The Great Gig In The Sky

I will never forget you heathen bastards and misbegotten son's of Mohammad, NEVER!

 

And a tip O' The GM Derby to Raven

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Terrorism Quiz: Guess the Religion

Liberals don't like profiling to detect potential terrorist threats.  But, just as a game, let's see if you can guess the omitted part of the headline below based upon your personal perception.

British (GUESS THE RELIGION) 'planned to kill thousands by bringing down SEVEN transatlantic airliners in one go with liquid bombs'

Okay, now click on the article link to see how you did!  Review the headline and the images of terrorists.   

Did you guess "Muslims?"  If so, consider yourself a racist and on the wrong side according to standards of liberals, the ACLU, Amnesty International, and Democrats--pretty much all the same.  Didn't you know that Islam is the "religion of peace?" 

Now, cleanse your mind of bigotry and take the test on the next page by clicking on "more."  We believe in second chances.

Authored by Woody

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This Post Is NOT Safe For Children or Work!!!

There is this dude called Mookie al-Sadsack, whoops, silly me, his name is Muqtada al-Sadr who runs something called the Mahdi Army.  Well, when he's not hiding in Iran he's running it.  Well, maybe not running it, but he started it. 

He's a dimwitted looking dude too with really bad teeth, kinda reminds me of a bully I once knew but with whiskers.

At any rate, Mookie as he is known to the terrorist set has a really bad case of body odor, perhaps it emanates from his teethies, perhaps because he doesn't bathe very often, or perhaps because I'm lying and he smells like linen dried in sunshine.  At any rate, there have been several occasions when Mookie has attempted to influence the government of Iraq and made a really bad show of it.  Once, he thought he had enough strength to take on the American Military and the burgeoning Iraqi Military but got his ass kicked and ended up telling his "army" to stand down and he fled to Iran. 

More recently, he declared a moratorium on fighting (mostly so his dudes and dudettes wouldn't get their asses kicked so bad but now the moratorium seems to be about up and the so called penis worshiping Mahdi Army is trying to take over again in Basra and other localities.

Penis worshiping you say?

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So, What's the Problem?

200 Muslim prisoners are given ham sandwiches during Ramadan

Muslim prisoners who were offered ham sandwiches during the holy month of Ramadan have received a letter of apology from the Government.

Not enough mustard?

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C.A.I.R. and the IRS: This is Too Too Delicious

My friend Always On Watch has a great post up regarding CAIR's Loss of their 501(c)(4) Status.  Read it and chuckle!

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The Monster They've Created

Every once in a while a headline reaches out and grabs you by the shorts.  Sometimes because it is so well written it is almost the entire story, sometime because it is just so funny and / or incredulous; "Dewey Wins!" anyone?  This headline this morning however almost knocked my socks off. 

HAMAS to ALLOW Egypt border closing

Tail wagging the dog I guess.  Wonder if Mubarak feels marginalized by this rabid political/terrorist entity he and the other Arab leaders have created and supported?

 

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This Little Piggy Went To Market: The cost of capitulation

This Little Pig went to Market

This Little Pig stayed home

This Little Pig had roasted corn

This Little Pig had none

And This Little Pig went weeweewee, all the way home.

So goes the children's rhyme as the dad pulled on each toe and then tickled the foot with the last little piggy.  Much to the delight of little children everywhere, if not in the tickling of the foot, then in the anticipation of the d'enouement!

Perhaps more famous is the story of the three little pigs and the big bad wolf who huffed and he puffed and he blew down the houses made of straw and sticks of two of the little pigs and was foiled by the stone/brick home of the wise, perhaps older, and better financed third little pig.

 

Other pigs who have achieved fame and star quality lives include Looney Tunes Porky,  and most certainly

 

 

 

Christopher Robbins friend Piglet

 

 

and the ubiquitous Piggy Bank.

 

 

One of my favorite eateries as a youth visiting my grand parent's in San Antonio was the PigStand, a drive-in, always crowded, always smelling of Bar-B-Qued pork and serving Bar-B-Qued pork sandwiches to die for.

Which brings us to a post by my friend Always on Watch in which she decries the blindsiding of the story of the Three Little Pigs for an award, because it might offend Muslims or Asians (which is Brit-speak for Muslims).  Well, golly Molly, what is going on here? 

