Sunday - March 27, 2011
Wake Up Already
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Permalink • Thursday - March 24, 2011
Is This War Or a Life Cereal Commercial?
You remember, I’m sure ...
“What’s this stuff?”
“Some cereal. It’s supposed to be good for you.”
“Are you gonna try it?”
“I’m not gonna try it. You try it.”
”I’m not gonna try it. You try it!”
“Hey, I know, let’s get Mikey to try it. He won’t like it; he hates everything! Hey, Mikey!”
Somehow this seems familiar
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton welcomed NATO’s decision to enforce the no-fly zone over Libya, although it will not take total control of the military operations against Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi.
Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., called the decision a “sign of progress,” in a statement.
Under the terms of the agreement, which was announced in Brussels, the U.S. will hand over command and control of part of the international operation. The U.S. has appeared eager throughout the campaign to pass the baton.
Obama: “Colonel Gaddafi has lost all his mojo. It is time for him to go. It is time for regime change. It is time for Change. I Hope. We will enforce a no-fly zone in Libya to curtail the bloody excesses of the tyrant, my best friend and my favorite preacher’s best friend, Mohair Gadaffy. Under the bus with him.”
UK: “I’m not gonna kill him, you kill him.”
France: “I’m not gonna kill him, you kill him!”
Germany: “Der are no joos here! Ve are goink home!”
UAE: “What do yoiu mean a no-fly zone actually means military action? We didn’t sign up for any of that!”
Shrillary: “Black is white, up is down, left is right, peace is war. I’m talking out of both sides of my mouth at the same time so fast even I don’t understand what I’m saying anymore. What’s my opinion? Well, what time is it? The USA will take the lead in blowing the Libyans to hell and back, but NATO and our EUropean allies have to take the lead here. We will not be involved in a war in Libya while we are involved in a war in Libya.”
Obama: “Everybody samba!!”
News Media:"The overthrow of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt caught the White House flat footed. The civil war in Libya caught the White House flat footed. Now the situation in Yemen with President Saleh and his top general running away have caught the White House flat footed. After millions protested for freedom in Egypt, the people there are launching pogroms against Christians. A few hundred miles to the south, Muslims are also launching an anti-Christian pogrom in Ethiopia, even though Ethiopia is 90% Christian. And they’re getting away with it! Meanwhile net door in Sudan, under the guise of tribalism, Muslims continue their genocide against Christians. In Saudi Arabia and Bahrain the armies have been called out and are ready to shoot anyone who even pouts at a government employee. 35 years of US Middle East policy has gone out the window in a matter of months as unrest spreads like wildfire across the entire region. All these governments are teetering on the very brink or have already fallen over, and nobody here has a single clue about who or what will replace any of them.”
Obama: “Hey, did you check out my basketball bracket picks on Twitter? They’re mega-awesome!”
Glen Beck, Mark Steyn, and 123 other right wing pundits: “Oh look, it’s the Caliphate being born. Told ya. Hand in hand with the Marxist Progressives. For now.”
MSM, including hyper-ventilating Fox News talking head Shepard Smith (aka Little Geraldo): “You guys are crazy. These poor oppressed people just want freedom. They want to be just like us!”
Maybe somebody can get Obama some Pop Rocks and a Coke. It worked for Mikey, right?
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Permalink • Wednesday - March 09, 2011
Coptic Christians killed in Cairo clashes …. at least 10 dead, many injured …
There isn’t anything I can say that wasn’t said better a few days ago by Drew.
I think he covered all the bases well at this post on 3/7.
SS, DD
The view from Israel -
At least 10 Coptic Christians were shot dead and 110 wounded by gunfire in religious clashes with Muslims in Cairo.
1:03PM GMT 09 Mar 2011
The clashes between Christians and Muslims erupted in the poor working class district of Moqattam midafternoon Tuesday when at least 1,000 Christians gathered there to protest the burning of a church last week.
Fighting broke out when dozens of Muslims showed up in Moqattam, inhabited by Copts who work as refuse collectors and who had blocked a main north-south artery in the capital.
People threw rocks from both sides and witnesses said soldiers at the scene fired shots into the air in a bid to disperse the crowds.
Christians, who make up about 10 per cent of Egypt’s 80 million population, complain of systematic discrimination and have been the target of several sectarian attacks.Ahead of the incident in Moqattam, Copts had protested in central Cairo against the burning of a church south of the capital after deadly clashes between Christians and Muslims.
The protest outside the radio and television building came a day after at least 2,000 angry Christians demanded that the torched church be rebuilt, and that those responsible be brought to justice.
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Permalink • Monday - March 07, 2011
SS, DD
The view from Israel -
There are two Egyptian revolutions. The one marketed for Western consumption by Egyptian bloggers and the American media-- and the real revolution.
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The actual Jan 25 revolution was wildly different from the one depicted in news reports. Behind the veil of English speaking Twitter feeds by young activists, is an angry and bigoted population which hated Mubarak not because he is a tyrant, but because he maintained ties to America and Israel, and refused to aggressively persecute Egypt’s Christians. Egypt is not looking for a Western style democracy. What the Arab street really wants is a tyranny that reflects its values.Few of the gullible Western supporters who follow the revolution by Twitter, understand just how much the ordinary Egyptian taking part in the protests hates them. Behind all the English language signs produced for the foreign press and the articulate bloggers cultivated by the US and EU governments, is the angry mob who believes that Mubarak was a puppet of the CIA and the Mossad. And who believe the same thing about all the earnest CNN and CBS correspondents who came to be photographed against the background of a revolution.
No matter how much the reporters propagandized their cause, the mob was certain that they were there to support Mubarak. That belief is part of the xenophobic identity of Egyptians, and so many others in the Muslim world. The only popular cause in the Muslim world is fought against the Americans-- even when the Americans are on their side.
Yahood o Hunood” like the taunts of “Yahood” at Lara Logan or US soldiers in Iraq arises from the xenophobia and bigotry of the Muslim world. That bigotry is fed by the Muslim need to blame their failures on a vast conspiracy against them by people who are their inferiors. The parallels to Nazi Germany are too obvious to even be worth going into.
The real Egyptian revolution was mob violence against the targets of their conspiracy theories, rather than a movement toward democracy. Assaults on Western reporters are not an aberration, but the norm. As often as CNN cheers on the revolution, the average Egyptian will still call them Yahood and CIA. Because the average Egyptian is fueled by hate for outside forces, rather than a striving for progress and reform.
What went wrong is that Egypt is not England or America. It is an unstable Muslim country with a booming population, which wants low prices, social services and the repression of women and infidels under an Islamic system. They will support anyone who can give these things to them, and bring down anyone who doesn’t. That is your Egyptian democracy.
