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A cartoonist's own words

2008-03-06T09:42:00.002Z

Kurt Westergaard, the exploding turban of Mo cartoonist from Jyllandsposten, has made another drawing trying to explain his feelings concerning terrorism and the attempt on his life.

In Kurt Westergaard's own words: "It is me on the right. My head is about to explode of anger concerning the insult to my person. At the same time I am angry about the actions of terror in New York, Madrid and London. I had a special personal relation to New York. I loved to sit in the wonderful bookstore, Borders, in the World Trade Center. To the left I have added the old drawing of Mohammad, because it started it all. The hare symbolizes my own personal courage, which is not that big. It is the part of me, which maybe prefers to get away, and that cannot control everything."

With the recent capture of a group planning to kill him, his forced hiding, his wife's near expulsion from the kinder garden (she was sent away a few days), where she works - I can understand the worry about courage.

I for one think him very brave - the hare should be a tiger - and I applaud and thank him for his fantastic original drawing.

The Vatian and Al-Azhar "university" are in agreement

2008-02-28T11:02:00.001Z

Al-Azhar "university"

"Both sides vehemently denounce the reprinting of the offensive cartoon and the attack on Islam and its prophet," officials from both religious bodies said in a statement seen by IslamOnline.net.

Concluding a two-day meeting of their joint interfaith committee in Cairo, the two sides also denounced any insult to any religion.

Seventeen Danish newspapers reprinted on Wednesday, February 13, a drawing of a man described as Prophet Muhammad with a ticking bomb in his turban.

The move came following the arrest of two Tunisians and a Dane of Moroccan origin for allegedly plotting to kill the cartoonist who had drew the caricature in 2005.

"We call for the respect of faiths, religious holy books and religious symbols," read the statement.

The two sides urged Muslim and Christian religious leaders, intellectuals and educators to instill such respect in society.

"Freedom of expression should not become a pretext to insult religions and defaming religious sanctities."

Read the whole article here.

The Vatican's position makes no sense to me. It is leading to a complete Dhimmi and roll-over attitude similar to the Head of the Church of England: - The Most Reverend Dhimmi Supreme Arcishop Himself - even though he now tries to retract his earlier statements on his recommendation to introduce Sharia in the UK.

From the blog of Flemming Rose, one of the editors of Jyllandsposten:

Yesterday the Vatican joined the al-Azhar university in Cairo in condemning the republication of Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard’s depiction of Muhammed with a bomb in his turban, but the Catholic state and the supreme institution of Islam in the Sunni world didn’t say a word about the foiled plot to kill Westergaard, who has been in hiding since November last year.

And by the way: al-Azhar is a university practicing institutional apartheid. The institution is banned for Jews and Copts, not only the department of theology, but also medicine, economics and agriculture. And speaking about offending religious sensibilities: al-Azhar has shown no willingness to abandon the part of the sharia providing Muslims with the obligation to insult non-Muslims’ religious feelings, while at the same time insisting that non-Muslims offending Muslims’ religious sensibilities should be punished.

I call the Vatican a bunch of Dhimmies. Now is the time to fight back - or do you want Sudanese conditions all over the world?

Mo be praised!

2008-02-27T09:25:00.002Z

Yes! We righteous believers of Mo have made it. This most horrible of all vile, vile, vile creatures will be banned. No longer will the (capitalist) swines hand out swines to our innocent children.

Remember:

"Pig belong to the forbidden animals, and not allowed to be eaten by the believers. Pig eats almost anything dirty and they are very lazy animals. It is the most avaricious of all domestic animals. Amongst all animals, pig is the cradle of harmful germs. It's meat serves as carrier of diseases to mankind. It is this very reason that made it unfit for human consumption."

The Qur'an states:

"Forbidden to you for (food) are: dead meat, blood and the flesh of the swine and that which hath been invoked the name other than Allah. "

Holy Qur'an 5:4

So fortunately this most unholy and lazy devil's spawn, the most unbelieving of all animals has been banned - even by our enemies.

"Children who open a saving account at Fortis get a present: a roguish piggy-bank, named Knorbert. Throughout the years tens of thousands of kids had received it, but that is now at an end. Knorbert won't be given to kids as a present any more.

A pig is a touchy issue for some of the clients: Jews and Muslims consider it unclean. The bank wrote in an internal document that Knorbert "doesn't fulfill the requirements that the multicultural society places on us any more." the document not to De Telegraaf which published it on the front page. Fortis would have preferred to keep a lower profile on it."

Please notice how we faithful believers of Mo also managed to get the Jews blamed for abandoning the vile, vile, vile swine. Not only have we succeeded in getting rid of IT but we get to blame the Jew unbelievers.

Seen here: Times, and several other places.

Danish support for Ahmadinejad or not...

2006-12-21T13:26:00.000Z

A Danish group of artists have given their support to Ahmadinejad. They have spent effort to get the following ad into the Tehran Times, a goverment controlled Iranian newspaper in English. It had to pass the censorship.

The ad was published as above.

But try to read the first letter of each statement.

Exactly. Wonderful isn't?! They actually managed to make fun of the Iranian Hitler wanna be at home. This is ridicule of the highest order. And it is giving me some ideas. Hmmh.

I look forward to the upcoming crisis. Denmark is already the second most hated Western country (Israel is #1), so it can't get any worse.

Read more in this Spiegel article.

Danish Jews are no longer safe...

2006-12-17T13:25:00.000Z

The Danish newspaper, Jyllandsposten, the originator of the cartoons, today has an article with this title:

Danish Jews are met with harassment (article in Danish)

It takes time to translate, so let me just summarize:

Danish Jews feel intimidated and are afraid to show their identity while being in the public
Jews fear verbal and physical aggressions by Muslims
At the synagogue the guards warn Jews leaving the synagogue to remove head dress and the star of David
Jews no longer feel safe putting their children in Danish schools because of the Muslim children
A Danish teacher of Jewish ancestry applying for a position was told by the headmaster of a Danish public school it would be better to change his name to something innocuous. He did not take the job

Let me tell you something about the Jews in Denmark. Their families have been in Denmark for generations. Some for hundreds of years. They are as Danish as any Dane. You can not distinguish them by sight or language. The only major distinction may actually by the many accomplishments of Danish Jews. They are a part of Danish culture and I count some as friends.

We are in December, 2006, and Danes have to hide in the streets because of a faith or just a name? Their children cannot attend school paid by the tax payers, paid by the children's parents? They need guards at their places of worship? Danes are persecuted by strangers at home?

This is insane. I have had it with Muslims. I am perfectly aware that only a minority of Muslims are behind the aggressions. But I don't care. I want all Muslims out of Denmark now. And the few Danish converts ought to go as well. Because where are the demonstrations in the street by moderate Muslims against the abominable behavior against Danish Jews? A short time ago, when a newspaper published a few rather bland cartoons, thousands and thousands of Muslims were demonstrating!

Hell, I want all Muslims to go back to their miserable countries of origin and leave the rest of us alone!

Am I getting too radical? A few years ago I would never have issued such a statement. I would have pointed out that the innocent majority of Muslims do not share the guilt of a few misfits.

But just now - I don't care. I would rather see that a large number of innocent Muslims being unfairly treated than I want to see even one Danish child having to fear going to school or walking in the street. Because these Muslims to a large degree do not share Danish culture and values, and thus are not Danes.

The society and the freedom my ancestors fought and worked for is at stake.

I am fed up. And I am not alone.

I am also sad to realize, I now find myself an extremist proposing radical solutions. It is one more thing that I can not forgive.

Peter von Schlichtningen, former humanist

France withdraws troops from Afghanistan

2006-12-17T12:10:00.000Z

It is just a question of time before France will pull out entirely from Afghanistan. Now we have the news that several hundred of the best French troops are to withdraw.

France plans to withdraw around 200 special forces from southern Afghanistan at the start of next year following a recent surge in violence, reported the French newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche on Sunday.

The US are withdrawing troops as well, as NATO is supposed to take over more duties. NATO's effort is seriously hindered by national special interests. And the coherency of a NATO force is in question. This is to be seen in light of the increased difficulties in the region. Of course this is the major reason for France to withdraw:

Nine French troops have died fighting in Afghanistan, and Le Journal du Dimanche said the relatively high death toll had played a part in the decision to withdraw the forces.

Or is it? I rather believe this is the reason:

France, however, declined to dispatch more troops last month, saying it already had its hands full with the peacekeeping mission in Lebanon, where it has committed some 2,000 soldiers.

Let me just translate:

France has no problem with the number of troops, its military is big enough and is hardly taxed at all. Smaller countries are relatively speaking participating with larger resources. The peacekeeping mission of France in Lebanon is to assure that Hizbollah can rearm unobstructed. France is more likely getting ready for an armed conflict with the "terrorist Israeli state".

France is at all levels obstructing the war against terror. I say good riddance - what do you need enemies for with an ally like France?

While French special forces are excellent troops, most other French troops are, with some notable exceptions, of questionable quality.

And while the results and the effort in Iraq may be up to discussion, I find it hard to believe anybody can sympathize with the Taliban. It seems the French are trying.

I shall be interested in French girls no more and I shall boycott as many French products as possible. No more French cars for me!

Instead I suggest looking into Aussie girls.

Look at this video again, listen to the song, admire the qualities of this Aussie girl, Beccy Cole, and send a thought to the allied troops who still are in Afghanistan - and even the blameless French special forces - most of all who have made a big and even heroic effort. I and many other people have friends and compatriots there risking their lives every day in the front line against Islamofascism.

Factor M

2006-12-14T12:17:00.000Z

Officially the war against terror is ending. Of course a large number of countries in the West never did participate - some, such as France, even worked against the effort.

Politicians in most Western countries are either actively working for or are being pressured to enforce a halt to activities in Iraq and consequently Afghanistan.

Meanwhile a number of Middle East countries actively harbor and/or support terrorists. Recently we have read the news of Saudi Arabia, an American ally - no less, permitting its citizens to send financial aid (and perhaps arms) to the Sunni insurgents in Iraq. Iran supports the Shiites and a civil war is probably unavoidable if the Western troops (read Americans) leave. Iran supports terrorists everywhere, Syria many places and even fairly moderate countries like Egypt conveniently turns the blind eye when necessary. All other Middle East countries seem to be in between.

A number of countries have sold or are selling nuclear know how. And all the Arab dictators look forward to having nuclear technology. Not for energy for heating, as it does not get very cold and considering a lack of oil is absurd. No it is of course to get any dictator's wet dream fulfilled: The Bomb.

The Arabs have managed to give the Jews (just like the Nazis did) the blame for all ill in the Middle East or the world even. According to Muslims, the Palestinian problem is solely a "Zionist" one. Actually most don't give a damn about the Palestinians, but it is convenient to hide the real problems at home. Nothing like enemies to excuse dictatorships. Fictitious ones even better.

Most of the Western world buy this excuse and now hate the Jews more than terrorists. In France many Jews have left or are leaving. Were I a French Jew, I would get the hell out. The French government may not be Vichy, but the attitude is similar. And there are no previsions of improvement. On the contrary - France is becoming Muslim.

What is going on? I have e theory. It is an infection. No extreme PC, left-wing appeasement, cowardly defeatism or even stupidity can explain what is happening. The infection is called M for Madness such as in Mass psychosis. It is a Mental decease.

The M infection is growing at a furious rate.

In the UK the war against terror has been abolished officially as it was an affront to Muslims.

In the US "flying imams" are seeking damages for being kicked of the plane after provoking on purpose by "playing terrorists". Perhaps they were more than provoking - they might actually have been probing and preparing the way for real terrorists. A producer revealing the imam's ill intentions was fired for her effort. Now I am just waiting for CAIR to become part of the American government.

In Norway the rate of rape is six times higher than in New York. According to superblogger fjordman at the Brussels Journal there is a direct connection between rape and Muslim immigration. Another study recently compared general crime rates to Muslim immigration in the UK and found a correlation. Furthermore, according to my own calculations many thousand "honor" and religiously related crimes are committed by Muslims against Muslim children and youngsters in the West every year. Mainly against girls. And mainly in the hidden.
The media and politicians in the West refuse to reveal or acknowledge the problems. In France it is even forbidden by law to do so. Thus a rumor that 70% of all prison inmates in France are Muslim is impossible to validate.

I could go on and on on the widening infection of M. The MSM is silent but new proofs of M are documented daily in many fine blogs.

Perhaps it is a secret Islamofascist weapon - a new kind of virus or M ray. You guys out there with tin-foils on your head are maybe not that mad. At least not as mad as people infected by M.

The Islamofascists are succeeding exceedingly well and the West is doomed by factor M.

Religious crime in the West

2006-12-12T09:46:00.000Z

A while ago I posted this article, "Young Muslim women forced to suicide". It is about a hidden aspect of the so called honor killings. At the time I tried to find some hard numbers to back up the article. I did find some, but now a new article, "20 religious crimes pr. month", in Jyllandsposten, the famous Danish newspaper of the cartoons, brings more light to the matter.

The police has reported (to the ministry) 100 crimes (since June), which are thought to be related to concepts of honor or religious motives. Mysterious suicides must be treated as investigations into killings.

In Denmark, according to the police, every week four crimes are committed which are related to cultural norms and/or religious concepts of honor.

Let’s first get some facts straight. We are not talking about Danish Christian fundamentalist fanatics crucifying gays. Neither are we talking about Buddhists beating up their wives. We are definitely not talking about the nuns of my old Catholic school beating up kids.

Insofar as I know - we are talking only about Muslims. And mostly about families punishing young daughters. In extreme cases by killing them.

These are hard numbers. Four reported crimes per week. Not all reported crimes will turn out to be actual crimes. But not all crimes will have been reported either. Especially will all the disappeared girls not count. Those are girls born and brought up in Denmark, but who one day simply disappear. According to family they stayed on in their parent’s country after a vacation. What happens to them is anybody's guess.

So let us treat the number of four crimes per week as actual crimes. Denmark neither has a particularly large nor small Muslim population compared to other European countries. Neither is crime particularly worse or better than in other countries in Europe. So let us try to extrapolate.

4 crimes per week correspond to 200 crimes per year

Denmark has a population of 5.000.000. In other words 40 crimes per million per year. (Denmark has a population of roughly 5 percent Muslims. So we are talking roughly 1 crime per year per 1000 Muslims)

That is more or less 14.000 crimes per year in all Europe (350.000.000 people).

Considering a world wide Western population of roughly 700.000.000 we may talk 28.000 crimes per year.

In the West.

By people right out of the middle ages.

I am appalled to the point of my blood boiling.

2006 Dishonest Reporter of the Year Award

2006-12-11T18:51:00.000Z

Check out the sixth annual recognition of the most skewed and biased coverage of the Mideast conflict.

Our Dishonest Reporting awards primarily focus on "fauxtography," the manipulated images, staged photos, and inaccurate captions that repeatedly tainted coverage. Space didn't allow us to elaborate on many other noteworthy incidents of skewed reporting. Visual veracity was issue of 2006.

Our intent is not to make sweeping generalizations about all photojournalists. Most are honest people admirably working under difficult conditions; many risk their lives to record history's first draft. But important questions remain unanswered. What safeguards help editors detect altered images? Where do the rush of deadlines and the speed of technology leave the slower work of fact-checking? What do ethical standards, if any, say about posed shots? Were some photographers simply duped?

The MSM has reached unheard heights of information distortion. It has now reached the point of outright lying and manipulation. News have become propaganda.

I for one enjoy seeing the MSM having trouble because of the Internet. Not only are the MSM caught in their lies, but newspapers and tv-news are no longer the only sources. The MSM is loosing readers/viewers.

And no wonder.

More Arabs want nuclear power

2006-12-11T09:09:00.000Z

The news this morning are comforting. Check out "Gulf Arabs states want nuclear power" from CNN:

Gulf Arab countries want to acquire nuclear energy capability and have ordered a study on a possible joint atomic program, a statement read on Sunday at the close of a two-day Gulf Cooperation Council summit said.
"The countries of the region have the right to nuclear energy technology for peaceful purposes," said Abdul-Rahman al-Attiya, secretary-general of the Gulf Cooperation Council.

We of course understand entirely. Nuclear power is just so appropiate for net importers of oil. It makes economic sense.

In a few years we can look forward to a much more exiting world.

The War on Terror has ended?

2006-12-11T08:46:00.000Z

The UK newspaper, The Observer, presents the following:

Cabinet ministers have been told by the Foreign Office to drop the phrase 'war on terror' and other terms seen as liable to anger British Muslims and increase tensions more broadly in the Islamic world.

The shift marks a turning point in British political thinking about the strategy against extremism and underlines the growing gulf between the British and American approaches to the continuing problem of radical Islamic militancy. It comes amid increasingly evident disagreements between President George Bush and Tony Blair over policy in the Middle East.

Article continues
Experts have welcomed the move away from one of the phrases that has most defined the debate on Islamic extremism, but called it 'belated'.

'It's about time,' said Garry Hindle, terrorism expert at the Royal United Services Institute in London. 'Military terminology is completely counter-productive, merely contributing to isolating communities. This is a very positive move.'

A Foreign Office spokesman said the government wanted to 'avoid reinforcing and giving succour to the terrorists' narrative by using language that, taken out of context, could be counter-productive'. The same message has been sent to British diplomats and official spokespeople around the world.

So the war has ended. We must do all not to offend the Muslim world and the Islamofascists. The degree of dhimmitude is astounding. The UK official line now corresponds with the line of El Beep (the BBC) and PC once more rules.

But we may rest assured, that even though the UK rendition will soon be enhanced to "What War on Terror? - no such thing has ever existed", the terrorists will take this as the victory it is.

I have long been surprised the Labour governments relatively harsh line on terror and the participation in Iraq. Obviously it has been owed mostly to one man: Mr. Blair. Now he is on the way out and the socialists (read defeatist apologists) are waiting to take over power.

I wonder when a large part of London becomes a pile of radioactive rubble whether the war will be reinstated or whether it will cause a complete surrender?

Cox and Forkum say more with one picture than...

2006-12-07T17:54:00.000Z

What does the future look like?

2006-11-15T15:54:00.000Z

My key motivation for blogging about the Islamist threat is the bleak future I foresee. A number of extremely radical people, not to confuse with humans, are planning and working for the eradication of the people in the West and my culture. My neighbors, friends and even family is at risk. Life, as we know it, is at stake.

The Islamist threat
The radicals are all Muslim. That is not to say that all Muslims are terrorists but practically all terrorists are Muslim.

The percentage of radicals is difficult to ascertain. I believe it is relatively high. In the UK a poll indicate one in ten thought the London Subway bombings were OK. One in ten would probably not actively participate in terrorists act, but I think at least 1% of the one tenth would. This would amount to 1 in 1000. And here we are talking about a group of Muslims who are more westernized than most. If you look at Palestinians on the West Bank the percentage is much higher.

To corroborate the numbers I find the article about MI5 surveillance in the UK valuable.

The head of MI5 informs that they are tracking 1,600 fanatics from 200 al-Qaeda cells. And many more are believed to exist. I have heard there are 3,000,000 Muslims more or less in the UK. One potential terrorist out of each thousand would correspond to 3000. Are we really to believe that the MI5 actually have discovered more than 50% of all potential terrorists? I think not. The real number is probably much higher.

But let us just use the conservative estimate of 1 potential terrorist in each 1000 Muslims and the 1 sympathizer in each 10 Muslims for illustrative purposes.

Out of a total Muslim population of 1,5 billion, one and a half million are either terrorists or are ready to become terrorist - and a whopping 150 million are sympathizers and will to a large degree indirectly give support, i.e. politically and economically.

1,500,000 out of a world wide population of 6 billion may not seem like such a high number. But remember we are talking absolute animals. They would not hesitate one second to kill anybody – even small children. Actually I believe they would not even hesitate to exterminate the entire human race.

People who can do terrorism can do ANYTHING. Beslan was one example.

We have therefore a large number of people who will stop at nothing. They have large financial resources and even political support. They are not all un-intelligent as history has shown. Many terrorists have turned out to be relatively well educated.

The world of today
This fact we must insert into the current factual geo-political situation.

Many of the terrorists are already in the West living amongst us and large Muslim populations.
They can easily travel into the West
There is no allied concerted front against this threat
A large percentage of the west – maybe a majority in Europe – are either pacifist or defeatist or both and readily co-operate and fraternatize with the enemy
The USSR has broken down and the WMD technologies and scientist are readily available for a relative small price. Even materials can be had.
A number of dictator states in the world give or will give refuge and even support to terrorists
WMD weapons are proliferated. One Muslim country already has nuclear weapons, Pakistan, and their chief scientist has sold the know-how to at least one more country. One Muslim country, Iran, is publicly and actively seeking nuclear weapons.
Any Muslim country is politically unstable and may suffer coup attempts such as the one in Pakistan recently. Who gets to hold the button of WMD is unpredictable.
Were it not for the Security Council the UN might as well be Muslim. The UN is thus completely ineffective and might as well not exist.

The frightening possibilities
With enough financial resources the outright sale of a nuclear bomb is not unthinkable. It is thought that corruption in the ex USSR is reaching the equivalent of 50% of the public sector economies. The “sale” of know-how is a fact.

