Article

2006-02-03 Arabia

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by Seafarious 2006-02-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11142 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 If we did not take serious actions to protect our dignity against the Danish then their ambassadors will be the first to despise us.

Actually, I claim first on despising them.

Posted by BH 2006-02-03 00:19|| 2006-02-03 00:19|| Front Page Top

#2 I, for one, have stopped buying: advanced electronics, fine arts, large scale consumer goods and automobiles either created or designed in Arab countries....

doesn't seem to be a real hardship for me, go figure

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-02-03 00:25|| 2006-02-03 00:25|| Front Page Top

#3 We do not need to use the language of diplomacy.

Well hell, why start now.

I support Denmark!

Posted by Rafael 2006-02-03 00:55|| 2006-02-03 00:55|| Front Page Top

#4 I, for one, have stopped buying: advanced electronics, fine arts, large scale consumer goods and automobiles either created or designed in Arab countries

Not much of hardship indeed, Frank G, since litte in the way of art, science, or industry has come out of the Arab world in in the last millennium. Little other than corpses, fatwas and seething.

As a group, Muslims are the biggest wussies on the planet. Here in the West, we have whiny little girls with thicker skins. The driving force behind all this seething and violence is a sense of inferiority caused by, not to put too fine a point on it, being inferior. By any measure of comparision, whether scientific research, economic production, human rights, art and literature or simply books translated, the Arab world lags behind the West. With no real accomplishments, all that remains is their religion and their 'dignity'. Hence, the violent over-reaction to the smallest perceived slight to either.

The author is correct that they need to do more than boycott butter. They need to throw off or outgrow a culture that may have been adapted to life in the desert in the 11th century but fails miserably in the modern world. Right now, their religion stands in their way.

Posted by SteveS 2006-02-03 02:20|| 2006-02-03 02:20|| Front Page Top

#5 All Muslim countries should call upon their Danish ambassadors to tell the one thing only: To stop this mess in one week or else go home.

And the answer is clear. Go home. And don't let the screen door hit ya.

Posted by 2b 2006-02-03 03:58|| 2006-02-03 03:58|| Front Page Top

#6 It's not aninferiority complex that drives muslims. Just the opposite. They have been taught all their lives that they are the apex of humanity and the infidels have no more value than a goat steak. Just like criminals (contrary to propaganda), they are driven by an exaggerated self worth. To even begin to win this war, the civilized world will have to treat them like the barbarians they are and stomp them hard at even the hint of them trying to assert any superiority over us.

Posted by ed 2006-02-03 07:25|| 2006-02-03 07:25|| Front Page Top

#7 I keep hoping that this is a corner we've turned now with Europe. I for one, like Frank G, will now boycott all those fine goods coming from the ME. This has REALLY hit home with Neal Boortz (in "the ATL"), he really ranted yesterday about how we need to (even here in the US) smack them down and hard, each and every time they begin to feel superior in order to keep them in check. Went on and on about it! Oh, and hey, TW and Frank G, thanks for your kind/encouraging words about my newborn/future Rantburger! Good to hear the up and coming generations have some fine kids in them ("Generation Z?"). My daughter (just turned 2) already has some strong opinions and I don't think any guys will mess with her in the future!

Posted by BA 2006-02-03 09:16|| 2006-02-03 09:16|| Front Page Top

#8 Superb BA. Neal Boortz (in "the ATL") may he thrive and prosper!

http://boortz.com/nuze/index.html
Excerpt:

Admit it, this turban/bomb thing could be the next big fashion hit on the Muslim street!

Muslim outrage huh. OK ... let's do a little historical review. Just some lowlights:

Muslims fly commercial airliners into buildings in New York City. No Muslim outrage.

Muslim officials block the exit where school girls are trying to escape a burning building because their faces were exposed. No Muslim outrage.

Muslims cut off the heads of three teenaged girls on their way to school in Indonesia. A Christian school. No Muslim outrage.

Muslims murder teachers trying to teach Muslim children in Iraq. No Muslim outrage.

Muslims murder over 80 tourists with car bombs outside cafes and hotels in Egypt. No Muslim outrage.

A Muslim attacks a missionary children's school in India. Kills six. No Muslim outrage.

Muslims slaughter hundreds of children and teachers in Beslan, Russia. Muslims shoot children in the back. No Muslim outrage.

Let's go way back. Muslims kidnap and kill athletes at the Munich Summer Olympics. No Muslim outrage.

Muslims fire rocket-propelled grenades into schools full of children in Israel. No Muslim outrage.

Muslims murder more than 50 commuters in attacks on London subways and busses. Over 700 are injured. No Muslim outrage.

Muslims massacre dozens of innocents at a Passover Seder. No Muslim outrage.

Muslims murder innocent vacationers in Bali. No Muslim outrage.

Muslim newspapers publish anti-Semitic cartoons. No Muslim outrage

Muslims are involved, on one side or the other, in almost every one of the 125+ shooting wars around the world. No Muslim outrage.

Muslims beat the charred bodies of Western civilians with their shoes, then hang them from a bridge. No Muslim outrage.

Newspapers in Denmark and Norway publish cartoons depicting Mohammed. Muslims are outragedd prosper!

