You had to know this was coming. Rest at link but this snippet just about sums it up.
Again, this racial warfare only benefits a smug elite who are content to sit back and watch all the chaos unfold, leaving a terrified middle class to beg for a choking police state to be instituted as the only solution to the problem, a problem manufactured by elite control of so-called minority groups in the first place.
#1
This guy shows up on George Noory's show late at night. He's always talking about some dark government conspiracy and the folks who call in to George's show just eat it up.
For those who don;t know - George Noory took over for Art Bell.
Images of Muslims with signs that read "freedom go to hell" and "Europe, take some lessons from from 9/11" are playing right into the hands of the Globalists by enabling them to hold up examples of how the Muslims are dangerous barbarians who wish to take away our liberties and need to be dealt with.
um, maybe it's not a conspiracy. maybe, in fact they ARE "dangerous barbarians who want to take away our liberties and need to be dealt with."
#4
Does anyone know how I can get in snug with the evil empire? Any kind of administrative or professional position will do. I'm sure they have an outstanding dental program, parking validation, personal days, vacation carry-over,401k matching, you know, all the goodies. If you have a line on this let me know.
Thanks,
bigjim-ky
Nasim Zehra, Arab News There is no battle to be fought with those who indulged in the ugly act of deliberately insulting my Prophet (PTUI peace be upon him). I am numbed with outrage over this uncivilized act they have committed.
Really, Nasim? I'm outraged over the rioting, the burning of the embassies, and a half dozen people dead, probably with more on the way. So I guess we're even, in a way.
I would simply say to them yours are no civilized ways.
Howling mobs in the streets and the arrogant attempt to impose your way of life on the rest of the world is, of course...
Whatever your claims to the contrary, they actually betray a people with a reactionary mindset.
A pity we can't be forward-looking, like those nice Soddies.
Those who become possessed by anger when confronted with difficult and challenging situations.
That's not a complete sentence, is it?
Anger halts our ability to probe and to reflect. Instead, depending on our location in life, if we are advantageously placed, we self-righteously give ourselves the license to pronounce verdict and take action to right a wrong.
Ahhhh... Perhaps I was mistaken in the author's intent. It sounds like he/she/it realizes that taking umbrage at the drop of a hat and self-righteously attacking those who displease us in the least is a bad thing...
As many European publications have done.
Sigh. I guess I was wrong. He/she/it really is a muttwit.
This is their crass response to the growing post-9/11 anti-Islamic sentiment. And for people in the business of opinion making to indulge in such reactive acts is extremely dangerous.
Obviously it's a dangerous thing to do, since the enemy is not only vicious, but mentally unhinged...
It is highly irresponsible. These are people who must play the role of promoting greater understanding - pulling people away from extremist thought and action. Not join the vanguard of anger-prompted extremism. Policy-makers and opinion-making community in the West have opted to conduct the discourse on terrorism using a terminology that has unwittingly but dangerously indicted the 1.2 billion Muslims in the world.
He's talking about the 1.2 billion Moose limbs who're rioting even as we speak blog...
Terms like Muslim terrorists, Islamic terrorists and Islamic terrorism have led to the demonization of the Muslims and of Islam.
Gosh. You don't think terms like "the Great Satan" and slogans like "Death to Infidels" mighta helped? You don't think lopping off people's heads had something to do with it? You don't think that a continous series of explosions, from Manhattan to Bali to Moscow to Madrid to London might have had something to do with it? You don't think that shooting school kiddies in Beslan contributed?
Whatever the European papers may claim they are upholding by ridiculing the Holy Prophet, they would have not contemplated doing so in a pre-9/11 environment.
Sure they would have, had the occasion arisen. It's the concept of a free press. If we make an exception in the case of the turban and automatic weapons crowd then we have to make exceptions for everyone. No more anti-Americanism. No more anti-Semitism. No more making fun of the French. Everything will be required to be plain vanilla. In such a world silence would be better than stunted, stilted speech.
We've already started down that road by not being allowed by our innalekshul betters to make fun of blacks, homosexuals, (American) Indians, and a host of other protected groups, no matter how villainous the actions of some of their leading lights may be. We have to make due with occasional jokes about Samoans and Esquimeaux and Lapplanders and Veps. And we're not allowed to bitch and moan when some mental jackoff dunks a cross in a beaker of piss or splatters a picture of the Madonna with elephant dung, piously claiming that doing so "makes us think" the unstated assumption being that they habitually do and we habitually don't.
