An update on this story. The Army Times reports about the soldier hit by a sniper in Iraq who then captured and medically treated the wounded sniper who had just tried to kill him. The sniper has a video rolling and now it seems the jihadi sniper is speaking Dutch with an Moroccan accent. Thanks to Live From Brussels.
What they are saying:-Allah Ahkbar (x3)...
-Hé hakbar, hebbie uhm geraakt? Did you hit him?
-Yes
One way to respond to this news is to go to your nearest university library, and check out "The Achenese" by C. Snouck Hurgronje, and turn to the last few pages in the book, where the great Dutch Orientalist (who visited Mecca, and even took photographs of the place, in the 1880s -- quite a feat, which may have required him to recite the Shehadah and pretend to be Muslim) discusses the concept of Jihad. Xerox those pages. Make many copies. Type it out as a document. Now email to as many people as you can those pages by C. Snouck Hurgronje. That is one way to respond to this news.
From now on, it is strictly non-Muslim rijstaafel for me. I'm changing my ways. Let us all learn to satisfy our hunger, even in Holland, haramishly.
During the Cold War, the Herzen Center (Karel van het Reve, Director) was an important ideological outpost for the right side, along with such samaritan organizations as that one-man band (and the one man was Leopold Labedz) that magazine of East European affairs, Survey. When the real history of the Cold War is written, Survey and Encounter and those Dutch such as Karel van het Reve will be given pride of place, or should be.
Where are the anti-Jihad equivalents now, in London or in Amsterdam or Paris, of those people and magazines and institutions, that received generous backing from the American government, and helped wage that famous "war of ideas" that in the end did help wear out the Soviet system, and cause even those within it to begin to question whether the whole thing made sense.
If the Western world refuses to recognize the contents of Islam, the menace of Islam, of course it will never support a new Encounter, a new Survey, a new Herzen Institute. Perhaps no Western government dares to be directly involved.
Okay, then, what foundations, what maecenases, are ready to step into the breach -- if only in order to preserve the world more or less in acceptable form, for if it is not so preserved, all the money in the world will not be much recompense.
Okay, Mr. and Mrs. Maecenas: all the phones are open. We are ready to take your pledges. These calls may be monitored for quality control.
Hugh:
If you are looking for double-haram, I see some company in India has put out assorted Indian dishes that proudly display a menorah and a Kosher symbol. Some of those along with a heft helping of pork or ham would do nicely.
Hugh: Taiwan is full of former Sino-Indonesians who have introduced rijstaffel to that island. While I haven't seen pork in them, I doubt that these impoverished refugees go through the trouble of patronizing one of the island's few halal butchers to get their beef or goat.