Happy Hajj! You’re Not Invited!

It isn’t just the Hagia Sophia that has suffered the inglorious fate of being converted from its original use as a Christian church to be taken over by invading Islamic forces and made into a mosque. In her book, The Decline of Eastern Christianity under Islam. From Jihad to Dhimmitude, Bat Ye’or chronicles how innumerable Christian and Jewish holy sites, such as the Church of St. John in Damascus that was demolished by the Islamic Caliph Abd al-Malik in 705 and had the Umayyad Mosque built over it, were taken over for the exclusive use for Islamic worship during the constant waves of Islamic conquest. It is worth noting that even the Kabaa, the central location of worship in Mecca, was seized by Mohammad from non-Muslims.

Read the full article by Jonathan Poole at FrontPagemag.com

The Taliban are knocking on your door

For more than 800 years Maldivians have largely ignored the teachings of Islam and preferred to rely on their buddhi and vedic wisdom. But the use of reason has declined rapidly in the last 30 years. The large number of religious mullahs are changing the Maldivians from a tolerant and reasonable people into soldiers of Allah.
The recent proposal calling for an Iranian-style scholars council to have supreme power over the country that was submitted to the Maldivian Parliament is downright absurd, dangerous, and against the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. For now the Parliament has opposed this move. We are we going to see more pressure towards establishing a Muslim scholars council.
It is also surprising that at a time when we should be moving towards a secular state Parliament member Ibrahim Ismail, an avowed socialist, has called for a new and separate clause in the Constitution for the implementaion of Islamic Sharia in the country.
Watch out people. The Taliban are knocking on your door. The pressure to change into a muslim theocracy is well funded with mid-east oil money. Most of these islamic preachers know no other profession. They are not going to change into carpenters or fisherman. They will go on preaching what they have been taught and will continue to brainwash people. Dhivehistan is a reality fast approaching.

“Is Islam a Tolerant Religion?”

“Then there is a great deal to say about discrimination against women. In spite of the fact that women don’t differ from men except physiologically, and possess the same intellectual abilities, and in some instances even surpass men in such gifts, women in Islam are considered as ‘deficient in mind and religion.’ The testimony of a woman in the courts is worth only half a man’s testimony. The same thing pertains in matters of inheritance, for a ‘man’s portion is worth as much as two women’s portions.’ When it comes to the rights of a divorced woman, her husband is responsible for her needs for three months only. In fact, a woman’s status is on par with animals. This classification is supported by an authentic hadith, ‘A man’s prayer is nullified when a dog, or a donkey, or a woman, happens to pass by.’ Please tell me, is this a manifestation of a spirit of tolerance?

The above is from is an interesting article that examines tolerance in Islam. You can read the whole text here

Dhimmitude for Dummies

In an article in FrontPage Magazine, Victor Sharpe writes:

"The corollary to jihad is dhimmitude. This is what appeasement by non-Moslems to Islamist threats and terror leads to. Winston Churchill would have been shocked but not surprised at the craven appeasement displayed by today’s elitists in the European political echelons.

"It is in marked contrast to the manner in which their ancestors confronted an earlier existential Islamic threat when they defeated decisively the Moslems at Tours, Iberia (Spain and Portugal), Lepanto and Vienna.

"But without a similarly decisive defeat of present day Islamist aggression and Islamo-fascism we may all be faced, sooner than we think, with the choice of forced conversion to Islam or subservience and wretchedness as dhimmis.

"Better, therefore, for us all to be aware of the facts and not also be dummies."

Our way of life is fast disappearing in these peaceful atolls; being overrun by real Islam. For nearly 900 years (except a few years in the 16th century) our ancestors thought they were following Islam. The reality was that they were blissfully following Hinduism and Buddhism clothed in a veneer of Islam. Now the real beast is here and unless we put a stop to it we will become history.

Wake up fellow Maldivians and put an end to our cultural annihilation!

a bleeding carpet of smashed bones.( Rest in peace, Oriana).

continued...."and I didn’t want to marry anyone. Least of all an Iranian with a Spanish wife not at all disposed to accept polygamy. At the same time I didn’t want to be shot, that is, miss my interview with Khomeini. As I was debating what to do in this dilemma...

