I was in my early 20’s when the Sonics finally emerged from mediocre to a great team in the NBA. They went to the Championship in 77/78 and lost a close and exciting series. The following year the Sonics electrified the entire State of Washington by winning the 78/79 Championship series.
For years the Sonics was the only pro sport in Washington State. In 78/79 the Seahawks were still considered an expansion team.
I grew up in the Evergreen State and loved the Sonics. It is quite the surprise the Seattle Sonics are moving to Oklahoma City. I am a Washingtonian living as an Okie these days so I have mixed feelings about the move.
It is sad for Seattle to lose such a pro heritage; however it is exciting to have the potential to watch the Sonics in my neck of the woods.
JRH 10/31/08 ************************** Okla. Council members approve lease for SuperSonics
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) _ The Oklahoma City Council today unanimously approved a preliminary lease agreement with the Seattle SuperSonics.
Sonics owner and Oklahoma City businessman Clay Bennett is asking the NBA to approve moving the team to Oklahoma City.
The council action comes as NBA Commissioner David Stern and members of the league's relocation committee are to visit the city today.
The 15-year deal is dependent on the team moving to Oklahoma City and calls for the city to renovate the Ford Center and build a practice facility with the Sonics renting the facilities.
City voters recently approved a sales tax extension to pay for the projects. ________________________
You know that “Security Fence” that the Left in America and Europe loves pointing at as evidence that Israel is an Apartheid nation like South Africa was once.
Apartheid meaning the minority race rules over the majority race and the majority race is treated as a second class citizen.
The reality of the “Security Fence” was the constant radical Mohammedan terrorists strapping bombs to themselves then going into urban areas of Israel to commit homicidal suicide. The result was the maiming and death of hundreds of men, women and children in one act of Mohammedan lunacy.
As a side bar I might mention that the conventional wisdom that Abbas is too weak to stop the missile launches into Israel is a bunch of phooey dung. If the Palestine Authority’s President was serious about establishing a peaceful Palestine State to coexist with Israel, he would enlist publicly Israel aid and jointly eradicate Hamas and Islamic Jihad. But that would mean announcing to the Arab world that Arabs that call themselves Palestinians do not wish to drive Jewish Israelis into the sea in a second horrific Holocaust. That is not going to happen.
One would think “peace advocates” or “anti-war organizations” would demonstrate their grievances under the First Amendment in a peaceful manner. Let us see, what the definition is of “peace:”
1. The absence of war or other hostilities.
2. An agreement or a treaty to end hostilities.
3. Freedom from quarrels and disagreement; harmonious relations: roommates living in peace with each other.
4. Public security and order: was arrested for disturbing the peace.
Presumably the expression “anti-war” means the opposite of war or perhaps it means against war.
Now let us examine the emerging predilection of “peace advocates” and “anti-war organizations.” The predilection is to vandalize military recruitment centers, violent acts up to including bombing and the threat of violence if recruitment does not close their doors.
Hmm … These actions not only sound moronic but are the actions which are oxymoronic to the appellation of “peace advocacy” and “anti-war.”
Here is a Fox News report that proves peace advocates and anti-war organizations act in an oxymoron hypocritical fashion. Such is the case we can label them morons.
Saudi Arabia is known for its intolerance to allow any religion other than Mohammedanism to be practiced even in private.
According to sources in the Vatican, the papacy has been negotiating with King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia to open a Roman Catholic Church in intolerant Saudi Arabia.
The article I read implied the negotiation was based on the principle of reciprocity. The reciprocal effect being the largest Mosque in Europe is in Rome built by Saudi money (like duh, of course it was Saudi money).
Personally I believe it is the Mohammedan practice of al-Taqiyya at work. I cannot believe the militant revisionist Mohammedan school of thought – Wahhabi Mohammedan Puritanism – would allow King Abdullah to build a Christian Church (Catholic or otherwise) on so-called holy Mohammedan soil.
Islamofascism and the inherent Theo-political cult of death known as Islam to adherents and as Mohammedanism to people like me that have disdain for a medieval threat of violence that terrifies those that love Liberty and Freedom has struck fear into LiveLeak.
LiveLeak was the video service I used to share the Movie Short Fitna to readers who wished to be educated about the true nature of Mohammedanism. That link now leads to a LiveLeak apology to its clientele because the fear of death threats to its staff constrained them to cave into Islamofascism to place security above the passion of Freedom.
Actually I cannot blame LiveLeak. With governments in the West promoting Appeasement to Mohammedans at the cost of Freedom and Liberty that has evolved in the world with the example of the American experiment after the Revolutionary War.
Western governments and the U.S. government have allowed litigation, the fear of Mohammedan rioting and the threat of Islamic terrorism killing citizens in the West in the name of Mohammed and Allah to Appease the protests of Mohammedans that value medieval Sharia Law above the modern concept of Freedom and Liberty.
Thanks to World Net Daily I have found a Part 1 and Part 2 division of the LiveLeak version on YouTube. My wonder is this: Will YouTube experience pressure to cave into Islamofascism and depreciate Freedom and Liberty as LiveLeak was forced to do?
It is time for the Governments of the West to put down their differences of Leftwing ideology and Rightwing ideology and confront the foreign cultural values of Theo-political Mohammedan ideology aggressively to protect not only our citizens but to defend the levels of Freedom and Liberty the West has attained.
If aggressively means deporting residential aliens and/or jailing naturalized citizens that support the death cult that expects acts of violence to rain down on people utilizing Freedom of Speech or Conscience, then so be it.
