The Officers' Club: The Rise and Fall of the Stoic

We fight a noble fight in stopping Islamofacism

And we need to take the fight to Iran, and soon.
With or without, Old Europe.

The Islamists are demanding our submission to Islamic Law.
Will Old Europe wake up in time? Or will the useful idiots take ALL freedoms away from the Europeans.

Damn, we have twice repaid the French for their assistance in our independence, both times aiding and defending the nation we fought for our independence.
Is the USA going to defend freedom in Europe a third time?

Danes under threat

Innocent Danish Citizens under threat in Indonesia.

The BBC's Julian Isherwood in Copenhagen says the intelligence reports are of such a concern to the foreign ministry, they are taking no chances.

'Imminent danger'

"Concrete information indicates than an extremist group wishes to actively seek out Danes in protest for the publication of the Prophet Muhammad cartoons," the ministry statement read, without naming the group.

President Carter ordered peacetime warrantless wiretaps

In 1977, President Carter authorized warrantless wiretaps, during peacetime.
The wiretaps were later used to convict several persons of spying for Vietnam.

In 2006, President Carter complains that President Bush authorized warrantless wiretaps, during wartime.
The wiretaps have stopped acts of terrorism.

PATRIOT ACT on track for renewal

according to the Captain, a slightly revised PATRIOT ACT will be approved next week.

Good.

One good looking Danish Queen

With all due respects to Her Royal Majesty Margrethe II of Denmark.

They think this would insult the Danes, I would think the queen had a good laugh at the picture.

More evidence (maybe)

The Volokh Conspiracy thinks that a person whose first language was Arabic drew one of the three false cartoons used to inflame the Muslims.
They are calling for any expert assistance on handwritting to review and comment.

gee, They want to fact-check and verify but they accuse.

Next, They came for Valentine's Day

Islam the Intolerant strikes again.
Since, Islam doesn't do Valentines,
nobody is allowed to do Valentines.
But, in a religion which considers women as property,
men don't need to give Valentines,
they can rape their women whenever they wish.

Tolerance Muslim Style

Free Speech is not tolerated by Islam.

Boycotting Denmark - This is okay with me. This is a civilized way to protest.

Now I'm the Terrorist

Shamelessly borrowed from the Llama Butchers.

must read this

cartoon rage

Toon Summary

This cartoon says it all. 

 

This Canadian cartoonist has summed it up.

 

Click on the link here.

 

 

Calvin and Hobbes and Muhammad

Ann Coulter, long may she speak, has nailed it. Some quotes:

 

 As my regular readers know, I've long been skeptical of the "Religion of Peace" moniker for Muslims — for at least 3,000 reasons right off the top of my head. I think the evidence is going my way this week.
 

The culture editor of a newspaper in Denmark suspected writers and cartoonists were engaging in self-censorship when it came to the Religion of Peace. It was subtle things, like a Danish comedian's statement, paraphrased by The New York Times, "that he had no problem urinating on the Bible but that he would not dare do the same to the Quran."

 

In order to express their displeasure with the idea that Muslims are violent, thousands of Muslims around the world engaged in rioting, arson, mob savagery, flag-burning, murder and mayhem, among other peaceful acts of nonviolence.
 

Catholics aren't short on rules, but they couldn't care less if non-Catholics use birth control. Conservative Jews have no interest in forbidding other people from mixing meat and dairy. Protestants don't make a peep about other people eating food off one another's plates. (Just stay away from our plates — that's disgusting.)

 

 

 

 

 

Stories from the front

"Also on Christmas Day, a newly hired Iraqi interpreter pulled a gun on one of our soldiers who works with sensitive intelligence. The Iraqi spy made Specialist Steven Clark bring him to his work space so he could look at his computer work station. The interpreter briefly turned his back to Clark and our guy immediately pulled his 9mm pistol and emptied his magazine into the Iraqi. The interpreter also got six shots off, one of which hit the soldier in his left breast pocket, but a notebook and ID card stopped the bullet. When I talked to Clark he said, 'I thought I was going to die and couldn't believe it when the guy turned his back to me.' Interesting detail: this soldier has been awarded the Purple Heart FOUR times. He's another one who doesn't have to be here. Message to all the naysayers back home: If you think these kids aren't committed to this mission, and don't believe in what they are doing, guess again."

 

 

4 Purple Hearts -- WOW

Iraq - We are winning.

Fact or Fiction - A must read article.  

