Hugh Hewitt and the Holy Grail

A great job of photoblogging the Hugh Hewitt - Joel Stein interview, titled
"Hugh Hewitt, Joel Stein and Monty Python's Holy Grail".

TAGS: Aaron's cc:, Hugh Hewitt, Joel Stein, Monty Python

A pig in a poke in Paris

For the past 3 winters in Paris, the French right-wing group Bloc Identitaire has been handing out free soup. It's called Identity Soup and is made from pig parts. What parts, you ask? Parts is parts, I say. Anyway, the bloc has spread its largesse to other French cities this year and authorities are cracking down.

The mayor of Strasbourg has banned the "swine swill" saying, "Schemes with racial subtexts must be denounced," (pork is banned under both Jewish and Islamic religions) and Paris police have shut down some soup kitchens for lack of proper permits.

The pork potpourri is called Identity Soup because, according to Roger Bonnivard, head of homeless-support group Solidarity of the French and pork soup chef,

With pork in the soup, we return to our origins, our identity. On every farm, you kill a pig and make a soup . . . The pig is the food of our ancestors.

TAGS: France, pork, Identity Soup, Bloc Identitaire, Judaism, Islam

North Carolina bank to do the right thing

The regional bank BB&T Corp., headquartered in Winston-Salem, has announced it will no longer loan money to private developers who acquire land through acts of eminent domain. BB&T is the ninth largest bank in the US with 1400 branches in 11 states, including Washington, D.C..

John Allison, chairman and chief executive, said,

"The idea that a citizen's property can be taken by the government solely for private use is extremely misguided, in fact it's just plain wrong."

BB&T chief credit officer Ken Chalk added,

"We're a company where our values dictate our decision-making and operating standards. From that standpoint, this was a straightforward decision; it's simply the right thing to do."

Interesting note: The News-record.com, source of this report, seems to have acknowledged the washingtonpost.com-Deborah Howell fiasco with open comments to web items (discussed here). At the bottom of the web page, see this announcement by the News-record.

We've had to postpone our plans to allow readers to append comments to individual articles until we can put additional safeguards in place, and we apologize for the delay.

I'll bet. I'll bet they stomped that program dead so fast the tar hasn't dried on their heels as yet.

TAGS: Eminent Domain, Kelo, SCOTUS, BB&T, Deborah Howell

Military won't see Brokeback Mountain

But not because it is a movie about gay vaqueros. It's because of the timing.

Yeah, like it's the wrong century.

TAGS: Brokeback Mountain, Army and Air Force Exchange Service , AAFES

A letter to Joel Stein

A letter to Joel Stein from Christopher Calandro of Atlanta.

Joel:

I can't tell you how many times over the years I've enjoyed your columns in Time magazine. There aren't too many columnists that can make me laugh out loud. I can't recall the exact topic, but I seem to remember one of your lines making me laugh so hard I nearly busted my spleen.

That being said, however, I feel have a moral obligation to tell you that your recent column for the LA Times (and just when it seemed like they were heading in the right direction), "Warriors and Wusses," was abhorrent. Reprehensible. And loathsome.

The most appalling part? The assertion that members of the United States armed forces are "ignoring their morality" by fighting in Iraq? And to equate the promotion of democracy in parts of the world where the respective citizenry had never had it as "American imperialism"? I'm flabbergasted, to say the least.

Try not to take this personally, Joel, but fuck you. Seriously.

I realize it's not a very Christian attitude, but I hope you do get your ass kicked in the wake of your asinine column. For your own good. Better to get one now in an "excercise of free speech" (just trying to put forth an argument as idiotic as one of yours), than the one you might receive from an Islamic terrorist. I don't know if you've been reading press accounts since 9/11, but they don't really stop at fisticuffs.

Putting yourself "out there" is one thing, but temerity is another.

Most sincerely,
Christopher Calandro
Atlanta

TAGS: Joel Stein, wuss, coward, traitor, Dumb and Dumber

My mom stinks?

And I stink, too. In fact, I'm a Mr. Stinky Stinklepants.


TAGS: Jim Treacher, Joel Stein, Stinky Stinklepants

Dumb and Dumber

Hugh Hewitt's interview with Joel Stein, made available by Radio Blogger, is hilarious or sad or some kind of combination of the two. I don't know if Hugh talked to Joel Stein for awhile prior to taping the interview or if Hugh had a chance to talk about Stein with other people who knew him prior to doing the interview. But it is apparent from reading the transcript that Hugh had to really dumb himself down when asking questions of Joel Stein.

