The Editrix' Roncesvalles

The Man Who Puts Obama To Shame

2009-10-26T14:56:00.023+01:00

Question: Is "post-racialism" possible?
Answer: It is ... if you are not black or a Muslim.

The 36-year old Philipp Rösler will be taking office as Federal Minister of Health in the second Cabinet of Angela Merkel. (The picture above shows him at the swearing-in ceremony as Minister for Economics and Deputy Prime Minister of the federal state of Lower Saxony on February 18, 2009.) I will let you know later what makes the German Federal Minister of Health so topical today.

Rösler was born in Khanh Hoa, Vietnam, and came to Germany at the age of nine months as the adopted son of a couple that already had two biological daughters. He grew up in Hamburg and Lower Saxony. After training to become a combat medic in the Bundeswehr, Rösler was exempted to study medicine at the Hannover Medical School. Following this, he continued his education at the Bundeswehr hospital in Hamburg. He received his Doctor of Medicine degree in 2002, and left the military as a Stabsarzt, which equals the rank of an army captain, in 2003.

He is Catholic, which is decisively not the norm in strictly Protestant Lower Saxony, and a member of the General Conference of the Central Committee of German Catholics.

The picture shows Roesler with Bischof Norbert Trelle of Hildesheim and ex-Prime Minister (consecutively of two different federal states) Dr. Bernhard Vogel

Rösler has been a member of the market-liberal FDP since 1992. He was secretary of the FDP in the state of Lower Saxony from 2000 until 2004. From 2001 until 2006 Rösler was a member in the regional assembly of Hanover (district), where he was also deputy chairman of the parliamentary group. In May 2005 he was elected an observer of the federal FDP executive committee. At the state party conference in March 2006, Rösler was elected chairman of the Lower Saxony FDP. In April 2008, he was confirmed in the office, receiving 95% of the votes.

In July 2007, he was elected to stand as his party’s main candidate in the Lower Saxony state election to be held in January 2008. On 18 February 2009, Rösler was appointed minister for economy, labour and transport as well as deputy prime minister of the state of Lower Saxony.

Now it was declared that he would succeed the painfully inept "Ulla" Schmidt as Federal Minister of Health in Angela Merkel's second Cabinet.

Rösler is married to Wiebke and since Oktober 28, 2008 they are the parents of the dizygotic twins Grietje Marie und Gesche Helene. "One looks rather East Frisian, like my wife, the other one resembles me", he told the glossy BUNTE.

---------- JUMP CUT ----------

Today, the trial of a man accused of killing an Egyptian woman in a German courtroom (we reported) opened in Dresden. Security is tight, about 200 police officers secure the court, the area is barred for traffic, the residents were asked to remove their cars from the streets and the accused sat behind bulletproof glass. Many attendants were wearing badges with the victim's face. "This trial is seen as having a higher than usual security risk," a police spokesman said and nobody laughed.

"He stabbed them out of pure hatred against non-Europeans and Muslims. He wanted to annihilate them," prosecutor Frank Heinrich told the court and nobody mentioned all the many peaceful Muslims for whom the security measures had to be taken because they want to annihilate US and have gone a long way towards that goal a darn sight more effectively already than the yob from Russia in the German courtroom in July in reverse.

Will it be enough? You must be joking!

---------- JUMP CUT ----------

January 31, 1997 the 42-year old Vietnamese Phan Van Toau's skull is broken by a German who smashes him on the concrete floor at Fredersdorf (Brandenburg) railway station. Three months later Phan dies in a clinic. The prosecutor at Frankfurt (Oder) opens the case against him on the grounds of xenophobia. During the trial, the perpetrator spouts racist slogans like "Fijis out of Germany". Still, the court does not follow the prosecutor and sees "no xenophobic motive" behind the deed. The defendant gets a sentence of nine and an half year for manslaughter.

In August 2008 a Vietnamese illegal cigarette dealer is stabbed to death by a German who wanted to play cops and robbers in Berlin-Marzahn. Witnesses confirm that the man had announced his deed and that he wanted "those Fijis" to go away. The head of the homicide squad saw no "hints that would suggest a racist crime". Accusations of manslaughter were dropped and the perpetrator confined to a mental institution.

It took me two minutes to find those cases through a Google search including the German search terms for "murder" and "Vietnamese". And neither in those two nor in any other of the other cases I found was a courthouse turned into a fort, no full-bodied declarations of "pure hatred against non-Europeans and Vietnamese" or "annihilation" were made, nobody wore badges with the dead men's faces and no politician went to the funerals carrying a white (or any) rose. In a word: nobody gave a damn.

Did the Vietnamese riot in the face of such REAL German coldheartedness, of such TRULY blatantly unjust sentences? Did they accuse the Germans collectively (if at all) of racism and hatred? Did they make demands? You must be joking! Instead, they went on with their clothes shops, their illegal cigarette dealings, their fruit and vegetable stalls, in a word, with their lifes*, just as Dr. Philipp Rösler did neither turn into an angry advocate for South Asians nor did he ever make his race an issue at all. He does not think that his success is justly deserved for past injustices of whites towards the non-white races, he does not speak for minorities, the disgruntled, the bitter, the jealous and the power-hungry, he does not offer himself as a redemption from the original sin of being white. He is just the right man for the job.

* This rather flip statement is supported by a 2007 study of the Ministry for Foreign Aid ("Economic Cooperation" as it is now politically correctly called). Most Vietnamese people, in West Germany more so than in the East, are well integrated. What is specifically interesting is that it was noted that they do little networking. They rather try to assimilate and to get on in life individually, based on their own merits.

In this context, the case of the rabbi who was stabbed by a friendly young man with a migration background in Frankfurt in September 2007 (we reported) deserves to be hauled from the blog bilges as well:

The 22-year-old admitted to stabbing the rabbi, prosecutors said in a statement. The man is being investigated on suspicion of attempted manslaughter and aggravated battery.

According to the rabbi, the assailant said "I’ll kill you, you Scheiß-Jude." [Expletives are hardly translatable -- Scheiß=shit, Jude=Jew].

Prosecutors said that the suspect -- whose name they did not release -- denies having either, any intention of killing the rabbi or any antisemitic motive.

Of course not. Nobody who rams a 7 1/2-centimetre blade into somebody's abdomen has intention of killing the recipient of this attention. That is true. As true as the suspect's statement that he felt threatened by and physically inferior to the middle-aged, obese rabbi and so reached for his knife. As true as he picked by mere chance a man to attack who was, by his outfit, easily identifiable as Jew. As Henryk M. Broder put it: "Here we have another case of self-defense, where the provocateur leaps aggressively into the provocatee's knife as an answer to a friendly "salam aleikum".

Jews didn't riot either in the face of such REAL German coldheartedness, of such TRULY blatantly unjust sentences. They didn't accuse the Germans collectively (if at all) of racism and hatred and they did not make demands.

Does anybody see a pattern here?

Is Obama For Real?

2009-10-20T16:22:00.005+02:00

If this is NOT a spoof, it is scary!

Barack Obama's amazingly consistent smile from Eric Spiegelman on Vimeo:

"Ladies and gentlemen, your President is a robot. Or a wax sculpture. Maybe a cardboard cutout. All I know is no human being has a photo smile this amazingly consistent.

On Wednesday, the Obamas hosted a reception at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, during which they stood for 130 photographs with visiting foreign dignitaries in town for the UN meeting. The President has exactly the same smile in every single shot. See for yourself — the pictures are up on the State Department’s flickr. And, of course, compressed into 20 seconds for your viewing pleasure."

Jew Hatred from the Cradle

2009-10-19T10:29:00.010+02:00

One of the major topics of this blog is the deep in the German culture ingrained hatred of Jews. Read At Full Gallop through German History with links to further information here or elsewhere. Part of it is the long-standing bleeding-heart empathy for the Palestinian Arabs.

Lately, the picture of a toddler wearing a kefija-styled baby bib attracted some attention here. I did a Google search for "Palituch and children" (="kefija and children") and -- lo and behold! -- there is an entire market for it.

4,160 hits for "Palituch" (kefija) and "Kinder" (children). To be fair, quite a few of them are critical of the kefija and contain some information for youngsters why they ought not to wear it. As I haven't browsed through all the 4,000 plus hits, from a cursory overview I'd say that this applies to a quarter of them, which is, I guess, better than nothing.

Some details from the majority:

"This shawl has a long historiy and is right now totally hip again. The shawl is doubly woven and from 100% cotton..."

This is pretty self-explaining. Halstuch/Tuch = shawl, and they are "lovingly made". You bet!

"Finally mother and baby can wear the super-hip partner look. Stylish [notice the appalling Anglicism!] kefija for babies, the mini-variant, so to say, for mommy's large shawl..."

Granted, many of those sellers may not know what they are doing and are, dumb, deaf and daft, waxing lyrically about super-hip kefijas for babies, made with love, as they would swoon over anything they intend to sell. However, something like "This shawl has a long history and is right now totally hip again" leaves not just some doubt about the sellers intentions (but then, maybe there ARE people who are drivelling about "history" and don't know what this specific history is about, namely the hatred and genocide of Jews) but is frightening in its, maybe inadvertent, accuracy as well. Jew hatred IS "totally hip again" in Germany.

While many sellers and buyers of the kefija may not consciously intend to express hatred of Jews, but rather a vague feeling of being "anti-imperialist" of "leftist" (if that), it is certainly a fact that in Germany, and in Germany only, an environment exists, where a symbol of hatred for Jews and genocidal intent could become a "hip" part of children's wardrobe. How do I know that? I tried an English language search for "kefija/kefijah/kefije/kefijeh and children" and didn't get a single hit and even the French, although their passion for the Arafat mop is considerable, they don't offer any pour des bébés ("Pastinien and foulard and enfants"). Do you want me to try Spanish, the Slav languages and some Bantoo dialects as well?

There is a large intersection, mind you, between the buyers and sellers of that sort of stuff and those who throw everything, from hissy fit to court trial, at the first sight of any swastika. Yes, we have learned a lot from our past.

Hat tip: Gudrun Eusser!

Why Allah is not the God of the Bible

2009-10-18T09:49:00.011+02:00

Commenter Jake Neuman sent me a link to his website with a summary of his book Islam: Evil in the Name of God. I haven't read it (yet), but judging from the summary and the brief preview at Amazon, I find it sufficiently important to give it some publicity.