Egypt is the liberal’s Iraq. Except that the regime they overthrew was pro-Western, not genocidal and did not gas children. After having spent 7 years condemning the Bush administration, they orchestrated a far more senseless wave of regime change that opens the door for the Calphate to rule the region.
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Permalink • Sunday - March 06, 2011
So Much For Democracy and Freedom
Every news story I see on Egypt leads me to believe more and more that a crazy pisslamic republic will arise from the ashes of Mubarak’s regime.
Let’s not kid ourselves.
Lies To Children is a Terry Pratchett concept. He didn’t invent it, but he did identify and name it: introduce a concept with a simplified germ of an idea that may be completely wrong, but it points young minds in the right direction. Go back later and teach more on the concept to straighten out the “lie” with more detail and a deeper truth. For complicated concepts it is sometimes necessary for several iterations of “lies to children” to be used, until their knowledge of the subject is both broad enough and deep enough to understand the complex truth. The problem with these “lies” is that the deeper truth is often never revealed or taught, leaving generations of children and adults with a complete misconception.
Here is an example. Surely you know the story of the Pilgrims? This is the history that gets taught in the fall of First Grade, The First Thanksgiving and the kids get to make those hand tracing turkeys and color them in so Mom can hang them on the fridge. When I went through Mrs. Day’s class back in the day, we got to color paper feathers and dress up as Indians. I’m sure that’s forbidden these days.
So tell me, why did the Pilgrims come to America? “For religious freedom” you say. Reflexively, for that’s what we were all taught. That’s the lie. The deeper truth is that when they came here, they established their own faith as the state religion, even though barely half the people on those boats were members of that faith. And they had no tolerance whatsoever for any other faith, or for any deviation, variation or evolution from their essential creed. They were bloody eyed zealots, and often bloody handed as well. It wasn’t just witches they executed. It was Quakers as well, among others. Read the story of Mary Dyer, hanged for her faith. Or Anne Hutchinson, proto-feminist, tried, condemned, and banished for breaking gender roles. Those not directly executed were stripped in public, flogged, disarmed, and banished. One of my own ancestors was in that bunch, 15 lashes with the scourge, and he got the heck out of Dodge before the whip marks heeled. So much for “religious freedom”. The only “truth” that seeps through the scholastic miasma hides in the verb puritanical, which has come to mean highly intolerant and out of date. “Lies to children” because simple minds can’t handle the bigger truth.
So let us not accept the mainstream media message that those in Egypt with Hope, seeking Change, have suddenly become the New Americans in spirit and outlook. They have not. They are jihadists, at least in spirit if not in universal action. That means many things, but this post spotlights the violent intolerance of other faiths and the quickness to blame others - usually Americans, Joooos, or Christians - for their acts of evil that is inherent in that spirit. And so another Coptic church gets burned, more Egyptian Christians get murdered. ( almost from the beginning of the modern era ["AD"] Egypt has been Christian. The Coptic church dates back to before 200 AD, 500 years before Mo’ and his Boyz showed up in 639 AD] ) And it hardly makes the news. There is an anti-Christian pogrom going on there, even though Egypt is 1/8 Christian by population. Violent persecution is nothing new to the Copts.
Nearly 4000 Muslims Attack Christian Homes in Egypt, Torch Church
A mob of nearly four thousand Muslims has attacked Coptic homes this evening in the village of Soul, Atfif in Helwan Governorate, 30 kilometers from Cairo, and torched the Church of St. Mina and St. George. There are conflicting reports about the whereabouts of the Church pastor Father Yosha and three deacons who were at church; some say they died in the fire and some say they are being held captive by the Muslims inside the church.Witnesses report the mob prevented the fire brigade from entering the village. The army, which has been stationed for the last two days in the village of Bromil, 7 kilometers from Soul, initially refused to go into Soul, according to the officer in charge. When the army finally sent three tanks to the village, Muslim elders sent them away, saying that everything was “in order now.”
A curfew has been imposed on the 12,000 Christians in the village.
This incident was triggered by a relationship between 40-year-old Copt Ashraf Iskander and a Muslim woman. Yesterday a “reconciliation” meeting was arranged between the relevant Coptic and Muslim families and together with the Muslim elders it was decided that Ashraf Iskander would have to leave the village because Muslims torched his house.
The father of the Muslim woman was killed by his cousin because he did not kill his daughter to preserve the family’s honor, which led the woman’s brother to avenge the death of his father by killing the cousin. The village Muslims blamed the Christians.
The Muslim mob attacked the church, exploding 5-6 gas cylinders inside the church, pulled down the cross and the domes and burnt everything inside. Activist Ramy Kamel of Katibatibia Coptic advocacy called US-based Coptic Hope Sat TV and sent an SOS on behalf of the Copts in Soul village, as they are presently being attacked by the mob. He also said that no one is able to contact the priest and the deacons inside the burning church and there is no answer from their mobile phones.
Coptic activist Wagih Yacoub reported the mob has broken into Coptic homes and has called on Copts to leave the village. “Terrorized Copts have fled and some hid in homes of Muslim neighbors,” he added.
Witnesses said the mob chanted “Allahu Akbar” and vowed to conduct their morning prayers on the church plot after razing it.
There you have it. One muzzie shows a bit of restraint and doesn’t murder his own daughter fast enough, so his cousin kills him for it, which ignites a blood vendetta and the man’s son then kills the cousin. But let’s blame the Christians, and use this as an excuse to go on another violent rampage. Then put a lockdown on the victims, so they can’t retaliate in kind. That in itself is nothing new, but this insane outburst doesn’t fit the Established Meme, so it gets buried.
Don’t buy into the bullshit:
The springtime of the Arab world
by Samir Khalil Samir
There is no fundamentalism, or anti-Israeli ideology in the demonstrations in Libya, Egypt, Tunisia, etc .. It is a movement of young people spurred on by economic suffering and ideals such as democracy, equality, freedom, justice. The demonstrations are free of violence and hatred. Europe and the United States who have always supported dictators remaining blind to the needs of young people in these countries need to examine their conscience.
... even if the bullshitters themselves believe it. That’s not how it will play out in the next year or two and you know it.
And don’t hide your lamp under a bushel basket either, as so many in the media and officialdom do.
Europe’s stuttering timidity in denouncing the persecution of Christians
by Bernardo Cervellera
After nearly three weeks, finally a European text condemns the violations of religious freedom of Christians. The statement suffers from “excessive” balance and distance. The EU’s inability to understand what is happening in North Africa and the Middle East is a result of its ignoring its Christian roots.
