Language Morphing and "Islamophobia"

Lefties have long loved changing the definitions of terms to achieve ulterior motives. Just that term "liberal" is a great case in point. Once "liberal" was a respectable term referring to those who upheld Enlightenment values. Somehow, and I do not know yet the nitty-gritty of how, collectivist liberals morphed the definition to mean worshipping statism such as communism, fascism, and other varieties of socialism and tyranny (cf: Democrat Senate). Liberals also switched the traditional election colors of blue for Republicans to red. It seems that red tends to give Liberals and other Democrats away by association.

Another language scam these days is this term "Islamophobia." Liberals and other anti-Americans such as Islamapologists and Wahhabi lobbyists, aided and abetted by those Left-sucking dogs in the media, have been pushing "Islamophobia" like crazy. They want it to stick on anyone who dares to speak anything but inane complimentary lies about Islam.

It is supposed to convey that anyone who opposes Islam is worse than a McCarthyite--he or she is an "Islamophobic." And, Oh, my God, no one wants to be THAT!

Happily, people on the side of seeing the truth about Islam are getting tired of this propagandizing.

Those of us who have done our homework and thrive on reason and logic see Islam for what it is, and we call it for what it is. Groups like C.A.I.R. just hate that truth-telling, as do all the academic anti-American professors of the inglorious Left--those who want to further the agenda of destroying America. Truth, they can't handle, as the movie Marine colonel said, more or less.

After looking for suitable suffixes and prefixes, synonmyms, antonyms, and homonyms for those of us who are anti-Islam, pro-America, etc., I am numb. I have been looking for a catchy sounding term that describes us. To my dismay, I found none.

I did have success, however.

I am now willing to call myself an "Islam expositor." It has euphony even though it is not a single word. Unlike "Islamophobia," it conveys no psychopathological state about the world's worst collection of ideas, which we do not fear, rationally or irrationally. Expositors expose, and that is what we do. Sometimes we present expose's while at other times, we simply expose the facts to the light of truth. We do opine, and we do clearly express contempt about a savage ideology that wants to extinguish us, our loved ones, our country, and our civilization, to replace them with Middle Eastern Nazism. Yes, really contemptuous.

So, out goes "islamophobic" and in comes "Islam expositing."

English akbar.

Bad Day at Democrat Rock

How awful it must been to awaken this morning and realize that the Iraqi election went well.

For Democrats and other anti-American Lefties and Islamapologists, there is nothing so depressing as success. When I write this, I realize that there are some pro-American Democrats; however, they are staying in the party and not changing it for the better, so they get tarred with the same brush. After the past week or two of Democrat Party performance in the U.S. Senate, that party has lost any reasonable claim to be heard by reasonable people.

That same post-election depression spreads from the anti-American Americans into the anti-Enlightenment Left of Europe and all of Islamia. No matter what they do, they keep losing to reality, reason, individual freedom, and capitalism. Is there no mercy?

Just think, now, if Iraqis who are so happy today to have voted in massive numbers, come to like having none of those automobile bombs able to access crowds and commerce. Just think, if the voting populace feel enough pride to start turning in the anti-democratic perpetrators and shooting down those who threaten to take away their spark of freedom. Just think, despite many difficult days ahead, freedom might come to a part of Islamia.

Every despot in Islamia has to be in a foul mood today. Since Muhammad hated dogs, they don't even have one of those to kick today.

And in Europe and America, all the Lefties ate another big one. They just can't win for losing.

Despite having been assaulted and villified by her inferiors in the U.S. Senate, Dr. Rice gave an inspired and inspiring appraisal of the Iraqi vote today on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace. She, a black girl from a formerly vilely racist state, sat glowing and projecting the values of the Enlightenment as the United States' Secretary of State. Now, she has to don her wet suit and go swimming in the cesspools of Europe, but she does so with everybody, and I do mean everybody, knowing that the Iraqi election was a success regardless of the details of its outcome.
Maybe the dissipated Left of Europe could queue up with the same crowd in America for some good old-fashioned electroshock therapy. For sure, they will do anything but change their vile values. In their cases, everybody loves a loser, and they are the losers loving losing.

Meanwhile, to all of those in red states and who are red state in heart, smile. Freedom won again!

BRAVE NEW SCHOOLS

To view this item online, visit http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42599, Friday, January 28, 2005


Every day brings us another reason why we need a private school system which is free of destructive policies such as this one from the Assistant Superintendent of Schools in Lincoln, R.I.

We already know our schools are an exercise in futility when it comes to teaching the truth about Islam--how can we expect any better when they are such failures at teaching simple academics? I just have to say it as bluntly as I can--this is nuts!

As Eleanor, another contributor to this site has so aptly commented, "It is a conspiracy for an uniformed population and electorate is easily led
and manipulated."


Please, read it all!

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A school district in Rhode Island canceled its annual spelling bee this year because administrators decided the crowning of only one winner violates the main principle of the federal No Child Left Behind Act – that all children should succeed.


Competitor in Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee finals in Washington last June. (Photo: National Spelling Bee)

Linda Newman, assistant superintendent of schools in Lincoln, R.I., said it's her understanding that President Bush's education initiative says all children must reach high standards, which conflicts with the spelling bee, the Woonsocket Call of Rhode Island reported.

"It's about one kid winning, several making it to the top and leaving all others behind," Newman said of the competition, which culminates with the Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C. "That's contrary to No Child Left Behind."

A spelling bee, she continued, is about "some kids being winners, some kids being losers," which "sends a message that this isn't an all-kids movement."


The competition pits students in 4th through 8th grade against each other in a district round, with the winner advancing to a state playoff and the chance to move on to the national finals in Washington.

Newman said she and the district's elementary school principals made a unanimous decision to cancel their local competition shortly after the January 2004 event, agreeing that a spelling bee does not meet the criteria of all children reaching high standards, the Woonsocket paper said.

She argues that professional organizations now encourage elementary school children to participate in activities that avoid winners and losers, which is why sports teams have been eliminated for that age group.

Building self-esteem is the emphasis.

"You have to build positive self-esteem for all kids, so they believe they're all winners," Newman told the Call. "You want to build positive self-esteem so that all kids can get to where they want to go."

Karen Adams, a news anchorwoman for local WPRI-TV, said she will miss covering the event.

Adams told the paper she's not familiar with the specifics of the No Child Left Behind Act but can't figure out why it has anything to do with a spelling bee.

"It was just a fun time," Adams said.

Winning a spelling bee "just meant you were a good speller."

"It was fun for the kids because it gave them poise and confidence to stand in front of a crowd," she said.

School Committee Chairman Jeff Weiss told the paper he was unaware the event had been cancelled. But Newman said the cancellation is an administrative decision that does not require committee approval.

Karen Martin, the mother of last year's winner, Brianna, called the cancellation "strange."

Her daughter benefited from the experience, she told the Call, overcoming nervousness to advance to the state competition.

"I'm disappointed," she said. "I thought it was a fun activity."

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Marxist-Americans in Senate Are Revolting

Thirteen senators performed their toilets on the Senate floor yesterday and the day before. The issue was the confirmation of Dr. Condoleeza Rice as Secretary of State. During the "debate" held the day before the confirmation vote, many other Marxist-American senators expressed their droppings.

Years ago, Al Capp, the creator of L'il' Abner cartoons, published a story set in the Sunday paper during the late 1960s or in the 1970s. The only frame I recall is the one where dirty, long-haired, beaded, body-pierced, sign-carrying and screaming hippies were running down the street en masse. When asked what they were doing by a passerby, one said, "We are revolting." The passerby said, "You certainly are."

What we witnessed from the main ballast of Democrats in the Senate regarding the hearing, floor debate, and confirmation vote for Dr. Rice showed that the Democrats have earned this highly appropriate label of being "revolting."

Except for Jeffords whose only streak of independence is being labelled "independent," meaning belonging to no political party, all of these senators belong to the Democrat Party. The only surprise in their number is Evan Bayh, whom I used to think was a rare American among Democrats like Joe Lieberman.

To make the contrast greater, Dr. Rice spoke to the assembled throng inside the State Department building this morning. What came across was a lady of great depth and character, speaking with great strength. Those of us watching remarked almost simultaneously of being reminded of Margaret Thatcher. None of us had seen a woman of such greatness since her.

By comparison, the Marxist-American Democrat senators who figuratively flashed in public looked even cheaper, smaller, and less significant than any time previously. These are very small men with the exception of Sen Boxer, who is a very small woman in terms of intellect and character. It would be utterly wonderful to wake up to headlines that aliens had abducted these Marxist-Americans overnight and taken them to a galaxy far, far away. Obviously these people learned nothing from the election and seem incapable of profiting from experience.

Meanwhile, America has a towering principal taking over the State Department. The contrast with Colin Powell could not be greater or better.

I love the fact that Dr. Rice is a woman, and a woman of enormous accomplishment. I also love the fact that Dr. Rice is black. She is the second black American appointed, in sequence, to head the State Department. Other blacks in America have been watching what Democrats have been doing to this woman, and they are seeing Republicans promoting highly qualified blacks, women, and people of sundry races of both genders to very high positions, unlike Democrats who just try to tear down anyone who is not one of "their _____." (you fill in the racial or gender blank.)

Silent are NOW, the NAACP, and all sorts of the usual anti-this-and-that caterwaulers. Blacks who recognize this woman's qualities are speaking up, but they are not being heard by the crowd who wants more of John Kerry, Howard Dean, Teddy Kennedy, and of course, Barbara Boxer, et al.

We are watching a sea change in American political power.

America Is Now a "Free Market of Religion". Will That Change With Islamification?

It is true that Islam is the fastest growing world religion. However under close examination we find that fluctuation of numbers of adherents or congregants does not occur as it does in the West because under Islam the rules are different.

Westerners, dissatisfied with their religion or their clerical leadership, because of intermarriage, or any other personal reason, often move from sect to sect or leave religion all together, although few really do. There is little stigma attached to this practice.

Islam, however, has a much more rigid view and takes a jaundiced if not authoritarian stand against change of religion called apostasy. Christians that move from sect to sect or change their religion to Buddhism or Judaism would be considered apostates. Needless to say, apostasy is severely frowned upon under Islam.

But the biggest no-no under Islam is Muslim apostasy. Muslims that leave Islam become criminals. Apostasy for Muslims brings a death sentence. Even converts, or “new Muslims, aren’t allowed to return to their previous religion. Islam actively recruits new believers under the system of d’awa but will never let them go.

The religious playing field in Islam is uneven. Muslim countries allow private worship for non-Muslims. That means that existing churches and synagogues cannot display religious symbols, ring bells, sing hymns, distribute or even print religious tracts.
Proselytizing is a serious no-no with unfortunate consequences: prison or death. As sanctuary building is considered part of proselytizing, nothing new can be built and existing structures may not be improved.

The lot for Christians and Jews is unpleasant, considered to be people of the book, but the situation is even worse for other religions such as Buddhists, Hindus, animists, Wiccans, or even atheists. There is no tolerance at all for these religions.

The free market bazaar of religion will be razed quickly once Islam comes to power either through influence or the power of sheer demographics. In fact, freedom and liberty itself will be changed or eliminated as we have seen happen so often in the Muslim countries.

Will we allow ourselves to be conquered through the stealth, the slow changes that come about through influence. Influence can be as blatant and visible as Congressional lobbying or as seemingly innocuous as the funding of Middle Eastern studies departments of universities with strings attached or the hiring of previous U.S. government employees to serve on boards of directorates, participate in think tanks, on select committees. Influence is often peddled when lobbyists act as agents for Muslim countries or when previous government employees are paid consultants.

All these are encouraging a Muslim way of thinking or doing that is contrary to liberty and the freedom of thought and action, including freedom of religion.

When Americans suggest that the Constitution will protect us from change, they have forgotten that historically constitutions have come and gone and have been trampled by invading armies that have installed totally new and totally different governments, changing forever the lot of their conquest.

America, the land of the free and open-market for religion will cease to exist as have so many others under Islam if we don’t care enough to guard or liberties and stop influence peddling and to stop judicial activism that has slanted or moved the founder’s intent away from freedom and liberty to intolerance and despotism under which the freedom of religious change would become a crime.

FIFTH COLUMN FOLLIES: Which is funnier?

The Left in America must advocate and resort to force to achieve their aims because they have become too ridiculous to persuade. Of course, there are susceptible souls who "want to believe," and they do. They swallow the pap of the Left without chewing and even without digesting. Alas, their anuses have replaced their mouths, or vice versa. But, as a persuasive force, the Left are dead--they just don't know it yet.

One example of Left "wisdom" comes from a disgruntled commentator to a recent piece by one of our bloggers. The part which is so pathognomonically Leftist is this: "...if the people who write on this blog had their way America and the world would be be a much darker place, a place where US capitalism reigns supreme."

Who knows from where on the globe this commentor surfaces for air. All Lefties are interchangeable. This archtypical Leftie sees U.S. capitalism as a sort of chronic, global, nuclear winter. Obviously, this person emits undigested pap from any of numerous Left sources, professors, Leftie screeds, Leftie "journalists and editorialists," and other illiterate fellow travelers such as himself or herself.

Another piece, however, makes some other points for me. Protesters Accuse Bush of 'Exterminating the Muslim Race' -- 01/20/2005, by Marc Morano, CNSNews.com Senior Staff Writer, January 20, 2005.

In cold, snowy Washington, about a hundred protesters gathered outside the "Black Tie and Boots" inaugural ball on Wednesday night, comparing President George W. Bush to Adolf Hitler because Bush is "exterminating the Muslim race."

"It is no different in that Hitler killed so many Jews, and George Bush, you know, is exterminating the Muslim race and others," said a man who identified himself only as Don from Florida.

Don held up a sign with the words "Vote Republican" written over a Nazi swastika.

"It's just a form of fascism -- the Patriot Act and everything -- they stole the vote. Diebold (the electronic voting machine company) and their money stole the electoral vote of the people," Don told Cybercast News Service.

Another protestor, a Steve, opined that "...people attending this week's inaugural balls in Washington "are basically a bunch of rich, filthy, selfish people who are out of touch with the real world. "They don't care about other human beings on this planet, and they are destroying the planet."

Yet another brilliant protestor:

"How can anyone who has a heart come and pay thousands of dollars to do this when the tsunami wave just knocked out so many people and there are over 100,000 dead in Iraq?" said Sam Joi from the group Code Pink.

Joi said the United States is in dire straits: "Education is going, all our social services are going, unemployment is soaring, people are suffering here in this country. How can they have a celebration tonight for this obscene amount of money when our world is suffering, our country is suffering?" asked Joi.

Joi said the inaugural partygoers were "greedy, they are hogs, they are pigs. How much do they need?" Code Pink members passed out bumper stickers with "Hallibacon" written on them, a mock reference to the defense contractor Halliburton, formerly chaired by Vice President Dick Cheney.

Of course, we have to knock capitalism if we are true Lefties:

Molly from Massachusetts slammed capitalism: "This is a perpetuation of the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer. We are dividing the country into two classes, and that is disgusting; and there are starving people all over the world and they are having this absurd, excessive party," Molly said.

"Capitalism right now is just making rich people rich," she added.

'Shame on you'

This is downright pitiful. These nihilists want to destroy America, the West, and the good of our post-Enlightenment civilization, and this is the best they can do?

Destroying the "Muslim race"? Since when did Islam become a race?

Republicans are selfish? If only they were. They, like Democrats, are altruists who believe in the ethical creed of self-sacrifice which they got from Christianity on the one hand and Immanuel Kant in its secular form on the other. Are the demonstrators selfish? Hell no! They have learned that the creed of the Left, just as with the Right, is to uphold self-sacrificial service to others as opposed to any form of rational self-interest. Show me a Leftie, and I will show you someone seriously in need of a "self."

Of course, they must knock capitalism. Loaded with parental and guilty foundation money, they demonstrate in synthetic fibers keeping them warm to a degree unknown in the pre-capitalist world. Their bellies are full and stay that way. Most are in excellent to outstanding degrees of health. Most, if not all, have gone to universities and have become partially literate. No one did these things before capitalism.

Indeed, they damn capitalism because their dim minds rely on logical fallacies in order to perpetrate this flatulence. They damn capitalism while relying on it for their very survival and their highly advanced state of well being. This is the fallacy Ayn Rand called the "stolen concept" fallacy, which consists of denying the very conceptand its antecedents which using it.

How easy it is to goad Lefties. The first "critic" I cited views U. S. capitalism as "darkness," and this person decries the writers on this blog as atavists at best, and monsters at worst. If capitalism is "darkness," then BRING IT ON! No filthy, cold, hungry, and diseased Rousseauian states of nature for me.

It is good fun to deride Lefties, and I do not know which is the most fun--goading or deriding. Talk radio, particularly Rush Limbaugh, taught Americans the invaluable lesson of laughing at the Left. We took them seriously before this big change. They intimidated us with their sense of moral superiority. Now we see them naked and hilariously foolish. The examples I have cited illustrate really typical examples to laugh at.

All of these young and would-be-young-again Lefties mouth pap. They sloganize and repeat standard Leftie talking points. All of this activity occurs in them at no higher level than the midbrain, if that high. These are not skulls full of mush. They are skulls full of feces. Squeeze their heads, and the feces squirts from their mouths.

Note a very important point about Lefties. They are for all practical purposes stupid in their degree of illiteracy. By illiteracy, I mean that they know little or nothing and read even less. They do not want to know the facts of reality. They want certain things to be a certain way, that is, to be how they feel they should be.

By and large, conservatives and any others who might be loosely clustered on the pro-freedom or Right axis, read and write. Conservative books sell well. Even Lefties buy them. Some Lefties just read them under the covers at night by flashlight so that no other Lefties can discover their "treason." The Leftie Chattering Class read them so they can knock them on the air and in print.

Leftie books sell to an absolutely predictable market of fellow Lefties overwhelmingly. They buy the pap each produces to create the illusion that Left-ism has something to say and sells (note the capitalism dependency). Their books don't make even good toilet paper for the Third World. Honestly, it seems that if you read one, you have read them all. These people on the Left preach to the choir but they do not want to learn anything new. They still huddle together for self-identity and self-protection like packs of frightened chihuahua dogs--no longer packs of Doberman Pincers.

As Larry the Cable Guy says: Now, that's funny--I don't care who you are.

It is this crowd of ignorant Lefties that make up the foot soldiers of the American and international Left. These are the minions of the FIFTH COLUMN which seeks to employ Islamists to bring down the West, particularly America. Frankly this crowd can't find their derriers with both hands.

Let's goad and laugh at them until we laugh them into election losses in great numbers. Let's goad and laugh at them until universites refuse to populate teaching, administrative, and student positions with these rabble. Let's goad and laugh until we get objective journalism. And, while we are at it, let's goad and laugh at these ridiculous Islamists who notoriously have no sense of humor.

Laughter is the best medicine, so goes the cliche'. Let's laugh these Lefties out of existence, and enjoy goading and deriding as we go. But, you say, not everything can be reversed and improved while having uproarious fun. Oh, really?

Everything Old Is New Again

The same problems with security that we are facing were envisioned in the 1970s during the Nixon administration.

Following the slaughter of the Israeli Olympic athletes in Munich, a committee was formed to assess and manage risk.

"Unless governments take basic precautions, we will continue to stand at the edge of an awful abyss," Robert Kupperman, chief scientist for the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, wrote in a 1977 report that summarized nearly five years of work by the Cabinet Committee to Combat Terrorism.

The full committee that met only once in October 1972, included such figures as Henry Kissinger and Rudi Giuliani. It’s experts did get together twice a month for nearly five years to identify threats and debate solutions.

"It is vital that we take every possible action ourselves and in concert with other nations designed to assure against acts of terrorism," Nixon wrote in asking his secretary of state, William Rogers, to oversee the task force.

"It is equally important that we be prepared to act quickly and effectively in the event that, despite all efforts at prevention, an act of terrorism occurs involving the United States, either at home or abroad," the president said.

But as we all know, interest in terrorism waned after Watergate. Bureaucratic turf wars took their toll and the rest is history.

What is chilling is the fact that neither governments nor industry, or even the U.N. wanted to take responsibility especially since doing so would cost millions of dollars. We are paying the price for those decisions today.

The proposals that were made in the 1970s are the shockingly familiar. The task force:

- discussed defending commercial aircraft against being shot down by portable missile systems;

- recommended improved vigilance at potential "soft" targets, such as major holiday events, municipal water supplies, nuclear power plants and electric power facilities;

- supported cracking down on foreigners living in and traveling through the United States, with particular attention to Middle Easterners and Arab-Americans;

- developed plans to protect U.S. diplomats and businessmen working abroad against kidnapping and attack.

Though the CIA routinely updated the committee on potential terrorist threats and plots, task force members learned quickly that intelligence gathering and coordination was a weak spot, just as Bush would discover three decades later.

Read about the shocking negligence.

Bin Laden Isn’t the Only One Out to Bankrupt the U.S

How the U.S. Through Statutes and Bureaucracies Intends to Tax Into the World’s Biggest Economy for the Purpose of Wealth Redistribution.

