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The Day the Nazis Came to Evanston
Storytelling (free audio clip). What is at stake now.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 07/14/2007 10:21 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Britain
Muslim heads stuck firmly in the sand
A former jihadist demands some fresh thinking

In the aftermath of the 7/7 bombings I remember having a passionate discussion with some friends about who was responsible for the attacks. “It’s the work of the security services; I can put my life on it!” one said. “In fact, I think they’ve killed off these guys, planted their stuff on the trains and then just blamed it on the Muslims again.” Then came a timid voice of opposition. “Shaf, I don’t think they’d kill their own people, I mean Tony Blair isn’t that evil. I think Mossad had a hand in it.”

The theories in the Muslim community were wide and varied: some believed the bombings were orchestrated by the Government in order to justify ever more draconian laws. Others believed it was near-impossible for four British-born Muslims to be behind such indiscriminate violence, so the first suicide attacks on British soil must have been the work of other terrorist organisations. Two years on I still hear the same conspiracy theories being clung to by a Muslim community that is living in a comforting state of denial.

Denial by definition is a psychological defence system by which people protect themselves from things that threaten them or make them feel uncomfortable. People do this by refusing to acknowledge the awkward person, thing or event, or by attacking any allegation of the existence of such difficulties.

I spent many years in the British Jihadi Network. While I was a member of that extremist group, I was told to encourage the spread of such theories because they created a useful, murky state of confusion. Propagating the idea that the Government was victimising Muslims by painting them as the bogeymen of the 21st century recruited young men to the radical camp.

This deeply imbedded culture of denial is not a new phenomenon in the Muslim community. Within Muslim families – like any kind of family where its members are expected to live up to demanding traditional standards of behaviour – there has always been a habit of burying their heads in the sand whenever there is something unfavourable happening.

For instance, there was a guy in my year at college who was a known drug dealer. He wasn’t at all subtle in displaying the wealth he had obtained from selling drugs and it was widely known that his family knew what he was up to but had decided it was easier to pretend it wasn’t happening, rather then confront the problems within their household. The same happens in our communities if someone’s sister or daughter is seen at a club or in the company of males, the first response will always be: “No, my daughter isn’t that type of girl! How dare you accuse my daughter and stain her untainted reputation.”

This tendency towards denial is now writ large with the problem of terrorism and Muslims. Let’s remember that the older generation of Muslims emigrated to Britain aspiring to work hard and to better their standard of living. They had always been law-abiding citizens whose loyalties lay with Britain in the main. Muslim involvement in terrorism here in Britain carries as much or even more shame for them as a drug-dealing son or a promiscuous daughter. Muslims do not deal with shame very well or anything that tarnishes their honour or reputation.

Just alcoholics or drug addicts must acknowledge that they have an addiction problem, we Muslims need to accept that there is a problem within our communities. Only when Muslims admit that 9/11 and 7/7 were the work of Muslim terrorists can we move forward to the next juncture: which is recognising the hard truth that Islam does permit the use of violence. Muslims who deny this, preferring instead to mouth easy platitudes about how Islam is nothing but a religion of peace, make the job easier for the radicals who can point to passages in the Koran, set down in black and white, that instruct on the killing of unbelievers.

I disagree with those who say the pressing problem is simply how do we deal with an aberrant, extreme minority who have unleashed a reign of terror on Britain – rather, I believe the heart of the matter is Islam itself and how its teachings are interpreted. If we isolate the problem to that of the extreme fringe, then we are merely skimming the surface.

What we Muslims need to do is go back to our books: we need to debate the teachings that are used to radicalise young men and legitimise the killing of innocent people. We need to discuss and refashion the set of rules that govern how Muslims – whose homes and souls are firmly planted in the West – live alongside nonMuslims. Only when we do this can we successfully dissect the radicals’ interpretation of Islam and fight back against terrorism.

