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About bloody TIME!!!

Michelle Malkin links a NY Post article by Emilio Karim Dabul:

The only time I raised my voice in protest against these men who killed thousands of innocents in the name of Allah was behind closed doors, among the safety of friends and family. I did at one point write a very vitriolic essay condemning their actions, but fear of becoming another Salman Rushdie kept me from ever trying to publish it.

Well, I'm sick of saying the truth only in private - that Arabs around the world, including Arab-Americans like myself, need to start holding our own culture accountable for the insane, violent actions that our extremists have perpetrated on the world at large.

Yes, our extremists and our culture.

Every single 9/11 hijacker was Arab and a Muslim. The apologists (including President Bush) tried to reassure us that 9/11 had nothing to do with Islam, but was a twisting of a great and noble religion. With all due respect, read the Koran, Mr. President. There's enough there for someone of extreme tendencies to find their way to a global jihad. [...]

Five years after that awful day, it's time for all Arab-Americans, and Arabs around the world, to protest against Islamic fascism, to raise our voices - and, where necessary, our arms - against these tyrants until their plague of terror has been driven from the face of the earth forever.

Yes. It's time and past time!

I hope more of those elusive "moderate muslims" will follow Mr. Dabul's example and raise their voices loud and strong against these murderous barbarians.

Heh. Irony just doesn't get better...

Cassandra, one of the Ladies of the Cotillion (and a brilliant writer), reminded me on-list about this article, which I'd seen yesterday (linked from Ace? I forget...)

From the Telegraph:

Some of the small number of prisoners who remained in the jail after the Americans left said they had pleaded to go with their departing captors, rather than be left in the hands of Iraqi guards.

"The Americans were better than the Iraqis. They treated us better," said Khalid Alaani, who was held on suspicion of involvement in Sunni terrorism. [...]

Access to the part of the prison containing terrorism suspects was denied, but from that block came the sound of screaming. The screaming continued for a long time.

"I am sure someone was being beaten, they were screaming like they were being hit," the witness reported. "I felt scared, I was asking what was happening in the terrorist section.

"I heard shouting, like someone had a hot iron on their body, screams. The officer said they were just screaming by themselves. I was hearing the screams throughout the visit."

The witness said that even in the thieves' section prisoners were being treated badly. "Someone was shouting 'Please help us, we want the human rights officers, we want the Americans to come back'," he said.

We ARE better than they are... My husband has lived in that general area, and he reminds me that "human rights" is really a pretty alien concept for Islamic cultures...

Now. I want to ask all the nutcases who were screaming about what we did at Abu Ghraib to eat a nice, big slice of humble pie... and to let me know when the Iraqis who are now abusing prisoners come up for trial, OK?

Neither will I...

"Lan astaslem."

I WILL NOT SUBMIT. I WILL NOT SURRENDER.

You hear that, jihadis? That is my response to your "invitation" to bow my knee to Islam. That is my response to your murderous, barbaric and tyrannical ideology. That is my response to your perverted mullahs, your insane "martyrs," and your pathetic little pissant "god."

I serve the Holy God, the Lord of Truth, El Shaddai, the Lord of Hosts, the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. I serve the God who became flesh and dwelt among us, who sacrificed Himself for our sins and rose again on the third day.

I serve the great I AM.

I serve the One who will do this to that satanic little minion you call "allah:"

Now when the thousand years have expired, Satan will be released from his prison and will go out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle, whose number is as the sand of the sea. They went up on the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. And fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured them. The devil, who deceived them, was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are. And they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

I serve the LORD God Almighty, and you and your "god" are less than the dust beneath His feet.

(HT and thanks to Michelle Malkin, here and here)

Bush has a new speechwriter

Saudi Arabia has demanded an apology from President Bush. Here's what the new speechwriter came up with... and he's not holding anything back.

If wishes were horses...

How to deal with terrorists

With a huge hug to Emperor Misha for pointing me to this post. It begins:

A peacemaker walks up to the left side of a line. A terrorist walks up to the right side of the line. The peacemaker introduces himself. The terrorist kills him.

A peacemaker walks up to the left side of the line. A terrorist walks up to the right side of the line. The peacemaker asks, "why did you kill my friend?" The terrorist kills him and rapes his wife.

A peacemaker walks up to the left side of the line. A terrorist walks up to the right side of the line. The peacemaker says, "Stop that!" The terrorist kills him, rapes his daughter and kills his wife.

Go read. NOW!!!

Praise God! (UPDATED)

From today's Arutz Sheva:

The two IDF reservists, Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser have been held hostage by Hizbullah since their kidnap on July 12th, an incident that sparked a full-fledged war between Israel and Hizbullah in southern Lebanon.

"It appears that they are in good condition, but not great," said de Gregorio. "They are alive." He did not give further details, other than to say that Larijani told him that "he will ask Hizbullah to negotiate only with the Italians."

However, there is still one dark note:

A third soldier, IDF Corporal Gilad Shalit was abducted three weeks earlier by Hamas terrorists who attacked an IDF base at the Kerem Shalom border crossing with Gaza and Egypt. His whereabouts remain unknown.

My prayers go out to the two rescued soldiers, for quick healing and peace of mind.

But for Cpl. Shalit, I lift my hands up to the Lord and earnestly plead for his safe return!

UPDATE: Ooops. In my enthusiasm about the soldiers being confirmed alive, I didn't read closely enough... Apparently, Italy will be negotiating for their release... But they HAVE been confirmed alive; perhaps this will give these hostages the protection of publicity in some small way.

Technorati Tags: Eldad Regev, Ehud Goldwasser, Gilad Shalit, hostages, Israel, terrorists, Hamas, Hizbullah

You want "OFFENSIVE"?

GM dishes up offensive:

"Offensive? Oh, you just have no idea how offensive I'm going to be!"

Go read it. NOW.

They want us to die... (UPDATED)

(UPDATED below the fold, just for meathead. A few little things I've rounded up to show that knee-jerk responses aren't always wrong, and that he should find his backbone and reinstall it [assuming he ever had one]. As I said below: the terrorists are evil, and you do NOT negotiate with evil: YOU WIPE IT OUT!)

The ACLU has persuaded a federal judge (didn't take much, I'm sure) that the NSA wire-tapping program is un-Constitutional. Apparently, this judge has "a history of ignoring the law." [UPDATE: James Young reminds me in the comments that the language highlighted in the hyper link is... not accurate. OK. He's right. {Yes, and you can imagine me pouting, too, if you like.} I'm going to leave the link and those words, since they're the title of the post I linked to, but... *sigh* One instance does not a "history" make. Didn't I just go through that on another topic? Yikes. I was wrong to do this, and offer my apologies.]

Oh, and she was nominated by Jimmah Cah-tuh. Jimmah, of course is the soul of determination and steely eyed resolve, willing to track down injustice, and ready to stand up to murdering... Oh. Wait a minute. Wrong Jimmah.

The left is going to get us all killed by the terrorists. They are systematically hunting down and destroying all our tools and programs to track these bloodthirsty, murderous, insane barbarians (may they be buried in pig offal and urinated on by Jews) and kill them before the barbarians kill more of us.

Either that, or they're desperate to become dhimmi slaves, cowed by the threat of being beheaded because of some fatwa-crazy imam.

