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Afghanistan
Afghans Gone Wild?
The strange case of a Ramadan bash that wasn’t, and what it tells us about the divisions in Afghan society.
Posted by: tipper || 08/21/2010 05:02 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Faked Ramadan? Not a surprise. There is considerable hypocrisy amongst the believers. American born Yemeni imam Anwar al-Awlaki liked to frequent strip clubs and got busted twice for soliciting prostitutes while in the U.S. Nidal Malik Hasa (Ft. Hood shooter) frequented strip clubs and lapdancing bars. Mohamed Atta and company liked to drink, frequent strip clubs, view p0rn, purchase sex toys, and sleep with prostitutes. Ramadan can't be too important to such as these hard boys.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/21/2010 13:59 Comments || Top||

#2  An absolute outrage! Why could they not simply go to Spain or Martha's Vineyard like the truly devout?
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/21/2010 16:28 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Wondering Which Islam Will Triumph in the US
Posted by: mrp || 08/21/2010 11:57 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Personally I hope Islam will not prevail.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/21/2010 12:47 Comments || Top||

#2  Interesting read, This author has a great deal of sympathy for American Muslims. His premise that outside influences, the soddies, and intimidating practices are keeping the American muslims from doing the right thing here. On that single note he is correct. What he let slide by is that intimidation and fear of violence is "THE" premise for all Islam. It claims to be a religion of peace until the 13 year old girl refuses to have sex and get married to a 70 year old man. Then the peace stops, she is doused in acid, her nose cut off, raped by her brothers and his friends and then thrown out into the desert to die. What we have in Islam, both radical and peaceful, is a cult of pain and death if your not willing to enslave yourself to the soddi way.
Rather than our American muslims being bullied by the soddi mulims what we have here is a cult that is call Islam and its cornerstone is fear and intimidation. Like all the other cults of hate and fear they take prey on the weak. They prey on those that are not strong enough to stand up for their rights. They are lured into Islam with all the ‘peace be upon you’ crap and then once they are reeled in the craziness starts. Taking your daughters for old men, sex with young boys, sharia law, and on and on, show me a first world muslim state??? Nowhere in their world is there room for peaceful coexistence and equality with Christians, Jews, or Buddhists. Islam, all of it, is a virus on our earth, one that will not go away but with vigilance it can be kept under control and we must.

Posted by: 49 Pan || 08/21/2010 13:01 Comments || Top||

#3  Another point is that the Saudi government's Wahabbist building boom isn't limited to the West, it is a global undertaking. The petrodollars we send to the ME are being converted into an aggressive, relentless campaign to destroy alternative Islamic interpretations that are less hostile to Western Civilization.
Posted by: mrp || 08/21/2010 13:25 Comments || Top||

#4  "Progressive" tools in Green Bay WI last week approved zoning for their first mosque.

May they have the best of luck in dealing with their first "Honor" killing.

Posted by: Oscar Clavith8333 || 08/21/2010 13:37 Comments || Top||

#5  The real danger for the West is our commitment to freedom of religion which makes us so unwilling to see that Islam is a tyrannical political system masquerading as a religion. Strip away all the mumbo-jumbo and you find power/politics and violence at its core, using deceit, fear and intimidation as the tools of control and expansion. Our enshrinement of religion as a protected class of philosophies comes from the centuries of deal with the Church when it exhibited some of these traits centuries ago. We need to defrock the idea that Islam is a religion and above the kind of awareness and scrutiny it needs to stop its growth.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 08/21/2010 14:08 Comments || Top||

#6  He's too easily dismissing the Sharia threat.

In North America big institutions not associated with the "fringe right" whose core business is related to free expression decided to observe Sharia restrictions rather than exercise their free speech rights.

Yale, the MSM including Comedy Central do apparently believe that Sharia transgressions in the US will result in real punishment. For them, Sharia not the US Constitution is the de facto law of the land.
Posted by: Spanky Clorong9929 || 08/21/2010 14:08 Comments || Top||

#7  From Weasel Zippers....

Steve Emerson has unearthed 13 hours of audio tape of Imam Rauf. Emerson and his team of investigators has spent the past four weeks going through the newly found material. Rauf is a “radical extremist cleric who cloaks himself in sheep’s clothing.”

Among the shocking revelations Emerson’s team will reveal next week — they found Rauf:

Defending wahhabism – a puritanical version of Islam that governs Saudi Arabia

Calling for the elimination of Israel by claiming a one-nation state, meaning no more Jewish State.

Defending Bin Laden’s violence

Demonstrating that there is a lot more to this man than merely a cleric.

The American public now sees the “deception perpetrated by all these Islamic groups that claim they are against violence and terrorism and insist that their rights be respected but in reality are fronts for the Muslim Brotherhood.”

Posted by: Sleque Barnsmell1141 || 08/21/2010 15:40 Comments || Top||

#8  File under "Know Thy Enemy":

"Kill the unbelievers wherever you find them.” Koran 2:191

“Make war on the infidels living in your neighborhood.” Koran 9:123

“When opportunity arises, kill the infidels wherever you catch them.” Koran 9:5

“Any religion other than Islam is not acceptable.” Koran 3:85

“The Jews and the Christians are perverts; fight them.”... Koran 9:30

“Maim and crucify the infidels if they criticize Islam” Koran 5:33

“Punish the unbelievers with garments of fire, hooked iron rods, boiling water; melt their skin and bellies.” Koran 22:19

“The unbelievers are stupid; urge the Muslims to fight them.” Koran 8:65

“Muslims must not take the infidels as friends.” Koran 3:28

“Terrorize and behead those who believe in scriptures other than the Qur’an.” Koran 8:12

“Muslims must muster all weapons to terrorize the infidels.” Koran 8:60

Any questions Infidel...?

Posted by: Uncle Phester || 08/21/2010 15:41 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israeli Concessions Would Be Suicide - George Will
Posted by: Frank G || 08/21/2010 19:57 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  File this one under "Feature", not "Bug", George.
Posted by: Swamp Blondie || 08/21/2010 23:52 Comments || Top||



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