The Devil Doesn't Wear Prada

 

When in touch with his feminine side, he wears a full head to toe veil called a burqa or niqab, covering nose, mouth, everything really, except for a small crocheted grill over the eyes or simply an opening. The devil is showing the world how to disguise totalitarian militant politics as religion, and strip away every ounce of freedom and dignity from its Muslim women. Europe has finally woken up to the fact that their liberty is in danger of getting swallowed in a pile of politically correct apologetic garbage.

"Must one be more Muslim than Mohammed?" It's astonishing how often I am asked this question. Europeans are finally waking up to the fact that it is Islamism, not Islam, that is hostile to everything Europe holds dear. Women's rights. Secular law and education. Tolerance of gays and different faiths.

The very principle of reason as superior to superstition, the science of Galileo and the free speech of Voltaire—all is under threat from a totalitarian politics disguised as religion.

Europe is not about to descend into a new war on belief. But there's no mistaking the change in climate. In Britain, Jack Straw, leader of the House of Commons, touched off a storm by suggesting that Muslim women should not wear a full-length veil. It was socially divisive, he explained, "a mark of separation" rather than community. When Prime Minister Tony Blair subsequently agreed, he only reinforced the impression that the country is heading toward even deeper tension between Muslims and non-Muslims. The trend lines are similar elsewhere, whether in France (with its riots) or the Netherlands (with new laws banning the head-to-toe burqa in public) or Belgium (where in recent municipal elections the anti-immigrant Flemish Bloc nearly won control of Antwerp.)

Back home

If the latest FBI hate-crime statistics are any indication, of the 1,314 verified offenses motivated by religious bias, 68.5 percent were anti-Jewish.

Only 11.1 percent were anti-Islamic, despite claims of rampant anti-Muslim bigotry in the U.S. by groups like the Council on American Islamic Relations.

Mac Brachman sends me this, from his local Chicago Tribune: 'Displacing a Muslim woman's scarf leads to 40 days sensitivity training'

"Religion is a waste of time," Huffman said without apparent malice, as his fingers traced ceramic tiles that spell out the 99 names of God in Islam. He checked his mobile phone text messages with his other hand.

Zapata, 32, a Mexican-American Muslim convert, winced at the comment, but she later said she was optimistic about the next several weeks.

"I don't know how reflective he's going to be. I feel the resistance," she said. "I think he has good potential."

Indeed. Well I am glad it wasn't me; I am afraid, I would definitely have ended up in jail. I am naturally prone to a fair amount of resistance when having Islam shoved down my throat. I think I'll just carry on wearing Prada, thanks.

Mac continues:

Guess who sponsored the training the young man endured, er, underwent? CAIR's Chicago office. But we must all be sensitive to Muslims, even when they show no reciprocity or insist on veiled anonymity and other gestures to distance themselves from the pluralist society they're supposedly trying to integrate themselves into, while attacking Jews and making them the font of every evil conspiracy on earth (9/11 conspiracy theories, anyone? Holocaust denial, two bags a dollar, cheap?) is perfectly OK. I'll conclude this post before I nauseate myself.

UPDATE: I wish I had this wonderful post earlier, written by the inimitable Fausta, depicting her first experience spotting a niqab, nearly thirty years ago in London, at my old stomping ground 'corner shop' by the name of Harrods.

Comments

[Ghost Dansing]

"GD, I am familiar enough with your posts that you take pride in your erudition and intelligence and the breadth and depth of your cultural and literary allusions in your posts on this blog, but don't assume the rest of us are galumphing philistines and know-nothings. Minda Brachman, my mother, may she rest in peace, may have been a lot of things, but a raiser of an idiot for a son she was not (sorry for the awkward sentence construction). You can't put too many things past me, GD, and trying to pass Robin Morgan off as a person to be held in honor or esteem is one of them. Shalom, Mac Brachman"

No such assumption Mac.

