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September 02, 2010

Obama is not a Muslim

Ann Coulter. This is her best in some time; a tour de force (via Five Feet of Fury).

All liberals are atheists. Only the ones who have to stand for election even bother pretending to believe in God.

Not being acquainted with any actual Christians, they aren't particularly good bluffers. That's why Democrats babble incoherently whenever the subject of religion comes up. Liberals acting devout always looks like the love scenes between Tom Cruise and Kelly McGillis in "Top Gun": awkward and unconvincing.

Related: Their guy... your guy.

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Theory and practice

Obama has got his wish.

Today's deadly terror attack that killed four people took place on a road where the Israeli government removed staffed anti-terror checkpoints in line with requests from the Obama administration, WND has learned.

As President Obama was preparing for a Washington summit with the Israeli and Palestinian leaders, Palestinian terrorists today carried out a shooting attack, killing two Jewish men and two women, one of whom was pregnant.
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JDL Canada Candle Light Vigil

If you cannot be in NYC this September 11, consider joining a candle light vigil with JDL Canada at the American consulate in Toronto.

*JDL* Canada
Candle Light Vigil
Against the Building of the Mosque
Cordoba House at Ground Zero

September 11, 2010
9:30pm – 10:30pm

USA Consulate
360 University Avenue,
Toronto, Canada.

It is important for the Jewish Community to stand up against the spread of Political Islam. The building of a Mosque at Ground Zero is a victory for Political Islam. Now is the time to fight back for justice and truth.

Contact JDL Canada at
416-736-7000 or
www.jdl-canada.com

Candles will be handed out.

Related: The Daily Mail reports the Obama Mosque imam is a tax payer subsidized slumlord and the Obama Mosque developers are tax deadbeats.

Democrats, in other words.

Human Events, the long-established Capitol Hill journal, has published reports that reveal Feisal Abdul Rauf, the man who plans to be the Imam at the multi-million dollar mosque, 'owns taxpayer-subsidised apartment buildings in Hudson County [the part of New Jersey just across the Hudson River from Manhattan] where the tenants have made municipal health complaints including rat, roach and bedbug infestations, seeping toilets, leaks, urine soaked hallways, no heat and no hot water.'
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Tomasz Bagiński: The Cathedral

The Cathedral is an animated pastiche of at least two pieces by the late Zdzisław Beksiński. Just gorgeous.

Katedra (The Cathedral) - 2002

Krótki animowany film autorstwa Tomasza Bagińskiego i muzyką Adama Rosiaka, nominowany do Oscara w roku 2003.

HIs first short, Deszcz (Rain), is a tribute to Blade Runner with a twist. Once you have seen them, the line from this work to The Witcher is apparent. More on Tomasz Bagiński at Wikipedia.

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Tina Turner: One of the Living

My vision of the near future looks something like this.

Tina Turner shall stand with us.

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September 01, 2010

Brother, will you pray with me

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Glenn Beck talks about the Restoring Honor rally, telling a story about Sarah Palin and a story about Alveda King and illustrating both with photos by George Lange (video at the link; link via Five Feet of Fury with an excellent suggestion for the Smithsonian ).

Beck confirmed what a number of people attending the event had speculated: he was indeed wearing a bulletproof vest. Said Beck: “I was wearing it because my wife asked me to wear it.” Beck also noted that while he offered Alveda King one she declined.

Watch the video and there won't be a dry eye in the house. Share this with everybody.

Related: Another image of Sarah Palin at prayer in the sidebar at Christians for Sarah Palin, this one from before a presidential debate of not so long ago but what was, nonetheless, another era.

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Canadian Suspect of Indian Origin

B. Raman of the South Asian Analysis Group writes "Al Qaeda: Canadian Suspect of Indian Origin: International Terrorism Monitor--Paper No. 673".

In what is becoming an increasingly complicated network of friendships, employment and sports club memberships, this is a good introductory summary to some key relationships in the Canadian Al Qaeda terror cell story.

Raman's final summary point will stand out for those belonging to an opposing network.

11. Some sources allege that Wasty was known for his anti-Jewish views and used to describe the 9/11 terrorist strikes in the US as a Jewish conspiracy.

