[ May 1, 2024 ]
As many of you see and know, if you are online and you criticize any religion other than Islam on platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and so on, you have basically nothing to fear. Online you can say whatever you want about any religion. There is total freedom of speech. People make fun of it, people laugh about it, people even throw around insults. People even insult whole religious groups. They insult Christians, Jews, Hindus or non-religious groups, for example, but if you attempt to criticize Islam, things change. If you attempt to criticize Islam online, Western progressives will attack you, they will align with Muslims and call you a “racist,” the media will condemn you and social media giants block you, delete your content and eventually kick you off their platforms. The same happened to me on Facebook at 10k followers, and multiple times on Instagram. There are countless examples that we could use here.
So you’re not only in danger because some lunatic might kill you for Allah, you’re also discriminated against by social media platforms. Of course there’s the undeniable fact that followers of other religions can mainly handle criticism, while every negative word about Islam drives Muslims crazy. I want to talk about why Muslims can’t take any criticism and can hardly ever have a civil conversation with you, if you disagree with their beliefs.
There’s much to say, but I don’t want to take too much of your time. If you grow up religious, you learn specific elements of your religion at an early age, but the indoctrination in Islam is very different from teachings in Christianity or Judaism. In Islam you learn at a very early age to be afraid and to be intolerant. In the 21st century, you learn to ask Allah for forgiveness if there is any kind of controversial talk, even if you hear little religious jokes, or if you have doubts. You learn not to spend too much time with Non-Muslims because they could weaken your faith or take it away altogether. You learn to silence people when they say things that are not right according to your religion. You are ordered never to listen to any criticism. You are never allowed to question anything in the religion. You’re not only discouraged—no—you are strictly ordered to stay away from thoughts like “who created Allah”. That’s not a coincidence, because a hadith says the same thing:
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“It is narrated on the authority of Abu Huraira that the Messenger of Allah observed: The Satan comes to everyone. of you and says: Who created this and that? till he questions: Who created your Lord? When he comes to that, one should seek refuge in Allah and keep away (from such idle thoughts).“ Sahih Muslim 1:244 [1]
So, Muhammad taught at very early times that any doubt, even such a question, comes from Satan who intends to take your faith away. Of course Muhammad could’ve given an answer to that question, but he was not really a master of thinking, and his fictional assistant Allah cared more about infidels and Muhammad’s sex life than about questions from Muslims.
Of course Mohammed’s little hadith here is not all that causes such fear of questioning. The Quran deals in the majority of its content with infidels, hellfire, fear and punishments. That’s one of the main differences between the Quran and the Bible, where you can read much more about morals, the lives of prophets, etc. Even if you open the first page of the Quran and start reading the first chapter that is repeated by Muslims during every prayer, the last two verses are: “Guide us to the straight path, the path of those upon whom You have bestowed favor, not of those who have evoked [Your] anger or of those who are astray. (1:6-7).” [2]
If you read further, the second chapter, which is the first actual chapter in the Quran, starts with the opening statement that there is no doubt about this book, and from the 6th verse it starts condemning those who choose to disbelieve in this infallible “word of Allah.” [3] So within the first 2 minutes of reading the Quran, you face hate, fear and threats. What else can that cause but fear, hate and anger? The Quran is the main element that is responsible for Muslims being so incredibly intolerant of any form of criticism, be it factual or not, be it offensive or not.
Let’s not forget that Islam is the only religion that explicitly threatens all apostates. The only religion where the prophet gives an eternal order in multiple sources, to kill all those who join and then leave. [4] Some say, to make it look better than it is, that only those who actually mobilize against the Muslims are to be killed, but the hadiths don’t say that. What we find in numerous hadiths is Mohammed’s order: “If somebody discards his religion, kill him!” [5]
Inspired by all of these horrible and nonsensical teachings, Muslims teach their children nowadays to eliminate any kind of humor that would in any way conflict with the totalitarian laws of Islam. It is important that such a rule is a fundamental rule in Islam and would be considered if Muslims became a majority in ANY country. You can hear Christians and Jews making mild jokes about everything possible. You see them having quite normal conversations with doubters, critics and people who left their religion. You can see them hosting and helping millions of people who attack their religions. You can’t see the same thing if you look at Muslims and the Islamic world, and you will probably never see that.
