President Obama recently bowed to Emperor Akihito in Japan. At this point, one might wonder exactly who is advising Barack Obama, if any one at all. If you will recall, this is the latest in what seems to be a string of inappropriate greetings in international settings by our Commander-in-Chief.

So far to date, Barack Obama has bowed to Saudi King Abdullah, given an exaggerated nod to Queen Elizabeth II, and there has been speculation as to whether or not he has offered a similar gesture to Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

This is troublesome, and embarrassing. Common sense would indicate that it would more than likely be difficult for international leaders to take our president seriously if he is constantly subordinating himself to them. Perception goes a long way on the international stage, and at this juncture, an honest observer of the situation would be hard pressed to find an incident where Obama has projected himself as leader of the free world when he travels abroad, let alone an equal.

For those who would argue that President Obama is trying to “make amends” for some of America’s supposed arrogance of the past, it should be made known that bowing to other leaders is not a traditional form of greeting, particularly in the case of Emperor Akihito. The Emperor is most commonly greeted with a simple handshake.

So, with that in mind, it could be fair to say that what is going on here goes far beyond supposed protocol. This appears to be another whistle-stop in the “Obama Apologizes for America tour”. It doesn’t seem that he has given up on his concept of being a “citizen of the world”, and it looks like he intends to remain in a never ending campaign to be personally adored until the end of his term in office.

Americans thought they had elected a leader. It doesn’t look like that happened. Instead, they got a teenage girl who just transferred to a new school and is desperate to do anything to fit in with the cool kids. However, unlike high school, when President Obama ends up getting stuffed in a locker, America will be the one who feels the pain and humiliation.

If you haven’t listened to Mark Steyn host this week’s Brass Balls Radio (bless his heart for agreeing to do it), click here to get the podcast. Steyn has made a career out of demography and explaining to us how our multi-culti squishyness would one day come back to bite us in the ass.

Well, his favorite hatemonger, Kathy Shaidle, writes further on the subject over at Examiner:

Brienholt notes that Muslim employment discrimination claims increased after the first World Trade Center attacks in 1993. He proposes two theories to explain why: the “Innocent Bystander” theory (Muslims felt distrusted and uncomfortable in American workplaces after both WTC attacks); and the “Political Islam” theory (Muslim activists are exploiting U.S. civil rights laws to push an extremist agenda).

He believes the “Political Islam” theory is the correct one, and that many Muslims are engaged in a non-violent campaign to spread extreme Islam through American workplaces as a sort of “stealth jihad” (to use scholar Robert Spencer’s expression for the phenomenon.)

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Well, we here in the West were warned that this would happen, and we’ve seen it with our own lyin’ eyes time and again, but yet the militant “refugees” continue to flood into our countries. We will pay and pay for perceived insults, and not nearly enough of us (exceptions like Maclean’s Magazine publisher Ken Whyte and free speech mouthpiece Ezra Levant, both here in Canada) are pushing back for fear of being called racists or of offending some oh-so-delicate Muslim sensibility.

You’ve been warned. So now what?

And you can tell by the name he is Ahmish or Menonite or something.

From The Ottawa Citizen

Samuel Nana-Effah said allegations that he digitally penetrated the girl and had her perform oral sex before repeatedly engaging in intercourse with her while she was being babysat by his sister were “lies.”

According to Mr. Nana-Effah, he couldn’t have committed the acts because he would leave his sister’s house within 30 minutes to an hour of getting out of bed to go downtown and sell crack.

Mr. Nana-Effah testified he would typically wake up at 11:30 a.m. or noon and briefly leave his sister’s house to smoke marijuana.

This post from vladtepesblog.com. It really is worth having a good long think about what culture really means. It runs a lot deeper than just what key you play a Beatles tune in. It has more to do with weather or not you get killed for playing music at all than it does if you’re ‘Strat’ is Mexican made or American.
(posted by James Cohen for Right Girl)

More on Islam and the arts. Taliban murders musicians for making music
By Eeyore | December 15, 2008

I have done several articles recently detailing the attitude of Islam and the arts. I tend to focus on this a bit because the artistic community seems determined to ally itself with the left and the multi cultural. I would hope they would reconsider and instead choose an ideology of individualism and liberty which is what the arts have always thrived in as opposed to theocratic or totalitarian regimes. Islam by the way is both.

GHAZNI(Afghanistan): Armed Taliban militants abducted six musicians and an election worker in eastern Afghanistan, one of whom was later found dead, a local official said.

The body of one musician was found today, one day after the group was kidnapped in Paktika province, provincial spokesman Hameedullah Jowak said.

“One of the six musicians abducted on Saturday by Taliban was found dead in the district. We have no information on the fate of the other five,” he said.

The Taliban claimed responsibility, saying the hostages had flouted a ban on music, but denied killing the victim.

“We abducted them after they continued to sing and play music despite a recent ban on music announced by Taliban. One of them died of a heart attack,” said Abdul Wakil Mubariz, who claims to be the provincial Taliban commander.

Jowak said armed militants had snatched the election worker from his house in the same province on Thursday.

On Sunday, militants attacked a convoy en route to a coalition base in southern Ghazni province, sparking a gun battle in which three Taliban were killed, provincial spokesman Ismail Jahangir said.

Toronto, with its growing immigrant population, will likely see an increase of deadly, contagious tuberculosis, experts say. The current system simply couldn’t handle an outbreak, but the province has yet to make the changes required to protect citizens

Something to think about the nest time you are on a crowded subway, running under Chinatown or Little Somalia.

