The Satanic Verses controversy
From Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Satanic_Verses_controversy
The Satanic Verses controversy, also known as the Rushdie Affair, was the heated and frequently violent reaction of some Muslims to the publication of Salman Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses, which was first published in the United Kingdom in 1988. Many Muslims accused Rushdie of blasphemy or unbelief and in 1989 Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini of Iran issued a fatwā ordering Muslims to kill Rushdie. Numerous killings, attempted killings, and bombings resulted from Muslim anger over the novel.[1]
The Iranian government backed the fatwā against Rushdie until 1998, when the succeeding government of Iranian President Mohammad Khatami said it no longer supported the killing of Rushdie.[2]
The issue was said to have divided "Muslim from Westerners along the fault line of culture,"[3][4] and to have pitted a core Western value of freedom of expression—that no one "should be killed, or face a serious threat of being killed, for what they say or write"[5]—against the view of many Muslims—that no one should be free to "insult and malign Muslims" by disparaging the "honour of the Prophet" Muhammad.[6] English writer Hanif Kureishi called the fatwā "one of the most significant events in postwar literary history."[7]
The Revival of Slavery After 1983
http://www.meforum.org/449/my-career-redeeming-slaves
Slavery is found today in many parts of the world, including Mauritania, Pakistan, India, Burma, and Saudi Arabia. But Sudan is the only place where chattel slavery is not just surviving but experiencing a great revival. This renascence of the slave trade began in the mid-1980s and resulted directly from an upsurge of Islamism in Sudan at that time, and especially from the Islamist emphasis on the renewal of jihad. After gaining the upper-hand in Khartoum by about 1983, the Islamists' immediate goal was to transform the multi-ethnic, multi-religious population of Sudan into an Arab-dominated Muslim state, and to do so through jihad. Under Turabi's powerful influence, the ruler of the time, Ja‘far an-Numayri, declared himself to be (sounding like a caliph of old), the "rightly guided" leader of an Islamic state. Numayri then abrogated the autonomy agreement he had earlier reached with southern Sudan and imposed the Shari‘a on the whole country. Armed resistance to these changes also began in 1983 with the formation of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A) under the leadership of Colonel John Garang.
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I realize that I risk being branded as some sort of right wing racist/lunatic.
That's normally what happens when anyone is critical of any particular minority group whether it be African Americans, Hispanics, Muslims, etc.
I don't really care about that.
It's a very simple thing for you to look up and verify or debunk things that I say on this blog if they're not true.
I'm always surprised when people don't do that.
You say or quote something they don't like and rather than challenging you with facts, they launch some sort of ad hominem attack.
In the mainstream American press it usually works like this:
If you are critical of a special group, you will very quickly be sidelined by the majority in the press who will call you A. dumb B. racist C. both.
It happens all the time.
One of my favorite comedians is Adam Carolla.
He has a long history in comedy from his radio days, to Crank Yankers, to The Man Show, etc.
His podcast is
A. Hilarious
B. The most downloaded podcast in history.
In the past year or so, he has become a frequent guest on Fox News, specifically The Factor with Bill O'Reilly.
I've seen him on that program several times and, in my view point at least, didn't hear anything particularly controversial.
But over the past year he has been increasingly introduced in published articles as, Conservative Comedian, or even more common, Right Wing Comedian.
As he is happy to say himself, the views I hold and the things I say are the same as they were years ago.
You could find clips of me expressing the exact same views on other programs or on this podcast over and over.
The only difference is my appearances on the Fox network.
So now, according to these writers, I am a right winger, and they can dismiss everything I say.
It would be funny if it weren't so dangerous.
There has been a dramatic increase in sexual assaults in Sweden over the past few years.
Sweden is now the rape capitol of Europe.
Only South Africa has more rapes.
Many of these assaults are gang rapes, and if that weren't horrible enough, many of the victims are below age 18. (I'm not sure why that seems more horrible than any other woman being attacked but it does. )
And yet the government refuses to acknowledge that these assaults are the direct results of their weak stance on immigration.
The government keeps track of who is responsible for crimes in Sweden but refuses to release that information for fear offending.
A private group that studied official police records concluded that 85% of these attacks were committed by men from the middle east, northern Africa, or Asia.
In short, the one thing the perpetrators had in common was that they were almost universally Muslim.
And yet nothing is happening to prevent these attacks from happening.
A recent article in Sweden was critical of police for even arresting and charging 2 young men who were responsible for attack because they were 15, and therefore too young to bear any responsibility for their criminal behaviour at all.
Another article attributed the increase in rapes as nothing more than an example of how empowered Swedish women are, in that they felt more comfortable in reporting sexual assaults than women in other countries and thus, there were more rapes on record.
I'm not sure how you fight this sort of denial and stupidity.
If you want to fix a problem you must first admit you have one.
