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Pat Condell: What I know about Islam

There's nothing PC about Pat Condell.

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I found this while checking my references. It's a pretty handy little resource guide for bloggers. I recommend that you bookmark it.

The Religion of Peace™

Subject Index

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Abrogation
- later violent commands cancel early peaceful ones AB1, AB2,

Allah
- God or ...?   AL1,  AL2 , AL3, AL4

Apostasy
- they'll kill you if you try to leave their death-cult APO1 , AP02, APO3

Appeasement
- giving in to demands makes them more aggressive  AP1, CEJ6 , AP2

Buddhists, attacks on  BU1, BU2, BU3, BU4, BU5 , BU6, BU7, HI5

Cartoons
- Cambridge University cartoon dhimmitude   CA1, CA2
- Danish cartoons CA5
- extremely irreverent cartoons  CA3
- Toonophobia CA4

Censorship jihad
- gagging criticism of Islam CEJ1. CEJ6, CEJ7, CEJ8 , CEJ10,  CEJ11, CEJ12,
- Shooting the messenger:
- - undercover mosque CEJ2
- - Geert Wilders  CEJ3, CEJ4, CEJ5
- United Nations to outlaw criticism of Islam  CEJ9

Christians
- attacks on   CHR1, CHR4, CHR5, CHR6, CHR7
- Christmas market attack CHR3
- torture and mutilation in modern Turkey CHR2

Contamination jihad (contaminating food fed to infidels)
- feces CJ1
- human remains CJ3, CJ4
- urine CJ2

Churchill
- compares Islam to rabies CH1

Corruption Jihad
- immigration CRJ3
- medical profession CRJ2
- police CRJ1

Cult - Islam has all the characteristic of a mind-control cult CU1

Cultural Jihad   HU6
- cultural envy CLJ2,   CLJ3
- destruction of non-Muslim culture CLJ1, CLJ4, CLJ5, CLJ6, CLJ7, CLJ8

Dar al-Harb
- the West as the 'Domain of War' justifies terrorism  DAH1, DAH2, DAH3, DAH4

Deception   an essential method of spreading Islam
- Taqiyya, holy lies TA1, TA2, TA3

Demographic jihad 
- Muslim baby boom time-bomb DJ2, DJ3, DJ5, DJ6
- Muslims urged to outbreed us DJ1
- polygamy legalised in West DJ8   DJ4   DJ7

Dhimmitude   DH1,  DH2,  DH3, DH4, DH5

Economic jihad
- the huge cost of Islamic immigration  EJ1

Education
- Islamic propaganda in schools
- - America EE2
- - England  EE1
- Islamic propaganda in universities
- - abject dhimmitude at Cambridge CC1, CC2

Female Genital Mutilation   FGM1

Golden Rule
- the only religion that ignores the Golden Rule GR1, GR2

Honor/Shame culture  HS1, HS2, HS3, HU7

Hindus
- attacks on HI1, HI2, HI3, HI4, HI5

Human Sacrifice
- a sacred Islamic ritual  HS1 , HS2

Humiliation
- importance of 'humiliation'  HU1,  HU6,
- punish and humiliate the Kuffar  HU2
- ghairat, ghaira, izza, izzat - fragile egos HU7
- humiliation of Islam and Allah by mockery HU3, HU4, HU5

Inbreeding and cousin marriage
- genetic defects  IB1 , IB2,  IB3,  IB4
- corruption of society IB5, IB6

Infiltration and Subversion  IS1 , IS2, IS3, IS4

Islamic Awareness
- know your enemy IA1, IA2,

Islamic Inventions and Innovations
- lack of II1, II2,
- Nobel prize winners, lack of II3

Islamophobia   IP1,

Jews, attacks on JE1, JE2,
- extermination of Jews a religious duty JE3

Jihad
- Multi-pronged attack JI1

Jizya - the tax on infidels  JZ1,  JZ2

Koran
- contradictions KO1
- infidels not allowed to touch KO7
- Mohammed's sadistic fantasies KO9
- origins KO5 ,KO6, KO8
- Rushdie's parody KO3
- Satanic verses and Allah's daughters  KO2
- toilet hate-crime KO4

Litigation jihad
- sue whenever offended  LJ1

Lord Ahmed
- attempts to remove Salman Rushdie's protection LA1
- alleged threats to Parliament LA2

Meme
- Islam as a meme or mind-virus ME1 , ME2

Meteorite worship    MT1,   MT2,  MT3 

Mohammed
- criminality MO3
- necrophile MO2
- perverse sexual habits MO5, MO6, MO7
- the perfect man MO1, MO4

