White Man Asks Black Man, "Why Don't You Go Back To Your Black Religion, Like In Africa?"

The guys actually says, "You're supposed to be Muslim", which is completely laughable,

because,

ISLAM IS NOT AN AFRICAN RELIGION

IT IS AN ARAB RELIGION

AND THE ARAB WORD FOR "BLACK PERSON" AND "SLAVE" IS THE SAME WORD; ABD.

THAT'S RIGHT. IF YOU WANT TO CALL YOUR SLAVE, OR IF YOU WANT TO ADDRESS A BLACK PERSON IN ARABIC, YOU USE THE SAME WORD.

BECAUSE ARABS HATE BLACK PEOPLE.

SOME AFRICAN RELIGION, HUH WHITEY?

The Religion of Peace

Oh, and by the way, fuck Islam.

Ana Vidovic

Valses Venezolanos 2 y 3

(Antonio Lauro)

In which the moronic rabbi reminded me of Moonstruck

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In the Oscar winning movie, Cher sees her fiance off to Italy and waves goodbye standing next to an old Italian woman who tells her she hopes no one Cher cares about is on the plane, because her sister is on the plane and she put a curse on the plane so that it should crash and they should all die.

Cher intones as how she does not not believe in curses, without batting an eyelash

The old woman rejoins with 'Neither do I'

Palestinians should perish from this world: Ovadia Yosef

JERUSALEM: Just ahead of renewed peace talks between Israel and the Palestine, an influential Israeli spiritual leader has denounced the move, dubbing the Palestinians and their leader "an evil and bitter enemies of Israel" who should " perish from this world."

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the upcoming launch of peace talks an opportunity to secure endurable peace, lasting generations.

But, Ovadia Yosef, spiritual head of the religious Shas party in the government, denounced the talks, scheduled to kickstart on September 2, and said, "Abu Mazen (nom de guerre for Abbas) and all these evil people should perish from this world,"

"God should strike them with a plague, them and these Palestinians," Rabbi Ovadia was quoted as saying during his weekly sermon at a synagogue near his Jerusalem home.

Somewhere, my grandfather is going, 'ok, ok so maybe the 5 Books of Moses is NOT the word of god. And jerks like this are somehow involved.

In case one wonders.... HEY OVEIDA, STFU and go to a mikva. With jews like this who needs arabs?

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Topic For Discussion: Glenn Beck

At the risk of pissing off fellow bloggers and readers here at IBA, I have a confession to make: I have reservations about Glenn Beck.

I don't quite know why, although some of this article by Dana Milbank in the Washington Post rang true. And this part did specifically bother me:

...Let's review Beck's history as a civil rights pioneer, a history I've studied while writing a book about Beck.

When Beck was a radio host in Connecticut in the 1990s, his station apologized for an on-air skit in which Beck and his partner mocked an Asian American caller and used their version of an Asian accent...

And there was also this portion of the article:

...Beck updated the meaning of the civil rights movement so that it is no longer about black people; it is about protecting anti-tax conservatives from liberals. Civil rights leaders, he said, "purposely distorted Martin Luther King's ideas." Over the past century, Beck reasons, "no man has been free, because we've been progressive." To his followers, he says: "We are the people of the civil rights movement."...

Please read the entire essay.

Yes, yes, I know. It's the WaPo, and Dana Milbank has an axe to grind, in part because he has a book coming out in October: Tears of a Clown: Glenn Beck and the Tea Bagging of America.

I'm getting concerned that we're going to find out that Glenn Beck has feet of clay.

Am I way off base with my concerns about Glenn Beck? I want to trust him. And I certainly know that he's done excellent work. And the rally he led on August 28 was wonderful in so many ways.

Maybe I'm worrying over nothing. I hope so!

The Muslim Mafia

I have just one question, why aren't we using RICO Statutes to shut down every Saudi-funded Mosque in the United States of America?

From Trencherbone:

Islamic criminality
Mohammed told his followers that the earth and everything on it belonged to Allah. Since everybody but Mohammedans were infidels or kuffars (non-believers), Allah has awarded their lands, property, women and children to the true believers. This provided the 'theological' justification for divinely approved criminality of every kind.

Mohammed led the way by raiding caravans and raping captured women. He soon attracted an eager band of followers wanting to follow his example. This tradition of Allah giving the Mohammedans permission take whatever they like from the infidels continues to the present day.

Muslim ingratitude
All their ever-growing demands are just asking for what they regard as rightfully theirs in the first place, and the infidels can expect no thanks for giving it to them. Living with Islam is about give and take - we give, they take.


