"ALL CAPS IN DEFENSE OF LIBERTY IS NO VICE."

Saturday, September 11, 2010

DANISH SUICIDE BOMBER MEANT TO TARGET MOHAMMED CARTOON NEWSPAPER

IIE: Copenhagen bomber intended to target Jyllands Posten offices‏

MORE LIBERAL INSANITY: 20% OF TERRORISTS ARE ENGINEERS...

... AND THIS MATTERS MORE THAN THE FACT THAT 98% ARE JIHADISTS OR LEFTISTS!?!??!?!?!

WHAT IDIOTS.

HERE - NYTIMES - WHERE ELSE:
They say they believe in freedom and share our values. They say a few bad apples shouldn’t bring down judgment on their entire kind. Don’t be fooled. Though they walk among us with impunity, they are, in the words of Henry Farrell, a political scientist at George Washington University, “a group that is notoriously associated with terrorist violence and fundamentalist political beliefs.”

They are engineers.

Farrell, of course, was kidding. He posted that comment on a blog shortly after Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab (confessed Al Qaeda operative and engineering student) tried to blow up an airliner over Detroit last winter. But the satire was rooted in a statistical fact: in the ranks of captured and confessed terrorists, engineers and engineering students are significantly overrepresented. Maybe that’s a numerological accident. The sociologist Diego Gambetta and the political scientist Steffen Hertog don’t think so.

... Each month, Gambetta and Hertog’s database grows. Last December, Abdulmutallab’s attempt over Detroit. In February, Joseph Andrew Stack, a software engineer, crashed his plane into I.R.S. offices in Austin, Tex. In March, John Patrick Bedell, an engineering grad student, opened fire at an entrance to the Pentagon. In early May, Faisal Shahzad (bachelor of science in computer science and engineering) was arrested at Kennedy Airport for a failed attempt to set off a bomb in Times Square. Also in May, Faiz Mohammad, a civil engineer, was caught at Karachi’s airport with batteries and an electrical circuit hidden in his shoes. And going back, of the 9/11 conspirators who had been educated beyond high school, eight studied engineering. As this list suggests, the phenomenon isn’t confined to Muslims or Middle Easterners.

In fact, thinking in terms of religion, nation and class has failed to explain why, for example, out of thousands of normal-acting sons of middle-class, moderate Muslim families from Nigeria, apparently only Abdulmutallab took the dive into terrorist plots.

... For their recent study, the two men collected records on 404 men who belonged to violent Islamist groups active over the past few decades (some in jail, some not). Had those groups reflected the working-age populations of their countries, engineers would have made up about 3.5 percent of the membership. Instead, nearly 20 percent of the militants had engineering degrees. When Gambetta and Hertog looked at only the militants whose education was known for certain to have gone beyond high school, close to half (44 percent) had trained in engineering. Among those with advanced degrees in the militants’ homelands, only 18 percent are engineers.

The two authors found the same high ratio of engineers in most of the 21 organizations they examined, including Jemaah Islamiya in Southeast Asia and Hamas and Islamic Jihad in the Middle East. Sorting the militants according to their 30 homelands showed the same pattern: engineers represented a fifth of all militants from every nation except one, and nearly half of those with advanced degrees.
THE FACT THAT THEY ARE ALL MUSLIM IS NOT AS INTERESTING TO THESE PROFESSORS AS THE FACT THAT SOME ARE ENGINEERS.

WHAT IDIOTS.

UNSKILLED JIHADIST ARE THE ONES WHO DO THE UN SKILLED ACTS OF TERROR.

WHAT MAKES A PERSON A TERRORIST IS NOT THEIR SKILL-SET; IT'S THEIR IDEOLOGICAL CONVICTION.

AND THAT IS ALMOST ALWAYS JIHAD. OR LEFTISM.

THE SOONER WE ADMIT THAT THE SOONER WE CAN PROPERLY FOCUS OUR EFFORTS AGAINST THE REAL ENEMY.

Tawfik Hamid: a deluded Muslim who thinks there is a moderate Islam, but who actually disproves it and exposes it as a phony religion based on lies

In this weekend WSJ, they published a short OP-ED by Tawfik Hamid: "A Muslim Response to Quran Burning --- Follow the prophet Abraham by offering peace."

Mr. Hamid has a decent and perhaps even admirable bio: "Mr. Hamid, a former member of the Islamic radical group Jamma Islamiya, is an Islamic reformer and a senior fellow at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies."

BUT WHAT HE WRITES IS BULLSHIT:

It's unclear whether or not the Rev. Terry Jones will go ahead with his highly publicized Quran burning this evening in Florida. But Muslims can play a major role in preventing a violent response to any burnings of their holy book.

Islamic scholars can emphasize that the Quran clearly teaches that no one can be punished on account of the actions of others (surra 6, verse 164). In other words, it is against the value system of the Quran to punish Americans or Christians because of the acts of a small minority.

In addition, leading Islamic authorities should issue a powerful fatwa against those who might respond to Quran burning with violence against non-Muslims. The fatwa must clearly state that those who react by carrying out violent acts against non-Muslims are apostates. It should also say that those who attack non-Muslims to seek revenge will not be buried with Muslims and will go to hell forever.

These are the kind of words—unfortunately—that resonate with Islamic radicals. Fatwas that simply condemn violent acts as 'un-Islamic' are too weak to produce any significant effect.

The best example for Muslims to follow in this case is what the Quran says about Prophet Ibrahim (Abraham) when his father threatened to stone him to death for refusing to follow the pagan beliefs common in their society. The response of Abraham—who the Quran calls "the role model of all prophets"—was not revenge, but rather an offering of peace (19:46-47). "Dost thou hate my gods, O Ibrahim? If thou forbear not, I will indeed stone thee: Now get away from me for a long while!" says the father.

To this, Abraham replies: "Peace be upon thee! I shall ask my Sustainer to forgive thee. For behold, He has always been kind unto me."

The more Muslims follow this model, the more they can bring peace to the world. And the more tolerance Muslims show for values like freedom of expression, the less others will think of burning the Quran.

If the Muslim world followed the authoritative guide of Quranic verse 41:34—"Nor can goodness and evil be equal. Respond to evil with doing good deeds to the evil doer. Then will he, between whom and thyself was hatred, become as though he was thy friend and intimate!"—there would not be a so-called clash of civilizations.

