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September 02, 2009
President Obama is morally superior to you
One reason President Obama (and his electorate) believes he is morally superior to you is that after 9/11 you had the simplisme to believe you were either with the United States or you were with the terrorists. Another reason President Obama feels morally superior to you is that you endorsed a rush to war with Iraq instead of giving peace a chance. President Obama also thinks he is morally superior to you because of your ethnocentric preference for "Western" values, your imperialist demand feminism be imposed on other cultures and your outrageous support for the water-boarding of three enemy combatants Ewoks.
President Obama believes he is morally superior to you because he favours diplomacy and engagement with the Umma.
Take Iran, for example. President Obama feels morally superior to you because you agreed with President Bush when he described the Iranian government as "evil". How judgmental!
But as Solomonia points out, even Obama's spiritual mentor Reverend Wright has nothing on Ahmadinejad's personal spiritual guide, Ayatollah Mohammad Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi; Ahmadinejad would no more disown him than Obama would disown his own brother.* Following recent allegations of rape and torture against the Persian religious security establishment, Mesbah-Yazdi offered much needed spiritual guidance from a Twelver Shi'ite perspective.
I am reproducing Solomonia's quote exactly. More horrors at the link.
Mesbah-Yazdi answered: "The necessary precaution is for the interrogator to perform a ritual washing first and say prayers while raping the prisoner. If the prisoner is female, it is permissible to rape through the vagina or anus. It is better not to have a witness present. If it is a male prisoner, then it's acceptable for someone else to watch while the rape is committed."
This reply, and reports of the rape of teen male prisoners in Iranian jails, may have prompted the following question: "Is the rape of men and young boys considered sodomy?"
Ayatollah Mesbah-Yazdi: "No, because it is not consensual. Of course, if the prisoner is aroused and enjoys the rape, then caution must be taken not to repeat the rape."
A related issue, in the eyes of the questioners, was the rape of virgin female prisoners. In this instance, Mesbah-Yazdi went beyond the permissibility issue and described the Allah-sanctioned rewards accorded the rapist-in-the-name-of-Islam:
"If the judgment for the [female] prisoner is execution, then rape before execution brings the interrogator a spiritual reward equivalent to making the mandated Haj pilgrimage [to Mecca], but if there is no execution decreed, then the reward would be equivalent to making a pilgrimage to [the Shi'ite holy city of] Karbala."...
These are the men President Obama wants to negotiate with. These are the men President Obama believes the United States owes an apology.
You may be shocked to learn I feel morally superior to President Obama because I prefer bombing the Persian religious establishment back into the oblivion from which they and their demon god came, because I believe defending Israel from the latter day Persian empire is a paramount moral imperative and because I genuinely support universal human rights - including and especially the rights of women and the right to political dissent - including the human rights of Muslims and non-Muslims alike for all they had the misfortune to be born in today's Iran.
* A bit heavy handed, I admit. But indulge me until you read the rest.
Directely related: President Obama also wants to negotiate with Hamas.
Because to President Obama, negotiating with men who include the Protocols of the Elders of Zion in their constitution is morally superior to making war with men who include the Protocols of the Elders of Zion in their constitution.
I would not be surprised to learn President Obama agrees with Hamas that to teach the school children of Gaza about the Holocaust would be a "war crime".
Adding the Holocaust to the curriculum would amount to "marketing a lie and spreading it," al-Astal wrote in a statement.
"I do not exaggerate when I say this issue is a war crime, because of how it serves the Zionist colonizers and deals with their hypocrisy and lies," he wrote.
Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri also objected to including what he referred to as the "so-called Holocaust" in the lesson plan. "We think it's more important to teach Palestinians the crimes of the Israeli occupation," he said.
Thousands of steet demonstrators in Toronto agree with Younis al-Astal and President Obama. Canada's human rights establishment chooses to do nothing about it.
Also related: President Obama praises Islam at Ramadan dinner.
Bilqis Abdul-Qaadir believes that for young Muslim girls, anything is possible. Would it were true.
"She recently told a reporter, 'I would like to inspire a lot of young Muslim girls if they want to play basketball. Anything is possible, they can do it too'," said Mr Obama, who has a well-known love of the sport.
"Bilquis is an inspiration not simply to Muslim girls, she is an inspiration to all of us."
Perhaps. If only more of her co-religionists would publicly agree with her and testify to the following.
Those words would be enough to effectively sentence her to death in Iran. Persian girls too should have the right to play basketball.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at September 2, 2009 07:47 AM
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Posted by: OregonGuy ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.ghostofaflea.com/nav-commenters.gif)
at September 2, 2009 04:13 PM
Rape as an interrogation tactic. Ugh.
I am guessing Hitch won't be going through that for Atlantic Monthly.
Posted by: Chris Taylor at September 2, 2009 09:00 PM
I am afraid it is worse than that; this is rape as a religious obligation, rape for divine reward.
It is hardly surprising some women raised under such conditions will claim their enslavement is freedom. Few who live under such terror would do otherwise.
As to apologists in the West: They have no such excuse.
Posted by: Ghost of a flea at September 2, 2009 09:47 PM
It would be interesting to do some polling in various countries and see whether that imam's interpretation lines up with the majority of adherents understanding.
Or to present the examples of Mohammed's war prizes Rayhana bint Amr and Safiyya bint Huyayy (who were taken to bed hours after their families and husbands were slain) to more liberal Islamic scholars and say "Now tell me why rape isn't permitted, given that Mohammed himself did so?"
Posted by: Chris Taylor at September 2, 2009 11:32 PM
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