[Note: I originally wrote the following article on June 5, 2006, but in light of the fact that it was read by only a handful of visitors and being quite applicable to the mood surrounding the recent ‘Jihad Doctors’ attack in the UK, I’m resurrecting it.]
The words of a Muslim in Canada gave me a terribly simple and effective idea this morning. First the quote:
The charges allege that the men knowingly participated in a terrorist group and either received or provided terrorist training in Toronto, nearby Mississauga, Fort Erie — a border town across from Buffalo, N.Y. — and Ramara Township, located on the shores of Lake Simcoe in central Ontario’s cottage country.
A federal official said he expects some serious reflection in government and security circles about how young people raised in Canada could allegedly conspire to commit such crimes.
“Most of them went through the school system here. They’re not just off the plane. So there will be some questioning going on,” the official said.
“The big issue is going to be societal, that’s clear.”…
Farhad Oryakhim, 17, an employee at an east-end shop, said he’s concerned about how Muslims in Canada are going to be treated in the wake of the arrests.
“It’s going to be a pretty hard time now,” Oryakhim said. “After this incident, people are going to look at the Muslims from a dangerous view.”
Oryakhim said he fears that non-Muslim customers will stop patronizing businesses in the area that are run by Muslims.
“It’s going to hurt our businesses,” he said. “Our life.”
Farhad has some idea of what the future holds.
And he has unwittingly given us the solution to the Muslim presence in our neighborhoods and schools and businesses: boycott them.
Simple and effective. Every single one of us can do it. Just refuse to patronize any establishment that is run or owned by Muslims, from gas stations to convenience stores, dry cleaners to restaurants to specialty grocery stores and the like. You know the signs to look for by now and most people are intelligent enough to differentiate between a peaceful Hindu and a Muslim. But, if you need a clue, just look for the women. If you can’t find any or the ones that you do find are veiled or hooded, well, then you’re probably dealing with Muslims. There’s an even easier way to know for sure though — and that’s just locate your local mosques and remember a few faces.
Prejudice in action? Of course. But have we not been given not only a right but an obligation to exercise such prejudice when it is in the interests of our future and our safety and the sanctity of our nations? It’s either this or violence. So, what choice have we been given?
We all have a basic right to decide where we put our money, and if we collectively refuse to give any of it to the Muslim community then that community will eventually cease to exist OR it will be forced to reform itself and assimilate to our societies. So, here is the perfect chance for the so-called “moderate” Muslims to do something about their own backyards and not just give us all lip-service.
It’s either time for Muslims to change or to realize that they are no longer welcome and that they must move to greener pastures.
Boycott Islam.
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@a jew: I’m sorry, I stopped reading after your first sentence. Islam does not, in fact, mean “peace”, it means “submission”.
Salaam translates to “peace”.
Islam is basically “submit to God”. Now, would you like to rephrase that first line? Tell me again how I “lack any reality” in my thoughts.
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Dear Foehammer,
You seem to lack any amount of reality in your thoughts. It is so simple to write all of this nonsense blasting a religion (that translates directly into meaning PEACE) as some sort of apocoliptic nightmare. In reality, (aka the real world where the majority of sensible human beings live), the religion of Islam is peaceful and beautiful, BUT in the same way our moronic laugh of a president has done with christianity, extreme muslims twist the words of the Quran into meanings that are suitable for them. Bush does it, Bin Laden does it (for all of you out there who caught that, yes that was an analogy between lil bush and mr. taliban general) basically every extremist in every religion twists the words of the ‘holy book’ to make it suitable for blowing shit up.
But I digress,
Lets actually take a look at what your proposing. You claim to be the ultimate American hero with your bullshit Uncle Same pic. But yet again you are actually doing a complete 180 on what America stands for. How can we rid our neighborhoods of Muslims?!? Have you lost your mind???? Why did pilgrims come to America foehammer? Its a question on the citizenship test…the answer…they were escaping religious persecution.
