Kevin Myers, 27 May 2011, on "the "Arab Spring" meme.
This delusion is based on the rather interesting notion that you can place the template of the Prague Spring of 1968 upon the Arab world.
...
That NATO is now aligned behind what history will probably reveal as the armed vanguard of an Islamicist revolution is,
in its own short-lived way, grimly funny."
I hope he's wrong, but he could be right.
Norman Tebbit, 30 May 2011, says the Middle East is "more like 16th, than 18th or 19th, century England. ...
I am profoundly sceptical that whatever replaces Gaddafi or Mubarak or even the Emir of Bahrein will bring great benefit
to the Libyan, Egyptian or Bahreini people."
Kevin Myers, 28 Oct 2011:
"We should by now have learnt to dread revolutions of any kind, after the misery that they have brought to Cambodia, Iran and Afghanistan ... What new Napoleon, Trotsky or Lenin is not now practising his bloodthirsty speeches before a cracked mirror in Cairo or Tripoli or Tunis, as he dreams of imposing his vision upon the hapless peoples of the region?"
Enemies of freedom agree with the sceptics (that this is bad news):
Robert Fisk, 23 Aug 2011, thinks (hopes) that the Arab Spring will be a threat to Israel. (He may be right.)
After the fall of Libyan thug Gaddafi, he writes that:
"The remaining Arab potentates and tyrants have spent a second sleepless night. How soon will the liberators of Tripoli metamorphose into the liberators of Damascus and Aleppo and Homs? Or of Amman? Or Jerusalem? Or of Bahrain or Riyadh?"
Fanatic Irish Islamist site
EireMuslim
agrees, 28 Nov 2011, that the Arab Spring is an Islamist Spring. (But thinks that is good.)
And more, 23 Dec 2011:
"From Egypt, to Libya, from Tunisia to the very gates of Europe resurgence has begun".
Now that Afghanistan has been (somewhat) changed,
Saudi Arabia is probably the worst religious fascist state in the world.
Jews and atheists cannot exist there,
Christians cannot practice,
and even
non-Sunni Muslims
are oppressed
in this disgusting apartheid state.
Hypocrisy Most Holy
by Ali Al-Ahmed
of the Saudi Institute
- on religious freedom in Saudi Arabia.
Owning the Bible is illegal.
Celebrating Christmas is illegal.
Very funny:
A Russian church for a Saudi mosque?, December 3, 2008.
Russia agrees to allow a new mosque in Moscow
if and only if a Christian church is allowed in Saudi Arabia.
Technically, I don't agree with any restrictions like this on freedom of religion.
But you have to laugh at this being stuck to the obnoxious Saudis.
If everyone did this, maybe Saudi Arabia would be forced to change.
Saudis shred Bibles at Customs:
"if you have a Bible at customs when you enter the airport,
and if they find the Bible, that the Bible is taken and put in the shredder.
If you have more than one Bible you will be taken into custody, and if you have a quantity of Bibles you will be given 70 lashes for sure - you could even be executed."
All women must have a
male guardian
who controls their life
and is allowed to beat them.
A 42 year old female doctor cannot escape her father.
She needs his permission to marry.
He won't give it, so he remains her "guardian".
She is not allowed receive her salary herself. Instead it goes to him, as her "guardian".
"A Saudi woman can't even buy a phone without the guardian's permission".
Women are even sent to prison for "disobeying" their guardian.
Saudi "Anti-Witchcraft" Unit.
Not only does the Saudi state believe in witchcraft,
it even has a division hunting witches
and trying hard to "break" their spells.
"The unit is charged with apprehending sorcerers and reversing the detrimental effects of their spells.
...
In the case of the wolf's head, the Anti-Witchcraft Unit in Tabouk was able to break the spell.
...
The Anti-Witchcraft Unit was created in order to educate the public about the danger of sorcerers
and "combat manifestations of polytheism and reliance on other Gods"".
Obviously all other Gods are ridiculous.
It was even worse than ingratitude.
Saving Saudi Arabia from Saddam
was in a way the "cause" of 9/11,
carried out by religious fanatic Saudis furious at infidel troops on their soil.
(Even though they were there to save them!)
Of course, any "cause" will do for hallucinatory fanatics like Bin Laden.
