I saw this commercial on the O'Reilly Factor last night, and I think it's one that everyone should see. It's not gross or argumentative, it just makes a point that nobody can argue with.
So... if Barack's mom shared the same morals of the extreme left, which Barack is beholden to, perhaps we would have our first female president instead of our first African American president.
Barack should appoint Supreme Court judges that will uphold the Constitution, and give the right to determine if abortion should be legal back to the states.
I'll let you determine why this post is titled "Ironic". I can think of a few reasons.
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Egyptian Cleric Admits the Holocaust Happened
See, not all Muslims deny that the holocaust happened. Some look back with pride and have the goal to repeat it.
This is Egyptian cleric Amin Al-Ansari. He gives a history of the Jews. Some of the highlights are as follows.
"The Jews spread corruption in the land during World Wars I and II."
Because the Jews waged World War I "it got to the point where the rulers themselves had no solution but to annihilate them."
"In a nutshell the holocausts of the Jews in Germany were because of their own deeds. They were killing Germans, kindling strife inciting their people against their rulers, and corrupting the peoples."
"Let's watch the holocausts that the Jews underwent, which were Allah's way of wreaking vengeance upon them."
[Footage of bombed German cities]
"Look this is Berlin. The German cities were bombed from all directions, because of the Jews, who were destroying countries...Observe the great similarity between Gaza and the German streets back then."
"See the rubble and the dead people on the ground. The world was dying - country and civilization was being annihilated. This is what the Jews did."
"When [The Germans] realized that the Jews were behind all this, they took revenge on them - they were not weak, as the Muslims are today; they had something different in mind. Let’s watch what Germany did to Israel - or rather, to the Jews, so we can understand that there is no remedy for these people other than imposing fear and terror on them."
[Holocaust footage]
"Note the humiliation on his face. Allah be praised. 'Abasement and humiliation were brought down upon them, and they became deserving of Allah's wrath.'"
"These are corpses. Allah be praised. The (Jews) are oppressors."
"A German soldier will come now, and you will see a Jewish woman kissing his hand. Notice what humiliation, fear, and terror have struck her. See how much she is kissing his hand. Watch her humiliation. This is what we hope will happen, but, Allah willing, at the hand of the Muslims."
Meanwhile, in the Netherlands Geert Wilders is being prosecuted for comparing Islam to Nazism.
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Quite a week
Barack Obama has mistaken a 53% vote as some sort of indication that the country has taken a hard left turn. The real reason he got elected was because of an economic crisis, caused mostly by the Democrat's refusal to help Republicans like John McCain reign in the housing industry. Of course, McCain did Obama a huge favor by not knowing how to deal with the crisis once it hit.
So Barack has started implementing some far left policies that could be indicative of the way he wants to run the country.
Almost immediately after that one pastor closed the inauguration ceremonies with the single most obnoxious prayer I've ever heard (...that yellow can be more mellow... that white will embrace what's right...) Barack decided that we should close down Guantanamo Bay. There is still no plan what to do with the detainees there. If we release them, they will kill more Americans. And nobody wants them shipped to prisons in their districts except for that money grubbing, redneck hating, looney toon John Murtha.
Republicans have suggested to Nancy Pelosi that they house them in Alcatraz, which is in her district. She said no.
So Barack has started implementing some far left policies that could be indicative of the way he wants to run the country.
Almost immediately after that one pastor closed the inauguration ceremonies with the single most obnoxious prayer I've ever heard (...that yellow can be more mellow... that white will embrace what's right...) Barack decided that we should close down Guantanamo Bay. There is still no plan what to do with the detainees there. If we release them, they will kill more Americans. And nobody wants them shipped to prisons in their districts except for that money grubbing, redneck hating, looney toon John Murtha.
Republicans have suggested to Nancy Pelosi that they house them in Alcatraz, which is in her district. She said no.
Another far left move was Barack rescinding an executive order made by President Bush. In essence, taxpayers are now going to be funding abortions abroad. That's right. I am very much against abortion, and now my money is going to be used to help fund this nasty procedure. Barack says the reason he's doing this is because "citizens of the world" should have the same "rights" as the ones we enjoy. Including the right to murder an innocent baby whose only mistake was to implant itself inside a selfish woman. I ask again, can we not explore adoption as an alternate to abortion?
In response to protests from Republicans, Barack's reply has been "I won". Great, so much for this facade of bipartisanship. Barack, you won because the media wanted you to. You won because the New York Times chose our candidate. You won because Republicans continually turn the other cheek. You won because various Republicans in name only brought the party down. And you won because you promised unity and change. I guess one out of two isn't bad.
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Obama Urges Israel to Open Borders to Gaza
After Israel agreed to a ceasefire and end the operations in Gaza, Hamas declared victory. The current ceasefire works completely to the advantage of Hamas. Israel is to withdraw from Gaza and Hamas is to stop firing rockets into Israel. The problem is that Hamas will use the ceasefire to rebuild and will continue attacking Israel when they feel they are strong enough to do so. The ceasefire is used when Hamas is losing for tactical reasons. President Obama on Thursday urged Israel to open it’s borders with Gaza. A policy which if Israel adopts will result in the deaths of many more people.
