Month: April 2009

Puff Ho to the rescue: one man's pirate is another man's coast guard!

Why We Don’t Condemn Our Pirates – (how the left offers a soapbox to the Islamic pirates and blames us infidels for the global jihad)

Liberalism is a mental disorder. Here’s more proof (as if we needed it!)

As the first pirate attack of a U.S. ship in 200 years comes to a climax, I’m re-posting an essay I solicited and received several weeks ago from K’naan, a Somali-Canadian singer and activist. A video of a performance by K’naan that I filmed at the All Points West music festival last summer appears below. — Michael Vazquez

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Why We Don’t Condemn Our Pirates
by K’naan

Can anyone ever really be for piracy? Outside of sea bandits, and young girls fantasizing of Johnny Depp, would anyone with an honest regard for good human conduct really say that they are in support of Sea Robbery?

Well, in Somalia, the answer is: it’s complicated.

The news media these days has been covering piracy in the Somali coast with such 
lop-sided journalism, that it’s lucky they’re not on a ship themselves. It’s true that the constant hijacking of vessels in the Gulf of Aden is a major threat to the vibrant trade route between Asia and Europe. It is also true that for most of the pirates operating in this vast shoreline, money is the primary objective.

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But according to so many Somalis, the disruption of Europe’s darling of a trade route, is just Karma biting a perpetrator in the butt. And if you don’t believe in Karma, maybe you believe in recent history. Here is why we Somalis find ourselves slightly shy of condemning our pirates.

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  • Police and FBI agents escort the Somali pirate suspect U.S. officials identified as Abdiwali Abdiqadir Muse into FBI headquarters in New York on Monday.

Somalia has been without any form of a functioning government since 1991. And although its failures, like many other toddler governments in Africa, sprung from the wells of post-colonial independence, bad governance and development loan sharks, the specific problem of piracy was put in motion in 1992.

After the overthrow of Siyad Barre, our charmless dictator of twenty-some-odd years, two major forces of the Hawiye Clan came to power. At the time, Ali Mahdi, and General Mohamed Farah Aidid, the two leaders of the Hawiye rebels, were largely considered liberators. But the unity of the two men and their respective sub-clans was very short-lived. It’s as if they were dumbstruck at the advent of ousting the dictator, or that they just forgot to discuss who will be the leader of the country once they defeated their common foe.

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Australia: Christian Leaders Oppose Koranic School Because "Islam is Incompatible With the Australian Way of Life"

*  Right. Now we’re talking: somebody had to say it!
svkate-420x0Vilified Aussie scape-goat  Kate McCulloch: the “face of Islamophobia” in the AGE
Now watch the PC-brigades and the Muhammedan’s combine forces and call us ‘Islamophobes, bigots, xenophobes, racists, red-necks, wacko’s-  etc etc…

CAMDEN’S Christian leaders have united to condemn the Quranic Society, which wants to build an Islamic school in Camden, for espousing views which are “incompatible with the Australian way of life”.

The leaders of the St John’s Anglican, Camden Presbyterian and Camden Baptist churches and the Evangelical Sisterhood of Mary signed a letter to Camden Council arguing that the proposal was not in the public interest.

“Camden is increasingly becoming a multicultural community, but when one part of the community seeks to dominate the public space, as we have seen in Auburn, Bankstown, Lakemba and more recently Liverpool, the social impact is unacceptable,” says the letter, which was read at the Quranic Society’s appeal to the Land and Environment Court yesterday.”Our concern is the Quranic Society inevitably advocates a political ideological position that is incompatible with the Australian way of life. This includes promoting Quranic law as being superior to national laws and regarding followers of any rival religion as inevitably at enmity with it.”

The school proposal has split the Camden community.

The council voted unanimously to reject the original application for a 1200-pupil school “on planning grounds alone” last May.

After reducing its proposal to a school catering for 900 students, the Quranic Society took its case to the Land and Environment Court.

Commissioner Graham Brown, who will decide the school’s fate, visited the site yesterday morning, along with lawyers, council officials and residents. It is on a rural block on the corner of Cawdor and Burragarong roads.

The hearing continued at Camden Civic Centre in the afternoon, attended by about 150 residents.

The hearing continues today.

Yusuf rubs it: "CIA doctors and Hippocratic hypocrisy …"

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* Malevolent sharia shyster Yusuf Irfan engages (as always)  in immoral equivocations  and smears the hyppocratic oath, something no Muslim doctor seems to adhere to, as we can see here:

  • In light of the above our security services would be well advised to practice a little more torture, (waterboarding) because it comes with benefits and saves lives, as we can see here:

    • CIA: Waterboarding 9/11 mastermind led to info that headed off 9/11-style attack on LA

    Good thing they’re not waterboarding anymore, eh? As we watch American cities go up in flames, we can at least pat ourselves on the back that we did not transgress against delicate 21st century sensibilities.

