The verbal assault on Islam

Mr. Muqtedar Khan does not even remotely grasp the concept of freedom of expression.

He belongs to the 7th century.

What the world needs is more mockery of Islam.

Safiyah111

It is pretentious to remember Allah in your speech?

Yes, that's what I said.

Constant repetitive relgious references are pretentious and annoying.

Better to confine those comments to your own little crowd, and spare the rest of us.

God won't mind; I promise you, he won't.

Muqtedar,

Does the verbal assault on kaafirs by muslims and their koran ever bother you?

Your allah says:
(9.28: O you who believe! Verily, the Mushrikin are impure. So let them not come near Al-Masjid Al-Haram after this year; and if you fear poverty, Allah will enrich you if He wills, out of His bounty. Surely, Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise.)

The Mushrikin are those who pray to someone beside Allah. Muslims call christians mushrik because they pray to christ, and the hindus and the buddhist are also unclean, filthy or impure.

Do you think the people that muslims call filthy all the time should demand that the koran with its many many hateful passages towards the majority of mankind should be censored and kept away from children?

islam (QURAN and SUNNA)is the last and final divine revelation and should not be approached as a culture ,you do not compare culture or human life style to divine revelation .

what is funny and useless is the fact that western culture is trying to adopt and contain islam(quran and sunna).

islam (quran and sunna)is the best choice for the failing western and eastern culture ,western and eastern culture is about enslaving people ,

just look at the theological part of the western culture,
*for so god love the world he nailed his only begotten son to the cross for the sin and sake of mankind*

the human ideological part (secularism)is no better is about stealing and killing people(please study the recent delusional mission of saint bush the democraz where he was carrying the 2 bible of the western culture (juchristian bible and liberation democratic bible).

it took the delusional communism culture less than 100 years to shrink and rot in its own homeland under no threat from outside(used to be the mightest super power), delusional inhuman culture carry its own destruction does not need no outsider to kill the crap out of its delusional theology and ideology.

islam (quran and sunna)is the best choice for the fadeing western and eastern culture.

islam(quran and sunna)is in the bussiness of knoking ignorance and liberating people since day one ,nothing freed and taught europ better than islam.

ungratefull delusional heads need to read some history.

If anyones consider that *wearing Burqa is Liberty*,they can never come to Twentyfirst Century(AD,not BC)

Is Burqa Choice or Subjugation ?
Is Burqa Liberty or Oppression ?

Viva la Liberty in Afghanistan,Saudi Arabia,Iran Islamic Republic.

Verbal Assault....
Verbal Assault and Mocking with Hinduism(worshipping to Cow etc.)
Verbal Assault and Damn to Trinity
Verbal Assault to Jewish People and Judaism
Verbal Assault to Infidels/Non-muslims
Mocking with Women(Two women equal One Man)
Praise and Flatter to Bedouin Invasion in Spain(Golden Age Myth)

Which Verbal Assault ?

Worth reposting.

And this is the face of hate. Click on the pretty face as the blogger asks, then let's talk about hate, and why we don't hear Muslims like this estimable columnist (and he is estimable) blogging day and night about this sort of thing.

And there is more he could address. I've suggested several topics, all of which concern hate, verbal assaults, physical assaults, and murder.

It is not just about Kahn and his Muslim self. Not just about Vous.

Why is it that every other panelist except the Muslims panelists take up the causes of OTHER groups. Even the other panelists have noted this.

We are our brother's keeper.

It has been written: That which is hateful to you DO NOT do unto others.

Daniel, as we see in Tanakh, tamed lions. Well?

YOU DECIDE. Click on the Pretty face to see 12 faces of Living Dead!

http://victimofprejudice.blogspot.com/

To : DanielintheLionsDen ; It is pretentious to remember Allah in one's speech? How sad! Just a few years ago everyone did-It was abnormal to not hear "God willing", "May God help me or you", "God bless you" and so on. It is the exact opposite of pretention.

By the way, were you aware that a Muslim, by Allah's leave, noticed the smoking car in Time Square?