Cox and Forkum have it right:

These people are not US citizens. These people want to kill US citizens. These people hate our society, our culture, our wealth, and our freedom. As far as I am concerned, as long as they hold this intolerant, militant, and murderous ideology, we should never consider allowing them ANY of the rights in our Founding Documents.

None.

They are evil, and you do NOT negotiate with evil: you wipe it out.

THIS... is insanely obscene!!!

Thanks to my fellow Lady of the Cotillion, Beth of Blue Star Chronicles, we see this charming video of how Islamic cultures can indoctrinate their children.

Warning: **NOT** for the faint of heart!

Anything even a tenth as horrific as this sort of behavior would get parents locked up for abuse in most "civilized" countries.

And people wonder why I'm such a strong advocate of taking care of this problem PERMINANTLY. I would prefer not to use the ultimate recourse, but if these crazy murderers keep pushing and pushing and pushing...

Yes, I have...

Ace had a fantastic post yesterday, titled "Had Enough?" that is excellent! (I really think I'm going to have to add a new category: "Must Reads")

There is too much equivocation about terrorism. There is too much protection of hate-preachers and actual terrorists. There is too much coordination with the terrorists' message of the day. There is too much support, active support or the sorter sort of moral support, for the terrorists in Muslim communities.

You guys had better get your shit under control, pronto. Because the American Street is growing very angry indeed.

You wouldn't like the American Street when it's angry.

Do you not realize that, due to our compassion, openness, and commitment to tolerance, we have lost more than 3000 lives, spent billions on security measures and unprecendentedly humane military interventions, seen hell wreaked on our economy, and have seen our lives disrupted and inconvenienced and just made generally poorer overall?

At what point do you think the limits of compassion, openness, and commitment to tolerance are reached? Do you imagine our virture -- or weakness, as you would have it -- in this regard is infinite?

And that's just the beginning.

Yay, Ace!

Prayers for journalists!

Yes, you heard that right. Just in the past couple of hours, the news has broken that two Fox newsman have been kidnapped by Palestinian gunmen. Drudge is linking to a Reuters story, and the AP has it, too.

Ms Underestimated has also dug up the beginnings of a new odiferous cesspool of snide and insane gloating over at the DU, but you can visit via her post, and not here. Eeew.

CNN's initial report says

The Committee to Protect Journalists issued a statement calling for their release.

"We are gravely concerned about our colleagues' safety and call for their immediate and unconditional release," said CPJ Executive Director Joel Simon. "These are well established journalists who are not participants in the conflict. They should be treated accordingly and freed."

Well, guys, don't forget, you're dealing with spoiled, intractable, murderous barbarians, so it really shouldn't be surprising that they'd pull a boneheaded move like this. One of my sisters in the Cotillion mentioned that the Paleoswinians have a history of catch-whine-release for journalists, but you never know with these nutcases.

Nothing on FoxNews as of yet, but they may be enforcing a news blackout, so as not to encourage future kidnappings in pursuit of publicity.

UPDATE: TelChai Nation has an excellent round-up of bloggers posting on this.

Flight 93 Memorial

At my own blog, I have posted about the atrocity proposed as a memorial for Flight 93.  Of course, my perspective is that of an American patriot.

This essay is written by a former Muslim who calls himself "Avenging Apostate."  He has converted to Christianity and lives his Christian faith in secret in the United Arab Emirates.

Excerpt, which is laced with biting satire:

"...The poor, innocent terrorists were able to take the lives of about 3000 evil American men, women and children by crashing the planes into the World Trade Center and Pentagon, but you stopped them from continuing that. Since they weren't able to kill more, we would like to build something they like, because we don't want to offend our terrorist friends, afterall, we were the one started it all in the first place--but this would all be in your memory. We will, along with you, apologize to the terrorists, Muslim terrorists, for failing them from completing their mission. And that memorial, that we're building to remember you, will be that apologee...."

READ IT ALL!

By August 14, the proposed design for the Flight 93 memorial may be finalized.  Until that date, we have the opportunity to object to what architect Paul Murdoch has wrought.

How cool is THIS??? (Fixed and bumped)

Rick Ottaiano has scored a major coup! He will be interviewing Robert Spenser tomorrow - oops! I got the date wrong - Robert Spenser will be on with Ric on Tuesday, 01 August at 11 a.m (um, that's Eastern time - 8 a.m. Pacific...) - on Wide Awakes Radio.

Mr. Spenser is the go-to guy for information on real Islam. He wrote the book The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades), he's got two excellent anti-dhimmi sites, Jihad Watch and Dhimmi Watch, and the nutcase Muslims really hate him.

So make sure you tune in to Wide Awakes Radio tomorrow Tuesday, 01 August morning at 11 a.m. (ET), 8 a.m. (PT), and listen to what is going to be a fascinating interview!

(Thanks for letting me know, Ric - color me so embarrassed, LOL)

Yay, Dub-YA!

Now THIS is the "W" I know and love....

"What they need to do it to get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this shit."

Damn straight!

Them and the Paleoswinian Hamas...

Words fail...

Rusty at the Jawa Report has stills and a video up of the insane, barbaric, and heinous crime the Islamic butchers perpetrated upon the two soldiers they'd kidnapped.

Please, do not go over there unless you are ready to see the true face of the monsters we hunt. I only looked at the stills, and my stomach is churning in nausea and absolute rage. These pictures confirm to me that we should have no mercy on these blights on humanity.

Should we revisit upon them all the torture, pain and humiliation which they inflicted? No. But we ought to shoot them down, coolly and efficiently, and treat them like the rabid dogs they are.

You know me - my thoughts and my philosophy run rampant all over this blog. You know me.

And you know how enraged, sickened, and infuriated I am to descend to saying "No mercy."

No mercy, no grace, no compassion, no kindness... NO PEACE until every last one of these monstrous savages lies dead and rots in hell.

Psalm 59:5, 11-13 You therefore, O LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel,
Awake to punish all the nations;
Do not be merciful to any wicked transgressors. Selah ... Do not slay them, lest my people forget;
Scatter them by Your power,
And bring them down,
O Lord our shield.
For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips,
Let them even be taken in their pride,
And for the cursing and lying which they speak.
Consume them in wrath, consume them,
That they may not be;
And let them know that God rules in Jacob
To the ends of the earth. Selah

To the very last drop of blood, to the very last breath of life... This is WAR.

E.D. Hill... ROCKS!

My buddy Beth at MY Vast Right Wing Conspiracy has the perfect follow up to my previous post. She got a segment from Fox&Friends on FoxNews this morning (?) and got it up on YouTube:

I love ED. She's gutsy, committed, and passionately devoted to our troops. She's a great American!

Barbaric redux - UPDATED

Tuesday I called those terrorists who tortured and murdered our soldiers "barbarians."

However, I'm beginning to wonder who the real barbarians are. When our media and politicians ignore these atrocities and instead focus on the frat-pranks of Abu Gharib, or the country club atmosphere of Gitmo and portray them as torture chambers and our military as murderous thugs...

Well, it makes me wonder.

To my shame, I cannot adequately express my outrage - I descend into incoherency, which is not a good thing. Fortunately, I know of a whole bunch of folks who say it right and say it well, and help me vent vicariously:

Ms. Underestimated has a glorious rant up... somewhere. Oddly enough, her site is down at the moment Seems to be up now! but I'm posting the link in the hopes that her blog will be functional again soon. She has ("had"?) a link to download a .wmv file from a Bill O'Reilly show that was excellent! Glorious, just GLORIOUS!

