The Misplaced American

My Last Message

2006-11-13T06:19:00.000-08:00

Hello, everyone. This might be the last message I post, anywhere.

My real name is Bilal Hasan Malik. I live in Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan. Yes. The capital of the most backward, underdeveloped provinces of Pakistan.

I think my parents are beginning to get the idea that I have left Islam.

My dream of coming to the US, well, is more of a fantasy. I don't think my parents would let me. Not to an infidel nation like America. And even if they wanted to, they could never afford it. And I don't want to live here any longer.

But this isn't about any of this. I have found God! Do you know how truly wonderful that is? And I can't wait to meet him. So, I've... decided to take my life.

I know God does not like it. He would not approve. So pray for me! Pray for my soul.

Do not blame my faith in God for my death. As I've said, there are worldly reasons... but it would not be right to give in to the world.

I want to meet God, in Haven.

This is not a joke. Only a sick mind would play a "joke" like this. This is real. So, please pray for me.

I want to thank you all at Little Green Footballs. Thanks for everything. As LanceKates said, your company was enough.

Please, keep fighting for America and freedom.

And could someone e-mail and thank the good people at Answering-Islam on my behalf?

P.S. I live in the Doctors' Colony, Bolan Medical Collage, Quetta. There maybe some small two-line report of "someone committing suicide" in a local paper. Maybe in a national paper like Dawn.

Goodbye.

Leftist feminists: The Religion of Misogyny is cool with us!

2006-11-10T03:46:00.000-08:00

From FrontPageMagazine:

Forcing Women to Die

It is no surprise, meanwhile, that there is not one word of protest, not one howl of moral indignation, from the camp of leftist feminism in the West. This is just to be expected, of course, since, as Dr. Phyllis Chesler has documented in The Death of Feminism, these feminists have completely betrayed their persecuted sisters under the vicious and sadistic system of Islamic gender apartheid.

To be sure, leftist feminists are deafeningly silent on the horrors of forced marriages, honor killings and female genital mutilation within the Islamic world. The radical worldview of Oslo Professor of Anthropology, Dr. Unni Wikan, reflects this growing pathology. Her solution for the Muslim rape epidemic in Norway, for instance, is that Norwegian women start veiling themselves.

Meanwhile, for Miriam Cooke, a Duke professor and head of the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies, nothing needs to be done about female suicide bombers because they represent a good thing. Indeed, in Cooke’s perspective, when a Muslim woman blows herself up, she exhibits her strength and manifests “agency” against colonial powers.

And so, while women under the Palestinian death cult are forced into suicide-killing, our society’s leftist feminists stand idly by, shrugging their shoulders with callous indifference and inhuman apathy.

These self-appointed guardians of women’s rights couldn’t care less about real and actual breathing women. That's because the tragic and untimely death of Reem Al-Reyashi, who wanted to live, and the fate of her two orphaned children, as well as the deaths of the four Israelis Al-Reyashi killed, are soul-tearing realities that don’t fit into the morbid heartlessness of utopian ideals.

If any human being can still defend Islam after learning what it says regarding women, well, they aren't fit to be called human beings.

Women in Islam

As stated earlier, the primary job of an Islamic woman is to satisfy her husband sexual appetite as well as to do some household chores. A mahr is the down payment to exercise husband’s inalienable right of ownership of her sexual/reproductive organs. However, a woman cannot live by mahr alone. She needs regular maintenance allowance to keep her alive and to keep her sexual organs in good working condition. Islam does recognize this fact and makes the maintenance of wife/s almost compulsory for a husband. On the surface of it, this rule seems to be fair and merciful to women. However, scratch the surface and you are bound to see the ugly and mind-boggling unfairness in this maintenance provision for Islamic women. Please note that an Islamic woman earns her maintenance on a day- to-day basis and there is no guarantee that she will be always entitled to her living expenses. Also note that the usual allowance for an Islamic woman is about two loaves of bread and some extra dishes like meat, sugar, salt…. etc. If you are a rice eater, then please calculate how much do you need to provide your wife/s with to conform to Islamic Sha’ria laws. I am certain that you are grossly overpaying your wife. It is because you do not follow Islam to the letter. It is because you follow your natural innate human conscience. When you do follow Islam and Sha’ria, your conscience dies, to say the least. Therefore, as per Sha’ria, we may be greatly surprised that we are paying rather too much to our life partners, at least according to Islam. If you are a true Muslim, then you should adjust according to Islamic law! The Sha’ria even permits you to pay daily allowance in cash instead of food and beverages!! Calculate the price, if you don’t mind, of two loaves of bread and the supplementary items that goes with it. That is what our wives are entitled to as a daily allowance to keep them alive and to keep their sexual machine in tuned-up condition a la machine. How disgusting, come to think of it! Has any Islamist ever told you this naked truth? Never will they do that; and this is for sure. The Muslim women will know about this truth only when an Islamic paradise is established and Sha’ria laws are enacted and enforced vigorously. Another amazing but surprising fact is that a wife is not entitled for the payment of water for ghusl (bathing) unless that water is used to clean her sex organs for intercourse. Please read the following marvelous rules of Islamic Sha’ria! I am confident that you won’t find them boring at all because you never thought that these provisions existed in Islam the incredible religion of peace, mercy, and tolerance!

