Friday, 9 January 2015
News..................
What To Do About – Or With – Russia?
Despite UVA Hoax, Fraternities Still Get Punished
Border Kids Flee Central America Gang Violence to Reside in Crime-Infested Oakland, but Free Stuff Conquers All
President Obie
The F-35 Has To Phone Texas Before Taking Off
How do you say 'Second Amendment' in French?
Obama: “Gas Prices Aren’t Gonna be Low Forever”
Neighbour says suspects in Paris shooting had ‘cache of arms’
No, Stealth Missile Corvettes Won’t Help Taiwan
Abu Hamza faces spending the rest of his life in prison
Russia’s stealth ‘black hole’ submarine prepares for 4,000km trip, deep water trials
Hamas, Palestinian Authority Step Up Human Rights Violations
Thank you FED.................from Rico
Thank you, privately owned, for profit, Federal Reserve Bank...thanks for nothing, which is almost what's left of the soon-to-be-formerly-known-as the US Dollar.
Brandeis, Liberal Arts School or Nursing School?.................from Dan Friedman
[As we ought to know by now American campuses are becoming more and more coercive, mainly to protect “the rights” of students on the anti-Zionist Left. Having had some “dialogue’ with some of them when this story first broke, they’re nothing more or less than spoiled whiners and complainers who know they can count on their liberal/Left administrators to watch their backs. df]
freebeacon.com, January 8, 2015
By Adam Kredo
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Thursday, 8 January 2015
Don't Miss the Beautiful Claire Berlinski's Reporting on the #CharlieHebdo Massacre
The lovely Ms. Berlinski was visiting a friend in Paris, walking right past the Charlie Hedbo offices, when she came upon the scene of the terrorist massacre.
Very immediate, intense reporting.
See, "A First-Hand Account of Terrorist Attack in Paris — #CharlieHebdo," and "Claire Berlinski on #CharlieHebdo in Time."
Let me use the words I am not allowed to use on Ricochet. You motherfuckers. We will kill you. Every one of you. Believe it. #JeSuisCharlie
— Claire Berlinski (@ClaireBerlinski) January 7, 2015Bloodshed - The Price Politicians Will Pay To Impose Multi-Culturalism............From Daniel Thomas
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The atrocity in Paris carried out by radical Muslims in the name of Allah the Merciful as commanded by their prophet Mohammad (Peace Be Upon Him?) and as written in their holy book the Koran, will be forgotten as soon as the news cycle moves on.
This has been the case with previous atrocities such as the London Transport and Madrid train bombings, the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby on a London street, the Nairobi shopping mall massacre etc. Even the murders last month in the Lindt Chocolate Cafe in Sydney Australia, which caused outrage and condemnation at the time, is disappearing into the fog of yesterday's news.
Just like night follows day the politicians have been falling over themselves to deliver the standard statements prepared by their spin doctors and media managers expressing their outrage, their sympathy for the families of the victims, together with the usual promise to leave no stone unturned in order to bring the perpetrators to justice.
On horrific occasions such as this they deliberately refrain from using that other standard soundbite of "lessons have been learned" for the simple reason that the lessons have been there for decades but they choose to ignore them for fear of putting their cultural replacement agenda in jeopardy.
The solution to radical Islam and its murderous actions is further away than ever. Whatever promises the politicians and the government-media axis manufacture in the aftermath of the Paris tragedy, nothing will change.
Past experience has shown us that there will be no serious attempt to effectively deal with radical Islam in Great Britain, they will brazen it out until the news cycle moves on then it will be business as usual.
Anyone following the statements and policies of British Prime Minister David Cameron cannot fail to notice that he is totally committed to the European Union together with its requirement to replace British culture and its way of life with a so called 'multi-cultural society'.
It's the same with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande and the rest of the European Union leadership. They are committed to the post war project to replace the sovereign nation states of Europe with a post democratic United States of Europe; this includes the creation of a generic European citizen.
A generic European citizen is not possible with twenty seven or so individual cultures and ways of life, therefore they must all be erased and replaced by artificially constructed 'multi-cultural societies'.