The Islamic world is by far the worst when it comes to free speech and freedom of religion. Of course that is so for a reason. As a former Muslim who spent 16 years in Germany and more than a decade in Turkey, I have never seen a people as intolerant as Muslims. Turkey—one of the most “moderate” Muslim countries—still has very clear laws that go against free speech. Turkish people are extremely intolerant and chauvinistic, and they are among the most “moderate.” It is even by far worse in other Muslim countries and regions in the Middle East, in North Africa, in South Asia or in Southeast Asia. The people are not “oppressed” by these laws, they approve of such a totalitarian way of dealing with “thought crimes,” and they are raised in such a mentality. Those who suffer are minorities, critics and apostates. The suffering that they go through in the Islamic world is incredible and unthinkable if you live in the West. The nonexistent “oppression” in the West, that progressives talk about, is a joke. Now imagine that these people move to Europe and North America in masses. They don’t care about your laws and your morals. They care about the “only truth” they’re taught, and they could do pretty much anything to enforce and uphold it.
To add my own experience, I was so indoctrinated with the thought that Islam is the only true religion and that all unbelievers are evil plotters, that I made the following experience as a child in kindergarten. I went to a Catholic kindergarten because it was the closest to the place we lived in Germany. One day the teachers gathered us, we went out of the kindergarten and walked towards the church which was adjacent to the kindergarten. Of course the indoctrination was so strong, that when I realized we were about to enter the church, I panicked and started to cry and rage, because the Christians were bringing me into this unholy, bad place where I would lose my faith. It took them a while to calm me down, until my father came to pick me up. He asked them not to take me to the church any more. The funny thing is that we were supposed to go into the basement of the church, only to exercise. Afterwards I found out that parents of two other Muslim kids asked the instructors not to take us into the church building. When I think about it now, it seems just rude of Muslims to sign up for a Catholic kindergarten in a predominantly Christian country and to give them special instructions for “us” Muslims. Back then I was relieved I didn’t have to go into that place where I could lose my faith and be condemned by Allah. I was 6.
All of these aspects and so many more are reasons why Muslims are so afraid of free speech and criticism. Don’t think they are just like you, they don’t make jokes about anything possible, they don’t tolerate such humor as displayed on American movies and shows. They don’t laugh about things that you laugh about, and if “accidentally” they think about pork, it is followed by an “astaghfirullah,” which translates to “I seek forgiveness from Allah.” Censorship in the media, in movies, TV shows and more is a norm, language policing is a requirement and wicked Islamic morality is enforced by law and society. It would be the same if Muslims became a majority in your country.
Does the sensitivity of Muslims mean we have to tone it down here in the West? No, of course not. I believe, as history has shown us, that exposing people to satire and criticism are two of the most effective ways to make them think and to make them change the way they look at things. There is not much to change in the West, but in the Islamic world, in many countries, there has not even been a beginning and there will be a lot to change if Islam gains more influence in the West. That’s why I’ll keep talking about Islam as long as I can. I will expose Islam for what it is, wherever I can, whenever I can. And as someone who knows what it is to live without free speech, I want to protect our Western right to free speech and tell everyone to do the same. You should do the same.
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Sources:
[1] https://muflihun.com/muslim/1/244
[4] https://wikiislam.net/wiki/Qur%27an,_Hadith_and_Scholars:Apostasy
[5] http://quranx.com/Hadith/Bukhari/USC-MSA/Volume-4/Book-52/Hadith-260/
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82 Comments
6 years ago
muslims fear, no, are terrified of free speech, as free speech can include the truth. islam has maintained domination over millions through violence, and the constant threat of violence. The instant free speech is allowed, there is questioning and the truth, which once exposed would destroy every lie that islam is. There is a reason that there are three conditions in islam where lying is demanded, as well as six categories of lies to facilitate the tenet of lying that is the cornerstone of islam.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
Agree. Like cockroaches they do not like the torch of truth shining on them . It exposes their ugly , disgusting , creepy side to the world and they are afraid non-muslims cannot be fooled by taqqiya once they are exposed!