The whereabouts of cold war nuclear scientist, biologists and chemists is not controlled. Furthermore, in the West the most advanced university courses of chemistry, biology and nuclear engineering are readily available for anybody interested and qualified.

Now combine this with the ever increasing technological development. I remember reading about one Australian research group working on a vaccine for a virus. This led to them inadvertently creating an extremely potent virus that killed all mice. The size of the group: 5 scientists!

With time it becomes ever easier and ever more likely that extremely potent weapons will be created. With the resources of a state available there are no limits.

I predict this future scenario
The Islamist terrorists will continue to make attacks. In the next few years we will have at least one major attack in the west and several smaller ones. All with conventional weapons or possibly with primitive low effect WMD.

This will lead to an increase in friction between us and the relatively moderate Muslims living among us. In the west mass internments of Muslims in camps and deportations of Muslims will slowly be established or planned.

Israel will with the more or less clandestine support of the US make pre-emptive strikes against countries like Iran before they manage to produce a nuclear bomb. This will however only delay the fabrication in certain countries and do nothing so ever about countries like Pakistan. Israel can not afford to attack a nuclear power, as it is so small that just one counterstrike could be a catastrophe.

There will be a continued increased radicalization of Muslims and Westerners and more hate against the Jews. In the Muslim world ever more radical states and even more religious craze will appear. Moderate Muslims will have no voice what so ever in the Muslim world.

No sooner than in 5 years and probably no later than within 25 years, in countries like France , civil war like conditions will be constant in metropolitan areas now completely dominated by “youths”. Europeans will simply flee or be expelled and Muslim ghettoes and mini states will be a fact. The police and military forces are themselves infiltrated and the political system as well leading to complete ineffectiveness. At this point Sharia law will be begun to be exercised in the mini states.

Around this time several Muslim states will have WMD and consequently the terrorists will be armed likewise.

Either they will attack one large Western city or several at the same time. I believe the weapon of choice will be nuclear and capable of at least one million casualties.

The cities in most danger are London, New York, Washington and Los Angeles. London seems to me the most probable target.

The answer of the West will be a nuclear attack, perhaps massive, on the Muslim countries. They will answer back but ineffectively unless they at this time already have potent biological weapons. More western cities especially European capitals will feel the attack.

All Muslims in Western countries will be sought interned, expelled or simply exterminated. There will be fighting in the streets and minor civil wars will break out in all western countries with Muslim populations. Major civil war will break out in countries like France. The western world will win. Atrocities will be committed by both sides.

Finally the Muslim world will be disarmed and completely isolated.

By then millions will be dead. Many of them innocents.

What do you think are probable or possible scenarios for the future?
Do you think I am far out? I sure hope I am. But it looks bleak.

I would like to propose that we infidel bloggers start thinking about possible scenarios for the future and present them. Maybe we can thus raise the awareness and possible even avoid worst case.

Can we perhaps generate models with variables that could present possible results. Can we identify some of the many variables and conditions that will lead to some or the other future?

At this point generating, say a computer model, would be a large undertaking. But identifying some of the variables should be easy and thus scenarios much more consolidated and corroborated than my rather simple one should be possible.

Update
WC already has done a scenario in five parts on his blog. It is great writing and a good read. Scary as hell.
World War III: 21 Days in August – Part 1
World War III: 21 Days in August – Part 2
World War III: 21 Days in August – Part 3
World War III: 21 Days in August – Part 4
World War III: 21 Days in August – Part 5

Update 2
Another scenario, this one by, Raymond S. Kraft, and no less scary:
December 7, 2008

Update 3
A number of smaller scenarios on terroris attacks from a classified leaked report developed by the Department of Homeland Security and the Council of Homeland Security:
National Planning Scenarios

I wonder how this was leaked. By now it must be mandatory Al-Qaeda reading.

Iran to be 'fully nuclear soon'

2006-11-14T20:24:00.000Z

Good news from CNN:

TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday his country expects its uranium enrichment program to be ready by February to meet Iran's nuclear fuel needs, the national news service IRNA reported.
"We will commission some 3,000 centrifuges by this year end. We are determined to master fuel cycle, and commission some 60,000 centrifuges to meet our demands," the president said at a news conference closed to foreign reporters.
"Today the Iranian nation possesses the full nuclear fuel cycle and time is completely running in our favor in terms of diplomacy."
Ahmadinejad said Iran hopes to celebrate its nuclear success during the "Ten-Day Dawn" festivities at the beginning of February, which mark the country's victory in the Islamic Revolution, the Islamic Republic News Agency reported.
"This year's Ten-Day Dawn period will mark the Iranian nation's success in mastering fuel cycle as well as its achievements in other fields," the president said.

And a bit later in the article, what seems like a thinly veiled threat:

"I will soon send a message to the American people. The message is in the stage of preparation."

I just got a few comments to that. Is it not just swell with a supplier of unlimited nuclear materials in the Middle East? Al-Qaeda et al are already dancing their dances of victory.

Hopefully somebody decides that 10 days of dawn party is to be followed by one permanent sunset. They want fully nuclear? Then by all means - let them have it.

Yet another proposed UN resolution against Israel

2006-11-12T03:10:00.000Z

I am unsurprised by yet another Arab backed UN resolution against Israel. Here from the Independent.

The United States last night vetoed a UN Security Council resolution condemning Israel in the wake of the artillery attack which killed 18 Palestinian civilians last week in the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun.

Of course France and Russia backed it (do they share leadership?) and the US vetoed it:

Britain abstained, France and Russia voted in favour, but America refused to allow the United Nations to condemn the Israelis after Wednesday's mistaken rocket strike on Beit Hanoun, which killed 19 civilians.

I just love the Independent's title for the article:

US vetoes 'biased' UN resolution attacking Israel's Gaza bloodbath

It implies that not only is the vetoed UN resolution not biased but it is also a bloodbath. It is a terribly sad story - true. But why are Palestinian terror attacks never called bloodbaths? And often not even terrorism.

And of course it was biased. Where are the UN resolutions against Palestinian terrorism? Or other Islamist crimes?

Let us look at this article, I have translated it from a Danish newspaper, "Weekendavisen". It was written by Jesper D. Jensen og Klaus Wivel.

“The moral compass of the UN has been broken for decades. The world organisation does not mirror an objective standard for international justice. 'It mirrors the total sum of the political interests of the member states at a given time.’ [Dore Gold, ex. Israeli UN ambassador]
While there has been particularly horrible infringements of human rights in Tibet, Cambodia, Rwanda and other places without any mentionable UN protests, Israel has been condemned again and again by the world organisation. Israel continues year by year to ignore practically all UN resolutions that commonly conclude that Israel is breaking international law, ruthlessly has suppressed the Palestinians and is a threat against both the regional and global stability.
During the 59. Assembly of the UN 2004-2005, 19 Israel critical resolutions were passed, while not a single was passed condemning the ethnical cleansings and mass murders in Darfur in Islamic Sudan. Israel is without comparison the country that through the history of the General Assembly has received most condemnations.
For the past last years the average has been 20 resolutions, and since the creation of the UN the General Assembly has condemned Israel with around 500 resolutions - or around half of all resolutions concerning condemnations of a country. These numbers are from official Israeli statistics and the UN UNISPAL database.
The General Assembly started having emergency sessions in 1956, and since then 5 out of 10 have been about Israel. In comparison there were no emergency sessions in connection with the murder of a people in Rwanda, the ethnical cleansings and mass murders in the former Yugoslavia or during the last years of barbarism in Sudan, where hundreds of thousands of people have lost their lives.
The Israeli critical tendency has also manifested itself through the UN Commission on Human Rights in Genève. Over the last 40 years around 30 percent of the commission's resolutions, condemning named countries, have been targeting Israel. In comparison the lack of human rights in the Arabic countries or China has been the object of few resolutions.”

It blows my mind that one little country can receive so much attention in the form of condemnation from the UN. It clearly shows the organisation's Muslim colored viewpoint.

To shred some light and present another view I present this link: Arab-Israeli conflict: Basic facts. Some of the facts:

Of the 175 United Nations Security Council resolutions passed before 1990, 97 were directed against Israel. Of the 690 General Assembly resolutions voted on before 1990, 429 were directed against Israel. The U.N. was silent while 58 Jerusalem synagogues were destroyed by the Jordanians. The U.N. was silent while the Jordanians destroyed 58 Jerusalem Synagogues and systematically desecrated the ancient Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives. The U.N. was silent while the Jordanians prevented Jews from visiting the Temple Mount and the Western Wall.

This anti-Israel stance of the UN is a natural consequence of its membership structure. 21 members of the UN are Arab countries, and 52 members represent Islamic countries. Since the Arab Israeli conflict is represented as a religious conflict (see article) Israel as the only Jewish state has no chance for a fair hearing in the UN.

Related articles

What is the evidence that the United Nations is biased against Israel?
Articles on the role of the UN in the Arab-Israeli conflict
UN gives green light to Palestinian terror

New dictionary entry

2006-11-09T20:12:00.000Z

Try to read Yusuf Qaradawi, Rocket Scientist and Gynecologist, and Sex Therapist over at the Infidel Bloggers Aliance

Now you will understand the new entry in the dictionary:

Muslim

~adjective

Afflicted with or exhibiting irrationality and mental unsoundness: brainsick, daft, demented, disordered, distraught, dotty, insane, lunatic, mad, maniac, maniacal, mentally ill, moonstruck, off, touched, unbalanced, unsound, wrong. Informal bonkers, cracked, daffy, gaga, loony. Slang bananas, batty, buggy, cuckoo, fruity, loco, nuts, nutty, screwy, wacky. Chiefly British crackers. Law non compos mentis. Idioms: around the bend, crazy as a loon, mad as a hatter, not all there, nutty as a fruitcake, offout ofone's head, off one's rocker, of unsound mind, out of one's mind, sick in the head, stark raving mad. See sane/insane.

Let us celebrate

2006-11-07T14:23:00.000Z

I am angry and have been for some time because of the on march of Islamofascism. I fear for the future of the world and Europe especially. Here in Europe the biggest threat is not even the Islamists but the leftwing appeasing defeatist apologists and at times it sure looks bleak.

But today we have a small victory and a cause for celebration.

In Jyllandsposten, the Danish newspaper that started the Khartoon rage, I this morning read about this (link to article in Danish):

One of the infamous traveling Imams, shaykh Raed Hlayhel, living in Denmark has decided to go back to where he belongs: Tripoli, Lebanon. He was one of the foremost Imams spreading lies about Denmark not only showing the cartoons around in the Middle East but also a number of pictures/drawings much worse produced for the occasion.

He says "Goodbye Denmark"

I say "Good Riddance" (actually I am joyfully shouting out of the window)

Even better, he states: "I am not coming back". That makes me so sad - not.

According to the shaykh (another title not to revere) he is leaving because the Danish courts have decided that publishing the cartoons was perfectly ok.

Of course the minor detail that his 9 year old son is seriously sick and will not be able to receive treatment in Lebanon, does not move him at all. Inhumanity must be one of the foremost things you learn in the Faculty of Sharia of Medina. I do feel sad for his innocent son. He is another child victim of Islam. I would like to point out that the only reason the Imam has been allowed to stay in Denmark is because of his son's decease.

Incredibly, I read that having studied in Medina makes the Imam one of the best educated in Denmark. The journalist must be confused. An education from the Faculty of Sharia of Medina is no such thing.

What wil the response to our ridicule be?

2006-11-05T08:07:00.000Z

I am wondering what our continuously outraged Muslim friendlies at home are going to do next to obtain their goals of silencing all criticism? What will the religion of perpetual outrage do about the facts thrown in their faces daily? Not to mention the well deserved accompanying ridicule? The Danish cartoons were just an element, a beginning. And consider the reaction that got.

Burning flags get expensive in the long run and I think by the 50th flag the pleasure is somewhat less. Also the Western camera crews by then won't pay much any more for the spectacle. So what will happen? Demonstrations can be cool as family outings just like the First of May have been for the socialists in Europe for many years. The day off, a good outing in the free, with some political speeches, nice bands and lots to drink...

Oops, you Muslims don't drink - so you won't have that much fun with the demonstrations - as they do tend to get tedious without drink. Screaming for hours every day will ruin your voice as well. And somebody has to pay all those bullets you manly men shoot into the air... (By the way, what does happen to people hit by bullets falling out of the sky? The bullets do come down back - don't they? What a nuisance! Not to mention cleaning the Holy Guns afterwards)

Nope - what then? Well - there are protests to the UN and any other similar dysfunctional appeasing organizations. After all your Muslim human rights are being infringed in the most terrible way. Has Jyllandsposten, that evil Danish paper, not forced every single of you 1,2 billion Muslims or so to study the cartoons in detail and read the accompanying blasphemous words?! Stop. Half of you people can't read. Well, that still leaves 600 million, which we all agree is a rather large number. And all are upset. How do we know? Well - wouldn't you know - every single one was asked...

Jyllandsposten and other blasphemers (do we need a bloggers malpractice insurance?) should be forced to pay a compensation to every single Muslim (except the blind ones of course and maybe only half to the ones who can't read). Special payments for all the apoplectic cases. Several thousand must have died either dehydrated from frothing or overstrained hearts... And the stampedes, we must not forget the stampedes at Mecca - my, my.

Sorry lost the track here. Surely you Muslim smart guys will still seek the ears of all the dhimmies (especially left wing appeasing apologists) in Europe. Unfortunately, by now it looks like they are becoming a minority according to polls. Even former super PC politicians are demanding head scarves off. So that won't help much. Just a lot of senseless noise. The majority of Europeans are getting rather pissed off, excuse the French (pun intended)...

But the French youth uprisings (disclaimer: The word youth by definition excludes anybody Muslim and/or with Muslim ancestors or anybody with Muslim sympathies) organized in the right manner and with a little support from homegrown peace organizations such as green Hizbollah and amnesty Al-Qaeda with el Beep as the PR agency do in fact have a some chance of success. The only major problem is that it serves as a huge eye opener... It would be smarter to wait until Europeans are in the minority and that will still take a few decades.

Nope, not the best way either. Hmmh - there still is the Holy Boycott. That is really a good weapon! And you know what - it is a democratic one too and a human right. The common Muslim citizen (women excluded of course) might actually learn some democracy that way. It might cost us Western nations a few percent in exports -not that it will matter much for the rich Western world at all, even in the long run. And can you guys really live without any goods from the Western world? The Arabs for ones don't produce anything at all except at few trinkets and such. The boycott will still initially give you Muslim victims some powerful allies in the west. People with money and investments in Muslim countries (we all know those are Jews as only the Jews have money). But then again it would demand a complete boycott for a while, which is unlikely. I mean how long time do you think the Arab playboys can stay away from real women, Southern France, designer clothes and fast cars? And I will let you in on a secret. A Boeing 747 pleasure plane takes a lot of maintenance and spare parts! Those solid gold faucets just start dripping with no excuse what so ever.

But there is Holiest of the Holy Boycotts. The boycott of oil. Or just rising the price to the double and a bit. But - we Westerners get really upset when our car doesn't work and the house gets cold - and when all the plastics start disappearing. Have you any idea what this would do to our effort to pollute the entire planet in the most efficient manner? Nope - can't let you Muslims do that. We would have to invade. Worse for you even - we would not be able to produce designer clothes and fast cars...

Nah, the Holy Boycott is not it either. Now, dear Muslims, we come to some of your favorite solutions. Westerners to the grave. Threats. Violence. Death. God to honest bloody stuff. The Muslims armies will sunder forth and squash the infidels...

Sorry, your Muslim armies aren't up to it - too little equipment and let's face it: The Arab soldier is one of the worst in the world. But that still leaves Terrorism. Yes, good old Terror. Dead children is such an art form. Only a specialty of the most specialized peaceful holy cultures. Yes, that one works. But there are some problems. Without WMDs it is just not that effective. It will be very difficult to get a number of victim infidels (oxymoron?) higher than say for example traffic victims a year. WMDs take technical know how - and while Muslims can recite the Quaran forth and back any given day - your kids just don't learn unimportant skills such as math, physics, biology, engineering and other likewise boring and useless stuff.

Nope, the number of victims won't be enough for us to stop ridiculing. And do consider: Experienced suicide bombers are hard to come by! And just who did invent WMDs in the first place?

But, my Muslim friends - despair not. You have faith and you have the Prophet (pieces be upon him). Prayer is the answer - let Allah smite the infidels. It just takes prayer. You see God/Allah loves blood and peace not at all. Extinction is just such an appropriate answer to a cartoon.

PS. This is a slightly rewritten version of an earlier post I have written here in February. But I still wonder on the next move.

Egyptians do not hate the Danes

2006-11-05T07:37:00.000Z

Due to the Khartoon rage the number of Danish tourists in Egypt has fallen drastically. The Egyptian Minister of Tourism has been visiting Denmark to try to get the Danes to come visit again.

He declared "We don't hate the Danes".

Sure. A recent poll shows (hat tip to Hodja here) that only the Israelis are considered a worse enemy than the Danes. Followed by the US and the UK.

However, this brings to mind again our most powerful weapon. Let us embargo the whole Muslim world until they bring their affairs into order: Respect for human life, human rights, democracy and so forth. Hell, let us build a wall around the Islamists, when we can.

Consider the Arab world. What do they produce? Next to nothing. How long do you think the rich Arabs could manage without western goods and know-how?

At most, exports to the Muslim world represents a few percentage points of all trade. We can easily do without. Unfortunately we can not do without the oil. That leads me to priority #1: We must create an alternative to fossil fuels.

Brief

2006-11-05T06:47:00.000Z

I am just back from a nice week of holiday on the beach. But I have been sort of following the news.

By the way of the Brussels Journal I found this link to a video on the treatment of van Gogh's son. And hell yes - it makes me angry.

Check out some of the articles over at the Infidel Bloggers Alliance:

20 things you should know about Islam

I, a Muslim

Santiago and Moors are at it again

Do Muslims need to integrate more?

2006-10-26T18:18:00.000+01:00

From today on the Newsweek site this interesting poll:

As an European I had no doubt and answered yes. The result above was then displayed. Hah - I thought. The 12% "no" vote must be Muslims and the 6,8% "I don't know" must live underground. But great with a 82% "yes" vote.

Also it seems socialists, pacifists, defeatist in general and other riff-raff don't read Newsweek and for sure don't participate in the "livevotes" - or there would be more "no" votes.

But then I got to think. Muslims in Europe have already been given the chance to integrate. Some have integrated well but many have not. Demographics will within the next few years make several large cities of Europe having a Muslim majority (a few already have a youth majority of Muslims). The Islamofascists will use every trick in the book to gain power.

This combined with a large percentage of European apologists will in fact give birth to Eurabia. Ironically, multiculturalists will see their absurd experiment of multiculturalism turn into a de facto monoculture - and I ain't talking European culture.

I see this as unavoidable unless Europe receives a wake-up call now and immediately starts fighting this trend. In a certain manner worse uprisings in France could be a necessity for the rest of Europe to read the writing on the wall. We need more conflict to avoid the eradication of Europe.

Also integration in Europe absurdly means that our culture must adjust to the Islamist culture including some rites that seem out of the middle ages. It is definitely not "when in Rome do as the Romans do". Personally, I do not care for integration with the aim of making me x percentage Muslim.

So even if it pains me - I change my vote to a resounding NO.

Uncovered meat?

2006-10-26T13:27:00.000+01:00

"Religion of Pieces" in my posting below where I suggest a new Infidel Babe of the Week (and what a lady) left a comment pointing at this El Beep article (hat tip!): Australian cleric in dress furore

Australia's most senior Muslim cleric has prompted an uproar by saying that some women are attracting sexual assault by the way they dress.

Sheikh Taj el-Din al-Hilali said women who did not wear a hijab (head dress) were like "uncovered meat".

If you take out uncovered meat and place it outside... and the cats come and eat it... whose fault is it, the cats' or the uncovered meat?" he asked.

Unfortunately these kinds of utterings are normal coming from so called sheikhs, imams, ayatollahs and other Muslim clerics with likewise exalted titles. Personally I think the word cleric is more appropriate for use by us infidels instead of lord, leader or "sign of God".

We have seen these outrageous statements all over the Western World - especially after undercover members of the Muslim communities have started translating. One can only wonder what is being said in the Muslim countries?

Whenever Muslims are caught with statements as inacceptable as the above and often much worse, they always deny. We will be told: "It was a out of context", "badly translated" or just "I never said that".

They are being good Muslims and use lies and deceit whenever appropriate (read convenient) such as defined by taqiyya.

Fortunately many of us infidels are no longer deceived.

I also wonder how can the so called religion of peace contain so much hate? I can not imagine entering into a Christian church (or a Bhuddist monastery, or that sake) and be told that blowing that, this or those up is recommendable or even my holy duty. Or that all Muslims are unclean and must be eliminated.

No, when I enter a church I would expect a sermon on for example human relations such as respect and love for my parents, my wife and my neighbor. I would expect messages of compassion, peace and harmony.

I don't know or believe that alle Muslim sermons contain messages of hate and anger. But I do know some do and it is not improbable that many do.

