Islam And Its Myths

The Seven Myths About Islam


Islam is all about big lies and myths, this article sheds some light on seven of the most common of such lies and deceptions:

First, it is untrue that Islam is the world’s fastest-growing religion........ (RTWT)

Excellent Discussion About Anders Behring Breivik And Silliness

Via Yid With Lid

Norway Terror Attack: Lessons and Illusions

Posted By Barry Rubin On July 26, 2011 @ 11:21 pm In Uncategorized | 44 Comments

Once one gets beyond the polemics and clichés, there is a huge amount that could be learned from an honest discussion about the mass murders in Norway. Let’s look at some of them.

An editorial in the New York Daily News contains both valid points and dangerous silliness. It begins:

In his ravings, Anders Behring Breivik, confessed to having murdered 76 people, repeats a familiar refrain: He killed to save his country, his continent and Western civilization itself from an attempted takeover by Islam.

The trouble with a 1500-page manifesto is that one can find almost anything in it. For example, people, groups, and sites who have been cited once or twice in that manifesto are now being called complicit with the murders. In the case of one group in that position, Breivik actually attacked them for being non-violent! Another author in the United Kingdom had two articles footnoted by the killer that didn’t even deal with Islam. Now people are being incited to go after her in revenge.

Of course, Breivik did see Islam as a threat, but he didn’t attack mosques, he attacked two government targets: a camp of the ruling party and a government building. Thus, the main target was not an “Islamic takeover” but his view that the country was being destroyed by left-wing policies, of which unlimited immigration is one. I have no agenda in making that point, but it is surprising that this hasn’t been a bigger focus of the discussion. Breivik was not a single-issue guy.

A second question is whether his violent action “proves” that there is no such problem regarding Islam. Radical Islamist violence is not mindless. It is a response to a problem. Many view this problem as the oppression of Muslims. My opinion is that it is a strategy for revolutionary takeover, a radical Islamist government, and the fundamental transformation of society. Of course, this is far more likely in Muslim-majority societies.

The Daily News continues:

Breivik’s belief is the photo negative of al-Qaeda’s contention that the United States and its allies are hell-bent on destroying Islam.

That’s a clever point and has some merit. But after studying Islamism for 30 years, I’d say that equally or more important — and certainly the one used more in inner and sophisticated Islamist circles — is the idea that the real crime of the West is “preventing” Islamist revolutions by supporting existing regimes. On this one, they are right generally. The first argument is propaganda; the second is programmatic.

To argue that Western governments want the Islamists to win and take over their societies is paranoid. To argue, though, that Western governments follow bad policies that make it look that way has a lot of merit. Left-wing movements — as in Norway — hope that the Islamists will benefit them. They are wrong. An analogy here is the Communist Party in Germany (at Stalin’s orders, of course) arguing that the growth of the Nazis would benefit them at a certain point. They were dead — literally — wrong. That doesn’t mean the Communists were pro-Nazi, it meant that they were disastrously stupid.

But the next contention of the editorial is more questionable:

The belief, that Islam at large conspires to triumph over all Judeo-Christian society, is a delusion.

Of course, the trick here is to say “Islam at large,” that is all the Muslims, everywhere and all the time. So yes the extremists on the Breivik channel do help the people who say that the threat is a “delusion.” But if radical Islamism gains hegemony and then largely controls the dominant devision of contemporary “Islam,” then it will be no illusion at all.

For now, we know that large elements of Muslims — especially revolutionary Islamists and notably the Muslim Brotherhood as well as the far less significant al-Qaeda — want that triumph because they say so all the time. So do Hamas and Hizballah and Iran’s government, less often perhaps but often a lot. They can quote extensively from Islamic texts — the same ones that “counter-jihadists” point out — and thus persuade Muslims a lot more easily that they represent “authentic Islam” than can moderate Muslims.

That’s one big reason why “reform” or “moderate” Islam is so weak. Others include the fact that the radicals are willing to kill and intimidate people, have more supporters, and have more money.