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After more than three weeks of debate, the EU has managed to produce a text that explicitly mentions Christians as victims of persecution and the object of violent attacks. An earlier text had been prepared in January, after the terrorist attack on the Church in Baghdad and the massacre at the Church in Alexandria, but was it rejected because of the lack of references to Christians, since the EU preferred to use generic term “religious minorities”.
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Permalink • Thursday - February 24, 2011
My Apologies
Sorry folks. I completely missed the Lara Logan story. I can’t read every blog every day, and I can’t live in front of the TV news. I vaguely recall that her name was mentioned on Fox News as one of the group of media people who had been roughed up, mentioned as a bit of a sidebar comment, along with Anderson Cooper’s bloody nose, to their own Greg Palkot being beaten by the mob and then roughed up by the police, in a follow-on piece 2 weeks after that happened.
Today I learned of this for the first time and I am both stunned and disgusted. Disgusted by Egypt, and just as disgusted by the media. By CBS, who hid the story for 4 days in the first place:
On Friday, Feb. 11, the day Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down, CBS chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan was covering the jubilation in Tahrir Square for a “60 Minutes” story when she and her team and their security were surrounded by a dangerous element amidst the celebration. It was a mob of more than 200 people whipped into frenzy.
In the crush of the mob, she was separated from her crew. She was surrounded and suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers. She reconnected with the CBS team, returned to her hotel and returned to the United States on the first flight the next morning. She is currently in the hospital recovering.
and by the rest of the media for sticking to the “Egyptian peasants are all freedom fighters who want equality and democracy” meme that the press beast has decided will be the Official View on that whole uprising. The fact that this woman was brutally beaten and gang raped by a crowd of 200 Egyptian celebrants doesn’t fit that picture, so it gets ignored. Nearly 2 weeks after the event and there is still no definitive word on whether her attack lasted 20 minutes or 3 hours. I am not implying that the time scale in any way lessens the overall severity, it’s just that I’m making the point that no one is asking. She had a film crew with her. And some security people. Hasn’t anyone spoken to them? Are they all dead? Have they all committed suicide in shame for their total failure as men in allowing this to occur? They ought to. And why isn’t Fox News chewing CBS a new one every hour for that networks cowardly decision to blur out the faces of the men in the crowd mere seconds before her assault? And ignoring how the crowd chanted “Jew! Jew! Jew!” and anti-American calls while this ostensibly Christian South African reported was molested?
Other blogs have been all over this horror, and a goodly number of the lesser seen (by me I guess) media outlets.
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2011/02/egypt-army-saves-cbs-news-lara-logan-after-rape-and-beating-by-egypts-freedom-loving-protesters.html
http://sheikyermami.com/2011/02/20/lara-logan-lame-stream-media-covers-up-rape-protects-rapist-thugs/
http://israelmatzav.blogspot.com/2011/02/nyu-what-took-you-so-long.html
http://www.israelforum.com/blog_article.php?aid=3273621
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2011/02/60-minutes-lara-logan-was-repeatedly-raped-by-egyptian-mob-yelling-jew-jew.html
http://www.tmz.com/2011/02/16/lara-logan-sexually-assaulted-recovery-egypt-cbs-reporter-60-minutes-hospitalized-work-soldiers/
http://www.aolnews.com/2011/02/17/what-cnn-didnt-want-to-show-in-the-lara-logan-photo/
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2011/02/lara-logans-vicious-violent-gang-rape-medias-silencesanction.html
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=208754
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/02/secular-egyptian-democracy-lovers-shouted-jew-jew-during-their-brutal-sexual-assault-of-60-minutes-r.html
http://tammybruce.com/2011/02/tonights-3rd-hour-has-posted-3.html
http://dallasmorningviewsblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2011/02/after-lara-loga.html
http://pajamasmedia.com/tatler/2011/02/22/andy-mccarthy-cbs-reporter-lara-logan-and-rape-under-islamic-law/
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/260288
The media’s treatment of Logan’s victimization specifically and its treatment of the widescale mob violence against foreign reporters in Cairo generally tells us a great deal about the nature of today’s media discourse.
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According to a 1999 report from the World Health Organization, 97 percent of Egyptian women and girls have undergone the barbaric practice of genital mutilation. A 2005 report by the Cairo-based Association for Legal Rights of Women submitted to the UN explained that Egyptian women are constitutionally deprived of their basic rights, including their rights to control their bodies and property. Males who murder their female relatives are often unpunished.
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THE STORY of the media at Tahrir Square exposes those rules for all to see. The bravery of the journalists on the scene, the media’s determination to ignore Islamic misogyny, and their expulsion of Rosen from polite society all tell us that what drives the international media is not a quest for truth. It is a quest to advance the ideology of identity politics. (see the JPost link above)
Is it fair for me to condemn all of Egypt for this rape? No. Is it fair of me to condemn all of Islam for this? Yes. After all, it’s what they do. It’s what they are. And if nothing else, amidst all the cheering and/or worrying about the revolutions sweeping across the southern Mediterranean, remember that Islam is the driving force, the cornerstone, the commonality that they all share. And here is your reminder, as if you needed one, of the true face of that “religion”:
Umdat al-Salikwa ‘Uddat an-Nasik. [” Reliance of the Traveler and Tools of the Worshiper"](thanks WZ:
Except it doesn’t happen in Madison. It happens in Egypt. It happened in Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim country, in the riots that led to Suharto’s fall — as Sharon Lapkin recounts, human-rights groups interviewed more than 100 women who had been captured and gang raped, including many Chinese women, who were told this was their fate as non-Muslims. It happens in Muslim countries and in the Muslim enclaves of Europe and Australia, perpetrated by Islamic supremacists acting on a sense of entitlement derived from their scriptures, fueled by the rage of their jihad, and enabled by the deafening silence of the media.
(Excerpts from a 2007 interview by Front Page Magazine with Bill Warner, reprinted in light of this atrocity. The interview is about the official Muslim position on slavery and rape. Bottom line: it’s encouraged, as long as it’s against the infidel.)
FP: This institution of Islamic sexual slavery isn’t just a reality of the past is it?
Warner: Everything that has been said up to now is not only history; it is Sunna (the example of the perfect pattern of action and morality found in Mohammed). So today we don’t have a beautiful blonde Christian girl on the block in Mecca, but we have continuous and ongoing rapes by Muslims in kafir cities. This goes on everywhere that Islam goes because it is Sunna.
This is a continuous 1400-year history of jihad. In every detailed history that comes from the original documents from history, rape is a constant. You have to look in the original documents, since our historians refuse to report it in so-called history books.