Inadvertently, Hamid has actually proven that Islam is a phony, untrustworthy, decietful and violent ideology.

HOW!?

SIMPLE:

Hamid would like us to believe that Muslims should emulate their version of Abraham, and NOT their chief prophet, Muhammad.

To believe this, we'd have to believe that Muhammad was a bad Muslim because he certainly didn't practice what Hamid says the Koran says Abraham did.

Muhammad didn't turn the cheek or do good to those he thought were evil. Muhammad didn't follow Quranic verse 41:34. He broke it all the time.

COULD MUHAMMAD HAVE GOTTEN HIS OWN RELIGION WRONG?!

NO.

NO ONE is more important to or relevant to the Koran than Muhammad.

If Muhammad got it wrong, then it is ALL WRONG, and everything Muslims do - especially all they do to emulate their chief prophet is wrong.

Muhammad can no more be wrong about Islam - the religion he invented - than Buddha can be wrong about Buddhism.

I ask Hamid to look in the mirror and HONESTLY think about it.

If he does, then there's only one way for him to go: he MUST leave Islam.

He can become an atheist or Buddhist or Hindu or Jew or Christian, but he must leave Islam.

All Muslims can - and all should.

REPEAT: If Muhammad got it wrong, then it is ALL WRONG.

REPEAT: If Muhammad got it wrong, then it is ALL WRONG.

REPEAT: If Muhammad got it wrong, then it is ALL WRONG.

AND - ACCORDING TO TAWFIK HAMID AND THE CITED LINES IN THE QURAN - MUHAMMAD GOT IT WRONG.

There's no other logical and truthful conclusion.

The argument that Tawfik Hamid makes proves that Islam is entirely illogical, dishonest, hypocritical and evil. If the Abraham in the Koran was right, then Muhammad was wrong, and if Muhammad was wrong, then the Koran is wrong. If the Koran is wrong, then Islam is a fasle religion.

REPEAT: If the Abraham in the Koran was right, then Muhammad was wrong, and if Muhammad was wrong, then the Koran is wrong - and Islam is a false religion.

REPEAT: If the Abraham in the Koran was right, then Muhammad was wrong, and if Muhammad was wrong, then the Koran is wrong - and Islam is a false religion.

AND THAT'S JUST THE WAY IT IS.

LIKE IT OR NOT.

TAWFIK HAMID AND OTHER PEOPLE WHO ARE MUSLIMS MUST MAKE A CHOICE: THEY MUST CHOOSE LIFE OR ISLAM; THEY CANNOT CHOOSE BOTH.

WAFA SULTAN AND AYAAN HIRSI ALI AND WALID SHOEBAT ALL CHOSE WISELY, AND LEFT ISLAM.

OTHERS CAN TOO.

I PRAY THEY ALL DO.

AND ANOTHER THING:

THERE'S ABUNDANT PROOF THAT THE KORAN IS NOT PERFECT REVELATION, BUT A HIGHLY FLAWED, SLOPPILY COMPILED, POORLY RESEARCHED PILE OF LIES. IN FACT, THERE IS NOT EVEN A SINGLE VERSION OF IT.

IOW: ANOTHER REASON FOR FOLLOWERS OF ISLAM TO SPLIT.

OBAMA OF TRACHIS SPEAKS

(CLICK TO ENBIGGEN)

OBAMA SAID THIS TODAY:
... the acts of some small band of murderers who slaughter the innocent
and cower in caves ...

... It was not a religion that attacked us that September day --it was al Qaeda, a sorry band of men which perverts religion.
THAT IS TAQIYYA.

TAQIYYA IS LYING.

AND OBAMA LIED IN HIS SPEECH.

TO US.

WHILE WINKING AT THE PERPETRATORS OF 9/11.

LIKE IT OR NOT, HERE'S THE TRUTH:
  • 9/11 WAS COMMITTED BY A VERY LARGE GROUP OF MEN ON MANY CONTINENTS OVER MANY YEARS, AND NOT A SMALL BAND OF MURDERERS.
  • MOHAMED, PISS BE UPON HIM, LED "A SORRY BAND OF MEN" AND COMMITTED HORRIFIC ACTS ALMOST AS BAD AS 9/11 - ON A MUCH GREATER SCALE.
  • THOSE WHO PERPETRATED 9/11 WERE EMULATING THEIR PROPHET, THE HIGHEST ACT IN ISLAM.
  • THEY NO MORE PERVERTED ISLAM THAN BUDDHA PERVERTED BUDDHISM.
OBAMA PERVERTED THE TRUTH IN HIS SPEECH AND HE LIED ABOUT WHO AND WHAT WE ARE AT WAR WITH.

THE TRUTH IS, OBAMA WAS PORJECTING WHEN HE SAID - "... we are not and never will be at war with Islam ..." - HE WAS REALLY TALKLING ABOUT HIMSELF AND HIS OWN ORIENTATION, FOR OBAMA IS NOT AT WAR WITH ISLAM: LIKE REV WRIGHT HE THINKS WE DESERVED IT.

EXIT QUESTION:

IF OBAMA REALLY WAS A CRYPTO-MUSLIM AND POSTMODERN LEFTIST WHO WANTED THE USA TO BE NEUTERED SO THE FREE WORLD COULD BE BROUGHT TO ITS KNEES, THEN WHAT WOULD HE BE DOING DIFFERENTLY?

NOTHING.

(ASIDE: HERE'S WHY I CALL OUR TRAITOROUS PRESIDENT OBAMA OF TRACHIS.)

Swedish Arabic-Speaking Nazis Break in and Torture Candidate!

Via Trop:
In Sweden Democrats on Friday organized a meeting square in central Malmö. About 500 left-wing extremists sabotaged the meeting by including, rockets and arson. Later in the evening appeared a couple of leftist extremists at the apartment of the Sweden Democrat, David von Arnold, who is a candidate to municipality and county.

With knife threats they forced themselves into the apartment where in about 20 minutes they were torturing David with a knife, for example, a neck scratch and cut a swastika on his forehead.

Leftist extremists, who spoke in an Arab-like language and Swedish [...] threatened David because he participated in the Square meeting together with their leftist counterparts [...], also took the chance to steal David's computer and money before they disappeared.
The governments of the world have retreated behind the barricades and thrown their people to the fascislamic wolves!

9-11 COMES AGAIN NINE YEARS LATER

It's been nine years, almost a decade, since the horror of 9-11 took place. Let's add a couple of items on the issue. For example, here's what Robert K. Wilcox has to say. And here's a very heartbreaking video (via Tammy Bruce):

Never forget.