We can no longer turn a blind eye to the driving force behind terror attacks both at home and abroad. It should not matter how painful or embarrassing this admission may be, and nor should it matter how taboo this subject is.
Posted by: ryuge || 07/14/2007 08:05 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Better Headline:
Muslim Heads Stuck Firmly in their Butts, says Butt
Posted by: Captain Lewis || 07/14/2007 8:14 Comments || Top||

#2  It sounds to me that this guy really has turned -- Which Burgers doubt this guy's sincerity in his turn?
Posted by: Captain Lewis || 07/14/2007 8:17 Comments || Top||

#3  Sorry, Cap--I think the West would be better off just telling him and the rest of his co-religionists that we've become aware of their intentions, taqiyya no longer works, they are no longer welcome and it's time to go back to their country of ethnic origin. Peacefully or forcibly, run them all out because they simply can't be trusted.
Posted by: Mac || 07/14/2007 8:56 Comments || Top||

#4  I hear ya Mac. But I think this Butt guy has demonstrated a true turn and can do much more good if we accept that from him. He's shedding light, via first hand accounts, on the darkest corners of Islamic minds. While these revelations may not be new to Burgers -- to most it is shocking and they'll be forced to see some terrible truth in his comments or keep their blinders on and dismiss him. Forcing more humans to choose sides can only be good.

This is not taqiyya. Is too awful true. If he were performing some kind of deception -- to what ends?

I've known folks who have made dramatic 180 turns in life -- 100% hedonistic Dead Heads to 100% Born-again Christians. These guys proved to be extremly powerful after their conversion precisely because of their previous life.
Posted by: Captain Lewis || 07/14/2007 9:29 Comments || Top||

#5  This tendency towards denial is now writ large with the problem of terrorism and Muslims. Let’s remember that the older generation of Muslims emigrated to Britain aspiring to work hard and to better their standard of living. They had always been law-abiding citizens whose loyalties lay with Britain in the main. Muslim involvement in terrorism here in Britain carries as much or even more shame for them as a drug-dealing son or a promiscuous daughter. Muslims do not deal with shame very well or anything that tarnishes their honour or reputation.

It's no coincidence that D'Nile flows through Muslim lands. Despite his protestations, even Butt succumbs to it's lackadaisical charms. Although there is a noted tendency for children of immigrant Muslims to become more radical than their parents, there is no way an entire generation of British youth could have become so polarized without the previous one having held such extreme beliefs to some degree as well.

More likely, this younger set has merely "come out of the closet" in an atmosphere where Islamic radicalism has been cosseted and coddled. Had their parents not attended Finsbury Park mosque for so many years the lack of support might have shuttered it. Instead it became a hotbed of terrorist activity where NBC (Chemical Weapons) survival suits were found.

I believe the heart of the matter is Islam itself and how its teachings are interpreted.

While Butt may be quite sincere, he remains a Muslim. Fundamentalists are interpreting the Koran correctly. This remains the central issue. The Koran preaches death. There can be no mistaking this. It is not a problem with translation or perception. Islam is a flawed doctrine whose time has passed. It remains mired in a 7th century mindset that is no longer relevant to modern reality. Instead of modifying itself or reforming the inimical passages of its scripture, Islam has chosen to remain trapped in amber, a living fossil whose sole value is as a specimen of what should have, by now, gone extinct long ago.

Let me know when people like Hassan Butt begin to talk about how shari'a law is a brutal code fraught with numerous and barbaric violations of human rights. Until then, he is merely an apologist whose well-meaning efforts do not address the underlying malaise of Islam's totalitarian doctrine. Butt's words may not constitute outright taqiyya but his inability or unwillingness to identify the Koran's overarching incompatibility with progressive Western culture skirts the more salient issues in need of real change.
Posted by: Zenster || 07/14/2007 10:19 Comments || Top||

#6  Salt liberally. He might be nothing more than the Cindy Sheehan of the jihadi set.

From a Wikipedia entry about Hassan Butt:

On his return from Pakistan he resurfaced in London and approached the Mirror newspaper with an offer to sell his story for £100,000. Following the attempt to sell his story, a spokesman for the Muslim Council of Great Britain said: "The very wild claims that Butt has made from Lahore show him for what he is: a clown and someone who wants to make himself important" [5]
Posted by: Grumenk Philalzabod0723 || 07/14/2007 10:24 Comments || Top||

#7  Here's a thought:
Do we believe the deniers actually believe their denials? Or are the denials simply a way of shutting down external questions?
Posted by: Richard Aubrey || 07/14/2007 11:07 Comments || Top||

#8  Here, let me correct this for you...


Only when Muslims Politicians admit that 9/11 and 7/7 were the work of Muslim terrorists can we move forward to the next juncture: which is recognising the hard truth that Islam does permit the use of violence. Muslims Politicians, including President Bush who deny this, preferring instead to mouth easy platitudes about how Islam is nothing but a religion of peace The Religion Of Peace™ , make the job easier for the radicals who can point to passages in the Koran, set down in black and white, that instruct on the killing of unbelievers.