The topic of the Evil of Islam and specifically the hanging of women and - yes - little girls in Iran is a recurrent theme here, and the fact that the book focuses on that was an additional incentive for me. So here is Islam: Evil in the Name of God:

THE BANALITY OF EVIL: THE BANALITY OF SILENCE
IT'S ALL ABOUT ISLAM STUPID KAFIR

Read Why: 9/11 is Koran Teaching 9:111. The murder of
2,973 human beings on 9/11 is not a crime
in Islam but a holy,divine act guaranteeing accession
to a Paradise filled with lustrous eyed, full breasted
virgins. Kafirs (nonMuslims) are vile sub-humans to
Muslims possessing absolutely no humanity. The killing
of 2,973 meant no more to Muslims then stepping on
2,973 ants.

Read why in Islam, God is a pedophile monster and a
male chauvinist pig. Sex with children, raping sex
slaves, enslaving women and children are divine, holy,
eternal laws of God.

Read why: The prophet Muhammad was no prophet of
God but a psychotic manic.

Read why: Islam is a total renunciation of God - a very
great crime and sin against God.

Read why: In the struggle against Islam nothing less then
the existence of Western Civilization is at stake.

President Roosevelt said in his 1932 inaugural address
“Only Thing We Have To Fear Is Fear Itself”.

Well - IT’S TIME TO FEAR FEAR

BOOK SYNOPSIS

THE FIRST NEDAS

MURDERED BY ISLAM

Mona Mahmudnizhad...........................Taraneh Mousavi

The picture of the Iranian woman hanging from a construction
boom on the front cover is dedicated to the two thousand women
hanged in Iran since the revolution. They are all the first Nedas.

It is dedicated to the 10 Bahá' religious women hanged
in Shiraz Iran in 1983 after they refused to renounce
their religion and become Muslims - Mona Mahmudnizhad,
who was just 17 years old, 23 year old Roya Ishraqi, a
promising veterinary student, was executed with her 50 year
old mother, Izzad Janami Ishraqi, 20 year old Akhtar Sabit,
a graduate nurse, 28 year old Mahshid Nirumand a physics
graduate from the University of Shiraz, Shirin Dalvand 25
years old, Tahirih Siyavushi a 32 year old nurse, 20 year
old Simin Sabiri, Zarrin Muqimi and the oldest 54 year old
Mrs Nosrat Yalda'I.

Another Neda was Dina Parnabi an Iranian high school student,
accused of smuggling forbidden literature and criticising the
regime in her talks with her classmates. She was hanged on the
10th of July 1984 in a Teheran prison. The hanging was done in
private andafter the execution was over, her body was stripped,
washed and delivered for dissection at medical school.

16 year old Atefeh Rajabi was hanged in public in the town of
NekaAtefeh. Atefeh was executed for “engaging in acts
incompatible with chastity.” At the place of execution in the
town’s square, the judge personally put the rope around the
girl’s neck and gave the signal to the crane operator to begin
her hanging. Witnesses reported that she begged for mercy
and had to be dragged kicking and screaming to the execution
truck. Judge Haji Rezaie said he was pleased to hang her and
is quoted as saying, "Society has to be kept safe from acts
against public morality." Her body was left dangling from the
crane for some time so people could see what happened to
teenagers who committed acts incompatible with chastity.

187 of these first Neda’s were under the age of 18, with 9
girls under the age of 13. The youngest girl executed was
just 10 years old. Thirty two of these women were reported to
have been pregnant at the time of their execution. Many of
those executed were high school and college students. Hanging
is the most common method of execution for women, although
some are shot. Men and women were hanged in large groups
in Tehran prisons from cranes and forklift trucks. Each crane
jib or forklift had a wooden or steel beam to which the noose
was attached and when the preparations were complete, the
prisoners were simply hoisted into the air.

Under Revolutionary law, young girls who were sentenced to
death could not be executed if they were still virgins.

Thus, they were "married off" to Revolutionary Guards and
prison officials in temporary marriages and then raped before
their execution, to prevent them going to heaven. The Mullahs
believed that these women were ungodly and did not deserve
paradise in the next life and that if they were deprived of their
virginity, it would ensure that they went to hell. Therefore, on
the night prior to execution, the condemned girl was injected
witha tranquilliser and then raped by her guard(s). After the
execution,the religious judge at the prison would write out a
marriage certificate and send it to the victim's family along with
a box of sweets.

The back cover is of 3 gays murdered by Iranian justice
according to the holy teachings of Islam.

This book exposes the evil of Islam and very grave
danger Islamic ideology poses to all freedom
loving peoples everywhere.

The issues raised by the recent revivalism of Islam are of
life and death to the democratic world. Islam is one of the
most serious threats freedom loving people have ever faced.
It is the greatest threat that western women have faced to their
hard won freedoms and legal protection of their basic rights.
Islam is one of the most diabolical ideologies ever created. You
must understand what Islam truly represents and participate
in the fight against this very evil ideology.

Ignorance is not an option.

Islam demands the surrender or conquest of all kafir
nations and extermination of their nonMuslim population.
This is the cold-hard reality for the hear-no-evil, see-no-evil,
do-nothing-about-evil naive kafirs. Iran’s present will be our
future if we do not stand against this evil. Only by declaring
that God is a God of Moral Perfection can this Islamization
disaster be prevented.

A GOD OF MORAL PERFECTION
VERSUS
ALLAH (the ANTIGOD) OF THE MUSLIMS

By
The Last Prophet Of God
An Unknown Kafir But Not Yet A Dhimmi of Islam

This is an historical book totally devoid of any political
correctness. The Western World is engaged in a life and
death struggle with Islam. Tonight, mankind faces
extinction as a species not only from global warming
but also from Islam. The Last Prophet of God has
destroyed Islam with just one word.

What you must fully understand in order to protect your
family and country against this very great evil living and
flourishing among us is that the Koran defines the kafir
as a subhuman who can be murdered, raped, robbed,
terrorized, or tortured. For Allah, these are holy, divine
acts deserving of Paradise filled with lustrous eyed, full
breasted virgins who regenerate as virgins after each sex
act with Muslim men sporting external erections. All
these Koranic teachings of extermination, murder, rape,
slavery, looting, terror, sex with little girls, the non
humanity of kafirs, sexual Paradise for Muslim killers
etc are FOREVER. THEY ARE ISLAM.

IT’S ALL ABOUT THE KORAN STUPID
KAFIR

Kafirs are vile sub - human beings. They have zero
humanity.

It is the prime directive of Islam to conquer the nations of
the world for Allah (the AntiGod) by whatever means
necessary. Allah (the AntiGod) seeks the extermination
of all kafirs. By refusing to convert to Islam, kafirs
have declared war against Islam, are a grave danger
to Allah and must be destroyed. A most important
concept that must be emphasized repeatedly is that
Islam is a declaration of war against kafirs. What
you must understand is that Islam is not anti Jewish
– it is anti kafir. The Jews are the most viled of
kafirs followed by Christians, Hindus, etc. The Koran
is not a holy book but a book of war. A book of
genocide. Allah is the AntiGod of war. Again, this
war is permanent until all kafirs either convert to Islam
or agree to pay a devastating jizya (submission tax)
and accept dhimmude status (see chapters 43 and 44)
or be murdered.

For Muslims, it is a holy religious duty to murder kafirs.
The Koran is written in the language of terrorism.
It is filled with numerous verses urging the Muslims to
terrorize the non Muslims, kill them, and take possession
of their lands and properties. The important points to
remember are that whatever Muhammad did to terrorize
the kafirs was actually the actions of God. Among the
many verses which exhort Islamist terrorism, the
following verses stand out as naked aggression of
Allah/Muhammad on the unbelievers: 2:63, 3:151, 8:12,
8:60, 8:59, 9:5, 9:29, 9:55, 11:102, and 17:59 etc. These
teachings are the eternal laws of Allah (the AntiGod)
authorization of murder and extermination as a holy duty.

ISLAM IS ISLAM

Islam is not a wonderful religion of peace and love that
has been hi - jacked and perverted by a few bad apples
of evil Islamo - Fascists, Islamic militants, Islamic
Fundamentalists, jihadists, Wahhabism, radical Islam,
political Islam, Islamists etc. There has been no hijacking.
There has been no perversion. These demented souls are
following exactly the teachings Allah and the Koran and
in the divine footsteps of the Prophet – Muhammad as
described in the Hadiths.

MUHAMMAD WAS ALLAH

THE ALLAH (OF THE KORAN) NEVER EXISTED
EXCEPT IN THE MIND OF MUHAMMAD

Allah (of the Koran) was the fictional creation of
Muhammad who slaughtered, murdered, tortured,
terrorized, raped and enslaved kafirs. At the Massacre
of Banu Quraiza, Muhammad personally assisted in the
beheading of 600 to 900 Jewish men and in order to
distinguish young Jewish boys from young Jewish men
ordered their pants pulled down and groin area inspected
for pubic hairs by his SS known as – the Companions.
Those boys with the slightest growth of hair were dragged
away and beheaded. MUHAMMAD WAS THE FIRST
ADOLF HITLER

THE COLD HARD REALITY FOR THE HEAR NO EVIL,
SEE NO EVIL, DO NOTHING ABOUT EVIL KAFIRS

Allah is not God but the AntiGod of the Muslims.

The Koran is not a holy book but Mein Kampf.

Islam is totally bogus, a sham and a fraud

ONLY A GOD OF MORAL PERFECTION IS GOD

The Last Prophet has brought mankind a stark message directly
from God – proclaim the Declaration of A God of Moral Perfection
and Muslims abandon Islam or go to extinction as a species.
By embracing this message that only a God of Moral Perfection
is God can mankind save itself from extinction. The proclamation
of this Declaration will be an historical event that will change the
future of mankind. Indeed it will guarantee that there will be a
future for mankind.

In this book the Last Prophet demonstrates;

Why the slaughter of 2,973 on 9/11 meant no more to Muslims then
stepping on 2,973 ants?

Why a Muslim can never be President of the United States ever?

Why all black males will be castrated commencing the extermination
of the black race if Islam conquers the World?

Read The Treaty of Washington: Surrender of United States to Islam.
In God We Trust Will Be In Allah We Trust.

Why teaching children Islam is child abuse?

The Islamic Republic of The United States of America and Islamic
Republic of Europe. The nightmare of an Islamic takeover by Muslims
of the United States and Europe is described in vivid detail.

