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| Terror Networks | |
| Sheik Yusuf al-Qaradawi: fatwas, finance, Hollywood movie consultant | |
| 2010-06-10 | |
As President of the European Council for Fatwa and Research he gave Muslims the "spiritual" green light to murder American soldiers and civilian contractors in Iraq, and who empowered Muslim women with the coveted right to blow themselves up as homicide bombers. One minute, you may find him explaining on his Al-Jazeera television series that Hitler carried out "divine punishment" for the Jews, and "Allah willing, the next time will be at the hand of the believers." The next, he may be uploading his latest fatwa onto his Islam Online website, like the famous one he unleashed against "Pokémon," a kids' television show he's convinced features animated characters whispering, "Become a Jew." Or perhaps he's writing a learned chapter for his 41st book, addressing the finer points of wife-beating, child marriage, and female genital mutilation. The man the ADL dubbed "The Theologian of Terror," the choleric cleric who's banned from entering the U.S. and England, has rocketed to the top of Hollywood's A-list. Barrie Osborne, producer of the blockbuster trilogies The Matrix and The Lord of the Rings, has hired Qaradawi to guide all aspects of his new $200-million movie on the Prophet Mohammed, which Osborne optimistically describes as "an international epic production aimed at bridging cultures." Some moviegoers might find Qaradawi's approach to "bridging cultures" a tad peculiar: "The only thing I hope for is that as my life approaches its end, Allah will give me an opportunity to go to the land of jihad and resistance, even if in a wheelchair. I will shoot Allah's enemies, the Jews, and they will throw a bomb at me, and thus, I will seal my life in martyrdom." Qaradawi is banned from entering the U.S.. Nonetheless, Mayor Thomas Menino of Boston practically donated two million dollars' worth of public land to Qaradawi and his best buddies for a gigantic mosque in the heart of Roxbury. Now that the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center is officially open, creepy characters linked to the mosque keep getting arrested for terrorism. Zooming higher up the political food chain, we come to Barack Obama, and the Gaza flotilla attack. Whence cometh the money for this lethal publicity stunt? From Qaradawi, as chair of the Orwellian-named Union of Good, a Saudi-based umbrella organization through which the money apparently flowed. (To be strictly fair, Qaradawi can't claim sole credit for the massacre's success. Obama pals Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn and Obama's top cash bundler Jodie Evans chipped in, too.) Apparently, if the Q-man wants Israel's disarmament, that's good enough for Barry. So the White House quickly declared that Israel's Gaza blockade is "unsustainable" and began pressuring Israel to abandon its naval interception, thereby clearing the way for Iran to establish a Gaza port. Think I'm overstating the case? It was Qaradawi who organized an "International Day of Rage" in response to the Danish cartoons. The subsequent carnage so spooked the American mainstream media that, to date, not one newspaper has published the cartoons. And when Yale University Press recently published an academic study of the Danish cartoon crisis, it refrained from including any images of the actual cartoons to avoid inflaming those famously "sensitive" Muslim sensibilities. What are they all so afraid of? The fate of Wafa Sultan. Dr. Sultan, a Syrian-born psychiatrist who is now an American citizen, had the courage to speak truth to power, the power being a hard-nosed Muslim cleric on Al-Jazeera TV. The video of that incendiary 2006 exchange became a YouTube sensation, as more than a million people watched her exclaim, "Only the Muslims defend their beliefs by burning down churches, killing people, and destroying embassies. This path will not yield any results. The Muslims must ask what they can do for humankind before they demand that humankind respect them." Qaradawi was not happy. He took to the airwaves and thundered, "She said unbearable, ghastly things that made my hair stand on end. She had the audacity to publicly curse Allah, His Prophet, the Koran, the history of Islam, and the Islamic nation. She did not spare anything." Shortly thereafter, Wafa Sultan went into hiding with her family. From time to time, she emerges briefly, only to vanish again underground. Even as an American citizen in America, she can't speak her mind about Islam and then live a normal life. In her new book, A God Who Hates, she writes, "Most Muslims, if not all, will condemn me to death when they read this book." | |
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| #1 movie on the Prophet Mohammed Dream on. Muslims explode into a lather at cartoons that attempt to portray 'ol Mo. Even a cardboard cutout of a bear labelled Mohammad sent thousands into Pakistan's streets. Do you really think a movie on the life of Momo is going to make the foamers happy? an international epic production aimed at bridging cultures. A movie depicting the life of Mo, regardless of which beefy hollywood star is cast as the pedophile, is more likely to burn bridges than create them. In fact, I think I hear a fatwah coming now. |
| Posted by: Swanimote 2010-06-10 12:59 |