Clarity reposted...

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act... George Orwell

Talk of islam as a whole and its history of jihad terrorism and dhimmi repression is out of bounds, the issues central to islam's incompatibility with modernity come down to dhimmitude and jihad, yet these islamic institutions are ignored and virtually never discussed creating an ignorant bliss of hope in reforming this insidious ideology. The fog of political correctness is shrouding differences, obscuring significance and clouding debate. The silencing keep the apostates and critics of islam out in the cold allowing the jihad and dhimmitude unheeded, unexplored, and undebated to our detriment. Remember when President Bush in the wake of 9/11 began his 'islam is peace' offensive? The willful ignorance of the jihad ideology that has driven islam's history is tantamount to suicide. An ideology embraced by as many as 1.2 billion people worldwide contains within it the seeds of this evil jihad and dhimmitude we see all around the world requires the right conditions to germinate. Wherever muslims are living in proximity with non-muslims someone is getting shot, bombed, burned alive, stoned to death, forcibly converted, ethnically cleansed, uprooted, jailed or otherwise persecuted. Ignoring it will not make it go away. The rationalization usually offered is that a small but energetic group of fanatics have grossly distorted the tenets of their religion to wreck bloody mayhem. Islam which is the “religion of peace” according to President Bush has become a headache to the whole world including the sane muslims. Out of about 167 terrorist organizations in the world, 164 are islamic. Out of 30 conflicts that are on-going in the world today, 28 are directly related to islam. We have to discuss strategies by which we can defeat this doctrine of jihad and dhimmitude. The whole world should be made aware of what islam truly is. Islam is as much a danger as the ignorance about it to the future of humanity...

Possession.

Sura (4:24) All married women (are forbidden unto you) save those (captives) whom your right hands possess...
A muslim judge in Pakistan rules in favour of a group of muslims who kidnapped and forcefully converted two Christian sisters to islam. The two girls aged 10 and 13 were kidnapped June 26th. The judge of the district of Muzaffargarh, Mian Muhammad Naeem ruled in favour of the criminals who kidnapped the children, stating that the Christian sisters “have converted in a legitimate manner to islam”. Because of this the children cannot go home to their family.
The girl’s conversion and supposed validity by the judge also invokes another key islamic law – death for apostasy. Should the girls go back to their family and continue with their Christian faith they would, according to islamic law, be imprisoned or executed.
This news from the land of the despot prophet is more than random muslim criminality, this depraved behavior of kidnapping children and converting them by force to islam is sanctioned by muslim standards and law. If the free world continues to contemplate sharia law then it will embolden the fanatics and this will one day happen in our own backyards...

Update: The struggle naturally continues. The father of the girls, Younis Masih, filed an appeal to the high court where a muslim lawyer Rashid Rehman pleaded his case. The court did not believe that the girls accepted islam by their own free will; therefore the girls were sent to a 'darul aman' in order to be relieved of pressure on the part of muslims. The girls will again appear in court on Aug. 4 and then the case will be decided according to the girls' statement...

August 20th; The custody battle remained inconclusive after a hearing today, judge Malek Saeed Ejaz of the Lahore High Court’s Multan Branch set the next hearing for September 9th. Details.

Update: Judge Malak Saeed Ejaz has given Aneela back to her family, because she is only 10 years old. Saba who is 13 years old as shown by official documents is declared over 16 years old thanks to 'expert testimony' and so her return to her parents is denied.

Dec. 18th. Judge Malik Saeed Ejaz places new financial and social pressure on the captors of Saba. He ordered the girl’s husband, Amjad Ali, to pay a dowry of 100,000 rupees (US$1,275) and allow her parents visitation rights, two actions required by Pakistani marriage protocol. Kidnapping Infidels in the muslim-majority nation of 170 million is not uncommon.

Feb. 27th 09 The judiciary is one thing, the police are another...

muslim flies...

"You can't stop them. But you can protect yourself. Your creator has your best interests at heart."
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This Egyptian advert is more of an indictment on muslim men and their lack of self-control, than it is on women who have no choice but to cover up in a muslim society, because there's no self-restraint amongst the men. They're free to swarm...

Muslim immigrants admit their bias quite openly. An islamic mufti in Copenhagen sparked a political outcry after publicly declaring that women who refuse to wear head scarves are "asking for rape." The message is the same as that of Sheik Taj Din al-Hilali, who in 2006 outraged Australians by comparing un-veiled women to uncovered meat. The number of rapes committed by muslim immigrants in Western nations are so extremely high that it is difficult to view them only as random acts of individuals. It resembles warfare. Mohammad himself had forced sex (rape) with several of his slave girls/concubines. This is perfectly allowed, it's in the quran. It stands to reason, many of the muslims in the West view themselves as a conquering army and that Western women are simply war booty, it all makes perfect sense and is in full accordance with islamic law...

Fjordman...

If we look at the West during the past thousand years, we have generally enjoyed an unusually high degree of freedom and power sharing. This has been the case more in some periods and countries than in others, but in the big scheme of things this remains true. However, although this arrangement has been good for our civilization as a whole, some of our elites apparently are jealous of the more authoritarian system in other cultures. They want to turn the West into a "normal," meaning more corrupt and less free, civilization, aided by the forces of globalization. We are witnessing rising nepotism, and perhaps those at the top desire this.

The political elites no longer believe in stupid things such as borders, cultures and national sovereignty. Islam upsets their world-view, so they ignore it and move on with their project of globalization, anyway. The most hardcore Leftists actively side with Islam because its hatred of the West and its concept of a global umma coincide with their own globalist outlook. Yes, I know that Socrates stated "I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world," but I don't think he meant it quite as literally as Western elites do now. Socrates didn't have an entire village of Muslims transplanted to his street during the space of a single generation, and he didn't have his daughters or female relatives raped by Muslims in his own country.

Our traditional freedoms were the result of a specific culture, developed over centuries of hard struggles. Maybe other cultures have to go through similar struggles of their own to achieve this, and some will perhaps never be able to do so. We should protect our freedoms at home before we try to export them, and we should protect them by preserving the European-derived culture which created them.