Muslim Mafia
The 'ethical' principles of Islam are unlike those of any other religion.
Murder, rape, theft, fraud, child prostitution etc are only viewed crimes when committed against fellow Muslims (the Ummah). Predatory attacks on infidels are OK, and have Allah's blessing when they are carried out as part of the global Jihad.

Muslims dominate the British underworld, and control British jails where prisoners are forced to convert to Islam. Those converts who abandon Islam after release are followed up and killed for apostasy.

Muslims are the main drug dealers in Britain, and use heroin not only to earn money for jihad, but as a weapon of war to destroy infidel societies.

Islam is not so much a religion as an international criminal conspiracy. It has more in common with the Mafia than with Methodism. Like the Mafia loyalty to the mob trumps everything, and like the Mafia, once you've joined the only way out is death.


One Enormous Razzia
"The recent phenomenon of Islamic terrorism against the west, and certain unwelcome aspects of the increasing Muslim presence in Western countries, seem new to us but, in reality, owe more than just a passing nod of acknowledgement to the Arab Bedouin tradition of the plundering raid (ghazwa or razzia.). The razzia, with its opportunistic seizure of spoils (anfal) was undertaken by a desert people who were unable or unwilling to contribute to the creation of their needs; so the Bedouin, who neither grew nor made anything, simply pillaged what they wanted from others. Likewise, Muslim emigrants keep their “eyes on the prize” when choosing a destination country and seem to find nations that are devoid of generous welfare systems and high standards of living, singularly unappealing.

Migration for financial betterment is neither reprehensible nor new, and has been a primary motivating factor for many former immigrant groups; however, no group in the past has sought to bend the host country to its will, rather than assimilate, as have those of the Islamic faith. Unprecedented concessions have been made to Muslims and will continue to be made as they persistently chip away at the Western edifice. We can expect that any concessions granted will do no more than embolden the petitioners and encourage even more, and greater, demands in the future. If the demands are resisted or denied, and their numbers are sufficient, there will be civil disruption and confrontations as we see regularly in the media. The foreign policies of several European countries have been, or are in the process of being, modified to prevent a Muslim backlash, either physical or electoral.

It’s evident that a two pronged pincer manoeuvre is well under way, with one faction of Islam softening us up by threatening to blast and terrorise us into submission, and the “good-cop” wing, represented by the various national Islamic councils and other Muslim interest groups, who are “grooming” us with assurances that, by dealing with them, we can avoid all the unpleasantness and bloodshed by acquiescing and “going along quietly”. Option “B” is merely option “A” by stealth, with a sugar coating; both lead to an identical outcome; and that is an influence on our way of life disproportionate to their numbers. Our governments have warmed to the sweeter, soft option without realizing it is merely the other side of the jihadi coin. Rather than recognising and confronting this insidious and incremental erosion of our culture, our leaders have decided that it’s easier to retreat a yard than advance an inch. http://www.islam-watch.org/Warner/Islam-West-Razzia.htm

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Chopin's Small Miracles

Despite their brevity, the Preludes loom large musically

From the Wall St. Journal:

As a child in Warsaw, Chopin was nourished on the then practically unknown preludes and fugues of Johann Sebastian Bach, composed in each of the major and minor keys and collectively known as "The Well-Tempered Clavier." Chopin was one of the rare pianists of his time who played most of them, and Bach remained his ideal. During the creation of the Preludes he was particularly obsessed with Bach, and took "The Well-Tempered Clavier" with him on a vacation to Majorca in November 1838, where the Preludes were refined and polished.

Bach's preludes, some of considerable length, need their fugues, but Romantic composers did not often use this musical form. Each of Chopin's Preludes is self-sufficient, but they were composed, like Bach's, with one for each major and minor key. Since nothing follows them, one may ask what these works are a prelude to—certainly to another Prelude or, poetically speaking, perhaps a prelude to the infinite. We don't know if Chopin intended them to be played as a cycle, although today's pianists usually perform them that way in recital.

The completion of the Preludes formed one of the most harrowing episodes in the composer's short life. When Chopin and his companion, the novelist George Sand, first got to Majorca he was ecstatic. But he soon became nervous, as the piano his friend Camille Pleyel, the music publisher and piano builder, had promised to send him had not yet arrived. By early December Chopin had become gravely ill and the Majorcans, terrified of what was known as consumption (tuberculosis today), made life very unpleasant for the group. To make matters worse, the piano was stuck at customs for weeks, forcing Chopin to rent a wretched replacement. Pleyel's piano was finally delivered in early January, and the Preludes were finished late that month.

In these tiny microcosms Chopin established the hegemony of the Romantic miniature. His Preludes would find progeny later in the preludes of Scriabin, Debussy, Rachmaninoff and others.

