What Sauce Will Barack Obama Use When He Eats His Words?
For Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing, if his ministers also he transformed as the ministers of righteousness . . .
—2 Corinthians 11:14-15
Remember when Obama went to Cairo to deplore the “tension between the United States and Muslims around the world”? That tension, he said, was “exploited” by “violent extremists” in a “small but potent minority of Muslims.” As a result, some Americans had come to view Islam as “inevitably hostile not only to America and Western countries, but also to human rights.” And this, he said, “has bred more fear and mistrust.”
Obama went to Cairo to offer “a new beginning,” dispel the fear, cure the mistrust, and end the “cycle of suspicion and discord.” America and Islam, he said, “are not exclusive, and need not be in competition.”
Good news: they “overlap, and share common principles.” More good news: those principles have to do with “justice and progress; tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.” Who knew?
Some proverbial wisdom: be careful about what you wish for — you just might get it.
Keen on democracy, are you? Do you view the pickle that Egyptian bad guy Hosni Mubarak finds himself in with glee? Are those rock-throwing multitudes in Egypt the “voice of democracy”?
Maybe. But who or what is the demos, the people?
The largest opposition group in Egypt — as in many Arab countries — is the Muslim Brotherhood. Officially, the group, which was founded in Egypt in 1928 by Hassan al-Banna (the grandfather of Muslim confidence man Tariq Ramadan), is banned in Egypt. No matter. It is nonetheless the “world’s most influential Islamist movement.” No one knows exactly how many members it has in Egypt. The number is certainly in the millions.
What is the goal of the Muslim Brotherhood? To make the Koran the “sole reference point for … ordering the life of the Muslim family, individual, community … and state.”
What is the means by which the Muslim Brotherhood seeks to achieve this goal? Jihad — a “grand jihad,” as one document puts it, which seeks to destroy Western civilization “from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.”
Memo to Jammin Joe Biden: “If dictatorship is a duck, then Hosni Mubarak sure quacks a lot.”
Muslim Brotherhood: banned in Egypt but not in Israel; they have a seat in the Knesset. If the Israelis can work ith them then I expect we can too.
Don’t hold Israel up as a beacon…as “how to do it”..
Also let me add…Muslims, period..are killers. They have no other purpose in life. Kill, murder, how ever you chose to say it. That is all they have in mind. It is a sick mental attitude and they want to spread it far and wide, killkillkill. Negotiate? ha
You can drape it in any name you choose. It all adds up to killing
The “purpose” of most of them seems to be to put food on the table, keep the rent/islamic mortgage paid and get the kids through school.
…and support fellow members who actively engage in the jihad.
Saying only a minority of Muslims perform the jihad is probably right. Saying only a minority of Muslims *support* the jihad (with aid and comfort, meaning money and encouraging words) is naive, and is one of the major reasons why the jihad is going on relentlessly.
The army of Islam is made of all those who take Islam seriously. Since the Muslim world never underwent anything akin to the European Enlightenment, that means most of them. No matter how unsettling this truth is.
And what planet are you from? Our media will occupy you within 24 hours, or whatever time schedule your planet utilizes.
Roy M,
Israel is no less afflicted by the disease of leftosis than any other developed country. Her permitting of such fifth-columnists to sit in her parliament is a mark of shame, not a virtue to be emulated.
Israel will be a beacon for the free world when she expels all the Muslims currently residing within her borders, and not before.
I see it as a mark of strength.
Gotcha.
And I see you as a useful idiot. An unwitting accessory to the agenda of Islamic imperialism.
No, a witting accessory to liberal imperialism.
I hope.
Please give me the name of the Israeli Rep that is in the Muslim Brotherhood. Thanks
Masoud Ganaim.
Unlike any other religion I am aware of, Islam has as a fundamental tenant the destruction of all other *political* orders. Thus, you CANNOT be a good Muslim and a good American (or Israeli or any other non-Muslim state). You COULD be a “cultural” Muslim who follows diets, feasts, fasts, and pilgrimages – but otherwise ignores the teachings of Islam – and also a good American (or any other non-Muslim state). But you would also be a “bad” Muslim.