Our enemies, internal and external, want to destroy the Western world because we represent liberty, and they want to destroy Britain in particular because it gave birth to the most powerful pro-liberty culture within the Western tradition. I hope the British can regain their strength and throw off their traitor class, but they need to do so soon. We cannot allow the greatest nation in human history to be destroyed by the planet's most barbaric cultures. The British people, like their Dutch, German, Italian, Spanish and Danish counterparts, have every right to desire self-determination and self-preservation, and limit or even completely halt immigration as they see fit to ensure this. Those who say otherwise are evil, and need to be exposed as such. The Western world is under attack by a global Islamic Jihad. To support continued mass immigration of Muslims in this situation should be regarded as high treason, and punished as such... HERE.

Crass...

Airport security was condemned as a joke after an Afghan involved in the Stansted hijacking was found to be working at Heathrow as a cleaner. Here.
Oslo police recently released its 2007 Rape Report. The report shows a marked increase in Somali rapists. Here.
Ahmadinejad: The Hidden Imam Runs The World. Here.
Afghan teacher killed after speech condemning suicide bombings. Here.
Father, "My daughter deserved to die for falling in love" Here.
Women banned from 'Women in the Work Force' forum. Here.

There's something parasitic about the way muslims exploit Western social mechanisms. We all know that islam teaches muslims to despise "Infidels" and especially Jews. They truly hate us, and expend great energy in devaluing and dehumanizing us. So when they observe the success of our "Infidel" society, and especially the success of Jews within our society, their notions of our dirtiness and our unworthiness in the eyes of their allah must truly wrangle. They sum it up to "image", as if our prowess and superiority could only be a matter of superficial appearances, nothing more. They observe the Jew successfully navigating in the "Infidel" West, and can only imagine his successes, since he is but worthless subhuman scum, can only be accounted for by manipulation of media propaganda, cleverly crafted "image" campaigns, and legal browbeating to legislate special protections through mechanisms like the various "anti-defamation" outfits which exist.
Being history's all-time plunderers and parasites, just like the original Arab vagabond who invented their heinous "cult", muslims have set about imitating what, in their fevered imaginations, constitutes the social mechanisms in the West which permit us to project that "image" of success and superiority which puts their abject failures in stark relief. Since (in their ruined minds) their islamic society is vastly superior to ours in every way, our successes can only be a clever illusion, a parlor trick of epic proportions.
The muslims cannot imagine or contemplate the truth of the situation. They have a society which offers nothing to the world but terrorism, totalitarian nightmares, human degradation, and misery. If not for the accident of oil, there's no doubt that the pan-islamic world today would be at or near the absolute bottom of human society. But the wealth which has flowed into their undeserving hands for the last 6-7 decades now funds the largest expansion of their islamic cancer since islam's inception nearly 1400 years ago. Today they spend vast sums to wage Jihad, to insinuate themselves into our society where they then set about the systematic subversion of our society. They actually lack imagination sufficient to contemplate the truth about their complete depravity, or to comprehend why our society is superior to theirs in every way. Islam forbids it. But islam's creed requires them to profess its superiority in every gesture, every expression, despite reality. For this reason they retain a just sufficient quantity of imagination to think that if they simply ape our social mechanisms, the ones which they construe as responsible for projecting our clever lies, then they too can accomplish all that we have done. Muslims can't handle the substance of the argument, but now hold vast hordes of cash to hire Madison Avenue to do their bidding and polish the turd of islam into a high gloss.
Has there ever been a more loutish, a more lazy, a more deluded society than theirs? Westerners fear angering muslims, fear enraging their hatred and fury, by simply pointing out their inferiority. But we will do much in winning against the muslim enemy by shattering his delusional and grandiose sense of self. Simply holding up a mirror, and revealing islam's depravity does make the muslim murderously angry, but it also rubs his filth in his face in a manner which will eventually destroy him through sheer humiliation and depression. JSLA...

Trojan Horse...

