Muslim Slave Trade

I have read too much material written by smug little intellectuals condemning whites for their supposedly indelible, inherent racist nature. I have become aware of far too many young Americans buying into the white guilt trip, ready to denigrate America based on the revisionist history fed to them at the public school trough. I have read too many accounts of slavery that totally exclude the history of arab, black and muslim slave traders, and I have read too many black writers who have no interest in equality, just payback. And then, there is the revelation of the blacks who subscribe to “Reverend” Wright’s liberation theology.

Whereas once I may have looked askance at the proposal for a white history course, I am coming to believe that it is necessary and perhaps, overdue.

The British National Party is to launch a ‘white history’ project as a counter to the announcement that the state is to make the learning of ‘black history’ compulsory at all UK schools.

The white history project will consist of a series of downloadable articles on great contributions to the world by white British and European peoples, the detailing of the far bigger Muslim slave trading empire and promotions on books dealing with white history.
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the state now intends to attempt to “indoctrinate white children with feelings of guilt over slavery in order to justify flooding Britain with masses of Third World Immigrants,” said Arthur Kemp, BNP web news team writer and author of the book March of the Titans, a History of the White Race.

Mick Waters, director of curriculum at the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority, said the revised history curriculum for pupils in England would not “just be about slavery. It is about the contribution that black and Asian people have made throughout history.”

Significantly, Winston Churchill has been omitted from the list of figures that must be studied. Instead, pupils will study characters like Nigerian-born slave Olaudah Equiano.

To counter this overt anti-white guilt trip propaganda, the BNP will start running downloadable features on its web site detailing important contributions made to the world by white British people, and also of how much the world owes European civilisation in general.

Arab Slave Trader

“In addition, we will soon be producing a definitive history of the Arab Muslim slave trade, which dwarfed the European slave trade upon which the anti-white government wishes to focus,” Arthur said.

“We hear endlessly about the Atlantic slave trade, and whites are told to feel guilty about that, but the truth is that the Muslim slave trade was far bigger, ran for far longer and was much more important than the European slave trade,” he said. “Isn’t it strange how when non-whites enslave each other and Europeans, no-one says a word, but when whites enslave others, it is reason for a 200-year later fake guilt trip. This is absurd nonsense, and we reject it utterly.”

“Slavery was an evil, which was abolished by the British government, who then sought to suppress it elsewhere in the world,” Arthur continued. “Muslim slavery took place in West Asia, North Africa, East Africa, and certain parts of Europe (such as Sicily, Iberia and England by the Barbary Pirates).”

“In the early days of the first large Islamic state — during the 8th and 9th centuries — most of the slaves were Eastern Europeans (called Saqaliba), people from surrounding Mediterranean areas, peoples from the Caucasus Mountain regions (such as Georgia and Armenia) as well as Black Africans.”

“Between 11 and 18 million black Africans were enslaved by Muslims and sold across the Red Sea, Indian Ocean, and Sahara Desert during the great Muslim slave trading time, which ran from 650 AD to 1900 AD. This easily dwarfed, in both time and numbers, any Africans brought to the Americas in the Atlantic slave trade — yet I don’t see the government trying to make Muslims feel guilty for these actions.”

Excerpted from Michael Ledeen’s War & Democracy

The belief in the inevitability of peace and democracy rested on one of the great conceits of the European Enlightenment, namely the belief in the perfectibility of man. In this view, man’s basic goodness (as found in “the state of nature”) had been corrupted by a selfish society (a notion that finds much favor among today’s more extreme Greens), but that once the heavy weight of misguided was lifted, man’s intrinsic goodness would reemerge. In our modern rendition of that Enlightenment folly, an appeal to reason is sufficient to change the world. Back in the Clinton years, it was widely believed that all future conflict would be solely economic; the age of military warfare had passed, henceforth products, markets, and human ingenuity would determine who is rightly top dog and who needs to get with the program. And so the defense budget was slashed, military men and women were treated with contempt by the president and his wife, and we turned inward. After all, if historical inevitability ruled, why bother with national security? Tyranny was considered a passing phenomenon, headed for the ash heap, and certainly no threat to us.

It was all wrong, as are most beliefs in the vast impersonal forces that are held to determine human events. The great constant in man’s affairs is change, the direction of that change is determined by human actions, and many of the men and women who take those determinant actions are evil. Machiavelli is not the only sage who recognized it, but he put it nicely: “Man is more inclined to do evil than to do good.” Rational statecraft starts right there.

