Hmmm. The police spokesman said, "Our investigation did not reveal any information or evidence to support the girl's allegations." But the Justice Department read about it in the papers and decided to pursue the case anyway.
Now, why is that? Is someone pressuring them?
And while we're at it, why are the networks allowing CAIR plants to ask questions during presidential debates? The CNN featuring of "Yasmin from Huntsville, Ala." without identifying her link with CAIR seems especially fishy.
I'm not saying there is some grand conspiracy here. There does seem, however, to be an ongoing pattern of uncritical accommodation, even to the point of enabling a dubious advocacy group like CAIR to further its agenda, and that pattern extends into many areas beyond the debates and the investigation into this child's claims.
"Justice department reviewing Muslim girl's school complaint," by Thomas C. Tobin and Donna Winchester for the St. Petersburg Times (thanks to Twostellas):
The U.S. Justice Department is looking into last month's allegations by a St. Petersburg Muslim girl that she was threatened and harassed by a classmate at Azalea Middle School.In a letter to Pinellas school superintendent Clayton Wilcox, a lawyer for the department's Civil Rights Division said the agency learned of the girl's allegations through media reports and asked the district to provide information on the case.
The lawyer, Kym Davis Rogers, said the inquiry was preliminary. She could not be reached Friday for comment.
Laurie Dart, an attorney for the school district, said she was compiling the information collected during Pinellas' investigation, which has ended. She said she planned to send it to the Justice Department soon. The district received the letter Monday.
The girl, 11-year-old Hannah Chehab, alleged at a Nov. 12 news conference that a boy at Azalea pulled off her headscarf, called a hijab, and later threatened to shoot and kill her after she complained to an assistant principal. She and her parents alleged that school officials were slow to respond to the incidents.
The sixth-grader also said the school year began with students asking her if she was a terrorist and if she was hiding a bomb.
The news conference was called by Ahmed Bedier, executive director of the Tampa chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. He said Friday that the girl's parents did not want to comment on the letter.
A school district investigation confirmed the details about the terrorist remarks but found no evidence of a threat by the boy. Azalea officials said they responded appropriately.
An assistant principal at the school reprimanded the boy for the hijab incident, isolated him from other students at lunch and gave him a work detail. But varying accounts raised doubts about the severity of the incident.
St. Petersburg police conducted a separate investigation and said they found no evidence to support Hannah's story. Among the findings: statements that the boy and girl often had been seen joking with each other....
"The girl, 11-year-old Hannah Chehab, alleged at a Nov. 12 news conference that a boy at Azalea pulled off her headscarf, called a hijab, and later threatened to shoot and kill her after she complained to an assistant principal. She and her parents alleged that school officials were slow to respond to the incidents...."
...hmmmm, in Muslim countries Christian homes are invaded, possessions smashed, Christians raped, executed and forced to convert to Islam...The Christians are told to leave town immediately and to leave all possessions..If the incidents are reported, the officials are slow to resond....
Ban Muslim Immigration...
Re: Justice department reviewing Muslim girl's school complaint -- after police found no evidence to back it up
This about keeping your friends close and the unindicted co-conspirators even closer. CAIR has FBI agents right in their network. Someday we will see tapes and hear audio that will be similar to the unmaking of the German-American Bund. (BTW, even Lindbergh's pet "The American First committee" of the 1930's was funded (in part) by Nazi Germany. All of that came out after WW2.
Every day thousands of white children are beaten, robbed, extorted, taunted and intimidated by black and Hispanics in our school systems. In Los Angeles there is an ongoing pattern of Hispanics terrorizing black Americans in neighborhoods where they are now a minority.
But this TINY INCIDENT WHICH PROBABLY DID NOT EVEN HAPPEN AT ALL needs the JUSTICE DEPARTMENT.
They are investigating the allegation because the Department of Justice set up a whole group of civil servants to investigate allegations:
"Initiative to Combat the Post-9/11 Discriminatory Backlash. The Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights has directed the Civil Rights Division’s National Origin Working Group to help combat violations of federal civil and criminal rights laws affecting individuals perceived to be of Middle Eastern descent."
