Month: March 2008

* Muslim “multiculturalists” are threatening legal action, the ‘militants’ and the ‘youths’ are preparing the Molotow cocktails, and the Dutch government gets ready to commit social suicide by cowardice:

Anti-Quran film to air in Netherlands

By MIKE CORDER, Associated Press Writer

Protesters already have torched Dutch flags in Afghanistan ahead of a new Dutch film portraying Islam’s holy book as a “fascist” text that incites violence and preaches the oppression of women and homosexuals.

* Wilders: ‘Right Wing’ smears don’t stick…

A Dutch Cabinet minister postponed his trip to Somalia on Friday due to “specific threats” linked to the film, and the Dutch government has urged lawmaker Geert Wilders to scrap his film for the safety of its citizens abroad.

* WTF? What business does Balkenende have in Somalia, a failed Islamic terror-craphole in Africa?

But Wilders said Monday he has begun negotiations with Dutch broadcasters about airing the 15-minute film, “Fitna.” He said he will only allow them to show it in its entirety, and if they refuse, he plans to show it to the media and post it on the Internet.

“We have never learned to be intolerant toward people who are intolerant toward us, toward cultures that are intolerant toward us,” he said in a recent Associated Press interview.

The right-wing legislator previously warned of a “tsunami” of Islam swamping the Netherlands and said Muslims should tear up half of the Quran if they want to live here.

Wilders has lived under round-the-clock security since the 2004 murder of filmmaker Theo van Gogh by an Islamic radical enraged by his short film, “Submission,” a fictional study of abused Muslim women with scenes of near-naked women with Quranic texts engraved on their flesh.

The film “Fitna” — an Arabic word meaning discord — puts the centuries-old Dutch traditions of religious tolerance and freedom of speech on a collision course.

If it airs, Dutch Muslims are expected to file criminal complaints for racial or religious vilification. Prosecutors would then have to decide whether to charge Wilders with any offense.

“Our law is very clear — anybody can make a film. We have freedom of expression and you cannot restrict that,” says Moroccan-born Sadik Harchaoui, chief of the Forum Institute for Multicultural Development.

“Can you offend people? The answer is yes. I’m not saying you should do it or it is desirable, but you can,” he added. “But if the film is insulting and preaches hate, then the law has to take action.”

* The sharia does not apply in Holland, Sadik. The law should take action against the Koran and the hatred your clerics preach in the mosques.

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The Dutch government says it cannot ban the film but is attempting to distance itself from Wilders, the leader of the Freedom Party, which holds nine of Parliament’s 150 seats.

“Balkenende a ‘weak, frightened man who gives way to threats’, sez Wilders

* Balkenende invents new Dutch value: ‘RESPECT’

“It is our responsibility to make clear to everyone that the views and actions of this one elected representative are not those of the government,” Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende told reporters last week. “We defend the core values of freedom and respect. We guarantee freedom of expression and of religion, for Muslims as for everyone else.”

* The Koranimals don’t respect you, Balkenende. For them you are a filthy kuffar and the dirty son of a whore. Learn to be intolerant against hate, your survival and the survival of our civilization is at stake!

The moderate National Moroccan Council has said it is trying to “neutralize the threat” posed by the film, but cannot rule out violence at home.

* ‘MODERATE’ by whose standard?

“We will have succeeded if, after the film, Mr. Wilders is frustrated,” chairman, Mohamed Rabbae said at a news conference in January. “If he sees there are no riots and Muslims are cleverer and more democratic than he thinks.”

* Right. The slow jihad by immigration and outbreeding the natives is preferable to the violent version. Got it!

*  Bunglawussi Watch: “Let Wilders choke in his rage”

The Dutch Reject Blackmail & Intimidation, Support For Wilders Grows:

THE HAGUE, 04/03/08 – The Christian democrats (CDA) would only win 29 seats if general elections were held now. The disfavour of the voters is the result of the party’s attempts to prevent Geert Wilders’s film on the Koran from being shown, pollster Maurice de Hond reported.

Last week, CDA still scored 32 seats. The new result of 29 is the party’s lowest score since the spring of 2006. CDA currently has 41 seats in the Lower House, which has 150 members.

The three seats lost by the CDA would be divided between Wilders’ anti-‘Islamisation’ Party for Freedom (PVV), the conservatives (VVD) and Proud of the Netherlands (TON). Each of these parties would win one more seat than last week.

