Bush Will Not Back DownThe State of the Union Address tonight
offered some clues for those who are wondering whether Bush will back down in response to Hamas, or Iran:
... the leaders of Hamas must recognize Israel, disarm, reject terrorism, and work for lasting peace. The same is true of Iran, a nation now held hostage by a small clerical elite that is isolating and repressing its people. The regime in that country sponsors terrorists in the Palestinian territories and in Lebanon and that must come to an end. The Iranian government is defying the world with its nuclear ambitions and the nations of the world must not permit the Iranian regime to gain nuclear weapons. America will continue to rally the world to confront these threats. And tonight, let me speak directly to the citizens of Iran: America respects you, and we respect your country. We respect your right to choose your own future and win your own freedom. And our Nation hopes one day to be the closest of friends with a free and democratic Iran.
The Thin White Cat
Blue Scarf RevolutionTruePeers, of YARGB, and Dag, of No Dhimmitude, are promoting
the Blue Scarf Revolution:
This Thursday at 7 pm local time, I will be meeting Dag of the No Dhimmitude blog, for a discussion of free speech, multiculturalism, and Islam, at a McDonald's restaurant at Main and Terminal in Vancouver, British Columbia (the McDonald's on the southwest corner, not the one across the street in the train station). Any Flares readers in the area are welcome and encouraged to attend.Thanks to Dag's blogging and to the Revolution Bleue movement in France that has emerged in response to elite media and government crack downs on Republican free speech, in the wake of the recent riots and the more general desire in many western countries to ban anti-Islamic and other forms of politically-incorrect speech (on this see, for example, Wretchard's recent post), there will be people meeting around the world in McDonald's restaurants and wearing blue scarves to identify each other and to show sympathy with those in France who are wearing blue scarves in public opposition to their present regime.While we Canadians are yet unsure if we share fully in the goals of the French blue scarves - a recent anti-Masonic comment at their blog raised eyebrows because of the proximity of anti-Masonic and antisemitic rhetoric historically... but Freemasonry in France is a frankly political and anti-clerical movement, perhaps deserving some criticism, we don't know - it strikes us as nonetheless important for westerners to get out in public and find their voices in face of the various postmodern ideologies that would limit speech in the name of the supposed victims of free speech. And it is important for people to discuss this issue in terms of the ongoing conflict between the west and Islam - or Islamic radicalism, if you prefer. What, for example, is the duty of western men and women to the Islamic women who are forced (in our opinion) to wear extreme forms of head covering, like the Burka, in our westetern cities, a symbol of their more general oppression under Islam and related forms of family life? How do we contest the multicultural ideolgies that would defend "the choice" to wear the burka, as a "right"?This question of defending women enslaved by religion, family, and multicultural ideology is the specific topic for our meeting this Thursday. If you cannot join us, have a look at Dag's blog - especially his archives for last week - to gain some sense of the larger blue scarf movement and consider organizing a meeting at your local McDonald's. Just get the word out in the blogosphere when you will be at McDonald's, and see if any blue scarves show up. It worked for Dag.Dag chose McDonald's as our meeting place, not simply because they are ubiquitous and you can sit for hours with a cup of coffee. In their ubiquity McDonald's also symbolize a western secular alternative to the sacred meeting places of the Islamic world. And because the target of our discussions is not simply Islamic radicalism, but its present tactical marriage with imperialistic western multiculturalism, McDonald's is the perfect symbol since it is so often a scandal for the elitist anti-American leftists who know what is best for all of us and who would restrict our free speech and stomachs accordingly. Of course, it is when the mouths are closed that violence is most certain, and the present moves to restrict free speech are sure to reduce the security of Muslims in the west, not strengthen it. Because we are not against Muslims as people (we are out to love and defend the better side of humanity in all of us) but simply want a venue to meet and criticize aspects of both Islamic religion and postmodern western ideologies, we expect and will welcome into our meetings people of all faiths and backgrounds.UPDATE, Feb. 1, 3:30 GMT: Dag's blog is currently undergoing some trouble. It's not loading properly and he thinks he may be under some kind of attack. Please try the link later.
Google On Its KneesFrom Debra Saunders in
Town Hall:
Google gives life to the Eric Hoffer observation, "People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them."
Google painted itself as heroic in refusing to help the U.S. Department of Justice's efforts to reinstate a 1998 federal Child Online Protection Act, then revealed that it was going to help the Chinese government suppress free speech. That sort of goes against the company's informal corporate motto, "Don't be evil."Read the rest.
Apparently,
Google is not doing so well on the stock market either:
A sudden chill fell on Google's red-hot share price on Tuesday as the stock market's latest internet darling unveiled earnings that for the first time failed to far exceed Wall Street expectations. The search engine company's shares slumped by more than 16 per cent in after-hours trading, wiping more than $20bn from its stock market value.
IAEA Says Iran In Possession Of Nuclear Weapons BlueprintsWell, maybe El-Baradei isn't working for the other side after all. It seems the IAEA is getting ready to report to the UN that
Iran obtained nuclear weapons blueprints on the black market:
VIENNA, Austria - The U.N. nuclear watchdog agency said in a report Tuesday that Iran obtained documents and drawings on the black market that serve no other purpose than to make an atomic warhead. Tehran warned of an "end of diplomacy" if plans to refer it to the U.N. Security Council are carried out.Iran's top nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani, said a move to the council would "be unconstructive and the end of diplomacy.""We will have to start all nuclear work that has been voluntarily suspended," Larijani said, though he stopped short of saying explicitly that Iran will restart its uranium enrichment program.The findings about the design obtained by Iran on the black market were contained in a confidential report for presentation to the 35-nation IAEA board and provided in full to The Associated Press.The four-page report also criticized Iran for refusing to provide interviews with at least one nuclear scientist linked to the military and dismissing requests for information on "tests related to high explosives and the design of a missile re-entry vehicle, all of which could have a military nuclear dimension."In the brief report obtained Tuesday, however, the agency said bluntly that the 15 pages of text and drawings showing how to cast fissile uranium into metal were "related to the fabrication of nuclear weapon components." Asked about the finding, a senior diplomat close to the IAEA declined to elaborate but emphasized that the documents had no other use. He demanded anonymity in exchange for discussing confidential information.
Citgo Owned By VenezuelaDiscuss among yourselves:
The company is owned by PDV America, Inc., an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary of Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A., the national oil company of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
Clinton Administration Knew Iran Had Nuclear Weapons Program In 2000I think Bill Clinton was just a little too busy to have done anything about the problem.James Risen's book State of War is getting a lot of attention because of its criticism of the Bush Administration. But, according to this Michael Ledeen article, the book also contains the bombshell that
the CIA and the Clinton Administration knew Iran had a nuclear weapons program way back in year 2000.
