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Many Called, Few Chosen

The Lakeview cop-killer set loose by Mike Huckabee is celebrated as a martyr to the cause.  Apparently, the cause involves killing "white terrorist and racist" police officers.  There are nuts amongst us.  And by no means is it limited to the celebrants.

Inadvertent Truth

Voters in Switzerland voted overwhelmingly to ban minarets — despite the opposition of the Swiss Council of Religions and the Swiss government.

Mutalip Karaademi, president of the Islamic Community, Langenthal: “We are fully integrated in Switzerland. We love this country almost more than our own.”

Read that last pair of lines again.

Anybody see a problem?

Hasan May Never Walk Again

Apparently, the poor jihadist has been left paralyzed by the shots that brought him down.  This can mean only one thing:  he'll have to be dragged into the execution chamber.

Step Aside, Al-Quaeda

There's a new Jihad code that marginalizes bin Laden's group.

"Jihad has ethics and morals because it is for God. That means it is forbidden to kill women, children, elderly people, priests, messengers, traders and the like. Betrayal is prohibited and it is vital to keep promises and treat prisoners of war in a good way. Standing by those ethics is what distinguishes Muslims' jihad from the wars of other nations."

Reportedly, the new document (at 417 pages, less than a quarter of the size of the PelosiCare bill) has been written by leaders of what is described as the world's most effective jihad organization and is receiving wide acceptance among Muslim religious leaders.  It is believed that they have had more than 72 hours in which to read the document.

BO Acts

Well, okay, he's always acting.  But this time, he's speechifying in an effort to head off any potential anti-Muslim sentiment.  You know the drill: it's all about Diversity.

President Barack Obama yesterday sought to head off a potential anti-Muslim backlash from the Fort Hood shootings by praising the ethnic and religious diversity of US armed forces.

Obama devoted his weekly radio broadcast to the massacre in Texas. "We cannot fully know what leads a man to do such a thing," Obama said, "But what we do know is that our thoughts are with every single one of the men and women who were injured at Fort Hood." He added that memorial services held by the military worldwide revealed how diverse the organisation was.

"They are Americans of every race, faith, and station. They are Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus and non-believers. They are descendants of immigrants and immigrants themselves. They reflect the diversity that makes this America," Obama said.

BO's right.  We cannot fully know what leads a man to do such a thing.  We cannot fully know much of anything, come to that.  But we can make educated inferences, infidels though we may be.  We may not fully know why water is wet, but we know that wet it is.  We may not fully know why Democratics promise transparency, yet operate in secrecy, nor can we fully know what leads them to continually seek new ways to take that which we have earned, but we know that they will unerringly behave in these manners.

We cannot fully know what leads a Muslim extremist who stated that infidels should have boiling oil poured into their throats to do something like the Ft. Hood massacre.  On the other hand, we don't need to.  We know enough.

More On Massacre

Bloomberg, as is typical for American media, offers an extensive article headlined Fort Hood Shooting Spurs Re-Examination of Stress on Soldiers. 

In the aftermath of Major Nidal Malik Hasanallegedly shooting fellow soldiers at Fort Hood Army Baseon Nov. 5, officials said they are redoubling efforts to study the impact of multiple redeployments and battlefield experiences.

Allegedly?

The impact of redeployments and battlefield experiences?

That Muslim shrink did not "allegedly" do anything; he was taken down while in the process of committing mayhem.  Moreover, he'd never laid eyes on a battlefield.

If you want actual news, you have to go elsewhere.  Nobody in the American media has made the connection between this dirtball and the 9/11 hijackers, but it's being reported in foreign media.

Hasan, the sole suspect in the massacre of 13 fellow US soldiers in Texas, attended the controversial Dar al-Hijrah mosque in Great Falls, Virginia, in 2001 at the same time as two of the September 11 terrorists.

Oh, but as BO says, we shouldn't leap to any conclusions.

Right.

Speaking of BO, he hasn't found time in his schedule to visit any of the wounded - he's reportedly relaxing at Camp David.  However, the President reviled by the Left as "Chimpy" has taken the time to visit, as has the former First Lady.

BO and MO have class, though.  Too bad all of it's low.