What most decidedly isn’t a delusion is:

• Revolutionary Islamist movements seek to take over all Muslim-majority countries.
• Where they have taken over they seek to transform those societies permanently into Islamist-run dictatorships. Iran and the Gaza Strip are the two most prominent current examples.
• Revolutionary Islamists seek to wipe Israel off the map and expel Western influence. In practice, they also seek to get rid of Christians. Their seizure of power is against Western interests.
• In Western countries, Islamists seek to gain hegemony over Muslim communities both ideologically, religiously, and through instituting Sharia.
• More speculatively, they dream of total conquest. Of course, that is more speculative, less likely, and far longer-term.

The fact that the last paragraph is pretty unlikely does not invalidate the previous four paragraphs.

A lot of the discussion among “anti-jihadists” is based on quoting from Muslim religious texts, clerical interpretations, and political statements by Islamist groups. The mass media simply refuses to deal with this evidence. That’s why the arguments can easily be labeled fantasies. Yet if you can provide dozens of quotes and hundreds of actions as examples, who is it engaged in “paranoid and poisonous fantasies”?

I partly agree with the editorial’s statement that:

Demonizing a religion rather than those who pervert it is destructive and only wins sympathies to radical fanatics.

I wouldn’t use the word “pervert,” which implies the Islamists are lying. They are using material that actually is in Islam and if one doesn’t understand that then one is powerless to deal with it. But there’s also a nice irony in the quote: which “radical fanatics” are we talking about? The editorial no doubt wants to refer to radical fanatics like Breivik. It is also true, however, that it wins sympathies for the “radical fanatics” who deny that there’s a problem. And those people are far more powerful than the murderous Breiviks, a group that one can count so far on the fingers of one hand.

In fact, the editorial then proves my point:

Counterjihadists are fighting an imaginary enemy. In the United States Muslims constitute less than 1% of the population. In Europe, it is about 7%….[Muslim immigrants]…seek to practice their faith and to assimilate.

The editorial — and the mass media generally — defuses a serious discussion by making the only issue as to whether Muslims will take over. But the immediate dangers are different.

First, will the pool of potential terrorists and their supporters grow? We can add up attacks that total far more than the one in Norway. When, for example, a convert is inspired to murder a military recruiter in Arkansas or a radicalized Muslim opens fire at Fort Hood, this should be a warning bell. Will the number of attacks steadily increase?

Second, will Muslim communities be taken over — or at least the most energetic activists in them — by radical Islamists? There is real reason to believe this has been happening in many places. While one can show to a far more limited extent that “creeping Sharia law” in the West is affecting non-Muslims, it is certainly affecting Muslims.

And when, to cite just two examples, the Archbishop of Canterbury and a leading judge support the imposition of Sharia law on Muslims in Great Britain, can anyone call that a delusion?

Third, Muslims who want to “assimilate” may be targeted or even killed by Islamists, who might be receiving state subsidies. Virtually every “honor killing” is against a woman who wants to assimilate. And since moderate Muslims are few, subject to intimidation, and receive little or no support from the Western establishments, those who often control these communities inhibit assimilation and teach people not to do so.

Any Muslims who are secular in their behavior, want to stop being Muslims, or who believe themselves properly religious but disagree with the extremists are being victimized.

When a woman is murdered in an “honor killing” or has her rights trampled on by Sharia as radically interpreted, she is also a Muslim. Often, governments have turned these people over to control by the radicals. They also finance the radicals, either because of the looseness of Western laws, misguided “multiculturalism,” or a conscious belief that helping radicals who aren’t committing terrorism this week will ensure there won’t be terrorism in future.

Fourth, there are real decisions to be made: Should public schools allow prayer (only, in the US) for Muslims? Can women wearing a veil have that picture on their driver’s license? Are cab drivers going to be allowed to refuse seeing-eye dogs? Will governments register polygamous marriages and give social welfare benefits on that basis? What is the definition of practicing their faith?

And then non-Muslims are being affected by being forced to observe Sharia law in an increasing number of cases, small in the overall extent of society, yet narrowing the freedom of those who experience it.

The final sentence of the editorial says:

Those who see “Muslim domination” and “creeping Sharia law” around every corner are imagining things. Their fictions only feed extremism.

