Civilized People Make all the Difference

Below is an excellent video that juxtaposes quotes from Mark Twain's observations made during his trip to Palistine in 1867 with pictures of contemporary Israel:





Contrary to the multicultists, culture involves more that diet and apparel. We, including the Israelis value life, they worship death. Strangely enough, this difference in cultural values affects how people choose to live on earth.

Another interesting example: "Why Britons walked warily in Waziristan." Waziristan, another charming place where Moslem-tribal anti-values dominate and home to Osama bin Laden and many of his followers:

In 1919, a young British army officer, Francis Stockdale, was deployed to the Waziristan area of British India.

The title of his book, "Walk Warily in Waziristan" seems no less appropriate now than it did 90 years ago, because today the autonomous Pakistani tribal region of North and South Waziristan is the centre of militancy orchestrated by pro-Taleban and al-Qaeda militants.

The book provides a fascinating account of what was regarded then - as it is today - as a thoroughly dangerous area.

Getting captured, it seemed, was not an option: "It would result in death by torture, an activity which I was informed the tribal women folk used to luxuriate."

Not just dangerous, but a thoroughly loathsome area. Hat tips: PJ and Judith Apter Klinghoffer

Crossposted at The Dougout

Storm Track Intimidation: Muslim Shame - Urfi Marriages

It’s simply amazing the moral contortions devout Muslims will do to adapt to human behavior. But this time, the jig is up. Secularism to the rescue!

In the back rooms of trinket shops, hidden in the snaking alleyways of Cairo, licences for love are signed, sealed – and sold.

Young, middle-class Egyptians are buying so-called "urfi", informal marriage contracts, in growing numbers to get around religious strictures against having pre-marital sex.

Without documentation it is almost impossible for couples to live together or stay in the same hotel room, and the whiff of impropriety can bring down the wrath of parents, friends and neighbours.

Unless you have a license – one night stands are out.

Read the rest at The Gathering Storm.

Meanwhile, very quietly... FBI Chief Mueller confirms stateside Al Qaida cells

HUH? Gee I'm so shocked, but some people see to forget. Some people need to insist the genesis of this is Afghanistan, where 'we should be fighting'.

Who else but Gertz:

FBI Director Robert Mueller said last week that the FBI has uncovered small groups of Al Qaida terrorists in the United States, although he declined provide details.

In House Judiciary Committee testimony, Mueller was asked about cell of Al Qaida in the country.

"As to your first question as to whether we have found affiliates or, as you would call them, cells of Al Qaida in the United States, yes, we have. Again, I cannot get into it in public session, but I would say yes, we have."

The FBI has been stepping up intelligence-gathering activities in the United States aimed at providing intelligence that would stop a terrorist attack in advance, but U.S. officials said the intelligence program is still in its early stages.

Mueller defended the FBI's Muslim outreach program that critics say have put the bureau in a role of providing legitimacy to Muslim groups that support overseas extremists.

"And every opportunity I have, I reaffirm the fact that 99.9 percent of Muslim-Americans or Sikh-Americans, Arab-Americans are every bit as patriotic as anybody else in this room, and that many of our cases are a result of the cooperation from the Muslim community in the United States," Mueller said.

These murderers are not from Afghanistan, they are from the Quran. They are from Mecca and Qom, Islamabad and Rawapindi, Quetta and Medina, Cairo and Alexandria.

They may sojourn in Somalia, or Afghanistan, or Waziristan, or Pakistan or Algeria, or Turkey, but they are from the Quran. When our leader can articulate THAT without fear, and without inciting morons to visions of barbed wire camps we will make progress. Until then we are going to be stumbling and bumbling, like Ambrose Burnside waiting for his pontoons. We will have a rough idea of what we need to do, but we will be unable to act to do it, and unable to articulate the next steps towards victory.

Slimy, Weak Politicians Pandering to Muslims

THE GUARDIAN: The government's attempts to placate Muslims will cause long-term damage to communities, a charity said yesterday.