These guys need to keep busy, you know. Budget justification and stuff like that. And they’re here to help.
http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/nordwg.html
I am so lucky I'm not in school anymore and glad I was lucky enough to go to school in the 1950s and 1960s when, basically, nothing horrible happened (in my schools). I feel sorry for children in school now.
"But this TINY INCIDENT WHICH PROBABLY DID NOT EVEN HAPPEN AT ALL needs the JUSTICE DEPARTMENT.
Posted by: poetcomic1"
.....hmmmm, it does remind me of the Salem Witch trials in which schoolgirls accused people they did not like as being Witches...the townsfolk were ignorant people of that era elected to gleefully hang the people rather than to take the time to act reasonably and to see if they could find any real evidence....
...in todays world, the townsfolk are still stuck on stupid and fail to recognize the battle plans of Islam...and they still refuse to act reasonably and to review the abundant evidence that Islam plans to kill them....
Ban Muslim Immigration.
Absurdity. Part of a steady campaign, in most cases organized, and the lawyers paid for, by those who have a deep interest in keeping Infidels off-balance, and being led to believe that Muslims are "victims" when in fact they are trying, and will continue relentlessly to try, to remove all barriers not only to the spread, but to the dominance, of Islam, and dominance by Islam means an end to the political and legal institutions, and many of the social arrangements and understandings, of this country, as of every other advanced Western democracy, whose main faults have been their elevating of "tolerance" and "diversity" to Idols of the Age, that cannot be questioned, and that are now being applied in a suicidal fashion when it comes to Muslim penetration into the Lands of the Infidels.
Keeping up a constant stream of such absurdities, as in this case which, even if an eleven-year-old boy misbehaved hardly amounts to a criminal act, and certainly implicates no one but a young boy, and then to make a case of it, is idiotic, but even more idiotic is to take such a thing seriously. When such charges are brought, so absurdly, they ought to be dismissed, or those bringing them ought to be sued, and costs recovered, for the whole rigmarole of investigating what is part of a systematic campaign to keep Infidels fearful of ever doing something in the slightest that might offend Muslims -- while Muslims, all over the world, do whatever they want to Infidels in the lands they rule, and continue to press for every advantage, and every conceivable change, in the Lands of the Infidels into which, through a collective act of negligence, they have been permitted to settle, deep behind what Muslims themselves are taught to regard as enemy lines, the lines of Dar al-Harb.
There is a determination to keep the drumbeat of false claims of victimhood constantly before us, so that we are so busy being apologetic that we will not have time, or will not dare, to begin to try to understand the full meaning, and therefore the full meance, of Islam. It's war propaganda, designed to confuse the perceived enemy, those Infidels, We do not recognize this as "war" because we think in terms of battlefields, and fail to recognize that Da'wa and demographic conquest and propaganda are now the main weapons of the Jihad, supported by the Money Weapon without which Muslims would be, save for that dangerous presence in the Lands of the Infidels, unable to make much of a dent on the world, as they could not before the oil revenues arrived, the only conceivable way that Muslims would become rich, given the permanent economic failure that comes from inshallah-fatalism and the submissiveness to despotism that Islam encourages. That does not mean that Jihad will ever disappear, but merely that the ability of Muslims to conduct Jihad can be permanently contained. Just.
Greetings:
I guess no one at the Dept. of Justice ever heard about pigtails and inkwells.
I hope the boy’s family sues Cair the school and the girl, in that order.
Lets bear in mind that this is middle (junior high) school. Everyone gets teased and threatened and harrassed by everyone about anything. My experience of that age level was one of near-constant harrasment, threats and intimidation. I recall an incident in which a deaf girl was on campus for a while. She got teased some. I'll admit to beeing one of the teasers. Nothing serious - just kids beeing kids really. My friends and I ended up being questioned by the principal, 2 teachers, and then some guy from off-campus from some department of whatever accosted me as I was getting on the bus and I had to endure a 5 minute lecture about tolerance, respect and etc.... Now, I'll admit that some of what I said was inappropriate - not defending it. Even at the time though, I bristled under the very obvious double standard. At that time, I had to endure threats and intimidation and muttered growls in the PE locker room of "*! white boy". I was frequently teased for the way I dressed, or about what brand of shoes I wore, the way I talked or the way I walked or just for not being in the "in-crowd". I don't remember so much as a verbal reprimand from the local janitor for any of this. But- you take on some member of the "Victim Class" and then, the powers that be swing into action. The fact that the Justice Department is 'investigating' what really is a minor, typical playground incident is a typical example of seeing certain people as beeing in a 'protected group'. At the end of the day folks, what we have here is a boy stealing a girls hat - hardly a new or troubling thing. Unfortunately, its being hyped as "Islamophobia" by groups that want to use this girl as a rather unfortunate pawn in their Islamist political agenda.