PVV (now 9 seats) and VVD (now 22 seats) would each win 16 seats. Proud of the Netherlands, the new party being set up by ex-VVD MP Rita Verdonk, would enter the Lower House with 19 seats, De Hond reports.

Verhagen

CDA Minister Maxime Verhagen appealed explicitly to Wilders on Thursday not to broadcast the film. CDA Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende also pressed the PVV leader on Friday to withdraw the film, although he worded this less strongly than Verhagen. In the Lower House, the CDA was the only party that supported Verhagen’s explicit call to drop the movie.

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* From the ‘Allah is most merciful & compassionate’ department

* But the ummah is not as tolerant as Allah:

* While Euro-dhimmies are literally s#*tting themselves about deporting convicted Islamic terrorists who committed crimes in their own countries as well as in the host country that has given them shelter, Islamic countries don’t have these humanitarian hang-ups:

KABUL (AFP)--Tehran intends to expel all 1.5 million Afghans within its borders illegally, a visiting Iranian official said in Kabul Monday, even as Kabul said it could not cope with such a high number of returnees.

“Those who illegally entered Iran have committed crimes: entering illegally, staying illegally and working illegally – these are crimes,” Sayed Taghi Ghaemi, of the Iranian interior ministry, told reporters.

“We will expel them from our country at the first opportunity we encounter them,” he said on the sidelines of a meeting between both governments to assess the repatriation of Afghans from Iran.

Iran estimates there are about 1.5 million Afghans illegally within its borders with another 900,000 there as registered refugees. It began to force the illegals out nearly a year ago.

Ghaemi said the removals would be conducted in consultation with the Afghan government.

Kabul has, however, been urging Tehran to halt the expulsions, especially over the winter which has been one of the coldest in decades with about 1,000 people dying from the cold.

Deputy refugees minister Abdul Qadir Ahadi told the same news briefing that Kabul was not able to receive returnees in large numbers.

“Afghanistan’s problems are known to everyone,” he said. “In the current situation we’re overpowered to receive 1.5 million refugees at home,” he said.

In a recent mass expulsion, officials in the western province of Nimroz said about 1,800 Afghans arrived there on Saturday.

War-scarred Afghanistan is beset with insecurity linked to a growing Taliban- led insurgency, high unemployment and a lack of basic infrastructure.

Conflict, poverty and drought led to an exodus of Afghans that began in the 1970s and ended with about 8 million in exile in the 1990s. Most went to Iran and Pakistan.

Since 2002, after the fall of the hardline Taliban regime, around 4 million have returned. There are still 2 million registered Afghan refugees in Pakistan.

With thanx to Mullah:

* Yes Sir: there are those who will not learn. There are those who reject reality and there are those who are on the payroll of the enemy. There are those who are deliberately stoopid and there are those who just never had a clear mental moment and remain empty suits for a whole wasted life.

But we need CHANGE, like NOW!!!!

Phil Bennett, the Washington Post’s managing editor, speaking at UCI Monday about the lack of Muslims working in American newsrooms. Courtesy UCI

* “Media to blame for Islamic misconceptions”

From the ‘Bunglawussi wispered in my ear’ department:

The managing editor of one of the country’s biggest newspapers thinks news organizations ought to hire more Muslim reporters.

Philip Bennett, the Washington Post’s managing editor, said reporters often struggle with understanding Islam during a speech Monday at UCI about the difficulties of covering the religion.

Bennett’s speech focused on the media’s need to cover issues concerning Islam in an in-depth, long-term manner.

To illustrate this point he drew mainly from quotes of notable colleagues and statistical polls, rarely giving his own opinion directly.

“Six of 10 Americans, according to a 2007 ABC Poll, don’t understand the basic tenets of Islam,” Bennett said.

He attributed this to the lack of Muslims working in American newsrooms.

“At the Post I want more Muslim readers and I want more Muslim journalists,” he said.

* We don’t. We don’t want it. We don’t need it. We need somebody with balls.We don’t need spin doctors to cook the news. We need somebody to kick ass: no more empty suits!

Words poorly translated from Arabic to English are a big source of confusion caused by the lack of Muslim voices in the American media, according to Bennett.

Zeyad Maasarani, 22, a Muslim reporter for California’s most circulated Muslim publication, Southern California in Focus, agrees with Bennett that terms like “jihad,” “madrasa” and “hijab” are a big source of the public’s misunderstanding of Islam.

