CAIR Can't Care for Historical Accuracy

CAIR, again, twists history.

In reaction to Donald Trump's suggestion that a 

"total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on."

The executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) says that

Trump's ''outrageous'' comments on banning Muslims echo ''the policies enacted by nazi Germany against the Jews.''

But that's not true.

If anything, it's what F. D. Roosevelt and his cronies in government before and during the Holocaust did by refusing Jews entry to the United States.

Nazi Germany persecuted Jews, jailed them, took away their livelihoods, kicked them out of universities, boycotted their businesses and eventually killed them.  It did not ban them from entering Germany.

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It's the Jews and the Christians vs the Muslims

Christian Today reports:-

A mob of 50 Muslims reportedly attacked a group of Christian tourist's atop Jerusalem's Temple Mount, according to Israel Today Magazine. Israeli police intervened to protect the Christian group and three officers were wounded.

Many of the attackers were minors and 11 of them were caught and arrested.

Investigators believe the attack was sparked by the former Muslim mufti (scholar) of Jerusalem, Ekrama Sabri...Muslim religious figures claim that Israel is plotting to destroy the Dome of the Rock and the al-Aqsa Mosque to rebuild a new Jewish Temple. Muslims claim that a Jewish Temple never existed.

The al-Aqsa Mosque and Dome of the Rock were constructed at Temple Mount after the Muslim conquest of Jerusalem, according to The Muslim Conquest of Syria.

Temple Mount is the most holy place on earth for Jews and many Christians, according to Israel Today. However, Israel must comply with strict Muslim demands for restrictions of non-Muslims who visit the site. Christians and Jews are forbidden from carrying Bibles at Temple Mount and even uttering silent prayers

Is this echoed in Isaiah 2?

it shall come to pass in the end of days, that the mountain of the LORD'S house shall be established as the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. And many peoples shall go and say: 'Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and He will teach us of His ways, and we will walk in His paths.' For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem

When will we know?

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Israel is the Muslims' Litmus Test

From this blog of a Syrian expatriate:

This brings us to Israel.

Forget moderate vs. extremist, or Sufi vs. Hanbali. There are only two kinds of Muslims today. The Muslim who wants to see his people flourish and believes it can get done not only if he defeats the dark forces of extremism by allying himself/herself with enlightened and knowledgeable civilizations.

...When the US State Department empowers the Muslim Brotherhood, it is engaged in simply continuing the tradition started under the Arab dictators of throwing away good Muslims to replace them with bad ones.

If you want true freedom and prosperity, learn how to accept everyone that calls for freedom and democracy starting with Israel. But if you want another dark era of ignorance and religious oppression, then be a Crude Muslim and join the Muslim Brotherhood.

Therefore, Israel is the Litmus test for all Muslims in the region that defines whether you are for freedom or oppression, democracy or autocracy, human rights or abusers of rights. The discussion ends here and now.

And let's leave history out of this conversation because the dead cannot testify or decide for the living.

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If You're A Muslim, You're Not To Drink Beer to Get a Black-Eye

Or rather to listen to a Black-Eyed Peas Concert:

No Muslims at Black Eyed Peas concert

Muslims in Malaysia have been barred from attending a concert by U.S. hip hop band the Black Eyed Peas sponsored by Guinness...

The move comes after a Malaysian Islamic court sentenced a 32-year Muslim woman to be caned after she was caught drinking beer in a hotel...

The concert, part of celebrations of Guinness 250th birthday, asks on its website (www.arthursday.com.my) "Are you a non-Muslim aged 18 years and above?" and if the response is no, access is not allowed.

Muslims account for 55 percent of the 27 million people in this Southeast Asian country and are barred from consuming alcohol although the rules are regularly flouted, especially in big cities like the capital, Kuala Lumpur.

Malaysia's Guinness Anchor which sells Guinness and other brands here had sales of 1.2 billion Malaysian ringgit ($340.6 million) in 2008.

Bad Poll Results

That is, for Muslims:

Shortly before President Obama departs for a trip to the Middle East, a new national poll suggests that one in five [that's only 20%]Americans has a favorable view of Muslim countries.

That view compares with 46 percent of the people questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey who say they have an unfavorable opinion of Muslim countries. That's up 5 percentage points from 2002, when 41 percent indicated that they had an unfavorable view.

Meanwhile, three in 10 say they have a neutral opinion of Muslim countries.

The poll also suggests that most Americans suspect people in Muslim countries don't think highly of the United States.

And Who Killed Muslims in A Mosque Now?

Other Muslims.


Rival Islamist fighters clash in Somalia

Islamist militiamen loyal to the government battled hardline al Shabaab fighters in Somalia on Wednesday as the failed Horn of Africa state spiralled further into chaos...The fighting has killed at least 113 civilians since last week, and thousands have fled the city.

There have also been fierce clashes between Shabaab and a more moderate Islamist militia, Ahlu Sunna, in the country's central and southern regions. At least five people died on Tuesday in Mahas town, witnesses said.