In a strange way, this girls situation is a sort of strange microcosm of the situation of the Palestinians. Yes, there in a tough situation, their lives are difficult. Their being exploited, though, by Islamic powers that want to use their 'victim status' to further their ultimate agenda - the destruction of the state of Israel.
The Feds in the Civil Rights Division really have too much time on their hands. When CAIR says JUMP DHIMMI!! they jump.
Feds will find nothing because there is nothing
Since when do the Feds meddle in a schoolyard tussle between two eleven year olds?
"The girl, 11-year-old Hannah Chehab, alleged at a Nov. 12 news conference that a boy at Azalea pulled off her headscarf, called a hijab, and later threatened to shoot and kill her after she complained to an assistant principal."
Now if it had been her brother threatening to kill her for besmirching the family honor by joking around with an infidel boy, that would have been all right. A fine religious tradition, doncha know?
I agree with many of the comments above. The Justice Dept will set an example out of this kid for intolerance against another cultural group. One reason I dislike multiculturalism!!!
I was given a hard time at that age and often threatened but I survived but I agree it is much more than that with this Muslim girl and CAIR.
I agree on putting on limit on Muslim immigration but not a total ban. They should only be allowed in after careful screening, but this should apply to all immigrants. Sadly, as Bush allows more and more of them into our country you will see more incidents like this. It will become more and more a clash of civilizations here and no longer overseas somewhere.
I support Michael Savage 100% with his case against CAIR!!
Looks like the FBI's affirmative action program for hiring Moslem special agents is really paying off.
When our government does things like this, my patriotism begins to slip. It's us against Them, and I ain't talking about giant ants either.
It is time we revise the most quoted part of JFK's inaugural address and ask,"Just what the hell is our government doing for us?" So far it seems that they are working for our enemies.
A change in government will happen on Junaury 20, 2009. Our future depends on which mealy-mouthed, cowardly candidate takes office.
Cynical, sarcastic, depressed, angry, sad? Yep, I am all of that.
Follow the paper trail, you need to find out who approved the DOJ investigation this will tell you a lot.
My guess there is some liberal fckwad at the DOJ who is trying to make a mountain out of a molehill in order to further his career as some sort of avenging do-gooder.
This is just the Bush Justice Department doing what the Bush Justice Department does best. Is anyone suprised, really?
I wonder if the DoJ looked into the Armanias family slaughter?
"Follow the paper trail..."
Yes, as in paper dollars. Follow the money.
The enemy has money. Saudi money buys powerful Americans. But American money doesn't seem to buy powerful Jihadis. No matter how many trillions in reward money we offer for Osama, no one bites. No matter how much money we send to the middle east, still it buys no loyalty.
This is a powerful combination that does not bode well for the West.
In WWII, was there in the U.S. a Council on American -Nazi Relations? Could it have existed and held sway?
What will happen when we have a few more muslims in Congress and in State governments? How about a muslim-owned President or VP, or Secretary of State?
What will be the chances of a meaningful defense? A case could be made that we have already reached this point. One need look no further than the west's impotent responses to Iran, to Hamas, to Hezbollah. We allow them to have training camps right here on our soil.
I am beginning to think this will all be over in a few decades without so much as a skirmish on American soil.
Tell me I am wrong.
This school where the muslim girl claims to have been threatened is just a few blocks from my house. Ahmed Bedier from CAIR was all over television on this one and in the newspapers. Not one organized voice was heard in defense of the school or of the accused, even after the lack of corroborating evidence was revealed.
Sorry I misspelled the Armanious name.
What has happened? Did the fallguys go to trial?
How long a sentence did they get?
