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| Man Changes Name To KentuckyFriedCruelty.com |
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NORFOLK, Va. -- A Virginia animal rights activist has legally changed his name to KentuckyFriedCruelty.com. The youth outreach coordinator for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals said he changed his name from Chris Garnett to support the group's anti-KFC campaign. The 19-year-old said his new name "never fails to spark a discussion." On his Web site, he said that his parents have been supportive since he went vegan at age 15, but they were shocked at first when he changed his name. He said they have accepted the change, but insist on still calling him Chris. PETA's complaints against KFC stem from video footage shot last year recording alleged mistreatment of birds at a Pilgrim's Pride plant in Moorefield, W.Va. The plant is a KFC supplier. Yum! Brands, the parent company of KFC, has disputed the claims of mistreatment. In June, a grand jury refused to indict former workers at the West Virginia chicken plant. Here's your sign... http://www.nbc10.com/news/5737017/detail.html?rss=phi&psp=irresist ible" title="http://www.nbc10.com/news/5737017/detail.html?rss=phi&psp=irresist ible" target="_blank"http://www.nbc10.com/news/573... 
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| Jihad Bride |
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| Bahraini Women's Rights Activist Attacks Islamic Clerics for Authorizing Sexual Abuse of Infants |
| 12.30.05 (9:06 am) [edit] |
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The following are excerpts from an interview with Bahraini women's rights activist Ghada Jamshir, which aired on Al-Arabiya TV on December 21, 2005. TO VIEW THIS CLIP, VISIT: http://www.memritv.org/search... Interviewer: "What do you have against the Shari'a courts?" Ghada Jamshir: "I have a lot against them. What they have done to Bahraini women is not a trivial matter. For years women have been going into these courts, only to be oppressed and treated unjustly. We have reached the point that we say: Enough. We have reached the breaking point." [...] "We have a problem with family planning. We have no family planning in Bahrain. The Shiites in Bahrain have marriages for the purpose of mut'ah [pleasure]. They bring multitudes of children into the world, without thinking, who grow up in the streets. "It's accepted for a man to marry a Filipino woman, a Bahraini woman, and a third woman from Iran, and then he takes two or three women in mut'ah marriage... How many children will he have?!" Interviewer: "On September 12 you declared that you call upon or advise the persecuted women of the Gulf, and especially the Bahraini women, to request 'social asylum' in France..." Ghada Jamshir: "Not in France, in Spain." Interviewer: "Pardon me, in Spain." Interviewer: "You want opposition from abroad?" Ghada Jamshir: "The point is not to have opposition from abroad. The point is for them to live and be protected in a safe country. If a woman cannot get any protection in her country, cannot get any protection from the courts, cannot get any protection in the marital home - where will she go? Where will she go?" [...] Interviewer: "Some people say that Ghada Jamshir is a Sunni, and that this is why she is leading the battle against [mut'ah] marriages, which are authorized by religious law among the Shi'ites." Ghada Jamshir: "Authorized by religious law?!" Interviewer: "Among the Shiites, yes." Ghada Jamshir: "Does the Islamic Shari'a authorize mut'ah marriages? Does the Islamic Shari'a authorize mut'ah according to the following classification: 'Pleasure from sexual contact with her thighs.' They have: 'Pleasure from sexual touching,' 'pleasure from sexual contact with her breasts.' 'Pleasure from a little girl.' Do you know what 'pleasure from a little girl' means? It means that they derive sexual pleasure from a girl aged two, three, or four." Interviewer: "Let's not go into details..." Ghada Jamshir: "Let me tell you what 'pleasure from sexual contact with her thighs' means..." Interviewer: "Don't give me the details..." Ghada Jamshir: "This is a violation of children's rights! This constitutes sexual assault of the girl. What does 'pleasure from sexual contact with her thighs' mean? It means deriving sexual pleasure from an infant. How old is an infant? One year, a year and a half, a few months? [Hmmm... Kinda makes the whole Michael Jackson moving to Bahrain thing come into sharp focus. He feels freer there. Riiiight. -ed] "Is it conceivable for a grown man to have sex with an infant girl? And you people tell me that the Islamic Shari'a authorizes this? Forget about the mut'ah. Let's talk about misyar. What do misyar marriages mean? You said that I'm a Sunni and that's why I'm attacking the Shiites. No!" Interviewer: "Some people claim that." Ghada Jamshir: "No, no. What does the misyar marriage mean? A man marries a woman from another town, and goes to her once a month. He 'visits' her. He calls her his 'wife.'" Interviewer: "Not necessarily once a month. He might go there every day." Ghada Jamshir: "Brother Turki, this kind of marriage, this kind of behavior, diminishes the woman's honor as a human being." [...] "All her life, the woman is a prisoner in her own home. In the past, she would not go out to work, or to study abroad. Very few women would go to university outside Bahrain. She is at home in order to cook, sweep, and raise the children. How will she get an education? There are women whose families are extremist. They even force them to marry against their will. "You tell me, why is female circumcision still practiced in the Arab world? Why? Because there is no education, no awareness. A few days ago, a four-year-old girl called An'am died in Sudan." Interviewer: "Why?" Ghada Jamshir: "Because she had been circumcised. Four years old, and she died of blood poisoning." [...] "I am convinced that I was 100% right in everything I have done." Interviewer: "You have been accused of heresy by some places... some Internet forums." Ghada Jamshir: "So what? Even in mosques they accuse me of heresy. So what? You think that if they accuse me of heresy, it affects me?" Interviewer: "You don't care?" Ghada Jamshir: "No. Allah will decide whether I go to Paradise or to Hell, not them." Interviewer: "Don't you think that those who accuse you of heresy..." Ghada Jamshir: "These are the methods of the weak." Interviewer: "They say they are right, and you say you are right." Ghada Jamshir: "Who gave them the right to accuse me of heresy?" Interviewer: "Who gave you the right..." Ghada Jamshir: "What, did they go into my heart..." Interviewer: "They say..." Ghada Jamshir: "Did they see whether I pray or not? Or maybe it's because I don't wear a veil." Interviewer: "So you don't care. It doesn't affect you?" Ghada Jamshir: "It doesn't bother me at all." There you have it folks, the root problem with Islam. I know that people are going to start yelling: "How can you say that? The woman is obviously an intelligent, moderate, faithful, Muslim woman!" By the very laws of Islam, the woman is an apostate, and could be sentenced to death. In the eyes of the Imams, she is property, a heretic, and an irritation. I hope this extremely brave woman creates a spark that can help others who suffer under this horrible "religion", but, I fear, she is more likely to end up dead either through a heresy conviction, or through an "Honor Killing" through her own family. It just makes me ill... Go watch the video. MEMRI is an excellent source for learning what Islamists actually say when they think we kufir aren't listening... http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD106005" title="http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD106005" target="_blank"http://memri.org/bin/latestne... |
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| Home Depot Jihad |
| 12.29.05 (3:48 pm) [edit] |