As an American, I for one have grown weary and impatient that Political Correctness terminates my Constitutional Rights of Freedom and Liberty deeming my criticism of Mohammedanism as “Hate Speech” when in fact my criticism of Mohammedanism is a defense of Freedom and Liberty. Frankly I do not care if Western Freedom and Liberty offends Mohammedanism. I am an American living in secular-political nation with a heritage of Christianity that has influenced right, wrong and principles of Justice.
Come on LEFT and RIGHT, we are not each other’s enemy common enemy to the way we live. That enemy is Mohammedanism as expressed by radical Islamism with greater and greater acceptance by Mohammedans in general. I am speaking to the LEFT and RIGHT: we disagree on the direction America should take, but we agree on using interpretations of Constitutional Law to find that direction. Mohammedanism seeks to eliminate the path of Freedom and Liberty embedded in the American mind of the LEFT and RIGHT.
Americans UNITE! Even more important: Western style nations UNITE! Let us confront Mohammedanism even as they accuse the West anyway. It is time for a 21st century Crusade.
The thing is the Mohammedan mindset of medieval ugliness is alive and well in the 21st century whereas it is the West that has such principles of the Geneva Conventions (even though many in the West have only partially practiced those Conventions or totally ignored them).
It is time to meet 21st century Jihad with a 21st century Crusade that is more secular than religious and with the rules of engagement that the Allies used in WWII to defeat the Axis Powers utterly with the terms of unconditional surrender. Forsake principles of Political Correctness, it will destroy the West.
The duplicity and deception of the pseudo-prophet Mohammed concerning adultery who some Muslims claim is the same or better than Jesus the Prince of Peace is expressed here.
Note Jesus handled adultery differently (rough paraphrase): Jesus said to the woman caught in adultery who the people wanted to stone, “He who with out sin throw the first stone.”
I have found an English subtitled and English language version of Geert Wilders’ Movie Short Fitna at the Exposing Islam blog. Whatever you think about Wilders’ politics as to place on the political pole – Rightwing or fringe Rightwing – Fitna utilizes the words, pictures, sound bytes and film excerpts of what Islamic people holy men following the Quran.
Global Islam (radical and so-called moderate) has worked hard to squelch this Movie Short to be broadcast on television. Islamic pressure even pressured Wilders’ webhost to not allowFitna to be shown under its ISP. It will be interesting how long LiveLeak will allow having Fitna shown since the West seems to be dhimmified into petrification at the complaint of Islamic organizations in the West and in the Middle East.
Fitna was put together under the sponsorship of a Dutch citizen however it is a Wake-up America, nay a Wake-up World moment. Wake-up for Islam is using victimization as an excuse to curb Freedom of Speech. Republican Representative Peter Hoekstra has made this clear in his opinion about how Islam threatens the Constitutional Right of Freedom of Speech in America. Insults and critical speech has been allowed against questionable faiths that are more like cults and political ideologies from the Left and the Right in America for quite some time. It has only at the cry of Islamophobia (i.e. the accusation of hate speech) by Islamic organizations as well as domestic and foreign mullahs and imams has Freedom of Speech has been criticized.
What is the worry of the West and Freedom of Speech critical of Islam? It is the dhimmified fear of global rioting and violence by the so-called religion of peace when offense is taken. Our modern sense of political correctness has allowed the criticism of Christianity, Judaism, Capitalism, Communism, Nazism, Democracy and other faiths. Yet when the potential of malicious violence looms at criticism of Islam the West slinks under a rock rather than stand for hard fought principles of Democracy and Liberty.
This information brings a little more clarity as to why the military is going out on a limb to prosecute persecute Marines in which the evidence has been demonstrated to be concocted by Islamist terrorists and printed as truth by the anti-war Mainstream Media.
Humbled Infidel reposts a Thomas More Law Center update on the Haditha Marines. It just irks me to read that the Executive Branch is bending to the power of the MSM’s false press out of fear of bad publicity.
Victor David Hanson gives a speech at the Wednesday Morning Club. The theme is the Iraq War and how success is occurring and that the Democrats are in denial.
You know I am not much of a Country Music fan and this song has that flavor; however I got to tell ya this honors God Almighty. American should feel a sense of veneration of America and God when listening to this song. It is truly awesome.
I now know who “Diamond Rio” is and God Bless them for honoring God.
Wafa Sultan speaks the truth about Mohammedanism on al-Jazeera and so-called moderate Mohammedan Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi not only criticizes Sultan but proves her point by speaking in terms that Jihadists that listen to al-Qaradawi will up the ante in increased efforts to murder Wafa Sultan.
I am now learning from WorldNetDaily that Obama contacted the Jewish Telegraphic Agency to condemn Hamas and to explain (once again) he was not present at TUCC when the terrorist-racist support was expressed by Jeremiah Wright and TUCC by publishing the Newsletter which had the Hamas Manifested in it from a reprint of a Los Angeles Times editorial written by Islamic Terrorist Mousa Abu Marzook.
Is it just me noticing this: Obama seems to never be present at TUCC when the racism and pro-Terrorist and anti-American rhetoric comes from the pulpit or the Church’s written word?
I am beginning to wonder if Obama is following the old Goebbels paradigm on propaganda:
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.” – Joseph Goebbels (Emphasis Mine)
I mean Obama has been making an awful lot of denials and many condemnations over and over again … has not he?
Why is the Hamas Manifesto such a big deal? It is because America’s own State Department has Hamas listed as a terrorist organization. Hamas has essentially rebelled against the PA in the Gaza Strip and basically run the show there. Part of the Hamas Manifesto (actual document link) is a call for the unmitigated and utter destruction of Israel which would of course if successful lead to another Holocaust of carnage that would make Hitler happy in hell that the Final Solution is continuing even after his demise.
Once again, Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama is distancing himself from a statement made by his Chicago church and defending himself by saying he wasn't present when the statement was made.
