"It's easy to see without looking too far
That not much is really sacred" ( It's alright ma)
I don't know which Salman you're talking about, since there's the good Salman, Salman al-Farsi and the other one, the arrogant hypocrite whose main claim to fame is as the author of " The Satanic Verses". Still swishing his rhetorical tail he's the kind of bloke that's most likely to ask, " Is anything sacred?" Really Sally? ( My greatest nightmare is of the Swedish Academy offering him the Nobel Prize for anything)
My friend Collins ( an artist from St. Lucia) is still crying in my ear that he was thrown out of a mosque in Stockholm, because he entered the premises carrying a wooden cross…
There are those who may have swum the seven seas and yet despite all the historical evidence want to maintain that Arab slavery was"humane": That "the Arabs were humane and familial in their treatment of their slaves" is indisputable". The castration of African slaves who took care of the women in some of Islam's harems was "humane"? Perhaps , we need to do another definition of the word "humane".
In some cases/ many cases it is the Universal norm vs the local norm.
I think that even whilst reaching for Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as if it is authored by The Omnipotent Himself and imprinted in the souls of all the men and women that He created - at the same time we don't have to lose sight of our unequal rates of growth/ progress/mental or spiritual development and what's known as ethical relativism - the existence of local cultures and local standards which means that within our own reasonable limits of understanding, we at least respect one another and are sensitive to for instance what Islam/ Judaism / Christianity etc hold sacred. It is with this in mind that we are in agreement with Oga Falola's first person preachment just the other day, the basis for his rejecting certain postings and thereby his warning to all of us to not attempt any more of that kind of fruitless nonsense: "I thought that all religions and cultures preach that one must never rejoice at this kind of misfortune."
Ladies and Gentlemen, just because a Muslim man is accused or rape does not warrant another provocative cartoon from Charlie Hebdo suggesting that the erect phallus is now the additional sixth pillar of Islam, no more than the architecture of the church throughout the ages symbolically represents the vagina - according to John Allegro's " The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross"
Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju has rightly hit the nail on the head with the question; "to what degree is this latest cartoon from charlie hebdo serious critique and to what degree is it empty mockery?" Well, they mocked Jesus too, didn't they, on his golgotha journey to his crucifixion? The answer of course is it's entirely a matter of MOCKERY - pandering to their target audience the secular -Islamophobic and the Jihadist Muslim. "Mischief thou art afoot" and That too is not crying out for any further explanation. The ethos is that the accused is viewed as a holier-than thou and so it gives kuffar charlie great joy that this Muslim in particular has been accused of rape, since they have cause to hate him...
Sweden today : Police report filed after Swedish daycare listens to Pippi Longstocking stories
In the meantime whilst Western liberalism is forever yapping about "Freedom of speech" the following people are persona non grata in Merry England if there's is the intention to exercise a little bit of that freedom
Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch banned from entering the UK
Pamela Geller ditto
The Hon Minister Louis Farrakhan - believe it or not banned from entering the UK to preach
The late Dr. Tony Martin was also banned from speaking engagements in the UK
Truth a poem by Patrick Kavanagh
On Wednesday, 8 November 2017 09:30:56 UTC+1, Abolaji Adekeye wrote:
I want to ask like Salman -Is nothing sacred?I'll answer by posing another - Who determines what is allowed and what is hallowed?It is rather complex but I believe nothing should be immuned to satire. Nothing should curtail freedom of expression except superior expression. We should look at the brighter side of things. We appear too uptight when our totems, our sacralised absolutes are interrogated, critiqued or lampooned. The Life of Brian and Jesus christ superstar did not provoke bombings or any killing spree. Although there where boycott of the movies by the offended.I believe personally that the provocateurs are those who prevent freedom of expression and aim to foist their creed and belief on the rest of us from their temples, mosques, madrasal or churches. They espouse their divisive messages from compromised lecterns and pulpits but are quick to convulse in apoplectic fits of righteous indignation at any positions or expositions opposed to theirs.On Nov 7, 2017 12:03, "Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju" <toyin....@gmail.com> wrote:terrible--On 6 November 2017 at 19:47, Cornelius Hamelberg <cornelius...@gmail.com> wrote:--There's provocation defined as "action or speech that makes someone angry, especially deliberately" and there's madness , the sometimes seemingly mad / insane reaction to certain types of provocation as in the old Saro Krio saying, of my Yoruba grandmother's King James Bible generation, that "provocation is next to madness"
In accordance with Sunnism there are The Five Pillars of Islam and there's the five roots/ principles the Usul al Din of Shia Islam ( ie.Tawhid ( the unity of God) Adl ( God's Justice) Nabuwat ( Prophethood), Imamat (The Holy Imams), Qiyamah (The Resurrection)
With pavlovian expectations, Charlie Hebdo is at it again – this time their so called satirical illustration is that of an erect giant penis , said to be "the sixth pillar of Islam.".
A new provocation from Charlie Hebdo , new death threats
They are of course expecting Muslims to react violently as Muslims have done in the past, with the Muhammad Cartoons ( Denmark) Lars Vilks canine portrait of the Prophet of Islam (Sweden) and the earlier Charlie Hebdo attacks ( France) which prove that Charlie Hebdo know what they are doing and are doing what they do because they expect the same results , so that they can all shout in unison : TERRORISTS!!!!!!!!!!!!
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