Sahih al-Bukhari, 5.236: «Narrated Hisham's father: Khadija died three years before the Prophet departed to Medina. He stayed there for two years or so and then he married `Aisha when she was a girl of six years of age, and he consumed that marriage when she was nine years old.»E não vale a pena dizer que a época era outra, que na Arábia do sec. VII casar com crianças de seis anos de idade e consumar a união carnal aos nove era normal: há quem assegure que só passou a ser depois do exemplo de Mafoma. E mesmo que fosse verdade, o problema persistiria, devido à doutrina islâmica segundo a qual Mafoma é o homem perfeito e o seu exemplo deve ser seguido por todos os homens de todos os tempos. (Addendum: Via Gates of Vienna chego a este video mais extenso e com legendas em inglês, que substitui o anteriormente publicado. De lamentar apenas que as interjeições do representante muçulmano não sejam traduzidas.) É claro que os muçulmanos de Itália não gostaram e afirmam estar à procura de uma base legal para processar a ex-parlamentar, que já se tinha envolvido numa polémica anterior com os muçulmanos italianos devido à sua oposição frontal ao uso da burca em Itália. Com ou sem fundamento legal, parece-me que aquilo que deve preocupar Santachè não é, evidentemente, a possibilidade de ser cível ou criminalmente sancionada por um tribunal italiano, mas sim o ser sumariamente condenada por um tribunal islâmico e ser alvo de uma fatwa decretando a sua morte, como se pode ver pela reacção do interlocutor de Santache e do indivíduo do público que se levantou em protesto. Mulher de coragem! Haverá em Itália quem saia em sua defesa? E por cá? Há, na nossa vida pública, homens e mulheres assim? É urgente organizar a resistência! Por Sant'Iago! Via Politically Incorrect e Tundra Tabloids.
9.11.09
Dizer a verdade, sem paninhos quentes
Conhece-se o pano de fundo - um debate sobre a ordem de um tribunal da União das Repúblicas Socialistas Soviéticas da Europa para a remoção dos crucifixos das escolas italianas - mas não fica claro exactamente em que contexto Daniela Santachè disse o que muitos temem dizer sequer em surdina, muito menos directamente a um oponente muçulmano - pelo que consigo perceber, Santachè parece contestar uma tentativa do seu interlocutor de pôr em pé de igualdade o cristianismo e o islamismo, ou Cristo e Mafoma.
O que disse então Santachè? Que, segundo a nossa sensibilidade, Mafoma era polígamo e pedófilo, de acordo, acrescento eu, com a informação que nos chega por via das próprias fontes islâmicas, em várias passagens da Sahih al-Bukhari, uma importante hadith, recolha dos ditos e feitos do profeta Mafoma; aqui fica um exemplo:
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Daniel Pipes elenca um conjunto de crimes cujos fortes indícios de motivações religiosas as autoridades policiais e judiciais norte-americanas preferiram não valorizar:
- [S]laughter of the Armanious family (husband, wife, two young daughters), Copts living in Jersey City, N.J., (...) Christian Egyptian immigrant[s] who dares engage in Internet polemics against Islam and who attempts to convert Muslims to Christianity. (...) Somehow, the prosecutor missed that all four members of this quiet family were savagely executed in the ritualistic Islamist way (multiple knife attacks and near-beheading); that Jersey City has a record of Islamist activism and jihadi violence, and that the www.paltalk.com website carried a threat against Hossam Armanious: "We are going to track you down like a chicken and kill you."
- The 1990 murder of Rabbi Meir Kahane by the Islamist El Sayyid Nosair was initially ascribed by the police to "a prescription drug for or consistent with depression."
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The 1999 crash of EgyptAir 990, killing 217 - by a co-pilot not supposed to be near the aircraft's controls at that time who repeated 11 times "I rely on God" as he wrenched the plane down - went unexplained by the National Transportation Safety Board.