How Sharia Law will replace the US constitution becoming the
rule of law governing every aspect of every American’s life.

How stealth censorship is destroying freedom of speech.

Why only by declaring that God is a God of Moral Perfection can we
prevent this Islamization disaster of the West?

A revolutionary revolution in the conception of God.

If God exists then God is great. It is the so-called “men of God”
who are not great.

Why Islam is a total renunciation of God and worships Allah (AntiGod)
of the Muslims?

Why in Islam, all nonMuslims (kafirs) are vile subhumans with
absolutely no humanity? Muslims can murder kafirs, rape and enslave
their wives and daughters, loot their property. These are not crimes
but holy, divine, blessed acts guaranteeing accession to a Paradise filled
with big breasted, lustrous eyed virgins who regenerate as virgins after
each sex act with these Muslim killers sporting eternal erections.

Honor thy father or be murdered. Why honor killing is honorable
in Islam?

Why Barack Obama will not expose the evil of Islam, but instead
will make it mainstream and grant this evil ideology respectability?

Why Colin Powell is the ultimate dhimmi’sdhimmi?

Why Western Civilization is the greatest civilization in history?

Why rape jihad is being waged against kafir women across Europe?

Why the boys from Mumbai will soon be followed by the boys
from New York and the boys from London?

And much more.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER 1: A God of Moral Perfection

If God Exists Then God Is Great. It Is the
So-called Men of God Who Are Not Great

A Revolutionary Revolution in the Conception of God: Declaration of
Universal Religious Rights and Freedoms of A God of Moral Perfection

CHAPTER 2: It’s All About Islam, Stupid Kafir

Your Democratic Obligation as a Kafir

Organization of Islam

The Truth of Islam

Dar al-Islam and Dar al-Harb: The House of Islam and The House of War

Sharia Law

CHAPTER 3: God of Moral Perfection versus Allah (the AntiGod)
of the Muslims

Requirements Necessary for the Koran to be the
Eternal Divine Word of God

Why the Koran Is Not the Word/Teachings of a God of Moral Perfection.

Broad Overview of the Immoral Koran

CHAPTER 4: Examination of the Immoral Teachings of the Koran

Verse 9:5 The Infamous Verse of the Sword

Verse 9:29 People of the Book

Verse 4:89 Of Apostasy

Verse 5:33 Of Barbaric Cruelty

Verse 8:12 Of Beheading

Verse 47:4 Instructions of War

Evil Demented Depraved Islamic Paradise as Laws of God

Verse 9:111 Muslims Passport to Paradise

Sex In Islam and Islamic Paradise

CHAPTER 5: Allah’s Teachings Celebrating the Massacre of the Jews
At BanuQurayza

BanuQuraiza; Brief Description of the Massacre in Islam’s Own Writings

Muhammad Besieges BanuQuraiza for 25 Days. After the Jews
Unconditionally Surrender All Men Are Beheaded, Women and Young
Girls Raped and Sold Into Slavery. Their Property Is Looted.

Merciful Muhammad Orders Trenches To Be Dug for the Beheaded Heads
to Fall Into and Control the Blood Flow

Big Problem: How Did the SS Jihadist Executioners Decide on Which
Jewish Boys to Slaughter or Leave Alive to be Sold into Slavery

Aisha Describes the Only Woman Murdered At BanuQurayzah:
She Was Delirious Because Her Husband Had Just Been Beheaded.
She Was Taken by the SS Jihadist and Beheaded, Putting Her Out of
Her Joyful Misery

Muhammad Took One of the Jewish Women as His Sex Slave.

The Looted Property and the Jewish Women and Children Were Divided
Among the Muslims

Allah Allows Muhammad and His Jihadists to Have Sex with Their
Sex Slaves

Muhammad Shows No Mercy

Muhammad Enriches Himself

Allah Shares In the Looting and Pillaging of Murdered Jews Property

Why Does Muhammad Not Show Mercy?

Allah (the AntiGod) Celebratesthe Massacre at BanuQurayza

Enjoy the Booty

CHAPTER 6: God’s Incitement to War

Jihad: Holy War: War In the Name of and to the
Greater Glory of God

164 Jihad: Unholy War Verses in the Koran

CHAPTER 7: Rape: A Holy Act Ordained by God as a Weapon of
War

Following are some of the immoral evil laws of Allah (the AntiGod) of
raping sex slaves. These laws are eternal and for all time.
Men can marry up to four women if they treat them equally;
unlimited forcible concubines permitted

Muhammad can go beyond the four-wife restriction, can treat his own
wives and sex slaves unequally.
This verse is for Muhammad. God allows Muhammad to own and
rape his slave girls.

CHAPTER 8: The Massacre at Khaybar

Muhammad Attacks the Rich Jewish Settlement of Khaybar Without
Warning. Muhammad Takes SafiyaAs His Sex Slave After Murdering
Her Father, Brothers, and Torturing and Murdering Her Husband
Distribution of War Booty InKhaybar.

Muhammad Has Safiya’s Husband Horribly Tortured to Try And
Force Him to Reveal Where He Hid the Gold Treasure of the People
ofKhaybar. He WasBeheaded After He Refused to Give Up the Treasure.

The Looted Property and Women and Children Were Distributed
among the Jihadists

Enjoying Special Booty (Gani-maater-maal): Muhammad Takes Safiya
as Booty to Be His Sex Slave.

Muhammad Attacks and Rapes Seventeen-Year-Old Safiya:
Muhammad Was Sixty.

CHAPTER 9: The Massacre at BanuMustaliq

Muhammad Attacks The Jewish Settlement of BaniMustaliq:
He Captures and Rapes a Twenty-Year-Old Jewish Girl, Juwairiya.

CHAPTER 10: Sex Slaves: Muhammad and Those His Right Hand
Possess

CHAPTER 11: Women Are Equal of Men: God Is Not A Sexist;
God Is Not a Male Chauvinist Pig

In Islam’s Own Writings: Allah and His Messenger’s
Extreme Hatred of Women

Muslim Women are Dirty Polluting Creatures

Women are inferior, slave to men

Muslim women are sex object for men's enjoyment

Muslim Men can Capture Infidel Women as Sex-slave Booty

A Woman’s Testimony is Worth Only Half of a Man’s
Brutal Punishment for Women
Fewer seats for women in Allah's Paradise
The Tyranny of Men over Women

Polygamy

Wife Swapping

Wives as slaves

Wife Beating

Muslim Women: Islam’s Domestic Animals

CHAPTER 12: Sexual Perversions of Prophet Muhammad
Necrophilia With His Dead Aunt
Sucking The Tongue of His Daughter and Cousin’s Sons

Muhammad Transvestite Tendencies

Breast Feeding Grown Men by Muslim Women and The Billy Goat

From Islam’s Unholy Book

CHAPTER 13: Allah Is a Pedophile Monster
Baby Tilths

CHAPTER 14: Muhammad: A Human Being of Perfection

Muhammad: The Perfect Husband and Family Man
Baby Aisha and Muhammad: A Love Story For The Ages Between
a 6-Year-Old Child and a 53-Year-Old Sexual Pervert. It will bring
Tears of Joy to Your Eyes and Heart: From The Holy Book Of Islam

Muhammad and Molestation of Baby Aisha (From the Writings of Islam)

Muhammad Would Sexually Abuse His Wives

The Prophet Would Do All His Wives In One Night

This Sickness of Islam and Raping Baby Girls Is An Evil Approved
By Allah(the AntiGod) for All Time

Why Koran 65:4 Is Not The Word/Teaching of God and Therefore the Entire

Koran Is Not the Words/Teachings Of God

CHAPTER 15: Cruelty, Torture

In Islam’s Own Writings: Muhammad, the Most Merciful Prophet
Torture: Hands must be cut off for theft

Muhammad Ordered Feet and Hands Cut Off and Eyes Burnt Out, and
Left To Suffer a Horrendous Death

Beat the children if they do not pray

Burnt alive for missing prayers

Homosexuals are to be killed

Apostates must be murdered

Alcoholics beaten

Stoning in Islam: Diabolical brutality

CHAPTER 16: Allah Is A Barbaric Barbarian

Why Koran 24:20 Is Not The Word/Teaching Of God And Therefore
The Entire Koran Is Not The Word/Teachings Of God And Therefore
Islam Is Fraudulent

CHAPTER 17: Owning Slaves is an Eternal Law of God

CHAPTER 18: The Koran Is a Book Filled with Hate

Hitler: The Final Solution of the Jewish Question and Muhammad:
The First, “Final Solution” of the Jewish Question of Saudi Arabia

Mein Kampf versus the Koran
Hitler and the Final Solution of the Jewish Question

Hitler’s Hatred of the Jews

Muhammad and the First, “Final Solution” of the Jewish Question
of Arabia

Muhammad’s Teachings of Pure Hate From the Hadiths. Kill All
The Jews: The First, “Final Solution”

Muhammad’s Teachings of Hate from the Koran

The Quran Celebrated the Massacre of the Jews of BanuQurayza

Anti-Jewish Hate Teachings in the Koran

Following, from the Koran Are Teachings Not of Pure Love But of
Pure Hate. Verses that show intolerance of and incite violence
against non - Muslims and other religions.

CHAPTER 19: Islam Devours It’s Young

CHAPTER 20: Honor Thy Father Or Be Murdered

What is honor killing?
Honor killing is different from other killings

Some sample cases of horrific honor killing

Honor killing is an ETERNAL Law of Allah (the AntiGod) in Islam
Dictums Of Koran and Hadiths Which Dictate/Incite Honor Killing

CHAPTER 21: Teaching Islam to Children Is Child Abuse
(Recapitulation of Kornic Teachings Quoted In This Book:
Why Teaching Them Is Child Abuse)

How Can Any School Teach An Ideology That Owning Slaves Is
An Eternal Law Of God?

How Can Any School Teach An Ideology That Raping Slaves Is
An Eternal Law Of God ?

How Can Any School Teach An Ideology That As Muslims
They Can Loot and Pillage the Property OfKafirs?

How Can Any School Teach An Ideology That Teaches Children
That Kafirs Must Convert to Islam or Pay A Jizya (Submission)
Tax or Be Murdered As Eternal Laws Of God?

How Can Any School Teach An Ideology That All Other Religions
Must Submit To Islam?

