Nutbars Should Be Dealt With...

 

 

...whether they are burning the Qur'an or Bibles!

Burning Qur'an 'religious terrorism': official

A top official of Cairo’s Al-Azhar university, which U.S. President Barack Obama referred to as a “beacon of learning” in an appeal for reconciliation with Muslims, warned on Wednesday that a Florida church’s plan to burn copies of the Qur'an risks ...

• Gary Clement on the Koran burning in Florida
• White House fears backlash over church Koran burning

...and I am sure the Qur'an doesn't advocate;

Jonathan Kay on honour killings: The genocide that Muslims inflict on themselves

Jonathan Kay  September 7, 2010 – 2:49 pm

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Qamar Jan, an 18-year-old Afghan woman, was attacked by her fiance after refusing to marry him. 

More developments in the case of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, the Iranian woman set to be stoned to death for the crime of “adultery” (even though her husband already had died at the time of her allegedly “illicit” relationship): This week, it was revealed that, even as she awaits on death row, Ashtiani got 99 lashes for the further crime of appearing in a Times of London photo without a headscarf. (The Times now concedes that the photo actually was of another woman — adding an additional level of surreal horror to what already was a singularly pitiful case.)
The only possible good news to be wrung from this horror is the fact that the case has united the whole of the civilized world — including Europe’s otherwise morally relativistic intellectuals — in unanimous condemnation of Iran’s Medieval theocracy. Even the most devout Euro-pacifist can only be horrified at the prospect of this regime possessing a nuclear weapon.
And yet Ashtiani is just a drop in the bucket when it comes to “honour killings” in Muslim societies. An astonishing investigative report in Britain’s Independent by celebrity left-wing journalist Robert Fisk (who has taken a laudable break from his America-bashing beat) concludes that the usual UN figure of 5,000 honour killings per year worldwide is off by a factor of at least four — and that the real number is about 20,000. Not all of the killers, it should be emphasized, are Muslim: There are some Christians and Hindus in this mix. But the vast majority of killings take place in Muslim nations such as Pakistan, Jordan and Turkey.

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Posted in: Full Comment  Tags: Islam, feminism, honour killings, Robert Fisk