Isaac Schrödinger

Pesky Questions

Mom would insist that I go with my uncle to the Friday prayers. This was in Karachi, Pakistan. The atmosphere was hot and dusty but I didn't mind all that. What I dreaded was the soul crushing sermon before the main prayer. The words of the imam were full of righteous fury and rattling passion. The problem was that I had heard the same message a million times before. But even after the mind-numbing repetition, most of it didn't make any sense to me.

He talked of the hopelessness and powerlessness of the Muslims all across the globe. The imam's voice rose with each word. "Look at our own society, we've forgotten our values, we've strayed from the right path. The TV is to blame for our youth's drift."

That last bit got my attention. I quickly looked around and saw the men nodding in agreement. But how? How could the TV be even partly responsible for the position of Muslims in the world? The Pakistani shows on TV are made by Muslim themselves and it wouldn't make sense for them to be, somehow, regressing the ummah. Anyway, only housewives and old ladies watch those shows.

All the foreign shows on TV are censored of any infidelicious material before they're aired. I just couldn't see Bob Newhart leading the young ummah to hell. Or MacGyver using his infinite skill to make the Muslims less pious. Although, it's possible that this flying death machine caused a few Muslims a little heatburn. Perhaps, it's me, I thought. I'm just too young to understand the adult Muslim logic. I'll have a better grasp of the Zionist TV channels when I grow up. I never did.

I had more questions as the years went by. Ramadan comes along 10 days earlier every year since Muslims follow the lunar calendar and in Saudi Arabia, it was amazing to behold the transformation in my class. Almost all the troublemakers were polite and quiet. The few who caused a stir were not ruthlessly beaten by the teachers as was the case in the other 11 months. It was odd to see friends and classmates suppress the usual swear words and be oh-so-angelic. "It's Ramadan!" they all exclaimed. "We have to behave like good Muslims. We don't fight. We don't talk dirty. And we pray five times a day."

Was that hypocrisy or the lack of food that brought the best behavior? Why, oh why, did they all revert to being jerks when Ramadan was over? And non-praying jerks at that. Of course, I kept these questions to myself since I wished for my jaw to remain intact.

Mom had always lamented that I'm not religious enough. I don't pray. I don't fast. I don't read the Quran...I'm a baaad Muslim. So, after hearing these complaints for the umpteenth time, I asked her a few questions that just happened to be on my mind.

Why is it that whenever there is a conflict between a Muslim and a non-Muslim, other Muslims take the side of the Muslim regardless of the facts?

"Aaah," was her reply.

Why do Muslims hate modern day Jews and Christians? Let's assume that Jews and Christians were enemies of Muhammad in the 7th century. How does that criminality transfer to their innocent descendants 1400 years later?

"Ummm."

It says that the Haj washes away all the sins of a man. Don't you think that's a bad idea? Consider a Muslim who is foul-mouthed, drinks alcohol, steals for his drug addiction, and sleeps around in his 20s and 30s. At age 40, he makes the noble pilgrimage to Mecca. Presto, his slate is wiped clean. Don't you think the Haj acts as an incentive for reckless behavior?

"Well."

Take the 5 prayers during the day. The first prayer is before sunrise and the last two are after sunset. How could one perform them at the North Pole? It's daytime for 6 months followed by night for the next 6. Imagine the first day of Ramadan during daytime. The sun never sets! Your religious fasting would kill you.

Mom was pissed. "You know, you talk like a Jew. They always bothered the prophets with too many questions."

Cute. My questions still remain unanswered and I continued to be a baaad Muslim.

Contents

Jihad is Their Purpose

Athena at Terrorism Unveiled has details of a connection between the 7/7 attacks and Zarqawi. It is interesting to see these various Islamist terror groups acting locally. It makes it difficult for the West to keep track of them. It was tough enough to watch Al-Qaeda but these small groups are even harder to notice. And if one is caught, the rest of them are likely not jeopardized because of the inherent decentralization.

They do not call themselves Al-Qaeda but they do follow the same ideology. The West has a long and brutal struggle ahead. These cells must be hunted and destroyed before they get their hands on a crude WMD. Otherwise, the body count of this global war will be, at least, in 8 figures.

It is Obvious

We are only mere mortals, Your Highness.