Posted by: OldSpook || 07/14/2007 11:22 Comments || Top||

#9  SpooK: you hit it there... the muslim denial is minor and trivial in importntce to the political denial of our 'leaders'
Posted by: Abu do you love || 07/14/2007 12:06 Comments || Top||

#10  He might be nothing more than the Cindy Sheehan of the jihadi set.

Boy is that a tough concept to wrap your mind around ...
Posted by: Steve White || 07/14/2007 14:07 Comments || Top||

#11  There is a gullibility with muslims. If they buy islam, they will buy anything.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/14/2007 15:46 Comments || Top||

#12  rather, I believe the heart of the matter is Islam itself and how its teachings are interpreted.

There, fixes that for ya, Mr. Butt. Actually, that sentence started out right, if he'd only stopped before the "interpretation" mistake. I don't see how you can mis-interpret "Even the tree says Oh, Muslim, there is a Jew behind me, come and slay him." Seems fairly black and white to me.
Posted by: BA || 07/14/2007 20:38 Comments || Top||


Europe
In Europe, God Is (Not) Dead
Long article I got tired of snarking on. Go read the whole thing. I'll go start a new pot of coffee and put out the doughnuts for the conversation afterwards.


Posted by: lotp || 07/14/2007 08:48 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  My wife read the article this morning. It seemed to me that it is similar there in Sweden as it is here in the States: mainline Protestant congregations being dominated by gray heads while the swingin' Evangelical joint down the block is packed with the younger crowd.

Of course the fact that the church jobs in Sweden are akin to Government jobs and therefore run with all the concomitant enthusiasm could make it a bit worse for the "Lutherans" of the "Church" of Sverige.
Posted by: eLarson || 07/14/2007 10:20 Comments || Top||

#2  God's tentative return to Europe has scholars and theologians debating a hot question: Why? Part of the reason, pretty much everyone agrees, is an influx of devout immigrants. Christian and Muslim newcomers have revived questions relating to faith that Europe thought it had banished with the 18th-century Enlightenment.

I find it a bit curious how this article could possibly lump fundamentalist Muslims into this equation. If anything, people might be driven into the churches as a haven against Islam's intimidation and violence. Glossing over the huge threat represented by Muslim colonization of Europe certainly doesn't help. My own take is that after so many decades of the—frequently socialistic—state as religion, the failure of European socialism has people searching for some other sort of moral or philosophical anchor. None of this addresses the more fundamental issue of how Europe has abandoned its Renaissance tradition of reason being the ultimate arbiter of knowledge and morality.
Posted by: Zenster || 07/14/2007 12:51 Comments || Top||

#3  wow - that's not nice. I posted a long, heart-felt missive only to have it disappear never to be seen again.
Posted by: Angaiger Tojo1904 || 07/14/2007 14:20 Comments || Top||

#4  Living in the Bible Belt of the South, the "God is dead" idea has never really caught on. Most people here never thought God ever was dead.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/14/2007 16:07 Comments || Top||

#5  Same thing happened to me recently, too, AT-a post that was lily white in terms of potential offense. What's going on, Rantburg?
Posted by: Jules || 07/14/2007 18:54 Comments || Top||

#6  Fred's been working under the hood to deal with some really nasty haXors. Mine get lost sometimes too, of late.
Posted by: lotp || 07/14/2007 19:40 Comments || Top||

#7  Oh. Ok, thanks, lotp.
Posted by: Jules || 07/14/2007 20:14 Comments || Top||

#8  It's like on this side of the pond the smart youngsters voting Republican and thinking conservative, because the nasty old fossils are Democrat Progressives.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/14/2007 23:17 Comments || Top||


Fifth Column
Yet Another Why-We-Are-Hated Comment
Posted by: McZoid || 07/14/2007 04:13 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This fool would do us all a GREAT favor if she would renounce her U.S. citizenship and move elsewhere. She doesn't like the U.S. as it is--fine, that's her right. The sooner she's gone to someplace she does like, the happier everyone will be. What a dolt!
Posted by: Mac || 07/14/2007 9:04 Comments || Top||

#2  This article contains the essence of what is wrong with the rest of the world.

They insist on treating America as though it is some economic and cultural monolith out to oppress them. They will not, or more likely cannot, conceive of a country where the success (and failure) is a coincidental confluence of millions of INDIVIDUAL decisions.

Their paradigm is based on an omnipotent central government that controls everything. One which, therefore, provides a single bogeyman.