The Robin Morgan citation is from a dictionary definition from Dictionary.com (I think it was), and was used there within the context of useage. (Morgan's quote was used as an example in quotes, and cited)

I still thought it was very cool, because I was sweeping a panarama of thought, and the "...patriarchal religion contributes to misogyny..." critique is pretty well known, if missing the nuance and variations on specific religious impact on particular cultures...and also missing the "chicken-or-egg" problem of religion as a cultural artifact shaped-by and reflecting the culture (providing for cultural continuity, but not necessarily contributing to cultural progress) as opposed a definitive causal determinant. It is, of course, both... since the chicken-and-egg metaphor assumes linear causality...but that's another story.

Regarding "know nothings"... formal pursuit of knowledge is an interesting thing. I don't engage in it because of laziness... however those that do, regardless of intelligence, find that the pursuit of knowledge continues to reveal and expand upon the realization that one's personal ignorance is really quite vast.

The simple discipline of writing graduate-level papers and moving through the dissertation process with the ever expanding bibliography, footnotes and references makes one question if one ever had a trully "original" thought at all.

That's why I avoid that in order to maintain my delusion :)

Ignorance is, in many ways, bliss.

[Alexandra]

UPDATE: I wish I had this wonderful post earlier, written by the inimitable Fausta, depicting her first experience spotting a niqab, nearly thirty years ago in London, at my old stomping ground 'corner shop' by the name of Harrods.

[mac Brachman]

Just read (mostly) GD's latest post: GD, I would strongly recommend that you think twice before citing Robin Morgan, associated with the most male-bashing strand of "feminism" since the late '60s. Morgan was the editor of the anthology Sisterhood is Powerful and approvingly included in the anthology the SCUM (Society for Cutting Up Men) "Manifesto" penned by Valerie Solanis. This is the same Valerie Solanis, not unlike the loathesome Courtney Love of today, who was pathologically narcissistic and, like Love, wanted fame/fortune/adulation in spite of the fact that she had absolutely ZERO artistic or literary talent, no capacity for hard work, and no original ideas about anything. This did not stop Solanis from becoming a media celebrity in the late '60s, for two reasons: she shot and nearly killed Andy Warhol, the Pop artist, theorist of celebritology ("in the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes") and purveyor of the downtown NYC scene at his Factory, because the latter had rejected her attempts to break into his circle of friends, performers, artists, and musicians; and she wrote the SCUM manifesto, duly published by the considered intellectual and theorist Robin Morgan. Turns out that Solanis (who got off with a slap on the wrist for nearly killing Warhol, an ironic target not only because his theories of celebrity in the present age were so prescient they almost killed him but also because he was gay and androgynous and hardly a stereotypical male, and who had a sympathetic movie made about her in the '90s: "I Shot Andy Warhol" with Lili Taylor as Solanis, 1996) was the only member of SCUM.

GD, I am familiar enough with your posts that you take pride in your erudition and intelligence and the breadth and depth of your cultural and literary allusions in your posts on this blog, but don't assume the rest of us are galumphing philistines and know-nothings. Minda Brachman, my mother, may she rest in peace, may have been a lot of things, but a raiser of an idiot for a son she was not (sorry for the awkward sentence construction). You can't put too many things past me, GD, and trying to pass Robin Morgan off as a person to be held in honor or esteem is one of them. Shalom, Mac Brachman

[mac Brachman]

Additional, admittedly anecdotal evidence that conversion to Islam portends a rationalization of continued sociopathic behavior, resentment at society at large, and no spiritual growth: the boxers Muhammad Ali (pre-Islamic name Cassius Clay) who routinely derided his non-Muslim, non-militant African-American opponents in the boxing ring as "Uncle Toms" and who endorsed Elijah Muhammad and Louis Farrakhan's Jew-baiting attacks, and Mike Tyson, the heavyweight champ-cum-wife beater, ear-biter and former Brooklyn "gangsta" who at one of his career lows reported that he had converted to Islam but seemed not to practice it. One might ask religious Muslims and those actually born into the religion: Is this who you want associated with the religion? Shalom, Mac Brachman

