Sunday, February 26, 2006

Comic Outrage

American Thinker Thomas Lifson looks at the Islamist's war to establish Sharia censorship over Denmark as well as the rest of the world. As this article shows, this particular event was planned in advance as a typical piece of political agitprop with the aim of gaining political power to repress inconvenient speech in Europe and elsewhere. Clearly much of the Muslim world cannot tolerate dissent and thus must crush all those who do not share the Islamist vision of reality.

Last November, Abu Laban, a 60-year-old Palestinian who had served as translator and assistant to top Gamaa Islamiya leader Talaal Fouad Qassimy during the mid-1990s and has been connected by Danish intelligence to other Islamists operating in the country, put together a delegation that traveled to the Middle East to discuss the issue of the cartoons with senior officials and prominent Islamic scholars. The delegation met with Arab League Secretary Amr Moussa, Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Sheikh Mohammad Sayyed Tantawi, and Sunni Islam’s most influential scholar, Yusuf al Qaradawi. “We want to internationalize this issue so that the Danish government will realize that the cartoons were insulting, not only to Muslims in Denmark, but also to Muslims worldwide,” said Abu Laban.

And in a quintessential exercise in taqiya, Abu Laban has praised the boycott of Danish goods on al Jazeera, while condemning it on Danish TV.

No comments: