EU funding $11 million for Qur'an contributions and Islam regarding European civilization and perhaps its overthrow

Angry that some guy used a Koran as a doorstop

The European Union is forking over $11,000,000 to study the period of 1150 to 1850, a time when Islam had as much influence on European civilization as a fly on the butt of a camel, except for the, you know, constant threat to Europe's existence. Rather than spending the money on exploring ways of alleviating Islamic violence perpetrated on all things unIslamic, the EU would rather capitulate and hope the alligator eats them last.

“‘The European Qu’ran [sic]’: Falsifying European History With Funding from the EU,” by Hélène de Lauzun, European Conservative, April 16, 2025:

The European Union is preparing to provide €10 million in funding for a scientific research project aimed at highlighting the contribution of the Qu’ran [sic] and the Muslim religion to European civilisation. The influence of the Muslim Brotherhood is evident behind this undertaking.

The objective of this programme, entitled ‘The European Qur’an,’ the idea of which was launched six years ago and which is due to last until 2026, is to “challenge traditional perceptions of the Qur’anic text and well-established ideas about European religious and cultural identities” through traveling exhibitions, conferences, and book publications. The starting point of the project’s initiators is that the influence of Islam on European culture is greatly underestimated. “Our project is built on the conviction that the Qur’an has played an important role in the formation of medieval and early modern European religious diversity and identity and continues to do so,” reads the website homepage. The project aims to cover a chronological span of seven hundred years, from 1150 to 1850, from the Iberian Peninsula to Hungary.

But why don't we take a little look at how the Qur'an [aka Koran] has enlightened the world in ways it hasn't seen since the Dark Ages.

Love thy neighbor has been a Judeo-Christian precept long before Islam was brought here by Mohammed, the so called prophet of Islam and a man who married a 6-year-old Ayisha but was descent enough to wait 3 years before consummating the marriage.

When Muslims become your neighbor, be you Christian, Jew, Hindu or atheist, you can bet they're going to show their love in the methods  described in Islamic scripture:

Koran 2:191 "Slay the unbelievers wherever you find them."

Koran 3:28 "Muslims must not take the infidels as friends."
Koran 3:85 "Any religion other than Islam is not acceptable."
Koran 5:33 "Maim and crucify the infidels if they criticize Islam."
Koran 8:12 "Terrorize and behead those who believe in scriptures other than the Koran."
Koran 8:60 "Muslims must muster all weapons to terrorize the infidels.'
Koran 8:65 "The unbelievers are stupid; urge the Muslims to fight them."
Koran 9:5 "When opportunity arises kill the infidels wherever you find them."
Koran 9:30 "The Jews and Christians are perverts, fight them."
Koran 9:123 "Make war on the infidels living in your neighborhood."
Koran 22:19 "Punish the unbelievers with garments of fire, hooked iron rods, boiling water, melt their skin and bellies.
Koran 47:4 "Do not hanker for peace with the infidels; behead them when you catch them."

But while religious tolerance is not their strong point, Islam is tolerant of most lifestyles not associated with religious beliefs, except when it comes to women:

A hadith in Sahih Muslim, Book 20, Number 4635 (and similar narrations), where it's mentioned that if a Muslim man is killed by a woman, he would not be considered a martyr. This isn't stating he won't go to heaven but specifically that he won't be termed a martyr in the context of jihad.

Okay, speaking about women in Islam, what happens when a woman goes to paradise? 

Glad you asked. When a Muslima dies, paradise for her includes eternal joy and peace. The peace part is obvious because dead people don't have problems, but the joy part includes her dwelling in gardens with rivers, free from pain, hardship or sorrow, so there's no excuse for kfetching [complaining], (Koran 2:25, 9:72). Thus they will have complete contentment and closeness to Allah while their husbands enjoy 72 beautiful virgins.

Jannah [heaven] also offers exquisite houses, silk clothing, ornaments and loads of fruits and drinks (Koran 22:23, 76:21). Women, even the not so beautiful ones and even those who look like something the slave dragged in, will have beauty and adornments that go beyond the expensive stuff you get on Earth.

The women will also be reunited with dead loved ones, such as their martyred kids, parents or spouse, if they're lucky like them to make it to the big show (Koran 52:21).

Finally, women who enter Jannah, will derive the greatest pleasure of all time: getting Allah's approval and perhaps even getting to check him out with their own eyes. (Koran 75:22-23, Hadith in Sahih Muslim). 

This reward is for all believers, but depends on Allah's schedule for when he is not killing infidels, especially the, you know, Jews.

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So while the so called European Koran makes a case for Islam's contribution ot Europe, the hard cold facts can be delineated in such things as the Crusades, the calls for violence in the Koran, especially against the Jews, but not limited to them, their misogynistic rhetoric and having women as less than second class citizens, but more along the lines of possessions. 

