Mad mullahs' dark science of zealotry

by Piers Akerman

SCIENTIFIC advances drive the industry which powers the First World, as much as environmentalists and the UN bureaucracy attempt to decry this fact. That same science tells us the Indonesian tsunami which devastated the populations on low-lying seaboards in our region on Boxing Day was the result of plate tectonics, very possibly combined with the tidal influences of the full moon.

(Don't think I've gone all Gaia on this one, there are credible theories which indicate the extra push and pull of the full moon tides can exacerbate the effects of clashing tectonic plates and the resultant waves they generate). As a highly qualified friend noted in a message to me, don't discount the Boy's Own adventure stories in which "the hero always escaped when an eclipse frightened the natives and then the volcanos erupted and the ground shook – eclipses are the strongest tidal pulls when sun and moon are in conjunction".

But in the whacky Third World, the explanations for the tragic loss of more than 150,000 largely Muslim souls are a little less grounded. In the fringe cosmic mosque theology preached on the Palestine Authority's TV network last Friday, for instance, Sheik Ibrahim Mudeiris laid the blame for the tragedy on the corruption of the Thai tourist industry and a little known law he terms the "law of equilibrium".

Don't rush to the physics texts to find this law. It is "divine" and strikes when "people are remiss in implementing God's law". According to Sheik Mudeiris, "the oppression and corruption caused by America and the Jews have increased". He asked: "Have you heard of beaches called tourists' paradise? You have all probably heard of Bangkok. We read about it and knew it as the centre of corruption on this Earth. Over there are Zionist and American investments. Over there, they bring Muslims and others to prostitution . . .

"Do you want the Earth to turn a blind eye? Do you want the sea to lower its waves in the face of corruption? No, the zero hour has come." Ibrahim al-Bashar, an adviser to Saudi Arabia's Justice Minister (there is such a position), told a Saudi/United Arab Emirates channel the tsunami's victims died because they were infidels.

His logic ignores the fact most of the more than 150,000 were undoubtedly Muslims but according to Mr al-Bashar "they lied, they sinned, and were infidels. Whoever studies the Koran can see this". Which might bring some comfort to the more devote survivors as they try to identify their loved ones but somehow I doubt it. Professor Sheik Fawzan al-Fawzani told the same channel Allah punished the victims because of usury and fornication – which should send shivers through Sydney's CBD, Wall Street and the City of London.

"We know that at these resorts, which unfortunately exist in Islamic and other countries in South Asia, and especially at Christmas, fornication and sexual perversion of all kinds are rampant . . . we must fight fornication, homosexuality, usury, fight the corruption on the face of the Earth," he urged. Saudi cleric Mohammed al-Munajjid went into a little more detail than may have been necessary as he outlined the problems for the same channel, noting that the Christian holidays are "accompanied by forbidden things, by immorality, abomination, adultery, alcohol, drunken dancing and . . . and revelry." He obviously attends livelier parties than most of us.

Confusing Boxing Day with New Year's Eve, he said tourists were wiped out on December 31 at the height of their immorality. Perhaps he has a different calendar. And there is the lunar theory that the well-known US-Israel-India troika were testing nuclear devices to counter the Pakistani nuclear program and "to test a way to liquidate humanity". This spectacular piece of investigative journalism was the work of Egyptian journalist Mahmoud Bakri and published in the nationalist weekly Al-Usbu, which said there had been nuclear activity in the region "particularly after America's recent decision to rely largely on the Australian desert – part of which is inside the Ring of Fire – for its secret nuclear testing".

And did you hear the discussion on the ABC yesterday about the reasons the tsunami had no effect on the US base at Diego Garcia or our own Christmas Island? Talk about playing to the serious bats-in-the-belfry crowd. Geography and physics tell us both islands are in deep water, not the shallow stuff which magnifies the force of a tsunami. We can laugh when we read translations of the insane Friday-night-at-the-mosque mutterings of mad mullahs but the millions they preach to cannot, sometimes on pain of death.

That's one of the principal differences between the First World and the Islamic nations in the Third World. We are permitted freedom of expression and thought. We don't have religious laws (though there is a steady push to incorporate Sharia law here and in other Western nations). The saddest thing about this claptrap is it is most unlikely the majority of the tsunami's victims engaged in any of the sins they have been accused of. It's a pity their co-religionists won't permit them a skerrick of decency and dignity even in death.

Thanks to Piers Akerman and The Daily Telegraph

MathewK -

Are these fools for real, the sheer stupidity and 'pig-ignorance' is hard to comprehend, it seems they are for real. Sometimes I wonder if modern concepts like democracy and free speech; wait, I think there is too much free speech coming from some sections, they need more free thought; can ever be brought to the middle east with fools like these, leading the people.

Hopefully the droning of the fools is but falling on the deaf ears of the masses.

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