“Europe will be muslim in a dozen years,” promises the islamic Republic of Iran’s Supreme Guide (dictator) who is racing full-speed ahead to make as many bombs as possible with long-range missiles capable of delivering their payload anywhere in the world.
This past Friday, Yunis al-Astal, a leading Muslim cleric and Hamas member of the Palestinian parliament, declared on Hamas' Al-Aqsa TV that "the capital of the Catholics, or the Crusader capital," would soon be conquered by islam and Rome become an advance post for the islamic conquests, which will spread through Europe in its entirety, and then will turn to the two Americas.”
The islam hydra, with Saudi Arabia and the oil-money bloated Emirs and Sheiks of the Persian Gulf leading the sunni charge from one side and the ender-of-the-world bomb-seeking shiite of the islamic Republic of Iran with its proxies of Hamas, Lebanon Hezbollah and the Sadrists in Iraq closing from the other side will devour the free world.
Free people: are you listening? The horse that is radical islam has already bolted from the stable. The West, in its attempts to please everyone has let down its own people and we are heading for a disaster. Ask yourself this. Why are people so quick to denounce anything Christian, but would never, ever dare criticize islam? Because they are scared of the ramifications of what will happen to them when their remarks come to light...ask Salmon Rushdie all about free speech.
Disguised as religion, islam has penetrated the democracies with the aim of replacing civility and liberty with the barbarism of theocracy and sharia. Islam’s multi-prong attack aims to destroy all that liberty offers.
It is generally assumed that religion addresses issues of importance to daily life as well as matters that transcend it. Religion claims to exercise a civilizing influence by ordering the social life and promoting spirituality, as well as advancing an array of human virtues. Zoroaster, for instance, based his faith on the triad of goodly thoughts, goodly speech and goodly deeds. Moses framed the fundamentals of his faith in the Ten Commandments, and Jesus placed love at the core of his faith.
Yet, all is not well with religion. Purveyors of some religions advocate and promote ideas and practices that are harmful to the general well-being of mankind. It is imperative that a society institutes measures that guard against any and all organizations and ideologies, be they religious or otherwise that harms it.
As things stand now, our lives are governed by numerous boards at all levels of government, business, and community. All these boards are charged with the responsibility of looking after the welfare of the people they serve. The Food and Drug Administration, for instance, must pass on the safety and quality of the food we eat; the Aviation Safety Board works to ensure safe flights; a local school board strives to create the environment that best serves the education and safety needs of the pupils. Every community and business of any size is served by boards.
There are, however, no oversight boards that would check against things that contaminate the mind and present a clear threat of unraveling our democracy’s social compact as we know and cherish it. Shouldn’t these dangers to our beliefs and way of life be monitored and combated or should they be given a pass to work their damage?
Presently, America is faced with a formidable enemy in a Trojan horse called islam. This imminent danger makes it imperative to revisit the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and make the necessary changes to legally defeat islam’s subversion of the democratic system.
Muslims in Western democracies, most of them escapees of the misery of islamic countries, exhibit such incredible gall and audacity as to shamelessly demand that their benevolent hosts surrender their liberty and legalize and adopt the sharia in their societies.
The muslim presence in countries such as Canada, Great Britain, the Netherlands and Sweden represents the tip of the sword of the islamists protruding from the Trojan horse.
Once sharia is recognized to any extent, it will reach out to rule, not only on matters that concern muslims, but also those that may involve a muslim and Non-muslim. Under sharia, a muslim man married to a Non-muslim woman is able to divorce the woman at will and automatically have custody of the children.
America, with a long history of protecting religious freedom, still clings to the “hands off” practice of leaving alone any doctrine or practice billed as religion. A thorny problem is in deciding what constitutes a religion and who is to make that call. The dictionary supplies a sociologically useless definition for religion: “The expression of man’s belief in and reverence for a superhuman power recognized as the creator and governor of the universe.” Just about anyone or any group under this definition can start a religion, and they indeed do—and some do so at significant costs to others.
Islam was birthed by primitives of some 1400 years ago and over time invaded much of the world at the point of the sword. Presently, islamists, with their treasuries flushed with petrodollars, are in a great position to realize their perennial dream of bringing the world under the rule sharia.
On the one hand, Pakistan is already a nuclear power and the islamic Republic of Iran aims to be one before very long. On the other hand, muslim governments and wealthy Sheiks are funding islamic schools, centers and front organizations in the West to work from within at the unraveling of the Non-islamic democratic systems. In a parallel attack, the “Legal islam” is exploiting every provision of the law in free societies to promote islam and silence its critics through expensive legal shenanigans.
Islam is incompatible with democracy and subversive of the way of life that blesses free nations. It is imperative that we fight islamofascism with the same determination that we fought other enemies of freedom such as Nazism, Fascism, and Communism. It is, therefore, imperative that the Constitution be revisited in such a manner that it no longer grants a pass to any cult simply calling itself a religion.
Bluntly speaking, no one can be a faithful muslim and an American at the same time. As more and more muslims arrive in Non-islamic lands, as they reproduce like rabbits, as they convert the disenchanted and minorities, and as petrodollar muslim treasuries supply generous funds, muslims gather more power to undermine the democratic rule.
The hydra of islam is lashing out through its jihadists, sophisticated and well-funded lawyers, terrorist groups, and terror-sponsoring governments who have the bomb and those that are racing non-stop to acquire the ultimate weapon. There is no time to waste. Steadfastly confronting islam is the only way to defeat a fanatical enemy who does not believe in negotiation or compromise. For islam, it is winner take all. And the way that permissive, oblivious, and well-meaning free societies are reacting does not bode well for liberty.
Islam must be recognized for what it is: a Trojan horse carrying in its belly a fascist ideology that will assuredly slaughter all who stand for everything that is precious to free people...

Decay...

As long as the muslim population remains around 1% of any given country they will be regarded as a peace-loving minority and not as a threat to anyone. In fact, they may be featured in articles and films, stereotyped for their colorful uniqueness:

United States — muslim 1.0% Australia — muslim 1.5% Canada — muslim 1.9% China — muslim 1%-2% Italy — muslim 1.5% Norway — muslim 1.8%
At 2% and 3% they begin to proselytize from other ethnic minorities and disaffected groups with major recruiting from the jails and among street gangs:

Denmark — muslim 2% Germany — muslim 3.7% United Kingdom — muslim 2. 7% Spain — muslim 4% Thailand — muslim 4.6%
From 5% on they exercise an inordinate influence in proportion to their percentage of the population.

They will push for the introduction of halaal (clean by islamic standards) food, thereby securing food preparation jobs for muslims. They will increase pressure on supermarket chains to feature it on their shelves — along with threats for failure to comply. (United States).

France — muslim 8% Philippines — muslim 5% Sweden — muslim 5% Switzerland — muslim 4.3% The Netherlands — muslim 5.5% Trinidad & Tobago — muslim 5.8%
At this point, they will work to get the ruling government to allow them to rule themselves under Sharia, the islamic Law. The ultimate goal of islam is not to convert the world but to establish Sharia law over the entire world.

When muslims reach 10% of the population, they will increase lawlessness as a means of complaint about their conditions (Paris — car-burnings). Any Non-muslim action that offends islam will result in uprisings and threats (Amsterdam — mohammed cartoons).

Guyana — muslim 10% India — muslim 13.4% Israel — muslim 16% Kenya — muslim 10% Russia — muslim 10-15%

After reaching 20% expect hair-trigger rioting, jihad militia formations, sporadic killings and church and synagogue burning:
Ethiopia — muslim 32.8%
At 40% you will find widespread massacres, chronic terror attacks and ongoing militia warfare:

Bosnia — muslim 40% Chad — muslim 53.1% Lebanon — muslim 59.7%

From 60% you may expect unfettered persecution of non-believers and other religions, sporadic ethnic cleansing (genocide), use of Sharia Law as a weapon and Jizya, the tax placed on infidels:

Albania — muslim 70% Malaysia — muslim 60.4% Qatar — muslim 77.5% Sudan — muslim 70%
After 80% expect State run ethnic cleansing and genocide:

Bangladesh — muslim 83% Egypt — muslim 90% Gaza — muslim 98.7% Indonesia — muslim 86.1% Iran — muslim 98% Iraq — muslim 97% Jordan — muslim 92% Morocco — muslim 98.7% Pakistan — muslim 97% Palestine — muslim 99% Syria — muslim 90% Tajikistan — muslim 90% Turkey — muslim 99.8% United Arab Emirates — muslim 96%

100% will usher in the peace of “Dar-al-Salaam” — the islamic House of Peace — there’s supposed to be peace because everybody is a muslim:

Afghanistan — muslim 100% Saudi Arabia — muslim 100% Somalia — muslim 100% Yemen — muslim 99.9%

The facts remain, large-scale presence of muslims in the lands of the Infidels has led to a situation, for the Infidels, that is everywhere more unpleasant, more expensive, and more physically dangerous, than would be the case without such a large-scale presence...

