“The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.” -Marcus Aurelius
Yes I know lots of you do not have time to watch all the videos I post on this site and to be fair, it would take up a large part of one’s day to do so. But please, watch this one. Newt is fantastic and calls it like it is. He makes me want to make a T shirt saying: “2+2=4? RACIST! My little objection to the dialectic scam. In any case please do watch this superb video of Newt G. Really, it is worth your time.
Below, I did a 9 minute sort of highlights of his speech as a teaser:
A bus driver accused of refusing two veiled women passage has been cleared by his bosses.
The pair of Muslim students said the “bigoted” driver refused to let them board because they were wearing head scarf’s – however, Metroline have rejected the women’s complaints after studying CCTV footage.
The bus operator says the incident has nothing to do with Islamophobia and a lot to do with a lack of manners. One of the women said she was “shocked” by the decision and is seeking legal advice.
Footage, which does not have sound, is said to show the women banging on the door as the bus comes to a stop at Russell Square, its final destination. The two women then entered through the back door and remonstrated with the driver, before disembarking and waiting outside. When the bus driver opened the front doors, the students had another exchange with the driver; it is at this point they were ordered off.
A Metroline spokesperson said that one of the women was being “argumentative”.
This man may well be the next president of the USA, and I might add, if he is, he would be the next Ronald Reagan, so desperately needed after Carter. No need to spell out who the Carter is in this analogy.
EDL member John Broomfield was pulled from his stationary vehicle after armed police opened fire on his van
Seven men were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to blow up a Bournemouth mosque.
The men, six of whom are members of the England Defence League, were taken to Poole and Southampton police stations for questioning before being released without charge.
Among those arrested was EDL member John Broomfield, 27, who was pulled from his stationary vehicle after armed police opened fire on his van in Corfe Castle village.
A spokesman for Dorset Police said: ‘Dorset Police can confirm that as part of an investigation surrounding threats to a Bournemouth mosque a total of seven people were arrested for conspiracy to cause an explosion.
‘Following an investigation police can now confirm these people have been released without charge.’
He added: ‘One of the people arrested was detained safely by armed officers in the Corfe Castle area.
‘We’ve been working very closely with the Muslim community and our local safer neighbourhood teams have been providing advice and reassurance throughout. Continue Reading →
John Bernard runs a website specifically dealing with the rules of engagement in Afghanistan. His site is letthemfight.blogspot.com.
I had the opportunity to interview him for 20 minutes this morning and here is part I of that interview.
Thanks to Andrew Bostom for making the introduction. Mr. Bernard was very interesting to talk to, and gave me lots of food for thought. I hope you all will feel the same.
Eeyore for Vlad.
Part II
Canadian journalist Stewart Bell is one of the few with a thorough understanding of how western nations intentionally or otherwise, nurture jihad, exposing it’s threat and the lasting effects it marks on a free country. I urge everyone interested in the facts surrounding Islamic extremism in Canada to read his bestseller, ” Cold Terror: How Canada Nurtures and Exports Terrorism Around The World”.
From The National Post
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Anwar al-Awlaki, a former U.S. resident living in Yemen.
Stewart Bell, National Post · Thursday, Jul. 22, 2010
The RCMP’s senior counterterrorism officer singled out radical preacher Anwar Al-Awlaki yesterday as a common thread among young Canadian extremists.
Assistant Commissioner Gilles Michaud said Awlaki, a Yemeni-American terrorist leader, had been popping up during investigations of “the individuals that are of concern to us.”
“He’s a major, major factor in radicalization,” Ass. Comm. Michaud, head of the RCMP’s National Security Criminal Investigations section, told the National Post in an interview.
“This individual, basically he’s born in the U.S., so he knows the Western culture and whatnot, he knows the words to use and how to get to the young people.”
The RCMP have been investigating radicalized Canadians who have travelled to such countries as Somalia and Pakistan for terrorist training.
His comments came a day after the Canadian government ordered financial institutions to look for property linked to Awlaki and, if they find any, to seize it and report it to the RCMP and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS).
The move followed similar measures enacted last week by the United States and on Tuesday by the United Nations Security Council, which placed Awlaki on its list of individuals associated with al-Qaeda.
The UN said in its summary of reasons for listing Awlaki that he is a leader of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and was involved in recruiting and training camps.
Since late 2009, he has “taken on an increasingly operational role in the group.”
In particular, he prepared Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab for his attempted bombing of a Detroit-bound Northwest Airlines flight on Christmas Day using explosives hidden in his underwear, it said.
Born in New Mexico to Yemeni parents, Awlaki preached in the 1990s at mosques in U.S. cities such as San Diego, where he was repeatedly arrested and fined for picking up prostitutes. He moved to Yemen in 2004.
Making use of his fluency in English, he began to exploit the Internet to introduce al-Qaeda’s worldview to the online generation. His recordings, in which he exhorts Muslims to commit terrorist violence, have made him popular among angry youths — and a target. In April, the Obama administration authorized U.S. agencies to capture or kill him.
“We seek to apply the rule of Koran, and make the word of Allah supreme over all other and God willing, we will strive to achieve these goals with all what we possess, and we will fight to the last man against whoever stands in our way,” he said in a recent online message. “We are fighting for God.”
From the Toronto 18 to the Somali-Canadians in Al-Shabab, many of those involved in terrorist groups share a fascination with Awlaki, who has been in hiding somewhere in Yemen since 2007.
“I disagree with him all the way,” said Saed Rageah, Imam of the Abu Huraira mosque in Toronto. He said he had listened to tapes of Awlaki and found he was taking Koranic verses out of context to justify his views. “I disagree killing innocent people, Islam disagrees with that,” Imam Rageah said.
