Det er også populært blandt kristne i Danmark, har jeg bemærket. De nøjes med at spadsere til Santiago de Compostela eller Dyrehaven. ” Iranian muslim pilgrims at Mecca: There is no God but Allah, and America & Israel are the enemies of Allah.” Temmelig pikant at Obama’s grandmother in Mecca for ‘Hajj’ ceremony.

“Populisme”

Alle tider har deres klicheer, deres sproglige ready-mades. Det var Villy Sørensen, der lærte mig tricket at se ordene efter etymologisk for at finde ud af hvad afsenderen vil sige, eller lige så ofte netop skjule. Udover altså at klicheanvendere mest enten ikke kan eller gider tænke selv, og derfor griber ned i posen med tidens slogans. Folk der ikke kan tænke, er uinteressante, men folk der ikke vil, er ikke. Et uvurderligt værktøj er Etymological Online. I dag kan man se den gode blogger Ord mod Ord skille ordet “populisme” ad, det er et kæmpehit i svenske medier, men et noget mindre i Danmark, hvor vi mere er blevet “kontroversielle”. Bloggeren ikke er født igår:

Ty, när vänsterjournalisterna nu ständigt anklagar sina politiska motståndare för att vara populister så markerar de ju samtidigt att de själva är emot folket. Och det är precis vad deras motståndare alltid hävdat att de är! Populist = att ha hög svansföring?

UK: Muslimsk politiker angrebet af fanatikere

With egg yolk dripping through her hair after being attacked by demonstrators, Britain’s most prominent Muslim woman politician took refuge in the sweetly named Memsaab Boutique in Luton. Baroness Warsi could have been forgiven for saying she would never put her well-heeled foot in the Bedfordshire town again.

There have been incidents which reveal tensions. When a Mecca Bingo Hall opened, its windows were smashed after some Muslims claimed the neon ‘Mecca’ sign insulted their religion because it associated the name of their holy city with gambling. Advertising hoardings featuring women deemed to be showing too much flesh have also been defaced.  Over the past 18 months or so, around 30 non-Muslim homes have been attacked. One white couple in their 80s had bricks hurled through their front window. Face to face with the men of hate: The Muslim fanatics who attacked Baroness Warsi. Se også Birmingham gang warn about becoming suicide bombers. Også Tyskland  har sine fanatikere: Jihadism in Germany: An Update. Og Canada:

The student screamed at her: “I don’t have to listen to you; you are not a person, you are nothing, you do not exist as a person.” When Miriam demanded he accompany her to the principal’s office, the student followed her down the hall yelling, “Don’t speak to me, don’t look at me, you are not human, you are a Jew.” Toxic classrooms, Confronting anti-Semitism in our high schools, Jew-hatred on campus

Minareten: Et magtsymbol

En grundig indføring i et tårn, alle taler om:

The historical sources do not exactly explain why Muslims started attaching a single tower to their mosques at this time, but evidence suggests that the single tower signaled the growing importance of the congregational mosque as a religious institution and as the center of the ‘ulama, the class of religious scholars that was crystallizing at this time. Whereas in early Islamic times great height had been an attribute associated with royal power in the palaces that towered over neighboring houses and mosques, by the ninth century height came to be associated with religious power instead. Abbasid palaces might be immense but they remained relatively close to the ground, while mosques—or at least the towers attached to them—had an exclusive claim to height. Thus, the minaret served the purpose indicated by its most popular name: it was introduced primarily as a marker or indicator of the presence of Islam, not specifically as a place to give the call to prayer. [..]
The minaret, we see, is at once less and more than it appeared at first sight. Although often and commonly used as a place from which to give the call to prayer, it wasn’t invented for that purpose at all. Today, as cities become noisier and more crowded, the minaret faces an uncertain future as the place from which a muezzin can be heard. Nevertheless, minarets continue—and will continue—to be built, and to serve as silent but visually powerful symbols of the worldwide presence of Islam. Jonathan M. Bloom is professor of Islamic and Asian art at Boston College, The Minaret, Symbol of Faith & Power

»En befaling fra Gud«

Apropos en stormoské »Den saudiarabiske regering er ked af ikke at kunne tolerere nogen kristen kirke på sit territorium. Men det drejer sig ikke om en regeringsbeslutning, men om en befaling fra Gud.« (Katolsk Orientering nr. 14, 14/92). Til opbyggelig oplysning har Saudi-Arabien givet omfattende støtte til mindst 1.500 moskeer, 210 islamiske centre og 2.000 skoler i ikke-muslimske lande. Ikke mindst stormoskeerne bliver brugt til at sprede rabiate islamistiske budskaber. Lone Nørgaard, lektor,  Frederiksberg.

Winkel Holm: Islam –men på vores vilkår

Når muslimer fortolker forbudet mod minareter i Schweiz som et nej til islam som sådan, så siger de i virkeligheden, at islam og sharia hører sammen, skriver teolog og debattør Katrine Winkel Holm
»Forbuddet mod minareter er at opfatte som et umisforståeligt afslag på denne form for islam [politisk islam], med den religiøse lov sharia, der er i direkte konflikt med grundlæggende friheder og rettigheder, der er garanteret i den schweiziske grundlov. Alle personer, der bor i Schweiz, bør respektere vores grundlov. De, der forsøger at bruge minareten som et tveægget politisk sværd for at pånøde os en anden lov, shariaen, hører ikke til i vores land«. Det, schweizerne altså i virkeligheden siger, er, at deres nej til minareter er nej til politisk islam. Nej til sharia. Og hvem kan være uenig i det? Vi skal have forbud mod minareter. 75% support for the ban on minarets in London Daily News poll. Ugens MEGAFON udkommer formentlig engang i morgen aften:

Wafa Sultan i New York City

I saw Wafa Sultan, the Syrian-American doctor and Islam critic, speak this morning in New York City. If there was a single phrase that sums up her presentation and message, it would be: Humanity versus Islam. it’s the anti-human quality of Islam that she brings out over and over, mostly in personal terms based on her own experiences and those of people she’s known. When I asked her during the question period what Western countries should do to stop and reverse the Islamization of the West, she said, the same thing America did to Germany and Japan.  Lawrence Auster A PASSIONATE AND OUTSPOKEN ISLAM CRITIC

December 2, Choosing Freedom over Islam, and the Story of Wafa Sultan