If not "troops on the soil" it would be some other made-up reason.
How a British jihadi saw the light, April 21, 2007
- "Ed Hussain, once a proponent of radical Islam in London,
tells how his time as a teacher in Saudi Arabia led him to turn against extremism".
"Standing in Karantina that day, I reminisced and marvelled over what I previously considered as wrong: mixed-race, mixed-religion marriages. The students to whom I described life in modern multi-ethnic Britain could not comprehend that such a world of freedom, away from "normal" Saudi racism, could exist.
Racism was an integral part of Saudi society. My students often used the word "nigger" to describe black people. Even dark-skinned Arabs were considered inferior to their lighter-skinned cousins."
Fawning over the Saudis - Stephen Pollard, 1 Nov 2007, disgusted by the Saudi state visit to Britain.
"The notion that Saudi Arabia is somehow our ally is sickeningly misguided. The House of Saudi might, in some strange theoretical world, be less bad than an alternative Saudi regime. But in the here and now, the Saudi government is a cancer on liberty and freedom."
The Shame Of Groveling For $100 Oil, January 15, 2008.
Bush still tries to pretend that Saudi Arabia is an "ally".
Bush has completely failed to confront Saudi Arabia since 9/11.
"Despite rhetoric about our so-called ally's cooperation in the war on terror, it's still teaching anti-Western hatred in its textbooks and schools, still spreading radical Wahhabism to our shores, still freeing terrorists, still giving immunity to al-Qaida financiers ... and still allowing clerics to rally Saudi's sons to join the al-Qaida insurgents in Iraq.
In fact, Saudi nationals account for the largest share of foreign al-Qaida fighters in Iraq ... Of the foreign terrorists entering Iraq ... 41% were Saudi citizens ...
Not much has changed in Saudi Arabia over the past six years.
Only now, it's richer than ever, flush with petrodollars that are helping finance the jihad."
Oil fuels the jihad:
The Islamic Middle East won the
lottery with
the discovery of oil.
They won vast amounts of undeserved wealth,
and had a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reform their backward societies
and join the modern world.
Sadly, much of the Islamic Middle East has squandered this opportunity,
instead deciding to use the money to export
their primitive medieval ideas
to the more advanced countries
(the ones who invented oil discovery
and all its technological uses).
"Blood for Oil",
by Cox and Forkum,
sums up Saudi Arabia's role in Islamic terror.
What a shame that oil was found here, of all places.
What a shame that such a primitive medieval society
got rich,
and could therefore spread its philosophy worldwide.
Hopefully, this is just a phase. This is jihad's moment,
which will soon be lost.
In a few decades, we will all switch to
Hydrogen cars
and other technologies,
and the Middle East will sink back into poverty and obscurity.
It will be sad for them, but it will be a much safer world.
Saudi apartheid.
A great idea:
Ethical Oil
is trying to give us choice at the pumps - so we can buy Saudi-free oil.
I would happily pay more to buy my petrol from a free country like
Canada or Norway,
if I could avoid financing oppressive Islamic states like Saudi Arabia.
I would love to have the choice at the pumps.
I would love to be able to boycott Saudi oil.
This idea started with Ezra Levant's book
Ethical Oil: The Case for Canada's Oil Sands.
Left-wing loon
Naomi Klein
of course hates it:
But hey, proper branding would help her too.
It would allow her to buy Saudi oil in preference to Canadian oil, if that is what she wants.
United Arab Emirates
(including Dubai
and
Abu Dhabi)
is ranked the worst level
"Not Free"
by Freedom House:
"Citizens of the UAE cannot change their government democratically.
The UAE has never held an election.
...
Laws prohibit criticism of the government, ruling families, and friendly governments"
Freedom of religion in the UAE.
"The [UAE] sometimes blocked websites containing religious information. These sites included information on the Bahá'í faith, Judaism, negative critiques of Islam, and testimonies of former Muslims who converted to Christianity. The Government's Information and Privacy Law provides penalties for using the Internet to oppose Islam".
Briton jailed for 4 years in Dubai
after customs (allegedly) find microscopic speck of cannabis stuck to the bottom of his shoe.
Campaign group Fair Trials International advised visitors to Dubai and Abu Dhabi to "take extreme caution".