Space does not permit a detailed analysis of all 24, but mention of a few may give a sense of their character:


• No. 1 in C major : An exquisite example of Chopin's devotion to Bach. Pulsating and agitated, it is over in half a minute, leaving the listener yearning for more.
•No. 2 in A minor: A lugubrious melody seems to hang in the air. Ingmar Bergman made impressive use of the piece in his film "Autumn Sonata."
•No. 4 in E minor: A slender melody over rich, slow-moving chordal harmonies with the left hand. It, along with the B Minor (No. 6) and C Minor (No. 20) Preludes, was played on the organ at Chopin's funeral at the Church of La Madeleine in Paris on Oct. 30, 1849.
•No. 7 in A major: Sixteen bars of pure grace.
• No. 8 in F-sharp minor : A highly textured polyrhythmic piece, the melody of this feverish, throbbing vision is played entirely with the right thumb. One of the greatest of the Preludes.
•No. 19 in E-flat major: Pure azure contentment in triplets for both hands, marked "Vivace." To play it through unscathed is an achievement.
• No. 24 in D minor : Marked "Allegro appassionato," a tremendous discharge of despairing passion, concluding with three foreboding D's from the bowels of the piano.

Probably more people have come to great music through Chopin than from any other composer. In my case, growing up in Cleveland, I used to listen to a radio show whose theme music entranced me at first hearing but was never identified by the host. Although the show aired much past my usual bedtime, I would occasionally sneak down the stairs, turn the radio on at low volume and drink in the strains of this music, over so quickly that I listened with all my might. It was not until somewhat later, when I was taking piano lessons, that I found out that it was No. 7, the Prelude in A Major. Not too long after that I could play it myself, which was bliss! Only later did I find out that there were 23 more Preludes that I would love equally, and in later years would come to study and teach.

sorry, buddy, I like that Polack, too, but I gotta do it -- mr

The Age of Apostasy

It seems, Obama doesn't like you leaving Islam.

From the Belmont Club:

Readers may recall Maher El-Gohary, the subject of a post about a month ago. He was an Egyptian Muslim who decided to convert to Christianity, which resulted in a spate of death threats against him.  Gohary attempted to escape the fate of an apostate by trying to emigrate to Australia, an application which was promptly denied. Although Western intellectuals believe Christianity is in decline, it is by some accounts the fastest growing religion in the world. China may soon be have the world’s biggest population of Christians. Inevitably, some of those who decide to become Christians are now Muslims. Apparently El-Gohary’s problem is quite widespread. Apostasy is becoming a global problem and a number of protests have been scheduled in cities throughout the world to support the right of Muslims to change their religion. I attended the first of these at Martin Place in Sydney and was surprised to hear Barack Obama’s name mentioned in connection with the El-Gohary case. More on this later, but in the meantime, I listened to Mark Durie’s  explanation on the subject.

Durie’s remarks can be heard in their entirety here and here.  They are only about 12 minutes long but had to be split into two videos to get under the ten minute YouTube limit.  Basically Durie argued that Sharia law was set up like the Hotel California. You can check in any time you like, but you can never leave.  You could become a Muslim, but it was nearly impossible to stop being one. That fact was becoming increasingly recognized, said Durie, as more people in the West looked into it and it was beginning to cause the severe PR problems for the Islamic world.

His remarks were delivered to a crowd consisting mostly of Australians of Arab descent, some of whom I knew to be former Muslims. The protesters tried to frame the problem of apostates within the framework of Article 18 of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which states that people have a right to choose their religion.

Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.

The goals of the protesters are pretty basic. They want Western public opinion to accept that it is legitimate to challenge Islamic precepts and are using the UN’s principles to do it.  President Obama’s now famous remarks about the right to build a mosque at Ground Zero were essentially a restatement of the principles of Article 18. The president told a group gathered for a Ramadan feast that “our commitment to religious freedom must be unshakeable.”

But let me be clear. As a citizen, and as President, I believe that Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as everyone else in this country. And that includes the right to build a place of worship and a community center on private property in Lower Manhattan, in accordance with local laws and ordinances. This is America. And our commitment to religious freedom must be unshakeable. The principle that people of all faiths are welcome in this country and that they will not be treated differently by their government is essential to who we are. The writ of the Founders must endure.

