Islam is an idea virus that which has used the historically broadening theological horizon as a philosophical presursor to power. Social power, global power, third world village power, bully power; these are all the intrinsic character flaws at work within the human psyche uncritically rationalized by these various islamic sects, into the socially volatile and pathologically deranged mass death cult we see in the middle east. Dictators and meglomaniacal despots are heros in these areas of the world unchanged by the renassainse and enlightenment that has fostered the intellectual development we see in the west today. Many regions are lost in the dark ages, offering no understanding or relevant experience to the global issues that require the attention of the world. Deluded by ancient mythology, longing to see false religion energized with real spiritual power and aided by modern weapons which only reflect the intellectual failures of what was to be the be all and end all of mystical revelation, yet only produced stagnation. This is the complex at work within islamic countries, manic and unbalanced, they threaten the world with almost rabid hostility. Israel, while it appears to be in danger my be safer then we knew. For those who are unaware of popular messianic prophecies in the bible, Jesus is predicted to appear when enemy nations surround Israel and commence attack, at the last moment Jesus Christ appears in great heavenly power and destroys the enemies, beginning an eternal reign from Jerusalem.

Posted by: S.davidCarson at February 8, 2007 1:27 PM

The Free World can only hope that these jihadists have enough capability to organize attacks on free world forces in the middle east. That will help identify them.

Unfortunately for us, I think it means more anonymous bazaar bombings and baklava-clad beheaders. Islam is incapable of organizing past a rudimentary level in this modern age.

Posted by: A_Plague_on_Both_Houses at February 8, 2007 1:41 PM

OK, then:

“We have for some time been in the process of preparing major operations that will weaken the [Muslim Immigrants’] base[d] in [our lands], say the [citizens] in the [West]."

“We will cleanse the [West]of the presence of [Islam] and of their [followers], which are scattered around the cradle of [Democratic Nations]. We promise our [people], to continue on the same road. [Our]soldiers are preparing [deportations]in which [we]will rejoice.”

Posted by: sounder at February 8, 2007 1:46 PM

Dont you find it so curious how islamist appplogist keep saying how peaceful islam is, and how they are so accomodating to other religions, especially when they keep repeating ad nausema "no compulstion in relgion" muslims are leaving their lands in droves because of their septic muslim lands, and now you have these islamist proclaiming they want to rid the
crusaders from the gulf. muslims you cannot have it both ways, either way islam is soon to be destroyed at the West learns of your cult of death. just keeping acting the way your programed and brainwashed.

Posted by: ZenaWarriorPrincess at February 8, 2007 1:46 PM

This new focus on the Persian Gulf may signify recognition of Iran's vulnerability to American threats against its nuclear installations. We've been increasing our naval presence there for some time, and some known nuclear sites in Iran are within easy missile-striking distance of ships in the Gulf. Alternatively, unmanned aircraft based on American ships in the Gulf could be sent the short distance over Iranian territory, for certain unannounced purposes. If it's objected that al Qaeda is Arab and Sunni and hence hostile toward Iran, I'd reply that destruction of the Iranian nuclear threat by American and/or Israeli forces would be a devastating blow to worldwide Jihadi morale and that whoever is running al Qaeda nowadays know it.

Posted by: Frieda at February 8, 2007 1:50 PM

Greetings in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, Who saith unto us, “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.”

Never creating, never building, never extending friendship, never doing good or helping the poor of the world. More of the same from Islam.

Death, threats, hysteria, violence and destruction.

Oh yes, Islam is a superior way of life!

Posted by: Stand fast in the liberty at February 8, 2007 1:56 PM

Connoisseurs of Sunni Arab propaganda will want to pay special attention to a toponymic detail: "Arabian Gulf."

Now when did the Persian Gulf, sinus persicus, become the "Arabian Gulf"?

