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Arabia
Must read: Arabs versus "Inferior" Muslims
Blitz, Aug. 22, 2007
Few Muslims and fewer non-Muslims are aware that Arabs subscribe to a Nazi like, master-race doctrine concerning Arab entitlement wealth, power and law making. Here a liberal Bangladeshi publication, whose editors are jailed on a frequent basis, publishes rare commentary on what is a universal phenomenon.

Almost all the non-Arab Muslim nations consider Arabs as ‘brethren’ or ‘beloved part of Muslim Ummah’. However, let us have a glimpse over the Arab mind. In their mind, those Arabs always hold a kind of superior attitude thus considering most of the poor Muslim nations as ‘Miskins’ [baggers]. Bangladeshis working in the Middle East are well acquainted to such brutal Arab mentality. Arabs consider themselves to be a kind of superior creations of God and treat all other Muslims, especially those from poor nations to be subject of fulfilling their luster and nasty desires. We know about sexual and otherwise exploitation of tinder-aged boys from poor Muslim nations to Arab countries, especially United Arab Emirates, are not only used as ‘Camel Jockeys’ but also are molested and sexually abused by Arab sheikhs as well affluent Arabs for decades.

This is not the only side of the nasty Arab face. Whenever a poor Bangladeshi would go to Arab countries to work in various projects or offices, they are treated like unconditional slaves by their Arab employers and in some cases even worst. Arab men and women in many cases try to sexually abuse and harass the domestic employees, which is a very common phenomenon. There are at least a few hundred cases of Bangladeshi workers [both male and female] who went to Arab houses as domestic employees, and finally they are back home with the horrifying memories of being sexually abused by their masters. In some cases, Bangladeshi females, who worked in Arab houses came back home with HIV virus infection. In addition, most interestingly, in case of any such incidents, Arab employees mostly remain above the law while there are some instances where male employees were charged with rape charges by the Arab women, who failed to ultimately get the poor workers in meeting their sexual urge.
This is a long article with much detail. Read it all.
Posted by: McZoid || 08/28/2007 00:56 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  great graphic - Creamed Corn???
Posted by: Frank G || 08/28/2007 10:35 Comments || Top||

#2  This was the beginning of horror for the young employee as he was subsequently forced to provide similar ‘services’ to most of the wives of the Saudi businessman.

I don't know...sounds like a pretty good deal to me...
Posted by: gromky || 08/28/2007 13:17 Comments || Top||

#3  I don't know...sounds like a pretty good deal to me...

A lot of Arab women look like sumotoris.
Posted by: JFM || 08/28/2007 14:03 Comments || Top||

#4  So how is it that a muslim household can have female domestic help, since sharia says a female cannot be alone with a man that she isn't married to?
Posted by: Heriberto Chusing6929 || 08/28/2007 16:16 Comments || Top||

#5  But, do the Arabs in general feel ashamed of what they are doing with the poor workers employed from foreign countries especially those Muslim nations? The reply is, certainly not. Because, the Arabs consider non-Arab Muslims as a kind of inferior creatures. They believe that, by sexually or otherwise abusing these poor Muslims, they commit no crime.

Yet, despite this obvious racism and physical abuse these Muslims still cling to their foul creed. While the Arab misdeeds and crimes are certainly detestable, there still remains the profound stupidity of those who witness and suffer by this evil yet refuse to abandon its primary vehicle namely, Islam itself.

Muslims will be death of themselves with their abject idiocy in holding fast to Islam even while it brings them nothing but misery and slavery. I used to have pity for them but can no longer abide wasting any energy on those who fall victim by their own hand even as they perpetuate the massive crime against humanity known as Islam.
Posted by: Zenster || 08/28/2007 17:50 Comments || Top||

#6  Zenster,
I am against Islam, but Muslim identity is held to be acquired at birth, and the penalty for abandonment of same is: death. Hence, there are millions of fake Muslims, as did Jews fake that status in Sultan occupied Spain. Belief in the Muslim tyrannies isn't governed by conviction; it is based on inherent truth. For captive peoples the choice is: believe it or else. If they can't believe Koran garbage, then they pretend that they do. Over 200,000 Persian immigrants to America, have abandoned the cult. The President's democraticization initiative has resulted in legitimation of Islamic coercion. In fact, on Sept 7, Morocco is expected to be yet another pivotal state handed over to the Islamofascists in a pseudo democratic process. GWB calls it promotion of "freedom"; I call it accession to tyranny. As I write, the Bush administration is about to participate in a conference managed with the ISNA. I suspect that the AG resigned because of the forced legitimation of an unindicted co-conspirator. It is Orwellian to treat ISNA/CAIR as both criminals and friends. That is f@#$ed up!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Blackbeard Elmomosh9893 || 08/28/2007 18:30 Comments || Top||

#7  For captive peoples the choice is: believe it or else.