Appreciating Culture

Gene Weingarten always brings a smile:

Medieval torture was not as bad as you'd think. However heinous it looked, the torturers were always considerate enough to cover the victim's private parts, for his comfort. On a related note, fig leaves apparently once grew with Velcro backing.

The good old days.

Jihad Will Come to Canada

From November 2002:

The tape was aired on the Arabic television network al-Jazeera on Tuesday. The voice [of Osama] on the tape names Canada, Australia, France, Germany and Great Britain and warns they will face reprisals for siding with Washington.

With the exception of Canada, citizens of all these countries have been targeted and murdered by Islamist terrorists.

Today via LFG, comes this story:

A controversial Toronto imam warned Public Safety Minister Anne McLellan at a closed-door meeting to stop “terrorizing” Canadian Muslims.

“If you try to cross the line I can’t guarantee what is going to happen. Our young people, we can’t control,” Aly Hindy, the head of Scarborough’s Salaheddin Islamic Centre, recalls telling the minister at the May meeting she held in Toronto with dozens of Muslim leaders.

Of all the things one can say about Canadians and their government, "terrorizing" Canadian Muslims in any way, shape, or form isn't one of them.

I've lived in Canada for some years and never have I once seen Canadians talk rudely of Islam or Muslims (the number of times that Jews, Israel, and America are thrashed is a different matter). To read of such disgusting ingratitude towards one of the freest and tolerant nations in the world is appalling and revolting. To top it off, this imam, or more correctly this piece of turd thug, has the audacity to threaten Canadians.

The government attitude of lumping together the Islamists, the Islamist sympathizers and the non-Islamists as one big, and oh-so-peaceful Muslim community has got to end. This Islamist thug should be the first one to be kicked out of Canada for his implicit threat. Dialog or understanding with such a monster is not going to buy Canada any safety in the future. Instead, it'll earn her contempt from the Islamists in her midst.

The attack on Canada will come. Yes, even though there aren't any Canadian troops in Iraq. The fact that Canada is not overflowing with Sharia but instead is an open and free society and allows these heinous atrocities is enough excuse for Islamists. There is only one constructive avenue. Help the US and the Allies in finishing this wretched foe! It's about time for Canada to join the Anglosphere and fight against our common enemy.

Update
More about turdy from Kate.
Arabian Dissent: who is Aly Hindy?

Update II
More reactions from the Blogosphere:
Elder of Ziyon:

This is a variant of the old threat that the "Arab street" will rise up and do things out of the control of their leaders. It is all complete bull, of course, but Muslims seem to like this threat, because it has a history of scaring Westerners.

Mitchieville:

... it's good to see the Imam respecting the woman of his community. As he said, woman are the most valuable thing to them. The Moslem woman of Scarborough must be proud, for today you are *valuable things*. With a bit of luck, maybe tomorrow you might be referred to as *valuable slabs of consumable flesh*. Ah, to dream, equality is just around the corner.

Timothy Grayson:

This sort of thing makes me crazy mostly because it raises the human "reptilian" response function of my brain into high alert.

Read the last line of this post by the Flanstein.

Lance

John Kelso has a hilarious column in the Statesman:

I envision Lance Armstrong at 84 riding a wheelchair equipped with pedals up the Alps with the French riders in hot pursuit, getting their usual extended look at Lance Armstrong's keister.

Dang. Link via the Smallest Minority.

The 4th War

Callimachus comments on this news story:

Six in 10 Americans "expect another world war in their lifetime," according to AP-Kyodo polling.

He takes issue with some of the opinions presented. I agree with him. For example, from the story we get this:

For 63-year-old Masashi Muroi of Tokyo, the attacks with atomic bombs "were mass, indiscriminate killings and perhaps violated international law."

Callimachus has a lucid response.

It is strange to always hear people talk of the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as though it happened in a vacuum. The millions of slaughtered Chinese, the unprovoked attacks on Brits and Americans, and over a quarter million sex slaves from surrounding Asian countries are forgotten. America becomes the villain for brutally, and rightly, ending the horrific war. As I said before:

You want to talk about blood, just look at the number of deaths inflicted by the Germans, the Russians and the Japanese in WWII. It was mainly the US that finally stopped the bloodshed.

Many don't seem to remember that bit of history.

Priorities

Those crazy Yemenis.

Pwned!!!

The Americans kicked ass in Counter-Strike at the E Sports World Cup.

Update
Oh. My. God. Uncle Bob has achieved the pinnacle of geekness.