Another expected Saddam supporter

2006-11-10T02:26:00.000-08:00

Sparing Saddam: Why Europe is Morally Unserious

A general estimate is that Saddam Hussein killed 300,000 people, started two major wars (the first against Iran, costing a million lives, and the second against Kuwait, with perhaps 100,000 dead); according to the New York Times’ latest zig-zag, he came within a year of producing a nuclear bomb that could have been used to kill additional millions, and ensured the survival of his tyranny for the foreseeable future. For sheer sadistic mayhem, like routine rape and murder, there has been no worse regime than Saddam.

For the first time in human history, a mass-murdering tyrant on this scale has been caught, tried, and convicted in an open court of law. The people of Iraq and surrounding countries have been able to see him tried on television. Saddam has been sentenced to hang, according to Iraqi law, legitimized by the only elected government in the Arab Middle East.

By any decent human standard this is an extraordinary victory for civilization over barbarism. But rather than applaud a heroic achievement of Iraqi justice right in the middle of a war, Europe now noisily parades its opposition to capital punishment for Saddam.

Mahathir's "horror and disgust" at Saddam sentence

2006-11-09T21:25:00.000-08:00

What did you expect?

Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia's former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad on Tuesday expressed "horror and disgust" over the trial and sentencing of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein to death.
"Firstly a court set up by his enemies has no right to try Saddam Hussein," said Mahathir, a member of the international committee for the defense of president Saddam Hussein.
He described the Iraqi high tribunal as a "kangaroo court" set up for the sole purpose of rendering a guilty verdict.
"There was no evidence that (ex-) president Saddam Hussein was involved in the killings of Shi'ites in 1982, yet the court found him guilty," he said.
Mahathir said if Saddam was guilty as charged, then US President George W Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair should be tried for the unlawful invasion and occupation of Iraq and the deaths of over 650 000 Iraqis.
Mahathir stepped down as Malaysian premier three years ago.
Saddam was sentenced to hang by the Iraqi high tribunal, which found him guilty on Sunday of crimes against humanity in the case of 148 Shi'ite civilians who were killed in revenge for a 1982 attempt on his life.

Women aren't allowed to even pray without their husbands' permission

2006-11-09T20:41:00.000-08:00

I recently caught some Mufti on TV in the middle of describing some Islamic prayer ritual or other to a caller. He then added: "But you must ask your husband for permission first."

Permission to pray?

Yep.

Muhammad said:

A wife is forbidden to perform extra (nafal) prayers or fast (other than in the month of Ramadan) without the permission of her husband.
- Al-Tirmzi

This little Shari'a law is probably here to make sure that husbands don't have to keep their carnal desires in control while their wives waste time performing prayers unnecessarily. What good will it do them? After all, women are agents of Satan and are going to Hell anyways.

Liberals

2006-11-06T21:55:00.000-08:00

You know, I thought one day I'd compose a post addressing liberals, you know, with something of an "international" point of view on America, which is about the only view of America they seem to take seriously. That I would say things like "look, for you the problem may be Bush, but the rest of the world thinks your problem is America itself. Each time you vilify Bush, call him a liar, compare him with Hitler and accuse him of being a murderer, the world gleefully takes your talking points and applies them to America as a whole. I'm sure they think, 'if the Americans themselves say their country is the biggest terrorist state in the world, if they themselves say that their army terrorizes women and children, if they themselves say America needs to lose the war in Iraq, who are we to argue?'

"Therefore you need to stop. Dissent and criticism is all part of a democracy, but please, stop the vilification, the vitriol and the absolute zenith of hatred! Because by doing so, you're not hurting Bush; it's his last term anyway. But you are hurting America. So please, stop it, for America's sake."

But since then I've learnt a few things. For example, that liberals don't really care about America. They want to hurt and undermine not only President Bush but America itself. They want to change all that America has stood for all along: truth, liberty, democracy, capitalism. In fact, their hatred for America can easily match that of a terrorist from Palestine, Iraq or Pakistan. Marx is their god and Gramsci their prophet.

These are the people who have redefined secular to mean "banishment of religion" instead of freedom of religion; liberal to mean "one who only listens to his own irrational opinion and thinks all those who disagree with him are inferior " instead of one who considers all opinions rationally; and "progressive" to mean just plain "regressive".

These are the people who hide their disdain for the military behind botched jokes; their anti-Semitism behind the "Palestinian cause"; and their hatred of Western civilization behind working to give "civil rights" to every terrorist under the sun.

Are these the people that America needs to vote into office?

Islamonazis - more true than you think!

