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Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Here’s a better idea, Uthman. Warn your fellow Muslims instead. They’re the ones getting killed.

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IT'S probably just an occupational hazard for those in the head-chopping caper. When you're out there every day busily carving away at infidels and other betrayers of the faith, all heads must eventually look the same. So it's no surprise when the occasional routine slaughter goes awry. 
  
Last week Islamist rebels in Syria asked for "understanding and forgiveness" after cutting off the wrong man's head. The victim, Mohammad Fares Marroush, had earlier ended up in an Aleppo hospital after being injured in battle. Loaded with painkillers, the delirious man apparently said one or two things that convinced local head removalists he was a follower of Islam's Shia branch instead of being one of their anti-government allies.
That's a big mistake when you're in Sunni territory. During the night, as he slept in hospital, Mr Marroush reportedly became detached from his head - which went on to star in the latest death-to-the-unbelievers online tape, held aloft by his killers.
Say what you will about the failings of the NSW health system, but you can generally make it through the evening without a significant portion of you appearing on Syria's Decapitatiest Home Videos.
Last week also brought news that an Australian had joined the Syrian population explosion. The man, believed to be from Brisbane and lately going by the name Abu Asma al-Australi, turned up on YouTube swearing a few Koranic oaths before riding a bomb-loaded truck towards a Syrian army base.
The detonation killed dozens of Muslim soldiers and converted the former Brisbane resident into, depending on your view of these things, either a revered martyr for Mohammed or a pointless red mist with eyeballs.
Then again, this could be yet another of those crazy Syrian identity mix-ups. The Brisbane man's brother claims that he's still alive, and offered this gentle opinion on Aussies who join their Islamist mates in combat overseas: "Just because our religious outlook is a bit more fundamental doesn't mean we're extremist."
Well, that's a relief. It would be terrible if anyone got the impression there was anything extreme going on. Meanwhile, the bit-more-fundamentalists in Gaza are in conflict again with their Fatah co-religionists. Israeli newspaper Haaretz recently reported: "For the past few weeks, the security apparatus in the Strip has been arresting Fatah supporters, including adolescents, raiding homes and warning people not to demonstrate. There are reports of torture."
As in Syria, the Hamas-Fatah feud exists between Muslims. The Islamic world is rife with bloody disputes, which are far deadlier than any disagreements with Israel or the US.
We have our own version of intra-Islamic fighting. The Muslim-dominated Brothers 4 Life crime gang previously fought with other western Sydney outfits but has recently taken to shooting and killing fellow members.
"It's difficult to classify it as one type of conflict," NSW Deputy Commissioner Nick Kaldas said earlier this month. He went on to wonder if the attacks were "a power struggle or people simply being offended about something that's been said, and acting in a quite irrational way by shooting someone instead of arguing".
Indeed. Let's not lose our heads over minor points of difference - or, in the case of the unfortunate Mohammad Fares Marroush, over points of complete similarity.
In the wake of all this Muslim against Muslim mayhem, Hizb ut-Tahrir spokesman Uthman Badar last week claimed that the government was deliberately trying to antagonise Muslims into reacting violently.
"The government should be warned," the Hizbie honcho said.
 
Here's a better idea, Uthman. Warn your fellow Muslims instead. They're the ones getting killed.
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Sunday, April 28, 2013

Left Dodging Any Confrontation With Islam

Left running in circles to avoid naming elephant in the room

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IT'S now 14 days since the Boston Marathon was bombed by Islamic extremists, 406 days since an Islamic extremist shot Jewish children in France, 1171 days since Islamic extremists bombed Pune in India, 1270 days since an Islamic extremist murdered 13 people in Fort Hood, Texas, 1615 days since Islamic extremists launched an assault on Mumbai that killed 164 citizens, 2853 days since Islamic suicide bombers slaughtered 52 commuters in London, 3336 days since 191 were blown apart by Islamic extremists in Madrid, 3852 days since Islamic extremists killed 202 people including 88 Australians in Bali and 4248 days since nearly 3000 died in the Islamic extremist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