Posted by Besoeker 2006-02-03 09:26|| 2006-02-03 09:26|| Front Page Top

#9 And that's Neal on a calm day, Besoeker. I mean, he left out many other attacks where Muslims showed NO outrage:

* 1993 bombing of WTC
* Barracks and Embassy (US) bombing in Beirut (80's)
* Embassy bombings in Kenya & Tanzania
* Saudi bombing of barracks
* Daily suicide bombings in Israel
* USS Cole bombing
* Spanish train bombing
* Attacks on African Muslims because they're not Arab in Sudan (heck, they sell 'em into slavery too).

And, on and on and on. But, hey, you just draw big Mo(tm) and you get a bounty on your head! How tolerant!

Posted by BA 2006-02-03 09:43|| 2006-02-03 09:43|| Front Page Top

#10 Maybe the seething Muslims should expand their boycott to other products from non-Muslim countries. Wheat. Sugar. Beef. Cars. Electric motors. Air conditioners. De-salinization membranes. Printing presses (future Korans shall be hand-transcribed). What does that leave? Camels. Goats. And oil.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2006-02-03 10:07|| 2006-02-03 10:07|| Front Page Top

#11 Issue each of them the Kuwaiti National Flower (the plastic shopping bag) and let them give up oxygen for a few hours each day.

Posted by Besoeker 2006-02-03 10:10|| 2006-02-03 10:10|| Front Page Top

#12 I want to see the Danes selling MoHamHead Hams
With a picture of Porky Pig with that turban as their logo.

Or maybe we could get Serrano to do PorKoranimal. A Koran mounted on pigs feet with a pig snout.

Whadda ya think? Would that tighten a few turbans?

Posted by AlanC">AlanC 2006-02-03 10:48|| 2006-02-03 10:48|| Front Page Top

#13 I think we don't need to descend to their level. I want to come out of this conflict alive AND with our culture's best values as intact as we can manage.

Posted by lotp 2006-02-03 10:57|| 2006-02-03 10:57|| Front Page Top

#14 Camels. Goats. And oil.

Sounds like a Muslim wet dream. Kinky!

Posted by Raj 2006-02-03 12:18|| 2006-02-03 12:18|| Front Page Top

#15 Especially SHAVED goats! Hummm...

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-02-03 12:21|| 2006-02-03 12:21|| Front Page Top

#16 Let's take the high road and firebomb their cities.

Posted by ed 2006-02-03 12:23|| 2006-02-03 12:23|| Front Page Top

#17 Another Butter Battle?

Paging Dr Seuss...

Posted by SLO Jim 2006-02-03 13:20|| 2006-02-03 13:20|| Front Page Top

#18 Some tibits:

Whoever defames our prophet should be executed, said Ismail Hassan, 37, a tailor who marched through the pouring rain along with hundreds of others in the West Bank city of Ramallah.

Bin Laden our beloved, Denmark must be blown up, protesters in Ramallah chanted.

An imam at the Omari Mosque in Gaza City told 9,000 worshippers that those behind them should have their heads cut off.

If they want a war of religions, we are ready, Hassan Sharaf, an imam in Nablus, said in his sermon.

In London, hundreds of demonstrators converged on Denmarks Embassy and burned the Danish flag. Women wearing headscarves chanted and held banners proclaiming: Kill the one who insults the Prophet.

Source.

Posted by Rafael 2006-02-03 13:57|| 2006-02-03 13:57|| Front Page Top

#19 tidbits, that is. or possibly timbits, depending on your location.

Posted by Rafael 2006-02-03 13:58|| 2006-02-03 13:58|| Front Page Top

#20 Took a long trip to a store that features lots of goods from all over the world, just to find some Danish cheese. Found some, but it's gonna take me freaking months to eat it, because I'm on a diet.

Also bought some persimmons marked as coming from Israel.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2006-02-03 22:24|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2006-02-03 22:24|| Front Page Top

#21 I'm stocking up on Heineken. Cheers

Posted by Inspector Clueso 2006-02-03 22:53|| 2006-02-03 22:53|| Front Page Top

#22 Bought Danish ham, cheese and biscuits. Forgot about the Tuborg, but there is still time before the Superbowl.

Posted by ed 2006-02-03 23:10|| 2006-02-03 23:10|| Front Page Top

#23 Isn't Heinekin Dutch?

Posted by trailing wife 2006-02-03 23:18|| 2006-02-03 23:18|| Front Page Top

#24 It is. But I think Carlsberg is Danish. And Faxe for sure. And Tuborg.

Posted by Rafael 2006-02-03 23:56|| 2006-02-03 23:56|| Front Page Top

#25 Skaal! (cheers in Danish)

Posted by Rafael 2006-02-03 23:58|| 2006-02-03 23:58|| Front Page Top

12:58 CaziFarkus
13:09 CaziFarkus
11:06 SOP35/Rat
23:58 Rafael
23:56 Rafael
23:51 Hupomoger Clans9827
23:39 Zenster
23:37 ed
23:33 JosephMendiola
23:30 Frank G
23:27 Pappy
23:23 Barbara Skolaut
23:22 Frank G
23:18 trailing wife
23:17 Frank G
23:15 Frank G
23:13 trailing wife
23:12 ed
23:10 ed
23:07 trailing wife
23:05 ed
23:03 Hupomoger Clans9827
22:59 trailing wife
22:58 JosephMendiola