How Can Any School Teach An Ideology With An Evil Demented
Depraved Sexual Islamic Paradise?

How Can Any Western School System Allow the Teaching of
An Ideology Created By An Evil Incarnate Child Abuser, Wife
Abuser, Rapist and Murderer – Muhammad?

How Can Any School Teach An Ideology That Preaches the
Oppression and Submission of Women to Men?

How Can Any School Proclaim An Ideology That Teaches
Brutality as An Eternal Laws of God?

How Can Any School Teach An Ideology That Teaches Rape with
Young Female Muslim Children?

How Can Any School Teach An Ideology That Teaches Children
Hate and Intolerance Toward Jews, Christians and All Other Kafirs?

Any School System That Allows Teaching Islam Is Guilty of Child
Abuse and Charges Should Be Brought

CHAPTER 22: Islam Is To Be Superior Over All

Quoting From The Koran

CHAPTER 23: Obeying The Messenger Is Obeying Allah

The Criminality of Muhammad
27 bogus, fraudulent teachings of obeying Allah and his messenger

CHAPTER 24: Very Important Statistics Concerning Koran

Love versus Fear in the Koran: A Statistical Analysis

Muhammad Versus Allah: Statistical Analysis

Jihad: Statistical Analysis

Women In Islam: Statistical Analysis

CHAPTER 25: Absurd Teaching of the Koran – Verses That Allowed
Muhammad to Cancel the Adoption of His Adopted Son and
Marry His Adopted Son’s Wife

CHAPTER 26: Teachings Regarding Muhammad’s Wives
As Eternal Laws Of God: A Soap Opera

CHAPTER 27: Muhammad: A Human Being of Perfection

Muhammad’s Dead Poets Society
The assassinations of satirical poets in early Islam
The Evidence

1. March 624: Al-Nadr bin al-Harith
2. March 624: Uqba bin Abu Muayt
3. March 624: AsmabintMarwan
4. April 624: Abu Afak
5. September 624: Kab bin al-Ashraf
6. September (?) 624: IbnSunayna
7. July-August 625: A One-eyed Bedouin
8. After January 630: close call for Abdullah bin Sad
9. After January 630: One of Abdullah bin Katal’s two singing-girls
10. After February 630: close call for Kab bin Zuhayr
Defense and Challenges

Dark Inspiration from the Quran

Supplementary material

CHAPTER 28: Murdering Musicians, Singers In Islam

CHAPTER 29: The Ten Commandments Are Not the
Teaching of a God of Moral Perfection

CHAPTER 30: Jesus versus Muhammad

Islam Is A Very Great Sin And Blasphemy Against God and Jesus

Jesus the Revolutionary

Jesus Was a True Prophet of Peace and Love

Muhammad Was a True Prophet of Murder,Torture, Terror, Massacres

A Complete Rejection of Jesus

Muhammad and Jesus

He Really Despised the Jesus/Mary/God Trinity Relationship
and the Christian Worship of Them As Polytheism

CHAPTER 31: Western Civilization: The Greatest
Civilization in World History

CHAPTER 32: What Islam Isn’t

CHAPTER 33: Is It a Rational – Is It a Reasonable Human Thought

CHAPTER 34: Reform of Islam:

What Turkey Must Do Before Being Allowed to Join The EU:
The 36th Chapter

God’s incitement of war

CHAPTER 35: Europe’s Final, “Final Solution” of the Jewish and
Christian Question: Finishing the Mission of Muhammad and Hitler
Let’s Give A Red Card to the City of Cologne, Germany

How Stealth Censorship is Destroying Freedom of Speech

CHAPTER 36: The Boys from Mumbai: The Muslim Killers
of the Mumbai Massacre: Soon To Be Followed By the Boys
from New York City and the Boys from London

CHAPTER 37: Muhammad, the Prophet of Peace

CHAPTER 38: Islam, the Religion of Peace

Bloody Expansion of Islam: History of Jihad

CHAPTER 39: Blacks Calling Themselves Muslims
Should Be Ashamed

CHAPTER 40 Barack Hussein Obama: America’s First Muslim
President

CHAPTER 41: Why a Muslim Can Never Be President of
The United States, Ever

CHAPTER 42: Banality of Evil: Banality of Silence

CHAPTER 43: America and Europe’s Future: Dhimmihood

CHAPTER 44: Articles of Surrender: The Treaty of Washington

CHAPTER 45:Sharia Law Will Be the Rule Of Law

CHAPTER 46: Only A God of Moral Perfection Is God

NOTES

SUPPLEMENTARY: Partial Listing of The 1000 Evil Teachings
That Must Be renounced, Denounced and Removed From Koran

THE END

Cross-posted at The Most Destructive Single Cause and IBA.

Peace Is Kow-Towing to Islam

2009-10-09T12:35:00.008+02:00

So the handsome bag of hot air in the White House got the Nobel Peace Price "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples".

My first reaction was to think it's a political jest, a sort of brainteaser. But having finally gotten a grip, it doesn't seem all that surreal anymore, rather only too real. What did Obama actually do within the short time he is in office? Domestically, a lot of things to keep grievances and polarisation between the races alive and thriving, while peddling his (and his wife's) mawkish self-promotion, but that doesn't count all that much for the awarders. Externally, and that DOES count, a summary is equally easy. His first official interview was with a Muslim radio network, his entire demeanour towards the Muslim world is humble and conciliatory, stressing his own Muslim ties and hopes for a Palestinian state, an attitude he even maintains when asked if America could “live with” Iranian nuclear weapons. (A recipe for peace if I have ever seen one.) His term in office took off with a Mideast peace push that included an unequivocal demand for Israel to halt settlement activity in the West Bank, and we all know how well that "land for peace"-thingy has worked so far for Israel, don't we. But to be fair, he isn't all THAT much more hostile towards Israel or the Jews in the Middle East than American officials have been, historically, anyway.

His job, he said, is "to communicate [to the Muslim world] that the Americans are not your enemy”, which is not easily to bring in line with another "job", namely the protection of his country from further Muslim aggression, and yes, when we equate "peace" with that of the graveyard, the awarders of the Nobel Peace Price are not all THAT far off the mark.

But let's stop the cynicisms. Dear Americans, didn't he swear to protect you and your country? And does anybody remember the botched oath? Does anybody see a connection here? Does anybody remember, too, that he grew up as a Muslim and that this "religion" punishes apostasy by death, yet that he is, of all notable apostates, the only one still alive and not under massive death threats? Does anybody remember his butt high in the air, bowing to the Saudi king like a waiter, this leader of the free world? Does anybody ever seriously ask him why? Or where the money for his campaign came from? Too many questions only too many people never ask.

WHY don't you ever seriously ask all that, Americans? Now you will go on bellyaching that a leftist liberal pinko commie, a charismatic seducing his followers in either Stalinist or Nazi spirit (depending on the bogeyman pf choice) and anti-white racist is now at the receiving end of the Nobel Peace Price while the Muslim world will do ... WHAT?

The good side? Easy! There have been worse choices:

Why am I not amazed?

2009-10-08T21:11:00.006+02:00

Psychologists in Canada may have found out that people who become eco-conscious consumers are "more likely to steal and lie" than others. Authors of the study are Professor Nina Mazar of the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management and her colleague Chen-Bo Zhong. "Buying products that claim to be made with low environmental impact can set up 'moral credentials' in people’s minds that give license to selfish or questionable behavior."

You don't say!

The paper can be read in full online here (pdf-format).

All over Europe the Church Bells Rang Out for So Great A Victory

2009-10-07T23:15:00.002+02:00

October 7, 1571

Hat tip: CCC.

Germany's Shameful Unity Day

2009-10-03T11:53:00.008+02:00

One week ago, September 27, 2009, the post-Communist party DIE LINKE ("The Left") successful successor of the Stalinist SED of the former GDR, was able to pocket the following election results for the Bundestag (the federal parliament that elects the chancellor):

CDU/CSU 33.8 %
SPD 23.0 %
FDP 14.6 %
DIE LINKE 11.9 %
B90/Grüne 10.7 %.

Had the results of the SPD dropped not quite so dramatically, DIE LINKE might have become part of a coalition to rule the country together with them.

In the constituency of Werdau, the CDU ended first with 34.6 % to a second of DIE LINKE with 28.7 %.

Why do I specifically mention Werdau, a small town in West Saxony in the former GDR? Here is why:

A commemorative plaque at today's Werdau high school says:

In memoriam of the 19 young people who were sentenced by the GDR-judiciary on October 3, 1951* to altogether 130 years of Zuchthaus**.

In self-made flyers they stood up for Germany's unity and protested against Stalinist terror.

The Werdauer Oberschülerprozess, the court case of the high school students from Werdau, was a trial of 19 young people, most of them students at the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Oberschule in Werdau, in 1951. They were accused of "boycott-baiting of democratic institutions and organisations", Boykotthetze gegen demokratische Einrichtungen und Organisationen.

The first two arrests were made in the night of Friday, May 18, 1951. Many chairs remained empty in Werdau high school on Monday.

Almost half a year, the boys and girls waited for their trial, isolated from each other and without any communication with their parents. Some of them were supposed to pass their final secondary-school examinations to go to university during that time. Instead, they were subjected to one of the most memorable political trials in the former GDR.

Not long ago, Sovjet military tribunals had made short work of comparable cases. Roughly 1,200 high school students are said to have been trialled in Berlin, Mittweida, Güstrow, Jüterbog, Schwerin, Weimar, Wittenberge and other places.

In Altenburg, two students and two teachers were sentenced to death and executed. They had interfered with a radio transmission of President Wilhelm Pieck's speech to celebrate Stalin's birthday. In Werder, Brandenburg, 20 young people were trialled. 9 death sentences were imposed, including two against women, eight were executed. Some of the other convicts ended up in Sovjet camps.

On October 3, 1951, the 19 students from Werdau were sentenced to long-term Zuchthaus* imprisonment by the Landgericht Zwickau. Only "politically reliable" people were allowed to attend the trial. The students' parents and family were excluded, newspaper reports were not allowed. When the West Berlin radio station covered the going-ons, Werdau was cut off the electricity network. Parents who tried to see their children were beaten out of the court building.