TB is not going to disappear from Toronto as long as we are an immigration centre. We need to plan for cases to continue to arrive here and to be able to deal with them at the highest level of care.

Yup, those ethnic restaurants were totally worth it. Right?

PS: It may also be worthwhile to remember that our immigrant darlings from Islamic countries are a bit needle-shy when it comes to vaccinations. But we must respect their faith, at all costs. To do otherwise would infringe on their human rights. Think about that when you are shipping your kid off to school with their kids.

Whether it’s Polio vaccines in their countries (and sometimes here, because we don’t enforce it), or the MMR vaccine in Britain, or countless other measures (including their own doctors and nurses having sub-standard levels of hygiene because female medical practitioners do not practice safe hand-washing), or the fact that countries like Somalia would rather spend money on warfare than on sanitation (expecting our evil, Infidel Christian charities to foot the bill for that), we are going to continue to have a problem with 19th century diseases resurfacing from 7th century countries.

They don’t just spread their hate throughout the Middle East, and they don’t just hate those involved in the war in Iraq.

A man held for questioning in the murder of a father and daughter in California was upset with the family because they broke off his relationship with another daughter for religious reasons, court documents indicated.

Friends told the Orange County Register newspaper the victims were devoutly Hindu, and court papers said the religions in question were Hindu and Muslim.

Iftekhar Murtaza, 22, of Los Angeles was arrested on a fugitive warrant Saturday at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport in Arizona, and was being held on Wednesday without bail.

The Hindu victims were stabbed, strangled, burned, and their bodies were left on a hiking trail outside Irvine, California.

[T]he girl’s mother, Leela Dhanak, 53, was found badly beaten and unconscious in a yard outside.

She was expected to recover.

Another daughter, Shayona, 18, was in her dormitory room at the University of California, Irvine, when the attack occurred and was placed under police protection.

This is the religion we let into our country day after day, and CAIR and others try to convince us that they’re just like us. They are not. They are brutal monsters, and the sooner we can abolish the religion of Islam the better. I do not need social reprogramming to become more tolerant - they do. Let’s rescue them from their disgusting sex/death cult. Maybe then they’ll have a chance to live side by side with other religions and cultures without resorting to murder.

In the meantime, though it shouldn’t need to be said, keep your goddam daughters away from these animals.

While we’re busy arguing over whether or not to racially profile, these guys will be murdering us.

Police in southern Serbia’s Sandzak region last month arrested six local Muslims and accused them of belonging to a fundamentalist Wahhabi sect - an austere brand of Sunni Islam promoted by extremists, including the Taliban, Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaida fighters.

Recently leaked Western intelligence reports allege that the tense, impoverished area, along with Muslim-dominated regions in neighboring Bosnia, are rich ground for recruiting so-called “white al-Qaida” - Muslims with Western features who could easily blend into European or U.S. cities and carry out attacks.

Al-Qaida and other radical Islamic groups, the reports warn, may be trying to increase their influence in the Muslim-populated regions in the southern Europe to penetrate deeper into the continent.

Many of us have seen this coming for a while. I only hope that the FBI, RCMP, DHS and others have also been tracking it.

I had to shake my head the other day when a colleague was talking about a friend of hers, and how “old world” and “traditional” he was. I asked her if he was Muslim. Her answer?

No, he’s Serbian!

Honey, that wasn’t what I asked.

I admit, it’s easier to keep my eye on the brown men with the beards on the subway platform. It’s easier for the cops to do it, too. And while we’re doing that, some white Mohammed in a three piece suit is pulling a cord on his briefcase.

We’re just not safe anywhere so long as we have Islam, and allow it in our midst.

First I want to apologize for not being able to blog this week. It’s been a rough one - just work and stuff. Nothing deadly. Thanks for sticking around and checking in on me.

Anyway, on to the content. Once more my Paranoid pal has impressed me with his prose in discussing the residents of Herouxville, Quebec. They have taken the dark side of multiculturalsims out of the shadows and into their town council meetings, where it was openly discussed and tossed out like last night’s mucky bathwater.

We would especially like to inform the new arrivals that the lifestyle they left behind in their birth country cannot be brought here with them and they would have to adapt to their new social identity…We consider that men and women are of the same value… a woman can: drive a car, vote, sign checks, dance, decide for herself, speak her peace, dress as she sees fit, walk alone in public places, have a job, have her own belongings and anything else that a man can do..killing women in public beatings, or burning them alive are not part of our standards of life…We listen to music, we drink alcoholic beverages in public or private places, we dance and at the end of every year we decorate a tree with balls and tinsel and some lights. This is normally called “Christmas Decorations” or also “Christmas Tree” letting us rejoice in the notion of our national heritage…boys and girls play the same games and often play together. If you came to my place we would send the kids to swim together in the pool, don’t be surprised this is normal for us…..

This has, of course, caused a great deal of ruffled feathers among the (multi)cultural elite across Canada. The mighty Paranoid One puts them in their place as only he can.

Clearly these Herouxville troglodytes - these ignorant Catholic peasants - have refused to be converted to the religion of multiculturalism. Damn heretics. Imagine, here we are, in 21st century Canada, and there are still people around clinging to the absurd notion that Canada’s founding cultures should be celebrated, protected and perpetuated.

Something apparently drove these people over the edge. What could it have been I wonder? Did they wake up one morning and suddenly notice that Canada has largely become a nation with no history and no shared values or identity? Did they become concerned about their small community suffering the same sad fate?.

Did they somehow clue in that the term ‘multiculturalism’ is really code for: ‘destroy whitey’s culture’ and decide that participating in the destruction of their own culture was, well, kinda stupid?