2006-11-06T21:31:00.000-08:00

Islam’s Nazi Connections

SS chief Heinrich Himmler was known to remark that he regretted that Germany had adopted Christianity, rather than "warlike" Islam, as its religion, and there is a disturbing amount of twisted but very real logic in his remark. Beyond the obvious dislike of a certain other religion, we have the plain fact that both Nazism and Islam both openly aim at world conquest. Both demand the total subordination of the free will of the individual – the very word "Islam" means submission in Arabic. Both are explicitly anti-nationalist and believe in the liquidation of the nation-state in favor of a "higher" community: in Islam the umma or community of all believers; in Nazism the herrenvolk or master race. Both believe in undemocratic leadership by a privileged knower of an absolute, eternal, and ultimately mystical truth: the caliph or führer respectively.

[...]

This gave rise to a curious Arab ditty rendered in English thus:

"No more monsieur,
No more mister.
In heaven Allah,
On earth Hitler."

Hitler himself was even given an Arabic name: Abu Ali.

[...]

The second most influential Egyptian daily is Al-Akhbar, which went a step further on April 18, 2001: "Our thanks go the late Hitler who wrought, in advance, the vengeance of the Palestinians upon the most despicable villains on the face of the earth. However, we rebuke Hitler for the fact that the vengeance was insufficient."

Also read:

Islam’s Ancient Hatred For The Jews

While Islam envisions the day when Christians and Jews will convert to Islam en masse, there is a distinction within Islam’s end time narrative between the final destiny of Christians and that of the Jews. In Islam’s version of the last-days, we see that all Christians will either accept Islam or be killed. Certainly, when we look at this final picture, it is impossible to say that Islam has any real affinity for Christians or Christianity. But when analyzing Islamic teaching and traditions about the Jews, one gets a very cold feeling that the only destiny that Islam has marked out for the Jews is that of an absolute and total slaughter. We see in the Islamic traditions a dark and very persistent hatred for the Jews nearly identical to the ideology expressed through Naziism. This ideology of hatred is fully supported and nurtured throughout the Quran and the Islamic traditions.

Must read eBook!

2006-11-06T06:49:00.000-08:00

If you are a Christian, this is a must read for you:

Will Islam Be Our Future?

Satan’s goal has always been to cause the inhabitants of the earth to worship him rather than God. As such Satan has long had a very specific plan to raise up his own worship movement that will literally cover the face of the earth. Those who believe the Bible, know this to be true. Through the Antichrist, and his False Prophet, the Bible says that Satan will come very close to achieving his goal just prior to the return of Jesus.

Or if you don't have the time, bookmark it for later and read the summary:

Chapter Eighteen
A Summary Of Comparisons Between The Islamic And Biblical Narrative Of The End-Times

And if you're not a Christian, at least give Chapter Sixteen a go:

Understanding Dishonesty and Deceit in Islam

Pakistan isn't your ally - Musharraf, maybe, but not Pakistan

2006-11-06T05:39:00.000-08:00

From Debbie Schlussel:

The story is important because it demonstrates for the gazillionth time that, but for the slimy and shaky Musharraf (who was not elected and could be deposed at any time), Pakistan is an extremist Muslim nation. They care more about terrorists and their "right" to continue to train for Al-Qaeda terrorist operations than they do for the innocent lives of Westerners and even fellow Muslims.

That's the way the rest of the Muslim world already is or is headed. "Religion of Peace"? No way. Pakistan an ally? Maybe the guy who is temporarily and precariously at the top is marginally an ally. As for the whole rest of his country, they are the enemy.

I wholly agree. And, like the rest of the Muslim world, it'll only get worse, not better, despite Musharraf and his "enlightened moderate" elite class' efforts.

More:

Pakistan Facts: Pakistan is a not an ally against terrorism

Compared to other terrorist states (such as Iraq and Libya) where the sponsorship of terrorism is embodied in the leadership, Pakistan represents the institutionalized sponsorship of terrorism. In other words, while Iraq and Libya are dangerous terrorist states, the elimination of Saddam Hussein or Col. Gaddafi may be enough to return them to the comity of nations. However, Pakistan has used terrorism as an instrument of state policy through the tenure of General Zia ul-Haq, Benazir Bhutto, Nawaz Sharif and now General Musharraf . What this means is that state sponsorship of terrorism in Pakistan is institutional in nature rather than embodied in the leadership. The most obvious analogy is to the Soviet Union where the antipathy to freedom outlasted numerous leaders.

Turkish Cleric: Criticizing Islam Threatens Peace

2006-11-06T05:10:00.000-08:00

Just what I was talking about in my last post:

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - A leading Turkish cleric called criticism of Islam a serious threat to world peace, speaking Wednesday as Turkey prepared for a controversial visit by Pope Benedict XVI later in the month.

Benedict visits Turkey — his first as pope to a predominantly Muslim country — two months after provoking widespread anger by quoting an emperor who characterized the Prophet Muhammad's teachings as "evil and inhuman."

Ali Bardakoglu, head of the country's religious affairs, said "it was saddening" to see Islam being criticized while the religion's contribution to civilization is ignored. [That's because there aren't any - ed.]

"This attitude, which fuels division and lack of mutual trust, is seriously threatening world peace," Bardakoglu told a conference in Istanbul attended by several African Muslim leaders.

The Religious Affairs Directorate oversees religious issues in Turkey. Bardakoglu is expected to meet with Benedict during the pope's Nov. 28-Dec. 1 visit.

