You'd better stop this bull...or we are going to track you down like a chicken and kill you.
Two months before unknown assailants murdered Hossam Armanious, his wife and two daughters in their Jersey City, NJ, home, Armanious received the above anonymous threat (see my post "Uncivil Rites."). According to the New York Sun's Daveed Gartenstein-Ross (scroll down), the threat came from a chat service site called PalTalk.com on which people frequently enter into debates about Islam. Gartenstein-Ross writes authorities have discovered a website called www.barsomyat.com that "systematically tracks Christians on PalTalk"--and posts personal information, even photographs, of those who criticize Islam. The site also "attempts to track down their addresses."
Authorities investigating the Armanious' murders have yet to determine if Islamic extremists are involved; nor have they found any link to barsomyat.com. Still, Gartenstein-Ross adds, "many barsomyat.com users expressed jubilation at the deaths" of the Coptic family.
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The New York Sun's Meghan Clyne writes that a report by a human rights's organization accuses Our Friends the Saudis of distributing Wahhabi literature in more than a dozen mosques across the U.S. Here is an excerpt from the report:
The documents stress that when Muslims are in the lands of the unbelievers, they must behave as if on a mission behind enemy lines. Either they are there to acquire new knowledge and make money to be later employed in the jihad against the infidels, or they are there to proselytize the infidels until at least some convert to Islam. Any other reason for lingering among the unbelievers in their lands is illegitimate, and unless a Muslim leaves as quickly as possible, he or she is not a true Muslim and so too must be condemned. For example, a document in the collection for the “Immigrant Muslim” bears the words “Greetings from the Cultural Attache in Washington, D.C.” of the Embassy of Saudi Arabia, and is published by the government of Saudi Arabia. In an authoritative religious voice, it gives detailed instructions on how to “hate” the Christian and Jew: Never greet them first. Never congratulate the infidel on his holiday. Never imitate the infidel. Do not become a naturalized citizen of the United States. Do not wear a graduation gown because this imitates the infidel.
Read the whole thing.
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The pull-quote of the New York Times article says it all:
Can Islamists change the Netherlands' open attitudes?
Immigrants, of course, are supposed to come to the West and gradually take on the attributes of the host country. But what if the opposite takes place?
The article, by Marlise Simons, notes how the Netherlands' main film festival in Rotterdam canceled a showing of "Submission," the short movie made by Theo van Gogh which cost the filmmaker his life. The film's producer "pulled the film on the advice of the police after receiving threats."
Meanwhile, a Morocco-Dutch painter has gone into hiding after an exhibition of his work, which critiqued radical clerics, opened in mid-January. The gallery has so far refused to remove the paintings.
This is creeping jihad. Not the bannered armies of the Amir al-Muninin sweeping from the Nadj to Andalusia, but immigrants using the freedoms granted to them by the West to deny people those same freedoms. As I noted in "Fatwa on Wisteria Lane," radical Muslims seem intent on suppressing not only anti-Muslim expression by Muslims, but by non-Muslims, as well--and increasingly any expression they find objectionable. Ominously, Simons writes, some Dutch
have quietly asked if self-censorship might be acceptable to keep the social peace.
No, it is not acceptable. Radical Islam will never conquer the West in the sense of occupying our capitals with its troops. They don't have to. They only need to frighten us into making gradual, incremental changes---always rational, justifiable, prudent--in our own life-styles until we live on terms not set by our choosing, but theirs. This is the Muslim Redoubt at work: a strategy of insularity, grandiosity and aggression that refuses to adapt to the "infidel" world, even as it demands that world adapt to it. Message to the Dutch--and all cultures faced with creeping jihad: concession is not an option; abandonment of principles, suicide.
As far as Wahhabi's history shows, they are not Muslims at all, but an artificial religion newly appeared to be known as extrimist Muslims by the globe. "Bin-Laden" was a Wahhabi, not a Muslim.
The same thing happened in Iran. Britain invented a new religion out of Islam and called it "Bahaee".
Posted by: Estahbanati | February 05, 2009 at 05:41 PM