 

The success is getting harder and harder to hide, but the MSM will continue to try and defeat America.

The war on the press

of course European governments are submitting to Muslim Rule...

WHEN WILL THE EUROPEANS WAKE UP
THE ISLAMIST WANT FULL SUBMISSION TO ISLAMIC LAW.
NOTHING LESS WILL DO.

I WILL NOT SUBMIT
I WILL OPPOSE ANY EFFORT TO HAVE
THE UNITED STATES SUBMIT.

Tony Snow re-publishes the 'Toons

Tony Snow of the Fox News has posted the 12 cartoon.

Plus a link to fake cartoons that Danish imams used to inflame public opinion about the original cartoons. They never appeared in any Danish publication (Hat tip to Gateway Pundit).

Way to go Tony!

Toons of our Time

Yes, I can see why some people are offended by the Danish cartoons.
But, other people see those drawings as an accurate reflection of reality.

Freedom of Expression
Does not mean free of offense.
The claim of victimhood does not convey the right to censor others.

Respect for Religion

22 dead as Religious Ceremony Bombed 

 

Sunni Muslims attack Shiite religious ceremony. They don't even respect the fellow muslim's religion.

 

 

If Islam wants respect, Islam needs to earn it.

Egypt

Egyptian Newspaper published the cartoons in Oct 05...no riots till Jan 06.

 

This "Cartoon Jihad" has been created by Muslims as part of their continuing efforts to impose Islamic Law on the world.

 

 

US media used to have guts

Print Free or Die

 

 

There's an even better reason why every newspaper in the free world should print these cartoons on their front page: To do your part to defend free speech…for a change.

The American press ran every photo it could find from Abu Ghraib, knowing as it did that the reaction would hurt the war effort and put our soldiers at risk. The American media didn't hesitate to run with illegally leaked documents about ongoing surveillance of Al Qaeda suspects and their communications into the US, even though breaking that story has absolutely aided the terrorists who want to kill us.

I'm not saying that the press made the wrong decision in either case. But I am pointing out that, for the most part, the typical reporter has been riding in the "free press" wagon, not pushing it.

Well, guys, it's time to get out and push. The threat against free speech from real-life religious zealots has arrived. Filmmakers have been shot. Writers have been stabbed. Cartoonists are forced underground in fear for their lives. Now's your chance to affirm the power of the press and reject the threats of thuggery by printing just one of these cartoons on your front page, with a note explaining that you are supporting the principle, not the message.

Religious Differences

I am knowledgable about a few religions: Lutherans, Roman Catholics, and Reform Judaism.
I am familar with a few religions: other major Christan sects, Mormons, Hindis, and Islam.

Only Islam threatens death to those who dare convert from Islam to another faith.
Why does Islam require the pain of death to keep the 'faithful'?

Only Islam demands others to accept and obey their religious laws.
Other faiths have difficulty in accepting and obeying the laws of society which conflict with their beliefs, but they 'render unto Ceasar, what is Ceasar's'.

Some sects (ie: Amish) disagree with society, so much so, that they retreat from society. But they still respect the laws of society, they simply withdraw from society. They don't insist that everybody stop using technology because they consider technology evil. They simply don't use the technology that goes against their beliefs.

The Cartoon Jihad

A very carefully planned and timed over-reaction to the cartoons.
Made part of an over-all plan to impose Islamic Law on the world.

Sorry, I will not submit

Information Warfare

Austin Bay has termed the 'Cartoon Jihad' -- Information Warfare 

 

He is correct.

 

He also refers to a suggestion of a reverse boycott, deny the weathly leaders of the Muslim world the pleasures and resources of the West. Good idea.

 

 

Chirac Surenders

BBC quotes Chirac:

"Anything that can hurt the convictions of another, particularly religious convictions, must be avoided," he said. "Freedom of expression must be exercised in a spirit of responsibility.

"I condemn all manifest provocation that might dangerously fan passions."

 

Thank God for the Danes:

But Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen said it was up to the media to decide what they should publish.

"The government cannot interfere with the media," he said. "But I think these events have stressed the importance of combining freedom of expression with respect for religious beliefs."

 

Cox & Forkum nails it again

Western Dhimmitude 

 

A great summary of the Western Media reaction to the 'Cartoon Jihad'

In other words, let's not go "too far" and openly criticize those who would kill us for exercising our freedom to criticize Islam -- we'll only make it worse! Yeah, right. And let's make western woman wear burqas so they won't provoke rapists. This is not about "bashing Muslims" -- it's about highlighting why we're in a war. Zerbisias seems to have forgotten that thousands of us have already been murdered by Islamic fundamentalists. We're way past "further divisions."

