Year: 2009

Pirates, Failed Islamic States and 'Donor Nations'

The real reason why the global Muslim community doesn’t get upset over Somali pirates? It’s a family tradition.

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Fitzgerald: “Islam Is Not Monolithic” and Divisions Within the Camp of Islam

Another week, another Donors’ Conference. This time, it’s Somalia. Somalia, described — does anyone know what this phrase that has come into fashion really means? — as a “failed state.” And these “failed states” — which all happen to be Muslim states — have to be propped up, and propped up, and propped up, it seems, by money from non-Muslim states, non-Muslim taxpayers. Because, you see, it is the absence of money that causes these states to be “failed states.” And any Muslim state will become a “failed state,” apparently, if it lacks the unmerited manna of oil-and-gas revenues (the Muslim members of OPEC have received more than twelve trillion dollars since 1973 alone), or if it is not given all kinds of special benefits and enormous injections of Infidel aid.

Regarding that aid, see Pakistan, see Egypt, see Jordan, and, of course, see the Favorite Charity of Everyone, apparently, the local Arab shock troops of the Lesser Jihad against Israel, the soi-disant “Palestinians” — who, as a separate people, were founded round about late 1967, a few months after the Six-Day War ended, and it was time to take a different propagandistic tack.

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More Jihad in Iraq, While the Left Destroys America From the Inside

SOMALIA: Donor conference prompts mixed reactions

Iraq: Deadly bombing hits Sunni mosque,”  from AKI, April 23 

and another one today:

Iraq:  60 killed in double suicide bombing

Updated on 24 April 2009/Source PA News

Back-to-back suicide bombings have killed 60 people outside the most important Shiite shrine in Baghdad, a day after the country was rocked by its most deadly violence in more than a year.

The bombings are the latest in a series of high-profile attacks blamed on Sunni insurgents, police officials said.

The latest bombers detonated explosive belts within minutes of each other near separate gates of the tomb of prominent Shiite saint Imam Mousa al-Kazim, located in the northern neighbourhood of Kazimiyah, said a police official.

Netanyahu to Obama: You take care of Iran, and then we’ll talk

Today in History: 18 Years ago Today the NY Times Called for the US to Overthrow Saddam Hussein….

Czech Soldiers in Afghanistan: “We’re Not Going to Fight, it’s Dangerous”….

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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: "The Idol of Zionism Created by the West Must Be Shattered"

*  Nothing to see here, move on! Nothing to do with Islam, he just wants nukes for peaceful purposes, right? Lets just do business as usual, what could go wrong? From our Genocidal Lunatics With Nukes department:

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  • Arab League:  “terrorism and Islam are different, and yes: the West must abandon Israel. We urgently need a UN conference to criminalize any discussion of Islamic jihad in connection with terrorism!  Link to JW>>

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: The Idol of Zionism Created by the West Must Be Shattered

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Little Green Footballs finds more pro-Israel neo-Nazis

Charlie Johnson Meltdown Watch

Robert Spencer:

Many of you have written to me saying I should ignore Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs and his relentless smear and libel campaign against me and others who are defending the freedom of speech and equality of rights of all people against the global jihad and Islamic supremacism.

It would be good to ignore him, but unfortunately, although his readership is plummeting, he still commands a sizable audience, and many people (who of course must not have been paying close attention) still think he is fighting against the jihadists — when in reality he is only engaging in relentless defamation of those he dislikes. And since that defamation spreads far and wide, it must be opposed.

Today he is once again attacking Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs, whom he clearly fears a great deal (inasmuch as she tells the truth about him), along with Paul Belien and me for being invited to speak at an anti-Islamization conference by the group Pro-Köln. Pro-Köln, he says, is a neo-Nazi group, and he has a photo of some guy who is not involved with Pro-Köln but is wearing a Hitler-style overcoat to prove it. And if Pamela, Paul and I are speaking there, well, we must be Nazis too, right?

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BE THERE!

Politically Incorrect:

Israel Friends in the anti-Islamisierungskongress

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The Pro Cologne citizens’ movement announces more prominent speakers to the anti-Islamisierungskongress of 8 to 10May in Cologne: From New York is the well-known conservative journalist Pamela Geller (photo with Robert Spencer) arriving from Denmark, the Wilders-confidante Lars Hedegaard and registered in Belgium, the chief of the Brussels Journal, Paul Belien. Still not quite sure is the participation of U.S. writer Robert Spencer.

