Hear Hear!!

Posted by: Bosch Fawstin at April 24, 2008 7:48 PM

Count me in.

Posted by: No More Ham, Ed at April 24, 2008 7:58 PM

In a time of universal deceit, taking immediate positive action upon hearing the truth would be a welcome relief to who would otherwise die at the hands of the deceivers..sticking your head in the sand and believing the deceivers will go away if only they were left alone is not an option..

Posted by: pulsar182 at April 24, 2008 7:58 PM

"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.” --Goethe

Posted by: never_submit at April 24, 2008 8:04 PM

"A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week. "
George S. Patton

Posted by: pulsar182 at April 24, 2008 8:08 PM

"As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities. "
Voltaire

Posted by: pulsar182 at April 24, 2008 8:13 PM

The Koran does not permit Mohammedans to drink. Their natural instincts do not permit them to be moral. They say the Sultan has eight hundred wives. This almost amounts to bigamy.
- The Innocents Abroad--Mark Twain.

Posted by: pulsar182 at April 24, 2008 8:18 PM

Count me in. I've been told for years that I'm revolting.

Posted by: MP at April 24, 2008 8:20 PM

Preach on! Islam is indeed a "religion" of pieces but certainly NOT "peaceful". HOOAH?

Posted by: Snooper at April 24, 2008 8:23 PM

After this: http://www.inthesetimes.com/issue/25/25/feature3.shtml , America also needs a "White-House Watch".

Posted by: Alert at April 24, 2008 8:25 PM

Hooah!!!!!

Posted by: pismopal at April 24, 2008 8:26 PM

The resistance is growing!

Griffith Da’awa Centre draws more fire over Saudi cash

http://sheikyermami.com/2008/04/24/griffith-daawa-centre-draws-more-fire-over-saudi-cash/

Posted by: sheik yer'mami at April 24, 2008 8:28 PM

'To fear to face an issue is to believe that the worst is true.' -Ayn Rand

Posted by: Bosch Fawstin at April 24, 2008 8:30 PM

I, too have been called "revolting" during my life so this is, indeed a great honor. I was always warned to "never join a club that actually wants me as a member" but in this case I gladly take up the banner.

Hoooaaah!!!!!!

Semper Fi!!!

Anchors Aweigh!!!(not sure if correct but the sentiment is there)

I leave this, my contributions to the growing list of quotes to live by.....

"There is not a problem on this earth that cannot be solved by the use of well-placed explosives"

Long Live the Infidel!

Long Love Jihad Watch!!!

God Bless us all!

"Kuffirs of the world, Unite!"
"Islam, abusing women and children since 622AD"

Posted by: OregonJake at April 24, 2008 8:36 PM

"Long Love Jihad Watch" is either a typo or a Freudian slip.

You choose for me.....

"Kuffirs of the world, Unite!"
"Islam, abusing women and children since 622AD"

Posted by: OregonJake at April 24, 2008 8:38 PM

Count me in.

I can tell you though - there are a LOT of people who do not want to hear the truth. There are a LOT of people totally cowtowing to the threats of muslims. There are also a LOT of people who just chose ignorance.

Truth is a hard pill to swallow. (I think someone said that but I have no idea the person to attribute it to.)

I belong to a Catholic website and they have a section where there are a lot of muslims practicing taqiyya and da'wa.

The Catholics will kick off their own when a muslim whines. I have not been kicked out because I know their tactics. But, it just amazes me that the truth is not something that our own accept.

Posted by: R_not at April 24, 2008 8:42 PM

Excellent!

It takes courage to stand up and speak the truth when the consequences can be unpleasant (for folks like me) and downright dangerous (for leaders like Robert Spencer).

It takes intelligence: we have to read about jihad and Islam, analyze and absorb what we've read, and tailor our words according to the people we are addressing.

It takes wisdom: it's crucial that we speak at the right time.

It takes tact and patience; we have to be good listeners, too, if we want to really communicate with and be heard by others.

It takes strength to stand alone.

It takes compassion to stand with others in need.

It takes kindness to see the humanity in all people.

It is the day-to-day efforts that get results: writing to newspapers and politicians, talking to the people in our lives, donating money if possible.

