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2007-06-18 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by Steve White 2007-06-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Iran

#1 Tough titties Iran!

Posted by 3dc 2007-06-18 00:12|| 2007-06-18 00:12|| Front Page Top

#2 "This act shows that insulting Islamic sacred [values] is not accidental. It is planned, organised, guided and supported by some western countries."

This isn't much of a stretch. Islam's ability and willingness to be insultedintentionally or notis essentially limitless. Even a totally comatose person could probably figure out a dozen different ways. They just wouldn't have as much fun doing it.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-06-18 00:27|| 2007-06-18 00:27|| Front Page Top

#3 ...and your mother wears army shoes and your sister swims out to troopships, Persian losers.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2007-06-18 08:34|| 2007-06-18 08:34|| Front Page Top

#4 "claiming the British establishment had for many years been ~~reluctant~~ bribed and coerced not to be associated with the controversial figure."

There, fixed it.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2007-06-18 08:36|| 2007-06-18 08:36|| Front Page Top

#5 Zenster is hilarious!

Posted by Apostate 2007-06-18 08:37|| 2007-06-18 08:37|| Front Page Top

#6 Scr*w Islam. They have a long, illustrious history, starting in Medina with the support and encouragement of their Prophet, of murderous thuggery and assasination of troublesome politicians, poets, and writers who mocked Mohammed and his message. The day is long past due "when you just have to spit on your hands, hoist the black flag, and start slitting throats." (H.L. Mencken)

Posted by ptah">ptah 2007-06-18 08:43|| http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org]">[http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2007-06-18 08:43|| Front Page Top

#7 Zenster certainly does have his moments. A quick question to help our discussions, Apostate, if you would be so kind. Based on your own experience, what would you estimate to be the percentage of Muslims that are quietly apostate -- either non-believers, atheists/agnostics, or actual converts to other religions -- wherever you live (ie US, Canada, Britain, since I've no idea where you are)? I think we need to have a better understanding of the relative ratios of active jihadis to passive supporters to passive/active enemies of the jihadi mindset.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-06-18 08:44|| 2007-06-18 08:44|| Front Page Top

#8 Mohammad Ali Hosseini, I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-06-18 08:45|| 2007-06-18 08:45|| Front Page Top

#9 Like TW, I'd also like to know about quiet apostasy among Moslims. I have begun to think lately that it must be happening often enough to really shake the confidence of the various Islamic leadership cadres, and perhaps that's why this outburst of ferocity, of late.
(Wrote about it here and here)

Posted by Sgt. Mom 2007-06-18 09:14|| www.ncobrief.com]">[www.ncobrief.com] 2007-06-18 09:14|| Front Page Top

#10 I insult Islam too!

You are all a bunch of pedophile, baby goat raping, man-less parasitic wastes of oxygen and the faster you all die under a pile of pig entrails, the better.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-06-18 09:20|| 2007-06-18 09:20|| Front Page Top

#11 I eat pork scratchings and piss on the Koran.

Posted by Excalibur 2007-06-18 09:49|| 2007-06-18 09:49|| Front Page Top

#12 Should I add this to this list, sir?
Sure, Johnson. Why the hell not. What are we up to now?
I don't remember, sir. I'll have to run the algorithm.

Posted by tu3031 2007-06-18 09:56|| 2007-06-18 09:56|| Front Page Top

#13 I curse your mother's moustache!

Posted by Steve 2007-06-18 09:57|| 2007-06-18 09:57|| Front Page Top

#14 I wipe my ass with pages torn from the Koran.

Posted by treo 2007-06-18 11:53|| 2007-06-18 11:53|| Front Page Top

#15 Carpet bomb Qom and Iran will collapse. Coast inoffensively until the Democrats put a putz in the White House, and future generations will spit on our graves.

Posted by McZoid 2007-06-18 13:35|| 2007-06-18 13:35|| Front Page Top

#16 I wish the West would just wake up and put these rabid-dog barbarians down already.

Posted by jds 2007-06-18 14:40|| 2007-06-18 14:40|| Front Page Top

#17 Interesting essay, Sgt. Mom. And your links are fascinating.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-06-18 14:53|| 2007-06-18 14:53|| Front Page Top

#18 I think traditional barbarian Islam is on its last legs, however, it does love death more than life. With access to much of the world energy supply and nukes besides, will it take the rest of the world with it as it dies?

