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pointed description of the arab/muslim world and our fifth column and appeasers
a description that rarely misses a beat - he seems to be somewhat naive vis the us state department - and has even been award four golden yaks：
Why do I put aside Israel and its own immediate neighborhood? Because Israel and any problems related to it, in spite of what you might read or hear in the world media, is not the central issue, and has never been the central issue in the upheaval in the region. Yes, there is a 100 year-old Israeli-Arab conflict, but it is not where the main show is. The millions who died in the Iran-Iraq war had nothing to do with Israel. The mass murder happening right now in Sudan, where the Arab Moslem regime is massacring its black Christian citizens, has nothing to do with Israel. The frequent reports from Algeria about the murders of hundreds of civilian in one village or another by other Algerians have nothing to do with Israel. Saddam Hussein did not invade Kuwait, endangered Saudi Arabia and butchered his own people because of Israel. Egypt did not use poison gas against Yemen in the 60's because of Israel. Assad the Father did not kill tens of thousands of his own citizens in one week in El Hamma in Syria because of Israel. The Taliban control of Afghanistan and the civil war there had nothing to do with Israel. The Libyan blowing up of the Pan-Am flight had nothing to do with Israel, and I could go on and on and on.
The root of the trouble is that this entire Moslem region is totally dysfunctional, by any standard of the word, and would have been so even if Israel would have joined the Arab league and an independent Palestine would have existed for 100 years. The 22 member countries of the Arab league, from Mauritania to the Gulf States, have a total population of 300 millions, larger than the US and almost as large as the EU before its expansion. They have a land area larger than either the US or all of Europe. These 22 countries, with all their oil and natural resources, have a combined GDP smaller than that of Netherlands plus Belgium and equal to half of the GDP of California alone. Within this meager GDP, the gaps between rich and poor are beyond belief and too many of the rich made their money not by succeeding in business, but by being corrupt rulers. The social status of women is far below what it was in the Western World 150 years ago. Human rights are below any reasonable standard, in spite of the grotesque fact that Libya was elected Chair of the UN Human Rights commission. According to a report prepared by a committee of Arab intellectuals and published under the auspices of the U.N., the number of books translated by the entire Arab world is much smaller than what little Greece alone translates. The total number of scientific publications of 300 million Arabs is less than that of 6 million Israelis. Birth rates in the region are very high, increasing the poverty, the social gaps and the cultural decline. And all of this is happening in a region, which only 30 years ago, was believed to be the next wealthy part of the world, and in a Moslem area, which developed, at some point in history, one of the most advanced cultures in the world. [...]
What is behind the suicide murders? Money, power and cold-blooded murderous incitement, nothing else. It has nothing to do with true fanatic religious beliefs. No Moslem preacher has ever blown himself up. No son of an Arab politician or religious leader has ever blown himself. No relative of anyone influential has done it. Wouldn't you expect some of the religious leaders to do it themselves, or to talk their sons into doing it, if this is truly a supreme act of religious fervor? Aren't they interested in the benefits of going to Heaven? Instead, they send outcast women, naive children, retarded people and young incited hotheads. They promise them the delights, mostly sexual, of the next world, and pay their families handsomely after the supreme act is performed and enough innocent people are dead.
Suicide murders also have nothing to do with poverty and despair. The poorest region in the world, by far, is Africa. It never happens there. There are numerous desperate people in the world, in different cultures, countries and continents. Desperation does not provide anyone with explosives, reconnaissance and transportation. There was certainly more despair in Saddam's Iraq then in Paul Bremmer's Iraq, and no one exploded himself. A suicide murder is simply a horrible, vicious weapon of cruel, inhuman, cynical, well-funded terrorists, with no regard to human life, including the life of their fellow countrymen, but with very high regard to their own affluent well-being and their hunger for power. [...]
The second ingredient is words, more precisely lies. Words can be lethal. They kill people. It is often said that politicians, diplomats and perhaps also lawyers and business people must sometimes lie, as part of their professional life. But the norms of politics and diplomacy are childish, in comparison with the level of incitement and total absolute deliberate fabrications, which have reached new heights in the region we are talking about. An incredible number of people in the Arab world believe that September 11 never happened, or was an American provocation or, even better, a Jewish plot. [...]
But words also work in other ways, more subtle. A demonstration in Berlin, carrying banners supporting Saddam's regime and featuring three-year old babies dressed as suicide murderers, is defined by the press and by political leaders as a "peace demonstration". You may support or oppose the Iraq war, but to refer to fans of Saddam, Arafat or Bin Laden as peace activists is a bit too much. A woman walks into an Israeli restaurant in mid-day, eats, observes families with old people and children eating their lunch in the adjacent tables and pays the bill. She then blows herself up, killing 20 people, including many children, with heads and arms rolling around in the restaurant. She is called "martyr" by several Arab leaders and "activist" by the European press. Dignitaries condemn the act but visit her bereaved family and the money flows.
There is a new game in town: The actual murderer is called "the military wing", the one who pays him, equips him and sends him is now called "the political wing" and the head of the operation is called the "spiritual leader". There are numerous other examples of such Orwellian nomenclature, used every day not only by terror chiefs but also by Western media. These words are much more dangerous than many people realize. They provide an emotional infrastructure for atrocities. It was Joseph Goebbels who said that if you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it. He is now being outperformed by his successors. [...]
Do you raid a mosque, which serves as a terrorist ammunition storage? Do you return fire, if you are attacked from a hospital? Do you storm a church taken over by terrorists who took the priests hostages? Do you search every ambulance after a few suicide murderers use ambulances to reach their targets? Do you strip every woman because one pretended to be pregnant and carried a suicide bomb on her belly? Do you shoot back at someone trying to kill you, standing deliberately behind a group of children? Do you raid terrorist headquarters, hidden in a mental hospital? Do you shoot an arch-murderer who deliberately moves from one location to another, always surrounded by children? All of these happen daily in Iraq and in the Palestinian areas. What do you do? Well, you do not want to face the dilemma. But it cannot be avoided.