Next up, but still someone of the first calibre (*heh*), is The Lord of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, Emperor Misha I himself. He has two blistering posts; here are samples of the first:

I don't know about you, Andy (I'm not all that familiar with the thought processes and preferences of paramecia), but if I were to have a choice between a pair of panties on my head and what our two soldiers went through, bring on the panties. Then, while still wearing the panties on my head, I'll happily slice off your pecker, gouge your eyes out with a spoon and saw off your head with a rusty pocket knife.

and the follow up:

Allow me to quote from a bit describing what those animals did to our soldiers:

have their hearts cut out, their testicles cut off, their penises cut off and stuffed in their mouths, arms contorted and eyes gouged?

…and that's not mentioning the beheading.

And what do we hear from the puling, pissant, terrorist-supporting MSM? Nothing. They don't even have the courage to describe what those fucking sand lice did, presumably because they don't want us to get angry with the ululating chimps hopping around with rags on their heads, waving their scimitars and committing atrocities that would make Dr. Mengele curl his toes.

What we DO hear is an endless litany about Abu Ghraib, Haditha and the fact that a few of the koranimal insects have killed themselves at Gitmo.

Cry me a fucking river, will you?

The Dread Lord sends me over to Sneakeasy's Joint, who has this to say:

As Mr. Stokely says: We must hunt these dogs down and eradicate them from the face of this earth!

Finally, can we let our military take the gloves off and clean up Iraq?

Do that, and then move on to chasing down Osama, and all the other terrorists, where ever they may be hiding around the world, and to hell with the America Haters, appeasers, and whiners in our country, and in Europe. [...]

Get MAD America!

Appeasement, Political Correctness, and all that other Make Nice with the ( Radical ) Muslims, Anti-American, Anti-Western Civilization, crap, needs to be called the Bullshit that it is.

I heartily agree! I've been quoting Shakespeare from the beginning: "Cry 'Havok!' and let slip the hounds of war!!" Let our military loose from its handcuffs, and allow them to deal in the death and destruction for which we have trained them! They have been cruelly and unnecessarily hobbled, and I daresay the death toll on them would have been much lower if we hadn't been so gentlemanly from the beginning.

Mr Stokely, mentioned above, blogs is frequently quoted at Thunder Run (which is David M's blog), and had advice for his son because of this type of barbarity:

This moment in time takes me back to my last instructions to Mike - don't let them take you alive son, for they will execute you anyway, so go down fighting and take as many as you can with you - I was concerned about him being taken prisoner by these barbaric and cruel assassins who push aside all ethical and moral considerations of human dignity. To slit the throats and then put it on for display is a horror no family should suffer. It is a moment like this that I feel our family is extremely lucky.

What terrible advice that a father has to give his son, because of the barbarians our military battles. I cannot imagine a terrorist mom telling her son the same thing. Rather, she'd probably say, "Ali, make sure when you blow yourself up for Allah that you are in a school yard or a pizzeria or a voting area, so you take as many of those infidels with you as possible." Failing that, of course, these terrorists seek to kidnap, torture and behead (in the most grisly fashion) anyone they can, and post the gruesome details on the net.

Grey Eagle at A Female Soldier has this to say:

Now don't get me wrong, I am not justifying or condoning any action in which our soldiers murdered unarmed innocent Iraqi's. But please, the Italians want to try a Marine for firing on a speeding car approaching a checkpoint. Can anyone count the number of days in which someone didn't turn up beheaded in the streets or rivers of Iraq? And now to treat our soldiers who were taken captive in this way, where is the same cries for justice. I don't see any of these same "in the name of justice" countries calling for the justice of the two soldiers. At what point did it become acceptable for inhumane actions, as long as it was against American forces? [...]

To me, the bottom line is simple. These people have demonstrated their values, their humanity, and their danger to society. There needs to be no more calls for protecting their rights and dignity, to pamper them and treat them as anything more than murderous criminals. There have been despicable individuals tried by the world court for war crimes, who performed less hideous acts than those of the terrorist, and insurgency. So why did it take a U.S. air strike to bring Abu Musab al-Zarqawi to justice. Should not he have been sought after by the world court for the horrific deaths he brought on the world community? Should not the United Nations have been using its resources to hunt down and try him for criminal acts against humanity? I guess it just depends on who you are killing, and if it involves American soldiers, then it is justified.

Yeah. Who cares what happens to the Americans, huh? After all, they're the ones who are the big meanies, right?

She Who WIll Be Obeyed rounds out this little gathering of outrage (and you really need to read the comments, too - there's a real nutcase trolling them) with straightforward ire:

Let's see, we "embarrass" terrorists when questioning them.

The terrorists just cut off body parts of our soldiers and kill them and booby trap bodies.

So . . . the leaders of the world don't say a thing about al Quaida being barbaric, committing torture, ignoring the Geneva Convention. But they are all over the US and want us to bow to the Islamofascists so as not to hurt their feelings..

I say fuck them all.

As you know, I try to shun vulgarity and foul language, but... Yup, exactly.

I sure hope I don't meet up with a liberal politician or "journalist" any time this week...

UPDATE: Beth at Blue Star Chronicles wants us all to send a clear message - and I believe it's a good one.

It’s outrageous that the media and the liberals are strangely silent about it. I heard a lot about the guy in wherever that our Soldiers are accused of killing. I saw pictures of him and pictures of people wailing and carrying-on over his body.

There was a long segment on the network news about that tonight.

Let the American people see what is being done to our Soldiers.

President Bush needs to tell the American people what happened to those Soldiers. He needs to let the people know what we are fighting and quit white-washing the actions of our enemies.

Send a CLEAR MESSAGE to our enemies.

I also think of those boys being accused of murder, being threatened with a death sentence. I almost can’t bear to think of what they are going through.

I saw one of the president’s advisors on TV tonight saying something to the effect that we are more civilized than the enemy and therefore more is expected of us. He said putting our Soldiers on trial for murder will show the world that we hold them to a higher standard.

That’s all well and good, but lets not use these Soldiers to prove a point.

That’s not the message we need to send.

No. It's not.

We need to send the message that the kid gloves are off, and people better get with the program. If they choose not to clean up and fly straight, well then, they made their bed, they'll have to die in it. The US military needs, as I said, to be released from these absurd restraints, and be permitted to wage war on these monsterous barbarians with every single superior weapon and with every one of our honorable and outraged soldiers.

They want a fight? Let's show them just who the hell is the best, most determined and terrifying military this world has ever seen.

If we do that, I will guarantee you that these pissant little terrorists a) won't last long, and b) won't show their weaselly little faces for a long, LONG time.

True barbarians!

As so many people have said, yet so many others refuse to admit, how can we have any sympathy, empathy or respect for men who fight like this?! The Times Online, out of Britain, has this report:

TALEBAN fighters used women and children as human shields as they tried to escape into the mountains of Afghanistan, British troops claimed yesterday.

The tactics were revealed in the first account by those who fought in one of the main battles faced by the men of 3 Para and the Royal Gurkha Rifles in Helmand province, where 3,300 British troops are stationed.

The Taleban's use of human shields happened during a six-hour battle that began when British troops arrived in a remote area to flush out a suspected Taleban hideout.