We have the "Human Rights Commission" in Canada investigating a magazine publisher for publishing copies of the Mohammad Cartoons.  Remember them, those Danish Drawings that caused riots all over the world because MoHAMmad had been made fun of?  And that marvelous Mark Steyn daring to print some phrases that might disturb the little darlin's.  One of our favorite commenter's Pat Condell had something to say about that:

Pork products have been pulled from school lunches because Muslims might be offended.  Banks have stopped handing out Piggy Banks to children because some Muslim might be offended.  Muslims rioted because a teacher allowed a class of Muslim students to choose a name for the class mascot a Teddy Bear and the students chose Mohammad.  The rioters wanted her executed for that effrontery.

All of this hoopla will cost a great deal.  It will cost you the freedom to say what you want because someone else might take offense at your words.  It will cost you the freedom to eat what you want because someone else doesn't eat the same thing.  It will cost you the freedom to publish what you want, because someone might take offense reading your publication. 

I'm willing to put $20.00 (not much, but all I can afford) up if someone can prove beyond the shadow of a doubt that some governmental agency required a school or other publicly funded institution to pull pork from the menu so as not to offend Seventh Day Adventists or Jews who also have religious proscriptions against eating pork. 

All this has a price and the price of this constant capitulation to the demands of Islamofascists is the loss of freedom.  Whether it be the loss of freedom to say or print something, the loss of freedom to choose what you wish to eat for meals or the loss of freedom to worship as you please.  What's that you say?  This isn't about freedom of worship?  Nonsense, when one freedom goes down the tube, it doesn't take much for the rest of them to slide away also. 

And why are we doing this (mostly) to ourselves for not standing up united and saying "Bull Shit!"  Is it because the strictures of political correctness and multiculturalism demands it?  Is it because at bedrock all cultures are equivalent and we MUST make accommodations for all that come to our various nations?  Is it because... 

Truth be known, it is strictly and solely because other groups don't riot and demand things that they are not willing to do on their own.  When was the last time you saw a Muslim nation demand that Saudi Arabia allow Christian or Jewish worship in Saudi Arabia, let alone the building of a Christian Church or Jewish Temple?  When is the last time that you saw a mainstream Muslim organization such as say C.A.I.R. demand that Muslim Imams stop saying vile things about Christians and Jews?  When is the last time you saw huge Muslim demonstrations against honor killings or female genital mutilation?

What?  You haven't?  Imagine that! And yet we are being hounded to make allowances for Muslims, to drop cultural props (piggy banks for Pete's Sake) because someone might be offended.  Well, I really don't give a damn if someone is offended by something I hold dear or say, or print, or publish, or think.  When a backward culture which essentially hasn't moved forward since the 8th Century can demand allowances solely on the basis of getting upset and rioting can dictate the mores and practices of much more advanced cultures than something is seriously wrong here. 

In Canada and in some places in the United States Muslims are demanding the right to institute Shari'a law to deal with Muslim issues.  How stupid is that?  To subvert the existing laws of a country so that laws based on the ramblings of a 7th century "prophet."  And yet, there are actually intellects that wonder if this would be an OK thing for us to do.  I submit that it is not.  I submit that if I move to another country it is my job, my obligation to assimilate to the extent that I don't smother my own identity.  Could I live under German law?  Of Course.  How about Russian, Mexican, Bolivian, Saudi laws?  You bet, as long as that is something I choose to do.  But I don't have the right to move to Germany, Russia, Mexico, Bolivia or Saudi Arabia and demand that they change their culture and laws to suit ME!  What is it about that concept that the PC'ers and Multi-Culti's don't understand?

Not too many months ago, my beloved and I went on a little mini-vacation to Fredricksburg, Texas where we supped on fine German Cooking, wandered around a town admiring the influence of the German settlers that founded the town.  But despite the German flavor of the town, the laws being enforced were American.  The allegiance was to Texas and the United States.  Police cars were marked Police, not Polizei.  In Paris, Texas the language is not French nor are the laws.  In Neiderland, Texas the customs are pure Texas, not Dutch.  My point, of course, is that we cannot long survive as a people if we give up the right to decide what being part of the people means.  Any modern (and I emphasize the word modern) country with fairly liberal immigration policies and practices, regardless of what the "official" policy might be, cannot long stand without assimilation of its immigrants. 

