Latin America: Daniel Ortega's near-certain return to power in Sunday's election is a new Marxist disaster for Nicaragua. For the rest of us, Ortega should be kept at arm's length as global forces send him their message.
It's a shame, because Nicaragua had a lot going for it. The Central American state is very poor, but it did have a free trade pact with the U.S. in the works, much of its national debt has been forgiven and its leaders were dreaming of a new cross-country canal to rival Panama's. It had even begun attracting foreign investment from Asia with factories ready to go up, as well as U.S. retirees seeking inexpensive paradise homes.
Not insignificantly, Nicaragua, in one of the region's best political neighborhoods, was supported by friendly states, such as El Salvador, Costa Rica and Panama, all working for free trade, sustainable development and becoming dynamic "jaguar" states in this continent's answer to Asia's tigers.
All of these advantages, along with $220 million in U.S. aid, stand to go down the tubes with the new Ortega presidency. Foreign investment, worth $291 million, already is fleeing. Corruption is set to snowball, given Ortega's rapacity and socialism's inability to create wealth. The economy will tank as the government grows and the private sector is abused. And thousands of refugees will join millions of illegal immigrants already flooding the U.S.
It's hard to find an election more infuriating for its wasted opportunities. Technically, it probably was close to what the government legislated it to be, so it will likely get the imprimatur of democracy from gullibles like Jimmy Carter, who observed the process.
Ortega walks off with the presidency with just 40% of the vote, a result based on legal changes he himself had a hand in after making an alliance with corrupt officials. The opposition did its part to blow this, too, refusing to unite behind one candidate, though they could plainly see how low Ortega's bar for victory was.
Make no mistake: Daniel Ortega is a totalitarian. He insists he's changed and even found Jesus, but he's aligned with the region's tyrants. He's never apologized for the civil war he inflicted or his crimes as dictator from 1979 to 1990. He still faces charges in The Hague for crimes against humanity from Nicaragua's indigenous Indians.
He's likely to turn his country back into a satellite, not of the Soviets, but of his patrons, Cuba and Venezuela. From there, he may again set off to destabilize the region as he did during the 1980s, when he armed El Salvador's Marxist terrorists.
Ortega's changed all right, but only in his mastery of new tactics. When he was booted from office in the 1990s, he vowed to "govern from below," and piece by piece he has. Through various legal maneuvers, he controls the courts, the electoral authority and the legislature. That should effectively concentrate his power as president.
He may say he's a new Ortega, but it only calls to mind his false claims during his Marxist Sandinista regime from 1979 to 1990 that he wasn't really Marxist, or that he would build a truly good communism, different from all the others. History shows he was lying.
And so does the present. Ortega outspent his nearest rivals by 20% to 50% and shamelessly pandered for votes. He got energy handouts from Chavez and openly distributed them as bribes to voters. He doled out other goodies on his campaign tour, a man at his side ladling checks and medicines from a big black bag, playing candy man and claiming this was how poverty would end.
That's some sustainable economic solution.
Like all Marxist regimes, Ortega's will fail just as surely as his last. He may have Chavez to bail him out for a while, but the Venezuelan leader has spread his overseas pork too thinly, and faces a potential electoral defeat at home next month.
As for the U.S., we'll probably recognize Ortega as president for the time being. But we should be ready for his old tricks as he tries to create wealth through robbing Nicaragua's middle class, shipping illegal immigrants our way, destabilizing neighbors and making himself dictator for life.
It's unlikely we can throw him out. But when the realities of globalization hit and the pork barrel from abroad runs dry, he'll face the music on creating sustainable development through market forces. Let's hope he doesn't destroy Nicaragua first, taking it from the second-poorest country in the hemisphere to the first.
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It's an attention span thing. They wouldn't... Hey! Is that Elvis?
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I had heard that Ortega is not the same man that left office. He has since converted to Catholicism. Not sure if the will make him a more just ruler but we have to respect the vote.
