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'Lying Imam' Incites Burning Danish Flag, Then Hides Behind It

Friday July 28, 2006
Ahmed Akkari, a Muslim immigrant to Denmark - described by some as one of the 'lying imams' who added fake Muhammad cartoons to the original set in order to stir up resentment and violence in the Middle East - has been saved by the same degenerate and godless Westerners he attacked. He and his family have been evacuated from Lebanon by the same Danish embassy burned by rioters.

Ateist writes:

Ahmed Akkari has Danish citizenship since he only received a suspended sentence for violence in 2001. His wife and daughter are not Danish, but have now received a temporary residency permit.

So Akkari and his family are going to Denmark. This time Akkari is neither burning the Danish flag - nor trampling on it - but hiding behind it.

Ateist wrote at the time about the fake cartoons, probably created by Muslims trying to get other Muslims to hate the West:

Danish Islamic Society claim they have received these images in mail, but they refuse to tell Danish newspapers, who has received them - and they won't allow the newspapers to interview these people. Danish Islamic Society has also failed to explain, why an entire country must be denigrated all over the Middle East because of 3 drawings mailed by a single person.

As long as Danish Islamic Society have failed to properly explain, where they have obtained these images, why these images were distributed in the entire Middle East - and exactly what the Danish Islamic Society were hoping to achieve - we must assume the images belong to Danish Islamic Society.

The irony is that in doing so the Muslims have done exactly what they accuse the non-Muslims of doing: They have broken Muslim law by reproducing, publishing and distributing drawings of the prophet. And they have managed to out-blaspheme the infidel Danes by reproducing 3 blasphemous pictures that are far worse than anything ever published in JyllandsPosten.

Ateist wrote earlier this year about Ahmed Akkari's history:

At 22 years Akkari became Denmark's youngest imam - the same year he also became a violent offender.

Akkari worked at a Muslim free school as a trainee teacher, when he heard that a boy from Qatar, during play, had happened to tear the head scarf off Akkari's little sister. Akkari ran over to the boy, took hold of his ears so they started bleeding, pushed him over, and kicked and beat the boy.

For this he received a suspended sentence in 2001, which is the reason why Akkari wasn't able to obtain Danish citizenship before 2005.

He also translates a story about Ahmed Akkari's real feelings about women:

In a contribution to the Muslim youth magazine "Point of View" he wrote about an episode in high school where he in vain had urged a girl on the school to wear a scarf

'At the same moment a long-haired boy walked by, put his hands on her shoulders and 'gave her a powerful kick from behind. Akkari writes on:

'It hurt deep inside me to see a young Muslim girl being treated like that by a rude and insensitive person, but on second thought it served her right.

Yes, I don't say this to deride her, but because it's the natural result for her kind. I am fully convinced that if she had been wearing a scarf and shown herself as a decent, proud Muslim, this would never have happened.

What's especially depressing about Ahmed Akkari's views is that they are so unremarkable for Muslim males who are children of immigrants in Europe. They really don't believe that women are as fully human as men and should enjoy the same social or political rights as men. Women are fundamentally inferior in this ideology — and don't let rhetoric about "protecting" women fool you.

Christians used to use the same rhetoric and some today argue analogously about how women are "equal" but destined for "different" roles — roles which only coincidentally appear to be inferior. It's misogyny dressed up in a cheap clerical wig and mask, a minstrel show designed to fool the gullible into accepting the practical inferiority of women on the say-so of self-professed representatives of an alleged god.

Ahmed Akkari's behavior in the above story is interesting. Why would he seek the protection of the same decadent, godless nation which he so recently incited violence against? Well, why do so many young Muslims who don't hesitate to espouse their hatred for the West and all the liberal freedoms which the West guarantees continue to live there rather than move to a more devout Muslim nation like Saudi Arabia or Afghanistan?

The accusation of hypocrisy comes easily to mind and it's possible that this is indeed the case. It's not hard to imagine that they are hypocritically attacking the West even as insist on enjoying everything which the West provides. Few are so stupid as to not realize that the benefits they enjoy in the West stem directly from the liberal freedoms they disparage — that's why Muslim nations which institute strict sharia law are also so backwards on every possible measure. I wonder, though, if the charge of hypocrisy is too easy.

One alternative may be that they seek to convert and change the West — that while they really do hate the West and all its liberal freedoms, they are willing to endure it all in the struggle to undermine those freedoms and transform the West into a Muslim region. That's certainly plausible, though I don't know how true it may be. I'm not sure what other factors may be at work, but they would definitely be worth investigating in order to better understand the psychology of those who hate the same society they are eager to live in — or, like Akkari, be rescued by.

 

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August 7, 2006 at 12:55 pm
(1) Todd says:

Someone call Alanis, we have an example of irony to show her!

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