Note that this article is in the form of an imagined conversation with a security expert friend:
JJA: ... the really amazing part is that Risen doesn’t even notice the truly horrible aspects of his own story. He doesn’t have the wit or the energy to think half a step beyond the tale he’s been told.ML: Okay, let’s take them in order. The first one dates back to Clinton. It’s about an operation called "Merlin," and consisted of feeding doctored information about the design of nuclear weapons to the mullahs via a Soviet scientist who had defected "years earlier" to the United States. The concept was to get the Iranians to use the snafued version in their bombs so that they would fizzle instead of explode.JJA: Right. We’ve been doing such things for years, and for good reason. If you know that your enemies are trying to steal your blueprints, or buy good weapons on the clandestine market, you’re well-advised to try to get them to steal or buy things that won’t work, instead of running around trying to plug all the cracks in the dyke. Nothing wrong with the concept.\ML: Except that we never did it with nuclear stuff before, did we? And Risen’s got expert testimony that the Iranians could easily have sorted out the good parts of the blueprints from the disinformation, so that in the end we would have actually helped them.JJA: Yes, I saw that. You can always get somebody to say that any given idea is idiotic. But you’d need to know a lot more than Risen knows to be able to judge it, in this specific case. And that points us to the really interesting question, the one that Risen doesn’t bother to ask, let alone answer.ML: I’m following you. If we knew enough — in 2000, mind you — to be able to design an effective disinformation program, then...JJA: Then (he started shouting in that gravelly voice of his) THEY KNEW THE IRANIANS HAD A NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROGRAM SIX YEARS AGO.
Sometimes You Just Gotta Love Your EnemyOne good thing about Hamas is
the clarity they provide to the supposedly confused Middle East Conflict. Here are the words of Hamas leader Mahmoud Zahar, spoken on Al-Manar TV the other day:
"Palestine means Palestine in its Entirety - From the [Mediterranean] Sea to the [Jordan] River... We Cannot Give Up a Single Inch of it... Why Should We Recognize Condoleezza Rice... or Israel's Right to Exist?"Like I always say, you gotta love your enemies when they tell the truth. Thanks, Mahmoud.
Hamas' Goal:The GlobalCaliphateIt would seem that Hamas is only concerned with "the plight of the Palestinian people." But, this isn't true. The overarching goal of Hamas is the same as Al Qaeda;
the establishment of a a global Caliphate, so that Islam can dominate and govern the entire world under Sharia:
... HAMAS, the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB), is reaping the fruits of its efforts over the last six decades. It was established in Palestine in 1936 - not in 1987, as most mistakenly think. Since then, the movement, according to Abu Marzuk, has carried out its political, social agenda, including Dawa (Prosetylization) and Jihad.
Both the MB and Hamas are exploiting the U.S. call for democratization in the Middle East, using free elections to gain legitimate political power. Indeed, in December 2005, the MB won 88 seats in the 454-member Egyptian Parliament. This is while neither organization has changed its charter, or is likely to do so.
Among the many permanent, deleterious features of Shari’a is a system that subjugates and oppresses non-Muslims. It requires non-Muslims to convert to Islam or pay the jizya tax, a form of extortion, creating a “contract” (dhimma) that “guarantees” the infidels' lives and possessions. In a recent essay Dr. Andrew Bostom quotes the Arabic lexicographer, E.W. Lane, who bluntly calls the tax on “free non-Muslim subjects …compensation for not being slain.”
The system's “obligations” institutionalize discrimination (dhimmitude) that targets Jews and Christians only. Others, such Hindus, and Buddhists have a choice to convert or to be slaughtered. These regulations prohibit them from possessing arms, ringing church bells, testifying in courts, building and restoring houses of worship while restricting many other civil rights as well. Like Nazi regulations, the Shari’a also require non-Muslims to wear special, identifying clothes. These key features of the Shari’a and Islamic ideology as called for by the MB and HAMAS, are political, not merely religious.
The spiritual leader of Hamas, the late Ahmad Yassin said: "The 21st century is the century of Islam," and his successor Mahmoud Zahar says, "Israel will disappear and after it the US." With its recent victory, HAMAS seems to be closer to reaching this goal.
Compare Hamas statements and its charter to those of al-Qaeda, Hizbullah and other Islamist organizations. All strive to establish a caliphate encircling the globe. Al-Qaeda says: "We will turn the White House and the British parliament into mosques," as documented by Jonathan Dahoah Halevi, director of Orient Research Group in Toronto.
HAMAS’ victory, therefore, should be seen as an important realization of the MB agenda, not merely as a localized development. In Jordan, the Muslim Brotherhood “is demanding "true democracy" from the Jordanian king in order to win in elections there,“ while the efforts to impose the Islamist agenda are making strides in Europe.
Denmark, for example, has in the last few years become a host country for various Muslim radical groups, mostly offshoots of the Muslim Brotherhood. The most prominent of these is Hizb ut-Tahrir. Like HAMAS, members of Hizb ut-Tahrir have been connected with the recruitment of fighters for the Taliban, as well as membership in the al-Qaeda terrorist networks. Like HAMAS, they too, under the banner of democracy, are allowed to pursue their Islamofacist agenda
According to Jonathan Dahoah Halevi, director of Orient research Group in Toronto, who follows Islamist organizations, they view Denmark as an easy target for the spreading of Islam, a springboard from which to renew the Muslim occupation of Europe. As Sheikh Issam Amayra warned in a recent sermon: "Three percent of the Muslims in Denmark constitute a threat to the future of the kingdom of Denmark. …our Danish brothers will manage to bring Islam to all the homes of the Danish citizens. Allah will grant them the victory in their country in order to raise the Caliphate in Denmark. Afterwards the citizens of the Caliphate (which will be raised in Denmark) will wage war on Oslo, [and] they will fight their neighboring Scandinavian countries in order to join their lands to the territory of the Caliphate. Then they will wage a holy war and spread the teachings of Islam to the rest of Europe, until they reach the original city of Medina.”
Given the global aspirations of these MB splinter groups and the Islamist nature of their agenda, it seems that the West’s unwillingness to recognize their threat to our democracy will enable them to exploit it until those who survive, will have to do so under the MB’s inspired Caliphate.If you don't believe that the goal of Islamists is world domination then check this out: Just this morning the Spain Herald brought the news that
Hamas is demanding the return of Seville to the world of Islam.
