Islamist horror killings

I can’t bring myself to call them “honour killings”:

Almost as soon as news broke that the murders of three Afghan-Canadian teenage sisters and their father’s first wife in Kingston, Ont., were possible “honour killings,” some in the Muslim community reacted in the most predictable fashion: defensiveness and denial.

Instead of voicing outrage at the murders, two Muslim callers to my CFRB radio show in Toronto slammed me for raising the subject, and suggested I had some hidden agenda. “This has nothing to do with Islam,” said one caller, despite the fact no one on the show had, to that point, even mentioned the word “Islam,” let alone accused the religion of sanctioning honour killings.

The callers were not alone. The head of the Canadian branch of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) told the CBC more or less the same thing – that the story was unrelated to Islam, which apparently does not permit honour killings.

They are both right and wrong. It is true that Islam’s holy book, the Koran, does not sanction honour killings. But to deny the fact that many incidents of honour killings are conducted by Muslim fathers, sons and brothers, and that many victims are Muslim women, is to exercise intellectual dishonesty. At worst, it is an attempt to shut off debate.

It seems that when a religion goes off the rails it becomes obsessed with sex. In Islam’s case the obsession is that men are so sexually fragile that a glimpse of female flesh will lead to an unrestrained spontaneous orgasmic frenzy: that may indeed be true for the purveyors of this view – demented mullahs. For their sake women are supposed to wear tents over their heads. This means that when there is sexual activity between a Muslim woman and someone other than her owner-husband, it must be her fault and she deserves to die.

Similarly for another derailed religion, Western Anglicanism, everything revolves around sex; except in our case the emphasis is on the freedom to copulate with anything with a nominal body temperature of 37 degrees regardless of gender or species (it’s coming), provided the coupling is in some way committed.

h/t: A Reasonable Faith

Anglican gender putty

The Anglican Church in the US – TEC – in resolution C061 at the 2009 General Convention, has added gender identity and gender expression to the list of otherwise predictable categories that cannot be used to exclude a person from ministering in what is left of its church.

This reinforces the strange contention that, contrary to all evidence that may be externally visible, the sex of a person internally is something that is determined by them alone, perhaps on a whim, and this determination should be respected by otherwise sane onlookers.

Were it not for the fact that we are in an age of gender chaos and have developed a degree of immunity to its ubiquitous peculiarities, I could not reasonably expect a declaration that I am a man on the outside and a woman on the inside to be take any more seriously than one that says I am a man on the outside and a duck on the inside – and I want my quacks to be treated with respect.

The muddle in the Anglican church is a pathetic reflection of what we find in secular organisations:

A transsexual jailed for strangling her boyfriend has gone to the High Court claiming that keeping her in a men’s prison violates her human rights under European law.

The prisoner, in her 20s and serving a life sentence for manslaughter and attempted rape, is legally female and her birth certificate has been amended accordingly, London’s High Court heard.

Born male, she has had hair on her face and legs permanently removed by laser and has developed breasts after hormone treatment.

Describing her as ‘a woman trapped inside a man’s body’, barrister Phillipa Kaufman said the prisoner was desperate for gender reassignment surgery but medics have refused unless she has lived as a woman for an extended period – only possible if she is moved to a female jail.

I must admit, if Katharine Jefferts-Schori were to come out and expose her inner man, I would not be that surprised.

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Defacing the Bible as Art

It was only a matter of time, I suppose, before the bankrupt wreckage that passes for art in today’s culture came up with a newly minted piece of drivel like this:Add an Image

An art exhibition where people are encouraged to write in a Bible has seen visitors daub abuse and obscenities across its pages.

Part of Made in God’s Image, the exhibit also includes a video of a woman ripping pages from the Bible and stuffing them into her bra, knickers and mouth.

Next to the copy of the Bible at the Gallery of Modern Art (Goma) in Glasgow is a container of pens and a notice, which says: ‘If you feel you have been excluded from the Bible, please write your way back into it.’

The taxpayer subsidised Goma Gallery also features a gay pornography exhibit intended to combat homophobia; the theory appears to be that a display of the grotesque is the path to social acceptance.

Undoubtedly the organisers of this nonsense see it as a courageous statement. It isn’t of, course: if they wanted to do something courageous they would deface a Koran.

Diocese of Niagara: Reaction to same-sex blessing rite

The Bishop of Caledonia doesn’t approve:

“As a bishop, I cannot recognize the legitimacy of what Niagara is doing,” said Bishop Bill Anderson of the diocese of Caledonia. “I sadly conclude that Niagara has chosen to walk apart, and is therefore in a state of impaired communion.”

Bishop Bird from the Niagara Diocese claims, however, that the blessing of same-sex-couples is prophetic, not contrary to the core doctrine of the ACoC – many people have searched for years and still have found nothing that is contrary to the core doctrine of the ACoC – and is fully in line with the typical Anglican heterosexual wedding:

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Iran, rape and Islam

It is difficult to imagine a more disgustingly horrifying practice than the systematic raping of virgins in the name of a religion – Islam – supposedly in order to prevent them going to heaven. The real reason is more likely to be the satisfaction of the evil, perverted concupiscence of demented mullahs.

