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My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

Another pointed reminder that democracy is not a Muslim value.

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If there aren’t any Jews or American’s handy, Muslims will quite cheerfully blow each other up.

That’s some fine Religion o’ Peace™ you got there Mohammed.

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That’s some fine Religion o’ Peace™ you got there, Mohammed.

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My name is Bosch and I’m a recovering Muslim.

That is, if Muslims don’t kill me for leaving Islam, which it requires them to do.

I’ve been around Muslims my entire life and most of them truly don’t care about Islam. The problem I have with many of these essentially non-Muslim Muslims, especially in the middle of this war being waged on us by their more consistent co-religionists, is that they give the enemy cover. They force us to play a game of Muslim Roulette since we can’t tell which Muslim is going to blow himself up until he does. And their indifference about the evil being committed in the name of their religion is a big reason why their reputation is where it is.

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Gunmen attacked and sprayed an Afghan family with acid in their home after the father rejected a man’s bid to marry his teenage daughter, authorities said Thursday.

The gunmen broke into their home and attacked the 18-year-old daughter, her two sisters and their parents, according to authorities in Kunduz province.

That’s some fine Religion o’ Peace™ you got there, Mohammed.

Fjordman takes a break from dodging dhimmis in European governments to share some wisdom.

I have challenged Marie Simonsen, commentator in Dagbladet, to provide some concrete examples of places where Muslims have lived peacefully with their non-Muslim neighbors over longer periods of time. Personally, I don’t think any such place exists, which means that the term Islamophobia, so frequently used by her newspaper and others, is completely meaningless.

And not only meaningless, but a tendentious political tag deliberately created to divert attention from the Muslim agenda, which is set out quite clearly in the Koran.

The political scientist Øystein Hetland described me on 31 October as an extremist, among other reasons because I am very critical towards Islam, and ask what it takes to make a democratic society work. I wrote the following on Gates of Vienna on the occasion of my fifth anniversary as Fjordman: “Are Islamic teachings inherently violent? Yes. Can Islam be reformed? No. Can Islam be reconciled with our way of life? No. Is there such as thing as a moderate Islam? No. Can we continue to allow Muslims to settle in our countries? No.”

These few sentences contain all the information about Islam you will ever need. Do I regret writing this? No. One ought to tell the truth, even when it is unpleasant.

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That’s some fine Religion o’ Peace™ you got there, Mohammed.

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A pointed reminder that respect for women is not a Muslim value.

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That’s some fine Religion o’ Peace™ you got there, Mohammed.

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Tunisia’s secularists said their fears about an Islamist takeover were being realized on Tuesday after a senior official in the moderate Islamist party which won last month’s election invoked the revival of a caliphate, or Islamic state. Footage posted on the Internet showed Hamadi Jbeli, the secretary-general of the Ennahda party, telling supporters that “We are in the sixth caliphate, God willing.”

No doubt the outcry was ‘Allahu Akbar!’

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Seen from Tehran, Pakistan is not a failed state, but a tremendous success.

Pakistan may be a poor country, but the Pakistani military establishment manages to protect the privileges of the officer class, which constitutes the ruling elite of Pakistan. Pakistan did experience international sanctions in the wake of its nuclear tests, but the nuclear capability has since provided Pakistan with a protective shield which makes it a beneficiary of U.S. military aid. This is despite a record of contribution to proliferation of the nuclear bomb, despite being caught harboring Osama Bin Laden, and despite U.S. Army accusations of Pakistan supporting terrorist networks killing American troops in Afghanistan.

Inspired by the Pakistani role model, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) is transforming Iran into a military dictatorship, where the IRGC is not only constitutionally tasked with “safeguarding the revolution and its achievements,” but also rules Iran. The IRGC is also aggressively pursuing a nuclear program—the “possible military dimensions” of which the International Atomic Energy Agency has expressed “serious concerns” about.

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When there aren’t any Jews or Americans handy, Muslims will quite cheerfully murder each other.

That’s some fine Religion o’ Peace™ you got there, Mohammed.

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Hizballah continues to discuss battle plans for its next war with Israel, promising to take a much heavier toll on the Israeli people than the 2006 conflict in Lebanon. In recent weeks, Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah has held a series of meetings with the group’s senior military commanders to prepare the group for a future war, which reportedly include plans to fire missiles at Tel Aviv, seize parts of the Galilee, and take Israelis hostage.