The “all religions are equal” twits simply can’t process Islam. If they accept it – Islam destroys them (slowly and messily with lots of blood). If they reject it – they reject their own Axiom. No wonder they descend into spiralling cognitive dissonance.
…and decency and freedom.
Roy,
I guess I could buy into your PC nonsense about ‘decency and freedom’ if that was much of rhe rule of the land in the countries in the mideast and in most of the muslim world. It is not. No Western woman, or few, would adhere to the second class citizenship or perhaps third, behind the donkey or camel, that mulsim women are subjected to. Freedom is not something that raises it’s head much in the mideast, oppression and fear and calls for jiahd would be closer to the reality.
I certainly do not believe that the mass of muslims are terrorist, but it remains a simple point of discussion between you and I. When Islam as a whole rises up and denounces the terrorists I will bow to them, but until then, I must presume that most muslims agree with Jihad and would prefer to see YOU and myself dead.
Unless Roy M’s real name is Kahlil al Mohammed bin Sultan??????
It’s worse than you say. ‘Decency and freedom’ are in pretty short supply for the great majority of people in the great majority of the worlds nations; particularly for women.
I’ve worked in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia; with urban elites, small businesses and with the rural poor; with Buddhists Hindus, Catholics, Protestants, Muslims, Atheists and Zoroastrians. And one of the things I’ve found is the it ain’t about having the wrong religion: where ‘it’ is any particular social ill or conflation of policitcal extremism and religion you care to mention. It’s not about any one thing at all. It’s about the boring nuts and bolts of democracy, justice and economics, development and civil society.
Ali Bin Civilguy – you are wrong when you say “No Western woman, or few, would adhere to the second class citizenship …”.
A large portion of Western women will do just that. The lefter, and the more feminazi they are the quicker they will roll over and beg to don the hijab and walk behind the donkey.
The freedoms, rights and priviledges given to them by the dead white male civilisation that nurtured them will be cast off without a second glance. Not a one of them will put their lives on the line to take a stand for what they have.
And they will rat-out all the Tea-party Palin voting soccer moms who do take a stand – probably “for the children” …
Can’t say anything more than:
Hopelessly naive.
It’s probably just that I’ve had different experiences to you. But, of course, that might just be another way of saying ‘naive’. For example, I’ve never been to Israel, though I hope and expect I shall.
I hear that Obama is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood (at least, in his heart). Hillary Clinton doesn’t have a clue, of course. She’s been too busy washing her Che t-shirts.
We’ll look back on this and view the Carter administration as prescient.
So who is this Muslim Brotherhood member of the Knesset, pray tell?
Now if Azmi Bishara of the National Democratic Assembly who provided Hezbollah with intelligence during the fighting in 2006 actually belongs to the MB is in doubt; he has other “national socialistic” ideas that might put him at odds with his brothers in sharia.
Anyway to appease the American administration the Israelis are forced to go along with the “Democracy” charade (see the US stance on the charade when Hamas “won” the elections in Gaza) and permit the inciters of sedition access to free board and lodging, or really be the epitome of apartheid.
Then there is also Jaris Jaris, one Israeli Arab convicted of spying for Iran, who sought election to the Knesset as a member of the left-wing political party, Meretz who could also be a member of the MB, but who can tell; but Israel could not outlaw a leftist/progressive bunch, especially like those Jstreet types, in the name of Democracy.
Maybe as democracy has come to be understood it should have its name changed to Idiocracy especially when compared to the original Republic.
Israel’s 5th column is well known and active in the Arab community and the MB’s representative in the form of Sheikh Ra’ed Salah, a former mayor of Umm al-Fahm, now heads the northern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel. He sits on the Board of Trustees of the Union of Good, an international Islamic charity that funds Hamas and is headed by Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi, the spiritual head of the Muslim Brotherhood.
And how your media howled in outrage when he was stopped from inciting in Jerusalem.
Had Americans not voted in Carter who permitted the deposition of the Shah in favour of the Ayatollah and the creation of an extremist Islamic state we wouldn’t be here today discussing the MB and the support they are getting from Iran as it circles the region in a pincer movement.
