Ethnic Libertarian

Free Speech

2008-04-04T00:57:00.000-07:00

Funny some people accuse Wilders of hypocrisy because he's called for banning the Koran, and he's come up with a movie that should be banned in their opinion. Really these people think we won't see where the hypocrisy is here? First of all, if the Koran was banned and preaching violence on its basis was illegal, then surely Wilders wouldn't have the need to even make this movie. It's not like the OIC has made an offer to the West where it offers to ban the Koran in return for the West banning Wilders movie. It's not that I agree with any kind of limits for freedom of speech, but at least that won't be hypocritical.

Then Western political class, which seems to have moved on to the next degree of abject dhimmitude, judging from progress they've made from the lack of defense of the Danish cartoons to the absolute preemptive groveling on behalf of Fitna, offers very little hope. Yes, we see odd speech from Tony Blair or Sarkozy where they promise to defend our values against the religious thugs. But on an occasion like this when we see Wilders alone and abandoned without even his countrymen to support him, I doubt we can take these promises at face value. Where the only international responses to the bullying of freedom of expression is attempts in the UN to impose legal limits to free speech... while the absolute lack of any attempt to guard the individual from the fury of the lynchmob that's driven by superstition and ignorance is ringing aloud in our ears like a death knell to all our freedoms.

We see us and our civilization called 'evil' and 'decadent' and they say what's unacceptable is we talking about their cowardly methods of using acts of violence and intimidation to silence us into submission! There's only one way left for us to fight this danger - and that's the Wilders way. You can't kill our children and expect us not to offend you, if you claim it's offensive for you to be called a murderer.

I think this crisis should serve as a reminder to us all that free speech exists only as long as, and only to the extend to which, we exercise it.

Pat Condell : The Sane Atheist

2008-04-02T06:22:00.000-07:00

While most of the atheists are still busy criticizing and vilifying Christianity (very convenient, cuz you can't be called a racist and you won't risk getting butchered like Theo van Gogh), it's heartening to see someone acknowledging the real threat to secularism and freedom. That, too, in a fantastic and merciless fashion! Here's Pat Condell's response to the violent Islamic intimidation and dispicable European and UN groveling to religious fanatics surrounding the movie Fitna.

As an atheist myself, I frequently wonder why more atheists aren't speaking out about Islam even though it's becoming clearer each day where the biggest threat to freedom comes from. There's a lot them who are quick to brush it aside saying all religions (or all Semitic religions) are violent and totalitarian, and it's unnecessary to target Islam alone. This thinking is incredibly naive and can only be maintained by a deliberate refusal to measure religions using the same yardsticks. So the Catholic Church was violent and oppressive in the 14th century, does that mean we should try to exhibit understanding and compassion toward the tactics of intimidation and violence by Islamic fanatics? Even in the 21st Century? Even in a land like Holland where you would've thought that no one, not even the Queen and God himself, were above criticism?
If Islam and the beliefs of Muslims are too fragile to withstand the right to free speech that Modern secular laws allow us in the West, then the West is not at fault. Nor is the beautiful concept of freedom of speech, which is the very oxygen of freedom. But it is Islam that is unfit for 21st Century, just like its primitive cousins racism and Nazism and communism, none of which could withstand free speech.

Well, if you have trouble following me, I'm sure you would find the man above much more coherent ;)

I'm sure anyone who follows the news would also equate Islam with violence. I know I certainly do because anytime anybody criticises Islam, they're usually threatened with violence. Islam without violence is like an egg free omelet.

I'm sure if you disagree with that, you would appreciate a Muslim's right to threaten to behead me just as much as you appreciate my freedom to make that statement!

Here's the full transcript via Infidel Bloggers(with thanks to HerRoyalWhyness):

Hi, everyone. Well, now that the FITNA furor has died down somewhat, it's interesting to see how many people are condemning the film and how few people are condemning the thuggish intimidation that forced LIVELEAK to remove it.

What happened to all those people who keep telling us, "I don't agree with what you say but I'll defend your right to say it"? Where have they all gone? Maybe they're on vacation.

No shortage of politicians, however, lining up to accuse the film of falsely equating Islam with violence, which is a bit like falsely equating Walt Disney with Mickey Mouse.

I'm sure anyone who follows the news would also equate Islam with violence. I know I certainly do because anytime anybody criticizes Islam, they're usually threatened with violence. Islam without violence is like an egg-free omelet.

