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British children are forced to bow to Allah. The two who didn't get detention.

And you thought Republicans were dumb. They have some wimpy competition.

Intelligent design stuff.

Greta Van Susteren smacks down Anderson Cooper. Anderson has a staff of 60. A couple are dedicated to peeling his grapes and fanning him no doubt.

James Lileks smacks down M. Night Shamalayan:

The trailer doesn’t spell out the message, but Gort – played by Keanu Reeves – says “if the earth dies, you die. If you die, the earth lives.” Well, there’s a message we can all get behind. And if the film flops, you get the Malibu beach house. Seems win-win for everyone except, well, the poison-belching peons who will queue up for another sermon. Gentle cautionary tales are one thing; this groveling self-hatred is another. Same with the M. Night film that has the trees emitting pollen that makes us all kill ourselves – apparently the trees took a big wait-and-see attitude towards deforestation in the late 19th century, and finally decided to kill people when we were just starting to get the point.

The taxing work of being rich and finding enlightenment. Sigh. Aimless and dough-filled make for such trying times. Via Alarming News

Barack Obama's pedigree includes forged papers? Is it possible he doesn't really exist?

Speaking of Obama, if he really is an American citizen, which is in question (see above), he's not patriotic. I question, very openly, his patriotism as does Jonah Goldberg. But the true believers question the questioners. It's amusing.

Tigerhawk on loving America....and those who hate it.

Patterico honors Jesse Helms and thanks the Left for their sympathy.

This is what the world is coming to and Rachel Lukas has a solution. She's going soft.

And on that outrageous note, I'm going for a walk, because my blood pressure is up again from watching the video at Rachel's link.

There's A Dude In There I Just Know It

Iran's president says he has a wife. I say Prove it!

H/T Instapundit who is not married to a man

Chinese Deal With Recalcitrant Muslims

The government gets peeved, they plow down the mosque. Ya gotta hand it to communists, they can be efficient when they want to be. Gateway Pundit muses, "Obviously, the Chinese could care less about the reaction from radical Islamists over the demolition."

I'm wondering how brave radical Islamists will be in going after the Chinese government. The Chinese seem pretty confident.

Hymen Re-Creation: An Act of Liberation or Oppression?

So, you're a Western girl, which is to say, that you're one of the 90% of girls who isn't a virgin when they get married. Only problem is that you're going to the altar with Mohammed, who lost his virginity a few years back too, but against all logic, wants to have one of the 10% of Western Muslim girls who is still a virgin (that number is probably higher, this is for the sake of argument). He wants proof. He wants blood. And the courts in France, when he doesn't get what he wants on the wedding night, he gets an annulment and the court gives it to him:

The furor followed the revelation two weeks ago that a court in the northern city of Lille had annulled the 2006 marriage of two French Muslims after the groom discovered his bride was not the virgin she had claimed to be.

The domestic saga has gripped the nation. The bridegroom, an unidentified engineer in his 30s, left the nuptial bed and announced to the still-partying wedding guests that his bride had lied about her past. She was delivered that night to her parents' doorstep.

The next day, he asked a lawyer to annul the marriage. The bride, then a nursing student in her 20s, confessed the truth to the court and agreed to an annulment.

In its ruling, there was no mention of religion. Rather, it cited breach of contract, concluding that he had married her after "she was presented to him as single and chaste."

No mention of religion, but it's all about religion: specifically the misogyny and lower-class status of women in the Muslim religion. Her only value is sexual and as a uterus willing to produce fruit from an unsullied garden. And of course, should the woman be involved with a more strident believer, her very life is at stake:

Surgeons who perform the procedure said they were empowering their patients by giving them a viable future and preventing them from being abused - or even killed - by their fathers or brothers.

"Who am I to judge?" asked Marc Abecassis, the plastic surgeon who restored the Montpellier student's hymen. "I have colleagues in the United States whose patients do this as a Valentine's present to their husbands. What I do is different. This is not for amusement. My patients don't have a choice if they want to find serenity - and husbands."

A specialist in what he calls "intimate" surgery, including penile enhancement, Abecassis says he performs two to four hymen restorations a week.