“Jihad means holy war, which is the definition that most Americans know, but it also means struggle, and valiant attempt,” Maasarani said.

* Tokyo Rose: ‘Whisper sweet nothings in my ears, honey…’

One such word that has been contentiously debated in newsrooms is “Islamist,” which generally refers to a political movement governed by Islamic law. Bennett said at the Washington Post editors still have not decided whether to add it to their style book.

Some argue the word is a useful distinction for movements like Hamas and Hezbollah, but others at the Post argue that it is too vague and should be omitted in favor of a more specific description.

Bennett spent most of his time recalling an anecdote about a misunderstood Muslim group in Walkersville, Md., who were trying to purchase a large amount of land for a retreat.

The Ahmadiyya, an Islamic sect considered heretical through much of the Muslim world, did TV interviews, town hall meetings and even door-to-door interviews to try to convince the people of Walkersville that they meant well, according to Bennett, but the county zoning board ultimately denied permission to buy the land.

He cites cursorily researched articles in the local and national newspapers that neglected to figure out who the Ahmadiyya really were as a primary reason that their proposal was met with massive protests.

Bennett said that in the period following 9/11 there was a lot of uninformed writing about Islam, and that “the best journalism fought against the tide of public perception.”

* Why would ‘the best journalism fight against the tide of public perception,’ Bennet???

* What makes you think you have to force the Broccoli down our collective throats? Are you saying you used to hate it till you ate it, Bennet?

Bennet’s lecture is part of a larger series of events on religion and politics sponsored by the UCI Center for the Study of Democracy.

* Remember: Democracy is like a bus: “You ride it until you arrive at your destination, then you step off.” Tayyip Erdogan, PM of turkey

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Who could imagine that the imbecile George Bush could dumb a whole nation down?

Imam George Bush

“Islam is Peace”, sez President:

The face of terror is not the true faith of Islam. That’s not what Islam is all about. Islam is peace. These terrorists don’t represent peace. They represent evil and war.

When we think of Islam we think of a faith that brings comfort to a billion people around the world. Billions of people find comfort and solace and peace. And that’s made brothers and sisters out of every race — out of every race.

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Update: the New York Times peddles the same mindless BS:

“When they behead someone, they say ‘Allahu akbar,’ they read Koranic verse…The young people, they think this is Islam”

This article about how young Iraqis are growing disillusioned with Islam has the expected elements of a New Duranty Times story:

the affirmation that jihad violence has nothing to do with Islam

* Depressing. 7 years after 9/11 people are more ignorant than ever. Looks like we have to be nuked before somebody gets the message…

* “Disrespect to the holy Koran is not now, nor will it ever be, tolerated by the U.S. of A.” said Condoleeezza Rice, America’s affirmative action picaninni, when U.S. soldiers guarding Islamic headchoppers in Gitmo were accused of flushing a Koran down a toilet 3 years ago. Flushing a Koran, as we all know, sends 1.5 gazxillion Muslims ‘in a fanatical frenzy more dangerous than hydrophobia in a dog’ (Churchill) in a flash and makes them kill infidels and each other just for the heck of it. We gotta respect that, because its a ‘religion’. Believe it or not: according to GWB, its a ‘Religion of Peace’….

* Fact is, we do have serious issues with the Koran. The Koran is a dirty, evil book. The Koran is a war-manual. The Koran is a doctrine of hatred that mandates perpetual warfare against unbelievers until the world is Islamic. The Koran keeps more than a billion peoples in this world ignorant, stupid and poor, because it makes them believe that killing and dying for the sake of a self-proclaimed ‘prophet’ who invented ‘Allah’ as his alter ego, is their destiny.

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* Here’s the Criminal Complaint

Pace Student Who Dumped Korans in Toilet Gets Community Service

Charges reduced from ‘hate crime’

From ‘the Law is an Ass’ department:

NEW YORK (AP) — A former Pace University student who twice threw copies of the Koran into a toilet at the school after disputes with Muslims pleaded guilty Monday to disorderly conduct in connection with the incidents.

Stanislav Shmulevich, 24, pleaded guilty as part of a deal in which he must do 300 hours of community service. He has completed about 80 hours of the service at a hospital, his lawyer said.

Shmulevich, of Brooklyn, admitted he tossed the Muslim holy books into toilets at Pace on Oct. 13, 2006, and Nov. 21, 2006. A criminal complaint says the Koran that was recovered in the October incident “was covered in feces.”