The warning came from Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, chair and co-founder of the British Muslims for Secular Democracy, a new organisation claiming to represent the "silent majority who feel no conflict between their faith and democracy".

Speaking before the launch, attended by Baroness Kishwer Faulkner and former Islamist Ed Husain, the journalist said the government was pandering to Muslims by granting too many concessions, fuelling their separation from the rest of society.

"The government has found a way of placating Muslims in a way that will only damage us in the long term, Muslims wanting separate schools or different measures. There must be one law for all. Stop Pandering to Muslims Says 'Silent Majority' >>> By Riazat Butt, religious affairs correspondent | May 2, 2008

Hat tip: Dhimmi Watch

MY ESSAY ON THE INCOMPATIBILITY OF ISLAM WITH DEMOCRACY:
Islam: The Enemy of Democracy and Freedom

The Dawning of a New Dark Age (Paperback - UK)
The Dawning of a New Dark Age (Hardback - UK)

Why ? US fails to detect the Syrian/Iranian(?)/NoKo Plutonium weapons plant

The answer in purple below is so disgusting it's breathtaking.

Gertz:

Intel failure in Syria raises questions: Can U.S. monitor proliferation?

U.S. intelligence agencies failed to detect the secret Syrian nuclear facility built with North Korean assistance until the factory was almost complete, according to U.S. officials.

Maybe we should be spying on Israel to learn what they learn, if we can't raise our own capabilities???

The failure is the latest in a string of intelligence failures and raises questions about whether U.S. intelligence agencies can adequately monitor the spread of weapons of mass destruction, supposedly one of the highest national security priorities for the United States.

In 2003 we failed to be accurate about Iraq, now we are failing again and all these things are critical. Why have heads not been rolling? Why has George Bush ACCEPTED such incompetence?

An image that U.S. intelligence officials said shows a Syrian nuclear reactor built with North Korean help. AFP/US Gov.

A senior U.S. intelligence official who briefed reporters on the Syria-North Korea nuclear cooperation stated that the facility located on the Euphrates River near al Kibar had been under surveillance since 2001 and that reports indicated Syrian-North Korean cooperation.

"We received indications in '05 that the Syrians and North Koreans were involved in a project in the Dayr az Zawr region of eastern Syria, but again, no specific information on the nature or the exact location of the work," the official said, noting that suspicions that the cooperation was "nuclear-related" surfaced in 2003.

Despite the indications, U.S. intelligence did not learn conclusively that the facility was a nuclear reactor plant until the spring of 2007, only months before the facility was to be completed.

Oh and we don't know conclusively about Arak and Natanz, either.

"The information included photographs of the interior and the exterior of the building located in Dayr az Zawr showing key features of the reactor," the official said.

The indications that the reactor would be used for nuclear weapons included a lack of infrastructure to produce electricity.

Does the output of 5400 P2 centrifuges in Iran match up to the electrical production need of the nuclear generating stations now being built?

"Internal photographs of the reactor vessel under construction shows that it's a gas-cooled graphite-moderated reactor similar in technology and configuration to the Yongbyon reactor," the official said.

Israel scored the intelligence coup of getting inside the reactor and the photographs led the Israelis to conduct the Sept. 6 bombing raid that destroyed the facility.

U.S. intelligence agencies were biased against accepting intelligence that Syria was building a nuclear reactor because of the intelligence liaison relationship between the CIA and Syrian intelligence, ties that officials said had come to dominate not just intelligence relations but diplomatic relations as well.

Are we really so foolish and incompetent?
Are we?

Syria moves from 'pal' to Iranian vassal state

Gertz:

Syria moving formally into Iran's strategic orbit

Regardless of an Israeli withdrawal and a major U.S. aid package, Syria plans to maintain and develop its strategic alliance with Iran.

The regime of President Bashar Assad had sent messages via intermediaries to the United States that Damascus regards its ties with Teheran as vital and not threatening to regional interests.

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem (4th right) and his Iranian counterpart Manouchehr Mottaki (3rd left) hold a round of negotiations in Tehran on April 23. Reuters/Raheb Homavandi

The Assad message also stressed that Syria would not revise its support for the Iranian-sponsored Hizbullah.

Assad said Hizbullah, which sparked a war with Israel in 2006, was a legitimate group that sought to battle Israel's expansionism.

"It would be naive to think Syria will neglect or abandon its strategic alliances that do not stem from the Arab-Israeli conflict," Assad confidante Samir Taqi said.

Taqi, director of the Syrian-sponsored Center of Oriental Studies, relayed the Syrian message in an April 25 interview with Hizbullah's Al Manar television. Western intelligence sources said Taqi, a former adviser to the late Hafez Assad, was close to Bashar and speaks for the Syrian ruler.

Indeed, the intelligence sources said, Iran and Syria plan to enhance strategic cooperation over the next year. They said Damascus and Teheran have discussed joint procurement of advanced Russian weapons and air defense systems, particularly the S-300PMU2. The S-300PMU2 has been touted as an air defense network that could stop any Israeli or U.S. air strike on either Iran or Syria.

I seriously doubt it based on what I know. S-400 might have a better shot.

Iran and Syria have also been working together to acquire nuclear weapons technology and equipment from North Korea. The sources said Iran has helped finance North Korean nuclear contracts in Syria, including the establishment of the Al Kabir plutonium production plant in northeastern Syria. The plant was destroyed by the Israel Air Force in September 2007.

One scenario envisioned by the sources is that Iran would deploy one or several nuclear weapons in Syria. This would ensure the accuracy of any Iranian nuclear strike against Israel, which contains a large Muslim minority.

When was the last time a state allowed nuclear weapons controlled by another to target a neighbor directly?

October 1962. Think the Iranians would react as the Russians did? Think the Israelis would act as we did?

Rx for regional nuclear war.

Why Do Moderate Muslims Oppose Investigating Radical Jihad?

The Islamic Center of Charlotte opposes Congressman Myrick's ten-point plan for fighting Jihad. Robert Spencer wonders what they could possibly find objectionable in the plan.

From Front Page Magazine:


In mid-April Representative Sue Myrick (R-NC) unveiled a ten-point plan for fighting against jihadist activity in the United States. One would think that Muslims who profess to oppose today’s global jihad would welcome such an initiative, but one Muslim leader from Myrick’s district, Jibril Hough of the Islamic Center of Charlotte, is not happy. On Monday he charged that “Myrick's latest attempt at fighting terrorism is nothing more than a fear campaign. It is nothing more than a new McCarthyism, or Myrickism. As Muslims, we have become expendable as politicians like Myrick seek political gain.”

Myrick responded by inviting the Islamic Center of Charlotte to offer a point-by-point rebuttal to her proposals. And indeed, some specifics would be welcome. What could Jibril Hough really say in opposition to the particulars of Myrick’s plan? It’s worth going through her proposals to see what he could possibly find objectionable.

First, Myrick proposes to “investigate all military chaplains endorsed by Abdurahman Alamoudi, who was imprisoned for funding a terrorist organization.” And her second proposal is to “investigate all prison chaplains endorsed by Alamoudi.”

Alamoudi is doing 23 years in prison for funding jihad terrorism. Is it possible that some of the military and prison chaplains he endorsed shared his jihadist views? Can Jibril Hough explain why not?

Myrick then calls for investigation of “the selection process of Arabic translators working for the Pentagon and the FBI.”

An FBI whistleblower has reported that Arabic translators there cheered the 9/11 attacks. Can Jibril Hough explain why this should not be a cause for concern?

Myrick Plan Point 4: “Examine the non-profit status of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.”

The Council on American-Islamic Relations has had several of its officials convicted on jihad terror-related charges, and was named an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas funding case. Can Jibril Hough explain why its tax-exempt status should not at least be examined?

