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Free Kareem

von Bastian am 23.02.07

Zeilen, für die der 22-jährige Rechtsstudent und Blogger Kareem Amer in Ägypten zu vier Jahren Gefängnis verurteilt wurde (Übersetzung aus dem Arabischen durch einen anonymen Übersetzer, gepostet im Kommentarbereich von Kareem’s Blog):

Blogpost über anti-christliche/anti-koptische Pogrome

“The Muslims have taken the mask off to show their true hateful face, and they have shown the world that they are at the top of their brutality, inhumanity, and thievery.
They have clearly shown their worst features and have shown that in dealing with others they are not governed by any moral codes.

From what I have seen yesterday of the events at Maharram Beh, which were quite shameful, and have shown me more facts that they have tried to cover over the centuries.

They have indicated that Islam is a religion of peace and forgiveness, but their true face has been uncovered to show barbarism and thievery and fanaticism and not acknowledging others, and attempting to remove them from existence.

Some may think that the actions of the Moslems does not represent Islam and has no relationship with the teachings of Islam that was brought by Mohamed 14 centuries ago, but the truth is that their actions is not different from the Islamic teachings in its original form when it has urged people to deny others and hate them and kill them and take their property, things that they know well but they try to deceive people by falsely defending the teachings of Islam by extremists and they are hiding from the truth and they prefer living a lie.

I have seen with my own eyes the thugs as they break into our Christian brothers’ stores after the whole area of Maharram Beh was completely out of control of the government authorities, and I saw them as they ransack the contents of the store right and left, amidst cheering and shouting extremist Islamic slogans, and I saw them stealing the money from inside the drawers of the cash registers and splitting it among themselves as if it is justified by being owned by what they call the infidels and the worshippers of the cross.

I saw them break into a liquor store owned by a Coptic merchant Labib Lotfy and I saw them smash everything they can get their dirty hands on, including the refrigerator and the scale and the boxes and liquor bottles. I saw some of them stealing liquor bottles so they can get drunk after a hard day’s work against the Coptic infidels.

It is worth mentioning that although some people may think that this Christian-owned liquor store was particularly targeted because the owner is selling the forbidden alcoholic beverages that is forbidden in Islam, but another liquor store in front of the Christian-owned store happens to be owned by a Moslem merchant, and none of the thugs dared to attack, as they did with the Christian-owned store. Now you can see the hateful sectarian actions.

What the Moslems did yesterday in a very vulgar and criminal and horrible way proves beyond the shadow of a doubt that they don’t acknowledge others or their rights of existence or their rights to live with the freedom of expression and also consider them less than them, and these actions should be fought and exterminated for is it right to leave these horrible human beings to do what they want and kill, destroy, steal, and burn??!!

The Islamic teachings that was brought by Mohammed 14 centuries ago should be faced with courage and boldness, we should expose and show its faults and warn humanity of its dangers. We should, even though we are different –look with reason to these teachings that urges people, human beings, to become monsters that don’t know anything in life except killing and looting and plundering and raping and pillaging.

We should stand courageously and boldly against these teachings that became a plague on humanity and is not supported except by extremists like bin Laden and al Zarqawi and al Zawaheeri and the thugs that assaulted our Coptic brothers and burned their homes and stole their properties, and tried to assault their religious men and destroy their churches.

We should take off the religious and sectarian gown and look at matters in a more humane way. We should hold trials to all the acts of terrorism and extremism, that our Islamic history have kept their names and their criminal actions starting with Mohamed ibn Abdullah and his company of murderers like Khalid ibn el Waled and Omar ibn el Khattab and Saad ibn Abbi Waqqas and Moiizah Bin Shaabah and Samra bin Gandab and the kings of Beni Ummaya and Beni al Abbass and al Osman, and ending with the Moslem criminals of the modern day that became more famous than movie stars and singers.
We should show the world the truth of these criminals that unfortunately have become role models for our youth and our children and our women. We should expose their false teachings and show the world that they are a big danger that should be exterminated and removed from its roots.

Before you put on trial the people that are responsible for the crimes that occurred on Black Friday in Maharram Beh, you should first put on trial the dirty teachings that caused them to go on a rampage of stealing and plundering and looting.. put Islam on trial and sentence it and its symbols with a figurative execution so that you can be sure that what happened yesterday will never be repeated again.

