This kind of proves the point, doesn't it?

Publishers were balking at putting out a novel based on one of Mohammed's wives, Aisha. Why? Because there were fears of violence by the nutcase Islamofacist elements out there. So, as if to prove the point, a Dutch publisher which is printing the book had its London office firebombed by (surprise, surprise), Islamofascists: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4837994.ece. Yeah, I'm stunned by this story. Of course, the inevitable mealy-mouthed denials of responsibility will be uttered, and our politically correct leaders will say nothing, but the facts are still the facts. You don't see this out of any other faith. If Jews acted violently everytime something was done which "insulted their faith", they would never stop acting violently..........

The quiet surrender

The United Kingdom is surrendering to Islam, but it's like watching the death by a thousand cuts--There is no violent explosion, not spectacular victory. Rather, there are a series of seemingly inoccuous victories by Islam, to the point where Shariah court rulings are now enforceable in the British court system: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,422661,00.html.

It's sad to watch a once-great bastion of freedom, democracy and tolerance to surrender this way, without even so much as a fight.

Watch what you say!

A Jordanian court is seeking to prosecute 12 people for the horrific crime of "offending Islam": http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122099204692716155.html?mod=djemEditorialPage. Lest anyone think that these are just the irrational actions of an isolated, nutcase judge, think again. Islamic countries are watching very carefully to see who resists this insidious movement, and make no mistake about it, they will go forum shopping to find countries who will in dhimmi-like fashion acquiesce to their power. With fifth columnists like CAIR here, how far back do you think we are from this exact scenario?

There you have it

More politcally correct, amoral relativism out of the left in the West. You see, Islam may have its issue with women, but really, we're just as bad! Yes, we are: http://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/behind-the-veil-lives-a-thriving-muslim-sexuality/2008/08/29/1219516734637.html.

Here's my advice to you, Naomi Wolf: If you think that it's so bad here, go and live in Iran or Saudi Arabia. What's that, you don't want to?

I didn't think so............

It's not that they don't know........

............it's that they don't care. An Israeli writes in justifiably angry terms about the so-called "Free Gaza Boats" and the left wing, dhimmi idiots (my description, not hers) who are on them: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3584812,00.html. You see, it's not that they don't know that Israelis have suffered from non-stop terrorism for years, it's that they feel that there is no such thing as terrorism where Israelis are on the receiving end. In fact, any attack in which an Israeli is injured or killed is justified, because Israel itself is illegal and immoral, and its existence is an abomination, in their view. To kill an Israeli is merely to kill a racist, imperialist, colonialist. Their analysis begins and ends right there.

Preemptive surrender

A columnist in the London Times is more than a little peeved at the spinelessness of Western "elites" who fall all over themselves grovelling at the feet of Islamic supremacists who perceive any comment about their faith as being an attack on it: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/mick_hume/article4509698.ece. I completely agree with him, but unfortunately, I think that Europe is definitely too far gone in terms of its dhimmitude, and we aren't very far behind in this country. We seem to be incapable of learning from our mistakes--appeasing thugs and terrorists never accomplishes anything.

A dhimmi gets her butt kicked

Thanks to Pam at Atlas Shrugs for this one. Brigitte Gabriel recently gave an interview to Deborah Solomon of the New York Times, and let's just say that Gabriel more than gave as good as she got: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/magazine/17wwln-Q4-t.html?_r=3&ref=todayspaper&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin. Had this been a prize fight, it would have been stopped in the second round at the latest. Solomon asks all the questions one would expect of a dhimmi New York Times writer; what about all the moderate Moslems, etc., etc, and Gabrielle completely takes her apart.

It's absolutely priceless..............

What we are

I sent what is contained below to a friend in response to the story on how fear of Islamic reprisals has forced many publishers to quash books that dare to portray Islam in anything other than a glowing light:

The fact of the matter is that we are so afraid of "offending" ANYONE that we have turned into a society of timid fools who are afraid of their own shadows. No one is free to speak their mind anymore, particularly when it comes to anything to do with Islam. It's a one-way street, too. A book like this one is squelched, but artists who immerse statues or pictures of Christ in URINE are lauded. Publish a bunch of cartoons about Mohammed and you get condemned by the U.N. Publish a book accusing American Jews of dual loyalty (Walt & Mearsheimer's "The Israel Lobby") and you are hailed as being brave.

