Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Lurch Speaks

Seperated At Birth?


Ok, I've been avoiding the politics..but why?


Happy Halloween!

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***UPDATED-11/1*** Some reactions:

Watch a brilliant Vent at Hotair.com.

Kerry may inadvertently have stated the unfortunate truth that a very large proportion of today's military is comprised of young people who barely made their way through high school and had nothing close to an educational or career prospect. As a 12th grade Government teacher I see the phenomenon year after year of aimless students devoid of ability or ambition settling upon military service as the only possible way to support themselves in adulthood. It came as no surprise when the local paper reported the other day that the highway near the local naval base has the highest rate of DUI arrests in the area. It comes as no surprise when I hear of our troops commiting atrocities in Iraq for sport or amusement. These kinds of behaviors are precisely what I would expect of the students I have who enter the armed forces. Fortunately, there are many exceptionally capable officers to discipline and mold them, but in an era when Recruitment is King we will lower our standards and inundate the military with imbeciles and miscreants. Thank you, John Kerry, for stating the obvious. -- Anonymous [of course...Joe S.]


It stuns me that some people seem to believe that Kerry's remark was aimed at our troops, when it's clear as day that this was just another cheap shot at President Bush. Kerry is a populist and this is what he does. He goes around the country and exploit people's discontent about the war in Irak. He is nothing but a pathetic politician wannabe president and he shows it every day. However, what Republican media machine is doing now sickens me even more then Kerry. They even surpassed Democrats in their efforts with Foley's story by completely twisting the truth and deliberately misinterpreting Kerry's message. Now they are going to try and keep it on front pages until the voting is done and it matters no more. It's a shame. Our politicians should be better then radical islamic clerics who employ the same methods in misguiding people and recruiting them for their jihad, the best example being the latest scandal about Pop's remarks about their religion. Why does politics have to be such a filthy business? C'mon people, open your eyes, don't let media and politicians play you like some role-play strategy game. Don't let them think for you. Use your own heads deciding how you are going to vote Nov. 7. -- Vlad From Massachusetts [ok Vlad!...Joe S.]


Now its up to the Americans to realize who is really stuck in Iraq. Is it Bush? Or the US Army? Simple, isn't it? He was making an indirect statement at the president of the United States of Free America pointing out that he is an illiterate, foolish commander-in-chief who led his force into nowhere only to have dirt on their face. Kerry's "you" refers to Bush and his entire Administration. I fail to see why the Americans missed the point when surprisingly the not-so-smart Mr. President and Co. understood exactly what Senator Kerry meant.-- Nihaj


I have listened to all of the pundits attempt to spin Senator Kerry's remarks as a cut against President Bush. I'm sorry, no logically-thinking human being could do so. His remarks are demeaning to all those who are currently serving and he needed to apologize. By not doing so immediately, he demeans our servicemen and women. I have two nephews who have served in Iraq. Neither are "dumb"". Rather, both are college graduates. I have friends whose sons could have attended nearly any college in Maryland but chose to serve. Senator Kerry only proved his arrogance by not apologizing and he validated the choice of Americans two years ago.-- Jeffrey From California


Democrats, look for anything negative in all that is Conservative. Meanwhile they sit on their high horse shouting down to the "ignorant" masses about how mighty and enlightened they are. Kerry's remarks are exactly what they sounded like, him be condescending to the very people that fight and die to ensure that he has the right to be an elected idiot. Also, as one of the ones that wound up in Iraq, I would like think the time I spent in college was well worth it.-- Jonathan From Woodbridge, VA


He should apologize and stop telling us what he said. We heard what he said. We're not stupid.-- Frank

For those who are behind John Kerry's remarks as a botched joke--next time hire a comedian and not a joke of a person.

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Iraq asks troops to stay as U.S. death toll spikes

The title sounds like a bad Halloween joke (thank Reuters for the creepy spin) but...


Speaking shortly after a bomb killed 28 people in a Baghdad Shi'ite slum on a day that saw at least 70 Iraqis killed across the country, Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari told Reuters: "The presence of the Multi-National Force is indispensable for the security and stability of Iraq and of the region at the moment."


And he is right. Even if he sounds republican.

A marine killed on Sunday in western Anbar province, where troops are fighting Sunni insurgents, and an unidentified member of the military police shot dead by a sniper in east Baghdad took the U.S. military death toll to 101 so far in October.


It was 71 last month, and last passed 100 in January 2005. In all, 2,814 Americans have died in the Iraq conflict.


Commanders say October's increase is partly due to attacks in the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Since militants released a video during last week's festival for the end of Ramadan showing U.S. soldiers being shot, apparently by snipers, the military has also been looking more closely at shooting incidents.


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Ahmadinejad's Ultimatums

It's good to read the words of those who have declared war against us, lest we forget that this IS a Global war on Terrorism and forget the danger we are in by politicizing the war that was waged against us.

On October 20, 2006, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gave an address to the Iranian people really, it was a rant). The address was aired on Jaam-e Jam 1 TV. Here are some excerpts ....

Here's looking at you, kid!Mahmoud Ahmadinejad:
This [Zionist regime] was established in order to swallow up the entire region, and to place it at the disposal of the world forces. It is a big lie that it was done in order to protect those killed in World War II, and in order to compensate them.


Over 60 million people were killed in World War II. Let's assume you are right, and six million [Jews] were among those killed. How come none of you mourn the other 54 million? Why don't you pay reparations to them? Why don't you ever think about them? All your sorrow, your pity, your mourning cries are over [victims] who were counted by I don't know whom...


Obviously, some of the Western countries are being held hostage today by the Zionists. Some Western countries have been paying reparations for 60 years. We sent letters and messages, and asked them: "When will these relations, which evolved from World War II, come to an end?" A war broke out 60 years ago, and some considered themselves the victors in this war. They occupied Palestine. They set up bases throughout the world, and want to act aggressively against all the peoples. They also gave themselves privileges in the international forums, and the other peoples must submit to their control. We asked them when these relations would come to an end. We asked the leader of one of these countries: "Until when will your people have to pay reparations?" For two generations? Three generations? For a 100 years? A 1,000 years? A few thousand years?


The existence of this regime is so essential for these countries that in some of them, they even built monuments. You know that every country builds monuments for the objects of their pride. They take their children, from an early age, to show them these monuments, in order to help them develop their identity, and to instill in their memory the things that make them proud, in order to feel power and honor. In some of these countries, they set up monuments, whose purpose was to degrade that very nation. From an early age, they take their children and say to them: "Look, our ancestors were murderers. Our ancestors used to burn people. We are in debt."


Something happened three generations ago. Let's assume it was true. What is the crime of the youth born in Europe today? What is the crime of people living in the world today that they have to pay reparations so high they cannot even be calculated? The peoples have to pay any sum decreed by America and England. What is the reason for this? When will there be an end to these claims? What is their limit? What does America have to do with this? Why does America extort the world, under the pretext of the Holocaust? Why does England extort [the world]? Wasn't it England that laid the foundations for the fear that led the Jews to flee to the occupied lands?


They said: "We want to establish a place for the survivors." How many survivors were there? With false promises, you gathered the wretched people from Africa, South America, Asia, and North America, and you brought them there. You banished one people from its land, and you want to create another people by force. Why? Why? Are all those now living in Palestine survivors of the war? We asked [these Westerners]: "The current leader of the Zionist regime – where did his parents live? Where were they?" As you know, some of the leaders of the Zionist regime are in fact Iranians.


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The life of this regime depended on military threat, military force, and the legend that it was invincible. Today, with God's grace, this false legend has collapsed, with the help of the young believers of Palestine, and thanks to the believing, self-sacrificing commanders of Hizbullah. Today, the Zionists do not feel secure even in their own homes, anywhere in the world.


Today, this community, which was gathered by force, and under false pretexts, and whose members were joined to one another by a paper-clip, in order to create a false illusion of a nation... Today, they have fallen apart. I declare here, loud and clear: With God's grace, this regime has lost the philosophy of its existence.


