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Wednesday, May 07, 2008

Gaza headmaster was Blank Blank rocket-maker

I would like to report the following news to you, my dear readers, using the new protocol suggested by our government in referring to terror groups. That is, to avoid referring to al-Qaida and other terrorist groups as Islamic or Muslim, and not to use terms like jihad or mujaheddin. Basically, we should avoid using terms that we in the West consider to have negative connotations when they, the

, consider those terms in a positive light.

Normally, I view censor bars as silly devices that attempt to mask the truth but end up in fact revealing more than they hide. In the following case we may in fact see the truth more plainly through their use. So here is an article from Reuters that might interest those of you that follow the activities of UNRWA in Israel:

EXCLUSIVE-Gaza headmaster was
"rocket-maker"
By day, Awad al-Qiq was a respected science teacher and headmaster at a United Nations school in the Gaza Strip. By night, say, he built rockets for .

The Israeli air strike that killed the 33-year-old last week also laid bare his apparent double life and embarrassed a U.N. agency which has long had to rebuff Israeli accusations that it has aided and abetted fighting the Jewish state.

In interviews with Reuters, students and colleagues, as well as U.N. officials, denied any knowledge of Qiq's work with explosives. And his family denied he had any links at all, despite a profusion of posters at his home.

But leaders allied to the enclave's ruling Hamas group hailed him as a who led "engineering unit" -- its bomb makers. They fired a salvo of improvised rockets into Israel in response to his death.
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Qiq's body was wrapped in an flag at his funeral, pictorial posters in his honour still bedeck his family home this week, and a handwritten notice posted on the metal gate at the entrance to the school declared that Qiq, "the chief leader of the engineering unit", would now find "paradise".
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Qiq's sister said his wife and five children were worried by the lack of news on any pension payment: "Awad did a lot for UNRWA," she said. "The family hoped UNRWA would support them."

So it seems Israel was not far off all these years when they complained that that militants use UNRWA vehicles and facilities in its attacks against Israel. Who knew? Now the UN can't deny it. What's instructive is that this mild-mannered, model citizen was in fact a

. As I've always said, we can't tell the

from the moderate, peaceful Muslim and we shouldn't have to. If we don't deport them all now and keep out all new ones then one day we will be faced with a very, very horrible alternative.

[A tip of the turban Hat Tip

to Infidels are Cool]

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Labels: "Palestinians", United Nations

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Tuesday, May 06, 2008

Is there any country worse than Israel?

The Queen of Hearts
Photo by: Halloween Scene

The year was 1951 and I was only a few months past my 6th birthday when I fell in love with Disney's animated feature Alice in Wonderland. The previous year I had seen my first Disney film, Cinderella, and I thought that was the best thing I had ever seen in my 6 years of life, but now this Alice - this was mesmerizing.

The lunacy of Wonderland was intoxicating with characters and scenes popping up here and there with no sense or reason; I shivered as Alice struggled through the menacing forest; I couldn't take my ears off the mentholated purring of the Cheshire Cat; I strained to decipher the gibble-gabble of the Mad Hatter and his friends; I was a thrall to my seat throughout the film.

One thing that children are most sensitive to is the unfairness of adults. We want to stay up all night but mom says no. We want to eat ice cream and push away the broccoli but dad says we can only get to enjoy ice cream after we clean the plate. We want to run with scissors and swing wooden swords at our little brother but nanny takes away our weapons. So what I remember most starkly and what has remained riveted in my mind to this day was the ridiculously unfair trial of Alice by the tyrannical Queen of Hearts.

If you recall, the Queen summons the March Hare, the Mad Hatter and the Dormouse as witnesses against Alice and they end up holding an absurd, unbirthday party for her.

So now, whenever the UN demands, "Off with her head," in regard to Israel, no matter who's at fault, I am reminded of Alice in Wonderland.

The UN Human Rights Council was established on 15 Mar 2006. By April of 2007 the Council had passed nine resolutions condemning Israel and had been the only country the UN Human Rights Council had specifically condemned [Wiki].

Come on now, just on a practical level, more people die in Darfur in one month than Palestinians in the entire 8 years past, yet the Sudan, a country with egregious human rights abuses gets a pass from the Council with only an expressed "deep concern." Does that make any sense at all?

And it's not just the Sudan that is ignored by the HRC:

Washington Post, 25 Jun 2007, A Shadow on the Human Rights Movement
... the council chose to establish one permanent and special agenda item: the "human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories." In other words, Israel (or "Palestine," in the council's terminology), alone among the nations of the world, will be subjected to continual and open-ended examination. That's in keeping with the record of the council's first year: Eleven resolutions were directed at the Jewish state. None criticized any other government.