So, Muslim women cannot stand for themselves and secular, French law won't stand for them either.

It is politically incorrect to say that the practitioners of Islam are close-minded, double-standard wielding throw-backs. This, to me, is not about extolling the benefits of virginity, which, I fully support. This is about parity and freedom and equality for all people no matter their gender.

This case highlights the fact that the European Muslims don't assimilate. They don't participate fully in the culture (and in France, there are many reasons for this). They are like welfare sucking, violent Amish except they inhabit the cities. The backwardness is extreme even by Amish standards and yet Western elites in this century can, with a straight face, speak of liberating women by recreating hymens.

The whole of Western culture is being oppressed to satisfy a Muslim man's insecurity. I call bullshit.

H/T Rorschach

Cross-posted at Right Wing News

Finding The Courage To Fight--UPDATE

Residents find the courage to fight the Mormans. Now, substitute Muslim for Morman through this whole article and see what you think.

Update: Knowledge of Islam makes fighting it easier. (Via Instapundit)

We Are Witnessing The Demise of Western Civilization--UPDATED

I get ribbed for being hyperbolic. A German lady from Germany (and no that's not stating the obvious, she could have been Austrian or something) called me polemic a year ago. Well, hell, sometimes my emotionality has a basis in reality. This time, Western Civilization is doomed and that is no exaggeration.

There is a new Playstation 3 advertisement over in Europe that is so vile that I cannot put the picture on my blog because my mom reads this (probably not safe for work, but it might be ok if you just look really fast). Go look at it and come on back. You need to do three Hail Mary's to clean your mental palate after looking at that ad.

Okay, now we can talk.

Europeans are supposed to be enlightened. Yeah, I know. Whatever. But still, on the one hand they're turning into frigging Eurabia with all the conservative Muslims running around in burqas and on the other you've got thumbs that look like penises in public advertising aimed at children. One of those philosophies is going to win, right? And which winner leaves Western Civilization the winner? The correct answer boys and girls is neither.

That seems to be the choices. Either nothing goes or everything does. Both ways lead to depravity and sexual dysfunction, ironically enough. One way leads to the objectification of women as vessels for male dominance or child bearing--underneath the black cover there's a vagina. The other way leads to the objectification of women and men and children as sex objects--no black sheet needed.

Americans, take note. This dichotomy, these two paths to destruction, is coming to a city near you. A relative was talking about the neighborhood he and his wife were considering moving to but he refuses to live near two (not just one) mosques. Now, you can call him prejudiced. Go ahead. But while listening to the call to prayers a zillion times a day, you're listening to an ideology that is not, or hasn't shown itself to be, congruent with modern times.

But the choice laid before us by multiculturalists is that anything goes. So, they can, with a straight face, extol the virtues of clitoral mutilation for those people, while defending advertising that has only one purpose: to degrade and debase. Hey! We are free! It's okay to sexualize children. It's okay to abort inconvenience. It's okay to sell a piece of technology geared toward teens and young people with penis pictures. Everything is okay and who are you to judge?

No one is judging much anymore, are they? Few seem willing to draw a line in the sand. So, brace yourselves. Ten years from now, there will be racy Playstation billboards towering over the shiny new, huge mosque coming to a suburb near you. Can you blame people? The disgusting decadence begs for an equal and opposite reaction. Islam gives people lines to not cross that's for damn sure.

Either way, we are witnessing the end. You've been warned.

UPDATE: More evidence coming from Europe that the end is nigh.

And for those who think there is no way this ad can be real, here is this from a dear reader.

Iran's Leaders Are Cuckoo

In case you missed it, Ahmadinejad expressed his warm fuzzies for Israel again:

Speaking of which: always one with the quick quip, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad “labeled the Zionist regime as a ‘stinking corpse’ and said those who think they can revive the corpse of this fabricated and usurper regime are in mistaken."

If you think he was taken out of context, well, that’s from the Iranian news agency. It’s enough just to point out the quote and let it sit there and stink. File that one away with the others. The future should never come as a surprise to anyone who’s been paying attention.