[Liquid]

Ha Ha Ghost, I don't even bother anymore trying to figure out which of the text that you cut and paste is of your own opinion. But as far as the culture and tradition of the burka, there is no doubt in my mind that it was a man's idea and that it came out of jealousy and control issues to keep their women cloaked as possessed objects. Now you can go along with their explanation of how it's honorable and all via Islamic law, but you can't tell me that it remained generation to generation exept for opressing the female in their midst along with the extra factor that it covered many a sin...and I mean sins as in the bruises and scars of some of those that were beaten within the Islamic law of their marriages. Today in Iran it hides tatoos. Tomorrow the burka can hide the terrorist in our midst which is here to do damage. Think about that.

[Ghost Dansing]

Hmmm... indeed love can be like bondage...such beautiful drapery, yet look at the spikes piercing outward, and inward...metalic casing around the female skull...through the burkha we see bound wrists on one while the other an armless mannequin.

One wonders...what does the muslim male fear...what does he love...

"Reich is strongly opposed to the tendency of "emancipated" unbelievers to dismiss religions as nothing more than the fancies of silly and ignorant people. He insists that a study of religious people—of the content of their emotions and beliefs, of the ways in which these are implanted, and of the function which they fulfill in their psychological economy—is highly rewarding. It sheds light on many other phenomena, including, for example, the psychological basis of fascism and of reactionary political movements."

The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Paul Edwards, Editor in Chief, Volume Seven, Macmillan, 1967. ["Reich, Wilhelm", by Paul Edwards

[from Wilhelm Reich: The Mass Psychology of Fascism] "Clinical experience shows incontestably that religious sentiments result from inhibited sexuality, that the source of mystical excitation is to be sought in inhibited sexual excitation. The inescapable conclusion of all this is that a clear sexual consciousness and a natural regulation of sexual life must foredoom every form of mysticism; that, in other words, NATURAL SEXUALITY IS THE ARCH ENEMY OF MYSTICAL RELIGION. By carrying on an anti-sexual fight wherever it can, making it the core of its dogmas and putting it in the foreground of its mass propaganda, the church only attests to the correctness of this interpretation."

In A Guide to Jewish Religious Practice, Conservative Rabbi Isaac Klein writes a summation of Jewish views towards sex:

"Modern man is heir to two conflicting traditions neither of which is Jewish: On the one hand, the rebirth of the old paganism which found its extreme expression in the sacred prostitutes of Canaan...and on the other hand, the Christian reaction to the excesses of paganism...sex became identified with original sin, and celibacy was regarded as the ideal form of life. Modern man, while opting for pagan libertinism, also suffers a guilty conscience because of his Christian heritage....Judaism is free of both extremes. It rejects the espousal of uncontrolled sexual expression that paganism preaches, and also Christianity's claim that all sexual activity is inherently evil. Jewish marriage is based on a healthy sexual viewpoint that rejects the two extremist principles, and so are the regulations governing the conjugal relations between husband and wife, taharat hamishpacha, the purity of family life."

From the WIKI:

Islam and sexuality
Islam forbids celibacy as a form of religious practice, and considers the natural state for humans to be married.

Qur'anic verses made it legal for Muslim men to marry women from other Abrahamic religions (Jews and Christians). Later scholars extended this to include monotheistic religions as well (such as Zoroastrians). Contemporary scholars have upheld this ruling, but many view inter-faith marriages as unwise (as it leads to many problems such as determination of religion of children, etc), albeit legal.

A Muslim woman, on the other hand, is only allowed to marry a Muslim man, under the assumption that to marry a non-Muslim man would mean that the children would grow up as non-Muslims. Under Islamic law (shari'a), a marriage contract between a Muslim woman and a non-Muslim man is considered illegal and void, and hence legally an adulterous affair. The same is true for a marriage contract between a Muslim man and a women from a non-Monotheistic faith (such as Hinduism. This is debatable as Hindu beliefs are actually Monistic; however Buddhism is a nontheistic religion)).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_immorality

"...Western psychologists accuse religion of repressing the vital energy of man and rendering his life quite miserable as a result of the sense of guilt which especially obsesses the religious people and makes them imagine that all their actions are sinful and can only be expiated through abstention from enjoying the pleasures of life. Those psychologists add that Europe lived in the darkness of ignorance as long as it adhered to its religion but once it freed itself from the fetters of religion, its emotions were liberated and accord­ingly it achieved wonders in the field of production...

