Make insult history march

by Localist Fri Feb 10, 2006 22:20

>>A big Thank You to the Irish, UK and USA media

They were published on Indymedia.ie actually.

by gay geori Fri Feb 10, 2006 22:53

You should be demonstrating against the contrived Fascist reaction in Teheran and Damascus - but oh, they don't allow freedom of speech do they?

Anyone watching the antics of "your brothers" would imagine the biggest export from Denmark was Danish flags...

by responsible Fri Feb 10, 2006 23:01

one link is to the organisation "faith based" and the other is to wikipedia. One of the cartoons has been reproduced here, in context by which it is clear no offence is meant, but the reproduction is only meant to illustrate to Irish and non-muslim readers the nature of the insult. It is the least offensive of all the 12 images and purports to depict the prophet (PBUH) as being "explosive". The author of the article and majority of comments accepts responsibility for any offence caused, and asks before judgement be passed that all links and statements in that article be read.

http://indymedia.ie/article/74056

I'd ask those attending the march to note that this crises which has seen lives lost has been stoked by the states of Iran and Denmark equally.

No Hate = No Hate
respect & sensibilities = peace = saleem = shalom

by pat c Sat Feb 11, 2006 15:39

"sheik"

how did you earn such a title in the first place?

i hope you will come on indymedia seeing as you have used it to spread details of your march.

What is your position on lesbians and gays? do you believe that they should face death?
what other penalties should they face? are you prepared to condemn the imposition of sharia law in islamic countries?

what is your position on women? should all women be forced to wear the hijab? should adulterous women be whipped or stoned to death? will you condemn the whipping and stoning of women in islamic countries?

under sharia law, a woman who has been raped, must produce 4 adult male muslims to prove her innocence.do you support this provision of islamic law?

it would be interesting to see sharia law clarified on indymedia so that we can all see how merciful and compassionate allah is.

ps why is the banana the forbidden fruit in the koran? anything to do with the shape?

by pat c Sat Feb 11, 2006 16:18

"Emma, Ann and a sex doll that upsets Muslims
* The latest public figure to stand accused of defiling the Prophet Mohamed is not some Danish cartoonist, or French newspaper editor, but a hapless British Page 3 girl called Emma B.

Yesterday, the erotic retailer Ann Summers unveiled Miss B as the "face" of its new range of products. Not 24 hours later, she finds herself on the front line of Islamic protest after Muslim leaders discovered that the range includes a new blow-up doll, called "Mustafa Shag".

Unfortunately, Mustafa was one of the names given to the Prophet Mohamed. Bestowing it upon, in the words of its catalogue, "an inflatable escort for your hen-night adventures" is considered highly offensive.

The Manchester Central Mosque has already written to the firm, calling on it to withdraw the product, right. "You have no idea how much hurt, anguish, and disgust this obnoxious phrase ["Mustafa Shag"] has caused to Muslim men, women and children," reads their letter. ""

what next? that one really gave me a laugh! i'm not trying to take a rise out of the prophet, honestly!

full story at link.

by Localist Sat Feb 11, 2006 16:45

what i find really hard to understand is this idea of free speech without insult. In Ireland people have a wide range of attitudes towards a wide range of issues, and it goes without saying that everyone is insulted by the views and opinions of other people. For example, Eoghan Harris made some remarks the other night about 1916 that i didn't like and i'm sure many people were insulted by them. But thats freespeech for you. Freespeech co-exists with insult unless the society in question is single minded.

by rooster Mon Feb 13, 2006 01:31

whenever we have free speech an the freedom of movement within society some people are going to object, their objection is the proof of a free society.

by Shay Shag Mon Feb 13, 2006 08:46

Pat C you are out of line.
It seems that you did not
even bother to read the statement
that was made by Sheikh (which means that
he is a qualified theologian) Dr. Shaheed Satardien.
He, in all fairness, knows that you lefties are in
bed with the muslim extremists. However, as a moderate muslim he still publishes his statement
to reach the fundamentalists (who are your buddies) especially in the anti-war issues.
Sheikh Dr. Shaheed Satardien is a very courageous person and we should commend him
for his stand. Sheikh Satardien is like a ray of light
in the darkness of violence.
Pat C please do not make an idiot of yourself again.