If you speak the truth about islam and the perfect man they’ll find you and “keel” you like the muslims in Indianapolis are trying to do https://tinyurl.com/y9wb4j39
That’s how they intimidate.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
All of Islam is a lie. Like vampires, they burn to ashes in the light.
6 years ago
Reply to
Pray Hard
Islam 101
Islam is a cult started by a pedophile, after receiving instructions from a demon, deep inside a hole in the ground
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
Exactly..just today discussing with my granddaughter some objections by a couple Mormon friends to the play, Book of Mormon, i advised some empathy particularly because of the social hypocrisy forbidding discussions about Islam…Knowing this was a teaching opp regarding the state of modern education (propaganda) I told her about a couple examples from the Koran from my reading 35 years ago, and she was astonished that anyone could believe such nonsense or be so hateful…It can’t withstand even a grade school consideration of its ridiculousness.
6 years ago
Reply to
Dean
Hello Dean, congratulations on your very sensible and smart grand daughter. She is way smarter than 1.4 billion muslims, that read the koran, hadits and other BS and cannot see the idiocy and hate of this “religion”.
6 years ago
Reply to
Vlad
Many of those Mooslums are just way too ignorant to even read! & they want everyone else around them to be just as ignorant as they are, much similar as to how the Poop wants everyone to just accept his islamic leanings without question – what a sick fool the Poop has become!
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
Moslem Savages are not the only group of lowlife terrified of Free Speech
Libturd Scums are also terrified of Free Speech
They are so terrified of Free Speech that they want to shut down all Free Speech venues
From campuses across America, to Google and Facebook and Twitter and Youtube, Libturd Scums have been doing everything they could to shut down Free Speech
D
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
Slow as I am, it occurs to me that all tyrants and wannabe`s, suppress and fear free speech. Then when they succeed, they become even more paranoid because they know a great many don`t like them,but they don`t know what they`re actually saying. Are they being plotted against ? Who are ring leaders? etc.,etc..
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
British MP stated “The only way to deal with muslim terrorists is to kill them.”
UK government admits it has lost track of hundreds of jihadis in Syria and Iraq fighting for jihad groups such as ISIS
– UPDATE: TRUDEAU FOUND/WELCOMES 60 ISIS MUSLIM SAVAGES TO “INTEGRATE” IN CANADA
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
Funny you should mention the lies. Seems that is taught in our schools these days and has been for a number of years. It’s now OK to lie, and also to cheat….according to teachers these days.
6 years ago
Specifically, Muslim men fear Muslim women hearing and experiencing free speech.
6 years ago
Reply to
Phil McDonald
“his fictional assistant Allah”
Ooh. Your evil servers will get a lightning-bolt roasting as soon as Allah has finished with disciplining some blasphemers over in Holy Pakistan.
6 years ago
Reply to
Qur'an 18:86
Allah’s been delayed by the snowstorms in Europe but will be along shortly with that lightning-bolt, as will be the 8.25 from Croydon.
Meanwhile why are all the links red on Ms Geller’s site? Is she a commie?
D
6 years ago
Reply to
Qur'an 18:86
If fictional assistant allah and his inbred followers don’t like the cold and the snowstorms, perhaps they should stay in their deserts…..
6 years ago
free speech is meaningless …
good and true speech is the ultimate …
6 years ago
Reply to
SemurJengkolMaknyus
Here is an irrefutable truth: There is but one satan and his name is allah. And, the lowest and MOST COWARDLY of his demons is mohammed.
That is “good and true speech”, therefore, it “is the ultimate”.
6 years ago
Reply to
SemurJengkolMaknyus
How’s that Islam workin’ out for ya? Did it make you stupid or were you that way to begin with? Idiot.
6 years ago
Reply to
Pray Hard
I believe it has to do with them wiping, following defecation, with a BARE left hand. No amount of soap or disinfectant will get the pores clean. Only time. However, since moslems perform that act … on a frequent basis … they can never remove all of the fecal matter. That is likely one of the causes of a moslem’s stupidity.
