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CANOE — CNEWS – World: Al-Zarqawi mocks U.S. military:
The video was believed the first to show al-Zarqawi’s face. The bearded, black-clothed terrorist leader, thought to be about 40, was in a flat desert landscape, dotted with scrub brush as if after a spring rain, that looked startlingly like Iraq’s western Anbar province.

The footage showed him and about two dozen insurgents, masked and dressed in black uniforms, undergoing combat training.

In another scene, al-Zarqawi was filmed inside, sitting with his lieutenants and Anbar’s insurgent commander, according to a caption in the video. The men, sitting on traditional Arab cushions and mats, could be seen discussing strategy over a large map spread on the ground.

“Any government which is formed in Iraq now -whether by Shiites or Zionist Kurds, or those who are dubbed Sunnis – would only be a stooge,” al-Zarqawi said in the video. “They are a poisoned dagger in the heart of the Muslim nation.”

You know, it boggles the mind. It really does. He seems more pissed off at his own people than the Americans.

Dipshit.

USATODAY.com – TV images skewing Americans’ view of peaceful Islam, Muslim leaders say:
American Muslim leaders say they are facing an increasingly tough public relations battle as they fight to portray their faith as non-violent.

Some Muslims say conveying a peaceful image of Islam is tougher now than it was after the Sept. 11 attacks, and they blame a daily barrage of negative media images.

Of course. CNN was responsible for flying jets into the towers, FOX News handled the one that hit the Pentagon and Steven Spielberg killed Israeli athletes in Munich.

Anyone want to blame NPR for the bombs in Dar Es Salam, Nairobi, Beirut, Riyadh and the Cole in Yemen?

I won’t even start on rioting over the cartoons.

Muslims did that. If we don’t police our own, we have no right to complain about a media that talks about us in negative overtones.

And while we’re at it, what ‘Muslim leaders’? These ‘leaders’ sure as shit don’t speak for me.

Arab American Institute:

The Coalition for a Secure Driver’s License has announced an inflammatory and misleading billboard campaign in North Carolina and New Mexico which contains negative images of Arabs and Arab cultural symbols with the message, “Don’t License Terrorists, North Carolina.� The billboard unfairly conflates the question of immigration and national security and casts a shadow of suspicion on Arabs and Muslims, unfairly equating them with terrorism and encouraging an environment that can lead to prejudice and hate crimes. In doing so, the ads utilize false stereotypes and racist rhetoric to promote an anti-immigrant agenda.

Now, I don’t know about you, but I seriously doubt that ski masks, bandanas, automatic weapons, fatigues and rocket launchers are “Arab cultural symbols.” If they are, then we’ve got serious problems that go beyond the billboard.

I’m okay with the idea of not licensing terrorists, but someone should put up a billboard next to it with pictures of Tim McVeigh and the Unabomber and keep the same caption….

IFEX :::
Dar-ul-lfta, the council of religious scholars within the Supreme Court, has issued a fatwa against Ali Mohaqiq Nasab, chief editor of the monthly magazine “Haqoq-e-Zan” (“Women’s Rights”), ruling that he had contradicted verses of the Koran in his articles. Under Islamic or Shariah law, the punishment for apostasy includes the death penalty. Nasab was arrested on 1 October 2005 and sentenced to two years’ imprisonment for blasphemy, for publishing allegedly anti-Islamic articles in his magazine.

I’m working on an essay for ProgressiveIslam.org and have come across this. Since my essay has to do with freedom of speech, this bit is pretty relevant.

Now, in my essay, I maintain a fairly civil tongue and attempt to address the issue with reason and calm.

But this is my blog. It’s my rumpus room, my stomping ground, which means I can say this:

If this is the sort of crap that the Afghan Dar-ul-Ifta is doing these days, then it is obvious that they are made up of a bunch of despicable, ignorant little pussies who don’t have the balls to fight words with words. “Off with his head!” is not a reasonable response, it is the response of cowardly eunuchs who haven’t half a brain with which to advocate and defend their beliefs. If this is the face of Afghan democracy, then let’s conquer them right and proper and impose western law by force.

Sovereignty is no cover for injustice. The Afghan Dar-ul-Ifta’s ruling is crap, unIslamic and reeks of cowardice. Grow up, you fools.

Daily Times – Site Edition: OIC summit to repair Islam’s image

MECCA: Leaders of the 57-nation Organisation of the Islamic Conference meet later this week in Saudi Arabia to restore a moderate image of Islam, harmed by terror attacks carried out by extremists.

You know, the issue is not one of image. IT’S OF PEOPLE BLOWING SHIT UP IN THE NAME OF ISLAM! IT’S OF PERVASIVE FUNDAMENTALISM THROUGHOUT THE UMMAH! IT’S OF IGNORANCE AND BRUTALITY AND MISOGYNY AND HATE AND INJUSTICE AND FANATICISM AND BIGOTRY AND REPRESSION AND CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY IN ISLAMIC SOCIETIES!

But sure, ya’ll go right ahead and talk about image. ‘Cause that’s what’s really important.

Pussies.

Chennai Online News Service – View News: Film-maker dismisses Muslim groups protest

Mumbai, Dec 3: Film-maker Akbar Khan has dismissed reported objections of some Muslim organisations to kissing and lovemaking scenes in his recently released film ‘Taj Mahal: An eternal love story’.

For goodness’ sake! If you don’t like a movie don’t watch it, you prudish, puritanical assholes!

Iran Focus-News – Special Wire – Iran rips Europe for abusing Muslim minorities’ rights:

Iran’s Foreign Ministry summoned on Thursday British ambassador to Tehran Sir Richard Dalton to protest what it called human rights abuses in the United Kingdom and the European Union, which is under the rotating presidency of London.

Kettle! Hey, Kettle! Yeah, it’s Pot! Dude, you’re Black!