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1. Freedom of religion
What we must defend:
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..." — First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
What we must defend it against:
"Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Koran should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth." — CAIR co-founder and longtime Board Chairman Omar Ahmad (he denies saying it, but the original reporter stands by her story)
"I wouldn't want to create the impression that I wouldn't like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future." — CAIR's Ibrahim Hooper
The Muslim Brotherhood “must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and Allah’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.” — Mohamed Akram, “An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America,” May 22, 1991
2. Freedom of speech
What we must defend:
"Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press..." — First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
What we must defend it against:
"In confronting the Danish cartoons and the Dutch film 'Fitna', we sent a clear message to the West regarding the red lines that should not be crossed. As we speak, the official West and its public opinion are all now well-aware of the sensitivities of these issues. They have also started to look seriously into the question of freedom of expression from the perspective of its inherent responsibility, which should not be overlooked." — Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, Secretary General of the 57-nation Organization of the Islamic Conference
"Pakistan will ask the European Union countries to amend laws regarding freedom of expression in order to prevent offensive incidents such as the printing of blasphemous caricatures of Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) and the production of an anti-Islam film by a Dutch legislator..." — Daily Times, June 8, 2008
3. Equality of rights before the law
What we must defend:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." — Declaration of Independence
What we must defend it against:
"The indemnity for the death or injury of a woman is one-half the indemnity paid for a man. The indemnity paid for a Jew or Christian is one-third the indemnity paid for a Muslim. The indemnity paid for a Zoroastrian is one-fifteenth that of a Muslim." — 'Umdat al-Salik, o4.9
"Thus if [a] Muslim commits adultery his punishment is 100 lashes, the shaving of his head, and one year of banishment. But if the man is not a Muslim and commits adultery with a Muslim woman his penalty is execution...Similarly if a Muslim deliberately murders another Muslim he falls under the law of retaliation and must by law be put to death by the next of kin. But if a non-Muslim who dies at the hand of a Muslim has by lifelong habit been a non-Muslim, the penalty of death is not valid. Instead the Muslim murderer must pay a fine and be punished with the lash....Since Islam regards non-Muslims as on a lower level of belief and conviction, if a Muslim kills a non-Muslim…then his punishment must not be the retaliatory death, since the faith and conviction he possesses is loftier than that of the man slain...Again, the penalties of a non-Muslim guilty of fornication with a Muslim woman are augmented because, in addition to the crime against morality, social duty and religion, he has committed sacrilege, in that he has disgraced a Muslim and thereby cast scorn upon the Muslims in general, and so must be executed....Islam and its peoples must be above the infidels, and never permit non-Muslims to acquire lordship over them." — Sultanhussein Tabandeh, A Muslim Commentary on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
4. Governments deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed
What we must defend:
"That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed..." — Declaration of Independence
What we must defend it against:
Non-Muslims have "absolutely no right to seize the reins of power in any part of God’s earth nor to direct the collective affairs of human beings according to their own misconceived doctrines." If they do, "the believers would be under an obligation to do their utmost to dislodge them from political power and to make them live in subservience to the Islamic way of life." — Syed Abul Ala Maududi, founder of the Pakistani political party Jamaat-e-Islami
Never surrender. Never submit. Never be silenced. Freedom and independence forever.
Posted by Robert at July 4, 2008 10:29 AM
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Print it out. More than once. A copy to go under the refrigerator magnet. A copy to carry around in your wallet. A copy to keep in your car, for the eyes of an idle passenger. Copies to distribute, when the occasion arises. You can make that occasion arise.
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at July 4, 2008 11:15 AM
GOD Bless the good Ole U.S. of A. Happy 4th of July to a great Nation and a great people.
Posted by: savsiv at July 4, 2008 11:34 AM
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."
"I never believed there was one code of morality for a public and another for a private man."
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
# "The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing."
"If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be 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 small 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."
Posted by: interestinconundrum at July 4, 2008 11:38 AM
Under each and every right, what we must defend against: Nation of Islam and militant Islam.