The convicts were:

Name Joachim Gäbler	Sentence 18 Years	Age 15 Years
Karl-Heinz Eckardt	16 Years	14 Years
Sigrid Roth	17 Years	12 Years
Theobald Körner	18 Years	10 Years
Heinz Rasch	19 Years	10 Years
Achim Beyer	19 Years	8 Years
Günter Fritzsche	17 Years	7 Years
Gerhard Büttner	17 Years	6 Years
Hermann Krauß	18 Years	6 Years
Gottfried Karg	19 Years	5 Years
Siegfried Müller	19 Years	5 Years
Walter Daßler	31 Years	5 Years
Manfred Stets	24 Years	3 Years
Günther Kahler	19 Years	3 Years
Gudrun Pleier	18 Years	2 Years
Edgar Göldner	17 Years	2 Years
Wolfram Schürer	18 Years	2 Years
Anneliese Stets	16 Years	2.5 Years

There had never been a fair chance of defense, however, the young people remained unfaltering. Joachim Gäbler closed his plea, stating: "I am proud to have fought for freedom."

"Mugshots" of 18-year-old Joachim Gäbler.

They served up to five and a half years of their sentences, sharing cells with murderers and sex offenders and were deployed to clean the excrement buckets. However, they were comparatively lucky. Without the XX. party convention of the Sovjet Communists and Chruschtschow's reckoning with Stalinism in 1956, they wouldn't have been released so relatively soon. Outside, they had to learn again how to eat with knife and fork or how to tie a tie. The days of their youth were over when they had hardly begun.

Anneliese Stets, the youngest of the students, after her release. She had been 16 when she was convicted.

Fifteen of the students left the GDR after the last one of their fellow convicts was released, so as not to compromise him. In West Germany they were, after undignified hassle attempting to deny them their rights, finally recognised as political prisoners.

Was justice done after re-unification?

In 1992, Joachim Gäbler filed, for himself and the other former student convicts, a request for criminal prosecution against the surviving participants in the trial. 1996, the Dresden public prosecutor submitted an indictment against the two judges still alive, Fritz Hübsch and Edith Müller. Proceedings against Hübsch were stopped due to his inability to follow the trial (presumably because of old age). Proceedings against Müller were stopped against a payment of 4,000 DM. Forthousand Deutschmark was the price for the youth of 19 boys and girls.

1990, the "Day of German Unity" was moved from June 17, the anniversary of the 1953 East Berlin rebellion against the Stalinist regime, to October 3 in a successful attempt to remove it firmly from its roots. But, it seems, it wasn't all that easy to find a crimeless day to celebrate German unity, which is, after all, of a twisted higher justice.

2009 almost a third of the votes of the citizens of Werdau electing the federal parliament, the Bundestag, went to the post-Communist successor of the Stalinist SED, DIE LINKE.

* Highlighting added by me.
** i.e. an aggravated prison sentence.

The site jugendopposition.de contains a wealth of information, pictures and facsimiles. Click here.

I posted something similar exactly one year ago already to mark the day. It can not be repeated too often.

'German Patriot' Converts to Islam

2009-10-02T10:51:00.010+02:00

The German "Pro" parties (Pro Köln being the best known one), so I stated when the rally organized by that party gained some notoriety by Robert Spencer's and Pamela Geller's absence in May, are not part of the bona fide "Islam critical" movement. In fact, so I argued, they have nothing against Islam as such, and don't shy away from rubbing shoulders with a world view to which they basically feel a marked affinity, first because it is totalitarian, and second because it is antisemitic/anti-American. What they do NOT want, however, are strangers at their own doorstep. This they call "Überfremdung" -- literally "overforeignisation" -- which is an undisputed- and definitely racist term. It has, I say it again, nothing to do with Islam, but with skin colour.

Here are my previous posts covering that specific issue, which I strongly recommend for further clarification:

-- The Pro-Köln-Dustup:

-- A Crucial American Fallacy:

Dear American conservative!
Did you know that there is a
99,9% probability that somebody
you call appreciatively a German
(or Austrian, for that) patriot will
hate your guts?

You will see that I, too, made perfectly clear that many decent people are among those who follow the "Pro" movement for want of any alternative in a political environment hell-bent on submission to Islam. I outlined as well the scandalously hypocritical and unconstitutional action of the German authorities and political classes towards a movement that is undoubtedly legal, as much as one may disapprove of that.

Maybe this bit of news sheds some additional light on it:

Roger Schwedes, former head of the regional branch of Pro-NRW Ruhrgebiet, recently converted to Islam. In an interview with the Islamist website "muslim-markt" he reports in detail about his time with "Pro NRW".

As a former member of the "Republikaner" [one of the -- just -- legal parties in Germany bordering on National Socialist ideology] he considered the "people's movement Pro NRW" young, fresh and full of new ideas... He didn't object to the "Überfremdung" assumptions of the movement because of the overproportional criminal behaviour among migrants. His goal was to find an alternative to the face- and characterless major people parties. Criticism of Islam wasn't all that important to him, what he wanted was to turn away from anti-German, pro-American and capitalism-orientated politics, so Schwedes explained.

[Follows a lengthy complaint about internal strife within the Pro-movement.] The informal Pro NRW meetings in various regions turned out to be nothing but palaver by frustrated lower middleclass Babbits, just eager to vent about "Ali" from next door. However, through Pro NRW he became familiar with Islam.

Roger Schwedes' conversion to Islam should be seen with a critical eye not just because of his former membership with the Republikaner and Pro NRW, but as well because of antisemitic statements approved by him. Additional information at Politblogger. Interestingly, Pro NRW claims now to have expelled him because of that, which, not surprisingly, is untrue: Schwedes resigned out of his own motivation and the head of Pro NRW, Markus Beisicht, thanked him for his cooperation over many years and the achieved "success for the organisation". Successor of Schwedes in the Ruhrgebiet happened to become the notorious Neonazi defence lawyer André Picker.

The interview mit Roger Schwedes can be read in full here

(Translation mine.)

I wonder why nobody (myself included) asked Pamela Geller, Geert Wilders' great confidante, why HE did NOT attend the Pro-Köln rally back in May. Is it possible that she finally and much too late, namely after she had consented to attend, had a word with him and that THAT was the reason why she and Spencer refrained from attending, and not the fear that Charles Johnson of LGF-infame might drown their cyber rubber duckie? But it's always easier to blame somebody else than to admit that one has made a mistake, isn't it?

And so this self-hating German liberal leftist pinko commie (sorry if I forgot a couple of names I've been called) rests her case.

Frau Merkel Returns -- Sadly

2009-10-01T17:08:00.007+02:00

'Frau Merkel' Returns -- Ilana Mercer quotes from an articly by Richard Spencer at Takimag:

It’s my view that Takimag readers should muster somewhere between 1.7 and 2.2 cheers for the Christian Democrats of Germany, who proved victorious this weekend in national elections. Their triumph not only secures a second chancellorship for Angela Merkel, but it will allow her to form a ruling coalition with the Free Democrats, who are much like the Club For Growth wing of the Republican Party.” …

“Though a decent and smart woman, Merkel is hardly a dynamic, risk-taking European politician in the line of Pim Fortuyn or Geert Wilders. … Though to her credit, over the past six months, she has issued forth some guarded grumblings about the Fed’s zero-interest-rate policies as well as Washington’s demand that countries with savings and trade surpluses finance Obama’s ’stimulus’ orgy.”…

While the worst-case scenario I outlined two weeks ago didn't happen, I am not all that optimistic when it comes to Germany's future. Above all, I don’t share Richard Spencer’s kindly view of neither, the Christian Democrats as they are nor of Angela Merkel, and specifically any comparison, even a far-fetched one like here, with Pim Fortuyn or Geert Wilders is preposterous. Merkel couldn’t manage to form another coalition with her partner of choice, the Social Democrats, which is a good thing. However, I am not all that optimistic about the value of the Free Democrats either. They are the party most open to the Islamisation of Germany, partly because of their liberal understanding of society, partly -- they define themselves as the party for the well-to-do and business people -- because of the opportunities the trade with the Muslim countries offer.

Angela Merkel doesn’t deserve her second mandate, but got it for want of any alternative. The woman who lately told the pope from a great height how to run his shop while standing next to a Muslim potentate has managed to confine the Christian Democrats to utter meaninglessness within just four years. It wasn't what I had expected. Four years ago she got my vote. This time I joined the mightiest party in Germany, the party of the non-voters.

Some information about the Islamic proclivities of the Free Democrats can be found, for example, here, here, here or here.

While we are all busy catering for Muslims' sensitivities...

2009-09-23T13:35:00.005+02:00

... nobody gives an aviating fornication for THAT:

As of now, those are just victims for whom nobody cares. There will be a time when they will be, like Israel, the aggressors who made the poor Muslims doing it. Just wait.

Birds of A Feather STILL Flock Together or...

2009-09-16T09:11:00.011+02:00

...So what else is new?

Here is a streaming video from the ARD (full name Arbeitsgemeinschaft der öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunkanstalten der Bundesrepublik Deutschland – "Consortium of public-law broadcasters of the Federal Republic of Germany") news magazine Nachtmagazin broadcast on September 16, 2009. For the record: The ARD took off in 1952 as Deutsches Fernsehen ("German Television"), switching to Erstes Deutsches Fernsehen ("First German Television") at the advent of ZDF (Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen in 1963, a name which it later adopted officially, indicating that it is the country's primary network. The newsflick includes a feature covering the release of "shoethrower" Mountazer / Muntazer al-Zaidi / Montasser al-Saidi in Iraq. It starts at 14:43. Switch right through to the end, where the coverage of his press conference ends at 15:07 on an interesting note and, even more interestingly, rather abruptly.

Not that something like that it is new within the Arab world:

Try to google for one of the name-versions of the shoe thrower together with "mutig". You don't need any knowledge of German to get the gist.

The makers of this ARD news feature don't even begin to make an attempt to distance themselves from the fawning reception Mr. Shoethrower got within the Arab world. Here, too, the gist comes across to non-German speakers as well, or so I think.

Birds of a feather still flock together.

Hat-tip: Gudrun Eussner.

"Just for the taste of it!"

2009-09-15T10:35:00.008+02:00

The Christian Science Monitor offers some views on the current German election race at their global news blog:

Chancellor Angela Merkel debated Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier on TV Monday, ahead of Sept. 27 elections.
A televised debate between the two candidates for Germany’s highest office was declared a draw by unimpressed Germans, as an election looms two weeks away for Europe’s top economy.