Do you think Daniel's speech was peppered with remembrances of Allah? The following is from Bukhari:
"Then Daniel asked: "Who is this?" He answered: "I am Jeremiah." He asked: "What brought you?" He answered: "Your Lord sent me to you." He said: "And so my Lord has remembered me?" He said: "Yes." Daniel said: "Praise be to Allah Who has never forgotten me! And Praise be to Allah Who never forgets those who appeal to Him! And Praise be to Him Who compensates good with good, rewards patience with safety, dispels harm after distress, assures us when we are overwhelmed, and is our hope when skill fails us."
Daniel's speech was peppered with remembrances of Allah. I guess I'm in good, unpretentious company.

Safiyah111

Oh Good Grief!

Peppering your speech with such religious references as "all praises are due to Allah" is a little pretentious and offensive.

It is just religious posing, as we in the West are all too familiar with, in our home grown Fundamentalis-Born-Again-Christian-Evangelicals, who also talk that way.

By the way, for all that thought that this essay was a distraction, know that the whole story about the failed bombing of Time Square has not been told. For your information, the gentleman that discovered and alerted the police about the smoking car was a Muslim. It was a Muslim acting as a Muslim in highest sense of the term, all praises are due to Allah, that saved the day, yet not so much as a one line in a major newspaper identifying him by religion. Don't wonder why, reread what Dr. Khan wrote for the answer.

You are soooo right!

Western concepts of fraternite, liberte...are the problem. Not the islamic concepts of jihad, mohameds military attack on Mecca, the forcing of women to wear something, the forcing of infidels not to worship freely in Mecca, the forcing of cartoonists to fear for their lives.

So correct, it is the west that needs to be called out. Don't call out your brothers in the middle east, their killing, their oppression, their hatred of the infidel, their bigotry, their perverted sexuality, their trade in humans, those are cultural norms and anything bad those people do is because the west won't let them live freely.

Call out your own bigotry. The failure of the middle east to be modern is the failure of islamic culture to inculcate the values of truth, love, compassion, caring, for the other, open mindedness to how women dress, open mindedness to how people want to debate if a book should be believed or not, open mindedness to humor... Call out your own hatred.

If you complain that the other does not have a right to hate you, then you must behave in a way that does not call out hatred. (You can't say everybody does evil so we can too).

hariaum

Brother, well said!!!!! If a people become unprincipled someone has to call them on it and you have. Whatever happened to the West's principles of liberty, equality and brotherhood?????By the way the cartoons are beyond the pale but the notion that one is defending a woman's liberty by telling her what clothing she has to remove is just a call to become deranged. One would have to be deranged to not see the simply hypocrisy of it. One is at liberty to wear the clothes that another human chooses for you. Viva la West!!!!!

This little rhyme is one all Americans learned in their youth.

Sticks and stones can break my bones,

But words can never hurt me.

Trading blows for words is distinctly anti-American and Professor Kahn seems to think it is understandable.

Muqtadar asserts:

“Muslims, even those who are engaged in the struggle against extremism, live like second-class citizens.”
You do not have the slightest idea how a second class citizen is treated until you experience some of the regulations imposed by Muslims on non-Muslims as institutionalized by the so-called Omar Pact.
http://www.islamreview.com/articles/islamschoolpact.shtml

I thought it was amazing that the overwhelming response was anti Islam and I was puzzled at the lack of intelligence in the comments. So I submitted a comment condemning these Americans for their vile racism toward roughly 20% of the world. And instead of worrying about Islam, start worrying about the tens of thousands of Americans that are killed by fellow Americans on American soil each year that we currently care little about. Guess what??? It was not posted!!!

Makes sense that there are few rebuttals to all this disgusting hate, its because freedom of speech in America is no longer a right, it is a privilege bestowed only upon the people who speak out the way the host wants them to. Post this or dont I couldnt care less because the posts you do have are from a minority radical America that our President has already marginalized!

YOU DECIDE. Click on the Pretty face to see 12 faces of Living Dead!

http://victimofprejudice.blogspot.com/

The author is missing the point here.

Is there deep prejudice and islamophobia? You betcha! Why? Muslims are trying to kill us. Seems pretty simple to me.