Yesterday, a classmate of my 11 year-old daughter called her a "Jesus-freak" because she wears a small crucifix on her necklace. I immediately contacted the Justice Department and within the hour, the perpetrator of this horrific crime was charged with abusing the human-rights of my daughter. Thank God, justice still prevails in our society.
Yeah they just keep working folks don't they!
Thanks for this post I still have friends like you Robert! At least you are lookiing out for us! Keep up the good work!
I want you to know I just love coming here.
The legal Jihad marches on.
Tie up the infidels' courts with harassment suits to drain the coffers of the blasphemous dogs.
A multi-pronged attack is always most injurious.
Terror + propaganda/psyops + infiltration + sue them + demographics = The Caliphate Dream.
Best that Muslims remain in Mecca.
They are anti-assimilation, anti-Human Rights, anti-Constitution and anti-secular law.
Let them go kiss their meteorite and leave Civilization alone.
This story is staring to bloom like my Christmas cactus.
In the original version there was much uncertainty as to whether or not the boy threatened to shoot sweet little Hannah--with a BB gun.
All of a sudden, he has made a death threat.
First the cops are looking into it (an overreaction). Now it's a Federal case? Why?
I doubt the boy is aware of the law he broke...In fact, I'm not sure which law he broke.
It's just Hannah Chehab's hijab jihad. (boo-hoo-hoo!)
Now I understand why hijab has been outlawed in some places. It's to keep the peace. If prepubescent little girls aren't wearing hijabs, then prepubescent infidel boys can't snatch them off.
What a waste of US tax dollars this is becoming! I swear, I can't conceive of a "why" to this. What's next? Throw the silly little boy in jail?
Hijab Jihad...It's disgusting.
This whole thing has the seemliness of a Man pressing a domestic violence case against his estranged wife for hurting his fists while he beat her.
Just how much more harassment and intimidation do we need to take from these people who have COMMITTED 4 ACTS OF TERRORISM ON AVERAGE PER DAY. Now they continue their legal jihad… Flying Imams, Club Gitmo, and now Hajib tampering is a federal crime.
Fire the Justice Department goon who thought this one up, sue him/her for misuse of public funds. Put the CAIR spokespeople and this girl and her family on trial for treason (with capital punishment)!
PC and multiculturalism was tiresome before… NOW THEY CAN STUFF IT!!!
"Western democracy, whose main faults have been their elevating of "tolerance" and "diversity" to Idols of the Age, that cannot be questioned, and that are now being applied in a suicidal fashion when it comes to Muslim penetration into the Lands of the Infidels".
One thing that distinguishes the West from Arab-based-Islamic-Imperialism is that the West has become very critical and self-critical of these rationalizations for Imperialism-dominance. For example, the behavior of the Arab-Persian-Muslim invaders of India, their destruction of the indigenous Hindu culture there, was very similar to what Pizzaro did in Peru. The West is very critical of Spain's behavior in Peru, but Arab-based-Islam has no self-criticism of what was done in India. India (including the Paks, the Bangladesh, India proper) would be better off if it were one Hindu nation today. Muslims take no responsibility (especially Arabs) for their crimes against the indigenous Hindu culture of India. (In fact, to be honest, the Brits had more respect for the indigenous Hindu culture of India than the shit-head Arab-Persian Muslim-invaders did. The Arab-Persian-Muslim-invaders of India were Pizzaro style pigs to the indigenous culture of India-and still do not apologize for their crimes.)
The West has become very critical and self-critical of these (Islam style) rationalization systems for dominance and the destruction of "indigenous cultures". Muslims (especially Arabs) are still in demented-denial and pretend (Mulim-style-LOL) that they are somehow "pure". Their inner-Pharisee is still in full mode.
As you know, these rationalizations for imperialism-dominance are the pattern of history everywhere, hardly unique to the West. But Muslims (especially Arabs) are going to come under increasing critical analysis in the future in this, and people are going to see that Islam is just another self-righteous shit-head rationalization system (among many in history) for imperialism-dominance and shame-game style warfare against indigenous cultures.
Hugh-
One major difference between Christianity and Islam is that Pizzaro could find nothing in Jesus' teachings that justified what he did in Peru, but Muslim Arab-Persian invaders of India can find gobs of justifications for their crimes in India in the Quran. Islam is the perfect rationalization system for Arab-Imperialism. I think the Wests' current self-criticism is in part rooted in the teachings of Jesus. However, Islam has no capacity for such self-criticism.