Suppose, for the sake of discussion, that someone would openly stay in a well-known address in Teheran, hosted by the Iranian Government and financed by it, executing one atrocity after another in Spain or in France, killing hundreds of innocent people, accepting responsibility for the crimes, promising in public TV interviews to do more of the same, while the Government of Iran issues public condemnations of his acts but continues to host him, invite him to official functions and treat him as a great dignitary. I leave it to you as homework to figure out what Spain or France would have done, in such a situation.
The problem is that the civilized world is still having illusions about the rule of law in a totally lawless environment. It is trying to play ice hockey by sending a ballerina ice-skater into the rink or to knock out a heavyweight boxer by a chess player. In the same way that no country has a law against cannibals eating its prime minister, because such an act is unthinkable, international law does not address killers shooting from hospitals, mosques and ambulances, while being protected by their Government or society. International law does not know how to handle someone who sends children to throw stones, stands behind them and shoots with immunity and cannot be arrested because he is sheltered by a Government. lead from abelard。
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01:46 pm
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jihadi riot: the excuses keep getting more absurd
how could you take these people seriously？
SRINAGAR, India, Feb 28 (Reuters) - Police in Indian Kashmir fired teargas on Tuesday to disperse hundreds of Muslims protesting the magazine publication of a picture of a playing card showing an image of Mecca, police and witnesses said. They said at least 10 protesters were detained.
More than 400 Muslim youths gathered near Lal Chowk, in the heart of Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir, shouting "La Ilaha Illallah" (there is no god but Allah) ... down with India Today."
In its latest issue, the weekly published pictures of playing cards, one showing an image of Mecca. The protesters are angry because gambling is forbidden by Islam. Youths pelted police with stones and set fire to copies of the magazine, witnesses said. so a picture of a picture of a picture of mecca is now forbidden because the babies don't like their own silly gambling 'law'。 and this is an excuse for the violence。 sure。 as ever， you can see the original excuses for the jihadi anti-freedom riots by clicking on the banner below。
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12:28 pm
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danish fossil media continues to show the rest up
the danish fossil media continue to display surprising moral fibre：
Denmark's largest daily was honoured with the Victor Prize for "having opened everyone's eyes by showing how easy it is to introduce cracks in freedom of expression and how so-called political correctness is infiltrating what we believe to be inalienable rights," Hans Engell, the editor of tabloid Ekstra Bladet which awards the prize, said during a prize ceremony in Copenhagen late on Thursday.
The Victor Prize, named for the late editor-in-chief of Ekstra Bladet Victor Andreasen, was handed to Jyllands-Posten's editor Carsten Juste. in the land of the free the fossil media have more important things to worry about：
NBC's David Gregory, the George Clooney of the press corps, was yelling truth to power about why the Elmer-Fudd-in-gun-rampage story was released to "a local Corpus Christi newspaper, not the White House press corps at large.'' I know how he feels. I remember, like, four or five years ago -- early September, maybe second week -- there was this building collapse in New York and I had to learn about it from the TV because this notoriously secretive paranoid administration couldn't even e-mail me a timely press release. [...]
Fortunately, the Washington Post had that wise old bird David Ignatius to put it in the proper historical context: "This incident," he mused, "reminds me a bit of Sen. Edward Kennedy's delay in informing Massachusetts authorities about his role in the fatal automobile accident at Chappaquiddick in 1969."
Hmm. Let's see. On the one hand, the guy leaves the gal at the bottom of the river struggling for breath pressed up against the window in some small air pocket while he pulls himself out of the briny, staggers home, sleeps it off and saunters in to inform the cops the following day that, oh yeah, there was some broad down there. And, on the other hand, the guy calls 911, has the other fellow taken to the hospital, lets the sheriff know promptly but neglects to fax David Gregory's make-up girl!
One can only hope others agree with Ignatius' insightful analogy, and that the reprehensible Cheney will be hounded from public life the way Kennedy was all those years ago. One would hate to think folks would just let it slide and three decades from now this Cheney guy will be sitting on some committee picking Supreme Court justices and whatnot. the cartoons remain unpublished by any british fossil media outlet and unpublished by most of the major american fossil media outlets。 fossil media outlets in continental europe have generally been less inclined to abnegate their responsibilities， despite efforts by governments and jihadis to stop them。 their efforts to cover up one of the biggest stories of the day has so far been failing for about three weeks。 what are they going to do， attempt to shut down the internet？ you can see the cartoons by clicking on the banner at the top of this article。
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| 11:05 am
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conspiracy of silence: what muslims killing jews?