"We always tell the truth to everyone," [Really? - ed.] Bardakoglu said when asked whether he would express his dismay to the pope. "People meeting does not mean that they approve each other. It could help them express their opinions with an open heart and know each other correctly."

Benedict has appealed for greater dialogue with Muslims since the September speech at a German university in which he quoted the 14th century Byzantine emperor as calling Islam a religion spread by the sword.

Since the uproar over the speech — which has cast a cloud over his visit to Turkey — Benedict has expressed his regrets for offending Muslims.

Bardakoglu, however, called the pope's apology "indirect." He encouraged Muslim religious leaders to work and correct false and misleading information about Islam.

Why do Muslims become angry when someone critisizes Islam?

2006-11-06T02:31:00.000-08:00

Simple. It's because they have nothing else.

Deep down all Muslims know all they have is Islam and their tribal identity as the Muslim Ummah. Besides that, they haven't achieved anything at all. They haven't invented anything in a thousand years, haven't contributed to civilization in any way, and the only progress they have made is due to external help.

If it wasn't for the oil they control, the Middle East would make Africa look like utopia. It would've been nothing but a collection of warring failed states controlled by warlords and tribal chiefs.

As Dr. Serge Trifkovic tells us in his book The Sword of the Prophet: A Politically-Incorrect Guide to Islam:

The myth of an Islamic Golden Age is needed by Islam’s apologists to save it from being damned by its present squalid condition; to prove, as it were, that there is more to Islam than the terrorism of Bin Laden and the decadence of the oil sheiks. It is, frankly, a confession that if the world judges it by what it is today, it comes up rather short, being a religion that has yet to produce a democratic or prosperous society, or social and cultural forms admired by neutral foreign observers the way anyone can admire American freedom, Japanese order, Israeli courage, or Italian style.

Read the whole article:

The Golden Age of Islam is a Myth

The Islamic difference between men and women

2006-11-05T22:31:00.000-08:00

You have got to be kidding me:

The difference between men and women

Well, actually, not. In fact, I'm hardly surprised. Islam is a very misogynistic religion. Such stuff goes on all the time.

Like the recent comments by Australian Sheikh Taj Aldin al-Hilaly, who said that women are responsible for rape because they are "uncovered meat" for all the male Muslim animals.

Or, as I remember a little before Ramadan, a show on an Islamic channel on which Dr. Israr Ahmed, while explaining the Quran, tells us that husbands must be very careful, because their wives may cause them to sin by making "excessive demands", i.e., cause them to accept a bribe or steal or something. Funny, instead of working harder to get a raise or promotion, it seems that Muslim men only think of accepting bribes or stealing to support their families.

And he said there was a hadith in which told us that women are crooked; and husbands shouldn't try to straighten them out or they'll break.

The hadith is:

Allah’s Apostle said: ‘The woman is like a rib: if you try to straighten her, she will break; so if you want to get benefit from her, do so while she still has some crookedness."’

I remembered I read the hadith in this excellent article; it's a must read:

The Veil of Equality and Justice

Conclusion
This is the true status of women according to Muhammad and to Islam. We have presented this discussion so that no one will say that Islam honors females, whether they are daughters, single or married.
° We have seen that the father has the right to force a daughter to marry without her permission. She does not have any choice.

° Muhammad made it lawful for a man to have sexual relationships with a single woman in lieu of some presents, then leave her without any rights. This is what is called in Islam "contractual marriage".

° As for married women, the mother of children, Muhammad, in the Qur’an, commanded men to scourge them (if they show any sign of disobedience) if instruction, admonishing, and abandoning their beds fail to bring forth any results. Scholars say that scourging should not lead to breaking bones, but to be a deterring element. A man scourged his wife and left some marks on her face. When she complained to Muhammad, he refrained from punishing him and claimed to have received a verse in which he declared that men are above women and better than them. Men are their custodians, entitled to discipline them and to deter them by punishment and beating.

° We also see that a married woman is a slave to her husband; she is his captive, his prisoner because marriage is a type of slavery. Muhammad himself, the prophet of freedom, equality and honoring of women said so, as well as Umar Ibn al-Khattab.

We also discussed polygamy and how a man is allowed to marry as many as many as four women at the same time, in addition to what he owns of maid-slaves.

° We have examined also the issue of easy divorce and replacement of wives as it is manifested clearly in the Qur’anic verses and exemplified by the behavior of Muhammad, the Caliphs and the companions. This divorce drives away the woman and her children and propagates corruption in society. Islam does not enforce any restriction or limitation against it (as Christianity does) to protect women, children and society. If a man divorced his wife by uttering three times, "You are divorced," then he wished to restore her and she agrees to do so, Muhammad insists that she should get married to somebody else first and actually have sexual intercourse; then she could go back to her first husband and her children as Rafa’a’s wife did when she wanted to return to her ex-husband. Muhammad told her that she had to have an actual marriage and full sexual intercourse with her new husband, Abdul Rahman, before she could return to her first husband. Muhammad relied on a clear text "revealed" to him through Gabriel the angel for this judgment. He said it was revealed that the divorced wife is not lawful for the first husband until she marries another man (Chapter 2:230).