It is easy to get inured to insanity in this post-modern age. Surely, a civilized looking human cannot have genocidal desires. As Dr. Sanity says, though, psychopathology is woven in and through Islamic society:

Then, don't forget all the other superpsychos whose megalomaniacal blood lust and chilling disregard for their fellow human beings are unparalleled in modern history. Names like Osama Bin Laden, Aymen Al-Zawahiri, Moqtada Al-Sadr...the list goes on and on and on, encompassing a great many of the Imams and "holy" leaders. Never have so many wanted to kill so much because it is so essential to their identity.

Then there is this guy, who seems a bit unclear on the concept of "antisocial".

So, why is this sort of hate and viciousness celebrated in the Islamic world? I note in a series on the psychopathology of terrorism that along with the parenting issues, cultural factors play an extremely strong role in personality formation and can under certain circumstances "stack the cards" against normal develoment even if all other factors are benign (which they aren't, actually, but read the entire two-part article if you are interested).

Several key factors that contribute to the development of psychopathy include:

Genetics

Constitution/temperment

Parenting

Culture

Children who happen to be born into authoritarian or tyrannical regimes are frequently systematically indoctrinated and programmed (by teachers or political authorities) to develop habits of thought and behavior at variance with healthy parenting and inconsistent with normal human values. Such programming can easily deform personility development in a variety of ways--none of them very healthy or humane. It is easy in such tyrannical regimes to become rigid; or mindlessly obedient; or cruel; or rebellious, bitter etc.

We shouldn't be surprised when a professed lover of killing actually kills. It's what he's been programmed to do. He'll do it eventually.

Interesting Things You Should Know

I'm going to start on a spiritual note. What is it like to be spiritually abused? A Christian talks about how her ten years in spiritual darkness.

"Did Wright matter?" Yes. Wright will matter in the general. And Gaius writes about the failure of the press in dealing with Obama. As an aside, BlueCrabBoulevard has such a pleasing layout. And I really like the date next to each post. The whole website is restful. Obama is omniscient. Aren't all saviors? Oh, and MKH highlights the press bias with photographic proof (via Cassy at Wizbang) . Amazing that the MSM can do what they do with a straight face. Give me a break.

Something more to worry about if you're so inclined: Geomagnetic storms.

I love Firefly. You know this. Nerd alert: So does Rachel. Shiny! (For what it's worth, I'm a Mal girl, myself, but I do so, so love Kaylee. She is just yummy!) And I'd like to remind Firefly lovers why Mal is hotter than Jayne. When Jayne sold out his crew Mal nearly blew Jayne out the hatch. Captain Malcolm Reynolds showed Jayne who was boss. Yes, sir!

Why is there no sympathy for Muslims claiming discrimination? Canadian Muslims cry foul and Mark Steyn defends himself and answers.

It is time to discuss the ugliness that are Crocs. They are fine for children. Although, they do leave kid's feet stinky in adult rugby player ways. Whew!

No freaking way! Al Gore is an opportunist? Nooooo..... It's perfectly fine to exploit the deaths of over 60,000 people to bring up your pet theory. Perfectly. Fine.

Is the middle class drowning in debt? No.

Cry a sartorial tear for Hillary. If you can muster the emotion.... No tears here.

Stephen King hates the military and he's a moron. Sorry, to family members who love him, or rather, love his freaky writing.

Be careful talking sexy on the internet. Don't say you haven't been warned.

The right to free speech is trumped by the right to an abortion. What?

You know the dude who imprisoned his daughter? Yeah, well he raped someone back in the day, was convicted and spent time in prison, but guess what? Stupid Austria doesn't keep that crime on the books after fifteen years so it's like it never happened. And when his daughter went missing, no one asked because no one had the info to ask. You have got to be kidding me.

60 years of Israel. Why weren't they named Jewland?

Just a reminder to hit the awesome blogs in my blog roll. They are there for a reason. I love them!

Obama Started Muslim

Yes he did. Why do politicians lie when the truth is easy to find? Rachel Lucas sez:

I know that I’m supposed to say that I don’t have a problem with Obama being a Muslim as a child, and that it’s only the lying that I find objectionable.

But screw that. I do have a problem with it; not a big one, but roughly the same size problem I’d have if it turned out John McCain went to Klan rallies as a kid. I might not think that the grown-man version of him has any Muslim beliefs, but it’s still a little thorn in my brain.