"Some sources"... who could that be?

Also: The same report is reprinted as an article in the Sri Lanka Guardian. It lists the author's biographical information as follows.

The writer is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India, New Delhi, and, presently, Director, Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai, and Associate of the Chennai Centre For China Studies. E-mail: seventyone2@gmail.com

Some heavyweights are paying attention. The only question is are any of them in Canada? And, if so, are they all too scared of being sued to - and I choose my words carefully - stick their necks out?

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This is not a game

Another socialist paradise is on its way to becoming judenfrei.

Yet the Left persists in the lie the National Socialists were a right-wing political movement.

If someone were to rank the most embattled Jewish communities in the world today, the Jewish community of Venezuela would certainly be high on that list. Over the past decade the community has shrunk by half its size.

“Ten years ago we had about 18,000 members,” said Salomon Cohen. “Now we have about 9,500.”
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Chinese Guy WRESTLES WOMAN!

This moment of comic relief includes NSFW language/thought-crime unless you work for the Cananadian Human Rights Commission, in which case your role as Platonic Guardian of virtue is your aegis.

The new outro is classic.

I wrestle woman because she think Randy Orton hot on tv. I think Randy Orton is less handsome than me because I am beautiful face and nice thin Asian body. She show me her wrestling skill when we decide to WRESTLE HARDCORE!

Also classic: Peter Chao explains everything you need to learn about multiculturalism.

NSFW due to language and "human rights" commissions.

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Hurts: Wonderful Life

The '80s will live in our hearts so long as we keep the flame of the '80s alive (hat tip to Jeff).

They are Kylie fans!

Update: The original DIY video. Jeff elaborates in the comments.

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August 31, 2010

Introducing Omar Kalair and Derek Scheinman

"I'm a firm believer in allowing people to practice their customs, as long as it's not harmful or affecting anybody else's life." - Derek Scheinman

On April 9, 2007, the Toronto Star's Judy Steed introduced us to a new partnership between Omar Kalair (founder of UM Financial) and Derek Scheinman (president of New Horizon Mortgages Investment Corp.). It was a uniquely Canadian feel good story about two men reaching out from across a religious and historical divide, and one of nine chosen examples for the Star's four month Build A Business Challenge.

When [Scheinman's] great-great grandparents came to Canada, "they came for the same reasons people are coming today: for the opportunities. They want to do things differently; they've left the problems behind. They enjoy being free. They want to live in peace and harmony."

Kalair and Scheinman came together after the Star ran a story about UM Financial. Kalair had secured $150 million (the Star's figure at the time of publication, UM Financial cites $120 million) from Credit Union Central of Ontario to back his sharia compliant mortgage business, but had "little luck with the major banks." While Scheinman was born to "non-religious" Jewish parents, he could understand that under Sharia ("way" or "path", the sacred law of Islam) Muslims are not allowed to pay or earn interest.

When the two men met, Scheinman wasn't put off by Kalair's obvious adherence to Muslim traditions. (Kalair has a beard and wears the long tunic and kufi – cap – of traditional Muslim men.)

Kalair and Scheinman worked together to finance the purchase of a larger school building for the "Mur-ul-Huda Academy" (I believe the Star has misspelled Nur-al-Huda Academy, but then I don't enjoy their multiple layers of editing and fact checking so what do I know). The $2 million dollar deal was the largest UM Financial had handled.

Scheinman talked to his shareholders. "We've made the commitment and we're ready to go ahead," he says. "The deal fits our investors' needs and it's structured so that it's `kosher' for Muslims."

Also kosher for Muslims?

The iFreedom Plus MasterCard.

Thanks to UM Financial.

Told that he sounds like a natural politician, Scheinman admits he's "thinking about running, eventually, as a Liberal, should my business continue to grow."

Related: The Toronto Star explains how the iFreedom MasterCard works.

Because that's reporting the news.

Also related: A word on Islamic finance from UM Financial. With props to Mufti Taqi Usmani.

