controversial dutch film posted online

right-wing dutch lawmaker geert wilders probably won't be alive much longer, after resisting pressure to NOT release his film about islam & the koran, "Fitna"...



of course, the dutch government is gearing up to go into full apology mode...it looks like some dutch leftists are beating them to the punch...prepare yourself for the truly PATHETIC:

UK judges to "Three Little Pigs"-- not so fast, swine...

can you guess which religion they're trying to protect?

sunday afternoon link roundup

over at the huffington post, ex-Georgia football star Herschel Walker reveals that he has "multiple personalities"...

actress Suzanne Pleshette has died. best known for her role on "the bob newhart show", she was also great in hitchcock's "the birds"...

Bill Clinton is claiming that the Nevada culinary workers union was suppressing the vote...the union has endorsed Obama. Hillary "won" the caucus, but Barack won more delegates. i don't understand these caucuses at all..

the Packers and the Giants are going to freeze their asses off tonight..

the JawaReport has the story of a newspaper editor in Belarus sentenced to three years in prison for publishing the mohammed cartoon....

"RONPAULAPALOOZA" scheduled for 4th of July...former Rep. Cynthia McKinney scheduled to speak, and one of the musical headliners is reportedly a jew-hating hardcore band--Poker Face. nice job, paulbots..

It doesn't just happen in the middle east...

The woman and the man guilty of adultery or fornication, flog each of them with 100 stripes: Let no compassion move you in their case, in a matter prescribed by Allah, if you believe in Allah and the Last Day. (Koran 24:2)

the two lovely young ladies to the right are Sarah Yaser Said and Amina Yaser Said, the daughters of Egyptian-born Texas cabdriver, Yaser Abdel Said. make that...WERE his daughters. they're now dead--multiple gunshot wounds.

Police provided no clues about the motive for the killings. "There are several things we're looking into," said Irving police Officer David Tull, noting that the suspect faces capital murder charges.

Officer Tull said there have been some "domestic issues" with the family, but he did not elaborate.

Police did say they are looking into the possibility that the father was upset with his daughters' dating activities.

sounds like an "honor killing" to me...i've never heard of this happening in the United States, but, the world is changing...

this tragic story comes on the heels of three other similar events which have happened recently, all of which involve the treatment of women under Islam, detailed here by Ayaan Hirsi Ali:

A 20-year-old woman from Qatif, Saudi Arabia, reported that she had been abducted by several men and repeatedly raped. But judges found the victim herself to be guilty. Her crime is called 'mingling': when she was abducted, she was in a car with a man not related to her by blood or marriage, and in Saudi Arabia, that is illegal. Last month, she was sentenced to six months in prison and 200 lashes with a bamboo cane.
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We also saw Islamic justice in action in Sudan, when a 54-year-old British teacher named Gillian Gibbons was sentenced to 15 days in jail before the government pardoned her this week; she could have faced 40 lashes. When she began a reading project with her class involving a teddy bear, Ms. Gibbons suggested the children choose a name for it. They chose Muhammad; she let them do it. This was deemed to be blasphemy.
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Then there's Taslima Nasreen, the 45-year-old Bangladeshi writer who bravely defends women's rights in the Muslim world. Forced to flee Bangladesh, she has been living in India. But Muslim groups there want her expelled, and one has offered 500,000 rupees for her head. In August she was assaulted by Muslim militants in Hyderabad, and in recent weeks she has had to leave Calcutta and then Rajasthan. Taslima Nasreen's visa expires next year, and she fears she will not be allowed to live in India again.

that islamic justice is rough stuff. in the case of the woman from Saudi Arabia, Ayaan writes:

...her life will certainly never return to normal: already there have been reports that her brother has tried to kill her because her 'crime' has tarnished her family's honor.

for "mingling", mind you...

back to the Said sisters, according to the Washington Times "Fishwrap" blog:

Friends of the girls say their father was Egyptian and critical of popular American lifestyles. "I'm definitely 100% sure that it was her dad that killed her," said Kathleen Wong, a friend of the dead teenagers.

