As usual most of the world shows such a blatant double standard with respect to Israel and frankly, everyone else that we tend not to even notice it and on occasion, like Hitler’s ‘big lie’ tend to think there must be something to it for so many to buy into it. In a way I suppose there is. Oil money and fear of terrorism by immigrants to western nations. But here are a few links which offer some clear as day thought on the matter. Of course, when the UN passed a resolution against Israel as the worlds worst actor in terms of women’s rights it was so laughable that most ignored it. But now we are down to the existential.

First, from www.thereligionofpeace.com 9 questions that should be answered before anyone can criticize the Israeli actions in Gaza. I could add quite a few myself but this is a nice list.

Next an op ed from the National Post on same subject. Pithy and spot on. It’s not that this is profound or hugely insightful. It’s that a Canadian national newspaper has the courage to make a clear moral stand. I wonder if we could find this in a British major paper or any other European one. It is worth reading even if most of us already know these facts.

As an aside,
there was an attack on an American Jewish center. I doubt this will be an isolated event. Look for more in Montreal.

Meanwhile the religion of peace advances it’s cause for world domination while nobody much notices.

The Swat Valley in Pakistan has been pretty much taken over by Taliban/Al Queda. A close look at a map and some thinking about US Canadian operations in Afghanistan plus rapidly rising tensions between nuclear neighbors Pakistan and India will show why this story deserves attention. Pakistan is losing a lot of territory to the Islamists. They are moving troops away from the allied areas and re enforcing borders with India. This creates opportunity for Islamist expansion on that front. I recently spent close to a hundred dollars I really do not have to buy a decent world map. It may have been the worlds first sub prime map loan actually. Who knew in high school physical geography would actually matter.

Also Stratfor reports more deadly mortar attacks by Islamist forces in Somalia killing ten people today alone. The amusingly named MILF continues to attack bomb and spread hatred and fear in the Philippines and the western media either ignores it or claims its a separatist group. It is not. It is a group of Islamic supremacy.

This article about Russia’s approach to Islam is quite good as well. It explains the little known use by Russia of Islamic proxy’s. The US likely did this as well during the cold war. Chechen’s where most likely funded by the US to annoy and distract resources of the Soviets during the cold war and we all know about Afghanistan and the Mujahadeen proxies for the US. However what should be evident by now to all of us is that this backfires. Not just sometimes but all the time to most of the world. Even Pakistan and Iran have used Islam as the tie that binds disparate tribes to try and create a national identity. We see how well that works in both places. Well, I suppose in a way you can say it does.

Here is an article albeit an older one from Jeff Jacoby at the Boston Globe on UN hypocrisy with respect to Israel. Lots of links as well and a good read. Perhaps the fact that this was written before even rumors of a retaliatory strike on Gaza makes it more meaningful.

This to paraphrase Dr. Wafa Sultan, is not a war of civilizations. Civilizations compete. This is a war of civilization against barbarism.

James Cohen for Girl on the right.

Here is a nice little clip of the Israeli Air Force taking out a number of Hamas trucks full of rockets. Quite satisfying to see even if I had hoped never to hear that song again. Even so it’s kind of funny. Good quote from the bard as well.

“Beware Of entrance to a quarrel, but being in, Bear’t that the opposed may beware of thee’

December 17, 2008 | Khaled Abu Toameh
PA Tortures Journalists

“This is not Israel, where you are allowed to see a lawyer.”

Over the past two years Palestinian journalists in the West Bank and Gaza Strip have been subjected to a systematic campaign of intimidation that has resulted in the death of some and the detention of others.

The campaign, which is being waged by both Hamas and Fatah, has received almost no attention from human rights groups and advocates of the freedom of expression throughout the world.

By contrast, when a Palestinian journalist is accidentally wounded by Israeli gunfire during clashes with Palestinians, the incident makes headlines in major media outlets in the US and EU.

What is most disturbing about the campaign of intimidation is the fact that it’s being spearheaded by the Palestinian Authority of Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank. This is the same authority that is receiving hundreds of millions of dollars from American and European taxpayers’ money every month to build a proper judicial system and promote democracy and transparency among the Palestinians.

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This fellow had better of used a silencer or he is one big assed hypocrite.

