Bloodthirsty Liberal

Iran’s got a big scare. And it’s name is Shapiro:

Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei said that the region would soon witness annihilation of the Zionist regime, stressing that Muslim countries can make such a happening even more imminent.

“Certainly, the regional countries will witness the annihilation of the Zionist regime one day and its proximity in terms of time depends on the function of the Islamic countries and Muslim nations,” Ayatollah Khamenei said in a meeting with Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz on Wednesday.

He further stressed that Mauritanian government’s severance of ties with Israel last year served a good model for certain Arab governments.

“The Zionist regime is a big danger to the Muslim world, which hatches plots every day to expand its infiltration and dominance in the region,” Ayatollah Khamenei warned.

It is?

Really?

Can you find Israel in there anywhere? You have to look hard and squint. It’s like “Where’s Waldstein?”

I can see the Zionist regime being a danger to Nepal, maybe, or Ghana—not enough Muslims there to fend off its “plots” and “infiltration” and “dominance”….

I’m sorry, I can’t go on. It’s kind of funny, but not really.

Especially when you think that the wacky ayatollah who thinks like this is about to have a picnic basket full of tactical nuclear weapons. Funny, but funny as a mushroom cloud.

PS: I wonder why the map shows Sudan and Somalia as a neutral color? Aren’t they largely Muslim? And why isn’t Iran ticked of at Uganda and Georgia and Cyprus, and other states that spoil the uninterrupted map of Muslimity? Why is it only Israel that drives them crazier than they already are? I mean, I think I know, but I’m just posing the question.

A Nigerian picks up loaded underpants in Yemen and boards a plane in The Netherlands.

I blame Israel:

Following are excerpts from a TV debate with Abdul Alim Musa, Imam of the Islam Mosque, Washington DC….

Abdul Alim Musa: … I am just going to go straight to the point. If you go back for the last 20 years, from the first World Trade Center bombing in ‘93… This is our view, from those who… We said it then, and we say it now, and this is the belief in the Muslim world: 90% of the bombing plots – or this plot or that plot – we believe is done by and with the help and the aid of Mossad, and the United States government. This is our experience. We believe that whoever this guy is from Nigeria - we don’t believe he has any ties with Islam.

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Interviewer: Wait a second, did you say that America may have played a role in this?

Abdul Alim Musa: No, we said they definitely did.

Interviewer: Definitely played a role?

Abdul Alim Musa: Yes, definitely.

It may shock you to learn that before gettin’ religion, Moose was a big time drug dealer and sympathizer with the Black Panthers and the Nation of Islam. Discover the Networks, the Anti-Defamation League, and The Investigative Project have the details.

Suffice it to say, this is mild for him.

This is more typical:

When they go out and strike at the heart of Zionism. They are not suicide bombers they are heroes they are she-roes, isn’t that right? That’s a part of our deen, that’s a part of our religion, lets not become weak boned and apologetic, and run around trying to appease this government and that government.

And this:

We have Imams going on television and radio talking about how there is no Jihad in Islam. Oh no there is no Jihad in Islam. Islam means peace. But Allah (swt) says [Arabic] He loves those who fight in his way like a solid cemented structure. So when we have believers in Palestine going out and fighting in the way of Allah, our Imams should not be jumping up on television talking about how they are suicide bombers. They are not suicide bombers They are martyrs.

I just wonder where he gets his money?

Editor’s note: The correct translation of the protest chant quoted below should read “Death to the snot-nosed, punk-ass, shrimp of a dictator with smelly armpits and holey underwear.!”

SPIEGEL: Ayatollah Kadivar, what did Hossein Ali Montazeri mean to you, and what role did he play for the Iranian people?

Kadivar: He was my teacher, my spiritual guide, my father — the most important person in my life. I studied as a young man under him when he was the Revolutionary Leader’s deputy. I admired the way he fought along side Khomeini, but then also for his candid criticism of him. I cried when Khomeini repudiated him. For Iran, Grand Ayatollah Montazeri was a true beacon of light and, in the end, a spiritual leader for the green opposition.

SPIEGEL: The authorities prevented independent media coverage of his funeral. People spoke of a provocation and rioting. What really happened last Monday in Qom?

Kadivar: My relatives were part of the funeral procession, which included hundreds of thousands of people, including a nephew of Khomeini’s. From them I know that the Basij militias attempted to provoke peaceful mourners to commit violence. They didn’t do them this favor. But they did shout out slogans that had never been heard before in Qom, Iran’s most conservative city: “Death to the dictator! Our leader is our shame!” On that day, the people were particularly angry at supreme religious leader Ali Khamenei.