6 years ago
Reply to
SemurJengkolMaknyus
To muslims, who live lies, they have no idea of good or true.
6 years ago
Reply to
SemurJengkolMaknyus
lies make free speech meaningless. we must be free to listen to any and all speech and decide what is good and true and what is a lie for ourselves.
6 years ago
Absolutely true article, and it’s not only Muslims who fear free speech. If you are caught making fun of Muslims that makes you an Islamophobe and a racist, and if you apologize for having possibly offended Muslims then your apology is described as an apology for criticizing Islam. It’s very clear that no criticism or jokes about Muslims or Islam are permitted by anyone, either in Muslim countries or in the West, and there is no differentiation between Muslims and Islam.
6 years ago
Reply to
RCCA
“making fun of Muslims”
Being a Muslim is a great personal tragedy about which it would be best not to make fun. #JihadistLivesMatter
6 years ago
Reply to
Qur'an 18:86
lol
Remind me, when entering a room are you supposed to use your right leg or left leg, if you want to please Allah?
If there is one thing Allah can’t stand, it’s a bad hair day!
6 years ago
Note, many of these people were actually never Muslims to begin with. Yes, they may have been born into Muslim families, but that does not make one a Muslim.
6 years ago
Reply to
Kat Mandu
You should really learn something about islam, or not, your ignorance is quite amusing.
6 years ago
Reply to
Kat Mandu
If IT talks like a muslim, looks like a muslim, displays stupidity like a muslim, displays ignorance like a muslim,
then it’s a muslim.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4PbPbPKJIQ
6 years ago
Reply to
Vlad
And what would happen if you were to challenge this muslum’s statements in his muslum sh!ttystan? An invitation to vigorous debate about the issue?
6 years ago
Death to Islam and all of its rodents. Death to the left and all of its rodents.
6 years ago
Reply to
Pray Hard
Do be aware this comment could get you locked up in the uk, and with a high proportion of the other prisoners being violent Islamophiles.
6 years ago
Reply to
Qur'an 18:86
The differences between the dying atheist West and any muslum state are becoming less and less as the 21st century goes on.
6 years ago
Reply to
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
Who asked you to interfere in this private discussion between myself and this Islamophobic far right hate-criminal? And learn to spell mu-slime correctly next time.
6 years ago
Welcome to the Dark Side Ridvan. Stay safe.
D
6 years ago
Replace Islam with communism and watch last movie of the death of Stalin, and laugh
6 years ago
Free Speech must be squelched … otherwise reality would simply overwhelm Islam and it would vanish into the dustbin of history along with the Nasties, the Thugees, and so on.
D
6 years ago
We are all prisoners on this planet, god put us there to avoid us to destroy the universe.
D
6 years ago
About the article, I wonder how this Muslim became a non Muslim, what trigger is brain beyond the brainwashing. We then can have some hope
6 years ago
Reply to
Jpp
If we could ever figure out how to activate that trigger, Islam would be finished as a religion and relegated to the order of criminal activity.
6 years ago
Of course they do, as they fear free, empowered women. Folks, we are entering an era of existential peril to civilization. Moslems instinctively know that if the West is not destroyed it’s very existence will destroy islam and their power over women, including their puerile belief system. Remember Iran in the sixties and seventies.
One or the other will prevail, but they simply cannot coexist peacefully, not with information so widely disseminated as it is now. Islam is doomed, but how much damage is done to civilization with so many foolish individuals apologizing for the unforgivable aspects of islam and trying to use the ideology to their own ends (which will backfire with dire results) is open to conjecture.
An existential war is here, time to pick a side. Actually the first skirmishes are being fought now, and the West is losing ground. Everything we believe in and value is at risk, either islam is eradicated or our civilization will be, along with them. There are ultimately two choices, the end of islam or the end of civilization.
It’s a simple equation.
6 years ago
Pisslamists are uneducated, they fear everything. They’re not able to reason or think for themselves.
6 years ago
It should come as a no brainer that Muslims fear free speech!
