Le Colonel Neville s’habille Tojours Pour le Diner. Semper Fi. Thomas Sowell: "There are three questions that I think would destroy most of the arguments on the left. The first is compared to what? The second is at what cost and the third is what hard evidence do you have?” Live free or die or both. Satirical empirical conservative. No, really.
Barry Hussein Sotoero Barack Obama: "Gobble gobble!"
King Pervert Abdullah: "Hey let me fully unzip first!"
Yes, if only Barry Hussein Sotouero Barack Obama wasn't a dirty lying dhimmi, a crypto-Marxist Muslim and an embarrassingly brittle narcissistic and super incompetent coward.
Yep, Barry said in his uber-cognitive dissonant PC way that “...the United States “is not and will never be at war with Islam.” Barry bullshit. Gee, I'll let all those people that have been beheaded and blown up know immediately.
Gee, whose attacking us then? Oh, just some mistaken "people" that we all "misunderstand" that we can't even name or recognise. Amazingly, they're all consistently and fanatically propelled without let-up, by the SAME IDENTICAL er, "twisting" of lovely Islam. An incredible 1300 year old coincidence! Another fantastic coincidence is that they look, speak, think, plan, live and act the same, just like golly, Muslims! And this is just like Mohammad and as the Koran explicitly says to!
Amazing! But just a coincidence.
Sadly old boy, Islam declared war on everything and everyone not Muslim and Islamic over a thirteen hundred years ago, and in a billions of ways since, has continued their ETERNAL WAR against the non-Islamic world. Millions of Muslims commit to this relentless jihad twenty four hours a day, seven days a week and year after year at some stage or another, in most every country and state in the world.
Imagine it being 1944 and FDR saying “The United States is not and will never be at war war with Nazism, the code of Bushido, Emperor worship and Shintoism, fascism or Communism.”
And the MSM reporting straight faced that FDR was: “Calling for a greater partnership with the Axis world in an address to the Reichstag. FDR called Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan and fascist Italy, important U.S. allies in many areas, including the fight against World War 11.
He devoted much of his speech to urging a greater bond between Americans and fascism, portraying terrorist groups such as the Wehrmacht, the SS and Kamikaze pilots as extremists who did not represent the vast majority of Axis forces.
“Let me say this as clearly as I can,” FDR said. “The United States is not and never will be at war with Nazism, fascism or Bushido, which is a religion of peace. In fact, our partnership with the Nazi world is critical...in rolling back a fringe ideology that people of all totalitarian political projects reject.”
Colonel Neville: Hey, whatever big lie works for the current suicidal PC facade. Gee, how long will this fraud work? Well, Muslims have committed over 13,000 reported terrorist attacks since 9/11 and yet, the seemingly simple and direct statement of “kill the kaffir and infidel!” backed up by relentless MUSLIM ACTIONS, still doesn’t register with many. Go figure.
Here's more of B.O's crawling spineless lying dhimmi speech at this link, with lot's of drivel like we're all the same and "we pray to the same God", "I believe that Islam is a great religion that preaches peace", a "Muslim partnership" etc. All absolute moral equvalence bunk of course, so no. And as per usual, that the free West has caused Muslim resentment by Muslims murdering thousands of civilians and so on, in much the same way that armed bank robbers are often angry at bank staff.
Obama said and I kid you not: “There is an old Turkish proverb: ‘You cannot put out fire with flames." But Jihadist Muslims try, don't they?
Barry: "But force alone cannot solve our problems, and it is no alternative to extremism. The future must belong to those who create, not those who destroy. That is the future we must work for, and we must work for it together."
Yes, whenever you meet an violent extremist, reach out and talk to them and mot of all listen! To your own screaming as your head comes off. Yes, passive suicide and slaughter of the self is the best eh? Gee, didn't "those who create" build the World Trade Centre, Vienna and the giant Buddha?
And didn't golly, extremists either destroy or lay siege to them? And gee, isn't it clear from Obama's disgusting words and embarrassing cowardly behaviour, that "the future" belongs to the most violent Muslims? For Islam, violence and murder works EVERYTIME. Instant Western apology and concessions!
Yes, and what is it exactly, that the Muslim world last created beyond lies, oppression, dysfunction, irrationality, madness, violence, perversion and death? Zero, literally.
“Most terrorism experts agree: it is not "if" we are attacked again, but "when." Yet the assault has already happened. A silent battle is being waged on our nation everyday. Not with guns and bombs, but via covert sources: Islamic charities, the ACLU--even presidential candidates. They are all pawns in a stealth holy war.
Unwittingly advancing the jihadist agenda not by violence, but through endeavors designed to acclimate and subject us to Islamic law--just the way Osama bin Laden wants it. In Stealth Jihad, bestselling author Robert Spencer exposes how a silent but lethal movement is advancing on the U.S. and calls upon Americans to resist it--before it's too late.”
From the Inside Flap.
Does America face a jihadist threat that's even bigger than terrorism? While our homeland security efforts are focused on preventing terrorist attacks, another jihadist threat is growing right here in America--in plain sight.
In Stealth Jihad, Islam expert and New York Times bestselling author Robert Spencer blows the whistle on a long-term plot by Islamic jihadists to undermine the United States. This effort aims not to bring America to its knees through attacks with guns or bombs, but to subvert the country from within--by gradually Islamizing America. The ultimate goal, the stealth jihadists themselves declare, is nothing less than the adoption of Islamic law in the United States.
Describing the disturbing ease with which stealth jihadists have already become ensconced in the American political and media landscapes, Spencer exposes the full modus operandi of the movement as revealed in a stunning document unveiled in a recent terrorism funding trial. In this unsettling book, he explains:
* Which Islamic fundamentalist organization is behind the stealth jihad.
* How stealth jihadists have reinvented themselves as mainstream civil rights activists--despite their many past declarations of Islamic supremacism.
* How stealth jihadists played a key role in formulating U.S. government guidelines for the War on Terror.
* How insistence on "accommodating" Islamic cultural and religious practices in America is part of a calculated strategy to achieve a dangerous larger agenda.
* The effort by stealth jihadists to whitewash the teaching of Islam in schools.
* What can be done to defeat the stealth jihad and preserve America's liberty America, Spencer demonstrates, is all but oblivious to a new kind of threat presented by a loosely organized movement whose activists are well funded, highly motivated, and relentless in pursuit of their agenda. This book is a wake-up call for a country so focused on foreign threats that it has left itself vulnerable to a growing danger much closer to home.”
Hotairs Ed Morrissey get’s it almost right on how George Bush spouted the same wilfully ignorant PC nonsense and blather, on how Islam is just dandy. The Ed spoils it all with a phony or is it stupid?, caveat of his own:
“And he’s right; the last thing we would want to do would be to declare war on a billion people just on the basis of their religion.
Colonel Neville: Hey, but it's OK if millions of Muslims worldwide have declared war on us, and most Muslim states either support it overtly or covertly in some way. Check. Nuance.
Ed: "The more we can keep the Muslims on the sidelines, the better off we are in fighting against the radicals.”
Colonel Neville: That entire sentence is an absurd fantasy entirely without merit or empirical evidence, cos there is none. But there's lotsa dark laughs!]
So balls and utter nonsense. WE ARE AT WAR, but unlike WWll, we are under attack globally and domestically with an overwhelming level of infiltration, self-delusion and out and out LIES that is beyond belief. And if we had the same kind of dominant super denial in WWll, without a doubt WE WOULD HAVE LOST.
Hotair: “Barack Obama, making his first visit to a Muslim nation as president, declared Monday the United States “is not and will never be at war with Islam.”
Calling for a greater partnership with the Islamic world in an address to the Turkish parliament, Obama called the country an important U.S. ally in many areas, including the fight against terrorism. He devoted much of his speech to urging a greater bond between Americans and Muslims, portraying terrorist groups such as Al Qaida as extremists who did not represent the vast majority of Muslims.
