cult
• noun - a system of veneration and devotion directed towards a particular figure or object.
Common characteristics of a cult:
1) The group is focused on a living (or dead) leader to whom members display excessively zealous, unquestioning commitment.
2) The group is preoccupied with bringing in new members and/or making money.
3) Questioning, doubt, and dissent are discouraged.
4) Mind-numbing techniques (for example: meditation, chanting, denunciation sessions, or debilitating work routines) are used to suppress members' doubts.
5) The group's leadership dictates how members should think, act, and feel (for example: members must get permission from leaders to date, change jobs, or get married;) leaders may determine types of clothes to wear, where to live, how to discipline children, and so forth.
6) The group is elitist, claiming a special, exalted status for itself, it's leader(s), and members (for example: the leader is considered the Messiah or an avatar; the group and/or the leader has a special mission to save humanity).
7) The group has a polarized "We" versus "Them" mentality that causes conflict with the wider society.
8) The group's leader is not accountable to any authorities (as are, for example, military commanders and ministers, priests, monks, and rabbis of mainstream denominations).
9) The group teaches or implies that its "superior" ends justify means that members would have considered unethical before joining the group (for example: collecting money for bogus charities).
10) The group's leadership induces guilt feelings in members in order to control them.
11) Members' subservience to the group causes them to give up previous personal goals and interests while devoting inordinate amounts of time to the groups."
12) Members are encouraged or required to live and/or socialize only with other group members.
The religion of peace.
An elderly Saudi Arabian woman, who had two unrelated men in her house at the same time, was sentenced to 40 lashes, UPI reported.
Khamisa Mohammed Sawadi, 75, was charged with offenses against Islam by the religious police after having a man she considers her son because he she breastfed him as a baby, and friend who was with him, in her house at the same time, UPI reported.
They were delivering bread to the woman, Sawadi told local media.
She is appealing her sentence.
(Cross-posted at SnappedShot.com)
Three Muslims on trial for attempting to destroy airliners mid-flight insist they never intended to hurt any innocent people:
The changes of plea form part of the defence for some of the accused, who say that while they might have been planning to carry out explosions, and had made martyrdom videos, they never intended to attack airliners or kill people.
Instead, according to Abdulla Ahmed Ali, the alleged ring leader of the plot, the men had planned to carry out a publicity stunt-type explosion -- possibly at the Houses of Parliament -- in order to draw attention to a documentary film they were planning to make criticising British and U.S. foreign policy.
Immediately, some may leap to the defense of Islam by claiming the Quran forbids the killing of innocent people. It does not. In Islam, only Muslims are ever considered innocent. Non-Muslims are considered to be the corrupted enemy of Allah. They are the ones Muhammad accused of spreading mischief and persecution throughout the land. And the punishment for them?
Execution, crucifixion, or mutilation. So, when a Muslim tells you Islam forbids the killing of innocent people, remember that non-Muslims are never innocent according to the religion of peace.
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Is this still news? Rioting without cause and attacking innocent people because of perceived insults - it's become such a common occurrence...
A Christian woman converts to Islam. Authorities rush to protect her from her family, just in case they might be thinking of harming her. They don't, of course, but later the woman decides to "disappear." Frothing, insatiable Muslims go on a mad rampage attacking non-Muslims who had nothing to do with the woman or her family.
The "religion of peace" at work.
The attackers took to the streets on June 19, 2008 after the disappearance of Dalia Makram, a Christian convert to Islam. Dalia, or Demiana as she was known before her conversion to Islam, converted to Islam in order to marry Hamada Sayed Zaki about two years ago.
After her conversion to Isam, the authorities detained members of her family justifying the move as" to protect her if they thought of harming her" Dalia’s family subsequently left the village and moved elsewhere.
Just out of curiosity, how often does a Christian family harm a family member for apostasy? They may shun the family member, but rarely, if ever, will they hurt the family member.
On the other hand, how many apostates from Islam have been threatened, harmed, or murdered? How many "honour" killings have been committed because the victim "abandoned" his/her religion?
Too many.
On the 19th June, Dalia went to Cairo with her husband and child to visit a sick relative. She later disappeared and rumors spread that her Christian family abducted her. This spurred the Muslims of Al-Nazla to gather and attack Copts homes in an act of retribution, even though the Copts in the village had nothing to do with the matter.
Only the 'religion of peace' will justify an attack on innocent civilians based on "rumours" or "suspicions." Falling straight into her role of a 'good' Muslim, I would not be the least bit surprised if Demiana staged her own disappearance to stir tensions and disorder Muslims so desperately desire.
