Posts Tagged ‘Islam’

Democrats Take the War on Catholics to the Next Level

Tuesday, August 28th, 2012

Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the Senior Catholic official in America, generously offered to lead a prayer at the Democratic National Convention.

The Democrats declined.

They decided that they would rather have a two hour Islamic prayer ceremony instead.

Given how heavily Catholics outnumber Muslims amidst the electorate, this is, at the very least, bad optics and worse politics. But it’s so ham-handed that it suggest Democrats are doing it out of conviction rather than political calculation.

Two thoughts:

  1. If Obama wanted to quash those “secret Muslim” rumors, this wasn’t the way to do it.
  2. The constant hostility Democrats have shown to Catholics during this Administration suggests yet again that forcing Catholics to fund abortion wasn’t a side issue for ObamaCare, but in fact the central issue. Every knee must bend.

Today is Everyone Draw Mohammed Day

Sunday, May 20th, 2012

With less publicity than in 2010 it sort of snuck up on me this time. (I looked around in 2011 and couldn’t find anything.)

Sadly, most of the main blogs participating in 2010 seem to have died, though there is a Facebook page dedicated to it, as well as a Tumblr page. (As with the last Draw Mohammed Day, some of the images aren’t safe for work.) But there doesn’t seem to be a main blog for the effort this year.

Here are some in video form.

And Pakistan is evidently blocking Twitter over mere mentions of the event.

LinkSwarm for April 23, 2012

Monday, April 23rd, 2012

I have a few major posts in various stages of gestation, so here’s a LinkSwarm to tide you over in the meantime:

  • Mark Steyn on our heroic Secret Service agents: “It’s not just the entitlements. Everywhere you look in the bloated federal Leviathan, all is waste, all is excess. But the absurd imperial presidency is a good place to start. The next citizen-executive of this republic would be sending a right message were he to halve the motorcade, halve the security detail, halve the hookers.”
  • Does Obama have an $8 billion slush fund to soften the impact of cuts to the Medicare Advantage program until after the election? (Hat tip: Alphecca.)
  • Saudi Arabia’s Grand Mufti OKs marriage for ten year old girls. Insert your own Aisha joke here.
  • The story of the FBI’s long-running PATCON operation in the 1990s, and how it never managed to result in any serious charges (and missed Timothy McVigh to boot). (Hat tip: Supsy Street.)
  • The former President of the Maldives claims that Obama approved of the Islamist coup that deposed him. I’m not sure that’s the case, since it’s obvious that Obama doesn’t know where the Maldives are located.
  • George Washington kicks Rommel’s ass. (Hat tip: An American Housewife, Formerly in London.)
  • Pew Survey: GOP-sympathizers are better informed, more intellectually consistent, more open-minded, more empathetic and more receptive to criticism than their fellow Americans who support the Democratic Party.” (Hat tip: Alphecca.)
  • Voter fraud in Virginia. (Hat tip: Ace.)
  • An oldie, but still relevant why America hates the media.
  • Cyberattack on Iran’s oil industry?
  • Why did the South lose the Civil War?
  • Borepatch reports on the Dallas Blogshoot. I was too busy and it was a bit too long of a drive for me to make. Which is a shame, since I would have liked to try some of the machine guns, and the .50 cal. Bonus: Ponies!
  • You keep using that word…

    Monday, April 2nd, 2012

    …I do not think it means what you think it means.

    The word, in this case, is “moderate,” which seems to be particularly tricky to define. Especially when it comes to Middle Eastern political parties. Since you can support Hamas and promise to wipe Israel off the map and still be considered “moderate”…

    Syria Finally Ready to Blow?

    Sunday, November 13th, 2011

    Maybe. News that the Arab league has suspended Syria indicates Bashar Assad may be on even shakier ground than previously thought. Getting suspended by the Arab League for oppressing your own people is only a couple of steps above getting kicked out of the Klu Klux Klan for being too racist.

    And unlike Libya, even a hardline Islamist government would be a slight improvement on Assad, especially in Lebanon, if only because the Sunnis would break with Iran and cut off funding for the Shia Hezbollah.

    But it’s hard to tell. When Syrian generals defected at the end of July, that looked like it might have been the final push, but wasn’t. never underestimate a cornered dictator willing to do anything to stay in power.

    Frontline does a report from inside the Syrian uprising.

    Here’s an interactive map.

    Will Obama decide to roll out drone strikes in Syria? Maybe, but I wouldn’t count on it, as Obama hasn’t seemed terribly interested in Syria, even by the lax standards of his foreign policy engagement. Also, the geography is more daunting than in Libya; to be effective, they’d have to come in over Lebanon or Israel to hit targets in Damascus, each of which presents (different) political problems.

    Stay tuned…

    Oslo Bombing Update: 7 Dead, Ansar al-Jihad Takes Responsibility, More Shot at Youth Camp

    Friday, July 22nd, 2011

    So it was Ansar al-Jihad, as predicted by Jihadwatch.

    Now at least four more appear to be at a most-likely related shooting at a Youth camp.

    Remember, the only thing unusual about the Norway attacks is the location. Islamic terrorism kills this many people in other places around the globe pretty much every single day.

    Giant Explosion Rocks Norway. Jihad-Related?

