«I Want Your Money»

Via Extrême Centre, ficamos a saber que está prestes a estrear um filme norte-americano sobre as ruinosas políticas orçamentais do presidente Obama. Segundo a mesma fonte, parte da equipa de produção deste filme fez questão de manter o anonimato, uma vez que, num meio tão ideologicamente uniforme como o de Hollywood, fazer um filme crítico de Obama pode ter como consequência não ser contratado.
Fique com o trailler:

Google translate acrescenta o latim

Boas notícias para todos os que gostariam de ter acesso directo aos textos clássicos latinos da Igreja e que não sabem latim, especialmente para os portugueses, uma vez que tão poucos textos clássicos ― religiosos e profanos ― estão traduzidos para a nossa língua e publicados em edições acessíveis, no preço e na distribuição ― a excepção são As Confissões de Santo Agostinho.

Motivo de alegria adicional para os católicos de rito latino, uma vez que o latim é a nossa língua litúrgica, não obstante o facto do uso do vernáculo ― permitido pela constituição apostólica Sacrosanctum Concilium ― se ter imposto após o Concílio Vaticano II.

Amplify’d from www.telegraph.co.uk

Google Translate, a service that can instantly translate entire web pages or chunks of text in to another language, has added Latin to its list.

Google Translate supports more than 50 languages, including minority languages such as Welsh and Haitian Creole, and the addition of Latin is sure to please scholars and traditionalists.

In a blog post, written entirely in Latin, Jakob Uszkoreit, a senior engineer at Google, said that Latin was far from a “dead language”.

“There are many Latin language learners,” he wrote. “Over 100,000 American students take the National Latin Exam every year and many more learn Latin all of the world. And there is a wealth of information originally written in it.”

He said that while Google recognised that the Latin translation tool would rarely be used to decipher emails or captions on YouTube videos, it would enable web users to read many of the crucially important philosophical and scientific texts originally written in this language.

“There are tens of thousands of scanned books written in Latin on Google Books, and many more contain Latin quotes and proverbs,” he wrote.

Google expects translations to and from Latin to be among the most accurate offered by its Google Translate tool.

“Unlike any of the other languages Google Translate supports, Latin offers a unique advantage: most of the text that will ever be written in Latin has already been written, and a comparatively large part of it has been translated in to other languages.

“We use these translations, found in books and on the web, to train our system.” Read more at www.telegraph.co.uk

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A English Defende League: uma apresentação

Já aqui fizemos uma referência fugaz à English Defende League (EDL), a propósito de um video que dava conta do avançado estado do processo de islamização do Reino Unido, mais concretamente da cidade de Londres, em especial de um bairro: Tower Hamlets. Mencionámos um artigo/entrevista, publicado no Hudson NY, do qual deixamos as partes mais relevantes.
Para além da informação que adiantámos na entrada referida, ficamos a saber que membros da EDL são vítimas do tipo de violência e intimidação que geralmente se associa à perpetrada pela extrema-direita, aqui levada a cabo pelos islamo-fascistas e seus aliados da esquerda:

The English Defense League: The New Face of Europe?
by A. Millar

A group of extremist Islamists attacked the returning soldiers as "butchers of Basra," "baby killers," and "terrorists" during a homecoming parade not long ago in the city of Luton. With years of anti-British "political correctness," and a political class that has failed to tackle Islamism with seriousness, this proved to be too much: the crowd that had turned out to cheer on the soldiers was soon making their disgust known to the Islamists; the two groups had to be held apart by police. Within a few days, a video [em baixo] was floating around the internet, showing the aftermath: calling themselves the "United People of Luton," thousands of (mostly) young men had taken to the streets in a rowdy, and chaotic show of anger and frustration, chanting "no surrender to the Taliban," "we are Luton," and, directed at the Islamists, "scum."


A short time later, the English Defense League [EDL] emerged from the United People of Luton, and, in a little over the year since its founding, has become the largest street protest movement in Britain.

(...)

Strident opposition to integration ― from politicians, the media, and Islamist extremists ― has led to serious social problems, not only for long-settled British citizens, but also for immigrants and the children of immigrants. These range from the high rates of unemployment among Muslims, the forced marriage of school girls (and to a lesser extent school boys), to honor violence against women and girls, and violence against homosexual Muslims. Opponents of integration know of these problems, but ignore them. It would appear that their intention was not to make life easy for immigrants, but to make life easy for themselves.

(...) In Britain (...) immigrants have been encouraged to remain separate from the rest of society, to refrain from learning the language of the host culture, and from integrating. The Archbishop of Canterbury appeared to encourage the adoption of some sharia into Britain in 2008; a few months later, Stephen Hockman, QC, former chairman of the Bar Council, called for aspects of sharia to be formally incorporated into British law.
The routine devaluing of British culture is a gift to Islamists who want to separate Muslims from non-Muslims in the UK – or, worse, who intend to impose sharia on everyone, like it or not. The organization hosting Hockman, as he delivered his appeal for a sharia-lite Britain, was none other than the now-banned Islam4UK, an Islamist group descended from al-Muhajiroun, which has been linked to one in seven convicted terrorists in the UK [pdf].

Although Hockman suggested that incorporating Sharia into British law would help Muslims integrate, practically he was advocating integrating Britain into Sharia law. Many British people fear that this is precisely what is occurring, and would prefer that everyone accept British law and liberty, and muddle along together. How unlikely this seems, listening to Britain's elected representatives. When then-Prime Minister Gordon Brown finally addressed the issue of uncontrolled immigration and announced that immigrants would be required to learn English and sign up to British values, David Cameron absurdly accused him of aping far-Right and neo-fascist political parties.

As Natan Sharansky has described in Defending Identity: Its Indispensable Role in Protecting Democracy, multiculturalism has allowed the politically radical to use those identities which they deem "progressive" and "anti-colonial" to destroy the majority culture, which they view as "reactionary" and "colonial." For the radical Left, the media and political class, Englishness is firmly "reactionary" and "colonial." To defend national values is taboo, if not regarded as outright "extremism." To extend liberty to everyone is, we are told, "human rights imperialism."

Imã condenado por atentado ao pudor

O imã, de nacionalidade líbia, foi um dos 21 clérigos islâmicos convidados pela Sociedade Árabe do Reino Unido para pregar naquele país durante o Ramadão.

O que seria de esperar de alguém que decorou o Alcorão⁽¹⁾ aos 17 anos de idade?