In both cases, a teacher found the books in a men’s room on the second floor of the school’s main building in lower Manhattan.

Muslims consider the Koran a sacred writing that contains the direct word of God Allah, and desecrating it is seen as an offense against God.

* But why should we give a s*#t????

* It took a Muhammedan Sherlock Holmes to find frame the culprit:

Detective Faisal Khan, who prepared the complaint, said Shmulevich told him “he committed the acts out of anger toward a group of Muslim students with whom he had a recent disagreement.”

Shmulevich, a business major and immigrant from the former Soviet Union, initially was charged with two counts of criminal mischief as a hate crime. The charge is a felony punishable by up to four years in prison.

His lawyer, Glenn Morak, said he believed the disorderly conduct plea was an appropriate disposition.

“There was no hate crime here,” Morak said. “He accepts responsibility, and he is repentant.”

Shmulevich, the lawyer said, is no longer at Pace, which has about 14,000 students on its campuses in New York City and Westchester County.

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Shmulevich‘es Lawyer Shyster Sux. Bad. Real bad. Because Shmulevich didn’t break the law, not at all:

Section 240.20 Disorderly conduct

A person is guilty of disorderly conduct when, with intent to cause public inconvenience, annoyance or alarm, or recklessly creating a risk thereof:

1. He engages in fighting or in violent, tumultuous or threatening behavior; or

2. He makes unreasonable noise; or

3. In a public place, he uses abusive or obscene language, or makes an obscene gesture; or

4. Without lawful authority, he disturbs any lawful assembly or meeting of persons; or

5. He obstructs vehicular or pedestrian traffic; or

6. He congregates with other persons in a public place and refuses to comply with a lawful order of the police to disperse; or

7. He creates a hazardous or physically offensive condition by any act which serves no legitimate purpose.

Disorderly conduct is a violation.

HERE THEY ARE…MAYBE SOMEONE SMARTER THAN I CAN DETERMINE EXACTLY WHAT LAW WAS BROKEN.

Keep flushin’, folks. But don’t forget to pay the plumber..!

* Watch out, Yusuf: the smears don’t stick. Neither do the lies…

Thanks to Gramfan

Daniel Pipes

PHILADELPHIA – The Muslim Weekly, a London-based publication, issued an apology today to Daniel Pipes, director of the Middle East Forum, concerning a defamatory article it published in February 2007.

That article repeated a false allegation made by Tariq Ramadan that Daniel Pipes had lied to a conference hosted by London mayor Ken Livingstone in January 2007. (For details of what did occur, see the article by Mr. Pipes, “Is Tariq Ramadan Lying [about Magdi Allam]?”)

Upon receipt of a libel complaint from Mr. Pipes, the Muslim Weekly accepted that Mr. Pipes spoke accurately at the conference and that he did not lie. The Muslim Weekly apologized to Mr. Pipes for the distress caused by the article. The Muslim Weekly’s retraction, published both in print and online in the Feb. 29, 2008 issue, reads in full as follows:

On February 9, 2007, the Muslim Weekly published an article, “World civilisation conference: Professor Tariq Ramadan on Islamic Threat,” under the byline of Dr. Mozammel Haque, concerning a speech given by Professor Ramadan on 20 January 2007. We reported that he accused Professor Daniel Pipes, an American specialist on the Middle East, of lying in his speech to the same conference about the religion of an Egyptian Muslim. We now understand that Professor Pipes spoke accurately and that he did not lie. We retract what we wrote about him and apologise to Professor Pipes for any distress caused by our article.

Reacting to this apology, Mr. Pipes said: “I am delighted that Muslim Weekly recognizes there is no truth whatsoever in Tariq Ramadan’s allegations concerning my statement at the World Civilization Conference, and that it has forthrightly set the record straight.”

* Tariq Ramadan is the slime…

*   Tundra Tabloids keeps an eye on the the silver tongued, Islamist propagandist himself, Tariq “Taqiyya” Ramadan, here

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Hamas thugs brandish US-weapons used against Israel 

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Hamas and its allies in the Gaza Strip on Monday celebrated their “victory” over Israel by pledging to pursue the fight until the “liberation of Palestine from the river to the sea.” Meanwhile, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas renewed his call for a mutual and comprehensive cease-fire with Israel, saying he wanted to spare the Palestinians additional casualties and suffering.

Link to JP 

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Arbour Awful  Derailment Watch

As usual, the Hamas propaganda shill, ‘Human Rights Commissioner’ Louise Arbour, calls for an inquiry into Gaza violence because she know who is to blame: the Jooozzzz..!