Genocide in Sudan, child slavery and religious persecution in China, mass repression in Zimbabwe and Burma, state-sponsored murder in Syria and Russia -- and, for that matter, suicide bombings by Arab terrorist movements -- will not receive systematic attention from the world body charged with monitoring human rights. That is reserved only for Israel, a democratic country that has been guilty of human rights violations but also has been under sustained assault from terrorists and governments openly committed to its extinction.

Remarkably, Irwin Cotler, Canada's former Minister of Justice was similarly reminded of Alice in regard to the HRC:

Israpundit, Cotler attacks the United Nations
In one week, at a meeting of the Human Rights Council, it did the following; it replaced John Duggard, who is the special rappatuer for Israel human rights violations in the occupied territories. I am not saying that the UN shouldn’t investigate human rights violations in the occupied territories. I am saying that the mandate is only to look into violations by Israel in the occupied territories. At the same time there is a special permanent UN Agenda item called Human Rights Violations by Israel in the occupied territories, and another one for the rest of the world.

In other words only one country is singled out for an Alice in Wonderland condemnation before the hearing takes place, under the auspices of the UN. The special rappatuer, John Duggard, who likened Israel to an apartheid state. You may not appreciate the seriousness of likening Israel to an apartheid state, is the cognoscenti of the UN and you should know that these meetings are attended by all kinds of people who are all exposed to this denunciation. In the lexicon of the International Criminal Court Treaty, an apartheid state is a criminal state that warrants being dismantled. All those who support that state are also seen to be complicit in the commission of a crime against humanity.

Is there any country worse than Israel? Not to the UNHRC. The March Hare, the Mad Hatter and the Dormouse are now running the Human Rights Council. Perhaps it's time to host an unbirthday party for the United nations?

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Monday, April 28, 2008

Why Islam Cannot Reform

A Muslim child marches with a toy gun to protest the U.S.-led military campaign in Afghanistan after Friday prayers in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Oct.19, 2001. (AP Photo/Pavel Rahman)

There are deluded Jews and Christians who believe that the barbaric attacks against non-Muslims and even fellow Muslims alike throughout the world are being perpetrated by members of a small, extreme, perverted brand of Islam and that "true" Islam is probably just like modern Christianity or Judaism; that all that is needed is for moderate Muslims to take back their religion from the radicals.

Then there are the deluded Jews and Christians who have actually read the Quran for themselves and realize that the barbarity of Muslim terror we see today is indeed rooted in the very essence of Islam and argue that we must not condemn the religion when all that is needed is for Islam to go through a reformation and modernization as Christianity and Judaism has done.

But an expert in religion disagrees:

The QandO Blog,
11 Jan 2006,
Pope says Islam can’t reform
Now Pope Benedict XVI has let it be known that he does not believe Islam can reform. This we learn from the transcript of a January 5 US radio interview with one of Benedict's students and friends, Father Joseph Fessio, SJ, the provost of Ave Maria University in Naples, Florida, posted on the Asia Times Online forum by a sharp-eyed reader. For the pope to refute the fundamental premise of US policy is news of inestimable strategic importance, yet a Google News scan reveals that not a single media outlet has taken notice of what Fessio told interviewer Hugh Hewitt last week. No matter: still and small as Benedict's voice might be, it carries further than earthquake and whirlwind.

There are Muslims who believe that Islam can reform but they too are deluded:

FaithFreedom.org,
Why Can't Islam be Reformed?
This is the position of many modern Muslims, including Irshad Manji the author of “What Is Wrong with Islam, Today”. A great number of Muslims realize there is something wrong with Islam, but they erroneously believe the problem can be solved through the miracle of reinterpretation; and that they can keep the Quran and believe in Muhammad but somehow do the opposite of what he did and said and still call themselves Muslims.
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You ask: "Can Islam be reformed?" No, it can't! To reform Islam you have to first get rid of Muhammad and second get rid of the Quran. You have to take out a great portion of that book which is violent. The rest is nonsense and absurdity. But this you can't do, because you have no authority to do such a thing. Muhammad said that he has perfected his religion (Q. 5:3). How can you improve something, which is perfect? You can't change the Quran. You can't reform it. All you can do is to reinterpret and, for example pretend, "slay the unbelievers wherever you find them" means something else.

Then there is the website Muslims Against Sharia who argue that the Quran is not the literal word of Allah; that Islam, in its present form, is not compatible with principles of freedom and democracy; that Muslims must remove all the evil passages from Islamic religious texts; that there is no one religion that is superior to another; that Sharia Law must be abolished; that Seventh Century practices such as stoning, cutting off body parts, marrying and/or having sex with children or animals must be condemned; and hundreds of other suggestions to make Islam more like Christianity or Judaism.