Appeasement...

The word 'islam' means submission to the will of allah, and a 'muslim' is someone who has submitted. A "dhimmi" is an inferior Non-muslim coerced to submit.
Mohammad divided the world into two parts, those who have submitted and those yet to submit. He called these two parts the House of islam and the House of War, pronounced in Arabic "dar al-islam" and "dar al-harb."
Within 100 years of mohammad's death in A.D. 632, fundamental islamic caliphs, with cavalry armed with scimitar swords, subjugated vast areas of the world: Arabia, Persia, the Holy Land, North Africa, Spain, Southern France, Sicily, Central Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia. In the next 1,000 years, muslims subdued Indonesia, Java, Borneo, Sumatra, the Byzantine Empire, the Balkans, Armenia, Greece, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, Moldova, Serbia and regions of China, Tibet, Bengal, Mongolia, India, Russia, Hungary and Poland. In 1529 and 1683, over 100,000 Turkish muslims attacked Vienna, Austria.
'World peace' in the West means peaceful coexistence, 'world peace' in islam means the world submitting to the will of allah and since there is no one theological body governing all of islam, faithful muslims have developed conflicting views. Hence the on going bloodshed in the muslim world.
Fundamental violent muslims think the rest of the world is submitting to allah now and feel it is islam's 'manifest destiny' to make it happen. They would just as soon fight moderate muslims, considering them backsliding from following the example of mohammad and the caliphs. Moderate muslims are hesitant to speak out against fundamental violent muslims, as occasionally one does and they are threatened, intimidated, forced to change their names for protection, have fatwas put on them and even killed.
So there could, in a sense, be three groups of muslims: a minority of fundamental violent ones, a majority of moderate ones who are afraid of the fundamental violent ones, and the courageous dead ones who were not afraid of the fundamental violent ones.
The West may be inadvertently fueling the problem by not understanding that fundamental muslims interpret their 'politeness' as weakness or even submission.
Saudi Arabia was pressured to revise its fundamental textbooks supplied to muslim schools around the world, including the U.S., because they contained intolerance. The Washington Post, May 21, 2006, published excerpts of these textbooks in an article "This is a Saudi textbook (after the intolerance was removed)":

4TH GRADE: "True belief means ... that you hate the polytheists and infidels."
5TH GRADE: "It is forbidden for a Muslim to be a loyal friend to someone who does not believe in Allah and His Prophet."
8TH GRADE: "The apes are Jews, the people of the Sabbath; while the swine are the Christians, the infidels of the communion of Jesus."
9TH GRADE: "It is part of Allah's wisdom that the struggle between the Muslim and the Jews should continue until the Hour [of Judgment]."
11TH GRADE: "Do not yield to Christians and Jews on a narrow road out of honor and respect."

One may have to read that last line again:

"DO NOT YIELD to Christians and Jews on a narrow road out of honor and respect." In other words, when a Christian or Jew thinks they are being polite by letting a muslim go first, the fundamental student is taught that they are simply acknowledging islam's superiority.

Thus the dhimmi dilemma:

If the West naively promotes tolerance of a belief system that does not promote tolerance, it is effectively promoting intolerance. If the West refuses to promote an intolerant belief system, it is accused of being intolerant.
So the question is: What goes through the mind of a moderate muslim, who thinks the world will submit to allah in the distant future, when he sees predominately Judeo-Christian nations going to great lengths to tolerate islam now?
As our actions are done in hopes that tolerance of islam will result in muslims being more tolerant of Non-muslims, an unintended consequence is emerging, namely, that these actions are actually radicalizing some moderate muslims by providing proof that the world is submitting to allah – not in the distant future – but right now before their eyes!
They become persuaded that their long-awaited desire of the Non-muslim world "dar al-harb" (House of War) becoming "dar al-islam" (House of Islam) is imminent.

islamic excitement can be understood in the context of honor or pride.

In a football analogy, if a team is dishonored by many seasons of poor performance, fans are humiliated, embarrassed and become passive. But if the team suddenly has a winning streak and is headed toward the playoffs, fans are filled with pride. They come out of the woodwork, put on the team's jerseys, fill stadiums, paint their bodies, mascots are lifted high, and when the opposing team fumbles, the cheering mob roars with enthusiasm. They become fanatics and radicalized.

In nature, when a fleeing antelope becomes exhausted, the pursuing lion charges harder.
Could it be the more the West exhibits hyper-tolerance, the more it turns some moderate muslims, who believe the world will submit to allah in the distant future, into fundamental violent muslims, who view this tolerance as evidence the world is submitting to allah now?

"Personal" tolerance in the West is rooted in Judeo-Christian concepts like "love your enemies" and "turn the other cheek," but Franklin D. Roosevelt warned regarding "national" tolerance in a Fireside Chat, Dec. 29, 1940:

"No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it."

Surprise...

The free world's continued introduction and import of a depraved alien culture demands extreme caution...

Most people in muslim and Western countries believe divisions between them are worsening and each side believes the other disrespects their culture, according to a poll released on Monday. The Gallup poll, published in a report on muslim-Western relations for the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos last week, reflects an alarmingly low level of optimism regarding dialogue between islam and the West. HERE
People are worried by immigration and a perceived islamic threat to their culture and are alarmed at the prospect of greater interaction with the muslim world. Most people surveyed believe that greater interaction between the muslim and Western worlds is a threat than a benefit.

Never before have we seen such a rapid introduction of this morbid culture. As a result, never have we been so vulnerable to the invasion of an alien oppressive culture which has caused harm to our prospects of diversity, to our economy, to our freedom, to our growth, and of course to our health.
The dangers needs to be expressed to the general public to avoid bringing in harmful medieval cultures that are stringently stuck in a pitch black age...

Shame...

Honor killings, which occur in the muslim environment, target women whose actions violate the honor of their family, an honor which is thought to depend on the sexual purity of its female members. Victims are always being mercilessly slaughtered by their own family members and is just another ugly element of backwardness and depravity that is islam.

