April 24, 2006
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But I was struck by this quote from George about the killing of abortionists. It was the first time I'd read it:
"I am personally opposed to killing abortionists. However, inasmuch as my personal opposition to this practice is rooted in a sectarian (Catholic) religious belief in the sanctity of human life, I am unwilling to impose it on others who may, as a matter of conscience, take a different view."George is being funny, of course. But he sees no moral difference between an abortion and the murder of an abortionist.
What got to me about Andrew's comment was that he, himself, starts by observing that Robbie is making a joke (about the pat responses of liberal Catholics like John Kerry and Mario Cuoma), but then proceeds to analyze both George and the "theocons" as though they were seriously proposing the murder of abortionists. Just for the record, Robert George is opposed to capital punishment and would probably be willing to impose that constraint on those who disagree with him if it were legislatively feasible to do so. The real motivation behind Sullivan's attack is today's article in the NYT: "A Religious Push Against Gay Unions"
Just who is being morally inconsistent here?
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Ebru Umar has reportedly been attacked near her home by Muslim youths. Ms. Umar is a vocal critic of the treatment of women in Muslim societies, is an author of a book on the subject, and was a close friend of slain Dutch filmaker Theo Van Gogh. She is also openly critical of the failure of the Netherlands--and Europe in general--to integrate Muslims into the mainstream of society.Ms. Ebru Umar, who befriended the late Theo van Gogh, has been attacked near her house in Amsterdam. (She lives a couple of blocks from my house, but for obvious reasons I will not disclose her address.) The attack was allegedly carried out by two youths of Moroccan descent....Ms. Umar has used confrontational methods in the past to make her points. For instance, it is reported here that she has confronted Muslim women wearing burqas in the past.Unsurprisingly, the culprits have not yet been arrested.
There is precisely zero news about this in the English press. One wonders if this is because attacks by young Muslims is so common in Europe--where they have been effectively ghettoized--and therefore not big news, or because the powers that be are afraid to talk about the problem? Thanks to Ghost of a Flea for the tip.
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Bloomberg :``You made Europe unsafe for Jews,'' he said at a press conference. ``Allow them to go back to their own fatherlands,'' he said in a speech about the consequences of World War Two, according to a translation carried live by Bloomberg Television. ``You have created a problem which you should solve yourself.'' He said the creation of Israel had resulted in the persecution of the Palestinian people.More of Hitlers new apprentice here at Yahoo News :
Some 60 years have passed since the end of World War II. Why should the people of Germany and Palestine pay now for a war in which the current generation was not involved?" Ahmadinejad said at a news conference.He sounds more like Hitler every day."We say that this fake regime (Israel) cannot not logically continue to live," he said.
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"The presence of families and women will improve soccer-watching manners, and promote a healthy atmosphere," Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said . "They will be allocated some of the best stands in stadiums," he added.He also paid additional lip service to womenÂ’s rights with this statement.
"Some consider women as the source of corruption and this is a very wrong attitude," he said. However, he added women sometimes expressed objectionable views, or what he called "ideas that are not related to Islam."Still the nation of Iran treats women badly and as less than equals.
Iran's Islamic law imposes tight restrictions on women. They need a male guardian's permission to work or travel, and have rarely been allowed to attend public sporting events. In 2001, a group of Irish women was permitted to attend a World Cup qualifier match between Iran and Ireland that was held in Tehran…So Ahmadinejad is a politician. Iranian women fight for their rights and he gives them a sky box at the stadium. Somehow I doubt Iranian women are that stupid. Must say I’m impressed by the Iranian president’s ability to learn how to play politics “Washington Style”. The old bait and switch eh?…Women in Iran are not allowed to become judges, and a man's court testimony is considered twice as important as a woman's. Iranian men can divorce almost at will, while women must go through a long legal battle and often relinquish rights in return for divorce…
Â…In March, police charged a peaceful women's rights protest in Tehran, beating women and men and provoking condemnation from international rights groupsÂ…
Â…Last week, some 500 conservative activists demonstrated outside the Majlis, or parliament, demanding full implementation of Islamic law, which bans women from wearing short coats and skirts in public as well as premarital relationships. They blamed police negligence for an increase in violations of strict Islamic law.