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A word on Islamic finance from UM Financial

The following excerpt from An Introduction to Islamic Finance by Mufti Muhammad Taqi Usmani is borrowed from Islamic Finance page of UM Financial, thanks to whom Canadians have access to the iFreedom Plus MasterCard.

You may be forgiven for thinking I have excerpted it from a speech by Tommy Douglas, pace a couple changes in terminology here or there.

The Basic Difference between Capitalist and Islamic Economy

Islam does not deny the market forces and market economy. Even the profit motive is acceptable to a reasonable extent. Private ownership is not totally negated. Yet, the basic difference between capitalist and Islamic economy is that in secular capitalism, the profit motive or private ownership are given unbridled power to make economic decisions. Their liberty is not controlled by any divine injunctions. If there are some restrictions, they are imposed by human beings and are always subject to change through democratic legislation, which accepts no authority of any super-human power. This attitude has allowed a number of practices which cause imbalances in the society. Interest, gambling, speculative transactions tend to concentrate wealth in the hands of the few. Unhealthy human instincts are exploited to make money through immoral and injurious products. Unbridled profit making creates monopolies which paralyse the market forces or, at least, hinder their natural operation. Thus the capitalist economy which claims to be based on market forces, practically stops the natural process of supply and demand, because these forces can properly work only in an atmosphere of free competition, and not in monopolies. It is sometimes appreciated in a secular capitalist economy that a certain economic activity is not in the interest of the society, yet, it is allowed to be continued because it goes against the interest of some influential circles who dominate the legislature on the strength of their majority. Since every authority beyond the democratic rule is totally denied and 'trust in God' (which is affirmed at the face of every U.S. dollar) has been practically expelled from the socio-economic domain, no divine guidance is recognized to control the economic activities.

The evils emanating from this attitude can never be curbed unless humanity submits to the divine authority and obeys its commands by accepting them as absolute truth and super-human injunctions which should be followed in any case and at any price. This is exactly what Islam does. After recognizing private ownership, profit motive and market forces, Islam has put certain divine restrictions on the economic activities. These restrictions being imposed by Allah Almighty, Whose knowledge has no limits, cannot be removed by any human authority. The prohibition of riba (usury or interest), gambling, hoarding, dealing in unlawful goods or services, short sales and speculative transactions are some examples of these divine restrictions. All these prohibitions combined together have a cumulative effect of maintaining balance, distributive justice and equality of opportunities.

Would you like to learn more? UM Financial links the whole book in pdf form.

UM Realty loves its Mufti Taqi Usmani, they cite him on the meaning of Musharkah ("sharing") and Diminishing Musharkah (another form of Musharkah). In fact, the same page links the following pdf file of The Text of the Historic Judgment on Interest; Given by the Supreme Court of Pakistan including a section written by Justice Muhammad Taqi Usmani.

Because this is exactly the guidance you need for securing a mortgage in Canada.

For all your 'ilm needs: In case anyone running things around here should happen to take an interest, Wikipedia lists Muhammad Taqi Usmani as a "key figure" in the Deobandi movement.

He was a key member of a team of scholars which helped declare Ahmadis, also derogatorily known as Qadianis, as non-Muslims by Pakistan's National Assembly during the era of former Pakistani president, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, in the 1970s. During the presidency of General Zia ul Haq, he was instrumental in drafting laws pertaining to Hudood, Qisas, and Dayiat. He strongly opposed the Women's Protection Bill. According to him, it was designed to distract attention from issues such as flaws in the law enforcement system. According to a comment piece in The Times, Usmani "believes that aggressive military jihad should be waged by Muslims 'to establish the supremacy of Islam' worldwide."

The Times piece quotes Taqi Usmani as saying followers "must live in peace until strong enough to wage jihad".

One of the world’s most respected Deobandi scholars believes that aggressive military jihad should be waged by Muslims “to establish the supremacy of Islam” worldwide.

Justice Muhammad Taqi Usmani argues that Muslims should live peacefully in countries such as Britain, where they have the freedom to practise Islam, only until they gain enough power to engage in battle.

His views explode the myth that the creed of offensive, expansionist jihad represents a distortion of traditional Islamic thinking.