Myrick Plan Point 5: “Make it an act of sedition or solicitation of treason to preach or publish materials that call for the deaths of Americans.”

Objections, Mr. Hough?


Well, I guess Mr. Hough wouldn't like my plan, either, because it would call for all those who advocate Sharia to be imprisoned for sedition.

If moderate Muslims like Jibril Hough continue to oppose any attempt to end Jihadism, the proposals are only going to get worse.

Jibril is so god damned moderate. I love moderate Muslims like him.

Mickey Kantor, Worthless White Nigger - UPDATED

Uh, wow!





UPDATED: Ben Smith has a post up over at Politico which sheds doubt on the truthfulness of this video clip.

I tend to believe the clip probably is not real. This clip is old. Considering how much Clinton's enemies hated him, were the clip real, I believe it would have come out before.

The question is, why is it coming out now, and who put it out?

Hmm, could it be Barack Obama and his buddies?

Would they have the "audacity" to doctor a clip like this?

Winds of War: Joy For Muslims Is Outlawed

Well, it’s official. At least in Egypt. Sheikh 'Atiya Sakr, a former head of the Al-Azhar University Fatwa Committee, has declared ‘No Joy’ for Muslims. It seems he’s upset about all those Christian holidays polluting poor Muslim minds with celebration, happiness and joy.

And the Copts are not happy.

Read the rest at The Gathering Storm.

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Storm Track Infiltration: Got Muslims? Got Shari’a Law

What happens when “an overwhelming Muslim majority” takes over a community? You the imposition of Islamic law on all – Muslim and non-Muslim alike.

It’s happening in that ‘moderate’ Islamic country – Indonesia.

Read the rest at The Gathering Storm.

Iran changes dollar for euro or yen in Oil Exports

This is something Ahmadenijad had already announced some months ago, but now it's being formally announced:

"All the oil operations are being made in euros or in yens" Hojjatollah Ghanimifard has explained. Ghanimifard is the director of foreign relations of the Iranian National Oil Company. Iran finishes this way its process of reducing its exposition to the dollar, after the tensions between Teheran and Wasington because of the nuclear crisis. In fact, last december an Iranian Government speaker informed already that 90% of the revenues obtained by the oil exports weren't made in dollars.

Ahmadenijad said this was because the "dollar is no more than a worthless piece of paper", but surely the confrontation due to the Iranian "pacific"
nuclear project has something to do with it.

Remember ...NEVER AGAIN. Holocaust Memorial Day

The real thing:
Not a holocaust:

The real thing:

not a holocaust:

The real thing:

Not a holocaust: (Gaza City)

It doesn't matter if was 2 million or 6 million or 9 million, it was the result of 3000 years of racist hatred among humans against the jews for explicable and inexplicable reason of human weakness and compulsions. It is a stain on virtually all nations from the Phillistines and Amalekites thru the Greeks, across the spread of time to Arab and Asian and European nations, and here in the USA, married to the industrial might and ill ambition of a nation of technocratic and willing people who believed the worst of their neighbors and friends.

And now thru the Arab and Islamic lies of multinational PROJECTION of the jews as the nazis we can all be sure what has been for 3,000 years lives in health.

But thanks to them, we now all know that the god of the Quran is a racist god, and makes the Quran a racist document, separating it from all others as the living unchangeable word of a bigoted, hateful being, who separates the jews from all other people.

How the NIE has helped destroy American interests in one simple lesson

Financial Times:

Iran-Europe gas deals anger Washington

By Daniel Dombey in Washington, Anna Fifield in Tehran and Haig Simonian in Zurich

Published: April 30 2008 18:05 | Last updated: April 30 2008 18:05

The US and its allies are worried that the sanctions regime against Tehran is under threat from a possible new wave of European investment in Iran's strategically important gas sector.