Wong says the girl's father was verbally abusive and that Sarah, especially, lived in fear. "She's always told me that she was always so scared of her dad," says Wong. "Even at school if a teacher joked around like, 'I'm gonna tell your parents about this', she would like totally flip out and start crying like, 'please don't tell'."

Amina's myspace page..."Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive."

i'm still waiting for some reaction from feminists to ANY of this...i'm NOT holding my breath, though...

clinton campaign pushing the "obama is a muslim" line...media matters ignores it...

poor Barack Hussein Obama...he just can't catch a break from this "madrassa" thing. even after the Hillary! campaign fires one of it's county coordinators in Iowa for passing along an "obama is the muslim 'manchurian candidate'" email, which generated apologies from the Clinton campaign and insistence that this type of behavior would not be tolerated...only to have Clinton strategist Mark Penn repeat the "rumor" or whatever on Hardball (along with the cocaine rumors & Obama wanting to be prez since he was in kindergarten "slam"...):



the other day former Sen. Bob Kerrey endorsed Hillary!, and in an interview with the Washington Post complimented Obama using his entire name--Barack HUSSEIN Obama:

"It's probably not something that appeals to him, but I like the fact that his name is Barack Hussein Obama, and that his father was a Muslim and that his paternal grandmother is a Muslim. There's a billion people on the planet that are Muslims and I think that experience is a big deal."

so, Sen. Kerrey, is he or isn't he??? c'mon, mr. "9/11 commission" dude!!

not just the right-wing blogs are hot on this Kerrey/Obama thing...the blog over at ABC News is wondering why Kerrey would use Obama's middle name, and points out the obvious:

A clear attempt to raise an issue while pretending not to raise it.

these Clintonistas are something else. of course, they've used their George Soros-funded, David Brock-run "media watchdog" website mediamatters.org keep tabs on all the
smears from the right on the Obama/madrassa rumor, but are strangely quiet when the source of the smear comes from Team Hillary...

then get a load of the "expose'" they've done over at the other Clinton-run media watchdog site Think Progress, where they really call Kerrey to the carpet:

This evening on CNN’s The Situation Room, former Sen. Bob Kerrey asserted that Barack Obama had spent time “in a secular madrassa” and argued this was a “tremendous strength” for Obama...

...Note to Kerrey: Barack Obama never attended a “secular madrassa” — an inherently contradictory term because a madrassa is, by definition, a religiously-based school.

i don't know any way you can interpret that last sentence besides to suggest that Obama must've received some hardcore Islamic schooling as a child...

no surprise here--Dems accepted, even "encouraged" waterboarding in 2002...

it's come to be known as an example of the "excesses of the Bush Administration", but, as this Washington Post story explains, there was nothing secret about waterboarding, or the rendition program either. the congress' intelligence committees were briefed on them by CIA officials, as per US law.

secrecy concerns, typical of intelligence dealing with national security, kept these briefings from being made public. among those that were present were now speaker of the house Nancy Pelosi, ex-senator Bob Graham (D-FL), Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA), Rep. Porter Goss (R-FL, eventually CIA director for awhile). Harman is the only one to have raised objections. Graham insists he never heard of the procedure.

big "free speech" stinkies afloat here at the Univ. of Florida

it all started with some groups on campus wanting to show the movie "Obsession--Radical Islam's War Against the West", back on November 13. Fliers were hung around campus, featuring the slogan "RADICAL ISLAM WANTS YOU DEAD". terror filled the hearts and minds of left-wing pantywaists...that's not very tolerant!

muslim students, and i'm sure some "thoughtful" professors and student activists at UF complained to the administration, so the following email was sent out to the entire student body:

November 26, 2007

To: All University Students
From: Dr. Patricia Telles-Irvin
Vice President for Student Affairs

Re: Official Response to a recent advertisement for the movie "Obsession"

Throughout our country, we have witnessed a rise in offensive behavior and actions taken against others, which has created greater divisiveness and misunderstandings among the various ethnic groups residing in our communities. One of these events occurred on our campus recently with the promotion of an event.

Advertisements for the movie "Obsession" sponsored by several student organizations appeared during the past several weeks on campus bulletin boards and they illustrate the importance of balancing freedom of speech with responsibility.