The rapid inflow of Muslims into countries such as the United States, England, Canada, Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands, and France has produced an anti-immigrant backlash in many corners.  This is a shame, Canada and the United States were founded on the idea of immigration and assimilation into a new peoples.  Indeed, ethnic immigration produced "ghettos" of immigrants for a generation or two.  Italians banded together in Little Italy in New York.  Germans banded together in places like St. Louis, Mo. and Fredricksburg, Tx.  But in each case, the majority of those individuals adopted their new country with a patriotism seldom seen in family's on the scene for years and years and years.  Japanese and Italian enlistment into the US Armed Forces in WWII proved a boon both to the republic and its military force, but also helped further the absorption of people into the fabric of America.

And this we are being asked to give up to accommodate a backwards culture that thinks stoning to death is an apt punishment for adultery, that hanging is OK for the crime of being gay.  What barbarity this be!

So, in honor of all those who cannot do so because of some fat headed bureaucrat or multi-culti idiot I'll dine on the following:

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Stop the Memorial Blogburst: Support Tom Tancredo’s call to scrap the crescent memorial

Support Tom Tancredo’s call to scrap the crescent memorial

The Park Service has a history of keeping the Secretary of the Interior in the dark about the decisions it makes in his name. It is likely that Secretary Dirk Kempthorne has never been told about the many warnings of Islamic symbolism in the planned Flight 93 Memorial. Please help bring Dirk into the loop by pasting the following letter (or one of your own) into an email for him. Text below the dotted line:

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Dear Secretary Kempthorne:

Please heed Congressman Tom Tancredo’s call to completely scrap the present design for the Flight 93 Memorial. The original Crescent of Embrace design would have planted a bare naked crescent and star flag on the crash site:

The memorial plaza that sits roughly in the position of the star on an Islamic flag marks the crash site. (Click pics for larger images.)

All the redesign did was add some trees to the west of the original crescent:

Aside from the re-coloring of the site-plan image, the only actual change in the design is the additional arc of trees to the rear of a person facing into the original crescent.

The Park Service promised Congressman Tancredo in 2005 that Islamic iconography would be removed from the memorial. Instead, this iconography has only been very slightly disguised. Every particle of the original Crescent of Embrace design remains completely intact in the redesign.

The giant crescent points to Mecca

In September 2005, a half dozen different bloggers verified that a person facing directly into the original Crescent of Embrace would be facing almost exactly at Mecca. That makes the crescent a mihrab, the central feature around which every mosque is built.

Face into the crescent to face Mecca:

Left: mihrab from the Great Mosque in Cordoba Spain. Right: Crescent of Embrace also faces Mecca. The green circle is from the Mecca-direction calculator at Islam.com. When it is placed over the original Crescent of Embrace site plan, the Mecca-direction line (the “qibla”) almost exactly bisects the crescent.

You can plant as many trees around a mosque as you want and it will still be a mosque. But this isn’t just the world’s largest mosque. The planned memorial is also full of terrorist memorializing features.

Please hear my voice along with those of Congressman Tancredo and Tom Burnett Sr., who is refusing to allow Tom Jr.’s name to be used in the crescent design. The memorial to Flight 93 should not be a terrorist memorial mosque.

Sincerely

(Your name)

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Secretary Kempthorne’s phone number is 202-208-7351.

Snail-mail: Hon. Dirk Kempthorne, Secretary of Interior

Office of the Secretary

Rm. 6156, ms7229-MIB

1849 C St, NW

Washington, DC 20240-0001

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Stop The Murdoch Memorial Blogburst

 

Unfortunately, my links aren't working so to watch the video,  don't click on the photograph, click HERE.

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The Little Mermaid, Sensitivity and Multiculturalism!

Hans Christian Anderson's story of the little Mermaid has always been a favorite of mine, because of her courage, because of her dedication, and because of her plain old pluck.  I was a thrill for me to take this photo in Kobenhaven (Copenhagen) Denmark when my wife and I were there in September 2001, little did we know then that the image of the mermaid and or the statue in the harbor would soon be at risk of islamification.  The little darlin' has bare breasts, and if the Islamofascists should succeed in destroying the liberties of the Danes (which I have no doubt that the Danes will object to) or at the minimum of convincing enough Danes that in the name of "tolerance" or "multiculturalism" to cover up the Little Mermaid won't that be a shame? And yet, we are seeing just that in so many other countries: some places in England won't carry piggy banks anymore, some have taken pork out of the school menus so as not to offend the dietary sensibilities of Muslims, some have added foot baths for Muslim prayer in the employee's restroom even when they had no Muslim employees (but do you think they would provide Holy Water Fonts for Catholic prayer?)  There are co-ops that allow their Muslim employees to raise their hands when they don't want to check out alcohol or pork products, the list goes on and on.