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Abrahim Ghait had been invited to UK to celebrate the Ramadan. Last August he exposed himself twice: firstly, to a 18-year-old woman who was going home after the gym and secondly, to a 12-year-old, who was informed that his genitalia was named "Lexie". From the Daily Mail:

Ghait is famous in the Muslim world for memorising the Koran by the age of 17. Yesterday he pleaded guilty to two charges under the Sexual Offences Act of exposing his genitals with the intention that someone would see them and be caused alarm or distress. Magistrates jailed him for six weeks on each charge, to serve side-by-side, and placed him on the Sex Offenders' Register for seven years. Ghait was one of 21 Libyan imams invited to Britain by the UK Arabic Society to preach at mosques during Ramadan. He was staying at a flat in Easton, Bristol, when the offences happened in August. Read more at tea-and-politics.blogspot.com

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⁽¹⁾ - Algumas passagens do Alcorão parecem concebidas deliberadamente para sancionar os desejos sexuais de Mafoma, quer para lhe permitir casar-se com a mulher do seu filho adoptivo (33:37), quer para o justificar perante o ciúme das múltiplas esposas (33:50-51), versículos que, no fundo, lhe permitem possuir todas as mulheres que desejar, inclusive as escravas (33:50), como, aliás, a todos os muçulmanos (4:24).
Para além da carta branca que o Alcorão concede a Mafoma, a sua vida sexual, tal como nos chega relatada por fontes islâmicas, está cheia de episódios dúbios, sugerindo perversidades do tipo homossexual, pedófilo e necrófilo. Leiam-se, a este respeito, os relatos de programas de televisão do padre egípcio copta Zakaria Botros realizados por Raymond Ibrahim, aqui coligidos pelo Sheikyermami. Recorde-se que a conduta de Mafoma não é uma questão menor no islão, visto que o próprio Alcorão declara o comportamento de Mafoma como exemplar e a ser emulado por todos os muçulmanos devotos (Alcorão 33:21).

O lobby árabe

Fala-se insistentemente no lobby judaico e da sua suposta influência na política externa norte-americana.
Se pensarmos, contudo, que a Primeira Guerra do Golfo foi travada para libertar um estado árabe (o Kuwait) e proteger outro (a Arábia Saudita); que a intervenção da NATO na Guerra da Jugoslávia e os bombardeamentos de Belgrado foram feitos em benefício dos muçulmanos contra os sérvios cristãos ortodoxos, podemos começar a desconfiar que outros lobbys se movem nos corredores do poder dos EUA.

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‘ARAB LOBBY’ - New book by Mideast expert Mitchell Bard claims the Arab lobby, headed by Saudis, ‘has unlimited resources to try to buy what they usually cannot win on merits of their arguments.’

The so-called Israel lobby has been widely denounced and demonized in the media, but its power pales in comparison to the decades-long corruption of American interests by Arab governments. Indeed, for more than seventy years, U.S. policy in the Middle East has been shaped not by the power of a nefarious “Israel lobby” but by a misguided emphasis on pleasing and placating the Arab states. This outlook has ensured that the United States pays disproportionate attention to their demands, assisting Arab countries—all of them dictatorial regimes with abysmal human rights records—that do not share our values, and often work to subvert our interests.

Arabists in the State Department, many of them openly anti-Semitic, tried to prevent America from recognizing Israel in 1948, and have since waged a long bureaucratic war to undermine the alliance between America and the only true democracy in the Middle East, blocking arms and aid to Israel, while seeking larger weapons sales for their Arab friends. Many of these Arabists subsequently found lucrative jobs promoting business with Arab countries, speaking on their behalf and criticizing U.S.-Israel policy.

Today the Arab states influence American policy through numerous hidden and informal channels, including former members of Congress, subsidized think tanks, paid media spokesmen, academics who hold chairs endowed by Arab money, human rights organizations, assorted UN agencies, European diplomats, and Christian groups hostile to Israel. A number of former ambassadors, university professors, and think tank experts routinely opine on Middle Eastern affairs, but never reveal these conflicts of interest.

Mitchell Bards “Arab Lobby” was written as a sort of response to those who warn of AIPAC’s influence over Washington. Bard, who serves as executive directorof the nonprofit American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise (AICE), claims that “one of the most important distinguishing characteristics of the Arab lobby is that it has no popular support. While the Israeli lobby has hundreds of thousands of grass root members and public opinion polls consistently reveal a huge gap between support for Israel and the Arab nations-Palestinians, the Arab lobby has almost no foot soldiers or public sympathy. “What they lack in human capital in terms of American advocates, they make up for with almost unlimited resources to try to buy what they usually cannot win on the merits of their arguments,” he writes in the book.

Juiza ameaçada em caso de lenocínio e abuso de menor débil mental

Acontece na Suécia. A menor é débil mental; os homens são muçulmanos; abusam e vendem sexo com um escrava infiel, nada de errado para eles, algo de muito grave para nós.

Na ignorância de factos como estes, ou desprezando-os, algumas almas portuguesas perguntam-se como foi possível o Sverigedemokraterna eleger 20 deputados ao parlamento sueco.

Amplify’d from vladtepesblog.com

The presiding judge in the Malmö district court trial of ten men suspected of having sold a mentally handicapped 14-year-old girl for sex, has been forced to withdraw due to threats against her and her family.

Ten face trial in teen pimping scandal (27 Sep 10)

Ten charged in Malmö teen pimping scandal (15 Sep 10)

Monica Nebelius, who was appointed to lead the proceedings when the trial of the ten men was due to start last week, was replaced by Björn Hansson when the trial eventually opened on Monday.

It was reported that Nebelius had been taken ill and would not be able to proceed with the assignment. But the judge has now confirmed that in fact it was threats directed against her which caused her to accede to police advice and withdraw.

“It was directed against both myself and my family. I can’t live at home at the moment,” Nebelius told the TT news agency.

Nebelius was unwilling to go into further detail over the threats, except to say that she is in receipt of continual updates from the police and hopes that she will be able to return to work at the district court as a soon as possible.

“I presume that I will be back at work as soon as possible. It is a just a question of getting going, there is no more to it than that,” she said.

Nebelius is not alone among those involved in the case who have been on the receiving end of threats. The prosecutor Ulrika Rogland has been assigned bodyguards.

The high-profile trial opened to tumultuous scenes, and the head of the district court, Eva Wendel Rosberg, had to impose tight security around the court and the surrounding area on Stortorget in central Malmö.

The replacement judge, Björn Hansson, has been assigned a police escort to and from the court.

