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December 03, 2006
Religion of Peace update
The Multi-Culti Left wants us to believe that America has no right to lecture the rest of the world about morality; our history is replete with examples of racism, cruelty and genocide (or so they say), thereby knocking us off our high horse.
The Left reflexively makes common cause with the non-European, non-Judeo-Christian societies -- despite the absence of ... sensitivity toward alternate lifestyles in much of the kumbiyah-esque regions.
So it comes as a bracing dose of reality of see what's happening in the Muslim world, courtesy of the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), whose experts translate the articles and programs we'd never know about without their help.
Take this one, for instance, detailing the fascinating career of a Koran-following, Sharia-enforcing Saudi executioner.
Reporter: "This is the most renowned executioner in Saudi Arabia, Abdallah Bin Sa'id Al-Bishi, who carries out the executions. His sword delineates the border between seriousness and play. There is no negotiating with him once the heads have ripened. When it's harvesting time, he is the most suited for the job."
Abdallah Al-Bishi: "I started to work in this field after the death of my father - about a week or 10 days after his death, in 1412 [1991-92]. I was surprised that the people who supervise this field summoned me, saying I had a mission. Allah be praised. Of course, I did not have swords or anything back then, but I used the swords of my father, may he rest in peace, and carried out the execution. My first mission was to execute three people."
Reporter: "Abu Bader's swords have cut off a hundred heads and more. His eldest son, Badr, is training in the same profession. He inherited this profession from his father, Sa'id Al-Bishi. He remembers how, when still a small boy, he accompanied him to the beheading of a criminal in Mecca. That sight, Abu Badr says, was the turning point in his life."
[...]
First TV host: "Like we said at the beginning of the show, the executioner Abdallah Al-Bishi will be joining us shortly. He is delayed because he is busy carrying out an execution. He is coming to the show straight from work, and will be joining us soon.
[...]
First TV host: "Do you cut off hands, or do you just do beheadings?"
Abdallah Al-Bishi: "Yes, yes. I carry out the punishment of cutting off thieves' hands, as well as the cutting off of a hand and a leg on alternate sides, as is written in the Koran."
[...]
Second TV host: "Abdallah, what was your most difficult beheading? Have you ever beheaded someone you knew?"
Abdallah Al-Bishi: "Yes, I have beheaded many people who were my friends, but whoever commits an offense brings it on himself."
[...]
First TV host: "When you behead more than three or four people at once, does it affect you? My second question is: Do you need a break between executions? Does it affect you or not?"
Abdallah Al-Bishi: "Allah be praised, there is nothing to it. Three, four, five, or six - there is nothing to it. It's entirely normal. An execution is an execution, and as long as the person stands straight... As long as the person stands straight, it makes our job much easier."
[...]
First TV host: "Are you training your eldest son Badr or one of his brothers to do the same job in the future, especially since you inherited this profession from your father?"
Abdallah Al-Bishi: "Allah be praised, Badr is about to be appointed to the position in Riyadh.
To get the full flavor, read the rest of the transcript, or, if you can stomach it, watch the video.
It's like something out of the Middle Ages. Will someone please explain to me how the self-loathing Western elites can continue to insist that we're in no position to judge? That our culture is cruel and coarse, but the rest of the world is populated by tree-hugging pacifists and Jimmah Carter-worshipping yabbos.
MEMRI should be on your daily reading list, for an unfiltered look at what the Muslim world is saying when they think you're not listening.
Posted by Mike Lief at December 3, 2006 08:20 PM
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Islam: Love your wife, but beat her if she speaks up; Love your daughter, but murder her if she shames your family name; Be generous to the poor, but cut off their hands if in a moment of desperation they steal a loaf of bread; Be humble, unless you are insulted to which you may respond with murderous rage; Never hurt another Muslim, unless he believes different than your local cleric, to which you may then kill him too if your cleric says that Allah would smile on such a deed.
Posted by: Mark at December 3, 2006 09:35 PM
are other religions better? What about all that jewish stuff about keeping a woman down for a week if she menstruates, not being outside after sunset on fri, and not being able to carry a baby on saturday unless there's some stupid wire around your neighborhood. And every time i hear some catholic likes to eat jesus flesh and drink his blood i want to puke. Is that what passes for civilized thought? At least chopping some dude's head off helps make society safer. Putting him in prison for 20 years is more like the middle ages.
Posted by: rlc1977 at December 4, 2006 11:18 AM
The text of any religion is only text to me until the written word is acted upon. I could care less about what the Muslim believes in his own heart.
The moment of danger arises to me when he takes his jihad from an internal struggle to an outward one, deeming me, my family, and my country enemies to his religion and his god.
Look at the map rlc1977 and you will see that there is blood and fire eminating from every region where Muslims populate in large numbers. This is a sinister cult, a storm of evil to anyone who fails to share its dark, mindless view of the universe.
Posted by: Mark at December 4, 2006 12:46 PM
rlc1977, I can't figure out if you're an atheist or a Muslim. But either way, it doesn't seem to me like you've given Judaism or Catholicism any serious study. This only displays your ignorance. You're only regurgitating the worst rhetorical twisting of their beliefs. You try to pass yourself off as tolerant, but your words only give you away.
How do the beheadings of the innocent American contractors Nick Berg, Paul Johnson, and Gene Armstrong make the world safer? Paul Johnson was an electrical engineer for Lockheed. What did he do to deserve such a grisly death?
The fact of the matter is that the history of Islam proves that it is a violent religion, intolerant of other beliefs, bent on domination and subjugation, putting to death all who resist and refuse to convert.
Don't believe me? Do some research as to why the Arabic hat, the fez, is red.
They conquered a quarter of the known world nearly a 1000 years ago, had it not been for the "evil Crusades". Their goal has ever been to do so, and are gearing up for a new assault on the West. Then it won't matter what religion you are, because your severed head will be sitting on a pike, as a trophy for some jihadi.
But I guess you're just so much smarter than the rest of us, right?
Posted by: sonarman at December 4, 2006 08:30 PM