Iran: West ruined Christmas with UN sanctions

But the sanctions had not yet taken, or more exactly had, an effect. And the sanctions are in any case nothing at all. It will take a bigger Grinch than that to spoil Christmas in Iran.

What could that bigger Grinch be?

"My first is myself. My second is a poetry-recital in Brooklyn or Soho."

Or, to put it otherwise, what's a five-letter-word that begins with "I" and ends with "M" and is the biggest anti-Christmas Grinch of all?

"On the eve of the auspicious birthday of Jesus Christ when all Muslim and Christian believers extend best wishes to each other on the onset of the new year..."
-- from the Iranian government statement

Stop. A little close reading, please. Note how cleverly the impression is given to Christian readers that Muslim believers apparently wish them a happy, or a merry, or a good Christmas. But you, dear reader, know that that contradicts the prohibition (except in cases where it is most useful to the cause of Islam) against recognizing the religious holidays of non-Muslims. So you do a double-take, and you read the sentence again.

And what does that sentence really say?

It says that "all Muslim and Christian believers extend best wishes to each other on the onset of the new year...."

But even if such a practice were true (and it isn't), that is, even if "all Muslim and Christian believers extend best wishes to each other on the onset of the new year:" that is not the same thing as everyone saying"Merry Christmas"; they are saying, instead, something like “Happy New Year." It is worded so cunningly, that an innnocent American naturally comes away from it thinking that "all Muslim and Christian believers" are so busy wishing each other "Merry Christmas" that one half expects Jimmy Stewart to come ambling along at any minute, his arm around Donna Reed's shoulder, and for the carollers to break out in song, and the eggnog to be passed around, and here is some for Ernie the taxi-driver, and another cup for Bert the policeman (you heard right: Ernie and Bert), and the spirit of roly-poly angelic Clarence makes itself felt along the snow-lined streets of It's a Wonderful Life. Even right here, in this Christian suburb of tolerant Teheran.

No such luck.

..."the Islamic Republic of Iran has designed the national nuclear program for civilian use..."

Which means, the foaming-at-the-mouth dupes who trigger the detonation of their e-bay suitcase nuke in a western capitol will be CIVILIANS, not uniformed officers of the Iranian Republican Guard.

Ah, that's reassuring. I feel better already.

Happy New Year, fellow infidels.

Off topic:

TV Plans Tasteful Coverage of Saddam Execution

Ummah News Links

Maybe this will make up for the "ruined Christmas":

Off topic, from American Congress for Truth:

Muslim sensitivity training for 45,000 airport workers
Security officials told 'to be aware that they may also be praying'
Worldnetdaily.com
The Transportation Security Administration - created after 9/11 to safeguard America's airports - is providing Islamic sensitivity training to 45,000 airport security officers so they'll know what to expect when Muslims fly from the U.S. to Saudi Arabia to participate in the annual "hajj," or pilgrimage to Mecca.
"We put out information telling everyone that hajj is coming; this is the time frame; individuals are going to be traveling with these types of items," TSA spokesman Darrin Kayser told the State Department's USINFO Web site Tuesday. Calling it "cultural sensitivity training," Kayser added that airport security officials need "just to be aware that they may also be praying."
Ironically, just last month six Muslim imams were ejected by federal authorities from a US Airways flight in Minneapolis because they were deemed a potential security threat. Among the various behaviors that unnerved fellow passengers was the group's prayers in the airport prior to their flight.
Welcoming TSA's Islamic sensitivity training is the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, which describes itself as "America's largest Islamic civil liberties group." In a press release praising the program yesterday, CAIR noted that it distributes a pocket guide titled "Your Rights and Responsibilities as an American Muslim."
"As an airline passenger," the CAIR guide states, "you are entitled to courteous, respectful and non-stigmatizing treatment by airline and security personnel. You have the right to complain about treatment that you believe is discriminatory."
The press release also quoted the group's communications director, Ibrahim Hooper, as saying CAIR representatives nationwide have met with not only the TSA, but also from Department of Homeland Security and Customs and Border Protection officials on "issues related to cultural sensitivity and national security."
Indeed, CAIR has developed a wide-ranging advisory and teaching relationship with government on the subject of protecting Muslim interests.
As WND reported previously, last June a senior Department of Homeland Security official from Washington personally guided CAIR officials on a behind-the-scenes tour of Customs screening operations at O'Hare International Airport in response to CAIR complaints that Muslim travelers were being unfairly delayed as they entered the U.S. from abroad.
However, CAIR itself is a controversial organization. It is a spin-off of the Islamic Association for Palestine, identified by two former FBI counterterrorism chiefs as a "front group" for the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas. Moreover, several CAIR leaders have been convicted on terror-related charges.
During the June airport tour, CAIR was taken on a walk through the point-of-entry, Customs stations, secondary screening and interview rooms. In addition, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents were asked to describe for CAIR representatives various features of the high-risk passenger lookout system. Brian Humphrey, Customs and Border Patrol's executive director of field operations, assured CAIR officials that agents do not single out Muslim passengers for special screening and that they must undergo a mandatory course in Muslim sensitivity training. The course teaches agents that Muslims believe jihad is an "internal struggle against sin" and not holy warfare.
Customs agents involved in the CAIR tour at O'Hare told WorldNetDaily they were outraged that headquarters would reveal sensitive counterterrorism procedures to an organization that has seen several of its own officials convicted of terror-related charges since 9-11.
CAIR says the June tour allayed its concerns about profiling and that it "looks forward to continuing the relationship with U.S. Customs and Border Protection offices in the region, and to furthering understanding between the organizations as well as facilitating future communication in order to eliminate problems for Muslim travelers before they even arise."
As WND reported, the Department of Homeland Security invites CAIR itself to conduct sensitivity training for Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and supervisors (CBP's counterparts) in Chicago. The course is taught by local CAIR officials Christina Abraham and Mariyam Hussain. More than 30 ICE staffers have gone through the CAIR awareness program so far.
CAIR - which is bankrolled by the Saudis and the United Arab Emirates, two countries that formally recognized the Taliban - also offers religious and cultural sensitivity training about Islam and Muslims to the military. In June, for example, CAIR trained more than 300 military personnel at the Marine Corps Air Station in Yuma, Ariz.
Also in June, CAIR was invited by the Pentagon to a ceremony dedicating the first Islamic center in Marine Corps history at Quantico headquarters outside of Washington.
Washington-based CAIR also has regular meetings with the FBI and Justice Department. In fact, FBI case agents complain the bureau rarely can make a move in the Muslim community without first consulting with CAIR, which sits on its advisory board. CAIR in the past has cried racism and bigotry when the bureau has moved unilaterally with investigations and raids in the community.
CAIR has also been dogged by the statements of Omar Ahmad, as reported by a California newspaper, that "Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant," and, "The Koran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth." Although the newspaper's publisher and the reporter stand by the quotes, Ahmad and CAIR dispute their accuracy.
The pilgrimage to Mecca is a religious duty for Muslims, which attracts about 2.5 million Muslim pilgrims very year, according to Saudi officials.
The Saudi Embassy in Washington, D.C., reports that about 15,000 American Muslims made the pilgrimage in 2005.

Valuable time is wasted -- it is not a mere matter of clicking a button -- in the necessary task of sometimes deleting, postings in which assorted expletives and insults flung Islam-wards are offered. If a comment does not further the analysis, but is merely an expression of hostilty or hatred, refrain from offering it up at this website. There is not time to monitor every posting; it is a waste of time to have to get into the system to delete. Why emote in such fashion? What's the point? What good does it do? It does, in fact, great harm. It may make visitors, initially intrigued, recoil in disgust, as they come across the wrong thing, and then misinterpret the intended level, and the hoped-for value, of this site. From now on, anyone offending will not have a single post deleted, but all past posts deleted, for all time, and any possibility of future posting ended.

And what happened then...?
Well...in Hugh-ville they say
That the Grinch's brave heart
Grew three sizes that day!
And the minute his genius hit on something to write
He whizzed with his lode through the bright morning light
And he brought back the noise! And the lines for the feast!
And he...

...HE HIMSELF...!
The Grinch carved the scourge Beast!

These Muslim heathens are ABSOLUTELY SHAMELESS about trying to hijack Jesus Christ. For their own nefarious purposes. The Muslim Jihad can always be counted on for such non stop anti Christian propaganda

Greetings in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, Who is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by Him, seeing He ever liveth to make intercession for them.

This article makes me go, "Bwah ha ha ha!" These guys are beyond funny and have entered the twilight zone!

I don't know if the chiliastic can, as a matter of policy, be kept out of this website, but it gives me the chills. And as you say that first sentence aloud in your mind, remember to avoid unwonted and unwanted alliteration.

Law Enforcement should be thankful that CAIR was so willing to come in and spill the beans. Isn't everything CAIR says something we should be sensitive about? I'm sure law enforcement is pleased to know exactly what their bad behavior is.

Israel's possession of nukes has been one of the world's worst kept secrets for about, oh...20 or 30 years.

Yet when Iran starts splitting atoms, Egypt and Saudi Arabia all of a sudden get really, REALLY nervous.

