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February 17, 2006
Religion of Peace™ looking for a hitman
While idiots at KosKiddies think Christians and Islamists are the same, a peace-loving, tolerant, uses nothing but persuasion Islamist cleric is offering a $1 Million Dollar bounty on "offensive to Muhammed" cartoonists
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - A Pakistani cleric on Friday announced a $1 million bounty for killing a cartoonist who drew Prophet Muhammad, as thousands joined street rallies across the country and authorities arrested scores of protesters. [...]In the northwestern city of Peshawar, where riots left two dead and scores injured on Wednesday, prayer leader Mohammed Yousaf Qureshi announced the bounty for killing a cartoonist to about 1,000 people outside the Mohabat Khan mosque, where worshippers burned a flag of Denmark and an effigy of the Danish prime minister.
He said the mosque and his religious school would give $25,000 and a car, while a local jewelers' association would give another $1 million. No representative of the association was available to confirm it had made the offer.
"This is a unanimous decision of by all imams (prayer leaders) of Islam that whoever insults the prophet deserves to be killed and whoever will take this insulting man to his end, will get this prize," Qureshi said.
Technorati: Islamofascism
Posted by Darleen at February 17, 2006 07:45 AM
Comments
I saw this coming years ago, when I worked in a bookstore during the Rushdie/Satanic Verses Affair. We haven't learned a thing since then.
Bottom line---the Left really is afraid of Islamic fanatics, and they aren't one bit afraid of Jews or Christians, despite all their protestations to the contrary.
I'm still waiting for Ted Rall, or Gary Trudeau, to do show us all how gutsy they are and draw some hilarious Mohammed cartoons in solidarity with their embattled Danish co-cartoonists.
Posted by: TalkinKamel at February 17, 2006 08:12 AM
- the Liberal cadre, particularly the feckless artists that do the "Mary in cow dung" displays on taxpayers money, should just go ahead and rename themselves "Hipocrites-R-Us"...
Posted by: Big Bang Hunter at February 17, 2006 08:21 AM
Most Muslims are peace-loving; except for those in the Middle East who look to clerics for guidance.
THe clerics are the real problem; as is the Islamic belief that church and state are somehow one entity, or at least should be.
Posted by: Carl W. Goss at February 17, 2006 09:01 AM
Um, Darleen,
What's the difference between a Muslim cleric calling for the killing of a cartoonist and Pat Robertson, a Christian leader, calling for the assassination of Chavez?
Posted by: Brad at February 17, 2006 10:26 AM
JAYsus, Brad,
Stop being an ass. Robertson was roundly condemned and last I looked there were not hordes of bomb-girdled Christians running off to Venezula.
The moral equivalency argument is really really strained. You must be finally embarrassed by the Islamists. Since the beheading of Pearl and Berg didn't do it, or the murder of Jew children in Israel, I'm curious. What finally caused the embarrassment?
Posted by: Darleen at February 17, 2006 11:18 AM
Robertson was roundly condemned and last I looked there were not hordes of bomb-girdled Christians running off to Venezula
No, just hordes of bomb-dropping U.S. planes piloted by Christians flying over Iraq.
(and Was Ann Coulter roundly condemned for saying after 9/11, "We should invade their countries, overthrow their leaders and convert them to Christianity?")
This is about moral equivalency either. It's about honesty: you Right Wingers will never admit that you honestly think all Muslims are fanatics and espouse violence.
Posted by: Brad at February 17, 2006 02:27 PM
Brad
What.the.fuck? When did Pat Robertson order planes into Iraq and when did Iraq become about Christians?? You are making NO SENSE. And your memory is as faulty as your 'reasoning' as Coulter LOST HER JOB over those remarks. Think the same thing will happen to Gumbel?
Posted by: Darleen at February 17, 2006 03:55 PM
You're taking me too literally.
Conservative leaders in this country influence foreign policy and influence attitudes about Arab peoples. A majority of Muslims in the Middle East think that the U.S. is invading and occupying and bombing their homes because of their religion. That perception is of course inaccurate...but no more inaccurate than the perception by American conservatives that the entire Muslim world is in full scale riot over these cartoons.
Last I checked Ann Coulter was still a best selling author with a devoted following on Townhall.com and in the Right Wing Media. She wasn't penalized for her statement-- she was rewarded. And I'll bet you both she and Pat Robertson have more followers than the Pakistani cleric who announced that bounty.