Here is my hypothesis: As a result of 9/11, Osama Bin Laden and the other Islamofascists achieved success beyond their wildest dreams. Not only did they kill thousands in this country, we have become a society of cowards and politically correct dhimmis, not even willing to call Islamic terrorism what it is. We now have courts in the U.S. treating terrorists as being the moral and legal equivalent of soldiers on the battlefield, with the connivance of left-leaning academic or legal organizations such as the ACLU.

Imposing silence

Ever since the publishing of the Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie, there has been a leeriness on the part of publishers to put out any books at all which A) criticize Islaml; B) satirize Islam; C) question Islam, etc., etc.: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121797979078815073.html?mod=opinion_main_commentaries. This climate of fear is not just caused by a belief that Muslims around the world will riot if they are "offended", though that is certainly a part of it. It is also caused by so-called "scholars" here in the West who go out of their way to kowtow to Islamic "sentiments".

In a world where supposedly scholarly works are published accusing (some) Jews in the United States of dual loyalty, why is Islam off-limits?

No more Tyson chicken for us

Tyson Chicken, in its infinite wisdom, has decided that Labour Day is no longer Labour Day. Nope, now its workers will be honouring the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=71218.

Honestly, how much farther can this dhimmi, P.C. bullcrap go?

Ruled Britannia

Melanie Phillips has a scathing indictment of British society, as it rapidly falls under the sway of radical Islam, seemingly without even putting up a fight: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1033189/This-country-pro-Muslim-giving-succour-extremists-destroy-us.html. Despite the justified anger in the article, there is clearly an air of sadness about it, with Phillips watching powerlessly as the elites in the country eagerly accept their dhimmi status.

Is this really the country that fought Hitler to a standstill?

Still another "honour" killing

I'm late to this particular discussion, which has been all over the blogosphere for days now, and even the MSM is paying some attention to it, but a Pakistani immigrant recently killed his daughter after she told him that she wanted out of her marriage: http://news.aol.com/story/_a/georgia-man-charged-in-honor-killing/20080708154209990001. Of course, the MSM is glibly glossing over the connection of Islam to this horrible murder, going out of its way to portray as a simple "domestic violence" issue as opposed to a cultural or religious issue. Yeah, like we see Southern Baptists and Catholics killing their daughters because of perceived stains on their "honour". If you don't buy that first narrative offered by the MSM, then they'll throw the "It's our fault because we're not tolerant enough" argument at you, as if something like this should ever be tolerated in a civilized society.

What I want to know is, where is NOW (the National Organization of Women) on this? Where are any feminist organizations? You haven't heard word one out of them. Their silence borders on the criminal. One would think that if they truly do represent women, and are not simply a left wing lobby group, they would speak loudly and often on this subject. I think that their silence speaks volumes.................

Watch out for racist babies!!

No, really! The British nanny state has issued very strict guidelines on how nursery teachers and the like need to watch out for racism anywhere and everywhere, and the guidelines are sufficiently strict that a three-year old who says "Yuk" to unfamiliar food could be considered to be a racist: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/education/2261307/Toddlers-who-dislike-spicy-food-racist,-say-report.html.

Today's Brits hardly seem like the ones who helped defeat Nazi Germany............

Great Britainistan

A school in Stoke-on-Trent in the U.K. is under public scrutiny after a teacher in a religious education class forced children to wear Muslim garb and to pray to Allah, punishing those who refused: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1031784/Schoolboys-punished-detention-refusing-kneel-pray-Allah.html.

Every time I think that the U.K. has hit a new "high" (or should I say low?), it sets a new standard. That country really is beyond hope, and I thank the anonymous poster who alerted me to this story.

Here we go again.........

Even MORE dhimmitude out of the U.K. where the Lord Chief Justice has said that Muslims should be allowed to live under Shariah Law: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/global/main.jhtml?xml=/global/2008/07/04/noindex/nsharia.xml&CMP=EMC-expat2008. What is in the water there, anyway? Does this politically correct weenie not see the horrible precedent that this sets? Does he not understand that allowing Muslims to love under Shariah Law is a STARTING point for the Islamofascists, not an end point?

Good!

