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Sunday, June 03, 2007
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Joanne Dow is a very old friend. She is a communications engineer, a veteran of the Genie days, and has a wealth of experience.
She has taken up the task of documenting the subject of Islam, particularly as regards women. I do not agree with everything she says. Joanne has both detractors and fans. Her diatribes tend to be long, and there are a lot of them, so I have decided to give them their own page.
I will fill in some past editions over time. I also update this in batches rather than daily.
I want to make it clear that I do not agree with everything she says, and my views of Islam vary depending on the country and the sect. Joanne generally concentrates on finding the most extreme positions, and it would be easy reading only her posts to get a false impression of the world situation. I'm willing to publish replies but they must be in a reasonable format, at reasonable length, and in language no more intemperate than she employs.
My Turkish friends in particular are appalled at her diatribes. I understand. Most Turkish intellectuals support the Turkish constitution which mandates a secular state, and would strenuously resist imposition of sharia and other strict interpretations of Muslim law. This is not what Joanne complains of. Those who have long known me know that I have a high regard for the Turkish Army. Turkey sent troops to our aid in Korea, and I for one will never forget that.
I post her diatribes because she finds incidents that ought to be thought alarming by everyone, Christian, Muslim, secular humanist, atheist, or indeed anyone civilized.
This is the first page; it got very long so I cut it.
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JOANNE DOW'S DIATRIBES
Robert Spencer reports that "Iran sent 700 Somalis to fight Israel" as further evidence of the international character of the jihad, and of Sunni-Shi'ite cooperation against the infidels. The article he pointed to is at the link below.
link
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/
story/0,20867,20765432-601,00.html
And Robert reveals Iran has cast iron cajones. They make threats all the time against Israel. Israel makes a veiled threat to bomb Iran and they're off whining to the UN to censure Israel for it. I gotta give Ahmadinejad for having something better than brass ones. Follow up with the link below the Reuters link. It delineates one such threat to Israel.
link
http://today.reuters.com/news/ArticleNews.
aspx?type=newsOne&storyID=2006-11-15T195223
Z_01_N15475121_RTRUKOC_0_US-IRAN-ISRAEL-UN.xml
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/014027.php
"Germany "well on the way to becoming a Muslim state by 2050""
"If demographic trends continue. "German Population Plunge 'Irreversible,' Federal Stats Office Admits: Expected that one third of all European children will be born to Muslim families by 2025," by Gudrun Schultz for LifeSiteNews, with thanks to David:"
This is not good. Do remember that the jihadists desperately want their terrorist nukes. If they take over Europe by default, by out breeding the non-Mohammedans, they get the European weaponry, which is generally better maintained than their own. At least I'll be dead by then. But it is not a rosy picture for the future of the human race.
We need to get into space fast and be able to live there without major resupply from Earth within 30 years. We currently have all our eggs in one wicker basket through which the jihadists are poking swords, and worse.
link (via Robert Spencer) http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/nov/06110903.html
And Robert reports that the US Military Academy has "discovered" that killing Osama bin Laden or Zawahiri would not really crimp the jihadists style, plans, or momentum. It's too far along and too spread out for that to stop it.
link
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/15/washington/15terror.html?
_r=3&oref=slo&oref=slogin&oref=slogin via
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/014063.php
Pakistan moves to make it easier for a rape victim to obtain a conviction for her rapists. Quite predictably the Mohammedan Fundamentalists are outraged. Remember this the next time you hear a Mohammedan denying that the religion is wonderful for women. After all, Mohammedanism DOES allow a woman to see her rapist punished even before the laws changed. All she had to do is produce four witnesses willing to testify on her behalf. That's 8 women witnesses if all she has is woman witnesses. A woman is worth a half a man in court. There are moderate Mohammedans; there is no moderate Mohammedanism, I am afraid.
link http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/014068.php
Michelle reports about the illegal immigration loop hole for religions workers. This seemingly legitimate R visa provision turns out to be a major path for terrorists and radicalizing imams into this country. Homeland Security agents busted 33 people on the 15th for abuse of this process and using forged documents.
link http://michellemalkin.com/archives/006377.htm
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Subject: Daily Diatribe
So I thought that today's meeting with the Pope to discuss marriage for priests was an indication that the religion might be considering a change. (I did not expect one. I expected consideration.) Pope Benedict XVI nixed the idea in no uncertain terms that Catholic priests were expected to remain celibate. Ah well, this may not show that some religions evolve. It does show that if and when they do it is a VERY slow process that seems to get slower the older the religion.
link http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2457412,00.html
The agents at the point of entry caught him on the way in with nearly $79,000 and information on nuclear material and cyanide. It turns out he is unemployed to boot. I think they caught us another terrorist to be.
He IS a US Citizen. Robert Spencer points out that his name is very common among Nigerian Mohammedans.
And regarding the recent changes the TSA has made to train agents to spot "stress" one might note that the people manning the inspection desks for people entering the US via plane or ship are well used to detecting people with something to hide that should not come into the US or at least should require payment of import duties. They read most people like open books. People with those well trained instincts are one of the tools we need for TSA. Of course, with that special facility they should not be considered "cheap replaceable parts" who are paid close to minimum wage. It'll be expensive. But it can help to make the TSA experience much less annoying with the knowledge that the agents have some form of idea what they are doing rather than mindlessly going through the motions.
link
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,229895,00.html
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/014075.php
The JihadWatch video at hotair today is quite worth watching. He takes on Pelosi, Conyers, and Ellison. It's not a combination we need or really want.
link http://hotair.com/archives/2006/11/16/the-cair-congress/#comments
Of course, the Republicans have their collaborators, too, witting or unwitting. Daryl Issa has been recommended for the Republican Policy Committee Chairmanship by several respected Republican leaders. Mr. issa is a very determined sympathizer for Syria and regularly spouts the Syrian and Hesbollah lines.
link http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/014073.php
Robert Spencer points out a Patrick O'Hannigan article asking "Has anyone asked Tony Snow whether people in the president's inner circle learned lessons from the life of Mohammed"? This is a very interesting question. From reading Robert Spencer and Hugh Fitzgerald for several months now I can see where the Iraqi fratricide would be quite predictable for people with a good understanding of Mohammedanism. It's pretty clear they have not picked up an accurate picture from the "experts" (CAIR and other major Mohammedan organizations rather than scholars) they have had briefing them.
So I sent the following note to Robert suggesting he might let us know the sort of information that might be used to brief the President and a course for staffers to bring them up to speed as much as possible with what we're facing and why. ===8<--- "Has anyone asked Tony Snow whether people in the president's inner circle learned lessons from the life of Mohammed"?
Might I suggest that this is an interesting point that might be addressed constructively?
Suppose somebody in a dark suit approached you and said the government has two jobs for you. The first is to prepare a one hour talk with the President in which you will give him a briefing on what the Muslim holy books say about the jihadist terror complete with notes that staffers can pursue for verifying statements you make. Second prepare a one week course for the offices of the Presidency, Cabinet, and State Department.
What would your one hour discussion contain? What would the briefing documents contain, and what in general would the syllabus for the one week training program look like?
I ask because this is a briefing that the entire US should take. These jihadists are human, like we are, but their thought processes are from such a wholly different mind set than ours that they might as well be aliens from another star as far as our understanding them goes.
It is hard to imagine people so implacably against what seems to us here in the West to be the core needs for the human soul. But more have to learn. And we have to learn how to reach out to the coworkers we may have who have managed to "Americanize" and become more moderate.
{^_^} Joanne XXX, <address> reaches me as does <alternate address> even though the comments above were intended to suggest articles more than a direct response to me. May God be with you as you pursue your perilous journey. ===8<---
I hope he takes this article idea to heart and writes something up. It would be most interesting.
the link that inspired this: http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/014071.php
Iran REALLY wants a supply of Uranium. It is willing to, and indeed IS sending very sophisticated weapons to Somalia with a request for uranium in return. This is not good. Iran needs to be slapped down HARD. Bolton is the best shot we have to ensure this happens. It's a shame he will not be confirmed.
link http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/014070.php
Robert also points to this article as a reminder that it is quite unfair to say that the dominant form of Islamic teaching, which is salafi Islam, taught in mosques and universities, is peaceful. Tawfik Hamid, a former Mohammedan convert to Christianity has this to say about that idea he quite obviously considers preposterous. The article is by Michael Coren of the Canadian "National Post" about Mr. Hamid. His view is that of a former insider and is probably about as clear as any we can get. He is a former jihadist, or Islamic Terrorist if you want to phrase if that way.
links to article about Tawfik Hamid then Robert Spencer's comments today
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/issuesideas/
story.html?id=eb74b136-3729-42a1-821b-77366f7af920
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/014069.php
And for today's last note I like LGF's take on this item about the UN investigating Israel - by putting an Israeli hater in charge, Peanut. Yes, the UN wants to put Jimmy "Israel is an Apartheid State" Carter in charge of the latest commission to investigate Israel. I repeat, so often it must be boring to others, "the UN is NOT our friend."
link
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=
23371_UN_Hits_Bottom_Finds_Jimmy_Carter_Waiting&only
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The Times of London has "uncovered" how Mohammedans treat Mohammedans "of
another sect." Sunnis are being killed in hospitals by Shi'ites often acting
under cover and payment from the Ministry of Health security. The price of a
human life in a Baghdad hospital is $600. And if a paid assassin find a
potential victim he will be provided with the drugs for the killing. The
Mahdi army is using hospitals as headquarters. They are not "targets" so
they are ideal as headquarters. Primitive and radical Mohammedans disgust
me. But by their logic they are sending the victims to Allah, which is the
goal of living after all. You would think they could show a little class
about it, though.
link
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2483899_2,00.html
I have to note that the Litvinenko assassination most likely shows that the
Russians are just as brutal and utterly lacking in class about dealing with
enemies as any Mohammedans. The Mohammedans do not have a monopoly of any
kind on brutality and casual disregard for human life.
