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This week’s award goes to the United Nations Human Rights Council. The UNHRC has taken a 180 degree change in charter from being the watchdog of governments and protecting the human rights of individuals, to limiting the free speech and becoming what Orwell called the "Ministry of Thought".

Egypt and Pakistan proposed a measure to the 47 nation member council (heavily populated - need I add? - by Arab and Muslim countries) that directs the councils expert on free speech to investigate individuals and new organizations for negative comments on Islam.

Western countries have criticized the reversal for the expert - Ambeyi Ligabo of Kenya - who used to make reports to the UNHRC on what governments and tyrants did to curtail and otherwise restrict free speech. His job now, is to report to the UNHRC when regular folks (like you and I) and the media (like CNN and FOXNews) make disparaging remarks about the beloved "Religion of Peace".

The measure passed 32-0 because the wussie western countries on the UNHRC abstained instead of voting against it - the US is not on the UNHRC - but those freedom of speech hating loving Canadians are. I’ve discussed what a dire state free speech is in for our beloved friends up north, so their abstaining doesn’t really surprise me. They couldn’t vote for it and still pretend to be true believers in free speech, but they couldn’t vote against it, since they are trying to do the same damn thing back home. The UNHRC has also adopted a separate resolution urging countries to enact laws that would specifically protect Muslims and Islam from criticism. I guess Jews are still fair game with their lot though.

It looks like the only folks who actually like this crappy measure are those freedom loving, woman hating, child raping, beheading, peacenicks from the "Religion of Peace." I have to say, I have seen more hatred and filth and vilification spew from the mouths of Muslims, than I have every heard from any other group of people. I wonder if the UNHRC will sanction the "president" of Iran for his remarks against the Jews? Nah, because the Jews are fair game. The only religion that cannot be criticized is Islam.

I have never thought the UN was anything but bad. I have never felt they could do anything at all. Their peacekeepers don’t, their humanitarian workers are corrupt criminals, they were neck need in the Iraqi oil thieving scandal, all the way up to the frakcing top! And yet nothing happens. They have no teeth. They have no jurisdiction anywhere really. It’s a giant farce and humongous waste of money.

Frakcing UN.

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Geert Wilders’ movie FITNA, which is critical of Islamic Supremacists, was being streamed at LiveLeak.com. It seemed there was at least one last bastion of freedom on the Internet. But they have pulled the movie due to threats of a "very serious nature."

Unfortunately, I didn’t get the change to view it last night, so when I went to look at it to day, this is what is playing:

It is indeed a sad day when the followers of the "Religion of Peace" are so kind and peace loving they will threaten bodily injury and death to anyone who speaks against them.

UPDATE: I found a version of the movie on the YouTube. I don’t know how long it will last. I’ll try to keep the video link below current, but you just never know.

UPDATE UPDATE: If there are problems with the below vids from the YouTube, FITNA can viewed at "1389Blog - Antijihadist Tech" - where they are hosting it themselves. And I’m pretty damned certain the team at 1389Blog won’t be caving into the Islamic Supremacists and their murdering cohorts any time soon. Oh, and BTW, one my also see the film that got Theo Van Gogh murdered by those "religion of peace" followers.

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Some people seem to completely miss the point. Or they are in such a state of mal-education they can’t tell the difference between "Parochial" schools and "Public" schools.

Over at Human Events.com, Jihad Watcher and author Robert Spencer writes about a public school in Minnesota which was started by two imams, and is located in a Mosque. This is, mind you, a public school, funded by tax-payer money. Yeah.

Into all of this, the Internet’s resident cry-baby emeritus, fake priest, Stolen Valor offender and all-around Islamic Supremacist apologist and enabler has this to say about Spencer’s article:

The obvious answer would be: "Yes, and they’re called parochial schools, with tens of thousands of them across the USA and even more worldwide." Of course, the obvious often eludes Spencer, in his obsessive-compulsive (but very well funded) racist rants against all things Muslim.

Ummm….should we really talk about the elusive obviousness? Seriously? Parochial schools don’t get any tax money. Parochial schools are not public schools, they are what we in the civilized world call "private school". Or has that obvious bit of fact eluded our good phony reverend? Probably not, but I’m certain he truly believes that the folks that read his diatribe, and believe it, are just stupid enough to not know the difference between PRIVATE schools and PUBLIC schools. Perhaps I should see about advertising on his site - I have some beachfront property just outside Wichita with an exceptional view of the mountains.

