- Multicultural Britain is not working, says Tory chief – Before anyone calls me a bigot, read the headline correctly: multicultural, not multiracial, is the problem.
- Obsessive correctness betrays all of us – “Everybody with an ounce of common sense must see that the police are duty-bound to focus in particular on those who look most likely to be carrying bombs. In the present crisis, that inevitably means stopping and searching a disproportionate number of men and women of Asian or African appearance who are carrying packages or wearing suspiciously bulky clothing. In the overwhelming majority of cases, of course, the person stopped and searched will turn out to be entirely innocent.”
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La Shawn:
“The Judge” on Fox News explained the difference between legal and illegal profiling.
This is important information to counter those who say “all profiling is illegal”.
Stopping someone ONLY because of race, sex, hair color is, of course, illegal. Few would argue this point.
But if someone is looking for a “young Black male” following a bank robbery, it is perfectly legal to stop young Black males in the search.
This is important information as ammunition against liberals who oppose ALL PROFILING – as Norman Minetta of the TSA believes he is wrong.
He is NOT following the law – he is following his own personal feelings.
David Davis is my new hero. His comments could apply equally well to certain immigrant “communities” here.
So Dominic Grieve believes “…the suicide bombings [are] totally explicable in terms of the level of anger which many members of the Muslim community seem to have about a large number of things.”
My response to Mr. Grieve is a quote from Zell Miller, “I say bomb the hell out of them. If there’s collateral damage, so be it. They certainly found our American civilians to be expendable.” (Sept 12, 2001) If even one more American loses their life on our soil due to the attacks of these cult fanatics, then Mr. Miller I’m in perfect agreement.
In the meantime, Mr. Grieve needs to be made to understand that the west’s “level of anger” is rising every day. I don’t believe most muslims are unassimilated due to multiculturalism. Yes, that namby pamby liberal mess needs to be stopped, but it most certainly didn’t cause anyone to become a mass murderer. They are mass murderers because that is what their religion teaches them to become – period. Islam is the enemy and needs to be obliterated. Anything less is to invite never ending terror and war. When are we going to start fighting like we actually care for our children and their future? I don’t want our children to grow up with terrorist attack drills at school. I don’t want them to live with color coded danger levels. I don’t want our children to live as Isreal’s children have done since its existence. Islam can not be assimilated into western culture. It must be removed cleanly and completely from the western world. After that is accomplished, then we can deal with them on an as needed basis. If that involves full on devestating bombing, then so be it.
Independent put it pretty well. Muslims do not want to assimilate, they want to conquer.
It is time to repel this wave of invaders that do not share our values or our culture, and in many cases refuse to speak our language.
Why should we share our country with people that give us nothing but trouble in return?
I concur, Shipwrecked. It’s time we did something about it.
USA, love it or leave it.
God bless America….And REAL Americans.
Dan
I’m sure the usual talking points have been trotted out to “refute” what anyone with an ounce of sense has been telling themselves for a long time.
The absolute lack of reason can be tied to one thing: moral relativity. Without a number of absolutes, there can be no common sense.
http://terrorismwillose.tf.funpic.org/islam.html
has the following Koran verses:
Koran 8:7 “Allah wished to confirm the truth by His words: ‘Wipe the infidels [non-Muslims] out to the last.’â€
Koran 8:39 “So, fight them till all opposition ends and the only religion is Islam.â€
Koran 8:59 “The infidels should not think that they can get away from us. Prepare against them whatever arms and weaponry you can muster so that you may terrorize them. They are your enemy and Allah’s enemy.â€
Koran 9:5 “When the sacred forbidden months for fighting are past, fight and kill disbelievers [non-Muslims] wherever you find them, take them captive, beleaguer them, and lie in wait and ambush them using every stratagem of warâ€
The story of Walid
http://www.leaderu.com/wri/pages/walid.html
In the article are these nifty little pearls:
1) “I did not forget the first song I learned in school just before the six day war titled “Arabs our beloved and Jews our dogs.”
2) “….Holy Land would be recaptured and the elimination of the Jews would take place in a massive slaughter.”
3) “….watching the movie “21 Days in Munich”. The moment we saw the Palestinians throwing grenades in the helicopter, killing the Israeli athletes, hundreds of viewers yelled “Allahu akbar” (Allah is the greatest). ”
4) “…students used to ask the teacher during our Islamic studies in Bethlehem High school, if it was permitted for Muslims to rape the Jewish women after we defeat them, his response was “The women captured in battle have no choice in this matter, they are concubines and they need to obey their masters, having sex with slave captives is not a “matter of choice for slaves.”, ”
5) “I remember when I still tormented my mother by calling her an “infidel” and a damned American Imperialist who claimed that Jesus is the Son of God. ”
6) “I hated her and always asked my father to divorce her and re-marry a good Muslim woman.”
7) “With Hitler being my idol, and Mohammed my prophet, I went on with my life with little regard for Jews, Christians, or anyone who was not a Muslim. I believed that one day the whole World will submit to Islam,”
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At the end is the following (as he transformed)
“Yes I say it to the whole world, I love Jews, I love them because of their Messiah, I love them because they brought light to the world, and through them came the light and the truth, for that I love Jews. I no more despise them and I know from the Bible that the Jews are God’s chosen people to give light to Arabs and to the whole World, if we only allow them, for God made them a blessing to the World, we need to love and support them as God said to Abraham:
‘I will bless those who bless you and I will curse him who curses you, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed’ — Genesis 12:2
Knowing the truth transferred my way of thinking from believing in Hitler to believing in Christ, from believing lies to knowing the truth, from being spiritually sick to being healed, from living in darkness to seeing the light, from being damned to being saved, from doubt to faith, from hate to love, and from evil works to God’s grace through Christ. This transformation taught me that without the (true) word of God things could look good on the surface but in the core lays deception. I accepted Jesus the Messiah, as my Lord and Savior, who died for all of our sins; to him I submit.”
