Category Archives: Historical Relativism
Pajamas TV Bill Whittle speaks on Hiroshima
I post this as a form of ammunition to those who get into arguments with the all too familiar post-modernist idiots who use the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and oddly not the firebombing of Tokyo and a dozen other Japanese cities which were much more devastating, as an excuse to hate the USA and western nations.
This is PJTV always is, very well done. Someday there should be a university course that uses PJTV material, if universities ever get back to the business of facts and education. I might add, that for those of you who are paying anything from $30.00 to $100.00 a month for cable where all the channels are the same except (if you are in Canada) the ones in French you never watch and the leftist propaganda ones, now could be the time for a gift to yourself, cut the cable and give $5.00 a month to Pajamas Media and help support a truly worthy cause while getting quality education.
The video below was from the free section. Imagine what you can get if you fork out a fiver a month.
bombing of Japan from Vlad Tepes on Vimeo.
Terry Glavin on CFRA Dec 22 2009
It is difficult to get people to listen to radio in a video age. And I have posted another Terry Glavin interview in the last 30 days from CBC. However this one is different and I ask Vlad’s readers to please settle back with a drink and put this most excellent, scholarly, informed and hard hitting interview about Afghanistan and Canada’s role there.
Whether you agree with the mission or not, no matter what your position this is a highly informative and important interview. Nick Vandergragt told me he felt this was the best interview he ever did.
I believe him. Terry one could argue, is Canada’s answer to Christopher Hitchens. This is a fair comparison on many levels. Both men are brilliant, have profound convictions and I might add, the courage that those convictions bring.
Terry also, being a leftist himself, knew exactly how to speak to what one might call, the new left, and how it abuses terms like The Peace Movement and so on. All this to say, this really is an excellent interview on Afghanistan and Canada’s role and I really do hope you will take the time to listen. I have edited out the commercials for your convenience and optimized it in some ways. Please feel free to download it and send it anywhere and post it anywhere you want. But please do not edit it. Post it intact. If you disgaree with Terry, please make sure you disagree with what he actually says and not what some would make him say.
Posting will be light as I am in a rather low internet zone enjoying a wonderful Christmas with some fantastic friends. I hope all of you are as well.
Have a Merry Christmas and I hope you enjoy all the peace, comradeship of friends and family, and human contact that make this time of year so special and important.
Eeyore for Vladtepesblog
Terry glavin with video from Vlad Tepes on Vimeo.
New movie Avatar downright racist. It would never be shown in public if they changed any of the roles.
A good friend of mine came over for a visit the other night and told me about a film he had seen the night before called ‘Avatar’. He was utterly stunned at how racist and anti white it was. How all the good people in it where black women or amer-Indian males who cared about the environment like that US crying Indian did for the anti-throw-your-garbage-out-the-window commercials in the early 80s.
He was aslo stunned by how all the white male dialogue was so blatantly about profit over, well anything really. I in fact am planning on ripping a few scenes after what he told me and doing a bit of a movie review of my own complete with illustrations once I can find a decent stream of the damn thing. So you can imagine my delight when I discovered this wonderful gem at Tundra Tabloids by one of my favorite thinkers and authors of the 20th century, Fjordman, who wrote a review of this very film and for the same reasons. Again, this movie even from the 20 odd minutes I watched online, was the most racist thing I have seen since The Birth of a Nation, the first ever hollywood feature length motion picture, and made by the Ku Klux Klan.
Basically, if you want to see Avatar just watch this clip but imagine you can see all the people throwing trash as white males who get paid for it, and that each crying Indian has a black woman telling him exactly what to do, and how to pray for the land at all times.
And now on to Fjordman:
Since I am a certified sci-fi geek and most science fiction movies are quite bad this habit unfortunately forces me to watch a large number of bad movies. It’s one of my little perversions. I have just watched the most expensive B-movie ever made, the US$ 237 million Avatar by director James Cameron, famous for having produced films such as The Terminator, Terminator 2, Aliens and Titanic. Briefly summed up I would say that while it is visually spectacular, as is everything Mr. Cameron makes, Avatar has to be one of the most anti-Western and especially anti-white Hollywood movies I have seen in a long time.