Passive Post-Traumatic Stress

What could possibly have motivated an army shrink to go on a rampage like that?  Post-traumatic stress, perhaps?  Nope - the 39-year-old Doctor has never served in a war zone; his job consisted of "counselling" soldiers who (unlike him) actually had served in war, and who returned with stress-related disorders.  According to news accounts, the shrink was about to be deployed and dreaded the thought of experiencing the horrors of war first-hand.  He had, after all, experienced the horrors of war through accounts gleaned from the stories returning soldiers had confided to him.

The shrink's experience, then, was entirely second-hand - and even had he been deployed, he wouldn't have been slated for actual front-line duty.  If he was suffering from post-traumatic stress, then, it was by virtue of his continued exposure to front-line soldiers in the course of his "counselling" sessions.  It seems a bit of a stretch to consider this as the underlying cause of his grisly rampage, although I must admit to bias in this regard: when I was in college, I wasted a portion of time in pursuit of a psych major.  My interactions with professors and fellow students ultimately resulted in the conclusion that the reason people gravitate to the field is largely due to their own imbalance, which caused me to drop that pursuit like a hot potato and move instead to the harder science of biology.

In other words, people who pursue psych majors tend to be nuts.

This guy had a doctorate.  That tells me that he's really twisted.

There are, however, plenty of twisted shrinks running around who don't load up and start blowing people away.  Even the combination of being twisted and exposed to second-hand stress doesn't really explain it.  Ah, but recent reports, some of which emanate from survivors of the attack, add a key element:  the shrink was also an adherent to the Religion of Peace™.  And according to survivors, he was yelling "Allahu Akbar" as he began firing away.

I realize that Political Correctness dictates tolerance and non-judgementalism.  But I've never subscribed to that religion, either.  The facts seem rather clear: in virtually every such event that occurs anywhere on the planet today, one commonality exists:  Islam.

The War On Terror Will Be Won

Just not by us. 

Islamic extremists are well down the road to losing it all by themselves.  In point of fact, most of the people that they mutilate and kill are not the "infidels" that they continually rail against; their victims are largely Muslim.  And much like those who lived under communism, the majority of Muslims will not continue to support a terrorist minority. 

As recently as five years ago, 41% of Pakistanis polled indicated that homicidal bombing in the name of Islam was acceptable.  Today, that number has dropped to 5%.

Moreover, people forced to live under extremist rule turn against the rulers.  In western Iraq, which is largely Sunni Arab, the al-quaeda group had, by 2006, become integrated with the population, affording them both safe haven and control.  That didn't last long, as al-quaeda enforcers began beating women for inappropriate dress and crimes such as wearing lipstick, chopping the fingers off of anyone caught smoking, and more.

At present, the Sunni who three years ago were fighting Americans are now allied with Americans against al-quaeda.  While the situation in western Iraq clearly remains far from settled, it is equally clear that Muslims are increasingly rejecting the offerings that their nutball minority groups bring.

This is how the War On Terror will be won.

"Calypso" Louie's At It Again

According to him, the swine flu vaccines are actually designed to kill people.

"The Earth can't take 6.5 billion people. We just can't feed that many. So what are you going to do? Kill as many as you can. We have to develop a science that kills them and makes it look as though they died from some disease," Farrakhan said, adding that many wise people won't take the vaccine.

Evidently, Louie bought into Paul Ehrlich's disproven thesis and simply hasn't noticed that the prophesies outlined in Paul's "the Population Bomb" never happened.  Of course we can feed that many people.  That we don't is simply due to logistics and tyrants.

When America, the most generous nation on the planet, sends food supplies to starving nations, they invariably run into problems of transport at the receiving end - and governmental re-appropriation.  It's not, despite Louie's claims, a matter of not being able to produce sufficient food; the problem is always at the distribution end.

Still, Louie may be doing the rest of us a favor.  By making his followers averse to measures that prevent or ameliorate disease, he's unintentionally cleaning up the gene pool.

A Voice Of Sanity

Sheikh Mohamed Tantawi, dean of al-Azhar university, called full-face veiling a custom that has nothing to do with the Islamic faith.

Moreover, he plans to call for a ban on that custom, as it has become associated with the murderous fringe fundamentalist radicals.  His head likely won't be connected to his body much longer, but he has taken a brave stand.

Unfortunately, he can't be allowed to live, because he breathes life into what has become known as a religion fixated upon death.  Islam has that going for it; this guy can't be allowed to hang around.  He's messing up the whole image thing.