by shay shag Mon Feb 13, 2006 08:56

How stupid and blind can people become?
You are no different from those rioting so-called
muslim idiots all over the world.
You do not even understand the issue.
These decent and moderate muslims, under the leadership of Sheikh Shaheed Satardien take to the streets to protest against the violence and you attack him?
Where were your buddies in Fosis and Clonskeagh mosque and South Circular road mosque and the Muslim Association of Ireland?
(The people who always march with you?)
Why did they not march with these people?
Because they did not want to be violent?
Please get your head screwed on.

by pat c Mon Feb 13, 2006 11:21

dear shay

you call me an idiot, i say it is you who are the idiot. you want to bow down before muslim mobs who would take our rights away. if they canm ban these cartoons then what will they be after next?

will all women have to wear a hijab if pass within 100 metres of a mosque?

will pork butchers be banned?

ok i'm being faceirous but remember islam governs every aspect of life, what you should eat, how you should dress, how you should shag. m,uslims want to extend their religious beliefs into civil law.

i'll stop attacking the sheik if he answers the questions i put to him above.

funny that i'm an idiot for asking questions. thats a bit intolerant.

why doesnt your wonderful sheik answer the questions? the article is in his name.

i'm not in bed with any islamic fundamentalists (their religion forbids it). i support the PFLP & the secular elements of Fatah. i condemn Hamas.

pat

NO gods!
NO masters!
QUESTION authority!
QUESTION sheiks!

by Ron Mon Feb 13, 2006 11:53

The "moderation" of Sheikh Dr. Shaheed Satardien is welcome.
Unlike your muslim "brothers" in the Middle East who have vowed to cut Westerners to pieces for insulting the alleged Prophet Muhammed, a individual who may or may not have existed hundreds of years ago, you have condemned violence.
Protest all you but quite frankly I don't care how offended you are by a bunch of cartoons.
Islam like all religions is a sick joke.

by pat c Mon Feb 13, 2006 12:34

An interesting article below on antisemitic publications available in the Arab world. Full article at link.

"Blatantly anti-Semitic literature is on sale in Cairo, just like many other Arab capitals. The BBC News website's Martin Patience reports on the apparent inconsistency in the Egyptian reaction to the Danish cartoons caricaturing the Prophet Muhammad.

Two hundred metres from the Arab League's headquarters in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, there are two newspaper kiosks on the pavement. Passing customers can also buy books - trashy romance novels, computer guidebooks, and children's story books.

But on closer inspection, both kiosks openly stock the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a notorious anti-Semitic text that purports to be an account of Jewish plans to rule the world, but was actually written by Tsarist secret police in 1905.

They also sell Hitler's autobiography, Mein Kampf. "

by Shipsea Mon Feb 13, 2006 17:51

'II'll stop attacking the sheikh if he answers the questions I put'.

Who do you think you are Pat C? You set yourself up as judge jury and executioner on various issues based on your seemingly impenetrable assumption that you are 100% right in all you say, do and think. In reality, sadly, you are equipped with very little more than your own insufferable self-righteousness which renders you incapable of any kind of subtle thinking. You dont have to go to Islam, incidentally, for examples of violence and injustice against women or gays - lamentable and inexcusable though some Islamic attitudes are. Just as there are extreme forms of Islam there are extreme and violent forms of atheism, capitalism, socialism, and communism. Muslim people have no monopoly on human failing - a very obvious truth but one which continually eludes you, nevertheless. Your attempt to caricature this moderate muslim for a clearly peaceful and rational response to recent events is idiotic and unpleasant. Did you know, by the way, that gay people are as much responsible for violence and corruption as any other group? I'm sure that your shrill harangues will do nothing for the cause of women or gays - larded in juvenile and unpleasant insults as they are.

by pat c Mon Feb 13, 2006 18:08

"Who do you think you are Pat C? You set yourself up as judge jury and executioner on various issues based on your seemingly impenetrable assumption that you are 100% right in all you say, do and think. "

no. i am expressing an opinion. its muslims and some trots who think what they say is divine scripture.

"In reality, sadly, you are equipped with very little more than your own insufferable self-righteousness which renders you incapable of any kind of subtle thinking."

so yo have set yourself up as judge jury and executioner and you have negated my right to have an opinion.

