(29Oct05)“…Because a war of attrition heavily favors their ultimate goals, Islamist terrorists have so far not been deterred by large numbers of their young men being killed. Life is cheap to them, even their own, and so they remain unmoved by their losses and still lust for power through murder…Our enemies remain free to plan and perpetrate never-ending acts of total war designed to destroy the very fabric of our society. Failure to respond with even greater destructiveness will only serve to prolong this struggle. In any contest, the first rule of victory is to fight on your own terms and not your opponents.” Consequences of Nuking Mecca by Vernon Richards. “…One ‘ terrible price ' currently under debate is an nuclear attack on Mecca should any 9/11 scale attack (or larger) occur on US soil…. the burden of loss needs to be shifted decidedly to fundamental Muslims themselves (and what they value most) if there is to be any hope of ending all this madness…”
The Racial and Religious Hatred Bill: A Milestone on Britain's Road to Dhimmitude
(29Oct05)“..Even before the Rushdie affair allowed Muslims in Britain to flex their muscles in open opposition to the law of the land, a Declaration issued by the Islamic Foundation in Leicester stated, urbi et orbi, that its goal is to change the existing British society into “an Islamic society based on the Qur'an and the Sunna and make Islam, which is a code for entire life, supreme and dominant, especially in the socio-political spheres..” The Racial and Religious Hatred Bill: A Milestone on Britain's Road to Dhimmitude by Srdja Trifkovic “…The British security services, exemplified by Sir Ian Blair, have followed their political masters into a state of denial regarding the Islamist threat. The courts, for their part, routinely interpret the criminal, asylum, and terrorism laws in the manner damaging to the security of the Realm and favorable to the Islamic underground..…If Racial and Religious Hatred Bill is passed, we will be a step closer to the fulfilment of T.S. Eliot's warning that the West would end, “not with a bang but a whimper.”
(29Oct05)The British libel laws are so destructive that they affect writers and publications who never set foot in Britain and never published there.. Banned in the UK by Rachel Ehrenfeld “..British libel laws are not the only tools that the Islamists use to silence their opponents. They exploit the laws that are designed to ensure freedom to subvert democracies throughout the world. And what they cannot achieve by exploiting the laws, they often achieve through intimidation and invoking political correctness.
(29Oct05) The stories about the video of US troops burning the bodies of dead Taliban are disgusting––but not because of anything our troops may have done to the corpses of fanatical murderers. What's disturbing is the groveling reaction of our government and military officials, who are falling all over themselves to apologize to people who cheer every time an American is killed….” The Folly of Apology by Bruce Thornton “..The millions of Muslims who support jihadist murder do so not because they're ignorant of our beneficent intentions and enlightened tolerance, but because of spiritual beliefs that validate jihad, beliefs ratified by 14 centuries of Islamic jurisprudence and theology….To think that one can fight a brutal enemy within utopian parameters is to court failure and defeat…If we don't really believe in those goals enough to grit our teeth and do what must be done, as our fathers and grandfathers did in World War II, then we should pack up right now and go home..”
(26Oct05)“On a recent visit to an inner-east Sydney cafe, I was confronted with that popular new intellectual pastime of many Australians: radical anti-Americanism.…No longer afflicting only those mythical tribes with a fondness for latte or chardonnay, the loud and proud hatred of everything the US stands for is becoming the default ideological setting across political, economic and municipal lines. My awareness of this fledgling mood received a shot in the arm when I was made out to be the intellectual outcast at a recent dinner party among educated Westerners. My sin? Failure to find a moral justification for suicide bombings.” Bush not a Prototype by Mal Bozic.”…Such a public endorsement of xenophobic sentiments as exhibited by the said cafe was surprising, not least given the location. Apparently, under the prevailing political correctness regime, some nationalities are more equal than others…”
Dutch Virtue of Tolerance Under Strain
(23Oct05)“…Cut a keyhole through Dutch decorum and violence appears: a filmmaker shot and stabbed by an Islamic fanatic, politicians in hiding from jihadist threats, a newspaper columnist menaced into silence, people living in fear…what was once a subject of worthy debate (immigration) is now more a matter of survival…” Dutch Virtue of Tolerance Under Strain International Herald Tribune “…Hirsi Ali became a Dutch citizen in 1997. She went along to a local government office, paid about $300 and was given a passport. Nobody asked why she wanted to become Dutch. "I just bought a travel document,….The contract involved in becoming Dutch was never spelled out. And one day, the country, like others in Europe , woke up to find strangers in its midst…. All of Europe is in a state of denial, It thinks these killings will go away, but they will not. The Holy Book says infidels must be destroyed…. Islam is not a religion of peace, or only of peace with other Muslims…We should demand an Islamic Reformation." she said.
