The Lasso of Truth

If you're in the Ottawa area on June 8...

The Free Thinking Film Society is hosting an evening with Bruce Bawer & Hege Storhaug...

Hege Storhaug is the information director of Human Rights Service in Norway and the author of several books on immigration and integration, forced marriage, women in Pakistan, and related subjects.

Bruce Bawer is an internationally-acclaimed author, whose recent book is "Surrender: Appeasing Islam, Sacrificing Freedom"

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Bruce has translated Hege's new book, "But the Greatest of These Is Freedom: The Consequences of Immigration in Europe." — the authorized English translation of the explosive Norwegian bestseller about the consequences of immigration in Europe.

Location and ticket information can be found here.

Handwringing

To kill or capture?  To publish the death shots or not to publish?  Jeepers.  I even hear it took the supposed leader of the free world 17 hours to decide if he even wanted them to go in at all!

But now that the deed is done, I've been hard pressed to find an opinion on the whole brouhaha that sounds right to me.  Until now.

It started last night, when I heard one of the administration apparatchiks detailing the information that was being gathered from the site, and the various agencies sifting through it, and how much of the information was useful, etc.  I though to myself, if I was in charge, I'd probably want to keep the enemy guessing about whether I got anything useful, and how much of it there was.  Make them have to scramble and worry.

This morning though, that instinct went one step further when as a rare treat I heard Oliver North on my daily morning show, opining that the best approach would have been to keep the whole business under wraps.  And he's right.

Keeping the enemy in the dark that their leader is dead, even holing up in his safe house for a few days, to gather more information from live sources (possibly) would have been a much better strategy.

Unfortunately, that is not how Obama and his pep squad roll.  Oliver North was right about that too...this president is all about the victory laps.

Whole interview here...

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BARBARIANS?

Clearly Glenn Reynolds didn't get the memo...

Us nuanced, more worldy types are "uncomfortable" with that kind of "judgmental" "tone".

The Religion of Bloody Pieces

In all its glory.

F those buggers

See the movie they did not want you to see. 

When I first got notice of the showing in Ottawa, I was super-disappointed that it was physically impossible for me to go.  If it had been scheduled for a weekend, I probably would have made the 6 hour drive to Ottawa for it.  Sadly, kids and work prevented it.

Lucky for me, the thugish stunts of the chumps at the Iranian embassy and their cro magnon compatriots have made it possible for me and many others to view it free over the internet, without the constraints of distance and schedule!  Thanks guys!

Dear Mr. Prime Minister

Send this to him, and every MP in the country.

WE. DON'T. WANT. HIM. BACK.

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Whereby we mock them

Once I find where it's playing or where I can buy it...oh ya.  You betcha..!

 

Don't forget...In Islam, having a sense of humor is punishable by death.

What I want to know is...

When will they be sending a bill to the "government" of Saudi Arabia, for the additional security implemented in the US ever since 16 of their citizens lit a few fires of their own?

In fact, it's not out of line to bill them for the clean up, too, I guess.

Religion of the pathologically stupid

And -- to no one's surprise -- parentally negligent.

He worries about this little girl's bowel problems, but I worry about the day she tells Mommy and Daddy that she doesn't want to wear her veil anymore.

Why are we even talking about this?

I strongly suspect the furor is the whole point.

Our reaction makes that point far more eloquently than any bonfire could ever do.  The bad guys are taking notes and you can be sure they don't include brownie points for cultural sensitivity.

Maybe the judgment the pastor is looking for is not on them, but on us.

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Christianity has its fair share of kooks who use offensive stunts and fiery rhetoric to get attention and extend the reach of their message, but they truly are the fringe of the faith.  That’s why people like Fred Phelps and Terry Jones can only muster crowds the size of a regional Bridge club.

One look at Islam tells us, as far as furtherance of the faith and public image goes, the fringe are the ones truly in charge.  Pick any prominent Muslim leader and quotes can be attributed to him expounding on the virtues of child marriage, giving parameters on the proper ritual for sex with goats, and calling for the righteously violent slaughter of just about everyone else.  And they’re not just talking about it, but making it happen whenever they get the chance.

From “uncovered catmeat” Hilali, to Abu Hamza, Mullah Omar, Ayatollah Khomeini or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, none of these are marginalized fringe characters.  They are all prominent, influential figureheads of a faith which holds violent oppression and submission to god as its primary tenets.

I challenge anybody to find me Islam’s Billy Graham.  There simply isn’t one and if there were, he would either be leading prayers at a mosque in goat-hump nowhere, or in an Iranian prison.

