NATO, KOSOVO, THE ARAB LEAGUE, SYRIA... AND OBAMA

NATO led by the USA attacked Serbia to protect muslim Kosovars from conventional genocide.

NATO acted for humanitarian reasons and to protect Europe which could have become destabilized as a result of the Serbian conflict and the chance it could reignite conflict between the states of former Yugoslavia - an then spread to southern Europe.

The internecine civil war/jihadist war/Persian-Arab war within Syria has no such potential for Europe; it does have the potential to spread into a regional war and this is primarily a problem for the local countries and the Arab League.

If the Arab League sees the threat and wants it stopped, then the Arab League should take action. NOT THE USA OR NATO.

The security of Jordan and of Israel is threatened and they can ask for help from the USA and NATO.

But aside from them, we have no dog in this fight; in fact, is in our national interest and the interest of the Free World to keep the antagonists inside Syria killing each other as long as possible; the more militants - of either Assad's Iranian sponsored tyranny or of al Qaeda affiliated entities -  who die there the better.

The only direct action we should take now is to help innocent refugees and to establish an independent state of Kurdistan.

The Kurds have a legitimate case for statehood - unlike the so-called Palestinian Arabs. They would become a stable and dependable muslim ally in the region. The late Chris Hitchens made this one of his most passionate issues. In this case he was right. An independent state of Kurdistan re-claiming stolen territory now occupied by Iran and Syria and Turkey, and under the aegis of the so-called government of Iraq, would give the USA a military base of operations, too - an urgently needed one due to the fact that Obama failed to get us a troop agreement with Iraq and because Pakistan is such an awful untrustworthy ally.

This is a bold course of action - one beyond the ability or courage of many. It would take the political shrewdness and boldness of a Nixon.

As his desire to play a game of spades with Reggie Love over watching our heroic SEALS take out Bin Laden proved beyond a reasonable doubt, Obama has no such courage - or his heart is not into any action which hurts America's enemies.

Between Obama's dithering and his outright idiotic policies of appeasement, there is no hope that the USA will take any bold and effective measures against either Syria or Iran or North Korea Putin or China.

No good shall come our way until we have a new president.

Sigh.

A POLITICALLY INCORRECT FABLE

From Right Truth, citing Politically Incorrect Fables for a Cranky Country:

The Little Red Hen Takes on the Confused, the Clown, and the Crybaby

by Molli Nickel

Once upon a time the Little Red Hen lived on Old MacDonald's farm in a country of industrious and self-sufficient citizens.

hen

E-I-E-I-O.

Little Red and her countrymen and women elected representatives who double pinky promised to support their best interests and protect the future of their country.

E-I-E-I-O.

Little Red trusted the candidates she elected, and didn't really pay much attention to their on-the-job performances as she "cluck, clucked" here, "cluck, clucked" there while attending to her chicks.

E-I-E-I-O.

How blessed Little Red felt to live in a country of such abundance, liberty, and jobs, and with the best healthcare in the world (not only for citizens, but also for illegal immigrants who received free health care, free education, and ballots printed in their native language).

E-I-E-I-O.

But then, one day, the wily president of the country began to host behind-closed-door secret meetings and arm twist left-wing Senators to support a national healthcare program named after his arrogant self (although it really and truly should have been called the Get-Rid-of-Granny-Death-Panel Act).

E-I-E-I-O....

Read the rest of the fable HERE.

Clever and accurate!

TIME FOR A NEW SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE - HERE ARE A FEW SUGGESTIONS

SENATOR RAND PAUL CORRECTLY OBSERVES THAT SPEAKER BOEHNER IS IN TROUBLE BECAUSE OF HIS WEAK LEADERSHIP.

IT'S TIME FOR A NEW SPEAKER.

THE SPEAKER CAN BE ANYONE THE MAJORITY  SELECTS - (S)HE DOESN'T HAVE TO BE IN THE HOUSE OR EVEN IN CONGRESS.

I HAVE A FEW SUGGESTIONS:

• LOUIS GOLMERT
• MARK LEVIN
• DICK ARMEY
• SCOTT WALKER
• SUSAN MARTINEZ
• RICK PERRY
• RUDY GIULIANI
• DICK CHENEY
• DONALD RUMSFELD
• ALLEN WEST
• MICHAEL BARONE
• CONDI RICE
• JOHN BOLTON

ANY OTHERS?

BIRDS OF A FEATHER: CLIMATE CHANGE ALARMISTS AND GUN CONTROL ADVOCATES

WHAT DO CO2PHOBIC CLIMATE CHANGE ALARMISTS HAVE IN COMMON WITH GUNPHOBIC 2ND AMENDMENT HATERS?

THIS:

THEY WANT MORE STATE CONTROL OF OUR LIVES.

IF THE PROBLEM DOESN'T GENERATE A POLICY THAT INCREASES STATE POWER, THEN THE LEFT JUST DOESN'T GIVE A DAMN.

IF A PROBLEM CAN BE TWISTED TO JUSTIFY AN INCREASE IN STATE POWER, THEN GET THE EFF OUT OF THE WAY YOU RACIST, BIBLE-THUMPING, EVOLUTION-DENYING, NEANDERTHALISTIC, KOCH-SUCKING, BUSHCHENEYHALIBURTON ZIONIST PIG!