° Women in general (as Muhammad declared) are the majority of the people in hell on the day of judgment.

° They are the cause of evil omens.

° They lack intelligence and faith.

° In regard to inheritance, they are entitled only to one-half of the man’s rightful inheritance.

° Her testimony in courts and business contracts is equal to one-half of the man’s testimony and value.

° Muhammad also said that women possess sinister characters.

° Lastly, if a woman walks in front of a man while he is praying, she will invalidate his prayer and he has to repeat it. Muhammad said that a prayer would be nullified if a donkey, a dog or a woman pass in front of the praying man.

In 1841

2006-10-22T10:28:00.000-07:00

Thomas Carlyle, whose comments on Muhammad in Heroes and Hero Worship (1841) are often quoted with approval by Muslims, states in reference to the Quran:

"A wearisome confused jumble, crude, endless iterations, longwindedness, entanglement; most crude- insupportable stupidity, in short! Nothing but a sense of duty could carry any European through the Koran." (Carlyle, Sartor Resartus: On Heroes and Hero Worship [London, 1973], p. 299)

The rate at which Europe is being Islamized, how soon before it becomes a "duty" for all Europeans to read the Quran?

The quote was found here.

The Amazing Future-Science Predicting Prophhet!

2006-10-21T15:31:00.000-07:00

And today, I caught a show with two guys blabbing away about... something, I can't remember. Anyways, then one of them turns to the camera and starts saying:

"The prophet Mohammed was given knowledge 1400 years ago that science has only recently uncovered. He taught us that blowing on hot food to cool it down is bad for us. And, mash'allah [I'd like to mash mohammed -ed.], today science has proven him right. You see, when we blow on our food, we exhale carbon dioxide from our lungs [duh -ed.] and this carbon dioxide then dissolves in the food. As you know, carbon dioxide is poisonous for us. It is very harmful for our body. Thus, when we blow on our food and eat it, we are slowly poisoning ourselves. And that is why the holy prophet forbade it."

Mohammed's hadith:

"When one of you drinks, he should not blow into the vessel."

How can one refute all this in a single sentence?

"Wow! I'd better lay off those poisonous carbonated beverages!"

First of all, carbon dioxide is not toxic. Plants and some bacteria use it for photosynthesis, and it's being produced in nearly every cell of your body right now as a waste product. It's always confused with carbon monoxide, which is toxic. You'll only die of carbon dioxide if it is in too high a concentration in the air compared to oxygen, leading to asphyxiation.

Secondly, since carbon dioxide is all around us, whatever amount of it is able to dissolve in food already has. If you want to dissolve any more, you'll need to use sufficient pressure.

Guess science and Mo aren't such good friends after all.

To question, to sin.

2006-10-19T20:47:00.000-07:00

And today I happened to catch the host of an Islamic TV show saying : "...we must not ask too many questions, as the people before Islam did, because the Holy [Idiot -ed.] and Allah do not like it."

Yep. I think it's to prevent Muslims from becoming too much like the infidels, you know, with all their talk of "the Truth shall set you free":

From the Quran, Sura 5:101

"O ye who believe! Ask not questions about things which if made plain to you, may cause you trouble. Some people before you did ask such questions, and on that account lost their faith."

Mohammed (Prophet of Beelzebub and Ultimate Hatred) said:

"Allah has hated you for asking too many questions."
(Sahih Bukhari)

Yep. Nothing Allah hates more than those pesky questions that come with independent thought! After all, they may lead you away from Hell, and he doesn't want that, does he?

Evil, evil Chess!

2006-10-18T11:48:00.000-07:00

It's Ramadan - the oh-so-holy month of Islam - which means it's impossible not to come across one or another Islamic TV show while channel surfing. The "ask-the-imam" style shows are the funniest, with people calling in with the weirdest of problems and getting even weirder answers.

I came across a caller on one such show asking if chess was permissible in Islam. The two "Islamic 'Scholars'" (one Sunni, one Shiite) said, duh, no - the holy prophet forbade it - because each piece is a representation of something or other, thus being an idol, and because of all the millions people gamble away when playing chess drunk at parties. Certainly, if there is any game that embodies all that is immoral, it's chess.

One comes across the same answer on Islamic websites. Whomever answered here tried to justify it a bit, but was honest enough to at least acknowledge that nobody really knows why it is forbidden. But then again, Islam and reason don't really go together anyway, as a certain Pope tried to tell us.

Over on this website, on the other hand, the author tries to justify the ban by putting forth ridiculous arguments:

Some people claim that the game of chess increases ones wit and intelligence, and it assists one in learning the ways of battles. This claim is unreasonable. Chess has nothing to do with wit or intelligence; on the contrary intelligence suffers a derangement by this game. The player of chess becomes so absorbed in this game that he has no care or concern for anything else. Yes there is no surprise in the fact that by constant playing, ones ability to manoeuvre the various ways and moves of the game improves. But then what is the benefit of this gain?

