IF OBAMA AND THE LEFT REALLY WANTED TO HELP THE POOR, THEY THEY'D ALLOW MORE DRILLING AND STRIP-MINING, NOT LESS

The surest quickest and best way to help poor people is to lower their food costs and energy costs.

For poor people, filling their cars with gas, and their fridges with food takes a larger chunk of their earnings than for rich people.

Want poor people to have more money left over each week and a better standard of living?

Then just lower the cost of food and energy.

Raising taxes on the Rich, and sending the revenue to DC would NOT help poor people much - if at all. It would help government unions and bureaucrats, but not the poor. Not directly and not quickly.

AND LOWERING THE PRICE OF FOOD AND ENERGY IS EASY TO DO. AND IT COLD BE DONE QUICKLY, TOO!

The world consumed the same amount of oil last year as in 2005, but oil is twice as expensive - despite there being more proven oil reserves now than in 2005!

WHY? Well, one reason is that oil is seen as a hedge, a commodity hedge against inflation like gold and other commodities. And FED policies will create more inflation.

Another reason is that many oil sources are threatened by political tensions. And Iran and Russia like when this happens and may even be stirring things up a bit to exploit it.

Another reason is that OPEC like when oil prices are high and they've been a pretty effective CARTEL and able to keep prices high.

Well I think Obama and the left could change this.

First by cutting federal spending and the federal deficit and the federal debt. This would allow the FED to IMMEDIATELY stop printing too damn much money and this would substantially end the threat of inflation.

Second, by allowing more oil-drilling in the USA WHEREVER private companies want to drill: from the coast of California to the Gulf Coast to the east coast to ANWR and anywhere else in Alaska.

Third, BY allowing more coal mining and strip-mining of coal. Coal is where most of our electricity comes from. If we can lower the cost of electricity, then we lower costs for poor people and businesses and the prices of goods those businesses make.

These policy changes would IMMEDIATELY lower oil and coal prices. ALL ENERGY prices would come down.

This would lower food costs by reducing the manufacturing coasts and the price of fertilizer and transportation. And it would lower the cost of all manufactured goods, too

WHO WOULD BENEFIT THE MOST FROM THIS?

POOR PEOPLE.

If Obama and the Left cared more about poor people than their cronies in the ethanol business and at GE and ADM and CARGIL and government unions, then they'd quit the policies which make energy and food so damn expensive.

But Obama and the Left care more about their cronies and imposing a "green & red utopia" than they do poor people.

I wish all you bleeding heart libs out there would wake the eff up and realize how the policies you're supporting are actually hurting the people you wanna help.

IF YOU REALLY WANT TO MAKE POVERTY HISTORY, THEN YOU REALLY HAVE TO MAKE LEFTIST POLICIES HISTORY.

[ASIDE: HERE'S ANOTHER IDEA:

Simultaneous to OPENING UP THE ENTIRE USA TO OIL-DRILLING, we should put a 10% surcharge on every barrel of oil bought from OPEC - put this revenue into the Highway Trust Fund, and then reduce the gasoline tax by the same projected dollar amount - thus making it a revenue neutral change which shifts the burden to OPEC (and only OPEC) and away from the gas pump. Gasoline companies that source from non-OPEC resources might benefit either by increasing market share by having lower prices, or higher profits. Either way it's a win-win-win.

HERE'S A LIST OF THE MEMBERS OF OPEC:

• Algeria
• Angola
• Ecuador
• Iran
• Iraq
• Kuwait
• Libya
• Nigeria
• Qatar
• Saudi Arabia
• United Arab Emirates
• Venezuela

I think these countries - dominated by rogues and despots and tyrants and sheiks and kings - deserve a surcharge!]

LEBANESE-CANADIAN BANK LAUNDERING DRUG MONEY FOR HAMAS: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS SCOOPS THE NYTIMES AND ACE OF SPADES BY 2 DAYS

THE NYTIMES VIA ACE TODAY.

TAB 2 DAYS AGO.

REGULAR READERS KNOW WE DO THIS ALL THE TIME. SPREAD THE WORD.

EGYPT, TURKEY, ISLAMISM, THE MILITARY, SECULARISM AND DEMOCRACY

Some folks think Egypt might become as democratic as Turkey - if they're lucky, and as (un)democratic as Iran if they're not.

I think the difference between Turkey and Iran is minor - and increasingly so, and that Egypt will not be modern or democratic until it is no longer majority Islamic.

This is true for all Islamic nations: not one is a well-functioning modern democracy with pluralism, and secularism.

Turkey had managed to be secular ONLY because of Kemalism and because the military had - until recent AKP purges - always been willing to step in and stage a coup or virtual coup to protect Kemalism. Erdogan's AKP changed Turkey, slowly but surely turning it into an Islamist nation. At first the secularist masses rebelled against the AKP, but lately they seem to have submitted. Now Turkey is firmly in the Iranian camp, the once secular military seems permanently weakened, and the AKP government directly aids the Muslim brotherhood of Gaza, AKA Hamas. Turkey is now for all intent and purposes an Islamist and should be thrown out of NATO.

If Egypt becomes another Turkey, then the West loses and global jihad and Iran win.

I hope the Egyptian military does a better job of maintaining its secularist role than turkey's military did.

I suspect that in a few years people who like secular democracies and pluralism and freedom shall look back at Egypt under Mubarak as nostalgically as many do Iran under the Shah.

I hope I am wrong.

Should a pluralist Egyptian democracy emerge, I predict it will take a civil war like Iraq's to protect it from the inevitable islamo-terrorist attacks that are probably only a few weeks from beginning.

Stay tuned...

NOTE: The folks who succeeded Musharraf have now indicted him for the murder of Bhutto - even though it was the Taliban and al Qaeda who did it. WHY WOULD THEY DO THAT? I think the weak and corrupt administration now in power wanted to appease al Qaeda and the Taliban and the elements of the ISI that Musharraf fought.

NO SURPRISE HERE EITHER: Like most islamic nations, Pakistan had long been run by military juntas alternating with corrupt pseudo-democracies with one regime punishing the last. This is just another chapter in a long and sordid history replete with such chapters.

One can hardly escape the conclusion that at its core Mohamed's religion is indeed incompatible with democracy and pluralism.

Egypt: how and when will the country transition to democracy?

 "Muhammad Badi, the Brotherhood's leader in Egypt, has also voiced extreme anti-semitic views. Last year, he declared in a sermon that a day was approaching 'when the stones or the trees will say: 'Oh Muslim! Oh servant of Allah! There is a Jew behind me, come and kill him'."