You’re laughing, I’m sure. These seem like jokes to you. In that case, I won’t tell you the rest of this episode. To make you cry I’ll tell you about the twelve young impure men I saw executed at Dacca at the end of the Bangladesh war. They executed them on the field of Dacca stadium, with bayonet blows to the torso or abdomen, in the presence of twenty thousand faithful who applauded in the name of God from the bleachers. They thundered "Allah akbar, Allah akbar." Yes, I know: the ancient Romans, those ancient Romans of whom my culture is so proud, entertained themselves in the Coliseum by watching the deaths of Christians fed to the lions. I know, I know: in every country of Europe the Christians, those Christians whose contribution to the History of Thought I recognize despite my atheism, entertained themselves by watching the burning of heretics. But a lot of time has passed since then, we have become a little more civilized, and even the sons of Allah ought to have figured out by now that certain things are just not done. After the twelve impure young men they killed a little boy who had thrown himself at the executioners to save his brother who had been condemned to death. They smashed his head with their combat boots. And if you don’t believe it, well, reread my report or the reports of the French and German journalists who, horrified as I was, were there with me. Or better: look at the photographs that one of them took. Anyway this isn’t even what I want to underline. It’s that, at the conclusion of the slaughter, the twenty thousand faithful (many of whom were women) left the bleachers and went down on the field. Not as a disorganized mob, no. In an orderly manner, with solemnity. They slowly formed a line and, again in the name of God, walked over the cadavers. All the while thundering Allah–akbar, Allah–akbar. They destroyed them like the Twin Towers of New York. They reduced them to a bleeding carpet of smashed bones."

May her memory be eternal. Oriana Fallaci 1929-2006.

The return of The Dhivehistan Report is dedicated to Italian author, journalist and uncompromising political interviewer Oriana Fallaci who lost her protracted battle with breast cancer on September 15, 2006.
A resistance fighter during World War II, she became one of the first women war correspondents, reporting on conflicts in the Middle East and Latin America, as well as the Vietnam war. But she was best known for her uncompromising interviews with world leaders. They included the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, the Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir and Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini. Henry Kissinger wrote after being interviewed by her that the interview was "the single most disastrous conversation I have ever had with any member of the press". Fallaci famously ripped off her chador during a heated interview with Ayatollah Khomeini at his home in 1979 after assailing him with questions about the treatment of women in the Islamic state.
This passionate and powerful voice of the 20th Century was forever bold and brazen in her dissection of politics, power and ego, and their devastating effects on democracies everywhere. She wrote with an integrity and force of character that defined her life's work up until the very last days. She fought Nazis in the war, she has been fighting Nazis ever since. Rest In Peace, Oriana. We need more like you.

Following is excerpt part 1 from her book "The Rage And The Pride".

"This is coming from one who has known this type of fanaticism rather well in Iran, in Pakistan, in Bangladesh, in Saudia Arabia, in Kuwait, in Libya, in Jordan, in Lebanon, and at home. That is, in Italy. Known it, and had it chillingly confirmed through a number of trivial episodes—or rather, grotesque ones. I’ll never forget what happened to me at the Iranian Embassy in Rome when I asked for a visa to go to Teheran, to interview Khomeini, and I showed up wearing red nail polish. To them, this is a sign of immorality. They treated me like a whore to be burned at the stake. They ordered me to take off that red immediately. And if I hadn’t told them, or rather screamed at them, what I really felt like taking off—or better yet, cutting off of them...Nor can I forget what happened in Qom, Khomeini’s holy city where as a woman I was turned away from all the hotels. To interview Khomeini I had to wear chador, to put on the chador I had to take off my jeans, to take off my jeans I had to find a secluded place. Naturally, I could have performed the operation in the car in which I had arrived from Teheran. But the interpreter wouldn’t let me. You’re–crazy, you’re–crazy, you–get–shot–in–Qom–for–doing–something–like–that. He preferred to bring me to the former Royal Palace where a merciful custodian took us in and let us use the former Throne Room. I actually felt like the Virgin Mary who has to take refuge with Joseph in the barn heated by the donkey and the ox to give birth to Baby Jesus. But the Koran forbids a man and a woman not married to each other to be alone behind a closed door, and alas, all of a sudden the door opened. The mullah in charge of Morality Control barged in screaming shame–shame, sin–sin, and there was only one way not to wind up being shot: get married. Sign the temporary (four months) marriage certificate the mullah was fanning in our faces. The problem was that the interpreter had a Spanish wife, a woman by the name of Consuelo who was not at all disposed to accept polygamy, and I didn’t want to marry anyone. Least of all an Iranian with a Spanish wife not at all disposed to accept polygamy. At the same time I didn’t want to be shot, that is, miss my interview with Khomeini. As I was debating what to do in this dilemma..."
to be continued...part 2 will be in next posting.