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Crash into store was a personal statement By Kristina Davis and Katie McDevitt Tribune December 29, 2005 TO OUR READERS: The following story is based on witness accounts and a police report released Wednesday. He placed both hands on the steering wheel, stared straight ahead and barrelled toward the front entrance of Home Depot. Ali R. Warrayat hadn’t slept in days, planning this moment down to the last detail. Now, his face was void of any expression. A store employee jumped out of the car’s path. To drown out the man’s yells, Warrayat reached over to his car radio and blasted Arabic music before crashing through the front doors. The scene was only the beginning of a violent rampage through the Chandler store on Dec. 18. For the 24-year-old Arizona State University student, the motives behind the attack were personal. He told Chandler police he was angry at Home Depot, where he worked as a paint stocker, about not getting a proper raise. He was mad at the United States for proposing a 700-mile fence along the Mexican border. He wanted to make America "more free." So the Jordanian-turned-U.S. citizen devised a plan to make a grand statement by crashing into the store at Alma School Road and Chandler Boulevard and setting it on fire. At first, he wanted to wear a Palestinian flag, but later decided to place it in the trunk of his car, along with a copy of the Quran and a necklace. He then grabbed his cat and his uncle’s pit bull and brought them along for the ride with the intent of killing them in the fire. After crashing through the doors at 6 a.m. that Sunday, he expertly navigated the aisles and headed straight for the paint department, slamming his car into the flammable goods. He jumped to the roof of the car, looked around for a second and then hopped to the ground. He used a lighter to ignite the blaze, and loud explosions followed as store employees ran for safety. Many employees recognized Warrayat, who worked in the store six months ago but transferred to a Queen Creek location after having difficulties with a supervisor. Inside the car, the dog, named Tyson, crouched against the floorboards trying to escape the flames, eventually dying from the toxic smoke. The cat was never found. As Warrayat headed for the exit, he swept merchandise from the shelves and then sat on the curb outside waiting for police to come and arrest him. But his cooperation ended there as he kicked and struggled with officers when asked to get in the patrol car. When an officer asked if he understood his Miranda rights, Warrayat shot back in a foreign language. The officer asked if he understood English, and Warrayat replied in English, "Do you speak Arabic?" He was arrested on suspicion of aggravated assault and arson, causing about $1 million in damage. He is being held without bond at Maricopa County’s Lower Buckeye Jail in Phoenix. This is Your Brain on Islam. http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/index.php?sty=56094" title="http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/index.php?sty=56094" target="_blank"http://www.eastvalleytribune.... |
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| Gray Lady Down |
| 12.29.05 (11:13 am) [edit] |
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Ibd Wed Dec 28, 7:00 PM ET Trust: The so-called mainstream media in general and The New York Times in particular are waging a relentless campaign undermining the war on terror. The Fourth Estate is beginning to look like a Fifth Column. It's hard to imagine a major American newspaper in 1942 announcing before the Battle of Midway that we had broken the Imperial Japanese code or before D-Day that the Allies had a machine that let us read the Nazis' highest-level transmissions. Yet in the war on terror, that's exactly the kind of information that papers like the Times and The Washington Post, in the name of the "people's right to know," have provided our jihadist enemy -- from stories on secret CIA prisons where our mortal enemies are held to wiretaps on al-Qaida operatives and their U.S. contacts. Where was the defense of the "people's right to know" when the issue was who "revealed" the name of CIA desk jockey Valerie Plame and her Bush-bashing, mint tea-drinking husband, Joe Wilson? Then the issue was who was placing our covert agents in jeopardy and who should be indicted and sent to federal prison. But when it comes to the Post disclosing classified information on CIA prisons, which we hope exist, or the Times telling the world that the CIA uses its own airline service, disguised as a private charter company, to move prisoners around, hey, that's Pulitzer Prize material. Last May, the Times reported in painstaking detail on how "the civilian planes can go places American military craft would not be welcome." These revelations prompted widespread protests in Europe and elsewhere with demands for investigations into and the curtailing of these operations. It is hard to see how making public this information in the middle of a war helps, say, a housewife in Des Moines. By compromising these weapons in the war on terror, it only places the American people in greater jeopardy. But it's easy to see how this information aids al-Qaida. The Times finds itself in the unique position of publishing classified information at the same time it insists that terrorists in contact with their operatives in the U.S. have an expectation of privacy while plotting their next attack. In its Dec. 16 story reporting that the National Security Agency eavesdropped on calls between terrorist suspects abroad and residents of the U.S. -- a practice that is not only legal and constitutional, but also has broken up several terrorist plots -- it alerted al-Qaida that we might be listening in. As damaging as the story was, its timing was curious, to say the least. If the "people's right to know" was so important, why did the Times sit on the story for a year, only to publish it on the eve of the debate on renewing the Patriot Act, inciting a brouhaha that also drowned out the good news of Iraq's successful and violence-free election of a permanent government? Sen. John Cornyn (news, bio, voting record), R-Texas, says he knows of two senators who decided to vote against renewing the Patriot Act in its present form based on the Times piece. Did the Times intend to strip us of this vital tool in the war on terror by revealing a clandestine, successful operation that has thwarted another 9-11? We enjoy press and other freedoms only because we have successfully defended our nation from those who would take away our freedoms, and our lives. But with freedom comes responsibility. I was just going to excerpt this, but knowing Yahoo! News, this will get yanked very quickly by the l3 crowd... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ibd/20051228issues0 1" title="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ibd/20051228issues0 1" target="_blank"http://news.yahoo.com/s/ibd/2... |
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| Family, honor, killing |
| 12.27.05 (11:28 am) [edit] |
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When news spread through the Druse section of Shfaram that Samar Hasson had been found hanging from a tree in a local olive grove, drivers on the streets began honking their horns. "Everybody was celebrating, it was beautiful," recalled a young man who works at the Hasson clan's auto parts shop in this hillside, Muslim-Christian-Druse town northeast of Haifa. "She caused her family a lot of problems," nodded a co-worker. Aside from the family members who buried her, no one knows where the body of the 23-year-old Druse woman lies. There was no funeral, no gravestone, no prayers, no mourning. "They took the body somewhere, dug a hole, threw it in, covered it up and that was that," said a knowledgeable local. "The family wants to be rid of any memory of her, like she never existed." Since Hasson's hanging was discovered on October 25, three men have been charged with the murder: Her father, Sa'id, and two of her uncles, Hani and Rafik (Hani has confessed and implicated the other two men, police say). Their motive, according to police and probably anyone you might talk to in this town of 35,000, was "family honor." "When it happened, nobody around here was surprised," said Faraj Kneifes, a Druse city councilman in Shfaram. A genial man of 50, he is also a member of the national Arab "sulha committee," a panel of respected elders who mediate between feuding Arab clans, or hamulas, in the hope of bringing about a reconciliation, or sulha. As his wife, Badia, served tea and cookies in the family's cushiony, plushly-draped, traditional sitting room, Kneifes stressed that he opposed the murder, noting that "honor killings" are also forbidden by Shari'a, or Islamic law. He allowed, however, that he could "understand" it. "We [Druse] are a very conservative society, and we are especially sensitive to the issue of family honor. We are much more strict about this than other Muslims - there's just no comparison. With us there is no compromise on this matter," he said. "I would have preferred that her father had dealt with this matter differently, not by murder. But this woman broke the laws of our community, she crossed dangerous red lines, and she had to know that she would be punished for it." Once again, "The Religion of PeaceTM" Kinda make you wonder where all the world feminists are, doesn't it? http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid =1134309585142&pagename=J Post" title="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid =1134309585142&pagename=J Post" target="_blank"http://www.jpost.com/servlet/...%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull |
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| Bush Violates Terrorists' Nuclear Privacy |
| 12.27.05 (10:45 am) [edit] |
