As Oklahoma has now voted to ban Sharia, and an openly pro-Sharia Imam, Feisal Abdul Rauf, is going ahead with plans to build a triumphal mega-mosque at Ground Zero, Sharia is more in the public consciousness than ever — and so Islamic supremacists such as Reza Aslan are working harder than ever to confuse the American people about what Sharia is, so as to defuse opposition to it.
Aslan, although considered to be a moderate exponent of a modern Islam, is actually a Board member of the National Iranian American Council, a group that is widely regarded as an apologetic vehicle for the Islamic Republic of Iran. He has called on the U.S. Government to negotiate not only with Ahmadinejad but with Hamas — that is, with some of the most barbaric and genocidally-inclined adherents of Sharia. And so it should come as no surprise that on this Australian television show, “Fear of Islam,” from SBS Insight, November 2, he retails some of the most common talking points that Islamic supremacists are circulating these days in order to deceive people as to the nature of Sharia and belittle resistance to the spread of elements of it in the United States and in Western countries in general. (The transcript is full of errors, some slightly amusing — “idea logs” — but is clear enough.)
The program, predictably enough, is focused not on the manifest increase in jihad activity, but on the alleged increase of “anti-Islamic sentiment”:
Anti-Islamic sentiment is on the rise across Europe and the United States. In the Netherlands, Sweden, France, Britain and Germany debate is raging about immigration and the compatibility of Islam with Western values – the latest foiled terror plot originating in Yemen has done nothing to quell people’s fears.
No kidding, really?
In the United States anti-Islamic sentiment is higher now than after the September 11 terror attacks. Recent polls show nearly half of Americans hold unfavourable views of Islam. So, what is driving this increased hostility, that’s what we are talking about tonight and you can join us via Facebook and Twitter as well.
JENNY BROCKIE: Welcome everybody, good to have you all here. I’d like to start by going to the United States, and to you Reza Aslan in Los Angeles, you were an American Muslim, you were born in Iran. Why do you think anti-Islamic sentiment is higher now than immediately after September 11 – is it related to these foiled terror plots or is it deeper than that?
REZA ASLAN, RELIGIOUS SCHOLAR: Well I think there are a number of reasons for it, certainly the economy plays a role in all of this, in times of economic distress, it’s only natural for people – and Americans have done this for many years – to look for a scapegoat. Depending on where you live in this country, the scapegoats are either, frankly, Mexicans or Muslims. So, you know, God save you if you happened to be a Mexican Muslim in America right now.
There are many things Reza Aslan is not, and one of them is an original thinker. He is in this retailing talking points that we saw just recently coming from Rashad Hussain, Obama’s Special Envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference: that the bad economy has people looking for a scapegoat, and that they’ve fastened upon Muslims.
I don’t know who originated this theme, but it is a brazen attempt to divert attention away from the sole and obvious cause of any actual suspicion of Muslims or Islam in the U.S.: the ever-increasing number of terrorist attacks carried out by Muslims who explain and justify their actions by reference to Islamic texts and teachings. That Aslan did not lead with that as his answer to the question about why “anti-Islamic sentiment” is supposedly rising is the clearest indication that he is not intending to clarify matters or deal with this problem honestly.
Aslan continues:
Also part of it has to do with a sense of war weariness in the United States – we have been involved in wars in the region for about 10 years and I think there’s something important here that isn’t talked about enough, and it’s Barak [sic] Obama. One-fifth of Americans, 20% believe that Barak [sic] Obama is, himself, a Muslim and in fact – amongst Republicans that number is almost 40%. Polls show in this country, that the more you disagree with Barak [sic] Obama’s domestic policies, the more likely you are to think that he is a Muslim.
I don’t know by what method of calculation Aslan determined that 31% (which is the actual number of surveyed Republicans saying they thought Obama was a Muslim) was “almost 40%,” but hey, they invented algebra. Anyway, Aslan here is apparently saying that “anti-Islamic sentiment” is rising because people think Obama is a Muslim, and they don’t like Obama’s policies, and so they blame Islam for them. Once again, he is insulting the intelligence of the American people. If large numbers of people believe Obama is a Muslim, it is because of his hostility (unprecedented in a president of the United States) toward Israel, his unwillingness to do anything effective about Iran’s nuclear program, and his indefatigable dedication to coddling and appeasing the Dar al-Islam, even to the point of absurdity, as when he told NASA’s chief that one of his primary responsibilities would be — not space exploration! — making Muslims feel good about the alleged scientific achievements of the Islamic world.