Goodbye intolerant Blogosphere - last posting.

If you are a 5 year old with anger management problems DO NOT ENTER THIS SITE. If you run sniveling to Mommy when you see a cartoon, DO NOT ENTER THIS SITE. This is the 21st century on the internet. With thanks to Gary Brookins

Paki Muslim Dress Code

Since the conversion to Islam, there has been an incessant effort to eradicate everything to do with Maldivian past and culture. There is a reluctance, and even downright opposition to the study of early history. Islam seems to demand that - what they see as - the contemptible past before Islamic faith is forgotten. All artefacts preceding Islamic time have been systematically destroyed up to the present.
Now a large number of Maldivians have discarded Maldivian and western attire and moved on to the Pakistani Muslim dress code. And their numbers are growing everyday. Everywhere you can see people who dress like Kashmiri jihadis and Afghan Taliban.
No men except the mullahs on Friday are wearing the Arab dress but the move to Pakistani Muslim dress is maybe a way of getting closer to Arabia. Many women are already bundled up like Saudis. Soon we will have Maldivian men in full Arab regalia?
The quote below from one of the best books written about Maldives is worth reading and contemplating.

"Is the fate of gradually becoming an Arab nation the Maldive Islanders' only option? This is the Maldivian dilemma since they made the decision to accept the Arabs as their undisputed cultural masters and began to sever their links with their own past. Nowadays Maldivians are culturally restless people who can never be at ease. The intense indoctrination of the 1980s and 90s, when Islamization was imposed on the islands at a much higher gear than at any time in the nation's history, has made Maldivians feel uncozy in their own country. The changes brought about have been of such magnitude and in such a short time, that there is now a whole young generation of Divehi people who, having not known how things were previously, take for granted that their home nation has always been so orthodox and impersonal."

- Xavier Romero-Frias
in THE MALDIVE ISLANDERS, A Study of the Popular Culture of an Ancient Ocean Kingdom

Yesterday

Tomorrow

The sword and the tongue

Early this year a cartoon unleashed a wave of denunciations, outrage and frustration and violence across the Muslim world. Mobs of angry Muslims rampaged through Europe, the Middle East and Asia in protest.

Now many Muslims around the world are offended and angry again. Muslim religious leaders are lashing out because Pope Benedict XVI in an academic lecture about the compatibility of faith and reason quoted the 14th-century Byzantine emperor, Manuel II Paleologos.











What did this 14th-century Emperor say?

In a dialogue with a Persian scholar, Manuel II questioned the teachings of Islam's prophet, Muhammad. He declared "Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached."

The earliest surviving Maldivian government record, etched onto copper in 1194 records that Buddhist monks from the island of Isdhoo in Laamu atoll were taken in triumph to Malé and beheaded by 'the great king Gadanaadeethiya the Prosperous, the uplifter of the noble Lunar Dynasty... defender of the entire hundred thousand islands.' Pursuing a policy of Islamisation, the king 'refrained from killing those infidels who entered the faith of the noble Prophet Muhammad, got them to utter shahaadhath and freed them having performed circumcision on them.'

LAKUMDEENAKUMWALYADEEN - The myth of "Muslim Tolerance"

Ali bin Abu Taleb beheading Nasr bin al-Hareth in the presence of Mohammed and his companions.