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by Mac Johnson Posted Dec 26, 2005 Just over a week ago, the New York Times revealed the shocking news that the Bush administration has been spying on the international communications of suspected terrorists, thus setting off a rippling artificial scandal in the Times private reflecting pool, the increasingly stagnant mainstream media. Not to be outdone, U.S. News and World Report put on its water wings Friday and tried to create a splash of it own, by reporting that the same renegade Bush administration has been monitoring radiation levels in the public air -- without a warrant! Gasp! The power-mad Bushies have done this in a diabolical attempt to get early warning of terrorists preparing to use a nuclear or dirty bomb against an American city. According to the story, this program is fraught with all sorts of subtle privacy issues. Obviously, such warantless radiation monitoring creates a searing civil rights crisis for the average American, who now must live in fear, knowing that his private high-energy photon emissions, personal beta-particle broadcasts, or even his confidential radionuclide wafting could be subject to detection by the crass and intrusive thugs of the federal government. I mean, when you don’t have the right to leak radiation into the communal air from a clandestine nuclear bomb, what rights do you have really? Clearly, Bush is Hitler, but worse. Let us examine what this “far-reaching” and “controversial” program of “questioned” legality entails. A technician in a vehicle drives around Washington, D.C., or another high-risk city, and samples the air with a little device. If the air is not radioactive, he drives somewhere else. Disturbing! The technician never kicks in a door, or even knocks on one, but he does -- from a publicly-accessible area -- sample the air. SHOCKING! All this raises very important privacy issues, such as: What if the air was radioactive for a perfectly harmless reason? Wouldn’t detecting this radiation violate the privacy of the person contaminating the air for this harmless reason? You can see what a slippery slope this becomes really quickly. Am I kidding here? The article quotes Georgetown University professor David Cole, a “constitutional law expert,” on this legal conundrum: "They don't need a warrant to drive onto the property -- the issue isn't where they are, but whether they're using a tactic to intrude on privacy. It seems to me that they are, and that they would need a warrant or probable cause." Professor Cole did not explain, however, how exactly the right to privacy would cover the emission of harmful, illegal radioactive material into the common air. If ever there were a narrowly focused and non-intrusive search, monitoring the air for radiation would seem to be it. Name for me one legal personal activity for which such monitoring would violate the expectation of privacy, or what harm would likely result. The reason many searches are regulated by constitutional law is they can impose a significant burden upon the searched, and the search can reveal much more than its target. For example, having a policeman search your body cavities or rifle through your personal possessions is potentially unpleasant and demeaning and could lead to the revelation of personal information unrelated to any legal investigation. But what can measuring roadside radiation levels reveal -- other than your possession of materials causing unusual roadside radiation levels? Radiation monitoring cannot detect whether you look at goat porn on the Internet, belong to the ACLU, voted for Ross Perot, cheat on your spouse, or secretly prefer catsup to ketchup. It cannot read your thoughts or fumble through your underwear drawer. It can do only one thing: determine if you have a significant source of radiation in your possession, which I believe is both illegal and not healthy for children and other living things. And it can do this one limited thing as an unnoticed drive-by service. So you don’t even have to lose any personal time or face social stigma. But exposing this alleged “invasion of privacy” is what U.S. News has been reduced to in its eager quest for a Bush-bashing warrantless search “scandal.” For political expediency and a desire to ape the New York Times, the 4th Amendment’s guarantee against “unreasonable search and seizure” has now been morphed into a guarantee against any search for Cesium. You know, because high-level gamma emissions might be part of someone’s protected political speech. The degree to which the mainstream media’s hatred of President Bush has pushed it into a state of logical incoherence is simply amazing. But even more amazing is that this incoherence is not lessened even by the basic human desire to protect innocent people’s lives. “Exposing” the government’s radiation monitoring program in such detail will not help the public fend off any real assault on our liberties. Neither does it contribute to any significant political debate. It won’t even harm Bush politically. All it does is inform our terrorist enemies what measures we have taken to catch them before they can harm us, and allow them to attempt more effective countermeasures. Will you lefty morons PLEASE get a clue? The Constitution is NOT a suicide pact... http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=11135" title="http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=11135" target="_blank"http://www.humaneventsonline.... |
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| Iran president: Islam is the solution |
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By UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL Published December 15, 2005 TEHRAN -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said humanity suffers from arrogant and corrupt governments, stressing Islam was the solution to the world's suffering. Speaking Thursday at the city of Nikashahr in southeast Iran, Ahmadinejad said, "We see injustice everywhere in the world, as decisions to displace peoples and kill civilians are taken easily while arms factories compete to produce more lethal weapons," the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported. He said prosperity and opulence was limited to a small part of the world "as the majority of peoples are oppressed and live in poverty and great need." [Yeah, mostly Muslim majorities... -ed] "Certain big powers incite wars and strife in order to keep their arms factories going and go as far as imposing a ban on food and medicine against peoples who refuse to surrender to their hegemony and arrogance," Ahmadinejad said in an apparent reference to the United States and the West. "Humanity is suffering from arrogant and corrupt governments and the only means for salvaging humanity is the implementation of Islam which meets all the needs of humans in terms of justice, prosperity, pride and peace for all humanity," he added. Yeah, like Paleostine? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA! *Gasp* Stop it! Yer killin' me here! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! http://www.wpherald.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20051215-1046 55-4588r" title="http://www.wpherald.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20051215-1046 55-4588r" target="_blank"http://www.wpherald.com/story... |
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| Muslim Gang Rapes and the Aussie Riots |
| 12.15.05 (8:25 am) [edit] |
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By Sharon Lapkin FrontPageMagazine.com | December 15, 2005 In Australia this week amidst anger over an Islamic man’s rape conviction and the bashing of two Aussie life savers, working-class locals erupted in a rampage of anger and brawling in some of the worst racial riots in decades. But there is more to the story than is being repeated in the American mainstream media.... Four days after he set foot in Australia, the rape spree began. And during his sexual assault trial in a New South Wales courtroom, the Pakistani man began to berate one of his tearful 14-year-old victims because she had the temerity to shake her head at his testimony. But she had every reason to express her disgust. After taking an oath on the Qur’an, the man – known only as MSK – told the court he had committed four attacks on girls as young as 13 because they had no right to say “no.” They were not covering their face or wearing a headscarf, and therefore, the rapist proclaimed: “I’m not doing anything wrong.” MSK is already serving a 22-year jail term for leading his three younger brothers in a gang rape of two other young Sydney girls in 2002. In his own defence, he argued that his cultural background, was responsible for his crimes. And he is right. [Uh, mebbe in HIS mind. -ed] In some parts of Pakistan, sexual assault – including gang rape – is officially sanctified as a legitimate form of enforcing the social value system. One village council recently ordered that five young girls should be “abducted, raped or murdered” for refusing to be treated as chattel. The girls were aged between six and thirteen when they were married without their knowledge, to pay a family debt. And when Mukhtar Mai’s 12-year-old brother was alleged to have committed an offence in a small Pakistani farming village, the village council ordered that his sister be gang-raped. So, she was taken to a hut where four men repeatedly assaulted her. According to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan there were 804 cases of such officially orchestrated sexual assault in 2000, and 434 of these were gang rapes. And if that isn’t bad enough, the victims of these atrocities are then expected to commit suicide because rape victims bring irreparable shame upon their family. So as MSK committed his acts of rape while visiting Australia, he was simply perpetuating his own cultural heritage. He hails from a society where officially sanctioned sexual violence is commonly employed as a means to enforce the subservience of women. Wow. NOW it makes sense! We just don't appreciate their culture... *Spit* http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=20535" title="http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=20535" target="_blank"http://www.frontpagemag.com/A... |