“Let me say this as clearly as I can,” Obama said. “The United States is not and never will be at war with Islam. In fact, our partnership with the Muslim world is critical...in rolling back a fringe ideology that people of all faiths reject.” Here’s the objectionable part:
The U.S. president is trying to mend fences with a Muslim world that felt it had been blamed by America for the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Yes, because George Bush spent the last seven years blaming the entire Muslim world for the 9/11 attacks, right? Right? Er, no, as this collection of Bush quotes regarding Islam makes excruciatingly clear. In fact, Bush emphasized friendship with Muslims from the very start of the war:
• “I’ve made it clear, Madam President, that the war against terrorism is not a war against Muslims, nor is it a war against Arabs. It’s a war against evil people who conduct crimes against innocent people.” — Remarks by President George W. Bush and President Megawati of Indonesia The Oval Office, Washington, D.C. September 19, 2001.
• “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.” — Remarks by the President at Islamic Center of Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C. September 17, 2001.
• “All of us here today understand this: We do not fight Islam, we fight against evil.” — Remarks by President George W. Bush to the Warsaw Conference on Combating Terrorism November 6, 2001.
• “I have assured His Majesty that our war is against evil, not against Islam. There are thousands of Muslims who proudly call themselves Americans, and they know what I know — that the Muslim faith is based upon peace and love and compassion. The exact opposite of the teachings of the Al Qaeda organization, which is based upon evil and hate and destruction.” — Remarks by President George W. Bush and His Majesty King Abdullah of Jordan The Oval Office, Washington, D.C. September 28, 2001.
• “Islam is a vibrant faith. Millions of our fellow citizens are Muslim. We respect the faith. We honor its traditions. Our enemy does not. Our enemy doesn’t follow the great traditions of Islam. They’ve hijacked a great religion.” – Remarks by President George W. Bush on U.S. Humanitarian Aid to Afghanistan Presidential Hall, Dwight David Eisenhower Executive Office Building, Washington, D.C. October 11, 2002.
And so on; there are plenty of examples to make the point. Obama spoke in the tradition established by Bush over the last seven-plus years of emphasizing that America did not declare war on Islam. That’s been obvious through our partnership with Islamic nations, such as Iraq, Turkey, Afghanistan, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia, just to name a few. And he’s right; the last thing we would want to do would be to declare war on a billion people just on the basis of their religion. The more we can keep the Muslims on the sidelines, the better off we are in fighting against the radicals.
However, the AP wants to pretend that this is some new effort by the US to assure Muslims of our intentions. It decidedly is not, and perhaps a mention that Bush tried making these same assurances for almost his entire presidency would be in order here.” Ed Morrissey still not admitting the bleeding obvious.
Ralph White review of Stealth Jihad:
“Robert Spencer describes an America that welcomes its mortal enemies into its midst, gives them equal time with our founders' ideals, and defends their right to hate us. Spencer is a veteran of the struggle against jihad; his previously published titles include "The Truth About Muhammad," "The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam, and the Crusades," "Religion of Peace, Why Christianity is and Islam isn't," "The Myth of Islamic Tolerance," and "Islam Unveiled..."
Spencer adds his voice to Islam's courageous adversaries, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Brigitte Gabriel, Mark Steyn, Bruce Bawer, Carafano and Rosenweig, Benjamin and Simon, Efraim Karsh, Mary Habeck. Take the time to understand Spencer's and these other authors' warnings; distill their thoughts; and join the resistance to Islam's malevolent spread in America. France and Holland are already past the tipping point and will have some form of sharia law within 50 years. If you don't think it can happen here in America consider the Minnesota taxi incidents of 2006.
One taxi driver refused to pick up passengers carrying alcoholic beverages at the Minneapolis airport because to do so would "insult Islam." Soon other drivers joined the embargo against passengers with alcohol.
The city tried a system using different colored taxis to accommodate the drivers who were and weren't willing to transport alcohol, but the system broke down. Within three months 5,400 passengers were denied service. The drivers claimed that they were defending "freedom of religion." In fact, Spencer shows that no one was preventing the drivers from practicing Islam.
What the drivers were doing was "asserting sharia norms over non-Muslims." Had the precedent been allowed, what was to prevent drivers from refusing to carry passengers with pork products, or an unmarried couple?
Spencer shows that it is the Muslim Brotherhood, founded in 1928 in Egypt by Hassan al Banna, which is directing these and other incursions into the unalienable rights which Americans blithely take for granted. The Muslim American Society is the Brotherhood's front organization in America, and the Council of Islamic-American Relations is its political arm. These organizations reject peaceful coexistence, [promote] moral equivalence, and reject pluralistic governance. Resistance to jihad is not bigoted, racist, hate mongering, or Islamophobic; it is self defence against the war Muslims are obliged to wage against us. For them to live peacefully with us is to insult the prophet Muhammad.
You will not have to believe Spencer. His argument is most forcefully made by Islam's governance documents, the Qur'an and the Hadith (traditions of the prophet), and by Muslim writers and speakers themselves. Spencer quotes Islam's words verbatim and shows that there is no scope for compromise in the mandate to convert us, extract jizya (humiliating tax on non-Muslims), or kill us. These are their sole options and they mean business. America's very openness, its civil rights, its democratic ideals and institutions, and its tolerance create a vulnerability which Muslims use against us.”
We The People. Ah yes. Many of those in charge are treasonous fifth columnists, especially columnists. Rudd, Obama and Brown are anti-Democratic creeps, liars and uber-incompetent elitist circus geeks. Cage them all and take back our freedoms before it’s too late. Alas, many of the indoctrinated and fellow travelling public are with them. Hey, just like WWll. [Barry Hussein Sotoero has put in place more debt than the previous 43 Presidents combined. No, really.]
The husband of the British Home Secretary bought porn vids on Jacqui's bill or rather the taxpayers. Ah, he's a man who obviously has his hands on the levers of government. Mr Dick, er, Timney Smith cums to London: "Jacqui was not there when these films were watched.“ Quite.
Nobody but me and my spank the monkey. I saw a recent headline on Gordon Brown that read: “Another blow for British PM!” So they’re all having a damn good wank. Official government business, old man. All very hush, hush. Mums the word. On the QT. "Ah-urgh! Err!" That’s why Michelle Obama has those strong biceps, and Kevin Rudd wears glasses. Look, there's nothing wrong per se with a nice Wednesday night strangling of the old zucchini, just don't put it on the government tab. At least Dick, er, Timney is not trying to whitewash away his whitewash, so credit due there.
"Horrible scenes in White Chapel! Gripper strikes again!" "Oh my God! It's all over the walls!"
Funny innit, how consistently phony the left are as they spout the same relentless big lies. This applies from the British and Australian Labor Party to the American Democrats and various Euro-weenie left socialists and more and more in the alleged conservatives of the Republican Party, the Brit Tories and the wimpy Australian Liberal Party too. In Australia 'liberals' are supposed to be conservative. Confusing I know, but not if you listen to them. But I digress. Most everything the left say is the exact opposite of what they usually do. Or everything always.
How crap do you have to be to get a gig in British and Australian Labor and the Democrats [or the barely conservative Opposition?] Just have the right lefty opinions and positions on everything and never bother with the actual results of your stupid ideas. There’s no limit going down apparently just don’t be any good. Simply call yourself "progressive" which means going forward like the bus progressed off the cliff or your cancer is progressing.
These ever changing, repackaged, backdated and hideous monikers cover one completely and prove to other frauds and twits that everything you do has good intentions which is always enough for the left, and that everything you say is the absolute truth because you care more than anyone else.
When faced with the harsh facts of the political project that clearly plans to oppress, control and murder us all, rich Marxist product sodden phony’s like Jacqui jacks-off, invariably cannot call a spade a spade, preferring “anti-Islamic activity” as a catchy name for the brand of terror with a 95% market share. Ah, and “man-caused disaster” is another one doing the rounds.
And the left liberal will dump their most passionately defended "values" whenever it suits. Usually when the cognitive dissonance gets too much, which is paradoxically never. Thus being a pro-Islamist and by default pro-oppressing and murdering women, children and gays can suddenly be an entirely comfortable fit.
Mark Steyn January 26 2008: “Her Majesty’s government is engaging not merely in Orwellian Newspeak but in self-defeating Orwellian Newspeak. The broader message it sends is that ours is a weak culture so unconfident and insecure that if you bomb us and kill us our first urge is to find a way to flatter and apologize to you.”