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These are the same people who said of the 9/11 attacks, "Next time, we will get all of New York City."
Video below, scroll down. Thanks to Chris for sending the link.
Previous coverage of The Islamic Thinkers Society of New York:
Taliban Supporters Behind New York Rally Against Muhammed Cartoons
American Muslims Protest Mohammed Cartoons, Call for Destruction of America
The Enemy Among Us: The Islamic Thinkers Society of NY
Islamists in New York Flag Desecration, Anti-American Video
Flag Desecration Images From the Religion of Patriots
Terror Attack in New York: British Consulate Targetted
Muslims in NY: "next time we will get all of NYC"
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The Star dot com :Two Georgia men met in Toronto with Islamic extremists to discuss potential terror strikes in the United States, including attacks on oil refineries and military bases, according to U.S. court documents unsealed yesterday.I wonder if his new fine pious Islamic bride approves of the porn?The documents say the pair met with at least three people, who are under international surveillance, to plot ways to disable the Global Positioning System which would disrupt military and commercial communications and air traffic. They also discussed a trip to Pakistan to receive military training at a terrorist-sponsored camp.
FBI agent Michael Scherk, a member of the Joint Terrorism Task Force in Atlanta, says in a sworn affidavit 19-year-old Eshanul Islam Sadequee of Roswell, Ga., and Syed Haris Ahmed, 21, of Atlanta, made the trip to Toronto in March 2005.
Ahmed has been charged with suspicion of giving material support of terrorism and is being held at an undisclosed location. He pleaded not guilty during a brief court appearance Wednesday in Georgia.
Sadequee is accused of making materially false statements in connection with a terrorist investigation, and he was arrested in Bangladesh, where he told the FBI that he had gone to get married.
The U.S. Attorney in Georgia, David Nahmias, said in a statement that the charge against Ahmed is "serious and involves national security.''I always forget my Uncles name donÂ’t you? I've only known him my entire life. Now, on to the porn!U.S. Justice Department officials, however, said there was no immediate threat to any strategic U.S. targets.
According to the court document, Sadequee and Ahmed travelled to Toronto from Atlanta on a Greyhound bus, leaving March 6, 2005, and crossed the border back to the United States on March 12.
Sadequee is accused of lying to federal agents when he was detained at New York's Kennedy airport in August 2005, saying he had travelled to Canada in January of that year, staying with an aunt he identified as "Manju Auntie,'' but being unable to name her husband.
FBI agents confiscated computer hard drives and data CDs from their home last month.You nasty, nasty boys.Federal agents conducted a search of Sadequee's bags before he left for Bangladesh and found two CD-ROMS concealed in the lining of a suitcase.
One CD contained encrypted files that FBI technical experts still cannot decode, the affidavit said, while the other CD contained a bootleg copy of a hard-core pornographic movie.
They are also disillusioned in many cases, he (The U.S. Attorney in Georgia, David Nahmias) said, and sometimes take up Islam "in the radical form."I donÂ’t doubt that! After all their minds are all twisted by the Koran and porn. more..."I do believe that when the time comes, a number of these people will attempt to do something quite serious."
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Michael Totten :I decided to try a little experiment. Instead of lining up an assignment from an editor to cover Northern Iraqi Kurdistan, I struck out on my own without asking permission from anyone. Almost all my material was posted directly to this Web site. I wanted to see if the amount of money I can raise from readers competes with the industryÂ’s going rate.My paltry sum added to your paltry sums add up!
It does.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has called for people who ridiculed the Prophet Mohammad to be killed, weighing into the furor that erupted after a Danish newspaper ran cartoons lampooning Islam's holy messenger.Osama is correct on this point: the only way to guarantee that people's freedom of speech will not be exercised is to kill them. Unless they're mainstream American journalists. Then threats of violence will suffice to get them to censor themselves."Heretics and atheists, who denigrate religion and transgress against God and His Prophet, will not stop their enmity toward Islam except by being killed," the Saudi-born militant said.
Cross-posted at The Dread Pundit Bluto.
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At the MPSA I attended a panel of political scientists who blog. When I said my name was "Rusty Shackleford" they just looked at me like "so what?" Which was odd, because I had thought pretty much every one knew about The Jawa. If my plans for world domination are to ever come to fruition, I'm going to have to start working harder here. Much harder. Also, if any one has a spare monkey's paw, that might also help.
