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ABU VS ARCH

A challenge from the Islamic Information & Services Network of Australasia:

A khutbah (sermon) by Abu Hamza was delivered in Melbourne addressing the ignorance of Arch Bishop, George Pell. And we challenge George Pell to a debate or dialogue concerning the issue- “Where does terrorism reside: Islam or Christianity?"

Well, if we’re only allowed to choose one

UPDATE. Salim Mansur:

Let us, Muslims, be brutally honest.

We have inherited a culture of denial, of too often refusing to acknowledge our own responsibility for the widespread malaise that has left most of the Arab-Muslim countries in economic, political, and social despair ...

Many of our intellectuals in public life and our religious leaders in mosques remain adept in double-speak, saying contrary things in English or French and then in Arabic or Farsi or Urdu.

We have made hypocrisy an art, and have spun for ourselves a web of lies that blinds us to the real world around us. We seethe with grievances and resentment against the West, even as we have prospered in the freedom and security of Western democracies.

There’s much more.

Posted by Tim B. on 07/20/2006 at 12:17 AM
  1. “Where does terrorism reside: Islam or Christianity?”

    Absolutely, completely, 100% satire-proof.

    Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 07 20 at 12:31 AM • permalink

  2. thanks, SCD. I thought it was just a lack of creativity on my part.

    Posted by daddy dave on 2006 07 20 at 12:34 AM • permalink

  3. Given the source of the challenge, I am surprised the choices aren’t either Judaism or Christianity…

    Posted by Vanguard of the Commentariat on 2006 07 20 at 12:35 AM • permalink

  4. Let’s see.  This is really hard.  I’m going to have to take some time and google my little brain out before I have researched the question enough to say with any certainty, but off the top of my head, I’ll take a stab at it and say...in Islam.  Right?

    Islam: It’s Putzerific!

    Posted by saltydog on 2006 07 20 at 12:39 AM • permalink

  5. Ohgimmmeafookinbreak.

    This would be like arguing whether the moon landings were fake… everyone knows the Earth is flat!

    :^þ

    Posted by Spiny Norman on 2006 07 20 at 12:44 AM • permalink

  6. Absolutely, completely, 100% satire-proof.

    .. but Vangard gives it a good shot.

    Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 07 20 at 12:47 AM • permalink

  7. “Where does terrorism reside: Islam or Christianity?”

    Should be the shortest debate ever. Just open the day’s newspaper and read aloud.

    Posted by Dave S. on 2006 07 20 at 12:56 AM • permalink

  8. Well, it ain’t efing Buhdism, and apart from the IRA their aren’t too many Christian splodeydopes, and if we exclude the Tamils, what are we left with????

    Posted by Razor on 2006 07 20 at 12:59 AM • permalink

  9. "Arch Bishop” George Pell has been a Cardinal since 28 September 2003, Abu. Get with the program.

    Posted by ilibcc on 2006 07 20 at 01:07 AM • permalink

  10. I’m nearly speechless.  As already noted, this is beyond parody.

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 07 20 at 01:08 AM • permalink

  11. According to google fight it’s a points decision the Islam.

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 07 20 at 01:08 AM • permalink

  12. And he knows a lot more about Islam than you know about Christianity.

    So why not catch up on a little reading, Abu, before you call people ignorant?

    Posted by ilibcc on 2006 07 20 at 01:11 AM • permalink

  13. I am looking forward to hearing from the ‘Peace Mosques’.  You know; those Islamic sects that correspond to the ‘Peace Churches’ of Christianity.. Quakers, Amish, Mennonites, Shakers, etc..

    Posted by Will on 2006 07 20 at 02:07 AM • permalink

  14. O/T a little & you may already be aware of this khutbah that will be taking place in Hyde Park (Sydney) on 22/7. That’s right folks, the ‘Ozzie’ Mozzies (& Christians) will be out in force marching for Lebanon around midday. Should be a blast! Guess we’ll see the usual suspects peddling the same predictable shit. Wonder if we’ll see the obligatory flag burning.