Bin Laden has stated that one of his objectives is to bankrupt the United States, to get his hands on the human capital, resources and treasure to further the goals of Islamism and the glory of Islam. The United Nations has similar designs on the U.S. economy, but for different reasons.

The U.N. continues to try to get direct regulatory access to the U.S. economy. The proposed “Internet Tax” is one way. The Kyoto Protocol that we didn’t sign is a part of the U.N. the second-ever “World Conference on Disaster Reduction” this week in Kobe, Japan, “attempting to blame natural disasters on, of all things, people,” us. And President Bush is standing in its way.

“The U.N.’s first disaster conference, held in 1994, was the “World Conference on Natural Disaster Reduction, which, incidentally (sic), occurred during the U.N.-proclaimed “International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction.” (1990-1999). (U.N. has a habit of naming years and decades for its projects)

Instead of focusing on the 10th anniversary of the deadly 1995 earthquake in Kobeand the enormous problems still facing the world following the Indian Ocean tsunami, “you would think they would focus on “natural disasters.” For the U.N. natural disasters appear to be no longer “natural.”

The U.N. has bought into the unproven notion that humans are significantly altering global climate for the worse. Thus people, industrialized countries, the U.S., are responsible for costly hurricanes, floods, droughts, heat waves, the rise of the seas due to melting ice caps, desertification of Africa, the inundation of Bangladesh, and so on.

And the particular people that the UN would most like to pin the blame for global warming on would be deep-pocket Americans, American businesses and the American government. As the global warming alarmist community likes to point out, the U.S. is the largest single contributor to the alleged global warming, emitting 25 percent of all greenhouse gases while possessing only 4 percent of the world’s population.

Toward the goal of blaming the U.S. for what used to be considered “natural disasters” in order to eventually extract financial compensation, the UN conference’s draft action plan is riddled with references to climate change [read, “U.S.-made climate change”] as causing or contributing to “disasters.”

The Bush administration rightly opposes the UN’s effort to de-naturalize disasters and has requested that the document’s references to climate change be removed. But UN officials oppose such changes.

The U.S. has achieved much through great effort. The world continues to hammer us with the fact we are a small part of the world’s population using much of the world’s resources. IF INCOME REDISTRIBUTION, or WORLD SOCIALISM, is successful, the wealth of the rich countries will be given out to others “according to their need.”

Jan Egeland, the U.N. Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, the same Jan Egeland that called the goaded the world, and called them, especially the U.S., “stingy” and “under-taxed,” said: “I hope there will be a global recognition of climate change causing more natural disasters.”

Weather disasters have always been with us. This summer the state of Florida in the U.S. experienced four major hurricanes, the American Midwest has just experienced major flooding of the Ohio River Drainage Basin in the states of Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, and Illinois. A major winter storm with blizzard conditions and hurricane-force winds has dumped feet of snow on the Northeast, and California and parts of the Southwest has suffered from excessive rain and snow that led to mudslides, raging rivers and loss of life. All of these “natural disasters” led to loss of life that Americans and the American government dealt with.

There is no credible evidence that humans, much less Americans caused these or any of the other natural weather—related disasters: cold snaps, heat waves, ice storms, floods, droughts, all that have plagued man from the beginning of time before the development of the industrial world.

In earlier days, God was given credit for natural disasters, now the U.N. has decided that God-like, the United States has “discernible impact on the frequency and severity” of these disasters in Nature.

The media accuses President Bush of being “anti-science”, and has made the misinformed case which attributes all weather-related disasters to global warming. Some scientists “now feel compelled to go out of their way to reaffirm that global warming ISN’T causing natural disasters.

Not only is President Bush, a member of one of America’s richest families, being targeted, but “deep pocketed Americans, American businesses, and the American government [as] the U.S. is the largest single contributor to the alleged global warming..”

The U.N. dramatizes the need for an “action plan” by claiming that: economic damages resulting for “disasters” have increased from about 1,500 disasters costing $700 billion during the 1990s; and the number of “threatened” by “disasters” has increased from about 750 million people in the 1970s to about 2.5 billion people in the 1990s.

And we don’t know yet how many people the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami will ultimately affect.

How accurate are these estimates?

But “to the extend that natural disasters do wreak more natural havoc and threaten more people now than 30 years ago, that is most likely dure to all the upscale development that has spreading during that time to coastal regions and other areas more vulnerable to the whims of Mother Nature.

The end game is to get the United States to pay for damages due to weather-related damage. Who pays for them now? In some cases, such as in the United States, the Federal Government in the form of FEMA pays as well as insurance companies.

Participating in the U.N. conference is the German insurance company Munich Re, which has issued a report “Megacities—Megarisks: Trends and challenges for insurance and risk management. This 83-page report discusses the “alleged impacts of global warming and other ‘disasters’ on insurers.” It would be wonderful for the insurance industry to be able to assign liability to the United States government!

The end-game of the insurance industry, like that of the UN, is to be able to blame natural disasters on global warming so that it also can eventually seek compensation for its losses from U.S. businesses and taxpayers.

Insurers, apparently, are more than happy to accept premiums for writing risky policies, but not too happy when Mother Nature and policyholders force them to make good on claims.

Munich Re, the German insurance company colluding with the U.N., claims that

… “the urban heat island effect” – the modern-day phenomenon where cities are warmer than surrounding rural areas due to increased heat trapping by concrete and asphalt—amplifies the effect of global warming to increase the number of deaths caused by heatwaves.

Despite any intuitive appeal, this assertion is unfounded since there is no scientific evidence that global warming — which involves a hypothesized few-degree rise in global temperatures over the course of a century — has anything to do with summer heatwaves — which involve sudden dramatic, short-term shifts in local temperature.

Weather, after all, is not climate. (my emphasis)

The end game is more than to give relief to the insurance industry. The U.N. has its eye on the considerable assets of the United States and the rest of the industrialized world and believes that U.N. elites know better than anyone else how to manage and spend them. Recent financial scandals, such as “Oil for Food,” can lay to rest that notion, and like bin Laden, the U.N. will continue to forge ahead with its notions of a world government and financial system operated and distributed by the IMF, International Monetary Fund, a subsidiary of the United Nations.

It is unlikely that United States will voluntarily cede political or financial sovereignty to either bin Laden or to the U.N.

CAIR’s Blatant Attempt to Paint Christian Aid Workers in Banda Aceh as “Evil-Doers”

CAIR’s Ibrahim Hooper appeared on a segment of the John Kasich Show, Saturday night, January 22, 2205 not to try to smooth over feelings of ill will against Muslims by condemning terror activities of the Islamists that he previously claimed have “hijacked Islam”. Nor did he come to protest feelings of distrust between Coptic Christians and Muslims in the slaughter killing of a New Jersey family, not even to
thank non-Muslim Americans for expeditiously coming to the aid of the tsunami victims in the predominately Muslim Indonesian province of Banda Aceh. Hooper’s mission was to rail against
some Christian missionaries on the grounds that, in his view, were using aid work in an “inappropriate manner” by distributing Bibles and Christian literature as they also gave out food, water, and other relief. Hooper was equally distressed by the fact that some tsunami orphans were “removed” from their villages to be raised as Christians in an undetermined place.

Questioned by Kasich we also learned that Hooper would consider such behavior to be “inappropriate if done by Muslim relief workers and missionaries.” Hooper was reacting to information about Christian missionaries given in the mainstream press that told of “abusive behavior” by aid workers leaving us with the impression that all were guilty of taking advantage of victims in difficult situations and of kidnapping Muslim orphans. Reality appears to be quite different from the impression left by Hooper and these articles. It appears that the Hooper and the government of Indonesia would rather that the children remain homeless and without resources than to fall in the hands of non-Muslims.

Anyone would be outraged to think that Missionaries would so abuse traumatized victims in that manner. Could it be true that they were withholding aid and shamelessly proselytizing helpless tsunami victims? A review of the evidence was in order. Indeed some Christian missionary groups were guilty, but most were not. But wait, Muslim aid workers and missionaries, some with an
extremist bend, were also there, handing out Korans and veils along with comforting aid. Once again Hooper was dealing in half-truths.

What about his other charge: tsunami orphans were removed from their village settings, spirited away to an undisclosed location to be raised as Christians? The evidence of this “is confusing.” A Christian group was planning to take 300 to Jakarta where they would be housed in a modern orphanage. Expressed outrage in the local press put a stop to the plans that were then scrapped.

The Indonesian government is so concerned about the safety children of Banda Aceh that they are being placed in government camps and guarded night and day by armed soldiers. Adoptions of orphans will be under the supervision and approval of an appointed Muslim cleric. It is estimated that sixty percent of Banda Aceh’s children disappeared by the wave, many are left orphaned and homeless, unable to be placed in homes or establish a normal routine or get psychological counseling of their obvious post-traumatic syndrome because of religious bigotry. The children are still alive because of quick reaction of Western aid workers, some of them Christian missionaries.

Muslim aid is slow in coming but it appears to be coming. The Gulf States governments have donated millions and privately many millions of dollars have been raised to go to the aid of Muslim victims. Aid workers from other parts of Indonesia and the Muslim world are now on the ground. Some are dismissing non-Muslims as “spies” or “no longer necessary” and non-Muslim aid workers and American military personnel are finding themselves at risk of attack from both Islamist extremists and the Indonesian military that consider their presence to be a distasteful provocation and an anathema. Others want the aid workers to stay “as the government is unable to deal with the scope of the tragedy.” Although he gave no dollar amount, during the Kasich interview Hooper stated: “every American mosque has contributed.”

Kasich didn’t let Hooper off the hook in spite of his railing. Why is the distribution of Christian tracts and Bibles so offensive? What’s wrong with telling the survivors about “God’s love”? What’s wrong with that? Hooper’s only reply was that it was an abuse of those are in bad situation that “feel they have to take the Bibles” in order to get the relief. We were left with the idea that Christian aid workers were withholding relief unless the victims took Bibles and participated in Christian activities. An uniformed observer would have taken away that feeling and that Kasich was bullying Hooper. In fact, Kasich was attempting to give Hooper and opportunity to give the complete facts.

Kasich pressed Hooper to explain why Christian proselytizing was so offensive. Americans and most other Westerners don’t understand that within Islam a change of religion is considered to be apostasy and discussion of the merits of other religions is blasphemy, both crimes against Islam that are punishable by death. Thus Muslim children of a certain that are to be raised as Christians could be considered apostates. All would be considered as kidnapped Muslims. Ironically verified reports are made all the time of Christian children and adults that are kidnapped and forcibly “reverted” to Islam. Reversion means that all humans were originally Muslim until other religions “seduced them from the true religion.”

Although Hooper did not waiver from his attempt to rail against “abusive Christian missionary kidnappers”, he seemed surprised by the steadfastness of questioning of Fox’s Kasich. Fox has recently been under fire by CAIR in two cases: the drama “24” included a character, in their view, that was seen as unfavorable to Islam and a situation that “made American Muslim families all seem to be terrorists.” CAIR has also produced a set of public service announcements titled “I Am An American Muslim” that Fox has chosen not to air. Using action alerts on their website, CAIR is putting pressure on Fox to maintain a favorable stance on Muslims and to pressure them into airing the public service spots.

CAIR’s website has other sections that are troubling. “Provocation Watch” lists and summarizes those groups and individuals that seem to harass, persecute, or provoke hatred of Muslims and Islam. On the surface this seems innocuous until one considers the effect of similar campaigns in Europe: Sweden, Great Britain, France, Germany, Australia, and Canada, all of which have legislated “anti-hate rhetoric” and/or “blasphemy laws” that Muslims have used to silence their critics. Individuals are fined and jailed for their anti-Muslim opinions or for quoting and discussing the Koran and for “insulting Mohammad” by describing events in his life that are troubling to non-Muslims. In fairness, France and other countries are using this same law as an attempt to curtail the hate-rhetoric of some Muslim clerics. Britain hasn’t decided exactly how the new law will be applied, but freedom of speech is definitely on the way out wherever Muslims mix with Christians.

The United States no longer has laws against blasphemy nor is “hate-speech” yet a crime. If it were, perhaps a case could be made against this article and others critical of Islam. The United States has “hate-crimes” laws that view violence and other acts to be examples of hate crimes. The danger for the United States is in the interpretation of laws. Recently judicial activists have taken it upon themselves to interpret statutes more broadly than the original legislative intent. Perhaps, someday in this manner, hate speech will become a hate crime. Or, as in other countries, Muslims will convince legislators to make laws curtailing free speech in America as they have in so many other countries. Using the laws listed above and in most cases, Muslim speech attacking non-Muslims is not curtailed nor considered to blasphemy nor hate-speech, a double standard.

CAIR puts itself forward as a Muslim civil right’s group. CAIR has a long history of, if not supporting, at least not criticizing Muslim extremism. Daniel Pipes.org has an extensive archive of articles about CAIR, some of which focus Hooper and on CAIR’s criminal activities. Some members of CAIR have been prosecuted successfully for criminal activities.

CAIR would have us curtail speech and remain silent on all things Muslim. Hooper, CAIR’s official spokesperson, is often in the news. But we should take everything he says with a grain salt and do our fact checking.

Reading List to Learn the Truth About Islam

On the Recommended page at our website, 6th Column Against Jihad, we have books and websites listed as sources of the truth about Islam. All of these lists are open-ended, in that they can grow as other good sources become available. We see people asking here and there for recommended readings. Go to our site and read about these books recommended.

FIFTH COLUMN WARNING: The greatest Intelligence Failure of the Iraq War Is NOW!

Jihad Watch: Fitzgerald: The greatest Intelligence Failure of the Iraq War was not about WMD, January 23, 2005.

Venerable contributor to Jihad Watch, Hugh Fitzgerald, follows up Diana West's excellent article in the Washington Times about the general officer about to command American ground forces in Iraq. No munitions are ever as dangerous as bad ideas and absent good ideas. This general is plastering over the truth about Islam by forcing his staff to read books which avoid the truth. He is sending the message of 1984! This matter is very serious. We have far too little education among Americans about Islam already. Contact those who are alleged to represent you in the national government as well as the Department of Defense.

Fitzgerald: The greatest Intelligence Failure of the Iraq War was not about WMD

Lt. Gen. John H. Vines, who is set to take command of American ground forces in Iraq, has assigned a series of books on Islam to his staff members. Here are comments on Vines' choices from Jihad Watch Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald:

The Reading List of General Vines deserves further detailed study. There are two books by Esposito. There is one by Karen Armstrong, whom, one would have thought, is by now regarded as a complete buffoon. There is something about Islam for Dummies. There is a book by the jejune Sandra Mackey on Iraq, when either the Letters of Gertrude Bell (those from Baghdad up to 1927, when she killed herself), or Philip Ireland's book published in 1939 would have helped -- and best of all would have been the essay on Iraq by the native of Baghdad, Elie Kedourie, published in Islam in the Modern World.

Nothing by Lewis. Nothing by Kedourie. Nothing by J. B. Kelly, not even that essay "Of Valuable Oil and Worthless Policies" which, while it dates in the section on the Soviet threat, does not date as a description of the misperception of Saudi Ararbia. The spirit of ARAMCO propagandists still lives.

What is good about the Reading List is that it is so bad, so truly bad, that eyebrows should be raised all over Washington. Who compiled this list? Who carefully allowed in, as the single sop, the Naipaul, but left out the Lewis, the Kedourie, the Kelly? Who left out any serious essays on the nature of Islam, on Jihad? How are the Infidel soldiers supposed to comprehend the hostility that is felt towards them, even though they are only there to "rebuild" Iraq? For if they cannot understand that hostility -- which is in every textbook, every mosque, every madrassa, every Arab satellite channel, every Qur'an and volume of the Hadith and every life of Muhammad, they will be eternally confused. And confusion and incomprehension, or miscomprehension, leads to demoralization.

Here is an example of a little colloquy reported by NPR Correspondent Deborah Amos this morning. She was reporting from Basra. She interviewed a man, asking him as follows:

Amos: "Do you want foreign troops to leave?"
Iraqi: "Would you want your country to be occupied?" (Iraqis, she said, and soldiers know, tend to reply to questions cannily, warily, with questions of their own, and almost never give a straight answer to anything).

When Amos then presses him if he wants the Americans to leave, he answers:

"Yes, I do. But not before they fix everything, and stop terrorism."

How nice. I hate you, and I want you to leave. But first you have to "stop terrorism" and, oh by the way, "fix everything."

That kind of attitude will not be understood by reading Karen Armstrong, who describes Muhammad as the man who "brought peace" to the Arabian Peninsula. It will not be understood by reading John Esposito, author of The Islamic Threat: Myth or Reality? (we know which he chose), a man who in previous editions of his books does not give more than a single mention of the word "Jihad" and has never treated of the dhimmi.

How can American officers figure out why the Christians are being terrorized, if they know nothing about the 1350 year history of Jihad-conquest and of the imposition of dhimmitude? How?

How can American officers understand what is going on if the inculcated hostility toward them is not understood?

The greatest Intelligence Failure of the Iraq War was not about WMD. It was about Islam, its tenets, its nature, the attitudes and atmospherics it engenders. It was an intelligence failure that continues as long as we prate about how everyone wants freedom (nonsense), that "democracy" will lessen the threat in the Middle East (double-nonsense), that the best way to limit a threat based entirely on the classic ideology of Islam is to say nothing, to learn nothing, to hint at nothing, about Islam itself.

Supposedly, the "faculty at Yale" and people at the "Foreign Service Institute" were responsible for this list. Let's find out something more about precisely who was involved in the selection of the final group of eight books. What are their names? What are their own interests?

Note to Hollywood: it is time for movies and television stories, not about Muslim terrorists, but about those who are apologists for Islam, and who are determined to keep certain truths from getting out, in very high places indeed. One need not be of a conspiratorial frame of mind to see that with such a Reading List, something is very amiss -- and very high up.

This has to be thoroughly investigated.

Posted at January 23, 2005 07:09 AM

Is a Cause of America’s Immigration Problem “Immigration Anarchy”?

Anarchy has been around for a long time. Sophocles, an ancient Greek playwright, refers to the evils in 442 B.C. in his “Antigone.” Everyone understands that among humans, some form of governance is necessary, but anarchy, meaning “without government,” is a tool that can be used to create a situation in which power will fall into other hands. Thus, the belief that rioting will lead to unlimited personal freedom is both dangerous and naïve.

Anarchism is the “progressive replacement of Communism in academia” since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Such notables as MIT’s Noam Chomsky and institutions such as Claremont College encourage students to adopt anarchist ideology. Young people so smitten have rioted against globalization, but with a twist: disillusioned communists and socialists are in charge and have refused to abandon their goal of world domination.

One of their “gambits” is open borders, and a similar philosophy is an open society. Immigration is touted as the solution to America’s economic problems and immigrants are praised as “hardworking risk takers” that deserve to be included in the promise of America and to share in the rights and privileges of American citizens.

Those activists who “include open borders in their game plane for creating confusion and disorder in the United States” have been labeled “immigration anarchists.”

In the press we often see ski-masked anarchists in waves of violence, breaking windows, throwing bombs, pillaging, plundering, make anti-globalization statements about the misuse of government power, of exploitation by transnational companies, and of pollution and degradation of the environment. Their protests mask a more sinister agenda: the overthrow of the United States and the hijacking of world government into their hands. The stage is being set and conditions are being formed so that Americans and the world will be willing participants and even grateful for being pulled out of the coming chaos that inevitably anarchy would bring.

This is a well-thought out plan for the take over of an oligarchy. The struggle will be to determine the make up of the oligarchial world council.

Already we see Europe in the grip of socialism and the beginnings chaos brought on by Islamo-fascist terror. Personal responsibility has been overthrown on both sides of the Atlantic and nihilism, rampant in the Muslim world, is on the rise in America. Nationalism is being downplayed as internationalism and world citizenship is touted as a virtue. National borders are being erased and protesting citizens are being condemned as xenophobic.

In the United States we see both apathy toward national heritage that devalues U.S. citizenship and the respect for U.S. laws, and the ethnic and religious identity movements that would Balkanize the United States and Canada. Some immigrant special-interest groups refuse to distinguish between legal and illegal immigrants and put forward immigrant culture, ethos, heritage, language as their imperative for special treatment: bilingual education, official business in other languages, recognition of religious preferences that must be reinforced in law. They argue: “every foreign nationality regardless of immigration status are due all the rights of citizenship, even voting rights…[and] that immigrants need not assimilate but may keep their own cultures.”

It doesn’t take much of an imagination to understand the implication and effect of continued immigration by such groups will have on the United States. The immigrant special-interest groups, in reality, “want a nation divided” with laws to apply only “when immigrants choose to obey them.” Amazingly some misguided jurists have gone so far as to opine “illegal aliens” have the same constitutional rights as U.S. citizens.

National Council of La Raza (or The Race), a Mexican-American political organization in the United States, and its “gringo” supporters work for the elimination of all borders (land and sea) around the United States of America. Their supporters include giant philanthropies, such as the Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, and Carnegie Foundation.