The election will pit center-right incumbent Angela Merkel against her current foreign minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, from the left-leaning Social Democrat party.

At stake is whether Germany will chart a course out of recession with tax cuts and other business-friendly measures (Merkel) or pursue more state-led strategies such as funds for emerging industries, higher minimum wages and tighter regulations on executive pay (Steinmeier).

But many Germans have been left cold by both candidates. Playing on US President Obama’s campaign theme, the German newspaper Bild ran an analysis of the debate with the mocking headline, “Yes, we gahn!” (Yes, we yawn).

Deutsche Welle called the debate “uninspiring” in a roundup of the German press reaction; other descriptions included “shop talk between the chancellor and her deputy,” with “no real verbal sparring.”

The Associated Press said surveys were mixed, and cited a political analyst saying that the “well-mannered duel” was unlikely to change many voters’ minds.

Surveys carried out by three television stations after Sunday night’s duel found that viewers rated it a virtual draw, two putting Steinmeier marginally ahead and one giving a slight advantage to the conservative Merkel.

The debate, like much of the campaign, lacked passion and personal attacks between rivals who govern together in a “grand coalition” of right and left — the result of an indecisive 2005 election.

But the Wall Street Journal said undecided viewers favored Steinmeier, and gave the left-leaning candidate good reviews for a “snappy, vigorous debating performance.”

He argued for new tax rules to deter high executive pay and bonuses, and for minimum wages to slow the growing gap between Germany’s highest and lowest earners.

Mr. Steinmeier warned that the right-leaning government Ms. Merkel is seeking would pursue free-market policies of deregulation that he said had caused the global financial crash. “The thinking that got us into this crisis can’t get us out of it,” he said.

Merkel, by contrast, stuck to a pro-growth message, according to the Journal. The Journal said the candidates’ only significant foreign policy difference was on German troop deployments in Afghanistan, which two-thirds of Germans oppose.

Steinmeier said Germany should by 2013 “lay the groundwork” for pulling its troops out; Merkel offered no timeline.

To start on a negative note: It is not Germany's "highest office" that the debaters are aiming for. It is the most important office. We have a head of state and that is NOT the chancellor. Frankly, lack of basic knowledge like that doesn't inspire much faith in a political commenter. Get some education. In such a light, it doesn't really amaze that Merkel and her Christian Democrats are dubbed "conservative" all the time by Americans. But hey! Can they really be blamed for it? Germans are doing it all the time themselves. One the other hand, Germans don't know what "conservative" means, Americans do, or at least: they ought to, and, apart from a some issues dear to a Catholic's heart that can be linked to a conservative world view, there is nothing "conservative" about the CDU, never was, never will be. The CDU was founded post-WWII as the successor of the "Zentrum" (which translates, notabene, to "Center") the party of political Catholicism, devoted in considerable parts to the Catholic social doctrine, something which will remind Americans painfully of liberal leftis pinkos, the more dumber ones even of commie marxists. And that knowledge is just a couple of keystrokes and mouseclicks away at Wikipedia.

Now Merkel: During the entire debate she managed to totally and utterly avoid terms like "Christian" (even "Christian-Democratic"), "values", "family", "ethics", "human dignity" and "Lebensschutz" (= "pro life"), and even those who notice that at all and predict that Merkel will thus lose her "party stalwarts" are barking up the wrong tree. What "party stalwarts"? Those who voted for the CDU because they are Christian/Catholic, are dying out rapidly.

Merkel was socialized in the former GDR. Her parents went with baby Angela, who had been born in Hamburg, to the GDR. Only hardcore Socialists went voluntarily to the Stalinist GDR to live there, so this sheds a light on the political proclivities of her father, a Protestant pastor. (By the way, that knowledge, too, is just a couple of keystrokes and mouseclicks away at Wikipedia.) She was never heavily involved in official Communist party politics and described her FDJ youth movement years as "cultural work" later. It is not too amazing for a Protestant pastor's daughter either that she she did not take part in the secular coming of age rite "Jugendweihe", the acid test of a line-toeing party member, but was confirmed instead. She chose science as a career, like many bright and gifted students did in the GDR, because it provided a relatively politics- and hassle-free environment. But all that does NOT say that Merkel is NOT a Socialist. Pure and simple, she is. Four years ago, the amount of power she granted to her junior partner in the coalition was amazing. It isn't anymore. They are making HER politics and what she is doing now is aiming head-on at another four years of coalition with the Social Democrats. Why? Any other choice would bind her to the free-market Free Democrats (FDP), and that is exactly what she does NOT want. And if Steinmeier, who is bound to know that quite well, is blathering about "the right-leaning government Ms. Merkel is seeking" he is an even worse hypocrite than Merkel herself. Steinmeier, by the way, belonged, together with current minister of justice in Merkel's Cabinet, Brigitte Zypries, to the editorial staff of the leftist quarterly "Demokratie und Recht" (DuR) published by Pahl-Rugenstein-Verlag, who was at that time under observation by the office for the protection of the constitution (Verfassungsschutz). So far about some major members of "conservative" Angela Merkel's Cabinet.

We are heading for a diet version of the GDR -- "Just for the taste of it!". Mark my words.

Never Forget

2009-09-11T18:37:00.004+02:00

Thanks to Freepers.

An Old Flame Never Dies

2009-09-04T11:20:00.007+02:00

After Alan Dershowitz and the JPost, Family Security Matters have finally caught up with us as well.* Under the misleading header "Exclusive: Germany Avoids Criticizing Radical Islam and Radical Muslims" Sami Alrabaa posts a synopsis of this blog*:

The German media and some German public figures are soft, too soft, on radical Islam and avoid critics and critique of this violent “religion.” The audio-visual media invite only uncritical talking heads. The print media publish only articles by apologists of Islam. Here are some examples:

The recent confession of the four Muslim terrorists, also called the “Suaerland** Group,” who were planning to kill as many Americans in Germany as they could, was hailed by the judge, state prosecutor, and the media. The devastating terrorist attack prepared by these men was foiled from a tip by the CIA, which the German media depict as not abiding by the law and acting against human rights.

The German media and some German politicians hailed the confession and deliberately ignored the ideological/religious sources of their attack, namely the Koran and Hadith, which incite Muslims to kill non-Muslims.

In an interview with Al Arabiya TV (August 16th), Daniel Cohn-Bendit***, a leading politician of the Green Party in the European Parliament, presented radical Muslims as “part of a socio-political religious movement across the world, like the RAF, the German terrorist group we had in the 1970s.”

[...]

Contributions of critics of radical Islam are rejected by German media. For example, The German daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung**** published on July 10, 2009, an article by Alaa Al-Aswani in which he twists facts and argues that the West is ill-informed and biased toward Islam. “Westerners are misinformed about Islam, therefore they hate Islam and hate Muslims,” Al-Aswani says.

I sent a critique on this Islamist writer’s piece, but the Sueddeutsche Zeitung refused to publish it. You can check out an English version of this critique here.

Many programs about Islam have been broadcast on WDR5***** radio and posted on the Internet. None of them, however, mention issues of violence and discrimination against women and non-Muslims, which fill the Koran and Hadith and are practiced by many Muslim families. The WDR5 depicts Islam as a tolerant and peaceful religion, like all the others.

On the other hand, other radio programs are excoriated for criticizing Islam. On June 18, 2009, WDR5 broadcast a whole hour feature attacking the Polish Radio Maria.

Almost every month, I tour all of those mosques run by Arab imams, all over Germany whose language I understand. In every one of these mosques, the imam preaches hatred and violence against non-Muslims. Germany and the Germans are depicted as “decadent and steered by the devil.” At the end, the imam demands loudly the introduction of Sharia, “It is the law of Allah, and the best on earth.” Muslim women are urged to wear the hijab (headscarf). They are also urged to follow the advice/orders of their men as the Koran and Hadith prescribe.

However, the most atrocious parts of imams’ preaches is their incitement to hatred and violence against the Jews and Christians. All of this is ignored and tolerated by German authorities as part of free speech and religious freedom. Israel is depicted as the “aggressor” and the Palestinians as the victims.***** Critique of Islam is presented as “Islamophobia.”*******

All this being said, when someone criticizes Islam and radical Muslims, they are taken to task and branded as racists and labeled as “fascist right-wingers.”********

[...]

With regard to democracy and human rights, the West goes selectively, and the mainstream media, especially in Germany, assert that day in and day out.

While Angela Merkel demands publicly imposing economic sanctions on Iran for its nuclear program, she supports German companies that entertain trade of highly technical equipment with the Iranian regime.*********

[...]

It seems that the German government and other European governments are prepared to deal with the devil if he serves their economic interests. They pay lip-service to democracy and human rights in countries like Saudi Arabia, Libya, and Egypt, if they ever do so. Germany, Britain, France, and Italy are competing to pamper states Libya, Iran, and Saudi Arabia which support terror across the globe.

[...]

FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing Editor Dr. Sami Alrabaa, an ex-Muslim, is a professor of Sociology and an Arab-Muslim culture specialist. He has taught at Kuwait University, King Saud University, and Michigan State University. He also writes for the Jerusalem Post.

We are relieved that somebody else spreads our word now that the German media and German public figures are soft, too soft, on radical Islam and avoid critics and critique of this violent “religion.” Thanks specifically for the quotes in "religion", Dr. Alraaba, thanks for covering terra incognita Germany at all. Just one additional remark: It has escaped you, as it escapes almost all non-Germans, who venture to comment on German affairs, that the reason why Germans are prepared to deal with the devil is not so much their economic interests, but very much an affair of the heart.

*
Sarcasm!

**
Just for the record: It's "Sauerland".

***
Daniel "On several occasions certain kids would open my fly and start to stroke me. I reacted differently according to circumstances, but their desire posed a problem for me. I asked them: 'Why don't you play together? Why have you chosen me, and not the other kids?' But if they insisted, I caressed them still" Cohn-Bendit.
We thematized the Green agenda to legalize sex with children here.

****
Here are our mentionings of the Süddeutsche Zeitung.

*****
We thematized the WDR channel here.

******
See our search label "Germanistan".

*******
See our serach label "Poor Pals".

********
I recommend Rent-A-Nazi in this specific context.

*********
We thematized the Irano-German relationships here.

Phyllis Chesler's Old Woman Bile Valiant Anti-Jihadism

2009-09-01T20:18:00.000+02:00

New post at TMDSC!

