Comments on: Update II: B. Hussein In Wonderland

By: Van Wijk

Van Wijk — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 11:44:56 +0000

But there were some who resisted…

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1244035005732&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

By: Van Wijk

Van Wijk — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 07:17:01 +0000

The Pharaoh just visited the Buchenwald concentration camp and there denounced anti-Semitism and Holocaust Deniers. And yet a day earlier he paid tribute to the Arabian death cult committed to wiping Jews from the face of the earth and waging war on the world entire.

I kept expecting to hear Allahu Akbar from his mouth. Perhaps I went to the bathroom and missed it?

By: Virgil

Virgil — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 22:22:52 +0000

At the National Review website (a publication I'm not particularly fond of) Andrew McCarthy has an interesting article on Obama's Cairo speech. Everyone should check it out. Also, concerning Islam, FrontPageMag.com is running an very interesting and illuminating interview with Coptic priest Fr. Zakaria Botros.

By: Roger Chaillet

Roger Chaillet — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:42:55 +0000

Dr. Zewail also received his doctorate from a Western university. He received it from the University of Pennsyvania.

Ditto for Dr. Abdus Salam. He received his terminal degree from Cambridge. Moreover, orthodox Muslims did not really consider him to be Muslim. http://www.imperial.ac.uk/publications/reporterarchive/0036/feat02.htm

Interesting that these two found the best universities for research, i.e. the right to think freely, in the West.

It would be more interesting to see what religious minorities such as Jews, Christians and Parsis have contributed to Muslim majority countries. I am sure the contributions would be out sized for these 3 groups.

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 03:10:47 +0000

NOBEL PRIZES: 1990 Elias Corey is a Lebanese CHRISTIAN and his prize was in Chemistry. Peter Medawar (1960-Medicine) was half-British half-Lebanese atheist-rationalist according to Wiki. Naguib Mahfouz (Literature 1988) is listed as an Egyptian atheist. Ferid Mourad (Medicine 1998) is an Episcopalian. Ahmed Zewail (Chemistry 1999) is a Moslem and a science advisor to B. Hussein Obama. Moslem Abdus Salam won the Nobel in physics in 1979 and was the Ph.D. advisor to Israel’s science minister Yuval Ne’eman. The one Nobelist graduate of Cairo University is civil engineering student and Prince of Peace, Yasser Arafat – but as a Marxist who married a Christian, his Islamic bonafides are somewhat dubious.

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 03:08:11 +0000

Standard Messianic-schmooze, showing empathy and “understanding” of both sides (white granny vs. Jeremiah Wright or Palestinians vs. Israelis…) “But if we see this conflict only from one side or the other, then we will be blind to the truth … Too much blood has been shed” with our Messiah choosing some “realistic and reasonable” B through Y as his compromise between A and Z. He used “understand” 4 times in his speech and “tolerance” 5 times – in the pattern of his fellow Illini Abe Lincoln: “All dreaded it–all sought to avert it. …Both parties deprecated war…The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has been answered fully”. Obama even evoked “government of the people and by the people” in this intellectual-Twinkie of a speech. What’s there to dislike? “The menagerie of media morons” will have their usual orgasm! Obama promised “we will match promising Muslim students with internships in America” just like the scholarship given to Sayyid Qutb who returned from America to inspire admirers like Khomeni and Zawahiri – oops! Check out: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayyid_Qutb. Maybe a few of the promising Moslem students can attend flight school!

By: Virgil

Virgil — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 02:26:43 +0000

“The Holy Quran teaches that whoever kills an innocent is as — it is as if he has killed all mankind.” Not quite. The adage, bowdlerized from the Jews, is heavily qualified in the Koran.

It should also be mentioned that the "innocent" mentioned in the Qur'an is specifically a Muslim, hence the killing of a Muslim is the equivalent of killing all of mankind. The famous and highly respected (by Sunni Muslims) medieval scholar ibn Kathir quotes an earlier Muslim authority (Sa'id bin Jubayr) on this verse in his famous and influential commentary on the Qur'an:

Sa`id bin Jubayr said, "He who allows himself to shed the blood of a Muslim, is like he who allows shedding the blood of all people. He who forbids shedding the blood of one Muslim, is like he who forbids shedding the blood of all people."

So it is disingenuous on the part of both Muslims and their dhimmi apologists to pretend this verse is general in its application and intent. One could also note that such seemingly peaceful verses are superseded by other verses that mandate warfare against non-believers, and either their conversion or subjugation.