The ads, which promoted a showing of the movie on Nov. 13 and a panel discussion afterward, entitled "Radical Islam Wants You Dead," offended many Muslim students on campus. Regardless of its original intent, the language reinforced a negative stereotype, created unnecessary divisiveness and contributed to a generalization that only furthers the misunderstanding of the religion of Islam.

We cannot speak of rights without also addressing the responsibility associated with our actions or statements, including understanding the potential consequences. One of our roles as a learning institution is to teach our students to express themselves freely, and also in a fair and conscientious manner. In an academic setting, differences of opinions are strongly encouraged, yet such opinions must be based on accurate information when describing other members of the community.

Unfortunately, in the case of the "Obsession" ads, that did not happen. I believe the groups that posted them owe the campus, and particularly campus members of the Islamic faith, an apology and a clarification.

At the University of Florida we have embraced a set of values, one of which is diversity. Diversity is not just about having representation from various cultures on campus, it also is having each member contribute to an inclusive and safe environment and collectively enhancing our understanding and appreciation of the richness brought by such differences. The University of Florida is committed to being an institution of excellence, where all members are valued and feel safe on our campus. Our role as an institution is to create opportunities for students to learn in an open and accepting environment; one that emphasizes respect for all. Let's remember that part of our mission is to prepare each other to be effective members of a global community. With that in mind, I encourage each member of our campus community as a start to learn more about the religion of Islam and some of its tenets of peace, hard work, charity and compassion.

There is little room for divisiveness in our world if we are to find peace and understanding among us. We all can win if we focus on greater inclusion and understanding as well as the delicate balance between our rights and responsibilities.

in response to this email, UF junior Ashley Emans re-directs:

Now the university administration is demanding an apology from the five hosting student organizations: College Republicans, Law School Republicans, the Jewish Law Students Association, the Jewish Student Union, and Gators For Israel.

in response, UF's College Republicans and Law School Republicans answered publicly in the Alligator (more or less the "official" student paper...to paraphrase--"no apology will be forthcoming". good for them, high fives all around...

Florida's attorney general, Bill McCollum, jumped into the fray, with this letter to UF president Bernie Machen:

Dear Dr. Machen:

It has come to my attention that Dr. Patricia Telles-Irvin, the University of Florida Vice President for Student Affairs, sent a letter November 26 to all university students entitled “official response” highly critical of an ad for the showing of the movie “Obsession” which was posted around the campus. A copy of this letter is attached for your reference.

Dr. Telles-Irvin’s letter may have violated the free speech rights of the students and organizations who posted this ad and sponsored the movie. At the very least it has created a chilling effect on the free speech rights of students enrolled at the University of Florida. As the Attorney General of Florida, it is my duty to protect the constitutional rights of all Floridians including civil rights and free speech rights. Consequently, I have asked attorneys in my office to review this matter and advise me what if any action this office should pursue. I am writing to request that you review this matter with your staff, legal counsel and the University of Florida Board of Trustees and, if they concur with my concerns, formulate and take some appropriate remedial action.

No doubt Dr. Telles-Irvin was responding in her letter to the sensitivities of the Muslim students on campus. While the Muslin faith should be honored and respected and most practicing Muslims are not radical and not terrorists, the United States has been at war with radical Islamic terrorists since September 11, 2001. The movie “Obsession,” which I have seen, describes the nature of our enemy and this war. The headline on the ad for the movie reading “RADICAL ISLAM WANTS YOU DEAD” is one of the messages in this movie and is a true statement of the intent of these radical Islamic terrorists. In her letter Dr. Telles-Irvin says, “regardless of its original intent, the language reinforced a negative stereotype, created unnecessary divisiveness and contributed to a generalization that only furthers the misunderstanding of the religion of Islam.” This may be the view of Dr. Telles-Irvin, but a great many Americans would disagree and argue that it is essential to the discussion and understanding of this war that the terrorists be properly and correctly labeled as radical Islamists who by their very actions clearly want us dead. Students and student organizations who hold this latter view should not be stifled in their free expression of it.

