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Ramadan Karim! Now is a great time to rebember Muslim tolerance towards others

And NOT the other way around like this video from Malaysia suggests:

 

It's like making a stinky in a crowded space

I was talking to an American friend of mine about the so-called "Ground Zero Mosque", which is not about a mosque btw, but a community center (we're being told)...and he said he thinks that all it's intended to do is "provoke".  He said he is against it, but he's also against those making so much noise with their hate propaganda trying to stop it.

He said that to him it's like someone making a stinky (<~actually he used a different word here) in a crowded space...he knows it's inappropriate and he knows all too well that it's going to bother the crowd, but he does it anyway and there is nothing you can do about it, because he has the right to do it.

He made me laugh, and I couldn't agree with him more.!

Muslim Side Effects

A few weeks ago I read an article that was shared on Facebook, which reported that some Muslims in Britain's medical field refuse to wash their hands out of religious modesty.  

I was flabbergasted!  I thought it was one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard and dismissed it as a big fat lie and merely an attempt to smear Muslims unnecessarily, as if we didn't have plenty of problems to address as it is.  But I'm not so sure about that anymore after reading Dr. Qanta Ahmed's very own experience with radical Muslims in the medical field, which I find far more troubling.

 

Please do read what she has to say, I assure you it will boggle your mind!

Muslim Extremists at the Bedside

Bitter Pills: Islamic Extremism at the Bedside

Afternoon dissolves into evening. I peer out of my office in the Royal London Hospital, spying the window that once framed the Elephant Man. A century later, a new and equally grotesque spectacle enthralls—in the street below, a well-fed British Pakistani distributes cassettes. Transplanted Wahabi women, black-gloved, clad head-to-toe in black abbayas, faces masked by niqabs, snatch the recordings, nodding brief salaams. Other women, too busy, rush by in damp, rain-streaked chadors. I watch the figures until they disappear into the dank Whitechapel tube station. Muslim men stuff the cassettes into their grubby Adidas jackets, worn over thobes, the traditional Arab male dress. Only a sprinkling of stolid British police officers reminds me that, under the lapping October tides of Western European Islamofascism, this is still London. [continue reading]

Millatfacebook wants to put Facebook out of business for allowing Mohamed cartoons

A Facebook look-alike was recently launched in Pakistan in response to "The Draw Mohammed Cartoon Day" and out of revenge against the social networking giant Facebook, for allowing offensive images of the prophet Mohamed to be posted on its site.

Several thousand members have already signed up there in the last 3 days and the site's owner(s) are aiming to sway Facebook users to switch over to their copycat site, hoping to cause some serious damage to Facebook.  They say they welcome everyone, regardless if they're not Muslim.

Yikes! I don't think Facebook is going to like this one bit and I don't think this was such a good idea either, but here it is: Millatfacebook.com

via de Volkskrant

WTF is all I can say about this one!

"Allah Made Me Funny" poking fun at Geert Wilders

The American Muslim comedian trio going by the stage name "Allah Made Me Funny" is currently giving away free tickets in Holland to everyone named "Henk and Ingrid" who wants to see their show.

So what's the catch?

No catch really, just poking fun at Geert Wilders who recently hit a home run with one of his typical divisive remarks as an attempt to drive bigotry down the infield.  In his remark, he used the names "Henk & Ingrid" to describe the average Dutchman/woman and "Fatima & Ali" as the average Muslim immigrant, basically saying that he wants to see to it that the native Dutch are taken care of for a change instead of Muslim immigrants all the time.

As outlandish as Mr Wilders often sounds and as much as I'd prefer to dismiss him as Ahmadinejad and Kaddafi morphed into one and nothing but a clownish hater that makes me laugh with some of the insane things he says, he really does bring up sensitive issues at times that do call for further examination and objective scrutiny.  Too bad his populist ideas are mostly ill-intended and always aim to alienate and marginalize specific segments of the population.

How to anger a Muslim and then call him a terrorist

Watch this....and remember, "he who laughs last, laughs best".

Don't worry, be happy!