Thus Pearl Harbour was anti-Japanese activity, the Blitzkrieg was anti-German activity and gutting Sharon Tate was anti-drug crazed hippie radical activity.“You’re giving a bad name to the Manson Family, Charlie!”
Why do it and then lie? The porn thang that is. With the "progressive" one must attempt to narrow down the bunk and fraud a little. Which con or blow job? So little time, so much to taxpayer fund...I of course have never touched myself or even seen my wife naked, nor have I ever had a lustful thought. In fact I’m proud to say that my sexuality is exactly what the voters think it should be.
Mr Timney Smith:“Er, just a minute Jaqui love, I’m cleaning up some er, mayonnaise of the carpet”. Mrs Jacqui Smith:“Again?”
“So henceforth, any terrorism perpetrated by persons of an Islamic persuasion will be designated “anti-Islamic activity” Britain’s home secretary, Jacqui Smith, unveiled the new brand name in a speech a few days ago. “There is nothing Islamic about the wish to terrorize, nothing Islamic about plotting murder, pain and grief,” she told her audience. “Indeed, if anything, these actions are anti-Islamic.”
Well, yes, one sort of sees what she means. Killing thousands of people in Manhattan skyscrapers in the name of Islam does, among a certain narrow-minded type of person, give Islam a bad name, and thus could be said to be “anti-Islamic” — in the same way that the Luftwaffe raining down death and destruction on Londoners during the Blitz was an “anti-Nazi activity” because if there was one thing that could guarantee Londoner's having a dim view of Hitler, it was WWll.
But I don’t recall even Neville Chamberlain explaining as if to a five-year-old, that there is nothing Nazi about the wish to terrorize and invade, and that this is entirely at odds with the core Nazi values of sitting around eating huge sausages in beer gardens while wearing leiderhosen.
Still, it should add a certain surreal quality to BBC news bulletins: “The Prime Minister today condemned the latest anti-Islamic activity as he picked through the rubble of Downing Street looking for his 2008 Wahhabi Community Outreach Award. In a related incident, the anti-Islamic activists who blew up Buckingham Palace have unfortunately caused the postponement of the Queen’s annual Ramadan banquet.
...anyone minded to engage in an “anti-Islamic activity” will find quite a lot of support from leading Islamic scholars. Take, for example, the “moderate” imam Yusuf al-Qaradawi, who once observed that “we will conquer Europe, we will conquer America! Not through the sword, but through dawa” – i.e., the non-incendiary form of Islamic outreach. What could be more moderate than that? No wonder Mr. al-Qaradawi is an associate of the Islamic Society of Boston, currently building the largest mosque in the northeast, and also a pal of the present mayor of London.
The impeccably moderate mullah was invited to address a British conference sponsored by the police and the Department of Work and Pensions on “Our Children, Our Future.” And, when it comes to the children, Imam Qaradawi certainly has their future all mapped out. “Israelis might have nuclear bombs,” he said, “but we have the children bomb and these human bombs must continue until liberation.” As Maurice Chevalier used to say, thank heaven for little girls, they blow up in the most delightful way.”
Barry Hussein Sotoero Barack Obama now thinks it is highly appropriate for an elected American President, to direct the hiring and firing in the private sector. All hail Kommissar Obama as he purges capitalist economic criminals from the glorious people’s heroic struggle against their now outmoded constitutional freedoms!
And only weeks after he bankrupted entire generations to come, to the tune of 3.7 trillion dollars, [which translates into 10 to 15 trillion at least, over the long term or more] Barry Hussein Sotuero has no reticence whatsoever in saying that GM et all must be and I quote: “lean and mean”. Obama is lean alright and very, very rich, but beyond his overt Marxist Leninism love, he’s entirely meaningless. Barry, Rudd and Gordon bloody Brown are the phony elitist uber-rich and can afford to be the economic spastics they clearly are. State crony arrangements and capitalism for them and some semi-free markets and ever expanding socialism for you.
“The Home Secretary's husband has apologised after the cost of two adult films watched by him was claimed back in her expenses.
Speaking outside their home in Jacqui Smith's Redditch constituency, Richard Timney said: "I am really sorry for any embarrassment I have caused Jacqui. "I can fully understand why people might be angry and offended by this... that money is being paid back." The revelations are an embarrassment to Ms Smith who last month faced criticism for claiming taxpayer-funded allowances for her family home while living with her sister in London.”
Everything is AOK via skynews com: “Ms Smith designated her sister's house in London as her main residence, allowing her to claim £116,000 over several years on the Redditch constituency home which she shares with her husband and children.”
Via naffed off: “It is now obvious that the Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith is proving herself and her department completely inept at doing the job asked of them by the British taxpayer. Jacqui Smith is being accused of trying to cover up yet another Home Office blunder.
The news that at least 5,000 illegal immigrants had been cleared by the Security Industry Authority to work in some of Whitehall’s most sensitive buildings finally broke on Sunday. Bad enough, but then this information has been known to her for four months, but only admitted to it on Sunday in response to questions from journalists.”
And there's the thing. I could never be stupid and dishonest enough to get Smiths job. Nay, that's more for your high level and highly qualified professional traitors.
Phil at 'riceline', the well known retail chain and mass murdering theocratic fascist Islamic state that wants to murder all the Jewish people and "wipe Israel of the map..." Oh that's right. They're not. That's Iran. I always get them confused. And ya wanna know why the Church has er, difficulties relating to normal people?
'Dr Freier said at the service "A society which enshrines the rights of citizens in its constitution has stripped rights away from other people including a citizen of this country, David Hicks". This irrational statement via the ABC, is the insane tripe of the apparent ecumenical circus geek and Anglican Arch Bishop [sic] Philip Freier, the cognitive dissonant and logical fallacy moral gymnast finalist.
Yes, good old Dave Hicks, the dumb as dog hair creep who trained in how to slice off heads, with people who train by slicing off heads. The rabid liar David Hicks, who hates Jews totally and trained to deceive, kidnap, torture and shoot men, women and CHILDREN, and generally cause as much mayhem as possible in order to spread Islam. This is known as the current Quality Control free zone of Angli"care".
Ex-President but current Muslim criminal Mohammad Khatami of Iran, said of Israel that it’s “an old, incurable wound on the body of Islam, a wound that really possesses demonic, stinking, contagious blood'." Ah, that must be the "major intellectual of the 21st century " that Dr Phil Camilleri of Latrobe universtiy spoke of. Got it. I'm reminded more of a 7th century fascist psychopathic moron, but each to his own.
Hit the link for the secret pervert handshake of Iran. Behold the moral inversion by Islamic perversion, that is the upside-down and natural Monkey Planet of any Islamic state.
“MELBOURNE Anglican Archbishop Philip Freier yesterday challenged both main parties to commit immediately to a national inquiry into Australia's "epidemic" of childhood depression. Ms Tankard-Reist said Australian culture was toxic for girls, leading to more self-harm, body-image dissatisfaction, eating disorders and lower self-esteem. "They are now expected to be hot saucy tweens on the prowl rather than active, healthy girls."
She said girls were being prematurely sexualized, bombarded by messages from a "pornified" culture long before they were able to cope”. The Age.
Colonel Neville. Yes, keeping the age that a female child can be married off to a lifetime of sexual slavery hell at nine years-old in gee, Iran, will do that every time. It's a real drag and often a literal bummer for young boys too. Oh, Phil's not talking about that? Check. Nuance.
In fact the major cause of depression in the young, is the dominance of the irrational, fashionably negative, nihilist and utopian Marxist sodden grievance products of the left. This junk invariably says that the free Western Canon is bad, and only Soviet critical theory, PC'ism, envirofreakism and the false god of multicultism are good.
The left says morals and judgements are entirely relative and that therefore everything is up for grabs. Except for their conceits which can change at anytime.
"Left Product Warning: ACTUAL progress is not guaranteed".
The Arch Bishop rightly laments the perversion of children by the death of a grown-up culture, perversely replaced by a teenage one seemingly without moral or rational boundaries. Essentially nihilist, bub. Like gee, Iran and the left. But golly gee whiz, the Arse Bishop is just tres cool and hip with the latest Islamist mass killer bedfellowship. Bravo and five stars for asshat.