That’s some fine Religion o’ Peace™ you got there, Mohammed.

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Two bombs exploded as members of a government-backed Sunni militia gathered to collect their pay in the Iraqi city of Baquba on Thursday, killing six people and wounding dozens, security and health officials said.

When there aren’t any Jews or Americans handy, Muslims will quite cheerfully murder each other.

A suicide bomber detonated an explosive vest among members of the Sahwa militia near the gates of a military headquarters in western Baquba, and a car bomb blew up nearby a few minutes later, security sources and witnesses said.

The second explosion was to catch people like ambulances, doctors, EMTs, and firefighters. I guess helping people who’ve been injured isn’t a Muslim value.

That’s some fine Religion o’ Peace™ you got there, Mohammed.

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When there aren’t any Jews or Americans handy, Muslims will quite cheerfully murder each other.

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My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

When there aren’t any Jews or Americans handy, Muslims will quite cheerfully murder each other.

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My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

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Slavery has been a curse upon human existence since the dawn of mankind. During modern times there has been a thin illusion that slavery has vanished from the world. The sad reality is that slavery does exist in our modern era, and while slavery is not unique to Islam, there has never been an abolition of slavery in the Islamic world as there has been in the Western nations.

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My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

That’s some fine Religion o’ Peace™ you got there, Mohammed.

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Both were already said to be in the hands of pirate gangs in central Somalia close to the town of Haradhere.

Truly, you can’t make this stuff up.

Any non-Muslim who steps foot in Somalia except as an armed member of a military force is an idiot.

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A grenade thrown into on a bar in the Kenyan capital Nairobi has wounded 14 people, all Kenyans, in an attack police linked to recent threats made by Somali Al-Shebab insurgents.

“We are linking the grenade attack to the threats that have been issued by Shebab, and that is why I am appealing to city residents to be vigilant and cooperate with our officers,” said Nairobi police chief Antony Kibuchi.

That’s some fine Religion o’ Peace™ you got there, Mohammed.

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Yeah, good luck with that.

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MONTREAL — Young and striking in her black hijab, Mouna Diab was once active in a Quebec youth group that fought discrimination against Muslims by challenging the stereotypes that too often associate them with violence and terror.

But the outspoken 26-year-old activist had little to say this week after appearing in a Montreal courtroom to face a charge alleging she had violated a United Nations Security Council arms embargo that prohibits the export of weapons to Lebanon.

That’s some fine Religion o’ Peace™ you got there, Mohammed.

On the other hand, these are not parts for ‘assault rifles’, which are fully automatic weapons; these are for semi-automatic rifles, which are civilian sporting arms rather than military. Of course, there isn’t a lot of sport shooting going on in Lebanon, unless you include in your definition The Most Dangerous Game, so I’m sure her intent was far from innocent – these parts will work perfectly well with an M-16 receiver, which is the important part.

This whole affair has a number of puzzling parts. But it certainly illustrates that ‘journalists’ these days can’t be bothered to get the facts straight.

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But that formulation can be interpreted in many ways – it was also the basis of Egypt’s largely secular constitution under President Hosni Mubarak, and remains so after his fall.

My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

‘Expected’ by whom? The Crust, maybe — those of us who appreciate the essence of Islam viewed it as inevitable. Every Muslim is committed BY THE NATURE OF HIS RELIGION to work for the implementation of shari’ah law. The only places where they don’t do this is where Muslims are so few on the ground that it would be a waste of time. As Britain and France and Sweden and the Netherlands and Michigan and Wisconsin are finding out, it doesn’t take a huge percentage of Muslims in the population to trigger pro-shari’ah efforts. The only country with a Muslim majority that doesn’t implement shari’ah law is Turkey, and it is rapidly heading in that direction — a ‘secular’ state with a Muslim-majority population is an unstable situation that can be held that way only through tight authoritarian oppression, and ALWAYS eventually unravels.

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When there aren’t any Jews or Americans handy, Muslims will quite cheerfully murder each other.

That’s some fine Religion o’ Peace you got there, Mohammed.

