"... the scene showed a shallow crater in the road, surrounded by rubble and crowds of people...."

...sure signs of Islamic Urban renewal....

Posted by: exsgtbrown at December 11, 2007 8:16 AM

"... the scene showed a shallow crater in the road, surrounded by rubble and crowds of people...."

...sure signs of Islamic Urban renewal....

Posted by: exsgtbrown at December 11, 2007 8:16 AM

Could also be a new islamic theme park; the rides are a blast, the excitement is do die for, but the waiting lines are murder.

Posted by: witness at December 11, 2007 8:43 AM

Here is another Algeria, the Algeria to which the French brought a modicum and more than a modicum of Western civilisation, building the first schools and hospitals, broad boulevards, and even modern agriculture that included vineyards, between 1830 and 1962:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-1D_DbLb6I

Note that at 1:20 they start to discuss Paris, which Pepe le Moko (Jean Gabin) describes as "mon dernier bled." Each, the girl and Pepe, lists a few places in Paris: Barbes, Boulevard des Capucines, Rochechouart, Place Blanche, and so on, as they recall his "dernier bled."

Seventy years later, not all but almost every one of those places listed is now conspicuously a place full -- during the day, anyway (at night it is the banlieues, or outskirts, of Paris, to which many withdraw) of those who came, or whose parents came, from North Africa, and especially from Algeria.

So what, the usual temporizer and apologist will say. That's only right. That's "payback" for "colonialism." Really? The French built schools and hospitals and modern agriculture. They brought civilisation. They brought the French language and French culture, that at least the older generation of the most talented Arabs could, as they do even more in Tunisia and Morocco, use to find out about a mental world wider than that of constraining Arabic, straitjacketing Islam. What did the Algerian migrants bring to France? Art, science, hospitals, schools, modern agriculture, civilisation? Or those who take full advantage of every conceivable benefit, and through force and fraud bleed the state, and then in the banlieues make them no-go areas for the forces of order, and in the schools refuse to accept the curricula of the Ministry of Education, and in some places, terrorize the non-Muslim students? Only payback?

And just try, Western tourist, to visit a site not mentioned by Pepe and his girl: the former abbey where the kings of France are buried. Take the metro to the outskirts, to St. Denis and emerge from the subway, and try to see what should be, or is, one of the most important historical sites in France. You can still see the site, but the immediate surroundings no doubt give many pause, prevent many French as well as foreigners, from even trying to visit the site.

Posted by: Hugh at December 11, 2007 8:46 AM

Ban Muslim Imigration.

They can't even love their own nations,let alone infidel nations.

Posted by: Crusader at December 11, 2007 9:05 AM

I have noted lately that many who hear of these events have a ho-hum attitude. Not a good sign!

Are we in the West becoming inured to attacks perpetrated by Islamic terrorists? It looks that way to me.

Posted by: Always On Watch at December 11, 2007 9:58 AM

So what, the usual temporizer and apologist will say. That's only right. That's "payback" for "colonialism." - Hugh

This is the disheartening attitude of people on the left. They depreciate their own cultures and their own society because of an inflated since of guilt. Why? Are you French to blame yourselves indefinitely, suffer for it permanetly? And as you say, Hugh, the colonial period Ended and was not without its benfits for them, but this mass reverse and permanent colonialism presents nothing benefical except maybe cheap labor if even that is not cancelled out by generous welfare benefits.

I don't pretend to understand the French, but do the leftists (which I assume is most of them) understand this bill of goods they are being sold, and that it is mostly propaganda to suit political ends? The French right apparently isn't awake.

Posted by: sci_ at December 11, 2007 10:09 AM

Muslim sue an european soccer team over wearing a Christian cross on shirt !

A Turkish lawyer who's an expert on European law, Baris Kaska, is asking Uefa to cancel the three points Inter earned in their win against Fenerbahce in the recent Champions League match.
The Nerazzurri had beaten the Turkish champions 3-0 at home to qualify for the next round of the Champions League.
The reason for the appeal is unusual: the celebratory shirt for Inter's centenary worn by the team that night, and on several other occasions this season, offended many people in Turkey.
The shirt's scheme saw a big red cross on a white background, a symbol of the city of Milan, and reminded many of an emblem of the order of the Templars, which is considered offensive in Islamic culture.
Inter consciously did not wear their 'centenary shirt' in their first match against Fenerbahce in Istanbul, but at home, they did not think it was necessary to do the same.
However, the very sensitive Turkish media reacted bitterly and that led to the official appeal filed by Kaska, who announced this decision during an interview to Barcelona daily La Vanguardia.

http://leblogdrzz.over-blog.com/article-14534653.html

Posted by: drzz at December 11, 2007 10:38 AM

drzz,

Isn't that precious? Just imagine how much more of that infantile nonsense we'll see when Turkey is admitted into the EU.

