"Anyone who shouts 'Allahu Akbar' and opens fire on a crowd of unarmed people is a terrorist"

"Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan was declared 'not a terrorist' before the facts were out - even before officials were sure whether the attacker was alive or dead. Failing to honestly name a terrorist attack despite the evidence is as destructive and dishonest as leaping to call an attack terrorism without the facts to support that.

"Apparently, the claim was based largely on the fact that Maj. Hasan appears to have been a lone gunman. However, terrorism is defined not by the number of people involved, but by the motivations and intentions of the attacker. If reports about him are true, Maj. Hasan clearly was a terrorist...

"The United States is engaged in a global struggle with violent adherents to an extremist Islamic creed. It does not besmirch the Muslim faith - or the vast majority of American Muslims - to admit that fact. The politically correct tendency to define attacks as something other than terrorism simply to avoid addressing the motives of the attacker is dangerous. Anyone who shouts 'Allahu Akbar' and opens fire on a crowd of unarmed people is a terrorist. If Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan is not a terrorist, no one is."

Read it all.

Twitter imposters

This is creepy.

Writer Leah McLaren learns that someone is impersonating her on Twitter and finds out that, surprisingly, she's not alone.

"The more I thought about it, the more I was actually quite chuffed with myself for having a Twitter stalker, imitation being the best form of flattery and all that. Until, that is, I found out that Twitter impersonators are actually part of an online social epidemic, which may even threaten the long-term viability of Twitter itself.

"Scrolling through my fake page, I noticed exchanges between my fake self and Peter Mansbridge. Wow! I thought. This whole publicity thing is really working. I now have famous friends I didn't even know about.

"But when I did some calling around, I found that @petermansbridg is an imposter as well."

Read it all

Sharia in Aceh, Indonesia

"The team is known as 'the vice and virtue patrol,' on the beat in Aceh, the only province in the world's most populous Muslim nation to employ Sharia, or Islamic law, for its criminal code. The laws were introduced in 2002 after the Indonesian region was granted autonomy as part of efforts to end a decades-long guerrilla war.

"The Sharia police consider themselves the community's public conscience. And on their weekly patrol, they take seriously their role of enforcing the religious strictures.

"Now their mission may become deadly serious.

"In September, Aceh's provincial parliament passed a law saying married people who commit adultery can be sentenced to death by stoning. It also toughened laws on public caning, adding more lashes for gays, pedophiles and gamblers."

Article here.

Photo essay here.

I'm sure Queers Against Islamic Apartheid will be holding a protest any day now.

The truth is insensitive, lady: get used to it

"A Connecticut town's plan to erect a memorial for a native son killed on 9/11 has been derailed because the victim's father demanded it say he was 'murdered by Muslim terrorists.'

"The memorial for James Gadiel, 23, an assistant trader for Cantor Fitzgerald, was to be built in front of the town hall in Kent and paid for with taxpayer money.

"The Kent City Council halted the project after Peter Gadiel proposed the unvarnished inscription.

"Kent First Selectwoman Ruth Epstein said the wording Peter Gadiel proposed is too harsh to accommodate.

"'To disparage a particular religious group would not be appropriate," Epstein said. "There are things that are just insensitive and we feel we don't want here.'"

More here.

Forcing the victims and the general population to perpetuate a lie about the true nature of the Muslim murderers of 9/11 would be more than insensitive: it would be mentally ill.

Why must every mention of a Muslim terrorist be used as an opportunity -- no, a mandate -- to coddle Muslims?

If peaceful Muslims don't like the verifiable fact that a lot of Muslims kill for Allah, that's their problem and they should do something about it.

In the same way that lying and covering up for an alcoholic or drug addict does him no good, we do Muslims no favour by pretending that a large number of their fellow worshipers presents a very real danger to us all.

Religions and political systems inspire actions and actions have consequences. If adherents don't like the way their group is influencing people, they should do something about it and not expect us to lie and say everything is hunky-dorey when clearly it is not.

How many people died at Jonestown?

How many people died on 9/11?

How many times did we hear the news media and politicians say that Jim Jones was a misunderstood man of peace?