"Jewish fury at visit by Iran leader Barney Zwartz. March 18, 2009.[Colonel Neville:I'm pretty damn furious myself and I'm not even Jewish. Ah, The Age and the art of nuance. Oh, I get it. They maybe mean it's really more of a Jewish problem...Got it.]
"MELBOURNE Anglican Archbishop Philip Freier is under fire from the Jewish community for hosting a function for former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami while he is in Melbourne this month.
Jewish Community Council of Victoria president John Searle wrote to Dr Freier saying the Jewish community found it inconceivable that the Anglican Church would host "such a man" or even meet him.
He declined an invitation to attend and asked Dr Freier to reconsider.
Mr Searle told The Age that although Mr Khatami, president of Iran from 1997 to 2005, was regarded as a reformist, he was a sponsor of terrorism, a Holocaust denier and leader of a country that has often threatened to "wipe Israel off the map".
"Only last year, this supposed champion of dialogue called Israel 'an old, incurable wound on the body of Islam, a wound that really possesses demonic, stinking, contagious blood'."
Mr Khatami is being brought to Australia by La Trobe University's Centre for Dialogue and will give a public lecture on March 26. The Jewish Community Council has resigned from the centre's board of advisers in protest.”
Colonel Neville: Nice, eh? Could the Anglican Church be any more vacuous, fashionable and gee, bog standard Marxist PC left drones? They try. Ah, the old canard of “dialogue”. Interfaith dialogue is a big lie. It’s one of the best ways to spread Islam via dawa, or insidious prosletising. This practice by Christians or anyone in Iran or any Islamic state results in death.
Colonel Neville: Interfaith dialogue with Muslims is a one way street to nowhere but our own Islamisation via Sharia creep.
Here’s the thing. Mohammad [there’s that name again!] Khatami, is a total Islamist swine who utterly believes in totalitarian global Islam by any means, including murdering over 4,000 Iranian gay people, many of them children. Khatami is merely a Taquiyaa pushing uber deceiving nihilist that the wilfully disingenuous and LYING phony’s of the Western elites eagerly believe.
Khatami is NOT a “reformer” but a fascist totalitarian theocrat who embodies the harsh truth of the political project and inherently murderous ideology of ISLAM. But wait, there’s more disgusting beyond belief bunk.
“Dr Freier said he had invited Jewish leaders along with other groups who suffered persecution in Iran - Christians and Baha'is - so they could raise their concerns with Mr Khatami”.
Colonel Neville: Riiight. Raise their concerns. In Iran you can do that, in fact they encourage it. Then you are arrested, tortured and shot. Er, Khatami should be arrested under existing piracy, terrorism and rogue state laws or hung, whichever comes first. I have a few metres of quality rope to spare. Yes, as we all know, there are ample forums for ordinary people and non-Marxist left liberal and Muslim freaks. Er, no. There are NONE.
“He said Anglicans were not unaware of the difficulties for minorities in Iran since the Islamic Revolution in 1979, and he was not an apologist for Mr Khatami, but if people were ready to engage in discussion he wanted to oblige”.
Colonel Neville:“were not unaware”. Well Yep, dig the mealy mouthed language. As long as you are not um, not unaware or whatever. “Words are for men to hide their thoughts”, sayeth the Bard.
Here’s the kicker: “He had been asked by La Trobe University to host a meeting, to be held at his home".
Chummy. Hey, maybe The Bish' could officially launch his leftard activist ecumenical career in that lounge room, just like Obama did in the lounge of Bill Ayers the Weatherman. Go for Marxist gold I say.
"President Khatami speaks of dialogue as being foundational, so it's important to be able to speak and listen. He has been the guest of the Archbishop of Canterbury at Lambeth Palace and he has high-level access while in Australia," Dr Freier said.
Colonel Neville: Yes, doing the Lambeth Walk. “Dialogue as being foundational” is pure University Grad Marxist critical theory crud. So a definite A+ for your thesis from any typical fellow travelling Uni Prof. A way of talking that is designed with evil and inhumanity in mind. But please, lie on and they do.
“As president, Mr Khatami was regarded as less confrontational with the West than some others”.
Colonel Neville: Only by often powerful frauds who are now unfortunately legion.
“He said in Iran yesterday he was withdrawing as candidate for president against the hardline incumbent, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to avoid dividing the reformist vote”.
Colonel Neville: This filth barely rises to the level of sophistry. The difference between “hardline” and “reformist” in Islamic Iran cannot be measured in the number of mass murders as they are both numerically the same. But again, there's more criminal logical fallacy and superb cognitive dissonance which when it reaches a certain point, is also known by the rational mind as treason.
“Professor Joseph Camilleri, director of La Trobe's Centre for Dialogue, said the Jewish community's response was an over-reaction. He said Mr Khatami was "a major intellectual of the 21st century" and that he would be discussing his influential theory of the importance of dialogue in international affairs, but not Israel or Iran”.
Colonel Neville: The first lie is “Professor”. Methinks he Professors too much! The second lie is the bogus and inverted name of centre. A rule that holds fast is that whenever you hear the word dialogue, there isn’t any, just those with the voice and power lying to you. The second uber-absurdity is the “major intellectual” thang. But he’s right in a way. Many alleged “intellectuals” in the West and beyond, are Islamic terrorist loving scumbags.
Read the article link in full for Doc Caramello and have a bucket handy. What a twisted fuck, but repellent and as per usual for Latrobe et al.
"The JCCV is completely out of step with the mainstream thinking of informed Australians," he said. "I told them I think they are shooting themselves in the foot."
Colonel Neville: Not if they're decent and sane they ain't. Yes, out of goose step. Replace “informed” with indoctrinated Marxist drone or elitist phony, and you’ll have it down.
“Mr Searle agreed that differences over Mr Khatami could increase tension between Melbourne's Muslims and Jews, whose relations are at their lowest ebb in years over Israel's incursion into Gaza in January.
Last month the Executive Council of Australian Jewry cut formal ties with the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils after AFIC chairman Ikebal Patel refused to recant his claim that the former victims of the Holocaust were perpetrating "much worse atrocities" in Gaza”.
Colonel Neville: Thus Ikebal Patel, the Muslim pro-terror circus geek and shitbag gets to write for The Age. Nuance.
“The controversy over Mr Khatami's visit comes as US President Barack Obama tries to open channels to Tehran and reduce hostility between the two countries amid international concerns that Iran is on the verge of developing a nuclear bomb”.
Colonel Neville:Obama the lifetime Marxist parasite activist, and host of the well wishing dinner for his PLO pressman pal Rashid Khalidi, gave his first press conference to Al Arabiya couched in the venal and sedition laced fakery of “reaching out”. Yes, we must reach out to the fascist Muslim murder states that are waging asymmetrical warfare against the world.
Lately, I find everyday it’s as if I’m having a slow nightmare and events rather ironically, are getting "progressively" much, much worse. Hey, for a truly terrifying laugh, read ‘Welcome to Obamaland: I have seen your future and it doesn’t work’ by James Delingpole.
He’s a Brit who has already lived the Brown/Obama/Rudd nightmare in the utterly ruined Islamised Orwell style, smiley faced fascist and PC socialist state of Gutted Britain. Read the free chapter from Regenery and buy the book.
Take a break, maybe down the beach, and then read Robert Spencer’s Stealth Jihad. All the previous parade of phony freaks are in it.
And it's so lucky for largely unreachable, untouchable freaks lke Phil, Obama, Rudd and Caramello et al, that apparently many, many people are in an incurious, indoctrinated, easily distracted, bored and manipulated, glazed over dream of mediocrity. And most of those that are not have no voice.
Excerpts: "The Dutch court of appeal has ruled that Geert Wilders, the Member of Parliament and anti-terrorism activist, must stand trial for hate speech.
You can read the English page of the court's website announcing the decision here.
It is a national suicide note, a white flag of surrender flown by a once-great empire in the face of illiberal fascists and hoodlums. It is a homicide note, too announcing the murder of freedom of speech and freedom of religion. And it is a warning note to other Western democracies. The warning is this: liberal democracy, multiculturalism and immigration, pick any two.
Holland has picked multiculturalism and immigration, and has heaved liberal democracy overboard.