Posted by: Spiny Norman at December 11, 2007 11:14 AM

So far no group has admitted responsibility for Tuesday's blasts.

PRICELESS

http://illustratedpig.blogspot.com/2007/12/easy-action.html

Posted by: shiva at December 11, 2007 11:39 AM

So far no group has admitted responsibility for Tuesday's blasts.

Posted by: shiva

Yes, it COULD have been anyone: Berber separatists, or Methodists, or Baha'is, or Opus Dei, or Illuminati, or Daleks from the planet Skaro. But it probably wasn't.
A later report puts the death toll at over 65.

Posted by: ebonystone at December 11, 2007 12:25 PM

The perpetrators? My money's on Buddhist monks or Presbyterians.

Posted by: Wellington at December 11, 2007 1:03 PM

My money is on a disgruntled American teenager.

Maybe the UN fell behind on their dhimmi tax payments.

Posted by: Aunt Bea at December 11, 2007 1:20 PM

Nobody expects the Mennonite Central Committee!

But just in case the MCC didn't do it, I'll take the the GSPC in the meantime.

Posted by: Beagle at December 11, 2007 2:36 PM

"Here is another Algeria, the Algeria to which the French brought a modicum and more than a modicum of Western civilisation, building the first schools and hospitals, broad boulevards, and even modern agriculture that included vineyards, between 1830 and 1962"

...since 1962 when the French were booted out and French military officers raped by the Muslims..the quality of life in Algeria has steadily declined...with each year seeing an ever increasing number of dead bodies gleefully furnished by the warriors of Islam, those who follow the teachings of the Qur'an.....Algeria is receeding back into the 7th century....as are the countries where Muslims rule....every day we are witnessing accounts of the moronic actions of the Muslims....each new activity exceeds the stupidity of the previous one...

...one thing is sure....Ban Muslim Immigration...

Posted by: exsgtbrown at December 11, 2007 2:43 PM

" . . . the Algerian people, Arab-speakers though they may be, cannot be described as Arabs. Algeria is a Berber country more or less Arabized. "
http://www.ogmios.org/94.htm

Berber: any of the descendants of the pre-Arab inhabitants of North Africa; the Berbers are scattered in tribes across Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt and tend to be concentrated in the mountain and desert regions of those countries.
http://www.history.com/classroom/unesco/timbuktu/vocabulary.html

To counter al Qaeda and like Islamic control via terrorism or government in Algeria, Kabyle Autonomy should be encouraged.
[The Kabyles are Berbers, not Arabs. Unfortunately many identify completely with their Arab conquerors as do many of the Islamicized peoples of the world, for example, people of Pakistan]

More than four-fifths of the country is ethnically Arab, though most Algerians are descendents of ancient Amazigh groups . . . . Arab invasions in the 8th and 11th centuries brought only limited numbers of new people to the region but resulted in the extensive Arabization and Islamization of the indigenous Amazigh population.
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-46511/Algeria

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/1423074.stm

The Kabyles number about 10 million. They are Berbers descended from the pre-Arab inhabitants of North Africa. Converted to Islam by the 9th century, the Berbers now make up about a third[*] of Algeria's 30 million people. Some 5 million Kabyles are concentrated in a region called Kabylie, east of Algiers, itself a predominantly Kabyle city. Another 2 million Kabyles are scattered around the world, primarily in France. They have their own language, Tamazight, and a unique form of grass-roots democracy: a network of citizens' committees, called ârchs (from the word for traditional village councils) that has sprung up in the region in the last two years seeking political liberalization and regional autonomy. The Algerian government, which at first responded to the ârchs with repression, now says it will negotiate with them. After September 11, when most Arab governments were content to express formal condolences, the ârchs openly supported the United States. And this spring, they were the only organized political institutions in the Arab world to applaud the American intervention in Iraq.

