LGBT Against Islamophobia

Sometimes you just have to shake your head and sigh.
H/T: NC Renegade

Chapel Hill Murders Not a Result of Islamophobia

The mainstream media is doing its best to frame the narrative on three murdered Muslims in Chapel Hill.  They desperately want the accused murderer to be a right-wing Islamophobe hell bent on a killing spree.  However, it’s not working out that way.  Brietbart reported the following:

On Thursday’s “CNN Newsroom,” CNN.com Religion Editor Daniel Burke reported that Craig Hicks, who is suspected of murdering three Muslim students, had previously written in defense of the Ground Zero mosque and criticized those who thought President Barack Obama was Muslim on what appears to be his Facebook page.

“When you kind of pore through his Facebook page, you see dozens and dozens of posts making fun of religion in general, making fun of the idea of prayer, the idea of god. A lot of these are quotes from people like Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, Bill Maher, but I didn’t see anything that was violent, and I didn’t see anything that particularly pertained to Islam. In fact, there are a couple of instances in which he seems to implicitly defend Islam, there’s a post from around the time when they wanted to build a mosque near Ground Zero in New York where he calls out conservative critics who didn’t want the plan to go forward saying, ‘hey, you guys are being hypocrites. If you are allowed your freedom of worship, Muslims should be allowed, too.’ He also calls out conservatives who made–spread rumors about President Obama being a Muslim. He said, ‘so what if he is Muslim? It’s okay if we have a Muslim president.’ So, his views against religion are kind of, very anti-religious, but nothing specifically against Islam,” he stated.

So it really was over a parking spot dispute.  Looks like another fail for the mainstream media.

Source:

http://www.breitbart.com/video/2015/02/12/report-chapel-hill-shooter-hicks-defended-ground-zero-mosque/

It's Islamophobia Awareness Month?

I believe it would be more appropriate to have Islam/I'll kill you all awareness month.

There is no Irrational Fear of Islam

Here is a naturalized U.S. citizen who appreciates her adopted country. The best part of this interview is the last minute. I wish other immigrants had her attitude.

H/T: Bare Naked Islam

Jewish Yale Professor: Don't Fear Sharia Law

The New York Times has produced another dhimmi to write an op-ed piece on American Islamophobia. The latest dupe is Eliyah Stern, an assistant professor of religious studies and history at Yale University. He received his PH.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. Need I say more?

The premise of Mr. Stern’s article is centered on American’s irrational xenophobic tendencies. He pontificates that American exceptionalism is based on its ability to accept the cultural enrichers who will eventually assimilate by weaving their customs and laws into our society:

Given time, American Muslims, like all other religious minorities before them, will adjust their legal and theological traditions, if necessary, to accord with American values.

America’s exceptionalism has always been its ability to transform itself — economically, culturally and religiously. In the 20th century, we thrived by promoting a Judeo-Christian ethic, respecting differences and accentuating commonalities among Jews, Catholics and Protestants. Today, we need an Abrahamic ethic that welcomes Islam into the religious tapestry of American life.

Of course, the professor’s definition of American exceptionalism is patently false, but I digress.

Mr. Stern’s assertion that Sharia Law is no different than any other is disingenuous. A scholar of religious studies should know the Rabbinic principles in the Halacha and how that is completely the opposite of the supremist laws of Sharia. Rabbi Jon Hausman succinctly made this distinction in his article, "Halacha, Sharia and the Religious Acceptance of Constitutional Governance":

Simply stated, there is a basic Rabbinic principle that has operated since roughly the year 226 CE. That principle is known as Dina d’malchuta Dina; the law of the country is binding and, in certain cases, is to be preferred to Jewish law/Halacha.

[…]

Samuel, the leader of the Babylonian Jewish community in 241 CE, specifically imbued his community with the consciousness that one must be reconciled to changed circumstances regarding government, and that civil law is necessary for the functioning of the greater society.

The result was an internal recognition of Judaism’s non-supercessionist and non-conversionary character. According to the Prophet Nehemiah, Jews should obey the laws of their rulers (Nehemiah 9:37).

As a result, Jews view this legal principle as deriving from the Biblical authority. . . .The United States has a Constitution under which the government functions, and the Bill of Rights which protects basic human rights and freedom - rights derived from the Almighty according to the secular foundational documents of these United States - freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom of education and freedom to organize political parties. Judaism accepts this situation without issue.

Sharia would seem to have much in common with Halacha. Sharia means “the path” (as does the Hebrew word halacha at its etymological root) and, on its face might be described as the religious code for living the moral system according to Islamic tradition…perhaps, in the same way the Bible would serve for Christians. The question with Sharia (as with Halacha) is the same . . . Does the Rabbinic principle of ‘the law of the land is paramount’ apply in Islam?

