Al-Qaida has released a video in which a senior commander issues threats believed to be principally directed toward Denmark over the Danish cartoons issue.
In the video, the speaker, Mustafa Abu-al Yazid, who was rumored to have been killed in an air strike in July, says the following:
"We have warned previously - and we warn once more - the crusader states which insult, mock and defame our Prophet and Quran in their media and occupy our lands, steal our treasure and kill our brothers that we will exact revenge at the appropriate time and place,"
This should serve as a reminder to those of us in the West that we must stand with the Danes. It would seem to me that the US, NATO and the EU should make an unequivocal public statement that our countries will never stop freedom of expression, that we will never succumb to threats, and we specifically stand with the people of Denmark against the threats of a bunch of 7th century barbarians who want to impose their religion on the rest of the world.
Now everybody hold your breath......
Unfortunately, it is up to a handful of people (like us) to speak up against the hate, the terror and the intimidation. Very few of our leaders will do it. The media won't do it. Hollywood won't do it. Our universities act like prostitutes in the face of radical Muslim Student Unions. Hopefully, if enough of our citizens get fed up with this Islamic intimidation, they will demand that our leaders get some backbone.
Europe is, whether they want to face it or not, at a crossroads in its history. If they continue to submit to Islamic radicals, they will find themselves a majority Islamic society in a couple of generations if demographic trends continue. So proud of their secularism now, they will not be secular if that day arrives.
If it can happen in Europe, America could follow within a few decades.
But back to the immediate issue in this posting. We must stand with those Danes and other Europeans who are speaking out against Islamic radicalism-under threat of death in their own countries and sometimes under threat of prosecution by cowardly authorities, eager to stay on the "good side" of Muslims.
Who came up with the idea that submitting to Islamic radicals was a sign of respect towards decent, peaceful Muslims?
This latest threat should spur us all to re-commit ourselves to stand up for the Danes and against those that threaten them.
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Who came up with the idea that submitting to Islamic radicals was a sign of respect towards decent, peaceful Muslims?
That's really the heart of it right there, isn't it?
Yes.
So you're in favor of freedom of speech when it comes to insulting Muslims, but if Palin wants to ban books, that's okay?
Bryan,
It's not a question of insulting Muslims. It's a question of speaking out against radical Islam, terror, anti-Semitism, hate speech, etc-all those things that are being practiced in the name of Islam by people who are destroying the reputation of the religion. You need look no further than UCI.
As for banning books, I have gone back and forth on this with Lance. You might want to check out our exchanges.
Oh, stop it Bryan,
I am trying to answer Lance's questions about banning books in Wasilla's library when I don't even know what they are. I have said that a handbook on how to carry out a hit job that has already been linked to one murder should be banned from a library. I think I also said that I would ban something that explicitly called for killing other ethnic groups. I have also said that X-rated porn has no place in a public library. I will stand by that. Does that mean I want to ban books that criticize George Bush? C'mon!
As for the other issue. I have repeatedly said that given what is occurring in the world today (which I need not recite again here) we have a legitimate right to question the true nature Of Islam. I know not all Muslims are Jihadists or Jihadist sympathizers. There are those Muslims who have risked their lives to speak out and oppose the terror and hate being preached-they are my heroes. Unfortunately, they are a small minority. Instead, what we get is silence or complaints about prejudice, racial profiling or insulting religion.
Why is that? Is it fear? Is it because they secretely have sympathy for the killers? Is it because when you examine the life and teachings of Mohammed (who was a warrior) and what is written in the Koran, that so-called moderate Muslims feel that they cannot win a theological debate? Is it a combination of all three? I may not have the answers, but is it racist to talk about these questions in light of so many terrible things being done in the name of Islam? Is it racist to stand up and tell Muslims that we will not change our free societies to suit their sensibilities? Is it racist to stand up and tell them they will never impose their religion and Shariah law on the rest of us? If so, then I am guilty.
As to the cartoons. I would not have drawn them in the first place. They may be tasteless, but they are an understandable expression in the face of terror carried out in Islam's name. When Muslims react with violence, bombings, killings and demands for imprisonment or death for the publishers and artists, then they only giving credence to the cartoons.
I say this over and over. Muslims should defend their faith. But they don't need to defend it from non-Muslims. They need to defend it from those who are taking over the religion through terror.
It is not enough to "condemn" terrorism. It must be defeated.
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