Part of the explanation for this phenomenon is that the Kabyles have been battling Islamic terrorism for over 10 years. In this, of course, they are scarcely alone in Algeria. But at the same time, they've been engaged in a classic civil-rights struggle with the country's authoritarian leaders. They stress that the best way to oppose "totalitarian Islamism," as Kabyle activists have called it for years, is to create a free and democratic society. The movement in Kabylie has been mostly peaceful, but some demonstrations have gotten out of control, prompting police repression and over a hundred fatalities in the last two years, and the arrest and imprisonment of 57 ârch delegates.
[*] Previously cited article puts the Kabyles at 1/5th
http://www.weeklystandard.com/content/public/articles/000/000/002/784iiwgh.asp

Encouraging the Imazighen or Berbers in their struggle to remove the Arabizing yoke is desirable! Ridding them of the poison that is Islam will prove to be more difficult.

The litmus test for the Muslim non-Arab too often becomes out-Arabing the Arab in hatred of the Jew, subjugation of the dhimmi, and/or defense of the faith...a faith which, after all, was shoved down their own throats, either directly or indirectly, centuries earlier by the imperial conquests of the Arabs.
http://www.north-of-africa.com/article.php3?id_article=183

Posted by: unicorns62000 at December 11, 2007 3:00 PM

Exsgtbrown wrote "...one thing is sure...Ban Muslim Immigration..." In complete agreement with you. For the time being I think we can work with some Muslims against others overseas (and I understand many who post here don't even want to do that and I respect that point of view), but I do not want more Muslims coming to America. There's no upside to it. Besides, mosques dotting the American landscape is an ugly prospect indeed. Trouble is how the hell are we going to get our politicians and judges to understand the wisdom of prohibiting more Muslims from bringing their dysfunctional, parasitical and, yes, stupid religion to our land? There's the rub.

Posted by: Wellington at December 11, 2007 3:05 PM

I read somewhere that the term "Islamofascism" was coined by Algerians fed up with the Islamofascists.
Instead of launching vain political reformation projects in Islamic lands, we need a new colonial push. Only this time, stay and win.

Posted by: jewdog at December 11, 2007 3:33 PM

I think some of the terrorists will step up to claim responsibility, that seems to the their track record. Just look at the videos on TheirOwnWords.com. Radical hate is spewed all over public television and radio.

Posted by: jihadistalert at December 11, 2007 5:19 PM

Maldives: non-Muslims to lose citizenship

* Severe case of Christianophobia in the Maldives:

http://sheikyermami.com/2007/12/11/maldives-non-muslims-to-lose-citizenship/

How come they can do it and we cannot? Why can't we get rid of 'our' Muhammedans and they get away with anything?

Posted by: sheik yer'mami at December 11, 2007 5:29 PM

jewdog:
Instead of launching vain political reformation projects in Islamic lands, we need a new colonial push. Only this time, stay and win.

It'll happen, either by us... or to us.

Posted by: RalphInfidel at December 11, 2007 5:38 PM

Note that this was an attack on the UN. The UN has opposed or dragged its feet on much of the US War on Terror. It has issued a library full of condemnations of the state of Israel. It has built farms, refugee camps, childrens shelters etc all over the Middle East. Yet all of this is not enough to appease the Global Jihad.

Posted by: Monte Gardner at December 11, 2007 7:45 PM

How many more Useless Nation facilities need to be Bombed before they get the message?

Posted by: flowerknife_us at December 11, 2007 8:00 PM

flowerknife us: The United Nations (Useless Nations) will never get the message. It has virtually always exculpated third-world terror, control-freak behavior and general stupidity by placing the blame on the productive and free first world (e.g., America, Israel, Western imperialism, captitalism, blah, blah, blah). That's why the UN should be abolished. It's as decrepit and useless as was the League of Nations. To have a world body that has any effectiveness, it is imperative that only truly democratic nations be allowed to join such an organization (and even then there is no guarantee of sanity manifested on a regular basis). Otherwise, farce par excellence will continue unabated. Guaranteed.

Would just love to see the US, Israel and a few other sane countries here and there withdraw from the UN and tell it where to stick it. It would be a Kodak moment, a notable occasion when the best beer or wine should be opened and drunk.

Posted by: Wellington at December 11, 2007 8:52 PM

why are muslims killing muslims? i thought they were all one ummah?

Posted by: leonthepigfarmer at December 11, 2007 9:02 PM

leon -

so far as I can see from the abundant evidence on the ground, Muslims can kill other Muslims for not being Muslim enough, or for not being 'real' Muslims.

The problem is that it appears to be quite difficult to be a good enough, proper enough Muslim, that some other Muslim will not be able to re-classify you as a 'bad Muslim' or 'not really a Muslim'.

You can be 'reclassified' as a blasphemer/ apostate/ insufficiently zealous Muslim, anytime your neighbour/s decide it (because, after all, if you're NOT a good Muslim, your person and property are forfeit to the REAL Muslim bringing the charge...who might just happen to be your loving 'brother Muslim' who's coveted your little farm for the last ten years, or who's fallen out with you over water rights, or whose son got turned down by your daughter... get the picture?).

After all: if there aren't any kafir to kill, or dhimmi to accuse of breaking the dhimma, then some Muslims HAVE to draw the short straw and become apostates, blasphemers, or 'corrupt' , so allah can get his due of blood.

Posted by: dumbledoresarmy at December 11, 2007 10:38 PM

How come they can do it and we cannot? Why can't we get rid of 'our' Muhammedans and they get away with anything?

Oh, I don't know; because we have a 14th Amendment and they don't?

Posted by: Seamus at December 11, 2007 11:42 PM

The Fourteenth amendment's Equal Protection Clause (and the Fifth Amendment's implied equal protection clause that was discovered, or read into it, by the Supreme Court justices) apply to American citizens. Do they now apply to anyone at all who happens to be living within our national bordres?

If citizenship is dependent, at least for naturalized citizens, on taking an oath to support the Constitution (and if it isn't it should be), and if it can be shown that the tenets of Islam flatly contradict in every important respect that Constitution, and if it can further be successfully argued that those who call themselves Muslims, who hold themselves out as Muslims, should be held to have knowledge of all the ways that Islam contradicts that Constitution, and so must be asked, point-blank, which it is they are loyal to: the Constitution, or to Islam. It is not a matter of interpretation at the edges, but of entirely different views of individual autonomy, freedom, and the sources of political legitimacy. This cannot continue to be dismissed or ignored.

Then we can return to the Equal Protection Clause of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments.

Posted by: Hugh at December 11, 2007 11:52 PM

My Allah is purer than your Allah, so die!

Islam: the shortest distance between no points.

Posted by: profitsbeard at December 12, 2007 1:26 AM

How come they can do it and we cannot? Why can't we get rid of 'our' Muhammedans and they get away with anything?

Because we are afraid.

I have been calling for deportation of muslims for years now. But that sort of "wrong" thinking often gets me in trouble. But history shows over and over again what happens to civilizations that think they are superior to islam. Their pride is their downfall.

If we do not come to terms with this very real islamic invasion, we will be destroyed just like every other civilization that failed to heed the voices of history.

Islam is a masterpiece of deception spanning centuries. It is not going to just go away.

Posted by: mike trivisonno at December 12, 2007 7:46 AM

".....This cannot continue to be dismissed or ignored....."

...what kind of voodoo, mysticism or secret mind control is going on that constantly blocks out the thought processes of "normal people" and the the leaders of the countries in which "normal people" breed, thrive, build factories, profit, go to the churches of their choice, and electively select the educations for the occupation that will carry them throughout life?

....it seems to be fear....massive fear....global fear...

...Sometime ago it was said.."The only thing we have to fear is fear itself"

.....it is time to get over the fear...tighten the belt, lace up the bootstraps and wade into and remove the fear...and remove it permanently...

start by banning Muslim Immigration...

Posted by: exsgtbrown at December 12, 2007 8:07 AM

"...what kind of voodoo, mysticism or secret mind control is going on that constantly blocks out the thought processes of "normal people...?"

The mandates of Political Correctness, Multiculturalism, Diversity, and Moral Relativism. It's a toxic brew of foolish ideas.

Often enough, the "normal people", burdened, tired, discouraged, disenfranchised, are too weary to think for themselves, let alone act. They depend on the government, to act in their best interests.

In a perfect world, that government would try to do just that, but nearly everyone, in all the branches (legislative, judicial, and executive) are so very busy trying to leave their indelible mark on history, they forget to do the job that We the People hired them to do.

Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, et al continued their careers in government to become speakers and amateur diplomats. Bush junior will be lucky to get a gig at the "dunk the clown" booth on the county fair circuit, if there is any justice in the universe.

I voted for this jackass, but he seemed like the lesser of two evils, not the savior of the nation.

I guess it's going to be up the We the People to save the nation, ourselves. If we can.

Posted by: Abscedere at December 12, 2007 9:28 AM

Abscedere - J R T Tolkien, having seen the heroism of humble men in the trenches during World War One, paid oblique tribute to them in his epic fantasy, "Lord of the Rings": Fellowship of the Ring, book 2, chapter 2, 'council of Elrond', with these words:

"Yet such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them, because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere".

Posted by: dumbledoresarmy at December 13, 2007 2:33 AM