From Fox News

PHILADELPHIA — A family talking during a movie enraged a nearby viewer so badly that he shot the father in the arm, MyFoxPhiladelphia reports.

Philadelphia police say James Joseph Cialella Jr, 29, shot the man after a brief altercation inside the Riverview Movie Theatre.

The victim suffered a gunshot wound to his left arm.

Cialella was still inside the theater when police arrived. He was found with a black Kel-Tec .380 handgun on the front of his waist.

Police arrested and charged him with attempted murder, aggravated assault, violation of uniform firearms act, possession of an instrument of a crime, simple assault and recklessly endangering another person.

This is a more difficult post to write than the last one. This one means a wake up for me and many others who so far have managed to treat world events as academic. The realm of debate and moral and ethical games.

Israel has retaliated against Gaza by air strikes against military targets and limiting civilian damage to the best of its capabilities. Many posts will argue the rights and wrongs of it so no need for more of that here. I’m sure the vast vast majority have already made up their minds as to who is right and wrong and why.

I am writing on another aspect. Strategy and outcome.

So far, Islamist forces world wide (and Gaza is no exception) have overwhelmingly chosen to go after the softest targets possible and the ones which would garner the most outrage and horror. It is not at all unusual for example, for a Palestinian receiving free and excellent medical care in Israel to return to the hospital wrapped in explosives with hopes of murdering the very doctors nurses and destruction of the facilities which had treated her. We also have seen attacks going back decades in Argentina, France, and recently Bombay targeting Jews with no strategic value whatsoever but because they are Jews. More recently, The UK, Germany Scandinavia and frankly much of Europe where Muslims are moving in large numbers in the past year has seen anti semitic violent attacks grow.

Hamas will ‘retaliate’ (I put retaliate of course in quotes as the Israeli action was in fact retaliation for over 800 rockets fired at Israeli civilians over the past few years most of which was during an agreed ‘cease fire’) as will Hizbolah, Al Queda/Taliban and any number of Islamic groups which as usual will create a new name for themselves for each attack by targeting easy to access unsuspecting targets of Jews. It could as easily be Ottawa as Bombay or Pembrook Ontario as London England or Ipswich Mass. as easily as Madrid Spain. The only thing these attacks will have in common, will be that it is against Jewish people.

If you live as a Jew in most western nations, it is against the law to arm yourself. not just for jews of course but for all. The police or more likely politicians would prefer you get killed cleanly and quickly then get the police and ambulance to the scene so City councils can show how efficient they are. Outside of small pockets of the USA where there is still some sense of individual right to life and self defense this is the norm. However given the history of Islamic terrorist movements and the ascendancy of same, the moral relativism of the modern left who dominate the civil service of most western nations and the consequent ethical ambiguousness which has made terrorists the victims and victims the aggressors, Jewish people may want to start thinking about their own security. Predicting the future at some levels is imposable. At others is as easy as looking at the past.

Let’s have a look at what the official reaction has been from various bodies in order to better understand how officialdom may react to the deaths of Jews by Muslim attackers in their own cities and nations.

Here I borrow heavily from the excellent site, The Gates of Vienna…

Spokesman For Ban Ki-Moon, UN Secretary General

“The secretary general is deeply alarmed by today’s heavy violence and bloodshed in Gaza, and the continuation of violence in southern Israel.

“[He] appeals for an immediate halt to all violence [and reiterates] previous calls for humanitarian supplies to be allowed into Gaza to aid the distressed civilian population.”

Gordon Johndroe, White House Spokesman

“Hamas’ continued rocket attacks into Israel must cease if the violence is to stop. Hamas must end its terrorist activities if it wishes to play a role in the future of the Palestinian people.

“The United States urges Israel to avoid civilian casualties as it targets Hamas in Gaza.”

Spokesman For Javier Solana, EU Foreign Policy Chief

“We are very concerned at the events in Gaza. We call for an immediate ceasefire and urge everybody to exert maximum restraint.”

British Foreign Office Statement

“The only way to achieve lasting peace in Gaza is through peaceful means. Whilst we understand the Israeli government’s obligation to protect its population we urge maximum restraint to avoid further civilian casualties.

“We also call on militants in the Gaza Strip to immediately cease all rocket attacks on Israel.”

