Islam And The West

Top Ten Misconceptions About Islam And Muslims

Kashmiri Nomad — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:20:22 +0000

(x) All Muslims are Arabs.
(ix) Muslims Hate Jesus.
(viii) Children have no rights in Islam.
(vii) Islam is intolerant of other religions.
(vi) Jihad means to fight for the sake of God.
(v) The Prophet Muhammad was a paedophile.
(iv) Muslims barbaric savages during war.
(iii) Women have no rights in Islam.
(ii) Islam was spread by the sword.
(i) Muslims are terrorists.

To see the full list please access: Top 10 Misconceptions About Islam.

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Muslims In The West: Islam And Democracy Are Incompatible

Kashmiri Nomad — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:41:07 +0000

Many westerners believe that Islam and democracy are incompatible. Not only that they believe they are diametrically opposed to each other. Such statements are usually made, when anti-Islam bigots, want to premise an argument that finally ends in the voluntary or forced expulsion of Muslims from the west.

If for a moment we hold to the notion above as being true. Can a bigoted westerner please explain why the following:

You say that western style democracy or any type of democracy for that matter, is incompatible with the fundamental principles of Islam. You say that all Muslims are opposed to democracy and would rather eat porcine excrement than accept a democratic society.

If this is the case, why are western nations shedding the blood of their soldiers and spending trillions of dollars, to impose through the turret of a tank, parliamentary democracy on Muslim nations ? Surely if democracy is incompatible for Muslims in the west then it is also incompatible for Muslims in the east ? If this is the case what are the real reasons behind western wars being waged in the Muslim world ?

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Terror Accused Yaakov Teitel: “God Is Proud Of What I Have Done”

Kashmiri Nomad — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:16:43 +0000

In a statement that that leaves no room for misunderstanding, accused terrorist Yaakov Teitel claims that he acted in the service of his God. His comments came while an indictment was being served in the Jerusalem District Court against him.

So far Teitel has been charged with two counts of murder, three counts of attempted murder , holding and manufacturing weapons and inciting violence.

The two murder charges relate to the deaths of two Arabs, while the attempted murder charge relates to an explosive attack on a 15 year old Messianic boy:

“It was my pleasure and honor to serve my God, God is proud of what I have done, I have no regrets,” Teitel declared as he entered the courtroom.

Teitel, 37, a father of four, dubbed ‘the Jewish terrorist’ is suspected of a series of ideologically-motivated attacks targeting Palestinians, Leftists, homosexuals and Messianic Jews…..

…According to the indictment, whic includes 14 charges, Teitel was responsible for the death of two Arabs and for wounding Israel Prize laureate Prof. Ze’ev Sternhell. He was also accused of planting a bomb at the entrance to house of a messianic Jewish couple in Ariel, seriously wounding their son, Ami Ortiz, who was then 15.” {Source: Jerusalem Post}

Will the accused’s defence team play the “mental health card” in order to lessen his punishment ? Will Teitel end up in a prison or a mental health hospital ? These are just some of the questions waiting Yaakov Teitel and his trial.

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Israel To Obama: No You Can’t (Image)

Kashmiri Nomad — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:04:40 +0000

The Arabic reads: Obama’s logos!

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Kashmiri Nomad — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:50:03 +0000

Boy On Shikara In Nagin Lake Srinagar

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Quote: America Has Done More For Suffering And Oppressed Muslims Than Any Nation

Kashmiri Nomad — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:07:34 +0000

“ In these most recent 20 years — the alleged winter of our disrespect of the Islamic world — America did not just respect Muslims, it bled for them. It engaged in five military campaigns, every one of which involved — and resulted in — the liberation of a Muslim people: Bosnia, Kosovo, Kuwait, Afghanistan and Iraq. The two Balkan interventions — as well as the failed 1992-93 Somalia intervention to feed starving African Muslims (43 Americans were killed) — were humanitarian exercises of the highest order, there being no significant U.S. strategic interest at stake. In these 20 years, this nation has done more for suffering and oppressed Muslims than any nation, Muslim or non-Muslim, anywhere on Earth. Why are we apologizing ? ” {Source: Charles Krauthammer, The Washington Post}

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Sholmo Sand: The Invention of the Jewish People

Kashmiri Nomad — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:16:05 +0000

I’ve already alluded to this book twice before on this blog. Those posts can be accessed through:

Originally written in Hebrew it now appears that it has been translated into English. For those interested the book even has it’s own website which can be accessed at The Invention of the Jewish People by Shlomo Sand. The site has more information on the book and details about Professor Sand’s upcoming events and interviews.

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Rabbi Yitzhak Shapiro: We Can Kill Gentile Babies And Children

Kashmiri Nomad — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:43:35 +0000

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A new book by an Israeli Rabbi has raised eyebrows. Rabbi Yitzhak Shapiro is a resident of the Yitzhar settlement located in the Samarian hills. The settlement is around 130 families strong and Rabbi Shapiro is the head of the Dorshei Yichudcha Yeshiva .

