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My Old Man [which is what we called my dad] was I guess what’s known as a ‘character’. If I need to illustrate his totally self centred beingness, I tell of one evening about 1953, we were watching a show on TV with Bing Crosby singing some song or other, and he remarked, “You know, unfortunately for Bing, I’ve never liked him”. He was also a story teller, aka a liar. He would lie sometimes for no apparent reason or advantage. The family solicitor, [lawyer] called him the most convincing liar he’d ever met. My mom on the other hand was as honest as Jesus himself, she would tell by way of example of ‘proper’ behaviour, of her father of whom it was said, ‘He is transparently honest’. So, genetics aside, I and my brothers, as their offspring had a choice as to which example to follow.
My dad’s mother who died when he was twelve was Spanish. This is her in 1908 with my one year old papa.

Next a pic taken in Deal which I have mentioned before, a seaside town in Kent on the south east corner of England, the skinny 12 year old in the dark school blazer is yours truly and the other boy is my brother, two years younger to the day than I.

One more and I’ll get to the point, my dad at 49.

OK, so my grandmother looks Spanish as does my dad but do you see a Middle Eastern look too, aka Arab Muslim? Given that Spain was occupied by them for several hundred years there must have been much interbreeding. Now connect Mohammed’s commands that it’s OK to lie and deceive for Allah, as in the case of a Hudna, which is a ceasefire only because they would be losing and it buys time to re-group to renew hostilities later. All that didn’t come from out of the blue, despite what Mohammed may tell you, it must have been normal practise for the Arabs for as long as they’ve been around, it was part of their genetic code so for Muhammed it was just part of the culture, nothing unusual. This is in part idle speculation and part accepting that there maybe some truth in it and given by dad’s penchant for lying could it have been part of his genetic code.?

Finally I come to this article
from Standpoint:

Imaginary Islamist Think-Tanks
ROBIN SIMCOX
March 2009

Despite what the pessimists say, there is one industry that is still flourishing in the UK. It consists of Islamists establishing their own think-tanks and pressure groups. They serve little purpose other than to bestow legitimacy upon ill-informed, extremist Muslim speakers, who can then attend conferences and get media access under the façade of expertise.

This is a surprisingly easy bandwagon to jump on. Come up with an intellectual-sounding name for your organisation, buy a website domain and give yourself an impressive-sounding job title. This was the route taken by Hamas cheerleader Azzam Tamimi. He recently addressed the prestigious UK Defence Academy, is a regular contributor to the Guardian website, and once told the BBC that suicide bombing in Palestine “is the straight way to pleasing my God and I would do it if I had the opportunity”. He describes himself as Director of the Institute of Islamic Political Thought (IIPT). The domain registered to the IIPT says it has a website “coming soon” (it has been coming since 2007), but meanwhile offers you the chance to download Tamimi’s CV. What exactly it is that he is meant to be directing remains unclear. What is beyond doubt is that Tamimi uses the IIPT to try to couch his views in an aura of academic respectability.

Then there is Anjem Choudary, former leader of the banned extremist group Al-Muhajiroun, who according to CNN called the 9/11 terrorist attacks “magnificent” and boasted that “the black flag of Shariah will fly over Downing Street”. Choudary was a regular on the BBC in the wake of 7/7, last year spoke at the National Liberal Club on the need for Sharia in the UK, and calls himself a Principal Lecturer at the London School of Shariah. This consists of Choudary driving around east London trying to find people to preach his version of Sharia to. It is probably the first, and only, school in the world to be based in the back of a van.

I wonder when the left, Academe, the MSM, Obama, all the usual suspects are going to factor this into their dealings with Islam.

Either there is a glitch in the comments or I’ve been banned from Still Muttering, I hope it’s the former. Kinda sad when that happens, I think you should be able to battle these things out or what’s the point in us having language? And just when I was being a bit conciliatory! Rather than waste my comment, I’ll post it here.

I think we all piled in on you a bit on this one so this is just to say sorry for taking you to task so much but also to point you to a post by the one and only Dr. Sanity who I respect immensely. A number of times over the last year I’ve been met with complete incredulity by lefty acquaintances when I’ve stated that Obama is not very smart. [Well I'd put it a little more strongly than that] They’d cite for instance his editorship of the Harvard Review while missing that there is nothing written by him contained therein. And so it is with everything in his life, from his birth certificate, his high school grades and university results to his voting record in the Senate. They might cite his two well received memoirs while missing what might prompt one so young to think he’s important enough to write them and of course not knowing that they were in fact ghost written by Bill Ayers the well known terrorist. So it’s good to see this from Dr. Sanity:

“Ledeen calls Obama’s foreign policy team “a bunch of elitist snobs.” I would refer to them as morally and intellectually bankrupt–because that is what the Democrats with their “progressive” leftist ideology have evolved into. The leftist ideologue now in the White House thinks of himself as a ‘pragmatist’, but frankly, for all his education and glibness, he’s an idiot;”

This is the man in the White House for the next four years [except for the times when he's 'tired of it' and escapes for a while] and that is why the likes of me and Zee and many others are freaking out a bit, not because we’re ordinarily excitable or raving right wing rednecks but because we truly think what is happening is frightening.
I hope you’ll read the Melanie Phillips article I linked to, she says it much better than I.

Update. Reality check.

What other kind is there anymore……

The Peoples Cube

Q: How many Obama voters does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: None. Hoping that it would change is quite enough.

