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Pat Condell gives us another insightful rant, this time about the perpetually offended religion of peace.


I have to agree with Pat on more than one point, specifically those of tolerance and respect. Tolerance works in both directions. I will not be tolerant of an ideology that has none of its own. And respect is earned, it is never owed. Demanding that I respect someone who has no respect for me is a non-starter. It ain't gonna happen.

These endlessly pissed-off folk have got to get a grip on themselves and realize that the more they act like savages, the less we will listen to them and the less likely we will be to ever respect them.

(H/T Maggie's Farm)

That was when adherents of Islam elsewhere in France were causing mayhem and shouting, "Death to the Jews!" France will likely burn today. Read about it at the GalliaWatch blog, which calls the 15 September 2012 address by the Catholic bishop of Saint-Dié, Jean-Paul Mathieu, a "pathetic" example of "welcoming those who have come to dispossess him of his Church, his goods, and possibly his life."

It wouldn't exist. Basic tenet, folks, of Islamic law is that any and all criticism of Islam is prohibited, a basic point that escapes most naïve Westerners who parrot the so-called "tiny band of extremists causing all the problems" theme that's bringing Western property and lives under assault all over the world.

The truth may be the truth, even when it's hard to accept, suggests blogger and columnist Diana West. Her recent entries are certainly worth a look.

"Boko Haram" is from the northern Nigerian language of Hausa, meaning, "Western education is sacrilege."

Nigeria has big problems with the northern Islamic part at war with the southern Christian section. Goodluck Jonathan will need just that, he of the South.

I guess they'd prefer memorizing the Qu'ran in the Arabic and ditching the math, science, and literature. But did that mean Muslim gunmen could kill seven in the city of Maiduguri? That sounds a lot like the name of the city, Medjugorje in Bosnia and Herzegovina, with the bogus Marian apparitions in the Balkans.

Though the link to this piece appeared over at Instapundit a few days ago, I hadn't read it until yesterday. If nothing else it proves that Robert Heinlein was right when he wrote:

Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded -- here and there, now and then -- are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.

This is known as "bad luck."

All we need to do is look at Pakistan to see how Heinlein's observation is true.

As Anglo-Indians were driven out of Pakistan, its society and economy started to deteriorate. Those actually producing the wealth, running the bureaucracies, the courts, the hospitals, the police, the railroads, the schools were driven out and bad things started happening. As Masood Hasan writes in the Pakistan's international edition of The News:

It is hard to believe that Pakistan was once a gentle country. It is even harder to believe that some of the most wonderful people lived here. All that seems like a misty memory which has little relevance as you face the day's first rude slaps. A friend passed me an interesting short article about the Anglo-Indians who lived and worked in what is now India and Pakistan. The Anglos are long gone swallowed up by the mists of time, driven out from here to fend for themselves. But in their extinction lies a bigger tragedy.

The Anglo Indians were fun people. But more than the singular expertise they brought to the jobs that became traditionally their forte, they added a swing, vibrancy and a sheer joy of living spirit to our society that in many ways epitomised the new, fresh spirit that was Pakistan. That was then. Now it's a fading sepia tone picture. Those of us who grew up with them, watched with considerable sadness as family after family left this country to go and live in alien climes. There was nothing left for them. They were wise in retrospect. Look at our bestiality towards our minorities. But while the Anglo Indians were here, they gave us a unique gift. The joy of living and of being alive.

Pakistan is a shadow if its former self. Where once everyone could walk the streets safely, one now puts one's life in jeopardy, particularly if you aren't Pakistani. The government is corrupt, the military is rife with religious fundamentalists who see Wahabbi-perverted jihad as a good thing, and it's once thriving economy and society is a shambles.

