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"Rejoice, for victory is near, with Allah's permission, and the herds of crusaders have begun to split up and their sole concern has become searching for a way out."
I just saw Walid Shoebat on Zola Levitt's TV show. What a great teacher he is! He did a fabulous job of explaining the muslim threat, and blowing the lid off PC labeling. Hearing a former PLO terrorist praise God and the people of Israel just made my day.
Oh - and Happy Fourth of July, dear lizard friends! Thank God I am an American !
You know you're beat when your advertisement against the raging racists at Little Green Footballs led by Charles Johnson consists of a pair of panties draped around the mannequin you stole from JC Penney's.
re: #20 yochanan
That's what I was thinking. If he had hit something going that fast,
they would have to have a frontend loader to get all the lard off the
road.
God Bless America. To our folks in-country, thank you. To our veterans, thank you. To those who gave their lives...thank you is not nearly enough. You will be forever in our hearts. We will not forget...
#23 mama winger
Did you see the interviews with Dr. Ergun Caner, former terrorist. It's an older interview... there are several with him. Very informative. One courageous man who speaks out and tells it like it is and how to change the terrorist heart.
THIS WAS JUST A 'FIRESIDE CHAT TYPE VIDEO' ... It seems these guys are doing their propaganda work very well, because the Leftist western news media sucks it up without EVER refuting their claims and NEVER tells how the troop surge has worked and continues to work or that the Good Iraqis are now turning on the filth in their country and helping catch or kill al-qaeda terrorist by the truckloads.
1.) The young men and women being recruited for this bloody and barbaric waste of time are not Holy Warriors; they are fantasists, for whom indulging in the illusion of a real cause is reason enough to kill themselves.
2.) The esteemed "Holy Warriors" that Dr. Zawahiri addresses are a veritable smorgasbord of psycho-pathology. Were it not for an astounding high prevalence of sexual repression, cowardice, malignant resentments against people who actually do something worthwhile, and wholly justified feelings of inadequacy, there would be no jihadis at all.
3.) Jihad, for all its pretensions to sacred inspiration, otherworldly rewards, and fatalistic mumbo-jumbo has only one thing going for it: it is possible to kill people with high explosives. That's it. Jihad may pretend to theological roots, but without chemistry, it is nothing.
4.) Forget about a Caliphate. Ain't gonna happen. There's this thing called reality that has only so much room for medieval fantasy. Islam may be one of the world's great religions, but is is wholly inadequate as a modern political system. There used to be a Caliphate. Used to be.
5.) Dr. Zawahiri and his like-minded psychotics have to give these periodic pep-talks because deep down inside they know the inevitable: the jihadist fantasy is doomed. Its days are numbered, not just because it based on primitive and disordered psychological wants, it is doomed because it is fundamentally inhuman, and inhuman dogmas inevitably fail. Just like the followers of Baal, the jihadists will be left behind by the human spirit. The decent Muslims know this.
Happy July 4th, Americans -- What happened to the men who signed the Declaration...
Have you ever wondered what happened to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence?
Five were imprisoned by the British as traitors, and tortured before they died.
Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned.
Two lost their sons serving in the Revolutionary Army; another had two sons captured.
Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or hardships of the Revolutionary War.
They signed and they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.
What kind of men were they?
Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists.
Eleven were merchants, nine were farmers and large plantation owners; men of means, well educated, but they signed the Declaration of Independence knowing full well that the penalty would be death if they were captured.
Carter Braxton of Virginia, a wealthy planter and trader, saw his ships swept from the seas by the British Navy. He sold his home and properties to pay his debts, and died in rags.
Thomas McKeam was so hounded by the British that he was forced to move his family almost constantly. He served in the Congress without pay, and his family was kept in hiding. His possessions were taken from him, and poverty was his reward.
Vandals or soldiers looted the properties of Dillery, Hall, Clymer, Walton, Gwinnett, Heyward, Ruttledge, and Middleton.
At the battle of Yorktown, Thomas Nelson Jr., noted that the British General Cornwallis had taken over the Nelson home for his headquarters. He quietly urged General George Washington to open fire. The home was destroyed, and Nelson died bankrupt.
Francis Lewis had his home and properties destroyed. The enemy jailed his wife, and she died within a few months.
John Hart was driven from his wife's bedside as she was dying. Their 13 children fled for their lives. His fields and his gristmill were laid to waste. For more than a year he lived in forests and caves, returning home to find his wife dead and his children vanished.
Some of us take these liberties so much for granted, but we shouldn't.