For as long as Islam exists on this planet all your efforts to end wars and disputes and upheavals will fail because Islam’s dirty finger will be found behind every catastrophic event to humanity.”

Blogpost über seinen Ausschluss von der Al-Azhar Universität

“I am not sad! Would one be depressed and sad when he recuperates his freedom? As I was being investigated, I discovered- for the first time- that being a student at El Azhar University means I was a slave owned by it.

Would I be sad because I recuperated my freedom? Would the slave be depressed when he manages to forcibly extract his freedom from the grasp of that who considered himself a master? Would he who wins over injustice, slavery, and intellectual restriction cry? I extracted it from them as they were bargaining with me over it.

They were expecting me to deny or evade responsibility of my free and courageous opinions - they were awaiting for me to give birth to a second personality during the investigations - but how preposterous!

The University of El Azhar is a racist university, with all that the word “Racism” entails. Its Imams and scholars always decry countries of the West, which reached a high caliber in terms of human rights, for having been racist countries at one point of their history.

Would those turbans void of brains remove the speck from their eyes first before blaming others for actions carried out centuries ago? It is a racist university for; in spite of the fact that it is a public university financed by all Egyptian taxpayers - Muslims and Christians alike - it only accepts Muslim students! Isn’t that racism?

It is a racist university because it separates male and female students and places them in separate campuses. It even goes as far as banning its female students from studying certain specialties. Isn’t that racism? If there is one thing for which I would like to thank that university of El Azhar, it is for having showed me its unveiled face that I would not have been able to witness had I not been one of its students.”

Grossartiger Blogpost über Meinungsfreiheit

“I am not frightened at all. I am on contrary very happy that those who oppose free thinking and treating me this manner have no better ways which corresponds to those who are intellectually bankrupt and it does raise my self confidence in my own ideals and principles and I am prepared to fact anything and everything to be able to say what I think freely without any restrictions or chains stated upon us by governments or religious institutions or even a collective society that is being used to keep these low and despicable practices going and alive. Despicable moves by the enemies of free thought that cloud the peoples minds either by religion or drugs.

Just the fact that there are laws that criminalize the freedom of thought and punishes whoever dares to criticize religion in any form by imprisonment is considered a serious fault in the legal system that should in the first place be the structure that governs and sets a free interaction between people in society and not to impose restrictions in favour of religion or the law itself or any other social structure. The human being – the individual – is the primate (primary) and he precedes everything else. So to criminalize an individual for criticizing the social structure, religion or the authority – natural behaviour that came after that primary individuals appearance – is a serious and dangerous fault of these very laws and regulations and by this they do considerably surpass their competencies and interferes with matters that belong to the realm of personal freedom that is considered holy and no one whoever he may be is allowed to go over it.

I am hereby and in all clearness and openness declare my rejection and disgust from any law and regulation and authority (system) that does not respect the individual’s rights and personal freedom, that does not believe and acknowledge the complete freedom of the individual to express his views what ever they may be as long as these views were presented in speech and hasn’t been connected to any behaviour (action) that might hurt others. So here I do declare that at this time, these laws do not obligate me in any way and I do not accept them or their existence. I do not respect anyone who helps in their implementation, uses it as a guide or reference and who ever tolerate their existence or worse, benefits from them. And if these laws are forced upon us and we are in a state of helplessness then this is due to those who have other “agendas” and benefit for the current situation where they are more than happy to have it and keep it as it is. This will never make me susceptible to surrender or prone to wait for any negotiations or compromise.

I do hereby declare that I do not accept the legality of the authority’s request for this investigation in regards to the circumstances as this is in the realm of my own free expression of free will and pint of views that is part of the International declaration of Human Rights that Egypt should be one of the countries that signed it and regardless of the mentioned declaration, even if it didn’t exist or if Egypt wasn’t one of the signatories, Human rights is a natural state and needs no legislation and laws to regulate it and to limit it.