And we must not forget the present struggle with world Islamists that wish to re-create the Caliphate and the united body of the Ummah, or Muslim fellowship against who we are presently engaged in a world war. A network of agents operates all over the world and several of them have been apprehended since the World Trade Center bombing on September 11, 2001. Some American Muslims applaud their actions and tenants of Islam tend to support the ideology of jihad extremism. Some Muslim groups refuse to assimilate and are among those that would balkanize the United States with ultimate goal of creating an Islamic republic that would eventually become a part of a new caliphate.

The present goal of the Islamists, however, is with the no-border advocates “who see to bring the United States down to the economic and social level of Third-World nations. To do this they “seek a poorly educated populace ruled by weak government controlled by a totalitarian oligarchy.” Obviously their vision of the ruling world oligarchy would be Muslim under Sharia Law.

Immigrants have changed. In the past immigrants were grateful to come to take part in the American dream. They chose to learn English and to adopt American mores. In fact, many refused to allow their children to learn the languages and customs of the old country for fear they would be marked or would seem “less American.” They generally obeyed the rules and staunchly obeyed the laws of the land and were willing to be assimilated into the melting pot into one indivisible nation. “E Pluribus Unam,” Latin for “One from many” or “Out of many, one,” was taken to heart with great pride.

All of that changed around 1970. Today immigration anarchists are striving to Balkanize the United States by creating enclaves of immigrants who refuse to assimilate, who pledge their loyalties to foreign governments, who participate in politics in other countries and even hold political offices in these countries as dual citizenship now permits.

Owing no allegiance to the United States and disdainful of the American way of life, they are here “merely for economic gain.” They “opt to accentuate their ethnic differences”, and many choose to send their children to schools sponsored by their home countries so as not to be influenced or polluted by American culture. Influential groups such as academia, the news media, philanthropic trusts, progressive politicians, jurists, multiculturalists, and a growing group of America-haters are promoting or upholding these detrimental policies that will only bring irreparable harm to the United States.

Open borders advocates have seen to it that labeling dissenters as bigots, racists, xenophobes, or even Islamophobes chills debate and discussion. Their methods are many but the result is the same:

By portraying immigrants as victims, open-borders advocates attempt to demean U.S. culture and thus render the country unable to defend its borders. Although the news media accepts the immigrant-as-victim portrayal, it is actually U.S. immigration policies that are being victimized by an unrelenting wave of untruths and distortions unprecedented in American history. Open-borders advocates offer no objective, constructive criticisms but only blatant attacks meant to fractionalize the nation. The result is immigration anarchy.

If the major goal of immigration anarchists is unbridled immigration into the United States, the latest numbers indicate their success. Estimated numbers of immigrants residing in the United States in November 2004 reached a record 34 million men, women, and children. Some sources say this total includes all immigrants, but others insist that it reflects only undocumented (illegal) immigrants. All agree that 6 million illegal immigrants have entered the United States each year since 2000.

Walsh has proposed these five steps for refuting immigration anarchy and neutralizing the anarchists that “are using the politically correct concept of open borders to create chaos”.

Step 1: Tone Down Anti-Government Rhetoric. The first step is to defuse the caustic accusations that the United States is the cause of all the world’s ills and maladies. Tone down the rhetoric against the U.S. president and the agencies enforcing immigration laws.

First Amendment free speech is not threatened by a call for civil discourse. Constructive criticism and practical solutions always will be welcomed.

Step 2: Expose One-Worlders. Anarchy is a paradox. Although anti-globalization anarchists would seem the opposite of One-Worlders, their call for open borders places them in the same camp.

One-Worlder billionaire George Soros and his Open Society Institute with foundations in 50+ countries funds radical causes, such as liberalizing U.S. immigration policy. The fallacy of his utopian ideas, disproved along with dialectical materialism, need to be exposed. Even the progressive United Nations recognizes the rights of nation-states to protect their borders.

As the leading democracy in the world, the United States has a form of government based on elections by U.S. citizens, who swear allegiance to the nation, foreswearing all others. Illegal immigrants are not U.S. citizens regardless of the One-Worlders and their strange bedfellows, the immigration anarchists. Mere presence in a country does not confer rights, and compliance with U.S. immigration laws is the first duty of those wishing to become citizens.

Step 3: Expound the Benefits of Liberty. Anarchists say that they should be free to do things they want to do, and they should not be compelled to do what they do not want to do. Although this may sound like liberty, it can only lead to chaos.

In a democracy, liberty flows naturally from the nation-state to the citizen as an inalienable right. Immigrants must be willing to assimilate or be denied the rights of citizenship. Immigration anarchists oppose this concept of liberty and malign the government that protects it.

Step 4: Reverse Balkanization. Multiculturalism at the cost of assimilation can destroy government guarantees of liberty. Balkanization by unassimilated immigrants weakens the nation. This does not mean that Chinese restaurants, Irish pubs, Italian pizza parlors, and kosher delis are to be closed; but city-states, whose residents owe allegiance to foreign countries, pose a growing threat to national unity. To qualify for U.S. benefits, legal immigrants must choose to pledge their allegiance to the United States.

Step 5: Reform Immigration Laws. U.S. immigration legislation is in dire need of reform. An immediate remedy is to require all federal, state, and local officials to report undocumented immigrants to the Department of Homeland Security, which in turn, must respond in a decisive manner.

Remedies to immigration abuse include use of an eye print, fingerprints, or other technology to create a national identity card. Such prints can be logged into a central database and checked against “wanted” lists that already exist.

Driver's licenses and Social Security cards are already unsecured national identity cards, even though such a requirement is opposed vehemently by anarchists and terrorists.

U.S. consular officers working in the field deserve better training, and the standards for granting visas need to be raised. Countries should be limited to one visa-issuing consular office, and each visa needs to be tracked by code. The administrative costs of processing and issuing travel visas need to be covered by the applicants.

Deportation of any person attempting to enter the country without proper papers needs to be expedited. The time has come for remedy.

Do we have the political and spiritual will to neutralize the immigration anarchists and set the nation back on a secure immigration footing? Grassroots efforts are necessary to encourage Congress to include serious immigration reform, as that which is now proposed seems to be more of the same. Many business elites see open borders and cheap labor as good for America. They must be convinced that it isn’t.

Doh! Doh! and Doh!

I have to keep repeating this plea until everything comes clear to me.

RE: IRAQ:

Cars and trucks, including ambulances, can be outfitted with deadly explosives.

Cars and trucks, so outfitted, can be driven into Iraqi areas with civilians, politicians, the military forces, and police.

Such outfitted cars and trucks can be detonated, thereby killing and maiming many personnel within the scope of the explosive.

It happens over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over, again.

CONVERSELY.

When cars and trucks cannot enter areas with all of the previously cited personnel, their explosions cannot harm those personnel.

PLEASE HELP ME TO UNDERSTAND WHY CARS AND TRUCKS ARE ALLOWED INTO THESE URBAN TARGET AREAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I guess I am just too stupid to get it.

ACTION ITEM: Heed This Message

This afternoon, we received this email message. It is crystal-clear and fully delineates appropriate actions. Here it is in full:

Regarding FOX's tv show 24 and CAIR:

The Fox affiliates KNOW what CAIR is up to, and no Fox affiliate want to run those wonderful pro-Islam PSAs that have been forced upon them, produced by CAIR. They are not REQUIRED to run them, and they are not running them.

Therefore CAIR today is sending an ACTION ALERT to all their members,telling them to call their local Fox affiliate, ask to speak to the person that handles their PSAs and demand those spots from CAIR be aired! (They didn't put it that way, but that's what they want.)

So YOU better call your local Fox affiliate, ask for the person that handles the PSAs and also the station's general manager. Make sure they both know the truth about CAIR, their goals for America, and who their masters are.

I've called two Fox affiliates today, and both were well aware of what CAIR really is. Neither has any intention of running the spots. Hopefully YOUR local affiliate knows the truth too, but can you take that chance?

You'll find your local Fox affiliate's phone number in the yellow pages, under "Television Stations."

Security, Hate-Speech Laws, and Dhimmitude

We are becoming used to the stepped up security measures to which we are now subjected: metal detectors at shopping malls, schools, and government buildings, body searches and bomb-sniffing dogs, I.D. checks and restricted entry to areas that were once free and open to all. Even looking at the 2005 Inauguration route with all its police presence and bullet-proof limousines, one would have thought that we live in a military dictatorship, not the United States of America. This is a sorry state of affairs.

Yet there are plenty of people that don’t believe in the “War on Terror,” that the bombers, reacting to our foreign policy, will stop and everything will return to the way it was if we pull out of Iraq and leave the rest of the world to its own devices.

Talking about Islam and jihad is useless to these people. They will never accept the premise that Islamists have pretensions on America regardless of what we do or what we don’t say about them.


Diana West clarifies this problem: even our bureaucrats, politicians and military have been duped by apologetics. There is no clarity in their thinking and writers make that attempt are brushed off:

Clarity is the goal. We are unlikely to witness a security-lite inauguration four years -- or eight or 12 years -- hence if we remain confused about the ideology that animates our foes. And we are unlikely to ward off the spread of jihad, dhimmitude and sharia law the world over -- including the U.S.A. -- if we know nothing about it, or, worse, know only apologetics about it. Infinitely more pleasant, they are also misleading.

But apologetics are what we get. Take the reading list that Lt. Gen. John R. Vines, our new commander in Iraq, has given senior staff. It whitewashes jihad, dhimmitude and sharia law with the works of Karen Armstrong and John Esposito. No Bat Ye'or; no Ibn Warraq; no Robert Spencer; no Daniel Pipes; no Paul Fregosi; no Oriana Fallaci; not even any Bernard Lewis. Ignorance before September 11 was bad enough; perpetuating that ignorance is inexcusable.

Politicians, bureaucrats and the military are becoming dhimmis without even knowing it.

Will the threat go away if we ignore Islamism and allow them to have their way? Already some of our citizens have paid the price and media continue to be cowed by charges of “perpetuating terrorist stereotypes.” The deaths of the Coptic Christians in New Jersey may well be unrelated to Islam, but they are being used by CAIR, the Council on American Islamic Relations are the justification for encouraging Fox to change the Muslim character appearing in the series “24” and for dropping a previously-vetted interview with Fox’s Greta van Susteren about the deaths of the New Jersey family with Michael Meunier as reported in the same Diana West essay. It appears that Muslims are creating a dhimmi attitude at Fox.

A correspondent in Britain recently described the rapidity with which Islam has taken hold in the British government. The Conservative Party has recently put forward a hate-speech law that would make it against the law to quote or even discuss the Koran, ahadiths, or Sira, or even the life of Mohammad. Violators will be jailed. A court in the Australian state of Victoria has a similar law under which Christian ministers have been prosecuted for merely discussing the contents of the Koran, contending that Islam teaches violence. And Canada has decided that teachings in the Bible constitute hate speech.
Will dhimmi attitudes such as Muslim apologetics or hate-speech laws make us safe? No, the Islamists have vowed to make Islam triumphant over the Earth. Dhimmitude will only make it easier for them to enslave us.

To All the Screeching Partisans

The presidential campaign of 2004 and the confirmation hearings for Dr. Condoleeza Rice are examples of the self-indulgence that is rampant in politics and politicians in general. Forgetting that they serve the people, American politicians have set their sights, not on what they can do for their country, but what they can do for their group of constituents and for themselves rather than for the body of the American people.

The world is a more dangerous place since 2001, not only because of the Islamists. There are other serious problems: “signs of the emergence for the first time since the fall of the Soviet empire, of an anti-American block anchored by Great Powers.”

On one hand, there have been successes in the spread of democracy:

First, the good news. The great project of the Bush administration -- the strengthening and spread of democracy -- is enjoying considerable success. Most recently we witnessed the triumph of the Orange Revolution in Ukraine, which followed the Rose Revolution in Georgia, bringing historic breaks from authoritarianism in two key former Soviet republics. Less publicized were elections in two critical Muslim states -- Indonesia and Malaysia -- in which Islamic parties were decisively defeated.

Elsewhere in the Islamic world, we saw (though many downplayed) the Afghan miracle -- free and successful elections in perhaps the world's least hospitable soil for democracy. That was followed by Palestinian elections and the beginning of political reform. Even more encouraging was a public statement issued just weeks earlier by more than 500 Palestinian intellectuals demanding democracy, the rule of law, transparency and an end to Arafat-style dictatorial rule.

And in spite of the violence in Iraq, the political process moves forward and Al Qaeda has been diminished, although other extremists groups are likely to fill the gap.

Other more familiar dangerous are nascent. Anti-Americanism feelings are becoming more obvious in Europe, specifically in France and Germany, core countries of the E.U., Russia, still a nuclear power, quietly is beginning to revert to czarist authoritarianism and Russia and China are cooperating in economic ventures and military exercises.

China continues to be a concern by “developing relationships with such virulently anti-American rogue states as Iran…various self-styled anti-imperialist flotsam as Syria, North Korea, Cuba and (Chavez’s) Venezuela.”

Closer to home and even more troubling: China is out-producing our trading partners south of the border canceling out the economic gains of Mexico and other American states that would have benefited by free trade in the Americas, making the lure of migration to America more potent.

To thwart America’s interests abroad, “China is building strategic relationships along the sea lanes from the Middle East to the South China Sea in ways that suggest defensive and offensive positioning to protect China’s energy interests, but also to serve broad security objectives that many Pentagon analysts believe will be used to undermine the U.S. and regional security as well as “creating a climate of uncertainty about the safety of all ships on the high seas.”

The U.S. military’s Southern Command produced a classified report in the late 1990s that warned that China was seeking to us commercial port facilities around the world to control strategic “chokepoints.” An example: a Chinese company with close ties to Beijing’s communist rulers holds long-term leases on port facilities at either end of the Panama Canal.

"China ... is looking not only to build a blue-water navy to control the sea lanes, but also to develop undersea mines and missile capabilities to deter the potential disruption of its energy supplies from potential threats, including the U.S. Navy, especially in the case of a conflict with Taiwan," the report said.

Chinese weapons for sea-lane control include new warships equipped with long-range cruise missiles, submarines and undersea mines, the report said. China also is buying aircraft and long-range target acquisition systems, including optical satellites and maritime unmanned aerial vehicles.

To nullify the Monroe Doctrine, China is also developing a relationship with Fidel Castro’s protégée, Hugo Chavez. After a December 2004 visit, Chavez pledged support for Chinese oil exploration in Venezuela.

Emphasizing that bilateral energy partnerships have a "bright future," Chavez, who is visiting China, said the Venezuelan government would grant Chinese companies production permits to explore oil in Venezuela's oil-bearing blocks, the Xinhua news agency said.

He also promised to support Chinese companies' involvement in exploring off-shore natural gas fields in Venezuela, according to Xinhua, which said Chavez made the comments to businessmen.

Noting that Venezuela was planning to form a state-owned petrochemical corporation, Chavez said Venezuela also "welcomes China to help build this plant."

The two countries can also join hands to construct an oil pipeline reaching ports along the Pacific, he said.

The world is fraught with dangers that President Bush alluded to in his 2005 Inaugural Speech. Some of the dangers exist today in spite of the measures that are being taken to root out and thwart terrorist activities that, according to Bush, “can not be prevented even by the most secure borders.”

We have long had problems with narco-traffickers that have now turned to human trafficking for profit, moving illegal immigrants across the border for work and prostitution, and, it appears now for the purpose of terrorism.

Our prisons are overflowing with angry, dangerous and resentful men and women that are being recruited to extremist Islam by other prisoners and by visiting Immams that are there “to minister to the prisoner’s spiritual health.” Prisons are known as school for crime and now are becoming terror-recruitment camps.

Gangs that once were confined to big cities are now spreading out to find other outlets. Youth and adult gangs for both sexes routinely fight over turf and rights to criminal activities and reported are now being recruited for terror purposes.

Mexican irredentists are slowly re-occupying the Southwest. With collusion of the Mexican government, some plan to secede from the Union while others just want to drive Anglos out. Former President Ernesto Zedilla stated in a speech in Chicago that the territory of Mexico extends outside its borders and the present President Vicente Fox is working with President Bush to create a guest worker program that essentially with be an amnesty for the millions of Mexicans that are presently don’t recognize the legality of the U.S. Mexican border.

Extremist Islam has arrived to the U.S. in the form of Saudi Arabian petrodollars that fund everything from university chairs to “experts” in think tanks and U.S. government bureaucracies as well as various Muslim lobbies such as CAIR. Although beheadings and other violent murders have not yet been attributed to Muslim immigrants and have not received much press, such crimes have occurred.
Distrust and suspicion are again mounting between Muslim and non-Muslim as the apparent message of a recent killing in the Egyptian Coptic community is that Muslim extremists plan to continue their murderous ways to silence critics and opponents of Islam.

Screeching self-indulgent politicians focusing only on the Battle of Iraq and turf battles within the Beltway seem not to notice these other dangerous and important issues that threaten America. By appearing divided on the world stage they are heartening our enemies and emboldening terror contractors that believe we are weak and too involved in partisan politics to see or understand their machinations at here and abroad.

To the screeching partisans: shut up already and look around!

Email Some Spine to Fox for “24”

Islam Online- News Section, Fox Cuts Out Anti-Muslim Scenes from “24”

The following are snippets from the full article:

WASHINGTON, January 16 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) – The Fox television network has decided to remove some stereotypical aspects about American Muslims from its action drama “24” thanks to immediate action from community leaders.

Following a January 12 meeting with representatives from CAIR, the largest US Muslim civil liberties advocacy group in the country, Fox officials promised that the popular series will be balanced in its portrayal of Muslims.

“There aren't any positive or even neutral portrayals of Muslims on TV,” the BBC quoting Ms Ahmed as regretting.

“When Muslims or Arabs are portrayed, it is always in a stereotypical way.”

Premiered on January 10, the drama portrays a Muslim family as a terrorist “sleeper cell,” who are plotting attacks inside the US.

A young man is seen helping his parents mastermind a plot to kill as many Americans by launching an attack on a commuter train.

The drama showed the mother poisoning her son's non-Muslim girlfriend because she poses a threat to their plans.

The US secretary of state is also seen taken hostage by the “Muslim terrorists.”

It climaxes with the defense secretary shown on an Internet video tape like those coming out of US-occupied Iraq.

Pro-Muslims Ad

Fox further decided to distribute a CAIR public service announcement (PSA) to network affiliates to be aired in proximity to “24.”

CAIR's 30 and 60-second PSA feature American Muslims of European, African-American, Hispanic, and Native American heritage.

Each person in the spots states how he/she and his/her family have served America and ends by saying, “I am an American Muslim.”

We need to reinforce lagging fortitude and shore up moral uncertainty at Fox. Email jonathan.hogan@fox.com. We, on the right side of freedom, life, and country, presently lack the organization that C.A.I.R. has built for its fifth column work in America. While we are building, we need to act on our own behalf in large numbers as individuals.

C.A.I.R. took advantage of our years of national inattentiveness and built a propaganda machine with Saudi backing and funding. Right now they are ahead. Let's catch up and pass them by.

The Big Sell Out

America will never militarize nor close the borders to illegal immigration. There are many forces and groups that will never allow America to put safety first at the expense of their interests.

1. Businesses big and small have always relied migrant to provide cheap labor to, in their words, remain competitive with nations in which wages are depressed and benefits and environmental constraints are absent. American workers are just too expensive to create the goods that they themselves want to buy, or so they say.

They also say that American workers also are unwilling to do certain jobs that are unpleasant and frankly dangerous. In the past there was dignity in work. The poor and uneducated submitted to this type of work that is offered mostly to migrants that are not members of any union or to the un-unionized that would rather work than to live on the dole.

2. Central American countries and Mexico are lobbying for “normalization” and “equitable treatment” of their citizens that supply the labor on this side of the border. Normalization agreements exist between the U.S. and at least twenty countries. Remittance checks from their citizens employed in the U.S. outstrip the GNP of their economies that would take a nose-dive if the borders were closed and dollar-faucet was shut off. Workers, legal and illegal, have been subjected to what they feel is lack of respect and improper treatment as they don’t get the benefit of other American workers such as social security, health care, unemployment benefits, welfare payments, and a safe working environment. Illegals also have to leave in constant fear of exploitation by the unscrupulous that play on their fear of deportation.


3. The NAFTA lobby will never allow the end of mass migration for the free movement of goods and services throughout the Americas is a dream come true for those that want to trade and partner with the Americas. For this reason the past amnesty programs and guest-worker programs will be pushed and ultimately become new normal as the world breaks up into trading blocks: the E.U., the Americas, and the Pacific rim. The Globalization lobby most definitely wants to keep the borders open in order to foster free trade among nations and ease of migration so that labor becomes available wherever needed. Mexico and Central America are dependent upon NAFTA for the health of their economies.

4. The Open Society lobby wants open borders so that national governments are eliminated in their belief that nationalism is evil and the multiculturalism and socialism are the greater good. World governance would be by the secular socialist elite, not necessarily the United Nations. Individual liberty would be subordinate to group-need with resources to be collected and given out according to need by an all wise elite reminiscent of the now defunct Soviet Union. Variations of this theme exist throughout Western Europe and the Americas. Multi-cultural elites believe that values and culture are conditional and that no one culture or value system is better than another. Thus national borders are unnecessary and nationalism is a past evil to be stamped out at all costs.