Moderate Islam and Moderate Muslims
- A myth?  MI1, MI2, MI3

Multiculturalism  MC1, MC2
- postmodernism  MC3

Narcotics jihad
- killing the kuffars with heroin NJ1, NJ2a, NJ2b

Obsessive Compulsive Islam 
- weird rituals OC1

Offensive to Islam  
- list of things offensive to Islam  OF1

Paedophilia
- child-rape at Beslan PB1
- institutionalised pedophilia PI5
- Islamic pedophile gangs in Britain PI2, PI3, PI4,   PI6, PI7
- Mohammed's child sex slave Aisha PM1,  PM4
- - Mufa'khathat (Thighing) MUF1,  MUF2,  PM2 (#231 onwards)
- - Muslim Association of Britain PM3

Political Paralysis in the face of Islamic aggression
- committment to the 'Religion of Peace' mantra  PO1
- criticism of Islam's totalitarian ideology prosecuted as 'racism' PO9
- denial of intrinsically terrorist nature of Islam   PO2, PO5,
- inability to clearly identify the enemy PO10
- political parties infiltrated and subverted PO3   PO4 , PO8, PO6, LA1
- threats of riots PO7, LA2

Polygamy in the West  DJ8   DJ4   DJ7

Predators, Plunderers and Parasites  PP1, PP2, PP3, PP4, PP5, PP6, DJ7

Rape
- as a weapon of Jihad  RP2, RP3, RP4, RP5, RP6, RP7
- child-rape at Beslan PB1
- victims stoned to death  RP1

Rationalism
- lack of rationalism in Islam RA1, RA2, RA3
- scientific incompetence II2, II3

Taqiyya - see Deception

Terrorism
- 9/11 victims jumped rather than burn to death TO3
- Mohammed 'victorious with terror' TO4
- terrorism only sure way to Muslim's salvation TO1
- train bombers given heroes' funerals TO2

Totalitarianism
- Islam as a totalitarian power-structure TM1

Tribalism
- primitive tribal aspects of Islam TR1

Security threat and expense SA3
- airports SA1
- intimidation of passengers and security personnel SA2

Sexual perversion (see also paedophilia)
- Islam is sex gone sour SP2, SP3, SP4
- Sexual arousal by watching vidoes of kuffars tortured and killed SP1

Slavery  SL1, SL2, SL3

Street Jihad
- Muslim gangs attack vulnerable kuffars SJ1
- Kriss Donald, castrated, blinded, mutilated and burned alive SJ2, SJ4
- Henry Webster, boy brain-damaged by mob of Muslim men SJ3  

Sudden Jihad Syndrome  SJS1

Supremacism
- belief that Muslims should dominate all non-believers    SU1,  SU2,   SU3
- Mosques as symbols of supremacism SU4,  SU5,   SU6, SU7

Ummah - the Muslim 'tribe'
- every Muslim's primary loyalty UM1 , HU7

Victimhood
- when they can't dominate, they sulk and play the victim  VH1, VH2,  VH3, VH4

Violence, inseparable from Islam VI1, VI2, VI3, VI4, VI5, VI6, VI7,  VI8, VI9

This index is work-in-progress and will be updated from time to time.

Please feel free to copy it and post it on your blog, and edit/update the copies as you see fit.

Michael Jackson converts to Islam

No big surprise here, Jackson escaped to Bahrain some years back. No doubt tired of the continual child molestation charges, he has found a nice hiding place under a burka.

Pop singer Michael Jackson has converted to Islam and changed his name to Mikaeel.

The 50-year-old star pledged his allegiance to the Koran in a ceremony at a friend's mansion in Los Angeles, the Sun reported.

Jackson sat on the floor wearing a tiny hat after an Imam was summoned to officiate -- days before the singer is due to appear at London's High Court where he is being sued by an Arab Sheikh, the paper said.

Hmmm, I wonder if this has something to do with the conversion?

The star decided to adopt the new religion while he was recording a song at the home of his friend where a Jehovah's witness was brought up to help him through the ceremony.

Apparently the star of hits like The Way You Make Me Feel-was convinced by his producer and songwriter friends David Wharnsby and Phillip Bubal.

"They began talking to him about their beliefs, and how they thought they had become better people after they converted. Michael soon began warming to the idea.

"An Imam was summoned from the mosque and Michael went through the shahada, which is the Muslim declaration of belief," the source revealed.

Mikaeel is the name of one of Allah's angels.

"Jacko rejected an alternative name, Mustafa meaning "the chosen one", the source added.