There is much I find objectionable about Obama. The fact that his brain was washed in Islam as a child is the least of it, tells you something.

Come To America, Leave The Burka Behind

Three dudes in Philly use the cover of burkas to commit their crimes and the Muslim community is outraged. Really? I mean, I get it. It would be disturbing to see a bunch of Catholic priests committing crimes, rampaging around with their robes and collars. Of course, there is one teensy, weensy difference: The black burka sack completely disguises who you are. A person can be male, female, young, old. In a burka, a person is a non-person. A burqa is the perfect disguise.

These men were practicing Muslims. Check out their bruised noggins. Looks like they pray---a lot. So they are at least going through the religious ritual if nothing else. It is funny that the Muslims would be outraged that a Muslim man would pretend to be a woman. Consider it a remnant of the criminals modern American beliefs that women are equal, that the guys didn't find it too humiliating to flounce around in a burqa. This just makes me laugh:

Many Muslims expressed anger yesterday that criminals would jeopardize Muslim women by wearing their garb.

"It puts sisters in danger," said one Muslim. Islamic researcher Fareed NuMan said, "They couldn't be practicing Muslims, no way. The Quran forbids a man to imitate a woman."

Notice they didn't say that the Quran forbids shooting a police officer in cold blood. Or, it doesn't say that robbing a bank is wrong. The big worry here is over burka-clad sisters being put in danger.

Take the sisters out of the obsolete garb. This isn't a desert where dust storms might make such an article of clothing practical. And in America, where all people are free, it is disgusting to have women be covered like they are members of the untouchable class (I know that's Hindu and India, but you know what I mean). Where the hell are the feminists?

Muslim women dressed as modern, modest women could be devout and not be treated as less than human. And if Muslim would-be robbers wanted to knock off a bank, they'd have to dress in drag to do it which would be more fun, anyway.

Banning burkas seems smart for many reasons.

Stuff You Should Know & Chickens

See Chastity. Yes, some people are chaste and live to talk about it.

The internet will be obsolete soon. I thought I'd give you a heads up. The new way of doing things will be a "grid". It sounds so incredibly cool.

Do you think my planned community would have a problem with this? I also want to keep bees. Whaddya think?

Some are questioning climate change theory. You don't say.

The love fest is over. Bill Clinton is in the Democrat's shitter. It's about time. When were these people going to see him for what he is?

Fred Thompson for Veep? I'd like that.

I didn't blog about the Pizza Hut thing last week, but you should know about it.

Zimbabwe is a mess. Robert Mugabe demonstrated what socialist policies do and how quickly they destroy a country. It's going to get worse for these poor people, before it gets better. Venezuela take note. You're next.

Finally, Muslims are leaving Islam and converting to Christianity in droves. Interesting, if true.

What's Going On?

I'm weary of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Kudos to Hillary for duking it out all the way to the end. You go girl! Your political instincts are spot on. Barack will implode, no doubt, before the big dance at the convention and then you, the solid, balanced one will ride in and save the Democratic party. Yep, that's exactly what's going to happen. Brendan Loy says that Howard Dean wants the Super delegates to decide by July 1. Yeah, right:

Dean's logic is not necessarily pristine here, alas. Even if every single one of the 794 supers were to "say who they're for" prior to July 1, that doesn't necessarily mean "we don't have to take this into the convention." Indeed, in a formal sense, we "have to take this into the convention" no matter what -- there is, after all, going to be a roll call at the convention, and no other binding roll call will occur before then. The best the Democrats can do is have a nominee presumptive before the convention, not an actual nominee. And that only works if Hillary Clinton plays along.

Ha! As if! When has a Clinton ever played nice?

Now, to the really important stuff. I missed this little piece of Americana, but Gina Cobb, who is always all over it misses nothin'. You can all rest safe, the NAACP is fighting for the right of your boys to show their underwear. I'm serious. Let's keep our priorities straight, here. That's what Dr. King fought the long fight for--to keep us free to show men's panties.

Criminals, are, by definition, dumb, but these guys take the cake. If you were a criminal, where would you go to rob someone for lots of money? Oh, come on! Guess! Wrong.....you'll have to go look.