5. MECha, an irredentist Mexican movement will never allow the Southern border to be closed or militarized for they demographically hope to occupy and reconquer the Southwest, or Atzlan, with the ultimate goal of seceding as either a separate nation or to merge again with Mexico. Angry and resentful still after the result of the Mexican-American War and the loss of Texas and what was known as Alta California in the 19th century, Mexican-Americans and Mexicans in general are pushing for this social movement to occur. The Mexican government, in fact, assists migrants to the border and advises them how to survive the dangerous crossing by providing a comic book-style manual.

Past Mexican officials have made statements to the effect that Mexico actually “extends outside its borders” as tens of millions of Mexicans now reside in the United States. Past President Ernesto Zedilla made that statement in Chicago. Mexican and Mexican-American politicians campaign in the United States and as Mexican Americans now have dual citizenship, allowing them to live in the United States and vote in both the U.S. and Mexico as well as to hold office in Mexico.

Mexicans want the “right of return” to lands that they say were theirs before the Mexican-American War. They consider themselves America’s Palestinians as the border came to them and “this is really Mexico.” Mexicans in California and the Southwest are quite vocal and some have been obnoxious about this point. Some American-born Mexican politicians are pushing for free and open access to the border, American driver’s licenses, voting franchise, and all other rights of Americans because they were on the continent long before the arrival of the English colonists.

Circularity and family reunion has been hampered by the most recent attempts at border closings. Past generations crossed the border at will to return to their villages with earnings and to see their families. In their view, checkpoints and physical examination are unnecessary and illegal indignities that keep families apart and impede the “natural migration over the land by indigenous peoples that have more rights than the Anglo/Gringo invaders.”

6. The Muslim lobby will never allow the closing of either of the borders as their belief is that Islam must be triumphant. As Mexicans don’t consider themselves to be immigrants, only migrants, many Muslim immigrants see themselves as migrant re-colonizers of lands that were once Muslims for Islam, in their view, pre-dates Hispanic claims to the New World for Christopher Columbus included Muslim navigators in his crew. Islam requires Allah to rule the world and for Muslims to overspread using any tool and means possible: demographics, economic, education, charity, religious recruitment, as well as war. War is deceit and, in their view, non-Muslims are not free to criticize or discuss Islam, only to wait upon, receive, and implement the policies that Muslims have brought to “make America and the world a better place.” Closed borders are a bother to them especially at the yearly gathering of Muslims in Mecca. Customs are an annoyance as well as a polluting factor for non-Muslim inspectors must examine both people and luggage. Muslims are the natural rulers of the world that have to regain their natural place in the world.

7. Immigration lawyers are waiting in the wings for the millions of clients that await their help to negotiate the red tape of the immigration bureaucracy. They will never allow the borders to be closed and are lobbying fiercely for programs that will assist migrants and immigrants.


These and a myriad of other groups want to maintain open borders for their interest group. They are selling out the safety, and in some cases, the existence of America, for the interest of their group.

Border control is now a very touchy subject. Labels are attached to those that want to control the borders in order to neutralize those that advocate control of any kind. Nativists, or even Americans that believe in restricted, closed, or even safe borders are held up to ridicule labeled: naïve, racist, bigots, parochial, stupid, hysterical, Christian fundamentalists, Zionists, exploiters of immigrants, and so on. Competing groups are tearing at the fabric of American society, each with an agenda that overlooks and ignores the will of the majority of the American people. Most Americans want a feeling of security and are demanding safe and well-regulated borders.

The Federal Government has created the Bureau of Homeland Security for the purpose of regulating of commerce, migration, public transportation, national security, and a host of other duties and requirements. The biggest obstacle to security is negotiating among the various lobbies and special interest groups that now influence Congress to our detriment.

Hating America - A History

The whole world seems to hate America. It appears that this is not a new idea.

From FrontPageMagazine:

Hating America a History
By Richard B. Speed
History News Network | January 20, 2005

“I am willing to love all mankind, except an American.”--Samuel Johnson.

“America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.” --Oscar Wilde.

“Why do they hate us?” The question seems to be on everyone’s lips these days, and everybody seems to have an opinion. According to some observers, people throughout the world simply, “hate our democracy.” According to others the United States sides with Israel against the Palestinian people, thus incurring their justifiable wrath. In Europe it is common to assert that Americans act like arrogant “cowboys,” and that we are religious fanatics attempting to impose our ways upon the rest of the world. Radicals and even moderates in Latin America insist that the United States is responsible for the squalor so common in that region. Throughout the world the consensus of opinion seems to be that the United States has constructed an empire that snuffs out the aspirations of its victims. This has given rise in recent years to a wave of paranoid hatred of the United States. But few seem to know that such loathing of America is nothing new.

Long before the United States was founded, Barry and Judith Colp Rubin inform us in their new book, Hating America: A History, enlightened Europeans were convinced that America was inferior to the Old World and that nothing good would ever come of it. During the eighteenth century European intellectuals attempted to explain why no great civilization had arisen on American shores (the Incas and the Aztecs did not count) as it had across the Atlantic. The greatest biologist and naturalist of his time, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, was convinced that climate was the critical factor in human development. Although he had never been to America, he read a great deal about the severe blizzards of New England and the heat of the tropics and concluded that it was impossible for civilized life to thrive there. In fact, he was convinced that life degenerated in American conditions. Without any evidence whatsoever, he contended that animals in America were smaller than their European counterparts. The American mountain lion for example, was “smaller, weaker, and more cowardly than the real lion.” He even held that animals such as horses, goats and dogs which had crossed the Atlantic to America diminished in stature after they arrived!

What was true of animals, naturally was also true of humans. Accordingly, Buffon wrote that the American Indian “is feeble in his organs of generation; . . . has neither body hair . . . nor ardor for his female . . . .” In terms similar to those often used by anti-American critics two hundred years later, he concluded that their “heart is frozen, their society cold, their empire cruel.”

The Rubins explain that Buffon was no exception in his bizarre estimation of America. The great French philosopher Voltaire echoed his opinions. Another eighteenth century popularizer of anti-American views was Cornelius DePauw of the Netherlands who contended in his popular 1768 book, Philosophical Research on the Americans, that everything across the Atlantic was “either degenerate or monstrous.” Immanuel Kant wrote in 1775 that Americans were “too weak for hard work . . . incapable of all culture, in fact even lower than the Negro.” So many European intellectuals accepted and repeated these and other similar claims that they formed the European consensus about America. In response to the prevalence of views such as these Benjamin Franklin wrote his Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, an essay demonstrating that Americans were not sickly, that the population was fertile and growing more rapidly than that of England. Thomas Jefferson’s famous Notes on the State of Virginia is an explicit defense of native creatures. American bears, he explained, were as twice as big as old world varieties, and the fossilized remains of American elephants were enormous.

Critics were not deterred however. Nikolas Lenau, a Hungarian poet went so far as to complain that he could find no nightingales or other songbirds in America. This he thought was emblematic of the region’s spiritual poverty. Unlike many European critics, Lenau had at least traveled to America in the 1830s, but he became ill, lost money in a land speculation scheme, and was embittered by his experience. He later wrote that “Americans are shopkeepers with souls that stink towards heaven. They are dead for all spiritual life . . . . The nightingale is right when he does not want to come to these louts.”

This enlightening new book places contemporary hatred of America in historical context by describing the trajectory of anti-Americanism over the course of three centuries. According to the Rubins, during the first phase of anti-Americanism, European intellectuals blamed the inferiority of America on the natural environment. During the second phase, which began with the Revolutionary era, they placed blame for American degeneracy upon the people. Even in Jefferson’s day, Americans were after all, the descendents of a polyglot collection of Europe’s criminals, outcasts, religious cranks, and failures—in short, the scum of European society. Furthermore, they were rebels who, having proclaimed the virtues of the common man, had rejected monarchy, the only system of government for which mankind had ever proven suitable. It was impossible that such a people could make a successful nation. European intellectuals dripped contempt as they discussed the United States. The democratic experiment across the Atlantic could not possibly last.

Most European critics were children of privilege, born into a class hierarchy they believed was the natural order of any society. They believed that all the benefits of culture, literature, the arts, poetry and the opera were the work of such an aristocracy of breeding. Yet Americans not only insisted on the revolutionary doctrine of equality, but practiced it. Americans refused to defer to their betters. Not only did Americans have offensive table manners, but they were filthy, crude and violent, prone as European visitors noted to knife fights, duels, and lynching. Europeans constantly complained that American women talked too much and didn’t know their place. Some sarcastically referred to the United States as a “paradise for women.” Even children were allowed to run wild without adequate discipline. The habit that repulsed them the most was, as the British traveler Francis Trollope put it, “the remorseless spitting of Americans.” With their eyes focused determinedly on the bottom line, Americans would never produce a culture worthy of note. Degradation was the natural, indeed the inevitable tendency of democracy.

What most bothered European intellectuals about Americans was that they neither appreciated the arts nor deferred to a refined upper class. In short, they refused to recognize their own inferiority and the natural superiority of the learned. To Americans, the latter were merely effete snobs unwilling to get their hands dirty with a little honest sweat. In 1824 a Jacksonian campaign slogan that ridiculed the highly educated John Quincy Adams expressed their contempt. According to the Democrats of that year, “Adams writes. Jackson fights!” Amidst the democratic mob, there was no place for an intellectual elite, certainly not in politics. One hundred-fifty years later little had changed as American politicians from George Wallace to Spiro Agnew made sport of “pointy-headed intellectuals,” and “eggheads” like Adlai Stevenson. Even in the twenty-first century, Americans prefer a plain talking Texas cowboy who expresses himself in sentence fragments to a Harvard educated liberal who speaks in nuanced paragraphs.

Through the middle of the nineteenth century few critics worried much about the impact of America because they knew it could not last. At most, the United States might be an obnoxious model that appealed to the lower orders of European society--a frightening prospect in itself. But when the Confederate states seceded from the Union igniting the Civil War in 1861, they were convinced that their predictions were coming true. When however, the Union triumph demonstrated that the nation was a permanent feature of the international landscape, they began to fear the impact of the United States. The third phase of anti-Americanism had begun. By the turn of the century, as the monster across the Atlantic began to out-produce the great powers of Europe, and compete with them in the imperial arena, some began to fear that the United States might at some time in the future impose its dreadful system upon them. Worse, their own people might prefer the boorish American mass consumption society to the cultured but sluggish class societies of traditional Europe. In short, the elites of “old Europe” feared “Americanization.”

During the nineteenth century anti-Americanism was an intellectual orientation of both the conservative right which loathed the “masses,” and of the romantic left which simultaneously championed and feared the “dangerous classes.” With the Bolshevik Revolution anti-Americanism acquired a state sponsor. Hostility to capitalism merged with hostility to the United States in the torrent of propaganda sponsored by the Soviet Union throughout most of its history. Fascists on the right conflated anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism. Accordingly one Nazi propagandist commented that “Uncle Sam has been transformed into Uncle Shylock.” Hitler himself once asked a friend, “What is America, but millionaires, beauty queens, stupid records, and Hollywood?” Demonstrating that he had accepted Buffon’s degeneracy theory, Hitler told another friend, “Transfer [a German] to Miami and you make a degenerate out of him—in other words—an American.”

During the forty-five years or so of the Cold War, western European anti-Americanism was muted because that region depended upon the United States for its defense against the Soviet Union. It was muted everywhere that is except in France, which has always been a prolific source of anti-American bile. But with the collapse of the Soviet Union and its dreary empire, hysterical fears of American “hyperpower” have arisen once again. After all, without the Soviet Union to restrain the Americans, what is to prevent the United States from extending its repugnant culture, not to mention its economic and military hegemony everywhere? Intellectuals throughout the world who embraced socialism during the Cold War, have embraced anti-Americanism as their new ideology in the wake of the Soviet collapse.

In a series of persuasive chapters, the Rubins describe anti-Americanism as it metastasized first throughout Latin America and then the Middle East, where it has acquired new state sponsors who use it to shift blame for the failures of Islamic societies to come to terms with modernity. Then Rubins finds that “third world” intellectuals have generally adapted old anti-American themes to the new circumstances of the post Cold War order. It is worth noting that the authors fail to discuss the emergence since the Vietnam War of American anti-Americanism, a disconcerting yet pervasive aspect of our contemporary intellectual life. It is however, a phenomenon which could be easily explained within the intellectual framework the Rubins adopt. Nevertheless, Hating America is an otherwise comprehensive guide to the development and spread of yet another paranoid ideology—one they note bears a disquieting similarity to anti-Semitism, its ancient and evil sibling.
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Self-hating Americans are responsible for the Open-Borders and immigration problems we are experiencing today. It seems that all cultures are relevant and that American nationalism is an evil to be stamped out. Why do others hate us? We hate ourselves so what else can we expect?

Disloyal Americans Continue to Undermine the United States in a Time of War

The catchy slogan “loose lips sink ships” during World War II gave every patriotic American pause, a reminder that gossip, pillow talk, or a slip of the tongue could take give aid to the enemy and cost the lives of Americans. Those that inadvertently and foolishly let something slip often paid the price of their jobs and social standing and those that did so on purpose were branded traitors. That’s how it was when Americans pulled together to win a war.

The Vietnam War changed all that. The Anti-War Movement protestors and their allies worked together to cause a political defeat of the Vietnam War and their contemporary equivalents are attempting to repeat the same nasty business with the belief that American’s withdrawal from Iraq and from the use of the military will solve the world’s problems and put us out of danger. Misguided or wrongheaded they are putting us in greater peril and would surrender us to our many enemies.

Tony Blankley depicts once such instance in “Espionage by any other name.” Quoting to Seymour Hersh in the New Yorker:

"The Administration has been conducting secret reconnaissance missions inside Iran ... Much of the focus is on accumulation of intelligence and targeting information on Iranian nuclear, chemical and missile sites. ... (The) American commando task force has been set up in South Asia and is now working closely with a group of Pakistani scientists and technicians who had dealt with Iranian counterparts ... The American task force ... .has been penetrating eastern Iran from Afghanistan in a hunt for underground installations ... The task force members, or their locally recruited agents, secreted remote detection devices ... "

Is this espionage or a willful attempt to undermine the United States in a time of war? Neither Blankley nor I are experts on federal code. He cites:

Title 18 United States Code section 794, subsection (b) prohibits anyone "in time of war, with intent that the same shall be communicated to the enemy [from publishing] any information with respect to the movement, numbers, or disposition of any of the Armed Forces ... of the United States ... or supposed plans or conduct of any ... military operations ... or any other information relating to the public defense, which might be useful to the enemy ... [this crime is punishable] by death or by imprisonment for any term of years or for life."

Subsection (a) of that statute prohibits anyone "with ... reason to believe that it is to be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of a foreign nation, communicates ... to any representative, officer, agent, employee, subject or citizen thereof, either directly or indirectly, any information relating to the national defense, shall be punished by death or by imprisonment for any term of years or for life."

It seems to me that Mr. Hersh and all other journalists that report in this manner during war are doing more than commenting, giving an unfavorable opinion against a war of which they disapprove and a president that they seem to hate. At the minimum they are putting our troops at risk.

This is not the Vietnam era and our enemies are not the containable North Vietnamese and the more reasonable Soviet Empire. The obvious enemy is the nihilistic strain of extremist Islam that is using all means possible against us, including the very strategies that Mr. Hersh writes about in his New Yorker column. They are occupying us by stealth through demographics and small acts of violence are beginning to happen on U.S. soil that could escalate as our enemies will be heartened by the fact that U.S. operatives can’t be successful on Iranian soil because of journalists like Mr. Hersh.

We have many enemies in the world and fewer allies, some of which are reluctant or do so at great risk. Hersh has revealed that:

"The American commando task force ... is now working," "has been conducting secret reconnaissance." In other words, Mr. Hersh is revealing to all the world, including the Iranian government, that our commandos are currently behind enemy lines in Iran on a dangerous and vital military assignment.

Moreover, he helps the enemy by writing that our commandos have been "penetrating eastern Iran from Afghanistan." That considerably reduces the areas the Iranian military and counter-intelligence forces have to search and monitor to try to catch our brave commandos.

Furthermore, Mr. Hersh informs the world that our commandos are working with certain Pakistani scientists who had previously worked with Iranian scientists. Such information might further assist the Iranian security forces in their investigations. After all, there can't be that many Iranian nuclear scientists who worked with the few Pakistani nuclear scientists in the past. Mr. Hersh has virtually given Iranian intelligence the names (if not the addresses) of the Pakistani scientists who are working with our forces from their jumping off places in Pakistan.

Finally, Mr. Hersh helpfully writes that our commandos have been working with local Iranian agents to plant detection devices around known or suspected nuclear plants. This gives the enemy insights into our commandos' specific method of operation and alerts Iranian Intelligence to be looking for local Iranians as well as Americans.

Obviously Mr. Hersh cares as little for the lives of the people and our troops as he does for his own country for the Iranians are building a nuclear weapons program. The purpose of the American operation was to obtain information on the nuclear program of the world’s leading terrorist-supporting state.

We live in very dangerous times. Extremist elements abound in many forms and other enemies operate on this soil: an irredentist movement of Mexican separatists, MEChA, which is actively encouraging the demographic takeover of the U.S. by Mexican immigrants. Socialist/Communist holdovers in the form of some labor unions and other groups are agititating in the streets, in the courts, and in the press to make changes that would swing us eventually into socialism. America is going through internal struggles during a period when we should working together for our very survival. We need a loyal and constructive press, not a fifth column.

It would have been well for Mr. Hersh and other journalists to investigate and expose these groups. Unfortunately some of them are fifth columnists, working for our enemies.

Rectitude and Fortitude

From the Universal Press, 17 January 2005--

Over the weekend, special emissaries from the government of the United States of America met with highest level officials of Iran, Syria, and Saudi Arabia. Each delivered a message from the President and both houses of the Congress of the United States.

In summary, each emissary told the leaders of these three states to prevent any untoward events for the American presidential inauguration and for the Iraqi election at the end of this month.

Each nation was told that EACH untoward event at America's inauguration or at the Iraqi election would result in the total annihiliation of something vitally important to each of the three countries, at the same time. I.e., all three would experience consequences for each event.

Great protests arose from the governing hierarchies of each country, but each American emissary sat in stony silence waiting for his opportunity to speak again. When able to speak, each emissary told the ranking members of each Islamic government that they would be privvy to a downpayment, a demonstration of good faith, as it were.

When directed at a precise time to look at an easily visible area outside the windows of each governmental center, Syrian, Iranian, and Saudi Arabian officials watched what can only be described as total disintegration of three secret governmental facilities of extreme importance to each regime. Universal Press takes pride in maintaining the secrecy of the targets at the request of the government of the United States.

Anticipating ensuing rage, each American emissary told the animated Islamists present that any detention, arrest, or detainment of any emissary for any reason would be considered a declaration of war on all three countries, and that American submarines could place missles into the hip pockets of the ministers at any time of their choosing.

All three emissaries returned to Washington without incident.

If only...

'24': Fox Responds

The following is what C.A.I.R. sent out via email regarding its meeding with Fox '24'. Even this is too much concession.

MUSLIMS ENCOURAGED BY FOX '24' MEETING

Network asks affiliates nationwide to air CAIR PSA(WASHINGTON, D.C., 1/14/05) - The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today said that it is encouraged by a recent meeting in Los Angeles with representatives of the Fox television network to discuss Muslim concerns about the drama series "24." SEE: http://www.fox.com/24/

CAIR called for Wednesday's meeting to address the depiction of a "Muslim" family that is at the heart of a terror plot in the popular program. The Washington-based Islamic civil rights and advocacy group is concerned that the portrayal of the family as a terrorist "sleeper cell" may cast a shadow of suspicion over ordinary American Muslims and could increase Islamophobic stereotyping and bias.At the meeting, which included representatives from CAIR's Southern California office and from the Los Angeles-based Muslim Public Affairs Council, Fox officials said they would distribute a CAIR public service announcement (PSA) to network affiliates and ask that it be aired in proximity to "24."

TO VIEW THE CAIR PSA, GO TO:http://www.cair.com/default.asp?page=PSAJun2004SEE ALSO: "US TV to Screen Pro-Muslim Spots"http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/4173647.stm

FOX also gave meeting participants assurances that the program will be balanced in its portrayal of Muslims. Network representatives said that they had already reviewed existing episodes and removed some aspects that could potentially be viewed as stereotypical.

"We thank Fox for the opportunity to address the Muslim community's concerns and for the willingness of network officials to take those concerns seriously in an atmosphere of mutual respect and cooperation," said CAIR Communications Coordinator Rabiah Ahmed. She added that CAIR looks forward to working with Fox in the future.

Mona Charen: Muslims and the tsunami

Hot dog! Here it comes. Mona Charen may be firing the second salvo. About what? About the collosal Muslimness of Indonesia: "Indonesia can now assume first place in the pantheon of ingrates."

I have held back commenting on helping Muslim Indonesia, waiting to see what would eak out, given how constipated political correctness has made most people. But, we have some good and brave souls uncorrupted in their integrity, like Mona Charen and Robert Spencer. Robert Spencer fired the first salvo this week on Front Page Magazine and Jihad Watch when he responded to the comments by that non-august personage, Colin Powell, who hoped that our largess sent to the tsunami ravaged Indonesia would warm their attitudes to us. Spencer delved into some of the history of natural disasters in that part of the world in the 19th century, 1815 and Krakatoa in 1865.