Pamela Geller (USA)

The journalist/ blogger from Atlas Shrug from New York published comments of well-known conservative figures and islam critical reports.Geller was co-editor of the New York Observer and now writes for the Israel National News Arutz Sheva. Her blog is based on the novel “Atlas Shrugged” by Ayn Rand who is the most important philosopher in the history of mankind.

Lars Hedegaard (Denmark)

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The Danish author Lars Hedegaard (photo next to Geert Wilders) has in 2008 together with the illustrator of the Mohammed caricatures Kurt Westergaard an Islamic critical book published in Denmark for a lot of attention, and consequently his well-respected daily column in the Danish newspaper Berlingske Tidende had to quit. The 67-year-old journalist is seen as a champion of freedom of expression and as a close confidant of Dutch Islam critic Geert Wilders.Hedegaard operates with www.sappho.dk one of the largest Danish blogs.

Paul Belien (Belgium)

The 50-year-old Flemish journalist Paul Belien(photo) is founder of the conservative website Brussels Journal, which is critical of Belgium and the EU interest. Belien points out that the task consisted of a journalist, freedom and a sincere search for the truth to defend. His critical attitude towards Muslim immigrants from North Africa brought him into disrepute.

Robert Spencer (USA)

The 47-year-old American writer and scholar of religion Robert Spencer is known to PI readers mainly through his website Jihad Watch, which deals with the violent Islamization of the West based on actual examples and addressing  critical comments. Spencer believes that Islam is due to its link with the life of Mohammed more prone to violence than other religions.The Jihad as a central duty of every Muslim is, whether as internal struggle with himself – or by the growing radicalization – an increasingly violent struggle against the infidels. Spencer makes no distinction between peaceful and violent Muslims because Islam  in itself is an intolerant and violent ideology in the guise of of religion.

(Some translation corrections by sheik yer’mami)

Ban Ki Moonbat: We need to support the Pirate State of Somalia

Somalia secures over $200 million in aid jiziyah for “security”

More Torture, Anybody?

yusuf-s-m1* We need more devices…

“Background investigations for national security positions are conducted to gather information to show whether you are reliable, trustworthy, of good conduct and character, and loyal to the U.S. 

* Barry’s Got the Nuke Codes, But No Security Clearance!

* Why Would Obama Release Gitmo’s Islamic Terrorists onto our Streets?

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Tony BLiar calls on world to wage war on "militant Islam"-

* I think I must be chokin’ on something… this from the same empty suit who claims “I read the Koran, the Islamic manual for permanent warfare against unbelievers, every day…”

tony-blair-1-web Empty suit on the Discovery Channel…

* Muhammad cartoons editor: There’s a problem with Muslims in Europe

Tony BLiar: “It is time to wrench ourselves out of a state of denial. There is one major factor in common. In each conflict there are those…who argue that they are fighting in the true name of Islam.”

Tony Blair is still dogmatically convinced that the Islamic jihadists are hijacking and twisting the true, peaceful Islam, and he shows no awareness of the classic theological and legal teachings that they can and do draw upon to justify their actions and make recruits among their fellow Muslims, but what he says here about the need to combat the ideology, and the ideological kinship among disparate jihad groups, is spot on.

Not that there aren’t other major problems with what he says here — see below.

“Tony Blair calls on world to wage war on militant Islam,” by Ruth Gledhill for the Times Online, April 23 (thanks to Jihad Watch):

[…] In an address last night to a forum on religion and politics in Chicago, Mr Blair said that the world today faced a struggle posed by “an extreme and misguided form of Islam”, which threatened the majority of Muslims as well as non-Muslims.“Our job is simple: it is to support and partner those Muslims who believe deeply in Islam but also who believe in peaceful co-existence, in taking on and defeating the extremists who don’t.” […]

* Cool, Tony! Muslims who believe in peaceful coexistence with unbelievers? Show me yours, I’ll show you mine. Deal?

Update:

Sanctimonious, self-serving, high handed: Adam Boulton’s  view of the Blairs

Tony Blair with Cherie Blair visiting the terracotta warriors in Xian Shaanxi Province, China.

The Blair rich project: Globetrotters Tony and Cherie during a visit to China last year

Last year, veteran political journalist Adam Boulton published the definitive account of Tony Blair’s administration.