How many people continue to die at the hands of Muslim terrorists who are inspired by their religion/political system to kill?

From the Religion of Peace website, under a photo of the Fort Hood terrorist:

"Nidal Hasan. A typical peace-loving Muslim - up until someone messed with his 'Allah is Love' bumper sticker. After all, just how much can a man be expected to take?"

Ah, yes, he was provoked. And the abused wife's husband only beats her because she's such a lousy cook and housekeeper. If she loved him enough to take care of him properly, he wouldn't have to get so angry at her all the time.

This is too much work; I'm going for coffee

The Great Google sees all, knows all, is ever forgiving, amen

"Google Inc. on Thursday launched new privacy controls so users can see the reams of personal information the Internet giant is storing about them and insist the data are deleted if they want.

"People who have signed up for any of Google's consumer services, such as Gmail, Blogger, YouTube and Picasa, are now able to use a new service called Google Dashboard, where they can log into a console and see all the personal data Google stores about them.

"For example, Google's Gmail system saves old sent and received e-mails, as well as e-mail drafts, attachments and chat messages. And Google's web history feature saves online searches if the user has turned on the function.

"The new service allows users to peruse the information, and edit or delete it. Users can also readjust their privacy settings to limit Google's ability to retain old data."

If you use the internet, you'll want to read this.

Oh, that Hitler; I thought you meant the famous footballer

"School children believe Adolf Hitler was coach to Germany’s national football team and that the symbol of Remembrance Day is the McDonalds Golden Arches, according to new research released today Thursday 5th November.

"The astonishing results emerged from a study of 2,000 children from across the UK, conducted by the veterans’ charity Erskine that revealed limited knowledge of the World Wars amongst today’s school children.

"The survey questioned children between the ages of nine and 15 on their knowledge of key World War triggers, events, people and dates.

"Some of the most interesting results include:

• One in six believe Auschwitz is a World War Two based theme park
• One in 20 think the Holocaust was the celebration at the end of the war
• One in 10 think the SS was Enid Blyton's Secret Seven, not Hitler's personal bodyguards"

More here, including the downloadable survey results.

Canadian scholar ejected from UN after making a pro-Israel statement

"Guards at the United Nations whisked away a UN-accredited Canadian commentator this week after she denounced a controversial report that focuses heavily on alleged Israeli war crimes.

"Anne Bayefsky, a York University political science professor, offered the only pro-Israel commentary at a microphone outside the UN General Assembly Hall on Thursday night following remarks by the assembly's Libyan president, Ali Treki, and the chief Palestinian official at the UN, Riyad Mansour.

"Arab and Muslim countries had overcome western opposition in the adoption of a resolution endorsing the report by South African judge Richard Goldstone, which focuses on the Israeli assault last winter on Gaza.

"Bayefsky said the guards confiscated two UN passes the organization had issued to her as director of Touro Law Center's Institute on Human Rights and The Holocaust, and ejected her from the building after questioning her."

Read it all.

News flash: he doesn't care enough to fake it; he won, remember?

"President Obama didn't wait long after Tuesday's devastating elections to give critics another reason to question his leadership, but this time the subject matter was more grim than a pair of governorships.

"After news broke out of the shooting at the Fort Hood Army post in Texas, the nation watched in horror as the toll of dead and injured climbed. The White House was notified immediately and by late afternoon, word went out that the president would speak about the incident prior to a previously scheduled appearance. At about 5 p.m., cable stations went to the president. The situation called for not only his trademark eloquence, but also grace and perspective.

"But instead of a somber chief executive offering reassuring words and expressions of sympathy and compassion, viewers saw a wildly disconnected and inappropriately light president making introductory remarks. At the event, a Tribal Nations Conference hosted by the Department of Interior's Bureau of Indian affairs, the president thanked various staffers and offered a 'shout-out' to 'Dr. Joe Medicine Crow -- that Congressional Medal of Honor winner.' Three minutes in, the president spoke about the shooting, in measured and appropriate terms. Who is advising him?"

More here.

Via The Blogmocracy.