By not only criticizing the ad, but also calling on the groups that posted the ad to apologize, Dr. Telles-Irvin, intentionally or not, has chilled free speech on the UF campus. It may be that her intent with this letter was simply to encourage students when speaking of radical Islamists to put them in context by also making a statement that most practitioners of the Islamic faith are not terrorists and not radical Islamists. But that is not the effect of her letter. And I would submit that when one posts an ad for a movie it isn’t practical to expect a “clarification,” as perhaps Dr. Telles-Irvin thinks is needed when speaking of radical Islamists.

It has also come to my attention that students and/or faculty tore down most of the posted flyers advertising this movie and that some of those doing so wore hoods. It seems to me that the university should investigate this behavior and prosecute or discipline those who engaged in such conduct. To permit this kind of conduct without an appropriate response has an even more chilling effect on free speech on the campus than Dr. Telles-Irvin’s letter.

Your early attention to this matter is most appreciated.

Sincerely,
Bill McCollum

Dr. Telles-Irvin must've realized she was in WAY over her head, because she sent out this email, "clarifying" the first one:

To: All UF students

From: Patricia Telles-Irvin, Vice President for Student Affairs
Subject: My e-mail last week

There has been much discussion about an e-mail I sent Nov. 26 regarding the posters advertising the movie "Obsession."

Since that time, some important dialogue has been exchanged between members of the student groups involved. But over the last week, there has been some misunderstanding on the university's position on certain points.

Please allow me to clarify.

* The university supports the rights of students to freely express themselves on any issue.

* The university condemns terrorists acts and those who perpetrate them, regardless of who they are. And we clearly recognize there are people who use Islam to support violence.

* The university has no intention of taking disciplinary action against anyone involved in creating or distributing the posters. That was never a consideration.

* The university has heard allegations that the posters were removed by people who opposed their message. Efforts by the University Police Department and Student Affairs to confirm this or identify offenders were unsuccessful. Removal of posters from proper venues is prohibited by the university's policies and will not be tolerated.

The original intent of my e-mail was to foster greater understanding and communication among groups. As we all surely know, free speech is a cherished right not only in this country but also on this campus. We
should always feel comfortable expressing our diverse opinions.

to sum up, i can't really express it better than Ashley Emams:

UF does so much hand-wringing over racial/ethnic/class/gender/religious diversity, yet it shuns the most important type of diversity a college could ever give: diversity of thought. Conservative impulses are swiftly suppressed, in and out of class, just as the Obsession kerfluffle has proved. Dr. Telles-Irvin and the rest of the administration apparently believe students who feel threatened by radical Islam have forfeited their rights of expression by not falling in line with what is the acceptable opinion according to them, namely that you are not allowed to fear radical Islam.

more from UF student's perspective at collegeotr.com. go gators!

Dutch authorities to conduct a study to find out "why" Morroccan men are beating up gays in Amsterdam

UPI story here.

i can save them some money. these "morroccan men" are MUSLIM. homosexuality is AGAINST ISLAM. what's the mystery?

UPDATE: national review is reporting that one working theory is that these young men are struggling with their own sexual identity. yeah, way to throw gas on the fire!!

more lies from the anti-war press

why is this family smiling and waving at the camera? um...could it be because they're not dead, after all?

iraqi journalist Dia al-Kawwaz claimed that they were murdered in a killing spree in his Baghdad home:

"Four gunmen entered my family house in Shab area. Two of my sisters, their husbands and seven children between five and 10 years old were killed yesterday (Sunday) morning," Kawwaz told AFP on Monday by telephone from Amman.

days later, after a little bit of scrutiny...Kawwaz changes his tune:

"I am sorry if this information was not true from the beginning, but I was misled by trustworthy sources from my family," Kawazz said in a phone interview. He published a new account of the story on his Web site that blames Sadiq for misleading him and alleges that Sadiq had a hand in his other brother-in-law's death. "I accuse the Maliki government of conspiracy for misleading me through members of my family," he said.

why would he lie about this?

Kawazz, who's lived outside Iraq for 20 years, runs a Web site that's critical of what he calls the Iranian and American "occupations"...

Reporters Without Borders initially condemned the killings, now they're "shocked" to learn the truth.