Hosni Mubarak resigns: how and when will the country transition to democracy? - Telegraph

OBAMA SUPPORTS THE ESTABLISHMENT OF AN IRANIAN-LIKE GOVERNMENT IN EGYPT VIA NON-VIOLENCE

Obama: The Egyptian people have inspired us

US president praises protesters changing "the arc of history" through non-violence, not through "terrorism and mindless killing."

Obama is a clever liar.

Like when he told Bill O'Reilly he "hasn't raised taxes once". NO: HE RAISED THEM A DOZEN TIMES.

His statement on Egypt is just as artful.

It seems to me that Obama is saying that he supports the Muslim brotherhood but wants the Caliphate established with non-violence.

HIS ACTIONS AND INACTIONS WITH REGARD TO IRAN PROVE THAT HE THINKS THEY ARE AN ACCEPTABLE DEMOCRACY AND HE PROBABLY WANTS EGYPT TO BE A SIMILAR DEMOCRACY.

MUBARAK'S EXIT SPARKS CELEBRATIONS ACROSS THE MIDDLE EAST

A BROAD RANGE OF ARABS AND MUSLIMS ARE CELEBRATING MUBARAK'S EXIT.

HAMAS IS CELEBRATING AND SO ARE BEIRUTIS. SO ARE MANY JORDANIANS.

PEOPLE ARE READING INTO MUBARAK'S EXIT WHAT THEY WANT:

THOSE WHO SEEK MORE LIBERTY THINKS IT WILL BRING MORE LIBERTY;

THOSE WHO WANT SHARIA THINK IT WILL BRING IN SHARIA.

TIME WILL TELL.

IF HISTORY IS ANY GUIDE, THEN IT WILL END BADLY FOR THOSE WHO LOVE LIBERTY, AND WELL FOR HAMAS AND IRAN AND THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD AND ISLAMISM.

JUST YOUR EVERYDAY AVERAGE LOOKING ISLAMIST BABE

Meet Miss Average from around the world as computer works out the most common face in each country

Describing someone as average-looking is rarely seen as a compliment.

But most of us would be quite happy to look like a computer-generated depiction of the 'average' English woman, Welsh woman, or even the average Burmese.

More than 100 women of 41 different nationalities and ethnicities were photographed in cities all over the world in an effort to find common regional features.

English

Welsh

Irish

The photos were carefully laid over each-other using a computer program to create an individual image for each area - and the biggest surprise is that the 'common' faces are all quite beautiful.

There are, of course, regional differences in face shapes, colours and features.

Peruvians and Iranians have bigger mouths, Ethiopians and Samoans have curlier hair, and fringes seem to be big in Latvia and Poland.

It does make sense that the common women are pretty, both in evolutionary terms, and because averages rule out blemishes.
But most of the photos depict a woman who seems to be in her early twenties - which definitely is not the average age of any nationality.

West African

South African

Central African

The study also throws up other results that suggest that maybe the samples weren't quite as wide-ranging as they could have been.

The average South African, for example, definitely shouldn't be pale-skinned - only 9.2 per cent of the population define themselves as white.

Some anomalies can be explained by how the pictures were compiled. The prevalence of mousy hair is a result of blondeness being easily 'diluted'.

Chinese

Burmese

Thai

Mexican

Peruvian

Puerto Rican

South African Photographer Mike Mike - who inspired the images with a web project called The Face of Tomorrow compiling the faces of various cities - explains: 'Blonde hair gets lost pretty quickly when you start averaging.

'You'd need a population 75 per cent blonde to get it visibly remaining. You'd probably have to go to Iceland for that result.'

Mike, who lives in Istanbul, travels the world taking photos of the first 100 people he can persuade to pose in each place - noting their nationality every time.

Latvian / Lithuanian

Japanese

Polish

Afghan

African American

Indian

The 46-year-old got the idea for his project when he was studying at London's Goldsmiths College.

He said: 'Sitting on the underground train, I was intrigued by the sheer diversity of the place – Somalis, Indians, Americans, Zimbabweans, Scandinavians and a hundred other nationalities vying for their place in the metropolis.

'I thought: “What is this place, what is a Londoner?”

'I thought if one could merge all the people in a place like London one would be looking at the future of that place – one would have some notion of what a Londoner is or will become.'

German

French

Italian

Iranian

Samoan

Ethiopian

RELIAPUNDIT: THEY LEFT ONE OUT: ISLAMIST:

Elana Kagan is the attorney representing Obama!!!

SNOPES EXPOSED

Snopes is heavily financed by George Soros, a big time supporter of Obama!

“…. In our Search for the truth department, we find what I have suspected on many occasions. I went to Snopes to check this out and they said it was false and there were no such dockets so I ‘Googled’ theSupreme Court, typed in ‘Obama-Kagan,’ and guess what? Yep you got it.

Snopes lied. Everyone of those dockets are there.

So Here is what I wrote Snopes:

Referencing the article about Elena Kagan and Barak Obama dockets:

The information you have posted stating that there were no such cases as claimed and the examples you gave are blatantly false.

I went directly to the Supreme Court’s website, typed in Obama Kagan and immediately came up with all of the dockets that the article made reference to.

I have long suspected that you really slant things but this was really shocking. Thank You, I hope you will be much more truthful in the future.************ *

That being said, I’ll bet you didn't know this.

Kagan was representing Obama in all the petitions to prove his citizenship.

Now she may help rule on them.

Folks, this is really ugly. Chicago Politics; and the beat goes on and on and on.Once again the US Senate sold us out!

Well, someone figured out why Obama nominated Elana Kagan for the Supreme Court.

Pull up the Supreme Courts website, go to the docket and search for Obama.

She was the Solicitor General for all the suits against him filed with the Supreme Court toshow proof of natural born citizenship.

He owed her big time. All of the requests were denied of course.

They were never heard. It just keeps getting deeper and deeper, doesn't it?

The American people mean nothing any longer. It's all about payback time for those who compromised themselves to elect someone who really has no true right to even be there. Here are some websites of the Supreme Court Docket:

You can look up some of these hearings and guess what??Elana Kagan is the attorney representing Obama!!!Check out these examples:

• http://www.supremec ourt.gov/ Search.aspx? FileName= /docketfiles/ 09-8857.htm
• http://www.supremec ourt.gov/ Search.aspx? FileName= /docketfiles/ 09-8857.htm
• http://www.supremec ourt.gov/ Search.aspx? FileName= /docketfiles/ 09-6790.htm
• http://www.supremec ourt.gov/ Search.aspx? FileName= /docketfiles/ 09-6790.htm
• http://www.supremec ourt.gov/ Search.aspx? FileName= /docketfiles/ 09-724.htm
• Http://www.supremec ourt.gov/ Search.aspx? FileName= /docketfiles/ 09-724.htm
  

If you are not interested in justice or in truth delete this.However, If you hold sacred the freedoms granted to you by the U.S. Constitution… By all means, please… PASS it ON! “…There truly is tyranny afoot.”