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The 2002 purposeful crash of a small plane into a Tampa high-rise by bin Laden-sympathizer Charles Bishara Bishop went unexplained; the family chimed in by blaming the acne drug Accutane.
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The 2003 murder and near-decapitation in Houston of an Israeli by a former Saudi friend who had newly become an Islamist found the police unable to discern "any evidence" that the crime had anything to do with religion.
A decisão de não admitir as motivações religiosas para alguns crimes violentos não ocorre apenas nos EUA:
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The 1993 attack on foreign guests dining at the Semiramis Hotel in Cairo, killing five, accompanied by the Islamist cry "Allahu Akbar," inspired the Egyptian government to dismiss the killer as insane.
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The 2000 attack on a bus of visibly Jewish schoolchildren near Paris by a hammer-wielding North African yelling "You're not in Tel-Aviv!" prompted police to describe the assault as the result of a traffic incident.
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The 2003 fire that gutted the Merkaz HaTorah Jewish secondary school in a Paris suburb, requiring 100 firefighters to douse the flames, was described by the French minister of the interior as being merely of "criminal origin."
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The 2004 murder of a Hasidic Jew with no criminal record as he walked an Antwerp street near a predominantly Muslim area left the Belgian authorities stumped: "There are no signs that racism was involved."
8.11.09
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Mais do Revolution Muslim: http://revolutionmuslim.com/
Um registo audio de um jovem muçulmano americano, frequentador da mesma mesquita que o perpetrador do ataque terrorista de Fort Hood, que não só não condena o acto como ainda afirma que os soldados americanos alvejados eram alvos legítimos, uma vez que se preparavam para matar muçulmanos no Iraque e no Afeganistão:
Sob o video, a fotografia de uma das vítimas mortais do atentado terrorista, com uma mofosa consideração sobre as razões que a levaram a alistar-se.
http://revolutionmuslim.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=722:duane-is-quite-sane-alhumdulilah&catid=1:yousefalkhattab&Itemid=4
Ralé humana.
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Eis como os muçulmanos do site Revolution Muslim (http://revolutionmuslim.com) reagem ao ataque jihadista de Fort Hood:
http://revolutionmuslim.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=519:an-officer-a-a-gentleman&catid=1:yousefalkhattab&Itemid=4
Nota: decidi deixar as hiperligações sem as activar, de modo a evitar ser identificado, através de trackback, por um conjunto de pessoas que actua globalmente e que já deu provas de não ter qualquer escrúpulo em atentar contra os seus opositores, entre os quais me incluo. Acontece que para lhes fazer frente é necessária uma organização e um colectivo, sem os quais qualquer indivíduo é um alvo fácil, e que urge criar em todo o mundo.
Com os endereços, os interessados podem verificar por si próprios o que os nossos inimigos (penso ser correcto usar esta expressão, uma vez que eles nos consideram seus inimigos) pensam, como agem e o que pretendem fazer.
Por Sant'Iago!
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Estes senhores (http://revolutionmuslim.com/) não têm dúvidas de que o ataque de Fort Hood foi, efectivamente, um ataque terrorista com motivações religiosas.
Eles estão entre nós.
Aviso: a linguagem deste video, assim como dos textos que li no site, é explícita, a atitude desafiadora. Mais que medo, instila raiva e sede de vingança.
Nota: decidi deixar as hiperligações sem as activar, de modo a evitar ser identificado, através de trackback, por um conjunto de pessoas que actua globalmente e que já deu provas de não ter qualquer escrúpulo em atentar contra os seus opositores, entre os quais me incluo. Acontece que para lhes fazer frente é necessária uma organização e um colectivo, sem os quais qualquer indivíduo é um alvo fácil, e que urge criar em todo o mundo.
Com os endereços, os interessados podem verificar por si próprios o que os nossos inimigos (penso ser correcto usar esta expressão, uma vez que eles nos consideram seus inimigos) pensam, como agem e o que pretendem fazer.
Por Sant'Iago!