    Posted by ozconservative on 2006 07 20 at 02:17 AM • permalink

  15. Let’s see, there has been 932 Islamic terror attacks in the last 5 months.

    I see in the mp3 on that islamic site, the preacher when into a quite detailed rant about the Bible, clearly he has not read the Islamic Hadith’s, I wonder how far I would get if i ranted against the qu’ran in the same way?.  This man is a fine example of muslim untermensch.

    Posted by daza on 2006 07 20 at 02:19 AM • permalink

  16. #15 I wonder how far I would get if i ranted against the qu’ran in the same way?

    Well in Victoria you can be arrested for religious vilification if you simply happen to be a Christian minister reading the Koran aloud…

    -- Nora

    Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2006 07 20 at 02:24 AM • permalink

  17. This man is a fine example of muslim untermensch.

    You know, it would really be nice if you stopped using that term. Just sayin’.

    Posted by Dave S. on 2006 07 20 at 02:24 AM • permalink

  18. He also seems to shout a lot, seems that either his congregation is very elderly or the one who yells loudest is the best muslim.

    Posted by daza on 2006 07 20 at 02:32 AM • permalink

  19. #16, ah yes, I had forgotten about that, seems that having their own scriptures read to them is an act of vilification.  Perhaps the reader didn’t yell them loud enough.

    Posted by daza on 2006 07 20 at 02:34 AM • permalink

  20. #17, I will try to remember, however they just seem to go together.

    Posted by daza on 2006 07 20 at 02:34 AM • permalink

  21. Interesting selection, but why a deabte now when it was closed off before? Doesn’t it raise the case of the Christian church Catch the Fire that was taken to court for contravening vilification laws for simply referencing the QuranCatch the Fire

    Posted by WeekByWeek on 2006 07 20 at 03:03 AM • permalink

  22. #17, I will try to remember

    Please do. Because seeing as how you’re a self-professed fascist who throws around Nazi terminology, I’d just as soon Andrea wished your ass into the cornfield.

    Posted by Dave S. on 2006 07 20 at 03:43 AM • permalink

  23. Nup, I couldn’t find where terrorism resides, not in New South Wales anyway.

    Posted by william°­ on 2006 07 20 at 03:59 AM • permalink

  24. I have just listened to an interview on ABC radio of the female ex deputy PM of Iran. Apparently she is now involved in some peace type thing. It was like listening to evil personified. I’d rather hear a debate between her and George Pell than Abu Hamza. The interview did have its lighthearted moments with the ABC interviewer being dumbfounded by the display of evil brought out by his attempts to do a penetrating interview.You could almost hear him pining for a nice interview with an Israeli spokesperson where he could get stuck in, talk over the replies and generally get his own views on air, rather than that of the person being interviewed.
    Hoges

    Posted by Hoges on 2006 07 20 at 04:03 AM • permalink

  25. Remember it is ok for Muslims to lie to anybody if it benefits Islam.  DON’T EVER EVER TRUST THE BASTARDS!  Good luck to ISRAEL.

    Posted by Howzat on 2006 07 20 at 04:06 AM • permalink

  26. #22, sure, I just stick to posts about wiping out palestinians and assorted arabs like everybody else.

    Posted by daza on 2006 07 20 at 04:18 AM • permalink

  27. Michael Yon provides a few talking points that are pertinent to the “debate”.

    Posted by saltydog on 2006 07 20 at 04:55 AM • permalink

  28. 27# Thank you for the post saltydog, interesting.  If only a few so called prominent Australians could read it.

    Posted by Howzat on 2006 07 20 at 05:04 AM • permalink

  29. #21 - i haven’t listened to it yet - should we listen and be offended?  Love to see those hypocrites taken before that vilification act.

    Posted by spyder on 2006 07 20 at 05:25 AM • permalink

  30. #24 Hoges I heard that one (where they get to interrupt and shout over the polite Israeli guy)this morning.Fran Kelly of course on radio gnashional.