These actions will not induce the same adrenaline rush that some derive from imagining the world in flames and the sound of warfare all around. As such, they will require real work and real determination today: speaking the truth about Islam and jihad, as Robert Spencer does, day in and day out.

Posted by: Josephine at April 24, 2008 8:47 PM

"The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought." - John Jay Chapman

A true but scary thought in the context that the truth about Islam will take about twenty years to seep into the ordinary mind, AFTER it was pertinent to do so!

"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." - Winston Churchill

So I take solace in Sir Winston once more, on this warm spring night...

Posted by: DunawayKa at April 24, 2008 8:51 PM

"Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning." George S. Patton

Is this applicable to Iraq and Afghanistan.

"Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of the men who follow and of the man who leads that gains that victory." George S. Patton

We are led by George Bush.

Posted by: Pelayo at April 24, 2008 8:59 PM

“The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.”

Albert Einstein

Posted by: Armoured Passionfruit at April 24, 2008 9:15 PM

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free." Ronald Reagan

Posted by: Theseus at April 24, 2008 9:30 PM

I say. Yes Ladies and Gentlemen this certainly calls for a toast to Jihad Watch and the many contributors to the truth.

Posted by: savsiv at April 24, 2008 9:37 PM

Jihad Watch, the revolution.

Posted by: Sounder at April 24, 2008 9:41 PM

I suppose that I'm a revolutionary, then.

I've lost some clients and a few friends over my outspokenness about Islam. So be it. After all, telling the truth is not always a popular position.

Posted by: Always On Watch at April 24, 2008 9:42 PM

"You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once." Robert A. Heinlein

Posted by: USBeast at April 24, 2008 10:16 PM

"Some ideas are so preposterous, that only an intellectual would believe them" -- H.G. Wells

That's why Islamic awareness week is so critical on university campuses today.

Posted by: rational at April 24, 2008 10:32 PM

'There is no one better equipped to tell the truth, than he who knows it'.
duh swami...

Posted by: duh_swami at April 24, 2008 11:05 PM

I've already joined the "Unpopular Truth About Jihad" Watch!

Posted by: champ at April 24, 2008 11:28 PM

Show me a voluntary Muslim and I'll show you a liar. There certainly are Muslims who like being Muslim (all too often for the polygamy, misogyny, kaffir rape and booty, etc), just as there are prisoners who like being in jail, but like prisoners (or Castro's Cubans for that matter), they have no choice--they either like it, endure it, or risk being punished or killed for trying to escape.
A person that voluntarily becomes a Muslim is not a yet Muslim until after conversion. It is a one-way road, and once Muslim it is no longer voluntary. Think before you drink the Islamic kool-aid. There is no faith in involuntary submission, only fear.

http://www.bravenewsworld.blogspot.com

Posted by: Max Publius at April 24, 2008 11:33 PM

I email my family and friends (those I have left) articles on this topic. You know... moslems waging jihad to take over the Whole Stinkin' World! Well, they think I'm a nut. Gosh, I'm glad we're past that! Now, will you listen, or at least think about it?

I would also like to say Great Job! to JW, RS, Marisol, Hugh and all of the excellent thinking posters.

Posted by: praxis9 at April 25, 2008 12:17 AM

I am very glad that i have found jihad Watch. Some of the story's i find on jihad watch i translate to Dutch and put them on my weblog. It is news the world needs to know, ,but seems to forget to put out in public. You guys goth my support and i think your doing a great job

Posted by: thelastmadtraveler at April 25, 2008 12:50 AM

"There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy."

-George Washington.

"The wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed but the liberation of the diverse energies of free nations and free men."

John F. Kennedy.

Posted by: profitsbeard at April 25, 2008 12:59 AM

call me infidel...call me crusader...
The enemy of Islam is truth...for speaking truth we are ridiculed and called hater and bigot.
But...truth always comes out.

Truth is our sword, our best and most effective weapon. Keep swingin'.

Posted by: Alaskan at April 25, 2008 1:00 AM

Via Pelayo:
"Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning." George S. Patton

... and don't start a war if you're not stubbornly determined to be unashamedly unconditionally victorious.

