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Category Archives: Irrational religious authority
Christopher Hitchens on Islam and the west.
Melanie Phillips gives very important speech.
Pay attention please anyone who thinks what happened in the UK cannot or will not happen ‘here’, it can and it is. Obama’s policies are nearly identical to the U.K. Obama has decided to call Islamic jihad and terrorism ‘man made disasters’ mirroring the British policies described herein. H/T Solstace
‘Behind the Veil’: from Canada’s Globe and Mail- a 6 part series on the women of Afghanistan
Today Canada’s Globe and Mail introduced an in depth, six part series featuring the women of Afghanistan. Here is the first installment. Each Saturday for the next five consecutive weeks, vlad will be posting the Globe and Mail’s related mainline features, articles and interviews concluding October 24. For related videos and additional commentary and coverage, please go to the Globe and Mail”s ” Behind the Veil–An Intimate Journey Into The Lives Of Kandahar’s Women”.
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PART ONE
Jessica Leeder
Kandahar, Afghanistan — From Saturday’s Globe and Mail
Last updated on Saturday, Sep. 19, 2009 02:32PM ED
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“My dreams are gone.”
“It is already too late for me.”
“My life has been destroyed.”
At first, the words pouring from the mouth of the girl with jewel eyes hemmed in kohl sound like a typical teenage lament.
Her tone is plain and without melodrama – she believes what she says. And there are plenty of reasons she should.
In the span of about one year, the 15-year-old, named Sitara, has been yanked out of school, off a path that hinted at promise, and sold by her father for 700,000 Afghanis (about $15,000) into a marriage that, already, she has “nothing left for.”
“It seems like men take women as servants, so they can be abusive towards them,” she explained in a hushed on-camera interview conducted secretly in Kandahar while her husband was at work. “It’s not just the husband, there’s also the mother-in-law, sister-in-law and brother-in-law, and they all rule over me; … whenever I do something bad, anyone who gets angry with me beats me.”
Rather than poring over textbooks, Sitara has spent most of her sophomore year willing herself to feel love for the illiterate, middle-aged Kandahari who is now her husband, learning to look after his family’s livestock and reconfiguring her singed plans for the future into a form compatible with her new life as this wife.
“And even now, I don’t want my husband,” she said. “I come from a very open-minded family, but since I’ve come to this family, I feel that my life has been destroyed.” Continue Reading →
Bruce Bawer: Ottawa Sept. 14th speech and Q&A
After literally days of editing uploading file size changing and developing cool logos for everyone with some new software I bought, I finally have the Q&A session from the night with Bruce Bawer online for all too see.
I think the interaction of the panel, of David Harris, Terry Glavin, Bruce Bawer, and Marc Lebuis is well worth the time to watch. All of these men come from quite diverse backgrounds and interests politically but have one very strong thing in common. The threat Islam poses to secular liberal democracy.
If you have already seen Bruce’s speech in Ottawa from Sept. 14th, go to the second video and watch the Q&A
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Symetrical respect?
You have to be living in a cave in Afghanistan somewhere to not know what happens if you ‘disrespect’ or ‘desecrate’ a Muslim holy symbol by now and frankly, if you do live in that cave chances are good you actually caused the riots, arson, murder, and general destruction that result from the mere rumour of a desecration of a Koran or a cartoon or whatnot.
But what happens when Muslims publicly desecrate symbols of other people’s faiths?
Lets have a look….
Muslims stomping on head of Hindu Sacred Cow
Here, some Muslims in India show their multicultural tolerance and respect for the Hindu’s, by stomping on the head of a cow, a sacred animal to them. This also teaches us the profound empathy and kindness Muslims show to animals.
Below, we see the Muslim tolerance and appreciation for art, and antiquities as well as the sensitivities of other faiths.
Taliban blows the head off one of the ancient Bamiyan Buddha statues
Yeah yeah you have seen this before. It’s old news right? Well the point is, we, the non Muslims people of the world had better wake up and recognize that this and other events like it, are not isolated incidents by ‘extremist’ or ‘radical’ variants of Islam. This is in fact how Islam itself demands that evidence of other faiths be treated. More simply put, This is policy.
Evidence of blasting of Jewish artifacts from the Temple Mount
For the story on the above photo please visit WND. however this one is probably the least important example of the Islamic overt systematic actions to destroy any historical evidence of Jewish existence in the area of Israel whatsoever. There is plenty of footage online showing actual crushing machines with conveyor belts destroying whatever is dug up in Gaza that shows Jewish history as well as in the Muslim area near the Western Wall.
he sensitivities run deep. Archaeologists are cautioned not to talk about pre-Islamic finds outside scholarly literature. Few ancient treasures are on display, and no Christian or Jewish relics. A 4th or 5th century church in eastern Saudi Arabia has been fenced off ever since its accidental discovery 20 years ago and its exact whereabouts kept secret.
In the eyes of conservatives, the land where Islam was founded and the Prophet Muhammad was born must remain purely Muslim. Saudi Arabia bans public displays of crosses and churches, and whenever non-Islamic artifacts are excavated, the news must be kept low-key lest hard-liners destroy the finds.