The singer, who rarely ventures out without a mask, (sic) is due to give evidence on Monday in a 4.7 million pound lawsuit brought by Prince Abdulla Al-Khalif of Bahrain for defaulting on an exclusive recording contract.

No reason to question his sanity, noooo sir.

Undercover Mosque: The Return

Hat tip Always on Watch.

BBC Ch4's Dispatches: Undercover Mosque, The Return.
Background on this controversial program. Watch the original Undercover Mosque.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5

The Return of Undercover Mosque

Whether it's chanting 'death to America, death to Israel', torturing, or building a bomb, there seems to be something amiss going on in Mosques these days.

The three examples linked above have all happened since December, and that's the reason programs like Undercover Mosque are so important. I'll post up the video when it becomes available.

'You have to kill him, this is Islam'.

Guardian- Three months after Dispatches: Undercover Mosque won a police apology and libel damages, Channel 4 has announced it is returning to the subject in Undercover Mosque: The Return.

Earlier this year West Midlands police and the Crown Prosecution Service paid out a six-figure sum to Channel 4 and Undercover Mosque Hardcash, the independent producer responsible for the documentary, after falsely accusing the programme of misleading viewers.

The documentary, an undercover investigation into extremism in mainstream British mosques, featured preachers calling for homosexuals to be killed, espousing male supremacy, condemning non-Muslims and predicting jihad.

Last August, West Midlands police referred the critically acclaimed programme to media regulator Ofcom and, in conjunction with the CPS, issued a statement saying the words of three preachers featured had been "heavily edited" so their meaning was "completely distorted".

However, Ofcom cleared Channel 4 and Hardcash of any TV fakery and ruled they "dealt with the subject matter responsibly and in context".

The two companies subsequently launched their libel action.

It has now emerged that the same Hardcash production team have revisited the subject to "see whether extremist beliefs continue to be promoted in certain key British Muslim institutions".

In the new documentary, a female reporter attends prayer meetings at an important British mosque which claims to be dedicated to moderation and "dialogue with other faiths".

According to Channel 4, "she secretly films sermons given to the women-only congregation in which female preachers recite extremist and intolerant beliefs".

In one scene, as hundreds of women and some children come to pray, a preacher calls for adulterers, homosexuals, women who act like men and Muslim converts to other faiths to be killed, saying: "Kill him, kill him. You have to kill him, you understand. This is Islam."

Channel 4 also said that in the same mosque, "the reporter visits the bookshop and discovers books and DVDs still on sale, promoting extremist, anti-Semitic, misogynistic and intolerant messages".

The undercover reporter also "films inside a key Saudi-funded Muslim organisation, which claims to promote tolerance and integration yet distributes literature which promotes intolerance for non-Muslims, an extreme version of sharia law and teachings which support discrimination against women".

In addition, Undercover Mosque: The Return also "investigates the role of the Saudi Arabian religious establishment in spreading a hard-line, fundamentalist Islamic ideology in the UK - the very ideology the government claims to be tackling".

A former Foreign Office minister tells Dispatches he thinks the government should take a stronger line on the issue.

The film also includes interviews with Islamic academics who condemn messages of intolerance and segregation and warn of the impact they will have on British society.

Dispatches: Undercover Mosque: The Return will air on Channel 4 on September 1 at 8pm.

Watch the original 'Undercover Mosque'

Baby Tossing

Hat tip, NeoCon Command Center. You thought dropping your kid off at school for the first time was tough? Check this out!

Notice the look on the kid's face? :O

Hackers Post YouTube Video Declaring War on Scientology

"For the good of your followers, for the good of mankind--for the laughs--we shall expel you from the Internet and systematically dismantle the Church of Scientology in its present form. We acknowledge you as a serious opponent, and we are prepared for a long, long campaign. You will not prevail forever against the angry masses of the body politic. Your methods, hypocrisy, and the artlessness of your organization have sounded its death knell."

Here's what Wiki says about Scientology.

I don't know how serious the threat is from "Anonymous", but the mechanized voice may be an indication of how serious  the hackers take the threat of Scientology.

The Blasphemy Collection

               

                        

I found this interesting because of the four religions in this top 20 list, only Islam's outrage has resulted in death.

Here's the tally,

• Christianity, blasphemed 13 times, zero deaths.
• Buddhism, blasphemed once, zero deaths.
• Sikhs, blasphemed once, zero deaths.
• Islam, blasphemed 5 times, 140 deaths.

The Danish cartoons were pretty tame compared to the Piss Christ, and some of the other obscene material listed below, but the religion of peace has a nasty habit of contradicting itself.