Islam is a world-wide Jonestown phenomenon.  The radical element is the faith and your average “moderate Muslim” has more in common with the Kool-Aid guzzling kooks than with any typical Catholic or Protestant quilt-maker.

Dispensing with the delusional caveat that the radicals in Islam are just the fringe would be our first major victory in this war.  Right now, it’s the ground on which we teeter, on the verge of the abyss.

Somebody get this dude a helmet

Some of you may recall the illustrious and formidable Steve of the Cult of Pedophiles (Toronto Chapter).

Well, through the magic of Canadian talk radio, and most likely by way of the short blue bus, the glib and delusional Steve was back to doing what he does best...keepin' things classy in the name of the world's most pieceful religion, by paraphrasing Shania Twain..?

"Whose butt has your nose been under?"

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I suspect there is a lot of lead paint in that mosque he preaches out of.  Hey Steve-O, have you been licking the walls? 

We're in good hands

Let me get this straight.

Two middle eastern men were carrying several cellphones taped together(?), a box cutter and 3 large knives, as well as a suspicious amount of cash and a couple of mock bombs, and you still let them get on the plane ?!?

I'm sure all the other passengers who trustingly sat on a plane with these dudes from Chicago to Amsterdam feel as though their lives were safeguarded adequately, by those in charge.

Haven't we already learned from this "we'll catch up with him at the other end" attitude of passenger screening?

Guess not.

Touchy, touchy

Who knew that the literal translation of the word "Palestinian" is "does not play well with others"?

Palestinians torched half a dozen vehicles in East Jerusalem on Thursday and threw stones and firebombs at Israeli police after Jewish settlers approached a mosque, local residents and police said.

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Local residents said settlers tried to reach a spring, which religious Jews view as a biblical site, by crossing through a mosque courtyard.

Israeli police said Palestinians then took to the streets in violent demonstrations, throwing rocks and firebombs at police and vehicles, burning six cars.

...I mean, other than me.

Can we have more of the same?

My pick for the next Medal of Honor recipient...

A Gurkha soldier has been flown back to the UK after hacking the head off a dead Taliban commander with his ceremonial knife to prove the dead man’s identity.

The private, from 1st Battalion, Royal Gurkha Rifles, was involved in a fierce firefight with insurgents in the Babaji area of central Helmand Province when the incident took place earlier this month.

His unit had been told that they were seeking a ‘high value target,’ a Taliban commander, and that they must prove they had killed the right man.

The Gurkhas had intended to remove the Taliban leader’s body from the battlefield for identification purposes.

But they came under heavy fire as their tried to do so. Military sources said that in the heat of battle, the Gurkha took out his curved kukri knife and beheaded the dead insurgent.

He is understood to have removed the man’s head from the area, leaving the rest of his body on the battlefield.

This is considered a gross insult to the Muslims of Afghanistan, who bury the entire body of their dead even if parts have to be retrieved.

Maybe we should ask Daniel Pearl for his opinion on the whole consideration for the dignity of Muslims thing.

Muslim is, as stupid does

Once again proving that although they claim to have invented the zero and chess, simple concepts like irony (not to mention proper grammar) continue to evade the manic retard community of Islam...

Facebook Admins, Moderators, Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, Sheryl Sandberg, and Matt Cohler;

Although you have attended the world’s best communication skills courses you have been most successful in growing great hatred and hostility between you and Muslims around the world, but seriously this time you have caused an almost unrepairable damage.

Only a few weeks after your irresponsible behavior during the Everybody Draw Mohammed Day events you most aggressively removed four of the largest Islamic Facebook Pages of total fans/likes over 2.5 million Facebook members. That happened on the morning of Thursday 8th July, 2010.

These four Facebook pages were totally peaceful and free of any hate speech, but you removed it ignoring the feelings of more than 2.5 Million Facebook Muslims and disrespecting over 1.5 Billion Muslims worldwide.

And now since that is what it had come down to you, with your irresponsibility and fake preach of freedom of speech, have left us no other choice other than permanently boycotting Facebook. And now we are giving you a 2 weeks notice – ending at midnight of 21st July, 2010 – to fulfill our demands or else we will leave Facebook for http://madina.com/.

Our demands are:

1- Reactivating the four pages that have been disabled
2- Adding a Facebook Term that illegalizes disrespecting Islamic religious symbols
3- Disabling any Facebook Page, Group, or Event that shows direct or indirect disrespect towards Islamic religious symbols

How do you say "don't let the door hit you..." in Semtex bathrobe speak?

