Monday - February 06, 2006

Insult To Hindus?

Jeff Jacoby nails it with this one ...

We Are All Danes Now
By Jeff Jacoby, Globe Columnist
February 5, 2006
(BOSTON GLOBE)

HINDUS CONSIDER it sacrilegious to eat meat from cows, so when a Danish supermarket ran a sale on beef and veal last fall, Hindus everywhere reacted with outrage. India recalled its ambassador to Copenhagen, and Danish flags were burned in Calcutta, Bombay, and Delhi. A Hindu mob in Sri Lanka severely beat two employees of a Danish-owned firm, and demonstrators in Nepal chanted: ‘’War on Denmark! Death to Denmark!"In many places, shops selling Dansk china or Lego toys were attacked by rioters, and two Danish embassies were firebombed.

It didn’t happen, of course. Hindus may consider it odious to use cows as food, but they do not resort to boycotts, threats, and violence when non-Hindus eat hamburger or steak. They do not demand that everyone abide by the strictures of Hinduism and avoid words and deeds that Hindus might find upsetting. The same is true of Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Mormons: They don’t lash out in violence when their religious sensibilities are offended. They certainly don’t expect their beliefs to be immune from criticism, mockery, or dissent.

But radical Muslims do.

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Meanwhile In London …

Muslim protestors in Britain are running around dressed up as suicide bombers and carrying signs glorifying last summer’s tube bombings? Fortunately, the British government is having none of that. Probably because most British citizens are mad as hell about it and have been pressuring police to stop it. Why do I get the feeling that we’re looking at 1914 or 1939 all over again ... ?

Number 10 Backs Protest Arrests
LONDON (BBC)

The behaviour of some Muslim protesters demonstrating in London over cartoons of Prophet Muhammad was “completely unacceptable” Downing Street has said. There have been calls for arrests after placards glorifying the 7 July bombings and calls for the enemies of Islam to be killed featured in Friday’s demo. A Number 10 statement said: “The police should have our full support in any actions they may wish to take.”

Scotland Yard has received more than 100 complaints about the protest. Earlier, Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Hain said that the police must bear down “very heavily” on those responsible. No protesters at the demonstration outside the Danish embassy - over the cartoons first printed in a Danish newspaper - were arrested on Friday, but specialist police officers were understood to have taken film and photographic evidence.

One protester, who dressed as a suicide bomber, has said he made “no apologies”. Speaking to the Daily Express newspaper, Omar Khayam, 22, from Bedford, said he wanted to highlight “double standards”. Mr Hain told the BBC it was worrying that demonstrators were “doing things and saying things that are completely unacceptable and intolerable”.

“The police need to bear down on them very heavily and trace down those who have committed offences and prosecute them where they can get the evidence,” he told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. “There’s freedom of speech on the one hand, that’s sacrosanct, but on the other hand incitement to terror, incitement to suicide bombing, all of those are clear infringements of the law.” Radical cleric Omar Bakri Mohammed told Today that in Islam, whoever insulted a prophet must be “punished and executed”.

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Memory Lapse

Amnesia International is at it again. They conveniently forget that the prisoners at Gitmo are not criminals - they are prisoners of war. They were captured on the battlefield. They are being pampered and treated better than any prisoner anywhere in the world.

So what’s the beef? Nothing, really. Some people just got to gripe. And Amnesia Intl. has that down to a science. It’s too bad the group seems to have been AWOL when Saddam Hussein was murdering thousands or when Castro was locking up dissidents or when ..... oh, never mind - they’ll always go after the soft targets, don’t they ... ?

Amnesty Intl. Calls for Closing Guantanamo Camp
February 5, 2006, 10:27 PM EST
LONDON (AP)

Amnesty International called Monday for closing the U.S. Guantanamo prison for terror suspects and the release of nine British residents the rights group says are held by U.S. authorities at the Cuban camp. Nine British citizens have been freed from the Cuban camp for terrorist suspects after pressure from the British government, but Amnesty said another nine with ties to Britain were still being held.