Why they have chosen Muslims to be the battering ram for the destruction of the individual cultures is open to speculation but it is indisputable that its been spectacularly effective. The demise of Sweden, Belgium and the Netherlands, to name but three, into third world countries dominated by Muslims demanding shariah, is a testament to this fact.
Regardless of their incompatibility, and without consulting the people, the British political class encouraged mass immigration from backward third world Muslim countries knowing full well they would not integrate and adopt the British values or way of life. On the contrary they were actively encouraged not to integrate.
Consequently the country is blighted with thousands of autonomous Muslim ghettos where the Queens writ does not run. Rather, they are ruled by imams and tribal elders under shariah law. These are breeding grounds for the radical jihadis that we see today committing acts of medieval barbarism and depravity across Africa, the Middle East, Europe and the British mainland itself.
The political class were aware that mass immigration alone would not be enough to impose multi-culturalism, therefore it was supplemented by a policy of rigidly policed political correctness and oppressive laws that shutdown debate through intimidation and smear.
To the detriment of the indigenous population, this was further supplemented by selective application of current laws based on ethnicity and cultural requirements.
If one looks back at previous outrages and the lack of effective action by the political class, a clear pattern emerges which proves the point that no action will be taken that would put the imposition of 'multi-culturalism' in jeopardy.
A list of global terrorist outrages can be found here but we only need to highlight a few to prove the point:
The Madrid train bombings in 2004 which killed 191 and wounded 1800. Despite the predictable faux outrage, crocodile tears for the victims and promises to bring the perpetrators to justice, there was no effective action by the British government to prevent a similar outrage being committed in London.
The London Transport bombings in 2005 which killed 53 and injured 700 were carried out by British sons of Pakistani immigrants and a Jamaican convert.
Despite the now familiar spin doctor authored media statement, no action was taken by the British government to prevent further outrages or to prevent the radicalisation of young Muslims. These sub-human savages were born and bred in Great Britain, attended British schools, used the NHS and watched the BBC much like any other British kid.
They were obviously radicalised in a mosque or madrassa within one of the aforementioned ghettos. Anyone who had the safety of the British people as a priority would have a moratorium on immigration from the backward villages of Pakistan and would close down the mosques and madrassas.
The political class does not have the safety of the British people at heart. Imposing multi-culturalism is their number one priority, therefore immigration from Pakistan continues unabated with the construction of mosques and madrassas throughout the land on the increase.
The London Transport bombers in 2005 where, due to incompetence, there were no fatalities or injuries. The bombers were immigrants from Somalia, Ethiopia and Eritrea and in the case of one, he was granted a British passport despite a record of sexual assault and violent crime.
Immigration from Somalia, Ethiopia and Eritrea continues unabated and as far as I know the mosques they attended and the imams that preach hate are still in operation.
Finally the horrific 2013 killing of soldier Lee Rigby was carried out on a London street by two sub-humans of Nigerian descent. These were radicalised in British mosques and madrassas and one at least was a disciple of the notorious hate preacher Anjem 'Andy' Choudary.
Immigration from Nigeria also continues unabated and the guilty mosques and madrassas with their imams and hate preachers remain in business. Choudary is still on the streets peddling his hate, even giving tacit support to the Paris gunmen.
In the meantime Paul Weston was arrested for quoting Sir Winston Churchill in public, while two hundred thousand people were prosecuted for the crime of watching television without a licence.
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The government has no idea how many British documented jihadis are abroad mutilating and killing innocents as well as honing their terrorist skills in readiness for mayhem and murder on their return 'home'.
It beggars belief that the government is planning to welcome back any jihadi who returns from their beloved Islamic State "with good intentions". It would appear that a diversity course and some kind of community punishment will wipe the slate clean.
The facts are stark and potentially disastrous for the British people. Their government is far more committed to imposing 'multi-culturalism' than protecting them from their most valued client group.