SPIEGEL: Why?

Kadivar: Khamenei said in his message of mourning that Montazeri had failed at a crucial point in his life. Everyone knew that he meant Montazeri’s confrontation with Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic. Khamenei did not speak in the “I” form, but rather in the “we” form, as if he were the voice of Allah on forgiving Montazeri’s mistake in hereafter. That upset people. After all, the mourners said, only God can decide who failed and at which turning point in the Islamic Republic. Khamenei is not God.

SPIEGEL: Montazeri succeeded in recent months in uniting the religious and secular wings of the opposition. Has his death weakened the dissident movement?

Kadivar: The exact opposite is true. The mourning will actually strengthen the opposition’s determination. The Shiite Ashura (a religious holiday to take place on Sunday), which is symbolically about justice, will provide a further boost for the protest. The authorities are not able to ban this ceremony, which coincides with the seventh day after Montazeri’s death.

I’m getting a little tired of waiting for the next Iranian revolution. I’d like it to happen, I think the world desperately needs for it to happen—but I’m not holding my breath.

Hey, maybe President Obama will send in the choppers, like Carter did!

Nah, maybe not.

What will become of us?

A dispute has broken out in Saudi Arabia after a fatwa was issued by Ahmad Qasim Al-Ghamdi, director of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice for Mecca, permitting mixing of the genders.

Al-Ghamdi also said that there are hadiths proving that a woman can shake a man’s hand.

You take that back!

Next they’ll rule that a six year-old can play hopscotch rather than hop into her husband’s bed.

Hey Israel, he’s talking to you!

Following are excerpts from a Baghdad Friday sermon by Sheik Abd Al-Khalil Al-Fadhawi, which aired on Baghdad TV on November 20, 2009.

That false Israel, that dagger planted in the heart of the [Islamic] nation, that cancerous growth in our countries… The West vomited all over the East, and that vomit is the state of Israel. People, speaking hundreds of languages, were brought from 59 countries, but have you heard, over the past sixty years, of a Jewish civil war?

Why do we fight one another? Why do we have differences? Why do we hurt one another? Why do we bring one another down? We must unite and bring death upon the plots of the enemies, before they spread them among us.

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We should know that the [West] would like to break up the Muslim family – children, daughters, men, and women. It enrages them to see that Muslims take pride in their families, in their mothers, their fathers, and their children. They themselves live in shattered families. Their women are in the streets, their elderly in old-age homes, their babies in day-care centers, and the children in orphanages. Their families are in shreds. There is a constant rise in the number of waifs and illegitimate children.

Even worse, they have now discovered a new type of family – two men married to one another, or two women married to one another. In the Los Angeles area, there were 40,000 marriages of man to man, and 45,000 marriages of woman to woman.

They want to create families that are alien to the Muslim countries. They want to tear families apart, and to destroy the countries of the Muslims. We should encourage our youth to marry at a young age.

What, eight isn’t young enough for you? Six? I’ve known some awfully cute four-year-olds.

As I usually say somewhere about this point, it’s not about the settlements.

This guy is a Sudanese cleric—but I’m sure he studied in Egypt:

Following are excerpts from a Friday sermon delivered in Khartoum by Sheik Abd Al-Jalil Al-Karouri, which aired on Sudan TV on October 30, 2009.

Our history with Christianity is one of friendship, while our history with Judaism is a history of war – not because of their sectarian affiliation, but because of the corrupt Jewish scheme. Since the dawn of history and to this day, they are destined to spread corruption in the land.

We want the world to see Islam’s relations with the other religions in the proper light, in order to achieve world peace. The bloody conflicts in the world today are because we live in “Israeli” times. Israel is recruiting the Christian world against Islam, and this causes a rift in international relations.

[…]

Just like the Jews tried to kill the Prophet Muhammad, they tried to kill Christ, and according to their faith, they indeed killed and crucified him. Despite this, the Jews were granted a pardon. Moreover, the West today is seeking absolution for the Holocaust by trying to serve the Israeli entity. They are seeking absolution for the historical Holocaust. The reason is that the Christian belief is linked to Judaism these days. It is called Zio-Christianity.

This belief resides in the White House, regardless of who occupies it. Some believe in it, like the former US president, and others succumb to it, like the current US president. Therefore, the current US policy is not in its best interests. [Benjamin] Franklin, one of the founders of the American nation, warned them about the Jews 200 years ago, but they did not heed this warning.

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We heard [Obama’s] speech in Cairo and were pleased about it. From this podium, we welcomed our son, OBAMA HUSSEIN, hoping that he would not take the same path as his predecessor. But he is taking the same path.