There is an encyclopedia's worth of information about the Middle East in this little tidbit.

"Israel's possession of nukes has been one of the world's worst kept secrets for about, oh...20 or 30 years.

Yet when Iran starts splitting atoms, Egypt and Saudi Arabia all of a sudden get really, REALLY nervous.

There is an encyclopedia's worth of information about the Middle East in this little tidbit."
-- from a posting by "snippet" above

That is a keen observation. And there are other examples of behavior, or statements, that are far more telling than many realize.

Two other examples.

#1.

When King Hussein's Bedouins were killing members of the PLO, members of that same PLO, an organization dedicated to killing Israelis, the same PLO that always went on and on for the Western press about the diabolical cruelty of those same Israelis, tried to escape across the Jordan River, into Israel, and with their hands up, tried -- and in many cases did -- surrender willingly to those "cruel" Israelis whom, the PLO people knew perfectly well, would treat them humanely and not as other Arabs would.

#2. Last summer Kofi Annan, the man who has spent much of his time never opposing but always supporting, and frequently parroting, the anti-Israel rhetoric that is such a feature of the Islamintern-infiltrated and Islamintern-dominated U.N. (and Kofi Annan's own staff -- google "Edward Mortimer" -- is part of that Islamintern International), publicly stated that he "thought the Israeli soldiers [captured by Hamas and Hezbollah] were still alive."

Now suppose he had been talking about Iraqis captured by the Americans. Suppose he had been talking about Arab soldiers captured by the Israelis. Would he, would anyone, including the Arabs and other Muslims, think to make such a statement as "we think those Iraqis [in American custody] are still alive" or "we think those Arabs [in Israeli custody] are still alive?"

No one would see the need to make such a statement. But clearly Kofi Annan found such an assurance, or semi-assurance, necessary in the case of the Israeli soldiers captured alive. For there are so many cases when, having been captured alive, Israelis, and other Infidel troops, have been slaughtered, that Kofi Annan felt such a statement was necessary. Yet he did not realize what making that statement revealed about his own true assumptions and attitudes, just as those PLO terrorists holding up their hands and waving white handkerchiefs as they clambered ashore on the Isreaeli side of the Jordan, did not bethink themselves to understand what their own act, freely chosen, actually meant.

And the same is true of the sudden fear about Iran's nuclear capacity -- as noted by the keen-minded "snippet" above.

Nasty old West...anyway lets hope for better
things in the New Year.
Like large smoking craters in Iran.

I think I can translate:
"You infidels should let us nuke Israel and then you.
After all, we are allah's chosen instrument."

So who's gone? I noticed all the fury over the offending posts, and the warning that future offenders would be eviscerated from this site. Fair enough, but does this now mean that any condemnation of Islam/Muslims is off-limits?

Okay, I missed Patriot8 & StillFedUp. I think you guys really should ignore Naseem - she has been yanking your chains for months. Also, as far as insults go, while I'm not normally turned off by what may seem to be unhinged comments, I can see how anyone else might be. I'd suggest substituting rants and insults with a few sprinkles of sarcasm, and exploration of how to turn things around and use Islamic laws against Muslims - sortof like Iqbal did in the other thread about the Indian Jewellery stores.

Hugh,

Andrew McCarthy of NRO pointed out the vastly greater fear Arabs have of Iranian nukes than of Isreali ones. I should have mentioned that. It REALLY struck me, and your observations of course re-inforce the same insight.

The implicit recognition that Israel is more humane than its enemies only stengthens my view that the "International Community" is motivated not by a genuine concern about excessive Israeli aggression, but rather is simply afraid of getting on the bad side of people who send booby-trapped children into supermarkets when they don't get their way.

It MAY be prudent to avoid getting on the bad side of such people, but I am sick to death of the claim that such fear represnts virtue or compassion.

1.
I'm not sure why I am the sole recipient of complaints about banning. I am hardly alone in performng this task, and as yet have never been responsible for past postings by those banned being removed.

2.
There have been many warnings about form and content. Do not make CAIR happy. Do not drive away those who might be enlightened by this site, in a desire to - to do what, exactly? Yell about Muslims or about Islam, in a most unseemly fashion that convinces no one?

3.
Those who think either that no censorship can be allowed, because they have very strange understandings of "Free Speech" and the Internet, are peculiar. Each website has its own rules. Many admit of no comment from outside. That has not been done here. Instead, there has been some modest monitoring, frequent warning, and then, very very infrequent removal of posts -- so infrequent as to have left, alas, all kinds of things that may be taken by others as bearing a Seal of Approval, which they do not.

End of story. Not very complicated.