Criticism Of Islam

"L’alliance secrète de chefs d’État européens avec le jihadisme palestinien contre Israël représente la pierre angulaire de la politique euro-méditerranéenne de fusion des deux rives de la Méditerranée. […] Elle promeut la soumission, supprime la liberté d’expression par la terreur et enseigne la conception jihadiste palestinienne de l’histoire et de la civilisation."

"Aujourd’hui ceux qui répandent partout des théories conspirationnistes pour dissimuler et soustraire à la connaissance du public les preuves historiques de la naissance et des accords d’Eurabia font eux-mêmes partie des conspirateurs cherchant à étouffer à tout prix la liberté d’expression."

"l’Europe antisémite et islamisée d’aujourd’hui. [...] L’Europe d’aujourd’hui n’est pas le fruit du hasard. Elle fut voulue par les hommes d’États, les ministres, les économistes, les intellectuels des décennies précédentes."

"L’Europe y consacra des milliards d’euros, finançant une campagne de haine mondiale contre l’État hébreu, l’enveloppant d’un apartheid diplomatique soutenu par le jihad des boycotts. Ainsi orchestra-t-elle le retour en Europe de l’antisémitisme surfant sur la haine d’Israël. Aujourd’hui [...] l’Europe s’emploie à remplacer au plus vite Israël par la Palestine afin que cesse le scandale d’un État hébreu souverain dans sa patrie. Aussi ne serai-je pas étonnée de la voir expédier ses bombardiers de l’OTAN couvrir de feu le sol israélien pour y faire naître la Palestine et remplir ses engagements envers le monde arabe."

"[Les] pays [européens], certaines Églises, l’Union européenne sont parmi les plus grands pourvoyeurs d’antisémitisme au niveau mondial."

"Coloro che mi hanno attaccato sono degli antisemiti e degli antieuropei, islamofili favorevoli all’islamizzazione dell’Europa."

"there are three functional similarities between the two texts [the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis] that supersede these differences in format and intention. [...] Both texts racialize their target population into a unified, coherent and recognizable pack, instinctively acting in unison, and thus sharing fundamental racial characteristics. [...] In both conspiracy theories, supernatural powers are attributed to the targeted population [...] But one of the most striking parallels between the two theories is that the conspiracy is enabled by a European fifth column. [...] one could find other similarities, such as the financial power of the enemy. There is a remarkable parallel between the unlimited resources of Jewish finance, as assumed in The Protocols, and the Arab League’s equally unlimited stock of petrodollars, as is assumed in Eurabia"

"The EU agreed to turn Europe into an Arabian Islamic continent, in return for trade essentially"

"there are of course demographic projections from other people, such as at the rightwing blog HonestThinking, who have “with clear logic claimed that Norway […] may have a Muslim majority as early as around 2040 or 2050” (Berg 2007, 52)."

"the statistics cited in Eurabia literature for fertility rates, demographic trends and percentages of Muslims appear, without exception, to be seriously flawed."

"The USA will remain the only superpower. China is becoming an economic giant. Europe is being Islamicized."

"Stripped of its Islamic content, the broad contours of Ye’or’s preposterous thesis recall the anti-Semitic conspiracy theories of the first half of the twentieth century and contemporary notions of the ‘Zionist Occupation Government’ prevalent in far-right circles in the US."

"According to current birthrate projections, France will be a majority Muslim country anyway in about 50 years [...] I get a lot of e-mails from Americans who think that Europeans are spineless. And I think they're right."

"Europe becomes more and more a province of Islam, a colony of Islam. And Italy is an outpost of that province, a stronghold of that colony...In each of our cities lies a second city: a Muslim city, a city run by the Quran. A stage in the Islamic expansionism."

"Sono quattr' anni che parlo di nazismo islamico, di guerra all' Occidente, di culto della morte, di suicidio dell' Europa. Un' Europa che non è più Europa ma Eurabia e che con la sua mollezza, la sua inerzia, la sua cecità, il suo asservimento al nemico si sta scavando la propria tomba."

"Europe is no longer Europe, it is Eurabia, a colony of Islam, where the Islamic invasion does not proceed only in a physical sense, but also in a mental and cultural sense."

"According to some, one out of three babies born in France is a Muslim."

"The data that we have isn't pointing in the direction of 'Eurabia' at all"

"Eurabia : The Euro-Arab Axis partage certaines de ses certitudes avec l'extrême droite. L'ouvrage cède allègrement à la paranoïa du complot"

"There is a quite deliberate exaggeration, as has often been pointed out—but the figures are still being cited."

"I think you should have titled your conference the Protocols of the Wise of Brussels [...] I think it's a conspiracy theory."

"There’s something here that makes me twitch. I think it’s the 'everybody'. It’s the 'everybody' of a man at the back of a mob, trying to persuade other people to get lynching."