So, what is this new multi-cultural sensitivity that seems to be circling the earth?  Well, I know a few folk from South America that work in some health care facilities and the facility cafeteria isn't being sensitive to them.  I know a few Hindu Docs from India and no one has suggested no beef or chicken or fish in the cafeteria, and a few from the Philippines and they aren't being catered to.  I used to work in a facility that had two employees from China and their dietary desires weren't catered to. I even knew a couple of South Vietnamese when I was in OCS lo these many years ago and no one suggested serving dog.  So, what is the big deal with the Muslim folk?  Simple... Muslims riot and complain and make asses of themselves.  Oh, not all of them, but the islamofascists sure do and their fellow travelers at C.A.I.R. sure do.  Imam's get on planes while deliberately making every body nervous then try to sue all the John Does that reported them for making them nervous.  Nun's get shot in the back because some cartoonist submitted a drawing that was posted in a Danish Newspaper.  Embassy's get burned over the same issue.  We see daily news articles about bombs and killings and riots and hangings and stonings and beheadings and we become afraid.  So, please feed that croc and maybe he'll eat us last.

Well, that's bull.  The fear has to be overcome, people have to put steel back in their spine and the World needs to grow up and recognize that no one has a right to a guarantee not to be insulted.  Many of the greatest generation still living will tell you of the rallies, the war-bond drives and metal drives and rationing etc.  What ever it took to win!

Today, not so much and that's really sad.

 

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Hey Abu Jneya, I Got Your Hack Ri-Chere!

Not Safe For Work There is nothing more juvenile, childish and more stupid than a moron who hacks a blogsite just to prove he can. A little while ago that was me, hacked by one Abu Jneya which I have on good authority translates into "Pork Lover," well, maybe that is not an exact translation. At any rate, Mr. Jneya thought it cute to take over my main page with this abomination of a hack (but the kid is kind of cute - too bad he has a dickhead for a father):

When you click to read more of this, I'll provide the exact Arabic translation (well, as near exact as I can make it) but remember, this IS NOT SAFE FOR WORK... vile language ahead including my response! more...

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Moral Retardation & Islamophobia

You will have to excuse a somewhat longish introduction but I think it necessary to set the tone for the whole post.

One of the smartest people on the web today, a blogger par excelance is Gagdad Bob who writes One Cosmos and who's banner proclaims:

Circumnavelgazing the Whole Existentialada of Lumin Development with a Seer's Prattleogue of Joycey Jimgnostics, Verticalesthetics, Dilettantric Yoga, Stand-up Cosmology, Wide Angle Pneumography, Extreme Seeking, Freevangelical Pundamentalism, Darwhiggian Evolution, and Buddhaflaw Correcting, all in a Reluxing Atmasphere of Omade Jehovial Witticisms

Bob's site never ever under any circumstances ceases to amaze me at both his insight, and his love of punny stuff. For who else could string together such a lengthy list of puns and gags? But, I digress. I always feature one of Bob's brilliant pieces in my series "Brief Politico-therapies: A Tour of the Psychbloggers." Today, I was scanning both an email from the indescribable Larwyn and a post from Gagdad Bob and I came across the term "Moral Retardation," and it struck me what a profound term that is, because it so well describes o much of what we call the left and the cult of islamofascism. Bob stated:

The moral retardation of so many leftists just astonishes me. And it is literally retardation, for just as one may be mentally retarded but a decent person, one may be intellectually brilliant but a moral imbecile, as so many leftist professors prove (not that they're so brilliant, either). Violence is good or bad, depending entirely upon the uses to which it is put."

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Yes, fighting fascists will only create more fascists! Until we kill all of them.