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It take exception to Ms. Raza’s assertion that the mandate to abuse women is not in the Koran; it most emphatically is in the Koran. I quote from the most authoritative source on Sunni Islamic law, Reliance of the Traveller, Book P, “Enormities”:

p42.0 A WIFE’S REBELLING AGAINST HER HUSBAND (def: m10.12)

p42.1 Allah Most High says:

“Men are the guardians of women, since Allah has been more generous to one than the other, and because of what they (men) spend from their wealth. so righteous women will be obedient, and in absence watchful, for Allah is watchful. And if you fear their intractability, warn them, send them from bed, or hit them. But if they obey you, seek no way to blame them” (Koran 4:34).

p42.2 The Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) said:

(1)		“Allah will not look at a woman who is ungrateful to her husband, while unable to do without him.”
(2)		“When a man calls his wife to his bed and she will not come, and he spends the night angry with her, the angels, curse her until morning.”
(3)		“It is not lawful for a woman to fast when her husband is present, save by his leave. Nor to permit anyone into his house except with his permission.”
(4)		“Whoever leaves her husband’s house (A: without his permission), the angels curse her until she returns or repents.” (Khalil Nahlawi:) It is a condition for the permissibility of her going out (dis: m 10.3-4) that she take no measures to enhance her beauty, and that her figure is concealed or altered to a form unlikely to draw looks from men or attract them., Allah Most High says,“Remain in your homes and do not display your beauty as women did in the pre-Islamic period of ignorance” (Koran 33.33)

As you can see, Islamic law — mainstream Islamic law, as accepted by devout Muslims all over the world — not only permits the subjugation of women, it requires it.

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As part of the deal to free Gilad Shalit, the butcher of Ramallah who participated in the disemboweling and mutilation of two Israeli soldiers who took a wrong turn on a road in the West Bank in October 2000 at the start of the 1st Intifada, will be set free:

The soldiers were beaten, stabbed, had their eyes gouged out, and were disemboweled. At this point, a Palestinian (later identified as Aziz Salha), appeared at the police station window, displaying his blood-stained hands to the crowd, which erupted into cheers. One of the soldier’s bodies was then thrown out the window and stamped and beaten by the enraged mob. One of the bodies was set on fire. Soon after, the mob dragged the two mutilated bodies to Al-Manara Square in the city center as the crowd began an impromptu victory celebration.

That’s some fine Religion o’ Peace™ you got there, Mohammed.

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An especially busy month in the persecution of Christians in the Muslim world, September also witnessed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton release the Annual Report on International Religious Freedom. Ironically, aside from Iran and Sudan, none of the countries that habitually appear in this series were designated as “countries of particular concern,” defined by the State Department as countries that are “engaged in or tolerated particularly severe violations of religious freedom.”

Egypt, for instance—which this year alone has seen nearly 80 Christians killed, their many churches burned or bombed, and their daughters kidnapped and forcibly converted—was not listed as a “country of particular concern,” this despite the fact that the U.S. Commission for International Religious Freedom, an independent, bipartisan federal government commission, had recommended that the State Department designate it so.

Neither was Pakistan cited as a “country of particular concern.” According to CNS news, “Clinton did not designate Pakistan even though the State Department’s own report stated that Pakistani law calls for the death penalty for people who commit ‘blasphemy’ against Islam or who convert from Islam to another religion—and even though the report listed multiple instances of the Pakistani government using the law to persecute Christians.”

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What are the consequences?

Kleine-Hartlage: The consequence is that the widespread assumption in this country under which we perceive Islam — that all religions are equal or “want the same thing” — is misleading. Let me give you an example: Islam does not generally outlaw violence, not even in a strictly moral sense. It is a legal system that he controls violence: Whether violence is acceptable or even required depends, not only in the legal, but also in the moral sense on the who, whom, why, and how. Christian culture with outright condemnation of violence tends to the elimination of private violence and is therefore dependent on the state and its monopoly on violence. Islam isn’t. On the contrary, violence has prestige value.

Why?

Kleine-Hartlage: Because the Prophet’s example, made a permanent feature in the Quran, teaches that the ability to use force a sign of divine election. Thus, the meaning of violence is similar to that of material wealth in Calvinism. Violence in Islam has a structuring function: it makes a difference between above and below, i.e. master and slave, men and women, believers and unbelievers. Islam doesn’t define peace as a universal principle.

But? After all, “Islam” means “peace”.

Kleine-Hartlage: No, “Islam” means, in friendly translation, “devotion” and less friendly, “submission”. The word is derived from the same word-root as “Salam” (peace), but it is not a synonym. The Islamic concept of society is based on the division of humanity into “believers” and “infidels” — and Islam leaves no doubt that the “infidels” sooner or later have to disappear in history. “Good” in the ethical sense, is what is good for the spread of Islam; “evil” is any opposition to it. Islam rejects the notion of a universal ethics by which all people have equal rights, no matter what religion they belong to, or peace as a matter of principle. Such views contradict not only the teachings of Islam, but its basic structure.

