by Egyptian blogger Big Pharaoh. Very good, especially #4.
Yesterday night I had a very strange experience. I was on bed and I suddenly saw my PC on fire. A voice came out of the fire telling me The Big Pharaoh, I am Allah, I chose you to carry a message to my beloved Muslims. I know they are not happy with how they are looked upon internationally and especially in the Western world. I know they are trying to find ways in order to remedy that and this is why I will give you 10 commandments to post on your blog. I just hope they listen to me
1.Thou shall not have westophobia. The west is not plotting against Islam, they dont give a hoot about your religion nor the religion of this old Hindu man walking in downtown Calcutta, India. The West is busy with far more important things.
2.Thou shall remember that millions of Muslims in Europe have far more rights than non-Muslims in Arab/Muslim lands (for more info, contact the Christian villagers of el-Udaysaat) So quit playing the victim here. I simply dont buy it.
3.Thou shall understand that the West is a pool of ideas and people. In the west you will find: Non-muslims who love Islam (Karen Armstrong and Prince Charles), non-Muslims who hate Islam (J-Posten and Oriana Fallaci), converts to Islam who love Islam (Murad Huffman, Roge Garoudi), converts out of Islam who hate Islam (Hirshi Ali and Ibn Warraq). So for heavens sake, you cant paint the West with one brush.
4.Thou shall understand that the West gets their info on Islam not from your preaching nor from the books you translate to them but from your actions.
5.Thou shall riot and protest when Muslims kill other Muslims (for more info, contact the Shia families of Iraq and Darfur Sudanese)
6.Thou shall try to riot and protest when Muslims kill non-Muslims. If thats not possible, at least try to do commandment 5.
7.Thou shall NOT riot over cartoons published 4 months ago. Try to riot over cartoons published 2 months ago. At least it might make more sense that way.
8.Thou shall not boycott an entire nation because a single newspaper, TV channel, radio station, politician, actor, actress, etc, etc, in that nation said or wrote or drew something that offended you. Why? Because its stupid and childish to do so and it further hurts your image.
9.Thou shall incorporate the values of liberal democracy. The Catholics of Italy, the Anglicans of England, the Buddhists of Korea, and the Shintos of Japan have done so. I dont see a reason why you cant do so as well.
10.Your leaders should know that what was OK in the year 706 might not be OK in the year 2006. I wont get upset if you changed a few things in the laws and regulations as long as you continue to profess faith in me, pray to me, fast during Ramadan, give alms, and perform Hajj if youre capable of doing so.
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I was watching the openning ceremony of the Olympics this evening when something so friggin' stupid was said by the announcer that I just had to vent a bit.
The NBC announcer, while the Russian team was entering the stadium, was talking about how in the past the Russian athletes disappeared back behind the [iron] "curtain" or "so we were taught"?
So we were taught? WTF was he talking about? Either he was too young to remember the cold war or he is an idiot.
Between that and the blatantly left leaning celebrities involved I quickly lost interest.
#1
IIRC, Soviet athletes did not regularly receive major Madison Avenue endorsements. They did not appear on Wheaties boxes, co-star in drive-in movies, or become color commentators for Amerikanskii futbol matches.
#3
Back in college, I used to argue with a dedicated Sparticist Youth Leaguer (nutty but easy on the eyes) about her revolutionary aspirations for the State of Wisconsin. She never had an answer on how the Green Bay Packers would be managed in a new Utopia despite their obvious place in the hearts of the workers and peasants there.
The truth of how sports and entertainment, e.g. pop music, were run behind the Iron Curtain is fascinating and chilling. Hockey player Sergei Federov's wife said she was convinced he would be jailed or even killed for lobbying authorities to play in the NHL during the 1980's. It wasn't unheard of back then.
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This wasn't dhimmitude per se, but collossal, stunning historical ignorance. Hell, he was probably even alive during this time. Too busy to notice I guess.