While recognizing Israel’s right to defend itself she condemned the Israel Defence Forces’ ‘disproportionate use of force.’
In a statement she also strongly condemned the rocket attacks by Palestinian militants against Israeli civilian targets.
‘These attacks are in clear violation of international humanitarian law,’ she said, ‘and those responsible must be held to account.’

Middle East News 

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The Swine from Al BeBeeCeera: Hamas Rockets are ‘Response’ to Israel 

*  Reality inverted reporting to defeat Israel in the court of public opinion. Revolting!

The strategy of the Palestinian militants is also becoming clearer.

They are well aware of the Israeli military’s capabilities. Their goal appears to be to establish a balance of deterrence with each significant Israeli incursion or targeted killing meeting a significant response; one that they hope will encourage the Israeli government to restrain its own forces.

BBC via LGF 

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*  Al Reuters roots for Hamas, as usual. Nidal al-Mughrabi (who else?) reports: 

Hamas fighters battle on inspired by God Allah

GAZA (Reuters) – Abu Mohammed picked up his rifle, said farewell to his wife and six children and went out to face the Israeli tanks, helicopter gunships and missile-firing airborne drones.

“Being unable to defeat Israel is no reason to surrender,” the Hamas fighter said with a smile as he headed to the Gaza Strip’s front line last Saturday, ignoring pleas from his family to stay.

“My children and wife are very dear to me,” he said. “But reward in Heaven and the homeland are dearer.”

The 38-year-old furniture salesman says he is not afraid to die for the cause of destroying Israel and forging a Palestinian state on all Israel’s territory, the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

To Israel and its allies, Abu Mohammed and his comrades are Jew-hating terrorists. But Abu Mohammed sees himself on a mission from God to rescue his people from 60 years of misery as refugees since the establishment of the Jewish state in 1948.

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Fitzgerald: Israel and moral idiocy 

Malcolm Smart, director of Amnesty International’s Middle East and North Africa Programme, said: “We condemn all attacks on civilians, but unlawful attacks by one side cannot justify violations by the other. Israel’s attacks this week display a degree of disproportion and recklessness which has so often characterised Israeli military attacks in the Occupied Palestinian Territories in recent years.”

Malcolm Smart disgusts. Nowhere in his nauseating display of moral idiocy does he recognize, or even hint at recognizing, that the Israelis left Gaza entirely. They uprooted whole villages, though Gaza, like the “West Bank,” is an area that according to the League of Nations’ Mandate for Palestine was to be part of the territory set aside for a Jewish state. And it is less than 1/1,00th of the vast areas that the Arabs inherited.

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The hateful, deluded John Dugard deposits his delusions:

UN should talk to Hamas to end Gaza violence: expert 

GENEVA (AFP) — The United Nations should talk directly to the Islamist Hamas movement in a bid to end the bloody violence in Gaza, the body’s advisor on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories said Monday.
The world body can not currently hold direct talks with Hamas, which runs Gaza after winning Palestinian elections but which is considered an illegal extremist group by many UN member states.
“It is imperative that every effort be made to bring the violence to an end. This can be done only by negotiation and mediation,” said John Dugard, the special rapporteur on Palestinian human rights.  (for terrorists)

More from AFP
“The United Nations is the obvious body to initiate such talks between Hamas in Gaza, the Israeli Government and the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah,” Dugard said in a statement.

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From the ‘War is Deceit’ department:

* The American Muslim shills for Obama and tells us he ‘was never a Muslim’- if they say so, it must be true, right?

* Just magic… 

“Obama has devoted a lot of time to defending himself against these charges that question his religious beliefs and his patriotism. The gist of this has been – I am not now and never have been a Muslim. I am a Christian and a patriot. And, other candidates have apologized for anyone in their campaign who might have intimated that Barak was a Muslim, or have denied being responsible for such statements. The problem with this defense is that it seems to many American Muslims that what we are not hearing is an apology for the bigotry.”

Sheila Musaji in The American Muslim

also reported on the Bunglawussy blog

* When everything else fails we go baby hugging…

“I’m not a Muslim, I pray to Jeeezzuss….”

That’s why the Muhammedans are all nuts about him…

ABC News

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Obama the ‘patriot’ keeps his hand on his crotch when the flag is raised:

* Mr Obama “I am not a Muslim” describes Islamic call to prayer as “one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.”

