Stoopid comment.
We should make this a regular thing. There are plenty of stupid comments waiting to be pointed out...
Addamo, over at Crazy Ant's blog.
“…what is seems is that the Iranians just want to be left alone.”
Snippets:
An interesting poll at news.com.au, asking readers whom they most prefer to play Prime Minister out of John Howard, Kim Beazley, and Julia Gillard:
Out of 3327 votes (so far), Kimmy has 208- 6%.
Unfortunately, Julia Gillard has 49%.
Thankfully, the poll is about as useful as the ALP’s leftist factions, and subject to change.
Former US Deputy Secretary of State, Richard Armitage underestimates the strength of middle powers in an otherwise accurate and interesting interview with the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs (email us for a copy) :
GJIA: What is Iraq’s place on the world stage and what can we do to support it?
Armitage: Well, I don’t think Iraq has a place on the world stage. It’s hard for me to see a country of twenty-three million people having the necessary gravity, the necessary weight to be a world player. Clearly, we’re involved in a war of ideas, and the idea that countries should be able to pick their leaders is a worthy one […] but Iraq is a regional player, and doesn’t have a place on the global stage.
See this story on the gang-rape of Western women by Muslim criminals (may they choke on an old shoe) :
Aside from the usual bombing "protest" against Western "arrogance" and "unbelieving morals", the current rape wave is the vital expression of an ongoing jihad against women who under Western influence may drift slowly out of the grip of male Muslim hands.
The war character of this behaviour may become clearer from its archaic punishment perspective that has come out of use generally but survived in Islam until present times. During the Algerian independence war the freedom fighters used to publicly sodomize French officers in order to achieve the enemy's maximum degradation. The same applies to the woman as a possible internal enemy containing even a double danger: her alleged disobedience is a bio-political security risk for the Islamic entirety and her independent "devilish" sexuality represents a religious blasphemy, contaminating male purity. Both have to be dealt with accordingly: beating, raping, torturing, stoning, killing.
Rational Fear.
I spent an hour today searching for a baby huntsman that I wasn’t sure even existed. I’d only just gotten home, and the light was off. Something did move, I knew that much.
I gave my place a good cleaning, throwing clothes that have been waiting in queue for a wash into the basket, and put some scattered papers and articles away- so as the huntsman couldn’t slip under them, hide for a month and emerge- bigger and more bloodthirsty- to bite my precious wannabe banker fingers.
I then went onto beating the absolute shit out of the floorboards with a broom- to scare it away if it had slipped under and out of my sight.
Anyway, to the point:
Is my fear of the global Islamofascist movement based on the same assumptions as my fear of this baby huntsman in the dark? Is the left correct to say that Bush’s War on Terror is a Republican grab for money, oil, and power? Is The Howard just an arse licker following Bushnik neo-conservative domestic and foreign policies?
Hmm. No.
Firstly, I reminded myself that calling anyone an arse-licker is a form of ad hominem argument that should only stiffen my opposition to the left.
Secondly, and quite simply, there are cheaper ways for the Republicans to grab money, oil and power.
Thirdly, the international neo-conservative movement hasn’t exactly made any long-lasting changes to Western societies. Our kids are still not studying Christianity as an absolute truth in public schools. Creationism has proven itself irrelevant.
And lastly, in any light, the Islamofascist movement clearly isn’t RWDB fiction.
I did kill the huntsman, by the way. Absolutely crushed him- and my room is clean!
* This post was submitted by an old college mate, currently studying at Ballarat and working at a local credit union. Yes- this individual is a little crazy.
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Standing Against the new Totalitarianism.
In support of the statements presented in this manifesto, and the document's signatories, I’m reproducing it here.
Thanks to Ben Ze'ev at Six Days for bringing it to my attention. I strongly recommend reading it and posting it on your site, unless… you’re too dhimmi? Dhimmi, dhimmi, dhimmi, dhimmi!
(Also note the Fiskian repetition I’m using- great technique)
After having overcome fascism, Nazism, and Stalinism, the world now faces a new totalitarian global threat: Islamism.
We, writers, journalists, intellectuals, call for resistance to religious totalitarianism and for the promotion of freedom, equal opportunity and secular values for all.
The recent events, which occurred after the publication of drawings of Muhammed in European newspapers, have revealed the necessity of the struggle for these universal values. This struggle will not be won by arms, but in the ideological field. It is not a clash of civilisations nor an antagonism of West and East that we are witnessing, but a global struggle that confronts democrats and theocrats.
Like all totalitarianisms, Islamism is nurtured by fears and frustrations. The hate preachers bet on these feelings in order to form battalions destined to impose a liberticidal and unegalitarian world. But we clearly and firmly state: nothing, not even despair, justifies the choice of obscurantism, totalitarianism and hatred. Islamism is a reactionary ideology which kills equality, freedom and secularism wherever it is present. Its success can only lead to a world of domination: man's domination of woman, the Islamists' domination of all the others. To counter this, we must assure universal rights to oppressed or discriminated people.
We reject « cultural relativism », which consists in accepting that men and women of Muslim culture should be deprived of the right to equality, freedom and secular values in the name of respect for cultures and traditions. We refuse to renounce our critical spirit out of fear of being accused of "Islamophobia", an unfortunate concept which confuses criticism of Islam as a religion with stigmatisation of its believers.
We plead for the universality of freedom of expression, so that a critical spirit may be exercised on all continents, against all abuses and all dogmas.
We appeal to democrats and free spirits of all countries that our century should be one of Enlightenment, not of obscurantism.