The announcement is so eye-scratchingly stupid, it really must be read line for line. Here goes. (The spelling, punctuation and grammatical errors are from the court's own English translation):
Amsterdam, 21 january 2009. On 21 January 2009 the Court of Appeal in Amsterdam ordered the criminal prosecution of the member of parliament Geert Wilders for the incitement to hatred and discrimination based on his statements in various media about moslims and their belief.
Did you catch that? It's just like the execrable section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act. Incitement to... what? Violence? Murder? Riot? No. Incitement to hatred.
Hatred is an emotion. And apparently in Holland, "making" someone feel that emotion is a crime. And inciting "discrimination" is, too. Not just discrimination itself, mind you. But inciting someone to discriminate.
...The Court of Appeal has considered that the contested views of Wilders (also as shown in his movie Fitna) constitute a criminal offence according to Dutch law as seen in connection with each other, both because of their contents and the method of presentation.
Again, you must admire the honesty of the court to describe their self-destructive, amoral attack on Wilders so clearly and without euphemism.
There you have it: his "views" were unacceptable in content and presentation.
Apparently critics of Islamic fascism must be inarticulate and ineffective; or articulate and bold communicators must only be supportive of radical Islam. Now we know the ground rules in Holland.
This method of presentation is characterized by biased, strongly generalizing phrasings with a radical meaning, ongoing reiteration and an increasing intensity, as a result of which hate is created.
Stop. Just stop for a moment and realize the amazing gulf between this court and reality. This case is about Islamic radicalism. And yet it is a critic of that radicalism who is charged with "radical meaning"; it is a critic of the relentlessness of radical Islam who is charged with "reiteration". Who knew that one could only make an argument in a wishy-washy -- not radical -- way? Who knew that one could only make an argument once -- not to reiterate it?
The court is clearly making this up as they go. That is not law; it is politics masquerading as law. It is merely the court's mewling disagreement with Wilders and his effectiveness".
British Police run away from Muslim loon rampage to the screams of "Allah Akbar!" and "Run, cowards!"
Excerpt: “I think we're approaching the point in much of the west where Islam is simply beyond discussion in any meaningful way - de facto at the London School of Economics, de jure in the Netherlands, but, either way, the Muslim lobby groups achieve their objective: to make serious open debate about Islam too costly for anyone who attempts it. Apropos "speech-curtailing" laws, Miss Eaves says:
"Here's a good litmus test for whether a law makes any sense: If the "crime" in question can only be described using the word for an emotion, like "hate" or "phobia," then we have wandered into thought-police territory".
With that in mind, I was interested to see this pop up at the White House website on Obama Day One:
"Expand Hate Crimes Statutes: President Obama and Vice President Biden will strengthen federal hate crimes legislation, expand hate crimes protection by passing the Matthew Shepard Act, and reinvigorate enforcement at the Department of Justice's Criminal Section".
Excerpts: “Salman Rushdie was our canary in the coal mine: He first felt the effects of suffocating gasses that would start to envelope us all. Rushdie was forced to live in hiding and under guard for many years and eventually moved to New York.
In 1989, I was struck by the singular strangeness of the whole story. Riot-inciting thought police? In England? In the modern era? Two decades later I'm struck by how encroaching this story has become...
Consider Rachel Ehrenfeld, author of Funding Evil: How Terrorism is Financed and How to Stop It. Israeli-born and resident in New York, Ehrenfeld has made a career of following money trails to their murkiest sources and been threatened and sued multiple times for her efforts...
Most recently she became a victim of so-called libel tourism. In Funding Evil, she wrote that a wealthy Saudi Arabian, Khalid bin Mahfouz, had financed terrorist activities. Under U.S. law her well-documented accusation doesn't qualify as libel, so bin Mahfouz sued her in Great Britain.
The book had never been published in Britain or sold in book stores there, but a few copies had been obtained via online sellers. A British judge imposed a fine on Ehrenfeld and said her book should be destroyed.
Through cases like these, U.K. laws, which have a chilling effect on the country's own publishers, are affecting foreign publishers and writers, too. Recently the government came close to clamping down on free speech even further.
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair, in a sop to Muslim constituents upset about his support for the 2003 invasion of Iraq, urged the criminalizing of "religious incitement"; the law failed by just one vote. In one of the great crucibles of democracy, this is where free speech is heading.
Then there is Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Somali-born Dutch parliamentarian, author of Infidel, and one of Europe's most vocal critics of militant Islam".
Here's Militant Islam Monitor on what Muslim "leaders" and Imams across Melbourne etc, really think of 9/11. It wasn't Muslims at all etc, etc...It's as they say, a fucking classic and all you need to know.
Romeo Mike with the whole hog of cultural Marxism:
"The posit: Cultural Marxism is an intentional, chronic agenda to destroy the cohesion of Western society, readying it for revolution. Where economic Marxism was fought against for decades by capitalism, and was ultimately vanquished, its cultural version has come to dominate our elite institutions, importantly including psychiatry. It was seeded by academic philosophers that moved to the US from Germany in the 1930's. It infiltrates broadly by attaching to legitimate movements and skewing them in its favour, invalidating opposition, and reinforcing its ethical superiority.
It's a mass psychology that its adherents accept as self-evident truth. The aim is a philosophical utopia, which is unachievable in reality. We know it as political correctness.
What it is:
"you should be quite concerned that our future naval officers are being subjected to psychic intimidation and indoctrination by behavioral psychologists and clinicians whose methods descend from Wilhelm Wundt"; Dr G. Atkinson CDR USN (Ret.)
"It was the destructive criticism of the primary elements of American culture that inspired the 1960s counter-culture revolution. As the name implies, this false 'spiritual awakening' by the idealist Boomers (possibly the most dangerous [27] generation in America's history) in their coming-of-age years was an effort to transform the prevailing culture into an inverted or opposite kind of culture that is a necessary prelude to social revolution. Now that these elite Boomers are in positions of power in the United States, they are completing their work of destroying every institution that has been built up over 200 years of American history.
Their aim is to destroy any vestige of the Anglo-American path taken by Western Civilization in forming the unique American culture. Most Americans do not yet realize that they are being led by social revolutionaries who think in terms of the destruction of the existing social order in order to create a new social order in the world."
"...history identifies a small group of German intellectuals who devised concepts, processes, and action plans which conform very closely to what Americans presently observe every day in their culture...
They were the forebears of what some proclaim as 'cultural Marxism,' a radical social movement that has transformed American culture. It is more commonly known today as 'political correctness'...and 'critical theory'.
This group in 1923 founded the Institute of Social Research at Frankfurt University. The Institute, modeled after the Marx-Engels Institute in Moscow, became known as the Frankfurt School. In 1933, when the Nazis came to power in Germany, the members of the Frankfurt School fled to the United States. While here, they migrated to major U.S. universities (Columbia, Princeton, Brandeis, and California at Berkeley). These intellectual Marxists included Herbert Marcuse, who coined the phrase ' make love, not war' during the anti-Vietnam War demonstrations."
Tim Blair on the Leftard fantasy of being on par with Solzhenitsyn:
"With George W. Bush gone, it’s safe for liberals to emerge from hiding and tell their horrible stories of repression. Victor Davis Hanson urges full disclosure: Please list, cite, name just one instance from 2002-8 in which you lost your freedom, or you were censored on the library internet, or you were followed around by the FBI, or your letter to the editor earned a wiretap, or even one instance of the loss of any freedom under Bush—and if so, just one example of how the election of Obama has once again restored your lost liberty. Nothing in the abstract, please—something concrete, an example both real and personal".
My feeble comments at the very swingin' Israellycool:
"Dear Israellycool: Hey, thanks for the comment on my shabby blog. I see you run a tight and very worthy ship here. You are a wonderful Australian/Israeli insight. Loved the dear neighbours letter, the Arafathead/Obamessiah mug and BBC as per usual trope. Excellent range and coverage. All the very best and welcome anytime. The photographer of the kid NaziMuslim photo writes at a great Oz site called islammonitor org".
"A letter to the citizens of Gaza from a concerned neighbor.
Dear neighbor:
My name is David and I live in Israel, thirty minutes (or one minute rocket time) from you, in a beautiful house by the woods. I hope someday to have you over for a cup of tea. We have a lovely view from the balcony. On a clear day we can see our jets bombing your neighborhood.