Mr. Obama recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer, reciting them with a first-rate accent. In a remark that seemed delightfully uncalculated (it’ll give Alabama voters heart attacks), Mr. Obama described the call to prayer as “one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.”

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The Illustrated PIG doesn’t hold back, here’s more

Islamo smear-propagandist Ali Eteraz comes out in strong support of Obama too:

Obama Says Islam Smear ‘Offensive To Muslims’

* Well, what’s not ‘offensive to Muslims?’ There are many among us who are offended by Muslims, and their numbers are increasing daily.

The only thing that should concern us is why Muhammedans back Obama. And the soldiers of Allah, as we all know, go to any length to further their cause: the cause of Islam. If Obama is their candidate, he is no good to us.

Obama the Liar:

* The above video from a Muslim website is supposed to ‘debunk the myth’ about Hussein Barrack Obamma, the mystery man. Too funny, that the man soils himself by stating he ‘never was a Muslim’ when he was born to Muslim parents and went to a madrassah as a child. Barrack Hussein Obama is a Muslim name. But why lie and deny?

“I have never been a Muslim. Am not a Muslim. These emails are obviously not just offensive to me, somebody who is a devout Christian, who’s been going to the same Church for the last twenty years, but its also offensive to Muslims, because it plays into, obviously, a certain fear-mongering there.“

Link

* Comment: LIAR! OBAMA, YOU GREW UP AS A MUSLIM! COME CLEAN!

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* Hillary Clitman knows how to do sleaze:

CLINTON DOESN’T BELIEVE OBAMA IS A MUSLIM ‘AS FAR AS I KNOW’

* Classic Sleaze, with an escape hatch!

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But Dick Smith’s heart bleeds only for Mohamed Dawoud Hicks…

* While our lefty loonies keep whining about ‘Abu Graib’ and gitmo and ‘waterboarding’ and a few thousand shysters on the Saudi payroll tie up the government to give every terrorist in Gitmo the red carpet treatment, just a few miles away in Casto’s Cuba there are real prisons, real torture and real injustice that no one ever hears about:

Under pressure from the government of Spain, Raul Castro has released four “dissidents” after years of imprisonment:

Omar Pernet Hernández had his collar bone broken

José Gabriel Ramón Castillo, Omar Pernet Hernández, Alejandro González and Pedro Pablo Álvarez – described regular beatings, humiliation and arbitrary punishment with long periods of solitary confinement in cramped cells with cement beds.
They said they were deprived of food and water in conditions which resembled “a desert”.

Arriving in Spain to be reunited with their families, they exposed the routine abuse of political prisoners which marked Castro’s five decades in power.

One of the four had been imprisoned for 21 years for opposing Castro’s regime. Cuban jails still contain hundreds of political prisoners. It’s too bad they aren’t terrorists, instead of just being non-Communists. Then they might get some sympathy.

* Freed dissidents expose Castro’s brutal regime
By Graham Keeley in Barcelona

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Dutch PM Balkenende: “Wilders’ movie threatens nation”

* Header inspired by profitsbeard

* Hard to imagine the cowardice of this pathetic prime minister.

The movie threatens the nation, you see. Not the irrational rage and grievance culture found in Muslim populations at home and abroad. Not the texts and teachings of Islam that mandate violence against uppity dhimmis and other unbelievers. Therefore, Wilders is to blame for people who react to his film with said irrational rage and violence.

Question for Balkenende: Would Andres Serrano (of Piss- Christ infamy) be responsible for the actions of Christians who tried to kill him, or violently took out their anger on the U.S. government and its officials for the funding of Serrano’s work by the National Endowment for the Arts?

What? That didn’t happen? But aren’t all religions equally prone to violence?

“Dutch movie about Islam threatens nation,” from the Associated Press via DW:

Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende has warned a maverick lawmaker of the risks to Dutch national interests if he presses ahead with a film criticizing the Koran.

Balkenende’s appeal to Geert Wilders on Friday stopped short of demanding that he not release the film, which Wilders said was in the final stages of editing.
“Already we are having to take account of serious threats to Dutch people,” Balkenende said in a televised news conference.
“When you see how the reactions have been at home and abroad, what the risks could be of this film, then there’s one person who must answer for it, and that is Mr Wilders himself,” he said.

* What a despicable coward of a man.

Muslim groups in the Netherlands say they will file hate-speech charges against Wilders for previous statements, such as his description of Islam as a “retarded” religion.

