Comments on: Sistani rescinds death fatwa against gays

By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » NYT wonders: Does Islamic law authorize nuclear jihad?

Mon, 30 Oct 2006 17:03:27 +0000

[...] If you can bend shari’a one way then, hypothetically, you can bend it the other way too. (In fact, it’s been done before.) That’s the good news. The bad news is, it’s bent so far in the wrong direction it’ll take decades to turn around — particularly given that anti-Americanism is itself now a component of fundamentalist Islam. Iranian-rooted Islamist anti-Americanism has worked far better than its designers might have imagined, spreading to Sunni Islamists who have little love to lose for Iran. The marriage of Islamism and anti-Americanism will probably be considered by history as the most significant consequence of the Iranian revolution. Anti-Americanism has become a staple of Islamist sermons and Web postings, an effective tool for drawing to the movement angry young people who might not naturally be drawn to religion. Bin Ladenism, in this sense, owes much to the Iranian revolution even though Al Qaeda was never Iran’s direct ally. United States support for Israel has always been an important part of the argument for Islamist anti-Americanism, but today it is by no means a necessary component. If U.S. support of Israel were to weaken, the American presence in Iraq and elsewhere in the gulf would easily substitute as a basis for hatred. [...]

By: Dean's World

Dean's World — Sat, 20 May 2006 13:02:24 +0000

Al-Sistani, Again, And Another Go ‘Round On the Muslims…

Interesting news: The Grand Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani has apparently rescinded his opinion that gay people should be killed. And so we see, once again……

By: gary

gary — Tue, 16 May 2006 22:47:36 +0000

Perhaps an Iraqi Barney Frank will now appear in their new parliament.

By: lizzee

lizzee — Tue, 16 May 2006 19:41:09 +0000

At last,they can play “drop the falafel” in peace.
A new era of understanding has dawned.

By: Inoperable Terran »

Inoperable Terran » — Tue, 16 May 2006 19:30:47 +0000

[...] al-Sistani has cancelled his fatwa against gays. [...]

By: Defector01

Defector01 — Tue, 16 May 2006 16:07:04 +0000

“Leftist Dogma reaches Iraq”
Hey, if it starts causing these 7th century barbarians to actually think and cool on the “death to everybody but us” schpiel, then it might be well worth it

By: rightwingprof

rightwingprof — Tue, 16 May 2006 14:04:33 +0000

Leftist PC dogma has now reached Iraq

You call not murdering people “Leftist PC dogma”?

Get therapy. Now.

By: Dread Pirate Roberts VI

Dread Pirate Roberts VI — Tue, 16 May 2006 13:18:03 +0000

What a swell bunch of guys! Oh wait a minute. Not so fast! This only applies to gay men, gay women are still to be stoned on sight!

Silly boys! Now, you didn’t really expect Islamofacism to support equal rights for women did you?

By: Bellicose Muse

Bellicose Muse — Tue, 16 May 2006 12:29:59 +0000

So, the gay PC crowd is able to get Islamofacism to back down? We need to re-think our stance on gays in the military. It would appear as though we should stock the armed forces full of gays and let them fight the terrorists, seeing as how they can get them the so-called religon of peace crowd to back down from a fatwa.

We’ll call it the “Ask and Tell” policy, or “Queer Eye for the Insurgent Guy”.

By: Tony737

Tony737 — Tue, 16 May 2006 12:15:49 +0000

Well gee, that was awefully nice of him. “We still hate you, we’re just not gonna kill you anymore.” As they pat themselves on the back and congradulate themselves for a job well done. ”

Ahmed, we are such good people now that we only *hate* gays, Allah be praised. So, ya wanna go to the “smoke shop?”

Anybody know what happens in the back room an arab smoke shop? They have many sayings in the M.E. One of them is: Woman are for making babies, boys are for making love”. Another is: “Making love to a woman is a chore, making love to a man is a pleasure”. But outwardly they pretend to hate gays, because in reality they hate themselves. They hate in others what they hate about themselves. They just plain hate.

By: Ron C

Ron C — Tue, 16 May 2006 10:56:29 +0000

Leftist PC dogma has now reached Iraq… next comes education reform and books like “Heather Has Two Mommies” – Iraqis have little more than a prayer… the one we’ve not seen answered yet because we have no reliable representation.

We have yet to try what our founders demanded (and we lost in the early 1900′s) – that sitting government not have the power to re-elect itself (any member of.) We have but to reinstate one law in every state – all ‘representatives’ can only keep a small percentage of all ‘contributions’ (typically 15 to 20 percent) the other 80 to 85 percent has to be sent back to the district central committee or ward the rep supposedly serves, to be used to re-elect, or throw the bum out. It worked well, until we grew politically ignorant of what our founders demands were, and the laws they used to keep political power at the local level, weilded up, rather than the upside-down top-down power structure we’ve allowed to grow up around us.

By: Mark Jaquith

Mark Jaquith — Tue, 16 May 2006 06:01:11 +0000

maybe the Koran is more (cough) flexible than we thought

Now you see why my Bible and Qur’an are both soft cover editions.

By: GT

GT — Tue, 16 May 2006 03:20:37 +0000

Hmmmmmm….maybe the Koran is more (cough) flexible than we thought.