The coined term of Islam being the religion of perpetual outrage seems to fit I must say.

But back to Mr. Taj el-Din al-Hilal. I do like his following statements:

"If she was in her room, in her home, in her hijab, no problem would have occurred," he added.

Sheikh Hilali also condemned women who swayed suggestively and wore make-up, implying they attracted sexual assault.

"Then you get a judge without mercy... and gives you 65 years," he added.

Paraphrased that is:

If the Muslims stay in the Muslim countries or move back if they can not live as Westerners - then we would have no or very little terrorism in our part of the world.

If the Muslims behave as westerners and conform to our culture and our laws - then we have no problem.

If they don't, then sometimes judges without mercy and 65 years of jail is an appropriate punishment.

Let me end by stating this:

Women and thus Our Infidel Babes covered by hijab and hiding in their homes in virtual imprisonment/slavery? NEVER!

Beccy Cole

2006-10-25T17:31:00.000+01:00

Beccy Cole an Australian country singer has been criticized by the left for going to Afghanistan and performing for SAS Australian troops there. They are known as Diggers and are doing a mighty fine job.

Beccy´s answer to her critics is here. Listen to her cool song.

Damn, she is hot on so many levels. I think am in love and I have voted to nominate her for infidel babe of the week over at Infidel Bloggers Aliance. Who dares say she does not qualify?

What a fantastic answer to the leftist pacifist defeatists... Take that!

Hat tip to Black Five

Here she is in Afghanistan performing for the troops:

PS. Buy her music. I am going to.

El-beep is biased

2006-10-25T05:30:00.000+01:00

Finally El Beeb itself admits, what others (myself included) have been saying for years.

It was the day that a host of BBC executives and star presenters admitted what critics have been telling them for years: the BBC is dominated by trendy, Left-leaning liberals who are biased against Christianity and in favour of multiculturalism.
A leaked account of an 'impartiality summit' called by BBC chairman Michael Grade, is certain to lead to a new row about the BBC and its reporting on key issues, especially concerning Muslims and the war on terror.
It reveals that executives would let the Bible be thrown into a dustbin on a TV comedy show, but not the Koran, and that they would broadcast an interview with Osama Bin Laden if given the opportunity. Further, it discloses that the BBC's 'diversity tsar', wants Muslim women newsreaders to be allowed to wear veils when on air.

Check out The Brussels Journal

2006-10-16T12:23:00.000+01:00

The Brussels Journal at times is pure genious and always interesting and relevant.

Why Muslim Immigration is a Threat to Western Democracy, another article by fjordman, a Norwegian that knows how to tell it straight.

British Airways Uniform: Hijab Yes, Crucifix No
You are not allowed to wear a small crucifix, but a hijab is ok?!

Here We Go Again
2,500 French policemen have been wounded so far this year...

Thou Shalt Sacrifice Easter Monday
Proposal to abandon Easter Monday for a day to celebrate Ramadam “to offer Muslims the freedom to practice their faith.”

“Racist” Schoolgirl (14 yrs old) Arrested in al-Britannia
In al-Britannia, you end up in jail if you complain that immigrants do not speak English, but if you are saying that those who insult Islam should be killed, it’s OK.

Cartoons

2006-10-16T12:02:00.000+01:00

These brilliant drawings are from Cox & Forkum of course. Do go to the web-site and read the articles as well.

This last drawing could have been used in the posting below

Young Muslim women forced to suicide

2006-10-16T09:59:00.000+01:00

From Sweden comes the news (link to Danish newspaper) that as an replacement for honor killings young Muslim women are forced to commit suicide by their families.

"Balcony girls" is the term for girls who are forced to suicide by jumping from balconies of their homes. The young are forced to defend the honor of their families by committing suicide.

The girls may themselves decide on the method. They can suicide by overdosing on pills, hanging, jumping in front of a train or by jumping off the apartment balcony.

The suicides makes it easier for the families. They avoid getting blood on their hands. Not to mention avoiding problems with the authorities.

The girls are pressured into killing themselves by being told: Either you do it yourself or we will kill you.

How widespread is this phenomena? How many young women, including girls, children of 17 or less, are we talking about? We don't exactly know how many honor killings there are either - but many cases are well documented.

The news from Sweden state that 3 out of 5 young Muslim women who turn to the authorities and private support groups have felt pressure to commit suicide.

I am sure this is not only a Swedish problem. In how many western countries does this happen? What about the Muslim world? Maybe we are talking thousands of lives a year? Are there any statistics which confirm the practice? Do more young Muslim women commit suicide than other young women? Maybe a police inquiry in Sweden on three suspect cases will uncover some proof. Just how I don't know as it must be very difficult to prove.

I am deeply appalled. How can any father, mother or sibling kill or pressure a daughter or a sister into killing herself? And this in cold blood? This is barbaric, inhuman and sick. It is just another form of terrorism. Just imagine for one moment the terror of a young women, in some cases a child, when she finds out that her family desires her dead? The horror is unimaginable. How does a father or mother tell this to daughter? "Sweetheart dearest - we need you dead!"

We must do all in our power to fight this heinous practice - I do not want to share planet with that sort of "people".

Update:
There are some numbers and information in this article: A Matter of Honor, Your Honor?: In Holland researchers claim the suicide rate for immigrant girls is three to four times higher than that of non-immigrant girls.

Mohammedan perpetual pique

2006-09-28T18:57:00.000+01:00

From the Jerry Pournelle website on the Wednesday e-mail, this diatrabe by anonymous could be found:

The little baby Mohammedans are getting more and more petulant.

http://michellemalkin.com/archives/005938.htm

Bombing churches. Taliban demanding apology...or else. More enraged Muslims prove the Pope's point. An Arab op-ed threatens: Pope's remarks may lead to war.

and the list goes on with links all over the place. There is a nice article by Father Raymond de Souza speaking out in the National Post with an excerpt in Michelle's blog posting.

Are the Mohammedans a case for arrested development? Are their actions the actions of adults? Arguably their religion prevents their growing up to be fully realized human beings grasping all their potential. It's rather a shame.

Father Raymond de Souza thinks otherwise, quoting from Michelle's excerpts: It does a disservice to children to call the wild-eyed statements and deranged behavior of the past days childish.

It is not only the obscenity of the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist terrorist band suppressed in several Muslim states, demanding an apology from anyone, let alone the Holy Father.

It is not only the grandstanding Pakistani politicians passing resolutions condemning a papal speech few read, and even fewer understood. It is not only the extraneous charges about the Holocaust and Hitler by the agitated and excited.

It is that we have seen this before.

I suppose it is a disservice to children. But even monkeys are not as extreme and petulant unthinking unreasoning animated pieces of meat as the Mohammedans rioting over a recounting of a historical discourse between a Pope and a very learned Mohammedan scholar and theologian.

How is the world to deal with these people if we cannot clearly identify the moderate Mohammedans and give them encouragement to spread their concepts and beliefs. These moderates of good will have a very steep mountain to climb to alter the very foundations of a very violent religion.

Meanwhile, we non-Mohammedans are in the beginning stages if a new fight for our very existence, the same as what faced the first crusaders.

If these Mohammedans are not stopped - the human world stops. Note that there is NO equivalent of the Pope within Mohammedan law, tradition, or Qur'an. It's every man for himself with the most charismatic being leaders of others convincing them of HIS take on the religion. Given that, the last two Mohammedans left alive will be forced one to kill the other over the most minute difference in belief. For that difference makes each an apostate in the others eyes. And apostates are to be put to death. Literally the human world ends if the Mohammedans win it all.

Then we have Father Samir K. Samir also speaking out. Michelle's quote begins: Rather than criticizing Islam, the pope is actually offering it a helping hand by suggesting that it do away with the cycle of violence," Fr. Samir K. Samir, SJ one of the Vatican's leading experts on Islam wrote in the Catholic newspaper Asia News.

That very much is what the Pope offered. However, the Mohammedans are deathly afraid of any change to the scriptures. The tradition says those who would "interpret" the scriptures are apostates. They are to be taken as written.

And if you need to lighten up a little Daffyd is at full sail in his blog entry link in Michelle's blog item above. He claims to have the original pre-editing manuscript for the NYTimes piece on Pope Benedict's horrid gross misstatement.

The party continues in Michelle's next blog post: http://michellemalkin.com/archives/005937.htm

It is complete with a graffiti picture of the Pope with Mohammedan love poems pasted over the picture. You know - things like "The pig, worshiper of the crosses," "Sacrifice him/Behead him," and other expressions of their undying love for the Pope.

Question - why are all the posters in the riots and protests in English? Or at least they seem to be. Are the other language posters invisible to the news camera critters?

This needs to be quoted in full: And remember that "Mr Pope Be With In Your Limits Banner?" Robert Spencer explains what it means: What limits? Classic Islamic law stipulates that Christians may live in peace in Islamic societies as long as they accept second-class status as dhimmis, which involves living within certain limits: not holding authority over Muslims, paying the jizya tax, not building new churches or repairing old ones, and...not insulting Allah or Muhammad. If they believe that a Christian has insulted them in some way, even inadvertently, his contract of protection -- dhimma -- is voided.

So are these protestors warning the Pope to behave like a dhimmi, or else? I expect so. After all, so many Christians and post-Christians in the West in recent years have been willing, even eager, to accept such limits -- witness the chastened reaction to the Cartoon Rage riots, in which Church officials, government leaders, and others solemnly pontificated against "insults to religious figures." But it wasn't really a question of blasphemy then, and it isn't a question of insult now. It is a question of whether non-Muslims will submit to Muslim standards and restrictions on their speech, thought, and behavior.

And I hope that the Pope, for one, is not willing to do so.

I hope so, too. Today all good men and women are Catholics WITH the Pope and against the religion of perpetual pique, Mohammedanism.

"Pope to address controversy on Sunday"
http://hotair.com/archives/2006/09/17/pope-to-address-controversy-on-sunday/

I hope he does so sensibly rather than giving in. His address in two and three quarter hours as I write this.

I like it. Thank you Anonymous

Who owned the Middle East

2006-09-28T18:47:00.000+01:00

This is very interesting. A bit of world history in 90 seconds. Who has controlled the Middle East over the course of history? Pretty much everyone. Egyptians, Turks, Jews, Romans, Arabs, Greeks, Persians, Europeans...the list goes on. Who will control the Middle East today? That is a much bigger question.

Maps of War

Freedom of expression no more - and yet...

2006-09-27T14:16:00.000+01:00

A small crisis has arisen in Germany, as a de-facto proof of limitation of free speech has presented itself.

A opera in Berlin has been cancelled fearing Muslim revenge. According to German news, German politicians are shaken and angry that the State Opera House of Berlin has removed the Mozart-opera, 'Idemeneo', from the program fearing an Islamist act of revenge. In the last scene Idemeneo beheads Buddha, Mohammed, Jesus and Poseidon exacting revenge for his son, who has been given as an offer to the Gods.

The Minister of Interior Affairs, Wolfgang Schäuble, Christian Democrats, stated Tuesday – "This is crazy. The decision is unacceptable. What is the value of freedom of expression if you limit it because of fear?"

A number of conservative politicians have criticized theater director, Ingrid Harms, for the decision and calls it "a knee fall for radical Muslims", "an attack on artistic freedom", or "or a censorship that endangers free expression".

Also German social democrats are furious. The Chairman of the German Parliament, Wolfgang Thierse, who grew up under Eastgerman censorship, states: "Now we have come so far, that artistic freedom has been limited. What will be next. Must we also limit the freedom of free speech and preaching?"

Ingrid Harms motivated yesterday her decision referring to the Danish cartoon crisis, and to 'concrete statements from the police, according to which, we would encounter insurmountable risks, if we were to present the opera.'

The police in Berlin, however, refutes the statement. "We just told the Opera, that the performance could be disturbed," a spokesman said Tuesday.

The Opera with the bloody last scene, was presented without disturbances in 2003 and 2004. The Berlin Senator of Culture, Ehrhart Körting (Social Democrats), admitted Tuesday, that he had spoken to the management of the State Opera, about a changed situation of risk because of the Danish drawings of the prophet.

The admittance earned the Senator harsh criticism from his boss, the Mayor of Berlin, Klaus Wowereit. "With respect for all concerns for security, I see no actual risk. Our values of openness, tolerance and freedom must be exercised offensively. We must not give in to the adversaries of our values."

It is the instructor, Hans Neuenfelds, who has actualized the challenge between Poseidon and Idemeneo to a challenge between 'all suppressing religions'. Thus he has decided to end his opera with the bloody scene.

Do I sense a shimmer of hope? I find it surprising and wonderful, that many politicians and even social democrats, stand up to defend the freedom of expression. But let us not forget that the Opera has been cancelled in fear of the Islamists. If it should be reinstated prepare for Islamist hysterics.

Something is rotten in the State of Denmark

2006-05-12T16:27:00.000+01:00

There is a need for some serious spring cleaning. Let me give you some examples - but first let's observe threats from somewhere around Afghanistan.

Comments in parenthesis are mine.

A prominent member of al-Qaeda in a video call for Muslims to attack Denmark, Norway and France. The three countries must be destroyed because they permitted the Mohammed drawings. This according to the Libyan, Mohammed Hassan a.k.a. Sheikh Abu Yahia al-Libi, who as one of four last year fled from an American military jail on the Bagram air force base in Afghanistan. The video was put on the Internet Thursday. The charming gentleman dressed in a military uniform while shaking a rifle states: "Destroy their buildings, make their ground shake and transform them (the Danes) into an ocean of blood."

Back in Denmark, the Danish Government consequently today stated: "We do take the threats seriously".

As they should. You see, this friend of Denmark, Kasem Ahmad, the spokesman of the Islamic Society of Faith in Denmark, states to a Danish newspaper:

"In the future it will be much easier to recruit terrorists for actions in Denmark. You are the ones who will be hurt. You have to live with the terror".
He is angry about the news, that the controversial imam, Abu Laban, seems to have decided to leave Denmark and move to Gaza. (More about Abu Laban later.)

"There is such a poisonous atmosphere against Muslims in Denmark (I wonder why?). Therefore it will not be difficult to find Muslims, who voluntarily will sacrifice themselves in acts of terrorism in Denmark. I am sure there are many who will do the tasks (Of course terrorism is a task. You can use MS outlook for keeping them up to date).

The Danish newspaper journalist asks: "Are there people here in this local mosque, who are willing to perform acts of terrorism after Abu Laban leaves?"

"Yes, definitely", Kasem Ahmad confirms and continues:

"It has nothing to do with the leaving of Abu Laban. But the mood is now so bad that it must have consequences. "

When you look at what four independent terrorists managed in the London bombings, it is not difficult to imagine similar deranged individuals in Denmark.

The infamous imam, Abu Laban, who lives in Denmark, was mentioned above. He was one of the imams traveling around the Middle East showing off the cartoons from the Danish Newspaper as well as a few much more juicy drawings made up for the occasion. Recently he has made a pledge to move out of Denmark and live in the Gaza Strip with his wife and children. He does not feel welcome in Denmark anymore.

Quite right, as he is not a Danish citizen and as such surely has outstayed his welcome. Quite a few politicians have stated their intent to have his permit of residence reconsidered. Also quite a few common Danes have made complaints to the police about his anti Denmark campaigns and judicial proceedings are imminent.

But I suppose his wife and children have rebelled against the decision to exchange hateful Denmark with the peaceloving Palestinians - as can be read in Jyllandsposten (article in Danish) today:

»I have never said I would leave Denmark voluntarily. But if the law demands I must leave, then I will of course leave."

Of course Jyllandsposten have his previous statements on leaving on tape. But we all know the Islamists change opinion according to convenience and purposes of deception.

This horrific story appeared in the Danish news. It is beyond comprehension - and I wish it to be false. Alas, it was reported yesterday by nearly all Danish MSM:

Boy pursued by 50 boys

Monday, young boy, followed by 50 very upset first and second grade (!) school boys armed with sticks and iron pipes (!), had to flee through the school yard of the Hans Christian Andersen school in the city of Odense.

The cause of the anger?: The boy had used swear words in connection with Islam.
The parents of the school's 378 students have in letter from the school been asked to discuss with their children how the situation could develop so badly.
The trouble started at the school's playing ground, when a little boy said: "F... the Quran." Afterwards he became involved in heated discussion with his class mates from the first and second grade.
Shortly afterwards the boy had to flee.
However, the school staff managed to stop the chase before anybody got hurt.
"The boys pursuing were a group of boys of Danish (dhimmies in training) and foreign (terrorists in training) ethnicity, so it was not a clear case of ethnic or religious conflict (sure...)", states school director, Jørgen Schaldemose.

The director considers the episode one of small school children trying to push limits (yes - in Palestine it is quite normal) and is completely satisfied with the school reaction.
The school has in strong terms told the involved it will not accept such utterings nor the consequent reaction.

Were it only in Denmark the rot was propagating, I would worry little. But the fact is -all of Europe and the entire Muslim world is affected. The rot is called Islamism. What they do in the Muslim world is mainly up to Muslims themselves. However, I suggest a thorough cleaning out in Europe.

Cartoons

2006-05-04T09:28:00.000+01:00

Let us not forget the cartoons. Satire is an excellent tool. Let the naked emperor know that he is naked.

These are from Cox & Forkum of course. Do go to the web-site and read the articles as well.

Sorry for the small images. If you click on them - they become larger. Blogger has changed something. Large size, which I used to use - now no longer fit inside the column. I must change the template.

Khadaffi seems happy - now we need to start worrying

2006-05-02T12:31:00.000+01:00

Thanks to J for the article at Infidel Bloggers Alliance:

[MUST WATCH VIDEO - click the picture for the clip] :

Just as predicted

2006-04-28T13:00:00.000+01:00

Sweden is well on its way to become the foremost bastion of Eurabia. The demands of Muslims are escalating as you can see in this article from Jyllandsposten.

Swedish Muslims demand special treatment

by MATTIAS GRØNDAL

In a letter to the Swedish political parties in the parliament the organization of Swedish Muslim Organisations demand special laws for the Muslim part of the population.

According to the Swedish TV station the political parties of the Swedish parliament received Thursday a letter from the organization. In it, among other demands, the spokesman, Mahmoud Aldebe, asks for law regulated time off for Friday prayer and Muslim holidays.
The Swedish Muslim Organisations will also demand, that imams get access to teach Muslim children in public schools and that divorces in Muslim families must be permitted by an imam.
Mahmoud Aldebe states to Swedish TV:
"It is the role of the Imam to negotiate in such a manner that the family still can live together. It is our biggest task. We do not want children coming out of divorced families."
In the letter the organization also demands interest free loans for building mosques and special women's nights at swimmingpools.
According to Swedish TV the Swedish Muslim Organizations represent 70000 Muslims in Sweden.

It might take a little time, but these demands will of course be met by the Swedish. This is only another step stone to the end of the Swedish democracy. Increasing demands will be met in the name of cultural understanding until Swedish culture and freedom will eventually be entirely abolished.

Sharia Law is coming to a place near you. Hold on for your way of living.

Another forced break from blogging

2006-04-28T12:57:00.000+01:00

I apologize for another forced break from blogging. But between work and family there simply has been no spare time.

But things are looking more bright now again. And my mission to save the world will continue - that is - if it wants to be saved - and if my talents and dedication are sufficient. Both are unlikely - but that does not mean stop trying.

Psychological Warfare

2006-03-28T15:24:00.000+01:00

Send a few of these unmanned drifting into the airspace of Iran and other similar countries from time to time. Would it not be fun to send in a few with cartoons on them as well?

Is it just me?

2006-03-27T21:04:00.000+01:00

Hat tip to Uriasposten (Danish blog)

The liberal talk show hosy Neal Boortz asks: Is it just me? (18.5.2005).

“… or are some of the rest of you getting just a little bit tired of all of the butt kissing we’re delivering to disgruntled Muslims out there. This whole flap over the faulty Newsweek story is starting to get under several different patches of my skin.

Reuters is reporting from Islamabad that the Pakistani government remains unhappy with Newsweek. Well, don’t feel pregnant, Pakistan. But Pakistani Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmad pushes things just a bit with his statement that we need to work harder at understanding the sensitivities of the Islamic people. He says “The apology and retraction are not enough. “They (Newsweek) should understand the sentiments of Muslims and think 101 times before publishing news which hurt feelings of Muslims.”

Sorry, pal. I’m not buying it. I getting just a bit beyond the point where I’m all bent out of shape trying to understand Islamic sensitivities. If there is something about your religion that should make me feel badly about poor Muslims getting their feelings hurt, you had better get it out there on the table now. All I see is a religion that seems to take great pleasure in passing condemnations and “death sentences” on various people around the world for all sorts of meaningless infractions of some great system of Islamic law.

I’m just not going to get all worked up worrying about the sensitivities of devotees of a religion that will stone a woman to death for adultery, while letting the man go unpunished.

Sensitivity would not be the word to describe how I feel about a religion that is in some way involved in more than 95% of the actual shooting conflicts and wars around the world.

Muslims shoot school children in the back! Remember Chechnya? They brag about bombs in schools in Israel! Tell me again about how I need to be sensitive?