Well, the Arabs were so successful with other name changes that they thought they might do it with the Persian Gulf as well. After all, they had managed to take the toponyms Judea and Samaria, that are in the Bible, that had been in constant use, in the Western world, for two thousand years, and that were the placenames favored by, inter alios, Jesus himself, that well-known Zionist agent, right up until 1949, when the Jordanian government, having managed to seize the territory that formed part of Western Palestine, that is part of the territory of Mandatory Palestine, which they held, and renamed "the West Bank," until that territory was quite properly taken back by Israel, the only heir of the "Jewish National Home" whose setting up was the exclusive aim of the Mandate for Palestine, established by the League of Nations for the sole purpose of facilitationg "Jewish immmigration" and then "close Jewish settlement on the land." But somehow, the "West Bank" stuck (funny that the Egyptians never bothered to change the placename "Gaza" during the same 1949-1967 period, when they controlled it: they might have called it "Extreme Northern Sinai With a Twist" and, given the way things go nowadays, you'd probably see that phrase used, quite solemnly, at the U.N. and then start to appear on maps.

Well, the Arabs are at it again, and have been for several decades. They want you to forget that for a thousand years and more that body of water known still in the Western world, quite correctly, as "the Persian Gulf," should be renamed as "the Arabian Gulf." And they slip that phrase into every conceivable communique, put it on every conceivable map. The Iranians don't like it. And on this one should be completely on the side of the Iranians and of history. It's the Sinus Persicus, goddam it, just as it is Judea and Samaria for "the West Bank."

Ever wonder why the war fought in the Persian Gulf in 1981 was called by the Americans, who did the fighting, not "the Persian Gulf War but just “the Gulf War:? Wasn't it strange for there not to be a specifying of which Gulf was meant, so that not only future schoolchildren would have to figure it out, but present-day adults were not all that sure themselves, some no doubt wondering whether the “Gulf” in “Gulf War” was possibly the Gulf of Aqaba, or the Gulf of Mexico, or the Gulf of Siam, or the Gulf of Finland, or the Gulf of California, or any number of soft engulfments.

Of course you did.

Well, now you know.

Posted by: Hugh at February 8, 2007 1:59 PM

threats and promises, but very little action. if islam is so great then why do we not see the m backing up their threats and promises???

get it started............

The Texican.

Posted by: The Texican at February 8, 2007 2:02 PM

In that case, let's expel all Muslims out of western-style democracies!

An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth!

Posted by: Rafa at February 8, 2007 2:19 PM

S.david carson-- My thoughts EXACTLY!

Excellent posts from all above.

Hey Hugh-- How many Americans, school children or adults, can pick out on a world map more than one of these "Gulfs"?

Posted by: guide inside at February 8, 2007 2:23 PM

I don't know.

But if I were Czar of Education, and master of all I surveyed, in the lower grades I would require much greater attention to the following Lost Subjects: Geography. Public Speaking. And Penmanship.

And under Geography I'd take as a model, and merely update the names, of all those geography textbooks -- start with Jedidiah Morse in the early 19th century -- where, in simple no-nonsense form, a great deal is asked of students, even at a young age. They can do it. They aren't asked. Little is asked of them, and they are bored or depressed as a result. Fill their minds with things so that later on the smart ones will have something to be smart about, and the ones in the middle something to console themselves later on, and the dumb ones at least will be slightly less susceptible of being completely misled. In so many subjects, the 19th century textbooks are simpler, more intelligent, more demanding and yet more appealing, than anything produced by committees and layers of careful editors worried about sensibilities of everyone, from students to parents to schoolboards.