I also read the news about the pastor in Florida who wanted to hold a Koran-burning. It was called off, and I think it's good that it was. I can't help but wonder, having seen a CNN report, if that pastor was a leftist provocateur trying to sabotage the war against Islamofascism (Diana West raises the questions here too). The UK Telegraph has a better idea of what to do: tell the world about the Muslim persecution of Christians. Yes, and the world should also be told about the Muslim persecution of Jews as well. It wouldn't surprise me if there was also Muslim persecution of Buddhists, and that too is something that needs to be noted.

Here's Michelle Malkin's column for the day. And, here's even an important one by Daniel Pipes, about how Americans are waking up to the threat of Islam.

And perhaps most important of all, 9-11 Families for a Safe & Strong America's list of the victims.

Benny Gerson, genius cartoonist at Arutz Sheva

John O'neill - The Man Who Knew

WIKI:
John Patrick O'Neill (February 6, 1952 – September 11, 2001) was a top American anti-terrorism expert, who worked as a special agent and eventually Assistant Director in the Federal Bureau of Investigation until late 2001. In 1995, O'Neill began to intensely study the roots of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing after he assisted in the capture of Ramzi Yousef, who was the leader of that plot.

He subsequently learned of al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden, and investigated the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia and the 2000 USS Cole bombing in Yemen. Partly due to personal friction he had within the FBI and federal government, O'Neill left to become the head of security at the World Trade Center, where he died at age 49 in the September 11, 2001 attacks. In 2002, O'Neill was the subject of a Frontline documentary named "The Man Who Knew."

... O'Neill started his new job at the World Trade Center on August 23, 2001, just 19 days before the attacks. (Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, January 14, 2002) He was appointed by Kroll Associates, namely by the managing director Jerome Hauer. In late August, he talked to his friend Chris Isham about the job. Jokingly, Isham said, "At least they're not going to bomb it again," a reference to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. O'Neill replied, "They’ll probably try to finish the job." [4]









WATCH ALL 8 PARTS.

WW4 BEGAN BEFORE 9/11 - O'NEILL KNEW THIS.

BUT NO ONE LISTENED.

PEOPLE WOKE UP ON 9/11/01.

BUT NOW MANY HAVE FORGOTTEN - OR HAVE WISHFULLY DELUDED THEMSELVES INTO BELIEVING THAT IT WILL JUST GO AWAY IF WE CHANGE OUT FOREIGN POLICY AND JUST TREAT MUSLIMS A LITTLE BETTER.

THAT WON'T WORK ANY BETTER THAN WHAT WE'RE DOING BEFORE 9/11/01.

APPEASEMENT AND ACCOMMODATION WON'T END JIHAD IN PHILIPPINES, THAILAND, PAKISTAN, AFGHANISTAN, IRAN, IRAQ, JORDAN, TURKEY, EGYPT, MOROCCO, YEMEN, SAUDI ARABIA, SOMALIA, SUDAN, EUROPE, RUSSIA, CHECHNYA, OSSETIA, DAGESTAN, CHINA, INDIA, KASHMIR - OR BALI.

OR ANYWHERE ELSE.

IF YOU WANT PEACE, THEN YOU HAVE TWO CHOICES: SURRENDER OR FIGHT.

SURRENDER CAN COME IN MANY SHAPES AND AT DIFFERENT PACES, BUT IT ULTIMATELY MEANS LIVING UNDER TOTALITARIAN TYRANNY.

VICTORY WILL COST MORE IN LIVES AND TREASURE, BUT IT'S THE ONLY WAY WE AND OUR DESCENDANTS CAN REMAIN FREE.

THE CHOICE IS OURS.

ME AND MY ALLIES WILL NOT GO DOWN WITHOUT A FIGHT.

JOIN US.

ADDENDUM:

THE BALL WASN'T DROPPED BY BUSH IN 2001; IT HAD BEEN DROPPED EARLIER:
Sandy Berger wrote an article which appeared in FOREIGN AFFAIRS Nov/Dec 200 Issue; Volume 79 Number 6.

It is an 18 page article - [PRINTABLE LINK HERE], and it thoroughly reviews so-called Clinton Administration successes (like North Korea!) and outlines what Clinton's National Security Advisor - on behalf of the Clinton Administration - saw as the emerging chief global security issues.

The title of the article was, appropriately, "A Foreign Policy for the Global Age".

In this article, Berger mentions terrorism ONCE, in passing - in a single paragraph, three pages from the end.

Islamo-terrorism gets equal billing with all others on every continent, and he did not specifically mention either al Qaeda or UBL.

This PROVES that global terror was far from the Clinton Administration's "HIGHEST PRIORITY" - as Clarke claimed UNDER OATH.

CLARKE LIED.

WE MUSTN'T LET OUR PAST MISSTEPS OR OUR CURRENT MISTAKES DETER OR DERAIL US FROM WHAT MUST BE DONE.

WE DON'T NEED TO POINT FINGERS - THERE'S PLENTY OF BLAME TO GO AROUND.

WE NEED RESOLVE.

AND WE NEED TO ACCEPT THAT TO WIN WE MUST FIGHT TOTAL WAR.

IF WE WIN, THEN BILLIONS OF PEOPLE ARE FREED.

IF WE LOSE, THEN BILLIONS WILL BE SENTENCED TO POVERTY AND TYRANNY FOR DECADES AND DECADES AND DECADES TO COME.

THE CHOICE IS OURS.

9/11 MARKS THE DATE OF BUT THREE ATTACKS IN A THOUSAND YEAR WAR BETWEEN CIVILIZATION AND EVIL

THE PEOPLE WHO WERE MURDERED ON 9/11 WERE MURDERED FOR ISLAM, BY MUSLIMS TO ADVANCE ISLAMIC TYRANNY OVER EVERYONE EVERYWHERE.



WE HAVE TO FIGHT BACK AND WE SHOULD FIGHT BACK WITH EVERYTHING WE HAVE UNTIL THE ENEMY SURRENDERS UNCONDITIONALLY.

UNTIL THEN , WE WON'T BE SAFE OR FREE.