The British government has said it cannot represent people who are not British citizens. Kate Allen, director of Amnesty’s British wing, criticized the government’s reluctance to act on behalf of British residents. “These men have become forgotten prisoners,” she said. The prison on the U.S. Navy base in Cuba opened in January 2002 and now holds about 500 prisoners from some 40 countries, many captured during the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Many have been held for years without charge or trial.

“The U.S. authorities should immediately close down Guantanamo and either release prisoners or bring them before proper courts on the U.S. mainland,” Allen said. “After four years Guantanamo has become a byword for abuse and an indictment of the U.S. government’s failure to uphold human rights in the war on terror,” she said. Amnesty said Libyan-born Deghayes, 35, who was granted refugee status in Britain with his family in the 1980s, has been held at Guantanamo for more than three years. He has alleged he was abused by his captors.

Last year, he was identified as one of dozens of inmates holding a hunger strike to protest their detention. “I’m not looking for any special treatment for my brother. I just want his basic human rights to be respected,” said his sister, Amani Deghayes. “What disappoints me most is the unwillingness of the U.K. government to lift a finger for my brother.”

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Burning Down The House

It doesn’t take much to set these people off, does it? Yesterday they burned down the embassies in Syria and today they’re torching them in Lebanon. The angry Arabs are burning down the house around their ears and their women stand submissively behind them wrapped in sacks and forced into being nothing more than baby factories to produce more angry Arabs. This unhappy story will have only one ending and you’re really not going to like the final chapters. Trust me ....

Lebanon Protesters Set Embassy Afire
Anger Over Caricatures of Muhammad Targets Denmark, Christian Neighborhood
Monday, February 6, 2006
BEIRUT (WASHINGTON POST)

Thousands of Muslim protesters, enraged over the publication of caricatures of Islam’s prophet Muhammad, set ablaze the Danish Embassy on Sunday and rampaged through a predominantly Christian neighborhood, escalating sectarian tensions in a country whose melange of faiths can sometimes serve as a microcosm of the world’s religious divide.

The unrest, which involved as many as 20,000 protesters, was some of the worst in Lebanon in years, and leaders from across the political and religious spectrums appealed for calm. In vain, some Muslim clerics tried to step into the hours-long fray to end the clashes, which news agencies said left at least one demonstrator dead and 30 wounded.

But in the streets, fistfights broke out between Christian and Muslim Lebanese after protesters threw rocks at a Maronite Catholic Church, broke windows at the Lebanese Red Cross office and shattered windshields of cars. Bands of Christian youths congregated with sticks and iron bars, promising to defend their neighborhoods. “Those who are committing these acts have nothing to do with Islam or with Lebanon,” Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora told Lebanon’s Future Television before the protests ended. “This is absolutely not the way we express our opinions.”

The unrest in Lebanon, mired in its own political uncertainty, was the latest turn in a controversy that has spread worldwide following the publication of the cartoons in Denmark and other Western countries and showed no signs of ebbing Sunday. Demonstrators took to the streets in Afghanistan, Iraq, the West Bank and New Zealand. A day earlier, protesters burned the Danish and Norwegian embassies in Syria after charging past security barriers. The Islamic Army in Iraq, a Sunni Arab insurgent group, issued an Internet statement calling for attacks on Danish companies and nationals. The group urged followers to “catch some Danish people and cut them into pieces.” There are about 500 Danish soldiers in Iraq.

In their scope and vitriol, the protests say much about the state of relations between the West and the Muslim world in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in the United States. The anger was ignited by 12 caricatures of the prophet Muhammad that were commissioned in September by a Danish newspaper to challenge Islam’s ban on depicting the prophet. Along with picturing him, some lampooned him. After protests began, other European papers reprinted the cartoons.