Rape is Sunna. Rape is not a sin. Rape is permitted and encouraged by Mohammed and the Koran. Islam is the only political system in the world that includes rules for rape and war. Rape is jihad. How good can it get? A Muslim gets to rape a kafir girl and get heaven credits. All jihad is a ticket to Paradise.The most disgusting aspect of the Islamic rape of kafirs is not the rapes, but the kafir response. Kafirs become dhimmis by ignoring the rapes. I challenge you to find one, even one, mention of Islamic rape in the history books.
Islamic rape is more taboo than the N-word in the media. At least the N-word is acknowledged to exist. Even unicorns exist in media fantasy. But Islamic rape is forbidden to even exist as a fantasy.
And to reach a fevered rant: our so-called “feminist” scholars are absolutely intellectually and morally bankrupt hypocrites. They are traitors to our culture and a shame and a disgrace. They remain silent in the face of heinous crimes against women. They are arch-dhimmis when they refuse to speak of the Sunna, history and current rapes of our daughters, mothers, and sisters.
And our tax dollars support their evil in our public universities.
...............The chief mark of dhimmitude today is ignorance of the Koran, the Sira and the Hadith. The ignorance of kafir intellectuals about Islam is profound.
They don’t know about how jihad killed the 120,000,000 Africans, the 60,000,000 Christians, the 80,000,000 Hindus or the 10,000,000 Buddhists. Our intellectuals do not know about the Tears of Jihad (detailed in all of our books). That is a lot of death and ignorance—270,000,000 dead. Our intellectuals don’t know, don’t care and don’t bother. They deny.
......................They do not understand that Islam is a civilization based upon the ideal of dualism. Islamic ethics and politics have one set of rules for Muslims and another for kafirs. Our civilization is based upon the ideal of unitary ethics, the Golden Rule. We do not have two sets of laws and ethics, like Islam. Our intellectuals cannot explain what dualism has meant in the past or what it will mean for our future—civilizational annihilation.
Our intellectuals and the media have only one view of Islam—a glorious civilization. They have created the “terrorist”, a bogus term based upon ignorance. And the “terrorist” is not even a “real” Muslim, but an extremist fundamentalist. All of these terms are based upon a profound ignorance of Islamic political doctrine.
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Permalink • Wednesday - February 23, 2011
We Need Better Laws
The father of a 20-year-old woman from Iraq, run over because she allegedly had become “too Westernized”, was convicted Tuesday of second-degree murder.
The Maricopa County (Arizona) Superior Court jury convicted Faleh Hassan Almaleki, 50, in the 2009 death of Noor Faleh Almaleki.
It also found him guilty of aggravated assault, for causing serious injuries to Amal Edan Khalaf, the mother of Noor’s fiance, and two counts of leaving the scene.
Almaleki, an Iraqi immigrant, was acquitted of more serious first-degree murder and first-degree attempted murder charges.
He could receive up to 22 years in prison on the murder charge alone. Sentencing testimony begins Wednesday.
Noor Faleh Almaleki died in November 2009 at an Arizona hospital, nearly two weeks after being run over by a Jeep in a parking lot in the Phoenix suburb of Peoria, authorities said.
There is something wrong with our laws when premeditated murder is not murder in the first degree. He planned it, he stalked her, he ran her down with a car and almost killed her companion as well. All because of his own failure to assimilate. So he gets jail? 22 years, out in 10 for good behavior? No. Pluck out his eyes, saw off his face, impale him, and burn him at the stake. That would be the Iraqi way, and since he couldn’t come to grips with being an American, he should be punished the “old country” way.
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Permalink • Friday - February 11, 2011
Post Mubarak: A Reminder For Them And Us
[ Islam is ] “An ideology that has sprung from the desert and that can produce only deserts because it does not give people freedom. The Islamic Mozart, the Islamic Gerard Reve [a Dutch author], the Islamic Bill Gates; they do not exist because without freedom there is no creativity. The ideology of Islam is especially noted for killing and oppression and can only produce societies that are backward and impoverished.”
- Geert Wilders
Outside of Egypt:
From 2007 ... It is easy to understand why a growing number of Danes would feel that Muslim immigrants show little respect for Danish values and laws. An example is the phenomenon common to other European countries and the U.S.: some Muslims in Denmark who opted to leave the Muslim faith have been murdered in the name of Islam, while others hide in fear for their lives. Jews are also threatened and harassed openly by Muslim leaders in Denmark, a country where once Christian citizens worked to smuggle out nearly all of their 7,000 Jews by night to Sweden - before the Nazis could invade. I think of my Danish friend Elsa - who as a teenager had dreaded crossing the street to the bakery every morning under the eyes of occupying Nazi soldiers - and I wonder what she would say today.
In 2001, Denmark elected the most conservative government in some 70 years - one that had some decidedly non-generous ideas about liberal unfettered immigration. Today Denmark has the strictest immigration policies in Europe. ( Its effort to protect itself has been met with accusations of “racism” by liberal media across Europe - even as other governments struggle to right the social problems wrought by years of too-lax immigration.) If you wish to become Danish, you must attend three years of language classes. You must pass a test on Denmark’s history, culture, and a Danish language test. You must live in Denmark for 7 years before applying for citizenship. You must demonstrate an intent to work, and have a job waiting. If you wish to bring a spouse into Denmark, you must both be over 24 years of age, and you won’t find it so easy anymore to move your friends and family to Denmark with you. You will not be allowed to build a mosque in Copenhagen. Although your children have a choice of some 30 Arabic culture and language schools in Denmark, they will be strongly encouraged to assimilate to Danish society in ways that past immigrants weren’t.
In 2006, the Danish minister for employment, Claus Hjort Frederiksen, spoke publicly of the burden of Muslim immigrants on the Danish welfare system, and it was horrifying: the government’s welfare committee had calculated that if immigration from Third World countries were blocked, 75 percent of the cuts needed to sustain the huge welfare system in coming decades would be unnecessary. In other words, the welfare system as it existed was being exploited by immigrants to the point of eventually bankrupting the government. “We are simply forced to adopt a new policy on immigration. The calculations of the welfare committee are terrifying and show how unsuccessful the integration of immigrants has been up to now,” he said.
How much has this changed in the past 4 years? Well, some miles to the North across the Denmark Straight Geert Wilders seems to be on trial for heresy, because he speaks out against jizzlam. And across the North Sea this week over in the UK ...
Sure doesn’t sound like a win for our side, does it?
Inside Egypt:
The Muslim Brotherhood Would Win the First Election
by Alfred Hackensberger
February 3, 2011Islam expert Alaya Allani sees the extremist movement on the march — but only for a short time. Tunisia and Algeria are in turmoil trending toward democracy. In both countries, there are Islamist movements, and no one knows what influence they will have. Historian Alaya Allani of the University of Tunis is known as an expert on Islamism in North Africa and offers some insights into what goals the Muslim Brotherhood pursues, for instance, and what are the odds in the coming elections.