This time, Obama is reacting to a WND report of the church's decision to reprint a manifesto by a Hamas spokesman that defended terrorism as legitimate resistance, refused to recognize the right of Israel to exist and compared the terror group's official charter – which calls for the murder of Jews – to America's Declaration of Independence.
The Hamas piece was published on the "Pastor's Page" of the Trinity United Church of Christ newsletter reserved for Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., whose anti-American, anti-Israel remarks landed Obama in hot water, prompting the presidential candidate to deliver a major race speech earlier this week.
Hamas, responsible for scores of shootings, suicide bombings and rocket launchings against civilian population centers, is listed as a terrorist group by the U.S. State Department.
In his July 22, 2007, church newsletter, Wright reprinted an article by Mousa Abu Marzook, identified in the publication as a "deputy of the political bureau of Hamas." A photo image of the piece was captured and posted today by the business blog BizzyBlog, which first brought attention to it. The Hamas article was first published by the Los Angeles Times, garnering the newspaper much criticism.
Late Thursday, following WND's story, Obama e-mailed a statement to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency criticizing Hamas and noting that he was not in church the day the bulletin was distributed.
"I have already condemned my former pastor's views on Israel in the strongest possible terms, and I certainly wasn't in church when that outrageously wrong Los Angeles Times piece was re-printed in the bulletin," Obama said.
"Hamas is a terrorist organization, responsible for the deaths of many innocents, and dedicated to Israel's destruction, as evidenced by their bombarding of Sderot in recent months. I support requiring Hamas to meet the international community's conditions of recognizing Israel, renouncing violence, and abiding by past agreements before they are treated as a legitimate actor," he said
WND has quoted Israeli security officials who express "concern" about Robert Malley, an adviser to Obama who has advocated negotiations with Hamas and providing international assistance to the terrorist group.
Malley has penned numerous opinion articles, many of them co-written with a former adviser to the late Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat, petitioning for dialogue with Hamas and blasting Israel for policies he says harm the Palestinian cause.
Malley also previously penned a well-circulated New York Review of Books piece largely blaming Israel for the collapse of the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations at Camp David in 2000 when Arafat turned down a Palestinian state in the West Bank, Gaza and eastern sections of Jerusalem and instead returned to the Middle East to launch an intifada, or terrorist campaign, against the Jewish state.
In February 2006, after Hamas won a majority of seats in the Palestinian parliament and amid a U.S. and Israeli attempt to isolate the Hamas-run Palestinian Authority, Malley wrote an op-ed for the Baltimore Sun advocating international aid to the terror group's newly formed government.
Malley said the U.S. should not "discourage third-party unofficial contacts with [Hamas] in an attempt to moderate it."
In a separate statement received by JTA and timed to coincide with the Jewish holiday of Purim, the Obama campaign referenced the Bible's story of Queen Esther to condemn anti-Semitism:
"The story of Queen Esther and her uncle Mordechai saving the Jews of ancient Persia from destruction," his statement said. "Even as the parties are held, the songs are sung, and the noisemakers are rattled, the history of a people that has had to fight for its survival, remains at the heart of the Purim story. In our day, the celebration is mingled with a determination to ensure that Israel remains safe and strong, that we fight anti-Semitism wherever it occurs, and that the American Jewish community continues to play such an active and vital role in the life of our nation." _______________________________
Hamas Manifesto on TUCC Pastor’s Page of Newsletter Obama Denies being Around
Magdi Allam was a prominent Egyptian Muslim writer living in Italy. He has made his dutiful Mohammedan journey to Mecca as is required once in a lifetime (I think) for all Mohammedans.
Here is the thing, Allam has been extremely critical of Islamism and the inherent nature of violence in Islam itself. Allam is even pro-Israel due to the brutality of homicidal suicide bombing Arabs that call themselves Palestinians.
WOW! Apparently more and more Mohammedans are leaving the so-called religion of peace every year.
Here is a little side bar that really has nothing to do with Magdi Allam’s illumination of the true God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
I was listening to Fox News briefly last night (it may have been the day before; I am fuzzy on the exact time frame). While I was half listening all of sudden a statistic brought me to alertness. Twenty-thousand Mohammedans have converted to Christianity in the last year. Seventy-thousand Mohammedans have converted since the Iraq invasion.
What is different since the Iraq invasion and before?
Mohammedans are persecuting native born Iraqi Christians (for years actually). In this Eastern season about a week ago Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho was murdered. Just after performing a Mass, he was kidnapped from his Church and shortly there after was found dead in a shallow grave. The Archbishop is representative of 600,000 Chaldean Catholic Christians that are native born Iraqis that have a history in the area since before the forced conversions of Mohammed. (End of side bar)
I am attacked frequently by Mohammedans on various blogs in which I post as being racist and an Islamophobe. I am not the former but I consider myself a proud member of the latter.
The Greek root of the “phobe” part of Islamophobe literally implies the fear of Islam. Mohammedans interpret it as the hatred of practicing Mohammedans. I think in neither fear nor hatred of Mohammedanism.
I relate Mohammedanism as an ideology like Communism is an ideology (though the Mohammedan ideology is theocratic and the Communist ideology is atheistic).
Both ideology are repressive and indoctrinate hatred toward their enemies even to the point of lying about their histories and the facts of their enemies’ history.
Concepts of individualism; Freedom of thought, choice and speech as well as Liberty are anathema in both Mohammedan and Communist ideologies. In a society or nation dominated by one or the other of these ideologies one can count on persecution, arrest or even death depending on how Freedom and Liberty was practiced by an individual and perceived by the State. Yes, even in Mohammedanism it is the State.
