500,000 attend Hizballah "victory" rally

Tiny Minority of Extremists Update: "Defiant Hezbollah chief returns for 'victory' rally," from the TimesOnline, with thanks to Sr. Soph:

HEZBOLLAH held a huge “victory” rally in southern Beirut yesterday, drawing more than 500,000 people in a display of strength aimed at domestic and foreign critics who want to see the disarming of the Iran-backed Shia group.

Greeted by an ecstatic crowd of supporters cheering and waving yellow party flags, a smiling Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah’s leader, made his first public appearance since going into hiding on July 12 at the beginning of the month-long war with Israel.

“We are not frightened of death. We have God on our side,” the cleric said. “Our presence here is not without any danger. However, my heart and soul would not allow me to address you from a distance.” The rally passed peacefully despite intense speculation that Israel might take advantage of Sheikh Nasrallah’s presence to fulfil its pledge to kill the Hezbollah leader.

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Victory?

I hope these idiots took a good look around them at all of the rubble as they celebrated.

“'We are not frightened of death.'"

"Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah’s leader, made his first public appearance since going into hiding on July 12 at the beginning of the month-long war with Israel."


Once the fighting starts, Nasrallah goes into hiding. Yeah. He's not afraid of death.

500,000 attend Hizballah "victory" rally

Thatis what the military calls a "target rich environment."

Ok, your not frightened by death...how about just getting busted up. The only word more scary than death is 'pain'. Allah loves pain. He personally inflicts it on every non-believer as soon as they get to hell. He inflicts it on many before they get there. Of course, following Allahs example, muslims dont want pain for themselves, they want it for others. Nasty-rallah gives me a headache. The picture of Gadahn at the top of the site, holding RS book, makes my stomach cramp (ugly dude). Naseem makes me laugh so hard my chest hurts. Almost everything about Islam is a pain in the arse. While the assembled masses of terrorists were assembled in one place, Israel and the terrorist fighter Bush passed up the opportunity to cause Nasty-rallah and his minnions lots of pain. They could have done something as simple as flying over the crowd, spraying it with hog oil. Israel annoints you with hog oil. Oh the pain...
500,000 terrorists locked out of paradise due to pig juice. Now that hurts...

How interesting, 500,000 people with no concept of reality. Aren't there medications for that?

The rally passed peacefully despite intense speculation that Israel might take advantage of Sheikh Nasrallah’s presence to fulfil its pledge to kill the Hezbollah leader.

Foolishness. Another wasted opportunity.

fireangel said

Aren't there medications for that?

There are, but they aren't measured in milligrams, they are measured in kilotons.

If the Israelis had sense they'd realize that they could have eliminated 500,000 enemies with one properly targeted missile.

Yesterday it was reported that Emperor Hirohito had toured the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and declared victory against the American and British forces in vitriolic and often hysterical speeches to packed rallies in both cities.

Someone (Galbraith? Kruschev?) said during the cold war that the ashes of communism will not be distinguishable from the ashes of capitalism.

In contrast, this rally emphasizes that the ashes of Islam will be indistinguishable from what came before. I mean, things are so bad, there's not as much for them to lose.

So far as they were left alive, they were victorious. (They, in their minds somehow seem to think that we would massacre them, what exactly they have in store for us.) I don't know how to define it psychologically, but I have been around enough of them to understand this.

Yes, they are victorious. And they will be coming again.

If Israel knew that nastyrallah was going to be there, they should have dropped a daisy on them. ALL of them. He's such a "brave" muslim male. He's been hiding for a couple of months now. He's such a chicken, I'll bet he clucks.

Is anyone else surprised by the hugeness or the apparent fervency of the Hizballah rally in Lebanon? Even understanding the iron grip Islam exerts on its slaves, or the fact that Muslims habitually perpetrate craven manipulations and intimidation to make its adherents tow the Islamic party line, I don't think this is an adequate explanation to describe what we are plainly seeing on the streets of Beirut.

I will admit I am shocked by what my eyes are telling me. These people are thrilled with Nasarallah, with Hizballah, and with Islam and its tactics. I don't believe I'm watching one of those spiritless staged Stalinist events so typical of the totalitarians - though it may be in part be a rally run by intimidation or bribery, I believe we're watching a genuine and triumphal outpouring of a TRUE culture of genocidal hatred, one which is all too happy with the horrors and chaos it has recently unleashed. The Lebanese who are rallying amidst the ruins appear to crave more and worse... The destruction wreaked on their heads by their leadership has only incited them to stronger devotion to Islam, her leadership, and all the heinousness such things entail...