43 Sees MC

Israellycool asks a most interesting question.

My humble answer.

"Supporting" the Troops

Russell Waldrow:

I'm highlighting this story - about the lieutenant governor of Maine showing up uninvited at the funeral of a local marine who died in Iraq so she could pass out her business cards and tell the family and others how much her administration opposed the war - not to bang the outrage drum (though doing so is completely appropriate, as whenever a high ranking lpublic official shows such disrepect to our honorably serving military), but rather to make a political observation.

I agree with the title of Russell's post.

The Western Disease

Mark Steyn talks about the unbelievable story of Bryant. Then he unleashes:

For four years, much of the western world behaved like Bryant. Bomb us, and we agonise over the "root causes" (that is, what we did wrong). Decapitate us, and our politicians rush to the nearest mosque to declare that "Islam is a religion of peace". Issue bloodcurdling calls at Friday prayers to kill all the Jews and infidels, and we fret that it may cause a backlash against Muslims. Behead sodomites and mutilate female genitalia, and gay groups and feminist groups can't wait to march alongside you denouncing Bush, Blair and Howard. Murder a schoolful of children, and our scholars explain that to the "vast majority" of Muslims "jihad" is a harmless concept meaning "decaf latte with skimmed milk and cinnamon sprinkles".

Read the whole thing. Mark rips to shreds the "societal Stockholm Syndrome."

Hubba Hubba

Democracy and Whiskey have company.

The Heir of Communism

The Dinocrat provides an excellent post on the similarities between communism and Islamism:

Communism is a failed religion, but it is not dead. It lives on college campuses, fashionable salons, and among the very well heeled and those of a totalitarian disposition. Islamism is similarly doomed because no one will consent to live under Taliban-like totalitarianism, not even most Muslims. However, Islamism is precisely the crisis of Islam, since it flows from the religion’s founding documents, which claim to be literally the word of God. Sooner or later, the crisis of sharia will have to be faced.

I think we're in the intial stages of this crisis. It just hasn't reached critical mass yet. Will the Muslim World adopt Western culture or indefinitely export hatred and terrorists? We'll have the answer after the crisis is over.

All They Need is Love

A useful infidel speaketh:

... the development of cliques and gangs of quasi-criminal thugs drawn to messianic demagogues, leaders who are able to manipulate the anti-Islamic rhetoric of the mainstream to galvanise young men (and some young women) into extremist acts. They have been allowed to do this for a long time - and not all are "imported" (the idea that local kids might be misled by foreigners is another self-comforting myth).

These gangs, increasingly politically organised, are problematic. But labelling the problem as Islam plays into their hands.

An effective multiculturalism would recognise that it means sharing power - giving up some power so that others are able to practise the responsibility demanded of them by columnists from the old culture.

Sharing power with whom exactly? With the quasi-criminal thugs? Read the whole sorry article. Andrew Jakubowicz who wrote the cited article is the producer of Making Multicultural Australia. I am shocked!

Link via Samizdata.

The Chosen Scapegoats

It never ends.

Street Cred with the Islamists

Stoning gays to death is alright in the Middle East and Muslim-majority countries but, um, it is sooo not cool in New Zealand. This is what happens when 7th century "thinking" meets the 21st century West.

Hoffilicious

Man, did I laugh hard at this one. It's kinda mean and his smile doesn't go with the whole vibe but that's what makes it priceless. Check out Hoff Lovers Anonymous for your Hoff fix. You know you can't resist.

Believe me, the site is quite durable.

Our Great War

Omar at Iraq the Model:

Let's not forget that we're not living in isolated islands anymore, we all share the globe and our interests are connected in a way that makes it almost impossible to stay away from the effects of what's happening in other parts of this world.

Okay, suppose that the UK decided to leave Iraq, what's next?
Egyptians leave Cairo, Londoners leave London, or I leave Baghdad??

Apparently, we're facing the terrorists' version of globalization where every democracy is heresy and every man or woman smoking, playing soccer or not wearing hijab or a beard is infidel. They want their dark culture to dominate the world and they know that the only they can do that is by destroying every other culture they don't agree with.

[Emphasis mine]

Exactly. Their hatred is not limited to just Israel and the US but every other culture. Those who think that Iraq is the sole reason for these attacks, and thus distancing themselves from Iraq will make them safer, are deluding themselves.

Read the conclusion of the post.