The concept of blasphemy seemed for some decades to be in decline in the West, but not any more.  It may be useful to look back at some recent cases of  militantly religious outrage...

Rated by
Vulgarity –the piece shocked through its conflation of the sacred and the profane
Criminality –the piece contravened laws in a given country
Religious impact –the work caused outrage from religious leaders
Political impact –speeches were made by governments, laws were created or changed.
Deaths – outrage at the work led to the death of one or more people

20. Jesus Christ Superstar
Crowds gathered in protest outside the Broadway theatre where this musical about Jesus and Judas was first staged. Some Christians took offence at the portrayal of Jesus as a man rather than as God and the sympathetic rendering of Judas Iscariot. The omission of the Resurrection was also a point of controversy. Some Jewish groups counted the performance as anti-Semitic in its depiction of Jewish crowds calling for Jesus’ death.
Vulgarity: 0 Criminality: 0 Religious impact: 4 Political Impact: 0 Deaths: 0

19.  Popetown
An animation of the life of fictional character Father Nicholas, who lives in Popetown (Vatican City) and works as the cartoon Pope’s handler, protecting the public from the truth that the animated pontiff is actually very stupid. The series, produced by the BBC was removed from scheduling before being aired on British television because of fears it would offend Roman Catholics. In Germany a full-scale campaign against the series continues.
Vulgarity: 3 Criminality: 0  Religious impact: 3 Political Impact: 0 Deaths: 0

18. Chocolate Christ
Cosimo Cavallaro’s My Sweet Lord, a rendering of the crucifixion in chocolate was pulled from a New York art gallery during Holy Week this year under pressure from the Catholic League.   
The 200lb sculpture, which exposed the genitals of the dying Christian saviour, incensed the Catholic League who bombarded the Lab gallery in Manhattan with protest emails.
Vulgarity: 5 Criminality: 0  Religious impact: 4 Political Impact:0   Deaths: 0

17. Ecce Homo
Photographs showing Jesus eating with homosexuals and transsexuals in an exhibition in Sweden, raised eyebrows in Europe between 1998 and 2000. The vivid images caused Pope John Paul II to cancel a meeting with the Swedish Lutheran Archbishop Karl Gustav Hammar who supported their exhibition.
Vulgarity: 3 Criminality: 0 Religious impact: 7 Political impact: 0 Deaths: 0

16. Strelnikoff Mary of Help of Brezje
An album cover showing Mary of Help cradling a rat above the title “Bitchcraft” was the Slovenian band’s statement on the Catholic teaching on abortion. There was subsequent outcry - almost 4000 public protests were made to the State Attorney’s Office in Ljubljana and over 1000 requests for indictment. It was refused by the High Court who said the album was “tasteless” but did not cross the line of what is permitted.
Vulgarity: 3 Criminality: 0 Religious impact: 4 Political Impact: 3 Deaths: 0

15. Jerry Springer the Opera
Based on the daytime TV phenomenon but with a sacrilegious twist, the British opera featured a character Jesus who dressed as a baby and regularly soiled his nappy. Protests when the opera was screened on British television saw Christians burning their TV licences outside BBC Television Centre, but other demonstrations were relatively sparse and tame.
Vulgarity: 7 Criminality: 0  Religious impact: 4 Political Impact: 0  Deaths: 0

               

                                                                  

                               

14. The Life of Brian
Arguably, Monty Python’s finest hour the Life of Brian is a comic biopic of Brian Cohen, born at the same time as Jesus and mistaken for the Messiah. A satire on excessive religiosity the film was banned in many towns in the UK for its alleged blasphemous content. Particular offence was taken at the crucifixion scene where those being executed burst into song with the theme tune “Always look on the bright side of life”. In New York Nuns and Rabbis picketed screenings of the film, which was completely banned in some states. In Ireland Life of Brian wasn’t shown for eight years after it was made and not for 11 years in Italy. Just this year, a screening of the film in a church in Newcastle Upon Tyne caused uproar from conservative Christian group Christian Voice.
Vulgarity: 4 Criminality: 0  Religious impact: 5 Political Impact: 2   Deaths: 0

13. Rude Buddha
A sculpture of Buddha with a banana and two eggs strategically placed was happily on display at the Royal Academy of Arts this summer, but when it was moved to the sculptors’ home city of Norfolk it raised hackles amongst the local police force’s hate crime unit. DC Dan Cocks ordered it to be removed from the gallery. The artist said he aimed to show that in a global village everyone can take offence at something.
Vulgarity: 5  Criminality: 5   Religious impact: 2  Political Impact: 0  Deaths:0

12. Gilbert & George Sonofagod exhibition
The ‘two poofs’, as Gilbert refers to himself and George, have been bedfellows with controversy throughout their career, but they tested the boundaries of religious tolerance with their Sonofagod – was Jesus heterosexual? Exhibition at the White Cube. They raged against the Catholic Church and one of their images included the text “God loves fxxxing”. Tory MP Anne Widdecombe denounced it as “blasphemous”.