They declared it an issue of freedom of expression, a cornerstone of democratic values; many Muslims cast it as another insult in a growing conflict that is most often reflected here through the lens of a religious struggle with an American-led West. “What are you going to do?” asked a leaflet circulated in Beirut that called for Sunday’s protest. “Bush and his group have invaded and are fighting war by all means available,” it added. “The goal: destroying the Islamic nation ideologically, economically and existentially, and stealing and looting its resources.”

The protests in Lebanon came in response to calls issued in mosques Friday and in similar leaflets circulated in Beirut and other cities. Most stayed peaceful. But bands broke through police lines at the Danish Embassy, and hundreds of other protesters surged through nearby streets, waving green religious flags and shouting, “God is greatest.” Police shot into the air and fired tear gas and water cannons at protesters, who threw stones, set ablaze firetrucks and overturned police vehicles. More than 150 were arrested, according to news service reports. The Danish Embassy was gutted and its granite facade scorched. Acrid black smoke spilled out of its windows hours later, as firefighters tried to contain the blaze. Workers swept up glass that littered the streets of the neighborhood of Ashrafiyeh.



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Promotion

Dummycraps in the House have received a promotion. They’re no longer plantation slaves. According to Slick Willy, they are now sharecroppers. Bill and Hillary just can’t get over the fact that Dems have been getting the short end of the stick from voters recently, can they? At this rate, in a few years Dems will be comparing themselves to ghetto residents, forced to ride at the back of the bus. Will this whining never end ... ?

Bill Clinton: House Dems Treated Like ‘Sharecroppers’
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Ex-president Bill Clinton defended his wife Hillary on Friday for claiming last month that the GOP-led Congress was being run like a “plantation,” adding that he thought House Democrats were being treated like “sharecroppers.” Asked if he agreed with Mrs. Clinton’s comment, the ex-president told WCBS Radio’s Peter Maer: “Oh, absolutely I do. And it had no racial overtones.”

“It was more about the arbitrary and complete exercise of power and control,” he contended.” Clinton cited an unnamed farmer-turned-congressman from East Arkansas who told him he agreed with Hillary as well. “I wouldn’t say we were slaves,” Clinton quoted the congressman as saying. “We’re more like sharecroppers.”

The ex-president then added, “Another member of the United States Congress who worked on a plantation as a boy came up and thanked my wife for saying that.” After offering racially tinged anecdotes, Mr. Clinton again insisted that Hillary “absolutely meant nothing racial by it.” “I defend her, I think she did the right thing,” he said. “And I think that’s why the Black Caucus defended her.”

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The Other Side

_{Emad Hajjaj, Al-Ghad Newspaper, Amman, Jordan}

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Super Steelers

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   Sunday - February 05, 2006

Official Super Bowl Discussion Thread

Memo From The Skipper: Blogging will be light today if not nonexistent. I have posted an editorial below for those of you who wish to engage in cussin’ and discussin’ weighty world problems on Super Bowl Sunday. In addition, there’s plenty of other crap on this page to talk about, from half-nekkid PETA protestors to naughty strippers to deranged Muslims to Hollywood losers to .... aw, you know the drill. Just find a topic and jump right in. If you just want to jawbone about any little thing that comes into your head, throw a comment out anywhere and see who bites.

The ship’s crew is officially on shore leave until 2200 hours tonight at which time the Shore Patrol will be out bashing heads and dragging drunken sailors and marines back on board for next week’s journey. In the meantime, the rest of us will be getting out our “terrible towels” or our “Mocha grande mint latte’s” for the eight hour marathon beginning at 1:00pm ET. Cheers!

    

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They Just Don’t Get It

I have been giving a great deal of thought to the recent kerfuffle over the Danish cartoons that have the entire Muslim world in an uproar. I’ve come to the conclusion that Muslims just don’t get it. This thought came to me while reading an article in the Washington Post today that put it all into a unique perspective.