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Watch your hands, Mamoud.



I said to them: If you do not agree, open the doors, open the gates, and allow these uninvited guests return to their countries. Let them return to their homeland. If the Western countries that support the Zionists feel sympathetic toward them, they should give them financial aid, so that they can live in their own countries.


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We have some advice for the supporters of this regime. We say to them: First of all, do not seek a new crime. Every crime being perpetrated today, every youth who dies in Palestine today, every home that is demolished, and every incursion into the neighboring countries will be accredited to the supporters of this regime, and the nations will exact their revenge.


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Our proposal is as follows: Since you brought [this regime] over there, you yourselves pick it up, by the arms and legs, and remove it from there. This will make the peoples of the region improve their attitude toward you. These will be the first steps to a long-lasting friendship with the peoples of the region. This will be to your advantage.


You may say: "We feel uncomfortable doing this, because the Zionists control our countries, the propaganda machinery is at their disposal, and if we want to gain voters, we need their money and their support. Therefore, we feel uncomfortable doing this."


Fine. We made you another proposal: Allow that which you advocate take place in Palestine. After all, you advocate democracy, and you claim that the peoples should control their own destiny. So let the Palestinian people decide upon its own path by means of a referendum. In response, you say: "We might lose our reputation." Our response is: You have no reputation left anyway! Where do you still have a reputation anywhere in the world?


In the recent war in Lebanon, you saw with your own eyes that the whole world was against you. Even in Argentina, where the Zionists devise conspiracies, generate strife, and put pressure on the Argentinean administration, the people took to the streets.


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This [Zionist] regime is on the verge of death, and we advise you to start thinking about your long-term interests and long term relations with the peoples of the region. At the end of the day, these are all ultimatums. No-one should complain tomorrow. The things are stated clearly.


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What is this Security Council anyway? The whole world knows that America and England are the enemies of the Iranian nation.


Crowd: Allah Akbar.


Allah Akbar.


Khamenei is the leader.


Death to those who oppose the rule of the jurisprudent


Death to America


Death to England


Death to the hypocrites and Saddam


Death to Israel


Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: They have taken control of the leading positions in the Security Council, and have the right of veto, and they are prosecuting and judging us, and they want to carry out the verdict. Sir, this is the logic of pharaonic times. The days of this logic are over. The Security Council, in its present condition, is illegitimate. Its resolutions are illegitimate. Do you want to be the judges, the rulers, the prosecutors, and those who carry out the verdicts? These days are over. Nobody accepts this behavior of yours. Even the illiterate old women of the Himalayas will not accept this behavior of yours.


Wishing You Were Me.The islamofascists believe they defeated the what they once believed to be the invincible Israel in Lebanon. They are emboldened.

Ahmadinejad's proposal to Britain and the United States is to take Israel out of the Middle East in order to improve our relations with the Middle East. He then proposes that the West allow Palestine to determine their own destiny by destroying Israel.

He blames Israel for every bad thing that happens in the Middle East and of controling the world. He sees the failure of Israel to prevail in Lebanon as a sign from God that Israel is weakened and as he said, the world is against the West.

He then declares that Israel is on the verge of death and tells us clearly that these things are ultimatums.

He completely rejects the validity of the United Nations and any sanctions that are proposed.

There are those in the West who think we need to talk with Ahmadinejad and reason with him. How do you reason with an unreasonable man? With a meglamaniac actually.

Leaving Iraq would leave a vacuum there that Ahmadinejad would be more than happy to occupy. It is my belief he is already providing weapons for the insurgents. They are getting increasingly sophisticated weapons and al-Qaida operatives are coming there from all over the world.

The islamofascist are emboldened by the weak response of Israel to the invasions of hezbollah and hamas. They are emboldened by the media reports that the American people have turned against the war and are demanding the President pull troops out of Iraq. I have seen reports on islamic websites stating they expect American troops will be out of Iraq by the end of this year. They are celebrating the defeat of the Republicans in the upcoming elections and declaring victory over the mighty Amercian Army. They are emboldened.

They have been warning us, Osama bin Laden and Ahmadinejad, that they intend to destroy us. There has been a recent al-Qaida warning to Canada. Yet there are still those that refuse to hear the warnings and still insist on blaming the United States for their problems.

It's all part of Ahmadinejad's apocalyptic vision.

I think it's time we really listen to what our emeny is telling us.

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Monday, October 30, 2006

Giving Down in Dearbornistan

The Islamic Center in Dearborn
DEARBORN, Michigan-- By the end of Ramadan last year, Najah Bazzy remembers having more than $10,000 in cash donations to distribute to the needy, and a vast auditorium ringed with tables groaning with enough free food for 400 poor families to celebrate the holiday.


This year, Bazzy formalized the good works she has been doing unofficially for a decade among the tens of thousands of Muslims who live in the Dearborn area by establishing a charity, Zaman International. But as the holiday arrived this year, charitable contributions plummeted. She said cash donations amounted to less than $4,000, and for the first time since she began her charity work she bought food to feed about 85 needy families instead of counting on gifts.


There are similar stories in Muslim communities across the country. Set off by the pervasive fear that donations to an Islamic charity could bring unwanted attention from federal agents looking into potential ties to terrorism, many people within Muslim American communities have become reluctant to donate to Islamic causes, including charities.


"The sad fact is that there are some Islamic charities involved in terrorist financing. We can't close our eyes to that," said Daniel L. Glaser, the deputy assistant secretary for terrorist financing and financial crimes. "We have to find ways to deal with that."


Imam Qazwini, the descendant of a long line of prominent Iraqi Shiite Muslim clerics, points out that many Muslim Americans, particularly those from the Arab world, fled the region to escape repressive regimes, expecting the United States to provide both freedom and opportunity. Instead they find themselves facing similar problems.


"Many people who came from the Middle East still live with the psyche of being chased by the intelligence forces," he said in an interview. "Having these same forces acting here intensifies the sense of fear in these communities."


"It seems like the terrorists have been able to touch our foundations-our civil liberties are being compromised, our religious freedoms are being compromised."


Regarding that last quote-You know who to thank then. I'm sure that CAIR and the ACLU are looking into some religious freedom lawsuit they can file on their behalf. Wait... did I say CAIR, ACLU, and religious freedom in the same sentence. There must not be a Jew or a Christian involved.

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Pakistan Destroys al-Qaida Site


Pakistan Army takes out an al-Qaida training center:

KHAR, Pakistan - Pakistani troops backed by missile-firing helicopters destroyed a purported al-Qaida-linked training facility in a northwestern tribal area near the Afghan border Monday, officials said. At least 20 people were killed.


The pre-dawn attack targeted a religious school, or madrassa, holding 70-80 militants in Chingai village near Khar, the main town in the Bajur tribal district, said army spokesman Maj. Gen. Shaukat Sultan.


The bodies of 20 tribesmen killed in the attack were lined in a field near the madrassa before an impromptu burial attended by thousands of locals, according to an Associated Press reporter at the scene.


Sultan said the attack targeted terrorists training at the al-Qaida-linked facility, but local leaders said those killed in the raid were innocent civilians.


Among the dead was Liaquat Hussain, a local Islamic cleric who ran the madrassa and is believed to have been sheltering al-Qaida militants, locals said. Several of his aides also died, they said.


The attack came two days after 5,000 pro-Taliban tribesmen held an anti-American rally in the Bajur area near Damadola, a village close to the site of an alleged U.S. missile attack that killed several al-Qaida members and civilians in January.


"We received confirmed intelligence reports that 70-80 militants were hiding in a madrassa used as a terrorist-training facility, which was destroyed by an army strike, led by helicopters," Sultan said.


Soldiers on the ground were counting the dead, Sultan said. He was unable to provide a preliminary estimate of the casualty count, but said that "many" militants had been killed.