Vulgarity: 7 Criminality: 0  Religious impact: 2  Political Impact: 3  Deaths: 0

11. Cartoon of Jack Hobbs
Back in 1925, The Star newspaper printed a cartoon showing the Captain of the English Cricket team, Jack Hobbs, being revered by a “gallery of the most important historical celebrities”, Mohammed was among them. Muslims in India were enraged at the image and the Indian government passed resolutions of protest.
Vulgarity: 4 Criminality: 0  Religious impact: 5 Political Impact: 5   Deaths: 0

10. The Profit
A film about a con man who starts a religion in order to become rich. It is banned in the US because of a lawsuit taken out against it by The Church of Scientology - despite the filmmaker’s claims it is not based on the founder of Scientology L. Ron Hubbard. Scientologists said the film was made to influence the jury in the case of Lisa McPherson who died while in the care of the Church of Scientology in Florida. 
Vulgarity: 0 Criminality: 3  Religious impact: 6 Political Impact: 6  Deaths: 0

9. Behzti (Dishonour)
Set in a Sikh temple, the play includes scenes of rape, murder and physical violence, which many Sikhs counted as supremely offensive. On its opening night at the Birmingham Rep a riot broke out and the performance cancelled. The protest took place as the Government was outlining legislation to outlaw incitement to religious hatred
Vulgarity: 7 Criminality: 0   Religious impact: 7  Political Impact: 2  Deaths: 0

8. Quran on toilet paper
Manfred van H. was sentenced to one year in prison on probation in Germany for posting toilet paper stamped with verses from the Quran to mosques and the media. He was charged for defaming religious convictions in a manner that would disturb public peace.
Vulgarity: 8 Criminality: 6  Religious impact: 5 Political Impact: 0   Deaths: 0

7. Chris Ofili’s Virgin Mary
The man who brought elephant dung to the art world created a Virgin Mary, surrounded by pictures of female genitals from pornographic magazines. It was removed from the Brooklyn Museum of Art’s ‘Sensation’ exhibition in 1999 after Rudy Giuliani, then Mayor, threatened to withdraw the $7m City Hall grant from the museum.

Vulgarity: 6 Criminality: 0  Religious impact: 5 Political Impact: 8 Deaths: 0

6. Penis on a cross by Danuta Nieznalska
The title of the piece says it all really. It contravened Polish blasphemy laws and the artist was fined, and banned from foreign travel for six months. She was sentenced to six months "restricted liberty" the Polish equivalent of community service.
Vulgarity: 8 Criminality: 9  Religious impact: 3 Political Impact: 0   Deaths: 0

5. Sony’s Cathedral shoot-out game
Games giant Sony chose to set their alien shoot-out game in Manchester Cathedral’s nave without permission from the Dean. The cathedral works to reduce violence in the city plagued by gun-crime, and threatened to sue Sony for breach of copyright of the interior of their building. The Prime Minister at the time, Tony Blair, told Parliament that large corporations like Sony should have more sensitivity and social responsibility in such cases. The controversy was resurrected when the game was nominated for a Bafta award and the Church called for the honour to be withdrawn.
Vulgarity: 5  Criminality: 5   Religious impact: 6  Political Impact: 5  Deaths: 0

4. Submission directed by Theo van Gogh
A 10-minute film about violence against women in Islamic countries, Submission depicted four Muslim women telling Allah the offences against them, while partially covered. Quranic texts, inciting women to submit, were projected on their bodies. The creator, Theo van Gogh and writer Hirsi Ali received death threats in Holland as a result of the film. In 2004 van Gogh was shot dead by a man who was caught fleeing the scene. Aftermath protests saw 174 incidents of violence against mosques, churches, and Islamic schools following the murder.
Holland’s Minister for Justice called for the country’s blasphemy laws to be implemented more stringently with counter calls for them to be abolished all together. An Independent Dutch MP called for a five-year ban on all non-Western immigration following the murder.