The Grand Mufti of Syria has warned of “bloodshed” if the film is released.

The Dutch national antiterrorism coordinator has told Wilders he may have to go into hiding abroad once his film is released. He already lives under constant police protection.

Read the whole thing

Update:

Fitna ‘Verboten’

Dutch Government discusses Censorship

Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf reports that the Dutch government has researched how they can ban the Islam critical movie Fitna of parliamentary member Geert Wilders (PVV). The government thinks they have found lawful ways to invoke censorship rules in the Netherlands. But the Dutch government, a coalition of Christian Democrats (CDA), Socialist (PvdA) and the tiny Christian Union (CU) has not yet reached consensus on how to do it, say sources close to the government. The Christian parties support censorship of Muslim critical expressions, they want to invoke National Security articles for suppressing them. Although some socialist in the government agree with that approach others do not. Socialist vice premier Wouter Bos, does not want preventive measures, he wants to legally prosecute Wilders after the releases of his 15 minute Islam critical film. But that will not be possible, if the movie is censored preventively. He also points out that the Islamic governments have some responsibility to prevent anti Dutch violence. 

Klein Verzet

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Egypt reinstates film at festival after Netherlands ‘apology’

“The Dutch ‘apology’ appears to stem from a press conference given by Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende on Thursday, during which he called on Wilders to rethink releasing the film because of the potential fall-out.”

An update on this story. “Egypt reinstates film after Netherlands ‘apology’,” from Agence France-Presse:

CAIRO (AFP) — An Egyptian festival on Sunday went back on its decision to ban a Dutch film after what it said was a Dutch government apology for a short film attacking Islam directed by a far-right MP.

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* Why would it a ‘CairoFilm Festival’ matter to anybody, or shape Dutch politics for that matter?

Source

This is how the ‘ummah’ propaganda machine spins it:

Is this the Future for Amsterdam?

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Alan M. Dershowitz:

Worshippers of Death

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in a speech: “It is the zenith of honor for a man, a young person, boy or girl, to be prepared to sacrifice his life in order to serve the interests of his nation and his religion.”

How should Western democracies fight against an enemy whose leaders preach a preference for death?

Read it all

Listen to the song: ‘Philistine Child’

‘Never do a thing like that’ (Kuffar we like death and you like Pepsi Cola…)

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* Correction: Thanks to WoJ reader Sally we recovered the thread from the Bolt Blog re Tariq Ramadans visit in KRuddistan:

Labor’s first little split

Andrew Bolt
Monday, March 03, 2008 at 07:14am

Danby’s right to wag the finger at the Left’s Ferguson:

Member for Melbourne Ports Michael Danby urged people attending Professor Ramadan’s Brisbane conference today – including the Parliamentary Secretary for Multicultural Affairs, Laurie Ferguson – to emphasise Australia’s rejection of terrorism.

Maybe Ferguson can slip in that warning as he officially gives Ramadan his warm introduction at the conference.

Bolt blog

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From the ‘Islam is not a monolith’ department:

* Lots of ‘diversity’ in Islamistan on the cartoons of blasphemy and Geert Wilders upcoming little flick on the profit Muhammad. Unfortunately, there is no such thing as Islamic diversity, because all of the Islamic hate mongers want the cartoonist’s dead and us, the pesky kuffars, submit to Islam:

From the ever vigilant Michelle Malkin:

“Scholars” demand laws criminalizing “insults” to Islam

Are you ready for March Madness? As I noted at Hot Air last month, the Religion of Perpetual Outrage is gearing up for the debut of Dutch politician Geert Wilders’ anti-Islam mini-documentary, “Fitna”–which is reportedly set for completion sometime today. (Go to the Fitna The Movie site for more info.) Combined with the recent re-publication of the Danish Mo cartoons, these unacceptable acts of free speech have Muslim “scholars” demanding that heads roll. Literally.

Read it all

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Oscar-winning Marion Cotillard was facing embarrasment with her new American public last night after it emerged that she doubted the official account of the September 11 attacks.

Miss Cotillard suggested that the towers, planned in the early 1960s, were an outdated “money sucker” which would have cost so much to modernise that it was easier to destroy them.

Turning to America’s space programme, she said: “Did a man really walk on the moon? I saw plenty of documentaries on it, and I really wondered. And in any case I don’t believe all they tell me, that’s for sure.”

* Peter Allen in Paris