I think it’s time we had a heart to heart. It’s time you knew the truth. After all, what are neighbors for? You might have wondered why both you and your parents were born in a refugee camp. Why is it that even though we live only 30 minutes apart, I live in prosperity and you live in poverty and filth? Why you live in despair and hatred while we live in hope and love.
Fidel Castro watched the US inauguration on television and said that Barack Obama seems "like a man who is absolutely sincere", Argentina's president said after meeting with the ailing Cuban icon.
Colonel Neville: "Icon?" Not a mass murdering Commie fucker then? Check.
"Fidel believes in Obama," Cristina Fernandez said.
The meeting with Fernandez, just before she ended a four-day visit to Cuba, dispelled persistent rumours that the 82-year-old Castro had suffered a stroke or lapsed into a coma in recent days.
"I was with Fidel about an hour or more," she told reporters at the airport as she left. "We were chatting, conversing. He looked good."
Hours later, Castro issued his own account of the meeting in a brief essay that called Obama "honest" in his ideas.
Fernandez said Castro wore the tracksuit that has become his trademark since he fell ill in July 2006 and vanished from public view. A spokesman said the two met alone. "He told me he had followed the inauguration of Barack Obama very closely, that he had watched the inauguration on television all day," Fernandez said. "He had a very good perception of President Obama."
Fernandez said Castro called Obama "a man who seems absolutely sincere", who believes strongly in his ideas "and who hopefully can carry them out".
Posted on a government website, Castro's essay was his first such writing since December 15".
"Wife beating metaphoric says Melbourne Muslim cleric.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Islamic leaders have condemned a Melbourne Muslim cleric who told followers it was permissible to hit their wives and force them to have sex.
But Coburg mosque cleric Samir Abu Hamza has told a confidant his message has been taken out of context and that he was referring to hitting wives in a metaphorical sense.
Mr Rudd told reporters Mr Hamza's comments had no place in modern Australia.
Colonel Neville: Nope. It has ample, welcomed, supported, apologised for, rationalised and subsidised places throughout Australia. Rudd is a technocrat mediocrity and either wilfully sub-ignorant, deluded or a liar.
"During a 2003 lecture also posted on the internet late last year, Mr Hamza told followers that under Islamic law, men could demand sex from their wives. Despite Australian law requiring consent, it was impossible for a man to rape his wife even if she refused to have sex, he said.
"Under no circumstances is sexual violence permissible or acceptable in Australia - under no circumstances," Mr Rudd said.
Colonel Neville: Unless you're a Muslim and you don't mention it.
"Under no circumstances are other forms of violence, physical violence, acceptable towards women in Australia nor are they acceptable in my view to mainstream Muslim teachings.
Colonel Neville: Islam is allowed into Autralia is it no? Thus that list of crimes are by default entirely permissable, if one is a Muslim.
"Australia will not tolerate these sort of remarks. They don't belong in modern Australia, and he should stand up, repudiate them and apologise."
Colonel Neville: Yep, hide it away. It's not so much the crime that troubles Rudd and others, as the upsetting and exposure of the multiculti fantasy house of cards.
"The President of the Islamic Council of Victoria (ICV) Ramzi Elsayed said he had spoken with Mr Hamza about the lecture, titled The Keys to a Successful Marriage. "He told me he was speaking in a metaphorical sense," Mr Elsayed told AAP. "In regards to hitting your wife, his position is that it has always been metaphorical - it's not a whack, it's not a slap, it's a wake-up call."
Colonel Neville: Hey Hamza baby, ya creepy bastard, here's a er, "wake-up call" for ya. Go fuck yourself; your political ideology masquerading as a religion; your repellent psychopath prophet of nothing and while you're there go fuck your Krazy unreadable Koran too. Wakey wakey from the 7th century bub.
"He said Islam did not condone violence against women or making a wife have sex with her husband against her will.
"He believes he was taken out of context insofar as he was talking about people who censure their spouses - it was not so much a physical hit as a metaphorical one to say wake up, we're heading for a divorce kind-of-thing," Mr Elsayed said. But the senior honorary legal adviser to the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils, Haset Seli, hit out at Mr Hamza, calling him a lunatic.
"His lecture was absolutely ludicrous, unIslamic and highlighted the ignorance of the man," Mr Seli told AAP.
He said anyone who thinks he can force his wife to have sex with him is a lunatic and certainly not a Muslim.
Mr Seli said he went through a similar episode with the former Mufti, Sheik Taj Aldin Alhilali, who caused a national uproar in a 2006 Ramadan speech when he likened scantily clad women to uncovered meat, suggesting they were to blame for sexual attacks on them.
He also claimed at the time that his comments had been taken out of context".
Colonel Neville: Yes, apparently even live film of beheadings can be "taken out of context". Gee, don't they know millions of Muslims lie as a Koranic directive known as Taquiyaa as par for their crazy course? Guess not. Too unpleasant to contemplate.
An outside agitating, former ACLU, Vietnam protesting, ACTUAL LIBERAL and as of August/08 a FORMER registered dem, asks the question in righteous indignation. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE REAL DEMOCRATS HERE? WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE AND WHERE DID THEY PUT FDR AND HST?
"We have not journeyed all this way across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy."
BTW: We are sarcastic and caustic so if this is offensive,the oatmeal is on aisle 3”.
Islamic dress is creepy and dangerous. Daniel Pipes with a Himalaya of global evidence on how and why the nijab and burqua ARE used to commit crime, and not just fashion crime.
Whites are a minority. Warning: Links to spooky National Front Nazi styled nuts. Sadly, the vid is still rather true, innit?
Phyllis Chessler on how the lies of Gaza travel fast in a largely Leftard Marxist and pro-Islamist MSM:
“More important: Will the world media note that Shifa Hospital, in Gaza City, is now Hamas HQ? As reported by Amir Mizroch in The Jerusalem Post, Hamas War Council terrorists are masquerading as doctors and are ejecting real doctors from rooms when Hamas has to meet. In order for Israel to get through to these “non-state actors,” they would have to get through the one-half million Gazans who live around the hospital”.
“I am unable to reconcile in my mind two aspects of this situation. The first image is the various Islamist groups (including HAMAS) and their supporters, screaming bloodcurdling venomous hate at Israel and the United States, claiming they will destroy both entities. The second is these same people screaming “they are conducting a massacre” and “we are innocent victims”, when Israel strikes back. It really is high time they made their minds up as to which they want to be. Éamonn, Dublin, Ireland”.
"We shouldn't be surprised: O.J. Simpson is a psychopath. He fits every textbook description of a psychopath; he is a man without a conscience who feels the world revolves around him. And why not? After all, we made him think it did.
Celebrities and sports figures in our society are given special treatment by other people all of the time".
A majority of black Americans think O.J is the innocent victim of a whitey conspiracy. And 94% to 100% of voting blacks voted for Obama. See Dr Sanity.
"The United Nations agency that administers a school in Gaza where dozens of civilians were killed by Israeli mortar fire last week has admitted to employing terrorists to work at its Palestinian schools in the past, has no system in place to keep members of Hamas or Islamic Jihad off its payroll, and provides textbooks to children that contain hate speech and other incendiary information."
The report goes on to say:
In 2004, former UNRWA Commissioner-General Peter Hansen told the Canadian Broadcasting Company, "I am sure that there are Hamas members on the UNRWA payroll and I don't see that as a crime." He added, "We do not do political vetting and exclude people from one persuasion as against another."
Though he cautioned that estimates are tricky because the identity of an attacker is not always made public, Halevi estimated that over 60 percent of homicide bombers were educated in UNRWA schools. By comparison, roughly 25-30 percent of Palestinian students in the West Bank, the origin of almost all homicide bombers since the start of the intifada in 2000, attend UNRWA schools, according to the agency's figures".
"U.N. Agency That Runs School Hit in Gaza Employed Hamas and Islamic Jihad Members". Via Foxnews.
If Fox reported that the earth revolves around the sun, the facts of gravity and the speed of light, Leftards would say none of that can be true.
"Vets are 10 times LESS likely to murder than the national average and that the greatest indicator of future crime is the children of single mothers..