Vulgarity: 6 Criminality: 2  Religious impact: 8 Political Impact: 5   Deaths: 1

3. Piss Christ
Christ hanging on the Cross and suspended in a jar of the artist’s urine won the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art’s award in 1989 - a prize part-sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts, a US government agency. Debate about the photo went as far as the US Senate.
Vulgarity: 8 Criminality: 0 Religious impact: 4 Political Impact:10 Deaths: 0

2. Satanic Verses and Salman Rushdie’s Knighthood
Rushdie’s book which was a political satire on Islam led Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Khomeini in Iran to issue a fatwa (a religious ruling) sanctioning Muslims to kill the author for blasphemy. More than 10,000 marched on the British High Commission in India. Three people were shot and two died following the fatwa and 37 were killed in a riot in Turkey. Rushdie was forced into hiding for 10 years and has round the clock protection to this day, but he refused to apologise or recall the book. Robin Cook, then Foreign Secretary brokered a deal with the Iranians ensuring they would do nothing to carry out the fatwa, even though it still stood. When he was awarded a knighthood this year, the coals of the controversy were stoked and protest ignited once again with effigies of the author and The Queen burned on the streets in Pakistan. Al Qaeda threatened terror attacks against the UK in response to the honour. The book remains banned in Muslim countries.
Vulgarity: 6 Criminality: 9 Religious impact: 10 Political Impact: 10  Deaths: 39

1. Jyllands-Posten Mohammed Cartoons
Protests against the cartoons of Mohammed – one with a bomb in place of a turban – printed in the Danish Newspaper Jyllands-Posten, led to arrests, convictions, and caused over 100 deaths.
The newspaper claims it was contributing to the debate on self-censorship but Muslims across the world took offence at the depiction of their prophet, any image of whom is regarded as blasphemous.

Vulgarity: 4 Criminality: 7 Religious impact: 10 Political Impact: 10 Deaths: 100

 

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I found this interesting because of the four religions in this top 20 list, only Islam's outrage has resulted in death.

Here's the tally,

• Christianity, blasphemed 13 times, zero deaths.
• Buddhism, blasphemed once, zero deaths.
• Sikhs, blasphemed once, zero deaths.
• Islam, blasphemed 5 times, 140 deaths.

The Danish cartoons were pretty tame compared to the Piss Christ, and some of the other obscene material listed below, but the religion of peace has a nasty habit of contradicting itself.

The concept of blasphemy seemed for some decades to be in decline in the West, but not any more.  It may be useful to look back at some recent cases of  militantly religious outrage...

Rated by
Vulgarity –the piece shocked through its conflation of the sacred and the profane
Criminality –the piece contravened laws in a given country
Religious impact –the work caused outrage from religious leaders
Political impact –speeches were made by governments, laws were created or changed.
Deaths – outrage at the work led to the death of one or more people

20. Jesus Christ Superstar
Crowds gathered in protest outside the Broadway theatre where this musical about Jesus and Judas was first staged. Some Christians took offence at the portrayal of Jesus as a man rather than as God and the sympathetic rendering of Judas Iscariot. The omission of the Resurrection was also a point of controversy. Some Jewish groups counted the performance as anti-Semitic in its depiction of Jewish crowds calling for Jesus’ death.
Vulgarity: 0 Criminality: 0 Religious impact: 4 Political Impact: 0 Deaths: 0

19.  Popetown
An animation of the life of fictional character Father Nicholas, who lives in Popetown (Vatican City) and works as the cartoon Pope’s handler, protecting the public from the truth that the animated pontiff is actually very stupid. The series, produced by the BBC was removed from scheduling before being aired on British television because of fears it would offend Roman Catholics. In Germany a full-scale campaign against the series continues.
Vulgarity: 3 Criminality: 0  Religious impact: 3 Political Impact: 0 Deaths: 0

18. Chocolate Christ
Cosimo Cavallaro’s My Sweet Lord, a rendering of the crucifixion in chocolate was pulled from a New York art gallery during Holy Week this year under pressure from the Catholic League.   
The 200lb sculpture, which exposed the genitals of the dying Christian saviour, incensed the Catholic League who bombarded the Lab gallery in Manhattan with protest emails.
Vulgarity: 5 Criminality: 0  Religious impact: 4 Political Impact:0   Deaths: 0

17. Ecce Homo
Photographs showing Jesus eating with homosexuals and transsexuals in an exhibition in Sweden, raised eyebrows in Europe between 1998 and 2000. The vivid images caused Pope John Paul II to cancel a meeting with the Swedish Lutheran Archbishop Karl Gustav Hammar who supported their exhibition.
Vulgarity: 3 Criminality: 0 Religious impact: 7 Political impact: 0 Deaths: 0