"You dont have to go to Islam, incidentally, for examples of violence and injustice against women or gays - lamentable and inexcusable though some Islamic attitudes are. "

yes but even among fundamentalist christians you wont find widespread agreement that gays and adulterous women should face death. belief in the sharia is accepted as valid even in mainstream islam.

"Just as there are extreme forms of Islam there are extreme and violent forms of atheism, capitalism, socialism, and communism. Muslim people have no monopoly on human failing - a very obvious truth but one which continually eludes you, nevertheless. "

again you strip me of the ability to make an informed comment.

"Your attempt to caricature this moderate muslim for a clearly peaceful and rational response to recent events is idiotic and unpleasant. "

no its not. this article was posted in the name of the sheik. why doesnt he answer my questions? why dont you answer my questions? abusing me by calling me an idiot and unpleasant is not an answer.

"Did you know, by the way, that gay people are as much responsible for violence and corruption as any other group? "

how do you reckon that? i'd love to know. do gays go around kicking straights to death for being straight? do they shout insults at straights for being straight?

i notice you decided not to attack women under that heading. wise decision on your part.

"I'm sure that your shrill harangues will do nothing for the cause of women or gays - larded in juvenile and unpleasant insults as they are. "

so standing up for womens and gay rights is juvenile, unpleasant and insulting. you really dont want want to upset your misogynistic, homophobic, antisemitic muslim friends do you?

why not answer the questions i posed instead of hurling abuse at me?

NO gods!

No masters!

NO TO islamic CENSORSHIP BY mullahs.

by pat c Mon Feb 13, 2006 18:10

have you no views on the anti jewish cartoons?

by pat c Mon Feb 13, 2006 18:57

and it looks as if the pig face was a hoax. were muslim fanatics behind it? who else stood to gain from it?

http://www.neandernews.com/?cat=6

plus the cartoons appeared in an egtptian paper during ramadan, no riots. this smells to high heaven. the whole thing is being stirred up by islamic fanatics!

" A closer look. The text says in Arabic that a special reportage is inside. Mind you that this is the holy Muslim month of Ramadan. While Muslims are worshipping in this holy month, not a single protest was called in Cairo against Denmark or the newspaper."

http://freedomforegyptians.blogspot.com/2006/02/egyptia....html

anyone read john waters today? he knows how to defend democratic rights!

by eeekkkk Mon Feb 13, 2006 23:12

John Waters - The extremists pompus extremist ;-)

by eeekkkk Mon Feb 13, 2006 23:22

"no. i am expressing an opinion. its muslims and some trots who think what they say is divine scripture."

Only Them? Really? Jaysus? I've met punks, farmers, gays, artists, brickies, plasterers, priests, athiests, antichrists ;-), who think the same.

by Shipsea Tue Feb 14, 2006 00:00

just by virtue of being men have always enjoyed access to power and privilege on a scale even now unimaginable by the majority of women: - in politics, as property and wealth owners, through voting rights, as members of the judiciary, armed forces and professions, as priests and laymen - whatever. Neither are they, being mere human beings, immune to having prejudices of their own and among some gay men there is a virulently mysoginistic and contemptuous attitude towards women. Given the same degree of opportunity, no doubt women would be just as flawed. Gay men can be racist and violent like others. They have tortured and murdered. The very religions that you are being so abusive about have in many instances been a sort of refuge for gay men too - despite their hypocritical public stance on homosexuality. None of this is to suggest that gay men are more or less prone to foolishness or evil than the rest of us but only that there is no sense of proportion in your abusive tirades about the Muslim faith and the people who practice it. There are some despicable practices associated with Islam as there are with Christianity and non-religious movements too. Many moderate muslims abhor genital mutilation and the vilification of gay and lesbian people, for example. Many muslims are gay and lesbian themselves. People routinely blame religion for war but there has never been a war which was not actually about money and power. Religion has been (ab)used as a conveneint fig leaf behind which to hide these motives - to whip up misguided support among gullible people - often, tragically, the very people who are being asked to risk life and limb.