Why would you open the borders to people who want to kill you? Why is pressure always put on Israel to do things that no other country would do? Why doesn’t Obama urge Egypt to open their borders with Gaza? I have no idea what the answer to those questions are. For some reason Israel is expected to open it’s borders to people who want to destroy them. The below video shows Hamas in their own words. This video shows Hamas’ desire for not only the annihilation of Israel, but for Islam to conquer Europe and the Americas. The ceasefire was a mistake that Israel will regret. They should not have stopped until Hamas was completely destroyed. An even bigger mistake that Israel could make would be if they listen to President Obama and open their borders.
Why would you open the borders to people who want to kill you? Why is pressure always put on Israel to do things that no other country would do? Why doesn’t Obama urge Egypt to open their borders with Gaza? I have no idea what the answer to those questions are. For some reason Israel is expected to open it’s borders to people who want to destroy them. The below video shows Hamas in their own words. This video shows Hamas’ desire for not only the annihilation of Israel, but for Islam to conquer Europe and the Americas. The ceasefire was a mistake that Israel will regret. They should not have stopped until Hamas was completely destroyed. An even bigger mistake that Israel could make would be if they listen to President Obama and open their borders.
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Austria Joins the Netherlands in Banning Free Speech
Austria joins the Netherlands in Europe's battle to destroy free speech. An Austrian politician, Susanne Winter, was fined $31,000 and three months in prison. She was found guilty of "humiliating a religion." Winters called the Prophet Muhammad a "child molester" because he married a six year old girl. Following her remarks, Muslim extremists threatened to kill her and the Austrian government announced they would pursue criminal charges against her.
This from the Hadith of Bukkhari. The Hadith are oral traditions of Muhammad. The Hadith of Bukhari is considered "the most authentic book after the Holy Qu'ran" to Sunni Muslims. In 5,58,236 it says, "He (Muhammad) stayed there for two years or so and then he married 'Aisha when she was a girl of six years of age and he consumed that marriage when she was nine years old."
It can be debated whether it is fair to use the term "child molester" to describe a person living in the seventh century. Girls used to get married much younger than they do today. Still, six years old seems a bit too young for any time period. People should not be thrown into prison for telling the truth. Even if she was wrong, she shouldn't be thrown into prison, it's called free speech.
UPDATE: There is an excellent article written by some dude from Canada named Ezra Levant. It is about Holland's attempts to ban free speech. Here's the link.
This from the Hadith of Bukkhari. The Hadith are oral traditions of Muhammad. The Hadith of Bukhari is considered "the most authentic book after the Holy Qu'ran" to Sunni Muslims. In 5,58,236 it says, "He (Muhammad) stayed there for two years or so and then he married 'Aisha when she was a girl of six years of age and he consumed that marriage when she was nine years old."
It can be debated whether it is fair to use the term "child molester" to describe a person living in the seventh century. Girls used to get married much younger than they do today. Still, six years old seems a bit too young for any time period. People should not be thrown into prison for telling the truth. Even if she was wrong, she shouldn't be thrown into prison, it's called free speech.
UPDATE: There is an excellent article written by some dude from Canada named Ezra Levant. It is about Holland's attempts to ban free speech. Here's the link.
A Purging of the Innocent
During World War II, the Nazi's killed close to 14 million people in death camps. About 5 to 6 million of those were Jews, and there were several other groups that died in what has become known as the "Holocaust". The Holocaust was the result of German Nazi policies that promoted Germans as the "master race" with Jews, Gypsies, and black people at the bottom. Eventually, those at the bottom were seen as a threat to the "purity" of the German nation, and therefore had to be purged. Many Jews simply died for the "sin" of having two or more Jewish grandparents.
Fast forward to January 22, 1973. That day, the Supreme Court (from now on referred to as the perpetrators) narrowly ruled that states should not have the right to determine their own laws in the matter of abortion, but that abortion should be legal throughout the country.
Since then, 49,551,703 babies have been purged.
The constitution clearly says that any right not specifically given to the federal government, would be assumed by the individual states. In Roe v. Wade, the perpetrators essentially ruled that the Constitution was unconstitutional, and that the founding fathers had meant to include abortion rights as one of the powers of the federal government. The somehow made some obscure connection to "privacy rights" which is just insane.
Since the majority of those aborted are black, you'd think that President Obama would not stand for this sort of thing. What better way to promote your race, give power to your people and so on, than to have another 25 million or so voters to help you out. Not only is Obama all for abortion, he thinks it's OK to kill babies that have accidentally lived.
If this country had a policy of adoption instead of abortion, just think how much better off our economy, our society, and our citizens could be.
So tonight, when you go to bed, perhaps a quick prayer that this madness might end, or at least, that the states can assume this right that was stripped from them 36 years ago today.
Fast forward to January 22, 1973. That day, the Supreme Court (from now on referred to as the perpetrators) narrowly ruled that states should not have the right to determine their own laws in the matter of abortion, but that abortion should be legal throughout the country.
Since then, 49,551,703 babies have been purged.
The constitution clearly says that any right not specifically given to the federal government, would be assumed by the individual states. In Roe v. Wade, the perpetrators essentially ruled that the Constitution was unconstitutional, and that the founding fathers had meant to include abortion rights as one of the powers of the federal government. The somehow made some obscure connection to "privacy rights" which is just insane.
Since the majority of those aborted are black, you'd think that President Obama would not stand for this sort of thing. What better way to promote your race, give power to your people and so on, than to have another 25 million or so voters to help you out. Not only is Obama all for abortion, he thinks it's OK to kill babies that have accidentally lived.
