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But that formulation can be interpreted in many ways – it was also the basis of Egypt’s largely secular constitution under President Hosni Mubarak, and remains so after his fall.

My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

‘Expected’ by whom? The Crust, maybe — those of us who appreciate the essence of Islam viewed it as inevitable. Every Muslim is committed BY THE NATURE OF HIS RELIGION to work for the implementation of shari’ah law. The only places where they don’t do this is where Muslims are so few on the ground that it would be a waste of time. As Britain and France and Sweden and the Netherlands and Michigan and Wisconsin are finding out, it doesn’t take a huge percentage of Muslims in the population to trigger pro-shari’ah efforts. The only country with a Muslim majority that doesn’t implement shari’ah law is Turkey, and it is rapidly heading in that direction — a ‘secular’ state with a Muslim-majority population is an unstable situation that can be held that way only through tight authoritarian oppression, and ALWAYS eventually unravels.

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When there aren’t any Jews or Americans handy, Muslims will quite cheerfully murder each other.

That’s some fine Religion o’ Peace you got there, Mohammed.

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It take exception to Ms. Raza’s assertion that the mandate to abuse women is not in the Koran; it most emphatically is in the Koran. I quote from the most authoritative source on Sunni Islamic law, Reliance of the Traveller, Book P, “Enormities”:

p42.0 A WIFE’S REBELLING AGAINST HER HUSBAND (def: m10.12)

p42.1 Allah Most High says:

“Men are the guardians of women, since Allah has been more generous to one than the other, and because of what they (men) spend from their wealth. so righteous women will be obedient, and in absence watchful, for Allah is watchful. And if you fear their intractability, warn them, send them from bed, or hit them. But if they obey you, seek no way to blame them” (Koran 4:34).

p42.2 The Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) said:

(1)		“Allah will not look at a woman who is ungrateful to her husband, while unable to do without him.”
(2)		“When a man calls his wife to his bed and she will not come, and he spends the night angry with her, the angels, curse her until morning.”
(3)		“It is not lawful for a woman to fast when her husband is present, save by his leave. Nor to permit anyone into his house except with his permission.”
(4)		“Whoever leaves her husband’s house (A: without his permission), the angels curse her until she returns or repents.” (Khalil Nahlawi:) It is a condition for the permissibility of her going out (dis: m 10.3-4) that she take no measures to enhance her beauty, and that her figure is concealed or altered to a form unlikely to draw looks from men or attract them., Allah Most High says,“Remain in your homes and do not display your beauty as women did in the pre-Islamic period of ignorance” (Koran 33.33)

As you can see, Islamic law — mainstream Islamic law, as accepted by devout Muslims all over the world — not only permits the subjugation of women, it requires it.

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As part of the deal to free Gilad Shalit, the butcher of Ramallah who participated in the disemboweling and mutilation of two Israeli soldiers who took a wrong turn on a road in the West Bank in October 2000 at the start of the 1st Intifada, will be set free:

The soldiers were beaten, stabbed, had their eyes gouged out, and were disemboweled. At this point, a Palestinian (later identified as Aziz Salha), appeared at the police station window, displaying his blood-stained hands to the crowd, which erupted into cheers. One of the soldier’s bodies was then thrown out the window and stamped and beaten by the enraged mob. One of the bodies was set on fire. Soon after, the mob dragged the two mutilated bodies to Al-Manara Square in the city center as the crowd began an impromptu victory celebration.

That’s some fine Religion o’ Peace™ you got there, Mohammed.

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An especially busy month in the persecution of Christians in the Muslim world, September also witnessed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton release the Annual Report on International Religious Freedom. Ironically, aside from Iran and Sudan, none of the countries that habitually appear in this series were designated as “countries of particular concern,” defined by the State Department as countries that are “engaged in or tolerated particularly severe violations of religious freedom.”

Egypt, for instance—which this year alone has seen nearly 80 Christians killed, their many churches burned or bombed, and their daughters kidnapped and forcibly converted—was not listed as a “country of particular concern,” this despite the fact that the U.S. Commission for International Religious Freedom, an independent, bipartisan federal government commission, had recommended that the State Department designate it so.

Neither was Pakistan cited as a “country of particular concern.” According to CNS news, “Clinton did not designate Pakistan even though the State Department’s own report stated that Pakistani law calls for the death penalty for people who commit ‘blasphemy’ against Islam or who convert from Islam to another religion—and even though the report listed multiple instances of the Pakistani government using the law to persecute Christians.”

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What are the consequences?

