Comments on: ‘Islam is a Mental Illness’

By: Tabres Esfahani

Tabres Esfahani — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 05:27:39 +0000

I really doubt jews want to rule the world. My grandmother never really mentioned that little ambition to me. Cuz it doesn’t exist.

By: Richard Silverstein

Richard Silverstein — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 08:30:24 +0000

@AJ: What Jewish university presidents don’t allow Muslims on their faculty? I’ve never heard of such a charge before. Besides university presidents don’t directly control faculty decisions and would find it impossible to enforce such a directive even if they made one.

As for “controlling the world,” I think you’re overstating yr case a bit.

By: AJ

AJ — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 05:58:03 +0000

I hate Jews that discriminate against Muslims. I hate Jews that are Presidents of universities and don’t late Muslim professors in. I hate hospitals that don’t give residencies to Muslim doctors. I hate Jewish settlers that occupy Palestinian land and if anybody protests against it, label them anti-semitic. I hate the Jews like Daniel Pipes who constant spew anti-Muslim propaganda and stifle free speech and stop tenures of honest people trying to have a fair debate in schools. I don’t hate all Jews. I only hate the ones with an endless need to control the world.

By: Richard Silverstein

Richard Silverstein — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:10:03 +0000

@bar_kochba132: My view of Islam is more tolerant, more accurate & less filled w. hate for the religion than theirs.

There are numerous rabbis and settlers groups that foment the hatred I spoke of. There was a massive pogrom against the Israeli authorities in Hebron. Do you think all those settlers rioted based on independent decisions to do so? Or were they organized? Of course they were. It may be too amorphous for you but you are an ardent supporter of the settlers. So that doesn’t surprise me in the least.

By: Joachim Martillo

Joachim Martillo — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:04:50 +0000

I discussed Nonie Darwish at the beginning of Comments on "Who put Hate in My Sunday Paper?" by Omid Safie, who was analyzing the movie entitled Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West.

By: bar_kochba132

bar_kochba132 — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 18:42:05 +0000

YoYou mean to say you know more about Islam than two women who were born into it and lived as Muslims for decades? Again, please show me evidence they are lying.

Reagrding the hooligans who sprayed painted the slogans, on the mosque, please give me an example of a major Jewish movement who educates their followers to do that. I polease don’t give me the line “extremist settlers”. That is simply too amorphous. HIZBULLAH is an official party and religious movement. You can’t compare the act of one person with the official propaganda of an entire movement.

By: Richard Silverstein

Richard Silverstein — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 09:49:32 +0000

@bar_kochba132:

The chapter on Jews states that “their Talmud says those outside the Jewish religion are animals.”

You have the unmitigated chutzpah to complain about what Hezbollah teaches its young recruits when the settlers you so adore spray painted Mohamed Hazir on a Hebron mosque???!!! Puh-leeze. Don’t you embarrass yrself? When you can show me the settler movement has rid itself of such perversions of Jewish thought then we can talk about Hezbollah’s anti-Jewish propaganda.

Ali & Darwish are anti-Muslim propagandists. Plain & simple. I don’t trust propagandists fr. either side.

Regarding denouncing settlers…I don’t denounce settlers who are prepared to abandon their settlements in order to reintegrate into Green Line Israel. I don’t denounce non-ideological settlers. I denounce the extremists who unfortunately represent too large a percentage of the overall number of settlers.

I read Nonie’s book

My God, you caught me by surprise there. I can’t imagine why you’d have done that. Perhaps you share a great deal in common in yr ideological proclivities???

They certainly know a lot more about Islam than you do.

I don’t know about that. But they certainly hate Islam a lot more than I do.

By: bar_kochba132

bar_kochba132 — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 16:14:27 +0000

TThe New York Times on Friday had an article about the indoctrination HIZBULLAH gives their young recruits. Here is an exceprt about what they teach about Jews:
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Those books, copies of which were provided to this reporter by a Hezbollah official, show an extraordinary focus on religious themes and a full-time preoccupation with Hezbollah’s military struggle against Israel. The chapter titles, for the 12- to 14-year-old age group, include “Love and Hate in God,” “Know Your Enemy,” “Loyalty to the Leader” and “Facts About Jews.” Jews are described as cruel, corrupt, cowardly and deceitful, and they are called the killers of prophets. The chapter on Jews states that “their Talmud says those outside the Jewish religion are animals.”
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I It would seem to me that Judeophobic sentiments are not simply the province of a tiny group of Muslim extremists which are not representative of any major streams of Islam.
Hhere is the link:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/world/middleeast/21lebanon.html?pagewanted=3&ei=5070

Why do you dismiss Ayan Hirsi Ali and Nonie Darwish. Can you prove they are lying? Richard you denounce whole groups of Jews (i.e. YESHA settlers). Why is your blanket condemnation of groups like this any more credible than what you say their’s is? I read Nonie’s book. She grew up in in the Gaza Strip and Egypt. Israeli commandos liquidated her father. I think that gives her extra credibility.They certainly know a lot more about Islam than you do.