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From: Ibrahim Smythe
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Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 01:21:34 +1000
Subject: A report on His Excellency Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu
Dear Colleague
A report on His Excellency, Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu's speech to the
Australians
I had the pleasure of witnessing Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu's speech
today (15 February 2012) to the Australian National Press club.
His Excellency spoke in support of his struggle to make expressions of
Islamophobia a criminal offence in Australia, as it is under Sharia in Saudi
Arabia, Afghanistan, Somalia, Yemen, Pakistan, and Iran.
His Excellency, the Professor, is Secretary General of the splendid body
known as the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, based in the Kingdom of
Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia is a noted defender of human-rights; with
exceptions in relation to some small, unworthy categories of women,
homosexuals, Shiites, Christians, Baha'i, Hindus, heretics, democrats,
non-Arabs, free-thinkers, writers, artists, atheists, Zoroastrians, witches,
infidels, polytheists, Jews, non-royalty, agnostics, foreigners,
blasphemers, former-Muslims and other non-Muslims. We would do well to
listen with due reverence to the lessons the Saudis can impart, if we value
our way of life.
I present, below, a report of the significant themes of His Excellency's
authoritative lecture to the abusers of human rights in Australia.
Believers, of course, need no explanation of the necessity of punishing free
expression of belief and disbelief, but His Excellency was not preaching to
the converted in secular Australia. It was with mind-boggling delight and
wonder that I listened to his Excellency lecture Australia on human rights.
His Excellency supports True Sharia, rejects False Islam, and is a Doctrinal
Opponent of Islamopbia
Questioned as to why several Australian Muslims have taken up violence in
Australia in support of Islam, His Excellency confessed himself at a loss,
but concluded with confidence that such people must be followers of a type
of false Islam preached there.
His Excellency did not state whether Islamophobia in relation to "false
Islamists" would still be permissible in Australia, under the censorship
regime he demanded. His Excellency did not have time to set out the basis
for his expertise in distinguishing false Islamists from the true ones.
Certainly, that skill would allow him to put an end to the devout sectarian
violence that has afflicted the Islamic world since the death of the
Prophet.
Neither did His Excellency have time to address the fact that the false
Islamists in Australia adhere closely and faithfully to the words and deeds
of the Prophet, and follow up their beliefs with actions to promote Sharia
in the world, just like His Excellency. However, if Australia will simply
follow His Excellency's call, and criminalize action deemed offensive by
Islam, the terrorists will have nothing more to agitate for.
His Excellency Praises Australia
His Excellency stated that one of the best places in the world for a Muslim
to live is Australia. However, His Excellency has demanded that Australia
needs to ensure that blasphemy against Islam is illegal, and is recognized
as an irresponsible abuse of free speech.
(His Excellency must surely be aware that, unlike the Islamic word, secular
Australia is one of the most accommodating places for people of any
religion, or of no religion. His Excellency did not see fit to reflect on
the Australian system of neglecting to privilege and reward the taking of
religious offence. It's really only Islam that seeks to do that, anymore, in
Australia. Paradoxically, the pattern of refugee migration and migration by
choice is now consistently from the nations where blasphemy is a crime, to
the secular free world. In the free world, blasphemy is usually regarded as
a victimless crime and state prosecution for it is mostly a memory. People
are unaccountably tolerant of expressions of belief and disbelief in the
free world.)
His Excellency is, of course, a scholar. He is, no doubt, fully aware that
the backward, non-Islamic, secular world has, since the age of the
enlightenment, mostly decided that laws against blasphemy run counter to the
secular principles of liberty, freedom of religion, and free inquiry in the
interests of truth and progress.
His Excellency is Outraged by Offences against Islamic Doctrine.
(Non-Muslim human rights might warrant consideration, later.)
His Excellency was later asked what his organization was doing about the
regular pattern of divinely-justified brutality against non-Muslims in the
Muslim world - such as beheadings of Christians.
His Excellency answered with a palpable and icy indignation.. However his
answer was not, so far as I saw it, to condemn beheadings being justified in
the name of Allah.
In fact, His Excellency first found it necessary to channel his righteous
resentment into intoning at length on the following three gross
manifestations of brutal Islamophobic abuse of Muslims, and in this order
1. Drawings purported to be of Muhammad were printed in 2005. The
drawings were "nasty, ill-conceived and uncivilized" and offensive to him,
much like Salman Rushdie, yet some people still dare defend "freedom of
expression" without violence. His Excellency was not so immoderate as to be
judgmental of the perpetrators of the widespread Islamic threats, violence,
and murder in the wake of the drawings. Such responses were, I presume,
rational, proper, devout and civilized reactions to nasty, uncivilized
drawings.
2. Switzerland has building restrictions on mosque minarets. (With
gross violations such as that, this writer does not wonder that Switzerland
is such a glaring morass of human rights abuses, in contrast to the world
governed by Sharia.)