Kleine-Hartlage: The consequence is that the widespread assumption in this country under which we perceive Islam — that all religions are equal or “want the same thing” — is misleading. Let me give you an example: Islam does not generally outlaw violence, not even in a strictly moral sense. It is a legal system that he controls violence: Whether violence is acceptable or even required depends, not only in the legal, but also in the moral sense on the who, whom, why, and how. Christian culture with outright condemnation of violence tends to the elimination of private violence and is therefore dependent on the state and its monopoly on violence. Islam isn’t. On the contrary, violence has prestige value.

Why?

Kleine-Hartlage: Because the Prophet’s example, made a permanent feature in the Quran, teaches that the ability to use force a sign of divine election. Thus, the meaning of violence is similar to that of material wealth in Calvinism. Violence in Islam has a structuring function: it makes a difference between above and below, i.e. master and slave, men and women, believers and unbelievers. Islam doesn’t define peace as a universal principle.

But? After all, “Islam” means “peace”.

Kleine-Hartlage: No, “Islam” means, in friendly translation, “devotion” and less friendly, “submission”. The word is derived from the same word-root as “Salam” (peace), but it is not a synonym. The Islamic concept of society is based on the division of humanity into “believers” and “infidels” — and Islam leaves no doubt that the “infidels” sooner or later have to disappear in history. “Good” in the ethical sense, is what is good for the spread of Islam; “evil” is any opposition to it. Islam rejects the notion of a universal ethics by which all people have equal rights, no matter what religion they belong to, or peace as a matter of principle. Such views contradict not only the teachings of Islam, but its basic structure.

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Welcome to Londonistan. Take off your shoes, shoot the dog, throw a blanket over your women, and leave your civlization behind; it won’t be needed.

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The basic tribal framework of “us versus them” remains in Islam. The conception “my group, right or wrong” does not exist because the question of right or wrong never comes up. Allegiance is to “my group,” period, full stop, always defined against “the other.” An overarching, universalistic, inclusive constitution is not possible. Islam is not a constant referent but rather, like every level of tribal political organization, is contingent. People act politically as Muslims only when in opposition to infidels. Among Muslims, people will mobilize on a sectarian basis, as Sunni versus Shi‘a. Among Sunni, people will mobilize as the Karim tribe versus the Mahmud tribe; within the Karim tribe, people will mobilize according to whom they find themselves in opposition to: tribal section versus tribal section; lineage versus lineage, and so on.

The structural fissiparousness of the tribal order makes societal cohesion difficult. Affiliation places people and groups in opposition to one another. There is no universal reference that can include all parties. Oppositionalism then becomes the cultural imperative. While the tribal system based on balanced opposition effectively supports decentralized nomads, it inhibits societal integration and precludes civil peace based on settlement of disputes through legal judgment at the local level.

Reminder for the ignorant: Islam is an oppressive totalitarian ideology, under the guise of a religion, with which no co-existence is possible.

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In recent years Somali pirates have seized dozens of vessels and made millions of pounds from ransoming their crews.

That’s some fine Religion o’ Peace™ you got there, Mohammed.

A pointed reminder that there is no stricture in Islam against stealing from non-Muslims. In fact, it’s encouraged; Mohammed himself was a notorious bandit (and mass murderer).

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And, of course, under shari’ah, damaged churches aren’t allowed to be repaired.

A rather pointed reminder that freedom of religion is not a Muslim value.

That’s some fine Religion o’ Peace™ you got there, Mohammed.

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An Iranian actress has been sentenced to a year in jail and 90 lashes for her role in a film about the limits imposed on artists in the Islamic republic.

That’s some fine Religion o’ Peace™ you got there, Mohammed.

A rather pointed reminder that freedom of speech is not a Muslim value.

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Social media now perform the ancient function of the hue-and-cry. Old ways, new tools.

Wajeeh Izharuddin, 19, from Ashburton, later appeared before Newton Abbot magistrates.

He was convicted of burglary and placed on probation for six months.

Now there’s a Real English Name for you.

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Jihadi forum Ansar al-Mujahideen recently published a new e-book, The Just Scale – On the Permissibility of Killing the Infidels’ Children and Women, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI). Each of its eight chapters presents alleged proof from the Quran and Islam’s legal tradition, in an attempt to refute mainstream arguments against killing certain types of civilians.

My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

That’s some fine Religion o’ Peace™ you got there, Mohammed.

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And if cutting off their allowance doesn’t work, next step is putting them in Time Out.

After that, they’re grounded.

That’ll teach ’em.

On this date in 1571 the forces of jihad were checked at sea, and the long rollback of Muslim conquest would begin a hundred years later outside the gates of Vienna in 1683.