    Posted by crash on 2006 07 20 at 06:02 AM • permalink

  31. I can’t wait.
    Cardinal Pell will beat Abu like a rented donkey.
    Terrorist.

    Posted by arrowhead ripper on 2006 07 20 at 06:04 AM • permalink

  32. The answer lies in the question that was first initially asked.

    Where does terrorism lie?

    By the one who asked the question.

    You see, hiding the answer in the question is always a good thing,

    Kinda like Kyza tred-on calling Australian racist.

    Posted by 1.618 on 2006 07 20 at 07:13 AM • permalink

  33. #22, sure, I just stick to posts about wiping out palestinians and assorted arabs like everybody else.

    You’re either a troll trying to be cute, or a bona-fide fascist and racist.

    Either way...Andrea, get out that banning stick.

    Posted by Quentin George on 2006 07 20 at 07:14 AM • permalink

  34. Cardinal Pell, if you are a man of faith, I will send this message to you…

    The drought is here, but will be broken, the Virgin sends roses, and a lily rose to you.

    If anyone knows him, it would be nice to pass this message to him.

    ratio 1.618

    Posted by 1.618 on 2006 07 20 at 07:16 AM • permalink

  35. People are getting sick of you, daza. So far the popular vote seems to be in favor of banning. I wouldn’t mind, since you haven’t said anything interesting on any thread so far.

    Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 07 20 at 07:17 AM • permalink

  36. oh, and Cardinal there are better battles to win, if you love mankind and the Christ, you’d understand this. The battle serves nothing more than to fuel hostility.

    Peace to you Cardinal.

    Posted by 1.618 on 2006 07 20 at 07:19 AM • permalink

  37. I don’t know if one can add much, after listening to Abu’s sermon/rant, it pretty much speaks for itself, I guess it’s lucky for Abu that we don’t have blasphemy laws in NSW like they do in Victoria.

    Posted by daza on 2006 07 20 at 07:40 AM • permalink

  38. Pell should avoid this invite like the plague. To accept would be to give Hamza, the little shit, an aura of credibility he doesn’t deserve.

    Posted by AlburyShifton on 2006 07 20 at 07:43 AM • permalink

  39. O/T Australian “charge d’affaires” in Lebanon hinted strongly tonight to Red Kerry that some would be evacuees who had registered to leave-refused to leave at short notice because they were not permitted to take “large amounts of luggage”.
    Limiting luggage on a warship is entirely understandable I would have thought.
    Many thanks British and Greek Navies for your assistance.

    Posted by crash on 2006 07 20 at 07:51 AM • permalink

  40. Just so I am clear about the rules, if (God forbid!) I get banned, all I need to do is re-register with a new handle and/or email address and I’m in?

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2006 07 20 at 08:28 AM • permalink

  41. "Fatwa for Salim Mansur; I have a fatwa here for Salim Mansur!”

    Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2006 07 20 at 09:00 AM • permalink

  42. #28

    27# Thank you for the post saltydog, interesting.  If only a few so called prominent Australians could read it.

    Rather than prominent Australians, it should be required reading for Muslims.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2006 07 20 at 09:22 AM • permalink

  43. #11

    According to google fight it’s a points decision the Islam.

    Try that with quotation marks and its a bloodbath.

    Posted by Maulman on 2006 07 20 at 09:57 AM • permalink

  44. Mr. Mansur, the last honest man in Islam.

    Posted by Patricia on 2006 07 20 at 11:20 AM • permalink

  45. You’re either a troll trying to be cute, or a bona-fide fascist and racist.

    You beat me to it, Quentin. I thought it was the latter, but after that last comment I’m leaning to crude sock-puppet. Nice try, daza.

    Either way...Andrea, get out that banning stick.

    I’m normally not the banning type - let ‘em make asses of themselves, I say - but when they have a predictable schtick I say get rid of the boring idiots. I second Quentin’s humble request for a banning, Andrea. With whipped cream and a cherry on top.

    Posted by Dave S. on 2006 07 20 at 11:21 AM • permalink

  46. Abu Hamza ("The Mohammedan Crusher") vs. Archbisop Pell ("The Rock"), in a no-holds barred, death cage match! Theological debate at its finest!

