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I am prepared to argue that any nation that still has ‘tribes’ ought to be administered by a more civilized country until they catch up with the rest of us.

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In the long history of the Islamic empire, the wide gap between delusions of grandeur and the forces of localism would be bridged time and again by force of arms, making violence a key element of Islamic political culture. No sooner had the prophet Muhammad died than his successor, Abu Bakr, had to suppress a widespread revolt among the Arabian tribes. Twenty-three years later, the head of the umma, Caliph Uthman ibn Affan, was murdered by disgruntled rebels; his successor, Ali ibn Abi Talib, was confronted for most of his reign with armed insurrections, most notably by the governor of Syria, Mu’awiya ibn Abi Sufian, who went on to establish the Umayyad dynasty after Ali’s assassination.

Mu’awiya’s successors managed to hang onto power mainly by relying on physical force to prevent or quell revolts in the diverse corners of their empire. The same was true for the Abbasids during the long centuries of their sovereignty.

Violence and oppression, then, have not been imported to the Middle East as a byproduct of European imperialism; they were a part of the political culture long before. If anything, it is the Middle East’s tortuous relationship with modernity that has left physical force as the main instrument of political discourse.

Unlike Christianity, Islam was inextricably linked with empire. It did not distinguish between temporal and religious powers (which were combined in the person of Muhammad, who derived his authority directly from Allah). This allowed the prophet and his erstwhile successors to cloak their political ambitions with a religious aura.

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The unidentified protesters flashed the victory sign and shouted “God is Greatest” in Arabic as they were led away.

One protester, giving his name as Sheikh Rooky, told Reuters that the embassy staff are “on the side of the people” and condemn the “massacres happening in Libya” but fear the possible repercussions for speaking out against Gaddafi.

As opposed to the possible repercussions of speaking out for Qaddafi, I presume.

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

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

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France has some 751 “No Go” zones. The French government has labeled these areas “sensitive urban zones” that are dangerous for whites and non-Muslims to enter.

This map shows how these “no go zones” are distributed around France….

It would be interesting to see an equivalent map for places in the U.S.

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British extremist Anjem Choudary – who once said ‘the flag of Islam will fly over the White House’ – has announced he will lead a demonstration calling on Muslims to establish the Sharia law across America.

The rally, planned for March 3, is to take place just weeks after his on-screen row with Fox News presenter Sean Hannity.

Of course, if he were a non-Muslim calling for democracy in a Muslim country, he’d be killed by a mob. Just a little difference between them and us, you see.

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

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Wearing jeans and leaving her auburn hair uncovered never created problems for Rayana Khasi, a 22-year-old Muslim engineering student in the coastal state of Kerala.

But then came the threats. About two months ago, members of the Popular Front of India, a fast-growing Muslim political and social organization in Kerala, allegedly started sending text messages to her saying, “You’re committing blasphemy.”

Oh, say it ain’t so.

Whenever we think we’ve got it bad, bear in mind that India’s got it worse. They have more Muslims, and a longer history of being oppressed by Muslims, than any place outside of the sandbox itself.

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BANGLADESHI police arrested four people including a Muslim cleric today after a teenage girl, who was accused of having an extra-marital affair with her cousin, was whipped to death.

Fifteen-year-old Hena Begum died in hospital on Monday after a village court in the southern Bangladesh district of Shariatpur sentenced her to 100 lashes, said local police chief A.K.M Shahidur Rahman.

In conservative rural parts of Muslim-majority Bangladesh, rights groups say it is common for women to be publicly whipped for “crimes” such as adultery despite a ban on such religious punishments.

In some documented cases, rape victims have been flogged for being a “participant” in their sexual assault.

The Other McCain watches CNN so that you don’t have to.

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Anyone who has studied the Muslim Brotherhood, or Islam in general, knows that a believer is not just permitted to lie, not just encouraged to lie, but required to lie if the action in question is required. It is mandatory for believers to work to establish the rule of sharia in any Muslim state. Therefore, when necessary, it is mandatory for believers to lie in order to achieve that end.

The Muslim Brotherhood will be more than happy to “reject violence”. No problem!

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It is very ironic that one of the only mainstream news-media reports I have read about the plight of Coptic believers in Egypt was in the Baltimore Sun and it centered on the insights of people in — wait for it — Baltimore.

So it seems that the Copts are news in Baltimore, but not in Cairo. Go figure.

The Copts are what’s left of the original inhabitants of Egypt, displaced and suppressed by Arabs over the last 1400 years.

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Accused terrorists planned to cut the throats of reporters at a Danish newspaper that printed Mohammed cartoons, police wiretaps reveal.

The men hoped to kill as many people as possible at Jyllands-Posten within 20 minutes, recordings made by the Danish security service PET and published Monday in the Ekstra Bladet newspaper show.

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IN LAHORE, PAKISTAN Following the assassination of a liberal politician who criticized federal blasphemy laws, loud support for the confessed killer is coming from an unlikely quarter: a violence-eschewing, anti-Taliban school of Islam steeped in Sufism.