Critically analyzing Islam is not a difficult task, as the writings and history of the 1400 year Islamic movement are quite extensive. The difficulty arises when anyone identifies any possible fault or point of critics whatsoever.
Muslims are hyper-sensitive to any criticism or observation that does not glorify and honor their ‘best’ religion and in particular their prophet, ‘Muhammad’.
Whereas all other religions seem to be able to survive all sorts of arguments and disparaging comments, Islam tolerates no such dissent or discussion of any kind. In Islamic lands the punishment for insulting the prophet is the same as it has always been …death.
This sort of intimidation has proven to be very effective in lands which are fully Islamic. Muslims yesterday and today are terrified of the response by Islamic fanatics should they accidentally disrespect the Qur’an or say something negative about the prophet or accepted teachings. You can criticize leaders and lay alike only by saying they are not Islamic enough, but suggest that the theology is flawed or needs reforming, be prepared to be dispatched to hell very quickly. Non-Muslims have also suffered at the hands of ‘believers’ by making ‘insensitive’ comments about the religion or their prophet. The first documented violent acts of the religion were when Muhammad attacked and killed several of his critics, which seems to provide Muslims today all the justification they need to continue that practice.
In Islam it is still the year 1427.
The more Islamic a state is, the more its women are shrouded and confined, the more its minorities are despised - and the more freedom of thought and speech are crushed.

A good muslim and friend of Maldives

The Times Online reports on September 15, 2006

Dubai Sheikh accused over camel boys

A legal case has been filed in a US district court alleging that the governor of Dubai and his brother enslaved about 30,000 children over the past 30 years for use as camel jockeys.
The claim, which is based on international laws banning slavery and child labour, names Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the Governor of Dubai and Vice-President of the United Arab Emirates, and Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum, as well as others. The brothers, who are among the world’s most famous racehorse owners, are accused of trafficking boys as young as 2 from Bangladesh, Sudan and southern Asia. The case has been filed in Florida, where the defendants have property, on behalf of six parents. Lawyers are seeking class-action status on behalf of about 30,000 children.

A search of the website of the President of Maldives confirms that this sheik accused of camel boys is indeed a good friend of the Maldives. Maybe if I search further I will dicover that this sheik has educated a few Maldivians in Islam and maybe contributed to a mosque or two. Or even contributed towards the in-vitro fertilization of babies for Maldivians.

Here is a small list of the affectionate messages between the Maldivian President and our Arab brother - no mention of camel boys in these exchanges.

The President has sent a message of Condolence to the Vice President and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates and Ruler of Dubai Sheikh Maktoum Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum followin....Score: 220.1 Date: Monday, February 25, 2002
The President has sent messages of felicitations to the President, Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al-Nahyan, and Vice President and Prime Minister, Sheikh Maktoum Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, o....Score: 179 Date: Monday, December 2, 2002
The President has sent messages of felicitations to Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al-Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates and Ruler of Abu Dhabi and Sheikh Maktoum Bin Rashid A....Score: 174.5 Date: Sunday, December 2, 2001
The President has sent messages of felicitations to the President of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al-Nahyan, and the country?s Vice President and Prime Minister, Sheikh Maktoum Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, on the occasion of the National Day of UAE.Score: 181.9 Date: Tuesday, December 2, 2003
The President has sent messages of felicitations to the President, Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al-Nahyan, and Vice President and Prime Minister, Sheikh Maktoum Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, o....Score: 179 Date: Monday, December 2, 2002
The President has sent messages of felicitations to Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al-Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates and Ruler of Abu Dhabi and Sheikh Maktoum Bin Rashid A....Score: 174.5 Date: Sunday, December 2, 2001
President Gayoom. has sent messages of felicitations to President Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al-Nahayyan, and Vice President and Prime Minister Sheikh Maktoum Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum of....Score: 130.3 Date: Saturday, December 2, 2000

An Arab Sheik with Gayoom. Maybe a "camel boy" job is possible after he finishes as President of Maldives as they want small people now that the international community is going after them for enslvement and abuse of children.