Not only have the politicians been ignoring the warning signs for over a decade, the jihadis have also telegraphed in advance their intention to cause bloodshed in Great Britain to further their aim of extending the caliphate and imposing shariah law.
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The British government will pay lip service but they will not take the drastic measures necessary to protect their constituents from Muslim violence. Their dedication to political correctness and imposing an unwanted and unasked for 'multi-cultural society' gives one the impression that they are just as fanatical as the group they go to such lengths to protect.
I would say in conclusion that there is no more a debilitating sight than watching hypocrites like Ban Ki-moon, David Cameron, Angela Merkel, Francois Hollande, the EU bureaucrats and the rest of the sanctimonious purveyors of socialist/progressive, self loathing, multi-culturalism pretending they are part of the Je Suis Charlie movement, when they opposed, intimidated and smeared anyone who raised a voice in dissent of mass immigration, jihad and radical Islam.
Busty Jessica Chastain Looks Extraordinarily Hot as Awards Season Opens Up
Man, she was great in "Zero Dark Thirty," but I don't recall that movie showcasing this woman's ginormous breasts!
Sheesh. Her tits are absolutely phenomenal.
Here: "Jessica Chastain 'simply doesn’t get enough mention among the gentleman ogling set..."
No doubt. She's got a boosting rack.
Jew-haters and Jihadists Are Pointing Us in the Wrong Direction......................from Dan Friedman
"Apartheid" Israel and the" Occupation" are red herrings designed to throw us off the scent left behind by the enemies of liberal democracies and Western society. Thank G-d America and Americans are still in Israel's corner, notwithstanding six years of Barack Hussein Obama. But what of our friends the Europeans? They seem to remain in the dark and show little willingness to break out.
How many more bloody jihadist attacks – and candlelight vigils - will it take before our side comes to grips with who our real enemies are and how to defeat them? Sadly, the answer to that question appears to be "as many as we need to finally wake up." And with all that’s transpired between 9/11 and the Parisian massacre, we're not there yet.
As of Wednesday, we now know without a shadow of a doubt the pariah nation is not the State of Israel. Better to turn our attention to the boiling cauldrons of the Islamic Ummah and the latter-day caliphates, that is, if we decide to survive as a civilization.
Late News...............
We Are Charlie: Free Speech v. Self-Censorship
Zulu Cobra — the Bell AH-1Z Viper is most revolutionary
French weekly has history of angering Muslims with cartoons
Idiotic leftist responses to Charlie Hebdo #3
Go East, Young Man: US Closes Bases In Western Europe, Builds Up In East
In 2012, White House Criticized Cartoonists
Labor Secretary Perez Finds Obama’s Agenda in Bible, Koran, Torah
It’s Kim Jong-un’s birthday, but North Korea’s not celebrating
Chinese Communist Party officials in hot water over their luxury wardrobes
Iran deploys ‘real Iron Dome’ missile defense system
Paris shooting: French far-right leader Le Pen calls for death penalty
Worthless words of Western Leaders will never stop terrorism
6 Times The Obama Administration Said Its Job Was to Promote Islam
"Sad People Don't Fight"...................from Dan Friedman
[This was forwarded to me by a comrade-in-arms and righteous gentile. df]
Charlie Hebdo: sad people don't fight
by Don
An old friend, a linguist who follows the original-language versions of the European press, asked me if I was saddened at the terror attack on Charlie Hebdo in France yesterday. My response:
Hello X,
Not just saddened, angry.
The world press made it clear they want us sad. Sad people don't fight. Mad people do.
I am mad.
Mad because no attempt has been made for years to vet new immigrants in Europe, many of whom are "clandestine" and most are Muslims who despise Western ways. As in the US, the authorities there no longer seriously enforce immigration laws. Now while it is true that the folks at Charlie Hebdo were really brave and told the truth about Islam, the press that celebrates their martyrdom is anything but brave. The French press doesn't dare call them Muslims when they burn cars, referring to them instead as "jeunes." But the fact that young people burn cars is immaterial. It makes people sad, whereas Muslims burning cars would make people mad. Mad at the people who imported these "refugees," knowing they wouldn't fit in and would despise their hosts.
