Ferguson, der netop har udgivet Civilization: The West and the Rest diskuterer to store spørgsmål på otte minutter med Ziauddin Sardar, “specialist i islams fremtid”. Hvem har skylden for Mellemøstens misère? 500 års osmannisk imperialisme eller én generations vestlig? Og hvem vil dominere fremtiden? De er nogenlunde enige om, at Kina og Indien vil dominere økonomisk og islam demografisk. “Vesten som vi kender det idag, vil ikke eksistere om 20-30 års tid”, siger Sardar. Som det ser ud i disse år, nej næppe. At undgå den demografiske del af profetien i Europa haster, i flere områder er det for sent. Se eller gense f.eks. denne video om svensk demografi.
NB: Vores arkiver til højre mangler, vi ved det. Teknikken er på vej..
“Flygtninge” sætter ild på kirke på Lampedusa”
Hedder overskiften på Voice of Russia, eneste engelsksprogede referat. Det er at stramme historien udover hvad den kan bære, men den er værd at studere alligevel. Den findes også i denne video, der fortæller at “36 “bambini” satte ild på “broderskabshuset,” (antagelig et menighedshus eller lignende) “udlånt af Caritas munkeordenen.” “Her er ingen mad, vi vil til Sicilien, vi vil ikke sove her,” siger de. Alle “bambinierne” ser temmelig voksne ud. Så går de løs på bygningen og madrasserne. Enkelte italienske notitser findes, her og her. Læren er, som så mange andre gange, at når immigranter er landet i Europa, så bliver de der bogstaveligt talt med vold og magt i al fremtid. F.eks. skønner Sverige at de nu har 70-80.000 afviste asylsøgere, der opholder sig illegalt i landet. Morten Uhrskovs flådeblokade af Middelhavet forleden, er det eneste der kan forhindre det, og den vilje synes ikke at findes. Bemærk krigsråbet “Allahu Akhbar” i videoens sidste sekunder.
Tunisian refugees have set on fire a church at Lampedusa Island, Italy. No details of this incident have yet been revealed.For some days, the situation on the island has ben very tense. Local residents were unsatisfied by the torrent of Tunisian refugees, while the latter complained of poor accommodation conditions.The church was set on fire after the priest had accommodated 36 teenage refugees in the parish. Refugees set Italian church on fire. (New immigration boatload lands in Italy, now more than 22.000.)
Teenage girls pestered by gangs of immigrants for sex
Episoden er kun en af mange episoder på Lampedusa.’Tomorrow, Europe may no longer be European’, har Gadaffi sagt. Indeed, der vil altid stå en ny Cecilia Malmström parat med moderlige følelser, der løber af med hende.
Despite a massive police presence, and attempts to move thousands off the island to holding camps in Italy, the situation is potentially explosive. With teenage girls being pestered by gangs of immigrants for sex, the presence of so many young men has also led to sporadic outbreaks of violence on the few streets here. Drug use is also widespread. Some of the immigrants — among them escapees from Tunisian jails — have smuggled in narcotics along with large sums of cash to fund their journey farther north into Europe. But drugs or not, these men are hated by the 2,000 families who live here, and Berlusconi knows it.Gaddafi’s diaspora and the Libyans overwhelming an Italian island who are threatening to come here.
Koranens kristne rødder – interview med Christoph Luxenberg (2004)
Christoph Luxenbergs banebrydende filologiske dekonstruktion af Koranen er fremme i danske medier efter sognepræst Morten Rydals kronik Koranen begyndte som en kristen bog i Kristeligt Dagblad. Da der er tale om særdeles vanskeligt tilgængeligt stof for lægfolk er dette interview med Luxenberg fra 2004 værd at trække frem for dets fremhævelse af hans vigtigste pointer. At Luxenberg er et pseudonym valgt af sikkerhedsgrunde er en af de mange elefanter der befolker den anstændige politiske mainstream, på samme måde som ‘hvis Geert Wilders er så ond og højreekstrem som det antages, hvorfor er det så ham der er under beskyttelse 24/7?’ Man kunne passende spørge de anstændige om hvor mange historisk-kritiske bibeleksperter der er nødsaget til at udgive under pseudonym, men man ville ikke få noget svar (LFPC).