Do yourself a favor, check that, do all of us a favor, stop smearing this racist bigot lewdness all over the web. You make Americans on the whole look like a bunch of overprivileged idiots who cant tell their ass from their elbow. Respect other people, respect the fact that unbeknownst to you, you do not know everything…and finally, learn that there are simply good people and bad people in this world. Religion has nothing to do with that. And sadly foehammer, you fall into the latter.
Americans have boycotted all sorts of things over the years and usually with some measure of success. To call into question your patriotism for suggesting a boycott was naive, spiteful, misguided and one could argue un-American. An actual boycott of Muslim owned businesses is as simple as an online search at islamicfinder.org. You are certainly within your rights to boycott them if you wish. With powerful Islamic figures openly threatening America, its freedom and legal system, I would not blame you. It is a simple but effective way to protest a lack of action by the Muslim community. I have seen only a very few Muslim voices calling for any type of support for our country and our way of life. In addition, they are usually limited to local Muslim leaders with no national following. What I see more often are calls for protection against a backlash that never seems to occur and claims that most Muslims do not support terrorism without any real proof. No large-scale pro American rally has ever been held by Muslims nor any large rallies to protest terror. Talk is cheap and their inaction speaks volumes. If Muslims really cared about Islam’s reputation in America, they would be volunteering to translate extremist WebPages, joining the military and countering public misconceptions like Israel is somehow behind all the worlds’ evil. When is the last time anyone has seen an American Muslim organization systematically discrediting al qaida propaganda? Others can do as they please but I have boycotted Muslim businesses for years and will continue to do so until I see them change. I do make one exception as an Iraqi Sunni owns a garage here in Tampa, it has a large American flag inside and he gives a military discount. To the rest I simply say, put up or shut up. I say protest away, it is the American thing to do.
Wow, this page is sickening.
Why don’t you just as well boycot all brownish people because most terrorists are brownish ?
Or better yet, lets force them to wear their crescent on their clothes.
if everybody would boycot them, they would live in small isolated settlements, lets all round them up and put them together in a government controlled ghetto, to make both our, and their lives safer.
On of the basic principles america was founded on was freedom of religion, and to replace this by profiling by religion you’ve gone in against anything that America has ever stood for.
I for one fear America, if more people like this person get power in America, the world will have its 4th reich.
How come muslims their kills count whereas American theirs don’t?
To say Americans don’t kill innocent people in Iraq would be a lie.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,976392,00.html
online.wsj.com/public/article/SB1...109.html?mod=tff_main_tff_top#CX
please, don’t share your opinion, it is like racism, but then by religion.
@Mrs Tilton: Not even close to the same thing.
Islam IS Fascism
I’m sitting on years of blogging here. Just because I didn’t go full-force until January 2007, doesn’t mean I was idle. It simply means I wasn’t trying hard enough yet.
All that has changed. Today I view as yet another turning point.
Thank you, haters and admirers all.
Now, let’s get down to the reality of it and some minds will be changed for the better and our future might yet be saved.
‘Boycott Islam’? Nice one, Foehammer! That was a popular slogan some years ago in Germany, where I live. They said it a little differently, of course: ‘Kauft nicht bei Juden’. But you’re on the same wavelength.
it makes me laugh when people point towards christanity and say “look look, they killed hear and there and they are thus bad” the bigger comedy is that someone gave stats on the thirty years war. the reformation decided that there can be different opinions in christanity. islam does not have that. to ascrew those deaths of the reformation as just basic christian massacares is b ad history and should i say like those islam apologist “taken out of context”. the reformation was christianity at war with its self, this was needed to create the freedoms we have today like speech and seperation of church and state. And more important, FIND ME MASS EXICUTIONS IN THE NAME OF CHRIST SINCE THE REFORMATION. the reformation changed both the chatholic and protestant church. and by the way, when this is happening whats being put on the orthodox christians, oh yah, subjegation and death for their beliefs.
oh and by the way, im not christian im a polythiest, and for all non christians and jews, you should be more worried of islam than christianity, i live in the most christian nation and have not had any problems with practicing my faith. but islam give us two choices instead of three. death or conversion. that gives my one option, to fight back, and those who do not see this easy rational should stop abstructing us who are trying to fight for our culture.
by the way how come when someone speaks of islam’s murders in the past they only compare with christianity, dont they know that there are muslim countries in asia, so what happened to them, i guess 60 million hindus losing their lives to islam is not worth mentioning because that would put a dent in your perfect world. agian a minimum figure is 60 million hindus slaughtered by muslims during muslim conquest and moghul rule.