Well, gee, what a surprise. This is the same mindset which sends carbombers into police recruitment lines, encourages "insurgents" to hide amongst the general populace, and commissions suicide bombers to blow themselves up with dozens of civilians in pizza parlors.

Radical Islam (see? I'm not even dissing "mainstream" muslims!) holds such a low view of women in particular that these Taliban fighters probably don't think twice about using them as shields. Radical Islam teaches that you're a "martyr" if you die while killing others - and usually innocent, uninvolved others. At least Christianity teached martyrdom as you being killed because of your faith, instead of you killing for your faith.

I am disgusted with people who put the blame on anyone other than these barbaric monsters. They are responsible for their own actions and behavior, and their actions and behavior are horrific, villainous, cruel and nefarious. Period.

Technorati Tags: human shields, Afghanistan, Taliban

A day to mourn...

Via the Washington Post:

Two U.S. soldiers missing since an attack on a checkpoint last week have been found dead near a power plant in Yusifiyah, south of Baghdad, according to an Iraqi defense official.

Maj. Gen. Abdul Aziz Muhammed-Jassim, head of operations at Iraqi Ministry of Defense said the soldiers had been "barbarically" killed and that there were traces of torture on their bodies. He offered no further details.

A U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad said he could not confirm Muhammed-Jassim's statement. U.S. officials said they would hold a news briefing at 4:30 p.m. Baghdad time, or 8:30 a.m. EST.

The Army on Monday identified the missing soldiers as Pfc. Kristian Menchaca, 23, of Houston and Pfc. Thomas L. Tucker, 25, of Madras, Ore. They were attacked at a checkpoint near Yusufiyah. A third soldier, Spec. David J. Babineau, 25, of Springfield, Mass., was killed in the incident.

My heart and my prayers go out to the families of Pfc. Menchaca and Pfc. Tucker. My prayers also go out to their unit, for their safety and protection as they hunt down these barbarians and bring justice to them.

(HT to Stop the ACLU)

Hallelujah! Abu Musab al-Zarqawi DEAD

Confirmed:

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Al Qaeda in Iraq leader who led a brutal insurgency that included homicide bombings, kidnappings and beheadings, was killed in an airstrike on a building north of Baghdad, U.S. and Iraqi officials announced Thursday.

Officials said the terror leader's identity was confirmed by fingerprints, facial recognition, and known scars.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki said Al-Zarqawi was killed along with seven aides Wednesday evening at around 6:15 p.m. local time in a bombing raid on a building in a remote area 30 miles northeast of Baghdad in Diyala province.

So, another monster goes to meet his true Maker, and, believe me, there ain't no virgins waiting for him.

Iraq has been freed from this terrorist bastard (sorry, no other word is quite as accurate), who worked to spread fear and death.

Chalk another one up for the Forces of Freedom - the United States Armed Forces! God bless them!

UPDATE: LindaSoG posts this witty thing (THANK YOU LINDA!):

Another UPDATE: The President's remarks on this at 7:30 AM, ET:

Last night in Iraq, United States military forces killed the terrorist al Zarqawi. At 6:15 p.m. Baghdad time, special operation forces, acting on tips and intelligence from Iraqis, confirmed Zarqawi's location, and delivered justice to the most wanted terrorist in Iraq.

Zarqawi was the operational commander of the terrorist movement in Iraq. He led a campaign of car bombings, assassinations and suicide attacks that has taken the lives of many American forces and thousands of innocent Iraqis. Osama bin Laden called this Jordanian terrorist "the prince of al Qaeda in Iraq." He called on the terrorists around the world to listen to him and obey him. Zarqawi personally beheaded American hostages and other civilians in Iraq. He masterminded the destruction of the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad. He was responsible for the assassination of an American diplomat in Jordan, and the bombing of a hotel in Amman.

Through his every action, he sought to defeat America and our coalition partners, and turn Iraq into a safe haven from which al Qaeda could wage its war on free nations. To achieve these ends, he worked to divide Iraqis and incite civil war. And only last week he released an audio tape attacking Iraq's elected leaders, and denouncing those advocating the end of sectarianism.

Now Zarqawi has met his end, and this violent man will never murder again. Iraqis can be justly proud of their new government and its early steps to improve their security. And Americans can be enormously proud of the men and women of our armed forces, who worked tirelessly with their Iraqi counterparts to track down this brutal terrorist and put him out of business.

Stop the ACLU has an excellent round up.

Technorati Tags: al-Zarqawi, Zarqawi, terrorist, Iraq, insurgency, Baghdad, Diyala province

Craven cowardice!

Via my blog-brother, Ogre, I hear that England is banning displays of its own flag:

Following warnings by extremist Islamic group al-Muhajiroun, in which the group said that the red cross in the England flag symbolizes the 'blood thirsty crusaders' and the occupation of Muslims, some of the largest companies in England have ordered their workers not to wave the flags.

The flag has recently appeared in England on everything from bikinis to cars, and sold in endless versions in stores.

But the Islamic protest forced some corporations, such as cable companies NTL, and even the Drivers and Vehicles Licensing Agency to ban the flag in every form due to fears from reactions of Muslims.

The Sun tabloid newspaper has in recent days launched a campaign to bring back the flag, and has published a blacklist of companies preventing their workers from expressing their patriotism at work.

The Sun said that a large pub network has banned drinkers from entering with symbols of the national team.

The hero of the day is a two year-old toddler, who was thrown out with his parents from Leicester, because he wore the England team's uniform.

Where the heck is the British backbone?! Frankly, if the jihadis want to try that here in America, I would hope that the American people would respond by saying, "You can take down this flag over my dead body" as they reach for their shotguns.

Or, as Ogre put it: "BITE ME!"

Losing their "religion"

... 'cause Aaron's comin' BACK! (Here, too)

Carlo Mencia has the right attitude!

WARNING: Language alert! (BUT, I agree absolutely with the intent...)

(HT to the Jawa Report - thanks, Dr. Rusty!!!)

The BEST Moussaoui assesment ever

Is over at Q&O, written by McQ:

Moussaoui's a punk. In fact he's the classic punk.

He just like a million of them I've seen in my lifetime. All defiance and bluster until it becomes apparent those in authority are really serious about him and what he claims to have done. Now that he knows he's going in a hole never to see light again, he's not quite as defiant is he? His cajones spontaneously vaporize and his voice raises an octave or two.

Suddenly the punk begins backpeddling and changing his story. Now he really didn't mean it. In fact, he really didn't do it. He's now completely innocent. With his bluster and bluff checked and mated, he dosen't want to go into that hole.

Reality's a bitch, huh?

Punk. [link]

Seconded!

Yeah, it would have been nice...

... to see him fry... But I think that Cox & Forkum make a great point:

My blog-brother, Rick Moran, makes his point that it's good that Moussaoui was sentenced to life:

I sympathize with those who believe that it would have been enormously satisfying to put this man to death. But I think we have to have some sympathy for the jurors as well. Talk about executing a human being is cheap. Unless it is actually your responsibility, I daresay one's outlook on the death penalty then would become very personal. Whether the jurors were looking for an "out" in order to avoid mandating another person's death is beside the point. They followed the law, their consciences, and in the end, common sense. As our representatives, we couldn't have asked for anything more from them.

