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"One final observation is in order. The comments to this post don’t really challenge the author. A professional military blog is not complimented when the commenters sound like apparatchiks. The commenters should refrain from emotional outbursts and pejorative language and concentrate on the main points. That is what I have done in this response." Herschel Smith Response to Abu Muqawama at Captain's Journal with:

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Islam: At War With America-Geert Wilders Speech in LA

Ladies and gentlemen, free speech is no longer a given in Europe. What we once considered a natural element of our existence, our birth right, is now something we once again have to battle for. To exercise free speech has become a dangerous activity.

As you may know, I will be prosecuted in the Netherlands, because of my short documentary Fitna and my view concerning what some call ‘a religion of peace’. On top of that, also France and Jordan are considering to prosecute me for my view on Islam and the United Kingdom government did not allow me to enter their country. And the President of Indonesia declared that I will never be allowed to enter Indonesia as long as I live.

So a special thanks to the United States border police for letting me enter this country. It feels good to be allowed entering a country once in a while.

But ladies and gentlemen, before I talk about freedom of speech, I will say a few things about Islam and Sharia law first.

Allow me to give you a brief introduction to Islam, an Islam 101. The first thing everyone needs to know about Islam is the importance of the Koran. As you probably know the Koran calls for submission, hatred, violence, murder, terrorism and war. The Koran calls upon Muslims to kill non-Muslims. The Koran describes Jews as monkeys and pigs. The biggest problem is that the Koran is to be considered as Allah’s personal word, with orders that need to be fulfilled regardless of place or time. That’s the reason why the Koran is not open to discussion or interpretation. It is valid for every Muslim and for all times. Therefore, there is no such thing as moderate Islam. Sure, there are a lot of moderate Muslims, but a moderate Islam does not exist. As the Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan once said: “There is no moderate Islam, Islam is Islam”. For once I have to agree with this Islamist Turkish Prime Minister.

And let it be clear to anyone: I have no problem with muslims, my fight is not against any person or group of persons. However, I have enormous problems with the dangerous and violent islamic ideology.

The second thing everyone needs to know about Islam is the importance of the prophet Muhammad. His behavior is an example to all Muslims and cannot be criticized. Well let me tell you the truth about this so called prophet anyway. Muhammad was a warlord, a conqueror, a pedophile and a mass murderer. Islamic tradition tells us how he married and consumed the young girl Aisha long before she was ten years of age and how he fought in battles, how he murdered his enemies, how he slaughtered the Jewish tribe of Banu Qurayza.

For millions of Muslims the Koran and the life of Muhammad are not ancient history but an inspiration. And if you criticise either the Koran or the Prophet or Islam as such, you better be prepared to face the consequences. You will receive death threats from all over the world and will be taken to court all over the world. Your national flag will be burned and your embassies might be set on fire, your country could face economical boycotts and the political leaders of your own home country will not support you but appease Muslims and Muslim governments, join them in their political correct outrage and label you as a radical or xenofobe. When critisism becomes unpleasant freedom of speech has to take another lane.

About Islam. Let no one fool you about Islam being just a religion. Sure, it has its God - Allah - a holy book - the Koran -, temples - mosques - and even a here-after. If you murder enough Jews you might even get 72 virgins. But in its essence Islam is a political ideology and a totalitarian ideology. It is a system that lays down detailed rules for society and the life of every man and woman. Islam wants to dictate every aspect of life and society and prohibits individual, political and religious rights and freedoms. Islam is not compatible with our Western civilization or democracy, nor will it ever be, because Islam doesn’t want to coexist, it wants to submit and set the entire agenda. Islam means submission from Muslims over non-Muslims - kafirs - like you and me, so there cannot be any mistake about its goal. Islam’s end goal, for all time, is to dominate, to dominate and once again dominate and establish a world ruled by Islam.

That, ladies and gentlemen, that is why Winston Churchill compared the Koran to Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf as the famous Italian writer Orianna Fallaci did and why the brave Californian psychiatrist Dr. Wafa Sultan rightfully said about the clash between the West and Islam that it is a clash between civilization and backwardness, between the civilized and the primitive, between rationality and barbarity.