That makes me wonder about how Hugh accomplished this. How does one dumb oneself down to the level of a Joel Stein? Before a big game, like, say, the Steelers-Broncos game this past Sunday, the players all put on their game faces - at least the Steelers' players did. Did Hugh put on some kind of game face before the interview? Did he put on a dumb face? A donkey face? A Bozo face? A Red Skelton face? I dunno. In any case, it was quite a feat.

Here are some of the admissions Hugh got out of Stein:
Stein was against the war in Afghanistan.
Stein was against the war in Kosovo
Stein doesn't know anything about Kosovo.
Stein only knows one person in the military, a cousin, and doesn't know where he is stationed.
Stein has never talked to a soldier or a recruiter.
Stein has never visited a military hospital.
Stein doesn't give to any military-related charities.
Stein has never met a wounded veteran.
Stein admitted that if he were an Afghan he would say that American troops accomplished something but as an LAT columnist he would not.
Stein admitted that Iraq is better than before.
Stein had to be reminded twice that Hugh Hewitt was not being interviewed.
Stein doesn't know how many active members serve in the military.
Stein doesn't know how much money is spent on the military.
Stein doesn't know what the starting pay of a Private is.
Stein hasn't read any books about the military.
Stein doesn't know anything about the military at all.
Stein doesn't know what "honor" means.
Stein does not honor the troops (after Hugh gave him the definition - gratitude and esteem.)


As for his handlers at the Los Angeles Times:
No one criticized his column.
No one asked him to reconsider or rewrite the column.
No one suggested that he might be "driving over a cliff".
No one asked him any questions about his knowledge of the military.
They asked him not to tell how much he makes.
Stein then said he makes in excess of $75,000 for 1 column per week.

Relative to the aftermath of the column:
Stein admits, "The world is coming down on my head."
Stein admits, "I might change some things. I might be clear."
Stein admits, "I definitely should be more cautious."
Stein said, "I wish I'd been a little more clear in places, but I believe in what I said."
Stein promises to read Imperial Grunts by Robert Kaplan.
And this classic:

HH: Last question. If someone is so repulsed by this column, is it appropriate for them to cancel the L.A. Times?

JS: Yeah. I mean, I wouldn't cancel a subscription based on one column in an op-ed section. But if they feel like that's their only recourse, sure.

And there is lots, lots more.

Radio Blogger kindly provides us with the number to call to cancel your LAT subscription: 1-888-565-2323

What a hoot. Hugh must still be trying to clear out the cobwebs. I wrote that Stein was "A liberal wuss, a coward and a traitor who can't even run to Canada, now." Hugh Hewitt proved that Stein is just dumber than dumb. I stand corrected.

More static on these channels:
Patterico's Pontifications, Tapscott's Copy Desk, Michelle Malkin, FlapsBlog, Aaron's cc:, Rhymes with Right, Small Town Veteran, Gina Cobb, Blackfive, The Brainster, The Jawa Report, The Dread Pundit Bluto, Pundit Review, Flopping Aces, Wizbang, My Newz'n Ideas, The Unalienable Right, Tigerhawk, Junkyard Blog, Buy Wow Gold, The Attic, The Hedgehog Blog, The Right Place, BlancoBrawler, Say Anything, Sierra Faith, American Future, Tman in Tennessee, Bleeding Right, Real Clear Politics

TAGS: Hugh Hewitt, Radio Blogger, Joel Stein, Dumb and Dumber

The Donald - pissed.

Five billion dollars worth of pissed. Donald Trump has sued New York Times reporter Timothy L. O'Brien and Warner Books, Inc. for $2.5 billion in compensatory damages and $2.5 billion in punitive damages.

In the lawsuit, Trump alleges that O'Brien and Warner knowingly made egregiously false and malicious statements about Trump, his family, his personal life and his business dealings, including statements grossly misrepresenting Trump's net worth. Those defamatory statements included statements that O'Brien claimed were based on three purported anonymous sources with "direct knowledge" of Trump's finances, that Trump "was not remotely close to being a billionaire," and that his "net worth was somewhere between $150 million and $250 million."