If this country had a policy of adoption instead of abortion, just think how much better off our economy, our society, and our citizens could be.
So tonight, when you go to bed, perhaps a quick prayer that this madness might end, or at least, that the states can assume this right that was stripped from them 36 years ago today.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Freedom of Speech Dying in Europe
Freedom of speech is dying in the Netherlands. A Dutch politician, Geert Wilders, is charged with inciting religious hatred in speeches and in a film he made last year. He released a fifteen minute film online titled, Fitna, which accurately shows what the Quran says about violence against infidels, it shows what violent Muslims say today, and shows the violence that is committed by people who use the Quran to justify it. Below is Fitna, which is very informative about what we are up against. The Netherlands is making telling the truth to be illegal. The film is very violent.
Five years ago another Dutch filmmaker Theo Van Gogh was murdered for making a film critical of Islam. The Islamists use both intimidation and lawsuits to silence free speech. Wilders is also accused of comparing Islam to Nazism. There is no freedom of speech if freedom of criticizing religion is taken away.
Five years ago another Dutch filmmaker Theo Van Gogh was murdered for making a film critical of Islam. The Islamists use both intimidation and lawsuits to silence free speech. Wilders is also accused of comparing Islam to Nazism. There is no freedom of speech if freedom of criticizing religion is taken away.
Monday, January 19, 2009
Obama's Embrace of Our Enemies
In the spirit of tolerance and open-mindedness isn’t it appropriate to have a supporter of terrorism to participate in an inaugural prayer service? I speak of Ingrid Mattson, president of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) who will be participating in an inaugural prayer service. ISNA has ties to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. The FBI has concluded that the ISNA was founded by members of the Muslim Brotherhood “which means they are in a position to direct the activities and support of Muslims in the U.S. for the Islamic Revolution." The ISNA is listed in a Muslim Brotherhood memo as one of the organizations that could help accomplish the grand objective which is to assist the Muslim Brotherhood to accomplish their work in America which “is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious over all other religions.“
Ingrid Mattson is a strong supporter of the Saudi backed Wahhabi Islam. She has inaccurately described Wahhabi Islam as a reform movement comparing it to the protestant reformation. This “reform movement” supported by the government of Saudi Arabia puts out pamphlets (page 16) that describe the United States as “The Abode of the Infidel.” Then goes on to say, “Be dissociated from the infidels, hate them for their religion, leave them, never rely on them for support, do not admire them, and always oppose them in every way according to Islamic law.” It continues, “There is consensus on this matter, that whoever helps unbelievers against Muslims, regardless of what type of support he lends to them, he is an unbeliever himself.” It’s nice to have these reformers teaching Muslims to hate infidels for their religion and not to cooperate with unbelievers. In other words Muslims are not allowed to help in the War on Terrorism. Hard to imagine a worse group of reformers. It is not comforting that Barack Obama on day one of his administration has chosen to embrace Ingrid Mattson who would be more than happy to see this country be destroyed.
Ingrid Mattson is a strong supporter of the Saudi backed Wahhabi Islam. She has inaccurately described Wahhabi Islam as a reform movement comparing it to the protestant reformation. This “reform movement” supported by the government of Saudi Arabia puts out pamphlets (page 16) that describe the United States as “The Abode of the Infidel.” Then goes on to say, “Be dissociated from the infidels, hate them for their religion, leave them, never rely on them for support, do not admire them, and always oppose them in every way according to Islamic law.” It continues, “There is consensus on this matter, that whoever helps unbelievers against Muslims, regardless of what type of support he lends to them, he is an unbeliever himself.” It’s nice to have these reformers teaching Muslims to hate infidels for their religion and not to cooperate with unbelievers. In other words Muslims are not allowed to help in the War on Terrorism. Hard to imagine a worse group of reformers. It is not comforting that Barack Obama on day one of his administration has chosen to embrace Ingrid Mattson who would be more than happy to see this country be destroyed.
Friday, January 16, 2009
Suspect Picks
This Tuesday will mark the 43rd time that our country has had it's top leader step down and welcome another. Watching the transfer of the presidency happen without so much as a hiccup is a testament to our republic. Hopefully, the days following the inauguration will be better for Obama and our country than the days following his election.
Scandal seems to follow this guy, and yet as rubber to glue, everything seems to bounce off Obama, and stick to other people.
Among other things, Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich was caught trying to sell off a senate seat. Obama was not directly involved, but how many more stories is it going to take of corruption coming out of Chicago/Illinois before people start questioning how Barack might be affiliated with these people?
Then there was Bill Richardson. Remember this guy? Probably not, since the media has decided to stop bringing his name up. Obama tapped him to be the Commerce Secretary only to have Richardson remove his name from consideration a month later due to an investigation related to 'pay to play' charges... the exact same thing Blagojevich has been accused of doing.
If all this happened to a Republican, the media would be outraged, and would also question the incoming president's 'vetting process'. I'm still waiting for that angle from NBC News.
Wait, there's more... Obama nominated Eric Holder as his Attorney General. Bill Clinton says that this guy was instrumental in convincing him to pardon democratic contributor Marc Rich. Who was in jail for tax evasion and illegal trading with Iran. Holder has also been involved with a company that has funded a terrorist organization. That company is Chiquita. Yes, the banana company has help fund certain Colombian terrorist groups. (Note, the link leads to a Fox News story, all those who hate Fox News because how they are fair might not want to follow the link.) Holder is also against any tactic George Bush has used to keep our country safe from terrorism.