Welt: Who is the Muslim Brotherhood?
Allani: The Muslim Brotherhood understand Islam as a single entity made up of politics, religion and Islamic law as a political and social organizing principle.Welt: How strongly is the Muslim Brotherhood rooted in today’s Egyptian society?
Allani: The actual strength of the Muslim Brotherhood is unknown. It can only be estimated. It grew stronger and stronger during Mubarak’s dictatorship. Several observers feared there could be a scenario like the one in Algeria with the Islamic Salvation Front. They won the elections there in 1991, because the voters wanted to send the corrupt authorities a message.Welt: And today?
Allani: I believe the Muslim Brotherhood will become the strongest party in a new parliament. They can count on a third of the votes in the next elections. That will work only right after the changeover. Then there will be a phase when they will weaken. In the end, they have don’t have a convincing program for the young people. Besides economic and social benefits, the young people want modernity.Welt: Where do the members of the Muslim Brotherhood come from? Are they from particular levels of society? Who are the most fanatic followers?
Allani: They come from the traditional bourgeoisie, the classic middle class. Teachers, lawyers and doctors. A small number of them are socially disadvantaged. That is because the Muslim Brotherhood believes that their sacred message should be spread to all social classes. I have already mentioned their strongest adherents: teachers, doctors and lawyers.
Gosh Drew, what’s the point of this? Aside from a few thousand Christians in Egypt - and less of them every day it seems - everybody there already is muslim. They hate the West and they want Sharia law. Why bother?
Because it is never too late to learn. And that statement could be just one more of the blanket stereotypes the media has thrown over us. Pundits right now are shaking their heads, wondering how this amazing event happened, from beginning to end, in well under a month. They’re starting to call it The Digital Revolution, while scratching their heads and saying how little internet access Egypt actually has. But they forget that 10 people can look at one PC screen. And each of them can tell 100 others what they saw. And while they may not have so much net access, they have an awful lot of cell phones that can send text messages, pictures, and videos. [ No, I don’t want to segue to considering whether that Google guy Wael Ghonim was behind this whole thing, even if he was. That way would lead to an examination of corporate power, enough to topple a government. Too scary for me. I’ll stick with something simple, like the jihadi takeover of the whole world. ]
My point is that I agree with Allani. I think the young people in Egypt want to be part of the modern world that they’ve caught a glimpse or two of. If they have any ability to see the world from a perspective outside that of fundamentalism, then each and every one of them has run into a brick wall inside their own heads. They can see the riches in the OPEC nations and they can see the stagnation there as well. And they can’t ignore the miasma of fundamentalism that hovers over every one of those wealthy eastern countries while the people eat sand and dogma. So my hope is that they have the good sense to see past the smoke and mirrors, realize it’s all a con, and have the ephiphany that You Can’t Get There From Here, and that their nation is only going to have one chance. Just one. The Egyptian Army can only keep a lid on things for so long. They are not going to able to keep a long term junta running. There will be elections and choices will be made. 22 months before that End Times prediction, and exactly on the 32nd anniversary of the fall of Iran, lowly Egypt stands on the cusp of history and commands the compass needle of the world. Where will they point it?
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NASA takes first step in their new role as islamic ambassadors.
Cairo, 10 Feb. (AKI) - The United States space agency NASA has okayed the naming of one of its spaceships after a young Egyptian woman killed in late January during an anti-goverment protest, according to Egyptian daily Al-Masry-al-Youm.
The paper quoted Essam Mohamed Haji, a young researcher at NASA as saying on Thursday he had received approval to put the young woman Sally Zahran’s name on a spaceship heading for Mars.
Zahran, a 23 English graduated and translator died after she was beaten about the head on 28 January with a truncheons during clashes with security forces in in the Upper Egyptian governorate of Sohag. Anti-government protesters claim her killers were thugs in the pay of police.
“This is the least we could provide to Egyptian youth and revolutionaries. This step represents transferring the dreams of Egyptian youth from a small stretch of earth to the enormous expanse of space,” said Haji was cited as telling Al-Masri Al-Youm by phone from California.
What the fuck is this saccharin dhimmi bullshit? Will the Navy now be naming it’s next ship the USS St. Pancake?
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Lines Drawn In The Sand
“We’re leaving and we’re taking all the money with us!”: oil producing Christian black southern Sudan votes to split from piss poor Arab muslim northern Sudan. Years of civil war have destroyed Sudan, and the sub-Saharan southerners have voted to divorce themselves from the pan-Saharan northerners. Borders have to be drawn, and the new country has to pick out a name. But the USA has already agreed to recognize them ($$$$), even if the country won’t even exist until July.
KHARTOUM (Reuters) – South Sudan voted overwhelmingly to declare independence in final results of a referendum announced on Monday, opening the door to Africa’s newest state and a fresh period of uncertainty for the fractured region.
Hundreds of south Sudanese danced, screamed and waved flags as the announcement was broadcast on a line of TV sets in a square in the center of the southern capital Juba.
A total of 98.83 percent of voters from Sudan’s oil-producing south chose to secede from the north in last month’s referendum, the chairman of the vote’s organizing commission Mohammed Ibrahim Khalil said.
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The referendum is the climax of a 2005 north-south peace accord that set out to end Africa’s longest civil war and instill democracy in a country that straddles the continent’s Arab-sub Saharan divide.Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir earlier said he accepted the result, allaying fears that the split could reignite conflict over the control of the south’s oil reserves.
“Today we received these results and we accept and welcome these results because they represent the will of the southern people,” he said in an address on state TV.
Southern officials say the question of a name for the new state is unresolved but it could become just “South Sudan.”
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“Southern Sudanese are a new people now. We have a new identity. We have respect from everyone at last. Our country has come today,” said Rebecca Maluk, a war widow and mother-of-three in the crowd in Juba.
U.S. to recognize south Sudan as a new country
President Obama says the Sudan split will be officially recognized in July. In a Jan. 9 vote, 98% of southern Sudanese voters chose independence. Obama calls for peaceful resolutions to disputes and an end to attacks on civilians in Darfur.
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The south is principally Christian, and the north Muslim. The separate countries still have to negotiate a range of issues, including citizenship, borders, and oil rights and revenues. In his statement, Obama said the “outstanding disputes must be resolved peacefully. At the same time, there must be an end to attacks on civilians in Darfur and a definitive end to that conflict.”