If You can't go to fight Jihad, bring Jihad to where you can fight.
(Cross-posted at SnappedShot.com)
Ah, the religion of peace...
Just another day at the madrassah. (One of which, incidentally, Barack Hussein "No Middle Name" Obama attened as a child!)
Police said Ziauddin, whose title "Qari" signifies he is a mullah, had suspended the boy from a ceiling fan for an hour before he beat him. When he realised how badly Mohammed was hurt, he apparently fled instead of taking him to hospital.
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An autopsy concluded that Mohammed, who was blind from birth, died of severe head injuries and also found marks of "physical torture" on his body. Police said the fatal blow might have been caused by Ziauddin dropping the boy when he cut him down from the fan.
According to the boy's father, the teacher had previously smashed him over the head with an iron rod, cutting him so badly that he needed stitches.
"We got the boy treated and wanted to pull him out of the madrassah but we decided to readmit him after the teacher said he would show some mercy to the boy," Mohammed's father Fayyaz Ahmed, 35, said. "We really did not expect him to go so far after he reassured us."
Mohammed was sent to the school eight months ago in the hope that he would become a Hafiz-e-Quran - a scholar who wins great respect by memorising the whole of the Koran.
"We kept pushing him to go because we wanted him to become a religious scholar," sobbed his mother Gulzar Bibi, 28. "We thought he was making the stories up like kids usually do to avoid going to school."
"We thought he would be the key to our emancipation on the day of the judgment," she added.
One fundamental difference between Muslims and the rest of humanity. How many parents would have left their child in an abusive situation in order to secure their own selfish salvation? Why would these parents send their child back to a school where they knew he was being savagely beaten?
Sacrificing children - even one's own children - is a virtue in Islam. Why? Because unlike Christianity, which offers salvation through the intercession of God's child, Muslims believe their salvation lies with the intercession of another Muslim. In Islam, only the most absolutely pious Muslims earn their own way into paradise. Muslim scholars conveniently are permitted into Islamic paradise. Martyrs who die fighting for Allah are guaranteed to reach paradise. Each will then be able to 'invite' up to 70 friends or relatives to join them in paradise. (That doesn't include the 373,248 virgins for each man.) The average "moderate" Muslim must depend on an invitation of a scholar or martyr!
This is the reason so many Muslim parents are eager to send their children to their deaths. This is the reason Muslims celebrate when a loved one dies. This is the cult of death.
(Hat Tip: King Rob)
Once again, Islam rears its ugly head of hatred and intolerance. Had these girls been Muslims rescued from Christians, the Muslim hordes would have still rioted over the initial kidnappings. Another case of Islam's hypocrisy - do unto others, but if you do unto us, we'll kill you.
NINGI, Nigeria, May 19 (Compass Direct News) – Islamists under the auspices of a paramilitary force last week destroyed six churches to protest a police rescue of two teenage Christian girls kidnapped by Muslims in this Bauchi state town.
Police recovered the two Christian girls, Mary Chikwodi Okoye, 15, and Uche Edward, 14, on May 12 after Muslims in Ningi kidnapped them three weeks ago in an attempt to expand Islam by marrying them to Muslim men. Police took the two girls, who had been under foster care, to safety in southeastern Nigeria where their biological parents live.
Islam - always a leader in promoting justice and tolerance...
Muslim villagers in Mymensingh district eager to rid the area of the Christian work of a local pastor have gang-raped his 13-year-old daughter, the girl's father said.
Pastor Motilal Das of United Bethany Church said that at around 3 a.m. on Friday (May 2) the villagers sexually assaulted his daughter, Elina Das, and left her unconscious in front of his house in an attempt to drive him and his Christian ministry out of Laksmipur village in Fulbaria sub-district, 120 kilometers (75 miles) north of the capital.
Local residents have long been angry with him for his ministry and evangelism, he said, and he has received death threats.
Fortunately, this child was not a Muslim, else she would have been stoned to death for having the audacity to allow herself to be gang-raped by a bunch of mis-understanders of the religion of Islam.
Allahu achbar!
It is a sad state when a simple religious tract causes such distress and offense, a person's life must be destroyed. Once again, the "religion of peace" rears its ugly head of intolerance and selfish obsession.
