Death by a thousand cuts. Am I the only one who longs for the days when Islam wasn't shoved down my throat everyday. Everyday, it's always something.
This is the latest harassment is from, shocka, Dearbornistan. Muslim woman cites gym after interrupted prayer
This illuminating graphic accompanies the editorial "Tale Of Fibbing Imams" at Investor's Business Daily (thanks to Paul Sperry).
Debra Burlingame has written on airline security topics ever since her brother, American Airlines Capt. Charles Burlingame, died in the 9/11 attack at the hands of Islamist terrorists. Today she takes on the topic of the "flying imams" of Minneapolis in the pages of the Wall Street Journal:
Given that Islamic terrorists continue their obsession with turning airplanes into weapons of mass destruction, it is nothing short of obscene that these six religious leaders--fresh from attending a conference of the North American Imams Federation, featuring discussions on "Imams and Politics" and "Imams and the Media"--chose to turn that airport into a stage and that airplane into a prop in the service of their need for grievance theater. The reality is, these passengers endured a frightening 3 1/2-hour ordeal, which included a front-to-back sweep of the aircraft with a bomb-sniffing dog, in order to advance the provocative agenda of these imams in, of all the inappropriate places after 9/11, U.S. airports."Allahu Akbar" was just the opening act. After boarding, they did not take their assigned seats but dispersed to seats in the first row of first class, in the midcabin exit rows and in the rear--the exact configuration of the 9/11 execution teams. The head of the group, seated closest to the cockpit, and two others asked for a seatbelt extension, kept on board for obese people. A heavy metal buckle at the end of a long strap, it can easily be used as a lethal weapon. The three men rolled them up and placed them on the floor under their seats. And lest this entire incident be written off as simple cultural ignorance, a frightened Arabic-speaking passenger pulled aside a crew member and translated the imams' suspicious conversations, which included angry denunciations of Americans, furious grumblings about U.S. foreign policy, Osama Bin Laden and "killing Saddam."
Predictably, these imams and their attorneys now suggest that another passenger who penned a frantic note of warning and slipped it to a flight attendant was somehow a hysterical Islamophobe. Let us remember that but for their performance at the gate this passenger might never have noticed these men or their behavior on board, much less have the slightest clue as to their religion or political passions. Of course, that was the point of the shouting. According to the police report, yet another alarmed passenger who frequently travels to the Middle East described a conversation with one of the imams. The 31-year-old Egyptian expressed fundamentalist Muslim views, and stated the he would go to whatever measures necessary to obey all the tenets set out in the Koran.
Make sure to read the entire column; it's well worth your time. Also, Audrey Hudson continues her work on the story at the Washington Times today, noting that three separate investigations concluded that US Air acted appropriately when they removed the activists from the flight: Posted by Captain Ed at 07:02 AM | Comments (27) | TrackBack (3)
However, CAIR - and the Muslim terrorists they support - are determined to prey on our susceptibility to Western "guilt", "political correctness", and fears of being "culturally insensitive" in order to probe our security measures and to compel us to weaken our defenses."
Seatbelt extensions can also be used to connect the left-aisle-seat’s seatbelt to the right-aisle-seat’s seatbelt to create fence(s)/hurdle(s) that keep passengers at the back from charging the front of the plane as quickly. Just another piece of the Islamic terrorist's handbook that airlines warn their employees about.
Jewicidal Democrats will have to answer to their lansman. They paid little heed, those leftarded, self important, enlightened Jews. Crazier still is the majority of American Jews vote Dhimmicratic. They will answer to their children. Yidwithlid has the whole disgusting story here; WND Exclusive FROM WND'S JERUSALEM BUREAU Permalink | Comments (2)
I sat through the press conference of the Iraq Study Group and watched a bunch of old boys congratulate themselves on getting on so well and coming to consensus agreement. On what?
Beats me. There is nothing there. "Where's the beef?" But seriously....
Winning the war is not in the document. Military option/strategy is not in the document. I can't spend a lot of time on the something so unsubstantive.
Bill Kristol just said, the report is "not a serious document" I couldn't agree more.
Look we are in this war in Iraq and we've got to win. It's just that simple. Whether the leftards choose to acknowledge the tough reality that our lives depend on it. You can avoid evil, but you can't avoid the consequences of avoiding evil.
We need a plan for winning. This was not it. Not at all. It was a jerk off.
UPDATE: Apparently I am not alone in my thinking. Thanks to Larwyn;
Dr Sanity point out the insanity: OH YES! LET'S ENGAGE IRAN & SYRIACurt over at Flopping Aces doesn't like it either.
STACLU has a blog round up here.