ONLY AFTER THE ENEMY IS COMPLETELY VANQUISHED - AND ALL TRACES OF THEIR HIDEOUS, GENOCIDAL, GENDERCIDAL IDEOLOGY ERASED FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH - SHALL PEACE REIGN AND SHALL ALL MEN AND WOMEN EVERYWHERE - BOTH NON-MUSLIMS THREATENED BY JIHAD AND MUSLIMS ENSLAVED TO IT - LIVE IN HARMONY AND PROSPERITY.

MAY THAT DAY COME TO US SPEEDILY AND SOON.

(VIDEO VIA VLAD.)

From islamic world: good wishes to other muslims, death threats to non-muslims!

What a surprise! From the religion of piss peace come these exhortations! Good wishes to muslims, death threats and attacks on non-muslims!

In this video, muslims in Beirut demand that "this" US adminstration remove all things and people in America, that muslims in Beirut find objectionable!!

Beirut!! The bombed-to-hell sewer for Hezbollah rats, demands of the jihadi in the White House, that he cleanse America - they expect it !!

This is London September 11, 2008!!

God help those who have allowed this evil to flourish!

"Devout" muslime woman kills 2 in Philadelphia.

I always thought "Philadephia" meant "place of the friends". This is the horror that is islam:

 Daily Mail:

"She's a hard worker"
"She is not a loose cannon".
"She is very spiritual".
"She is a muslim".

Update: aolonline don't mention the "m" word: dhummis!!

From Jewish Odysseus: Defying dhimmitude!

This is so beautiful!

KLAVAN ON 9/11: REPRISE OF TEXT

“Hi, this is Andrew Klavan on the culture.

It’s been eight years since September 11, 2001, the day 19 terrorists murdered some 3,000 human beings on American soil. The murderers were moved to commit their atrocity by an idea—the idea of jihad, which they understood as a Muslim’s obligation to fight against non-believers.

Ideas are interesting things. Like our creator, like the souls he creates, ideas are known to us only by physical means but have no physical presence themselves. They’re not the brain chemistry that conceives them or the words that express them. In fact, while our ideas take the shape of our humanity and our cultural moment, they have a reality and power that transcend both.

Like all real things, ideas have qualities, characteristics. There are true ideas and false ones, practical and impractical, good ideas and bad. According to their qualities, ideas exert a force on human action. A man may be kindly and honest in his personal dealings and yet, gripped by a bad idea like jihad or communism, he may commit acts of dreadful savagery without even recognizing them for what they are. Conversely, a man of a million personal flaws, may rise to greatness by discovering, adopting or promoting a good idea like the sanctity of the individual.

Ideas create a tension between themselves and our behavior—and the resolution of that tension can set the very course of history. Our nation, for instance, once tore itself violently apart because its practice of slavery couldn’t co-exist forever with its principle of liberty.

That – liberty – is the great American idea: the idea that each and every person is fashioned by God with an inherent right to determine his own actions, pursue his own concept of happiness and enjoy the fruit of his own labor. So powerful was this idea in the era of our founding that people chose to risk and even sacrifice their lives in order to give the idea of liberty physical incarnation on American soil.

As our founders knew, embracing the idea of liberty means leaving other attractive ideas behind. You can’t be free, for instance, and all equal, because, set free, some people will excel due to talent or determination or luck. You can’t be free and have guaranteed financial security because some free enterprises will fail while others succeed. And you can’t be free and perpetually at peace because it’s in the nature of some people to dominate others and such people must often be defeated by force.

The price of liberty is great but the gifts of liberty are priceless. Liberty allows each of us to attempt his best destiny, his virtues freely chosen, his faith freely found. Liberty opens the doors of every field to our greatest understanding, because there is no force for wisdom so powerful as an unfettered and independent mind in open interchange with others. Liberty paves the pathway to the fullest realization of our identities, our lives, and our loves, each his own.

It’s been eight years since 19 men in the grip of a bad idea did terrible evil in its name. On this day as at that hour, our idea, our great idea of liberty is under attack. It’s under attack from without by villains who would enslave us by force, and from within by fools who would enslave us softly with misguided promises of equality, financial security and endless peace.

Ideas are interesting things. Like our creator, like the souls he creates, they can, when rightly conceived, lead us even through hellfire to the beautiful and the good. And yet they have no physical presence. They live on earth only insofar as we embody them and only for as long as we are willing to defend them with all the courage and wisdom we can find.

On September 11, 2009, this is Andrew Klavan on the culture.”

Friday, September 10, 2010

THE REAL TIME MAGAZINE COVER IS JUST AS BAD AS THIS PHOTOSHOP


QUICK: CLICK PIC' FOR TIME'S SICK ANTISEMITIC SCHTICK.

MORE HERE.

TWO NEW GROUND ZERO MOSQUE DESIGNS UNVEILED

I THINK THESE ARE BOTH BETTER DESIGNS FOR CORDOVA OUTHOUSE:




























I LIKE THE SIMPLICITY OF THE FIRST DESIGN.

BUT THE SECOND ONE MIGHT BE MORE IN KEEPING WITH THE TRUE WISHES OF THE GZ MOSQUE DEVELOPERS.

MUST SEE TV: "THE SUPER BOWL OF INTERFAITH RELATIONS" ?!?!?!?

VIA MOONBATTERY:

THE GZ MOSQUE IS NOT THE SUPER BOWL OF INTERFAITH RELATIONS; IT IS ACTUALLY THE SUPER BOWL OF ISLAMIC INTOLERANCE AND INSENSITIVITY:



WOW: SHE IS AWESOME!

AND SHE'S RIGHT: THE INTOLERANCE IS NOT IN NYC. NOT IN THE USA.

THE INTOLERANCE IS WITHIN ISLAM.

MODERATE MUSLIMS HAVE TO STOP FIGHTING US, AND START FIGHTING THEIR FELLOW MUSLIMS WHO EMULATE MOHAMED AND ARE JIHADISTS.

NOTHING ELSE AND NOTHING LESS WILL CONVINCE US.

ISLAM: RELIGION OF GENDERCIDE

NATIONAL POST:

Jonathan Kay, National Post · Friday, Sept. 10, 2010

Thanks to an international outcry, Iranian officials apparently have "suspended" the death sentence against Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, convicted in 2006 for the crime of "adultery" (even though her husband already had died at the time of her allegedly "illicit" relationship). Yet her life remains hellish.

This week, it was reported that, even as she was waiting on death row, Ashtiani got 99 lashes for the further crime of appearing in a Times of London photo without a headscarf. (The Times now concedes that the photo actually was of another woman -- adding an additional level of surreal suffering to what already was a singularly pitiful case.)