    Posted by paco on 2006 07 20 at 12:32 PM • permalink

  47. Abu Hamza ("The Mohammedan Crusher") vs. Archbisop Pell ("The Rock"), in a no-holds barred, death cage match! Theological debate at its finest!

    paco, I’ll put $5 on the big red bird.  GO CARDINAL!

    Posted by VKI on 2006 07 20 at 01:45 PM • permalink

  48. #26 - I just stick to posts about wiping out palestinians and assorted arabs like everybody else.

    Everybody, daza?  I’ve already given you one beating with the clue stick on that hyperbole problem of yours.  Don’t make get it out again (since wronwright might recognize this old thing as his Zulu spear and he still thinks Andrea’s got it).

    Posted by Achillea on 2006 07 20 at 02:06 PM • permalink

  49. Too bad the author of that excellent article will most likely be assassinated…

    Posted by Kim du Toit on 2006 07 20 at 02:43 PM • permalink

  50. Information on rallies in support of Israel.

    Posted by Achillea on 2006 07 20 at 03:27 PM • permalink

  51. I guess it’s too much to hope for that 400 prominent Australians might read Selim Mansur’s article, and contemplate their excursion into la-la land yesterday.
    Selim describes the culture which useful idiots embrace.

    Posted by blogstrop on 2006 07 20 at 05:20 PM • permalink

  52. What is scary is that the Islamic Information & Services Network of Australasia is sitting pretty in inner north of Melbourne. We truly have the crazies in our very midst.

    Posted by closeapproximation on 2006 07 20 at 08:48 PM • permalink

  53. paco—Are you selling tickets? Is there pay-per-view?

    My five bucks on His Eminence.

    Posted by KC on 2006 07 20 at 08:52 PM • permalink

  54. #45, “crude sock puppet”

    I resemble that remark!. 

    #40, I can’t answer that on the grounds that I might get banned.  :)

    Posted by daza on 2006 07 20 at 09:54 PM • permalink

  55. Its the start of the fight, both men are in their corners.  The bell rings.

    Abu comes out yelling “Allah Akbar” fists swinging and running straight toward the Cardi. 

    Pell, still in his corner, lets rip with a deafening roar “I Kick Arse For The Lord!” (apologies Peter Jackson), grabs the screaming loon by the throat, throws him into the turnbuckle and starts beating on his bearded noggin like its “a rented donkey”. 

    Cardinal Pell will beat Abu like a rented donkey ‘ - #31. LMFAO, just had to post that again.

    Then again given the choice of fighter for Chritianity, I think I’d take the GG.  Anyone who was CO of the SAS should be able to handle a whacky preacher rather quickly…

    Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2006 07 21 at 01:27 AM • permalink

  56. #53: This is so important that Paco Communications is showing it for free (with no commercial breaks).

    Paco Turf Accountants is currently giving odds of 6-1 against Abu.

    Posted by paco on 2006 07 21 at 09:14 AM • permalink

  57. Well, your Aussie cardinal seems to be a lot smarter than the Archbishop of Canterbury or assorted US prelates, but what was he smokin’ when he wrote about ‘the struggle in the Islamic world between moderate forces and extremists’?

    Where is this struggle going on? I’d make a donation to the moderates if I knew.

    Posted by Harry Eagar on 2006 07 21 at 06:34 PM • permalink

  58. #57, Just dont run off to fight for them like a certain Ex-Aussie in Gitmo.

    Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2006 07 22 at 12:05 AM • permalink

  59. Seriously, put him in a hole or shoot him, we dont want him back.

    Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2006 07 22 at 12:05 AM • permalink

  60. Its true there is a need for Islam to look at itself and to stop making excuses for its association with violence and poverty.  Something is wrong.

    A pointed, excellent post.

    Posted by harryc on 2006 07 23 at 08:01 AM • permalink

  61. paco, The UN has insisted Jan Egeland referee the fight.

    It may not get past the first round.

    Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 07 24 at 02:04 AM • permalink

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