He denies the last statement though I can't for the life of me imagine why. If we had some journalists in Canada, they could maybe follow up with him or something. You know, just asking questions. That sort of thing.

Or ask what his Canadian adherents think of Ahmadi Muslims, or the rights of women, or the real meaning of jihad. Or how any of these things influence their notions of fund raising for charitable projects in Pakistan. You know, just off the top of my head here.

Related: In case anyone reading this does business with the Credit Union Central of Ontario and is curious about where their money is going.

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A report from CSIS

Another post stolen from Vlad Tepes!

Somebody get Michael Ignatieff on the line; with a brain his big*, perhaps he can make the connections eluding the rest of us.

* That's a perfectly cromulent grammatical construction, thank you.

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Sharia delenda est

Tundra Tabloids at Vlad Tepes cites the Koran by way of introducing "the other side of Afghanistan that most in the MSM refuse to address, because it invokes, outrage against and disgust for, the Ideology of Perpetual Outrage (IPO)."

What Christianity considers good, Islam considers evil. What Islam considers good, Christianity considers evil. This isn't a statement of value, it is an observation of fact. Only a degenerate liberal "Christianity" is so blinkered by self-satisfaction it is incapable of recognizing a clearly expressed disagreement.

To a devout Pashtun Muslim, this is Paradise:

Koran 52:24:
Round about them will serve, to them, boys (handsome) as pearls well-guarded.

Koran 56:17
Round about them will serve boys of perpetual freshness.

Koran 76:19
And round about them will serve boys of perpetual freshness: if thou seest them, thou wouldst think them scattered pearls.

You cannot defend our civilization by expending blood and treasure in an effort defend an alien barbarism. Either we relearn this lesson to our cost or we are decadent and shall be destroyed.

Same crime, different address: The Italian police are calling it a crime of passion. It is quite obviously a cime of "honour".

A 19-year-old Moroccan woman suffered second and third degree burns over 20 percent over her body following an late Thursday in the northern industrial city of Turin when attackers threw acid over her.

We have developed the same disregard for the integrity of our borders and our values as did ancient Rome. That cliff up ahead is called "history" (via Gates of Vienna).

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Obama doth protest too much

The Mayor of Mitchieville makes a point so obvious nobody else has made it.

When "President" Obama was asked why so many people were uncertain about his faith*, Obama said:

“I can’t spend all of my time with my birth certificate plastered on my forehead,” quipped Obama, who took a deep breath to gather his thoughts when asked if the poll reflected his inability to communicate with voters.

This is a response but it isn't an answer. As the Mayor put it:

He may as well had told William’s that he enjoys cheese, because that answer is about as relevant. Not as telling, mind you, but just as relevant.

Like Trudeau and Clinton before him, Obama is only a master of prevarication because the press are too lazy, stupid or complicit to press him to a straight answer. And like Trudeau and Clinton before him, Obama seems to make it a point of principle - or of a concern for liability masquerading as principle - to avoid telling flat out lies. It is a narcissist's dodge, part of an ongoing demonstration to himself of his superiority and ability to manipulate.

It is something he learned in childhood; a defense mechanism.

* Whereas there is no doubt in my mind about Obama's faith.

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Treason and plot

In a more civilized time, David Cameron would be sent to the Tower.

So much for the Royal Navy. As with Church and Empire, a project of centuries fathered by Henry VIII will be put to sleep under Charles III.

The Royal Navy could share the use of its aircraft carriers with French forces, it has been revealed.

Any such move will be seen as an attempt to cut costs while maintaining military strength.

It would mean British and French ships working together to protect the interests of both countries, allowing Britain to stop work on two replacement carriers, which are already under construction at a cost of £5.2bn.
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A break in the clouds

Talks are underway for a quarter of the wings for the F-35 production run, wings for 800 aircraft, to be built in Israel.

I would quote the article but I gather al Reuters has a problem with fair use (if not with Photoshop).

I shall quote Popular Science instead. Am I missing something? A flying Jeep would have tested my suspension of disbelief as a twelve year old.

The Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has selected two companies to proceed with the next stage of its Transformer, known as TX—a fully automated four-person vehicle that can drive like a car and then take off and fly like an aircraft to avoid roadside bombs.