As you know, the current Islamization of Europe is not an invasion like those we have seen in the past. This time it is not a military invasion with swords, this time we have to deal with a stealth invasion. Nowadays, the armies are replaced by cultural relativism and mass-immigration. It is this dangerous cocktail that is the main cause of the Islamization and is responsible for the introduction of Sharia law in Europe.

As you know, Sharia is Islamic law, effective in barbaric countries such as Saudi-Arabia and Iran. Beheadings, hangings, chopping off hands and feet, stoning to death, lashings, it all happens because Sharia law prescribes it. Now, radical Muslims want to implement Sharia law into our Western societies. And they are very successful in doing so, helped by the Western cultural relativists - the ‘useful idiots’, as former Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin described the unknowingly who helped his cause. In my favorite country Britain, Sharia courts are now officially part of the legal system. Very few people over here are aware of that. They have been empowered to adjudicate on financial disputes, divorces and domestic violence.

And there are much more examples of the rising of Sharia in Europe: Halal food is served in many schools and universities, more women every day are forces to wear the burqa or niqaab, Islamic banks are mushrooming and polygamy, female genital mutilation, honor killings and Muslim men who refuse to shake women hands are all part of 2009-Europe.
A few weeks ago a British Muslim leader told of his vision of Britain under Sharia law. According to the British Evening Standard Anjem Choudary wants a pure Islamic state with Sharia law in Britain, ‘the flag of Allah’ flying over Downing Street. Ladies and gentlemen, this would mean the end of our precious liberties even though with Gordon Brown in office one might not easily see the difference.

Sharia means the end of our hard won freedom, for Sharia law denies the equality of men and women and Muslims and non-Muslims, it does not allow Muslims to leave Islam, renegades, apostates must be killed according to Islam as you know. Sharia advocates slavery and does not recognize democracy. As a matter of fact Sharia is exactly the opposite of democracy.
Unfortunately, among European Muslims the support for this creeping Sharia law is substantial. Last year the British Center for Social Cohesion released a survey held under British Muslim students. Some outcomes were horrifying: 32 percent said killing in the name of religion can be justified and 40 percent supported the introduction of Sharia law into British law.

But please be aware, also the USA is in the process of Islamization. There are numerous examples. For instance: Muslim cab drivers who refuse to transport passengers possessing alcohol or guide dogs. Muslim students demanding separate housing on campus, and separate hours for Muslim women in gyms and swimming pools. USA journalist who self-censor themselves afraid of being sewed and taken to court.

As I said, these Muslims are aided by present-day ‘useful idiots’. A classic example is the former Dutch Attorney General, Mr. Donner. After Dutch film maker and Islam criticaster Theo van Gogh was murdered by a Jihadist in the streets of Amsterdam, he was of the opinion that blasphemy should no longer be a dead letter, and a few years later he even said the Netherlands should introduce Sharia law if a two third majority would support it.

Fortunately some politicians are not giving in. Former Republican US Congressman Tom Tancredo is one of those heroes. Last year he introduced his counter-Sharia ‘Jihad Prevention Act’. This bill would bar the entry of people who advocate Sharia law. This is exactly what the West needs: Brave leaders who have the courage to do something against the growing Islamization.

Ladies and gentlemen, we have to stop the Islamization of the West. Because if we don’t, we will roll back centuries, it will mean the end of our civilization. If we don’t act now, we will betray our Western values, we will lose our culture, we will lose our democracy and we will lose the dearest of our many liberties: the right to speak our mind.

The biggest disease of Europe today is cultural relativism. The fault concept of political correct liberals that all cultures are equal. Well let me tell you: they are not. Our Western culture based on Christianity, Judaism and humanism is far better than the barbaric Islamic culture,

Let me also tell you that Israel is one of us. The jihad against Israel is a jihad against the entire West. Its not a territorial dispute and the Islamic jihad will not stop after territorial concessions. We all should support Israel, the only democracy in the entire Middle East.
Unfortunately, as I stated in the beginning of my short lecture, free speech already is no longer a given in Europe.

Last February, I tried to visit Britain, a fellow EU country. I was invited to give a speech in the House of Lords. However, upon arrival at Heathrow airport, I was refused entry into the UK, and sent back to the Netherlands. I would have liked to be able to remind the audience of a great man who once spoke in the British House of Commons. In 1982 President Ronald Reagan - former Governor of this great state, California - gave a speech that very few Europeans appreciated. Reagan called upon the West to reject communism and defend freedom. He introduced a new phrase: ‘evil empire’. Reagan’s speech stands out as a clarion call to preserve our liberties. I quote: “If history teaches anything, it teaches self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly”. What Reagan meant is that you cannot run away from history, you cannot escape the dangers of ideologies that are out to destroy you. Denial is not an option.

Just like the British ban, the decision of the Amsterdam Court of Appeals to prosecute me for Fitna and my views on Islam, is a major blow dealt to freedom of speech in Europe. They are full-fledged attacks on freedom of speech in order to appease Muslims. Both are major victories for Islam and for all who hate freedom of speech.

Whether or not I end up in jail is not the most important issue. I gave up my freedom more than 4 years ago. I am under full-time police protection ever since, because of death threats from Muslims and terrorist groups linked to Al Qaeda. In the last few years, I lived in different safe houses, army barracks and yes, even in prison cells in order to be safe. But it’s not about me, it is not about Geert Wilders. The real question is: Will free speech be put behind bars?

We have to defend freedom of speech. I propose the withdrawal of all hate speech legislation in Europe. I propose a European First Amendment. In Europe we should defend freedom of speech like you Americans do. Recently I showed Fitna in the heart of your great democracy, in the US Senate at the invitation of Senator Kyle, while the European Parliament banned my film twice both in Strasbourg and Brussels. Europe should take America as a model. In Europe, freedom of speech should be extended, instead of restricted.

Besides a European First Amendment, I propose a boycott of the UN Human Rights Council. And not just because the worst violaters of human rights are member of this council. Recently this terrifying Council - even Saudi-Arabia has a seat - adopted a resolution that attempts to kill free speech and the concept of human rights. The resolution on ‘Combating defamation of religions’ does not protect individuals, but shields Islam from criticism. It calls upon UN member states to provide legal protection against defamation of religions. Of course this resolution initiated by the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) is about Islam. The true goal of this resolution is to silence people who criticize Islam. Let there be no mistake about it: The UN Human Rights Council is a threat to free speech in the Western world.

Ladies and gentlemen, it is a few minutes to 12. In 2009-Europe, Islam is calling for our destruction and free speech is already on trial. If we go on like this, we are heading for the end of European civilization.

Fortunately, many people think like you and me about freedom and liberty. Millions know that liberty is the most precious of gifts. Freedom loving people have not yet forgotten to whom we owe our liberties. These were not offered to us on a silver platter, but were bitterly fought for. American soldiers fought, bled and died for the freedom of Europe. We owe something to these men and women. Their legacy cannot be squandered and given away. American soldiers did not die for an Islamized Europe. They died for a free Europe.

Ladies and gentlemen, if we want to defend our freedom, if we truly want to withstand the evil forces of Islam, if we want to survive, we need less cowards and more heroes. We need to prevail and therefore we have to elect new leaders, brave leaders. Leaders who will protect our values, our culture, leaders who will defend our freedom, leaders who will stop cultural relativism and mass immigration from Islamic countries, leaders who will defy Islam. Leaders who are fighters like Churchill, Thatcher or Reagan instead of appeasers like Chamberlain and Gordon Brown. We have too many Chamberlains and Browns in world politics today. To many politicians who are giving in and giving up and bargaining our freedom away for political or economical benefit.

But let me end with some good news. The good news is that normal people in Europe like in my own country The Netherlands are increasingly fed up with politicians ignoring our fight for freedom. A growing amount of people want to stop the Islamization of our societies. A growing amount of people want to fight for the freedom of speech and want to preserve our precious free societies, rule of law and democracy for our children and their children. The old political elite is losing support. New political parties who fight for freedom are gaining strength in many European countries. Like my own party - the Freedom Party - we started as a new party and took part in the national Dutch elections for the first time two and a half years ago. Then we became the fifth party in our ten party parliament with 9 seats out of the 150-seats our parliament has. But in the polls today we are the nr 1 party of the Netherlands with not 9 but 32 parliamentary seats. An enormous increase of support. Many politicians of the old ruling parties in my country almost get a nervous breakdown by the idea that I might be the next Prime Minister of the Netherlands.