SO.... WHENEVER ANYONE TELLS YOU THAT THE ANSWER IS MORE REGULATION AND A BIGGER BUREAUCRACY AND ANOTHER 200 PAGE LAW, TELL THEM TO GO TO HELL.

AND REMEBER:

OUR CONSTITUTION - THAT THANG THAT OUR ELECTED LEADERS ARE SWORN TO UPHOLD - THAT CONSTITUTION DOESN'T CONFER RIGHTS TO US; OUR RIGHTS AE G-D GIVEN.

THE CONSTITUTION LIMITS THE POWERS OF GOVERNMENT.

AND ANYONE WHO SEEKS TO INCREASE THE POWERS OF GOVERNMENT IS AN ENEMY OF CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT AND HUMAN RIGHTS.

TREAT THEM ACCORDINGLY.

Halal Infiltration: Food Sacrificed to Idols

I Corinthians 8:

Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that “We all possess knowledge.” But knowledge puffs up while love builds up.  

Those who think they know something do not yet know as they ought to know. But whoever loves God is known by God. 

So then, about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that “An idol is nothing at all in the world” and that “There is no God but one.” 

For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as indeed there are many “gods” and many “lords”), yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we live; and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we live. 

But not everyone possesses this knowledge. Some people are still so accustomed to idols that when they eat sacrificial food they think of it as having been sacrificed to a god, and since their conscience is weak, it is defiled. 

But food does not bring us near to God; we are no worse if we do not eat, and no better if we do. 

Be careful, however, that the exercise of your rights does not become a stumbling block to the weak. 

For if someone with a weak conscience sees you, with all your knowledge, eating in an idol’s temple, won’t that person be emboldened to eat what is sacrificed to idols? 

So this weak brother or sister, for whom Christ died, is destroyed by your knowledge. 

When you sin against them in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ. 

Therefore, if what I eat causes my brother or sister to fall into sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause them to fall.

As the video above demonstrates, Muslims are doing what they need to do to make sure food sacrificed to idols (Allah) is introduced into our society. There are multiple reasons for this, some having to do with money, some with Stealth Jihad.

Allah is not the God of the Bible.. To those of us who believe in the God of the Bible, Allah is an idol.

This Halal food is not harmful to us, either physically or spiritually. The God of the Bible is not cowed by Allah. Allah is nothing to the God of the Bible.

And therefore, Allah is nothing to us.

That being said, MUSLIMS KNOW that the food has been sacrificed to Allah, AND THEY KNOW WE KNOW.

Muslims are weak. They are among the weak ones spoken of in I Corinthians 8. They are in bondage to Allah, who is a God of power and submission, blood, and death. This is why Muslims kill, each other, cut themselves up, beat their heads on the ground, play with entrails, and all the other abominations that are part of the worship of Allah.

Therefore, if we eat of their food, we are causing them to stumble.

If we eat of their food, they are destroyed by our knowledge.

If we eat of their food, we sin against Christ.

BILL DONOHUE'S STUPID COMPARISON OF MUSLIM HOSTILITY TO BEAUTY PAEGEANTS WITH MILEY CYRUS' FREAK SHOW

The president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights said something very dumb, no matter how vulgar the former Disney TV star's performance was:

What does Miley Cyrus' raunchy, twerk-eriffic performance at the MTV Video Music Awards have to do with Muslims?

Seemingly nothing -- unless you're Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights.

Donohue weighed in on the topic of the week on Thursday, comparing reactions to Cyrus' performance and the controversy over the upcoming Miss World pageant in Indonesia next month.

In comments distributed on Thursday, Donohue that some Muslims have called for the cancelation of the pageant because it "is only an excuse to exhibit women's body parts."

Which, in Dohonue's estimation, is a lot more female-friendly than Cyrus' foam-fingered display

"Last Sunday, at the MTV Video Music Awards, Miley Cyrus simulated masturbation with a giant foam finger, grabbed her crotch, rubbed herself against a man old enough to be her father, pretended the man was performing anal sex on her, and walked around in a nude latex bikini. Her mother loved it. So did her manager. Millions of young girls and guys loved it as well," Donohue wrote.

Comparing the reaction to Cyrus' show to the uproar over the Miss World pageant, Donohue concluded, "Who are the real feminists? Miley's fans? Or the Muslims? If debasing women is the yardstick, the Muslims win."

Lest anyone get the idea that Donohue thought that canceling the Miss World pageant is a good idea, he added, "We don't have to agree with those who want to ban beauty pageants to know that their concerns are not trivial, especially in a day and age when Miley (and her dutiful mother) may be lurking right around the corner."

But the concerns of Muslims are trivial - it's neither wrong nor sinful to see how beautiful a woman's body can be, so long as it's tasteful, and plenty of the best paegeants have accomplished this - and I get the strange feeling some Muslims might not be so objecting to the kind of crudeness Cyrus was wallowing in.

There's a sharp difference between Miss World and Cyrus' vulgarian turn: the former is run according to respectable customs while the latter is an exercise in obscene crudeness, and futility. And Donohue may be oblivious, but the Islamofascists are threatening violence, in contrast to any sensible dissenter with Cyrus, who's not.