Russian Foreign Ministry Statement

“Moscow considers it necessary to stop large-scale military action against Gaza, which has already led to major casualties and suffering among the civilian Palestinian population.

“At the same time, we call on the Hamas leadership to stop shelling Israeli territory.”

Amr Moussa, Arab League Secretary General

“We are facing a continuing spectacle which has been carefully planned. So we have to expect that there will be many casualties. We face a major humanitarian catastrophe.”

Syrian Foreign Ministry Statement

“Syria is following with great anxiety the barbaric Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people in Gaza… a horrific crime and terrorist act.

[…]

“Syria as president of the Arab League calls on Arab leaders to hold an emergency summit to assess the dangerous situation in Gaza.”

Hasan Qashqavi, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman

“Iran strongly condemns the Zionist regime’s wide-ranging attacks against the civilians in Gaza.

“The raids against innocent people are unforgivable and unacceptable.”

And the most useless and mealy-mouthed reaction of all comes from — surprise! — the Vatican:

Rev Federico Lombardi, Vatican Spokesman

“Hamas is a prisoner to a logic of hate, Israel to a logic of faith in force as the best response to hate.

“One must continue to search for a different way out, even if that may seem impossible.”

So from this we get a fairly clear idea how our leaders will react to terrorist attacks against Jewish targets. A few words careful not to offend Islamic terrorists. Hence the responsibility ends where it should begin. In the hands of each individual Jewish person to decide how exactly they should protect themselves. The state will not be able to do it nor has the will.

Perhaps the radical sounding words of the founder of the JDL, Rabbi Meir David Kahane don’t sound so radical now. “Every Jew a .22″.

Frankly, I think a .45 would make a lot more sense.

I have been planning this post since Wendy pointed me at the story. It has taken me all day to manage to format it my head in such a manner that I can get it down. I feel this aspect, this slice of time in terms of the events in Bombay India reveals such malice and horror, not just of deed but of agenda and thought that it requires me to once again desensitize myself beyond even what someone who writes daily on the atrocities of Muslims in the name of Islam do around the world on a daily basis.

Let’s start with what we all know. A group of well trained and well equipped Muslim terrorists from a few nations launched an operation out of Pakistan with the intention of murdering five thousand people. They fell short of that mark but that was the plan. They had prepared for this for some time in advance using a plan loosely based on a shelved one intended for use in New York called ‘Landmarks’, an Al Queada plan intended to wreak havoc and based on a design by Ramsey Yussef, the man who was the central figure of the first attack on New York’s WTC. (For more on Landmark’s, its specifics and details please click here)

We also all know that a Jewish community center was one of the targets of this operation. The idea was to kill jews. It should be noted that this building had no markings of a Jewish center. That it was far away from the other targets and that it had little or no strategic value but did require a significant percentage of the total resources available to the terrorist group to be used for this purpose. Had they not done this, and remember this was a very carefully planned and rehearsed operation, they would have inflicted a great deal more death and misery on the people of Bombay. Many of us, myself included perhaps may try and mitigate this as being some kind of act based on the existence of Israel or some kind of show of Palestinian sympathy. For a few reasons this is nonsense of course. Hatred and killing of Jews go back to Mohamed and these kinds of acts predate the existence of Israel by centuries.

What makes this so difficult to write, is the facts of how the Jews in that building where treated before they where killed. A couple of weeks ago I read an interview with the coroner who did the autopsies on these people and are the state coroners for terrorist attacks in India. From that page,

Asked specifically if he was talking of torture marks, he said: “It was apparent that most of the dead were tortured. What shocked me were the telltale signs showing clearly how the hostages were executed in cold blood,” one doctor said.

The other doctor, who had also conducted the post-mortem of the victims, said: “Of all the bodies, the Israeli victims bore the maximum torture marks. It was clear that they were killed on the 26th itself. It was obvious that they were tied up and tortured before they were killed. It was so bad that I do not want to go over the details even in my head again,” he said.

I read this at the time and kind of dismissed it. Yes there was some shock value in the idea that a seasoned coroner who routinely (that itself is unfortunate) autopsied the bodies of terror victims found this particular incident and victims too horrifying to think about or describe. He objected to discussing it as that would make him have to think of it and he wasn’t prepared to do that.

