of the story? Is he a whore too? No?
Whore is what weak men call women they can't control. Yes, its sexist. That kind of sexist name calling is the hallmark of a weak, ineffectual and insecure man.
Whore is what weak men call women they can't control. Yes, its sexist. That kind of sexist name calling is the hallmark of a weak, ineffectual and insecure man.
"...shamelessly promoting herself while shmoozing with ... other prominent westernized whores of middle eastern descent."
http://www.muslim-refusenik.com/aboutirshad.html
Actually follow the link this time
http://www.muslim-refusenik.com/aboutirshad.html
Actually follow the link this time
>>>Actually, I did call Rushdie a whore
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Actually follow the link this time <<<
* Translation: "I'm a dopey liar who gets himself loaded and stoned right before posting which denies me the ability to distinguish between male and female. Hopefully reading the link will somehow make you forget I'm lying. Anything to try and make my argument stick."
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http://
Actually follow the link this time <<<
* Translation: "I'm a dopey liar who gets himself loaded and stoned right before posting which denies me the ability to distinguish between male and female. Hopefully reading the link will somehow make you forget I'm lying. Anything to try and make my argument stick."
She should be an inspiration to queers, to feminists, to Muslims and to free thinkers......
The New York Times has dubbed Irshad Manji “Osama Bin Laden’s worst nightmare.” She takes that as a compliment.
Irshad is the best-selling author of The Trouble with Islam Today: A Muslim’s Call for Reform in Her Faith. It has been published internationally, including in Pakistan, Turkey, India and Lebanon. In those countries that have banned The Trouble with Islam Today, she is reaching readers by posting free translations in Arabic, Urdu, and Persian on this website.
She also travels the globe to lecture about the liberal reformation of Islam. Her audiences include Amnesty International, the United Nations Press Corps, the National Committee on American Foreign Policy, the International Women’s Forum, the Swedish Defense Research Agency, the Pentagon, the Jean Jacques Rousseau Institute, and universities from Cambridge to Notre Dame.
Currently, Irshad is based at Yale University as a Visiting Fellow with the International Security Studies program. She writes columns that are distributed worldwide by the New York Times Syndicate. She is also making a feature film about Islam. Among the ideas it will showcase is “ijtihad,” Islam’s lost tradition of independent thinking.
As a social entrepreneur, Irshad has launched Project Ijtihad, an initiative to develop the world’s first leadership network for reform-minded Muslims. In that capacity, she has just been named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.
Oprah Winfrey honored Irshad with the first annual Chutzpah Award for “audacity, nerve, boldness and conviction.” Ms. magazine chose Irshad as a “Feminist for the 21st Century.” Maclean’s, Canada’s national news magazine, selected her one of ten “Canadians Who Make a Difference.”
And the Jakarta Post in Indonesia -- the world’s largest Muslim country -- identified Irshad as one of three women creating a positive change in Islam today.
The New York Times has dubbed Irshad Manji “Osama Bin Laden’s worst nightmare.” She takes that as a compliment.
Irshad is the best-selling author of The Trouble with Islam Today: A Muslim’s Call for Reform in Her Faith. It has been published internationally, including in Pakistan, Turkey, India and Lebanon. In those countries that have banned The Trouble with Islam Today, she is reaching readers by posting free translations in Arabic, Urdu, and Persian on this website.
She also travels the globe to lecture about the liberal reformation of Islam. Her audiences include Amnesty International, the United Nations Press Corps, the National Committee on American Foreign Policy, the International Women’s Forum, the Swedish Defense Research Agency, the Pentagon, the Jean Jacques Rousseau Institute, and universities from Cambridge to Notre Dame.
Currently, Irshad is based at Yale University as a Visiting Fellow with the International Security Studies program. She writes columns that are distributed worldwide by the New York Times Syndicate. She is also making a feature film about Islam. Among the ideas it will showcase is “ijtihad,” Islam’s lost tradition of independent thinking.
As a social entrepreneur, Irshad has launched Project Ijtihad, an initiative to develop the world’s first leadership network for reform-minded Muslims. In that capacity, she has just been named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.
Oprah Winfrey honored Irshad with the first annual Chutzpah Award for “audacity, nerve, boldness and conviction.” Ms. magazine chose Irshad as a “Feminist for the 21st Century.” Maclean’s, Canada’s national news magazine, selected her one of ten “Canadians Who Make a Difference.”