There is a third choice. Start killing the clerical class. These cowards would never put themselves in harm's way and the indoctrination process grinds to a halt without them. Wretchard's succint observations about Palestinian leadership apply to Islam in general:
The Israeli strike against the terrorist top tier exploits the weakness inherent in terrorist organizations which are unstable alliances based on a delicate balance of internal intimidation. None of them, the Palestinian Authority included, are either transparent or accountable. They are exceptionally vulnerable to changes in their leadership. They can stand the loss of any number of teenage fighters or youthful suicide bombers without much damage but are rocked -- as Yassin's death illustrates -- by death at the top.

GWB calls it promotion of "freedom"; I call it accession to tyranny.

And you are absolutely right. It was a blunder of monumental proportions to have allowed Afghanistan and Iraq to institutionalize shari'a law in their respective constitutions. One single overriding factor in dealing with all Islamic tyrannies needs to be the abolition of shari'a and its theocratic governance. We were total idiots to permit such vile filth to madquerade as good government.

PS: Welcome to Rantburg, BE9893!
Posted by: Zenster || 08/28/2007 18:46 Comments || Top||

#8  cr0n!
Posted by: Thomas Woof || 08/28/2007 18:53 Comments || Top||

#9  Guys I've been telling you this about Arab culture here for years.
Posted by: OldSpook || 08/28/2007 19:22 Comments || Top||

#10  In short, unless you are an Arab, you will never fully be a moslem. Wow, what a cult.
Posted by: newc || 08/28/2007 19:58 Comments || Top||

#11  You people are inspiring. Unfortunately, I have had hour long arguments with non-Muslim believers in the common-faith-of-Abraham crap, without shaking a patently obvious falsehood. The problem is: media-academic indoctrination. I recall holding strong admiration for Muslims for years, after visiting Turkey in the seventies. I ignored overwhelming evidence that the Turkish government was handing out life sentences to low end hash peddlers, while allowing elites to earn hundreds of millions from the Euro-drug trade. My aversion to Islam didn't start until the Iran hostage crisis of 1978. Saudi lobbyists successfully detached Sunnism from Shiite atrocities, and when Khomeini released the US diplomatic hostages, the day after the inaugeration of President Reagan, few paid attention to Islam until 9-11. Now, after decades of multi-cult propaganda and several military interventions on behalf of Muslims, benign Islam myths are almost unshakeable. They have to be shaken, and we have to stop every aspect of piecemeal Shariazation cum Islamization. Once they have the numbers to determine elections in hitherto democratic countries, the Koranimal juggernaut will enter its final stage.
Posted by: McZoid || 08/28/2007 20:18 Comments || Top||

#12  If you think they treat each other differently, you're wrong.
Posted by: gromgoru || 08/28/2007 21:21 Comments || Top||

#13  Guys I've been telling you this about Arab culture here for years.

Fear not, OldSpook, some of us have been listening.

An Ethiopian Christian recently opened a mini-mart in my neighborhood. I dropped by and talked with him for a while. He was amazed to hear an American have knowledge of the Dardur atrocities. He was even more astonished to learn about taqiyya and kitman. I cheerfully filled him in on the details and shook up his worldview just a little.
Posted by: Zenster || 08/28/2007 21:48 Comments || Top||

#14  Doh! Darfur.
Posted by: Zenster || 08/28/2007 21:48 Comments || Top||

#15  Zenster, a while back, I listented as you and Steve White debate how to handle Islam. I had come to the same conclusion that we target Muslim Clergy that advocate violent Jihad, as opposed to "spiritual" Jihad.
Posted by: Ptah || 08/28/2007 21:52 Comments || Top||

#16  I had come to the same conclusion that we target Muslim Clergy that advocate violent Jihad, as opposed to "spiritual" Jihad.

By that definition we should then be targeting all Muslim clergy. Ptah, I'm pretty confident you're already aware of this but just in case anyone else has any doubts; There is no such thing as "spiritual jihad". From the sagacious Robert Spencer's Jihad Watch web site:
“Kitman” is close to “taqiyya,” but rather than outright dissimulation, it consists in telling only a part of the truth, with “mental reservation” justifying the omission of the rest. One example may suffice. When a Muslim maintains that “jihad” really means “a spiritual struggle,” and fails to add that this definition is a recent one in Islam (little more than a century old), he misleads by holding back, and is practicing “kitman.”
EMPHASIS ADDED

Framing jihad as anything but a violent quest to force all earth's people to submit to Islam is merely Islamist window dressing. There is only one type of jihad and its pure form has manifested repeatedly in New York, Bali, Madrid, Bali, Beslan, London and all around the world.