When Muslims misbehave in England, journalists call them "Asians." Yet you can spend years in China, for example, and never see violent riots in the streets. In fact, most rioters in the UK are Pakistanis, but that is too specific a word and might cause people to get angry because they know most Pakis there are Muslims, imported by the UK and EU oligarchs against the will of the people, who have no say in their "democratic" government.
"Democracy" has a fresh new definition throughout the West. In Ukraine, our oligarchs told us that an armed mutiny and the slaughter of police officers in a duly elected government was democracy in action. In Holland, over 50% of the Dutch agree with Geert Wilders that there needs to be a moratorium on immigration of Moroccans because these people are vastly over-represented in violent crime and rape statistics and in welfare receipt. But the "democratic" government says this majority supporting Geert is undemocratic. "Democracy," you see, is not what the people want but what the elites think they should want. They also call him a far right winger and say he is racist, thereby establishing a false association with Hitler, and yet, Wilders is one of the only pols in Europe who unabashedly support Israel even as the elites suggest Israel is solely responsible for all the violence in the Middle East.
Take a look at the European response to terror: protest marches, slogans, placards, candles. You'd think they were celebrating a holiday or someone's birthday.
The car burners and killers are paying no attention. They're cleaning their machine guns and making bombs. They know the elites have got their back.
You wonder why I'm mad and not just sad? French Jews have been targeted by these same Muslim terror groups in the past and no one went into the street to protest.
I urge everyone to take a good close look at what is happening to Jews all over Europe. They have been leaving in droves. You can hate Christians all you want but good Christians protect the Jews! If you don't believe me, see the historical movie "The White Rose". Now let me ask you this. Do you know anyone like Sofie Scholl today? Where are they? Who is standing up to the Musli-coddling Jew-hating bullies in France, the UK, Ukraine, the USA? Why "good" people there are applauding the hate, even joining in, as if Jews in Yarmulkes were slicing throats in Palestine and shouting "G-d be praised" while holding the severed heads aloft.
We thought it all ended with Hitler in his bunker. Yet a few days ago a group of Neonazis marched in Kiev in a kind of mad seance to return the spirit of Bandera, a Nazi who helped Hitler kill Jews and others in Ukraine. That is the sad part. These were the people the US and the EU supported at the Maidan. That is the mad part. Our esteemed Senator McCain did a photo-op with famous fascist Oleh Tyrahnybok, whom the Simon Wiesenthal Centre calls one of the 10 most dangerous anti-Semites in the world! Did any of you notice or care? Merkel, the modern day successor of Chancellor Hitler, sent her foreign minister to meet with Oleh.
Jews aren't just themselves. They are the canary in the coal mine. What happens to them happens to the rest of us sooner or later.
What in hell is happening to us anyway? When I was in Germany, I constantly saw articles in periodicals discussing Vergangenheitsbewältigung -- dealing with the past. And the general impression was that anti-Semitism was under control and Nazism would never return in Germany. But remember how cozy Hitler was with the Grand Mufti? In case you don't, it's reported here.
The Mufti sent Hitler 20,000 fighters to help kill Serbs, Jews and Roma in Yugoslavia. (The US government carried on the tradition win the Kosovo War).
Meanwhile, the West's only response to yesterday's massacres is to clearly let terrorists everywhere know that all they have to fear is marches and placards and politicians repeating the catechistic words "we condemn these actions." None will step up to the plate and recommend a moratorium on immigration from terror exporting countries.
It is going to get nasty before it gets better. Just mouthing "Je suis Charlie Hebdo" won't make one French person safer tonight. It is eerily reminiscent of the "bring back our girls" protest over the massive Boko Haram kidnappings. No one has seen any of those girls since then, except in photos wearing black garb and seated obediently before their rapist kidnappers. And Boko Haram keeps on attacking because the major world powers, which had the guns and wherewithal to go after the bad guys, didn't. The outrage was all a diversion and a diversion is only a preparation for the next, bolder, attack.