This is on top of the 99 she got back in 2006, which would put her at a total of 198.

The only possible good news to be wrung from the woman's horror is the fact that the case has united the whole of the civilized world -- including Europe's otherwise morally relativistic intellectuals -- in unanimous condemnation of Iran's Medieval theocracy.

Even the most devout Euro-pacifist can only be horrified at the prospect of this regime possessing a nuclear weapon.

And yet Ashtiani is just a drop in the bucket when it comes to "honour killings" in Muslim societies.

An astonishing investigative report in Britain's Independent by celebrity left-wing journalist Robert Fisk (who has taken a laudable break from his America-bashing beat) concludes that the usual UN figure of 5,000 honour killings per year worldwide is off by a factor of at least four--and that the real number is about 20,000.

20,000/ YEAR x HOW MANY YEARS?

HMMM... 1431.

SO, THAT'S... HMMM: 28,620,000 MUSLIM WOMEN MURDERED BY MUSLIMS.

BY THEIR OWN MALE FAMILY MEMBERS.


AND BESIDES THE GENOCIDE, THINK ABOUT THE EFFECT OF THE THREAT OF THAT TERROR HAS ON THE WOMEN - THE YOUNG GIRLS.

AND WHAT IT TEACHES YOUNG MEN.

IT TEACHES YOUNG MUSLIM MEN THAT GENOCIDE IS OKAY - FOR IF IT'S OKAY TO MURDER YOUR OWN SISTER, THEN IT'S CERTAINLY OKAY TO MURDER NON-MUSLIMS.
  • THE IDEOLOGY WHICH PROMULGATES MUSLIM MISOGYNY, GENDERCIDE AND AUTO-GENOCIDE IS THE PROVERBIAL SWAMP.
  • IF WE WANT MUSLIM MEN TO BE DESENSITIZED TO THE APPEAL OF JIHAD, THEN WE HAVE TO ERADICATE MUSLIM MISOGYNY AND MUSLIM GENDERCIDE AND AUTO-GENOCIDE.
  • NATIONS WHICH LET THESE CRIMES GO UNPUNISHED SHOULD BE COMPLETELY OSTRACIZED FROM THE MODERN WORLD.
  • COMPLETELY.
  • THIS WOULD BE THE MOST EFFECTIVE NON-MILITARY FRONT WE COULD OPEN IN WW4.
  • THIS WILL NOT HAPPEN AS LONG AS WE HAVE FILTHY, WEASELY, ENEMY-APPEASING SC*MB*G POLITICIANS AND PUNDITS TELL US THAT ISLAM IS A RELIGION OF PEACE WHEN HISTORY AND THE DAILY NEWSPAPERS TELL US IT IS NOT.
ISLAM IS A RELIGION OF GENOCIDE - AND GENDERCIDE.

ISLAM REFUSES TO COEXIST WITH THE MODERN WORLD.

ISLAM SAYS "US OR THEM" AND THAT'S WHY WE HAVE ONLY TWO CHOICES:

FIGHT OR SURRENDER.

AND APPEASEMENT = SURRENDER, JUST MORE SLOWLY.

(PREVIOUS POST: ISLAM: RELIGION OF GENOCIDE.)

WATCH THIS TRAILER:



BUY OR RENT THIS MOVIE.

HEADLINE OF THE MONTH: Ground Zero Imam: If Intolerant Americans Force Mosque Move, Tolerant Muslims Will 'Explode' With 'Anger'









THINK ABOUT IT:

  • IT'S NOT JUST RAUF WHO SAYING IT; OBAMA AND THE LEFT AND THE MSM WOULD ALSO HAVE YOU BELIEVE THAT OPPOSING THE GZ MOSQUE MAKES YOU AN INTOLERANT ISLAMOPHOBE...

  • AND THAT THE MUSLIMS WHO THREATEN RETALIATION ARE TOLERANT ONES MERELY PRACTICING THEIR "RELIGION OF PEACE".

WE WON'T LET THEM GET AWAY WITH THESE FILTHY ENEMY-APPEASING LIES.


NOT TODAY.

NOT TOMORROW - ON 9/11.

AND NOT IN NOVEMBER, BABY!

UPDATE:

LOOKIT FOLKS:

WHEN MUSLIMS WORLDWIDE PROTEST THE SO-CALLED "PERVERTORS" OF ISLAM AS MUCH AS THEY PROTEST CARTOONS AND BOOK-BURNINGS, THEN AND ONLY THEN MIGHT I ADJUST MY OPINION.

OBAMA VOCIFEROUSLY DEFENDS... MEXICO!?


BBC:

President Obama has denied that rising violence is making Mexico more and more like Colombia at the height of its drugs war.

The remark is an apparent contradiction to comments made by his Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton.

She said on Wednesday that the drug war in Mexico had begun to resemble the violence in Colombia 20 years ago.

But Mr Obama told a US Spanish-languange newspaper that there was no comparison between the two.

"Mexico is vast and progressive democracy, with a growing economy, and as a result you cannot compare what is happening in Mexico with what happened in Colombia 20 years ago," he told the Los Angeles-based daily La Opinion.

HILLARY IS RIGHT.

OBAMA IS WRONG.

FROM THE ABOVE LINK:

More than 28,000 people have died in drug-related violence in Mexico since President Felipe Calderon deployed the army to fight the cartels in 2006 and violence has spilled over into Central America.

TODAY'S NEWS FROM BLOOMBERG:

Gunmen killed the mayor of a town in northern Mexico as he sat at his desk, the third politician slain in the past month as drug-related violence escalates.

... Violence is the biggest threat to the Mexican economy, according to 57 percent of business executives, up from 49 percent in March and 22 percent in December 2009, a July survey published by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu showed. Its impact is shaving 1.2 percentage points off economic output a year, Finance Minister
Ernesto Cordero said Sept. 1.

THE MEXICANS GOT A LITTLE PISSED OF AT HILLARY FOR HER COMMENTS.

AND OBAMA IS PANDERING. IT'S DISGUSTING.

WHAT MAKES IT WORSE?

HE HAS NEVER AS VOCIFEROUSLY DEFENDED THE USA; INSTEAD, OBAMA USUALLY APOLOGIZES FOR THE USA.