Next, Obama chose Leon Panetta to be in charge of the CIA. I've heard nothing but good things about this guy. The one thing that concerns me is that he has no intelligence experience. Head of the CIA, isn't a place for on the job learning, and paired with the new administrations reluctance to use tactics that work to get info, America might become a more dangerous place.
Now the most recent development that makes me wonder about Obama is his pick for treasury secretary Tim Geithner. This guy owed the IRS more than $40,000 in back taxes. He said it was a mistake that he just didn't catch... a mistake he corrected by sending the IRS a $26,000 check. Why not the full amount? The remainder that he owed was already past the statute of limitations, so he didn't bother to send it. Seems like if he was really sorry, he'd square himself with the IRS, but he's only going to pay the minimum. That's how liberals are. They are all for higher taxes as long as they don't have to pay them.
Here's hoping that the next four years are better than the last two months.
Scandal seems to follow this guy, and yet as rubber to glue, everything seems to bounce off Obama, and stick to other people.
Among other things, Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich was caught trying to sell off a senate seat. Obama was not directly involved, but how many more stories is it going to take of corruption coming out of Chicago/Illinois before people start questioning how Barack might be affiliated with these people?
Then there was Bill Richardson. Remember this guy? Probably not, since the media has decided to stop bringing his name up. Obama tapped him to be the Commerce Secretary only to have Richardson remove his name from consideration a month later due to an investigation related to 'pay to play' charges... the exact same thing Blagojevich has been accused of doing.
If all this happened to a Republican, the media would be outraged, and would also question the incoming president's 'vetting process'. I'm still waiting for that angle from NBC News.
Wait, there's more... Obama nominated Eric Holder as his Attorney General. Bill Clinton says that this guy was instrumental in convincing him to pardon democratic contributor Marc Rich. Who was in jail for tax evasion and illegal trading with Iran. Holder has also been involved with a company that has funded a terrorist organization. That company is Chiquita. Yes, the banana company has help fund certain Colombian terrorist groups. (Note, the link leads to a Fox News story, all those who hate Fox News because how they are fair might not want to follow the link.) Holder is also against any tactic George Bush has used to keep our country safe from terrorism.
Next, Obama chose Leon Panetta to be in charge of the CIA. I've heard nothing but good things about this guy. The one thing that concerns me is that he has no intelligence experience. Head of the CIA, isn't a place for on the job learning, and paired with the new administrations reluctance to use tactics that work to get info, America might become a more dangerous place.
Now the most recent development that makes me wonder about Obama is his pick for treasury secretary Tim Geithner. This guy owed the IRS more than $40,000 in back taxes. He said it was a mistake that he just didn't catch... a mistake he corrected by sending the IRS a $26,000 check. Why not the full amount? The remainder that he owed was already past the statute of limitations, so he didn't bother to send it. Seems like if he was really sorry, he'd square himself with the IRS, but he's only going to pay the minimum. That's how liberals are. They are all for higher taxes as long as they don't have to pay them.
Here's hoping that the next four years are better than the last two months.
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Hamas The Wedding Crashers
Here's a Hamas flashback from 2007. This is what happens in Gaza if you play music at a wedding. Music is not allowed.
These are the same people that the international community thinks we can trust with a ceasefire, despite the fact that they break every ceasefire they have ever had. Ceasefires are only useful to get Israel out of Gaza so Hamas can regroup then continue attacking. They must be destroyed.
These are the same people that the international community thinks we can trust with a ceasefire, despite the fact that they break every ceasefire they have ever had. Ceasefires are only useful to get Israel out of Gaza so Hamas can regroup then continue attacking. They must be destroyed.
Shalouf and Al-Mughrabi
Thought you'd enjoy the Middle East version of Hannity and Colmes. It's very entertaining. The topic of the day is whether George W. Bush should be tried as a war criminal. Abd Al-'Azim Al-Mughrabi makes Alan Colmes seem reasonable. He is debating Abd Al-Hadi Shalouf. See which one you think makes more sense. Towards the end Mughrabi threatens to hunt Shalouf down because he is a collaborator. I didn't have the skills to make this picture into a link to the video, so here's a link to the video.
Unfortunately, to watch the video you have to register at MEMRI. It's completely free and well worth it as they have lots of good videos translated from the Middle East. But for those unwilling to register, here is the less entertaining version in transcript form. You miss a portion of the Al-Mughrabi's temper in transcript form.
Interviewer: Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic killed several thousand people – or rather, was accused of this – and was dragged to the International Criminal Court [ICC], where he was killed, and no one knows how. Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was also accused of some killings, and his head was chopped off. Now, the Sudanese president is wanted by the international justice system to stand trial on unsubstantiated accusations. A few people killed Rafiq Al-Hariri, and the whole world is up in arms over one Lebanese MP. Libya paid billions of dollars in compensation for a few American heads. So why not place on trial the man labeled by the German justice minister "the Hitler of our times," who killed millions of people and children in Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Palestine, and Lebanon?
[...]
Dr. Abd Al-Hadi Shalouf, expatriate Libyan lawyer and ICC member: We must draw a distinction between Bush and the Arab rulers.
Interviewer: How come? Doesn’t Bush deserve to be placed on trial?
