Jihadi Du Jour: 05/01/2008

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Writing is also a bomb: The Moderate Muslim Threat

Malika El Aroud by her computer in her living room at
her home in Brussels in April. The Arabic banner on
the wall translates as: There is no God but Allah and
Mohamed is his Messenger.

Photo: (Hazel Thompson for The New York Times).

I have written many times that the greatest threat to Western Civilization is not al Qaeda or Muslim terrorists; it is your common, ordinary, average, moderate Joe or Jane Jihadi. The moderate Muslim does not blow up school buses or train stations or hospitals. The moderate Muslim does not slit the throats of Jews living peacefully in France. As brutal as these acts of terror may be, Civilization will continue and flourish despite the loss of a few hundred poor souls slaughtered by radical Islam.

But the real danger is in fact actually the moderate Muslim who, when offended by all that is infidel, demands that those offenses be removed or destroyed. In the civilized world we call those things science, women's rights, learning, free-speech, art, progress, technology, and freedom of the press. Islamic Scholars have even demanded that the West pass laws to criminalize insults to Islam.

The average American has no problem with our military bombing Afghanistan back to the stone age (as if it ever left the stone age) in retaliation for sheltering Osama bin Laden, but cannot see clearly to deporting Muslims because of some mistaken notion that Islam is a religion and fear that they would appear intolerant. It is never intolerant to fear and despise those who wish to destroy you. Most Americans cannot see the obvious danger that a small group of seemingly peaceful Muslims presents to our country.

Europe is day by day becoming more Muslim and less free. And not by an invading horde of terrorists but by moderate Muslims. The high fertility rate of moderate Muslims and the low fertility rate of infidels will enable Islam to accomplish in this century what it failed to do during the past fourteen: to establish a European Caliphate.

So slowly, insult by insult, flags of native countries are now considered racist and offensive to Muslim immigrants (not to terrorists but to moderate Muslims); women wearing western style clothing invite and deserve rape; art offensive to Muslims is pulled from museums; and so many other things offensive to Islam that it would take a thousand and one nights to catalogue. There is no shortage of websites that list things offensive to Muslims: here, here, here, and here.

The photo above is a portrait of a non-terrorist Muslim; that is to say, she does not actually engage in terrorist acts herself:

International Herald Tribune, Belgian woman wages war for Al Qaeda on the Web
BRUSSELS: On the street, Malika El Aroud is anonymous in an Islamic black veil covering all but her eyes.

In her living room, El Aroud, a 48-year-old Belgian, wears the ordinary look of middle age: a plain black T-shirt and pants and curly brown hair. The only adornment is a pair of powder-blue slippers monogrammed in gold with the letters SEXY.

But it is on the Internet that El Aroud has distinguished herself. Writing in French under the name Oum Obeyda, she has transformed herself into one of the most prominent Internet jihadists in Europe.

She calls herself a female holy warrior for Al Qaeda. She insists that she does not disseminate instructions on bomb-making and has no intention of taking up arms herself. Rather, she browbeats Muslim men to go and fight, and rallies women to join the cause.

"It's not my role to set off bombs - that's ridiculous," she said in a rare interview. "I have a weapon. It's to write. It's to speak out. That's my jihad. You can do many things with words. Writing is also a bomb."

There they are, teachers, bank clerks, nurses, theater cashiers, whatever. The kind of Muslim that dhimmis announce are friendly, quiet, hard-working, non-terrorists. They walk among us.

Cross-Posted at Planck's Constant

Labels: A World at War, caliphate, Jihad, Jihadists, muslim women, muslims insulted

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Wednesday, May 07, 2008

Gaza headmaster was Blank Blank rocket-maker

I would like to report the following news to you, my dear readers, using the new protocol suggested by our government in referring to terror groups. That is, to avoid referring to al-Qaida and other terrorist groups as Islamic or Muslim, and not to use terms like jihad or mujaheddin. Basically, we should avoid using terms that we in the West consider to have negative connotations when they, the

, consider those terms in a positive light.

Normally, I view censor bars as silly devices that attempt to mask the truth but end up in fact revealing more than they hide. In the following case we may in fact see the truth more plainly through their use. So here is an article from Reuters that might interest those of you that follow the activities of UNRWA in Israel:

EXCLUSIVE-Gaza headmaster was
"rocket-maker"
By day, Awad al-Qiq was a respected science teacher and headmaster at a United Nations school in the Gaza Strip. By night, say, he built rockets for .

The Israeli air strike that killed the 33-year-old last week also laid bare his apparent double life and embarrassed a U.N. agency which has long had to rebuff Israeli accusations that it has aided and abetted fighting the Jewish state.

In interviews with Reuters, students and colleagues, as well as U.N. officials, denied any knowledge of Qiq's work with explosives. And his family denied he had any links at all, despite a profusion of posters at his home.

