(28Sept05) “…If you want to understand the Left, the best place to start is with an understanding of hysteria. Leading leftists either use hysteria as a political tactic or are actually hysterics.” The left and hysteria by Dennis Prager “No event is free of leftist hysteria. On the third day after Katrina, civil rights activist Randall Robinson reported that blacks in New Orleans were resorting to cannibalism. Indeed, most of the news media coverage bordered on the hysterical….the irony in all of this is that the Left sees itself as the side that thinks intellectually and non-emotionally. And that is hysterical.
The Left brought terror to our door
(25Sept05) “….The seed for al-Qa'eda may have been sown during the twilight of the Cold War, but something in the Nineties allowed this terror group to metamorphose from being one small part of an Afghan-specific guerrilla army into a global, transnational, nihilistic network. What was that?.... In a nutshell, in the 1990s al-Qa'eda became the armed wing of Western liberal opinion..” The Left brought terror to our door (The Weekend Australian Sept 24/25) “…Some of the mujahedin, especially those from Europe, including from Britain, were inspired to fight in Bosnia after watching or reading news reports in the Western media — especially the liberal media — which presented the civil war in Bosnia as a simplistic battle between good (the Muslims) and evil (the Serbs)...Ahmed Omar Sheikh, the Briton convicted in Pakistan of murdering the American journalist Daniel Pearl, was reportedly inspired to join a jihadist movement after watching videos of the Bosnian Muslims' plight at the London School of Economics, of all places… It is time we interrogated the movement of al-Qa'eda in the early to mid-1990s, and explored how that movement was facilitated by liberal politicians and their supporters in the media...”
Jean lamented multiculturalism's 'absurdities
(25Sept05) “…The government's policy of multiculturalism encourages people to stay in ethnic ghettos and leads to "all sorts of absurdities," Governor General-designate Michaelle Jean has said… We are even given money so that we will each stay in our own separate enclosure. There's a kind of proposition of ghettoization that is there, and that is financed. Yet 'multiculturalism' is proposed as a founding model of Canada," Jean lamented multiculturalism's 'absurdities' by Kate Jaimet in The Ottawa Citizen via Canada.com“…There are even values that we would profoundly like to adhere to, here in Quebec, and also in the rest of Canada, that are undermined in the name of this separate development and 'multiculturalism'."Ms. Jean, who immigrated from Haiti as a child, will become Canada 's first black governor general when she assumes her post next week….”
Europe ships war refugees back home
(25Sept05)…In a backdrop of public wariness about their perceived drain on the social system and an improved political situation in their countries, the government is speeding their return. Europe ships war refugees back home by Isabelle de Pommereau in The Christian Science Monitor , “…This summer, Germany 's 16 state interior ministers voted to hasten the return of hundreds of thousands of refugees to Kosovo , Iraq , and Afghanistan . And in May, the state of Hamburg began repatriating Afghans, saying that stability there had returned…. The trend is spreading across Europe, especially in countries with former liberal asylum policies such as Holland , Norway , Denmark , and England . Governments are implementing plans for faster and more efficient returns of refugees…”
Why do we tolerate intolerance?
(23Sept05) “…Red Cross officials have been meeting in Switzerland to decide upon a new logo — and presumably, by implication, name — for their fine organisation. The logo in question is the red cross. And the problem with the cross is that it enrages Muslims.” Why do we tolerate intolerance? Rod Liddle (Spectator Magazine) “..When Islam appears on the agenda, the goalposts are moved: the normal rational thought processes are not applied. Suddenly those Left-liberal shibboleths are not very important: they can be forgotten. Append the description ‘Muslim' to anyone and all bets are off; he or she can get away with pretty much anything, be it the execution of homosexuals or the idea that Jews and Freemasons are running the government...”
Declare war on 'radical Islam'?
