Some Muslims translate Jihad to English using the word "struggle." There's been a "My Jihad" ad campaign describing Muslims struggling to be better people and stuff. In German, "My Struggle" would be translated as "Mein Kampf." This is probably just a historical coincidence (although Hitler was allied with Muslims), but it's still quite an interesting coincidence.

It's the people who believe Islam isn't dangerous who are doing the assuming. The only way to believe Islam isn't dangerous is to be utterly ignorant of Islam's origins, teachings and history.

This is a somewhat amusing distinction. Don't kill infidels, just idolaters. Humans believe the strangest things.

Yes. Obviously. Nothing more to say.

But, of course, I'll say more. I consider someone to be Islamic / be a Muslim if they believe both of the following propositions:

(1) There is exactly one god.
(2) Mohammed was a prophet of this god.

This casts a wide net and would probably include many people, but obviously would include all Jihadis, including the Farooks.

And, of course, the Jihadis are following Mohammed's example, as every educated person knows. Everyone who says Jihad has "nothing to do with Islam" is either ignorant or lying.

PS: Fuck Islam.

An idiot French "journalist" -- Jean-Jacques Bourdin (one of the evil JJs) -- compared Daesh (Islamic State/ISIL/ISIS) to the Front National. Marine Le Pen (head of the FN) responded by a series of tweets to clarify the difference. The tweets were pictures of ISIS murdering people by beheading, burning alive and running over them with a tank.

https://twitter.com/MLP_officiel/status/677041625315614720

She might get charged with "inciting racial hatred" (again!) for tweeting these. This makes as much sense as saying someone is "inciting racial hatred" against Nazis by showing photos of Nazi atrocities, but the point isn't to make sense. The point is to silence people pointing out who these new Nazis (Jihadis) are, what they do on a regular basis.

I've taken screenshots of the tweets in case Twitter removes them, not that I have any reasonable platform to publicize them either.

Those of us who take the Jihadi threat seriously need to come up with some kind of plan for combatting what's happening. It's obvious Western governments are more interested in silencing anti-Jihadis than taking action against actual Jihadis.

The first actions should probably be directed against non-Muslim Islamophiles in the West -- the ones who lie about Islam and lie about its critics. The West should become at least as unsafe for Islam's defenders as it is for Islam's critics.

If you live in a modern Western country and know a non-Muslim who says Islam is a religion of peace and Islamophobia is the real problem, please spit in their face the next time you see them. I won't say what you should do after you spit in their face, but follow your heart.

It's a disappointing result, but not surprising to me. It's always seemed like a minority of the French that are willing to even admit there is an Islam problem in their country, and that the problem will likely mean the destruction of their country and culture.

As far as I'm concerned, they've voted for their extinction. Let them have it.

Every Charlie Hebdo massacre, every Paris attack, every French Jew tortured to death or Jewish French child shot in a school, every Jihadi massacre. The French have voted for it. Let them live and die with it. Let them go dancing to their graves satisfied with the final post-beheading thought: at least we stopped the FN.

Well, so there's your answer. He would respond vigorously to the attack by throwing anti-war quotes at them.

Until someone decided a phrase in the quote is hate speech, and then he'd apologize.

"plague-spot of civilization"? That's a micro-aggression. You know, I think plague victims have been shunned from polite society long enough. It's time to welcome those with the plague among us. There's nothing dangerous about the plague. Plagueophobia is the real danger.

Part of the problem is that too many people equate being Muslim to being of a certain ethnicity or race. It's like confusing being a Nazi with being German. It's stupid to hate Germans (well, for the most part), but fine to hate Nazis. It's also stupid to make excuses for a Nazi in those cases where they aren't German. It misses the point.

It's fine to hate Islam. There's plenty to hate. It's based on the ravings of an illiterate violent 7th century lunatic. It's also fine to laugh at it. It is quite funny that billions of people have fallen for the ravings of an illiterate violent 7th century lunatic (and pedophile!).

It's also fine to hate Muslims. They're capable of seeing through the bullshit, but they either choose not to or choose to pretend not to. I hate Nazis who didn't really believe in National Socialism but just goosestepped along in an unthinking manner.

It's not fine to hate an ex-Muslim because they were born into a Muslim culture. On the contrary, people who could grow up in such a repressive and insane environment and be willing to stand up and say, "Islam is bullshit" -- those are some of the best people in the world. And, hell, they need asylum/refugee status much more than Allahu Ackbaring morons.

I actually agree with you on this. My current support for the FN is strategic against the most dangerous fools of the moment. It's a shame that individualists have done nothing to counter the clear Jihadist threat. On the contrary, I've heard far too many people who claim to be individualists make excuses for Jihadists, or claim that Muslims were not responsible for attacks (like those of September 11) at all. Worst of all is that some people who claim to be individualists assert that Islam is compatible with individual liberty, when even those with minimal knowledge of Islam know that Islam means submission. To believe that individual liberty is compatible to total submission requires an amazing ability to believe bullshit.

