Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Divorce, Saudi Style

In Islam, at least the Saudi brand of Islam, you can be divorced at the behest of your family and not even know it. That's what happened to Fatima and Mansour al-Timani who, two years ago, opened their door to find police serving Mansour with papers telling him that his marriage had been annulled nearly a year earlier. Fatima's relatives had gotten the divorce on grounds that she'd married beneath the status of her extended family. The couple, who have two children, have been forced to live apart ever since.

Fatima and Mansour didn't take this assault on their marriage sitting down. They sued to reverse the ruling, publicized their case, and sought help from a Saudi human rights group. Finally, they fled to Jeddah on Saudi Arabia's coast and tried to live anonymously. Unfortunately, police soon found them there and arrested the couple for living together "illegally". Fatima was given the choice of living with her mother or going to jail; she chose jail. Mansour tried again to appeal the divorce decree but a Riyadh court ruled against him in 2007. Now, the couple's only hope is a pardon from King Abdullah. Is this insane or what?!

How are Islam's apologists going to defend this? It's culture, not Islam? It's fundamentalism, not true Islam? It's for women's protection? Let's face it. There IS no rationalization for this medieval practice. That your marriage could be stolen from you and you jailed, along with your children, for living with your "ex-spouse" is simply outrageous. But this is the mentality that Muslims are bringing into the kafir nations, especially the Western ones where Muslim immigration and birthrates are skyrocketing.

We kafirs must fight back! If we continue down our current appeasing, multiculturalist, pc road we will ensure the death of our civilizations. Islam will gain the ascendancy and we'll wake up in a world where our marriages are as sacrosanct and personal as toilet paper; where rape victims are jailed; where changing our religion is illegal; and where naming a toy after the "prophet" is a capital offense. Fatima and Mansour al-Timani are the proverbial canaries in the mine. How many more canaries will it take to rouse the kafir giant?

Thursday, January 17, 2008

Bin Laden: Peace Activist?

I just read something incredible on Yahoo! News. According to Yahoo! News the Associated Press has interviewed Osama bin Laden's son--or a guy claiming to be OBL's son--Omar bin Laden, and he says he wants to make peace between his father and the West. I'm not sure what to make of this.

First, I'm not sure I even believe that Omar, who claims he left Osama in Afghanistan in 2000, is the son of the Notorious OBL. Second, even if he is Osama's son I don't believe his peace offering. In the AP interview Omar says he was to be "an ambassador of peace" between Muslims and the West yet he refuses to denounce Osama, claiming that his Dad only wants to defend the Islamic people. How can Omar really want peace if he won't condemn his father's evil deeds?

Omar bin Laden says there's another way other than militancy to defend Islam. So does he think that Islam is under attack? And if so, by whom? The West? And if the West, just how is the West doing it? Every year millions of Muslims come to the West to live, work, and/or study. Is that an attack on Islam? Muslims in the West practice their religion more freely than they could in many Muslim countries, especially if they belong to minority Muslim sects. Is that an attack on Islam? I need to know if and how the West is attacking Islam before I'll buy the idea that Osama is just acting in self-defense.

And then there's the Islamic doctrine of hudna. Islam is imperialist. It's stated goal is world conquest. And in pursuit of that goal many strageties are permitted. A full frontal assault can be launched on the infidels when Muslims are strong, but when Muslims are weak a truce, or hudna, can be made with the infidels UNTIL THE MUSLIMS REGAIN THEIR STRENGTH. Thus, a hudna is NOT a genuine truce or peace treaty. Its purpose is NOT a permanent end to hostilities. Rather, a hudna is a ruse to convince the infidels to lay down their arms and their guard just long enough for the Muslims to get the upperhand on them. So I have to ask: Is Omar bin Laden really offering us peace, or just a hudna? I don't know for sure but my gut is telling me to beware of Muslims, especially those named bin Laden, bearing gifts.