SIOA AT THE CPAC CENTER

Pamela Geller will be going to the District of Columbia to attend the latest CPAC - as an unofficial event, of course - because of how its managers are absolutely dhimmified.

She'll be screening a documentary called The Ground Zero Mosque: The 2nd Wave of 9-11 Attacks.

That this dhimmi act by the CPAC organizers is continuing - with Grover Norquist still a likely influence - is very troubling.

Update: as Jihad Watch tells here, it's very important that everyone who can help out please do so.

IS MUBARAK STAYING OR GOING?

First, he says he's leaving. Now, he says he's staying. I guess that was predictable. But it tells that this is going to get very, VERY repugnant soon, as the riots are likely to increase. If they've gone on this long, they'll continue for certain.

Update: this article says Mubarak may have fled the country with his family members, maybe to Sharm el-Sheik, suggesting for now, he's governing from a distance.

'Lebanese bank funding group linked to Hizbullah'

From JPost:

WASHINGTON — The US Treasury Department and the Drug Enforcement Administration said Thursday that a Lebanese bank has been laundering hundreds of millions of dollars in drug money for a drug trafficking group with ties to Hizbullah.

The agencies said that Lebanese Canadian Bank SAL has been designated a "primary money laundering concern" for allegedly helping launder up to $200 million a month for a Lebanese-based drug smuggling group they said is run by drug kingpin Ayman Joumaa.

Drug trafficking linked to a religious group like Hizb'Allah?

Yes, Islam stipulates that Muslims may do anything in the name of Jihad, including sell drugs to fund their terrorist activities.

It is not a stretch to imagine that there are Jihadists doing this very same thing in the United States. 

This is why I believe the U.S. Government, if they were serious, could shut down most Jihad within our borders by using RICO Statutes.

Islam, as taught by Mohammed in the Koran and the Hadith, is nothing more than an Organized Crime Ring.

US TREASURY: Canadian Bank laundering millions of dollars in drug money for Hizballah

Canadian-Lebanese bank funding group linked to Hizbullah'

US Treasury says bank laundering millions of dollars in drug money for drug trafficking group with ties to terror organization.

Nice people these jihadists... Let's give them a state! Let's giver them SEVERAL!

Israel Matzav: UN partners in campaign to present female terrorist to Arab world as role model

I could have headlined this one as "your tax dollars at work," but I just did that in the last post.The UN is participating in a campaign to present 'women's issues' to the Arab world. As part of that campaign, a clip was broadcast on more than 50 television stations in Arab countries presenting "model women." One of the women presented - as a model of 'martyrdom' and 'victory over enmity' - was Dalal al-Mughrabi, who led the terror attack that killed the largest number of Israelis ever killed in one attack (37). It's known as the 'Coastal Road attack' and occurred in 1978. Al-Mughrabi was also killed in the attack and is frequently presented as a 'martyr' by the 'Palestinian Authority.'Israel Matzav: UN partners in campaign to present female terrorist to Arab world as role model

2 ITEMS OFFER MORE PROOF AGW IS BS: A GROWING GLACIER DEFIES AGW - AND PROOF GLOBAL CLIMATE ISN'T MELTING THE WESTERN ANTARCTIC PENINSULA

Defying climate change, this Argentine glacier grows:

Unlike most of the 47 glaciers here in the Southern Patagonian Ice Field of Argentina and Chile, Perito Moreno is one of three glaciers that isn’t retreating, it’s advancing. Every day it moves several feet as it calves off the same amount. Glaciologists call this equilibrium.

Perito Moreno’s massive 19-mile-long-by-3-mile-wide ice field’s walls shoot up 200 feet from the surrounding gray-blue waters of Lake Argentino. Half a million visitors flock to see the natural spectacle each year. This UNESCO World Heritage park has 2-1/2 miles of walkways offering tourists up-close views of both the north and south glacial faces. Intrepid visitors can take boat or ice-walking trips.

Scientists aren’t sure why this particular glacier is stable while most of the other glaciers in the region are melting and retreating. The Upsala and Viedma glaciers, two larger glaciers north of Perito Moreno, have retreated dramatically. A constant climate is needed to keep glaciers stable, says Dr. Samuel Nussbaumer of World Glacier Monitoring Service. Climate change is blamed for the worldwide meltdown of most glaciers.

ER, UM... THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A CONSTANT CLIMATE.

NEVER HAS BEEN - NEVER WILL BE.

ADVANCING GLACIERS COLLECTED DEBRIS AND WHEN THEY RETREATED LEFT BEHIND LONG ISLAND. AND MANKIND HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS NATURAL CYCLE.

CLIMATE ALARMISTS POINT OUT THAT WESTERN ANTARCTICA IS MELTING, BUT IF THEY TELL YOU MAN-MADE CO2 IS THE CAUSE THEN THEY ARE LYING:

FIRST OFF: IF IT WAS DUE TO GLOBAL CHANGE, THEN WHY WOULD ALL OF ANTARCTICA BE MELTING!?

SECONDLY:

ONLY THE WESTERN ANTARCTIC PENINSULA IS MELTING - AND IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH GLOBAL CLIMATE OR MAN-MADE CO2:

So a new study of an ocean sediment core taken from deep water just offshore -- described in the latest issue of the journal Nature -- is drawing attention not so much for its unexpected results, but for the gaping hole it is beginning to fill.

Some 43 meters (141 feet) long, the core analyzed by Amelia Shevenell at University College London and US colleagues gives a continuous profile of sea surface temperatures of the Southern Ocean out near the tip of the peninsula going back 12,000 years -- the warm, relatively stable climate era known as the Holocene.

Before the recent warming, a long-term cooling trend -- driven by regional effects of orbital cycles -- is punctuated by abrupt, shorter-term changes driven by more earthly connections: westerly winds and the El Niño Southern Oscillation, the scientists report.

During the past 2,000 years, the peninsula seems strongly effected by the El Niño-La Niña cycle in the tropical Pacific Ocean that periodically spreads warm and cool sea surface temperatures along the equator.

The authors report that during cool La Niña conditions -- such as the strong episode currently gripping the eastern tropical Pacific -- westerly winds intensify and move farther south, warming the Western Antarctic Peninsula.

THE WESTERN PENINSULA HAS BEEN USED FOR YEARS BY AGW ALARMISTS AS IF IT PROVED MAN-MADE GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE.

