Call me Roy
Oh how righteous you are, but let me remind you, just 70 years ago in this country grown men wearing white hoods were lynching black men for insulting a white woman, and just 50 years ago this whole country went into hysteria that Russian communists were going to take over the country.
They even had kids practice “Duck and Cover”
And I have noted how the ADL gets its knickers in a twist demanding that Oliver Stone retract statements like Jews run Hollywood, which is true, in fact there are Jewish sites that boast about it.
It may also have missed your attention, that in the 1950s and 1960s women in Egypt and other countries in the Middle East dressed like Westerners went to Universities, they supported secular nationalists like Nassar. Of coure one should also note that just 7 years ago we destroyed the last remaining secular Arab country, because it was a threat to our ally Israel, at least according to Fritz Hollins who had been in the Senate 40 years and knew a thing or two. And back in the 1980s these Islamic nutjobs were trained by our CIA, in fact trained near Danbury Connecticut at a shooting range. Could it be that by paying attention to the beliefs of 1 billion people and trying to find common ground we might actually not have to spend trillions of dollars on wars, and maybe if we were not so two faced and hypocritical about our Modern Democracy, they might trust us more. For now the best we can do is produce make believe that they are Super Heroes too.

David:

Thank you for your actual “reporting” on the comic series, as opposed to all of the knee-jerk and narrow-minded reaactions.  I have known about this series for some time, and had the same reaction that you had.

Peace.

I think the 99 looks like a good step forward in the tradition of comics used as vehicles for anti-prejudice.  The X-Men series does a lot of that too, with the prejudice against mutants in the story lines a metaphor for racism in the real world.  They have a lot of non-American / white characters, which of course dominated all the classic comics.

Here’s the web site for the 99:
http://www.the99.org/

Looks pretty decent but I wouldn’t call it Islamic myself.  The back story is Arabic related because it starts in ancient Baghdad I think.  Which is about to be attack by the mongols.  But its more of a theme than really about religion in any sense. 

From what I could see they intend to have characters from all over the world and both good and bad from each region.  There are more non-American / White people than in an American comic but ... well with 1.5 billion Muslims it’s a lot closer to just a random sampling.  Having said that I doubt they intend to have one third of the 99 as Chinese or Indian.

It’s Muslim in the same sense Captain America or Superman is a Christian comic.

Nobody tell the conservatives about “Arabic numerals” or they’ll want to boycott math.

I can’t say I’m particularly surprised by the knee-jerk Islamophobia here.  It’s rampant on TD.  Which says something truly sad about TD these days (or at least about the people it’s attracting…)

Wow religious super heroes; I can’t wait to see the next religious super hero doll coming out, it will probably be the Vatican’s super pope doll with choir boy sidekick…..  The southern baptists will have a super redneck doll with flowing KKK costume and burning cross (matches not included),.... I can’t wait for the Mormon doll it will be real special and come with a complement of holy underwear and its own planet. .... Unfortunately it has been reported Atheists will not have a super hero doll,...... because Atheists do not believe in the existence of super heroes!

Call me Roy this is not debate or commentary: it’s masturbation or even a form of schizophrenia. Do you ever argue with your own posts and get really angry at yourself? Oh, that stupid wanker Call me Roy is at it again, you type, what’s with him anyway? Maybe your doppelganger can tell me, because I’d really like to know too. That’s if he’s not too busy replying to your posts. It’s like an internet version of ‘The Sorcerer’s Apprentice’ with you instead of Mickey Mouse.

Islam’s Burning Rage
by Rich Trzupek on Sep 15th, 2010

At the other end of the spectrum, we have one major religion in the world so terribly insecure about itself that it cannot bear the slightest provocation, no matter how obscure or tenuous the source is. Rather than holding that religion – Islam – accountable for maintaining a skin so thin that it encroaches upon the freedoms it supposedly hold so dear, the Left continues to enable a hyper-sensitive Muslim worldview. According to the Left, Muslims are a particularly aggrieved part of the victim class and thus the regular rules of public discourse do not apply when they express their grievances. History tells us that leftists aren’t doing anyone any good, not Muslims and certainly not the civilized world, by according Islam this special status.
The firestorm of controversy that surrounded the ultimately unrealized plans of an obscure Florida pastor to burn a few copies of the Qur’an was truly remarkable, without any analog in the modern world. If Terry Jones had announced an intention to put any other book in the world to the torch, no one would have taken any notice, much less threatened to set off a firestorm of righteous indignation. The fact that this one book, and only this book, could provoke such a ludicrously disproportionate reaction ought to tell us much more about the people who believe in that book than it does about the people who question its authenticity and authority. Bible burnings, for example, are not uncommon. Last year an equally obscure preacher in North Carolina announced his intention to burn copies of the Christian Holy Book on Halloween. The United States has officially confiscated and burned Bibles in Afghanistan. Such incidents didn’t result in Christians storming the streets, howling in outrage or threatening violence. Such plans were instead met with a shrug, because the faithful were confident enough to say that such misguided actions ultimately don’t matter. (Continued)