"No one has a right to an audience or even to a sympathetic hearing, much less an engaged audience. But no one should be beaten or killed or imprisoned simply for speaking their mind or praying to one god as opposed to the other or none at all or getting on with the small business of living their life in peaceful fashion. If we cannot or will not defend that principle with a full throat, then we deserve to choke on whatever jihadists of all stripes can force down our throats."

"Our Draw Mohammed contest is not a frivolous exercise of hip, ironic, hoolarious sacrilege toward a minority religion in the United States (though even that deserves all the protection that the most serioso political commentary commands). It's a defense of what is at the core of a society that is painfully incompetent at delivering on its promise of freedom, tolerance, and equal rights."

"The single most important element–and the thing that ties these selections together–is that each image forces the viewer to do two things. First, they consciously call into question the nature of representation, no small matter in fights over whether it is allowed under Islamic law to depict Mohammed … Second, each of the images forces the viewer to actively participate not simply in the creation of meaning but of actually constructing the image itself."

"There is a deeper lesson here: Connect the dots and discover that we all must be Spartacus on Everybody Draw Mohammad Day. And that in a free society, every day is Everybody Draw Mohammed Day."

"Theo van Gogh was murdered for making a movie critical of Islam. 'South Park' creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone are threatened with the same fate. They deserve our solidarity, and I will stand with them by hosting images of Muhammad on my own website. Please stand with us."

"It is clear that some feel great satisfaction at what they see as 'sticking it to the Muslims'."

"Molly Norris proposed a 'let’s everyone draw Mohammed day' – then, apparently appalled by her own audacity, backed quickly away."

"While the suits at Comedy Central and Yale University Press have been cowed, people across the country have decided to speak up and thereby magnify the offense a thousandfold."

"Everybody Draw Mohammed Day is a chance to reinstate offense and sincerity to their proper place, freed from terror or silence."

"The proper (and, at the risk of looking jingoistic, American) way to combat bad speech is with better speech. To silence and be silenced are the refuge of cowards."

"I realize that in a free society, someone is always going to be doing or saying something that will offend somebody somewhere. I also realize that more free speech, not censorship, is the answer."

"The bottom line is that the First Amendment guarantees free speech including criticism of all peoples. We are an equal-opportunity offense country. To censor ourselves to avoid upsetting a certain group (in a cartoon no less) is un-American."

"In the South Park episode that started all this, Buddha does lines of coke and there was an episode where Cartman started a Christian rock band that sang very homo-erotic songs. Yet there is one religious figure we can't make fun of. The point of the episode that started the controversy is that celebrities wanted Muhammad's power not to be ridiculed. How come non-Muslims aren't allowed to make jokes?"

"These two camps – the Muhammad-knockers and the Muslim offence-takers – are locked in a deadly embrace. Islamic extremists need Western depictions of Muhammad as evidence that there is a new crusade against Islam, while the Muhammad-knockers need the flag-burning, street-stomping antics of the extremists as evidence that their defence of the Enlightenment is a risky, important business."

"Americans love their free speech and have had enough of those who think they can dictate the limits of that fundamental right. [...] Draw to any heart's discontent. It's a free country. For now."

"There is power in numbers, and if you're an artist, creator, cartoonist, or basically anyone who would like to exercise your right to free speech in a way that it is actively threatened, that would be the day to do it."

"If a cartoonist wants to satirise Islam by drawing Mohammed, I’m on his side all the way. But among the 13,000 pictures on the EDMD Facebook page, you have Mohammed as a dog in a veil, Mohammed as a pig and Mohammed as a monkey. That’s not resistance, but picking a fight."

"Issuing a death threat against somebody who drew a picture isn’t my thing, but this isn’t either."

"It is likely that institutions will apply more and more self-censorship. Fearing a possible threat, nothing is worse than the fear of fear."

"In a democratic society where free speech is vigilantly protected, it is perfectly reasonable to call out censorship, particularly when it springs from some form of tyrannical religious extremism."

"Whether this succeeds or not, and I have no personal interest in drawing Muhammad, I support the concept. We must join together to stop injustice."

"It defines those others—Muslims—as being outside of our culture, unworthy of the courtesy we readily accord to insiders."

"It attempts to battle religious zealotry with rudeness and sacrilege, and we can only wait to see what happens, but I fear it won’t be good."

"[A] blasphemous faux holiday … [which would] only serve to reinforce broader American misunderstandings of Islam and Muslims."

"Forget the South Park dust up; forget Everybody Draw Muhammad Day. If you want to see truly shocking anti-religious cartoons, you have to go back to the sixteenth century. Near the end of Luther’s life, his propaganda campaign against Rome grew increasingly vitriolic and his language grotesquely pungent."

"Depictions of Muhammad offend millions of Muslims who are no part of the violent threats."

"As a cartoon, it was mildly amusing. As a campaign, it's crass and gratuitously offensive."

"It's turned into something completely different, nothing I could've imagined it morphing into. I'm happy some people are talking, because obviously this needs to be addressed."