Honor killing is the cruelty committed by the family members, father, brothers, brother-in-laws, and in some cases sisters and mothers, the victim is always the daughter/sister or other blood related young women who gets murdered. Killers are always family members. Family honor is one of the core values of the muslim environment. Anything from speaking with an unrelated man, to rumored premarital loss of virginity, or an extra-marital affair, refusing forced marriages or even victims of rape can stain or destroy the family honor. Therefore, family members kill the victim in order to remove the stain or maintain and protect the honor of the family. The killers mainly defend their act of murder by referring to the quran and islam, they will say that they are merely following the directives set down in their islamic beliefs. These barbaric killings occur only to save the honor of the family, and not for any animosity or for wealth. The victims cry, beg for their life but the family members become merciless (out of their ethical prejudices and also religious burden of fear) and kill the victim. After killing family members usually mourn and cry for the victim but feel solace that they have done the right thing to save their family honor.

This kind of murder to save family honor has happened, is still happening, and will remain to happen only in the muslim family environment. Honor killings happen in muslim nations such as Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria, Yemen, Lebanon, Egypt, Sudan, Palestine, Jordan, Pakistan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nigeria, Somalia, Turkey, Iran and other south and central Asian countries where islam reigns supreme.

Muslim apologists and gullible or ignorant Westerners argue that honor killing is not islamic and it’s a tribal/cultural thing. This statement is utter bullshit and is another feeble attempt at taqiyya. It’s true that in pre-islamic culture this heinous honor killing of women did exist, likewise, many other uncivilized practices like stoning, flogging, beheading, slavery etc. also existed in the pre-islamic society. But islam has incorporate these inhumane/uncivilized practices which muslims now call allah’s laws. Had it been the tribal/cultural practice, honor killing would only exist amongst the Arabs. But honor killing does happen amongst the non-Arab muslims. Fact of the matter is, no Arab Christians, Jews or Bahai etc. practice this uncivilized act at all. Only muslims practice this heinous act with monotonous regularity... More

Happy Eid..!

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Before the Eid festival, every muslim father brings home a baby goat and tells his child to play with it. As days pass, the child grows fond of the goat for some days and when the day of Eid comes the child is shocked to see that his pet goat is slaughtered in front of his entire gleeful and cheering family. The child feels guilty, he cries and asks for his friend (the goat) to be spared. But when the goat is slaughtered in spite of this, and the child is told that this is part of muslim tradition, the child is bewildered.
After one year round the same time, the same ritual is repeated. Now the child is one year older, but he still has the innocence to play with a pet and grow fond of it. When the day arrives, the goat is again slaughtered, and the child is reminded of this being a tradition. The child still feels guilty, but his guilt is now numbed by the words that repeatedly fall on his ears, that this is a qurbani (a sacrifice) and that it is our holy duty to kill.
A year after that the child is again asked to play with a goat and on the day of the feast of Eid-ul-Zuha, he is asked to hold the dagger and help out in slaughtering the goat. The child gradually grows hard-hearted and now starts enjoying this ritual of killing the goat - A muslim is made!
As part of his upbringing, a muslim child who weeps at the sight of a pet goat being killed and would balk at doing the deed himself, is now shamed into doing the deed. It is drilled into his mind that he should do it as it is part of a revered islamic custom of bloodletting. And that instead of feeling guilty, he should feel proud. A murderer is made! A muslim is made!
The child’s guilt is gradually vanishing and is being replaced with a sadistic urge to kill, not just kill the goat but to kill anyone at the drop of a hat. A murderer is made. An innocent child who would weep at the sight of a pet goat being killed and would balk at doing the deed himself, is now shamed into doing that deed.
It is drilled into his mind that he should do it as it is the community custom. That instead of feeling guilty, he should be proud. This way a murderer is never born, he is made. And he is made generation after generation to spawn a breed of people who glorify death. Who boast that “We love death more than you love life, and so we will get you someday, someway, somewhere, and kill you while killing ourselves to seek martyrdom.”
From early childhood, when children are repeatedly told not to get beaten by anyone and to if anyone hits you, you need to hit him back twice at least. This leads to the building a violent and vengeful mentality from early childhood that provides for a perfect mindset for the making of a criminal in adulthood where revenge is glorified.
The fact that seals this vengeful, cruel and violent mentality is the leavening of legitimacy that is given through the islamic religion, with quotations like: "Oh ye who believe! Murder those of the disbelievers and let them find harshness in you." (9:123). All this makes it a religious, moral and a holy duty to seek revenge, and to commit murder during seeking revenge, and to top it all, to exult when you murder an enemy, to dance over his dead body, to pull out his victuals from his corpse and proudly display it in public and to boast that now due to this 'holy' act, the victor would find place in heaven!
Imagine that for a muslim the way to heaven is through, murder, rape , arson, trickery, deception! No wonder we have such delinquent murderers operating in London, Jerusalem, Madrid, Bali, Baghdad, not to speak of New York and the Pentagon on 9/11.
And to keep this murderous message being constantly drilled into their mind, they have to pray five times a day, facing one particular direction. Private prayer is not encouraged, mass prayer is. Whenever the Muzzein brays from the minaret, they assemble in one place to pray, so that you keep meeting people like you who have also been brainwashed into becoming mindless murderers, so that this conditioning of the mind is reinforced five times in a day with the mullah sounding the same rants of kill the enemies, death to infidel kafirs ad nausem.
And if they commit the cardinal sin of leaving this murderous band, they become a legitimate target for being murdered as an apostate. There is no way out for a muslim but to hate the non-muslims and to seek every opportunity to terrorize them. A terrorist mass-murderer is made, in other words a muslim is made...

Teddy Bear..?

When it comes to muslims the blasphemer may be killed, so too, ice cream vendor, rubber tree plantation worker, barber, truck driver, doctor, nurse, journalist, reporter, vegetable stand operator, rape victim, lawyer, the judge, the artist, the cartoonist, the film maker, the Jew, the Baptist, the Coptic, the Assyrian, the Catholic, the Catholic nun, the aid worker, the Muslim who is not Muslim enough, the apostate, the Hindu, the Buddhist, the policeman, the soldier, the slave, the traveler listening to music, the video store owner, the tv anchor, the radio host, and the list just gets longer every day. The teacher...

Adultery...

This is the freakish world they inhabit and the one they wish to establish everywhere...

A court in the barbaric kingdom of Saudi Arabia is punishing a female victim of gang rape with 200 lashes and six months in jail, the 19-year old woman whose six armed attackers have been sentenced to jail terms was initially ordered to undergo 90 lashes for "being in the car of an unrelated male at the time of the rape". But in a new verdict issued after Saudi Arabia's Higher Judicial Council ordered a retrial, the court in the eastern town of Al-Qatif more than doubled the number of lashes to 200. The judges had decided to punish the woman further for "her attempt to aggravate and influence the judiciary through the media."