If it one single thing that ISLAM simply cannot tolerate it is inspection & questioning of the texts that teach & preach utter abuse,
This is why there is such a well funded world wide concentrated effort to get EVERY COUNTRY to install BLASPHEMY LAWS BEFORE ant Wester Government can open a REAL EXAMINATION of this IDEOLOGY & its texts & SO FAR it appears that the WESTERN GOVERNMENTS are LITERALLY TERRIFIED to DO SO!
Instead the populace are TOLD YOU will believe & PARROT LIES! Islam is a Religion of Peace & Violence has nothing to do with ISLAM!
We aln need to BREAK the POLITICAL CORRECTNESS WALLS & the DIVERSITY WALL & the chanting of the left at every QUESTION – RACIST, BIGOT & ISLAMOPHOBE !!
6 years ago
islam must sense that due to the web of ridiculous lies and violence it is based on, it is extremely likely that the whole charade would come tumbling down – disintegrate – if allowed to be subjected to the same scrutiny as normal faiths. If muslims were secure and comfortable that their ‘faith’ was based on goodness and truth and conducive to life, the need for their super sensitivity would not exist.
6 years ago
Reply to
Cai
The only thing that’s holding up the shaky facade of Islam is the western regimes’ constant insisting about “religion of peace” and “nothing to do with islam”. Preachers who challenge these lies are BANNED, for instance Anjem Choudary in prison for saying what he actually believes.
6 years ago
The ragheads simply plagiarized the parts of the Bible with which they agreed, mixed in the worst elements of the human experience and called it a religion. You can’t make chicken salad out of chicken sh*t.
Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse.
6 years ago
Reply to
Drew the Infidel
“ragheads”? That’ll be six months in jail for you and no job to get back to aftferwards. Allah is most merciful, wise!
6 years ago
Moslems, Demoncraps, communist, the left all fear FREE speech for obvious reasons. They only want the LIE to be heard.
As someone said, truth would be revolutionary to them. Welcome to the kingdom of SATAN!!
6 years ago
Reply to
Alleged-Comment
And, and, if you tell people the lie often enough, soon they will believe that lie.
6 years ago
Reply to
Alleged-Comment
Leading professors have proved that there’s no such thing as truth. Though of course it is true that Mo is the messenger of Allah and the quran is his final testament. Sod, leading profs can’t possibly have proved that Islam is false, I’ll have to get back to this comment once I’ve got these knickers untwisted.
I blame that Mahou kaffirbot troll.
6 years ago
Reply to
Qur'an 18:86
Leading professors are all died in the wool leftists. They wouldn’t know the truth if it hit them in the face.
6 years ago
Reply to
mztore
They do know the truth that they are “professors” at “universities”. And anyone claiming that can’t be true would get chucked out of their courses hhahaha.
6 years ago
Reply to
Alleged-Comment
When my kids were small, I told them they HAD to tell the truth, cause I gave them to God when they were born and he didn’t let anyone get away with lying. It worked for us.
6 years ago
Reply to
Alleged-Comment
Free speech needs to be banned because otherwise the evil kaffirs would be able to tell naughty lies and ruin everything for everyone. Nothing in the noble quran says free speech is needed, therefore it can’t be. q.e.d.
6 years ago
Reply to
Alleged-Comment
Jeez, (well, Moh anyway)… Please keep up with the news.
Only “free speech” against Islam would be outlawed. Free speech in defence of Islam is halal and cannot be banned.
6 years ago
There is a reason that muslims fear freedom of speech and of choice: They are brainwashed to believe they cannot have such freedoms. Worse, they are taught to fear truth and only lie about it.
6 years ago
The RC church was much the same during the time of its greatest power, the Middle Ages. Religion was mainly expressed through fear of excommunication and damnation to the terrors of hell. Asking questions was severely punished, though of course most of the congregation was illiterate anyway. The free thought of earlier eras was suppressed until the enlightenment of the Renaissance. Then we had the Fascism and Communism that also suppressed free thinking. Only the thought of the state was permitted and we see that Islam has almost identical ways of suppression.
Western leaders need to be talking to ex Muslims as only from them can we hear the truth. The above is excellent and Ridwan Aydemir deserves praise for a succinct appraisal. For a very detailed revelation of Islam’s true nature I recommend ‘Cruel and Usual Punishment’ by Nonie Darwish, also a former Muslim
6 years ago
Reply to
leonore35
“Asking questions was severely punished”
Any actual evidence? I mean for a whole continent over centuries, not just some odd events.