The daughter of a devout Muslim gets violently raped. The devout Muslim takes a knife and, in front of the entire family, cuts his daughter’s throat because she has dishonored her family …. by being a rape victim. Yeah, sport. Let me just pour out my sensitivities to this practitioner of the religion of peace.

There’s a school on fire outside Riyadh. It’s a girls school. The girls are trying to escape! But wait! Their faces aren’t covered! It’s the Islamic defenders of the faith to the rescue! They block the doors to keep the young Muslim girls from escaping … from a burning building. The dignity of the great and wonderful religion of peace must be protected, even if young women burn to death! Yeah … my respect for your sensitivities is on the way.

Those insurgents who are killing innocent civilians in Iraq? The suicide bombers in their cars and trucks? Haven’t you heard? Most of them are from Saudi Arabia. They’re crossing borders to kill innocent women and children because they don’t like the idea of people being able to chose those who will rule them. I’m feeling so sensitive to that.

Tell you what: When you stop killing your own daughters; when you stop trying to lock young girls into burning buildings; when you eschew shooting school children in the back; and when I can look in a newspaper and read that Muslims are NOT involved in one way or another in revolts, insurrections and hot wars around the world — and when you’re not working so hard to kill American civilians — and when you start to show some tolerance and respect for the world’s other religions.. then maybe I’ll feel a bit more worm and fuzzy toward your incredible religion of peace.“

The Last Drawing

2006-03-25T08:46:00.000Z

This drawing has been rejected for a book of caricatures in spite of an invitation to the cartoonist to do a drawing. The cartoonist, Mr. Ivar Gjørup, calls the rejection self censorship.

The crazy drawer's last work

The beliefs shared by Muslims

2006-03-24T05:07:00.000Z

From Wikipedia I got this:

There are six basic beliefs shared by all Muslims:

Belief in God (Allah), the one and only one worthy of all worship (tawhid).
Belief in the Angels (mala'ika).
Belief in the books (kutub) sent by God:
The Suhuf-i-Ibrahim (Scrolls of Abraham).
The Tawrat sent to Musa (Moses).
The Zabur sent to Daud (David).
The Injil sent to Isa (Jesus).
The Qur'an sent to Muhammad.
Belief in all the prophets (nabi) and messengers (rasul) sent by God (see Prophets of Islam).
Belief in the Day of Judgement (qiyama) and in life after death - heaven (jannah) and hell (jahannam).
Belief in Fate (qadar).

The Muslim creed in English:

"I testify that there is no god but God Almighty, Who is One (and only One) and there is no associate with Him; and I testify that Muhammad (peace and blessings of God be upon him), is His Messenger."

"I believe in God; and in His Angels; and in His Scriptures; and in His Messengers; and in The Final Day; and in Fate, that All things are from God, and Resurrection after death be Truth."

The Injil is the 4 gospels from the new testament. But Muslims believe it has been tainted, undergone tahrif, by man.

Of the books, the Quran is held over all the others. The Muslims believe that the Qur'ān is the literal word of God in Arabic and the culmination of God's revelation to mankind, revealed to Muhammad, the final prophet of humanity, over a period of 23 years through the angel Gabriel. By many this is considered one of the reasons why the Muslim world has not had a period of enlightenment.

When reading the Quran you need a guide to read it, as it is a rather rambling text with chapters ordered by size. It contains contradictions which can only make sense if you take into consideration their place in a chronology. Wikipedia again can be a starting point.

The Quran contains messages of peace but it also unlike the new Testament contains much harsh writing that in my opinion overwhelms the message of peace. Here are some examples:

Terror

3:151
We will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve, because they set up with Allah that for which He has sent down no authority, and their abode is the fire, and evil is the abode of the unjust.

8:60
And prepare against them what force you can and horses tied at the frontier, to terrorize thereby the enemy of Allah...

8:12
I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them.

Moreover Allah says of those who reject him. Because, Allah has already sentenced them to death.

Unbelievers

2:191, And slay them wherever ye catch them

2:193, And fight them on until there is no more Tumult or oppression

2:216, Fighting is prescribed for you, and ye dislike it. But it is possible that ye dislike a thing which is good for you

3:28, Let not the believers Take for friends or helpers Unbelievers rather than believers: if any do that, in nothing will there be help from Allah

4:48 “Allah forgiveth not that partners should be set up with Him; but He forgiveth anything else, to whom He pleaseth; to set up partners with Allah is to devise a sin Most heinous indeed.”

4:84, Then fight in Allah’s cause - Thou art held responsible only for thyself - and rouse the believers. It may be that Allah will restrain the fury of the Unbelievers; for Allah is the strongest in might and in punishment.

4:141, And never will Allah grant to the unbelievers a way (to triumphs) over the believers

5:33, The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger, and strive with might and main for mischief through the land is: execution, or crucifixion, or the cutting off of hands and feet from opposite sides, or exile from the land: that is their disgrace in this world, and a heavy punishment is theirs in the Hereafter;

8:12, I will instill terror into the hearts of the unbelievers: smite ye above their necks and smite all their finger-tips off them

Thief

5:38 Cut off the hands of thieves, whether they are male or female, as punishment for what they have done—a deterrent from God: God is almighty and wise.

Read more at FaithFreedom.org.

I do not consider Islam my enemy. But I do consider Islamofascism one. Supposedly the Vatican has the largest collection of Marxist writings in the world. Why, one would ask? It is important to know your enemy.

Undoubtedly, that is true.

Here are a number of links to the Quran for Westerners to peruse. Do not believe Muslim claims you must read the Quran in classical Arab to understand. I do realize some of these link to highly critical reviews of the Quran, but they are the ones I found. I shall add any other links with descriptions, if Moderate Muslims ask me to.

The earliest biography of Muhammad, by ibn Ishaq

Islam Q&A
Find answers to tenants of Islam

Islamic Forum
Discussion and information about Islam

The Origins of the Koran

The Noble Qur'an
Three translation of the Quran into English

The Skeptic's Annotated Quran

Prophet of Doom
Islam's terrorist dogma in Mohammed's own words

BTW you can get a free Qaran here if you live in the US.

Apostasy in Islam - Ridda - Irtidad

2006-03-22T22:05:00.000Z

Classical orthodox Islam regards leaving Islam, apostasy (ridda) with great seriousness. According to the Quran for whom leaves Islam the only punishment to be expected for the apostate (murtadd) is by God at doomsday. The Hadith - traditions relating to the sayings and doings of the Islamic prophet Mohammed - proscribes a more serious earthly punishment for apostates. According to current interpretations (all classical versions of Sharia "juridical" practices) there is punishment of death for men and lifelong incarceration for women found guilty of apostasy. There is however a possibility to avoid punishment by returning to Islam. Modern liberal interpreters of Islam look at the statements in the Quran, that claim there can be no religion by force (Sura 2,257) and thus reject the punishment for apostasy. Read more here.

By law most Muslim countries do not punish apostasy by death, but it is still carried out in Pakistan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Sudan, to name a few. In the other countries, civilians can and sometimes do take Islamic law into their own hands and kill the apostate and get little to no punishment for it.

What is worrisome is that most Muslim leaders in the West do not distance themselves to the classical punishment of apostasy. In doing so they foster an environment of religious intolerance and confrontation. What is beyond comprehension is that most Western political leaders do not dare to criticize the practice of punishment for apostasy. And when some few do dare - it is always in light and careful terms.

Here are some examples of recent cases (hat tip to Angantyr, blog in Danish):

Doctors in a Cairo mental hospital are holding an Egyptian Christian against his will, telling the man he'll be a permanent resident there until he recants his faith and returns to Islam, reports a leading monitor of Christian persecution.

Worldnet Daily

Zakho (AsiaNews/MEC) – A Christian convert from Islam was killed for his faith. Ziwar Muhammad Isma’il, who worked as a taxi driver in Zakho in the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, was shot dead by Abd al-Karim Abd al-Salam at a taxi station early on the morning of February 17.

Abd al-Salam approached Ziwar and told him to return to Islam. When Ziwar refused he opened fire with an automatic rifle.

Jimmi Akin

Ask Samer and Abeer. Last September Jordanian security police connected to the country's Mukhabarat, or intelligence agency, showed up at the couple's home unannounced. They arrested Samer and detained him overnight. Samer's crime: coming to faith in Jesus Christ 14 years ago. Originally a Muslim, Samer over the years since his conversion has been questioned several times by security police but never detained.

This time, the police turned him over to the Islamic courts. The judges convicted Samer of apostasy. In a Nov. 23 decision the court decreed that his identification papers must be changed from "Muslim" to "no religion;" that he had forfeited any inheritance; that his marriage to Abeer is now illegal and therefore he is not entitled to custody of his son.

World Magazine

IRAN - Christians in Iran have expressed great fears for the life of pastor Hamid Pourmand, a lay leader in a church and a convert from Islam, who will appear before an Islamic court next week to face charges of apostasy. If found guilty he is likely to face the death penalty.

Jihad Watch

Also in Malaysia (the current example of well functioning Muslim democracy) Muslims can be punished to leave Islam:

In July when the Sharia court sentenced four Kelantan Malays to 20 months jail for apostasy, the rights of Muslims to quit Islam has come under intense discussion over the Internet.

Littlespeck

ANOTHER six Christians have been arrested in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia as part of a new crackdown

On August 19, three other Eritrean Christians were arrested, known only bytheir first names of Gabayu, Kebrom and Mesfin. There are reports of more arrests, but these have not been confirmed.

There is particular concern for Mr Buliamin, a Christian whose passport say she is a Muslim. This means he could face the charge of apostasy from Islam, the penalty for which is death under Sharia law.

Domini

I do not care to share planet with perpetrators of this another example of Islamic madness. It is an abomination that practices comparable to the Spanish Inquisition take place in the twenty first century.

Danish troops to liberate Afghan Christian?

2006-03-22T21:39:00.000Z

From Jyllandsposten, the Danish newspaper that published the cartoons, there is this article from yesterday on Danish political reactions to the news on the brave Afghan apostate, Mr. Abdul Rahman. Translation follows:

Demands for Danish action of liberation
By KRISTOFFER PINHOLT
The government must avoid, that a 41 year old Afghan convert is condemned to death by a court in the Afghan capital, Kabul. It will take a political majority over the government.

»The government must act on this issue and show that Denmark is at the forefront in the fight for human rights and an international community of law. That is why we are in Afghanistan. If necessary the Danish troops in the country must liberate Abdul Rahman, and Denmark should offer him asylum. This matter underlines the necessity of fighting Sharia law, wherever you find it«, says political spokesman on foreign affairs, Naser Khader, of the "Radikale Venstre" party (left to center wing).
Abdul Rahman was arrested a month ago, after having been reported by his family, all orthodox Muslims. If he is convicted the Afghan President, Hamid Karzai, must sign the sentence of death.
"Dansk Folkeparti" (right wing) threatens Afghan President
»I could not care less about the country's laws and rules. In a certain manner we are an authority in Afghanistan, and the President must avoid an execution, or we promise trouble. If not the Americans, English and Danes were in the country, President Hamid Karzai would within 5 minutes lie maltreated by a road side. I have no doubts he knows what this is about, and he has no choice but to obey orders from the allies on this issue«, says political spokesman on foreign affairs, Søren Espersen.
Head of "Socialistisk Folkeparti" (socialists), Villy Søvndal, condemns the trial against Abdul Rahman and has stated in a letter to foreign minister, Per Stig Møller (conservatives), that if the execution is fulfilled Denmark should withdraw its military forces from the country.
"Venstre" (right wing liberals, the main government party) desires to see how the matter develops, before the party will decide whether the Danish soldiers shall stay in Afghanistan.

What is really interesting here is that the "Radikale Venstre" a small left to center party, long time supporter of the left wing, and an extreme proponent of political correctness - in this matter is asking for military intervention! This gives me the hope, that when the abuses on human rights reaches a sufficient level, the support against the Islamists is bigger than what has seemed the case so far.

BTW, Mr Naser Khader is a moderate Muslim to be admired, that has been outspoken in his criticism of the Islamist during the entire Khartoon crisis and has indeed started an organisation of Muslim moderates to prove that only a rather small percentage of Danish Muslims support the Imams in Denmark in their quest to have Denmark condemned.

The UN withdraws "commercial"

2006-03-21T22:07:00.000Z

The UN has decided to withdraw this poster from its buildings and websites. This after a Danish complaint to the UN High Comissioner for Refugees. The removal is happening at this moment.

One can but note that the UN in this case has surpassed itself. The message of this poster is clear. I know Lego has complained - hopefully they will take the UN to court.

The organisation is of this moment of absolutely no value. It should either be closed or drastically redone. I have earlier written about the UN's blatant Muslim viewpoint:

Why does the point of view of Muslims receive so much attention?

See also this: There's something rotten at the U.N.

What is the UN doing about the situation in Sudan? Nothing!

What has the U.N. said or done about the Abdul Rahman case? Nothing!

Hat tip to Michelle Malkin for this answer to the UN:

Reader James Draper e-mails an alternate poster for the U.N., which he also sent to the UN's High Commissioner for Human Rights:

Thanks to reader kepiblanc (from comments): Here is the Danish version of the UN scam :

The hypocrites say "Hands off Iran"

2006-03-21T11:50:00.000Z

Another very great drawing from Cox & Forkum. They are incredible!

Back again

2006-03-21T10:53:00.000Z

I am sorry for the long absence. It was due to a big workload while traveling. But now I am back and look forward to continue blogging as the world has not improved much since I last wrote something. And yet....

The Slithering Treacherous Pusillanimous Dhimmi once known as Laila Freivalds, Swedish foreign minister (proof of dhimmitude) has resigned.

Maybe there is still hope for Sweden. She yesterday admitted she knew the Swedish Foreign Ministry contacted the ISP, Levonline, of the right wing party, Sverigedemokraterne, to have the party's website closed down as the party had shown a Mohammed drawing on its website. Laila Freivalds had until now rejected any knowledge of the issue.

According to her own statement, she relalizes she has become a problem for the party and has decided to resign.

About time I say. Not only is she a liar - she is a threat to democracy and even has shown incompetence at more than one occasion - not the least of them being the tsunami in Indonesia, where 500 Swedes died.

I hope she will bring down the whole government as they deserve! Because I do not for one moment believe she acted on her own to get the secret police (SÄPO) to talk to the ISP. Many more government officials were involved. Sweden has a rotten democracy where free speech has been severely limited.

Read older postings on the matter: War on Freedom,
The Swedish are political correct, One track mind,and Swedish Politicians defending Islamists by all means?

Cartoons

2006-03-09T22:25:00.001Z

Briefs

2006-03-09T20:54:00.000Z

Sorry for the hiatus. I have been out travelling and combined with a heavy work load, I have had no possibility of blogging. It is cold in Northern Europe, so I am glad to be back here in Lisbon. Next week I go to Denmark for 5 days. They promise down to 15 degrees centigrade below.

Lots of interesting stuff going on. In Denmark the rail road authority no longer permits commercials about books about Islam to be posted at rail road stations. The book in question is a dhimmi book written by the worst Danish dhimmi university professor - a so called expert on Muslim affairs. He has been unbearable on TV, where he has been invited more than anybody else. Ironic that his book can not be promoted. The ban did not last more than six hours, whereafter the government lifted it. The freedom of expression had to be protected. But it just shows how the Battle of Khartoon has limited freedom. After all government employees with the responsibility for safety at railroads now can not be too careful, they believe.

Also from the Danish news: In Germany the Quran is being taken to court:
A broad alliance of grass-roots movements have gone to the prosecutors of several states to hinder the dissemination of the Quran. According to the indictment, the Quran is not just a religious and historic book, but also a political book, which is incompatible with the constiution.
Indeed. Read about it at Agora (hat tip!).

More from Agora: In a statement to The Guardian today, The British Home Secretary criticises Anders Fogh Rasmussen of not responding to a letter sent by the Ambassadors to protest the Muhammed cartoons. Read more about the dhimmi minister here.

Muslims are asking the French to cancel 1741 play by Voltaire:

"A municipal cultural center here on France's border with Switzerland organized a reading of a 265-year-old play by Voltaire, whose writings helped lay the foundations of modern Europe's commitment to secularism. The play, "Fanaticism, or Mahomet the Prophet," uses the founder of Islam to lampoon all forms of religious frenzy and intolerance.

Read more at Pia Causa (hat tip!).

PC is rampant in the US and at El Beep (Brotherhood's Broadcast Corporation). The terrorist attacks in US, albeit small, deserve to be mentioned. Read here at Michelle Malkin's blog about how the facts are hidden from the Public. Read the MSM and stay ignorant.

Also at the Infidel Bloggers Alliance, (hat tip to jonz) describes how the BBC now has added to its PC dictionary compared to what I had described in an earlier post (BBC by dictate calls terrorists for bombers or misguided criminals):

Newsflash! The BBC knows Who Was Behind The India Bomb Attack: Militants!

Ok well if you scroll down it does mention Lashkar-e-Toiba which the BBC is in great pains to avoid describe as Islamic. It does say "in the past such attacks have been blamed on Islamic groups, particularly those fighting Indian rule in Kashmir". So from that article I still don't know what Lashkar-e-Toiba's political or religious affiliations are!

Read more here

Finally a must watch video. I found this at the Anti Dhimmi blog (big hat tip to freedom)

"Jihad" Training Inside the U.S.:
Interview with Former Terrorists

Here's another video you don't want to miss. Click here.
(17.8 MB, .wmv format)

The interview was aired on 16 February 2006 on US TV Channel CN8. The name of the program is "Your Morning" and Greg Coy is the host.

Three former terrorists speak out about among other things, the systematic instillation of hatred in kids all across the Islamic world. One of them, Walid Shoebat, says that Islamism poses the world a threat that needs to be dealt with as firmly as with Nazism. And remember: an ex-terrorist is saying this!

Continues here

Do check out my fellow Infidel Bloggers Alliance member Epaminondas blog Villagers with torches. The articles are as usual to a point being brilliant, funny and full of justified indignation.

Oh, The Humanity!

2006-03-06T23:23:00.000Z

Thousands of innocent dead people do not face the followers of the religion of death. At most it is an excuse for infamous rejoice. But try to make a caricature criticizing the Islamist fanatic's violence and all Muslims, even the moderates, are deadly offended. I ask the moderates: Why did you not let your righteous anger show when people plunged to death in desperation from the Twin Towers, not to mention the dead school children, babes!, from Beslan - all killed in the name of your precious religion? Why did you not demonstrate then?

Crossposted at The Ultimate Insult.

An ultimate insult

2006-03-06T23:19:00.000Z

The ultimate insult to an Islamofascist. A "Danish". Or as they now are called in Muslim countries: "Roses of the Prophet Mohammed" since the boycott of Denmark started. An Iranian baker said about the new name: "This is a punishment for those who start misusing freedom of expression to insult the sanctities of Islam". (I wish my baker was this eloquent).

Hmmh. I think this is rather insulting to Mo and me. Mo surely does not want his name to be misused associated to all kinds of products? What about "Wrath of the Prophet Mohammed" for insect killers. Or "Sweet breath of Mo" for mouthrinse?

And I would choke everytime I were to eat a "Rose of Mo the Prof".

Crossposted at The Ultimate Insult. A new blog for Islamist ultimate insults. We will ridicule until they give up!! Let me know if you would like to post on The Ultimate Insult.

The Bloody Borders Project

2006-03-06T00:58:00.000Z

Over at the most excellent blog Gates of Vienna a new kind of project has been created: The Bloody Borders Project. It is well worth a visit!

Excerpts from the background of the project

Back in December, the Baron wrote a post in which he mentioned Samuel Huntington’s well-known quote about Islam’s “bloody borders”. The imagery was graphic and startling. In my ignorance, I asked the Baron if he could draw a simple map delineating these boundaries. I wanted to be able to see these “fault lines”. I wanted to see if a pictorial representation would help me better to understand the reach and the destruction of what the Islamofascists have wrought.

The Baron reminded me that no such map could be made. Islamic terrorism takes place among, between, and inside many countries. The constant, vicious, lethal storm of Islamist violence stretches from equatorial Africa and the Barbary coast, across the Holy Land and the Arabian heartland, snaking through the mountains and plains of South Asia, making its way along the littoral of Indochina and the Indian Ocean, and ending in the archipelagos of the Pacific Rim.

The Baron explained the difficulties inherent in making any map encompassing what I wanted to see. To be accurate, his cartography would have to include the ongoing quotidian massacres that have occurred and continue behind the screen erected by the legacy media, the screen on which they display the bread and circuses meant to trivialize and distract. What does it matter that thirty Hindus died in Kashmir today, or that 350 women were raped in Darfur, when there is the serious matter of Paris Hilton videos to be considered?

As Providence would have it, late in December the Baron discovered a series of tables at The Religion of Peace (TROP) showing the location and casualties for every Islamic terrorist attack since September 11th. “All you have to do,” I told the Baron, “is put those little numbers on a map.” He didn’t say anything for a long time. Now I understand his silence; in fact, I find it rather admirable. As it turned out, what I wanted took him well over a hundred hours of his spare time to complete… The things we do for love…

Petition for Manifesto

2006-03-06T00:31:00.000Z

You can here sign a petition for the Manifesto by Salman Rushdie and 11 co-signers: Sign petition

Please do!