That said, I think Cyrus is a terrible performer, much like some of the other junk on the Disney-owned cable channels. But comparing it in any way to Miss World is a failure to distinguish between constructive presentation of beauty and crudeness on MTV that obviously has no point. And claiming that the Muslims are making legitimate claims about something like Miss World is a prime example of naive thinking.

MUSLIMS IN AUSTRALIA TRYING TO CONVERT ABORIGINES

The Brisbane Times tells of a politician who's said that Muslims are trying to convert Aborigines to the Religion of Peace:

A federal election candidate in western Queensland has accused Muslims of paying Aborigines to convert to Islam.

Speaking to ABC Western Queensland, Rise Up Australia candidate Pam Hecht said the biggest issue facing people in the electorate of Kennedy, which Bob Katter holds by 18.3 per cent, was the conversion of Indigenous people to Islam.

''I don't know whether people are aware, but many of the Aboriginal people in northern Australia are being targeted by Muslims and in some cases are being paid to convert to Islam,'' she said, describing herself and the electorate as ''farmers . . . just ordinary everyday people'', who ''want to be free to go about our business''.

''Our concern with that is, the Muslim belief, that converting the first peoples of the land to Islam means that the land belongs to Allah, and Islam should be the only religion.

''There is an Aboriginal lady who works with the people up in northern Australia and she has spoken directly with the leader of our party, Daniel Nalliah [and told him about the practice].''

Enticing natives to convert to such a perverse religion and turn them into monsters is offensive in the extreme, ditto the bribery. I hope Mrs. Hecht and company will do all they can to counter the propaganda and speak to the Aboriginal community about this, and why they too need to protect their children from indoctrination.

UMM... DOESN'T IRAN HAVE A MUTUAL DEFENSE PACT WITH SYRIA? AND DOESN'T THAT MEAN THEY WILL ATTACK THE USA IF OBAMA ATTACKS SYRIA?

YUP.

THANKS OBAMA.

THAT NOBEL PEACE PRIZE HAS NEVER EVER LOOKED MORE RIDICULOUS.

BILL AGAINST SHARIA BECOMES LAW IN NORTH CAROLINA

This one was approved without the direct signature of the governor - which does unfortunately make him a coward - but he didn't veto it either:

North Carolina has become the seventh state to explicitly prohibit Sharia law interpretation in court after Gov. Pat McCrory denied vetoing House bill 522.

McCrory, a Republican, refused to sign the bill, entitled "Foreign Law/Protect Constitutional Rights," calling it "unnecessary." However, he also did not actively veto the bill, and therefore the piece of legislation automatically became law on Monday.

The bill, sponsored by six Republican representatives, seeks to protect the constitutional rights of those involved in family court matters, including domestic and child abuse cases, by prohibiting judges from interpreting "foreign law," including the Islamic Sharia law, or a set of legal codes imposed by the teaching of Islam, as well as Jewish law.

Personally, I'm not bothered if this bill bars judges from ruling directly based upon Jewish law, because here in Israel, there's been enough corruption and failure to cut down on husbands (and wives) who refuse to grant proper divorces to the other spouse, and even to prevent religious judges and such from disrespecting the rights of children born to estranged wives to marry legitimately themselves. The whole method by which religious law here is run has practically led to a whole corrupted culture of one spouse spiting the other by refusing to grant a "get" (the special slang for divorce). It shouldn't be the case here, nor in America.

I suppose it's lucky the governor didn't veto the bill, because CAIR tried to persuade him to. Islamophiles are going out of their way to attack this bill because it helps stop their totalitarian greed. It's time to put an end to that.

OBAMA RECKLESSLY DRIVING ON THE ROAD TO DAMASCUS

Democrats prefer and advocate for U.S. intervention, including messy, bloody, military intervention, in places where there is little or, preferably, no US national interest at stake, e.g., Vietnam, Libya, ex-Yugoslavia. Find a place where there are US interests at risk--e.g., Panama, Central America, Iran, Cuba--they go into pacifist-anti-imperialist-defender-of-the-peoples-of-the-Third-World mode.

PERHAPS OBAMA IS DWI - "DRIVING WHILE ISLAMIC?

OR AS YIP HARBURG MIGHT'VE SAID:

"GO TO WAR IN DAMASCUS!? DAMN, I WISH HE'D ASK US!"

SUNNY TV NEWS

VIDEO: EUROPE'S BEST POLITICIAN SPEAKS

WHY A DEFEAT IN SYRIA WOULD COME ABOUT IN THE LONG TERM

Barry Rubin's written about why there's opposition to US intervention in Syria:

It’s really pretty simple. The American people understandably don’t want to go to war with Syria — not to mention with Syria’s patron, Iran — and especially not for the goal of putting the Muslim Brotherhood and murderous Islamists into power there. Going to war is a serious matter, to say the least. There’s no assurance how long it will take, how many lives it will cost, and what turns it may take. And the Middle East has just had several examples of these wars.

Iraq and Afghanistan cost a lot of money and lives as they extended for a much longer time than had been expected. In addition, they derailed the Bush administration’s electoral fortunes and domestic programs. With the main emphasis of the Obama administration being a fundamental transformation of America, such distractions are not desired.

