Silent Servants...

Silent Servants...

... of the Used, Abused, and Utterly Screwed Up.

A Secular Franciscan looks at the world...
with a more jaundiced eye than ever...
and lots of ellipses for you to fill in the missing text...
(with thanks to Thomas S. Klise for the title)



Showing posts with label Islam. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Islam. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

It's sad,

even though Egypt's Christians are apparently finally being heard by the leaders, that they even need this kind of help to be protected from Islamists...

Egypt offensive targets Islamists in central town

"Christians have reported militant intimidation in the town of Dalga. Officials are reluctant to portray the operation as one launched in support of Copts."

Tuesday, July 02, 2013

Friday, August 24, 2012

This



is part of the medieval thinking that Islamists hold and promote.

Mentally impaired child arrested under Pakistan's anti-blasphemy law

Pakistan really is possibly setting itself up as a pariah in that region of the world, at least to the West. They claim concern about terrorism but let terrorists base themselves in their country. What's that about?


Wednesday, May 09, 2012

So,



because he has been critical of election irregularities and possible fraud in Malasia, a newspaper (with who knows what connections to the ruling party, or what they may have been pressured to do by a certain criminal cult) essentially sets Senator Xenophon up for a terrorist attack by deliberately changing a speech critical of a criminally-convicted cult to be critical of Islam. This was really no accident.

Security fears for Xenophon over religious misunderstanding

I fear that once you get a group of extremists riled up it's impossible to stop them all from acting violently. I think a nice lawsuit would fit perfectly here, and would allow him to find out who instigated it. If a certain cult had a hand in it, well...


Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Progress?





Progress and Rat Poison in Morocco

It may seem so for some people, but it really alway depends on where you are in the culture. What may seem to be progress and freedom to some is anything but for others.








Saturday, January 14, 2012

Such a peaceful, friendly religion





'Gay people should get the death penalty’: Five Muslim men on trial for stirring up hatred after 'handing out homophobic leaflets near mosque'

Sigh. What is left to say? While this is a small group, how many other Muslims in England (and around the world) feel like sentiments? It seems that their whole approach to the world is to kill anyone who doesn't believe as they do. And they want people to respect their beliefs?

So very sad...


Wednesday, January 04, 2012

So, if they've got the majority


they've got the power.

Nigeria: The fundamentalists’ ultimatum. The appeal of Bishop Ayau Kaigama


"The Islamic group Boko Haram has given Christians three days to leave the north of the country. A bishop: “There are secret forces that move them.”"
Even if they don't have a majority, how do you deal with a religion that solves disputes or exerts the power it does have at the end of a gun?


Wednesday, December 07, 2011

The waning of philosophy




The Islamic Scholar Who
Gave Us Modern Philosophy


Their brilliant thinkers achieved so much, only to have their religion destroy it...



Tuesday, December 06, 2011

It is really sad...


...that certain groups of people don't want to live in peace with others.

Afghanistan bombs kill 58 in Kabul and Mazar-i-Sharif

All they really want to do is kill anyone who doesn't believe exactly as they do. And if they ever managed to do that they would start killing each other. I think all they really want to do is kill...




Monday, December 05, 2011

Do you think


that it may just be a convenient way for the male ruling class to keep a hold on their power?

Allowing women drivers in Saudi Arabia will be 'end of virginity'


"Allowing women drivers in Saudi Arabia will tempt them into sex, promote pornography and create more homosexuals, according to some conservative Muslim scholars."

Wednesday, November 02, 2011

Oh, Newt...

Gingrich Says 'Arab Spring' is Really 'Anti-Christian' Spring

Persecution against Christians has been going on in Arab countries for many, many years. He's only using this for political points...


Tuesday, November 01, 2011

This is the sort of thing

that is making headlines in our city now that a Pakistani Christian immigrant is trying to make public this sort of thing to the Canadian people...

Coptic Christian Student Murdered By Classmates for Wearing a Cross

Not surprisingly, it appears in this article that it was the adult teacher who instigated the issue and encouraged the youths. Like the radical Imams do...


Friday, October 28, 2011

This sort of thing is happening more and more

in countries where Islamist fanatic murderers like Al Shabaab militants make laws for themselves...

 Islamic Extremists in Somalia Behead 17-year-old Christian

Have mercy on him, Lord, and on all his family.


Saturday, September 17, 2011

It continues...


Netherlands to ban the burka


"Holland is to become the latest European country to ban the burka, despite the fact that fewer than 100 Dutch women are thought to wear the face-covering Islamic dress."

In some ways this is understandable, particularly from a security perspective. Given the number of people mentioned in the article who actually wear it, they may have felt safe instituting this sort of legislation.

Islam is the author of this misfortune, without a doubt. Of course, they could just pass a law that anyone wearing a burka also had to wear eyeshadow, lash thickener, rouge and other bits of female makeup. That would be fun to see - all those male Muslim terrorists standing for mugshots made up like Mae West!


Friday, August 26, 2011

I hope they don't find it in their books...



Women's marriage baffles Islamic police in Indonesia's Aceh


"Islamic religious police in Indonesia's Aceh province are stumped about how to handle a case of two women who married at the urging of neighbors concerned that one of the roomates was a man and therefore a couple living in sin
...
"In the Prophet's book, people committing such a thing should be beheaded or thrown into the sea, but we don't have that in our regulations," Muddasir, the head of Aceh's religious police, told Reuters on Wednesday."

Monday, July 11, 2011

“religion gives freedom to women.”




Hamdia’s Research

"Celebrating International Women’s Day in Baghdad."






Friday, June 03, 2011

Of course,


if we banned their holy book here there would be no end to the cries of bigotry and prejudice and lack of freedom in the West.

Radical Pakistani Clerics Call Bible ‘Blasphemous,’ May Seek to Have it Banned

If this happens it's just another thing we'll suck up...


Wednesday, May 18, 2011

It seems that this is all they know

Nigerian Pastor’s Wife, Children among Christians Killed in Attack

These Islamist extremists only know how to act with violence and killing. It seems that they are so threatened in their faith that they have to kill everyone who doesn't believe as they do.

We have to pray for all these people.

Have mercy on the pastor and all his family, Lord.


Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Guilty once charged

Pakistan's blasphemy vigilantes kill exonerated man

This is the problem in these strict Muslim cultures. It doesn't matter what the law says, the extremists and fanatics will still do what they feel is necessary for them to do despite the law. They feel free to interpret anything as blasphemy, it seems, and the law has been proven to be used unfairly to settle grudges and get property, because, as we see here, it doesn't matter if you're guilty or not, you still lose.

Have mercy on him, Lord.

(I'm certainly glad that my God and His prophets and representatives are big enough to take care of themselves without the help of the little people...)


Tuesday, April 05, 2011

Sure

Koran pastor 'not responsible' for UN deaths in Afghanistan

"Thousands of protesters in northern Afghanistan, enraged over news that an American Christian preacher had overseen a torching of the Koran, stormed a United Nations compound, killing at least seven UN staff."
Of course he's not responsible. He wouldn't think he was in any case. In the minds of a lot of people in the world he's wrong, though, just as he was wrong in the first place to burn the book.