Nonie Darwish

2006-03-05T23:27:00.000Z

Yet, another brave Arab woman and with no less than a childhood in Gaza. Mrs. Nonie Darwish is now American.

Read this article to understand her. But be warned - it is forceful, convincing and to the soul. All the other articles on her homepage are also worth reading. Look at the archives section where most of the articles are found.

I remember going to a Palestinian preschool and kindergarten and the word "Jew" instilled terror and dread into the core of my very being. A Jewish person was portrayed like less than human, a dog, an evil alien from outer space who was about to destroy the world. Jews, they said, had no home because they were cursed by God and the main mission of Islam was to get rid of Jews. As a small child I remember once, at a Palestinian school, asking "why?" The response was that I was a traitor for asking this question and would go to hell, and for the rest of the day the girls in the school did not talk to me. The education was mainly political, teaching kids the hatred of Israel. Arabic poetry was recited daily, with tears in Palestinian children's eyes, on how Palestine was taken from them and how they will retaliate and even die to get it back.

More Mrs. Darwish:

Hat tip to Raw Data for the comment and the blog Kesher Talk. At Kesher talk there is this must read fine posting on the film, "Paradise Now", a glorification of two suicide bombers. Mrs. Darwish delivers a strong critique. It just might win an Oscar tonight - in which case I shall never watch anything to do with the Oscars ever again.

Nonie Darwish harshly criticized the Palestinian film about two suicide bombers for "putting a human face on the murderers of children."

She warned that if Paradise Now, one of five nominees in the best foreign film category, wins an Oscar at Sunday evening's ceremony, "it will send a message to young Arabs that we are accepted in the West and we have won."

Life and Limb

2006-03-05T23:07:00.000Z

Another great one from Cox & Forkum. Don't miss the accompanying text.

Another video by a Muslim woman

2006-03-05T20:42:00.000Z

Maryam Namazie is one of the 12 co-signers of the Manifesto. She is born in Iran and fled in 1980 with her family. She was educated in the US and now lives in the UK. A declared communist, she criticizes Islam for a living. Another Muslim woman with balls.

If you want to watch the video, the clip with Ms. Namazie starts 60 seconds inside this Danish reportage. Also watch the other videos from her homepage. She even has a blog. Now, mind you. I am no great lover of communists, but I will make an exception for this brave lady.

Ms. Namazie among other points state:

Islamism is one of the great dangers of the world today. [...] It is wrecking havoc. It decapitates people and it still stones women to death in the 21st century. It imposes sexual apartheid wherever it rules. [...] The Cartoon Crisis is just another wake-up call for Europe, that needs to stand up to this movement.

The clip only lasts a couple of minutes and the reportage turns Danish again. There is then a small debate by two Danish experts in Islamist studies.

The pretty girl is a collaborator of another co-signatory, Mehdi Mozaffari, to the manifesto, who lives in Denmark. She has made a comparison of Islamism and fascism and sees many points of similarity and the same danger. She also mentions that Mussolini created a law to prohibit hurting religious feelings. According to Mussolini to create moderation and dialogue.

To counter the standpoint of the danger of Islamism is the black shirt dhimmi in the studio. He teaches at the Copenhagen university. According to him Islamism is most of all a democratic and social movement. Terrorism is mainly caused by the secular Muslim regimes keeping Islamism suppressed. He does of course not see any similarity to fascism.

I sent this e-mail to Ms. Namazie:

From: Peter von Schlichtningen
Date: Mar 5, 2006 9:46 PM
Subject: Your debate on Danish TV, DR1, 5.3.2006
To: m.namazie@ukonline.co.uk

Ms. Namazie,

I saw the small Interview on Danish TV and I have read some articles on your website and your blog. Of course I have also read the Manifesto.

I congratulate you on your viewpoints and your bravery and eloquency in speaking up against Islamofascism. Bravo!

People like you will one day be a principal cause of freedom and justice for all people in the world no matter their gender, sexual preference, religious or political conviction.

Best Regards,

Peter von Schlichtningen
schlichtningen@gmail.com
hmmh.blogspot.com

Short description of two of the co-signers of the Manifesto

Mehdi Mozaffari
Mehdi Mozaffari, professor from iranian origin and exiled in Denmark, is the author of several articles and books on islam and islamism such as : Authority in Islam: From Muhammad to Khomeini, Fatwa: Violence and Discourtesy and Glaobalization and Civilizations.
Maryam Namazie
Writer, TV International English producer; Director of the Worker-communist Party of Iran's International Relations; and 2005 winner of the National Secular Society's Secularist of the Year award.

Latest cartoon from Jyllandsposten

2006-03-05T07:23:00.000Z

Do you have one made of asbestos?

Cartoonist daughter to be kidnapped?

2006-03-02T20:11:00.000Z

Update III:
See new posting at Agora (hat tip)

Something fishy is going on...

Update II:
Mr. Rohde is now apologizing for his statement, but there still have been no clear indications of what happenened. Most probably it was just a childrens prank.

I would like to know whether Mr. Rohde lied or not. He says he misunderstood.

Mr. Rohde has made a big mistake here and has lost political credibility. This was extremely stupid in this important hour.

If it can teach us anything, that is, we must check our facts, and when we have no facts, we must clearly state so.

Update:
Unfortunately I am no longer sure about the veracity of this story. After all the 12 men might have been children of around 11 years old. They might even have been girls and might not have been more than 6-8. Please see the comments. Hat tip to Freedom for the comments with links. (have a look at her nice blog Anti-Dhimmi also).

Even if this event as I hope proves false, it still does not change the fact that the 12 Motoonist all have a death sentence hanging over their heads. They are in hiding and have protection, but they may possibly never have normal lives again. To describe the degree of dhimmitude in Denmark, I can inform, that they even have little work. This is shameful.

Also the Motoonists ask to have as little attention about themselves as possible. They then hope the whole thing will be forgotten. This is the advice of the Danish authorities. I think they are wrong. Mr. Rushdie still has a death sentence hanging over him. They are all better served by standing up and lead the fight against the Islamist.

I will stay on top of the story. So stay tuned.

Updates end.

In this article in Jyllandsposten, we learn 12 Muslim men appeared at cartoonist's daughters school to get hold of the daughter. The cartoonist is one of the 12, who originally drew Mohammed.

Fortunately the daughther was not in school that day. The police secret intelligence has no comment. All the cartoonist are living in hiding.

And so it continues. The barbarians have judged and sentenced with no trial. The judges (*) live in their respectice Muslim countries and have not been prosecuted.

It is INADMISSABLE. We must stand together in the West and do something about this!

(*) I am talking about the clergy members issuing fatwas and the people offering prizes for the killing.

No comments

2006-03-02T13:08:00.000Z

Arab women have balls

2006-03-01T18:44:00.000Z

MUST SEE VIDEO

If you are like me, then you wonder why no moderate Muslims speak up? There have been very few. If they really are the majority - then we should hear more. Either the press is not giving attention to the moderates or the Arab women got all the balls.

A small while ago I made a posting on this must see video by an Arab woman in Bahrain telling the local men her devastating opinion. She talks about the bad treatment of women and pedophilia.

And now this must see video from February 21, 2006 on Al-Jazeera, An Arab-American psychologist, Mrs. Wafa Sultan. A few excerpts:

The clash we are witnessing around the world is not a clash of religions, or a clash of civilizations. It is a clash between two opposites, between two eras. It is a clash between a mentality that belongs to the Middle Ages and another mentality that belongs to the 21st century. It is a clash between civilization and backwardness, between the civilized and the primitive, between barbarity and rationality. It is a clash between freedom and oppression, between democracy and dictatorship. It is a clash between human rights, on the one hand, and the violation of these rights, on other hand. It is a clash between those who treat women like beasts, and those who treat them like human beings. What we see today is not a clash of civilizations. Civilizations do not clash, but compete.

[...] My colleague has said that he never offends other people's beliefs. What civilization on the face of this earth allows him to call other people by names that they did not choose for themselves? Once, he calls them Ahl Al-Dhimma, another time he calls them the "People of the Book," and yet another time he compares them to apes and pigs, or he calls the Christians "those who incur Allah's wrath." Who told you that they are "People of the Book"? They are not the People of the Book, they are people of many books. All the useful scientific books that you have today are theirs, the fruit of their free and creative thinking. What gives you the right to call them "those who incur Allah's wrath," or "those who have gone astray," and then come here and say that your religion commands you to refrain from offending the beliefs of others?

[...] Brother, you can believe in stones, as long as you don't throw them at me. You are free to worship whoever you want, but other people's beliefs are not your concern, whether they believe that the Messiah is God, son of Mary, or that Satan is God, son of Mary. Let people have their beliefs.

[...] The Jews have came from the tragedy (of the Holocaust), and forced the world to respect them, with their knowledge, not with their terror, with their work, not their crying and yelling. Humanity owes most of the discoveries and science of the 19th and 20th centuries to Jewish scientists. 15 million people, scattered throughout the world, united and won their rights through work and knowledge. We have not seen a single Jew blow himself up in a German restaurant. We have not seen a single Jew destroy a church. We have not seen a single Jew protest by killing people. The Muslims have turned three Buddha statues into rubble. We have not seen a single Buddhist burn down a Mosque, kill a Muslim, or burn down an embassy. Only the Muslims defend their beliefs by burning down churches, killing people, and destroying embassies. This path will not yield any results. The Muslims must ask themselves what they can do for humankind, before they demand that humankind respect them.

I admire Mrs. Wafa Sultan. Here is and older story from Dhimmi Watch.

Answer to Mr. Paul Belien

2006-03-01T15:58:00.000Z

I mostly agree with the eloquent and thoughtful Paul Belien at the Brussel Journal. The quality of all their postings is amazing.

But I do not entirely agree with his latest article: Anti-Jihad Manifesto Misses the Point

He talks of the Manifesto I posted below this posting.

Some excerpts:

[...]While Islamism can be considered the perversion of religion, the three scourges of the 20th century – Fascism, Nazism (National-Socialism) and Stalinism – were secular ideologies. Neither Adolf Hitler nor Joseph Stalin were theocrats. It takes “French intellectuals” to use mankind’s experience with National-Socialism and Stalinism as motivation for a rallying cry to oppose “religious totalitarianism” and a call for “secular values,” which they hold to be “universal values.”
There is no doubt that Islamism is a threat to freedom and human dignity. However, as we have warned before, some people – undoubtedly brave, but nevertheless mistaken – are prepared to destroy certain basic freedoms, such as freedom of education, in their fight against Islam and religion in general. The question has already been put here:

Is Islam dangerous because it is a religion? Do Muslim values differ from European values because the latter are rooted in Christianity or because they are secular? These questions are at the heart of the debate in Europe today.

In our opinion, man is a religious being. Secularism destroyed the Christian roots of Europe and, in doing so, created the religious vacuum that is now being filled by Islam. The manifesto warns against
[...]The Islamists and the secularists (including the priests and bishops among them) have more in common than the Islamists and the Christians (including the agnostics among them), because the latter acknowledge that at the heart of Christianity is the individual with his individual responsibility before God. Without Christianity, individual responsibility would not have become the centre of European civilization. It was the French Revolution that jeopardized this tradition and that became the root of collectivism, with its socialist, fascist, national-socialist and communist excesses. From this perspective even Jihadism is more a child of secularism than of religion.

Thank you, Mr. Belien, for another thought provoking article.

As an agnostic liberal-conservative I can certainly subscribe to the "second group is prepared to acknowledge the importance of the cultural traditions of the West, rooted in the Judeo-Christian values without which classical-liberalism could never have evolved."

I must admit - except for the super-natural parts - the bible is the basis for all my moral values. The general teachings of Jesus are obviously right. But so are other similar teachings. I am a man of not just the book, but books. I understand when you, Mr. Belien, theorize about the secular societies having no point of moral reference and a secular human being have no purpose in life. This would be true for an amoral human being.

But, frankly, as far as I can tell, the more religious a society appears - the more violent it is. Maybe this can be proven scientifically? I have no doubt that the creation of secular law has been an essential development in our civilization.

Truly religious people in my experience do live according to their faith. It is a personal and deep feeling. I respect such people as they often show remarkable qualities. They will not try to spread their faith by force but by example. But I do not find religion positive, when it is used an escapism or rejects all rational thought.

I would like to believe the human evolution goes towards atheists, agnostics and the enlightened religious - bound together by deeply felt moral values and philosophical thinking. As of course many atheists and agnostics also can find and create value in a meaningful life. By empiric evidence more so when compared to many so called religious people of our time and especially of the past. The atheists and agnostics I know are far more likely to be let into a hypothetic paradise than hypocrites preaching religion but not living religion. Of course moral codexes are of the outmost importance. Our secular societies fail miserably to teach our young even the most basic values. But did not the religious societies of yesterday fail as well? People of moral standing will agree moral formation starts in the family and that a broad education is essential.

Instead I think fanatism is the real current problem. Fanatic religion is based on the same as communism or fascism. A total blindness and conviction of the absolute truth. It is nothing but a vessel for the power-hungry to satisfy their sick needs - it is evil at play. It is something that has been repeated time and time again in history. This time a double whammy. Religious fascism or as we call it, Islamofascism.

Together facing the new totalitarianism

2006-02-28T20:32:00.000Z

Mr. Rushdie and 11 other international intellectuals have published the following manifesto in the french weekly magazine, Charlie Hebdo.

This manifesto is a very welcome addition to the debate. Many of these 12 intellectuals are of Muslim origin. Many are living a life in hiding.

Read the manifesto and a small description of the intellectuals in Jyllandsposten (fitting I think).

MANIFESTO: Together facing the new totalitarianism

After having overcome fascism, Nazism, and Stalinism, the world now faces a new totalitarian global threat: Islamism.
We, writers, journalists, intellectuals, call for resistance to religious totalitarianism and for the promotion of freedom, equal opportunity and secular values for all.
The recent events, which occurred after the publication of drawings of Muhammed in European newspapers, have revealed the necessity of the struggle for these universal values. This struggle will not be won by arms, but in the ideological field. It is not a clash of civilisations nor an antagonism of West and East that we are witnessing, but a global struggle that confronts democrats and theocrats.
Like all totalitarianisms, Islamism is nurtured by fears and frustrations. The hate preachers bet on these feelings in order to form battalions destined to impose a liberticidal and unegalitarian world. But we clearly and firmly state: nothing, not even despair, justifies the choice of obscurantism, totalitarianism and hatred. Islamism is a reactionary ideology which kills equality, freedom and secularism wherever it is present. Its success can only lead to a world of domination: man's domination of woman, the Islamists' domination of all the others. To counter this, we must assure universal rights to oppressed or discriminated people.
We reject « cultural relativism », which consists in accepting that men and women of Muslim culture should be deprived of the right to equality, freedom and secular values in the name of respect for cultures and traditions. We refuse to renounce our critical spirit out of fear of being accused of "Islamophobia", an unfortunate concept which confuses criticism of Islam as a religion with stigmatisation of its believers.
We plead for the universality of freedom of expression, so that a critical spirit may be exercised on all continents, against all abuses and all dogmas.
We appeal to democrats and free spirits of all countries that our century should be one of Enlightenment, not of obscurantism.

Bravo!

Briefs

2006-02-28T08:35:00.000Z

Today it is a holiday, carnival, here and I will write very little.

A lot of good posts on the Infidel Bloggers Alliance blog. Check it out.

Check out this posting from the wonderful blog of Tammy Bruce. Apparently Yale accepts ex-Taliban as students. Are they mad?! Is he inscribed in the "How to manage terrorism politically correct" course?

A fun post from the bright Michelle Malkin. Hands on! He-he-he.

A little news from good old Denmark. Finally the government (conservative) and the right wing government supporting party "Dansk Folkeparti (DF)" are waking up. They are killing the opposition. The socialist a few years ago had nearly 40% of the vote. Soon they will have less than 20. Poor socialists and culture radicals. Not!

The Prime Minister started out with a big article in the newspaper asking, "Where was the support for our democracy and free expression from companies, authors and the press?

It has been delicious to see who felt hurt by this true accusation. Usually I think the PM a bit too opportunistic, but finally he shows a bit of guts. The DF party went even further calling the attacks, by especially one ex prime minister, two ex foreign ministers and an opposition leader on the government and its handling of the cartoon crisis as well as attacks on the entire Danish society, for close to treason. Well done!

I can hear the spluttering from here over 2000 miles away.

In the EU parliament Holland (I love the Dutch these days) blocked the apologetic appeasing coward British and Spanish governments from making an EU declaration expressing a deeply felt apology because of the Cartoons. Also they wanted to express their support for The Slithering Treacherous Pusillanimous Dhimmi once known as Javier Solana.

In the end no apology and no gratitude to quislings. Just an expresssion of regret that the Muslims felt hurt (just like regretting somebody falling getting a bruise) because of the cartoons and expressing an absolute support of free speech. No stupid declarations on limiting freedoms not to hurt precious feelings of the Islamists.

Don't forget to support the people hiding from Islam in the west. In the process you will get a prestigious award. See here. It may seem a bit childish - and it is - but also it will ridicule the Islamists. This is a very potent weapon.

Also let us not forget the tally of Quislings. Give me those nominations.

Thinking of migration as you no longer can stand the spineless stand of you government and or spineless fellow citizens? Look for a citizenship in one of these proud countries:

Holland or Australia.

The Islamofascists are speechless. Once their false protests against racism and for multicultural societies fall on deaf ears what else do they have for an argument? Loyal fanatic islamist upstanding citizens? What a joke.

Kofi Annan, the über PC General Secretary of UN and the defender of all dictatorships has made the following declaration: Denmark should change its ways to accommodate its minority Muslim population. Right on, Sir Secretary. From now on Shari'a is the way of the Danish.

See here:

In his view, Denmark, the first country to publish the offensive caricatures, has recently acquired a significant Muslim population, and is not yet sure how to adjust to it.

Cartoonist fought Hitler

2006-02-27T03:31:00.000Z

Another hat tip to the great Tim Blair for this posting.

It is not the first time in history that cartoons create an uproar. Hitler definitely did not like a cartoonist by the name of David Low. The pacifist appeasers at the time tried to bring pressure on him to stop ridiculing a mad movement personified by Hitler.

Is it not strange how bad this looks today through the perspective of knowledge of the Nazis? On the other hand, now the same is happening all over again. The apologists still have not learned.

We of course have learned Sir David Low was a man of great perception and in his heroic effort did much to stop Hitler. It would be an honor to have known him. Sir David Low died in 1963. The appeasers and apologists have at most become infamous.

Replace Hitler with an islamofascist (or the Arab world) in the caricature below and it would be perfect for publication in the morning newspaper.

David Low, Evening Standard (8th July, 1936)

From a speech by Australian treasurer Peter Costello (I like Peter!) in 2002:

Whilst in some quarters in Britain Hitler was attracting admiration, for David Low, a natural democrat and liberal who distrusted totalitarianism, Hitler was a regular target of attack and ridicule.

Low's regular depictions of the Fuhrer caused enormous diplomatic problems for the British Government, but they were to prove remarkably prophetic. Throughout the decade he portrayed the German dictator as a ludicrous, vain, pompous fool with unbridled ambition.

In 1933 the Nazis banned the Evening Standard and all newspapers carrying Low's work because of a cartoon he had drawn depicting Germany's withdrawal from the League of Nations.

In 1936 during the Berlin Olympic Games Low received his first request to tone down his depiction of Hitler in the interests of "good relations between all countries".

In 1937 the British Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax visited Germany and met with the Propaganda Minister Goebbels, who told him that Hitler was very sensitive to criticism in the British press, and he singled out Low for attention.

Lord Halifax contacted the manager of the Evening Standard to see if Low could be toned down. He said:

"You cannot imagine the frenzy that these cartoons cause. As soon as a copy of the Evening Standard arrives, it is pounced on for Low's cartoon, and if it is of Hitler, as it generally is, telephones buzz, tempers rise, fevers mount, and the whole governmental system of Germany is in uproar. It has hardly subsided before the next one arrives. We in England can't understand the violence of the reaction."

His attempt to influence newspaper management was unsuccessful, so the Foreign Secretary then decided to speak with Low directly. At their meeting, this is how David Low described Lord Halifax's explanation.

"Once a week Hitler had my cartoons brought out and laid on his desk in front of him, and he finished always with an explosion. That he was extremely sore; his vanity was badly touched... So the Foreign Secretary asked me to modify my criticism, as I say, in order that a better chance could be had for making friendly relations... The Foreign Secretary explained to me that I was a factor that was going against peace.' `Do I understand you to say that you would find it easier to promote peace if my cartoons did not irritate the Nazi leaders personally?' `Yes,' he replied. `...I said, "Well, I'm sorry." Of course he was the Foreign Secretary what else could I say? So I said, "Very well, I don't want to be responsible for a world war. But, I said "It's my duty as a journalist to report matters faithfully and in my own medium I have to speak the truth. And I think this man is awful. But I'll slow down a bit." So I did."