Pakistan shows they are on the right side. However with all the tribal ties and the usual "religious sensitivities" I'm surprised this mission even went off. As for the "civilians' involved. Do the math! 20 dead, 20 tribesmen in a terrorist training facility. What we know is these people have no problem hiding among women and children. The probablility is that the 20 were tribesmen by day...terrorists by night.

**UPDATE**-HotAir.com is reporting that Al-Qaida top bananastan, Zawahiri was the target. Faqir Mohammed, an al-Zawahiri deputy was on the scene before or during the raid. I wonder if he was trying to pass as an innocent tribesman too.

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Sunday, October 29, 2006

It's Islam, Jihadi Brown!

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"Of all the Farley Ak-Mohammed Al-Farook Ah-Rasheeds, he's the Farley Ak-Mohammed Al-Farook Ah-Rasheediest!"

Big hat tip to Noisy Room and Jawa Report.

Charlie Brown is disillusioned with Christianity and converts to Islam. Apparently his conversion is complete!

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What's In the Bag?


By Bassam Darwich
October 25, 2006

Waiting for my wife to come out from the fitting room in a department store, I chatted with a man doing the same while watching his little boy playing on the floor in front of the room entrance. We talked about how little children can find joy playing with anything they see around them, whether it is a piece of crumpled paper or a little insect walking on the floor.

All of a sudden, a terrified scream came out from the little boy’s mouth as he then ran toward his father, jumped on his lap and hid his head between his arms.

He certainly was right to be frightened, as it probably was the very first time in his life he encountered such a weird creature that just came out of the fitting room. Frankly, had I not seen this creature myself before, I would have also felt frightened observing it coming out from that room unexpectedly.

That terrifying creature was a Muslim woman - and please don't ask how I guessed she was Muslim – fat, huge and wearing black from top to bottom, showing nothing of her body, hands, feet, or even her eyes which were covered with dark glasses. She came out very quickly and walked away like a huge black bag rolling on the ground with the help of hidden wheels.

It was perfectly reasonable for the boy to cry. And if he had a little dog with him, the dog might have also run away scarred, or possibly given her chase, grabbing her from her leg or robe tail in defense of his master.

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I really cannot fathom from whom this woman is afraid of if her face were shown. I don't think people in this country care to stare at other people’s faces. They don't even bother looking at naked bellies and breasts showing up from open chests.

I felt sorry for not having my camera to provide my readers a picture of this creature. I smiled; however, as I thought that I can take a picture of any other Muslim woman wearing the Niqab (the complete cover) and pretend it was hers. Who could after all tell the difference between one big black bag and another as long as no one knows who is inside either one!

Frankly, I don't care what this woman chooses to wear or not to wear. It is her right if she so desires to live her entire life in this bag, or to never get out of it to see the sunshine and smell the roses. It is her decision to live deprived of her rights as a free human being and not as a concubine. But, because the way she is dressed can affect me in a way, I cannot close my eyes and ignore this phenomenon. I have a good reason to believe that this sort of costume can be a threat to me in many ways; therefore, it is my absolute right to call upon the authorities to protect me from it.

First of all, I see in this sort of garment a real danger to the security of my country. There are many Muslim terrorists wanted for justice with their pictures all over internet web sites, post offices, government agencies, schools, stores, and other places. These pictures are there so that we, as citizens, can help in apprehending them. In fact, we have a moral obligation in making citizen's arrest - if it is in our ability to do so – when we find such a terrorist! There are also many other criminals wanted for justice, like thieves, bank robbers, rapists, smugglers, etc. How would I know as a citizen that this huge walking black bag is not hiding one of those criminals? How can I feel safe seeing such a bag next to me, while I am standing in line in a bank, or waiting for my kids in front of the school, or shopping in a store?

Secondly, I seriously believe that such a dress can be a direct danger to me and my family. How can I tell if the person inside this bag is a man or a woman? Any person can dress as such and goes inside the women's fitting room where my wife or daughter might be. No one will stop him fearing litigation for religious and ethnic discrimination!

Thirdly, it is well known that shoplifting affects everyone and not only business owners. Business owners always add the cost of shopliftings to the price of the items we buy. Consequently, we end up paying for it. How would the business owners know that these dresses are not used by professional thieves!

Finally, how can I feel safe while walking on any street, not knowing if inside such a bag, some sort of criminal is pointing a gun at me or others? How would I know that this is not a bomb walking on two legs!

This Niqab is used by some female prostitutes in Islamic countries, so that they can move from one place to another without being bothered by anyone. A wife or a daughter can even be going to meet her man under the eyes of her husband or father without him knowing who is inside the bag. It certainly is their business, and I don't give a damn about it as long as they wear it in their countries. But here, in my country, I believe this weird dress is imposing on my security, and therefore, I call upon the authorities to protect me by banning its use in public places.

From Annaqed The Critic.

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Saturday, October 28, 2006

Al-Qaeda warns Canada

Hat tip to Clarity and Resolve:

OTTAWA - An al-Qaeda strategist has warned Canada to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan or face terrorist attacks similar to 9/11, Madrid and the London transit bombings.


The threat, attributed to a member of the al-Qaeda information and strategy committee, condemns Prime Minister Stephen Harper for refusing to pull out of Afghanistan.


It also refers to Canada's "fanatic adherence to Christianity" as well as its purported attempts to "damage the Muslims" and its support for the "Christian Crusade" against al-Qaeda.


"Despite the strong, increasing opposition to spread its forces in the fire of South Afghanistan, it seems that they will not learn the lesson easily," Hossam Abdul Raouf writes.


"They will either be forced to withdraw their forces or face an operation similar to New York, Madrid, London and their sisters, with the help of Allah."

Why is Canada a target? The video in this post explains things perfectly.As Patrick at C&R says, "Friendship with the great Satan has its advantages." I agree when he says, "I don't care what any partisan jerks say, Canada and America are the best of friends."

I also agree with the the Canadian soldier who says, "They're definitely going to wonder who the Canadians are from here on oot, that's for sure." You betcha!

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DoD calls out the MSM


The DoD calls out the New York Times.

October 27, 2006: The U.S. Department of Defense is now taking its requests for corrections public through a website known as For the Record. Here, the Department of Defense is openly calling for corrections from major media outlets, and even noting when they refuse to publish letters to the editor.


The most recent was this past Tuesday, when the DOD published a letter, that the New York Times refused to run, which contained quotes from five generals (former CENTCOM commander Tommy Franks, current CENTCOM commander John Abizaid, MNF Commander George Casey, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Richard Myers, as well as his successor, Peter Pace) that rebutted a New York Times editorial. This has been picked up by a number of bloggers who have been able to spread the Pentagon's rebuttal – and the efforts of the New York Times to sweep it under the rug – across the country.


The Defense Department has been dealing with a number of misleading stories. From Newsweek's misreporting of a Koran-flushing incident (caused by a detainee, not guards as reported by Newsweek), to claims of prisoner mistreatment (often without context, including one instance where a detainee spat on an interrogator), to a massive rewriting of an embedded reporter's report on the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment's efforts in Tal Afar, by editors of Time magazine, to the revelations about NSA efforts, the DOD has been barraged by numerous stories, many of which were followed by angry editorials.


The DOD is pushing back, not only putting out requests to correct the record (with the refusals published as well), but also citing stories of heroes that the media has failed to cover – usually two or three a week. Among these are accounts of those who have been awarded medals for battlefield bravery, like Navy Cross recipients Robert J. Mitchell Jr. and Bradley A. Kasal, as well as Silver Star recipients Juan M. Rubio, Sarun Sar, Jeremy Church, and Leigh Ann Hester. The DOD has also followed CENTCOM's lead in running pieces on what terrorists actually say – another item largely ignored by the mainstream media.


