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Sharia Would Not Work Well for Us

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One of the things many people living in the West ask when they are told about the Muslim vision of a global Sharia governance is why would they care about it, they wrongly assume that Muslims will set their own law and live with it happily, while letting non Muslims carry on with their normal lives as usual, the truth is not as tolerant and nice going as that unfortunately.

Non Muslims will need to follow Sharia just the same as Muslims, they will also need to pay a tribute to the Muslims and declare Islams superiority over them, and what makes this such a confusing thing to westerners is that it seems very technical to them. “So I will pay a little extra tax for the Muslims and live my life, that is not the end of the world, right?” or “OK, I will say that Islam is better and stronger, and will go on with things as usual” will not do, it is not a technical thing at all.

Imagine you are under Sharia, you’re a non Muslim, you are already used to paying 50% of your earnings to the Muslim government, and do that annual ceremony where you kneel and kiss the feet of Muslim clerics, your daughter is married to a Muslim and had converted, better for her – you think.

One day she knocks on your door, her husband had hit her again, only this time he had broken her hand. You remember the last time you went to report this to the police, and the beating you suffered from them, so you will not go this time, she can stay with you until her husband calms down, her baby girl is with her as well.

A few days pass and your son-in-law knocks on your door, he demands your daughter comes back home to clean and cook for him. She leaves and cries, after a few hours he beats her again and she runs away, she does not want to involve you, so she hides in a park, he finds her, and kills her. It’s his right, there is nothing you can do about it, you have seen this happen many times, its come a long way from the “technical” sharia you submitted to.

*Note – honor killings are not in Islam but they are now deeply rooted in Islamic-Arab culture, you will find many Arab courts defending women killers and beaters with the claim that this is very clearly allowed and advised by God.

 

Honor Killing in Egypt

Erdogan Builds a War Tower

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Looks like war, smells like war...

There is a risk that this whole thing is actually diplomacy, however if it sounds like war, looks like war and smells lie war, it’s probably war.

The prime minister of Turkey had his day in the sun today, his glory moment finally arrived when he went all out against his country’s old ally and friend Israel in front of the Arab League members, who are not to difficult to convince that this country is a problem.

Arriving at the very edge of war statements, Erdogan has promised acts of punishment and declared his nations anger with Israeli behavior, calling the flotilla event (which happened 15 months ago) “a cause for war” and sending his navy to park in front of Israel’s shores.

Now it looks like there is nothing more to do than sit and watch, unless someone wakes up and stops this madness. Erdogan makes it clear that he has now abandoned his enthusiasm for fighting for the Syrian people, his next door neighbors who are slaughtered for the past 7 months, and that he does not have enough with carpet bombing the Kurdish in the north of the country, he understands that his path to Arab glory passes through the armed confrontation with Israel.

Mel Gibson and His Jewish Hero

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Even though Mel Gibson has shown himself to the world, on a couple of occasions, to be a Jew hating racist as well as a having very strong opinions about women and African American, it is almost a shame to point out that his latest declaration of going on to produce a movie about Judah the Maccabee is just another step towards messing up, once again.

Gibson, a film maker who had won awards for his work in the past, should really focus on making bloody and ultra violent movies his audience likes, ones he can play the hero and do his trademark eyes rolling bit when the character is torn to pieces by barbaric opponents. Any film about the Maccabees opposition movement in Israel some 2,000+ years ago would need to go into many other aspects of the opposition to the Hellenistic conquering army and to the way these radical Jews treated their own people in forcing them to oppose Hellenistic culture.

The hero in this case did not only lead a war against a rising empire (and win) but also conducted child kidnapping in order to circumcise Jewish children (and sometimes adults) who did not have the procedure done on them because their parents adopted the Hellenic way of life, he also murdered Jews who turned away from religion and forced many back, this is a guy who was very much much like a local Taliban leader in modern day Afghanistan, the only thing to his credit (and to the shame of modern day Muslim countries) is that he was alive 2,300 years ago, when you were expected to behave as a barbarian.

Gibson’s movie about Jesus Christ, in which he deliberately set the middle east on fire by handing Muslims a movie that clearly states that the Jews who lived 2,000 years ago were OK with any Jews in the future suffering the punishment for what they did, thus it is completely alright to kill Jews today, because their distant possible relatives from 2,000 years ago say so in Mel Gibson’s movie.