Discours prononcé par Bat Yeor lors de la rencontre annuelle (2-4.11.2006) de Christian Solidarity International (CSI) à lÉglise Paul Gerhardt de Munich, en Allemagne: Speech by Bat Ye'or at the annual meeting (2006/11/01-04) of Christian Solidarity International (CSI)in the Paul Gerhardt church, Munich, Germany :
Ladies and Gentlemen
It is for me a great honour to be invited by CSI, an organization that has been so active on so many humanitarian fronts in order to denounce slavery, war crimes and genocide, and to alleviate human suffering. And I am thinking particularly of its struggle on behalf of human rights and dignity in Sudan since 1992, and CSIs freeing over 80.000 Christian and other Sudanese slaves under the leadership of John Eibner and Gunnar Wielback.
The globalization of our world and the policies that have led to large-scale Muslim immigration, adopted by the European Community from 1973, has introduced into Europe conflictual situations and prejudices common in the Muslim world against non-Muslims that have been documented by Orientalists familiar with Islamic theology, law and history. But the politization of history initiated by Edward Said has obfuscated the root causes of Islams traditional hostility toward Jews and Christians from the seven century onward. Edward Said was a Christian raised in Egypt and educated in America; he taught English literature at Columbia University. A great admirer of Arafat and a member of the PLOs top Committee, he endeavored to destroy the whole scientific accumulation of Orientalist knowledge of Islam and replace it with a culture of Western guilt and inferiority toward Muslims victims. The obliteration of the historical truth that he constantly pursued from 1978 starting with his book Orientalism as well as his hostility to Israel, has prevented an understanding and the resolution of problems that today assail Europe and challenge its own survival.
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These hadiths, often quoted in sermons, speak of him killing the pig, breaking the cross which means destroying Christianity and the hadiths continue: he will suppress the jizya or poll-tax and the booty will be boundless.
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I have not been able to find any books by Bat Yeor either in my regional library or in the town bookstores. Is Yeor difficult to find because works arent translated into English or because libraries and bookstores dont like Yeors politics?
In any case, I enjoy reading Yeor. Gawd, I love it when PC fairy tales about tolerant and just Islam get crushed underfoot:
According to Islamic law, dhimmis cannot criticise the Prophet or say that Islamic law has a defect without risking death. Hence, the Islamic blasphemy laws even at the United Nations have been imposed on us, and particularly on the Western media.
I think the following sums up the battle, but the use of the cure word rehabilitation sounds, to English ears, almost worse than the disease:
If we want peace to prevail, the Muslim world must abandon the jihadist ideology, it must recognise Jews and Christians as different and not see them as apostate Muslims. And this must start with Muslim recognition of the legitimacy of Israel, because jihad started against the Jews and it can only end with the rehabilitation of the Jews and Israel, which will bring the rehabilitation of all non-Muslims.
Steyn is having the same problem with Canadian bookstores and has solved it the same way, clicks, not bricks. It is astounding how book sellers and librarians have cut off their noseds to psite their faces in support of their disproven ideologies. I used to vote for every library tax increase. But now I just wonder why I should vote for a tax subsidized Blockbuster that pushes videos from PBS but won't buy books I want to read.
In America and Europe, we have different ways of punctuating numbers. "80.000" to Europeans is "80,000" to us. Their use of a decimal to separate hundreds from thousands has always been an irritant to me, but perhaps our European friends have it right to this extent: given the propensity of Janjaweed in Sudan for lopping off body parts, thus leaving less than whole humans to count, using the decimal may well give a more accurate picture of the Sudanese left behind.
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Oh dear, Jules. I was not expecting that! About your question, though: Bat Yeor is far out of the mainstream of interests that public libraries and local bookstores cater to. Have you looked into the card catalogs at your local university library? Or put in a request for an order? My local library branch has purchased the most extraordinary things for me when I put in an order for something not stocked even at the main branch downtown.
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Thanks, NS and TW. I love the Internet and have bought a couple things off there, but generally I am wary of purchasing off the Internet using credit. I am going to try the library request route. I expect to see pinched faces and pursed lips. :)
Roger Baldwin, ACLU founder : I am for Socialism, disarmament and ultimately, for the abolishing of the State itself ... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class and sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal.
Obi Wan was intrigued that in the RNC conference call, Ken Mehlman mentioned Montana, Michigan, and House seats in Georgia and Hawaii (!). The first two were in response to a question from Hugh Hewitt, but if any early data looked bad, Mehlman could have been more equivocal or tried to downplay those races. As it was, he seemed a bit enthused.