BANGKOK, March 18 (Compass Direct News) – Liu Huiwen, a Chinese Christian sentenced to 18 months imprisonment last November for distributing a gospel leaflet to Muslims in Gansu province, is suffering mistreatment in a Muslim-majority prison, local sources told Compass.
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They also claimed prison guards had withheld food and other items taken into the prison for Liu.
Liu, 39, was arrested on April 28, 2007 after distributing a leaflet entitled “A Letter To Our Muslim Friends” during a funeral in Manping Groupin Ketuo village, part of the Dongxiang Autonomous Region, a Muslim-majority ethnic area in Gansu province.
Villagers immediately reported Liu to police.
A Compass source said police severely beat Liu before detaining him at the Dongxiang police station.
They officially arrested him on May 31 and held him for several months in a nearby town. For about five months, police would not allow family members, including Liu’s wife, to visit him.
In September, the Dongxiang County Procuratorate charged Liu with publishing literature that “discriminated against and insulted people of ethnic minorities.”
Court evidence included a copy of the leaflet, the contract with the printer, and testimony from several Muslim witnesses, according to a China Aid Association (CAA) report last November.
Liu’s lawyer argued that the leaflet did not contain any discriminating remarks or insults against ethnic minorities and that the distribution of the leaflets was a minor incident.
http://www.compassdirect.org - CHINA: CHRISTIAN MISTREATED IN PRISON FOR ‘INSULTING’ MUSLIMS
ISLAMIC cleric Abu Bakar Bashir has returned to his hardline rhetoric with a call for followers to beat up Western tourists and for young Muslims to die as martyrs.
In the sermon, organised by an Islamic youth organisation and delivered a few kilometres from the home village of convicted Bali bombers Amrozi and Mukhlas, Bashir likened tourists in Bali to "worms, snakes, maggots", and specifically referred to the immorality of Australian infidels.
http://www.news.com.au - Beat up infidel tourists, says radical cleric
The Saudi royal family has come under increasing pressure - mainly from Washington - to change religious textbooks and to rein in militant clerics.
But critics are sceptical about whether such initiatives would work as long as the powerful, and ultraconservative, religious establishment in Saudi Arabia continues to exert enormous influence over society.
Only last week, a prominent cleric called for the beheading of two liberal writers who had questioned the orthodox view that Muslims can not change their religion.
Geert Wilder's film "Fitna" will be released this weekend. The 'religion of peace' has threatened massive violence when it is made public. Al Salibiyyah will have the video the as soon as it is available.
A new message from Obama Osama bin Laden asserts the blasphemous cartoons are somehow more outrageous than the Islamic violence against unarmed, defenseless civilians:
"You went overboard in your unbelief and freed yourselves of the etiquettes of dispute and fighting and went to the extent of publishing these insulting drawings. This is the greater and more serious tragedy, and reckoning for it will be more severe."
http://www.breitbart.com - Bin Laden Slams EU Over Prophet Cartoons
I don't even know where to begin with this. There are just so many irrationalities in this one statement. So, lets address each one by one:
"You went overboard in your unbelief..."
I suppose what he means is that, not only do we refuse to believe in his so-called god, we went even further and mocked it. Apparently, going overboard doesn't apply to Jihadists who use Allah's name to rape, mutilate and kill both Muslims and non-Muslims alike. Radical Muslims are considered pious men; radical cartoonists, however, is just going too far!
"...and freed yourselves of the etiquettes of dispute and fighting and went to the extent of publishing these insulting drawings."
Yes, we strayed from the common warfare etiquettes of killing each other as efficiently as possible and instead decided to draw pictures. Okay...
If I have learned nothing else about Islam, I do know "etiquette" is not in the Muslim vocabulary. Islam is a rash, uncivilized culture that uses deceit to destroy freedom, that targets the children of enemies, that displays cowardice beyond human comprehension. It is a culture that justifies the killing of unarmed civilians in retaliation to military defeats, and calls for the executions of those who dare to expose it.
When an Islamic militant uses the word "etiquette," it means he knows he is being destroyed by a superior force.
"This is the greater and more serious tragedy..."
Than...? Bombing innocent people on buses? Sending suicide bombers into markets or pizza parlors? Stoning women who were gang raped? Sawing the heads off bound, defenseless contractors? Hijacking commercial planes and flying them into civilian buildings?
"...and reckoning for it will be more severe."
For whom? I'm certain members of the 'religion of peace' will make many innocent people pay for the "tragedy" of cartoons. And as long as the West continues to coddle and appease Islamic terrorists, more innocents will die.