True enough. Nobody should see anything “around every corner.” But saying that the problem is only imaginary and ignoring the real problems is also a fiction that will “only feed extremism,” including Islamist extremism, the triumph of the most radical interpretations of Islam, and extremists who want their own societies to decline.

Will Obama Lose The Egyptian Revolution Like Carter Lost The Iranian Revolution?

Yep. Pro-democracy forces needing our help will not get that help and another Islamic Bananna Republic will be set up by another Ayatollah Khomeini.

It's like Obama and Carter were twins separated at birth. Who got the left side of the brain?

I think another set of twins separated at birth were Billy Carter and Jabberin' Joe Biden. At least Billy had beer going for him.

Buffoons all.

Religion Of Peace Protests Veterans Day In London Burns Symbols

Poppy-burning Muslim protesters mar Armistice Day commemorations as millions fall silent to remember war dead

Islamic protesters sparked fury today after they burned a model of a poppy and deliberately broke the silence at Armistice Day commemorations in central London.

As millions of Britons fell silent to remember those who have died in war, members of a group called Muslims Against Crusades clashed with police during an 'emergency demonstration' in Kensington, west London.

As the clock struck 11am, the Islamic protesters burned a model of a poppy and chanted 'British soldiers burn in hell'.

If Muslims around the world are opposed to this type of activity and terrorism in general, why is there no backlash by them against this type of activity. Their silence speaks volumes.

Obama: Still A Muslim

Not seeing this on the news which isn't surprising whether true or not. It is also not surprising that Obama is betraying Israel nor is it surprising that the Democrats in Congress are betraying Israel. The question is why.

Obama, a 'Strategic Catastrophe'
Israeli officials say it's not Iran that is Israel's greatest threat
 
"Israel's relations with the US are at a low point, and Obama poses a danger to Israel," wrote Nahum Barnea in the nation's biggest newspaper Yediot Ahronot.

The feeling among the Israeli public is that Obama is appeasing the Muslim world at the expense of Israel.

"The American President told me in confidence that he is a Muslim," said Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit on Nile TV. That could explain why Obama has instructed that the term "Islamic extremism" no longer be used in official government documents and statements.
...

This is the statement recorded:

Adul Gheit said he had a one-on-one meeting with Obama, where the US President told him that He was still a Muslim, the son of a Muslim father, the step son of Muslim stepfather, that his half brothers in Kenya are Muslims, and that he was sympatetic towards the Muslim agenda.

Adul Gheit claimed Obama told the Arabs to show patience. Obama promised that once he overcame some domestic issues, like the Health care reform, he would show the Muslim World how to deal with Israel.

Is Radical Islam Radical Or Is Their Radicalism The Norm For Them?

We visited Vasto, Italy where my wife's family is from for a few days so she could share her history. The family is filled with relatives and their history there goes back before the written word.

The first thing I wanted to see was the "old" church where her grandparents had wed, but also to surprise my wife with some genealogical information. In one of those difficult verbal exchanges, made so by my inability to speak Italian, I was informed their was only the "new" church and it was pointed out to me.

I looked at a structure that in America would have been a national monument based strictly on its age, so I asked about the old church. I was informed that a Turkish (Muslim) fleet had ravaged the entire length of Italy on the Adriatic side. It was then that remembered history told me that the "new" church had been built in 1477 AD after Vasto was burned, looted and the people were left for dead..

I asked if the there had been other such invasions. The kind gentleman and his wife who was gently trying to get me to understand both smiled and she said, "No" translating for her husband. He got a very hard look in his face and spoke in the local dialect which the wife translated loosely as, "They come again, this we know, but this time we'll be ready."

That memory and this video reminds me that Islam is doing exactly what they have been instructed to do for centuries.

I give you Lt. Col. West:



Political clarity is a virtue that is lost in modern America. I hope this man goes far in politics.

via Another Black Conservative

Irani Chairman Short Goes All Jihadi On Internet

Continuing on the path of holy devotion to God through bigotry, lies, hate and nuclear bullying, Iran now wants to go all jihadi on the Internet.

Iran forms unit to go after opposition on Internet

Iran has formed a special unit to monitor Web sites and fight Internet crimes, in a clear attack on an opposition that relies almost exclusively on online means to broadcast its message, local newspapers reported Saturday.