"...Now that we have come to understand that repression is synonymous to the feeling that the instinctive act is dirty rather than a temporary suspension of it, let us proceed with our discussion of repression and Islam.

No religion is as frank as Islam in recognizing the natural motives and treating them as clean and healthy. The Holy Qur'an says:

"fair in the eyes of men is the love of things they covet: women and sons; heaped-up hordes of gold and silver, horses branded (for blood and excellence) and (wealth) cattle and well-tilled lands” (iii : 14).

In this verse, the Qur'an names the earthly desires and recognizes them as a matter of fact and states that they are desirable things in the eyes of men, but does not object to these desires as such nor does it disapprove of such feelings..."

"A man is recompensed for the sexual act he performs with his wife," and when some of the surprised listeners asked the Apostle of God: "Is the person rewarded for satisfying his passions?” the Prophet answered: "'Do you not see that if he were to satisfy it in a prohibited manner he would be committing a sin? So if he satisfies it in a lawful manner he will be recompensed." (Muslim)

This is why repression will never originate under the rule of Islam. If young people feel the urge of the sexual instinct there is no evil in that, and they need not regard the sexual instinct as a dirty, repulsive feeling.

What Islam requires of the young people in this respect, is to control their passions without repressing them, to control them willingly and consciously, that is, to suspend their satisfaction until the suitable time. According to Freud, suspension of the performance of the sexual act is not repression. Unlike repression, temporary suspension of the performance of the sexual instinct does not overtax the nerves nor does it lead to complexes and psycholo­gical disorders"...

http://www.islam4all.com/newpage17.htm

"On my wall, I have a picture of a Muslim woman shrouded in a burka. Beside it is a picture of an American beauty contestant, wearing nothing but a bikini. One woman is totally hidden from the public; the other is totally exposed. These two extremes say a great deal about the clash of so-called "civilizations."

"The role of woman is at the heart of any culture. Apart from stealing Arab oil, the impending war in the Middle East is about stripping Arabs of their religion and culture, exchanging the burka for a bikini."

"I am not an expert on the condition of Muslim women and I love feminine beauty too much to advocate the burka here. But I am defending some of the values that the burka represents for me. For me, the burka represents a woman's consecration to her husband and family. Only they see her. It affirms the privacy, exclusivity and importance of the domestic sphere."

http://www.faithfreedom.org/forum2/viewtopic.php?t=1865&highlight=&sid=28d9f53b30a276a1d6043415b01891cd

Hey there, Georgy girl
There's another Georgy deep inside
Bring out all the love you hide
And, oh, what a change there'd be
The world would see
A new Georgy girl

Hey there, Georgy girl
Dreamin' of the someone you could be
Life is a reality
You can't always run away

Don't be so scared of changing
And rearranging yourself
It's time for jumping down from the shelf
A little bit

"Georgy Girl", The Seekers, 1966

mi·sog·y·ny (m-sj-n) Pronunciation Key
n.
Hatred of women: “Every organized patriarchal religion works overtime to contribute its own brand of misogyny” (Robin Morgan).

[Red Violin]

Liquid: I'm in full agreement. There is no other explanation for their astonishingly inhumane behvior towards each other and toward infidels.

