Month: August 2010

He waited for the Ramadamadingdong dinner to voice his support. Aiding and abetting Islamofascism in the US of A.

Since most voters in America are against building a mosque at Ground Zero, it only figures then that the radical far left Muslim POTUS  would join the 20% who believe it’s a good idea.  He has a pattern of doing this.  Once again,  Sarah Palin stands with the rest of America. (Gateway)

Yes, there are people who still don’t believe that  the O-bastard is in fact a Muslim.

WASHINGTON  — President Hussein Obama on Friday forcefully endorsed building a mosque near ground zero, saying the country’s founding principles demanded no less.

“As a citizen, and as president, I believe that Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as anyone else in this country,” Obama said, weighing in for the first time on a controversy that has riven New York City and the nation.

“ I believe that Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as anyone else….”

The same right? That’s not the issue.  The Muslims believe they have more rights than anyone else and an obligation to make the world Islamic. I have a problem with that. I also have a problem with this:

The Ikhwan [Muslim Brotherhood] must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and “sabotaging” its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and Allah’s religion is made victorious over all other religions. […] It is a Muslim’s destiny to perform Jihad and work wherever he is…

“That includes the right to build a place of worship and a community center on private property in lower Manhattan, in accordance with local laws and ordinances,” he said. “This is America, and our commitment to religious freedom must be unshakable.”

Obama made the comments at an annual dinner in the White House State Dining Room celebrating the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. (Not holy to anyone but Muslims)

Republicans were quick to pounce on the president’s remarks.

“President Obama is wrong,” said Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y. “It is insensitive and uncaring for the Muslim community to build a mosque in the shadow of ground zero. While the Muslim community has the right to build the mosque they are abusing that right by needlessly offending so many people who have suffered so much.”

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About time somebody sets the record straight:

The Washington Times sets the record straight on Obama’s Ramadan message. “EDITORIAL: Obama’s Islamic America: What country is he talking about?,” from The Washington Times, August 12, thanks to JW:

[…] That Islam has had a major role in advancing justice, progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings may come as a surprise to Muslim women. Young Afghan girls who are having acid thrown in their faces on the way to school might want to offer their perspectives. That Islam is “known” for diversity and racial equality is also a bit of a reach. This certainly does not refer to religious diversity, which is nonexistent in many Muslim-majority states. This is a plaudit better reserved for a speech at the opening of a synagogue in Mecca.Most puzzling is the president’s claim that “Islam has always been part of America.” Islam had no influence on the origins and development of the United States. It contributed nothing to early American political culture, art, literature, music or any other aspect of the early nation.

In other news:

Hussein Obama will host an iftar — the special evening meal observed during Ramadan — on Friday night in the White House dining room. (May he choke on it along with the criminals that come to dishonor the White House!)

Piracy is part of jihad: The Barbary Wars caused America to build a Navy to protect her merchant ships

Throughout most of American history, the Muslim world was perceived as remote, alien and belligerent. Perhaps the president was thinking about the Barbary Pirates and their role in the founding of the U.S. Navy, or Andrew Jackson’s dispatch of frigates against Muslim pirates in Sumatra in the 1830s. Maybe he was recalling Rutherford B. Hayes’ 1880 statement regarding Morocco on “the necessity, in accordance with the humane and enlightened spirit of the age, of putting an end to the persecutions, which have been so prevalent in that country, of persons of a faith other than the Moslem, and especially of the Hebrew residents of Morocco.” Or Grover Cleveland’s 1896 comment on the continuing massacre of Armenian Christians: “We have been afflicted by continued and not infrequent reports of the wanton destruction of homes and the bloody butchery of men, women and children, made martyrs to their profession of Christian faith. … It so mars the humane and enlightened civilization that belongs to the close of the nineteenth century that it seems hardly possible that the earnest demand of good people throughout the Christian world for its corrective treatment will remain unanswered.”

It also is customary in the United States to search for obscure contributions made by in-vogue minority groups as a feel-good way of promoting inclusion. One of the earliest Muslims to come to the United States was a 17th-century Egyptian named Norsereddin, who settled in the Catskills and was described by one chronicler as “haughty, morose, unprincipled, cruel and dissipated.” Spurned by the princess of an Indian tribe that had befriended him, he managed through a subterfuge to poison her. He was later run down by the betrayed Indians, who burned him alive. It is not the kind of tale that makes it into politically correct history books.

No, but when I read that Norsereddin was “haughty, morose, unprincipled, cruel and dissipated,” I thought they were talking about Honest Ibe Hooper.

Carl in J’lem

I breathed a sigh of relief on Thursday night when I found out that the ‘Israeli’ arrested on suspicion of being a serial killer as he was about to board a Delta Airlines flight to Israel in Atlanta was an ‘Israeli Arab.’ Perhaps I breathed that sigh of relief too soon.

Someone emailed me to tell me about a major online media outlet that had run the story earlier and then taken it down when it turned out that Elias Abuelazam was not a Jew. I googled the story and found out that the story was still up at that site. And at some point later, I went to sleep.

Over at CAMERA, they did a bit more checking, and discovered that there were many more mainstream media outlets that didn’t bother to tell their readers or otherwise hid the fact that Elias Abuelazam is an ‘Israeli Arab’ from Ramle (within the green line) and not a Jew. Among those outlets – unsurprisingly – were the BBC, MSNBC and NPR. At HuffPo, Abuelazam’s arrest became another occasion to bash Jews and Israel in the comments.