Regrettably, there is generation of men - about five to fifteen years younger than me - whose brains deactivate when they hear the word "Transformer". As these men are in mid-career roles, it will be interesting to see how far they can push this absurdity along the procurement chain.

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Lalo Schifrin: Bullitt

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August 30, 2010

Glenn Beck: Restoring Honor (August 28, 2010)

Glenn Beck's Restoring Honor Rally in Washington, D.C.

God bless you, Mr. Beck.

Update: Five Feet of Fury has video of an unscheduled flyover at the beggining of the rally.

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Insane Clown Posse: Drop

Juggalo love coming at you hardcore. This one goes with a shout out to Dr. Fasahat Wasty. Keeping it real.

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The very essence of what we are

Richard Fadden, director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, and a raft of other well-meaning but clueless experts are confounded by the emergence of homegrown terrorism.

Richard Fadden, director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, said recently that “the real change over the course of the last couple of years has been the growth of domestic radicalization.”
...
Of particular concern, he said, were second- and third-generation Canadians who have become disenchanted with their own country and blame it for strife overseas. “That’s the most worrisome part, I think, of our work today,” Fadden said. “It’s the people who have been in this country for quite a while who are rejecting the very essence of what we are in Canada.”

Richard Fadden, director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, and a raft of other well-meaning but clueless experts clearly have no idea what is being taught at Canadian universities. It is anti-American, anti-Israel and anti-everything that used to be the essence of Canada. To young people, World War II is the story of Canadian injustice to Japanese-Canadians and Allied war crimes at Dresden and Hiroshima.

Medal of Honor is the closest this generation comes to a proper education in history and it runs counter to what every figure in authority has ever told them.

The only wonder should be there has been so little domestic terrorism. If Canadian men hadn't been castrated by the same education system drip feeding Marxist propaganda as a sustitute for the truth since the 1960s, they too would take up arms with their Muslim brothers against the Crusaders and the Jews.

The very essence of what we now are is a country where you can spread blood libels against the Jews, partner with Mastercard to raise money for Pakistan and nobody in the Canadian Establishment will raise an eyebrow.

The will to accommodation and appeasement and moral equivalence is the very essence of what we have become as Canadians. But Richard Fadden and the rest of his friends running the country are surprised by this latest fruit of the poisoned garden we have grown for ourselves.

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Good-bye to all that

Thomas Harding, Telegraph Defence Correspondent reports the SAS is "facing the greatest cuts since the end of the Second World War."

If the United States had an American president*, these men could have been offered American citizenship.

The Director of Special Forces, a major general who cannot be named, will meet with reserve SAS soldiers this week to inform them that their services are no longer required. Already more than 40 veteran SAS men have been given their marching orders after the Army said it can no longer afford to pay them.

While British special forces are seen as one of the greatest global assets Britain has to offer and are particularly coveted by the US, they are expensive accounting for an estimated £2 billion out of the £37 billion MoD budget.

To say the Army cannot afford the SAS is not the same thing as saying Britain cannot afford the SAS. It is only to say that Her Majesty's government has different priorities and chooses not to afford the SAS.

One obvious alternative would be to put a full stop to the Department for International Development's £2.9bn annual aid budget and, along with its aid budget, close down the entire Department.

Now that India is "rich" enough (i.e. reliably pro-Israel, anti-jihad and therefore opposed to "British" interests) for the UK to scale back the £250m p.a. we have been giving them, perhaps the Indian armed forces would like to take on board the best special forces in the world at a discount.

A related thought: I just found another £140 million in savings. The same money could go much further if spent on killing rather than outreach.

* Seeing as Obama has raised the subject. He can't have his birth certificate "plastered to his forehead" but he could finally let the rest of us take a look at it.

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French prostitutes join the human rights protest

Carla Bruni and Isabelle Adjani campaign to save the life of Iranian "adultress" Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani from death by stoning.

In response, Kayhan, a newspaper mouthpiece for the mullahs, calls Carla Bruni and Isabelle Adjani prostitutes.