If somehow one could actually change one letter of a book whose wording letter for letter was fixed by no one but Allah, and dutifully followed the advice of Muslims Against Sharia and actually purged Islam of all of its barbarity then we would have in our hands a slim book with the Title "The Quran" and a sole, blank page bound in leather.

But this would not be enough, the other leg of Islam, the Sunnah is the second source of Islamic jurisprudence without which one cannot practice Islam. The Sunnah: the way of the prophet, his sayings, deeds, etc. One could compare these two legs of Islam to Christianity: the Quran, or the word of God, is like the Old Testament, and the Sunnah, or the deeds and sayings of Mohammed, are like the Gospels: the sayings and deeds of Jesus.

But while the deeds and sayings of Jesus are of humility, love, and peace, the deeds and sayings of Mohammed are of narcissism, hate, and military conquest. While the message of Jesus is "Let him who is without sin cast the first stone," the message of Mohammed is "Stone all those who disbelieve." No, I'm afraid that all of the Sunnah must be purged as well.

"But," you may protest, "if we remove all the evil from the Quran and excise all that is vile in the Sunnah, then there will be nothing left to follow in Islam!"

Precisely.

As to what happens to Muslims who try to practice even the slightest deviation from the absolute written word of Allah:

Reuters,
28 Apr 2008,
Hardliners torch "heretical" Indonesian mosque-police
Hundreds of hardline Indonesian Muslims burnt a mosque early on Monday belonging to a sect that has been branded heretical by most Muslims, police said.

The attack in West Java's Sukabumi district came after a government team recommended this month the Ahmadiyya sect be banned because its teachings deviate from the central tenets of Islam.

I believe that the government in Indonesia has a perfect right to ban a religious group because its teachings deviate from the central tenets of Islam.

I believe we in America and Europe should follow their example and likewise ban all of Islam because its teachings deviate from the central tenets of modern civilization.

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Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Yemen: Haven for Terrorists

Yemen's al-Qaeda supporters - Yemeni tribesmen

At first blush you might think yesterday's attack on the tanker Takayama off the east coast of Yemen was the reason the United Nations put up blast walls around its main headquarters and closed some of its offices in Yemen.

Actually, the UN, as well as other foreign entities, has had security problems in the country for some time. Earlier this month there was an attack on a housing complex (including U.N. buildings) for Western diplomats in Yemen's capital and in March a failed mortar attack on the U.S. Embassy injured 13 schoolgirls from a nearby highschool.

The past few years has seen a number of attacks in Yemen targeting foreign tourists and businesses, oil infrastructure, U.S., French, and yesterday, Japanese ships.

Yemen ostensibly joined U.S.-led efforts to fight terrorism after the 11 Sept 2001 attacks but has been unable to purge itself of al-Qaeda and may never be able to do so without the help of the local tribes nor does it have the political will to do so. The main problem of course is that the tribesman (click on photo) do not view al Qaeda as the enemy.

In addition, Yemeni President Saleh openly admits that he has a truce with al Qaeda. The Yemeni regime, in exchange, has a pledge from Osama bin Laden not to attack Yemen. Because the defeatist Liberals in Congress so demoralized our country over the War on Terror, Bush did not have the Big Stick he needed to force the Yemeni regime to stop supporting al Qaeda. If Congress had only shown moral support for our President he could have warned Yemen to really destroy bin Laden's operatives in that country "or else." But how can you say, "Or else," when your enemy knows that you are a House divided, that half your government wants to turn tail and run? That America will do nothing? History will one day record the names of Murtha, Reid, Pelosi, and all the other cowardly opportunists who thwarted the War on Terror for their own personal political gain, as traitors and true enemies of this Republic.

It is noteworthy that Yemeni prisoners make up one of the largest national contingents of detainees at the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay. Yemen will remain a haven for terrorists as long as we continue to elect defeatist, cowardly Liberal scum to Congress.

As for the UN, all their years in Yemen has not yielded one single positive result. Despite all their efforts, the United Nations Development Programme is a failure:

Yemen is one of the poorest countries in the Arab region, ranked 153rd on the Human Development Index (HDI), which places among low human development countries.
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At 3.02%, the country has one of the highest population growth rates globally, with the population expected to double in 23 years to around 40 million. This increases the demand for educational and health services, drinking water and employment opportunities. Yemen faces a severe water shortage, with available ground water being depleted at an alarming rate. The Yemeni economy is caught in a jobless slow growth cycle leading to stagnant per capita incomes and rising levels of unemployment, particularly amongst the youth.