The term "backward" just doesn't seem adequate

After all, she can be forced to marry at the age of 14 but she's too young to stone to death until she's 18.

And don't even get me started on how a gal can have an adulterous affair on her husband after he's already dead...

Ms Ashtiani was sentenced in 2006 for having an "illicit relationship" with two men, for which she has already received a public flogging of 99 lashes. She was convicted of adultery even though she was a widow at the time -- her husband was killed before the alleged affair started.

Her family claims that during the trial of the two men accused of murdering her husband, another court found her guilty of adultery with the suspects, even though no evidence was given.

These people want nukes.  Just remember that.

Context

It can go a long way to helping one understand the nature of a complex problem, and why the best-intentioned solutions can sometimes fall far short of expectations...

I didn't believe that anyone would be willing to give a shekel for a Palestinian infant."

He was wrong. Hours after the news item about Mohammed was broadcast, the hospital switchboard was jammed with callers. An Israeli Jew whose son died during his military service donated $55,000, and for the first time the Abu Mustafa family began to feel hopeful. Only then did Eldar grasp the full dramatic potential of the story. He told his editor, Tali Ben Ovadia, that he wanted to continue accompanying the family.

...Nevertheless, this idyllic situation developed into a deep crisis that led to the severance of the relations and what appeared to be the end of the filming. From an innocent conversation about religious holidays, Raida Abu Mustafa launched into a painful monologue about the culture of the shahids - the martyrs - and admitted, during the complex transplant process, that she would like to see her son perpetrate a suicide bombing attack in Jerusalem.

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She also explained to Eldar exactly what she had in mind. "For us, death is a natural thing. We are not frightened of death. From the smallest infant, even smaller than Mohammed, to the oldest person, we will all sacrifice ourselves for the sake of Jerusalem. We feel we have the right to it.

Nihilists don't value life.  Not theirs and not yours.  A religion founded on Nihilism just makes them feel righteous about it.

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I must be tired today...

This one took me a few minutes.

I never thought I'd say it...

But it's too bad the French left...

Notwithstanding saturation coverage of the “Massacre In The Med” (as the front page headline in Britain’s Daily Mirror put it), there are other Jewish stories in the news. This one caught my eye in Canada’s Shalom Life: “No danger to the Jewish cemeteries in Tangiers.” Apparently, the old Jewish hospital in this ancient port city was torn down a couple of months back, and the Moroccan Jewish diaspora back in Toronto worried that their graveyards might be next on the list. Not to worry, Abraham Azancot assured Shalom Life readers. The Jewish cemetery on the rue du Portugal is perfectly safe. “Its sanctity has consistently been respected by the local government that is actually providing the community with resources to assist in its current grooming.”

Sounds great. Being in the neighbourhood, I thought I’d swing by and check out the “current grooming.”

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...and the camel you rode in on...

A note to the University of Ottawa:

This is how you deal with belligerent Muslims who have no respect for the concept of differing opinion...

The University of California, Irvine, has suspended a Muslim student group for at least a year because of a protest that disrupted a talk by Israel's ambassador and led to the arrests of 11 students.

The university on Monday released a letter from a student affairs disciplinary committee to Muslim Student Union leaders. It says the group was found guilty of disorderly conduct, obstructing university activities and other violations of campus policy.

The Muslim Student Union condemned Ambassador Michael Oren's appearance in February. It has insisted it did not organize the protests, but the committee found it did engineer the protests and instructed participants to lie about its involvement.

On the streets of Canada's most "tolerant" city

While I spent the weekend on kiddies' birthday parties and answering the call of the wild, better bloggers than me were hanging around with a whole different breed of baboons.

Remember: Hamas was freely elected by the Gazans

Just in case you still had any lingering naivety that the Gaza "aid" flotilla was about getting humanitarian supplies into the region, allow Hamas to disabuse you of the silly notion...

Israel has attempted to deliver humanitarian aid from an international flotilla to Gaza, but Hamas -- which controls the territory -- has refused to accept the cargo, the Israel Defense Forces said Wednesday.

Palestinian sources confirmed that trucks that arrived from Israel at the Rafah terminal at the Israel-Gaza border were barred from delivering the aid.

And where is a bulldozer when you need one?

Cat Fight!

Hey Arnie...

I bet you wish you took that free Karate training now!

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Gaza stunt boat

Just another batch of agitators, itching for a fight and a photo-op to smear the Israelis with.

From my thoughts to his keyboard...

The Israelis should model their restraint on that shown by their opponents.

It looks to me as though they just might have, and good on them.  More and faster, please!