OBAMA IS NOTHING MORE THAN A LEFT-WING ANTI-AMERICAN SC*MB*G WITH A MELLIFLUOUS BARITONE, A WARM SMILE AND A WANING ABILITY TO GET PEOPLE TO BELIEVE HIS LIES.

NATE SILVER'S LATEST PROJECTION FOR THE HOUSE IS INTELLECTUALLY DISHONEST

NATE SILVER/NYTIMES:

House Takeover Chances

Likely Takeover [17 SEATS]

Current party has greater than 80% chance of losing seat

98% TN-6
88% VA-5
83% AR-1
97% NY-29
88% ND-1
83% WI-7
97% AR-2
88% IL-11
82% TN-8
93% KS-3
84% OH-16
82% SD-1
91% MI-1
84% MS-1
81% OH-1
91% LA-3
84% MD-1

Lean Takeover [26 SEATS]

Current party has between 60 and 80% chance of losing seat

78% IN-8
70% WV-1
64% PA-10
76% NM-2
69% PA-11
63% AZ-1
76% PA-7
69% NH-2
63% IA-3
76% CO-4
68% TX-17
63% IL-14
74% OH-15
67% SC-5
62% CA-11
74% AL-2
67% NH-1
62% GA-8
73% MI-7
66% AZ-5
61% CO-3
72% WA-3
66% PA-3
61% PA-12
71% FL-24
65% DE-1

Even Chance of Takeover [20 SEATS]

Current party has between 40 and 60% chance of losing seat

59% VA-2
54% PA-8
49% AZ-8
59% FL-8
54% MO-4
49% OH-18
58% IN-9
53% KY-6
47% ID-1
56% NV-3
53% IL-10
45% TN-4
56% WI-8
51% LA-2
43% FL-22
54% HI-1
50% NC-8
41% FL-2
54% NY-24
50% TX-23

Takeover Possible [21 SEATS]

Current party has between 20 and 40% chance of losing seat

39% NY-19
31% NY-23
24% VA-11
38% NC-11
28% NY-20
24% NY-1
37% NJ-3
28% MA-10
23% GA-2
37% OR-5
26% WA-2
22% VA-9
34% IN-2
26% NM-1
22% OH-13
32% CO-7
26% IL-17
21% WV-3
31% PA-4
25% NC-4


HERE'S WHAT'S INTELLECTUALLY DISHONEST:

THE DESCRIPTORS.
  • EVERYTHING OVER 51% IS A LIKELY TAKEOVER, BUT SILVER RESERVES THAT TERM FOR RACES WHICH HAVE AN 80% LIKELIHOOD FOR GOP TAKEOVER.
  • AND HE USES THE TERM "LEAN TAKEOVER" FOR RACES IN WHICH THE GOP HAS BETWEEN A 60-80% CHANCE OF TAKEOVER.
THIS IS ABSURD.

ONLY 4 REPEAT FOUR - OF THE ABOVE TAKEOVER SEATS WOULD LIKELY BE TAKEN BY A DEMOCRAT.

THAT MEANS ACCORDING TO SILVER'S NUMBERS - 64 SEATS - REPEAT EIGHTY-FOUR - WOULD BE TAKEN BY REPUBLICANS.

SO THE TRUTH IS - ACCORDING TO SILVER'S NUMBERS - A NET GAIN OF 60 SEATS IS SIMPLY "LIKELY" TO BE MADE BY THE GOP THIS NOVEMBER.

SOME ARE MORE LIKELY THAN OTHER, BUT ALL ARE NOW LIKELY.

AND MORE GAINS ARE "POSSIBLE", ACCORDING TO SILVER (SEE THE 21 IN THE LAST CATEGORY).

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!

IF BIN LADEN AND THE TALIBAN ARE PERVERTORS OF ISLAM, THEN SO WAS MOHAMED


OBAMA:
Obama praises President Bush for how he handled the Islam question after 9/11, and for saying that “we are not at war with Islam” but with those who “pervert” its teachings.
WRONG.

OBAMA AND BUSH WERE PERVERTING THE TRUTH:
  • BIN LADEN AND THE TALIBAN AND THE Q'TUBISTS AND WAHHABISTS ARE CLOSER TO PRACTICING ISLAM THE WAY MOHAMED DID THAN SO-CALLED "MODERATE" MUSLIMS.
  • IF BIN LADEN IS AN APOSTATE PERVERTING ISLAM, THEN SO WAS MOHAMED.
  • ER UM... THAT'S JUST NOT LOGICALLY POSSIBLE OR HISTORICALLY ACCURATE.
  • MOHAMED WAS NEITHER AN APOSTATE OF ISLAM OR A MISUNDERSTANDER OF ISLAM.
IOW: IT'S ISLAM, STUPID.

THE CORE PROBLEM - THE SWAMP - IS ISLAM. NOT POVERTY. NOT MUSLIMS. ISLAM. MOHAMED. THEIR SO-CALLED "SACRED" TEXTS.

IS THAT TOO DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND!?

IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT MUSLIMS ARE THE PROBLEM: MOST MUSLIMS ARE MODERATE - IOW: APOSTATES.

AND EVERYDAY - ALL OVER THE WORLD, BUT ESPECIALLY IN PLACES LIKE IRAQ AND TURKEY AND MOROCCO AND JORDAN AND PAKISTAN AND AFGHANISTAN - THEY ARE FORCED TO CHOOSE BETWEEN TRUE ISLAM AND "MODERATE ISLAM" --- NOT BY US, BUT BY THOSE WHO FOLLOW ISLAM ACCORDING TO MOHAMED.

THEY MUST CHOOSE SIDES.
  • IF THEY ARE FORCED TO CHOOSE UNDER ISLAMO-TERRORIST DURESS, THEN THEY WILL MOSTLY SIDE WITH THE ENEMY.
  • THE BEST WAY TO MAKE THEM ABLE TO CHOOSE A "MODERATE" ISLAM IS FOR US TO WIPE OUT THE JIHADISTS.
IOW: THE ONLY WAY MOST MUSLIMS CAN BE SAVED IS FOR ISLAMISM TO BE WIPED OUT.

I WISH THEY'D HELP US DO IT, BUT THERE SEEM TO BE ONLY ABOUT 1% OF MODERATE MUSLIMS WHO HAVE THE COURAGE - LIKE M. Zuhdi Jasser, M.D.