"You are not American citizens" - Elijah Muhammad, speaking to his followers at NoI
[An American passport signifies] "the exact opposite of what Islam stands for." - Louis Farrakhan
"I'm not an American." - Malcolm X
"When we begin to look critically at the Constitution of the United States . . . we see that in its main essence it is diametrically opposed to what Allah has commanded." - the former H. Rap Brown
"It is the duty of all Muslims to complete the march of jihad until we reach America and liberate her. And I will be a guide for them." - An American jihadist fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan
Daniel Pipes - October, 2002
All of these people may have "misunderstood" Islam but that doesn't make them or their philosophies benign or any less a danger to the freedom of the people of the United States of America.
at July 4, 2008 11:40 AM
"Freedom is the recognition that no single person, no single authority or government has a monopoly on the truth, but that every individual life is infinitely precious, that every one of us put in this world has been put there for a reason and has something to offer."
-- Ronald Reagan
at July 4, 2008 11:44 AM
"The attempt to make heaven on earth invariably produces hell." -- Karl Popper
Posted by: interestinconundrum at July 4, 2008 11:51 AM
Sounds like the West these days:
"A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one!" -- Alexander Hamilton
at July 4, 2008 11:55 AM
Brilliant post Robert!
I've downloaded it already and am ready to share with others I know.
For those living in countries without a bill of rights, a similar approach can be taken with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This can then be used to focus attention on why all members of the Organisation of Islamic Countries have admitted they can't, and won't, support these universal human rights. Because their Islamic religious belief, expressed in the legal/political form known as Sharia, doesn't allow it.
I don't think anyone will have any problems finding their own examples of how Islam or islamic countries/leaders/teachers/jihadis fail to meet, or actively deny, the following articles:
Article 1
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
Article 2
Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.
Article 3
Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.
Article 4
No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.
Article 5
No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
Article 7
All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination.
Article 16
Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution.
Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses.
The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.
Article 18
Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.
Article 19
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
Article 21
Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives.
Everyone has the right to equal access to public service in his country.
The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures.
Article 28
Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realized.
Article 30
Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.
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As mentioned in previous Jihad Watch articles, the UN and the EU are failing to allow freedom of thought - and thereby breaching Article 19 (in my opinion).
at July 4, 2008 11:56 AM
This is my last one (there are so many excellent quotes)
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. ... God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion; what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms." -- Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith, 1787
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling that thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." -- John Stuart Mill
Posted by: interestinconundrum at July 4, 2008 11:58 AM
Beautiful words on a beautiful day, amigo! And I like this quote from near that timeframe, too: "Millions for defense...But not one cent for tribute!"
!Viva la libertad!
Posted by: JewishOdysseus at July 4, 2008 12:03 PM
Here's another one -
8th Amendment:
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
What we must defend it against:
Sura 5:033
YUSUFALI: The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger, and strive with might and main for mischief through the land is: execution, or crucifixion, or the cutting off of hands and feet from opposite sides, or exile from the land: that is their disgrace in this world, and a heavy punishment is theirs in the Hereafter;
Translation of Sahih Bukhari, Book 82:
Number 803: Narrated Ash-Sha'bi:
from 'Ali when the latter stoned a lady to death on a Friday. 'Ali said, "I have stoned her according to the tradition of Allah's Apostle."
Book 82, Number 795: Narrated Anas:
The Prophet cut off the hands and feet of the men belonging to the tribe of 'Uraina and did not cauterise (their bleeding limbs) till they died.
Posted by: Pelayo at July 4, 2008 12:09 PM
Happy Fourth of July to you, Robert, for this fine post, and to all of my fellow Americans here at Jihad Watch. I hope that this nation wakes up and rededicates itself to these principles and the vision - all in such a stark contrast to that nighmare brought to you by Muhammad's sock puppet deity, "Allah."
at July 4, 2008 12:12 PM
A good July 4th to all and a word from the headline document made famous on this day:
"IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.— That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.— Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy of the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
-- John Hancock
New Hampshire:
Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton
Massachusetts:
John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry
Rhode Island:
Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery
Connecticut:
Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott
New York:
William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris
New Jersey:
Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark
Pennsylvania:
Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross
Delaware:
Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean
Maryland:
Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Virginia:
George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton
North Carolina:
William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn
South Carolina:
Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton
Georgia:
Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton"
Freedom IS NEVER FREE NOR CHEAP.
