Who Is Rashad Hussain?

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Daveed Gartenstein-Ross at the Long War Journal offers a first hand account of the Rashad Hussain of his acquaintance.

See: A defense of Rashad Hussain

It is worth reading.

Personally, I do not think that Islam is redeemable. That does not mean that it is necessary or even in our interests to treat all Muslims as terrorist. Most if not nearly all of them are just people like you and me. Their religion may separate us but we do not have to be bound by the doctrines of their religion.

Many Muslims believe that it is possible to have a "peaceful" Islam. They may be right. It is up these believers in a peaceful Islam to demonstrate to us how it could be.

If Rashad can show us an Islam that can be unlike the Islam that we have come to know, I am willing to give him that opertunity.

I fear that the Qur'an and the Hadith make such hopes impossible, but we can give him the bennifit of the doubt and accept for the moment that he really believes it to be possible.

Vectrasauris is back.

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I have been busy. (Distracted really.)

Now I am back.

The Lizard King at that other site has proven himself to be more of an ass than I could stomach.

Fie upon him.

May he go deaf in that horrible echo chamber of sophomoric and sycophantic blatherings of his own creation.

Diplomatic Sharia

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Evidence that Muslims feel that it is right and appropriate to impose their Religious Law and Customs on foreigners living in foreign countries.

The Jordanian farcical charges against Geert Wilders is meant to chill the debate about Islam. If Jordan can swear out charges against Geert Wilders, they can swear out charges against anybody. Even you. Of Course, its not like any of the European Countries or the US would turn over any one so charge to an Islamic court like the one in Jordan, at least, not yet.

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AMMAN (Reuters) - A Jordanian prosecutor on Tuesday charged Dutch politician Geert Wilders with blasphemy and contempt of Muslims for making an anti-Koran film and ordered him to stand trial in the kingdom, judicial sources said.

In Riyadh, the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC), a league of 56 Muslim nations, said it was "deeply annoyed" after Dutch prosecutors said on Monday they would not take action against Wilders as he was protected by the right to free speech.

"The decision ... encourages and supports the irresponsible defamatory style followed by some media outlets and instigates feelings of hatred, animosity and antipathy towards Muslims," the Saudi Arabia-based OIC, said in a statement.

http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSL015190420080701

_{Fuck Jordan}

"I taught that suicide attacks are legitimate under Islam."

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Sometimes, you just have to take these people at their word.

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The suspected nucleus of the network, janitor-turned-street preacher Benyettou, told the court the case against him was "fantasy" and an affront to his freedom of speech. He told the judge he had served only as a friendly ear to young people in his neighborhood, answering questions about Islam that went ignored by France's secular schools and institutions.

In one interrogation session with anti-terrorist agents, however, Benyettou said: "I taught that suicide attacks are legitimate under Islam."

"Jihad is justified," he said in another session in the days following his January 2005 arrest, according to the depositions viewed by The Associated Press.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23872546/

Canada, A Land Of Hero's.

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Ezra Levant is not alone in Canada. There are a number of other Hero's who are likewise battling the forces of Orwellian evil. Mark Steyn is under attack by the Canadian Islamic Congress for having had the temerity to write things that the CIC found unflattering. Mark Steyn and the Magazine, Macleans, that published his article is under attack by the Canadian Human Rights Commission, the same Stalinist shits that are harassing Ezra Levant. “Publisher Kenneth Whyte said he would rather go bankrupt than have the CIC set the terms for what the magazine publishes.”

The West needs to confront both the Islamist and the Stalinist that facilitate them. Both are enemies of freedom. Both must be defeated.

That threat that is Islam is beginning to be made plain to the West. The West must stand up to it.

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THOUGHT POLICE?

The idea a magazine should have to defend its writings to a government body has some critics warning of Soviet-style thought police and urging the commissions to get out of the business of regulating speech and expression.

Alan Borovoy, general counsel of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, said he fought to create human rights commissions "to deal with "discriminatory deeds ... not discriminatory words."

"Nobody thought it would be used to censure freedom of expression," he said.

The Canadian human rights commission would not comment on the case but said it was authorized by Parliament to investigate what it calls hate speech.

Freedom of expression is guaranteed in Canada's constitution, but laws have been enacted that restrict hate speech. In December, an Alberta human rights panel ruled that a local pastor broke a human rights law by writing letters to the editor urging citizens to stand up against what he described as militant homosexuality.

CBC commentator Rex Murphy said Maclean's should not have to defend itself for starting debate and stirring thought.

"Is every touchy, or agenda-driven sensibility now free to call upon the offices of the state and ... embroil them in 'justifying' their right to write and broadcast as they see fit?" he asked on CBC's flagship news program, The National.

Steyn said the CIC and law students acting on its behalf aimed to shut down debate by making it more trouble than it's worth for editors to run pieces on controversial topics.

But he added, "In using quasi-judicial coercion to squash debate, they make one of the central points of my argument -- that a proportion of Islam is inimical to Western traditions of freedom -- more eloquently than I ever could."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080106/wl_canada_nm/canada_muslims_press_col;_ylt=AmE45iNfaARWks7YUiBByoJvaA8F