“They should be left in the ground,” said Sheikh Mohammed al-Nujaimi, a well-known cleric, reflecting the views of many religious leaders. “Any ruins belonging to non-Muslims should not be touched. Leave them in place, the way they have been for thousands of years.”
In an interview, he said Christians and Jews might claim discoveries of relics, and that Muslims would be angered if ancient symbols of other religions went on show. “How can crosses be displayed when Islam doesn’t recognize that Christ was crucified?” said al-Nujaimi. “If we display them, it’s as if we recognize the crucifixion.”
As for Christians?
Another Church turned into public toilet.
Or set one on fire:
Perhaps the time to wake up from fantasies that if you are nice to all, all will be nice to you. Reality offers you this axiom.
The longer you wait to solve a problem, the more costly and unpleasant will be the fix until you wait so long there is no fix and the problem overwhelms you.
The time for a bloodless solution, a political one, may not have passed yet. But that political solution must happen right away.
Eeyore for Vlad.
“The Battery is Dead” A fantastic, on point speech by Geert Wilders
From Gates of Vienna verbatim:
by Baron Bodissey
Geert Wilders gave an important speech in the Dutch parliament yesterday. Our Flemish correspondent VH has translated the text of the speech, as well as some introductory material.
VH notes: “It’s interesting to observe that not only did the government fear his speech, but also the fraction leaders of other parties. Geert Wilders obviously dominates the political debate in and outside parliament.”
First, from MARGINAAL weblog IN DE MARGE
Fraction leaders are terrified of Geert Wilders
“What I notice, and what I hear from our reporter in The Hague, and what is part of it, is that all of them are very, very afraid and terrified of Geert Wilders, and are completely mesmerized, and that everyone, all fraction leaders […] are only busy with what Geert Wilders is going to do in the general debate.”
Below is the translated text of Mr. Wilders’ speech.
I must say that editing this text was pure pleasure. It is absolutely magnificent. Geert Wilders has the entire Dutch establishment by their miserable little government-issued gonads, and is beginning to squeeze. Hard.
Just think of the show when January rolls around and the regime puts this man on trial!
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Speech by Geert Wilders on the first day of the General Debate in the Dutch parliament
It is over. This government has run aground, like an old car that got stuck in loose sand. It still squeaks a little, it cracks. Anyone can see that the little creature will never move one meter again. The battery is dead. It’s all over.
Madam Chairman, it would be laughable if it were not for the future of the Netherlands. Then you could make fun of that little club of helpless people who stare out through the misty windscreen, hoping there is someone who can tell them which way to go. They know themselves that if you look closely, it is way past saving. That they only made the wrong decisions and did not take note of the little sign: “swamp to the left”. Then they did turn left. Because their ideological GPS is programmed to only turn “left” ever since the sixties. They cannot do anything else. Wouter [Bos, Vice PM, Finance Minister PvdA, Socialist] behind the wheel, Andre [Rouwvoet, Youth and Family Minister CU, Christian Union] in the baby seat, and to Jan Peter [Balkenende, PM CDA, Christian Democrat] anything is okay as long as his party gets to stay in the front seat. [V1]
They tried to throw some ballast overboard. Mrs. Vogelaar [former Integration Minister PvdA, Socialist] was tied to a tree. Aboutaleb [Moroccan-Dutch mayor of Rotterdam PvdA, Socialist] got out in Rotterdam with all his passports. Van Geel [fraction leader CDA] would have preferred to take the turn to Brabant to become the Queen’s Governor there. Jan Peter [Balkenende] cries out all the time: “I want to go to Brussels!”, and the Al Gore parrot, Miss Cramer [Environment and Housing Minister PvdA, Socialist] trumpets from the back seat: “Not too fast, that is bad for the polar bears!” The only route the PvdA is proposing is to do a few turns around the [Amsterdam] canals.
Prime Minister, please just stop with this. Send that rusty piece of junk to the junkyard. Collect the scrap fee. It makes no sense anymore. There is only one reason why the government [“Cabinet”, coalition government] continues stumbling: that is out of fear of elections.
I do understand that. I get it. For when the Netherlands gets to vote, it will show that the crisis mainly is happening in one specific place… and that is in the government. The Balkenende/Bos people, who are most of all good at throwing billions towards the chalk lines, to the big banks. If the Netherlands is allowed to choose, it will choose against the snatching habits, the big fat bonuses and bungling with side jobs. How dare the government go after ordinary citizens while they simultaneously spend billions on banks and leftist hobbies, and hundreds of millions for the 19,000 asylum seekers that await us next year, about double the number of last year! Continue Reading →
Do not say you were not warned.
Muslim explains why they do not favor ‘symmetrical’ tolerance. H/T Solstace
I will concede this though. Muslims are not cultural relativists. As a consequence of their confidence in the ‘rightness’ of their position, they are and will win in the battle of civilization Vs. Islam. If you doubt that, enjoy the video below.