Anyway I say all that to lead into an essay by Azam Kamguian. If Mohammedans and Leftists think I am harsh in exposing the nature of Mohammedanism, this gal has me beat by a mile. One point of interest: I speak from the study of reading books of anti-Jihadist and anti-Islamists; Kamguian speaks from experience.
JRH ********************************** The Silent Holocaust: Why Westerners must react to ban Islam before it causes more bloodshed and misery
What you're going to read or watch here is not the entire truth. In no way can the atrocities of Islam be fully described with the words of any known language. It even goes beyond the description in the koran itself, which is the original blueprint of these atrocities. Reading this, or watching the videos of persecuted and terrorized Copts in their own countries, is like watching Muslims perform beheadings for the sake of their bloodthirsty allah in the comfort of your living room, while the reality is indescribable torture for the victims going through it. We have enough words to describe the animals world, but we're short on words for the followers of the biggest mass murderer in the history of mankind.
Like every satanic cult, Islam needs human sacrifices. If Western populations don't react to stop it and crush it, the map of the Western countries will be flooded by the color red, not of roses, but of the bloodshed of the thirsty demon of Islam.
by Azam Kamguian
Anyone who wants to understand Islam must change his way of thinking. Islam is not a religion for the mind, soul and heart of a man, but it presents an all-encompassing set of orders, theocentric society where all facets of life - child rearing, family life, economics, and politics - are focused on Allah. There is no separation between throne and altar, between politics and religion. In fact, mosques are the starting point for demonstrations and political upheaval. Friday sermons are not confined to the fostering of faith and spiritual life, but contain strong appeals to stir up the people for political conflicts, cursing Christians and Jews, calling for the death of whole western countries in the name of Allah. The ultimate aim is nothing less than the establishment of Allah's kingdom on our earth.
What I am going to talk about is Islam; contemporary Islam in Iran. I will describe some episodes of Islamic carnage and pass you briefly through what happened and is still happening in Iran. I will talk about those who have nurtured Islamic movements or have tried to justify Islam. I will conclude by emphasizing the urgency of achieving the victory of humanity over Islam and the practical steps that should be taken to achieve this.
The final decades of the 20th century witnessed another Holocaust - an Islamic one, in which millions have been and continue to be shot, decapitated and stoned to death; in which people have been slaughtered and displaced by Islamic states, political Islamic movements and Islamic terrorists in Iran, the Sudan, Afghanistan, Algeria, Egypt, Nigeria, Central Asia, and now in America. The robe, turban and Koran continue to victimize people. Any voice of dissent or freedom has been silenced on the spot. The oppression maintained by Islamic movements primarily takes the form of opposition to the freedom of women, by crushing women's civil liberties, by curtailing freedom of expression in the cultural and personal domains, by enforcing brutal laws and traditions, and by the mass killing of people from young children to the elderly.
Essentially, Islam is a set of beliefs and rules that militates against human prosperity, happiness, welfare, freedom, equality and knowledge. Islam and a full human life are contradictory concepts, opposed to each other. Islam under any kind of interpretation is and always has been a strong force against secularism, modernism, egalitarianism and women's rights. Political Islam, however, is a political movement that has come to the fore front against secular and progressive movements for liberation, and against cultural and intellectual advances. Violence and disregard for human dignity are inherent in the manifestos of political Islamic groups.
The very statement that an Islamic republic exists somewhere means that brutal violence exists within it.
After political Islam took power in Iran, creating an Islamic Republic, this movement came out of the margins in other Middle Eastern countries. It was in Iran that political Islam first organized itself into a government and thus turned into a considerable force in the region. In Iran, under an Islamic state, violence has had another dimension: one that is based on Islam. The very statement that an Islamic Republic exists somewhere means that brutal violence exists in it. The mere fact that people are forced to abide by laws based on something some god is believed to have said somewhere, or that some prophet said, itself represents a form of violence. If anyone protests against such laws, they are subject to punishment and suppression. Islam means the worst and the most ferocious kind of violence. Iran is the most transparent picture of what Islam is capable of. I will try to pass you briefly through this period of violence, atrocities, and misogyny - a bloodbath committed by Islam in power.
In Iran, I lived through thousands of days when Islam shed blood. Since 1979, a hundred thousand men, women and children have been executed in the name of Allah. I have lived through days when I, along with thousands of men and women throughout the country, looked for the names of our lovers, husbands, wives, friends, daughters, sons, colleagues and students in newspapers which daily announced the names of the executed. Days when the soldiers of Allah attacked bookstores and publishing houses and burned books. Days of armed attacks on universities, killing students all over the country. Weeks and months of bloody attacks on workers' strikes and demonstrations. Years of assassination of opponents inside and outside Iran. Years of suppression and brutal murder of atheists, freethinkers, socialists, trade union leaders and activists, Marxists, Bahais, women who resisted the misery of the hijab and the rule of sexual apartheid, and many others who were none of these, who were arrested in the streets and then executed simply because of their innocent non-Islamic appearance. And to the hundred thousand murdered in Iran must be added the millions who have died in Algeria, the Sudan, Egypt, Afghanistan, Pakistan and elsewhere. A silent holocaust about which the civilized world does nothing.
I, along with thousands of political prisoners, was tortured by order of the representative of Allah and Sharia; tortured, while the verses of the Koran about nonbelievers were played in the torture chambers. The voice reading the Koran was mixed with our cries of pain from lashes and other brutal forms of torture. They raped women political prisoners for the sake of Allah and in expectation of his reward. They prayed before raping them. Thousands were shot to death by execution squads while Koranic verses were recited. Prisoners were awakened every day at dawn to the sound of gunshots aimed at their friends and cell mates. From the numbers of shots you could work out how many had been murdered that day. The killing machine did not stop for a minute. The fathers and mothers, husbands and wives who received the bloody clothes of their loved ones had to pay for the bullets. They created an Islamic Auschwitz. Many of the best, the most passionate and progressive people were massacred. The dimensions of the horror are beyond imagining.