At a particularly dark time of the war, "when Germany's panzer divisions turned west, Allied armies collapsed under the ferocious onslaught, and British ships were streaming across the Straits of Dover from Dunkirk, [Gandhi] wrote furiously to the Viceroy of India: 'This manslaughter must be stopped. You are losing; if you persist, it will only result in greater bloodshed. Hitler is not a bad man....'" [by the bye, read the whole thing]

So, Gandhi was, except for who he was willing to bow down to, a early modern dhimmi.

And, the suggestions that Gandhi made for European Jews was morally reprehensible in suggesting mass suicide as a "moral" response. As Bob notes, after the war when the extent of the holocaust became known, Gandhi was alleged to have said "that the Jews died anyway, didn't they? They might as well have died significantly."

Moral Retardation! That is what we are going to talk about when it comes to the islamofacist and their supporters. I'm sure you are as tired of being called an Islamophobe as I am, but when you get right down to it, it is a meaningless term used by morally retarded individuals who wish to see only one side of any dust-up involving Muslims. Let's get at least one thing straight, a phobia is a real disorder involving an irrational fear of a person, place, thing or situation. And the fear is such, that it interferes with normal day to day living/functioning. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 4th ed. (text revision) (DSM-IV TR) has a diagnostic code of 300.29 for any given specific phobia. Thus, Coulrophobia (a fear of clowns) is given a diagnosis something like this:

Axis I: 300.29 Coulrophobia

Don't laugh, people who have true phobias are in many ways quite miserable in their fear. But again, I digress, so the term of islamophobia is a fauxphobia if you will. If someone is out to kill you (oh, not you specifically necessarily, for example they are not out to kill GM Roper, that I know of) but out to set bombs and other devices designed for mass death it is not an irrational fear.

If I believed, in spite of all available evidence that Islamists were out to kill me, the appropriate diagnosis might be paranoia. If I tremble and exhibit fight or flight symptoms in the presence of a Muslim, that might well be a case of islamophobia. But being angry at Muslims for not standing up to the islamofascists in their midst is not islamophobia, it is plain old anger, and not misplaced anger.

In the past, when Christians have trespassed the bounds of decency such as bombing abortion clinics, or a certain well known TV Evangelist saying that the tragedy of 9/11 may be God's wrath being visited on sinful America, the backlash against this was immediate and pronounced and most often, dealt with swiftly and succinctly. That has been almost universal. Even the bloodshed in Northern Ireland was denounced by a majority of Christians. Not so the trepidations of the islamofascists by other "moderate" Muslims. At least not more than a few.

Which brings us right back to the concept of Moral Retardation. There can be no response to the violence of the islamofascists other than to beat it back swiftly and harshly. To do otherwise is to embrace their tactics at worst, and at best a reprehensible bow to inhuman tactics. The Democrats (and others) who inveigh against the war in Iraq (or, if you are an avid reader of the New York Times inveigh against fighting Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia or as James Taranto says in the Wall Street Journals "Best of the Web Today:"

"al Qaeda Which Has Nothing to Do With Iraq in Mesopotamia Which Also Has Nothing to Do With Iraq Even Though It's Another, More Poetic Name for Iraq Which Has Nothing to Do With al Qaeda, a Homegrown Iraqi Group That Has Nothing to Do With Iraq Even Though It Is Mostly Iraqi, Albeit With Some Foreign Involvement Which Has Nothing to Do With Iraq."

Convoluted to say the least. Yet, we can see in the left and in the Democratic party specific signs that indicate that there is no belief in this war, that it was a mistake, that it should have been a "police action" at most and preferably we would have negotiated with our enemies. Although they do not say how you negotiate with people that are actively trying to kill you.

If one cannot see that the reaction to a bunch of cartoons and ink drawings that call for beheading and death for the artist is over the top, the moral retardation is profound. What ever happened to the stalwart fellow who used to say "I don't agree with what you say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it?" What happened to liberalism? I'm old enough to remember when the staunchest anti-communists were part and parcel of the Democratic Party, that their willingness to tolerate a despotic and violent system was close to zero. Where did those people go? Have they all died out? Have they been replaced by those who say that islamofascism is just another belief just like Christianity and Judaism or Hinduism and Buddhism?

The chorus from the left is almost non-existent, except to say "Get out of Iraq," or perhaps a plea to "negotiate" with Iran or Syria. Cannot those people see the ultimate aim of the islamofascists? Cannot they tell that the tactics used by islamofascists and their supporters, those who hold up signs saying "Behead those who insult Islam" are beyond the pale? Is the moral retardation that profound?