Posted by: RalphInfidel at April 25, 2008 1:01 AM

I say we should figuratively (and literally if need be) kick some and take some ALL OVER the world.

To all Australian readers and commenters, best wishes celebrating ANZAC Day. (April 25th)

"Lest we forget"

Let's never forget the price for freedom is eternal vigilance.

Posted by: gkong3 at April 25, 2008 1:14 AM

Regarding the administration's craven capitulation to the Muslim propagandists, some lines from "Julius Caesar" seem apropos:

"Hollow men, like horses hot at hand
make gallant show and promise of their mettle,
but if they should endure the bloody spur
they fall their crests, and like deceitful jades,
sink in the trial."

Posted by: Papa Whiskey at April 25, 2008 1:15 AM

The truth? ISLAM IS NOT A RELIGION OF PEACE. ISLAM IS NOT A RELIGION OF LOVE. ISLAM IS NOT A RELIGION OF TRUTH. ISLAM is NOT A RELIGION OF TOLERANCE. ISLAM IS NOT A RELIGION OF FREEDOM. ISLAM IS NOT A RELIGION OF REASON. ISLAM IS NOT A RELIGION OF MODERATION. ISLAM IS NOT A RELIGION OF GOD.

ISLAMISM threatens peace; threatens universal, selfless, and transcendant love; threatens truth and truthtellers; threatens toleration; threatens freedom; threatens reason and the rule of law; threatens moderation; and threatens YOU and ME. ISLAM is the idol of ISLAMISTS, the desolating abomination spoken of by the Prophet Daniel.

Posted by: John C at April 25, 2008 1:23 AM

My contribution today:
Who is America Fighting - Jihadists or Extremists?
http://counterterrorismblog.org/2008/04/war_on_extremists.php

Posted by: jeffreyimm at April 25, 2008 2:08 AM

Count me in!

You say you want a revolution....you've got it!

Posted by: abad at April 25, 2008 2:39 AM

Anyone know the reference where George Orwell made that statement?

Very profound, a man that understood the real deceit in Human Nature.

We already have 'thought crime' if you transgress political correctness.

Sex crime if you criticise or comment on certain lifestyles. The equivalent of Islamo Fascism but for sex. Far more important to some Western minds.

The way minority viewpoints promote themselves today using techniques ammounting to intellectual terrorism, is it surprising that a really dangerous ideology can flourish in spite of reality. You have no value set with which to judge, as judgementalism is out. Anything except having values is in.

Posted by: James at April 25, 2008 2:56 AM

gkong3

thanks for the kind thoughts re. Anzac Day.

I didn't make the dawn service, but our suburban RSL had a march organised - starting 7.45 in one of the local parks and progressing about a kilometre to the memorial outside the RSL (Returned Servicemens' League) building. All timed so that those who wanted to, could go into the city afterwards and attend the big march.

There was a VERY good turnout. Lots of old Diggers with medals; descendants and relatives of old Diggers, wearing the medals of their fathers/ grandfathers/ great-grandfathers/ uncles and grand-uncles; local schools; local bands including seven bagpipers who played a lament during the laying of the memorial wreaths; community groups. Plenty of people rather than sleep in on the public holiday had gotten up early to line the route and applaud our old and not-so-old soldiers. I saw many young couples with small children.

At the end of the march there was a memorial service - standing room only - hundreds of people. One of the speakers was a young soldier who had just done duty in Iraq. He came from a family of soldiers; he spoke of how his dad had been in WWII and his grandfather in WWI.

Here in Australia, the fog as regards Islam, and speaking plainly about things like Jihad, is still reasonably thick in the MSM and in politics.

But: a LOT of people, over the past ten years or so, perhaps since the Gulf War, have been showing up, in increasing numbers, both to march in, and witness, the Anzac Day ceremonies. The pundits have been, I think, surprised by the increasing numbers on the streets.

I'm not. I suspect that at a deep level, a level they can't yet articulate, ordinary Australians sense that there is in fact a war on, and that it is much bigger and scarier than the seemingly far-away skirmishes in Iraq or Afghanistan or Timor. September 11 was bad, but Bali was a real shock, it affected whole communities; London, too, because we do still have that cultural tie with Britain.