Then today a photo of the victims with some description of what had been done to them was released. a blurred out one which itself is alarming in as much as today we are all so used to seeing image of violence that would have never made mass media in say, the 1980s or before. This one was so awful that they blurred most of it out. That the Jewish victims, preselected as such with great planning and expense, had been sexually tortured mutilated and humiliated.

Whats my point? That they felt the cost of this action was justified. This wasn’t a few guys on a private plan but this WAS the official plan. This was the intended effect. No politics, no demands, no leverage or bargaining but the sheer desire to torture humiliate and kill jews in ways that would defy the healthy imagination. Below I include that fuzzy picture and a link to some of the descriptions.

I suppose at this point I should advocate for something. An appeal to gods or a demand for state action. I do think any Jew alive today who does not own or have access to a firearm is self deluded but even that won’t help much.

Mumbai Jewish center

If you can manage it, go to the link for the description of what happened to these people.

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James Cohen for Girl on the Right

Thanks to Fred Litwin for sending me this link. Some clear perspective on the double standard Israel faces from most of the world.

From Family Security Matters Org. Mark Silverberg

I was asked recently to explain why Israel was “ghettoizing” the Palestinians by constructing a security barrier in areas that have served as transit points for terrorists entering the country. The questioner noted that, as a Jew, I should be more sensitive to the concept of a ghetto, and its dehumanizing effects on human beings. I responded that the security barrier was neither built for reasons of discrimination nor motivated by racism, but as a deterrent to protect the lives of Israelis from Palestinian suicide bombers and, in fact, it has, to a great extent, accomplished its purpose.
But the suggestion that Israel may have had racist motivations in constructing the barrier disturbed me because it seems to be a recurring theme among major international bodies. I asked the questioner why she had decided to sort Israel out for “special treatment?” After all, the security barrier that Israel has constructed to keep Palestinian suicide bombers out of its country is not unlike the security barrier constructed by the Saudis to keep the Yemeni jihadists out of their country; or the one that India has constructed along its borders with Pakistan, Kashmir and Bangladesh for the same reason;or the one that the Thais have constructed to keep the Malaysian jihadists out of their country, or the one that the U.S. is constructing to keep Mexican illegals out of our country……although I couldn’t recall the last time a Mexican self-detonated in Albuquerque, or fired missiles into Dallas or Houston.

For the rest of this excellent post with a lot of irrefutable examples of the way Israel is not treated in any manner as are the rest of the nations in the world please go to this link and read the rest of this article.

Before I post the article it might be worth mentioning a few things as preface to those not as obsessed as I on watching groups like Taliban etc. The Taliban have had a campaign on as long as they have existed to maintain the Islamic idea that women should never be taught anything other than Koran and have in fact already blown up a large number of schools which dared teach females. As recently the Taliban issued a warning about the non playing or performing of music and shortly thereafter murdered 7 musicians, this is no idle threat. They have already murdered women who go to schools as we have seen also in Algeria and other nations under siege by Islamics or in already Islamic states. For those of you interested in the subject of women and Islam here is a truly excellent video by women who are dealing with the subject.

The video linked to above contains no graphic images whatsoever. It is just a set of short speeches by various activists including the most excellent Dr. Wafa Sultan. However I find it very disturbing and difficult to watch because of the information revealed so be warned. This video about women in Afghanistan however does contain graphic images. Also I have talked with a number of soldiers who have done tours in Afghanistan and I can assure all of you what is revealed in these two videos falls far far short of the horrors done to people in general by Taliban and women in particular. Most of what was reported to me, was beyond my own imagination for cruelty.

James Cohen

Taliban threaten to kill Pakistani schoolgirls: Officials

ISLAMABAD:Taliban extremists in Pakistan’s troubled northwest Swat valley have banned girls from attending school, threatening to kill any female students, officials said Thursday.

The threat was delivered this week by local Taliban commander Shah Durran in an address carried on an illegally-run radio station in the area, local officials told AFP.

“You have until January 15 to stop sending your girls to schools. If you do not pay any heed to this warning, we will kill such girls,” one official quoted the commander as saying.

“We also warn schools not to enrol any female students; otherwise, their buildings will be blown up.”