Happy Birthday America and God Bless.
Posted by: bigcatgirl13106 at July 4, 2008 12:16 PM
Excellent points. I would just add that in the coming year we must make more of an effort to achieve energy independence. Let's not forget the enormous economic influence created by petro-dollars. I just hope our love of freedom is greater than our willingness to sell it out.
Posted by: jewdog at July 4, 2008 12:18 PM
6th Amendment
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed . . . .
I do not believe that Islam allows jury trials, but cannot find a reference.
at July 4, 2008 12:25 PM
Amen.
Long live Freedom.
Long live Liberty.
Long live America.
Posted by: antishock8 at July 4, 2008 12:39 PM
On this 232nd anniversary of America's birth, and considering that it is here at JW that I am posting, I want to wish my country, which I dearly love and esteem, Happy Birthday and long life, and equally want to wish Islam, which I have come to have total skepticism of, nothing good at all. America is great. Islam is not. The two are not compatible in any way and it is impossible to be a patriotic American and a devout Muslim at one and the same time, irrespective of what CAIR or the Wall Street Journal might maintain.
Posted by: Wellington at July 4, 2008 12:50 PM
Then:
During WW1, the Wilson administration got Congress to pass the Sedition Act, which banned "uttering, printing, writing, or publishng any disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language about the United States government or the military."
This blatant violation of freedom of speech and the press was supported by virtually all the leftist-liberals of that day.
Now:
The government wants hate-crime legislation that takes the above quote and replaces "the U.S. gov't or the military" with "Islam or Moslems".
This blatant violation of freedom of speech and the press is supported by virtually all the leftist-liberals of the present day.
How far we have come. As wrong-headed as both laws are, at least in 1917 they believed they were protecting American interests. Now they're more interested in protecting our enemies' interests.
at July 4, 2008 1:09 PM
Brilliant Robert...Thanks...Happy 4th...No fireworks for California.
Today is our first smoke free day in two weeks, but the fires continue, and a shift in the wind could bring back the lung wrecking smoke. This next week, more smoke and 100 degree temps, a wonderful combination...
at July 4, 2008 1:11 PM
This from "Paul Green" over at LGF:
Magnificent. An addendum:
What we must defend:
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
-- Amendment II, United States Constitution
What we must defend it against:
We shall not mount on saddles, nor shall we gird swords nor bear any kind of arms nor carry them on our persons.
-- The Pact of Umar, template for all subsquent dhimma pacts
Posted by: dry_heavz_4_alla at July 4, 2008 1:13 PM
I love this old original flag! The Early Americans had it right!
When you read the words they wrote you realize we had some really great leaders back then...
In just a short period of time American has risen to become a great Nation. I am proud to have served it both as a soldier and a civilian..
I salute America...
To those who will not stand beside America or dare to try to destroy her, I will answer with what ever it takes to defend her..My blood is precious but it is availiable and it will cost you..
Long Live America..
Posted by: pulsar182 at July 4, 2008 1:32 PM
May the wings of liberty never lose a feather.
Posted by: Stendec at July 4, 2008 1:44 PM
This totally disabled veteran of 3 wars says Amen to what Robert has just written.
God Bless America, and it's true citizens. Let freedom ring.
pegg696
Posted by: pegg696 at July 4, 2008 2:10 PM
"Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute"
Posted by: Chatillon at July 4, 2008 2:25 PM
Happy 4th to Robert, Hugh and all the Jihad Watchers.
Long Live the USofA!!!
Posted by: Cornelius at July 4, 2008 2:29 PM
Bravo, bravo, Robert Spencer!
A happy Independence Day--thank you for so eloquently reminding us of the ideals that we celebrate, and what threatens those ideals now.