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This, I wasn’t expecting. Sure, Google removes from their news-feeds nearly anything critical of the ‘do no evil’ company, and sure they remove from their news-feeds most things that are overtly, and blatantly critical of Islam and/or Muslims in general, but I didn’t expect the company that is, for many, the de-facto registrar of domains in the world to begin a political correctness campaign.

For those that have been in and around the Internet business for more than 6 or 7 years, they’ll remember ‘way back when’ domain names cost upwards of $70 a year, and there was only one place to get them. That place was Network Solutions. Now, in a bold move of appeasement and a grandiose gesture of dhimmitudeness, the great NetSol has suspended the web-site for Geert Wilder’s 15 minute movie. They claim it may violate their terms of service (I am assuming regarding hate speech or incitement to violence or some other such nonsense). Seems many people have complained about the site. I can’t really figure out why. The site consisted of the following:

The site formerly showed the film’s title, "Fitna" ("Coming Soon"), and an image of a gilded Koran.

Now, I fail to see how a site with a movie title and a picture of a Koran could, by any sane and marginally reasonable person, possibly violate the NetSol TOS. Perhaps it does. Perhaps NetSol has a clause in there about not showing a picture of the Koran, or not using foreign language to depict the words "Coming Soon". More realistically, I think, is that the NetSol blue-suits are scared, scared for their lives, and the reactions from the "Religion of Peace" followers if they left it up. It was these self-same, diversity spouting peaceful Muslims after all, that caused so much chaos and mayhem last year with the publishing of the now infamous Mo’ Toons.

It is a sad day when an old (by Internet standards anyway), well established and nearly house-hold name company like Network Solutions sells out in this way. If they were looking to not offend people, they have failed. I know I, or one, am greatly offended at this action. I am hoping and praying that Wilder finds another host for his site, and that 1) his movie does get distributed, and 2) it is translated into English (or at least sub-titled) so I can view it and understand it.

For their kow-towing and obvious subservience to the Islamic Supremacists, I am awarding Network Solutions the honorable "Dhimmi Of The Week" award. Congrats guys! May the fleas of a thousand camels infest your groin, and you’re business go down the tubes faster than Spitzer’s career.

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In a dissapointing 180 degree turn of sensibilities, the Vatican came out and publically sided with Islam regarding the re-printing of Kurt Westegaard’s cartoon depicting Muhammed with a bomb in his turban.

While I certainly understand the Vatican’s position that calls for respect of all faiths and the like. They have, in the past, issued similar statements when so-called ‘artists’ create their art by putting a crucifix in a jar of urine. Or by creating a portrait of Mother Mary made from fecal matter. However, when was the last time the Church put a bounty on someone’s head for offending Christ?

How much respect can you give a religion, where they stone a rape victim? Where a woman can be killed to maintain family honor? Where simply reading the Holy Bible can get one killed? And where converting to Christianity, or any other religion for that matter, is a certain death sentence?

Sorry, Il Papa, but I cannot, nor will I ever, respect a religion with those ideologies. Those kinds of actions are the antithesis to what God means to me, and what I have been taught, about Him by the Catholic Church.

At least Il Papa could have also issued a statement regarding how wrong it is for Westegaard to have a death sentance hanging over his head for publishing the cartoon. Has the Vatican said anything about that? Not that I’ve heard.

You can see all of the cartoons that stirred the ‘Religion of Peace’ to such a fury here.

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Somebody I’ve never heard of named Shirien Elmasraya wrote the following in a rather wordy, yet oblique column in the LSU Daily Reveille:

People always parrot the words “free speech,” but if you ask people to explain what exactly this concept entails, they will often give you a blank look.

Freedom of speech is so vague.

Um…no, not really. Freedom of speech is not vague at all. It is exactly as it implies. People here in the United States of America are free to speak their minds without fear of reprisal by the government. Exceptions are…fraud. That is about it. We are free to tell lies, we are free to tell truths, we are free to tell half-truths. We are free to criticize our government, we are free to criticize our neighbors. We are free to say “Hey, I don’t like what that group of people are doing.” There is not vague or ambiguous about it at all.