From that time, love, happiness, smiling, any free human interaction was forbidden. Islam took over completely. This is what happened to my generation. But it was not limited only to my generation, It had bloody consequences for our parents generation and for the next generation. During those years, millions of children were brainwashed and manipulated. The crimes committed by the Islamic Republic of Iran and political Islam in the region are comparable to the crimes committed by Fascism in the 1930s and early 1940s, and to the genocide in Rwanda and Indonesia.
Yet these are events that humanity around the world has been largely unaware of. A Holocaust which, if humanity knows of its dimensions and intensity, would certainly cause it to weep. With the downfall of such regimes, the world will be given an opportunity to know the truth - victims will speak out, prisons and torture chambers will be exposed, torturers will make heart-wrenching confessions, Islamic prosecutors and judges will reveal what they did to their victims behind prison walls. Then people all over the world will see what a despicable, and horribly unimaginable (for whoever not knowing Islam) phenomenon Islam is. They will finally find out the truth about those governments that backed the Islamic movements and the Western mainstream (accomplice) media that deliberately blocked people's access to the truth.
The aftermath of September 11 exposed a fraction of the reality of what is happening to people living under the constant terror of Islam. It exposed something of the tragedy that befell women under the Taliban. It revealed, to some extent, the true substance of Islam. But it became plain to see that this carnage is Islamic. It became evident that it is all about Islam.
When I came to the West in the beginning of the 1990s, I was faced by the fact that the majority of intellectuals, the mainstream media, the academic world, and many feminists, in the name of respecting other cultures and religions, were trying to justify Islam by dividing it into fundamentalist and moderate, progressive and reactionary, Medina's and Mecca's, folksy and non-folksy, poisonous and edible. For people like me, first-hand victims of the Islamic Holocaust, it was suffocating to listen to and to have to refute endless tales to justify this terror, atrocity and misogyny. Parallel to this Islamic carnage, western apologists for Islam try to divert people's righteous loathing for Islam and for the political Islamic movement, to limit it to a hatred of fundamentalism. They attempt to reduce the anti-Islamic struggle to anti-fundamentalism. They keep telling us that what we loathe is fundamentalism, not the 'true', the 'real' Islam. They pledge "reform in Islam" and the application of a "positive interpretation of the Koran" to women's rights by linguistic twisting. They raise the idea of Islamic feminism and try to attach a human face to the monstrous face of Islam against women.
The rights of freedom of expression, equality of men and women, and a secular state apply to people in the 'Third World' too. Isn't it shameful that we have to argue about it?
The truth should be spoken. We shouldn't let western apologists for Islam play with people's lives, and mislead their own populations any more. We should say clearly and loudly that it is all about Islam. What we have seen is the reality of Islam in power. The fact is that Western liberal and left-wing intellectuals feel guilty about past colonial history and are apologetic to the Third World. They consider the "Third World" a given entity, where people are keen to suffer under the rotten rules of Islam, where people are happy to be deprived of the achievements of human civilization in the 21st century. According to them, women desire sexual apartheid, girls love to be segregated from boys, and people hate civil rights and individual freedom. In their view, people are the allies of Islamic movements and Islamic governments. This is indeed a distorted image of the realities. This is an inverted colonialism. In this picture, people who are fighting for civil rights, secularism and against political Islam do not exist. This self-centered mentality in which everything should revolve around the guilt of Western pseudo-intellectuals is appalling. The rights of freedom of expression, equality of men and women, and a secular state apply to people in the "Third World" too. Isn't it shameful that we have to argue about it?
Contrary to this view, there is a fight going on - and it has been going on for over 28 years - between progressive movements in the Middle East and in the West on the one side, and political Islam on the other. The records of the daily struggle of people and the non-Islamic opposition in Islam-ridden countries, and the news of the daily resistance of the youth and women in Iran, demonstrate the reality of peoples' demands in the "Third World". Since 1979, Iranian society has changed dramatically and deeply. The movement for secularism and atheism, for modern ideas and culture, for individual freedom, for women's liberation and civil liberties has been widespread and deep. Disgust for Islam and the backward culture of those in power is immense.
Secularism must be defended actively and resolutely in Islam - ridden countries. Universal human and civil rights must be the standard. Secularism is not only realizable, but also, after the experiences of Iran, Afghanistan, the Sudan, Egypt and Algeria, is an urgent and pressing need and demand of the people of the region. The demand for secularism must push for absolute and complete separation of religion from the State; complete separation of religion from education; freedom of religion and atheism; laws free of religious content; and for religion to be declared the private affair of individuals. A conscious struggle must be conducted against the power of organised religion. Islam should be officially registered as a private enterprise, subject to regulations and laws.
To realize these ideals and demands, we need a massive joint force. Despite the struggles of the non-Islamic opposition in the Middle East and in the West in the past decades, all that has been visible has been occasional reports of the barbarity of Islam and the reactions of Western governments, media and "intellectual" apologists deceiver for Islam. But, there is a third force, a sleeping giant who can turn the situation around. If this giant awakes, this era could see the beginning of positive changes and the realization of ideals that were almost abandoned during the final decades of the 20th century. Humanity must rise up and defend itself against the barbarity of Islam.
The ranks of civilised humanity form a massive force that has, so far, sadly been silenced. It can come to the fore. For the future of humanity, it must come to the fore. If there is to be a future, it is in the formation of an active, progressive and freedom-loving policy at the forefront of the ranks of the people. Otherwise, the stage is left open to Islam terrorism and barbarism. I finish this with the hope that in the coming years of the 21st century, we will witness the victory of humanity, of humanism, over Islam. All freedom-lovers and secularist forces around the world should come together in a joint effort to combat Islam; to promote secularism, egalitarianism and freedom, in the societies that Islam oppresses.