Are you an easily offended Christian? I find them annoying, actually. Satan is serious. His minions are serious--Hitler, Stalin, Castro. Do they laugh? I think not. A Christian should have perspective. Perspective helps a person see humor in things. It also helps a person see his own ridiculousness and so, it's easier to laugh at self and therefore, others. Now, some things should be offensive to Christians, but not the things you think. The Anchoress explains.

Mitt Romney and John McCain are a cute couple? Um... I'm not sure how to respond to that.

As an aside, my son is watching a Playhouse Disney cartoon extolling the virtues of Melissa the Magnificent Moose. I shit you not. "Melissa, the magnificent moose. Brave and bold." It's a song. Nice.

Good news! Pamela Geller has that film that Network solutions wouldn't support. Go watch it!

Ok, folks, I'll add more cool stuff later. Thanks to you readers who are sending me interesting stuff. Oh, that reminds me, a dear reader sent me a link to this video and I think you should see it. This is what REALLY happened in Bosnia with Hillary. I know. It's terrifying.

Women Have It Great Under Islam

Why is the Left so intent on defending the indefensible? That was rhetorical.

Tim Blair Wins Funniest Blog Post For Monday: Allah Don't Do Irony

He reports:

Around 150 Muslims voted with the leader of the radical Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir that taking part in the political process is a waste of time.

I'm still giggling. And these are the times that even in our stupidity, I figure, we gots to win this war.

Muslim Wannabe Terrorist Nailed in Tampa

He was trying to "play the part":

After Baines was read his rights, he said his cousin had cut away the pages to make the hollow section in the book. Later, reports state, he said he had hollowed it out himself to hide money and marijuana from his roommates.

Baines told officers he was moving to Las Vegas and forgot the cutter was in the book.
Officers found books in the backpack titled "Muhammad in the Bible," "The Prophet's Prayer" and "The Noble Qur'an." He also had a copy of the Quran and the Bible.

I'm sure he had no intention of using the box cutter. None at all.

On Socialists: Aren't They Awesome?

If you haven't heard, Castro's (future as president) is dead. Anyway, that doesn't mean that CNN can't extoll his virtues today. Ace has more.

Michelle Obama's recent pride in her country has caused quite the storm, but the always attentive Anchoress notes that Ms. Obama resembles another woman we all know a little too well. Speaking of Obama, is he using Mohammed Ali's strategy? 

Jon Henke called this Hope-a-Dope yesterday, after the strategy employed by Mohammed Ali in the ring to tire George Foreman and win the championship. Obama hopes it works as well for him as it did for Ali, and it just might.

Remember the Missouri prayer tower being built? Well, it seems that some fellow bloggers, Gateway Pundit and LGF are being abused by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch at CAIR's (Council for American-Islamic Relations) behest. Oh, and here's the results from my poll on this new development.

I'm tying all these random thoughts together with this: Socialists suck. They think they're better than everyone unless everyone is smoking the same crack they smoke. Michelle Obama, Castro and CAIR are rowing in the same stupid, ideological boat. I cannot believe people are buying this crap. But evidently, lots of Americans are really stupid.

Muslim Prayer Tower in St. Louis

A St. Louis, Missouri neighborhood will now receive prayer calls through a public speaker system. Gateway Pundit has more.

How do you feel about Muslim Prayer Towers in American neighborhods?
	It's a free country.
	It's noise pollution.
	It's just another sign the U.S. is going down the craper.
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Palestinian Tolerance

On full display.

Obama's Muslim Past

I got an email today from a family member about Obama's religious background. Let me just say that the danger I perceive from this man is that he's a socialist and an inexperienced and untested one at that. His Muslim father and step-father have influenced him, but good luck finding out honestly, how.

Read more at Jihad Watch. I think Robert is right.

Islam & Women

I'm not going to belabor this point, but it is laughable to me the multi-culti types who ignore the treatment of women in Islam even as they, justifiably at times, condemn Christianity's mistreatment of women.

Sometimes a picture tells a thousand words. And more pictures tell even more stories. Pamela Gellar shows rather than tells the story. You need to see this story.