Western media: Underhand insults

[General Duke]

Below is a supposed profile of our holly prophet. It is from the Independent newpaper of UK.

It makes grave errors and I belive on purpose, describing the Prophet as a caravan raider and even gets his name wrong.

 

 

Mohamed: Flesh and blood

 

By Paul Vallely

 

Published: 04 February 2006

"Say what you like about God - but be careful with Mohamed." So goes an old maxim among Western missionaries in Islamic lands, who found that Muslims might sometimes endure insulting references to the Almighty but would rarely tolerate insults to Mohamed or his family. The missionaries couldn't fathom it. Nor, ever since, it seems, has the rest of Western society.

 

A Life in Brief

 

BORN: Ahmad or Amin Ibn Abdullah. Mecca AD 570 or 571. Member of the Quraysh Bedouin tribe.

 

FAMILY: Father, Abdulla, died before he was born. Mother, Aminah, died when he was six. Adopted by his uncle, Abu Talib. Aged 25, married well-to-do widow named Khadijah. Four daughters, who survived, and one son, who died aged two. Had 14 wives, in total, after Khadijah died.

 

CAREER: Merchant for 15 years, warrior thereafter. After a vision of the Angel Gabriel in 610 he changed his name, aged 40, to Mohamed and founded the Muslim religion, which now has 1.3 billion adherents. In the early years he and his followers were persecuted in Mecca. Fled to city of Medina in AD622, which became year one in the Islamic calendar. Caravan raider. Defeated the army of Mecca at Battle of Badr in 624. Conquered other tribes of Arabia. Died AD632.

 

HE SAYS: "The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr."

 

THEY SAY: "Mohamed is easily the most maligned religious personality in the whole of history."

 

- Shabbir Akhtar, author

 

the whole article.

[General Duke]

We must put a stop to this savage bitterness

 

Leader

Sunday February 5, 2006

The Observer

 

 

On 30 September last year, caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad appeared in a Danish newspaper. Four months later, images of masked gunmen burning the Danish flag were beamed around the world. Now we see placard-bearing youths take to the streets of London. Their slogans incite murder and praise terror. The editors who first made the decision to print the Muhammad cartoons cannot have anticipated this volatile reaction. Had they known, would they still publish? Should they? All we can say with certainty is that they certainly had the right to do so.

 

The choices that other European media have faced since then are more complex. Those who published the images have cited two justifications. The first is that audiences need to see the pictures to understand the story. The second is that since freedom of expression is under assault, running these particular cartoons is a point of principle.

 

Observer/Sunday Guardian

[General Duke]

Muslims Get Animated, Denmark Becomes the New Israel

 

By Aaron Goldstein (02/05/06)

 

Anders Fogh Rasmussen Is My New Hero A week ago when one thought of Denmark one would likely conjure an image of a breakfast pastry or Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Now Denmark is in the midst of a real life epic tragedy but its people are holding steadfast.

 

Denmark has provoked the ire of the Arab world and because of it has received the sort of treatment normally reserved for Israel. As of this writing, its embassy in Syria was set ablaze (along with that of Norway). Both Syria and Saudi Arabia have recalled their Ambassadors. Libya has closed its embassy in Copenhagen. Kuwait, Jordan and Iraq have demanded explanations from Danish diplomats. The Prime Minister of Lebanon and the United Arab Emirates’ Justice Minister have publicly condemned Denmark. An European Union office in the Gaza Strip was temporarily occupied by armed terrorists. Danish flags were burned in the West Bank. Terrorist entities such as Hamas, Hezbollah and the Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt are demanding a formal apology by the Danish government. Danish products have been removed from grocery stores in Algeria, Bahrain, Morocco, Qatar, Tunisia and Yemen amongst other places. Muslims protesting near Regent’s Park in London held up signs such as “freedom of expression go to hell†and “behead the one who insults the prophetâ€. Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi (London Mayor Ken Livingstone’s favorite imam) has called for an “international day of anger†against Denmark. Given al-Qaradawi’s support for Palestinian suicide bombers and the execution of homosexuals, it prompted Charles Moore to write, “This is a man for whom a single “day of anger†is surely little different from the other 364 days of the year.†Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas told the Danes that their government “cannot accept an assault against Islam.†In Iraq, followers of radical Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr organized an anti-Danish demonstration and demanded an apology from the EU. For its part, the Danish government has warned its citizens to refrain from traveling to Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Syria and also withdrew aid workers from the Gaza Strip. It must also be remembered that Denmark has troops stationed in Iraq. In late January, a roadside bomb exploded near a joint Danish-Iraqi patrol outside of Basra. Fortunately, there were no casualties.