If a picture is worth a thousand words, these videos are worth more than a PhD. in Islamic studies.
The world is holding its breath for Geert Wilders' koran movie, but these videos are no less effective in showing the applications, and the live realities resulting from the koran.
These are videos that the Egyptian government don't want the world to see. It shows the organized and official systematic persecution, terrorizing, and economic strangulation of the Copts in Egypt, and how government security officers even threaten to rape the young daughters of mothers that converted to Christianity.
It is also worth mentioning that most of these Copts, reduced to being garbage collectors, were forced to flee their lands and businesses in upper Egypt under the threat of being killed by radical Muslims acting with the complicity of the security apparatus, to steal Christians' properties as lawful booty, same as their prophet did with the Christians and the Jews of Arabia.
It is also important to remind the world that Copts were the people that had to pay the jeziah in order to stay as Christians. Which means that all Copts, including the ones you'll see in the videos were by definition, financially well off to be able to pay, until they reached the life you will now be witness of. Now you can see what it means in the koran 33:27, "And He made you heirs of their lands, their houses, and their goods, and of a land which ye had not frequented (before). And Allah has power over all things." This is one verse you won't need anyone to explain to you once you see the videos.
In Egypt Copts are being robbed point blank, their tax money is used to finance Al Azhar university, where no Christian is admitted but Muslims from all over the world are admitted for free, to build and finance hundreds of thousands of mosques (while Christians are not free to build one church with their own money, and in many places they have to conduct the mass on the street), to finance a dozen or more Islamic TV channels, payroll for hundreds of thousands of sheiks so they can insult and curse through mosque loudspeakers and on the air, at every prayer, those same Christians paying their salaries. These are just four items out of a list that is too long to mention here. As for Western countries, the first thing a Muslim is briefed about by his co-religionists as soon he arrives (I know this first hand from every ex-Muslim), is how to plunder the social benefits. Just compare the percentage of Muslims in your Western country with their share of the social benefits, and you'll understand that you're being robbed too of your tax dollar. Or, as Muslims call it, they're making you pay the jeziah.
I continue to wonder how Obama can condemn racist statements and support a church that supports terrorism (viz. Hamas) and can still say he is above the racist anti-American beliefs of those associated with for years.
In the midst of all the Obama denials and condemnations of past and present associates, there is an amazing amount of evidence emerging that the eloquent Barack Obama is merely just another two-faced fringe Leftist trying to deceive his way into the White House.
JRH 3/22/08 ************************************ Obamacide – Obama’s Church Reprinted Hamas Manifesto
If this isn’t Obamacide then we may have to start calling him Teflon Barry.
From BizzyBlog comes evidence that Obama’s church not only has anti-white, anti-American feelings, but may also have a pro-Hamas bias. The July 22, 2007 Trinity United Church of Christ bulletin reprinted an article written by Mousa Abu Marzook, deputy of the political bureau of Hamas. Originally printed in the LA Times as “Hamas’ stand“, Pastor Wright added a new title, “A Fresh View of the Palestinian Struggle”. The Times was criticized for giving a “Platform To Genocidal Terrorist.” Where does that leave Obama’s church? Marzook is a known terrorist and created an extensive Hamas network in the United States.
The smoking gun is here in Obama’s church bulletin. Was Obama there? Does he support Hamas? Expect Obama and his supporters to simply ignore this tacit if not direct support of a terrorist organization.
SlantRight Update from BizzyBlog – 3/22/08 _____________________________
“Creeping Sharia” is a phenomenon occurring across the free world. We’ll define it as “the slow, deliberate, and methodical advance of Islamic law (sharia) in non-Muslim countries” (literal definitions below).
To the general public, justifiably pre-occupied with work, family, pleasure, dreams, hopes, goals, and the stresses of each, “creeping sharia” goes mostly unnoticed. Until, that is, a particular event generates enough concern from those who focus on the “creep” that the general public takes notice. These singular events are sometimes less worrisome, but taken in whole, the uncoordinated yet explicit goal of the ummah and worldwide caliphate become obvious and alarming.
Hence the birth of the “creeping sharia” blog.
The blog will focus on “creeping sharia” in the United States however major events in other … READ MORE ON THE ABOUT PAGE.
Bob Tyrrell writes of the foolishness of Appeasing a people whose reason for existence is to hate Jews, the nation Israel and America.
At the direction of America and the anti-Semitic pressure of the EU, Israel has given and given and has received absolutely ZERO reciprocity.
This is a Western hypocrisy that will end the existence of Israel or inevitably end in an upgrade from the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) to a World War. The stakes will be a defensible Jewish homeland and the threat of the world’s oil reserves that is the current energy life-blood of the globe.
A Vatican spokesman denies the accusation for the Pope. The Vatican to my dismay claims to be leading efforts for dialogue with Mohammedans. If only Pope Benedict XVI would realize that showing up in Mecca for dialogue would result in loosing his head.
It is amazing the effort of Christian leaders from both Protestants and Catholics are willing to live in dhimmitude in the false hope dhimmi oppression will end the violence against the West.
Here is a news item from Aaron Klein billed as the racist New Black Panther Party (NBPP) has endorsed Barack Obama for President. I am certain Klein is working the connections Obama has had with Black racists Jeremiah Wright and Louis Farrakhan.
It is the kind of path the Leftist Mainstream Media (MSM) method to hammer on Conservatives (for example President Bush, VP Cheney, Scooter Libby, Tom DeLay, etc.). So I am undecided if it leaves a bad taste in my mouth or if it is good for the goose it is good for the gander.