To all those who are under the impression and think that all these naïve efforts will change my attitude and force me to alter the course that I set for myself I’d like to say: die from your envy and hide in your holes..I will not back down, not even for an eye’s blink (Arabic way to state that not even for a millimetre: added by translator).I will not change any of my words and whatever chains you will put on me will not affect my freedom. Freedom has been my companion from childhood and will keep on shimmering my imagination till the end.

And to the Azhar University, its professors and Sheikhs (clerics: added by translator) who stood and are still standing against any notion of free thought that is far away from all their superstition and bigotry I’d like to say: your existence will fall into the pit (actual word mentioned: Dumpster) of history and then you will not find anyone who will shed a tear on you and rest assured that your grasp will shatter and disappear as happened to others like you. And happy man is the one who takes example and advice from other…!!!”

Free Kareem!

Arcade Fire - Neon Bible

von Bastian am 22.02.07

Arcade Fire - Neon Bible

Beinahe alles, wozu eine halbwegs populäre Band in der heutigen Zeit überhaupt noch in der Lage sein kann, findet sich auf “Neon Bible”, dem Buch mit den elf Siegeln, der heiligen, in Tränen getrockneten Schrift und den Songs von unsagbarer Schönheit.
- spiegel.de

[E]in wunderbares, großes, zweites Album, das den Vergleich mit dem alten Album nicht zu fürchten braucht. Um genau zu sein: Es hat überhaupt gar nichts zu fürchten. Nichts. […]

Arcade Fire haben mit “Neon Bible” ein Album aufgenommen, dass seinen Platz zwischen den ganz großen Alben der letzten 30 Jahre sucht und bin mir sicher auch finden wird.
- audiooase.de

Dem Kritikerlob kann ich mich nur anschliessen. Schlicht grossartig. Einzigartig.

Rauchverbote sind ungerechtfertigt

von Bastian am 19.02.07

Warum Rauchverbote in Gaststätten nicht gerechtfertigt sind, wird in diesem ausführlichen Artikel des Cato Institute (PDF) sehr schön dargelegt. Für eine Zusammenfassung fehlt mir leider die Zeit, aber ich möchte darauf hingewiesen haben. Die wichtigsten Argumente der Befürworter werden zerpflückt. Felix Gutzwiller, lesen!

Link: Thomas A. Lambert - The Case Against Smoking Bans

Übersetzungsfehler

von Bastian am 11.02.07

Wie kam es dazu, dass diese Wort (liberal, Anm. der Red.) in den Vereinigten Staaten eine so radikal andere Bedeutung annahm? Während des Ersten Weltkriegs begannen einige der führenden progressiven Schrifsteller das Wort liberalism als Synonym für progressivism (”Fortschrittlichkeit”) zu benutzen, da dieser Begriff durch ihren gefallenen Helden Theodore Roosevelt kompromittiert war, der für die Partei der Progressisten in den Wahlkampf gezogen war und verloren hatte. Traditionelle amerikanische Liberale waren nicht glücklich darüber, dass ihr Name auf diese Weise besetzt wurde. In den 20er Jahren kritisierte die New York Times die “Enteignung des altehrwürdigen Begriffs ‘liberal’” und verlangte, dass die “radikal rote Denkschule (…) das Wort ‘liberal’ seinen ursprünglichen Eigentümer zurückgeben möge”. Zu Beginn der 30er Jahre trugen Herbert Hoover und Franklin D. Roosevelt einen Streit darüber aus, wer von ihnen der wahre Liberale sei. Roosevelt entschied diesen Streit für sich und benutzte das Wort, um Anschuldigungen zu begegnen, er sei links. Er konnte erklären, dass Liberalismus “gutes Englisch für die veränderte Pflicht und Verantwortung des Staates gegenüber dem Wirtschaftsleben” sei. Seit dem New Deal Roosevelts wird Liberalismus in den USA als Ausweitung der Rolle des Staates in der Wirtschaft verstanden.

Aus Yergin D. & Stanislaw J., Staat oder Markt: Die Schlüsselfrage unseres Jahrhunderts.

