Islam

Well, last nite, I watched Facebook and the news feeds on TV.  One of the sights brought in was that folks gathering in the park opposite the White House chanting USA and singing the National Anthem.

Chris Crawford, a student down in DC (and Chair of the New Hampshire Conservative Futures PAC), sent this following guest post via Facebook to let others know what it was like to be down there last nite:

Live from DC – Jubilation

by Chris Crawford

When I got out of 10:00 mass at St. Stephen’s Parish in Washington, D.C., I had a text message from Melissa Fernandez.

It read, “The president it [sic] making an emergency speech right now….They say it’s going to be really dramatic.”

Vince Nordin, who came with me to Mass for the first time this year, said, “It’s probably nothing.”

Naturally, I panicked. I thought, “What could be this important? Was there an attack or a disease outbreak that no one in the press had known about? What if there’s a meteor on its way toward us?”

I thought aloud to Vince and he said, again, “No, seriously, it’s nothing. Relax.”

We rushed into Madison Hall and ran out of the elevator. Vince had to pee, but I was just really excited. I burst through the door and looked at the TV. I saw Wolf Blitzer’s face and the bottom line that said, “OSAMA BIN LADEN DEAD”.

My heart pounded. I looked at the rest of the room and let out a yell for joy. Tyler McAfee called me and we went crazy on the phone.

Friends from our floor crowded into the room and waited for Obama’s speech. Ed Hendry appeared outside the White House and said, “There is a crowd forming outside. There are about 30 or 40 people. They are chanting “U-S-A and singing The National Anthem.” Little did he know, the crowd would grow to thousands within just a couple of hours.

Next, Wolf Blitzer appeared and said that the president would not be speaking for another 20 minutes. I played “Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue,” by Toby Keith and shortly thereafter I went to grab my sweater off of the door. It’s a bright red, white, and blue sweater with elephants on it that Uncle Michael had given me for my birthday last year. I also tossed the white cowboy hat that I had gotten at CPAC earlier this year. Then we made the decision to watch the speech later, and go celebrate now.

We met outside Madison and began walking quickly down 22nd Street toward the White House. There were dozens of people in the street cheering, and there were cars honking in the streets in the distance. As we got closer to the White House, we broke into a jog –and then an all-out run, toward Lafayette Square. There were hundreds of people already there, and the crowd was growing. On our way into the crowd, people spotted my sweater and my white Cowboy hat and were high-fiving me. Some people took pictures.

A “U-S-A” chant was breaking out as we joined hundreds…

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Update: Obama just announced OBL died in a fire fight – I guess NOT a bomb.  Good – makes it more personal.

As La Costra Nostra members might put it – he sleeps with the fishies.  Imagine his face when he realizes there ARE no virgins waiting for him!

Started off as an alert at 10:30 that The One was going to interrupt The Donald’s decision on The Apprentice – many thinking this was a political tactic.  Switched over to Fox – who knew Geraldo was going to be Da Guy to announce it?

What I know so far – OBL killed a week ago in a mansion in Pakistan by a US bomb.  It has been confirmed by DNA analysis – the US has sole possession of the body.

Thanks to the men and women of our military and intelligence to find him, verify it was him, and then to carry out the mission.  Can you imagine HOW MANY people had to keep their mouths shut during this past week?  May those that have given much and those giving all to have this news rest easy – Mission Accomplished!

I will also say this: thank you to both President Bush and President Obama for keeping up the pressure and the hunt.

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Political Correctness will be one of the leading causes of the death of Western Liberal Philosophy and the civilization on which it is built.  I read this and saw – for all of the West’s military might, a word might bring it down.  Why?

It seems that anyone, at any time, can accuse of offense.  Whether it makes sense or not, we seem to be devolving to where the decision of "offense" is no longer made by society but strictly by the minority – and in this case, a minority of one.   The purpose of identity politics is not to ensure that the rights of a minority are protected.  In effect, it is a tool with which to wage war by which the minority can hijack the rights of the majority. 

From Powerline: It sounds like parody, but this story from Spain is evidently true:

The parents of a Muslim boy who attends a secondary school in La Línea, Cádiz province, have reported their son’s teacher for an incident in the boy’s geography class which the child said caused him offence as a Muslim.

The teacher, José Reyes Fernández, with more than 20 years in the profession, was explaining to the class how the cold climate in Trevélez, Granada province, aided in the curing of the village’s most famous local product, jamón serrano. The boy told his teacher that hearing the word ‘ham’ in class was offensive to him because of his religion and asked his geography teacher to stop referring to the product which caused him offence.

El Mundo newspaper reports that the boy’s parents then reported the teacher to both the National Police and to the courts. They placed a denuncia against the teacher for psychological ill-treatment in the context of xenophobia and racism.

One assumes that the boy and his parents had help from the Spanish equivalent of CAIR in pushing his "xenophobia" complaint. It is a great illustration of the effort to create a little bubble of walking sharia around each Muslim that we also see in the U.S.

On one level,…

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Islamofascism – a political system wrapped up in the trappings of religion.  The Left is always playing Chicken Little about a Christian fundamentalist theocracy taking hold and taking over here in America.  I’ve listened to this tommyrot for decades – it ain’t happened, it isn’t happening, and it won’t either.

Shariah Law, on the other hand?  Oh, we who bring that up are called Islamophobes, or religion haters, or just bigots (man, I just wish I had a trademark on that word….).  Yet, look at what happened with the Mohammed Cartoons a few years ago out of Denmark; those that drew them and those that published them were vilified.

Ask yourself – where was the US media on "free speech"?  AWOL, cowards – great defenders, these folks, when it only comes to flapping their gums.  Yet, when faced with an issue where real courage is concerned, free speech in the face of Islamic ire, they go limp and flaccid.  Yeah, you go guys.  They wouldn’t even print a cartoon that simply had the text "Where’s Muhammad" with no "blasphemic image" of Muhammed in it (Steve put it this version of a religious "Where’s Waldo?" up and I’m glad he did).

Greg Gutfeld of Red Eye had a spot on Fox’s News Watch program – and called out the REAL Islamophobes – the media:

Transcript after the jump.  (H/T: NewsBusters)

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Whereas democracy is defined as the rule of the people, by the people, for the people, Islam is defined as the rule of Allah, by Allah and his emissaries, for the pleasure of Allah. And when people, out of concern for political correctness or ignorance, describe Islam as a religion of peace, they are, at the very least, guilty of misrepresenting it.

If only the masses of Muslims arise and carry out the orders of Allah, then we would have the promised paradise of Islam on earth as exemplified by such rules as that of the Taliban, Saudi Arabia, the Sudan, and of course the Shiite nirvana of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Islam is a comprehensive totalitarian form of slavery. It is the opposite of freedom. Its very name, Islam means submission or surrender. True to its name, Islam strives for nothing short of enslavement of the body of humanity as well as the bondage of its mind. This non-negotiable surrender to Islam requires the individual, as well as the society, to disenfranchise themselves of many of the fundamental and deeply cherished human rights.  

Let’s have no doubt about it, Islam is political to the core. In Islam…

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