12 signatures
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Chahla Chafiq
Caroline Fourest
Bernard-Henri Lévy
Irshad Manji
Mehdi Mozaffari
Maryam Namazie
Taslima Nasreen
Salman Rushdie
Antoine Sfeir
Philippe Val
Ibn Warraq
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, from somilian origin, is member of Dutch parliement, member of the liberal party VVD. Writter of the film Submission which caused the assasination of Theo Van Gogh by an islamist in november 2004, she lives under police protection.
Chahla Chafiq
Chahla Chafiq, writer from iranian origin, exiled in France is a novelist and an essayist. She's the author of "Le nouvel homme islamiste , la prison politique en Iran " (2002). She also wrote novels such as "Chemins et brouillard" (2005).
Caroline Fourest
Essayist, editor in chief of Prochoix (a review who defend liberties against dogmatic and integrist ideologies), author of several reference books on « laicité » and fanatism : Tirs Croisés : la laïcité à l'épreuve des intégrismes juif, chrétien et musulman (with Fiammetta Venner), Frère Tariq : discours, stratégie et méthode de Tariq Ramadan, et la Tentation obscurantiste (Grasset, 2005). She receieved the National prize of laicité in 2005.
Bernard-Henri Lévy
French philosoph, born in Algeria, engaged against all the XXth century « ism » (Fascism, antisemitism, totalitarism, terrorism), he is the author of La Barbarie à visage humain, L'Idéologie française, La Pureté dangereuse, and more recently American Vertigo.
Irshad Manji
Irshad Manji is a Fellow at Yale University and the internationally best-selling author of "The Trouble with Islam Today: A Muslim's Call for Reform in Her Faith" (en francais: "Musulmane Mais Libre"). She speaks out for free expression based on the Koran itself. Née en Ouganda, elle a fui ce pays avec sa famille musulmane d'origine indienne à l'âge de quatre ans et vit maintenant au Canada, où ses émissions et ses livres connaissent un énorme succès.
Mehdi Mozaffari
Mehdi Mozaffari, professor from iranian origin and exiled in Denmark, is the author of several articles and books on islam and islamism such as : Authority in Islam: From Muhammad to Khomeini, Fatwa: Violence and Discourtesy and Glaobalization and Civilizations.
Maryam Namazie
Writer, TV International English producer; Director of the Worker-communist Party of Iran's International Relations; and 2005 winner of the National Secular Society's Secularist of the Year award.
Taslima Nasreen
Taslima Nasreen is born in Bangladesh. Doctor, her positions defending women and minorities brought her in trouble with a comittee of integrist called « Destroy Taslima » and to be persecuted as « apostate »
Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie is the author of nine novels, including Midnight's Children, The Satanic Verses and, most recently, Shalimar the Clown. He has received many literary awards, including the Booker Prize, the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel, Germany's Author of the Year Award, the European Union's Aristeion Prize, the Budapest Grand Prize for Literature, the Premio Mantova, and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature. He is a Commandeur of the Ordre des Arts et Lettres, an Honorary Professor in the Humanities at M.I.T., and the president of PEN American Center. His books have been translated into over 40 languages.
Philippe Val
Director of publication of Charlie Hebdo (Leftwing french newspaper who have republished the cartoons on the prophet Muhammad by solidarity with the danish citizens targeted by islamists).
Ibn Warraq
Ibn Warraq , author notably of Why I am Not a Muslim ; Leaving Islam : Apostates Speak Out ; and The Origins of the Koran , is at present Research Fellow at a New York Institute conducting philological and historical research into the Origins of Islam and its Holy Book.
Antoine Sfeir :
Born in Lebanon, christian, Antoine Sfeir choosed french nationality to live in an universalist and « laïc » (real secular) country. He is the director of Les cahiers de l'Orient and has published several reference books on islamism such as Les réseaux d'Allah (2001) et Liberté, égalité, Islam : la République face au communautarisme (2005).
Happy Anniversary!
There’s some bitching by Bob Brown in this story on John Howard’s 10th Anniversary as Prime Minister.
Interestingly Bobby claims that;
“[Howard] is able to dig a little bit below the surface to play on fears that people have and to be able to assure people that he will look after those concerns, even if they are figments”
So John Howard exploits fear, irrational fear at that? No doubt Bob is referring to terrorism, or what he probably thinks is the legitimate struggle against the West’s tide of secularism, and free-market liberal democracies.
If Islamic terrorists win, Senator, homosexuals like you will be the second to die. It should be obvious who is at the front of the queue. Need a hint? The Koran demands Muslims kill them, wherever they find them...
The idea that John Howard is playing on ‘irrational fear’ is laughable. The Western World has experienced Islamic terrorism firsthand- the US and Britain certainly know that fears over security are well justified. A number of Australians who travelled to Bali, and no doubt our Indonesian embassy staff, must also realise that fears over terrorism are not ‘figments’.
Bob Brown's claim is ironic, when noting that the Green’s successes stem from the Party’s ability to convince the electorate that global warming is as sure as death and taxes (it’s not)- and that they alone can fix the problem through their dark green philosophy (they cannot- nothing can).
And for the record, Bob himself was busy scaremongering before the last federal election. Here’s what he said;
"On Saturday a vote for the Coalition will be a vote for the chainsaws in some of the most magnificent forests on Earth and I hope every undecided voter has this in mind.
"Two-thirds of Tasmania's iconic forests that could be protected will go to the chainsaws under John Howard."
Oh, deary! Two-thirds of Tasmanian’s ‘iconic’ forests? Bob Brown is like a dictator who claims 99% support in a rigged election. He offers figures that mean absolutely nothing. What exactly is iconic to Bobby and the Greens? Everything! No parking lots, ever, because that is always at the expense of someone’s paradise.
With any luck, we'll get another 10 years of the Coalition, at the very worst- that's 10 years without the Greens.
Happy Anniversary, John.