The mountainous Swat valley was until last year a popular tourist destination featuring Pakistan’s only ski resort.

But the region has been turned into a battleground since radical cleric Maulana Fazlullah, who has links to Pakistan’s Taliban movement, launched a violent campaign for the introduction of Islamic Sharia law in the valley.

Durran said local Taliban leaders were determined not to allow girls to attend school, saying: “We want to enforce the true Sharia in the area — for this, we are fighting and laying down our lives.”

Swat residents said Taliban fighters had already destroyed scores of government-run schools, leading some to set up private schools in their homes to educate girls.

An official at the Pakistani education ministry said there are about 1,580 schools registered in Swat — once known for its top-flight schools.

But the official, Naeem Khan, said: “Already Taliban militants have destroyed 252 schools, mainly those where girls and boys were studying together.”

Education has suffered badly in Swat as a result of the ongoing fighting between Taliban-linked militants and security forces, with only a handful of schools still open in the region’s main city Mingora, Khan said.

The government had reached a deal with the rebels in May to gradually pull out troops and introduce an Islamic justice system in exchange for an end to rebel attacks, but the violence eventually resumed.

Looking back over the past year there are two men who have been made into myths by the general public and I thought I would take a moment and talk about them. The first is the Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama. Now I have met this man at a cathedral in Ottawa some years ago and perhaps more importantly I studied this style of meditation for years with some really good teachers and have done retreats with some masters of this kind of discipline. So you can imagine my gorge rising when I was stuck on a bus for two and a half hours with a bunch of idiots clogging traffic to get to see him at Ottawa’s Civic Center on Bank street having remade him into their image. The Hippie King.

If you actually read his stuff or listen to what the man says, he does not diverge wildly from the pope on the usual issues of greatest concern to the western post hippie bureaucrat class. He is anti homosexuality, not for free love of any kind, socially conservative and believes in self sacrifice and discipline. But to these bozo’s he was the hippie king. A kind of socialist guru. As usual, they confused their religion or lack thereof, with his. That day I was over an hour late for work and the bus moved so slowly down bank street clogged with people anxious to get a look at the god they created that a couple of times, I got off the bus and had a liesurly smoke as I walked to the next bus stop and got back on the same one. Good thing I kept my transfer. I suppose whats consistent about these two cases and so many more is the aspect of projection. People just want to imbue their own beliefs on someone else and worship them. This if for no other reason might be a good reason to appreciate Jesus. He must have been so damn annoyed on that cross.

The second is Barry Obama. Now understand that for eight years when the irrational left would foam rabidly about Bush I would patiently argue the points and try and talk people down from the overdose of sanctimony they had taken. Usually this would be after hours days or weeks of research on the issues on the table to see if there was any merit to them at all. I had to become a relative expert on a number of subjects of little to no interest to me but they had become rallying points for angry hate filled people who, like the ones worshiping the Dalai Lama for things he is not, loathed G.W. Bush for things he never did or said. It was anoying on so many levels. One of the more trivial ones is that I never got the chance to actually make any attacks of my own to US policy or GWB because I had to spend my time defending both the US and Bush for things they where being accused of which had no basis in reality at all. I suppose my favorote memory of this is when i was having lunch with a couple I know and some of their friends. A women I had never met before was accross from me on a patio on a magnificent summer day and out of the blue she said “Everyone hates George Bush” and all I said was, “I don’t hate him” and she blew a freaking gasket at me. She was furious with me for failing to hate someone she hated. This is the kinder gentler left and she was a doctor for the Canadian military for Thor’s sake. This brings me to Obama who I call ‘Bush Dark’. Now understand that I worked as hard as I could to advise my American friends to vote GOP to the extent a Canadian can without being a complete toadstool. But shortly after Obama won the election I noticed a few things. Even before taking office he was dealing with reality. He has identical positions on important foreign policies as Bush does, he did not take the bait from Iran, most of his pre election leftist noise was just that (so far) He is talking tough with Pakistan and seems to be a good friend of Israel. So far, he is Bush dark and I think he may be even more effective than Bush by the Vulcan principle. You know the idea, to quote the Venerable Spock “It takes a Nixon to go to China” it takes someone perceived as a soft touch to be able to send the thunder down without Code Pink having collective apoplexy. I do recall a certain Bill Clinton managing to bomb the snot out of Belgrade without accusations of ‘Bill lied people died’ and other such hyperbole. There are still troops there in the Balkans I believe. No protests though to bring them home. So maybe Bush dark is the guy to get the job done without so much domestic interference.