The religion is predicated on violence and the threat of violence. It's a 'religion of peace' in the same way that North Korea is a 'People's Democratic Republic'. But we're not allowed to say that, because if we do, we'll be threatened with violence.

When the film was actually removed - under threat of violence - some Muslims had the nerve to congratulate LIVELEAK for promoting tolerance on the Internet.
I'll tell you, whenever I think about this stuff now, I feel like I'm in a hall of mirrors... don't you?

To be fair, Dutch Muslims do deserve some praise because they could've reacted violently and probably gotten away with it. We all know that. So all credit to them for not exploiting the situation.

But the very fact that we are grateful to them, pretty much proves the point of the film. Because, let's be clear about this, it was the threat of Muslim violence that caused the Dutch government to grovel in such abject dhimmitude and to run around apologizing like headless chickens before and after the event.

A spectacle which I'm sure many Muslims enjoyed - and why shouldn't they enjoy it? After all, it sends out a clear message to the entire Muslim world that in Europe, we won't stand up for what we believe in, or what we say we believe in. And that we will be intimidated into silence. All you've got to do is shake your fist and we'll do exactly as we're told.

So, Islam in Europe now enjoys the best of all possible worlds. It's a religion when it wants to be. It's a culture when it wants to be. And it's a race when it wants to be. It gets full rights on all three counts - demanding and getting respect wherever it goes while giving absolutely none. Hence, we were treated recently to the spectacle of the Swiss Foreign Minister degrading herself and her country by putting on a headscarf before she was allowed to meet the homicidal leadership of Iran, in a cheap betrayal of all the brave women who have been murdered by these violent criminals in the name of Islam.

The Iranian government were among the first to criticize the film too. Taking time out from executing children, again - in the name of Islam, to denounce it roundly. But I'm sure most people realize that this fake outrage is in no way genuine. It's all part of a cynical campaign of intimidation by the Islamic world to force unwanted Islamic values into Western society. And that's why, in every free country, there are now aggressive Islamist pressure groups. Usually funded by the Saudis, who claim to speak for all Muslims, but who actually speak only for a small band of fanatical bigots like themselves - and who are very quick to insult our culture and our values as degenerate and immoral while being themselves ultra-sensitive to any perceived criticism - portraying themselves as victims, as the oppressed rather than as the oppressors they are. Knowing that if you repeat the lie often enough people will start to believe it. Mr. Goebbels taught us that little nugget of wisdom and the would-be authors of the next Holocaust have learned their lesson well.

Now luckily for me I don't get insulted easily on a personal level, not even if being called a racist Kafir as some idiot called me recently. When somebody attacks my culture, well, that's a little different because that's an assault on my values . It diminishes my sense of self worth. I believe it violates my human rights and I think it should be prosecuted as a hate crime. It's irrational, it's paranoid and really I think there is only one word to describe it - and that is "Civilization-phobia".

This is a word I like to use as kind of like umbrella word for a host of different phobias that manifest themselves in Islam. Including Eleutherophobia - fear of freedom; Epistemophobia - fear of knowledge; Prosophobia - fear of progress; Peccatophobia - fear of sinning or imaginary crimes; Catagelophobia - fear of being ridiculed; Cenophobia -fear of new things and ideas; Cherophobia - fear of gaiety, big fear of gaiety. And the biggest fear of all, of course, gynophobia - fear of women. Islam is terrified of women and thats why, all over the Internet, you'll find clips from Arab television where along with all the rampant Jew-hating and other propaganda aimed at turning children into murderers, you'll find clerics calmly explaining under what circumstances a man may beat his wife in the religion-of-peace. That's right, a man may beat his wife. And they wonder why we don't want this stuff in Europe. If you lay a violent hand on a woman, you're not a man - you're an animal, and I don't care how many so-called scholars tell you that cowardly brutality is the will of god. Chances are, you've never been on the receiving end of the kind of punishment you like to dish out so freely.

So I hope the Hindus have it right, because if there is any justice you will be reincarnated as a female homosexual Jew, and then you'll find out what a pain it is having to deal with violent primitive dickheads like you.

You know, when I was growing up I never thought I would be ashamed to live in the 21st century. I thought it was going to be a new golden age. The space age. An age of knowledge and discovery and we'd have shaken off the shackles of superstition by now. Surely we have the technology to reach for the stars. Maybe we can even create paradise right here on earth.