 

 

Daniel Pipes has a must-read editorial on the subject: Cartoons and Islamic Imperialism.

The key issue at stake in the battle over the twelve Danish cartoons of the Muslim prophet Muhammad is this: Will the West stand up for its customs and mores, including freedom of speech, or will Muslims impose their way of life on the West? Ultimately, there is no compromise: Westerners will either retain their civilization, including the right to insult and blaspheme, or not.

It is not blasphemy for a non-muslim to portray their prpohet. It is blasphemy for a muslim to portray their prophet.

just like

It is not blasphemy for a non-christian to deny that Jesus was/is divine. It is blasphemy for a christian to deny the divinity of Jesus.

 

Daniel Pipies is correct - "There is no compromise" Either the West submits to Islam or we don't. 

Either Islam accepts that in Westren nations Islamic Law will not be enforced or they won't.

 

I will not submit. 

 
 

Clerics finally speak

 

Clerics: 'Rioters are Defaming Name of Islam' 

 

"Islam says it's all right to demonstrate but not to resort to violence. This must stop," senior cleric Mohammed Usman told The Associated Press. "We condemn the cartoons but this does not justify violence. These rioters are defaming the name of Islam."

Finally, Clerics who understand the difference between 'peaceful demostration' and 'willfull destruction of property'. Clerics who understand that a peaceful march will get better results. 

 

Now, if only the media will end its love affair with rioting.  

 

 

 

Threat from unnamed person

An attempted comment on this blog:

Bud, you're going to find out very soon just how many white-hot blooded, cool-minded ARMED Americans are seething, searching for targets and are generaly happy to be drawing some of the fire away from our Little Older Brother.

I DO mean Brother.

Many Americans are armed.
Many Americans are seething, searching for targets.
You won't draw fire away from 'Little Older Brother'.
You will only draw fire on to yourself.

And Islam respects others

NOT

The Classic Cartoon.

G e n e r a t i o n W h y ?

The more things change, the more things stay the same.

Lesson Learned

I will never forget. Will you?

I am Danish

The Danes are a brave people they stand up for what is right, always have.

They acted as one, to save thousands of Jews from the Germans.
Now, maybe, Prince Hamlet couldn't make a decision..but the other Danes can.

Infidel Bloggers Alliance

In Defense of FREE SPEECH

I link to the Infidel Bloggers Alliance

Civilized protest

100 Pope HS Students Suspended  

 

I don't know why the custodian resigned/was fired.

I don't agree with the mis-use of the fire alarm.

I don't agree with throwing objects (tennis ball, open milk carton)

 

But this was a nice peaceful protest..

Live Free or Die

It is easy to terrorise people. Just tell them that you will kill them and most people tend to shut up. Sometimes it does not work. This is the case with people who have made the motto of the great state of New Hampshire – " Live Free or die" – their own.

From the Brussels Journal 

 

"Terrorism only works when people agree to live in fear," a Brussels Journal reader wrote to me last week. She is not entirely right. Terrorists have a fall-back strategy when dealing with brave people who value freedom above their own lives. The terrorists just threaten to kill others. Indeed, it is one thing for the morally upright to stand for their own principles and be prepared to die for them, but quite another to realize that others will have to die for them. Many heroic people are tender-hearted, but the terrorists are neither. The real martyr is prepared to die so that others may live free, but not to let others die so that he may live free.

forget the talk about Islam being a "religion of peace" and the arguments – also heard in our comments section – that Muslims would never attack Christians, never destroy churches, never burn bibles, never smash images of the Virgin Mary or of Jesus, because, they say, Jesus is also their prophet and they respect all religions.

 

Muslims do not respect non-muslims, we are infidels, we are not worthy of their consideration.

We, the Free People, must not submit.

 

 

 

Tensions Rise

from the BBC

 

Last week the row escalated after a number of European newspapers republished the pictures, saying they were defending freedom of expression.

Denmark says it holds Iran responsible after its Tehran embassy was attacked by hundreds of people protesting about cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.

Many Muslims are angry at the publishing of cartoons of Muhammad in a Danish paper.

Islamic tradition explicitly prohibits images of Allah and the Prophet Muhammad.

If that is so, then why do Muslims texts carry his image.