So it was with some interest that I heard a human rights activist say that Maher El-Gohary’s daughter sought President Obama’s help to get the her conversion recognized before she became an adult in order to avoid liability for a more severe punishment for apostasy if she officially changed religion later. After all, if President Obama is so hot on the right to build a mosque near Ground Zero he might be expected to sympathize with a 16-year-old who just wanted to become a Christian because his “commitment to religious freedom must be unshakeable.” Of  course her request was ignored. The reality is that presidents are too busy to help obscure Egyptian families, although they are not too busy to attend Ramadan dinners to endorse $100 million mosques. Justice under politics is like that.  The day El-Gohary can host a glittering dinner for the president, then he too can expect a more sympathetic hearing.

Right now the short term goal of the apostates is to force Western liberals to live up to their own book of rules by showing up at their self-righteous festivals with a copy of Article 18 of the cherished “United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.” The simple act of coming out of the shadows and into the public light creates a huge dilemma for the liberal narrative. Once they recognize that apostates exist and have legitimate rights, it becomes very difficult to avoid further and more embarrassing questions.

Is Jeffrey Imm An Anti-Semite?

I don't think so.

However, he is a really strange guy, obsessed with appearing to attempt to right every wrong in the world whether he understands it or not, and so he is now featured in our sidebar.

"But, but, but I implored Pamela Geller ... "

Things Have Changed

Christiane Amawhore tries to figure out why there are so many people coming to these rallies. Thinks it might be because there is a proud to be American Message, seems a bit befuddled by that idea.

America Misses It's Ethnic Purity -- Who Knew?

Newsbusters:

CHRIS MATTHEWS: Let’s talk about the mosque in New York. We’ve got a poll out here, an amazing poll that came out this week: 54 percent of Republicans say they have an unfavorable view of Islam – the religion, not Arab politics, not terrorists, no subset, the billion Islamic people in the world, they don’t like. Serious business here.

KATTY KAY, BBC: I think that this has gone beyond the mosque.

MATTHEWS: These are Republicans.

KAY: That this is now, the conversation that has followed the mosque has almost become a bigger problem in and of itself, and the tone of that conversation. One of the advantages that America has always had is that you have one of the most assimilated, moderate Muslim populations in the Western world, and that has played to your advantage. The risk here is that incidents like a taxi driver, a Muslim taxi driver getting stabbed in New York-

MATTHEWS: By a probably deranged person. Let’s be fair.

KAY: It is deranged people in Holland who shoot Muslims, you know, in the streets. That is (INAUDIBLE)

JOE KLEIN: Yeah, but there are, but, you know, you’ve had over the last year, two or three major incidents of deranged Muslims, the Army doctor down at Fort Hood, the Times Square bomber, who were Americans, American citizens.

MATTHEWS: And what’s stirring them up?

KLEIN: Well, I think that-

MATTHEWS: This attitude against them?

KLEIN: Yeah. But I also think that there’s a small minority of Muslims in the world who believe this extremist philosophy.

KAY: But the risk for America is if you start putting all of those extremists in with all of Muslims. And that’s what’s being blurred here.

...

MATTHEWS: Is it based on the fact that we have an African-American President? If we had a President-

KLEIN: No.

MATTHEWS: -like Hillary Clinton right now, would we have the same level of apocalyptic talk by people like Glenn Beck, the same attitude towards this mosque which is a couple blocks away from the World Trade Center on a row of buildings?

KLEIN: First of all, we have a mixed race President who has a middle name "Hussein." And a good part of the anxiety that’s going on in small-town white America isn’t just the plain old black and white stuff of the past. It’s the fact that South Asians are moving in and running the local motel or, you know, I don’t want to deal in those sorts of cliches, but there are a lot of Latinos about who are moving into these areas that their grandchildren are coming out as gay or intermarrying. The purity of, the "ethnic purity," to coin a phrase, that they grew up with no longer exists, and I think that that in addition to the economic – real, real, economic problems – (INAUDIBLE)

MATTHEWS: Well said. I think that is the change, the whole change in the world they live in is something.

CNSNews:

Gallup: Obama’s Approval Highest Among Muslims—78 Percent
Friday, August 27, 2010
By Terence P. Jeffrey, Editor-in-Chief

While President Barack Obama’s overall approval rating averaged 48 percent for the first seven months of 2010, it was 78 percent among Muslim Americans, according to the Gallup Poll. That gave the president a higher approval rating among Muslims than among any other religious category reported by the poll.

Members of other non-Christian religions (not including Judaism) gave Obama his second highest approval rating at 64 percent, according to Gallup, and people who described themselves as having no religion, or being agnostics, or atheists gave Obama a 63 percent approval rating.

Mormons gave Obama his lowest approval rating among the religious groups reported by Gallup. In the first seven months of 2010, only 24 percent said they approved of the job Obama was doing. He ranked next lowest among Protestant Americans, who gave him a 43 percent approval rating, then Catholic Americans, who gave him a 50 percent approval rating, and then Jewish Americans, who gave him a 61 percent approval rating.