Viva Argentina:

Iran, Hezbollah Charged in 1994 Argentine Bombing

[Liquid]

Well Red Violin, Mohammed himself thought he was possessed by a demon. I think when he was a child also that some felt he was demon possessed. That spirit has manifested itself in the Islamic tradition it seems from generation to generation. In fact, nothing shows a better example of demon spirited souls than watching a group of jihadist feverishly chant Allah Akbar as they are butchering an innocent man like a goat on those propaganda films that they use to show "the religion of peace" Remember the jumping up and down in frenzy with wild eyed screams as they drug a corpse through the streets of Fallujah? It's like a high for them -- a spirited high from a demon spirit. Ahmadinejad is just another example of a wooed muslim by that spirit, but what that spirit is playing on with him is his ego. Ahmadinejad feels chosen and his 'little man syndrome' is inflated further through this 12 imam fantasy which promises him great things. You would think that history would jolt all men into waking up to the intoxication of delusional grandeur from the likes of Hitler. One would think that those past history lessons would enlighten all to the understanding of the doom at the end of that ride,(it can manifest in a larger scope though and made easier if you fool yourself into believing that the holocaust never happened) but when this evil spirit guides a man by his ego, there seems to be a blindfold to reality applied which some wear with pride because their trust is bubbling over with pride. This pride tweeked ego blinds not only their eyes, but also their hearts. What looks like mental illness is actually more a soul sickness. It's a soul screaming out because it is dying while the body is still alive.

As for the Mexican correlation, this is no suprise at all. In the southwest of the USA, more and more Latinos are embracing Islam. There were alot of spaniards that took to Islam in Spain. But for the Mexican, think about it...Islam offers a fertile ground for the gang mentality. Of course many do convert in the prison system, but overall, Islam is quite an enticement because where else can one find that tribal/gang mentality wrapped up with the cocoon protection behind the name religion? For many, Mexico is a lawless land and once they step over to America...it's a different story. When it comes to the civil rights issues, no one is more swamped with free advice from CAIR than all things Islamic. It looks very powerful to a newcomer. It's all a deception of course, but on the street, for many a new immigrant that is feeling like a fish out of water; Islam is a gang with a mystical vibe.

BTW Alexandra....I love the picture!

[Red Violin]

somewhat off topic.

I just read a news report in Persian (Farsi)that I had to share with everyone. ILNA reports that Ahmadinejad in an Iftar (Ramadan breaking fast ritual) gala told his adience that he has recently expanded or extended (rough translation) his communication with the 12th Imam and now he has a direct link to God himself. He was asked whether he was serious? He stated, "Do we have to see camels bursting out of the belly of a mountain to believe in miracles?"

I truly think this man is mentally ill. Do you believe President Ahmadinejad should be able to enrich uranium and continue his nuclear program and be given a Grand Bargain(security guarantees)to stop his nuclear weapon program??

[Red Violin]

Dead woman painting

Delara Darabi is awaiting execution in Iran. But that hasn't stopped the young artist staging an exhibition to protest her innocence, writes Robert Tait.

[Red Violin]

Confused Democrats:

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[Crusader.NoRegrets.]

I have always said that the Orthodox Muslims will reach a point where they are the most despised people on earth. You can only burn, behead, seethe and butcher for so long before people change the way they see you. Indeed, we here in the West represent possibly the only thing standing between Orthodox Islam and another holocaust. Another Muslim holocaust that is. And then again, if they bring us down, expect the reat of the world to turn on them in a war without mercy. Bloody "crack downs" in China and Mongolia,...

History is full of instances when Islam's boundaries pushed as far as they could, and then were bloodily repulsed. Of the 6 500 000 000 - odd people currently living in the world, how many would really be too concerned if the borders of "Islam" were rolled back in bloody and brutal military campaigns?

"Question: What is Falun Gong?. Right. And how do the the Chinese treat practitioners of Falun Gong? Right. Now what is Fascist Islam?" as I recently read.

So it becomes clear what Ahmadinejad's real motive is for trying to get the A-bomb. He knows perfectly well Israel is no threat to Iran or his leadership, but China is an SC member. Israel is universally despised by the racists and bigots of the UN, ergo...