Powerful and Bulky

Engadget on the Dell Inspiron XPS Gen 2:

... super bright, 17-inch WUXGA widescreen ...

Holy crap. A 17-inch screen on a laptop! Plus, it ain't that mobile considering the weight and the battery life. I have owned a Dell Inspiron but I won't consider buying this brick. I'm eying Tablets and I wish for Dell to enter that market (hint hint).

The 4th Day Brings Doom

The end for England tomorrow. They fought hard but the Aussies are just too good.

A very depressing match for three English batsmen: Vaughan, Bell, and Flintoff. All three played in both innings and got out for a combined score of 24. To further the embarrassment, McGrath scored a total of 30 runs undefeated.

Red As Far As the Eye Can See

Maureen Dowd compliments Australia. Seriously.

Kal-El in 2006

The costume, man. The horrible, ugly, and blasphemous costume!! Other than that, I'm hoping for the Last Son of Krypton to kick some ass next year. Oh yeah, totally agree with the choice of Lex. Bloody brilliant.

Soft Spot for Islamists

KTEMOC:

Pervez Musharraf may be an American ally against terror, but his military continues to allow certain Islamist extremist groups to be trained at military-style camps in Pakistan.

The camps are used by Pakistan-based militant groups such as Jaish-e-Muhammad (Army of Muhammad) and Lashkar-e-Toiba (Army of the Pure). The chief culprit in the double-headed game has been the Pakistani Inter-Services (or Joint) Intelligence Directorate. It actually nurtures those groups and uses them to attack India.

I'm not surprised.

Fatal1ty Pwns You!

Tom's Hardware Guide interviews the Michael Jordon of computer gaming.

Will the West Learn?

Mark Steyn:

... among all these many examples of the multiculti mainstream ushering the extremists from the dark fringe to the centre of western life, there is surely no more emblematic example than that of Shabina Begum, whose victory over the school dress code was achieved with the professional support of both the wife of the Prime Minister who pledges to defend "our way of life" and of Hizb ut Tahir, a group which (according to the German Interior Minister) "supports violence as a means to realise political goals" such as a worldwide caliphate and (according to the BBC) "urges Muslims to kill Jewish people". What does an "extremist" have to do to be too extreme for Cherie Booth or the Guardian?

This will be a very long war.

An Incredible Achievement

JWR:

At 105, Herbert Brown is impeccably dressed in a crisp blue shirt that brings out the color of his eyes but belies the strain of time on his frail frame. Given his time spent in a Nazi concentration camp and his run-in with the notorious Adolf Eichmann, it's a wonder Brown has survived.

But here he is, in the one-bedroom apartment he shares with his wife of 74 years, the former Magda Fritz, who is 100.

Wow.

What did it mean?

I had a strange dream last night. A little background: I graduated from high school in the US. My school (which will remain nameless, for now) was a real gem. The many people at the school were my introduction to America. The experience gained from those years has played a major role in shaping my worldview.

Back to the dream: the time is right after sunset. I recognize the place as a bus station which is about 30 km away from my high school. I really want to reach the school as soon as I can. Therefore, I start walking! A few cars pass by but I don't bother with them and continue walking towards my high school. The path is long and the weather is cold. After a while there's zero traffic. There I am walking, with my backpack, alone in the night. It seemed that I finally reached my destination at around 3 a.m. I didn't get to see my high school but I did see the buildings a few blocks away. So, I knew that I had made it. Then, I woke up.

"Weird," was my reaction when I woke up. "Why didn't I call a cab?" was the question that immediately followed.

I do desire to back to my high school in the US as a teacher but so far I've been unsuccessful. Perhaps, the dream is saying to keep on the long and exhaustive path. For one day I'll make it and my dream will come true. Hunh.

Where Have All the Capitalists Gone?

Surreal:

... where else but in Old Europe could the purported “conservative” political party launch an election campaign by proposing to raise taxes?

Pro-capitalist Germans must be weeping.

German workers are among the world’s most expensive. According to a recent OECD study, the average German manufacturing worker’s marginal tax rate, including income and social security taxes, is a whopping 40.5 percent. Adding the employer’s social security contributions brings the marginal rate up to 50.7 percent for the average German manufacturing wage earner with no dependents. It’s small wonder, then, that unemployment is nearing the five-million mark.