Abd Al-Hadi Shalouf: I will answer this question. The Arab rulers are the ones who attack their own people, killing them, massacring them, and getting them involved in unwinnable wars. Yet these rulers are never held accountable – from Abd Al-Nasser to Assad, and all these rulers.
[...]
Deputy Secretary-General of the Arab Lawyers Association Abd Al-'Azim Al-Mughrabi: I'm sad to say that the things he said are contradictory, fictitious, and meaningless. I don't know what exactly my colleague is saying. You asked him a question about the crimes perpetrated by the Nazi of our times, George Bush, and his neo-Nazi comrades, who have destroyed the world, along with their own country, America, as we are now seeing. But he evades the question by saying that the Arab rulers should stand trial.
Abd Al-Hadi Shalouf: The Arab rulers should stand trial first...
Abd Al-'Azim Al-Mughrabi: Don't interrupt me. We are not dealing with the question of trials for Arab rulers here.
[...]
Today, Iraq has regressed to pre-Middle Ages times as a result of the barbaric Nazi destruction by the U.S. administration, under the leadership of the war criminal Bush. In the Arab Lawyers Association, we have been preparing for the past four years to try him as a war criminal. We have founded the Arab Center for War Crimes Documentation especially for this purpose – for him, his colleagues, and his ilk. We are counting the minutes until he will no longer have that false, colonialist, so-called immunity he enjoys in his capacity as president of the United States. Once he leaves office, we will go after him. You and everybody else know that there is no statute of limitations on war crimes. We will continue to go after Bush and his ilk until justice is done. Hitler never imagined that he might be defeated. He never imagined that he might stand trial. He never imagined that he would be driven to suicide in order to avoid trial. A worse fate awaits George Bush in the future.
Interviewer: What’s your response?
Abd Al-Hadi Shalouf: He is talking about things that have nothing to do with law. As a lawyer...
Abd Al-'Azim Al-Mughrabi: What do you mean by that?
Abd Al-Hadi Shalouf: I'm a lawyer. I have diplomas, I have three Ph.D.s, I'm known worldwide, and I am a member of the ICC, so don't even go there. From a legal perspective...
Abd Al-'Azim Al-Mughrabi: Listen, you are a lawyer, but so am I. You present yourself as an ICC member, so you should know that I am a member of the ICC.
Abd Al-Hadi Shalouf: You are not, liar. You are a member of the Lawyer Association...
Abd Al-'Azim Al-Mughrabi: No, I'm not... You are lying. I challenge you before millions of viewers.
Abd Al-Hadi Shalouf: Go ahead and challenge, liar...
Abd Al-'Azim Al-Mughrabi: You fled from Libya... You fled from Libya...
Abd Al-Hadi Shalouf: What do you mean by that...
Abd Al-'Azim Al-Mughrabi: You want to place Arab rulers on trial? Go fight your rulers in Libya. You fled. Go and fight.
Abd Al-Hadi Shalouf: Fight who?
Abd Al-'Azim Al-Mughrabi: You are fighting from Paris?!
[...
Abd Al-Hadi Shalouf: Bush came in order to liberate Iraq from a tyrannical regime. When Saddam was arrested, I called upon the Iraqi government to place his wife and daughters on trial.
[...]
From the bottom of my heart, I congratulate Iraq, because it will become a democratic country. I justify the invasion of Iraq. I consider it liberation, not invasion. Our problem is that colonialism was better than our current regimes.
Interviewer: So, Bush is better...
Abd Al-Hadi Shalouf: As far as I am concerned, the Western presence is better than these rulers.
[...]
Abd Al-'Azim Al-Mughrabi: If Muntazar Al-Zaidi, the Arab fighter who made all Arabs and Muslims proud, threw a shoe at the war criminal George Bush, as an act of resistance and defense of his occupied country, when he faced the head of the occupation – then we support him and will throw everything we have, even this... We will throw everything at the face of the collaborators with Bush and the occupation.
Abd Al-Hadi Shalouf: This proves that you are a vulgar, stupid man with a shoe mentality.
Abd Al-'Azim Al-Mughrabi: These are the collaborators with George Bush and the Americans, collaborators with the neo-Nazis. Eventually, they will face trial and he held accountable. He might have fled Libya, but we will hunt him down in France, or even at the end of the world.
Abd Al-Hadi Shalouf: This is a threat, and I will sue you today.
Abd Al-'Azim Al-Mughrabi: Go to...
Abd Al-Hadi Shalouf: You animal...
Abd Al-'Azim Al-Mughrabi: You collaborator, go to...
Abd Al-Hadi Shalouf: This is the language and culture of shoes.
Abd Al-'Azim Al-Mughrabi: You are a disgrace to international law!
Abd Al-Hadi Shalouf: Me a disgrace?!
Abd Al-'Azim Al-Mughrabi: By the way, I've crossed your name off the ICC.
Abd Al-Hadi Shalouf: This show is being recorded, and I will sue you.
Abd Al-'Azim Al-Mughrabi: I will hunt you down, you collaborator!
Abd Al-Hadi Shalouf: I didn’t hit you, but you said that you would hunt me down. This is recorded.
Interviewer: I thank you both.
Abd Al-Hadi Shalouf: It's globally recorded, and if anything happens to me, you'll be held responsible.