According to The Donald, he provided reams of documentation to O'Brien and Warner Books which they ignored in favor of "three purported anonymous sources with "direct knowledge" of Trump's finances . . ."

Indeed, Forbes Magazine rigorously analyzed the very same books and records and other financial data that O'Brien and Warner chose to ignore, and concluded that Trump's net worth conservatively is at least $2.7 billion.

The difference between $250 million and $2.7 billion is not exactly a gap. It's a GAAAAAAAAAAAP!


TAGS: The Donald, Donald Trump, Timothy L. O'Brien, New York Times, Warner Books, Inc.

Dick Meyer hits a home run.

Dick Meyer, editorial director of CBSNews.com, says the Democrats have two serious facts facing them in 2006 and have so far failed to face either one.

Let's start with the easy stuff: money. Everyone said Howard Dean would have trouble raising money as the party chair and everyone was right. The Democratic National Committee enters 2006 with $7.3 million in the bank, the RNC with $31.9 million (figures from the Center for Responsive Politics). That's a problem.

He's right - money, or the lack thereof, is an easy problem to understand. But then, the big one:

The 2006 GOP/Rove platform can easily be put on an index card, if not a Post-it note.

It reads something like this: we are at war against foreign terrorists who want to kill you and your society and we'll do what it takes to stop it and the Democrats won't; we will cut your taxes and give you money and Democrats won't. Every Republican candidate in the country can spit that one out.

Meyer asks how can this be answered. The answers that the Dems have given so far are not encouraging to Meyer:

Please draft a two sentence response that will work in a TV ad; my guess is it will sound as convoluted as John Kerry explaining why his vote for war was a vote against war.

Democrats thought the domestic surveillance revelations were a boon; if that were the case, why would the administration be devoting this week to a public campaign to trumpet the issue? Simple: because they think they have the gut punch: we'll protect you, they won't.

Top that with some Jack Abramoff shtick, I dare you. Give me a 'heck of a job, Brownie' gag line that will trump that. Go ahead, make my day and rehash the WMD-lies arguments of Campaign 2004.

The Republican soundbite hasn't changed since September, 2001; the Democrats have a new mantra with every news cycle. The Republicans have more dollars than the Democrats. Those are facts. My advice to Democrats is simple: face the facts.

It sounds like Meyer is suggesting that old but tried and true AA therapy: Step no. 1; Get out of denial; Admit you have a problem. My guess is that Howard Dean, Ted Kennedy, John Kerry and the Hildabeast are not into introspection this year, next year or any year.

And my guess is that Kos and the rest of the rabid, foaming-at-the-mouth, Fight! Destroy! Impeach! Imprison! Kill! WIN!! crowd isn't either.

Let's see what some others are saying in response to Mr. Meyers assertions and/or with assertions that mirror his:
Maxed Out Mama - who isn't into TRACKBACKS (hint, hint) says the column is astonishingly blunt and down-to-earth
and Democratic leaders look hysterical.
AJ Strata says the Democratic Party is going bankrupt.
The Brainster says the Democrats are having a tough time coming up with a platform that's easy to explain and fits on a bumper sticker. Then Brainster kindly offers a suggestion.
The Anchoress says Dick Meyer at CBS writes the must read . . .
The Captain says the Democrats have never come up with an answer.

TAGS: Dick Meyer, CBSNews.com, Democrats, 2006, losers

A definitive statement on Iraq

From Jeff Goldstein, proprietor of the "icky" Protein Wisdom.

But Iraq was never envisioned as an isolated action under the current war strategy; it was considered a battle in a larger war, and was prompted out of intelligence fears, the decision not to play defense and wait for a threat to become imminent or for more towers to fall, and out of a belief that when murderous tyrants threaten the safety and security of your country, it is high time—in an age of such instantaneous global communication and travel—to take them at their word.

Uh . . . uh . . . Jeez! I just can't think of anything that I would like to add to that . . . at all.

Other statements on Joel Stein, Iraq, our soldiers and the GWoT: Sister Toldjah, QandO, Michelle Malkin, james Joyner at OTB, Ace (of Spades), Alpine Summit, Myopic Zeal,

(we're approaching BLOGSWARM status)

In Training, Dread Pundit Bluto, Dr. Shackleford, Vince Aut Morire, Memento Moron

Reidblog, The Noonz Wire, Guide to Midwestern Culture, Down With Absolutes!, Wizbang

Kuru Lounge, California Mafia, Right Mind, Blackfive, Brutally Honest, and many, many more.

