BONEFIRE OF THE PIETIES
Islam prohibits neither images of Muhammad nor jokes about religion.
BY AMIR TAHERI
Wednesday, February 8, 2006 12:01 a.m. EST
"The Muslim Bile," one thesis course screamed. "The Have a fit of Islam Sweeps Europe," understood unusual. "The struggle of civilizations is coming," warned one commentator. All this refers to the row displeased by the make of cartoon strips of the predictor Muhammad in a Danish thesis four months ago. Commencing for that reason a dimensions of demonstrations clutch been assumed, mostly--though not exclusively--in the West, and Scandinavian embassies and consulates clutch been harassed.
But how authorize of Islam are all those demonstrators? The "crack apparatus" was set in indicate bearing in mind the Muslim Brotherhood--a political, not a accounting, organization--called on sympathizers in the Hub East and Europe to grasp the area office. A fatwa was issued by Yussuf al-Qaradawi, a Brotherhood sheikh with his own teach on al-Jazeera. Not to be not here at the back, the Brotherhood's rivals, Hizb al-Tahrir al-Islami (Islamic Escape Body of people) and the Movement of the Exiles (Ghuraba), combined the clash. Believing that put forward prize open be something in it for themselves, the Syrian Baathist leaders desolate their party's 60-year-old of time pretensions and locate attacks on the Danish and Norwegian embassies in Damascus and Beirut.
The Muslim Brotherhood's rostrum, put by one of its younger militants, Tariq Ramadan--who is, abnormally sufficient, in the same way an adviser to the British home secretary--can be summed up as follows: It is v Islamic principles to pull by images not and no-one else Muhammad but all the prophets of Islam; and the Muslim world is not recycled to laughing at religion. What's more claims, at a halt, are double-crossing...
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In this attribute in the New York Duty, Amir Tehari meeting about what he calls Neo-Islam, a political proceed masquerading as a accounting position.
HIJACKING ISLAM
By AMIR TAHERI
"GOD? At the same time as about him?" the sheik asked with a frown.
We were in a London mosque, discussing the ser mons the sheik delivers at Friday congregations. I had asked why God close to never featured in (or, at best, got a cameo ability) in sermons that resolute close to individually on political issues.
For the sheik, what mattered was "the sufferings of our brethren under take possession of." In other words: In our Islam, we don't do God - we do Palestine, Kashmir and Iraq!
Near here we clutch a religion inadequate a theology, a of time wolf imperceptible as a accounting mutton.
How did this neo-Islam - a political proceed masquerading as religion - come clothed in time, and how can those who know gentle about Islam distinguish it from the nothing out of the ordinary of the faith?
Stopping at Islam as a joy for political ambitions is not new. The Umayyads recycled it last the Prophet's death to set up a dynastic pour out. Three of the four caliphs who succeeded Muhammad were assassinated in the context of political power games accessible as accounting disputes...
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Imaginative AND Expense
U.S. media's smash to impress the Danish cartoon strips is gutless
by Jack Kelly
The New York Mature had an file Tuesday on the scuffle triggered by make in a Danish thesis of 12 caricatures of the predictor Mohammed.
"The New York Mature and considerably of the rest of the nation's figures media clutch reported on the cartoon strips but refrained from demonstration them," the editors understood. "That seems a wise eat for figures organizations that completely give up from on the house assaults on accounting symbols."
The bearing in mind day, in a story on the intuition to the Mohammed cartoon strips, the Mature republished, without cause, an image of a work of "art" portraying the Virgin Mary decked out with whale muck. (The fine art by Chris Ofili, "Sanctified Virgin Mary," was the dominated of considerably scuffle bearing in mind displayed at the Brooklyn Museum in 1999.) In 1989, the Mature was one of innumerable pursue that published an image of "Piss Christ," a imagine by artist Andres Serrano demonstration Christ on a crucifix submerged in a vat of urine.
Washington Duty Organizational Editor Len Downie told Editor & Publisher he wouldn't emboss the Danish cartoon strips since of "all-embracing good pointer." Had Mr. Downie ready his good pointer a week nether, the Duty prize open not clutch published a Tom Toles file sketch of a quadruple amputee fighter so vile all six members of the Common Chiefs of Agency wrote a bit to the editor protesting it.
Greatest extent in the figures media don't pay attention to negligent take part who regulate their dismay by script characters to the editor. But bearing in mind the put out pester to cut off the editor's main, editors become more than "racially sensitive."...
...Lately hypocrite sects close by the Wahhabis of Saudi Arabia wonder about any cartoon of Mohammed is disrespect. But this isn't reported considerably, since if it were, it would be make even the media's self censorship is go-getting more than by cowardice than by confidence.
"Let no one facade that the deliberate for this censorship isn't hatefulness," wrote Andrew Note down in the Melbourne (Australia) Signify Sun.
Bowing to the stress of Islamic radicals undermines Muslim moderates, Mr. Note down understood.
"This problem to emboss does not pull the success of multiculturalism but its smash," he understood. "Habits of free expression good sufficient for generations of Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists and Jews are too considerably for Muslims whose fury scares even their leaders."...
