Mark Steyn, April 17, 2007:

“only Michel Gurfinkiel’s recent analysis in Commentary got to the underlying reality: Since the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, there have been two Turkeys: the Turks of Rumelia, or European Turkey, and the Turks of Anatolia, or Asia Minor. Kemal Ataturk was from Rumelia and so were most of his supporters, and they imposed the modern Turkish Republic on a somewhat relunctant Anatolia, where Ataturk’s distinction between the state and Islam was never accepted. In its 80-year history, the population has increased from 14 million in 1923 to 70 million today, but the vast bulk of that population growth has come from Anatolia, whose population has migrated from the rural hinterland to overwhelm the once solidly Kemalist cities. Ataturk’s modern secular Turkey has simply been outbred by fiercely Islamic Turkey. That’s a lesson in demography from an all-Muslim sample: no pasty white blokes were involved. So the fact that Muslim fertility is declining in Tunisia is no consolation: all that will do, as in Turkey, is remove moderate Muslims from the equation too early in the game.”

http://www.steynonline.com/content/view/206/

Trust the Turk at YOUR peril. Germany is SO dumb to have let even a single on of them into our beautiful lands. They are a plague upon the Continent.

Great stuff here

US aircrews show Taliban no mercy
By Gethin Chamberlain in Kandahar, Sunday Telegraph
Last Updated: 1:17am BST 29/04/2007

Caught in the middle of the Helmand river, the fleeing Taliban were paddling their boat back to shore for dear life.

Smoke from the ambush they had just sprung on American special forces still hung in the air, but their attention was fixed on the two helicopter gunships that had appeared above them as their leader, the tallest man in the group, struggled to pull what appeared to be a burqa over his head.
As the boat reached the shore, Captain Larry Staley tilted the nose of the lead Apache gunship downwards into a dive. One of the men turned to face the helicopter and sank to his knees. Capt Staley’s gunner pressed the trigger and the man disappeared in a cloud of smoke and dust.
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Not surprisingly, the Apache assaults have forced the Taliban to adopt a lower profile. For the coalition to continue to be successful, commanders must hope that the Taliban do not get their hands on the weaponry that has made life so perilous for pilots in Iraq, where more than 50 helicopters have been shot down since the start of the war.

But for now, the American airmen are not losing any sleep over it. “When you are on top of the enemy you look, shoot and it’s, ‘You die, you die, you die’,” Lt Denton said.

“The odds are on our side. I really enjoy it. I told my wife, if I could come home every night then this would be the perfect job.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=AKS24K0PFKAR3QFIQMGSFF4AVCBQWIV0?xml=/news/2007/04/29/wafg29.xml&page=2

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/04/29/wafg29.xml

Via
http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/

Moral: One does not negotiate or conduct a dialogue with an enemy that has made plain his desire to utterly destroy our civilisation.

Well. well. well, the military has atlast learned how to respond to “only civilians were killed”.

Islam goes beyond hatred of Christians; it rejects Jesus Christ, God’s only begotten son, the only mediator between God and man. In doing so, Islam is doomed, as are its followers, no matter how many virgins they think they will attain in their counterfeit paradise.

e.g. the Auburn Gallipoli Mosque in NSW contains the following blasphemy:
At the centre of the dome the phrase Allah-u Akbar is inscribed. It means, “God is the Greatest”. Around this phrase is inscribed one of the shortest Chapters in the Qur’an, Al-Ikhlas (The Purity) meaning “Say, He is God, the One and Only. He is the Self-Sufficient Master. He begets not, nor was He begotten. And there is non co-equal or comparable unto Him.” (Qur’an 112:1-4). http://www.gallipolimosque.org.au/index.php?s=2&ss=1

John 3:16 - “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”

JIHAD - Just Islamic Hatred And Death - but an exercise in futility.