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Welcome to Londonistan. Take off your shoes, shoot the dog, throw a blanket over your women, and leave your civlization behind; it won’t be needed.

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The basic tribal framework of “us versus them” remains in Islam. The conception “my group, right or wrong” does not exist because the question of right or wrong never comes up. Allegiance is to “my group,” period, full stop, always defined against “the other.” An overarching, universalistic, inclusive constitution is not possible. Islam is not a constant referent but rather, like every level of tribal political organization, is contingent. People act politically as Muslims only when in opposition to infidels. Among Muslims, people will mobilize on a sectarian basis, as Sunni versus Shi‘a. Among Sunni, people will mobilize as the Karim tribe versus the Mahmud tribe; within the Karim tribe, people will mobilize according to whom they find themselves in opposition to: tribal section versus tribal section; lineage versus lineage, and so on.

The structural fissiparousness of the tribal order makes societal cohesion difficult. Affiliation places people and groups in opposition to one another. There is no universal reference that can include all parties. Oppositionalism then becomes the cultural imperative. While the tribal system based on balanced opposition effectively supports decentralized nomads, it inhibits societal integration and precludes civil peace based on settlement of disputes through legal judgment at the local level.

Reminder for the ignorant: Islam is an oppressive totalitarian ideology, under the guise of a religion, with which no co-existence is possible.

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In recent years Somali pirates have seized dozens of vessels and made millions of pounds from ransoming their crews.

That’s some fine Religion o’ Peace™ you got there, Mohammed.

A pointed reminder that there is no stricture in Islam against stealing from non-Muslims. In fact, it’s encouraged; Mohammed himself was a notorious bandit (and mass murderer).

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And, of course, under shari’ah, damaged churches aren’t allowed to be repaired.

A rather pointed reminder that freedom of religion is not a Muslim value.

That’s some fine Religion o’ Peace™ you got there, Mohammed.

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An Iranian actress has been sentenced to a year in jail and 90 lashes for her role in a film about the limits imposed on artists in the Islamic republic.

That’s some fine Religion o’ Peace™ you got there, Mohammed.

A rather pointed reminder that freedom of speech is not a Muslim value.

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Social media now perform the ancient function of the hue-and-cry. Old ways, new tools.

Wajeeh Izharuddin, 19, from Ashburton, later appeared before Newton Abbot magistrates.

He was convicted of burglary and placed on probation for six months.

Now there’s a Real English Name for you.

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Jihadi forum Ansar al-Mujahideen recently published a new e-book, The Just Scale – On the Permissibility of Killing the Infidels’ Children and Women, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI). Each of its eight chapters presents alleged proof from the Quran and Islam’s legal tradition, in an attempt to refute mainstream arguments against killing certain types of civilians.

My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

That’s some fine Religion o’ Peace™ you got there, Mohammed.

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And if cutting off their allowance doesn’t work, next step is putting them in Time Out.

After that, they’re grounded.

That’ll teach ’em.

On this date in 1571 the forces of jihad were checked at sea, and the long rollback of Muslim conquest would begin a hundred years later outside the gates of Vienna in 1683.

Looks like they’ve got momentum on their side again — nature abhors a vacuum, and that’s what we’ve got for governments these days.

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Alaa Alsaegh is an Iraqi Muslim living in the St. Louis area. Last month he wrote a poem in Arabic for a pro-Israel website, expressing his support for Israel.

His reward? Two strangers trapped him on a deserted street and carved a Star of David in his back with a knife.

That’s some fine Religion o’ Peace™ you got there, Mohammed.

The Other McCain has some fun with Crustian culture.

Curious statement from U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz:

“I want the public to understand that Mr. Ferdaus’ conduct, as alleged in the complaint, is not reflective of a particular culture, community or religion. In addition to protecting our citizens from the threats and violence alleged today, we also have an obligation to protect members of every community, race, and religion against violence and other unlawful conduct.”

Hmmmm. What “particular culture, community or religion” was notreflected in the acts of 26-year-year-oid Rezwan Feradaus? Obviously, the U.S. Attorney must be afraid that some people will use this to cast aspersions on . . . Northeastern University physics students, perhaps? Rock band drummers?