Kayhan (which means ‘Universe’ in English), the Iranian daily newspaper which acts as a mouthpiece for the country’s regime, has now accused 42-year-old Ms Bruni-Sarkozy of being a hypocrite.

An editorial in the paper points to her chequered love life, which has included numerous relationships with high-profile celebrities. Entitled ‘French prostitutes join the human rights protest,’ the article singles out Ms Bruni-Sarkozy and Isabelle Adjani, the French actress and friend of the First Lady who is also calling for Sakineh’s release. Kayhan aims to ‘defend the ideology of the Islamic Revolution’ and is directly under the supervision of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s government.

For anyone not familiar with the code, this is to say Carla Bruni and Isabelle Adjani should also be put to death by stoning. Such is the fate of prostitutes and hypocrites under an Islamic conception of human rights.

Take away observation: If anyone does anything to stop Iran going nuclear, Canadians will take to the streets to protest in their thousands.

Because the Left hates women.

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Pat Condell: Bad faith at Ground Zero

This is his best rant to date; I'd quote it but I would have to quote the whole thing. Testify!

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An Alfred Hitchcock documentary on the Nazi Holocaust

An Alfred Hitchcock documentary on the Nazi Holocaust.

a film the British Government deemed too grisly for release after World War II - has received its public debut on British television. Fifteen minutes of the black-and- white film, which was shot by the armed forces after the war, were televised Tuesday night by the Independent Television News.

Thousands of Germans were forced to witness the work of the death camps. These days the Left would say that was the real war crime.

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Yaakov Shapiro: Main Tatnz Klarinet

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August 29, 2010

Fix the problem, not the blame

A handful of crazies planning murder has always been normal; these days they tend to be Muslim but there have been times and places - recently - when we would expect them to be Catholic or Protestant or Anarchist or whathaveyou.

No one was surprised by this week's news. Nobody's view of Muslims has changed. We know what to expect. We already have all the information, all the examples, we need to have formed an educated opinion on the subject of Islam.

But without a word of condemnation raised for the ideology inspiring the would be massacre, the media and our Establishment betters from the Prime Minister on down rushed to calm a Canadian public supposed to be on the brink of unrest and revenge.

It is absurd. Insulting.

The only backlash from this latest abortive atrocity will not be in reaction to the Muslims plotting the bombings; it will be in reaction to the Muslims making excuses for it. Still more so against the dhimmis in politics and the press who don't need an excuse to scrape the ground and present their asses for inspection.

I feel nothing but a tired disgust for the jihadis. But I feel a burning hatred and contempt for the men who sympathize them without so much as a twisted faith as justification.

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A word from the faithless and accursed

PressTV/Mouth of Sauron: Amnesty International rebukes Canada's human rights violations, i.e. defunding NGOs like Amnesty International.

Amnesty International's new secretary general has sharply criticized the Canadian government for its "serious" human rights violations. Salil Shetty told the CIVICUS World Assembly on Citizen Participation on Monday that Amnesty International is increasingly concerned "about the serious worsening" of Canada's human rights approach.

"There is a real shrinking of democratic spaces in this country... Many organizations have lost their funding for raising inconvenient questions," AFP quoted Shetty as saying.

Also, something about boy band member Omar Khadr.

In related news: Salil Shetty needs a swift kick in the nuts.

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John Weaver: The Black-Robed Regiment

John Weaver preaches on The Black-Robed Regiment, telling the stories of early American pastors who fought in the first war for American Independence. This was part of a series of special meetings attended by members of Christian Exodus at the South Pointe Baptist Church in Pelzer, South Carolina 3/2007.

Related: David Barton interviewed by Glenn Beck about the Black Robe Brigade.

BARTON: The Black Brigade or Black Regiment were the preachers, because they wore black robes. Black preachers, white preachers — they all wore black probes. And the British specifically blamed the preachers for the American Revolution. That's where the title "Black Regiment" came from. One of the British officials talked about that.

It's interesting that the British so hated what the preachers — they claim if it hadn't been for the preachers, America would still be a happy British colony. So they blamed it on the preachers.

When they come to America, they start to decimating churches. They went to New York City. Nineteen churches — they burned 10 to the ground. They went across Virginia burning churches. They went across New Jersey burning churches. Because they blamed these preachers.