After Krakatoa, Indonesian Muslim clerics dusted off their Allah's-gonna-get-you-for-that speeches, visited metaphysical terror onto the ignorati, and then launched a jihad to murder the Dutch who had sent in massive aid and human assistance.

Aristotle said it: A is A. Ayn Rand said it: A thing is what it is (the Law of Identity). Islam is what it is, and Muslims are what they are. Why bother?

Anyhow, here is what Mona wrote, and it is a pip:

Prince Felix Schwartenberg of Austria was asked in 1848 how his country would respond to Russia's help putting down a Hungarian insurrection. "Austria," he replied, "will astound the world with the magnitude of her ingratitude."

Well stand aside, Prince, because Indonesia can now assume first place in the pantheon of ingrates. The world's most populous Muslim nation, horribly battered by the tsunami, announced that it wished to see American and other foreign troops who are providing disaster relief out by March 31. "The sooner the better," said Vice President Yusuf Kalla. The U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln was reportedly asked to withdraw from Indonesian territorial waters off Banda Aceh due to Indonesian "sensitivity" about U.S. training flights.

Our diplomats are doing what they always do, attempting to portray a knife in the back as a friendly pat. Thus U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia B. Lynn Pascoe was quick to assure the world that the deadline was just dandy. "We don't intend to be there a minute afterward. ... As I understand, the vice president was referring to a plan they have internally for the length of time it is going to take them to be set up and have transportation sufficient that they will not need helicopters. That's a perfectly reasonable position to me."

Really? It makes many Americans want to spit. Should we be leaning over backward to assure Indonesia that we won't overstay our welcome -- enduring heat, accidents, disease, expense and other hardships in order to help her people?

Here's an alternate theory: The Indonesian government's hatred for the United States overpowers even the most dire needs of its suffering people. That is a mighty hatred. Even Turkey gratefully accepted aid from Greece when the former suffered an earthquake in 1999.

Certainly the Indonesian government does not speak for everyone in the country. Many Indonesians have expressed their thanks to the United States and the rest of the world. But neither is it deniable that Islamic extremists have poisoned many minds in the Muslim world. As Paul Marshall reported in The Weekly Standard, a "prominent Islamist Website Jihad Unspun maintains the tsunami struck Thailand for supporting 'the Christian crusaders in the war on terror.'" The other nations on the Indian Ocean that suffered death and destruction were similarly deserving -- India for its "polytheism" and Sri Lanka for supposedly "giving its full backing to the Christian Crusaders inside the White House."

In Egypt, as the Middle East Media Research Institute reports, an editorial in the government weekly Akhbar Al-Yawn noted that the Arab Doctors Association is aiding jihad warriors in Chechnya, Afghanistan, Iraq and Bosnia, but it declined to assist tsunami victims because the disaster is seen as "punishment from Allah." It does not apparently pause to consider that Banda Aceh, the hardest-hit province in the hardest-hit nation, is the most Islamist.

Ibrahim Al-Bashar, an advisor to Saudi Arabia's justice minister, explained on Saudi television:

Whoever reads the Koran, given by the Maker of the World, can see how these nations were destroyed. There is one reason: They lied, they sinned, and (they) were infidels. Whoever studies the Koran can see this is the result. ... These countries, in which these things occurred -- don't they refrain from adopting Allah's law, which is a form of heresy? Whoever does not act according to Allah's law is a heretic, that's what Allah said in the Koran. Don't these countries have witchcraft, sorcery, deceitfulness and abomination?

Sheik Ibrahim Mudeiris, a Palestinian cleric, pronounced the following in his televised Friday sermon:

Don't you think that the wrath of the earth and the wrath of the sea should make us reflect? Tens of thousands dead, and many predict that the number will be in the hundreds of thousands. We ask God for forgiveness. When oppression and corruption increase, the law of equilibrium applies. I can see in your eyes that you are wondering what the 'universal law of equilibrium' is. This law is a divine law. If people are remiss in implementing God's law and in being zealous and vengeful for His sake, Allah sets his soldiers in action to take revenge.

It would be reassuring to hear from the Muslim faithful that those who urge "vengefulness" on God's behalf and who shrug off the greatest natural disaster in years as Allah's punishment are themselves heretics. But such reassurance is hard to find.


©2005 Creators Syndicate, Inc.

BOO-HOO OVER '24'

Crocodile tears, moaning, the gnashing of teeth--O, the inhumanity of it all. How dare Fox portray Muslim jihadists as jihadists. What will this do to the neighborhoods? CAIR is pulling out its usual crying towel, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton style, to wail (see their latest below).

If 24 had pictured a family of Israeli Jews in America plotting major terrorism, would CAIR have protested? No, of course not. Evil Islam and its practitioners, Muslims, would have been off the hook, among other obvious considerations. But, then, since when do Israeli Jews do this kind of stuff?

What about Nepalese? Australians? Mongolians? Figi Islanders? Inuits? Is it fair to single out Arab Muslims as jihadists? You bet it is. They are the ones doing all this jihad stuff, and they are the only ones. And the operative term is Muslim, not just Arab Muslim.

24, so far, takes the make-nice, sugar-coating off, the one that has been hiding the facts. No political correctness or multiculturalism, so far. As Aristotle said, A is A. 24 points out that jihadists are what they are, and it is high time people stop sticking their heads up their anuses to avoid identifying reality.

CAIRs free ride through CandyLand should end, just as it did for Jesse Jackson and similar extorting freeloaders who appealed to the moral cowardice of people in power. We know what the facts about Islam are. It is unreasonable to expect CAIR to become rational--their entire industry is built on lies, and they will ride their Titanic to the bottom.

We need to write Fox to tell them to stay the course and tell CAIR literally to pound sand.

***********

From the daily email tedium from the Council of American-Islamic Relations, Wednesday, January 12, 2005 12:05 PM.

MUSLIMS TO MEET WITH FOX OVER DEPICTIONS IN '24'

[NOTE: Later today, representatives of CAIR-National, CAIR-LA, the Muslim
Public Affairs Council, and the Southern California Muslim community will
meet with Fox officials and the co-creator of "24."]

CONTACT: CAIR-National Spokesperson, Rabiah Ahmed, 202-439-1441; CAIR-LA
Communications Director, Sabiha Khan, 714-776-1847 or 714-390-0334, CAIR-LA
Executive Director Hussam Ayloush, 714-776-1847

'24'S' LATEST PLOT TWIST PAINS SOME MUSLIMS
Dana Parsons, Los Angles Time, 1/12/05
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/orange/la-me-parsons12jan12,1,301488.column

Premiering against the backdrop of post-Sept. 11 America, "24" has always
been about figuring out terrorist plots, but this year it will test viewers
in a different way.

The story line so far: A seemingly normal, upscale Muslim family is a
sleeper terrorist cell. We've learned that Mom and Dad are knee-deep in a
plot that has resulted in a train derailment and the kidnapping of the U.S.
defense secretary. And that they've actively involved their teenage son.
Not to mention that in Monday's episode, they ordered him to shoot his
non-Muslim girlfriend because she stumbled onto information that could
prove dangerous to them.

"24" comes through again. Can't wait till next week.

Then again, I'm not the Muslim living next door. I'm a blue-eyed boy from
Nebraska, immune to cultural stereotypes.

Thus, the test. In an era where Americans are fearful of attack from
Islamic fundamentalists, will a TV show depicting "normal" people as
terrorists deepen our paranoia? Will it lead to violence against Muslims or
Middle Easterners?...

The easy answer is to say that of course, everyone realizes that. But it's
not quite that simple, says Sabiha Khan, a spokeswoman for the local
chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, headquartered in Anaheim.

She's not a "24" fan but has seen this year's episodes and is worried.
Today, in fact, she and other CAIR officials will take their concerns to
Fox in Los Angeles.

CAIR doesn't want to curtail Fox's creative license, Khan says. However,
CAIR is concerned that the depiction "will contribute to an atmosphere that
it's OK to harm and discriminate against Muslims. This could actually hurt
real-life people."

CAIR doesn't expect Fox to dump the story line but might ask that it
consider ways to mitigate it in future episodes. "We're realistic," Khan
says. "We're not asking for something that can't be done."

It would be naive to dismiss Khan's concerns. At this point in American
history, it's an unfortunate fact of life that some people harbor unfair
suspicions of Muslims in our midst.

So while I tout "24," how does my favorite show look like through Khan's eyes?

"It was almost like a heart-sinking, crashing feeling down to the floor,"
she says. "Just being attacked, seeing your religion attacked, which, if it
is the essence of your being, is a very difficult thing to take. You feel
mixed emotions - anger, disappointment, hurt."

The "24" terrorist family, she says, "is not a family I've ever known. None
of the 9/11 hijackers had that kind of family.. It's not really based on
any reality of what we [in America] are going through..."

MEMRI: Arab Doctors' Association is Aiding Jihad Warriors - but Not Tsunami Victims

MEMRI:, Special Dispatch Series - No. 846, January 13, 2005

To Islam's apologists and the Conservatives who think Islam is just another "great" religion: Smelling the coffee yet?


Editor of Egyptian Government Weekly: Arab Doctors' Association is Aiding Jihad Warriors - but Not Tsunami Victims

In an article in Egyptian government weekly Akhbar Al-Yawm, editor Ibrahim Sa'dah criticized the double standard of the Arab Doctors' Association, which is aiding Jihad warriors in Chechnya, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Bosnia, but refrains from helping victims of the recent tsunami in Asia because the tsunami is "punishment from Allah." The following are excerpts from the article: [1]

The Arab Doctors' Association Urges Doctors to Participate in Jihad and Blow Up 'Infidels,' Not Help the Wounded

"The Emergency Relief Committee of the Arab Doctors' Association published, in one of the Egyptian papers, a communiqué showing a picture of an infant. Underneath, it said: 'Iraq will never surrender. The occupation is destroying homes and hospitals. The bodies of the martyrs [lie] in the streets, and there is no one to bury them. The world observes these crimes in complete silence. Iraq's citizens say that they [will attain] one of two good things: victory or martyrdom. [And you:] What is your contribution? What will you say to your sovereign? Solidarity alone is not enough!'

"The communiqué did not, of course, neglect to mention a bank account number for donations, at the Islamic Faysal Bank at its central branch in Cairo.

"This communiqué is not new to us. It has been published many times in the past, whether by the Arab Doctors' Association or the Egyptian Doctors' Union. I still recall these communiqués published in our Egyptian papers or in the Arab papers calling on Muslims to help their brothers in Afghanistan, Chechnya, Bosnia, and other places…

"At the time, we welcomed the initiative of the Arab Doctors' Association, on the understanding that its aim was to support the Jihad warriors and those struggling for the sake of liberating their homeland from the hands of the occupiers who hold many [different] citizenships. [We understood that this support was to have been provided] through capabilities that only doctors have – that is, caring for the sick and saving the lives of the injured.

"But we were surprised later by the fact that the enthusiasm of the Arab Doctors' Association in sending 'volunteer' doctors to those blood-drenched regions was not for carrying out this sublime mission that only doctors [could carry out], but rather, to urge [those volunteer doctors] to fight, [to participate] in the Jihad war, and to manufacture explosives and to blow up places in which there were a number of 'infidels' and scores of innocent civilians…

"They could not care less that hundreds and thousands of innocent people were killed [in these operations], as long as one or two soldiers from among the invaders and occupiers were killed or injured.

"It suffices to mention in this respect the Egyptian doctor [and bin Laden's deputy] Ayman Al-Zawahiri, who, it must be assumed, took an oath to care for the sick and to save the injured, [but] became the No. 2 terrorist after the No. 1 terrorist Osama bin Laden…"

'I Don't Oppose the Iraqis' Resistance … but It Does Not Need Non-Iraqis'

"I do not oppose the resistance that the Iraqis are waging against the continued occupation of their land… It is clear that the resistance there does not need the participation of those who are not Iraqis…

"I understand that the Egyptian Doctors' Union and the Arab Doctors' Association are calling to establish convoys of doctors and brothers to go to the ruins of Iraq and to work in so-called hospitals … but what I do not understand at all is how the Arab Doctors' Association, which is controlled by the two Egyptian doctors Dr. Abd Al-Mun'im Abu Al-Futuh, the association's director-general, and Dr. Ahmad Omar, the chairman of the Emergency Relief Committee, have published a communiqué similar to the declarations of Jihad, emphasizing that there is no solution but 'victory or martyrdom'…"

'How I Hoped that the Egyptian and Arab Doctors Would Act Like Doctors Throughout the World, Helping Victims of the Asian Earthquake'

"Several days ago, a destructive earthquake struck a great many countries in Asia. The number of killed was about 100,000, and the number of injured was double that, and many times more was the number of those who became refugees, losing their homes and property and most of their relatives and acquaintances in this most terrifying of disasters, which we are following from moment to moment.

"How I hoped that the Egyptian Doctors' Union, which belongs to the Arab Doctors' Association, would act like the doctors' associations in most of the countries of the world, particularly like the [French] Medicins Sans Frontières. Everyone rushed to organize humanitarian medical convoys that hastened, one after the other, to the regions of the terrifying earthquake, in order to provide aid, as best they could, to treat the injured and to save those at death's door, without distinguishing between Muslim, Christian, Jew, Buddhist, and those not belonging to any religion or ethnic group…

"The television channels worldwide constantly showed us the donations from the angels of mercy from all countries of the world, who had volunteered to participate in taking care of the victims of the destructive earthquake in many countries in Asia despite the harsh living conditions there…"

Arab Doctors' Sec.-Gen.: This Was a Divine Punishment For the Muslims' Oppression by Infidels and the U.S.

"[Yet] there was no mention of any role played by the Egyptian Doctors' Union, or by the Arab Doctors' Association, in collecting donations, gathering the doctors waging the Jihad war and transferring them to the regions hit by the disaster and by epidemic, in order to participate in treating the injured and sick, as they did and are still doing in Afghanistan, Chechnya, Bosnia, and Iraq.

"The Arab Doctors' Association secretary-general, Dr. Abd Al-Mun'im Abu Al-Futuh, justified this by saying that this earthquake was divine punishment because of the Muslims' oppression by the infidels, invaders and occupiers, headed by the U.S., and that therefore we have no interest in what had happened! Chairman of the Emergency Relief Committee of the Arab Doctors' Association Dr. Ahmad Omar emphasized that aid to the Asia earthquake victims did not top the agenda of the committee – which was currently engaged in resisting the American invaders and occupiers in Iraq.

"Although I do not respect the reasoning of the Jihad warriors Dr. Abd Al-Mun'im Abu Al-Futuh and his colleague, the 'warrior' Dr. Ahmad Omar, I would like to draw their attention to the fact that the number of victims of the destructive earthquake in the state of Indonesia is no less than 80,000 killed, and that the number of injured is double that – and Indonesia is considered the largest Islamic country on the world's five continents!"

[1] Akhbar Al-Yawm (Egypt), January 1, 2005.

How the Left Betrayed My Country - Iraq

How the Left Betrayed My Country - Iraq, By Naseer Flayih Hasan, FrontPageMagazine.com, January 3, 2005.

This article celebrates independence of mind even in a terrible tyranny.

Referring to the anti-freedom behavior of the Western Left, the author, an Iraqi, says, "We assumed that once they learned what had happened in Iraq, they would change their minds, or modify their opposition to the war."

He was not to meet reason or reasonableness:

My first clue that this would not happen was a few weeks after Baghdad fell. I had befriended a French reporter who had begun to realize that the situation in Iraq was not how the international media or the so-called “peace camp” described it. I noticed, however, that whenever he tried to voice his doubts to colleagues, they argued that he was wrong. Soon afterwards, I met a Dutch woman on Mutinabi Street, where booksellers lay out their wares on Friday morning. I asked her how long she’d been in Iraq and, through a translator, she answered, “Three months.”

“So you were here during the war?”

“Yes!” she said. “To see the crimes of the Americans!”

I was stunned. After a moment, I replied, “What about the crimes of the regime? It killed millions of Iraqis. Do you know that if the regime was still in power, the conversation we’re having now would result in our torture or death?”

Her face turned red and she angrily responded, “Soon will come the day that the Americans will do worse.” She then went on to accuse me of not knowing what the true facts were in Iraq—and that she could see the situation better than me!

The author properly describes these people who descended on Iraq as "humanitarians." And, the quotes are essential because there is nothing humanitarian about these modern Western barbarians.

We came to understand how these “humanitarians” experienced a sort of pleasure when terrorists or former remnants of the regime created destruction in Iraq—just so they could feel that they were right, and the Americans wrong!

They came with their minds made up: "Worse, we realized it was hopeless to make them grasp our feelings."

Very perceptively, the author identifies what motivation drives these Western barbarians, who should be properly called "nihilists," as we have dealt with in this blog and our website.

...[T]he general attitude of peace activists I met was tension and anger. They were impossible to reason with.

What the author does not quite bring himself to state is that what drives these people is HATE. They hate values as such, and America still holds the trump card on freedom, individualism, and capitalism. They do not want to replace America with anything. They just want to destroy America, the West, freedom, and the even the capacity to value. That is the essence of nihilism. Note that these people are not for the jihadists and Saddamists. They support them, however, because the jihadists and Saddamists hate America and are trying to destroy America. The nihilists want merely to pour fuel on the fire and fan it in order to facilitate America's destruction.

Finally, this author poignantly describes his disillusionment with Leftists (Nihilists):

And so I have become disillusioned, at least with the Leftists I met in Iraq. So noble in their rhetoric, they looked to the stars, yet ignored what was happening around them, caring only about what was inside their minds. So glorious in their ideals, their thoughts were inflexible and their deeds unnecessary, even harmful. In the end, they proved to me how dogma and fanaticism had transform peace activists into—lifeless peace “statues.”

I disagree with this Iraqi that the rhetoric of the Left is "noble" or even as uplifting as looking at the stars while not seeing what is in front of them. If you know your principles, you quickly see through the rhetoric of these people. Hatred of values is not noble, but they love to package their nihilism in deceptive language, just as Muslims do.

Otherwise, I can say that if this author can survive Iraq, he has the independence of mind to go very, very far. More American citizens need to follow his example.

A Non-PC Multiple-Choice "Test"

We received this yesterday. It needs no introduction or explanation.

HISTORY TEST
Please pause a moment, reflect back, and take the following multiple choice test. The events are actual cuts from past history. They actually happened!!!

Do you remember?

-1968 Bobby Kennedy was shot and killed by
a. Superman
b. Jay Lenno
c. Harry Potter
d. Muslim male extremist between the ages of 17 and 40

1. In 1972 at the Munich Olympics, athletes were kidnapped and massacred by
a. Olga Corbett
b. Sitting Bull
c. Arnold Schwarzenegger
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

2. In 1979, the US embassy in Iran was taken over by:
a. Lost Norwegians
b. Elvis
c. A tour bus full of 80-year-old women
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

3.During the 1980's a number of Americans were kidnapped in Lebanon by:
a. John Dillinger
b. The King of Sweden
c. The Boy Scouts
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the a ges of 17 and 40

4. In 1983, the US Marine barracks in Beirut was blown up by:
a. A pizza delivery boy
b. Pee Wee Herman
c. Geraldo Rivera
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

5. In 1985 the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked and a 70 year old
American passenger was murdered and thrown overboard in his wheelchair by:
a. The Smurfs
b. Davy Jones
c. The Little Mermaid
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

6.In 1985 TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens, and a US Navy diver trying to
rescue passengers was murdered by:
a. Captain Kidd
b. Charles Lindberg
c. Mother Teresa
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

7.In 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed by:
a. Scooby Doo
b. The Tooth Fairy
c. Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

8. In 1993 the World Trade Center was bombed the first time by:
a. Richard Simmons
b. Grandma Moses
c. Michael Jordan
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

9.In 1998, the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by:
a. Mr. Rogers
b. Hillary Clinton, to distract attention from Wild Bill' s women problems
c. The World Wrestling Federation
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

10.On 9/11/01, four airliners were hijacked; two were used as missiles to take out the World Trade Centers and of the remaining two, one crashed into the US Pentagon and the other was diverted and crashed by the passengers.Thousands of people were killed by:
a. Bugs Bunny, Wiley E. Coyote, Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd
b. The Supreme Court of Florida
c. Mr. Bean
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

11.In 2002 the United States fought a war in Afghanistan against:
a. Enron
b. The Lutheran Church
c. The NFL
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

12. In 2002 reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and murdered by:
a. Bonnie and Clyde
b. Captain Kangaroo
c. Billy Graham
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

Nope, .....I really don't see a pattern here to justify profiling, do you?

So, to ensure we Americans never offend anyone, particularly fanatics intent on killing us, airport security screeners will no longer be allowed to profile certain people. They must conduct random searches of 80-year-old women, little
kids, airline pilots with proper identification, secret agents who are members of the President's security detail, 85-year old Congressmen with metal hips, and Medal of Honor winning and former Governor Joe Foss, but leave Muslim
Males between the ages 17 and 40 alone because of profiling.