Elmasraya goes on to take issue with fellow columnist Daniel Lumetta’s quoting form Mark Steyn’s book “America Alone” where Steyn discusses the fact that Muslims in the west are reproducing at a much greater rate than non-Muslims. Where Westerners tend to have two kids, Muslims tend to have five or six. With that rate of re-population, it won’t be long before Muslims are the majority. Personally, that doesn’t bother me, unless they decide that Sharia Law is what should be the law of the land. The fact is that in the Middle East, which is primarily Muslim, the laws are so strict that simply converting to a different religion is punishable by death. That is what Steyn was getting at. If the strict Muslims have their way, we will all be either Muslim, or dead. No in-between.

Elmasraya continues to shove foot into mouth by discounting the statement that Lumetta made about the American culture being the greatest culture in the world. Saying:

This view usually emanates from people who have not traveled very much and have not seen different cultures for themselves.

Which is just another way to say “American cutlure is not the greatest culture, and only an idiot would say so.” Well, the fact is that the American culture is the greatest the world has ever seen. If one refuses to see that, they simply aren’t looking hard enough.

The American culture is unique in the world. It has evovled over the last several hundred years. America’s policies of welcoming (legal) immigrants from around the globe, from any and all countries and cultures has created the greatest culture. America’s culture is hodge-podge melting pot of each and every other culture in the world today (and in the past couple hundred years). America’s culture is created from the best all the other cultures have to offer, while discarding the crap. We discard the female genital mutiliation, we discard the honor killing rites, we throw out performing human sacrifices, we leave outthe part where a thief is dismembered, we frown upon polygamy, we toss out the mysoginistic tendancies of some cultures, and keep the good stuff.

How can all the good stuff from different cultures, combined into one not be the greatest? In what other culture does a woman have greater opportunity and equality than in the American culture? What other culture can produce a great leader from the son of the town drunk, or from a pauper’s upbringing by an abusive step father? Where can that happen but for America?

Elmasraya goes on to claim:

Saying American culture is superior to all other cultures without actually experiencing even just a couple of other cultures is an abuse of freedom - and perhaps an even bigger abuse to society at large by instilling these views into the public.

Ummm…okay, but I don’t have to experience the sensation of sticking a hot needle in my eye, to know that I’m not going to enjoy it. So it is an abuse of free speech to look at all the other cultures (without having to actually be immersed in them) and claim, hey, this is the best? What kind of crap is that? How is that an abuse of anything? With the ready availability of information today, one need to travel to foreign lands physically to know what their cultures are like. For instance, I have never been to India, but I know and have interacted with many, many people from India. I know their divorce rate is very low. I know they are some of the most polite folks I have ever met. Those aspects of the Indian culture, I really like, but counter to that is the caste system, arranged marriages and honor killings. Sorry, but American culture trumps theirs.

Look at the culture of the Middle East. While they have some great things going for them, low divorce rate, high rate of belief in God. They have no freedom of religion. Their women are treated as little more than chattel. They have honor killings. Women who are raped are punished by the courts. Hmmm…yep, American culture beats that hands down.

How about something closer to home? Canada? People are going to jail for speaking their minds. It is illegal to say something which would hold another to contempt or ridicule. No freedom of speech - not really anyway. Yeah, America has that one beat as well.

China? Tienamin Square - ’nuff said.

Cuba? Puh-leeze.

Elmasraya claims:

Sometimes the best form of speech or communication is to know when to not speak at all.

Apperantly, the ‘when not to speak at all’ part comes in when something is said that Elmasraya takes offense with. I wonder if the quote about the demographics had been about Mexicans, or Catholics, or Mormons, if Elmasraya would have taken such offense. My guess is not.

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Yeah, right, some choice: Wear it or die!

What kind of people are these? What kind of person would rather see his daughter dead, then dress the way he wants her to dress? The answer is Muhammad Parvez. Parvez and his family live in Toronto. He wanted his daughter Aqsa to wear the traditional Muslim hijab (that’s the head scarf for those not in the know). But she didn’t want to. She wanted to blend in with society. She wanted the freedom that Canada is supposed to give people. She wanted to look and act like the other kids at school.