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No seguimento das investigações acerca do atentado terrorista/ataque tresloucado de Fort Hood chego a um site que conhecia apenas de nome e que se dedica sobretudo a seguir os avanços do Islão na Escandinávia - o Tundra Tabloids - e a um estudioso dos conflitos no Médio Oriente, Barry Rubin.
A acompanhar.
7.11.09
Infiltração jihadista (7)
Acerca das raízes islâmicas da violência contra os infiéis, ler este postal de Andrew Bostom:
«(...) Hasan’s own apparent views on jihad martyrdom are entirely consistent with mainstream, orthodox Islamic dogma on this sacralized killing of the enemies of Islam, which should not be conflated with “suicide” resulting from melancholia, or depression.Franz Rosenthal, the late (d. 2002) Yale University scholar of Islam, who, 50 years ago, translated Ibn Khaldun’s classic Introduction To History, also wrote a seminal essay entitled “On Suicide in Islam” in 1946. Rosenthal’s research confirmed how Islam extolled “suicidal” martyrdom attacks:
While the Qur’anic attitude toward suicide remains uncertain, the great authorities of the hadith leave no doubt as to the official attitude of Islam. In their opinion suicide is an unlawful act….On the other hand, death as the result of “suicidal” missions and of the desire of martyrdom occurs not infrequently, since death is considered highly commendable according to Muslim religious concepts. (Emphasis added.) However, such cases are no[t] suicides in the proper sense of the term.These orthodox Islamic views have been reiterated by Yusuf Al Qaradawi—“spiritual” leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, head of the European Fatwa Council, and immensely popular Al-Jazeera television personality, as well as Muhammad Sayyid Tantawi, Grand Imam of Al-Azhar University, the most prestigious center of Muslim learning in Sunni Islam. Sheikh Qaradawi openly endorsed murderous Palestinian homicide bomber “martyrdom” operations against innocent Israeli citizens (all of whom are considered “combatants” who obstruct the “call to Islam”) during a fatwa council convened in the heart of Europe (in Stockholm, July, 2003). For the past decade, Sheikh Tantawi, who is the nearest equivalent to a Muslim Pope, has also confirmed the legitimacy of homicide bombing of Jews, characterizing these grisly attacks as
…the highest form of Jihad operations…the young people executing them have sold Allah the most precious thing of all…every martyrdom operation against any Israeli, including children, women, and teenagers, is a legitimate act according to [Islamic] religious law, and an Islamic commandment, until the people of Palestine regain their land.(...)»
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Mark Steyn comenta, no National Review Online, a grave falha estratégica que mina os esforços americanos - diria antes, do ocidente - para fazer frente ao terrorismo islâmico: a recusa em escrutinar as raízes islâmicas - bem implantadas no Corão, nas ahadith, na Sira, na exegese dos ulema - da violência contra os infiéis: a jihad.
«(...) Since 9/11, we have (...) judged people by their actions — flying planes into skyscrapers, blowing themselves up in Bali nightclubs or London Tube trains, planting IEDs by the roadside in Baghdad or Tikrit. And on the whole we’re effective at responding with action of our own — taking out training camps in Afghanistan, rolling up insurgency networks in Fallujah and Ramadi, intercepting terror plots in London and Toronto and Dearborn. But we’re scrupulously non-judgmental about the ideology that drives a man to fly into a building or self-detonate on the subway, and thus we have a hole at the heart of our strategy. We use rhetorical conveniences like “radical Islam” or, if that seems a wee bit Islamophobic, just plain old “radical extremism.” But we never make any effort to delineate the line which separates “radical Islam” from non-radical Islam. Indeed, we go to great lengths to make it even fuzzier. (...) Major Hasan is not a card-carrying member of the Texas branch of al-Qaeda reporting to a control officer in Yemen or Waziristan. If he were, things would be a lot easier. But the pathologies that drive al-Qaeda beat within Major Hasan too, and in the end his Islamic impulses trumped his expensive Western education, his psychiatric training, his military discipline — his entire American identity. (...) The vast majority of Muslims don’t conspire to kill cartoonists or murder their daughters or shoot dozens of their fellow soldiers. But Islam inspires enough of this behavior to make it a legitimate topic of analysis. (...) What happened to those men and women at Fort Hood had a horrible symbolism: Members of the best trained, best equipped fighting force on the planet gunned down by a guy who said a few goofy things no one took seriously. And that’s the problem: America has the best troops and fiercest firepower, but no strategy for throttling the ideology that drives the enemy — in Afghanistan and in Texas.»