[…] Q. – What do you say, then, about the idea, accepted until now, that the Koran was the first book written in Arabic?
A. – “According to Islamic tradition, the Koran dates back to the 7th century, while the first examples of Arabic literature in the full sense of the phrase are found only two centuries later, at the time of the ‘Biography of the Prophet’; that is, of the life of Mohammed as written by Ibn Hisham, who died in 828. We may thus establish that post-Koranic Arabic literature developed by degrees, in the period following the work of al-Khalil bin Ahmad, who died in 786, the founder of Arabic lexicography (kitab al-ayn), and of Sibawwayh, who died in 796, to whom the grammar of classical Arabic is due. Now, if we assume that the composition of the Koran was brought to an end in the year of the Prophet Mohammed’s death, in 632, we find before us an interval of 150 years, during which there is no trace of Arabic literature worthy of note.” […]
Q. – You have discovered that Sura 97 of the Koran mentions the Nativity. And in your translation of the famous Sura of Mary, her “birthgiving” is “made legitimate by the Lord.” Moreover, the text contains the invitation to come to the sacred liturgy, to the Mass. Would the Koran, then, be nothing other than an Arabic version of the Christian Bible?
A. – “In its origin, the Koran is a Syro-Aramaic liturgical book, with hymns and extracts from Scriptures which might have been used in sacred Christian services. In the second place, one may see in the Koran the beginning of a preaching directed toward transmitting the belief in the Sacred Scriptures to the pagans of Mecca, in the Arabic language. Its socio-political sections, which are not especially related to the original Koran, were added later in Medina. At its beginning, the Koran was not conceived as the foundation of a new religion. It presupposes belief in the Scriptures, and thus functioned merely as an inroad into Arabic society.” […] Scholar researches origins of the Qur’an, fears for his life
Det “tidligste” portræt af Jesus: Guld, eller bare bly?
Vi omtalte for et par dage siden det angivelige fund i Jordan af metal-‘bøger’ der tilsyneladende daterer sig tilbage til de allertidligste kristne, måske endda apostlene. Implikationerne ville være spektakulære hvis dette var tilfældet, men ikke overraskende har disse genstande affødt betydelig kontrovers, og der synes at være i bedste fald massiv skepsis i ekspertkredse om ægtheden. Her nogle links til yderligere information: Jordan Lead Codices (Wikipedia) ; Jordan claims historic metal plates stolen. Just one problem…. . En oldgræsk tekst på en af bøgerne viser sig at være et tilfældigt udsnit kopieret (af en person uden elementært kendskab til oldgræsk) fra en gravskrift fra år 108 A.D.: HEBREW-INSCRIBED-METAL-CODICES WATCH: A FAKE. Det gode ved denne slags historier er selvfølgelig at de kan inspirere til læsning om historiske og teologiske emner der i sig selv er dybt fascinerende (LFPC).
Koranen “hellig” for NATO og Det Hvide Hus
Det må nok anses for usandsynligt at Barack Obama er kryptomuslim, problemet er bare at hans handlinger og udtalelser overfor den muslimske verden har en besynderlig tendens til at bekræfte disse formodninger (LFPC).
Statement by ISAF Commander Gen. David Petraeus and NATO SCR Ambassador Mark Sedwill
International Security Assistance Force
ISAF Headquarters Public Affairs
KABUL, Afghanistan (April 3, 2011) — In view of the events of recent days, we feel it is important on behalf of ISAF and NATO members in Afghanistan to reiterate our condemnation of any disrespect to the Holy Qur’an and the Muslim faith. We condemn, in particular, the action of an individual in the United States who recently burned the Holy Qur’an.
We also offer condolences to the families of all those injured and killed in violence which occurred in the wake of the burning of the Holy Qur’an. […]
Also notice that those individuals who burned the Koran are accounted culpable, and considered responsible for their actions, while the bombers and murderers and beheaders are like a natural disaster that “occurred in the wake of the burning of the Holy Qur’an”.
If this is the response of our brave men in uniform, you can imagine what their Commander-in-Chief is saying. Here’s the full text of a statement released yesterday by Barack Hussein Obama:







