From Israel's Haaretz.com, "In Cairo, Friday is military day" with thanks to Smokem.
CAIRO - The sidewalk near the Al-Azher mosque is too narrow. On one side is the mosque fence, which also encompasses the huge university campus, and on the other, a safety railing made of thick metal pipes. On a normal day, these two obstacles leave a passage of about 1.5 meters; on Fridays, it shrinks to a few dozen centimeters. The rest of the space is taken up by a squad of security guards dressed in black carrying thin, painful-looking nightsticks and equipped with safety shields against demonstrators and stone throwers.Squad after squad, these security forces are stationed along the sidewalks, in double rows, standing close together in the oppressive Cairo heat waiting for the prayers to end and the danger to pass. Anyone trying to enter the Al-Azher mosque during the prayer services has no choice but to pass through dozens of police officers and soldiers, who will scrutinize his face and walk, and will not hesitate to use force if he arouses suspicion and shove him into one of dozens of military trucks that have been converted into improvised paddy wagons for demonstrators. The vans are fitted with small barred windows, handcuffs wait on the seats, sandwiches and water for the soldiers lie next to them, until they have to be cleared to make room for the detainees, should there be any. This is the situation near the Al-Azher mosque, as well as near the school for gifted children next to another mosque in the city, and next to the Al-Fateh mosque, and near the Al-Nur mosque. Friday has turned into military day.
Friday prayers, and not only in Egypt, have become a political signpost. Like the security forces in Jerusalem, who count the days from one Friday to the next, the same is true in Egypt, Iran, Iraq and other parts of the Middle East, a region in which religious organizations, Muslim or Jewish, grit their teeth because a government that is not sufficiently devout, in their view, is running the country that God gave his subjects. In Jewish Jerusalem, it is a traitorous prime minister, who is handing over sacred land to the enemy, and in Cairo, it the president, who is accused of kowtowing to the Americans - the modern Huns - who seek to destroy Islam...
Muslim Brotherhood(s), Islamic fundamentalists, Islamists, jihadists . . . all smell the same, whatever you call them. We are too concerned to hurt their oh-so-sensitive feelings if we call them what they are.
Here is a piece about our reluctance to call a thig by its real name. Sorry, there was no link that I could find.
What is All This Insurgent/Militant stuff? They are Terrorist!
By Arlene Peck
I cannot even bear to open the newspaper or watch the television as of late. We are either so stupid or politically correct that we cannot say the words that tell it like it is. What part of murderer don’t we get? The cretins who are raging over the hill and murdering everyone in sight not one of them, a fellow Muslim fundamentalist, are barbaric and evil beyond belief. Yet, all we can find to refer to this evil entity are, “insurgents” Gawd.
What is that song we used to sing? ‘This land is our land.’ etc. Well, it sure ain’t no more. In fact, I hate to think of how many of the same kinds of terrorists who surprised us on 9/11 are coming in from Mexico and Canada every day. We are a nation literally stuffed with illegal immigrants who are slipping into our shores to get everything we have in the way of services, education, jobs etc. However, they have little or no intention of integrat! ing into our way of life
Yet, most of those same Muslims refuse to learn our language, continue to use their tribal interpretation of “honor” and take over our neighborhoods with their codes of dress and education. Then, they pressure the residents, as they did in Dearborn, Michigan, to leave by razing the churches and putting mosques in their places, displace the local delis with Middle Eastern food, the Arabic signs go up and another neighborhood bites the dust. Now, everyone can be serenaded five times a day with loudspeakers calling them to prayer. Fast learners, they are now armed with the knowledge of how to beat us with bullets and ballots.
There are ways to guard against the on-coming onslaught such as checking county land records to see who are on the deeds. So many Muslim ‘charities’ or foundations here today are fronts for Islamic brotherhoods. They have found that the local zoning boards can be bought and are not doing diddly-squat to block their development of a particular neighborhood. So-called charities, such as CAIR to which Theresa Kerry donated millions, are either known terrorists organizations or supporters working within our communities to gain control.
What is frightening is how they have learned to use our courts and legal systems, and, especially that wonderful ACLU to subvert our freedoms. Recently, Dell computer, and later General Motors, caved into threatened lawsuits by this Muslim “charity” to giving a large group of Muslim workers back pay, undisclosed settlements, and anything else their hearts desired because they were unhappy. Why? Because the companies didn’t offer prayer sessions during work hours for these employees, some of whom may not have even been legal aliens.
Hell, I remember not so long ago when I sat in on a town meeting at a local mosque. For two hours we listened while the U. S. representatives who were sent there, two with Arab names informed us of their ‘rights’ via our government. They were told how the next move should be to have their children major in journalism at university and train to enter our political system. Honest! I sat there while the audience was just about given a road map on how to manipulate our system to achieve their gains.
Most of all, they have mastered the art of double-speak. Instead of saying, “People who do these despicable acts are dysfunctional and should die” they play word games condemning “all acts of terrorism against the innocent people of the world"(but not Jews). They fail to state and even deny, as does most of the world, that the terrorists among us are ALL Muslim. What scares the bee-gees out of me is how many of these Muslim pressure groups are working together to form a protective shield around militant Islam.
We, in the United States and most of the rest of the world for that matter, have no grasp of the Middle Eastern mindset anyway. Worse, when it comes to Israel, her leaders seem to think that because they understand the backward way of thinking of their Arab neighbors, the State Dept. and foreign dignitaries will eventually ‘get it’. Well, they won’t, nor will the Jewish state survive unless they come to the conclusion that their best interests are only going to be reached by learning how to ‘just say no!”,
The only cheerful spot in the scenario that I watch each evening on the news is that these vermin, because of the protective shield, the so-called Security Fence around Gaza and the West Bank can no longer cause the carnage in the nightly “suicide” (aka homicide) bombings in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Nor, do they seem to be attacking the U.S. soldiers with the same tenacity because of the forceful response they receive. So, who are they going after now? Their own compatriots. Brother Muslims! Would you think I was a terrible person if I smile and hope they kill each other and the hell with their “democracy”? And, while we’re there, we should take some of the oil to compensate our economy for the damage they’ve done to us fighting for their freedom.
I have no doubts that we’ll continue to stay ignorant, as will officials in our government and the biased press, to the full depth of danger we’re facing from the Islamic threat within our country. It is tedious to read but the Koran is a manual of destruction and war for the world. It even gives specific directions how to train for jihad in the most barbaric and violent ways. Need directions for mutilations of women, honor killings or how best to be-head? Go to your local mosque and you, too, can be enlightened if you get in and know Arabic.
And, woe is the organization or company which has the audacity to place any roadblocks in the way of their plans. All we have to do is continue to lull ourselves more and more into the false sense of security we already have and ho-hum the repeated terror alerts given by the government.
I wish the leaders in Israel could take a few classes in "reality" In their refusal to accept the facts on the ground, Somehow, they continue to believe American leaders who are incapable of having the Jewish state’s best interests at heart despite the supposed heart-felt religious beliefs they so often talk about. Now that we are paying over three dollars a gallon for gas, that old _expression, "Money talks", comes to mind. Bush and company listen to “our good friends” in Saudi Arabia but not our only REAL ally in that region. Our President is quite cavalier about giving back "occupied land" and signing over the State of Israel. However, I'm not hearing too much from Crawford, Texas about signing over Texas to Mexico. Apparently, what is good for the goose (Israel) is not good for the gander (the US). But, hey, I can also bury my head in the sand with the best of them. So can we all if I'm right.
America is caught fast in the quicksand of politcally correct rhetoric, realpolitik, and multicultural Arab/Muslim appeasement. And in the meantime, the "insurgents," "militants," and "rebels" are killing us and our allies left and right in the name of their God
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The al-Azhar University is akin to the Roman Catholic Vatican. Mecca and Medina are important shrines but the centre of Islamic ideological formation is al-Azhar. Note that the Cairo police must guard against khutbah-inspired violence that emanates from within the mosques. This would be like having to station police around every church, synagogue, Hindu and Bhuddist temple to prevent the spillout of death and destruction from those places of worship.
Hello World! Even, or should I say, especially, in the "spiritual" centre of the Muslim world, the people must fear the violence that may be emitted from their mosques. Mosques around the world have proven time and again that they are not places of worship, but are centers of hate and conspiracy, havens for the most vile perpetrators of murder and mayhem on Earth.
Let the mosques themselves provide self-evident testimony to the fact that Islam is not a personal religious code, but is a political, economic, social and psychological ideology whose adherents have for more than 13 centuries aspired to achieving world domination through the use of mass murder, plunder and slavery.
It's identity as a sister to all the great religions of the world is perhaps the greatest fraud to be foisted on mankind in the last thousand years. It is the ultimate wolf in sheep's clothing. This charade needs to end, and it needs to end now.
Those of you who imbibe regularly in the discourse here at JW/DW are standing on a mountain top, peering far unto the horizon above the shadow that envelopes the valley below. Armed with the truth, yours is the dreadful vision of the magnitude of the global conflagration to which mankind is inexorably fast approaching. Would that we could stem this terrible ordeal. Perhaps we cannot stop it, but the sooner those around us, our families, our friends, our working colleagues, our neighbors, our political leaders, our church, and temple leaders and their congregations understand the verity of the situation, the more we can possibly mitigate the amount of suffering to be endured.
May 13,2005 09:24 am
Awesome Hulequ...I especially like your last paragraph...
This needs to be restated for effect, thanks Huelga Khan.
Thanks for Arlene Pecks article Unicorn, but it leaves me with mixed feelings. I agree, but with reservations. I have nothing against Mexicans, except those who, like the Muslims, cling to their culture, migrate here for economic advantage, but drag, chauvinistically, their cultural garbage (proudly) behind them, and become criminals and haters of the people and culture which attracted them like a magnet.
And that is the problem with Islam.
Having said that, there are millions of descent, hard working Mexicans (legal and illegal) in this country, doing work that Americans are too good to do, at wages Americans will not accept.
So we have a dilemna. by reacting negatively the anglo is begging a defensive reaction from the otherwise peaceful hardworking Mexican (legal or illegal).
This is not true, however of Islam and Islamics, see Huelga's quote above, I wish it were otherwise, but alas tis not, and it is there fault, not mine or ours, if Muslims are rejected or suspicioned because of their arrogance and supremacist ideology (as dysfunctional as it is, they persist in believeing it is the perfect ideology for the world).
On a side issue, I've noticed that it is Catholics of Hispanic origin that seem to be swelling the ranks of converts to Islam, such as Jose Padilla, I wonder why that is, especially when most of the converts that I know of to Islam, were themselves Catholics or from CAtholic households, such as John bin Walker, Adam Gadahn, (Azzam the American) and some that I've enncountered on the net.
Posted by: unicorns62000 at May 13, 2005 07:53 AM
Great peice!!!
The only thing I would have added was?
nightly “suicide” (aka homicide) bombings [Islamic Terrorist] or[mulsum terrorist]
But I think She has the Nail on the Head!!
I pray that the World Wakes up before it is to late!!
Love the touch about TX!!
Man that Lady can Write!!
Part of the American Tribe
Squirrel Hunter
Spider Killer
GOD BLESS THE USA AND HER FIGHTING FORCES AND ALL WHO FIGHT WITH HER GIVE THEM STRENGHT, WISDOM, SIGHT, AND COURAGE TO STAY THE COURSE TO DESTROY ALL ISLAMIC TERRORIST AND ALL WHO SUPPORT THEM AMEN
PS
Just tHought of a bumper sticker??
Stop appessment to CAIR save your Children!!
Of course you can very that to mulsum or mulsum oil the oil thing might work because off the gas price but there is a hugh tax on gas??
SORRY SHE KEEPS RUNNING AWAY AND BASHING NOW SHE IS BASHING
CAtholic households
BUT I DON'T SEE THEM RUNNING AFTER CHURCH TO ROIT IN THE STREETS MAYBE TO IHOP BUT NOT TRYING TO KILL OTHERS??
Posted by: Giaour at May 13, 2005 11:31 AM
are you saying you would rather have had Al Gore on 9/11/2001??
Sometimes you just have to grow up!!
We have what we have we are what we are and I'm sure you know every one of the 300million people of the USA and Know all about them??
Now if you don't then how can the President of the USA I Blame neither Bill or George of this Islamic MONSTER I blame Newsweek for making Trouble We are at War with a deciteful emeny and they are trying to divide and weaken us!!!