The New Republic throws "the Baghdad Diarist" under the bus

14-page story starts here.

they never really call Scott Beauchamp an outright *liar*, but they do retract the story, on page 14:

In retrospect, we never should have put Beauchamp in this situation. He was a young soldier in a war zone, an untried writer without journalistic training. We published his accounts of sensitive events while granting him the shield of anonymity--which, in the wrong hands, can become license to exaggerate, if not fabricate.

When I last spoke with Beauchamp in early November, he continued to stand by his stories. Unfortunately, the standards of this magazine require more than that. And, in light of the evidence available to us, after months of intensive re-reporting, we cannot be confident that the events in his pieces occurred in exactly the manner that he described them. Without that essential confidence, we cannot stand by these stories.

well, they won't "stand by" them, whatever...the article strongly hints that the army is covering this up. TNR, in a classic leftist technique, throws a weird sexual curveball of an ad hominem attack:

On August 1, six days after the "skulls on their head in sector" meeting, the Army concluded its investigation. Two days later, a public affairs officer announced that Beauchamp's piece had been "refuted by members of his platoon and proven to be false." The Army didn't announce this to The New York Times or even The Weekly Standard, let alone in a public report. It first gave the story of Beauchamp's supposed fraudulence to a former porn actor turned blogger named Matt Sanchez. (emphasis mine, from page 10 of the TNR piece)

h/t to Reihl World View for pointing this out...i googled "matt sanchez iraq porn", and i see that somebody has set up a bio-page on Sanchez, pointing out that he's not only an ex-porn actor...he's also GAY. the old "hypocrisy card" strikes again...i guess the hope of TNR is that this revelation will make the bad conservatives go away...

finally...a political ad worth watching....

uber-anti-illegal alien crusader and republican presidential candidate Tom Tancredo has just released a WHOPPER of an ad (probably the best since Goldwater's "daisy" ad in the '64 campaign), and the only way you'll probably ever see it is to click here, because they've yanked it off of YouTube for content...the same YouTube who routinely lets jihadi videos remain on their site no matter how much people complain.

his campaign will never make enough money to actually put this thing on TV anywhere.

i've heard comments to the effect of "it looks like he's claiming the Mexicans are terrorists", but i don't see it.

if you don't believe the islamo-fascists are infiltrating this country, due to our porous borders and weak enforcement, how about a story from YESTERDAY about how an illegal alien woman who worked for the CIA and the FBI pled guilty to conspiracy, unauthorized computer access, and naturalization fraud in a US district court. she had links to hezbollah. she's not allowed to leave the country now, due to the sensitivity of the information she accessed. and, of course, we can't forget the 9/11 hijackers, who all overstayed their visas.

that strange Democratic Congressman Tom Lantos deserves praise:

he told some snotty Dutch politicians to go f*ck themselves.

well, not quite, but he did have a genius response to their sniveling about Gitmo:

“Europe was not as outraged by Auschwitz as by Guantanamo Bay”

what did i mean by "strange"? first, he looks like Hannibel Lecter:


and he sounds like Dracula. like i said--strange.

Hollywood's war on the "war on terror"

independent reporter Michael Fumento has written an excellent piece demonstrating how Hollywood is covering up the islamic terrorist threat and is instead placing the blame on their versions of the "bad guys", i.e. the US gov't, the Department of Homeland Security, the CIA, etc...

he compares this to, for example, the years during WW2:

In 1942, Hollywood went to war. It began pumping out countless movies designed both to entertain the public and bolster its will to fight. A lot of them were cheap, hokey, or both. But even in a nation that seemingly needed little reminder of the dastardly attack on Pearl Harbor or the evils of the Nazis, they kept drilling home the message that we must persevere no matter the costs or the duration.

Well that they did. President Franklin Roosevelt lived in constant fear that the public would turn against the war. Indeed a Gallup Poll taken just five months before Germany’s collapse and long after the American public began learning of the horrors of the Holocaust, showed about one-fourth did not want to drive on to unconditional surrender.

Fast forward that reel to the post-9/11 era. Just how many Hollywood movies (not documentaries) have been made in which the bad guys are Islamist terrorists that do not specifically concern the Sept. 11 attacks? If you have to guess, guess “none.”

so, we had "United 93", which was pretty damn good. ABC broadcast "The Path to 9/11", which was excellent, even though liberals and former Clintonites freaked out about it. but, beyond that--nothing.