(23Sept05) “..My central assertion is that while we in the United States and Europe have vast resources for protecting ourselves, we have thought ourselves into a position of near impotence ... In Europe, there is a blind denial that radical Islam is transforming the world..” Declare war on 'radical Islam'? by Patrick J Buchanan “..How we arrived in this perilous situation is well known. In what historians, centuries hence, will call the Great European Civil War, Western nations, from 1914 to 1918 and 1939 to 1945, butchered one another with such wild abandon they destroyed all the European empires it took centuries to build. And the colonial subjects then began to migrate to the West and colonize the mother countries…. There are now 20 million Muslims inside the House of Europe. Ghettoized in the great cities, professing a faith that was the rival of Christianity for a thousand years, they have not assimilated….”
(23Sept05)“…On the day of Simon Wiesenthal's death, Sir Iqbal Sacranie, the Secretary-General of the Muslim Council of Britain, could be found in The Guardian proposing the abolition of Holocaust Memorial Day because it is offensive to Muslim…
The double bigotry reflected in this proposal should be evident to all people of good will. First, I can understand why commemoration of the Holocaust should be offensive to those Muslims and others who supported Nazi victory over Britain and Nazi genocide against the Jews and others..” A painful absence of balance by Alan Dershowitz. “..And there were many such Muslims, led by the leader then of the Palestinian people Haj Amin al-Husseini, who urged Hitler to extend the final solution beyond Europe's borders to Jewish refugees who had reached Palestine…”
Why Do Muslim Leaders in Britain Wish to Diminish the Holocaust?
(18Sept05) “…First of all, I find it very hard to believe that Muslims feel excluded from being victims of the Holocaust. I find it hard to believe that Muslims feel excluded from being forced to wear yellow stars on the chests. I find it hard to believe that Muslims feel excluded from being compelled from their homes and having their businesses destroyed by angry mobs. I find it hard to believe that Muslims feel excluded from being placed on trains that shipped them to Auschwitz, Birkenau and Dachau . I find it hard to believe that Muslims feel excluded from being systematically murdered by a dictator who believed in a pure Aryan race..” Why Do Muslim Leaders in Britain Wish to Diminish the Holocaust? By Aaron Goldstein “.. It must be remembered that Grand Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Arab spiritual in British Mandated Palestine, went to Germany to meet with Adolf Hitler and express his support for his efforts to rid Europe of Jews in 1941….given that the Grand Mufti publicly supported Adolf Hitler during WWII and given that many Arab Muslim governments actively deny there ever was a Holocaust why would it then be a stretch for Muslim leaders in a Western country to behave in a similar manner?”
(18Sept05) In recent weeks Tony Blair was advised to abolish the annual Holocaust day in Britain as it was regarded as offensive to Muslims making them feel excluded and marginalized. Perhaps there is another reason, the real reason they wanted the day abolished ( click here ). It's about being an ally of Hitler and the Nazis , spiritual bothers in arms. Also it is worth noting that The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin el-Husseini was the uncle of Yasser Arafat .
In case you have difficulty reading the script under the photo link it read as follows:
“ A photo of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem reviewing the Nazi “Handzar” Division SS in Yugoslavia 1944. In an address to the Muslim troops, the Mufti put Islam and Nazism on the same level, claiming there were considerable similarities between Islamic principles and National Socialism.”
(The David Pryce Jones book The Closed Circle (chapter 8) covers the links and connections between the Arab World and The Nazis in detail.)