What was interesting is the exact same people who used to love me as their mouthpiece when it came to dealing with what we have lovingly called those with “Bush derangement syndrome” loath me now when I point out actual facts about Obama that seem to show a man who is dealing with reality (so far) and perhaps more discouragingly, the same people who enjoyed it when I took apart irrational and untrue accusations against Bush now make similar irrational accusations against Barry.

I guess people really don’t care about the player so much as the jersey he is wearing. Even when he is on your team.

James Cohen

[As an aside, one day I got so frustrated with Bush critics that I decided I was going to send George a gift. So I mailed him a copy of my newest CD and a nice letter complimenting him on how he had IMO done a good job in what was likely the most difficult administration since Abe Lincoln. The white house was thoughtful enough to send me back this letter which I framed and mounted on the wall.]

I could add a lot to this list. Hell in Canada we ban a lot more and ban discussing it sometimes. So most of us don’t even know that circus’s are banned for instance, in the city of Ottawa Ontario. Thats just for openers.

Spare a thought for our boys serving in the Sandbox this Christmas.

God Bless all of you, my readers, for riding out this terrible year with me, and for extending a helping hand when I needed one so badly. The next one will be better. And thanks to James for guest blogging while I take this much needed break!

Merry Christmas everyone! Love and lascivious kisses,

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This week’s edition includes a bonus Christmas story you can share with the whole family, narrated by Wendy with sound design by Mike.

Have a blessed Christmas from the both of us at Brass Balls Radio.

This is a great interview I found over on The Redwing Report

Head on over to read the whole thing. It’s short but to the point and quite refreshing if you have grown up to 50 years of a whining Quebec.

… Canada, he said, “doesn’t need (its) domestic and foreign policies (to be decided) by a beggar province. Not to mention that Canada’s official bilingualism policies discriminate against … 97% of English-speaking Canadians … outside Quebec .”

We are of course at the end of the year and thoughts and wishes turn to 2009 and what that year will be like for each of us. Most thoughts of course are naturally personal. Happiness love and prosperity. For many of us, its political. What will the environment be like in the western world. I’m going to guess most readers of this blog already recognize there are problems with western liberal democracy. Massive ones. Earth shaking ones as the experiment in equality and freedom fails. I’m going to guess that few know what to do about it as our politicians over all seem more worried about the illusion of stability rather than the true maintenance of liberalism as Thomas Jefferson saw it.

I believe right to my heart and bones that the only thing that can be done is in fact individual acts of defiance. But defiance of what? Of ill^liberalism. Of imposed tyranny by the intolerant left, Islam, all who would tell us what we are allowed to say think wear and do.

History has a few consistent messages for us. When we submit to tyranny more will follow. Even when its something benign and seemingly for the public good such as no smoking sections in bars and restaurants by legislation which violates larger principles of freedom of property and individual rights it leads to absurd laws such as we have for patio’s now where any outdoor patio which has any degree of fixed cover or even too many umbrellas may not allow patrons to have a cigarette and a beer in the same place.

I ask you especially who despise cigarettes and ask yourselves if this loss of freedom is worth it to you.

When Ezra Levant and the Western standard were taken to the Human rights courts for 900 days of investigations and what would amount to about 5 years salary for me in costs to defend himself from accusations of racism for publishing the Danish cartoons, the center of a storm which was the largest news story on planet earth for months, one has to ask what the cost to all of us was for the submission by everyone else to not publish.

Once we agree to not say or do anything that might offend Muslims we are in fact living as second class citizens or ‘Dhimmis’ under a form of proxy sharia law. In this spirit I ask you for your defiance. The T shirts available here are a great statement. but not the only one possible. The distinction between deliberate offense of a religion for its own sake such as the ‘art’ piece which was proudly displayed at the National Gallery of Canada, ‘The Piss Christ’ which was merely a Catholic crucifix in a jar of urine was celebrated by the art world. The art world needs to know that under Islam art is forbidden altogether short of a few decorative lines on clay pots.