Europe And America United In Condemnation Of HamasFor now:
The US and the European Union, often at odds over Middle East policy, now appear united in their stance: If it wants the world's assistance, Hamas must change.Germany's new chancellor, Angela Merkel, presented that message during a visit here Monday. She asked Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, leader of ousted Fatah, to press Hamas to forswear violence and recognize Israel."As a president, he should urge Hamas to respect certain principles," Ms. Merkel said. If Hamas holds to its hallmarks - calling for Israel's destruction and using suicide bombers - the EU would be unable to continue funding the PA, she said.But in a statement Monday, the EU backed away from saying it would completely cut funding to a government led by the militant group. EU foreign ministers said they expected the new Palestinian Legislative Council to back the creation of a government "committed to a peaceful and negotiated solution of the conflict with Israel.... On this basis the EU stands ready to continue to support Palestinian economic development and democratic state-building."Since last week's election, in which Hamas took a remarkable 76 out of 132 seats, the militia-cum-political party has been sending mixed messages.Analysts here have long delineated differences that are developing within the organization, between extremists and the more moderate forces in Hamas. What's more, the message from the top Hamas figures in the West Bank and Gaza differs from the tone being struck by the "outside," the Hamas spokesmen living abroad, primarily in Damascus, Syria.Ismail Haniyeh, the No. 1 on Hamas's electoral list in Gaza, called on foreign donors Monday to continue to their aid."We confirm to you this income will be used to pay the salaries of [government] employees and fund daily running costs and infrastructure. You can confirm this through a mechanism that can be agreed upon," Mr. Haniyeh told reporters. "We call on you to understand the priorities of our Palestinian people at this stage and continue the spiritual and financial support in order to push the region toward stability rather than pressure and tension."Haniyeh asked the EU to understand the "Palestinian reality" and not ask Hamas to disarm. Doing so would "increase the suffering of our people who are looking for freedom, right of [refugee] return, and independence," he said.In Damascus, where the "outside" leadership is based, the Hamas message has struck a more belligerent tone. There, top Hamas spokesman Khaled Meshal said over the weekend that Hamas would look to form its own army now that it is in power.In an interview aired on Al Arabiya television, another Hamas official, Mohammed Nazzal, said that cutting off funds would amount to punishment of the Palestinian people; another Hamas official called it blackmail."If the European Union countries and the American administration see this as a means that could lead to a change in Hamas's strategic position, then they are dreaming and are mistaken. Hamas will never accept that," Mr. Nazzal said.One proposal being floated is the possibility of Hamas appointing a moderate prime minister who is sympathetic to Hamas, but not a member of Hamas itself. Amid the controversy, many Palestinians have grown critical of US and European demands that Hamas change its position vis-à-vis Israel. They point out that the region has been under pressure to democratize, in particular by the Bush administration. "Aid to the Palestinian Authority is aid to the Palestinian people: either they are still in need of this aid or not, they should not be subject to hardship because of whom they elect," says Mustafa Abu-Sway, a professor of Islamic Studies at Al Quds University in East Jerusalem. "When we look at the region, we see that if there are open and free elections in all these countries, I'm sure that Islamists will rise to power in most if not all of them," he adds. "This is where people are casting their votes, and so you can't ignore the will of those people and not agree to deal with their leaders."I'm weary of this whole Democracy meme.
Let's be clear, when we say Democracy, we do not mean the people can vote in Hitler. The problem is we haven't been clear on what we mean by Democracy. To Westerners a Democracy means the people govern themselves through the vote, yes. But, more specifically, a Democracy is a Democratic Republic, which is a form of government which has a charter establishing human rights for its people.
Sharia, Jihad, and Burqas are all violations of human rights.
The fact that we have not been clear about this has led to all sorts of confusion, and may lead to the loss of what little Democracy has been established in Iraq and Afghanistan.
What the people have created in Gaza is not a Democracy, but is, instead, a sort of BDSM dungeon posing as a government.
The sooner our leaders make clear the distinction between a Democratic Republic, and the Muslim mob rule of Palestine, the better.
Bin Laden's Truce Offer Was A WarningWhen Bin Laden offered a truce a week or so back, my thoughts on his offer were that it was a kind of warning. Well, it seems I was likely correct.
Zawahiri seems to confirm so in his latest video:
"The war will be transferred to Bush's soil," al-Zawahiri warns."The lion of Islam, Sheik Osama bin Laden, may God protect him, offered you a decent exit from your dilemma. But your leaders, who are keen to accumulate wealth, insist on throwing you in battles and killing your souls in Iraq and Afghanistan and – God willing – on your own land."Meanwhile,
Always On Watch says that ever since the day Chirac issued his warning that France would use nukes in response to any terrorist attack, the Washington D.C. area has been undergoing air-raid drills for the first time since the Cuban Missile Crisis. In addition, AOW says jets flying overhead have been keeping her up at night.
Is something big in the works?
NORAD is preparing, just in case, for an attack at the Super Bowl this Sunday.
Iran To Face Security CouncilIt looks like
Iran will be sanctioned:
The United States and other permanent members of the U.N. Security Council agreed Tuesday that Iran should be hauled before that powerful body over its disputed nuclear program.
China and Russia, longtime allies and trading partners of Iran, signed on to a statement that calls on the U.N. nuclear watchdog to transfer the Iran dossier to the Security Council, which could impose sanctions or take other harsh action.
Foreign ministers from those nations, plus the United States, Britain and France, also said the Security Council should wait until March to take up the Iran case, after a formal report on Tehran's activities from the watchdog agency.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and other foreign ministers discussed Iran at a private dinner at the home of British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw. After the four-hour meeting, which spilled over into the early hours Tuesday, a joint statement called on the International Atomic Energy Agency to report the Iran case when it meets in Vienna on Thursday.
Foreign ministers from Germany and the European Union also attended the dinner and agreed to what amounted to a compromise _ take the case to the Security Council but allow a short breather before the council must undertake what could be a divisive debate.
The group agreed that the IAEA "should report to the Security Council its decision on the steps required of Iran, and should also report to the Security Council all IAEA reports as resolutions as adopted relating to this issue," a statement from the group said.
The IAEA has already found Iran in violation of nuclear obligations and issued a stern warning to Tehran in September. Thursday's vote would be the next step, one long sought by the United States.
It is still not clear how Russia and China would vote if the questions of sanctions came before the Security Council. It is also not clear that the United States will win the broad international consensus it seeks when the IAEA votes.
In other news, the London Telegraph is reporting that
Iran has spies infiltrating the IAEA:
Iran has formed a top secret team of nuclear specialists to infiltrate the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna, the UN-sponsored body that monitors its nuclear programme, The Daily Telegraph has been told.