[mac Brachman]

More on The Religion of Peace, Compassion, and Doing Right By Your Fellow Human:

I have noticed, in our era, that when people in public life convert to non-Muslim religions, they often do so for spiritual reasons or to atone or correct the errors of their past ways, or some other crisis, not out of resentment. The exact opposite, it seems to me, is the case for most of the public conversions to Islam.

For example, in the 1950s, a wave of jazz musicians converted to Islam to signal their resentment at U.S. racism and to signal their militancy of this racism. While I agree wholeheartedly that the resentment was justified, I question whether their falling under the sway of Elijah Muhammad (predecessor to Louis Farrakhan as leader of the Nation of Islam) was anything other than a defiant political statement, especially since many of the converts, e.g. the pianist McCoy Tyner (Muslim name Suleiman Saud; integral member of John Coltrane's quartet in the 1960s and influential band leader, and superb pianist, since Coltrane's death) and drummer/bandleader Art Blakey (Muslim name Abdullah ibn Buhaina) did not or do not practice Islam or did so for only a very brief period. These were relatively benign "conversions" but significant nonetheless. On the other hand, other Black American Jazz musicians, including saxophonist Wayne Shorter, pianist Herbie Hancock, and the late trumpeter Lester Bowie (of the Art Ensemble of Chicago) converted to Buddhism to signal the universality of their humanness and their music. In 1996, when Shorter's wife and niece were killed in the TWA flight 800 tragedy, Shorter gave interviews in which he discussed how his Buddhist spirituality brought him comfort following the catastrophe.

Less benign have been other conversions which seemed to signal no spiritual or moral growth or change but instead an extension of resentment of non-Islamic, especially Western, societies. The case of Jose Padilla (Muslim name Abdullah al-Muhajir) is illustrative: born in NYC to Puerto Rican parents, Padilla became an officer of the notorious Latin Kings street gang in a heavily Hispanic neighborhood of Chicago after his family moved to that city. His "rap sheet" was a lengthy one, including multiple arrests for assorted acts of violence, receiving stolen property, drug dealing, and robbery. While doing a stretch in prison, he converted to Islam and also to a radical political agenda. The most famous photograph of him after he was arrested for entering the U.S. shows him looking into the camera with the dead, glowering stare of the unrepentant thug. Only now he used the "decadence" and "evil" of dhimmi society to rationalize his sociopathic behavior. Ditto Richard Reed, the British-born, Muslim-convert failed "shoe bomber." Ditto John Walker Lindh, the so-called "American Taliban." One might argue that the scion of Greek-British restaurant owners who was christened Steven Georgiou at birth and became famous as Cat Stevens also falls into this category. After a near death experience and conversion to Islam, Stevens took the name Yusuf Islam. Later he was quoted as expressing agreement with the Ayatollah Khomeini's fatwa calling for all "good Muslims" to make every effort to kill Salman Rushdie because of the latter's supposed ridiculing of the religion of Islam and of the reputation of the prophet Muhammad in his 1988 novel The Satanic Verses. Islam (the man, not the religion) later vehemently denied saying these things, then claimed he was only repeating Quranic teachings about blasphemy and apostasy that he had only recently learned as a "new convert" to Islam. Indeed, in 2004 he won libel suits against two Murdoch-owned British newspapers, the daily tabloid The Sun and the upscale Sunday Times, on this basis. The only problem with this is that Yusuf Islam's quotations on Rushdie date from the winter and spring of 1989 and he dates his religious conversion to 1977 (with the near-death event occurring in 1975 and the name-change to Yusuf Islam occurring in 1979). One wonders how broadly one is allowed to stretch the term "new convert." I was only one year older (13) than the number of years (12) that Islam's conversion to Islam occurred when I was a bar mitzvah relative to when he made his statements about Rushdie. Was I "only recently" a Jew? You would have had a hard time convincing my 13-year-old self, who felt like he had been in religious school and Hebrew school for about 100 years at that point.