It looks like this assassination is about to become a nasty political
incident for the Russians. Their relationship with the British is about to
disintegrate. Note the astounding Daily Mail article at the end of the link
of lists. This is developing FAST.
links
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2484298,00.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2484254,00.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2484295,00.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2484252,00.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/
news.html?in_article_id=418820&in_page_id=1770
I made a comment to a nutcase liberal (avowed Communist) about how serious
the danger from the Mohammedans has become. He declared I was both lying and
exaggerating the danger. I made a prediction to him that would outline the
danger. The prediction was something like "Lebanon is going to be a
Mohammedan nation under strict Sharia law in under 5 years."
I may have vastly over estimated. Hezbollah is working at this moment to
undermine the Lebanese, primarily Christian, government and force it to
resign. They are resorting to mass demonstrations and thuggery to force the
issue so they can take over any new government that comes along. I do not
see the US reacting to this. If we do not react we will be sitting out the
jihad conquering the Southern Mediterranean areas and much of Europe before
the Crusades started to take it all back. If we act NOW we will not have the
same pain as we will have if we wait.
At any rate Lebanon is a textbook case demonstrating the reason for not
tolerating multiculturalism, particularly with Mohammedans. Not all
Mohammedans are radicals. But the percentage is high enough that it MAY be a
majority of all Mohammedans in the world. Various parts of the world are
more virulent than others. But even the so called moderates in the US
indulge in their little attempts with 6 imams to make it easier for future
attackers to get on airlines.
link
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2483898,00.html
An Mohammedan terrorist (<sarcasm>which is assuredly a contradiction in
terms if you believe CAIR </sarcasm>) Robert Spencer posted about today has
me musing about some "wisdom" of my younger days. This "wisdom" is something
like this, "Recent converts to a religion are often it's most fervent
practitioners." This fits converts to Mohammedanism to a tee. One of the
most vocal Mohammedan ultra-extremists in England is a convert.
One of the London bombers was a recent convert. The American Taliban was a
recent convert. And so on. Here is yet another example from the place a
recent expatriate ham radio friend is living these days, the Philippines.
I wish Art well. But, I fear life there is going to get "hot" well before
life here in the US heats up. But, then, I am reminded that in this regard I
seem to underestimate, often egregiously. The liberals in this country could
easily make up for our being slow to welcome terrorism to our daily lives.
link
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/014279.php
In a development I utterly distrust there is a move afoot, actually a
Mohammedan Demand, that there be a Mohammedan only prayer room at every
airport - so that the Mohammedans can collect in there, arrange their tools,
rehearse their arrangements, and walk out knowing they are well prepared to
"do" another airline. I hope, but doubt, that the authorities will simply
say, "No Way Achmed."
link
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/014274.php
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/12/01/D8LOC15O0.html
"Ahmed Tharwat is the host of a weekly show on Twin Cities Public Television
(Ch. 17). In "Ahmed Tharwat: Imams at airport should have known better" in
the Star Tribune (thanks to Paul), he ascribes the USAirways/Imam Rage
controversy to American "paranoia" -- and completely misrepresents the facts
of the case." Do read the carefully organized claims of Islamo-phobia
presented by this bozo. He ignores the fact that these imams went out of
their way with OTHER actions to create this incident. Also note that it was
a setup job. They were already in high gear complaining on TV about the
incident by the time one of the people who saw this happening managed to fly
and drive to her home.
Robert Spencer has a pointer to a nice write-up, too. It appears that this
attempt may backfire on the imams. After all, it is pathetically obvious
that Radical Mohammedans ARE a problem, arguably most Mohammedans are
radicals, and by a LARGE margin most Arabs are Mohammedans.
link
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/014272.php
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,233958,00.html
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/014258.php
Then we have the home grown terrorists, the Dallas students who were
training for and planning some fun quiet little jihadist activities.
link (Thanks Robert Spencer)
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4373933.html
Robert Spencer has found an anti-Islamo-Fascist organization. But he does
not have much faith in its leader's ability to plan and lead such an
organization. His knowledge of the enemy is worse than even mine is, and I'd
not BEGIN to think I should lead such an organization. (That is to say, he's
not ignorant of Mohammedanism. But this self-proposed leader does not have a
firm grip on the data yet. There is a lot of room for growth as Robert sees
it.)
link
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/014269.php
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/014267.php
In another, "I know I'm right, my Qur'an told me so," article Robert Spencer
found we see nice peace loving Mohammedans who decided that it was time to
kill some Christians for Mohammed. This time it was in Ethiopia. The
Christians would not come out and be properly beheaded so the Mohammedan
peace lovers poured gasoline around the midnight religious service the
Christians were holding. "Fifteen individuals from the church suffered
severe knife wounds and six people died as a result - two priests, two
elderly women, and two men." It's all in the name of peace, to be assured.
Mohammedanism is a religion of peace. <insert bovine excrement scatology
here>
link
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/014262.php
Robert Spencer pointed out a very long and very brilliant and sometimes
heated exchange, "Symposium: The Pope and Islam," conducted by Jamie Glazov
at FrontPage. This is a very good backgrounder on the long long tradition
behind violent jihad related conquest. It's a must read. It's a terrific
amount of "homework" one might say. Having read it is the reward.
I like the way the discussion highlighted "there is no compulsion in
religion" passage in the Qur'an. There is no compulsion in the choice. But
once made the consequences of the choice are often quite bleak.
link
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=25789
I commented a few days ago how about Mohammedans can change with the change
in rape laws in Pakistan. It seems they really can't. There has been a huge
outpouring of rage at the rights this new law takes away from the rapists.
The law may get tossed. It is actions like this and the nice demonstrations
of "peace" which give me a rather dismal view of any sort of peaceful world
with Mohammedans in any numbers living in it.
link
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/
story/0,20867,20857109-2703,00.html
Any religion which demands or even condones disemboweling and murder for
teaching girls is no religion of peace. It is a religion of slavery.
(But then you know that already if you read the long frontpage piece
mentioned above.) In Afghanistan school teacher Mohammed Halim was taken
away from his home, partially disemboweled, and murdered. He was guilty of
teaching girls in school.
link
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm
?c_id=500838&ObjectID=10413099
Remember the uncovered meat comments that caused a furor. It seems that Gaza
is now a bad place to be a woman, particularly an uncovered meat type woman.
link (lgf)
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=11648818028
88&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
I presume most readers have already figured out that I have a grudge against
reporters who fabricate their news, particularly with "fake but accurate"
reporting. If it's fake, guys, how do we ascertain what you are implying is
true really is the ground level truth?
Not that this seems to bother journalists at all as a concept. In the
"hallowed halls" of Columbia University journalism students are cheating on
their exams. And even better it seems that the cheating may have been
abetted by a leak. Since leaks are sacred to Journalists it seems only
appropriate that no investigation seems to be taking place.
link
http://hotair.com/archives/2006/12/01/columbia-j-
school-students-accused-of-cheating-on-ethics-exam/
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Brigitte Gabrielle hits too close to home. Mohammedans are moving to disrupt her appearance in Detroit today on the 4th. The evening news should be interesting - except the MSM will never cover it.
"Brigitte Gabriel, the courageous and insightful author of Because They Hate, is scheduled to speak at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor this evening."
"However, emails have gone out to Muslim students urging "all Muslim brothers and sisters to do what they need to do to disrupt this event." One email said: "Muslims, Arabs, and their friends and allies should give Gabriel a proper welcome.""
The truth hurts. And those it hurts try to prevent it's being heard.
link
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=
23538_Muslim_Student_Groups_Organizing
_Against_Brigitte_Gabriel&only
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/014290.php
"In U.S., fear and distrust of Muslims runs deep" is the title of a good piece by Robert Spencer.
"Framing this discussion in the context of (radio host Jerry) Klein's radio stunt gives the impression, which no doubt is just what Bernd Debusmann wanted to do, that any distrust of any Muslims in the U.S. is an exercise in crypto-Nazism."
Robert offers four prescriptions for the Mohammedans if they really want to ease the "Islamo-phobia" they scream about while they ignore their rabid Kafir-ophobia. End the "look what you made me do" nonsense, teach compulsory classes against violent jihad, stop saying hateful things about kafirs when you think they are not around to hear, and actively work to identify and apprehend violent jihadists within Western Mohammedan communities. Off hand I do not think any Mohammedans who matter will listen to those concepts. Don't miss the clip from the Chezh Republic with material secretly recorded in a mosque in the Prague. It is a classic piece.
link http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/014284.php http://www.praguepost.com/P03/2006/Art/0302/news2.php
Robert Spencer has found a substantive case based on Mohammedan tradition for overturning the traditional Mohammedan death penalty for apostasy, converting to another religion.
""Surah Yunus 10:99 also states that 'Had your Lord willed, everyone on earth would have believed. Do you then force people to become believers?'," she said in a press statement yesterday."