There is panic indeed in and between the old ruling political parties who thought they would never be challenged. Who thought that they would always be in power.

Well let me tell you they should be in panic. Because it will only get worse for them. Because we will not stop anymore. Not today, not tomorrow, old times are gone. The public want new politics and new vision and what they will get.

And we will never stop fighting for freedom. As a matter of fact, the more they threaten us with death threats, fatwas or their legal jihad, the more determined we become to continue.

My message to those who oppose our fight for freedom is as follows.

We will never compromise on freedom.

We will never compromise on liberty.

We will never appease to Islam.

We will never give in, never give up, never submit to totalitarianism again.

Ladies and gentleman we should all make a difference. Because every individual has a responsibility to make a difference when our freedom is at stake.

And we can make a difference, we have the privilege to live in a democracy, and we should never take that for granted. We are responsible to preserve our freedom and we have to take that responsibility at whatever price it may cost.

For losing our freedom in no alternative.

Freedom is the most precious gift we can and must give to generations to come.

Ladies and gentleman thank you so much for kind attention.

It was a privilege for me to speak to you.

Rookie POTUS Bow To Our Saudi OverLords

This sucks way more than GWB doing the manly hoochi coo sword dance while begging for lower oil prices. But thats just me.

Flying Gold Plated Pig/Osprey Grounded--Loose Steering bolts

My favorite flying gold turd, the V-22 Osprey, has been grounded. What a shock! This time the bolts to the gold chopper's steering came loose. Geez. This are the bolts that allow the pilot to steer. They vibrated loose. Bear in mind this is not your 58 Ford pick up with the tendency to drop the top starter bolt every thousand miles. Got so my hearing got so sensitive I could hear the bolts back off at every start up. These Osprey bolts back off in flight and youre in a world of hurt. The pilot noticed the vibration and heard a loud noise. Military Times

An inspection revealed that four loose bolts had separated from a stationary swashplate trunnion and a gimbal ring on the drive tube, causing “minor damage” to the engine’s pitch links and spinner support, he said. The swashplate has a rotating and stationary plate, and translates a pilot’s commands to the rotors in motion.

“If this thing comes apart, then you lose control of the prop rotor,” said Welding, who declined to categorize the incident as a “near-miss.”

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Until You Man Up--STF-UP! IP's Get Motivational Talk

Orc TTP and Ambush Lessons Learned in Afghanistan

Michael Yon post: the eagle went over the mountain power point on Ambush tactics against U.S.Marines needs to be read and reread and shared with all. This is the fundamentals of tactics, techniques and procedures (TTP) and it all has to be in muscle memory before you deploy. The Orc does not waste anything. Even the aggressive spirit of the Marine is used as sucker bait to entice your team into a dead end zone where murder awaits. Read.

America's First African American Muslim POTUS_CIC Meets General Ridicule

From "I won" to I screwed up" in eleven days sets a new record for losing the training wheels and hitting the ground running for our 44th POTUS. How can you top that...well for one thing the Orcs are watching an taking notes. This POTUS has no grit. Observers may have noted that Allah has decided the election in their favor for once. The hell of it is that these bad Orcs may figure on striking one of our way out there outpost as a way of encouraging Obama's plans for a mad exit from all wars present and future.This is not good.

RINOS Who Will Break Wind For FBPOTUS #44

POLITICO's list only has five but with more thought and deft stealing I can find more.

• Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.)

• Sen. Dick Lugar (R-Ind.)

• Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.)

• Sen. George Voinovich (R-Ohio)

• Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine)
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FB-POTUS-CIC #44 Blows off Medal Honor Ball

According to This ain't Hell, FB-POTUS-CIC #44 decided that showing up at the Salute To Heroes Inaugural Ball was optional. The ball has been attended by an incoming POTUS since President Eisenhower.

