Islamists denounce World Cup footballers as “madmen jumping up and down”, threaten to kill fans
If you want an illustration of the parallel universe inhabited by our friends in the Islamist community — the people that my country’s foreign ministry, Barack Obama, the EU and company think it is possible to have a rational conversation with — check this out from Somalia:
“Somali militants threaten World Cup TV viewers”
That’s the headline on a story from the BBC, hence the word “militants” to describe what the rest of us know to be bloodthirsty Islamist terrorists. But let’s give the BBC a pass on that this time round. The story is a gem and tells you a lot more about the mindset of Islamism than many bien pensants would like you to know:
“Somali militants have threatened football fans they will be publicly flogged – or worse – if they are caught watching the World Cup on TV,” the BBC reports.
“Gangs of Islamists are reported to be patrolling the areas they control looking for people watching games. Dedicated fans are watching matches in secret, or in the few areas controlled by government forces. On Saturday militants killed two people as they attacked a house where people were watching a game.”
As Sheikh Mohamed Abdi Aros, spokesman for the group, Hizbul-Islam put it:
“We are warning all the youth of Somalia not to dare watch these World Cup matches. It is a waste of money and time and they will not benefit anything or get any experience by watching mad men jumping up and down.”
That’s a pretty good illustration of what we are dealing with when western apologists for extremism say that we should be talking to Islamists.
Now, each country in the Islamic world is a little bit different of course. For some it’s football, for others it’s beards, for every one of them it’s the Jews. In that respect, Somalia looks positively advanced compared to “moderate” Egypt, for example. As I say in my book, A State Beyond the Pale, in Egypt it’s the moustache that gets people going and to celebrate it they have formed a group called the “Egyptian Unique Moustache Association”.
“Members of the group,” I say in the book relating a segment broadcast on Egyptian TV in 2008, “talked proudly about different kinds of moustaches, one of which was discussed in particularly glowing terms. Asked about Adolf Hitler’s moustache, one Captain Sayyed Shahada said: ‘By the way, I respect the moustache of this Hitler, because he humiliated the most despicable sect in the world. He subdued the people who subdued the whole world – him with his “11” moustache. By the way, that kind of moustache is called “11”. The generation of this Hitler … When I was little, my father, may he rest in peace, grew that kind of moustache, and so did all his classmates. They all had this “11” moustache …’”
There’s a lesson to be taken from all this, and it’s not that difficult to spot.
Tags: Islam
June 15th, 2010 at 12:51 pm
http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/28068
Some fans have already been murdered apparently.
“Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.” Albert Camus said this.
June 15th, 2010 at 1:40 pm
More of the same
Here’s a video of an Egyptian lawyer calling for the sexual harassment and rape of Israeli women:
“Leave the land so we won’t rape you”
http://tinyurl.com/2vbt3tb
June 15th, 2010 at 2:53 pm
Barack Obama thinks it’s possible to have a conversation with islamists, but his requirements are very low – all he needs is for him to keep apologizing, and for them to keep ridiculing him.
June 15th, 2010 at 7:46 pm
This is without words. Actually, what I read in connection with Somalia lately is the reported news/fact that Somalia is actually made of two formerly separate parts, one – the geographically bigger one, occupied by Italy the last centruy, consists of its capital Mogadishu (Mogadiscio in Italian) – and an English – or allegedly English, I’m not entirely sure – smaller part in the North, named “Somaliland”, just like before its attchement in the XX. century, which is increasingly considering secession. And, here is what is interesting, there are already some kind of tentative connections with Israel, this latter (or to be more precise: Lieberman) reportedly interested in recognizing “Somaliland”. It’s located in a strategically very important area where the Red Sea “mouthing” into the Indian Ocean. Strange stuff for sure…
June 15th, 2010 at 7:55 pm
Ed West yesterday in the Telelgraph:
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/edwest/100043460/why-does-europe-hate-israel/
I recall watching a documentary 10 years ago about Afghanistan under the Taliban by a brave reporter, whose name I forgot. The British had donated a football pitch for recreation years before ,he said, which under the Taliban the crowd now could enjoy a good flogging or an execution, before the game began. Gives sport a whole new meaning doesn’t it?
June 15th, 2010 at 11:03 pm
Somalia is one of the most ghastly hellholes on earth alongside D.R. Congo, Sudan, North Korea and no doubt a few others. Here’s an article from a year ago, again from the BBC, on Islamist justice in Somalia. Bit stomach-turning, but good to know about radical Islam in its purest form :-
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/8057179.stm
Sharia law anyone ?
June 17th, 2010 at 8:45 am
The judicial murder of football fans by Islamists is, indeed a good example of why the west should not be talking to Islamists. But surely the best illustation of all is Britain’s very own Meddy Bear fiasco in Khartoum.
We sent our own Lord Ahmed (he of the threat to have 10,000 Muslims march on Westminster) and Baroness Sayeeda Warsi (now a Cabinet minister and Conservative Party chairman, though never having won any election in her life) to rescue the unfortunate lady teacher who gave the wrong name to a Sudanese teddy bear. Otherwise the government there would, doubtless, have treated her like the Mahdi treated General Gordon.
June 24th, 2010 at 4:02 am
I can’t believe what happened with France today. That was totally awesome!