Klein actually focuses more the NBPP leader Malik Zulu Shabazz establishing his credentials as a full blown racist hater of white people and Jews. I actually did not know much about Shabazz until this article so I am grateful for that.
This is the latest of the comment battle I have been having with Talha, a Mohammedan person who has taken exception to my penchant to reveal the politically incorrect truth about Mohammedanism. The original post was The West Needs to Understand Islamist Paradigm of War.
Talha said:
if u have problem with the very point of people engaging in fighting at all, then WWII, japan, vietnam, iraq, afghanistan and iraq again, r gross violations of christianity. then u'll have to abolish the death penalty. then, saddam hussein should have lived, along with the entire hamas leadership. hitler should have lived, too.
Christians have developed a concept of what is a Just War. The theme is self-defense. Contrarily Mohammedans war to convert people to their cult, enslaved to an inferior social and civil right position or death. The death penalty is a point of argument between Christians in America for the very reasons you imply. In Europe, most nations have abolished the death penalty as punishment for heinous murderous crimes.
Yet in Middle Eastern nations and in Western Nations (if a Mohammedan can get away with it) War is still practiced according to the Mohammedan holy writings, also to mention frivolous death penalty executions for honor (whatever a Mohammedan perceives that to be) being violated, adultery, homosexuality and such are death penalty crimes. Most mysteriously to the Westerner who believes in Free Speech and Liberty, Mohammedans will execute individuals who might insult their psycho-prophet Mohammed or insult Islam in general.
To Bible believing Christians (there are actually Christians on the Left that cherry pick Biblical Scripture and morality), practices such as homosexuality and adultery are sins accepted in secularized society. Bible believing Christians believes these sins are something to be repented of or the lifestyle will face judgment in the next life.
Talha said:
but us see, sometimes it is necessary to fight in order to keep / restore peace. islam does not deal in doctrines that r unviable. u cant always turn the other cheek.
so having established the necessity for war, islam seeks to rein it in with proper standing procedures that ensure that cruelty and vengeful measures dont become the norm in war.
So you are saying Mohammedanism has something comparable to a Just War concept. That is good.
On the other hand the Islamist who says they follow the letter of the Mohammedan holy writings is NOT utilizing procedures to prevent cruelty and vengeful acts. Now days Islamists even attack their co-religionists if they fail their interpretation of Mohammedan holy writings.
Talha said:
in simplest terms, as soon as war is necessitated for a christian nation, religions has to be chucked out the window, cuz ur religion doesnt tell u wat to do in such a situation. islam, on the other hand, gives u procedures regarding war and ensures that excesses r not committed even in war.
Again Christians have the Just War concept and again Mohammedan war is brutal and savage even today in the modern world.
Talha said:
as per ur allegation of rape being allowed in islam, let me categorically state that rape is not allowed in Islam, in any circumstance. whether women be in a veil or they walk around threadbare, u cant rape them according to any islamic injunction.
back in the 600s, when women werent considered full citizens in any nation of the world (the US only gave them voting rights in the 1920s).
does rape occur in muslim nations, yes.
is there any country in the world which is completely free of rape? no. does rape occur in america? yes. does christianity allow rape? no.
so u see violations occur all around, which is not to say this is right. it is very, very wrong!!! but u also need to see, it is a violation, both of christianity and of islam.
In FACT the rape of kafir women is a part of the practice of humiliating kafir men. (The Kafir is the infidel or unbeliever in Mohammedanism.)
In Western Europe rape is an occurrence perpetrated on kafir women by Mohammedan males are on a scale way beyond the statistics of the rape of women by European males on European women or Mohammedan women. The statistics are so high that (at least at one time) Sweden and Norway refused to publish the statistics of Mohammedans raping European women.
The Islamic legal manual ‘Umdat al-Salik, which carries the endorsement of Al-Azhar University, the most respected authority in Sunni Islam, stipulates: “When a child or a woman is taken captive, they become slaves by the fact of capture, and the woman’s previous marriage is immediately annulled.” [Emphasis Mine]
Anti-Jihad scholar Robert Spencer adds: “So that they are free to become the concubines of their captors. The Qur’an permits Muslim men to have intercourse with their wives and their slave girls: “Forbidden to you are ... married women, except those whom you own as slaves” (Sura 4:23-24).” [Emphasis Mine]
More from Robert Spencer about words from the lips of Mohammed to the ears of fanatical Islamic soldiers: “After one successful battle, Muhammad tells his men, “Go and take any slave girl.” He took one for himself also. After the notorious massacre of the Jewish Qurayzah tribe, he did it again. According to his earliest biographer, Ibn Ishaq, Muhammad “went out to the market of Medina (which is still its market today) and dug trenches in it. Then he sent for [the men of Banu Qurayza] and struck off their heads in those trenches as they were brought out to him in batches.” After killing “600 or 700 in all, though some put the figure as high as 800 or 900,” the Prophet of Islam took one of the widows he had just made, Rayhana bint Amr, as another concubine.
Emerging victorious in another battle, according to a generally accepted Islamic tradition, Muhammad’s men present him with an ethical question: “We took women captives, and we wanted to do ‘azl [coitus interruptus] with them.” Muhammad told them: “It is better that you should not do it, for Allah has written whom He is going to create till the Day of Resurrection.’” When Muhammad says “it is better that you should not do it,” he’s referring to coitus interruptus, not to raping their captives. He takes that for granted.” [Emphasis Mine]
Now to some of us who are not up on their Latin, coitus interruptus is defined as: “Coitus interruptus is a Latin term meaning interrupted intercourse. It is the clinical term for the withdrawal method of contraception, which is when a male withdraws his penis from his female partner prior to ejaculating.” [Emphasis Mine]
Talha I have to highly disagree with you that rape is not part of the cultural practice of Mohammedans toward women who are not Mohammedans.
