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Mark Steyn comments in the Chicago Sun-Times on the new Muslim outrage at a blow-up male sex doll, sold in Britain, called Mustafa Shag:

[quote]The Muslim Association’s complaint, needless to say, is that the sex toy “insults the Prophet Muhammad — who also has the title al-Mustapha.”

In a world in which Danish cartoons insult the prophet and Disney Piglet mugs insult the prophet and Burger King chocolate ice-cream swirl designs insult the prophet, maybe it would just be easier to make a list of things that don’t insult him. Nonetheless, the Muslim Association wrote to the Ann Summers sex-shop chain, “We are asking you to have our Most Revered Prophet’s name ‘Mustafa’ and the afflicted word ‘shag’ removed.”

If I were a Muslim, I’d be “hurt” and “humiliated” that the revered prophet’s name is given not to latex blowup males but to so many real blowup males: The leader of the 9/11 plotters? Mohammed Atta. The British Muslim who self-detonated in a Tel Aviv bar? Asif Mohammed Hanif. The gunman who shot up the El Al counter at LAX? Heshamed Mohamed Hedayet. The former U.S. Army sergeant who masterminded the slaughter at the embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania? Ali Mohamed. The murderer of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh? Mohammed Bouyeri. The notorious Sydney gang rapist? Mohammed Skaf. The Washington sniper? John Allen Muhammed. If I were a Muslim, I would be deeply offended that the prophet’s name is the preferred appellation of so many killers and suicide bombers on every corner of the earth.

But apparently that’s not as big a deal as Mustafa Shag. When Samuel Huntington formulated his famous “clash of civilizations” thesis, I’m sure he hoped it would play out as something nobler than shaggers vs. nutters.

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… to use the Arabic proverb with which Robert Ferrigno opens his new novel, Prayers for the Assassin, set in an Islamic Republic of America, “A falling camel attracts many knives.” In Denmark and France and the Netherlands and Britain, Islam senses the camel is falling and this is no time to stop knifing him.

The issue is not “freedom of speech” or “the responsibilities of the press” or “sensitivity to certain cultures.” The issue, as it has been in all these loony tune controversies going back to the Salman Rushdie fatwa, is the point at which a free society musters the will to stand up to thugs. British Muslims march through the streets waving placards reading “BEHEAD THE ENEMIES OF ISLAM.” If they mean that, bring it on. As my columnar confrere John O’Sullivan argued, we might as well fight in the first ditch as the last.[/quote]

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The Volokh Conspiracy features this photo of a Muslim woman in Kenya protesting the cartoons with a sign that neatly sums up the radical Muslim position:

“FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION IS WESTERN TERRORISM”

That pretty much distills down what they are about.

Steve

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I support the cartoon publications (or the right of . . .) and am tired of Muslims attempting to control my own freedoms of religion or speech. I am especially concerned about how Muslims (mainly those that follow strict Islamic laws) treat woman. Personally, this last points makes me feel that a great majority of Muslims are bigots and ignorant to the rights of others. When most Muslim women are given the “choice� to do X or Z, then I will be more open to listing to Muslims concerns about cartoons.

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This is how they should react or do worse out of it… if i was there i would explod the bloody flag of that country which disrespcted islam… fuck you mother fuckers , suck my looooooooooooonnnng deck you all danish pimp… i know u won’t submit this letter… so i say that…….. FUCKKKKKKKKKKKK UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
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Hmmm. That is an interesting fact, Mahmood. And yes, they are having the same kind of trouble with Lebanese Muslim gangs in Australia.

Steve

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No need to generalise Steve.

Our enraged friend, it is interesting to note, logged in from Melbourn in Australia. Not that would say much about the person of course, but one would think that that environment would have rubbed some local tolerance into them. Not in this case of course. Or is this attitude because of the recent racial troubles in Australia?

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Thanks for confirming the incoherent and intractable hatred of Muslims for the West. Isn’t it interesting that you can be so outraged by a cartoon yet beheadings and snuff videos and mass slaughter done in the name of Islam does not outrage you a bit?

Steve

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Right on brother![http://emullah.blogspot.com]

On a side note why you want to keep all comments Anonymous even if people want to choose some identity.

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Here is an excellent account of the hidden back story of the cartoon jihad by Amir Taheri of the New York Post, who claims that “the whole rigmarole was launched by Sunni-Salafi groups in Europe and Asia, with Ahmadinejad and his Syrian vassal, President Bashar al-Assad, belatedly playing catch-up. God had nothing to do with it.”

As the Muslim rabble-rousers shopped their goods around the Middle East last fall, the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas in Palestine were more interested in winning elections than fomenting propaganda riots and deferred. Al Jazeera, always eager to propagandize against the West, jumped on the cartoon jihad bandwagon with both feet.

Taheri concludes:

[quote]“People watching TV news may think that the whole Muslim world is ablaze with righteous rage translated into “spontaneous demonstrations.” The truth is that the overwhelming majority of Muslims, even if offended by cartoons which they have not seen, have stayed away from the street shows put on by the radicals and the Iranian and Syrian security services.

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The Muslim crowds that have demonstrated over the cartoons seldom exceeded a few hundred; the Muslim segment of humanity is estimated at 1.2 billion. And only three of Denmark’s embassies in 57 Muslim countries have been attacked.

The Danish Muslim gang who lied by adding cartoons that had never been published has done more damage to the Prophet and to Islam than the 12 controversial cartoonists of Jyllands-Posten.

The fight between Denmark and its detractors is not between the West and Islam. It is between democracy and a global fascist movement masquerading as religion.” [/quote]

Read the whole thing.

Steve

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