Looks like they’ve got momentum on their side again — nature abhors a vacuum, and that’s what we’ve got for governments these days.

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Alaa Alsaegh is an Iraqi Muslim living in the St. Louis area. Last month he wrote a poem in Arabic for a pro-Israel website, expressing his support for Israel.

His reward? Two strangers trapped him on a deserted street and carved a Star of David in his back with a knife.

That’s some fine Religion o’ Peace™ you got there, Mohammed.

The Other McCain has some fun with Crustian culture.

Curious statement from U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz:

“I want the public to understand that Mr. Ferdaus’ conduct, as alleged in the complaint, is not reflective of a particular culture, community or religion. In addition to protecting our citizens from the threats and violence alleged today, we also have an obligation to protect members of every community, race, and religion against violence and other unlawful conduct.”

Hmmmm. What “particular culture, community or religion” was notreflected in the acts of 26-year-year-oid Rezwan Feradaus? Obviously, the U.S. Attorney must be afraid that some people will use this to cast aspersions on . . . Northeastern University physics students, perhaps? Rock band drummers?

Hey, those rock band drummers can be really intense.

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Short answer ? Islam has “unhappy ending” written all over it.

Tragically, for Islam there is no possibility of a happy ending. It has often been said that the only peace which Islam ? famously known as “The Religion of Peace” ? offers anyone is the peace of the grave. Pakistan ? which means “land of the pure” ?provides the best evidence of this in that it is a prototypical Islamic nation intended to mirror the everyday rule of shari’a law. That country’s horrific level of almost daily slaughter and mayhem clearly demonstrates how ? even if Islam were to attain global ascendancy ? the violence and terrorism would never stop.

The Islamic concept of takfir (“impure”), literally assures this in that a more devout Muslim is religiously sanctioned for killing a less pure Muslim. This lack of purity could be interpreted as someone who does not pray all five times a day or consumes food during daylight hours over the course of Ramadan. The possible paths descending into Islamic “impurity” are as numerous as they are varied and it is an ironclad guarantee that Islam will always be torn by internecine violence.

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Cases dealing with apostasy in Islam—whereby Muslims who convert to other religions are tortured and executed—are on the rise and need to be acknowledged for what they are: one of Islam’s most visible attempts to suppress the human conscience—a phenomenon that has dire implications beyond religious freedom.

As for the Uganda anecdote, Susan’s father actually opted to follow the most lenient form of punishment allowed for apostasy: while Islam’s three Sunni schools of law condemn the apostate to death, the Hanafi School “progressively” advocates beating and imprisoning females until they see the “error of their ways” and return to Islam.

Likewise, though Susan’s father was arrested, he was “quickly released,” doubtless because the authorities recognized that he was only upholding Islam.

To all the relativists out there, they have but one question to ask themselves: where is the other religion that kills defectors? There are none; only gangs, not religions, exhibit such a “mafia” mentality—hence the argument that Islam is more a political system than a religion.

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If the police had been Palestinian, and the girl Israeli, the Palestinian government would have rewarded the police.

There lies the difference between Israel and its enemies.

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As far as atrocities go, it would appear that Turkey is never held responsible for any of them, and pays no consequences for its arrogant denials about those million Armenians. It will be the same for the Cypriots.

Funny how it feels free to lecture Israel while it kills Christians and persecutes the Kurdish population in Turkey. Not to mention Turkey’s Kurdish Christians.

And this is ‘secular’, ‘modern’, ‘moderate’ Turkey.

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A group of American military officers and Afghan officials had just finished a five-hour meeting with their Pakistani hosts in a village schoolhouse settling a border dispute when they were ambushed — by the Pakistanis.

An American major was killed and three American officers were wounded, along with their Afghan interpreter, in what fresh accounts from the Afghan and American officers who were there reveal was a complex, calculated assault by a nominal ally. The Pakistanis opened fire on the Americans, who returned fire before escaping in a blood-soaked Black Hawk helicopter.

The attack, in Teri Mangal on May 14, 2007, was kept quiet by Washington, which for much of a decade has seemed to play down or ignore signals that Pakistan would pursue its own interests, or even sometimes behave as an enemy.

‘Sometimes’?

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… Pakistan’s spy agency — Inter-Services Intelligence — played a direct role in supporting insurgents who attacked the American Embassy in Kabul last week, killing 16 people. He also said that with ISI support, the Haqqani network of terrorists planned and conducted an earlier truck bombing on a NATO outpost that killed 5 people and wounded 77 coalition troops, and other recent attacks.

My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

(I’m chiefly surprised that this is from the New York Times, noted butt-kisser of all things Muslim.)