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| Now churches are targeted |
| 12.14.05 (1:21 pm) [edit] |
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Nick Leys and Dan Box December 15, 2005 FOUR churches in Sydney's southwest have been attacked in 24 hours as the city's riots spread from race to religion. [Uh, it's ALWAYS been about religion... -ed] A community hall linked to a Uniting church was burned to the ground early yesterday, carol-singers were spat on and church buildings peppered with gunfire. In response, members of the Arab Christian and Arab Muslim communities have called for a curfew for all Lebanese youths over the weekend. Police believe the attack on the hall, in the suburb of Auburn, was intended to destroy the Uniting church next door, while nearby StThomas's Anglican Church, which has a primarily Chinese congregation, had all its front windows smashed. Three of the attacks were on churches within minutes of each other. The night before, Molotov cocktails were used in an attack on an Anglican church in Macquarie Fields in the city's far southwest. Arab Christians have suggested the attacks on churches may have been meant as a violent attempt to "shame" the city's Lebanese Christian community into supporting Lebanese Muslims in the race-hate war, which began as a battle against young white males over use of suburban beaches. [*Sigh* Wrong again. -ed] Community leaders said Lebanese youths should not venture out after 9pm on Friday and Saturday, and should stay home all day on Sunday. "Those who violate the curfew will be doing so in defiance of their faith, of the law and their community leaders. We are all united in opposing violence," Lebanese Muslim Association leader Ahmad Kamaledine said. ...During a tour of the command post set up in the Sydney Police Centre to co-ordinate the crisis, Deputy Commissioner Andrew Scipione told Mr Iemma the situation was being treated as if it were a terror attack. [It is. -ed] "We are running the same command and control centre as we would for a terrorist situation," Mr Scipione said. ...Amjad Mehboob, head of the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils, said he believed the violence had been committed by an extremist fringe of the Muslim community. "I wish we knew who they were. I wish we could engage with them so we can find out what their beliefs are, so we can deal with them," he said. [I think we *know* what their beliefs are. Read your Koran, Mr. Mehboob. -ed] http://theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0" title="http://theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0" target="_blank"http://theaustralian.news.com...,5744,17572776%5E601,00.html I'm getting very tired of the MSM trying to spin this into a bunch of white, drunk, neo-nazi Australian hooligans harassing peacefull Lebonese. The Muslim harassment of the locals at surrounding beaches is well documented, and the Aussies are tired of it. ...A leaked document has indicated that police were not equipped to respond to Monday evening's violence in Cronulla, in which people were assaulted and cars, shopfronts and windows were smashed. [...by rioting Muslims. -ed] The Seven Network said it had obtained a police incident report instructing officers to stay away from one of the areas - believed to be Punchbowl Park in Sydney's west - on Monday night. The park is believed to have been the meeting place for scores of men who formed a vehicle convoy which drove to Cronulla unimpeded by police. The network claimed the report showed some of those in the crowd were suspected of being Middle Eastern criminals who had been involved in malicious damage and civil disobedience offences throughout the Sutherland Shire. The report is believed to have said "a direction was given to police about midnight not to enter the area and antagonise these persons" [Yeah. Musn't antagonize the thugs. -ed] http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/police-g uard-churches/2005/12/14/ 1134500916773.html" title="http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/police-g uard-churches/2005/12/14/ 1134500916773.html" target="_blank"http://www.smh.com.au/news/na... And finally, via Tim Blair's Blog: Four Sydney churches were Cronulla surfers have Sydney police were apparently warned not to
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Trees are evil. More on the arrest and sentencing
Various folk are calling for Boxer Anthony Mundine
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Some police—hopefully those not ordered to avoid antagonising gang
And Mark Latham—remember him? no?—told a bookshop crowd that John Howard’s http://timblair.net/ee/index.php/weblog/sydney_beach_r iot_latest/" title="http://timblair.net/ee/index.php/weblog/sydney_beach_r iot_latest/" target="_blank"http://timblair.net/ee/index.... |
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| The Pentagon Breaks the Islam Taboo |
| 12.14.05 (8:32 am) [edit] |
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By Paul Sperry FrontPageMagazine.com | December 14, 2005 Washington's policy-makers have been careful in the war on terror to distinguish between Islam and the terrorists. The distinction has rankled conservatives who see scarce difference. A little-noticed speech by President Bush in October gave them some hope. In a major rhetorical shift, he described the enemy as "Islamic radicals" and not just "terrorists," although he still denies that radicalism has anything to do with their religion. Now for the first time, a key Pentagon intelligence agency involved in homeland security is delving into Islam's holy texts to answer whether Islam is being radicalized by the terrorists or is already radical. Military brass want a better understanding of what's motivating the insurgents in Iraq and the terrorists around the globe, including those inside America who may be preparing to strike domestic military bases. The enemy appears indefatigable, even more active now than before 9/11. Are the terrorists really driven by self-serving politics and personal demons? Or are they driven by religion? And if it's religion, are they following a manual of war contained in their scripture? Answers are hard to come by. Four years into the war on terror, U.S. intelligence officials tell me there are no baseline studies of the Muslim prophet Muhammad or his ideological or military doctrine found at either the CIA or Defense Intelligence Agency, or even the war colleges. But that is slowly starting to change as the Pentagon develops a new strategy to deal with the threat from Islamic terrorists through its little-known intelligence agency called the Counterintelligence Field Activity or CIFA, which staffs hundreds of investigators and analysts to help coordinate Pentagon security efforts at home and abroad. CIFA also supports Northern Command in Colorado, which was established after 9/11 to help military forces react to terrorist threats in the continental United States. Dealing with the threat on a tactical and operational level through counterstrikes and capture has proven only marginally successful. Now military leaders want to combat it from a strategic standpoint, using informational warfare, among other things. A critical part of that strategy involves studying Islam, including the Quran and the hadiths, or traditions of Muhammad. "Today we are confronted with a stateless threat that does not have at the strategic level targetable entities: no capitals, no economic base, no military formations or installations," states a new Pentagon briefing paper I've obtained. "Yet political Islam wages an ideological battle against the non-Islamic world at the tactical, operational and strategic level. The West's response is focused at the tactical and operation level, leaving the strategic level -- Islam -- unaddressed." So far the conclusions of intelligence analysts assigned to the project, who include both private contractors and career military officials, contradict the commonly held notion that Islam is a peaceful religion hijacked or distorted by terrorists. They've found that the terrorists for the most part are following a war-fighting doctrine articulated through Muhammad in the Quran, elaborated on in the hadiths, codified in Islamic or sharia law, and reinforced by recent interpretations or fatwahs. "Islam is an ideological engine of war (Jihad)," concludes the sensitive Pentagon briefing paper. And "no one is looking for it's off switch." Why? One major reason, the briefing states, is government-wide "indecision [over] whether Islam is radical or being radicalized." So, which is it? "Strategic