So, take a few minutes while enjoying your 4th of July holiday and silently thank these patriots. It's not much to ask for the price they paid.
Remember: freedom is never free! I hope you will show your support by sending this to as many people as you can, please. It's time we get the word out that patriotism is NOT a sin, and the Fourth of July has more to it than beer, picnics, and baseball games.
I understand terrorism is no laughing matter but I just can't take this guy seriously...not in that get up. He looks like he filmed this in between his facial and manicure at the spa.
Another doctor! Oh my goodness. That's the link, please, the WOD (War on Doctors) is what we should be fighting. Medicine is obviously the root cause of the international terrorism that we are faced with today. Well, the medical profession is run by Jews. Now it all makes sense.
Oddly, the video just features Zawahiri singing the "Numa-Numa" song interspersed with comic photos of his "homies" and a flashing link to his MySpace page.
#32 Ryannon: four years of honorable service (USS Pueblo Incident timeframe), with several of those years spent up close and personal with the Enslaved People's Republic of Communist North Korea let me learn with my own ears, how crushingly dehumanizing and cruel are most of the 'alternatives' to America and the Free World!
Re-education camps, forced-labor camps, widespread and continual famine, ARMED GUARDS and MINES to KEEP YOU IN-COUNTRY, children ratting out parents (for food), glass-walled gas-chambers to execute non-conforming FAMILIES for all to see, all dogs and cats and most rats EATEN long ago, stillborn babies dug up after burial; forced repatriation IF the Chi-Comms catch you IF you actually escape...
It gets worse...
I will defend America until my last breath, and stand FOR American ideals and AGAINST forced communism and forced socialism, so help me God!
/Downline from one of the Signers of our Declaration of Independence!
Re-education camps, forced-labor camps, widespread and continual famine, ARMED GUARDS and MINES to KEEP YOU IN-COUNTRY, children ratting out parents (for food), glass-walled gas-chambers to execute non-conforming FAMILIES for all to see, all dogs and cats and most rats EATEN long ago, stillborn babies dug up after burial; forced repatriation IF the Chi-Comms catch you IF you actually escape...
You know, the really scary part is how much that sounds like what the uber-libs would like to implement here...
"Those NeoCons continually lead the people astray! We need to CONTROL ALL COMMUNICATION, so WE can lead people to the Promised Land of Everybody Caring and Being Cared-For by The State!"
Please don't misunderstand me... my heart goes out to the North Koreans (and all others) who groan and suffer under poisonous, evil 'government'...
Back then, I spoke Korean very fluently, and heard things that just made my heart ache...
People say, "America can't free EVERY country..." but Lord, I bet we could free the worst 4 or 5 REAL QUICK LIKE, and the next 3 dozen would change of their own choosing and the whole world would be on a Fast-Track to moderation and positive growth... LIFE!
During the next Democrat presidential debate, they should run this part of Zawahiri's new tape:
"You must be patient and steadfast," he says. "Rejoice, for victory is near, with Allah's permission, and the herds of crusaders have begun to split up and their sole concern has become searching for a way out."
The next question to each of them should be, "Are you an actual supporter of al Qaeda, or is it just a coincidence that you support the same goals as their leadership?"
A followup would be, "Explain in 30 seconds why you should not be charged with treason and executed."
Now, follow through! Get THAT nugget, that core kernel
During the next Democrat presidential debate, they should run this part of Zawahiri's new tape:
"You must be patient and steadfast," he says. "Rejoice, for victory is near, with Allah's permission, and the herds of crusaders have begun to split up and their sole concern has become searching for a way out."
The next question to each of them should be, "Are you an actual supporter of al Qaeda, or is it just a coincidence that you support the same goals as their leadership?"A followup would be, "Explain in 30 seconds why you should not be charged with treason and executed."Oh well. I can dream, can't I?
out to as many QUESTION-ASKERS as you can, Pronto!
And how many dhummies are going to make any comments?
If albore took more time to parent his son, who's second offence this is, than he spends on spreading his crap re 'global warning', then maybe the young man would not be in the mess he is. I strongly doubt that this will linger on any MSM site. They will probably bury it on page 45, if any newspaper still has that many pages anymore.
"Root Causes" Gordon? I got some "Root Causes" for ya...
How about:
A decade of out of control open borders immigration policies...
Unchecked loony left multiculturalism and political correctness...
The BBC's Antisemitic Culture...