The American Legion sponsors the ball, which recognizes recipients of Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest military award. It started in 1953 for President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s first inauguration.

Event co-sponsors include 13 other veterans service organizations, among them the Military Order of the Purple Heart and the Paralyzed Veterans of America.

Guess he had better things to do than hang around with Medal of Honor Heroes.

Gun Salesman of the Year--The Outdoor Wire

The Outdoor Wire, the go to outdoor sports newsletter, has named POTUS Barrack Hussein Obama “Gun Salesman of the Year” in recognition of his stalwart efforts in creating a generation of nervous Nellies that only the purchase of American Fire power can provide essential peace of mind. Without POTUS Hussein the gun industry could also be begging for a piece of the TARP. No Worries, mite! For creating a tsumami wave of demand for Guns, Mr. POTUS, we salute YOU!

The Black Death Pays a Call to Orcs Who Love Death

Orcs have had a visitor. Not one they welcomed lightly. He does not take no for an answer. Or prisoners, for that matter. A body by the side of the road has tipped off intelligence that the Orcs have the Black Death as the disease from the bubonic infection is now called. Life in caves with fleas as roommates has drawbacks. How will you know you have been kissed by the Black Death? Your body will have boils in the groin, neck and armpits. Your skin will be black in appearance because of subepidermal hemorrhages. You will have swelling in the lymph nodes. Other symptoms include fever, headaches, painful aching joints, nausea and vomiting and a general screw it all feeling. You have eight days to live. If you have a hearty constitution then your odds of surviving are 1 out 5. Bad luck. Some forty Orcs are thought to have surcumbed to the infection spread by fleas and living in filth and unsanitary living conditions. Harsh. Yes. Just as well. For Is it not written "they are unclean, and their abode is hell as the reward for what they used to earn."

Kill or Capture Optional on Osama Says POTUS-Elect

POTUS Elect doesn't really care one way or the other whether or not Osama's scalp hangs on his tepee or in custody of the prison wardens. It is a matter of supreme indifference to his POTUS-Elect whether Osama rots in a cave or waits for his rights in a U.S. Prison.

Couric: How important do you think it is, Mr. President-elect, to apprehend Osama bin Laden?

Mr. Obama: I think that we have to so weaken his infrastructure that, whether he is technically alive or not, he is so pinned down that he cannot function. My preference obviously would be to capture or kill him. But if we have so tightened the noose that he's in a cave somewhere and can't even communicate with his operatives, then we will meet our goal of protecting America.

Wrong Again, Mr. Messiah. I want to see Osama bin Laden hang for the murder of 2,750 in New York, 184 at the Pentagon, and 40 in Pennsylvania. I want Justice for innocent of 9/11 who had their lives stolen from them to satisfy the manical ambitions of Osama Bin Laden. I am not interested in technically alive or not.

"Be Seeing You" Patrick McGoohan, "The Prisoner" Dies age 80

Patrick McGoohan, AKA Number Six has died at the age of 80. In the '60's he created and starred in the TV series called the Prisoner. If you were in your 20's you never missed an episode or rerun. "I am not a number. I am a free man!" Be seeing you...

Compare and Contrast--Bloggers vs. Pamphleteers

George Orwell:"The pamphlet is a one man show. One has complete freedom of expression, including, if one chooses, the freedom to be scurrilous, abusive and seditious; or, on the other hand, to be more detailed, serious and "highbrow" than is ever possible in a newspaper or in most kinds of periodicals. At the same time, since the pamphlet is always short and unbound, it can be produced much more quickly than a book, and in principle, at any rate, can reach a bigger public. Above all, the pamphlet does not have follow any prescribed pattern. It can be in prose or in verse, it can consist largely of maps or statistics or quotations, it can take the form of a story, a fable, a letter, an essay, a dialogue, or a piece of "reportage". All that is required of it is that shall be topical, polemical and short. "
Intro in Orwell's British Pamphleteers

Dearest Leader Says:"Everybody has to have some skin in the game"

Sacrifice from everybody! Only the yankee govt. can save you all!