The Department of Defense is acting in an effort to avoid a repeat of the aftermath of the 1968 Tet Offensive. On the battlefield, American and South Vietnamese forces won a victory – effectively destroying the Viet Cong and crippling North Vietnamese forces in South Vietnam. However, media misreporting, including Walter Cronkite's famous mischaracterization of the war as a "stalemate", took away the victory that had been won on the battlefield. Such a scenario is less likely now, largely due to the presence of the internet (including blogs), talk radio, and other news networks – and the Department of Defense is taking advantage of alternative ways to get around the mainstream media. – Harold C. Hutchison (haroldc.hutchison@gmail.com)


The media has waged a war on the United States and has actively participated in promoting the propoganda put out by enemies of the United States.

It's about time the DoD fought back.

For the Record


Help spread the truth.

tiara tip MVRWC for the story and the graphic.

Spreading the truth: Villainous Company, PC Free Zone, The World According to Carl, Wake Up America

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A conversation with a Muslim in Pakistan


I recently had a chat with muslim from Pakistan. Here are a few segments of our conversation. I think this is very revealing especially since this guy is probably considered a "moderate" Muslim.

First I pointed out a Hadith to him and asked for his reaction:

(10:42:33 PM) ME: Narrated Abu Qilaba: Anas said, "Some people of 'Ukl or 'Uraina tribe came to Medina and its climate did not suit them. So the Prophet ordered them to go to the herd of (Milch) camels and to drink their milk and urine (as a medicine). So they went as directed and after they became healthy, they killed the shepherd of the Prophet and drove away all the camels. The news reached the Prophet early in the morning and he sent (men) in their pursuit and they were captured and brought at noon. He then ordered to cut their hands and feet (and it was done), and their eyes were branded with heated pieces of iron, They were put in 'Al-Harra' and when they asked for water, no water was given to them." Abu Qilaba said, "Those people committed theft and murder, became infidels after embracing Islam and fought against Allah and His Apostle ."


(10:43:20 PM) ME: Bukhari book 4 hadith 234
(10:43:27 PM) PAKISTAN MUSLIM: i am not sure is this is true hadis or not
(10:43:35 PM) ME: yes
(10:43:47 PM) PAKISTAN MUSLIM: but urine is used as medicine now a days in many medicine
(10:45:12 PM) ME: camel urine? I did not know this
(10:45:22 PM) ME: I wasnt talking about that though
(10:45:31 PM) PAKISTAN MUSLIM: yea it is used in medicine
(10:46:04 PM) ME: I was talking about what the prophet did to this man
(10:46:48 PM) PAKISTAN MUSLIM: i am not sure that this is true or not i am hearing this first time
(10:46:58 PM) PAKISTAN MUSLIM: but it is true that his hand should be cut off
(10:47:03 PM) PAKISTAN MUSLIM: he was thief

This just shows that unlike Christians and Jews they take everything literally and that it is met for all time nothing is taken as historical. So he agrees this mans hand should be cut off and he also says camel urine is used in medicine???? I am unaware of this. I tried to research this but I find no evidence. Anyone in the medical field aware of this please let me know. Now on to the next part of the conversation. This time I ask him about the killing of someone that converts from Islam to another religion.

(10:47:43 PM) ME: Narrated 'Ikrima: Some Zanadiqa (atheists) were brought to 'Ali and he burnt them. The news of this event, reached Ibn 'Abbas who said, "If I had been in his place, I would not have burnt them, as Allah's Apostle forbade it, saying, 'Do not punish anybody with Allah's punishment (fire).' I would have killed them according to the statement of Allah's Apostle, 'Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him.'"
(10:48:04 PM) ME: whoever converts from Islam to another religion kill them?
(10:48:13 PM) ME: maybe this is the way things should be?
(10:48:30 PM) PAKISTAN MUSLIM: yea may be quated out of context
(10:48:42 PM) PAKISTAN MUSLIM: we dont know fulll story
(10:49:23 PM) ME: http://www.searchtruth.com/book_display.php?book=84&translator=1&start=0&number=57
(10:49:28 PM) ME: theres the whole story
(10:49:34 PM) ME: its an islamic website
(10:49:44 PM) PAKISTAN MUSLIM: oh ic
(10:49:59 PM) ME: go to the link and read
(10:50:57 PM) ME: as far as I can tell it is justified if someone converts from Islam to another religion for them to be killed
10:51:19 PM) PAKISTAN MUSLIM: no
(10:52:09 PM) ME: why you say no?
(10:52:30 PM) PAKISTAN MUSLIM: this is right
(10:53:04 PM) ME: what the hadith says is correct right?
(10:53:15 PM) ME: i dont know
(10:53:54 PM) ME: the Quran even says this
(10:54:05 PM) PAKISTAN MUSLIM: yea i suport this
(10:54:19 PM) ME: if one converts to Islam and then turns his back we can be killed
(10:54:23 PM) ME: They desire that you should disbelieve as they have disbelieved, so that you might be (all) alike; therefore take not from among them friends until they fly (their homes) in Allah's way; but if they turn back, then seize them and kill them wherever you find them, and take not from among them a friend or a helper.
(10:54:28 PM) PAKISTAN MUSLIM: yea
(10:54:31 PM) ME: Surah 4:89
(10:54:35 PM) PAKISTAN MUSLIM: Thats very good
(10:54:40 PM) PAKISTAN MUSLIM: i am happy to listen this.

This conversation tells alot. He seemed at first to be in denial that Islam would approve killing an apostate. Then he realized there was no denying the passages I had put forth. Either that or he wanted to try to act like a "moderate" to me and realized that he couldnt any longer. Whatever the case he believes that anyone who converts from Islam to another religion can rightfully be killed.

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Al-Qaeda most wanted operative killed in Pakistan

Another one bites the dust.

ISLAMABAD: An Al-Qaeda operative wanted in connection with 1998 US Embassy bombings has been killed in Pakistan.


According to a private channel, Mohsin Mousa Motwali Attwa, most wanted by FBI was killed in April in North Waziristan during an airstrike by Pakistani forces near the border with Afghanistan.


Attwa, 42 Egyptian was indicted in connection with Al-Qaeeda suicide bombings of US Embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Darus Salam Tanzania. The attacks killed 224 people including 12 Americans.


It has been officially confirmed in Islamabad that a leading Al-Qaeeda member was killed in an army operation in the frontier region of Pakistan.


On the other hand, CIA has also confirmed the killing of an Al-Qaeeda operative involved in the bombings at the US Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in an encounter with security forces of the country.


Meanwhile American CIA has said that after the formal DNA test it has been established that Attwa had died in an encounter with the Pakistani Security forces in North Waziristan early this year, after which the FBI has deleted his name and photo posted on its website of most wanted people.

He has been DELETED!

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Gulf ships on alert over al-Qaeda threat


The Royal Navy has warned merchant ships in the Gulf to be on their guard after an al-Qaeda threat to target oil terminals in the area.

Coalition naval forces in the area have been put on watch for possible terror threats to oil facilities in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, officials said.


A Royal Navy official said the threat had resulted in increased security and vigilance at Saudi Arabia's Ras Tanura terminal, as well as at a refinery in Bahrain. But oil exports were proceeding as normal, he said.


The Royal Navy, part of the Italian-led Coalition Task Force 152 that patrols international waters off the Ras Tanura terminal, sent an e-mail yesterday warning merchant shipping in the region of Bahrain and eastern Saudi Arabia to be alert for suspicious vessels or activity.


The US navy's 5th fleet, based in Bahrain, said it was aware of the British warning.


The British official said coalition ships were sticking to international waters and had not been invited to patrol inside Saudi Arabia's territorial waters near the terminal.


"The Saudis are very protective of their patch," the British official in Dubai said. He described the patrols as normal naval operations that had been under way since 2002, though on a heightened state of alert for the past month.



This is, in part, a response to a videotaped message from al-Qaida's deputy leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, was released on the 5th anniversary of 9/11.