I guess I have two points in this post, to summarize: 1) Converts to Islam seem to do so out of resentment, not spiritual/moral struggle, and to reaffirm their hatreds and provide rationalizations for future sociopathy (in contrast to converts to non-Muslim religions); 2) Muslims seem to feel free to speak, act, and smear anybody else (especially Jews, an easy target) but to get huffy if even the slightest off word is directed against their religion. The latter to the point where "miscreants" like the unfortunate Mr. Huffman of the CT article are compelled to endure "sensitivity training" until their "resistance" is obliterated. If this is tolerance and "moderation," not to mention a capacity for self-reflection and for cultural reciprocity, then Orwell is alive and well. If it isn't, then I challenge the "moderate" Muslims to say, and PROVE, otherwise.

Red Violin, good point about CAIR's thunderous silence re: Muslims killing Muslims. Shalom, Mac Brachman

[Saul Davis]

Alexandra: Somewhat off-topic, but should warm the heart of Red Violin based on the comments here; as always, Spengler at Asia Times is right on spot; the URL is:

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HJ24Ak01.html

[Fausta]

The phrase "Mexican American Muslim convert" is more than a little disturbing
It's not new, however. At least two years ago the Noticiero Univision had a report on Mexican women converting to Islam.

Additionally, Radical Islam in Latin America
Latin Hizbollah Update: They're Back, Again (with a new group in Argentina)
Venezuela Would Welcome Hamas Leaders "with pleasure"

[Ghost Dansing]

Brian...some other stuff from Vasili Mitrokhin' archive:

http://www.jfk-online.com/mitrokhin.html

[Red Violin]

Islam Religion of Peace:

Behead Those Who Insult Islam

[Francis W. Porretto]

"Europeans are finally waking up to the fact that it is Islamism, not Islam, that is hostile to everything Europe holds dear."

But separating Islamism from Islam has proved to be quite a trick. Core Islamic doctrine includes the fundamental tenets of Islamism:

1. That Islam must become the only accepted religion on Earth;
2. That Muslims have a right and a duty to establish Islamic political hegemony over all the peoples of the world.
3. That any government not explicitly Islamic is deserving of neither obedience nor allegiance.

If there's an Islamic reformation in prospect that will flense away the political ambitions of Islam, it had better hurry along right quick before the rest of us lose our patience.

[Red Violin]

Typo Alert:

care=CAIR

[Red Violin]

Brian: Iran has been very busy everywhere for a long time even as far as jungles of Peru converting the natives to Islam through their social programs (offering the poor and destitude food. The goal is an establishment of Islamic world.

[Red Violin]

Does Care ever decry of atrocities being committed by moslems on other moslems?

Woman trafficking in Iran is a state-run business venture run by the IRGC

Sexslaves trafficking in Iran:

http://www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/hu...s/ refs_iran.htm

http://www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/ hu...sex_slave_trade

Girls as young as 9 living in the streets in Iran
Sat. 21 Oct 2006
Iran Focus

Tehran, Iran, Oct. 21 – Girls as young as nine are running away from their homes and living on the streets in Iran, according to a classified report issued by the Ministry of Education.

The report was made public by several Persian-language news websites run by former government officials.

It notes that there is an exceptionally high number of run-away girls near Iran’s holy cities of Qom and Mashad.

Iran has one of the highest record of runaway girls and women in the world.

The state-run news agency ILNA reported in July that there were some 300,000 run-away women and girls in Iran and that 86 percent of girls who ran away from their homes for the first time were raped. The majority of such victims are rejected by their families if they choose to return after having been raped.

http://www.iranfocus.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=9001

A report by the United Nations has found that Iran has the highest drug addiction rate in the world. “According to the U.N. World Drug Report for 2005, Iran has the highest proportion of opiate addicts in the world -- 2.8 percent of the population over age 15”! Official estimates of drug-addiction in Iran by the Islamic Republic's officials range from 4-11 million of a total population of 68 million! That's 6-16% of the total population being drug-addicts! And the Islamic Republic continues to distribute drugs amongst the Iranian populace at ridiculously low prices, especially amongst the youth - so as to keep them from posing any threat to their savage regime.

