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Here it comes, the reaction I’ve been predicting since Sept. 11. No matter how craven the politicians may be, the common people know what’s at stake, and when the government refuses to protect the nation, the nation will take steps to protect itself.

It starts on the fringe, with those who are inclined to adopt violence in their daily lives as a matter of course, but as things get worse it will more and more penetrate the community.

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Barn door locked? Check.

Syria has denied secret nuclear activities but has blocked IAEA inspectors from visits beyond an initial inspection to the Al Kibar site.

Hiding something? Check.

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Well, I’ve always had my suspicions about Minnesota….

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

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One Israeli soldier is worth more than peace in Gaza.

I knew they were valuable, but I had no idea.

Or maybe they really don’t want peace after all? Nah, that can’t be it.

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A woman who had steel plates inserted into her back managed to smuggle a gun and explosives into a maximum security prison to help two inmates escape.

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I’m curious to see whether they will cut her hand off. Muslims do that sort of thing, you know.

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At a weekend meeting in Istanbul, 200 religious scholars and clerics met senior Hamas officials to plot a new jihad centred on Gaza.

Isn’t that special.

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Now that the giant terrorist rabbit was killed by those mean Israelis, Hamas has found a replacement.

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It appears that no errors have been found in Zalmai’s translation: the objection of Muslim clerics is that the Dari translation does not appear alongside the original Arabic text.

I feel much the same way about translations of the Bible that don’t contain the Greek text. But that’s me.

Lucky for Zalmai and Ahmad that Afghanistan now has a democratic government controlled by moderate Muslims rather than the Taliban and other members of the tiny minority of intolerant extremists, hunh?

My thought exactly.

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

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

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A young woman has been saved from a forced marriage in Pakistan after British police used new powers to restrain her father.

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

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Go, Binyam! You can do it! We’re behind you 100%!

(Note that all of the torture of which he complains was done to him by fellow Muslims.)

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A search of the Bulgarian-registered lorry revealed the nine Eritreans and one Afghan hidden in the load of wheelie bins.

I guess that, no matter how bad it gets in Britain, other places are worse.

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Clark Coleman writes:

I have been looking back on the Islamic attacks upon freedom of speech and freedom of the press, as in the Danish cartoon controversy, trying to categorize the various responses of liberals and conservatives. It seem that there are five response categories to the worrisome behavior of Muslims in the West:

1. Recognize that Muslims can never assimilate Western values, because Western values are incompatible with Islam, and propose that we change our immigration quotas immediately to stop adding Muslims to the West, as well as taking other measures to make potential jihadists feel unwelcome and self-deport.

2. Bitch and moan and whine about growing Muslim power and friction in the West while proposing no solution.

3. Fantasize that we can “assimilate” Muslims so that they internalize Western values, which implies that we know how to take people who have never, in 1400 years, respected our ideas of freedom and transform them into people who no longer pay attention to the official sharia positions on such things as the Danish cartoons and ignore public expressions that they consider blasphemy.

4. Deny or ignore that there is really any problem in the first place, calling the cartoon riots “isolated incidents” that we should not “overreact” to, etc.

5. Realize that there is cultural incompatibility between Muslims and the West, but consciously choose openness liberalism [meaning, being open and inclusive to all people regardless of how different they are to you] over natural rights liberalism [meaning, admitting only people who subscribe to the rights of man], to refer back to Allan Bloom and previous VFR discussions, and accept all of the problems of having Muslims in our midst as simply the negative part of a trade-off. (Hence, no energy is spent whining about it, nor denying it.)

If (a huge “if”) conservatives and liberals respectively had a fundamental philosophical understanding of themselves, I would expect conservatives to choose position No. 1, and liberals/leftists to choose position No. 5. The sad truth is that most self-described conservatives and liberals fall across the spectrum of Nos. 2, 3, and 4, with the only thing distinguishing “conservatives” from “liberals” being that “conservatives” fall more towards No. 2 and “liberals” more towards No. 4.

Needless to say, I favor #1.

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India is a natural ally in the struggle against the Great Jihad, because it has been on the receiving end of the greatest abominations ever dealt out to the infidels by Islam. It has the world’s largest Muslim minority — somewhere between 140 and 165 million followers of the Prophet, depending on whose figures you use — and experiences horrific Muslim terrorist attacks almost daily, of which the recent Mumbai atrocity is simply the most well-known.