Funny how the more that things change, the more they stay the same. Way back when, back in the days of Pharaoh, the southern border of upper Egypt was usually considered to be either the First Cataract of the Nile (at modern Aswan), or the Second Cataract of the Nile (currently underneath Lake Nasser by present day Wadi Halfa), depending on how subservient the Nubians were being. 4000 years later, and the modern border between upper Egypt and Sudan is ... in exactly the same place. The ancient land of Damot is pretty much the modern country of Eritrea. Across the Red Sea, the biblical land of Sheba is nowadays called Yemen. These are all natural borders formed by rivers and mountain ranges.
In another Once Upon A Time, somewhere between then and now, the land of Punt ruled both sides of the mouth of the Red Sea down to the Horn of Africa, which is now part of Ethiopia and Somalia. So Punt doesn’t work as a name for the new country. I think it was also more of a confederation of tribes too, since the kingdom went across several natural borders. But Kush historically began at the Sixth Cataract, and the city near there, where the White Nile meets the Blue Nile, is called Khartoum. It makes sense to put the border near there, because the land changes radically at that point, and for all I know the people do as well. I don’t know where the population demarcations are in Sudan, but I’m pretty sure they’re not far from this city. The White Nile comes up out of the fever swamps of tropical Africa, and the Blue Nile comes down from the more temperate highlands of Ethiopia. Neither area is historically Arab. Upper Nubia would be a good name to tie this new country to it’s African roots. Aksum (Axum) would work too, and celebrate the area’s Christianity. It wouldn’t be a perfect geographical fit, but it would be one in a Prestor John kind of way, since the old kingdom of Aksum was the first African nation to go Christian. You can look at a map of Sudan and see how the northern cities have Arabic names, while the southern ones have African names. So it would seem smart to me to draw the borders on as natural a line as possible
So peace may finally be at hand in this troubled corner of the world, and a new Christian nation may be about to rise in Africa. One with an actual revenue stream. Now if they can just negotiate a border so that they wind up with a few miles of water front property on the Red Sea, they’ll be in clover. Well, maybe not clover, but emmer or kef.
UPDATE:
I do not know if the United States has ever before extended diplomatic recognition to a nation that does not yet exist. Is this a first? More importantly, is this recognition some kind of imprimatur, a sign that the nation being born has the support and backing of the USA? A Christian nation on the borders of muzzie-land? That itself would be such a bold move that ... I’m having a Vizzini Moment - “it’s inconceivable!!” - and have it happen under the pro-Arab, anti-Christian, no-push-for-international-freedom Obama regime? A total break with our historic “hands off, mostly” Africa policy? I’m thunderstruck. And if it settles the Darfur genocide without bringing in armies? Holy cow. We’re talking major legacy and another Nobel Peace prize, IF - and it seems to be a doubtful if - IF the USA is the driving force behind this. I do not think they are. I can not let myself believe that our diplomatic corps could pull off such a miracle and NOT have a single word to say about it in the press until after it was a done deal. That could never happen. So my thought is that this is a solution the people in southern Sudan came up with all by themselves. And while the world may be only too happy to recognize their nascent independence, the question remains whether their neighbors - crazy people with lots of guns on all sides - will also do so. Keep your fingers crossed.
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Lest We Forget
Once again, the true face of Islam shines forth. Don’t look for this story on ANY news network or in ANY newspaper in the West.
A girl named Hena, age 14, was murdered by local Sharia Committee at Shariatpur in the southern part of Bangladesh. The daughter of poor farmer named Darbesh Kha, Hena was forcefully abducted and raped on January 30, 2011 during late at night by Mahbub, age 40. During this abuse, villagers arrived in response to the cries of Hena. At the same time, the imam of the local mosque, a man named Mofiz Uddin, and a few teachers of Madrassa [Koranic School] led by Saiful Islam, also arrived; instead of taking any action against the rapist, the Muslim clergymen took Hena inside the Madrassa and locked her in a room. The following day, the same imam and some of members of the Sharia Committee in the village sat for a trial of Hena on charges of “immoral sexuality” before marriage. Later the committee decided to punish Hena with 200 lashes, and took financial penalty of only TK. 10,000 [US$ 150] from the rapist.
During the lashing, Hena became unconscious; when she was rushed to the nearby village hospital, the attending doctors declared her dead.
After lodging a murder case with the local police station, a few influential members of the local mosque committee, as well as Sharia Law Committee, are telling members of media that Hena was involved in “immoral activities,” and the villagers caught her red-handed while she was having physical relations with a villager; and that later the Sharia Law Committee punished Hena for such anti-Islamic and immoral activities. They denied admitting that Hena died during being lashed. Further, a few political leaders in the area are frantically trying to save the rapist and the members of the Sharia Law Committee.
Sharia Law Committees are becoming influential in a number of Muslim nations. Although the committees are illegal under local laws, there has never been any action against such groups by any government: these Sharia Law Committees are comprised of influential leaders of the locality as well as members of various political parties and fronts.
On average, in Bangladesh, several hundred rural females fall victim to such rulings and lashings, as well to other forms of “Islamic Penalties,” as Shariah Law Committees become increasingly prevalent.
This is the real Islam: women are slaves, the men are evil and full of violent hatred, and no common sense exists anywhere at all. They are the Devil’s children, a plague upon the world. They are the enemy now, they were the enemy then, they will be the enemy always, in every way shape and form. Anything they do is a lie, every utterance they make is rooted in evil. And they are out to take over the world. They must be stopped everywhere. Every action, every idea, every bit of influence must be fought against, because this kind of daily evil is what happens when they are in control.
This is what is coming to Egypt, if it isn’t already there. This will soon be their day to day existence. AND THEY WANT IT THAT WAY. And Obama is going to let it happen, and his trained cocksuckers in the media will be right behind him. Watch for the new message of how benign the Muslim Brotherhood is, and how they are a force for reason, freedom, equal rights, financial opportunity, and representative democracy. Sure they are. For exactly 10 minutes after they’ve been voted into power. Then Sharia will happen. And the above is Sharia in it’s most perfect tense. It is absolute evil. And so is islam. Religion Of Peace My Ass.
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Hey, Egypt Us!
Kemet, the black land, this very Egypt, going to hell in a hand basket AFAP. TV, radio, and internet shut down by Mubarak government. Bloggers trying to stay on top of situation. Some info getting out via stock exchange and international banking wires, perhaps some ham radio.
unintended hilarity on Malkin comment thread missed in all the excitement:
I’d do a [crickets chirping] but that would be a mute point to this moot point.
Anyway, try and stay abreast if you can. Most of the info is now in the Rinse/Repeat cycle, since the lid has been firmly put on things going on over there.