60MINUTES "REPORTER" SCOTT PELLEY DID A BIG PIECE ON IT IN 2007 AND THEY'VE RE-RUN IT KORE THAN ONCE (EXCERPT):

One of the reasons you work so hard to get to a place like this is because it is just about as remote as one can imagine – there is dead silence. 60 Minutes was on the Warsaw Plateau, which is about 1,500 feet or so from sea level on King George Island in Antarctica.

The other reason one comes to the Warsaw Plateau is to see some of the most dramatic evidence anywhere in the world of climate change.

Over the past 50 years, this region, the Antarctica peninsula, the northwestern part and the islands around it has been going up in temperature about one degree every decade and that makes the region the fastest warming place on earth.

Mayewski is on the plateau to drill an ice core because, when ice is laid down, it captures everything in the air. Drilling down is drilling through time.

"The ice cores are really the only way we have of demonstrating what greenhouse gas levels were like prior to their first measurement by humans," he explains.

By chemically analyzing the core, he can see what was in the air thousands of years ago. Back in Maine, Mayewski has a vault of hundreds of ice cores. He once led a team that drilled a glacier core two miles deep. He and his colleagues have found some of the most powerful evidence that man is changing the climate.

What do ice cores tell him about greenhouse gases?

"Now we know from the ice core record that the levels and the speed of rise are significantly, significantly greater than anything in the last 850,000 years," Mayewski explains. "And the levels that we expect to get by the end of this century are going to be double what we have today."

Mayewski and his colleagues have timed the sudden rise in greenhouse gases to the start of the industrial revolution about 150 years ago. If, as expected, greenhouse gas pollution doubles by the end of the century, temperatures are predicted to rise four to six degrees.

"You could very well see sea level rises on the order of several feet and perhaps even several tens of feet," Mayewski predicts.

Asked what that would mean for coastal areas around the world, Mayewski tells Pelley, “If sea level were to rise like that, that would be tremendous changes. Immense migrations.”

"It would be the largest catastrophe that the modern world would have experienced," he adds.

WELL, MAYEWSKI IS WRONG. THE MELTING IN NW ANTARCTICA HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH MAN-MADE CO2 OR THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION.

IOW: AGW = TFBS.

HMMM...: CIVIL WAR EMERGING IN JORDAN?

THE PENINSULA:

Jordanian tribal figures have issued a petition urging King Abdullah to end his Palestinian wife’s role in politics, in a new challenge to the monarch grappling with fallout from uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt.

Evoking comparisons with the wives of Tunisia’s former strongman Zine al Abidine Ben Ali and Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak, the signatories attacked Queen Rania’s Palestinian origin and accused her of using state funds to promote her image abroad without concern for the hardship of ordinary Jordanians.

The 36 figures are drawn from conservative East Bank tribes who form the backbone of the Hashemite monarchy’s support -- as opposed to Jordanians of Palestinian, or West Bank, origin who are the majority of the country’s 7 million population.

“She is building power centres for her interest that go against what Jordanians and Hashemites have agreed on in governing and is a danger to the nation and the structure of the state and the political structure and the institution of the throne,” the petition said.

THESE MAY BE THE COMING BATTLE-LINES- A REPLAY OF BLACK SEPTEMBER?

I DON'T THINK SO; I THINK KING ABDULLAH 2 IS A WIMP COMPARED TO HIS FATHER.

STAY TUNED...

WHAT DO FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS AND PAUL ROBESON AND LOUIS BOUDIN AND BILL AYERS ALL HAVE IN COMMON? BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA JUNIOR!

WHAT DO FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS AND PAUL ROBESON AND LOUIS BOUDIN AND BILL AYERS HAVE IN COMMON?

A MULTI-GENERATIONAL COMMITMENT TO THE SOCIALIST TAKEOVER OF THE USA. AND BARACK HUSSIEN OBAMA JUNIOR!

• LEONARD BOUDIN (WHOSE FATHER WAS COMMIE LOUIS BOUDIN )WAS ROBESON'S LAWYER, (AND AL HISS'S LAWYER, TOO). (HIS BROTHER IN LAW WAS KGB AGENT I. F. STONE.)
  

• BOUDIN'S GRANDDAUGHTER WAS ADOPTED BY BILL AND BERNADINE AYERS.

• FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS MOVED TO HAWAII BECAUSE HIS CLOSE PERSONAL FRIEND AND FELLOW STALINIST PAUL ROBESON SUGGESTED IT.

• BILL AYERS GHOST-WROTE OBAMA'S MEMOIR AND HOSTED OBAMA'S VERY FIRST FUNDRAISER. AND BILL AND HIS FATHER TOM GOT OBAMA A BIG GIG AT AN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION IN CHICAGO.
  

• BILL'S FATHER TOM ALSO UNDERWROTE LEFTIST ORGANIZATIONS THAT EMPLOYED VALERIE JARRETT'S MOTHER.

IT'S ONE BIG HAPPY FAMILY. RED FAMILY. A RED NETWORK.

OBAMA WAS A RED DIAPER BABY LIKE BILL AYERS AND VALERIE JARRETT AND DAVID HOROWITZ AND ME.

BUT OBAMA'S REDS WERE ALSO EXTREMELY WELL CONNECTED TO THE CHICAGO MACHINE.

AND EXTREMELY WELL-CONNECTED TO THE NATION OF ISLAM - WHICH WAS HQ'D IN CHICAGO.

BECAUSE THE EARLIEST KNOWN CONNECTION BETWEEN ANYONE IN THE DUNHAM FAMILY AND CHICAGO WAS FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS, IT'S SEEMS LOGICAL TO ME TO FOCUS ON FMD.

AND BECAUSE BARACK JUNIOR WROTE A POEM ABOUT FMD AND CALLED IT "POP", IT SEEMS LOGICAL TO ME TO SPECULATE THAT FMD WADS OBAMA'S FATHER.

IT EXPLAINS WHY FMD WOULD REACH OUT FOR YOUNG BARRY - AND WHY EVERYONE ELSE WOULD, TOO.

SHARIA AND JIHAD ARE EVEN PROBLEM IN NON-ARAB INDONESIA

INDONESIA IS THE LARGEST MUSLIM NATION IN THE WORLD.

IT IS NOT ARABIC, BUT EVEN INDONESIA HAS A JIHAD PROBLEM.

MANY IN THE GOVT ARE FIGHTING BACK: AFP ARTICLE HERE.

MORE ARRESTS HERE.

AND THEY RE-ARRESTED THE BIG CLERIC BEHIND A LOT OF IT.

BUT AS LONG AS ISLAM IS WHAT ISLAM IS, THERE'S GONNA BE A PERENNIAL PROBLEM.