Posted by: Brad at February 17, 2006 08:12 PM
- To a certain extent I understand part of your argument Brad. Yes our efforts to get the Jihadists has us in a position that the Clerics can capitilize on. But theres nothing unique about the enemy using your very presense on their turf to try to jack up their troops. So whats your point. We should just let them whack us with no like response, because we're afraid they'll get mad or we'll hurt their feelings?
- On another front, how about we talk about the number of Americans that have been murdered starting in the late 70's versus the number of Muslims we've dispatched here in America. I know there were something like 250" Marines and personel killed in Lebenon and the list grows from there, 17 on the Cole, 18 at the first WTC, 2500 at the second WTC ect ect. At the moment, aside from the terrorists we've tracked down and the Bathists and ex-Husseinists and al Qaeda in Iraq, and the Talibon who decided to try to protect al Qaeda in Afghanistan, I can't think of any Muslims we've killed here in America, much less in the name of Christianity. Your arguments suck it, pure and simple, and whether you want to agree or not they do try to warp things into moral equivalency. As far as Coulter I don't think she went far enough. When a lunitic like the Pres. of Iran denies the holocaust, calls for the iradication of Israel, and just generally declares war on anyone whos is not a radical Muslin and works to gain the bomb making it clear what he'd do with it as soon as he could, we ought to turn the whole fucking place into radioactive glass.
Posted by: Big Bang Hunter at February 17, 2006 11:28 PM
Now that the cultural colossi of Wingnuttia have declared that the enemy is Islam, and that it is treason to give any analysis to this complex and dire problem, I'd really like to know....What solution do you propose? Let's hear it. You like to twitter about being the only party with ideas in America. What's yours?
We're doing the liberation thing and the democracy spreading thing. How's that working out? Hmmm, a DANISH paper runs a cartoon and the people for some reason burn down AMERICAN icons like KFC. So it would appear perhaps this whole nation building/humanitarian/liberation/democracy spreading/ imperial adventure we've sacrificed our blood and treasure for so far...has not been helpful in this area.
Now remembering that we are the valiant heroes of a superior culture, it should not be difficult for the flowers of our Western perfection to solve this problem. Do we infest their felafel with sterilization drugs? Do we capture all the babies and re-educate them in the Texas public education system? Do we just extirminate them and put the GOP in charge of creating new free market paradises there?
You fools wouldn't just be bitching and moaning and congratulating yourselves because your parents conceived you in America, are you?
Meanwhile, while you all were doing your daily worship to the Cult, they done went and SOLD OUR PORT SECURITY TO THE UAE! No this is not a joke. Your dear leader approved the sale of NYC port security to a nation known to harbor terrorists. Port security! Where anonymous men in workclothes board fucking ships!
Now this won't matter to y'all out there in Bumfuckia, but here in the real world, where terrorism isn't just a masturbatory device for our own bigotry, you can see why we have more important things to worry about than whether Islamicists should uphold free speech. We have to worry about your Retarded Puppet King getting us all killed.
Posted by: A Friend at February 18, 2006 04:19 AM
- Oh I'm going to enjoy watching the asshats do a meltdown on this one, and show their "elitist" ignorance clearly to anyone that cares to listen to their uneducated babble.
- You really need to get your talking points from some source other than that commie rag, The NYTrash. Pravda west is great for wrapping fish scrapes in, thats about it.
- I'm not going to educate you on this one dickwad, just let you rave. But you should maybe stop and do a little research before you follow your Marxist leaders over the cliff on this one.
- How many times have you been to the UAE moonie?
- They have a country wide security system thats the envy of every other country in the world. I know. I helped build it.
- Harbor terrorists. Well if you are referring to the fact that everytime a known terrorist enters their country they get slapped in prison, interrogated, and either tried or deported back to their country of origin, then I guess you could call that harboring. You should wish we had half the security systems they do . But hey. By all means rave on.
- I'm going to relish watching all your communist
shit heads explode when Condi wins in 2008.
Posted by: Big Bang Hunter at February 18, 2006 07:10 AM
Well then let me educate you, you incredibly limp little wingnut has been:
I'll let this Communist shithead speak for me, Rep. Cong. Mark Foley:
"Six of our largest commercial ports are being handed over to a country that is seeking to be Iran's free trade partner and has been linked to the funding and planning of 9/11. If our ports are the most vulnerable targets for terrorism and if we are at war, as the President says, we should be overly critical of handing over management of our ports to any foreign countries, post 9/11. Instead, this was done in the dead of night."
Even that Bush asskisser, Peter King, hardcore Repub from NY, upon learning that the US gov't is not going to require either security checks on the company, nor review their security procedures, came to this conclusion: "In the post-9/11 world, there should have been a presumption against this company," said Mr. King, a Republican. He added that people in the intelligence community had told him they had concerns about how the company operated the port of Dubai, one of the United Arab Emirates.