And if there is any actual rise in “anti-Islamic sentiment,” it is not because befuddled American yahoos think that nationalizing health care and the banking and auto industries are Muslim policies implemented by a Muslim president, but because Islamic jihadists just in the last few days sent bombs via UPS to synagogues in Chicago and stormed a church in Baghdad, murdering 58 people. Then there was the Fort Hood jihad shooting, the Arkansas recruiting center jihad shooting, the Christmas underwear bomb jihad attempt, the Times Square jihad car bomb attempt, the Fort Dix jihad plot, the North Carolina jihad plot, the Seattle jihad shooting, the JFK Airport jihad plot, and on and on. But Reza Aslan, not surprisingly, doesn’t mention any of that.
The reason I bring this up is because what’s happened in the United States is something that has already happened in Europe and that is that Islam is become ‘otherised’, it has become a kind of receptacle into which fears and anxieties about the political or economic situation, about the changing racial landscape of this country are being thrown.
This is something common to the United States – Make no mistake – In fact, every single thing that has been said about Muslims, that they are un-American, that they are foreign, that they are exotic has been said in this country about Jews in the 20th century, was said about Catholics in this country, in the latter part of the 19th century, so it’s a common occurrence in the United States.
I think by all accounts in the same way we look back on the anti-Catholic and anti-Jewish sentiments of our history with shame and derision and with a healthy dose of mockery, that’s how we will very likely look back on this sort of anti-Muslim sentiment as well in the next generation.
Here again, Aslan is not engaging in any real analysis or actual thought; he is just repeating talking points that we have heard before from the likes of Muslim Brotherhood-linked Congressman Keith Ellison and Nicholas Kristof, among many others. Christopher Hitchens ably took apart the central claim being made here: “‘Some of what people are saying in this mosque controversy is very similar to what German media was saying about Jews in the 1920s and 1930s,’ Imam Abdullah Antepli, Muslim chaplain at Duke University, told the New York Times. Yes, we all recall the Jewish suicide bombers of that period, as we recall the Jewish yells for holy war, the Jewish demands for the veiling of women and the stoning of homosexuals, and the Jewish burning of newspapers that published cartoons they did not like.”
And as for Aslan’s assertion that “in the next generation” Americans will “very likely look back on this sort of anti-Muslim sentiment” with “shame and derision and with a healthy dose of mockery,” that’s all he has besides borrowed talking points originated by others. Aslan, as I will eventually demonstrate definitively when I publish his emails to me, cannot and will not deal on the level of facts and discuss matters rationally, but instead works consistently from the gutter. It is the only refuge he has given his manifest and abject intellectual vacuity.
Anyway, then the Australian TV show goes on to Nonie Darwish, who states some truths about the Qur’an, which are then contradicted by Muslim spokesmen. The problem with such discussions is that they deal in generalities; there is no time in such a setting for any extended examination of the contents of the Qur’an, and so the discussion amounts essentially to one person’s word against another’s. And so to Reza Aslan’s response:
REZA ASLAN: First of all, I have to say that it’s a weird feeling to have to respond to a Christian leader of an anti-Muslims organisation – it would be like having to respond to a Muslim leader of an anti-Jewish organisation about Judaism so the whole thing is kind of weird. Let me just say it’s kind of convenient to simply pick and choose whatever violent bits and pieces one finds in the Koran and ignore the equally important versus that talk about compassion and peace. There’s nothing strange or unusual about the Koran, the same Tora [sic] that gives us the 10 commandments commands the Jews to enact genocide upon every non-believer of Yaway [sic]. The same gospel telling us to turn the other cheek, also says “Jesus says I’ve come to bring the sword and not peace, and that he who doesn’t have a cloak should sell the cloak and buy a sword”.