Q: How many autoworkers does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: 17 at GM, Ford and Chrysler; 1 at Honda, Hyundai and Toyota.

Q: How many Chicago pols does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: F— you, what am I gettin’ outta this?

Q: How many Democrats does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: It’s burnt out on the Republican side, so we’re not changing it.

Q: How many MSM journalists does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: No need, Obama is the Light.

Thoughts on the Operation

I saw lies. The world is already trying to fault Israel, telling everyone that civilians died here, and Israelis murdered there, But I was there. My feet were on the ground and I saw the truth. I saw that warnings were given, I saw the enemy that fought us. I saw the twelve year olds with missiles and RPGs strapped to their backs. I saw that it was with sadness and great anger Israeli troops saw the need to fire on people who crossed the red line, the danger zone which meant they saw us, and knew where they were. Old people mined with bombs, children armed with detonators, tunnels that opened in the ground to swallow soldiers of ours.

I watched my commanders passing out all of our food to the children who were taken prisoner. I received the commands “closed to fire on the right” if our intelligence had reported civilians in the area. I watched us, more often then not, taking cover when supposed civilian positions fired on us from the right. Yet the world thinks it can bend the truth. We were not allowed to fire on schools. We were told not to loot. We watched in anger as our bombs, so as not to fall on large civilian centers, fell on our own troops, so that we could tell the world we were attempting to scare the enemy while limiting civilian losses. Yet they won’t say that in the press.

I saw cowardice. We listened with concern when Hamas threatened to use snipers and bombs on us, to fight us every step of the way with their fifteen thousand man army, and we watched videos of full brigades parading, waving their weapons and threatening Israel. But as we invaded, they fled. They would attack in small groups, hit us with missiles and sniper fire, and then flee. The ‘warriors’ of Hamas were brave when their rockets fell unanswered on the schools of children and the homes of elderly, but they did not stand when the enemy called them up to answer for their crimes.

I saw miracles. Rockets that blazed past our houses, bullets that scarred the outside of windows we were watching from. A unit near ours that was walking in had RPGs pass straight between their ranks without hitting a single soldier. Mines that didn’t explode, mortar rounds that landed next to friends that didn’t explode. RPGs that blazed into the earthen barrier directly in front of our APC, detonating before penetration. The night walk through a neighborhood that wasn’t on the map, that was full of snipers and mines, according to reports, that we walked through unawares, by accident, without harm or incident. And that was just a taste of what we knew.
( Continue reading… Thoughts On The  Operation)

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The bulletin posted below is reproduced in full from the Political Islam newsletter. I highly recommend clicking that link and making it a regular read. Political Islam’s Bill Warner was a guest on Always on Watch yesterday, providing an hour packed solid with analysis and information, though all of it unnerving. All the more so given the white flag obama has raised to the muslim world. As Bill comments near the end of the show, he fears our present government more than he does the islamists.

The term “antisemitism” just doesn’t cut it. It sounds so innocuous. What is emerging represents centuries of enmity erupting again, a mere 60 years after the Holocaust, the holocaust that Ahmadinejad has labeled a Jewish ruse, a lie foisted on the world by the West, Yes, this is the man to whom Obama extended a hand. But then, come to think of it, after 20 years of Reverend Wright, Ahmadinejad just may seem like a fellow parishioner to Obama.

So as you read, understand that what comes to Israel, comes to America, and we have a “president” who seems intent on paving the way.

Summaries

Two synagogues and a Jewish school in the Chicago area were vandalized on Jan. 10. The graffiti included hate messages directed at Israel for its invasion of the Gaza Strip. A week before, bomb threats were made to several Chicago-area Jewish schools. And on Dec. 29, a man threw a Molotov cocktail at the outside wall of Temple Sholom of Chicago.

In Carmel, California, five youths were arrested for vandalizing three (Jewish) peers’ homes over the weekend and face possible hate crime charges.

Monroe, New York – Monroe Village Police have charged a 14-year-old Monroe youth in connection with etching a 20-foot-by-20-foot swastika in the snow on one of the downtown ponds where people skate.

A Brockton (MA) man accused in a rape and double murder reportedly told police that he intended to kill as many Jews as possible, then kill himself, in what he called a fight “for a dying race.”

Police say anti-Semitic graffiti was found scrawled along the walls of a Crown Heights subway station.

Some passages from school textbooks in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Indonesia incite hatred and violence. The offending passages include those that incite hatred and violence against Jews.

The Jewish community in Golders Green, London, has been the target of further anti-Semitic attacks.

The Catalunya government in Spain has called off the ceremony marking the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which was scheduled to take place on January 27, citing the Israeli offensive in Gaza as the reason.’

Anti-Semitic fliers were left in three synagogues in Venezuela.

Protestors in Sweden gathering to support Israel were pelted with eggs and bottles and tear-gas, then dispersed by police

A synagogue in the Czech city of Trebic was sprayed by an unknown vandal with the slogan “Jews, return Gaza, murderers of kids”.

In Italy, a new survey finds that 44% of Italians are admittedly anti-Semitic.

Iranian state television has come to the conclusion that Harry Potter is a Zionist plot

In Romford (UK), a synagogue has come under attack from anti-Semitic vandals.

A Norwegian diplomat . . . sent out e-mails from her Foreign Ministry email account equating Israel’s offensive against Hamas in Gaza with the systematic mass murder of six million Jews by the Nazis.

Kosher warehouse hit in Paris blaze

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