Wow! I never knew that playing chess actually made people dumb! So I guess all the infidel research studies are Jewish conspiracies. And worse, a simple google search brings up so many more links vouching for chess! Those crafty Joos!

Similarly this game has no relationship with the strategies of battle or war. The act of the game is limited to its technical or ordinary manoeuvres e.g. the knight moves so and the elephant moves so. In true and real battles these are not the moves to be found. The manoeuvres of war are totally distinct and separate.

Yeah. Sure. BTW, what "elephant"?

Chess is an abstract strategy game. Too bad this guy thinks it means chess is supposed to simulate real battles.

In short, both theses claims are absurd.

You're right, both "theses" claims of yours are absurd.

Some claim that according to the Mazhab (school of thoughts) of Imam Shafi'ee RA the playing of chess is permissible but it must be stated that this was the first view of the great imam but even then he fixed certain conditions for its permissibility, e.g. involvement in the game must not be to the extent that the performance of Salaat [the Islamic "prayer" ritual] is delayed from its fixed time; the game must not be played abundantly; absorption in it must not be so much that the answer to someone’s salaam [Islamic greeting] is not given, etc. These conditions are not to be found these days when this game is being played. It is also a fact that Imam Shafiee later withdrew of chess being permissible.

Isn't the "no delaying Salaat" condition applicable to anything whatsoever a Muslim does? How much is "abundantly"? And don't you dare concentrate too much on the game lest someone says "salaam" to you!

Many of the great Muslim scholars have clearly stated the prohibition and non-permissibility of chess. Imam Malik RA said that it is worse than the game of nard (backgammon, which is also haram) and more destructive than gambling.

Yes, chess has ruined so many lives...

Hadhrat Ali also said:
“Chess is gambling of the Ajam people (non Arabs)”

And the "non-Arabs" are just not good people...

The prophet said:
He who plays Backgammon has disobeyed Allah Ta’ala and His (Rasool) [prophet - ed.]
The playing of chess is Haraam. If the playing of chess is accompanied by gambling than its prohibition is unanimous. If it is played without gambling then there is a difference of opinion in its prohibition. Where Allah Ta’aala declared alcohol and gambling as forbidden, he explained the reason for this prohibition. Allah says in the holy Quran that Shaytan desires to create an ill feeling amongst you. He desires to create hatred among you, and to direct your attention from Salaat and Allah Taa’las remembrance. So wherever this is present, the prohibition will come into force, and that practice will become Haraam.

But isn't chess "more destructive than gambling"? And such hatred it creates among people!

All are aware of the degree of absorption in these games. Absorption in this game (chess) is so much, that we seek the protection of Allah Ta’ala [I think he means protection from chess -ed.]

Poor Allah! He gets no attention while everyone is engrossed in chess. But this means that everything that requires attention is Haraam - a good book, TV, talking on the phone, driving a car, heck, even work!

The truth of the matter is that when someone becomes rooted in some practice and this practice penetrates his very blood and veins, then until death it remains overpowering, and in this very practice a man finally dies.

Um... What the hell is he talking about?

Is there any justification at all for Mohammed's banning of Chess?

Why, yes. As former World Chess Champion Emmanuel Lasker said:

"On the chessboard lies and hypocrisy do not survive long."

No wonder chess and Islam are so incompatible.

9-11

2006-09-11T13:54:00.000-07:00

Never forget.
Never forgive.

2006-09-06T14:22:00.000-07:00

From the Quran:

5.51: O you who believe! do not take the Jews and the Christians for friends; they are friends of each other; and whoever amongst you takes them for a friend, then surely he is one of them.

Yep, Jews, Christians and their friends... all evil.

But remember! No effort must be spared from bringing Muslims into the mainstream - even if it means making Islam the mainstream.

Dhimmitude is such fun!

2006-08-27T15:21:00.000-07:00

"Islam" really means submission, not peace. But I guess you already knew that.

2006-08-27T14:02:00.000-07:00

Arab terrorism isn't about redressing wrongs. It's about revenge on a successful civilization that left the dungeon-cultures of the Middle East in the dust.

- Ralph Peters

Found on: lesbates.blogspot.com

Charles Johnson is eeeeevil!

2006-08-25T15:19:00.000-07:00

An analysis done using pure Leftist Logic

By Michael Sheehan-Moore

Charles Johnson has become more and more famous over the years. Millions of people visit his site, Little Green Footballs, every day. He makes guest appearances on TV networks all the time. Chicks dig him. But is there more to it than meets the eye? Is there a dark side to the man they call Charles "The Lizard King" Johnson? It is the same as asking if Mahmoud Ahmadenajad is a loveable, nice-smelling sane person. Or if going on a smoothie-only diet is "fasting". The answer is yes.

The first place to look for answers is, of course, LGF. Here his minions or "lizardoids" or "lizards" go about commenting on Charles' plans for world domination, talking to each other in secret code, and getting newcomers to do the same.

There is a disturbing lack of respect for Leftist ideals on LGF. Consider the following comments, made in response to something which Charles posted and agreed with:

#4 ibrodsky

"I disagree."

