Stop Islam

Dieser Beitrag erschien am 11.3.2008 auf Gegen den Strom auf blog.de. Da ich Grund zur Annahme habe, daß mein Blog dort kurz vor der Löschung steht, transferiere ich alle Beiträge hierher.

Das Magazin Front Page führte ein Interview mit Robert Spencer, einem bekannten amerikanischen Bestsellerautor und Betreiber des blogs Jihadwatch. Grund war die jüngste Bestrafung eines Mannes mit 4 Monaten Gefängnis und 30 Peitschenhieben in Teheran, der ein schweres Verbrechen gegen die Scharia begangen hatte: Gassigehen mit seinem Hund.

FP: An Iranian man was recently sentenced to 4 months in jail and 30 lashes for walking his dog in Shahr Rey, a suburb of Tehran. What is going on here exactly?

Spencer: Well, I’ll let the renowned moderate Ayatollah Sistani say it. On his website, he explains that there are ten things that are essentially unclean for Shi’ite Muslims. These are urine, feces, semen, dead bodies, blood, pigs, alcoholic liquors, the sweat of an animal that habitually eats unclean things, unbelievers, and – dogs. Thus a man who walks his dog in a public place, where people might come in contact with it, is liable to render them unclean. That’s why the Iranian authorities have come down so hard on this man: he is compromising the ritual purity of the populace.

Höchstinteressant ist Spencers Theorie, warum sich Tierschützer wie zB PETA in islamischen Ländern so zurückhalten:

FP: Where are all the animal rights activists on this issue? I have never seen and heard of one demonstration.

Spencer: Jamie, I doubt that groups like PETA are even aware of this as an issue.

FP: But let’s talk about the silence of animal rights activists on this issue. You would think they would be up in arms about such atrocious abuse of animals and the morbid ideology that rests at its foundation. There appears to be a direct connection here to the silence, for example, of leftists in general to the terror and oppression that is perpetrated by Islam. Can you give us an interpretation of the silence of Western groups on issues like this? It’s very much connected to the hatred of one’s own society isn’t it?

Spencer: Yes, Jamie, I believe it is. These groups are filled with people who have been educated to hate their own culture and never to pass judgment on any abuses in any non-Western, non-Christian culture. They lack even the basic conceptual apparatus to conceive of a situation in which non-Western, non-Christian people could be anything but victims.