(With apologies to George Wyle and Sherwood Schwartz)
Now sit right back, and youll hear a tale,
a tale of a huge death cult.
That started in the Middle East
with a pedophilic dolt
The prophet was a savage thug,
his followers washed with sand
They left a trail of blood and death
across the Holy Land, across the Holy Land.
The Christians started getting rough
Jerusalem was lost
Knights Templar took al Aqsa Mosque
El Cid, the Moors he tossed
A tent was pitched on the edge of an unconquered Bedouin pile
With Mohammed
His dozen wives
A camel and a knife
A moon and star
A prayer rug and his Quran
Thats what makes Islam so vile
So this is the tale of the Musselmen,
theyve warred for a long, long time.
Theyve made the very worst of things,
theyve got an uphill climb.
The imams and the mullahs too,
will do their very best
To make Infidels uncomfortable
and war upon the West
No phone, no lights no motor cars,
Theyve not invented shit
They wipe their butts with rocks instead
Then beat their wives a bit
For a caliphate, jihad they wage
Like Nazis they sieg heil
Well nuke them back to the stone-age,
because Islams so vile.
I can't get this damn melody out of my head. Thanks a pantload.
Posted by: Mike N. ||
09/29/2007 22:20 Comments ||
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A nice little earworm to torment you, Mike N. Trust me, I'm still trying to scour it out of my brain after mulling over the damned thing for two hours last night. At least there's some fun new lyrics to sing it with. A happy Rantburg Ramadan to all the 'Burgers!
There is a reason that the West ignores the dangers facing it. The Western media ignored Ahmadinejad's message, just as it has insistently ignored the messages of bin Laden and Fatah throughout the years, because Westerners have a hard time believing that anyone would want to abide by the Islamic world view which denies mankind's desire for freedom.
But no matter how ugly an ideology is, in the absence of real competition it gains adherents and power. The only way to ensure that jihadists' demonic views are defeated is by stridently defending and upholding the fundamental principles on which the Free World is based. And the West hasn't even begun to take up this challenge.
As a result, it has handed its enemies two victories already. It has demoralized its potential allies in the Islamic world, and it has failed to rally its own people to defend themselves.
In spite of what the West would like to believe, Ahmadinejad and his allies from Ramallah to Waziristan, from Gaza to Kandahar to Baghdad, are not negotiating. They are fighting. Rather than ignore them or seek to find nonexistent common ground, we must defeat them - first and foremost on the battleground of ideas.
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It's too bad Communism started failing thousands of years ago because that would be a perfect counter-point to "Westerners have a hard time believing that anyone would want to abide by the Islamic world view which denies mankind's desire for freedom."
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The only way to ensure that jihadists' demonic views are defeated is by stridently defending and upholding the fundamental principles on which the Free World is based.
Instead, we are treatedboth here and abroadto deafening silence from our political and religious leadership. It is difficult to imagine a more sincere betrayal of liberty and freedom's most basic tenets.
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...Ahmadinejad and his allies from Ramallah to Waziristan, from Gaza to Kandahar to Baghdad...
The real problem we're having is that Dinnerjacket and Co. also have allies in Manhattan, Hollywood, San Francisco, DC and every newsroom and faculty lounge in the country.
Posted by: Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) ||
09/29/2007 18:32 Comments ||
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Ahmadinejad is not interested in convincing the US government or even the majority of Americans to convert to Islam. He is interested in convincing adherents of totalitarian Islam and potential converts to the cause that they are on the winning side.
Even this is, I think, still stuck in Western realpolitik thinking. While I have no doubt he would be happy to bolster support amongst adherent of totalitarian islam - as if there was another kind of islam - his primary purpose was to deliver the traditional appeal to the kufar to convert or face annihilation. The man believes God is with him; everything else is secondary.
The leader of the Pakistani jihadist groups, Maulana Fazlur Rahman, was notified a few months ago that he was on a Dead Pool style list of people that al Qaeda wanted assassinated. Rahman came to our attention in captured Iraqi documents as the go between for Saddam and the Taliban arranging military and security agreements between the two in 1999. I mentioned before that he had turned over al Qaeda associated terrorists to the Libyan government and this had made him an enemy of al Qaeda.
He is probably the most responsible for turning the Taliban &0151; which he had a significant hand in creating &0151; against al Qaeda. Which means, believe it or not, on some level he may be working with the Pakistani government and possibly the US government, since he is purely an opportunist. No doubt he will not advertise that fact to his jihadists buddies.
This cannot be overstated: it is the most crucial development since the capture of Khalid Sheik Mohammed. Cutting al Qaeda's support in Pakistan has been a massive coup, of which our media has no clue of right now. It is the exact sort of thing that the Democrats and their media accomplices always complain that we are not doing and then completely ignore when we do it.
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a few months back the US government told the Pakistani government that we had the coordinates for twenty-nine terror training bases and in a week we will be destroying them (perhaps on Cheney's visit this summer). The intent was to drive the terrorists from those camps so we could get to them.
It worked. That's why those camps emptied out.
I recall we discussed this awhile back. IIRC, the general sentiment was how could we be so stupid to tell the Pakis anything. Wheels within wheels, eh? Now, go read the whole article.
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NS, you left out an important paragraph immediately succeeding the ones you posted:
It bears mentioning that this cutting off of support might not have happened if Saddam had been left in power to flood the Pakistani jihad groups with cash through the Maulana and his associates. Cutting off this funding took the Maulana out of play as a major money raiser for al Qaeda and the Taliban. Without that cash, he became dispensable to al Qaeda, which may not have realized that this man wielded such power among the Taliban that he could turn them against al Qaeda.
Yet one more damn good reason for deposing Saddam.
Now, go read the whole article.
Definitely worth reading. Let's all hope the analysis is correct. As the author notes:
This is the kind of stuff we may not hear about in detail for another fifty years.
...Karen Armstrong, a former nun and best-selling author who writes on Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Buddhism, now calls herself a "freelance monotheist". She has advanced the theory that fundamentalist religion is a response to and product of modern culture, and has been influential in conveying the meaning of Islam to a wide readership in Europe and North America. Her writings include A History of God: The 4000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam and her biography Muhammad: A Prophet For Our Time.
"Freelance monotheist" or caterer to the stupid.
Elizabeth L, a graduate in political science and the daughter of affluent white British parents says very movingly: "I know it sounds clichéd, but Allah came knocking at my heart. That's really how it feels. In many ways it is beyond articulating, rather like falling in love." As she read the Quran and prepared for her conversion, the September attacks came and went and failed to derail her spiritual journey: "I can see why people get fed up with the West. Capitalism is enormously oppressive." Capitalism is "oppressive" to those who don't want to work.
The individuals who will stand out as heroes of our times, who will lead us out of our current social and economic crisis, will most likely be Muslims, at least in their way of life. Both the born Muslims and the men and women who have found their inner Muslim prince. If you want to understand the above mentality, read Paul Hollander's "Political Pilgrims: Travels of Western Intellectuals to the Soviet Union, China and Cuba."
Daniel Pipes has been on Armstrong's case for a decade. But who is getting the invites to colleges? Pipes appears rarely, in face of protest; Armstrong makes a huge living from coloring Islam with benign whitewash.
Face it: the anti-jihad message is not getting out there.
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