I remember looking forward to it. Well, here we are and what have we got? We've got Islam, a violent, 7th century desert dogma that wants to take over the world, remove our freedom, subjugate women, brainwash children, persecute Jews and homosexuals and drag us all back a thousand years. And all we can do is make excuses for it for fear of causing offense.

We really are pathetic, aren't we?

You know, I think people living 500 years from now will look back on this period of history and they'll laugh at us.

Well, wouldn't you?

Peace!

Vatican: Islam Biggest Religion in the World

2008-03-31T06:42:00.000-07:00

It's official now. Al-Reuters reports:

"The Vatican Representative said that Catholics accounted for 17.4 percent of the world population - a stable percentage - while Muslims were at 19.2 percent."

Hopefully this will open the eyes of Leftie moonbats who waste so much time and energy trying to criticize the post-Enlightenment Christianity while ignoring the excesses of the world's biggest and strongest organized religion.

"It is true that while Muslim families, as is well known, continue to make a lot of children, Christian ones on the contrary tend to have fewer and fewer," the monsignor said.

Well, even though peace in the Middle East doesn't look probable, we seem to be well set on the al-Qaeda Roadmap to Caliphate!

Formenti said that the data refer to 2006. The figures on Muslims were put together by Muslim countries and then provided to the United Nations, he said, adding that the Vatican could only vouch for its own data.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKL3068682420080330

Well, the number could be a little dubious considering the "there's no gay in my country" politics in Islamic countries, but nonetheless the Cartoon Crisis and Fitna have proved what is the world's no. 1 organized religion. I think one might have better luck criticizing Christianity in the 15th century than criticizing Islam today in 21st century!

Geert Wilders' Fitna : All video links

2008-03-28T02:01:00.000-07:00

Now that Fitna is finally released, it's available to view / download at various locations
Original Host
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7d9_1206624103
Google
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3369102968312745410&hl=en

Youtube
Part1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEQLZzxVHQ4&feature=related
or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5U6vSvITaM&eurl=http://www.religionnewsblog.com/20982/fitna-movie-4
Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Js-xzmjysd8&eurl=http://www.religionnewsblog.com/20982/fitna-movie-4
or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoEcKZRC5AU
Daily Motion (this hasn't been confirmed as it requires registration)
http://www.dailymotion.com/cluster/news/video/x4vbwb_fitna-the-movie-version-anglaise_news

Bittorrent
http://thepiratebay.org/tor/4102583/Fitna_the_Movie_by_Geert_Wilders_-_English
Please report if any links are broken or as videos are removed by PC police

Geert Wilders : Warrior of Humanity

2008-03-28T00:53:00.000-07:00

13 centuries ago, War was declared on humanity. This warrior creed with a small spiritual component, rooted in supremacism and unrelenting superstition, is knocking on the doors of all the civilized communities in the world today, threatening to subjugate and enslave them. But the civilized world, wallowing in the fool's paradise of "post-Enlightenment wisdom" thinking that such evil is not capable of existing, refusing to acknowledge or understand the nature of the enemy, goes on pushing impossibly higher moral standards for themselves while ignoring the threat to their existence and the future of their children knocking on their doors.
Fitna Part 1 (until youtube takes this off to appease fanatics)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEQLZzxVHQ4&feature=related
Fitna Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoEcKZRC5AU
(LiveLeak (original host) link at the bottom of post)
But there are indeed some brave men who will stand up for life and liberty of their fellow beings, even if it's by risking everything they have. Some realize that they have to speak out against the evil even if that makes every minute of their life more and more dangerous, like Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who knows that her life might end in a brutal murder like those of Pim Fortuyn and Theo van Gogh. And now we have the Dutch MP Geert Wilders who has delivered on his promise of a film to expose Koran for the violence it exhorts, while doing that also exposing the fear and the level of self-censorship in the Dutch society, once one of the most liberal societies in the world.
When war is declared upon you by this entity, standing quiet and trying to be the Dalai Lama won't save you. Trying to appease the enemy might buy you time, but it will be too late when you realize the price you had to pay for it was the 9/11s , 3/11s and the freedom to speak your mind. So those like Geert Wilders lay their life on the line, because they love our freedoms way too much to see us losing them, to convince us that this declaration of war is not a joke, not for the people who love their life and liberty.
Here's the link to the original host, of the movie the media dubbed the anti-Koran movie and the detractors joked was an April Fool's joke.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7d9_1206624103
If you use a bittorrent client,
http://thepiratebay.org/tor/4102583/Fitna_the_Movie_by_Geert_Wilders_-_English
alternative youtube links
Part1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5U6vSvITaM&eurl=http://www.religionnewsblog.com/20982/fitna-movie-4
Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Js-xzmjysd8&eurl=http://www.religionnewsblog.com/20982/fitna-movie-4

Aaron standing up to Jihadists...