i have previously mentioned the rising number of anti-jewish attacks in france， mostly perpetrated by muslim youths， and the culpable 'ignorance' of the french police and leadership。 this weekend， a particularly bad example was made public， although the fossil media and french government are as usual eliding the more damning details。
a muslim gang， apparently associated with hamas， used a blonde female to lure a poor immigrant jew into their clutches。 they kidnapped him， took him to their council estate and proceeded to torture him for three weeks。 during their torture sessions they also phoned the family in an attempt to extort money。 during these phone calls they continued their torture， at times recited the koran over the screams。 his jewishness has been cited by members of the gang as the reason for his torture and for his kidnap - afterall as the police put it "jew equals money"。 the gang finally dumped ilan halimi in a field near a train station。 he was found by chance sometime later and died on the way to hospital。
given the nature of the council estate where the gang held ilan， it is beyond the limits of plausibility that any of the immediate neighbours did not know of the torture going on nearby。 it in fact seems probable that neighbours and relatives participated in the torture。 despite the screams that nobody living in the building or walking by could have failed to hear going on for three weeks， the police apparently1 received not a single tip-off， anonymous or otherwise。
during those three weeks， the police refused to acknowledge the anti-semitic nature of the kidnapping， treating the case as vanilla extortion。 this incredibly obtuse behaviour by the police puts blood on their hands： in simple extortion cases there is no expectation of mortal danger to the kidnapped， thus the urgency and nature of the police response is tamer。 the french government also tried to cover up the anti-semitic nature of the attack for at least a week after the stabbed， bruised and burnt ilan was found。
even now， mention of most of the above details relating to the "ethnicity" or motivation of the gang is carefully avoided by most of the fossil media and the french government。 here is a typical example from the bbc。 as steyn points out， the cover-up by the fossil media is nothing new：
Two years ago, a 23-year-old Paris disc jockey called Sebastien Selam was heading off to work from his parents' apartment when he was jumped in the parking garage by his Muslim neighbor Adel. Selam's throat was slit twice, to the point of near-decapitation; his face was ripped off with a fork; and his eyes were gouged out. Adel climbed the stairs of the apartment house dripping blood and yelling, "I have killed my Jew. I will go to heaven."
Is that an gripping story? You'd think so. Particularly when, in the same city, on the same night, a Jewish woman was brutally murdered in the presence of her daughter by another Muslim. You've got the making of a mini-trend there, and the media love trends.
Yet no major French newspaper carried the story. the claimed excuse for the complicit silence from government officials and fossil media alike is a wish to avoid inflaming muslims to violence。 quite apart from the absurdity of lying about muslim violence in order to avoid muslim violence， this form of appeasement is likely to achieve the opposite effect。
the very nature of appeasement means letting the criminals get away with their behaviour， increasing the likelihood that they will continue in that behaviour。 further， the use of lies to cover up the islamic nature of the violence means that the muslim community is not confronted over the behaviour that is haboured in its midst。 the failure to confront unacceptable behaviour gives those engaging in that behaviour the believe that they can continue without consequences。 as i have written previously， sanely there can be no doubt of the consequences to muslims - jihadi or sane - should muslim communities continue to escalate their barbaric behaviour。 the failure to confront the nature of this violence also means that sane muslims wishing to condemn the jihadis - an action that is far from safe - lack the cover and support that is our moral duty to provide。
in other words， the appeasement and lies engaged in by the french government and fossil media increase the likelihood of further violence from muslims and increase the likelihood that the west will be forced deal with muslims en-masse and with extreme violence， something nobody sane could welcome。
on sunday there was a funeral attended by president chirac， wife2 and villepin。 despite this show of support for the jewish community， chirac and company are so far continuing their dishonest denials of the anti-semitic nature of present day france。 the parallels between these denials and the un's denials that genocide is taking place in the sudan are striking：
after months of expressing deep concern, grave concern, deep concern over the graves and deep grave concern over whether the graves were deep enough, Kofi Annan managed to persuade the UN to set up a committee to look into what's going on in Darfur. They've just reported back that it's not genocide.
That's great news, isn't it? For as yet another Annan-appointed UN committee boldly declared in December: "Genocide anywhere is a threat to the security of all and should never be tolerated." So thank goodness this isn't genocide. Instead, it's just 70,000 corpses who all happen to be from the same ethnic group – which means the UN can go on tolerating it until everyone's dead "do something about what？ there's nothing happening。"
there was also a peaceful anti-jihadi protest march3 attended by sarkozy。 sarkozy is one of the few government officials openly referring to the reality。 during the riots last year， he was the only senior official to refer to the jihadi criminals honestly， while his colleagues were busy extending the riots by their appeasement。 once more sarkozy is looking like a good candidate to replace the mad old fools。
the behaviour of the police and government in this case of course relates to my earlier items on the illegimacy of a police force that refuses to defend its parish。 under present circumstances， i can see no *legimate* way the french police can enforce disarmament laws on french jews， nor even legimately arrest a jew for taking 'justice' into their own hands。 this of course won't stop the police doing so anyway。 i regard any jew that is not making efforts to leave france as highly foolish。。
obviously some jews may wish to make some sort of stand， though the march on sunday was the first sign that such people exist， despite this problem being obvious and growing for a number of years。。 some - like those in 1920s and 1930s germany - may hope they can keep their heads down and weather the storm， after all it can't last。。 some may believe they cannot afford to move， although with the open and cheap borders in the eu， this excuse seems a little lame to me。。 some may regard the default choice of israel as even worse - after all they would be sitting right in ahminastraightjacket's nuclear sights。 if i were a jew in france， my first choice would be america， closely followed by israel。 assuming i was too poor， i would move to another eu country， none of which have the level of anti-semitic attacks france has。 i would probably try to get to denmark if i could， but italy or spain would probably be cheaper and easier and not significantly worse options。
1. with the police lying to the media and public and even incredibly claiming that they didn't realise the anti-semitic nature of the gang， i can't help being suspicious of this claim also。 i'm finding it increasely hard to see the behaviour of the police and the french government as innocent， despite my default expectation that stupid behaviour is down to the usual incompetence and laziness of government employees。
2. chirac's wife received a degree of notoriety last year for cowardice in the face of blatant anti-semitic behaviour：
At a charity event on behalf of children, some 20 Muslim youths tried to prevent the Jewish singer, Shirel, from appearing on stage, shouting curses such as "We'll exterminate all of you soon". The incident lasted for about 20 minutes, after which Shirel appeared despite everything. Mme. Bernadette Chirac, wife of the President of France, was present at the event, and beyond telling the singer backstage that "This is most unfortunate", did nothing to denounce the incident.