Germany has the largest economy in Europe. Her continued lackluster performance is going to have adverse effects on better economies in the EU. The reason being that the EU is going to tailor the monetary policy of the entire Union on major, and poorly performing, economies in the EU. The monetary policy that's optimal for Germany (and France) will likely be out of whack, and thus harmful, for countries in New Europe.

Government Killing Innocent Dogs

KipEsquire:

I'm using this week's Friday Diamondblogging to raise awareness among the dog carnivals about the wholesale slaughter of innocent "pit bulls" in Denver. I hope the carnival participants will spread the word.

Here's what the Denver government has to say about it:

Pit bull typically describes three kinds of dogs - the American Pit Bull Terrier, American Staffordshire Terrier and the Staffordshire Bull Terrier. But Denver's ban applies to any dog that looks like a pit bull. The animal's actual behavior does not matter.

Have these politicians lost their minds? "The animal's actual behavior does not matter." What the hell!?!

Read KipEsquire's entire post and take a close look at the photos.

The Depravity of Sharia

On July 19, the Iranian regime executed two teenagers.

Their crime: homosexuality.

Update
365Gay.com:

The Iranian Students News Agency reports that the executions took place on July 19 in the northeastern city of Mashhad.

One teen, ISNA says was 18, the other was a minor, believed to be 16 or 17. The organization ran a picture of what it said was the execution on its Web site.

The English language Iran In Focus also reported the executions, saying the teens were hanged in public in the city square. It quotes sources as saying the teens were executed for having sex with another minor but this could not be confirmed. The report does not name the victim. Under Sharia law the victim of a sexual assault must also be executed.

Both news services say that prior to their execution, the teenagers were held in prison for 14 months, severely beaten and given the lash 228 times.

A report of the executions was also carried on the website of the respected democratic opposition movement, The National Council of Resistance Of Iran.

A group in Britain speaks out against this atrocity:

The British LGBT rights group OutRage has called for sanctions against Iran. The organization has called for western states to break off diplomatic relations, impose trade sanctions and treat Iran as "a pariah state".

"This is just the latest barbarity by the Islamo-fascists in Iran,” said OutRage spokesperson Peter Tatchell.

Press release by Outrage:

"According to Iranian human rights campaigners, over 4,000 lesbians and gay men have been executed since the Ayatollahs seized power in 1979. "Altogether, an estimated 100,000 Iranians have been put to death over the last 26 years of clerical rule. The victims include women who have sex outside of marriage and political opponents of the Islamist government.

Direland and Port McClellan have also linked to the story.

The Brutal Truth

Foreign Dispatches:

People who refuse to come to terms with the fact that Islam has plenty to do with Islamist terrorism are either cowards, apologists, ignorant or delusional.

Bingo. Often, it's a noxious combination of the four.

Update
Read what Gerard Baker has to say about Iraq and Islamist terrorism. Thanks to Marcus for the excerpt.

What the...

No comment.

who are WE to judge?

Cox and Forkum display the real suicide bomb. So arrogant of them!

Vice in Mordor

I've lived in Saudi Arabia for over a decade but never have I heard nor seen women refuse the Mutaween's orders. I wish someone could have recorded this incident on video. I would have gladly paid to watch it.

Bubba Got His Virgin

Read about Australia's, almost, first suicide bomber.

An Imam Spews Lies

A Classroom Indoctrination:

My friend also informed me that the professor had categorically stated that the Kurds in Halapja in 1988 were gassed by Iran and not Iraq. He said Saddam Hussein was framed by the Iranians for gassing people. “This guy used to work for Saddam,” he said.

This "professor" is an imam on the state payroll. In the US.

“We started with about 22 students, but after two sessions we were down to 14, by the sixth session down to about ten. The only students who remained seemed to be anti-Israel and anti-US activists, pleased with any anti-Jewish rhetoric. Most were about 18-25 and I was the only ‘adult’ left. Other students who left the class earlier confided in me they dropped out because of the propaganda nature of the course. The ones who stayed usually verbally attacked me whenever I pointed out something being taught that was factually and historically incorrect.

Last excerpt:

“I assumed this professor would not be returning to DVC to teach the next semester, but when I heard he was teaching the same course again I contact you about this for Front Page.”

My interest was piqued, so I decided to enroll in this course the same as any other student from the local community.

Read the article at FrontPage to see what happened.

I also posted this (the part above) at LFG!!!