On page 369 (554 in the Arabic) of the earliest Muslim biography of Muhammad, Muhammad says "kill any Jew who falls into your power":
It's a "beautiful" story of two brothers, Muhayyissa and Huwayyisa: (To keep things clear, it may help to keep in mind that the brother whose name begins with M is the Murderer in the story.)
In core Islamic texts, Muhammad says that one day the very trees and stones will help Muslims to kill Jews.
He says it both in Sahih Bukhari and Sahih Muslim, Islam's two most canonical hadith collections:
Sahih Bukhari, Volume 4, Book 56, Number 791:
Sahih Bukhari, Volume 4, Book 52, Number 176:
Sahih Bukhari, Volume 4, Book 52, Number 177:
Sahih Muslim, Book 041, Number 6981:
Sahih Muslim, Book 041, Number 6983:
Sahih Muslim, Book 041, Number 6984:
Sahih Muslim Book 041, Number 6985:
In core Islamic texts, Muhammad says the earth belongs to Muhammad and Allah, and warns the Jews to accept Islam if they wish to be safe:
In Sahih Muslim, a canonical hadith collection:
From page 464 (690 in the Arabic) of the earliest Muslim biography of Muhammad, Muhammad presides over the beheading of 600 to 900 Jews:
Daniel Boorstin: "There is a vast difference…between the Hebrew-Christian God the Maker and the Muslim God of Fiat."
"For a believing Muslim, to create is a rash and dangerous act."
In a very short chapter of Boorstin's The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination (a book that with his The Discoverers and The Seekers forms a magisterial and deservedly famous trilogy), Boorstin sought the heart of the difference between Islamic and Judeo-Christian culture. Here are some choice excerpts:
That's a lot of cutting and pasting, not to coin a phrase from the obviously unhinged.
Context is big issue with most of you people. Since you do not know the revelation in time through it's context and how it dealt with an existing society that had existing issues you cut and paste and pull from a myriad of areas pasting together something that obviously brings to mind frankenstien…stitched together and made purposely to seem horrid. You can succed in doing this and still be wrong.
Freeze any moment in time and you can do the same to America, white hoods, capes, burning crosses…but that's not the America you and I believe in, is it? ( I hope you don't believe in that…)
The point is there were existing societal ills that always existed and the Quran and the Hadiths dealt with many of them in specific to the subject you just brought up as well. The global message on the issue of handmaids that were captives of war is their treatment should be such good treatment as they were wives.
This concept of capturing enemies property and wives was common among all tribes in Arabia, Jewish or Arab, Christian or Zorastran…unfortunately women suffered the most in history under men.
It's in the obedience to the mercy and the message itself…the Quran itself outlines people who behave in evil and pretend to good just as you pretended to teach but really only intended to smear and obfuscate.
"…you find those in whose hearts is a sickness following the ambiguity."
Let me pleas help the son of a goat herder along here with this statement, there was once a man of God, who feared God, who had two sons, one was banished from the house of the Lord, and the other decided to go in the way of the devil, the one who chose to go in the way of the devil was the one and only father to all arabs, does that answer it clearly enough for you, son of a goat herder
Ret arded Marine … sure, you're right! The Bible tells lies. Genesis claims that Ishmael and his nation will be "blessed." So, I guess, your word against the Bible; your point is that all this is a lie. YHWH is a liar? You collude with the AntiChrist?…so you shall see.
Have you been reading the Talmud lately? What does it say about Christ and his mother? Boiling in a vat of turd and she's a whore right?
You balspheming devil yourself.
BUT ……………….at the end of the day , islam will not prevail , it will be destroyed, utterly destroyed , but not without much sorrow and bloodshed . So be it . The more you expose yourselves muslims , the more people will learn , and you WILL expose yourselves because it is in your makeup , to be arrogant to the point of stupidity . You openly blurt your strategy ,amongst yourselves. But to the west you speak "religion of peace " …and some dhimmis are decieved , like barney …
"islam will not prevail , it will be destroyed."