Poverty is widespread, with about 45% of the population living on less than US$ 2 per day and social development indicators, such as child malnutrition, maternal mortality, and education attainment remain poor. There are also large gender disparities, with significant gaps in women’s access to economic, social and political opportunities.

The real problem is that UN offices should be replaced with drug stores that dispense condoms. Yemini women are very fertile. They can expect on average 7.9 children compared to an average of 2.7 in the rest of the world. Because the Muslim faith keeps them ignorant and primitive, Yemini women will continue to spit out tons of potential new al Qaeda terrorists for the next few decades unless we in the West find the resolve to stamp out Islam and replace that fake religion with a benign faith. It doesn't matter to me if it's Christianity or Buddhism or whatever. Anything but Islam.

Tick, tick, tick...

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Monday, April 21, 2008

Goober Carter and the Planet of The Arabs

Goober is at it again trying to "make the peace" in the middle east and dissing the USA and Israel in the process.

Just remember that art imitates life.

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Saturday, April 19, 2008

If Jesus were Mocked, Would Christians Riot

Meanwhile, Somewhere in Dar al Islam....

Looking at comments on blogs from obvious Muslims, we see them all singing the same song: Suppose it was Jesus who was mocked?

News Flash to all Muslims and Imams over the world: You are reading from a script written by someone who has never been to the West. Christians do not riot when Jesus is mocked. They pray for your soul and say "God Bless you for you know not what you do".

Not only do Christians pray for those who mock them they do it even when attacked:

CristianAnswers.net,
Why and how should we pray and act for the suffering church?
Recently, I was in a Christian town totally destroyed in one night by a wild Muslim mob, leaving 10,000-20,000 Christians homeless, seeing all their possessions destroyed. We had a big gathering of Christians and Muslims right afterward, and we spoke about forgiveness and reconciliation.
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We must pray for and even love those who hate us.

So for Allah's sake - stop whining that Christians certainly wouldn't stand for it if their precious prophets were mocked. You only show your ignorance of the West and Christianity. Just so you know, Mahmood, Jews are the biggest buyers of Mercedes Benz and BMW automobiles. They have gotten over German atrocities from the 1930's. You are still crying in your goat's milk over the Crusades from 800 years ago.

Before 9/11, America suffered its worst attack on American soil from the Japanese on a day that we still memorialize: December 7, 1941. Now take a look in American driveways, even those of Pacific Theater Veterans, and you will see Hondas and Toyotas. We got over it.

If you want to see a video of Jesus being mocked, check out Jesus - the musical; by the way, no one rioted and murdered non-Christians because of it.

So while certain Muslims may feel that images of Mohammed are forbidden, there are sects in Islam for which no such prohibition applies. And certainly the Quran does not prohibit infidels from drawing images of Mohammed. I suggest you Muslims go back and carefully read what the Quran really says about images of Allah or Muhammad; don't listen to your riot-inciting imams.

Christians, Jews, and the rest of the world have gotten over past offenses. Forget about the Crusades, the Reconquista and some cartoons. Get over it already.

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Friday, April 18, 2008

OY! When Jews Become Muslims

A tip of the turban Hat Tip

to Infidels are Cool for alerting us to Joseph Cohen aka Yousef al-Khattab, a self-loathing former Jew from New York who, like all idiots that do, converted to Islam and now runs the website forum RevolutionMuslim.com whose Mission Statement, or rather threat to the West, is:

to one day see the Muslims united under one Khalifah and under the commands of Allah (SWT). We focus on educating Muslims and Non-Muslims alike about the actuality of the religion and thereby work to preserve traditional Islamic values for Muslims across the globe. We pray that we may witness the dismantlement of western, secular dominance across the world as we hold it to be pagan and idolatrous in the majority of its presumptions.

It should be noted that Yousef al-Khattab (SFB) considers himself a non-violent, moderate Muslim whose only desire on this Earth is to live a peaceful life free of filthy Jews and Christians, Insha'Allah.

The following video is an interview in Jerusalem where Yousef al-Khattab (SFB) complains that Israel attacks unarmed Palestinians. Yes, Arabic rockets are flowers of peace while Israel's attempts to defend itself are vicious, unprovoked attacks against a peace-loving and unarmed, gentle folk. Why is it that seemingly intelligent Jews, once they convert to Islam, hate their own people and are so delusional as to believe that Israel is fighting unarmed people? Forget about drugs, this is your brain on Islam:

You will also hear him utter the absurdity that America is living under Jewish occupation. To which I respond: I did not know America was living under Jewish occupation. Unless the occupation is doctor, lawyer, scientist…

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