16. Strelnikoff Mary of Help of Brezje
An album cover showing Mary of Help cradling a rat above the title “Bitchcraft” was the Slovenian band’s statement on the Catholic teaching on abortion. There was subsequent outcry - almost 4000 public protests were made to the State Attorney’s Office in Ljubljana and over 1000 requests for indictment. It was refused by the High Court who said the album was “tasteless” but did not cross the line of what is permitted.
Vulgarity: 3 Criminality: 0 Religious impact: 4 Political Impact: 3 Deaths: 0

15. Jerry Springer the Opera
Based on the daytime TV phenomenon but with a sacrilegious twist, the British opera featured a character Jesus who dressed as a baby and regularly soiled his nappy. Protests when the opera was screened on British television saw Christians burning their TV licences outside BBC Television Centre, but other demonstrations were relatively sparse and tame.
Vulgarity: 7 Criminality: 0  Religious impact: 4 Political Impact: 0  Deaths: 0

               

                               

14. The Life of Brian
Arguably, Monty Python’s finest hour the Life of Brian is a comic biopic of Brian Cohen, born at the same time as Jesus and mistaken for the Messiah. A satire on excessive religiosity the film was banned in many towns in the UK for its alleged blasphemous content. Particular offence was taken at the crucifixion scene where those being executed burst into song with the theme tune “Always look on the bright side of life”. In New York Nuns and Rabbis picketed screenings of the film, which was completely banned in some states. In Ireland Life of Brian wasn’t shown for eight years after it was made and not for 11 years in Italy. Just this year, a screening of the film in a church in Newcastle Upon Tyne caused uproar from conservative Christian group Christian Voice.
Vulgarity: 4 Criminality: 0  Religious impact: 5 Political Impact: 2   Deaths: 0

13. Rude Buddha
A sculpture of Buddha with a banana and two eggs strategically placed was happily on display at the Royal Academy of Arts this summer, but when it was moved to the sculptors’ home city of Norfolk it raised hackles amongst the local police force’s hate crime unit. DC Dan Cocks ordered it to be removed from the gallery. The artist said he aimed to show that in a global village everyone can take offence at something.
Vulgarity: 5  Criminality: 5   Religious impact: 2  Political Impact: 0  Deaths:0

12. Gilbert & George Sonofagod exhibition
The ‘two poofs’, as Gilbert refers to himself and George, have been bedfellows with controversy throughout their career, but they tested the boundaries of religious tolerance with their Sonofagod – was Jesus heterosexual? Exhibition at the White Cube. They raged against the Catholic Church and one of their images included the text “God loves fxxxing”. Tory MP Anne Widdecombe denounced it as “blasphemous”.

Vulgarity: 7 Criminality: 0  Religious impact: 2  Political Impact: 3  Deaths: 0

11. Cartoon of Jack Hobbs
Back in 1925, The Star newspaper printed a cartoon showing the Captain of the English Cricket team, Jack Hobbs, being revered by a “gallery of the most important historical celebrities”, Mohammed was among them. Muslims in India were enraged at the image and the Indian government passed resolutions of protest.
Vulgarity: 4 Criminality: 0  Religious impact: 5 Political Impact: 5   Deaths: 0

10. The Profit
A film about a con man who starts a religion in order to become rich. It is banned in the US because of a lawsuit taken out against it by The Church of Scientology - despite the filmmaker’s claims it is not based on the founder of Scientology L. Ron Hubbard. Scientologists said the film was made to influence the jury in the case of Lisa McPherson who died while in the care of the Church of Scientology in Florida. 
Vulgarity: 0 Criminality: 3  Religious impact: 6 Political Impact: 6  Deaths: 0

9. Behzti (Dishonour)
Set in a Sikh temple, the play includes scenes of rape, murder and physical violence, which many Sikhs counted as supremely offensive. On its opening night at the Birmingham Rep a riot broke out and the performance cancelled. The protest took place as the Government was outlining legislation to outlaw incitement to religious hatred
Vulgarity: 7 Criminality: 0   Religious impact: 7  Political Impact: 2  Deaths: 0

8. Quran on toilet paper
Manfred van H. was sentenced to one year in prison on probation in Germany for posting toilet paper stamped with verses from the Quran to mosques and the media. He was charged for defaming religious convictions in a manner that would disturb public peace.
Vulgarity: 8 Criminality: 6  Religious impact: 5 Political Impact: 0   Deaths: 0

7. Chris Ofili’s Virgin Mary
The man who brought elephant dung to the art world created a Virgin Mary, surrounded by pictures of female genitals from pornographic magazines. It was removed from the Brooklyn Museum of Art’s ‘Sensation’ exhibition in 1999 after Rudy Giuliani, then Mayor, threatened to withdraw the $7m City Hall grant from the museum.