The Mahdi
and his followers the Dervishes.
The Mahdi established fundamentalist Islamic rule in Sudan in 1885.
Kitchener
exterminated the Mahdi's army in a massive victory at the
Battle of Omdurman
in 1898.
The jihadis were no match for the
Maxim machine gun
(the first self-powered machine gun, invented 1884).
The Mahdi's regime was destroyed.
The Mahdi's tomb had been a place of Islamic pilgrimage.
Kitchener destroyed it
and had his bones scattered.
Omar al-Bashir,
unelected Islamofascist dictator of Sudan
since 1989.
The leading Sudanese Islamofascist
Hassan al Turabi
was educated in London and Paris,
yet learnt nothing of liberal values.
Instead he helped impose medieval fascism on Sudan,
leading to the suffering and death of millions.
He was a friend and protector of the butcher
Osama bin Laden.
He helped carry out the racist genocide of the blacks of
southern Sudan.
Mark Steyn on the Sudan genocide, July 26, 2004
- "I see the next decade's "Never again" story is here. Just as we all agreed the
1994 Rwandan genocide should never be allowed to happen again, so - in a year or two -
we'll all be agreed that another 2004 Sudanese genocide
should never be allowed to happen again."
Why doesn't the west simply attack Sudan militarily to stop the genocide?
Are the "anti-war" left
proud that they have made such an attack now impossible and unthinkable?
What happens to Christian and traditionalist slaves in Sudan:
"The liberated slaves reported having been subjected to beatings, death threats, rape, female genital mutilation, forced conversion to Islam, racial and religious insults and work without pay."
Bizarrely, many leftists are concerned about Sudan,
and want intervention there rather than in Iraq (or Iran).
Don't they realise Sudan is an Islamist jihadi state?
Don't they realise confronting Sudan would mean supporting part of the War on Islamism?
Michelle Malkin:
on leftists' ignorance of the root cause of the bloodshed
in Sudan: Islamism.
Victor Davis Hanson
criticises leftists who opposed the Iraq effort but want a new intervention in Darfur:
"Ditto those who now cry for action in Darfur.
They were some of the harshest critics of trying to help Iraq,
and apparently think we could intervene in the Sudan without the sort of mess
that is intrinsic anywhere Westerners must fight jihadists and Islamicists on the ground.
Saddam killed just as many innocents as the Muslims did in Darfur,
and it would be just as messy in righting that wrong there as it was in Iraq."
True liberals like Victor Davis Hanson and myself
support action in both places.
It is the left that has made that impossible.
It is the left, by their hysterical opposition to the Iraq effort,
that has made saving Darfur politically impossible.
Wonderful news:
South Sudan created July 2011 as a
new country.
The creation of a new enclave free of Islamist oppression.
Islamism kills.
Democracy feeds:
Starving girl trying to get to feeding centre,
Sudan famine,
1993.
Photo by
Kevin Carter,
who committed suicide not long after.
No one knows if the girl lived.
See more.
This famine was caused by
the Islamist butcher
Omar al-Bashir,
and his tyrannical Islamist regime.
Picture credit Kevin Carter / Corbis Sygma.
There was certainly a case for Algerian independence,
but the end result of this revolution
was the ethnic cleansing by Islamic rebels
of the Europeans
and the Jews
from Algeria.
And even today, Algeria is not a democracy.
In the 1990s, the Islamofascist
Armed Islamic Group
raped, tortured, mutilated, cut the throats of,
hacked to death, cut the heads off,
slaughtered
and burnt entire families,
including children, toddlers and babies.
They would slaughter entire villages, hacking pregnant women and their fetuses to death
and carrying away other women to rape as sex slaves.
All fairly normal Islamist warfare.
The Jasmine Revolution, 2010-11.
We've been burned so many times
- Iran, Lebanon, Iraq, Afghanistan -
it's hard to believe in the Islamic street any more.
Will this revolution actually lead to a liberal state?
There are worrying signs:
Many Islamists, far leftists and West-haters are excited about the Tunisia revolution.
For example,
Lauren Booth and the Stop the War people:
"Tears and sobs, songs, chants and cries of 'Allahu Akbar' and we were in Tunisia 2011."