Posted by: gravenimage at July 4, 2008 2:59 PM
That is an interesting pattern on the back of the rattlesnake depicted on our old " Don't Tread on Me" flag. The pattern suggests that it is a new variant of the rattlesnake, " The koran quoting rattlesnake ". It was introduced from the middle east and is deadlier than most others of the species and difficult to control as it has been declared a protected species by the left. Found most often lurking behind the constitution and is aggressive until exposed at which time it slithers away making a curious whining sound.
Posted by: pismopal at July 4, 2008 3:26 PM
Happy 4th of July.. brothers and sisters
Posted by: pismopal at July 4, 2008 3:28 PM
Above all, we should fight for a sane immigration policy that keeps out enemies -- an idea that is not discussed enough among the friends of western civilization.
Posted by: Brenda at July 4, 2008 4:37 PM
Happy 4th July to all good folks of the US of A.
Posted by: MusHuntCowboy at July 4, 2008 4:43 PM
Hello everyone. Here's a birthday gift to America:
Troops arriving home earlier today at BWI:
http://community.webshots.com/album/563995837fzEZSG
at July 4, 2008 5:24 PM
The Un:dhimmi wishes all on the other side of the pond a very happy Independence Day.
Posted by: Un:dhimmi at July 4, 2008 5:27 PM
"Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Koran should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth." — CAIR co-founder and longtime Board Chairman Omar Ahmad (he denies saying it, but the original reporter stands by her story)"
I hate vomiting, even when I'm sick.
But this, this...HORROR of a quotation posted above makes me feel like - there's no other word for it...vomiting.
HOW have we let things come to pass that an Islamic Barbarian can make such a pronouncement?
HOW?
at July 4, 2008 5:59 PM
Happy 4th all!
Be safe & dillegent..
at July 4, 2008 6:13 PM
May the sound of your Liberty Bell resonate with uplifting pride in the hearts of your patriots and resolute warning in those that are not.
I salute you on this, your day
at July 4, 2008 6:25 PM
Thank you Robert and God bless you and all the JWatchers --
and God bless our great cousin, America
blessings from Australia
at July 4, 2008 6:31 PM
It's no accident that the Wall Street Journal is dhimmi-like in its attitudes, since that publication is devoted to money and all those who have a lot of it. Take immigration, for example. The WSJ supports an open borders policy, obviously because that means cheap labor for business. On Islamic-related issues, they tend to favor OPEC and its croesus-like membership.
This points up a difficulty that the counter-jihad faces: The money weapon has coopted much of business, a powerful interest group whose staunch opposition to Communism does not carry over in the current struggle. That still leaves some Evangelicals, Jews, Hindus, and assorted others in the vanguard.It's a poignant thing to contemplate on a day which celebrates our freedom, to realize just how precarious it is.
at July 4, 2008 7:03 PM
Blessings from Australia.
My mother used to tell stories about how, as a little girl in an Australian coastal town, during World War II, she saw the American soldiers travelling north, en route to engage the Japanese who - intoxicated with a supremacist geopolitical cult - had gobbled up most of the Pacific/ SE Asia and were right on our northern doorstep.
We owe you, for a large part of our present freedom. To any US veteran of the Pacific Theatre in WWII, who may chance to read this: THANK YOU.
It is profoundly disturbing to me, as an Austraiian, to read the articles at jihadwatch and see how far Islam has infiltrated into the USA; and then to realize that the same insidious process is happening here.
May the governments and citizenry of both our countries, wake up, in time.
at July 4, 2008 7:19 PM
A musical treat, from the opening song of the Broadway musical, "1776".
http://youtube.com/watch?v=u-Xyz3mbDmk&feature=related
at July 4, 2008 7:39 PM
Happy July 4th, everybody! And Robert, great list on why it's now much more than just fireworks. Never since the War of 1812 has the very existence of this country been under a greater threat than it is today.
Posted by: Infidel Pride at July 4, 2008 8:20 PM
Dont Tread On ME, those words make the US special among all other countries. Happy BirthDay!