 

 

USA sends protest to Syria

McCormack said the United States strongly condemned acts of violence. He said Assistant Secretary of State David Welch called the Syrian ambassador over the weekend "to express our strong protest and condemnation" of the torching of the Danish embassy in Damascus on Saturday.

"Syria is a country where protests don't just occur spontaneously, certainly not of this sort, not without the knowledge and support of the government," McCormack said.

Cartoonist respond

http://michellemalkin.com/archives/004484.htm 

 

A civilized, mature response.

Why is it that 'Western' Govt's must calm the Muslims

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4686536.stm 

 

Why aren't the Muslim Governments telling their people to calm down?

 

Bush wants Saudis to Ease tensions

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,183982,00.html

 

Yes, The Saudis should take steps to ease the tension.

 

 

The Left Weighs In on Cartoon Riots... Blame Bush

Don't blame Bush,
Al Gore invented the internet.

Face of Muhammed

Face of Muhammed: Cartoon War Overview - Drawings of Muhammed

The map of the 'Cartoon War'.

Something's Right in Denmark

Austin you mis-titled your excellent post

Images of a Prophet over time

Hmmmm. I don't recall the outrage and rioting.

Lying in Islam

Please read the entire link.

An example of Islamic deception is that Muslim activists always quote the passages of the Quran from the early part of Mohammed’s ministry while living in Mecca. These texts are peaceful and exemplify tolerance towards those that are not followers of Islam. All the while, they are fully aware that most of these passages were abrogated (cancelled and replaced) by passages that came after he migrated to Medina. The replacement verses reflect prejudice, intolerance, and endorse violence upon unbelievers.

h/t My Vast Right Conspiracy

An OSCAR for Michelle Malkin

This film deserves an Oscar for BEST FILM.

I have arrived

I have trolls....
trolls have rights, too.

They may express their opinions - if they stay within the bounds of polite language.
I had to delete a comment, I concurred with the comment but the language was impolite.

Comment moderation is now on.

No Muslim Outrage.....

Misdirected Outrage
boortz.com: Nealz Nuze Today's Nuze Here is an interesting view of the "outrage" in the Muslim communities around the world because of a few cartoons. A little perspectve on the issue if you please.

1. Muslims fly commercial airliners into buildings in New York City.  No Muslim outrage.


2. Muslim officials block the exit where school girls are trying to escape a burning building because their faces were exposed.  No Muslim outrage.


3. Muslims cut off the heads of three teenaged girls on their way to school in Indonesia.  A Christian school.  No Muslim outrage.


4. Muslims murder teachers trying to teach Muslim children in Iraq.  No Muslim outrage.


5. Muslims murder over 80 tourists with car bombs outside cafes and hotels in Egypt.  No Muslim outrage.


6. A Muslim attacks a missionary children's school in India.  Kills six.  No Muslim outrage.


7. Muslims slaughter hundreds of children and teachers in Beslan, Russia.  Muslims shoot children in the back.  No Muslim outrage.


8. Let's go way back.  Muslims kidnap and kill athletes at the Munich Summer Olympics.  No Muslim outrage.


9. Muslims fire rocket-propelled grenades into schools full of children in Israel.  No Muslim outrage.


10. Muslims murder more than 50 commuters in attacks on London subways and busses.  Over 700 are injured.  No Muslim outrage.


11. Muslims massacre dozens of innocents at a Passover Seder.  No Muslim outrage.


12. Muslims murder innocent vacationers in Bali.  No Muslim outrage.


13. Muslim newspapers publish anti-Semitic cartoons.  No Muslim outrage


14. Muslims are involved, on one side or the other, in almost every one of the 125+ shooting wars around the world.  No Muslim outrage.


15. Muslims beat the charred bodies of Western civilians with their shoes, then hang them from a bridge.  No Muslim outrage.


16. Newspapers in Denmark and Norway publish cartoons depicting Mohammed.  Muslims are outraged.

Dead children. Dead tourists. Dead teachers. Dead doctors and nurses. Death, destruction and mayhem around the world at the hands of Muslims .. no Muslim outrage ... but publish a cartoon depicting Mohammed with a bomb in his turban and all hell breaks loose.
  

A more reasoned view on the cartoons

He who forgets the past is doomed to repeat it.

I know my history.

Image of the Day

I hope my troll reads this link.

News from Denmark

Shamelessly borrowed from www.nicedoggie.net, no time to properly get permission.

