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Images, not
Words, Most Disturb Islamists
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Inspire, the glossy, English-language internet magazine published
by Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), published a "Wanted
dead or alive for crimes against Islam" poster in its March 2013
issue. No one paid much attention to it, not until the commando-style murder
of Stéphane Charbonnier, one of the eleven listed, on Jan. 7. The other ten
are Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Terry Jones, Carsten Luste, Molly Norris, Flemming Rose,
Salman Rushdie, Morris Sadek (misspelled on the poster as
"Swadiq"), Lars Vilks, Kurt Westergaard, and Geert Wilders.
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"Inspire"
poster calling for the murder of eleven Westerners.
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Looking over this list offers some insights into
AQAP's mentality and by extension, that of Islamists in general:
- No one from outside
the central regions of Western civilization seems to be worth APAQ's
time: all eleven live in the either in the United States or Western
Europe.
- Only born Christians
and Muslims (Ali, Rushdie) are included in the list. No Jews, Hindus,
Buddhists, et al.
- Three hail from
countries long under Muslim rule: Ali from Somalia, Rushdie from India,
Sadek from Egypt.
- Five live in the
United States and six in Europe, of which three live in Denmark.
- Seeking refuge from
their Islamist persecutors, two (Ali, Rushdie) moved from Europe to the
United States.
- Islamists care much
more about pictures than the written word: nine of the eleven have a
pictorial dimension, six with cartoons (Charbonnier, Luste, Norris,
Rose, Westergaard, Wilks) and three (Ali, Sadek, Wilders) with movies.
One (Jones) engages in highly pictorial activities. That leaves only
Rushdie with no pictorial aspect.
- Two of those
associated with cartoons (Luste, Norris) are obscure bit-players whose
inclusion, rather than high-profile anti-Islam activists, is surprising.
- In addition to
murdering Charbonnier (and eleven others in his office), Islamists have
physically assaulted two other cartoonists (Vilks, Westergaard). They
also attacked and killed some of Rushdie's translators.
- All but three (Ali,
Jones, Wilders) are associated with ridiculing Muhammad, the prophet of
Islam.
This analysis suggests that Islamists are most incensed by Western
Christians drawing cartoons making fun of Muhammad. (January 15, 2015)
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