UPDATE:

LOOKIT FOLKS: WHEN WE ALL SEE MUSLIMS WORLDWIDE PROTEST THE SO-CALLED "PERVERTORS" OF ISLAM AS MUCH AS THEY PROTEST CARTOONS AND BOOK-BURNINGS, THEN AND ONLY THEN MIGHT I ADJUST MY OPINION.

UNTIL THEN, THE FEW PRO-WESTERN, PRO-ENLIGHTENMENT, PRO-DEMOCRACY MUSLIMS JUST AIN'T ENOUGH TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE.

SIGH.

1000 Years of the Kaifeng Jews!

Here they are, celebrating Rosh Hashanah!

IF THE THE KORAN IS A SACRED TEXT, THEN SO IS MEIN KAMPF AND DIANETICS BY L. RON HUBBARD



CNN:
President Barack Obama said Friday that the idea that "we would burn the sacred texts of someone else's religion is contrary to what this country stands for."
DESPITE WHAT A BILLION MUSLIMS - AND OBAMA - HAVE BEEN BRAINWASHED TO BELIEVE - AND WHAT THEY AND LEFT WANTS YOU TO BELIEVE - THE KORAN IS NOT A SACRED TEXT.

PROOF:

(1) 6/15/09: FACT: the present Quran is different from the early manuscripts.

It proves the Islamic claim --- (that the Quran is infallability, that it is Allah's original revelation word by word, and that it is copy of the version kept in a tablet in heaven) --- outright false.
PROOF:
The 1972 discovery of the earliest surviving Quranic manuscripts in the Great Mosque of Sana'a conclusively shows that the present Quran is different from the early manuscripts. It proves the Islamic claim---that the Quran is infallability, that it is Allah's original revelation word by word, and that it is copy of the version kept in a tablet in heaven---outright false.

... The devastating truth is that a large number of ancient Quranic manuscripts, dating from first century of Hijra were discovered in the Great Mosque of Sana’a (Yemen), which significantly differs from the present standard one. Carbon dating system confirmed that these Qurans are not forged one by religious rivalries. Moreover, these Qurans were discovered by Muslims, not infidels.

This is, probably, the most embarrassing event to Muslims in the 1,400-year history of Islam.

... Until now, only three ancient copies of the Quran are found. The one preserved in the British Library in London, dates from the late seventh century and was thought to be the oldest one. But the Sana’a manuscripts are even older. Moreover, these manuscripts are written in a script that originates from the Hijaz—the region of Arabia where prophet Muhammad lived, which makes them not only the oldest to have survived, but one of the earliest authentic copies of the Quran ever.

... The ancient texts were found to be devastatingly and disturbingly at odds with the existing form. There are unconventional verse ordering, small but significant textual variations, different orthography (spelling) and different artistic embellishment (decoration).

It shattered the orthodox Muslim belief that the Quran, as it has reached us today, is “the perfect, timeless, and unchanging Word of God”. It means Quran has been distorted, perverted, revised, modified and corrected, and textual alterations had taken place over the years purely by Human hands.

The sacred aura surrounding this Holy Scripture of Islam, which remained intact for some 14 centuries is gone with this astonishing discovery and the ‘core belief’ of 1.4b Muslims that the Quran is the eternal, unaltered word of God is now clearly visible as a great hoax, a downright falsehood.

... As if it is not enough, many manuscripts showed the sign of palimpsests, i.e., versions very clearly written over even earlier washed off versions. The underwriting of palimpsest is, of course, often difficult to read visually, but modern tools, such as ultraviolet photography, can highlight them. It suggests that the Sana’a manuscripts are not only variants to the present version of the Quran, but the Sana’a manuscripts themselves were variants of earlier version, re-written on the same paper. It means, Allah’s claim that original text is preserved in heaven on golden tablets (Q 56: 77–78; 85:21–22), which none can touch except angels is also a fairy-tale.

... Today, when the divinity of the Quran is shattered by the Sana’a manuscripts, the spiritual nature of Islam is also exposed. Islam is nothing but a pure Arab political movement. The Divinity was attached to the Quran, when Arabs started conquering the surrounding nations, and Islam was imposed on them by force. Arabs not only imposed Islam on others, but also imposed this irrational belief of Quranic divinity to the minds of their victims, so that once Arabs are gone, the conquered people cannot come out from this mental enslavement, and return back to their original faith. It is a rare political skill.

Many companions of Muhammad clearly knew that the Quran was fake, but they remained with their prophet to share the booty and to enjoy the women. We all know, after Muhammad’s death, several Arab tribes returned back to their original belief, and idolatry flourished, but were forced back to Islam with the sword and bloodbath.

RTWT.

BOTTOM-LINE: IF THE KORAN WAS THE KEY TO PROPER LIVING, THEN WHY ARE THE MOST DEVOUT MUSLIM COUNTRIES HELL-HOLES?

IOW: HOW CAN WE TELL A TRUE PROPHET FROM A FALSE ONE?

"BY THEIR FRUITS YOU SHALL KNOW THEM".
(2) THE IDEA THAT THE KORAN IS AN EVIL BOOK IS NOT LIMITED TO RIGHT-WING GOP NECON ZIONISTS.

OUR FOUNDERS KNEW IT FOR WHAT IT WAS:

REPRISE EXCERPT:

John Adams did indeed own a Quran — the copy he owned contained the following in the preface:

This book is a long conference of God, the angels, and Mahomet, which that false prophet very grossly invented; sometimes he introduceth God, who speaketh to him, and teacheth him his law, then an angel, among the prophets, and frequently maketh God to speak in the plural. … Thou wilt wonder that such absurdities have infected the best part of the world, and wilt avouch, that the knowledge of what is contained in this book, will render that law contemptible …

[...] Here is what John Quincy Adams wrote about the Islamic prophet Mohammed:

In the seventh century of the Christian era, a wandering Arab of the lineage of Hagar, the Egyptian, combining the powers of transcendent genius, with the preternatural energy of a fanatic, and the fraudulent spirit of an impostor, proclaimed himself as a messenger from Heaven, and spread desolation and delusion over an extensive portion of the earth. Adopting from the sublime conception of the Mosaic law, the doctrine of one omnipotent God; he connected indissolubly with it, the audacious falsehood, that he was himself his prophet and apostle. Adopting from the new Revelation of Jesus, the faith and hope of immortal life, and of future retribution, he humbled it to the dust, by adapting all the rewards and sanctions of his religion to the gratification of the sexual passion. He poisoned the sources of human felicity at the fountain, by degrading the condition of the female sex, and the allowance of polygamy; and he declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind. THE ESSENCE OF HIS DOCTRINE WAS VIOLENCE AND LUST: TO EXALT THE BRUTAL OVER THE SPIRITUAL PART OF HUMAN NATURE. [emphasis in the original]

John Quincy Adams also described the Quran in one of his essays as follows:

The precept of the koran is, perpetual war against all who deny, that Mahomet is the prophet of God. The vanquished may purchase their lives, by the payment of tribute; the victorious may be appeased by a false and delusive promise of peace; and the faithful follower of the prophet, may submit to the imperious necessities of defeat: but the command to propagate the Moslem creed by the sword is always obligatory, when it can be made effective. The commands of the prophet may be performed alike, by fraud, or by force.

