Infidels Are Cool

In his interview with Bill O’Reilly on FoxNews Channel last night, Sen. John McCain, right out the box, let loose the two charges he plans to hit Sen. Barack Obama hard with, ‘inexperience’ and ‘judgment.’

It really wasn’t anything different than what McCain, the all-but-official Republican presidential nominee, has said before about Obama.

It’s significance is mainly in the fact that there’s no message shift; it appears fixed. Polling has shown that Obama’s relative inexperience in national politics is what most troubles many voters, particularly independents.

“What’s his main weakness?” O’Reilly asked.

“Inexperience. I think inexperience and a lack of judgment and a record that shows that,” McCain said.

His evidence? Obama’s statement that he would sit down to talk with U.S. adversaries, including Mahmoud Ahmadenijad, Iran’s president, and Obama’s tax proposals, which, McCain charged, would raise taxes on 100 million Americans who pay capital-gains taxes.

A few minutes later, when he repeated what he thought Obama’s main weaknesses to be, McCain through in “and vision” almost as an afterthought. He didn’t have a chance to elaborate.

This last one may be the toughest for McCain to make stick. The “vision thing” is actually one of Obama’s greatest strengths. He envisions a nation where his leadership, coupled grassroots pressure, gets Washington beyond the partisan logjam in order to address the country’s numerous domestic and foreign problems. It may be idealistic. But it’s certainly is a vision.

Posted by Infidelesto under Election08

Hey, what’s the big deal? This is Islam…

US News

Leaving Islam for another religion, or apostasy, has long invited reprisals from the Iranian government, forcing the likes of Illyas and his family into absolute secrecy, practicing their new beliefs only in the privacy of their home. In Iran, Christians are prohibited from seeking Muslim converts, although there has been tolerance for those who are born into Christian families.

The government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has introduced legislation before the Iranian Majlis that would mandate the death penalty for apostates from Islam, a sign that it will brook no proselytizing in the country. “Life for so-called apostates in Iran has never been easy, but it could become literally impossible if Iran passes this new draft penal code,” says Joseph Grieboski, the president of the Institute on Religion and Public Policy in Washington. “For anyone who dares question the regime’s religious ideology, there could soon be no room to argue—only death.”

Minorities. Grieboski points out that the text of the draft penal code uses the word hadd (prescribed punishment), which explicitly sets death as a fixed, irrevocable punishment. He worries that it could be applied to religious and ethnic minorities like Christians, Bahais, Jews, and Azeris by treating them as apostates.

Posted by Infidelesto under Iran, Islam revealed

Political correctness and dhimmitude combined into one.

NewsBusters

Left-leaning journalists don’t just pull their punches when it comes to criticizing liberal politicians, they also seem paradoxically inclined to do so when it comes to discussing radical Islam. This curious phenomenon (curious in that modern liberalism is highly secular and radical Islam decidedly is not) has repeated itself many times over the years and is really one of the most bizarre behaviors I’ve seen in politics.

As strange and morally obtuse that we on the center-right believe the western liberal press to be on this issue, surely the more frustrated people have got to be clear-thinking liberals like Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens who face the task of trying to get their ideological compatriots to stand up for rationality and civil society. It’s a difficult task made even more frustrating by the high degree of self-censorship among liberal media elites. Writing earlier this week at the Huffington Post, Harris (an equal opportunity critic of all religion) recounts how the Washington Post refused to run an article he wrote on the “Fitna” movie that the paper deemed “too critical” of Islam.

Such behavior originates in not just the usual double-standard westernized religion faces but in a very real fear among left elites that criticizing Islam is a physically dangerous endeavor. Unfortunately, as Harris writes, this behavior just exacerbates the problem:

…..In a thrillingly ironic turn of events, a shorter version of the very essay you are now reading was originally commissioned by the opinion page of Washington Post and then rejected because it was deemed too critical of Islam. Please note, this essay was destined for the opinion page of the paper, which had solicited my response to the controversy over [Geert] Wilders’s film. The irony of its rejection seemed entirely lost on the Post, which responded to my subsequent expression of amazement by offering to pay me a “kill fee.” I declined.

via: ZIP

Posted by Infidelesto under Infidels

Guy Kawasaki, startup guru, author and former Apple PR mastermind, launched Alltop.com in March. It’s kind of a localized portal of online websites pertaining to particular niches and targeted towards those who don’t use RSS. As Guy describes it:

A good metaphor is that Alltop is an “online magazine rack” that displays the news from the top publications and blogs. Our goal is to satisfy the information needs of the 99% of Internet users who will never use an RSS feed reader or create a custom page.