The Post-Racial Age Has Arrived in Germany

2009-08-30T21:38:00.012+02:00

...or: About people born on the right side. Twice.

The post-racial message of America's President Obama has finally arrived in Germany. How have we survived so long without it?

The director of the publicly funded "Workshop of Cultures" (Werkstatt der Kulturen), "theatermaker" and ethnologist Philippa Ebéné, decided Thursday to remove educational panels covering the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini from a planned exhibiton at her premises to the disgust of a district mayor, the curator of the exhibit and the Berlin Jewish community.

The exhibit covers the immensely topical issue "The Third World during the Second World War" and three of 96 exhibit panels are dedicated to the REALLY topical issue of the mufti's collaboration with the Nazis who had a decisive influence on the Holocaust (we reported many times already). Ebéné stated that she refused to display the information on Husseini out of respect for joint Arab organisations. Her decision was supported by migration commissioner of the Berlin Senate, Günter Piening. In a neighbourhood (heavily dominated by Muslims) like Neukölln a "differentiated presentation" was paramount, Piening stated.

"Not differentiated enough". The mufti and his German buddies.

Maya Zehden, a spokeswoman for the Berlin Jewish community, termed Piening's statement "an appeasement attempt" to ignore the fact that "there was no official resistance from the Arabic world against the persecution of Jews" during the Shoah. She accused Piening of showing a false tolerance to German-Arabs in a heavily Muslim-influenced neighborhood.

In an e-mail to the JPost, Heinz Buschkowsky, the district mayor in Neukölln, wrote that it is a sign of "anticipatory obedience to avoid probable protests. I do not consider this position to be good", notabene pointing out that Piening's statement is a "repression of the facts dealing with anti-Semitism."

Meanwhile, Ebéné denied that there was an "agreement" with the local Muslim community to censor the exhibit. She termed media queries regarding an agreement as "Eurocentric." The Jeruslem Post was informed that the exhibit was intended as a "homage to soldiers from African" countries who fought against the Nazis. Indeed, a crucial aspect of WWII so far totally neglected.

When asked about her opposition to the inclusion of the mufti panels, she asked, "was there ever a commemoration event in Israel to honor the [African] soldiers?" In an Interview with Radio Berlin Brandenburg Ebéné, who has a German mother and a father from Cameroon and is thus, so to say by birth and per definitionem, on the right side, stated: I am not white. I have no reason to be afraid of Arabs", which is rather endearing for somebody who is allegedly heavy into informing the world about the African slave-trade.

My take on all this? This is so rock-solid, die-hard, intransigently and impregnally stupid and so full of the usual German "antifa", politically correct, "fight against the right", "multiculti"anti-West and racist crap, that it defies any serious comment, because that would lend her antics a credibility they don't possess. That Ebéné is first confusing Fascism and National-Socialism and then, when challenged, peddling her family's (the German side, that is) history of saving Jewish children to show that she is by birth DOUBLY on the right side, is only the icing on the cake.

Of course, the reaction of the public, the political classes and the media, or the question how Ebéné could end up in such a position at all, are a different matter.

Eiffel Tower to be Illuminated in the Turkish Colours

2009-08-29T16:17:00.002+02:00

The Eiffel tower will be illuminated in the colours of the Turkish flag complete with crescent and star from 8-29 October 2009.

Protesters click HERE.

Duh! Or: Three Cheers to Stalinism

2009-08-28T11:15:00.027+02:00

I came across the following while I was doing some modest research on the man-with-migration-background-on-German-female rape statistics. The figures concerning the rape of European women by Muslim immigrants, specifically in the Scandinavian countries, are, thanks to Fjordman, well known. However, figures about Germany are conspiciously missing. I have two explanations for that, which may both apply or be both wrong. The first one is that Muslim immigrant-on-indigene rapes are yet not as ubiquitous in Germany as they are in Scandinavia or the U.K., the other one is that Germany is not on the international map, as in so many other respects. However, searching (without result) for such figures, I came across a study by the Child and Woman Abuse Studies Unit of the London Metropolitan University "Rape: Still a forgotten issue". As soon I see a feminist issue called "forgotten", all my inner alarm bells start ringing, and I was, not too amazingly, right. The Search for "Germany" led me to the following information dating back to 2001:

Country	Reported Rapes	Population in Mio
England/Wales	9743	52
Germany	7891	82
Greece	170	10
Sweden	1752	9

The interpretation is rather endearing:

If reporting were constant with respect to population, the Greek and Swedish figures should be relatively similar, but the country with a smaller population has a reporting rate ten times higher. Similarly, the German figure should be considerably higher than that for England and Wales, but is actually a fifth lower.

"Should"! You don't say!

At this point, a look at the methodology of the study may be in order:

The base data comprises short questionnaires sent to Justice Ministries in all European Union member states, aspirant states, Switzerland and Norway. Information was sought on:
• Numbers of rape cases reported, prosecuted and resulting in convictions in 1998-2001.
• For countries that failed to respond to the first survey, or provided incomplete data, an opportunity to provide the same information for 1977-1997.
• Any recent research containing either national prevalence data, including unreported rapes, or analysis of the attrition process.
• Details of any major reforms during the 1980s and 1990s with respect to: criminal law on rape; courtroom procedures; guidelines for prosecutors; guidelines for police investigations.
• National provision for forensic medical examinations.
Views were also sought about barriers to successfully prosecuting rape cases and whether rape was currently on the national political agenda. Ministries were, therefore, sent variations of the questionnaire depending on what data had, and had not, been provided previously.

Of 35 Justice Ministries, 21 returned questionnaires, some promptly, others only after multiple reminders by both the research team, and project partners in country. The non-cooperation of some states, and the absence of complete data from others, raises issues about the possibilities of tracking the most fundamental indicators of responses to violence against women, which has not only been recommended by the European Women’s Lobby (2001), but also been matters of policy development during the last four presidencies of the EU.

In other words, this was not a study about rape, but on the willingness of European authorities to comply with mindless, pseudo-academic, feminist projects. No attention was given to the perpetrators, and the authors of the study made no effort whatsoever to ask why some figures were not as they "should" have been.

What about this:

Country	Muslims	Percent
U.K.	1,640,958-2,000,000	2.7-3.3
Germany	4,413,639	4.9
Greece	139,182	1.3
Sweden	270,933	3

I took the figures from the Wikipedia entry about worldwide Islam. Notabene that they are from 2007, not 2001, and that they apply to the entire U.K. and not just to England and Wales. However, as this is a blog entry, not a post-doc project, they will have to do.

Can there be conclusions be drawn from this? Maybe. Here are mine in no particular order. It shows (and I am sure that further figures for different countries would substantiate that) 3% of Muslim population seems to be a critical limit. It shows further, that the Brits are unable to control their Muslim population and to keep track of their population generally. But most of all, it shows that a modicum of knowledge about the countries one attempts to "analyze" is indispensable.

The number of reported rapes in Germany fell from 1984 to 1990, but increases from this year, although with year on year variation. This trend accelerates sharply with a 16 per cent increase between 1997 and 1998 although this decreases slightly in 1999 and 2000 before rising again in 2001. That said, however, the large increase one would expect following reunification, which almost doubled the population, is not evident in these figures.

Yes girls! That is, because there were very few Muslims living in the former GDR and those who WERE, knew quite well that any antics about "religious freedom" and "freedom of speech" wouldn't have taken them all that far in Stalinist Germany. Also, rape was rather frowned upon and there wasn't much room for multicultural empathy for the perpetrator within the great International Socialist brotherhood if it occured -- and that was a good thing.

Duh!

I cross-posted this with an anti-feminist angle at TMDSC.

Obituary for Edward Kennedy

2009-08-26T18:35:00.004+02:00

In the past, we may have inadvertently conveyed the impression that the late Edward "Ted" Kennedy was, as were his hailed brothers, in some way an irresponsible womanizer who had left a young woman to die a horrible death in a submerged car because her presence alive might have embarrassed him. We now realise as of Tuesday morning that the scion of the most ~~reprobate and degenerate~~ illustrious and famously fate-stricken family in the entire Western world was in fact the most saintly man who has ever lived, who, with his charitable political activities, brought hope and succour to hundreds and millions of people all over the world.

We would like to express our sincere and deepest hypocrisy to all our readers on this tragic day and hope and pray that they will carry on reading our blog notwithstanding.

I stole the idea from a back print number of Private Eye who had applied the trick to the death of Princess Diana.

John Paul II -- Hailed and Reviled for the Wrong Reasons

2009-08-25T18:16:00.003+02:00

Eric Giunta explains why Pope John Paul II should not be canonized:

Contrary to leftist media reportage, the late Pope was not an authoritarian despot, bent on enforcing Catholic orthodoxy on an unwilling church. Quite the contrary: theological liberals and dissenters flourished in all of the Church's structures, from lay politics and Catholic universities, to the ranks of priests and bishops. Not a single pro-abortion Catholic politician has been excommunicated from the church; only a handful of openly heretical priests were asked to stop teaching theology, but were otherwise permitted to exercise their priestly ministry unhindered. The Church in Austria openly dissents from orthodox Catholicism with papal impunity.

I recommend to read it all at RenewAmerica.com.

Here is Giunta's blog Confessions of a Liberal Traditionalist.

Hun - Throat - Feet

2009-08-16T14:41:00.004+02:00

This is NOT a spoof! This is the Turkish flag being flown on top of the Godesburg, the symbol of the town of Bad Godesberg, sub-municipality of the former West German capital of Bonn.

It is to celebrate the 40-year jubiliee of the twinning of Bad Godesberg with the Turkish town of Yalova within the framework of the current town festival, where a delegation from Yalova is present. So flying this flag is, mind you, OFFICIAL. A cursory online search seems to indicate that the German flag code remains silent about the flying of alien national emblems. But is everything that is not explicitly forbidden allowed or even advisable?

The renowned German professor of ancient history and classicist Egon Flaig wrote 2006:

"Then we want the flag of Islam to fly over those lands again, that once had been lucky enough to be submitted to the rule of Islam and having heard the call of the muezzin praising God. Then the light of Islam died out and they returned to infidelity. Andalusia, Sicily, the Balkans, Southern Italy and the Greek Islands are all Islamic colonies which have to return to the fold of Islam. The Mediterranean and the Red Sea have to become inland seas of Islam, as they used to be". These are not the words of Al Qaeda, they were taken from the programme outlined by the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hassan Al Banna, in a speech. The Brotherhood has millions of followers today and reaches out far beyond Egypt. Their intellectuals are working in Europe and the United States; they count as "moderates" and are treated as such by the media. Planned re-conquering of "lost" territories are part of the agenda of states that are fighting for territorial dominance. How can it be part of a religious programme? Is Islam a religion like any other religion?