BTW, I'm not saying that I don't have an "inner pharisee". I think we all have this deception-self-deception evil in us. However, I have come to the conclusion that the inner-Pharisee screws up our capacity to think logically and to be creative. The bastard warps perception with his deception. It's not in our self-interest. The inner-Pharisee has to go. We must always act in our highest-and-best-self-interest and we will do good to others as a result of that. It's the Golden Rule.
Robert said
It doesn't require a grand conspiracy to say that the mainstream media are sympathetic to Islamic claims of mistreatment, or to Islamic advocacy groups like CAIR.
These same sympathies led to the Tawana Brawley case (who coincidentally has since converted to Islam), or the Duke lacrosse rape case. 50 or 100 years ago, the inclination would have been to ignore claims like these, true or not. Now, in response, the pendulum has swung to the other direction, and false claims are given too much credibility.
The final outcome of the Duke case should give some ideas to the parents of this boy.
Hugh said
I admit I'm no lawyer. But I find it hard to believe that there is no law being broken when a foreign government spends a very significant amount of money in our country in order to 1) build "centers of worship" to spread their supremicist ideology, 2) purchase our media outlets to stifle coverage, 3) use corruption to influence our politicians, and 4) use our court systems to censor any discussion of it.
Even if Islam were a religion as opposed to an all-encompassing supremicist ideology, we have laws guaranteeing that our own government shall not prosyletize for any religion; so why is a foreign government able to prosyletize, without any limit whatsoever, for an ideology that is incompatible with our own Constitution and laws, and is in fact hostile to the ideas contained within them?
Once again a Western society, in this case America, protects Muslims, even with spurious or dubious claims as this one likely is, far more than any Muslim society would ever protect a non-Muslim, who's nothing but a dhimmi anyway. To all Muslims reading this post and all Western apologists for Islam in the Esposito and Armstrong mode, deep shame on all of you. Eternal shame.
interestingconundrum said
Last time I checked, no trial yet. I couldn't find any scheduled trial date, nor whether the two suspects, Edward McDonald and Hamilton Sanchez, were still being held in prison pending trial. It is coming up on 3 years since the Armanious family was murdered. Many questions remain unanswered.
"Now, in response, the pendulum has swung to the other direction, and false claims are given too much credibility".
The West is overcompensating and shows "uncritical accommodation" because it has become overly self-critical of past evils. There is no balance. The West's self-criticism is very good (and unique in history). However, Islam is not self-critical (at this time) and its Quaran still gives un-self-critical "moral authority" to crimes against indigenous cultures, indigenous peoples. They are still in full-infantile-self-righteous-demented-Islam-must-dominate-inner-Pharisee-mode.
There is too much guilt in Western Culture and not enough in Muslim culture. Even the Japanese (though they are coming around) are still (partly) in denial about their "Hakko Ichiu" motivated crimes in China (including the rape of Nanjing). So this denial by Muslims (especially Arabs) of their crimes in history is not unique. While most other cultures are facing their past crimes, Islam (especially Arabs)are still denial re theirs. Other cultures have to stop accommodating their inner-pharisee. Islam too must face its criminal role in history.
The truth is that there is not one culture on earth that has not comitted very serious crimes against others either by its religion or by twisting its religion to Imperialistic ends. However (at this time) Islam (especially Arabs) show no remorse for their historically typical crimes against indigenous cultures, indigenous peoples. They are without logic (in part because of Islam's permissions to deception) and without any sense of guilt for their very serious crimes in history. Current Western self-criticism re its own Islamic-style-shit-head-self-righteousness is unique and unprecedented in history.
It's a first time in history. Most cultures-nations-religions have never criticized themselves and Imperialism in this manner. It's a first in history. There is good reason for Westen Culture to respect its self-criticism.
The latest on Mark Steyn's legal case:
http://sheikyermami.com/2007/12/09/mark-steyn-a-muslim-lawsuit-vs-free-speech-a-stinker-from-the-left/
And here is our 'old friend'- the suicide bomber supporting professor El Masri from the Canadian Islamic Congress, who tells us that
'Muslims are Civilization Builders'
http://www.canadianislamiccongress.com/docs/cairo_2005.php
A case for Hugh Fitzgerald, me thinks....