"I'm going to be pushing as hard as I can to slow this down." Mr. King said.
The Dem senator from NJ has proposed legislation to prevent ANY foreign owned company from obtaining port security contracts. Your "president" opposes that legislation.
In between your two military campaigns and "building" UAE's security system, I'm starting to wonder how you ended up in the backwaters of Darleens' stagnant little blog. Given the corruption and incompetence of the American companies currently ransacking the Middle East, and getting an occasional glimpse of the character of mercenary types they attract...I'd have to say your participating in UAE security is NOT the kind of thing that is going to give most of your fellow Americans (all us "commies", you moron) any confidence whatsoever. But what will you care? If they incinerate Manhattan it will just be a super exciting day on darleen's little whinebox.
Posted by: A Friend at February 18, 2006 09:36 AM
- Theres absolutely nothing wrong with intensive oversite moonie. In fact if it would get this administration off its dead ass, paying attention too defense and security instead of wasting time responding to the truculent attacks of the desperate out of power minority, then its served a usefull purpose. But if its real security you want instead of just political talking points then we could all take a lesson from the Emirates.
Posted by: Big Bang Hunter at February 18, 2006 09:48 AM
- Oh and if you feel Darleens little blog is so stagnent why do you spend so much of your valuable time here with people that are obviously beneath your superior reasoning power. What an arrogant asshat. And then you sit in your ideolog puddle, attacking everyone that has a different point of view and expect thats a winning formula at the ballot box. The left has become its own worst intolerant, bigoted enemy. The gift that truly just keeps on giving....
Posted by: Big Bang Hunter at February 18, 2006 09:55 AM
Funny to hear you call me a moonie. You do know that it is THE Moonies, as in Sun Myung Moon, and his bizarro psuedo-christian CULT that owns and runs your very own Washington Times, don't you? How fitting is that? You're paranoid about the NY TImes but you swallow actual MOONIE swill every day without question.
And yes, banger, you and darleen just keep on WHINGING about how meeeeeeaaan the lefty loonies are. Do you even READ darleen's front page? Y'all got viciousness and personalization of politicas refined to high art.
Posted by: A Friend at February 18, 2006 12:15 PM
Stop whining baybeeeee.... you like to dish but you don't like to take it so much. Typical asshat...
Posted by: Big Bang Hunter at February 18, 2006 01:54 PM
- The worst of it all is that we Conservatives do have a few viable bones to pick with the Admin, but you can never get close to those issues because of the constent childish screeching, and wild foaming at the mouth of the left in the “Get Bush” marathon. Which, if they were half as smart as they think they are, they’d realize isn’t working, will never work, and in the end just makes their plight that much worse. They have a real problem now, because they tossed the dice on the idea of demonizing Bush and its failed miserably and they’re running out of time. But then they have no plan, other than ALL Socialism ALL the time, which they know will get kicked to the curb everytime they go with that. I’ve noticed lately that even some of the most far left talking heads on TV are starting to openly lament the lack of a viable Democratic plan, and admitting that “Bush bad, Left good” is not a plan.
- Me, I’m just relishing the idea of Gulliani/Condi ticket in 2008. The Dems will have no choice but to trot out the Racial bigotry smear/attack machine, and in doing so, they’ll lose another 30% of their base. No matter how you look at it they’re trapped. Couldn’t happen to a nuttier group of birdbrains….
Posted by: Big Bang Hunter at February 18, 2006 02:55 PM
Oh, I'd relish a Giuliani Condi ticket too.
Let's see. We'll put Giuliani out there in the Bible Belt, with his pro-abortion, pro-gayrights beliefs, and all that backstory (true, not swiftboat slander) that he kept his mistress (now his THIRD wife) in Gracie Mansion while his wife and teenage kids were still living there. We can mention that this guy has ZERO experience dealing with foreign affairs and that he in fact was at least partly to blame for the miscommunication problems that led to the deaths of over TWO HUNDRED of our FDNY. (He's not forgiven here in this city, especially not by those of us with family in the FDNY.) And how he aided and abetted the corrupt Bernie in USING apartments paid for to give rest to emergency workers - used them to have his extramarital affair with his publisher, all with Rudy's knowledge and blessing. Yep, he'd be fun.
And Condi of course...she of the "only historically important" PDB about "bin laden being determined to fly an airplaine into a building". Not to mention how she'd play in that bastion of undisguised racism known a s the American South.
Fun times are coming. Too bad they're going to put up bland George Allen instead.