TAGS: Jeff Goldstein, Protein Wisdom, Iraq, GWoT

Joel Stein - wuss, coward, traitor, feeling guilty.

Joel Stein of the Los Angeles Times says he doesn't support the troops. He says that anyone who opposes the war in Iraq but continues to support our soldiers, sailors and airmen is a "wuss".

He says that those who support the troops do so with Chinese-made "patriotic magnets and bracelets and other trinkets." He says he would "hang with" our troops in Vegas. Which means, I suppose, that he would be hoping to get laid. And this even though he says of those same soldiers,

So you're willingly signing up to be a fighting tool of American imperialism, for better or worse.

As for the yellow ribbons?

Besides, those little yellow ribbons aren't really for the troops.

The real purpose of those ribbons is to ease some of the guilt we feel for voting to send them to war and then making absolutely no sacrifices other than enduring two Wolf Blitzer shows a day.

He's right about that. I'm fifty-something with a 6 year-old and a 9 year-old at home, safe and sound. Several fellow church-goers back home have 20-somethings enlisted and 2 of them are in Iraq. Do I feel guilty? Absolutely. Do I feel grateful? Absolutely. And should one of those fine people, God forbid, get hurt or die over there, will I feel sick to my stomach? Absolutely. Should the American people demand their immediate return? Absolutely not.

Does this mean he celebrates every time one of our young men and women is shot to death or blown to bits? Or does the death of an American soldier fill him with disquiet? Or maybe a flag-draped coffin just gives him a bit of indigestion. But, perhaps not, since he holds our soldiers ultimately to blame.

The truth is that people who pull triggers are ultimately responsible, whether they're following orders or not.

I'm not advocating that we spit on returning veterans like they did after the Vietnam War, but we shouldn't be celebrating people for doing something we don't think was a good idea.

According to Stein, flying the American flag in front of your home or business is "celebrating" those who are "ultimately to blame". Being a patriot is "celebrating" those who are "ultimately to blame". Tying a yellow ribbon around a tree in your front yard is "celebrating" those who are "ultimately to blame" and "to ease some of the guilt we feel for voting to send them to war."

He also manages to draw a parallel, in his mind, anyway, between our fighting men and women, Jack Abramoff and the US House of Representatives.

An army of people ignoring their morality, by the way, is also Jack Abramoff's pet name for the House of Representatives.

I think the guilt trip here is that of Stein, himself. A liberal wuss, a coward and a traitor who can't even run to Canada, now. It is little wonder that the LAT ship is sinking faster than the Titanic.

TAGS: Joel Stein, Los Angeles Times, wusses, cowards, traitors

Keep the change

Jerry Bowyer of NRO compares the cost of the Iraq war to date with this handy chart of the costs of America's previous wars as a percent of GDP.



The chart was prepared by Robert Whaples, professor of economics at Wake Forest University. Bowyer then calculates the cost of the Iraq war as a percentage of America's GDP and finds it to be the second cheapest war we've ever fought -- 2% GDP cost-to-date versus 1% GDP for the 1st Iraq war. You remember that one - the one we didn't finish.

TAGS: Jerry Bowyer, NRO, Iraq War, cost of war, GDP

Dwarf tossing must be considered

I don't think that Assad of Syria is all that tall, at least not in comparison to the tin horn general behind him or the goose-stepping saber-bearer in front. That means that Iran's popinjay president Mahmoud Ahmadinejihad must be a midget or a dwarf. No wonder he's so mean. I'd be mean, too, if I had to buy all my clothes at Gymboree.

The Detroit News says, When All Else Fails, Stop Iran By Force.

TAGS: Detroit News, Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad , Syria, Bashar Assad

Ford to wield machete on the Way Forward

In a brutal attempt at solvency, Ford Motor Company will close 14 assembly plants and shed 34,000+ jobs, 30,000 from manufacturing and 4000+ from salaried positions. These things are always brutal, so Ford's "Way Forward" plan is not an exception. The salaried cuts, as well as a cut of 12% of "its ranks of corporate officers" will take place before this year is out. The 5 assembly plants already announced, as well as 2 more yet to-be-announced, will take place between now and 2012. Ford will reduce its domestic production by 26%, or 1.2 million units. The assembly plants to be closed include Wixom, Atlanta and St. Louis.

