Here’s an interesting five part video from Germany, the country that feels so bad about what it did to the Jews that it’s letting itself be swamped with people whose views of Jews make the SS look like an embroidery party. A bit into the film, (please watch it if you want to have any inclination about the future) some New Young Germans, born and bred in the country, going to school there and speaking the language perfectly, are asked, when they express that they want to “shoot” people who break their “honour” code – what is honour? (As in “honour”-killing your sister because she somehow makes you look not like a desert warrior by wearing a skirt or whatever.)
Guess what: These people, for whom “honour” is everything and certainly more important than the laws in the country in which they’ve “settled,” are completely stumped! Although apparently really trying, they can’t tell you what honour means.
This film found me in the middle of reading the excellent Wafa Sultan’s book A God Who Hates. Wafa Sultan is known as the bravest woman to ever leave Islam – she appeared on Al-Jeezera shouting down an imam (in her book she mentions how muslims can ever only shout): Be quiet! It’s my turn!
And that became her claim to fame ( a muslim WOMAN telling a MAN to be quiet!!!!), which is a shame, because her book contains so many interesting snippets from islamic life, such as how the sex-starved muslims in her native land, Syria, always rub themselves against any woman they happen to come across in public, hoping to get a quick ejaculation in their pants. So that’s why they wear tents …
A trained doctor, Sultan also shares the following insight into the great Ramadan starve oneself-fest:
“The month of Ramadan, during which muslims neither eat nor drink from sunrise to sunset, was one of the hardest months of the year for me. Many more patients flocked for treatment at the medical center where I worked than the number we usually saw. The number who collapsed from exhaustion and dehydration soared startingly during the day, as did the number of those who suffered from indigestion and vomiting at night, as they stuffed themselves with food in an attempt to compensate for their daytime fast. Both men and women worked in the fields from early morning, performing arduous and exhausting agricultural labor, which, especially when the weather was hot, necessitated large quantities of water that the fast did not allow them to drink. Spurred by my pity for them, I tried to persuade them – the women, especially – not to fast, then withdrew my suggestion when it was met with disdainful glances.”
I wonder if there are any statistics going about how many devout muslims, especially in the rather toasty middle east, die or are damaged from dehydration during ramadan? Probably none. After all, Allah, through his “ideal man” Mohammed, said they should torture themselves in such a way, so that’s okay then. As if living up to his other insane edicts weren’t enough.
I had a muslim student once. Also from Syria. He spent a lot of our time together, instead of learning Cantonese, trying to convince me that not drinking even water the whole day, followed by gorging yourself on everything in sight just because the sun had set, was a good thing. I thought it was a bit rude, because I never tried to make him drink alcohol or eat pork.
No. You know what? I think we westerners have seen enough of this islam thing. We don’t need to be “explained” what it’s “really” about. We know what they do and how they think. We saw what it was really about on September 11th, 2001. We don’t need any other “explanations.”
Now they’re trying to make other people who have nothing to do with islam, to also not eat, drink, be near pork, Jews, miniskirts, female faces and all the other things they find so distasteful, just because some desert warrior puked up some of his awful views on human life and put them in a book, 1400 years ago.
I can’t understand why apparently intelligent western people find the muslims’ world view so attractive, to the point where they want to give up all their freedoms to prove these throwbacks from the middle ages right.
I implore you: Watch the video from a normal German school – which could well be now or very soon, the very school that YOUR children attend – and then see if you think this multi-cultural idea is so great after all. Happy Ramadan!
I feel sorry for the people in Pakistan, starving and flooded out of their homes.
Now they can’t even eat during the day.
Gotta love religion.
Thanks for your post Cecilie, and the video recommendation.
Dr Wafa Sultan and Ayaan Hirsi Ali are two women who have managed to escape Islam and are incredibly brave in their condemnation of it. They are intelligent and have taken the opportunity to develop critical-thinking skills and question tradition, authority and religion.
Also, the recent case of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani (an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning) is drawing international attention to the barbaric and male chauvinistic practices in Iran. The bigger picture is that all religions are obviously man-made (and male-made), so there will always be repression of women and persistence of inequality.
Ah Sin, Obama says we should put all these “negative’ aspects about Islam behind us. So much so, he is even ‘preaching’ to Americans that they should allow the building of a mosque on the smae site where the twin towers once stood!
JIMSEEEEEEE! You’re baaack!!!! Yeah, that Hussein Obama, he really has a handle on the feelings of the American people. First the jihadists kill 3000 people right in the heart of the “Great Satan,” and then they suggest to build a monument to this great warfare coup, crapping right in the face of everyone who lost someone that day.
I don’t think the appeasement-mongers, liberalists and multi-culturalists really realise what a mosque is: A symbol of muslim victory over unbelievers, of oppression and submission. Has he forgotten how muslims around the world AND in the US danced in the streets celebrating, even while New Yorkers, covered in ashes, were stumbling away from the carnage?
Now he appears on film saying “how much muslims have contributed to the US” and how they more or less founded that nation. When that guy was inexplicably voted into office, I raised doubts about how great he really is and what he really stands for (only to be castigated in these pages for being an idiot who doesn’t have a clue.) Now we know. Hussein wants to make America a muslim country, ruled by sharia law. Watch out, Americans!
Thank you for sharing, Cecilie. It’s very sad. I didn’t want to watch it at first because where I grew up really is a multi-cultural success, so there is no need for documentaries like this. I’m glad I did watch it though.
When you were growing up, things were rather different. The difference was in numbers. Once the muslims reach majority, or even 40%, things change. They are slaves to islam and can’t help it, so I’m not blaming them as individuals. Also I’m sure many muslim parents in the western world despair at their children’s radicalisation, but at the end of the day their every action is based on what they read in that book, the koran, and what the imams whip them up to during Friday prayers.
I’ve also read many articles from Norway about how Norwegian girls in schools where “multi-culturalism” (read: Muslim majority) rules, have dyed their blond hair darker to fit in, and daily have to run the gauntlet of muslim pupils calling them whores.
When muslim immigrants started coming to Norway in the 70′s, it also seemed like a multi-cultural success. However, as soon as the numbers started tipping over to “half or majority” things started to change for the worse. Unfortunate to be sure, but true.
I wish the politicians would start looking at the TRUTH rather than what they want to be true.