I’ve been quite impressed with what he’s done, even though he was bashed by the tech blogs for doing what they say is “just another rss mashup site”. I disagree. Others may have done it already, but they haven’t marketed theirs in the way that Guy is doing and for that I give him a lot of credit for taking the leap. I think he has the know how and credibility to make it very successful. Alltop includes several pages of niched topics that include many great sites across many diverse topics and I even have a few personal friends who happened to be listed in certain categories.

One big problem though…

He recently launched muslim.alltop.com which covers everything Muslim, while lumping all of the Christian, Buddhist, Hindu and other religion stuff under religion.alltop.com.

Yea, and um….

If you’re looking for a mashup of:

• Anti-American
• Anti-Israel
• Anti-Semitic
• Anti-Bush
• Pro-Islamist
• Sharia-apologetic
• Hamas-appeasing
• Taliban-appeasing
• Terror-excusing
• Infidel-phobic
• Anti-Western-values websites

Well, muslim.alltop is your place…

It also includes obvious biased sites such as Islamophobia-Watch watch and the infamous Al-Jazeera

Now before you go calling me a raaaacist or Islamophobe or Moooslim hater or hate-filled bigot, please consider the following posts currently featured on muslim.alltop…

• Influencing Culture Change: A Call to American Muslims
• America Bombs a Hospital in Baghdad
• Christian Rage, Muslim Moderation
• A new era of Islamophobia?
• Jews and Christians should be closer to Muslims – Qaradawi
• How many Muslims in Britain?
• Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a hater
• Thinking Thru’ Islamophobia Symposium
• Shutup! Israel is humane, you bastards.
• Reign of Terror by Israeli army

Now, in all honesty, I may have contempt for muslim.alltop, but I can understand why Kawasaki would do it. He’s trying to appeal to a large audience and doing the PR jig. Now if only he’d cater to the large conservative movement or maybe the anti-jihad movement.

Here’s a purely business piece of advice for Guy if he’s really looking to reach all sides of the spectrum of blogs…

Conservative.alltop.com (Covering conservative politics) (liberal.alltop should be included too)

and…

anti-terror.alltop.com (Covering anti-terrorism efforts and Islamic extremism)

*update* not every single one of the 120 sites on muslim.alltop are the way I described above, but that doesn’t excuse the ones that are featured…and there are several…

Posted by Infidelesto under Islam revealed

While daughter and leftist Angelina Jolie cheers on palestinian terrorists and adopts babies from random countries every 18 months, Jon Voight is paying his respects to the Great Nation of Israel. And reminding that there is a growing group of Conservatives in Hollywood. They simply remain hidden due to being surrounded by wacky liberals who tolerate free speech, only as long as you agree with them and can insert your head in your rectum to see things the way they do.

Academy Award winning actor to celebrate Israel’s 60th anniversary with rocket-battered city’s residents, terror victims

Oscar winner Jon Voight is coming to Israel next week for his first solidarity visit to salute the Jewish state in honor of its 60th birthday.

World-renowned for his roles in “Midnight Cowboy,” “Coming Home,” “Deliverance,” “Mission Impossible,” “Ali and National Treasure,” among others, Voight will welcome Chabad’s Children of Chernobyl’s (CCOC) 80th rescue mission airlifting children from irradiated regions in Ukraine, Belarus and Western Russia to Israel; visit Sderot, which has endured 7,000 Hamas missiles and numerous casualties; comfort terror victims; and, go to Yad Vashem.

“I’m coming to salute, encourage and strengthen the people of Israel on this joyous 60th birthday,” said Voight. “This week is about highlighting Israel as a moral beacon. At a time when its enemies threaten nuclear destruction, Israel heals.

“Israel is a haven from nuclear horrors for thousands of Chernobyl survivors who suffer the consequences of the worst environmental disaster in history. I personally want to welcome the youngsters aboard Chabad’s Children of Chernobyl’s 80th Rescue Mission—it is a great honor to help save a child’s life.”

May the land of Israel last not just another 60 years, but another 5000.

Check out the story on Ynetnews.

Posted by Rudy under Infidels

Great post today from Bob Owens of Confederate Yankee:

Starting over a year ago with the discovery of a new kind of roadside bomb—EFPs or explosively-formed projectiles—American commanders in Iraq began believing that Iran was supplying weapons to militants in Iraq. That belief grew as more munitions were captured, including 34 unfired rockets captured on July 12, 2007 that were said to be of Iranian origin.

In recent weeks American forces have claimed to have captured even more Iranian weapons, including those that were new, apparently manufactured in 2008. In addition, Iraqi government forces are said to have captured a significant number of weapons of suspected Iranian manufacture during military options in and around Basra over the past month.