And so, subconsciously, we're gathering round our old heroes, the old stories, seeking inspiration.

Posted by: dumbledoresarmy at April 25, 2008 3:40 AM

“We shall fight them on the beaches.” Sir Winston Churchill.

“I shall return.” General Macarthur.

“Defeat is ok.” Ayman al-Zawahiri’s Chiropodist.

Posted by: Jihadtobejoking at April 25, 2008 3:43 AM

I love George Orwell. The guy was a genius. I read 1984 and Animal Farm as a teen, and both books blew me away. You can't read those books without seeing the world through new and improved lenses.

Posted by: Tapper at April 25, 2008 3:48 AM

"The truth will insult somebody, somewhere"
Neal Boortz.

Posted by: credit man at April 25, 2008 4:33 AM

The truth? ISLAM IS NOT A RELIGION OF PEACE. ISLAM IS NOT A RELIGION OF LOVE. ISLAM IS NOT A RELIGION OF TRUTH. ISLAM is NOT A RELIGION OF TOLERANCE. ISLAM IS NOT A RELIGION OF FREEDOM. ISLAM IS NOT A RELIGION OF REASON. ISLAM IS NOT A RELIGION OF MODERATION. ISLAM IS NOT A RELIGION OF GOD.

I agree wholeheartedly. Only...and I've said this before...

Islam is not a religion. Period.

Islam is a government, totalitarian in nature, in the guise of a religion. Created to benefit one man, this invention of Mo's, continues to savage the world.

Like some killing machine from a science fiction movie, the monster lives on long after it's creator has passed on, killing and killing in his dead name.

truth kills it... I feel like it's my responsibility...that I have an obligation to try and spread that truth, just as I would warn people of a coming flood or fire. What else can we do?

Posted by: Alaskan at April 25, 2008 4:44 AM

Does Jihad Watch use Mecca Time???

:D

Posted by: johnsawyer at April 25, 2008 5:37 AM

> "Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning."
> George S. Patton

Patton probably read Sun Tzu, who wrote 2500 years prior:

- Move not unless you see an advantage;
- use not your troops unless there is something to be gained;
- fight not unless the position is critical.

and

- If fighting is sure to result in victory,
- then you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it;
- if fighting will not result in victory,
- then you must not fight even at the ruler's bidding.

and a few similar observations. Here's something to keep in mind:

- The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming,
- but on our own readiness to receive him;
- not on the chance of his not attacking,
- but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.

and, while searching for moderates:

- We cannot enter into alliances until we are acquainted with the designs of our neighbors.

Posted by: mr_ed at April 25, 2008 5:41 AM

"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt"

Posted by: pulsar182 at April 25, 2008 5:51 AM

"Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.
Michael Pritchard"

Posted by: pulsar182 at April 25, 2008 5:54 AM

Five little pigs were in the forest. One day they found corn on the ground and ate is. That continued for a while. Then they found a fence on part of the plot, but the corn was there so they ate it. The next day a second fence was built, forming an "L", but the corn was there so they were not afraid and ate the corn. On the third day the corn was there, but the fence had become a "U". On the fourth day, the fence had become a circle, with a door in it, but the golden corn beckoned in the middle of it so the pigs entered and gorged and left through the door. On the fifth day, the pigs returned, saw the corn, entered the fence and ate. While they were eating, the door closed.

That is how taqqiya works. On with the revolution!!

Posted by: spinoneone at April 25, 2008 6:34 AM

I got a dumb question - what is next? Is this just something we do by ourselves or is there going to be some sort of an organization of what we are to do?

By the way, I am going to go to my first 'Islamofascism Week II' speech. It is going to be held by Daniel Pipes at Berkeley at 7pm on 29 Apr. I am hoping they open it up to questions! Since this will be my first event that I will be going to I have no idea what to expect. Berkeley is the left wing looney bin and we know that the left and muslims band together to behave poorly.

Posted by: R_not at April 25, 2008 7:06 AM

"Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy."
Sir Winston Churchill

It's amazing how many of Churchill's words still ring so true today.