The American Founders knew it: recognizing man’s innate capacity for evil, they designed a system of checks and balances to thwart the accumulation of power by any group, lest the entire enterprise fall into wicked hands. They knew the battle for liberty would never end, Benjamin Franklin famously warned we would have to fight to keep our republic.
Continue reading…. War and Democracy

In spite of Akira’s valiant attempts to portray Putin as a master strategist and the aggrieved party to the conflict, the consequences are beginning to be more in line with my views than his.

First from AP:

TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel is offering strong support for Georgia, saying the country is on track to become a member of NATO.

Merkel flew to the Georgian capital of Tbilisi on Sunday, two days after she met with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in the Black Sea resort of Sochi.

In a speech Sunday, Merkel also suggested that NATO could help rebuild the tattered Georgian military.

Merkel supports the EU cease-fire, saying it needs to be followed “immediately” and that Russian troops need to pull out of neighboring Georgia.

From Radio Netherlands:

Ukraine has agreed to take part in a missile defence system designed by the United States to protect Western countries. The government in Kiev defended its decision for military co-operation with the West, saying Russia cancelled a bilateral treaty with Ukraine earlier this year.

A few days ago, Poland and the United States reached agreement on the siting of missiles on Polish territory. These, together with radar installations in the Czech republic, make up the missile shield. Russia is fiercely opposed to the defence system and has threatened retaliatory measures.

The Ukrainian offer to co-operate with the US on the shield comes as the situation surrounding Russia’s military operations in Georgia is increasingly tense. Ukraine’s pro-Western President Viktor Yushchenko has strongly criticised Russia and is threatening to impose restrictions on Russian navy vessels’ use of the port of Sebastopol in Ukraine.

Gee, way to go Vladimir, guess you never made acquaintance with Dale Carnegie in your studies of human nature.

Victor Davis Hanson weighs in and I think more highly of his views than those of most other commentators on the world scene.

We are a little more than a week into the crisis, and already Russia has already gotten itself more than just fights with Georgia—but also issued creepy threats to Poland over missiles, and to the Ukraine over naval bases. Putin has galvanized into panic most of Eastern Europe and the Baltic states, prompted a radical change of policy in the United States, and embarrassed its once sure support from the appeasement bloc of the European Union. What will next week bring? A Georgian insurgency, replete with stingers, anti-tank guns, and ieds? Increased arms sales to the former republics? Tougher talk from Obama?

Read it all.

As I tried to explain in my comments on my previous post, Russia had a golden opportunity to become a normal civilized country, allies with the Anglosphere, and Putin has thrown it all away, and for what? Dreams of a New Russian Empire, controller of energy supplies to EUtopia and therefore having the EU countries under his thumb, aiding the enemies of the US with the aim of bogging down the US Military and economy in countering Iran, Syria, NK etc.
Vladimir old friend, you should have got your own country’s problems fixed before taking on the rest of the world and the US in particular. You are as dependent on supplying oil and gas to EUtopia as they are on being supplied, you don’t really have much else going for you, not even the Western capitalists eager to help you develop your economy in a more diversified way, you’ve pissed them off right royally, not to mention scared the shit out of them.
The invasion of Georgia is a colossal blunder because it has shown that there is no reason to hope that Russia can be a reliable partner in anything for the foreseeable future. Prospects for the Russian people got bleaker last week.

Update. David Warren has a column up on the subject.

A powerful state which, like contemporary Russia, is eager to play on the inevitable ethnic difficulties of its neighbours — to abet those problems, as the Russians have done, and then use them as pretext for the invasion and dismemberment of a much smaller neighbour — is regardless of its size and constitution, behaving as a rogue state.

We cannot continue to act on the polite assumption that Vladimir Putin and his minions (including the current nominal president, Dmitry Medvedev), are honourable. “Realism” requires that we act henceforth on the assumption that they aren’t.

Since Larry G liked the GJ article I posted, here is another, Liberalism: It’s Own Worst Enemy.

As Kagan notes, born-again autocracy masquerading as a respectable alternative to Western-style government is a dangerous ideological rival to liberal democracy. Any others? Well, there’s militant, theocratic Islam, a self-evident rival since the Iranian revolution of 1979. Tribalism is another obvious rival, though probably self-limiting. Competing tribal doctrines might ignite cruel little wars, but lack the monolithic force of totalitarian ideologies. Actually, a European Union-type of techno-corporate state seems a greater threat to a free society. The EU’s kind of supra-national bureaucracy, less bloody and more sophisticated than a communist state, is nearly as coercive and more likely to succeed.

I think the force with the greatest capacity for becoming a threat to liberal democracy is liberalism itself — meaning loony-liberalism, a kind of ideological ménage à trios between Timothy Leary, Karl Marx and Al Gore, at once passionate and arid, that in Western societies has all but captured the educational and judicial machinery of the state. In some, it’s a virtual state religion, whose matriarchal, environmentalist, multicultural, anti-male, anti-family, anti-individual and public-hygiene shibboleths are enforced by Orwellian regulatory agencies, commissions and tribunals, better known as the smoke-, smut-, seat-belt-, thought-, language-and calorie-police.

