Ansar Dine group, a branch of al-Qaeda, has attacked the 15th-Century Sidi Yahia mosque, one of the three great mosques of Timbuktu in Mali. The door which has been smashed had been left sealed as it led to the sacred tomb of saints. All people start crying when they see the damage. Muslims believe that opening the door will herald misfortune.
Ansar Dine has already destroyed several of the city's shrines, saying they contravene Sharia. Ansar Dine has now destroyed 90% of mausoleums that are not in line with Sharia. Sharia does not allow the building of tombs taller than 15cm!
The International Criminal Court condemns the destruction of Timbuktu as a war crime. Timbuktu is a great center of Islamic learning, based in its three large mosques, built in the 15th and 16th Centuries. Timbuktu is also known as the City of 333 Saints. Salafism condemns the veneration of saints.
Christoph Luxenberg has proven the Koran was first written in the Syro-Aramaic language, not in Arabic. There is also a difference between the tolerant verses of the early period, when Muhammad was still powerless and under threat, and the hostile verses of the later period. The Koran was made up by Muhammad as it suited his opportunistic goals for power, money, and sex. http://venitism.blogspot.com
Islam appeared one century after Muhammad's death. The first century of the Arab conquest shows the conquerors holding not to Islam but to Hagarism. Hagarenes claimed descent from Abraham through his slave wife Hagar, similarly to the Jews who claimed descent from Abraham through Sarah. The Muhammad of Islamic tradition did not exist!
It was only in the eighth century, when the rulers of a now-vast Arabian empire felt the need for a unifying political theology, that they cobbled together the Islamic religion. The key figure in this enterprise was the brutal governor of Iraq, Hajjaj ibn Yusuf. That's why Islam is such a profoundly political religion with uniquely prominent incivil qualities.
Geert Wilders declares Islam is primarily a dangerous ideology rather than a religion. Islam fails four major tests that religions should fulfill: Adherence to a religion must be a personal choice; no religion should demand that those who leave it be killed; a religion must never mandate the subjugation of those who do not belong to it; a religion must be in accord with basic human rights.
Franklin Roosevelt observed that wherever the Muslims have had a complete sway, wherever citizens have been unable to resist them by the sword, civility has ultimately disappeared. Roosevelt rejected as naive the notion that all religions are the same. Some religions give a higher value to each human life, and some religions and belief systems give a lower value. Our social values, including equality before the law, exist only because the Christians of Europe did what the Christians of Asia and Africa had failed to do – that is, to beat back the Moslem invader.
John Quincy Adams pointed out that Muhammad poisoned the sources of human felicity at the fountain, by degrading the condition of the female sex, and the allowance of polygamy; and he declared undistinguishing and exterminating war as part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind. The essence of Muhammad's doctrine was violence and lust; to exalt the brutal over the spiritual part of human nature.
In 2004, on a street in Amsterdam, Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh was brutally murdered by a Muslim of Moroccan descent. Van Gogh had collaborated with a Somali emigrant, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, to produce the film Submission, about the abuse of women in Islam.
Van Gogh's killer had impaled on his victim's chest an open letter threatening death to Geert Wilders and Ali, whose politics had put them on extremists' kill-lists. Two days after the murder, both were whisked into hiding by police because of imminent threats of assassination.
Wilders draws effectively on the history of Islam to illuminate current events. Thus, he recounts the hijra,or migration, of Muhammad and his followers to Yathrib in the year 622. Taking advantage of its welcome and tolerance, Muhammad proceeded to overthrow the city from within. What was Yathrib became Medina, and there Islam's first mosque was Muhammad's propaganda center, the headquarters of his state and the barracks of his jihad.
Yathrib is the model for the offensive via immigration that Islam has undertaken against the West almost 1,400 years later. Wilders also points to Medina's first mosque as the prototype for mosques throughout the West, primarily a political institution, not a place of worship.
Wilders produced Fitna to illustrate that the Koran advocates violence. He was prosecuted under Dutch hate-speech laws for group insult and incitement of hatred and discrimination. Although he was acquitted ultimately, Wilders' tale on this topic is sobering, for it shows how lawfare can be used to chill unwelcome speech.
In large part because of the courage of, the Netherlands has begun to confront the damage wrought by Muslim migration and the politics of appeasement that for so long have characterized the West's reaction to the claims of alleged victims of all stripes. The Islamic tide is strong, but the West has repulsed it before, and we can do it again. You may not be interested in Islam, but Islam is interested in you. So pay attention.
Shocking images reveal the desecration of many Christian churches in Syria by Western-backed rebels. A Free Syrian Army rebel poses in a stolen priest's robe while brandishing a looted cross in one hand and a machine gun in the other. Images show church pews broken apart, with pieces strewn all over. The floor is covered with rubble, and even the altar has been desecrated.
Christian minorities are facing a growing threat and thousands are being forced to flee their homes as they face harassment and discrimination from opposition radical Islamist factions. 12,000 Christians from the western Syrian city of Qusayr were forced to seek refuge after an ultimatum from a local military chief from the armed opposition. All mosques in the city have announced that Christians must leave Qusayr within six days. Attempts to evacuate Christians from Homs have been unsuccessful, as rebels want to keep the civilians inside to use them as bargaining chips and human shields.
Nevertheless, American intelligence operatives continue to step up their contacts with Syrian rebels to help organize their growing military operations against Assad's forces. CIA and the State Department are helping the Free Syrian Army develop logistical routes for moving supplies into Syria and providing training in communications. Saudi Arabia and Qatar have been paying salaries to the Syrian rebels. Turkey, which hosts some units of the Free Syrian Army, ensures material and technical support. As long as USA and its allies continue to blindly support the radical rebels, stability in Syria will remain unattainable.
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