Islam’s Burning Rage (Continued)

Yet, the very idea that one man could possibly desecrate the Qur’an was enough to get the State Department, the commanding General in Afghanistan and the President of the United States involved. The mainstream media jumped on the bandwagon as well, warning the populace of all the terrible things that were sure to happen if Jones went through with his plans. The irony is that Islamic inspired violence is a given, whether a preacher with bad facial hair actually burns copies of the Qur’an or not. No matter, for in the mainstream media’s eyes the damage has already been done. Islamic violence is always our fault according to the Left and this latest non-incident has become further proof that it is right. Islam doesn’t need reform, the Left assures us, our attitude towards the religion is the real problem.
As an example, consider the ongoing sectarian clash in the Kashmir region of India. Hindus and Muslims have been escalating levels of violence in the disputed Himalayan region for three months now, with Muslims pushing for autonomy and Hindus looking to protect Indian sovereignty. Yet, according to a story published in the New York Times on Monday, Terry Jones is ultimately to blame for exasperating the bloodshed. “[S]tate authorities sought to differentiate the new violence as separate from the other protests, linking it to the reports of the desecrated Koran. Indian authorities had fretted over the planned Sept. 11 burning of a Koran by a Florida pastor, Terry Jones,” the Times’ Jim Yardley wrote.
The Qur’an burning didn’t happen. Not that it should matter. Members of any other religion in the world would dismiss plans to burn their holy book as the unimportant, deluded ravings of an obscure individual who represents nothing more than himself. Muslims and their leftist allies, on the other hand, have managed to elevate Terry Jones into something he never was and never should have been: a global figure who wields immense power. The fact that something like this could occur is not a tribute to Jones’ message and charisma, it’s rather proof of just how powerfully Islamic insecurities influence the West, and particularly the Left.
Of the thirty recognized on-going global conflicts raging today, twenty-eight of them involve Islam in some shape or form. That was the case before Terry Jones got his fifteen minutes of fame and will continue to be so long after Jones disappears into the footnotes of history. Islam continues to be its own worst enemy and the Left, particularly the mainstream media, can’t seem to stop enabling this most insecure of the world’s religions.

Islam The Eternal Flame of Muslim Outrage
by Michelle Malkin
09/10/2010
Shhhhhhh, we’re told. Don’t protest the Ground Zero mosque. Don’t burn a Koran. It’ll imperil the troops. It’ll inflame tensions. The “Muslim world” will “explode” if it does not get its way, warns sharia-peddling imam Feisal Abdul Rauf. Pardon my national security-threatening impudence, but when is the “Muslim world” not ready to “explode”?
At the risk of provoking the ever-volatile Religion of Perpetual Outrage, let us count the little-noticed and forgotten ways.
Just a few months ago in Kashmir, faithful Muslims rioted over what they thought was a mosque depicted on underwear sold by street vendors. The mob shut down businesses and clashed with police over the blasphemous skivvies. But it turned out there was no need for Allah’s avengers to get their holy knickers in a bunch. The alleged mosque was actually a building resembling London’s St. Paul’s Cathedral. A Kashmiri law enforcement official later concluded the protests were “premeditated and organized to vitiate the atmosphere.”
Indeed, art and graphics have an uncanny way of vitiating the Muslim world’s atmosphere. In 1994, Muslims threatened German supermodel Claudia Schiffer with death after she wore a Karl Lagerfeld-designed dress printed with a saying from the Koran. In 1997, outraged Muslims forced Nike to recall 800,000 shoes because they claimed the company’s “Air” logo looked like the Arabic script for “Allah.” In 1998, another conflagration spread over Unilever’s ice cream logo—which Muslims claimed looked like “Allah” if read upside-down and backward (can’t recall what they said it resembled if you viewed it with 3D glasses).
Even more explosively, in 2002, an al-Qaida-linked jihadist cell plotted to blow up Bologna, Italy’s Church of San Petronio because it displayed a 15th century fresco depicting Mohammed being tormented in the ninth circle of Hell. For years, Muslims had demanded that the art come down. Counterterrorism officials in Europe caught the would-be bombers on tape scouting out the church and exclaiming, “May Allah bring it all down. It will all come down.” (Continued)

Islam The Eternal Flame of Muslim Outrage (Continued)