    “CIA Confirms: Waterboarding 9/11 Mastermind Led to Info that Aborted 9/11-Style Attack on Los Angeles,” by Terence P. Jeffrey for CNS News, via JW

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    Australian Greens: Lets get rid of ourselves to save the planet!

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    • Pol Pot sends his regards: did you vote for these criminally insane kooks?

    * But fake asylum seekers are cool:  “Australia should take responsibility for cutting its own population instead of barring entry to others.”

    Only from the AGE, of course. Just in thanks to Gramfan:

    Pictured: Sandra Kanck (e-mail: Sandra Kanck ) …occasional singer,  former teacher,  social justice campaigner, environmentalist, and Australian Democrats Member of the Legislative Council, in the S.A. Parliament.

    Australia should consider having a one-child policy to protect the planet, an environmental lobby group says.

    Sustainable Population Australia says slashing the world’s population is the only way to avoid “environmental suicide”.

    National president Sandra Kanck wants Australia’s population of almost 22 million reduced to seven million “to tackle climate change”. This nutcase is also a lifetime member of the euthanasia society, who ignored government requests not to discuss suicide methods in a parliamentary speech on legalising voluntary euthanasia. One would like to see her apply her advice to herself and her consorts./ed

    Climate Change Bad, Human Suicide Good.

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    Islam-critic receives death threats, cancels speaking engagements

    Scandalous and absurd.  Instead of protecting  him from the Muslim assassins and going after them it is he,  the truth-teller, who has to flee. How long can this go on?

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    From Al Azhar Imam to Islam critic: credentials

    Considering that he’s not just another critic of Islam, but an ex-Muslim, an apostate, who, according to sharia, must be put to death, this, of course, is only to be expected. But that he taught at Sunni Islam’s most prestigious school and was an imam only to turn around and criticize Islam, also gives him that much more authority (and his foes that much more reason to want to slay him).

    “Netherlands: US Islam-critic cancel trip due to death threats,” from Islam-in-Europe, via Jihad Watch:

    Mark A. Gabriel, ex-Muslim and Islam-critic has gotten death threats and must cancel speaking appointments in the Netherlands. 

    The American terrorism fighting unit, the FBI, advised Gabriel to drop all public appearances in the Europe due to these death threats. He was escorted to the Schiphol airport by his contact person in the Netherlands, Jewish-Christian pastor Ben Kok. Gabriel had planned to be in the Netherlands till April 25.

    Gabriel (51), his pseudonym for years, grew up as a Muslim in Egypt. He was a teacher at Al-Azhar University and an imam as well, but was disappointed with Islam, in particular due to its violent character. When he crossed over to Christianity, he had to flee. He now has asylum in the US.

    UN's Ban Ki Moonbat plays dumb

    You don’t say:

    U.N.’s Ban says Ahmadinejad “misused” racism meeting

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    VALLETTA (Reuters) – UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon accusedIranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Tuesday of misusing a UN conference on racism at which he attacked Israel’s policy toward the Palestinians as racist.

    “It is very regretful that the conference was misused by the Iranian president for political purposes,” Ban said during an official visit to Malta.

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    Israel stops to remember the victims of the Shoah

    From the Tundra Tabloids:

    Obamessiah has no time for Nethanyahu, the  Prime Minister of Israel

    PM Netanyahu pauses in reflection on Holocaust Remembrance Day

    Israel Mourns 6 million murdered by National Socialism

    On the same day:

    Elie Wiesel Verbally Abused as “Zio-Nazi” by Ahmadinejad Entourage at Durban II

    They threw out the clowns who protested, but not the swine who accompanied the ape…

    U.N.: Ahmadinejad’s Durban II speech was an edited version of the original

     A couple of kids in clown suits  started demonstrating in the aisles in front of Ahmadinejad.  It seemed surreal.  (I later learned they were members of a European Jewish delegation.)  Everyone in my room appeared amazed, even pleased, but the clowns were unceremoniously escorted from the hall and Ahmadinejad resumed his speech.  I thought this was some minor interruption of the sort one frequently sees in the US, but in what seemed like seconds, a number of national delegates were standing up in their seats in front of Ahmadinejad and walking out in his face. These included France, Belgium, the Czech Republic, the UK, etc… all countries that, I knew, had made a big deal about attending the conference, not the US, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Italy, Poland, Germany and the Netherlands – that honor roll of countries with the sense to realize what a fiasco this was in front and refused to participate (how good they look now!).

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    Anti-Islamization Congress in Cologne: Pro-Köln not allowed to assemble in front of cathedral

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    Pro-Köln’s Plan B

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     Recently a group of English patriots applied for a permit to organize a parade in Luton on April 23rd — St. George’s Day, English National Day — but their application was denied, ostensibly because they had failed to file far enough in advance. This refusal resulted in an unofficial outpouring of anger as shown inthe video I posted last night.