(18Sept05)“…In the madhouse of today's Britain, even the crack addict and the violent thug can be classified as disabled under anti-discrimination regulations…..almost any selfish or dangerous conduct can now be categorised as mental illness. In this twisted world all concepts of morality and personal responsibility have been lost, replaced by a determination to medicalise every behavioural problem.” Disability allowances by Leo McKinstr y , Spectator Magazine “..Any attempt to tell them to behave in a civilised manner is a form of discrimination in itself….The ever-expanding definition of disability is no frivolous matter. For it has allowed those with personal problems, like alcoholism or drug addiction, to wallow in a permanent sense of grievance, regarding themselves as victims of a medical condition….While tens of millions of ordinary Britons work hard in their jobs, the field of employment law is now geared towards those who want to evade their responsibilities…”
David Hicks is entitled to, and is likely to receive a Fair Trial
(16Sept05) “..The latest indications are that David Hicks' trial could now be delayed until next year. That trial of course must be fair…. To the public, the system seems to be less about justice and more about technicalities, and excusing behaviour by the sane on sociological and psychological grounds. David Hicks is entitled to, and is likely to receive a Fair Trial by David Flint, emeritus professor of law “..Another bar to such a (civil court) trial may be the Miranda Rule “ …To use any evidence obtained in questioning him, Hicks would have had to been advised before the interrogation, or any informal discussion, of his right to remain silent, that anything he said would be used against him in a court of law, that he was entitled to the presence of counsel, and that if he could not afford this one would be appointed. It is doubtful that the Northern Alliance had a Miranda card to read to him when they apprehended him, nor the American soldiers when they received him…”
Now, it's the Palestinians' turn
(16Sept05) “…For the past year, the disengagement has been perceived first and foremost as an Israeli event. …But now, after the last Israeli has come home, the disengagement has ceased to be an Israeli event. Now, after the gate of the Kissufim checkpoint has been locked, the disengagement has become a Palestinian event. Now, it's the Palestinians' turn “… Never before have the Palestinians not lived under occupation. Thus now, following the end of the disengagement, they have attained what they never had before. After hundreds of years of subservience to Turkish foreign rule and British foreign rule and Egyptian and Jordanian and Israeli foreign rule, some 1.5 million Palestinians have finally gained self-rule. After hundreds of years of oppression, some 1.5 million Palestinians now live, for the first time, without roadblocks, without prisons, without settlements and without a government of occupation..” “…Freedom creates obligations - even when it is only partial. Now, when the Palestinians have been given freedom such as they have never known before, they also bear responsibility such as they have never known before….”
(16Sept05)“…Only days after the final withdrawal of Israeli forces, the Gaza Strip is on the verge of anarchy. Despite promises to impose law and order, the Palestinian Authority has allowed mobs of looters and armed extremists to rampage through former Jewish settlements, where they have burned or bulldozed synagogues left standing by Israel . Many of the valuable greenhouses that, with the generous help of international donors, were saved for use by the Palestinians have been stripped of equipment as police stood by and watched.” The Scorpion and the Frog (Self destruction - "Its my Nature", said the Scorpion...) “…Mr. Abbas's problem is in part one of weakness; it's not certain that the security forces loyal to him could impose order by force in Gaza even if he ordered them to.” Bad Start in Gaza from the Washington Post “..The Gaza withdrawal should have been a step toward an Israeli-Palestinian settlement; instead, it could become a leap away from it…”
Europe Learns the Wrong Lessons
(14Sept05) "Nearly one third of Germans under 30 say that the U.S. government ordered the 9/11 attacks. In France , a book insisting that Americans carried out the assault themselves to increase defense budgets becomes a huge bestseller… Unlike some forms of bigotry, anti-Americanism is most virulent among Europe 's elites. Everyday Germans and Brits and Italians tend to be more appreciative of American culture, economic achievement, and government than their political lords”. Europe Learns the Wrong Lessons by Karl Zinsmeister “..The tradition of a peasantry ruled by its "betters" endures in numerous ways. Many of these habits are actually being deepened by the European Union, where decision making is dominated by un-recallable mandarins serving appointments in Brussels, who regularly ram through laws that could never pass by popular referendum… An irresponsible preference for moral dudgeon over useful solutions is now a hallmark of European foreign affairs, argues Charles Krauthammer… Krauthammer's conclusion is that the European Left's "concern for human rights turns out to be nothing more than a useful weapon for its anti-Americanism…"