In between times, it's also been 2131 days since failed attempts by Islamic extremists to bomb London and Glasgow, 1546 days since Islamic extremists were jailed in NSW and Victoria for planning to bomb the 2005 AFL grand final, 226 days since a young Islamic woman was photographed during Sydney riots taking a snap of her four-year-old child holding a sign reading "Behead all those who insult the prophet" and just four days since three Islamic extremists were sent to prison in the UK over terrorism conspiracies.
There may have been one or two other recent Islamic extremist incidents besides. It's difficult to keep count. In any case, a pattern seems to be emerging that involves extremists of a particular type.
It's obvious to all except our friends on the Left, who have developed three distinct coping mechanisms over the past decade or so in order to dodge any confrontation with Islam.
The first is outright evasion. Here, for example are the "bare facts" of the Boston attack, according to the ABC's Jonathan Green: "Two bombs exploded, 10 or so seconds apart, the first about 2.49pm, on Boylston St, Boston ... Three people were killed, while 264 others were injured. As a consequence one suspect was arrested, and another died in the course of a massive manhunt. The pair were Chechen brothers. The surviving suspect has been charged in a bedside hearing in hospital. His condition is now described as fair. That's about it so far."
Not quite. By the time of Green's faith-free outline, another fact was known. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev "told federal agents he and his brother were motivated by extremist Islamic beliefs", the New York Times reported.Another form of evasion: since 2001 the Left has become overwhelmingly concerned about what the weather may be like in a few hundred years. It's their way of seeming to be worried about important global issues while ignoring a global issue that is killing and tormenting people right now, every day.
The second coping device is the complexity disguise, whereby the simple realities of Islamic terrorism are submerged beneath tonnes of pointless, faux-sophisticated chatter. US academic John Cole steps up to the plate: "This sounds to me like a classic father-son struggle, and a tale of adolescent rebellion, in which radical Muslim vigilantism appears mainly as a tool for the young men to get back to their father, and perhaps to wipe off the shame they had begun feeling about the family having been on the wrong side of the Chechnya fundamentalist uprising. They were playing the nihilists Arkady and Bazarov in Turgenev's Fathers And Sons. The shame of the secular uncle may have been mirrored from the other side in the shame of the newly religious-nationalist adolescents."
I prefer Tamerlan Tsarnaev's more direct explanation, as related to the Chinese man whose car he and his brother hijacked during their bid to flee Boston. "I did that," said Tamerlan, referring to the marathon attack. "And I just killed a policeman in Cambridge. I'm a Muslim."
He'll never get academic tenure with that impressive verbal economy. There's also the problem of Tamerlan being dead, having been run over by his brother's stolen SUV, which is a plot development rarely seen in 19th century Russian drama.
A few on the Left reject this nonsense. Following the capture of the surviving Tsarnaev idiot, Brian Levin, the director of something called the Center for Study of Hate and Extremism, turned up on Bill Maher's US talk show. Now, Maher is usually as mushily Left as they come, but this night he nailed it. "There's only one faith that kills you, or wants to kill you, if you draw a bad cartoon of the prophet. There's only one faith that kills you, or wants to kill you, if you renounce the faith," he told his guest, who'd tried to draw an equivalence between Islam and other faiths. When Levin continued, weakly claiming that an anti-Muslim musical could be presented on Broadway without subsequent deadly mayhem, in the manner of The Book of Mormon, Maher asked: "Tell me what colour the sky is in your world." Good question.
The third coping strategy is a simple blame-switch. On the Friday prior to the Tsarnaevs' showdown with police, Fairfax publications ran an illustration pointing an accusing finger at the presumed marathon killers. It depicted a teapot decorated with the stars and stripes, atop which a lit fuse sparkled.
Fairfax's best guess on the identity of the Boston bombers was the Tea Party, a mainstream political movement in the US primarily concerned with low taxation.
Islamic extremists pick out soft targets. In Boston, the murdered victims included an eight-year-old boy. The Left likes soft targets, too. No Tea Partier has bombed anybody. They're basically middle-class types who, if they ever do use pressure cookers, use them for cooking rather than killing.
The common element with all three Leftoid coping mechanisms is a gutless unwillingness to face reality. They're boldly standing up for cowardice, which is something of an accomplishment considering that the closest thing they have to a spine these days is the yellow streak running down their backs.
Meanwhile, the rest of us may consider again the list at the top of this column and marvel at the words of Tamerlan Tsarnaev's former brother-in-law, searching for a reason behind this month's latest Islamist outrage. "He was angry," said the bro-in-law, "that the world pictures Islam as a violent religion."
Well, he can't blame the Left. They'd never say such a terrible thing. They wouldn't dare.
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