I'm hoping that the wild-eyed, spittle spewing mobs, whipped up by their holy men and driven by their ignorance and hatred of individual liberty may have drawn our attention to the line in the sand. I'm hoping that we'll state "this far and no further," and maybe even back away from that line and regain the raucous free speech that was common in the day of Finley Peter Dunn. And that means we're free to make fun of your prophet, just as you'll go on exercising your freedom to call for despoiling the Jews and enslaving their women, which I can consider one hell of a lot more egregious than a goddamn Mandy and Rastus joke. The only difference will be that we have the freedom to say pretty much what we please, and you have the freedom to do what the hell you're told.
Social tensions may have existed in pre-9/11 Europe but in post-9/11 the tensions have vastly augmented. Muslims make for easy targets. So does their faith.
Seems like it's been the Muslims who've been picking their easy targets, all along Islam's bloody border, slaughtering innocents and combatants alike, calling for blood and spoils and demanding their caliphate and our demise. They don't even content themselves with just slaughtering infidels. If no one else is available they'll kill each other the Arabs despoiling the blacks in Sudan, the Sunnis and Shiites bumping each other off in Iraq and Pakland...
This is how a section of the Europeans have opted to express their resentment against the terrorist attacks, as is evident from the contents of the cartoons.
I guess it all boils down to a matter of self-expression, doesn't it? The Europeans express their contempt for the turbans in their midst by drawing a half dozen cartoons, and the turbans express their contempt for the Europeans by mobilizing shrieking mobs intent on death and destruction.
This is a season of acute polarization.
Polarization assumes equal poles. We're not at that point yet. Give it time. More time than I'd like, I'm afraid, but it will come eventually. Keep it up, and someday we'll see howling mobs of Europeans and Americans, hunting down the turbans and stringing them up from the lamp posts. That will probably come after one of your psychoceramic leaders manages to nuke a major Western population center. Don't say you weren't warned, turban boy.
For example if the on-line responses of the public are any guide, this act of insulting the Prophet has unfortunately received widespread public support in many European countries.
Take the hint: the unwashed masses don't really like you. It's the effete elites who're determined to impose your presence on them.
The thrust mostly is that there is no reason to compromise on our value of freedom of expression, that if Muslims can't deal with this they must leave, that Muslims are hypocrites because they show no tolerance toward minorities but expect to be shown tolerance.
Bingo. You got it. You can't comprehend it, but you know it's there. It's just foreign to your mindset.
In some cases individuals have argued that such cartoons should often be printed to get the Muslims to ultimately be more accepting of freedom of expression!
If we have freedom of expression, then such things can be printed any time anybody damned well pleases. If they can't, we don't have freedom of expression and the intolerant bastards like you have won. You'll then be in the process of imposing your 7th century values on us.
They say this is what we do to our own.
And it is. I've already mentioned two instances of blasphemy. I could come up with a dozen more with five minute's thought, and probably a hundred more with a quick google.
Sadly so, we would say. But please do not drag our revered ones in your messy notion of the freedom of speech.
What gives you the right to tell us what to say or not say? I hate to point this out, but in the West you're no better than we are. You have no special rights. Your status is that of a citizen, assuming you've become naturalized, a visitor if you haven't.
You have evolved into a culture which licenses unlimited permissiveness.
We had a fellow here in the States about 70 years ago named Huey Long. Now, old Huey was as crooked as they come, and certainly nothing to hold up to our children as an example of good behavior. But Huey kind of boiled down the whole concept of individual liberty to a single line: Every man a king. You've got princes and potentates, mullahs and ayatollahs and muftis and qazis and God knows what else, all determined to tell you what to do and how to conduct every fine point of your life, from when to pray to how to take a leak. You've got a fatwah for everything you can possibly think of. We don't. Our government governs us, it doesn't rule us. Many of us feel uncomfortable, even rebellious, when it imposes too much. You don't like it? Don't do it. But keep in mind that you're the one with your face ground into the dirt by 6000 years of rule by holy men.
In spite of our own mistakes, our many shortcomings, our morally and intellectually anemic leadership, there are some touchstones of our civilization. It includes the respect of religion and our faith in God Almighty.