There is one other important consideration: the Obama administration does not accept the traditional diplomatic and great power strategies. It believes that it can reconcile with Islamist states, it does not comprehend deterrents, it does not keep faith with allies, and it does not believe in credibility, the belief that only power exerted can convince a foe of seriousness.

Of course, that wouldn’t rule out a one-time targeted attack. But even if that were to be done, is America going to fight a full-scale war on the ground with allies–including al-Qaeda –which will never be satisfied and will always be eager to stab them in the back?

Nobody sane should have to ally themselves with bigoted jihadists if that's what he's saying, even if they were the last "ally" on earth. Just like nobody should have to ally themselves with nazis, or even communists. The American public is right to oppose intervention in Syria if the end result is putting an entity like the Muslim Brotherhood into power. This might've even been what's become of Iraq in all the time since Saddam was deposed, mostly because the Religion of Peace wasn't opposed by the allies. Food for thought.

SYRIA SYTUATION

While western political leaders are rushing to talk themselves into a corner it is becoming more and more clear that a token military response to the use of poison gas will be fruitless while the result of more comprehensive military action is at best unpredictable.

When there seems to be no Good Guy to support may I suggest that the United Nations issue an ultimatum that Assad deliver those responsible for the poison gas attack to the Hague so they may be tried as war criminals? This will give the parties involved time to build coalitions and draw more lines in the sand.

Meanwhile- if we are interested in lasting change in the region - is it not time to create an Independant and Free Kurdistan?  

NIDAL HASAN GETS THE DEATH SENTENCE

For once, some justice has been done in punishing a jihadist:

Maj. Nidal Hasan, the Army psychiatrist who killed 13 people in 2009 in a shooting rampage at Fort Hood, was sentenced to death Wednesday by a military jury after just two hours of deliberation.

Hasan, who offered little defense, sat motionless as the jury president read the verdict. Hasan has said he acted to protect Islamic insurgents abroad from American aggression and never denied being the gunman. In opening statements, he acknowledged to the jury that he pulled the trigger in a crowded waiting room where troops were getting final medical checkups before deploying to Iraq and Afghanistan. [...]

The Army psychiatrist's behavior has only stoked suspicion that his ultimate goal is martyrdom, in the form of a death sentence that would allow him to fulfill what prosecutors have described as a "jihad duty" under his Islamic faith.

The lead prosecutor, Col. Mike Mulligan, told jurors Wednesday morning that history was full of instances of death in the name of religion. But he said it would be "wrong and unsupportive" to tie Hasan's actions to a wider cause

"You cannot offer what you don't own; you cannot give away what is not yours. He can never be a martyr because he has nothing to give…..Do not be misled; do not be confused; do not be fooled. He is not giving his life. We are taking his life. This is not his gift to God, it's his debt to society. He will not now and will not ever be a martyr. He is a criminal, a cold-blooded murderer. On 5 November he did not leave this earth, he remained to pay a price. To pay a debt. The debt he owes is his life," Mulligan said.

Mulligan focused on the victims, insisting that Hasan deserved to be executed for the attack at the Texas military base that also wounded more than 30 people.

He also deserves to be executed for murdering a pregnant woman. And lethal injections wouldn't be enough to let him know what we all think of him. A beheading or a machine-gunning in his skull would be a much better way to send him to the depths of hell where he belongs.

RICO, HERE WE COME - NYPD LABELS ENTIRE MOSQUES AS TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS

We here at Astute Bloggers have long maintained that if this country wants to take out the Jihadist infrastructure in the United States, the way to do it is to apply RICO statutes.

RICO is the Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. It has been used to shut down the Gambino Crime Family, White Supremacist Organizations, the Key West Police Dept., and the Chicago Outfit, to name just a few.

Under RICO, a person who is a member of an enterprise that has committed any two of 35 crimes—27 federal crimes and 8 state crimes—within a 10-year period can be charged with racketeering. 

Those found guilty of racketeering can be fined up to $25,000 and sentenced to 20 years in prison per racketeering count. 

In addition, the racketeer must forfeit all ill-gotten gains and interest in any business gained through a pattern of "racketeering activity." 

RICO also permits a private individual harmed by the actions of such an enterprise to file a civil suit; if successful, the individual can collect treble damages (damages in triple the amount of actual/compensatory damages).

RICO can be used to shut down entire organizations.

Most Mosques in America are funded by overseas money, from the Saudis, from Iran, or other.

This means, we may have the opportunity to shut down all Mosques funded by Saudi money, if we could link money-laundering, and terrorism back to the source.

The NYPD seems to have taken the first legal step in America towards designating Islam itself as a Crime Organization, prosecutable under the RICO statutes: 

NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Police Department has secretly labeled entire mosques as terrorism organizations, a designation that allows police to use informants to record sermons and spy on imams, often without specific evidence of criminal wrongdoing.

Designating an entire mosque as a terrorism enterprise means that anyone who attends prayer services there is a potential subject of an investigation and fair game for surveillance.

Since the 9/11 attacks, the NYPD has opened at least a dozen “terrorism enterprise investigations” into mosques, according to interviews and confidential police documents. The TEI, as it is known, is a police tool intended to help investigate terrorist cells and the like.