On top of the weaponry captured, recently-released information claims that Shiite militiamen were trained by Hezbollah in Iranian terrorist camps near Tehran, and that some of those militants have been captured, and have resided in U.S. military custody for several months providing valuable intelligence.

But if solid physical evidence of Iranian military interference has been captured, then why hasn’t that evidence been presented to independent experts for verification? Why hasn’t that material been presented to a skeptical world media, still unwilling to believe governmental claims at face value after Saddam Hussein’s WMDs turned out to be ghosts?
The answer is both simple and pragmatic:
Read on for the answer…

Posted by Infidelesto under Iraq

*update*

I just have to post a couple comments from the commenters at Free Republic upon hearing of this news…very funny…

• “It can’t be true. Al Qaeda is NOT in Iraq. The MSM told me so.”
• “Find the water board!”
• “Put panties on his head.”
• “Not dead? Not shot? What the h*ll is this arrest sh*t??”
• “Hang him quick,now.”
• “Bush’s fault.”

No confirmation from the US military yet, but Breitbart is reporting:

BAGHDAD (AP) - The Iraqi Defense Ministry spokesman says the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq has been arrested in the northern city of Mosul.Spokesman Mohammed al-Askari says the arrest of Abu Ayyub al-Masri, also known as Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, was confirmed to him by the Iraqi commander of the province.

There was no immediate confirmation from U.S. forces on the arrest.

Al-Askari did not say Thursday when the al-Qaida leader was arrested. News of the arrest was also reported by Iraqi state television.

And other background info from Reuters:

DUBAI, May 9 (Reuters) - In an hour-long audio tape issued last month, Muhajir called for renewed attacks on American troops.

He urged militants from the Sunni Islamist group to “celebrate” the recent announcement that the number of U.S. troops killed in Iraq had passed 4,000.

“We must celebrate this event in our special way, and make the defeated Bush join us in this celebration,” he said.

He called on al Qaeda fighters to provide “a head of an American as a present to the trickster Bush” in a month-long campaign that he called the “Attack of Righteousness”.

Posted by Infidelesto under Iraq, War on Terror

“and is destined to disappear”.

This guy really does want war. It’s sickening to think that those on the left don’t take this guy seriously…

JPost

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday that the state of Israel is a “stinking corpse” that is destined to disappear, the French news agency AFP reported.

“Those who think they can revive the stinking corpse of the usurping and fake Israeli regime by throwing a birthday party are seriously mistaken,” the official IRNA news agency quoted Ahmadinejad as having said.

“Today the reason for the Zionist regime’s existence is questioned, and this regime is on its way to annihilation.”

Ahmadinejad further stated that Israel “has reached the end like a dead rat after being slapped by the Lebanese” - referring to the Second Lebanon War in the summer of 2006.

Posted by Infidelesto under Iran

Once again muslims demonstrate their tolerance and peaceful nature.

Area Muslims bent on driving Christian expansion from northern part of country.

DHAKA, Bangladesh, May 8 (Compass Direct News) – Muslim villagers in Mymensingh district eager to rid the area of the Christian work of a local pastor have gang-raped his 13-year-old daughter, the girl’s father said.

Pastor Motilal Das of United Bethany Church said that at around 3 a.m. on Friday (May 2) the villagers sexually assaulted his daughter, Elina Das, and left her unconscious in front of his house in an attempt to drive him and his Christian ministry out of Laksmipur village in Fulbaria sub-district, 120 kilometers (75 miles) north of the capital.

Local residents have long been angry with him for his ministry and evangelism, he said, and he has received death threats.

“I did not pay attention to any of the threats or hindrances – I continued evangelical and pastoral activities with prayer,” Das told Compass. “They targeted me to evict from this area to stop the Christian activities. When nothing stopped me, then they wanted to leave me scarred for life, so that I would be upset and not be able to show my face to the society for shame, and therefore I would leave the village.”

Das, who became the first Christian in the area in 1986 and has been key in an increase to more than 250 Christians and the emergence of 12 churches, said the brutal attack was pre-planned and calculated to stop further expansion of Christianity in northern Bangladesh.

“Otherwise, why would they rape such a minor girl?” he said.

Elina Das is the only Christian student at her school, he said. “Always local boys used to tease her on her way to school,” he said, “and used to tell her filthy words against Christianity and western culture.”

The time is fast approaching when the United States will have to say “Enough is enough.” and wipe a terrorist haven from the map. Diplomacy does not work. Failed President Jimmy “The Dhimmi” Carter proved that when he bent over and took one up the ass from Iranian terrorists who held civilians hostage at the US Embassy in 1979.

Posted by Rudy under Daily Jihad, Islam revealed, Women's rights in Islam