Rod Dreher of the Dallas Morning News has been corresponding with Mohamed Elibiary, a determined apologist for radical Islam, and in their latest email exchange Elibiary issues a veiled threat to tamper with Dreher’s car: Responding to Mohamed.

I, my wife and now my kids are examples of those home grown Muslims you’re so fearful of turning violent on you, and my message to you is just treat people fairly and we as a country will make it fine though these rough waters. Treat people as inferiors and you can expect someone to put a banana in your exhaust pipe or something.

In December 2004, Elibiary made it into the pages of LGF when he was a featured speaker at a “tribute to the great Islamic visionary,” the Ayatollah Khomeini.

Elibiary now says he did not know in advance that the event was a tribute to Khomeini, but that even if he had, he still would have spoken—to give the “anti-radical” viewpoint.

UPDATE at 6/10/06 4:15:28 pm:

For context on the Khomeini tribute, here’s a speech given by Khomeini in 1942, explaining that Islam wants to conquer the whole world.

A “great Islamic visionary,” indeed.

(From the book Anti-American Terrorism and the Middle East.)

Islam is Not a Religion of Pacifists
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, 1942

Islam’s jihad is a struggle against idolatry, sexual deviation, plunder, repression, and cruelty. The war waged by [non-Islamic] conquerors, however, aims at promoting lust and animal pleasures. They care not if whole countries are wiped out and many families left homeless. But those who study jihad will understand why Islam wants to conquer the whole world. All the countries conquered by Islam or to be conquered in the future will be marked for everlasting salvation. For they shall live under [God’s law]. …

Those who know nothing of Islam pretend that Islam counsels against war. Those [who say this] are witless. Islam says: Kill all the unbelievers just as they would kill you all! Does that mean that Muslim should sit back until they are devoured by [the unbelievers]? Islam says: Kill the [the non-Muslims], put them to the sword and scatter [their armies]. Does this mean sitting back until [non-Muslims] overcome us? Islam says: Kill in the service of Allah those who may want to kill you! Does this mean that we should surrender [to the enemy]? Islam says: Whatever good there is exists thanks to the sword and in the shadow of the sword! People cannot be made obedient except with the sword! The sword is the key to paradise, which can be opened only for holy warriors!

There are hundreds of other [Koranic] psalms and hadiths [sayings of the prophet] urging Muslims to value war and to fight. Does all that mean that Islam is a religion that prevents men from waging war? I spit upon those foolish souls who make such a claim.

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