2006-05-12T16:40:00.000-07:00

Aarons.CC was down for so long this time after being hacked by
the Saudi Mo-hacker, that I felt I have to put this up on my blog, even though i've tried not to put offensive stuff up here. Here you go, Aaron, and thanks for acknowledging that we don't have the luxury of being overcome by fear.

Kashmir - (Mujahideen's) Paradise on Earth

2006-05-02T14:22:00.000-07:00

The place that was once called the Paradise on earth, is now a paradise for militants and Pakistani-sponsored Islamic Mujahideen fighters. What's most pathetic is the fact that we've gotten so used to innocent civilians getting massacred in Kashmir that it doesn't even shock us anymore. So I don't think even this will, in any way, make the Indian government understand that it has to change its policy of appeasement of Pakistan and need to do more to protect its citizens in Kashmir.

Chronology of major Mujahideen massacres in Kashmir
from DNAIndia

2006:
May 1: Militants gun down 22 Hindus in remote villages of Panjdobi and Thava in Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir.

2004:
April 5: Seven persons killed in Pahalgam area of Anantnag district.

2003:
Mar 4: 24 Kashmiri pundits killed by militants in Nadimarg village near Shopian in Pulwama district.

2002:
Nov 24: 14 persons killed and 53 injured when militants attacked the historic Raghunath temple in Jammu.
Aug 29: Ten Hindus killed in Rajouri and Doda districts of Jammu and Kashmir.
Aug 6: Nine Amarnath pilgrims killed and 32 wounded when militants attacked a base camp at Nunwan near Pahalgam.
July 13: 28 Hindus gunned down in Qasim Nagar area of Jammu and Kashmir.
May 14: 33 persons, including women and children, were killed when militants opened indiscriminate fire on a bus and stormed an army camp on the Jammu-Pathankote highway.
Feb 17: Eight Hindus gunned down in Rajouri district.
Jan 7: 17 Hindus killed in Ramsoo area of Jammu district.

2001:
Aug 4: 15 Hindus gunned down in Shrotidar village in Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir.
July 22: 15 Hindus killed in Cheergi and Tagood villages in Doda district of Jammu.
July 21: 13 people, including seven Amarnath pilgrims, killed at Sheshnag in Anantnag.
Mar 17: Eight people massacred near Atholi in Doda district.
Feb 11: 15 members of nomad (Gujjar) families massacred in Kot-Chadwal in Rajouri district.
Feb 3: Six Sikhs gunned down in Mahjoornagar in Srinagar

2000:
Aug 2: 11 Hindus killed in Doda district of Jammu.
Aug 2: Seven members of a family killed in Kupwara district of north Kashmir.
Aug 1: 27 labourers gunned down in Qazigund and Achabal i Anantnag district.
Aug 1: 31 people, including Amarnath yatris, killed in Pahalgam in Anantnag.
Mar 20: 35 Sikhs killed in Chattisinghpura village near Jammu.
Feb 28: Five Hindu drivers killed near Qazigund in Anantnag district.

India shamefully disinvites Danish PM because of Cartoons

2006-03-26T14:32:00.000-08:00

Yet another act of dhimmitude by the Indian government.

http://dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1018909&CatID=19

The ministry of external affairs has taken the easy way out and asked Prime
Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen to put off his six-day trip which was due from
April 1, for fear of protests of the kind witnessed earlier over cartoons of the
Prophet in a Danish newspaper.

Bravo, Manmohan. Now a minority of religious fanatics gets the first say on matters of India's national interest!

Islamic intolerance in schools

2006-03-26T13:58:00.000-08:00

How can we be surprised when this community produces suicide bombers and people who learn to fly airplanes just so they could kill as many people as possible with that knowledge, when we know that we're turning a blind eye to this vile indoctrination of hatred even in young school children?