Many TEIs stretch for years, allowing surveillance to continue even though the NYPD has never criminally charged a mosque or Islamic organization with operating as a terrorism enterprise.

The documents show in detail how, in its hunt for terrorists, the NYPD investigated countless innocent New York Muslims and put information about them in secret police files. As a tactic, opening an enterprise investigation on a mosque is so potentially invasive that while the NYPD conducted at least a dozen, the FBI never did one, according to interviews with federal law enforcement officials.

The strategy has allowed the NYPD to send undercover officers into mosques and attempt to plant informants on the boards of mosques and at least one prominent Arab-American group in Brooklyn, whose executive director has worked with city officials, including Bill de Blasio, a front-runner for mayor.

IT "MAKES NO DIFFERENCE" IF YOU HAVE "NO MORALS", HILLARY

HILLARY'S INCREDIBLE OUTBURST AT THE BENGHAZI HEARING SHOULD HAVE SURPRISED NO ONE. 

HILLARY HAS ACTUALLY DEMONSTRATED 

LOW MORAL STANDARDS FOR A FEW DECADES:

WHEN BILL LIED, HILLARY SWORE TO IT.

WHEN OBAMA LIED, HILLARY SWORE TO IT.

SHE'S UNFIT FOR HIGH OFFICE.

MSNBC LEFTIST IN DENIAL ABOUT ALGER HISS AND SENATOR JOE McCARTHY

AMAZING AUDIO HERE OF AN MSNBC HOST DENYING HISS WAS A COMMUNIST SPY. (link to audio here)

SENATOR JOE McCARTHY HAS LONG BEEN ACCUSED BY THE LEFT OF PERPETRATING A PARANOID WITCH-HUNT AGAINST IMAGINARY COMMUNISTS IN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT - ESPECIALLY THE US STATE DEPARTMENT AND THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE.

THIS IS DEMONSTRABLY FALSE. A LIE. PROPAGANDA.

WHY?

SIMPLE:

• WITCH-HUNTS ARE EXAMPLES OF BOGUS PARANOIA BECAUSE THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS WITCHES.

• BUT THERE WERE COMMUNISTS WHO HAD INFILTRATED OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.

LIKE ALGER HISS.

MCCARTHY WAS A PATRIOT.

HISS WAS A TRAITOR.

THOSE WHO ARE IN DENIAL ABOUT MCCARTHY AND HISS ARE TRAITOROUS.

AND THEY ARE MAKING THIS COUNTRY LESS SAFE AS THEY ALSO DENY THAT THE ISLAMISTS ARE INFILTRATING OUR GOVERNMENT TODAY -

WHICH IS A FACT PROVEN IN COURT; (LINKS TO A PDF PROVING ISLAMIFICATION PLAN IS REAL).

A LINE FOR CRONUTS 1/10TH AS BIG AS MARK LEVIN'S LATEST BOOK MADE THE TV NEWS...

BUT THE LINE FOR MARK'S BOOK DID NOT.

AND IT WON'T BE REVIEWED BY THE STATE-RUN MEDIA, EITHER.

THEY'RE NOT REPORTERS; THEY'RE LAPDOGS FOR OBAMA.

SHARIA STONINGS IN NIGERIA

A womens rights group makes an effort to provide information about the rise of sharia in Nigeria, and how it's led to persecution of women:

Ayesha Imam and the women she worked with for years in the Nigerian organization BAOBAB for Women's Human Rights possess those very traits. The group, founded in 1996, fights to protect women's rights in the maze of the Nigerian legal system, with its overlapping religious, secular and customary laws and courts.

Imam tells me they use tools from whichever system can "recuperate rights," believing it is often possible to arrive at similar conclusions by working through Muslim discourses or international human rights. "My issue," she underscores, "is not where you come from, but where you arrive at."

With her colleagues, she tried to "deconstruct what is Sharia (Muslim laws). How does it get to be Sharia? Is it divine or is it merely religious?" In the '80s and early '90s, some of the Sharia courts in Nigeria had come up with "what we may call progressive" interpretations, "as opposed to following somebody's idea of how it should have worked in 13th-century Arabia." Imam's efforts to support women living under these Muslim laws brought her, inevitably, to work on fundamentalism.

"Fundamentalism hit us in Nigeria so it was absolutely necessary, because otherwise fundamentalism was going to close us all down, close all the dreams down, close all the hope down," she says.

But when opposition to Islam was voiced:

Any such opponents, however, became targets of "vigilante responses." Death threats, beatings, threats of being burned. In one state where the governor delayed enacting a Sharia Act and set up a committee to study the matter, there were even threats to his family. Imam recalls attending a meeting in Abuja with the governor who started Sharianization. Young men throughout the hall were telling women where they could and could not sit. "Every time a woman got up to speak, they were yelling and drowning her out. It didn't matter if you were wearing a hijab or not." This was new, Imam underlines. When she was a younger feminist, "You didn't get shouted down. You were not in fear of being physically attacked, or being burned or harassed. You'd go to public meetings and people would get up and argue with you and they might laugh."

As I'm aware, Nigeria today is one of the most dangerous places you can be in Africa, and they need all the help they can get to battle against the rise of Islamofascism in the country.