Interviewer: All that is left is to thank our guests, Libyan lawyer Dr. Abd Al-Hadi Shalouf, member of the ICC, and 'Abd Al Azim Al-Mughrabi, Deputy Sec.-Gen. of the Arab Lawyers Association. We will meet again next Tuesday. Until then, I, Faysal Al-Qassem, bid you farewell from Doha. Goodbye. Thank you... Thank you... Would you two like to shake hands?
Abd Al-'Azim Al-Mughrabi and Abd Al-Hadi Shalouf: No way!
Unfortunately, to watch the video you have to register at MEMRI. It's completely free and well worth it as they have lots of good videos translated from the Middle East. But for those unwilling to register, here is the less entertaining version in transcript form. You miss a portion of the Al-Mughrabi's temper in transcript form.
Interviewer: Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic killed several thousand people – or rather, was accused of this – and was dragged to the International Criminal Court [ICC], where he was killed, and no one knows how. Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was also accused of some killings, and his head was chopped off. Now, the Sudanese president is wanted by the international justice system to stand trial on unsubstantiated accusations. A few people killed Rafiq Al-Hariri, and the whole world is up in arms over one Lebanese MP. Libya paid billions of dollars in compensation for a few American heads. So why not place on trial the man labeled by the German justice minister "the Hitler of our times," who killed millions of people and children in Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Palestine, and Lebanon?
[...]
Dr. Abd Al-Hadi Shalouf, expatriate Libyan lawyer and ICC member: We must draw a distinction between Bush and the Arab rulers.
Interviewer: How come? Doesn’t Bush deserve to be placed on trial?
Abd Al-Hadi Shalouf: I will answer this question. The Arab rulers are the ones who attack their own people, killing them, massacring them, and getting them involved in unwinnable wars. Yet these rulers are never held accountable – from Abd Al-Nasser to Assad, and all these rulers.
[...]
Deputy Secretary-General of the Arab Lawyers Association Abd Al-'Azim Al-Mughrabi: I'm sad to say that the things he said are contradictory, fictitious, and meaningless. I don't know what exactly my colleague is saying. You asked him a question about the crimes perpetrated by the Nazi of our times, George Bush, and his neo-Nazi comrades, who have destroyed the world, along with their own country, America, as we are now seeing. But he evades the question by saying that the Arab rulers should stand trial.
Abd Al-Hadi Shalouf: The Arab rulers should stand trial first...
Abd Al-'Azim Al-Mughrabi: Don't interrupt me. We are not dealing with the question of trials for Arab rulers here.
[...]
Today, Iraq has regressed to pre-Middle Ages times as a result of the barbaric Nazi destruction by the U.S. administration, under the leadership of the war criminal Bush. In the Arab Lawyers Association, we have been preparing for the past four years to try him as a war criminal. We have founded the Arab Center for War Crimes Documentation especially for this purpose – for him, his colleagues, and his ilk. We are counting the minutes until he will no longer have that false, colonialist, so-called immunity he enjoys in his capacity as president of the United States. Once he leaves office, we will go after him. You and everybody else know that there is no statute of limitations on war crimes. We will continue to go after Bush and his ilk until justice is done. Hitler never imagined that he might be defeated. He never imagined that he might stand trial. He never imagined that he would be driven to suicide in order to avoid trial. A worse fate awaits George Bush in the future.
Interviewer: What’s your response?
Abd Al-Hadi Shalouf: He is talking about things that have nothing to do with law. As a lawyer...
Abd Al-'Azim Al-Mughrabi: What do you mean by that?
Abd Al-Hadi Shalouf: I'm a lawyer. I have diplomas, I have three Ph.D.s, I'm known worldwide, and I am a member of the ICC, so don't even go there. From a legal perspective...
Abd Al-'Azim Al-Mughrabi: Listen, you are a lawyer, but so am I. You present yourself as an ICC member, so you should know that I am a member of the ICC.
Abd Al-Hadi Shalouf: You are not, liar. You are a member of the Lawyer Association...
Abd Al-'Azim Al-Mughrabi: No, I'm not... You are lying. I challenge you before millions of viewers.
Abd Al-Hadi Shalouf: Go ahead and challenge, liar...
Abd Al-'Azim Al-Mughrabi: You fled from Libya... You fled from Libya...
Abd Al-Hadi Shalouf: What do you mean by that...
Abd Al-'Azim Al-Mughrabi: You want to place Arab rulers on trial? Go fight your rulers in Libya. You fled. Go and fight.
Abd Al-Hadi Shalouf: Fight who?
Abd Al-'Azim Al-Mughrabi: You are fighting from Paris?!
[...
Abd Al-Hadi Shalouf: Bush came in order to liberate Iraq from a tyrannical regime. When Saddam was arrested, I called upon the Iraqi government to place his wife and daughters on trial.
[...]
From the bottom of my heart, I congratulate Iraq, because it will become a democratic country. I justify the invasion of Iraq. I consider it liberation, not invasion. Our problem is that colonialism was better than our current regimes.
Interviewer: So, Bush is better...
Abd Al-Hadi Shalouf: As far as I am concerned, the Western presence is better than these rulers.
[...]
Abd Al-'Azim Al-Mughrabi: If Muntazar Al-Zaidi, the Arab fighter who made all Arabs and Muslims proud, threw a shoe at the war criminal George Bush, as an act of resistance and defense of his occupied country, when he faced the head of the occupation – then we support him and will throw everything we have, even this... We will throw everything at the face of the collaborators with Bush and the occupation.
Abd Al-Hadi Shalouf: This proves that you are a vulgar, stupid man with a shoe mentality.