And then the placards will get bigger, more candles will be lit, more of the politicians responsible for the importation of these killers, will be faux outraged and the slogans will get more clever.
And the police and troops will obediently stand down as usual.
Why?
Because you're not mad. You're sad,
And sad people don't fight.
Unvarnished Truths About The Terrorist Attack In Paris
The terrorist attack on a French
newspaper has the world reeling as French police continue the search for two of
the jihadists that carried out the brutal attack. The cartoonist that was
killed over his depictions of the prophet Muhammad is being hailed as a hero by
many in the media, and French citizens have taken to the streets in mass in
anti-Islamic protests. As these events continue, there are some hard facts
about this attack that we must not ignore. (continue reading)
Failed leadership de Blasio-style...from TPC
Has Mayor Bill de Blasio failed in his role as the leader of New York City?
An article I read this morning leads me to further believe that the answer is a resounding yes!
Read at HAS here.
Sixty Abandoned Classic Cars Found In French Barn, 2014 Barn Find!
Roger Baillon was a french transport business owner collecting classic cars in the early days, planning to start a museum with the cars. But things didn't go as planned, his business went down in the 70's making him sell 50 cars to pay the bills.. The other 70 cars were put in the scrappy storage for 50 years to be found again in 2014. The cars will be auctioned off in February 2015 by the french auction house Arcturial
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Surprise: Worst Binge Drinkers Are Middle-Aged White Guys
Why Colds Are More Common in the Cold
Stockbroker Loses Job Over Hit-and-Run 'Joke'
Cops: Son Shot Hedge-Fund Dad Over Allowance Cut
A Tribute to Charlie Hebdo
How US Special Forces Uses Google Maps
Here’s Why Security Cameras Were No Help In Capturing Paris Terrorists
Keep calm and carry on
A Revolutionary Speech Ignored by the MSM
Mosques on the front lines in the war against America
Obama’s $15.56 Billion Deception
Will China Change its South China Sea Approach in 2015?
First new antibiotic in 30 years discovered in major breakthrough
RAF Mildenhall to close amid other Europe consolidations
Charlie Hebdo attack a taste of things to come for liberal and not-so-liberal Europe
War Risk Rises in Middle East
We Are Charlie: Free Speech v. Self-Censorship
No more dead cops!
Andrew Klavan: Republicans Are Smarter than Democrats - and More Liberal
In which our host knocks down some of the myths surrounding Republicans and presents instead the Revolting Truth that they are smarter, kinder, more compassionate and more liberal than their Democrat counterparts.
NRA All Access Web Clip - Theresa Vail
Meet soldier, marksman and 2013 Miss Kansas Theresa Vail. She breaks the stereotypes of women and the outdoors, and shares with us how her passion for the outdoor world helped shape her life.
H/T Doverthere
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War on Freedom: France's Worst Terrorist Attack in a Generation Leaves 12 Dead and Shocks the World
Kate Moss, Still Flaunting It at Forty, for Vogue Italia
She's flaunting it alright.
Indeed, she takes it all off for the Italian fashion mag.
See: "Sizzling Pert Totty Kate Moss Goes All Out for Vogue Italia."
Full, tight pert breasts. Still a smokin' hot chick.
Wednesday, 7 January 2015
GRAPHIC: Police Officer Shot During Terrorist Attack at #CharlieHebdo (VIDEO)
GRAPHIC WARNING!
Here: "Paris Policeman Begs for Mercy Before Shot in Head at Point Blank Range #CharlieHebdo (VIDEO)."
Check back for more Charlie Hebdo coverage throughout the night.
Louie and the Latvians.................from Rico
Just about every day (unless it's raining) Louie takes me for a walk along the waterfront at Crystal Beach and in the adjacent park under the oak trees dripping with Spanish moss. It's just minutes from my place.
- When he decides HE has had quite enough of that, HE will select a bench and will jump up onto it to signal HIS desire to rest. No problemo, on a sunny day I can happily sit and look out at the sailboats and enjoy the breeze off the Gulf right along with him.