That same year, Nigerian Muslims stabbed, bludgeoned or burned to death 200 people in protest of the Miss World beauty pageant—which they considered an affront to Allah. Contest organizers fled out of fear of inflaming further destruction. When Nigerian journalist Isioma Daniel joked that Mohammed would have approved of the pageant and that “in all honesty, he would probably have chosen a wife from among them,” her newspaper rushed to print three retractions and apologies in a row. It didn’t stop Muslim vigilantes from torching the newspaper’s offices. A fatwa was issued on Daniel’s life by a Nigerian official in the sharia-ruled state of Zamfara, who declared that “the blood of Isioma Daniel can be shed. It is abiding on all Muslims wherever they are to consider the killing of the writer as a religious duty.” Daniel fled to Norway.
In 2005, British Muslims got all hot and bothered over a Burger King ice cream cone container whose swirly-texted label resembled, you guessed it, the Arabic script for “Allah.” The restaurant chain yanked the product in a panic and prostrated itself before the Muslim world. But the fast-food dessert had already become a handy radical Islamic recruiting tool. Rashad Akhtar, a young British Muslim, told Harper’s Magazine how the ice cream caper had inspired him: “Even though it means nothing to some people and may mean nothing to some Muslims in this country, this is my jihad. I’m not going to rest until I find the person who is responsible. I’m going to bring this country down.”
In 2007, Muslims combusted again in Sudan after an infidel elementary school teacher innocently named a classroom teddy bear “Mohammed.” Protesters chanted, “Kill her, kill her by firing squad!” and “No tolerance—execution!” She was arrested, jailed and faced 40 lashes for blasphemy before being freed after eight days. Not wanting to cause further inflammation, the teacher rushed to apologize: “I have great respect for the Islamic religion and would not knowingly offend anyone, and I am sorry if I caused any distress.”
And who could forget the global Danish cartoon riots of 2006 (instigated by imams who toured Egypt stoking hysteria with faked anti-Islam comic strips)? From Afghanistan to Egypt to Lebanon to Libya, Pakistan, Turkey and in between, hundreds died under the pretext of protecting Mohammed from Western slight, and brave journalists who stood up to the madness were threatened with beheading. It wasn’t really about the cartoons at all, of course. Little-remembered is the fact that Muslim bullies were attempting to pressure Denmark over the International Atomic Energy Agency’s decision to report Iran to the UN Security Council for continuing with its nuclear research program. The chairmanship of the council was passing to Denmark at the time. Yes, it was just another in a long line of manufactured Muslim explosions that were, to borrow a useful phrase, “premeditated and organized to vitiate the atmosphere.”
When everything from sneakers to stuffed animals to comics to frescos to beauty queens to fast-food packaging to undies serves as dry tinder for Allah’s avengers, it’s a grand farce to feign concern about the recruitment effect of a few burnt Korans in the hands of a two-bit attention-seeker in Florida. The eternal flame of Muslim outrage was lit a long, long time ago.

I wonder if the “strip joint” around the corner from the Mosque at Ground Zero was similar to the one that many of the 911 Muslim terrorists attended the night before they flew the planes into the Twin Towers, the Pentagon, etc murdering thousands, many who were women and children?
If these people were religious terrorists and not political terrorists or people acting out on political grievances, how could they have drank, gone to strip clubs, and rented hookers the night before they supposedly wanted to meet Allah? (Notice I didn’t say God, I said Allah). So if everybody doesn’t accept their version of reality, that somehow invalidates it for them. Everybody must believe the same things they do. Solution to this problem? Believe it or not, there is. It’s called an election and it happens again on November 2nd. That was easy.

special powers based on—gasp!—Muslim values?

How sweet. Special powers like these:
  Wow, wasn’t there just an article called “Muslims Behaving Badly”?
Oh Wait. Maybe it was called ” Islam Expert Not Shocked by Disappearance of ‘Draw Muhammad’ Cartoonist”?
No Wait, It could have been” Christians Warn Against Double Standard in Wake of Quran Burning Row”?
Or Maybe its “Koran Burning: How Dare the Muslim World Lecture America on Religious Tolerance”?
How ‘bout “Muslims Resume Building on Christian Graveyard in Pakistan”?
How ‘bout this “NYC Mosque Rhetoric May Harm Persecuted Christians”?
Can it be “Controversial Jesus TV Show Canceled in Lebanon”?
I getting close “Pakistani Court Acquits Christian Woman of ‘Blasphemy”?
Closer “Prospects of Religious Freedom Appear Grim in Islamic Maldives”?
Closer “Poll: 3 in 5 New Yorkers Oppose Ground Zero Mosque”?
Closest “Muslim Protesters Surround Worshippers in Indonesia”?
Gee, for so few radicals out there in the world, they sure get around, don’t they? But, they told us their religion was peaceful? You mean they lied to us? And we Socialist Progessive’s (I mean Democrat American’s) believed them? I guess I should stop watching the Main, I mean Lame-Stream Media? Oh my God, MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS, NPR, and PBS have all become Pravda America?