Indeed, if Allah, as seen to be transcending powerful were, to wish everyone on Earth to be Mohammedan it would happen when he willed it. Obviously Allah wills freedom of religion, freedom to make mistakes. (My gosh, Allah is a libertarian!) Seriously, though, this is a good start towards making Mohammedans good neighbors rather than risky neighbors.
link http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/014283.php
Gaza is increasingly not a nice place for women. A woman who was dressed immodestly had acid thrown in her face. A new ultra-radical group has surfaced there called "Just Swords of Islam." And the acid was one of their acts. Radical Mohammedans figure women are chattel. Well, it is in the Qur'an that women are as tilth to be developed as the owner, the man - husband, chooses.
link http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/014281.php
I bet this assistant journalism professor that Charles Johnson found gets drummed out of the journalism corps. He just published a new book studying the massive corruption in Western mainstream media. He goes so far as to call the media "anti-democratic institution".
link
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=23531_
How_the_Press_Fails_America&only
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The good news for the day is that Brigitte Gabrielle's speech in Ann Arbor Michigan went swimmingly with an riveted audience of over 300 in attendance. I was worried yesterday when I heard about her speech and the word that local Mohammedans were working up a protest. The protest apparently never got off the ground or was rather mild. If you ever get a chance to hear her speak in person I am betting it's a treat worth the time and effort. It will also be highly educational.
Brigitte is a Lebanese Christian who was living in daily fear of dying her whole life in Southern Lebanon. She was fed propaganda from the Hezbollah occupiers of the area that stated the Jews were horrible and would virtually eat you alive for sport. She and some of her family made it out to Israel and was utterly astounded at the pleasant and indeed concerned way the Jews in Israel treated her and those with her. She also noticed how impolite the captured enemy she saw treated were in response to their treatment. Hezbollah never thought to look after any local Christians who were injured let alone Jews discovered in the area. Just who are the persecutors and who are the persecutees? I know. I simply invert what Hezbollah claims about how others are treating them to learn how they are treating others. And they have the sublime gall to demand I respect them. Hezbollah, respect is something earned by actions and deeds. Your actions and deeds lead to utter disrespect.
link http://michellemalkin.com/archives/006478.htm
The Washington Examiner has figured out that the 6 imams were fishing. Do remember that lies to kafirs is sanctioned and indeed required if it is convenient by the Qur'An.
link (Nod to Robert Spencer)
http://www.examiner.com/a-435436~
Who_is_walking_on_eggshells_.html
For those who disbelieve that Saudi money is behind a lot of the recent transformations from moderate Mohammedan practices to radical practices Hugh Fitzgerald talks about how the transformation is taking place and has taken place in Niger, based on reports from students horrified at the changes when they return home from studying over here. The Saudis are NOT our friends. They never have been and never will be.
link http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/014292.php
Semi-ironically we have an item about Niger Mohammedans protesting against a women's rights bill. Women are not supposed to have any rights according to the radical Mohammedans.
link http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/014288.php
More from the truth hurts department has CAIR getting very strident in their attacks on critics of newly elected Congressman Ellison, their pet Congressman. They especially do not want critics, such as talk show host Dennis Prager, on the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. Do remember that the latest radical Mohammedan word is that the Holocaust never happened. They want to rewrite a little history.
link
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?
entry=23545_CAIR_Goes_After_Dennis_Prager&only
From the "We are our own worst enemy" department Michelle Malkin has pointer to a NYPost must-read by a Marine talking about his reception and insults at Columbia University. Diversity is super good. Intolerance is super bad. "Unless you're in the military."
link http://michellemalkin.com/archives/006476.htm
The crooked media (hm, how many are from Columbia University?) is still trying to stonewall about the atrocity which never happened. Michelle has lots of meat here. Yup, we are our own worse enemy.
link http://michellemalkin.com/archives/006474.htm
Snerk, snark, I can't stop laughing. The Saudis want to turn Saudi Arabia into a tourist destination. So they are giving the Mutawwa, their religious police, sensitivity training for dealing with non-Mohammedans. I STILL will not vacation in any Arab or Persian country run by the Mohammedans. It just is not safe for a woman.
link
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?
entry=23546_Our_Friends_the_Saudis&only
More details keep coming out of the investigation into the 6 imams incident. It has been revealed now that more than one passenger complained about suspicious activity. The seat belt extension requested by one of the imams was never connected even though he claims a stewardess helped him set it up. The passenger in the next seat over had it in her hand after he left. It had been on the floor, never connected.
The imams claim they were handcuffed and lead away. They were not in handcuffs according to eye witnesses, not when they were initially lead off or later when they were allowed back one at a time to reclaim their possessions. They may have been later. But they were never handcuffed on the plane.
The passengers, including many Mohammedans, cheered the actions taken by the airline and crew. The 6 imams worked very hard to press all the buttons. This was clearly a probe designed to weaken USAirway's security. So far they are resisting. More power to them. If I have to fly at this moment I would prefer to fly their airline.
LINK (Important - eye witness accounts are cited.)
http://pajamasmedia.com/2006/12/the
_faking_imams_pajamas_media.php
And on a slow news Monday you get rumors reported, especially if they hit the right buttons. The Sunnis MIGHT have caught up with al Sadr and Abu Deraa, known as the Shi'ite Zarqawi. The latter may be more real than the former report. But - treat them both as raw unfounded rumors until more can be verified.
link
http://hotair.com/archives/2006/12/04/
rumors-al-sadr-dead-abu-deraa
-dead-saddam-dead-spared/
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Subject: Daily Diatribe 20061205
So the Mohammedans are complaining about a Crusades video game. They claim it is a force of evil. So reports the Times of London. That is the first link. The second link to the Telegraph is an article about video games attracting young Hezbollah. These are unabashed jihadist child indoctrination videos.
So it's OK for the Mohammedans to do evil. But it is not OK for the non-Mohammedans to do evil. Scroom. (It took seconds to search for "jihadist video game" on Google. The second entry pointed to Jihad Watch which in turn pointed to the Telegraph entry. The first link is to ABC News claiming the Jihadist video games are urban legends. The third link is to yet another Jihadist video game.
link
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2488931,00.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.
jhtml?xml=/news/2004/02/21/
whizb21.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/
02/21/ixworld.html/news/2004/02/21/whizb21.xml
MEMRI reports that King Abdullah II of Jordan is under a death threat from the people of the religion of Peace for trying to surpass his "treasonous grandfather [King] Abdullah I. Religion of peace they can try to claim as much as they want. Their actions speak louder than their words if you have more brains than a Murtha or Pelosi.
link http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD138106
Rusty Shackleford at "The Jawa Report" notes a detail that seems to be utterly missed by Western media. There was a roundup of terror potters in Egypt. And most importantly one of the people picked up was an American. We are growing our own, folks. This ride is going to get bumpier before it smoothes out. And it can only smooth out for us if we win. There is also an article about it at Jihad Watch. Why nothing in the MSM?
link http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/185591.php http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/014300.php
While we are more or less on a theme of "if Mohammedans do it anything goes but if we do it nothing is acceptable" I note this little gem. Israel has documented Hezbollah war crimes and the world yawns. Israel offers videos to answer critics of the war. So the NY Times spins it to make it all "Israeli allegations." But of course, anything Nasrallah's buddies say is gospel. Give me a break! Our media WANTS us to lose. The fall of the US will be a HUGE story. They'll get phylthy rich selling newspapers. They seem to ignore the detail that once we have lost their papers are gone, dead, state owned, and reporters mostly dead. Ah well, thinking is not in any way required of a modern journalist. All that's needed is lots of good intentions. This is getting ridiculous. Honesty? Accuracy? Whazdat?
link
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/
weblog/?entry=23560_Israel_Documents
_Hizballah_War_Crimes_World_Yawns&only
Two Mohammedans may have finally done it. They urinated on a Bible in Melbourne. Enraged Christians poured into the streets of many major cities smashing shop windows and setting cars on fire shouting "Crucify them!" and "Death to the Moors!" Sounds like a good idea, to me. Unfortunately it will likely go too far and include too many actual moderates who have managed to adapt to peaceful coexistence along with the radicals they nail. <sigh> Can't win. Maybe at least their eyes are opened now.
link
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/
weblog/?entry=23559_Christian_Mobs
_Riot_After_Bible_Desecration_(not)&only
MEMRI indicates that there is a new Iranian Sci-Fi TV series which stars Mega-Evil Jewish Queen. They have excerpts at the link below. Now if we were to have such a show with Mega-Evil Mohammedan Jihadist they would scream bloody murder at us, wouldn't they? (Charles has the video from MEMRI-TV.)
link
http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD138106
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/
weblog/?entry=23558_Evil_Zionist_
Death_Queen_Sci_Fi&only
LGF reports that "Ray Robison has been examining the seeming ties between the Associated Press and Al Jazeera...." Apparently there is yet another example of AP and al-Jazeera being in each other's pockets. It's rather disgusting. The AP has sold its soul for the hatred in the soul of its CEO.
link
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog
/?entry=23557_Media_Enemy_-_Whats_the_Difference&only
Investors.com has a long piece detailing what those who have been watching the blogs already know. The 6 imams who were kicked off a US Airways flight and detained in Minnesota are lying and they acted very consciously and intentionally to provoke the incident. Huzzah for Investor's Business Daily for having the courage to print facts and truth. The AP may be broken. But some honest journalism continues. I find it all the more impressive that the IBD article goes on to actually quote the Qur'an and the WHOLE passage the imam Shahin has been spouting in a truncated form. They go on to note Shahin's intimate ties to terrorism.
link (Thanks to LGF)
http://www.investors.com/editorial/
editorialcontent.asp?secid=1501&status=article
&id=250126364574564&view=1&view=1
Marisol provides telling highlighting for a story that shows the LA Times is not all dead in the head. The article by Raymond Ibrahim is titled, appropriately for today's theme, "Double standards do not make for International Justice." The article speaks for itself. But do check out Marison's highlighting first.
link http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/014302.php
I have a modest proposal. There are some legitimate protections awarded to genuine journalistic media and their journalists. However, when the media becomes a propaganda organ rather than a legitimate news organ, when they start using fictitious sources they should lose these protections. And so should all their journalists so we can get to the facts of the falsified and fictitious reporting. Of course, any news medium that uses these falsified reports without further investigating should suffer the same fate. This Sword of Damocles above their heads MIGHT make the AP and rags like the New York Times a little more careful about what they are doing. (Of course, NOTHING could ever touch Dan Rather.)
