{"id":614,"date":"2006-02-12T00:06:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-12T00:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=614"},"modified":"2006-02-12T00:06:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-12T00:06:00","slug":"614","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=614","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>That polytheist infidel with the bow and arrows<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Emboldened perhaps by the ongoing cartoon jihad, some radical Muslims are once again <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kashmirlive.com\/full_story.php?content_id=62679&#038;type=ei\">going after Valentine&#8217;s Day cards<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><em>The women were from the Kashmiri Islamic group Dukhtaran-e-Millat, or Daughters of the Community, Kashmir&#8217;s only women&#8217;s separatist group, whose members are also known for their fiercely conservative social views.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t help but think of some anti-matter universe&#8217;s version of Dianic separatist Witches, but I digress.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Valentine jihad&#8221; started <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chasclifton.com\/2004\/02\/saint-valentine_16.html\">a couple of years ago<\/a>. Now the emboldened <em>jihadis<\/em> will probably crank up the violence.<\/p>\n<p><em>Valentine&#8217;s Day has become increasingly popular in India over the past decade. But it has also become a cultural flash point, opposed each year in India by conservative Hindu and Muslim groups who see it as a reflection of growing permissiveness.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Focus on the Family thinks its <a href=\"http:\/\/nonprophet.typepad.com\/nonprophet\/2006\/02\/focus_on_the_fa.html\">evangelical love bundles<\/a> are &#8220;better than chocolate.&#8221; Maybe&#8211;but not better than champagne.<\/p>\n<p>Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/valentine's+day\" rel=\"tag\">Valentine&#8217;s Day<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/cartoon+war\" rel=\"tag\">Cartoon War<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That polytheist infidel with the bow and arrows Emboldened perhaps by the ongoing cartoon jihad, some radical Muslims are once again going after Valentine&#8217;s Day cards. The women were from the Kashmiri Islamic group Dukhtaran-e-Millat, or Daughters of the Community, Kashmir&#8217;s only women&#8217;s separatist group, whose members are also known for their fiercely conservative social [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6xQTg-614","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":695,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=695","url_meta":{"origin":614,"position":0},"title":"&#8216;It&#8217;s the jihad, stupid&#8217;","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"July 30, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"I never thought that I would be linking to Michelle Malkin's blog, but she does have any interesting collection of freelance jihadist killers.But she leaves out one: \"Marc Lepine\" was not as French-Canadian as his name would suggest. His jihad against decadent, immoral Canadian women engineering students was in 1989.Tag:\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":623,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=623","url_meta":{"origin":614,"position":1},"title":"Aphrodite Will Not Be Denied (2)","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"February 25, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"On the heels of the \"cartoon jihad,\" singer Deeyah's new video may be the next excuse for rioting. Muslim pop singer Deeyah has irked the Muslim world with her provocative new music video that shows her stripping off a burka to reveal her bikini-clad body. In the clash of civilizations,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Aphrodite\"","block_context":{"text":"Aphrodite","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=aphrodite"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":119,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=119","url_meta":{"origin":614,"position":2},"title":"Saint Valentine . . .\u2026","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"February 15, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Saint Valentine . . . the pagan? Islamic clerics in Saudi Arabia (our good friends, the Saudis) denounce Valentine's Day as a \"pagan Christian holiday\" and forbid its celebration in the kingdom. Other news reports speak of reprisals against shop owners selling Valentine's Day items. 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More here, including a quote from\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Aphrodite\"","block_context":{"text":"Aphrodite","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=aphrodite"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5768,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=5768","url_meta":{"origin":614,"position":4},"title":"Heathenry and the Politics of Postcolonialism","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"June 27, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Thad Horrell, Heathen and graduate student, hurls himself against the issue of post-colonialism and reconstructed Northern religion in this article, \"Heathenry as a Postcolonial Movement,\" published in the online Journal of Religion, Identity and Politics,\u00a0written by students in his PhD program. 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