In the video the terrorist leader warned the Persian Gulf region and Israel would be the group's next targets. He also accused Western powers of stealing what he called Muslim oil.


US State Department spokesman Sean McCormack says the United States is ready to help Saudi Arabia fight threats from terrorist groups.


"There have been calls by al-Qaida to attack Saudi oil facilities in the recent past," he said. "These are not new. You go back in the record you can see these threats previously. We will do everything that we can, if there is a request for assistance, both in general terms or specific terms to assist the Saudi government."


McCormack declined to discuss specific threats to Saudi facilities or whether the United States has received any requests to defend them.


I doubt if the British has not recieved a request to defend the Saudis and Bahrain, niether has the US. But we always seem to be ready to defend our allies. That's just the way we are.

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Friday, October 27, 2006

Dad stands trial over daughter's mutilation

A father stands accused of the unthinkable: brutally cutting his daughter's genitals.

The girl was only 2.

Monday, activists from all over the world will be focused on a Gwinnett County courtroom as Khalid Adem, accused of cruelty to a child and aggravated battery for allegedly circumcising his daughter, goes on trial.


Adem, 30, was charged with aggravated battery and cruelty to children more than three years ago and, if convicted, could face 40 years in prison. He was born in Ethiopia, where circumcision is a common procedure for young girls.


Adem's trial may be a landmark case for health and human rights activists fighting against the African custom they call genital mutilation. But for those close to the victim, this trial is about vindication and healing for a little girl who was forced to endure unbearable pain.SOURCE

This seems to be practiced among Muslims in Egypt,Ethipoia,Malaysia,Indonesia just to name a few. Many Muslims claim there is know justification for this in the Quran or the Hadiths. They are almost correct. It is mentioned once in a Hadith by Ahmad ibn Hanbal which says "Circumcision is a law for men and a preservation of honour for women." (5:75)" There is no other mention of this. But to alot of Muslims that is all it takes. One mention of something and it is taken literally. They do not take things in to consideration as being something historical as Jews and Christians do. Everything is Literal and met for all time. Until this stops we will always have jihad.

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Thursday, October 26, 2006

Paris Burning - Again!

Paris BurningParis is burning again. Or is it still?

French 'youth' (that's code for muslim immigrants) burned buses on the eve of the anniversary of the riots of October 2005. Apparently, even after the rioting of last year, these muslim youth still feel disenchantment.
Youths forced passengers off three buses and set them on fire overnight in suburban Paris, raising tensions Thursday ahead of the first anniversary of the riots that engulfed France's rundown, heavily immigrant neighborhoods. [source]

Actually, No Pasaran reports there were 4 buses hijacked and burned.

About 10 'youth' hijacked one bus with pistols, forcing passengers off the bus and then torching it. WAIT JUST A MINUTE! I thought guns were outlawed in France. So how did they get guns?

The French government responded with something along the effect of 'somebody ought to do something'.

Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin said the events "should lead to an immediate response."

"We cannot accept the unacceptable," he told reporters in the northern suburb of Cergy-Pontoise. "There will be arrests. ... That is our responsibility."

Villepin also said efforts should be directed to "revitalize" troubled neighborhoods, and repeated the government's insistence that authorities rid France of "lawless zones" where youth gangs operate.

The transportation authority responded that they would avoid 'sensitive' neighborhoods.

These weak and ineffective responses have not had any effect on the disillusionment of the 'youth' who keep burning and rioting in France - except that this year they are burning buses instead of cars.

The muslim community is calling for more understanding and acceptance. They are saying that it's probably not okay to keep burning things, but if that's what it takes to get what they want ......

Appeasement and denial haven't gotten the French very far as yet. Maybe if they keep trying it'll eventually work.


Plus & Ultra says there's no cause for alarm....

Also at: LGF, Gateway Pundit.

crossposted at Blue Star Chronicles

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Was Ramadan A Peaceful time?

Feast at the end of Ramadan
Despite the fact many muslims want to tell us Ramadan is a time of "peace" The Quran says otherwise:

"The count of months, as far as God is concerned, is twelve.* This has been God's law, since the day He created the heavens and the earth. Four of them are sacred. This is the perfect religion; you shall not wrong your souls (by fighting) during the Sacred Months. However, you may declare all-out war against the idol worshipers (even during the Sacred Months), when they declare all-out war against you, and know that God is on the side of the righteous." Quran 9:36

How does a Muslim explain this?

Apparently it seems many Muslims are aware the Quran allows them to continue jihad even during Ramadan:

Violence Up During Ramadan

>Insurgent and sectarian attacks in the Iraqi capital have shot up during Ramadan, the Muslim holy month of fasting and atonement, according to U.S. military statistics released Thursday.

Since the beginning of the holiday nearly three weeks ago, the number of violent incidents has averaged 36 a day. That compares with about 28 a day since mid-June, when U.S. and Iraqi security forces began a high-profile security crackdown aimed at stemming the violence between Sunni Arabs and Shiite Muslims.


Al-Qaeda Ensures a Violent Ramadan in Iraq

>On October 15 the Muslim month of Ramadan kicked off with a crop of attacks, justifying Iraqi fears that the traditional holy month of fasting and prayer has been transformed into a harbinger of violence. On that day a powerful car bomb exploded in Baghdad near an Iraqi police station, wounding 10 police and civilians. As if to underscore the religious struggle this was followed a day later by a string of attacks on the minority Christian community with blasts at churches around Baghdad. Both of these were soon eclipsed by a sustained mortar attack on an Iraqi National Guard headquarters north of Baghdad, leaving a total of over 100 killed or injured. The tone for Ramadan was duly set.


And then you have Europe trying to be "sensitive" to the Muslims during Ramadan:

Police anger over ban on arrests during Ramadan

Manchester Police have been told not to arrest Muslims at prayer times during the holy month of Ramadan. The order is said to have angered a number of officers in the Greater Manchester force.

An internal email listing prayer times has been sent to officers who have been asked not to execute arrest warrants during prayer times for reasons of religious sensitivity.

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Iraq: The Real Story




From The Glenn Beck Show.


Well... He did ask us to download it and share it. Well not personally but as one of the collective mass of viewers of his program on CNN's Headline News, weeknights at 7 eastern / 6 central time!


(free gratuitous plug courtesy of Jihadi Du Jour)

Click the Pic for the video, "Iraq: The Real Story".

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Vladhimmi Putin



Russian President Vladimir Putin has ended months of speculation and finally enrolled in the Dhimmi Club. Surprising for a man, who in the past has lashed out with great vengeance and furious anger at Chechnyan terrorists who misbehaved in his own backyard. Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov hinted to Russian news agencies that Russia would oppose a draft of a UN Security Council Resolution aimed at imposing sanctions against the Iranians. Lavrov said:

"Our goal is to eliminate the risks of sensitive technologies getting into the hands of Iran until the IAEA clarifies issues of interest to it, while maintaining all possible channels of communication with Iran. And it seems to me that, in this context, the draft resolution clearly does not correspond to those tasks agreed on by the six sides."

Earlier this week, the Europeans had proposed imposing sanctions which would ban the sale of missile and atomic technology to Iran. The sanctions would also impose limits the Russian built power plant.

Russia is protecting its financial interests. They have contracted to build Iran's first nuclear power station for a price of 1 billion dollars. The head of the state company that is building the reactor said today that it will be completed as scheduled by September 2007. Just last month, the Russians agreed to supply fuel to the plant starting in March of next year.

Russia has always sided with the Arabs against the West. Since the establishment of the State of Israel, Russia has armed the neighboring Arab nations to the teeth. Most of the Israeli fatalities in the Lebanon War were caused by Russian made weapons. At least that was a rational decision to strengthen Soviet influence in the region while simultaneously weakening Western interests. Iran however, is a step too far. Putin is willing, for financial reward, to strengthen today's ally at the cost of creating tomorrow's enemy. Russia's Moslem population is growing in leaps and bounds. When Iran is ready to bite, they would have many willing collaborators in and on the Russian border. Then, a billion dollars will feel like chump change to him.