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2007-06-18 15:44|| 2007-06-18 15:44|| Front Page Top

#19 iran, just shut the fuck up .it's too bad we make them feel important too where they think they should voice their opinion on every subject

Posted by sinse 2007-06-18 15:52|| 2007-06-18 15:52|| Front Page Top

#20 Ah, that's nothing. Wait till they find out he's married to that Padma Lakshmi of Top Chef. Letting his woman run around with all them tight clothes on has to make their turbans get in a tizzy.....

Posted by Swamp Blondie 2007-06-18 16:25|| 2007-06-18 16:25|| Front Page Top

#21 Thank you TW... I thought that working from the assumption that Islam is hollow within, and on the verge of falling apart just explains certain things... like the extreme reaction to any sort of criticism.
And looking at something as relatively trivial as the falling membership for CAIR, and the disputed numbers of Moslems actually in the US, one can have cause to wonder if Islam is really desperatly trying to seem bigger and more monolithically ferocious than it actually is!

Posted by Sgt. Mom 2007-06-18 16:54|| www.ncobrief.com]">[www.ncobrief.com] 2007-06-18 16:54|| Front Page Top

#22 On the apostate issue, like others I wonder about this.

There are some interesting websites like Islam watch and faith freedom that are mostly the product of apostates from Islam. However, I don't think it is really possible to get any hard numbers on this and I wouldn't trust anybody who said they had hard numbers.

Posted by mhw 2007-06-18 17:25|| http://hypocrisy-incorporated.blogspot.com/]">[http://hypocrisy-incorporated.blogspot.com/] 2007-06-18 17:25|| Front Page Top

#23 Well, as I pointed out in my essay... because the penalty for straying from Islam publically is death, and the penalty for urging conversion is also death, everyone involved in converting from Islam has a damn good reason for staying very quiet and laying very low. Absolute figures would be about impossible to come by, with the usual means for figuring out this sort of thing.
Me, I've always wondered --- if there are so damn many people converting to Islam --- why have I never met any of then? I know its one of those logical faults to assume trends based on ones' own experience, but still...
The converts that I read about are either prison inmates (don't know any of those) or people who give the impression of desperatly shopping around for some kind of religious meaning for their life, and I don't know many of those, either. I don't think I have lived a particularly sheltered life, but if Islam is the coming thing, religiously speaking, it must be in circles that don't include me.

Posted by Sgt. Mom 2007-06-18 18:00|| www.ncobrief.com]">[www.ncobrief.com] 2007-06-18 18:00|| Front Page Top

#24 #23: "if Islam is the coming thing, religiously speaking, it must be in circles that don't include me"

Me neither, Mom - and my circles ain't all that small.

I could get people to "convert" to the Religion of Barbara if they knew I would kill them if they didn't, and that no one would stop me.

As for the ~~losers~~ inmates and other assorted detritus, if that's the best i-slam can do where they aren't allowed to force "conversions" under threat of death - well, they're welcome to them. I'd be embarrassed if that were the best I could do, but apparently their mileage varies.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2007-06-18 18:29|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2007-06-18 18:29|| Front Page Top

#25 I just wanted to congratulate Sgt. Mom on her linked composition about Islam. That bit about the "psychic ATM" was some pretty fine wordsmithing. You go, Gal!

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-06-18 19:36|| 2007-06-18 19:36|| Front Page Top

#26 Thank you, Z... given some exasperated indignation, some concentrated running-time (or stuck at the traffic-light commute time) and about a glass and a half of cheap chablis I can come up with some very vivid phrases.

I am wondering today how many hours it will be for the usual suspects to start whanging away on us about picking up the poor, persecured Palestinians, kissing their owies and promising to turn on the money spigot and make it all better.
You can probably tell from this that I spend too damn much time hanging around the 'Burg.'

Posted by Sgt. Mom 2007-06-18 19:55|| www.ncobrief.com]">[www.ncobrief.com] 2007-06-18 19:55|| Front Page Top

#27 the threats to Rushdie are an interesting problem to our lefties... on the one hand Rushdie is a leftie who was frequently an apologist for the commies and an apologist for the Paleos, etc.

on the other hand the islamofascists, the current leftie heros hate him

well when it comes to choosing between loyalty to old friends and to the fashionable new heros, I think they'll line up with the Islamofascists

Posted by mhw 2007-06-18 20:28|| 2007-06-18 20:28|| Front Page Top

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