(And if once-left-for-dead Michigan and Montana are looking good, how do places like Tennessee, Missouri, Rhode Island, Maryland or New Jersey look?)
At noon, it's not clear what the party folks know, but they will know how the morning turnout, GOTV operations, etc. are going compared to the morning two years ago, or four years ago. I have yet to encounter any signal of low turnout in red-leaning areas. In fact, as the Hilton Head, S.C. downpour report from Dad indicated, Republicans seem to be turning out a lot, even if there's nothing particularly close or exciting on the ballot. A Kerry effect, maybe?
Another report from Burke - turnout is comparable to last year's governor's race (at a polling place that seemed to have a lot of federal employees supporting Jim Webb, judging from bumper stickers in the parking lot). George Allen had better be getting good turnout in southern Virginia.
By now, Obi notes, the folks in the "quarantine room" where the exit poll data is being collected have some idea of how the night is going. Something will slip out, sooner or later. Of course, both sides know this, and it's almost certain that there are those who will try to spread rumors, to affect the moods, and potential turnout, of those of us attached to the Internet and hungry for any data we can get.
UPDATE: One last point - there's been nothing to indicate the Republican wave crested or slowed within the past day or two. Wish we had comprehensive data for one more day, but the big, deep, broad shift to the GOP may have hit at just the right time for this election.
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They've already given up at The Corner. Then again, they're the ones who freaked out when the exit polls looked bad for W in 2004, so I'm not panicking (yet).
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"Obi-Wan" is Mr. Geraghty's code-name for a source in the inner councils of the RNC who (based upon what happened in 2004, anyway) seems to know what he is talking about.
Mid-evening, on November 6, Obi Wan . . . laid out what he thought were some interesting indicators: Three major polls, all showing the generic ballot lead for the Democrats cut in half. His pollster of choice, Andrew Kohut at Pew (formerly with Gallup), wrote a summary of findings that has a fascinating tone:
The narrowing of the Democratic lead raises questions about whether the party will win a large enough share of the popular vote to recapture control of the House of Representatives. The relationship between a party's share of the popular vote and the number of seats it wins is less certain than it once was, in large part because of the increasing prevalence of safe seat redistricting. As a result, forecasting seat gains from national surveys has become more difficult.
The Republicans also have made major gains, in a relatively short time period, among independent voters. Since early this year, the Democratic advantage in the generic House ballot has been built largely on a solid lead among independents.
Moreover, Republicans have gained ground in recent weeks on measures aimed at assessing a voter's likelihood of voting. So while Pew polls in early October and mid-October showed virtually no change in the Democratic advantage between all voters and those most likely to turn out, the current survey shows the Democrats' eight-point lead among all registered voters narrowing considerably among likely voters. In this regard, the current campaign more closely resembles previous midterm elections since 1994, when Republicans also fared better among likely voters than among all registered voters.
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I had chalked a lot of the drop in the margin of the generic ballot to a more equal sampling of Democrats and Republicans: whereas they had been strongly skewed toward Democrat respondents in the preceding weeks and months, they was now a much more representative sampling.
However Rove has his internals, and presumably "Obi-Wan" has his, too. It's doubtful they'd have skewed their own sampling. That would be lying to themselves, and that's not going to them any good.
So if they're seeing big shifts internally, something REALLY IS going on. Good to see.
I'll have more to write about after the election, win, lose or draw. But for what its worth, I voted GOP nearly across the board today. (The holdout was a like-minded independent for County Executive.)
All too many people will vote today with a mad on, when it should instead be a joyous occasion. After all, we are about to elect the 110th Congress of the United States of America, a representative legislature that has served without interruption for longer than any other in the history of human affairs. If it sometimes seems less an august body than an Augean stable, it has nonetheless served us remarkably well, regardless of which party was in power and irrespective of peace, war, plenty or poverty. Sure, each of us imagines that if we had absolute personal power we could make it run more efficiently and accomplish greater things, but each of us would run it differently and seek to do different things, which is why we have it in the first place. That's why, while there's never a bad time, this is an especially good time to recall the words of Eric Hoffer, that most American of creatures, a longshoreman who's one of the few significant philosophers of the 20th century:
Free men are aware of the imperfection inherent in human affairs, and they are willing to fight and die for that which is not perfect. They know that basic human problems can have no final solutions, that our freedom, justice, equality, etc. are far from absolute, and that the good life is compounded of half measures, compromises, lesser evils, and gropings toward the perfect. The rejection of approximations and the insistence on absolutes are the manifestation of a nihilism that loathes freedom, tolerance, and equity.