@Governator: I despise hyperbole. I notice you don’t mention how many Americans are dying every day over there in the muddy quagmire of Iraq thanks to the treachery of Iran, Syria and Saudi Arabia. I’m sure that’s because you aren’t aware of any of that, but it’s also because it’s so much easier to talk down from “on high” and lob “self-righteous platitudes” at the rest of us, isn’t it?
You also show the typical hidden bigotry, believing that our enemies work in slow motion and have addled brains and could not possibly have ever had WMDs in Iraq based only on the “fact” that we never found them. All that despite the many reports that place Russia, Syria and Libya at the heart of the matter when it came to quickly dispersing Iraq’s big weaponry to hidden caches across neighboring borders. Ah, yes, our enemies are all just silly, mindless people that could not possibly take action to prevent us from gaining a complete victory. It’s not as if the Russians know anything about psyops *cough*, and the Muslim world must just all be at each others throats so much that they couldn’t work out plans to counter our hugely telegraphed attack strategy before the Iraq campaign. Yes, they all just stood with feet planted, while Chirac wasn’t taking $30 million dollar bribes to stonewall in the UN either, and the UN hierarchy has its hands all clean, too. No blood on the hands of any of our “allies” at all, nope. It’s all our own fault.
Sure.
Oh, and by the way, the “fight” is already here. In case you haven’t figured it out, we are at war. But if you think that it’s business at usual since 9-11 and you enjoy having to curb more and more of our own freedoms to protect ourselves against the ghost of the “War on Terror” instead of confronting the SOURCE of that terror, Islam, then you go right on ahead with your life. How long until the Islamic police knock down your doors, I wonder. Drinking beer? Hang him!
“I choose to fight.”
Go and give the U.S. forces in Iraq a hand. The U.S. forces dying in that region did not choose to fight this war. It was extremists like yourself who wanted this war.
@Peter Smith: Or you could sit back and do nothing, sir. Do nothing at all. And when you are long dead and buried and your grand children are suffering under the yoke of absolute dogma perpetuated by a Sharia Court that has hold over the power of the Supreme, you can roll in your grave for having not done anything about it other than attempt to deal in satire.
You are not coming to this argument armed well enough, sir.
Uncle Sam goes to Afghanistan in search of terrorists, annihilates the entire country and even today the NATO forces kill on average 20-30 people - all civilians by it’s ‘precision air strikes.’ None of the prized terrorists have been found or detained. Then Uncle Sam decides to go to war with Iraq on flimsy proofs of WMDs, finds no WMDs, incredibly destabilizes one of the more industrial nations of the Middle-East and let’s see, gets on average about 30 people killed every day by it’s inability to stop violence. Now you talk about your self-proclaimed theories of how every person who associates himself with Islam is extremist. You need to get a life!
@Frank Castle: The road to Mecca reads: MUSLIMS ONLY
I’m being quite literal.
Tell you what: when the Islamic world allows religious freedom in their own lands, refrains from trying to commit genocide against Jews (i.e. surprise attacks on Israel), stops mandating to people how they should behave and dress, accepts equal rights for women and never again calls for the head of an author or publisher (or blogger) that happens to cast no more criticisms on Islam than is deserved, then I might consider the idea of allowing Muslims to prosper in our midst, to make more babies at a faster rate than any other demographic and to indoctrinate our kids into the belief that Islam is a Religion of Peace.
So, how about it Saudi Arabia? Are you ready to take down that sign? Are you ready to allow Churches to be built? Are you ready for Hindu temples? Synagogues?
You see, Frank, when the veils of Islam are pulled away, there is no justice for non-Muslims. And therein lies the big problem.