What a nice juxtaposition of cause and effect. When Europe was priest-ridden and caught in the seemingly unbreakable bonds of superstition there wasn't much difference between it and the Muslim world. 9-11-1683 was a close run battle, because the Grand Turk ruled a society that was different but approximately as advanced as European society. A mere hundred years later the Turks were busy strangling each other with bowstrings while the Europeans were ruling vast empires. Why? Because by 1683 the Europeans were just finishing up their Reformation. Among the Muslims the word "innovation" was dirty, something to be avoided. How's it feel, being stuck in the never changing world of the Middle Ages?
Deliberately defiling the Prophet is a highly irresponsible act.
Swaming into the streets howling and ranting and making faces and scaring the children is also a highly irresponsible act. Burning down embassies is an even more irresponsible act. And demonizing your neighbors is even more irresponsible.
It is bound to have negative social and political fall-out. It exacerbates the existing social tensions among the locals and the Muslim population.
Somehow in the course of all this, the locals are expected to exercise iron self control, while the Muslim population... Well, we've already discussed that and I'm running out of adjective to describe your propensity for street violence.
Within the Muslims it is bound to create more alienation and resentment toward the Westerners who, have chosen to be completely indifferent toward the faith and feelings of the Muslims across the world.
It's because we don't care. You can't seem to grasp that. We don't care about your religion. Not one whit. We barely care about our own.
It is the arrogance of these Westerners they will resent.
And to whom they display their own misplaced arrogance.
Like millions of Westerners who have opted to not view terrorists as a fringe phenomenon within the Muslims and instead referred to terrorism as Islamic terrorism, many Muslims too will wrongly implicate the Westerners across the board for this blasphemous act against the Prophet.
With just about as much accuracy. But he's the rub: both view are accurate. The "moderate Muslims" love their jihadis. They're figures of romance to the stay-at-homes, tugging Uncle Sam's beard and strutting their Islamic stuff. And Westerners across the board don't really give a fart about your religion except insofar as it's connected with explosives. Quit blowing things up and I guarantee we'll lose all interest in Islam and its practitioners. You can go back to strangling each other with bowstrings and we'll go back to trying to figure who killed Jon Benet and trying to catch the next glimpse of Janet Jackson's nipple.
At the popular level we require a rollback of the school that promotes the dangerous talk of clash of civilizations.
Require in one hand make it the right and crap in the other. You're not in charge.
For now the cartoon incident will merely serve to reinforce the worst of what many Muslims may believe of a growing intolerant Europe.
You're mistaking disinterest and disdain for intolerance. Go ahead and marry your first cousins something you wouldn't let your camels or sheep do and cut your women's noses off when they step out of line. Keep them in sacks and use them for breeding stock. Bow down toward Mecca five times a day and diddle little boys at night. But don't do it around us. Do it in your own Islamic paradises.
The framing and the discussion of the issue of terrorism has created a permissive environment which is responsible for this caricaturing of the Prophet; of hurting the feelings and ridiculing the faith of a huge section of the entire human race.
That's the same segment of the human race that periodically declares jihad on the rest of us for one reason or another...
They paid no heed to the protests. Instead they resented and condemned the nature of the protests.
Yeah. We're not real good at dealing with people who periodically become unhinged.
True the protests should have been calmer.
Quite the generous admission.
Frenzied outrage was unnecessary and as were threats to kill.
They were unnecessary, but so also were they entirely predictable.
But nothing justified the reprinting of those insulting cartoons across many European countries including France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy and Switzerland.
As much for a sheep as for a lamb, I'd say. It's my opinion at this point that every newspaper in the civilized world should print them. Why? Because we can. You'll bitch and moan and the mobs will spill into the streets again. Why? Because you're nuts. You've taken a stricture against idolatry and turned it into a reverse idolotry: rather than setting up graven images, you're determined to enforce their non-production by using the threat of death.
The leadership in most of these countries has not been willing to contest the wisdom of publishing cartoons that are highly disrespectful to another people's faith. In fact the degree if insensitivity of the Danish prime minister can be gauged from the fact that when after the September publication the Muslims in Denmark sent repeated requests to meet with the prime minister, he repeatedly ignored their request. Essentially conveying "I really don't give a damn".
Still missing, or refusing to acknowledge, that free press thing, aren't you? The word is "free." It means you don't control it. Neither does the prime minister of Denmark. Neither does the Pope. Neither does the Queen of England. Here in the U.S.A., we're every man a king. The Euros have caught on to the idea, though they don't do it quite as well, but you can consider every man a grand duke or a baron or a marquis or something like that. They've caught on to the idea of freedom, too, an idea the Muslim world dismisses out of hand because it can't comprehend it.