    Cologne CathedralA similar repression is at work in Cologne. As you may remember, thePro-Köln movement will hold an Anti-Islamization Congress for May 9th, and it was originally scheduled to take place in the square in front of Cologne Cathedral.

    This location is significant — the cathedral is the heart of the city, and the true symbol of its traditional Christian culture, which is what Pro-Köln is intent on defending against the Muslim encroachment as represented by the proposed mega-mosque in Cologne-Ehrenfeld.

    But now it seems that the Pro-movement will be denied the right to gather in front of Cologne Cathedral. Notice the rationale that is at work here: because anarchists, “anti-fascists”, and Muslims are expected to react violently, a peaceful citizens’ group is denied the right to gather in a public place.

    This is just the latest of many examples of the suppression of free speech — others include the self-imposed censorship of any publication of the Motoons, and the ban against Geert Wilders’ appearance in the UK — because of a fear of violence on the part of those who disagree with what other citizens have to say.

    The organizers of the Anti-Islamization Congress, however, are ready with alternate plans. Our Flemish correspondent VH has compiled an account of the latest from Cologne, based on various German-language sources:

    Many new developments in Cologne!

    Read the whole thing, here>>

    Ibrahim Lincoln was a Moslem!

    * From our “all your founding fathers are belong to us” series:

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    And now, a word from the cinematic classic Masked and Anonymous:

    Editor: So, are you still a journalist or a novelist?
    Tom Friend: Same thing out here….
    Editor: Make something out of it. And if you can’t do that, sir, then     make it up!

    This is how the exaggerated lists of Muslim inventions get started — someone just makes it up. But don’t laugh: consider for a moment how the myth of a tolerant, pluralistic Muslim Spain has entered the popular consciousness.

    Note that underneath the bluster of the claim in the press release’s headline (below) is the Islamic dogma that everyone is born a Muslim. By such means Muslims can claim anyone’saccomplishments. But the assertion that the abolition of slavery is in the Qur’an is false. The Qur’an takes slavery for granted, and it is no accident that there has never been a Muslim Wilberforce or Garrison.

    Nor does the Qur’an teach equality of any kind between the Muslims, “the best of people” (3:110) and the unbelievers, “the most vile of created beings” (98:6).

    “Abraham Lincoln was Born a Muslim, Says Film Maker,” a press release from Hoo Productions, April 20 (thanks to JW):

    ATLANTA, April 20 /PRNewswire/ — Barack Hussein Obama is not alone. The 16th President of The United States, Abraham Lincoln, was born a Muslim, says Faruq Masudi, producer and director of the new Islamic movie, Quran Contemporary Connections.In a casting coup, Abraham Lincoln shares equal footage with luminaries of Islamic history like Saladin, King Faisal of Saudi Arabia and the former President of the UAE, Sheikh Zayed. What do they have in common?

    Faruq Masudi said, “According to the Quran, everybody is born a Muslim. It is only by his own free will that a man chooses a different course for himself. In that Abraham Lincoln was not only a born Muslim but he chose to live by Islamic edicts like abolishing organized slavery; establishing equality of all human beings, democracy and accountability to God and Man; core Islamic concepts as propounded in the Holy Quran.”…

    * Democracy? In the Koran?  Oh Faruq, you cheeky little bullshitter, you! Trying to paint a giant pussy for infidel consumption?  I have a better idea: why not explain it to this guy who must be reading a different Koran?

    Norway: "Muslims are the Jews of our times"

    430601Horror of horrors! Racism! “Islamophobia”!


     

    Church invites Obama’s Muslim grandmother to Christianity; she declines and Muslims are up in arms

    Khalid Mahmood, a Pakistani-born member of the governing Labour Party believes Muslims are being persecuted, and Islam confronted with hatred. (if only!/ed)

    “Muslims are the Jews of our times, stigmatised, generalised and presented as a threat to society” he said. An obscene comparison. Six million Jews were murdered in Europe. No one is calling for any Muslim to be murdered, or anything close to that, and to frame the debate in those terms is simply an attempt to divert attention away from real concerns about Sharia supremacism. Jews had never proclaimed they were going to conquer Europe and subjugate non-Jews under the rule of Jewish law. Many, many Muslims have proclaimed that the Islamic conquest of Europe is imminent. To speak out against that, and in favor of freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, the equality of rights of all people before the law, and the non-establishment of religion in society is not to call for anyone to be killed.

    “It is not any longer immigrants who are targeted, but simply Muslims”, he adds.

    * And so they should be. Because of this:

    Norway: “The reality is that a kind of sneak-Islamisation of this society is being allowed”

     

     

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