"Al Shabaab fighters ran into a mosque for refuge, but residents kept firing at them with rocket-propelled grenades," local man Aden Hussein said by telephone.

Who Rioted? Who?

FARK says:

Youths of unspecified religious affiliation attack police and riot in France

That's right. If you go here, NBC terms the rioters "youths" although they include a big hint, writing: "The rampage in a tough neighborhood in Saint-Dizier, about 120 miles east of Paris, revived memories of a wave of car burnings, vandalism and clashes with police in 2005 fanned by feelings of alienation among French youths of Arab and African origin."

If You Can Believe That...

Well, let's hope this is true:-

Most U.S. Muslims Hold Moderate Political Views, Survey Finds

Many Muslims achieve financial, educational success in United States

Muslims living in the United States tend to be happy with their lives and moderate in their political views, according to a new, independent survey.

American Muslims largely are assimilated into society, and income and education levels among Muslims mirror those of the general U.S. population, according to a nationwide poll conducted by the Pew Research Center, an independent, nonpartisan opinion research group funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts. About half the Muslims in the United States have attended college or university, the poll showed, which is comparable to the figure for all Americans.

“What emerges [from the survey] is the great success of the Muslim American population in its socioeconomic assimilation,” said Amaney Jamal, assistant professor of politics at Princeton University, in published reports. Jamal was a senior adviser on the Pew survey.

So, They Were There, Those Temples

Even the New York Times can publish the truth:-

Muslims have charged that Israel is plotting to undermine the foundations of the mosque in order to rebuild the Jewish temples that stood there in biblical times.

In other words, they know the Temples were there.

Thanks NYT.

Think? Who, Me?

You would think that a member of the education system would consider the faculty of thinking as the primary characteristic of education.

I know that the above might appear redundant to some but consider this:

A supply teacher has been sacked from a secondary school following complaints from Muslim pupils. Andrew McLuskey was sacked from Bayliss Court Secondary School in Slough after a Religious Education lesson discussing the pros and cons of religion.

Pupils at the predominantly Muslim school claimed Mr McLuskey said most suicide bombers were Muslim.

"I think I should've been given the chance to respond to the allegations and not in effect be ejected from a job without the chance to defend myself."

The school authorities denied they were being heavy-handed and said their first priority was pupils' welfare.

"I don't think it's important what I think," said the school's deputy head teacher Ray Hinds.

"It's what the pupils think that were in the classroom at the time. And they were very upset."

Hmmm. Now, who was really doing the thinking, what were they thinking (if they were indeed thinking), who should really be upset, and...what do you think?

(Hat tip: Melanie Phillips)

Muslims and Science: Excelling in Camel Production

One never knows where information, even of the most interesting but exoctic, will pop up. Like camel reproduction.

In a letter to the editor at the TLS, Steven Weinberg, of the Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin, disputed the assertion of one F. Jamil Ragep, of the McGill Institute for Islamic Studies, who had disagreed with his earlier statement that after the death of Abu Hamid al-Ghazali in 1111, there was no more science worth mentioning in Islamic countries.

He then goes on and declares:-

In support, Ragep mentioned the development of trigonometry, but this was primarily the work of al-Battani (858–918) and al-Biruni (973–1048), long before al-Ghazali. He also mentioned the conception of a moving earth, and referred to mathematical and conceptual tools that were essential to the Copernican revolution. But Copernicus credited the idea of a moving earth to Pythagoras and (in a passage he subsequently deleted) to Aristarchus of Samos. The Muslim astronomer on whom Copernicus chiefly relied was alBattani, who died 200 years before al-Ghazali.

There were talented Muslim scientists after al-Ghazali, but their work found no place in Islamic society. For instance, Ragep mentioned the discovery of the pulmonary circulation of the blood. I presume that he was referring to Ibn al-Nafis (d. 1288). Al-Nafis did propose the pulmonary circulation of the blood, but his theory had no effect in the Islamic world, perhaps because for religious reasons he did not demonstrate its truth by the dissection of animals. Ragep also pointed to “the first large-scale astronomical observatories”. There were great observatories in the Islamic world, used largely for predicting prayer times and the Muslim lunar months. In 1577, Taqi al-Din built an observatory in Istanbul comparable to Tycho Brahe’s famous observatory in Denmark. But on the instigation of the Chief Mufti, al-Din’s observatory was destroyed by a squad of janissaries, and had no impact on astronomy, while Brahe’s observatory provided the data that made possible the work of Johannes Kepler and Isaac Newton. It is too strong to say that there was no science at all in the Islamic world after al-Ghazali, but such science as there was led to nothing important.

Certainly the great period of Islamic science came to an end around the twelfth century. Nor has it been revived. A 2002 survey by Nature identified just three areas of science in which Islamic countries excel: desalination, falconry and camel reproduction.