Hey, those rock band drummers can be really intense.

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Short answer ? Islam has “unhappy ending” written all over it.

Tragically, for Islam there is no possibility of a happy ending. It has often been said that the only peace which Islam ? famously known as “The Religion of Peace” ? offers anyone is the peace of the grave. Pakistan ? which means “land of the pure” ?provides the best evidence of this in that it is a prototypical Islamic nation intended to mirror the everyday rule of shari’a law. That country’s horrific level of almost daily slaughter and mayhem clearly demonstrates how ? even if Islam were to attain global ascendancy ? the violence and terrorism would never stop.

The Islamic concept of takfir (“impure”), literally assures this in that a more devout Muslim is religiously sanctioned for killing a less pure Muslim. This lack of purity could be interpreted as someone who does not pray all five times a day or consumes food during daylight hours over the course of Ramadan. The possible paths descending into Islamic “impurity” are as numerous as they are varied and it is an ironclad guarantee that Islam will always be torn by internecine violence.

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Cases dealing with apostasy in Islam—whereby Muslims who convert to other religions are tortured and executed—are on the rise and need to be acknowledged for what they are: one of Islam’s most visible attempts to suppress the human conscience—a phenomenon that has dire implications beyond religious freedom.

As for the Uganda anecdote, Susan’s father actually opted to follow the most lenient form of punishment allowed for apostasy: while Islam’s three Sunni schools of law condemn the apostate to death, the Hanafi School “progressively” advocates beating and imprisoning females until they see the “error of their ways” and return to Islam.

Likewise, though Susan’s father was arrested, he was “quickly released,” doubtless because the authorities recognized that he was only upholding Islam.

To all the relativists out there, they have but one question to ask themselves: where is the other religion that kills defectors? There are none; only gangs, not religions, exhibit such a “mafia” mentality—hence the argument that Islam is more a political system than a religion.

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If the police had been Palestinian, and the girl Israeli, the Palestinian government would have rewarded the police.

There lies the difference between Israel and its enemies.

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As far as atrocities go, it would appear that Turkey is never held responsible for any of them, and pays no consequences for its arrogant denials about those million Armenians. It will be the same for the Cypriots.

Funny how it feels free to lecture Israel while it kills Christians and persecutes the Kurdish population in Turkey. Not to mention Turkey’s Kurdish Christians.

And this is ‘secular’, ‘modern’, ‘moderate’ Turkey.

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A group of American military officers and Afghan officials had just finished a five-hour meeting with their Pakistani hosts in a village schoolhouse settling a border dispute when they were ambushed — by the Pakistanis.

An American major was killed and three American officers were wounded, along with their Afghan interpreter, in what fresh accounts from the Afghan and American officers who were there reveal was a complex, calculated assault by a nominal ally. The Pakistanis opened fire on the Americans, who returned fire before escaping in a blood-soaked Black Hawk helicopter.

The attack, in Teri Mangal on May 14, 2007, was kept quiet by Washington, which for much of a decade has seemed to play down or ignore signals that Pakistan would pursue its own interests, or even sometimes behave as an enemy.

‘Sometimes’?

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… Pakistan’s spy agency — Inter-Services Intelligence — played a direct role in supporting insurgents who attacked the American Embassy in Kabul last week, killing 16 people. He also said that with ISI support, the Haqqani network of terrorists planned and conducted an earlier truck bombing on a NATO outpost that killed 5 people and wounded 77 coalition troops, and other recent attacks.

My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

(I’m chiefly surprised that this is from the New York Times, noted butt-kisser of all things Muslim.)

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When there aren’t any Jews or Americans handy, Muslims will quite cheerfully kill each other.

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‘… With ponies! And unicorns!’

The 2001 attacks on the United States have intensified the debate that has existed since the dawn of Islam: How is the West to respond to the followers of Muhammad?

Kill them before they kill us. It’s really just that simple. Islam is not a religion, it’s a disease.

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Hundreds of Tunisians protested against their imminent repatriation by setting fire to the reception centre they were being held in on the remote Italian island of Lampedusa.

That’s gratitude for you. I wonder how they’d like spending the rest of their time out in the open air, having burned down the accommodation provided for them? But, of course, not being Muslims, the Italians wouldn’t do that.

Nor would they do what they ought to do, which is take them back to North Africa where they belong.