But leaders allied to the enclave's ruling Hamas group hailed him as a who led "engineering unit" -- its bomb makers. They fired a salvo of improvised rockets into Israel in response to his death.
...
Qiq's body was wrapped in an flag at his funeral, pictorial posters in his honour still bedeck his family home this week, and a handwritten notice posted on the metal gate at the entrance to the school declared that Qiq, "the chief leader of the engineering unit", would now find "paradise".
...
Qiq's sister said his wife and five children were worried by the lack of news on any pension payment: "Awad did a lot for UNRWA," she said. "The family hoped UNRWA would support them."

So it seems Israel was not far off all these years when they complained that that militants use UNRWA vehicles and facilities in its attacks against Israel. Who knew? Now the UN can't deny it. What's instructive is that this mild-mannered, model citizen was in fact a

. As I've always said, we can't tell the

from the moderate, peaceful Muslim and we shouldn't have to. If we don't deport them all now and keep out all new ones then one day we will be faced with a very, very horrible alternative.

[A tip of the turban Hat Tip

to Infidels are Cool]

Cross-Posted at Planck's Constant

Labels: "Palestinians", United Nations

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Tuesday, May 06, 2008

Is there any country worse than Israel?

The Queen of Hearts
Photo by: Halloween Scene

The year was 1951 and I was only a few months past my 6th birthday when I fell in love with Disney's animated feature Alice in Wonderland. The previous year I had seen my first Disney film, Cinderella, and I thought that was the best thing I had ever seen in my 6 years of life, but now this Alice - this was mesmerizing.

The lunacy of Wonderland was intoxicating with characters and scenes popping up here and there with no sense or reason; I shivered as Alice struggled through the menacing forest; I couldn't take my ears off the mentholated purring of the Cheshire Cat; I strained to decipher the gibble-gabble of the Mad Hatter and his friends; I was a thrall to my seat throughout the film.

One thing that children are most sensitive to is the unfairness of adults. We want to stay up all night but mom says no. We want to eat ice cream and push away the broccoli but dad says we can only get to enjoy ice cream after we clean the plate. We want to run with scissors and swing wooden swords at our little brother but nanny takes away our weapons. So what I remember most starkly and what has remained riveted in my mind to this day was the ridiculously unfair trial of Alice by the tyrannical Queen of Hearts.

If you recall, the Queen summons the March Hare, the Mad Hatter and the Dormouse as witnesses against Alice and they end up holding an absurd, unbirthday party for her.

So now, whenever the UN demands, "Off with her head," in regard to Israel, no matter who's at fault, I am reminded of Alice in Wonderland.

The UN Human Rights Council was established on 15 Mar 2006. By April of 2007 the Council had passed nine resolutions condemning Israel and had been the only country the UN Human Rights Council had specifically condemned [Wiki].

Come on now, just on a practical level, more people die in Darfur in one month than Palestinians in the entire 8 years past, yet the Sudan, a country with egregious human rights abuses gets a pass from the Council with only an expressed "deep concern." Does that make any sense at all?

And it's not just the Sudan that is ignored by the HRC:

Washington Post, 25 Jun 2007, A Shadow on the Human Rights Movement
... the council chose to establish one permanent and special agenda item: the "human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories." In other words, Israel (or "Palestine," in the council's terminology), alone among the nations of the world, will be subjected to continual and open-ended examination. That's in keeping with the record of the council's first year: Eleven resolutions were directed at the Jewish state. None criticized any other government.

Genocide in Sudan, child slavery and religious persecution in China, mass repression in Zimbabwe and Burma, state-sponsored murder in Syria and Russia -- and, for that matter, suicide bombings by Arab terrorist movements -- will not receive systematic attention from the world body charged with monitoring human rights. That is reserved only for Israel, a democratic country that has been guilty of human rights violations but also has been under sustained assault from terrorists and governments openly committed to its extinction.

Remarkably, Irwin Cotler, Canada's former Minister of Justice was similarly reminded of Alice in regard to the HRC:

Israpundit, Cotler attacks the United Nations
In one week, at a meeting of the Human Rights Council, it did the following; it replaced John Duggard, who is the special rappatuer for Israel human rights violations in the occupied territories. I am not saying that the UN shouldn’t investigate human rights violations in the occupied territories. I am saying that the mandate is only to look into violations by Israel in the occupied territories. At the same time there is a special permanent UN Agenda item called Human Rights Violations by Israel in the occupied territories, and another one for the rest of the world.

In other words only one country is singled out for an Alice in Wonderland condemnation before the hearing takes place, under the auspices of the UN. The special rappatuer, John Duggard, who likened Israel to an apartheid state. You may not appreciate the seriousness of likening Israel to an apartheid state, is the cognoscenti of the UN and you should know that these meetings are attended by all kinds of people who are all exposed to this denunciation. In the lexicon of the International Criminal Court Treaty, an apartheid state is a criminal state that warrants being dismantled. All those who support that state are also seen to be complicit in the commission of a crime against humanity.

Is there any country worse than Israel? Not to the UNHRC. The March Hare, the Mad Hatter and the Dormouse are now running the Human Rights Council. Perhaps it's time to host an unbirthday party for the United nations?

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