Israel can bank on our support
(23Oct05)“…The UN has a deep structural bias against Israel . To take one of many examples, there has been at the UN Commission on Human Rights a separate agenda item devoted to Israel at every meeting. No other nation gets a whole agenda item, not China , not North Korea , not Iran . It has been impossible even to get up a single resolution about Zimbabwe 's recent murderous practices…” Israel can bank on our support by Greg Sheridan, The Australian. “..For 40 years more than one-quarter of the resolutions passed at the commission have been aimed at Israel . Anyone who believes Israel is responsible for one-quarter of the world's human rights violations needs to get their medication changed…. No other nation is singled out for the relentless attacks at the UN that Israel has to cop…. All this anti-Israel activity does nothing to improve the Palestinians' lot. It makes the UN worthless in the Middle East because Israel is utterly hostile and distrustful of it, while the Palestinian cause is endlessly inflamed in soaring and worthless rhetoric, taken over by the international bureaucrat class far from the realities on the ground….”
Unhelpful for Students and Teachers
(23Oct05)“…A syllabus would provide teachers with an outline of possible routes to Sydney , for example, via the Hume Highway or around the coast, and there would be details of what all students should learn and what constitutes a pass or a fail...” Unhelpful for Students and Teachers by Kevin Donnelly “..Based on OBE (outcomes based education), not only are teachers denied a syllabus detailing the best way to Sydney , but children negotiate their own way in their own time, and as long as they eventually arrive, whether via Perth or Brisbane , all are considered successful…”
Only way out for addicts is to say no
(14Oct05) “Thank God for the Salvos. In treating alcoholics and other addicts, the Salvation Army still aims for complete abstinence rather than so-called "controlled" drinking or drug use….No matter how long they have been sober, alcoholics in the Bridge Program and in AA always speak of their alcoholism in the present tense: "My name is ... and I am an alcoholic."…. in the past 25 years in Australia an anti-abstinence orthodoxy has become entrenched in health department practice and policy, with extremely unfortunate results…” Only way out for addicts is to say no by Ross Fitzgerald “… What is particularly damaging is that alcoholics and their families are given the false hope that controlled drinking is a viable option and that abstinence is not necessary for alcoholics and other addicts….For more than 40 years the Salvation Army has kept the faith in its commitment to total abstinence as the prime therapeutic goal for alcoholics and other addicts. Fortunately we are now beginning to see a return to the abstinence model by an increasing number of psychologists and medical practitioners, and to once again valuing AA as the most effective form of long-term therapy for Australians addicted to alcohol.”
Why western elites don't fear muslims
(9Oct05) “…Liberals need the presence of dysfunctional or unassimilated people in society in order to have someone upon whom to exercise the liberal virtues of compassion and non-discrimination, which are the very purpose and justification of liberal society.” Why western elites don't fear muslims by Lawrence Auster “ Since the liberals are focused entirely on their own psychological and ideological agenda, namely the acceptance and inclusion of unassimilable minorities which in turn legitimizes the liberals' power and position, they can't conceive that that agenda may lead to their own dispossession…”
English flag offensive to Muslims?
(7Oct05) “…Prison officials in Britain are concerned that tie pins worn by officers featuring the St. George's Cross – the symbol on England's flag – could offend Muslims who might associate it with the Crusades of the 11th, 12th and 13th centuries...” English flag offensive to Muslims? “… The red cross is an insensitive reminder of the Crusades, said Chris Doyle, director of the Council for the Advancement of Arab-British Understanding. Doyle thinks England needs to find a new flag and patron saint "not associated with our bloody past and one we can all identify with…"
(7Oct05) “…Although illegal immigration is causing friction in the US , the situation in Europe is much more volatile. ” Immigration or Invasion? By WolfgangBruno “... It is hypocritical to profess belief in democracy, then deny people any democratic control over immigration policy. The pro-immigrationists are effectively trying to abolish nationhood, denying a country the right to sustain its own culture…. Spain's 3.5 million immigrants now represent 8 percent of the population , coming largely from Africa….Once immigrants are accepted into one nation, in this case Spain, they have the right to move anywhere within the EU… Simply put, the EU has weakened border controls in Europe at the same time as a population explosion in Muslim neighbor regions is threatening to spill over, potentially causing a succession of civil wars in Western European nations…”
Multiculturalism: Tribalism Recycled
(7Oct05)“..The purpose of multiculturalism is to extirpate the truly free cultures by asserting that they are equivalent to primitive, Islamic cultures. The idea is kept alive by repeating myths about the "tolerant" Islamic rule in Spain . If all cultures and religions are equally worthy of respect, why didn't the West remain in the age when we burned witches and held slaves?”. Multiculturalism: Tribalism Recycled by Wolfgang Bruno “… The entire leftist worldview is based upon the idea that certain groups of people oppress other groups of people. Leftists need oppressed groups, and Muslims need to explain away their own failures by claiming to be oppressed. It's a perfect match…. Multiculturalism is a medieval concept. Unless defeated, it may well generate medieval results…”
(2Oct05) Anatomy of a photgraph
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