M. Bozinovich

There has been a remarkable convergence of expressions of Islamic piety across the world today.

First in Israel, a Muslim kills a Jewish teenager with a pickax:

A pickax-wielding Palestinian terrorist… infiltrated the Jewish community of Bat Ayin in Etzion Bloc region near Bethlehem and murdered Shlomo Nativ, a 13-year-old Israeli boy, splitting his skull with a pickax.A terrorist group calling itself the Martyrs of Imad Mughniyeh, named for the Hezbollah terror mastermind who was killed last year, claimed responsibility for the attacks in an e-mail to The Associated Press. The same e-mail also said the terror group Islamic Jihad also was involved.

Then in Egypt, we have Muslim villagers going on a pogrom of Bahai religious group because one Muslim described that a particular village was “full of Bahais”.

Egyptian villagers have set fire to Bahai homes after a member of the religion said on television the village was “full of Bahais,”… The villagers also threatened the village’s roughly 30 Bahais with death, the official said, after which all of them fled. The arson attacks were the culmination of unrest that began with stone throwing immediately after a Bahai named Ahmed called a television talk show that was discussing the religious minority…

Reading this AFP report one gets the impression that those darn Bahai are indeed at fault, not to mention the Copts whose churches get burned down on regular basis just like the Serbs in Kosovo.

Not to be outdone, though, the Swat Valley Muslims in Pakistan released a video of a woman being beaten publicly while two other Muslim men held her to the ground. From Associated Press:

The two minute video shows a woman in a body-covering burqa face down on the ground with two men holding her arms and feet. A third man in a black turban with a long beard whips her backside repeatedly, causing her to scream repeatedly and shout “Stop it, stop it! It is painful!”

A crowd of men watches silently in the background, and a voice can be heard saying “hold her hands tightly.”

Meanwhile, the recently indicted Sudanese President was greeted by thousands “of chanting, singing people” as he made his way at the 22-member Arab League meeting. A deserving welcome for the modern-day Saladin who conquered Sudan for Islam - never mind that he is indicted for genocide.

… and then we have Netherlands badgering Serbia because some loose general by the name of Mladic inflicted the first defeat to the Jihadist forces in Europe.

Of course Serbia is to be badgered not just by Netherlands but by England who is already seeking ways to Islamize their armed forces. From the London Guardian:

The defense minister, Bob Ainsworth, has appealed to British Muslims to joined the armed forces, saying that it was “vitally important that our army, navy and air force are reflective of the hugely diverse society in which we live”.

It is just mesmerizing what is it that the Brits are Guarding after all.

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Islam’s latest global swipe on liberty, peculiarly enough, starts from Serbia where the western media has been telling us, despite the evidence, that Muslims do not exhibit militancy but tolerance.

To the delusions in the Western media, particularly UKs, the ‘I told you so’ moment came yesterday when a Serbian book publisher Aleksandar Jasic pulled a book after the official Islamic Community in Serbia attacked Sherry Jones’ novel The Jewel of Medina set to go on sale this week.

Jasic apologized but the chief Imam in Serbia went public pretending to be the sage of a human soul and said that the apology is not enough and that he needs to “sincerely repent”.

Similar calls for sincerity in atonement were also heard in Denmark or Holland in prior cases where authors of books and artwork did not repent sufficiently enough in the eyes of the Muslims who beheaded them.

Of course, Imam Zukorlic of Serbia never read Jones’ novel and some more sane do understand that the Imam is just part of the world-wide Islamic mob mentality, the Umma, that has one of the lowest number of books published per head.

To compensate for their own bliss of stupidity, wealthy Muslims buy the intellectual allegiance to Islam by funding “scholars” in western universities that are in the perennial shortage of money. Several Muslims from Serbia are on faculty boards of some of those purchases.

So may be the case of the University of Texas in Austin associate professor of Islamic history Denise Spellberg who started this latest Islamic mob attack after she read Jones’ advanced copy, phoned her influential Islamic blogger and her friend, Shahed Amanullah, frantically alerting him that the book has “made fun of Muslims and their history”.

Amanullah then sent an email to a listserv of Middle East and Islamic studies graduate student saying that he knows nothing about this book but a trusted source, who cares for Islam, told him that it was offensive.

The triumph of the ignorant comes after another blogger, Shahid Pradhan, who also hasn’t read the book, posts a headline on a Shiite website: “upcoming book, ‘Jewel of Medina’: A new attempt to slander the Prophet of Islam” to which, two and a half hours later, another Muslim by name of Ali Hemani responds with a 7-point plan on a strategy to ensure “the writer withdraws this book from the stores and apologize all the muslims across the world”, a plan that an Imam in Serbia is now executing.

So what are all these Muslims upset about?

Jones’ attempt to write historical novel about Aisha, wife of the prophet Mohammed, is described by Spellberg as a book that plays “with a sacred history and turn[s] it into soft core pornography”.

For her part, Jones says that she is devastated adding “I wanted to honor Aisha and all the wives of Mohammed by giving voice to them, remarkable women whose crucial roles in the shaping of Islam have so often been ignored - silenced - by historians.”

Consider the passage that honors Aisha’s consummation of marriage to the 40-something Mohammed:

the pain of consummation soon melted away. Mohammed was so gentle. I hardly felt the scorpion’s sting. To be in his arms, skin to skin, was the bliss I had longed for all my life.

It may be “soft core pornography” as Spellberg says only until one realizes that Aisha novelized here was only 9 years old!

How many 9 year olds, including Jones, fantasize about “scorpion’s sting” by a 40 year old murderer?

Is child-rape really the “sacred history” of Islam?

Then again, a book that may answer this curiosity will, in all likelihood, get pulled off the shelf just like this Jones’ glorification of pedophilia.

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