The Circus of the Intellectuals
(14Sept05) On political matters particularly, intellectuals tend to share these two characteristics," Harries observes. "They are slaves of fashion, and, on the big questions, they tend to get things hopelessly wrong….the intellectuals exert their influence through the knowledge class--educating, advising, cajoling, and chastising those who actually do the work of organizing and running the society.” The Circus of the Intellectuals by R Albert Mohler ".. America 's intellectual class has been overwhelmingly characterized by a sense of opposition to the nation's mainstream values. This intellectual "adversary culture" desires nothing less than a comprehensive social and culture revolution in America--a revolution that would produce, presumably, a global paradise modeled after the University of California at Berkley…”
(14Sept05) Janet Albrechtsen again doesn't miss a beat, She again nails the left with this blistering and scarifying piece :
“..Go into most bookshops and on the shelf headed " Australia " is a growing genre of books written by academics on the Left and devoted to their version of the culture wars…. Reading these you get the feeling left-wing academics and commentators have been reduced to writing for each other…. This predictable genre of political whinge lit has a few central articles of faith. The Howard Government is the embodiment of political evil and Rupert Murdoch is the media equivalent..” Left unread on the shelf by Janet Albrechtsen (The Australian Sept 14 th ) “…Theirs are old battles, lost long ago. If the Left is to engage the Australian people, as opposed to its own priestly caste and diehard adherents, it needs to accept the verdict of the populace on these issues and move on…. When talking up the family is derided as sinister, you start to appreciate just how far removed academics such as Maddox are from the rest of Australia … The Left has grown so accustomed to having a one-sided, or at least lop-sided, debate on its preferred issues, it is rather miffed that new voices are being heard and published..”
No shame: The federal response to Katrina was not as portrayed
(14Sept05) "The federal government pretty much met its standard time lines, but the volume of support provided during the 72-96 hour was unprecedented. The federal response here was faster than Hugo, faster than Andrew, faster than Iniki, faster than Francine and Jeanne." No shame: The federal response to Katrina was not as portrayed by Jack Kelly “…Journalists who are long on opinions and short on knowledge have no idea what is involved in moving hundreds of tons of relief supplies into an area the size of England in which power lines are down, telecommunications are out, no gasoline is available, bridges are damaged, roads and airports are covered with debris, and apparently have little interest in finding out….. A better question -- which few journalists ask -- is why weren't the roughly 2,000 municipal and school buses in New Orleans utilized to take people out of the city before Katrina struck ?”
Start a Revolution--Eat Dinner With Your Family
(13Sept05) "...What if I told you that there was a magic bullet--something that would improve the quality of your daily life, your children's chances of success in the world, your family's health, our values as a society? Something that is inexpensive, simple to produce and within the reach of pretty much anyone?" Start a Revolution--Eat Dinner With Your Family “… the research indicates that a shared family meal leads to the strengthening of family bonds, the deepening of relationships, and higher levels of satisfaction and effectiveness among family members… In reality, families did not merely decide to stop eating together. The rhythms, complexities, and chaos of today's lifestyles simply produced a reality that made shared family meals almost impossible…”
An Islamist threat like the Nazis
(13Sept05) “..The threat of the radical Islamists taking over Europe is every bit as great to the United States as was the threat of the Nazis taking over Europe in the 1940s….It is beginning to dawn on Europeans that the combination of a shrinking ethnic-European population and an expanding, culturally assertive Muslim population might lead to the fall of Western civilization in Europe within a century….(The European) instinct for survival has not been fully extinguished. But that survival instinct is threatened by the multiculturalism and political correctness advocated in media and academe -- and institutionalized in national and European Union laws and regulations for half a century.” An Islamist threat like the Nazis by Tony Blankley (The Washington Times). “..Just as the Nazis reached back to German mythology and the supposed Aryan origins of the German people, the radical Islamists reach back to the founding ideas and myths of their religious culture. And just like the Nazis, they claim to speak for authentic traditions while actually advancing expedient and radical innovations….If the current leaders of Europe do not respond to the Islamist threat boldly and effectively, the common European people might decide to defend their culture as vigilantes. In that case, Europe again will become a bloody urban battleground..”.