Tehran has already concluded gas deals with Chinese and Malaysian companies - ending a protracted lull in investment in its energy sector - and has alarmed Washington by reaching an agreement with a Swiss group.

The dilemma threatens to expose the limited US influence over foreign companies strategic decisions.

Although Washington and its allies have convinced the United Nations Security Council to sign up to three sets of sanctions against Iran's nuclear and missile sectors and banks, it has been unable to broaden such international measures into the key energy sector.

If these corporations, and groups of corporations had REAL tangible fear that the US was going to take out Iranian nuclear assetts and oil and gas supplies from Iran were questionable in any following chaos, NO ONE would sign such an agreement. More, the signings mean, as Bill Gertz showed over and over HERE that those considered our friends and partners will more and more ally themselves economically so that they will be against the security needs of the people of the USA. We should recognize this, and recognize that this is natural. Nations have no friends, only interest, it is famously reported.

We need to conduct ourselves in recognition that while we would like the shared values of democracy and freedom of expression to make our interests common enough to be true friends, many other nations conduct themselves as being more 'sophisticated' than the rube, gun toting, nekulturny cowboys.

Thus the NIE, gives life to a process which is working against the safety of the the people, as more and more, when these agreements are signed, the businesses, their employees, and those who receive their supplies from Iran find themselves in the position that anything which disturbs this new relationship endangers their heat, electricity, mobility and jobs.

It is therefore ESSENTIAL that the western democracies take very seriously the idea that agreements of this kind IMPERIL their energy supplies.

Of course it is just this conundrum which finds itself expressed in the polls which tell us the USA and Israel are the most dangerous nations in the world. We had better be. Almost everyone else appears ready to sign with anyone for a buck. We had better be dangerous to such people.

Now, the US fears that a 25-year supply agreement concluded in March between Elektrizitäts-Gesellschaft Laufenburg (EGL) of Switzerland and Iran could encourage other deals, particularly in the gas sector, despite American calls for tougher sanctions against Tehran over its controversial nuclear programme. The Swiss government says the deal could be worth up to €27bn ($42bn, £21bn).

“The worry is that the Swiss deal will lead others, such as the Austrians, to confirm energy investments in Iran, and that companies like [France’s] Total could then follow suit and sign contracts of their own,” said one western diplomat. He pointed out that the EGL agreement ended a period in which European energy companies had largely confined themselves to agreeing only non-binding memoranda of understanding with Iran.

He added: “There is a lot of attention on sanctions on Iranian banks, but investment in the energy sector is much more important for Iran’s economy.” Iran has the world’s second-largest proven gas reserves, but exports far below its potential.

This Week on The Gathering Storm Radio Show

Listen to the nearly famous The Gathering Storm Radio Show, which Always On Watch and I co-host. The show broadcasts live every Friday beginning at noon, Pacific Standard Time.

The call-in number is (646) 915-9870.

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Friday, May 2 (90 Minutes): Our guest for the full hour is Bill Warner, the director of The Center for the Study of Political Islam. He also writes articles for his web site Political Islam and has been interviewed numerous times by Jamie Glazov at Front Page Magazine. We may also be joined the next hour with Boss Smith - the man who was accosted and held against his will at a Brooklyn mosque for taking pictures of it.
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Additional information about Bill Warner:

Bill Warner is a pen name for a retired mathematics professor and research scientist. He had read the Koran and understood the political aspects of Islam before 9/11, so he immediately knew the significance of the bombing of the World Trade Towers.

Since 2003, Bill has been the Director of the Center for the Study of Political Islam and its spokesperson. CSPI is a team of independent scholars and researchers who have written 11 books revealing the ideology of political Islam, using the primary sources, the Koran, the Hadiths or Sunnah, and Mohammed’s biography, the Sirah. The books are written in a clear, direct style and can be used as a reference for quotes, examples of warfare, strategy and political ideas.

"The Two Kinds of Dhimmis" and "Islam Slavery and Rape" are two of his recent interviews at Front Page Magazine.

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