PLO CALLS OFF PSEUDO-PEACE TALKS BECAUSE THEIR SIDE RIOTED AND GOT PUNISHED FOR IT

A riot against Israeli troops trying to make an arrest of terror suspects took place in Qalandia "refugee camp" and resulted in 3 casualties:

A Palestinian official said planned peace talks with the Israelis scheduled for Monday have been called off following a deadly clash in the West Bank.

Israeli soldiers killed three Palestinians Monday in clashes during an arrest raid in the West Bank outside Jerusalem. The violence came as Israel and the Palestinians were expected to begin rounds of peace talks, the first such meetings in five years.

The Palestinian official said the Palestinians decided to postpone Monday's meeting to protest the killings. He said the Palestinians are also upset about an Israeli announcement on Sunday pushing forward with new settlement construction in east Jerusalem. [...]

Israeli border police spokesman Shai Hakimi said officers were on a raid to apprehend a suspect when hundreds of Palestinians poured into the streets and hurled firebombs, concrete blocks and rocks at the officers.

He said officers used riot control munitions, a term that usually refers to rubber bullets and tear gas. He said police are investigating the incident.

The Israeli military said soldiers rushed to the scene after a different force came under attack. It said soldiers opened fire after they felt their lives were in "imminent danger."

"Large violent crowds such as this which significantly outnumber security forces leave no other choice but to resort to live fire in self-defense," military spokesman Lt. Col. Peter Lerner said.

So here we go again. I honestly can't care less if they don't want to speak with the Israeli negotiating team if they can only think of supporting crime and violence. I'm just sorry that terrorists with blood on their hands were released from custody, which also puts the government's opposition to violent crime under a question mark.

STOCKHOLM SYNDROME SOLIDARITY

Bruce Bawer tells all about how an alleged crime against a Muslim woman that was possibly faked led to shiploads of Swedish women wearing hijabs in solidarity and photographing themselves in them:

It started when a pregnant Muslim woman (one report put her age at 20; another identified her as a mother of three) claimed that she’d been attacked late Friday night. She was alone in a parking structure in the Stockholm suburb of Farsta, she said, when a man walked over to her, ripped off her hijab, and banged her head into a parked car, making her dizzy. He also growled something to the effect that people like her “don’t belong here.”

Now, if this actually happened, it’s repugnant. But there’s no evidence that it did happen – no eyewitnesses, no surveillance video – and it’s been suggested (although not, of course, in the Swedish media) that the woman’s story could be entirely bogus. In any case, it’s a man-bites-dog tale if there ever was one: Sweden is overrun with Muslim men who rape infidel women, not with infidels who pull headscarves off Muslim women.

Yet when the woman went public with her account, Swedish derangement syndrome kicked in – big time. On Sunday, Aftonbladet ran an op-ed signed by five persons: Bilan Osman, identified as an “anti-racist commentator”; Fatima Doubakil of the Muslim Human Rights Committee; Foujan Rouzbeh, an “asylum rights activist”; Nabila Abdul Fattah, “commentator”; and Nachla Libre, “poet.”

The five authors asserted that “the woman in Farsta isn’t the only one who has been attacked in this way.” Many Muslim women, they maintained, have been subjected to similar mistreatment by “white Swedish men…on buses, in stores, and at restaurants.” The authors painted a picture of a country filled with white people who “harass, degrade, intimidate, and abuse others in public places because of their religious attire.” And they argued that such offenses have become increasingly common because – and, yes, they actually wrote the following – “Islam and Muslims are described in the media and by political parties as a problem and a threat to Swedish democracy.”

Yes, Islam is a threat to Swedish democracy; but no, the Swedish media virtually never dare to admit this fact, or to say anything that might remotely hint at it. And the only political party that addresses this issue is the Swedish Democratic Party, whose members are not only routinely condemned in the media, in the harshest of terms, but have been repeatedly harassed, degraded, intimidated, and abused by the Swedish government itself.

The op-ed authors went on to demand – and that’s the word they used, “demand” – that Justice Minister Beatrice Ask “appoint a commission to investigate, map, and come up with specific action plans to combat the widespread hate crimes against Muslims.” They called on the government “to stop the march of fascism” (as represented, apparently, by that lone man in the parking structure who allegedly pulled off the woman’s headscarf). And they proclaimed what they called a “hijabupprop” – a hijab action. “We encourage all of our sisters in Sweden – religious and non-religious – to veil themselves on the morning of August 19 to show solidarity with all Muslim women who, all too often, suffer harassment and violence.”

The five authors tweeted their call to action on Twitter. The tweet was shared over 65,000 times. The idea was brilliant, providing politically correct Swedes with an excellent opportunity to posture. And it proved a magnificent success. In “solidarity” with the purported victim, countless Swedish women – including a number of well-known actors, writers, journalists, artists, and politicians – wore headscarves on Monday. And took pictures of themselves doing so. Their photos flooded Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

[...] The Swedish news media, notorious for the decorous silence they have long maintained about the country’s rape crisis, were all over this story. The newspapers were awash in stories about the hijab campaign and full of pictures of the famous Swedish women in Muslim headscarves. The hijab campaigners were interviewed repeatedly on TV and radio. One of them, Nabila Abdul Fattah, admitted that their goal was “to normalize the hijab.”