One of the first things required for individualists to push back against the Jihadist threat is to be able to speak openly and honestly about Islam, its foundation and its beliefs. Such speech has been criminalized in much of the world. Even if it's not criminal, everyone knows there is an effective death penalty which will be carried out by Jihadists. The Front National says some of the inconvenient truths about Islam, while the "mainstream" parties parrot comforting lies.

Of course, the pseudonymity and censorship-resistance of cryptocurrencies could provide a way to engage in such speech without risking one's head (either figuratively in the case of legal consequences or very very literally in the obvious sense). Why isn't anyone using them for this purpose? Why instead do so many in this space make excuses for Jihadists and demonize those who speak out against Jihadists?

My answer is simply that the world has gone mad. Most of the people who claim to be "individualists" are simply a different kind of collectivist. They want to signal that they believe the "right things" -- the beliefs of their tribe -- "Islam is peace." "Terrorism is always blowback or false flags." "Jihad means internal struggle." "2+2=5." "Freedom is slavery." "Liberty is submission."

This applies even moreso to the Ummah. Jihadis are the most "miserable fools," as are those who take pride in following the ravings of a violent illiterate 7th century lunatic. It's sad how many people outside the Dar al-Islam defend the Ummah; people who should know better.

I don't know if the Front National will "deal with" the problem or not, or if what they do will be effective. I wouldn't be surprised if they went out of their way to prove they're not "racist" if they ever do get to power. I wasn't claiming the FN will "deal with it." My claim was simply that the other "mainstream" parties definitely will not "deal with it." We know this for a fact because they've had decades and they still deny there is a problem. A year that started with the false "Je suis Charlie" claims is ending with the importation of over a million refugees who are happy about the Charlie Hebdo massacre.

I agree with your last paragraph, but I'm not sure how it applies to the Jihad problem. I wish I did. Maybe you have some ideas you can share?

Holy shit, someone reasonable bought Beliathon's account! Makes my day.

It's definitely a good result. There's still the run-offs next Sunday though. I imagine the real collectivists will go after the FN full force. Hopefully the FN will pull it off though. I think the election in 2017 is probably more important. A lot can happen between now and then.

For those of you afraid of the FN, there's an easy way to stop their rise. Admit you have a problem with a Jihad-friendly segment of your population. And after admitting it fucking deal with it. Your refusal to even admit it, much less deal with it, for decades leaves me with no sympathy for you.

Actually, they probably do it because the Quran 8:12 says:


Muslims have literally been commanded by their god to do this. Others can yell "you no muslim, brotha" all they want. Quran 8:12 is a clear command from their god.

If there is a future, it will look back at this period with stunned disbelief at the madness required for the level of denial non-Muslims have achieved.

"Raghat"? I suspect The Guardian just got trolled.

It sounds like we're mostly in agreement that binary options are forbidden (haram). I was just trying to back up the conclusion by citing examples from Mohammed's life.

Islam is very clear in being against binary options. Islam is all about unity. To be halal you must invest in unary options.

One God. One prophet. One option.

It's obviously haram, as others have clearly pointed out.

Just ask yourself: What would Mohammed do? Would he invest in binary options?

No, of course not.

He'd gather a band of followers, engage in a series of military excursions and behead his enemies. Then he'd invade the neighboring city, destroy the idols of their religions, force the acceptance of a single god and then fuck a 9 year old.

So, follow Mohammed's example and stay away from binary options.

Omg. Is u still surpsied?

Just kidding. Seriously, thanks for your thoughtful reply. It's caused me to seriously rethink my views on Islam in general and Turkish culture in particular. In both cases they've clearly been nothing but positive influences bringing the human species towards enlightenment and modernity.

Wait, now I'm just kidding. Seriously, I hope to hear Erdogan and his lackies have some mysterious Litvinenko style symptoms soon. No need for a big nuke destroying valuable infrastructure. Just poison the dogs.

To be fair, I don't think saddampbuh thinks the UK can "bomb [their] problems away and everything will be OK again." From his previous postings I think he thinks the problems in the UK are due to immigration policies over decades. The way the problems could have been avoided would've been by listening to Enoch Powell in the 1960s. Admittedly, Powell's so-called Rivers-of-Blood speech has turned out to be quite prophetic.

And, to be clear, I'm definitely no fan of saddampbuh. He's well-informed and often right, but then he always ends up saying it's-the-fault-of-the-Jews -- something I definitely, vehemently disagree with. In fact, I'll bet he still thinks I'm an evil Jew and my current post is part of a very sneaky trick.

Anyway, after  decades of importing Muslims determined to impose Shariah law (one nation, under Allah, with Burkas and Beheadings for all!), there's only one way to avoid these kinds of problems in the U.K. Get the fuck out of the U.K. Same goes for France, Belgium, Germany, Sweden, The Netherlands, and so on.

By the way, if the likes of Cameron or Corbyn ever try to flee what they've helped create, every reasonable country on Earth should respond: fuck you, live and die with it.