#15 frankp_63

"I disagree too."

#20 Amalie

"Ibrodsky

I'm with you."

#23 Killgore Trout

"ibrodsky -
Agreed."

"All of these people disagree with the editor, the owner of the site! I mean, if someone disagrees with me on my site, which is the DailyKos by the way, please visit... As I was saying, if someone disagrees with me on my site, I would promptly ban him and delete all his posts. But Charles does nothing about these people! If Charles won't stop them, who will? Will they roam free forever voicing their opinions and disagreements? I tell you, Charles just doesn't care about the ideals and principles of the Left!" says Markos "Screw Them" Zuniga, editor of the DailyKos.

But what is even more disturbing is that Charles has complete control over his lizard minions. They do his bidding and worship him, and tell others to do the same. Consider this comment by a lizard named Bad Penny, in response to a new lizard:

" ... we're supposed to call him "Masssster"; at least until his plans for world domination are complete. Then we won't be allowed to address him at all. Or make eye contact with him..."

There are many more similar comments like this, addressing Charles as "The Lizard King", "Lord Charles", "Lizard Master", etc. But slips like these, where lizards forget to use secret codes, or get too close to knowledge they shouldn't have, can have dire consequences.

Consider what happened to a commentator, FlyingTigress, who stumbled too close to the truth:

#49 FlyingTigress

"OMG...I figured it out!

This is a plot to divert attention from our intervention with the Joooooos in Lebanon which is a diversion of attention from the increasing evidence in MIHOP/LIHOP theories on 9/11 which is a diversion away from the soon-to-be stolen election of 2006 which is a diversion..."

#69 FlyingTigress

"Help! Lord Rove's evil brown shirts are dragging me away from the

THIS IS YOUR BUSH,INC CAREGIVER SERVICES. Ms FT HAS BEEN CARRIED AWAY FOR HER OWN PROTECTION. PLEASE IGNORE HER POST #49. PLEASE MOVE ALONG. THERE IS NOTHING TO SEE HERE."

It seems that Charles got his pal Karl Rove over at BushInc to do his dirty work for him.

"All these people did was disagree with Charles! I mean, if someone disagrees with me on my site, which is the DailyKos by the way, please visit... As I was saying, if someone disagrees with me on my site, I would listen to them and give them the utmost respect. But Charles just removes these people! If Charles keeps stopping them, what will happen to free speech? Will people never be able to voice their opinions and disagreements? I tell you, Charles just doesn't care about the ideals and principles of the Left!" says Markos "Screw You" Zuniga, editor of the DailyKos.

But what of the recent allegations that Markos is in favor of banning dissenters and allegedly said "If someone disagrees with me on my site, I would promptly ban him and delete all his posts"?

"Lies! That is just Charles Johnson trying to defame me!" says Markos "Screwed Up" Zuniga

Indeed it seems all that Charles is doing is trying to defame people (besides taking over the world); is he doing anything worthwhile for society?

"No", says Markos, "he is doing nothing worthwhile, unlike me."

Indeed, Markos is doing very important work.

"Since the newspapers have that Truth to Power thing, I decided I needed something like that too. So I initiated Kos Raging Against Power, or KRAP. See how brilliant I am? How important my work is? All my work is KRAP. All I do is KRAP. I am Kos, Raging Against Power! I am KRAP! And Charles is jealous, and that is why he is trying to defame me."

Another one of Charles' recent defamation victims has been Green Helmet Guy, a poor peaceful Lebanese emergency services worker. But why?

Look at the following composite photograph carefully.

Here it is flipped horizontally.

Here it is turned upside-down.

Here is an enlarged version.

All of this proves one thing, as Adnan Hajj, a visual and photography expert, tells us:

"When I first saw it, I just couldn't believe it!" he says . "They look nothing whatsoever alike!"

And this is damning evidence for the fact that Charles Johnson and Green Hemet Guy are one and the same.

"It just shows you how careful Charles was; he didn't want anyone to know it was him. No wonder they look so different!" adds Adnan.

What could the purpose be for such obvious deception?

"He wanted to make us believe that the poor innocent peaceful Muslims have no respect for their dead. Hah! They have huge respect for their dead. In fact, for many of them their highest ambition is to be dead one day, even making others dead along with them! Doesn't Charles himself quote them saying they love death more than we love life?"

"And then he tries this. But I'm too smart to be fooled!" says Markos "Screw Loose" Zuniga.

And this leads to another disturbing thought: the whole persona of Charles Johnson could be a cover too. On some websites Charles is described as a musician; on others, his hobby is bicycling. But we know he can't be both, because musicians and bicyclists hate each other. This was proven during the Musician-Bicyclist War, for his role in which John Kerry won the Purple Lung. (Bush, however, was AWOL)

But then, the question arises, who is pretending to be Charles Johnson?

As a new and obviously naive commentator asks on LGF:

"Has anyone ever seen Charles Johnson and Karl Rove in the same room at the same time?"

Indeed. Has anyone?