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LARRY GREENFIELD
«(...) The year was 1987, the year that Pres. Ronald Reagan, at the Brandenburg Gate, told Mr. Gorbachev to Tear Down This Wall. Reagan early and often promoted liberty, American exceptionalism, and human rights. All those who escaped Communism by hidden secret compartments in cars, or by tunnel, or by hot-air balloon, or in fantastic motorized water packs, and all those who died trying, had a friend in Ronald Reagan and the American people, including, previously, Pres. John F. Kennedy. From the Berlin airlift to spiritual uplift, great American leaders have always resolutely stood up for freedom. Until now. Mr. Obama came to Berlin in 2008, while campaigning, and has continued to preen for foreign approval by apologizing around the globe for the United States. But this year, the celebrations will take place without him. Berlin, 2009. Celebration of liberty and America’s heroic leaders. Mr. Obama, apparently this is not your place. President Reagan, meanwhile, will now have an exhibit dedicated to his leadership at the Checkpoint Charlie Museum. »— Larry Greenfield is fellow in American studies at the Claremont Institute and executive director of the Reagan Legacy Foundation. ALLEN C. GUELZO
«(...) Mr. Obama invites the shrillest voices to conclude that, in his view of the world, the Cold War was nothing more than right-wing paranoia. The United States was much less the champion of freedom, the Soviet Union much less the ogre of oppression, and militant Communism much more harmless, than the Goldwaters and Strangeloves made them out to be. So, not enough was at stake in building and then destroying the wall to justify a presidential presence at the anniversary. (...)»— Allen C. Guelzo is Henry R. Luce professor of the Civil War era and director of the Civil War Era Studies Program at Gettysburg College. PAUL KENGOR
«(...) First, this is what we ought to expect from a president whose mentor was Frank Marshall Davis and who, in the 1980s, when President Reagan was seeking to breach the Berlin Wall, was being educated by — and chose to “hang with” — what he himself acknowledged were “Marxist professors.” Obama was raised, nurtured, and educated by what Whittaker Chambers — and Ronald Reagan quoting Chambers — dubbed the wrong side of history. By not going to Berlin, Obama is once again choosing the wrong side of history. Second, with all that said, I’m personally not disappointed by Obama. Barack Obama is who he is. I’m disappointed by the American public, which elected a leader who thinks this way. Ronald Reagan went to the Berlin Wall. He went there and demanded it be torn down. It was. And now, today, Ronald Reagan rolls over in his grave.»— Paul Kengor is professor of political science at Grove City College. His recent books include The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism. DANIEL PIPES
«(...) In one of the first interviews of his fledgling presidency, on Jan. 27, 2009, Obama informed the audience of an Arabic-language television channel that he hoped to restore “the same respect and partnership that America had with the Muslim world as recently as 20 or 30 years ago.” How interesting that Obama praised 1989 as a time of exemplary U.S.-Muslim relations, and not the year of the Berlin Wall’s collapse. It was an undistinguished year for U.S.-Muslim relations, but it was before the U.S. government sought to democratize the region. It was when Washington still focused on getting along with kings, presidents, emirs, and other autocrats. Obama’s phrasing, Fouad Ajami points out, signals “a return to Realpolitik and business-as-usual” in relations with Muslims. The president’s decision to skip the celebrations in Berlin, thus, fits a larger pattern of nostalgia for the good old days before George W. Bush’s “freedom agenda” and its inconvenient tensions with dictators.»— Daniel Pipes is director of the Middle East Forum and Taube distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University. DAVID SATTER