Eva Wendel Rosberg confirmed the information regarding Monica Nebelius on Tuesday morning.

“I can now confirm that there was a threatening situation after the first day of deliberations for Monica Nebelius. I did not want to publicise this initially due primarily to security reasons, but also for the sake of the parties concerned,” she told the local Sydsvenskan daily.

The trial concerns allegations that the 14-year-old girl was sexually abused and raped by several different men after she ran away from a foster home in a nearby municipality last March before ending up in the Rosengård district of Malmö.

Although she is 14-years-old she is reported to have the mental age of a girl several years younger.

Five of the men have been charged with trafficking or assisting in human trafficking, and eight for rape. All of the suspects are men aged 16- to 67-years-old. Several of the men have admitted to having sex with the girl, but claim that they thought that she was much older.

The case is also significant because it represents the first time that prosecutors in Sweden have attempted to classify pimping crimes as human trafficking. Read more at vladtepesblog.com

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Londonistão e resposta

Temos acompanhado a evolução do islão em vários países europeus e na América do Norte.
Eis mais um documento para avaliarmos ao ponto a que este processo chegou.

No final do documentário, faz-se referência à English Defense League (EDL).
Como todas os movimentos que se opõem à islamização da Europa, à conformidade com a sharia e à jihad em curso e em preparação, a EDL é acusada do pior dos males: ser de extrema-direita. O leitor interessado em avaliar a veracidade desta acusação (a qual assume várias formas), pode contar com este artigo/entrevista, publicado no Hudson NY.
Posso adiantar que a EDL, ao contrário do PVV holandês de Wilders e do SD sueco, não é um partido, mas um movimento cívico. Conta com membros de múltiplas etnias e diversas religiões. Tem uma secção judaica, uma sikh, uma feminina e uma homossexual. Para além da influência que adquiriu no Reino Unido, tem inspirado a criação de movimentos semelhantes noutros países europeus.
Um movimento a seguir:

Irsi Ali em estúdio com Bill Maher

Ayan Irsi Ali em estúdio com Bill Maher.
Irsi Ali é clara e penetrante; com a sua voz suave e o seu temperamento fleumático, consegue fazer-se ouvir, até pelo mais recalcitrante resistente à sua mensagem.
Quando um animador de televisão progressista diz o que Maher diz neste clip, parece haver razões para ter esperança na possibilidade da opinião pública influenciada pelos media despertar para um conhecimento cabal do islão:

Resistência Ocidental

Mais uma série. Documentos sobre os que já perceberam a situação em que nos encontramos e se propõem fazer algo para evitar que a hecatombe se consume.

Trata-se de um membro do CDU, partido conservador alemão, da Chanceler Merkl, que resolveu fazer algumas perguntas indesejáveis e propor alguns debates incómodos. Entretanto, cometeu a grave falta politicamente incorrecta de conversar com Gert Wilders.
Como afirma Eeyore, no Vlad Tepes, hoje em dia, qualquer político que não seja um apaziguador tipo Chamberlain, ou um comunista, é de extrema-direita.
Tome nota do nome: Rene Stadtkewitz.

Será o Sverigedemokraterna de extrema-direita? (2)

Uma pequena entrada de Robert Spencer no Jihad Watch, com a foto infra, onde se faz acompanhar por Kent Ekeroth, secretário do Sverigedemokraterna (SD) para os assuntos externos, e por Daniel Assai, emigrante iraquiano na Suécia, também membro do SD.

No texto abaixo encontra-se uma hiperligação para um documento do SD, o qual demonstra, segundo Spencer, que o partido não é de extrema-direita.
A ler.

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Spencer in Sweden last July with Kent Ekeroth and Daniel Assai of the Sweden Democrats

The Sweden Democrats are mercilessly defamed in the mainstream media. Predictably, they're charged with being "racist" and "neo-Nazi," and predictably, they're neither, as you can see from this pdf. They're actually a staunchly pro-democracy, pro-human rights, pro-Israel party that is making a strong stand against Islamization and the stealth jihad in Sweden. (Visual evidence of the party's actual nature comes in the photo above: Ekeroth is Jewish, and Assai an immigrant to Sweden from Iran).

I spoke in Sweden at the invitation of the Sweden Democrats last July; you can see the videos here and here. Read more at www.jihadwatch.org

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Luige, istine in carcerem Mamertinum Petri Paulique Apostolorum?

50 grandes atentados islâmicos impedidos desde 2001 na Europa

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Security services foiled fifty big terrorist attacks of Muslim extremists since September 11, 2001. Countries targeted included the Netherlands, UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain, terrorism experts Glenn Schoen of Ernst & Young and professor of Strategic Studies at Leiden University Rob de Wijk told AD. The two based their calculations on reports by security services, government documents, their own research and sources.

The targets of Muslim extremists included military bases, airports and shopping malls. In most cases the terrorists wanted to cause as many victims as possible, says Schoen. According to Europol, 110 suspects of Muslim terrorism were arrested last year. They did not make the data about the criminal cases public.Read more at islamineurope.blogspot.com

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Papa Benedictus XVI: Origenes Adamantius cogitatio eiusque (2)

Nom há duas sem três:

PAPA BENTO XVI

AUDIÊNCIA GERAL
Quarta-feira, 2 de Maio 2007

Orígenes: o pensamento (2)

Queridos irmãos e irmãs! 

A catequese de quarta-feira passada foi dedicada à grande figura de Orígenes, doutor de Alexandria dos séculos II-III. Naquela catequese tomámos em consideração a vida e a produção literária do grande mestre de Alexandria, indicando na "tríplice leitura" da Bíblia, por ele conotada, o núcleo animador de toda a sua obra. Deixei de parte para os retomar hoje dois aspectos da doutrina origeniana, que considero entre os mais importantes e actuais: pretendo falar dos seus ensinamentos sobre a oração e sobre a Igreja.

Será o Sverigedemokraterna de extrema-direita?

A votação no Sverigedemokraterna (SD) nas recentes eleições parlamentares suecas ― 6% dos votos, elegendo 20 deputados num total de 349 ―, foi noticiada em Portugal, e um pouco por todo o Ocidente culturalmente esquerdista, como uma subida preocupante da extrema-direita. Tal como previmos na noite das eleições, aos jornais ― irremediavelmente sinistrógiros ― juntaram-se os blogues, mesmo de direita com uma honrosa excepção, dentre os que visito, ainda que, por exemplo, o Miguel Noronha tenha expressado reservas quanto à propriedade se apodar o SD como de extrema-direita.