They don't know how to intellectualize the fact that Sam Walton, Bill Gates, Ken Olson, Stephen Spielberg, etc. are not part of nor controlled by (or control) the government.

Posted by: AlanC || 07/14/2007 9:23 Comments || Top||

#3  Nothing succeeds like success in arousing envy.
John W. Campbell
Posted by: gromgoru || 07/14/2007 10:42 Comments || Top||

#4  I do not even buy the argument that America is hated. While there was a wide ranging dismay at what was perceived to be American radicalization after 9/11 and a rush to war with Iraq, the extent and nature of this temporary dissatisfaction was amplified and distorted by the lens of leftwing mainstream media outfits throughout the world.

Today Germany and France have administrations which are far more conciliatory to America and beside the usual suspects like Iran, Syria, Russia and North Korea we have good high level relations with most nations.

On the micro level, subsequent events in a great many places have demonstrated that the global war against the forces of Islamic extremism is absolutely necessary. It is also now more obvious to most that these forces are not a reaction to America per se, so that diffuses the tendency to associate this country with the centrality of the struggle. And the blood and treasure which this country have expended to attempt to build a functioning democracy in Iraq have also not been overlooked by average citizens in the Arab world.

U.S. humanitarian intervention after the Indonesian tsunami and in a variety of lesser emergencies has helped to reframe America's image, as does the export of new medicines and other products which we have developed. And one more thing should never be forgotten - people still seek to immigrate here in droves, so they clearly recognize and desire the freedom and opportunity which America offers.
Posted by: Grumenk Philalzabod0723 || 07/14/2007 10:53 Comments || Top||

#5  America is undoubtedly the most hated country in the world for governments and elites. America represents an indefatigable threat to their arbitrary privilege and power. But to the individuals of the world, America is the promise of escape from tyrannies that vary only in degree. When individuals stop risking death to escape from tyranny to America, I'll start to worry about America. Till then, FOAD.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 07/14/2007 11:27 Comments || Top||

#6  Where to start in this globalist tranzi diatribe.

Existentially, he says, "the US has simply made it too hard for other people to exist. In economic terms, this is a stark reality for the majority of the world's population…the US has structured the global economy to perpetually enrich itself and reduce non-Western societies to abject poverty."

Those lines should set off some major alarms. They epitomize the Zero Sum Equation so beloved by victim mentality losers. People who are used to authoritarian or socialistic government simply cannot grasp the concept of generating wealth. To such unproductive types, inheritance, grants or patronage are the only recognized channels of capital flow. The notion of entrepreneurial achievement contradicts the accepted norms of government decree or elitist control. It is far more convenient to simply blame their own ills upon an alien methodology than question the validity of whatever repressive system currently enslaves them.

Too many people have figured out that their very existence, as states and as individuals, continues only at our pleasure.

Warmer, he's getting warmer.

America has essentially taken on the role of global God. "America is seen as the prime cause of everything. Nothing seems to move without America's consent; nothing can be solved without America's involvement."

Even warmer!

To Americans, "freedom" means, more than anything, the freedom to choose the future that you desire, and enjoy every opportunity to pursue it. Our Founders recognized that this "pursuit of happiness" was a fundamental good, and an essential quality of a healthy democracy. The suggestion that we've effectively foreclosed that option to the citizens of most of the other countries on earth seems incredible on its face.

Bingo! Anyone else spot the wee problem here? What really rankles the author, as will be seen later, is that America's sheer existence constitutes a standing reprimand to all of the repressive backwater hellholes that rely upon subjugation and opression as tools of state. Our national narrative defines freedom solely because so few other countries enable true liberty. Only the Zero Sum Equation permits inversion of this fact. Indeed, it is incredible that anyone could possibly presume that America disables the democratic process elsewhere.

In reality, the author is quite correct. Much of "their very existence, as states and as individuals, continues only at our pleasure". This is because America possesses the rightful moral authority to eradicate despotism and tyranny wherever we damn well please.

America insists on wielding semantic power to control the very definitions of words like democracy, justice, freedom, human rights, fundamentalism, a free press, terrorism, and so on. In doing this, it deprives other nations of the right to envision and develop their own indigenous versions of these concepts for themselves.

A mere glance at how the vast majority of other nations pervert and distort such ideas as "democracy, justice, freedom, human rights, fundamentalism, a free press, terrorism" is all that's needed to see where this is leading.

They're only allowed to use these words as we define them. And, as a result, the very discourse of human rights, both here and abroad, has become very pinched and narrow.