And the Jakarta Post in Indonesia -- the world’s largest Muslim country -- identified Irshad as one of three women creating a positive change in Islam today.
Sad to see civilized nations simpering and cowering to a bunch of violent bararians over a simple cartoon. This has NOTHING to do with "racism", despite the best attempts of the left-wing agitprop crowd to turn this into a race issue. This is a free speech issue, centering around whether people in a purportedly open, democratic society have a right to criticize others without fear of violence or intimidation. It appears that the vast majority of those oh-so-inflamed protesters aren't even natives of the lands where they are threatening the locals - time for the Europeans to get some collective backbone and start deporting people who can't assimilate and otherwise get with the program...
"This has NOTHING to do with "racism""
"civilized nations simpering and cowering to a bunch of violent barbarians"
"Europeans [need] to get some collective backbone and start deporting people who can't assimilate and otherwise get with the program..."
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Yes, we should _conspire_to_force_them_to_emigrate_here_ only so long as they're humble groveling wage-slaves who will absorb insults to their faith, their culture, their dignity, and their homelands in infinite measure. PAY NO NEVER MIND to the 50,000 OTHER grave insults they've absorbed from the West for 90 years now (that I know nothing about because I don't give a shit. rah-rah, go mein Fuhrer!).
THIS insult is COMPLETELY SET OFF BY ITSELF and bears NO RELATIONSHIP!
But the SECOND we pile on that straw that breaks the camel-jockeys' collective backs and they rise up in their outrage (in a way that is a birthright for myself; those 1,000,000 Iraqi babies DESERVED to die of dysentery for the Kuwait incubator fraud and what they did on 9-11!), the VERY SECOND they do that, we need to round them up at gunpoint, herd them onto sewage barges, and ship them right back to the wretched dictatorships and third-world hells that **OUR** spies backed up by **OUR** armies have made of **THEIR** home countries, which they'd never have left in the first place had they their druthers.
They will have outlived their groveling wage-slave usefulness to **US**, the Western Europeans, The World's Only Good People™.
By the way, I'm no self-deluded unconsciously privileged 'manifest destiny' all-American bumpkin fuckhead, oh fuck no!
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BTW, pal, I'm a 'bumpkin' too, but I'm a bumpkin with a large mind. The above IS TOO the way you think. I know you: I grew up in bumpkinland, too. I _adore_ the _land_ of my youth, but not the people.
You SUCK!!!
You don't really know shit about anything, you're just a brainwashed jumping monkey for a FASCIST MENACE government and its media minions.
"civilized nations simpering and cowering to a bunch of violent barbarians"
"Europeans [need] to get some collective backbone and start deporting people who can't assimilate and otherwise get with the program..."
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Yes, we should _conspire_to_force_them_to_emigrate_here_ only so long as they're humble groveling wage-slaves who will absorb insults to their faith, their culture, their dignity, and their homelands in infinite measure. PAY NO NEVER MIND to the 50,000 OTHER grave insults they've absorbed from the West for 90 years now (that I know nothing about because I don't give a shit. rah-rah, go mein Fuhrer!).
THIS insult is COMPLETELY SET OFF BY ITSELF and bears NO RELATIONSHIP!
But the SECOND we pile on that straw that breaks the camel-jockeys' collective backs and they rise up in their outrage (in a way that is a birthright for myself; those 1,000,000 Iraqi babies DESERVED to die of dysentery for the Kuwait incubator fraud and what they did on 9-11!), the VERY SECOND they do that, we need to round them up at gunpoint, herd them onto sewage barges, and ship them right back to the wretched dictatorships and third-world hells that **OUR** spies backed up by **OUR** armies have made of **THEIR** home countries, which they'd never have left in the first place had they their druthers.
They will have outlived their groveling wage-slave usefulness to **US**, the Western Europeans, The World's Only Good People™.
By the way, I'm no self-deluded unconsciously privileged 'manifest destiny' all-American bumpkin fuckhead, oh fuck no!
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BTW, pal, I'm a 'bumpkin' too, but I'm a bumpkin with a large mind. The above IS TOO the way you think. I know you: I grew up in bumpkinland, too. I _adore_ the _land_ of my youth, but not the people.
You SUCK!!!