NZ,the great bear, converted the ISG report into a series of HTML pages so that bloggers can comment on particular statements / sections of the report and send their readers directly to the text in question (rather than just referencing the whole PDF version published by the ISG itself). The html version of the report is here. Great stuff, thanks NZ.
UPDATE: Best analysis I found anywhere is at Vital Perspective here. They've made the full text of the ISG press conference available by clicking here. As you'll read in the transcript, Barbara Slavin from USA Today addressed some of the issues every rational, freedom loving person is concerned here regardingengaging Iran and Syria.
Gets worse. They actually endorse Palestinian right of return. Right of return? A ruse to eliminate the Jewish state.
The ISG has endorsed the Palestinian so-called 'right of return' by including it as an issue to be discussed as part of an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement. This is what they wrote:
Concerning the Palestinian issue, elements of that negotiated peace should include:
- Adherence to UN Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338 and to the principle of land for peace, which are the only bases for achieving peace.
- Strong support for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Authority to take the lead in preparing the way for negotiations with Israel.
- A major effort to move from the current hostilities by consolidating the cease-fire reached between the Palestinians and the Israelis in November 2006.
- Support for a Palestinian national unity government.
- Sustainable negotiations leading to a final peace settlement along the lines of President Bush’s two-state solution, which would address the key final status issues of borders, settlements, Jerusalem, the right of return, and the end of conflict.
Jamie Glazov interviews Gregory M. Davis, author of the excellent Religion of Peace? at FrontPage:
Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Gregory Davis, the managing director of Quixotic Media and producer of the feature documentary Islam: What the West Needs to Know. He received his Ph.D. in political science from Stanford University. He is the author of the new book Religion of Peace? Islam's War Against the World.Continue reading "Religion of Peace?"FP: Gregory Davis, welcome to Frontpage Interview.
Davis: Thanks for having me.
FP: What motivated you to write this book?
Davis: The book is a direct result of the documentary and seeks to expand on the latter's material. My old friend, Bryan Daly, and I had the opportunity to make a small movie and we wanted to tackle something that no one else had, something of social import that was poorly understood. The facile way in which politicians, commentators, and academics dismiss Islam as a 'religion of peace' indicated to us that there was more that needed to be said on the topic. The Muslim terrorists claim to be doing the will of Allah, while Western leaders insist that Islam is peaceful. The obvious question was: who is right? There is no a priori justification to assume that peaceful Muslims represent authentic Islam while violent Muslims do not.
FP: How would you interpret the West's illusions about Islam?
Davis: The West is guilty of the ages-old error of projection, of imposing its own ideas, beliefs, and aspirations onto the other guy. When Westerners approach Islam, they imagine that it is a religion like others that they are familiar with - like, say, Christianity. They see Islam as basically another item on the religious menu available in an integrated world. What they fail to understand, however, is that Islam is decidedly outside the Western tradition and therefore Western assumptions are inapt when assessing it.
In Islam: What the West Needs to Know, we talk with Robert Spencer, Walid Shoebat, Bat Ye'or, Serge Trifkovic, and Abdullah Al-Araby, who all affirm that the most important aspect of Islam not understood in the West is that Islam is less a personal faith than a social and political plan for organizing humanity - really, a system of government.
It was only in the West that religious power developed in parallel with secular power but distinct from it thanks largely to the doctrinal distinction in Christianity between giving 'to Caesar what is Caesar's and to God's what is God's.' While religious and secular power have certainly commingled at times in the West, it is fully possible for the two to coexist separately. But in Islam, there has never been a distinction between religion and political power; the two are inseparably united. An Islamic society is invariably a theocracy ruled by Sharia (Islamic) law, which is understood as God's prescribed legal code for all mankind, based on the commandments of the Koran and the precedents set by Muhammad.
There can be no question of the type of government in Islam because Islam is a government, which Allah through Muhammad has ordained to comprehend the entire earth. Once the political nature of Islam and its universal pretensions are grasped, it is not hard to see why Muslims and Muslim societies are so hostile toward the rest of the world.
The Truth Laid Bear has the Iraq Study Group document in linkable form. The sections dealing with Israel are especially troubling, but not surprising given Baker’s history. All these recommendations stem from a basis of complete fantasy, in which Israel’s Arab neighbors are genuinely interested in peace and all we have to do to get it is ask them the right way.
It proposes that Israel return the Golan Heights to Syria, and pull back to its 1967 borders...because that principle worked so well in Gaza. link: 306 comments |
I know I predicted that the Golan Heights would be in the shell game, but I didn't really expect the anti-semites of the Iraq Surrender Group to put it in play.
Report: Hamas met delegation of Democrats
Hamas smuggled $66 million in 8 months (Hamas in talks with Democratic Party at a secret location)
Treasury Targets Hizballah Fundraising Network - Argentina,<br> Brazil, and Paraguay