HalloHell

Now in this day and age in Europe, you would largely think that Halloween had been accepted as a harmless celebration ......

Halloween Pumpkin Heads

..... even amongst the Christian clergy (Note: I automatically assume that the mullahs are against it).

It Lives

The cavern was old, and so was its inhabitant. It was set deep under a mountain crag that was overlooking a wide valley and mountain pass, and upon which men of all ages had built fortresses. First of wood, and then as the centuries passed, of mighty stones. From that great vantage point, a dark kingdom had finally risen and dominated.

It had defied first the Byzantine Greeks, then later the Latin Crusaders, and finally the Turks .... but eventually after many sieges, the mighty fortress had eventually fallen. Blood had flowed like a mountain stream down the crag, as a mighty Sultan decreed that 'all should die' and that no stone be left standing 'one upon the other'. This, so that 'no man should remember' the darkness of their rule, nor the defiance of its former rulers.

Sultan Mehmed II Ordered Castle Dracul Destroyed ....

Puppies Haram

There are times when you only have to tell the story as it is ..... so here we are.

The young muslims of Malaya and other countries, have taken to celebrating 'western' events such as Valentines day and Halloween. It is just a part of the 'globalisation' that the socialists are so keen on to justify 'multiculturalism' politics in the west, but the Mullahs of Malaysia and elsewhere are not quite so keen on either 'globalisation', nor 'multiculturalism', and in fact violently oppose them (except where its Muslims in non Muslim lands, when they embrace it .... while it suits them).

So they are afraid that their young people's attempts to try and join in the rest of the worlds activities are a threat to Islam, and therefore to be suppressed by whatever means are possible .... in Iran, arrest, clampdown and fear are the norm. In Malaya, the remnants of British laws on equality make this a little more difficult, but state thugs can still terrorise minorities (or waverers), either directly or via false charges.

But the most effective method is the fatwa (a religious proclamation, which is never tolerant), so this month the country's National Fatwa Council announced that Halloween is too Western and "could wrongly influence local Muslim youths," and should treat Valentines day as Haram (forbidden) and that all Muslim should not celebrate it.

The council, one of Malaysia's highest Islamic bodies, says Halloween is a Christian celebration of the dead, and "against Islamic teachings" (what isn't?), in a fatwa issued on its website. "Halloween is celebrated using a humorous theme mixed with horror to entertain and resist the spirit of death that influences humans... It cannot be celebrated by Muslims," it says. In other words, being happy in a humorous way, is Haram in Islam.

What do they say good Muslims should do instead? Well, the council advises young Muslims to remember the dead by reciting prayers and reading the Koran .... err, five times a day as usual then?

It seems that the religion is so insecure that it believes its youths can be easily swayed from the true path, by a card with a rose on it, or a 'humorous theme mixed with horror to entertain', and to that end, in Negeri Sembilan in western Malaysia, an international primary school has been told it must apply to the local education department, to get approval for its private Halloween party, after a protest by Muslim groups. I cant verify it, but I would guess that was a 'no' then.

This Is Forbidden ... in Islam.

This council has a bit of 'previous' form on tolerance, when in an earlier ruling, they warmed up by ruling that touching dogs is 'un-Islamic', this was in response to an event in Bandar Utama called "I want to touch a dog", which was a chance for Muslims to stroke dogs, an act traditionally seen as unclean.

The participants in this event then had to follow strict religious cleansing rituals after petting the dogs ... as I said at the top of the piece, I don't need to comment on these events, they speak for themselves.