Muslim Musings
A muslim, apparently a converted one from the name, was just awarded 2 million bucks for having a fingerprint similar to a Madrid bombers. “A misidentified fingerprint cost federal taxpayers $2 million Wednesday and led to an unusual formal apology to Brandon Mayfield, a Muslim lawyer in Oregon whom the FBI says it wrongly named as a suspect in the 2004 Madrid train bombings.”
He and his family apparently put up with a lot of hassle over the error. He still intends to proceed with a legal challenge to the Patriot Act. “I look forward to the day the Patriot Act is declared unconstitutional and all citizens are safe from unwarranted arrest and searches by the federal government”.
Right. And muslims can then proceed to attack our foundations with greater vigor. Nice guy, great attitude.
Moving on, I’d previously posted on the Popes visit to Turkey that he was not out to help them get into the EU. Then I heard he’d recommended that they be let in, to my chagrin.
This evening the news comes out that the EU has all but denied their entry and my first impression seems to have been the correct one. As a head of state, he surely had advance warning that Turkey was going to be denied, and he was then safe to offer a reversal of his previous position as a goodwill gesture.
So I take it back. He doesn’t have Alzheimers. He’s a very clever fellow.
As for the Turks, they may be secular but their secular isn’t the same as everyone else’s secular. They’re steadily and inexorably pushing the Orthodox Church out of Turkey. The government gives perks to Islamic churches and oppresses the others. The people are 99% Islamic and want to make it 100%. They refuse to give the various recognitions to other states, territorial rights and so on that everyone else gives. Like Cyprus, for instance. There are 8 sticking points, out of 35 that the EU uses to determine membership eligibility, that have halted Turkeys admission.
The current members of the EU have been having so many severe problems with the muslims already in their countries that the idea of adding a nation of all muslims that has proven to be just as unwilling to cooperate as the muslim populations they have now, does not set well. I would say that Turkeys chances of joining are approacing nil.
If it becomes clear that membership has been refused, Turkey may turn in on itself. Its government has been drifting away from secularism and towards Sharia law, and there’s a strong fundamentalist movement rising. I don’t think the majority of Turks want an Islamic government destroying their freedom, but too often, what the majority wants is never what the majority gets. Pub Philosopher has a long and interesting article on this from the British perspective.
Irans pig-eyed president Ahmadinejad has sent us Yanks a letter. Somehow I don’t feel honored at being called a “noble American” by an insane savage. He wants to tell us how we should run our country, and really, you know, he should come over here and give it a shot personally. While he’s doing it, perhaps a few of us could give him a shot. Maybe a few hundred shots. Then run over what’s left with a tractor.
Just out: The Iraq committee has recommended pulling back the troops. When, where to and how many, they aren’t saying. Next week for that.
November 30th, 2006 at 9:44 pm
Thanks god for that! We need them 70 million holes in the head.
December 1st, 2006 at 3:18 am
The last report I read, the majority of Turks do not want in the EU any longer. They did for a time, but the percentage has gone down drastically. I think you are right, their secular is not the same as our version of secular. They will turn to sharia soon. They are hanging by a thread right now.
I thought you would be interested in this:
http://airforcepundit.blogspot.com/2006/11/blood-and-oil.html
December 1st, 2006 at 3:59 am
Check this out Rasta,abit long but my TM phrase has gone global
http://www.spectator.co.uk/printer-friendly/26719/apocalypse-on-the-us-blogosphere.thtml
December 1st, 2006 at 6:23 am
Yep Debbie, we’re not alone in our view. That was well written. I would be happy to see the Turks become secular enough to grant religious freedom to the various other faiths there but considering that the place is run by muslims, I guess there’s not much chance of that.
Hellpig, Selbournes article seems to me a ranting attack on all us bloggers. Correct me if I’m wrong.
I guess he doesn’t care for so much emotion. Considering he’s the author of “The Losing Battle with Islam”, I take it he’d rather lay down than choose a side. He does have a point that *some* bloggers get very outspoken, only he makes it sound like there’s this huge dark side of blogging, that just isn’t there in reality.
And…I don’t believe we’re going to lose the battle with Islam.
December 1st, 2006 at 2:33 pm
In terms of Turkey’s history with Islamic leadership, they actually should be something of a model for you. Their military rejected Islamic leadership at the barrel of a gun, seeing it would be the downfall of their country. Their leaders today may not be so gung ho about it as they were a hundred years ago, but it’s actually an interesting and insightful story about how a country in the middle east can, to some degree, turn itself around.
December 1st, 2006 at 2:35 pm
Nor do I Rasta,yeah he is a whinning UK Liberal for sure,I just liked the phrase Nuke Mecca.I knew I should have had it copywriten or TM..cause I know I was the first to coin the phrase,in fact he probly got it from one of my posts somewhere.
December 1st, 2006 at 4:21 pm
It’s more than just a phrase, it’s an IDEA.
Hell, it could even become a MOVEMENT. Imagine, millions of people, marching 40 abreast, swelling the highways and byways of America, stomping their feet in a cadence that shakes the Earth and is felt from pole to pole:
Nuke Mecca! Nuke Mecca! Oh man. I’m inspired.
Yeah yeah, ok, so I get carried away. I still like the idea of nuking Mecca.
December 2nd, 2006 at 12:00 am
It’s like the opposite of Alice’s Restaurant:
“You know, if
one person, just one person does it they may think he’s really sick and
they won’t take him. And if two people, two people do it, in harmony,
they may think they’re both faggots and they won’t take either of them.
And three people do it, three, can you imagine, three people walking in
singin a bar of Alice’s Restaurant and walking out. They may think it’s an
organization. And can you, can you imagine fifty people a day,I said
fifty people a day walking in singin a bar of Alice’s Restaurant and
walking out. And friends they may thinks it’s a movement.”
December 2nd, 2006 at 8:56 am
Trab Pu Kcip, you are the self loathing kind of liberal, which gives us nationalists that extra bit of motivation to wipe you media-obeying, self-absorbed, lemmings off the face this planet.
And Hellpig, every indignous British man woman and child would like to see hiroshima style explosions on every mosque in this country. And for your information; I see just as many whinning US Liberals out there as “whinning UK Liberals” causing the same condescending effect on both of our nations. We are fighting the same war, except Europe are the primary target who are more than willing to be walked over.
I have the feeling that the US may not take the Islamic conquest no where nearly as politely as us, but you guys have just as many (if not more) cancerous inside enemies as the UK; ie: the ACLU.
And I think that the “whinning UK Liberal” called Trab Pu Kcip is probably an American not a Brit. I Hope he’s not anyway; Englands got enough to be ashamed of in this day and age without having to accomodate scum like him.