So, when you head over to your local school or wherever you happen to vote, don't just trudge dutifully past the gaggle of folks with signs and the candidates hoping to shake your hand or the pollster begging you to answer a few questions. Soak it all in and enjoy it.
Election Day is one big pageant and you are just as much a part of it as every single one of your fellow citizens. Today should be as fun as your favorite holiday, with that same touch of solemnity for leavening. Feel a bit sorry for the folks who voted by mail, who won't get to take their full part in the civil ceremony. Pity the folks who choose not to vote at all, who do not even grasp the great gift our forbears have handed us. And shed a discrete tear for the many in other lands who either don't get to choose their leaders or whose choices make the blood run cold.
You will naturally prefer your candidate, Mr. Smith, to his opponent, Mr. Jones, but in just about every other country on Earth, in nearly every other year of human existence, government by 500 Mr. Joneses would be the best that nation had ever experienced. Despite working on two losing campaigns, the one election that I recall least fondly was 1992. We were living in Chicago and, despite my vote, Bill Clinton carried Illinois, Carol Mosely-Braun was elected to the Senate, and Dan Rostenkowski was returned to the House. But, you know what, the Republic didn't skip a beat. The simple truth, which both parties would rather we lose track of at election time, is that America has, and has generally had, a broad enough consensus on the things that matter that whoever wins today is unlikely to mess things up too badly and whoever wins isn't going to rock the ship of state overmuch. And, best of all, in just two years we get to do it all over again....
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The Democrats may be poised to win the House, but their manifesto does not inspire confidence
by Michael Kinsley
What will a Democratic House of Representatives be like? The Republicans have been painting a portrait of Democrats roasting children on a spit in the Capitol Rotunda. Hoping for a more encouraging view, I picked up A New Direction for America - a 31-page manifesto released by House Democrats in June. All I can say is, thank goodness I voted beforehand.
The Democrats promise "security, prosperity and opportunity" in "diverse, safe and vibrant communities". They will "protect Americans, secure our borders, and restore our position of international leadership" through "homeland, energy, and diplomatic strategies". And we're only up to page three.
The Democrats' two favourite words seem to be "tax credit". They promise to "modernise" the tax credit for research and development; to "expand and improve" the already ludicrously complex system of tax-deductible retirement accounts; and introduce a tax credit for college tuition up to $3,000. They also want a broadband tax credit for internet access in rural areas.
They call for a 50% tax credit for employee health insurance paid for by small businesses as their solution to the healthcare crisis. And - my favourite - they want a tax credit to cover the administrative costs of encouraging employers to offer their employees the option to convert their retirement plan into an annuity when they retire. I don't know what that last one is about, but I smell an interested party.
The problem with tax credits is that they never appear in the budget, so they never get the same scrutiny as direct spending, although their impact on the deficit is the same. By definition, they cost more than whatever benefit they are intended to achieve, since no one is going to be induced to spend an extra dollar on, say, dance lessons unless the subsidy is worth more than a dollar.
Tax subsidies often go to person X to help person Y (eg, to a corporation to help its employees), and person X gets a slice of the benefit - often a big slice. And the consequences are rarely examined. Take the tax credit proposal for tuition fees, for example. Why should a young person who is working and paying taxes subsidise someone in college who will soon be better off if he or she isn't already?
Fairness is one of three qualities that need to be restored to American public life after six years of George Bush. The other two are honesty and competence.
Honesty is not just therapeutic. Fiscal honesty is a practical necessity. A New Direction for America rightly denounces the staggering fiscal irresponsibility of Republican leaders and duly promises "pay-as-you-go" spending. But in the entire document there is not one explicit revenue raiser to balance the many new spending programmes and tax credits.
