Published by admin on 14 Feb 2009
Note: To watch the movie Fitna, click here.
I don’t agree with everything he says, but Pat Condell presents a very clear picture of the problem of dhimmitude in Europe.
Video on next page…click here!
Published by Jack Everest on 22 Jan 2009
A Dutch court yesterday overruled a prior court decision and argued that Geert Wilders should be prosecuted for “inciting hatred and discrimination” and also “for insulting Muslim worshipers because of comparisons between Islam and Nazism” in his film Fitna (click here to see the video posting of Fitna).
Excerpt from the WSJ Online today (emphasis added)…
There are of course limits to free speech, such as calls for violence. But one doesn’t need to agree with Mr. Wilders to acknowledge that he hasn’t crossed that line. Some Muslims say they are outraged by his statements. But if freedom of speech means anything, it means the freedom of controversial speech. Consensus views need no protection.
This is exactly what Dutch prosecutors said (previously) in June when they rejected the complaints against Mr. Wilders. “That comments are hurtful and offensive for a large number of Muslims does not mean that they are punishable,” the prosecutors said in a statement. “Freedom of expression fulfills an essential role in public debate in a democratic society. That means that offensive comments can be made in a political debate.”
We will follow this new development closely. Good luck, Geert!
Published by Jack Everest on 17 Dec 2008
Battle lines are being drawn (luckily, Fitna is still available for online viewing). Excerpt from AFP…
The EU parliament prevented the showing on Wednesday of an anti-Islamic film made by far-right Dutch MP Geert Wilders, bringing cries of censorship from the British eurodeputy who organised the screening.
“The banning of this film is a direct attack on free speech,” said British MEP Gerard Batten, who had organised the event, though officials pointed out that parliamentary leaders had banned the film from being shown in their Strasbourg building back in March.
“A parliament that constantly talks of freedom, democracy and tolerance has shown once again that these are empty words when it does not agree with what is being said,” added Batten, a member of the eurosceptic UK Independence Party (UKIP).
The 17-minute film called “Fitna,” which in Arabic means war, or division, in the heart of Islam, has been called “offensively anti-Islamic” by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.
Published by Jack Everest on 15 Dec 2008
We haven’t posted much lately not because there is a paucity of news but because we simply don’t know quite what to make of current events. Though the news is chock-a-block with stories of the Office of the President Elect, the financial crisis, and even the Blagojevich scandal…as far as we can tell, no single unequivocal sign as to the general direction of the state of the U.S. and the world has yet to emerge.
On a positive note, we gain some comfort from knowing that others are also perplexed as to the general pattern of world events. In that vein, an article published today by Spengler seems well worth chewing on. Here is an excerpt and link to the article in today’s Asia Times…
Financial crises, like epidemics, kill the unhealthy first. The present crisis is painful for most of the world but deadly for many Muslim countries, and especially so for the most populous ones. Policy makers have not begun to assess the damage.
The diplomatic strategy of the industrial nations now resembles a James Clavell potboiler, in which an earthquake interrupts a hopelessly immured plot. Moderate Islam was the El Dorado of the diplomatic consensus. It might have been the case that Pakistan could be tethered to Western interests, or that Iran could be engaged peacefully, or that Turkey would incubate a moderate form of Islam. I considered all of this delusional, but the truth is that we shall never know. The financial crisis will sort them out first.
As I commented in the late autumn, the world is not flat, but flattened (see Asia Times Online, October 28, 2008), leaving the economies of the largest Muslim countries in ruins. It is hard to forecast the political fallout, for when each available choice leads to a failed state, it is a matter of indifference which one you adopt. As state finances crumble, states will become less important, and freebooters will seize the stage. Think of the Mumbai terrorists as a political cognate of the Somali pirates, and the character of a Middle East made up of failed states comes into focus.
Published by admin on 06 Aug 2008
As a candidate, Obama is deficient in many areas (he’s an empty suit, at best, and an anti-American hardcore leftist, at worst). But the single biggest reason I could never vote for him is this…he is a freaking huge “know-it-all” and he will drive us crazy if elected.
Watch this video and see if you don’t agree!
