June 2, 2006

Meanwhile, over at UCI...

Another report on the coming of the Ismalic States of America, brought to us by Phi Beta Cons Blog:

The Muslim Student Union of UC Irvine recently held a "Holocaust in the Holy Land" week with signs proclaiming Israel as the "Fourth Reich" and horrendous anti-Semitic and anti-Israel declarations, such as "Israelis Love to Kill Innocent Children" and "Exploiting the Holocaust to Justify Genocide." Floods of misinformation flowed forth in hateful, belligerent speeches, and disagreement was suppressed or shouted down with cries of "Allah Akbar."

An eye-witness reports that "I understood that day, standing alone, what it felt like to be a Jew in pre-war Germany. I understood how fearful the hostages in Iran must have felt when the U.S. Embassy was taken over. And I understand the double standards that occur when it comes to the UCI administration in taking a position to facilitate peaceful dialogue."


But there is some good news Phi Beta Cons also brings us:

Frank Mickadeit writes that the feds are conducting an intense surveillance operation to detect potential terrorists in Orange County and that part of their program involves studying activist Muslim student organizations at the University of California at Irvine.

When asked whether citizens should be concerned about these groups, the FBI agent answered, "That is another tough question to answer." She did tell Mickadeit that the FBI is aware of large numbers of Muslims at UCI.

Islam Posted by Cyrano at June 2, 2006 9:17 PM

What do I think? I think that the citizens of the world can no longer afford the luxury of catering to the 'sensibilities' of religious folk - including Muslims.

There is only one way to attenuate the threat posed by militant Islam and that is to introduce doubt into the hearts and minds of ordinary Muslim believers.

Instead of side-stepping in fear of giving 'offense', strike at very heart and soul of the problem.

And what is that?

Why, the Qur'an itself!
This fountainhead of fervour and discord, supposedly an exact word-for-word copy of tablets existing eternally in heaven:
makes demonstrably false claims
is based on identifiable 'fables'
is replete with historical and other errors
is not worthy of faith, let alone lives

To argue endlessly about what is meant by this word, or that word, or this idea, or that idea, is worse than pointless when the whole book can be, and has already bee, swept away by an even mildly rigorous scholarly examination.

Question the provenance and content of the Qur'an, publish fearlessly, and confidence in the Qur'an as the word of Allah will be severely shaken, just where it should be - in the hearts and minds of ordinary Muslims.

There is no other way!

Posted by: Vynette Holliday at June 3, 2006 12:41 AM

All of these criticisms of the "Qur'an" apply in equal measure to the Holy Bible. And yet, here we are: 97% of Americans profess a belief in some sort of "personal God."

Only 3 percent of us appear to understand that such a notion is unworthy of faith, let alone lives.

Posted by: johngalt at June 6, 2006 3:31 PM | What do you think? [2]