I cannot help but wonder where and when there will be another strike of unimaginable proportions. Is that what it will take to wake up these people? Does the multiple arrests worldwide of would be terrorists complete with finding the ingredients of explosive devices not convince you that this is indeed a war of belief? If it doesn't, count yourself in with the other moral retardates, for you see, but you do not believe, you see, but you do not understand what is laid out before you in simple black and white.

So, the Diagnostic Criteria for Moral Retardation can be stated fairly easily:

An inability to comprehend the evil of islamofascism that occurs prior to the age of 100 and is pervasive in all or almost all of political thought and the presence of two or more of the following:

A belief that western values and traditions are a direct cause of increasing violence by the islamofascists.

An inability to roundly condemn the tactics of beheading, explosive devices set off among non-military targets.

A belief that George Bush is an evil greater than any other.

A belief that all cultures are morally equivalent.

An inability to understand that the very values that allow one to condemn the west, would be silenced should the islamofascists take over any political organization.

Others may be able to add to the criteria, but for now, and for arguments sake, these are posted for your consideration.

Update: A great example of Moral Retardation here.

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Oh, THOSE Weapons of Mass Destruction

I think that we have a clue as to what happened to some of the WMD's that the U.N. inspectors said were not in Iraq. They were certainly right about these not being there.

Dangerous Iraq chemicals found stored at U.N. in NY

(Reuters) Aug 30, 2007 - United Nations officials found vials of dangerous chemicals, which had been removed from Iraq a decade ago, in a U.N. building in New York.... The material was phosgene, a chemical warfare agent.... The Iraqi weapons inspectors came across the material as they were closing their offices, which are housed in a building near the U.N. headquarters in Manhattan....

Oops. I bet that these guys were just as surprised as Hillary Clinton was when someone found the Rose Law Firm billing records in the private living area of the White House. Maybe Hussein or the U.N. thought to have Sandy Berger sneak out the rest of the WMD's in his socks.

Keep moving, folks. There's nothing to see here. No evidence of WMD's. Keep your eyes forward and keep moving. No talking.

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Gynophobia and Misogyny And The Islamic Male

Middle Eastern men, the vast, vast majority of whom are Muslim don't treat their women very well for the most part. The news, blogospheric, broadcast and dead-tree versions are full of stories of how Islamic men have mistreated women. The culture is rife with it. Yet, many Muslims in other countries are not near as drastic, not near as rigid so what is the cause, why so much damage?

Misogyny is partly the answer, hatred of women. The whys of that I'll leave to other mental health professionals, but I think it deserves a look. Another (part) answer may also be Gynophobia irrational fear of women. In most cultures, women are revered as mothers, caretakers, nurturers, comforters. In most of the Middle East, second class citizens. In Sharia courts, a woman's testimony is worth less than a mans. In a rape trial, four male witness must testify, if not, the woman may be accused of adultery. In Iran, a 16 year old girl who was raped was hanged for adultery (likely because she told off the judge). Women are required to wear ridiculous outfits such as the hijab and the burqa (pictured below).

Now, I acknowledge there is something slightly old fashioned, and not necessarily a bad idea in the concept of modesty (but that should apply to men as well - and one only needs to look at some of the outfits today to see what I mean; but then, I'm an old foggy). But, I digress, the hijab is traditional, the burqa is tribal and is the hijab taken to the extremes.

Above, I noted "In most cultures, women are revered as mothers, caretakers, nurturers, comforters." Dr. Sanity says it pretty well:

From a psychological perspective then, the freedom and empowerment of women in society are absolutely critical because they are responsible for the earliest environmental influences on children--influences that will impact the child throughout his or her life. If the society has little respect for women and regularly demonizes, debases or humiliates them, it will have a profound generational impact."

In another article she notes:

Children who live with constant hostility and criticism learn to defend against the bad feelings and shame within; and to externalize blame onto others. Projection and paranoia, which are both external assignments of blame, are psychological defenses against shame."

"Often this excessive shame is dealt with by humiliating someone perceived as weaker or more worthless than the shamed person (e.g., the family pet, women, Gays, or outside groups serve this function for both individuals and cultures)."

