Thursday, May 26, 2005

More on the Koran -Updated

*Update*

A suicide bomber set off explosives Friday in the midst of Shiite Muslims reciting the Quran, killing at least 20 and wounding dozens gathered for a religious festival at a shrine near the capital.
How many korans do you think were desecrated during this event? Or is it only toilet water that is considered desecration and not the blood of hundereds of maimed and killed worshippers.

As far am I'm concerned, if murduring innocent women & children in cold blood is all in the name of a particular book, that book can be flushed down the toilet literally and figuratively. While you're at it, make sure there was a nice load of shit in the toilet with it.

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While I know that Orthomom & DovBear have touched on this topic, I came across this great article from the Boston Globe that sums it up reall well.

Why Islam is disrespected

By Jeff Jacoby, Globe Columnist | May 19, 2005

IT WAS front-page news this week when Newsweek retracted a report claiming that a US interrogator in Guantanamo had flushed a copy of the Koran down a toilet. Everywhere it was noted that Newsweek's story had sparked widespread Muslim rioting, in which at least 17 people were killed. But there was no mention of deadly protests triggered in recent years by comparable acts of desecration against other religions.

No one recalled, for example, that American Catholics lashed out in violent rampages in 1989, after photographer Andres Serrano's ''Piss Christ" -- a photograph of a crucifix submerged in urine -- was included in an exhibition subsidized by the National Endowment for the Arts. Or that they rioted in 1992 when singer Sinead O'Connor, appearing on ''Saturday Night Live," ripped up a photograph of Pope John Paul II.

There was no reminder that Jewish communities erupted in lethal violence in 2000, after Arabs demolished Joseph's Tomb, torching the ancient shrine and murdering a young rabbi who tried to save a Torah. And nobody noted that Buddhists went on a killing spree in 2001 in response to the destruction of two priceless, 1,500-year-old statues of Buddha by the Taliban government in Afghanistan.

Of course, there was a good reason all these bloody protests went unremembered in the coverage of the Newsweek affair: They never occurred.

Christians, Jews, and Buddhists don't lash out in homicidal rage when their religion is insulted. They don't call for holy war and riot in the streets. It would be unthinkable for a mainstream priest, rabbi, or lama to demand that a blasphemer be slain. But when Reuters reported what Mohammad Hanif, the imam of a Muslim seminary in Pakistan, said about the alleged Koran-flushers -- ''They should be hung. They should be killed in public so that no one can dare to insult Islam and its sacred symbols" -- was any reader surprised?

The Muslim riots should have been met by outrage and condemnation. From every part of the civilized world should have come denunciations of those who would react to the supposed destruction of a book with brutal threats and the slaughter of 17 innocent people. But the chorus of condemnation was directed not at the killers and the fanatics who incited them, but at Newsweek.

From the White House down, the magazine was slammed -- for running an item it should have known might prove incendiary, for relying on a shaky source, for its animus toward the military and the war. Over and over, Newsweek was blamed for the riots' death toll. Conservative pundits in particular piled on. ''Newsweek lied, people died" was the headline on Michelle Malkin's popular website. At NationalReview.com, Paul Marshall of Freedom House fumed: ''What planet do these [Newsweek] people live on? . . . Anybody with a little knowledge could have told them it was likely that people would die as a result of the article." All of Marshall's choler was reserved for Newsweek; he had no criticism at all for the marauders in the Muslim street.

Then there was Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who announced at a Senate hearing that she had a message for ''Muslims in America and throughout the world." And what was that message? That decent people do not resort to murder just because someone has offended their religious sensibilities? That the primitive bloodlust raging in Afghanistan and Pakistan was evidence of the Muslim world's dysfunctional political culture?

No: Her message was that ''disrespect for the Holy Koran is not now, nor has it ever been, nor will it ever be, tolerated by the United States."

Granted, Rice spoke while the rioting was still taking place and her goal was to reduce the anti-American fever. But what ''Muslims in America and throughout the world" most need to hear is not pandering sweet-talk. What they need is a blunt reminder that the real desecration of Islam is not what some interrogator in Guantanamo might have done to the Koran. It is what totalitarian Muslim zealots have been doing to innocent human beings in the name of Islam. It is 9/11 and Beslan and Bali and Daniel Pearl and the USS Cole. It is trains in Madrid and schoolbuses in Israel and an ''insurgency" in Iraq that slaughters Muslims as they pray and vote and line up for work. It is Hamas and Al Qaeda and sermons filled with infidel-hatred and exhortations to ''martyrdom."

But what disgraces Islam above all is the vast majority of the planet's Muslims saying nothing and doing nothing about the jihadist cancer eating away at their religion. It is Free Muslims Against Terrorism, a pro-democracy organization, calling on Muslims and Middle Easterners to ''converge on our nation's capital for a rally against terrorism" -- and having only 50 people show up.

Yes, Islam is disrespected. That will only change when throngs of passionate Muslims show up for rallies against terrorism, and when rabble-rousers trying to gin up a riot over a defiled Koran can't get the time of day.

'Nuff said.

12 Comments:

At 6:39 PM, Blogger orthomom said...

Yup. Couldn't have said it better myself. (Okay. Maybe a little bit better.)

 
At 7:38 PM, Blogger and so it shall be... said...

Yes, Yes! YES!! This is what I'm pissed about. So pissed I can barely breathe when I think about this subject.

I respect and firmly support the Bush administration and applaud how dead-on they are about so many issues I care about.

And then THIS??

What the hell are they doing? They sound like the same moronic apologists at Berkeley U, who excuse every arab atrocity with a shrug and a boiler plate explanation of deep rooted persecution by the Jewish Hordes.

The arabs act like beast with regularity, and for any real or perceived provocation. It drives me to distraction now that the Bush administration is piling on with its moronic sound-bite campaign of 'respect for muslims' (HA).

I'm cracking up.

 
At 11:31 PM, Blogger Air Time said...

can't say i feel as angry about this as SW, but why doesn't the media hold the moslem world accountable? Why are we so scared of offending people who are deserving of being offended?

 
At 8:56 AM, Blogger Just Passing Through said...

I DO feel as strongly as SW on this. What is it we're afraid of?! Yes we disrespect the koran, because they give us no reason why we SHOULD respect it. In fact, I don't think we disrespect it enough. Show us that you value life, show us more than 50 participants in the recent Muslims Against Violence march, show US some respect and we'll respond with the same.

 
At 9:08 AM, Blogger orthomom said...

Yeah, this stuff really turns the stomach. I've been really pissed about this since last week, when everyone started being apologists for the Muslim culture of violence.

 
At 9:20 AM, Blogger Just Passing Through said...

and that's why I mentioned you. what do we say in Blogsphere, 'hat tip'? where does that come from?

 
At 9:29 AM, Blogger orthomom said...

I think a tip of the hat signified respect, in the more chivalrous days of old.

 
At 9:32 AM, Blogger Just Passing Through said...

chivalry? what's that?

 
At 9:36 AM, Blogger orthomom said...

Ah, forget it. It's dead.

 
At 9:48 AM, Blogger Just Passing Through said...

killed by the femenists.

 
At 1:19 PM, Blogger AMSHINOVER said...

the reasons jews and christians do not respond with violence when their religon is defamed and muslims do,is lear: jews and christians have cable television and do not suffer from boredom.

 
At 1:24 PM, Blogger Just Passing Through said...

Hey, I don't have cable-hack, I barely have a working TV- and I'm not violent. Not usually at least.

 

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