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When there aren’t any Jews or Americans handy, Muslims will quite cheerfully kill each other.

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‘… With ponies! And unicorns!’

The 2001 attacks on the United States have intensified the debate that has existed since the dawn of Islam: How is the West to respond to the followers of Muhammad?

Kill them before they kill us. It’s really just that simple. Islam is not a religion, it’s a disease.

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Hundreds of Tunisians protested against their imminent repatriation by setting fire to the reception centre they were being held in on the remote Italian island of Lampedusa.

That’s gratitude for you. I wonder how they’d like spending the rest of their time out in the open air, having burned down the accommodation provided for them? But, of course, not being Muslims, the Italians wouldn’t do that.

Nor would they do what they ought to do, which is take them back to North Africa where they belong.

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Hint: Yes.

According to Turkish press, as quoted by Ynet, the Turkish air force will be fitting its F-16 fighter jets with new IFF systems, which will not treat the signal from an Israeli IFF transponder as friendly, and will thus facilitate more efficient attack.  The F-16’s original IFF system is made to US/NATO specifications, and identifies an Israeli IFF response as friendly.  This creates an inconvenient requirement to override the system’s restrictions preventing engagement of friendly aircraft, in order to fire on an Israeli plane.

Why Turkey is a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization has never been clear to me.

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Israeli security forces have broken up 13 Hamas terrorist cells in the West Bank since May, according to a report released this week by the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center.

That’s some fine Religion o’ Peace™ you got there, Mohammed.

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When people become aware of the dangers of Islamization, they tend to take an interest in the Koran. Rather than rely on what the media or Muslims tell them, they decide to examine Islam’s holy book for themselves, and turn to the internet for help.

Needless to say, the best resources on the Koran are on Islamic sites. You can find anything you want from the Koran, in any language. However, the presentation at such sites is from a Muslim point of view, and doesn’t generally point the reader to the wife-beating or Jew-killing or infidel-beheading verses.

That’s not true of TheQuran.com. It contains detailed easy-to-use analysis of the Koran, produced by Arabic-speaking scholars from both Christian and apostate backgrounds. It is one of the more useful reference sites on the subject that I’ve come across: you can look up verses by topic, or you can search on keywords, or simply browse the contents. It also has a series of articles on particular suras and verses of interest.

It will scare you shitless, like Mein Kampf if Hitler had been on a mission from God.

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The Somali jihadist organization al-Shabaab did not exist a decade ago. Today, its success in recruiting and radicalizing Muslims inside the United States has made al-Shabaab “a direct threat to the U.S. homeland,” according to an investigative report by the House Homeland Security Committee.

That’s some fine Religion o’ Peace™ you got there, Mohammed.

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That’s some fine Religion o’ Peace™ you got there, Mohammed.

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Swedish police arrested three Somali men and an Iraqi Saturday night on suspicion they were plotting to attack an art fair at a landmark gallery in Goteborg.

That’s some fine Religion 0′ Peace™ you got there, Mohammed.

Read more at: http://www.investigativeproject.org/3167/possible-attack-thwarted-in-sweden

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So long as the West focuses on names and faces in the so-called “war on terror”—as opposed to focusing on ideas and motivations—so long will it possibly win battles, even as it slowly loses the war.

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So this year I will do something different: I will commemorate the events of five years ago by revisiting events of 323 years ago. I refer, of course, to the other 9-11: September 11th, 1683, the day when an alliance of Christian armies led by Jan III Sobieski, the King of Poland, arrived at the Gates of Vienna.

A cogent reminder that Muslims have been at war with the rest of the world for 1400 years. They don’t ever forget it; unfortunately, a lot of us do. In a war where only one side is fighting, guess which side wins?

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My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

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I shall divide Muslims into three groups:

1. Convinced Islamo-Fascists

2. The frauds who, out of shame, do not confront the system, but pillory the critics of the system.

3. The idiots who seriously believe they are good people although their mindset is a guarantee for more fascism and strengthens the convinced Islamo-Fascists.

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Time for another Arab-Israeli war, I guess. Well, we knew it was too good to last.

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The study, which analyzes 176 failed terrorist plots against U.S. targets, was conducted by Erik J. Dahl, a professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Cal., in conjunction with the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) program at the University of Maryland.

That’s some fine Religion o’ Peace you got there, Mohammed.

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That’s some fine Religion o’ Peace™ you got there, Mohammed.

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The process of Islamization is not uniform across the European continent. In each country, Muslim immigrants traditionally come from certain regions, even from specific countries.

For example, the Netherlands is being Moroccanized. Britain is being Pakistanized. France is being Algerianized.