Posted by: A Friend at February 18, 2006 04:52 PM
Maybe he can borrow LurchKerry's granade launcher and form 180
Posted by: Big Bang Hunter at February 18, 2006 07:55 PM
BBH,
Your description of the wonderful security situation in the UAE is not reassuring at all...it's terifying. Presumably you support Bush's campaign to spread freedom and Democracy in the Middle East; yet you acknowledge that what the Middle East, and the West, really needs is a good solid Authoritarian regime that squelches all dissent. That would explain why the once-libertarian conservative Right has become so supportive of warrantless surveillance; you're really in favor of a Right Wing dictator who will secure our homeland like Franco secured Spain.
That's not conservatism, by the way. That's fascism.
Posted by: Brad at February 18, 2006 08:20 PM
Yeh Brad... I know the left loves to "project" Fascism. Prolem is they project onto the wrong template. I don't remember any Religion in the west declaring a Fatwa on Islam. I don't recall that prior to 9/11 we were terrorizing any of the "peaceful" Muslim countries like Iran. Yet you lefturds want so badly to paint us as the bad guys because you hate a representative, majority rule Republics, and you want to replace it so badly with yet another Zombie French style Socialism. Isn't going to happen, no matter how hard you rave and try. Your whole revisionist pile of crap is just a way to reframe the argument. Socialists hate any form of self determination and responsibility, no matter what its called. We don't want to dictate anything, we just want to be left in peace to enjoy the fruits of our labors and our freedoms to worship as we choose and all the other rights we enjoy. thats not Fascism, thats called liberty. But with Liberty comes responsibility, and thats the part the left runs away from at every opportunity. As I told another asshat on here once, when you start telling the other guy what he thinks and feels you're almost always going to be way off the mark unless you're Cleo. But when you need to skew things to gain an edge, no lie is to outreageous. After all; "The ends justifie the means". Right Komrade......
Posted by: Big Bang Hunter at February 18, 2006 09:47 PM
Oh and btw Brad....the last country I recall being afraid of the "spread of Democracy" was The Soviet Union. Interesting you share their beliefs. Everyone who is for liberty and independence sees through your agenda.
Lets see.....
- Secure our borders and the flow of drugs will be severly crimped. Bad thing for some. Check.
- Monitor the enemies calls and they'll be at a disadvantage. Bad thing when you're trying to undermine the government. Check.
- Hates the idea of the spread of Democracy. Lets see. Who hates Democracy. Communists. Check. Marxists. Check. Anarchists. Check. Socialists. Check. Islamo Fascists. Check.
- Freedom of religion. Bad if you're an Atheist. Check.
- Freedom to abort on a whim. Great if you want to fuck at will indescriminently, and avoid responsibility. Check.
- Kill traditional marraige. Good for people that think morals and feality is for morons. Check.
- Don't fight for your country. Good for people who hate personal responsibility or things like honor, and character, and believing in something. Check.
What you're left with is anything anti-American tradition is good. Siding with the enemy is good. Tearing down any and all American traditions, religious, Family, all have to go. Check.
Thats just got to be a winning formula at the ballot box. Good luck.
Posted by: Big Bang Hunter at February 18, 2006 11:07 PM
ANyone who still thinks the US can impose democracy on the Middle East ought to read
Shibley Telhami's article at
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/16/AR2006021601576.html
Posted by: Carl W. Goss at February 19, 2006 07:45 AM
I don't think anyone wants to "impose" it. We're giving them a chance. What they do with it, in the long run, is up to them. Soon they'll be on their own. If it doesn't take, well it is what it is. Personally I don't think thats the way things will settle down in the middle east anyway. Iran and Syria are the keys. What they do, and how the world handles it, will tell the tale. Not Iraq. We need to gain independence from an oil based economy. If we weren't pumping billions into the region the whole Islamo-fascist movement would run out of steam, or at the very least we'd no longer be their target of choice.
Posted by: Big Bang Hunter at February 19, 2006 09:24 AM
What's the difference between a Muslim cleric calling for the killing of a cartoonist and Pat Robertson, a Christian leader, calling for the assassination of Chavez?
For one thing, Mr. Linguini Spine, Robertson didn't put up a bounty offering a blunt quid pro quo. He didn't promise money and reward to any lunatic (overbred in ME), encouraging the kill.
And who else but a brain-dead liberal would find a moral equivalency between a despot, mindlessly and egotistically holding a whole country hostage, and also destabilizing an entire region, and some anonymous, foreign illustrator.
Any other questions genius?
Preparing for Knee-Jerk Godwining™ from boilerplate leftist.
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