And Public Speaking is clear: how excruciating it is to listen to the young today. The young starlets or even actresses (compare them to standard Hollywood English of, say, 1934), or listen to how some Poet who Belives in the Saving Power of Poetry reads his or someone else's verse on NPR, in that monotononous, no expression-because-that-would-smack-of-silly-ladies-in-Browning-Societies voices, or the valley-girl affect, or Miss Porter's Lockjaw, or any of the other unpleasantnesses one's inoffensive ears have to endure. Teach them how to speak, by memorizing bits of poetry and prose, and practicing, and saying it alopud to an audience. This has to be taught. It can be taught. It was right up until, or possibly even after, World War II. Such a subject has to be taught. Most things do. If you can't get it by mimicking, or being taught by, your parents, then you will have to get it in school. Not enough time, I suppose, what with Sex & Relationships, Civics, Drivers Ed, and so on, but time in the busy school day will just have to be made. How about cutting back on Diversity Training or anything that smacks of social engineering?

As for Penmanship....

Posted by: Hugh at February 8, 2007 2:32 PM

“We have for some time been in the process of preparing major operations that will weaken the crusaders’ bases in the Arabian Gulf,”

In other words, the expectations for success have been revised downward.

They are begining to sound like the Defense Department.

Posted by: witness at February 8, 2007 2:45 PM

"Cleansing" works both ways.

Posted by: champ at February 8, 2007 3:01 PM

For the Spic n Spanmuslim, they can claim whatever they want and the media reports it word for word as truth.
They can cleanse the gulf in operations and do massive damage with low tech devices if all they accomplish is lopping off a few heads and blowing up an oil truck. al Jazeera will hale it a great victory.

What is telling though is the Sunni branch of this is more than ticked off at the Iranian/Persians about the gulf name. I keep trying to inform people this is not Shia nor Sunni, but Islamocommunists vs. Islamofascists. bin Laden and the Muslim Brotherhood are the old Bana Nazi of Egypt who worshipped Hitler.
Iran USED TO BE as they named themselves Aryan or Iranian to gain German sympathy. That all changed when Khomeini was seated into power by the British communist sect in MI 6 with idiot Carter's support. Khomeini is Baathist which is communist. They have taken over al Qaeda now in Zawahiri being an FSB agent for Russia.
The Islamocommunists and Islamofascists are in the early stages of battle and they will indeed strike the other's oil supply.

Please pay attention to this as this is exactly what the neo Bolsehviks which Putin is one of has planned from the start. Have the Muslims blow up their oil which will leave Russia as the only blackmailer with oil for his Dublin to Moscow new Eurasian Order.
People do not see all this is planned and is not about the chosen Muslims as dupes as they are prone to violence. Judea is about European control of the prize of the holy land and the proxy wars there are against the Judeans just like the proxy wars against America are meant to remove it from the middle east for the Eurasian empire.

As George Patton's uncle warned him in 1930, "There is a hell of war coming and if you want to be in it stay in the army".

There is a hell of a war coming to the middle east after a little shock and nuke to get America out and the Eurasians in.....then the big war is coming as the Eurasian empires start slugging it out in a real world war.

Frankly, I hope America this time by God's grace does not get sucked into this as these reprehensible creatures deserve the cauldron they have made.
Bush has got to shut down Venezuela, Cuba, Ecuador and Nicaragua or they are going to be the war front which draws us into World War III.

For the record, this war started when Russia murdered Litvinko (sp) in London with Polonium.

Jihad is the proxy of choice.....pay attention to who the big boys are in using it against America and Judean Jews.

Posted by: Lame Cherry at February 8, 2007 3:15 PM

Hugh--"As for Penmanship"---

As a young adult, I decided to print everything as I seemed to have inherited my Medical Doctor dad's unreadable scribble.

As for Punctuation and Spelling, I am sometimes forced to console myself. Some of my early classroom time was taken up by drawing Korean era Sabre jets dogfighting with Russian made Migs. P.S. I shot every one down in flames!!

Hugh-- You might find interest in my prior post on todays entry titled: "Steyn on D'Sousa's book".
I wrote about our early education where I actually misspelt "educator". Its the fifth prior entry and my post is twelfth down.