Anybody that wants to tolerate this backwards trash of an ancient toilet culture should have their heads examined...

Update: The victim of gang-rape has been pardoned for her crime by Saudi King Abdullah. Presumably, she has apologized for being gang-raped and has promised not to be gang-raped again. Link

Indulge...

One sure sign of whether or not a society is serious about defeating tyranny is the support it gives to dissidents who risk their lives by resisting it. Hirsi Ali’s life has been threatened by muslim fanatics ever since she helped make a film about the persecution of women in islam, as a result of which her friend, Theo Van Gogh was murdered. Hirsi Ali, who from that time on has been forced to live either in hiding or under police protection and eventually was forced to leave Holland for America after the Dutch government played games with her citizenship. And the games continue as she has been forced into hiding again after the Dutch government said that they would remove her security detail from her unless she returned to the Netherlands from the US, where she had gone only because the Netherlands had effectively forced her out. Now Dutch prime minister has advised Ayaan Hirsi Ali to leave the Netherlands and go back to the US. He said, "she shouldn’t come back to The Netherlands for protection, she has long enough known that the Dutch government wanted to stop her protection". The Americans have not volunteered to fill the gap and protect her. So much for the ‘war on terror’. Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a heroine of our times. The behavior of both the Dutch and the Americans towards her is an absolute disgrace.

Bragging Rights...

The items shown are for sale in Palestinian areas. The Palestinian leadership has, for decades, preached that all real, or imagined, wrongs done to Palestinians by the Israelis were done with the permission of the United States. The common belief among Palestinians is that Americans are the enemy because of this, and, as a result, the attacks on September 11, 2001, were seen as a victory for Palestinians. Oddly enough, Palestinian spokesmen deny this (in English). But Palestinian media (in Arabic) says otherwise. So do the toys sold to Palestinian children...

Questions...

Ever since the relationships between the Occident and the Orient have been soured by 9/11, muslims and islamapologists occasionally mention "True islam". And "True islam", ladies and gentlemen, well, it certainly must be something fantastic and awe-inspiring. People go all misty-eyed and gooey just talking about it. How sad it is, they say, that we, dumb frightened westerners, fail to appreciate the beauty of True islam. No way those terrorist attacks have anything to do with True islam. Quite the contrary: True islam shows all of us the way to paradise on earth. True islam is a beacon of love, tolerance and respect! True islam will provide the final solution to end world hunger. True islam will prove to be an effective medicine against cancer, AIDS, angst and nasal infections, yes, True islam will make men want to fall into each others arms, and weep tears of joy. We could talk about it for hours on end! Oh, how we wish to make it clear to you what heavenly bliss you're missing out on, only because you seem eager to make such a childish fuss about a few accidental bombings. Why won't you accept that True islam has nothing to do with all that? And then they shake their heads in utter disappointment and disbelief.
But even though I really try, I can never seem to figure out what True islam really stands for. And that is weird, because there's nothing wrong with my logic, and when it comes to solving problems, it seems to have served me with adequate deductive powers over the years. So, I resort to asking questions about True islam. I will ask, for example: look, over there! Two towers are hit by airplanes, and look, a muslim blows himself to bits! How terrifying! Is that what True islam is all about? Oh no, you silly person! the islamapologists will respond. This violence has nothing to do with True islam; you are just afraid because you are not familiar with True islam. Try and understand the quran --- then you will learn all about our beautiful way of thinking.
Well, that seems perfectly reasonable, doesn't it? I should not try and judge matters I'm unfamiliar with. Hey look! Here it says all unbelievers should be beaten to death. And here it says that muslims should do their utmost to spread islam, even if this means going to war over it. And here it says women are unworthy, and can be beaten as you see fit. And here it says you are allowed to lie to unbelievers, and steal from Jews, and keep slaves. Hmmm, this piece of literature is, shall we say, hardly elevating is it? So what is this True islam? No, you silly person! they say. You shouldn't try to understand True islam by reading the quran, because only imams and islamic scribes are able to do that. Non-muslims who study the quran will only come to the wrong conclusions. And well, you will never get to know True islam if you base your understanding on the wrong conclusions, will you?
Oh well, I guess I'll just have to accept that as gospel truth then. But maybe I can find out more about True islam by examining the way in which islam is arranged for equality of the sexes. Look! A walking blanket with a little spy hole. And look! Women that are beaten black and blue, and women that are stoned to death, and women that are circumcised. And look! The amazing invisible women, fully alienated from social discourse, locked away as they've been inside their kitchen cupboards for over 25 years. And look over there: little islamic boys who, despite their age, have learned that some day they might have to slit the throat of their mother, wife, sister, cousin, niece, aunt or daughter in order to preserve their honor. Would that be True islam? A boiling pot filled with misogyny, pussy fear, and castration anxiety? No, you silly person! they will say. You should listen to those semi-integrated college muslims that are put into the limelight by your typical radical-feminist-turned-radical-dhimmi intellectuals like Karen Armstrong. These hybrids will explain to you how True islam regards a woman as a glorious pearl, and how the headscarf is proof that the emancipation of the islamic female is going great! In fact, there is anecdotal evidence about a certain Tehran woman who went to the butcher all by herself to order three lamb chops, and for this, she was only mildly reprimanded by the clerical council. So islamic women's lib is doing just fine!
Ah, I see! Well, I guess we're going to have to wait for that one. But in the meantime, let's find out what the islamic viewpoints on legislation and government have produced so far. Look! Afghanistan! A giant rubble-filled building-site, in which the entire population has to nourish itself off the milk of three goats. And look, there is Iran, where they find it more important to deploy their intellectual resources into developing an atom bomb, rather than quake-proof building constructions. Ow, look! There's beautiful Saudi-Arabia, where people are mutilated and decapitated, and where five families are hauling in oil money by the shipload while the rest of the population is starving to death. Is this then the result of True islam? Sadistic dictatorships filled with misery and poverty? No, you silly person! the islamapologists will answer. Those countries obviously have nothing to do with True islam. Those countries have clearly implemented sharia law in the wrong way, because True islam will only offer love, riches and mercy for each and everyone! Hallelujah! And just maybe, when we usurp the next country, True islam will succeed in establishing paradise on earth.
OK, so that's the deal there! But, if True islam is such a blessing for mankind, perhaps True islam is best expressed in all kinds of dazzling works of art, or brilliant scientific insights. Look, here we have islamic Nobel-prize winners --- all six of them, of which one guy actually won the Nobel peace prize for leading a bunch of terrorists for half his life. Oh, and look over there! islamic art! Thirty-five miles of calligraphic scroll, two jars of clay and a piece of burlap cloth. Wow! And listen! Is that islamic music? Endlessly repeated moans without harmony or counterpoint? It's almost like Bach, but not quite. And where can I see islamic technological innovations? Where is the islamic air and space program? Where are all those islamic cars, weapons and computers that do not need to be acquired from the perfidious West? No, you silly person! they will say. Don't you realize True islam is elevated far above earthly matters like music or technology? You should not judge True islam on a material level; you should look at the higher morality of True islam. That is something you people in the West might learn a thing or two from!