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Memo to Ahmadinejad: "If any nuclear device goes off anywhere in the world Tehran gets flattened. If any nuclear device goes off on American soil Iran ceases to be inhabitable." I wonder if he would believe that. For that matter I wonder if he'd give a tinker's damn. We should state that loud and clear. And we MUST be seen as meaning it.
This outburst is the product of reading this report about some experts who declare we haven't much chance at all of stopping highly enriched uranium at the borders. Smuggled uranium could be assembled into a simple nuclear weapon on US soil and detonated. That is the down side. It is the reason for the memo to Ahmadinejad above.
The upside is that "it ain't that simple" Mr. Zimmerman and Mr. Lewis, regardless of your Kings College, London and Harvard credentials, respectively. Nonetheless that memo should be sent and meant. This is a nuclear line in the sand.
IMAO, given how much terror financing for the Sunni brand of jihadists comes from Saudi Arabia, I believe they should receive a similar memo. The holy sites of Mohammedanism will cease to exist if any weapon of mass destruction is deployed on American soil, which includes embassies around the world.
IMHO, Moscow should be included in that memo just as a reminder. They ARE supplying most of the stray nuclear know how and materials these days. In their case we simply isolate the country by creating an impassable border region. Then we let them starve until the citizenry effect Putin's removal from power. (Then we maintain the blockade until all the spambot herders and spammers in Russia are turned over for "blood letting.")
link (thanks LGF)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061208
/ts_nm/security_usa_ports_nuclear_dc
Meanwhile, back at the Lebanese farm house Hezbollah is not letting up in the least on its pressure to bring down the elected government in Lebanon so that it can form a substitute Sharia based government. And the world sits, watches, and can't even raise a ho-hum about it. Damn but this is frustrating to watch. A slow motion train wreck is always painful to watch. The West is as suicidal as the Jihadists only in a more "sheep like" manner.
link
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/
weblog/?entry=23585_Hizballah_Vows
_to_Bring_Down_Cedar_Revolution&only
Mark Steyn hits the nail right squarely on the head and drives it home discussing the Iraq Study Group's report. He closes the interview with the sound bite that summarizes it all. The situation in Iraq is worsening. The report is correct in that regard. But they offer nothing practical or substantive with regards to what we should do in response.
One suggestion I'd have is that we no longer give mosques a free pass. We discovered in Korea and Vietnam that giving the enemy a free zone to play within leads to a stalemate. Attack the enemy wherever he goes even if it is onto the soil of another country. The other country can bloody well police its borders and prevent the crossings if they do not want US to cross in hot pursuit.
link (video)
http://hotair.com/archives/2006/12/07/video-steyn-
slams-the-ap-and-iraq-study-group-on-oreilly/
\"...her afternoon prayer was interrupted by a fellow patron..." That is what most of the MSM coverage of "gymgate" amounts to. What is not said is that the woman whose prayers were interrupted was blocking the locker used by another woman who wanted access to her belongings. The Mohammedan woman failed to respond. The woman went to the manager. More and more the Mohammedans are demanding concessions from us that they do not accord us in return. This is unacceptable. It needs to be more widely reported. And as a nation we need to deal with it. "You are in the United States of America. You will not demand more of its people than its people demand of you. You will abide by our laws. You may abide by Sharia laws where they do not conflict with our laws. You may not go further than that. You will not demand special privileges for your religion. If you do not like this then lump it or leave the US." Yes, I used the dreaded "l-word" that caused such a furor in Australia. We should use it here more often to those who cannot see fit to become Americans rather than remain foreigners with or without American citizenship. There is no room here for foreigners who are not becoming Americans except on business visits.
Wryly I note today's Americans are not necessarily worthy of emulation. We seem to have a "can't do" attitude rather than a "can do" attitude.
link http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=23583_The_Gym_Jihad&only
Just a note, Charles Johnson, the LGF fellow, reacts the same way I did to Raymond Ibrahim's article that escaped past the LA Times censors. I mentioned it on the fifth. "How did this get past the editors at the Los Angeles Times? Islam gets concessions; infidels get conquered." Yup, he's another person from the Los Angeles area. (He bicycles all over the Palos Verdes Peninsula most evenings.) If you didn't read Raymond Ibrahim's article on the fifth it's still readable as of the time I am posting this. It is a HIGHLY accurate accounting of how the Mohammedans whine to victory if they cannot win otherwise.
link
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=23580_
Forecast_for_LA_Times-_Seething_Letters_Demands_for_Apologies&only
On this anniversary day for the Pearl Harbor attack that propelled us into World War-II let us compare Pearl Harbor with Twin Towers. 2000 died in Pearl Harbor, mostly military personnel. Nearly double that died in the Twin Towers, almost all civilians. We lost some war vessels in Pearl Harbor. We lost two buildings and shut down America's financial center in the Twin Towers attack. We responded to Pearl Harbor by entering World War II and winning it. We are responding to the Twin Towers disaster by trying to tear the country apart politically and micromanaging a war in Iraq with utterly ridiculous rules of engagement. We were not afraid to lose young men and women in World War II (mostly men to be sure). We are deathly afraid to lose any soldiers in our pathetic response to the Twin Towers. "Can do" was the Pearl Harbor attitude. "Can't do" is the country's utterly pathetic attitude today. In comparison with WW-II the US is a collection of utter wusses protected by too few brave, loyal, and dedicated young men and women. Thank God we have them. May God bless them all, past and present. LGF has a simple poster. But THIS is the America that should be. It has taken only 64 years to decay this far. As a nation our shame is great.
Everybody has commentary. The above is mine. JihadWatch has its commentary. Robert's observations are good. We need to learn, very viscerally, that we're fighting an ideology not a nation or nations. Michelle's coverage is excellent, as usual.
links
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=23579_Anniversary_of_Another_War&only
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/014324.php
http://michellemalkin.com/archives/006498.htm
Charles notes that reactions to the Iraq Study report are coming out of the Middle East now. Basically they all agree that the report shows that the US is a collection of paper tigers. Allahpundit has noted this as well.
Yup, we are wusses, aren't we? Is there ANY line these creeps can't cross without engendering an honest and full WW-II reaction of "Enough is damnit enough?"
links
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=23578_Arabs_See_American_Weakness_Defeat&only
http://hotair.com/archives/2006/12/07/un-news
-service-jihadis-welcome-baker-commission-findings/
"Ahmadinejadization" is a Robert Spencer neologism for the process of being subjected to Ahmadinejad's unreality field. He seems to project the same sort of field of befuddlement as Steve Jobs. He discusses it in this video on HotAir.
link http://hotair.com/archives/2006/12/07/ahmadinejadized/
Robert Spencer takes on the UN over its urging freedoms for Arab women while saying that Mohammedanism is not to blame. "Never mind all that (and there's lots more where that came from). Islam is not the problem. Islam is not the problem. Islam is not the problem. Why? Because the UN really, really, really doesn't want it to be." Now, my take is a little different. How many UN members are tiny little enclaves of Mohammedans hardly big enough to be called a legitimate country? How big a percentage of the UN to they make up?
If each state in the United States has ANY sovereignty at all we should have 50 seats in the UN, IMAO. It might be a nice step towards good sense with regards the little Mohammedan states that seem to be cropping up and dominating more and more of the UN operations.
link http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/014321.php
I figure that's more than enough for one day. Please, please, people open your eyes to what they do and contrast it with what they say. Which is reality? I maintain that reality is what they do. Mohammedanism is not a religion of peace. It is not going to stop for any Baker report's dialogs. They are determined to effect a genocide on every non-Mohammedan in the world. The religion must be transformed into something quite different from what is is. This must be done by careful logic and carefully discrediting the basic documents as they stand. The "editing" that took place when the Umayyads, who were very secular, were replaced by the Abbasids. The latter purged the religion of all traces of the so called false traditions of the Umayyads. This is "editing" which took place in a religion that claims their tradition and Qur'an is the pure unedited work of Allah. We need to make use of this.
link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_islam#Early_Caliphate
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"The three Azzawi brothers, Hussein, Qadam and Ali, loved their home. Their late father had picked the two-storey villa because it was big enough for his sons to marry and raise children in. He hoped that they would always live there."
So begins the tail of the three brothers and the al Qaeda memo which told them to leave within 24 hours or have their heads cut. Note the reactions of their Sunni neighbors, who were NOT part of the al Qaeda activities. Note the memo at the end citing Qur'anic verses to justify the actions. Mohammedanism is not a religion of peace by any stretch of the imagination.