You dish it out Pat, but you can't take it, you know.

by Sheikh Dr. Shaheed Satardien Tue Feb 14, 2006 10:56

Dear Pat C
I am Sheikh Shaheed Satardien in person answering you. (Can you believe it?)
I do not normally answer to illogical rantings and ravings but I see that you are very much (mis) and (dis)informed.
You keep yourself like a person who knows Islam. Why don't you start reading up (on) Islam instead of hearing about Islam?
You will not be able to know Islam if you are going to listen to the mainstream media.
I posted on Indymedia because I believe in it. You obviously have not seen other posts of mine before. Why do you not inform yourself more about a person before you attack her or him? Why do you not (eg.) google my name and see what comes up and what type of person I am?(I write regularly for the metro eireann which is Ireland's only multi-cultural newspaper). Not knowing that proves that you do not read the paper which proves that you are not interested (as much as you might claim) in other cultures.
On radio Phoenix Fm there is a program called New Horizons which is presented by Dil (who is a lesbian). Ask her who gave her that position because they need a voice. (I did!). Does that give you some idea?
When you say hijab what is your understanding of it? A scarf, a veil or what else? You do not have the faintest idea of what exactly you are talking about, but your (Islamophobic) rantings are disgraceful.
In which country have you witnessed the stoning of women for being raped? If there is such a country then I will be the first to codemn it with the abhorrence which it deserves.
Where do you get this crazy idea of a woman having to prove her innocence by four men if she is raped?
I am a lecturer of World Cultures and I cannot verify your (unintelligible)claims. If you want to meet me and know more, then write to me at interfaithrt@gmail.com.
P.S. I did not answer you (partially) because I fear your stupid attacks on me. I am used to it and most of it comes from the so-called 'Muslim' community.
By the way, where did you get this stupid idea that bananas are forbidden fruit? We love bananas (and Islam is not that stupid). The stupidity falls on people like yourself who did not bother to find out about Islam but are still under the yoke of imperialist and oppressive orientalist portrayals of it. Liberate your mind and emancipate your heart and find out about it from qualified Sheikhs (like myself).If you want to know (more or anything) about the real (and genuine)Islam then you are welcome to send me an e-mail.

by shay shag Tue Feb 14, 2006 11:10

Thank you Sheikh Shaheed Satardien for pointing out what everyone knows but no-one dares to say. That we in the west do not only suffer of Islamophobia but we are still under the yoke of the oppressive, colonialist and so-called orientalist hype and bull shite that has been fed to us over the centuries. Those who do not want to believe it should take another look at the right wing racist agenda of those who published the cartoons in the first place.

by Ron Tue Feb 14, 2006 11:15

"Those who do not want to believe it should take another look at the right wing racist agenda of those who published the cartoons in the first place."

No no no no, you just don't want to believe that the muslims barbarians who are burning Danish flags are the ones with the real right wing racist agenda.

by Leo Tue Feb 14, 2006 12:36

Hey Pat C I just googled Sheikh Shaheed Satardien's name and made a couple of phone calls to people who are involved in the Interfaith Roundtable. Sheikh Satardien is the most tolerant of Muslim (clerics)around in Ireland and in Europe. He is the only person who respects and deals with even the minority religions who are rejected by the established faiths.
Everyone I spoke to praises him and regards him as the most enlightened, fair and just reformist and progressive Muslim that we have seen in a long, long time. Even the humanists and atheists are respected by him and he works closely with them as well. This is just mud in your face and proves your Islamophobia and racism.
He champions the cause of muslim women and even lesbians and gays are his friends.
If I were you I would wish that the earth split up and form a big hole so that I could fall into it and then it should just cover up again.

by pat c Tue Feb 14, 2006 16:24

so the great sheik ventured forth.

his lies\will fool few other than those in the swp. under sharia law a woman who is raped must produce 4 male adult muslims to back up her case. otherwise she willbe judged to have had illicit sex and will be flogged or even be stoned to death. the sheik knows this.

the sheik is a liar!

does the sheik deny that wopmen and gays\ face death in islamic countries?

why doesnt he deal with this?

if any humanists admire this sheik then i pity them.

i pity you who defend him here.

i have contempt for sheik just as i have for all clergy.

NO gods!