I have several hundred e-mails to answer. It might be a few days until blogging is back to normal.
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One is struck by the parallels in reading Doris Kearns Goodwin's masterful new book, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln.
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And also why were doing Carnivals see Carnival Of Liberty XLI that I missed last Tuesday. Sorry Left Brain Female.
Carnival Of Liberty XLII tomorrow at Cape Cod Porcupine.
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April 23, 2006
This will allow Yale to reject Hashemi's application to a degree program without admitting that they were utterly stupid and morally bankrupt for admitting him in the first place. Or maybe they're just afraid they'll be beheaded.
Cross-posted at The Dread Pundit Bluto, Stop the ACLU, and Vince Aut Morire.
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CNN :The top Democrat on the House ethics committee, Alan Mollohan, will leave the panel -- at least temporarily -- while he defends his own financial conduct, Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi said Friday.Hmm guess not. More to this than we now see, methinks.
Mollohan's decision comes in an election year when his party is accusing majority Republicans of allowing a "culture of corruption" in Congress.
Mollohan, of West Virginia, will be replaced by Rep. Howard Berman of California, a former ranking Democrat on the panel. Mollohan has denied any wrongdoing.The Wall Street Journal reported two weeks ago that Mollohan steered millions of dollars to nonprofit groups in his district -- with much of the money going to organizations run by people who contribute to the lawmaker's campaigns.
Also, a conservative group filed a complaint with federal prosecutors this year questioning whether Mollohan correctly reported his assets on financial disclosure forms.
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In the recording, aired on Sunday, the al-Qaeda leader said the isolation and cutting off of aid to the Hamas-led Palestinian government reaffirmed that the West was at war with the Islamic nation.This is the sort of twisted logic that appeals to the average ignorant Muslim on the street and in the terrorist-breeding madrassas, aided and abetted by "media outlets" like al-Jazeera. After whining about aid being cut off to the Hamas government, bin Laden then whines piteously about Western people supporting the War on Terror:"The blockade which the West is imposing on the government of Hamas proves that there is a Zionist crusaders war on Islam," he said.
"They send their sons to armies to fight us and they continue their financial and moral support while our countries are burned and our houses are bombed and our people are killed."The only people indiscriminately burning mosques and murdering civilians are his own supporters, but many, if not most, Muslims are either deliberately misinformed by Arab media or too intellectually dishonest to admit the truth.
The rationalizations in Osama's comments may be a signal that a new terrorist attack is planned, which he is trying to justify in advance.
Bin Laden also railed about the Danish Mohammed cartoons and urged Islamist terrorists to help out their buddies in Sudan.
Al-Jazeera, of course, is careful not to mention the words "terrorist" or "terrorism", referring to the world's most notorious terrorist as "the al Qaeda leader".
Via the Stop the ACLU.
Cross-posted at The Dread Pundit Bluto.
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As reported earlier (so i'll make his post come first even though it looks like later) on this blog by our co-blogger The Dread Pundit Bluto, Osama Bin Laden has issued a new video. I have just few things to add.Today we get more jew hating blah blah blah from the increasingly Irrelevant Osama Bin Laden
MSNBC via NBC News and News Services : In his first new message in three months, bin Laden said the West’s decision to cut off funds to the Palestinians because their Hamas leaders refuse to recognize Israel proved that the United States and Europe were conducting “a Zionist crusader war on Islam.”Al Jazeera? Err, who else.“The blockade which the West is imposing on the government of Hamas proves that there is a Zionist crusader war on Islam,” said the speaker on the tape broadcast by the Al-Jazeera network.
Israeli government spokesman Raanan Gissin said bin Laden had decided to attack Israel to deflect growing Arab animosity toward al-Qaida.I thought you picked a fight with America? Now you are after the joooos again? What happened to crushing the infidels in the land of two rivers? What, do you fear what may happen if the majority of the Arabs get sick of your doctrine of hate and murder? You should be! You should also fear that we already have gotten sick of it. Really you can see this coming for 60 years. Nut's like him have been blowing up this or that consistantly for decades. Stop or be stopped!“When he attacks Israel, this is something the Arab world can agree upon,” Gissin said. “He has been criticized for the destruction and carnage he’s causing the Muslim nation. He’s looking for another justification ... Criticizing Israel sounds more politically correct.”