Posted by: guide inside at February 8, 2007 3:17 PM

There is a little strip of water separating England from France, at its narrowest in the rgion between Dover and Calais, which we English call the English Channel and the French call 'la Manche.' A bit presumptuous perhaps, for us to think of it as 'ours,' but live and let live. The French can call it what they want, and we can call it what we want. Let the Arabs call the Persian Gulf the Arabian Gulf, if they want to. And let them let us to continue to call it the Persian Gulf. We have no reason to change the historically accepted term. Ok, India has an ocean, but the Arabs have a sea. Why not let the Persians have a gulf, and the English a channel? These are only names anyway. They have no bearing on the boundaries between territorial and international waters. There again, perhaps Allah slipped up here and 'forgot' to mention that all the seas belong to 'the' muslims. It is strange how Allah's knowledge of the world seems to be limited to what a relatively well travelled Arab of 1400 years ago could have picked up from others. Strange also that Allah seems to have been a land lubber. You would almost think he comes from the desert himself.

Posted by: kevin at February 8, 2007 3:31 PM

In islam you obviously aren't supposed to drink or laugh. Music is considered haram, girls don't look different from zombies. Hard work as a source of happiness doesn't seem to be mentioned neither in the quran nor the haddiths. Considered the above - what are you supposed to be working for anyway..
These people simply have no other choice than picking a fight to get some entertainment into their lifes. Yet even that they aren't really supposed to do. Blowing themselves up is considered enough work.
That virtually just leaves the preparation of such acts as only business. I sometimes wonder why they have to promise as much as 72 virgins.. seems to me a clear waste of "resources" - considered the circumstances the promise of one girl in bikini, a beer and some decent music should already be enough to trigger such desperate action.

Posted by: flibustier at February 8, 2007 3:52 PM

OBL? His body probably became feed stock for worms when the cave fell in. Actually he's a Zombie that the Islamicists quote after smoking something.

Posted by: credit man at February 8, 2007 4:11 PM

http://sheikyermami.com/2007/02/06/internment-deportations-now/

Posted by: sheik yer'mami at February 8, 2007 4:16 PM

SPIEGEL:

Saudi Fat Cat :”Peace is incompatible with the concept of a fortress Israel”

http://sheikyermami.com/2007/02/08/saudi-fat-cat-peace-is-incompatible-with-the-concept-of-a-fortress-israel/

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Because we just can’t have four and a half million Joozzz defending themselves against 300 million fanatical, bloodsucking Muahmmedans who want to slaughter them according to Koranic teachings….

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SPIEGEL INTERVIEW WITH SAUDI ARABIA’S FOREIGN MINISTER

Posted by: sheik yer'mami at February 8, 2007 5:12 PM

As for Penmanship....

Posted by: Hugh at February 8, 2007 02:32 PM
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pcness is killing education and imitative in America. No one can be made to feel bad regardless of the facts……......Grades are no longer posted because the students that do not try would be embarrassed by those making better grades............America is loosing the educational race with the developed countries of the world……….because of pcness.

pcness is as deadly as the cult of islam.........to America and freedom.........

before the next presidential election, you better purchase the firearms and ammunition that you need for gun control is coming if a dem is elected or giuliani.

The Texican.
God Family America Freedom the only choice at any cost.

Posted by: The Texican at February 8, 2007 7:37 PM

“We will cleanse the Arabian Gulf of the presence of crusaders and of their bases, which are scattered around the cradle of Islam".

Yes, and would that we crusaders could have been there to strangle the monster in that cradle before he slithered out into the world.

Emerson Twain

Posted by: Emerson Twain at February 8, 2007 10:41 PM

As for Prose, Poetry, and Penmanship read some of the poignant letters written home by Civil War soldiers on both sides some 145 years ago.

They werent--"You know, like, that Captain I wrote you about--He actually had the nerve to ask me to, like, get up and, like, actually go fight. Of course, I like told him to buzz off already! I didnt know we would, like, actually have to fight. I, like, thought it was just a road trip to the South. Im cold and hungry, can you and dad, like, come and get me NOW. Please, please!! And, mom, I like, reeeally miss my diversity traning classes.