You don't really know shit about anything, you're just a brainwashed jumping monkey for a FASCIST MENACE government and its media minions.
1. The government of Denmark did not publish the cartoons, a privatly owned newspaper did, so why should the government apologize?
2. After they apologized anyways, why do the protests (a more suitable term would be riots) continue?
3. How is it even racism to mock islam. islam is not a "race". The allegation by the newspaper cartoons was that islam has a violent undercurrent.
So what do the loudest, most visable representavives of islam do? they show their anger at being accused of being "violent" by burning down embassies and threatening the lives of non-muslems. Yeah that'll show em.
I am sad to see supposed "liberals" defending what the islamists are doing, defending their attempts to stifle and threaten free speech. You should be ashamed.
2. After they apologized anyways, why do the protests (a more suitable term would be riots) continue?
3. How is it even racism to mock islam. islam is not a "race". The allegation by the newspaper cartoons was that islam has a violent undercurrent.
So what do the loudest, most visable representavives of islam do? they show their anger at being accused of being "violent" by burning down embassies and threatening the lives of non-muslems. Yeah that'll show em.
I am sad to see supposed "liberals" defending what the islamists are doing, defending their attempts to stifle and threaten free speech. You should be ashamed.
"The government of Denmark did not publish the cartoons, a privatly owned newspaper did, so why should the government apologize?"
I dont think anyone is really asking for that and much of the anger in the Muslim world may contain such demands but is at root anger over the combination of Western military domination with a feeling that many in the West see Muslims as less than fully human.
"2. After they apologized anyways, why do the protests (a more suitable term would be riots) continue?"
In Pakistan the anger is at Mushy who is a US backed dictator who overthrew a democracy. The leaders of the protests talk about Islam but the anger is a combination of distress over Iraq with more general anger at the hypocracy of the Western media which portrays Muslims as subhuman and unwilling to be democratic while demonizing democratically elected leaders and praising dictators.
"3. How is it even racism to mock islam. islam is not a "race". The allegation by the newspaper cartoons was that islam has a violent undercurrent."
Thats a symantic argument that holds little meaning. AntiSemitism may not technically be racism either but its a form of bigotry similar to racism. AntiMuslim bigotry in Europe is not only getting worse (with many neo-NAzi attacks on immigrant famillies) but also exploded in a mass genocide in Bosnia a just a few years back. Anti-Muslim hatred always comes up as anti-immigrant rhetoric during elections and is similar to the racism one sees in anti-immigrant sentimements in the US; the main way its worse is that the portrayals of Muslims as less then human go beyond the usual circles of uneducated bigots to intellectuals who equate all muslims with fundamentalist muslims and religious leaders who denounce Muslims in much they way they used to denounce Jews.
"So what do the loudest, most visable representavives of islam do? they show their anger at being accused of being "violent" by burning down embassies and threatening the lives of non-muslems."
Some Republicans rioted in Florida to prevent a recount and there are riots all the time in countries all over the world. In the US one not only has riots over racism but riots when sports teams win where people are killed and buildings are burnt down.... during the last Winter Olympics some proUSA idots rioted because they couldnt get beer while trying to get into a Backstreet Boys concert and threw rocks at police chanting USA USA. Riots are hardly specific to Islam and if you look at the current rioting the cartoons were just a spark not a cause. When English soccerfans riot and kill dozens do you hear talk about how those crazy English are just too prone to violence? No because the current condemnation of the rioting isnt really about the rioting as much as its an excuse to portray Muslims as different and irrational (and somehow the same racism doesnt get applied to Serbs who killed thousands of Muslims, RSS members in Gujarat who killed 1000s of Muslims or the Russian military which tortured and killed tens of thousands in Chechnya even before it became a a base for fundamentalist guerillas).
"I am sad to see supposed "liberals" defending what the islamists are doing, defending their attempts to stifle and threaten free speech. You should be ashamed."
People should have the right to publish hate speech I guess but I am about as exicted about defending a paper in a a country with rabid anti-immigrant feelings like Denmark when it publishs racist cartoons as I would be defending the guy sentenced today in Austria for writing neoNazi screeds or other people who want to publish hate propaganda. At some level people should have a right to have biggoted views but its a little strange how quick people are to defend antiMuslim hate speech compared to other forms of hate speech.