It’s good to remember that we are not small in numbers, we who fight against encroaching totalitarianism, and we have many wise people* on our side. Wisdom, now there’s something in short supply on the left, cleverness and arrogance they have by the bucketful, but wisdom? They don’t even have doubts.

*For example, Theodore Dalrymple. ["People who deny responsibility for their own actions use a language that portrays them as passive victims of circumstance." "The bravest and most noble are not those who take up arms, but those who are decent despite everything; who improve what it is in their power to improve, but do not imagine themselves to be saviours. In their humble struggle is true heroism."]

And Thomas Sowell. His book A Conflict of Visions should be compulsory reading for all high schools.

Here’s a quote I picked up on his site:
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don’t mean to do harm– but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
— T. S. ELiot.

Does that remind you of a certain someone?

Liberty Weeps

Richard Falknor at Blue Ridge Forum speaks of Bush’s legacy. Personally, I will remember (and curse) him for his betrayal of America. But in his many egregious perfidies, he is only one in a succession of leaders who have brought this country to it’s present angle of descent. It matters little if that descent is rapid (Obama) or slow (McCain). The forces working against America are legion and the momentum they have achieved, the powers that they have harnessed, are being met with no comparable opposing force.

Blue Ridge Forum will be tracking the fiscal and human costs to America of president Bush’s “legacy” efforts - - - in security as well as domestic matters.

The unstated assumption of these legacy initiatives must be - - - that most Americans in the future will share (at the very least) a center-left vision of the world as well as a soft multiculturalist perspective; that future writers will be kind to the Bush record after this president leaves office when partisan passions have cooled; and that America’s official chroniclers will then appreciate the president’s many legacies from his second term. Or so the reasoning of the White House would seem to go.

It is almost as if Bush is punting this country for Obama’s team to take it all the way over the edge.
PEPFAR (President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief), Bush’s bloated legislation that will bleed Americans in excess of 50 billion dollars, is a small part of his legacy, and his treachery.

“The Administration notes that the bill would authorize $50 billion for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria over five years—an amount significantly above the Administration’s $30 billion proposal.”

Most are aware of Bush’s obsession with squandering good treasure on AIDS in Africa. Few know about the blight of refugees pouring into this country under the aegis Bush’s beneficence, nor the incredible and mounting burdens those refugees have already, and will continue imposing on America.

Refugee resettlement in America is little mentioned in the press, per their usual self-imposed PC proscriptions. Thousands and thousands of African, primarily muslim, refugees have been pouring into America and now, due to the efforts of militant homosexual activists, we will now be importing refugees diagnosed as HIV positive. And you will be paying for their treatment.

Now comes a group called “Immigration Equality” that describes itself as follows:

Immigration Equality is a national organization fighting for equality under U.S. immigration law for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and HIV-positive individuals. Founded in 1994 as the Lesbian and Gay Immigration Rights Task Force, we have grown to a membership of 10,000 people in cities all over the country. ….

Immigration Equality helps Gays and Lesbians seek asylum in the US…. I guess their work must be stepped up in recent times as the internet is full of photos of gay men being hanged in Islamic countries like Iran.

Anyway here is what they are telling their members what the next step is to make sure the ban removal is fully implemented.
Update on Law lifting ban to allow HIV-positive immigrants to enter US

To hell with drilling, infrastructure, missile defense and bolstering our economy. Let’s just cure the whole freaking planet of AIDS.

S.2731 goes to the Senate floor on Monday and is expected to be signed into law by September because it is supported by the Bush Administration …

Here is the kicker (if $50 billion of our tax dollars wasn’t already) from the Congressional Budget Office:

….enacting S. 2731 would ……allow immigrants with HIV/AIDS to enter the United States. CBO estimates that providing certain benefits to those immigrants and their children would increase direct spending by less than $500,000 in 2010 and by $83 million over the 2010-2018 period.

Refugees are already coming here with HIV (and TB for that matter) despite the ban on foreigners with the disease from traveling or immigrating to the US. This bill would allow all immigrants to enter the US with HIV and be treated at taxpayer expense. I don’t think it takes a genius to see how this opens the door wide to more immigrants (including illegal immigrants) who will rush the gates and become dependent on our already overburdened health care system. (Source)

It’s a damn shame that we are no longer as vigilant as we were when admitting immigrants on Ellis Island.