Source: PHFORAMERICA.com
Published by Jack Everest on 23 Jun 2008
Last weekend, Ian McEwan, the award-winning British author of Atonement, found himself in hot water because of an interview in the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera in which he defended his friend Martin Amis. Amis, you may recall, is himself in hot water for his criticism of militant islam in his essay “The Age of Horrorism” and elsewhere (he was accused last year of being Islamophobic after he said that “the Muslim community will have to suffer until it gets its house in order”).
Here’s what McEwan had to say (in part)…
“As soon as a writer expresses an opinion against Islamism, immediately someone on the left leaps to his feet and claims that because the majority of Muslims are dark-skinned, he who criticises it is racist,” he said in an interview in “Corriere della Sera.”
“This is logically absurd and morally unacceptable. Martin is not a racist. And I myself despise Islamism, because it wants to create a society that I detest, based on religious belief, on a text, on lack of freedom for women, intolerance towards homosexuality and so on – we know it well.”
Source: Telegraph UK
After reading McEwen’s defense and the criticism leveled at Amis and him by Inayat Bunglawala, a spokesman for the Muslim Council of Britain, I decided to dig up Amis’ essay and see for myself if he is guilty as accused (by Bunglawala) of “…advocating that the Muslim community be made to suffer ‘until it gets its own house in order’.
Actually, I found nothing of the sort (notice the not-so-subtle shift in “voice” between what was actually said and what was restated in the accusation itself — emphasis mine) .
What I did find was a deeply satisfying exposé on “islamism.” I can see why Bunglawala is offended–because Amis pulls back the currently popular veneer so carefully crafted by the defenders of Islamism to reveal what the defenders hoped you wouldn’t discover.
You may not agree with all his points but you will agree (I think) that this essay is powerfully and beautifully presented. IMO, we will all walk away from this article with a much clearer picture of the existential threat of radical islam.
Here is a brief excerpt (link below)…
Suicide-mass murder is more than terrorism: it is horrorism. It is a maximum malevolence.
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And it remains an accurate measure of the Islamists’ contortion: they hold that an act of lethal self-bespatterment, in the interests of an unachievable ’cause’, brings with it the keys to paradise. Sam Harris, in The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason, stresses just how thoroughly and expeditiously the suicide-mass murderer is ‘saved’. Which would you prefer, given belief?‘… martyrdom is the only way that a Muslim can bypass the painful litigation that awaits us all on the Day of Judgment and proceed directly to heaven. Rather than spend centuries mouldering in the earth in anticipation of being resurrected and subsequently interrogated by wrathful angels, the martyr is immediately transported to Allah’s garden…’
Osama bin Laden’s table talk, at Tarnak Farms in Afghanistan, where he trained his operatives before September 2001, must have included many rolling paragraphs on Western vitiation, corruption, perversion, prostitution, and all the rest. And in 1998, as season after season unfolded around the president’s weakness for fellatio, he seemed to have good grounds for his most serious miscalculation: the belief that America was a softer antagonist than the USSR (in whose defeat, incidentally, the ‘Arab Afghans’ played a negligible part). Still, a sympathiser like the famously obtuse ‘American Taliban’ John Walker Lindh, if he’d been there, and if he’d been a little brighter, might have framed the following argument.
Now would be a good time to strike, John would tell Osama, because the West is enfeebled, not just by sex and alcohol, but also by 30 years of multicultural relativism. They’ll think suicide bombing is just an exotic foible, like shame-and-honour killings or female circumcision. Besides, it’s religious, and they’re always slow to question anything that calls itself that. Within days of our opening outrage, the British royals will go on the road for Islam, and stay on it. And you’ll be amazed by how long the word Islamophobia, as an unanswerable indictment, will cover Islamism too. It’ll take them years to come up with the word they want – and Islamismophobia clearly isn’t any good. Even if the Planes Operation succeeds, and thousands die, the Left will yawn and wonder why we waited so long. Strike now. Their ideology will make them reluctant to see what it is they confront. And it will make them slow learners.
Source: “The Age of Horrorism” by Martin Amis (Guardian UK)