Middle East and Terrorism: Obama's Role in Empowering the Muslim Brotherhood

 "Barack Obama's campaign was built on spin and speeches. His presidency has used these tools to present a false image. In this case, his chief spin maestro, David Axelrod, has been peddling the story that Barack Obama has been 'out ahead of this' ('this' being the crisis in Egypt)."
Read the rest here: Middle East and Terrorism: Obama's Role in Empowering the Muslim Brotherhood:

PETER KING TRASHES HIS UPCOMING COMMITTEE BY UNINVITING HIRSI ALI

Rep. Peter King has just made a key concession - and told everyone why he should not be reelected in the next Congress: he's decided not to invite Ayaan Hirsi Ali to the upcoming hearings on Islamic terror (via Atlas Shrugs and Logan's Warning).

I strongly recommend all concerned about Islamofascism to start writing to him to complain.

I'd also like to say that at the same time, I'm surprised and disappointed that Steve Emerson apologized to King when he didn't have to. King made it clear there was a bias against him by just citing his name when he went the appeasement route. That was very dumb of Emerson, and I think he owes people like you and me an apology, for what he said to King, a most disgraceful politician indeed. I guess we can't expect much of a man who went to dinners sponsored by Islamists.

BUFFALO BEHEADER IS GUILTY OF 2ND DEGREE MURDER

Muzzammil Hassan, the so-called bridge builder who murdered his wife Aasiya, has been convicted of 2nd degree murder (Hat tip: Jihad Watch, who's got a court video, and Weasel Zippers):

BUFFALO, NY - The jury in the Muzzammil Hassan trial has reached a verdict. Muzzammil Hassan is guilty of 2nd degree murder in the death of his wife, Aasiya Hassan.

The jury deliberated for a little over an hour before reaching their verdict.

The judge has scheduled Hassan's sentencing for March 9, 2011, where he faces a sentence of up to 25-years-to life behind bars. [...]

Jurors were told that Aasiya Hassan may have been conscious when the defendant started to behead her on February 12, 2009.

Curtin Gable started off strong telling the jury that Hassan wants them to believe that what he did was in self defense, "not a chance, not even close."

"There is absolutely no doubt that the defendant killed his wife intentionally," said the prosecutor. "He was carefully and deliberately planning to kill her."

The prosecutor told jurors Hassan was efficient and deliberate in killing his wife in just "thirty-seven seconds." While describing the murder, Curtin Gable described how Aasiya was stabbed in the head and from the mouth to her ear. "How is that self defense, stabbing an unarmed woman from behind," she asked jurors.

"He was in control," she told jurors. "Cool, calm, collected and calculating every step of the way."[...]

Hassan admitted to the courtroom that he did, in fact, have physical altercations with his wife, but that he never beat or abused her. "Men are never put in the victim's box," he said.

The abuser, says Hassan, often comes across to the outside world as charming and friendly, but to the victim it is a very different story. "A victim often feels like a hostage to a terrorist, a slave to an overbearing master."

On multiple occasions, Hassan claims he attempted to move out, but that false promises by his wife brought him back home. He wonders why Aasiya would continuously beg him to return "if I was such a horrible wife beater."

"Think of a dog with an invisible fence," Hassan tells the jury. "He tries to escape, he gets a shock, he keeps getting shocked and eventually stops trying." Hassan likens himself to the dog, saying he received so many shocks through abuse and threats that he simply stopped trying to escape.

He goes on to identify flaws in "the system," attempting to indict it by saying that his enemy is false beliefs in religion. He compares this with the experiences of Nelson Mandela and Gandhi.

"My enemy are not these people, it is in the false belief in the religion of patriarchy that has unleashed a blood bath on American women."

Some points here: Mandela and Ghandi were both false "saviors" considering that the former adhered to communism and the latter was a defeatist.

It's weird that a man with such vehement belief in Islamofascism could try to use "false beliefs" as a defense.

And I hope he gets the death sentence, the only truly good sentence in horror cases like this. Send him to the chair.

Shimon HaTzaddik neighborhood gets 13 more Jewish homes

In another very pleasant note of how Israel is slowly reclaiming its heritage from Muslim grasp, the Jerusalem municipality has helped approve 13 more houses for Jewish families:

The Shimon HaTzaddik neighborhood in Jerusalem has received another boost towards regaining its Jewish status: The Jerusalem Municipality has approved the construction of 13 housing units for Jews there.

Two plans for the construction of two buildings near the ancient gravesite of Simon the Just were approved on Monday, and the Ministry of Interior will make the final decision as to whether to accept this “recommendation.”

Populated by many Jewish families before the War of Independence, the last remaining Jews of the neighborhood were banished by Arab violence and British “neutrality” in December 1947 and January 1948. The infamous Hadassah convoy massacre, implemented by murderous Arabs with the help of that same British “neutrality,” occurred just around the corner, killing 78. The Jewish-owned properties were populated by Jordanian Arabs following the War of Independence, and they continued living there even after the area was liberated, with the rest of Jerusalem, during the Six Day War in 1967.

Now, we're standing up and reclaiming our heritage, and slowly bringing back a much more welcome atmosphere to boot.

New German anti-Muslim party calls Islam 'totalitarian' .

New German anti-Muslim party calls Islam 'totalitarian' - The National:  The leader of a newly created anti-Islamic party in Germany said he wants to stop the immigration of Muslims and described Islam as a 'totalitarian system' bent on supplanting western liberal values.
In an interview with The National, Rene Stadtkewitz, 46, said Muslims were not integrating into German society as well as other immigrants and that authorities should become stricter, by banning headscarves in school, stopping public funding for teaching young children the Quran and curbing the influence of Islamic organisations.
'Islam is far more than a religion. It's an entire model of society that is incredibly binding for many people,' he said. 'It's basically a political system with its own legal system that seeks to regulate all aspects of life. We criticise the socio-political component of Islam, which I see as an ideological one similar to other totalitarian systems, and which I think is dangerous.'"

The French are also waking up: Video
http://theenglishdefenceleagueextra.blogspot.com/2011/02/french-speaker-at-luton-edl-demo.html

Islam in Europe: Belgian Mozlems go Mad on Plane.

 "About 100 Belgian students were removed from a Ryanair flight this past Saturday after they 'mutinied' and refused to pay additional fees for their baggage. According to one passenger, the youth in question were Belgian-Moroccans.  "Islam in Europe: Belgium: "It's as if Molenbeek took the plane hostage":

But the Nazi Belgians would still prefer mozzies to Jews, so let them keep 'em!!    "Some 60 pro-Palestinian activists wearing a T-shirt calling for a boycott of Israel circled a Belgian stand promoting Israel at the annual tourism fair in Brussels on Saturday." 
http://philosemitism.blogspot.com/2011/02/belgian-students-call-for-boycott-of.html

OBAMA IS ONE DEGREE OF SEPARATION FROM THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD

From the Vlad Tepes Blog:

While the news media continue its Egyptian-uprising coverage, most of the denizens of U.S. newsrooms are turning a blind eye to President Barack Obama’s connection to a key player in the Egyptian rebellion: the radical Islamic group known as the Muslim Brotherhood which co-sponsored last year’s disasterous “Gaza Aid Flotilla.”