The 1972 laws enforced by ZAB to please the fundos broke the spirit of all of us, particularly the Anglo Indians. Bars, discos, clubs all shut down in fear. Suddenly hosts of musicians and other artists had no livelihood. 'Tolerance went up in smoke,' recalls one sad person. Came 1979 and the evil Zia and the coup de grace forced the Anglos to escape, migrate anywhere they could go. They left by the droves, never to come back. The clubs died, the dance floors uprooted, the many services they offered fell by the wayside. In driving out this small community, we dug our own graves. We rapidly became soulless, grey, hypocritical and boring. With them gone, an integral part of decent civilian life was snuffed out. Guns replaced guitars. The scorched landscape that we inherited, now mocks us. Laughter has changed to anguish. Pakistan may be a 'hard country', but it is also a barren and desolate land. One gentleman of the fabled 60s sums it all up in one line: 'Those days are gone. They will not come back.' Quite an epitaph wouldn't you agree?

What's telling are the comments from those who remember the days before everything started coming apart and their lament at what their home country has become.

Why that is the case is ably described by Andrew C. McCarthy, one of the few adults working at National Review these days. The brutal and sadistic murder of the Fogel family was, in a perverse way, more dreadful than the horrific calamity that struck Japan around the same time. I'm thinking of the jubilant reaction to it by Palestinians in the street.

Oh, how I miss the days when John O'Sullivan was the editor of NR and Peter Brimelow was publishing front-page stories!

And another important insight is provided by the underappreciated reporter Charlotte Allen. Touring the streets of Cairo for the Weekly Standard, she discovers that what the typical Muslim yearns for is very different from what we yearn for. "It's as if they live in their own world," she concludes. (I may be paraphrasing.)

This sounds like something from a novel.

There are other lawless regions where al-Qaeda operates, outside Pakistan. The AQIM (Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb) is becoming an increasing player. Poor Edwin Dyer, a British tourist abducted and later killed by the group. Probably brutally beheaded.

French officials say the vast territory in which AQIM operates is essentially lawless and is outside the sovereign reach of governments.

Does anyone know what the Sahel is?

How can a German doctinaire left-winger of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and director of the Bundesbank, write a best-selling book condemning the lack of assimilation of Moslems in Germany? I love when, at 8:30 or so of the video, he says, Das ist ein factum, "It is a fact."

He was talking, if my German is up to speed, of the truth of higher Jewish IQs. (He wants to import Jews from East Europe, rather than dimbulbs from elsewhere, esp. when they are Islamic.)

I guess you could call him the Charles Murray of Deutschland. Here's an excellent, lengthy background in English. Notice the elites from across the spectrum are in unison in condemnation, while sixty-one percent of Germans support what he's saying.

Talk about a disconnect!

While I have not commented upon the controversy in New York about the Ground Zero mosque..er...community center, it isn't because I don't have any to offer. Quite the contrary. It's only that nothing really spurred me to put words onto the 'net. That has changed.

An occasional commenter here posted her viewpoints about the Ground Zero mosque and I felt compelled to answer her. Paulina and I rarely see eye to eye on anything, but I respect her opinions because, quite frankly, she tends to think things through before writing about them. There are times when she lets emotion override logic, but it occurs rarely (that I've seen). I think this is one of those times.

When I first heard about the "Ground Zero Mosque" a few weeks back, all the controversy made me think there was a plan to build a Hagia Sophia type structure right where the trade center stood. Turns out it's some sort of community center (gym, swimming pool, theater and a mosque) two blocks away from ground zero, planned by a Sufi (read: peaceful, Buddhist-like) Imam (Feisal Abdul Rauf, or whatever). Never mind that there is already a mosque four blocks away and that lower Manhattan was originally a very muslim community (back in the late 19th century it was called Little Syria) - why is it that the very people who like to get all outraged on behalf of the constitution are forgetting it's very first amendment?

I know why, of course. It's because most Americans and certainly most conservatives, like to think of America as a christian nation. They like to throw their bible into political arguments (gay marriage? no way - it's an abomination!). More importantly, they have found themselves a nice little enemy in Islam. What used to be a multifaceted religion practiced by nearly a third of the world's population, is now equated with intolerant governments and terrorism. The idea that Islam is a violent religion is now somehow taken as a fact. And this I also understand. We all need an "other" to hate or put down. I myself have an "other" in conservatives and all religious fanatics, christian and muslim alike. Still, it is the intolerance and bigotry that piss me off the most when it comes to my "others" and so I've decided that it would be an excellent idea to build and actually mosque, with minarets and all, right there next to where the trade center stood, to symbolize the hope for tolerance and peace.