The WAPO interviewed several American Muslims to get their opinion on the recent riots and embassy burnings in the Middle East. I noticed that every one of the interviewees seemed to be blinded to the hatred and violence being done in the name of their religion.

It’s as if the Muslims, including the educated, well-to-do ones in the US are looking at the world with a “everything is someone else’s fault, we deserve respect” viewpoint. It’s as if to a man and woman they are incapable of looking at themselves as others see them. Here is an example ....

Area Muslims React With Tempered Anger
Some Say Depiction Overstepped Liberties
Sunday, February 5, 2006
(WASHINGTON POST)

Wearing a brown golf cap against the cold drizzle, Rocky Omary stood outside Walima Cafe in Falls Church, where he and about 50 other men of Middle Eastern descent had just watched the Tunisian soccer team take a drubbing from the Nigerians.

That trouncing was bad enough. But Omary had other, more disturbing, insults on his mind: specifically, the recent publication in European newspapers of cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad as a terrorist.

“I’ve been getting a lot of e-mails about it, and I’m distributing them all,” said Omary, a Damascus native who sells real estate in Northern Virginia. “There is a limit to freedom. There are 1.2 billion Muslims in the world. Let’s have some respect.”

“Just because you can say something doesn’t mean you should say something,” the teenager said. “If somebody showed a picture of the pope with a bomb on his head, that would cause a great public outcry. Nobody would be talking about freedom of speech.”

Washington area Muslims say they are closely following the furor in Europe and other parts of the world sparked by the cartoons, which first appeared in Denmark and Norway. In interviews yesterday, they expressed anger and hurt feelings. And although they said they recognized the value of freedom of speech, they said the freedom must be matched with respect and responsibility.

“Technically, you have the right to walk into a crowded theater and yell ‘Fire,’ “ said Uzma Unus, 34, a teacher in Sterling who is also vice president of ADAMS. “But is that responsible?”

Yesterday, crowds in Syria set fire to the Danish, Norwegian and Swedish embassies. And, according to a wire report, a radical Islamic preacher in Lebanon demanded that the Danish editor who first printed the cartoons be killed.

Such reactions are “not warranted,” said Robert Marro of Great Falls, who was attending prayers at ADAMS. Europeans could have defused the situation by apologizing instead of staking out a hard-line position of upholding free speech, he said.

“Growing up in America, I’m used to political cartoons, but . . . it’s clear that this just crossed the line,” said Marro, a retired U.S. diplomat. “What would the reaction have been if on Jan. 16, The Washington Post had published a picture of Martin Luther King with gangsta-rap clothing, a crack pipe and a Saturday night special? . . . It would have provoked a storm of outrage.”

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Sunday Funnies

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Toy Story

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   Saturday - February 04, 2006

A State Of War

Here’s the way The Ol’ Skipper sees it: (1) The Danish and Norwegian embassies in Syria are sovereign territory belonging to those two countries (according to international law); (2) The Syrian government allowed (and possibly encouraged) its citizens to INVADE, ATTACK & DESTROY Danish and Norwegian territory; (3) Therefore a state of war now exists between Syria and Denmark/Norway. This is a date that will live in infamy. The only thing we have to fear is fear itself .... and moonbattery by slug-brained, demented, goat-fornicating, degenerate, slimey, smelly, camel-turd-sniffing .... illegitimate sons of b*****s.

Embassies Torched As Cartoon Furor Grows
Saturday, February 4, 2006
DAMASCUS (Reuters)

Furious Syrians set fire to the Danish and Norwegian embassies on Saturday as protests over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad showed no signs of abating despite calls for calm. Oil giant Iran, already embroiled in a dispute with the West over its nuclear programme, said it was reviewing trade ties with countries that have published such caricatures.

Chanting “God is Greatest,” thousands of protesters stormed the Danish embassy, burned the Danish flag and replaced it with a flag reading “No God but Allah, Mohammad is His Prophet.” They set fires which badly damaged the building before being put out. No one was hurt as the embassy was closed at the time.