The 12th Imam isn't just for Shiites

2006-08-25T14:44:00.000-07:00

Thanks to Mahmoud Ahmadenajad and his efforts to bring him out of his well, belief in the 12th Imam or Imam Mehdi seems only a part of Shia Islam and not Sunni Islam. But both sects of Islam fully believe in the 12th Imam. In fact, there was a documentary on the 12th Imam made and aired on a local Islamic TV channel here (the majority of Pakistanis are Sunni) just a few years ago. If I remember correctly, it tells of how the 12th Imam would come out of his well when the world is in great chaos and go to Mecca, where Muslims will find him and ask him to lead them. He would then proceed to conquer the world. And oh, "Israel will become nothing but a graveyard of Jews," as I recall an Islamic scholar interviewed in the documentary saying.

Why Muslims refuse to assimilate

2006-08-25T14:37:00.000-07:00

People talk about the need to bring Muslims into the mainstream, you know, help them assimilate into the Western societies they have chosen to live in. Well, it ain't gonna happen, not in a million years.

Why? First off, Western societies are evil immoral filthy unIslamic, infidel!

Secondly, but primarily, this is what the Quran tells Muslims:

3:118 “O ye who believe! Take not for friends others than Muslims, because they spare no pains to ruin you; they love to hamper you.”

And thirdly, Muslims are taught that when they will be raised from the dead, they will be raised as a part of whichever nation's mannerisms they adopted. And Allah has a habit of giving punishments and rewards arbitrarily. So who knows, Allah might just say "All Saudi Arabians will go to heaven... and oh, yeah, those Iranians too... and all Americans and the guys from Australia , regardless of race or religion, go to hell!" You can't take any chances with this guy, I tell ya.

Better wear a burkha now! You want to be counted among the Syrians, don't you?

Why August 22 didn't happen.

2006-08-24T15:47:00.000-07:00

LGF uncovered genuine Hizballah business cards

Sir Winston Churchill recognized the evil of Islam in 1899

2006-08-24T15:33:00.000-07:00

"How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities - but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome."

-Sir Winston Churchill (The River War, first edition, Vol. II, pages 248-50 (London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1899).

For more old-timey doses of truth, visit LGF: Ayatollah Khomeini, Circa 1942: RoPMA

The Difference between "moderate" Muslims and "extremist" Muslims

2006-08-24T15:26:00.000-07:00

First off, phrases like "radical Islam" "extremist Islam" and "fundamentalist Islam" are redundant. There is only one Islam, the death cult which explicitly calls for killing all infidels, and there is no room for "interpretation", "moderation" or "reform". Any such thing would constitute blasphemy.

As for the so-called "moderate" Muslims, I think the following by Robert Spencer, director of Jihad Watch, tells it best:

"All Muslims believe that, ultimately, Islam will prevail on earth. They believe this is the only true religion and their is no room, in their mind, for interpretation. The main difference between moderate Muslims and extremists is that moderate Muslims don't think they will see the absolute victory of Islam during their life time, therefore they respect other religions. The extremists believe that the fulfillment of the Prophecy of Islam and ruling the entire world as described in the Koran, is for today. Each victory of Bin Laden convinces 20 million moderate Muslims to become extremists."

That is exactly true. When I was a Muslim, I would've been described as a moderate; and for exactly the reasons that Spencer gives above. I wanted everyone to live in peace and harmony; because this peace and harmony would allow Muslim countries to become economic and military powerhouses; and everyone, seeing their success, would become Muslims. Ain't that just grand?

"Muslim countries... economic and military powerhouses," he says. Hahahaha! ROTFLMAO!

Why Muslims Kill

2006-08-24T15:16:00.000-07:00

Because Islam is an obvious truth you ignore, Infidel!

Now, lets be clear on one thing - Muslims kill primarily because the Quran and Hadith tell them to. Clearly, explicitly tell them to.

And why do the Quran and Hadith tell them to do so? Simple. "How dare the infidel not submit to Islam!"

Muslims are taught that Islam is a very very obvious truth. And, you see infidel, since about the time you learnt to identify the colors of the rainbow, you recognized Islam as the truth. But why didn't you submit and become a Muslim? Because you are pure evil!

Yes, all Muslims know that there isn't anybody in the world who doesn't recognize the truth of Islam - you are just evil and don't admit it. I mean, it is impossible that you have doubts about Islam, that you think it's a lie, that you know it's an ugly death cult.

But what of all the Muslims saying that the West is "ignorant" about Islam and "misunderstands" it? It's the same thinking that allows Muslims to believe that Bush and Mossad caused 9/11 but it was a great victory for the jihadi "martyrs" against America. Hey, don't pretend you can't make sense of this, infidel! You are just pure evil and don't admit you get this obviously truthful logic.

So Muslims are left only two choices - to kill you or to dhimmify you.

Dhimmified, you openly declare you know that Islam is the truth, but you are evil and won't become a Muslim, but submit to Islam anyways, and that you must be humiliated at every turn, that you are pathetic good-for-nothing sewage, the scum of the earth.

Killed, you are dead.

But hey - you can always convert to Islam and save yourself one of the two fates above that await you!