Bernie`s Islamic Bookstore and Entertainment Center
On a recent visit to a Barnes & Noble I noticed the shelves were empty of any books on Muslim science-fiction, Muslim fashion, Muslim Sports, Muslim Entertainment, Muslim Detective Stories or Muslim anything.
Now that's very curious because according to our President, "Islam has always been a part of America's story." So where are they? I know the Jews have contributed to our culture with music, songs, novels, plays, well, almost the entirety of our entertainment industry. As well Jews have helped make advancements in the legal profession, philosophy, medicine, science, and Nobel Prizes.
So where, Mr. President, are the Muslim parts of our story?
They aren't there. Let me tell you why. What Muslim will bother to add to the body of great American fiction when the greatest work of fiction, the Qur'an, is the only book a Muslim needs to read?
Medicine, philosophy, psychology, they all've been covered in the Qur'an.
Entertainment? How can one follow all the rules (1) of what is and is not permissible entertainment? After all, Muslims are told that they didn't come in this world to enjoy themselves.
Sports? Why get involved in an activity which has so many rules as to make it impossible to play or which invites bomb attacks (2)?
I hate to break it to you, Mr. President, but Islam is incompatible with western culture and even if Muslims were here for a thousand years they would, by the rules of their faith, be unable to add anything to our culture or way of life. Since they have nothing to add, they are bent on destroying our way of life.
Before any of my readers object by mentioning the great advances made by Muslims during the Golden Age of Islam, allow me to point out that that notion is a myth. As I wrote in my article Oil Rich Muslims Are Science Poor:
The Golden Age of Islam was actually the Golden Age of Arabs, Jews, Persians, Hindus and others who through sharing of knowledge brought to the world great learning and advancements in science, humanities, mathematics, astronomy, medicine, chemistry, zoology and geography.
Let me finish by saying I am a businessman. I have been a founding partner in a number of multi-million dollar companies with hundreds of employees. Normally this huge paucity of books and contributions by Muslims would signal in my Jew-brain an opportunity to make money by opening a Bookstore and Entertainment Center catering to Muslims. But that would assume that Muslims are just like us and want those things. However, that assumption would be wrong and so you will never see a place called Bernie`s Islamic Bookstore and Entertainment Center.
ENDNOTES
(1):
UMBC: An Honors University In Maryland, Islam and entertainment
The seventeenth-century Muslim scholar Chelebi distinguishes three categories of music: that coming from birds, from the human throat and from instruments. He states that in Islam it is permissible to listen to the melodies produced by birds, and to those produced by the human throat, subject to certain conditions and rules. To listen to instruments that are blown or struck however, is never permissible (1957: 38). Certain instruments are forbidden because they are supposed to incite drinking. The kuba, an oblong drum, for instance, is prohibited because of its association with drinking wine, licentious songs and dissolute people. With respect to the human throat, if it produces songs about wine and debauchery, it is not permissible to listen to them (ibid.: 39).
(2):
Shia Killing, Parachinar: Bomb blast by the Taliban leaves 1 dead, 3 injured
Shiite Javaid Hussain was killed whereas Ashraf, Jabir and Dilshad were injured when a bomb planted by terrorists of Sipah-e-Sahaba/Tehreek-e-Taliban went off near the Parachinar Sports Complex.
The explosives were planted in a Tractor Trolley and remote controlled.