First take Lebanon, then Egypt and on to Jordan to eventually remove Israel and then control the Middle East (heh, maybe we could put this to Leonard Cohen’s music, First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin) while America is still debating democracy in a tribal/clan culture and permitting Idiocracy for the MB control of Egypt.
UPHEAVAL IN THE MIDDLE EAST: IS IT 1979 IRAN ALL OVER AGAIN?
The signs are troubling:
Obama won the presidency on November 4, 2008 which fell on the 29th anniversary of the hostage crisis in Iran-the first act of war by militant Islam on the US leading to the 9/11 catastrophe 22 years later. This occured under Jimmy “we have overcome our fear of Communism” Carter-the man who deserted the pro-Western, secularizing Shah in favor of the US hating Islamist Ayatollah Khomenie believing he was a democratic reformer. Ominously the Shah fled to Egypt a country now in turmoil like the one he left.
On April 6, 2009, shortly after Obama delivered his first fawning speech to Islam* from Ankara, Turkey (his first trip to a Moslem country, which is now an ally of Iran and turning Islamist) a Turkish-born Canadian citizen stole a small single engine plane from a Canadian flight school and flew it accross the US border where he was forced to land by two pursuing F-16 jets. Ironically and ominously, and I do not believe this was a mere coincidence, the plane landed in CARTER COUNTY, MISSOURI…………….
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Dr Ismat Hasan, an Egyptian biologist warns of the soon collapse of peace with Israel in an exclusive interview (in Hebrew):
http://news.walla.co.il/?w=//1786199
Israel should brace itself for a new wave of wars, and reconsider the peace efforts in the light of how stable the resulting peace actually is.
That’s exactly the intent, and the ‘End Game’, Obama’s involvement with this siuue vs the green revolution in Iran.
The green revolution in Iran was of no use to Obama, while the eqyptian uprise is due to the proximity to Israel. Payback time, since Obama couldn’t get Bibi to bow to his demands.
This will not end well!
Living in spitting distance of the tentacles of the Muslim Brotherhood I surely have a dog in this fight.
With Hamas to the south of us, Hizbullah to the north of us, and now Egypt in the mix, well, one can see where those living in Israel’s neighborhood would see things through a more critical and strategic eye.
As a matter of fact, NOT opinion, the Muslim Brotherhood is the LARGEST opposition force in Egypt.Moreover,the MB spawned Hamas, Al Qadea and all the other Islamic terror offshoots.They are GLOBAL & LETHAL, with many tentacles in the US too.
To garner the best education on the MB read in detail, ‘The Muslim Mafia’ by Gaubatz and Sperry. It is meticulously researched, sourced and documented.It will keep you up at night, as it should.
Thus, even though Mubarak is an odious autocrat, the fact of the matter is that the prospect of the MB taking over-and they will-should send shivers down all the west’s spine.El Baradei, a product of the MB and a protector of the head of the Islamic snake-the Iranian Hitler-is championing these ‘spontaneous’ riots.He intends to remain one of the new leaders.Count on it.
While economic deprivation is fueling many to protest, those who will LEAD are NOT interested in economic parity.They are interested in restoring the Caliphate, and grabbing the reins in Egypt would be their chief prize.
Watch for the opposition leaders to parade El Baradei as the Egyptian savior, the Peace Prize winner(not unlike the godfather of terror, Arafat)as he acts in fluid concert with MB plans, slowly but steadily.His urbane appearance will surely satiate western leaders who can’t tell an Islamist from a western democrat.The western leaders are so ignorant of the regional dynamics, politics and history that they are incapable of reading the scene.
Obama, Islamic lover that he is(he said the call to Muslim prayer is the most beautiful sound, that if there is a clash between the west and Muslims he will take their side.Hello?) is way over his head, and his advisers are Edward Said acolytes.
The fact that Bush may have started the seeds for this revolt is of piece with his fantasy that ALL people want the same things.Under his watch Hamas came to power, simply because Bush & Rice thought elections, sans democratic principles and institutions, was all that stood between the west and east.He meant well, but he was living in fantasy land.