Man, that's gonna hurt.

TAGS: Ford, Way Forward, assembly plants, layoffs

An unfortunate analogue

Gen. Michael Hayden, the former NSA director, told the National Press Club that the NSA's controversial surveillance program is

narrowly targeted, using the same tools and techniques employed to decide whether to drop a 500-pound bomb on a terrorist target.

WELL, THAT OUGHT MAKE THE DEMS AND THE SQUEALING LEFTIES A LOT MORE COMFORTABLE, NOW, DON'T YOU THINK?

That would be something like the local county extension agent announcing, "Citizens should view our new Mosquito Eradication Program much like Hiroshima and Nagasaki." General Hayden did make this somewhat astonishing claim, which should give everyone pause,

Had this program been in effect prior to 9/11, it is my professional judgment that we would have detected some of the al-Qaida operatives in the United States.

If that is true, or partially true, why are we even having this argument?

TAGS: Gen. Michael Hayden, National Press Club, NSA, surveillance

Frozen Turkey

Iran's mad mullahs, playing right into the hands of the U.S, and Israel, on Friday slashed its export of natural gas to Turkey by 70%. If Turkey needed any more persuasion by U.S. diplomats that Iran is a bully and a coward, this was it. If Iran was looking for allies in its ongoing attempts to develop nuclear weapons and to fight off world-wide efforts to stop it, cutting off a country's gas supplies in the middle of a bitterly cold winter would seem to be about the worst way to go about it. The Turks should be furious and now looking for a way to prevent this type of attack on its sovereignty again in the future. As well as looking for a new natural gas supplier, I should think.

Apparently, Iran's coldly (heh, heh) calculated move is a warning to the Turks not to entertain thoughts of allowing either Israeli or American flyovers of its territory in a potential attack on Iran. Iason Athanasiadis points out however,

Wayne White, a former deputy director of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research Office of Analysis for the Near East and South Asia, pointed out that he doubted whether "the issue of violating a country's airspace would be a major consideration with respect to Jordan, Saudi Arabia or perhaps even Turkey if the Israelis decided to go forward with such a strike".

"If one is doing something that bold, controversial, outrageous, the issue of violating airspace would be very much secondary to other considerations," he said.

In other words, if we or the Israelis decide to go, we go, with or without the permission of anyone to fly over their airspace. Interestingly, the article points out that during Israel's 1981 strike against Iraq's nuclear reactor in Osirak, U.S. supplied surveillance aircraft in Saudi Arabia and Jordan "failed to detect" the Israeli flyovers on their way to and from Iraq. Electrical interference from solar wind or Saturn's position behind Jupiter looking up Uranus, or something like that.

TAGS: Iran, mad mullahs, Turkey, natural gas, Israel, Osirak, Iason Athanasiadis

John Kerry nuanced on NSA

On ABC's This Week, John Kerry claims that he believes the NSA surveillence of domestic terror suspects to be illegal, but when asked by George Stephanopoulos, "If you think this is a clear violation of the law, why not move to cut off funding for the program?", Kerry responded,

"That's premature."

The ABC site does not yet have the transcript up so I can't review his comments in any context. But why, if one truly believes that President Bush's warrantless wiretaps are "a clear violation of the law," does one not take strong action to stop them immediately? Nuance, I suppose.

TAGS: Washington Times, ABC News, This Week, NSA, John Kerry, nuance

Perusing Lucianne

A New York Times article mentions - surprise! - Lucianne. David Carr calls Lucianne one "of the Web's most robust destinations". That's a good call. The subject of Carr's article is the WaPo's decision to eliminate the "Comments" section of its blog, washintonpost.com. He points out that The LAT had to do that with its "Wikitorial" page after being bombarded by slurs, profanity and porn, Mickey Kaus won't allow comments until some geek comes up with a "jerk-zapper", BoingBoing.net took down its Comments feature last year, and the Metafilter forum charges $5 to first-time posters to try to weed out the "drive-by" shooters. Said Xeni Jardin, a founder of the BoingBoing,

"But until we are able to come up with a better comments system - most of what is out there is too crude - it is not worth the trouble. I don't blame The Post for not hosting that kind of stuff, "especially when someone can go and make a blog on their own called 'IHateTheWashingtonPost.com' in five minutes and post whatever they want to."