It is the way of the world that ultimately we only enjoy the rights we can successfully defend. We will defend our right to speak out, even if that means invading the arab world. (again)

I don't see a need for western civilization to sell itself to the Islamic world at all. As the muslim dominated countries continue to lag further and further behind our progress the people there become less and less relevant to our lives.

How many folks in America have things in their homes marked "Made in Syria"? What has the arab/muslim culture contributed? It seems to me that the largest manufactured good for export right now is terrorists.

Looking at the Arab/Muslim culture I see oppression and repression. I don't see freedom at all. Did the founders of the faith intend for the faithful to be centuries behind the rest of the world? If so, why do the faithful resent our progress? Did the founders of the faith intend for the faithful to be ruled by despots and war lords?

As a practicing catholic I am dismayed by the insults hurled at my church. But I don't have the urge to build a VBIED and place it in a busy city in response.

and the whining about powerless muslims in America is laughable. Has the man never heard of CAIR? How many lawyers do significant work for various Muslim groups in this country? Lacking power? I hardly think so. Heck the producers of one Tom Clancy film made major revisions to the story to avoid the lawyers hired by these powerless people. What absolute nonsense.

And any immigrant group new to America is in the same boat. The hard times they get are a means of assuring prompt assimilation!

There is just so much wrong with the original essay it is hard to know where to begin countering the excuses made for the behavior of the Muslims.

I beleive the author has some legitimate "beefs" with the "christian west" and it's tratment of Islam. Try being an atheist. Chritians have always seem to think they are the chosen ones on this earth. That being said, Muslims do not do themselves any favors by threatening to kill people over cartoons. It just make all Muslims appear unhinged and fanatical. Cartoonist poke fun at politicians, the pope, jews etc. etc. and those targets do sometime take umbrage, but death threats are a crazy response. Muslim leaders need to at least try to control the finge out there and not join them.

Another thing, Dr. Kahn,

Judaism condemns images, idols--idolatry. Yet, throughout the Justice Department there are statues of MOses. OF MOSES, the great prohibitor of idols.

What do you suggest? Shall Jews gather to smash the idols in the Justice Department as Abraham did those of his father?

Pleez. I don't like the statues. There are other things I really dislike about the freedoms that many, including some Muslims, take with Judaism and with re-presenting Jews. For that matter, I didn't approve of the controversial painting of Mary in the Brooklyn Museum any more than did an enormous number of Catholics.

We disapproved. And that was that. We disapproved, and we moved (quickly) on.

Whining is not an essential part of every career. It's also a dangerous business. When legitimate complaints arise, their merits may not be perceived as quickly as they should be when folks have been subjected both to hypocrisy and endless whining.

As for the burka, as a woman, I say this to you. The day I see Muslim men wearing burkas, I'll be happy to listen to you on your thoughts.

Muslim1908 posts (repeatedly...as if he thinks that makes it "more" true)--"Wow, I think almost all the posts on here have elements of Islamophobic anti-Muslim stereotypes and racism. You've just proven Dr. Khan right." Constant use of the "race and prejudice cards" is just soooo tiresome. Those accusations are overused to the point of being absolutely meaningless, and if they are intended to intimidate posters here who refuse to be cowed by political correctness, it is a futile effort.

Muslim1908,

In earlier post, meant to write:

Why is it that every other minority group, regardless of how persecuted they are finds away to get beyond them selves and address the needs of other groups, INCLUDING MUSLIMS....

Muslim1908,

I forgot to mention that your post is "meant to distract" from is the arrest of the would-be terrorist in New York, where I live.
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When you bloviate and shriek, you get this sort of reply.

My point is a very good one. Again, it is not just about you. When you and Kahn get this, you will be more easily heard.

It has been written, "That which is hateful to you, do not do unto others."

We are the keepers of our sisters and brothers.

That goes for Kahn and you. Unlike you both, on this blog and elsewhere I have stood up for other identity groups, including Muslims. Many who post here could say the same. Most of the other panelists could say the same. YOU and Kahn cannot.

Further, I have put my life where my keyboard is. I have used my limited time to address the isms that plague us all.

Think about this, and my point.

muslim1908:

Wow, your cherry-picking of my post shows that like Kahn, just don't get it. Ideologues, racists, nativists, murderous sexists never do. You would seem to fit into one if not more of these categories, if one were to judge from your post.