Despite President Obama’s high approval rating of 78 percent among Muslim Americans during the first seven months of 2010 that was nonetheless still not as high as the approval ratings the president won from Muslim Americans last year. In the first half of 2009, Muslim Americans gave Obama an approval rating of 86 percent. In the second half of 2009, they gave him an approval rating of 83 percent. In all three periods, President Obama's approval rating among Muslim Americans was higher than among any of the other religous groups reported by the Gallup survey.

The latest survey, in which Muslim Americans gave President Obama an approval rating of 78 percent, was completed on July 31, before the president gave a speech at the White House on Aug. 13 defending the right of Muslims to build a mosque in lower Manhattan

Imam Feisal Rauf, Daisy Khan, And Polygamy

From Atlas Shrugs:

Wife #3, Daisy

The younger Rauf didn't follow his father's path into religion until later in life. He studied physics at Columbia University and in New Jersey, and dabbled in teaching, sales and real estate. He married, first to an American who converted to Islam, and a second time to a Malaysian woman. He has two children from each of the marriages.
In the late 1990s, he married his third wife, Daisy Khan, who has actively supported the Islamic center proposal. (more here) hat tip Pamela Hall

More piety from the Ground Zero imam and his third wife. Is it any wonder that Daisy Khan counsels on polygamy?

Some Muslims in U.S. Quietly Engage in PolygamyKhan, who does pre-marriage counseling, says she always raises the issue of polygamy with engaged couples.
"I also explain to them that as a woman, you have certain rights, and as a man, he may one day exercise his right to have a second wife," Khan says. "And usually the man says, 'No, no, no. I'm never going to do that.' And I say, 'Well, in case you ever get tempted, how about we put that in the contract?'"

I'd like to see Rauf's divorce papers ............

Happy Ramadan From the Associated Press: 19 dead in shootout in Russia's Caucasus

Absolutely no mention of Islam in this Associated Press article.

I'm pretty sure these "separatists", "militants", and "insurgents" were Muslims.

Someone correct me if I am wrong.

From AP:

TSENTOROI, Russia – A shootout between the Chechen president's personal protection detail and suspected separatist insurgents left 19 people dead early Sunday, including five civilians, officials and media reports said.

At least 12 suspected insurgents and two security officers were killed when the rebels entered Tsentoroi, Ramzan Kadyrov's home village, his spokesman Alvi Karimov told The Associated Press. TV reports said five civilians were killed in the crossfire.

Kadyrov, who is thought to regularly supervise security operations in the field, was in the village at the time and directed the counter-offensive, Karimov said.

"We let them into the village so they couldn't escape," Kadyrov told Channel One television, which showed him examining the bodies of the suspected militants strewn across a road. "We forced them into a place where they could be eliminated," he said.

An AP reporter at the scene saw fire-ravaged and bullet-ridden homes, with body parts lying among the rubble.

Resident Vargan Edelgeriyeva, 48, said the gunbattle started at about 3 a.m. at a construction site about 150 meters away from Kadyrov's residence.

Militants entered local homes but were quickly surrounded, Edelgeriyeva said. In one house an insurgent detonated explosives, perhaps a grenade, killing himself and a 30-year-old resident, she said.

Police in 2009 averted a possible assassination attempt on Kadyrov, shooting dead the driver of a car suspected of containing explosives before he could reach a construction site where Kadyrov was due to make an appearance.

In a separate incident Sunday, security forces in nearby Dagestan province shot dead four suspected militants traveling in two cars when they refused to stop at a police checkpoint, according to police spokesman Magomed Tagirov. He said weapons were later found in the cars.

Russia's volatile North Caucasus suffers daily attacks by insurgents seeking independence from Moscow, but this weekend's bloodshed has been especially fierce.

On Saturday, nine suspected militants were killed in two separate shootouts with police in the Kabardino-Balkariya republic, while five suspected militants and two police officers were killed in another shootout in Dagestan.

Kadyrov previously fought on the side of the rebels but switched sides and was installed by the Kremlin as Chechen leader in 2007. Comparative peace has arrived in Chechnya and its capital, Grozny, since then, but rights activists say the price has been brutal.

They allege Kadyrov has directed widespread human rights violations, including abductions and summary executions of suspected rebels and sympathizers.

Associated Press writers Sergei Venyavsky in Rostov-on-Don and David Nowak in Moscow contributed to this report.

UPDATED: Well, what do you know. Voice of America reports:

Violence is reported almost daily in Russia's largely-Muslim North Caucasus republics, particularly in Chechnya, Dagestan and Ingushetia.