“The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.” -Marcus Aurelius
H/T Magic Martin
NZ First leader Winston Peters on MP Richard Prosser’s rant.
NZ First leader Winston Peters says one of his MPs has not incited hatred by saying Muslims shouldn’t be allowed on planes.
Richard Prosser said young men who were Muslim, “look like a Muslim” or came from a Muslim country should not be permitted to fly on “western” airlines, in an article he wrote for Investigate magazine.
Now and again you may hear an ‘ignorant redneck’ in a Western country say something like: “Why do these people come here to get away from the complete dump they turned their own nation into, then proceed immediately to turn our country into the exact kind of dump they ran away from?”
Well I don’t know why other than the Islamic thing. But this isn’t a bad example of how.
This story goes right to the heart of the concepts of the savage Vs. the civilized man. The civilized man works cooperatively with others in order to have public parks and to allow wildlife to thrive instead of selfishly extinguishing life from an area all protect with not just taxes, but more importantly, restraint. It simply wouldn’t occur to us to do this. When we want food, we rely on ancient inventions called, ‘agriculture’ and animal husbandry in order to get it. As opposed to stealing it from a public trust.
H/T Michael Laudahn
Wild birds including ducks, geese and pheasants are being poached from public parks in Auckland and being turned into dinner.
Witnesses told the Herald they have seen birds being caught with nets and hooks, and some even having their necks wrung in front of shocked onlookers at Cornwall Park and Western Springs.
Ram Patel said he was “totally stunned” when he saw two Asian men catching a goose and a duck using a net at Western Springs last Tuesday, and then taking them away in a canvas bag.
“At first I thought they were park rangers or something but realised they were poachers when I saw them driving off in an old Japanese car,” he said.
Mr Patel, 21, a student living in Mt Roskill, said the two men had a bag of eggs with them which he believed were also collected from the park.
“They were really rough with the animals and didn’t care if they lived or died when they were shoved into the bag, which made me think that these people wanted them for food and not pets.”
(AFP) – 12 hours ago
WELLINGTON — New Zealand’s Islamic community has written to Prime Minister John Key demanding an apology for a joke one of his ministers made about Muslims, the Dominion Post newspaper reported Saturday.
The president of the Federation of Islamic Associations New Zealand, Anwar Ghani, said Muslims were “very upset” about the remarks made in a speech by Building Minister Maurice Williamson.
“We brought it to the notice of the PM saying that what was said was highly inappropriate and the minister should be reprimanded and apologise,” Ghani told the newspaper.
Williamson cracked a joke about Muslims and the practice of stoning while giving a speech at a building industry awards ceremony last month.
Ghani said he did not think comments centred on religious intolerance were commonplace in New Zealand, but this issue was “a big problem because it was uttered by someone who is regarded as being responsible and a public figure”.
A spokesman for the prime minister confirmed the letter had arrived and was being considered.
*** UPDATE ***
The joke can be found here:
http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2010/09/an_mp_told_a_joke_-_shock_horror.html
2 Muslim Jokes from New Zealand Minister
1. What is the difference between Muslims and Kiwis? Muslims get to commit adultery and get stoned, Kiwis get stoned and commit adultery!
2. Mr Williamson also quipped about the weather being “Shi’ite in the morning and Sunni in the afternoon,”