But that just wasn’t enough for daddy (and her brother, he was in on the whole thing too). So daddy beat his daughter to death. Beat her so badly that he killed her. This, this is from a strict practitioner of the so-called “Religion of Peace”. This isn’t the first time fathers and brothers have beat a woman to death to uphold their family honor. Of course not in the world, but particularly not in what I would call the civilized world.

Back in July I posted about Banaz Mahmod. She was a 20 year old Muslim woman living in England who brought the terrible shame upon her family of falling in love with a man her father didn’t approve of. In response to this terrible shame, he and other relatives put her through a two and a half hour ordeal where she was brutally beaten and raped before finally being allowed to die.

I don’t know that 16 year old Aqsa was put through such torture; although, it would certainly not surprise me in the bit as these ‘religion of peace’ practitioners seem to be very adept at non-peaceful ways. What I do know is that this girl will not see her 17th birthday. She died, was murdered, because she didn’t like to wear the clothes her father wanted her to wear. To her father, it was more important that his daughter wear that fucking hijab, then to be alive.

Tell me again about that whole “Religion of Peace” thing?

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It is good to learn new things. For instance, I learned today that there is a government entity which goes by the name of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF - one would think, with all that tax payer money at their disposal, they could come up with a name that made a better acronym). I didn’t know this group existed. Now, I know what your thinking. Your thinking “F-ing George Bush, making a spending on tax payer dollars on telling other countries how to handle their religion.” Well, chill out there Sparky, because this commission came into existence in 1998 - a full three years before W took office - so blame Billy boy for that one.

One thing I found the USCIRF does is keep an eye on the Islamic Saudi Academy (ISA) over there in Fairfax County, VA. The ISA sits on land owned by the Saudi Embassy, which I suppose would make it soveriegn Saudi territory, but I could be wrong since I am yet a few hours short of my “Bachelors of International Real Estate Affairs” degree. However, the private school does have Americans included in its approximately 1,000 member student body.

The USCIRF is asking the State Department to close down the school (I didn’t even know the State Department had any say in the school system in the US, let alone a private school). USCIRF says the school is telling the kids to go out and kill Jews and Christians, and even Shiite Muslims and other Muslims who are not following the teachings of Islam. But since there are several teachings, I guess it would be the Saudi-approved teaching of Islam. You know, the type of teachings that gave us such proponents of love and tolerance as Osama Bin Laden and most of the 9/11 terrorists. Your basic “Religion of Peace” teachings it seems.

The textbooks, supplied by the Saudis (natch!), it is claimed, say things along the lines of “the hour of judgment will not come until Muslims rise up and kill all the Jews.” In addition, the textbooks call Jews and Christians pigs and apes (but seriously, who cares? sticks-n-stones, right?). All that in addition to discussing how, in general, their god sanctions violence against the Jews and Christians.

I don’t know what the State Department can do about it really. I don’t know that they can close down the school. What they are teaching is wrong, but what can be done about it? If the parents of the children don’t pull their kids out of the school, then they are at least passively agreeing with the violent teachings.

Oh, and oddly enough, CAIR’s website is blatantly silent on this deal. For folks that claim to represent mainstream Muslims in America, they don’t seem to be to worked up about a Muslim school telling the kiddies it is ok to kill Jews, Christians, Shiites, Infedels, fags, trannies and uppity women. I wonder why?

All this, brought to you - once again - by your friendly neighborhood “Religion of Peace.”

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Boy, Holland seems to be a real hotbed of racial tensions these days. It seems, ever since the murder of Theo Van Gogh three years ago, the Muslims and everyone else have pretty much been at each other’s throats.

Muslims attacking former Muslims; other people attacking Muslims. Newspapers and reporters threatened. And now, now comes the coup d’etat in my view. In what I can only regard as the ultimate, spineless act of appeasement, Catholic Bishop Tiny Muskens utters this statement:

“Allah is a very beautiful word for God. Shouldn’t we all say that from now on we well name God Allah?”

Now, I don’t know what this guy is spiking his Holy Water with, or what he is burning in that incense decanter he’s swinging around, but I am pretty darned sure, based on prior statements regarding Islam, that Pope Benny probably doesn’t think very highly of that idea.

What’s next Tiny? Encourage the females to wear headscarfs? Because, really, what does it hurt? It won’t hurt anyone to wear a scarf. It will protect from the sun and the cold, and keep one’s hair from being mussed by the wind.

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