Simply put, western leaders seeking to impose western ideals on Arabs, Muslims, Islamists (even those who wear jeans and appear modern)are putting lipstick on a pig.It ain’t possible to pretty up,and it is VERY lethal to even try.
This sounds unpleasant, but reality often bites. Deal with it!
Thank you.
Thank you it is.
Thank you. A totally disheartening post, but most likely true.
From Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
Almaric: They will ask for terms. We *must* ask for terms.
Bishop of Jerusalem: Convert to Islam, repent later.
What, exactly, are we supposed to do? Willfully obstruct their desire for self-determination, because we think they would – given the chance – chose badly?
Do you really believe we should or, more importantly – CAN – indefinitely prop up autocrats that are despised by their people?
If they really, REALLY want jihad, an America-supporting puppet, whose dictatorial powers make a mockery of our rhetoric of freedom, will inflame, not dampen, that passion.
What self-determination?
Iran has in its power “self-determination.
They have through Hezbollah taken away Lebanon’s self-determination. They will take away everyone elses self-determination and it will end up as Sharia’s “self-determination” under the boot/sandal of the Imams.
And so they will determine the region’s self to their approval.
>> What self-determination?
The kind where America does not choose your leader. “You” do in as legitimate a way as is possible under the circumstances.
>> Iran has in its power “self-determination.”
Supporting a pro-American dictator for decades worked beautifully there, didn’t it? Do you believe that supporting the Shah more aggressively would have stabilized Iran? I am not saying I like the mess the Iranians have put themselves into. I just don’t think that our attempts to prevent it would have done anything other than pour high-octane fuel on a fire.
>> They have through Hezbollah taken away Lebanon’s self-determination.
If Lebanon doesn’t want that to happen, they’re going to have to fight Hezbollah, not make deals with it. Be that as it may, we CANNOT save Lebanon if the Lebanese are not willing to cooperate with their salvation and I think they’d rather blame us for their situation than fight Hezbollah.
>> They will take away everyone elses
self-determination and it will end up as Sharia’s “self-determination” under the boot/sandal of the Imams.
And so they will determine the region’s self to their approval.
If I thought we could prevent this by propping up despised dictators, I would probably still be opposed to it, but the fact that we CAN’T do that (indefinitely), combined with the fact that doing so makes us laughing-stock-hypocrites and belies our putative support for liberty makes a pretty strong case for not doing it.
“Willfully obstruct their desire for self-determination, because we think they would – given the chance – chose badly?”
You put self-determination above all else, huh? Now let’s see you walk your talk. Let’s see how you answer the following question:
A growing majority of the people in Britain desire that the swamping of their country with immigrants be stopped and even reversed. Do you support them as per your advocacy of self-determination, or are they “raaaaacists”?
I’m looking forward to your answer.
>>> A growing majority of the people in Britain desire that the swamping of their country with immigrants be stopped and even reversed. Do you support them as per your advocacy of self-determination, or are they “raaaaacists”?
I support them.
I also support the Egyptian people’s desire to throw off the yoke of Mubarak. I do not believe any good can come of us trying (and, at this point, almost certainly failing) to prevent that from happening.
Do you?
“I support them.”
Thanks for the answer. At least I know you’re no Marxist.
“I also support the Egyptian people’s desire to throw off the yoke of Mubarak. I do not believe any good can come of us trying (and, at this point, almost certainly failing) to prevent that from happening. Do you?”
It’s like this:
Normally, I wouldn’t care. Believing in self-determination myself, I uphold the right of any nation to choose heaven or hell as it wishes. What regime would rise in Iran or Egypt would be none of my business.
However… there’s this saying, that the freedom to swing your hand ends at the tip of my nose. It so happens that the rise of an Islamic regime in Egypt, as in Iran, does have great consequences for me personally. Those are my next-door neighbors, in missile range at the very least. The rise of an Islamic regime in Iran meant that the informal but cordial relationship between Israel and Iran came to an abrupt end and diametric reversal in 1979. The rise of an Islamic regime in Egypt means we can kiss the Camp David treaty goodbye and go back to the way things were in June 1967.