I have to agree. I cannot understand the dogged insistence by what is most often the left-wingers that they have some right to dirty someone's website with slurs, profanity and pornography. For an example, see this post. Carr's most important statement:

Now, mainstream media outlets find themselves under attack for not providing bandwidth and visibility to people who wish them dead.

What responsibility does WaPo or Mark in Mexico or any other player have to provide a forum for trailer trash? None whatsoever, IMHO.

TAGS: Lucianne.com, New York Times, washingtonpost.com, LAT, Wikitorial, BoeingBoeing.net, Mickey Kaus, Kausfiles, Metafilter, trailer trash

Items of note and /or interest

Dr. Rusty Shackleford at The Jawa Report reports that he participated in the investigation, capture, and guilty plea of jihadi wannabee, Jordanian born Mohammed Radwan Obeid.

Congrats to Dr. Shackleford.

Question: Dr. of what?

Lots of comment at Protein Wisdom, Maxed Out Mama, Big Lizards, In The Bullpen, Gay Patriot, bRight & Early, Sigmund, Carl and Alfred, the nice doggie, Dread Pundit Bluto, Gates of Vienna and many others.

The Washington Post's executive editor Jim Brady is questioned by Hugh Hewitt about eliminating comments at washingtonpost.com after being besieged by profane commenters from the left. The transcript is up at RadioBlogger. If you aren't familiar with this controversy, Deborah Howell wrote in the WaPo blog that Democrats had taken Jack Abromoff's money. That was a technical error. He had actually directed his cliests to give money to the Dems as well as to the GOP. She so acknowledged this in a later post. However, the post's comment section was buried in an avalanche of name-calling and obscene comments from the Kos/Duncan Black crowd and WaPo decided that enough was enough.

To give you an idea of what the WaPo found itself facing, here is some reaction just to the Hewitt/Brady interview.

Kos (Armando): "despicable Hugh Hewitt",
"Hewitt's venomous invective";

(commenters): " evil and callow men",
"spreading the bullshit right-wing talking points",
"As for Dobbs, yes, he's always been an idiot as well as a liar and cheat",
"Today's Repugs are simply evil.",
"It's not just the one lie being repeated, it's the lie upon the many lies."

And, over at Black's (Black): "Why We Say "Fuck" A Lot",
"kill right wing horseshit",
"half-assed weaselly blame-the-uncivil-critics statement",
"horeshit (sic, I think) pops up again",
"Bush administration peddled horeshit",
"half-assed correction",
"behaving like a fucking decent human being.",

(commenters): hem, Fuck!,
"Fuck me! Fuck me, hard!",
"Damn you mer, Damn you to hell!",
"Fuck fucker's fucked",
"FuckityFuckFuckFUCK!",
"Fuck YEAH!",
"What the fuck? I mean, seriously, what the fucking fuck?"
And I could go on, but you get the idea.

firedoflake: "may not give a rat's ass about the truth",
"fits of hyperanxiety because of fucking TROLLS",
"I'd like to thank them for fucking the whole thing up",
"kneepads journalism",
"full-on, four-flushing idiot",
"Deborah Howell fucked up".

And so it goes.

Anne Applebaum at WaPo points us to a new Iranian website which is catalogueing the horrendous records of executions in Iran. I searched just for "executions, iran" and got 8868 hits. Not particularly pleasant reading. Applebaum has the whole story on the site's founders and their goals.

Question: How many times is Jerusalem, or the Arabic al-Quds, mentioned in the Koran (Quran, Qu'ran, whatever)? I think it is Zero (0). How many times is Jerusalem mentioned in the Bible? I think 219 times, or something thereabouts.

CNN reports that gay families will attend the White House Easter Egg Hunt.

That's OK, it's a free country. If they cause disturbances they should be arrested and hauled to jail just like anyone else.

Abu Hamza, the Muslim cleric on trial in Britain for inciting his followers to murder, is using the Koran (Quran, Qu'ran, whatever) as his excuse. His defense lawyers say that he was simply quoting from the holy book of Islam.

Quotes like this:
“until you see the Khilafa sitting in the White House ruling from there like the Prophet Muhammad said, that Allah showed him the Earth, that Allah told him that the whole Earth will be for Muslims, booty for Islam."

"If a kafir person (non-believer) goes in a Muslim country, he is like a cow. Anybody can take him. That is the Islamic law."