While the world condemned the actions of the Israeli military, calls for an international body to investigate the Gaza flotilla raid by Israeli forces—in which nine “peace activists” were killed—were clouded by political posturing and vitriolic soundbites, according to some U.S. counterterrorism experts.

Even President Obama proposed an independent inquiry into the incident that triggered worldwide condemnation of Israel especially by members of the elite news media, but his proposal was quickly dropped as information came to light that certain individuals close to him and the Democrat Party were involved in the bloody incident.

Israel maintained a blockade around Gaza for quite sometime with the hope to preventing weapons such as missiles and rockets from being smuggled to the Palestinian terrorists. It was decided by a number of Islamists and radicals to take actions that would ultimately end the blockade.

The organizer of the blockade-busting action was a known radical group called Free Gaza. The “Free Gaza” flotilla was far more than a collection of innocent “peace activists” trying to provide humanitarian aid to Gaza, as they were portrayed by most news organizations.

Free Gaza sponsored the flotilla that engaged in deadly clashes with Israeli special forces troops and among its members were Weather Underground founders William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn—who perpetrated a series of terrorist attacks—as well as Jodie Evans, the leader of the radical activist organization Code Pink. Besides the U.S. radicals, Islamic groups such as Hamas, Hezbollah and Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood contributed to the flotilla.

As is well-known in the United States, Ayers and Dohrn were close associates of President Obama for years in Chicago. Meanwhile, Jodie Evans was a fundraiser and financial bundler for Obama’s presidential campaign. In fact, one of Obama’s fundraisers was held in the home of Ayers and Dohrn.

Evans later worked on Attorney General Jerry Brown’s successful run for the governorship of California.

“Ayers’ and Dohrn’s continued activities appear to elude the attention of the people responsible for reporting the news without bias. They are terrorists, plain and simple, so why would anyone be surprised to discover their connection to an anti-Semitic organization that supports terror groups such as Hamas, Hezbollah, the Muslim Brother and even al-Qaeda?” asks former New York Police detective Michael Snopes.

The passengers reportedly included 100-plus members of various Muslim Brotherhood chapters, at least 20 of whom taped al Qaeda-style “martyr” videos before embarking on their anti-Israel mission, according to terrorist expert Steve Emerson, founder of The Investigative Project on Terrorism.

CLINTON IS NOW WARNING AGAINST HASTY EXIT BY MUBARAK

The New York Times says that Hilary Clinton is now warning against a rushed departure by Hosni Mubarak:

MUNICH — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton warned on Sunday that removing President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt too hastily could threaten the country’s transition to democracy.

Her remarks were the Obama administration’s most explicit sign yet of its growing emphasis on averting instability in Egypt, even at the expense of the key demand from the Egyptian protest movement: Mr. Mubarak’s immediate removal.

So now, at least in theory, they're backing off their earlier stance that Mubarak should leave instantly, even at the risk of allowing the Muslim Brotherhood to take over. But they'll only really convince when they're willing to say the Brotherhood is a danger.

OBAMA DELIVERS TO THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD THE PRIZE

Egypt is the prize. Egypt is the most populous Arab country, and the land where the Muslim Brotherhood was founded in 1928.

From the very beginning, this was their credo: “Allah is our objective; the Quran is our constitution, the Prophet is our leader; Jihad is our way; and death for the sake of Allah is the highest of our aspirations.”

It has long been an anti-Western force for evil:

Underground links to the Nazis began during the 1930s and were close during the Second World War, involving agitation against the British, Jewish immigration to Palestine, espionage and sabotage, as well as support for terrorist activities orchestrated by Haj Amin el-Hussaini in British Mandate Palestine, as a wide range of declassified documents from the British, American and Nazi German governmental archives, as well as from personal accounts and memoirs from that period, confirm.^[35] Reflecting this connection the Muslim Brotherhood also disseminated Hitler's Mein Kampf and The Protocols of the Elders of Zion widely in Arab translations, helping to deepen and extend already existing hostile views about Jews and secular Western societies generally.^[36]

After the Muslim Brotherhood attempted to assassinate President Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1954, it was banned in Egypt.

It spawned Hamas and Al Qaeda.

And now Obama has forced Mubarak to negotiate directly with these assassins and terrorists. Mubarak has fought them for decades, but now Obama is delivering Egypt into the hands of assassins and terrorists.

Why do you think he wants to do that?

BILL KRISTOL BLOWS IT TOO

Atlas Shrugs catches William Kristol following on the trail to wreckage Charles Krauthammer's taken, with a galling op-ed in the Weekly Standard where he denies the facts on the ground about Egypt. What an embarrassment the following is:

The United States has played a role in helping those transitions turn out (reasonably) well. America needn’t be passive or fretful or defensive. We can help foster one outcome over another. As Krauthammer puts it, “Elections will be held. The primary U.S. objective is to guide a transition period that gives secular democrats a chance.”

Now, people are more than entitled to their own opinions of how best to accomplish that democratic end. And it’s a sign of health that a political and intellectual movement does not respond to a complicated set of developments with one voice.

But hysteria is not a sign of health. When Glenn Beck rants about the caliphate taking over the Middle East from Morocco to the Philippines, and lists (invents?) the connections between caliphate-promoters and the American left, he brings to mind no one so much as Robert Welch and the John Birch Society. He’s marginalizing himself, just as his predecessors did back in the early 1960s.

Nor is it a sign of health when other American conservatives are so fearful of a popular awakening that they side with the dictator against the democrats. Rather, it’s a sign of fearfulness unworthy of Americans, of short-sightedness uncharacteristic of conservatives, of excuse-making for thuggery unworthy of the American conservative tradition.

Mr. Kristol, we all want freedom, and we are not siding with dictators, not even Mubarak. But to deny what's really at stake here - the horror story the Muslim Brotherhood will write if they take over - is to absolutely miss the boat. Most importantly besides that, those rioters are savage Islamofascists, and he pretends otherwise? I guess the Ayatollah's own minions were just "secular democrats" too, weren't they?

On top of all that, he's added himself to the list of dummies who've attacked Glenn Beck. Of course Beck isn't perfect (someday, I'll tell you how angry I am that he hosted a two-faced author named Brad Meltzer on his show, who scripted the misogynist screed spoken about in this article), but to say his concerns on the spread of Islamism have no weight is laughable in the extreme. Kristol has proudly ranked himself right down there alongside Krauthammer as another RINO whom the conservative movement will have to pan for his weakness, and distance themselves from before he really screws things up and then acts as though he's got no responsibility to take.