3. attendance for the two events are variously being claimed at "tens of thousands" and "hundreds of thousands"。 it's also not clear whether they were one event or two。
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11:34 am
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mullah logic
i don't see how this threat is anything new given their claim that they will use the nukes that they aren't developing to "wipe israel off the map"， but the twistedness is still amusing：
Dr. Abasi, an advisor to Iran's Revolutionary Guard, said Tehran would respond to an American attack with strikes on the Dimona nuclear reactor and other strategic Israeli sites such as the port city of Haifa and the Zakhariya area.
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sane muslim watch: "You can stand up, lay down, or follow. What will it be?"
deeyah aka the "muslim madonna" - she's neither that ugly nor that talentless， though she's still nothing to write home about - is doing her part for jihadi mockery and freedom。 some 'muslims' are claiming that she isn't a 'real' muslim， can't think why。 anyway， she's made a video for her latest pop song which amongst other things features herself shedding a burka for a bikini and large number of muslim feminists removing tape from their mouths (apparently references to the van gogh/hirsi ali film "submission")。 the lyrics also have their moments：
# "Does the truth only come from the top of a holy man's spire?"
# "From three paces back, covered head to toe, like the rules that the man says and written just for show."
# "You can stand up, lay down, or follow. What will it be? Will it all be the same tomorrow?"
# "We don't take it lightly when you threatening women. How you have so much hate and you fake your religion?"
# "If you're that religious and not for trendy clothes, then what you doing even watching videos?" she clearly chooses "stand up"：
The singer, who was born in Norway but moved to the UK after her act alienated her from the Muslim community, has been forced to cancel performances and hire a team of bodyguards after inciting anger from British Muslims as well.
"I can't walk around without bodyguards. I would be lying if I said abuse from religious fanatics did not upset or scare me," the 28-year-old, dubbed as the 'Muslim Madonna' was quoted by Contactmusic, as saying. i just love the wording "inciting anger"。 and why would someone pissed with jihadis in norway move to the uk of all places？！ i would think it had more to do with the larger audiences and bigger music scene， but what would i know。
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americans standing up for denmark and freedom
christopher hitchens' impromptu danish solidarity event has gone off without a hitch(ens)。 the only size estimate i've seen so far is about 250 people。 it doesn't seem quite that big to me， but it's hard to tell with all the photographs deliberately cropped to not show the edges of the crowd。 why do they always do that？ surely there are competent photographers/reporters out there somewhere！ 250 people is still more than "takbir" managed and hitchens has apparently done his rave-up without a similarly sized counter-protest parked opposite。
the crowd seems to have been largely made up of extremely ernest pseuds - cf the obscure shakespeare quotes and references to obscure danish philosophers on the signs - admittedly the obscure danish cheese reference was quite funny once i looked it up。 you can see video of the crowd， complete with "we're all danish now" - even the chant is insipid！ - chanting here。 that site also has video of one of the oh-so-ernest protesters fairly clearly stating his reasons for attending。 my favourite sign has to be the one made of lego：
the best (it's still not very good) photo report i've seen so far is here。
meanwhile， quite a few american cartoonists have been doing there bit。 my favourite of those is probably this one：
but i like most of them。
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05:00 pm
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so mr.muslim, where do your allegiances lie?
the australians look like they may move to follow the new zealand example of demanding oaths of allegiance to tolerance from muslim immigrants。 here's the treasurer：
"Rather than try and censure me ... they should make a clear statement that they subscribe to all of these views - that they are loyal to Australia, they respect the rights and liberties of others, they believe in democratic government and they believe that all Australians should live unequivocally under the one law made by the Australian parliament - and endorse these values and recommend them to their followers," Mr Costello told Southern Cross Broadcasting.
"Pledge themselves unequivocally to these values first of all, and then call on their followers to pledge themselves unequivocally to these values.
"This is what I would invite them to do, rather than to criticise me because all Australians should in my view subscribe to these values." the prime minister (howard) is backing him。
i continue to be amazed by how few sane muslims are opening and vocally stating that their loyalties lie with free tolerant societies and not with the jihadis。 as i wrote elsewhere today：
it amazes me that the sane muslim responses are as yet so tame and few..
it's as if the sane ones haven't yet cottoned onto the fact that if they
continue to let their not-so-sane brethren escalate, they themselves will be
given no quarter alone with their nutty 'friends'. they don't seem to grok
the extent of the danger staring them in the face. if the sane muslims should
once let this situation go over the brink, i would expect muslim populations
to be systematically wiped out across the western world.
this apparent unawareness amongst the sane muslims worries me far more than
the spineless behaviour of the pols and fossil media, although the two are
obviously interrelated. these oaths are in any sane muslim's interest。
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10:27 am
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takbir
michelle malkin may be shallow， emotional and boring in her writing， but she's good with the funny videos (and pictures)。 watch as the leader of a tiny "new black panther movement" demonstration sounds off in front the danish embassy in washington and in front of a similarly-sized group of danish flag carrying counter-protesters。 it is worth at least a giggle or three。
takbir is apparently "Praise or glorification of God (as in Q 74:3, etc.). The declaration of the formula Allahu Akbar (God is Most Great)."
i particularly like his "if all these police and cameras weren't here... you have a lot of nerve!" - he's probably just about unspecific enough to avoid harassment/incitement laws。 he also does bombastic fire-and-brimstone preaching as only an american can - i keep want to get to my feet and heckle "yeah, preach it brother!"。 ＾_＾ these are the people that the fossil media is running in fear of。 pathetic！
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no apology for being free
cox and forkum has yet another jihadi-mocking cartoon：
meanwhile ex-socialist， but still very confused， christopher hitchens is not impressed with the behaviour of western politicians and fossil media toward denmark。 he is organising a peaceful demonstration of solidarity in front of the washington embassy：
And there remains the question of Denmark: a small democracy, which resisted Hitler bravely and protected its Jews as well as itself. Denmark is a fellow member of NATO and a country that sends its soldiers to help in the defense and reconstruction of Iraq and Afghanistan. And what is its reward from Washington? Not a word of solidarity, but instead some creepy words of apology to those who have attacked its freedom, its trade, its citizens, and its embassies. For shame. Surely here is a case that can be taken up by those who worry that America is too casual and arrogant with its allies. I feel terrible that I have taken so long to get around to this, but I wonder if anyone might feel like joining me in gathering outside the Danish Embassy in Washington, in a quiet and composed manner, to affirm some elementary friendship. Those who like the idea might contact me at christopher.hitchens@yahoo.com, and those who live in other cities with Danish consulates might wish to initiate a stand for decency on their own account.
