IF
YOU DON’T RESPECT OUR RELIGION AND PAY THE JIZYA, WE WILL SEE YOU IN COURT!
“You shouldn’t be here. This should be a mosque.”
Has the Organization of Islamic States (OIC) lost all faith in assassination and suicide bomber attacks as a means of putting an end to the ceaseless literary and artistic assaults on Islam? Has the OIC lost its nerve? Perhaps.
What if the United Nations’ Human Rights Commission should find the gumption to issue a vigorous condemnation of some future terrorist act? The UN has made many allowances for over-zealousness on the part of Islam but there have been stirrings in the West of late. Theo van Gogh’s murder did not cow Rooster Cogburn or Tom Tancredo—it angered them. There has been talk in some circles of Thomas Jefferson and Richard the Lion-Heart, to stand up for the First Amendment, for freedom of the press, for freedom of expression. Scary. That is not on the OIC want list.
Mistakes have been made. Perhaps if the Mad Mullahs had kept quiet during the Jyllands-Posten cartoon controversy instead of sending thousands of crazies into the streets to burn and trash and to scream ‘Allahu akbar’ things might have blown over in a few days and been forgotten, but, no—and now tens of thousands of websites, from one end of the world to the other, feature some, if not all, of the cartoons and the Prophet PBUH will forever be known as a bearded man with a bomb in his hat! For shame! For shame! Unless the Caliphate can be achieved and soon, that cartoon appears to be Mohammed’s Shroud of Turin, a sad fate—a crazy man with a bomb in his hat! What is to be done?
Over the years, the Saudis have put thousands of dedicated Wahhibis through law school—have sent them to Harvard and Yale, to Oxford and Cambridge—why not put them to work, make them earn those petrodollars? They can sue the dhimmis, make Michael Savage pay for his insolence, make Robert Spencer rue his non-deference to Islam. Hit them where it hurts—in their pocketbooks!
The OIC has just concluded it’s latest meeting in Dakar and has come up with a new “A Ten-Year Programme of Action To Meet the Challenges Facing the Muslim Ummah in the 21st Century.” It is an ambitious project.
President Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal did not mince words. “I don’t think freedom of expression should mean freedom from blasphemy,” he said. “There can be no freedom without limits.” (It is like they say in America, one can’t shout ‘fire’ in a crowded theatre—or as they say in Riyadh, one can’t whisper the Lord’s Prayer in a crowd of two without coming in contact with the mutaween! PBUH)
Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, secretary general of the OIC was explicit. “Muslims are being targeted by a campaign of defamation, denigration, stereotyping and discrimination,” he said. The Jews suffered less under the Nazis in the 1930s!
Hemayet Uddin authored the OIC cultural affairs report. “This Islamophobia that we see in the world has gone far beyond a phobia,” he said. “It is now at the level of hatred, of xenophobia, and we need to act.” Yes, if the dhimmis don’t respect our religion and pay the jizya we will turn our lawyers loose and sue the pants off them.
The new OIC charter will “protect and defend the true image of Islam” and will “combat the defamation of Islam.” And George W. Bush has sent Sada Cumber, an Ismaili Muslim businessman from Austin, Texas, to Dakar as his special envoy to agree with them. Mr. Cumber was born in Pakistan and has a Batchelor’s degree in Commerce and a Master’s degree in History from the University of Karachi. That’s the University of Karachi, not Bob Jones University, not Oral Roberts, not Liberty Baptist College in Lynchburg, Virginia—the University of Karachi. The President might as well have sent Robert Edgar or John Esposito.
The OIC Ten-Year Program of Action calls on member states to spread the correct ideas about the Religion of Moderation and Tolerance, to combat all forms of terrorism, including invasion of countries, to consider terrorism a global phenomenon not connected with any religion; to call on the United Nations to combat Islamophobia, and to enact laws to counter the defamation, denigration and stereotyping of Islam, including the necessary deterrent penalties. No one will ever shout ‘Fire’ in a crowed mosque again! And, of course, the Ten-Year Program provides for a Final Solution to the Jewish Question as envisioned by Yasser Arafat, and before Arafat by Adolph Hitler.
Before embarking on his mission of peace and moderation, Sada Cumber addressed the Associated Press. “America has a deep respect for the religion of Islam,” he said. “The freedom of faith that we exercise, that we enjoy in America, that is also a very important aspect of the American core values. Anyone who wants to practice any faith is never stopped or discouraged.”
Perhaps not in America, but things are not that simple elsewhere—not in Saudi Arabia, not in Iran, not anywhere in the Middle East and not in Shadwell, England where two thugs, described as ‘Asians,’ recently attacked Michael Ainsworth, a 57-year-old priest, in the grounds of his own church, St. George-in-the-East, telling him, “You shouldn’t be here, this should be a mosque.” Scotland Yard described the encounter as a ‘faith hate crime.” No one said the attackers were Muslims—that would have been Islamophobic, maybe even defamatory. (How would the Ku Klux Klan like it if they were described as Christians?)
Unfortunately, the beating of Michael Ainsworth was not an isolated incident. According to a survey by National Churchwatch nearly half of London’s clergymen have been attacked and beaten during the last 12 months. Churchwatch suggested the clergymen should remove their ‘dog’ collars when they go out alone. Is there a better argument for a concealed gun permit? Oh, right! This is England! One must keep a stiff bloody upper lip.
The Rt. Rev. Stephen Locke, a former colleague of Ainsworth, said, “I would want to see a condemnation of this cowardly behavior by senior Muslims in the community and really hope there isn’t an over-reaction from the white community.” (Isn’t that what John Bull said after the Boston Massacre? And what did Patrick Henry say? But that was years ago, when men were men and Christians were Christians)
Multiply what happened to Ainsworth ten thousand times and one gets an idea of what is happening to non-Muslims in Muslim countries and what is increasingly happening to dhimmis, infidels, and kafirs in non-Muslim countries with growing Muslim populations. Scotland Yard needs Sherlock Holmes and 10 Downing Street needs Winston Churchill to inject some backbone and sanity into England’s sinking Ship of State. Stop with the ‘Asian’ nonsense. Call a Muslim a Muslim. Chicago couldn’t get rid of Al Capone until they were willing to call him a crook. And the next time the Texas Gunslinger sends an envoy to the OIC let it be Rooster Cogburn or Danny DeVito—but only if DeVito goes packing heat.