Subsequently the Muslim leaders repeatedly went to the Middle East and other Muslim countries and showed them what the Danish papers had done.
And even a little more than what they'd done...
Subsequently the reaction acquired these proportions.
That was when the princes and potentates and holy men of the Middle East decided it was time to throw their weight around, especially since Denmark isn't a big-league country like France or Germany and they could be expected to fold pretty quick...
In Denmark the anti-Muslim sentiment has been growing at a rapid pace for the past ten years.
That's a sign they don't like you. You're not very good guests...
The Fogh Rasmussen government has actively sought to dispel and block Muslim residents from Denmark. The cartoon is just the tip of the iceberg.
And the current round of rioting is rather past the camel's nose. I think we're up to the cervical vertebrae now...
However that the notion of freedom of expression cannot be translated into unlimited freedom to abuse another's faith is basic common sense.
Only in the Islamic world. In the Western world everybody takes a turn in the barrel...
But also the way many Europeans have selectively applied the principle of freedom of expression is intriguing. When the ancient Buddhas in Afghanistan were criminally destroyed by the Taleban, the Europeans screamed murder the loudest. We all did too in the Muslim world.
Really? I don't recall. Which Muslim states cut diplomatic relations with them? Which Muslim states cut off aid and withdrew all their NGOs? Which prominent Muslim figures stood up foursquare and denounced them as ignorant barbarians? I've forgotten.
What was that protest for? So destruction of history is blasphemous but the attempted destruction of a people's faith and deeply treasured symbols is not?
The Buddhas were made of stone and they were irreplaceable. Your religion is apparently made of Jello, so precarious and delicate that a dozen cartoons, most not even very good, is enough to rock it to its very foundations.
This is the perversity of post-modernism which seeks the right to destroy and deconstruct selectively and give that right a sacred status. Also if the freedom of expression is so sacred how many European papers have dared to support what the Iranian president said about questioning the reality of the Holocaust?
I can't think of a major paper that ignored the story. That was when Mahmoud revealed himself to the world, so to speak, when he flung off his not very well seated mask and hollered "I'm a nut, and I'm a vicious nut!" How could they ignore the story? Nobody could pass it up. But of course you're wondering how many supported it. That'd be... ummm... lemme see here... none. Europe was the scene of the crime. The evidence is still there. Even after 60 years Europe hasn't forgotten, though some parts of it have been trying to. So nobody supported him because he's full of it.
Clearly the principle of freedom has to be practiced within some rationale and egalitarian framework. It cannot be an elitist concept that a special color or creed will have more right to exercise. Why does this right not respect another's right to choose what is sacred to them, since that what is sacred is not at the cost of undermining another's interests.
We all have things that are sacred to us. They're not necessarily the same things that are sacred to somebody else. If that's not the case, then we ignore them.
Islam abhors suicide bombings and terrorism. Increasingly Muslim leaders are condemning this openly.
We've heard all the pious denials. Over the weekend a couple dozen krazed killers busted out of the calaboose through a 150 yard tunnel dug from a mosque. Which do you think we're going to believe? The pious denials or the tunnel dug from the mosque? We'll start to believe the denunciations when that mosque is leveled and its holy men shot or hung. Not before.
Are the Europeans so generous in applying their concept of freedom of expression at the cost of causing great pain and injury to Muslim world?
No skin off my fore, no more than it's any off yours when your Grand Mufti asks God to kill us all.
Is it because their bohemianism has a method to it?
Is it because of the vitriol of the Imam of the Grand Mosque in Mecca? Or is it because of the explosions, the never-ending explosions and murders and kidnappings, the plots and conspiracies, the overt hatred of the Islamist faithful for their European and American neighbors?
The method is to attack and disrespect those who are generally viewed as the politically, scientifically and economically the downtrodden of the human race - the weak and the lambasted, the violated and the angry, the reactive and seething?
Always, always without fail, seething. Day in and day out, year after year, ever since 1492...
These are not the ways of a civilized people.
No. Sadly they're not. Civilized people don't seethe. They don't spew spittle and ooze vitriol. They don't wave automatic weapons and send their sons rushing off to jihad. You're right there.
These are ways toward pushing for a grand and mad conflict of civilizations. Will the European media see wisdom is stepping back and reviewing their dangerous notion of freedom of expression?