So it should be fairly obvious, that in the Middle East, at least, young boys grow up in this "external assignments" and focus on "someone perceived as weaker or more worthless..." or, in our discussion, W.O.M.E.N.

The failure of much of the left (though not all of the left for sure) to forcibly speak out about the treatment of women in the middle east is in part due to those on the left not wanting to be considered judgmental. That is a sin in P.C. parlance. After all, everyone knows that one culture is just as good as another. And even if they did speak out loudly, vociferously and call attention to the abominable treatment of women, organizations such as C.A.I.R. would cry "Islamophobia" which is, of course patent nonsense. But in the world of P.C. any so called phobia against any particular minority group is to be avoided like the plague.

In Saudi Arabia, women are not allowed, for example, to drive. From MEMRI comes this little tidbit during a discussion on women and driving from Dr. Sleiman Al-'Eid, head of the Islamic culture department at KingSaudUniversity:

"In addition, this might lead women to wear make-up and uncover their faces. Even if you say that women will drive covered by a niqab, or dressed modestly, and so on, this will gradually lead her to uncover her face. This will also encourage her to be disobedient. There is no doubt that women will eventually be photographed, and these photos will be shown to other people - whether the traffic police or other who need to look at these photos, for identification or nay other purpose. This will lead women to mix with men."

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"Another consequence of this will be the diminishing of men's guardianship over women. If a women drives, she will have a certain degree of independence, and she will come and go, travel, and so on. This will also lead to an increase in suspicions. When she has her own car, she will go out and return late." [source]

Or, as noted in Athena's Wisdom:

The good doctor reveals the real motivations behind the restriction: women aren’t allowed to drive due to the fear that Saudi men will have difficulty controlling their women. This is how deep this pathology is embedded in the Saudi culture psyche—a simple request for a women to drive threatens the very manhood of the Saudi male.

I suspect that more than just the manhood of Saudi men are threatened, I suspect that they abjectly fear women having sexual pleasure, the ability to have orgasms, the knowledge that they are more than just sperm repositories for making babies and serving men. From what other reason could the practice of clitoridectomy and other types of female genital mutilation derive. While this practice is fairly widespread across cultures, as neo-neocon notes "...it tends to follow a geographic distribution that intersects in many places with Islam, so the two are sometimes linked together in actuality, if not in origins." The practice is NOT Islamic and indeed, predates Islam though many believe that it is required by the Quran. neo-neocon goes on to say:

In cultures where such mutilating customs are practiced, one reason that women tend to be in charge of performing them on other women (on little girls, actually) is that, in such cultures, men have been traditionally discouraged from touching women’s bodies intimately–except sexually, that is, in the proper sanctioned relationships. But the more important reason that women are the agents of their own mutilation is that, of course, women are part of the culture, too. The custom is all of a piece, as is the culture, and women are not separate from it.

In the case of areas in which female circumcision is the custom, it is usually a cultural norm for men to only want to marry a circumcised woman. Of course, women want the girls in their own family to be marriageable; an uncircumcised girl would be a terrible liability. Still another goal of female circumcision is to enforce chastity by reducing female sexual desire, which is felt to be threatening and dangerous. Older woman, therefore, are also trying to control the tendency of younger women to run around and be sexually wild, and thus to reflect badly on the family (sleep around, get pregnant, etc.–all of which is absolutely forbidden in shame/honor cultures).

Or maybe I'm just blowing hot air, maybe this whole fear of women boils down to one thing. Their penises are so small that they fear that they will be laughed at, so they forestall that by mistreating their women.

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Live, From Iran, The New Theresienstadt

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,"

...............................................- George Santayana

More Connecting The Dots

Terezín, (now) in the Czech Republic is more frequently known by its German name, Theresienstadt. Theresienstadt is an old walled fortress constructed between 1780 and 1790. During World War II, Theresienstadt was used as a transfer point for the Nazi's and walled ghetto to act as a front in the extermination of Jews. The Nazi's went to great lengths, including the building of false fronts, theaters, concerts, artistic displays etc. to show how "happy" the Jews were in their incarceration.

In June, 1944 the Nazi's permitted the International Red Cross to visit Theresienstadt and

...erected fake shops and cafés to imply that the Jews lived in relative comfort. The Danes whom the Red Cross visited lived in freshly painted rooms, not more than three in a room. The guests enjoyed the performance of a children's opera, Brundibar, which was written by inmate Hans Krása.

