I know it's opinion and we here are not surprised, but....
I have a neighbor who's in Italy now and will have friends visiting Britain this summer, I'm sure those will be very interesting conversations when they get back.
...The first striking thing, as an American, was that the overwhelming stench of anti-Americanism was quite noticeable. America appears to be viewed as the source of all problems in the world by a substantial majority of Western Europe. Theres also more than a mere whiff of anti-semitism floating in the air.
For instance, the down stock market weve experienced recently not unique to the U.S. but a worldwide phenomenon - was attributed to panicky Americans when the market first dipped....
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Mike at Cold Fury is always a good read. There used to be a link to the site from Rantburg, but about a year ago it was dropped.
Posted by: no mo uro ||
03/09/2007 17:13 Comments ||
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We could actually defuse a lot of this by making fun of it. That is, sneaking things into their press like blaming the failure of Airbus on America.
Then that the EU constitution is an anti-democratic joke because of America.
Then unplanned pregnancies are America's fault, as Americans are knocking up teen European girls.
Americans also make the French smell bad, cause soccer riots, and are responsible for the huge ghettos full of illegal immigrants.
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The ruling classes of Old Europe are dead set on integrating into a superstate and need Amerca to be the bogeyman with which to beat down resistance. If that is what enough Europeans want then fine with me. I wish them luck. But it's a mistake subsidizing their plans to the tune of $250 billion each year through US trade deficits and military spending in Europe. There is nothing America needs from the continent except for some bright and ambitious immigrants. Pull out the troops and treat the parts that insist on being rivals as rivals.
By mid century, the USA will be at 450 million and Europe will be a backwater with 300 million or less with the southern and western core ruled by islamic imperialists. Hell no, my grandson won't go. Not again.
Posted by: ed ||
03/09/2007 22:27 Comments ||
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The list goes on. I seriously doubt there is one Rantburger that isn't armed at home.
March 1994 Rashid Baz, a Muslim from Lebanon, opened fire on a van containing members of the Lubavitch Hassids in Brooklyn. One was killed.
February 1997 Palestinian-born Ali Abu Kamal opened fire on the observation deck of the Empire State Building, killing a tourist and injuring six other people before committing suicide. His daughter, Linda Kamal, said in 2007 that the family is tired of lying and admitted that a letter had been found on her father's body explaining his Muslim hatred for Israel and America.
July 2002 Egyptian-born Hesham Mohammed Hadayet walked into the Israeli Airlines El Al terminal at the Los Angeles airport and began shooting Jews. He killed two and injured another four. He was known to sympathize with al Qaeda.
September 2002 Patrick Gott killed one and wounded another in the New Orleans airport. He had entered the terminal with a shotgun and his Koran.
October 2002 John Mohammed and Lee Malvo killed 13 people in the Washington, DC area. Both were converts to Islam and had attended a jihad training camp in southwestern Virginia.
August 2003 Mohammed Ali Alayed almost totally decapitated his erstwhile Jewish friend, Ariel Sellouk, following Alayeds getting serious about his Islamic faith. He went to a mosque after killing Sellouk.
October 2005 Joel Henry Hinrichs III, a convert to Islam, was an engineering student at Oklahoma University. His student career ended when a bomb he had strapped on himself went off prematurely outside a crowed stadium, killing only himself. Police subsequently cleared explosives from the apartment that Hinrichs had shared with Muslim students from Pakistan.
April 2006 Muslim Ayhan Surucu was so angry when his sister started to wear make-up and date men in Berlin, Germany, that he put a gun to her head at a bus stop and killed her. Boys at a nearby school, attended mainly by the children of immigrant Muslim families, cheered and applauded when news of the murder reached them.
May 2006 Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar, a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill student, rented an SUV and drove it through a crowded part of the campus-- intentionally trying to hit people and wounding nine. In a series of letters to the student newspaper, he explained that he acted in obedience to Koranic dictates.
June 2006 Michael Ford, a Muslim convert, walked into work at a Safeway warehouse in Denver and opened fire on his coworkers, killing one and injuring five. Relatives explained that he was being teased at work because hes a Muslim and he could not take it anymore.
July 2006 Naveed Alzal Haq, a Pakistani, walked into the Jewish Federation Center in downtown Seattle and shot six women-- killing one, and wounding five( one of whom was pregnant). He stated matter-of-factly: "I am a Muslim American angry at Israel."
August 2006 Omeed Aziz Popal, a Muslim Afghan refugee, used his SUV as a weapon and ran down at least 14 people and a bicyclist in the San Francisco Bay area. He was targeting Jewish neighborhoods to terrorize.
January 2007 A 22-year-old Muslim, Ismail Yassin Mohamed, stole a car in Minneapolis and rammed it into other cars before stealing a van and doing the same, injuring several drivers and pedestrians at crosswalks and on sidewalks before police caught up with him. Mohamed called himself a "terrorist."
February 2007 Ibrihim Ahmed, a Memphis cab driver and Muslim, was enraged that two passengers did not agree with him about Islam. When they got out of the cab, he tried to run them down, striking one in a parking lot.
February 2007 Sulejman Talovic, a Bosnian Muslim immigrant, went to a Salt Lake City mosque on a Friday night. Then he went to one of only two malls in the state which prohibits civilian carrying of concealed weapons. He killed five before an off-duty cop (not subject to ban) used a concealed firearm stopped his murder spree.
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Two trailing daughters and Mr. Wife with four black belts and a number of simple implements of distruction between them, a piano and a large flashlight.
#5
One solid hickory axehandle, the head wrapped with duct tape. The other end is slightly blunted, but still does wonders when jammed into someone's eye socket. Not good for distance - I use a slingshot for that. Doesn't make much noise, and it doesn't go three-quarters of a mile if I miss.
Posted by: Old Patriot ||
03/09/2007 20:00 Comments ||
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Various implements of destruction, plus a variety of kitchen and garden tools for interrogation/personal amusement. Hmmm, wonder what that wire brush that goes into the drill could be used for? Inquiring minds want you to refuse to answer my questions so I can find out:p
Oh yeah. And I got sandpaper....mmmmmm, sandpaper;)
#5
Prof Levine: "...Most of the younger members [of the Moslem Brotherhood in Egypt] I've met are clearly very committed to democracy and pluralism...".
and most young moslems I meet are secular; but I'm not so stupid that I don't know what sampling bias means
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But of course, these are college students. They're supposed to go too far, be extreme, piss people off.
That answer, right there, explains his whole world view. And, is it just me, or does he look like a young version of Ward Churchill? I'm really coming close to there being an internal civil war before we can win the external jihadi war, when punks like this speak up. Let's cleanse the "Middle East Studies" profs of all jihadi-lovers, the MSM of its liberalism and the print media of their slanted reporting and then, maybe we can get on with winnin' this thing.
Posted by: BA ||
03/09/2007 13:07 Comments ||
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Let's cleanse the "Middle East Studies" profs of all jihadi-lovers, the MSM of its liberalism and the print media of their slanted reporting and then, maybe we can get on with winnin' this thing.
Makin' a list, checkin' it twice...Sammy Claws is coming to town. I'm with ya' BA! I've been going through the archives of the 'burg and a few other sites, and compiling a database, just in case "that" day ever arrives. What day, you ask? Why, the day of reckoning.
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.