The notion of a moderate but silent Pakistani majority has also been undermined by the stance taken by the nation’s young black-suited lawyers, who three years ago led massive pro-democracy strikes but this month showered rose petals on Mumtaz Qadri, the killer of Punjab governor Salman Taseer. Civilian and military officials have responded with little more than tepid disapproval to the killing.

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

The really sad part is that this writer from the Washington Post seems to be so surprised as well.

Violence and intolerance are essential characteristics of Islam. Let’s just hope that our Ruling Class wakes up to that fact before we’re all slaves.

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Not a good sign.

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The Muslim Brotherhood was founded in Egypt in the 1920s and is the source of pretty much every extremist Muslim group, including Hamas. The Muslim Brotherhood continues to be active in Egypt and is the most obvious alternative to the Army/Mubarak regime should that regime fall. Stratfor, citing a source inside Hamas, says members of that organization may be slipping into Egypt to aid the Brotherhood:

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

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

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A US embassy employee shot dead two motorcyclists after they pulled a pistol on him in traffic, sparking angry anti-American protests in the Pakistani city of Lahore

I suppose he was just supposed to let himself be robbed and perhaps murdered.

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The Englishman who made this video was threatened with death for filming Muslims engaging in dawah on a public street.

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

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Over the last few years, we’ve all become familiar with the sight of masses of Muslim men clogging up public spaces in major Western European cities with their posteriors pointed skyward as they pray towards Mecca.

Paris is the most notorious in this regard, although similar occasions have been observed in Switzerland, Germany, Britain, and other countries — even across the Atlantic in front of the U.S. Capitol. To devout Muslims, such actions are well understood as a symbolic occupation of infidel territory, and a preliminary claim of that territory for Islam.

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If all ‘Palestinians” were to die tomorrow, the amount of hate in the world would decrease by about a third.

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Mostly “HATE YOU!” If all Palestinians were to die tomorrow it would decrease the total amount of hate in the world by about a third.

During the past decade, Washington has repeatedly failed to gauge the extent of Palestinian anti-peace sentiments with devastating consequences. The July 2000 Camp David summit triggered the worst wave of Palestinian violence since 1948 (euphemized as the “al-Aqsa Intifada”); the Palestinian parliamentary elections of January 2006 led to a victory for the Hamas Islamist group. Now that President Obama has announced his ambitious timeline for Israeli-Palestinian peace, could the administration be rushing headlong into yet another diplomatic failure?

A recent nine-week study by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) of online Palestinian political sentiments suggests that this could be the case. Palestinian Internet users often derided diplomatic initiatives, and their discussion of the peace process was overwhelmingly negative. More alarmingly, the study revealed several troubling trends among Palestinian social media users—notably the prevalence of Islamism, fissures between factions, and the inability of liberal reformers to be heard—that cast doubt on both the prospects for peace and the likelihood that a democratic Palestinian state will emerge.

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Muslims are like vampires — they may seem suave and sophisticated, but when you least expect it the teeth come out and your neck pays the price.

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Now comes a book that exactly lines up with the way our thinking has evolved at Gates of Vienna. Rebecca Bynum nails it in Allah Is Dead: Why Islam is Not a Religion. I’ve been saying this for a while now so it’s exciting to see that someone has written a book laying out systematically what it took us so many years to understand, to wit: Islam is a totalitarian system tricked out to look like a religion, and it fools even many of its adherents. In reality, Islam is a prison – as those who try to leave know all too well. You wonder sometimes what would happen if Islam’s so-called ‘apostasy’ were done away with? How many adherents would still be in the system? Especially I wonder how many women would remain if they were free (as in really free from physical retaliation) to get on the bus, Gus.

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ISLAMIC preacher Ibrahim Siddiq-Conlon points heavenwards to emphasise his message for the governments of Australia — there is no God but Allah and only his laws should be obeyed.

“My attack is on the Prime Minister of Australia,” he said yesterday. “I hate the parliament in Canberra. I want to go straight for the jugular vein and advise the parliament that they have no right to legislate. They should immediately step down and let the Muslims take over.”

An Australian-born convert to Islam, Siddiq-Conlon is the self-anointed leader of a group called Sharia4Australia, which is pushing for the introduction of sharia courts as a first step towards achieving Islamic law.

“One day Australia will live under sharia; it’s inevitable,” he said. “If they (Australians) don’t accept it, that’s not our problem. We hope, and our objective is to have a peaceful transition, but when you look at history that has never been the case. There’s always been a fight. It is inevitable that one day there will be a struggle for Islam in Australia.”

Reminder for the dimwitted: Islam is an oppressive totalitarian ideology with which no co-existence is possible.

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All’s fair in love and Jihad.

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I’m surprised that even made it into a newspaper.

Ever notice how Muslims are really into beheading people?

Well, no.

In the New Testament (and other early Christian literature), much is said about nonviolence, never is violence commanded or even suggested; it is forbidden. Not so, early Muslim literature. The contrast is to be expected: Jesus was anti-violent, Muhammad was violent (a military leader as well as a religious leader).