There’s a huge difference of Catholicism from Islam, in that the latter requires you to believe a ton of absolute cobblers, such as sun setting in a muddy spring (18:86) and “Allah” obsessed with hating anyone who doesn’t believe in him, and his “perfect” book containing tons more nonsense. Being a disbeliever in xtianity wasn’t such a big deal because being a believer wasn’t, none of xtian creed is seriously in conflict with daily reality.
6 years ago
Reply to
Qur'an 18:86
At least the Catholics didn’t kill Galileo — I’m sure the f’ing muslums would have, because the earth is flat — as the holey quranus reveals.
6 years ago
Reply to
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
The muslims DIDN’T HAVE a Galileo to kill anyway (else they’d have torn him to death in the streets). Only in the Christian world did all these geniuses flourish, for precisely the reason of supremacy of discussion over violence (as you can see in the Acts of the Apostles), combined with high respect for unpopular heresy (the most central message of the Gospels).
6 years ago
Mass insanity.
6 years ago
OK, 1st off islam is NOT religion – it is a Death Cult – who practice demonic Fascist protocol. They are nothing more than a sick bunch of LIARS! Any Lieberal lunatic who promotes islam is also a LIAR!
6 years ago
As islam has lying as its cornerstone, it would be a serious insult to not believe the old and accepted lies that are islam.
6 years ago
If hating Muslims is against Facebook, then I wear it like a badge of honor.
6 years ago
And WHAT do you think will happen to him if he breaks the terms of his sentence? The Curfew, the order to do Community Service? I’ll tell you. NOTHING! The fact, as anyone NOT frightened to speak their mind thinks, is that any sensible Judge would order his immediate expulsion from the country as AS A SELF-PROCLAIMED TERRORISM RISK!
6 years ago
Press Release – “NEW QUILLIAM REPORT ON ‘GROOMING GANGS’
12/12/2017
A new report by Quilliam International has found an alarming level of over-representation of (South) Asian men in group-based child sexual exploitation crimes, otherwise known as ‘grooming gangs’.
In light of the recent spate of these grooming gang cases reported in the UK, Quilliam has conducted its own research into this growing epidemic to determine whether this was a case of one-sided news coverage or whether South Asian-ethnicity individuals were indeed over-represented in this specific crime profile.
Both authors, CEO Haras Rafiq and Researcher Muna Adil, are of British Pakistani heritage and, in light of recent events, deemed it necessary for a strong voice from within the community to add a balanced and evidence-based view to the discussion surrounding grooming gangs.
Haras Rafiq said:
“I’m from the heart of where one of the biggest high-profile cases has happened over the last few years, and I’m saying it’s very important that we do talk about it because the problem won’t go away. We didn’t want there to be a pattern of people from our ethnic demographic carrying out these attacks. But unfortunately, we were proven wrong.”
Muna Adil said:
“There are elements from within the British Pakistani community that still subscribe to outdated and sexist views of women embedded within their jaded interpretations of Islam. These backward views are passed down from generation to generation until the lines between faith and culture dissolve, making it increasingly difficult to criticise one without being seen as a critic of the other.”
The report consists of a comprehensive data analysis of grooming gang cases identified in the UK since 2005. Ten case studies from 2010-2017 are also analysed in depth to help determine any similarities and identify any patterns that exist across the cases.
The report recognises there to be a disproportionate representation of males with (South) ‘Asian’ heritage who have been convicted in such cases, with this ethnicity male perpetrator/white female victim dynamic serving as the prominent feature of these grooming gangs. Most of these men are of Pakistani (Muslim) origin, and the majority of their victims are young, white girls. The report suggests that the background of these men has influenced their actions.
The report found that 84% of ‘grooming gang’ offenders were (South) Asian, while they only make up 7% of total UK population and that the majority of these offenders are of Pakistani origin with Muslim heritage. The report later goes on to discuss and analyse these cultural and religious contexts in order to explain why this demographic features so prominently in this specific crime. The report concludes with a number of recommendations that we hope will begin the process of working towards resolutions.
