December 19, 2003

BAD TO WORSE

Minor Muslim PR problem:

One of the 13 Palestinians deported from the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem in May 2002 was arrested Tuesday in Belgium on suspicion of participating in a number of robberies in which more than $250,000 were stolen. Khalil Mohammed Abdullah al-Nawara received asylum in Belgium following the siege on the church.

Major Muslim PR problem:

Michael Jackson last night became a member of the Nation of Islam.

(Via contributor John Beck and reader Jim R.)

Posted by Tim Blair at December 19, 2003 11:55 AM
Comments

Horrible thought but does this mean that Michael can no longer shave? Picture MJ with Saddam's beard *shudder*.

Posted by: Rob at December 19, 2003 at 12:07 PM

I wonder what the Iman says about robbing post offices?

Posted by: Gilly at December 19, 2003 at 12:24 PM

Didn't Jackson used to be a Jehovah's Witness or Seventh-Day Adventist? From the frying pan into the fire...

Posted by: Alice at December 19, 2003 at 12:31 PM

Anyone know what Sharia says about people who desecrate a site holy to the god of Abraham?


Kal

Posted by: Kalroy at December 19, 2003 at 12:39 PM

Hmmmmm, I posted on the wrong comments.
Kal

Posted by: Kalroy at December 19, 2003 at 12:45 PM

From reading the article, I see that his brother Jermaine worked long & hard to get him into Nation of Islam & has seized the present opportunity to succeed. I hadn’t known that Jermaine was Muslim, much less Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam. I saw Jermaine talking about Michael on TV a few weeks ago, & he had a distinctive way of talking, something about his cadence & phrasing in responding to charges about Michael, & now I recognize it—it sounds like Farrakhan.

For you Aussies who don’t already know, Farrakhan is EVIL.

Posted by: ForNow at December 19, 2003 at 01:24 PM

I meant: “I hadn’t known that Jermaine was Muslim, much less a member of Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam.”

Posted by: ForNow at December 19, 2003 at 01:27 PM

The more involved Michael Jackson becomes in the Nation of Islam, the more he will become Farrakhan’s political tool. Farrakhan is into power. His people are commonly thought to have been behind the assassination of Malcolm X. They do NOT REALLY give a fuck about Michael’s proclivities, they care about his money-making potential, his popularity, & his usefulness for propaganda. Nobody will get past the Nation of Islam crowd to see what Michael does behind closed doors.

Unless this is just a passing fad for Michael.

Posted by: ForNow at December 19, 2003 at 01:48 PM

Kind of gives the lie to the theory that the Nation of Islam is a racist and sexist group. I mean, to welcome a white woman like that...

Posted by: Grunter at December 19, 2003 at 01:51 PM

Kind of gives the lie to the theory that the Nation of Islam is a racist and sexist group. I mean, to welcome a white woman like that...

I’m going straight to another Website & using that.

Posted by: ForNow at December 19, 2003 at 02:01 PM

A motive in his joining Naton of Islam may be for protection during incarceration.

Posted by: ForNow at December 19, 2003 at 02:08 PM

Didn't Mohammed have a 6 year old wife? ("Hadith" Volume 7, Book 62) - Aisha.

Paedophilia is a Muslim tradition.

Posted by: Paul Johnson at December 19, 2003 at 02:33 PM

Which,Paul J., raises the possibility: wacko Jacko moves to Canada and comes under Canada's new rule of law, as it were, Sharia.
Further possibilities are available too: visit Toronto zoo and bugger the camels and asses,enjoy carnal pleasure with a chimpanzee, spend a night with Glenda the 2 ton gorilla.

Posted by: d at December 19, 2003 at 02:57 PM

he sure won't be singing 'ben' any more

Posted by: ilibcc at December 19, 2003 at 03:26 PM

There is an old Afghani song which goes
"There is a boy across the river
with a bottom like a peach,
but alas, I cannot swim"

Sounds danceable, too.

Posted by: Grunter at December 19, 2003 at 03:55 PM

Hi.

"For you Aussies who don’t already know, Farrakhan is EVIL."

Thanks for the heads up. Personally, I already know. He came out for Australia for a tour to stir up trouble. He listened to nobody, and just pushed his own line. I thought his best moment was at Redfern: inner Sydney, with a slum area populated by Aboriginals. He was out in the street with a microphone ranting about White slumlords and their racist oppression of their Black tenants. From the tops of the buildings, the Aboriginal owners were shouting at him that no Whitefellas owned these places, they owned them. He had a great voice and the mike: he just kept shouting them down, spouting the same racially divisive fantasy.