Posted by: ImNoDhimmi at April 25, 2008 7:28 AM

"And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."

"Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons."

"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster."

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Posted by: Lex at April 25, 2008 7:32 AM

My goodness. John Jay Chapman, yet, at 8:51 p.m.

Posted by: Hugh at April 25, 2008 8:00 AM

R_Not,

I Googled this and found it to be surprisingly direct.

http://www.catholic.com/library/endless_jihad.asp

Posted by: Drewbenstein at April 25, 2008 8:03 AM

George Bernard Shaw: "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad." I'm not thinking anger management mad, but insanely angry.

Posted by: Jewel Atkins at April 25, 2008 8:05 AM

Were with you Robert. Thanks for your clear call to understand the dangers that we face. Blessings Steve

Posted by: saw64 at April 25, 2008 8:14 AM

I'm in. I almost daily write congressmen and senators. But I usually get no more than an automatic thank you for your concern message.

This is a must read. Pass it to all your dhimmi friends.

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=77D37794-BF74-4BD5-9AD4-D8736FDC82BB

Posted by: Abrog8 at April 25, 2008 8:47 AM

Count this chick in!!!

R_not wrote:
I can tell you though - there are a LOT of people who do not want to hear the truth. There are a LOT of people totally cowtowing to the threats of muslims. There are also a LOT of people who just chose ignorance.

I have to agree. But it's not just Catholics.

I have found it difficult at best to convince many Protestants (most of whom have read Tim LaHaye's nonsense 'Left Behind' book series) that the descriptions of the Imam al-Mahdi and Issa in the Hadiths are completely in line with the Antichrist and False Prophet of the Bible. They're waiting for some white Russian (not the drink) wearing a $1000 suit to be the Big Bad, and some of them think that by being 'tolerant' of Islam, that they're doing their Christian duty. They don't realize that they're playing right into the Big Bad's hands.

Posted by: Lori B. at April 25, 2008 8:51 AM

When you enter a war , you must have a plan and a back up plan,
We have everything we need to start marching on...

Posted by: Tartine at April 25, 2008 9:08 AM

"The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought." - John Jay Chapman

A true but scary thought in the context that the truth about Islam will take about twenty years to seep into the ordinary mind, AFTER it was pertinent to do so! -dunawayka

It's all relative . . .I hope. Taking solace in the fact that John Jay Chapman was born in New York City on 2nd March, 1862, long before the internet . . .there is reason to believe that it will take much less through the amazing advances of technology and literacy since his days.

Posted by: justamomof4 at April 25, 2008 9:11 AM

"Excellent!

It takes courage to stand up and speak the truth when the consequences can be unpleasant (for folks like me) and downright dangerous (for leaders like Robert Spencer)." --posted above.

"The Truth-Teller must always have one foot in the stirrup." --Armenian proverb.

That's been a fave of mine for a long time.

Posted by: darcy at April 25, 2008 9:28 AM

Cocked and locked and ready to rock. Let's go.

Posted by: undaunted at April 25, 2008 9:32 AM

I suppose that I'm a revolutionary, then.

I've lost some clients and a few friends over my outspokenness about Islam. So be it. After all, telling the truth is not always a popular position.

Posted by: Always On Watch at April 24, 2008 9:42 PM

I'm sure it's tough losing the "clients and a few friends," Always on Watch, but your anti-Jihad work is more important. Obviously, you are smarter than they are.

Posted by: darcy at April 25, 2008 9:34 AM

By the way, I am going to go to my first 'Islamofascism Week II' speech. It is going to be held by Daniel Pipes at Berkeley at 7pm on 29 Apr. I am hoping they open it up to questions! Since this will be my first event that I will be going to I have no idea what to expect. Berkeley is the left wing looney bin and we know that the left and muslims band together to behave poorly.

Posted by: R_not at April 25, 2008 7:06 AM

I'm looking forward to hearing about your experience among the little terrorists, oops, sorry, I meant students, at Berkeley, R_not. They were horrendous to Nonie Darwish last year, the cretins. The little morons. Oh, and they think they're so clever, which is the truly pitiful thing.