«President Obama’s decision to skip the ceremonies marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall has worrying implications for the war in Afghanistan. Although Obama may not be aware of it, Communism and political Islam are basically the same. One pretends to be a perfect science, the other religious. But each divided the world into the holy and the profane. Each believed itself in possession of absolute truth and, deifying itself, attempted to impose its deranged interpretation of reality on the world by force. The fall of Communism showed that fanatics are defeated by the collapse of their ideology. This lesson is critical to our success in Afghanistan. If we discredit fanatical Islam, we win. If it discredits us, we lose. It was therefore critically important for Obama to use the opportunity of the Berlin Wall commemoration to explain to the world and, in particular, the Muslim world, why we are fighting. The fact that he did not seize this opportunity indicates that he may not know. Clausewitz wrote that in war the first priority of a statesman or commander is to understand what kind of war he is fighting. Obama is involved in an ideological war. If he does not understand that, it will be his tragedy — and ours. »— David Satter is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and a visiting scholar at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. His latest book is Darkness at Dawn: The Rise of the Russian Criminal State. Ver também: Qual muro?, Obama iguala Bush, O príncipe da paz? e O muro e o príncipe.
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«(...) The Heritage Foundation is exhibiting a “new” collection of 50 paintings of the Soviet Gulag, the infamous penal system for political prisoners and slave laborers. They were painted over a 40-year period by Nikolai Getman, a Ukrainian who spent eight years in Soviet concentration camps in Siberia and Kolyma. His only crime was being present at a meeting of artists where one drew a caricature of Stalin on a cigarette box. (...) After Getman was released in 1953, he began secretly to paint a series of pictures about life in the Gulag. He told no one about his paintings — not even his wife — knowing that if they were discovered, he would be imprisoned again or perhaps even killed. The paintings are haunting. They are the only visual counterpart to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s writings, which exposed this terrible system of mass imprisonment that Robert Conquest has rightly called “unexampled coldblooded inhumanity.” We will never know how many innocent people disappeared into the Gulag, but the estimates of those who died in the Gulag and under Soviet Communism range from 15 million to 30 million. The only difference between the Holocaust and the Gulag is that the Soviet Communists never got around to using gas to kill their prisoners — just old-fashioned bullets, beatings, starvation, and literally working them to death. Getman’s stark paintings cover everything from the transportation of prisoners to the camps in unheated trucks and ships, to the horrible and almost unspeakable living conditions in the Gulag. We see the routine brutality with which prisoners were treated. The fragile existence they led is captured in Getman’s paintings, which represent an enormous accomplishment considering that all of the scenes were painted from memory. They represent events that Getman either witnessed himself or heard about firsthand.
One painting shows the despairing faces of a group of men taken from their barracks in the middle of the night and executed by the NKVD (the forerunner of the KGB), the secret-police organization that ran the entire Gulag system. These kinds of executions occurred constantly for no apparent reasons. All of the prisoners knew that if you were taken out of your barracks in the middle of the night, you never came back.
Nikolai Getman
Jamestown Foundation, Washington D.C.
(...) Nikolai Getman was convinced that it was his duty to leave behind a testimony to the fate of the millions of prisoners who died and should not be forgotten. He survived under such unimaginable circumstances because of his absolute conviction that good would triumph over evil. He concluded that one of the great human virtues is strength of will, which even the terrible Gulag machine couldn’t extinguish. The tragic repression and lawlessness he saw in the camps persuaded him of the value of man and of the dignity of his mind and spirit. Getman realized that “each of us is responsible for the future” — and because of that responsibility, he could not be silent. (...)»