themes suggest Islam is radical by nature," according to the briefing, which goes on to cite the 26 chapters of the Quran dealing with violent jihad and the examples of the Muslim prophet, who it says sponsored "terror and slaughter" against unbelievers. "Muhammad's behaviors today would be defined as radical," the defense document says, and Muslims today are commanded by their "militant" holy book to follow his example. It adds: Western leaders can no longer afford to overlook the "cult characteristics of Islam." It also ties Muslim charity to war. Zakat, the alms-giving pillar of Islam, is described in the briefing as "an asymmetrical war-fighting funding mechanism." Which in English translates to: combat support under the guise of tithing. Of the eight obligatory categories of disbursement of Muslim charitable donations, it notes that two are for funding jihad, or holy war. Indeed, authorities have traced millions of dollars received by major jihadi terror groups like Hamas and al-Qaida back to Saudi and other foreign Isamic charities and also U.S. Muslim charities, such as the Holy Land Foundation. According to the Quran, jihad is not something a Muslim can opt out of. It demands able-bodied believers join the fight. Those unable -- women and the elderly -- are not exempt; they must give "asylum and aid" (Surah 8:74) to those who do fight the unbelievers in the cause of Allah. In analyzing the threat on the domestic front, the Pentagon briefing draws perhaps its most disturbing conclusions. It argues the U.S. has not suffered from scattered insurgent attacks -- as opposed to the concentrated and catastrophic attack by al-Qaida on 9-11 -- in large part because it has a relatively small Muslim population. But that could change as the Muslim minority grows and gains more influence. The internal document explains that Islam divides offensive jihad into a "three-phase attack strategy" for gaining control of lands for Allah. The first phase is the "Meccan," or weakened, period, whereby a small Muslim minority asserts itself through largely peaceful and political measures involving Islamic NGOs -- such as the Islamic Society of North America, which investigators say has its roots in the militant Muslim Brotherhood, and Muslim pressure groups, such as the Council on American-Islamic Relations, whose leaders are on record expressing their desire to Islamize America. In the second "preparation" phase, a "reasonably influential" Muslim minority starts to turn more militant. The briefing uses Britain and the Netherlands as examples. And in the final jihad period, or "Medina Stage," a large minority uses its strength of numbers and power to rise up against the majority, as Muslim youth recently demonstrated in terrorizing France, the Pentagon paper notes. It also notes that unlike Judaism and Christianity, Islam advocates expansion by force. The final command of jihad, as revealed to Muhammad in the Quran, is to conquer the world in the name of Islam. The defense briefing adds that Islam is also unique in classifying unbelievers as "standing enemies against whom it is legitimate to wage war." Right now political leaders don't understand the true nature of the threat, it says, because the intelligence community has yet to educate them. They still think Muslim terrorists, even suicide bombers, are mindless "criminals" motivated by "hatred of our freedoms," rather than religious zealots motivated by their faith. And as a result, we have no real strategic plan for winning a war against jihadists. Even many intelligence analysts and investigators working in the field with the Joint Terrorism Task Forces have a shallow understanding of Islam. "I don't like to criticize our intelligence services, because we did win the Cold War," says a Northern Command intelligence official. "However, all of these organizations have made only limited progress adjusting to the current threat or the sharing of information." Why? "All suffer heavily from political correctness," he explains. PC still infects the Pentagon, four years after jihadists hit the nation's military headquarters. "A lot of folks here have a very pedestrian understanding of Islam and the Islamic threat," a Pentagon intelligence analyst working on the project told me. "We're getting Islam 101, and we need Islam 404." The hardest part of formulating a strategic response to the threat is defining Islam as a political and military enemy. Once that psychological barrier has been crossed, defense sources tell me, the development of countermeasures -- such as educating the public about the militant nature of Islam and exploiting "critical vulnerabilities" or rifts within the Muslim faith and community -- can begin. "Most Americans don't realize we are in a war of survival -- a war that is going to continue for decades," the Northcom official warns. It remains to be seen, however, whether our PC-addled political leaders would ever adopt such controversial measures. Get it yet? http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=20539" title="http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=20539" target="_blank"http://www.frontpagemag.com/A... |
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| Question Their Patriotism? You Bet! |
| 12.09.05 (2:21 pm) [edit] |
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Robin Mullins Boyd The left has made quite an issue of their patriotism being questioned. There have been no instances of members of the Bush administration questioning the patriotism of those that oppose the war. Members of the administration have questioned whether or not it is wise to use statements that undermine our country in a time of war. You know, little things like calling the President a liar, saying that we had no legitimate reason for taking military action against Saddam Hussein or equating the war in Iraq with Vietnam. Despite all of the negative and nasty venom spewed by members of the party of appeasement, the right of those to voice their opinions has not once been infringed upon. That time has now past. We have put up with name calling and viciousness since the war in Iraq began. We have heard Sen. Kennedy call the war “concocted in Texas” prior to the President’s election. We have put up with the comparisons to Vietnam and the repeated calls of “Quagmire” from the Senator. We even had to hear Sen. Kennedy’s own words used against our soldiers in Iraq by the terrorists in Iraq. Do I question Senator Kennedy’s patriotism? You bet I do. America has watched Ramsey Clark defend the butcher of Baghdad. We saw the pictures from Abu Ghraib used by the defense in the trial of Saddam Hussein. We watched as the defense used the photos as a comparison of the treatment the Iraqis received from Saddam to the treatment received by American soldiers. We have listened to Ramsey Clark call for the impeachment of President Bush while defending Milosevic and Hussein. There is no reason to even ask about Clark’s patriotism as he has proven on more than one occasion that he has none. This summer we were subjected to images of Cindy Sheehan waging her PR campaign. While the media fawned all over the grieving mother, Sheehan blamed the President for killing her son and declared that Israel was responsible also. While the media lamented the fact that President Bush would not cave in and meet this woman for the second time, Sheehan colluded with Code Pink and various other hate America first groups. No one could question the motives of “Mother Sheehan” - to do so was sacrilege. But I have no problem questioning Sheehan’s patriotism. We watched the replay of Sen. Dick Durbin equate our soldiers in Iraq with Nazis, etc. We all heard his half hearted attempt to cover up what he said by claiming it was in an FBI report. No report was every found with the claims made by Durbin. Do I question your patriotism Sen. Durbin? Oh heck yeah I do. We saw the editorial “cartoons” of Ted Rall depicting our soldiers as pedophiles, rapists, abusers and torturers. We all know that Rall continues to get paid for his depictions of our soldiers as so much less than honorable and noble. Patriotic? No. Idiotic? Yes. We’ve heard members of the Progressive Caucus call the President and his administration liars. Rep Conyers has called for investigations for everything from the Downing Street memo to the Diebold machines in Ohio. Rep Maxine Waters does not want positive news from Iraq in the media because it devalues the soldiers that were killed in Iraq. Rep. Nancy Pelosi wants our troops out of Iraq now because they are only increasing the attacks by the insurgents. Does this mean that their patriotism is in question? Yes it does. The entire world heard Rep. Murtha roll over and quit again. Then we were subjected to his description of our army as “broken down” and “worn out”. But we were not allowed to disagree with him because he was a decorated war veteran. Just because you have war medals on your chest does not mean you are patriotic. Your actions speak much louder than those medals you wave about. Senator John Kerry once again claimed that US soldiers committed atrocities, this time in Iraq, not Vietnam. Most of us had grown tired of watching the