City of New Orleans Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan
(13Sept05) “..The safe evacuation of threatened populations when endangered by a major catastrophic event is one of the principle reasons for developing a Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan…..Due to the geography of New Orleans and the varying scales of potential disasters and their resulting emergency evacuations, different plans are in place for small-scale evacuations and for citywide relocations of whole populations.” City of New Orleans Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan “.. Authority to issue evacuations of elements of the population. By Executive Order, the chief elected official, the Mayor of the City of New Orleans, has the authority to order the evacuation of residents threatened by an approaching hurricane ….As established by the City of New Orleans Charter , the government has jurisdiction and responsibility in disaster response. City government shall coordinate its efforts through the Office of Emergency Preparedness …The authority to order the evacuation of residents threatened by an approaching hurricane is conferred to the Governor by Louisiana Statute. The Governor is granted the power to direct and compel the evacuation of all or part of the population from a stricken or threatened area within the State, if he deems this action necessary for the preservation of life or other disaster mitigation, response or recovery.”
Report card fails postmodern student assessments
(11Sept05) “…Australians love competitive sport and the idea of winners and losers. Australian parents also want to know how well their children are traveling against others at school and whether they have passed or failed…Instead of pass or fail, student progress or lack of progress is clouded by such politically correct terms as beginning, established, consolidating or emerging, solid, comprehensive..” Report card fails postmodern student assessments by Kevin Donnelly in The Australian “.. While parents want an end to politically correct reports, the same cannot be said for those seeking to control our education system….The next time you drive across a bridge, hope that the engineers knew and respected the laws of physics and that their understanding was not at the "beginning" or "emerging" stage…. Not only do students in Japan , Singapore and The Netherlands regularly out-perform Australian students in international maths and science tests, but thousands of Australian students enter secondary schools illiterate and innumerate…”.
Shame, Honor and Terror in the Middle East
(11Sept05) “..Their way of war- brilliantly described by T.E. Lawrence in The Seven Pillars of Wisdom – is based on hit and run forays by camel-mounted Bedouin who appear suddenly out of the desert, tear up an unsuspecting enemy camp, and then disappear back into the waste, carrying ‘honorable' loot .” Shame, Honor and Terror in the Middle East by David Leo Gutman (FrontPage Magazine October 2003) “…The traditional Bedouin created a nearly pure "Shame" culture, whose goal was to avoid humiliation, and to acquire sharraf - honor. Thus, the goal of the Bedouin raid is not to finally win a war, for such inter-tribal conflict is part of the honorable way of life, and should never really end. The essential goals of the raid are to take wealth – not only in goods, but also in honor - and to impose shame on the enemy…..This calculus of shame and sharraf is an important element in all Arab warfare, whether waged by Saddam Hussein, Yasir Arafat, or a Bedouin sheik. In particular, that same dynamic drives the Arab preference for irregular over conventional war…”
(11Sept05) “..Logically there are two basic strategies for combating poverty. One, the “capitalist” strategy, is to allow economic growth to improve everybody's living standards (raising all boats). The other, the “socialist” strategy, is to take resources away from more prosperous people and transfer them to those with less..” Defining Poverty by Peter Saunders . “'poverty' or ‘hardship' is not simply, or even primarily, a matter of low incomes. Research on ‘hardship' has found that the great majority of households on the lowest incomes report no hardship, and that half of the households that do report hardship are on incomes above the conventional half-median ‘poverty line'. The only explanation is that most people on low incomes manage to ‘get by', and that those who suffer do so because of the way they handle their money and organise their lives. Although the poverty lobbyists refuse to recognise it, there is a significant ‘behavioural' component to what they call ‘poverty'”.
(11Sept05) “..Although this new, intellectually-trained class (the cultural elite) professed their motives as social justice, they held contempt for the majority of Australians, who they thought remained mired in materialism and shrouded in xenophobia” Vilifying Australia by Keith Windschuttle www.sydneyline.com “..Hence, the fashionable causes of the day defined traditional Australians and their way of life as the problem, and immigrants and their way of life as the solution. Cultural diversity became a symbol of social prestige that distinguished this new class from the old Anglophile establishment…Contempt for the suburbs where most Australians choose to live has reverberated down through our elite culture.” This is the 2005 Earle Page Memorial Oration, delivered at Parliament House, Sydney, on June 22 2005 .