 

So what has Denmark done to so anger Muslims?

 

One of its newspapers, Jyllands-Posten, published some cartoons.

 

Cartoons? Yes, cartoons.

 

To be precise, in September 2005 it published several cartoons depicting the prophet Mohammed. In one cartoon, Mohammed appears to have a bomb in his turban. In another, Mohammed tells suicide bombers who have done their deed that there are no more virgins in heaven for them because there have been so many suicide bombings.

 

Allow me to digress for a moment. I am certain if I were a Muslim I might not much care for cartoons of that nature. What if the shoe were on the other foot?

 

Denmark is also fortunate to have Anders Fogh Rasmussen as their Prime Minister. Rasmussen has demonstrated track record of doing the right thing even if it is not always the popular thing be it with Iraq, Israel, immigration and for that matter taxation and deregulation. No government can capitulate to intimidation by a mob mentality even on a global scale. It is difficult to know how Lykketoft would have handled this situation had he been elected in 2005. The same could be said of current Social Democratic leader Helle Thorning-Schmidt. Given the volatility of the situation, Rasmussen has put his life on the line. I would not be surprised if within the next year there is an attempt on Rasmussen’s life. If Muslim extremists could execute Pim Fortuyn and Theo Van Gogh in Holland who can say that Rasmussen won’t be next? For that, Rasmussen is my new hero.

[Yeniceri]

Allah SWT, in the Noble Qur'an, says:

 

"Ye shall certainly be tried and tested in your possessions and in your personal selves; and ye shall certainly Hear much that will grieve you, from those who received the Book before you and from those who worship many gods. But if ye

persevere patiently, and guard against evil

,-then that will be a determining factor in all affairs."

[3:186, Noble Qur'an]

 

Muslims across the globe need to be patient. I remember a Muslim brother who phoned into NPR Public Radio the other day. He said that, because of this story, he was invited to give four public lectures on the Prophet Muhammad (scw) and his Message - which gives more non-Muslims access to the religion. Because of this story, more and more non-Muslims are investigating and trying to find out the truth about our Nabi Muhammad (scw).

 

The Danes thought they were insulting Muslims. But their attempt backfired. Europe is terrified at the growing number of Muslims on the traditionally Christian continent and they don't know how to react. No man has the power to fight against Islam - the religion Allah SWT, in all his Infinite Wisdom, has bestowned upon the whole of mankind. They keep saying the Danes insulted "the Arabs" - an attempt to portray Islam as a religion for Arabs, when, in fact, Arabs form only a percentage.

 

Also, the Muslim leaders - most of whom are hypocrites - are in a tight position. They can't tell the Muslim masses to "calm down" nor do they want to sever relations with the E.U. And as the Muslim Ummah gains strength, the grip on power by a few hypocrites gets weaker.

 

Did Denmark want to ignite an Islamic revolution? Sooner or later, the anger that has now united Muslims will transform into anger against the current, hypocritical Muslim leadership, the cowards who've shunned Islam and who've made us Muslims - once the pride of the world - a weakened Ummah.

 

Insults are only the beginning.

[Valenteenah.]

Originally posted by General Duke:

Muslims Get Animated, Denmark Becomes the New Israel

By Aaron Goldstein (02/05/06) .....

 

If Muslim extremists could execute Pim Fortuyn

and Theo Van Gogh in Holland who can say that Rasmussen won’t be next? For that, Rasmussen is my new hero.

Wasn't Fortuyn murdered by Volkert van der Graaf, a white collar left-wing environmentalist? I wasn't aware that he was Muslim.

[Sayyid]

It's true Ahura, it's ignorance on the part of the author of the article called Aaron Goldstein, who is a bloody jew, who want's to take advantage of the situation!