Its target is the IAEA’s safeguards division and its aim is to obtain information on the work of IAEA inspectors so that Iran can conceal the more sensitive areas of its nuclear research, according to information recently received by western intelligence. ...
The operation to target the IAEA is being run by Hosein Afarideh, the former head of the Iranian parliament’s energy committee. Mr Afarideh, reported to have close links with Iran’s ministry of intelligence, is in regular contact with a team of Iranian nuclear engineers seconded to work at the IAEA’s Vienna headquarters. According to western intelligence reports, Mr Afarideh heads a three-man team at the headquarters of the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran in Teheran, to prevent more embarrassing disclosures about its nuclear facilities. ...
As a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Iran is entitled to full access to the IAEA for help with the development of its nuclear programme, so long as it is purely for peaceful purposes.
But western intelligence officials believe that the Iranians are now taking advantage of their access to the IAEA to spy on its inspection procedures so that they can conceal sensitive areas of their nuclear operations from the outside world.I wonder if one of the spies is named Mohammed El-Baradei?
European Union Begs Hamas: Please Let Us Give You MoneyWe saw German President stand strong yesterday, but the leaders of the EU are looking for any little loophole they can find to
continue giving Hamas money to kill Jews:
The European Union gave Hamas more time to renounce terror and accept Israel's right to exist. A Dutch leader put it in a time frame. From Bloomberg:
"We still have three or four weeks to make up our minds,'' Dutch Foreign Minister Bernard Bot said. "Once people are in power, maybe they change their position.''And, they also said this:
"Europe always has said that it will not do business with a regime that intends to eliminate another country and that favors terrorist attacks.''As Roger Simon points out, such concerns have not put a stop to Europe's dealings with Ahmadinejad.
Calling All InfidelsDraw cartoons, or artistic drawing of Mohammed. You don't need to be mean, or pornographic. Just draw him in everyday situations, like standing in line at Wal-Mart, or whatever comes to your mind.
Leave me a link here, or at
Infidel Bloggers Alliance, so we can post them, or just post them on your own, if you have a blog.
This should be the new and omnipresent meme of the blogosphere.
When The Stars Go BlueSong by Ryan Adams
Dancin' out on 7th Street
Dancin' where the evening fell
Dancin' in your wooden shoes
In a wedding gown
Are you happy now?
Where do you go when you're lonely
Where do you go when you're blue
Where do you go when you're lonely
I'll follow you
When the stars go blue
Laughing with your pretty mouth
Laughing with your broken eyes
Laughing with your lover's tongue
In a lullaby
Where do you go when you're lonely
Where do you go when you're blue
Where do you go when you're lonely
I'll follow you
When the stars go blue
The stars go blue, stars go blue
Mohammed CartoonGo see
the pretty picture Thomas the Wraith drew of Mohammed.
In light of the worldwide Muslim freakout because over some stupid cartoons of Mohammed, published in the Danish paper Jyllands-Posten, Thomas the Wraith is calling on all bloggers, with any artistic skill whatsoever, to also draw some nice little pictures of Mohammed.
Call it an Infidel rebellion if you will.
You don't have to do anything obscene, or even meanspirited. Just draw a simple picture, and watch them dance.
I'll have one ready in the next couple of days. I'm working on an idea. You will likey.
German Leader Says EU Can Not Fund HamasGerman Chancellor Merkel is
a tough leader:
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The European Union could not fund a Hamas-run Palestinian Authority if it did not renounce violence and recognize Israel, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in Israel on Sunday.
It was the most explicit threat to cut aid from Europe, the biggest donor to the Palestinians, since Islamic militant group Hamas won a shock victory in parliamentary elections last week. The United States has also threatened to block funding.
Hamas, expected to form the new government, has denounced Western threats to cut aid as blackmail and rejected calls to disarm and end its formal commitment to destroy Israel.
"Such a Palestinian Authority cannot be directly supported by money from the EU," said Merkel, standing beside Israel's interim Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in Jerusalem at the start of her first visit to the region.
Diplomatic sources said Merkel consulted other European leaders before the two-day trip. Last year the European Union gave the Palestinian Authority 500 million euros ($615 million), money vital for its survival.
U.S. Secretary of State Rice said she believed the United Nations, the European Union, Russia and other powers involved in the Middle East were "on the same page" -- that funding must not go to Hamas and other groups that advocated destroying Israel.
In Washington, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said Congress would cut funding unless Hamas changed, echoing President George W. Bush's pledge to withhold funds.
"Stopping international donations will not undermine the work of the government," said Hamas spokesman and elected legislator Mushir al-Masri, adding that the militant group could opt to seek government funding from Arab nations.It could be that I am wrong, and Europe really will stand tough against terrorism. I hope so.
Muslim World Wants To Ban Free SpeechThe two main political bodies of the Muslim world want to
ban all criticism of religion:
The Muslim world’s two main political bodies say they are seeking a UN resolution, backed by possible sanctions, to protect religions after the publication in Scandinavia of cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, secretary-general of Organisation of the Islamic Conference, said in Cairo on Sunday that the international body would “ask the UN general assembly to pass a resolution banning attacks on religious beliefs”.
The deputy secretary-general of the Arab League, Ahmed Ben Helli, confirmed that contacts were under way for such a proposal to be made to the UN.
“Consultations are currently taking place at the highest level between Arab countries and the OIC to ask the UN to adopt a binding resolution banning contempt of religious beliefs and providing for sanctions to be imposed on contravening countries or institutions,” he said.The world is splitting into two.
Hamas To Impose Sharia LawThis is going to be
the first thing on their to-do list:
JERUSALEM — The incoming Hamas government will move quickly to make Islamic sharia “a source” of law in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and will overhaul the Palestinian education system to separate boys and girls and introduce a more Islamic curriculum, a senior official in the movement said yesterday.
Spelling out the domestic agenda of Hamas for the first time since the group’s stunning victory in a legislative election this week, Sheik Mohammed Abu Teir also said Hamas would not go to foreign donors on bended knee if they withdrew aid to the Palestinian Authority. The armed struggle against Israel will continue as long as Israel continues its occupation of Palestinian lands, he added.
Mr. Abu Teir, who was No. 2 on the Hamas list of candidates for Wednesday’s election, said introducing sharia — a controversial moral and legal code based on the Koran — would be the first act of the new Hamas-controlled Palestinian Legislative Council.
“The No. 1 thing we will do is take sharia as a source for legislation. Sharia has a soul in it and is good for all occasions,” Mr. Abu Teir said in an interview with The Globe and Mail over a lunch of traditional Palestinian dishes supplemented with Coca-Cola. The table was set under photographs of Sheik Ahmed Yassin and Abdel Aziz Rantisi, past Hamas leaders who were assassinated in Israeli air strikes.