Fumento left out of his article movies like "The Road to Guantanamo", which portrayed "innocent" British Muslims being swept up in Afghanistan..."The Good Shepherd", which was an excuse to portray waterboarding as a CIA torture technique which is such a horrifying experience that the "waterboardee" has to commit suicide..."Children of Men", which has British Muslims having been removed from the population and rounded up into refugee camps (but they still manage to create mayhem)...even go back to "The Siege"--people freaked out about this pre-9/11 portrayal of islamic terrorists, but by the end of the movie who's the bad guy? ...Bruce Willis of the U.S. Armed Forces, not to mention Annette Bening's morally challenged intelligence role.

Cat Stevens (Yusuf ISLAM) update:

saw this this morning on Little Green Footballs...

apparently YouTube has caved to Cat's demands and has removed the highly incriminating video where Cat stated that he had no problem with Salman Rushdie being killed...and would do it himself if he had to. YouTube says it's a copyright issue. Charles at LGF rightly asks:

How can Cat Stevens claim the copyright on a British TV show from 1989?

i blogged about this video previously here.

"Not a terrorist": Miami public school teacher (muslim) attacks Homestead Air Reserve base

he wanted to commit "suicide by cop", authorities say..

Kid from North Carolina uses his blog to spread jihad

interesting story in today's new york times.

neither the kid's parents nor the NYT writer can understand how such a nice middle-class boy could think this way...

Question: did Israel destroy a Syrian nuclear reactor?

i alluded to this incident back in September, in this post about Rep. Dennis Kucinich's trip to Syria...that was early september. it's now mid-october. where is the outrage in the arab world?

this is the question that reporter Joshua Muravchik explores in a piece today in the LA Times:

Last month, one of the more mysterious episodes in the history of the Arab-Israel conflict began to leak slowly into the news. Although the facts are still unconfirmed, what seems to have happened has major implications not only for the region but even more for the laws of war and preemption that President Bush has been trying to redefine ever since his 2002 national security strategy paper.

First, Syrian spokesmen complained that Israeli planes had violated their country's airspace on Sept. 6 -- and had been driven off, or so they said. Within a few days came stories -- mostly from anonymous sources -- that the planes had fired into Syria; these were followed by still other stories that a target had in fact been hit. But what was it?

After further journalistic digging, the most plausible accounts said that the Syrian targets were related to nuclear weapons activity and may even have been manned by North Koreans. Later reports suggest some dispute within the U.S. government about how far Syria had progressed in achieving its nuclear ambitions, but these same reports confirm that this is what Israel was targeting.

read the whole thing...

why the silence from the arab world and the international community?

Ordinarily, the Arab states in the region are quick to condemn any warlike act by Israel, even measures as defensive as building a barrier against terrorists. Although many Arab states are unhappy these days with Syria's budding alliance with Iran, Israel is still, to one degree or another, the enemy, and Syria is, at worst, a wayward brother. So why were the Arab states suddenly mum about this invasion of Syria's sovereignty?

Their reticence -- and that of the rest of the international community, including the United States and Western Europe -- suggests, I think, that even though most governments believed that this was indeed a blow against Syrian nuclear ambitions, none of them, frankly, were displeased to see it happen....

...This latest episode suggests that an intense rethinking is underway in many capitals. Take away the nuclear issue and imagine a report that Israeli warplanes had flown over Syria, unprovoked, and had bombed ordinary military targets. The Arab states would have been up in arms, seconded by the other Muslim and "nonaligned" states and even Europe. The United States in all likelihood would have chastised Israel more gently and would probably have abstained, rather than vetoing a Security Council condemnation of Israel.

But instead, Israel received only pro forma rebukes -- apparently because it had blocked a weapon that no one wanted Damascus to have.

i wonder if the arab world's silence had anything to do with embarrassment at how easily israel flew into Syria, avoided a new anti-aircraft system, and bombed the shit out of a nuclear reactor?

reports have been alluding to how this reactor mess has something to do with North Korea's hiding their WMD there to comply with international demands placed on it's country, but i wonder if the Syrian program had anything to do with Iraqi WMDs being hidden in Syria prior to the U.S. invasion?