Posted by: ZenaWarriorPrincess at July 4, 2008 10:41 PM
"We owe you, for a large part of our present freedom. To any US veteran of the Pacific Theatre in WWII, who may chance to read this: THANK YOU."
dumbledoresarmy:
My late father, who served as gunnery officer on a U.S. Navy destroyer in the Pacific Theater of World War II, would have appreciated your sentiments -- as do I. Many thanks.
Imperial Japan did not prevail, nor will the Islamic imperialists. Dues vult!
Posted by: Papa Whiskey at July 4, 2008 11:18 PM
Great post, Robert. Happy 4th of July from down under!
When liberties are under attack, the main thing is to use them, and use them loud.
Here's is a Canadian who gets it (and says it better than I could):
http://www.fivefeetoffury.com/:entry:fivefeet-2008-07-04-0011/
at July 4, 2008 11:35 PM
dumbledoresarmy: Thank you for your kind post on this July 4th. May America and Australia remain free and strong countries forever and may the citizenry of both nations come to know en masse the mortal threat which the Islamic faith poses to our wonderful countries. Take care.
Posted by: Wellington at July 4, 2008 11:59 PM
God Bless America, on this Fourth of July!! And our Troops!
Posted by: Rick at July 5, 2008 12:34 AM
Governments deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed
You're right that we have to fight for democracy. Too bad Dubya stole his elections. So much for the consent of the governed.
I hope they don't pull the same trick in 2008. Obama's majority may be too large for the Republicans to overcome by electoral fraud this time.
Posted by: jasperjava at July 5, 2008 1:44 AM
Thank you Robert for this magnificent post. Reading it and the posts from J'Watchers brought a lump to my throat and tears to my eyes. Thank you all for your best wishes, and God bless you each and every one.
Posted by: Eastview at July 5, 2008 4:33 AM
Robert should run for office.He is blessed.We need people like him in office.
Posted by: Tartine at July 5, 2008 8:51 AM
hI ALL,
If 9/11 has not happenned, you would not be reading these shuras and edicts of maulana Maudoodi of Jamaat-i-islami of Pakistan. Infact Americans trained the followers of Taliban and alqueada. Even today it is asking the Taliban not to attack Afghanistan meaning you go elsewhere.
The root lies in SAUDI ARABIA AND THOSE PRINCES WHO WEAR GOGGLES who have american wives and splash their wealth in casinos but also dream of a CALIPHATE. They are the ones who are FUNDING THE SPREAD OF THESE TEXTS throughout world while Americans were sleeping
at July 5, 2008 10:56 AM
Islam is not a religion but a whole way of life.
It is an ideology, both political, social, legal and economic and yes, religious as well.
And that is the problem.
How could the US adopt it without forming two different societies or legal, economic, and social systems?
If Islam (or any other alien system for that matter)is to be adopted into a host society, it must be made clear that the culture of the host society remains the dominant culture for all time.
Otherwise there will be chaos.
If Islamists are not prepared to accept that, then you have a major problem on your hands.
It has recently been announced by a top judge here in the UK that aspects of the Islamic legal system should be allowed to become part of the British legal system.
I am not sure how this is going to work. We shall have to wait and see, but I pray that it does not happen.
at July 5, 2008 11:57 AM
jasperjava: Stop it. There was no stolen election in either 2000 or 2004 and only loons continue to maintain these lies. Shame on you.
Posted by: Wellington at July 5, 2008 12:02 PM
"We owe you, for a large part of our present freedom. To any US veteran of the Pacific Theatre in WWII, who may chance to read this: THANK YOU."
dumbledoresarmy:
My father fought in the battle of Saipan; and he was at the command post of the 105th infantry, 27th Division, U.S. Army, when the most massive Banzai charge of World War II occured on the morinig of July 7, 1944. Dad survived with the help of his Thompson sub-maching gun, and with the help of all the other soldiers with him. Unfourtunately, over 600 of his U.S. Army buddies died within an hour - just before sunrise. Dad told me that he had never realized what Hell was like until that day. My father hated war, but there is one thing he hated more; and that is evil its self.