Killing in the name of Islam for every slight argument against the ideology, kind of says it all about the religion of peace. 

And don't get me started on gays, lesbians and transgender people.

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Italian priest bans Nativity scene to avoid offending Muslims

Offensive scene to Muslims and atheists

In Islamic nations, the theocracy in charge expects you to conform to their religion of the nation by respecting their customs. In non-Islamic nations, Muslims expect you to conform to their religion by respecting their customs.

In Italy, a Catholic priest announced there would be no Nativity scene at the local cemetery because it could offend Muslims and atheists.

Father Sante Braggie explained that there would be no crib nor Jesus in the cemetery in the northern city of Cremona (where coffee lightener was invented) because it might piss off people of the Islamic invasion--I mean persuasion--or those of other faiths who have chosen to bury their loved one in a Catholic cemetery, or atheists who don't believe in Jesus so they shouldn't be offended, but Braggie wasn't taking any chances.    

"A small corner of the cemetery is reserved for Muslim graves," the frightened Father said. "A crib positioned within sight of them could be seen as a lack of respect for followers of other faiths, hurt the sensibilities of Muslims, as well as Indians and even atheists."

Father Oreste Mori, the predecessor of Braggie, strongly criticized the politically correct priest, saying of the decision: "Seriously? I can't believe it." (Actually, he said, "Sul serio? Non posso crederci," because he said it in Italian.)

The normal priest, Mori, added, "We cannot renounce our culture and traditions. That would be an unpardonable weakness. I am, for the time being at least, in Italy, not Saudi Arabia." (Non possiamo rinunciare alla nostra cultura e le tradizioni. Sarebbe una debolezza imperdonabile. Io sono, per il momento almeno, in Italia, non è l'Arabia Saudita.)

Ciao.

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Freedom From Religion Attacks Again

Tried out for waterboy: no luck

Those brave, kooky folks at the Wisconsin atheist group known as Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) are at it again, this time asserting their God-given right to be offended at a teenage football team, called the Seminoles, in Sanford, Florida.

One of the kids got hurt on the gridiron and was being tended to by the coaches and trainers. Upon seeing the severity of the situation, the team took a knee, bowed their heads and silently prayed for their injured teammate.

Well, imagine the insult and mental anguish those poor atheists must have felt knowing that a bunch of kids believed in a higher being. They were offended, outraged, and determined to put an end to the Seminole's Freedom OF Religion.

What Conservatives Can Learn from Liberals

Nothing is more frustrating than listening to a liberal discuss a social or political issue in emotional terms. Well, maybe trying to get gum off your shoe is more frustrating, or removing toilet paper stuck to the gum--but you get the idea.

Hillary Clinton

Yet you have to give credit to liberals, in spite of them having little or no verification of their beliefs, be it on social issues, gun control, or economics, however, they still manage to win elections.

Part of their success they receive with public support can be attributed to how they use words. Liberals are black belts in verbal karate. They refer to abortion as a "health issue" or "a woman's right to choose," and it almost sounds plausible because there's usually an element of guilt attached to it--liberals thrive on guilt--it's the manure of their soil.

We conservatives try to counter liberal talking points but are less successful at it because we fail to make their rebuttals emotionally labile. We rely on facts and logic, which doesn't play well with liberals who might be disillusioned by the leftists who have destroyed the promise of hope, but who are not willing to give us a chance because the left is promising change that they can believe in--and they do. We need to do what the left has done since Washington was a corporal: baffle 'em with our BS.

When a liberal appeals to the emotions with "a woman's right to choose," conservatives need to counter that with emotional content such as: "a baby's right to live."

When a liberal declares that a 20 week old fetus isn't yet a human being, we need to ask: "Then what is it if not human? If you aren't killing a human being, then what are you killing?" Now that's emotion a liberal can identify with and get behind. But unfortunately, that will probably not convince a true liberal to accept your point of view--they made up their mind when the day they bought their first pair of Earth Shoes, and trying to change their thinking and get them to use logic, is like trying to use a pogo-stick for body surfing.

Not surprisingly, liberals love liberal art courses, which puts them at an advantage at cocktail parties and picking up LBGTXYZ people (I believe Facebook has 57 varieties of sexual preference--like the Heinz Corporation's products). And liberal arts is the way to go if you're looking for work at Bob's Big Boy or the Obama administration. But the most gainful employment liberal arts courses offer is for those who want to teach Gender Studies, Black Studies, Medieval Knuckle Jousting and the like.