They only seem "pinched and narrow" because we are so intolerant of those who would broaden their own definition of these important terms to include whatever ideological filth they want to piggyback onto such vital concepts.

Hokay, folks. Ready for the howler? Here it comes.

We find it hard to accept that Muslim nations might develop their own forms of religious democracy that include the imams as a fourth branch of government -- and yet such democracies have existed in the Muslim world for 1500 years.

BANG! There it is. Moral equivalency rears its ugly little head. The author seeks to legitimize the most hideous forms of social injustice, apartheid and repression. He condemns capitalism and other American ideals in an attempt to match them with such genuine depravity as theocracy and totalitarianism. There is no way to elevate such ideological filth as he seeks to defend so his only alternative is to tear down that which constantly belittles the moral decrepitude of his preferred governmental models.

We've developed a view of justice that privileges property and capital; in other parts of the world, justice may be defined in ways that privilege other values, such [as] the health of the community or its common holdings

A powerful stench of socialism begins to rise from this shit.

the fact that we now build Soviet-style gulags and torture people in them

What, no comparisons with Hitler? Slacker!

Another Muslim apologist employs moral relativism so he can avoid the obvious humiliation of having to admit that the Muslim world is an archaic Neandertal assemblage of the very worst tribalism and totalitarian bullshit alive on the face of this earth.


Posted by: Zenster || 07/14/2007 11:40 Comments || Top||

#7  America has essentially taken on the role of global God. "America is seen as the prime cause of everything. Nothing seems to move without America's consent; nothing can be solved without America's involvement."

Very close, but no cigar. I have noticed this myself.

When my relatives have a stroke of good luck, they say "Thank God!" (I mean, beyond the ritual expression that even I use). But when they have bad luck, they never curse God. That would never even occur to them. If they have misfortune, well, that's how life goes; but good fortune (particularly, salvation from some tragedy) is the result of the direct action of God.

In some countries, I suppose, they curse Satan, but I never see that here.

The US has become not God, but anti-God: we are never to thank for salvation, but we are behind every tragedy. We are the Great Satan, if you will. If, as in the tsunami, we are actually the rescuers -- well, that's due to the hand of God. And when the rescue doesn't occur fast enough to suit some people, then that's the fault of the Great Satan again. This absolves people from having to accept responsibility for their own decisions, or to confront those who are really to blame for their misery.

I'm afraid I didn't read very far into her post before I concluded she was a fool. For example, she seems to believe that there was some golden time when we "meddled" in other people's affairs, but even when we made mistakes, they knew that our intentions were good, and respected us anyway. Apparently that evaporated sometime in the 1990s.

Such profound historical ignorance cannot be taken as a serious argument.

I urge everyone to read this account from an American woman who arrived to teach journalism in Kyrgyzstan just before 9/11. Short version: everyone thought the US meddled too much in everyone's affairs, and everyone thought the US should rescue them from their troubles. She wrote a book, too, which I haven't read.
Posted by: Angie Schultz || 07/14/2007 14:07 Comments || Top||

#8  Whether the common people hate or love America and Americans, the elites certainly make use of it. Mr. Wife has been working round the world for his employer for two decades, and he says he's never heard such animus as in the past few years. It has cost the company materially as well as making things more awkward for himself, he explained to me. The elites find a certain short-term profitability in America-baiting, and no real cost downside, I suspect.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/14/2007 14:58 Comments || Top||

#9  ...cosmological imperialism

Sardar just doesn't understand how difficult it is doing God's work.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/14/2007 15:08 Comments || Top||

#10  Sardar is one of the key players in the Left/Muslim alliance. I have one of his books called, "Barbaric Others: A Manifesto of Western Racism."

The notion of "political correctitude" is a leftist creation, that came directly from Sardar/Talal Asad/Edward Said psychobabble against "representation of the other." Here is how Sardar corrects Christopher Columbus: "Through his enduring claim to the status of discoverer is the very Otherness of the peoples he made known to Europe, his discovery eventually reduced itself to a conscious work of creative invention through which Indians were fabricated anew out of a historic set of medieval European ideas. Faced with real people whose manners and mores were beyond his experience, he set about charting their similarities and differences, employing the anthropology of medieval Christiandom and its convention of the monstrous races, and using Europe as the base and norm for comparison. From the storehouse of the ideologies, imageries and expectations of medieval conventions employed in describing Arawak and Taino, Columbus invented people other that the Arawak and Taino he encountered."