While admission decisions were made by the Immigration Service (IS), the law required medical inspection of immigrants by the United States Public Health Service (PHS). When a PHS medical officer formally diagnosed an immigrant with a disease or defect, throwing his or her admissibility into question, that individual was considered “medically certified.” The law required the PHS to issue a medical certificate to those who suffered from a “loathsome or a dangerous contagious disease” [1]. Exclusion of those diagnosed with infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, venereal disease, trachoma, and favus was mandatory [2].

The PHS defined its mission rather narrowly—preventing the entrance of disease to the nation—but PHS officers interpreted their job more broadly. In their eyes, the goal was to prevent the entrance of undesirable people—those “who would not make good citizens” [3]. In the context of industrial-era America, immigrants who would wear out prematurely, requiring care and maintenance rather than supplying manpower, would not make “good” citizens. By 1903 the PHS had elaborated two major categories: “Class A” loathsome or dangerous contagious diseases and “Class B” diseases and conditions that would render an immigrant “likely to become a public charge.” A subset of Class A conditions included mental conditions such as insanity and epilepsy. (Source)

Today’s “progressive” would find such mandates “inhumane” and exclusionary. I say it is far more damning to destroy America’s fortunes and to plunge future generations into the desperately morose lives that comes from a world bereft of freedom, innovation, invention and vigor - all of which will be sacrificed on the bloody altar of the “greater good”.

Bush indeed has punted America to the other team. And he doesn’t much give a damn about how the game will end. Obama will run with Bush’s paltry 50 billion and, faux “messiah” that he is, he will multiply our debt and our taxes like Jesus multiplied the fish and bread. We will be awash in poverty. Our children’s burdens and deprivations shall runneth over.
And there will still be AIDS, and there will still be poverty. Only there will be no more a bright and shining city on a hill to serve as beacon for, not Obama hope, but the real hope that America once ineluctably embodied.

If you haven’t read Ligneus’s post on Adam Smith, do so. If men like that governed today in America, we wouldn’t have to deal with pompous pretenders like Obama or McCain. In the comments I remarked as follows:

“Must be the redneck in me, but i could never have conceived that so many would willingly throw down freedom”.

Indeed, it’s the fact that so many Americans are willing to allow the government to control their lives that has me flabbergasted. I have no answers for it, but “Just Another Richard” left an eloquent response, reproduced below.

Ah but zee, you fail to see the human capacity for self delusion, together with its ever faithful companion slothfulness. With a choice between a hard road and the easy way out, people will always rationalize the easy way…its so much simpler, after all, what’s to think about…be happy

The fact that, in the burdensome chores of struggle and endeavor, can be found our own redemption, where the sense of accomplishment can give meaning to existence, where the heavy load of actually thinking for yourself trains the mind to become self sufficient, to be an instrument of its own creation. To free the mind from the irrationality of conspiring minds and petty spiteful dogmas.

Now this does not always result in setting one’s self upon the right path, indeed, many an intellectual’s personal biography can attest to the wasted path to hedonism. But the mind, cautioned by reason and human dignity, aware of its own limitations in a cosmos of such vast and incomprehensible possibilities, does not flee from its own inconsequence, but embraces its own insignificance, for this in truth is what we are; to do otherwise is to rage against our very being, which as you can see, has such devastating and deleterious consequences, crushing aspiration and leaving shattered lives. Just look to those lost souls fleeing their very own lives in pursuit of a release by means of the excessive use of drink or drugs. There is nothing wrong in inconsequence, it is the natural state of being, IT IS LIFE. Those foolish ghosts, forever chasing the ephemeral illusion of fame, celebrity, fortune and power, are the natural born destroyers of what is most sacred in this earthly realm … LIFE.

Like many another, I too struggled in this life to find my meaning, to find my place, and just like most others, I too struggled with my fears, my failings and my doubts. But it was only when I reflected back upon my own soul, that I was able to discover myself. No outside bauble or trinket could satiate my hunger. No greater accumulation of wealth (hah…funny), no position of power in a hierarchy, could gain anything more than fleeting moments of respite from the longing. Only when I came to terms with myself, I cast off the goals of a shallow society, and recognized myself for what I was…just a simple individual, living out this tiny span, did I learn to accept myself on my terms and NOT someone else’s.

The fact that Marxism is a cult of death and destruction is obscured by the illusion that tomorrow we will be one step closer to Utopia if only we believe, is now indisputable and is the most cruel lie humanity could embrace. But for the mind that has cast aside all belief in any greater meaning, or indeed, any meaning, what is there left to do, for when such a mind looks inward it can be filled with nothing but fear and loathing, for there is nothing of substance to be found within; but to join in with the pack to create Utopia upon the hill tomorrow, gives meaning to an empty shell, a meaningless, and soul crushing existence, where that ultimate fear, greater even than the fear of death, must never be faced…the fear of facing one’s self.