"If a kafir is walking by and you catch him, he's booty. You can sell him in the market. Most of them are spies. And even if they don't do anything, if Muslims cannot take them and sell them in the market, you just kill them. It's OK."

"In the hearts and minds of people, preachers (Christian) have become homosexual, they have become child hazard. Churches have become places of dancing, iniquity, business, black magic."

"The first phase is called the Shawkat al-Nekaya, it is called the needle of bleeding the enemy. Like you imagine you have one small knife and you have a big animal in front of you . . . You have to stab him here and there until he bleeds to death . . . This is the first stage of jihad, destruction of the enemies of Allah"

"Every court is a target and every brothel is a target and everybody who’s endorsing that is a target"

"We ask Muslims to . . . bleed the enemies of Allah anywhere by any means. You can’t do it by nuclear weapon, you have to do it by kitchen knife, no other solution. You can’t do it by chemical weapons, you have to do it by mice poison"

"We have to go to establish [Islamic rule] through fighting because there is nothing, there is no drop of liquid is loved by Allah, more than the liquid of blood, for the sake of Allah, whether you do it by a lamb, or you do it by a Serb, you do it by a Jew, you do it by any enemies of Allah The Glorified and Exalted, that drop of blood is very dear."

It is not called suicide, it’s called shahid [martyr] operation . . . because if the only way to hurt the enemies of Islam is by taking your life then it is allowed.

"An encyclopaedia found at Mr Abu Hamza's home described making plans to target museums, skyscrapers, airports, nuclear plants and football grounds and contained information about manufacturing weapons, it was alleged."

"Killing a Kafir [infidel] for any reason you can say it is OK even if there is no reason for it," he was recorded as saying.

Hamza testified that "Racism is one of the greatest sins."

Then he said, this:

"Our houses are full of Jews," and "The source of man is monkey? No the source of monkey is a man and he's a Jew,"

and this about the ememies facing Islam, "Jews number two, Christians number three, evil scholars of Muslims number four, hypocrites number five, ignorance of our umma [the Muslim community] number six," and this, "He said Jews were the 'first monkey and the first ape', and claimed Darwin's grandfather was a Jew and the reason why Darwin 'wanted to establish a link between human beings and the monkeys,'"

and this, "Now all these dogs of the West they have to go now, none of them have condemned what Israel has done to the Muslims and the Palestinians,"

and this, "Jews know how to control people. This is how they know how to control our leaders," and this, They are enemies to one another and Allah has cursed them,"

and this, "This is why he send Hitler for them. Jews they have nowhere to go, they are going to be buried in Palestine all of them,"

and this, "Every time they lit the fire for war God has put it out. And this is the imminent result and this is a universal result too. Hitler looked at their dealings and their treachery. They wanted to deceive him in his war. Some were dealing with the Allies against him,"

and this, "So he killed them and punished them and this is a sunna (Islamic rule). And they will be inflicted with that again when the stones and the Sharia start talking to the Muslim — you the worshipper of God . . . This is a Jew dealing in usury, so come and kill him,"

and this, "This shows that the Jews will be destroyed, the State will be destroyed and some of the Jews will be running around hiding behind the trees and the stones and then they get cursed by the earth until there is not one of them left."

Hamza on homosexuals: "The defendant said he was 'against homosexuality,' but he would not be personally abusive to a gay person."

Then, he said this, "They (the Jews) got a file for each one of these politicians, how much homosexual you are, how many money he has taken as bribe, whom his wife goes with, which child he has been abusing and they got all this against them.

and this, "The church itself have lost every capacity it has. In the hearts and minds of people preachers have become homosexual, they have become child hazard."

TAGS: Abu Hamza, Abu Hamza al Masri, Muslim cleric, Jawa Report, terrorist, Washington Post, Anne Applebaum, Deborah Howell, Easter Egg Hunt

Another photo gaffe from the New York Times

Pakistani men with the remains of their dinner after being fired
upon at a house in the Bajur tribal zone near the Afghan border.
Look at this latest New York Times photo of the aftermath of the CIA attack on the village in Pakistan in another attempt to kill al Qaeda leadership. This photo caption describes "the remains of their dinner". It is common knowledge that it is forbidden for Afghan men to eat apples, the scheming Eve's "forbidden fruit" that got Adam in so much trouble. The NYT editors should have known this.

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