UPDATE: the New York Times weighs in...reports that Condi and Def. Secretary Robert Gates both had reservations about the Israeli action, and that the Bush administration is not commenting:

The White House press secretary, Dana Perino, said Saturday that the administration would have no comment on the intelligence issues surrounding the Israeli strike. Israel has also refused to comment.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali update: back to the Netherlands

i've added a link at the bottom of the page to a blogsite that looks like it's run by Ayaan...ayaanhirsiali.web-log.nl, and i've made the link go straight to the english version. it's an excellent blog.

the Dutch have decided that they can't afford the security that's required by Ms. Hirsi Ali to live in the U.S., so she's back in Holland now, where "some people" want to kill her (see my previous posts here and here).

she's been working for the past year or so for the conservative think tank the American Enterprise Institute, even though she insists she is NOT a conservative--here she explains it in an interview with Reason magazine:

...I balked at paying a visit to the American Enterprise Institute, though.

Reason: Why the initial aversion?

Hirsi Ali: Because I thought they would be religious, and I had become an atheist. And I don’t consider myself a conservative. I consider myself a classical liberal.

Anyway, the Brookings Institution did not react. Johns Hopkins said they didn’t have enough money. The RAND Corporation wants its people to spend their days and nights in libraries figuring out statistics, and I’m very bad at statistics. But at AEI they were enthusiastic. It turns out that I have complete freedom of thought, freedom of expression. No one here imposed their religion on me, and I don’t impose my atheism on them.

I really would've liked to have seen an effort by private American citizens to take over the security and keep her over here, but i guess no rich conservatives would pony up, or maybe it's against Dutch law or something...Christopher Hitchens discusses this same issue in Slate....

Pleeease don't knock THIS one down!

as i blogged about here at NGNG a few days back, the folks who run the Empire State Bldg have decided to appease the "Religion of Peace".

here's a story from India about it...the comments section is classic. muslims vs hindus, trading insults back and forth about algebra and stuff. Examples:

"Dont Use any computer, because Algebra (the foundation of Maths) and Algorithms are result of Muslim innovation"

"who the hell told you that algebra or algorithms were discovered by muslims??? bloody looters have looted from greeks and indians."

"Totla (sic) number of scientific publication in the last 150 years from all the islamic countries put together cannot equal equal Mexico's. That much for your scientific contribution."

"Why does it take 2 planes in the belly to get smart."

Investor's Business Daily sees it exactly the way i do...it's an example of creeping sharia invading the US. they ask:

"What's next, Ground Zero festooned with crescent moons and stars?"

you mean like...
...the Flight 93 memorial?


i've read that it's extraordinary to light the ESB in colored light, but while searching for the picture at the top of this post, i ran across this. apparently, back in May it was lit up in green as a part of the "Green Apple Festival". it just goes to show that you can't trust the internet...

(hat tip to LGF)

9/11 - the battle THEY keep winning

Empire State Building to go GREEN to commemorate the end of Ramadan...

as if the installation of footbaths for muslims in universities wasn't enough (here at the University of British Columbia, here at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, here at NYU...), some dope who should know better is going to use NYC's tallest (NOW) and most iconic structure (not to mention the most precious target) to pay respect to the "Religion of Peace".

...bathing it in GREEN light, the islamofascist color of choice...

New York's iconic Empire State Building is to be lit up green from Friday in honor of the Muslim holiday of Eid, the biggest festival in the Muslim calendar marking the end of Ramadan, officials said.
"This is the first time that the Empire State Building will be illuminated for Eid, and the lighting will become an annual event in the same tradition of the yearly lightings for Christmas and Hannukah," according to a statement.

Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the fasting month, is expected to be celebrated in New York from Friday, depending on when the new moon is sighted, and the city's tallest skyscraper will remain green until Sunday.

Built in the early 1930s, the 443-meter-tall (1,454-feet-tall) Empire State Building was first lit up with colored lighting in 1976, when red, white and blue lights were used to mark the American Bicentennial.

An estimated seven million Muslims live in the United States.

we're so doomed. a big middle finger would've been so much more appropriate.