NO masters!

by pat c Tue Feb 14, 2006 16:30

leo

i have no idea who you are but you have made a serious charge accusing me of racism. i have spent my entire adult life combating racism and i am a member of AFA.

what i wont do is bow before a reactionary religion like islam.

do you want to ban the life of brian?

i am prepared to give you a fools pardon but if you are really insistent then i suggest yo come and call me a racist to my face,

religion is not race!

all religion should be mocked!

by Shipsea Tue Feb 14, 2006 16:41

between the following:

'I have contempt for sheikh [sic] I have contempt for all clergy

AND

'I have contempt for all gays'

Your comments are clearly discriminatory and incitement to hatred.

by iosaf mac d. Tue Feb 14, 2006 16:44 0034 636 105 231

I greatly appreciate what you did, and sorely regret that there were no contributors to indymedia ireland who took the trouble of attending the march and photographing the simple posters your group displayed. It is to be much regretted that in all this sorry affair the one protest in Ireland which saw a "positive" message of solidarity and what in barcelona we term "convivencia" was not recorded here to its full potential. Perhaps you or your colleagues might have photographs and would consider publishing them here, and thus "feeding the trolls" less.

Saleem.

by pat c Tue Feb 14, 2006 16:45

contempt for religion is contempt for people who want to control other peoples lives. in the case of islam it means introducing the sharia wherever they can.

only a fool or a rogue would pretend that women are not killed under sharia law. the sheik has done that.

having contempt for someone because of their sexual orientation is rather bizarre. you really are a strange person if you compare the 2. you cant change your sexual orientation.

by magdalene Tue Feb 14, 2006 17:01

& consistently uses the commentary under the name "Pat C." to do so. This has a lamentable effect on horizontal communication with other media organisations, the state, other social groups (including the Sheik's) and most of all "the reader".
Perhaps you should be an "editor"? You could change your name to something "funny" or "sarcastic" and have the best of both worlds ¿no?
But honestly after so many years, the coat trailing, insults, bar stool philosophy ought to have been ourgrown. I can think of no instance in which you have
*internationalised an issue.
*translated news.
*provided illustration.
*praised a new contributor.
*properly promoted an agenda.
Maybe you do, maybe you do. or then again maybe you don't. Lets all think about it & stop responding to you, and maybe you'll stop pissing on "the space".

by pat c Tue Feb 14, 2006 17:01

heres a piece on the sharia and rape. full article at link. let the sheik lie this away.

"The victim carries the burden of proof
In the case of rape it may thus happen - and in most cases this is what seems to happen - that the victim has to prove that she was raped. One can argue about moral attitudes. In our world it sometimes, too, is difficult to find a consensus of what is right and what is wrong. In the West, too, until a couple of years ago, a rape victim had difficulties to assert herself in court. As in: She must have provoked it with her behaviour. Here, too, there are contentious issues concerning the burden of proof and the rule of presumed innocence to the disadvantage of the victim. However, this does not lead to the death penalty for the women. And even, if one believes that s/he has the right to judge over the morality of someone else, the type of punishment, i.e. death by stoning, remains absolutely unacceptable. Regardless of the fact that it should be the rapist who should be punished in the first place, and not vice versa.

Shari'ah even prescribes the size of the stones with which the convict is to be killed: not too small, because then they would not cause death, but not to large either, because then the convict probably dies as soon as the first stone hits. By the way, the Qur'an does not even have that kind of punishment for adultery: The Qur'an speaks of 100 lashes and that is that, though cruel enough (see Sura 24,2 and 24,3).

At the beginning of 2002, four stoning verdicts against women in Islamic states were announced: two in Nigeria, one in Sudan and one in Pakistan. Each woman had been charged with adultery. "

International Society for Human Rights
International Secretariat
Borsigalle 9
D-60388 Frankfurt/M., Germany
phone: ++49 (0)69 420 108 36, fax: ++49(0)69 420 108 29
e-mail: is@ishr.org

by pat c Tue Feb 14, 2006 17:09

i'm one person honestly. why not try some constructive discussion of the points i make. you could try dealing with tthe rape piece above.

and \heres more.

Sex and Rape
• The Sharia mandates severe punishment for sex outside marriage
•.. but allows a man to have unlimited sex with an unlimited number of slave girls and war captives

• In rape cases, the burden of proof is on the victim
• The testimonies of four independent, male, Muslim witnesses are needed to prove rape
• Unproved rape is fornication, punishable by stoning