We now know that Western coverage of events in the Muslim world are horribly distorted by an agenda to depict human conflict mainly through a Marxist lens of economic determinism and third world victimhood at the hands of greedy White Anglo Saxon Imperialist Colonizers.

We also know that Islamic coverage is terminally tainted by the Muslim agenda to depict human conflict solely through an Islamic lens of 'The Battle Between Allah and Satan', where Islam=GOOD, and the Western/Israeli/European/Christians/Jewish/Hindu/Buddhist/Secular/Idolator World = BAD (or that basically anything and anyone who isn't 'Islamic' is axiomatically BAD and must be crushed or slaughtered.)

It's clear that the Western World is beset by cynical forces and disinformation which prevents us collectively from feeling the true dimensions of damage being inflicted on our treasured Western edifice. Those of us who variously understand the perils of Islam, who grasp the titanic forces arrayed against us, who comprehend the magnitude of the dilemma our society faces are under special duress by these forces. Yet we have a special responsibility to make sure our anti-Jihad message is getting out - that the alarm bells are rung in the proper manner (whatever that may be) - and that an adequate response must be mounted to fight the pending catastrophes.

Are we doing enough? Are we saying it in the right way? Is the alarm being sounded in a way that resonates for the Western Masses who are imperiled? Is our message effective? Are we asking the right questions? Without wishing to disparage any anti-Jihad efforts or to engender hopelessness on the part of anti-Jihad participants, I must say the conclusions I draw are these:

We are not doing enough. We are not conveying a message with wide enough resonance and appeal to engender a response. We are not yet winning the fight against Muslim animal.

For a long time I have written that our anti-Jihad comparisons and metaphors are inadequate for the task at hand. "1933 Alert!" and "1938 Alert!" and "Islam = Nazism" and "Islam=Totalitarianism" and many other comparisons fall flat in the face of events. Somehow they fail to convey the full scope of the Muslim mindset we are confronted with.

Nazi comparisons seem to be about the most extreme things we can hurl, since was fueled by such horrors as world domination and genocidal hatred.

Yet Germany was a first world Western nation, a highly organized, efficient, innovative, and industrious nation. Nazism was based on racial more than ideological supremacism, and was a geograhically limited foe. There was a concrete limit on the scope of this foe -- the 1939 census gave Germany's population at ~80,000,000, and the Nazis, unlike the Muslims, were not already insinuated into every strata of enemy territory, at least not as completely as the Muslims are today within the Western dominions.

Since Muslims insist on dividing the world into the house of Islam and the house of war, they've already have insinuated one quarter to one half as many enemy agents behind our defensive lines in the West as the entire population of Germany at the start of World War 2! Estimates put their number in our 'infidel' dominions between 20 and 40 million. Germany had an absolutely limited resevoir on which to draw, and while it made efficient if not brutal use of enslaved humans to augment its war efforts, the Muslims have a population over a billion on which to draw, and they show no signs of moderating their tactics of rage, dominion, hatred, and loyalty to the infinite failures (by our civilized standards) of Islam.

Seen from their perspective, none of this is failurr, for Islam is not only successfully continuing to insinuate itself into our Western edifice, we show little signs in the West that we 'get it', nor do we show much sign that we care to preserve our system, given the capitulations we seem eager to proffer them, often simply to keep them quiet and appeased. We seem to be collectively saying 'Please don't hurt us -- please don't cause trouble -- steal what you want from us, just leave us alone."

Topically, and for anyone who read their history and was able to penetrate through the post-modern deconstructionist slant, this is exact same recipe which brought Byzantium to her knees before the Muslim onslaught.

So, aside from being taken aback by the magnitude and revelry displayed at the 'celebrations' in Beirut for Hizballah -- some big questions still have not been adequately vetted in my opinion regarding Muslims and the cancer of Islam. If we are to defeat the Muslim foe, we must come to accurate conclusions or understandings about his mindset and the nature of his ideology.

Some nagging questions keep cropping up for me:

Why do Muslims in the West show a congenital and near complete inability to confront the heinousness of their belief system, or to admit that Islam and violence, Islam and intolerance, Islam and terrorism are axiomatic?

