The long-term Muslim worldview and death-dealing "clerics."

Cal Thomas reports^[1] in chilling detail the mindset of the deadly serious, if deranged, Muslim spokesman, Abu Hamza al-Masri, an imam who went on trial in London in January.^[2]

Note the clear appreciation of long-term infiltration by sleeper agents (10 years before activation) and the fact that the imam is not in the slightest doubt that Muslim doctrine requires Muslims to kill kuffar like you and me, Dear Reader.

The duty to kill apostates is clear to this joker, would that he were trying to be funny. We especially focus on his belief that he, as an imam, has the authority to declare whether someone is an "apostate." Are you perhaps waiting for "Official Islam" to rein in this guy, to stop him from making wild threats? Not to worry. You are just in a temporary dream state.

It never ceases to amaze the Colonel how single, solitary, individual imams, mufti and ayatollahs can all by they lonesome decide that someone's time on earth is finished.

Declaring someone an "apostate" is as easy for the imams to say as the Harvard faculty to chant "Bush lied." However, as we see all the time, calling some an apostate is a death sentence or, at best, a lever to effect (a) some world class groveling to seek forgiveness or (b) withdrawal of the dissenting Muslim into a cloistered existence where every snap of a twig could be the assassin in the backyard. [Is this imagery, or what?!]

No bringing of charges, no defense arguments, no court hearing, no checks on runaway imaginings, no comparison of conduct with any known standard, and no concern with the concepts of precedent or proportionality. It's stop-start, on-off, black-white, kiss my ring-death.

One braying, malevolent jackass acts as judge, jury and dispatcher of executioner. How hard the West has worked to avoid the horrible abuses of unchecked discretion on the part of political leaders and how horribly primitive are this man and the methods by which he exercise the authority conferred on him by his "religion."

Member of extremely teeny, tiny, only-seen-every-17-years Muslim minority group.

Same problem: "senior clerics" in Afghanistan say that if the government does not execute Christian convert, Mr. Abdul Rahman, and if it "caves into" Western pressure, they will "incite people to 'pull him into pieces.'"^[3] Heck, in the U.S. it's hard to get citizens to band together to pick up litter on the street but in Afghanistan you can "incite" the locals to pull some human being's arms from the sockets. Supper in the mosque rec room afterwards.

As Yakov might say, "What a religion!"

Wait, Comrades, there's more:

"Rejecting Islam is insulting God. We will not allow God to be humiliated. This man must die," said cleric Abdul Raoulf, who is considered a moderate and was jailed three times for opposing the Taliban before the hardline regime was ousted in 2001. ^[4]

Whew! This concept of the Islamic "moderate" is a slippery one. What would a Muslim "extremist" want? Hillary in 2008?

No need to cite any portion of the sharia for the death-for-hurting-God's-feelings proposition. Just get all riled up, lay the evil eye on your victim, and he's history.

This is just too cool. Where do we sign up to be one of them Muslim "cleric" dealie bobs? We know of some people from our high school who we're pretty certain have some pretty shaky religious beliefs that need to be "corrected." Who better than us to help out God by killing that miserable #$@%& in gym class reaffirming the primacy of His Holy Word?

Notes
^[1] "Infiltration by the book." By Cal Thomas, Washington Times, 1/18/06.
^[2] Total of 15 charges: nine counts of solicitation of murder, four counts of using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behavior intended to incite racial hatred, and two counts related to the possessing offensive sound recordings and a copy of the Encyclopedia of the Afghani Jihad.

Counts 10 through 15 are stupid and raise serious free speech issues. The Brits and the Europeans are heavy into the hate speech nonsense and it's a shame to see them have to resort to this nonsense. The incitement to murder charges are just fine, though, make no mistake.

Some Muslim thinkers have urged that imams, muftis, and ayatollahs who issue fatwahs for the murder of others should be brought before the International Criminal Court in The Hague. This is an excellent idea and is a good topic for a separate post.
^[3] "Clerics Call for Christian Convert's Death Despite Western Outrage." Associated Press, 3/23/06.
^[4] Id. It's just amaaazing how many Muslim "clerics" know God's mind. They are so concerned with how sensitive God is to the opinion of goat herders and physics professors. Yes, the Creator of the Universe, the Giver of life, and the artist of splendor beyond the mind of men to understand is surely cast down by the thoughts, speech, and religious decisions of Mr. Abdul Rahman, 345 Opium Poppy Street – Apt. 2B, Kabul, Afghanistan.