Police Col. Mehrdad Omidi, who heads the Internet crime unit, said the committee will fight "insults and the spreading of lies," terms widely used by the judiciary to describe opposition activities.

Insults and lies, umm. So, they're going to get in a fight with themselves? Good, maybe they'll knock themselves out.

Lies, indeed, and insults? They insult their God, Muslims worldwide and all other sane and rational people everywhere.

Muzzammil Hassan Or Why Muslims Have Problems Fitting In

Via James Edwards

In head-to-head battles in the Muslim community, it appears that women lose every time.

Some history on the couple:
Muzzammil Hassan came to America from Pakistan 25 years ago. He became a successful banker in Buffalo, New York, near the famed Niagara Falls.

While he and his wife were happy to be in the United States, they were upset by the negative perceptions of Muslims, and particularly how this perception might affect their children.
That is how they came up with the idea of Bridges TV. Mr. Hassan’s wife challenged him to start it.

“I had no background in television. I didn’t know anything about TV. Her comment was, ‘you have an M.B.A. (masters degree in business) why don’t you write a business plan?’”
And so he did. He quit his job at the bank and for the next two to three years worked almost non-stop in developing an English language television network that offers news and entertainment for Muslims.

Mr. Hassan hopes Bridges TV lives up to its name by uniting American Muslims and by helping non-Muslims overcome the negative images they may have of both Muslims and Islam.

Current news on the couple:
Prominent Orchard Park man charged with beheading his wife

To many of my friends and peers that are Muslim or have married Muslims it seems to be a belief by degrees by the believer in Islamic tenets. While some will shake their heads and say this is wrong, there are others who will publicly speak against the practice, but privately agree.

That is why Muslims have perception problems in America. It is too scary for many to believe what they will do and it is also to scary to believe them as a community. The alleged murderer is not a poor Muslim living in a dusty village far from here, but a successful businessman with a MBA and a host of people who thought he was offering peace and understanding. He did not murder in the heat of the moment, but sawed his wife's head off because she wanted a divorce.

The more that people hear about this culture the less they ask how do you understand it, because they more times than not now ask, why even try.

Ahmadinejad:Portrait Of A Madman Or A Fool

AHMADINEJAD SAYS USA MUST APOLOGIZE TO IRAN OVER PAST ACTIONS...
Change means ending support for 'Zionists'..
Holocaust a 'big lie': Iran govt spokesman...

Chairman Short has heard the call of 'change' in America. While building nuclear weapons Mini-Mahmoud still has time to make sure people are stoned to death, have hands cut off and that Jews, gays and other infidels know of his hatred. Has he specifically named little old Lutheran ladies as a danger to Islam? Probably, it's that punch they drink.

Apologize? Yeah, we'll get right on that. Oh wait, Obama is probably planning to show up on your doorstep with one and a box of your favorite cookies.

End support for Israel? Sure, if you really mean Islam demands it, but how convenient, eh? Admit it, you still have dreams of a little used camel market on that trade route outside Hirbet Qeiyafa. Go on little guy, you can still dream.

Holocaust a lie? You betcha, especially since your good buddy, David Duke, says so. You guys look so cute with your pointy little hoods and the Nazi corsets underneath. More than just your dreams start to sag with age.

What is really sad is that people like Obama and his wonderful Sec. of State think they can talk to creeps like this. Maybe Hill heard Ahmadinejad exhale.

"Islam is the light" Say Fisher-Price "Little Mommy Real Loving Baby Cuddle and Coo" Doll

At least it didn't say "Obama is the light", we have that to be thankful for, I guess.

When Gary Rofkahr from Owasso heard there was a baby doll on local store shelves that said, "Islam is the Light," he didn't believe it.

He bought the Little Mommy Real Loving Baby Cuddle and Coo doll to see for himself and he was shocked to hear the words, "Islam is the Light" among other baby gibberish including "Mama."

There is no indication whether the doll comes with a dull knife for beheading infidels or stones with which to kill women who "allowed" uncles to rape them while held down by cousins who wished to regain their honor.