The new "British Liberal Enlightenment"/White Guilt
Government Cowardice
Muslims were able to establish a Caliphate when scimitars were state of the art weapons and nomadic religious principles could make a passable civil code. The Muslims had their Caliphate. The Mongols rolled the Caliph up in a rug and trampled him under their horses. Don Juan of Austria stuck Ali Pasha's head on a pike, and Ataturk was bright enough to know that the indolent, backward, superstitious subjects in his polyglot of a realm was destined for the dustbin when he gave the whole thing the heave-ho eighty years ago. The "Caliphate" of the modern jihadi fantasist is as much a figment as Oz or Middle Earth. The sad part is that there are psychologically ill cowards out there who are willing to kill to feed the fantasy. In this respect they are no different than Harris, Klebold, Cho, or any of countless losers who kill their families then themselves so the world will know how "serious" they are. The fact is, there are a lot of things than men fear worse than death. When your life is based on fantasy, they are not hard to come by.
In point of fact, there are no sharia paradises. The jihad losers are real estate bottom feeders, seeking failed states to seed their medieval cancers. If Islamic law was so wonderful, it wouldn't take suicidal nutcases to establish it.
As to your point about the left, I really believe that the problem isn't so much that they hate America, so much as it is that "progressives" paradoxically fear progress. Progressives are not motivated by a desire for change as much as a desire for indulgence. They are at odds with Christianity and Judaism because those institutions wisely recognize that indulgence can be destructive. But they tolerate the intolerance of Conservative Islam and the repression of multiculturalism because those are seen as opposed to what they really fear: The inevitable progress that results from private property and market freedom. They fear it because they know that those who drive progress have power, and they fear anyone other than themselves having power. This theory explains radical environmentalists, socialists, terrorist apologists, grievance pimps, The New York Times, and every Hollywood pants-wetter whose contribution to socierty consists solely of pretending to be someone else. The left fears the freedom of others because they are emotional and silly. They don't fear the radical Islamists because they are naive, and think that their own inherent wonderfulness makes them immune to it all.
Any fireworks up your way? Or is it raining at your place, too. :^(
It is on live now, on NBC, from NYC, and there are fireworks right down the road, in the harbor, but it has been drizzling,and also raining off and on, and I do not hear them..and Rye Playland also is supposed to hear them..I hear something just now...my husband went on the balcony to see if it is here or Rye..it is Rye. Ours must have been cancelled, like DC.
"Can the violent jihadist tendencies and the calls for Islamic supremacy be sufficiently and permanently watered down... enough so Muslims can make good citizens of non-Muslim majority countries, or are the troublesome beliefs so ingrained in the Koran, Hadith, et al, that every generation will spit out another army of fanatics?"
I think the answer is:
"The calls for Jihad and conquest are too ingrained in the Koran for Islam to ever be truly peaceful."
Mine were cancelled too. Usually my family goes to my uncle's house, and at the appointed time, head up the hill on the golf course next door. From there, we can see the fireworks of about six different little shore towns, all at the same time.
But not this year... drizzling on and off for a few hours now.
>... As it went, the folsom underground Al-Qaida video not only failed to stir the mass support and quick conversion to Islam that al-Zawahri had hoped for, it raised myriad pie-eyed inquiries of wide-eyed wonder as to nature of the gaping crevasse smack-dead-centered on the rogue Muslim's already severely grimacing countenance instead. Indeed, any sense of lingering credibility al-Zawahiri formerly acquired was immediately lost, never to be reestablished ever again.
"I wonder if it fills up with water when he looks up when its raining." chuckled Starkowitz. "And if it does, when he tilts his head back down again real fast, does he get like a splish of water on his nose? Now that would be the absolute funniest!" ...>>
Anybody else here ever play Killer Bunnies or Nuclear War? For the uninitiated, the card games in question use what is called a run cycle: You place 2 or 3 cards face down in front of you, and your first move is to flip over the front card in order to play it, then add a card to the back at the end of your turn.
Events may occasionally render the frontmost card a moot point. You may have put in place a card that makes A happen if B is true two turns ago, but one turn before you actually flip the card over, events could have made B no longer true, making the card a waste of a turn.
Al Qaeda has a system for distributing videos meant to avoid Western intelligence and their ability to track the video back to the source. This system can take a bit of time.
You want my semi-educated wild-ass guess? This was meant to gloat over a successful attack of car bombs on London streets---only the attack was halted, and the perps had to settle for a halfass attack on the Glasgow airport with gasoline.
I think there will always be a violent element in Islam, not so much because Islam turns otherwise decent and compassionate people into cowardly killers, as much as it has elements that appeal to people disposed to be killers. If you are disposed to killing innocent people, your attention is much more likely to be held by a religious tradition that advocates killing unbelievers "using every stragtagem of war" than it is "blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth." Jihadi's are not selected by God because of their wonderful martial qualities, they are self-selected because they have loose screws.