The hero is the U.S. Marine Jake Sully who has been sent to the planet-like moon Pandora because humans desire the mineral resources found of Pandora, which is inhabited by a race of tall, blue-skinned aliens, the Na’vi. They have a non-industrial civilization technologically inferior to ours but apparently spiritually richer and in perfect ecological harmony with the natural environment. The hero predictably falls in love with the native culture and connects with a native girl.
“Going native” is in itself not an original theme; it resembles Dances with Wolves, only with aliens instead of Sioux. Neither is the preference for pre-industrial civilization, which was after all shared by a good man such as Tolkien in his The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Tolkien had personally experienced the meaningless horrors of trench warfare during the First World War and this naturally affected his view of industrialized society. What is different about the movie Avatar is how it portrays whites as a bunch of raging monsters, something which Tolkien never did.
Basically, the white characters are portrayed as brutal, greedy and insensitive beasts who rape the environment and destroy other cultures with a smile in the search for profit. The main antagonist is the white Colonel Quaritch, a brute who hardly possesses a single positive character trait. The final climax of the movie is when he screams “How does it feel to betray your race?” to the protagonist while he is trying to murder him. Although a few of the white characters such as Jake Sully are portrayed in a more redeeming light this is only because they totally reject their own civilization and join the other team in the fight. In other words: the only good whites are the ones who utterly turn their backs on their own destructive and evil culture. As reviewer Armond White put it, “Avatar is the corniest movie ever made about the white man’s need to lose his identity and assuage racial, political, sexual and historical guilt.”
Of course, back in the real world whites are among the most self-critical and least ethnocentric people on Earth, and have been so for a long time. Whites are also disproportionately represented in the environmental movement whereas many “diverse” Third World peoples couldn’t care less about the environment. But why let the truth get in the way of making a good anti-white movie? The fact that quite a few among the predominantly white audience cheered for this movie shows that anti-white hatred and stereotypes have become so widespread and accepted that most people cannot even see it, least of all whites themselves.
Gaza is not an Islamic state.
Esther from Islam in Europe was kind enough to translate an article from the Belgian press about all the various Islamic rules being enforced in Gaza and the reporter came to the astonishing conclusion that Gaza is not an Islamic state somehow.
Here is the link to the original story and below is Islam In Europe‘s translation. Many thanks to Esther.
Gaza hasn’t become an Islamic republic
© MOHAMMED SABER
Saturday, Dec 19, 2009
Guus Valk, NRC Handelsblad
A year after the war with Israel, Hamas has the power in the Gaza Strip firmly in hand. But the Palestinian fundamental movement hasn’t made an Islamic emirate from the area. “It’s a complicated picture”.
Five Hamas soldiers, recognizable by their darker uniform, sit in a row in front of a sentry box with a barrier, about a kilometer from the northern border-crossing with Israel, Erez. Here and there they stop taxis with foreign visitors, every day a handful of diplomats, volunteers and journalists. In the guardhouse several suras from the Koran hang on an A4.
A soldier finds a bottle of beer in the trunk of a foreign traveler. He shows it to the other border soldiers. They confer and go inside. The bottle is registered on a form. Then they open outside a hole above a deep pit, where they throw it. They traveler looks with surprise on how the men get big stones in a routine manner, and pelt the bottle with them. Once they’re finished, they smile and wish him a good trip.
“We must be consistent,” says Fawzy Barhoom, spokesperson and Hamas leader, in his office in Gaza City. Portraits of Sheik Ahmed Yassin and Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh look down on his desk. “Drinking alcohol is Haram. It’s not available in the Gaza Strip. We can’t impose that on our own people without also asking it of foreigners. We are a moderate Islamic party. But we take care of upholding several important Islamic values, that is our duty.”
Corrugated Iron
For two and a half years Hamas has had the power in the isolated Gaza Strip firmly in hand. Though Israel a year ago tried to overthrow the Hamas government in a three week long war, the movement wasn’t forced to its knees.
On the contrary, you would say as you drive around the center of Gaza City. Countless building lie in ruins or are damaged, but the Hamas police is visible everywhere. Agents guard intersections, hotels and government buildings. Police departments have been built up again with corrugated iron, clay or whatever else is available. Green Hamas flags decorate the streets of Gaza City. “Order and authority are our most important priorities,” says Barhoom.