Let's send this to as many people as we can so that the Gloria Aldreds and other dunder-headed attorneys along with Federal Justices that want to thwart common sense, feel doubly ashamed of themselves - if they have any such sense.

As the writer of the award winning story "Forrest Gump" so aptly put it, "Stupid is as stupid does."

Come on people wake up!!!
Keep this going. Pass it on to everyone in your address book.
Our Country and our troops need our support!

Islamic "Truth"

A British Islamic website crows about how it tells the truth about Islam.

"Learn about true Islam: read this handout to learn more. Our dawa (message) targets Muslims as well as non-muslims."

Does it? In fact, with only a cursory examination, it becomes obvious that the site clearly mixes fact and fiction like all Islamic sites do. Here is an example of real truth:

Remember: Islam means SUBMISSION not PEACE! Peace is ONLY achivable (sic) under the authority of ISLAM as a ruling system - Inform all UK Imams if they are in error.

If you have done the basics in reading about Islam, then you can see right through what they are saying. In case anyone might not, I will "translate." The statement means that peace comes only after Islamic conquest of all peoples and forcing them under shari'a law at gunpoint. If you are still having trouble, substitute "Nazism" for Islam and "Nazi" for jihadist.

Islamists love to "spin" facts to have them spell out their subjective brand of the truth. What they end up with is what they want you to believe, but not the truth, or only part of the truth. Here is some Islamic lying by omission:

MISCONCEPTION #8: Muslims are a barbaric, backward
people.

Among the reasons for the rapid and peaceful spread of Islam was
the simplicity of its doctrine-Islam calls for faith in only one God worthy of
worship. It also repeatedly instructs man to use his powers of intelligence and
observation. Within a few years, great civilizations and universities were
flourishing, for according to the Prophet (pbuh), 'seeking knowledge is an
obligation for every Muslim man and woman'.

The synthesis of Eastern and Western ideas and of new thought with old,
brought about great advances in medicine, mathematics, physics, astronomy,
geography, architecture, art, literature, and history. Many crucial systems such
as algebra, the Arabic numerals, and also the concept of the zero (vital to the
advancement of mathematics), were transmitted to medieval Europe from Islam.

Sophisticated instruments which were to make possible the European
voyages of discovery were developed, including the astrolabe, the quadrant and
good navigational maps.

These paragraphs do not address Misconception #8 at all.

These paragraphs address Islam as it once was before Islam ossified itself and its adherents around 900 A.D. As Islamists conquered land after land in what we now call the Middle East, they ran into something not found in Arabia, from whence they had come. They ran into Greek philosophy and the learning of the ancient world.

Islamic scholars began their own renaissance. Medicine, science, arts, and philosophy flourished. Works of the Greeks were translated into Arabic and sent throughout the Islamic Empire, including Spain.

Scholars developed inquiry and discourse, and exercised free expression. In no time, with the logic learned from Aristotle, they began seeing the flaws and inadequacies of Islam. They lectured, wrote, and discussed these freely. It had become obviousl to them that Islam and free minds could not coexist.

It also became obvious to orthodox, dedicated Islamic clerics. Having the fusion of state and religion at their disposal, they set out to end all opposition by means of the sword and intimidation. Scholars died and works perished. Islam flourished. By 900 A.D., Islam locked into the form it would have from 900 A.D. to the present day.

Any time a free mind was discovered ,its head was severed from its body. Science, medicine, philosophy, and art withered and died. Compare this to Atlas Shrugged. In that novel, men of the mind went on strike against statists but did so voluntarily. Without, the world returned to a dark age. The Islamists accomplished the same effect, but by force, and Islam returned to a dark age.

What was said for explanation under Misconception #8 illustrates lying by omission. Some of the truth was told in order to make the uncritical reader think that the misconception had been addressed. You can see what the "rest of the story" is.

Islam and truth are incompatible.

FIFTH COLUMN ALERT: Dissident Arab Gets the Treatment

Dissident Arab Gets the Treatment: by Ahmad Al-Qloushi, FrontPageMagazine.com, January 6, 2005.

America's greatest danger comes from within, not without. As rotten and evil as are Islam and its jihadists, these represent an easy-to-understand external enemy capable of being done in with appropriate fly-swatters--if we have the will.

There is the danger point: the will. We have allowed wholesale invasion of our educational systems, from K through graduate school. The invaders have been practitioners of anti-Americanisms of all sorts. As full nihilists, they have only one emotion, and that is hate. They hate success, capitalism, prosperity, freedom in any form, and ABOVE ALL, they hate a social-political system which not only permits these functions but protects them. That system is AMERICA.

The danger comes in their influence on young minds being formed. That is where the status of our will comes in, in combating Islam and its practitioners. If we reach critical mass whereby vast numbers of young people enter the world of work totally down on America, then we would have no will. This would be like a person's body becoming immune deficient, thus open to annihilation by any passing disease.

This article, which we reprint in full from Front Page Magazine, should appall any American whose reason and values remain intact. This article is not unusual--it is sadly typical.

We must stand behind the Center for the Study of Popular Culture's counter-invasion of colleges and universities. The Center is trying to get these so-called centers of learning to adopt the Academic Bill of Rights to return full First Amendment protections to hirees and all of those expressing non-leftist ideas. If you want to learn more about this Bill and the Center's efforts, crawl the website FrontPageMag.com.

I am a 17-year-old Kuwaiti Arab Muslim and a college freshman studying in the USA. I was three years of age when Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990. My parents still remember what it was like for us during the invasion. Waiting for long hours in line for a few pieces of bread. We had darkness 24 hours a day from the burning oil wells. My two uncles are still traumatized from being kidnapped and tortured in Iraqi prisons. Most of all we remember our one-week-old baby cousin who died while the Iraqi invaders were stealing incubators from hospitals to sell them for profit. The Americans by contrast came in to liberate us and asked for nothing in return. I love this country for the freedom it provides and for rescuing Kuwait’s liberty in the first Gulf War. 12 Years later, America once again has selflessly protected my country and my people by removing Saddam Hussein.

I arrived in the United States for the first time 5 months ago with tremendous enthusiasm to study the political institutions and history of this extraordinary country.

I enrolled in Foothill College in Los Altos Hills, California and immediately registered for “Introduction to American Government and Politics." I was shocked by my Professor’s singularly one-sided presentation. Week after week, I encountered a lack of intellectual and political diversity that I would have more commonly expected to have heard on the streets of pre-liberation Iraq. In this particular class I heard only one consistent refrain: America is bad.

A week before thanksgiving Professor Woolcock assigned us a take home final exam. The final exam consisted solely of one required essay: “Dye and Zeigler contend that the Constitution of the United States was not ‘ordained and established’ by ‘the people’ as we have so often been led to believe. They contend instead that it was written by a small educated and wealthy elite in America who were representative of powerful economic and political interests. Analyze the US constitution (original document), and show how its formulation excluded the majority of the people living in America at that time, and how it was dominated by America's elite interest.”

When I read the assignment I remembered back to my high school in Kuwait. Many of my teachers were Palestinian; they hated America, they hated my worldview, and they did their best to brainwash me. I did not leave my country and my family to come to the United States to receive further brainwashing. I disagreed completely with Dye and Zeigler’s thesis. I wrote an essay defending America’s Founding Fathers and upholding the US constitution as a pioneering document, which has contributed to extraordinary freedoms in America and other corners of the world - including my corner, the Middle East.

Professor Woolcock didn’t grade my essay. Instead he told me to come to see him in his office the following morning. I was surprised the next morning when instead of giving me a grade, Professor Woolcock verbally attacked me and my essay. He told me, “Your views are irrational.” He called me naïve for believing in the greatness of this country, and told me "America is not God's gift to the world." Then he upped the stakes and said "You need regular psychotherapy." Apparently, if you are an Arab Muslim who loves America you must be deranged. Professor Woolcock went as far as to threaten me by stating that he would visit the Dean of International Admissions (who has the power to take away student visas) to make sure I received regular psychological treatment.

This scared me. I didn’t want to be deported for having written a pro-American essay, so as soon as I left his office I made an appointment with the school psychologist. She let me go with a comment that I don’t need regular therapy. As I left her office, I couldn’t help thinking that even my Palestinian high school teachers had never tried to silence me or put me in therapy.

I have since learned that mine is not an isolated case. Many students in American universities are being indoctrinated and silenced by biased professors who hate America. America saved my life and the lives of my family. How can I not speak out?

The local media picked up the story of what happened to me. Professor Woolcock then filed a school grievance accusing me, under section 5 of Foothill’s grievance code, of an “act or threat of intimidation or general harassment.” If you are confused by this, so was I. Foothill’s Dean of Student Affairs, Don Dorsey, would not let me see the grievance as filed but he summarized it for me by saying, "Professor Woolcock feels harassed by your having mentioned his name to the media."

As a result of growing media attention I am told that Foothill’s Board of Trustees has received hundreds of e-mails. I came to this country to study American political institutions and I have certainly been getting a crash course. I’ve discovered that, as a tax-payer funded college, Foothill has a 5 member publicly elected Board of Trustees who care passionately about Education.

Ironically, as I was going through all of this I learned that California State Senator Bill Morrow was introducing the Academic Bill of Rights to the State Legislature to defend academic freedom and intellectual diversity on California’s campuses. As a result of my own experience and the many stories I have heard from other Foothill students, I am helping to form a chapter of Students for Academic Freedom to get my college and my state to adopt this bill. You can encourage Foothill’s Board of Trustees to pass the Academic Bill of Rights as official school policy by emailing them at http://www.fhda.edu/about_us/board/.

Ahmad Al-Qloushi was born and raised in Al-Shaab, Kuwait where he attended English language school. He recently became President of Foothill’s College Republicans. He is a Political-Science major at Foothill College. Please e-mail Ahmad at ahmadalqloushi@sbcglobal.net.

Help Me Understand This

Let's see, now:

Car bombs kill people.
Car bombs kill people by exploding in proximity to crowds of people.

So, if cars cannot come close to crowds, cars rigged as bombs cannot kill and maim those crowds when they explode. Or, am I just all wet?

Is there something ungraspable about this?
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OK, now for some tougher questions.

Why are cars in Iraq allowed near police academies, police stations, the green zone, markets, schools, and any other places where people congregate?

Why can't Iraqis walk from Park-and-Frisks?

Now, to the toughest question of all: Why is no one in the Sunni Triangle learning from the car bomb experience?

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I shall next have to contemplate why Iraqis in the Sunni Triangle seem not to care to be blown up in stockyard lots.

These questions are really tough.

Conspiracy Theories Surrounding the Tsunami: It was a Punishment from Allah for Celebrating Christmas and Other Sins; It was Caused by the U.S., Israe

MEMRI:, Special Dispatch Series - No. 842, January 7, 2005.

Never miss an opportunity to explore how these Islamists think. You will learn a lot on the one hand, and you will encounter some surprising belly-laughs on the other. Never miss an opportunity to laugh derisively at them--it is an act of justice, meaning that they earned it, so give them what they deserve. COMPLETE THANKS TO MEMRI FOR THIS AND ALL THE OTHER GREAT WORK THEY DO TO END OUR IGNORANCE.

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Conspiracy Theories Surrounding the Tsunami: It was a Punishment from Allah for Celebrating Christmas and Other Sins; It was Caused by the U.S., Israel, India

Following practically all international events of importance, conspiracy theories are raised in the Arab and Muslim worlds. This occurred most recently following the Asian tsunami. Some of these conspiracy theories focused, as they often do, on allegations that it was a plot by the U.S. and Israel. Others speculated that the tsunami was a divine punishment for sins, including that of celebrating Christmas. The following are speeches and articles which appeared in the Arab media raising conspiracy theories about the cause of the tsunami; more will be posted on the MEMRI TV Project website (www.memritv.org) in the coming days:

Palestinian Friday Sermon by Sheik Mudeiris: The Tsunami is Allah's Revenge at Bangkok Corruption

The following are excerpts from a Friday mosque sermon aired on Palestinian Authority TV by Sheik Ibrahim Mudeiris, which was recorded and translated by the MEMRI TV Monitor Project:

" What happened there, in South-East Asia … we ask God to have mercy upon all the martyrs - for he who dies by drowning is a martyr. We ask God to have mercy upon all the Muslims who died there. Allah willing, they are martyrs. But, don't you think that the wrath of the earth and the wrath of the sea should make us reflect? Tens of thousands dead, and many predict that the number will be in the hundreds of thousands. We ask God for forgiveness. When oppression and corruption increase, the law of equilibrium applies. I can see in your eyes that you are wondering what the 'universal law of equilibrium' is. This law is a divine law. If people are remiss in implementing God's law and in being zealous and vengeful for His sake, Allah sets his soldiers in action to take revenge.

"The oppression and corruption caused by America and the Jews have increased. Have you heard of these beaches that are called 'tourists' paradise?' You have all probably heard of Bangkok. We read about it, and knew it as the center of corruption on the face of this earth. Over there, there are Zionist and American investments. Over there they bring Muslims and others to prostitution. Over there, there are beaches, which they dubbed 'tourists' paradise,' while only a few meters away, the locals live in hell on earth. They cannot make ends meet, while a few meters away there is a paradise, 'tourists' paradise.'

"Do you want the earth to turn a blind eye to the corrupt oppressors? Do you want the sea… Do you want the sea to lower its waves in the face of corruption that it sees with its own eyes?! No, the zero hour has come." [1]

Advisor to Saudi Arabia's Justice Minister: The Nations were Destroyed for Lying, Sinning, and being Infidels

Ibrahim Al-Bashar, an advisor to Saudi Arabia's Justice Minister, argued on the Saudi Arabian/UAE Al-Majd TV channel that the sins of the affected countries caused the tsunami:

"Whoever reads the Koran, given by the Maker of the World, can see how these nations were destroyed. There is one reason: they lied, they sinned, and [they] were infidels. Whoever studies the Koran can see this is the result…

"Some intellectuals, philosophers, and journalists - may Allah show them the straight path – say this is the wrath of nature. Whoever is angry must have a soul and a brain in order to act out his anger. Does the earth have a brain and a body with a soul? They talk about the wrath of nature, or else they claim that what happened was due to a fissure in the depths of the earth, which the earth's crust could not bear. They connect cosmic matters.

"But who is the one that cracked it, split it, and commanded it to quake?! Why don't we ask that question? Who is the one that sent the wind? Who sent the floods? But they tell you that it was due to the ebb and tide, and that the barometric depressions are to blame. Who commanded them to do so?

"These countries, in which these things occurred – don't they refrain from adopting Allah's law, which is a form of heresy? Man-made laws have been chosen over Allah's law, which has been deemed unsuitable to judge people?! Whoever does not act according to Allah's law is a heretic, that's what Allah said in the Koran. Don't these countries have witchcraft, sorcery, deceitfulness, and abomination?" [2]

Saudi Professor Sheikh Fawzan Al-Fawzan: Allah Punishes for Homosexuality and Fornication at Christmas

The following are excerpts from an interview on Saudi/UAE's Al-Majd TV with Sheikh Fawzan Al-Fawzan, a professor at the Al-Imam University, which was recorded and translated by the MEMRI TV Monitor Project:

"These great tragedies and collective punishments that are wiping out villages, towns, cities, and even entire countries, are Allah's punishments of the people of these countries, even if they are Muslims.

"Some of our forefathers said that if there is usury and fornication in a certain village, Allah permits its destruction. We know that at these resorts, which unfortunately exist in Islamic and other countries in South Asia, and especially at Christmas, fornication and sexual perversion of all kinds are rampant. The fact that it happened at this particular time is a sign from Allah. It happened at Christmas, when fornicators and corrupt people from all over the world come to commit fornication and sexual perversion. That's when this tragedy took place, striking them all and destroyed everything. It turned the land into wasteland, where only the cries of the ravens are heard. I say this is a great sign and punishment on which Muslims should reflect.

"All that's left for us to do is to ask for forgiveness. We must atone for our sins, and for the acts of the stupid people among us and improve our condition. We must fight fornication, homosexuality, usury, fight the corruption on the face of the earth, and the disregard of the lives of protected people." [3]

Saudi Cleric Muhammad Al-Munajjid: Allah Finished Off the Richter Scale in Revenge of Infidel Criminals

The following are excerpts from an interview on Saudi/UAE's Al-Majd TV with Saudi cleric Muhammad Al-Munajjid, which was recorded and translated by the MEMRI TV Monitor Project:

"The problem is that the [Christian] holidays are accompanied by forbidden things, by immorality, abomination, adultery, alcohol, drunken dancing, and … and revelry. A belly dancer costs 2500 pounds per minute and a singer costs 50,000 pounds per hour, and they hop from one hotel to another from night to dawn. Then he spends the entire night defying Allah.

"Haven't they learned the lesson from what Allah wreaked upon the coast of Asia, during the celebration of these forbidden? At the height of immorality, Allah took vengeance on these criminals.

"Those celebrating spent what they call 'New Year's Eve' in vacation resorts, pubs, and hotels. Allah struck them with an earthquake. He finished off the Richter scale. All nine levels gone. Tens of thousands dead.

"It was said that they were tourists on New Year's vacation who went to the crowded coral islands for the holiday period, and then they were struck by this earthquake, caused by the Almighty Lord of the worlds. He showed them His wrath and His strength. He showed them His vengeance. Is there anyone learning the lesson? Is it impossible that we will be struck like them? Why do we go their way? Why do we want to be like them, with their holidays, their forbidden things, and their heresy?" [4]

Egyptian Nationalist Weekly: U.S.-Israel-India Nuclear Testing May have Caused Asian Tsunami; The Goal: Testing how to Liquidate Humanity

The Egyptian nationalist weekly Al-Usbu' has published an investigation by correspondent Mahmoud Bakri, titled "Humanity in Danger," claiming that the earthquake and tsunami in Asia may have resulted from joint nuclear testing by the U.S., Israel, and India. The following are excerpts from the article:

"Was [the earthquake] caused by American, Israeli, and Indian nuclear testing on 'the day of horror?' Why did the 'Ring of Fire' explode?

"… According to researchers' estimates, there are two possible [explanations] for what happened. The first is a natural, divine move, because the region is in the 'Ring of Fire,' a region subject to this destructive type of earthquakes.

" The second possibility is that it was some kind of human intervention that destabilized the tectonic plates, an intervention that is caused only in nuclear experiments and explosions. What strengthens this direction [of thought] are the tectonic plates [under] Indian soil [ sic ], since in the recent few months, India conducted over seven nuclear tests to strengthen its nuclear program against the Pakistani [nuclear program].

"[Various] reports have proven that the tectonic plates in India and Australia collided with the tectonic plates of Europe and Asia. [It has also been proven] that India recently obtained high[-level] nuclear technology, and a number of Israeli nuclear experts and several American research centers were [involved in preparing this].

"The three most recent tests appeared to be genuine American and Israeli preparations to act together with India to test a way to liquidate humanity. In the[ir] most recent test, they began destroying entire cities over extensive areas. Although the nuclear explosions were carried out in desert lands, tens of thousands of kilometers away from populated areas, they had a direct effect on these areas.

"Since 1992, many research [institutes] monitoring earthquakes across the world, such as the International Center for the [Study] of Earthquakes [sic] in Britain and in Turkey and other countries, [indicated] the importance of no nuclear testing in the 'Ring of Fire,' where the most recent earthquake struck, because this region is thought to be one of the most geologically active regions over millions of years. Thus, the international centers have always classified it as one of the most dangerous regions [and] likely to shift at any given moment, even without human interference.

"But the scientific reports stated that there had been nuclear activity in this region – particularly after America's recent decision to rely largely on the Australian desert – part of which is inside the 'Ring of Fire' – for its secret nuclear testing.

"Similarly, many international reports spoke of joint Indian-Israeli nuclear activity. Moreover, only this year Arab and Islamic countries intervened more than three times in the U.S. to stop this joint nuclear activity.

"Nevertheless, although so far it has not been proven that secret Indian-Israeli nuclear testing is what caused the destructive earthquake, there is evidence that the recent nuclear tests, the exchange of nuclear experts between India and Israel, and the American pressure on Pakistan regarding its nuclear cooperation with Asian and Islamic countries [by providing India with advanced nuclear technology in an attempt to stop Pakistani activity] – all these pose a big question mark regarding the causes of the severe earthquake in Asia.

"Scientific studies prove that there is increasing nuclear activity under the waters of the oceans and seas … and that America is the first country in the world responsible for this activity. This raises an enormous question mark… What is puzzling is that all the previous earthquakes did not cause such great destruction [as this one], particularly [in light of the fact that] the earthquake's center was some 40 kilometers under the seabed of the Indian Ocean.

"One of the American researchers, Merrills Kinsey, [5] pointed out an important fact in the scientific report that he prepared after the last disaster, which is that the center of an earthquake that took place some 40 kilometers under the ocean floor could not have caused such destruction unless nuclear testing had been conducted close to the tectonic plates in these countries, or unless several days previously there had been [nuclear] activity that caused these plates to shift and collide – which constitutes a danger to all humanity, not only to the inhabitants of these countries…" [6]



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[1] Palestinian Authority TV, December 31, 2005. To view the clip, visit http://memritv.org/Search.asp?ACT=S9&P1=451.