Update
Success in making the US the embodiment of evil:

A few of the students objected to my politely contradicting the instructor. I explained that part of academic freedom and discourse included discussing facts and not being indoctrinated in class with untrue material. “If you are exposed to things that are patently untrue in class to indoctrinate you, such as the idea that the attacks on the 9/11 were justified or America’s fault, ideas from the very people who support such things, then you are not getting a balanced education, you are only learning what someone wants you to falsely believe. That’s not education.”

“They should have attacked the World Trade Center on 9/11!” chimed in one student behind me, obviously the educational product of instructors like Araim,...

[Emphasis mine]

The US government pays this guy to teach ... hatred for the US.

The Marines

Beautiful.

Thanks to Lorie Byrd. I want one too.

A Fine Aussie

Glenn Reynolds again talks about John Howard and likes what he has to say. Likewise.

Update
K. J. Lopez, bless her heart, has got the mini-transcript. The best part:

Can I remind you that the murder of 88 Australians in Bali took place before the operation in Iraq.

And I remind you that the 11th of September occurred before the operation in Iraq.

Can I also remind you that the very first occasion that bin Laden specifically referred to Australia was in the context of Australia's involvement in liberating the people of East Timor. Are people by implication suggesting we shouldn't have done that?

When a group claimed responsibility on the website for the attacks on the 7th of July, they talked about British policy not just in Iraq, but in Afghanistan. Are people suggesting we shouldn't be in Afghanistan?

When Sergio de Mello was murdered in Iraq -- a brave man, a distinguished international diplomat, a person immensely respected for his work in the United Nations -- when al Qaeda gloated about that, they referred specifically to the role that de Mello had carried out in East Timor because he was the United Nations administrator in East Timor.

Now I don't know the mind of the terrorists. By definition, you can't put yourself in the mind of a successful suicide bomber. I can only look at objective facts, and the objective facts are as I've cited. The objective evidence is that Australia was a terrorist target long before the operation in Iraq.

Thank you, Prime Minister Howard. Thank you for defending the West.

Update II
Trey Jackson, of course, has the video. Link via LFG.

The Ashes 2005, 1st Test

This is turning out to be a very low scoring Test. Australia 190 all out in 40.2 overs. Quite sad.

McGrath returns the favor by tearing apart the English top order. England are at 19/4. McGrath has given away 7 runs in 8 overs while taking all the 4 wickets. McGrath = England's nightmare.

Update
Sweet and spectacular 5 wickets for McGrath. England were at one point 21/5, now they're at 64/5. 18 more overs left to play for today.

Update
End of the first day. Harmison's 5 for 43 is overshadowed by McGrath's 5 for 21. England at the edge at 92/7. Lee took the other 2 wickets. Pietersen is still not out. This Test will likely be over by the 3rd day.

A Horrible Choice

The NYTimes:

The draft of a chapter of the new [Iraqi] constitution obtained by The New York Times on Tuesday guarantees equal rights for women as long as those rights do not "violate Shariah," or Koranic law.

Justin Delabar provides some excellent analysis on this story.

Needless to say, this isn't a welcome development. Sharia, if followed diligently, leads to present day Saudi Arabia and the Taliban-era Afghanistan. Simply stated, Sharia and human rights are incompatible. One of them has to yield and if it's human rights, then get ready for women appearing as dementors in Iraq.

Peaceful Militants in Mordor

Jihad Watch:

Saudi officials say they have discovered large amounts of bomb-making materials in a militant hideout south of Riyadh.

They say the cache included more than 2,000 kilograms of chemicals that could be used in bombs.

[Emphasis mine]

Of course, Muslims can't be responsible. It must be the Zionists.

Feel the Love

MSNBC:

“Diplomacy 101 says you don’t rough your guests up,” Rice senior adviser Jim Wilkinson had said earlier as he and reporters traveling with Rice faced off with guards at the ultra-high-security residence of Sudanese President Omar el-Bashir.

El-Bashir’s guards elbowed Americans and tried to rip a tape away from a U.S. reporter. At another point, Rice’s interpreter and some other aides accompanying her were blocked at a gate.

Oh, it doesn't stop there.

... there was yet another scuffle with security shortly after he apologized when NBC News correspondent Andrea Mitchell tried to ask el-Bashir a question about his involvement with alleged atrocities.