I think it is important to remember that jihad is not all that violent a perspective historically. The Israelites under Joshua, the Mongols, the Huns, the Aztecs ,the Vikings were all very violent men of their times. Read up on how the Mongols took care of the Assassins. The jihadis want us to think they are fearsome because they are anachronisms. The Hadiths feed into their pathology, but really, the world has seen it all before.
When we in the west get over this fallacious nonsense that we are only good as others think we are, and stop absolving decent Muslims of their responsibility to descredit wahabbism and sufism, the romance of jihad will fade. Sadly, the violent elements of various religions (which are really matters of epidemiology rather than theology) will always be with us.
Why, Carridine, there you are: Leftism solves the problems of animal cruelty and pest control. If all the dogs and cats have been devoured, nobody can be cruel to them. If all, or most, of the rats have been consumed, then the incidence of plague and other vermin-borne diseases will be way down even with a poor medical establishment. And with meat a rarity, the populace will not only be spared the ravages of those diseases caused by overindulgence, but will be forced to adopt the vegetarian/vegan lifestyle so beloved by many Leftist crackpots. What you have mistakenly categorized as a miserable subsistence lifestyle is in fact one of the benefits which Left regimes provide their citizens!/sarc
Piiing! (light goes on over my head)
Oh! NOW I UNDERSTAND! Yes, BuzzSaw, oh, forgive me my iggorunts!
It's been rainy and crappy all day---but it was clear long enough for a neighborhood parade this morning. But as soon as the parade was over? CRASH BOOM SPLAAASH!
It is letting up here. It was a nice day til just before dinnertime. Now, the rail has stopped, but it feels like there is another band to come through. We are in NY, right on LI sound, near CT.
The anchorman for the 11PM news just gave the headlines on a commerical break...lots of local parades and fireworks cancelled due to weather. Ours fireworks was, also.
The parade was the other day, in conjunction with the Firemans' Carnival, at the harbor.
You make some excellent points. The remarkable ease that Wahhabist imams have in recruiting converts to Islam in the West's prison systems gives proof to your first statement. Many find the path a short and simple journey.
But I wonder if there is a "stunting effect" in the religion itself as well. The abundance of willing warriors indicate a vast and effective internal recruitment, in both major branches of the faith, and, increasingly, in all areas of the world, including places that were known for their tolerant versions of Islam.
As for the violence of other peoples, in other places, at other times... very true, however I am unaware of any other religion that entrenched violence so deeply in their founding texts. It is simply too easy to take the words of Muhammad literally... and given the lack of hierarchy in Islam, too hard to permanently expunge the literalists.
We are in for a long, uphill slog... and half our country is dead weight.
On channel 7? Dozens of fireworks in the metro area had to be cancelled because of the darned weather. I can imagine the 7-year old if they couldn't go to Jones Beach. Damn, it was cancelled. All over NY and NJ..waves at Jones Beach? 10-12 feet high. No signs on highways..people were not happy, to say the least.
They said there was a lot of security at the Macy's fireworks.
Great...worse weather with bad thunderstorms tomorrow. Feh!
You know al-zawahiri has made the last several annoucements for al-qaeda. It's just my feeling...but I think bin-laden is dead, and that's why we have only been hearing from al-zawahiri.
#90,
I really believe that Usama 's bin Laden the dust of Tora Bora ( or some other hell hole) for a long time now... there was just never any upside for the US to publicize it and yank more Jihadi chain.
The guy was way too big an egomaniac to just quit crankin' out face time... not with the response he always got from our media.
I think the Tora Bora injuries are what lead to his death. The last video he made you could tell he was hurt. I agree, if he was alive , he would prove it. I doubt we have "positive proof" he's dead. But everybody realizes he is.
The muslims have no worry. The democrats and the MSM will do their best to destroy the US from within. For every positive step forward in Iraq and Afghanistan, the democrats and the MSM create another mountain out of a molehill in order to provide the TERRORISTS with yet another reason to continue on.
They took abu ghraib, a minor situation, where some TERRORISTS were humiliated by a few troops acting outside their orders, and called it torture. They make far more out of abu ghraib than where TERRORISTS torture and behead their captives. It gives me reason to question, not only their patriotism, but their sanity as well.
It gives me reason to question, not only their patriotism, but their sanity as well.
Leftism shows many signs of being a mental illness. These include cognitive dissonance, delusions of grandeur, paranoia, narcissism, and a few more other mental disorders. Seriously.