Also note that it is not US, it is not other sects of Mohammedanism, it is Mohammedanism itself that creates war and strife whenever anyone chooses to get rigorous in its interpretation. It surely would be nice if we learned how to discredit that rigorous interpretation, perhaps by discrediting the base documents themselves.
link http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7374-2494987,00.html
MEMRI today features excerpts from an article by the French-Algerian scholar Dr. Kamal Nait-Zerrad. About midway through the excerpts we have him asking, "Have we already forgotten Afghanistan and its Taliban, Algeria and its terrorists? It is true that the scandal of the amnesty granted to fundamentalist terrorists in Algeria is hardly discussed anymore; they are even granted indemnities, and are simply reintegrated into society, with a compensation package!"
I am afraid we HAVE forgotten how the Taliban took over. We cannot face watching how Hezbollah is taking over Lebanon. We ignored how the Mohammedans have taken over Indonesia and Malaysia. It was not by force of charms instead of force of arms, to be sure.
Further down the page he cites the "fatal" passage 9.29 in the Qur'an which specifies Christians, Jews, and perhaps Zoroastrians have only three options, convert, be humiliated and pay jizyah taxes, or die. All others have only two options, convert or die.
He agrees that the religion must be transformed. Although he uses the word "reformed" instead. Reformed has connotations of going back to root virtues. The Mohammedan roots are fatally lacking in virtues such as to make it fit for the modern world. So as I see it the religion must be transformed rather than reformed.
The original article is in French.
link http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD138606
The 10th of December is going to be a critical day in Lebanon. The Hezbollah leadership has called for participation in a mass rally on that day. It is designed to bring down the Lebanese government.
link http://www.thememriblog.org/blog_personal/en/138.htm
Rampant fraudulent reporting out of the Middle East or about anything pertaining to Mohammedanism out of the Main Stream Media is one of my hobby horses. First I was on Reuters, hard enough to lead to the breaking of a very long relationship. They were doctoring and failing to report as staged pictures out of Lebanon during the "fun" there when Israel decided it had tolerated enough and invaded to try to wipe out Hezbollah. There were posed victims in rubble, staged ambulance runs where no run was needed, doctored photographs, mis-captioned photographs, and so forth. AP was noted as being in the doctored and staged photograph mil, too.
AP has gotten itself into a mess with Jamil Hussein, who appears not to exist let alone be a spokesman for anybody. AP is stonewalling the issue as more and more people are calling them on this bias and forgery. HotAir has a nice write up. And do not miss the pointer at the bottom to Robert Bateman's remarks. This is NOT a new thing with the Associated (with the enemy) Press. They did this in Korea as well. (In that episode they used a mechanic who never saw combat yet claimed to be a witness to a very regrettable incident to inflate No Gun Ri into images of US soldiers intentionally gunning down civilians at short range.)
When news services start using falsified reports and evidence as fact they are in the entertainment business rather than news business. They should lose all the special protections accorded to the news media. And they should be held VERY accountable for the RESULTS of their false reports. The rest of the media, if they are serious about honesty, should come down on the likes of Associated Press and shame them very publicly with banners that read "This is an unverified report from Associated Press."
links
http://hotair.com/archives/2006/12/08/ap-to-bloggers
-stop-maligning-our-stringers-chickenhawks/
http://www.nypost.com/seven/12082006/postopinion/opedcolumnists/
the__not_so__infallible_ap_robert_opedcolumnists_robert_bateman.htm?page=2
Lest we get complacent yet another terrorist plot has been busted up by the FBI. This one was rather miniscule as plots go. The fellow was planning to set off some grenades in a local mall in Illinois. Yes, he is Mohammedan. No, he is not part of a terrorist cell. Yes, he is a nut case.
There are some significant points not brought out in most media. It was a "brother" Mohammedan who turned him in. (See, Virginia, moderate Mohammedans DO exist, praise Allah!) And since it was a one person setup that was caught, how many OTHER such honeypot traps exist within the various communities, Mohammedan to KKK? One hopes it is "enough."
And my paranoid bent needs to let a few words out, too. He references a local mosque near the mall. There is one in Dekalb. The local Moslem Student Association shares the same address. Was this fellow enough of a loose canon (sic for the pun value) that he was sacrificed by the more hard core in the MSA or was my first remark about real moderates existing more correct?
LGF has a good summary of the day's reporting.
link
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=23595_
Mysterious_Man_Arrested_for_Ideological_Motivations&only
But let's not leave Michelle Malkin out of the discussion. She wonders if "Who is Jamil Hussein?" is the modern "Who is John Galt?" It seems apt.
link http://michellemalkin.com/archives/006503.htm
I like Hugh Fitzgerald's strategy in his rebuttal analysis of the silly Baker report. We do indeed dialog with Syria in a very friendly way. Seal your borders to the Hezbollah terrorists. Give up ambitions in Lebanon. Give up aspirations for the Golan Heights, you'll never get it back, anyway. Stop allowing insurgents to cross back and forth in Iraq. In return we give you your life. No, we are not going to kill you. If you do not cooperate we will air your dirty laundry to the 70% Sunni population that you "genuine Moslem" Alawites lord it over. THEY will do the killing with Saudi money.
Then we approach Iran and dialog similarly. Only 50% or Iran is Persian. The rest are Kurds, Azeris, Arabs, and Baluchis. You can face a major uprising and a partitioning of your country or you can stop meddling in Iraq, Lebanon, and elsewhere. We help the Kurds to revolt. The Saudis help the Arabs in Iran revolt, and so forth. Got it? Good.
Now THAT is dialoging done right. Congratulations for the ideas Hugh.
link http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/014341.php
Speaking of the Baker report something interesting to note is that Baker's law firm is defending a Saudi Prince who funneled money to al Qaeda against the lawsuit brought by victims of 9/11. The defense is, of course, that his funding al Qaeda was an official government act hence he is immune to this attempted prosecution.
In case nobody notices this I'd like to point out that this is very up front and official notification that Saudi Arabia is THE major support for al Qaeda and is not in the least ashamed of this.
It also means that Baker is happily playing both sides of the terrorist game without blinking an eye. Only a lawyer, a quite unprincipled lawyer, could do that.
link
http://hotair.com/archives/2006/
12/08/james-baker-realist/
Robert Spencer found a remarkable article by Bruce S. Thornton titled "Why the Pope should call for the return of the Hagia Sophia". As Robert declares Mr. Thornton makes a great deal of sense.
Mohammedans DEMAND that we RESPECT them. But they accord us no respect in turn. This is not something we can afford to live with. Respect is and must be a two way street. Otherwise it is subservience. But wait, doesn't the Qur'an make the subservience point quite clear. Ah yes, it's that old nasty 9.29 again, convert, accept subservience, or die. I do believe that the Mohammedans are mistranslating their word as "respect" when they make their demands. It plays better with the liberals and those afraid to fight.
link http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/014326.php
This points to a video of the Sudanese Wafa Sultan. No further recommendation should be needed. So I'll shut up and give you the link.
link http://hotair.com/archives/2006/12/08/james-baker-realist/
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Well, Grand Rapids Michigan has taken a giant step towards the bad old days of masked men and shoot 'em ups. They have made wearing a veil, and along with it full hijab, which hides ANYTHING, on buses in the city. In the name of catering to the Mohammedan women's supposed right to wear a veil anywhere at any time life for the Mohammedan terrorists has been made easier. I consider this to be a monumentally bad mistake. Besides, it establishes a church or at least a church based behavior as being above other churches in Grand Rapids. It MIGHT not be quite Constitutional.
link http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,235690,00.html
Don Feder's speech to the Americans for A Safe Israel National Conference ("America And Israel - The Present Danger") held in New York City on the 3rd of December raises a collection of telling points. They all fall to one word that, in the words of Mark Steyn "begins with an "I" and ends with a "slam."
Feder lists the Mohammedan terrorist and plain old peaceful jihadist activities since 9/11. It's a partial list. It's a dismal list.
That is bad enough. Then he goes into some numbers that are very bad. We are being out bred by the Mohammedans, the people who want to wipe us off the face of the Earth. And as they are breeding their young are being turned into good little violent jihadists.
I figure that if we do not act soon we will not be able to act at all without some amazing form of atrocities. "If you face an enemy that to the last one alive is dedicated to the utter destruction of you, your kind of people, and the ideals we hold dear is it genocide to wipe them out instead of turning over and accepting the grave?" We had better act now or we will find ourselves facing this question and its corollary question, "Can we face that, accomplish it, and not become monsters?"
Act now or face your children having to die or become monsters. Yes, that is inflammatory. I'm sorry. I feel I'm simply the messenger here. Shoot the idea, if you can.
link http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=25888
If you can believe AP, which in this case you probably can because they are bragging about Iran, the Iranians have begun installing 3000 centrifuges to expand their refining operation. "We will be able to produce our nuclear fuel once we install 60,000 centrifuges," (Ahmadinejad) said.
Sweet dreams. (This MIGHT be enough to cause Olmert to act and NOT stomp on his military's toes about stupid rules of engagement.)
link http://apnews.myway.com/article/20061209/D8LTB08O0.html
So we face this fun with a leadership that is about as clueless as it comes about who and what we are facing. So they accept a report that suggests something close to surrendering the chicken coop to the foxes. Iran loves it. Iran REALLY loves the report. Even Time Magazine gets that little detail.
The Kurds get it, too. And they do NOT like the report and suggest they will take action to separate their part of the country from the rest leaving a bankrupt hulk in the South if Iraq. (Wouldn't that be perfect for breeding little terrorists?)
And Jeff Stein (The New York Times) has been ending lengthy interviews with US anti-terrorism officials with a little zinger question, "Do you know the difference between a Sunni and a Shiite?" He hastens to add that he's not seeking a theological answer. He just wants basics, like which makes up al Quaeda and which makes up Hezbollah. He draws blanks and utterly stupid wrong answers.