“What, for example, is the percentage of murderers among veterans compared to the percentage of murderers in the population at large -- or, more germane, in the general population of young males, inasmuch as violent crime is committed almost exclusively by young men?
Any group composed primarily of young men will contain a seemingly mammoth number of murderers.
Consider the harmless fantasy game, Dungeons and Dragons -- which happens to be played almost exclusively by young males. When murders were committed in the '80s by (1) young men, who were (2) Dungeons and Dragons enthusiasts, some people concluded that factor (2), rather than factor (1), led to murderous tendencies.
Similarly, for its series about how America's bravest and finest young men are really a gang of psychopathic cutthroats, the Times triumphantly produced 121 homicides committed by veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars in order to pin the blame for the murders on the U.S. military.
Perhaps the Times' next major expose could be on how a huge percentage of murderers are people who won't ask for directions or share the TV remote.
Let's compare murders by veterans to murders by other 18- to 35-year-olds in the U.S. population at large. From 1976 to 2005, 18- to 24-year-olds -- both male and more gentle females -- committed homicide at a rate of 29.9 per 100,000. Twenty-five- to 35-year-olds committed homicides at a rate of 15.8 per 100,000.
Since 9/11, about 1.6 million troops have served in either Iraq or Afghanistan. That makes the homicide rate among veterans of these wars 7.6 per 100,000 -- or about one-third the homicide rate for their age group (18 to 35) in the general population of both sexes.
But fewer than 200,000 of the 1.6 million troops who served in Iraq and Afghanistan have been women, and the murder rate for the general population includes both males and females. Inasmuch as males commit nearly 90 percent of all murders, the rate for males in those age groups is probably nearly double the male/female combined rates, which translates to about 30 to 55 murderers per 100,000 males aged 18 to 35.
So comparing the veterans' rate of murder to only their male counterparts in the general population, we see that Iraq and Afghanistan veterans are about 10 times less likely to commit a murder than non-veterans of those wars.
But as long as the Times has such a burning interest in the root causes of murder, how about considering the one factor more likely to create a murderer than any other? That is the topic we're not allowed to discuss: single motherhood.
As I describe in my new book, "Guilty: Liberal 'Victims' and Their Assault on America," controlling for socioeconomic status, race and place of residence, the strongest predictor of whether a person will end up in prison is that he was raised by a single parent. (The second strongest factor is owning a Dennis Kucinich bumper sticker.)
…By 1996, 70 percent of inmates in state juvenile detention centers serving long-term sentences were raised by single mothers. Seventy percent of teenage births, dropouts, suicides, runaways, juvenile delinquents and child murderers involve children raised by single mothers. Girls raised without fathers are more sexually promiscuous and more likely to end up divorced.
A 1990 study by the left-wing Progressive Policy Institute showed that, after controlling for single motherhood, the difference in black and white crime disappeared.
Various studies come up with slightly different numbers, but all the figures are grim. A study cited in the far left-wing Village Voice found that children brought up in single-mother homes "are five times more likely to commit suicide, nine times more likely to drop out of high school, 10 times more likely to abuse chemical substances, 14 times more likely to commit rape (for the boys), 20 times more likely to end up in prison, and 32 times more likely to run away from home.”
“Saudi Arabia's most senior cleric was quoted on Wednesday as saying it is permissible for 10-year-old girls to marry and those who think they're too young are doing the girls an injustice.
Sheik Abdul-Aziz Al Sheikh, the country's grand mufti, said during a lecture on Monday that those who say women should not marry before the age of 25 are following a "bad path," according to the pan-Arab Al-Hayat newspaper.
Responding to a question about parents who force their underage daughters to marry, the mufti said: "We hear a lot about the marriage of underage girls in the media, and we should know that Islamic law has not brought injustice to women."
"For it to be said that it's not permitted to marry off girls who are 15 and younger is wrong," Al Sheikh was quoted as saying. "A female who is 10 or 12 is marriageable and those who think she's too young are wrong and are being unfair to her."
The mufti said a good upbringing will make a girl capable of carrying out her duties as a wife.
"Our mothers and before them our grandmothers married when they were barely 12," said Al Sheikh, according to Al-Hayat.
There are no statistics to show how many marriages involving children are performed in Saudi Arabia every year.
Activists say the girls are given away in return for hefty dowries or as a result of long-standing custom in which a father promises his infant daughters and sons to cousins out of a belief that marriage will protect them from illicit relationships".
Hotair com, on a retarded gay Bishop who is "horrified" at how Christian Christianity is. My advice to the Bishop is get the fuck out of the Church then, and join a Marxist blow lounge group.
"Bishop Robinson said he had been reading inaugural prayers through history and was “horrified” at how “specifically and aggressively Christian they were.” “I am very clear,” he said, “that this will not be a Christian prayer, and I won’t be quoting Scripture or anything like that. The texts that I hold as sacred are not sacred texts for all Americans, and I want all people to feel that this is their prayer.”
Bishop Robinson said he might address the prayer to “the God of our many understandings,” language that he said he learned from the 12-step program he attended for his alcohol addiction.
Mark Steyn on how George Bush was not Conservative enough and 90% of the time, more like “Tony Blair with a ranch”. And most importantly of all, Bush never really lied. He stated his policy’s and carried them out, including the Democrat style ones!
"To his British hosts at Whitehall Palace in London in 2003, he put it this way: “We must shake off decades of failed policy in the Middle East. Your nation and mine, in the past, have been willing to make a bargain, to tolerate oppression for the sake of stability.
Yet this bargain did not bring stability or make us safe. It merely bought time, while problems festered and ideologies of violence took hold...
No longer should we think tyranny is benign because it is temporarily convenient. Tyranny is never benign to its victims, and our great democracies should oppose tyranny wherever it is found.”
...The west’s unreal “realism” in the Middle East brought us the House of Saud, the Baathists, Arafat, the Ayatollahs...and ultimately al-Qaeda, 9/11, and Wahhabi subversion around the planet. There’s nothing more pitiful than naïve cynicism:
To the old CIA line that he may be a sonofabitch but he’s our sonofabitch, the best response is that he may be our sonofabitch but in the end he’s a sonofabitch, as we should have learned by now in Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Egypt and elsewhere in Iraq, where Saddam’s goons shoveled children into mass graves, and in Afghanistan, where women were prevented by law from feeling sunlight on their faces, 50 million Muslims live better lives because of George W Bush”.
A few weeks after the attacks, Bush had the highest approval ratings of any President in history. But he didn’t do anything with them. And the greatest mistake of all was his disinclination to take on the broader culture that, in the wake of 9/11, looked briefly vulnerable – in that moment when Americans opted for “Let’s roll!” over the desiccated Oprahfied chants of “healing” and “closure” and the rest of the awful lifeless language of emotional narcissism.
Bush had a rare opportunity to reverse the most poisonous tide in the western world:
He could have argued that western self-loathing is a psychosis we can no longer afford. He could have told the teachers’ unions there was more to the Second World War than the internment of Japanese-Americans and it’s time they started mentioning it to our children.
...while he had them, George W Bush could have used them for a “teaching moment”: If ever there’s a time for not being mired in civilizational self-abasement, wartime is it. Yet the President figured he could fight a long existential struggle against America’s enemies in a culture that teaches its children there are no enemies, just friends whose grievances we haven’t yet accommodated.
In years to come they’ll appreciate that, in a world of finger-in-the-windy trimmers and poseurs, George W Bush was the right man in office that day, as his predecessor and successor would not have been. He rose to the occasion, and he did so with a far-sightedness that belies his bumper-sticker image.
...but Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux put it well: “Honour is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return.” It was an ever bleaker and lonelier island, but George W Bush never left it”.
Mark Steyn on how decades of Left Liberal welfare and chip on the shoulder anti-modernism has destroyed the Canadian Indians.
“At Natuashish, 100 children show up for class in a school that cost $15 million. Lop that and a couple of other public buildings off the total of $152 million, and the 130 family homes cost on paper a million bucks apiece.
Would it have been any more expensive to put everyone up in the Ritz-Carlton in Montreal with an unlimited room-service tab? That way, their vices might have been the comparatively mild ones of club sandwiches and mini-bar Toblerones. And there's a small chance that, after a year or two of watching premium movies round the clock, a handful of them might have ventured out onto Sherbrooke Street, and taken the first step to becoming full participating citizens of a developed society.