Mas até o Miguel acabou por encontrar um texto de um analista sueco que apontava para os antecedentes neo-nazis de uma parte importante dos membros influentes do SD, o que o deixou a ele, e a mim, de pé atrás. N'O Insurgente, o leitor Fernando S., com quem já me habituei a concordar, responde a esse alerta com as seguintes palavras:

«E depois? Grande parte dos partidos das esquerdas e extrema esquerdas, respeitados e com assentos parlamentares, não têm origem em correntes comunistas, do mais totalitário e anti-democrático que há ?!…»

Isto leva-nos a julgar que devemos procurar elementos que nos ajudem a responder à pergunta que dá título a esta entrada nos documentos e acções presentes do partido e seus membros, e não algures no passado.

Deixo aqui um elemento, e numa entrada posterior um outro, para discutir a propriedade de considerar o SD um partido de extrema-direita: segundo informa Vlad Tepes, um membro eleito para um órgão autárquico pelas listas do SD, de nome Issa Issa (que quer dizer Jesus Jesus) de origem assíria (zona do actual Iraque), cristão-siríaco, foi atraído para uma emboscada à porta da sua casa, espancado e esfaqueado por um grupo de entre 20 a 40 jovens que gritavam: «cristão filho-de-puta, Sverigedemokraterna filho-de-puta» (tradução livre do inglês: «fucking Christian, fucking Sweden Democrat».

Em suma, não parece haver segregação racial no SD, já que Issa Issa, a vítima do ataque, não é etnicamente sueco.

Aproveito para lançar outra pergunta e fazer uma consideração final: aqueles de nós preocupados com uma eventual subida da extrema-direita, propriamente dita, e com a violência e discriminação étnica-religiosa, quem devemos temer mais? O SD de Issa Issa ou o bando que o atacou?

Para terminar, diria que a luta pela civilização ocidental e pela identidade cultural dos nosso países não será branda, e tanto mais dura quanto mais anos passarem sem que se imponha a lei e a ordem, independentemente da cultura de origem do autor de um crime (que as nossas ruas não sejam ocupadas ilegalmente por indivíduos em formação militar; que não suceda que estupradores sejam absolvidos porque nos países de origem as mulheres não andam de mini-saia), sem que se faça a mais firme oposição a qualquer aplicação da sharia nos países ocidentais (nem a acomodação das restrições alimentares é aceitável: levem merenda para a escola ou para o quartel como levam os vegans e os macrobióticos), e sem o controle do afluxo imigratório proveniente dos países muçulmanos.

Jihad no Tajiquistão contextualizada

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The Tajikistan Attacks and Islamist Militancy in Central Asia Militants in Tajikistan’s Rasht Valley ambushed a military convoy of 75 Tajik troops Sept. 19, killing 25 military personnel according to official reports and 40 according to the militants, who attacked from higher ground with small arms, automatic weapons and grenades. The Tajik troops were part of a nationwide deployment of security forces seeking to recapture 25 individuals linked to the United Tajik Opposition militant groups that had escaped from prison in Dushanbe on Aug. 24. The daring prison break was conducted by members of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), and saw five security guards killed and the country put on red alert. According to the Tajik government, after the escape, most of the militants fled to the Rasht Valley, an area under the influence of Islamist militants that is hard to reach for Tajikistan’s security forces and thus rarely patrolled by troops.

Sunday’s attack was one of the deadliest clashes between militants and the Tajik government since the Central Asian country’s civil war ended in 1997. The last comparable attack was in 1998, when militants ambushed a battalion of Interior Ministry troops just outside Dushanbe, killing 20 and kidnapping 110. Sunday’s incident was preceded by a Sept. 3 attack on a police station that involved a suicide operative and a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (VBIED) in the northwest Tajik city of Khujand that killed four police officers. Suicide attacks are rare in Tajikistan, and VBIEDs even more so. The Khujand attack also stands out as it occurred outside militant territory. Khujand, Tajikistan’s second-largest city after the capital, is located at the mouth of the Fergana Valley, the largest population center in Central Asia.

This represents a noticeable increase in the number and professionalism of militant operations in Tajikistan. Regardless of whether the September attacks can be directly linked to the Aug. 24 jailbreak in Dushanbe, the sudden re-emergence of attacks in Tajikistan after a decade of quiet in Central Asia deserves our attention. In short, something is percolating in the valleys of Central Asia that has reawakened militant groups more or less dormant for a decade. This unrest will likely continue and possibly grow if Tajik security forces can’t get control of the situation.

Read more at www.stratfor.com

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Conhecimento enciclopédico contra a propaganda islâmica

A propósito de um caso preocupante de distorção da realidade histórica em livros escolares norte-americanos, nos quais o islão é apresentado de forma benevolente ― sem abordar as suas vertentes imperialista, agressiva, dominadora, etc. ―, livros que, inversamente, transmitem uma imagem negra do cristianismo e da civilização ocidental, Andrew Bostom faz uma recomendação de leitura para os pais preocupados em ajudar os seus filhos a resistir à doutrinação a que são submetidos nas escolas.
Do livro recomendado, Shorter Encyclopedia of Islam, faz referência à entrada "Jihad", que seguidamente cita:

Consider the Shorter Encyclopedia of Islam entry on jihad (spelled “djihad”)—arguably the most important single subject today’s students must grasp about Islam. The concise discussion of jihad was written by Duncan B. MacDonald (1863-1933), a very sympathetic scholar of Islam, renowned for his seminal analyses on the development of Muslim theology and jurisprudence. Here are MacDonald’s key observations about the nature and conduct of jihad, which he defines with doctrinal and historical accuracy, as “holy war”:

«[H]oly war. The spread of Islam by arms is a religious duty upon Muslims in general…This position was reached gradually but quickly. In the Meccan Suras [chapters] of the Koran patience under attack is taught; no other attitude was possible. But at Medina the right to repel attack appears, and gradually it became a prescribed duty to fight against and subdue the hostile Meccans. Whether Muhammad himself recognized that his position implied steady and unprovoked war against the unbelieving world until it was subdued to Islam may be in doubt. Traditions [especially the hadith, the canonical collections of Muhammad’s words and deeds recorded by his most pious Muslim companions] are explicit on the point; but the Koranic passages speak always of the unbelievers who are to be subdued as dangerous or faithless. Still, the story of his writing to the powers around him shows that such a universal position was implicit in his mind, and it certainly developed after his death, when the Muslim armies advanced out of Arabia. It is now a fard ala l-kifaya, a duty in general on all male, free, adult Muslims, sane in mind and body and having means enough to reach the Muslim army, yet not a duty necessarily incumbent on every individual but sufficiently performed when done by a certain number. So it must continue to be done until the whole world is under the rule of Islam…