WE IN THE CIVILIZED WEST SHOULD NOT NOW ELEVATE THIS BOOK TO THE LEVEL OF SACRED.

THE KORAN IS NO MORE A SACRED TEXT THAN MEIN KAMPF OR DIANETICS.

ELEVATING IT TO THE LEVEL OF THE SACRED GIVES THEM A VICTORY THEY DO NOT DESERVE AND IT MAKES IT HARDER FOR US TO PREVENT AND ROLL-BACK ISLAMIZATION.

MOHAMED: PISS BE UPON HIM - (UPDATED)


COMMENTER AT NEVER YET MELTED [LINK BELOW ADDED]:
LibertyorWhat?

Exactly! I think the answer to the whole dilemma is to get Larry David to urinate on the Koran, or better yet a picture of the Prophet Mohammed, peace be upon him, no pun intended, like he urinated on a picture of Jesus on his show Curb your Enthusiasm.

Mr. David being a courageous member of the avant-garde leftist intelligentsia I am sure he will be glad to oblige, and if he is afraid of being beheaded then any famous leftist celebrity is sure to step up in honor of freedom of speech and puncturing religious fascism.

Come on Clooney, Garafalo, Robbins, Sarandon, Stone, Penn, etc. etc., step right up and take a stand! (Or squat in the case of Garafalo and Sarandon). Let’s see your true colors!
PISS BE UPON HIM!

HERE'S A LINK TO A 10/30/09 FRONTPAGE POST ON THIS SUGGESTION.


UPDATE:

HERE'S WHAT OUR FOUNDERS THOUGHT OF ISLAM --- (VIA DOUG ROSS):
Correspondence from John Adams to Thomas Jefferson on July 16, 1814, reveals John Adams’ true feelings about Islam: Adams states that Mohammed is “a military fanatic” who “denies that laws were made for him; he arrogates everything to himself by force of arms.”

John Adams did indeed own a Quran — the copy he owned contained the following in the preface:

This book is a long conference of God, the angels, and Mahomet, which that false prophet very grossly invented; sometimes he introduceth God, who speaketh to him, and teacheth him his law, then an angel, among the prophets, and frequently maketh God to speak in the plural. … Thou wilt wonder that such absurdities have infected the best part of the world, and wilt avouch, that the knowledge of what is contained in this book, will render that law contemptible …

[...]

Here is what John Quincy Adams wrote about the Islamic prophet Mohammed:

In the seventh century of the Christian era, a wandering Arab of the lineage of Hagar, the Egyptian, combining the powers of transcendent genius, with the preternatural energy of a fanatic, and the fraudulent spirit of an impostor, proclaimed himself as a messenger from Heaven, and spread desolation and delusion over an extensive portion of the earth. Adopting from the sublime conception of the Mosaic law, the doctrine of one omnipotent God; he connected indissolubly with it, the audacious falsehood, that he was himself his prophet and apostle. Adopting from the new Revelation of Jesus, the faith and hope of immortal life, and of future retribution, he humbled it to the dust, by adapting all the rewards and sanctions of his religion to the gratification of the sexual passion. He poisoned the sources of human felicity at the fountain, by degrading the condition of the female sex, and the allowance of polygamy; and he declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind. THE ESSENCE OF HIS DOCTRINE WAS VIOLENCE AND LUST: TO EXALT THE BRUTAL OVER THE SPIRITUAL PART OF HUMAN NATURE. [emphasis in the original]

John Quincy Adams also described the Quran in one of his essays as follows:

The precept of the koran is, perpetual war against all who deny, that Mahomet is the prophet of God. The vanquished may purchase their lives, by the payment of tribute; the victorious may be appeased by a false and delusive promise of peace; and the faithful follower of the prophet, may submit to the imperious necessities of defeat: but the command to propagate the Moslem creed by the sword is always obligatory, when it can be made effective. The commands of the prophet may be performed alike, by fraud, or by force.

[...]

In a March 23, 1790, letter to the editor of the Federal Gazette, Ben Franklin wrote:

Nor can the Plundering of Infidels be in that sacred Book [the Quran] forbidden, since it is well known from it, that God has given the World, and all that it contains, to his faithful Mussulmen, who are to enjoy it of Right as fast as they conquer it.

Thomas Jefferson? Like John Adams, he did own a Quran, one translated by George Sale. Here are some of Sale’s comments on the Quran, included by Sale in his introduction:

It is certainly one of the most convincing proofs that Mohammedism was no other than human invention, that it owed its progress and establishment almost entirely to the sword.

[...]

During the Barbary Wars, in 1805, the bey (i.e., monarch) of Tunis threatened war with the United States after the U.S. had been successful in capturing some Tunisian pirate ships. The bey sent an envoy to the United States to negotiate for the return of the ships. This envoy stayed in Washington for six months, during which the month of Ramadan passed.

One of Thomas Jefferson’s many invitations extended to this envoy to meet with him at the White House was during the month of Ramadan. To accommodate the envoy’s religious obligation, Jefferson changed the time of dinner from the usual “half after three” to “precisely at sunset.”

Jefferson was being polite — not celebrating the first White House iftaar, as Akbar Ahmed suggests.

The first Ramadan iftaar was not actually held at the White House until 1996.

Indeed, in a letter dated June 26, 1822, Jefferson had this to say about Islam in a passage regarding Calvinism:

Verily I say these are the false shepherds foretold as to enter not by the door into the sheepfold, but to climb up some other way. They are mere usurpers of the Christian name, teaching a counter-religion made up of the deliria of crazy imaginations, as foreign from Christianity as is that of Mahomet.

MORE AT THE LINK!