But tolerance has limitations. When that limit is reached, only Allah can save you.
(Hat Tip: Jihad Watch)
A report on Tuesday in the Algerian newspaper el-Khabar said an al-Qaeda militant carried out a raid against a mosque in the Algerian province of al-Wadi on Sunday night and killed two men while they prayed.
According to the report, eyewitnesses said masked men entered the mosque as evening prayers were being held forcing everyone to fall to the ground.
The armed militants called for the two men, Harun Ahmad, and his cousin, Harun Abdel Jabbar, to step forward. They were then taken to the courtyard in the mosque where they were shot to death as the killers, speaking in an Algerian dialect, said: "We kill you with God's consent."
The two victims were part of a group of moderate Salafites who are opposed to the terrorist activities carried out by the al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb group.
http://www.adnkronos.com - Algeria: Al-Qaeda attacks moderates
Donating a kidney for a Jew. Sound peaceful? Tolerant? Generous? It may sound that way, until you find out the organ donation is to raise money to kill Jews.
Muslims never cease to amaze me with new and creative ways to horrify and slay the Jews and Infidels...
TEHRAN — Iranian students are offering rewards totaling a million dollars for the execution of three top Israeli military officers over the deadly strikes on Gaza, and encouraging fellow Iranians to donate their kidneys to raise the funds, the student news agency ISNA reported on Monday.
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, Mossad spy agency director Meir Dagan and military intelligence chief Amos Yadlin are the targets of the bounty and are blamed for last month's assassination of Hezbollah mastermind Imad Mughniyeh.
What will they offer next, their children?
Islam doing what it does best - promoting its message of peace by killing anyone who opposes them. Serbian Muslims fight for the construction rights of a new Islamic school to be built on the outskirts of Kosovo:
Rival Muslim gangs that represent various religious schools of belief were trading gunfire on Friday in Serbia's southern Raska region.
The gunfight occured after two rival groups sqablled as to who will lay foundation to the newlly planned Islamic school in the city of Tutin. Two people were shot.
The two individuals that were shot belong to the faction led by Imam Muamar Zukorlic. The rival religious faction is led by Adem Zilkic who is the newly appointed chief of all Muslims in Serbia.
Chief of staff of Zilkic's office said that "Zukorlic faction wanted to lay the foundation over the existing one" that was already laid a year ago.
In February, these same rivals were engaged in brawl in the city of Novi Pazar.
http://www.serbianna.com - Muslims in Serbia gunsling one another
Coming soon to a town near YOU!
Islam uses blasphemy laws to harass and persecute non-Muslims and 'heretical' Muslim minorities:
The elderly man belongs to the Ahmadiyya, a Muslim religious movement condemned as heretical in 1974. With perhaps as many as 3 million followers, especially in Punjab, the Ahmadi community has suffered from harassment and persecution.
According to police, a student saw Altaf Husain rip pages out of a Qur‘an last Monday and throw them on the ground. When he shouted at him to stop, the old Ahmadi ran off.
Conversely, members of the Ahmadi community said that Altaf Husain was just reading the power meter outside his home when a madrassa student warned him that he was stepping on a page of the Qur‘an. The 80-year-old man failed to understand what the boy was saying when the latter began shouting, accusing him of blasphemy. Police arrived soon after and arrested the alleged offender.
The spokesman for the Ahmadiyya community, Saleem Ud-Din, told AsiaNews that the charges are baseless, that they are just a way to persecute Ahmadis.
http://www.asianews.it - An 80-year-old Ahmadi man arrested for blasphemy
The cruelty and barbarity of Islam once again bears it's ugly teeth. It is not enough to slaughter or execute thousands in the name of their demonic god Allah. The Muslim thirst for blood, torment and dying human flesh is never sated. Even an 80 year old man poses such a threat to their delicate Muslim 'sensibilities.' Lies, false accusations and the irrational demands of respect for printed paper and a pedophile prophet spur them into a feeding frenzy of hatred and savagery against fellow human beings.
With each passing day, with each passing atrocity committed in the name of "Allah," my disdain for Islam grows.
Coming soon to a town near YOU!
Here we have another example of a "courageous and well assimilated" band of muslim thugs kidnapping and beating a 14 year old British lad. What was the "offense" that spurred these five grown men to kidnap, punch, and kick the boy's face, stomach and head so hard that a footprint was left on his forehead??? Why the boy had the audacity to talk to a classmate - the muslim's female cousin.
Read the complete story at TheOPINIONATOR blog.