With a Can-'O-Whoop-Ass & some tall bearded guy from Kentuckistan ? Packaged by the the world's largest fast food restaurant? Arrmeriker? …a failed subsidiary of the failed and deceased British Empire? A land stolen from the Injin? Pequot, Apache,Cheyenne, Sioux, Navajo and Cherokee. You raped and plundered this land, it isn't even yours! You don't even have a civilization! How about slavery and lynching? Mass genocide? Your history is, wars, SLAVERY & murder.
Your history starts with barbarity and savagery and you ends with decadence (and mass poverty, crime and drug abuse – some of the worst in the world) – without any civilization in between!!! An overly obese and diseased nation of Homer Simpsons (D'oh!) and Peter Griffins (yehheh!!!).
Now, you want to take on , AYRAAN?! or one of the longest continuous civilizations in human history…
cont…
You want to fight Moslems? Why… even G.I Joe couldn't fight a bunch of Neanderthals living in caves. You got wooped by the Gook, and now you getting wooped by Towel Heads?
How's the War on Obesity? The War on Crime and the War on Drugs? WAR ON POVERTY? (Pentagon sources declare "no end in sight").
Here's your last hope —–> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cm8z3XFWzTU&fe…
re tards
As for Mr ROBERT $PENCER… he isn't even a scholar of Islam!
Where did he gain his credentials?
Where is the evidence for that? Which university?
$pencer can't read, nor write, nor speak Arabic… and he's a "Scholar" of Islam? Nobody on this site has yet provided the evidnece for that.
$PENCER hasn't even got the balls to DEBATE with a moslem scholar, he hasn't and NEVER will hold a debate.
He's a COWARD.
The truth is, he isn't a scholar, just a hate preacher and basketcase, full of CONSPIRACY THEORIES, (Obama is the bastrd child of Malcolm X?, Moslems are taking over Amerikerr? (like the PROTOCOLS OF THE ELDERS OF ZION is honest academic research?))
MARY was (at least) 12, JOSEPH was in his 90's when they married.
" …Mary, then twelve to fourteen years of age. Joseph, who was at the time ninety years old, went up to Jerusalem among the candidates; a miracle manifested the choice God had made of Joseph, and two years later the Annunciation took place." THE CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08504a.htm
MARRIAGE IN AMERICA
"Throughout most of the 19th century, the minimum age of consent for sexual intercourse in most American states was 10 years. In Delaware it was only 7 years.
As late as 1930, twelve states allowed boys as young as 14 and girls as young as 12 to marry (with parental consent). " The History of Marriage as an Institution, Larry R. Peterson, Ph.D. http://www.buddybuddy.com/peters-1.html
Sex at Three Years and One Day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vwu8wDCsAOI&fe…
Pedophilia 'Rampant' In Orthodox Judaism
By Rev. Ted Pike
http://engforum.pravda.ru/showthread.php?233749-P…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIswqXLYCRI THE OTHER ISREAL
$PENCER IS A CATHOLIC and none of his posturings against moslems or denial in his own Church of the EVIL committed will protect his abominable behavior. This man who claims to be a "scholar" is shrewd (like the DEVIL) hiding his evil behind his subversion tactics and fancy writings. The gullible and vulnerable want to believe in his so called "intellectual honesty", but this cannot be hidden.
$CHOLAR FOR DOLLAR($) $PENCER…
hides the fact that he has NO FORMAL QUALIFICATIONS AS AN "ISLAMIC SCHOLAR"
Pedophiles and Priests: Anatomy of a Contemporary Crisis http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pedophiles-Priests-Anatom…
Lead Us Not into Temptation: Catholic Priests and the Sexual Abuse of Children http://www.amazon.com/Lead-Us-Not-into-Temptation…
Betrayal: The Crisis in the Catholic Church (Paedophilia & Catholicism) http://www.amazon.co.uk/Betrayal-Crisis-Catholic-…
The New Anti-Catholicism: The Last Acceptable Prejudice http://www.amazon.co.uk/New-Anti-Catholicism-Last…
23:1 Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples,
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23:14 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.
23:15 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
23:19 Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?
23:23 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
23:24 Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.
23:25 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.
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