Fisher-Price did say that any person who heard anything, but gibberish from the doll was projecting their own fears and prejudice onto a cuddly warm doll who personified the religion of piece and blood, thus the dolls would stay on the shelves for all of us 'haters' to get for Christmas.

So What If Pulled Pork Is Not Halal?

At least here in America. Halal can mean lawful or actions permitted by Shariah law without punishment imposed on the doer in many matters. We are not the Middle East. The right question is, is Islam as practiced worldwide, halal? Is it halal to keep your daughters stupid, pregnant and subservient? Is it halal to murder oneself to murder innocents for a bribe of 72 virgins? Is it halal to use death, dismemberment, beatings, threats, public humiliation and other crimes against others that one disagrees with?

If these things are halal then the hell with halal.

I bring this up because I received a question from a very thoughtful person concerning shariah or sharia law and the taking of America by Islam as they appear to be doing in Europe and Asia.

I think that we too will crumble without hardly a blink...what do you think?
jennifer

I do not believe we will.

I have lived and worked in DC, LA, NYC, Boston, Taos and other places and there is a difference in thinking among certain circles. I feel sorry for those that, as a friend quipped, have become so urbane that they are insane. That said, there are differences between Butte, Paducah and Billings as well. Unlike Europe and Asia, America is ployglot both literally and figuratively. We are a united people in a united state of steel workers, bankers, soldiers, ranchers and doctors, lawyers and such.

The urbane insane love to quip that our founding fathers were just a bunch of dead white guys, ie, all alike. How intellectually shallow. To understand our founders is to know just how different they were except in the vision and determination to build a better nation. Some were wealthy, some became wealthy, some lost their fortune and some died. To say that Jefferson, Adams, Burr, Hamilton, Madison and Franklin were all the same is not ignorance, it is stupidity because even a fourth grader has readily at hand descriptions of each. Their differences were wedded together, often not too prettily, to shape a nation. Yes, they were that important that you can still see their prints in the mold of each new generation of Americans.

It is not that Americans want to be a Washington or a Jefferson, nor do they want to be a John Wayne, George Washington Carver, Clara Barton or a Ronald Reagan, but they do want to emulate them in passion, excellence and devotion to principle.

Islam in America so far has only had to deal with lawmakers, philosophers and the media. They best watch out when they start running into the America that remembers what America is and will become. America's greatest strength is not just its people, but those people's belief in God, liberty and their neighbors. That America will not swear or violate as they kill those that would harm America and the American dream.

To travel America is to be awed. Its beauty alone staggers the mind. Its differences all wedded together, sometimes not so prettily, is what makes it strong and wildly brilliant. The human race shares basic needs and desires, but here in America, as those basic needs are daily met, Americans reach for the sky in little and big ways.

My son, three generations out of the coal mines grinding down hope, is wrestling with the question of becoming a doctor, an economist or a rally race car driver. My father died young just as all the males in his family before him even though he was the first to graduate from high school, college and medical school and married "up" to my mother whose fore bearers settled Jamestown, Richmond and numerous other towns and regions. I think my family special, but they are not unique.

They are American.

Islamofacists cannot possibly understand that which is why they will fail in their violent hope of the caliphate including America. How could their tribal tradition ever hope to understand a southern lady marrying a hard scrabble boy from the streets of Akron whose son married an Italian girl from New York whose godfather was a Brooklyn cop named Leo?

Jen, we must always keep up our guard, but Tehran will never play in Peoria. If they ever try to go off Broadway they'll find that my uncle, Old Zeth, can still nail them in the eye at 10 yards with tabaccy or 100 yards with a single shot. It would be no matter to him except he'd have to put down his book and his pulled pork sandwich to deal with any halal crap which would make him cantankerous. Trust me. No one wants to try to make him mad twice. I got the welts as reminders, but I also have the love, the wisdom and the patriotism handed down by a long line of Zeths. So do you and the majority of Americans.

Wahhabi Mecca Is A Bin Laden/Saudi Money Maker

I wrote a piece earlier about Disney does Mecca and now Gateway Pundit has more news about the why.