The United States has apparently thrown its hands up in disgust with the odious U.N. Human Rights Commission, reasoning correctly that this despicable collection of tinpot dictatorships and Islamofascists (and their enablers) is beyond redemption: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L06927371.htm.

Better late than never, I guess.

Freedom of the Press, Saudi Arabian style

If you suggest that religions other than Islam are worthy of respect, you get a religious fatwah issued against you, calling for your death: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/05/03/INHA10C1TA.DTL.

Hmm. You would think that with all of our gnashing of teeth, rending of garments, and general kowtowing every time someone dares say ANYTHING which could remotely be construed as negative about Islam, the MSM here would be a little bit more up in arms when its fellow members are facing death for daring to be open-minded............

Shilling for terrorism

The Los Angeles Times has allowed Saudi frontman John Esposito to publish an Op-Ed in which he once again decries ANY connection between Islam and terrorism: http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-esposito2apr02,0,6118014.story. Now, Esposito is a fraud, and anyone with half a brain knows that, but as Dennis Prager rightfully asked on his radio show today, would the L.A. Times have allowed a paid lobbyist for the tobacco industry to publish tripe like this on its pages and call it an "opinion piece"? I somehow doubt it.

Pat Condell speaks out

You had to know that Pat Condell would have a few choice words about Fitna and the Western dhimmis who are falling all over themselves to proclaim it as "hate speech". Listen to what he has to say here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3_qelW5qp4.

Fitna to be tied

Geert Wilders' short film on Islamofascist hatred of all things western in general and all things Jewish in particular has come (titled "Fitna"), and not surprisingly, it has met with condemnations the world over from the usual suspects (The UN, EU, all Muslim States, etc., etc.). The film was available for a while on the "Liveleak" website, but that didn't work out too well for Liveleak's site administrators. Less than 12 hours after it was posted, it was removed, with the following notation (my comments are interspersed with the message):

"The Removal of Fitna: Official Liveleak Statement"

"Following threats to our staff of a very serious nature [Editor's note: Gee, I WONDER who possible could have made those threats? Presbyterians? Catholics? Hassidic Jews?], and some ill-informed reports from a certain corner of the British media [Editor's note: It HAS to be the BBC] that could directly affect the safety of certain members, Liveleak has been left with no alternative but to remove Fitna from our servers [Once again, the Religion of Peace and Tolerance has silenced a critic].

"This is a sad day for freedom of speech on the net but we have to place the safety and well being of our staff above all else [I'm disappointed, but certainly understand the site administrators' desire not to meet Theo Van Gogh's fate]. We would like to thank the thousands of people of all backgrounds and religions, who gave us their support. They realised Liveleak.com is a vehicle for many opinions and not just for the support of one [that message is certainly lost on the adherents of one particular faith, and its leftist enablers].

"Perhaps there is still hope that this situation may produce a discussion that could benefit and educate all of us as to how we can accept one another's culture [I'm certainly willing to do that, but I have a pretty good hunch that a certain segment of the population may not be willing to be so accepting].

"We stood for what we believe in, the ability to be heard, but in the end the price was too high [shame on the media that failed to support Liveleak, and the craven cowards who inhabit the UN, EU, etc., should be ashamed of their dhimmi surrender to the Islamofascists]."

I was lucky enough to download the film before it could be removed from Liveleak's website, but you can still see it at LGF's website, as well as at Atlas Shrugs and Solomonia, all of whom are on my blogroll.

UPDATE (5:30 P.M., 3/31/08): LIVELEAK HAS RESUMED SHOWING FITNA, ALONG WITH THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE:

** 30/3/2008: Liveleak Update **On the 28th of March LiveLeak.com was left with no other choice but to remove the film "fitna" from our servers following serious threats to our staff and their families. Since that time we have worked constantly on upgrading all security measures thus offering better protection for our staff and families. With these measures in place we have decided to once more make this video live on our site. We will not be pressured into censoring material which is legal and within our rules. We apologise for the removal and the delay in getting it back, but when you run a website you don't consider that some people would be insecure enough to threaten our lives simply because they do not like the content of a video we neither produced nor endorsed but merely hosted.

HERE IS THE LINK: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7d9_1206624103.

GOOD ON YOU, LIVELEAK!