This is why I no longer have the least shred of respect or pity for Islam. It is flawed all the way down to its core and must be catastrophically dismantled at the very first opportunity. There is nothing worth salvaging from it and neither will Islam ever reform itself into anything of use to mankind. Islam remains nothing but a constant crime against humanity and not for one instant should civilized societies tolerate it any further.
Posted by: Zenster || 08/28/2007 22:32 Comments || Top||

#17  By that definition we should then be targeting all Muslim clergy

once again, we part company, Zenster. I have no issue with wetworks against those that actively work against us. To extend that to all? Not today
Posted by: Frank G || 08/28/2007 22:41 Comments || Top||

#18  once again, we part company, Zenster. I have no issue with wetworks against those that actively work against us. To extend that to all?

Where are the multitudes of imams who vociferously protest how jihad has been perverted by the Islamists? They are so few in number at to be meaningless. Islamic clerics know damn well that jihad is violent and they obviously have no big problem with it. Let me know when these peaceful souls start martyring themselves by going to the battlefronts in order to convince their jihadist co-religionists of their erroneous ways. It isn't happening and that is direct evidence of how the bulk of Islamic scholars or clergy all tacitly accept violent jihad as the one true jihad.

Frank, you know darn well I advocate starting at the very top. You've seen the following list enough times whereby it should be common knowledge to you. I firmly believe that wiping out a few tiers of Islam's top ranks could deflate jihad's tires for long enough so that we could make some real progress. The list:

1. Ayman al-Zawahiri
2. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
3. Ayatolla Kahmeini
4. Mullah Muhammad Omar
5. Abu Bakar Ba'asyir (Bashir)
6. Moqtada Sadr,
7. Abu Hamza al-Masri,
8. Mullah Krekar (AKA: Abu Sayyid Qutb),
9. Khaled Meshaal
10. Sheikh Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
11. Ismail Haniya
12. Mohammed Abbas
13. Yusuf al-Qaradawi
14. Tariq Ramadan
15. Sheikh Taj al-Din al-Hilali
16. imam Omar Bakri Mohammed
17. imam Abdel-Samie Mahmoud Ibrahim Moussa
18. imam Sheikh SyeSyed Mubarik Ali Gilani
19. Sheikh Abdullah al-Faisal
20. Sheik Muhammad Sayyid Tantawi
21. Dr. Mahmoud al-Zahar
22. Prince Sultan Ibn Abd al-Aziz
23. Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz
24. Prince Nayef bin Abdulaziz

Only one person on this list has been replaced and Laban died of cancer instead of the bullet he so dearly deserved for singlehandedly stirring up the cartoonifada.
Posted by: Zenster || 08/28/2007 22:54 Comments || Top||

#19  I stand by my statement. Your list is not contrary to that: "I have no issue with wetworks against those that actively work against us. To extend that to all? Not today"
regardless, I'll let you have the last word, I'm going to bed to finish reading a book (and big F*ck you, Pat Schroeder, you ignorant lib skank)
Posted by: Frank G || 08/28/2007 23:11 Comments || Top||

#20  Not a problem, Frank. As you can also see, in my post I said, "By that definition we should then be targeting all Muslim clergy." I still maintain that we are far more in agreement than either of us might like to admit.
Posted by: Zenster || 08/28/2007 23:29 Comments || Top||

#21  Personally, I think the President should go on TV and make this speech.

"To all Muslim clergy: If you preach violent Jihad, we are going to put a warhead on your fucking forehead. No matter where you live or preach, we can drop a bomb on it. And to all those who don't preach violent Jihad, I recommend staying at least 300 yards from the ones who do."
Posted by: Mike N. || 08/28/2007 23:59 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Ralph Peters interviews Gen. Ray Odierno
Posted by: ryuge || 08/28/2007 08:24 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Iraqi Insurgency


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
If only Nasrallah would restore Lebanon to its people!
Tariq Alhomayed
Beirut - According to a report published in our newspaper a couple of days ago, Hezbollah's Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah has moved out of his rented home to an undisclosed location in preparation for the rebuilding project slated for the Dahiya neighborhood destroyed by Israel's attack on Lebanon during last summer's thirty-four day war. The story of the Dahiya quarter, or rather the "security compound", is much greater then that of a mere "leased home", and is more complex in its composition for it to be labeled as just a "residential neighborhood", for it is a sealed security area limited to Hezbollah, a story the people of Lebanon know only too well.