I would only add that men cannot make the spiritual journey that Richard describes in a Marxist or Islamic society. The West grants men the freedom to find their way, or lose their way. Sadly, too many Americans are lost.

It seems too lunatic to be true. But here a hair salon boss reveals how she was driven to the brink of ruin - and forced to pay £4,000 for ‘hurt feelings’ - after refusing to hire a Muslim stylist who wouldn’t show her hair at work.

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For a year, Sarah has been facing financial ruin, due to a compensation claim for £34,000 brought by Bushra, 19, who has maintained she is due that figure after being turned down for a job at the Wedge salon in London’s King’s Cross.

In the event, the tribunal ruled this week that while Bushra’s claim of direct discrimination failed, her claim for indirect discrimination had succeeded.

Sarah has therefore been ordered to pay £4,000 compensation by way of ‘injury to feelings’.

Although this is a smaller sum than she’d feared she might have to hand over, Sarah, 32, is still outraged.

‘I am a small business and the bottom line is that this is not a woman who worked for me,’ says Sarah.

The muslim in question was also rejected by 25 other salons and even though she admits that Sarah said nothing that could be construed as an insult, she opted to sue. My guess is that Sarah looked like the softest target.

This is what comes of the ludicrous notion that offended feelings deserve compensation. Moreover it speaks to the insidious control the state exerts over the private business owner who has less and less freedom to conduct business profitably or in accordance with their beliefs. Such interference with private enterprise becomes even more insidious when coupled with the additional threat posed by  the very dangerous momentum with which sharia compliant banking is being implemented across the world. As it progresses, so does the imposition of sharia law.

Yet, we allow muslims continue to use our laws against us. And it isn’t just in England. Islam has global ambitions, and as one writer cautions, while warning of the acceleration of muslim sponsored censorship, it has become an issue that crosses all national boundaries.

“We can no longer be secure in the knowledge that our own laws or constitution will protect us. THE WHOLE WORLD IS UNDER THREAT and we’ve got to be watching for changes globally rather than nationally if we want to be prepared for what is going to absolutely affect each one of us.” (source)

From refusing to wear uniforms, to protesting male western doctors  treating muslim women, to muslim taxi cab drivers demanding special privileges , not to mention the pathetic dhimmis who acquiesce to muslim extortion, like the execrable Oregon principle who had the audacity to ban the Pledge of Allegiance in an American public elementary school, for fear of offending Muslims.

This list can go on and on -  creeping sharia and cultural jihad continues, abetted by the left, in nation after nation.

What the hell is it going to take for Americans to freaking wake up? And it won’t be Barack Hussein Obama who finally gets a clue, the would-be president who finds the shrill islamic “call to prayer” melodic and permits advocacy of “honor” killings on his official campaign site...

In 1997, Sarah got a job at a salon on London’s Portobello Road, where she remained for almost a decade. In March 2006, feeling ready to spread her wings, she wrote a business plan, secured a loan and invested £5,000 of her savings into the lease on a small salon on Caledonian Road.

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‘I’d never felt as proud as I did on the day I picked up the keys to my salon,’ says Sarah.I was prepared to put my heart and soul into my business in order to make ends meet, and for the first few months, I worked 12 hours a day, six days a week, all by myself. ‘I barely saw daylight, but I didn’t mind because I was fulfilling my ambition.

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By March 2007, the business was doing so well that Sarah needed to take on another stylist. (source)

And then a muslim walked in.  A muslim applying to an “edgy” salon, garbed in head scarf down to her brows. And she was looking for an excuse to sue, of that I have no doubt. Sarah interviewed her, discovered that she would refuse  to remove her head scarf and that was the end of it in her mind. If style is the product that you sell, and hair is the showcase, it is rather obvious that a dour muslim with nary a wisp of hair showing isn’t a good match. Rather like applying to be a nude model and refusing to take off your clothes. A sensible person simply wouldn’t apply.

One morning in the second week of June 2007, an innocuous white envelope landed on Sarah’s doormat. It contained a letter saying that she was being sued for £15,000 for indirect and direct discrimination by Bushra Noah. This, the letter stated, related to compensation for injury to her feelings and lost earnings. Later, that figure was increased to £34,000.

And so it goes. In every country where muslims are seeking a stronghold,  charges of discrimination and threats of lawsuits are becoming common. It is the same victim’s templates used by all so-called minorities. And  small business owners simply trying to hold their own, to make a living, are confronted with a well oiled grievance machine with absolutely no support from their individual governments. In fact, too many governments are bending their knees to these extortionists.

If you, as an American, have no intention of bowing down before foreign gods, then you damn well better start fighting.