And here:
"The cries of 'Allahu Akbar' reverberating around the hall give goose bumps."
(She is a West-hating Islamic convert, and is actually excited, rather than terrified, by these cries.)
A scene in the movie Persepolis
where the girl talks to a kindly Allah.
Also here.
A TV station in post-revolution Tunisia showed this film in Oct 2011.
A Tunisian Islamist mob tried to set fire to the TV station
because they were angry at the fictional being Allah being depicted.
The Islamists
fire-bombed the house
of the TV station chief.
His wife and children had to flee for their lives from the evil mob.
Tunisia responded to this Islamist attack on freedom by ..
investigating the TV station for broadcasting Persepolis!
Operation Restore Hope, 1992-93
- Rich infidels try to feed poor starving Muslims,
for no reason other than altruism.
Muslims are not grateful but rather attack and slaughter infidels,
and drag their bodies through the streets.
Infidels leave, abandoning the Muslims to their starvation.
The warlord
Mohamed Farrah Aidid
and others
helped cause
and prolong the famine
that killed about 500,000 Somali men, women and children in 1991-95.
Aidid and other warlords attacked and stole the famine relief sent by the outside world.
The extremist, Al Qaeda linked
Islamists of the "Islamic Courts Union"
took Somalia briefly in 2006.
But they were then routed
by Ethiopia (aided by the US),
in which the US returned to target Al Qaeda members.
Terrorizing Terrorists, Ralph Peters, January 10, 2007
- On US air strikes against Islamists in Somalia, 2007,
hoping to hit
Fazul Abdullah Mohammed,
the Butcher of the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings.
"the terror regime in Mogadishu crumbled overnight
- collapsing the lie that extremist Islam is on the march to an inevitable victory."
"The speed of the Ethiopian advance cornered hundreds of hardcore Islamist fighters
in a forlorn backwater,
where they can be killed out of sight of their media defenders.
And be killed they will."
"Far from being a growing threat - as America-haters insist - al Qaeda's on the run.
Confident that they had a new refuge in Somalia, international terrorists instead find themselves scrambling to escape justice."
"no amount of rationalizations by anti-American voices can disguise the fact that this has been
a huge defeat for radical Islam and its terrorist vanguard: They're homeless again.
Fanatical dreams of re-establishing - and extending - the Muslim caliphate on the African continent
are suddenly in shambles
...
Far from impressing the world with its strength,
extremist Islam just revealed its inherent weakness again: Average Muslims don't like it and won't defend it."
"our special operations forces - from all of the services - are greater heroes
than the history books or Hollywood films will ever be able to capture.
Whack 'em again, guys."
Al Shabaab
are now carrying on the fight to enslave Somalia under Islamic Fascism.
Somali Islamists threaten men who do not grow beards, June 2010.
All women in the areas under Islamist control
have already been forced to wear the Hijab.
The Islamists
"have introduced several restrictions including, among others, ban on school bells, women wearing bras, movie houses, music, folk dances and football, particularly watching the World Cup currently taking place in South Africa".
Al Shabaab are
considering a new name,
but their fight to butcher and enslave Somalis goes on.
Al-Shabaab expels 16 famine aid groups, Nov 2011. Somali jihadists want Somalis to starve.
Why is that surprising?
We have learnt nothing from Lenin and Pol Pot if we think that is surprising.
All citizens must be Muslims.
The open practice of all other religions is forbidden.
Maldives passes bill to ban all non-Muslim houses of worship, Nov 2009.
President now has to sign it.
"Most MPs said laws were needed to seal off all avenues to freedom of religion
being established in the Maldives."
One of the bill's supporters said:
"I believe the bill is essential because the constitution does not forbid building places of worship".
Yes they really talk like this.
The "Civil Society Coalition", an Orwellian pressure group,
attacks
"“plots” to legalize apostasy and allow freedom of religion."
The Bible is banned in the Maldives! Even for Christians.
The Maldives holds an underwater Cabinet meeting, Oct 2009, to highlight the alleged threat of
global warming and rising sea levels
to the low-lying island nation.
Left unanswered is the question of whether we should care
if this Islamic tyranny disappears.
The Maldives:
A tropical paradise, settled by humans since around 300 BC.