It is the hope of the authors that this report sparks much-needed dialogue that is nuanced and evidence-based, and replaces the reactionary attitudes that currently plague the public sphere regarding any issues that directly or indirectly involve minorities.
The report is available now, click here.
For media enquiries: [email protected]
For further enquiries about the report: [email protected]
6 years ago
I could care less what moslems think of me. They have a belief that it is their ‘right’ to kill and or enslave non-moslems, therefore, their so called religion is barbaric. I`m collecting qur`ans for a fire this summer. So far,I`ve gotten four. I`d like a nice pile of them to soak in old motor oil and kerosene. Then fire a 12 gage “bird bomb” into the pile,or stretch out a long fuse to lite,or fire a tracer bullet into it. Or maybe a bottle rocket. A goodly mix of tannerite ? Bottle rocket sounds good. I`m curious to see if any squeals of the demons come out of the fire. Suggestions anyone ?
6 years ago
Unlike my conservative friends, I’m okay with immigration — even INCREASED immigration.
But not Muslims. Not now. Not later.
Not until Islam widely rejects its central tenets — kill or subjugate all infidels, and to establish Sharia law over all peoples everywhere (including the murder of homosexuals). And that won’t be happening in our lifetimes.
http://riderrants.blogspot.com/2017/05/i-say-again-ban-further-muslim.html
6 years ago
I wrote an article highlighting a salient bar chart, summarizing of the Pew Research Center poll of Muslim opinions worldwide concerning making Shariah law “the official law of the land” where they reside.
http://riderrants.blogspot.com/2017/06/muslims-want-to-legally-impose-sharia.html
BOTTOM LINE: Most Muslims REALLY want Shariah law as the official legal system. As I pointed out, even ignoring the terrorist factor, these folks on average are ILL-suited for America and liberty, to put it mildly.
Now I’m posting a 2015 study of AMERICAN Muslim opinions. The study was funded by a right wing group, but the survey group doing the work appears legit. Here were the most disturbing findings:
* More than half (51%) of U.S. Muslims polled believe either that they should have the choice of American or shariah courts, or that they should have their own tribunals to apply shariah.
* Nearly a quarter of the Muslims polled believed that, “It is legitimate to use violence to punish those who give offense to Islam by, for example, portraying the prophet Mohammed.”
* Nearly one-fifth of Muslim respondents said that the use of violence in the United States is justified in order to make shariah the law of the land in this country.
ALWAYS REMEMBER: We can’t accept an unlimited number of immigrants. Every Muslim we allow in DENIES entry to someone else — someone less prone to authoritarian tendencies, and unsympathetic to using violence to achieve their goals in their new country.
Ban Muslim immigration.
6 years ago
When a terrorist attack occurs by a Muslim immigrant or their offspring, the following are common responses by a Western nation’s politicians:
1. Invite more Muslim refugees into the country (a show of friendship that will surely soften the hearts of these oppressed people).
2. Increase welfare programs for these refugees.
3. Seek every possible explanation for the attack EXCEPT terrorism. Admit it’s terrorism only after exhausting all other explanations. In the latest Australian attack, they are explaining that the Afghan driver was a drug user and had mental health issues (thus NOT a terrorist??).
4. Ban “hate speech” that infers that Muslims are bad risk immigrants.
5. Allow Muslim ghettos to establish Sharia law outside the Western judicial system.
6. Sternly announce that “those responsible will be brought to justice.” Like the terrorists care??
7. Hold a news conference with Muslim community leaders who announce that they disapprove of such bloody attacks. Not that these Islamic leaders are doing much to PREVENT it, but at least they say they disapprove.
8. Ban cars — “People don’t kill people, CARS kill people.” Okay, okay — not yet. But wait and see.
9. Condemn Israel.
6 years ago
A mix of cowardice and the love of evil keeps muslims muslim.
6 years ago
Illiteracy is a curse but can be a boon as far as demonic teachings are concerned.Thus,humane behaviour can be attributed to illiteracy and or infidelity in case of majority of the people.To that extent,moulding a proper frame of mind is feasible.