But before celebrating the details of extensive renovation project, we wish Nasrallah would also restore the rest of Lebanon to its people. What is meant here is that Lebanon, the nation, would serve the agenda of the Lebanese citizen and not that of Iran or Syria. The reconstruction of Lebanon will happen if Nasrallah chooses the unity of Lebanon, taking into account the composition of the country, which can only survive on its pluralism and the granting of others their space. Lebanon is an entangled country and the best solution for its dilemma would be not to manipulate it.

Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 08/28/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Here's an idea, Tariq. Why don't you kill the prick?
Posted by: tu3031 || 08/28/2007 11:00 Comments || Top||

#2  Yup, restore Nasrallah to room temperature and all will be well.
Posted by: Zenster || 08/28/2007 22:38 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
View from America: CNN's false symmetry
By JONATHAN TOBIN
Critics of religion like to claim that the source of most of the world's ills can be traced to believers who wage wars in the name of their distorted, fanatic faiths. Indeed, in the past year this thesis has led to a spate of new books advocating atheism and deriding religion.

Needless to say, critics of this trend have pointed out that the vast majority of the deaths incurred by conflicts in history's bloodiest century - the 20th - were caused by fanatical non-believers in traditional faiths in the name of their Communist, Maoist and Nazi faiths.

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Posted by: Fred || 08/28/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  See LUCIANNE > AMANPOUR'S APOLOGIA.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 08/28/2007 4:28 Comments || Top||

#2  amanpour has long been an apologist and spinner for Islam, and antiAmerican at best. Someone called her a "war slut", and that description stuck.
Posted by: Frank G || 08/28/2007 10:40 Comments || Top||

#3  Someone called her a "war slut", and that description stuck.

"Anti-US" should be in there somewhere.
Posted by: mcsegeek1 || 08/28/2007 15:40 Comments || Top||

#4  further investigation reveals that the accurate character definition was by Andrea Peyser of the NYPost. Credit where credit due
Posted by: Frank G || 08/28/2007 15:59 Comments || Top||

#5  Okay, Christiane. Who do you want to put in charge?
Think hard. Your life probably depends on it...
Posted by: tu3031 || 08/28/2007 16:52 Comments || Top||

#6  Thus, by its very structure of equating the three different situations, the series was nothing short of a brazen lie.

Hah! Ain’t it funny how the ole’ “sniveling moral equivalency” editorial is so predictable when it comes to broadcasts like this. And it wouldn’t be complete without the economic boycott thingy at the end.
Posted by: DepotGuy || 08/28/2007 18:44 Comments || Top||

#7  Depot Guy, how are apples and oranges alike?

Well, they're both fruit.

Exactly, but in calling them both fruit, you lose the recognition of the essential differences between apples and oranges that necessitated putting different labels on them in the first place. Go on a long sea voyage having confused apples with oranges will risk you getting rickets, despite the seeming "keen logic" that assured you that Apples were the same as Oranges in the particulars.

This is Ms. Amanpour's deception: asserting an equivalence that requires dropping the essential differences of frequency, intensity, geographic extent, and modes of manifestation. Think of it as a form of money laundering performed on words, in which the essential characteristics of words describing entities are stripped away and metamorphised in an attempt to render the intellectual violence being done upon them untrackable.
Posted by: Ptah || 08/28/2007 22:02 Comments || Top||

#8  the series was nothing short of a brazen lie

From all indications, the media now considers this to be merely telling another side of the story.

Go on a long sea voyage having confused apples with oranges will risk you getting rickets

Ummm ... that would be scury and not "rickets" but your analogy still stands.
Posted by: Zenster || 08/28/2007 23:49 Comments || Top||



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  Gul Elected Turkey's President
Mon 2007-08-27
  12 Taliban fighters killed along Pakistan-Afghanistan border
Sun 2007-08-26
  Two AQI big turbans nabbed
Sat 2007-08-25
  Hyderabad under attack: 3 explosions, 2 defused bombs, 34 dead
Fri 2007-08-24
  Pak supremes: Nawaz can return
Thu 2007-08-23
  Izzat Ibrahim to throw in towel
Wed 2007-08-22
  Aksa Martyrs: We'll no longer honor agreements with Israel
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  Baitullah sez S. Wazoo deal is off, Gov't claims accord is intact
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