From The American Israeli Patriot

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Head of Irish government confirms terrorists are in Ireland


From Slugger O'Toole:

Bertie Ahren confirms Jihadist presence in Ireland--

Not that he had much choice in the matter, since RTÉ had already obtained documents dating from 2003, under the US Freedom of Information Act, from the US State Department revealing that "up to six Islamist groups have had cells operating in Ireland." and that the information was based on intelligence gathered by gardaí.


Asked if any "foreign terrorist groups" had a presence in Ireland, the embassy named the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, Al-Gama'at al-Islamiyah, the Algerian Armed Islamic Group, al-Qaeda, and "possibly Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad".


Asked to describe the presence, the embassy said there are "operational support, logistical and financial cells located in Ireland". Asked if there are "any ethnic or religious communities in the country that are sympathetic to these groups", the embassy said yes. Asked if there had been any anti-American demonstrations in Ireland over the previous 12 months, the embassy said yes, and estimated the average size of a protest at between "30 to 300 people".


Meanwhile, the embassy also told the US state department that there were "suspect non-governmental organisations in the country that have a relationship" with some of the groups.


One could have guessed this being so close in proximity to England and France. as one of Slugger's commentors put it "Where there is a Muslim there is a terrorist eh?" Not neccesarily in the same room, but you get the picture.

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Wednesday, October 25, 2006

Muslim leader blames women for sex attacks

Hello Kitty!Mullahs gone wild! This is not a joke...it is a RAMADAN sermon by an Aussie top cleric!

Australia--The nation's most senior Muslim cleric has blamed immodestly dressed women who don't wear Islamic headdress for being preyed on by men and likened them to abandoned "meat" that attracts voracious animals.


In a Ramadan sermon that has outraged Muslim women leaders, Sydney-based Sheik Taj Din al-Hilali also alluded to the infamous Sydney gang rapes, suggesting the attackers were not entirely to blame.


While not specifically referring to the rapes, brutal attacks on four women for which a group of young Lebanese men received long jail sentences, Sheik Hilali said there were women who "sway suggestively" and wore make-up and immodest dress ... "and then you get a judge without mercy (rahma) and gives you 65 years".


"But the problem, but the problem all began with who?" he asked.


The leader of the 2000 rapes in Sydney's southwest, Bilal Skaf, a Muslim, was initially sentenced to 55 years' jail, but later had the sentence reduced on appeal.


In the religious address on adultery to about 500 worshippers in Sydney last month, Sheik Hilali said: "If you take out uncovered meat and place it outside on the street, or in the garden or in the park, or in the backyard without a cover, and the cats come and eat it ... whose fault is it, the cats or the uncovered meat?


"The uncovered meat is the problem."


The sheik then said: "If she was in her room, in her home, in her hijab, no problem would have occurred."


He said women were "weapons" used by "Satan" to control men.


"It is said in the state of zina (adultery), the responsibility falls 90 per cent of the time on the woman. Why? Because she possesses the weapon of enticement (igraa)."


Hmmm...I had this same discussion with a fundamentalist Christian friend over the question of thongs at the beach.

Uncovered meat, indeed.

Somehow I don't think this is exactly the same thing as it is not likely that the thong wearer would get raped, TRIED, AND HANGED for brandishing the "weapons of enticement".

Hat tip to HotAir.com.

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MSM: Mostly Sordid Media

The MSM has developed a nasty habit of turning fiction into fact; victim into culprit. The total disregard for facts that do not suit their political agenda has become their hallmark. The bias is so great that there is no hesitation to print a contradictory piece and then draw some sordid conclusion.

Today I bring you the NY Times Editorial titled "The Wrong Partner in Israel". The point of the article is that it is wrong for Israeli PM Olmert to welcome a far right wing party into his government. The Times views it as a threat to the "peace process". As if there is one. I quote;

American and European diplomats have been arguing that the one positive result of the Lebanon war could be new momentum toward a wider Middle East peace. The idea was that a new awareness of the limits of Israeli military power and growing Arab fears of Shiite radicalism would push both sides toward the necessary compromises.

Fact: Arabs are not willing to join forces with Israel to fight the Shiites. They have taken the bait from the MSM that terror cannot be beaten, and withdrawal is the answer. The West's pipe dream that "moderate" Arab nations would actually unite against the Shiite terror is nothing more than that. The anti-American/Israeli rhetoric is at a feverish pitch which has never seen before. The Lebanon war has distanced any chance of a real deal taking place.

That now seems less likely than ever. The chief Palestinian party, Hamas, refuses to take the most minimal steps required for diplomatic credibility-a clear rejection of terrorism, acceptance of prior agreements and acknowledgment of Israel’s legitimacy. Efforts by the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, to bring Hamas around have not gotten as much support as they should from Israel. With Israel Beiteinu joining Mr. Olmert’s coalition, they are likely to get even less.

Fact: Bringing a right wing party into the Government does not lessen the chance of a peace deal when the enemy is sworn to destruction. There is no chance of a peace deal with Hamas. What the new government could accomplish is to toughen Israel's stance and cause an implosion in Gaza. However, with Olmert at the helm, it's not very likely.

Creating new obstacles to peace with the Palestinians is the last thing Israel needs after the Lebanon fiasco.

As if Israeli politics is the obstacle. Is Hamas willing to recognize Israel? Is Hamas willing to renounce terror? Is Hamas willing to honor previously signed agreements? No, no and no. The obstacle is Islamic terror and their obsession with the destruction of Israel. The Times warns that Israel would create an obstacle in the same breath that they claim Hamas is no partner. Which one is it?

The MSM's obsession with appeasement is a bankrupt policy, a suicidal agenda. It has never worked and never will. Appeasement is weakness. I end with a quote from George Washington:

"There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy."

From: The American Israeli Patriot

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Iraqi PM says ready to tackle militias


BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's prime minister pledged on Wednesday to crack down on illegal militias after coming under pressure from Washington to take steps to curb violence and allow U.S. troops to go home.


But in a sign of challenges Iraqi leaders face in achieving "benchmarks" agreed with an impatient U.S. administration before congressional elections next month, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki was the object of fresh anger after an overnight raid by U.S. and Iraqi forces killed at least four people and wounded 20 in the Shi'ite stronghold of Sadr City in Baghdad.


The U.S. military said Iraqi special forces backed by U.S. airstrikes conducted the raid "to capture a top illegal armed group commander directing widespread death squad activity."


A relaxed-looking Maliki told a news conference he would deal with the militias: "The state is the only one that has the right to carry weapons," he said. "We will deal with anybody who is outside the law.


"Everyone now realizes that the existence of armed groups and militias harms the stability and unity of the state."


Maliki has struggled to balance the conflicting demands of his Shi'ite-led coalition government. Sectarian and militia violence has escalated, raising fears of a full-scale civil war.


Six months after Maliki took office, with vital support from Shi'ite cleric and militia leader Moqtada al-Sadr, he has made little headway on pledges to curb activity by militias.


Less than two weeks before the November 7 U.S. congressional elections that have put President George W. Bush's Republicans on the defensive over their Iraq strategy, ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad and the military commander in Baghdad said on Tuesday success was still possible, and on a "realistic timetable."


Khalilzad said Iraqi leaders had agreed to a timetable of political and security measures and he expected "significant progress" on the steps in the next 12 months.


In the meantime, an opinion piece in WAPO titled "Insult to Injury in Iraq" by Frederick W. Kagan complains that the US wants the Iraqi government to take a larger role in governing...[?]

Such arguments have been latent in the Bush administration's Iraq strategy and explicit in Democratic critiques of that strategy for some time. Now Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has declared: "It's their country. . . . They're going to have to govern it, they're going to have to provide security for it, and they're going to have to do it sooner rather than later."