- And besides, it's a GOOD day when this old man can tire out the puppy instead of the other way around.
We have met countless new doggie friends in our visits, and some human ones too. [The locals call this 'the dog beach.']
This past Monday we met two Latvian ladies who were enjoying the park, and who took quite a 'shine' to Louie.
- They eventually, albeit grudgingly, forgave my thickly German-accented Russian, thanks solely to his good looks.
Attached is the pic they took of him for me. [Whenever I try and take his pic, he 'senses' the camera and turns his backside to me. No comments needed re: how richly I deserve that ignominy, thank you very much. For whatever reason, he did not 'suspect' them or their smartphone of any mischief. Voila! A pic of Louie.]
Late News................
Former New Black Panther Leader: ‘We Know They Are Gonna Be Killing Some People in 2015′
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Op-Ed: Freshman Texas Congressman Chokes on First Vote, 'Present' for Boehner
First bill to defund immigration executive actions introduced in House
A weapon Israel refuses to use
Biden: 'I May Be Irish But I'm Not Stupid'
Murderous Nazi super cows turned into sausages
National Review: Don't Blame the Charlie Hebdo Mass Murder on 'Extremism'
Exclusive - Sharyl Attkisson on DOJ Lawsuit: 'No Outrage About the Intrusion' from Media
Liberals Can't Erase Reagan's Record
The Real Cause Of Low Oil Prices: Interview With Arthur Berman
Counter Terrorism and Security Bill-Sir Bill Cash
Obama Condemns Paris Tragedy, Heads for the Links
Obama Call Paris Attack “Terrorism,” But Won’t Say “Islamist”
Canada pledges to accept 13,000 more refugees from Syria and Iraq. Don't do it
China Leads Race to the Moon
Can the Afghan Army Prevail on the Battlefield?
How swan-derful! Trapped cygnet comforted by its mother for two days as she pines for the bird's release
Traffic police in the Philippines ordered to wear nappies for Pope visit
The 25 who stood against the Obama-Boehner Chess game should form their own party
Doctor Did Abortion on 16-Year-Old Girl and Then Raped Her
Liability concerns leave cities uneasy as sledders whoosh down snow-covered slopes
Paris Terror Attack: "Workplace Violence?"....................from Dan Friedman
[Sooner or later everyone in the West will be obliged to name our common enemy. All the dim-witted euphemisms, weasels and evasions spouted by our leaders and media will not be able to hold back the truth: We are under siege by the barbaric side of Islam, which as it now stands is the only dynamic force in the otherwise moribund Muslim world. And it’s coming to a neighborhood near you. df]
Paris: 3 steps and a question...................from M Kohl
Step 1: Never cease to stress the paramount importance of a multi-cultural, diverse, tolerant society as the one and only way towards the future. Be politically correct, always and at all times. Continue to emphasize the high importance of harmonious co-existence with the 'Religion of Peace'. Conduct a policy of strong appeasement towards Islam. Silence any opposing views, ostracize their advocates.
Step 2: Wake up. Face reality (yes, it's a nightmare). Accept the consequences.
Step 3: Conduct a 'Lessons Learned' session and re-evaluate your attitude and your behaviour (see 1.) However, I doubt this will happen.
Question: Who is next? When is it our turn in Germany? Whose turn is it then?
Only recently the thousands of PEGIDA* demonstrators were labeled 'racist' by the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel; just for daring to show their concerns about the future of our nation.
The German Minister of Interior announced this evening that he has ordered the YouTube video of the Paris bloodbath to be deleted in order 'not to heat up the situation'.
"If you surrender liberty to gain more security you deserve neither"
Yours aye,
Martin K.
* PEGIDA = Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamic Subversion of the Occident
Junior and the Cops - Wild Bill
Do American cops really need more training? Or does Junior need better upbringing?
Dislike lawyers? Here's a list of 10 more reasons why!...from TPC
You hear the joke about what 100 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean are called?
This article contains a list that will remind you why lawyers have such a bad reputation!