I’ll never rubbish Academia in general again. At Michigan State and engineering Prof named Andrek Wichman on hearing that the Muslim student association was planning a protest against the Danish cartoons, sent them the following e-mail.

Dear Moslem Association,

As a professor of Mechanical Engineering here at MSU I intend to protest your protest. I am offended not by cartoons, but by more mundane things like beheadings of civilians, cowardly attacks on public buildings, suicide murders, murders of Catholic priests (the latest in Turkey ), burnings of Christian churches, the continued persecution of Coptic Christians in Egypt, the imposition of Sharia law on non-Muslims, the rapes of Scandinavian girls and women (called “whores” in your culture), the murder of film directors in Holland, and the rioting and looting in Paris France.

This is what offends me, a soft-spoken person and academic, and many, many of my colleagues. I counsel you dissatisfied, aggressive, brutal, and uncivilized slave-trading Moslems to be very aware of this as you proceed with your infantile “protests. If you do not like the values of the West - see the 1st Amendment - you are free to leave.

I hope for God’s sake that most of you choose that option.

Please return to your ancestral homelands and build them up yourselves instead of troubling Americans.

Cordially,

I. S. Wichman, Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Read more via the link.

I once had a customer whose company did work in Saudi Arabia. I’m not sure what the particular installation was, something to do with oil, but the man had just returned from there and relayed how ludicrous the entire trip had been.

He had been called back because the Arabs whose job it was to run this operation were freaking out , claiming the equipment was faulty. Guess what? They hadn’t turned it on. That simple and that stupid.
So now we have a planet full of parasitical muslims using Western technology that their culture was too bereft of imagination or genius to create. The phrase, “Pearls before swine”, has never had a more pellucid evocation of it’s meaning than when applied to the gifts and bounty, capital and labor, good will and generosity that the West has carelessy and foolishly laid at the feet of the muslim world. ( We won’t go into the extortions, bribes and payoffs that have added to this horrendous waste of US treasure.)

Anecdotes abound of the unceasing incompetence exhibited by arabs and muslims. The following account that provides the narrative for these images only further reinforces the verity thereof.

The brand spanking new Airbus 340-600, the largest passenger airplane ever built, sat in its hangar in Toulouse, France without a single hour of airtime. Enter the Arab flight crew of Abu Dhabi Aircraft Technologies (ADAT) to conduct pre-delivery tests on the ground, such as engine runups, prior to delivery to Etihad Airways in Abu Dhabi. The date was November 15, 2007.

The ADAT crew taxied the A340-600 to the run-up area. Then they took all four engines to takeoff power with a virtually empty aircraft. Not having read the run-up manuals, they had no clue just how light an empty A340-600 really is.

The takeoff warning horn was blaring away in the cockpit because they had all 4 engines at full power. The aircraft computers thought they were trying to takeoff but it had not been configured properly (flaps/slats, etc.) Then one of the ADAT crew decided to pull the circuit breaker on the Ground Proximity Sensor to silence the alarm.

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The extent of injuries to the crew is unknown, for there has been a news blackout in the major media in France and elsewhere. Coverage of the story was deemed insulting to Moslem Arabs. Finally, the photos are starting to leak out.(emphasis mine)
Read it all …THE TALE OF THE ARAB FLIGHT CREW

Also see Wrecked A340-600 in Toulouse France and France investigates Airbus Crash (via atvJim)

Over at American Thinker there is an article on Obama’s woes in three States that have been crucial to electoral success in both of W Clinton’s election victories and both of GWB’s. Interestingly Hillary won all three by large margins in the current primaries. B’bye Obama.

Meanwhile, Back at Trinity……Obama’s assholes aren’t going away for this election, much as he and the left hope they will. The article is from the WSJ’s Best of the Web.

Check out this numbskull. It’s difficult to decide if these people are more stupid than nuts or vice versa. Anyway, read the article which has more links.

After that here’s something to calm you down.

Too bad dandelions aren’t a cash crop.

It’s time also for a pic of the other grand daughter, Lara, she is two and a half.

Something sublime for you to show there are better things in the world than the millions of idiots will ever know.

When I tell musical friends that on its release in March, Pierre-Laurent Aimard’s solo-piano version of J.S. Bach’s The Art of Fugue shot to the top of the Billboard and iTunes classical charts, they get this glazed look. It’s as if you told a physicist that Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity was topping the best-seller list. It’s not supposed to happen.

This is because the 14 fugues and four canons that make up The Art of Fugue constitute one of the most esoteric musical works ever written. Each fugue bears the severe title Contrapunctus followed by a number, and there is no indication of what instruments are supposed to play them. Every piece is in D minor; all are based on the same melodic theme. It’s as if Bach intended the AOF as a theoretical treatise, to be read and studied rather than performed, to demonstrate some of the more arcane things you can do with the idea of a fugue.