Al-Qaida is believed to have no direct links to Hamas, which is an outgrowth of the Muslim Brotherhood, but they share an anti-Israel ideology that calls for the destruction of the Jewish state.
Just one more thing. It looks like Rusty’s speculation that Bin Laden is in Africa may be right on target as Bin Laden was, “calling on his followers to go to Sudan to fight a proposed U.N. force.” The stench rising from the genocide in Darfur smells of Al-Qaeda more each day.
Others Dr Sanity And Tigerhawk.
Updated: Full English translation here and also in the extended entry. more...
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An update on the Hilton Hotel corporation failure to make help make new arrangements for a group of disabled veterans about to be displaced by a remodeling. If you do help out these vets I think It would be a very nice gustier if Paris and Nikki came down and helped feed a few vets. Also it would be nice if they came by our place in bikinis and personally thanked Howie & 8ackgr0und N015e for pointing out the errors of their ways with a big smooch on the cheek for each of us. Then take us out to party. IÂ’m old and there is not much party left in me but IÂ’ll try.
Via 8ackgr0und N015e who Also included is this quote from Republican Abraham Lincoln::"We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."You are quite welcome. IÂ’ll place my rants and most of the stuff 8ackgr0und N015e sent in us in the extended entry along with more Hilton chick pics like this one.
I really want to thank Howie for the support here. This is not a matter of Right v. Left, it is Right v. Wrong.
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ABC News is answering the partisan call. In a Saturday story on their website ABC manages to put together a remarkably dishonest piece of "journalism" predicting the fall of the Republic if leaking classified information remains a crime.
Not only did ABC fail to mention McCarthy's political leanings (she contributed $2000 to John Kerry's unsuccessful 2004 bid for the Presidency), there is also this:
"This a matter of principle," said Ray McGovern, a former fellow CIA analyst, "where she said my oath, my promise not to reveal secrets is superceded by my oath to defend the constitution of the U.S."ABC leaves out the inconvenient, but telling, fact that Ray McGovern is one of the lunatic fringe who now makes his living calling for the impeachment of President Bush.
Prepare for much more dishonesty from the media, especially now that European investigators have found no trace of the CIA renditions that McCarthy whispered of to Dana Priest at the Washington Post.
Cross-posted at The Dread Pundit Bluto, Stop the ACLU, and Vince Aut Morire.
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April 22, 2006
Post Executive Editor Leonard Downie Jr. said people who provide citizens the information they need to hold their government accountable should not "come to harm for that."Now, think about that. Downie is actually advocating trying to run a government in which not a single bit of data can reasonably be expected to remain confidential. Downie doesn't explain what disclosures match his criteria for "holding their government accountable". Evidently, those determinations are up to any of the hundreds of thousands of government employees who are privy to classified information.
Presumably, based on the WaPo's history, any revelation that can be used to damage a Republican administration is "sharing information" and holding the government accountable. Revelations that damage Democratic politicians or support Republicans are "leaks" that are betrayals of public trust.
Are you a CIA officer pissed off because the candidate you donated $2000 to lost the Presidential election? Disregard your oath, your secrecy agreement, and the law, and hold the government accountable by leaking classified information! Leonard Downie Jr. has given his okay.
Cross-posted at The Dread Pundit Bluto, Vince Aut Morire, and Stop the ACLU.
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April 21, 2006
From SeattleTimes.com:
(Brussels, Belgium) Investigations into reports that U.S. agents shipped prisoners through European airports to secret detention centers have produced no evidence of illegal CIA activities, the European Union's anti-terror coordinator said Thursday.The left will likely experience chafing. Of course, the seriousness of the charges always trumps their veracity.The investigations also have not turned up any proof of secret renditions of terror suspects on EU territory, Gijs de Vries told a European Parliament committee investigating the allegations.
The European Parliament's inquiry and a similar one by the continent's leading human-rights watchdog are looking into whether U.S. intelligence agents interrogated al-Qaida suspects at secret prisons in Eastern Europe and transported some on secret flights through Europe.
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