Meanwhile Hitler within a month invaded Austria. Low felt vindicated and went back to his old ways. Low said:

"...I was good for about three weeks. Then Hitler bounced in and invaded Austria, showing that he had given our Foreign Secretary a run-around, had taken him for a ride. I considered that let me out, so I resumed criticism."

It was no surprise when after the war it was revealed that Low was high on the Nazi's death list.

It wasn't only Hitler complaining about Low. In 1938 Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain singled out Low while appealing to newspapers to temper their critical commentary of Germany. Chamberlain said:

"Such criticism might do a great deal to embitter relations when we on our side are trying to improve them. German Nazis have been particularly annoyed by criticisms in the British press, and especially by cartoons. The bitter cartoons of Low of the Evening Standard have been a frequent source of complaint."

David Low, Evening Standard (10th October, 1938)

A quote attributed to Sir David Low:

I have learned from experience that, in the bluff and counterbluff of world politics, to draw a hostile war lord as a horrible monster is to play his game. What he doesn't like is being shown as a silly ass.

May we all learn from that! Or the following may very well come true one day:

Extremist Cartoon Terrorists Are On The Loose

2006-02-27T00:46:00.000Z

Hat tip to the great Tim Blair, where I have taken the following ad verbatim. Don't forget to read the El Beeb (see link) article in full.

Call the police! Begin an inquiry! A cartoon has appeared, and the BBC is rocked:
Extremists have been blamed after a cartoon featuring the prophet Mohammed with a bomb in his turban was put up in a housing office in Oldham.

Extremists? Plural? It took more than one of these “extremists” to stick a cartoon on a noticeboard or wherever? How big was it?
The cartoon, which has sparked protests from Muslims worldwide since it was published in a Danish newspaper last year, appeared at First Choice Homes.

Managers acted quickly to remove it and have begun an inquiry.

Again with the plural. Exactly how many managers were involved? Were their actions approved by the First Choice Homes Cartoon Review Committee, and the Oldham Noticeboard Squad?
First Choice Homes - which runs the town’s council housing - said the matter had been reported to police.

Well, of course. Something like this, who knows where it could lead? Next the extremists will be subjecting offices to Andy Capp or Bristow.
Steve Yorke, its Director of Management and Operations, said many staff had been offended by the cartoon.

If only the Cartoon Review Committee had acted with greater speed. It’s awful that so many staff witnessed the cartoon before sufficient managers were rounded up to do something about it, but I guess it’s always best to proceed cautiously when dealing with ... a cartoon.
Greater Manchester Police said they were treating the incident “extremely seriously” and were worried the incident could affect “community cohesion”.

It’s a wonder the streets aren’t already awash with blood. I mean, a cartoon and all.

This is incredible!

I am shocked. Those extremist cartoon terrorists are everywhere. It is mayhem.

These cartoons are weapons belonging to the category called WMD, weapons of mass distribution.

I find them everywhere. To prove my point I have sent 12 emails, each with one of the Danish cartoons, to each of the following e-mail adresses. I did add the warning:

"Handle with extreme caution. It could make you laugh."

First Choice Homes Oldham

Housing Options
Email: fcho.housing.options@oldham.gov.uk

Housing Support
Email: fcho.support@oldham.gov.uk

Asylum Team
Email: fcho.asylum@oldham.gov.uk

Equalities and Community Cohesion
Email: fcho.asb@oldham.gov.uk

Customer Finance
Email: fcho.rents@oldham.gov.uk

The Islamic Brotherhood's Broadcasting Company

2006-02-26T17:42:00.000Z

The following I have taken directly from Infidel Bloggers Alliance member Jonz's own blog Drunken blogging (big hat tip!)

Another example of El Beeb's biased reporting.

When Muslims are killing Christians this is how the BBC tells us:

Nothing so vague when Muslims are the victims:

This is not to condone any violence, merely to show the biased reporting.

Dhimmi Watch notes that AP has been doing the same thing.

For how many Muslims is this true?

2006-02-26T11:11:00.000Z

According to a reader, Serge Trifkovic made this point in Sword of the Prophet. I can believe that after reading this excellent must read article by the same author. I will buy and read the book.

Slithering Treacherous Pusillanimous Dhimmies

2006-02-25T14:23:00.000Z

This is the roll of traitors to the cause of the West in the conflict with the Fanatic and Fundamentalist Islamists.

They all have educations and should know better. But they have chosen to betray the West and either have a common cause with the Fanatic Muslims or they have been brainwashed.

A third possibility is stupidity. But experts on this issue claim such stupidity is not possible and still have the IQ to talk. And believe me these people talk and even campaign far too much.

Their argument is dangerous and is one of tolerance, appeasement and apologism. They claim there is a need for dialogue with the Islamists. The best role is that of dhimmitude. The total submission to Muslim ideals - even to the point of rejecting democratic ideals, our freedom, our religion and our very own culture. The submission is very similar to the one of European pacifists to Hitler before WW2. And we all know the result of that.

Anybody listed on this roll will be given the life long title of:

Slithering Treacherous Pusillanimous Dhimmi

Another title for them would be:

Quislings

Never shall their names be mentioned again without one of these two titles.

They are urged to leave the West and go live with the fanatics forthwith.

I urge always to use the graphic when discussing these people. Either small or large size (by clicking on the graphics you can see more):

The list of shame

This is the roll of traitors to the cause of the West against the war on the Fanatic and Fundamentalist Islamists.

They all have educations and should know better. But they have chosen to betray the West and either have a common cause with the Fanatic Muslims or they have been brainwashed.

A third possibility is stupidity. But experts on this issues claim such stupidity is not possible and still have the IQ to talk. And believe me these people talk and even campaign far too much.

Their argument is dangerous and is one of tolerance, appeasement and apologism. They claim there is a need for dialogue with the Islamists. The best role is that of dhimmitude. The total submission to Muslim ideals - even to the point of rejecting democratic ideals, our freedom, our religion and our very own culture. The submission is very similar to the one of European pacifists to Hitler before WW2. And we all know the result of that.

Anybody listed on this roll will be given the life long title of:

Slithering Treacherous Pusillanimous Dhimmi

Another title for them would be:

Quislings

Never shall their names be mentioned again without one of these two titles.

They are urged to leave the West and go live with the fanatics forthwith.

I urge always to use the graphic when discussing these people. Either small or large size (by clicking on the graphics you can see more):

The list of shame

The Slithering Treacherous Pusillanimous Dhimmi once known as Javier Solana, "European foreign minister", proof

The Slithering Treacherous Pusillanimous Dhimmi once known as Göran Persson, Swedish PM - proof

The Slithering Treacherous Pusillanimous Dhimmi once known as Laila Freivalds, Swedish foreign minister - proof

The Slithering Treacherous Pusillanimous Dhimmi once known as John Simpson of El Beeb(BBC) - proof

The Slithering Treacherous Pusillanimous Dhimmi once known as Ken Livingstone, Red Ken is Mayor of London - proof

The Slithering Treacherous Pusillanimous Dhimmi once known as Jack Straw, foreign secretary of the UK - proof

The Slithering Treacherous Pusillanimous Dhimmi once known as Matti Vanhanen, Finnish PM - proof

The Slithering Treacherous Pusillanimous Dhimmi once known as Diogo Freitas do Amaral, foreign minister of Portugal, proof

The Slithering Treacherous Pusillanimous Dhimmi once known as Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, ex prime minister of Denmark, proof

Please send me e-mail or leave a comment for nominees for the list. I need their name and their crime. Unfortunately this list may become very large.

The Kiss of Judas, 1985, by Gottfried Helnwein

Dear Fanatic Muzzie Islamist

2006-02-25T12:44:00.000Z

Now I believe it is time to show solidarity with the people in the West hiding from Islamist death threats.

I am specifically talking about Mr. Rushdie, Ms. Ayaan Hirsi Ali, The editors of Jyllandsposten, the 12 cartoonist and all others in a similar situation. These people must hide and/or be protected the rest of their lives because of fanatic Islamist.

But I hope they do not hide in fear but in pride. They have managed to gain up to 1,3 billion Muslims as their enemy. This is quite some achievement.

They have been given Fatwas. And we are not just talking about any ordinary Fatwa. Not one of these puny Fatwas on religious principle, like whether menstruating horses are ok for riding on Tuesday. Those any half decent Mufti will pull out of his sleeves any given Monday.

Nope we are talking about the Fatwa of death. It is the somber and most serious of all awards. The ultimate of honor bestowed on an enemy: You pissed me off!

In the UK you may be bestowed with a Knight Commander of the order of The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (see medal). People will call you Sir. But quite frankly? Enemy of enemies? How many modern Sirs, do you know who have been killed or are in hiding? Right!

No, the death Fatwa is the Award of awards. The upcoming medal is too big to be carried by an elephant and the title on par of a minor deity.

I want this prestigious award. And I will teach you how to get it as well. Just do as I. Make e a drawing of Mohammed. Insert it into the document below. Change the signature and send the whole document as an e-mail to:

Governments of:
Saudi Arabia: info@saudiembassy.net
Syria: syrembas@syrembassy.net
Libya: lbyun@undp.org
Iran: INFO@IRAN-EMBASSY.ORG.UK
Pakistan: info@pakistan-embassy.org
Lebanon: info@lebanonembassyus.org
Egypt: embassy@egyptembdc.org
Indonesia: made.mastra@embassyofindonesia.org

Important: Please forward the following to all members of your government and clergy:

Dear Fanatic Muzzie Islamist,

I hereby request a Fatwa against me. For be it known to all – I have drawn the Muslim prophet Mohammed, who ain’t a prophet, as far as I am concerned.

Furthermore due to the lack of my drawing skills or in spite of them he came out ugly!

I don’t want no ordinary Fatwa either. No miserable cease or desist Fatwa. No, Sir, I desire a real death Fatwa corresponding to the great sin of having drawn Mo himself.

In addition I knew I was not supposed to make a drawing or otherwise insult your sorry fundamentalist asses. That must surely count as an aggravation when issuing my Fatwa? Could it maybe be done as an express job? I like the good quality paper with the golden lining and the signature in blood by an über-Mufti/-Imam/-Mullah – if you would be so kind.

If you have any doubt about the quality of my insults – please consult my blog or e-mail me. I will not mind to become personal, if I find you deserving.

Hoping for a speedy process and to hear from you soon,

I remain yours truly,

Peter von Sclichtningen
http://hmmh.blogspot.com

The more Fanatics you can send to - the better. I have been unable to find contacts for Al Qeada, Hamas and Hezbollah. But I am still looking.

The results are guaranteed. Just watch the news.

After you make a picture of the prophet and you have a website - you can with pride use the following graphic (click here for more and in different sizes):

If you want to, you can send me an e-mail or leave a comment after you have drawn Mohammed and I will publish your name and an eventual website here.

List of persons, who have drawn Mohammed:

Kurt Westergaard, Jyllandsposten cartoonist, 30.9.2005

Jens Julius Hansen, Jyllandsposten cartoonist, 30.9.2005

Franz Füchsel, Jyllandsposten cartoonist, 30.9.2005

Arne Sørensen, Jyllandsposten cartoonist, 30.9.2005

Annette Carlsen, Jyllandsposten cartoonist, 30.9.2005

Erik Abild Sørensen, Jyllandsposten cartoonist, 30.9.2005

Rasmus Sand Høyer, Jyllandsposten cartoonist, 30.9.2005

Claus Seidel, Jyllandsposten cartoonist, 30.9.2005

Poul Erik Poulsen, Jyllandsposten cartoonist, 30.9.2005

Peder Bundgaard, Jyllandsposten cartoonist, 30.9.2005

Bob Katzennelson, Jyllandsposten cartoonist, 30.9.2005

von Schlichtningen, hmmh.blogspot.com, drawing, 25.2.2006

NB. The last of the 12 cartoonists, Lars Refn, with a cartoon in Jyllandsposten did not draw Mohammed. He just drew a schoolboy in front of a blackboard. On the blackboard is written in Persian: "The journalist of Jyllandsposten are a bunch of reactionary provocateurs".

It is not fair but he has a Fatwa against him too.

Developments

2006-02-25T08:17:00.000Z

There is so much going on - I do not know where to start. There is so much there should be written but I lack the time. I have a family and a company to run also.

But I can not stay quiet. It may not seem so to most people, but we are at war. A non-conventional war, which is much more dangerous. At the moment the external enemy is not doing much except working in the background to intimidate the West and creating internal strife in Iraq - for some reason they desire civil war. Probably they are working on scenarios or actually preparing how to kill Western women and children as well, but at the moment it seems rather quiet.

Our internal enemies on the other hand are working hard and successfully to take over the situation and once for all dominate freedom.

Today in Denmark the Danish Government asked the brave Dutch government please to cease criticizing the slithering treacherous pusillanimous dhimmi once known as Javier Solana. This not to escalate the conflict. The Dutch braves will comply to save the Danish dhimmies for more fear. The Dutch minister of foreign affairs, Bernhard Bot, will hopefully save his rightful ire for another occasion.

There are now only two nationalities worth having: Dutch or Australian. Otherwise dimmitude is the prevailing government standard.

The day before yesterday in the European parliament the President of the Arabic League gave a speech about how we Europeans must make writing on the wall to such a degree that never ever will we offend the Muslims again.

I am sure they all gave him an applause. But thank Allah the TV cut of the transmission before then.

I did get to see him laugh and play with a number of EU politicians. Especially I noticed the groveling of the ex Danish prime minister, a socialist called Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, who said:

"I disagree with the humiliating and insulting drawings. They show a lack of respect and are stupid. Please let us make a new alliance with the Arabic countries." and "We must be more responsible than we usually are concerning the free press' extremely stupid drawings."

In Denmark he has talked about nothing else the last week or so. The socialists are loosing a lot of voters. Of course the appeasing apologist socialist ignorants don't have a clue why.

May I suggest a collection for a one trip ticket for Poul to Iran? There the press does as told. And I am sure Poul will fit right in and be allowed to express his heart out.

The president of the Arabic League (he likes Hamas)

Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, ex Danish prime minister

BTW the MSM have hardly reported on this event in the European Parliament. Maybe they were afraid it would be like a red cloth in front of the public?

Yesterday it was announced that Denmark will reopen its embassy in Syria. It was burned as you know. Why on Earth does Denmark have an embassy in Syria? Message to the Danish Dimwit Dhimmies: They do not like you! What is worse, is that the Syrian ambassador to Denmark now probably also will come back.

This was just some of many dhimmi reactions in Europe the last few days. If it were not for the Dutch and Australian stances - I believe the Muslims could invade the West with no fear what so ever.

Fatwa me button

2006-02-24T14:48:00.000Z

I have being playing a bit around with some graphics to bolster my protest against the Islamist threat.

You may copy these graphics and use them whereever. The more the better. The idea is to use them to ridicule the Muslim hipocrisy. If you have any ideas for a design - please let me know - and I might just make one. Also let me know if you need one with a different background color. They are all transparent, but still the bacground color is important. For some of the graphics with shadow effect, very much so. :)

First of all the graphics for the internal dhimmi enemy (creme bg 750kb):

Small:

Green:
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Black:
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Small:
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White:
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Small:
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Here I just played around with some facts:

A jpeg:

This one is button with some animated text.
24kb animated transparent gif (white background)

Small

24kb animated transparent gif (green background):
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24kb animated transparent gif (black background):
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small:
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Another version of the button
269kb animated transparent gif - creme color

269kb animated transparent gif - black color
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269kb animated transparent gif - green color
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269kb animated transparent gif - white color
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Another animation: Fatwa Me! - I drew the prophet
218kb animated transparent gif - creme color

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Another animation: Fatwa Me! - I drew the prophet - black
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Another animation: Fatwa Me! - I drew the prophet - green
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small:
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Another animation: Fatwa Me! - I drew the prophet - white
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small:
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I had another one but it made my computer reboot. Must be a problem with firefox and large animated gifs. At your own risk:
http://static.flickr.com/24/103815759_c7e70274bb_o.gif

Four great postings at IBA

2006-02-24T06:11:00.000Z

Four must reads from the Infidel Bloggers Alliance (IBA).

Leftie Stops By IBA - His Conclusion? The Right Is Winning The Cartoon Wars
Excerpt:

Those on the Left or in the Muslim community who think the Cartoon Wars have benefited either of us are terribly mistaken. The Cartoon Wars have been a shot in the arm for the Right in the US, Israel and Europe and they have been catastrophic for Islam. Sure, the Muslim Brotherhood, the Salafis, the jihadists and all of their primitivist ilk are milking this thing for everything they can.

But for moderate, sane Muslims, for the Muslim World in general, and for the Left in the West, the Cartoon Wars are bad news.

The Left has ended up siding with a bunch of primitivist, misogynistic, reactionary, Medievalist dolts who have been slaughtering our comrades for decades now.

Are The Ents Awakening?

Excerpt:

The Vatican has issued a statement calling for Muslims to be more tolerant and less hypocritical:

“If we tell our people they have no right to offend, we have to tell the others they have no right to destroy us,” Cardinal Angelo Sodano, the Vatican’s Secretary of State (prime minister), told journalists in Rome.

“We must always stress our demand for reciprocity in political contacts with authorities in Islamic countries and, even more, in cultural contacts,” Foreign Minister Archbishop Giovanni Lajolo told the daily Corriere della Sera.

Reciprocity — allowing Christian minorities the same rights as Muslims generally have in Western countries, such as building houses of worship or practicing religion freely — is at the heart of Vatican diplomacy toward Muslim states.

The Devil and the Deep Green Sea
Excerpts:

That this is so predictable makes it all the more depressing. If the British government allows fanatic mobs to scream for beheadings and murder then the government cannot be surprised when rightists use official passitivity as a campaign issue. If the media rigorously surpresses the cartoons then of course the BNP is going to use them to mobilize voters or just for the shock value and the free press.

The British and other European governments and media cannot simultaneously appease Islamists and marginalize the "far-right." The very act of appeasing Islamists empowers the nationalists. Any compromise with the nationalists would infuriate the Islamists. And I'm sure the Europeans will soon find a way to anger them both.

Since WWII Europe has fought to rid itself of the "far-right, nationalist" Devil. Now Europe is increasingly trapped between the descendents of that Devil and the Islamist deep green sea.

I wish the other Western governments would have the same guts (or are they just afraid of loosing voters?)

Australian Government: If You Believe In Sharia, Go Live Somewhere Else
Excerpt:

Islamic Friendship Association president Keysar Trad said Mr Costello had unfairly singled out Muslims and was promoting division and Islamophobia.

But Mr Howard said Mr Costello’s comments were “fundamentally accurate”. “He’s not trying to stir up hostilities with Islamic people any more than I was when I made some comments three days before the Cronulla riots,” Mr Howard told Southern Cross Broadcasting in Melbourne.

Mr Costello said Muslim leaders should be pledging themselves and their followers to Australian values before they started criticising him.

“Rather than try and censure me ... they should make a clear statement that they subscribe to all of these views - that they are loyal to Australia, they respect the rights and liberties of others, they believe in democratic government and they believe that all Australians should live unequivocally under the one law made by the Australian parliament - and endorse these values and recommend them to their followers,” Mr Costello told Southern Cross Broadcasting.

Check out the debate at the Brussels Journal

2006-02-24T06:05:00.000Z

You should check out the debate at The Brussels Journal. The comments do get out of hand at times, but all articles are from excellent to brilliant. A must read.

Here a comment from a Poul Nielsen to a Muslim:

Muslim outrage huh.
OK ... let's do a little historical review. Just some lowlights:

- Muslims fly commercial airliners into buildings in New York City. No Muslim outrage.

- Muslim officials block the exit where school girls are trying to escape a burning building because their faces were exposed. No Muslim outrage.

- Muslims cut off the heads of three teenaged girls on their way to school in Indonesia. A Christian school. No Muslim outrage.

- Muslims murder teachers trying to teach Muslim children in Iraq. No Muslim outrage.

- Muslims murder over 80 tourists with car bombs outside cafes and hotels in Egypt. No Muslim outrage.

- A Muslim attacks a missionary children's school in India. Kills six. No Muslim outrage.

- Muslims slaughter hundreds of children and teachers in Beslan, Russia. Muslims shoot children in the back. No Muslim outrage.

- Let's go way back. Muslims kidnap and kill athletes at the Munich Summer Olympics. No Muslim outrage.

- Muslims fire rocket-propelled grenades into schools full of children in Israel. No Muslim outrage.

- Muslims murder more than 50 commuters in attacks on London subways and busses. Over 700 are injured. No Muslim outrage.

- Muslims massacre dozens of innocents at a Passover Seder. No Muslim outrage.

- Muslims murder innocent vacationers in Bali. No Muslim outrage.

- Muslim newspapers publish anti-Semitic cartoons. No Muslim outrage.

- Muslims are involved, on one side or the other, in almost every one of the 125+ shooting wars around the world. No Muslim outrage.

- Muslims beat the charred bodies of Western civilians with their shoes, then hang them from a bridge. No Muslim outrage.

-Newspapers in Denmark publish cartoons depicting Mohammed. Muslims are outraged and tell us how peacefull they are! - Right !