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How can we expect the Marxists and useful idiots to lay low and deal with reality when we can't even keep the lid on the Holocaust deniers these days.
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Bob Costas did a great job. Someone should have told Brian Williams that the Olympics is not about politics. We kept hoping Bob would tell him to shut up. I'm sure he felt like it.
Only other moment that marred an otherwise spectacular show was the aging Susan Sarandumb. What has she done to deserve the honor? I guess if you shill for enough dictators you get to carry the Olympic flag.
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I missed it (I don't watch much sport unless it involves senseless violence or females in jelly), but it appears, from what I read in forums, that the italian public BOOED the iranian and lebanese teams... with the Eurosport (sport satellite/cable channel) sound engineering trying to hide it, and the segment being removed from re-airing.
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The Green Bay Packers are the ultimate socialist enterprise. They are owned by the workers, otherwise they would have been moved to a much bigger media market long ago. They are part of the NFL, whose motto is from each, according to its ability to pay to each according to their needs, which under the worker exploiting salary cap, are the same; obviously a socialist organization.
Diana West gets it. Washington Times Op-Ed. RB'ers will find these old news - good news is it's making the MSM
We need to learn a new word: dhimmitude. I've written about dhimmitude periodically, lo, these many years since September 11, but it takes time to sink in. Dhimmitude is the coinage of a brilliant historian, Bat Ye'or, whose pioneering studies of the dhimmi, populations of Jews and Christians vanquished by Islamic jihad, have led her to conclude that a common culture has existed through the centuries among the varied dhimmi populations. From Egypt and Palestine to Iraq and Syria, from Morocco and Algeria to Spain, Sicily and Greece, from Armenia and the Balkans to the Caucasus: Wherever Islam conquered, surrendering dhimmi, known to Muslims as "people of the book [the Bible]," were tolerated, allowed to practice their religion, but at a dehumanizing cost.
There were literal taxes (jizya) to be paid; these bought the dhimmi the right to remain non-Muslim, the price not of religious freedom, but of religious identity. Freedom was lost, sorely circumscribed by a body of Islamic law (sharia) designed to subjugate, denigrate and humiliate the dhimmi. The resulting culture of self-abnegation, self-censorship and fear shared by far-flung dhimmi is the basis of dhimmitude. The extremely distressing but highly significant fact is, dhimmitude doesn't only exist in lands where Islamic law rules.
This is the lesson of Cartoon Rage 2006, a cultural nuke set off by an Islamic chain reaction to those 12 cartoons of Muhammad appearing in a Danish newspaper. We have watched the Muslim meltdown with shocked attention, but there is little recognition that its poisonous fallout is fear. Fear in the State Department, which, like Islam, called the cartoons unacceptable. Fear in Whitehall, which did the same. Fear in the Vatican, which did the same. And fear in the media, which have failed, with few, few exceptions, to reprint or show the images. With only a small roll of brave journals, mainly in Europe, to salute, we have seen the proud Western tradition of a free press bow its head and submit to an Islamic law against depictions of Muhammad. That's dhimmitude.
Not that we admit it: We dress up our capitulation in fancy talk of "tolerance," "responsibility" and "sensitivity." We even congratulate ourselves for having the "editorial judgment" to make "pluralism" possible. "Readers were well served... without publishing the cartoons," said a Wall Street Journal spokesman. "CNN has chosen to not show the cartoons in respect for Islam," reported the cable network. On behalf of the BBC, which did show some of the cartoons on the air, a news editor subsequently apologized, adding: "We've taken a decision not to go further... in order not to gratuitously offend the significant number" of Muslim viewers worldwide. Left unmentioned is the understanding (editorial judgement?) that "gratuitous offense" leads to gratuitous violence. Hence, fear not the inspiration of tolerance but of capitulation and a condition of dhimmitude.