Lieber Staat

von Bastian am 07.02.07

Lyrics von Farin Urlaub

lieber staat, ich fühle mich so rundum wohl in dir
lieber staat – es weht ein wind von freiheit hier
du erklärst mir immer wieder, was erlaubt ist und was nicht
lenkst mein leben jeden tag und bist furchtbar fürsorglich
ach, was wär ich ohne dich

danke, dass du mich regierst!
danke, dass du mich regierst!
und dass du mich nicht ignorierst

lieber staat, gut, dass du weißt, was richtig für mich ist
lieber staat, schön, dass du so ehrlich bist
du willst immer nur mein bestes, und du gibst mir zu verstehn
wenn mir irgendwas nicht passt, steht mir frei, hier wegzugehn

danke, dass du mich regierst!
womit hab ich das verdient?
ich rutsche vor dir auf den knien …

lieber staat, jetzt mal echt
du bist absolut gerecht
wer was anderes sagt, macht dich nur schlecht
lieber staat, eigentlich
wär ich gar nichts ohne dich
ich schrob dir dieses lied, du weißt bescheid
als zeichen meiner dankbarkeit

lieber staat, ich weiß, vor dir sind alle menschen gleich
lieber staat – ganz egal, ob arm, ob reich
manche sagen zwar, du wärest auf dem rechten auge blind
wobei die, die das behaupten, alle terroristen sind –
das lernt man bei uns schon als kind

danke, dass du mich regierst!
danke, dass du mich regierst!
und in serbien einmarschierst

lieber staat, du bist hart
aber nur, wenn es was nützt
z.b. wenn du uns vor ausländern beschützt
lieber staat, da sind ganz klar arbeitsplätze in gefahr
es gibt viel zu viel ausland auf der welt
und die wolln eh nur unser geld

und bevor ich es vergesse
eine kleine sache nur
ich danke dir für deine leitkultur

lieber staat, ich habs kapiert
es ist einfach herrlich hier
die massen stehen jubelnd hinter dir
lieber staat, ohne mist:
bleib genau so, wie du bist
ich tätowier mir deine flagge ins gesicht
ich bin so schrecklich stolz auf dich

Hörprobe.
Album.

Geht es hier noch weiter?

von Bastian am 28.01.07

Im Moment leider nicht. Ich hatte mir vorgenommen, mich nicht zu entschuldigen, sollte ich mal keine Zeit oder Lust haben, dieses Blog mit Einträgen zu füllen. Es fehlt mir gerade an Zeit und Lust. Ich möchte deshalb davor warnen, dieses Blog in nächster Zeit regelmässig zu besuchen.

Der erste Grund ist mein Studium, das mich in den nächsten Monaten zeitlich stärker in Anspruch nehmen wird als auch schon. Es mag nicht aufgefallen sein, aber ich hatte gelegentlich doch den Anspruch, intelligente, strukturierte Postings mit nachvollziehbaren Gedankengängen zu verfassen. ;-) Bloggen ist und war für mich zeitintensiver als ich es gedacht hätte. Hinzu kommt ein gewisser Erwartungsdruck der Leser, dem ich mich hiermit entziehen möchte.

Der zweite Grund ist, dass ich immer mehr Distanz zum ganzen politischen und medialen Zirkus gewinne. Eine Arena-Sendung, die ich vor einem Jahr noch geschaut hätte (und mich über die Teilnehmer bzw. deren Aussagen geärgert hätte) schaue ich mir gar nicht mehr an. 10vor10 schaue ich nicht mehr. Tages-Anzeiger lese ich nicht mehr. Mag sein, dass die Lektüre von Ayn Rands Atlas Shrugged, durch die ich mich derzeit durchkämpfe, dies noch verstärkt hat. Darin wird die Gleichgültigkeit gegenüber dummschwätzenden Politikern und Journalisten geradezu zelebriert. (So jedenfalls mein Eindruck nach 300 von 1000 Seiten. Mehr kann ich dazu sagen, wenn ich es irgendwann mal fertig gelesen haben sollte. Ich lese nur darin, wenn ich nicht schlafen kann. ;-) Zum Objektivisten wird es mich nicht machen, das weiss ich schon jetzt.)

Das sind Umstände, die sich wieder ändern können. Deshalb mache ich hier nicht dicht. Falls mein Mitteilungsbedürfnis wieder erwachen sollte, werde ich es weiterhin hier befriedigen. Bis dann.

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