As is the case with him "[d]on't know how to tell you this . . . but it is not all about vous and votre Muslim self."

Here, again, is the post from which you cherry-pick.

Mr. Kahn would be more convincing if he spoke out about the process during which the Middle East became Judenrien, the dissemination of nazistic antisemitic propaganda in the Middle East, the murder of the young rabbi in Yemen, and subsequent departure of that nations three-thousand-year-old Jewish population, the pogroms against Christians in Egypt, attacks against Christians and B'hai in Iraq and Iran, the "untouchable" Christians and Hindus of Bangladesh, Pakistan, etc.

Racism is always despicable and Muslim racism is as despicable as any other variety. Post 9/11, in the midst of endless
Islamist terrorist threats in the United States, most recently in New York City, the
United States has remained sane with respect to its Muslim population.

Muslim nations are, for the most part, morally neurotic or morally insane when it comes to their minority religious populations.

Don't know how to tell you this, Mr. Kahn, but it is not all about vous and votre Muslim self.

When you start speaking out against the racism in your own community, which, like any other form of racism, has no justification whatsoever, we'll all be much more interested in your ongoing crie de coeur.
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I did not mention honor killing, the murder, usually by a brother of his sister for her crime of having been raped.
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Your entire posting is simply meant to distract from the antisemitism, anti-Christian, anti-Hindu elements of Islamic society. To distract from the absence of freedom of speech, the tortures, murder, pogroms against minorities, endless terror, and terrorist threats such as those we have just witnessed. To distract from the brutal exile and theft of property of three million MIddle East Jews. To distract, to distract, to distract....

Polemics is a game at which two play. All said, you and Kahn would be more convincing, much more, if you realized it is not just about vous and votre Muslim self.

Did I miss your comment, blogger, on the murder of the young rabbi in Yemen, the subsequent ending of a three-thousand-year-old unique Jewish civilization in Yemen, the offer of blood money to the rabbi's widow after the international community insisted on justice for his murderer? Did I miss your post on the scores of Islamic lunatics who entered Jewish Yemeni communities (rural) screaming "Convert or die!"

Did I miss it?

Why is it that every other minority group, regardless of how persecuted they are, including my Muslims, finds away to get beyond them selves and address the needs of other groups....

we actually freed 25 million Muslims in Iraq.
Posted by: kalamere
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After we destroyed their lives, their country, their livelihoods and their infrastructure based on lies of WMD.

How Christian.

in western culture bazar.

juchristianity says love thy god more than any thing else.

secular constitution(in juchristian land) says ,
blasphemeing a civil citizen is a charge and crime ,
while blasphemeing god and god symbols is freedom of speech.

people by the people and for the people are not emancipated yet, yokes and shakles of ignorance and bigotry still exist.

Dr. Khan:
Your comments and that of every offended would lot more credible, when you mouth the same protestations against Saudi Arabian imams and the Iranian mullahs. Go and survey the 47 OIC countries how many of them tolerate people of other religions. You mouth eloquence about ban of minarets in Switzerland, and Burqas in France and so on. Did you ever ask the same of any of the OICs if they allow places of worship be opened on their soil? In case of most of the OICs is that you could not even bring scripture into the country for one own private reading. Do you ever complain about all the venom that is espoused against everyone else on the OIC TVs & media. If Mo is ridiculed in media, he has lot to be mocked about. There is no dearth of western media mocking Jesus, or Moses, or Abraham. And what do you think the muslim conquerors have done in their heyday in the rest of the world, the one your mullahs and imams long for? Your articles is totally disingenuous.

Clearing up some misconceptions about Jewish history:

New York Times

"New Torah For Modern Minds

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20E1EFE35540C7A8CDDAA0894DA404482

Abraham, the Jewish patriarch, probably never existed. Nor did Moses. The entire Exodus story as recounted in the Bible probably never occurred. The same is true of the tumbling of the walls of Jericho. And David, far from being the fearless king who built Jerusalem into a mighty capital, was more likely a provincial leader whose reputation was later magnified to provide a rallying point for a fledgling nation.