Brigitte Gabriel’s Act for America has sent a copy of an email of a so-called moderate Mohammedan. The email was forwarded to her as she explains. The email is a demonstration of the mind of the so-called moderate Mohammedan. In essence willing to say “Islamist terrorism” is bad, but the American fight against them is evil.
Not only that the forwarded email demonstrates the pervasive attitude of the 9/11 attacks on American soil; viz. that they Mohammedans were not responsible. The forwarded email takes a Truther attitude in that it was a government conspiracy in which President Bush teamed up with Israel to create a state of war against the Middle East.
The email goes on to name all the anti-Islamist writers and pundits who are trying to educate America about Mohammedanism as racist hate mongers. The perception of racist hate monger is no doubt the Mohammedan mind cannot wrap around the fact that their revered holy writings emphasize intolerance, hate and supremacist attitudes toward anything non-Mohammedan or critical of Mohammedanism.
Below is the partially unedited forwarded email as emailed to me from Act for America. I say partially because where the original has a response in red from Act for America I am making bold print and placing a space between the Mohammedan’s email and Act for America’s responses.
JRH 3/18/08 ************************************ Inside the Worldview of a Middle Eastern Muslim
Act for America Sent: March 17, 2008 10:09:32 AM
Recently, one of our members forwarded us an email thread containing correspondence she had with a Middle Eastern Muslim, who professes not to support any anti-American organization. The email from the Muslim is a stunning window into the thinking of Muslims in the Middle East. While one cannot generalize the views of one Muslim to all Muslims, other empirical evidence, such as survey research, confirms that much of what this Muslim is expressing is commonly held by Muslims in the Middle East.
We have inserted commentary in red where appropriate. What you see below is the exact text and layout of the email as it was sent to our member. As you read it, keep in mind that this is coming from someone who professes to be peaceful and not anti-American._____________________________________
my dear girl with all do respect, u seem to like and support every anti islamic, anti arab site in America's and admire people like pipes and Brigitte who r racist and fanatic.
[this is a common ad hominem response by Muslims to those who speak out against militant Islam. They are unable to dispute the facts that support the critique of militant Islam, so they resort to name calling and attacking the person].
I don't support any anti christian or anti american site or group. Yes i disagree with american policies in the middle east, but i wish no harm to anyone. there is no islamic authoritarianism in america..trust me on that, there no hidden extremist or sleeping cells.
[a remarkable disregard for publicly verified facts; sleeper cells in America have been uncovered and some broken up].
this all the creation of the Israeli propaganda machine in order to keep Islam the new enemy and to keep attention from israel crimes in the middle east and from the real threat to america, the jewish zionist sleeper cells, who have caused so much damage to america.
[the preceding is standard anti-Jewish, anti-Israeli conspiratorial rhetoric].
examples of these cells,richard perl, wolfowitz, doug fieth,allan dershweitz,and eliot abrams in the nsc.most of these people at one time of another spied for Israel and passed american secrets to israel. these people were in power to drag america into war in iraq, causing the death of a million iraqi and thousands of americans soldirs.they are the real threat to america, not to mention the billions of dollars they made america loose. as for cair, its doing wat jewish american organization did 30 years ago but to a lesser scale.cair is defending muslims because of the hysteria against islam in america now.but unlike jewish organizations, cair does not work against america.who do u think is against prayers in schools, and christmas decorations in public buildings? its jewish organizations in america.although i think cair over does it sometimes but it has no agenda.
[CAIR has no “agenda”? Its actions demonstrate it is intent on manipulating public opinion, stifling debate, and shutting down criticism of militant Islam. What’s more, in spite of CAIR claiming it is a “mainstream” organization, numerous leaders of CAIR have been investigated, some arrested, some indicted, for ties to terrorism. In December papers were filed in federal court alleging CAIR is in fact tied to terrorist groups and has attempted to deceive America about those ties].
NO BODY WANTS TO CHANge AMERICA AND MAKE IT MUSLIM, I CHALLENG U AND UR FRIEND BRIGITE TO GIVE ME THE NAME OF ANYBODY WHO IS TRYING TO ISLAMIZE AMERICA.or the extremist hiding in order to destroy america, its rubbish.
[For just one example, how about the D.C. Imam who has called for the replacement of America with the North American State of Islam?]
as i told u, after 9/11 and after thousands of man hours of investigations the FBI found no connection to any muslim in america with the hijackers.
[this is a widely held, and completely unfounded, conspiracy theory among Muslims, that the Mossad, in league with the Bush Administration, are the ones who were really behind 9/11.]
now not all muslims in america r perfect same as christians.if anyone breaks the law he should b charged. I don't understand why u r surprised why i don't like Brigitte? i dont because she is ignorant and racist.
[another ad hominem attack]
how would u feel if i will start a group tomorrow called wake up america.it will focus on extremist christians-since most american are- and dangerous characters who r likey to kill, rape, steal, attack and might harm other americans.all the statistics say I am right, the crime rates is high, for sure people will b killed and robbed. wat do u think,,just like brigit, but ill replace muslim with christian in her site. then u always say i have muslims friends and u don't want to hurt their feelings, i do believe u, but then u associate with all muslim haters and bashers. How about this...i like american and i like u, but ill be friends with operators of alqaida sites and bin laden.how does that feel? ill never do that. I like america and like for america to have a fair policy in the middle east.I like america the way its. i dont want america to turn into a 3rd world country.i want all faiths to b in america in peace.to respect each others. Islam has been in america for a hundreds years, how come we heared nothing about it before 9/11.why they did not change america before ________________________
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