Good Gawd, I hope not. If they do, that means you've won. If you've won, the world faces another dark age.
For now the limited apologies that have come were perhaps prompted by the widespread anger and protests emanating from the Muslim world. But wisdom and true civilized behavior demands that we internalize the limits of our own freedoms where it begins to undermine the freedom of another. - Nasim Zehra is adjunct professor at School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University, Washington DC.
Posted by: Fred ||
02/07/2006 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[8 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
Classic, Fred. How much you wanna bet that when this little gem gets around in the US, ol' Nasim starts claiming that he didn't really write this, that the editors of Arab News distorted what he wrote, that of course he supports free speach.
#2
The question of whether the West already did "internalize the limits of our own freedoms" prompted the composition and printing of the original Cartoons of Blasphemy® back in September 2005.
#3
Instant Classic Slam Fred. Worth the insomia. As for Nasim Zehra of Johns Hopkins University, Washington DC, he may be able to mimic a free man, but he will never understand what freedom and free will is. What a closed and complete waste of a mind and the opportunity presented to him. May Nasim expelled to his native sand pit and never taste freedom again.
Posted by: ed ||
02/07/2006 2:26 Comments ||
Top||
#4
Until someone in the Muslim world criticizes the palestinians that saw fit to defecate in the sanctuary of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem last year, I really don't give a flying f**k what Muslims think about cartoons. The degree of ignorance manifested by these people is only exceeded by their self-absorption. The only reason anyone pays any attention to these Neanderathals is oil. If they push the West far enough, the gloves will come off and they will find out why they have been losing steadily for the last 500 years and will lose even more. We need their oil, not them. It is only the thin veneer of Western civilization that keeps them alive in their lands.
#5
Nasim Zehra is adjunct professor at School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University, Washington DC.
Funded by US taxpayers
#7
The method is to attack and disrespect those who are generally viewed as the politically, scientifically and economically the downtrodden of the human race - the weak and the lambasted, the violated and the angry, the reactive and seething?
Ah. The declaration of victimhood. Wondered when the article would get around to that.
Posted by: Robert Crawford ||
02/07/2006 6:16 Comments ||
Top||
#8
Maybe Prof. Zehra would be happier if we accorded Islam the same "respect" Christians and Jews are given in Saudi Arabia?
Fuck these people and their primitive death cult. Get 'em outta here!!!!!
Posted by: Dave D. ||
02/07/2006 6:42 Comments ||
Top||
#9
Really. Great. Article. Brilliant, even, as always.
The RB editorials by the site owner are really something to behold, I'm serious about it, especially in that comments form, which drive the point even further home.
Kuddos, Mr. Pruitt, your mind and wits are laser-focused, and you express them very well! <<>
#12
Damn Fred, great comments, you get up way too early. LOL Muttwits! All that and I'm now trying to clean the coffee from my desk and uniform. If this is what you do at 7AM I would hate to hear you on a roll.
Posted by: 49 Pan ||
02/07/2006 7:56 Comments ||
Top||
#13
The inline editorial to a 'news' article is practiced at its highest form here at the Burg and Fred is the master practitioner.
And here is a little article by Nasim embracing secular humanism! What is it that .com is always saying? When push comes to shove, they always revert to Islam? I'm sure that PD says it a hell of a lot more directly than that, but you get my point. Poor little Nasir, she can't seem to make up her mind: takfir or Islam, apostasy or submission. So which is it then, our confused Paki intellectual? Pan-cultural rennaissance or mono-cultural salafism? For now it seems like salafism, so one must guess that her visa is running out and it's time to head home.
#16
You know, all this boils down to the "Golden Rule"
Treat others as you would like to be treated.
There doesn't seem to be any such thing in Islam, or if there is it's ignored.
It's obvious that they have the rule somewhat reversed "Treat me good, and I'll treat you like shit" seems to be their operating concept.
Posted by: Redneck Jim ||
02/07/2006 8:35 Comments ||
Top||
#21
"...act of deliberately insulting...outrage over this uncivilized act...our ability to probe and to reflect...It is highly irresponsible...promoting greater understanding...have led to the demonization...Social tensions...acute polarization...this act of insulting...on our value of freedom...show no tolerance toward minorities...expect to be shown tolerance...be more accepting...evolved into a culture...respect of religion...negative social and political fall-out...social tensions...be more accepting...It is the arrogance...growing intolerant...hurting the feelings and ridiculing the faith...insulting...highly disrespectful...degree if insensitivity... respect another's right to choose...disrespect the downtrodden of the human race...the weak...undermine the freedom of another."