Update, Feb. 22: Thank you all who've written. Please be outside the Embassy of Denmark, 3200 Whitehaven Street (off Massachusetts Avenue) between noon and 1 p.m. this Friday, Feb. 24. Quietness and calm are the necessities, plus cheerful conversation. Danish flags are good, or posters reading "Stand By Denmark" and any variation on this theme (such as "Buy Carlsberg/ Havarti/ Lego") The response has been astonishing and I know that the Danes are appreciative. But they are an embassy and thus do not of course endorse or comment on any demonstration. Let us hope, however, to set a precedent for other cities and countries. Please pass on this message to friends and colleagues. be there or be square。
just in case you've forgotten： all the cartoon along with various related images are on my site (that page could do with an update - maybe this evening)。
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10:30 am
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brave reporters, peaceful muslims & anti-semitic cartoons
it makes one proud to be british：
The Pub Philosopher notes that on Tuesday (yes, St Valentine's day), the British Embassy in Iran was petrol bombed and that the attack was reported in Germany, Taiwan and the United Arab Emirates, but not the British media! I've been able to find this report from Reuters on the Yahoo UK website however. The original Reuters report is here. There was also a report mentioning this on an Australian news site. However nothing about it on the BBC, and no mention in any of the British papers as far as I can tell. the british fossil media continues their cowardly refusal to publish the cartoons， despite the 56% of britons who say they would support such an act。
newspapers are being shut down and reporters arrested， but the fossil media and politicians know the real coverup is cheney's hunting accident：
Most media organisations have taken a stand by boldly running away. Which is odd, considering how hot for tales of repression the media has been during these blighted years of the Illegal Smirkler Regime (dissidents jailed! Mao-reading students probed!). Actually, the media is still hot for repression sagas, of a particular type. The latest involves a hideous 18-hour delay for information on Dick Cheney’s Texas-wide murder spree. as instapundit puts it， part of the fossil media's ongoing "instinct for the capillary"。 he also comments elsewhere：
Note that MSNBC is kinda-sorta publishing the cartoons -- you have to click on a "warning -- offensive" box to see them. oh the courage！ oh the journalistic integrity！
for another example of newspapers being closed down， following an even more innocuous cartoon：
The municipal government in Volgograd has decided to close down a local newspaper for printing a cartoon showing Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, and Moses watching a crowd of clashing people while saying, “We never taught them to do that…” The mayor of the city is quoted as saying that the paper was shut down in order to prevent inter-religious strife; meanwhile, the prosecutor-general is looking to file charges. 
meanwhile， peaceful muslims in nigeria kill fifteen， peaceful pakistani clerics put million dollar bounties on cartoonist's heads， peaceful taleban remnants offer 100kg of gold to prospective killers， peaceful state ministers in india offers eleven million dollars for dead cartoonists， peaceful muslims across the world bully five danish embassies into closing， peaceful muslims in america stone newspaper offices， peaceful muslims provoked by the sight of female hair stone a reporter in turkey and much more。 see james hammerton's "cartoon wars roundup"s for details。
i am still fairly confident that islam will be able to adjust to tolerant society。 i would be considerably more confident if the politicians and fossil media stopped giving the loons false hope that they will be able to take the west on。 just as with saddam， the appeasers' behaviour can only result in greater hardship and bloodshed on both sides。 appeasement is not an innocent act。 the sooner the loons are made to realise that they are going to lose - whether they do so quietly or whether they start civil wars and get wiped out - the less painful things will be。 the fight against the jihadi loons has so far been a picnic； the continuance of that picnic is far from guarenteed - the continuance largely depends on the reaction of the real peaceful muslims， which in turn somewhat depends on the message given by the west。
i am pleased to see my planted phrase "innocuous cartoons" is now spreading to the big boys， even if people do tend to qualify it with "rather"。 for some less innocuous but quite hilarious cartoons， see this competition：
A Danish paper publishes a cartoon that mocks Muslims.
An Iranian paper responds with a Holocaust cartoons contest -
- Now a group of Israelis announce their own anti-Semitic cartoons contest!
Eyal Zusman (30, back from anonymity) and Amitai Sandy (29), graphic artist and publisher of Dimona Comix Publishing, from Tel-Aviv, Israel, have followed the unfolding of the “Muhammad cartoon-gate” events in amazement, until finally they came up with the right answer to all this insanity - and so they announced today the launch of a new anti-Semitic cartoons contest - this time drawn by Jews themselves!
“We’ll show the world we can do the best, sharpest, most offensive Jew hating cartoons ever published!” said Sandy “No Iranian will beat us on our home turf!” 
there's also an ugly， but funny animated anti-jihadi cartoon over here。 the dutch word "gevoelig" apparently means "sensitive"。
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12:33 am
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time to boycott carrefour; the correct way to wear a burqa
they say a picture is worth a thousand word， so here are two thousand words。 both pictures come courtesy of samizdata。
 
carrefour is one of the largest supermarket chains in france。 the burqa wearer is hip hop singer lil kim， who apparently subscribes to the bizarre theory that "nobody looks at the mantelpiece when stoking the fire"。 either that or she's really ugly。 i wonder if that burqa would also be considered unsuitable for a french state (us： public) school。
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11:11 pm
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bravery begets bravery, cowardice begets cowardice
another cartoonist sees fit to do his duty for freedom：
Miller proudly announced the title of his next Batman book, which he will write, draw and ink. Holy Terror, Batman! is no joke. And Miller doesn't hold back on the true purpose of the book, calling it "a piece of propaganda," where 'Batman kicks al Qaeda's ass."