The buildings were never the problem in Davis Inlet, only a symptom of it. There's a reason why certain ways of life - those taught in residential schools a century ago, for example-spread around the world, and others - the Innu's - didn't. When you isolate people from the system that's created the most prosperous, healthiest and longest-living communities in human history, when you insulate them from the impulses that drive most of us-to build a home, raise our children, live full lives-the result is the government-funded human landfill that is Indian Affairs.
Natuashish is a plantation with the government as absentee landlord, but the absence of work makes it, in fact, far more destructive than the cotton fields of Virginia ever were. How many more generations of the most lavishly endowed underclass on the planet have to be destroyed in the name of Canadian "caring"? We need to blow up Indian Affairs and end the compassionate apartheid that segregates natives from Canadians”.
“In Toronto, anti-Israel demonstrators yell "You are the brothers of pigs!," and a protester complains to his interviewer that "Hitler didn't do a good job." In Fort Lauderdale, Palestinian supporters sneer at Jews, "You need a big oven, that's what you need!"
In Amsterdam, the crowd shouts, "Hamas, Hamas! Jews to the gas!"
“...what has a schoolgirl in Villiers-le-Bel to do with Israeli government policy? Just weeks ago, terrorists attacked Mumbai, seized hostages, tortured them, killed them, and mutilated their bodies. The police intercepts of the phone conversations between the terrorists and their controllers make for lively reading:
"Pakistan caller 1: 'Kill all hostages, except the two Muslims. Keep your phone switched on so that we can hear the gunfire.'
"Mumbai terrorist 2: 'We have three foreigners, including women. From Singapore and China'.
"Pakistan caller 1: 'Kill them.'
"(Voices of gunmen can be heard directing hostages to stand in a line, and telling two Muslims to stand aside. Sound of gunfire. Sound of cheering voices.)"
"Kill all hostages, except the two Muslims."
Tough for those Singaporean women. Yet no mosques in Singapore have been attacked. The large Hindu populations in London, Toronto and Fort Lauderdale have not shouted "Muslims must die!" or firebombed Halal butchers or attacked hijab-clad schoolgirls. CAIR and other Muslim lobby groups' eternal bleating about "Islamophobia" is in inverse proportion to any examples of it.
Meanwhile, "moderate Muslims" in London warn the government: "I'm a peaceful fellow myself, but I can't speak for my excitable friends. Nice little G7 advanced Western democracy you got here. Shame if anything were to happen to it."
But why worry about European Muslims? The European political and media class essentially shares the same view of the situation – to the point where state TV stations are broadcasting fake Israeli "war crimes."
As I always say, the "oldest hatred" didn't get that way without an ability to adapt: Once upon a time on the Continent, Jews were hated as rootless cosmopolitan figures who owed no national allegiance. So they became a conventional nation state, and now they're hated for that. And, if Hamas get their way and destroy the Jewish state, the few who survive will be hated for something else. So it goes.
But Jew-hating has consequences for the Jew-hater, too. A few years ago the poet Nizar Qabbani wrote an ode to the intifada:
O mad people of Gaza, a thousand greetings to the mad The age of political reason has long departed so teach us madness.
You can just about understand why living in Gaza would teach you madness. The enthusiastic adoption of the same pathologies by mainstream Europe is even more deranged – and in the end will prove just as self-destructive”.
Mark Steyn: "I want Hizb'Allah to wipe the state of terrorism off the planet..."
"The state of terrorism - Israel - will be wiped off the planet, Inshallah."
Teheran? Ramallah? Islamabad? No, a speaker at yesterday's demo in Toronto. And, for those who patiently point out that measured criticism of Israeli government policies is not anti-Semitism, check out the lady yelling, "Jewish child, you're gonna f—-in' die!"
“...halfway through the Montreal video, you'll briefly see the demonstrators taunt the police, daring them to enforce their authority. For a clearer picture, look at this "pro-Palestinian" protest in London and the Metropolitan Police retreating in the face of a crowd jeering, "Run, run, you cowards!" and "Fatwa!" The west's deluded multiculti progressives should understand: In the end, this isn't about Gaza, this isn't about Jews. It's about you”.
"President-elect Barack Obama's new head of the Office of Legal Counsel in the Justice Department, Dawn Johnsen, called the legal reasoning which gave the president broad powers to authorize "rough" interrogation of terrorists "shockingly flawed…bogus…outlandish." She said it allowed "horrific acts" and demanded to know "Where is the outrage? The public outcry?"
This is the person who will decide how to interrogate terrorists. If she errs on the side of weakening methods of questioning, there's no chance her boss, Eric Holder the new Attorney General, will reverse her. He approved of the Clinton/Reno "wall" preventing intelligence from finding out what criminal investigators had found out and took the lead in pardoning the FALN terrorists.
What is Obama thinking? How could he weaken so dramatically our protections against terrorism? Doesn't he realize that without warrantless FISA wiretaps we could never have uncovered the plot to destroy the Brooklyn Bridge (how could we have gotten a warrant for conversations about the bridge when we didn't yet know that al Qaeda had it in its sights?) Has he forgotten that we only found the name of the operative who was tasked with destroying the bridge because we subjected Kahlid Mohammed, the mastermind of 9-11, to "rough" interrogation techniques?
Does he really mean to leave us vulnerable to terrorist attacks? Yes he does.
Not because he is callous or fiendish, but because the new president seems to carry the thinking that animated the decisions of the Warren Court on defendant's rights over into the battle against terror. When the Warren Court first ruled that all defendants deserved free lawyers, that they had to be explicitly told of their right to remain silent, that evidence not obtained through warrants was inadmissible as were any "fruits of the poisonous tree" it occasioned great controversy (enough to help Nixon get elected president).
Law and order types said that these decisions would lead to the release of thousands of criminals who would otherwise be in prison and would cause tens or hundreds of thousands more innocent people to become victims of serious crime. And they were right. The decisions of the Warren Court had exactly this effect".
Jews care for Palestinians while Palestinians love their own children to death.
“For those individuals -- such as nearly all members of the world news media -- who, in light of Israels invasion of Gaza -- see moral equivalence between Israel and the Palestinians, here are some clarifying thoughts.
First, it would be difficult nearly to the point of impossibility, to find Israeli or other Jews who celebrate the deaths of Palestinian civilians. Jews both within and outside of Israel cringe when they see pictures of dead Palestinian men, women, and children in Gaza. For thousands of years at their Passover seders, Jews have removed wine from their cups to ceremonially weep for the Egyptians -- their erstwhile slave owners for 400 years -- who died during the Jews exodus. Jews have never stopped weeping for enemies.
The opposite is the case with the large majority of Palestinians. It would be quite difficult to find many Palestinians who do not celebrate the deaths of Israeli Jews or non-Israeli Jews.
This is not only reflected in Palestinian polls that show majority support for terrorism -- and terrorism means killing innocent Jews -- it is also reflected in Palestinian media, Palestinian schools, and Palestinian mosques that routinely glorify murderers of Jews, and refer to all Jews as monkeys and the like.
Take for example, Palestinian reaction to the 2001 Palestinian terror bombing of a Jerusalem Sbarro pizzeria in which 15 Jews, five of whom were two sets of parents and their children, were murdered and an additional 130 people were injured, some permanently maimed.
As reported by the Associated Press, a month later, Palestinian university students opened an exhibition that included a grisly re-enactment of that mass murder. The students built a replica of the Sbarro pizzeria, with fake blood, splattered pizza, a plastic hand dangling from the ceiling, and a fake severed leg wearing jeans and a bloody black sneaker.
The exhibit also includes a large rock in front of a mannequin wearing the black hat, black jacket and black trousers typically worn by ultra-Orthodox Jews. A recording from inside the rock calls out: O believer, there is a Jewish man behind me. Come and kill him, paraphrasing a verse in the Koran. It became a popular tourist attraction for Palestinians, to which Palestinian parents took their little children...” Continued here.
Colonel Neville: Yes, I may have a nice piece of that blueberry pie I've been saving. Yes, I'll have some nice pie and a rest on the couch...