Read at LI here.
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Islam Kills Again
By Alan Caruba
The news from Paris about the killing
of twelve journalists highlights Islam's war on the West that represents a
fundamental truth about this cult of Mohammad.
Most are familiar with the Islamic
schism between the majority Sunnis and the minority Shiites. It dates back to
the very earliest days of Islam when the two groups disagreed over who should be
the successor to Mohammad.
There is a new schism in Islam these
days and it is between a moderate interpretation of Islam and fundamentalism. We
have all seen what fundamentalism produces.
The past year had dramatic and tragic
slaughters by the Islamic State (ISIS) in the Syrian-Iraqi area they control,
the murder of more than 140 school children in Pakistan by the Taliban, and the
kidnapping of 276 girls by Boko Haram in Nigeria. These acts represent a strict
interpretation of Shia law based on the Koran.
That is why an address by Egyptian
President, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, on New Year’s Day to clerics at Al-Azhar
and the Awqaf Ministry is particularly significant. As reported by Raymond
Ibrahim of the Middle East Forum, Sisi “a vocal supporter for a renewed vision
of Islam, made what must be his most forceful and impassioned plea to
date.”
His speech was a warning that “the
corpus of (Islamic) texts and ideas that we have made sacred over the years” are
“antagonizing the entire world.”
Referring to the 1.6 billion Muslims,
Sisi said it is not possible that they “should want to kill the rest of the
world’s inhabitants—that is 7 billion—so that they themselves may live.” Islam,
said Sisi “is being torn, it is being destroyed, it is being lost—and it is
being lost by our own hands.”
I cannot recall any other Islamic
leader saying anything this bold and this true. Directly addressing the clerics,
Sisi said “It’s inconceivable that the thinking that we hold most sacred should
cause the entire umma (Islamic world)
to be a source of anxiety, danger, killing and destruction for the rest of the
world.” That is, of course, exactly what has been
occurring.
Sisi called for “a religious
revolution”, what Christians would call a reformation. “You, imams, are
responsible before Allah. The entire world is waiting for your next
move…”
Based on negotiations led by the U.S.,
the world is waiting to see what Iran, the home of the Islamic Revolution—the
name given to the ayatollah’s movement that overthrew the Shah in 1979—will do
in the face of demands that it cease its quest to produce its own nuclear
weapons.
You don’t have to be a U.S. diplomat
to know the answer to that. As Behnam Ben Taleblu of the Foundation for Defense
of Democracies recently wrote, for decades the Iranian leadership has referred
to “American Islam”, a term that describes what Iran “perceives to be a
depoliticized perversion of the true faith, devoid of the revolutionary
sentiment that guides the Islamic Republic.” Calling it “American” demonstrates
their contempt for everything American.
The Iranians even apply the term to
Muslim nations “deemed pliant before the will of superpowers like the United
States.” In their view, they are the champions of “the pure Islam of Mohammad.”
The Iranians are Shiites. As such, they are a minority sect within Islam, though
a large one by any standard.
Those U.S. diplomats negotiating to
get Iran to agree to cease pursuing the ability to construct their own nuclear
weapons should read the memoirs of Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran’s foreign minister
and lead nuclear negotiator. As Taleblu notes, Zarif has a PhD from an American
university, but he still wrote “We have a fundamental problem with the West and
especially with America. This is because we are claimants of a mission, which
has a global dimension.”
That mission is to impose Islam—their
fundamental brand of it—on the entire world. That would get easier if they can
threaten the world with nuclear weapons. Iran has been the leading sponsor of
Islamic terror since its revolution in 1979.
The gap between Egyptian President
Sisi’s concerns about the state of Islam today and the intention of
fundamentalists like Zarif are a capsule version of what is occurring among
Muslims throughout the world.
Islam is not inclined toward any form
of modernity and most certainly not toward any form of personal freedom so the
world has to remain watchful and, at this point, far less inclined to give its
terrorists a pass with the claim they do not represent
Islam.
© Alan Caruba, 2015
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