Abd Al-'Azim Al-Mughrabi: These are the collaborators with George Bush and the Americans, collaborators with the neo-Nazis. Eventually, they will face trial and he held accountable. He might have fled Libya, but we will hunt him down in France, or even at the end of the world.
Abd Al-Hadi Shalouf: This is a threat, and I will sue you today.
Abd Al-'Azim Al-Mughrabi: Go to...
Abd Al-Hadi Shalouf: You animal...
Abd Al-'Azim Al-Mughrabi: You collaborator, go to...
Abd Al-Hadi Shalouf: This is the language and culture of shoes.
Abd Al-'Azim Al-Mughrabi: You are a disgrace to international law!
Abd Al-Hadi Shalouf: Me a disgrace?!
Abd Al-'Azim Al-Mughrabi: By the way, I've crossed your name off the ICC.
Abd Al-Hadi Shalouf: This show is being recorded, and I will sue you.
Abd Al-'Azim Al-Mughrabi: I will hunt you down, you collaborator!
Abd Al-Hadi Shalouf: I didn’t hit you, but you said that you would hunt me down. This is recorded.
Interviewer: I thank you both.
Abd Al-Hadi Shalouf: It's globally recorded, and if anything happens to me, you'll be held responsible.
Interviewer: All that is left is to thank our guests, Libyan lawyer Dr. Abd Al-Hadi Shalouf, member of the ICC, and 'Abd Al Azim Al-Mughrabi, Deputy Sec.-Gen. of the Arab Lawyers Association. We will meet again next Tuesday. Until then, I, Faysal Al-Qassem, bid you farewell from Doha. Goodbye. Thank you... Thank you... Would you two like to shake hands?
Abd Al-'Azim Al-Mughrabi and Abd Al-Hadi Shalouf: No way!
Sunday, January 4, 2009
What Really Happened In the Middle East
With the predictably deceptive media coverage of the current war between Hamas and Israel, it is easy for many people to forget how this started. Hamas started firing rockets into Israel. Hamas shoots rockets out of mosques, schools, and hospitals, then accuses Israel of being the ones who don't care about civilian casualties. To Hamas the only thing that might be as good as a dead Jew is a dead Palestinian child. They love to take their pictures and blame Israel even though it is the actions of Hamas that is causing the deaths in the first place. Below is a good video about the history of the Middle East conflict. It's not about a Palestinian state but about the destruction of the state of Israel. Yet around the world people want Israel to stop. Israel will probably stop too soon. They shouldn't stop until they destroy Hamas.
Friday, January 2, 2009
Pakistan's Mumbai Deception
Pakistan’s response to the Mumbai terror attacks have thus far been predictably disappointing. The first bad sign came not far after the attacks. This was when India requested that Pakistan send their intelligence chief to assist in the investigation. Pakistan’s Prime Minister, Yousuf Raza Gilani, promptly agreed. This decision was overruled by Pakistan’s Army. The chief of Pakistan’s Army Ashfaq Kayani, then ordered Shah Mehmood Quereshi, Pakistan’s Foreign Minister, to leave India, Kayani sent his personal aircraft to pick Quereshi up and fly him back to Pakistan. I was hoping that with the election of Asif Zardari that civilian rule would return to Pakistan. But it is now clear that the military is in charge every bit as much as they were when Pervez Musharraf was president.
Pakistan’s ISI has always been a supporter of Lashkar-e-Toiba in their efforts to fight India in Kashmir. Pakistan’s civilian government is in charge of the charade of pretending like they are doing something to fight terrorism. When in reality they can’t do anything because of Pakistan’s military. It is the tradition of Pakistan’s “democracy” for the military to overthrow any civilian leader that they choose. It is also part of Pakistan’s history for the military to have an irrational obsession with India. Acting as if India is a huge threat to Pakistan, even as Pakistan has surrendered the sovereignty of large portions of Pakistan to jihadists.
Pakistan demonstrated how much they care about the attacks in Mumbai, which killed 171 people, when they put Hafiz Saeed on house arrest. Hafiz Saeed is the leader of Jamaat-ud-Dawa. Jamaat-ud-Dawa is a front group for the banned Lashkar-e-Toiba. For those of you who think that house arrest may be too harsh of a punishment for participating in the murder of 171 people, don’t worry, Pakistan has some tricks up their sleeve. You see, they put him on the kind of house arrest where you are not confined to your house. As journalists approached Hafiz Saeed’s house, a local police commander claimed that Hafiz was in the house. Moments later, the journalists witnessed Hafiz Saeed leaving a mosque from across the street. The embarrassed police commander first denied that the person was Hafiz, then he said that he was just following orders. Here is what Hafiz Saeed said following the attacks of September 11th, “The LET will not allow the Pakistan Government to hand over Osama bin Laden to the USA. Osama bin Laden is a Muslim and thus we will not allow the Pakistan Government in any condition to hand him over to the USA. Protection of Osama is the duty of every Pakistani Muslim. No one can stop the jihad in Kashmir, Afghanistan, Iraq and Palestine. It will continue.” Hafiz Saeed was also arrested in 2006 after train bombings in Mumbai. He was released a few months later.