Competence, of course, brings us back to Iraq. Apparently, and unfortunately, Bush is right that the Democrats have no "plan for victory". (Neither does he, of course.) For national security in general, the Democrats' plan is mostly about new cash benefits for veterans. Regarding Iraq, the Democrats' plan has two parts. First, they want Iraqis to assume "primary responsibility for securing and governing their country". Then they want "responsible redeployment" of American forces.
Older readers may recognise this formula. It's Vietnamisation - the Nixon-Kissinger plan for extracting us from a mistake. But Vietnamisation was not a plan for victory. It was a plan for what was called "peace with honour" and is now known as "defeat".
Maybe A New Direction is just a campaign document. My fear is that the House Democrats may try to use it as a basis for governing.
Is there an election tomorrow? Really? You dont say. Here I thought those ads on the radio with the quivery-voiced seniors were part of some national pro-euthenasia campaign. After hearing the ads 392,903 times youre ready to send Grandma to the Soylent plant. One ad has the seniors worrying that the politicians who wrecked the economy (seriously, thats what they say) are talking about privatizing Social Security again. Gah! Issues are being discussed! Alternatives proposed! I almost expect them to say lets keep our grandkids in bondage in perpetuity, and vote for Patty McWislblauer; shell protect our claim on the income of Americas youngest workers."
This is one of the reasons I am not optimistic for the short term: we cannot even bring up the matter of letting younger workers voluntarily exert private control over the property they are required by government to relinquish. Apparently the mere discussion of the subject leads directly to seniors hoarding tins of Fancy Feast.
Like many, Im resigned to losing most everything Ive put into Social Security, or seeing the promised returns whittled away to farthings and hapennies. So I save for my family, and invest. I have fixed goals. If my taxes go up, I will still save and invest in the same amounts; Ill just cut back elsewhere either in spending, which of course is great for the economy, or in charity. Really: charity ought to be the first to go. If I have a moral obligation to pay more taxes to redress income inequality, then that ought to count as my charity. Currently I donate to two programs; one gives livestock to people in impoverished countries, and the second corrects cleft palates for children in the 3rd World. Am I morally obligated to continue those contributions at the expense of my family?
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YJCMTSU. Mr Lileks has got me depressed this morning. There is too much truth here for me to laugh.
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The big problem with humor is that to the writer effective humor feels like you're just rolling up your sleeves, making a couple slashes with a sharp razor, and bleeding into the keyboard.
Sometimes it's a hit-or-miss affair and you're just bleeding into the keyboard and it isn't funny.
Get out there and exercise the right so many would die to have.
And once you are done, if you go early, hit the GOP GOTV phone page so you can remind others who are thinking about sittinghtis one out that they need to get in there and get their voice heard.
http://www.gop.com/Call/
The numbers for tomorrow will be in critical districts, so take a little time in the AM or early afternoon, and give those folks a gentle reminder that theer vote carries a TON of weight becaus ethey are where the close elections are.
You can call a district or state where its close like Maryland, or inthe hosue, call CO-4 or CA-11. The latter are key for holding off Speaker Pelosi and they will be open late in the day compared to east coast time, so call and remind your western allies they need to show up for Marilyn Musgrave or Richard Pombo.
As Arnold said in Predator:
DO IT, DO IT NOW, GET TO THE CHOPPER!
Excellent advice, except you need to get to the voting booth first and then the GOP website and your phone.
Because the Iraqi people havent been let down enough we only told them once before that if theyd rise up, wed be there for them, and then we skeedaddled. That certainly worked out well for everyone, didnt it? Was honorable, too, right? Embellished the reputation of the United States, indeed! Just like pulling out of Vietnam did.
Our troops who are actually doing the WORK, say differently. . . .
And what are we supposed to do, once weve pulled out? Our troops go to Okinawa, to sit helplessly while Iraqis are slaughtered by insurrectionists and terrorists and tyrants? How do we then, as a nation, ever hold our heads upright again how do we - a country that has ever-disdained empire but has routinely spilled her blood for the freedom of others - ever look at other struggling peoples and say we will help you, and expect them to believe us?
If we pull out of Iraq, now, how does a visionary ever find the nerve to even make such an offer to another country, knowing that the leadership of this nation hasnt the testicular fortitude to carry a mission through, to keep on when keeping on means some rough slogging?
How will we ever look at ourselves in a mirror again, or tell our children to respect us, to respect their flag, their nation, their leaders?