Just Go Ape CaCa All Over Them Orcs

Dan Diker, a foreign policy wonk with the JCPA, writes that Israel may finally have solved the language barrier problem with the Orcs. " I spoke with a senior Arab diplomat last night. He told me that the Arab street is afraid that "the Jews have gone crazy."

Ahh. At last. A language Orcs understand. Communication. Wonderful. Peace.

New Year's Resolution: rededicate ourselves to the art of constitutionalism

Matt nails it in...

American Thinker

The Case for The American Cause

By Matt May

It is no exaggeration to conclude that the political landscape of the United States is one of chaos borne of ignorance and outright disdain for our nation's founding principles and values.

Over 60 million people voted for a sloganeering dilettante from the Daley machine about whom nary a critique could be levied without hysterical screams of racism and prejudice. The frightening cult of messianic personality surrounding him remains as his ignorant supporters cheer while the cesspool from whence he came is drained and dumped in the Potomac.

The principal perpetrators and abettors of the housing finance disaster not only got away clean, but had the temerity to accuse those who tried to prevent such a disaster of creating it as a confused citizenry stood idly by.

Open Senate seats in Illinois and New York are for sale or thought to be a birthright. In Minnesota, a two-bit clown has downloaded Gore2000 in an attempt to steal a seat in plain sight and nobody seems to care.

Larry Arnn, the heroic president of the indispensable Hillsdale College, argues persuasively in the December edition of Imprimis that our citizenry has lost touch with the art of constitutionalism. The rot of our public schools and the systematic excoriation of the "dead white men" who established this republic have indeed severed the mystic chords of memory that once bound Americans to those of the past. Reestablishing these ties will take work, but there is a book that can do just that: Russell Kirk's The American Cause. There is perhaps no book that so succinctly and accessibly explains and defines our roots and our purpose.

American ignorance of American principles is by no means novel. In fact, such circumstances surrounded Kirk's writing of the book to begin with. As Gleaves Whitney - who lightly edited and wrote the introduction to the most recent edition - points out, the book was written shortly after the dawn of the Cold War when it was especially essential that citizens understood the American cause, its differences and advantages over Communism, and why the cause must be defended. Kirk learned that American POWs in Korea were easy marks for Communist propagandists; those Communists reported that even American university graduates had little to no knowledge of their own history, political philosophy, and the function of federalism. Because Kirk correctly concluded that "Good natured ignorance is a luxury none of us can afford," he crafted this book, which was reissued in the wake of the outrage of September 11, 2001.

The American Cause is decidedly not a conservative primer or argument, nor is it jingoistic propaganda. Rather, it is a restatement and explanation of the set of principles upon which our nation was founded: Order, Justice, and Freedom. In clear language, Kirk discusses the necessity of principles in relation to the true nature of man (as opposed to what those selling utopia would have us believe). Kirk writes of ordered liberty, the true relationship between church and state, and free economics. Helpfully, Kirk offers answers to anti-American claims from abroad, which are tellingly similar now as when the book was first written, and warns of the dangers of armed ideology - again on the march in the world. Chillingly, Kirk writes "Thinking in slogans ends with thinking in bullets."

Kirk concludes "this little book" by declaring "That our elaborate civilization and our delicate civil social order may not fall victims to the revolutionary movements at home and abroad: this is the end to which American policy is directed. And if Americans have valor in them still, theirs will not be a losing cause."

Despite the maniacal efforts of the American establishment media, we have seen and heard about the valor of which Kirk speaks. We have seen it in the streets of Fallujah, the mountains of Afghanistan, and the skies above Shanksville. But this valor has gone missing among great swaths of the population, millions upon millions who do not understand or simply do not respect the limitations deliberately placed upon government that created the most successful example of self-government the world has yet seen. As Arnn writes, when citizens appreciate the principles in the founding documents and the ways in which they must underlie self-government, "the citizen becomes again an intelligent lover of it."

If we are to recall those principles and again respect, revere, and observe them, we must rededicate ourselves as students of our nation so that we may again become truly informed citizens. It may be fairly said that the essential document in helping us relearn and reclaim the American cause is The American Cause.

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Snicker Feast.

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Happy New Year 2009!