With prostitution estimates ranging from the hundreds of thousands to figures in the millions (!) and Iranian women being sold as sex-slaves in Arab sheikhdoms!

http://roozonline.com/english/01...sh/ 011640.shtml

[brian]

Flashback thirty years when America faced another enemy, the U.S.S.R., trying to infiltrate and manipulate:

"In 1999, espionage author Christopher Andrew revealed that Soviet archives smuggled by defector Vasili Mitrokhin described an unnamed KGB agent recruited from California Democratic Party circles in the 1970s:

Though [Gus] Hall tended to overstate the influence of undeclared members of the CPUSA within the Democratic Party, there was at least one to whom the [KGB’s] Centre attached real importance during the 1970s: a Democratic activist in California recruited as a KGB agent during a visit to Russia. The agent, who is not identified by name in the reports noted by Mitrokhin, had a wide circle of influential contacts in the Democratic Party: among them Governor Jerry Brown of California, Senator Alan Cranston, Senator Eugene McCarthy, Senator Edward Kennedy, Senator Abraham Ribicoff, Senator J. William Fulbright and Congressman John Conyers, Jr. During the 1976 Presidential campaign the agent was able to provide inside information from within the Carter camp and a profile of Carter himself, which were particularly highly valued by the Centre since it had so few high-level American sources. On one occasion he spent three hours discussing the progress of the campaign at a meeting with Carter, Brown and Cranston in Carter's room at the Pacific Hotel. His report was forwarded to the Politburo. During the final stages of the campaign the agent had what the KGB claimed were 'direct and prolonged conversations' with Carter, Governor Brown and Senators Cranston, Kennedy, Ribicoff and Jacob Javits. Andropov attached such importance to the report on these conversations that he forwarded it under his signature to the Politburo immediately after Carter's election. . .Mitrokhin had access only to reports in FCD files based on intelligence provided by the agent, not to the agent's file itself--probably because he had been recruited by the Second (rather than the First) Chief Directorate during a visit to the Soviet Union. Within the United States he seems to have been run from the San Francisco residency."

This is after I heard about Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA)trying to recruit none other than Yuri Andropov (C-RU) to star in a series of campaign commercials in 1983 to reassure the American people that the Russian Bear wasn't the threat that Ronald Reagan insisted it was. Those ads would be presumably for the benifit of Walter Mondale (D-MN), in his bid to unseat the President in 1984. Note the names of the politicians who are still there, particularly Kennedy, and John Conyers (D-MI).

Here is the whole document:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1724508/posts
Kennedy’s Comrade: Hunting a KGB Mole in the Democratic Party

Simply fascinating in the context of today's politics, eh Alexandra?

[brian]

One thing particularly bothered me in this post, Alexandra. The phrase "Mexican American Muslim convert" is more than a little disturbing when you consider that Mexican means Hispanic heritage and easy unsupervised transit across the Southern border, Muslim converts are often very eager to prove the sincerity of their conversions.

This sounds tailor made for Bin Ladin's quest for Western Muslim converts to short circuit any profiling for terrorists. I mean who is going to be looking for Al Queda in a sombrero? Jose Padilla anyone?

There have been a couple of explosions recently in petro-chemical plants around Texas City, where in WWII there was a massive cargo ship loaded with tons of ammonium nitrate fertilizer that caught fire at the dock and exploded, killing over 600 people and debilitating a major industrial center in the war effort. It was eventually ruled an accident, but lots of people at the time assumed it was Nazi sabotage, and there were two U-boats just off New Orleans who were engaged by the Navy, sinking one, the other escaped.

As we learned from Hurricane Katrina, the Gulf Coast is vital to our economy, and it's not far from Mexico, where the government seems to be hoplessly corrupt. If Columbian Cartels can buy their way through, why couldn't Al Queda, or Hezbollah with help from Armegeddonjihad's good buddy, Hugo Chavez? Something to think about when you hear "it's just people who want work", well what work and for whom?