Restoring Honor: Victoria Nikolov yesterday in Washington, D.C.

Speaking with Haaretz, an Israeli newspaper, the participants made sure to stress how angry they were with Obama's policy regarding Israel.

"He [Obama] will get Israel nuked," said 61-year-old Victoria Nikolov from New York, who had left home at 1 a.m. in order to make it to the rally on time. "He's not doing anything to prevent [Iran from developing nuclear weapons]. I came here to protect you, even though I'm not Jewish, and to restore the constitutional republic to this country."

"I've done my research, I've read both his books" she continued. "I am confident that if he had to choose between America and Islam, he’d choose Islam. But I am afraid he might stay president, because he has the support of the press, and when the press supports a president, the people just don’t get the truth."

"We are inch away from socialism. I think African Americans could make great presidents – just other people, like Condoleezza Rice or Walter Williams," she went on to say.

Glenn Beck: This is a work of generations.

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Hayley Westenra: Wuthering Heights

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August 28, 2010

David Beamer condemns the Obama Mosque at Ground Zero

Plain speaking. The mosque is a thirteen-story finger to all of us.

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And the Khurram Sher Award goes to...

Is Islam to blame for terrorist ideology? Or does the blame lie with the homegrown terror that is...

... hockey!

Terror suspects Misbahuddin Ahmed and Khurram Sher were arrested in Ottawa and London, Ont., this week in an alleged plot to bomb Canadian targets, but their origins can be traced to the Montreal area where they worshipped together and worked in the health-care field.

Both attended the same south shore mosque in Brossard, south of Montreal. They worked at Montreal hospitals, Sher as a pathologist and Ahmed as an x-ray technician. They even played on the same Muslim ball-hockey team.

Now that we know, the whole mosque thing seems incidental. Stephen Harper (PC be upon him) told us and it is so.

Speaking of the Muslim Ball Hockey League: This year's winner for the Khurram Sher Award for Scoring Leader - "given to the most offensively-inclined player in the league"... Shujaat Wasty!

There's something for the resume.

Where credit is due: Here's a screen capture of the Muslim Ball Hockey League Awards page in case anyone suddenly becomes coy about their sporting success.

Update: Blazing Cat Fur has a summary and timeline of events in the RS Foundation/Blood Libel Mastercard/Ottawa al Qaeda terror cell story.

This includes all the big dogs that didn't bark, our utterly silent - but for the cheers - Establishment media: "How much smoke does there have to be before someone decides to see if there's a fire?"

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Adapt or die

Vive la France.

Un: Nicolas Sarkozy to foreign-born French: Target police and lose your citizenship.

A sweeping and blunt proposal by French President Nicolas Sarkozy to strip French citizenship from persons of foreign origin who endanger police is bringing storms of protest by minority groups and the opposition who accuse the president of a new low in playing the race and ethnic card to appeal to the French far right.

Because minority groups always protest in the streets to defend their right to target police.

Deux: French proposal would strip naturalized citizens of nationality if convicted of serious crimes.

France's immigration minister says he's amending a bill to allow the government to strip naturalized French citizens of their nationality if they commit crimes punishable by five or more years in prison.

Eric Besson says he will also propose that repeat offenders born in France to foreign parents could be denied French citizenship.

Trois: France's crackdown on Romas continues, hundreds deported.

France today deported hundreds more Roma in defiance of growing domestic and international criticism of its crackdown on travelling minorities. Two specially chartered planes carrying Roma men, women and children left Paris's Charles de Gaulle airport and Lyon in east-central France and touched down in Bucharest mid-afternoon. "The police told us we could choose between leaving now, on our own accord, or be expelled by force later," said one young Roma man, who declined to be identified. "So we agreed to leave."

"Travelling minorities" should win a Marxist euphemism award of some kind. Then the writer should be shot dead.

Khat: Foreign-born polygamists to be stripped of French citizenship.

President Nicolas Sarkozy and his cabinet will meet next week to discuss how stripping citizenship from foreign-born nationals who practise polygamy and female genital mutilation. According to press reports, Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux will also propose withdrawing all welfare benefits from men who have more than one wife.