As I see it we DO need new leadership. Bush is not it. I'm pretty sure McCain is not it. I am dead sure Hillary or any of the anti-war Democrats is it. I'm not sure about any of the others out there in the field, left or right.
We DESPERATELY need leadership that can come up to speed enough about just who are the enemies, how they are arrayed and financed against us that we have a chance of not losing everything. This leadership needs to be able to convey this information to the people of the United States in an understandable form that does not set us off at the throats of ALL the Mohammedans living in this country. They are not ALL nasty terrorists or terrorists in training. These moderates need our support so they can come out from under the direct threats of death from those in their neighborhoods who are terrorists.
link
http://hotair.com/archives/2006/12/09/time-
mag-shocker-iran-hearts-iraq-study
-group/
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006
/10/17/opinion/edstein.php
Here's a nice article about the publicity stunt suicides at Gitmo. The chief thing it tells us is the lengths these terrorists are willing to go to in order to advance their cause. (Both links from the HotAir page are interesting. But I think they draw more conclusions from the reports they cite than I do.)
link
http://hotair.com/archives/2006/12/09/gitmos-
cultural-advisor-confirms-suicides-were-a-publicity-stunt/
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Not everything is Ahmadinejad this and Ahmadinejad that in Iran today. Some Iranians are acutely aware that Ahmadinejad is making Iran look very bar on the international stage, particularly with Holocaust denial conference. He was faced with a protest.
"Dozens of Iranian students burnt pictures of President Ahmadinejad and chanted "Death to the dictator" as he gave a speech at a university in Tehran yesterday."
Allahpundit has video at the second link below.
links
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,251-2499938,00.html
http://hotair.com/archives/2006/12/11/video
-iranian-students-heckle-ahmadinejad/
MEMRI has an interesting piece about the insides of Saudi palace political infighting. "Saudi Oppositionist: King 'Abdullah is Trying to Keep Prince Na'if From Acceding to the Throne"
Na'if is the head of the Interior Ministry, which has more religious police than there are military and intelligence personel. Indeed, he is the head of the APVAPV, Authority for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice. I suspect it would be very bad if he came to power. And that might be very good. It might spur us into dealing with Saudi Arabia to shut down its terrorist financing.
link http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD138906
And word from yet another corner arrives regarding the Baker nonsense, the ISG report. The editor of a reformist (read VERY moderate) website, AAFAQ sharply criticizes the report. The author delineates three disasters looming in the near term. First it appears Iran and Syria will be accepted as part of the solution instead as part of the problem. Second it will put Iran and Syria in place to guard the chicken-coop. Third is the abandonment of spreading democracy to all,
link http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD138706
The Jerusalem Post has a story by Herb Keinon from Berlin about Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert finally admitting that Israel has nuclear capability. Nobody really knows whether it was an intentional statement or a mistake on Olmert's part.
link
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/
Satellite?cid=1164881872535&pagename
=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull
Do we owe Iraqis any sort of refugee status here in the United States? Any program to grant this status will let some Jihadists into the country, even if the refugee status is limited to Christian Iraqis.
Some people are working hard to equate these refugees with those from Vietnam. The Vietnam refugees were largely Christians and Jews, neither of which arrived with "a ready-made societal model and an imperative to replace the culture and mores and laws of the society to which they were coming." At least some of the Mohammedan "refugees" from Iraq will come with such a model in place.
Personally I see no safe way to allow ANY Mohammedan refugees from that part of the world. As for the Christian refugees, a nice meal of pork tamales would be a good way to deal with the would be terrorists. They eat the pork and forfeit all chance of Heaven or they don't eat the pork and reveal themselves for what they are. I agree with Robert that the State Department needs to state clearly that provable Christians will have preferences and any Mohammedans allowed in will have to note that they will have to live by US laws not Sharia laws where there are any conflicts between the two. Even the Christians need to be made aware of the fact they must become Americans with an Iraqi flavor rather than Iraqis living in America if they plan to stay here any length of time.
link http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/014380.php
"Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Koran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth." -- Omar Ahmad, founder of CAIR.
This is a self-professed moderate Mohammedan. Of course, CAIR, with all its terrorist support and leanings could fully be expected to have leaders and founders who will provide nice quotes like the above with great reliability. (And note which organization is supporting Shahin's lawsuit over his treatment in the 6 flying imams situation.)
Robert Spencer has (much) more on the quoted statement above, which Omar Ahmad denies, in the second link.
links
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/014379.php
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/014370.php
Katherine Kersten has more today about those six imams in Monday's Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune. She delineates even more terrorist links for the six.
"The Council on American-Islamic Relations, the imams' legal representative, is an organization that "we know has ties to terrorism," Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., said in 2003. And the Muslim American Society, which is also supporting the imams? It's the American arm of the Muslim Brotherhood, according to the Chicago Tribune, which called it "the world's most influential Islamic fundamentalist group.""
link (for the expanded article) http://www.startribune.com/191/story/866867.html
Robert Spencer takes issue with Economist Mahammad Yunus over his "get rid of poverty to stop terrorism" prescription. Mr. Yunus has a point in that given something to lose people are more loathe to do something that will cost them their accomplishments. With Mohammedans this does not seem to be the case. Almost all the terrorists seem to be better educated and have better prospects for their lives than most of their peers. I think wiping out poverty is not the answer. But I think it is part of the answer. Read Robert Spencer's take on the issue at the link below.
link http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/014371.php
For a snapshot of the process by which the Mohammedans take over a country, piece by piece, check out this word from Thailand where there are fears the Buddhists will be moving out of the territory the jihadists claim due to the jihadist terror tactics.
link
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/
20061210-0930-thailand-buddhistflight.html
I have some friends over in London. I hope they can get out before Blair gives away everything. He is now declaring that a Mohammedan can be PM. Essentially that means Britain becomes Mohammedan shortly thereafter. Blair has taken leave of what senses he may have had as he tries to embrace multiculturalism.
It appears the US may have to go it alone as the Mohammedans gobble up the rest of the world. Maybe the Chinese will gobble us up and then deal with the Mohammedans in their characteristic far less tolerant manner.
link http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/014378.php
"Hello from Fjordman. I will run a multipart essay over the coming few weeks where I will explore whether Islam is compatible with democracy. This is published in cooperation with the Gates of Vienna blog. The various parts will be published at Jihad Watch first, and then the full essay will be republished at the Gates of Vienna, similar to the Eurabia Code. Here comes part 1:"
This was the introduction on Nov 30th titled "Is Islam Compatible with Democracy." It is a long read. It is educational. There are more parts coming. Links for parts one and two are below.
In part one he investigates "Democracy" as a concept and then states preconditions for Democracy to work. For example it needs a "Demos", a group of people with a shared pre-political loyalty. He cites some reasons Mohammedanism does not appear to be amenable to a Democracy when fear is a standard political modality. (Do remember Mohammedanism is as much a political system as a religious system. The Qur'an sees no distinction between the two concepts.)
Then he goes on to cite problems with the European "Democracies" in which people are more "subject" than peer making decisions on such simple things as raising and spending taxes. (That sounds dreadfully familiar to the United States, too.) In this regard he reaches very familiar conclusions about other things a Democracy requires in order to function for the betterment of its citizens.
Then he makes this "heretical" statement, "Our goal is not democracy in itself, meaning elections and one man one vote, but freedom of conscience and speech, respect for property rights and minorities, the right to bear arms and self-defense, equality before the law and the rule of law - and by that I mean secular law - in addition to such principles as formal constraints on the power of the rulers and the consent of the people."
Then he develops the thesis that this is utterly incompatible with Sharia law and its concepts of "blasphemy" and "apostasy" with their often gruesome death penalties.
In part two Fjordman adds depth to the above. One of the cites you really do want to understand is this one: "But in the words of the celebrated 14th century historian Ibn Khaldun himself:
"in the Muslim community, the holy war is a religious duty, because of the universalism of the Muslim mission and (the obligation to) convert everybody to Islam either by persuasion or by force." In Islam, says Ibn Khaldun, the person in charge of religious affairs is concerned with "power politics," because Islam is "under obligation to gain power over other nations" (Muqaddimah, trans. Rosenthal, p. 183)."
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"Ibn Khaldun wrote about Christians: "We do not think that we should blacken the pages of this book [Muqaddimah] with discussion of their [Christian] dogmas of unbelief. In general, they are well known. All of them are unbelief. This is clearly stated in the noble Koran. To discuss or argue those things with them is not up to us. It is for them to choose between conversion to Islam, payment of the poll tax, or death."
(The link for the Ibn Khaldun quotes is below at the muslimphilosophy site.)
He follows this quote with several examples of the Mohammedans implementing these statements and the infamous Qur'an 9.29, convert, be a virtual slave paying annual tribute, or die.
This all is a long read, well reasoned, and highlights just what problems we are facing in Iraq. We did not understand the enemy. We went in presuming our values were universal. We've been slapped down in that regard. Although the number of close to apostate Mohammedans in Iraq who DO want an honest Democracy and secular government is remarkably high all things considered. It is a rewarding read. You come out of it with a lot more understanding of what we are fighting.
Be sure to see the Wall Street Journal quote for blood money prices. Note how much a Mohammedan mail is worth compared to a Mohammedan woman. Then compare that to say a Hindu woman. There is a 33:1 disparity.