The people against whom the jihad is directed must first be invited to embrace Islam. On refusal they have another choice. They may submit to Muslim rule, become dhimmis and pay jizya and kharadj [specific taxes imposed on the vanquished non-Muslims—the former, in lieu of being slain] or fight. In the first case, their lives, families and property are assured to them, but they have a definitely inferior status, with no technical citizenship, and a standing only as protected wards. If they fight, they and their families may be enslaved and all their property seized as booty, four-fifths of which goes to the conquering army. If they embrace Islam…they become part of the Muslim community with all its rights and duties. Apostates must be put to death. But if a Muslim country is invaded by unbelievers, the Imam [Muslim sovereign] may issue a general summons calling all Muslims there to arms, and as the danger grows so may the width of the summons until the whole Muslim world is involved. A Muslim who dies fighting in the Path of Allah (fi sabil Allah) is a martyr (shahid) and is assured of Paradise and of peculiar privileges there [a genteel reference to the willing virgins awaiting jihad martyrs]. Such a death was in the early generations, regarded as the peculiar crown of a pious life. It is still, on occasions, a strong incitement…

Mais adiante, Bostom faz uma nova citação, da autoria de outro académico ocidental do islão, Maxime Rodinson, a qual escrevia, em 1974:

The anti-colonial left…often goes so far as to sanctify Islam and the contemporary ideologies of the Muslim world… Understanding has given away to apologetics pure and simple.

Como dizemos aqui na casa: nada disto é novo.
Aprendamos com os antigos as lições que eles aprenderam pela própria experiência.
  
Addendum: Bostom informa que foi publicada uma reedição desta enciclopédia com outro nome: Concise Encyclopedia of Islam.

Activistas pró-Palestina estupradas pelos seus protegidos (3)

A propósito de mais notícias de estupros de activistas da causa palestiniana pelos palestinianos cuja causa defendem, falámos de esclavagismo islâmico de cristãos europeus ao longo da história e de como às mulheres era reservado o papel de escravas sexuais.

A propósito da mesma notícia, um leitor do Gates of Vienna, militar norueguês que serviu no Kosovo e no Líbano, relata uma notícia algo semelhante às duas referidas, e conta algumas histórias que ajudam a perceber o modo como no islão a mulher é tratada, e tece algumas considerações:

«(...) When I served with UNIFIL in Lebanon twelve years ago, a friend I had gained among the locals -- a Sunni Muslim -- told me the story of how he had lost his virginity. Together with one of his buddies, he tricked a girl from a different village to drink a soda spiked with drugs. When the drugs took effect, the two of them had their way with her in the back of a van. While I was appalled by this story, he himself was quite proud over how clever and cunning he had been. He considered the whole story amusing.

If they behave like this against their own, then there will hardly be any mercy shown to outsiders. At the time I heard this story, I also heard stories for the first time of how playboys of the Saudi royal family used their diplomatic immunity to bring Western women – party girls, models and callgirls - into Saudi Arabia on their private jets. Once arrived, they became what they where intended to be -- slaves -- and disappeared from the world. I believe Soldier of Fortune magazine has written articles on this subject.

The scale of this enslavement of Western women in the Muslim world is probably much, much larger than just a few isolated cases -- and if so, a very potent weapon for exposing the moral void of both Islam and Marxism at once. (...)»

Mulieribus pulchrissimis cum simus

As nossas queridas leitoras, convidadas que estão a colaborar connosco, terão com certeza reparado o quão deletérias para todos os que vivemos em sociedade são as execrandas doctrinas do feminismo, que odeia as mulheres, e do falsário Má-fama, conforme cá se tem publicado. Qual luz das nações, a Egreja promove a dignidade das filhas de Eva e, se de outros modos não o fizesse, o dizer que de toda a Criação o mais perfeito que Deus fez foi uma Mulher bastaria: "Perfecit manuum super omnia facta suarum hoc unum et reliquis prætulit Auctor opus".

Nesta senda, o Papa dedicou algumas catecheses em Setembro a duas mulheres fortes: a Sancta Hildegarda de Bingen, já falada pelo Luís a propósito da música, e a Sancta Clara de Assis. Ouvide os resumos das mesmas e se para mais multiplicardes o vosso tempo precioso lede os todos os textos:

Lapidação no Afeganistão

Segundo noticia o Al Aan, um canal de televisão pan-árabe sediado no Dubai, o crime cometido por esta mulher foi "ter sido vista com um homem".

Marisol, do Jihad Watch, recorda que estamos perante a aplicação da sharia, sancionada pelo profeta Mafoma, o qual participou em actos semelhantes, de acordo com fontes islâmicas canónicas, como já explicámos noutras ocasiões: «a lapidação é o castigo aplicado aos adúlteros no islão, de acordo com as prescrições recolhidas nas ahadith, ou seja, nos relatos dos ditos e feitos do profeta Mafoma. A prescrição corânica determina a flagelação com cem vergastadas (Alcorão 24,2), mas a hadith de Sahih al-Bukhari (Volume 8, Livro 82, Versículo 816) relata o seu uso na presença e com a aprovação de Mafoma, e deplora o risco da sua aplicação cair em desuso, dado que nenhum versículo alcorânico a prescreve, exortando os muçulmanos a zelar pela continuidade da sua aplicação.»

Quando advertimos os leitores para a absoluta necessidade de oposição a toda e qualquer aplicação da sharia no Ocidente, é também nisto que estamos a pensar. Note-se que atrás de normas aparentemente inócuas, vêm outras mais draconianas.
Com efeito, em relação às reivindicações de aplicação da sharia no Ocidente, sabemos que, num primeiro momento, os muçulmanos reclamam a sua utilização para a resolução de disputas familiares ― como heranças, nas quais as mulheres recebem metade dos seus irmãos ―; depois, pretendem alargar o âmbito de aplicação da sharia à punição de pequenos delitos.
Também faseada é a reivindicação do âmbito de aplicação da sharia: primeiro apenas a quem recorra aos tribunais de sharia voluntariamente (como se as mulheres tivessem alguma hipótese de se recusar, mediante as pressões familiares, sem se tornarem párias); depois, sobre toda a comunidade islâmica de uma região, o que resulta na criação de enclaves muçulmanos, nações em secessão latente.
Sabemos também que, após estes passos, se procurará alcançar objectivo último, ordenado no Alcorão (8:39): «Combatei-os [os incrédulos] até terminar a intriga, e prevalecer totalmente a religião de Deus. (...)»