Any of these phrases sound familiar?
I just hope the Multi-Cultural, Hearts and Minds, Kumbaiya crowd take notice and remember next time they reach into their cliche bag.
#22
Wow, I saw the original URL and figured it was some male spittle-throwing idiot from Soodi. Now, we find out it's female (not a very devout Paki, at that) who's teaching at John's Hopkins? Give me a freakin break!
Posted by: BA ||
02/07/2006 11:26 Comments ||
Top||
#23
One of your finest rants, Fred. Not that the article was setting 'em up like ducks in a barrel.
These are people who must play the role of promoting greater understanding - pulling people away from extremist thought and action.
Seem like we've been asking Islamists to do that for some time now. The complete absence of any compliance upon the part of mullahs and imams has become, shall we say, rather tedious.
#24
I think many Moslems are upset because (a) cartoons are more likely to be read and understood than editorials. (b) the riots have really hammered the point of the cartoons in to those that did not see them.
Those running the Jihad have exposed themselves for all to see and only the most dhimmi can possibly continue to make excuses. If the Jihadists had just laid low for another decade they'd own Europe/Africa and a big chunk of Asia before we woke up. Sometimes the seething and ranting just isn't in your long term interests.
Yes! Hell Yes! I was heralding every comment, a strong cheering section here by my computer! Letting these ridiculous statements go undisputed would be so wrong. Kind of makes you want a letter to the editor section. Fred thanks for speaking out, and to hit every point so strongly. Whoo Hoo! Kind of reminds me of a video with such precision
Man I'm all charged up with no place to go well to work sigh.
Here's a video that it reminded me of quite the analogy thinking of precise hits, heh. (actually I love being able to fit these videos in on comments :) I never tire of watching them.)
http://www.fromtheinside.us/multi-media/videos/apache_Kills.html
(rather graphic. It depicts an AH-64D Apache engaging Iraqis who are emplacing an IED on a road to support an ambush against what is assumed to be an American convoy.)
I love being an American, and Damn proud too
Posted by: Jan ||
02/07/2006 13:18 Comments ||
Top||
#26
Thanks, Jan. Made my day and made me feel better about paying my taxes.
#27
"Nail on the F-cking head" sir (or mam). Thank you so very much for blogging it. The truth is just as you have written, nothing more, nothing less.
Posted by: Gabe ||
02/07/2006 18:36 Comments ||
Top||
#28
Best blog/post/accurate rant of the year! WTG Fred. :})
Apocalyptic thought is curiously pleasurable. Doom is too strong a word, in my view; I think it would be more accurate to say that Europe is sleepwalking to further relative decline. But we should also modestly remember that the future is, ultimately, unknowable. Maybe Europe is waking up just a little -- tugging the covers over an exposed shoulder and pulling the pillow over its head while mumbling to the rest of us to put out the light. It does seem to be dawning on an awful lot of folks there that they are in danger of losing their freedoms and entitlements. What worries me is that they seem much more concerned with the entitlements than the freedoms. Aside from the silly, pro forma French demonstrations and strikes, has anyone ever truly fought for an entitlement?
#3
Why should Western Europe do anything? They Know America will come to their rescue as we have in the past.
Posted by: 49 Pan ||
02/07/2006 7:58 Comments ||
Top||
#4
Wanna bet you life on it, I personaly think the "Baseball Rule" applies here, three strikes, and you're out.
Posted by: Redneck Jim ||
02/07/2006 8:38 Comments ||
Top||
#5
Europe is also a sleeping giant. Islam will kick and kick and eventually that giant will stir. When that giant lashes out the Sons of Mohammad will be thrown from the continent, smashed in their caves, and then Europe will sulk for decades at what they did.
#7
Why should Western Europe do anything? They Know America will come to their rescue as we have in the past.
If it comes to that, the continent becomes an American suzerain, pending installation of democracy, and all nuclear weapons should be confiscated (or used in a timely manner).
From a blog, but too funny not to link. This 2006 Congressional Democrat Contract With Al Qaeda lays out what the Democrat Party promises to do if they are given majorities in Congress this fall:
As Democrat Members of the House of Representatives, and as citizens seeking to join that body, we propose not just to change current policies, but even more important, to restore the bonds of trust between the people and their elected representatives.