One aspect that was not brought out in the verdict but which very well may have played a role in the jury's deliberations was their decision to deny martyrdom to someone who so obviously wanted it. From a practical standpoint, Moussaoui will now fade into history even among those who admire what he stands for. His incarceration in a very deep and very black hole (it's almost a guarantee he will not be placed into the general prison population and instead will be kept in solitary confinement) will mean that his name will eventually die even if he himself remains alive. That is a victory against our enemies of sorts. (emph. mine)

Yes, I think I'll find that very satisfying, if in five or ten years people are saying "Moussaoui - who?!" It has a nice, obscure, trivial, meaningless ignominy about it that's very... gratifying.

Tragedy strikes Iraq the Model

Iraq the Model has been fairly quiet recently, and now we know why:

Last week our little and peaceful family was struck by the tragic loss of one of its members in a savage criminal act of assassination. The member we lost was my sister's husband who lived with their two little children in our house.

He was a brilliant young doctor with a whole future awaiting him, the couple were the top graduates in their branch of specialty. They had to travel abroad to get their degrees and the war started while they were there but months after Saddam fallen they decided to come back to help rebuild the country and serve their people.

We welcomed them with all love and care, we would sit and talk everyday about our hopes and dreams for a better future for the new generation and for their two little children. We realized that time is needed before they could have a secure and prosperous life and we were satisfied with the little we could make because we believed in the future.

He was not affiliated with any political party or movement and spent all his time working at the hospital or studying at home and he was dreaming of building a medical center for his specialty to serve the poor who cannot afford going to expensive private clinics.

We didn't know or anticipate that cruel times were waiting for a chance to assassinate the dream and kill the future.

It was the day he was celebrating the opening of a foundation that was going to offer essential services to the poor but the criminals were waiting for him to end his life with their evil bullets and to stab our family deep in the heart.

My heart and my prayers go out to this brave family. To have such a compassionate and promising young man - a husband, father, brother, and doctor - killed in such a callous and destructive manner is a true tragedy.

Nevertheless, Mohammed (certainly an honorable bearer of that name) and his family demonstrate the true spirit of freedom and liberty:

The terrorists and criminals are targeting all elements of life and they target anyone who wants to do something good for this country…They think by assassinating one of us they could deter us from going forward but will never succeed, they can delay us for years but we will never go back and abandon our dream.

We have vowed to follow the steps of our true martyrs and we will raise the new generation to continue the march, these children of today are the hope and the future.

What a difference between those who work to preserve life and those who work to end it…it's terrorism and crime and there are no other words to describe these acts.

They will keep trying to steal life from us and we will keep fighting back and we will keep exposing them but not with bullets and swords, we never carried arms and we will never do because we are not afraid and because we are not weak unlike those cowards who know no language but that of treason.

Please join with me and lift up this family in prayer. Follow their example and stand firm against terrorism and real intolerance wherever you find it - because you never know when it may target you and yours.

Stand for truth, justice, and freedom now, lest it be taken away from your children and grandchildren.

Crossposted at the Cotillion

Here’s how you deal with Islamo-tards

Aaron rocks, he rolls, he RULES!!!

Here's how to deal with Islamo-fascist-hacker-nutcases - make sure you read the whole thing, it culminates with this eloquent image:

Go, Aaron! Go, Aaron! Go, Aaron!

A MUST read!

... and I'm only about 1/3 of the way through it... Go read!

"I came back for my own purposes," said the Time Traveler, looking around my booklined study. "I chose you to talk to because it was . . . convenient. And I don't want you to do a goddamned thing. There's nothing you can do. But relax . . . we're not going to be talking about personal things. Such as, say, the year, day, and hour of your death. I don't even know that sort of trivial information, although I could look it up quickly enough. You can release that white-knuckled grip you have on the edge of your desk."

I tried to relax. "What do you want to talk about?" I said.

"The Century War," said the Time Traveler.

I blinked and tried to remember some history. "You mean the Hundred Year War? Fifteenth Century? Fourteenth? Sometime around there. Between . . . France and England? Henry V? Kenneth Branagh? Or was it . . ."

"I mean the Century War with Islam," interrupted the Time Traveler. "Your future. Everyone's." He was no longer smiling. Without asking, or offering to pour me any, he stood, refilled his Scotch glass, and sat again. He said, "It was important to me to come back to this time early on in the struggle. Even if only to remind myself of how unspeakably blind you all were."

"You mean the War on Terrorism," I said.

"I mean the Long War with Islam," he said. "The Century War. And it's not over yet where I come from. Not close to being over."

That was simply a teaser. Like I said - GO READ!

Typical liberal media

Via The Conservative Voice: NBC Plants Muslims at NASCAR -

By Sher Zieve - NBC's Dateline is reported to have planted Muslims at a NASCAR event, in order to uncover anti-Muslim sentiment. The NBC action is said to have been a "sting operation".

NASCAR, who confirmed with NBC that it had purposefully sent "Muslim-looking men" and a camera crew to the race in an attempt to see if there would be 'racist' activities, said it is "outraged" at this attempt by NBC to create the news. NASCAR spokesman Ramsey Poston said Wednesday: "It is outrageous that a news organization of NBC's stature would stoop to the level of going out to create news instead of reporting news."

There are no reports that anyone bothered the Muslim-looking men. [emphasis mine]

Further proof of MSM bias and America hatred, as well as the general good will and decency of the American people.

No wonder I get my news from FoxNews and the blogosphere!

UPDATE: Chris Muir, of Day By Day fame (I LOVE this guy) comments, and gives mega props to the ever-excellent Partisan Pundit -

Partisan responds:

Chris Muir is one of those people who makes it big, but still remains a cool, blue-jeans and sweatshirt wearin' kind of guy. I wish him the moon and stars with his strip. He's sharper than Doonesbury, funnier than Bloom County, with the heart of Calvin and Hobbes. If you haven't made him a daily read...GET ON It!

I second that sentiment (and if you haven't also blogrolled PP, you ought to GET ON THAT as well!!): Chris Muir has stopped by CHC a couple of times, and is always gracious and kind in comments and e-mails.

Jury reaches verdict

DEVELOPING... any moment now, we'll find out if the jury will rule that Zacarias Moussaoui is elegible for execution for his role in 9-11...

... and they've answered "Yes." So, let's see if he actually gets sentenced to death...

Test - will TPad do this?

I love marquees - I'm wondering if Tpad (heck, does RocketPost?) supports them... Well, let's try:

Marquees are FUN!!!

W00t! It works!

THIS is "Liberty"?? Part Two

Well, Doug at Below the Beltway is continuing to keep up-to-date on the plight of Abdul Rahman.

The new defense seems to be "not guilty by reason of insanity...." Oh, wait! No, that's the prosecution's veiw of the whole matter:

But prosecutor Sarinwal Zamari said questions have been raised about his mental fitness.

"We think he could be mad. He is not a normal person. He doesn't talk like a normal person," he told The Associated Press.

Moayuddin Baluch, a religious adviser to President Hamid Karzai, said Rahman would undergo a psychological examination.

"Doctors must examine him," he said. "If he is mentally unfit, definitely Islam has no claim to punish him. He must be forgiven. The case must be dropped."

Oh, well, then if he's insane, then let's just forget about this whole kerfuffle. After all, anyone who disavows Islam - the gay-hating, mysoginistic, violent, intolerant, and murderous religion it is - certainly must be a few ribs short of a whole rack! (Sorry, I just *had* to get that pork reference in there...)