These projects not only allow the Saudis to profit more from the hajj, which religious Muslims are obliged to make at least once, but also have imposed a Wahabi straitjacket on the pilgrimage. Formerly, Shia and sufic pilgrims observed the hajj with all sorts of individual rituals and visits to shrines and tombs they referred. Now, thanks to the Bin Ladens' demolition and construction projects only a Wahabi version of the pilgrimage is possible.

More information here on the history and the why, another here and here.

Abraj al-Bait is just part of it, but a big part since it is essentially a Saudi abomination and a Saudi profit center to make huge profits of Islam and the pilgrams that revere Mecca as a holy site.

Wahabis destroying the past to ensure the future? Nah, that would just make them cheap little revisionists like the liberals and progressives here in the United States. Would they aim that low?

Ron Paul: Prophet, Soothsayer or Just Drinking Bad Tea

This is from the ancient time of January 2007 and Ron Paul, like his buddies at antiwar.com, nailed it in a follow up speech. He nailed it if you live in the alternative world of Reid, Pelosi, Schumer and Justin Raimondo, IOW, you haven't any vision except that which shapes your own little world and those who buy into it.

The Irrelevance of Military Victory
by Rep. Ron Paul
January 16, 2007

A military victory in Iraq is unattainable, just as it was in the Vietnam
War.

Losers love this analogy except when you bring up that Congress (Democrats) caused millions to be murdered when they cut funding to the free government of South Vietnam that we had left unprotected.

At the close of the Vietnam War in 1975, a telling conversation took place
between an NVA colonel named Tu and an American colonel named Harry Summers. Col. Summers reportedly said, "You never beat us on the battlefield." Tu
replied, "That may be so, but it is also irrelevant." It is likewise irrelevant
to seek military victory in Iraq.

Irrelevant? Yes, it was. Colonel Tu knew our government and Congress better than we did because he studied us. If we follow your advice, now we can have millions more murdered in the middle east and Iraq, just like your kind accomplished with the aid of Colonel Tu and his compatriots.

As conditions deteriorate in Iraq, the American people are told more blood must
be spilled to achieve just such a military victory. Twenty thousand additional
troops and another $100 billion are needed for a "surge." Yet the people remain
rightfully skeptical.

Yep, conditions have deteriorated. No improvement any where. Just ask Pelosi and Reid.

Though we've been in Iraq nearly four years, the meager goal today simply is to
secure Baghdad. This hardly shows that the mission is even partly
accomplished.

Forget Anbar. Karbala. Diyala. Forget the rest of the country. Only think about Baghdad and what the mainstream press feeds you.

Astonishingly, American taxpayers now will be forced to finance a
multi-billion-dollar jobs program in Iraq. Suddenly the war is about jobs! We
export our manufacturing jobs to Asia, and now we plan to export our welfare
jobs to Iraq – all at the expense of the poor and middle class here at home.

Huh? Ron, don’t cut and paste between speech templates in the future. You only confuse yourself.

Plans are being made to become more ruthless in achieving stability
in Iraq. It appears Moqtada al-Sadr will be on the receiving end of our military
efforts, despite his overwhelming support among large segments of the Iraqi
people.

Yep, good call. Pacification, negotiation and encouragement is just plain ruthless.

It's interesting to note that one excuse given for our failure is leveled at the
Iraqis themselves. They have not done enough, we're told, and are difficult to
train.

Yet no one complains that Mahdi or Kurdish militias or the Badr
Brigade (the real Iraq government, not our appointed government) are not
well-trained. Our problems obviously have nothing to do with training Iraqis to
fight, but instead with loyalties and motivations.

I’m confused here, what election did you see Mr. Paul? When was your election voting the Badr Brigade into power held? We must have missed it. BTW Ron. Do you want troops out of Iraq now leaving those who believed in us in the lurch or do you want better training for Iraqi forces. Make up your mind.

We claim to be spreading democracy in Iraq, but Sadr has far more democratic
support with the majority Shi'ites than our troops enjoy. The problem is not a
lack of democratic consensus; it is the antipathy toward our presence among most
Iraqis.

Antipathy? Not on the part of Iraqis, especially not among the 100,000s Iraqis returning to Iraq weekly. Sadr has far more democratic support? Again, which election do you speak of? Was it on a different channel or different plane?