He made it clear that one way Hamas planned to encourage the next generation to follow sharia was to revamp the Palestinian education system, separating girls’ and boys’ classes and introducing a more Islamic curriculum.
“We will take such measures because we look at examples in the West, like Sweden. They have the highest level of co-education and the highest level of suicides,” he said. “We would like our children to have a protected environment. We don’t want any distractions for our boys or our girls.”Well, there you go, world. We've got the Taliban all over again. Now, what are we going to do, huh?
I'm hoping that Israel, the first time they are attacked by Hamas, will take it as a declaration of war, and go in and destroy the Palestinian regime. However, I think I am wishing for too much.
Rice: No Mas Por HamasCondoleeza Rice has made it clear that
America will not be giving aid to a government run by Hamas:
LONDON - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Sunday ruled out any American financial aid to a Hamas government in the Palestinian territories and said Washington wants Arab nations and others to cut off money as well. Humanitarian aid to the Palestinians, many of whom are poor and unemployed, is likely on a "case-by-case basis," Rice said. She indicated that the Bush administration would follow through on aid promised to the current, U.S.-backed Palestinian government led by President Mahmoud Abbas."The United States is not prepared to fund an organization that advocates the destruction of Israel, that advocates violence and that refuses its obligations," under an international framework for eventual Mideast peace, Rice said.This sounds good to me. But, it seems, Rice is signalling they are willing to work with Hamas, if they change their charter:
"It is important that Hamas now will have to confront the implications of its covenant if it wishes to govern," Rice said. "That becomes a primary consideration in anything that we do."It seems to me that a change in the Hamas charter would be merely semantic. I don't really know what it would matter. But, one good thing about Hamas is they are honest. I don't think they are going to back down on their "principles."
Extraordinary Times
Letter
To My
Pacifist
Friend
That's J standing next to me, by the way.My best friend in the world is the guy who served as the best man at my wedding. As is so often true with good long-lasting friendships, he and I are, in many ways, opposites. We are both musicians, interested in jazz and experimental music. We are both lovers of the arts, both Christians, both interested in Buddhism, and mythology and literature, but we are also opposites.
One of the biggest differences between he and I is that he is a Pacifist and I am not.
When I was younger, I hung with a lot of College Professors, and people with advanced degrees. One of them, a guy I would call my early mentor in life, tried to convince me to join the Quakers and declare myself a conscientious objector. Even though I was only fifteen at the time, I told him no, and said I couldn't do that, because I was not a Pacifist.
Anyway, yesterday, I was talking to my friend on the phone and surprisingly, he was aware of the Hamas situation, but, he wasn't at all aware that Ahmadinejad had declared that Israel must be wiped off the map. He said that NPR has done broadcasts where they have made it known that the Hamas charter calls for death to the Jews, but, apparently, NPR isn't doing the Ahmadinejad story home with the same vigor.
Well, as you can imagine, a long conversation ensued, in which I informed my friend of some things that must have sounded suspect, considering they aren't on the news all the time. I mean, how can our world be on the brink of nuclear war, and NPR isn't doing the story 24 hours a day?
Color me perplexed.
Anyway, since I was feeding my friend info he hadn't heard before, I told him I would send him links, so that he could make sure I wasn't slanting the story. (I try not to.) So, I spent all morning gathering links and composing an email to him.
Now, that I have sent it off to him, I think it serves as a good summary of the events of the last few months, so I'm going to post it here. I'm also going to call my friend later today and ask him if he will compose a response to it to post here at CUANAS.
The reason I want to do that is because I am fascinated by his Pacifism, in the way that one is fascinated by something one knows they could never attain to. My friend is a truly peaceful person. He has worked in a caring profession pretty much all his adult life. He is a brave person as well. His job takes him into the homes of very troubled people. And, sometimes, they get between him and the door.
He does work that I not only would not do, but could not do.
However, all that being said, while I admire his Pacifism, I also think that he should not apply it to politics, and I have told him so. I have called him out on the question of whether his Pacifism is responsible in the face of evil. To his credit, he has talked with me, and expressed his doubts about his own beliefs, but he has not changed his mind. And, for that, I even have some admiration. Because, I understand that his Pacifism is central to his faith.
Also, to his credit, he is one of the few people of his nature, who I have met, who is willing to change his mind, when confronted with truth. I have found most Pacifists to be among the most dogmatic, and narrow-minded people I have ever met.
So, without further adieu (pardon my French), here's the letter I sent to my friend:
Unfortunately, we are living in very extraordinary times.
Here is an Al Jazeera article about Iran's President calling for Israel to be wiped off the map:
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/15E6BF77-6F91-46EE-A4B5-A3CE0E9957EA.htmMy opinion is the Iranian leader wants to desroy Israel, killing all the Jews. If he succeeds in doing so, that will be six million Jews dead. Interesting, huh?
We are seeing a lot of the events of the thirties repeat themselves in the news today.
Watch in coming weeks, as the leaders of Europe decide that they can deal with Hamas, just as the leaders of Europe decided during the 1930's, that they could deal with Hitler.
Let's see if I am correct.
By the way, the Iranian President is probably delusional as well. Check this out:
http://cuanas.blogspot.com/2005/12/did-i-just-see-green-rays-coming-out.htmlhttp://cuanas.blogspot.com/2005/12/iranian-president-is-so-crazy-even.htmlIran's President is also a Holocaust denier:
http://cuanas.blogspot.com/2005/12/world-is-on-verge-of-change-says-irans.htmlIran's President seems to believe he may be the Islamic Messiah:
http://cuanas.blogspot.com/2005/12/is-beast-rising-from-sea-from-bbc-via.htmlIranian Government officials think through the practical implications of nuclear war against Israel:
http://cuanas.blogspot.com/2005/12/supreme-ayatollah-says-iran-will-win.htmlAs was the case in the 1930 and 40's, the Christian church is on the wrong side of history, in not standing against the Nazis of our time:
http://cuanas.blogspot.com/2005/11/presbyterian-church-salutes-hizbollah.htmlThere was a Nuremberg-like rally in London recently:
http://cuanas.blogspot.com/2005/12/new-nuremberg-rally-in-london-writer.htmlSaudi Arabia does not allow Jews in their country:
http://cuanas.blogspot.com/2005/11/saudi-arabia-judenrein-j-at-justify.htmlHere's an article about how the Middle-East is almost Judenrein (jew-free):
http://cuanas.blogspot.com/2005/12/middle-east-judenrein-like-nazi.htmlRead that carefully, Bob. One thing you ought to know is that when the Jews left Gaza recently, they had to dig up their dead, because the Palestinians don't even want dead Jews in their land.