Such startling propositions -- the product of findings by archaeologists digging in Israel and its environs over the last 25 years -- have gained wide acceptance among non-Orthodox rabbis. But there has been no attempt to disseminate these ideas or to discuss them with the laity -- until now.

The United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, which represents the 1.5 million Conservative Jews in the United States, has just issued a new Torah and commentary, the first for Conservatives in more than 60 years. Called ''Etz Hayim'' (''Tree of Life'' in Hebrew), it offers an interpretation that incorporates the latest findings from archaeology, philology, anthropology and the study of ancient cultures. To the editors who worked on the book, it represents one of the boldest efforts ever to introduce into the religious mainstream a view of the Bible as a human rather than divine document. "

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"Unlike Islamic Nations, the United States does not kill infidels."

Right, the United States just kills "hajjis" and that's OK for many Americans because "hajjis" are brown, different, and demonic.

Wow, I think almost all the posts on here have elements of Islamophobic anti-Muslim stereotypes and racism. You've just proven Dr. Khan right.

The Cold Warriors needed a new enemy to demonize after the fall of the Soviet Union. This is why they define Islam as everything opposed to so-called "liberal" values. This is no different than anti-Semitic ideology; and as Dr. Khan rightfully points out, there is a long history in the West of racism, supremacism, and intolerance continuing until today. Also, all this demonization of Islam is just to distract people from the 40 year illegal and brutal occupation of Palestine, the war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan, etc. Just like how the colonialists of old believed they were "civilizing" the native Americans by exterminating them.

If America ever goes fascist, it will be under the banner of Islamophobic ideology.

Let's keep in mind that a majority of Muslims are good, decent people, who do not take the Koran as the literal word of God, and who reject extreme views. And let's not lose cite of fact that the god of the old testament, worshiped by Jews and Christians alike, was genocidal and sadistic, and that ancient Hebrew tribes held themselves out as the "chosen people". If there were any Moabites, Hittites, etc. around today, they would not have a postive view of Judaism, except, well, many of them were slaughtered. In addition, two of the most important events in Judaism, the sacrifice of Issac and passover are, if you really think about them, exercises in gross cruelty. If some invisible being told me to tie up my son and offer him as a sacrifice, well, I would say f*^k you, even if I thought that god was going to stay my hand at the last second. Poor Issac. And killing all the first born of the Egyptians, even babies - disgusting.

Let's all get along, and acknowledge that all religions are palpably false, but excise from them their positive points, and move on.

It is instructive to remember that "insulting Islam" under the Shari'ah means saying something Muslims resent, or revealing something the Muslims do not want revealed, such as the truth. We need to bare this in mind as the Muslim leaders huff and puff about the "assault on Islam". What nonsense!

If anyone is assaulting anyone, it is the Muslims with their notions of Jihad, which is defined as "war against non-muslims to establish the religion... until they submit to the Shari'ah, pay the Jizyah and are humiliated" (Umdat al-Salik, o9.0).

Note also, the definition they put forth of Jihad as "inner struggle to do good" is deceptive: this is the Jihad Akbar, as opposed to the previous Jihad ashgar. But the Jihad Akbar is not supported by strong Hadith as is the Jihad Ashgar.

Unlike Islamic nations, the United States, in fact the "West," does not kill "infidels."

Mr. Kahn would be more convincing if he spoke out about the process during which the Middle East became Judenrien, the dissemination of nazistic antisemitic propaganda in the Middle East, the murder of the young rabbi in Yemen, and subsequent departure of that nations three-thousand-year-old Jewish population, the pogroms against Christians in Egypt, attacks against Christians and B'hai in Iraq and Iran, the "untouchable" Christians and Hindus of Bangladesh, Pakistan, etc.

Racism is always despicable and Muslim racism is as despicable as any other variety. Post 9/11, in the midst of endless
Islamist terrorist threats in the United States, most recently in New York City, the
United States has remained sane with respect to its Muslim population.

Muslim nations are, for the most part, morally neurotic or morally insane when it comes to their minority religious populations.

Don't know how to tell you this, Mr. Kahn, but it is not all about vous and votre Muslim self.