The reason for this work, Miller said, was "an explosion from my gut reaction of what's happening now." He can't stand entertainers who lack the moxy of their '40s counterparts who stood up to Hitler. Holy Terror is "a reminder to people who seem to have forgotten who we're up against."
It's been a long time since heroes were used in comics as pure propaganda. As Miller reminded, "Superman punched out Hitler. So did Captain America. That's one of the things they're there for." where are the chaplins mocking the imams， ayatollahs and walking time-bombs？ [there is a fair stab at it in "team america"，but the mockery is nowhere near as directed as in "the great dictator"]。
back in demark， the courage of the twelve cartoonists is giving inspiration to others：
Dozens of Danish Muslims are joining the network of moderate Muslims, the Demokratiske Muslimer (Democratic Muslims). About 700 Muslims have already become DM members and 2,500 Danes have expressed their will to support the network. The initiative has caused anger among the Danish imams and their leader, Ahmad Abu Laban, who have referred to the moderates as “rats.” The imams feel that they are beginning to lose their control over part of the Muslim population.
Moderates such as Kamran Tahmasebi say they have had enough of fanatic Islamism and its intimidation of the Muslim immigrants in Denmark. “It is an irony that I am today living in a European democratic state and have to fight the same religious fanatics that I fled from in Iran many years ago,” Mr Tahmasebi says. He came to Denmark as a refugee in 1989. Today he works as a social consultant and is very grateful for the life Denmark has made it possible for him to have. He says he no longer wants to keep a low profile to avoid attracting the attention of the imams. The cartoon affair was an incentive for him to stand up and warn against the Islamist imams in Denmark, whom he says are damaging the integration process with their misleading criticism of Danish values and norms.
Mr Tahmasebi is one of the people involved in the newly established network of moderate Muslims in Denmark led by Naser Khader, a member of the Danish Parliament. He says he is well aware of the risk he is taking by siding with Mr Khader, who has for a long time been living under police protection. But Mr Tahmasebi feels it is his duty to take part in this debate. “Naser Khader has carried this responsibility for too long. I share his beliefs and now I want to stand up and say so. Apart from that, as a parent I feel a responsibility to fight, so that my children will not have to live under Islamist dogmas. They shall be able to live free in this country.” Mr Tahmasebi adds that he believes the imams are one of the biggest problems Denmark is facing today. 700 is yet a small number， but the tendency is that the larger the crowd becomes， the 'braver' the rest become。 mr tahmasebi's behaviour is but an example of that phenomenon。
abelard has been keeping up with the topic while i've been resting。 as ever there are lots of interesting things to be read。 hammerton has also been doing sterling work - just keep scrolling。
my favourite developments have to be：- the revelation that one of the fake cartoons， taken round the middle east by the danish imams in their successful mission to stir up rioting， was in fact a muddy photocopy of a photograph of a competitor at the annual pig-squealing competition held somewhere in france。 i know of a little village in france that every year hold the world bird whistling competition； unfortunately i've never been there at the right time to see it。
- the egyptian newspaper that reprinted the cartoon back in october， with nary a peep from the usual suspects。
- the british newspaper reporter admitting and celebrating the cowardice of her newspaper， along with the rest of the british fossil media：
This paper’s belief in freedom of speech is paramount. The decision not to reprint the cartoons, not to declare ourselves another Spartacus in support of our European colleagues, was taken, at least partly, out of consideration for the safety of the staff, and the safety of Scottish people here and abroad, and I fully support it. such cowardice is hardly unusual。 that she feels able to flaunt it makes me further worry at the state of british society。 it amazes me that someone with such a craven attitude to life could ever become a reporter。
- apparently of the people arrested in lebanon for destroying the embassies，76 were syrians， 35 were palestinians and 38 were lebanese。 don't forget that the syrians are still assassinating politicians and reporters in lebanon， despite having been forced to end the occupation。
have the british police arrested any of those they protected while inciting violence on the streets of london， as promised？ or is this just another case of the british police unwilling to do their job and their political masters unwilling to lead？ what of the british and american administrations？ are they standing by their first idiotic statements？
i leave it to abelard to explain the importance of the cartoons and the necessity of their reprinting：
The real story concerning the innocuous moh cartoons is the rioting and over-reaction by jihadis, not the innocuous cartoons themselves. [...]
Hitler also believed his dishonesty and attempts at conquest would go well. He likewise judged the west as ‘decadent’. I suggest the jihadis take dire warning from the fate of that historic lunatic. Perhaps they might even take dire warning from the fate of the lunatic of Baghdad, or take warning from the fate of the taliban destroyers of culture in Afghan? A warning that it is not safe to rile the most advanced cultures on earth.
In the 1920s and 30s, Hitler may not have managed to install millions of his followers in foreign countries (as has now occured widely with jihadis), but in both the USA and Britain of that era there were large numbers of people of German extraction who were considered a threat to the nations concerned. In the United States, Henry Ford had a nest of nazi sympathisers in his organisation, while German-American pro-nazi organisations (bunds) and the likes worked to keep the USA out of Adolf’s intended path. The influence of people like Ford and Joseph Kennedy in the US, and Northcliffe and Chamberlain in the UK were hardly beneficial to the freedom aspirations of Western interests.
In the UK, there was a very considerable constituency for appeasement and many who would not hear a word against that nice Mister Hitler. The Northcliffe newspapers (primarily the Daily Wail) were very pro-Hitler until it became ill-advised.[...]