In real estate, the three important considerations are location, location,
location In Iraq, the three conditions are occupation, occupation, occupation.
Nothing can improve in Iraq until we understand that our occupation is the
primary source of the chaos and killing. We are a foreign occupying force,
strongly resented by the majority of Iraq's citizens.

Thanks for the real estate lesson, but is occupation (you know just like a hostile force does) the same of assistance and encouragement for a people to become free and live in a democracy while working with them to expel those murdering and maiming in the name of religion? Will this increase the value of property?

Our inability to adapt to the tactics of 4th generation warfare compounds our
military failure. Unless we understand this, even doubling our troop strength
will not solve the problems created by our occupation.

Yeah, Patraeus is a doofus, unlike you.

The talk of a troop surge and jobs program in Iraq only distracts Americans from
the very real possibility of an attack on Iran. Our growing naval presence in
the region and our harsh rhetoric toward Iran are unsettling. Securing the Horn
of Africa and sending Ethiopian troops into Somalia do not bode well for world
peace. Yet these developments are almost totally ignored by Congress.

Congress doesn’t need Bush conquering the whole world single-handed to confuse and distract you guys. Congress couldn’t find its own butt with both hands and directions.

Rumors are flying about when, not if, Iran will be bombed by either Israel or
the U.S. – possibly with nuclear weapons. Our CIA says Iran is 10 years away
from producing a nuclear bomb and has no delivery system, but this does not
impede our plans to keep "everything on the table" when dealing with Iran.

Don’t you just wish those damned Jews would quit running our military-industrial strength government? It’s our country you Jews. Shoo. Go away.

We should remember that Iran, like Iraq, is a third-world nation without a
significant military. Nothing in history hints that she is likely to invade a
neighboring country, let alone do anything to America or Israel. I am concerned,
however, that a contrived Gulf of Tonkin-type incident may occur to gain popular
support for an attack on Iran.

You’re right Ron. Iran never mentioned wiping Israel off the map and killing all the Jews and other infidels while in the Gulf of Tonkin. You got us there. Iran is just a puppy dog waiting to be given a loving pet.

Even if such an attack is carried out by Israel over U.S. objections, we will be
politically and morally culpable since we provided the weapons and dollars to
make it possible.

I never thought of this! It’s just like I used to tell my kids, “You’re just as much to blame. You encouraged your sister. Go sit in the corner.” Question, if Israel is running our country how is our country going to order Israel not to do this, but do that? Oh, those crafty neocons.

Let's hope I'm wrong about this one.

You were. Get some new tea leaves.

Islam/Muslims; Fascists, Dupes and Manipulators

First, this is about the innocent naming of a teddy bear. The British teacher appears to have knowledge of Islam, but felt there was no problem. This means a non-Muslim or infidel, which is the word that gets Islamofascists all excited in wrong ways, could be beaten or murdered for a mistake. That's not a religion, it's a recipe for a sadomasochistic abattoir of lust violence marketed as religion.

Second, this is about a government manipulating a population of citizens into prostituting their religion to make a political statement.

How sad is that.

Teacher Hidden As Sudan Mob Urges Death
Chants of "Kill her!" and "No tolerance: Execution!" rang out as hundreds of police in riot gear stood by, keeping the crowd contained but not moving against the rally.

Protesters dismissed Gibbons' claims that she didn't mean to insult the prophet.

"It is a premeditated action, and this unbeliever thinks that she can fool us?" said Yassin
Mubarak, a young dreadlocked man swathed in green and carrying a sword. "What she did requires her life to be taken."

Several hundred protesters marched to Unity High School, where Gibbons worked, and
chanted outside briefly before heading toward the nearby British Embassy. They were stopped by security forces two blocks from the embassy. The protest dispersed after an hour.

"I would like to tell the whole world that what happened here from this English teacher is not acceptable to us," said a protester, Sheikh Nasser Abu Shamah.

There was no overt sign that the government organized the protest, but such a public rally could not have taken place without at least official assent.

Gibbons was sentenced Thursday to 15 days in jail and deportation for insulting Islam with the naming of the teddy bear, which was part of a class project for her 7-year-old students at the private school.

There are those that believe she should be murdered, those that chant murder just because and then there is a government that manipulates them all. Really, again, how sad is that?