Bak, this is but one reason for the path that we took in fighting the GWOT so that democracy gets a chance, which can only come about if opposing views are tolerated and protected by the law of the land.
This is the elephant in the room that those who remain pessimistic about Iraq’s future ignore — that if the Sunnis or Shias have their way idelogically speaking, they will lose the Kurds along with the natural resources they sit on. The Kurd region is, and has been for quite some time even before Saddamn’s fall, almost paradise by comparison to the other two regions.
In fits and starts, liberty and religious freedom is making its way to the fore as the Chaldeans, Druse, Christians, Feminists, Secularists and other so-called infidels and apostates are making their voices heard in the political & social realm.
By ignoring this dynamic, the pessimists add fuel to the fire for ‘failure’ and weaken the cause of the true freedom fighters.
Andy,
Just curious. What makes you think we are winning in Iraq or will win?
We have to. We’ve committed.
What makes you think after committing in a left turn that we should stop in front of the oncoming car?
…gotta love irrelevant questions.
We need to be more HARDCORE.
We need to make it clear that we will drop 2,000 lb bunker busting bombs on terrorist houses and sites.
Unfortunately we’ve cowtowed to the left in our niceness and then handed them ammunition to say “see our troops are getting killed”.
Yes, there are some good things happening over there, but are they sustainable and has the Iraqi police force been irreparably infiltrated?
All of this could have been avoided had Gen. Patton been alive and in charge or if Coach Steve Spurrier were a general instead of a football coach.
Offense. Offense and more offense.
Andy, I do believe that what we are doing in Iraq is the best hope of long term stabilization of the ME region. I’m grateful we are there and I think Bush has planted a seed that may pay off in decades and centuries to come. However, I do wish our government would quit playing defense to the left’s offense. They make our military efforts out to be the moral equivalent of the enemy’s and we fall for it by playing footsie in return. It’s frustrating and counterproductive. Only by fighting an enemy with righteous anger and an unapologetic position of moral high ground can we convince those “moderates” that we HAVE a moral high ground. By constantly overprotecting the sensibilities of Islam and the region with which we are at war, we allow those muslims we would like to sway to believe there is some merit to the radical argument.
We also need to show strong resolve and sane policy here at home. Islam is the enemy. If we wish to encourage reform within the Islamic community then we have to show an unapologetic resolve in dealing with the enemy at home as well as abroad.
It also needs to be understood that if our country is directly attacked we will counterattack with devestating consequences – if there is collateral damage, well so be it.
I think some of the frustration people are expressing with Iraq is not so much that it is bad policy (it’s not) but the timidness we have shown in our strategy both at home and in Iraq itself.
I should have added: If we are only going to fight a third of the battles (spreading democracy being just one), then why fight at all. We might as well hold up a white flag and say, “the infidel submits” if we are not willing to fight this war on all fronts.
#16 Independent fully understands what we are up against and how to confront it!
#11 Raymond, because it is the RIGHT thing to do. Not all Iraqis are muslims or did you not get the memo?
In fact you should do a little googling and see what kinds of Christian missionary work is being accomplished there WITHOUT OIF coalition protection.
We are commanded to spread the Gospel to the ends of the world, even if it means losing your head or poked by a curore tipped arrow. Of course not everyone is cut out to be the “feet” of the body of Christ, but by all means we should do whatever we can within our abilities to support those who do.
Edumacate yourself by looking up http://www.persecution.com, then look up a copy of “Through Gates Of Splendor” by Elizabeth Elliot.
There is no losing when you do the right thing however difficult it may be, no matter the price…
#16 Indy, I agree with that. We’re hamstrung by Bush’s initial declaration that “Islam is a religon of peace” when his Freudian slip of “crusade” is on the mark.
The pragmatic problem for Bush is that we-the-people did not put enough representatives and senators to support the crusade in ‘02 & ‘04. Will we correct that in ‘06?
All the same, the decision to target or not target ‘holy’ places when fired upon rests with POTUS and in bending over backwards to ACLU, AI, Donks et al, we paid the price with incessant ambushes and attacks from mosques, hospitals and school yards. The problem with public facilities, not counting mosques, is that if we break them, we’ll eventually have to replace them.
All the same that would have been a small price, if in the beginning, we were clear about the rules of engagement — fire upon us from wherever and the site gets rubbled. After a few incidents the locals will get the message real quick and make the terrorist pick another location to fight from.
We are winning, if you look at the back story on the unfortunate deaths of the Marines earlier this week. After the attack, the terrorists went into the village bragging of their exploits. Shortly thereafter, the locals surrounded the terrorists and demanded they surrender, when they refused, the locals killed them. Supposedly there were 20 or so terrorists, so I’d say the price has been more than repaid in blood.
The MSM would have you think that the battle is one-sided and that we’re getting all the hits while any dead terrorist tends to get lumped with the civilians as if they were but yet another collateral casualty.
More egreious is no MSM mention of uprisings by the locals to rout out the cancer within their neighborhoods. More stories like that, or at least an accurate accounting of each incident would give Raymond cause to chill out.
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