flips and flops of Kerry. That little statement made us realize how close we had come to calling him “Commander in Chief” instead of the loser of the 2004 Presidential election. There was another decorated war veteran who turned his back on his country and his soldiers. His name was Benedict Arnold. The week would not be complete without the screecher, Howard Dean, expressing his support for our soldiers in Iraq. Claiming that we could not win the war in Iraq was just his own special way of telling the soldiers how much he valued their sacrifice and service. With that kind of patriotism, who needs enemies? The Left has demonstrated their lack of core values and the failure of their moral compass. It does not matter if the statements made by those on the Left undermine the soldiers or the country. The only thing that matters is that President Bush’s approval numbers go down. Success in Iraq means failure for the Left. Liberals love to use the phrase “I support the troops but not their mission.” What a crock! That is like saying I love the Atlanta Falcons but I hope they lose the Super Bowl! The pretense is no longer necessary. The Liberals care about their own selfish agenda and regaining political power. It is all about them and no one or nothing else. The next time an “our soldiers are terrorists” Liberal accuses me of questioning their patriotism, I will have no problem responding “You Bet I Am!” Bang. http://www.opinioneditorials.com/freedomwriters/rboyd_ 20051209.html" title="http://www.opinioneditorials.com/freedomwriters/rboyd_ 20051209.html" target="_blank"http://www.opinioneditorials.... |
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| Hamas "mother of martyrs" runs in Palestinian poll |
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By Nidal al-Mughrabi Thu Dec 8,11:11 AM ET GAZA (Reuters) - Hamas has chosen a mother of three sons who died fighting Israel to run for Palestinian parliament in a poll where the Islamic militant group is expected to mount a serious challenge to President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah party. Mariam Farhat, widely seen as an icon of the Palestinian uprising, will join a slate of male Hamas leaders to contest a legislative election due in January in which Hamas, sworn to Israel's destruction, is taking part for the first time. Farhat, 56, could give an added boost to Hamas as she has strong militant credentials, including an appearance -- carrying a gun -- in a video in which she advised one of her sons, Mohammed, on tactics before he attacked a Jewish settlement. Mohammed, 17, killed five Israelis before he was gunned down in the 2002 assault in the occupied Gaza Strip. [She must be sooooo proud. -ed] Farhat's eldest son, Nidal, was killed in 2003 as he was preparing for a separate attack. A third son, Rawad, died earlier this year in an Israeli air strike on his car, which was laden with rockets. Three other sons are still alive. "I am pleased that Hamas trusted me and I declare I will be at the service of my movement," Farhat, popularly known as Umm Nidal and regarded by Palestinians as a "mother of martyrs," said as she sat beneath a mural of her dead sons. Hamas's choice of Farhat, seen by Palestinian analysts as a sure vote-winner, appeared to signal just how serious the group is in its bid to challenge Fatah's traditional dominance. In addition to senior leaders, some in Israeli jails, university professors and engineers, Hamas also plans to back several independents and at least one Christian in hopes of establishing a bloc of lawmakers that could prevent peace moves with Israel. Israel and the United States are concerned Hamas, which has built up a social welfare network in the occupied West Bank and in the Gaza Strip, could do well in the election, seen as a test of moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's leadership. Yet Abbas has rejected Israeli calls to bar Hamas from the vote, while struggling to salvage Fatah's image following party primaries that were tainted by violence and fraud allegations. At home, where pictures of her dead sons, including one that shows her armed with an assault rifle, adorn the walls, Farhat said Hamas's decision to participate in mainstream Palestinian politics did not contradict its military goals. "The Jihadist project completes the political one and the political project cannot be completed without Jihad," she told Reuters, using the Arabic term for "holy struggle" against the Jewish state. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051208/wl_nm/m ideast_hamas_election_dc" title="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051208/wl_nm/m ideast_hamas_election_dc" target="_blank"http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20... Lovely people. Let's give them their own state... |
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| Islamists demand Bangladeshi women wear veil |
| 12.09.05 (9:25 am) [edit] |
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DHAKA (Reuters) - A banned Islamist militant group blamed for a series of bombings in Bangladesh has threatened to kill women, including non-Muslims, if they do not wear the veil, a statement said. The statement by the Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen came hours after Thursday's suicide bomb attack in a northern town that killed at least eight people, the latest of a series of blasts blamed on militant groups in their campaign for an Islamic state. "Women will be killed if they are found to move around without wearing burqa (veil) from the first day of Jilhaj," the Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen said in the statement sent to a Dhaka newspaper office. Jilhaj refers to the Arabic month beginning early January. "Women, including non-Muslims, are hereby advised not to go out of home without burqa. Seclusion has been made compulsory for you," said the statement in Bangla language, a copy of which was obtained by Reuters on Friday. The group, which wants the introduction of sharia laws in mainly-Muslim Bangladesh, also ordered women students at Dhaka University not to step out after sunset, prompting police to increase security around the campus. Earlier, a police officer said 30 suspected members of the Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen and another outlawed group, Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh, were arrested for involvement in a wave of bomb attacks that have rattled the impoverished nation this year. A dozen bombs were seized in raids across the country, the official said, as police hunted for the leaders of the two outlawed groups. Two bombs exploded on a crowded street in the northern town of Netrokona on Thursday, killing eight people and wounding 50, many on their way to work. A suicide bomber was believed to be among the dead, while another was found wounded with an unexploded bomb strapped to his body. "These bombers are enemies of Islam and must be stopped," said an official at the Ministry of Religious Affairs, adding the government had asked clerics to spread the message from the nation's 250,000 mosques. Thursday's deaths took the number of people killed by suspected suicide bombers to 28 in three weeks, including judges, lawyers and policemen. At least 150 people have been wounded. Bangladesh is the world's third-most-populous Muslim country after Indonesia and Pakistan. State Minister for Home Affairs Lutfuzzaman Babar said last month that Islamists had formed a 2,000-strong suicide squad to press home their demands. (Additional reporting by Nizam Ahmed) http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=worldNews&story id=2005-12-09T105645Z_01_ WRI919487_RTRUKOC_0_UK-SE CURITY-BANGLADESH.xml" title="http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=worldNews&story id=2005-12-09T105645Z_01_ WRI919487_RTRUKOC_0_UK-SE CURITY-BANGLADESH.xml" target="_blank"http://today.reuters.co.uk/ne... Ladies and Gentlemen, once again, "The Religion of PeaceTM" |
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| Prophet cartoons worry UN commissioner |
| 12.09.05 (8:57 am) [edit] |