You peel back the layers and understand that Sharia refers both to the Islamic system of law and the totality of the Islamic way of life. . . .Whereas Judaism took the Torah and its commands as rubrics within which to live . . . Sharia holds a different view.

Muslims believe that the Qur’an is the direct word of Allah delivered to the last and greatest prophet Muhammad. Therefore, it is immutable, perfect, unchangeable, static, and unchanging. What can’t be derived from the Qur’an may be gleaned from the Sunna, which relates how Muhammad conducted his life in practice, and is considered by Muslims to be immutable for all time.

So, if Muhammad used the pretext of a hudna or tahadiya (two Qur’anic terms meaning an impermanent cessation of military hostilities) to regroup and strengthen his forces for a future battle against the Banu Quraysh, killing and enslaving the Jews in Arabia, legitimizing the rape of women as a tactic in war, it applies today as a tactic. (Parenthetically, the treatment of Jews as described and prescribed in the Qur’an is particular graphic and loathsome…kill the Jew where one finds a Jew and do so for glory and honor.) If the punishment for rudd/apostasy, to a murtadd was death, then apostasy continues to be a capital offense. Homosexuality, adultery, freedom of speech issues when it comes to criticizing Islam or Muhammad or drawing satire cartoons such as the Jylland Posten satires by Kurt Westergaard are capital offenses under Islam…How does this impact our Bill of Rights as Islam is as it has always been, expansionary, supercessionist? Or, in the words of a number of its defenders in the US, Islam is not meant to be one amongst equals but to be the supreme law of the land


Considering what’s happening in the world, I have to wonder what motivates people like Professor Stern. Doesn’t that Ivory Tower have windows?

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/03/opinion/dont-fear-islamic-law-in-america.html?_r=4&hp

http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/37647

http://www.newenglishreview.org/Rabbi_Jon_Hausman/Halacha,_Sharia_and_the_Religious_Acceptance_of_Constitutional_Governance/

Ron Paul Again Coddles Islamic Terrorist

Ron Paul is at it again; making apologies for Islamic terrorism. At a campaign stop in Iowa, the presidential candidate again slammed American foreign policy as the catalyst for 9/11 and other terrorist attacks:

“I don’t see Islam as our enemy,” Paul said. “I see that motivation is occupation and those who hate us and would like to kill us, they are motivated by our invasion of their land, the support of their dictators that they hate.”

To substantiate his argument, he quoted a study by an Islamic apologist:

Paul cited a University of Chicago professor, Robert Pape, whose research argues that most of the suicide terrorism in the past 30 years was caused by military occupation. Pape’s research, funded by the Defense Department, shows that suicide bombings in Afghanistan went up one third after the Obama administration surged 30,000 troops into the country.

“(9/11) was one of the main motivations for getting your attention on why they hate us and want to kill us,” he said. “You could send 20 million people over there and all it would do is make our problems worse.”

I don’t know if Ron Paul is aware of the history Robert Pape has with Muslims, and particularly CAIR, who was an indicted co-conspirator for terrorism. But the book the congressman cites was revealed to be a propaganda tool to blunt the bad perception Americans have of Islam:

Emails reviewed by the Investigative Project on Terrorism show Pape reached out to CAIR this past summer, hoping to have the Hamas-front group buy 1,000 advanced copies of his new book. Pape asserted in his emails and other communications to CAIR that the book would advance and reinforce CAIR's ideological views that it is the occupation of Arab lands that causes suicide bombings. CAIR's officials responded with enthusiasm to Pape's thesis and to his proposal for bulk purchases to artificially boost his rankings into the best seller lists.

"Pre-orders are especially helpful," Pape wrote on his University of Chicago email account, "because they allow the press to increase the advertising for the book when it is published, and so help to build momentum for the message in the book -- that ending Western occupation of Muslim countries is the best path for reducing the spread of suicide terrorism."

Pape did not respond to an email seeking comment. CAIR's national banquet is scheduled for Saturday evening outside Washington, D.C. In a release, CAIR says Pape will be on hand promoting his book. The release says Pape will participate in a workshop on "Challenging Islamophobia" and quotes CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad:

"This groundbreaking new book offers a powerful educational tool to be used in challenging Islamophobia that is based on the false linkage between Islam and suicide terrorism."

Ron Paul is becoming an embarrassment. If he is this easily duped by a Chicago professor and his Muslim confederates, than he’s not qualified to be president of the United States.

http://caucuses.desmoinesregister.com/2011/08/27/paul-says-u-s-intervention-motivated-911-attacks/

http://www.investigativeproject.org/2226/cair-academic-scheme-to-inflate-book-sales