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You refine heroin for a living, but you have a moral objection to beer.

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

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Not really news, but a useful reminder.

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Contrary to the Geneva Convention, I might add. But they know that the Israelis won’t shoot kids who aren’t obviously armed.

Not really news, but a useful reminder.

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More than 600 illegal migrants like Mohammedei are backed up this winter in Calais, 150 miles north of Paris, living in makeshift shelters pitched in the patchy snow. They have swollen a floating population of Afghans, Iraqis, Iranians, Kurds, Eritreans and English-speaking Africans who number more than 1,000 at any given time in a string of communities along France’s English Channel coast.

Well, who wouldn’t want to live in Londonistan rather than an Arab — or, indeed, any Muslim — country? I wonder why….

But the migrants’ motivation is so strong, particularly in societies that have been ripped apart by war, that those headed for London seem to have missed the message. “It’s not El Dorado, that’s for sure, but it’s always better than the situation in their own countries,” Copyans said.

Mohammedei, for instance, said he decided to leave his home town, just south of Kabul, after a grenade tossed by Taliban fighters sent shrapnel into his left calf, knee, thigh and shoulder. Despite the sub-zero temperature, he pulled up a double thickness of pant legs and a layer of long underwear to display the scars to a visitor in the thicket.

“Taliban,” he said.

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Sheik Abdul-Aziz Al Sheikh was quoted as saying those who think such girls are too young to marry are doing them an injustice. Al-Hayat newspaper quotes Sheik Abdul-Aziz Al Sheikh, the country’s grand mufti, as also saying during a lecture on Monday that critics who say women should not marry before the age of 25 are following a ‘bad path’.

Anybody still confused about whether Saudi Arabia is a civilized country?

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Iran — equal opportunity barbarians.

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1. Thank God you don’t live in Britain.
2. Without eternal vigilance, it could happen here. Probably in Michigan.

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The horror.

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

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The course of true love doth ne’er run smooth.

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No one is safe where Muslims live. No one.

No one.

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Of course not, they’re needed to provide victims for propaganda purposes.

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Suggest to Jews that they ought to invite a Storm Trooper to Hannukah and see where it gets you. Or put Simon Legree in a Kwanzaa scene.

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One of the things to think about as you read this article is that some of the criticism it contains — an objection to the commercialization and excessive materialism that has come to be associated with Christmas — is not specifically Muslim. It’s a reminder of why Islam appeals to people who are repelled by the hedonistic sinkhole that Western popular culture has become.

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This is news? What have they been doing for the past twenty years?

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You mean “Muslim” isn’t a race? Whoda thunkit?

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Sure, Muslims are just like us — 1500 years ago.

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I’m still trying to grasp the concept of “Muslim cocktail waitress”.

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Oh, those nice Pakistanis wouldn’t hurt anybody, would they? Why can’t we all just get along?

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An NHS doctor was imprisoned, drugged, bound and gagged before being forced into marriage in Bangladesh, it emerged today, as a British judge issued an order telling her parents not “to pester, harass or intimidate” her.

Dr Humayra Abedin, 32, was held captive for four-and-a-half months by her family and was forced to marry while under the influence of drugs. She was freed by a court in Bangladesh and returned to Britain on Tuesday.

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

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No shit.

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Well, they could always, you know, stop firing rockets at Israel. The Israelis are showing a lot of restraint by not going into Gaza and cleaning it out like a nest of termines. Not that they get any credit for it, of course.

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Since the terrorist attacks in Mumbai 10 days ago, speculation has been rife about the birthplace of the lone surviving gunman, Ajmal Amir Kasab. India and Pakistan have clashed over reports that he came from the Punjab. Saeed Shah, after spending days travelling throughout the region, tracked down the killer’s home – and his grandfather – and found conclusive proof of his identity.

Not really news, but a useful reminder.

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A lot of the world’s commerce goes past backward Islamic countries, and Muslims have no respect for the property rights of non-Muslims (and sometimes not even those of Muslims who get in the way). And, of course, non-Muslims are too wussy these days to do anything about it.

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