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The United Nations' High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour, is concerned about a Danish newspaper's caricatures of the Muslim prophet Mohammed Daily newspaper Jyllands-Posten's twelve cartoons of the Muslim prophet Mohammed are causing ripples across the world and worries at the Office of the United Nations' High Commissioner for Human Rights[you have GOT to be kidding...-ed], Louise Arbour. National daily Berlingske Tidende reported on Wednesday that Arbour had written a letter to the Organisation of Islamic Conferences (OIC), an international organisation of 56 Muslim states, which had complained over the cartoons. In September, Jyllands-Posten called for and printed the cartoons by various Danish illustrators, after reports that artists were refusing to illustrate works about Islam, out of fear of fundamendalist retribution. The newspaper said it printed the cartoons as a test of whether Muslim fundamentalists had begun affecting the freedom of expression in Denmark. Muslims in Denmark and abroad have protested against the newspaper, calling the caricatures blasphemous and a deliberate attempt to provoke and insult their religious sensitivities. Arbour said she understood their concerns. 'I would like to emphasise that I deplore any statement or act showing a lack of respect towards other people's religion,' she said. [Unless it's those dirty Joooooos!-ed] Berlingske Tidende reported that it held a copy of the letter, which stated that Arbour had appointed to UN experts in the areas of religious freedom and racism to investigate the matter. 'I'm confident that they will take action in an adequate manner,' Arbour said in her letter to the 56 governments, which have requested the UN to address the issue with Denmark. A diplomat from one of the countries told the newspaper that the governments were pleased with Arbour's answer. Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen said he was aware of the letter, but had no comments about it. He has previously refused to meet with the ambassadors of some of the Muslim countries who wanted to discuss the cartoons, saying he had no power over the national media's actions. [As it should be in a free society-ed] No comments from the UN phony about the IslamoNazi big money offered to murder the cartoonists. Muslims and their religious sensitivities are becoming tiresome - they have no sensitivities to murdering Christians or defiling anything Jewish – it is a fact that strong men in Iraq like Mogtada Sadr insists it is the Jew who is behind most ills in Iraq today; he is wrong but his insistence at promoting that bogus news is delaying freedom to Iraq. The United Nations has been anything but timely on other Human Rights issues such as those in Africa or the real injustices committed towards the Jew – this latest is not about Human Rights, it is about human nature and learning to laugh at yourself. |
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| Show Me Why |
| 12.08.05 (2:31 pm) [edit] |
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12/1: The problem with this war is that no one understands what war has changed to and is anymore. Every country in the world knows that you can’t go nation to nation, bomb to bomb with the USA. You may hurt us, but, we’ll kill you. So, based on this 21st century, modern-day war against what’s called “Islamic Fascism” - it is partially the Crusades revisited - and since there is a new, developing definition of war as we will truly come to know it ... we must continue to inform ourselves within that new definition of the ultimate defining moment of this battle for our lives. That, of course, is the big picture that was and is the attack on the twin towers and the Pentagon on 9/11. The media, maybe the government, political correctness, somebody is not letting us see the big picture any more. And the old slogan is no longer “how easy we forget.” The slogan is “how easily we let ourselves forget.” I’m not talking about whether the government duped us into war. I’m not talking about whether the war has been and is being run right. I’m not talking about we gotta set a timetable for a troop withdrawal. I’m talking about how easily we let ourselves forget, on a mass media basis, what started this whole thing. We pride ourselves on being “ride ‘em cowboy” for a while, that is until we want the bull to stop bucking, and it won’t. The war we’re in is no 8-second rodeo ride. So, we have to remember why we saddled up onto the bucking bronco. But, we’d rather get off (without getting bucked off for the sake of image) as fast as we can and then let the rodeo clowns and their bronco busters get the bull out of the ring. We’ve forgotten. The truth often hurts. Americans don’t like to acknowledge hurt. But our enemy does. That antagonist right now is educating, through the media, technology and personal teachings, his family, friends, and children (the fighters of the future) that we are an enemy that is determined to destroy them. We must inform our own of the same from our view of how it all came down. What biggie started it all. To get this accomplished, I urge everyone to communicate to your congressman, to your local media, to your president, to your family, friends and children that we as Americans in a wartime situation need to see the attack on the twin towers and the Pentagon and the devastation incurred, therefore, on a daily basis. How easily we allow ourselves to forget. How easily that forgetfulness weakens and divides us in the actuality of going to and being at war. Every TV outlet in America and associates abroad should program at least one moment in their day (prime time) to show the images for a brief 15-to-30 second “commercial” like reminder of what we should be buying for the future of our country and that is attitude. The attitude that we all had on the day of and days after 9/11. The enemy loves our lack of attitudinal resolve. The enemy loves our lack of unity based on the fact that they - not we - they have created and do perpetuate the “divided we fall” part of the old slogan. People, we need to remind ourselves of what they did and can still do to us. We need to put the downing of the twin towers in print, on radio, on TV and into our mental iPod of a brain and program it all to random shuffle so that the images pop up and become the reminder that we should never hide what happened. We should never forget ... that’s the only way we can make them regret that they ever decided to make America their battle ground. Beyond the war in Iraq, we here in America need to fight for the right to remember why - let’s see it again and again - so we never forget! And that’s just me. Superb. http://www.971talk.com/weekdays/thatsjustme.aspx" title="http://www.971talk.com/weekdays/thatsjustme.aspx" target="_blank"http://www.971talk.com/weekda... |
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| US Blasts Security Council for Failing to Condemn Terror Attack in Israel |
| 12.08.05 (9:19 am) [edit] |
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By Peter Heinlein United Nations 07 December 2005 Washington's ambassador to the United Nations has criticized the Security Council for failing to condemn the latest terrorist attack in Israel. The envoy singled out Algeria for blocking a U.S. drafted statement. U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton issued a statement Tuesday unequivocally condemning the bomb attack in the Israeli town of Netanya that killed at least five people. The unusual action came after a U.S. attempt to have the statement issued by the Security Council was rejected. Diplomats attending the meeting say several Council members raised concerns about language in the U.S.-drafted document. Ambassador Bolton, however, blamed Algeria for quashing the measure by objecting to a passage urging Syria to close offices of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which claims responsibility for the attack. "Other governments had questions about particular language. We were perfectly prepared to engage in discussions about constructive suggestions, but Algeria categorically refused to name Syria and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad," he said. The U.S. envoy later read the text of the statement to reporters, and lashed out at the Council for what he called "failing to speak the truth". He said "you have to speak up in response to these terrorist attacks. It's a great shame that the Security Council couldn't speak to this terrorist attack in Netanya, but if the Council won't speak, the United States will." Well said, Ambassador Bolton. Limbaugh is right: The U.N. more closely resembles the cantina from Star Wars than a respectable organization. http://www.voanews.com/english/2005-12-07-vo a1.cfm" title="http://www.voanews.com/english/2005-12-07-vo a1.cfm" target="_blank"http://www.voanews.com/englis... |
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| Former Greenpeace Co-Founder Praises US for Rejecting Kyoto |
| 12.08.05 (7:28 am) [edit] |