If we pull out of Iraq, how do we remain the nation we have always been? How does America continue to stand for something great and unique and age-defining? How do we prevent ourselves from slipping into the same suicidal-and-cowardly mindset which is very quickly disabling France and Germany and Belgium and Spain and Italy?
If we pull out of Iraq, as the Democrats want us so desperately to do, then America throws away her greatness with both hands. She simply becomes one more dis-spirited country unable to rouse herself to anything beyond a sluggard and blearily-asked question: whats in it for me? A country with no faith in the human spirit, a country which is unwilling to sacrifice, to work hard to do anything, really, beyond writing a check for this disaster or that. . . .
There is a vision in place. Its difficult, and it is fraught with peril, pain, loss, doubt and heart-clutching fear. But it is the stark and single vision which can shift the Sharia momentum. The vision is simply this: Help people find their liberty. If you can help them find that - and help them to learn to manage the messy business of freedom - they can begin to chart their own courses. Once they are free, they can enter the marketplace of ideas and industry and find means of movement that have nothing to do with a sword or martyrdom, and everything to do with creativity and human potential and hope.
That is a bold vision. It is a vision rooted in faith, both of the supernatural and natural sort. Faith in God. Faith in mankind.
And for some, particularly those who have long-since forgotten how to dream, who look at the world with grounded, earthbound eyes, it is a vision that seems utterly mad and impossible and futile.
How sad for those who can no longer dream - who can no longer look at America and imagine the greatness within, and how that greatness might be shared - how the visions of the founders might be spread. How sad it is to realize that some of the people currently in leadership positions in this nation would look at General Washington and Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, and they would say this was a bad idea its getting difficult. We should just quit. . . .
Go read it all. If you have any doubt about why your vote matters, if you have any inclination to stay home, go read it all, and then get thee to a polling place.
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From another blog today (I forget which), I copied and e-mailed to myself a great quote, very appropriate to this thread:
A quote from Teddy Roosevelt from 1901:
Barbarism has, and can have, no place in a civilized world. It is our duty toward the people living in barbarism to see that they are freed from their chains, and we can free them only by destroying barbarism itself. The missionary, the merchant, and the soldier may each have to play a part in this destruction, and in the consequent uplifting of the people. Exactly as it is the duty of a civilized power scrupulously to respect the rights of all weaker civilized powers and gladly to help those who are struggling toward civilization, so it is its duty to put down savagery and barbarism. As in such a work human instruments must be used, and as human instruments are imperfect, this means that at times there will be injustice; that at times merchant or soldier, or even missionary, may do wrong. Let us instantly condemn and rectify such wrong when it occurs, and if possible punish the wrongdoer. But shame, thrice shame to us, if we are so foolish as to make such occasional wrongdoing an excuse for failing to perform a great and righteous task.
Note that due to his own background, he leaves out of the equation the deobandis, the iranian-backed chiites, and the turkish fundies.
Michael Coren - National Post
Dr. Tawfik Hamid doesn't tell people where he lives. Not the street, not the city, not even the country. It's safer that way. It's only the letters of testimony from some of the highest intelligence officers in the Western world that enable him to move freely. This medical doctor, author and activist once was a member of Egypt's Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya (Arabic for "the Islamic Group"), a banned terrorist organization. He was trained under Ayman al-Zawahiri, the bearded jihadi who appears in Bin Laden's videos, telling the world that Islamic violence will stop only once we all become Muslims.
He's a disarmingly gentle and courteous man. But he's determined to tell a complacent North America what he knows about fundamentalist Muslim imperialism.
"Yes, 'imperialism,' " he tells me. "The deliberate and determined expansion of militant Islam and its attempt to triumph not only in the Islamic world but in Europe and North America. Pure ideology. Muslim terrorists kill and slaughter not because of what they experience but because of what they believe."
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OK, so now the MMM (Mythical Moderate Muslim) count is up to, say, a dozen or so? Thank God (not Allah) that this guy's telling the truth. Sad to say, though, that he won't be heard much past the walls of the 'burg and a few other good blogs/websites. I'm coming more and more to the conclusion that we'll have to have an internal civil war again (against the LLL and the MSM) before we can really take on the jihadis.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
by Orrin Judd, Brothers Judd blog