On Wednesday, the police crackdown on Awlaki’s followers continued. Zachary Adam Chesser, 20, was arrested after he allegedly attempted to travel to Somalia to join Al-Shabab, the terrorist group behind the bombings in Uganda that killed 76 during the World Cup soccer final.
Mr. Chesser told the FBI that since converting to Islam in 2008 he had become “very extremist” in his beliefs, according to an affidavit filed in U.S. District Court in Virginia. He said he was a fan of Awlaki’s videos and had exchanged emails with the fugitive preacher.
When he was stopped at New York’s JFK airport on June 10, because he was on the U.S. no-fly list, he was travelling with his infant son. He later told the FBI he was using the child to cover up his true intention, which was to travel to Somalia.
Also known as Abu Talha Al-Amrikee, he had earlier come to public attention for supporting the killing of the creators of the animated television show South Park, which had depicted the Muslim prophet Muhamed wearing a bear costume.
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I think this is what is called, ‘A mixed blessing’. On the one hand, it is fantastic to see such an open show of support for the state of Israel from the US and under an Obama administration as well. However, when it is evangelical Christians one wonders how many of them support it for the same reason Lord Balfour did. That they want to see biblical prophesy fulfilled, the Jews return to Zion, and then lose it as a precursor to the return of the Christian avatar and the hastening of the end of the world. Something it seems many religions hold in common, and oddly, also desire. I guess religious people have really high utility bills or something. Anyway here is the video and frankly, I am happy as hell to see it. CBN continues to report on important material which the rest of the media pretend does not exist.
I have to say, it makes more sense if he drew the the bus driver as Mohamed refusing to let a blind man on. I guess this is in the ‘turn around is fair play’ category.
This post ripped from Tundra Tabloids, who initially made the request to Lars to do the drawing,
David C: “I’m a terrible artist, but I couldn’t resist.”
Treasury Board President Stockwell Day says no Canadian should be barred from a federal job because of race or ethnicity. (Adrian Wyld/Canadian Press)?The federal government has ordered a review of its affirmative action policy one day after a woman complained that she couldn’t apply for a public service position because she’s Caucasian.
Sara Landriault of Kemptville, Ont., told the media Wednesday that she applied online for an administrative assistant job with Citizenship and Immigration Canada, and was asked by the online application if she was white, aboriginal or a visible minority. When she answered white, she said a message informed her she did not meet the criteria and could no longer proceed.
Treasury Board President Stockwell Day said no Canadian should be barred from a federal job because of race or ethnicity.
“While we support diversity in the public service, we want to ensure that no Canadian is barred from opportunities in the public service based on race or ethnicity,” Day said in a statement.
Immigration Minister Jason Kenney, who was also involved in the decision to review the government’s hiring practices, which give priority to qualified applicants from minority groups, said everyone should be considered for federal jobs.
“We are in favour of appropriate diversity in the public service and reasonable efforts to achieve it, but we don’t think any Canadians should be excluded from applying within their government,” he told CBC News. “It’s OK to encourage people from different backgrounds to apply but in our judgment it goes too far to tell people that if they are not of a particular race or ethnicity they cannot apply [for a job] that is actually funded by their tax dollars.”
But he said the review wouldn’t affect any particular cases, including Landriault’s.
Landriault, who is the founder of the International Family Childcare Association and has a picture of herself with Prime Minister Stephen Harper on the association’s website, said that no one from the government has contacted her since she went public with her story.
The government’s latest figures show more women, aboriginals and visible minorities worked in the public service in 2009 than the year before. The number of people with disabilities stayed the same in the same periods.
As of March 2009, women made up 54.7 per cent of the federal workforce, aboriginals made up 4.5 per cent, people with disabilities made up 5.9 per cent and visible minorities made up 9.8 per cent.
Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2010/07/22/affirmative-action-review.html#ixzz0uT4ReWcB
And earned my respect. In show biz and especially music, this takes real guts. If you are a musician and not a total left wing, post modernist, America hater, you are usually pretty much expelled from the game. Thank you Mr. Simmons.
H/T SirLancealot1213
ABC affiliate WKRP Channel 2 in Nashville did a story on the Former Muslims United ad placed on a Lamar Advertising digital billboard near the Stone’s River Mall in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. FMU colleague and executive director Nonie Darwish was interviewed as were a cross section of the community who had viewed the ad. Darwish said:
“I have no problem with religious aspects of Islam but Islam is majority a political system,” she told News 2. We are trying to alert the public. I don’t want to see it because they’re aiming at the Bible belt.”
Watch the WKRP news video. The WKRP news report, follows:
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. – The controversy over plans to expand the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro and construction a new mosque in Rutherford County continues. Continue Reading →
By Allan Hall
Last updated at 8:50 AM on 16th July 2010
Hatemonger: Dutch politician Geert Wilders has been banned from the UK in the past for anti-Islamic comments
Controversial anti-Islamic politician Geert Wilders has pledged to form an international ‘freedom alliance’ to spread his gospel of Muslim intolerance across western nations – including the UK.
Wilders, whose Freedom Party made big gains in the Netherlands general election in June, says Britain along with Canada, the U.S., France and Germany are the core states he wants to target.
The politician made a speech outlining his plans today in The Hague.
Once banned by Britain as a hatemonger, Wilders was allowed in to speak with MPs at Westminster in March to expand on his thesis that Islam is a “fascist” religion entirely incompatible with democracies.
He says he has chosen the five western nations to spread his message based on the fact that all have high levels of Muslim immigrants, liberal democratic processes and all face Islamic terror threats.
He also cited a recent crime study in Germany claiming young Muslim males are more prone to violence than any other immigrant group. Continue Reading →
This is the first genuine hope I have felt for a while.