Looks like whatever he does, he ends up slandering Jews, maybe he should try and make a movie about women’s rights…

Ten Year Old Mistakes

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Ten years ago, after the 9/11 attacks, many of the world leaders went out of their way to explain to their people that the actions did not reflect the religion of Islam and everything it stands for, like many obedient citizens around the world I too listened and nodded as they talked about “the religion of peace”, as if out of the three monotheistic religions Islam was the most peaceful one.

If it was not religion what was it? was it something personal all these hijackers had against the city of New York and Washington? of course not. Was it something racial? probably not, ah, there is it – it was a misunderstanding of the holy books of Islam, so not really the religion but the interpretation of it by some religious extremists. I bought it, seems to make sense.

But even with this misunderstanding there must have been something that moved these people into action, and it seemed that the only things that could really do that would be the treatment of Muslim countries by the West and, of course, Israel. The Israeli Arab war and the fact that Israel was so close to the west in its identity and philosophy added a lot of fuel to this fire, with the American weapons support it only made it worst.

So all the pieces fell in together, it all made sense, some radical Islamist had some twisted idea of Islam and decided to punish the US for its arrogant behavior towards the Arab world and Israel. And that worked for a while, but then we started getting the footage from Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Gaza and Saudi Arabia, it looked like a lot of people were real happy with this, it looked like thousands actually celebrated 9/11.

So it was not just a few deranged crazy guys, it was much more, it was a culture of anti American sentiments and hatred of the U.S., and only a few years later I finally got a satisfying answer.

This was not a new fight, it was not a new battle and it was not a new sort of feeling that grow in the hearts and minds of many Muslims around the world, in fact it was very old, older then the American nation, much older then the idea of Zionism, it had nothing to do with the U.S. and nothing to do with Israel, September 11th 1683 Islam was stopped at the gates of Vienna and Europe was saved from the Ottoman empire.

The terrorists singnaled a very clear message to us in the west, the war for world domination is up once again, it was stopped for 318 years, and on Septmber 11th, 2001 they have resumed their fight for the world Islamic caliphate. This is a war which is hundreds of years old, it will not end if Israel falls, and it will not end if the U.S. will fall, it will end when the whole world falls and we all submit to Islam, giving away democracy, free speech and many other of the great things the western civilization accomplished.

Battle of Vienna Septmber 11th, 1683

Egypt’s Downward Slope

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There is nothing new in the middle east. Two days before Turkey’s prime minister visit to Egypt, the Muslim brotherhood welcomes him with open hands, joining in on the attack on Israel. The situation in both these countries (Turkey and Egypt) might seem very different, but they are actually similar, Egypt in the hands of the Muslim brotherhood and well on way to becoming a extreme Muslim state, Turkey is forcing its Ataturk secular leaders out of the frame, just as Erdogan’s plan starts to materialize, no more secular Turkey – and no more friends with infidels, no matter how much they helped in the past.

The official reason for the riots outside the Israeli embassy in Cairo in the past week has been the unintended killing of 3 Egyptian soldiers on the Israeli-Egyptian boarder when a full terror offensive took place at the area, the Israeli army shot back at the sources of fire and because of the proximity to the Egyptian army post the soldiers were killed. It is evident that the unfortunate death of those soldiers is not the reason for the riot, mainly because the riots near the embassy started as soon as the Muslim brotherhood understood it was on way to take control of Egypt.

That leaves us with the very simple and clear notion that Egypt is moving towards renewed extremism and wants to move out of its peace agreements with Israel, fantastically synched with Turkey’s aggressive measures aimed towards Israel, in a response to the unlawful flotilla of 15 months ago.

Jew hate is probably the best political target in the middle east, Erdogan is already fast becoming a pan Arab leader just for his hormonal challenging of Israel’s control over its waters, the Muslim brotherhood needs just that, a front man who follows the same rules and obeys the same laws and that could become a exterior leader to Egypt’s fanatics while the country itself will maintain a moderate look to the west.

And Israel? this country could have done more to avoid this situation, better use of diplomacy, which is in the hands of foreign minister Liberman, who is (mostly) secular but over paranoid and borderline racist “Israel our home” leader, some forward thinking could have either dodged the situation with Turkey or expose Ardogan to the west as a warmonger and thug, and the same kind of thinking could have created a healthier relationship with Egypt. However Israel is itself in a process of regression, which makes it even worst when you consider the outcome of these events.