Silence=Acceptance
Rabbi Holtzberg was not murdered because of a territorial dispute over Kashmir or because of Bush’s foreign policy.
by Mark Steyn, NRO
Mark Styne
Indeed. And so it goes. This time round — Bombay — it was the Associated Press that filed a story about how Muslims “found themselves on the defensive once again about bloodshed linked to their religion.”
Oh, I don’t know about that. In fact, you’d be hard pressed from most news reports to figure out the bloodshed was “linked” to any religion, least of all one beginning with “I-“ and ending in “-slam.” In the three years since those British bombings, the media have more or less entirely abandoned the offending formulations — “Islamic terrorists,” “Muslim extremists” — and by the time of the assault on Bombay found it easier just to call the alleged perpetrators “militants” or “gunmen” or “teenage gunmen,” as in the opening line of this report in the Australian: “An Adelaide woman in India for her wedding is lucky to be alive after teenage gunmen ran amok…”
Kids today, eh? Always running amok in an aimless fashion. (Continue Reading this Article)
Who knows Eid? In honor of today’s holiday.
One of the more interesting things the West is silent about is Eid al Adha. Eid is the Hebrew word mo’ayd, and means a gathering or holiday.
Muhammad made his biggest muslim holiday the Hajj. Hajj is the Arabic pronunciation of the Hebrew word Khag, which is one of the words used in the Torah for the three yearly pilgrimage festivals to the Temple in Jerusalem.
Muhammad studied Judaism with rabbis living in northwest Arabia. They were of the priestly caste, but had lost all their status as priests after the destruction of the Temple, leading to the more democratic Rabbinic form of Judaism that we have today.
Although the pilgrimage to Jerusalem was mandatory only for those Jews living a half-day’s walking distance from Jerusalem, the Rabbis suggested that evey Jew make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem at least once in their lifetime, no matter how far away they lived.
Muhammad adopted this idea directly to islam. The Hajj is most closely related to the pilgimage festival of Rosh Hashana, with its tie-in to the expulsion of Hagar and Binding of Isaac.
According to Muhammad, Isaac was never bound. Instead it was Ishmael, who was actually Abrahams’s favored son. Despite Ishmael being the favorite, Abraham expelled him and his mother to Mecca. The 100+ year old Abraham then continued to live in Israel, and routinely commuted the 500 miles through the desert to visit his favorite son in Mecca.
It was outside Mecca that the binding of Ishmael took place. Allah’s substituting a sheep at the last second for Ishmael is celebrated in the Eid al Adha. This was originally called the Eid al Korban, but when Arabs realized that Korban was the Hebrew word for a sacrifice, they started using the Arabic word Adha. During the Eid al Adha, miliions and millions of sheep, goats, cows and camels have their throats slit out in the streets of the Muslim world (and in secluded private farms in America and Europe).
The Muslims say that the Judeo-Christian version of Abraham sacrificing Isaac in Jerusalem is a deliberate falsification of allah’s truth, and is one of the many reasons that allah has rejected the Jews and Christians in favor of the muslims, and is why muslims can never rest until they have conquered all Jews and Christians (first the Saturday people, and then the Sunday people).
Remember this when the last thing you hear while a devout muslim is slicing through you living neck is “alla hu akbar”.
Comment by Samuel Fistel — December 8, 2008 @ 11:57 am