In a book entitled “The King’s Torah” the Rabbi explains that even babies and children can be killed if they pose a threat to the nation of Israel. Surprising as it may sound other rabbis such as Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh and Yaakov Yosef have recommended the book to their students:

“Rabbi Yitzhak Shapiro, who heads the Od Yosef Chai Yeshiva in the Yitzhar settlement, wrote in his book “The King’s Torah” that even babies and children can be killed if they pose a threat to the nation.

Shapiro based the majority of his teachings on passages quoted from the Bible, to which he adds his opinions and beliefs.

“It is permissible to kill the Righteous among Nations even if they are not responsible for the threatening situation,” he wrote, adding: “If we kill a Gentile who has sinned or has violated one of the seven commandments – because we care about the commandments – there is nothing wrong with the murder.” {Source: Haaretz}

Imagine what the reaction to the book would have been like if Rabbi Yitzhak Shapiro was a Muslim, writing about the permissibility of murdering Israeli babies and children ?

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Accelerated Links : Saudi, Obama, Afghanistan And Israel

Kashmiri Nomad — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:38:51 +0000

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Zionism: An “Abnormal” Nationalism [3]

Kashmiri Nomad — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:35:51 +0000

Israeli Exceptionalism

We finish our series of posts looking at Zionism and nationalism.

{Part one can be accessed at Zionism: An “Abnormal” Nationalism [1]

Part two can be accessed at Zionism: An “Abnormal” Nationalism [2]}

Israel was the product of a partnership that seems unlikely at first blush, between Western Jews and the Christian West. It is the powerful alchemy of the Zionist idea that produced and sustained this partnership. The Zionist project to create a Jewish state in Palestine possessed the power to convert two historical antagonists, Jews and Gentiles, into allies united in a common imperialist enterprise against the Islamicate. At different times, the Zionists have harnessed all the negative energies of the West – its imperialism, anti-Semitism, Crusading zeal, anti-Islamic bigotry, and racism – and focused them on a new project, the creation of a surrogate Western state in the Islamicate heartland. At the same time, the West could derive considerable satisfaction from the success of the Zionist project. Western societies could take ownership of, and revel in, the triumphs of this colonial state as their own; they could congratulate themselves for helping ‘save’ the Jewish people; they could feel they had made adequate amends for their history of anti-Semitism; they could feel they had finally paid back the Arabs and Turks for their conquests of Christian lands. Israel possessed a marvellous capacity to feed several of the West’s egotistical needs.

As a vehicle for facilitating Jewish entry into the stage of world history, the Zionist project was a stroke of brilliance. Since the Jews were influential, but without a state of their own, the Zionists were going to leverage Western power in their cause. As the Zionist plan would unfold, inflicting pain on the Islamicate, evoking Islamicate anger against the West and Jews, the complementarities between the two ancient adversaries would deepen, and, over time, new commonalities would be discovered or created between these two antagonist strains of Western history. In the United States, the Zionist movement would encourage Evangelical Christians – who looked upon the birth of Israel as the fulfillment of end-time prophecies – to become fanatic partisans of Israel. The West had hitherto traced its central ideas and institutions to Rome and Athens; in the wake of Zionist successes, it would be repackaged as a Judeo-Christian civilization, drawing its core principles, its inspiration from the Old Testament. This reframing would not only underscore the Jewish roots of the Western world: it would also make a point of emphasizing that Islam is the outsider, the eternal adversary opposed to both.
Zionism owes its success solely to this unlikely partnership. The Zionists could not have created a Jewish state in Palestine by bribing the Ottomans into granting them a charter to colonize Palestine. Despite his offers of loans, investments, technology, and diplomatic expertise, Theodore Herzl was repeatedly rebuffed by the Ottoman Sultan. It is even less likely that the Zionists, at any time, could have mobilized a Jewish army to invade and occupy Palestine, against Ottoman and Arab opposition.i The Zionist partnership with the West was indispensable for the creation of a Jewish state.

This partnership was also fateful. It produced a powerful new dialectic, which has encouraged Israel – as the political center of the Jewish diaspora and the chief outpost of the West in the heart of the Islamic world – to become ever more aggressive in its designs against the Islamicate. In turn, a fragmented, weak and humiliated Islamicate, more resentful and determined after every defeat at the hands of Israel, has been driven to embrace increasingly radical ideas and methods to recover its dignity, wholeness, and power, and to seek to attain this recovery on the strength of Islamic ideas. This destabilizing dialectic has now brought the West itself into a direct confrontation against the Islamicate. This is the tragedy of Israel. It is a tragedy whose ominous consequences, including those that have yet to unfold, were contained in the very idea of an exclusive Jewish state in Palestine.

M. Shahid Alam is professor of economics at Northeastern University. This is an excerpt from his forthcoming book, Israeli Exceptionalism: The Destabilizing Logic of Zionism (Palgrave Macmillan, November 2009). He may be reached at alqalam02760@yahoo.com

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