It's not about respect, it's about intolerance towards intolerance.

[theclamsman]

This whole "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day" has gotten out of hand. For the best or worst, I've yet to see.

But one thing that should be pointed out, from the very beginning: This is not about the South Park boys depicting Mohammed. Those lovely assholes from RevolutionMuslim made this crappily veiled threat:

"We have to warn Matt and Trey that

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Ayaan

[anonymous]

Although it is from last year, I think you may find this book review useful. The author comes from a Muslim perspective and reviews her works. The link is here ... it is good to hear other opinions and ideas.

http://loga-abdullah.blogspot.com/2008/11/defending-our-diin-ayaan-hirsi-ali.html

Hope you find it interesting.

Re: Ayaan

[theclamsman]

Interesting, yes, but nothing I haven't heard before from apologists, particularly this crap:

It is important that a person distinguish opinion from fact. Within her first novel Ayaan Hirsi Ali integrates people’s opinion, such as her grandmother, but does not clarify for her readers that such opinions are actually against the teachings of Islam. This leaves an incorrect impression that the ideas presented are actually those of Islam.

Opinions and assholes, everyone has one.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali is more than the sum of her books. It's as if you (I don't know who the Hell you are, whether you're a friends lister who chickenshitted out on signing your name, or just an anon for the sake of being anon/don't want to stand behind your words) plug your ears up to everything everyone has said and experienced because G-D IS GOOD, INSHALLAH ALLAH HU ACKBAR--the "That's the way it is because it is" argument. Like that point in the movie The Stoning of Soraya M. where Soraya is standing there about to be stoned and asked the town assholes (read

Re: Ayaan

[theclamsman]

I do have one mistake in my comment to correct: Ali is hardly free. She is always in hiding or on the lookout for her life because the ASSHOLES in her former religion want her dead. But she is at least free of the b.s.

[expanding_x_man]

Thanks for writing this. So few people that I know appear to be even aware of who Ayaan Hirsi Ali is, yet they are virulently anti-Israel -- even calling Israel an "apartheid state" and so on. So, this is a breath of fresh air.

I will check out some of these links to these groups. They sound like a piece of work, but all too typical.

That's intense that the Danish cartoonist had his house attacked and nearly burned up. When will more Americans wake up and smell the coffee about this "religion of peace"?

Certainly, there are many moderate and peaceful practitioners of Islam, but as you say - where are the voices in Islam against these types of atrocities (the stoning, the attacks on the cartoonist and on Van Gogh and Hirsi Ali) -- all too silent and when they speak up, ignored by the vast majority.

Most unfortunately, the American and European Left appears to concur.

[theclamsman]

I have learned quite a few things about the Muslims on Facebook, particularly the ones trolling the EDMD groups. So when I write "Muslims", unless it's otherwise preceded with a differentiating qualifier, I mean the Muslims on Facebook coming at us.

1. The Western Muslims don't understand anything about Islam in the original countries, i.e. an American Muslim doesn't quite understand why they need to be more vocal in order to change the way things are done. And if they are aware, they don't give a shit because they're just elated to be living in a place where women aren't required by law to wear burkhas.

2. A whoooooooooooole lot of Muslims hate Jews. Doesn't matter where the idiots are from--Saudi Arabia, Bosnia, Indonesia, Pakistan (ESPECIALLY the Pakistanis)--there is no shortage of Jew hating amongst them

[theclamsman]

Also, I don't know how accurate this is because I haven't read his book and thus haven't been able to gopher the information myself, but I find this meme interesting (bolded is what I agree with most):

"Adapted from Dr. Peter Hammond's book Slavery, Terrorism and Islam: The Historical Roots and Contemporary Threat.

Islam is not a religion, nor is it a cult. In its fullest form, it is a complete, total, 100% system of life. Islam has religious, legal, political, economic, social and military components. The religious component is a beard for all of the other components.Islamization begins when there are sufficient Muslims in a country to agitate for their religious privileges. When politically correct, tolerant, and culturally diverse societies agree to Muslim demands for their religious privileges, some of the other components tend to creep in as well

[theclamsman]

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