Isn’t that encouraging? Very interesting article which includes links to snippets of the work.

Below are some excerpts of George Weigle’s “Europe’s Two Culture Wars”. If you want a clear picture of the West’s descent into a morass of multicultural, totalitarian hell, this very long but comprehensive piece covers all the bases.

Print it out or send it to anyone you know who, for whatever inane reason, are considering Obama or Hillary. If a clear understanding about what is ongoing in Europe doesn’t give appeasers and apologists pause, nothing likely will.

…five days short of the second anniversary of the Madrid bombings, the Zapatero government, which had already legalized marriage between and adoption by same-sex partners and sought to restrict religious education in Spanish schools, announced that the words “father” and “mother” would no longer appear on Spanish birth certificates. Rather, according to the government’s official bulletin, “the expression ‘father’ will be replaced by ‘Progenitor A,’ and ‘mother’ will be replaced by ‘Progenitor B.’”

As the chief of the National Civil Registry explained to the Madrid daily ABC, the change would simply bring Spain’s birth certificates into line with Spain’s legislation on marriage and adoption. More acutely, the Irish commentator David Quinn saw in the new regulations “the withdrawal of the state’s recognition of the role of mothers and fathers and the extinction of biology and nature.”

At first blush, the Madrid bombings and the Newspeak of “Progenitor A” and “Progenitor B” might seem connected only by the vagaries of electoral politics: the bombings, aggravating public opinion against a conservative government, led to the installation of a leftist prime minister, who then proceeded to do many of the things that aggressively secularizing governments in Spain have tried to do in the past. In fact, however, the nexus is more complex than that. For the events of the past two years in Spain are a microcosm of the two interrelated culture wars that beset Western Europe today.

The first of these wars—let us, following the example of Spain’s birth certificates, call it “Culture War A”—is a sharper form of the red state/blue state divide in America: a war between the postmodern forces of moral relativism and the defenders of traditional moral conviction. The second—“Culture War B”—is the struggle to define the nature of civil society, the meaning of tolerance and pluralism, and the limits of multiculturalism in an aging Europe whose below-replacement-level fertility rates have opened the door to rapidly growing and assertive Muslim populations.

The aggressors in Culture War A are radical secularists, motivated by what the legal scholar Joseph Weiler has dubbed “Christophobia.”1 They aim to eliminate the vestiges of Europe’s Judeo-Christian culture from a post-Christian European Union by demanding same-sex marriage in the name of equality, by restricting free speech in the name of civility, and by abrogating core aspects of religious freedom in the name of tolerance. The aggressors in Culture War B are radical and jihadist Muslims who detest the West, who are determined to impose Islamic taboos on Western societies by violent protest and other forms of coercion if necessary, and who see such operations as the first stage toward the Islamification of Europe—or, in the case of what they often refer to as al-Andalus, the restoration of the right order of things, temporarily reversed in 1492 by Ferdinand and Isabella.

The question Europe must face, but which much of Europe seems reluctant to face, is whether the aggressors in Culture War A have not made it exceptionally difficult for the forces of true tolerance and authentic civil society to prevail in Culture War B.

continue reading… George Weigle’s “Europe’s Two Culture Wars”

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Warriors…In Their Own Words

We have always had warriors, from as far back in history as one can go — warriors are timeless.Warriors have a moral code and are not simply trained killers (as they are all too frequently portrayed).If we did not have warriors, we would undoubtedly be speaking another language, German,Japanese, Chinese, or Russian.Warriors are born, they are not created. Certainly they are trained, but to be a warrior is a calling.[...]With this documentary, photo exhibit and book our aim is to raise funding for and awareness of the men and women warriors that have given so much to protect our freedoms. Freedom is not free.

Westerners shop for a god like they do for a new article of clothing for their wardrobe. When tired of one, they discard it and put on a new one. Religious freedom means nothing to a civilization that views god as an accessory to be drug out during special occasions and packed away when dispensed with.

Ehsan Jami is an ex-muslim who must pay a high price for choosing to discard his religion. The irony is that because of the world’s collective cowardice, the West affords him little protection in doing so.

From Gateway Pundit

Ehsan Jami, founder of the Committee for Ex-Muslims, has been been forced into hiding after a series of death threats and a recent attack.

Jami was moved to a safe house in the Netherlands after being attacked for a third time because of his anti-Muslim views on August 4, 2007… The attacks took place after Jami referred to the Muslim prophet Mohammed as a “horrible man” in several interviews and said he wanted to start a debate about domestic violence and human rights in Islam-

Klein Verzet has posted the picture above, a scene from an animated short by Jami due to debut April 20th. Unlike the “artists” who piss on Christ nor those thousands who have blasphemed Christianity and Judaism with no consequences, Jami has again put his life on the line to speak freely about Islam and there will be few, if any, artists in the West to champion his cause.