Demonstrators also set the Norwegian embassy ablaze. It was brought under control by firefighters. Police fired teargas to disperse protesters there and also used water hoses to hold back others from storming the French embassy. Scores of riot police were also deployed to protect the U.S. mission.

Denmark and Norway advised their citizens to leave Syria. Denmark is at the eye of the storm as the cartoons that Muslim demonstrators find offensive, one of the Prophet with a turban resembling a bomb, first appeared in a Danish daily. A small Norwegian Christian newspaper was one of the first newspaper outside Denmark to publish the cartoons. They have now appeared in papers in Bulgaria, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Hungary, New Zealand, Norway, Poland.

Sweden, which shares its Syrian embassy with Denmark and Chile, was also dragged into the Damascus protests. It summoned the Syrian ambassador in Stockholm in protest. Sweden, Denmark and Norway said the Syrian authorities had not done enough to protect their buildings in the capital. There was no immediate comment from Syrian officials.

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“We will not accept less than severing the heads of those responsible,” one preacher at Al Omari mosque in Gaza told worshipers during Friday Prayer, according to Reuters. Other demonstrators called for amputating the hands of the cartoonists who drew the pictures.
-- NY Times International

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Weekend Moron Award

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Our Piggy Forefathers

Ahhh, the “good old days”. When men were men, women were women and Oink was just a little piglet. Those were the days. And it was only sixty years ago that the following management policy was in place. The only thing missing from this is a requirement that the dames wear burkhas and always walk behind their man. It seems funny nowadays but it is a good object lesson in taking history in context. You really can’t read this through 21st Century eyes with all of the associated changes in political correctness and womens liberation. Do not judge harshly the chauvinistic pigs men behind this. It was another place in another time ....

1943 - Tips on Getting More Efficiency from your Women Employees

The following is an excerpt from the July 1943 issue of Transportation Magazine. This was written for male supervisors of women in the workforce during World War II, only 60+ years ago! The intent was not to be “funny”.

1.) Pick young, married women. They usually have more of a sense of responsibility than their unmarried sisters; they’re less likely to be flirtatious; they need the work or they wouldn’t be doing it; they still have the pep and interest to work hard and to deal with the public efficiently.

2.) When you have to use older women, try to get ones who have worked outside the home at some time in their lives. Older women who have never contacted the public have a hard time adapting themselves and are inclined to be cantankerous and fussy. It’s always well to impress upon older women the importance of friendliness and courtesy.

3.) General experience indicates that “husky” girls - those who are just a little on the heavy side - are more even tempered and efficient than their underweight sisters.

4.) Retain a physician to give each woman you hire a special physical examination - one covering female conditions. This step not only protects the property against the possibilities of lawsuit, but reveals whether the employee-to-be has any female weaknesses which would make her mentally or physically unfit for the job.

5.) Give the female employee a definite day-long schedule of duties so that they’ll keep busy without bothering the management for instructions every few minutes. Women make excellent workers when they have their jobs set out for them, but they lack initiative in finding work themselves.

6.) Whenever possible, let the female employee change from one job to another at some time during the day. Women are inclined to be less nervous and happier with change.

7.) Give every girl an adequate number of rest periods during the day. You have to make for some allowances for feminine psychology. A girl has more confidence and is more efficient if she can keep her hair tidied, apply fresh lipstick and wash her hands several times a day.

8.) Be tactful when issuing instructions or in making criticisms. Women are often sensitive; they can’t shrug off harsh words the way men do. Never ridicule a woman - it breaks her spirit and cuts off her efficiency.

9.) Be reasonably considerate about using strong language around women. Even though a girl’s husband or father may swear vociferously, she’ll grow to dislike a place of business where she hears too much of this.

10.) Get enough size variety in operator’s uniforms so that each girl can have a proper fit. This point can’t be stressed too much in keeping women happy.

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