‘Hamastan’ – so Israeli ministers like to call the Gaza Strip since the takeover by Hamas. A strict Islamic enclave, ruled by the religious fanatics. The Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, spoke in October of ‘the emirate of darkness’ which rules the Gaza Strip.
Gaza hasn’t become an Islamic republic. Sharia, the Islamic law, hasn’t been introduced. Parties with live music are allowed, so it appears in the renovated bar Orient House, on the coast. While Hamas agents keep watch outside, hundreds of exuberant men and women clap inside deep into the night with a band playing stirring Arabic music.
Capital punishment
Women study and are often politically active. On the other hand, drinking alcohol and homosexuality are strictly forbidden. Since recently motorcycle riding isn’t allowed any more. Capital punishment for drug traders has been introduced.
“The picture after two and a half years is complicated. It’s exaggerated, not to say laughable, to compare Gaza with an Islamic emirate,” says Mkhaimer Abu Sada, profession of political sciences at Al-Azhar University in Gaza City. This university is the more or less secular counterpart of the Islamic University and has strong support from sympathizers of Al-Fatah, Hamas’ rival. Abu SAda is impartial and mediates between both parties.
According to Abu Sada, life for the residents of Gaza hasn’t really changed since Hamas is ruling on its own. “It is safer on the streets, the anarchy of fighting-groups battling each other has disappeared.” But, he says, there are incidents. “The problem is more that there’s no opposition, that Hamas can do what it wants.”
Education, says Abu Sada, is a good example of that. This summer girls who weren’t dressed modestly enough, in headscarf and dress, were expelled from several schools. Hamas denied that it was responsible for this rule.
Gloves
Abu Sada: “Nobody know if that’s true, but Hamas is responsible for something else. Recently the ministry of education has been trying to separate men and women in school. The ministry wants that boys will only be taught by male teachers, and girls only by women. There have also been incidents in the legal field. Suddenly women lawyers have to wear a headscarf and gloves. After protests by women that was quickly retracted.”
During the afternoon Cafe Mazaj (‘mood’) is full of visitors. Mazaj, with a Western looking interior and countless flavors of coffee and tea, is popular among the rich elite of Gaza City. The visitors are young, highly educated. Without exception the women have makeup, some don’t wear a headscarf. The men and women sit separately. In the women’s section there’s loud laughter.
Dancing
“There’s nothing to do in Gaza,” says Maram Abed, a 20-year old IT student from Al-Azhar University. She often sits with her girlfriends in Mazaj, one of the few coffee-bars in Gaza. “There are two, three places where I can go if I want to have fun. I never go alone, and never with a boy. Out of the question. Alcohol, dancing or seeing a movie are also not allowed. I would like to, but this is Gaza.”
Wala’a, her study partner, nods. But, she says immediately, “It’s not because of Hamas. It’s because this is a small area.” Maram: “Everybody knows each other. And people here have time to gossip. You quickly cause a scandal.”
Wala’a: “Before Hamas was it wasn’t much better”.
Maram laughs. “Why do you think people marry so young? Then they finally have a legitimate reason to party.”
Ban on motorcycling
The ‘Turkish model’, Hamas leader Fawzy Barhoom calls the policy of his party in the Gaza Strip. “We want to propagate Islamic values, sometimes also in daily life. But only because this wish comes from the people themselves. The Gaza Strip is conservative, you should know. And the main thing is this: we are a Palestinian liberation movement. We want to throw off us the yoke of the Israeli occupation. We are not out to establish an Islamic republic, neither do we want to force our religion on Jews of Christians at any cost.”
The ban on motorcycling for women has, according to Barhoom, nothing to do with Islam. “Scientific research shows that women on motorcycles cause accidents more often. Women can drive cars.”
A shining example of Muslim equivalence
Here, Turkish Muslims threaten certain actions in retaliation for the ban on minarets in Switzerland. This is very revealing at a few levels. For one thing, if taken at face value, what Muslims hold as things of equal value. That forbidding a specific component of architecture without forbidding any religious practice, or the building of more mosques, or any impediment to Islamic faith or practice at all, and most certainly did not threaten to kill anyone, is equivalent in this Turk’s mind as killing priests and destroying bell towers. Now it needs to be noted that in the Swiss referendum, there is no compulsion to remove any existing minarets, just a prohibition on building more.