Jami’s production is bound to come up against opposition. The Contact body for Muslims and the Government has already announced it will take legal steps against the film.
Netwerk showed a drawing from the film, which is entitled The Life of Mohammed. The drawing shows the prophet Mohammed in the company of his 9-year-old wife Aisa. The prophet is on his way to a mosque to deflower his bride.

Which is a fact. Pure and simple. Christianity brings the world Jesus, and Islam offers a twisted pedophile warrior who talked to a demon, called him an angel, and spawned the legions of slaves known as muslims in servitude to a barbarism that the world still hasn’t the guts to acknowledge, let alone confront.

The West insists on treating Islam as if it were simply another religion instead of the political beast that it is. So Ehsan Jami, and none like him, can find safe refuge in the West. We will not protect him, in fact, many in the West will defend his attackers. Too late we will find that the “god” of islam will not be so easily discarded.

It’s true. This election is but a distraction from the real evil that besets this nation. Evil set in motion decades ago and, short of the second coming, unlikely to be reversed or overcome by this election. Feckless, power hungry politicians perform on a stage that might as well be set up on the deck of the Titanic. They are as hapless to prevent the coming catastrophes as the captain on that doomed voyage. If anything, America’s ruling elites are positioning us to run directly towards the iceberg.

I was just reading about Condoleezza Rice’s latest obsequious behavior before her muslim overlords (this fresh from the travesty that is Kosovo where we handed islam yet another nation to subjugate) and I can’t help but think that, like Europe, America’s elite are more than willing to use islam as proxy. Why facilitate the ascent of a totalitarian and repressive ideology unless you feel that you can wield it to help suppress a restive population?

Be it here or in Europe, those who value national sovereignty, those citizens who commit the sin of patriotism, who have the nerve to defend their nation’s traditions - we have become the impediments to a global order designed to suppress those very things.

In the end, who will devour the other first; the minions of allah or the minions of the left? It will not matter much to the likes of me. I suspect us common folks were written out of the script before we were ever born.

And you know, I can’t help but think of all the children that this nation has aborted who might have risen up with the moral rectitude and power to defend America. I know, nothing to do with the topic at hand…but then again, if a people fail to revere life, whose only objective is expediency and ease, whose vision does not extend past pleasure and whose spirit embraces death, what can be hoped for from such a people?

But Baron Bodissey at Gates of Vienna says it much better than I can.

It’s important to keep either Democrat from winning. But it’s not as important as many people think it is, and the long-term effect on the political momentum of this country will be minimal.

The permanent political class in America has nailed our rudder in place, and the ship of state is headed in a direction that will not easily be changed. The media focus is on the presidential candidates, and the big horse race, and who’s in and who’s out, but the real decisions are always being made by others. Congress, the Federal Reserve, the nameless functionaries in the permanent bureaucracy, the mandarins of the MSM who determine what the average American believes about what’s happening — these are the people who control the direction the country is headed in.

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Without a leader of real character in office, the presidency is just a bit of froth on the surface of things.

…none of the major candidates for President is addressing the most important and pressing problems that face us. Continued mass immigration and the imminent collapse of the New Deal/Great Society welfare state are our most urgent issues.
Ten years from now these problems will be cutting through our national politics like a scythe, and the issues which are preoccupying us today will be forgotten.

And none of the major presidential candidates has addressed these grave threats in any serious fashion.

continue reading at Gates of Vienna: Three-Card Monte

Sometimes I entertain nightmares and try to imagine life under Islam. Should such an abomination come to pass, headlines like these would disappear. Islam is the sound of death, and quite appropriately, music is forbidden. There is nothing in Islam that could honor life or elicit a choral riff from DNA. If Islam should prevail, the world becomes silence and shrouds. But never this.

The sound of life, music that comes from the movement of DNA, the blueprint of life, has been recorded and patented for the first time by a team of Italian and American researchers. The team of scientists have been led by Carlo Ventura, a professor of molecular biology at Italy’s University of Bologna and physicist James Gimzewski from the American University of California, Los Angeles, (UCLA). The discovery could in the future make scientists similar to the “conductors of orchestras” with the capacity to identify the cells and to differentiate them with a precise sound. Ventura explained his results at a recent conference on “Biological, Clinical and Social aspects of lengthening the average life span” at the National Institute of Biostructure and Biosystems in the Italian capital Rome….

AKI - Adnkronos international Science: Italo-American scientists patent the ‘music’ of DNA cells