Another important thing we can learn from liberals is how to be cool. A liberal can wear a Che Guevara t-shirt and look cool. Anyone who can wear a shirt with the likeness of that cold-blooded, scumbag, commie killer must know a thing or two about how to be cool, and we need to learn how to do that in case Osama t-shirts go on sale.

Liberals are usually experts in walking back stupid, obvious lies, present administration excluded. When Susan-Sunday-Talk-Show-Knuckle-Jouster-Rice said that Bowe Bergdahl served his country with "honor and distinction," she was obviously talking out of the wrong bodily orifice.  But when CNN's Jim Acosta interviewed her on D-Day about this obviously moronic remark, she tried to walk it back with: "What I was referring to was the fact that this was a young man who volunteered to serve his country in uniform at a time of war. That in itself is an honorable thing."

Is it, Susie? Did Bradley (aka Chelsea) Manning serve honorably? He/she/it (say that fast) volunteered to wear the uniform. Benedict Arnold volunteered to wear it too. Would you say the same about them as you did about Bergdahl?

See Sue, it isn't about how you start off that counts--it's how you end up. If you don't believe me, go ask the New York Rangers about the first two Stanley Cup Games they just played.

So if conservatives are going to take walking back lessons they need to learn them from America's premiere back walker and bull artist, Hillary Rodham Clinton, the veritable Queen of Balderdash.

Hillary said she takes full responsibility for the Benghazi scandal in which 4 Americans were under attack by Muslim jihadists and we were only 400 miles away with jet fighters that could have made the trip in an hour. But, of course, we "stood down." In the same breath in which she said she takes full responsibility, she passed that responsibility off to "the experts" that know more about security than she knows. So she made it a kind of "responsibility hot potato" and time heals all non-life-threatening wounds.

But dude, that was, like two years ago.


ADDENDUM: This is more an after thought than an addendum, but I like the sound of addendum better. 

One thing we conservatives need to learn better from our friends across the aisle is how to use the trusty old ad hominem attack. Imagine, we have a soldier, Bowe Bergdahl, who walked off his base, possibly deserted, and all of his brothers in arms said he deserted. Instead of taking that for what it's worth, the lamestream media attacked the soldiers who unanimously made the same claim. That's simply incredible.

It seems like everything of late has become politicized, even behavior that has no bearing on politics, like desertion in time of war.

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Islamophia and Unicorns

In an article entitled "The Politics of Islamophobia," the website Discoverthenetworks.org says that the term "Islamophobia" was invented in the early 1990s by the International Institute for Islamic Thought (IIIT), a front group for the Muslim Brotherhood. The term became an active focus of the Muslim Brotherhood after 9/11 when Islamic lobbyist organizations like the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), an unindicted co-conspirator of the Holy Land Foundation, accused Americans, law-enforcement authorities, etc., of harboring a deep and potentially dangerous prejudice against Muslims. Of course, none of this was ever corroborated by FBI statistics.

Happy Holy Day

Holiday is coming and the children have hung their holiday stockings by the mantle and their balls and figurines on the holiday tree. In about two weeks, the country will celebrate the birth of Jesus of Nazareth, aka the Christ. The church mass celebrating His birthday (I am capitalizing His name and pronoun at my own legal risk) is known by some as Christmas, but Freedom from Religion demands we drop that term and call it the "Holiday" season. The word "holiday" comes from the two words "holy" and "day." If it's a holy day, there must be a reason for it.

Atheists become most offensive around Christmas and other Christian holidays. They seem so angry over Christianity. They deal a lot better with Muslims, or at least they don't seem to be as outspoken over Eid or Bakrid, and they never disrespect Mohammad like they do Jesus.

I wonder why. If you have any ideas on this subject, please feel free to comment. All comments will be held in strict confidence, if you know what I mean.

My latest novel, Jihad Joe, is about Islamic terrorism and suspense.  In it I challenge the precepts of the religion through my protagonist, Zed Nill, a journalist, captured by terrorists and who is destined to be killed if the American President refuses to release three Gitmo prisoners.  Of course, American policy demands we never give in to terrorists, and for Zed, the clock is ticking.

                                             

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USA Christmas in the Future

Well it's almost Holiday Day, but first we have Holiday Eve.  That's when all the little girls and boys wait for the arrival of toys under their holiday tree.  Songs will be sung on the radio; old familiar tunes like, "White Holiday,"  "The Twelve Days of Holiday," and my favorite, "Here Comes That Fat Guy."  Other songs from the past are no longer sung, tunes like "Little Drummer Boy," "Silent Night," and "Good King Wenceslas," (a.k.a. "Good King Worstershire Sauce") because they offend atheists.

I remember a time when movies were innocent and bereft of "cool violence." Today we have the cool guy, good or bad, acting violent but it's okay because he's cool.  Gone are such flicks like:  "It's a Wonderful Life," and more hard boiled movies that had characters who actually fought against evil, like "Dirty Harry."