Vulgarity: 6 Criminality: 0  Religious impact: 5 Political Impact: 8 Deaths: 0

6. Penis on a cross by Danuta Nieznalska
The title of the piece says it all really. It contravened Polish blasphemy laws and the artist was fined, and banned from foreign travel for six months. She was sentenced to six months "restricted liberty" the Polish equivalent of community service.
Vulgarity: 8 Criminality: 9  Religious impact: 3 Political Impact: 0   Deaths: 0

5. Sony’s Cathedral shoot-out game
Games giant Sony chose to set their alien shoot-out game in Manchester Cathedral’s nave without permission from the Dean. The cathedral works to reduce violence in the city plagued by gun-crime, and threatened to sue Sony for breach of copyright of the interior of their building. The Prime Minister at the time, Tony Blair, told Parliament that large corporations like Sony should have more sensitivity and social responsibility in such cases. The controversy was resurrected when the game was nominated for a Bafta award and the Church called for the honour to be withdrawn.
Vulgarity: 5  Criminality: 5   Religious impact: 6  Political Impact: 5  Deaths: 0

4. Submission directed by Theo van Gogh
A 10-minute film about violence against women in Islamic countries, Submission depicted four Muslim women telling Allah the offences against them, while partially covered. Quranic texts, inciting women to submit, were projected on their bodies. The creator, Theo van Gogh and writer Hirsi Ali received death threats in Holland as a result of the film. In 2004 van Gogh was shot dead by a man who was caught fleeing the scene. Aftermath protests saw 174 incidents of violence against mosques, churches, and Islamic schools following the murder.
Holland’s Minister for Justice called for the country’s blasphemy laws to be implemented more stringently with counter calls for them to be abolished all together. An Independent Dutch MP called for a five-year ban on all non-Western immigration following the murder.

Vulgarity: 6 Criminality: 2  Religious impact: 8 Political Impact: 5   Deaths: 1

3. Piss Christ
Christ hanging on the Cross and suspended in a jar of the artist’s urine won the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art’s award in 1989 - a prize part-sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts, a US government agency. Debate about the photo went as far as the US Senate.
Vulgarity: 8 Criminality: 0 Religious impact: 4 Political Impact:10 Deaths: 0

2. Satanic Verses and Salman Rushdie’s Knighthood
Rushdie’s book which was a political satire on Islam led Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Khomeini in Iran to issue a fatwa (a religious ruling) sanctioning Muslims to kill the author for blasphemy. More than 10,000 marched on the British High Commission in India. Three people were shot and two died following the fatwa and 37 were killed in a riot in Turkey. Rushdie was forced into hiding for 10 years and has round the clock protection to this day, but he refused to apologise or recall the book. Robin Cook, then Foreign Secretary brokered a deal with the Iranians ensuring they would do nothing to carry out the fatwa, even though it still stood. When he was awarded a knighthood this year, the coals of the controversy were stoked and protest ignited once again with effigies of the author and The Queen burned on the streets in Pakistan. Al Qaeda threatened terror attacks against the UK in response to the honour. The book remains banned in Muslim countries.
Vulgarity: 6 Criminality: 9 Religious impact: 10 Political Impact: 10  Deaths: 39

1. Jyllands-Posten Mohammed Cartoons
Protests against the cartoons of Mohammed – one with a bomb in place of a turban – printed in the Danish Newspaper Jyllands-Posten, led to arrests, convictions, and caused over 100 deaths.
The newspaper claims it was contributing to the debate on self-censorship but Muslims across the world took offence at the depiction of their prophet, any image of whom is regarded as blasphemous.

Vulgarity: 4 Criminality: 7 Religious impact: 10 Political Impact: 10 Deaths: 100

Westboro Cult’s Child Abuse (Video)

Via STACLU. Stay with it until the end, you won't regret it.

Walid Shoebat

Walid Shoebat is an American citizen, born to a Palestinian father and American mother. By self definition, he is a former PLO terrorist. Shoebat came to public attention by becoming an ardent critic of Islam and supporter of Israel. He describes himself as a former member of the Palestine Liberation Organisation who took part in terrorist attacks against Israeli targets. He is the founder of the Walid Shoebat Foundation, an organization that seeks to combat anti-semitism and promote peace in the Middle East. He has appeared on FOX News, CNN, MSNBC, CBS and the BBC.

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