As imagens, apesar de fracas do ponto de vista técnico, são impressionantes:

«O homem só pode bater na esposa se ela se recusar a dormir com ele»

Afinal, estávamos equivocados: o imã egípcio Sa'd Arafat esclarece que a instituição da sova conjugal do marido muçulmano na sua esposa é uma honra para ela.
Ouviram bem, infiéis?
E onde é que o bom imã terá ido buscar esta ideia? Não deve ter sido ao livro sagrado, pois não?

«Os homens são os protectores das mulheres, porque Deus dotou uns com mais (força) do que as outras, e porque estes gastam do seu para sustê-las. As boas esposas são as devotas, que guardam, na ausência (do marido), o segredo que Deus ordenou que fosse guardado. Quanto àquelas, de quem suspeitais deslealdade, admoestai-as (na primeira vez), abandonai os seus leitos (na segunda vez) e castigai-as¹ (na terceira vez); porém, se vos obedecerem, não procureis meios contra elas. Sabei que Deus é Excelso, Magnânimo.»

Alcorão 4:34

Following are excerpts from an interview with Egyptian cleric Sa'd Arafat, which aired on Al-Nas TV on February 4, 2010: 

Interviewer: Would you believe that the European women in our times yearns for a husband who would be like a guardian to her. I would like to provide the viewers with some statistics. Ninety percent of British women do not want to marry a weak man, who sits down and cries the moment there is a problem. They say: No, such a man looks more like a woman. We want a manly man.

Wife beating is a serious accusation [leveled against Islam]. Let us examine this matter bit by bit.

Sa'd Arafat: Allah honored wives by instating the punishment of beatings.

Interviewer: Honored them with beatings? How is this possible?!

Sa'd Arafat: The prophet Muhammad said: "Don't beat her in the face, and do not make her ugly." See how she is honored. If the husband beats his wife, he must not beat her in the face. Even when he beats her, he must not curse her. This is incredible! He beats her in order to discipline her.

In addition, there must not be more than ten beatings, and he must not break her bones, injure her, break her teeth, or poke her in the eye. There is a beating etiquette. If he beats to discipline her, he must not raise his hand high. He must beat her from chest level. All these things honor the woman.

She is in need of discipline. How should the husband discipline her? Through admonishment. If she is not deterred, he should refuse to share the bed with her. If she is not repentant, he should beat her, but there are rules to the beating. It is forbidden to beat her in the face or make her ugly. When you beat her, you must not curse her. Islam forbids this.

Interviewer: With what should be beat her? With his bare hand? With a rod?

Sa'd Arafat: If he beats her, the beatings should not be hard, so that they do not leave a mark. He can beat her with a short rod. He must avoid beating her in the face or in places in the head where it hurts. The beatings should be on the body and should not come one right after the other. These are all choices made during the process, but beatings are allowed only as a last resort.

[...]

The honoring of the wife in Islam is also evident in the fact that the punishment of beating is permissible in one case only: when she refuses to sleep with him.

Interviewer: When she refuses to sleep with him?

Sa'd Arafat: Yes, because where else could the husband go? He wants her, but she refuses. He should begin with admonishment and threats...

Interviewer: Allow me to repeat this. A man cannot beat his wife...

Interviewer: ...over food or drink. Beatings are permitted only in this case, which the husband cannot do without. [...]

¹ -Vejam-se outras traduções para o significado da palavra que o tradutor português verteu "castigai-as" (a fim de fazer operações deste género, recomendo aos leitores o Alcorão multilingue; na coluna da esquerda, podemos seleccionar as línguas, entre outras opções):

Sahih International: «Men are in charge of women by [right of] what Allah has given one over the other and what they spend [for maintenance] from their wealth. So righteous women are devoutly obedient, guarding in [the husband's] absence what Allah would have them guard. But those [wives] from whom you fear arrogance - [first] advise them; [then if they persist], forsake them in bed; and [finally], strike them. But if they obey you [once more], seek no means against them. Indeed, Allah is ever Exalted and Grand.»


Italiano: «Gli uomini sono preposti alle donne, a causa della preferenza che Allah concede agli uni rispetto alle altre e perché spendono [per esse] i loro beni. Le [donne] virtuose sono le devote, che proteggono nel segreto quello che Allah ha preservato. Ammonite quelle di cui temete l'insubordinazione, lasciatele sole nei loro letti, battetele. Se poi vi obbediscono, non fate più nulla contro di esse. Allah è altissimo, grande.»


Espanhol: «Los hombres tienen autoridad sobre las mujeres en virtud de la preferencia que Alá ha dado a unos más que a otros y de los bienes que gastan. Las mujeres virtuosas son devotas y cuidan, en ausencia de sus maridos, de lo que Alá manda que cuiden. ¡Amonestad a aquéllas de quienes temáis que se rebelen, dejadlas solas en el lecho, pegadles! Si os obedecen, no os metáis más con ellas. Alá es excelso, grande.»

Francês: «Les hommes ont autorité sur les femmes, en raison des faveurs qu'Allah accorde à ceux-là sur celles-ci, et aussi à cause des dépenses qu'ils font de leurs bien. Les femmes vertueuses sont obéissantes (à leurs maris), et protègent ce qui doit être protégé, pendant l'absence de leurs époux, avec la protection d'Allah. Et quant à celles dont vous craignez la désobéissance, exhortez-les, éloignez-vous d'elles dans leurs lits et frappez-les. Si elles arrivent à vous obéir, alors ne cherchez plus de voie contre elles, car Allah est certes, Haut et Grand !»

Islão, sharia e Direitos Humanos

Andrew Bostom publica no Pajamas Media um artigo sobre os direitos humanos no islão, mais concretamente sobre a liberdade de mudar de religião, ou de, simplesmente, não acreditar em Deus. Acaba por ter que falar em sharia e pena de morte para os apóstatas.

Fala também de um documento de extrema importância: a Declaração do Cairo sobre Direitos Humanos no Islão, de 1990, na qual os países islâmicos signatários, membros da Organização da Conferência Islâmica (OIC, sigla do inglês), declaram a sharia como única fonte de todos os direitos humanos. Esta declaração, para os seus signatários, substitui a Declaração Universal dos Direitos Humanos de 1948.