[2] Al-Majd TV (Saudi Arabia/UAE), January 5, 2005. To view the clip, visit http://memritv.org/Search.asp?ACT=S9&P1=462.

[3] Al-Majd TV (Saudi Arabia/UAE), December 31, 2004. To view the clip, visit http://memritv.org/Search.asp?ACT=S9&P1=459.

[4] Al-Majd TV (Saudi Arabia/UAE), January 1, 2005. To view the clip, visit http://memritv.org/Search.asp?ACT=S9&P1=452.

[5] The name was not identified by MEMRI.

[6] Al-Usbu' (Egypt), January 1, 2005.

Online Resources for Islamic Information: Thanks to Ali Dashti

Dhimmi Watch: Neither whores nor slaves

Jihad Watch has a commentor who uses the anonym of "Ali Dashti." Ali posts some terrific material, including the single best compendium of online sources for digging into Islam. We do not know Ali Dashti, nor do we know how to thank him directly. The best we can do is acknowledge his contributions and thank him publicly. For the benefit of those reading this blog, here is Ali Dashti's latest compendium:

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Some online resources for background information on Islamic teachings:

http://www.apostatesofislam.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=661



ISLAMIC SOURCES:

The Koran, in three English translations:

http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/

Look up 8 Koran translations at the same time:

http://quranbrowser.com/

Audio Recitations & Translations of the Koran, text translations in other languages than English (French, German, Spanish, Indonesian etc):

http://www.islamicity.com/mosque/quran/

More Koran:

http://www.road-to-heaven.com/noblequran.htm

http://www.quraan.com/

http://www.muslimaccess.com/quraan/

http://www.free-minds.org/quran/quran.htm


http://www.quran-hadith-index.com/

Transliteration (Arabic words written in Roman letters) of the Koran:

http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/transliteration/

http://transliteration.org/quran/home.htm


The complete, renowned tafsir (Koran commentary and explanation) of Ibn Kathir:

http://tafsir.com/

More tafsir:

http://tafseercomparison.org/

http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/maududi/

About principles of tafsir:

http://www.islamic-awareness.org/Quran/Tafseer/Ulum/

http://www.quran.org.uk/ieb_quran_tafseer.htm



A non-Muslim, critical view of the Koran and Islam:

http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/quran/

http://www.faithfreedom.org/Articles/quran_teaches.htm

http://www.atheists.org/Islam/mohammedanism.html

http://www.answering-islam.org/Quran/Text/index.html

http://syrcom.cua.edu/Hugoye/Vol6No1/HV6N1PRPhenixHorn.html

http://syrcom.cua.edu/Hugoye/Vol3No1/HV3N1Griffith.html

http://www.faithfreedom.org/Articles/AbulKasem41205.htm

http://www.studytoanswer.net/myths_ch1.html


The Koran's 164 Jihad Verses:

http://www.angelfire.com/moon/yoelnatan/koranwarpassages.htm

http://www.secularislam.org/jihad/index.htm



The ahadith (Traditions about Muhammad and his companions) of al-Bukhari and others:

http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/

http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/reference/searchhadith.html

About hadith collections, Islamic perspective:

http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/scienceofhadith/brief1/

http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/scienceofhadith/atit.html


Letters and Treaties of Muhammad (Islamic translations and presentations):

http://www.islamicresources.com/member/modules.php?name=Sections&op=listarticles&secid=5

The Constitution of Medina, 622:

http://www.constitution.org/cons/medina/macharter.htm


About the Sunna (The example of Muhammad and his companions) and jurisprudence:

http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/law/fiqhussunnah/

http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/muwatta/

http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Sharia


"Sirat Rasoul Allah", The earliest biography of Muhammad, an abridged version:

http://www.faithfreedom.org/Articles/sira/index.htm


The four Sunni schools of Islamic law (Madhhab):

http://www.uga.edu/islam/shariah.html#law

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madhahib


About Sufism:

http://www.arches.uga.edu/~godlas/Sufism.html

The Islamic calendar:

http://www.muslimaccess.com/islamic_calendar.asp

http://www.islam.com/calen.htm


Some Shia Muslim resources:

A Shi'ite Encyclopedia:

http://www.al-islam.org/encyclopedia/

A multi-media site by Richard Hooker:

http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/SHIA/SHIA.HTM

Shia Library:

http://al-shia.com/


Sunni website critical of Shias:

http://www.allaahuakbar.net/shiites/word_of_advice_to_shiites.htm

http://www.allaahuakbar.net/shiites/index.htm

http://www.allaahuakbar.net/shiites/KAFI.HTM


Shia ahadith (Traditions about Muhammad and his companions) of Al kafi:

http://hahsim.s5.com/kafi.html


Sayings of Imam Ali (Muhammad's son-in-law, first Shia Imam):

http://www.al-islam.org/nahjul/index.htm


Shia tafsir (Koran commentary and explanation):

http://www.almizan.org/


Other:

http://www.al-islam.org/short/martyrdom/

http://al-islam.org/ashura/

http://www.shiachat.com/



DEFINITIONS OF ARABIC-ISLAMIC TERMS, HISTORICAL INFORMATION:

The Internet Islamic History Sourcebook, a long list of historical and religious resources and texts, from the early days until today:

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/islam/islamsbook.html

Encyclopaedia of the Orient:

http://lexicorient.com/e.o/

Atlas of the Orient:

http://lexicorient.com/e.o/atlas/index.htm

Other historical maps:

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/map_sites/hist_sites.html#mideast

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~rs143/map.html

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbookmap.html

http://www.muhammadanism.com/maps/default.htm

http://www.al-bab.com/arab/maps/maps2.htm


Definitions of Islamic terms:

Thomas P. Hughes' "Dictionary of Islam":

http://answering-islam.org/Books/Hughes/index.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Islamic_terms_in_Arabic

http://www.knowislam.info/drupal/mno

http://www.onelook.com/ (Dictionary Search)


Islamic definitions:

http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/reference/glossary.html

http://muttaqun.com/

Posted by: Ali Dashti at January 5, 2005 07:59 AM

Surprise, Surprise!: U.S. Marine in Mysterious Case Declared Deserter

ABC News: U.S. Marine in Mysterious Case Declared Deserter

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Marine Cpl. Wassef Ali Hassoun, charged with desertion in a mysterious case in which he left his unit in Iraq and turned up in Lebanon, has again gone absent and appears to have returned to Lebanon, officials said on Wednesday.

The U.S. military has tracked records from bank machines indicating that Hassoun made his way to Canada and then back to Lebanon, the country of his birth, said a U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity. The Marine Corps formally declared him a deserter on Wednesday.

Although desertion from the U.S. military in a time of war could be punishable by death, the Marines said they had no intention of seeking the death penalty.

I am so aggravated by this news story that I can barely contain myself.

What in the hell did the Marines, the military, and the Defense Department expect? The kid is a Muslim. He is UMMA. He is in no way American and never will be. "Umma" means in Islamic terms that he is part of the great syncitium of Islam which denies all nationalities and credos except Islam as valid. He is umma because he is part of the universe of Islam. He knows it. DoD and its divisions do not.

We have had far too many incidents of "Muslim Americans," a truly emetic term, defaulting to Islam, not to America. Not a single Muslim can be trusted for any reason at any time, unless you are seeking death and destruction.

Remember the black kid from Detroit who rolled hand grenades into his officers' tent in Kuwait? He was a Muslim convert. Remember the many incidents involving so-called American military translators in Guantanomo, as well as a "chaplain"?

Oh, yes, I am very harsh. I am exaggerating, they say. I am a fanatic. Islam is one of the great religions of the world, and Muslims must be tolerated for their beliefs in America, no matter what.

If you believe that, go to our website, 6TH COLUMN AGAINST JIHAD, and look specifically at the RECOMMENDED page. We list the basic and advanced books you need to read and the websites you need to frequent--if truth is of any interest to you.

"It is Islam, Stupid!" needs to be branded on the foreheads of everyone at a policy level in DoD, at 8th and I, and in the White House. They are so dense that they are impervious to ordinary reason. Maybe seeing a brand on their brows when they shave might suggest that their cowardly evasions are killing America, killing American service personnel, and will kill many more Americans at home.

Islam is a totally evil philosophy masquerading as a religion. Conservative nitwits bow before it because it is a "religion," and that term makes them lose their minds. Liberals bow before it because it is politically correct and profoundly anti-American, as are they. That such exists in the beloved Marine Corps just makes me want to vomit.

This Hassoun kid should be "under the jail," as we used to say growing up. By being Muslim, he was automatically untrustworthy--if you have made the effort to understand what Islam really means.

I am far less concerned about surviving Islamic jihadists that I am in surviving evading Americans who militantly insist on ignorance about Islam. When it infects the great U. S. Marine Corps, can we survive?

Walter Williams: Are we a republic or a democracy?

Walter Williams, Jewish World Review Jan. 5, 2004 / 24 Teves, 5765


Read this, several times. Send it to your friends and your enemies. Put it in your files and in your wills. Teach it to your children. It gets no clearer than this, and this clarification has never been needed more.

ARE WE A REPUBLIC OR A DEMOCRACY?

by Dr. Walter Williams


We often hear the claim that our nation is a democracy. That wasn't the vision of the founders. They saw democracy as another form of tyranny. If we've become a democracy, I guarantee you that the founders would be deeply disappointed by our betrayal of their vision. The founders intended, and laid out the ground rules, for our nation to be a republic.


The word democracy appears nowhere in the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution — two most fundamental documents of our nation. Instead of a democracy, the Constitution's Article IV, Section 4, guarantees "to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government." Moreover, let's ask ourselves: Does our pledge of allegiance to the flag say to "the democracy for which it stands," or does it say to "the republic for which it stands"? Or do we sing "The Battle Hymn of the Democracy" or "The Battle Hymn of the Republic"?


So what's the difference between republican and democratic forms of government? John Adams captured the essence of the difference when he said, "You have rights antecedent to all earthly governments; rights that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws; rights derived from the Great Legislator of the Universe." Nothing in our Constitution suggests that government is a grantor of rights. Instead, government is a protector of rights.


In recognition that it's Congress that poses the greatest threat to our liberties, the framers used negative phrases against Congress throughout the Constitution such as: shall not abridge, infringe, deny, disparage, and shall not be violated, nor be denied. In a republican form of government, there is rule of law. All citizens, including government officials, are accountable to the same laws. Government power is limited and decentralized through a system of checks and balances. Government intervenes in civil society to protect its citizens against force and fraud but does not intervene in the cases of peaceable, voluntary exchange.


Contrast the framers' vision of a republic with that of a democracy. In a democracy, the majority rules either directly or through its elected representatives. As in a monarchy, the law is whatever the government determines it to be. Laws do not represent reason. They represent power. The restraint is upon the individual instead of government. Unlike that envisioned under a republican form of government, rights are seen as privileges and permissions that are granted by government and can be rescinded by government.


How about a few quotations demonstrating the disdain our founders held for democracy? James Madison, Federalist Paper No. 10: In a pure democracy, "there is nothing to check the inducement to sacrifice the weaker party or the obnoxious individual." At the 1787 Constitutional Convention, Edmund Randolph said, " ... that in tracing these evils to their origin every man had found it in the turbulence and follies of democracy." John Adams said, "Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There was never a democracy yet that did not commit suicide." Chief Justice John Marshall observed, "Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos." In a word or two, the founders knew that a democracy would lead to the same kind of tyranny the colonies suffered under King George III.


The framers gave us a Constitution that is replete with undemocratic mechanisms. One that has come in for recent criticism and calls for its elimination is the Electoral College. In their wisdom, the framers gave us the Electoral College so that in presidential elections large, heavily populated states couldn't democratically run roughshod over small, sparsely populated states.


Here's my question. Do Americans share the republican values laid out by our founders, and is it simply a matter of our being unschooled about the differences between a republic and a democracy? Or is it a matter of preference and we now want the kind of tyranny feared by the founders where Congress can do anything it can muster a majority vote to do? I fear it's the latter.

U.N. Fears Gangs May Traffick in Tsunami Children

Who would think that this story could get worse? There are stories about bogus charities and websites, but kidnapping of children for the purpose of trafficking takes the cake.
Apparently children are taken from hospitals and are put on planes without papers and with fewer questions asked. With dead and missing parents, children are prime targets for criminals.

All sorts of crimes against women and children have been reported.

Charlotte Petri Gornitzka, managing director of the charity, told a news conference: "The experience from other catastrophes is that children are particularly vulnerable." There were already indications that surviving children had been sexually abused in Sri Lanka, Ms Gornitzka said.
Officials in Indonesia said they had launched an investigation into the unconfirmed reports of trafficking in orphaned children from the disaster.
A women's group in Sri Lanka also claimed that rapists were preying on homeless survivors.

"We have received reports of incidents of rape, gang rape, molestation and physical abuse of women and girls in the course of unsupervised rescue operations and while resident in temporary shelters," the Women and Media Collective group said.
Sweden has kept the names of tsunami victims secret after some homes were targeted by thieves.

It is possible that these children will never be seen again. The kidnapped children are offered for sale. Imagine the plight of these poor children that have fallen into the hands of pedophiles, pimps, and other criminals. It is even possible that they could be sold into private adoptions.

Although there is no shortage of sex crimes against children in the West, this part of the world is notorious for using children in the sex industry. Allegedly young children from this part of the world are routinely “sent on” to the sex industry in Europe and the United States, a concern of George W. Bush.

In stark contrast to help offered by the world community, criminal gangs have been committing crimes from robber to possible piracy.

In Thailand thieves disguised as police and rescue workers have looted luggage and hotel safes around Khao Lak beach, where the tsunami killed up to 3,000 people. Sweden sent seven police officers there on Monday to investigate the reported kidnap of a Swedish boy of 12 whose parents were carried off by the wave.

The United Nations also warned of the danger of pirates hindering its relief efforts off the west coast of Indonesia's Sumatra island, which took the brunt of the tsunami.

Robberies of funds collected for tsunami victims are occurring in Britain where a hoaxer has been calling families of their missing relatives. The homes of missing Swedes are being broken into and Norwegian police are on the alert for criminals that are attempting to get victims’ names for the purpose of obtaining a new identity or insurance fraud or to escape debt.

Sadly it appears that the criminal mind is plumbing new depths or perhaps reverting to long-forgotten patterns of crimes against victims of war and natural disasters.

Blogs on the 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake/Tsunami

Bloggers apparently are getting out a lot of information in real time. Asia Times on Line gives a description of some of them.

Wikipedia already has a detailed entry titled the “2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake.” Check out the various links at the bottom of the entry.

Wretchard at Belmont Club and his ancillary Belmonth Lounge provides narrative and interesting links.

Maybe Congress Is Listening After All

An absurd situation exists in Congress. The Department of Homeland Security has to answer to 88 different committees and subcommittees, in their words, “a recipe for chaos.”

House Republican leaders have offered a rule change that would make permanent its now-temporary Homeland Security Committee, but critics say the proposal is watered down by the small print.

"Unless we have secure borders it's a halfway job and not worth doing," said Peter Gadiel of northern Connecticut, whose son James died at the World Trade Center.

In December, Congress passed a compromise intelligence overhaul bill that created a new post of Director of National Intelligence with authority over the CIA along with all 15 of the nation's military and civilian intelligence agencies.

Other changes: “The new law also ‘provides for wiretapping of “lone wolf” terrorists operating without clear ties to a particular terror network, and increases the number of full-time border patrol agents by 2,000 per year for five years.”

Our intelligence apparatus created after World War II must change with the new reality of small cells and global terrorist networks.

But Congress has a very narrow definition of “terrorism.” To them the terrorists are those that throw bombs and create violence. They seem to be oblivious to the very real threat of Mexican dual citizenship and the creeping Islamization of the United States.

Terrorism is a convenient euphemism and false label because we can’t defeat terrorism, a method. The problem has been allowed to mushroom into insurmountable monsters that no official dares to name. While pointing fingers are the Europeans for foolishly allowing guest workers to overstay their welcome and demographically overcome native the European population, we have foolishly overlooked the human tsunami that is engulfing us.

Congress may make rules to regulate the intelligence system, that is gathering information overseas, but what about dealing with the lack of intelligence that is shown here at home? In the name of civil rights, multiculturalism, political correctness, leftist ideology, we are in danger of losing America.

America is not just an address, it is a state of mind into which millions of past immigrants gladly entered. Today’s immigrants are no longer willing to enter into a covenant with the United States, to “renounce allegiance to other powers and principalities," and to put America first.

Congress can’t legislate a feeling, but immigrants should be held to the standard of the Covenant or lose their citizenship as they did in the past. If we aren’t willing to enforce our citizenship law, then America will become just another nation whose borders aren’t worth enforcing.

Already Post-Americans don’t where they live. “They’ve grown beyond their country.” They have decided to become citizens of the world “as one place is as good another.”

Let me be clear what I mean by a post-American. He's not an enemy of America — not Alger Hiss or Jane Fonda or Louis Farrakhan. He's not necessarily even a Michael Moore or Ted Kennedy. A post-American may actually still like America, but the emotion resembles the attachment one might feel to, say, suburban New Jersey — it can be a pleasant place to live, but you're always open to a better offer. The post-American has a casual relationship with his native country, unlike the patriot, "who more than self his country loves," as Katharine Lee Bates wrote. Put differently, the patriot is married to America; the post-American is just shacking up.

Now, there are two kinds of post-American. David Frum, in his "Unpatriotic Conservatives" article for NR last year, highlighted what I think is the less important kind: Those who focus on something less than America, whether white nationalists or neo-Confederates, etc. The second, more consequential and problematic kind are those who have moved beyond America, "citizens of the world," as the cliché goes — in other words citizens (at least in the emotional sense) of nowhere in particular.

For them and, obviously, for many U.S. inhabitants, the borders mean nothing and there is “no distinction between legal and illegal immigrants.”

Congress must agree, as there seems to be no big movement to create or enforce laws to PROTECT the border and STOP illegal immigration. They have consolidated agencies and talked us to death about what they are going to do. They have instituted new policies at border crossings but still hundreds, aided by the Mexican army and police, cross everyday away from official cross points. Actual terror suspects and other evidence of Muslim terrorists has been found. Until this is ADDRESSED and SOLVED no amount fiddling with this agency or that will make us any safer.

The U.N. Powerplay

In a cynical attempt to divert attention from the Oil for Food Scandal, the U.N. baited the U.S. and other Western governments to come up with more cash by labeling them “stingy.” The tsunami had just occurred and no one really knew the scope and impact of the tragedy, yet the U.N. jumped in with both feet.

The world has always risen to help out during such tragedies through participation of governments and private donations. Why was it necessary to make the accusation? Did Jan Egeland really believe that anyone would sit on the sidelines after hundreds of thousands died and millions could possible starve?

Huge amounts of money are to be given, so why does the complaining continue at U.N. and in the mainstream media? The U.N. gave itself away:

So what were Mr. Egeland and Oxfam and the New York Times talking about? What impelled them to complain about "stinginess" as the evidence of generosity was piling up all around them?

In a December 31 press release, Oxfam let the cat out of the bag: "As Colin Powell meets with [UN Secretary General] Kofi Annan to discuss how the 'core group' of the United States, Japan, Australia, and India will work with the UN, Oxfam staff in Asia warned that further chaos and duplication would result unless the UN was allowed to lead and coordinate the global response. Oxfam's East Asia Regional Director Ashvin Dayal said: 'The U.S.-led core group must come under the umbrella of the United Nations to be effective.' "

To put it yet more bluntly: The dispute over allegations of "stinginess" is not a dispute over how much should be given. It is a dispute over who will control what is given.

Sourly Kofi Annan remarked that although amounts have been pledged, often countries “don’t cough up their share.” He doesn’t mean that countries don’t aid the destitute and in disasters, he means that they are reluctant to put money into the hands of the U.N. that has abused the largesse of various countries.

Nationhood is now an anathema. Nationalism is viewed as passé and dangerous, even by many here in the United States. Their answer is the United Nations that will redistribute the world’s wealth in a more equitable way, i.e., world socialism. Do Americans really want to live socialism?

We should work with the U.N. but not in the U.N. The U.S. should take the opportunity to promote our interests in this part of the world by providing humanitarian aide because so many have been exposed to toxic anti-Americanism. Doing the right thing will not silence our critics but will leave a legacy in a part of the world in which we have had so little chance to show our positive side.

From Mexico With Malice

“In a stirring address, delivered in impeccable English to crowd of more than 2,000, [Mexican President Ernesto] Zedillo evoked feelings of patriotism and pride in Mexican roots.” The problem is that he also firmly believes that Mexico and Mexicans have the right to interfere in and affect policies in the United States as “the Mexican national extends beyond the territory enclosed by its borders.” (See RealAudio sound clip). He made this speech in Chicago in 1997.

While Americans have been focused on the War in Iraq, which in reality is only a battle in the war against Islamic extremism in the form of Jihad that has been going on for decades, Mexico has also been waging a war against the United States, using one of the successful tactics that Muslims have used in Europe: demograhics. Europe is rapidly Islamizing because of the “guest workers” that were invited in to solve the man-power shortage, and America is rapidly “Mexicanizing” as illegal immigrants, mostly from Mexico, pour over the southern border by the thousands. Estimates put their numbers in the millions.