And Germany and Austria are being Turkicized.

This process of turning Germany into Turkey is deliberate, and the plans of ethnic Turks in Germany are no secret. German Turks suffer no consequences for expressing their intention to take over, so they can state their goal openly. They know they will not be charged with sedition, nor even censured.

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Jihadists among the Libyan rebels revealed plans last week on the Internet to subvert the post-Moammar Gadhafi government and create an Islamist state, according to U.S. intelligence agencies.

My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

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Ayatollah Mohammad Taghi Mesbah-Yazdi is a religious advisor to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran. His theological ideas have been influential in the formation of Iranian state policy.

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The startling extent to which Labour misled the world over the controversial release of the Lockerbie bomber is exposed today in top-secret documents obtained by The Mail on Sunday.

In public, senior Ministers from the last Labour Government and the Scottish First Minister have repeatedly insisted that terminally ill Abdelbaset Al Megrahi was freed on compassionate grounds in a decision taken by Scottish Ministers alone.

But the confidential papers show that Westminster buckled under pressure from Colonel Gaddafi, who threatened to ignite a ‘holy war’ if Megrahi died in his Scottish cell.

My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

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That’s some fine Religion o’ Peace™ you got there, Mohammed.

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News flash to the media: Muslims have no problem with ‘mass executions’. Mohammed did it (per Wikipedia):

The Islamic Prophet Muhammad besieged the Banu Qurayza for 25 days until they surrendered.^[1] One ofMuhammad’s companions decided that “the men should be killed, the property divided, and the women and children taken as captives”. Muhammad approved of the ruling, calling it similar to God’s judgment^{[7][8][9][10][11]}, after which all male members of the tribe who had reached puberty were beheaded ^[2][12]. The Muslim jurist Tabari quotes 600-900 being executed.^[1][3] The Sunni hadith do not give the number killed, but state that all males were killed and 1 woman.^[13] The rest of the woman and children were sold in exchange for weapons and horses, according to Islamic sources.^[1]

… so it’s okay for all Muslims to do it. Just ask them.

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Thus, we have the central idea that forms a distinct brand of Islamic anti-Semitism: namely the motif that Jews are most hostile to Islam and Allah’s revelations among humanity, and therefore prone to treachery in dealings with others, arrogant self-righteousness, slaying Allah’s messengers and prophets, and other forms of evil conduct.

For example, the Qur’an itself affirms, “You will surely find that the people most hostile to the believers are the Jews and pagans” (5:82). This verse could be taken as just a reference to Muhammad’s historical conflicts with the Jewish and pagan tribes of Arabia, but orthodoxy did not interpret it that way, seeing the Qur’an as literally valid in its axioms for all times and places.

This theme of unique Jewish hostility in Islam appears to have been a continual thread throughout Muslim history. Writing in the ninth century, the polymath al-Jahiz wrote that the local Muslim populations generally find the Jewish people more repulsive than the Christians because the former, supposedly delighting in their sense of superiority, choose not to intermarry with those outside their religion. He also identified 5:82 quoted above as a reason why the Jews were regarded by the Muslims of his time as more treacherous and guilty of unbelief.

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One of the dirty little secrets of Islam — actually, it isn’t all that secret — is that a Muslim’s first loyalty is always to the Ummah; everything else comes after.

To anyone familiar with Muslim doctrine, Pfc. Naser Jason Abdo’s actions — from refusing to deploy to Afghanistan lest he kill fellow Muslims to plotting a terror attack to kill fellow Americans — make perfect sense and accord well with Islam’s dichotomous doctrine of wala wa bara, often translated as “loyalty and enmity.”

Built atop numerous Koran verses and backed by Sharia, wala requires Muslims to be loyal to fellow Muslims, and explains why Abdo refused to deploy to Muslim nations.

While loyalty may appear admirable, it has a flipside, bara, which requires Muslims to disassociate themselves from non-Muslims — to be disloyal to them (see al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri’s 60 page treatise titled “Loyalty and Enmity” in The Al Qaeda Reader for details).

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Downing Street has admitted that it is powerless to force the return of the Lockerbie bomber to Britain almost two years after the Libyan was released from a Scottish prison on compassionate grounds.

Hey, I’ve got an idea: Why not … wait for it … bomb him? They’re bombing everyone else in Libya, and it is his turn….

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Russia’s FSB intelligence service has arrested four suspected Islamist terrorists and charged them with plotting to blow up a high-speed commuter train travelling between Moscow and St Petersburg.

That’s some fine Religion o’ Peace™ you got there, Mohammed.