All European life died in Auschwitz

2006-02-23T04:25:00.000Z

This is a translation of an article from a Spanish newspaper written by a Catholic Spaniard before the "Danish Cartoon" exercise.

It is not a recent article, but it does make you think. But please do remember that not all 20 million Muslims in Europe have "brought us stupidity and ignorance, religious extremism and lack of tolerance, crime and poverty due to an unwillingness to work and support their families with pride." Unfortunately it is not entire untruthful either. And I wish Europe, as many other countries do, would start to make demands on the quality of people who are invited to come live here.

All European life died in Auschwitz
By Sebastian Vilar Rodrigez
---------

I walked down the street in Barcelona, and suddenly discovered a terrible truth:

Europe died in Auschwitz. We killed six million Jews and replaced them with 20 million Muslims.

In Auschwitz we burned a culture, thought, creativity, and talent. We destroyed the chosen people, truly chosen, because they produced great and wonderful people who changed the world.
The contribution of this people is felt in all areas of life: science, art, international trade, and above all, as the conscience of the world. These are the people we burned.

And under the pretense of tolerance, and because we wanted to prove to ourselves that we were cured of the disease of racism, we opened our gates to 20 million Muslims, who brought us stupidity and ignorance, religious extremism and lack of tolerance, crime and poverty due to an unwillingness to work and support their families with pride.

They have turned our beautiful Spanish cities into the third world, drowning in filth and crime. Shut up in the apartments they receive free from the government, they plan the murder and destruction of their naive hosts. And thus, in our misery, we have exchanged culture for fanatical hatred, creative skill for destructive skill, intelligence for backwardness and superstition.

We have exchanged the pursuit of peace of the Jews of Europe and their talent for hoping for a better future for their children, their determined clinging to life because life is holy, for those who pursue death, for people consumed by the desire for death for themselves and others, for our children and theirs.

What a terrible mistake was made by miserable Europe.

Toonophobia

2006-02-22T21:18:00.000Z

Hat tip and yet another thanks to Cox & Forkum for the brilliant drawing and the text below...

At Slate.com earlier this month, Christopher Hitchens made some good points in Cartoon Debate: The case for mocking religion. (via Bill Keough on HBL List)

[T]here is a strong case for saying that the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, and those who have reprinted its efforts out of solidarity, are affirming the right to criticize not merely Islam but religion in general. And the Bush administration has no business at all expressing an opinion on that. If it is to say anything, it is constitutionally obliged to uphold the right and no more. ...
I, too, have strong convictions and beliefs and value the Enlightenment above any priesthood or any sacred fetish-object. It is revolting to me to breathe the same air as wafts from the exhalations of the madrasahs, or the reeking fumes of the suicide-murderers, or the sermons of Billy Graham and Joseph Ratzinger. But these same principles of mine also prevent me from wreaking random violence on the nearest church, or kidnapping a Muslim at random and holding him hostage, or violating diplomatic immunity by attacking the embassy or the envoys of even the most despotic Islamic state, or making a moronic spectacle of myself threatening blood and fire to faraway individuals who may have hurt my feelings. The babyish rumor-fueled tantrums that erupt all the time, especially in the Islamic world, show yet again that faith belongs to the spoiled and selfish childhood of our species. ...

The question of "offensiveness" is easy to decide. First: Suppose that we all agreed to comport ourselves in order to avoid offending the believers? How could we ever be sure that we had taken enough precautions? On Saturday, I appeared on CNN, which was so terrified of reprisal that it "pixilated" the very cartoons that its viewers needed to see. And this ignoble fear in Atlanta, Ga., arose because of an illustration in a small Scandinavian newspaper of which nobody had ever heard before! Is it not clear, then, that those who are determined to be "offended" will discover a provocation somewhere? We cannot possibly adjust enough to please the fanatics, and it is degrading to make the attempt.

And here's Hitchens' latest: Stand up for Denmark! Why are we not defending our ally? (via Michelle Malkin)

Expulsion of Imams from Denmark

2006-02-22T01:40:00.000Z

The Muslim Imams who traveled around the Middle East spreading lies about Denmark are now risking being expelled from Denmark.

Several political parties have suggested that those of the Imams without Danish citizenship should be expelled.

Today the right wing Danish party, Dansk Folkeparti, suggested the Imams who have received Danish citizenship should also be expelled. This is much more complicated. Only if proven traitors is this possible.

However, the government is not interested in any immediate action not to create new tensions in the crisis at the moment.

I for one think, they should all be expelled. Furthermore receiving Danish citizenship should be much more complicated and demand a fluency in Danish, knowledge of Danish culture and laws, and a signature on a contract swearing to uphold those laws and to give loyalty to the Denmark.

Slideshow of cartoons

2006-02-22T00:34:00.000Z

I have created a slideshow with the 12 original cartoons and 90 or so other caricatures relating to the Cartoon War.

The link to the photodex slideshow is here: http://www.photodex.com/sharing/viewshow.html?fl=2532984&alb=0

It is around 12MB and with music (drums). You can right click on the show and choose full screen and other options if you so desire.

It will need the Photodex presenter to be installed. It will suggest so automatically.

Two boys hung in Iran

2006-02-21T17:17:00.000Z

Here stand Mahmoud Asgari and Ayas Marhoni. Two boys of only 17 and 18.

They have been condemned to death by hanging. Before that they have each received 228 lashes by a whip.

Mahmoud's and Ayas' crime? They were homosexual.

Rest in peace - we will not forget you. Boys killed by the religion of peace.

Hillarious Fictitious Journalism

2006-02-20T08:32:00.000Z

"I make up stories about the Middle East because nothing in the newspaper is worth reading"

Read it. Hillariously funny.

Excerpt:

Weekly Horoscopes: February 19-25
Aries (3/21-4/19)
No one but you will survive when Pakistan decides to send its army for a "friendly fire" display at your airport. Because you are the only survivor, you shall be the only one to realize that your country's alliance with Pakistan was in fact a bad idea.

Taurus (4/20-5/20)
Righteous as ever, you think you have the patience of Job. This confidence will be put to test at the end of the week when Bin Laden shows up to your house wanting to take a shower and use your daughter's razor to shave his beard.

Gemini (5/21-6/21)
No one will believe you when you say Hamas mistaking kidnapped you over the weekend thinking you were Danish. To prove this to others, check your ass for a branding of the word Lurpak.

Cancer (6/22-7/22)
You will get arrested early this week when the Ayatollah finds your graffiti on the side of his house. Next time, don't sign your name and telephone number at the bottom.

[...]

Women's and children's rights

2006-02-20T06:38:00.000Z

Watch the movie on http://terror-watch.net/. The movie is on the front page and starts automatically.

An Arab lady explaining it good to Muslim men. Unbelievable, Can anybody verify if pedophilia is accepted and common as the lady indicates? Is it really permitted by Sharia and/or tradition?

I am shocked.

(alternative link to movie in case it is removed from front page on Terror Watch: http://terror-watch.net/media/womans_rights_islam.wmv)

A must read

2006-02-20T06:11:00.000Z

The Brussels Journal has published another great article, Dairy Producer Who Boycotted Israel Gets Boycotted by Muslims, on current events in the Cartoon War.

exerpts:

What is the role of Egypt in all this? The West considers Egypt to be one of its most reliable Arab allies. But is it? For four months the Egyptian government has been actively inciting hatred against Denmark. Yesterday the Copenhagen newspaper Politiken published official Egyptian documents which testify to Egypt’s prominent role in the hate campaign that was organized by Islamist imams after twelve Muhammad cartoons were published in the Danish daily Jyllands-Posten last September [see for yourself how “offensive” they are: here, halfway down the page].

[...]
In an interview with the Norwegian Christian newspaper Korsets Seier the same Paul Johansen said:

“Islam is defying the West. Muslims will not be satisfied until they have taken over Europe. The method they use is […] to gain power over the media through censorship. Muslims use certain individuals who are very clever in dealing with the media and we will end up being controlled.”

He explained how this is done: Muslims control positions such as those of interpreters for the media. Today, he said, Muslims have almost full control over what the Norwegian media report from the Muslim world. Since he speaks Arabic himself Mr Johansen notices every day how news stories are being distorted so that they are more favourable to Muslims. “We are being systematically misinformed,” he says. Another key area controlled by muslims is that of studies about Islam. “At the University of Oslo you can take courses where the Bible is criticized. However, no such courses are availabe on Islam. Those who teach about Islam at the university are not aware of what Islam is really about. They teach about how Islam is interpreted, but they never go directly into its sources. What is being taught at Norwegian universities is a version of Islam that Muslims want the West to see.” Since 1994 the number of Muslims in Norway has increased from 35.000 to 100.000.

Cartoons

2006-02-20T06:07:00.000Z

From the Danish blog, MINUT, click on image to see details

Pure genius, again, from Cox & Forkum

Islamist terror in Nigeria

2006-02-19T20:53:00.000Z

In Nigeria an outgoing tragedy yesterday caused 16 dead Christians (there are reports of up to 50 dead by now). They were killed by Muslims in a so called protest against the Cartoons. Three children and a priest were among the victims.

Actually it is part of an ongoing process of attacking Christianity. A warning what will happen in other countries when Muslims become a large part of the population.

Nigeria is a country of contrasts and conflict. Like Sudan, Nigeria has a Muslim north and a Christian south. However, unlike Sudan, in Nigeria it is the Christians who are the majority.

Just as Sudan is the largest country (2,503 890 square kilometres) in Africa, so Nigeria is the largest nation (120 million people in 490 ethnic groups). In fact, Nigeria has more Christians, and more Muslims, than any other country in Africa.

A Muslim woman walks past the ruins of a church building wrecked by Muslim mobs.
Christians have been severely persecuted in Nigeria's northern states. Literally hundreds of churches have been destroyed and thousands of Christians murdered in recent years.

Michelle Malkin has written about the conflict as well here (hat tip) and has found an article with this chronology of the attacks on Christians.

Many references to the conflict can be found. I find it interesting that many mention the hidden agenda of the Muslims. Here is one very interesting article.

Excerpts:

THE ISLAMIC AGENDA

Also well circulated in Nigeria is The Programme adopted by the World Islamic Organisation at a conference, in 1974, in Mecca:

a. Muslim organisations should set up centres to resist Christian missionary activities.

b. Islamic radio and TV stations should be established.

c. All Christian activities, no matter the secular expression, should be stopped.

d. Christian hospitals, orphanages, schools and universities should be taken over.

e. Muslim organisations should set up Intelligence Centres about Christian activities.

f. All Christian literature should be banned in Muslim countries.

Another conference of Islamic countries followed with these designs:

At the Islam in Africa Conference in Abuja (1989) the Resolution issued at the conclusion of the conference declared their determination: "to show the whole world that Nigeria is truly an Islamic nation … to support the establishment and application of the Shari'a … to ensure the appointment of only Muslims into strategic national and international posts of member nations. To eradicate in all its forms and ramifications all non-Muslim religions in member nations (such religions shall include Christianity …) to ensure that only Muslims are elected to political posts of all member nations. To ensure the declaration of Nigeria (the 24th African and 46th world member of the OIC) a Federal Islamic Sultanate
… to ensure the ultimate replacement of all Western forms of legal and judicial systems with the Shari'a in all member nations … to write the history of Islam in Africa and of Muslims and their institutions from authentic Islamic viewpoint … to propagate the knowledge of Islam throughout the continent … to call on Muslims to review the syllabi in the various educational institutions with a view to bringing them into conformity with Islamic ideals, goals and principles and to serve the needs of their community … to encourage the teaching of Arabic language, which is the language of the Qur'an as well as the lingua-franca of the continent and to strive for the restoration of the use of Arabic …to establish strong economic ties between African Islamic countries and other parts of the Muslim world in order to facilitate mutual assistance and co-operation … based on Islamic principles." Issued 28 November 1989 (1 Jumada al Awwal, 1410).

To make intentions clear, a so called Muslim Brotherhood declared

"ALL THE CHRISTIANS MUST BE SHOT"

The Muslim Brothers issued this statement which declared as their objective: "The establishment of the Shari'a of Allah and the destruction of Kafir from the face of the earth … it is this Kafir system which gives these slaves (Christians)… It puts them on same level, it even raised the Christians higher than the Muslims … it is also necessary that we rise and destroy oppressors and the Kafir system … Ulamas should rise up and take the lead for the annihilation of Kafir … oh we are tired of Kafir system of government, Jewish Laws and decrees, and the rest acts of worship of Christianity on us … all the Christians …. must be brought out to public and be shot. From now on, Thursdays and Fridays must be work-free days … 'fight them until there remains no tumult (fitna) on the face of the earth and religion (way of life) becomes for Allah alone'. Qur'an"

But of course we must respect the Muslims and their message of peace. Let us enter into dialogue and mutual understanding. Those vicious cartoons are of course a symbol of Christians and Jews persecuting peaceful Muslims.

Hypocrisy! Muslim terror, Muslim persecution of Christians, Muslim racism against Jews, Muslim dictatorships, Muslim slavery of women, Muslim hate of homosexuals, Muslim aggression, Muslim torture and on and on it goes.

We have had it.

New confrontations

2006-02-19T20:37:00.000Z

As expected new demonstrations today. In Indonesia demonstrants are attacking the American Embassy protesting caricatures of the Prophet. It must be because of the brave American bloggers as practically nobody else in the US has dared showing the cartoons.

In Turkey huge demonstrations with tens of thousands of demonstrators protesting against Denmark, Israel and the US - again because of the cartoons. By now all we rational and peace loving people of course know that the cartoons are a Jewish conspiracy backed by the US.

In Pakistan demonstrations have been pretty much stopped by a government fearful of loosing control. The Danish ambassador has finally left - as he is no longer feeling safe.

Much worse in Nigeria 16 Christians have been killed by gangs of peace loving Muslims. It is a part of the ongoing Muslim fight against Christianity in Nigeria.

Meanwhile in the same report you can read Muslims in London were also demonstrating against the horrible cartoons. They carried placards: "Europe lacks respect for others," stated one placard. "Don't they teach manners in Denmark?" asked another.

Nope, no manners in Denmark. We always look to Muslims in Nigeria for guidance.

Taji Mustafa, a spokesman for the Muslim Action Committee, added that the cartoons were reminiscent of attacks on Jews in European publications in the 1930s.

"Now there is a demonization of the Muslim community, so we have to speak up to prevent something like the Holocaust from happening," he said.

I for one am getting a bit confused? I thought the holocaust did not happen and the Jews never were attacked? Get your stories right, please!

BTW - according to a poll, 40% of Muslims in the UK want Sharia law. Moderates - sure!

The Danish news today all report that diverse experts and religious spokesmen believe the worst has passed in the Cartoon crisis. I am not that sure. But let us see.

Briefs

2006-02-19T00:26:00.000Z

Check the Washington Post Sunday. An interview with Mr. Rose the Danish editor deciding to publish the cartoons: Why I Published Those Cartoons

I finally found a picture of the Italian Minister showing the t-shirt he is wearing. It is hard to see; but with a little imagination:
He is of course now resigned because of his brave act.

What is this woman thinking? Easy to imagine she and Hitler would be great companions.
Islamofascist is such an appropriate term

Muammar Gaddafi: One Day Islam May Rule Europe

Tripoli. In his first public statement after the braking out of the scandal with the cartoons with Prophet Muhammad the Libyan Leader Col. Muammar Gaddafi announced that one day the Islam will disseminate its power over the European countries, the web edition of Libya
Todayreports. In his statement Gaddafi calls those who had published the cartoons “slanderers who disseminate religious hatred”. He went on criticizing European schools that teach the children that the Muslim Prophet was not a messenger of Allah but a liar.
According to Gaddafi the riots in the poor suburbs of Paris last year were “only the beginning of the armed struggle of the Muslims against discrimination in Europe”. “Probably one day Europe will be subordinated to the Islam”, Col. Gaddapi claimed, cited by the publication.

Europe subordinated? Let us thank the "coronal" for being himself and indiscreetly stating the Muslim dream loud for all to hear.

Europe subordinated? Over my dead body. Even though I know left wing appeasing apologist ignorants will do their best to make schools teach our children that the Muslim Prophet was the messenger of Allah and Jesus but a secondary prohet. Everything in the name of mutual understanding and respect.

Read this good article: Love Thy Enemy: The Twilight of Freedom of Speech
Excerpt:

In the face of the intimidation and murder of European authors, film makers and politicians by Islamic militants, a few European newspapers have the courage to defend their freedom of speech: they publish twelve cartoons to test whether it's still possible to criticize Islam. They discover it isn't. Muslims riot, burn embassies, and demand the censorship and death of infidels. The Danish cartoonists go into hiding; if they weren't afraid to speak before, they are now.
How do our leaders respond? Do they declare that an individual's freedom of speech is inviolable, no matter who screams offense at his ideas? No. Do they defend our right to life and pledge to hunt down anyone, anywhere, who abets the murder of a Westerner for having had the effrontery to speak? No--as they did not when the fatwa against Rushdie was issued or his translators were attacked and murdered.

From the bright Michelle Malkin (hat tip). This will blow your mind:

AL QAEDA'S BENEFITS PACKAGE

And it is no joke.

Speaker Malik Zulu Shabazz at peaceful demonstration against Denmark in the USA.

"If 3,000 people perished in the World Trade Center attacks and the Jewish population is 10 percent, you show me records of 300 Jewish people dying in the World Trade Center…We’re daring anyone to dispute its truth. They got their people out."

During a protest in front of the B’nai B’rith building in Washington, D.C. (April 20, 2002), Shabazz led chants of:

"death to Israel," "the white man is the devil," and "Jihad." Shabazz also said, "Kill every goddamn Zionist in Israel! Goddamn little babies, goddamn old ladies! Blow up Zionist supermarkets!"

At the National Press Club in Washington, DC (October 31, 2001):

Zionism is racism, Zionism is terrorism, Zionism is colonialism, Zionism is Imperialism, and support for Zionism is the root of why so many were killed on September 11.

We have to make it plain that Zionists control America, lock stock and barrel, the European Jews have America under control, lock, stock, and barrel, the media, foreign policy.

Crop cirles in France. Even the extra-terrestials are entering the cartoon war now:

Double standard

2006-02-18T18:18:00.000Z

Another great Cox & Forkum caricature.

Jihad Hackers

2006-02-18T16:40:00.000Z

Since the Cartoon Jihad started a number of Danish websites and blogs have been attacked and som defiled. I have seen numbers around 2000. Many death threats have been received.

I have been told by people who should know, that most of the attacks are rather primitive. Anybody willing to hack can after a few hours reading and downloads do so. But the threat is only to insufficiently protected systems. Do yourself a favor and protect your networks and servers.

There is a co-ordinated western response going on but it is hindered by the language barrier as well as the fact as there are relatively few Muslim websites. Also it is tempered by western usual reluctance to enter into conflict. Relatively few Muslims have access to the Internet and the technical expertise is generally speaking very low. This can not be a surprise, as the Muslim World has made no contribution to speak of to world civilization for the last 500 years. The worst threat is by Muslims educated and living in the west.

Read more about Jihad hacking (cyber-terrorism) here (hat tip to Michelle Malkin):

Anyway, in a certain way the Cartoon Wars have started. The clashes of civilizations are on.

But Epaminondas at his blog Villagers With Torches has a brilliant solution. Check out his other posts as well. Hillarious, well written and informative.

Rushdie: West Underestimates Role of Sexual Fears in Islamic Violence

2006-02-18T15:56:00.000Z

I just found an very interesting article on the blog: A deeper look. This explanation is as good or bad as any other I have seen concerning the irrational and barbaric behaviour we see in some Muslims.

A must read. By the way, Mr. Rusdhies wife is beautiful. I am sure this picture will increase the frustration of Muslims.

Mr. Rusdie - a hero of free expression and of the free world.

A picture taken 16 May 2004 shows British-Indian author Salman Rushdie and his wife Padma Lakshmi arriving for the projection of a movie at the Cannes Film Festival. Rushdie said the West has failed to grasp how much of Islamic terror is rooted in men's fear of women's sexuality, in an interview to be published 19 January 2006 in German magazine "Stern". AFP PHOTO/BORIS HORVAT

Animated critique

2006-02-18T08:17:00.000Z

This is a very politically incorrect movie. It also does not represent my views on the majority of Muslims. But it does make some good points on the extremism of Islam and the Cartoon Jihad in general and it is funny.

Hat tip to Pim's Ghost at Infidel Bloggers Alliance.

Warning. Contains obscene language and blasphemy.

The movie can be seen here or click on the picture.

Rioters torch Italian consulate in Lybia

2006-02-17T23:18:00.000Z

This is probably because of the Italian minister wearing t-shirts with a picture of Mohammed.

Update:
Indeed the demonstrations are about the t-shirt supposedly with one of the cartoons on it. CNN does not mention it. Just as it does not show the 12 cartoons. How can people watching CNN make any informed opinion? This is censorship and it is ridiculous.
Update end

Update 18.2.2006
CNN eventually got its act together and report the reason of the riots is Lybia. But no cartoons shown. I wish I could find a picture of the ex-minister wearing his t-shirt.