I have no problem admitting the Shah was a dictator, nor the same with Mubarak. But there’s no way I’m going to support a revolution which is almost certainly bound to make it worse for my country. I don’t think I can do anything about the course of events we now see, but to voice support for it would be a complete lie.
I support self-determination for any nation except when it clashes with my self-preservation. That’s my answer simplified.
Fair enough,
You’re not enthusiastic about this revolution.
I am not enthusiastic about the continuation our policy of supporting the dictator who kisses our ass with the strongest suction. Whatever benefits there are are temporary at best, and I think we are past the point where there is a net benefit at all, temporary or not.
I agree that the likelihood of “those people” making a very bad choice is uncomfortably good, but I don’t think we can continue actively preventing them from choosing who will rule them because of a (probably accurate) fear that they will chose badly.
We need to make it abundantly clear that “choosing badly” will have consequences they will not like one bit.
The biggest problem with the current situation is that it makes it possible for REASONABLE Americans to believe that they have legitimate reasons to hate us. That is dangerously enervating and morale-sucking.
Needn’t worry. We won’t get involved in any meaningful way other than talking points and it is highly doubtful that the MB will care much about what we have to say in any case.
As for the Yoke they will being throwing off it is highly likely that they will get something less like a yoke and more like whips and chains in a cage. I’d bet you on it and would love to take your money.
Here’ how it will look: Mubarak to military rule to interim elected government (maybe) to Muslim Brotherhood to chaos in the Middle East to an eventual war that the West will back itself into ala Chamberlain to Islam being crushed and lots and lots of blood spilled and a likely breakdown of the world economy along the way (There will be nukes). These poor souls in Egypt don’t stand a chance either way, but think they do because of naive people like Obama.
Sorry, but right now I can’t be much more uplifting than that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, because getting rid of that mean ol’ Shah of Iran really, really worked out swell, didn’t it?
The Iranians love and respect us now. And everything’s been peaceful there, ever since the Shah left.
We should not interfere. Because what the world really, really, really needs is yet another fundamentalist Islamic Republic, at war with us, and the rest of the world.
/Sarc.
Wow.
Wow Roy you have the intellect of an snail. Useful idiot.
Obama went to Cairo to offer “a new beginning,” dispel the fear, cure the mistrust, and end the “cycle of suspicion and discord.” America and Islam, he said, “are not exclusive, and need not be in competition.”
The implications of this statement have been ignored. How can a country be in competition with a religion?
Well, for once with Obama, the truth slipped out, or at least a partial truth. Islam is in competition with the United States precisely because it is not just a religion.
Islam is a totalitarian, imperialistic, supremacist, politico-religious movement with global ambitions.
Egypt was much better off under Lord Cromer.
Heck, it was better off under Ramses III – another tyrant.
The Ptolemys knew how to run Egypt.
The unrest in Egypt is a direct result of the Tea Party in the US; absolute cause and effect. The response of the people to a corrupt, non-responsive government with a captive media, is always the same. Here in the US we threw the bad guys out via the elective process. Where such a process is not available, only force will work.
Is this all part of George Soros’ New World Order plans? To stoke turmoil in areas where they love to hate the U.S., so the U.S. is isolated and no longer has strategic partners? It sure seems so.
Are ethanol subsidies, plus the Federal Reserve’s QE2 all part of the world plan to push up food prices and foment the turmoil? It would not surprise me.
If you Google the words “Election” and “Mubarek” you get Jon Jensen at the Global Post reporting on the Nov. 2010 parliamentary elections in Egypt thus and so:
“The [parliamentary] election comes after weeks of government clampdowns on both independent media outlets and opposition politicians. Experts and human rights groups say that the severity and efficiency of the recent suppression is a bleak bellwether for a country facing increasing political uncertainty in the run-up to the 2011 presidential election.
“The crackdown this year is much worse than it has ever been in the past,” said Emad Gad, a researcher at the Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, a state-funded think tank. “Egypt’s democratic process, which is completely run by the ruling regime, is a controlled one. It is not open.”