Now the Fight is for ALL Americans if you don't want these monsters to rule YOU, ME I DON"T!!!
If you read the WMD post or my writting I said that we could go there, but not a good thing!!!
THERE ARE REAL MONSTERS IN THE WORLD AND THEY WANT US AS SLAVES OR DEAD!!
Now you can fight with your neigbor or stand with your neigbor me I think the ods are better in the later!!!
Part of the American Tribe
Squirrel Hunter
Spider Killer
God Bless the USA and her Fighting Forces and ALL who Fight with her give them Strength, Wisdom, Sight, and Courage to stay the course to Destroy ALL islamic Terrorist and ALL who Support them Let NOT the World be Deceived by them give the World Courage to Stand Up and Fight them Amen
Posted by: Catherine at May 13, 2005 11:55 AM
BULLYS ALWAYS RUN WHEN CONFRONTED LOOK AT
saddam[FOUND IN A A HOLE DON'T SHOOT I'M A YELLOW COWARD]
ubl[NO SEE SINCE TORA BORA YELLOW COWARD SAID HE WOULD STAND AND FIGHT TO THE DEATH BUT YELLOW COWARD RAN AWAY]
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7775421/site/newsweek/
YELLOW COWARD LOCKED THE DOOR
When al-Libbi reached his destination, the agents threw off their cover and rushed him. Shots were fired. Panicked, al-Libbi tried to run away. "I'm a jihadi! Protect me, help me!" he pleaded to pedestrians as he fled. No one came to his aid. He ducked into a house and locked himself inside a room.
NO BULLY'S OF ALL COLORS WHEN CONFRONTED RUN AWAY!!!
Get real CAtherine, also acquire some reading comprehension skills.
lst Giaour is not a she. Giaour is a grandfather and a retired special operator,and a Viet Nam vet.
2nd I wasn't bashing Catholics.
I merely pointed out that as far as I have seen most converts to Islam are from Catholicism. And Why is that? Them are facts, not bashing.
Your reaction is typical of an airhead.
Yegads lady, you embarass yourself.
For sure you are the Squirrel not the hunter. LOL.
a region in which religious organizations, Muslim or Jewish, grit their teeth because a government that is not sufficiently devout, in their view, is running the country that God gave his subjects. In Jewish Jerusalem, it is a traitorous prime minister, who is handing over sacred land to the enemy, and in Cairo, it the president, who is accused of kowtowing to the Americans - the modern Huns - who seek to destroy Islam.
Good and informative article but feel the PC equivalence in the last sentence ie Israelis who are against Gaza being given to Hamas, are lumped as equivalent to murderous islamic jihadis.
Here is a link to Arlene Peck's writing,
http://www.newsbull.com/m.asp?id=559
"It's identity as a sister to all the great religions of the world is perhaps the greatest fraud to be foisted on mankind in the last thousand years. It is the ultimate wolf in sheep's clothing. This charade needs to end, and it needs to end now."- Hulegu Khan
I think Pope Benedict XVI will be the one to help end the charade.
Posted by: Giaour at May 13, 2005 04:33 PM
again bully
No did not answer the Q?
you made a statement about impeach Bush but when asked about if you wanted Cheny as President ran away!!
I have been reading your sh-t about hate Christians for a while and did not want to feed your hate but enough is enough!!
I'll shoot with you any time and we will se who goes hungery????
I think you have a good head against Jihad IF you can just keep it there would be nice!!
Bashing those who Fight will not help just makes our enemies think they have the Upper hand??
As of my writting we all can't be perfect can we I took looks over spelling!!!
Next season I hunt is dove if you want to see who eats fine with me???
All though if you want to go snake hunting I can suffer in the Dessert can you??
You write like a girl so if you are a guy better change your Style?
Part of the American Tribe
Squirrel Hunter
Spider Killer
God Bless the USA and her Fighting Forces and ALL who Fight with her give them Strength, Wisdom, Sight, and Courage to stay the ourse to Destroy ALL Islamic Terrorist and ALL who Support them Amen
PS
REMEMBER
Would rather fight with you then against you!!
THIS FIGHT WE ARE IN IS AGAINST ALL AMERICANS...
