GATES OF VIENNA:
I have certainly learned to fear Islam. Islamophobia is definitely a rational response to world events right now — just ask those Christian schoolgirls in Indonesia. Oh, wait; you can’t ask them: they don’t have heads anymore.THERE'S MORE, INCLUDING EXAMPLES AND A CHALLENGE TO ISLAMOPHILES. GO THERE. RTWT.
I have learned to be circumspect about Islam, to tread lightly around its outer edges. I have learned to be alert concerning it, and observe it carefully in all its different manifestations.
But I have no respect for Islam, and no amount of violence, extortion, and bullying threats will cause me to respect it.
From KURDISH MEDIA :
ReplyDeleteThe Islamic league of Kurdistan has issued a conditional fatwa to kill the Kurdish writer Mariwan Halabjayi, if he does not repent and apologize for writing his book, ‘Sex, Sharia and Women in the History of Islam’
http://thekurdistani.com/news/content/view/1743/2/
http://www.kurdmedia.com/articles.asp?id=11377
This is happening in today's Iraqi Kurdistan, which is supposed to be the most "enlightened" part of Iraq!!
We should try to push Marywan's case toward the limelight. And to find a way to have his book translated and published in the West (it is copyright free!!) IT WOULD REALLY BE GREAT.
Here is a "Call for Internet Publication of Sex, Sharia and Women in the History of Islam":
http://theisoughtproblem.blogspot.com/2006/03/iraqi-kurdistan-call-for-internet.html
Marywan Halabjaye is actually living in hiding with his children and a pregnant wife. It is a real shame that neither the Iraqi government nor the Americans are doing anything to protect his life.
http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/petition-sign.cgi?01021970