Katrina's devastation -powerpoint show
(9Sept05) Just to prove the point that the Mayor of New Orleans screwed up, note the Yellow Buses, dozens of them under water. Why weren't these deployed?? The other shots give an idea as to the scale, and dimension of the devastation. Katrina's devastation -powerpoint show and Download a free PowerPoint Viewer if you don't have PowerPoint on your computor.
(9Sept05) “To America 's Angry Left it was yet another occasion to score political points against President George W. Bush. In the same spirit of opportunism that animated looters who stole television sets, Bush's political foes frantically sought to blame the devastation on him.” Myths of Hurricane Katrina by James Taranto “…Katrina was an equal-opportunity destroyer. The media's coverage of the disaster understandably centred on New Orleans , the biggest city in the region, which is two-thirds black. But the storm also devastated at least four suburban Louisiana parishes and three coastal Mississippi counties. All have white majorities, ranging from 69.8 per cent to 90.2 per cent.”
(9Sept05)“..the primary responsibility for the disaster response lies with New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco and other local officials..” Don't Blame Bush for Katrina by Christopher Ruddy “.. New Orleans ' city leaders did almost nothing to evacuate the portion of the population with no transportation. In failing to follow their own evacuation plan, these officials did little to pre-position food, water and personnel to deal with the aftermath… The city's plan also specifically called for the use of city-owned buses and school buses to evacuate the population. These were apparently never deployed, though the Parish of Plaquemines just south of the city evacuated its population using school buses…”
(9Sept05)“…only the next morning, with Katrina less than 24 hours away, did (Ray) Nagin finally order his city to be emptied. Yet he did nothing to make sure it did. Hurricane of Lies by Andrew Bolt, Herald Sun. “He sent no police through the streets to sound the alarm. He did not empty the hospitals. He sent no buses to take poorer citizens from this poorest of cities -- people with no car or money to flee. In fact, more than 200 of his school buses were later found neatly parked, still in their depot, up to their useless engines in flood water….So when Katrina struck on Monday, 100,000 people -- largely the sickest and poorest -- were still in their doomed city, half in the Superdome and convention centre. There they found no chemical toilets, few medics, no water purification equipment, not enough police and little food or water. The 26,000 at the Superdome, for instance, had been left food just enough for 15,000 for three days. All this was Nagin's responsibility . Not Bush's. And it explains those pitiful scenes of stranded people begging for food.”
(9Sept05) “..Decades ago, the Green Left – pursuing its agenda of valuing wetlands and topographical “diversity” over human life – sued to prevent the Army Corps of Engineers from building floodgates that would have prevented significant flooding that resulted from Hurricane Katrina. ” New Orleans: A Green Genocide by Michael Tremoglie. FrontPageMagazine.com ”… scientists had long warned about New Orleans' vulnerability to the potential for massive loss of life caused by such things as the environmentalists' lawsuit …”
The Forces of Decomposition and The War on Terror
(9Sept05)“..It is not just the terrorist threat that we have to deal with now, but the grievance culture under it, that has taken such a strong hold in the West. It may, in fact, prove the greater threat because it takes away our greatest protection against terrorism: moral clarity. The Forces of Decomposition and The War on Terror by William J Bennett “..Where once our law and culture were based on assigning blame on a perpetrator of wrong, and personal responsibility was a commonplace (as well as commonsense), a new psychology has taken hold in Western culture. Where once we punished and fought, we now psychologize and debate the causes of anger and terror…”
So, Tell Me, What's All the Fuss?
I'm sure this echoes the view of most people So, Tell Me, What's All the Fuss?