The Middle East is almost monolithically anti-Semitic:
http://cuanas.blogspot.com/2005/07/100-of-lebanese-say-they-have-very.htmlhttp://cuanas.blogspot.com/2005/09/poll-says-100-of-jordanians-hate-jews.htmlHere's a link to my friend J's blog. He is a guy who lives in England, with whom I started something called the Infidel Bloggers Alliance. We have bloggers all over the world who are working together to educate people about what's happening with anti-Semitism and Jihadism. But, anyway, when you go to J's site, scroll down and look on the left side of the page for "Pictures Islamonazism". Click on the links and you will see photos of Muslims doing the heil hitler salute.
We call this Islamofascism, or Islamic Jihadism. The world needs to know that the Muslim world is going crazy in a way which is very similar to what happened in Germany in the 1930's. We don't need to hate Muslims, but we need to acknowledge the truth and do something about it.
And, by the way, why do we look the other way, while women are treated as slaves in the Islamic world:
http://cuanas.blogspot.com/2005/12/there-yet-not-there-burqa-dehumanizes_09.htmlHere's an article on anti-Semitism and Pacifism:
http://cuanas.blogspot.com/2005/11/anti-semitism-is-inevitable-in.htmlYou know that I believe Pacifism is for peoples spiritual life, not for political life. I respect your right to have a different viewpoint. But, I believe the Iranians are preparing a new Holocaust for the Jews. And, I believe we need to do something about it.
Eurabia Begins To Fall In Line Behind Their MasterNorway is the first Eurabian country to
announce their intent to continue to deal with the PA, even though a major terrorist organization is now the government.
How many other Eurabian countries do you think will follow suit?
IceglowJoe Citizen is a great photographer. He works tirelessly to capture the ineffable in light, color, and shape.
You owe it to yourself to check out his beautiful work every few days.
Yeshua MeshiachKing Of The JewsUPDATEDFrom
Eyes All Around:
Hebrew letters are more than an alphabet to Jewish people. Each letter carries significant numeric value and also interpretive meaning. The first letter of each of the major words in a phrase was dropped down one space and capitalized, which means those four major letters in the phrase “Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews” would be dropped down one space and capitalized. The Hebrew letters that were used in this fashion were YHWH. This was the reason for the anger of the Jews as they gazed at the superscription above the head of Christ."Unlocking the Prophecy Code" by Bryan Cutshall, p118
UPDATED: Reliapundit says this whole thing is bogus. It seems like he's correct:
the yhvh/inri connection in the post is bogus: based on a bad undestaning of hebrew.in hebrew, it would have readYeshua Ha-notzri Moshiach Yisrael.y-h-m-y. not yhvy.this theory from the original post is as tru as the davinci code. IOW: bogus.
The Verdict:Headless In GazaHamas says they will implement Sharia in Gaza (from
the Astute Blogger, with thanks to Islamophobic):
A senior Hamas official told Canada's Globe and Mail on Friday that the new government the group will form will make sharia, or Islamic law, a source of law in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.
He said the government will modify the existing Palestinian education system to institute a more Islamic curriculum, and will separate boys and girls.
The Astute Blogger asks what the world will do when Hamas bans Christians from entering Gaza, making pilgrimages to Bethlehem impossible.
Good question, huh? What if they blow up the Church of the Nativity, the way the Taliban blew up the Buddhist temples?
Shaking In Our BootsYesiree, my knees are a-knockin' and my spurs are a-jinglin'. Iran says they will retaliate with missiles, if we attack them:
TEHERAN - Iran’s Revolutionary Guards chief warned the United States and Britain on Saturday that Iran would retaliate with missiles if attacked, state-run television reported....
“The world knows Iran has a ballistic missile power with a range of 2,000 kilometers (1,300 miles),” Safavi said on state-run television. Israel is within that range.
“We have no intention to invade any country. We will take effective defence measures if attacked,” he said.What will we do?
"If It Became Necessary,I Would Die For The USA,And Israel"The above quote is from Steven Spielberg, spoken in an interview with the German paper, Der Spiegel.
What Spielberg, and many on the Left, don't seem to get is that it has already become necessary for many people to have died for America and Israel, because terrorist organizations, supported by state-sponsors, have declared war on us.
Read the labyrinthine nuance,
if you dare.
Good God.
DepressionAndThe BeastThomas The Wraith, one of the finest writers in the blogosphere,
writes of his deep concern that we are losing this war:
Things are bad. Very bad. Hamas. Iran. Suicide threats against Denmark. Riots and assaults in Australia. The inevitability of an attack in Italy. A Syrian puppet of a near-nuclear Persia.
And Europe ... poor sad Europe. If America is the progeny of European culture, then we have reached a point where Europe is our invalid grandparent, bedridden and incapacitated.
I don't know any more than you do. This is a purely emotional post, not based on evidence or logic or anything tangible I can point to or use as a basis for an argument. But I feel that we are due for bad things. We here in the US have had four and a half years without a domestic attack. I'm sure that some of that is due to our security services but let's be honest, we've gotten lucky. The Enemy is patient and thorough. They are working, planning, preparing. We are overdue and unready.
But it isn't the domestic threat that disturbs me. I'm not worried by the situation here or there or in any one particular place. What haunts me is the big picture; the global impression that the Enemy is on the move while we stick our fingers in our ears and lie to ourselves that islam means peace and that it's been hijacked by an extremist fringe; the general sense that Western civilization is brittle; that we will earn our redemption only through unimagined suffering; that we will defeat the Enemy only by losing a part of what we cherish.I think many of us are probably feeling this way these days. I know that I am.
We are surrounded on all sides; militarily, economically, and ideologically. And yes, we are sticking our fingers in our ears and closing our eyes. But, here's the thing, there are only two ways we can lose this war;
1) through a slow process of gradual dhimmification
or
2) if the terrorists are able to aquire many, many small nukes AND manage to smuggle them into the America.
I honestly don't think the enemy is wise enough to sit back and slowly dhimmify us. I think that as always happens with evil people, they will get greedy, and they will jump the gun.
So, the question is, can our enemies aquire enough small nukes to completely annihilate America, and cause us to not retaliate with nukes on the entire Middle East?
Because, you can be assured that there is a military plan in place on our part that, if we are attacked in such a way that the result will be the proverbial "Middle-East turned to glass." And, you can be assured that there are many American generals who are willing to do it.
Human nature does not change. Ethnic and cultural nature, being expressions of human nature, do not change very quickly. The appearence of change is due to ideological fads. Underneath our exterior of human rights and Democracy, the West is just as animalistic as it always has been. We are barbaric people. We will tear these peoples skulls from their bodies with our bare hands, if we have to.