Just a reminder: Muslims obliterated more native cultures than any other force in history. We don't need lectures from those natural born killers.
Posted by: McZoid || 07/14/2007 15:40 Comments || Top||

#11  Angie, your article is behind a subscriber barrier.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/14/2007 15:41 Comments || Top||

#12  If America is such an imperialist, why has immigration become such a problem for the U.S.? Must be something here for foreign born people. The next time there is an earthquake, tsunami or famine look to someone else for help. Puedo-intellectual leftish drivel and drool.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/14/2007 15:58 Comments || Top||

#13  Like the Milwall Football Club supporters chant: "Everyone hates us and we don't care". Penis envy if you ask me.
Posted by: Jack is Back! || 07/14/2007 17:21 Comments || Top||

#14  Angie, your article is behind a subscriber barrier.

Hmm! This one says "free". Does that work? Here's a blog with a good excerpt. But here's my favorite part:

"America got what it deserved because it always meddles in everyone else's business," exclaimed a senior named Rada...

"What 'meddling' are you talking about?" I asked.

They all shouted at once: Vietnam, Bosnia, Serbia, Haiti, Somalia, Iraq...

I interrupted the litany: "If Uzbekistan invaded Kyrgyzstan to annex the Kyrgyz part of the Fergana Valley, what would you want the United States to do?"...

"You must defend us," they said.

"But we can't," I responded. "That would be meddling."

"Oh, no, it would be different if the Uzbeks invaded. You wouldn't be meddling. You would be defending us."
Posted by: Angie Schultz || 07/14/2007 17:28 Comments || Top||

#15  That last is mine.
Posted by: no mo uro || 07/14/2007 18:38 Comments || Top||

#16  We find it hard to accept that Muslim nations might develop their own forms of religious democracy that include the imams as a fourth branch of government -- and yet such democracies have existed in the Muslim world for 1500 years.

Dang, Zen (#6), and all I was gonna say about this one lame-o sentence was that she's given Islam about 200 extra years of existence. Founded in the late 600's, at most it's around 1340 or so years old. But, I'm just picking nits on a huge, stinking pile left by an Indian Elephant, so who am I to pick nits?
Posted by: BA || 07/14/2007 20:29 Comments || Top||

#17  Leftists always have the longest freaking screeds. On and on and on.
Posted by: Brett || 07/14/2007 20:42 Comments || Top||

#18  That one worked, Angie. Thanks! A good article. Like antisemitism, anti-Americanism is a substitute for those incapable of higher philosophy.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/14/2007 23:15 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Video: U.S. Marines Ambush Insurgents In Ramadi
Posted by: Anonymoose || 07/14/2007 14:06 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I predict virgins
Posted by: macofromoc || 07/14/2007 21:27 Comments || Top||

#2  UGLY virgins
Posted by: Frank G || 07/14/2007 21:39 Comments || Top||

#3  This calls for a pic of the Bearded Dancing Virgins.

(Or the Dancing Virgin Hippos...)
Posted by: CrazyFool || 07/14/2007 22:54 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Humor Video: Full Metal Elf Jacket
Posted by: Anonymoose || 07/14/2007 18:28 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:



Who's in the News
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.

Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.

Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has dominated Mexico for six years.
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Sat 2007-07-14
  Thai army detains 342 Muslims in southern raids
Fri 2007-07-13
  Hek urges Islamist revolt in Pakistain
Thu 2007-07-12
  Iraq: 200 boom belts found in Syrian truck
Wed 2007-07-11
  Ghazi dead, crisis over, aftermath begins
Tue 2007-07-10
  Paks assault Lal Masjid
Mon 2007-07-09
  Israeli cabinet okays Fatah prisoner release
Sun 2007-07-08
  Pak arrests Talibigs
Sat 2007-07-07
  100 Murdered in Turkmen Village of Amer Li
Fri 2007-07-06
  Failed assasination attempt at Musharraf
Thu 2007-07-05
  1200 surrender at Lal Masjid
Abul Aziz Ghazi nabbed sneaking out in burka
Wed 2007-07-04
  12 dead as Lal Masjid students provoke gunfight
Tue 2007-07-03
  UK bomb plot suspect 'arrested in Brisbane'
Mon 2007-07-02
  Algerian security forces bang Ali Abu Dahdah
Sun 2007-07-01
  Lebs find car used in Gemayel murder
Sat 2007-06-30
  Car, petrol attack at Glasgow airport terminal

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