Geez, we really are approaching the age of the new Vikings. Not just in terms of personality and culture, but also in how the press conducts everything. Makes me glad I don't buy products from Ikea and Volvo. I can't support a country that promotes such horrors and degradation.

DOD TRAINING MANUAL VILLIFIES CONSERVATIVES WHILE IGNORING ISLAMOFASCISM

BizPac Review found the Pentagon publishing more anti-conservative hatemongering while turning their backs on the really serious matters:

A Department of Defense training guide describes American conservative groups – not Islamic terrorism – as the true face of extremism in the military ranks, according to documents obtained by Judicial Watch.

Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group, obtained the materials in response to a Freedom of Information Act request seeking “all records … related to the preparation and presentation of training materials on hate groups or hate crimes distributed or used by the Air Force,” according to examiner.com.

And who are the hate groups the nation’s military should be wary of having in uniform?

Believe it or not, they sound a lot like the tea party.

“Nowadays, instead of dressing in sheets or publicly espousing hate messages, many extremists will talk of individual liberties, states’ rights, and how to make the world a better place,” states the training guide, compiled by the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute, a diversity training center funded by the Defense Department.

“In U.S. history, there are many examples of extremist ideologies and movements. The colonists who sought to free themselves from British rule and the Confederate states who sought to secede from the Northern states are just two examples.”

True enough. The American revolutionaries were pretty extreme in their day. But what of a modern extremism that actually poses a threat to the America they founded?

What about Muslim soldiers who roll grenades into officers’ tents (Camp Pennsylvania, Kuwait, March 23, 2003); Muslim civilians who kill soldiers outside Army recruitment centers (Little Rock, Ark., June 1, 2009); or Muslim majors who shoot up Army bases and kill soldiers preparing for deployment (Fort Hood, Texas, Nov. 5, 2009)?

The training guide doesn’t mention Islamic terrorism, beyond the “historical event” of 9/11 and the civil war in Sudan, according to Judicial Watch.

This is all they can do, apparently. Such uninspiring, disrespectful people we have to put up with at the Pentagon.

OBAMA, AN INEPT MODERATE/LIBERAL OR A FOCUSED POSTMODERN LEFTIST?

MOST CRITICS OF OBAMA ARGUE HE IS MERELY INEPT:

WR MEAD: 

President Vladimir Putin and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei now believe they are dealing with a dithering and indecisive American leader, and are calibrating their policies accordingly.

DANIEL PIPES:

... with Barack Obama, the United States has slid into shocking irrelevance in the Middle East, the world's most turbulent region. Inconstancy, incompetence, and inaction have rendered the Obama administration impotent. In the foreign policy arena, Obama acts as though he would rather be the prime minister of Belgium, a small country that usually copies the decisions of its larger neighbors when casting votes at the United Nations or preening morally about distant troubles. Belgians naturally "lead from behind," to use the famed phrase emanating from Obama's White House.

I DISAGREE.

The foreign policy of the last 5 years has been a fiasco, but this fiasco is NOT a result of "Obama's ineptitude".

The consistency of the results proves that they are not caused by ineptness; ineptness alone would have had varying results - some good and some bad.

Obama's results have all been bad for the USA and our allies and they have all been good for Putin, China and especially the Muslim Brotherhood and similar islamist political parties.

Obama has consistently punished our traditional allies - and islamo-terrorists who don't follow the political TACTICS of the Muslim Brotherhood, Erdogan's AKP, Nasrallah's HIZB'ALLAH and Abbas's FATAH. Obama and Biden and Kerry - since the time they were Senators - have also aided the political islamists in Pakistan specifically the PML(N) of Nawaz Sharif - the Morsi-like PM of Pakistan.

None of these leaders and none of their parties act in the interest of the USA or our allies.

Aiding them is against our interest and the interests of the Free World - yet this is precisely what Obama has done.

Patriotic Americans agree that for the Free World to expand and prosper and be safe and secure that we need an America that leads and has a military that's second to none.

Obama aids them because at his deepest level Obama is a postmodern leftist who believes very deeply that America specifically and the West in general have been negative forces in human history.

It is this viscerally held belief that fuels and directs  Obama's foreign policy - and explains why the result have been consistent and not the result of ineptness.

All postmodern leftists like Obama blame the West for: 

(a) Third World poverty,
(b) the impending "Global Climate Catastrophe",
(c) sexual repression of LGBT's and sex workers,
(d) implanting phony nations within authentic nations at the expense of indigenous peoples - as in the cases of Israel and South Africa,
(e) all racism, and
(f) most of history's genocide.