ISLAMISTS WILL SOON CONTROL EVERY NATION SURROUNDING ISRAEL

NYTIMES: Tide Turns In Favor Of Egypt's Brotherhood In Revolt

• ISLAMIST FUNDAMENTALISTS WHO ADVOCATE SHARIA HAVE LONG CONTROLLED IRAN.

• AND RECENTLY TOOK OVER LEBANON, AND ARE IN THE PROCESS OF TAKING OVER EGYPT AND JORDAN.

• CAN AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ AND THE GULF STATES AND SAUDI ARABIA BE FAR BEHIND?

• NOPE. AND THE DOMINOES WILL KEEP FALLING AS LONG AS THE WEST DECLINES TO COUNTER-ATTACK AND AID OUR ALLIES IN THE REGION.

AND WHEN IRAN GOES NUCLEAR... THE UMMAH WILL VERY HARD TO DEFEAT.

AND DEFEATING IRAN AND THE UMMAH WILL ONLY BE POSSIBLE WITH A ROBUST USA.

IF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE USA FAILS TO DEAL WITH ITS FISCAL CRISIS, THEN THE USA MIGHT NOT BE ABLE TO EFFECTIVELY COUNTER-ATTACK AND THE ENTIRE FREE WORLD MAY FALL INTO 1000 YEARS OF DARKNESS.

WITH OBAMA AS POTUS, THIS MAY BEGIN SOONER THAN YOU THINK...

Eric Holder and The New Black Panther Case -

Why the Black Panther Case Matters

Attorney General Eric Holder and his minions, along with some of their slavish apologists in the media, are deliberately trafficking in lies of great note. They prevaricate with great enthusiasm, and they excuse lawlessness with fierce disdain.

They -- both the Department of Justice (DOJ) officials and their leftist amanuenses pretending to be journalists -- brazenly ignore the public's right to information, and intentionally distract attention from relevant facts and from their own deep beliefs.

These conclusions arise from the accumulated weight of evidence in what should be a broadening scandal emanating from the infamous New Black Panther Party voter-intimidation case. Not that one would know it from the main pages or airtime of establishment-media outlets, but the Panther-related issue of race-based decision-making at DOJ reached crests last week on multiple fronts.

Deserving of howls of media outrage, but instead attracting barely a peep of protest, was the highly disturbing evidence of a major cover-up at DOJ, as discussed by both the Washington Times and the Heritage Foundation's Hans von Spakovsky. (Please do read both links for more information on those aspects of the scandal.)

Von Spakovsky makes an excellent argument that both internal investigative arms at DOJ are "protecting Obama's political appointees and disregarding their ethical and professional violations in the New Black Panther Party case."

Read the rest here.

THE EPA CLASSIFIES MILK AS OIL

Absolute madness! You can't make up these surreal developments.

From this essay by Thomas Sowell:

...We all understand why the EPA was given the power to issue regulations to guard against oil spills, such as that of the Exxon Valdez in Alaska or the more recent BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. But not everyone understands that any power given to any bureaucracy for any purpose can be stretched far beyond that purpose.

In a classic example of this process, the EPA has decided that, since milk contains oil, it has the authority to force farmers to comply with new regulations to file "emergency management" plans to show how they will cope with spilled milk, how farmers will train "first responders" and build "containment facilities" if there is a flood of spilled milk.

Since there is no free lunch, all of this is going to cost the farmers both money and time that could be going into farming-- and is likely to end up costing consumers higher prices for farm products.

It is going to cost the taxpayers money as well, since the EPA is going to have to hire people to inspect farms, inspect farmers' reports and prosecute farmers who don't jump through all the right hoops in the right order. All of this will be "creating jobs," even if the tax money removed from the private sector correspondingly reduces the jobs that can be created there.

Does anyone seriously believe that any farmer is going to spill enough milk to compare with the Exxon Valdez oil spill or the BP oil spill?

Do you envision people fleeing their homes, as a flood of milk comes pouring down the mountainside, threatening to wipe out the village below?

It doesn't matter. Once the words are in the law, it makes no difference what the realities are. The bureaucracy has every incentive to stretch the meaning of those words, in order to expand its empire....

Egypt Eruption

Egypt Eruption: "THE SECOND COMING

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity. Surely so
revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in the sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

— WB Yeats's 'Second Coming',  as first printed in 1920.
"Rough Beast",  February  2011  www.michaelyon-online.com/egypt-eruption.htm

THE PARADOX WHICH EXPOSES THE HYPOCRISY OF THE "RELIGION OF PEACE” ARGUMENT

THE VIDEO OF BRITISH PM DAVID CAMERON ATTACKING MULTICULTURALISM IS ALL OVER THE PLACE.

HE'S RIGHT: MULTICULTURALISM HAS BEEN A DISASTER. AND ASSIMILATION IS BETTER, BUT IT'S NOT THE REAL ANSWER - AND IT'S ABOUT 30 YEARS TOO LATE.

It’s time to argue for conversion.

Here’s why:

IF THE JIHADISTS ARE “MISUNDERSTANDERS” OF ISLAM, THEN SO WAS MOHAMED – AND THIS IS UNLIKELY.

* IF THE JIHADISTS ARE APOSTATE EXTREMISTS, THEN SO WAS MOHAMED – AND THIS IS UNLIKELY.

* IF CAMERON AND OBAMA AND THE WIMPY APPEASING LEFT INSIST THAT THE JIHADISTS ARE RADICAL ISLAM-TWISTING EXTREMISTS, THEN – BECAUSE THE JIHADISTS ARE EMULATING MOHAMED – THEY ARE ESSENTIALLY SAYING MOHAMED WAS EXTREMIST AND THE RELIGION HE FOUNDED IS AN EXTREMIST RELIGION AND NOT A RELIGION OF PEACE.

• THAT’S THE PARADOX WHICH EXPOSES THE HYPOCRISY OF THE ‘ISLAM IS A RELIGION OF PEACE” ARGUMENT.

• THAT’S THE PARADOX WHICH EXPOSES THE FALLACY OF THE ‘ROP” ARGUMENT.

• THAT’S THE PARADOX WHICH EXPOSES THE USELESSNESS OF THE ‘ROP” ARGUMENT.

AND ANOTHER THING:

IRSHAD MANJI – A FAMOUS THE POSTMODERN LEFTIST MUSLIM LESBIAN WHO BELIEVES THAT ISLAM CAN BECOME COMPATIBLE WITH MODERNITY AND DEMOCRACY – HAS CALLED THE EXTREMISTS “LITERALISTS” :

What is the trouble with Islam?