In my little town of Bedford Falls, New York, we used to have a manger scene in the town square.  We had Catholics, Protestants, Jews and Hindus in the town who loved the way it looked and respected the celebration of those who believed that the child in that manger was the son of God, even if they may not have believed it themselves.  We even had a few atheists who didn't believe in God at all, but were okay with others believing in Him, so they looked upon the nativity as something perhaps quaint or interesting, but certainly not offensive.  But that was then and this is now.

Now the atheists and Muslims are offended by Christian displays of Christianity.  The atheists feel sick when walking past a nativity scene, and Muslims feel angered that a "false god" is being worshiped.  Orthodox Muslims are funny that way--just not "ha ha" funny.  They have warned the town fathers that if this obscenity continues, heads are going to roll.

But my mind keeps going back to the past, to the days of Bing, and Nat the King, and Johnny Mathis and the Beaver.  I miss Christmas trees, and movies like "The Bells of Saint Mary," and people greeting me in stores with "Merry Christmas," instead of "Happy Holiday."  Dang--even the word 'holiday' comes from the words 'holy day.'  So why are people so offended?

I believe it's a lie.  I think atheists are just angry creatures who see life in concrete terms, and Muslims believe that life begins at death where "it's my way or the highway for nonbelievers. 

MERRY CHRISTMAS!  MERRY CHRISTMAS! MERRY CHRISTMAS! MERRY CHRISTMAS! MERRY CHRISTMAS! MERRY CHRISTMAS! MERRY CHRISTMAS! 

Have a safe, wonderful, enjoyable and spiritual Christmas.

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The War on Eid and Christmas

Secular liberals and the atheist organization Freedom From Religion, have been attacking Christians and Muslims in their ongoing war against religion.  At this time of year it is Christmas that is being attacked, but during the Islamic holy time of Eid, they have been loudly protesting the public prayers that go on in the streets or in pubic malls, and they will not rest until all religions are quietly praying to be left alone.

Wait, I just remembered, Freedom From Religion hasn't protested against Islamic public displays of prayer.  Maybe they need to go to London where Muslims have been blocking streets with their bodies, praying to Allah and making a big fuss about how great their god is and ours not so great.  Like the secular left, they too would like Christmas to die--like Coptic Christians in Lebanon, for example.

The Constitution provides for freedom OF religion, not freedom from it.  Calling a Christmas tree a "holiday tree" is a lie and an insult to several billion humans on this planet.  But is it surprising that this administration, and these socialists who hide behind the title of liberals, shred our Constitution?  Obama wants to do it with congress and their power of the purse.  Why not everything else?

It's getting dangerous folks.

My latest novel, Jihad Joe, is about Islamic terrorism and suspense.  In it I challenge the precepts of the religion through my protagonist, Zed Nill, a journalist, captured by terrorists and who is destined to be killed if the American President refuses to release three Gitmo prisoners.  Of course, American policy demands we never give in to terrorists, and for Zed, the clock is ticking.

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Freedom from Atheists

Atheist trophy rewarding nothing

Atheists in Wisconsin want a Nativity scene in Texas taken down. Annie Laurie Gaylor, co-founder of Freedom from Religion, an  organization of godless busybodies, has petitioned for its removal. It seems like every Christmas, there are idiots who have nothing better to do than make a stupid point. They are the same mindset of the morons who go into churches and steal from the Christmas collection box, or the donations made for the poor. The worst part is their snarky, mockery these organizations make of Christianity, but never have a word to say against Islam. I dare them.

An atheist is a person who does not believe in the existence of God or a supreme being. Why, if they believe in nothing, do they feel that religious people should believe in nothing too? It's arrogant and there's no reason to try convincing others to desist in their beliefs and celebrations of these beliefs .  .  .  unless these atheists have their own doubts about their own beliefs, and are overcompensating for them.

A nativity scene hurts no one; nor does a cross.  A Christmas tree is no more a sign of Christianity than a church--should Christians have to tear down their churches in order to assuage these atheists? I know they would like that, but that's simply too bad for them, and it's too bad for non-Christian religions that oppress Christians throughout the world--I refer to Islam, of course--I just keep forgetting to be politically correct. My apologies go out to all those fidels from this infidel, and no apology to atheists. 

Go find something useful to do with your miserable lives.

 

If you are interested in reading a novel about Islam, terrorism and suspense, I have provided 2 links below for both the hardcopy (softcover) edition and the ebook edition of my latest novel.  It's a story about Zed Nill, a NY based reporter who is taken hostage by Islamic terrorists and must talk his way out of captivity before he is beheaded the following day. The clock is ticking.

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