Sadly, in the 12th century AD,
an Arab desert religion arrives
to oppress them.
In the modern era, they tolerate undressed infidel tourists for their money.
But they continue to oppress their own people.
Shame they cannot learn from the tourists.
Shame they cannot learn why the infidels are rich and free.
The Nigerian Islamofascists
Boko Haram
("Education is Sinful").
They said it, not me.
"Boko Haram"
campaigns to enslave Nigeria under ignorant religious fanatics.
It
says the belief that the world is round
is contrary to Islam and should be rejected,
along with evolution and the theory that rain comes from water evaporated by the sun.
To make their point, they ... slaughter innocent people.
Robert Spencer:
"Imagine the quips, the digs, and the New York Times analyses if there were a Christian group calling itself "Education Is Sin.""
Nigerian Christian pastors beheaded by Boko Haram, July 2009:
"They .. cut their heads one after the other and thereafter, shouted allah akbar in wild celebration
...
An eye witness .. gave us details of how the pastor was killed. He told us they were persuading him to accept Islam and he said over his dead body. He was even said to have preached Christ to Mohammed Yusuf and that reportedly angered the sect leader who then .. ordered that the pastor and others be killed immediately".
More:
"male captives were given a choice between conversion to Islam or death
... Boko Haram leader, Yusuf Mohammed, personally oversaw the forcible Islamisation of hostages, and the execution of anyone who refused to convert."
Re-organised Boko Haram
threatens to enslave all of Nigeria and kill all its Christians:
"the Southern states, especially the infidel Yoruba, Igbon and Ijaw infidels will be our immediate target.
...
We will teach Nigeria a lesson, a very bitter one.
...
from the Month of August, we shall carry out series of bombing in Southern and Northern Nigerian cities, beginning with Lagos, Ibadan, Enugu and Port Harcourt. The bombing will not stop until .. Western Civilisation is wiped off from Nigeria.
We will not stop until these evil cities are turned into ashes.
...
We call on all Northerners [to] join the struggle for Islamic Society
that will be corruption free, Sodom free, where security will be guaranteed and
there will be peace under Islam.
...
ITS EITHER YOU ARE FOR US OR AGAINST US".
Well, that's a hard one.
Boko Haram burns a Christian orphanage, Jan 2012, leaving the orphans homeless.
A comment wonders about the infected minds of the Mujahideen, that they can celebrate attacking orphans:
"A mentality that sees such heartless deeds in heroic or godly terms is simply diseased."
The ingratitude of Kuwait.
America saved Kuwait from extinction,
but it counts for nothing with them or the rest of the Islamic world.
They will despise the West
no matter what it does.
They hate Israel and the West not for what they do,
but
because they are not Muslims.
The lesson of Kuwait
is that America should not care about the good opinion
of the Arab street.
America should not care
if people in Pakistan, Egypt and Kuwait
hate it.
They will hate it anyway, no matter what it does.
They will not have reasonable opinions
in these countries until
they have democracy, freedom of speech,
and a free press.
Until then, America should ignore them.
America must pursue policy in its own self-interest,
and in the interest of the free and democratic countries
of the world.
Whether non-democratic peoples like it or not
should not trouble anybody.
Tragedy Of The Arabs
by Ralph Peters
- Ignore the hate-filled Arab media.
Ignore the Arab street.
Concentrate on doing what has to be done.
Nothing succeeds
like success.
They kidnap two German nurses, a South Korean teacher,
a British man,
a German doctor, his wife and their
three children under the age of 6.
"Shepherds found the mutilated bodies on Monday of two German nurses and a South Korean teacher who were kidnapped while picnicking in an area of Yemen known as a hideout for al-Qaida.
...
They all worked for World Wide Services Foundation, a Dutch aid group helping with medical care in the province."
Yemenis march to protest at hostage killings, 17 June 2009.
"Thousands of Yemenis marched on Wednesday in protest at the killing of three foreign hostages
...
Groups of students, clerics, politicians, tribesmen and state employees carried banners".
A Muslim protest at the killing of non-Muslims.
Great to see. An all too rare sight in the Islamic world.
Morocco deports large number of foreign Christians (including aid workers) for "proselytizing", 2010.
And more.
Proselytizing is illegal in Morocco.