3. It is outrageous that "so-called democracy" and Islamophobia allows
people to treat Islam as if it were a political force that can be countered
by political speech, through elections, and through democratic procedures in
government. People who oppose Islam and would like to rid Australia of its
influence actually, and amazingly, garner votes and seats in the current
free democratic system. Endorsing Islam politically is admirable, but
resisting it politically and peacefully should really be intolerable.
His Excellency did not identify any pattern of divinely-justified brutality
against Muslims in Australia, carried out by Christians or atheists, and
endorsed by their religious texts, in the period since the free world became
secular.
Unfortunately, I did not get to witness His Excellency's views on
offensiveness of killing people who publish drawings, or of other
beheadings, or of the fact that you can't build a Christian church in
Arabia, or be an atheist there, or express ambivalence about the Prophet
without facing beheading as the Prophet requires. Neither did I see His
Excellency condemn the proposition that Australia's democracy, and freedom
of belief and expression, should be made subservient to a religious creed. I
will allow that His Excellency could possibly have made these condemnations,
later, when I wasn't watching.
Sharia and His Excellency Condemn the Worst form of Islamophobia
The sincerest expression of Islamophobia is the act of deciding that, even
though one is born a Muslim, Islam is manifestly misguided, unjust, and
repressive, and that one, therefore, can no longer remain a Muslim and must
argue against it. Under Islamic law, and His Excellency's creed, this
conduct is the most serious crime. By Sharia and the command of the Prophet
this conduct is correctly punishable by death, as all mainstream schools of
Islamic scholarship, Sunni and Shia, agree.
Obeying His Excellency's outraged religious requests will go a long way to
turning back the libertarian principles of freedom of religion, freedom of
belief, secularism and the enlightenment, and bring Australia into line with
Islamic principles. Under this scheme, there will be no more ex-Muslims in
Australia, and certainly none willing to state their views, beliefs,
insights and reasons like the infidel Ayaan Hirsi Ali, and other fugitives.
Liberty Mistreats Islam as a Political Force, and Prevents the Flourishing
of Sharia
With devout men like His Excellency, Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu in
charge of the correct version of Islam, I can well understand why he
believes Islamophobia needs to be punished by the state. If Islamophobia is
not punished, free expression of belief or disbelief would mean that Sharia
never gains its due ascendancy in any free nation.
The free expression of praise or condemnation as one's will demands must be
supressed in support of Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu's religion, as it was
with the Catholic Church in the dark ages. Once free critique and
Christophobic condemnation of that Church was no longer enforced by state
power, all manner of liberties broke loose, as we well know.
The introduction of a state-enforced offence of Islamophobia will surely be
necessary to the progress of Islam and Sharia to in all of the, as yet,
un-Islamic free world. This progress, so successful during the Islamic
military conquest of North Africa, the Middle East, Spain, and Persia for
example, has sadly stalled since the middle ages.
The Islamic vision for the Free World
I look forward to an Australia where religio-political ideologies are
privileged, no matter how much their essential scriptures mandate and
support homophobic, xenophobic, gynophobic, and liberty-phobic causes. In
this future Australia, such religio-political ideologies may be
patronisingly praised and indulged for their cultural value and deep
medieval wisdom, but never condemned. The dignity of their indignant
messengers, self-appointed earthly representatives of God, recipients of the
book, and superior to our earthly ideas and values, must be protected by
law. Make fun of literally anyone else. Critique any other political cause,
and any institution. But who would dream of making fun of God's true
agents, except an infidel madman? Let us hope Islam remains that unique
religion that will never be subjected to free questioning, for all our
sakes. A future Australia? We need only look to the example and demands of
the Islamic world.
More opportunity for His Excellency
His Excellency, Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, has been given a platform at
Griffith University on Thursday, 15 February, 2012 in order to further
advance his enlightened Islamic programme to a respectful and, no-doubt
receptive audience of free-thinkers.
May free-thinkers and other infidels be prevented, God willing, from finding
a like platform at any university in Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Iran.
Apology
I apologise that, owing to fear of reprisal by the usual gang of violent and
offended Christians, women, democrats, free-thinkers and secularists, I
cannot identify myself by my full and true name. This is a sad,
Islamophobic consequence of being a supporter of criminalizing freedom of
belief and expression.
I do not want to be the victim of their inevitable violent, secular
Islamophobic reprisals that will never be seriously condemned by their great
priests and secretaries-general. I fear that perhaps Ayaan Hirsi Ali or
Hamza Kashgari might even call for me to be deported to Switzerland to be
decapitated.
Yours faithfully, and as God (of whom I am most surely a legitimate
spokesperson and agent) wills,
Ibrahim Kashgari Voltaire-Smythe
Australia
15 February 2012
I invite you to publish and freely distribute my report, if you so desire,
copyright retained by the author. I ask that you please note in the
publication if you have edited or abridged the report. Please email me if
you wish to further communicate.