Posted by: darcy at April 25, 2008 9:44 AM

All the free peoples of the world we are united and we stand strong and firm in our convictions of what we believe to be the values of Human dignity, liberty, life and the freedoms of thought, speech and the right to make choices on the bases of our conscience. United we stand divided we fall. We will fight for the truth and expose this evil ideology of Islam.

Posted by: savsiv at April 25, 2008 9:51 AM

Drewbenstein

Excellent link, I wish the MSM wouldbe as honest.

Posted by: Fred at April 25, 2008 10:18 AM

If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.

You ask, What is our policy? I will say; “It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy.” You ask, What is our aim? I can answer with one word: Victory—victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.

Sir Winston Churchill

Posted by: DeeMack at April 25, 2008 10:20 AM

Were with you Robert. Thanks for your clear call to understand the dangers that we face. Blessings Steve

Posted by: saw64 at April 25, 2008 8:14 AM

Definitely!
What can I do for Jihad Watch Revolution?

Posted by: Alert at April 25, 2008 10:26 AM

Time to stand up and be counted!
I'm in! I'm with you all.

Never thought I'd become a revolutionary at my age - but hey, if you're not prepared to defend freedom, and fight for it, then you're not worth keeping it.

Remeber all those who gave their lives defeating Hitler and Nazism so we could live in freedom - are we going to throw their sacrifices away?
Not if I can help it!

Posted by: Calon Lan at April 25, 2008 10:29 AM

In the seventh century of the Christian era, a wandering Arab of the lineage of Hagar, the Egyptian, combining the powers of transcendent genius, with the preternatural energy of a fanatic, and the fraudulent spirit of an impostor, proclaimed himself as a messenger from Heaven, and spread desolation and delusion over an extensive portion of the earth. Adopting from the sublime conception of the Mosaic law, the doctrine of one omnipotent God; he connected indissolubly with it, the audacious falsehood, that he was himself his prophet and apostle. Adopting from the new Revelation of Jesus, the faith and hope of immortal life, and of future retribution, he humbled it to the dust by adapting all the rewards and sanctions of his religion to the gratification of the sexual passion. He poisoned the sources of human felicity at the fountain, by degrading the condition of the female sex, and the allowance of polygamy; and he declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind. THE ESSENCE OF HIS DOCTRINE WAS VIOLENCE AND LUST: TO EXALT THE BRUTAL OVER THE SPIRITUAL PART OF HUMAN NATURE… Between these two religions, thus contrasted in their characters, a war of twelve hundred years has already raged. The war is yet flagrant… While the merciless and dissolute dogmas of the false prophet shall furnish motives to human action, there can never be peace upon earth, and goodwill towards men.
--John Quincy Adams

Full speed ahead, and damn the torpedoes! On with the Revolution!

Posted by: Godefroi at April 25, 2008 10:36 AM

Long before John Quincy Adams . . .Maimonides nicknamed the loon "the Meshugga Prophet".

Maimonides makes clear that the unrelenting persecutions of the Jews by the Muslims is tantamount to forced conversion:

…the continuous persecutions will cause many to drift away from our faith, to have misgivings, or to go astray, because they witnessed our feebleness, and noted the triumph of our adversaries and their dominion over us…

He then notes: “After him arose the Madman who emulated his precursor since he paved the way for him. But he added the further objective of procuring rule and submission, and he invented his well known religion.” Medieval Jewish writers often referred to Muhammad as ha-meshugga, Madman—the Hebrew term, as historian Norman Stillman has observed wryly, being “pregnant with connotations.”

Posted by: justamomof4 at April 25, 2008 11:03 AM

The days of innocent visions: of Ali Baba & his Forty Thieves – when Sinbad was only a heroic sailor - of Scheherazade’s delicate beauty poignantly imagined in Tchaikovsky’s symphonic melodies – but alas, dear friends, all these prior fancies have long vanished - melted like snow - in the gruesome realities wrought since 9/11. I am with you JihadWatch! I am with you! This battle – this struggle to defeat and defend the light of freedom in the West – the chasm between good & evil – darkness & light – this epic struggle against Islam brings to mind (for me at least) J.R.R. Tolkein’s valiant King Aragorn as confidently addresses his army which lies poised before the dark gates of Mordor:

“Hold your ground! Hold your ground!
Sons of Gondor, of Rohan, my brothers,
I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me.
A day may come when the courage of men fails,
when we forsake our friends
and break all bonds of fellowship,
but it is not this day.
An hour of wolves and shattered shields,
when the age of men comes crashing down,
but it is not this day!
This day we fight!!
By all that you hold dear on this good Earth,
I bid you stand, Men of the West!!!