NY Times reports on how rising anti-Semitism in French schools is making it impossible to guarantee the safety of Jewish children.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/26/international/26antisemitism.html?_r=3&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

Schools are the battleground over anti-Semitism, and teachers complain that the government has done little, despite many proposals.
"The minister of education has done nothing," said Jean-Pierre Obin, an inspector general of education in France, who wrote a report in 2004 that called anti-Semitism "ubiquitous" in the 61 schools surveyed. "He prefers not to talk about it."
Mr. Obin wrote in the report of "a stupefying and cruel reality: in France, Jewish children — and they are alone in this case — can no longer be educated in just any school."
Ianis Roder, 34, a history teacher in a middle school northeast of Paris, said he was stunned by what he witnessed after Sept. 11, 2001. The next day, someone spray-painted in a stairwell of the school the image of an airplane crashing into the World Trade Center beside the words "Death to the U.S., Death to Jews."
When he told his class months later that Hitler had killed millions of million Jews, one boy blurted out, "He would have made a good Muslim!"

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Mark Steyn on the one-way trap of Islam

2006-03-25T07:53:00.000-08:00

"We will not allow God to be humiliated. This man must die," says Abdul Raoulf of the nation's principal Muslim body, the Afghan Ulama Council. "Cut off his head! We will call on the people to pull him into pieces so there's nothing left." Needless to say, Imam Raoulf is one of Afghanistan's leading "moderate" clerics.

That's how they keep people enslaved to this medieval religion. Another compassionate face of moderate Islam, I guess.

http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/opinion/homepage/article_1070454.php

Unfortunately, what's "precious and sacred" to Islam is its institutional contempt for others. In his book "Islam And The West," Bernard Lewis writes, "The primary duty of the Muslim as set forth not once but many times in the Quran is 'to command good and forbid evil.' It is not enough to do good and refrain from evil as a personal choice. It is incumbent upon Muslims also to command and forbid." Or as the Canadian columnist David Warren put it: "We take it for granted that it is wrong to kill someone for his religious beliefs. Whereas Islam holds it is wrong not to kill him." In that sense, those imams are right, and Karzai's attempts to finesse the issue are, sharia-wise, wrong.
I can understand why the president and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice would rather deal with this through back channels, private assurances from their Afghan counterparts, etc. But the public rhetoric is critical, too. At some point we have to face down a culture in which not only the mob in the street but the highest judges and academics talk like crazies. Abdul Rahman embodies the question at the heart of this struggle: If Islam is a religion one can only convert to, not from, then in the long run it is a threat to every free person on the planet.

Fortunately, when the British were faced with 'Sati' in India, it was before the age of political correctness. As a result women are no longer burned alive at funeral pyres in India.

Anti-Islamism = Racism?

2006-03-16T13:25:00.000-08:00

Check out this awesome comment posted on an Islamist blog.

(1) I challenge this individual to point out anything on my Web site that is racist, i.e. takes the position that one group of people is genetically superior to another.(2) By culture, I do not mean fine or performing arts-- medieval Muslims created some very beautiful geometric designs that still influence Spanish architecture, by the way-- but rather values and principles that guide a society's behavior.(3) Euro-American culture, which upholds the natural rights of all human beings (including women, religious minorities, and gay people) to life, liberty, and property is indeed superior to Third World gutter cultures that sanction behavior like "honor killing" of women who lose their virginity (even through being raped), hanging women who kill their would-be rapists (Iran just sentenced a young woman to death for doing exactly that), beating gay people and throwing them into raw sewage because of their sexual orientation (Palestinian Authority), saying that a woman is only half a human being (Saudi Arabian "blood money" compensation rates), saying that a Hindu is only one-fifteenth of a human being (same), raising children from birth as live ammunition (Palestinians again), beating Tom Fox with electrical cables before shooting him in the head (Iraqi Islamofascists)... need I go on?If you're going to stand there and argue seriously that those cultures are somehow equal to that of the United States (or Britain, France, India, Poland, Israel, or even less-than-democratic Russia's), I've got three words: BRING IT ON. As an example I, as an ethnocentrist Euro-American supremacist, would call a man who slaps his wife around a criminal but your "multiculturally equal" Sharia law says it's fine and dandy for a man to discipline his wife with the back of his hand or even his fist, as long as he doesn't break any bones. Having said this, the above examples represent Islamofascist BEHAVIORAL CHOICES and not "race." "Islamofascists: homo sapiens by BIRTH, subhuman by CHOICE" pretty much sums it up and also leaves open the option for them to change their behavior and rejoin the human race. Note that racists (Nazis, Ku Klux Klan) do not offer the objects of their hatred the option of changing their skins or ancestry; the most loyal German Jew was an Untermensch to the Nazis and a Black man in a short haircut, shirt, and tie is still a n*gger to the Ku Klux Klan.Rachel Corrie, a female and an infidel, was at most one-quarter of a human being (again going by Saudi "blood money" compensation rates) to the Islamofascists. The same goes for Huwaida Arraf. And, while we are on the subject, Christians (including Nadeem Muaddi) are nothing but dirty kafirs as far as Islamofascists are concerned, although the Islamofascists at least offer the option of submitting to the will of Allah.Nadeem Muaddi is definitely on the wrong side and, if Fadi Kiblawi is a Christian Arab, the same goes for him. The best they will ever be to the Islamofascists are kafirs who know their places but kafirs just the same. There is plenty of room for them on our side and we have a couple of White Hats that just might fit them.