If I feared a pedophile priest as much as I do an Islamic jihadist terrorist with a nuclear bomb, then I’d spend my time tap-dancing my keyboard to the detriment of the Catholic Church. However, I am somehow given more faith that law enforcement and the courts may deal with less than 1% of the priesthood that take part in such acts. The sympathizers with jihad in the Muslim world is at least 50%. I’d say that’s a helluva a big difference for the sake of contrast.
As for killing in the name of Christianity, it has been done, yes, but not in anyway shape or form the numbers collected by the Muslim world over the centuries, when every incursion into Europe was a pure matter of religious war, when every destruction of Jewish village and Christian town in the Middle East was done to rid Arabia of any but “the one true religion” according to the death-bed dictates of Muhammad. When the centuries long invasions of India and Iran were done in the name of Allah alone. Or when Constantinople was torn from its foundations.
Living in the modern world we deal with modern issues. If the reality of what descends upon us every single day is lost on too many people, that is exactly why I do what I do. I will not coddle people that would see our way of life turned into an Islamic theocracy. By perpetuating that lie I might as well give up my humanity and go live in a cave somewhere and ignore the responsibility that comes manifest with being given the talent and intelligence to find the truth for myself. It would be far, far easier to just ignore it all. For a few years. But now, if the day ever does come when we fail, I can at least say that I tried to stem the tide. History is filled with such examples.
I choose to fight.
Wonderful idea. We can’t be too cautious. It’s our very lives and culture that is at stake here. And our women. And think of the children. This is the land of the free. The home of the brave. We are not afraid. We must get them before they get us. We should have them all wear red crescent sown to their clothes. And we should freeze all the assets. Then probably move them all to camps to do a proper day’s work. They are all rich you know and can’t possibly have come by that wealth honestly. It should be taken by the government and used for our defense. Hail Bush, three cheers for Cheney. They could really be put to good use. Maybe used for medical research. Muslim skin is darker than American. I’m not sure why but it doesn’t matter, they are less than us because their book is wrong. We are a peace loving nation, let’s get them all, every last one. Let’s quickly get to the final solution.
@Gramage & Walter: While you deem yourselves educated and intelligent, I’m sure, and I’m not doubting that, you are seeking equivalence where it simply does not exist. Delving into the deep depths of the past to pull out a hair is called reaching. Contrasting Christians in the United States, which, in case you have forgotten, constitutes practically the entire nation and the continent of North America, makes no sense only because you cannot put forth any proper logic for that design.
How many Christians have blown themselves up in the past twenty years on a “Crusade” or “Jihad” in order to kill innocents, Gramage. Are those Christians that are persecuted in Africa beneath your care then? The ones that were murdered and raped continually for the better part of the previous decade. But it is suddenly when Arab Muslims are committing racial genocide against black Muslims in Africa that the world wishes to intervene. How bizarre, that reasoning, too, from the Hollywood elites and the Dhimmicrats.
The problem in all these cases is Islam, be the violence against black Muslims, Christians or otherwise. Muslims themselves are tied up inside of an absolute lie that you would seek to further, for what? To protect the First Amendment? Amendments are made to be malleable. If we do not learn and alter our laws to bolster our freedoms when required and to confront evils of this world, then we are little more than fat lemmings that do not deserve the groundwork that was place before us by the wise Founding Fathers.
Equivalence-seeking is a disease. Let’s deal in the realities of the modern centuries please, and the reality is — Islam has never reformed, has only become more militant (the teachings of the Muslim Brotherhood and Wahhbism being MODERN incarnations of Islam), and despite the best efforts of the world’s nations to appease and indeed BRIBE the Arab Muslim world into compliance with modernity and civilized debates and treaties, it has only been by way of war that the Islamic world has responded to us all, when they haven’t been satisfied enough with the oil revenues being dug up for them by unbelievers that they are all too happy to have do the dirty work. The root of the evil in oil is not to be underestimated — just look at the hidden layers of treachery that exist in Saudi Arabia and that becomes clear.
Fear truth, but do not try to cover it with your own bigotries.
FH, you certainly have a large new contingent of the “witless” here today.
Larry, Darrell, and his other brother Darrell, I think.