How far does it go? Worth noting, for example, is that on the BBC Web site, a religion page about Islam presents the angels and revelations of Islamic belief as historical fact, rather than spiritual conjecture (as is the case with its Christianity Web page); plus, it follows every mention of Mohammed with "(pbuh)," which means "peace be upon him""as if," writes Will Wyatt, former BBC chief executive, in a letter to the Times of London, "the corporation itself were Muslim."
Is it? Are we? These questions may not seem so outlandish if we assess the extent to which encroaching sharia has already changed the Western way. Calling these cartoons "unacceptable," and censoring ourselves "in respect" to Islam brings the West into compliance with a central statute of sharia. As Jyllands-Posten's Flemming Rose has noted, that's not respect, that's submission. And if that's not dhimmitude, what is?
The publication of the Muhammad cartoons solicited by Denmark's Jyllands-Posten was an act of anti-dhimmitude. Since no Danish artist would dare illustrate a PC children's book about Muhammad for fear of Islamic law (and Islamic violence), the newspaper boldly set out to reassert the rule of (non-Islamic) Danish law. It's as simple as that. And as vital. The cartoons ran to establish or re-establish Denmark as bastion of Western-style liberty. But in trying to set up a force field against encroaching sharia, Jyllands-Posten and the Danes have showed us that no single bastion of Western liberty can stand alone.
So, how do you say solidarity in Danish? If we don't find out now, our future is more dhimmitude.
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02/11/2006 00:00 ||
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I predict a major backlash against PC and multicult supporting politicians in the next set of Euro elections. I believe France is first in a couple of months time.
Diana West, she's tumbled alright, NO fu*king burkas for her eh!
Don't you just love 'em, Our WOMEN are our secret weapons against the Islamo-fascisti. »:-)
>for those of you who have some extra time. :)
relates to Diana's piece. Wretchard @ The Belmont Club ties up some loose threads with an overview reaching across the history of WOT, Europe, cartoon/dhimminitude, Iran/UN security council and Middle East.
and a friendly read I might add, [as in, not deadly]
"Re-reading William Manchester's: Alone"
Saturday, February 04, 2006
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Does anyone know whether reports that UK police denied British free speech protesters entry to Trafalgar Square today, while Muslim anti-cartoon protesters were allowed to protest, are true? I have been trying to find news reports on this, and haven't found them. I have seen webcams and photos only of the anti-cartoon protestors...
Facing a potential nuclear holocaust at the hands of Iran, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich say the United States must do everything in its power to bring about regime change there, even if it means invading that nation.
Saying that he hopes President Bush, "will focus first of all on telling the American people the truth about how dangerous the world has become, he warned that if we dont have a very serious systematic program to replace the government of Iran, were going to live in an unbelievably dangerous world.
Speaking to Human Events magazine, Gingrich, a noted historian, compared the presidents handling of the Iran problem to the way British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin handled Nazi Germany in the mid-1930s, when Baldwin refused to rearm or recognize the threat Adolf Hitler posed to Britain and Europe. He contrasted Baldwin's polcies with those of another prime minister, Winston Churchill, who adopted a hard-line stance against the Nazi dictators ambitions.
"This is 1935 and [Iranian president] Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is as close to Adolf Hitler as weve seen. We now know who they are -- the question is who we are. Are we Baldwin or Churchill? " Gingrich said, noting that Churchill recognized the danger from Nazi Germany and urged that Britain prepare to meet it.
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02/11/2006 13:30 ||
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Newtie has this dead on. Only it is even more accurate that even he has stated. The Iranian leader's sect(hotijeif (sp?)is truly a philosophy for nutters, and their commitment to the coming of the 12th imam in the very near future is chilling. This guy is the utter embodiment of the crackpot world view held by Hess, Hitler and Himmler, substituting a demonic god filled with bloodlust for aryan ubermensch!
Look for troubling linkages to cuba and latin america as the visible signs of their inflitration plans across the southwest border!
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