Ex-minister, yes. He has resigned after discussing it with his party leader. What a shame. I grant he has provoked - but to make him responsible for the barbaric acts of Arabs is Lybia is far out. I salute thee, Mr. Roberto Calderoli.

Calderoli said he had offered his resignation to Premier Silvio Berlusconi to stop "the shameful exploitation which in these hours has been directed against me".

In Libya the Minister of Security and the chief of police in Benghazi has been fired for being to violent against the protestors.

I did not notice any violence beyond, what we are used to seing in Arab countries. More probably the real reason was for not letting the rioters destroy the Italian Consulate completely and in the process slaughter a few Italian diplomats.
Update end

Breaking news from CNN:

TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) -- Libyans protesting the Prophet Mohammed cartoons set fire to the Italian consulate in Benghazi on Friday in a riot that left 11 people dead or wounded, Libyan security officials said.
An Italian consular official, Antonio Simoes-Concalves, said nine protesters had been killed and several more had been wounded as armed police clashed with a crowd of more than 1,000 demonstrators.
Libyan state television showed a part of the consulate building on fire, and firefighters trying to extinguish it.
The Italian Foreign Ministry confirmed that the first floor of the building had been set on fire after the crowd charged into the grounds of the consulate late Friday. In a statement in Rome, the ministry said the consulate was being protected by Libyan security forces.

Brief

2006-02-17T18:33:00.000Z

Friday prayers are about to start and that always gives extra demonstrations and violence in the Muslim countries. I gather it must be those oh so peaceful mullahs, muftis and imams of the religion of peace, who do their best to preach peace - but nobody listens!

I know the feeling.

Meanwhile in Teheran in Iran the followers of peace are burning crosses in front of the Danish Embassy.

In Denmark nothing has been burned so far. It is illegal to burn stuff in the street. All the smoke is just a nuisance and somebody could get hurt.

The nice and peaceful people in Pakistan are also remonstrating.

A peaceful cleric has offered a bounty of 500,000 rupees ($8,400), while a jewelers association was putting up $1 million, and others were offering $17,000 plus a car. The bounty is for whomever kills the cartoonist. The ignorants have of course not seen the cartoons and do not realize it was 12 different cartoonists, who each drew one cartoon. Read about it here. I have heard unconfirmed rumors a minister in Pakistan is also asking for cartoonist death. They do have nuclear weapons - so that might be a real threat.

The evil, violent and murderous cartoonists in Denmark are together with their families hiding under police protection. As there now are quite a few bounties - the least one not being the 100 kg of gold a Taliban militia leader has promised - imagine collecting from him...

The ambassador of Pakistan in Copenhagen has been recalled and the Danish embassy in Pakistan has been closed. I wonder why Denmark has an embassy in Pakistan? Must be for the gung-ho flag industry?

Friday prayer is coming up - sure to bring more peaceful news. Stay tuned.

2006-02-17T15:19:00.000Z

Yet another great article from The Brussels Journal. It is long but well worth reading.

Banning the Quran

"The controversy over the Danish cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad has generated plenty of hypocritical commentary from politicians and other public figures in attempts to convey an impression of moderation and neutrality. In most cases they do so by taking up the quarrel in the middle and condemning both the “insensitivity” of the cartoonists and the “overreaction” of the Muslim world, both alleged instances of “extremism.” They expect us to believe that there is a moral equivalence between the exercising of a fundamental right (freedom of expression) and the attempt to abolish this right."

"[...]A well-known Belgian novelist (Kristien Hemmerechts), a noted feminist and cultural relativist (who has spoken in favour of female circumcision), stated that since the Muslims are so sensitive to the cartoons, the latter should not have been published. Typically, the liberal sympathisers of Muslim “sensitivities” do not seem to notice how childishly selfish the Muslim position is. For centuries and until today, Islam has ordered the destruction of everything that is sacred to other religions, starting with the 360 idols in the Kaaba (including Jesus and Mary) smashed to pieces by Muhammad himself, down to the Bamian Buddhas destroyed by the Taliban in 2001, the weekly vandalising of Hindu temples in Bangladesh, or the destruction of Christian churches in Iraq during the last couple of months. In many cases, moreover, not only the places of worship but the worshippers too have been assaulted. What an arrogance for Muslims, with their heritage of iconoclastic insensitivity, to put up this show of indignation for a handful of harmless cartoons. And now we are being expected to feel pity for those poor touch-me-nots?"

"[...]Fortunately most Muslims do not take the Quran literally. Their common sense, as well as human inertia and immediate self-interest make them focus on their own life’s business rather than on the struggle against the infidels. When pressed for a Quranic justification of this Islamically lax conduct, they may invent some conveniently soft and non-literal interpretation of the more militant verses, or even (before ignorant Westerners) deny their existence altogether. And so they get on with their lives much like their non-Muslim neighbours do."
"[...]However, this does not render the Quranic injunctions against the infidels innocent. Of the hundreds of dedicated Muslims who committed acts of terror in the last couple of years, a handful may have been temperamentally violent and predisposed to committing such acts regardless of their religion. They may be the “evil people” whom President George W. Bush blamed for the 9/11 attacks in his bid not to implicate Islam. But many others have crossed the threshold into terrorism through the teaching of the Quran and the example set by the Prophet. After all, they understand the Quran as nothing less than God’s own revelation. Unlike the ephemeral cartoons, which have not motivated a single act of violence against Muslims in the months since their publication, the Quranic injunctions are intended to be taken seriously."

Fact

2006-02-17T14:50:00.000Z

I think it is worth mentioning that in Saudi Arabia if a person has been killed or caused to die by another, the latter has to pay blood money or compensation, as follows:

100,000 riyals if the victim is a Muslim man
50,000 riyals if a Muslim woman
50,000 riyals if a Christian man
25,000 riyals if a Christian woman
6,666 riyals if a Hindu man
3,333 riyals if a Hindu woman

Source: The Wall Street Journal, April 9, 2002

Cool animated cartoon

2006-02-17T09:18:00.000Z

"Gevoelig" means "sensitive" in Dutch.

You can watch this nicely done animated cartoon here. Just press the button.

The artist's name is Joep Bertrams. He won an award last year for being the best Dutch political cartoonist of 2005.

Hat tip to: Brussels Journal.

New drawing of Mohammed

2006-02-16T18:33:00.000Z

"How can we advance in this crusade
with Their lack of solidarity?!!"

Remember you saw it first here! The picture that really got the Islamist fundamentalists going. This cartoon was published today in Visão(*) a Portuguese weekly magazine. And boy is it politically incorrect. I love it.

Just look at this drawing. Allah/God and Mohammed sitting on a cloud, symbolizing heaven, reading Jyllandsposten (the Danish newspaper starting the whole thing) together and laughing their hearts out. Presumably they are looking at the cartoons. One of the cartoons is actually on the frontpage and can be seen. Also notice God is wearing a medallion with Arab writings. I do believe it is Mohammed and God. Though it could be Allah and God, but the common understanding is that God and Allah is the same deity.

Underneath the cloud fires are burning symbolizing hell and maybe also our mundane earth. In hell we have a fanatical Islamist suicide bomber - notice the bombs around his waist - holding a sword and looking to heaven complaining he gets no solidarity in this crusade. Crusade at least a double entendre of course. The terrorist, for that he seems to be, is nearly completely cowered with only his hands, eyes and mouth showing. He wears a green headband, green being considered by Muslims the most pure color - and also the color of terror organizations such as Hamas.

This is the most wonderful blasphemy – no piety here. Allah and Mohammed both drawn with their faces fully visible and laughing hard to tears, no less, in spite of their Muslim subject's trouble on Earth. The fanatical obviously on route to hell. Why are they laughing? Because the situation, the Islamists, and the cartoons are all ridiculous? Maybe all of those or more.

I wonder what will happen now? Portugal is now obviously also a country involved having a drawing of its own. Only 4 of the original 12 cartoons have been published in Portugal by a newspaper, Público, the 1st of February I just found out. But those were the Danish cartoons. Now Portugal has one by itself. The government can not be happy. I wonder, if the Iranians still think, Portugal is the country in Europe with the most correct reaction?

(*) I read this magazine, which is rather left wing, to get a broad coverage. But once again I get surprised in this crisis of freedom. Some people I never would have thought would battle for freedom, do. And others I admired and were sure would do battle for freedom, don't, some even favor censorship and submission. In the time of crisis you always learn who you can count on, I suppose.

From Jyllandsposten today

2006-02-16T15:49:00.000Z

The "gentleman" on the picture is of course the leader of Iran. Do you think this image in any way will hurt the sensitivities of the Iranians? Nah. Surely not.

Synthetic truth

2006-02-16T15:09:00.000Z

Synthetic truth now carries a concise tag: Politically correct.

I have this phrase from The Brussels Journal article, The Way We Think . The article also states:

The politically correct that is divorced from the facts is more than a pious lie prescribed by someone's social creed. PC creates an artificial reality.

If you bear over with me, I would like to perform a childish experiment, where I will exaggerate the use of politically correct (PC) terms, to illustrate how PC dilutes or even hides truth.

My PC dictionary:

Terrorists - bombers
Bomber - silence and order challenged individual
Blow up - sudden change
Quran - Book of Peace
Bible - Book of Good
Christians - Believers of the Book of Good
Muslims - Believers of the Book of Peace
Dead - metabolically different
Political - amorally gifted
Evil - morally different

Now imagine this:

Future politically correct history lesson in school (chronologically gifted overly structured trivia in the place where pre-men and pre-women "discover themselves"):

Two morally different silence and order challenged believers in peace suddenly changed 100 believers of good and left them metabolically different

Thus we arrive at the synthetic truth of an artificial reality. Another term for a lie.
Don't forget if you don't adhere to this newspeak then you are a crimethinker. And here we get to one of the essentials of politically correct language. It actually impairs your thinking.

New PC dictionary entry

Politically correct - brain impaired

Do you think I am far out? The BBC actually uses the terms "bomber" and/or "misguided criminals" instead of the word terrorist, which can "carry emotional or value judgments".

It is so Orwellian that it is scary.

No Danish Apology for the Cartoons

2006-02-15T17:00:00.000Z

The Danish Prime Minister: Anders Fogh Rasmussen

Another fantastic picture from Cox & Forkum. A nice article from the NYT. And for once I think the Danish PM did say exactly the right thing. Maybe the government is finally calming down and thinking clearly. Having the Islamofascist hate you and your way of life is a proud achivement!

"I think we have to insist on respecting our core values, including freedom of expression, gender equality for women and men, and a clear distinction between politics and religion."

and

"Mr. Rasmussen reiterated that there would be no Danish apology for the cartoons"

YES and YES. Finally I can say with some little pride again: I am Danish!

From The New York Times: Dane Sees Greed and Politics in the Crisis. (via TIA Daily)

Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Thursday that attempts by European companies in the Middle East to disassociate themselves from Denmark or Danish products were "disgraceful."
At the same time, Mr. Rasmussen tried to shield the Bush administration and some of Denmark's partners in NATO from accusations that they had been tardy and overcautious in coming to Denmark's defense in the crisis, which he attributed more to attempts by Iran and Syria to cause diversions in the Middle East than to a few satirical cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad in a Danish newspaper. ...

Mr. Rasmussen did not refer to a particular business organization or country. But his response came in reply to a question referring to attempts in the Arab world by companies associated with Nestlé, the Swiss food giant, and Carrefour, the French retailer, to distance themselves from Denmark. Danish industry estimates it has lost more than $55 million in sales in the Middle East since the furor began a week ago. ...

Mr. Rasmussen reiterated that there would be no Danish apology for the cartoons. He brushed aside any suggestion that Denmark's policies requiring immigrants to accommodate themselves to Danish tradition were at fault, and asserted, "We are on the right track." More broadly, he said, "I see a very clear tendency that other European countries will go in our direction." ...

"Denmark is a liberal country," he said. "We do believe in individual liberty and freedom. People can live according to their own customs. However, I think we have to insist on respecting our core values, including freedom of expression, gender equality for women and men, and a clear distinction between politics and religion."

What Will Europe Really Do?

2006-02-15T14:14:00.000Z

Hat tip to Uriasposten.

Very good article from RealClearPolitics - Victor Davis Hanson on Europes future. Excerpts from What Will Europe Really Do?:

“Nothing is quite as surreal as the Islamic world’s fury at the liberal and innocuous Danes. How could anyone wish to burn their embassies and kill their citizens, when they have always offered all the politically correct, multicultural platitudes and welcomed in any and all from the Middle East? […]

Do the Europeans sense that the more open, free-wheeling and non-judgmental the culture, the more it is hated by the jihadists? If Europe as a whole is more pro-Palestinian than the United States, disapproved of Iraq, and yet is still hated as much, is magnanimity at last exposed as appeasement—earning only contempt from an emboldened enemy? […], So now Europe is being thrust right into the middle of the so-called war against Islamic fascism. Once threatened, it will either react with a newly acquired Churchillian maturity to protect its civilization, or cave, in hopes that even more Chamberlain-type appeasement will satisfy the Islamists.

It should be a fascinating spring ahead.”

The Islamofascists only respect force and standhaftness.

The Way We Think

2006-02-14T20:40:00.001Z

New really good article with intelligent writing on The Brussels Journal, they just keep spitting them out.

I have been having some of the same thoughs, but never analyzed to this point, nor would I be able to have put it this eloquently.

The Way We Think

Excerpt:

Little has changed since then. Except that pretending in public what most know to be untrue, or being silent about the pertinent facts because they do not fit an agreed upon fiction, has gotten a name. Synthetic truth now carries a concise tag: “PC.” The politically correct that is divorced from the facts is more than a pious lie prescribed by someone’s social creed. PC creates an artificial reality. Public policy is made to adapt to it as though its postulates would be levelheaded. In the industrialized democracies PC prevents some actions, weakens others and provokes measures that would otherwise not be taken. As an act of voluntary self delusion, PC makes people to affirm what is not and to deny whatever is but should, normatively, not be.

In case that you are inclined to confirm that the “clash of cultures” is “on,” you are easing into an issue in which PC-induced pretensions play a significant role. Every crisis – notice that their frequency and gravity is on the rise – brings examples of how the PC colored view of the world complicates dealing with our problems. The present’s cartoon controversy proves the point. Its significance is that this is the first instance in which radical Islam demands that majorities outside of the Muslim world conform to their teaching.

As insinuated, there is a relationship between PC-derived positions in the world of the industrialized countries and their ability to prevail in the conflict the Jihadists are forcing on them. Let us at the outset agree that ideas have consequences. This is, depending on where your political home is, one of the most crucial truths known to me. [Another favorite of mine is “there ain’t no free lunches.”] Therefore, a fact-denying and reality distorting idea must lead to irrational actions. Consequently, challenging PC assumptions – regardless of how comforting they might be – is essential if the challenge is to be faced. Thinking rationally will determine the issue arising out of the clash or coexistence of cultures. This outcome will primarily be a derivate of the course of action taken in our midst. Radical Islam’s main strength happens to be our weakness to value, and therefore to defend, the essentials of our civilization. Thus, what we think of pending matters will be central in determining the outcome of the unfolding process.

Read the article

PC is the Achilles Heel of the Western World.

Publish or Perish: The Lessons of the Cartoon Jihad

2006-02-14T19:57:00.000Z

Another fantastic caricature from Cox & Forkum. Exerpt from the posting:

From Robert Tracinski in today's TIA Daily comes a must-read analysis of the Mohammed cartoon controversy: Publish or Perish: The Lessons of the Cartoon Jihad
The central issue of the "cartoon jihad" -- the Muslim riots and death threats against a Danish newspaper that printed 12 cartoons depicting Mohammed -- is obvious. The issue is freedom of speech: whether our freedom to think, write, and draw is to be subjugated to the "religious sensitivities" of anyone who threatens us with force.
That is why it is necessary for every newspaper and magazine to re-publish those cartoons, as I will do in the next print issue of The Intellectual Activist.

This is not merely a symbolic expression of support; it is a practical countermeasure against censorship. Censorship—especially the violent, anarchic type threatened by Muslim fanatics—is effective only when it can isolate a specific victim, making him feel as if he alone bears the brunt of the danger. What intimidates an artist or writer is not simply some Arab fanatic in the street carrying a placard that reads "Behead those who insult Islam." What intimidates him is the feeling that, when the beheaders come after him, he will be on his own, with no allies or defenders—that everyone else will be too cowardly to stick their necks out.

The answer, for publishers, is to tell the Muslim fanatics that they can't single out any one author, or artist, or publication. The answer is to show that we're all united in defying the fanatics.

That's what it means to show "solidarity" by re-publishing the cartoons. The message we need to send is: if you want to kill anyone who publishes those cartoons, or anyone who makes cartoons of Mohammed, then you're going to have to kill us all. If you make war on one independent mind, you're making war on all of us. And we'll fight back.

The slithering pusillanimous dhimmi

2006-02-14T18:02:00.000Z

No need to clarify who we are talking about. It is the European "foreign policy minister", Javier Solana. He sure lives up to his origin as member of the Spanish Pusillanimous Socialist Dhimmi Party (SPSDP).

Thanks to the fine blog, Infidel Bloggers Alliance for these two articles. We all thank John Sobieski for coining "The Slithering Pusillanimous Dhimmi", formerly known as Javier Solana.

TSPD is out traveling.

The Twilight Of Free Speech? EU Policy Minister, Javier Solana, Supports Ban of "Religious Defamation"

Exerpt:

Javier Solana is touring Islamic states begging for forgiveness and promising to ban Free Speech, if the Muslims will only calm down.

"We agreed to take different measures including at the level of the United Nations to guarantee these acts will not be repeated," OIC Ekmelettin Ihsanoglu Secretary General said in Jeddah.

"Be sure we are going to do our utmost for this not to happen again, because we need each other... I don't think honestly it will happen again," he added. Ihsanoglu said he also wanted the EU to pass blasphemy laws. "I have proposed many ideas, legislative measures to be taken by the European Union," he said.

Solana: We Are All Proud to be Pusillanimous Dhimmis

Excerpt:

One site that should be on every blogger's bookmarks is Arab News. This website for Saudi Arabia gives a good idea of the threat we face. Recently, in Jeddah, they had a Economic Conference. That's where Al Gore begged for forgiveness and promised to let into the US as many suicide bombers as the Saudis want. Today, they had an article about Solana. The EU's foreign policy cheif Solana groveled at the Saudi's feet on the West's behalf.

His counterpart Secretary-general of the 57-member Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Ihsanoglu is pushing for new EU laws and UN declarations banning trashing Mo and Islam. Who needs enemies when you have friends like this?

Also check out this bizarre Stockholm Syndrom victim's visit to Saudi Arabia. Has the West gone insane?

Indeed.

TSPD (SPSDP), Jeddah, 2006

Italian minister to wear t-shirt with one of the cartoons

2006-02-14T17:30:00.001Z

News from Reuters:

Italian minister puts Mohammad cartoon on T-shirts

By Crispian Balmer,Reuters
Tuesday, February 14, 2006; 10:50 AM
ROME (Reuters) - Italy's Reform Minister Roberto Calderoli has had T-shirts made emblazoned with cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad in a move that could embarrass Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's government.

Calderoli, a member of the anti-immigrant Northern League party, told Ansa news agency on Tuesday that the West had to stand up against Islamist extremists and offered to hand out T-shirts to anyone who wanted them.

"I have had T-shirts made with the cartoons that have upset Islam and I will start wearing them today," Ansa quoted Calderoli as saying.

He said the T-shirts were not meant to be a provocation but added that he saw no point trying to appease extremists.

"We have to put an end to this story that we can talk to these people. They only want to humiliate people. Full stop. And what are we becoming? The civilization of melted butter?" Calderoli said.

I wonder what kind of reaction that will cause? Invasion by the Muhajedin? We and Italy are lucky Iran still does not have the Atom-bomb.

I suspect Mr. Calderoli's motives - he has a propensity for media stunts, but he does have courage. And I encourage the action. We must protect our freedom of expression at all costs.

Update 17.2.2006

(AGI) - Rome, Feb. 17 - "Deep embitterment" was expressed this morning by Hamza Piccardo, the secretary of the Union of Islamic Communities and Organisations in Italy (UCOII), over the gesture made by Minister Roberto Calderoli in deciding to be seen in public wearing a T-shirt with the cartoon sketches that have caused such uproar around the Islamic world, printed on it. "It is sad to have people like this in the Italian government. Carderoli does not appreciate the difference between political provocation and the this sort of absolutely shameful act in a difficult climate like the current one" said Piccardo on Radio Popolare. He added; "the minister does not realise that beyond that which is the sensibility of Moslems is the sensibility of the faithful. He does not appreciate that he is putting the image of Italy, which has already been compromised by the actions of this government, at risk. Her doesn't understand that our exports to Arab countries is being seriously effected and that many of his voters are businessmen that export to those countries." He concluded: "I must say, that we did not expect sensitivity from this minister but we at least hope that he is able to appreciate where the country's bests interests lie." (AGI) -

I still have not found a picture of the minister with the t-shirt. I can't wait to see it. The Italian Prime Minister, Berlusconi, wants Carderoli to resign. But Italy is such a wonderful country. A Minister can not be fired.