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By Marc Morano CNSNews.com Senior Staff Writer December 08, 2005 Montreal (CNSNews.com) - A founding member of Greenpeace, who left the organization because he viewed it as too radical, praised the United States for refusing to ratify the Kyoto Protocol. "At least the [United] States is honest. [The U.S.] said, 'No we are not going to sign that thing (Kyoto) because we can't do that,'" said Patrick Moore, who is attending the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Montreal. Moore noted that many of the industrialized nations that ratified the treaty limiting greenhouse gas emissions are now failing to comply with those emission limits. Moore, who currently heads the Canadian-based environmental advocacy group Greenspirit Strategies helped found both Greenpeace in 1971 and Greenpeace International in 1979. "Canada signed [Kyoto] and said, 'Oh yeah, we can do that,' and then it merrily goes on its way to increase CO2 (carbon dioxide) emissions by even more than the U.S.," Moore told Cybercast News Service. Other industrialized nations -- including Japan and at least 11 of the 15 European Union nations that ratified Kyoto -- are struggling to meet their emission targets. As Cybercast News Service previously reported, many organizations attending the Climate Change Conference have declared the Kyoto Protocol "dead" because of the signatories' lack of compliance. The treaty establishes a 2012 goal of having top industrialized nations cut their industrial emissions 5.2 percent below the level that was produced in 1990. "I think this whole Kyoto process is a colossal waste of time and money," said Moore, who rejects alarmist predictions of human-caused 'global warming." The U.N.'s 11th Annual Climate Change Conference in Montreal failed to impress Moore, who is there to promote nuclear energy. "There is nothing concrete going on here. There is nothing good happening here as far as I can see. [The participants at the U.N. conference are] just spending a whole pile of money and auguring and talking," he added. Moore also slammed the movement he helped found, accusing today's environmental groups of being co-opted by the political Left. "The Left figures it owns the environmental movement and that has corrupted the movement greatly," Moore said. "The [left-wing] influence has brought great dysfunction into the environmental movement. [It's turned it into] an elitist movement." Moore said he decided to leave Greenpeace in 1986 after the group became too radical and he could "no longer agree with the policies that were being espoused." The final straw, according to Moore, came when he failed to persuade Greenpeace to abandon its campaign to ban chlorine worldwide. "I pointed out that chlorine was the main element used in our medicine and adding it to drinking water was the biggest advance in public health in human history," Moore said. "[My argument] just fell on deaf ears. [Greenpeace] didn't care about any of that because a global chlorine ban was a good campaign [for them]." Even though he was a pioneer of the movement, liberal environmentalists spare no criticism of Moore, frequently referring to him as a "traitor" and an "Eco-Judas." Moore dismissed the criticism and asserted that the green movement has steered off course from its original mission. "I think it's in a dismal state -- I think almost across the board, whether it's in energy policy or agriculture policy regarding their zero tolerance on GM [genetically modified foods] or in forestry policy," Moore said. http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=" title="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=" target="_blank"http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNa...\Nation\archive\200512\NA T20051208a.html |
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| If Pearl Harbor was Attacked Today |
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| A Moral War |
| 12.02.05 (11:32 am) [edit] |
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The project in Iraq can succeed, and leave its critics scrambling. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The White House, as is true in all wars, has made mistakes, but only one critical lapse — and it is not the Herculean effort to establish a consensual government at the nexus of the Middle East in less than three years after removing Saddam Hussein. The administration’s lapse, rather, has come in its failure to present the entire war effort in its proper moral context. We took no oil — the price in fact skyrocketed after we invaded Iraq. We did not do Israel’s bidding; in fact, it left Gaza after we went into Iraq and elections followed on the West Bank. We did not want perpetual hegemony — in fact, we got out of Saudi Arabia, used the minimum amount of troops possible, and will leave Iraq anytime its consensual government so decrees. And we did not expropriate Arab resources, but, in fact, poured billions of dollars into Iraq to jumpstart its new consensual government in the greatest foreign aid infusion of the age. In short, every day the American people should have been reminded of, and congratulated on, their country’s singular idealism, its tireless effort to reject the cynical realism of the past, and its near lone effort to make terrible sacrifices to offer the dispossessed Shia and Kurds something better than the exploitation and near genocide of the past — and how all that alone will enhance the long-term security of the United States. That goal was what the U.S. military ended up so brilliantly fighting for — and what the American public rarely heard. The moral onus should have always been on the critics of the war. They should have been forced to explain why it was wrong to remove a fascist mass murderer, why it was wrong to stay rather than letting the country sink into Lebanon-like chaos, and why it was wrong not to abandon brave women, Kurds, and Shia who only wished for the chance of freedom. Alas, that message we rarely heard until only recently, and the result has energized amoral leftists, who now pose as moralists by either misrepresenting the cause of the war, undermining the effort of soldiers in the field, or patronizing Iraqis as not yet civilized enough for their own consensual government. VDH with his usual lucid, accurate, observations. http://victorhanson.com/articles/hanson120205 .html" title="http://victorhanson.com/articles/hanson120205 .html" target="_blank"http://victorhanson.com/artic... |
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| Triumphs . . . |
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... World War IV is the final worldwide conflict that must be resolved in the West's favor, with America -- unfortunately -- forced to carry the major burden while Europe sleeps. Yes, there are more than 2,000 casualties, and even one is too much. But this war is being fought no less vigorously than any of the three previous worldwide conflicts. To his enemies' dismay, Mr. Bush is winning World War IV, the fight against Muslim fascist extremism and its vicious terrorism. The full conflict is only four years old, yet we are making progress more quickly than in anti-communist fight that lasted 50 years. Let us look at the actual record, and not at the journalistic distortions. (1) Since September 11, 2001, there has not been a single case of terrorism in the United States. (2) Mr. Bush's conquest of the Taliban fascists was applauded universally, and Afghanistan has the beginnings of a Muslim democracy, something no one has been able to accomplish in history. A great victory in World War IV. (3) Mr. Bush's invasion of Iraq has eliminated Saddam Hussein, whose continued presence in Iraq would have made impossible the Middle East's progress toward freedom. The insurgency is at its height, but a guerrilla war without a competing idea and majority public support (most Iraqis support the government) will fail. The desperate insurgents now kill 20 innocent Iraqis for every American. The majority Kurds and Shi'ites, once pushed beyond their amazing patience, will end this insurgency, bloodlessly or otherwise. (4) Fear of American power has frightened Moammar Gadhafi of Libya, who has surrendered his weapons of mass destruction to the U.S. and has vowed to discontinue any terrorist activities. This is a Bush victory in an important World War IV battle. (5) The increasing U.S. prestige and power in the Middle East has forced Syria out of Lebanon after Syria was implicated in the assassination of a Lebanese hero. This is solid evidence democracy is developing roots in Lebanon, a small but important Middle Eastern nation, and that the ability of terrorists to intimidate others is waning rapidly. Another victory for Mr. Bush in World War IV. (6) The desperation of the terrorists was demonstrated by their recent bombing of a Muslim wedding party in Amman, Jordan, where some 60 people were killed. Having difficulty terrorizing Americans, they have killed these innocent Muslims in Jordan, turning that nation against -- not America -- but al Qaeda. Another significant victory for Mr. Bush in World War IV. (7) As American power and pressure expands in the Middle East, Egypt has begun loosening its grip on its own people. Multiparty parliamentary elections are being held. This momentum will eventually grasp all Middle East nations. Another victory for Mr. Bush in World War IV. (8 ) Muslim terrorism in Muslim nations, from Algeria to Saudi Arabia, is shifting public opinion in favor of America. Still another Bush victory. (9) The international community is seeking sanctions against both the shaky Assad rule in Syria and the internally unpopular theocratic rulers in Iran. If America, with word and action, continues pressing both renegade nations, as it successfully did the Soviet Union a generation ago, victory in World War IV will be complete as the two terrorist nations collapse from within. Muslim fascism's only hope is that the media and the once-patriotic Democratic Party's anti-American branch keep blocking the president's valiant fight for worldwide freedom. Outstanding. http://www.washingtontimes.com/commentary/20051130-0 93422-7121r_page2.htm" title="http://www.washingtontimes.com/commentary/20051130-0 93422-7121r_page2.htm" target="_blank"http://www.washingtontimes.co... |
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