I am looking forward to the next part.
links http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/014245.php http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/014368.php http://www.muslimphilosophy.com/ik/Muqaddimah/
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What a way to start the day. The MSM have happened on something the bloggers "knew" for a week or so, Saudi Arabia may poke its nose, and money, into Iraq to aid the Sunnis. Let's pour some gasoline on the fire.
link http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,236180,00.html http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/12/12/usa.saudi.iraq.reut/index.html
The blogs are one step ahead. Captains Quarters notes that the Saudi ambassador to the US was called back to Saudi Arabia on VERY short notice. He left his very influential posting to return home in an incredible rush. The usual parties for a retiring ambassador never happened. Maybe Abdullah is ill?
link http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/008688.php
One of my readers commented about being a little confused about whether I believe there are moderate Mohammedans or not. For the record I believe there are. Most are complacent and very afraid to raise their heads. In polls something like 50% of Mohammedans world wide are said to support the violent jihad with as many as 20% saying they'd take part in bombings.
MEMRI has a nice article by one of the few vocal moderates, Tunisian columnist Cayed Krichen. Krichen notes the golden age of Islam when it was new, open, and free. That would be when they were under the Umayyads. When the Abbasids took over this freedom of thought along with the documents and doctrines that went along with it were extirpated from the official religion. It has suffered with this for 1100 years now.
Krichen then recites a partial list of mere violations of freedom of thought perpetrated in the religion's name since 1925 when in Egypt "Sheikh 'Ali 'Abd Ar-Raziq is expelled from Al-Azhar University and his writings are banned [because] he advocates the separation of religion and state. His book 'Islam and Principles of Government' is declared heretical, and banned."
So, yes, there are moderates. They exist. Most are silent. Some have the courage to express their thoughts. They routinely find their way into religious prisons or death sentences. I hope Tuniaia is not that backwards and Krichen can continue to express such thoughts. The religion could well benefit from it.
link http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD139206
MEMRI also has a clip and transcript of an interview with several Saudi intellectuals. It seems the US is not the only place where the education system is already in Hell let alone digging a deeper hole in Hell into which it can immerse us all. Here are some additional more or less moderates decrying teachers at private schools abandoning the curriculum and teaching the Taliban ideals and other such nonsense. At least with a private school the parents can intervene and see such teachers fired, in theory. I wonder if Turki Hamad did that with his son's teacher.
link http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD139006
Then MEMRI has excerpts from an interview with Mash'al Al-Mutairi, a Saudi oppositionist about trying to keep Prince Na'if from Acceding to the throne. These attempts are not his alone. King Abdullah and Crown Prince Sultan are also in there pitching. But Na'if is in an incredibly strong position. (And he is rather an extremist.)
link http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD138906
The jihadists from the religion of peace have been thwarted again, this time in Spain. A terror cell has been broken up. They had a plot that was moving from the planning stages to actual implementation. So it was time for the Spanish authorities to sweep them up.
link
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?
entry=23637_Got_Eleven_in_Spain&only
LGF has a video from Fox News featuring Debra Burlingame, the wife of the deceased 9/11 pilot of flight 77. She is highlighting the wee little detail that the 6 flying imams were seriously fishing for an incident. At the end the 911familiesforamerica.org blog was mentioned (full link below.) She declares the full 24 page police report will be posted. Apparently it is a shocker. We SHOULD have put the imams through a much more thorough wringer for virtually shouting bomb on a loaded airliner. (I tracked down the full report at pajamasmedia. Link below.) Page 11 is where the report gets down to business and describes the incident. The information basically confirms the reports that have been circulating on the blogs. The imams were fishing, with dynamite in a barrel, for some insults and "abuses." As such they abused the passengers on the flight. IMAO THEY should go on trial for their behavior and its results.
links
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/
?entry=23633_Video-_Debra_Burlingame_
on_the_Non-Flying_Imams&only
http://911familiesforamerica.org/
http://pajamasmedia.com/upload/2006/12/FlyingImamsPolice%20Report.pdf
Charles Johnson highlights the truck driver who was pulled into custody for questioning after he was anxious to learn to drive trucks but was not willing to bother learning to back up. 28 year old Mohammedan, overstayed a student visa, drivers licenses from multiple states, wasn't interested in learning how to back up a truck at a truck driving school - yup, he was up to no good. Betcha CAIR jumps on this with their Islamo-phobia screams and nonsense. (I may have reported about this before. It is slowly making its way into the MSM, - maybe. Te Boston Herald has it up now.)
link
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=23630_
Trucking_Student_Arrested_in_Boston&only
The moderate Mohammedans are VERY silent, it seems. I believe I have worked with several such over the years. I don't hear their voices anywhere, though. I do hear the voices of the immoderates. In this case from Oz. A young Mohammedan woman who won the NSW Young Australian of the Year award is now under death threats from the jihadists in Oz. Such lovely and loving folks these loud immoderate Mohammedans are. The world could do without them. There is also question about a frame up involving cocaine and Ms. Hage-Ali. At any rate the plot thickens - and sickens.
link
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=23629_
Why_We_Rarely_Hear_from_Moderate_Muslims&only
Michelle Malkin points to a nice cheat sheet for those who do not quite understand Sunni and Shi'ite differences. The cheat list is the second link below. She has other goodies on her posting in the first link.
link
http://michellemalkin.com/archives/006524.htm
http://www.townhall.com/blog/g/0273183b-fcb8-4582-a9da-eb792ad27055
Tafsir, Hadith, Sunna, and Sira, what do three mean. Robert Spencer explains in an interview with Michelle Malkin on HotAir. It's worth the time to listen to it.
link http://hotair.com/archives/2006/12/12/an-interview-with-robert-spencer/
Bryan Preston has a nice writeup on how Reuters (and other agencies) can operate within tyrannies. Basically, they play ball with them on their terms. When they play ball that way how can they report honest news from such situations? I don't believe they can. As such they are not doing you and me a service reporting laundered pseudo facts.
link http://hotair.com/archives/2006/12/12/how-al-reuters-works-within-tyrannies/
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"The poet Ali Ahmad Sa'id (b. 1930), known by his pseudonym "Adonis," a 2005 candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature, left his native Syria for Lebanon in the 1950s following six months' imprisonment for political activity. In 1973, he received his Ph.D. from St. Joseph University in Beirut; in 1985, he settled in Paris, where he now works as a writer and literary critic. Among other occupations, he has edited the modernist magazine Mawaqif (Viewpoints), and translated some of the great French poets into Arabic." He is also another Moderate who is coming forward and stating that the Mohammedan world has fatal flaws.
One of his more telling comments comes near the beginning of the interviews, "In our case, political rule was based... Ever since the struggle over who would inherit Prophet Muhammad's place, political rule was essentially based on religion."
link http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD139306
Time magazine seems to have slipped up in its unending blizzard of lies and falsehoods about the Middle East. In "The Big Lie About the Middle East", Lisa Beyer says, "In lumping the Iraq mess in with the Palestinian problem--and suggesting the first could not be fixed unless the second was too--the Baker-Hamilton commission lent credibility to a corrosive myth: that the fundamental problem in the Arab world is the plight of the Palestinians."
A little further on she declares, "In a decade of reporting in the region, I found it rarely took more than the arching of an eyebrow to get the most candid of Arab thinkers to acknowledge that the tears shed for the Palestinians today outside the West Bank and Gaza are of the crocodile variety. Palestinians know this best of all."
I've declared the point that they have no legitimate gripe and know it for many years now with various angles of proof. By embracing this concept former President Carter in his book and the Baker report from the ISG create serious damage. It gives the terrorists some legitimacy even they know is not there. It encourages their continued violence. And it obscures that the problem is not our, yours and mine, behavior. The problem is our not being Mohammedans in the idealized fantasy world the violent jihadist Mohammedans maintain for themselves.
link
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?
entry=23648_Arab_Nations_Dont_Care_About_the_Palestinians&only
The New York Times is at it again with a raggedly dishonest piece that attempts to whitewash the Mohammedan Charities that the FBI declares are terrorist support tools. The "Internet Haganah" slaps down the NYT story quite thoroughly. It includes a long list if corrupt, terrorist supporting, Mohammedan charities and law suits filed against them.
links
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=23647_
New_York_Times_Stands_Up_for_Terror-Supporting_Charities&only
http://www.internet-haganah.com/harchives/005797.html
CAIR has setup a hot line so that Hajj pilgrims can complain about any hints of less than deferential behavior towards them from airline or security personnel. They provide a crib sheet for harassing airline and security personnel. CAIR needs to be shut down, HARD. MASSIVE counter suits complaining of THEIR harassment are called for.
links
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?
entry=23640_CAIR_Sets_Up
_Grievance_Theater_Hotline&only
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/014394.php
The Saudis are stepping forward with a warning that they intend to intervene in Iraq if ethnic cleansing takes place or of the US leaves Iraq. The Saudis intend to use their vast resources to become the dominant influence in Iraq trying to supplant the Iranian influence.
link http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/014403.php
"Spencer: Tony Blair Renounces Multiculturalism - Sort Of"
The Lord giveth, "British Prime Minister Tony Blair declared last Friday that "no distinctive culture or religion supercedes our duty to be part of an integrated United Kingdom." He listed "respect for this country and its shared heritage," along with "belief in democracy, the rule of law, tolerance, equal treatment for all," as the things that "we hold in common" and give "us the right to call ourselves British.""
The Lord taketh away, "Blair himself, however, doesn't seem to have intended his speech to be taken as a rejection of or retreat from multiculturalism. He explained: "It is not that we need to dispense with multicultural Britain. On the contrary we should continue celebrating it.""