So the reason for the opposition is because we're all Muslim-hating, intolerant conservativs, and worse, Christians? Yeah. Right.

Here was my comment to her post:

We're told we must be tolerant of other beliefs, primarily Islam. However the reverse isn't true, as seen every day by the likes of the media, academia, the government, and the multi-culti proselytizers. Those of us of Judeo-Christian beliefs must not be tolerated because, after all, It's-All-Our-Fault. The Muslim community in New York has shown great insensitivity to the feelings and beliefs of those who lost loved ones on That Terrible Day. It is they who are showing intolerance, not those protesting against something they see as a slap in the face.

The argument has been made in other places that there are already churches, strip joints, and an OTP parlor surrounding Ground Zero, so why should building a mosque create such a controversy? It's simple, really. They were already there on That Terrible Day. Frankly, if the mosque had also been there on That Terrible Day, I doubt there would be nearly as much opposition to it. There might even have been none. But that isn't the case here.

Whether the intentions of those wanting to build the new community center are good or otherwise, I believe they could have handled it differently which might have lessened the opposition to it. Instead, they sprang it on the people of New York with little or no notice, something they should not have done. It showed insensitivity. Did they really expect any different response under those circumstances?

I wrote a polemical piece several days ago about the man the State Department was sending to the Near East on the taxpayer dole. I am neither happy with that nor with the lefties at State declaring Feisal Abdul Rauf a moderate.

Well, thanks to Neal Boortz's linking to an Andrew McCarthy piece, this guy is even worse than I had let on to you, my gentle readers.

Identifiably Jew in Europe? Are you kidding me? That's a recipe for, at the very least, harassment.

I dream of doing it in Britain or Malmo, Sweden, except I'm Jason Bourne only in my dreams.

Jews, as is typical in world history, are the canaries in the coal mine to the hate that is resurfacing.

I heard Israel has a law against it by Christians, but I'm not sure it's enforced.

But in Muslim countries the prohibition of Christians being Christian, at least openly, is far more robust in practice. Doug Bandow, looking at Morocco, hits on a point usually ignored by the secular West. It doesn't fit the multicult playbook.

...they could call it the Religion of Peace. Farmer admits he repeatedly had sex with a 12-year-old girl he apparently had taken in. His curiously incompetent public defender said he was Christ-like. Wrong religion, buddy.

Didn't the founder of a religion marry a nine-six-year-old, consummating it a few years later, when she was nine? Oh, yeah. And Aisha was his favorite wife. I wonder why.

And I'm supposed to respect the Religion of Submission? I certainly don't respect that farmer or anyone who would do such a thing.

While we're building or have built a gargantuan embassy in Baghdad larger than the entire Vatican State, one soldier speaking truth to power says we don't know what we're doing. Yep. I concur.

Read the soldier's remarkable letter, a real cry from the heart, here.

You [the incomparable Diana West] correctly assessed that we have not gained anything positive from our efforts in Iraq and that the nation is not our ally. (The same is true for Afghanistan.) I will go as far as saying that the Iraqis are our enemies--enemies better equipped to wage jihad against us than they have ever been. We will regret what we have done. We will regret that we created this officially Islamic nation. And we will regret that we created an officially Islamic Afghanistan. We will regret that we have placed ourselves in the service of Islam, waging jihad worldwide as we advance the Religion of Peace and eliminate Christians in the process. (So much for the accusation that the U.S. is on a "Crusade.") It is a shame that so many people refuse to recognize how horrible Islam is, and that the U.S. made a fatal mistake when it refused to declare war against Afghanistan and Islam--when it refused victory by binding the greatest military force of all time.

Give the Community Organizer time. He was only a college professor before he became a state senator with a marked propensity to vote "present" time and time again. He doesn't really know his history--his American uncle (on the white side) helped liberate Auschwitz? Um, the Soviets did that.--or geography.

Boy, did the dominant media have to carry water for that horrid gaffe. They certainly earned their salaries--those who are still employed in the dwindling market.

When will the dots be connected? HT: Paul Nichols's brilliant cartoon blog, Catholic Cartoon.