Modern antiMuslim stereotypes (greedy, oversexed, unshaven, hooked nose, willing to drink blood) look a lot like old fashioned antiSemitism and if you didnt have the label under many cartoons about Muslims that you see today you would have a hard time distinguishing them from cartoons abouts Jews in Europe in the early1900s or late1800s.
I dont think anyone is really asking for that and much of the anger in the Muslim world may contain such demands but is at root anger over the combination of Western military domination with a feeling that many in the West see Muslims as less than fully human.
"2. After they apologized anyways, why do the protests (a more suitable term would be riots) continue?"
In Pakistan the anger is at Mushy who is a US backed dictator who overthrew a democracy. The leaders of the protests talk about Islam but the anger is a combination of distress over Iraq with more general anger at the hypocracy of the Western media which portrays Muslims as subhuman and unwilling to be democratic while demonizing democratically elected leaders and praising dictators.
"3. How is it even racism to mock islam. islam is not a "race". The allegation by the newspaper cartoons was that islam has a violent undercurrent."
Thats a symantic argument that holds little meaning. AntiSemitism may not technically be racism either but its a form of bigotry similar to racism. AntiMuslim bigotry in Europe is not only getting worse (with many neo-NAzi attacks on immigrant famillies) but also exploded in a mass genocide in Bosnia a just a few years back. Anti-Muslim hatred always comes up as anti-immigrant rhetoric during elections and is similar to the racism one sees in anti-immigrant sentimements in the US; the main way its worse is that the portrayals of Muslims as less then human go beyond the usual circles of uneducated bigots to intellectuals who equate all muslims with fundamentalist muslims and religious leaders who denounce Muslims in much they way they used to denounce Jews.
"So what do the loudest, most visable representavives of islam do? they show their anger at being accused of being "violent" by burning down embassies and threatening the lives of non-muslems."
Some Republicans rioted in Florida to prevent a recount and there are riots all the time in countries all over the world. In the US one not only has riots over racism but riots when sports teams win where people are killed and buildings are burnt down.... during the last Winter Olympics some proUSA idots rioted because they couldnt get beer while trying to get into a Backstreet Boys concert and threw rocks at police chanting USA USA. Riots are hardly specific to Islam and if you look at the current rioting the cartoons were just a spark not a cause. When English soccerfans riot and kill dozens do you hear talk about how those crazy English are just too prone to violence? No because the current condemnation of the rioting isnt really about the rioting as much as its an excuse to portray Muslims as different and irrational (and somehow the same racism doesnt get applied to Serbs who killed thousands of Muslims, RSS members in Gujarat who killed 1000s of Muslims or the Russian military which tortured and killed tens of thousands in Chechnya even before it became a a base for fundamentalist guerillas).
"I am sad to see supposed "liberals" defending what the islamists are doing, defending their attempts to stifle and threaten free speech. You should be ashamed."
People should have the right to publish hate speech I guess but I am about as exicted about defending a paper in a a country with rabid anti-immigrant feelings like Denmark when it publishs racist cartoons as I would be defending the guy sentenced today in Austria for writing neoNazi screeds or other people who want to publish hate propaganda. At some level people should have a right to have biggoted views but its a little strange how quick people are to defend antiMuslim hate speech compared to other forms of hate speech.
Modern antiMuslim stereotypes (greedy, oversexed, unshaven, hooked nose, willing to drink blood) look a lot like old fashioned antiSemitism and if you didnt have the label under many cartoons about Muslims that you see today you would have a hard time distinguishing them from cartoons abouts Jews in Europe in the early1900s or late1800s.
Nigeria riots kill 146
ONITSHA, Nigeria - Christian youths burned the corpses of Muslims on Thursday on the streets of Onitsha in southeastern Nigeria, the city worst hit by religious riots that have killed at least 146 people across the country in five days. Christian mobs, seeking revenge for the killings of Christians in the north, attacked Muslims with machetes, set fire to them, destroyed their houses and torched mosques in two days of violence in Onitsha, where 93 people died.
ONITSHA, Nigeria - Christian youths burned the corpses of Muslims on Thursday on the streets of Onitsha in southeastern Nigeria, the city worst hit by religious riots that have killed at least 146 people across the country in five days. Christian mobs, seeking revenge for the killings of Christians in the north, attacked Muslims with machetes, set fire to them, destroyed their houses and torched mosques in two days of violence in Onitsha, where 93 people died.
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