Illegal activity in defence of Islam
seems to be widely accepted as the natural thing for them, as good
Muslims, to participate in. True, with their preoccupation with
emulating the Prophet, you could say it is the “pious” thing for
them to do. When Muhammad was faced with criticism, the legality or
morality of the means employed to silence the critic never entered
the equation.
You can see in this screenshot how the
suggestion that WikiIslam should be taken down via hackers does not
cause the Saudi Wife to bat an eyelid:
She replies with her silly, but at
least legal, “master plan” to take down WikiIslam, by making Wikipedia aware of the site and the use of “wiki” in their name.... Yeah,
that'll work. Let's forget about the fact that having “wiki” in
the name of a wiki website is a common naming convention used by
hundreds of wikis. Maybe this brainstorm was inspired by the fact
that MuslimWiki were forced by Wikipedia to change their previous
name, which was MuslimWikipedia. And she has the cheek of accusing
WikiIslam of being deceptive in its appearance?
Yes, that common complaint, not made by
miserable housewives everywhere, makes another appearance when the
Saudi Wife tells us:
“I have recently found out there is a website called WikiIslam... When you first look at it, you think the site is legit... then you continue to actually look into it, and you see it is nothing but a blattant[sic] disregard for ....”
As I have already noted in my response
to MuslimWiki's lies against WikiIslam, the truth is WikiIslam makes
it abundantly clear in their 'About' page, FAQ page and Google
description that they are a website critical of Islam. If Saudi
housewives are too stupid to notice this, the confusion can hardly be
blamed on WikiIslam. The only “similarity” between Wikipedia and
WikiIslam is that they both run on wiki software. Muslims seem to
assume every wiki is owned by Wikipedia or has to follow Wikipedia
policies, so any website which has the backbone to not let Muslims
intimidate them into censorship must be deceptive.
Underneath a screenshot of a WikiIslam
page which shows Muhammad was an antisemite, she writes:
“PS: I Googled 'who are semites'... to get a page to share with a friend that really things[sic] Arabs who are SEMITES are Anti-Semites... I think its kinda funny!”
This is also a common argument used by
many Muslims, and is part of a wider tactic employed in defence of
Islam. Namely; word games. They love to play on words. For example,
claiming “Muslim" is an Arabic word meaning "one who
submits to God", and since Jesus submitted to God, he wasn't a
Jew (oh no, certainly not), he was a Muslim.
The idiocy behind such logic doesn't
deserve being explained due to its oh so obvious nature. But, in an
attempt to get through to Muslims, I will.
"Doctor" is the Latin word
for "teacher", so according to the Latin language all
teachers are Doctors. In reality, this is meaningless. The literal
meanings of words vary from language to language. This does not make
all Doctors "teachers" and viceversa. Muslim in Arabic may
mean someone who submits to God, but in English it is someone who
adheres to the Islamic faith. Obviously, every Arabic speaker, when
they're not busy trying to proselytize non-Arabic speakers, is aware
of this, otherwise, why not allow Christians, Jews, Sikhs, and other
monotheists to visit the Ka'aba in Mecca? After all, they are
“Muslims”, aren't they? Also, Qur'an literally means "the recitation",
but it would be ludicrous for an English speaking person to say “I
am going to Qur'an some poetry”.
The WikiIslam site explains:
"Technically, Arabs, Ethiopians, and Assyrians can be described as Semitic people, however in the context of "Anti-Semitism" it is commonly understood to refer to people who identify as Jewish."
The references provided confirm this:
“Noun • (n) anti-Semitism, antisemitism (the intense dislike for and prejudice against Jewish people)” – Definition/ Anti-Semitism, Princeton University's WordNet
"Function: noun hostility toward or discrimination against Jews as a religious, ethnic, or racial group" – Definition/ Anti-Semitism, Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
So, basically, what the Saudi Wife is
claiming is akin to the grandmaster of the KKK saying, “I'm not a
racist. I can't be, because I'm a part of the human race too!!!”
It's pretty depressing, but this is the
state of Islamic thinking, and it takes us nicely back to the
original topic of discussion; Muslims silencing critics through
“Cyber Jihad”.
As critics such as Ali
Sina have pointed out, this is due to their intellectual bankruptcy.
The only recourse they have available is to emulate their prophet
through intimidation, humiliation and killing. Up until the age of the Internet, it was very
nearly impossible to criticize Islam without literally losing your
head over it. Now that we have the Internet, it really is the last
semi-safe place to criticize Islam and how it effects the behavior
and attitudes of its followers. This fact tends to infuriate Muslims, who will often "challenge" the critics to show their faces, unaware that their words only confirm the barbaric stereotype earned by their faith.
I say “semi-safe” because there still are dangers to voicing criticism of Islam on the Internet, even with the relative anonymity it provides. Muslim reactions to criticism go further than simply trying to hack a site to shut it down. Many issue death threats and attempt to track down the people behind these sites in the real world. The reason behind this is not to shake their hands and have a nice discussion over a hot cup of cocoa. No, the reason is to teach them a lesson, even to kill them. For example, Hossam Armanious and his innocent family (originally from an article by the New York Sun):
“A radical Islamic Web site systematically tracks Christians on PalTalk.com, an Internet chat service on which a New Jersey man received a death threat two months before he and his family were murdered. The password protected Arabic Web site, at the address www.barsomyat.com, features pictures and information about Christians who have been particularly active in debating Muslims on PalTalk. […] Hossam Armanious, a Coptic Christian from Jersey City, N.J., who was found murdered earlier this month, frequently debated with Muslims on PalTalk. Two months before Armanious's murder, authorities said he received a death threat from a Muslim PalTalk user: "You'd better stop this bull ... or we are going to track you down like a chicken and kill you." On January 14, Armanious and his family -- including two daughters, ages 15 and 8 -- were found killed in their Jersey City home, bound and gagged with their throats slashed.”
Even if hackers were to somehow remove the site, their actions would be self-defeating. WikiIslam makes regular data backups in multiple locations, so it would swiftly be put back online, and the buzz generated by the other websites and blogs that criticize Islam would probably double its traffic.
Finally, I have no idea how the Saudi
Wife looks. But judging by the fact that Muslim dress discourages exercise, resulting in all the countries with the highest obesity rates among women being Muslim countries, and that over 70 per cent of the Saudi population and 70 per cent of women in the Gulf states are alarmingly obese, statistically, there is
a big chance that the title of this post is correct.