‘The Sharia is the only system of law which punishes the victim’

http://www.ntpi.org/html/sexandrape.html

by io Thu Feb 16, 2006 11:07

Yesterday I informed on a development when the president of the EU parliament, Solano promised legislation based on the declaration of human rights proscribing religious hatred whislt speaking to the global Islamic conference. Solano of course is a Catalan Socialist, the same day Zapatero met with the Islamic congress of Spain, one of the states of Europe with the highest number of muslim citizens and one of the few that borders the islamic world. http://www.indymedia.ie/article/74056?&condense_comment...38279 They expressed their ful lsupport for his "alliance of civilisation" thing, http://www.indymedia.ie/article/70873 and also met with one of the leaders of the Catalan right wing CiUopposition party Mr Duran i Lleida. The CiU who ruled Catalonia for 23 years swerving into and out of support of whomever was in Madrid, are at heart a "faith based" organisation. But are arguing for parallel legislation to balance "freedom of speech" with "religious hatred". Important steps by the lawyers of Europe. This morning the muslims thus joined other "faithbased" parties in adding their names to full page adverts criticising the "Catalan estatut" not for linguistic or national grounds but for "faith" grounds, campaiging _democratically_ against gay marriage, abortion, and "the right to die with dignity" and the "secular" project. http://www.indymedia.ie/article/72240 That is jolly great progress. That is what we are all about.

.:. "Everyone ought by this stage know how to have their say & be polite with it"
= lets scrape the toast

by Muhammad Ali Qadri - Minhaj ul quran Thu Feb 16, 2006 12:31 sagetahir at gmail dot com in the world 00923004329620

Accept us or let us to do ........
1. Denmark should appologize from Muslims for published cartoons.
2. Make a Law about it that noone never dare to do same against any relegion.
3. Banned on all newspapers and banned on writers, publishers and editors which mistake such as .

Thank you very much.

by pat c Thu Feb 16, 2006 18:56

"1. Denmark should appologize from Muslims for published cartoons."

no way. freedom of speech.

"2. Make a Law about it that noone never dare to do same against any relegion."

all religions are invented and should be mocked.

"3. Banned on all newspapers and banned on writers, publishers and editors which mistake such as ."

now thats a little bit undemocratic.

we have few freedoms under capitalism. those we have are precious. if you dont like those freedoms then you should move to an islamic country.

the same goes for the sheik, his female supporters, leo and shay shag. if you dont like freedom then move to an islamic country.

i believe in an opendoor immigration policy and i also believe in an opendoor emigration policy. so bye bye.

just remember: Religion Is Not Race.

it is not racist to criticise or mock islam.

i am an anti racist and anti fascist. its easy to call me a racist in the anonymity of indy, why not come and say it to my face?

by Susan - None Thu Feb 16, 2006 19:37

Why wont the Sheik defend women against rapists, why did he lie about the Sharia originally. Islam is evil and is Anti-Women.

by John Meehan Fri Feb 17, 2006 02:40

http://internationalviewpoint.org/article.php3?id_artic...e=964

by Siobhan Fri Feb 17, 2006 02:50

Susan my dear let me remind you that there are more cases of women abuse and wife battering amongst us than there are in Muslim homes.
The Muslims are not binge drinkers and drug addicts nor do they chase after every skirt.
At least they treat their women with dignity and respect and treasure them like diamonds. And not like our women are being treated like pieces of meat.
Let us look at ourselves and then point fingers at others,
By the way, there are more rape cases in our society than in Islamic societies.
Check the stats girl. Why don't you get a life?
Your hatred for Islam is too obvious.
The Sheikh is too dignified to answer you it seems and I admire him for that.

by pat c Fri Feb 17, 2006 19:44

its odd that you should mention rape in the home, islam recognises no such thing. under the islamic sharia a woman is the property of her husband and rape cannot take place within a marriage.

i find it strange that you have not dealt with the information regarding the sharia and rape at the links i supplied. the sheik has been exposed as a liar. or prerhaps you think it is the human rights organisations that are telling the lies?

by JohnnyBoy Sat Feb 18, 2006 20:26

Will this "MARCH TO MAKE 'INSULT' HISTORY" include a call to the muslim/islamic world to quit calling all who reside in the West infidels?
Every time I hear them using that word to describe me I feel insulted.

We're infidels and they have no sense of humour.

by pat c Sat Feb 18, 2006 20:32

the march was rather funny in some respects. there was a picture in the irish times of a marcher holding a placard which read "islam means peace", his face was contorted with hate/rage/anger and his clenched fist was in the air! no doubt he was screaming about the mercy and compassion of allah.