"The largest incident took place at an orphanage for 33 abandoned children .. Moroccan police showed up .. and separated orphans from their adoptive parents before delivering a grim piece of news: the Moroccan authorities had accused the volunteers of spreading Christianity - a crime in this overwhelmingly Muslim nation.
Witnesses described an anguished scene as Dutch, British, Kiwi, and American volunteers hastily emptied households under stormy skies and hugged weeping Moroccan kids for the last time."
The cruelty of Islam.
Muslims who attended a community dinner at a Christian church hall
are ordered in Oct 2011 to undergo "re-education" counselling in case they were contaminated by another faith.
"Proselytising of Muslims is punishable by prison terms of various lengths in most Malaysian states."
Malaysia destroys Hindu temple, Nov 2011.
"30 police and MBSA officers were using sledgehammers to carry out the demolition.
...
six Hindu deities were smashed into pieces."
Islamist politician
Tifatul Sembiring,
Indonesian
Minister of Communication and Information,
quotes Hitler approvingly on Twitter, 8 Apr 2010.
He's not quoting him saying kill the Jews.
He is just casually and approvingly quoting him about something harmless,
which is almost worse.
From here.
See also
Patrialis Akbar,
the Indonesian
Minister of Justice and Human Rights,
saying in June 2010 that jihad attacks are wrong in Indonesia,
but fine in Israel.
John Pilger
and Noam Chomsky
bizarrely took a stand against Islamic killing
when they defended East Timor.
Why did they do this?
Because Indonesia was a western ally. If Indonesia had been an enemy of the west,
they would not have been interested.
Islamofascist revenge for East Timor:
The Bali bombing
of Australian civilians
by jihadis in 2002
- revenge
for the liberation of East Timor in 1999.
The killing by jihadis of the UN representative
Sergio Vieira de Mello in Iraq in 2003
may also have been revenge for his role in liberating
East Timor.
Pilger and Chomsky are appalled at the idea
that Islamofascist killings may be revenge for
the liberation of East Timor that they supported.
Oliver Kamm, The Times, September 20, 2006:
"Osama bin Laden declares the now independent Timor
"part of the Islamic world" and rightly Indonesia's.
By his own perverse logic, Pilger - who indecently asserted that
"the bombs of July 7 were Blair's bombs",
on account of the Iraq war -
ought to admit responsibility for provoking Islamist terror."
Jose Ramos Horta
breaks with Pilger and Chomsky
to support the US war on Islamism under Bush.
As I say,
people who have experienced tyranny
support the US.
They understand.
Sometimes, a War Saves People,
by Jose Ramos-Horta, May 13, 2004.
He supported the military toppling, without UN approval,
of Pol Pot, Idi Amin,
Bokassa and Milosevic.
"It is always easier to say no to war, even at the price of appeasement. But being politically correct
means leaving the innocent to suffer the world over, from Phnom Penh to Baghdad.
And that is what those who would cut and run from Iraq risk doing."
(Left) Woman in the free world.
(Right) Women in the unfree world.
The Islamists
want to turn all scenes like those on the left
into scenes like those on the right.
Frankly, a man would have to be a sexual pervert to want to do that.
To want to cover up the beauty of women.
What is wrong with a man who wants to do that?
There are millions of such male sexual perverts in the Middle East,
and they run entire countries, such as
Saudi Arabia.
They may claim it is their "culture".
To which the answer is simple: Get a new culture.
After all, your "culture" hasn't been around forever.
Like everything else human, it was just invented
at some stage by your ancestors.
If Europe hadn't changed its culture since medieval times
where would we be?
So abandon the culture of your ancestors,
as we have,
and embrace freedom instead.
As I say,
I'm a libertarian, not a conservative.
I'm in favour of the sexual revolution,
provided people take responsibility for their own actions.
"There are 50 million Arabs.
What does it matter if we lose 10 million people to kill all the Jews?
The price is worth it."
- The unelected thug
King Ibn Saud
of Saudi Arabia
calling for a genocide of the Jews
when Israel was declared a state, 1947.
Luckily, the Muslims failed to carry out their genocide.
Wonderful news:
South Sudan created July 2011 as a
new country.
The creation of a new enclave free of Islamist oppression.
Since 1995.