If England or America had done any of this, the Left would have an embolism. Which would be a plus.

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I even seen me a shark eat an octopus

An upgraded Akula hunter-killer* submarine has reportedly been stalking a Vanguard SSBN ("boomer" to the Yanks, "bomber" to the Brits) in the North Atlantic in an attempt to record its acoustic signature.

Navy commanders are understood to have ordered a Trafalgar-class hunter-killer submarine to protect the Vanguard. A recording of the Akula was made by the Trafalgar submarine's sonar operators and has been played to The Daily Telegraph.

"The Russians have been playing games with us, the Americans and French in the North Atlantic," a senior Navy commander said.

Not a problem. Give it a few years and there won't be a Royal Navy left for the Russians to play tag with.

* This is a NATO designation. Somewhat confusingly, the Russian's call their big bastard Typhoon SSBNs "Akula".

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Cry me a river

Medieval barbarians have difficulty coping with nature.

Rest of world supposed to care.

Stop me if you have heard this over and over again.

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Tommy Robinson: A Chat Before We Go To Bradford

Via Gates of Vienna, where Baron Bodissey comments.

Interviewer: Most media outlets label the EDL as Nazi, racist or Islamophobic. Do you agree with this and if not, why not?

Tommy Robinson: "It's comical and the first time I realized, as I said, with a media outlet when our Birmingham demonstration, when the Muslims charged through the streets and jumped on people's heads, there was a picture in the Daily Mail - I still can't believe it - there was a picture and the Daily Mail and there is a fellow in a green top, and he is quite a studently looking, quite geeky geezer. And he's on the floor and there's about seven Asian lads, Muslim lads, jumping on his head. And underneath the picture it said 'A fascist is attacked by anti-fascists'. And that's when I sat there and thought 'Oh my God, what are we up against? Is this for real?' An innocent young lad at a bus stop has been viciously beaten because of the colour of his skin by religious nutcases and he's called a fascist and they are called anti-fascists."

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Aleister Crowley: Vive la France!

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August 27, 2010

And then there were eight

There are now eight persons of interest (video at the link) connected to Project Samossa, a Canadian security services investigation into an alleged al Qaeda terror cell centred in Ottawa (hat tip to Blazing Cat Fur, who is doing God's work).

As to the details, salt to taste.

Michel Juneau-Katsuya, a former senior CSIS counter-terrorism agent and one-time RCMP security service officer, said a source close to the investigation has told him at least one suspect, the alleged ringleader, used Ottawa Public Library computers to communicate with other members of the Ottawa-based cell.

"He was trying to avoid detection and surveillance," Juneau-Katsuya said. "They wanted to hit Parliament Hill and there was discussion of going against public transportation in Montreal . . . (and) they were not excluding the possibility to some major (Ottawa transit) hubs."
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Poignant for Ramadan

We have been on the Blood Libel Mastercard story for a month now. Yet here is the only mention of the RS Foundation to be found in the mainstream media until about 22 hours ago.

It is a puff piece, the standard MSM boilerplate on Muslim charities.

We told them. They did not want to listen. And, as of now, they still aren't listening.

In Montreal, various volunteer groups rolled up their sleeves to participate in flood relief efforts, particularly poignant during Ramadan, a month when Muslims aim to offer good deeds and charity.

The RS Foundation, which aims to eradicate poverty, provided contributions.

"Every year we have a dinner during Ramadan, and this year, we'll be donating a major portion of what we collect to flood relief in Pakistan," said RS Foundation volunteer Shujaat Wasty.

Volunteer... Truther... It's all the same to CTV.

Exit observation: So far, this same puff piece is the only time Shujaat Wasty's name appears in any news source searched by Google News. He is still the Director of the RS Foundation, he still blamed Israel for 9/11 and Mastercard is still happy to do business with him.

Whatever happens next won't be down to the Fifth Estate.

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Ground Zero Mosque "moderates"

Obama Mosque "moderate" Muslims say gays and lesbians should be killed (via Darth Odie).

These are the allies of the Left. These are the allies of the NDP.

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