We just received an email from our Imperial Mother overseas containing a Letter to the Editor printed in the Danish daily “Ekstrabladet”.

Sorry.

Sorry for giving you a home and assistance.
Sorry for giving you an education, free of charge.
Sorry for helping you economically.
Sorry for letting you exercise your religion freely in our Christian country.
Sorry for sending foreign aid to your home countries.
Sorry for not starting blood feuds over your murders of our countrymen.
Sorry for not wearing explosive belts and blowing ourselves up in public when our feelings are hurt.
Sorry for not following the requirements of your religion.

But an apology for speaking up in our own nation according to our own laws? That, you’ll never have.

NSA Hearings

http://blogs.pajamasmedia.com/nsa_files/

"well-planned spontaneity":

 

 

From the Guardian "well-planned spontaneity":

 

Amazing how all those dirt, poor Muslims..suddenly had a supply of Danish flags to burn.

WHY?

Why are people of all other religions required to submit to Sharia Law?

 

Why do we have to surrender of "freedom of expression"?

Why are we expected to be "politically correct"?

 

I think the EU and USA should:

Withdraw all reporters and civilian aid workers from any nation/location where the mobs attacked embassies over the Danish cartoons.

Also, we should withdraw the reporters and aid workers who have been threatened over these cartoons.

We should suspend all assistance to those nations as well.

Brit Hume via Michelle Malkin

What is striking about this is what offends these Muslims who are protesting and these imams. Does the slaughter of innocent people in many parts of the world in the name of Allah offend them? Is that a sacrilege worthy of protest? No, not in the least. No, cartoons published five months ago in a -what- for people who live in Gaza and Damascus is an unknown and unheard-of newspaper--that's what's offending them. Not to mention, of course, the kinds of slurs against Christians and against the Jewish faith that are regularly spread abroad in the Arab world by the mass media and by these imams.
This is really a disgrace. And it is a disgrace not least because of the obvious, howling double standard involved here. The really great sins are ignored. And this trivia is protested.

Greyhawk weighs in

Greyhawk highlights the LIES being spread by MUSLIMS to incite RIOTS.

The danger of 'sensitivity'

"
That's the question the Danish newspaper was testing: the weakness of free societies in the face of intimidation by militant Islam.

One day, years from now, as archaeologists sift through the ruins of an ancient civilization for clues to its downfall, they'll marvel at how easy it all was. You don't need to fly jets into skyscrapers and kill thousands of people. As a matter of fact, that's a bad strategy, because even the wimpiest state will feel obliged to respond. But if you frame the issue in terms of multicultural "sensitivity," the wimp state will bend over backward to give you everything you want -- including, eventually, the keys to those skyscrapers. Thus, Jack Straw, the British foreign secretary, hailed the "sensitivity" of Fleet Street in not reprinting the offending cartoons.

"

Marx, Communism, Totalitarianism; Muhammed, Islam, Terrorism

Rusty breaks it down.

"Islam is the root cause of Islamic terrorism, just as Marxism was the root cause of international Communist aggression.

Islam is the root cause of Islamic authoritarianism in every single nation that has a Muslim majority, just as Marxism was the root cause of authoritarianism in every single nation that adopted the Communist system.

Muhammed is the man responsible for creating the ideology of conflict and tyranny that is Islam, every bit as much as Marx is the man responsible for creating the ideology of conflict and tyranny that is Communism.

To ask me to say anything less of Islam is to ask me to lie for the sake of political expediency or political correctness. I cannot, and will not, muzzle my criticisms of Muhammed simply because it may alienate some of our allies in the war on terror, nor will I be silent about Islam simply because it may offend.

We were able to win the Cold War without resorting to such nonsense. I hope and pray that we can win the war against radical Islam under those same terms."

Comments on Rusty's post:
"

Liberal Left: "You cannot make a country responsible for a terrorist act committed by it's Citizens"

Muslims: "We can hold a whole country accountable for a Newpaper cartoon."

At least there is some degree of separation occurring.

Posted by: dave at February 4, 2006 11:11 PM

As a former Muslim, I find your article absolutely spot-on. From its inception, Islam has been a political ideology that usurped the role of religion. There are no doubt Muslims in this country who have learned the value of western ideals and blended those with a sort of "kinder, gentler" Islam. But as well intentioned as they (and the rest of our country) may be, that is not going to change the ugly reality of the real Islam, I'm afraid

Posted by: Masud at February 4, 2006 11:36 PM