I'm sorry --- did you say 'higher morality'? In my book, higher morality is a form of insight that soars high above mundane and the vanities of the ego. To me, higher morality should make a person meeker, and more tolerant. To me, higher morality should cause a person to act wisely and profoundly, even, or rather, especially, in crisis situations; that a person under pressure does not instinctively think of himself, but is able to, leaning on his higher insight, maintain a relative outlook.
But what do muslims under pressure react like? During the times of the riots in Paris, the TV showed footage of four socially challenged persons. Amongst burning wreckage, they leaned out of their car windows, and shouted at the camera: Hey Sarkozy! We're gonna phuck your mother! And last week the news showed us footage from Afghanistan. A tormented village elder expressed his deepest feelings about a fellow villager who, to his taste, conspired with the Americans too much: Hmm, I'm gonna phuck the wife of that bastard! Did you say 'higher morality'? To me, it seems to be more like a form of regression to men's lowest instincts. Isn't this what islamic phenomena like honor killings and the headscarf are all about? Isn't this what the islamic preference for corporal punishment and stoning is all about? Isn't this the driving force behind all those terrorist attacks, and the murder of Theo van Gogh? Isn't this the reason why muslims all over the world are generally extremely quick to resort to battle and violence? I can't see any higher morality. All I can see is a lower morality; reflex actions of an instinct that feels threatened.

So muslims, I really, really try! Please tell me, where can I find the splendors of your beautiful religion? What exclusive islamic spiritual truths are going to make this world better? Where are all the glorious islamic Utopian states, based on mohammad's enlightened insights? Where can I see the results of the superior morality you so confidently take pride in? And come to think of it, where is allah? You chime about your faith, yet you wish to take no responsibility for its deeds or its sources. Do you know what I think? I think your True islam doesn't exist at all. I think your True islam is exactly the islam we can read about in the newspapers every day; the islam we do well to fear. True islam has nothing to offer when it comes to higher morality. True islam is stuck and preoccupied with men's most primitive urges; fear, survival, control, sexuality and struggle. Your True islam is led by the same instincts as a pack of herding wolves. When, oh when, will you find this out?

imperialism...

“Islam is in its origins an Arab religion. Everyone not an Arab who is a muslim is a convert. Islam is not simply a matter of conscience or private belief. It makes imperial demands. A converts world view alters. His holy places are in Arab lands; his language is Arabic. His idea of history alters. He rejects his own; he becomes, whether he likes it or not, a part of the Arab story. The convert has to turn away from everything that is his. The disturbance for societies is immense, and even after a thousand years can remain unresolved; the turning away has to be done again and again. People develop fantasies about who and what they are; and in the Islam of the converted countries there is an element of neurosis and nihilism. These countries can be easily set on the boil.”
- V.S Naipaul

V. S. Naipaul has written two books on contemporary Islam:

Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey
Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples

"Freedom is the Right to Choose, the Right to create for oneself the alternatives of Choice. Without the possibility of Choice, and the exercise of Choice, a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing."
- Thomas Jefferson

Liberty...

Whatever happened to 1,400 years of historical facts and analysis? Don't our leaders and other people of influence realize that if it weren't for the bravery of the past 50 generations, the West would be islamified and living under sharia law? Aren't they aware that the jihadists were defeated outside Vienna only 93 years ago? Do they know what happened on 29th May 1453? And don't they realize that the Vatican might have fallen to the jihadists had Don Juan suffered defeat at Lepanto in 1571? How about de la Valette in 1565, defending Malta against the Turks and against the odds? And there is the 473 years of the First Great jihad which islamified North Africa, the Middle East, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan etc, and saw the conquest of Spain, Portugal and most of France, with the 200 years of the Crusades marking the boundary between jihads, with the second Great jihad reaching Vienna via Constantinople, Belgrade and Mohacs.

All of this recorded history has been forgotten by all but the most avid historians or the most curious souls amongst our population who like to delve into historical facts about jihad. Maybe it is down to the political correct that has seeped into our souls and overwhelmed our immune system at every level since the 1960s, resulting in the mere mentioning of Lepanto or the battle of Vienna being deemed as 'upsetting' to the sensibilities of muslims, and that we should feel guilty for driving the Moors out of the Iberian Peninsular and driving the Turks back towards Constantinople in the 200 years following Vienna. Civilizational suicide in a bottle is what we are being prescribed by all manner of journalists and our media, too cowardly and spineless to spell things out just like Bishop Fulton J Sheen, Hilaire Belloc, John Wesley or Sir Winston Churchill, who would be slagged off as 'racists' were they alive today to remind us of what they wrote. Those who think they're too civilized to save themselves are indeed doomed and earmarked for certain destruction. That is the oldest lesson of history, and a grave mistake will be made by all of us if we dare forget that lesson.

Intent...

Khomeini told us that:

“islam says: Whatever good there is exists thanks to the sword and in the shadow of the sword! People cannot be made obedient except with the sword! The sword is the key to paradise, which can be opened only for holy warriors!

There are hundreds of other [quranic] psalms and hadiths urging muslims to value war and to fight. Does all that mean that islam is a religion that prevents men from waging war? I spit upon those foolish souls who make such a claim.”

“islam grew with blood... The great prophet of islam in one hand carried the quran and in the other a sword... islam is a religion of blood for the infidels but a religion of guidance for other people.”