The article is worth the read simply to watch Blair stumbling through the British briar patch of political correct thought and speech. He surely seems to be making an arse of himself lately.
link http://frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=25958
A devout and moderate Muslim comes forward detailing his personal pain with the charade put on my the six flying imams. He supports the various TSA measures that are taking place to try to make flying safe. He acknowledges "those of us with the first name Mohammed can also attest to humbling profiling." He accepts it. M. Zuhdi Jasser is a Muslim worthy of respect. I note the web site is a wonderful revelation. It is Muslims fighting the extremist jihadists.
link http://www.freemuslims.org/news/article.php?article=1824
Just so you know Robert Spencer has noted that "UPS refuses to deliver to Jews, not Muslims." They won't deliver to "Gush Yeshiva [DS: A yeshiva is a Jewish academy] in the Gush EtZion." They will deliver to Ramala. For reference DHL has no such problem.
link http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/014398.php
And in a surprise out of Canada the Federal Court finds that belonging to a terrorist group is not a right. (I would hope this could come to trial only in Canada. But I fear we'll see the likes of it here in the US.)
link http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/014396.php
Michelle Malkin is putting her time and perhaps life on the line in taking up an offer to accompany Eason Jordan to Iraq to find the elusive Jamil Hussein, the seemingly fictitious source for quite a few AP stories about Iraqi terror. At least she has taken Eason Jordan's offer to pay for her trip to Iraq and even accompany her. I wish her luck and health if Eason was not bluffing and they all embark to find Jamil. (Yes, this is "the same Eason Jordan who reported from Iraq and hid the atrocities of Saddam Hussein from the world while everyone was debating whether or not Saddam was really guilty of all the horrible things for which he was accused." (From Wizbang see link below.)
Hot Air has more on Jamil-gate worth a quick read.
link http://michellemalkin.com/archives/006537.htm
http://wizbangblog.com/2006/12/13/is-this-a-joke-
eason-jordan-is-heading-an-iraq-information-site.php
http://hotair.com/archives/2006/12/13/
jamilgate-what-happened-to-the-morgue/
Michelle has a nice update on yesterday's illegal worker raids. The illegal aliens were working on stolen identities, one of whom was a Border Patrol agent. These victims of identity theft are being dunned for back taxes they never paid on earnings they never received for jobs they never had. Our borders MUST be sealed tightly. The cost of illegal aliens is more than we should bear.
Once the borders are sealed illegal aliens using stolen identities must be tossed out after taking DNA samples, finger prints, and any other form of positive identification we can think of. Then if they are found in the US again they are eligible for a death penalty.
link http://michellemalkin.com/archives/006530.htm
Hot Air has part two of Michelle's interview with Robert Spencer. It is a must watch.
link
http://hotair.com/archives/2006/12/13/
an-interview-with-robert-spencer-part-two/
There is more to day on the young woman who was up for Iktamil Hage-Ali's Young Australian of the Year Award has handed the award back as word of the cocaine charges against her surfaced. Of course, she has not yet been found guilty. But the there is the appearance of wrong- doing that provides the leverage for rescinding the award.
link
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/
story/0,22049,20922602-5001021,00.html
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This should be worth watching for developments given German laws. MEMRI reports that the "Iran Holocaust Denial Conference Announces Plan to Establish World Foundation for Holocaust Studies - To Be Eventually Based in Berlin and Headed by Iranian Presidential Adviser Mohammad-Ali Ramin Who Has Said: 'The Resolution of the Holocaust Issue Will End in the Destruction of Israel'"
This goes neatly with the MEMRI article discussing the role of the holocaust denial in the Iranian regime. It traces the demonization of the Jews taking place now noting its parallel to the Nazi demonization before they started their pogroms.
link
http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD139706
http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=IA30706
Read this. Don't ask questions. Just read it. Eugene wrote it. It is about his family. (I suspect the Eugene in question is Eugene Volokh; but as it's not formally signed that way I can't say for sure. It's simply Eugene's Blog. If it is Eugene Volokh I trust what he is saying completely.) "How my grandfather invented the Holocaust."
link
http://eugie.typepad.com/from_new_york_and_all_ove/
2006/12/how_my_grandad_.html
Hamas has revealed its relations with the IRA. It is nominally in the interest of learning how to negotiate and achieve peace.
link http://www.thememriblog.org/blog_personal/en/157.htm
The not so loyal opposition, John Kerry, is in Egypt criticizing the US. But I suppose doing that is nothing new to junketing Senators. While Kerry was fiddling Rome burned or at least Hamas took over control of the border crossing into Egypt. There was a ferocious gun battle with the Fatah people who were at the time in control.
Kerry is busy calling for dialog with Iran and Syria. I suppose he would have counseled Elliot Ness to dialog with Al Capone, too. God what a self serving vile and stupid man you've created in Kerry. It is quite obvious that Kerry thinks the average US citizen is dumber than a toad.
link
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=23667_
Kerry_Slams_US_Policy_in_Egypt&only
There may be a bit of a turn around at the UN. (Now, I do not expect a HUGE turn around, mind you.) The incoming Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, calls for censuring the Iranians over their Holocaust Denial Conference. I wonder how long he is going to last in his job.
link
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=23664_
New_UN_Chief_-_Not_a_Progressive&only
I am reluctantly willing to give Glocer his argument even though I do think he was whitewashing decades of bad behavior of this sort. He has come out and stated that Reuters has new standards for Photoshop work AND more importantly, perhaps, in attributes to photos and the circumstances under which they were taken. (LGF and others raked Reuters over the coals for their coverage of Lebanon.) I can't accept an apology that does not mention their near complete lack of coverage of the death and destruction Hezbollah rained on Israel. But then, none was issued.
I do remember during the actual combat phase of Gulf War part II that Reuters played some clips over and over again until they got it cut just right, usually in a manner to make the US look bad. I was watching several of the live feeds out of Baghdad when I noticed this. Now, what they were doing MAY have been simply trying to get a clean feed. Editing over a satellite feed would be stupidly difficult. It still raised the hairs on my neck. Their coverage was consistently such as to make the US look bad compared even to CBS's feeds.
I also remember the neatly misattributed ambulance pictures. I also remember the "Reuters Van Hit By Israeli Missile" incident in the Palestine territories. (It was very obviously not hit by a missile. It had a large chunk of concrete dropped on it. What hit was certainly not explosive.)
Charles concludes his report on it with these words, "Thanks to Mr. Glocer for the nice words. Now what about this? Reuters: David Duke a 'US Academic'." The link is to an article describing Duke as an Academic disregarding his sordid past in the KKK and all that minor stuff. Reuters not biased? Hah!
link
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=23661_
Reuters_CEO_on_Adnan_Hajj_Scandal&only
Katherine Kersten of the Star Tribune (MSP area) muses on the real reason for the 6 flying imams nonsense. I figure it's a "Well Duh!" But I guess most people are not paranoid enough to see the connection of this publicity blitz with the bill John Conyers (D Mich) wrote called the "End Racial Profiling Act." Under it the TSA will have the burden of proof if it can be shown they questioned a disproportionate number of Mohammedans. Nancy Pelosi is a proud cosponsor. Ellison, the Mohammedan in Congress, is expected to get on the band wagon, too. This is a VERY bad law. I hope Congress or the Senate has the courage to kill it. I REALLY hope that if it gets to the President he flat out vetoes it.
If it is statistically more dangerous to step into an open manhole than a closed one it makes sense to put most or all of your guard rails and signs around opened holes. Under the manhole equivalent of this proposed law to avoid discrimination all manholes would have to have signs and guard rails around them opened or not. Think about it.
Race is simply an identifiable fact about a person. It is like the state of a manhole, opened or closed. An open manhole on a busy street is going to hurt somebody, likely badly. A closed manhole can hurt people in some circumstances, such as when its slick surface triggers a loss of traction while making a panic stop or when one slips on it while crossing the street. They are even dangerous for slips and falls when they are in the middle of a sidewalk. So one must be aware of all manholes just as one must be aware of all people around oneself. But when they are opened manholes present a greater danger. So taking note of this is rather important if one wishes to stay unharmed. The same is true with regards to people who are of Middle Eastern descent. This is unfortunate. But it is a fact. This also does not mean we ignore all others.
Note that those boarding the airplane with the 9 were willing to cut slack for Mohammedans praying. THEY "RACIALLY" PROFILED THE MOHAMMEDANS! They KNEW this was a Mohammedan activity so they considered it odd but something one could overlook. But the imams kept piling on abuse of profile after abuse of profile. Finally too many passes of this led to suspicion which led to their denied boarding. The imams in effect are demanding racial profiling to ALLOW them to do extra outrageous things that the rest of us cannot. Scroom.
links (Thanks LGF & JihadWatch)
http://www.startribune.com/191/story/874480.html
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/014412.php
"RABAT (AFP) - They might have Islamic names like Mohammed or Ali, but every Sunday these Moroccan converts to Christianity go discreetly to "church" -- to the ire of Islamic militants and under the suspicious eye of police."
""There are about a thousand of us in around 50 independent churches across the big cities of the kingdom," explained Abdelhalim, who coordinates these evangelical Protestant groups in Morocco."
"As we are tolerated, but not recognized (by the state) we must, for security reasons, conduct ourselves as a clandestine organisation," said the 57-year-old, who preferred to use a pseudonym."
Thus is the life of converts to Christianity in Morocco, which is not nearly as virulent about apostates as many other Mohammedan nations. I note this is also the life of ANY Christians in Morocco let alone those who convert to Christianity. This is called Dhimmitude, the near slavery status non-Moh