Critics argue that the president’s strength is maintained through tightly controlled electoral guidelines and a draconian emergency law that gives security forces unbridled power.”
Wikipedia reports the results of the last presidential election of Mubarek (his fifth of an unlimited number of terms ending in 2011) as this:
“Hosni Mubarak, National Democratic Party (Al-Hizb Al-Watani Al-Dimuqrati) 6,316,714 votes 88.6 %
Ayman Nour, Tomorrow Party (Hizb al-Ghad) 540,405 votes 7.3%
Numan Gomaa, New Wafd Party (Hizb al-Wafd al-Jadid) 201,891 votes 2.8 %
Total (Turnout 22.9 %) 7,059,010″
For a non-dictator, his poll numbers sure went down over the last six years.
#5 ADINA KUTNICKI makes an impassioned statement analyzing the current Egyptian “Day of Rage” (يوم الغضب) revolution. Her interpretation contains many perceptive points, such as the abysmal ignorance of both the Bush and Obama administrations in understanding the forces at work in the Middle East (and beyond).
But like Osama bin Laden and his now numerous epigones, Adina misinterprets this rage as having an unseen but nevertheless powerful Islamic undercurrent just waiting to come to the fore and to power as a first step in establishing a world-wide Caliphate.
Following the 9/11 events and the subsequent US military involvement in Afghanistan, Bin Laden was dealt his biggest shock when he realized (“Where are you?” he asked) that the “Islamic world”, and in particular the Arab Islamic nations, had no intention whatsoever in rising up against the “hated” infidel “crusaders”.
Arab youth, as it turned out, wanted no part of him or his project for a world-wide “umma”. It was his first and ultimately fatal miscalculation.
Similary, the current Tunisian and Egyptian uprisings are as divorced from any religious involvement, implications or portents as you can get.
There hasn’t been a peep in the Arabic media to this effect, none of the signs and slogans carried by the “rioters” even mentions the word Allah, the powerful religious university Al-Azhar (in Cairo), Hamas, the “Palestinians”, Bin Laden, the “mullahs”, the Friday prayer “deliveries”, the Iranians, the Muslim Brotherhood, in short, any Islamic institution of any consequence has, in effect, been rendered mute. Only the Saudi monarch, ailing and recuperating in Morocco, has “slammed” the protestors as “infiltrators”.
Equally, there hasn’t been a peep vis a vis “Israel” in this uprising. That’s what scares so many. This is a new generation for whom the “injustices” of the past are ancient history.
Any attempt by the “Islamists” to hijack this popular Arab revolution and convert it into any kind of religious uprising will cause the swarming masses of Egypt to turn on them with a ferocity that will make the current riots seem like an Irish wake. They’re not going to touch it. It’s hands off. Even the Muslim Brotherhood with HQ in Egypt, knows this.
That’s all right then. Just like in Iran. What a relief.
They operate covertly
…the same way America should.
Pied Piper, you are correct in your assessment of the popular rage, a boiling pot that is NOT stirred by Israeli animus, nor about the PA/Israel conflict.
In fact, the fact that Israel is a non player in this uprising is raising NO flags in any western capital, nor in Islamic circles. To do so would to put to rest the bugaboo that Israel is the spoiler in the region.As if.
That being said, my fear-as well as many others in the know in Israel who I am connected to-understand that the MB is not going to stand aside when the time is right.Thus, after they ensnare the average Egyptian, the educated, young and others who are aggrieved, they will come into power and ignore the will of the people.
It has happened MANY times in the past & it will happen again.While they understand that the masses may rise up again, they will tread carefully & slowly, not unlike their spawn in Gaza. By building more community based institutions, social services too, they will have co-opted their hearts and minds.Nevertheless, their goal it TOTAL Islamic subjugation, both in Egypt and beyond.The dream of the Caliphate animates all.
It is a realistic assessment, straight out of the playbook in 1979 Iran.
Adina,
Pied Piper is not aware that only after Friday prayers did the protests and violence really come to a head.