religions of peace?

2006-03-14T07:46:00.000-08:00

What most Muslims and apologists try to point out to 'reason' that Islam is a peaceful religion, is by saying Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (only accpetable religions according to Islam) are religions of Peace, to evoke empathy among Christians. Anyone who has studied these religions know that none of these are peaceful religions. However, Judaism and Christianity have become very peaceful religions because of the reforms that took place in these religions. But Islam, on the other hand, has in-built defenses against reform (death and persecution of any attempted reformers is a pretty good deterrant) so will never be reformed from within, especially under the present world climate. The sad state of affairs is that, it is considered politically incorrect or even risks being branded hate speech to say a religion is a violent religion, even when it actually is. The moderates don't have any say in this religion. Islam wll always be dominated by fanatics, as it is today by the likes of Osama, unless it is majorly reformed.

moderate muslims?

2006-03-10T10:21:00.000-08:00

While I understand there are Muslims who won't kill for their religion, I'm sure they're a minority. And these Muslims definitely will get persecuted, as they have always been, by the radicals. The West with it's Judeo-Christian roots just can't seem to get the plain fact that Islam is much different from Judaism and Christianity in the Violence it practices and preaches. Under the pretext of freedom of religion, Muslims are still allowed to preach hatred. I just saw this blog today, and I love it. http://ahmedsalib.wordpress.com/

I think we should start organizations to educate people about Islam. Everyone who gets drawn to the religion of madness has a right know the truth about it. Somebody should have the courage to start educating people about Islam in a non-biased way. At present, anything which does not speak of Islam in a super-reverent way is considered an attack on this "religion of peace" by the PC media and public. If only.. I will do anything to make this happen, if only people could be educated the truth about Islam and then this monstrosity will cease to be the danger that it has become today.
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Tolerance for intolerance is a self-destructing virtue

Tolerance for intolerance

2006-03-08T00:40:00.000-08:00

The only thing more sickening than the Islamists' bloodthirty quest for domination and subjugation is the Western tolerance for this ideology of intolerance itself. Most of the apologists and Islamists try to justify Islam by saying Christianity also has a violent and intolerant history (never mind it was centuries ago). Today's Roman Chatholic Church is a shining example of how an organized religion could function in a civilized society. Sometimes it's as simple as some religions are peaceful and some are violent. Take Buddhism (especially, the Tibetan variant). It has a prophet who practiced and preached nonviolence and tolerance, and the followers of the religion tend to do the same, naturally. Islam, exactly opposite, has a prophet, who killed and raped and humiliated, and it's followers tend to do the same, even in societies where they're minorities and when people wonder why they do it, they cry persecution.

Friend of Israel

2006-02-26T13:16:00.000-08:00

...the only nation in the world that is fighting back against Islamic imperialism...

Defend freedom

2006-02-13T14:35:00.000-08:00

Clash of civilizations

2006-01-21T06:42:00.000-08:00

Are we witnessing a clash of civilizations? Aren't all the political developments in today's world gradually building up to an inevitable clash of civilizations?
Most Western liberals would promptly answer no, I figure, most probably, trying to avoid naming the victor or taking sides in this showdown. However, a lot of people in the Islamic world, I suppose, would answer yes, since they're not afraid to take sides.

As much as I try to approach this without prejudices, I can't help seeing it, basically, as a simple, natural clash between the Western secular tolerance and conservative Islamic intolerance, which is further aggravated by the Israel-Palestine situation in the Middle East and Western world's dependance on the oil resources of the region.
But, even if it weren't for these factors, in this age where boundaries and walls that separate people are becoming thinner and inexistent, this clash would have become evident at some point in the course of globalization.