    Friday, July 22nd, 2011

    Fox News is reporting one person dead and several injured.

    JihadWatch is saying that the explosion might possibly be related to terror charges against Mullah Krekar, founder of the Kurdish Islamist group Ansar al-Islam.

    Norway had declared Krekar a danger to national security, but is refusing to have him deported to Iraq. Why? Because he could be subject to the death penalty.

    More details as they occur.

    Give Our Regards to Hitler and Stalin

    Monday, May 2nd, 2011

    So. Osama Bin Laden is dead. Good. If there’s an afterlife, he’s moved on to a place where his ideas about Jihad will be warmly received.

    A few points:

  • This was an important victory, but the war against terror continues. Al Qaeda has a decentralized command structure, so cutting off the head won’t kill the beast.
  • The fact that it took us just under a decade to track Bin Laden down does not reflect well on the CIA. Human intelligence takes a while to develop, but ten years is ridiculous. We’re lucky he hadn’t died from natural causes already.
  • It proves, once again, that Pakistan is not our friend. I suspect, fairly strongly, that members of the Pakistani ISI (and possibly higher levels of Pakistan’s government) have been sheltering Bin Laden ever since we routed the Taliban.
  • Unlike Dwight, I do not believe that Bin Laden’s death ensures Obama’s reelection. It certainly doesn’t hurt, but it’s over a year and a half before the election in a horrible economy upon which stagflation is now taking a firm grip. If the Misery Index is at Jimmy Carter levels come November 2012, Osama’s capture will be a very distant memory indeed.
  • Why has the picture of Bin Laden’s corpse not been released? Nobody cares how gruesome it is, we want to see it to silence doubters and those who will rave about “Zionist plots” to claim he’s still alive.
  • Why on earth did we afford Osama bin laden a “proper” Islamic burial at sea? He’s Osama Bin Freaken Laden. We should have stuck it on a spike with a dead pig carcass and let it rot a few days. Those who would get upset at such treatment for the murderer of over 3,000 people aren’t the sort we can win over anyway.
  • Fail All the Way Around

    Tuesday, April 19th, 2011

    Dwight and Ann Althouse (among many others) are reporting on the vandalizing of a photographic print of Andres Serrano’s Piss Christ in France. (I’m not going to go into a history of the piece itself, whose heyday of controversy was before most of today’s college seniors were born; I suspect my readers can Google as well as anyone.) The attackers have not been apprehended, but there has been much speculation that they were disgruntled Catholics, though the proof of that is entirely conjectural. Assuming this is true (and not, as Althouse suggests, an inside job), this is like a perfect storm of fail for the attackers:

  • Destroying other people’s property is wrong. Even if you disagree with them. Even if they’re asshats. (I have no idea if Serrano is an asshat or merely an attention whore.) These are the tactics of left-wingers and jihadists, not thinking members of western democracies.
  • Andres Serrano is known for Piss Christ, and…um, hold on…let me think…uh, prints of Piss Christ. The guy had his 15 minutes of fame and slipped back into well-deserved obscurity, until you morons came along and gave him another 15 minutes. You’re doing it wrong.
  • Despite Instapundit’s observation that Christians are just following the examples of Muslims in suppressing blasphemous art, this attack will not actually achieve that end. This is possibly the best possible thing you could do for Serrano’s career. Indeed, I suspect legions of starving left-wing artists all across America have leapt from the futons in their parents’ basements at the news to boldly start working on art offensive to Christians, or at least fill out grant proposals for same. Destroying such art doesn’t intimidate anyone. No, as Islamists have proven again and again, you have to kill people to intimidate others into silence. Not that you should do that, and I’m in favor of the death penalty for killing your fellow countrymen for reasons of political ideology. Then again, this took place in Europe, where they’ve abolished the death penalty. Stabbing a blasphemous artist to death on the rue de martyrs would get you three hots and a cot for life…or until the state has to empty the prisons because they’re out of money.
  • So whoever did was either a very stupid religious believer, or a very smart guerrilla marketer…

    This Week in Jihad for March 3, 2011

    Thursday, March 3rd, 2011

    Another week, another Jihad roundup. I’m not sure I can keep up…

  • Both sides suck in Libya.
  • Moammar Gadhafi’s top ten international ass-kissing toadies.
  • The man who threatened South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone is sentenced to 25 years in prison for trying to join a terrorist group. “Screw you, hippie Jihaddi!”
  • There’s one unqualified success story in the Middle East that Arab countries could use as a template to improve their societies. The problem? It’s Israel.
  • Member of the Muslim Brotherhood says that peace treaties between Egypt and Israel are null and void.
  • Our kids may play Cops-and-Robbers or Cowboys-and-Indians. Pakistani children play suicide bomber.

  • Daniel Pipes (hardly a pushover) is cautiously optimistic about events in the Middle East.
  • Another reason to get tough with Somali pirates: One fifth of their money goes to jihadests.
  • Mosques in London start putting up “Gay Free Zone signs.
  • Here’s a good place to start cutting the budget deficit: u.S. government spends $770 million to restore mosques in the Middle East.
  • A Muslim might have converted to Christianity? That’s a school burning.
  • (Hat tips: JihadWatch, Instapundit, Michael Totten, Creeping Sharia.)