When you start speaking out against the racism in your own community, which, like any other form of racism, has no justification whatsoever, we'll all be much more interested in your ongoing crie de coeur.

The author writes: "Mocking Muhammad, or the Qur'an or Islam, does little to advance western civilization. It merely makes Muslims angry and underscores the presence of deep prejudice and Islamophobia in the US."

On the contrary, allowing people to mock all of these things advances freedom of speech, a cornerstone of western civilization. Attempts to stop these expressions, the supression of speech, retards western civilization, and is nothing more than the promotion of fascist principles that historically have been the hallmark of religions. Specifically, certain religious leaders do not want to be criticized so that they can wield temporal power, while promising the masses eternal salvation.

If Muslims get upset when their religion is mocked, they need to look in the mirror. They should be secure enough in their beliefs to let such mocking roll off their shoulders. However, perhaps Muslims are justifiably insecure in their belief because upon close examination, Islam, like Judaism and Christianity, taken literally, is ludicrous and indefensible in the modern world. In particular, the treatment and literal demonizatoin of women in countries like the fascist kingdom of Saudi Arabia is an abomination.

When you are third rate in cultural, economic, political and military terms, paranoia comes along with the failure.

This is nonsense. This Government, White House and Press attacks Christians every chance it can and coddles Muslims even though they have literally and figuratively attacked us for years. We went to Bosnia to save Muslims, we went to Somailia to feed Muslims, we actually freed 25 million Muslims in Iraq.
This entire argument is garbage.

Are you saying this "verbal assault" on Islam justifies your terrorist murderers hell bent on attacking American on our own soil?

Are you saying that your small and shallow Allah and his intolerant followers are really that afraid of a cable channel satire cartoon show?

I would ask Professor Khan where, in the Muslim world, can we find the kind of Western liberalism he seems to value? To hear Muslims complain about a lack of Western tolerance is hypocrisy at its most ridiculous and laughable. Your religion and your culture, Mr. Khan, are intellectually and morally bankrupt, steeped in hatred. Yours is the only major religion that still openly advocates for the destruction of those who will not submit. Your preoccupation with sins of the flesh isn't just antiquated, it portrays you as little better than rutting animals who are unable to control the simplest of urges. Please. Take a break from stoning homosexuals and women who show their ankles in public. Join the brotherhood of man here in the 21st century and either reform Islam so that it may coexist peacefully with the rest of the world, or renounce it, but don't try to convince us how we've wronged your faith because you've been so horribly "mocked." It isn't making us like you any better.

"The West has a long history of waging military crusades and systematic demonization of Islam,"

I believe it is the koran that demonizes the infidels with a hateful god.

"It is also disingenuous to talk about sleazy shows whose primary motive is to make money in the same vein as one would talk about serious discourses."

Are you referring to Pakistani TV, the Saudi princes, the Ayatollahs or Iran, or the great Libyan princes. Sleazy - wow, who is more sleazy SP or a prophet that takes a 14 year old bride?

"Again and again, the West reminds us that when Western cultural identity and symbols are threatened it will not hesitate to curb the religious expression of Muslims." like blowing up statues of the Buddha, banning idols in Mecca, Banning women from dressing freely in Saudi arabia, preventing women from equal educatin under sharia.. I wonder which evil group learned how to be more evil from whom.

"The publishing of cartoons mocking Muhammad (pbuh) in Denmark did not advance Western culture in Europe." on the contrary, here we can and do debate it openly - a patent confirmation of the western value of human freedom. Can anyone in the islamic world get up and say we should be able to mock the grand child molesting pubah - or is human freedom not valued?

"Muslims, even those who are engaged in the struggle against extremism, live like second-class citizens. They are victims of the war on terror and its attended measures." kind of like women forced to wear the burqa.

"Will we rather fight multiple wars, and even eliminate habeas corpus from our judicial philosophy (which is like war on ones own citizens), but not abstain from mocking Islam? " yes, because we value freedom not submission. And we won't submit to koranic hatred of the infidel.

hariaum

With professors like Khan, I wonder why the FBI needs to fabricate enemies like the Hutaree militia. More people striving for the overthrow of the United States belong to the U of Delaware Islamic Studies than in any Hutaree group.