Additionally, most modern thinkers would have us believe that daring to confront the religious authority, any religious authority would be the work of the artist, the consummate renegade, the social malcontent or the plainly retarded. But defiance at it’s best is the domain of all thinking men and women; those whose refusal to submit to the workings of irrational codes of conduct ensures the natural progression of the creative, human mind. It was no coincidence that Hitler’s regime sought out first and foremost to capture and destroy artists; Pol Pot was no different in his culling and extermination of the most dangerous minds to him and the Iranian regime first murdered over one hundred thousand people in the arts, the very people the Ayatollah used to overthrow the Shaw and install the Islamic regime in Iran. But the artists now here as then are merely the useful idiots for the new tyrants of political correctness and ironically Islam.

So wear a T shirt which shows non submission. With an image of Mohamed or whatever. Maybe showing the stone Buddhas that the Taliban destroyed as a signal to the world. Collectors offered to buy the statues at the time and move them but the Taliban wanted to be clear that Islam would not tolerate images of other faiths nor even any image of something god made as they see it to merely exist . No images of people or animals as we see in Bangladesh where Muslims are busy destroying works of art depicting flocks of birds and frankly of anything at all.

We KNOW what submission brings. More demands for more submission. I ask for defiance. Eat a ham sandwich during Ramadan for lunch. Why is that defiant? In England governments are being asked not to serve food at all during daylight hours in meetings of city council so as not to ‘offend’ the muslims there.

What we in Canada especially consider an opportunity to be polite and show kindness by adjusting to the sensitivities of others no matter how irrational has become in fact the first step to actually mandating these acts of submission. They are simply no longer acts of kindness when they are forced.

This may be a good time to remind people how Galileo drew a cartoon of the pope in his courageous book on celestial mechanics for which he was jailed. One could argue that had he not ridiculed the church it may have slowed down the growth of reason in Europe a great deal. It was his willingness to personally sacrifice by ridiculing irrational religious authority that bought us all freedom beyond the understanding of most of humanity for most of our history. To be clear on this, its not merely a right to criticize irrational religious authority, its a duty and even a historical responsibility to do so.

We have become not only good at destroying every taboo in western classical society by questioning it out of existence we have become cynical about them. This as a stand alone thing, not so bad. But add to it a kind of fascination with primitive and barbaric even superstitious cultures and the notion that because we represent our own history as barbaric usually with little or no understanding of it, we somehow think that those culture’s current barbarism is somehow to be expected and accepted. Be warned, we are indeed truly on a precipice to the end of a golden age of liberty and individualism.

Ultimately I would like to extend to all liberals those who agree and those who hate me but choose to answer me by arguing and hopefully changing my mind, my favorite moments are when I am shown to be wrong and accept a new view by reason, a merry Christmas and all the best fruition of your hopes and dreams for the new year. To the irrational and authoritarian left, to those Muslims who believe I have a right to think and live exactly as you do, who would force me to submission of your values like the Human Rights Commission did to Rev. Boission, I offer you scorn. Scorn contempt and defiance.

James Cohen Dec 2008

I’m cleaning out my Google Reader in time for the new year, and this means taking out some wonderful bloggers. You see, I rarely click over to domains anymore - everything feeds in through my reader. And if you don’t publish your full feed, I just don’t read the important words you have to say. So here’s who’s going:

Angela Booth’s Fab Freelance - headline and one sentence is rarely enough to grab me, though she does write catchy headlines
Conservative Examiner - Lord knows I love Kathy, but short feeds irritate me. I shall continue to read her best stuff over at Five Feet
Small Dead Animals - If someone outright recommends one of Kate’s articles, I will click over.
Dr. Dawg - I’m sure he’ll weep over losing me!
Little Miss Attila - There is no good reason she should be using a short feed
Argghhh! - My beloved Kansas host. His short feed doesn’t even indicate who the writer of the post is!
and last but not least:
Michelle Malkin - Michelle even has her feed monetized for ad revenue, but still insists we click to the main site. This is a redundant process.

Call it bitchiness, or call it Web 2.5, but if you won’t accommodate people who use readers regularly, why should we accommodate you?

UPDATE: Thanks to my readers for letting me know that Little Miss Attila and Kate at SDA both have full feeds available!