Um cenário mais provável
«(...) The shooting on November 5th at the Fort Hood Army post in Texas may indicate similar attacks to come. The shooter carried out an attack on specifically outbound soldiers for deployment at the Soldier Readiness Center. Maj. Malik Nadal Hasan was raised as a Muslim and was opposed to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The fact that he chose to kill or maim over forty U.S. soldiers rather than go to war against Muslim jihadists is indicative of another motive. Explaining away this massacre as a conflict of conscience seems an oxymoron. Looking past the incident as a singular event, you'll find a very different possible reason for the attack. According to a November 4th Stratfor report, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) leader Nasir al-Wahayshi wrote an article last week in an online magazine, Sada al-Malahim (The Echo of the Battle). In it he called for jihadists to conduct easy attacks on targets in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen, as well as in Western nations "at war with Islam." They were to use easily accessible weapons and explosives and to not "waste a lot of time finding the materials." (...) Terror cells aren't the only form of recent jihadist activity, and roadside IEDs* aren't the only form of explosives for these new attacks. In Nasir al-Wahayshi's article last week, he cited an incident a few weeks ago where an assassin wore a small IED in his anal cavity to attack Saudi Deputy Interior Minister Prince Mohammed bin Nayef. This was a new and unexpected form of suicide bombing. It was unsuccessful in killing the target, only slightly injuring him, but the method proved effective against detection. Also in the article, al-Wahayshi mentioned a specific amount of explosives that could be made from household items, suggesting similar IEDs could be improvised. Grassroots jihadists may also be interpreting attacks to be suicide bombings on individual targets as well as in specific geographical locations. Whether Maj. Malik Nadal Hasan acted out of insanity or some bizarre moral dilemma, he conducted an attack of a terrorist nature on U.S. soil. Americans need to become more vigilant, as we are more vulnerable to attack from jihadists now than ever. Terror cells will be even harder to prevent, as new grassroots jihadists do not need to communicate directly with a central authority. They now get their information from websites and take cues from leadership messages published on them. There will be less chatter to monitor because these groups will find each other locally and keep their operations small and low-key. Now is the time for our current government to become proactive in thwarting terrorist plots. Being reactionary just won't cut it anymore. The fact that the Obama Administration renamed the "War on Terror" to the "Overseas Contingency Plan" highlights just how off-base they are on the threat our country now faces. (...)»
Cenário pessimista
Ao fim de um dia de notícias sobre o massacre de Fort Hood, ocorreu-me um texto que li há meses no Gates of Vienna.
Ficção histórico-prospectiva?
Receio que nos próximos anos nos venhamos a lembrar deste e doutros textos do mesmo autor, El Inglés, dos quais se pode encontrar uma listagem na coluna da esquerda do Gates of Vienna.
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Conclusões precipitadas?
«(...) When in heaven’s name will we get a Commander-in-Chief who is willing to hold the military accountable for their weasley, whingey excuses? For too many administrations we have had weak-willed politicians who have refused to speak the truth about the poison in their realm. It is past time to eliminate the possibility of even one more outbreak of Sudden Jihad against our soldiers within what is supposed to be friendly territory. It is time for our Commander-in-Chief to stop mouthing platitudes and to perform the hard and necessary work of making our military safe at home. Are there loyal Muslims within the ranks of our military? No doubt. But the incidence of Cowardly Superiors is rising, and for the sake of our men’s morale and welfare, Muslims must be discriminated against by being declared ineligible for active military duty in the service of their country. There are plenty of other ways to serve that don’t involve the risk against other soldiers of cold-blooded “friendly” fire. Until we have an officers corps worthy of the name, the Muslim soldiers need to go, taking their Muslim chaplains with them. Their going will also obviate all the extra requirements the government has to supply to keep the followers of Allah in accord with his dictates. (...)»
6.11.09
Infiltração jihadista (4)
Segundo várias fontes, o autor dos disparos de Fort Hood, antes de iniciar a carnificina, terá gritado "Allahu Akhbar", uma interjeição conhecida dos leitores deste blogue e que aqui dispensa tradução.
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