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/01/28/clashes-erupt-in-cairo-elbaradei-told-to-stay-put-cnn-camera-confiscated
http://michellemalkin.com/2011/01/28/uprising-in-egypt
The White House on Friday urged the Egyptian government to “immediately” address the “legitimate grievances” of protesters surging through the streets, saying it’s not too late for President Hosni Mubarak to respond to the unrest with needed political reforms.
“Their grievances have reached a boiling point, and they have to be addressed,” Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said.
Suggesting the administration is trying to keep an arm’s length from the turmoil engulfing one of its most important Middle East allies, Gibbs declared,” This will be solved by the Egyptian people.” He also said President Obama has not yet spoken with Mubarak, though the administration is closely monitoring developments.
But Gibbs described the situation as “fluid” and issued several stern warnings for the leadership in Cairo.
He repeatedly said the administration will review its “assistance posture” based on the events of the next few days—a reference to the $1.5 billion in U.S. aid that goes to Egypt. He urged both protesters and security forces to show restraint. And echoing comments earlier by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Gibbs urged the Egyptian government to “turn the Internet and social networking sites back on.”
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/01/28/state-department-egypt-unrest-deep-concern
I’m not sure what the US should be doing about this, so maybe for once it’s a good thing we’ve got a leader who is best at voting “present”.
Is Hosni Mubarak Barak Obama’s Mohammad Pahlavi? Are we seeing Jimmah 2.0? We all know what happened then, after Jimmah gave the Shah the Shiv - he got the Shove. And we got Ayatollah Assahola, and 444 days of malaise. The US has supported this Mubarak guy since Reagen, and we supported his predecessor Sadat right up until the islamists killed him. No, he isn’t Prince Charming. He’s a despot. That’s the choice you get in the Turd World, especially in islamic piss bucket cuntries like Egypt: you can have a despotic strongman, or you can have a despotic religious strongman. The more of this situation I see on TV, the less I am inclined to believe that peace, freedom, equality, financial reform, capitalism, or any kind of populist movement for positive opportunity has anything to do with it any more. This is an attempted takeover by the forces of darkness. And they will win.
UPDATE: Is it already a done deal? Reports of soldiers and police joining in with the protesters.
But there was little sign that Egypt was listening. Riot police fired endless of salvos of tear gas and rubber bullet fire over the course of the day. Plainclothes secret policemen dragged protesters out of the crowd, kicking and beating them as they were loaded into lorries and driven away.
Yet no matter how hard they tried, the crowds kept coming.
In one of many astonishing scenes on the streets, thousands of anti-government protesters wielding rocks, glass and sticks chased hundreds of riot police away from the main square in downtown Cairo. Several of the policemen stripped off their uniforms and badges and joined the demonstrators.
When the guys with guns turn against their own junta, it’s over. Rumors of talks of “transitional government”.
Arabic media sources on Friday night reported that Egyptian authorities are holding talks to establish a “transitional government,” following a series of protests against President Hosni Mubarak’s regime.
Meanwhile, the head of the Egyptian opposition Wafd party said Egypt needs a period of transitional rule, new parliamentary elections and amendments to the constitution limiting presidential terms, Reuters reported.
Has Mubarak already fled the country?
3 private jets leave Cairo airport under heavy security; Egypt parliament speaker to make major announcement - NBC
It could be some rich folks running away at the last minute. Doesn’t have to be the Boss Man.
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One thing I learned while working retail was to always rotate your stock! Egyptian protesters not stopped by out of code US made teargas.
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Islamists, leftists and trade unionists gathered in central Amman Friday for the latest protest to demand political change and wider freedoms.
A crowd of at least 3,000 chanted: “We want change.”
Banners and chants showed a wider range of grievances than the high food prices that fueled earlier protests, and included demands for free elections, the dismissal of Prime Minister Samir Rifai’s government and a representative parliament.
The protest after Friday prayers was organized by the Islamic Action Front, the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood which is the only effective opposition and biggest party, but included members of leftist parties and trade unions.
Jordan’s protests, as in several Arab countries, have been inspired by the uprising that overthrew the Tunisian president.
“After Tunisia, Arab nations have found their way toward the path of political freedom and dignity,” said Zaki Bani Rusheid, a leading Islamist politician.
Demonstrations have taken place across Jordan calling for reversal of free-market reforms which many blame for a widening gap between rich and poor.
Islamists marched through central Tunis on Friday, demanding religious freedom, while police fired teargas at anti-government protesters who have camped out around the prime minister’s office.
The march by about 200 people was the first significant Islamist protest since the fall of president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, who ran a strictly secular state in which Islamists were often jailed or forced into exile.
Some carried placards reading: ”We want freedom for the hijab, the niqab and the beard.”
Under Ben Ali’s rule, women who covered their hair by wearing the hijab, in the Muslim tradition, were denied jobs or education. Men with long beards were stopped by police.
Tunisia’s uprising has electrified Arabs across the Middle East and North Africa, where many countries share the complaints of poor living standards and authoritarian rule.
Inspired by Tunisia’s example, tens of thousands of Egyptians have taken to the streets to demand an end to President Hosni Mubarak’s 30-year rule.
Tunisians protested outside the Egyptian embassy in Tunis, calling for the overthrow of Mubarak and other Arab leaders.
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Protests have also spread to Yemen, where thousands took to the streets to demand a change of government.
Tens of thousands of Egyptians streamed out of mosques after Friday prayers and took to the streets to demand the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak after 30 years in power. They clashed with thousands of riot police deployed to crush the protest. Reports from on the ground depict ongoing fierce running battles between police and protestors in Cairo, Alexandria, and other cities.
At the upscale Mohandiseen district, at least 10,000 of people were marching toward the city center chanting “down, down with Mubarak.” The crowd later swelled to about 20,000 as they made their way through residential areas. Residents looking on from apartment block windows waved at them and whistled in support. Others waved the red, white and black Egyptian flags.
At Ramsis square in the heart of the city, thousands of protesters clashed with police as they left the al-Nur mosque after prayers. Police used tear gas and rubber bullets and some of the tear gas was fired inside the mosque where women were taking refuge.
Mubarak is Washington’s closest Arab ally, but Washington has signaled that he no longer enjoys its full backing, publicly counseling him to introduce reform and refrain from using violence against the protesters. He has not been seen publicly or heard from since the protests began Tuesday.
Friday’s demonstrations were energized by the return of Nobel Peace laureate ElBaradei on Thursday night, when he said he was ready to lead the opposition toward a regime change. They also got a boost from the endorsement of the country’s biggest opposition group, the Islamic fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood.