So, the question becomes, are we going to allow the beast of depression to eat us from the inside, or, are we going to manifest the beast within us, and eat the hearts out of the chests of our enemies. We certainly have enough to fight for.
Keep up the fight, and don't let the bastards get you down. Because, it is your choice.
Hamas Gets ItSharon's policy of disengagement is brilliant, in my opinion, because it forces the Palestinians to become a state and take care of themselves. Truth is, up to now, they have not accepted that responsibility. However, it seems that
Hamas gets it:
DAMASCUS (Reuters) - The Islamic militant group Hamas was ready to merge armed factions including its military wing to form an army to defend the Palestinian people, a senior Hamas leader said on Saturday.
"We are willing to form an army like every country ... an army to defend our people against aggression," Hamas politburo chief Khaled Meshaal told a news conference in Damascus after the group swept Palestinian parliamentary elections.I'm sure you thought the title to this post was ironic. Well, in a way, it is. However, I really do mean it at the same time. (How's that for irony?)
Hamas has declared Gaza a Palestinian state.
After all, that's what it is.
Fatah never got that. Fatah kept saying we need this. We need that. And, yes, I am sure the Palestinians need many things, but they need to learn to provide those things for themselves. Just like they will provide themsevles, apparently, with their own army.
Good, build an army. Build some roads. Build some hospitals and schools. Build a friggin' country, damn it.
Hamas is the government of the Palestinian state. It's their responsibility.
Now, what happens when one state declares war on another state, and attacks them with their military? What happens when the military of the state declaring war is hopelessly outnumbered and outgunned by the state it is declaring war against?
The answer is, they lose.
One of the things Hamas will have to learn, either through acceptance of reality, or the hard way, is they can not beat the Israeli army.
And, as Olmert plans to give them more land, it seems to me, Hamas ought to, for now, simply concentrate on building their country.
Let's hope they see it that way.
(Thanks to J, from
Justify This, for sending this over to me.)
Take It Back Y'allTake It BackTake It BackTake It Back Y'allCome onYeah, the movement's in motion with mass militant poetryNow check this out...uggh!In the right light, study becomes insightBut the system that dissed usTeaches us to read and rightSo called facts are fraudThey want us to allege and pledgeAnd bow down to their GodLost the culture, the culture lostSpun our minds and through timeIgnorance has taken overYo, we gotta take the power back!Europeans are beginning to fight against the radicalized Muslims who are attempting to ruin their culture.
Dag has the goods:
Take Back the Culture. That is roughly what we're beginning to see in some parts of Europe recently. From France to Norway, citizens and residents are this winter expressing their discontent with the governments, media, and public intellectuals who pander to and appoligise for Muslim madness in the nations of Europe, pretending that Islam is important, demanding, even threatening that the locals must bend and bow and scrape in order to prove their moral and social enlightenment by appeasing every whim of the Muslim minorities, violence and mayhemn not withstanding. Now there is a line drawn by artists in the proverbial sand, cartoons published in a Danish newspaper, cartoons deemed offensive to Muslims world-wide, cartoons resulting in Mulsim boycotts of Danish goods. Death threats. Riots. The wide-spread reaction one has come to expect from the religion of peace on any and all ocassions. Danes, Swedes, Norwegians, French, Belgian, they've had enough in some cases, and the cases are growing. Include the Austrians. Perhaps even the Australian. Include me, include yourself. Enough is enough. Below we see what the Danes and their fellows in the frozen far north are thinking ...Last week a couple of Norwegian papers decided to publish the cartoons in support of the Danish paper while in Denmark moderate Muslims, encouraged by the government's refusal to be intimidated by the radicals, have distanced themselves from the imams. The latter announced on Friday that they no longer demand apologies from Jyllands-Posten for the publication. Instead they said they just want two things: a guarantee from the Danish authorities that Muslims can freely practice their religion without being "provoked and discriminated."Honestly, it doesn't sound like those moderate Muslims get it. They need to get used to be provoked and intimidated. That's part of living in a democracy. Christians are provoked and discriminated against all the time.
Here's just one example.
Here's the way it works in a Democracy. People who don't like an idea, will criticize it, because they believe they are helping to effect change. The people who ascribe to the idea criticized can choose to ignore the criticism, or address it with their own criticism, or, in some cases, agreement. We may try to shout each other down, but there is no legal recourse, unless the criticism involves slander.
Criticism is healthy. The Christian church got rid of the practice of paying for forgiveness of sins, because Martin Luther criticized the Church. Everytime any injustice has been righted, the process was begun by someone who dared to criticize the idea which supported the injustice.
So, the message to our moderate Muslim friends is, I'm sorry, but you're just going to have to get used to it. This is the way it works.
America, Fuck Yeah:Poll SaysAmerican Want MilitaryAction AgainstIran All the Dems horses and all the Dems men(?), just can't seem to bring George Bush toppling down. No matter what they do, the public still understands the war better than the very sophisticated Democrats. And,
this is very good news:
WASHINGTON — Despite persistent disillusionment with the war in Iraq, a majority of Americans supports taking military action against Iran if that country continues to produce material that can be used to develop nuclear weapons, a Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll has found.The poll, conducted Sunday through Wednesday, found that 57% of Americans favor military intervention if Iran’s Islamic government pursues a program that could enable it to build nuclear arms.
Support for military action against Tehran has increased over the last year, the poll found ...I've been getting very depressed lately, thinking our country just didn't have the will needed to do what we need to do. I underestimated the American people, and I am sorry for that.
Before anyone gets angry at me for gratuitous profanity, the title is a reference to a song in the movie Team America. Here are the lyrics:
AmericaAmericaAmerica, FUCK YEAH!Coming again, to save the mother fucking day yeah,America, FUCK YEAH!Freedom is the only way yeah,Terrorist your game is through cause now you have to answer too, America, FUCK YEAH!So lick my butt, and suck on my balls,America, FUCK YEAH!See? Now that I've clarified that, I'm sure no one will be angry.