I am uncertain just what the proportion of fellow travellers the jihadis have within the general Islamic population in Western countries. It is essential that this is probed; it is vital home security data. Without that data, rational planning is near to impossible.
Hence, the incredible irresponsibility of the fossil press in not doing their duty of publication, while politicians desperately attempt to sweep these serious and genuine questions under the carpet. note that there were also such organisations and individuals working for the soviet socialists， chinese socialists， cambodian socialists， cuban socialists， as well as for the nazi socialists， just as more recently large numbers worked for saddam's socialists； neither does this include the ever present useful idiots and cowards。
unsurprisingly， all three groups continue to be well represented in the fossil media： cf ted turner's [owner of cnn] decision to not report the real situation in iraq for fear of losing saddam's 'good will' - now does that make him "fifth column"，a "useful idiot" or a "coward"？ just as with "mad bad sad"， you essentially can't tell。
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07:02 pm
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mohammed and the cartoons
in order to avoid the hassle of constant repetition， i have created a separate page on my site for images related to the cartoons and the jihadi response to those cartoons。 it includes all twelve of the original danish cartoons。
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jihadi update: denmark, iran, syria, sane muslims, british police
the dissident frogman appears to be back blogging， after a very long absence。 he has created some pretty banners， of which this is an example：
continuing the good news， it seems that the europeans have finally decided they have had enough of iran：
The United Nations' atomic energy watchdog voted in Vienna yesterday to report Iran to the UN Security Council, [...] 27-to-3 decision [...] Cuba, Syria, and Venezuela voted against the resolution. Algeria, Belarus, Indonesia, Libya, and South Africa abstained. merkel is showing herself to be significantly less soft-headed than schroeder：
An Iranian leader ''who questions Israel's right to exist, a president who denies the Holocaust, cannot be expected to receive any tolerance," said Merkel while mccain continues to understatedly get the message across：
''Every option must be on the table," he said. ''There's only one thing worse than military action -- that is a nuclear-armed Iran." in response， the iranians are threatening to impose sanctions on themselves：
Following the insults of some western countries' media to Holy Prophet of Islam, Iran's President, Dr. Ahmadi Nejad ordered Commerce Minister to set up a council on "reviewing and cancellation of economic contracts and commercial exchanges with these countries". meanwhile， the us government is rightly holding the syrian government responsible for the invasion and razing of parts denmark and norway by syrian citizens：
"We will hold Syria responsible for such violent demonstrations since they do not take place in that country without government knowledge and support," said presidential press secretary Scott McClellan. [...] "The government of Syria's failure to provide protection to diplomatic premises, in the face of warnings that violence was planned, is inexcusable," McClellan said. embassies are the sovereign territory of the country who staffs them， thus the danish embassy is under law just as much danish soil as is copenhagen。this is just one more in a long line of legitimate causi belli：
Now, depending on the level of (passive) involvement by the Syrian regime, one could make the case this is an act of war. And since Norway and Denmark are both NATO members, Bush can invoke article V of the NATO charter that says an attack on one member state is an attack against all of them...
Presto! Legal casus belli... and no need to find further justifications in hidden WMD's, terror sponsoring or the need for 'regime change'. Just point the tanks in Baghdad to Damascus and start driving... i can't see this happening yet， though。 so far still no apology for the state department's calling freedom of speech "not acceptable"。
given the fossil media's propensity for trying to excuse the inexcusable behaviour of the jihadis， it is very hard to get an idea of how widespread the repudiations from sane muslims are。 here is another example of a large international group of muslims who categorically condemn the violent and threatening behaviour of their so-called brethren：
In Pakistan, hundreds demonstrated on Thursday, chanting "Death to Denmark" and burning Danish and French flags. In Egypt, President Hosni Mubarak warned that the decision by some European papers to publish the cartoons could encourage terrorists. Consequently, government ministers from 17 Arab nations have asked the Danish government to punish the newspaper for what they called an "offense to Islam" and some countries have even pulled their ambassadors from Denmark. [...]
The response by Muslims to the cartoons is absolutely pathetic and depressing but revealing. The reason Muslims are responding with anger and threats of violence is because most Muslims live in countries where democracy and freedom of speech are alien concepts.
Moreover, the Muslim world suffers from a lack of visionary leadership. In this particular case, when Muslim leaders, including American Muslim leaders, realized that Muslims are furious they joined the chorus of fury rather than explain to their people that they must be reasonable and that freedom of speech is healthy even if it is insulting. What is even more disgusting is that most American Muslim organizations, who should know better, have joined the chorus of instigators rather than taking this opportunity to teach their members about the importance of freedom of speech and tolerance. meanwhile a court in south africa， one of the countries supporting iran's attempts to develop nuclear weapons， has preemptively banned the publication of the danish cartoons：
The Sunday Times newspaper, one of those covered by the ruling, said it had not decided whether to publish the cartoons but had refused a request by the Council of Muslim Theologians to promise not to use the images.
The Council then approached the court for the temporary restraining order, which was granted late on Friday. the obvious answer to this sort of 'law' is civil disobedience：
meanwhile the reprehensible behaviour of the british police comes further to light。 here is a photo rich comparison of the response by the british police to a peaceful protest by anti-fox-hunting-ban protesters and their response to jihadi marchers complete with masks and blatant incitement to violence：
Instantly, the police responded with a flail of truncheons. For a moment, they resembled beaters driving birds towards guns. They were scenes more associated with the clash of police and shaven-headed football hooligans or dreadlocked anti-capitalist demonstrators rather than men in flat caps and women in quilted waistcoats. [...]
n Association of Chief Police Officers spokesman said that the protests did not yet represent a serious threat to public order. A Scotland Yard spokesman said: "Arrests, if necessary, will be made at the most appropriate time. This should not be taken as a sign of lack of action."