Why could a Mexican president make such a bold and audacious statement while visiting the United States? Perhaps he believes that the United States actually belongs to Mexico, that they are the rightful owners of lands that were “stolen from them in the Mexican-American War.” This is same logic that Muslim immigrants are using against Europeans that finished re-conquering Spain in 1492: Europe is theirs because all previous Muslim lands must return to Muslim hands.

In 1997, Zedillo wasn’t the only Mexican elite that encouraged the migratory flow of illegals as a safety valve for their failed economy which needed twenty years to get off the ground.

Mexican Interior Secretary Santiago Creel said during his April 2001 visit to Washington “the Mexican government is recognizing that we have a responsibility regarding the migratory flow” into the United States.

Could this mean that the Mexican government could affect the flow: either stop or increase the flow?

Since that illuminating speech, various schemes have been floated to “regulate,” but not stop, the flow of immigrants. Vicente Fox has met with Bush on various occasions. Bush has called for a guest worker program” and Fox’s government has issued “Consular Matricular” identity cards that are now being used in the United States as legal identity for the purpose setting up bank accounts and other legal transactions. The U.S. Border Patrol has even been ordered to provide illegals with blankets and other amentities in an effort to stop the deaths of those attempting the dangerous crossing.

This is huge problem for the United States that no one seems to be successfully addressing. After 9/11, most Americans became interested in the problem, but no large grass-roots effort has been made to induce the Congress and the Whitehouse to make serious change that will affect our safety. In fact, we continue to be less safe as the Border Patrol continues to come across evidence of the crossing of Middle Eastern illegals on a regular basis.

The Mexican army regularly engages Americans and with the Border Patrol as it herds emigrants to the border. For some reason the mainstream press and Washington seem to want to keep this under cover.

“Many U.S. law-enforcement officials working along the border acknowledge the involvement of Mexican military troops and police in narcotics trafficking and migrant smuggling business,” the magazine says.

“Many Mexican police agencies along the border are in the pay of the narcotraficantes and the corruption extends to high-ranking key Mexican military officers.”

And “Drug cartels spend $500 million a year to pay off corrupt Mexican generals and police officials.”

Said Congressman Tancredo: “There’s no doubt Mexican military units along the border are being controlled by drug cartels, and not by Mexico City. The military units operate freely, with little or no direction, and several of them have made numerous incursions into the Unite States.”

Money talks, but to whom? Obviously it must be talking to some here as well.

Money talks to gangs. Gangs have existed in the United States for centuries as well as Mexican narco-gangs.They have taken up the kidnapping of U.S. citizens for ransom. These gangs exist all over the United States and are a major problem in American prisons. It is obvious that the Mexican elite have been using the United States as a safety valve for decades, sending us both their undesirables as well as the unemployed. It is estimated that there are 18-20 million illegal immigrants in the United States, a great majority of them Mexican. And obviously money talks to U.S. employers.

Many Mexicans come to work but not to become American. Being an American is a state of mind, not an address. Mexico has now changed its policy about dual citizenship. Mexicans holding dual citizenship are encouraged to participate in the politics of both the United States and Mexico. Mexican dual citizens are encouraged to put Mexico first.

Hernandez told Nightline that "we are betting" that Mexican-Americans who are American citizens (even after several generations) will "think Mexico First." Hernandez and other Mexican officials continually repeat the refrain that Fox is the leader of 120 million Mexicans, 100 million in Mexico and 20 million in the United States. Since this concept would, by definition, include not only Mexican migrants who sometimes work north of the Rio Grande, but also millions of American citizens of Mexican descent, many of whom were born in the United States — it is clearly in contradiction to traditional American principles of civic assimilation and immigrant loyalty.

Two years ago, before Fox became president, his current national-security adviser, Adolfo Aguilar Zinser, advocated a policy in which the Mexican government would work politically with the "20 million Mexicans" in the U.S. to advance Mexican "national interests." In El Siglo de Torreon on May 5, 2000, Zinser attacked American attempts to stop illegal immigrants from crossing the border. He declared that "Mexicans are subjected every day to mean-spirited acts and their rights are permanently threatened by ambitious politicians who are hunting for the Anglo vote." After disparaging the "reactionary Senator Jessie Helms," Zinser recommended that Mexico "find allies in the U.S. political system" particularly among "Liberal Democrats, labor unions, civil rights organizations, and social movements."

Last month The Californian (Salinas) reported on February 26 that the Mexican counsel general in San Jose, Marco Antonio Alcazar, told Mexican-American fifth and six graders at a school in Salinas that because of Mexico's dual-nationality law they have "the right to automatically obtain Mexican citizenship." Alcazar declared, "This is exciting because there are many children, who were born in the United States, whose parents are Mexican. And these children have the opportunity now to enjoy two different nationalities…" Alcazar gave the school "complete collections of educational books from the Mexican government, intended to help students understand Mexican history and culture."

Obviously many Mexican immigrants, encouraged by the Mexican government, are not going to assimilate as did the immigrants of the past.

Superficially, assimilation is just a matter of learning English, getting a job or driving on the right side of the road. But there's a lot more to it than that," said Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies. "It involves a change of allegiances to the new country. Dual citizenship only serves to complicate that process.

Dual citizenship creates a potential threat and sets a dangerous precedent for other immigrant groups that would want to overlook the requirement that the U.S. Citizenship Oath demands

"I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen; that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I will bear arms on behalf of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform noncombatant service in the Armed Forces of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform work of national importance under civilian direction when required by the law; and that I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; so help me God."

The Mexican government has figured out how to claim the United States. First it will flood the U.S. with the poor and undesirables. Second, the Mexican army, involved in narco-trafficking and other activities will be on the ready to invade and will not protect the border from terrorists. It will also assist illegals get to the border. Third, Mexican criminal gangs are encouraged to come to the United States, and finally, dual citizenship and the promotion of “the Mexico first” philosophy among emigrants demonstrates that Mexico is no friend of the United States.

The next question might be: which capital will the new Mexican overlords occupy when they are successful with their eventual takeover of the United States as, at this rate, demographically they will overcome non-Mexicans with their dual citizens in a matter of a few decades!

The Power of Ideas, Again: Mess-hall suicide bomber was Saudi

Jihad Watch: Report: Mess-hall suicide bomber was Saudi

Thanks to Jihad Watch. Not only does Saudi Arabia show up as one of the two major sources of state-sponsored terror again, but look at what power ideas have to motivate people. The bomber was a 20-year old medical student who exploded himself. Look at how little he valued his life and how much he bought into a toxic ideology, Islam, in order to snuff out a career as a physician in favor of a useless death and no Islamic Paradise as allegedly promised by a non-existent Allah.

This is why some of us know this war is against Islam, Islam as a philosophy, and must be fought full bore in the ideological arena. Right now, our government shows no signs of recognizing even that people are conscious, much less motivated by ideas. We are fighting only a physical war, while 99% of the important part of the war lies untouched.

"I am a Muslim and Muslim to the hilt."

Jerusalem Post | Breaking News from Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World, Suspects in foiled US Embassy bombing go on trial, Associated Press, THE JERUSALEM POST Jan. 4, 2005

It is astonishing that so many people engage in ostrich-like evasion of the truth. These jihadists blatantly tell the world who they are, what they intend to do (overall goals), and act consistently. Still, so many people do not want to recognize the truth. We will keep on exposing:

"The trial of six men accused of plotting to bomb the U.S. Embassy in Paris opened with testimony from the suspected ringleader. Voluble
French-Algerian Djamel Beghal, 39, ...explained how he moved to France in his 20s, married, did odd jobs and found his Islamic faith, which
became "one of my reasons for living." Asked if he considers himself a radical, he replied: "I am a Muslim and Muslim to the hilt." "

Death Threat Notice

We have known from the first that Islam takes perfectly normal people and creates montrous savages of them. Savages are impotent before ideas and resort to primitive physical force, as if that ever stopped ideas. Here is an example. We were emailed a copy of this exchange between some Muslim savages and Craig Winn, author of Prophet of Doom and Tea With Terrorists. It speaks for itself, so we provide it just as we received it, unaltered except to remove some email address and name combinations.

_________________

As one of Prophet Of Doom's most outspoken supporters, we're appealing to you to help us expose the death threat which we received today. While we have received scores of death threats from Muslims over the past year, this one is significantly more credible than the others.

Here is a copy of Craig's reply followed by the threat itself:

My Fellow Americans,

The spirit behind a religion can be determined by the the spirit's scriptures and by the behavior of those who are possessed by it. Such is the curse of Islam. Confronted with the most comprehensive and best documented contextual and chronological presentation of Muhammad's Own Words as they are recorded in the Qur'an and Hadith, "Jealous Muslims" respond by revealing the nature and the agenda of the dark and demonic spirit who inspires them. They are compelled to suppress truth at all costs and to murder all those who do not surrender and submit. Until we as a nation come to understand that Allah isn't God, that Muhammad was a sexual pervert and genocidal mass murderer, that the Qur'an is a declaration of war on all mankind, and that the Islamic Hadith is a terrorist manifesto, Jealous Muslims will do more than threaten me, blow themselves up killing their own, and crash planes into our buildings. They will destroy America by detonating nuclear bombs in our largest cities.

Let this letter serve as a wake up call. Your life and that of your children, the very survival or your nation, depends upon whether you are willing to read Prophet of Doom and respond rationally based upon the evidence or ignore it. I have willingly risked my life for you to know the truth. But as with eternal salvation, the choice of whether to benefit from this temporal gift is yours alone. Choose wisely--everything you hold dear is riding on it.

In Yahweh's Name,

Craig

From: "THE JEALOUS MUSLIM GROUP THE JEALOUS MUSLIM GROUP"
To: email@prophetofdoom.net
Subject: To Craig Directly
Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 15:12:10 +0000



from: **THE JEALOUS MUSLIM GROUP**
Craig winn you ignorant & lier authour...how dare you write that false book??? you will regret
for all what u said about Islam & the last messenger of god the master of the mankind...
***So you have to choose one from two options:
1)To take your book (Prophet of Doom : Islam's Terrorist Dogma in Muhammad's Own
Words) out of circulation & to close your website & to apologize officialy for the prophet
Muhammad peace upon him & for islam..
2)Or you will be killed suddenly & in an unexpected way(we know where do you live)
***Imprtant Notice:
*This is a SERIOUS message proceeded from THE JEALOUS MUSLIM GROUP.
*You have only 6 days(from 4.jan to 10.jan 2005) to choose the first option or we will consider
you chosen the second option & then you just have to get ready for a kill at every moment...
*If you choose the first option you must send us an email to inform us about the details of
stopping the book & your apologize.
*You may send us any email during the 6 days.
**THE JEALOUS MUSLIM GROUP**
secrone@xxx.com
3/january/2005

A copy of this exchange can be found at the following link.
http://www.prophetofdoom.net/response_muslimgroup.html

While Craig is willing to sacrifice his life to save Muslims and non-Muslims from Islam, he would like his death, if that is the result, to draw people to the truth. So please consider forwarding this exchange to the emails of the national media, pastors, and politicians. If they succeed in killing Craig it's important that the media is warned in advance. Only then will his death direct people to the POD site and to the truth it reveals. Moreover, the better the threat and reply are disseminated, the less likely this group is to execute their threat as it becomes counter productive.

Thank you.
POD.net

Islamic Tsunami: Cashing In

ZIYAAD: Important Lessons From The South Asian Tsunami, Jan 01, 2005, JihadUnspun, Dr Abu Ziyaad, Jordon.

I have always found the hell-and-damnation preachers of the sunny South particularly annoying. They were not believable, and they were strictly johnny-one-notes who turned everything into reason to fear God and get righteous. However, Islamicists make these protestant Christian propagandists look like Oracles of Delphi.

The Great Asian Tsunami was less than a week old before some Islamic nitwit had to try to cash in on the misery. This flagrantly propagandistic polemic by Dr. Abu Ziyaad, while meaningless as a motivator for people of education and self-esteem, exposes the sense-of-life, methodology, and undeviating purpose of those whose minds have been Islamized. Its concern is only marginal for the human meaning of such a mass tragedy.

I will select and comment on a few sections, but the article is worth reading--if for no other purpose than understanding the minds and thinking of Islamists better.

After opening with a reminder that Allah sent the earthquake and tsunami, Ziyaad parts company with facts and any semblance of human compassion in the third paragraph to get right to sticking it to Muslims.

The South Asian earthquake turned security into fear, richness into poverty, caused joined families to depart, and turned life into death. Without doubt, in it is a lesson for those who take lessons and a reminder for those who remember, so that they may return to their Lord and their Creator.

Wasting little time, he gets right into the malevolent universe of Islam: pain, suffering, tragedy, metaphysical fear. He reminds Muslims that Allah not only did this, but they had better get back to being obedient Islamic robots--Allah has spake, after all.

The Prophet (saws) has informed us that a multitude of earthquakes is a sign of the proximity of the Hour (the day of judgment). He informed us that they would be many at the end of the time. Ahmad relates in a hadeeth (prophetic tradition) narrated by Abu Hurairah (ra) that the Prophet (saws) said: "The Hour will not happen until knowledge is taken out, time passes quickly, earthquakes increase in number, tribulations (fitan) appear, and al-Harj increases in number." It was said, "What is al-Harj, O Rasoolullah?" He said, "Al Qatl, al Qatl (Killing)." And in other narrations the appearance of injustice and oppression in society is associated with divine punishments such as earthquakes, locusts and floods.

Aside from wallowing in the glory of his Allah who inflicted this misery on South Asia, Ziyaad now does what Muslims do so well, thanks to Islam: He affixes blame on others. The governments hit the hardest, he claims, are those who consort with the Great Satan, namely the USA, of course. He says, for example, that Thailand got tragedy big time because it is helping us, "...the Christian Crusaders in the war on terror (Islam)..." Ponder that phrase: "Christian Crusaders" and "war on terror (Islam)." Those poor, picked upon, and misunderstood jihadists who are blamed for the terror behavior...

According to Ziyaad, perfidy against innocent Islam is everywhere in the region. Take Java, for example: "...in central Java, the President called terrorism (Islam) the enemy of all religions (the man-made false religions such as Christianity Judaism and Hinduism as well as the religion of Secularism and Democracy) and urged religious leaders to fight it."

You will just love his "in conclusion":

In conclusion then, the earthquake of South Asia is a warning from Allaah (swt), not only to the people of that region, but rather to the whole of humanity, and to the Muslims in particular, that they may return back to their Lord and their Deen. Many of the Muslims today have gathered many sins, some of those sins are so great (kabaa'ir), that it has taken them outside the fold of Islam, while others are on the verge of the Kufr. We see those who delay and neglect prayers, eat haram foods e.g. food that is stunned before being slaughtered, deal with riba (interest), do not fulfill their trusts (covenants), order the evil (munkar) and forbid the good (ma'roof), rule by Kufr laws, uphold and make excuses for the apostate rulers and their governments in the Muslim lands, associate partners with Allaah in his names, attributes and functions, indulge in free mixing, display their awrah, listen to music and songs, smoke and have abandoned the Qur'aan and the Sunnah. All these exist in our society.

And, just as he opened his article stirring up metaphysical fear in Muslims, so he closes the same way, citing the benevolence of Allah:

"Let us pause and ask ourselves what has been the tangible impact on us since we have heard and seen this earthquake. The happy one is one who learns from the calamity of others, and the sad one is by whom these calamities pass while he takes no lesson from them. It is unfortunate that the explanation offered for these events is that they are normal natural disasters, and that they do not link it to what happens to people due to their wrongdoing, both as a nation (collectively) and as individuals. Theirs is clearly an incorrect interpretation.

And We sent not the signs except to warn, and to make them afraid (of destruction)."

Now, you must admit, Islam is, after all, a hell of a lot of fun! Is it not?

The New York Times Absolutely Gets It (at least in this editorial)

The New York Times > Opinion > Editorial: The Saudi Syndrome, January 1, 2005, EDITORIAL The Saudi Syndrome

I live in chronic disgust of the whoring the New York Times engages in. It prostitutes itself endlessly, it seems, to the nihilistic left and their political wing, the Democrat Party. Using a subjective epistemology that would make Aristotle barf, the Times operates on the principle: If we print it, it is objective journalism. Seldom can I use their material for anything except for analysis of leftism and the corruption of American academia, journalism, etc. HOWEVER, having said all of that, I now praise the Times for this editorial. How it slipped through, I will never know, but it does show what the Times could be.

The editorial is so good and so right on, that all I can do is select certain passages. They speak for themselves, and they speak eloquent truth (with some glaring exceptions, which will be noted):

The next time you consider the purchase of a family car that matches satisfying heft with infinitesimal mileage per gallon, you might want to think about where some of that gas money will ultimately be going. Part of the price of every extra gallon helps, albeit indirectly, to finance mosques and religious schools all over the world that spread a fanatical variant of Islam that sees legitimacy in terrorist attacks. This financing, amounting to billions of dollars a year, comes from the government and private charities of Saudi Arabia, a country that is now taking in roughly $80 billion a year from oil exports.

Now we get to one of those famous Times brain farts:

The Saudi government, itself under assault from Al Qaeda, is not in the business of directly financing terrorism, and since 9/11 it has responded to American pressure to control the flow of charitable funds to active terrorist groups.

Regaining consciousness, the Times strikes the truth:

But what it still pays for, and what the religious charities its citizens are obliged to contribute to pay for, is a worldwide network of mosques, schools and Islamic centers that proselytize the belligerent and intolerant Wahhabi variant of Islam that is dominant in Saudi Arabia. As a result of this oil-financed largess, the teachings of more tolerant and humane Muslim leaders are losing ground in countries like Indonesia and Pakistan. Wahhabi mosques that glorify armed jihad have also made alarming gains among the Muslim populations of Europe and the United States.

Just think about Saudi perfidy when you read this next paragraph:

For years, Saudi Arabian oil money bankrolled the Taliban regime in Afghanistan and provided financial support to Pakistan's government. It was Saudi aid that allowed Pakistan to defy international sanctions imposed over its nuclear bomb testing. Without Saudi money there is some question whether chronically impoverished Pakistan could have ever afforded to develop nuclear weapons and the crucial bomb-related technologies that its scientists passed on to Iran, Libya, North Korea and perhaps other countries as well.

Now we pause for another brain fart:

There is no sinister Saudi conspiracy at work here.

And this mostly outstanding editorial concludes:

The Saudi syndrome is not the only reason Americans need to get much more serious about energy conservation. But it is a powerfully compelling one.

As we start 2005, we need to reground ourselves about Islam, jihad, and those trouble-making countries we seem obsequious to, such as Saudi Arabia. We need to lean on these Saudis until they get better or get gone.

It's Just What We Have Been Saying All Along

Reuters AlertNet - Dutch spy chief says warnings of militancy ignored, 31 Dec 2004 18:13:37 GMT, Source: Reuters, AMSTERDAM

Knowing Reuters' characteristic behavior toward jihadists and anyone else who wants to bring down the West, this article is pregnant with hot-button items.

First:

The Dutch spy chief has accused politicians of ignoring intelligence warnings about rising Islamic militancy in his first newspaper interview since the murder of a Dutch filmmaker critical of Islam.

"I was always surprised that politicians did not sound the alarm in reaction to our annual reports," the head of the country's main AIVD agency, Sybrand van Hulst, told the Friday edition of Dutch daily NRC Handelsblad.

Second:

"In 2000 we said in our annual report that our society was facing increasing pressure. That is a very severe thing to say. But no word from the politicians. That really amazed me."

"Politicians now realise that tougher laws were necessary," he said, but warned that measures against radical Muslims alone would not solve the problem.

Then, he begins to fall apart:

"We must make sure that Muslims feel welcome here, that they integrate, that they accept the identity of the country where they live," he said.

He does not seem to grasp that this statement belies the reason the Dutch politicians have done absolutely nothing to recognize or deal with their Muslim problem. The best we can say for this ostrich-like attitude is that it represents pathological making-nice.

In the prior paragraph, he says that cracking down on the bad guys is not enough. OK, I can go along with that. The rest, however, is to emasculate Islam and to make laws which force Muslim assimilation or make life so unpleasant that they get out of Dodge. But, I am not making-nice.

Nevertheless, the most important thing the Dutch spy chief says comes at the end of the Reuters article:

Van Hulst said young Muslims were especially vulnerable to the appeal for radical Islam.

"Nowadays young, second- or third-generation Moroccans don't see themselves as Moroccans anymore, but also not as Dutch. In the search for an identity, they decide that they are just Muslims and nothing else."

This is what many people, including us, have been saying all along. Only we have been saying much more. Islam works its evil in many ways, and this is one of the most effective of its actions: Identity comes from Islam and only Islam, not from Morocco or the Netherlands or anywhere else at anytime for any reason. The indoctrination starts in on these kids long before they can speak. They learn that they are ummah, the great Muslim community of the universe, and must never be a national.

Do the Dutch really think making nice will cause Islamic youth to become good Dutch citizens? In a pig's eye!