Michelle Malkin has posted a link to a video of Mr. Rahman, as well as a partial transcript. Mr. Rahman asserts his belief in the New Testament and his love for Jesus Christ... Hey, *I* believe in the New Testament, and *I* love Jesus, too!!! Wow, I guess I'm insane, as well. Cool!

Today's Afghan Times has a whole list of related items on their front page, including the video (translated into Dutch, I think), but I don't see a permalink to the video OR an English translation yet. I'll have to see if perhaps MEMRI has one...

One "good" thing to happen is that the MSM is finally starting to follow this story: well, WaPo and CNN (which has this quote from Mr. Rahman: "They want to sentence me to death, and I accept it," Rahman told reporters last week, "but I am not a deserter and not an infidel." What a courageous man!), anyway.

Apparently, our government has "expressed its concern," but I think this response is pretty lame (didn't I see the US response characterized as "subdued"? Oh, yeah, that first link, to the Yahoo! story...).

Mark Tapscott, I think, asks the most pertinant question:

And where are the Evangelical and Fundamentalist leaders challenging their flocks to candlelight vigils, protests and prayers on behalf of Rahman? Will America's Christians stand by like Saul of Tarsus to hold the coats of those slaughtering this brave man of Afghanistan?

Indeed. ALL Christians should be in prayer for this, their brother in the Faith. He is the current, public face of the persecution of our brothers and sisters all over the world.

UPDATE: (22Mar06, 1058 ET) Oh, wow, will miracles never cease? SeeBS "News" is also carrying the AP report... Nothing new to add, but they're carrying it.

(22Mar06, 1103 ET) Captain Ed weighs in with this -

All due respect to Karzai's delicate position, allowing a Taliban appointee to murder a man simply for his profession of faith is simply unacceptable, and the US should register that message at a pay grade higher than that of Nicholas Burns. Karzai should hear this directly from George Bush, and he should understand that Karzai will suffer direct consequences if Rahman's persecution continues. The American people will not support efforts to prop up the Afghanistan democracy if it results in the execution of Christians for just being Christian; we will rightly ask whether we achieved anything in replacing the Taliban with Karzai's government. The new Afghan constitution guarantees freedom of religion, and if the Afghans do not adhere to this clause, then the whole document is unreliable. (emph. mine)

Yup.

(22Mar06, 1329 ET) Robert at Hyscience also has an excellent post about Abdul Rahman (except he's spelling it "Abdur" - is this an alternate spelling?).

John's [of Powerline Blog, referring to this post] point of there being no logical basis upon which our government can continue to request the ultimate sacrifice from our men and women if a man can still be executed for simply being a Christian or a Jew, serves well as our line in the sand.

If after spilling American blood in Afghanistan to not only remove it as a safe haven for Al-Qaeda but to also free it's people from the repressive Taliban regime, a man can still be executed for converting from Islam to Christianity, then we have completely wasted precious American lives, and the Islamists of Afghanistan are too deeply locked into the barbarism of the middle ages and too backward, to be brought into the modern world.

Simply put, neither of these two scenarios are acceptable for America or the Afghans. The world needs to let it be known that killing a man because of his religious belief is unacceptable in the eyes of the world, it crosses a line of reason, tolerance and humanity that has powerful political, financial, and religious implications. It labels Islam as a backward and barbaric religion in the eyes of the non-Muslim world, and unfairly reflects negatively upon moderate Muslims throughout the world. (emph. mine)

But that's just the thing: this sort of barbaric behavior is the active face of Islam!

(22Mar06, 1400 ET) The Big Pharoh has gone over to Al Arabiyah and translated some of the comments from their story on Abdul Rahman. He chose "...a few of these comments. I included the good, the bad, the ugly, and the very ugly." And, indeed, some of them are VERY ugly. Go read!

Technorati Tags: Abdul Rahman, Afghanistan, persecution, Islam

THIS is "Liberty"??

UPDATE: First and foremost... GO SIGN THE PETITION!!!! Thank you!

I'm sure my readers are already well aware of the news out of Afghanistan about a man, Abdul Rahman, who is on trial for his life for converting to Christianity. My ODBA blog-brother, Doug from Below the Beltway, asks "And these are the people we helped liberate?" and quotes a VOA News article:

On Thursday the prosecution told the court Rahman has rejected numerous offers to embrace Islam.

Prosecuting attorney Abdul Wasi told the judge that the punishment should fit the crime.

He says Rahman is a traitor to Islam and is like a cancer inside Afghanistan. Under Islamic law and under the Afghan constitution, he says, the defendant should be executed.

Excuse me, but how is this substantially different from the restrictions and tyranny of the Taliban?

ABC News (on page two) quotes the judge who is apparently presiding over this case -

The post-Taliban constitution recognizes Islam as Afghanistan's religion, and decrees that Islam's Sharia law applies when a case is not covered by specific legislation. The prosecutor says under Sharia law, Abdul Rahman must die.

The judge, however, holds hopes for a solution.

"We will ask him if he has changed his mind about being a Christian," Mawlazezadah says. "If he has, we will forgive him, because Islam is a religion of tolerance."

This is not tolerance, this is INTOLERANCE. So much for the so-called "Religion of Peace"! I can just imagine the outcry and rage of everyone if we swapped religions: if this man were on trial for his life because he converted to Islam from Christianity, and if the judge then called Christianity a "religion of tolerance." Pfft! Hypocrites!

Over the weekend, Michelle Malkin noted that this story is not getting much media attention, even from our Christian President, and posted the charges Rahman is facing:

"Yes that's true, a man has converted to Christianity. He's being tried in one of our courts," Supreme Court judge Ansarullah Mawlavizada said, adding that his trial began early last week.

He said the man could face the death penalty if he refused to revert to Islam as Sharia law proposes capital punishment for any Muslim who converts to another religion. Afghanistan's constitution states: "No law can be contrary to the sacred religion of Islam."

Barbaric. Absolutely barbaric! This is not freedom, this is not liberty, this is not tolerance!

Michelle followed up yesterday, giving ABC due credit for reporting on the story, and also posting the addresses for the Embassy of Afghanistan and the State Department. I would strongly urge that we all follow her suggestion and write, politely but passionately, to express our deep concern and revulsion for this perversion of "justice":

Write the embassy of Afghanistan:

Ambassador Said T. Jawad
Embassy of Afghanistan
2341 Wyoming Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20008
[email protected]

Contact the State Department:

U.S. Department of State
2201 C Street NW
Washington, DC 20520
Main Switchboard:
202-647-4000

Following those addresses, she adds much more information, so you ought to go over and read what she has posted.

(Crossposted at Kender's Musings, Third World County, and the Cotillion)

It's a good news kind of day!

Thanks to Emperor Misha I, I know know about this little news item. Yes, I know it's a month old - but then, it isn't something I'd expect the MSM to report:

More than 1,000 Muslims staged a surprising pro-US rally Saturday in Jolo, where thousands of American and Filipino soldiers are to start a month-long joint military drills and humanitarian mission in the impoverished island, about 950 kilometers south of Manila.

...

"I call on every Muslims in Sulu to support the government and the Balikatan program because this will bring us more humanitarian aid. Let us show the world that we are peaceful citizens. I appeal to every Muslims to welcome our American visitors and support their peaceful cause," the 50-year old leader [ed. - the Sultan of Sulu and North Borneo, Sharif Ibrahim Ajibul Mohammad Pulalun], who is a staunch supporter of President Gloria Arroyo, said.