I know they hate infidels Jews Hindu’s dogs pigs alcohol dancing singing music of any kind or the performance thereof, Christians African Muslims as we see in Sudan but I didn’t realize the religion of peace had a fatwa out on fruit. Here is a story from the A.P. on several major fruit attacks perpetrated it would appear by that unfortunately named MILF. Moro Islamic Liberation Front
Clearly these attacks are meant to destroy any Christmas activities in the majority Catholic country of the Philippines. Islam is warring now for the whole nation not being content with creating a sharia state where most of the Muslims are in Moro.

This does add fuel however to my suspicion that the bombs found this week in a Paris department store where not planted by the religion of peace. My suspicion is that as the dynamite had no detonator attached, there was a warning called in BEFORE the bomb was supposed to go off and there where no follow up attacks to kill first responders that partial bomb was actually planted by leftists and anarchists and not by Muslims despite the demand that French troops be withdrawn from Afghanistan.

Its just not the Muslim M.O. The bomb wasn’t functional, no one was hurt and and there was no attempt to kill the rescue forces after. My money is on leftists and anarchists probably funded out of Moscow as is the tradition now that the proxy wars have begun again. On to the followers of Mohamed and the multiple fruit attacks….

Another bomb found in jittery Philippine city (int. Herald Tribune)

Police defused a powerful bomb hidden inside a papaya fruit that attackers may have intended to detonate Sunday at a Roman Catholic cathedral in a violence-wracked southern Philippine city.

About 100 policemen will be deployed this week to bolster the security of Iligan city amid a security scare that has dampened the usually vibrant Christmas holiday season in the industrial hub of more than 300,000 people, Iligan Mayor Lawrence Cruz said.

“This is a crisis situation,” Cruz told The Associated Press. “We should be at the height of the Christmas rush now but it feels gloomy.”

A bomb fashioned from an 81 mm mortar round and concealed in a papaya fruit was found by scavengers in a vacant lot near a Roman Catholic cathedral in downtown Iligan. Police and army ordnance teams safely defused the bomb, Cruz said.

The would-be bombers may have planned to bring the bomb to the cathedral, which was packed with worshippers, but abandoned it at the lot about two blocks away due to heavy police presence in the church area, police Superintendent Celso Regencia said.

Police also checked an unattended bag, which scared off passers-by in an Iligan public plaza, but found no explosives, Regencia said.

Two nail-laden bombs exploded almost simultaneously Thursday in the baggage counters of two Iligan department stores packed with Christmas shoppers, killing two people and wounding 54 others.

President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo flew to Iligan, about 485 miles (780 kilometers) southeast of Manila, to console the victims Friday and order authorities to hunt down and punish the bombers.

Hours after Arroyo left Iligan, however, a third bomb was found and defused by a fruit stand close to the two stores hit in Thursday’s blasts, police said.

Muslim guerrillas, who resent Iligan officials’ opposition to a plan to annex a part of the city to an expanded Muslim autonomous region, are among the suspects in the bombings, Cruz said.

A closed-circuit television camera at one of the shops targeted Thursday showed two men wearing traditional Muslim garments handing over what appeared to be a bag. Minutes later, an explosion ripped the baggage counter apart, police said.

The bomb attacks have prompted a security alert in metropolitan Manila, where police organized a mock bombing exercise at a crowded commuter train terminal Saturday.

The British Embassy again advised its nationals against traveling to the southern Mindanao region due to terrorism and bomb attacks, citing Thursday’s bombings in Iligan.

Here is a fantastic acticle by Steyn. If I can find it, it would be worth reading next to one I have somewhere about how beurocracy has made development close to imposable in western nations, hog tied with bureaucracy and study groups, the Chinese now can erect a 40 story building before the city of Ottawa can complete an enviornmental impact study for a footbridge over a CANAL. no joke. Here it is from Forbes Magazine. This is serious. We have indulged in the hubris that we will be wealthy no matter what we do for so long we have wallowed in a lot of very bad and expensive ideas. Both articles are well worth the time to read and make a nice compliment to each other. Perhaps Steyn is correct when he speaks of ‘civilizational exhaustion’ in his excellent book America Alone.

Here is the direct link to the Forbes article but you may have to watch an add or two.