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From Australian News:
PAKISTANI President Pervez Musharraf today called for a ban on the "defamation of Islam" in a speech to the UN General Assembly in which he took a veiled swipe at Pope Benedict XVI for his remarks linking the Muslim faith to violence.
"We also need to bridge, through dialogue and understanding, the growing divide between the Islamic and Western worlds," General Musharraf told the 192-member assembly.
"It is imperative to end racial and religious discrimination against Muslims and to prohibit the defamation of Islam."
In an indirect reference to Pope Benedict XVI, he said, "It is most disappointing to see personalities of high standing oblivious of Muslim sensitivities at these critical moments".
Religion, along with the government, and the media, is an extremely powerful institution within a culture. We must be able to criticize powerful institutions within our culture. If we can not, then the power of the institution is unchecked, leaving the institution to run amok and become inhuman.
We can see that this has already happened with Islam in Islamic countries. Islam is able to get away with the inhuman things done in its name precisely because it is allowed to be beyond criticism.
Anyone who attempts to make a case against the Pope's comments, or against the Danish cartoons, or against this blog for that matter, is inviting the same conditions to take hold in the Western world.
Women, say hello to your burkas. Gay people, say hello to the big rock that will drop on your head. Dhimmis, submit to the jizya.
- The Mustard Seed In Global Strategy
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Musharraf To UN: We Need A Ban On "Defamation Of Islam"
From Australian News:
PAKISTANI President Pervez Musharraf today called for a ban on the "defamation of Islam" in a speech to the UN General Assembly in which he took a veiled swipe at Pope Benedict XVI for his remarks linking the Muslim faith to violence.
"We also need to bridge, through dialogue and understanding, the growing divide between the Islamic and Western worlds," General Musharraf told the 192-member assembly.
"It is imperative to end racial and religious discrimination against Muslims and to prohibit the defamation of Islam."
In an indirect reference to Pope Benedict XVI, he said, "It is most disappointing to see personalities of high standing oblivious of Muslim sensitivities at these critical moments".
Religion, along with the government, and the media, is an extremely powerful institution within a culture. We must be able to criticize powerful institutions within our culture. If we can not, then the power of the institution is unchecked, leaving the institution to run amok and become inhuman.
We can see that this has already happened with Islam in Islamic countries. Islam is able to get away with the inhuman things done in its name precisely because it is allowed to be beyond criticism.
Anyone who attempts to make a case against the Pope's comments, or against the Danish cartoons, or against this blog for that matter, is inviting the same conditions to take hold in the Western world.
Women, say hello to your burkas. Gay people, say hello to the big rock that will drop on your head. Dhimmis, submit to the jizya.
- The Mustard Seed In Global Strategy
Spengler's analysis of the Pope's baptism of ex-Muslim Magdhi Allam (thanks to Felix): A self-described revolution in world affairs has begun in the heart of one man. He is the Italian journalist and author Magdi Cristiano Allam, whom Pope Benedict...
- Turkish Cleric Says Criticism Of Islam Is A Threat To World Peace
Islam is not a religion of peace. It is a religion of submission. When you submit, then there is peace. Islam is not a religion of reason. It is a religion of submission. You must not question. Islam is not a relgion of love. It is a religion of power....
- From Vatican Reporter:
At least one writer for Catholic press out of the Vatican is now saying that Pope Benedict XVI has no intention of backing down from his call for dialogue. This after another Vatican insider reportedly said that the Pope's reference to a dialogue...
- Archbishop Of Sydney: Muslim World Proves Pope Right
The 'Mujahideen Shura Council - an umbrella group led by Iraq's branch of al Qaida' - joined in on the fun:, it vowed 'a war against the "worshippers of the cross"'. No surprise there of course. Meanwhile, the Archbishop of Sidney,...
- I Am Warning The Liberal Establishment - You Are Bringing Yourself To Your Doom
What will be the effect of the behavior of the Islamic world in reaction to Pope Benedict's remarks? From Wretchard at Belmont Club: ... it would be untrue to say the recent controversy over the Islamic world's reaction to the Pope's remarks...