Muslims just want equality, though the Koran makes it clear that some animals are more equal than others.
Muslims just want equality, though the Koran makes it clear that some animals are more equal than others.
Posted by: jewdog at December 8, 2007 9:04 PM
Man you are a piece of work. It is Orewll's Animal Farm stuff-LOL. It's true.
This girl probably had a crush on the boy. Maybe her parents found out. They could not deal with it. It's either go after the boy with lies or kill the girl. That's how their honor is restored after the shame of discovering that the girl has sexual feelings.
Frank: Agree with your back to back posts above. No civilization has been more self-critical than Western Civilization. No civilization has been more of a proponent of the value of the individual than Western Civilization. These two achievements are not a coincidence; they are deeply interrelated.
Japan, as you noted, is still in self-denial about its atrocities during the WWII Era. This is pathetic. Even Germany has come around here. China still has so much of a chip on its shoulder about being dominated by the West in the nineteenth century that it's determined to this day to overcompensate for it, to the detriment of all, including the Chinese themselves who still haven't figured out that freedom is the single most important ingredient to greatness (so much for Chinese wisdom). Russia is again showing the world that the stereotypes of it as paranoid, xenophobic and only semi-Western are indeed accurate. Sub-Saharan Africa is still very much in tribal mode and into protection of power far more than property (to the extent that a legal system is enlightened it will always protect private property more than raw political power). Latin America to this day also asserts the importance of power over freedom (Chavez is the most recent example here). And much of Europe is replete with ad nauseam self-criticism that borders on the suicidal, the inevitable result of those twin idiocies, multiculturalism and political correctness, thus proving once again that you can take a good thing too far. And then there is the Islamic world. It makes all others look sapient by comparison. It is simply retarded------and in so many ways. Outright disgusting at times too.
Finally, there is America and a handful of other nations that show the way to freedom, prosperity and the rule of noble law accompanied by a proper moral foundation (not that decay from within because freedom has been abused is not itself a major problem). And yet who does the world largely despise? Why America of course. A stupid world it is. We do indeed have our work cut out for us, no? Think we can save the world? Think it even wants to be saved? Think we should even try?
From Graham Crackers on these Kids have been exposed to the War on Terror and who the Enemy is. What does the School System expect.
To a Progressive Multi-Cultural inspired Educational System steeped in the Behavioral Sciences. This is like Treason. There has to be a Criminal Intent.
"The Civil Rights Division", CAIR, BS.
There was a time when a Girl could Slap a Kid like that. With everyone around understanding that a line was Crossed. Given Todays "equality", she would have been able to Crack him one. But Noooooo. Not any more.
Children expressing themselves as children do, is not a freedom anymore. They have Programs for that now. With the Civil Rights institution offering their Very Fullest support. They are paid to be there for things just like this.
If they can try and get College Students to willingly comply with their own self abasement. Does anyone really think they are not doing it freely and openly to Children? On the Public Dime that is never enough. Under the guise of higher standards who's slope has been downward for quite some time.
The whole Muslim aspect is just another Shovel digging the Multi-Cultural Hole.
An 11-12 year old, reacting to what the Real World is telling him. Despite MTV. Despite "Parental neglect", the Brainwashing.
They have programs and Processes for the likes of them, and their Parents, Let us not kid ourselves here. "Counseling", that lovely catch all word that covers so many meanings. Not withstanding the Court Fees, the Public magnifying Glass, the scorn of the ill informed.
Oh yes. They do indeed, have solutions for problems like these.
Worth reading again:
http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2006/10/eurabia-code_19.html
"The sixth-grader also said the school year began with students asking her if she was a terrorist and if she was hiding a bomb".
Well, what were her answers?
Wellington-
I read your comment with great interest. The current Western culture is unique in history (at the present time) in its self-criticism of its own imperialist rationalization systems. Arab-Invented-Islam ("the best people") is still in a demented-self-righteous-infantile-stage that Western Culture was in 400 years ago, 300, 200, 100 years ago (and other cultures were in before that). Islam is just another (mainly Arab centered)rationalization system for Imperialism-supremacism.