Read the whole thing.

Spain: Muslims fighting municipal burka ban

Islam in Europe via ThinkSpain:   MUSLIMS in Lleida have presented six written complaints to the city council over its decision to ban the burkha in public buildings. Continue reading

Spain says Moroccan protestors blockade enclave

[Al Arabiya Latest] A Spanish police official says Moroccan demonstrators are blockading the border with the Spanish-occupied enclave of Melilla, preventing all trucks from entering it.  Melilla has been occupied by Spain for centuries and has some 70,000 people on Morocco’s northern coast. It depends heavily on Morocco for products such as fresh fish, fruit and vegetables and construction materials. Rantburg

Sweden: Long summer days a challenge to Ramadan fasting

Sweden’s long summer days are presenting a challenge to Muslims fasting for Ramadan, which starts on Wednesday. Religious leaders say the long hours of daylight are not a good excuse to skip the fast.

Things are set to get even more challenging in 2015, when the fast will fall in June.  Continue reading

Italy: Church provides tent-mosque for Ramadan prayers

Any chance the Muslims will ever reciprocate?

Muslims in the northern Italian town of Gallarate have been offered a white tent in the local church car park in which to observe Ramadan. The holy fasting month begins early on Wednesday and lasts until 10 September.  Gallarate’s 7,000 Muslims have been fighting for a mosque since 2005, after the local council closed down several prayer halls on hygiene and security grounds. Continue reading

“We wanted to send a clear signal,”

German TV dances around the black stone: German television channel RTL2 said Tuesday it was launching a special service for Muslim viewers during Ramadan, letting them know when to begin and end the daily fast. Via The Local:

Turkey Accused of Using Chemical Weapons against Kurds (Eye on the world)

BERLIN (JPost) – German politicians called on Thursday for an international investigation into the reported use of chemical weapons by the Turkish military. The weapons were used against members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), according to the online edition of the German weekly magazine Der Spiegel.

Just like Muhammad: Kuwaiti beheads shepherd over a camel

(Kuwait) A 25-year-old Kuwaiti man who got the nibbles during the night, instead of looking in the fridge or even popping out for something to eat, went out to his father’s farm and killed a camel.   The shepherd employed by the man’s father, rang the owner, and, in turn, the father rang his son in which to berate him for killing one of his camels. The son, his honour offended, informed his father he would get his revenge.

On being unable to contact the shepherd, the owner went out to his farm and found that his son had killed the shepherd by chopping off his head, then stabbed the body and then burnt it.

Anybody else sick of the news coverage over the Pakistan floods?

On a daily basis we in the UK are bombarded with requests to give money to the victims of Pakistan. Hell, the bBC has no problem trying to get you to give to charities which purchase food and stuff actually in Pakistan, which begs me to ask why should I give to a country which has over 2,000 combat aircraft, 2,000 tanks and nuclear weapons, where plenty of food can be found in the country. I have no problem helping others, but come on, shouldn’t the people of Pakistan be helping their own first?

No More Smokes for Deployed Troops

If liberal politicians get their way, the battlefield, with bombs bursting and people dying, will ultimately be regulated as a smoke-free workplace.

Congress needs to quit the nit-picky social engineering of the military. It kills morale. Ironically, even a condemned man is offered a smoke before being shot by a firing squad.  (Thanks to Interested Participant)

Juan Williams: White Votes Are Irrelevant (Moonbattery)

For a while I thought that this token negro was more intelligent than the previously fired   Cop-killer apologist Marc Lamont Hill. Turns out  I was wrong…..

Obama’s US Treasury Department Pushing Zakat (Islamic Donations to Fund Jihad)

We know that terror is funded through the use of “islamic charities.” The most glaring example was the Holy Land  terror funding trial, the largest  in US history. CAIR, ISNA, MAS, MSA were all named fronts for the Muslim Brotherhood and co-conspirators.    Atlas Shrugs

Whole lotta mosque building going on

U.S. State Department is Building….Mosques

Breitbart/Big Peace

What else is the State Department larding out, at hard-pressed taxpayers’ expense, to facilitate “understanding” with the Muslim world?

What else, that is, in addition to Ground-Zero-Mega-Mosque Imam Rauf’s likely fund-raising gig in five, oil rich countries?

Just as it has greatly, very greatly, disturbed 68% of you registered voters to learn of plans to build a $100 million dollar mosque financed perhaps by the very ones who underwrote the 9/11 slaughter, it will likely disturb you to learn that the State Department has been hard at work – on your dime – rebuilding of mosques in foreign countries.

The Washington Times reports:

In April, U.S. Ambassador to Tanzania Alfonso E. Lenhardt helped cut the ribbon at the 12th-century Kizimkazi Mosque, which was refurbished with assistance from the United States under a program to preserve culturally significant buildings. The U.S. government also helped save the Amr Ebn El Aas Mosque in Cairo, which dates back to 642. The mosque’s namesake was the Muslim conqueror of Christian Egypt, who built the structure on the site where he had pitched his tent before doing battle with the country’s Byzantine rulers. For those who think the Ground Zero Mosque is an example of “Muslim triumphalism” glorifying conquest, the Amr Ebn El Aas Mosque is an example of such a monument – and one paid for with U.S. taxpayer funds.

• NY gov says Islamic group won’t relocate mosque
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