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Muslim graves latest target of Austria extremists

menj — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 13:02:27 +0000

Islamophobia rearing its ugly head, this time in Austria.

Vandals damaged or destroyed dozens of graves belonging to Muslims in the Austrian city of Graz, heightening tensions in the southern city where a local politician made disparaging comments about Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).

Police in Graz, about 200 kilometers (120 miles) south of Vienna, said about 60 gravestones belonging to Muslims were found overturned or broken in the central cemetery, but said it was unclear when the vandalism took place.

Officials said they could not rule out the possibility that extreme-right groups active in the city may have been behind the attack.

Tensions have risen in Graz since a local female politician from the right-wing Freedom Party disparaged the Prophet Muhammad, calling him a “child molester” who wrote the Quran during “fits of epilepsy.”

Many Muslims stayed away from recent protests organized in Graz to support Palestinians suffering under a punishing Israeli blockade, fearing tensions could spill over into violence so soon after the comments by Freedom Party (FP) politician Susanne Winter, Austrian newspaper Wiener Zeitung said on Jan. 26.

This is how Christians will behave when they are in power.

Never forget

menj — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 07:52:28 +0000

When I saw the results of the HINDRAF rally on Sunday last week (several knocked down dividers, trash strewn on the streets and four injured policemen later, that is), I am reminded of what their ideological cousins, the Hindu Kar Sevaks from the RSS, did to this masjid in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh state.

Never forget what happened to the Babri Mosque.

We are an Islamic state in practice

menj — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 03:09:22 +0000

I like what Yusri Mohamad, the President of ABIM, said about Malaysia being “an Islamic state in practice”. In particular, the following statement taken from this report:

Notwithstanding the constitutional and theoretical debates, Malaysia has been an Islamic state in practice ever since Independence, said the Muslim Youth Movement of Malaysia (ABIM). Its president Yusri Mohamad said the so-called Islamisation process has not introduced any significant novelty.

“On the contrary, it seeks to preserve the religious practices and values of its Muslim citizens. The only “changes” that have occurred are in the attitude of those who cannot accept what has already been happening for a long time,” said Yusri when met at ABIM headquarters yesterday.

See bolded text.

“Those” who are being described here by Yusri would in my mind refer to a certain Chinese chauvinist political party which was responsible for starting May 13th, the notoriously Islamophobic movement which calls itself “Article 11″ as well as several other individuals and internet activists which we shall not bother to mention here at this juncture.

The parties concerned can dream on, I would say. If they want to turn Malaysia into a secular state, it can only be done over my dead body.