I have the best readers

Marty was a little late to the contest but by my estimation, had the best of the lot...

I like a man who can appreciate what a girl has to offer ;)

Tunnel Visionaries

The double-standard of left-wing "humanitarians"...

The Schalit family on Thursday asked for assistance from international left-wing activists due to arrive in the Gaza Strip later in the day.

If the left-wing activists pressure Hamas to allow international organizations to bring letters and food packages to Gilad Schalit, the kidnapped soldier's family has agreed to support the international expedition's attempt to dock, Army Radio reported Thursday.

Lawyer Nick Kaufman presented the offer to the organization "Free Gaza," one of the organizers of the flotilla headed for Gaza, which promptly refused the offer.

"We are disappointed that the organizers of the flotilla have refused to also provide basic humanitarian assistance to our son, who has been held in Gaza four years in contradiction of international law," said the Schalit family.

Apparently there are some people who "Free Gaza" are not interested in freeing.

The voice of Islamic reason

Every morning, on the way in to school, my kids and I listen to John Oakley on the radio.  He usually has good guests on (John Bolton is a Wednesday morning regular - my fav!), and occasionally, he has a spectacular dust-up or two, that make the traffic reports and the commercials all worthwhile.

Yesterday was one of those days.

Let me just start by saying that Barbara Kay is a great listen at all times, and the subject of building a Mosque at the site of 9/11 is one of great interest to me and my kin.  But listening to her slap around Toronto's own paragon of "bringin' the crazy", Imam Steve Rockwell, is a segment worthy of much snorting and high-fives!  Even my 11-year-old, who is not the least bit interested in politics, thought this dude was seriously cracked.

Listen and enjoy...comedy gold, I tell you!

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The takeaway quote from the moderate Muslim holy man..."She seems to be a banshee from the pit of Hell, sent by Lucifer".  I think Barbara should put that endorsement on her byline.

Gee...come to think of it, Steve kinda reminds me of somebody...

Mo was my least favorite Stooge

For those who were hoping my recent silence was due to an untimely demise, sorry to disappoint.  But perhaps my promotion of an entertaining little politically incorrect contest will renew the calls for my slaughter -- which I find so entertaining!

I would have submitted one myself, but we like to keep it "family friendly" here at The Lasso and I didn't want my kids seeing what that chump does to goats, and little girls...

If it walks like a Muslim and talks like a Muslim...

"There is no reason to suspect ties to terrorism" is all I've heard for the last couple of days, in response to a bombing attempt in the middle of New York -- again.  Each time they said it, what I really heard was the Obama administration and lackeys saying, to each other, "we can not have a terrorist incident on American soil during this administration".  Because, of course, it would put lie to the claim that the elevation of The Great Uniter to the highest office, spontaneously spawned a global love-in toward America and it's interests.

And thanks to a dude named Faisal, we have confirmation that another Obamanated canard is worth little more than the steaming turd it smells like...

Is it possible - just possible - that maybe people like Bloomberg and Janet Napolitano have an inherent bias against middle America? So much to that they’ve spent the last three days praying to Gaia that some fat white Viet Nam vet from Iowa was responsible for this?

And where was John Murtha that day, anyway..?

How do you tame a hornet's nest?

George Jonas on cutting the Gordian Knot...

Not remembering history is a hazard, but so is remembering it. People used to say about the Bourbons that they had learned nothing and forgotten nothing. The French and Spanish royals weren’t alone. Ideally, we should all forget what we cannot learn from, but it isn’t how our minds work. We don’t have to be Arab or Jewish, only human, to forget everything bad we did to others while remembering everything bad others did to us.

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A two-state solution was president George W. Bush’s policy before Obama, and president Bill Clinton’s before Bush. In fact, it was the United Nations’ policy when it voted for the partition of Palestine in 1947, before Israel came into being, and Lord Peel’s policy when the Peel Commission made its recommendations in 1937, some 24 years before President Obama was born.

It was also the Zionist leadership’s policy, first when it said yes to Lord Peel in 1937, and then when it said yes to the UN 10 years later. The Zionists said yes unhappily because as far as they were concerned, Palestine was already partitioned in 1921, when the British gave about 80% of the promised land to the Hashemite kingdom of Jordan — but they said yes all the same.

Only the Arab side said no. It said no in 1937 to Lord Peel, then in 1947 to the United Nations. When the state of Israel ran up its flag on May 14, 1948, six Arab states — Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen and Saudi Arabia — said no again by attacking the Jewish state in its cradle.

For the next 62 years the world has been insisting that Jews and Palestinians split the remaining land in a two-state solution...