(5Sept05) “… New Orleans was ripe for collapse. Its dangerous geography, combined with a dangerous culture, made it susceptible to an unfolding catastrophe. Currents of chaos and lawlessness were running through the city long before this week, and they were bound to come to the surface under the pressure of natural disaster and explode in a scene of looting and mayhem Masques of Death by George Neumayr, American Spectator. “..Criminals have ruled New Orleans for some time, convincing many members of the middle class, long before the hurricane, that the city was unlivable. In 1994, New Orleans was the murder capital of America . It had 421 murders that year. Criminologists predicted 300 murders this year, a projection that now looks quite conservative.”
An Unnatural Disaster: A Hurricane Exposes the Man-Made Disaster of the Welfare State
(5Sept05)“The man-made disaster we are now witnessing in New Orleans did not happen over four days last week. It happened over the past four decades. Hurricane Katrina merely exposed it to public view. The man-made disaster is the welfare state. An Unnatural Disaster: A Hurricane Exposes the Man-Made Disaster of the Welfare State by Robert Tracinski “..People living in piles of their own trash, while petulantly complaining that other people aren't doing enough to take care of them and then shooting at those who come to rescue them—this is not just a description of the chaos at the Superdome. It is a perfect summary of the 40-year history of the welfare state and its public housing projects. The welfare state—and the brutish, uncivilized mentality it sustains and encourages—is the man-made disaster that explains the moral ugliness that has swamped New Orleans . And that is the story that no one is reporting.
The Muslims are coming! The Muslims are coming!
(5Sept05) NOTE: This was written 15 years ago !
“…Nor is the idea of the Muslims as the outstanding threat to Western civilization entirely new. As early as 1984, Leon Uris explained that his purpose in writing The Haj , a novel, "was to warn the West and Western democracies that you can't keep your head in the sand about this situation any longer, that we have an enraged bull of a billion people on our planet, and tilted the wrong way they could open the second road to Armageddon The Muslims are coming! The Muslims are coming! By Daniel Pipes (November 1990 ) “Ideological enthusiasms like Marxism-Leninism will wax and wane, these writers are saying, but the Muslim adversary remains permanently in place…. All immigrants bring exotic customs and attitudes, but Muslim customs are more troublesome than most. Also, they appear most resistant to assimilation. Elements among the Pakistanis in Britain, Algerians in France, and Turks in Germany seek to turn the host country into an Islamic society by compelling it to adapt to their way of life…”
Are You Australian?
(5Sept05) Try the The Fair Dinkum, Ridgy Didge, Dinky die, True Blue, Dyed-in-the-wool, Let's Talk Strine SAO Quiz! (from timblair.net)
It Didn't Start with bin Laden
(4Sept05) “…Religiously motivated terrorism against America isn't new — in fact, it dates back hundreds of years…” A bit of History, from Citizen Magazine November 2001. It Didn't Start with bin Laden by Chris Jeub
Just One Question for Opponents of the Iraq War
(4Sept05) Anyone who remains unable to morally judge people who slit the throats of innocent people, who place bombs in the middle of markets, and who murder anyone attempting to help women achieve basic human rights is a moral imbecile. Just One Question for Opponents of the Iraq War by Dennis Prager FrontPageMagazine.
Sharia Potesters target Canada
(4Sept05)“…The issue of sharia -based tribunals in Ontario is causing alarm in Europe , where Muslim feminists fighting for greater equality clash with conservative Muslim groups lobbying for faith-based family law ." Sharia Potesters target Canada by Marina Jimenez of The Globe and Mail. “…It is a battle to control the discourse of the religion. In Canada , political Islamists are using the tool of multiculturalism and freedom of culture and religion to oppress women. The introduction of sharia courts in Ontario would send the wrong message to the world," said Ms. Arjomand, who fled Iran in 1989 and settled in Toronto …”
(3Sept05) How Prophetic is this? From Scientific American October 2001.“..A major hurricane could swamp New Orleans under 20 feet of water, killing thousands.” Drowning New Orleans by Mark Fishetti “Human activities along the Mississippi River have dramatically increased the risk, and now only massive reengineering of southeastern Louisiana can save the city.”