Pulalun appealed to Washington to send more humanitarian aid to poor Muslims in Jolo.

The huge crowd gathered in downtown Jolo where many people were spotted waving hundreds of small US and Philippine flags and placards welcoming the Americans.

"We Love You America, Welcome!," one placard reads. "This is why we really want, we need the Americans to help us fight terrorism and so we may live peacefully here," said Abdulgafur Omar, a 29-year old trader.

As His Dread Lordship states,

Now THAT'S the kind of attitude we should support, and I hope we get to see more of it.

You said it, Misha! I am in complete agreement!

UPDATE - (Via Ace) Go read this article!! Verrrrry interesting.....

Moreover, whenever imams accuse non-Muslims of being heretics, curse them, and portray Jews as descendents of monkeys and pigs, they create in the Western mind an image of Islam as an intolerant religion that rejects religious diversity.

Consequently, Muslims themselves are responsible for disfiguring Islam's image in the Western mind. They have failed to present a positive image of Islam, and therefore are responsible for all the trouble that has descended on Muslims today.

Oh, yes. How VERY mature!

Didn't I recently suggest that the rioting Muslims were acting like spoiled two year olds in the throes of a temper tantrum? Well, here's further proof: Since they're so upset over the cartoons mocking Mohammed, Iran's "bestselling newspaper" is sponsoring a contest cartooning the Holocaust.

Iran's best-selling newspaper has launched a competition to find the best cartoon about the Holocaust in retaliation for the publication in many European countries of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad.

The Brussels-based Conference of European Rabbis (CER) denounced the idea and urged the Muslim world to do likewise.

The daily paper Hamshahri said the contest was designed to test the boundaries of free speech -- the reason given by many European newspapers for publishing the cartoons of the Prophet.

"A serious question for Muslims ... is this: 'does Western free speech allow working on issues like America and Israel's crimes or an incident like the Holocaust or is this freedom of speech only good for insulting the holy values of divine religions?'" the paper said on Tuesday.

In onther words, this newspaper is saying, "You were mean to us, so we're gonna be mean to you. So THERE! Nyah-nyah-nyah!"

The lack maturity and intelligence required for this sort of response simply boggles the mind.

Well, I can tell you one thing: I bet that we won't see enraged crowds of Jews burning embassies and calling for the beheading of infidels in protest.

UPDATE: Wow. Even Glenn Reynolds calls them "pathetic little losers." I don't believe I have ever seen the Instapundit Himself write anything so... snarky! W00t!!!

They're pathetic little losers. They want to be pathetic little losers with nuclear weapons -- but they'll still be pathetic little losers, regardless.

All hail the Blogfather, LOL!

Glass parking lot. Seriously.

Breaking news on Fox:

Rage against caricatures of Islam's revered prophet poured out across the Muslim world Saturday, with aggrieved believers calling for executions, storming European buildings and setting European flags afire.

Hundreds of Syrian demonstrators have stormed the Danish Embassy in Damascus, and they've set fire to the building.

The building that's been set on fire in the Syrian capital also houses the embassies of Chile and Sweden.

Protesters have been staging sit-ins outside the embassy almost daily since the uproar over the drawings broke out last week. [photo courtesy of FoxNews]

When I consider all the things that I, as a Christian, have had to endure - the Cross immersed in urine, the Virgin Mary smeared in crap, Jesus portrayed as a homosexual - which insult my religion, violence has never been an option for a response. The sort of blasphemous "art" Christians and Jews have had to tolerate is far more egregious than 12 piddly little cartoons of Mohammed.

So, just to get my two-cents in: Mohammed (piss on his pitiful name) was a murderer, a thief, a child molester, and an all around bad guy. The "religion" he founded is an intolerant, narrow-minded, chauvanistic, fanatical, hateful doctrine of rage and bigotry. Unless the followers of this soi-disant "religion" renounce this violence in the strongest possible terms and forcefully follow through, I refuse to grant "Islam" any respect or deference whatsoever.

Mr. President, should you choose to send those B2 bombers to Mecca with a nuclear payload, I'll support you all the way.

UPDATE: Dafyyd ab Hugh has some wise words of restraint:

Let's think about this one. When Andres Serrano produced the photograph Piss Christ, what was the general reaction among believing Christians and among conservatives? It wasn't that long ago, and I remember quite well: the reaction was outrage -- absolute outrage. The argument then was that the only possible reason to immerse a crucifix in urine (Serrano claimed it was his own) and take a picture of it was to blaspheme Jesus Christ and inflame and insult Christians for no valid purpose.

Nobody on the right suggested censorship, and I'm not suggesting it here. But they argued that simple decency should restrain artists from needlessly offending people just to watch them hop about.

Those objecting to Piss Christ didn't kill or attack anyone, of course, because modern-day Christianity and conservatism are civilized belief systems; but that speaks only to their reaction, not the original provocation. Such provocation is equally morally offensive whether the target is civilized or savage.

Fast forward to today. What is the argument here? That while it's wrong to childishly insult and outrage Christians and conservatives, who are civilized, it's perfectly all right to do exactly the same thing to Moslems, because they're more likely to react violently?

No. And, I do need to make clear that I'm not a big fan of deliberately enraging someone, or ridiculing anyone's faith/culture/personal appearance, yadda yadda. I do agree those actions are morally offensive, and that wise people would refrain from such acts out of courtesy, if nothing else.

However, I am bloody sick and tired of watching a large group of people who represent a major worldview consistantly react to an offense with mindless violence and intolerance. I am even more sick and tired of the leaders of this worldview who refuse to condemn these riots, and make no attempt whatsoever to demand that their rank and file restrain themselves and act like rational adults.

When I see those leaders, as well as the "laypeople," make serious efforts to reform and act like civilized people, and when I see it on a large scale, I will be much more interested in "taking their side," as it were.

Until then, well, if they can't restrain themselves and stop acting like barbarians, I suppose we'll need to provide the restraint required.

UPDATE 2: TB'd to Stop the ACLU: Can We Co-Exist? (I doubt it - unless those barbarians make some major changes...)

"Religion of Peace"? No *blinkin'* way!

Michelle Malkin posts some pictures of Muslim demonstrators in Europe. He post is titled "In their own words."

Here are a few of the pictures (NOT MINE!!!! I got them from Michelle's post):

I was on the phone with Kender as I was looking through thes pictures, and he made the very astute comment that these demonstrators are effectively protesting against their right to ... freely protest.

Obviously we're a few Doritoes short of a full bag.

My comment in return was that what this protester really meant was that freedom for everyone else could go to hell.

Folks, let's try to remain in some semblence of valid reality, OK?

Ah, now, here we have a wonderful example of the peace and tolerance preached by Islam.

Don't you just long to live in a country governed by Sharia law? Don't you want to be ruled by a theocracy which demands blood for every slight, no matter how innocent?

Do you know what these fanatics remind me of? Two year olds. As a matter of fact, they remind me of two year olds in the worst throes of the "terrible twos," who have never had any sort of discipline from their parents, but instead have gotten their way every single time, and who have therefore become truly horriffic little brats. You know, the kind of child you'd like to strangle on sight, but don't, because you belong to a civilized culture that doesn't murder bratty kids.

