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I just spent parts of four days working in the Conde Nast building just off of Times Square and a couple of short blocks from where this jackoff would have set off the fireball from hell.
It never once crossed my mind in those days as it never does and it probably won't unless, Allah forbid, something like this happens when I'm in the vicinity. But it's been on my mind that the places these douchenozzles target are the places I go almost every week of my life. Airports, planes, train stations, trains and central locations in NYC, DC, London and other capitals.
So I paid attention when McTerrorist Faizal Shahzad was sentenced today.
And there is nothing more disturbing to me than this excerpt from the CNN article on the decision and the Judge's comments:
'Saying he appears to be someone "who is capable of education," she said she hopes he will spend time in prison thinking of whether the Quran wants you to kill people."'
This is the lie that we're going to have to come to terms with at some point but hundreds of thousands of people like this Judge actually believe that the Quran DOESN'T want him to kill people, and that if he spends time in jail thinking about it that he will realize this and then he can advocate for the true message of the Quran.
The Quran is laced throughout with justifications for violence against the unbeliever - nearly every surah contains some type of justification for murdering and/or subjugating people who don't accept Islam. The Quran's message of peace is almost exclusively directed to the Ummah, while unbelievers are offered either violence or subjugation.
Violence is written in the DNA of Islam. To the extent that there are tens of millions of peace-loving Muslims (there are, including friends of mine in Jordan who I have visited and friends from Iran who bought me an approved translation of the Quran and read it with me) it is because their innate human goodness leads them to filter the violence out of the religion they embrace.
But for those who don't want to do that, they don't have to go distorting the message of the Quran or misinterpreting its language. It's there for the taking and no amount of sitting in prison and pondering the "real" meaning of the Quran is going to change that.
It never once crossed my mind in those days as it never does and it probably won't unless, Allah forbid, something like this happens when I'm in the vicinity. But it's been on my mind that the places these douchenozzles target are the places I go almost every week of my life. Airports, planes, train stations, trains and central locations in NYC, DC, London and other capitals.
So I paid attention when McTerrorist Faizal Shahzad was sentenced today.
And there is nothing more disturbing to me than this excerpt from the CNN article on the decision and the Judge's comments:
'Saying he appears to be someone "who is capable of education," she said she hopes he will spend time in prison thinking of whether the Quran wants you to kill people."'
This is the lie that we're going to have to come to terms with at some point but hundreds of thousands of people like this Judge actually believe that the Quran DOESN'T want him to kill people, and that if he spends time in jail thinking about it that he will realize this and then he can advocate for the true message of the Quran.
The Quran is laced throughout with justifications for violence against the unbeliever - nearly every surah contains some type of justification for murdering and/or subjugating people who don't accept Islam. The Quran's message of peace is almost exclusively directed to the Ummah, while unbelievers are offered either violence or subjugation.
Violence is written in the DNA of Islam. To the extent that there are tens of millions of peace-loving Muslims (there are, including friends of mine in Jordan who I have visited and friends from Iran who bought me an approved translation of the Quran and read it with me) it is because their innate human goodness leads them to filter the violence out of the religion they embrace.
But for those who don't want to do that, they don't have to go distorting the message of the Quran or misinterpreting its language. It's there for the taking and no amount of sitting in prison and pondering the "real" meaning of the Quran is going to change that.
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