DP111,
re " . . . the PC equivalence in the last sentence i.e. Israelis who are against Gaza being given to Hamas, are lumped as equivalent to murderous islamic jihadis."
Article was in Haaretz, so what do you expect?
Carolyn2,
Thanks for the link to the Arlene Peck blog. T looked at her website but found no link to her articles there.
Hulegu Khan,
great piece! Will link to it when- and wherever appropriate.
Giaour,
Yes, there was an aside about illegals congesting our social services, etc. in the Arlene Peck piece. The greatest danger of our open borders (thanks to G.W.B etc.) are jihadists mixed in with those simply seeking work and economic betterment. There is an anti-US, anti-Jewish faction among Latinos such as the Aztlan proponents.
Catherine,
You keep on writing as you have been. We can't all be expected to write like Arlene Peck. We all do our part, however. We need not agree with each other on everything (or anything except one thing for that matter) as long as we do not let the enemy divide and conquer us.
unicorns62000
GREAT post! To me - it has the sounds of one coming from deep within the heart.
It is a cry....
The cretins who are raging over the hill and murdering everyone in sight not one of them, a fellow Muslim fundamentalist, are barbaric and evil beyond belief. Yet, all we can find to refer to this evil entity are, “insurgents” Gawd.
[insurgents - militants - freedom fighters {lols] Activists - Assailants - Attackers - Bandits - Bombers - Captors - Commandos - Criminals - Extremists - Fighters - Group - Guerrillas - Gunmen - Hostage-takers - Insurgents - Kidnappers - Militants - Perpetrators - Radicals - Rebels - Separatists - Terrorists - ]
And so - just to make the Media Giants EAT THEIR OWN WORDS:
Activists
The use of direct, often confrontational action, in opposition to or support of a cause.
Assailants:
A person who attacks another.
Attackers:
To set upon with violent force.
Bandits:
A robber, especially one who robs at gunpoint.
Bombers:
One who makes and sets off bombs.
Captors:
One that takes another as a captive.
Commandos:
A small fighting force specially trained for making quick destructive raids against enemy-held areas.
Criminals:
Of, involving, or having the nature of crime: criminal abuse.
Shameful; disgraceful.
Extremists:
One who advocates or resorts to measures beyond the norm, especially in politics.
Fighters:
One who fights, such as a soldier or boxer.
A pugnacious, unyielding, or determined person.
Group:
An assemblage of persons gathered or located together.
A number of individuals considered together because of similarities.
Guerrillas:
Members of an irregular, usually indigenous military or paramilitary unit operating in small bands in occupied territory to harass and undermine the enemy, as by surprise raids.
Gunmen:
A man armed with a gun, especially an armed criminal or a professional killer.
Hostage-takers: {not found at Dictionary.com]
A group that seizes others against their will to be used as ponds in pressuring authorities to meet their demands.
Insurgents:
Rising in revolt against established authority, especially a government.
Kidnappers:
To seize and detain unlawfully and usually for ransom.
Militants:
Fighting or warring.
A fighting, warring, or aggressive person or party.
Perpetrators:
Someone who perpetrates wrongdoing.
Radicals:
Arising from or going to a root or source.
Departing markedly from the usual or customary; extreme.
One who advocates fundamental or revolutionary changes in current practices, conditions, or institutions: radicals seeking to overthrow the social order.
Rebels:
To refuse allegiance to and oppose by force an established government or ruling authority.
Separatists:
One who secedes or advocates separation.
Terrorists:
One that engages in acts or an act of terrorism.
The unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence by a person or an organized group against people or property with the intention of intimidating or coercing societies or governments, often for ideological or political reasons.
An 'interesting' review of the media's daily description of Devout Muslims who are attacking so many others:
A person or a group who attacks others with violent force; robbers who make and set off bombs, taking others as captives, by small fighting forces especially trained for making quick destructive raids, having the nature of criminals, who advocate or resort to measures beyond the norm, who are pugnacious unyielding aggressive indigenous military or paramilitary units who perpetrate wrongdoing, operating in small bands to harass and undermine
who advocate separation for a common cause - Arising from a root - in revolt refusing allegiance by force against established authority - especially governments.
And there you have it folks - The Truth - excluding the name that it all falls under:
Islam