November 24, 2006

A Positive Development For The Islamic World

Just as I am critical of Islam, I want to be fair and note any positive developments within that faith. This is one.

A conference of Muslim scholars from around the world declared female circumcision to be contrary to Islam and an attack on women, and called Thursday for those who practice it to be punished.

The conference, organized by the German human rights group TARGET, recommended that governments pass laws to prohibit the tradition and that judicial bodies prosecute those who mutilate female genitals.

"The conference appeals to all Muslims to stop practicing this habit, according to Islam's teachings which prohibit inflicting harm on any human being," the participants said in their final statement.

Egypt's two top Islamic clerics, the Grand Sheik of Al-Azhar, Mohammed Sayed Tantawi, the foremost theological institute in the Sunni Muslim world, and Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa, attended the conference, which drew scholars from as far afield as Russia. Tantawi's and Gomaa's edicts are considered binding.

A few more steps like this and we might just see Islam reach the twenty-first century.

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I had the impression this was chiefly the custom in the sub Saharan sector of the Moslem world, not the Arabic.


Posted by: Ken Hoop at Fri Nov 24 04:34:37 2006 (DZbll)

2 Hence my use of the word Islamic rather than Arabic -- though it would seem to me that the fact this is Egyptian and other clerics dealing with the issue probably indicates that this sort of barbarism goes on more widely.

Posted by: Rhymes With Right at Fri Nov 24 06:41:32 2006 (bZJw3)

3

Egypt does however contain some sub Saharan-type citizens. Very racially conscious, the majority. They was a big snoot over Lou Gossett playing Sadat and I believe the film was banned there.


Posted by: Ken Hoop at Sat Nov 25 07:28:57 2006 (EPkr9)

4 No wonder you like the Arabs/Muslims, KKKen -- they are every bit as racist as you are!

Posted by: Rhymes With Right at Sat Nov 25 09:36:33 2006 (FTh9D)

5

http://www.davidduke.com/?p=1457


They have no need to bow to Jewish racists.


Posted by: Ken Hoop at Sun Nov 26 11:52:58 2006 (Cs2j3)

6 KKKen -- no more hate posts. No more material from racist, anti-Semitic scum like David Duke.

Posted by: Rhymes With Right at Sun Nov 26 15:57:33 2006 (oflay)

7

When such as you start combing the Israeli press and exposingIsraeli  racism, perhaps there will be less need to post from  "racist" "anti-semitic scum" who nevertheless proceeded  much further in the GOP ranks than you could hope to.


Posted by: Ken Hoop at Mon Nov 27 08:35:28 2006 (DZbll)

8 Just remember, David Duke was opposed by every national Republican leader when he ran for office -- don't forget the GOP ads that said "Vote for the crook -- it's important." As a legislator, Duke was a marginalized minority of one who accomplished nothing of significance.

And besides, only the backwards, in-bred folks of Louisiana, the same ones who wouldn't vote for a well-qualified conservative Republican of Indian heritage, would vote for scum like Duke in the first place.

Posted by: Rhymes With Right at Mon Nov 27 10:52:28 2006 (SmxLX)

9

Are the "backwards in-bred scum," you pathetic self-hater,the dominant majority of White Louisianans who twice voted for Duke?  Duke is quite respected now on the Right in many European countries , in which he tours frequently and in Russia where he has lived for significant time periods, giving lectures in large academic conferences and speeches at political rallies, etc.


Don't be envious. And don't use epithets apt to  cause smirks if one observes photos of the conveyor.


Posted by: Ken Hoop at Tue Nov 28 09:56:31 2006 (7GYBH)

10 Listen, KKKen, I don't care how the "dominant White majority" of Ku-Klux-Klouisiana voted -- such votes merely prove my contention about them. There is no place for racists like Duke (or you) in the politics of the United States -- or in the United States at all, for that matter.

Personally, I would be thrilled to see the "respected" racist Duke make his home permanently in one of the cesspools of racism and Jew-hatred that you praise -- and for that matter, would love to see you join him there.

Posted by: Rhymes With Right at Tue Nov 28 11:01:51 2006 (XbFHV)

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