Seriously, I’m wondering. Granted that the guy in Tunisia was quite the little dictator, and he had to go. But in these other countries ... it seems the Muslim Brotherhood is behind all of this. Let’s not loose sight of an unpretty truth: the people in these countries are among the least educated in the whole world. The mullahs say “jump”, the fellahs say “how high?”. Islam has far more power of these people than even the Roman Catholic Church had over colonial Ireland.
So I’d really like to be able to figure out whether this is an honest move towards democracy and freedom across the whole region, or just an excuse seized by the extremists to try and grab power for themselves. Demanding the hijab and the beard is not calling for freedom. It’s calling for the power to oppress others. It’s a demand to bring in the Taliban under some other name.
So naturally, Oasshole has changed the USA’s stance on Egypt.
Egypt is one of the most important U.S. allies in the Arab world but as the Mideast country sees the biggest anti-government protests in years, inspired by the popular revolt in Tunisia, the public support of the U.S. has become less assured.
In an interview broadcast live on YouTube on Thursday, Obama said that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has been “an ally of ours on a lot of critical issues.”
But Obama added: “I’ve always said to him that making sure that they’re moving forward on reform, political reform and economic reform, is absolutely critical to the long-term well-being of Egypt.”
Maybe that’s a good thing? I seem to recall that we’ve been feeding Egypt billions over the years, yet they seem to help out the PLO whenever they feel like it, then they turn around and collapse some tunnels under the Gaza border. Dissidents and rabble rousers get jailed, but so do bloggers and journalists. And Christians there continue to get murdered. It’s a mess.
I’m waiting to see if Libya explodes with protests. And Algeria as well. Hey, maybe they’ll all revolt and then become one giant country, united under the green banner.
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Less Than Half The Story
Oh noes, the poor muzzies! The terrible gun/bible clinging rurals don’t trust them, and object to them starting a private cemetery in their backyard!
The cemetery lies beneath a grove of maples on a hill overlooking the farm. On a crisp November day in 2009, it received its first guest _ a 28-year old stonemason killed in a car accident two days earlier.
Somberly, his Sufi Muslim brethren carried his coffin up the hill, their colorful turbans and baggy tunics a striking contrast to the rolling hills all around. Beneath a vibrant green headstone _ the color of the Osmanli Naksibendi Hakkani order, which runs a 50-acre farm and mosque here _ the shrouded body of Amir Celoski was lowered into the ground. Mourners bowed their heads and prayed: May he rest in peace.
But that was not to be.
Instead of peace, Celoski’s burial ignited a war _ one that would erupt nine months later, hurling Sidney into the national spotlight, bitterly dividing some residents while transforming others who say their lives and their town will never be the same.
It all began quietly enough at a sparsely attended meeting of the Board of Supervisors last summer, after a second burial in the cemetery. At the height of a national debate about a mosque near ground zero, town leaders voted unanimously to investigate the Sufi graves on Wheat Hill Road.
The Sufis had followed proper procedures and received burial permits. But that didn’t deter town Supervisor Robert McCarthy from calling the graves illegal and suggesting the bodies might have to be disinterred.
“You can’t just bury Grandma in the backyard under the picnic table,” he said.
This is not the kind of article I expected to read in Townhall. It goes on and on and on about how the little bunch of Sufis have their farm and their beautiful mosque made from a barn and try to live in peace, but the locals don’t trust them or like them. It’s a very one sided piece. That’s a shame. I would rewrite it so that it examines the knee-jerk PC onslaught that immediately erupts whenever anyone speaks or even holds an opinion contrary to pisslam. That is at best an unspoken undercurrent in this essay. No, this McCarthy is righteously damned, thank you; hey, even the local Jews are on the side of the muslims. Right.
On the other hand, if I absolutely had to have a muslim enclave move in next door, I’d prefer it to be a group of Sufis. We’ve all heard of Sunni, we’ve all heard of Shiite. Few of us have heard of Sufi, which is a mystical, almost gnostic branch of the belief system. We know of them by their alternate name, whirling dervishes. But we don’t know beans about them.
Sidney NY is near the southern end of the state’s Big Empty, the heavily forested and thinly populated region that takes up more than a third of the state. Sidney is just 45 minutes north of Hancock, another little NY town down along the Delaware River that has it’s own muslim problem. They’ve got “Islamberg” to deal with, a retreat where many believe that Al Fuqra is training terrorists. Or jihadis. Something. But a something that requires constant weapons training and educes a rather belligerent attitude in it’s members when they have to go into the little village. Are the folks in Sidney concerned that a similar thing is going to grow in their neighborhood? The article, naturally, doesn’t say. It doesn’t even mention Hancock. Nope, it’s all kumbayah, why-can’t-we-all-just-get-along, white-hicks-are-all-racist-haters. All this because of two burials? I think there is a HUGE part of the story missing.
Another thing not mentioned is the local water. Say what? I’m kidding a bit on that, but that general area of central NY has been the birth land of any number of religious experiments over the years, and the whole central western part of the state shares the same 2 drainage basins. This is where the Mormons originated. And the Adventists. And the Millerites. The area that gave spurs to the early Methodists and Baptists. This is where the Second Great Awakening (religious revival) came from if you know your history. This is also where early experiments in communal free love hippie living took place, 170 years ago. Woman’s Suffrage and abolitionists too. And if you draw the map just a bit bigger, it’s also pretty much the birthplace of Socialism in America, with the company towns over in Binghamton and Endicott, and the whole “I owe my soul to the company store” thing in the coal mines just to the south west in Pennsylvania. Maybe there is something in the water. Maybe there are just too damn many trees. People get new ideas up there, some good, some not so good.
Not at all the kind of article I expected to see in a Conservative newsblog like Townhall. What gives?
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Not that very many people ever read this far down, but this blog was the creation of Allan Kelly and his friend Vilmar. Vilmar moved on to his own blog some time ago, and Allan ran this place alone until his sudden and unexpected death partway through 2006. We all miss him. A lot. Even though he is gone this site will always still be more than a little bit his. We who are left to carry on the BMEWS tradition owe him a great debt of gratitude, and we hope to be able to pay that back by following his last advice to us all:
It's been a long strange trip without you Skipper, but thanks for pointing us in the right direction and giving us a swift kick in the behind to get us going. Keep lookin' down on us, will ya? Thanks.
- Keep a firm grasp of Right and Wrong
- Stay involved with government on every level and don't let those bastards get away with a thing
- Use every legal means to defend yourself in the event of real internal trouble, and, most importantly:
- Keep talking to each other, whether here or elsewhere
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Oh, and here's some kind of visitor flag counter thingy. Hey, all the cool blogs have one, so I should too. The Visitors Online thingy up at the top doesn't count anything, but it looks neat. It had better, since I paid actual money for it.
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