Three types of Maldivian muslims

There are two main types of Maldivians when it comes to faith. Muslims and Infidels. The Muslims are the majority. The infidels - the athiests, Christians, Buddhists, Hindhus and assorted pagans are the minority. They are not recognized by the state and the people and have no rights to practice their faith or worship.
Maldivian Muslims can be broadly divided into three categories. One is the "hardcore" Muslim. They believe that Muslims should wipe Israel off the map, that the bombings and murders committed around the world in the name of Islam by Muslim terror groups is justified. They are not fazed by the atrocities but instead embrace the maiming, torture and killing as part of Allah's grand design for mankind and the world. They know that Osama bin Laden and their ilk is carrying out the will of Allah and they are with him all the way. They justify their actions by reference to Islamic texts.
The second type is the so-called "moderate". They are naive and ill-informed of Islam. When you tell them that the Taliban outlawed the flying of kites or that "thighing" prepubescent girls is allowed in Iran and Saudi Arabia, they will respond "but that is not in Islam". They will tell you that flying the planes into the twin towers or the bombings in Bali are not allowed in Islam. They will say - "Islam is not what Osama Bin Laden and other terrorists practice. The terrorists are not following the footsteps of Muhammad. They are not doing anything that Muhammad did do. If we accept Islam, we must not accept terrorism. Jihad is a duty of every Muslim under certain conditions. It is inseparable from Islam under certain conditions."
They will tell you that Mohammed was so good he married the women left widows by war as otherwise these poor women would be exploited. If you told them that Mohammed instigated the attacks and destroyed entire villages and killed off the men and took the women and children into slavery, they will say - "that is not true".
They present Islam as a lovey-dovey cult that abhors the use of force, is uncomfortable with slavery and capital punishment, would never fight except in self-defense and actively welcomes other faiths. These Islamic apologists and self-important politicized academics constantly insist that Islam is peaceful and that anyone who says otherwise is ignorant. These people cannot grasp the fact that when Mohammed beheaded a man and took his wife to bed it is rape and murder.
The third type is the professional Muslim. These Maldivians have learned the Koran, the Hadith and the Siyarath in Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Egypt, Malaysia etc. They know nothing else. They have no scientific knowledge. They abhor the use of reason and logic. All they have been taught is Islam and to make their livelihood by teaching what they learned in the Muslim madrasa. This is their vocation and their means of earning some money. And of course, they are all male because women are lacking in intelligence according to their Prophet Mohammed.
I leave the Maldivian Christians, Buddhists, Hindhus and assorted pagans for another posting.

New Book -The Truth about Mohammed

"Spencer uses only Muslim sources for the facts about Muhammad’s life—the Koran itself, plus the hadiths and other Islamic documents that Muslims themselves accept as reliable. The resulting picture is at once instructive and horrifying."

A new book about Mohammed Prophet of Islam is coming out soon. Here is the advance review by Elizabeth Kantor. Read on.

Robert Spencer outdoes himself in this book—in courage (who else would dare to write a warts-and-all biography of Muhammad?) but also in marshalling solid evidence that the real “root causes” of jihad violence are in Muhammad’s own character and the teachings of the religion he founded. Spencer uses only Muslim sources for the facts about Muhammad’s life—the Koran itself, plus the hadiths and other Islamic documents that Muslims themselves accept as reliable. The resulting picture is at once instructive and horrifying. It’s often said that Islamists are bent on imposing the standards of the 7th Century on the modern world. The Truth about Muhammad actually shows the reader the savage time and place in which Islam emerged. Spencer opens a window on 7th-Century Arabia: the brutality, the superstition, the abuse of women. He shows precisely how both the conditions of Muhammad’s time and the prophet’s own actions continue to shape modern Islam. Did you know that Muslims used to face Jerusalem, not Mecca, to pray?—that is, until the breakdown of an accord between Muhammad and a Jewish group. (The repercussions of that failed agreement are still being felt in Muslim-Jewish relations today.) And were you aware that the requirement of four male witnesses to prove a sex crime comes from a “revelation” Muhammad received, clearing the name of his favorite wife? (Today, up to 75% of the women jailed in Pakistan are there because they’re victims of rape—who are judged to be fornicators and adulteresses because they can’t prove rape by Muhammad’s nearly impossible-to-meet standard.) A similar “revelation of convenience” allowed Muhammad to marry his own daughter-in-law. This book is full of fascinating and informative facts and connections between what happened in the 7th Century and what’s going on in Islam today. The tragic fact is that, for Muslims, religious awe—respect for the majesty and justice of God—is inextricably bound to the savage culture Muhammad came out of, to his own flawed character and to his violent and lust-driven teachings. To defeat the jihadists who want to kill us, we need to understand them. The Truth about Muhammad is an important contribution to that project.