...The current crisis in Iraq is no more just an Iraqi problem than it has ever been. The U.S. military destroyed Iraq's government and all institutions able to keep civil order. It designated itself an "occupying force," thereby accepting the responsibility to restore and maintain such order. And yet U.S. Central Command never actually made establishing order and security a priority. Its commander throughout the insurgency, Gen. John Abizaid, has instead repeatedly declared that America's role is primarily to train Iraqi forces to put down their own rebellion and maintain order.


What destroyed government is Mr. Kagan refering to? Sadaam Hussein's? I imagine he would rather have a mass murderer's government puppets stayed in place to maintain "order and security"?

I think Frederick Kagan has missed the point. The US was always there to assist in establishing a new and free government in Iraq, with the intention of handing over power, at the right time. Perhaps Mr. Kagan's watch, along with most of the American left, is running a little fast.

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Tuesday, October 24, 2006

A Veiled Threat

The culture clash between Islam and the West has been front and center for many years. The recent niqab, or full face veil incidents seem to have brought the issue to a head. An English teaching assistant was recently fired for refusing to remove her niqab when in the presence of men. A Michigan judge threw out the case of a woman who refused to remove her niqab while testifying in court.

Naturally, what followed were claims of racism, discrimination and suppression of freedom of religion. As usual, the Moslem voice had no time to take into account the rules or norms of the society in which they are living. We must tolerate them while they are forbidden to tolerate us. This precedent was smartly summed up by Mike's America; "By tolerating the intolerance of Muslims, so we don't offend them, we've allowed them to set the terms for the discussion."

I bring to you Anne Applebaum from today's Washington Post:

Critics call the veil a symbol of female oppression or rejection of Western values. Defenders say that it is a symbol of religious faith and that it allows women to be "free" in a different sense -- free from cosmetics, from fashion and from unwanted male attention. Debate about the veil inevitably leads to discussions of female emancipation, religious freedom and the assimilation, or lack thereof, of Muslim communities in the West.


And yet, at a much simpler level, surely it is also true that the full-faced veil -- the niqab, burqa or chador -- causes such deep reactions in the West not so much because of its political or religious symbolism but because it is extremely impolite. Just as it is considered rude to enter a Balinese temple wearing shorts, so, too, is it considered rude, in a Western country, to hide one's face. We wear masks when we want to frighten, when we are in mourning or when we want to conceal our identities. To a Western child -- or even an adult -- a woman clad from head to toe in black looks like a ghost. Thieves and actors hide their faces in the West; honest people look you straight in the eye.


If Western tourists can wear sarongs in Balinese temples to show respect for the locals, so too can religious Muslim women show respect for the children they teach and the customers they serve by leaving their head scarves on, but removing their full-faced veils.

Many years ago my father taught me that one person's rights end where the next person's nose begins. Freedom of religion is not a sweeping exemption from compliance with the laws or established culture of a given society. No one is forcing this woman to be a teacher. She is not being forced to be in a situation which would compromise her religious beliefs. She must adapt to the society that she has chosen to live in. She must double check, and be damned sure where my nose begins. With every passing day, incidents like these are going unchecked. Many have come to accept that the Moslems are different and must be catered to for lack of offending them. It's time to put this practie to bed. Can you spell dhimmi?

From: The American Israeli Patriot

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Hezbollah Linked to Bomb Scare At US Embassy In Venezuela

Seems that Venezuelan police busted a student in Caracas, after he planted two pipe bombs near the US embassy.

Of course, there were kids at an adjacent school. AND, just in case anyone had any doubt it was connected to Hezbollah, both pipe bombs were wrapped in plastic bags, with fliers promoting Hezbollah literature.

The kid that did it went to Bolivarian University, a state run school started by Hugo Chavez.

Click here for the whole enlightening and instructive article.

The above symbol is taken from a Venezuelan Islamist forum.

And of course, our borders remain wide open, so that terrorists with Venezuelan passports can cross any time they want to.

From RedHotCuppaPolitics.

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Judge Refuses to Hear Testimony of Veiled Muslim


CAIR-MI: VEIL COSTS HER CLAIM IN COURT


Ginnnah Muhammad of Detroit criticized Hamtramck Judge Paul Paruk: "I didn't feel like the court recognized me as a person that needed justice."


Ginnnah Muhammad of Detroit was looking for her day in court.


Instead, she said she felt as if a judge forced her to choose between her case and her religion in a small-claims dispute in Hamtramck District Court.


A devout Muslim, she wore a niqab -- a scarf and veil to cover her face and head except for her eyes -- Oct. 11 as she contested a rental car company's charging her $2,750 to repair a vehicle after thieves broke into it.


Judge Paul Paruk said he needed to see her face to judge her truthfulness and gave Muhammad, 42, a choice: take off the veil when testifying or the case would be dismissed. She kept the veil on.


"I just feel so sad," Muhammad said last week. "I feel that the court is there for justice for us. I didn't feel like the court recognized me as a person that needed justice. I just feel I can't trust the court."


The wearing of a niqab has spurred increasing debate, particularly in Europe. In 2004, France banned the wearing of it and other religious symbols in public schools.


This month, former British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, still a member of parliament, ignited a fierce debate over the niqab by suggesting that Muslim women in his district remove their veils when they visit his office. He said it would improve communication, calling the veil "a visible statement of separation and of difference."


It has sparked controversy in the United States as well. A Muslim woman from Florida unsuccessfully went to court in an effort to overturn the state's order in 2001 that she reveal her face for her driver's license photo.[--huh?]


In metro Detroit, which has one of the country's largest Muslim populations, a small minority of Muslim women -- primarily those of Yemeni descent -- wear the niqab, said Dawud Walid, executive director of the Michigan branch of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. . .


Walid said Paruk still violated Muhammad's civil rights.


"Although a niqab is donned by a minority of Muslim females, it is still a bona fide religious practice," he said.


Watch for our friends at CAIR to bring the hijab/niqab controversy to YOUR doorstep. Poor Muhammed should have obeyed the court. I say "Welcome to America--time to assimilate". Yes this is America where we judge people by the look on their face while we are shaking their hand and not by the symbols of their religion.

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To Hijab, Or Not To Hijab ...

I tend to agree with Jack Straw on the subject of hijabs and niqabs.

Here's what Paul Cruikshank of the NYT's wrote about it:

On the streets of London and other cities in Britain, an incongruous sight has become increasingly common: young Muslim women covered from head to toe in black robes, including the niqab, a veilthat obscures the face except for the eyes.


The niqab sets these young women off not just from most passers-by, but even from Muslim women who choose to wear the simple headscarf, or hijab, which covers only the hair and neck. And it is causing discomfort even in multicultural Britain.


When Jack Straw, the former foreign secretary, declared earlier this month that the niqab made positive relations between Muslims and non-Muslims more difficult because it was "such a visible statement of separation and difference," he struck a chord with many British voters, only 22 percent of whom think that Muslims have done enough to fit into mainstream society

Cruikshank goes on to explain how younger women wear the hijab in order to protest their parent's assimilation into the British culture.

That sense of besiegement, not wardrobe decisions, is fueling the real problem that British politicians should be addressing, which is the creeping fundamentalism and Islamist radicalism of a significant portion of Britain's Islamic youth. In a recent poll, more than a quarter of British Muslims under the age of 24 said that the July 7, 2005, attacks on the London Underground were justified because of British foreign policy. Thousands of young British Muslims have been influenced by fundamentalist organizations like Hizb ut-Tahrir and militant groups like Al Muhajiroun.


These are the groups that have persuaded some Muslim girls that it is their religious duty to adopt the niqab. Kemal Helbawy, the influential founder of the Muslim Association of Britain, says that a very different message is coming out of the country's mainstream mosques, where most imams advise their congregations that the hijab is sufficient.

He goes on to write how British Muslims need to be brought into the political process. But, I don't know how that's going to be done without more assimilation. The niqab and hijab are actually just the tip of the iceberg.