They actually, like, studied without texting, listening to music, and absorbing gossip about MTV stars.

Posted by: guide inside at February 9, 2007 2:01 AM

Obviously, it's an Islamic vs. Christian war. Face it, why would they use the word Crusaders, if they're not referring to Christians ? No one said they were determined to rid the Jews from the Arabian coast ? And yet, we're being blinded that the real reason is to protect the Jews ?

Could you imagine what would happen if thousand of Iraqi women were to have babies by Americans ? Islam would be doomed !

Posted by: Jeff at February 9, 2007 5:05 AM

and yet the Saudi's and Oman are both in the planning stages (and appear to want) world class joint venture (Dow Chemical) polyethylene plants

Posted by: sheiknbake4pork at February 9, 2007 6:54 AM

...The Iranians have test fired their newly acquired Russian missiles...everyone seems convinced the missiles are intended to fly into Israel (the missiles have about a 330 mile range)...I was thinking the Iranians could be planning to take out the US aircraft carriers in the region....These ships have a crew of about 5000 men and a sizeable number of aircraft...This target would be a bigger feather in the Muslims cap than the 9/11 attact...The Muslims could claim they have attacked America, they could show the Muslim world America can be beat (and they, the Iranians, are the leaders). And with the American governments limpwristed newly elected Congress and Senate, a counter attack could quite possibly not occur...

....Just a thought...

Posted by: exsgtbrown at February 9, 2007 7:54 AM

Not necessarily OT (only tangential) - check out the video on HotAir about the new haram 5.56 NATO ammo our resourceful fighters are employing...

http://hotair.com/archives/2007/02/08/video-cavalry-scout-dips-his-bullets-in-pork/

(with obvious hat-tip to General Blackjack Pershing, even if that was a urban legend...)

Posted by: EricInTexas at February 9, 2007 10:44 AM

exsgtbrown wrote, "...This target would be a bigger feather in the Muslims cap than the 9/11 attact...The Muslims could claim they have attacked America, they could show the Muslim world America can be beat (and they, the Iranians, are the leaders). And with the American governments limpwristed newly elected Congress and Senate, a counter attack could quite possibly not occur..."

I don't know... that would be a direct attack on American warships (in international waters, I think?), and if it was an attack on one of the flattops (as opposed to a smaller missle hitting a cruiser or other smaller vessel), with significant loss of life and resources, that could slap sense into even the Dhimmicrats in Congress to retaliate. There have been instances in the past of "oops! our bad!"-type incidents (accidental strikes on warships or planes, including the Iranian commercial flight) that could be "accidental", but a heavy-duty guided missle strike on a US carrier would probably be met with some serious ass-kicking.

And, as Dubya is probably reluctant to take a knee and run out the clock on his presidency, I'm confident he would light the fuses on several cruise missles before the Pelosi bunch even knows what happened...

Posted by: EricInTexas at February 9, 2007 11:15 AM

I see that the dateline is from Dubai. Hmmmm.

Is this the same Dubai that is part of the United Arab Emirates (UAE)? The same UAE through which al Qaeda channeled funds to the 9/11 terrorists? The same UAE that was seen to have official aircraft in Osama bin Laden's compound at the time when strikes were planned against OBL, causing the mission to be aborted? The same UAE that President George Dubya (Dubai?) Bush championed for the take-over of portland management in the US? Or is THAT Dubai over on the "Persian Gulf?" Hmmmm.

This administration could show what side it's on by redirecting the 20,000 troops to the UAE.

Posted by: Chatillon at February 9, 2007 6:18 PM

To Al jazeera

Please capitalize "Crusader"...we are not crusaders..we are Crusaders! wew...sheese!

Posted by: pismopal at February 10, 2007 2:08 PM

"Dhimmicrats" I love it!

Posted by: Davegreybeard at February 12, 2007 2:18 AM