Someone Actually Has A Worse Understanding Of Justice Than The US Drug Czar

Relative to the worldwide condemnation of Geert Wilders' film, "Fitna," these remarks by a British Imam and "lawyer" will probably go mostly unnoticed and unpublicized. But this analysis of innocence and guilt is not something I'd want to see applied by any government or justice system:

"You are innocent if you are a Muslim," Choudary tells the BBC. "Then you are innocent in the eyes of God. If you are not a Muslim, then you are guilty of not believing in God."

Choudary said he would not condemn a Muslim for any action.

"As a Muslim, I must support my Muslim brothers and sisters," Choudary said. "I must have hatred to everything that is not Muslim."

And the Archbishop of Canterbury commented just two months ago that some aspects of Sharia law seem "unavoidable" in Britain.

If only I could remember why I decided to stay away from that whole religion thing...

Archbishop is Criticized for His Support of Sharia Law in the UK

It is a good thing that common law still is in effect in the UK, at least for Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury who supports the enaction of Sharia law in the UK. That is because under Sharia law the Archbishop of Canterbury would surely be put to death by stoning under its authority as he is as apostate. Thank goodness his own church has come out against him.

The picture above shows Sharia law in practice. Most of the victims are women who are accused of infractions such as being somewhere without being accompanied by a male relative. Being in public with someone who is not your husband or relative is considered adultery and will be punished by stoning.

It is almost all women who are stoned, as hyper male Muslim societies focus all of their anger and punishment on women. The woman is buried to her chest and then pelted with rocks until she is dead.

Rowan Williams, you do not deserve to live in the West if you would allow Sharia barbarism to exist in any way in the UK.

Archbishop of Canterbury: Sharia Law is "Inevitable."

In the saddest sign that the British have given up their culture totally, the brilliant culture that produced the Magna Carta has given way to Islamic barbarism. The Archbishop of Canterbury declared the inevitability of Sharia law in the UK and dismissed the horrible effects that Sharia law has on women.

"This may include aspects of marital law, the regulation of financial transactions, and authorised structures of mediation and conflict resolution."

The archbishop attempted to distance himself from the extreme legal systems run in Islamic countries such as Saudi Arabia and Iran, where adultery can be punished by death and women who behave independently risk harsh punishments.

Does the Archbishop of Canterbury understand the harsh treatment of women under sharia?

DC Track Star Disqualified Due to Her Muslim Garb

From a Wa Post article today:

Juashaunna Kelly, a Theodore Roosevelt High School senior who has the fastest mile and two-mile times of any girls' runner in the District this winter, was disqualified from Saturday's Montgomery Invitational indoor track and field meet after officials said her Muslim clothing violated national competition rules...

The outfit allows her to compete while complying with her Muslim faith, which forbids displaying any skin other than her face and hands.

This issue is complex for libertarians. On the one hand, people should be free to express their religion (I prefer that term to the loaded but media-adopted term "faith," which de facto categorizes the non-religious as lacking "faith"). On the other hand, sports have rules about uniforms and why should one's religion give a competitor a free pass to disregard those rules when, say, nudists cannot also disregard them and run meets in the buff?

The story of Ms. Kelly is a sob-inducing one, but allowing her to disregard uniform rules solely based on her religion either gives religion a privileged place in society or opens the door to anyone objecting to uniform requirements based on similar claims. That is a slippery slope.

Its Mail Bag with Al-Qaida!

Le Monde reports that Ayman al-Zawahiri has invited citizens and members of the media to submit questions to the terrorist organization via the internet. The deadline for questions is set for 16 January, so hurry!

The questions must be short and concise if they are to have any chance of soliciting a response. So many questions are swirling around my head at the moment, but I don't believe it is worth getting on the terror watch list by visiting one of these Islamic websites, not to mention emailing them.

Teddy Bear Teacher Gets to Keep Her Head

Despite the will of the angry Islamic Sudanese mob that wanted her executed, Ms. Gillian Gibbons got a new lease on life as the UK pressed for her release and she is now back in the UK.

This incident should be incredibly embarrassing to Sudan and all Islamist countries. The thought of having mobs want to kill a teacher who let her pupils, all of them Muslim, name a teddy bear Muhammed is beyond a farce.

It ranks up there with Saudi Arabia sentencing a woman who was gang-raped with 90 lashes because she was with a male who was not her relative when they were both attacked.

I'm Going To Name My Bong "Mohammed"

Sudan has arrested a British teacher for insulting faith and religion, the British Foreign Office said Monday.

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Numerous media reports say Gibbons was arrested after allowing her class of 7-year-olds to name a teddy bear "Mohammed."

That could be seen as an insult to the Prophet Mohammed, the reports said.

Blasphemy is punishable with 40 lashes under Islamic Sharia law, Britain's Press Association news agency reported.

Just as depressing, both articles I read about this (CNN and The Times of London) quote the high school's director as referring to Gibbons' actions as an "innocent mistake." And the TV coverage on CNN concentrated more on whether or not Gibbons intended to insult Islam rather than whether or not jailing and lashing someone for insulting a religion is a blatent abuse of human rights.

I hope the human rights organizations of the world jump all over this shit. And I hope Ms. Gibbons is freed promptly and safely. Fuck you, government of Sudan.

Is the Murdered Oakland Editor Our Own Theo van Gogh, And Why Does Nobody Care?

The MSM wrote very generic stories about the editor of the Oakland Post being gunned down in broad daylight last week. As the facts come out and I follow this story it becomes apparent that the editor, 57 year-old Chauncey Bailey, was targeted by Muslim fanatics because he was working on an expose of Your Black Muslim Bakery.

Police are testing guns recovered from raids in which authorities arrested seven members of an Oakland Black Muslim splinter group who investigators suspect were involved in the killing of a journalist and two others...Bailey, 57, was the editor of the Oakland Post, and had been working on a story about Your Black Muslim Bakery before he was ambushed and slain, his colleagues said.

Police have nabbed the alleged murderer, and he proclaims, "I'm a good soldier." For what, we might ask. The weird part is that the press, who religiously cover anything that befells their brethren, is mostly sitting this one out.

Is Islam Itself the Problem?

It is not politically correct to question Islam. Yet, despite the fact that not all Muslims are suicide bombers, all suicide bombers are Muslim. That is a reality and it needs to be addressed and discussed in a free and open society.

Societies like ours and Britain's succeeded because of their tolerance and openness to new ideas. But at what point does tolerance become suicidal? That point is when we are tolerant of people whose goal is to destroy tolerance. An article in the Daily Mail by a repentant former Islamist is telling:

And though many British extremists are angered by the deaths of fellow Muslim across the world, what drove me and many others to plot acts of extreme terror within Britain and abroad was a sense that we were fighting for the creation of a revolutionary worldwide Islamic state that would dispense Islamic justice.

Formal Islamic theology, unlike Christian theology, does not allow for the separation of state and religion: they are considered to be one and the same.

Muslim treatment of women is an additional scandal that all US feminists should be upset about. The forced wearing of the burqa, the forbidding of women doing work and their limits on travel basically make them slaves to men with no escape from abuse. Muslim men proclaim that the wearing of the burqa protects women, as they are "jewels." A female friend of mine recently traveled to Saudi Arabia. At the airport, she and her male colleague each went into restrooms. When they got out, neither could believe it. He said the airport restroom was marble and gilted and the most amazing thing he has seen. She said that her restroom was a big hole in a sand floor full of human waste and utterly disgusting. That about sums it up.