There's another thing that occurs to me about the Hijab, and other Muslim covering: Muslim women are supposed to wear them so that men will not be tempted. It's actually kind of an insult to Muslim men; here in the West, we expect our men to control themselves, and we have legal recourse if they don't.

Blue Star Beth wrote a pretty good article about how Tony Blair agrees with Jack Straw.

From Red Hot Cuppa Politics.

Photo from Ijtihad, where you can also read a very interesting discussion of the issue.

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Monday, October 23, 2006

Man Charged with Smoking and Drinking During Ramadan


A BAHRAINI man was arrested after he was seen smoking and drinking alcohol in his car during Ramadan fasting hours in Manama, it was revealed yesterday.


Police spotted the man smoking as he was driving his car, said a Public Prosecution spokesman.


The defendant was asked to stop and when the officer searched the car, he found an open bottle of alcohol hidden under his seat, he said.


The medical examination of alcohol count in his blood was negative, he added.


The man was released on BD50 bail, after being charged with eating and drinking during Ramadan.


An alcohol count of negative? And he's still charged? Not with smoking and drinking but EATING and drinking. And yet UK police can't arrest someone WITH AN ARREST WARRANT at prayer time? Such mixed priorities...I'm confused. But not much.

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Sunday, October 22, 2006

Dirty Bowl Sunday

Well, today's the day we will see if Al-Qaeda is taking it's cues from a Wisconsin grocery clerk.

An FBI official in Washington, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the case is still under investigation, told The Associated Press that the man acknowledged posting the phony stadium threat as part of a "writing duel" with a man from the Brownsville, Texas, area to see who could post the scariest threat.

Okaaaaaay! Brilliant literary move.


I found this video at Hotair.com. This may be closer to the truth. Anyone placing bets?

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US Envoy: 'Arrogance,' 'Stupidity' In Iraq



(AP) A senior U.S. diplomat said the United States had shown "arrogance" and "stupidity" in Iraq but was now ready to talk with any group except Al Qaeda in Iraq to facilitate national reconciliation.


In an interview with Al-Jazeera television aired late Saturday, Alberto Fernandez, director of public diplomacy in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs at the State Department offered an unusually candid assessment of America's war in Iraq.


"We tried to do our best but I think there is much room for criticism because, undoubtedly, there was arrogance and there was stupidity from the United States in Iraq," he said.


Alberto Fernandez made the remarks during an interview with Arabic television station al-Jazeera.

The state department says Mr Fernandez was quoted incorrectly - but BBC Arabic language experts say Mr Fernandez did indeed use the words.

Well well...is there any suprize this is coming from Al-Jazeera? There has been mistakes in Iraq but one should choose their words wisely when speaking to the enemy, to avoid providing comfort...

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FURY OVER RAMADAN ARREST BAN


A ROW has broken out after police officers were told not to serve arrest warrants at prayer times during Ramadan.


Cops were emailed a timetable of the Muslim holy month - which ends tomorrow - and told to observe its "religious significance".


But one angry officer said: "I wonder if we'll extend the same courtesy to all other religions.


"We seem to have given up on policing the streets in favour of politically correct soundbites."


The answer to the angry officer is "NO"! But that won't stop the PC crowd in Britain or the US. An appearance of sensitivity and respect allows a criminal to pray freely in society, when we have gone to great lengths to afford them (muslims only) the courtesy to pray 5 times a day in jail.

More at BBC.

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Saturday, October 21, 2006

Ahmadinejad Delivers Jihad Ultimatum To Europe




“This is an ultimatum. Don’t complain tomorrow.” These are the words of Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Europe today.



As the Security Council session to determine the sanctioned fate of the Islamic Republic looms, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad used the occasion of al-Qods Day (Jerusalem Day) to rally the Muslim world and openly threaten Europe. Rather than directly condemn European nations such as Britain, France and Germany for supporting sanctions over the Iranian nuclear program, Ahmadinejad instead used the al-Qods Day event to condemn them before a broader Muslim audience for their support of the state of Israel. He openly threatened European states, saying that their continued support of Israel would soon hurt them.




Argued Ahmadinejad, “You should believe that this regime (Israel) cannot last and has no more benefit to you. What benefit have you got in supporting this regime, except the hatred of the nations?” He went on to send Europe an unveiled threat, saying, “We have advised the Europeans that the Americans are far away, but you are the neighbors of the nations in this region. We inform you that the nations are like an ocean that is welling up, and if a storm begins, the dimensions will not stay limited to Palestine, and you may get hurt.” It was in a speech on al-Qods Day last year that Ahmadinejad declared that Israel should be “wiped from the map.”


On Glenn Beck this week, President Tom, as Beck likes to call Ahmadinejad, was quoted, speaking from his religious beliefs, of bringing the "pure man of peace", the hidden Immam, about in his presidency. It was a segment about scriptural prophecy and the end times from a more or less Christian perspective. If Christians don't believe they are living the "end times" our sworn enemies seem to. You do know who the one who brings war and says, "Peace, Peace" is in Christian literature, don't you? Yes, the Antichrist. Perhaps we are speaking the same language here after all.

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Friday, October 20, 2006

US Border: Less Than A Line In The Sand


You'll find Hugo Chavez towards the end of the newly released Congressional Report on border (in)security. Click here for "A Line In The Sand," PDF warning..

Oliver North writes:
"...the bombshell -- as reported by Lajeunesse and confirmed in the congressional report -- is the role being played by Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez. It's well known that the oil-rich Marxist in Caracas has been busy spreading his anti-American "Bolivarian Revolution" throughout our southern hemisphere. But this investigation now concludes that Chavez's nefarious deeds go well beyond a weapons-buying spree and efforts to manipulate elections in Bolivia, Ecuador and Nicaragua.

According to the congressional report, "Venezuela is providing support --including identity documents -- that could prove useful to radical Islamic groups The Venezuelan government has issued thousands of cedulas, the equivalent of Social Security cards, to people from places such as Cuba, Colombia and Middle Eastern nations that host foreign terrorist organizations." These documents can be used to obtain Venezuelan passports and American visas, which in turn allow the holder to elude immigration checks and enter the United States ..."
Indeed.

Gustav Colonel of Venezuela Today wrote about Hezbollah training camps, and subsequent forced conversion of the native population to Islam, back on Sept. 2nd. As a matter of fact, here's a link to the internet website set up by Hezbollah in Venezuela.

Here are some not very comforting numbers: According to the Border Patrol cited in the new congressional report, OTM's (other than Mexican) illegal immigrants crossing the border since 2001 has increased from 30,147 in 2001 to 108, 025 in 2006. These are not all humble, honest illegal immigrants who are dying to mow your lawn for cheap. DHS has reported a 41% increase in "Special Interest Aliens" along the southern Texas border alone.

Nor are those numbers just a cheap workforce -- it's an army, or at least it could be.

Add these facts to the puzzle: 1) Some OTM's come via Venezuela, or are at least facilitated by Chavez. 2) Chavez has been spending his oil money to acquire weapons, and has recently made a deal with Putin to set up an AK-47 factory in Venezuela (although that is probably of more concern to his neighbors, and those inside his country that disagree with him politically). 3) Chavez' new best bud, Ahmadinejad is developing nuclear technology, and since the Iranians already run a couple of refineries for Chavez, it's not out of the question that there will be a deal to share nuclear technology.

Meanwhile, the circus continues at the UN. John Bolton, and Mexico, have called upon Chavez to withdraw. I doubt that he will until after the Venezuelan elections are over in December.

Finally, check out this article from the Persian Journal. It's a little loopy, but I can't help but agree with Scott Sullivan's conclusion that the US state department is working against US foreign policy interests.

Folks working against US domestic security interests include US politicians of all stripes, who continue to tap-dance around the border issue, in hopes of capturing the holy grail full of Hispanic votes.

Adapted from RedHotCuppaPolitics

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