But of all the ideologues whose works were a source of radical inspiration to tens, if not hundreds, of millions, Sayeed Abdul A'la Maududi is the most direct and unambiguous in his description of islam’s ultimate aspirations:

“islam is not a normal religion like the other religions in the world and muslim nations are not like normal nations. muslim nations are very special because they have a command from allah to rule the entire world and to be over every nation in the world.”

"islam wishes to destroy all States and Governments anywhere on the face of the earth which are opposed to the ideology and program of islam regardless of the country or the Nation which rules it. The purpose of islam is to set up a State on the basis of its own ideology and program, regardless of which Nation assumes the role of the standard bearer of islam or the rule of which nation is undermined in the process of the establishment of an ideological islamic State."

“islam is a revolutionary faith that comes to destroy any government made by man. islam doesn’t look for a nation to be in a better condition than another nation. islam doesn’t care about the land or who owns the land. The goal of islam is to rule the entire world and submit all of mankind to the faith of islam. Any nation or power that gets in the way of that goal, islam will fight and destroy. In order to fulfill that goal, islam can use every power available every way it can be used to bring worldwide revolution. This is Jihad.”

The following comments, by other prominent muslims, leave us in no doubt how widely these views are held.

“One day, millions of men will leave the Southern Hemisphere to go to the Northern Hemisphere. And they will not go there as friends. Because they will go there to conquer it. And they will conquer it with their sons. The wombs of our women will give us victory.”
--- Former Algerian President Houari Boumedienne’s prophetic warning to Europe in a speech at the U.N. In 1974. Thirty three years later, his prediction is in the process of unfolding.

“Soon we will take power in this country. Those who criticize us now, will regret it. They will have to serve us. Prepare, for the hour is near.”
--- Belgium-based imam in 1994. “De Morgen”, Oct. 5, 1994. Cited in Koenraad Elst, "The Rushdie Rules", Middle East Quarterly, June 1998.

“The quran should be America's highest authority”. “islam is not in America to be equal to any other religion but to be dominant.”
--- Omar Ahmad, CAIR's (Council on American-Islamic Relations) chairman of the board.

"I would like to see the islamic flag fly, not only over number 10 Downing Street, but over the whole world,”
--- Sheikh Omar Bakri Mohammed, (former leader of the extremist Al-Muhajiroun movement in Britain) in an interview with Reuters.

"I want to see the U.S become an islamic nation.” ----Ibrahim Hooper of CAIR.

"We are not fighting so that you will offer us something. We are fighting to eliminate you."
---Hussein Massawi, the former Hezbollah leader behind the slaughter of U.S. and French forces 20 years ago.

"Jihad and the rifle alone. NO negotiations, NO conferences and NO dialogue."
---Sheikh Abdullah Azzam--- (Osama bin Laden’s late mentor.)

“allah revealed Islam in order that humanity could be governed according to it. Unbelief is darkness and disorder. So the unbelievers, if they are not suppressed, create disorder. That is why the muslims are responsible for the implementation of allah's Law on the planet, that humanity may be governed by it, as opposed to corrupt man-made laws. The muslims must make all efforts to establish the religion of allah on the earth”
---Muhammad 'Abdus Salam Faraj, “Jihad: The Absent Obligation”, p43.

What is it in these clear statements of intent that Western people find so hard to comprehend and come to terms with?

Origin...

On account of their savage nature, the Arabs (muslims) are people who plunder and cause damage. They plunder whatever they are able to lay their hands on without having to fight or to expose themselves to danger. They then retreat to their pastures in the desert. …Every stronghold or locality that seems difficult to attack. they bypass in favour of some less difficult 'enterprise'. Tribes that are protected against the Arabs (muslims) by inaccessible mountains are safe from their mischief and destructiveness. The Arabs would not cross hills or undergo hardship and danger in order to get to them.

Flat territory, on the other hand, falls victim to their looting and prey to their appetite whenever they have the opportunity of gaining power over it. Then they raid, plunder, and attack that territory repeatedly, because it is easily accessible to them. Eventually, its inhabitants succumb utterly to the muslims and then they are pushed around by them. Eventually, their civilization is wiped out.

Places that succumb to muslims are quickly ruined...

The reason for this is that the Arabs (muslims) are a savage nation, fully accustomed to savagery and the things that cause it. Savagery has become their character and nature. They enjoy it, because it means freedom from authority and no subservience to leadership. Such a natural disposition is the negation and antithesis of civilization. For instance, the Arabs need stones to set them up as supports for their cooking pots. So, they take them from buildings which they tear down to get the stones, and use them for that purpose. Wood, too, is needed by them for props for their tents and for use as tent poles for their dwell­ings. So, they tear down roofs to get the wood for that purpose. The very nature of their existence is the negation of building, which is the basis of civilization.

Furthermore, it is their nature to plunder whatever other people possess. Their sustenance lies wherever the shadow of their swords falls. They recognize no limit in taking the possessions of other people. Whenever their eyes fall upon some property, furnishings, or utensils, they take it. When they acquire superiority and royal authority, they have complete power to plunder as they please. There no longer exists any political power to protect property, and civilization is ruined.

Since they use force to make craftsmen and professional workers do their work, they do not see any value in it and do not pay them for it. The sedentary population disperses, and civilization decays.”

The Arabs (muslims) are not concerned with laws. They care only for the property that they might take away from people through looting and imposts. When they have obtained that, they have no interest in anything further. For this reason, greater fortitude is found among the savage Arab Bedouins than among people who are subject to laws. Those who rely on laws and are dominated by them from the very beginning of their education and instruction in the crafts, sciences, and religious matters, are thereby deprived of much of their own fortitude.

Under the rule of the Arabs (muslims), the subjects live as in a state of anarchy, without law. Anarchy destroys mankind and ruins civilization,

Furthermore, every Arab (muslim) is eager to be the leader. Scarcely any one of them would cede his power to another, even to his father, his brother, or the eldest most important member of his family… Civilization, thus, decays and is wiped out.

It is noteworthy how civilization always collapsed in places the Arabs (muslims) took over and conquered, and how such settlements were depopulated and the very earth there turned into something that was no longer earth. The Yemen where the Arabs live, is in ruins, except for a few cities. Persian civilization in the Arab Iraq is likewise completely ruined. The same applies to contemporary Syria.

Every Arab (muslim) who is attracted to city life quickly shows himself unable to compete and is disgraced... Link