This year's election offers the chance, after 4 years of one-party control, to bring to the House a new majority that will transform the Nation's policies towards Al Qaeda. That historic change would be the end of government that is too focused in Iraq, too intrusive, and too obsessed with possible terrorist attacks. It can be the beginning of a Congress that respects the privacy of all peoples, including members of Al Qaeda here in the US.
On the first day of the 104th Congress, the new Democrat majority will immediately pass the following major legislation, aimed at restoring the pre 9-11 mirage of security and world harmony and ending this Administration's policies for National Security:
FIRST, we will finally kill the Patriot Act so that no member of Al Qaeda will fear using our libraries to access international websites, access their email, or do basic research on major US installations and population centers. We will guarantee full privacy due anyone who makes it to our shores without question. In addition, we will roll back all provisions that put terrorism on an equal footing with Drug Traffickers and Organized Crime, which we understand greatly insults members of Al Qaeda who consider themselves above drug lords.
NINE, we promise to immediately begin impeachment of Al Qaeda's most dangerous enemy, the Imperial President W Bush, and we will promise to not stop our efforts until we have removed this thorn in Al Qaedaâs side - even if we have to make up scandals to get it done.
We the undersigned candidates of the Democrat National Party do swear that if elected, and given control of the House of Representatives and the Senate, we will enact the above Contract With Al Qaeda.
#1
Main issue:
The Iraqi Dinar (IQD) is not traded on the Foreign Exchange Market (forex - for those inevitable searches, heh) yet, which is why you can't go exchange or deposit it into your local bank.
The usual questions... a sampler...
Where can you buy dinars?
What is the markup?
Who, exactly, is pocketing that profit?
Where and how can you sell them?
How long can you afford to hold the investment?
#2
.com, are you a member at IIF?
Also, please check out iraqidinarinformation.com.
Do not buy based on a rumor... Much research is necessary here.
Posted by: James ||
02/07/2006 14:46 Comments ||
Top||
#3
James has listed the site. I think its worth investing (speculating) with some fun money. Very high risk. Very much hype. Probably a little better odds than a lotto ticket. I figured its like buying stock in a company on the verge of bankruptcy.
Some banks in this country are buying and selling over the counter but you cannot have a Dinar account in the US yet.
#4
J - No, just spent an hour or so googling, mainly to see if it was still considered a scam - as it most certainly once was. Seems the temperature of the hits I got were at least a bit more positive than it was about 18 months ago when this BlogAd first started running. Indeed, research is called for if the investment level is above "fun money" as BR sez.
Once on the ForEx, then you'll see if you'll ever recover the juice you paid on the original purchase.
#4
He's to busy attending a funeral in Atlanta today where people absolutely dispise him. Wake up Mr. President. They'll have forgotten about your gesture of friendship before your plane leaves Dobbins AFB.
#5
The billions lavished on missile defense could be much better spent on protecting U.S. ports and chemical plants, or on increased investments in locking down loose nuclear weapons and nuclear bomb-making materials in Russia and beyond."
Are they going to run with this? I'm really beginning to believe that Karl Rove is writing the Democratic party's platform.
#7
Yet after a breakthrough year of successful tests, increased weapons and radar deployments with more major nations than ever around the world committing billions of dollars to buy U.S. systems and develop complementary defense systems on BMD, President George W. Bush did not say a word about any of it in his State of the Union address Tuesday night. Why not?
#8
I see it as an indicator that the system is mostly built, yet not entirely finished. And yet, when finished, it won't be talked about, either.
Right now, the US faces at least two tangible ballistic missile threats. Imagine the shock and surprise if one of our enemies shoots one at us, and it just goes *poof*, disappears. And then the US does *nothing*. Says nothing, does nothing.
At that point, suddenly that enemy experiences all sorts of grave self-doubts. Call it "shitting themselves", if you like. We own them.
Do they button up against nuclear counterattack for a week? A month? Do they continue with their attack plan somewhere else? They can literally be paralyzed with fear.
#1
This is Amerika, the future USSA/USR, NOT America - Clintonism, or in the alt Leftism-Socialism-Communism or Political Utopianism > INTEGRATION IS SEPARATISM/
STRATIFICATION. Its FASCISM-FOR-ANTI-FASCISM.
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.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
There is no battle to be fought with those who indulged in the ugly act of deliberately insulting my Prophet (