Why is so much of this religion about "power" and the ability to "destroy"?

I have seen absolutely nothing positive come out of this religion. Islam does NOT mean "peace" it means "submission". Good luck forcing that on Americans.

What a riduclous humorless fop; perhaps he should wear the Burqa since he is an old lady.

Neither Mr Kahn nor any one Muslim or Muslim organization speaks for Islam. Any Islamic mullah can issue a Fatwa, an Islamic license to kill, on anyone for any perceived slight of Islam, the Prophet or whatever reason he thinks justifies a death sentence. In the real world, issuing an order to or soliciting for someone to kill another person is a criminal offense and subject to arrest and trial but political correctness allows Muslim clerics to order killings without fear of punishment and the Western world cringes at the idea that a fatwa or a threat might be issued for an author, comedy show, publisher, movie director, actor, historian, museum or even a University, the Metropolitan Museum and Yale are the most recent examples along with Comedy Central that have submitted and so practiced self-censorship and political correctness under or to avoid threats or actual attacks from Muslims.
Until the first arrest order is issued for a mullah who declares a fatwa against anyone for any reason, the rest of the world is under the control of radical Islam.
What is Mr. Kahn's position on fatwas, has he spoken out against those mullah's who issue them?

Talk about being brainwashed by Islam!!! Professor Kahn needs some real help and help is here with the Five Step Method to Deprogram/"Deflaw" 1400 years of Islamic mumbo jumbo.

Are you ready?

Using "The 77 Branches of Islamic "faith" a collection compiled by Imam Bayhaqi as a starting point. In it, he explains the essential virtues that reflect true "faith" (iman) through related Qur’anic verses and Prophetic sayings." i.e. a nice summary of the Koran and Islamic beliefs.

"1. Belief in Allah"

aka as God, Yahweh, Zeus, Jehovah, Mother Nature, etc." should be added to your cleansing neurons.

"2. To believe that everything other than Allah was non-existent. Thereafter, Allah Most High created these things and subsequently they came into existence."

Evolution and the Big Bang or the "Gib Gnab" (when the universe starts to recycle) are more plausible and the "akas" for Allah should be included if you continue to be a "creationist".

"3. To believe in the existence of angels."
A major item for neuron cleansing. Angels/devils are the mythical creations of ancient civilizations, e.g. Hittites, to explain/define natural events, contacts with their gods, big birds, sudden winds, protectors during the dark nights, etc. No "pretty/ugly wingy thingies" ever visited or talked to Mohammed, Jesus, Mary or Joseph or Joe Smith. Today we would classify angels as fairies and "tinker bells".

Modern devils are classified as the demons of the demented.

"4. To believe that all the heavenly books that were sent to the different prophets are true. However, apart from the Quran, all other books are not valid anymore."

Another major item to delete. There are no books written in the spirit state of Heaven (if there is one) just as there are no angels to write/publish/distribute them. The Koran, OT, NT etc. are simply books written by humans for humans.
Prophets were invented by ancient scribes typically to keep the uneducated masses in line. Today we call them fortune tellers.
Prophecies are also invalidated by the natural/God/Allah gifts of Free Will and Future.

"5. To believe that all the prophets are true. However, we are commanded to follow the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) alone."

Mohammed spent thirty days fasting in a hot cave before his first contact with Allah aka God etc. via a "pretty wingy thingy". Common sense demands a neuron deletion of #5. #5 is also the major source of Islamic violence i.e. turning Mohammed's "fast, hunger-driven" hallucinations into horrible reality for unbelievers.

Accept these five "cleansers" and we guarantee a complete recovery from your Islamic ways!!!!

So the answer is Jihad? The Post is giving this guy a platform for his rant--I doubt that equal time would be granted to a Christian who felt equally "powerless" and "mocked" in a secular society. The goal of radical Islamists is to destroy the infidels (basically everyone who doesn't believe what they do). I would submit that Islam limits far more freedom and personal expression ("conform or die") than "the West," which does tend to practice tolerance and diversity (sometimes to its own disadvantage.)

What I don't understand is why an all powerful Allah needs to rely on the mentally disturbed to quell the expressions of infidel blasphmers?