ALL OF THE NOTIONS ARE DEMONSTRABLY FALSE: 

(a) Without free-market capitalism and industrialization the Third World won't ever become prosperous - (even Bono agrees with this now);
(b) the Earth has not gotten warmer for 16 years despite a doubling of man-made CO2 - and sea level has actually declined the last 3 years;
(c) the Gramscian desire to obliterate the family has led postmodernists to argue that there is no such thing as normative sexual roles and mores, but all species which sexually reproduce value the individuals who can reproduce over the ones who cannot or do not; the future of the species demands this; sexual norms are part of our nature - and typical of ALL human cultures for all time. In other words: "sexually normative" is not a culturally relative term; it is a value inextricably entwined with sexual reproduction and the nature of species which reproduce sexually. Destroying the normative is a political act.
(d) Almost all peoples on Earth are immigrants - Hungarians didn't arrive in Hungary until 895AD; Burgundians and Finns are also immigrants around that era. So-called "native Americans" came here about 40,000 years or so years ago FROM SOMEWHERE ELSE.
As for Israel: Jews have lived there in great numbers continuously, more so than Greeks or Romans or or Turks (who also immigrated into Turkey!) or Arabs. And the Dutch and the British were in South Africa for centuries. Longer than most people today who call themselves Americans - (and had no connection whatsoever to slavery, or the Indian Wars).
(e) There is plenty of racism all over the world between and within many ethnic and racial groups: light-skinned blacks versus dark-skinned blacks; Koreans versus Japanese; and there has always been plenty of tribalism everywhere and for all time.
(f) Most of the genocide in human history was committed by islam; and socialists killed more people in the 20th C than Europeans did in the preceding 20 centuries. (A fact that leftists like Obama conveniently overlook.)

Despite the facts, despite their demonstrable truth, postmodern leftists persist in their negative feelings about the West in general and the USA in particular as the leader of the West/the Free World.

And when you deeply believe that the West and the USA are to blame for all our current problems and maybe a "global climate catastrophe" then of course you are willing to do just about anything to punish the West and the USA and make sure they can never ever ruin things again.

As a postmodern leftist who POTUS and therefore the putative leader of the Free World, Obama is in a difficult position:

Obama must appear to be patriotic without actually being patriotic.

The most obvious illustration of this conundrum Obama must continuously face was when - while campaigning in 2007, he said he wouldn't wear a flag-pin on his lapel - and this greatly pleased his leftist base. Later - needing to appeal to a bigger part of the electorate, he realized it was a good thing to wear the flag-pin: wearing deflected a lot of criticism and helped make him appear to be something he was not: A PATRIOT.

Since then, Obama has repeated this trope in many ways: appearing to be patriotic when he is not.

The results speak more loudly than anything else. The consistency of the results proves this.

And the consistency of his appointments and attempted appointments - as do the characters of the people with whom he has been close for the decades before he ran for federal office:

• Charles Freeman, 
• the al Ahzar educated John Brennan
• Samantha Power, 
• Rashid Khalidi, 
• Edward Said, 
• Bill Ayers, 
• Rev. Wright, 
• Jodie Evans, 
• Louis Farrakhan - to name just a few.
• And then there's the fact that Erdogan is his closest personal foreign ally.

SO... I must respectfully disagree with distinguidhed critics of Obama like WR Mead and Daniel Pipes:

what they call a "foreign policy fiasco" is "Mission in the Process of Being Accomplished" for Obama and the postmodern left; though Obama can never admit it.

EGYPT WON'T PROGRESS IF WOMEN ARE DENIED EQUAL RIGHTS

The Irish Independent spoke about the oppression of women under sharia in Egypt:

LAST year, just before the election of Dr Mohamed Morsi, I happened to be in Egypt with a group of Irish journalists. For the first time in years, election posters appeared on every available lamppost and billboard and all the talk was of politics and "the revolution". And if some of us Irish hacks raised an eyebrow at the unbridled optimism of young men who envisaged a bright, free future ahead, we hoped it was down to our ingrained Irish pessimism and not just our experience that civil war inevitably follows revolution.

You may note that I mentioned only "young men", the fact being that I rarely got to see, let alone speak with, Egyptian women. Initially we had stayed at the southern tourist resort of Sharm El Sheik where it took a few hours to realise what was missing: females. Every single staff member was male. Where were the girls?

We were told they were kept at home with their families until they married. "Their families preferred it," said our guide. Why? "It keeps the women safe and their fathers know where they are."

A few days' chatting with locals confirmed the view that, in the 15 years since my last visit to Egypt, the country had become increasingly "Islamicised". Meanwhile, in Cairo, what stood out was the utter poverty of many of its people, male, female, young and old.

At Tahrir Square, our young male guide advised me not to attempt to chat with any of the women, as sexual attacks on females – including western journalists – were increasing daily. Five minutes later, I watched as he rudely chastised a group of older women, headscarves properly in place, who had been taking pictures of each other outside the nearby Cairo museum. They moved off with a dignity and weariness that suggested they'd suffered years of this sort of attitude. Our guide then proudly pointed out the picture of the man he was voting for: Dr Morsi, or "moderate Morsi" as he was known then; the benign face of the Muslim Brotherhood who was supposedly more predisposed to tolerating secular values than the ultra-conservative Salafis.

And surprise, surprise. He wasn't in favor of secularism at all. Now, luckily, he's not even "president" anymore, he's just a cellblock member. And he deserves whatever he gets in prison.

I hope the reporter understands what's behind all this oppression, namely, the Koranic verses promoting the belief that a woman is an object who should be enslaved. If she's smart, she'll advise Islamic-run regimes to abandon the Religion of Peace, otherwise, nothing has been accomplished.