Hey remember that old tune?  Ever wonder what happened to the guy who sang it?

Well, apparently he got so tired of hearing that tune, he actually couldn't stand it anymore after hearing about it so much and even started hating it so much that he disappeared into the sunset, not to be heard of for a long long time.

Can you imagine? 

Rima Fakih ~ First Arab-American Miss USA Turns Into Nasty Controversy

First off, it may be a controversy only because some insist on making it so.

Some suggest that Miss USA 2010 may not be an American citizen at all and want to see some sort of proof indicating that she actually is.  Others say yes, she is an American, but she is also a Muslim Arab Lebanese whose relatives have ties with terrorists. 

If that wasn't enough, now there are some old pictures of her floating around from a "stripper contest" she was involved in a while back.

And oh yeah, even Daniel Pipes chimes in, suggesting that Rima Fakih only won the Miss USA pageant because of Affirmative Action or Positive Discrimination as it is called in some countries, like the United Kingdom and The Netherlands.  He then goes on listing other minority beauty contestants, who won pageants in the past, to prove his case.

So what's the big deal really?

Take a wild guess. :::wink wink:::

Yep, you guessed it! 

Of course this has nothing to do with race or shady politics, nah uh...she's just dumb, that's why!

US Right-Wing Sponsors Geert Wilders

Dutch populist newspaper De Telegraaf reports that Dutch Politician Geert Wilders is being sponsored by U.S conservative groups and right-wing multimillionaires.  Hundreds of thousands of dollars have been collected in the U.S in recent months to defend Wilders in his criminal case in The Netherlands, where he's being indicted for inciting hatred and insulting Muslims.

The David Horowitz Freedom Center in Los Angeles is raising the funds for Wilders.  The organization says that it has collected a substantial amount, with six figures, for Wilders.

Ahmed Marcouch Petition Update

Hello friends

I got word from Ahmed Marcouch himself and one other source who's a close friend/associate of his saying how moved he is, expressing his appreciation for all our support with this petition.  And I too must thank you all from the bottom of my heart for your support and helping raise awareness. 

 

A great big hug to all! :)

Normally I don't put all that much faith in politicians, but with Ahmed Marcouch it's different, mainly because when I read the newspapers, it appears that he didn't set out to be where he's at right now with his political career, he's paving the way as he goes purely with his NO-nonsense approach to whatever ails the community and just takes care of things.  He's now in the position to possibly become a key lawmaker and a staunch advocate for minorities, the disadvantaged and education at a national level, purely by popular vote.

At the recently held municipal elections in The Netherlands he was positioned last on the list of candidates by his political party (PvdA) in Amsterdam (at #29), but he ended up coming in 2nd (with a little over 12000 votes), securing a spot as a city councilman in Amsterdam.  This was probably due to all the great things he has accomplished in the few years that he's been district mayor in a highly troubled part of Amsterdam.  During that time, not only did he manage to ease tensions caused by widespread ETHNIC CLASHES and clamp down on HOMOPHOBIA, which had reached a critical level among Muslim youth, he actually succeeded in tearing down the entire neighborhood where the Muslim extremist who murdered filmmaker Theo van Gogh grew up, to root out evil and send a strong message of TOLERANCE, DIVERSITY and FREEDOM above all.  And the fact that he's a practicing Muslim fighting against homophobia....I myself as a (non-practicing Muslim) find it truly remarkable. 

Take THAT Ahmadinejad!

Supporter Bryan F. writes:

Thanks for the update.  It is very interesting for me to learn of Ahmed Marcouch's message to be one of hope of TOLERANCE, DIVERSITY and FREEDOM.  

Unfortunately in the world today, Islam and Muslims, and even those who appear to be of Arab ethnicity have been unfairly classified and categorized as being radical fundamentalists who threaten and plague the Western World.  That fabrication must be addressed and corrected. I applaud you for taking the time to thoughtfully post a petition on Change.org to enlighten all regarding this issue.

Keep up the good work, and please keep me informed accordingly.

Be well or as a friend of mine says,

Salaam alaikum,

Bryan :-)