Scotland Yard says a decision not to arrest protesters was taken because of public order fears. It confirmed that police had received more than 100 complaints from the public about the protesters' behaviour.
there were two arrests yesterday， however：
The only arrests made were of two men found carrying cartoons of Mohammed. Police said they had been detained "to prevent a breach of the peace". A man dressed as a suicide bomber, however, was left unhindered, while the police sought to prevent photographers taking pictures. free speech results in arrest。 incitement to violence results in police protection。 still the british fossil media follow the craven example of their benevolent rulers。
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08:54 pm
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more irreverent pictures of mohammed
a dutch blog is holding a competition for those who wish to creatively make likenesses of mohammed in defiance of the death threats。 most of them aren't very good， but there are a few that are funny。
note that the picture of mohammed used in the two images at the top is the one openly bought on the streets of an iranian city in 1991 [apparently it is actually a picture of mohammed's brother ali， and has been very widely misattributed， including， if i understand correctly， by the original salesman]。 the other image is adapted from a muslim drawn persian (read iranian) or central asian illustration from the middle ages。
here are some cartoons from newspapers in muslim countries。
meanwhile the british police are starting to "consider" arresting those inciting violence on the streets of london yesterday and today。 those same people they've been happily escorting around。。
there are also good muslims [the link also has a long list of nuts and their actions]：
Britain's leading Muslim body called for the protesters to be prosecuted. Inayat Bunglawala, spokeswoman for the Muslim Council of Britain, said: 'The Metropolitan police should now consider all the evidence they have gathered from the protests to see if they can prosecute the extremists. It is time the police acted, but in a way so as not to make them martyrs of the prophet's cause, which is what they want, but as criminals. Ordinary Muslims are fed up with them.'
Kurshid Ahmed, chairman of the British Muslim Forum, which represents more than 600 British mosques, said: 'The reaction and demonstration by some elements within our community are not reflective of who we are.' more please。 muslim counter-demostrations please。 arrests please。 british press come out from behind the sofa please。 blair give a statement that freedom of the press is not subject to a bullying clause please。 bush apologise for your spokesman's stupid comments please。 more mockery of the jihadi loons and defiance of their threats please。
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12:50 pm
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pictures of mohammed, some europeans regaining a backbone
back in september， a danish newspaper decided to find out how far the jihadis had managed to bully europe into silence， to see to what degree freedom of speech remained a reality。 to that purpose they published a series of fairly innoculous cartoons featuring mohammed：
not very surprisingly， a lot of unsavoury types across the muslim world have been attempting to bully anyone they think they can into withdrawing publication and/or apology：
The reaction of Muslims has ranged from street protests and boycotts of Danish products, through to death threats, threats of terrorist attacks in Denmark, warnings to Scandinavians not to enter Palestine, withdrawal of diplomatic relations from Denmark by Arab states, and Islamic countries lobbying the UN to pass a resolution banning attacks on religious beliefs. hammerton gives more specific details here。
in the last few days， a number of news organisations across europe have started to grow balls， while others remain noticeably craven。 first france soir published this cartoon on the front page along with a message that "No religious dogma can impose itself on a democratic and a secular society"：
the next day the editor was fired by france soir's owner。 now his replacement has apparently resigned in protest and the editorial staff are using the front page to further expose the craven behaviour of their owner as well as the attack on free speech by the jihadis。 meanwhile various newspapers and television stations across europe (and elsewhere) are joining in：
The German Die Welt and Berliner Zeitung also now claimed to have reprinted some of the cartoons. Are the giants starting to stir?
Also apparently joining the move, La Stampa of Italy, an un-named Norwegian outlet, also El Periodico from Spain.
Meanwhile
Danish ‘youth’ are reported to be planning a public koran burn-up.
A German source ‘regrets’ the partial Danish apology. [...]
“Jordanian independent tabloid al-Shihan reprinted three of the cartoons on Thursday, saying people should know what they were protesting about [...] ”
The papers were rapidly withdrawn from circulation. many others are grandstanding while lacking the courage to print the cartoons themselves， notably the whole of the british fossil media who at last check down to the last paper have failed to stand up and be counted。 apparently the bbc and channel 4 have now briefly shown at least one image on television。 in the land of the free， cnn has apparently explicitly refused to show the images。
hammerton's comments on the subject are as usual to the point：
Freedom of speech, including the freedom to ridicule beliefs we disagree with, is crucial to both scientific inquiry, open debate and a functioning democracy. If I cannot express my political beliefs without fear of reprisal, then democracy is thereby diminished as one view of how society should be run has thereby been cut off from the debate. of course the whole point of the jihadis bully tactics is to *stop* debate。 as abelard somewhat more bluntly puts it：
these cartoons do not 'insult islam'...there is no such person....
they do not 'insult mohammet.....he is long ded....
they do insult jihadis who fully merit insult....
they insult no peaceful civilised muslim....
to claim that they do is indeed a straightforward attack on free speech...
it is a subversive attempt to stop criticism of jihadis....not to stop
criticism of 'islam' or 'mohammed' of peaceful civilised people who
wish to call themselves muslims....
the campaign against this criticism of jihadis is merely political
posturing for advantage by islamofascists...
it would be well for every free person to understand these things
and stop giving comfort to the gang leaders and tyrants of the
middle east.... the obvious response to the jihadis is a great swelling of mockery going up around the world。 the obvious response to attempts to stop the publication of these cartoons is to republish them in as many places as possible： feel free to copy the images and publish them on your own blog/diary。 you can find the original 12 cartoons here。 that place also has much more in the way of depictions of mohammed：
Anyway those of my visitors who haven't yet seen them ought to see the Mohammed Image Archive which depicts images of the prophet going back centuries as well as modern versions from decadent western nations like Iran.
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