The commercial based (as opposed to religious-ideological based) Imperial-isms seem to respect indigenous cultures more than the "religious"-ideological imperial-isms. The Brits (somewhat like the Dutch) were more inclined to "tolerate" anything that does/did not interfere with commerce. These ideological-"religious" Imperial-isms (Spain, Arabs, e.g.) are predatory and cruel to indigenous cultures.
American exploration-immigration was no great shakes for the "Native Americans", but truth is that the Brits would never have established commercial colonies in North America if the "Indians" had not been busy killing and subduing each other (it's history-everywhere). We are a commercial nation. We are much like the British: we are a commercial sea-based people and seek influence via commerce.
Now we have China entering the picture. I think China will follow in the commercial-imperialism pattern. That kind of imperialism is far preferable to the Arab-predatory-jizya-send-us-cargo-tribute-Imperialism that has its roots with Muhammad. Hindu India (minus the conquered Muslim flunkies who still bow to the gas station), the US, China, Western Europe, Japan, and other commercial nations, will set the tone for the future. I am optimistic for the future because of that.
The commercial rooted imperial-isms tend to respect other cultures and not try to dominate other cultures. Islam has no respect for indigenous cultures. It's a predatory imperialism. It's demented.
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As an aside, I think the message of Jesus will dominnate the future. I think Christ will sweep the earth from the East to the West, though not be dogmatic. It's a personal message. The message of Jesus is summed up in the Lord's Prayer.
In many ways Arab-invented-Islam does have similarities to Nazi, Spain-in-America, etc. "religious"-ideological imperialism's. They tend to be very predatory and have no respect for indigenous cultures. What's the difference between Pizzaro in Peru, or the Muslim invaders of India, or the Nazis in Russia? These are basically plunder-exploitation-domination imperial-isms. The commercial imperial-isms are preferable to such self-righteous crap-heads. Plunder-jizya-Imperialisms are cruel to indigenous cultures and inhuman in their self-righteous exploitations in the name of Allah or whatever. I'll take commercial imperialism over that crap (Nazi, Arab-Islam, Spain-in-America) imperialism any day.
SAVAGE v. CAIR
CAIR scumbag playing victim.
Frank: Thanks for your thoughtful response. Though not religious myself, there is absolutely no question in my mind that Jesus is far preferable to Mohammed as an ethical teacher. Thomas Jefferson did not think Jesus divine but did consider him to be the greatest moral leader of all time. Jefferson also shrewdly observed that where there is no private property, there is no liberty. Your contention, a correct one I think, that commercial imperialism tends to respect indigenous cultures, at least relative to ideological imperialisms if not absolutley, would be rooted in legal systems that recognize the indispensable value of private property and which as a result tend to be more flexible about other peoples' belief systems because property is paramount. This is, of course, lost on totalitarian types, whether secular or spiritual, who tend to devalue property (Marxism extremely so) because ideology is paramount. And no major religion fits into the paradigm of a totalitarian ideology with the exception of Islam, a religion which will cause heartache and grief for untold numbers for untold years to come.
"When our government does things like this, my patriotism begins to slip. It's us against Them."
Some people prefer the term "US or Them"
"We do indeed have our work cut out for us, no? Think we can save the world? Think it even wants to be saved? Think we should even try?"
Try, yes--but there isn't much we can do for Europe unless they are willing to help themselves. And, so far, I haven't seen much in the way of such willingness.
The sixth-grader also said the school year began with students asking her if she was a terrorist and if she was hiding a bomb".
At least the kids are paying attention to world affairs! Put them in the FBI!
My question is, why is this girl allowed to wear a hijab in s public school anyway?
If a student came to school wearing a shirt saying "Jesus saves!" I'll bet school officials would would go ballistic.
I'll bet that if we look at this case a little more closely, this girl is provided other special considerations on school property because she is a Muslim -- like a special space to pray in, and maybe even foot baths.
I'll bet the Justice department wouldn't list a finger if this were the case.
I really hope someone checks this out. I strongly suspect that many public schools in this country are accomodating the special religious needs of Muslims. It would fit in perfectly with the ideology of multiculturalism and diversity that our school systems operate under.