“If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” George Washington
“Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth.” George Washington
“The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.” James Madison
"Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. “ James Madison
“Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.” Thomas Jefferson
“All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.” Thomas Jefferson
"The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it." Thomas Jefferson
“The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.” Thomas Jefferson
“No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.” Thomas Jefferson
“When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.” Thomas Jefferson
“All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.” Thomas Jefferson
"Almighty God hath created the mind free. All attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens . . . are a departure from the plan of the Holy Author of our religion.” Thomas Jefferson
“God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?” Thomas Jefferson
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed" Thomas Jefferson
“Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.” Thomas Jefferson
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” Thomas Jefferson
“As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.” Thomas Jefferson
“I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.” Thomas Jefferson
“Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!” Patrick Henry
Posted by: Storm-Rider at July 5, 2008 4:44 PM
What we should be fighting for this July 4
Politicians
What we must defend:
Patriotic statesmen like Tom Tancredo (R-CO).
What we must defend it against:
Corrupt sell-outs like:
- Sheikh Jorge Al-Bush.
- Condaleeza Rice.
- Robert Mueller.
- Chertoff.
- Juan McCain.
- Hillary "No-woman-is-illegal" Clinton.
- Mobarak "God D**n America" Hussein Obama.
.. too many to list.....
Finally, elected corrupt sell-outs:
IMPEACH:
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/issues/alert/?alertid=11550481&content_dir=ua_congressorg
at July 5, 2008 8:17 PM
What's this "we" business? Unless you were specifically referring to Americans. Otherwise, there is no "we". All the worldwide pols show it; the world hates America and Americans. There are a few individuals here and there that don't, but they are a small minority in the world community. Mark Steyn was right America is alone.
Posted by: Balrog at July 5, 2008 9:18 PM
There are three doctrines that are, taken alone, not necessarily religious yet have only one common denominator of which I am aware.
1. Abusive misogyny: The typical root of most domestic abuse.
See Jerry Springer guests, and orthodox Muslim households.
2. Vengeful tribal supremacism: Violently lashes out against those who criticize or mock the group, violently lashes out against those who leave or call others to leave the group, and violently lashes out against anyone who embarrasses the group.
See the Church of Scientology, revolutionary Communist parties, orthodox Muslim communities.
3. Belligerent territorial pseudo-nationalism. The group claims a certain territory, and in that territory only their laws matter as far as they are concerned. Anyone who tries to operate on the assumption of otherwise is violently reminded. See organized crime rings, Disney World, and orthodox Muslim communities.
Perhaps the way forward will be in aggressively prosecuting these doctrines individually, and finding ways to suitably protect potential victims thereof, because really, they're wrong whether or not they're practiced by someone who claims to follow Islam.
Posted by: George guy at July 6, 2008 9:37 PM
Storm-rider - Thanks for those quotes. I find these three to be the most important these days.
"The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it." - Thomas Jefferson
“The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.” - Thomas Jefferson
“No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.” - Thomas Jefferson
I suggest, that where not already forbidden by your masters the liberals, you exercise those rights. Go out and buy a firearm or handgun. Learn to use it. Join the NRA. (Yeah, I know not the best choice but better than nothing.) Carry a handgun where legally allowed and reasonable. If lots and lots of folks put cash into the firearms industry and make it healthy, it can send a very clear signal to those who would rule over us rather than do the job we pay them for - administer the government.
Lastly, we need to flush the bad things out of DC. We need a nationwide movement to "Throw the Bums Out!" Vote against the incumbents unless the alternative is just too heinous. McCain may not be the best choice the GoP could have made but he sure is better than that Socialist the Demoncrats put up. Then look for alternatives. I suggest the Constitution Party. Get some of their guys into the local government so that they can gain a proper foothold in the political life of the country.
We can not longer sit on the sidelines, vote when election day comes around and think we are doing our civic duty. We must get involved or those who are fully involved and wish to grind us under the socialist bootheel will win the day.
Robert - Thanks for the great post. It inspired this US citizen who is sitting in a foreign land for a time. Keep doing what your are doing and ringing the bell of freedom.
God Bless America!
at July 7, 2008 4:24 AM
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