Friday, October 17, 2008
Saturday, October 11, 2008
COMMENT: Musaji gives far-Right jihadist Robert Spencer 10 slaps ...
Muslim blokes often boast to their mates about how their religion allows them to marry four women. But seriously, how many Muslim men can handle even one wife? I have a theory about this. I think it's because Muslim women are as tough as nails.
American Muslim Sheila Musaji seems to fit this description very well. And if you don't believe me, read this response she gives to professional hate-monger and pseudo-scholar Robert Spencer.
All I can say is "Ouch! That must have hurt!!"
Spencer has established his own test to determine which Muslims are sufficiently "moderate" to live on the same planet as he. Naturally such a test is only fit for Muslims. Spencer clearly doesn't believe in administering a similar test to other faith-based groups, including those nasty theocrats currently persecuting Christians in India. Heck, what's wrong with burning churches, gang-raping nuns and burning missionaries alive? We'll only notice when those filthy dirty Mozzlems do it!
Will Spencer be administering a similar test to the Hindutva thugs that destroyed this church in the Indian state of Orissa? Don't hold your breath ...
Words © 2008 Irfan Yusuf
Friday, October 10, 2008
COMMENT: Thwarting conspiracies?
Hopefully, this week I'll get to finish the final quarter of the book Once Were Radicals. It's been an interesting experience walking down my ideological memory-lane. I'm a little embarrassed to admit some of the unusual stuff I've read during my days of errant youthfullness.
Stuff like Margaret Marcus, more commonly known in Pakistan as Maryam Jameelah. I've previously described her as Islam's (or should that be Judaism's?) answer to Ayaan Hirsi Magaan/Ali. Indeed, both Jameelah and Hirsi Magaan/Ali resort to conspiracy theorising when describing people and ideas they regard as dangerous.
Read this dedication Jameelah makes at the beginning of the Second Edition of her book Islam And Orientalism ...
Stuff like Margaret Marcus, more commonly known in Pakistan as Maryam Jameelah. I've previously described her as Islam's (or should that be Judaism's?) answer to Ayaan Hirsi Magaan/Ali. Indeed, both Jameelah and Hirsi Magaan/Ali resort to conspiracy theorising when describing people and ideas they regard as dangerous.
Read this dedication Jameelah makes at the beginning of the Second Edition of her book Islam And Orientalism ...
This book is dedicated to all Muslim college and university students in Pakistan and abroad so that they may gain a full appreciation of the conspiracy working for their ruin and what can be done to frustrate its malicious activities before it is too late.Gee, thanks for that. I now feel so much better about living in Australia, a nation at the heart of this giant comspiracy.
UPDATE I: I'm not sure if this is Maryam Jameelah's blog. Or whether this is. And here is a review she wrote of one of John Esposito's books of history.
Words © 2008 Irfan Yusuf
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COMMENT: Accommodating mainstream Muslims is no danger ...
Why must I keep repeating this? Surely this should be self-evident. Anyway, here goes ...
Some people suggest that by accommodating mainstream Muslim religious traditions, America and other Western countries are somehow opening themselves up for further terrorist attacks. Many Muslims respond by arguing that the terrorists and the mainstream Muslims are two entirely different groups of people.
The Quran says what it says, but that has no bearing on the fact that mainstream Muslims and their religious traditions pose no threat to the West whatsoever.
So what if the Quran does say Muslims should convert or kill non-believers? So what if the Old Testament says the same? How many mainstream Muslims have killed or wounded non-Muslim Americans or Australians because they weren't Muslim? It just doesn't happen.
Maybe those violent passages in the Quran and/or Old Testament can help us understand more where the terrorists are coming from, but none of that is relevant to mainstream Muslims carrying on with their own peace-loving interpretation of those texts.
We have enough external enemies without creating new ones from a group of people who would like to think of themselves not only as allies but fellow citizens.
I've adapted this from a comment appearing in an online discussion on an American newspaper called the Morris Daily Herald.
Words © 2008 Irfan Yusuf
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
EVENT: Raising $$$ for the village ...
OK, I admit I bag the folk at MuslimVillage alot. But the fact remains that MV provides an important information service for people wanting to see (at least a tiny portion of) Islamic Sydney. At the very least, MV provides bored tabloid journos with something to write about during slow news days. Heck, how else could second-rate scribes like Luke McIlveen justify Uncle Rupert paying their wages?
And so I urge anyone reading this to consider coming along to the MV Fundraising Trivia Night on 1 Nivember 2008. You can find out more info here. I'm trying to gather a group of 10 persons who, like me, are banned from the MV discussion forums. Anyone interested should e-mail me at irfsol@yahoo.com.au.
Words © 2008 Irfan Yusuf
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Monday, September 29, 2008
COMMENT: Eid al-Fitr is to be held on ... ?
Last week, a friend advised me that all Turkish mosques in Sydney are holding Eid prayers on Tuesday 30 September 2008.
Today, I telephoned the office of the Lebanese Moslems Association. The receptionist advised me that ...
"The Mufti has advised that Eid is to be held on Wednesday."It's great ro see Sheik Fehmi el-Imam back in action and able to travel to Sydney to determine this issue.
And when will the Pakistanis, Fiji-Indians and other lunar-tics have their Eid? Your guess is as good as mine.
As stand-up comic Azhar Usman once said:
"For an organised religion, Islam is the most disorganised religion on earth."
Words © 2008 Irfan Yusuf
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