Mais para o fim do artigo, Bostom dá a conhecer alguns dados estatísticos acerca da aceitação da pena de morte para os apóstatas no seio de algumas comunidades islâmicas. Os dados apresentados, assim como os documentos defendidos pelos académicos e clérigos muçulmanos, parecem reiterar a opinião por nós expressa na entrada anterior, em comentário ao filme Islam vs. Islamists: os muçulmanos moderados não só estão em clara desvantagem numérica, como têm contra si as fontes islâmicas ― Alcorão, ahadith e Sirá ―, e a sua tradição exegética.

Lede tudo!

Via Vlad Tepes.

«(...) Elizabeth Kendal, in a recent commentary about the plight of brutalized Egytpian Muslim “apostates” Maher el-Gowhary and Nagla Al-Imam, made a series of apt observations which illustrate the most salient aspect of Islam’s persistent religious totalitarianism: the absence of freedom of conscience in Islamic societies. Egypt, Kendal notes, amended its secular-leaning constitution in 1980, reverting to its pre-colonial past and designating Sharia (Islamic law) as “the principal source of legislation” — an omnipresent feature of contemporary Muslim constitutions, including the new constitutions of Afghanistan and Iraq — rendering “constitutional guarantees of religious liberty and equality before the law illusory.” This is the inevitable outcome of a Sharia-based legal system, because:

Sharia’s principal aim concerning religious liberty, is to eradicate apostasy (rejection of Islam) through the elimination of fitna (anything that could tempt a Muslim to reject Islam) and the establishment of dhimmitude — the humiliation and subjugation of Jews and Christians as second class citizens [or non-citizen pariahs]; crippling systematic discrimination; violent religious apartheid …
In Egypt, as in virtually all Muslim states, a person’s official religion is displayed on their identity card. According to Sharia, every child born to a Muslim father is deemed Muslim from birth. According to Sharia, a Muslim woman is only permitted to marry a Muslim man. (This is the main reason why Christian men convert to Islam, and why female converts to Christianity will risk life and liberty to secure a falsified/illegal ID, for without a Christian ID they cannot marry a Christian.)

Thus Kendal concludes:

There is no religious liberty in Islam, for Islam survives as religious totalitarianism that refuses rejection.

Islam’s refusal to abide rejection by its votaries — the global Muslim umma’s strident rejection of freedom of conscience — is now openly codified, and has been for two decades. The 1990 Cairo Declaration, or so-called “Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Islam,” was drafted and subsequently ratified by all the Muslim member nations of the Organization of the Islamic Conference.
Both the preamble and concluding articles (24 and 25) make plain that the OIC’s Cairo Declaration is designed to supersede Western conceptions of human rights as enunciated, for example, in the U.S. Bill of Rights and the UN’s 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The opening of the preamble to the Cairo Declaration repeats a Koranic injunction affirming Islamic supremacism (Koran 3:110; “You are the best nation ever brought forth to men … you believe in Allah”), and states:

Reaffirming the civilizing and historical role of the Islamic Ummah which Allah made the best nation …

The preamble continues:

Believing that fundamental rights and universal freedoms in Islam are an integral part of the Islamic religion and that no one as a matter of principle has the right to suspend them in whole or in part or violate or ignore them in as much as they are binding divine commandments, which are contained in the Revealed Books of God and were sent through the last of His Prophets to complete the preceding divine messages thereby making their observance an act of worship and their neglect or violation an abominable sin, and accordingly every person is individually responsible — and the Ummah collectively responsible — for their safeguard.

In its last articles 24 and 25, the Cairo Declaration maintains:

[Article 24] All the rights and freedoms stipulated in this Declaration are subject to the Islamic Sharia. … [Article 25] The Islamic Sharia is the only source of reference for the explanation or clarification to any of the articles of this Declaration.

These statements capture the indelible influence of the Islamic religious law Sharia: the Cairo Declaration claiming supremacy based on “divine revelation,” which renders sacred and permanent the notion of inequality between the community of Allah and the infidels. Thus we can see clearly the differences between the Cairo Declaration, which sanctions the gross inequalities inherent in the Sharia, and its Western human rights counterparts (the U.S. Bill of Rights; the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights), which do not refer to any specific religion or to the superiority of any group over another, and stress the absolute equality of all human beings.
(...) This principle of freedom of conscience is also upheld in Article 18 of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which further makes explicit the fundamental right to change one’s religion:

Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship, and observance.

The gravely negative implications of the OIC’s Sharia-based Cairo Declaration are most apparent in its transparent rejection of freedom of conscience in Article 10, which proclaims:

Islam is the religion of unspoiled nature. It is prohibited to exercise any form of compulsion on man or to exploit his poverty or ignorance in order to convert him to another religion, or to atheism.

Ominously, Articles 19 and 22 reiterate a principle stated elsewhere throughout the document, which clearly applies to the “punishment” of so-called “apostates” from Islam:

[19d] There shall be no crime or punishment except as provided for in the Sharia.
[22a] Everyone shall have the right to express his opinion freely in such manner as would not be contrary to the principles of the Sharia.
[22b] Everyone shall have the right to advocate what is right, and propagate what is good, and warn against what is wrong and evil according to the norms of Islamic Sharia.
[22c] Information is a vital necessity to society. It may not be exploited or misused in such a way as may violate sanctities and the dignity of Prophets, undermine moral and ethical values or disintegrate, corrupt or harm society or weaken its faith.

Punishment by death for apostasy from Islam is firmly rooted in Islam’s foundational texts, both the Koran (verses such as 2:217 , 4:89, and their classical exegesis by renowned Koranic commentators such as Qurtubi, Baydawi, Ibn Kathir, and Suyuti) and the hadith (i.e., collections of the putative words and deeds of the Muslim prophet Muhammad, as compiled by pious Muslim transmitters), as well as the sacred Islamic law (the Sharia). For example, Muhammad is reported to have said “kill him who changes his religion,” in hadith collections of both Bukhari and Abu Dawud. There is also a consensus by all four schools of Sunni Islamic jurisprudence (i.e., Maliki, Hanbali, Hanafi, and Shafi’i), as well as Shi’ite jurists, that apostates from Islam must be put to death. Averroes (d. 1198), the renowned philosopher and scholar of the natural sciences who was also an important Maliki jurist, provided this typical Muslim legal opinion on the punishment for apostasy:

An apostate … is to be executed by agreement in the case of a man, because of the words of the Prophet, “Slay those who change their din [religion].” … Asking the apostate to repent was stipulated as a condition … prior to his execution.

