A Muslim cultural institute in Germany on Monday criticized Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad for disparaging the Holocaust, daring him to visit the Auschwitz concentration camp.
“In this place of horror he can again deny the Holocaust, if he has the courage,” a spokesman for the Islam-Archiv-Deutschland Central Institute told the German Catholic press agency KNA. …
By denying the Holocaust, Ahmadinejad not only denigrated the Jewish victims of the genocide but also the 200,000 Roms and Arabs murdered in the “gypsy camp” of Auschwitz-Birkenau and other camps, the institute spokesman said.
The fact that the president of an Islamic state repeated Nazi anti-Semitism was harmful to the image of Islam and “a disgrace for all the world’s Muslims”, he added.
Right On. A-men. Allah Akbar. And may He be praised, for giving True followers of the Prophet the courage to speak out against the dangerous infidel imposters.
I am getting concerned about the term “moderate” muslims. In this country, we have political “moderates” but they are not necessarily any more reasonable than a person from the conservative “right” or liberal “left”. Muslims rightly speaking out against violent elements and defending a peaceful vision of the faith aren’t really moderate as between two other positions. There are just good, rational Muslims (this country is obviously full of them, to its credit) and then . . . the lunatics, there’s really no other word for them. Really, a Danish private newspaper publishes 10 cartoons of the prophet, all of 8 of which are quite-arguably respectful, and they riot in Pakistan and try to burn down a KFC !?!? A KF’nC!
So how’s about “rational Muslims” as the operative term ?
I do not like the term moderate Muslim either. It’s as if somehow they practice a watered-down version of their faith because, oh, they do not like to burn down embassies?
Agree, 4-7 & Bea. Excellent point. Let’s all say “REAL Muslims”. (Yeah, yeah, who are We to judge? / We is Us, that’s who. :)
Alasdair, you bum, ya Got me. :) And if You only Knew how many times I’ve Looked Up the spelling of a word I was already Prettysure I had right precisely to Prevent all Possibility of your predatory Pounce… :> (And I thought that “imposter” Looked funny, too. I Did. Then I said to meself “Naah”, sez I & pushed “Publish”. Bah. :) [Foiled Frown]
(As to yer Q, we are the Impish posters, is what We are. / And the Judges of course, see Above. :)
In some ways, to get the most accurate sense of Islam, there is little better than going to its Holy Texts …
And then go to the ‘teaching tales’, the myths and legends and traditional stories … find OLD versions of the Tales of the 1001 Nights and read the story of Abou Seer and Abou Keer … read how the principles in the stories interact …
Then find the more modern secular stories from the Montenegro region, of the interactions between Mussulman and infidel … the Tale of Sohrab and Rustum …
Even those will only give you ideas of where the ‘village’ Muslim has his basis …
To get the sense of where Hamas and the various so-called Jihad come from, you will need to study the Hashishin and the Old Man of the Mountain … the parallels between the Hashishin and the modern moujaheedin are uncomfortably close … and the Hashishin only stopped being a problem when enough of the various Muslim countries decided enough was enough …
February 14th, 2006 at 5:41:22 pm
Right On. A-men. Allah Akbar. And may He be praised, for giving True followers of the Prophet the courage to speak out against the dangerous infidel imposters.
February 14th, 2006 at 5:52:23 pm
I am getting concerned about the term “moderate” muslims. In this country, we have political “moderates” but they are not necessarily any more reasonable than a person from the conservative “right” or liberal “left”. Muslims rightly speaking out against violent elements and defending a peaceful vision of the faith aren’t really moderate as between two other positions. There are just good, rational Muslims (this country is obviously full of them, to its credit) and then . . . the lunatics, there’s really no other word for them. Really, a Danish private newspaper publishes 10 cartoons of the prophet, all of 8 of which are quite-arguably respectful, and they riot in Pakistan and try to burn down a KFC !?!? A KF’nC!
So how’s about “rational Muslims” as the operative term ?
February 14th, 2006 at 6:14:19 pm
Joe - don’t you mean impostor ?
Aren’t you and I the im-posters, on here ?
(innocent smile)
February 14th, 2006 at 6:48:56 pm
I do not like the term moderate Muslim either. It’s as if somehow they practice a watered-down version of their faith because, oh, they do not like to burn down embassies?
February 14th, 2006 at 7:29:26 pm
Agree, 4-7 & Bea. Excellent point. Let’s all say “REAL Muslims”. (Yeah, yeah, who are We to judge? / We is Us, that’s who. :)
Alasdair, you bum, ya Got me. :) And if You only Knew how many times I’ve Looked Up the spelling of a word I was already Prettysure I had right precisely to Prevent all Possibility of your predatory Pounce… :> (And I thought that “imposter” Looked funny, too. I Did. Then I said to meself “Naah”, sez I & pushed “Publish”. Bah. :) [Foiled Frown]
(As to yer Q, we are the Impish posters, is what We are. / And the Judges of course, see Above. :)
February 14th, 2006 at 8:21:36 pm
WOW that is great… just what I was hoping for!
Thanks for posting that!
February 14th, 2006 at 9:07:18 pm
In some ways, to get the most accurate sense of Islam, there is little better than going to its Holy Texts …
And then go to the ‘teaching tales’, the myths and legends and traditional stories … find OLD versions of the Tales of the 1001 Nights and read the story of Abou Seer and Abou Keer … read how the principles in the stories interact …
Then find the more modern secular stories from the Montenegro region, of the interactions between Mussulman and infidel … the Tale of Sohrab and Rustum …
Even those will only give you ideas of where the ‘village’ Muslim has his basis …
To get the sense of where Hamas and the various so-called Jihad come from, you will need to study the Hashishin and the Old Man of the Mountain … the parallels between the Hashishin and the modern moujaheedin are uncomfortably close … and the Hashishin only stopped being a problem when enough of the various Muslim countries decided enough was enough …
February 14th, 2006 at 9:14:28 pm
The Old Man of the Mountain was in New Hampshire, and it collapsed in May 2003… not sure what this has to do with Islam.. :)
February 15th, 2006 at 1:35:59 am
Oh, you ex-colonials can be SO provincial !
(grin)
Try this reference …