We are not amused

(Click on photo to read inscription.)

Only punks steal from charities

"The president of the Oakville Legion that had its poppy box pilfered says he feels sorry for the punks' parents.

"Royal Canadian Legion Branch 114 president Bill Shields told the Sun yesterday the theft is a 'terrible thing' because it takes money away from caring for veterans and their families. But Shields said he truly feels sorry for the parents of the three teens Halton Regional Police have charged with Sunday's theft and even their grandparents."

Punk bastards.

Value for our tax dollars

"Almost 42,000 immigrants have gone underground and are being sought on warrants for deportation -- one quarter of the 160,000 people who are in different stages of removal from Canada, according to just-released government documents.

"There are more surprising numbers: More than half being removed are from Greater Toronto, the destination of choice for a staggering 60 per cent of all newcomers to Canada.

"Toronto Police Association officials said they're concerned because people facing deportation are desperate and will do anything to escape arrest...

"It said it costs about $1,500 to deport a person without an escort and up to $15,000 for deportees who require two escort officers. In some cases, up to $500,000 is spent to charter a jet to deport dangerous offenders."

More here.

Sudden Jihad Syndrome strikes again

Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch writes:

"Major Nidal Malik Hasan, a U.S. Army psychiatrist, murdered twelve people and wounded twenty-one inside Fort Hood in Texas yesterday, while, according to eyewitnesses, 'shouting something in Arabic while he was shooting.' Investigators are scratching their heads and expressing puzzlement about why he did it...

"...Major Hasan’s motive was perfectly clear — but it was one that the forces of political correctness and the Islamic advocacy groups in the United States have been working for years to obscure. So it is that now that another major jihad terror attack has taken place on American soil, authorities and the mainstream media are at a loss to explain why it happened – and the abundant evidence that it was a jihad attack is ignored...

"So he identified himself as Palestinian and was a devout Muslim – so what? These things, of course, have no significance if one assumes that Islam is a Religion of Peace and that when a devout Muslim reads the Koran’s many injunctions to wage war against unbelievers, he knows that they have no force or applicability for today’s world. Unfortunately, all too many Muslims around the world demonstrate in both their words and their deeds that they take such injunctions quite seriously. And Nidal Hasan gave some indications that he may have been among them."

Read it all.

And Jamie Glazov interviews Dave Gaubatz, co-author of Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld that’s Conspiring to Islamize America:

"The murders by Malik Nadal Hasan at Ft. Hood, TX are not a ‘lone wolf incident’ as being described by most media organizations. Hasan had been taught the ideology that is being advocated by hundreds of Islamic scholars and Imams in the U.S. We as a country can continue to deny there are numerous Islamic leaders and their supporting organizations such as CAIR, ISNA, MSA, and MANA, to name a few, who advocate killing innocent men, women, and children whom they allege ‘oppress Islam...’

"My team and I have conducted first-hand research at over 200 Islamic Centers in the U.S., and in various Islamic organizations such as CAIR. There is one common denominator: There is an open hatred being advocated by Islamic scholars toward Christians, Jews, and Muslims who do not adhere to ‘all aspects’ of Sharia law (Islamic law).

"The materials being distributed by these scholars are very clear in their message: violence against anyone who 'oppresses' Islam is justified. It makes them subject to the punishment of death."

More here.

(Thanks to the friend who sent me the link to the Glazov/Gaubatz interview.)

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Crackpots abound

"Question Authority. No Olympics on stolen native land."

Coffee's good for us again

Drink up! Soon enough they'll announce that it's bad for us (again).

(And tea. And wine. And eggs. And anything else humans have been consuming without problems for hundreds and thousands of years.)

"While coffee was once considered questionable for your health, researchers at Harvard Medical School have found the beloved beverage is actually healthful in moderation. That means a few cups a day.

"Harvard researchers say drinking coffee may help prevent diseases such as...

"Last month, a study led by Neal Freedman of the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md., showed that people with chronic hepatitis C and advanced liver disease who drank three or more cups of coffee a day cut their risk of the disease progressing by 53 per cent."

More here.

Caffeine: my drug of choice.