Maybe deeming the reading of classics or ancient history as obsolete was a mistake. But then, I guess it's just the sheer and undiluted German love for totalitarian ideologies that lets them do what they do.

Light and Truth

2009-08-16T09:52:00.004+02:00

It's not more than an Internet-rumour yet that Yale is planning to remove the Hebrew lettering from its seal because it could be perceived as "offensive". Maybe it will remain a rumour. But what makes it so frightening is its utter credibility and probability.

Roger Kimball's Yale & the Danish Cartoons: The Plot Thickens at PajamasMedia is worth reading anyway.

Hat-tip: Gudrun Eussner.

Our own fault, no doubt!

2009-08-02T10:32:00.007+02:00

Interesting article from Canada:

Politically incorrect, but honest
By Leonard Stern, The Ottawa CitizenAugust 1, 2009

Muslim leaders have long cried foul when the media highlight the religious affiliation of suicide terrorists. Murders of all kinds happen every day and news reports don't note which perpetrators attended a Methodist church or which were baptized Catholic. Why the double standard for Muslims?

The religion of those such as the 9/11 hijackers was -- is -- relevant because, in their minds, the crimes were religious acts. It's impossible to ignore the Islamic dimension of crimes that are executed in the name of Islam. To pretend that the shared religious identity of al-Qaeda operatives is coincidence would be absurd.

Now it's fair to ask the media at least to make clear that while terrorists see themselves as holy warriors, they might not represent true Islam. But that's not what some Muslim leaders are asking. The Islamic Society of North America wants to abandon altogether any mention of the Muslim aspect. "We should just call them criminals," said Muneer Fareed, the Islamic Society's spokesman. The Canadian Islamic Congress has likewise referred to the "myth of 'Islamic' Terrorism."

The legitimacy of the term "Islamic terrorism," to denote terrorism committed in the name of Islam, is easy to defend. But in other criminal cases, it's trickier to explore the relevance of culture, race, religion or national origin.

This is an issue journalists, police and politicians struggle with all the time. Much of the gun violence in Toronto, for example, is apparently connected to the black community, often Jamaican-Canadian, whose members comprise a disproportionate number of both victims and assailants. But for a long time you wouldn't have known this from any public discussion about crime in Toronto.

Globe and Mail columnist Margaret Wente broke the taboo after the 2005 Boxing Day shooting death of Jane Creba, the 15-year-old who got caught in the crossfire between warring gangs. Wente said it was ridiculous that amid all the handwringing over Toronto's unsafe streets, "the word 'Jamaica' can't be found ... even though police will tell you off the record that 80 per cent or more of the city's gun crime is Jamaican-related."

[...]

But covering them up also incurs costs. First, it's dishonest. Politicians and social activists who pretend that these shootings are just expressions of generic "youth violence," when everyone knows otherwise, lose credibility. Secondly, it's impossible to fix a problem when you deny it exists.

[...]

Of course bad people can incubate in any community, but cultural or ethnic groups have particular vulnerabilities. It shouldn't be forbidden to say so. As one who has always emphasized the Islamic dimension of suicide terrorism, I recently received a gloating letter from someone hoping to catch me in an inconsistency. The writer was under the impression that I would naturally object to news reports mentioning the Jewishness of Bernie Madoff, the Wall Street swindler.

Actually, if I had been the reporter to break the Madoff story, I'd have not only highlighted the Jewish connection, I'd have put it in the lead. Heck, I'd make it the headline. Sure it's a little different from the issue of Islam and terrorism -- Madoff wasn't expressing an article of religious faith in defrauding people. But Madoff operated within a defined ethnic network, the monied Jewish community of New York, which is why police classified his escapade as a crime of "affinity."

The crime was made possible because Madoff exploited his position as a big shot -- a macher -- in that network. I mentioned earlier that we shouldn't be afraid to say that ethno-cultural groups have particular vulnerabilities. Madoff was as sleazy as they come but his perceived ability to make money conferred on him much status in the Jewish world, which he took advantage of.

Although financial misbehaviour is an equal opportunity vice, rabbis and others who teach Jewish ethics are not out of line to worry that the accumulation of Ivan Boeskys, Michael Milkens and Bernie Madoffs eventually points to misplaced values in some corners of the Jewish community.

Right now there's a debate whether to situate honour killings in a Muslim context. Some people want simply to place these murders in the catch-all category of "domestic violence." I suppose that it would be politically convenient for multiculturalists to de-Islamicize honour killings, but it sure won't do much towards actually stopping them.

I'd like to add some thoughts. First, the author is writing about political correctness. This strange phenomenon was once inspiredly defined as the doctrine that it is possible to pick up a turd at its clean end. Interestingly, whereas it is applied to criticizing Muslims or people of non-white races, it has never been applied to Jews. Antisemitism, which most people don't even bother to veil thinly as "anti-Zionism", was never something worthy of being covered by the smokescreen of political correctness. Also, and even more interestingly, any attempt to refute antisemitism as what it is, is met by strident complaints that "it isn't possible to criticise Jews anymore" because of -- you've guessed it -- "political correctness". Genuine, valid criticism of Jews as an ethnic group, like here, is as rare as a Blue Mauritius stamp. I think we ought to thank the author for clarifying the difference so lucidly.

Next, Stern says that the legitimacy of the term "Islamic terrorism," is easy to defend. Yes, it is easy to defend on a factual, intellectually honest basis. However, it is indefensible in day-to-day political discourse. I am under the impression that America and Canada have not (yet) arrived where we are, at a point where any criticism of Islam and Muslims, however fact-based and restrained, comes under attack as "hate speech". Criticizing Islam in Germany is a hermit's profession. It has ostracizing consequences. One is either forced to lie or at least to remain quiet (which is an implied lie) or to restrict one's social contacts dramatically. This and this may serve as a reminder. I, personally, consider it partly as a good thing. It showed me at least that my choice of friends, made long before Islamisation or political correctness became an issue, was right. But I guess if one has small children and thus HAS to socialize with certain people, other parents, teachers, kindergarden teachers, come to mind, it must be hell.

Last, Stern says that "it's impossible to fix a problem when you deny it exists". Again, that is right, but it implies that there ARE people who have both, an interest in and the authority to fix the problem and I challenge everybody on earth to name ONE German who has both.

Case in point (among countless others) is the former Berlin senior prosecuting attorney Roman Reusch, who made two mistakes. In 2008, that was: He took a hard line bringing young criminals to justice and declared publicly that ca. 80% (eighty percent) of those are not ethnic Germans. The result? The Berlin government muzzled and then transfered him to a position where he surely couldn't do any more "harm". Meanwhile, the "no go areas" for the police in Berlin are thriving. Again: I challenge all the world to tell me ONE German who has both, an interest in AND the authority for fixing this problem.

Canada (America), I guess you are better off! See that it remains that way.

Promoting Grievance and Polarization

2009-08-01T08:25:00.005+02:00

President Obama, Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Sergeant James Crowley met "for a beer" the day before yesterday. This official White House photo by Pete Souza shows them walking from the Oval Office to the Rose Garden.

The story behind that meeting is by now old news. In brief: White cop arrested black Harvard professor (and Obama chum), Henry Louis Gates jr, professor accused cops of racism, Obama ended up stuck both feet in mouth.

How could that happen? As conservative writer Thomas Sowell put it:

The racial-profiling issue is a great vote-getter. And if it polarizes the society, that is a price that politicians are willing to pay in order to get votes. Academics who run black-studies departments, as Prof. Henry Louis Gates does, likewise have a vested interest in racial paranoia.

For “community organizers” as well, racial resentments are a stock in trade. President Obama’s background as a community organizer has received far too little attention, though it should have been a high-alert warning that this was no post-racial figure.

What does a community organizer do? What he does not do is organize a community. What he organizes are the resentments and paranoia within a community, directing those feelings against other communities, from whom either benefits or revenge are to be gotten, using whatever rhetoric or tactics will accomplish that purpose.

To think that someone who has spent years promoting grievance and polarization was going to bring us all together as president is a triumph of wishful thinking over reality.

And predictably, Gates is cashing in now on the publicity he triggered off by attributing his July 16 arrest to racism. He is, too, a frustrated elitist. The cops main misdoing was that they treated the professor like an ordinary man. Not like an ordinary BLACK man, mind you, but not with the reverence the professor thought he deserved. He was really lucky that a white cop happened to be the first one on the scene, which enabled him to play the race card.

What is remarkable about that?

First, that it shouldn't take a man with a Ph.D. to know that mouthing off at police officers will dramatically increase one's chance of being arrested. Police officers have the moral and legal authority to use force to serve and protect. They may overstep or fail to exercise their authority, but the general idea is that they must be ready and willing to use force. That means that one should exercise one's best behaviour around them. Always. Gates obviously thought that he was above that.

For Obama, it wasn't quite that easy. After all, he is supposed to show some statesmanship. Therefore, it was remarkable that the Commander in Chief, whose job it is to choose the Attorney General to be the chief law enforcement officer in the United States, was instinctively not, as he ought to have been, on his default position to support the police. Instead, he was in automatic "Promoting Grievance and Polarization" mode, and this is probably the most remarkable bit about that whole sleazy story indeed!

Now the picture! It shows Sergeant Crowley politely helping the older and slightly handicapped Professor Gates down some steps. Both are wearing suits and ties, while the Commander in Chief, in his shirt sleeves, walks ahead, totally detached from the scene, when it ought have to been his, the host's, task to stay close to his guests and to help the professor, his guest and friend, on his way.

I'm sure there are already, and will soon be, many and more clever interpretations buzzing through the Internet, but to me it just seems that the Commander in Chief has simply no manners. One doesn't expect that from a man with such a gentlemanly posture, but, so it seems, it's not enough to look good in suits.

As for Professor Gates, I don't think I will see another poseur and arrogant prick QUITE that awful in a hurry -- when he hasn't been caught on the wrong foot and yelling abuse at police officers, that is.

I, for one, congratulate Sergeant Crowley on his professionality, discipline and restraint.