Irshad Manji:

The problem with Islam today, in a word, is literalism.

AND, MANJI HAS ARGUED THAT MUSLIMS CAN EVOLVE TO HAVE A MORE “FIGURATIVE” APPRECIATION OF THE KORAN AND SURA AND HADITHS AND LIFE OF MOHAMED.

BUT BY MAKING THIS ARGUMENT, SHE IS TACITLY AGREEING WITH ME AND THE ”ROPMA” ARGUMENT:

MANJI IS ESSENTIALLY SAYING THAT MOHAMED AND THE HADITHS AND THE SURA AND THE KORAN ARE LITERALLY EXTREMIST AND JIHADIST AND VIOLENT AND SEXIST.

AND IN THIS SHE IS CORRECT.

IT’S LONG PASSED TIME THE REST OF THE LEFT AND CAMERON AND OBAMA AND WIMPY ENEMY-APPEASING LEFTISTS ACCEPTED THE TRUTH.

ISLAM IS ROTTEN TO THE CORE.

NOT ALL MUSLIMS BAD OR ROTTEN TO THE CORE, BUT ISLAM IS.

REPEAT: NOT ALL MUSLIMS ARE BAD, BUT THE CORE OF ISLAM IS.

MOST MUSLIMS DO NOT READ ARABIC AND ONLY KNOW WHAT THEIR IMAM TELLS THEM.

BECAUSE MOST IMAMS ARE NOT JIHADISTS AND ARE NOT EMULATING THE "PROPHET" MOHAMED, MOST MUSLIMS ARE NOT A THREAT TO THE FREE WORLD.

THESE MELLOW NON-THREATENING MUSLIMS ARE APOSTATES - ACCORDING TO WAHHABISTS, SALAFISTS, Q'TUBISTS, AND JIHADISTS (WHO ARE EMULATING MOHAMED AND WHO ARE LIVING ACCORDING TO THE EXPLICIT PRECEPTS IN THE KORAN, THE HADITHS AND THE SURA).

OUR SURVIVAL DEPENDS ON OUR ABILITY TO COUNTER-ATTACK EFFECTIVELY AND THE LEFT’S DENIAL IS HAMPERING OUR EFFORT.

THE UNPLEASANT TRUTH IS THAT WW4 IS A RELIGIOUS WAR – NOT BECAUSE “RIGHTWING NUTJOBS” SAY SO,

BUT BECAUSE THE ENEMY SAYS SO AND BECAUSE THE ENEMY IS PROACTIVELY FIGHTING IN WAYS THAT SAY SO.

ENDING MULTICULTURALISM IS ONLY A FIRST STEP. AND IT'S VERY LATE IN THE GAME.

THE SAVE THE FREE WORLD, WE MUST END MULTICULTURALISM AT ONCE, AND THEN MARCH FORWARD FROM THERE - WITH GREAT COURAGE AND A DEEP COMMITMENT TO TRUTH AND LIBERTY.

WHEN MICKEY MOUSE WENT TO EGYPT

The Comics Journal has an article that might be written by an Egyptian about Disney comics that were translated into Arabic for sales in Egypt, even going so far as to rewrite some of the character names and references in Arabic terms. I think what's really amusing here is that the writer, Nadim Damluji, actually calls Disney, of all companies, an imperialist! Does that mean they don't like Disney? "Imperialist" is something that's more what people like me could think: as told in Walt Disney: Hollywood's Dark Prince, the founder was anti-semitic, and based on that, if it hadn't been for Jewish businessmen taking over the company, I'd really look at them that way due to the founder's horrific background. Also, Disney's cartoons, as noted here, were among the few allowed into Germany, not unlike how Henry Ford was in good relations with those abominations, the making of possible anti-nazi Donald Duck cartoons notwithstanding. One can wonder if the same form of relations went for Disney/Egypt.

In this excerpt from the Comics Journal article, it tells:

In this first cover Mickey, Minnie, and their illegitimate mice kin are seen celebrating Mawlid, better known to those outside of Egypt as the Prophet Muhammad’s birthday or Islamic Christmas. The illustration depicts Mickey climbing up a ladder to Minnie in front of a mosque and is embedded with a plethora of Mawlid symbology. The circles around Minnie are a reference to the edible treat Arusta-el Mawlid and the other mice are dressed in typical Mawlid dress (including the hat). On the building there is well-known Islamic script that reads “there is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is his messenger,” while on the horse (another Mawlid staple) it states “Bless the Prophet.” In short, Mickey is very much in the spirit of celebrating the Prophet Muhammad’s birthday.

Ugh, ugh, UGH! It's a bad sign when a company like that has no problem with allowing a shady foreign entity retool their work to suit the Religion of Peace. Next thing you know, Mickey Mouse and company will be seen celebrating the "prophet's" marriage to the 9-year-old Aisha. Islam, simply put, is not something you deal with using kid gloves.

But maybe even more bothersome is what CBR's Brigid Alverson, the same writer who turned her back on Molly Norris, says about one of these odd publications:

Damluji points to a Carl Barks comic in which Uncle Scrooge discovers a pyramid and, convinced it will be full of gold, hires generic local Arabs to excavate it. The story does raise issues of ownership and primacy (Why does Uncle Scrooge think he can keep the gold? Why couldn’t the Arabs find the pyramid?), and it seems rather clueless of the Disney folks to print it in an Egyptian comic—had they run out of more generic storylines?

Do I detect a tinge of "cultural sensitivity" here? Of course, this item misses an important point: surely that gold wouldn't belong by heritage to the Copts of Egypt?

What's really funny here is that this story actually made its way to Egypt at all; today, I'm sure the Islamic censors would've stopped it altogether (and Minnie Mouse would probably wear a burka over her rodent ears). Alverson goes on to say:

While Damluji seems to be presenting the comics as a wolf in sheep’s clothing—here’s something familiar, kids, but what’s inside is going to make you feel bad!—I see it the other way, as Mickey adapting to local mores by adding content the local audience finds attractive, much as manga publishers put new covers on Japanese content and serve it up more or less unchanged.

But they are wolves in sheep's clothing. It's not Egyptian (read: Coptic) culture per se the comics embody, it's Islamic culture. Ironically, it's that specific Uncle Scrooge comic that's not really so. Alverson also says:

...surely Egyptian kids, especially in this day and age, are savvy enough to know that Mickey is an import, even if he does celebrate Mawlad.

Maybe not; the education system there is so steeped in Islamic fundamentalism, they might not figure it out until they're well into adulthood. And along the way, it's a very rocky road.