I however do not take it on face value. The minaret is a token or a totem of Islamic primacy and expansion. It is a beacon calling to Muslims to come to prayer of course, but much more importantly it is to dominate the skyline and let the infidels know who the boss really is. So when turks make these threats it is in fact because the Swiss dared interfere with the process of Islamic dominance of a Western nation.
Eeyore for Vlad and with a H/T to Islam in Europe for the article:
Turks Threaten to Kill Priest over Swiss Minaret Decision
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Slap to religious freedom in Switzerland leads to threat over church bell tower in Turkey.
ISTANBUL, December 15 (CDN) — In response to a Swiss vote banning the construction of new mosque minarets, a group of Muslims this month went into a church building in eastern Turkey and threatened to kill a priest unless he tore down its bell tower, according to an advocacy group.
Three Muslims on Dec. 4 entered the Meryem Ana Church, a Syriac Orthodox church in Diyarbakir, and confronted the Rev. Yusuf Akbulut. They told him that unless the bell tower was destroyed in one week, they would kill him.
“If Switzerland is demolishing our minarets, we will demolish your bell towers too,” one of the men told Akbulut. Continue Reading →
Franken-mentary on Islam in Spain
I saw this short BBC clip that really pissed me off. They seemed to imply that Spain would be better off under another 700 years of brutal racist oppressive sharia law and Islamic rule. So I thought I would counter their post modernist BS with some facts. I really don’t see why the BBC should take people’s money by force and use it to lie to them about important things without at least we, the people, having the right to rebut.
Richard Dawkins on what actually is offensive
PJTV’s The Narrative
One of my favorite pieces from PJTV, this one I have posted before on Vlad but as sevenload.com elected to close my channel, I had to re-upload and here re-post. If you have not seen this before, please do watch. If you have, at least you know its here again should you wish to refer someone to it.
PJTV The Narrative plus History PC from Vlad Tepes on Vimeo.
Here is an update on Gladney Dec 3rd 09
Filip Dewinter in debate on Islam in Belgium
Translation: V.H.
Thanks to Gates of Vienna for coordinating this,
Filip Dewinter debate Belgium from Vlad Tepes on Vimeo.
Lecture: Victor Davis Hansen, Mid east prof. warfare then and now
Victor Davis Hanson, Professor of Classics at California State University at Fresno, leads a discussion on the nature of war throughout civilization and how it might enlighten us about the contemporary troubles in the Middle East. Presented as part of UC Santa Cruz’s Jewish Studies Lectures. [8/2004] [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Show ID: 8856]
As is often the case, the Q&A is excellent. Please watch to the end.
Another odd Obama pick?
For the very first time I am considering the possibility that David Icke may be right and the world is actually ruled by ‘Lizard people’. One would hope though that technologically advanced people would be able to create better disguises. Or perhaps the batteries are wearing down on this one’s ‘woman suit’. Of less concern than that this woman seems to be a human-lizard-alien hybrid, is that she feels that Mao is her political hero and inspiration.
There really is no way to talk oneself out of that. One can admire a persons accomplishments or specific things that may have said, but to call them your favorite philosopher over all pretty much means you agree with them. When ‘them’ is one of histories largest ever mass murderers, we have a serious problem in the White House.
Eeyore
Another history of political correctness.
A few weeks ago, we posted a rather brilliant 12 minute video from Pajamas Media on the history of the term, ‘Political Correctness’ and attached to it, another documentary they recommended that offered better detail on The Frankfurt School.
Here is another documentary covering the same theme but giving more depth on some aspects of it. This is very important stuff. A great deal of the issues and problems of the modern world are a direct consequence of thoughts, actions, and policies set into motion by a few German communists.
Link: 
Group warns Prince Charles to stay out of Quebec
MONTREAL–A group of radical Quebec sovereigntists with a history of raising a ruckus has found a new target: Prince Charles.
Le Réseau de Résistance du Québécois pounced after learning that the prince’s planned Canadian tour next month would include a stop in Quebec. Group leader Patrick Bourgeois warned Charles to stay out of the province. “Quebecers have nothing to do with the British monarchy,” Bourgeois wrote in Le Québécois newsletter.
The group played a role in forcing organizers to scrap a re-enactment earlier this year of the 1759 battle of the Plains of Abraham in which the English defeated the French.