For The Modern Nomad, The Muslim Car

Malaysia firm's 'Muslim car' plan

The time is right. The design is right. Caravans can now effortlessly move from oasis to oasis. There is even room for prayer rugs when enroute.






It even has a special Mecca compass. No doubt modeled after Captain Jack Sparrow's.

If you want the real story, go to the article. Competition is killing Malaysia's Proton so they're looking for new markets.

Vatican 1 - ? 0

Bloodthirsty Liberal

Can’t argue with this—happy to see His Holiness is reading Mark
Steyn—but what does the head office propose to do about it?

Once, the heads of European nations listened to the Pope, but now they've gotten too smart for their britches burkas.

I'm seeing a head-britches connection being covered up by burkas Political Correctness, but that's just me.

The Vatican is winning, but against who?

Any Color Model-T You Want As Long As It Is Black

Tolerance is a virtue in Muslim societies as long as you agree with them 100%. Otherwise you're burnt pork.

Via Crusader Rabbit

Looking for Diversity? You won't find any here!

Saudi Arabia - Conversion by a Muslim to another religion is
punishable by death. Bibles are illegal. Churches are illegal. Easter
celebrations are illegal. It is punishable by death for a non-mulsim to enter
the “holy” muslim cities of Medina and Mecca.

Go read the rest of above at Fortress Australia where there is a wrap up of laws concerning Christianity. It isn't good.

Oil For Blood In The Middle East

For years we have heard delightful people scream "No blood for oil" or some some such political ditty.

I believe we are in Afghanistan and Iraq for many reasons and the stability of our economy is part of that and oil is part of our economy. Oil is a substance with which a despot like Saddam could use to blackmail or bring governments down.

Question to our friends across the aisle:

Do you want terrorists or terrorist states such as Iran controlling Iraq's oil fields to pursue more terror on innocent people?

"They are bastards"

First step is working in that followers of Islam are turning on the Islamofascists.

The man who might save Iraq

He is a former Sunni Arab mujahid from Ramadi who until recently was
fighting the US occupation. He has only a secondary education and
is married with two wives. Now he is praised even by urban, secular, highly
educated Shi'ites as a "conscious man", or "the kind of man we need now in
Iraq". Sheikh Abdul Satter Abu Risha is the leader of the Anbar Sovereignty
Council, a powerful coalition of Anbar tribes, including at least 200 sheikhs,
that is fighting the Salafi jihadis of al-Qaeda in Iraq/the Islamic
Emirate of Iraq in the volatile province.

Abu Risha set up the council after his father and two brothers were killed
by al-Qaeda's extreme methods last autumn. In an exclusive telephone interview
with Asia Times Online, he stated, unambiguously, that al-Qaeda "has abused our
traditions and generosity" and, he alleged, they even "take drugs" - a mortal
sin in conservative Islam.

Sheikh Ali Hattan al-Suleiman, also from the council, was even more direct:
"I'd like to see an al-Qaeda bomber e-mail me or telephone me and talk about his
education. They just came here with money. They gave money to the unemployed.
They are not Iraqis - only Arabs. They are bastards. And the people who follow
them are also bastards."

Abu Risha totally dismissed rumors that the Anbar council is forcing
families in the region to give their sons to the cause, or is engaged in summary
execution of captured jihadis. "We only accept volunteers. And we work by
ourselves, like a team, by shifts. When we arrest people from al-Qaeda or Iraqis
working for al-Qaeda, we take them to the Iraqi Army or the Ministry of
Interior."

I believe that freedom and democracy will work in Iraq and Afghanistan. Why? The Iraqis and Afghanis are good people and they're smart.

To those that say democracy cannot work there, I ask them to explain the 180 degree turn the people of Germany, Japan and now Turkey have made. A little over 60 years ago the Japanese people pledged complete fealty to their emperor who was their god.

If kos is to be believed, half of the people in America are too stupid to think, but freedom and democracy have done pretty well here.

HT to Dinah Lord. She is definately smart enough for freedom!

Things You Can't Do in Islam Part IV

A continuing guide to diet in Islam.

Peacock is okay.

Eating bat is not.