Don’t think that Pakistan is soft on crime just because they give house arrest to a mass murderer. Pakistan is very strict when it comes to crime. For instance, blasphemy against Islam. Pakistan’s Penal Code says, “that any person who ‘by words, either spoken or written, or by visible representations, or by any imputation, innuendo, or insinuation, directly or indirectly’ defiles the name of the Islamic Prophet, Mohammad, is liable for blasphemy. In additional to a fine, he shall be punished with the death sentence or imprisonment for life.”
Then comes Pakistan’s reaction to the only surviving terrorist of the Mumbai attacks, Ajmal Amir Kasab. Zardari claims that there is no proof that Kasab came from Pakistan. Kasab himself says he is from Pakistan. His father in Pakistan says that Kasab is his son. Pakistan in the spirit of cooperation reacted quite rationally hearing the news that Kasab is from Faridkot, Pakistan. Villagers living in Faridkot claim that unknown people took Kasab’s parents out of the house in the middle of the night. A few days later a man named Abdul Ghafoor now lives in Kasab’s parents former house and he claims that he has lived there for twenty years. The local authorities agree. A Pakistani news channel using hidden cameras recorded villagers talking about their former neighbor Ajmal and his family, they talked about how Ajmal told his mother that he was leaving for jihad. When the same news crew visited the town a few days later they found that the entire village has now publicly forgotten that this family ever existed. But some anonymously told the news channel that Kasab’s parents have mysteriously disappeared.
Because of Pakistan’s impeccable honesty, it is the view of the United States that we can clearly trust them to investigate this attack and bring the perpetrators to justice. President Bush is irrationally urging Pakistan to bring those responsible to justice in Pakistan instead of extraditing them to India. The idea of relying on Pakistan to bring jihadists to justice is clearly absurd. Especially jihadists who are attacking India. I hope President Obama will be smarter than President Bush and realize the futility of trusting Pakistan.
Pakistan’s ISI has always been a supporter of Lashkar-e-Toiba in their efforts to fight India in Kashmir. Pakistan’s civilian government is in charge of the charade of pretending like they are doing something to fight terrorism. When in reality they can’t do anything because of Pakistan’s military. It is the tradition of Pakistan’s “democracy” for the military to overthrow any civilian leader that they choose. It is also part of Pakistan’s history for the military to have an irrational obsession with India. Acting as if India is a huge threat to Pakistan, even as Pakistan has surrendered the sovereignty of large portions of Pakistan to jihadists.
Pakistan demonstrated how much they care about the attacks in Mumbai, which killed 171 people, when they put Hafiz Saeed on house arrest. Hafiz Saeed is the leader of Jamaat-ud-Dawa. Jamaat-ud-Dawa is a front group for the banned Lashkar-e-Toiba. For those of you who think that house arrest may be too harsh of a punishment for participating in the murder of 171 people, don’t worry, Pakistan has some tricks up their sleeve. You see, they put him on the kind of house arrest where you are not confined to your house. As journalists approached Hafiz Saeed’s house, a local police commander claimed that Hafiz was in the house. Moments later, the journalists witnessed Hafiz Saeed leaving a mosque from across the street. The embarrassed police commander first denied that the person was Hafiz, then he said that he was just following orders. Here is what Hafiz Saeed said following the attacks of September 11th, “The LET will not allow the Pakistan Government to hand over Osama bin Laden to the USA. Osama bin Laden is a Muslim and thus we will not allow the Pakistan Government in any condition to hand him over to the USA. Protection of Osama is the duty of every Pakistani Muslim. No one can stop the jihad in Kashmir, Afghanistan, Iraq and Palestine. It will continue.” Hafiz Saeed was also arrested in 2006 after train bombings in Mumbai. He was released a few months later.
Don’t think that Pakistan is soft on crime just because they give house arrest to a mass murderer. Pakistan is very strict when it comes to crime. For instance, blasphemy against Islam. Pakistan’s Penal Code says, “that any person who ‘by words, either spoken or written, or by visible representations, or by any imputation, innuendo, or insinuation, directly or indirectly’ defiles the name of the Islamic Prophet, Mohammad, is liable for blasphemy. In additional to a fine, he shall be punished with the death sentence or imprisonment for life.”
Then comes Pakistan’s reaction to the only surviving terrorist of the Mumbai attacks, Ajmal Amir Kasab. Zardari claims that there is no proof that Kasab came from Pakistan. Kasab himself says he is from Pakistan. His father in Pakistan says that Kasab is his son. Pakistan in the spirit of cooperation reacted quite rationally hearing the news that Kasab is from Faridkot, Pakistan. Villagers living in Faridkot claim that unknown people took Kasab’s parents out of the house in the middle of the night. A few days later a man named Abdul Ghafoor now lives in Kasab’s parents former house and he claims that he has lived there for twenty years. The local authorities agree. A Pakistani news channel using hidden cameras recorded villagers talking about their former neighbor Ajmal and his family, they talked about how Ajmal told his mother that he was leaving for jihad. When the same news crew visited the town a few days later they found that the entire village has now publicly forgotten that this family ever existed. But some anonymously told the news channel that Kasab’s parents have mysteriously disappeared.
Because of Pakistan’s impeccable honesty, it is the view of the United States that we can clearly trust them to investigate this attack and bring the perpetrators to justice. President Bush is irrationally urging Pakistan to bring those responsible to justice in Pakistan instead of extraditing them to India. The idea of relying on Pakistan to bring jihadists to justice is clearly absurd. Especially jihadists who are attacking India. I hope President Obama will be smarter than President Bush and realize the futility of trusting Pakistan.
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