Here, in a new chapter from his acclaimed book, Boulton examines how Blair has made his £15million fortune, manoeuvred himself on to the international stage and has even paved the way for a possible return to politics as ‘President of Europe’.

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Diana West: Time to Pull the Plug on Afghanistan!

West: “Trying to transform Afghanistan into an anti-jihad, anti-Sharia player…is like trying to roll Sisyphus’ rock up the hill”

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As we have long noted here, in a state like Afghanistan, the proponents of Sharia will never accept a democratic republic — it’s Islamic law or war. So what exactly are U.S. forces going to accomplish there?  (Or, in the words of Sheik yer’mami: “is it progress if we teach cannibals to use fork and knife?)

“Let Afghanistan Go,” by Diana West, April 23 (thanks to JW):

[…] Don’t get me wrong: If killing small bands of Taliban is in the best interest of the United States, I’m for it. But I do not believe it is — and certainly not as part of the grand strategy conceived first by the Bush administration and now expanded by the Obama administration to turn Afghanistan into a state capable of warding off what is daintily known as “extremism,” but is, in fact, bona-fide jihad to advance Sharia (Islamic law). Anybody remember Sisyphus? Well, trying to transform Afghanistan into an anti-jihad, anti-Sharia player — let alone functional nation — is like trying to roll Sisyphus’ rock up the hill.

This is not to suggest that there is no war or enemies to fight, which is what both the Left and the Paleo-Right will say; there most certainly are. But sinking all possible men, materiel and bureaucracy into Afghanistan, as the Obama people and most conservatives favor, to try to bring a corrupt Islamic culture into working modernity while simultaneously fighting Taliban and wading deep into treacherous Pakistani wars is no way to victory — at least not to U.S. victory. On the contrary, it is the best way to bleed and further degrade U.S. military capabilities. Indeed, if I were a jihad chieftain, I couldn’t imagine a better strategy than to entrap tens of thousands of America’s very best young men in an open-ended war of mortal hide-and-seek in the North West Frontier.

I decided to ask someone with real military experience how we could fend off jihad without further digging ourselves into Central Asia. I called up retired Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely, one of the few top military leaders who talks on the record, to ask for his strategy recommendation for Afghanistan.

“Basically, let it go,” he said.

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Real Torture: watch it before youtube pulls the video

Far from being an ABC exclusive, this one is all over the internet. For instance, see this website devoted to torture in the UAE.

This  video features a member of one of the UAE’s royal family members torturing some poor guy.

thanks to the Jawa Report

Shut up about Gitmo and read this

Thanks to Infidels are Cool:

I’m so sick and tired of people whining and complaining about US so called “torture”.  It’s an excuse to pay no attention to the truly disgusting acts of torture committed all over the world everyday.  Leftists falsely claim some moral high ground which is really nothing more thana  political straw issue to demonize the US.  If they really cared, they would actually speak out about the REAL torturers.

Peter Moore and his four guards were abducted from a Finance Ministry building in Baghdad in May 2007 by up to 100 men in Iraqi security force uniform, driving police vehicles. What ensued was 31 months of REAL torture.

The survivor of Britain’s longest hostage crisis in 20 years revealed yesterday how he endured months of torture during his ordeal in Iraq.

Peter Moore told The Times that he was hung by his arms from a door as a punishment and doused in water by his captors. Speaking in detail for the first time since his release, he also told of a series of mock executions.

At one point, guards put a gun to his head and pulled the trigger, simultaneously firing a real round from another weapon. “I remember thinking: I’m dead. It’s not that bad. It’s not that painful. And then, reality check, hold on I’m handcuffed and still blindfolded. I can hear people laughing.”

The IT worker, who had been in Baghdad a matter of weeks when he was kidnapped, said he feared that he would die from illness after suffering severe diarrhoea and vomiting as he spent months shackled to a metal grille over a window. To kill time and to maintain his sanity during more than 31 months as a hostage, he counted dots on a curtain and invented a wife during hours of interrogation.

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At the lowest point, Mr Moore was chained up in a small room with four guards in a house he believed was in Basra. “They handcuffed me behind my back, stood me on a chair next to a door, put my hands over the top of the door, pulled down on the handcuffs and kicked the chair away. That was quite painful,” he said.

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