;-)
Hamas CharterHamas soldier does Nazi saluteI'm going to join Little Green Footballs in posting
the Hamas Charter today. Please keep in mind that the last paragraph here is straight from the Koran; the Holy Book of the Religion of Peace:
"Our struggle against the Jews is very great and very serious...The Movement is but one squadron that should be supported by more and more squadrons from this vast Arab and Islamic world, until the enemy is vanquished and Allah’s victory is realised...The Islamic Resistance Movement is one of the wings of Muslim Brotherhood in Palestine. The Muslim Brotherhood Movement is a universal organization which constitutes the largest Islamic movement in modern times...It strives to raise the banner of Allah over every inch of Palestine, for under the wing of Islam followers of all religions can coexist in security and safety where their lives, possessions and rights are concerned...The Islamic Resistance Movement is one of the links in the chain of the struggle against the Zionist invaders. It goes back to 1939, to the emergence of the martyr Izz al-Din al Kassam and his brethren the fighters, members of Muslim Brotherhood. It goes on to reach out and become one with another chain that includes the struggle of the Palestinians and Muslim Brotherhood in the 1948 war and the Jihad operations of the Muslim Brotherhood in 1968 and after...The Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him salvation, has said: ‘The Day of Judgement will not come about until Muslims fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Muslims, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him...’I would ask that everybody post this today. Please.
President Bush On The Hamas VictoryPresident Bush: I don't see how you can be a partner in peace if you advocate the destruction of a country as part of your platform. And I know you can't be a partner in peace if your party has an armed wing...I will continue to remind people about what I just said...I've talked to Condi twice this morning. She called President Abbas...
The United States does not support political parties that want to destroy our ally, Israel...From here.
Let me be clear, my opinion is, we should never stand idly by when one people is calling for the destruction of another people. It is a blight on our souls that we are doing nothing about the situation in the Sudan.
But, at the same time, we need to make sure that none of these Jihadis is allowed to carry out their plans against Israel
Hamas Wins Palestinian ElectionsHamas soldierThe Palestinians have
elected a terrorist organization, whose
stated aim is to kill "Jews", to represent them as a government:
GAZA (Reuters) - The Islamic militant Hamas group swept to victory over the long-dominant Fatah party on Thursday in Palestinian parliamentary polls, a political earthquake that could bury any hope for reviving peace talks with Israel soon.The shock outcome, acknowledged by Fatah ahead of official results, does not automatically unseat President Mahmoud Abbas, a moderate elected last year after Yasser Arafat's death. But he has said he might resign if unable to pursue a peace policy.Of course, that's Reuters news service lying again. Abbas is not a moderate. He is a Jew-hater, who
wrote his doctoral thesis on how the Jews conspired with Hitler to create the Holocaust so that they could engender sympathy for their people.
Does that sound like a "moderate" view?
But, that's beside the point today. The point is, Hamas say, quite openly, that they want to kill Jews, and the Palestinians elected them.
Gee, why would they do that?
And, why doesn't Reuters, or the world's other major media report it?
The photo is from here.
Does Pope Benedict Believe Islam Is Incapable Of ReformIn an interview with Hugh Hewitt, Father Fessio had said the Pope believed that Islam was, indeed, incapable of reforming itself, and joining the modern world.
In response,
I did a post on this subject, where I questioned whether the Pope had said what Father Fessio had indicated he said. My point was that, having read much of the Pope's work, I believe he is a man who knows that all things are possible with God.
It looks like I was probably correct. Father Fessio is backtracking, er,
clarifying his statement:
I think it is important for me to give context to and clarify the remarks I made recently in a radio interview with Hugh Hewitt, reported in Diana West's column in The Washington Times ("Silence that speaks volumes," Op-Ed, Friday). The most important clarification is that the Holy Father did not say, nor did I, that "Islam is incapable of reform."Go read the whole thing. Father Fessio's clarification contains several important distinctions.
As does, the following
from George Weigel, Pope Benedict official biographer:
“I think that Pope Benedict understands that one root of the problems that one form of Islam is presenting to the world today is theological, and you can’t get around that,” the official biographer of Pope John Paul II and a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, George Weigel, said. “And that has to be faced. If you are going to have real inter-religious dialogue, it has to begin with those differences that make all the difference.”Wow, what do you know? And, I'm not even Catholic.
Iraq's WMD Were Secreted Away To SyriaThis information comes directly from the mouth of a Saddam-era General in the Iraqi military.
Atlas has
all the info.
Iran Threatens To Put Israel In A "Terminal Coma"A photograph which perfectly embodies the insanity of our times.I hate reading shit like this, and I hate posting on it. I'm sick of everyday, turning on my computer and seeing another manifestion of malevolence emanating from Iran. The times we are living in are very dark, and the only thing that is going to save us is drastic and massive military action by the United States or Israel.
Check out the latest:
Iran threatens again: Iran's Defense Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar said Wednesday that the country and its allies could put Israel "in an eternal coma," like that of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, if Israel attempts to attack the Muslim republic. "Israel does not have the courage to attack Iran, and if it commits such a big mistake, the defenders of Islamic Iran will put Israel in an eternal coma like Sharon," he said in a television appearance.Najjar, who branded the United States and Israel as "the great and little Satan, who are using psychological war to intimidate Iran," was responding to recent statements by Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz, who said Israel may attack Iran if diplomatic measures to neutralize its nuclear armaments efforts fail.Sadly, the other day, I was talking to an a young woman from my church who converted to Christianity from Islam. I asked her what she thought of what was going on in her country, fully expecting to hear her condemn Ahmadinejad. Instead of an outright condemnation, she said he was being stupid for challenging America.
Instead, she saved her condemnation for George Bush who she implied was a fascist and a hypocritical Christian, and America, which she called a "terrorist state."
Am I the only person who is becoming increasingly depressed by all the lies, and the idiocy of the left, coupled with the very real danger out there in the real world?
Michael Jackson In A BurqaThe State of Bahrain likes having this guy around, so I guess that means
they are in favor of cross-dressing:
MANAMA, Bahrain - Michael Jackson visited a mall in Bahrain’s capital Wednesday, covering himself in a black abaya robe traditionally worn by conservative Bahraini women and a veil hiding his face.The 47-year-old pop star was accompanied by three children, apparently his, whose faces were covered with dark scarves. They wore yellow shirts and sweat pants or khakis, without robes.Jackson, who seems to be settling in the Persian Gulf, was seen leaving Marina Mall holding a young child by the hand. On the way out through a back door, he shook hands with security guards.What can one say?
UK Boosting Troop Levels In AfghanistanThanks to Islamophobic for
sending this over to me:
The UK is expected to send 3,500 extra troops to Afghanistan in April or May, bringing the total number there to more than 4,000, the BBC has learned. Defence Secretary John Reid is to address MPs on the matter on Thursday.
The UK takes control of Nato forces in Afghanistan in May, with soldiers due to oversee reconstruction efforts.
There are currently about 850 British troops operating in Afghanistan.Why would they be doing this? The stated reason is to put down the Taliban in a particularly dangerous reason. That might be, but, could it be that the Brits are, perhaps, planning for Iran?