Just as many are unaware that many functionaries of Al Jazeera are Palestinians, and Hamas even has its representative there participating in the “Palestinian Papers”.
I believe that Al Jezeera is now banned in Egypt. Well it is a mouth piece for the MB, inciting and misleading.
10 Little Known Facts About Hmas and The Muslim Brotherhood.
http://deathby1000papercuts.com/2009/01/ten-little-known-or-understood-facts-about-hamas/
And they sure as heck are not known by our State Department or Obama.
pat,and your link is just the half of it.It is an important overview of what we are up against in the entire west.
The State Dept does know a lot more than they let on, as does Obama.They are behaving as if the MB are merely a civic society organization because it suits their Muslim meme.
Obama is clueless as to how to deal with the fast moving events, but in regard to the players-NOT at all.
“What Sauce Will Obama Use When He Eats His Words?”
Oh please let it be a heapin’ helpin’ of pure unadulterated Naga Jolokia pepper-sauce.
Please, please, please, please, puhleaaaaaaaaaaze!
Western minds really miss a huge discrepancy in thoughts- lost in translation
justice to you might mean equality under the law, access to trials etc
justice to people raised in ISLAm means no such thing- it means retaliation for perceived injustices of which they think they are victim
when you say human rights you may think about freedom of speech or religion
human rights to a Muslim means enforcement of sharia laws
in that case the “justice ” meted out will be Koranic- no details required you get the picture
when you say freedom of religion you think CHOICE
they mean no other faith except ISLAM will be tolerated & all others must be eliminated or subjugated
Houston we have a problem
our leaders are absolutely ignorant and unable to communicate with these alien species b/c they do not understand their language
Why would he apologize? Has anyone considered that Obama precipitated this uprising with his speech at Cairo University? I would at least give the devil his due when considering it could well have been his influence that incited the students to riot, after bring encouraged by the Tunisian uprising. Fits rather well into the perception that he encourages advances by Islamic Fundamentalists. After all, he did say he would have to side with the Muslims if it came to a choice.
Radio talk show host, Dennis Prager, was talking the other day about the meanings of the words “Israel” and “Islam”. Israel means to struggle with God. Islam means to submit to God.
Where would democracy and freedom flourish—a society which struggles with God or a society which submits to God? In which society would dictatorship be the norm?
What is Egypt’s future?
Adina of course is right, as from what I understand she/he lives closeby, I would woryy myself if I was in the vicinity. Born in the secular republic of Turkey some seven decades ago and brought up to love Turkey first and anything else after I am dismayed with the developments there. The islamic government in the quest to appease the EU have entrenched themselves and they are turning the country into an islamic state. It is unfortunate to think that many in the West are stupid (I am sorry, there is no other word)enough to think this is not a religious issue, it is just that. When Ataturk clamped on religion and the caliphate it was to save Turkey, unfortunately being a human he could not live forever.
What if the United States had recognized Vietnam when it had declared independence from France in 1946. Perhaps a tragedy might have been avoided.
“Israel should be integrated into an Islamic Caliphate, and Hamas and Hizbullah should be respected as legitimate political movements, according to Israeli-Arab MK Masoud Ganaim in an interview with the weekly paper Kul al-Arab, which is published in Israel.”
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/news.aspx/137535
Wait…I thought after Obama rose to power the oceans were going to recede, the planet would begin to heal, and the Muslims would love us all and bring us flowers while playing with unicorns under the pretty rainbows.
Oddly the Muslims still hate us…I dun git it.
There is no such thing as a Moderate Muslim, at least not in terms of the Koran, and those that label themselves such are Apostates. The Koran states that Apostates must be killed, hence the Muslim soldiers that fight on the side of America are a) Apostates and thus not Muslims or b) practicing Taqiyya to undermine the infidels from within.
Both Neo-con and Liberal reasoning for dealing with Muslims fail. Social ills of poverty, illiteracy, etc. aren’t the issue, Maj. Hassan and the 9/11 mass murderers prove that notion false as they were highly educated and economically well off. Multi-Culti’s are hopelessly confused as giving an inch only incites Muslims to grab a mile, they see it as weakness on our part.