Of course, these are hardly "kids." No, they're (chronologically, at least) adults who are "preaching hate," who are "bigoted," "intolerant," "fascist," "thugs," and "non-inclusive."

Hm. Now where have I heard those epithets before? Oh, yes, of course! Our loving, tolerant, LLLefties use them every day against President Bush and all his minions. Our dear, kind, accepting LLLefties will not presume, however, to describe the soi-disant "Religion of Peace" with such harsh criticism, even when faced with evidence like this.

And then, of course, come the threats.

"Because you aren't doing what we tell you, because we're not willing to live and let live, because we're so selfish and narrow-minded, because we will not accept anyone who thinks differently than we do...

"We're going to kill you."

Oh, yeah. That's the kind of "Ol' Time Religion" that *I* want to submit to!

Somehow, I'm sure that the silence coming from CAIR, Muslim Americans, European Muslims, Saudi Arabia, etc., etc., will be either a) deafening, or b) very similar to how Robin Williams described the UN once: "Like a traffic cop on valium, yelling, 'Stooooop!'"

UPDATE: AJ Strata, a blogger I greatly respect, is saying "Hold Up, Michelle." He says:

I really admire Michelle Malkin. She has graced this site with many an appreciated link. And I know she puts up with a lot of garbage from the leftward fever swamps.

Which is why it pains me to say how disappointed I am with her latest post. From my small little niche in the blogosphere I have tried to alert folks to the fact that we need to be setting an example to the moderate Muslims how to deal with ugly free speech. The best way is to dismiss hate speech and marginalize it. Not one of the best ways is to get in an escalating yelling match

AJ, I understand where you're coming from, really - I Do.. But the events of the past several years tell me that these nutcases take no quarter: Why the heck should we offer it to them? This totalitarian, intolerant (in the proper, classical definition) worldview has no place in a world interested in peace and mutual respect. This type of mindset is anathema to the peace process.

Yeah, I know, freedom of and all that..... But there are some things that are beyond the pale of any civilized agenda, and this is one of them.

An "Oh, YES!!!" moment...

Sigmund, Carl and Alfred make me think a lot. And, sometimes, they put up a post which resonates so deeply that I cannot put my joy into words.  Such is their offering today: All God, All The Time.

There is another truth that needs to be reiterated. What distinguishes real believers is their reluctance to kill and their distaste for it. Irrespective of the cause, even a cause seemingly just, killing is never the goal. The cost of a military victory is understood. Eisenhower and other Allied generals visited the Death Camps and wept, and then went into the coldest rage a human can muster- unlike their German counterparts, who posed for pictures and laughed at the plight of the 30 million dead souls. The heirs to the Nazis, the Islamists have posed for pictures with the heads of those they have decapitated. Palestinians bare bloodied hands, some holding human entrails, of Israelis they have butchered. They have filmed themselves kicking a decapitated head about on a field, as if it were just another soccer field. All the while, mosques celebrate these barbarities with music and sweet pastries.

We do not kill with joy. We do not place civilians, or schoolchildren or the sick an infirm in harms way. We do not engage an enemy, hiding behind children. We develop weapons that are ever more accurate. Others develop weapons with labratory developed poisons that can be ever more widely dispersed- and they have used them.

To kill with joy and to celebrate death, is to disregard God. To commit terror and celebrate the deaths of innocents, is to dishonor God and to refute his Dominion. Those who disregard His message corrupt and debase His message. Those who find justification or apology for such acts, or blame the victim, disgrace themselves and their faith. In the assembly of believers, they accomplish nothing but to shame themselves and their communities.

This is the difference between Islam and Judaism/Christianity. Yes. The Judeo-Christian ethic is life, and the protection of it; to live honestly and openly, at peace with God and man; and to obey God Almighty in love and trust in His grace and mercy.

Go read the rest, especially the links SC&A have posted. Superb reading!

Oh, now, wouldn't this be something to consider?

Chris Muir does it again (gee, color me not surprised!). "Glass parking lots" are certainly looking a whole lot more... attractive, don't you think?

Goes pretty well with Cox & Forkum's comment, doesn't it?

I'm totally sick of this so-called "Religion of Peace"

(Portia Rediscovered is hosting this week's Cotillion Ball - go on over and see what snarky goodness she's summarized from the Ladies of the Cotillion!)

And I call bullshit on it! No, actually, let's be even more insulting: I call PIGshit on it. Just in the past week  (and I didn't even try very hard), I collected these stories:

From the Jerusalem Post, 27Oct05:

Chanting Allahu Akbar (God is great), some 3,000 people, including Fatah and Islamic Jihad gunmen, converged on Abu Zeid's home to "congratulate" his family on the success of the attack, which killed five people and wounded more than 30.

They also called for more suicide attacks in Israel.

"With blood, with soul, we redeem Hassan," the crowd chanted. "Oh Jihad, Jihad, give us more [suicide] bombings. Oh [Prime Minister Ariel] Sharon, prepare more coffins."

How about the Reuters article, dated 26Oct05?

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday that Israel should be "wiped off the map", the official IRNA news agency reported.

Support for the Palestinian cause is a central pillar of the Islamic Republic which officially refuses to recognise Israel's right to exist.

"Israel must be wiped off the map," Ahmadinejad told a conference called "The World without Zionism", attended by some 3,000 conservative students who chanted "Death to Israel" and "Death to America".

How about the Christian girls killed, part of the ongoing conflict between Muslims and Christians (Update - Want some pictures of the girls' fate? Go see. WARNING: Extremely graphic pictures - not for the faint of heart):

Indonesia is the world's most populous Muslim nation, but Central Sulawesi has a roughly equal number of Muslims and Christians. The province was the scene of a bloody religious war in 2001-2002 that killed around 1000 people from both communities.

At the time, beheadings, burnings and other atrocities were common.

A government-mediated truce succeeded in ending the conflict in early 2002, but there have since been a series of bomb attacks and assassinations of Christians.

"Minority rights" in Islam? Not hardly:

A VISION of an Islamic society that bans mixed dancing and sternly disapproves of homosexuality has been given by Mahmoud Zahar, the most senior leader of Hamas in Gaza.

After controversies when a Hamas-led council halted a dance festival and Islamist gunmen stopped a rap band performing in Gaza, Dr Zahar defended the enforcement of a strict interpretation of Islam.

“A man holds a woman by the hand and dances with her in front of everyone. Does that serve the national interest?” Dr Zahar said on the Arabic website Elaph. “If so, why have the phenomena of corruption and prostitution become pervasive in recent years?”

These are incidents typical of militant, fanatical Islam. I realize that not all Muslims condone these actions, but I am gravely disappointed that these "moderate" Muslims do not rise up in fury and outrage at those who are "hijacking" their religion.

There are some excellent sites out there which highlight Islam as it truly is: the Religion of Peace, Always on Watch, Jihad Watch, MEMRI, Islam Undressed, and Dhimmitude.org are all excellent resources for research into the true face of Islam. I strongly urge you to check out their sites and their link pages for more information.

And until the more rational and peaceful factions of Islam rise up and vociferously and vehemently condemn radical Islam, and actively - and PUBLICALLY -  work to stamp it out, instead of issuing irrelevant and impotent fatwahs... Well, until then, I suppose I'll have to see Islam as a bunch of mad barbarians intent on destroying everything that is different from them, won't I?