Why so few apostates in the West? Why so many dissemblers, liars, and self deluded fools among the Muslims in the West? If Muslims have been afforded 'safe harbor' in the Free West where, more than anywhere else, they've been generously and at great cost to us, afforded a platform to speak out about Islam, repudiate violence in Islam, and disavow the intolerance of their blood drenched slavemaster, why then are so few willing to speak out? Why are there only a few dozen apostates of note who have left the slave master's plantation? Why do they CHOOSE to remain in thralldom, CHOOSE to apologize and lie and excuse the horrors of their dastardly insufferable 'religion'? If they don't speak out now and here, before things degenerate even further, then what hope should there ever be that they are remedial or redeemable? Muslims in the West have failed worst of all. Why is this? What is it in them that the 'human spirit' we put so much stock in within the West seems utterly to be missing in the Muslims?

What is the explanation for the the crowds 'celebrating' Hezballah's 'victory' amidst the ruins of Lebanon?

Are Muslims unpersuadable?

What happens when a society based on being persuadable is invaded in the millions by unpersuadable dissemblers, liars, deluded lunatics, and seditionists?

What happens then?

What should a society invaded in such a way do? What lengths should such a society go to in order to preserve itself?

What have we done allowing Muslims into our domain?

Do we yet grasp the horrors and damage they have already caused, and continue to cause?

Unfortunately, Hizbollah did win. Just by surviving they won. For that, they can thank the world's media for its diligent reporting of Israel's "atrocities" against those poor human shields, the corrosive effects of Western PC in Israel, and the ever helpful UN (which once again snatched defeat from the jaws of victory regarding terrorism).

The next victory celebration of this scummy organization will probably take place in Tel Aviv if Western thinking and policy doesn't change soon.

Nasrallah has an overdue appointment with a sharpshooter or sniper bullet.

We're way past the point of talking to or tolerating these fools.

You'd think half a million people would have something better to do in a wrecked city than to celebrate a victory in all that mess. But then again, this is an Islamic celebration and one can never confuse "Islamic" with "rational". Besides, leaving the place like that will reinforce their victimhood mentality.

Who are the leaders of the world trying to fool, they tell us that there are only a few terrorists and extremists.. sure...and this is only from one place....
Have our leaders sold out to Islam, they don't seem to be protecting the people, they let these people enter at will and these people openly say that they will take the world and along with their violence and war they will multiply far faster than the infidel so as they will be able to do it,, they have many children to each wife, and we pay the solo benefits... at the rate that they have children how long will it be before they are larger in numbers than us...

jsla says "For a long time I have written that our anti-Jihad comparisons and metaphors are inadequate for the task at hand. "1933 Alert!" and "1938 Alert!" and "Islam = Nazism" and "Islam=Totalitarianism" and many other comparisons fall flat in the face of events. Somehow they fail to convey the full scope of the Muslim mindset we are confronted with."

You're right. We should be comparing with events in past history, like the fall of Constantinople in 1453, the first Siege of Vienna in 1529 etc, not to mention the slaughter of 70-80 million Hindus by Muslims between 1000 and 1525. Accounts of these do exist, and as every historian who have studied these bloodthirsty events knows, once the Turks swarmed into Constantinople, an orgy of murder began, with worshippers slaughtered inside the Hagia Sophia church, women and children sold off into slavery whilst the men and the frail and elderly were butchered throughout three days, whilst the city was looted and many churches destroyed. Lets get it through that Islam DEMANDS our conversion and subjugation, and if we refuse, we will be killed en masse and without mercy, just like those unfortunates of Constantinople. Likewise, at the 1529 Siege of Vienna, the civilians were evacuated from that city, but they didn't get very far before the Turks fell upon them and slaughtered them en masse, and those that were 'saved' were taken into slavery. Lets bring this bloodthirstiness down the ages out into the open, and get through to people that Islam is still the same brutal and barbaric cutthroat death cult in 2006 that it was in 1000, 1453, 1525, 1529, 1683 etc, and will remain that way in 2206, 2406 and 2606 etc, and that it is futile to try to negotiate with these murderous cutthroats who follow this vile and barbaric cult.

jsla:

Why be shocked that half a million of Lebanon's Shias (likely the poor members of the sect) turned out for a rally for Nazrallah? I'm sure Hezbollah ensured a good turn out by passing around lots more of the fake US currency they've been using to rebuild southern Lebanon since Israeli bombings ceased.

What we should be disgusted by is the silence that has followed Nazrallah's boast that he has even more rockets than he claimed before. It comes as no surprise that he is carrying on like the pathetic bully boy that he is, claiming victory despite the fact that his sorry @ss was saved by virtue of international interventions based on a promise that Hezbollah would be promptly disarmed by the Lebanese army. It's the continuing stupidity of the west that is beyond belief.

What's that old Nigerian saying: Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.