Helping Aboriginals get a better deal in Australia is morally important, and hard and tricky. But a liar like Farrakhan doesn't care about that. He just blew through like a hate-spreading tourist.

It's surprising for me to think of Jacko in this light, but I think Farrakhan will be a bad influence on him. Farrakhan would be a negative moral influence on almost anybody, from what I saw.

Posted by: David Blue at December 19, 2003 at 05:10 PM

For the record, though, the Nation of Islam is not affiliated with Islam, not even the Wahabbist variety usually associated with Islamic fascism. It's basically a dumbed-down version of Islam that replaces the few virtues of Islam with the ugliest vices of Afro-American supremacy, forming a religion so foul even Osama bin Laden refused to be publicly associated with it (except, of course, when the NOI provides Al-Qaeda with funding and manpower on the sly).

It's worth noting that Malcolm X left the Nation of Islam after his first exposure to true Islam, during his pilgrimmage to Mecca, and became a fiery critic of the NOI after that (which led directly to his assassination at the hands of Farrakhan's hired thugs).

Posted by: Tatterdemalian at December 19, 2003 at 06:16 PM

Jackson knows he is going to prison. The Nation of Islam will protect Jackson in prison in exchange for millions of dollars.

Posted by: perfectsense at December 19, 2003 at 06:33 PM

"Didn't Jackson used to be a Jehovah's Witness or Seventh-Day Adventist? From the frying pan into the fire...

He was originally JW. Quick, everyone, repeat the Athanasian Creed. Once you start denying the Trinity ...!

Posted by: Noami Kleimpsky at December 19, 2003 at 10:30 PM

Yeah, prisoners don't tend to be too keen on the ole' pederasts. Jackson is going to need lots of protection.

Posted by: Andrew Ian Dodge at December 19, 2003 at 10:38 PM

Tim, you wouldn't happen to be Allah, would you?

Posted by: Independant George at December 20, 2003 at 12:38 AM

Independent George - Since Allah likes the Red Sox so much, I'm guessing he's in my neck of the woods (New England) or grew up around here.

Posted by: Roger Bournival at December 20, 2003 at 02:13 AM

I usually don't encourage suicide bombers, but...

Posted by: Zach at December 20, 2003 at 05:18 AM

"Didn't Jackson used to be a Jehovah's Witness or Seventh-Day Adventist?"

Based on the charges, he appears to have been a Catholic priest!

When Jermaine told him he could have another 72 virgins, he leapt at the chance.

BTW, I think his last album was his suicide bomb!

Posted by: JDB at December 20, 2003 at 09:29 AM

Theologically, the "Nation of Islam" is to Islam about what Mormonism is to Christianity: a collection of heretical and even blasphemous gibberish (Founder W. D. Fard was God incarnate, successor Elijah Muhammad was a New Prophet). Elijah Muhammad's son and successor Wallace repudiated these heresies and led most of the NoI to orthodox Islam. Farrakhan took over the remnant. He hasn't made many converts, but his anti-white, anti-Jewish shtick brings in the money anyhow. Ironically, ultra-purist Moslems such as Gaddafi and the Iranian ayatollahs have welcomed Farrakhan.

Posted by: Rich Rostrom at December 20, 2003 at 08:09 PM

"Ironically, ultra-purist Moslems such as Gaddafi and the Iranian ayatollahs have welcomed Farrakhan ..."

Weeeeeellll, not being a Wahhabi hyper-Sunnite I'll let you have the Ayatollah as "ultra-orthodox Muslim" (in the same way an impartial observer could get away with calling both the Pope and Ian Paisley "ultra-orthodox Catholics"). But G/K/Qaddaffiiyy isn't, by any stretch. His Green Book is just a tract of Nasserite/ quasi-Ba'athite secular pan-Arabism, like Saddam's; for example, he casts doubt upon the historical inerrancy of the Qu'ran (apostasy, in the eyes of zealous Muslims) and, for example, switched Libya from the 360-day lunar calendar to the Gregorian 365.249-day solar calendar.

Posted by: Noami Kleimpsky at December 20, 2003 at 10:55 PM

AAARGH meant to write "calling both the Pope and Ian Paisley "ultra-orthodox Christians". Apologies to all my Irish friends.

Posted by: Noami Kleimpsky at December 20, 2003 at 10:59 PM