"The hoax against the Red Cross was so successful for the Nazis that they went on to make a propaganda film at Theresienstadt. Production of the film began on February 26, 1944. Directed by Jewish prisoner Kurt Gerron (a director, cabaret performer, and actor who appeared with Marlene Dietrich in The Blue Angel), it was meant to show how well the Jews lived under the "benevolent" protection of the Third Reich. After the shooting most of the cast, and even the filmmaker himself, were deported to Auschwitz. Gerron and his wife were executed in the gas chambers on October 28, 1944. The film was not released at the time, but was edited into pieces that served their purpose, and only segments of it have remained."
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There is, of course, nothing new about "fooling" the public. Does Potemkin Village ring a bell?

So, while "Potemkin village" has come to mean, especially in a political context, any hollow or false construct, physical or figurative, meant to hide an undesirable or potentially damaging situation, in fact there appears to have been no such thing.

"Potemkin village" has also frequently been used to describe the attempts of the Soviet government to fool foreign visitors. The government would take such visitors, who were often already sympathetic to socialism or communism, to select villages, factories, schools, stores, or neighborhoods and present them as if they were typical, rather than exceptional. Given the strict limitations on the movement of foreigners in the USSR, it was often impossible for these visitors to see any other examples. [2]

This practice was certainly not confined to the Soviet Union, but rather has been common in "currently socialist countries." "The Big Fish" is a famous story from People's Republic of China which deals with the visit in the early 1970s of foreigners to an urban market Potemkin Village.
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So, on one hand we have Theresienstadt a real "Potemkin Village" and the other "Pseudo-Potemkin Villages" some real, some not but all by socialist parties trying to "fool" the public or public agencies. Today, we have in Iran, another Theresinstadt/Potemking Village in Tehran where the ruling (and socialist but called Islamic Republic) has tried to make nice with the world by proclaiming how "happy" the jews are to live in Iran.

In this photograph, taken from Al Jazeera news, Jews are shown happily greeting Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. From their dress, fedoras and beards, we can assume that these are Hasidic Jews(which oddly enough sprang up in 12th century Germany) or perhaps Orthodox Jews (Source) and from the smile on the face of Ahmadinejad, we can assume he is happy to see them. Now, that would be strange indeed as he has said in the past that he want's to exterminate the Jews so why would he be embracing them if not for a Theresinstadt moment?

Pam Geller, that oh-so-very astute blogger at Atlas Shrugs said in a recent post:

I love when al jizz is used as a "news" source. Sheer audacity to cite a captive 25,000 Jews living in dhimmitude in Iran. The idea that these subjugated Jews are happy Jews is vile.
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The al Jizz pic is rich - peyas does not a Jew make.

Not being a Jew nor an Israeli, I can't comment on that, but I can, as a rational being, decide for myself what Ahmadinejad is up to.

It should be obvious to anyone with two neurons to rub together, that no one is fooled by the show of this particular mad man. He has threatened to exterminate the Jews/Israel, he has denied that there was a holocaust, he has denegrated any ally of Israel calling them the Little Satan (lucky us, we are still the Great Satan) and he is feverishly working on developing nuclear weapons. Can there be any doubt as to what his intentions are. The show of releasing the Brittish sailor/marines hostiges was one such show. "See how happy these hostages guests are? We even give them parting gifts and release them on EASTER." "See how well we treat our Jews and how Dhimmitudenous happy they are? Why, I even smile as I hug them. How can I be another Hitler?"

To quote Al Jazeera:

If Ahmadinejad really is Hitler, why are some 25,000 Jews living peacefully in Iran?

By Jonathan Cook

Iran is the new Nazi Germany and its President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is the new Hitler. Or so Israeli officials have been declaring for months as they and their American allies try to persuade the doubters in Washington that an attack on Tehran is essential. And if the latest media reports are to be trusted, it looks like they may again be winning the battle for hearts and minds: Vice President Dick Cheney is said to be diverting the White House back on track to launch a military strike."

The answer should be simple Mr. Cook, even to a moron like yourself. To go with the "New Hitler" we need a "New Theresinstadt."

And so, to end this post let me change Santayana's quote a bit:

Beware of those who deliberately repeat the past, for we are sure to be harmed by it."

...............................................- GM Roper

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