One would think that such an abomination would be the subject condemnation by Muslims in every free country; sadly, that isn’t the case and this article is a lonely exception:

This truth is beginning to come out in the open. A serving member of the Iranian vigilante Basiji militia reportedly has told Sabina Amidi, a freelance reporter for the Jerusalem Post, about his enforced participation in the rape of young Iranian girls prior to their execution. The Basiji enforcer disclosed that the practice was justified by his superiors under the dubious proposition that, under sharia law, “it is illegal to execute a young woman, regardless of her crime, if she is a virgin.”

Let me introduce to you, for instance, Soraya Abolfathi, who was only 20-years old when she was picked up by Iranian Revolutionary Guards for participating in a demonstration against Ayatollah Khomeni on August 19, 1981. She was taken to Tabriz prison where, during her 34-day detention, she was tortured repeatedly to pressure her to give up her friends. She refused. On Sept. 28, 1981, she was executed by a firing squad. However, it is believed the night before her death, she was forcibly wed to a mullah in a “pleasure marriage,” the ensuing act of rape serving to ensure she did not die a virgin.

Virgins, the mullahs believe, are guaranteed a place in paradise, and raping young girls ensures they go to hell.

Photographic fantasy

William Blake wrote:

This life’s dim windows of the soul
Distorts the Heavens from pole to pole,
And leads you to believe a lie
When you see with, not through the eye.

And Malcolm Muggeridge much later:

The first time that I ever went on a colour television filming expedition, I noticed that a member of the camera crew was carrying something rolled up under his arm. When I asked him what it was, he told me it was the plastic grass, real grass not being green enough for living colour. ‘Keep the witch hazel handy,’ a floor manager was instructed during the filming of a Nixon commercial during the 1972 Presidential election, ‘we can’t do the sincerity bit if he’s sweating.’ Cinema verite or cinema falsite? Not only can the camera lie, it always lies.

It’s worth noting that this revelation didn’t prevent Muggeridge appearing in front of the purveyor of lies at every paying opportunity.

So it comes as no surprise whatsoever to discover that an iconic war photograph is a fake.

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If, as Muggeridge noticed, the camera always lies, what can we say about the digital photograph, compared to which silver halide is a model of veracity? Not much, perhaps, since we expect a digital photograph to be substantively bogus. That does not mean it can’t be a thing of beauty:

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The Fall of Capitalism and Rise of Islam Conference

Apparently, there is an era of global change on its way.

Hizb ut-Tahrir (the Liberation Party) is a global Islamic political organization established in 1953 under the leadership of its founder – the honorable scholar, thinker, politician, and judge in the Court of Appeals in Al-Quds (Jerusalem) – Taqiuddin an-Nabhani. The current leader of the organization is Ata ibn Khaleel Abu Rashta.
In the Muslim world, Hizb ut-Tahrir works at all levels of society to restore to the Muslims a means of living an Islamic way of life under the shade of the Khilafah State (Caliphate) following an exclusively political method.

A conference to further the Fall of Capitalism and the Rise of Islam was held on July 19th. And, as a tribute to their disdain for capitalism, they met – you guessed it – in the Grand Ballroom of the Hilton Oak Lawn, Chicago. The aim appears to be to establish a worldwide Islamic Khilafah (Caliphate) – one Hilton at a time.

Not everyone was receptive to the prospect of an Islamic Mafia conference meeting in their neighbourhood:

Protesters gathered outside a Chicago-area hotel Sunday as an Islamic extremist group reportedly linked to Al Qaeda held a conference in an attempt to step up Western recruitment efforts.

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How many gay people actually want to get married in an Anglican church?

In Canada, as in most of the Western world, marriage is in decline. Here are some numbers released by Statistics Canada:

Marriage rates per 1,000 population, including same-sex marriages, look like this:

2000 – 5.1
2001 – 4.7
2002 – 4.7
2003 – 4.7
2004 – 4.6

There were 1,369 same-sex marriages registered in 2004.

The population of Canada is around 33,000,000, so in 2004, same-sex marriages catered to about 0.0083% [(1369×2)x(100/33,000,000)] of the population. If we assume 10% of those same-sex couples were Anglican, that means that the Anglican Church of Canada is about to alienate itself from the world wide Anglican Communion, jeopardise ecumenical relations with all other conservative denominations, drive out the orthodox from its midst, and continue its Gadarene plunge into oblivion for the sake of 0.00083% of the population.

Makes sense to me: it’s the master plan for Anglican growth.

Anglicanism: the gay church

According to homosexual bishop, Gene Robinson, Anglicans should be proud of the fact that their denomination has become renowned for being the “gay church”:

The Episcopal Church should proudly wear the mantle of being known as the “gay church,” Bishop V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire told a lunchtime audience at General Convention July 8.

And the majority of North American Anglicans appear to agree with him:

Anglicans are far more gay-positive than the general North American population, suggests a poll.
As Vancouver-area Anglicans await the judge’s ruling on a court dispute over who controls four valuable church properties, a surprising poll shows that North American Anglicans are more gay-supportive than the population as a whole.

Jews …………………………..  79 per cent
Secular ………………………..  75 per cent
Episcopalians (Anglicans)… 70 per cent
Catholics ……………………… 58 per cent
Mainline Protestants ………… 55 per cent
U.S. population (general) …. 50 per cent
Muslims  ………………………. 27 per cent
White evangelicals ………… 26 per cent

How long will it take to get from gay-proud and gay-positive to gay-exclusive?