Israelis are beginning to call Obama Hussein openly anti-Semitic, while Muslim clerics say he’s poisoned by… what is it again? Zio-Christianity.

If everybody hates you, maybe you’re doing something right. Or maybe you’re just a tool.

I can’t tell one imam from another mullah, so I didn’t remember this right away. But you know the radical Muslim cleric so admired by the Fort Hood terrorist jihadi, Hasan—the one who praised him for his shooting spree?

His name is Anwar al-Awlaki—and we had a story about him two weeks ago.

He counted forty-plus ways to conduct jihad, but neglected to number base-shooting among them. I smell a sequel.

I had lost my way, but now, thanks to my friends the Egyptian clerics, I am found. How ever could I have strayed from their wisdom?

On Jews:

Following are excerpts from an address by Egyptian cleric Amin Al-Ansari, which aired on Al-Rahma TV on October 12, 2009.

Amin Al-Ansari: God has filled people’s hearts with loathing for these [Jews]. Let’s take a look at the field of sports. Forget about politics, military issues, and so on. Let’s look at sports on the international level. How come there are no successful Israeli sportsmen, like in any other people? They are abhorred. God does not let people be friendly with them.

[…]

Footage of soccer game, showing Chelsea player kicking the Israeli Yossi Benayoun, playing for Liverpool

Amin Al-Ansari: This is a Jewish soccer player, who behaved unjustly even on the field. But Allah be praised… Let’s take another look.

…

Look at this Jew being kicked. People hate them. They don’t like them.

[…]

We are not talking only about people. [The same goes] even for trees and animals. You know, there is rather peculiar footage, in which an Arab man who has a camel loves it and kisses it, and the camel kisses him back. Along comes a Jew and wants to kiss the camel, just like the Arab. What do you think the camel did? Let’s watch.

Footage showing Arab kissing camel and camel trying to bite Jewish man

Amin Al-Ansari: Look what happens when the Jew tries to kiss it…

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No, animals can sense things. The proof is that the Prophet Muhammad said that when Judgment Day draws near, the final war between the Muslims and the Jews will take place. The Prophet said that the Muslims would kill the Jews. “Judgment Day will not come before the Muslims fight the Jews and kill them.” The Muslims will kill the Jews. Be patient. All the trees and all the stones will say: “Oh Muslim, oh servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him….

The next Jew who kisses and fondles a camel will be the first, I’m fairly confident in saying, but don’t let that stop you Arabs. Those desert treks can be awfully long and lonely.

And speaking of women (and their lack):

Following are excerpts from an address by Egyptian cleric Sheik Masoud Anwar, which aired on Al-Rahma TV on March 13, 2009:

Non-Muslims in Europe and the US say to you: “You people worship the sexual urges. You marry four wives?!” They deny us polygamy, but they do not deny themselves their multiple lovers. Rarely do you find someone in Europe or the US who makes do with a single woman. They marry one wife, but fornicate with a hundred women. The same goes for the Western woman. She sees her husband befriending and getting intimate with other women, and she cannot deter him, so she sinks into the same decay. She dances with whoever she wants, she sleeps with whoever she wants, and she has sex with whoever she wants, and usually, this is with her husband’s knowledge and his blessing. They follow the principle: Allow me, and I will allow you. Let me be, and I will let you be too. My question is: Is there among them a man of honor, who can lift his head high with pride and say: “I have never once committed adultery”?

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In Europe, nobody criticizes the multitude of lovers. They say: People have personal liberties. Europe… America… All we see there are whores and prostitutes. That is the culture of promiscuity – the culture of sex magazines, porn films, and homosexuality. Britain has a law permitting a man to marry another man. That’s homosexuality, shameful intercourse, rape!

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Sometimes, a woman cannot fulfill her marital obligations, for reasons beyond her control, such as menstruation or the postpartum period of abstinence. There are women whose period lasts for 15 days and more, and her husband can’t wait that long. So what are we to do with him? He has financial means, he has money, he is healthy – let him get married, brother. Are we supposed to forbid him what Allah has permitted?

A man may want to marry a second or third wife in order to spread his seed. Brother, I have money. I’d like to have 30 children of my own seed, and I will raise them properly. Who’s to stop me?

[…]

Can we blame a man in the prime of life, at the height of his virility, if he is not satisfied with one woman? What’s wrong with that? We live in times of lesser masculinity, in times of pills that are meant to raise manhood, and yet you complain about a man at the height of virility? It’s a good thing.

He makes a compelling case, you have to admit.

I’m not being unfaithful, honey, I’m spreading my seed. Think of it as agriculture, not adultery.

They don’t call me International Harvester for nothing.

I confess I was spent after seven or eight—but this fellow has come up with 44.

Forty-four! Imagine! I mean the 3,168 virgins alone would… sorry, what was I saying?

Jihad is the greatest deed in Islam and the salvation of the ummah is in practicing it. In times like these, when Muslim lands are occupied by the kuffar, when the jails of tyrants are full of Muslim POWs, when the rule of the law of Allah is absent from this world and when Islam is being attacked in order to uproot it, Jihad becomes obligatory on every Muslim. Jihad must be practiced by the child even if the parents refuse, by the wife even if the husband objects and by the one indebt even if the lender disagrees.

Dear brothers and sisters the issue is urgent since today our enemy is neither a nation nor a race. It is a system of kufr with global reach. The kuffar today are conspiring against us like never before. So could we be heading towards the great battle between the Romans and the Muslims - Al Malhamah - which the Prophet (saaws) spoke about?

Again, the point needs to be stressed: Jihad today is obligatory on every capable Muslim. So as a Muslim who wants to please Allah it is your duty to find ways to practice it and support it. Following are 43 ways for the brothers and sisters to support Jihad fi sabeelillah.

43, 44—what the diff? The first would be to click over to see for yourself.

The author, Anwar al Awlaki, is a Yemeni Imam (or is that Iman?) with degrees from American universities. (Where else would he get radicalized?) As of this writing, he has not yet achieved number two on the list: “Praying to Allah to award you with martyrdom”, but when an Iman (or is that Imam?) looks like this, martyrdom would seem like a waste:

The cruelest thing you can to do the great faith of Islam is to quote its adherents verbatim.

Which I am only too happy to do:

Following are excerpts from an interview with Iraqi cleric Sheik Ahmad Al-Kubeisi, which aired on Decision Makers TV on June 10, 2009.

No one with a grain of sense believes in the story of 9/11 anymore. Therefore, the entire world appeals to the Americans: These four planes, with 500 people on board… Let them give the names and identity of the people on these planes. They have nothing! Maybe two, three, or four…

I thought we did that.

The U.S. is, in fact, run by a clandestine power, with strategies and plans of its own, as well as huge strategic depth. If they want to know anything about you, within two seconds, they know everything about you, your father, grandfather, and grandmother – 50 generations back. I’ll tell you something, if you promise not to laugh. I am a regular guy. I never knew that my great great grandfather had married my great grandmother, for only seven days, and then she had my father [sic].

Huh?

His great great grandfather married his own daughter for a week and impregnated her with his own great grandson? I had questions about the Immaculate Conception and Virgin Birth—but they are nothing compared to these miracles!

Are the Americans really ruled by Bush?! [No. ed.] This is inconceivable, brother. [Exactly. ed.] Bush is only a façade, and so is Obama. Why do I like Obama?

There’s a shocker.

[Obama is steered by] that terrible, black, dark lobby, which can erase the entire world at the push of a button. You cannot see it, you cannot recognize it. Clinton, who ruled planet Earth in its entirety, could not find a four-meter-square room in which to consummate his rights with what’s-her-name? What was his girlfriend’s name? Say it, don’t be afraid… Monica. This man, who ruled the world, and who could destroy it 50 times over at the push of a button, was unable to find two square meters in which to hide from this lobby. They took pictures of it all, and said to him: by all means. Albright said: I pitied him. I went in and found him crying. The U.S. president was reduced to tears by this lobby. As far as the lobby is concerned, the U.S. president is as worthless as a bug, which can be either squashed or turned into an elephant.

A bug or an elephant? What is he talking about?

All the resources of the world are to be found in Iraq – water, rivers, raw materials, oil, phosphates, mercury, and gold. Did you know that the Iraqi gold and petrol are sufficient for the entire world? Did you know that the Iraqi uranium is the only kind in the world that is naturally enriched?
[…]
By Allah, Iraq will rage in the mouths of the Americans and the English until their teeth are broken.

I’m tempted to say that “raging in the mouth” is what Clinton did to Monica, but I won’t.

Since when did Iraq have any uranium, much less magic uranium? The CIA Factbook doesn’t mention any. I thought they were trying to buy the stuff in Niger.

But then, I’m probably under the influence of that “terrible black, dark lobby” that you cannot see or recognize—but which can still manage to photograph the president getting a BJ in the White House, and blackmail him over it.

Hey, these are his beliefs, not mine. You got a problem, take it up with him.