"Why should the U.S. believe the Sudanese government will stop the killing when the government is still supporting the militia?" Mitchell asked, before guards grabbed her and muscled her toward the rear of the room as State Department officials shouted at the guards to leave her alone.

Imagine what these thugs do when US officials are not present.

Update
Glenn wants a very tough response. I agree but think it unlikely.

Infantile Policies

Don't the police have anything better to do in India? Get a life, will ya.

On a related note, the censors in India should join the real world. It is surprising that even today, there is an uproar when there is a simple lip lock in a movie.

The Pure and Blameless Muslims

Disgusting behavior by Muslim organizations in Canada. The rabid antisemitism and paranoid bashing of non-Muslim Canadians is utterly revolting.

The Scope of Our Conflict

There are many good reasons for calling our present war, the global WOT or the Fourth World War.

A Performace at the White House

His life will never be the same.

Pure Asininity

Check out the intro:

Dig deep. U will find the tale of a Jjew’s or Christs behind every disaster in the world(World WAR I,II,Nuke On Japan, Divide and Rule policy and spreading AIDS intentionally by wild western civilisation(a black spot on humanity).Is there any One rember the date of attack on iraq,Afghanistan But 9/11 and now7/7(How they wash the brain).They are distributing wrong The Quran(printed in USA and Israil all over the world particularly in Gulf countries, like Kuwait and corrupted literature)

Blaming Jjew's for disasters: check.
Blaming Christs for spreading AIDS: check.
Calling the West a black spot on humanity: check.
Stating that the US and Israil distribute fake Qurans: check.

He must be a really talented member of the Religion of Peace^TM. Moving on:

Please study this material as a neutral not as a Muslim , Christ ,Jews etc. The Language I use is simply to give a ignite and a thought to mentally dead human who have lost his/her power of thought,act,descision,vision and control on there body due to dirty attack by Net , Movies and Media(Wild mental anguish Life)

[Emphasis mine]

What type of dirty attack?

1. As in a dirty dog or a dirty Jew.
2. Perhaps literally dirty as in dusty or muddy.
3. Maybe like a Western woman, showing ankle = dirty.
4. Or, Allah forbid, a dirty radioactive bomb.

Please, answering question!!! More:

I swear Allah (Lord of the Universe,East and West and the One Who Create me from a drop of water and should create again after death for questioning and fate of indefinite life Hell or Heaven should be decided on my act in this World) that I have no Hate for any One in my heart.

[Emphasis mine]

That is sooo convincing; take a look at the next two excerpts.

Huge Cry On Rape Make’s me Laugh:We people from East and particullary Muslim By birth are Really Crazy .We want to adopt western culture with out Rape,murder and pork(with eating pork) that’s are integral part of western well civilised Sociaty.

Riiight.

Quran also expose there fate as well like the Fate of Jews:There should be no peace on them here and there.(hell 4 them) ,mass murder and run from here and .Study there 5000yr’s history and also the Love Of Hitler For them .A Jews now wrote that gathering of Jews from All over the world Is an indication that they should be mass murdered again.

[Emphasis mine]

No hate.

Abusing Languages

This cracked me up:

Burn the dancefloor, O baliye

That is patently absurd.

Pedophilia in Islam

Jennifer King writes quite a simple and forceful article. An excerpt:

The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) married ‘Aa’ishah (may Allaah be pleased with her) when she was six years old, and he consummated the marriage with her when she was nine, and at that time he was over fifty.

Note, Muslims are always and repeatedly taught that the Prophet Muhammed has lived the model life. In other words, there is absolutely nothing wrong with what the Prophet did. Ergo, pedophilia (what exactly would you call sex with a 9 year old?) is okay. The atrocity doesn't end there:

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, The Supreme Leader of Iran, the Shia Grand Ayatollah, 1979-89 said in his official statements:

"A man can quench his sexual lusts with a child as young as a baby. However, he should not penetrate. Sodomizing the baby is halal (allowed by sharia). If the man penetrates and damages the child, then he should be responsible for her subsistence all her life. This girl, however, does not count as one of his four permanent wives. The man will not be eligible to marry the girl’s sister. It is better for a girl to marry when her menstruation starts, and at her husband's house rather than her father's home. Any father marrying his daughter so young will have a permanent place in heaven."

Khomeini, "Tahrirolvasyleh" fourth volume, Darol Elm, Gom, Iran, 1990

[Emphasis mine]

Bonus: At the end, regulations for bestiality.