J.R.R.Tolkein’s “Lord of the Ring”

I bid you stand, JihadWatch (Robert, Hugh, Marisol, et al) & its readers, and God you speed as this is no less an epic struggle we now face against Islam!

Posted by: descendantofacrusader at April 25, 2008 11:38 AM

"Cos you've got to fight, for the right, to party!"
--Beastie Boys

Revolution?

Count me IN

Posted by: Meccano at April 25, 2008 1:45 PM

"It is better to die standing than to live a century on your knees."

Emiliano Zapata Salazar

"Sure, respect the people but why respect their myth?"

Quantum_Infidel

Posted by: Quantum Infidel at April 25, 2008 2:17 PM

"Cos you've got to fight, for the right, to party!" --Beastie Boys

Revolution?

Count me IN

Posted by: Meccano

Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuudddddddddddde!
You got to fight,
for your right,
to party.

Literally. Rock on.

Do you realize that Sharia Light will outlaw Miller Lite? That's enough right there.
Let's roll.

Posted by: A_Plague_on_Both_Houses at April 25, 2008 3:21 PM

"Do you realize that Sharia Light will outlaw Miller Lite? That's enough right there.
Let's roll."

Well Sharia can't be all bad then. Miller Lite should have been outlawed years ago along with all those other awful American "beers".

Perhaps you should try some real beer. How about Adnam's Broadside, Tanglefoot, Old Specled Hen, Old Peculiar or the Village Bike. Served at room temperature of course.

Cheers....hic!

Posted by: Meccano at April 25, 2008 3:49 PM

Meccano

It is all bad and I have tried all.

Posted by: A_Plague_on_Both_Houses at April 25, 2008 3:51 PM

"It is all bad and I have tried all."

Are you serious?

Perhaps we could start a beer/alcohol thread. At least when discussing the finer points of various beverages we won't get bothered by Naseem and all the other trolls. (don't know what they're missing)

You should visit Belgium. Now they have some beers.

Posted by: Meccano at April 25, 2008 4:01 PM

I've had some Belgian beers and they're all good so far. I'll drink a Miller Lite in your honor in a couple of hours. Salut.

Posted by: A_Plague_on_Both_Houses at April 25, 2008 4:03 PM

I'll drink to that

Bottoms up!

Posted by: Meccano at April 25, 2008 4:05 PM

To the Jihadists a historical reminder.

A quote from Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto upon learning that the aircraft carriers were not destroyed at Pearl Harbor:

"All I fear that all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve."

The battle is now joined. The giant is awakening. His resolve will be fearless.

Posted by: Mystical Time Traveler at April 25, 2008 5:06 PM

To the Jihadists a historical reminder.

A quote from Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto upon learning that the aircraft carriers were not destroyed at Pearl Harbor:

"All I fear that all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve."

The battle is now joined. The giant is awakening. His resolve will be fearless.

Posted by: Mystical Time Traveler at April 25, 2008 5:07 PM

Sorry for the double posts, but my computer is screwy today. Must be the Jihadists.

Posted by: Mystical Time Traveler at April 25, 2008 5:11 PM

Fred:

R_not's words about the Dhimmi Catholics he's experienced got me googling. I truly was glad to find that.

Lan Astalem!!!!!

ABS

Posted by: Drewbenstein at April 25, 2008 5:28 PM

"Are you guys ready? Let's roll..." --Todd Beamer

Posted by: Abscedere at April 26, 2008 2:06 PM

Mystical,

Yamamoto's rueful reflection defined the struggle then, and does so now. The Islamic Republic of Iran and global jihadists have yet to confront, but surely will, the full measure of that terrible resolve.

Posted by: John C at April 26, 2008 6:16 PM