I asked if the FBI can be fired on another thread, now I want to know if the Justice Dept can be
fired. The critical question, 'just who 'are' you working for'?
Does anyone (outside the justice department and muslim community) seriously believe that this boy told the girl that he was going to shoot and kill her? It sounds suspiciously like something a muslim would say, and I can't help but feel that this claim has been fabricated, most likely by an adult member of this young girl's family. They really think we infidels are that stupid.
An old article from Islam on Line:
http://www.islamonline.net/English/News/2004-12/29/article08.shtml
Heh, the jihadists come here for freedom of speech.
The kind of freedom of speech that calls for the overthrow of the current form of government. They know they can rot the country from the inside.
It is just the careless few that get deported, after a long legal fight.
Seconding Frank's remarks.
And I wouldn't give up hope on China. This is what I read in the latest Bible Society newsletter:
"Wee Seng visited a church in a small town that is typical of this transformation. 'It had started 15 years earlier', he said, 'after a farming couple were visited by someone who left them a bible. They could not read, so they asked their son, who attended school, to read to them every evening after dinner. Their neighbours found out and also started coming to listen. The couple came to faith, and so did their son. Many of the neighbours also became Christians and eventually they got permission from the government to buy a plot of land and build a church. There are now 300 members.'
[AND NOTE - NOBODY IS PREACHING REBELLION, WHINGEING AND WHINING, GATHERING GUNS AND EXPLOSIVES, AND MAKING WAR, SUCH AS ONE FINDS HAPPENING AMONG CONVERTS TO ISLAM! Note also - this little village church in China WAS NOT FOUNDED BY THREATS, OR BRIBES, OR LIES; THEY ARE PAYING FOR THEIR OWN BUILDING, I AM SURE, UNLIKE THE BUILDERS OF MOSQUES WHO USE SAUDI PETRODOLLARS].
"Today, some say that China has one of the world's fastest growing Christian populations - possibly double or even four times the official estimate of 22 million." (In The Sower: The Bible Society in Australia, Summer 2007, page 7).
And, as for Russia, the same newsletter reports: "for the first time in the history of modern Russia, a 'Bible in Russia' display was set up in the Russian Parliament by the Bible Society in Russia and the Russian Orthodox Church.
"Among the several thousands of visitors to the Bible display was a General of the Russian Internal Forces. He approached Bible Society with a yearning to improve psychological and moral atmosphere in the Internal Forces units. The General believed that if the Bible is seen as the foundation of Christian faith and tradition in Russia, it should be the source of moral and spiritual encouragement for the troops...'
"Every regional commander and his deputies, all officers responsible for the training of soldiers, and chaplains ministering in units, will receive biblical materials for self-education and sharing with soldiers..."
'Pray for the continuation of this project, so that more soldiers serving in the Russian Military Forces will receive Bibles and find spiritual encouragement.'"
Put it this way. Which would you rather Russian soldiers and Chinese villagers were reading - the Bible or the Quran? Once again, if we care about the future of humanity and of civilisation, a nice big donation to the work of the Bible Society in Russia, or the Bible Society in China, is probably the most bang you will get for your buck - whether you are a Christian or not!
dumbledoresarmy:
Interesting post, especially your info on Russia, which was all news to me.
In regard to China, I've seen similar news-items elsewhere. One in particular which struck me was that the Chinese are converting to Christianity at the rate of 10,000 per day, while virtually none are converting to Islam. A reason given is that Christianity is seen as modern and progressive, like skyscrapers, high-speed railroads, and space flight, all being pushed by the Chinese. Islam is regarded as something backward and/or stagnant.
A related, and equally encouraging, figure I've seen is that Moslems in Europe are leaving Islam at the rate of 2,000 per day. I don't know if these numbers are accurate, but I hope they are.
"If a student came to school wearing a shirt saying "Jesus saves!" I'll bet school officials would would go ballistic"
.....I agree....just see what happens when a Christian child demands prayer time or a prayer room...or the Christian wants to carry a bible or read verses from the bible, or suggest prayer over a meat or at the beginning of a sporting event, or to encourage in participation of traditional Christian events, or to suggest others to join them on Sunday in Church....
....all of which sound much better than "Convert or die"....
...Ban Muslim Immigation...