The contemporary (i.e., 1991) Al-Azhar (Cairo) Islamic Research Academy-endorsed manual of Islamic Law, Umdat al-Salik (pp. 595-96), states:

Leaving Islam is the ugliest form of unbelief (kufr) and the worst. … When a person who has reached puberty and is sane voluntarily apostasizes from Islam, he deserves to be killed. In such a case, it is obligatory … to ask him to repent and return to Islam. If he does it is accepted from him, but if he refuses, he is immediately killed.

This doctrinal and historical legitimacy of Sharia-mandated killing of apostates from Islam is affirmed by Heffening in his scholarly review for the authoritative, mainstream academic reference work, the Encyclopedia of Islam:

In Fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence), there is unanimity that the male apostate must be put to death. … A woman, on the other hand, is imprisoned … until she again adopts Islam … [or] she also is put to death.

As noted by historian David Littman, Adama Dieng, then a prominent Muslim Senegalese jurist, alerted the international community to the Cairo Declaration’s profoundly dangerous impact, which under the rubric of Sharia deliberately restricted certain fundamental freedoms and rights — most notably, freedom of conscience. He also argued that the Cairo Declaration introduced “in the name of defense of human rights,” unacceptable discrimination against non-Muslims and women, while sanctioning the legitimacy of heinous practices — Sharia-compliant punishments (from corporal punishments, to mutilation, and stoning) — “which attack the integrity and dignity of the human being.”
Pew Survey data published August 13, 2009, reflects starkly the depth and prevalence of popular support among the Muslim masses for these hideous views, sanctioned by their theo-political Islamic leadership within the OIC, and contrary to our foundational Western freedoms. Specifically, the Pew findings reveal that among Pakistani Muslims:

78% favor death for [apostates] those who leave Islam; 80% favor whippings and cutting off hands for crimes like theft and robbery; and 83% favor stoning adulterers.

The universality of these Islamic attitudes affects Muslim communities in the West, including North America. Syed Mumtaz Ali, the late architect of Canada’s Sharia (Islamic Law) tribunal, and law professor Ali Khan both have openly advocated extending Islamic apostasy laws to the West. Mumtaz Ali, in a disturbing essay, affirmed the traditional Islamic legal viewpoint that apostates must “choose between Islam and the sword,” arguing further that if Canada were to act in accord with its own Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the Canadian government must grant the country’s Islamic community authority to punish those Muslims who apostasize, or malign their faith.
Washburn University law professor Ali Khan, another practicing Muslim, provided a more original, but no less chilling rationale for Muslims in the West to violate, fatally, the basic freedom of conscience of their co-religionists. Khan argued in The Cumberland Law Review that apostasy from Islam is an “attack” upon “protected knowledge,” which if deemed (i.e., by some Islamic tribunal one must assume!) to be “open, hostile, and voiced contemptuously,” justified punishment by death. Ali Khan is convinced that traditional Islamic law precepts antipodean to freedom of conscience nevertheless trump this foundational Western freedom:

Islam is the truth beyond doubt. [These] rules preserve the dignity of protected knowledge, discouraging an “easy in, easy out” attitude toward Islam.

In April 2009 Harvard Muslim chaplain Taha Abdul-Basser explained approvingly to a Muslim student that the traditional Islamic practice of executing apostates from Islam remained both venerable and applicable:

There is great wisdom (hikma) associated with the established and preserved position (capital punishment), and so, even if it makes some uncomfortable in the face of the hegemonic modern human-rights discourse, one should not dismiss it out of hand.

Documentário «Islão vs. Islamistas»

Começaria por dizer que este documentário é muito bom para ver e rever, sozinho e acompanhado, e para servir como base de debate.

Depois, há que fazer alguns reparos, começando logo pelo título do documentário: o título transmite a mensagem, sem que qualquer sustentação seja apresentada no decurso do próprio documentário, segundo a qual os moderados representam o islão e os extremistas, designados "islamistas", representam uma facção minoritária e condenada ao ostracismo dentro das suas comunidades.
A ideia com que se fica após ver o documentário na íntegra é justamente a contrária: os moderados parecem estar não apenas em minoria numérica, como ― e este é, porventura, o aspecto mais importante ― bastante desaparelhados para o confronto teológico com os extremistas. Têm do seu lado as conquistas da civilização ocidental, que prezam e defendem, com grande coragem, arriscando vida e património ― a democracia, a liberdade de expressão e de culto, etc. ―, mas os seus oponentes dentro do islão não estão interessados nesses argumentos. Sempre que a discussão se centrar nas fontes islâmicas, os moderados ficarão em desvantagem.
Em suma: o título do filme poderia ser, talvez até com mais propriedade, «Moderados vs. Islão». A opção feita pelos autores é, sem dúvida, menos alarmante, mas, receio, algo enganadora. Os moderados representam, na verdade, aquilo que nós, ocidentais, gostaríamos que o islão fosse; os outros, infelizmente, parecem ser aquilo que o islão é.

Algumas palavra a respeito dos protagonistas, de um e de outro lado.
Da parte dos extremistas ― talvez lhes devêssemos chamar "ortodoxos" ―, apreciei, sobretudo, os momentos de candura, da mais absoluta franqueza, em total contraste com as declarações do imã radicado na Dinamarca, já perto do final, a respeito da crise das caricaturas, onde a duplicidade do discurso ― apaziguador, para consumo ocidental; incendiário, para as massas muçulmanas ― fica bem patente. Agarram-se aos livros, invocam a absoluta soberania de Alá em todos os domínios da existência humana, expõem o seu desejo de cumprir o mandamento divino de implantar a soberania do islão mundialmente, pela força se necessário.
Em relação aos moderados, fica, sobretudo, uma grande simpatia, um sincero afecto por estes homens corajosos, que se propõem a titânica tarefa de compatibilizar o islão com a civilização ocidental moderna, democrática e liberal. Conhecem os riscos, mas afrontam os seus adversários com determinação. Fica-se, infelizmente, com a sensação de que, pelo menos alguns, terão sido educados e apenas conhecem uma versão parcial do islão, e não o islão conquistador, belicoso. Praticam um islão de Meca, alheios ao de Medina, como se a doutrina da Abrogação não determinasse a revogação dos versículos pacíficos e tolerantes por outros, posteriormente revelados ― segundo crêem os muçulmanos ―, agressivos, expansionistas, intolerantes.

Feitas estas ressalvas, resta dizer que este filme é incomensuravelmente superior a qualquer artigo, reportagem ou documentário, apresentado nos nossos media, ao qual tive acesso.

Via Vlad Tepes.