Cahaya’s Rants

If not for freedom of expression that is allowed in this country and all democratic western countries, they would not be able to express their anger and protest like this. It is this very freedom of expression that is used by this same people to call for the heads of those who insult their religion. And yet this very freedom of expression is condemned by the very same people when the subject is distasteful to them!

Talk about being idiotic and practising a double standard!

Another fine example of a cowardly big media caving in to the intolerant demands of the radical islamists - the radical islamists who have no qualms about carrying placards calling for the heads of the infidels who “insult” their faith and prophet.

BBC Spooked by al-Qaeda

BBC bosses are ready to AXE a £1million episode of hit drama Spooks in which an al-Qaeda terrorist is shot dead — in case it upsets Muslims.
Filming the assassination plot for the MI5 drama took four weeks.

But actor Shaun Dingwall who plays a renegade Christian gunman, fears he could become a target for fundamentalists if the scene is aired.

In the episode, due to be shown later this year, a religious nut played by Shaun, 35, guns down the fanatic on the steps of London’s High Court.

But production sources admitted it could be canned. One said: “In the climate of Muslim fury over cartoons, Shaun isn’t sure about it all.”

Shaun refused to comment last night.

But Sun security adviser Andy McNab urged the BBC to keep the scene. He said: “Self-censorship would be the thin end of the wedge.”

Labour MP Stephen Pound added: “Giving terrorists a veto over what is shown on TV is the road to madness.

“Al-Qaeda will be objecting to Gardener’s Question Time next. Where does it stop?”

A show spokesman said: “Spooks examines numerous threats facing the UK. Producers, along with Shaun, will track the storyline’s sensitivities in light of the ever-changing news agenda.”

This video was posted at Google Video and Angelfire but the people at both sites decided to remove the video after pressure from islamists. This is a fine example of caving in to the intolerant demands of the radical islamists.
As such I, along with a few others, will post this video on my site so it will be readily available to whoever is interested in listening to and downloading it.

Its In the Koran

This is what “Patrick Henry” who wrote and sang the song had to say:

Commenters have argued that the Koran doesn’t say what this song claims the Koran says. To everyone who holds this view, I answer - and this is very important, so I’ll be stating it again below - that I agree with you. I agree that the Koran says what you claim it says. Islam is one of the world’s great religions, and I don’t believe that billions could have followed it if it weren’t, at its core, beautiful and life-engendering.

The problem is this: all the incidents I describe in the song have happened, and all were caused by men who disagree with you. These men have a different view of Islam. They find in the Koran inspiration and justification for their horrible acts.

To these men the Koran says that it’s proper that girls fleeing a fire should be trampled to death because they aren’t wearing headscarves. To these men the Koran says, even demands, that these girls die. The Koran says this, not to you, not to me, but to them.

The same goes for the other deeds I name: rape, torture, massacre, beheading, defilement of shrines. To these men, the Koran insists that they commit such acts.

I wrote the song from the point of view of these men because they’re the dominant force in Islam now. If you don’t believe me, remember this: Palestinians have just elected Hamas to lead their parliament, knowing that Hamas plan to institute sharia. Muslims had a choice, and they chose as leaders the kinds of men my song is about.

If you want more evidence, go to MEMRI.org and read the translations of interviews with influential Islamic figures. It’s rare to find one criticizing anything done by Muslims to non-Muslims, or even to other Muslims.

Here’s a comparison I find useful:

When the Abu Ghraib photos appeared, every American with a microphone - columnist, politician, religious leader - condemned the soldiers responsible.

When radical Muslims hide among civilians so that our soldiers can’t fight them without killing the innocent - do Arab and Muslim leaders, politicians, journalists unite to call such behavior cowardly and un-Islamic? No. When radical Muslims murder women and children? No. Gang-rapes in Scandinavia, forced mass starvation in Sudan - the list is long and wretched, and the men who commit these actions receive no criticism from the only people they might listen to: their religious leaders.

That’s why I wrote this song.

Again, if you say that Islam doesn’t permit such deeds, and that the men who perform them aren’t behaving like true Muslims, I’ll agree with you. But these men consider themselves true Muslims, the only true Muslims, and think that Muslims who disagree with them are apostates, the worst of betrayers.

I stand by every line in the song; it’s what such men believe. All I did was make their beliefs rhyme, scan and bounce like a vaudeville tune.

To those of you who feel that I’m mocking Islam, I reply: I’m not. I respect your view of it. These men - the men I’m writing about - don’t. You should be arguing with them, not with me.

This blog originally started at http://noblinkers.blogspot.com That blogspot blog has since then been deleted.  I decided to get the blog its own domain name because I feel that I needed to include more stuff that are more easily supported by a web host that I am paying for.

I have moved all the entries in that blog to this new blog.  That means all the posts prior to this one were first published in blogspot.

When you look at this cartoon, do you see something offensive? Apparently to some radical muslims this is offensive!

This cartoon is taking a jab at CNN, among one of the cowardly news media that refused to show the caricatures of Mohammad without blurring/pixelating the images.

The responses to the cartoon from readers of Bokluster, is quite an eye opener. You get your usual useful idiots, like the United Methodist Church pastor, who thinks that the cartoon has undone “over 40 years for interracial, interfaith, intercultural understanding and reconciliation.”  I agree with another reader, this pastor can’t have been very good at what he is doing!

Then you get the usual and predictable intolerant responses from radical muslims who dish out their hatred for infidels and cannot take any opposing view to their religion. Which is more insulting to islam? Take a look at this cartoon also by Chip Bok. It speaks volumes!

It is a mistake for the world to bow down to the intolerant demands of the radical muslim world. Why do you think this uproar over the caricatures still rages on? The radical muslim world has sensed the capitulation of some, and would not rest until more submit to their demands. The government of the dictatorial muslim nations are calling freedom of expression as practised by the west as evil, because it is synonymous as using said expression to insult islam .. blah, blah, we know their agenda.