Tag: Somalia

 Appropriate that the Associated ‘with terrorists’ Press bring us this news. Keep repeating: we’re not at war with Islam. Give him a Koran and halal food while in prison, that’s his inviolable human right, or is it?

Remember: its an old tradition in the US to do everything we can to make our enemies like us. German soldiers captured during WW II were given copies of Mein Kampf, Sauerkraut and Schnitzel, right?

From Creeping Sharia

NEW YORK (AP) — The wound on Abdiwali Abdiqadir Muse’s slim hand, where he was stabbed by a crew member during his pirate attack on a U.S. cargo ship, has been redressed. He’s been given painkillers and antibiotics for his injuries and a Quran to use in prayer.

• Muse, who is Muslim, has been given a special diet. So far he’s been eatinglots of salads and vegetables.

“Imagine yourself in Somalia,” court-appointed attorney Philip Weinstein said Friday. “Imagine how overwhelmed you’d be by everything.”

Phil, imagine yourself in Somalia. What do you suppose they’d do under sharia law when they saw the name Weinstein and ‘United States’ on your passport? Hand you a copy of the Torah or Bible? Fix you a special diet?

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

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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•  Give merchant seamen fighting chance, with guns
• How to beat the pirates
• Fear pirates? Fuhgeddaboudit
• Somali pirate arrives in N.Y. for trial

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.

• 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.

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

• Besides, fighting piracy will only cause more piracy. Fighting Islamic terrorism only causes more Islamic terrorism. Fighting crime will only….
• Great idea: lets send Hillary Clinton. We need a diplomatic solution…
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That’s ma nigga:  Al Sharpton Refers to Somali Pirates as “Volunteer Coast Guard” (you knew that was coming, right?)

“If we cannot [reach the] Somali coast, we will kill the infidel”

The single most commonly ignored aspect of the Somali pirates’ episode is the fact that the pirates are Islamic jihadists.  Jihadi Pirates roundup: “‘3 rounds, 3 dead bodies’: Navy SEALs’ precision volley ended American’s ordeal, but piracy continues,” by Scott Wilson, Ann Scott Tyson and Stephanie McCrummen for the Washington Post (via MSNBC), via JW

Pamela has this:

JIHADI PIRATES HIJACK FOUR MORE SHIPS – ESCALATION OF ISLAMIC HOSTILITIES