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And Somali pirates are:

[] Christians   [] Jews  [] Hindus   [] Muslims

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Nuyia Youssif Nuyia is a specialist cardiologist, very well known in the region. He was the private physician of the late Msgr. Faraj Rahho and many priests and religious. Formerly a military doctor and professor at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Mosul, Nuyia is married with four children. Those who know him said that Nyuia is a Chaldean Catholic, very attached to his faith and his Church.

I’ll bet it was those Baptists again. You know how much they dislike Catholics.

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Just in case you were wondering: For Muslims to steal from, cheat, or rob non-Muslims is no crime. Indeed, Mohammed (the ‘perfect man’) made a career of it, personally leading raids and supervising mass-murder.

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As explicitly Islamic states go, the range seems to be Saudi Arabia (bad) through Iran (worse) to Pakistan (worst).

Note that there is no Islamic country in which life is good for non-Muslims; some are just less bad than others.

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Most chilling part:

Which brings us to those tattoos on the wrists of Coptic Christians, tattoos that make it harder to kidnap young people and children and force them to convert. This tradition is not new and it exists for a reason.

Your future under Islam. Don’t say that you weren’t warned.

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Reminder for the dimwitted: Islam is an oppressive totalitarian ideology with which no co-existence is possible.

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The blood of Egyptian Christians has been spilled again, this time on a train en route to Cairo. A policeman on his way to work boarded the train, looked around until he found a group of people who were identifiably Coptic, and started shooting. One man was killed and five people were seriously wounded. Witnesses said the gunman shouted “Allahu akhbar!” before he started firing.

Dhimmis in a Muslim state are treated the way Negroes were treated in the Jim Crow South: Like second-class citizens at best, slaves or animals at worst, and nobody takes their ‘rights’ seriously.

Your future under Islam. Don’t say you weren’t warned.

Christopher Hitchens is always worth reading.

Now look at the grinning face of Mumtaz Qadri, the man who last week destroyed a great human being. He did not explain. He boasted. As “a slave of the Prophet,” he had the natural right to murder Salman Taseer, the governor of Punjab, not even for committing “blasphemy” but for criticizing a law that forbade it for Muslims and non-Muslims alike. And this sweeping new extension of the divine right to murder not only was not condemned by the country’s spiritual authorities; it was largely approved by them. No argument, no arraignment, no appeal—permission to kill anybody can merely be assumed by anybody, provided only that they mouth the correct incantations.

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The recitation of the shahada in front of witnesses is necessary and sufficient to announce conversion to Islam. Once you have declared it, you are a Muslim for life. Under sharia, there is no way to reverse the shahada. Those who attempt to are considered apostates, and must be killed.

Just in case you were wondering.

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A Penn State student charged with biting two FBI agents who arrested him Tuesday, has posted pro-jihad songs and statements online. Emerson Begolly, 21, was carrying a loaded gun with the safety off when agents approached him in connection with an unspecified investigation.

Begolly’s posts included songs in praise of Osama bin Laden and calling for violent attacks. In one song posted to the Shumukh al-Islam jihadi website under his alias Asadullah Alshishani, he salutes Swedish suicide Bomber Taimour Abdaly and calls for murdering Western targets. “I am not afraid to die, Grab my gun and my ammo… I am soldier and we are at war, Grab my gun and my ammo,” Begolly said. “Blow their heads right off their shoulders… Martyrdom is what I wanted best.”

Begosh and Begolly, this jihad stuff really bites.

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

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And why not? There are a lot of stupid people in the world. It’s not as if it costs anything.

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The President of Egypt and the President of the United States both falsely stated that both Muslims and Christians were killed; all of the killed and almost all of the wounded were Christian.

Today brought two new developments: evidence that there was careful advanced co-ordination for the blast, and reports by witnesses that the security detachment guarding the church abruptly departed about an hour before the bomb exploded.

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The rate of emigration of Jews from the Netherlands is accelerating. The number of attacks against visually identifiable Jews has increased, and almost all the perpetrators — when they can be found — are Muslims.

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Your future under Islam. Don’t say that you weren’t warned.

We ought to ask India how much they would charge to nuke Pakistan. I’d contribute.

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

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If there are two things that characterize Islamic culture, they are terrorism and inbreeding. The latest research shows that these two things might be closely connected.

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Most readers will be familiar with the spectacle of mass Muslim prayer on the streets of Paris’ 18th Arrondissement. The following video, however, shows the breathtaking scope of the Islamic occupation of certain districts of Paris.

Now, imagine what would happen if even a small portion of this number (five, say) attempted to pray in the street in, oh, say, Saudi Arabia (or Turkey or Egypt or Iran or … well, you get the picture).

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How omebody named ‘Hassan Abu-Jihaad’ ever got access to classified information in the first place beggars belief.

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“Your [Christmas] fireworks will act as an alarm for the time of our devices to blow up — devices that we, not Santa Claus, are going to offer to you as gifts, to turn your night into day and your blood into rivers,” said a member of the Shumukh al-Islam forum.