"The problem with people in the West is they do not want to understand Islam"

 "Islam by itself is radical"

Give it a try. Listening to this heroic woman makes me feel better about humanity. That it can produce an individual such as Wafa Sultan is impressive.

A gay man with a Ph.D. in English who had just published a book critical of American Christianity leaves for Amsterdam to live in the freer air of a more liberated Europe. Who's that guy with the oversize jaw in the TV show? Jim Nabers, "Surprise, surprise!"



The far, far greater threat to Bruce Bawer--he suddenly realizes--is not evangelicals in America but Muslims flocking in large numbers to Europe.

Under Sharia he'll be a dead man. Here's Bruce Bawer today, talking about the sneering libs of Europe who will dismiss those who are the modern-day Jeremiahs.

For me, though, the preeminent such person sending out the clarion call is the wonderful Diana West. A brunette babe with a brilliant brain who thinks in macro terms! Here's a must-read posting in regards to the attack on the Danish caricaturist's house.

Don't say you aren't being warned...if you're bothering to listen to the few brave souls like Bawer, West, Robert Spencer, Brigitte Gabriel, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Bat Ye'or, Andrew Bostom, Lawrence Auster, et al.

It's already been established for some of us that political correctness kills. I'm thinking of the Portland, Maine, security screener Michael Tuohey, who let Mohammad Atta "red flag" through the gate--a man who was paying cash for a one-way plane ticket on first class--with this pile of dung,

"I said to myself, 'If this guy doesn't look like an Arab terrorist, then nothing does.' Then I gave myself a mental slap, because in this day and age, it's not nice to say things like this," Tuohey told the Maine Sunday Telegram. "You've checked in hundreds of Arabs and Hindus and Sikhs, and you've never done that. I felt kind of embarrassed."

Well, the horrific attempted Christmas day jihadi attack clearly shows current security procedures that are rigorous only in their PC-craptitude are not failsafe in keeping people alive. If the guy, perhaps tranquilized to be calm, had been more competent he would have gone into the bathroom when the plane was over the Atlantic to perpetuate his diabolical deed.

One word, gubmit: profile. Just a little. It means backing off the usual suspects the PC crowd likes to demonize--white men--and practice some down and dirty "people of color" targeting. Won't happen, though. It'll take something really big for the stupid PC mask to be taken off.

We'll know they're really serious if they do this: curtail or stop all Muslim travel and immigration into this country. It can and should be done, America. But instead we'll have sub-100 IQ guys and gals making McDonald's wages oogling at the body scan images of comely travelers that will almost certainly result in response to this attack.

LA writes:

It doesn't have to be this way. We're not trapped. We have a choice. Sixty years ago, there were no Muslims in the West. All we have to do, then, is ... TURN BACK THE CLOCK.

Impossible, you say? It's not impossible. We just stop letting Muslims into the West, and we tell the ones who are already here that they're not welcome. And if they don't leave voluntarily, through a combination of carrots and sticks, then we make them leave. Not because we hate them as individuals, but because, given that their religion commands them to subvert, subjugate, and kill us, the ONLY way that we can be safe and free is if they're not here.

The liberals and "conservatives" will shriek that to exclude Muslims will make us racist and evil, it will make us "as immoral as the terrorists," as the editor of a conservative magazine once said to me.

Not so. To quote Bob Dylan:

You will not die
It's not poison.

Seven percent (Saudi financed John Esposito) or forty-nine percent (JihadWatch's Robert Spencer)? We're talking the numbers of Muslims who support jihad terror. Totaling a billion adherents, the numbers are either frightening or cosmically scary. Depending on what the number is.

This is one of the most important questions facing us in the West today. Andy McCarthy has an incredible piece at The Corner how jihadi sympathizers are being recruited and hired by federal agencies to teach the troops. "Somebody at Fort Hood Should Walking the Plank." Must read. We very well could lose this war against Muslim terror. September 11 must not happen again, but I fear in my bones another attack is coming. Soon.

Okay, I've had it. With jihad.

Anyone who open supports it should be prosecuted under this US Code.
How's that for simplicity?

HT: What's Wrong with the World?