March 28, 2008
Fitna. . .
--Jason
UPDATE: As you can see above, the "religion of peace" has issued threats to LiveLeak to suppress the movie. (UPDATE TO THE UPDATE: LiveLeak restored the video and it's now available again. For background and more details, click here.)
It's still available (for the moment) via Google Video, so watch it now before it's gone down the memory hole.
-JC
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Posted by JasonColeman at 10:51 AM
October 2, 2006
Some people wont agree with me. . .
Some people won't agree with me, but I'm pretty sure that I'm right on this one. One day, most probably in my lifetime, there will be a terrorist attack involving a nuclear device, or a rogue state will use a nuclear device as a first strike weapon hoping to bring about a one hit coup de grace.
Some people will completely deny this as an impossibility, they will state that groups capable of producing a nuclear device will understand it's implications and only use such a device as a "deterrent". Others will claim that I am being alarmist and armageddonist, and totally dimiss this idea on that basis alone; without addressing the probability of such an attack, they merely will stick their heads in the sand. Still others will claim that such an event will only occur by the hands of the evil Zionists or equally evil Americans, which is simply ridiculous because neither nation needs a nuke to lay waste to their enemies, both groups can defeat almost any comer with conventional means quite easily from a military standpoint.
There is a sect within Islam that sees the use of a nuclear device as a means to bring about the reappearance of the 12th Imam, who will organize the world along Islamic lines and bring about the Koran's version of Biblical Revelations. There are groups, lets call them Islamists for simplicity, but recognize that they are known also as Islamic Fascists, Islamofascists, or elements of Radical Islam, and some of these groups have openly stated their desire to acquire a nuclear device, or a hybridized device (dirty bomb) for the intent of using it upon the United States, Israel or the nations of Western Europe with the stated purpose of destroying these institutions and jumpstarting the Second Caliphate. Other entities may "pop a nuke" as a last gasp of power concentrated in a select group of insane rulers (North Korea). Then there is the unknown, the threat of tomorrow, the threat we don't see at the moment, but nevertheless grows in dark corners of the world, biding it's time, waiting for the geopolictical climate to be right.
If you sit back and think about it, it's basically inevitable that sometime in the future these weapons will be used. The effect will be great and depending on the target, the results will range from destruction and horror quickly passing and settling into rage and revenge, at the other end of the scale, nations could fall within hours or simply cease to effectively exist (Israel could be an example, so could Great Britain or any other country with a small geographic footprint).
The device will most likely be small, in the kiloton range, not a city killer megaton nuke, but a man-portable "tactical" weapon used deep within a society to produce a profound strategic effect. There may be just one, which will be bad enough to deal with, but there most likely will be more than one, near simultaneously, or in a quick succession of a few days.
Some people will have already stopped reading because they can't handle thinking about such a possibility. I suggest that these people are more likely than not, the same people who would suggest that WE need to change in order to stop THEM from attacking us. That WE cannot fight THEM, because WE cannot change THEM, so WE must change and be kindler, gentler, and more accomodating to those who would wish US dead. To me, this seems like total insanity run amuck. It just doesn't make sense. If WE change, THEY will be emboldened. If WE change, THEY win, and their victory does not ensure our safety, in fact it only assures that another group will arise with another agenda to demand that WE change for THEM.
I don't have any answers, I don't have any program to make this all go away. I can only observe that it will happen, someday. Someone WILL use a nuclear device on a unsuspecting population sometime in the relatively near future. The only suggestion I have is for people to realize that there is a war on, it's a World War, and it's not the Global War on Terror I'm referring to, the GWOT is part of it, but it's more a battle or a theatre than it is the whole war. The war I'm referring to has not yet been named, it's not even realized by most that it's taking place, but it is taking place and it's important that people begin to recognize it.
We are at a unique place in the history of mankind. No longer are we disjointed and separate groups of people separated by trade routes and occasional contact. The entire world has become a community against it's own will. Disparate groups with different worldviews have been thrust together via the Information Age and the bridges between nations and people have been physcally bridged by the culmination of the Industrial Age providing mobility and travel options never before seen in human history.
Some call this a culture war, others call it a clash of civilizations, others call it all manner of things. I prefer to use the term, The Long War, because I don't see any resolution to this war coming any time soon, and by my reckoning, this war has been going on since the late 1940's. That means we're already 60 years in and the war isn't even recognized, to expect that The Long War could last for another 100 years is not unrealistic.
So what is this war all about? In short, this war is about the future of the human race, ALL of the human race. That word ALL is very important, it should be thought about at least a little. ALL of the human race. We are at a convergence of human society where every human on the planet, if he or she so chooses, can interact with almost every other human on the planet through travel and electronic communication. A global consciousness is emerging. Humanity as a whole has entered a NEW infancy, this new infant is taking it's first tenative steps and only beginning to explore it's world, and realize it's potential.
While this war rages on, it will take various forms. Just as World War 2 had smaller, seemingly separate "theatres", this war has component parts that can't properly be called theatres, so lets just call them for the purposes of this discussion "a battle" as opposed to "the war". I recognize that I'm using battle incorrectly, but we just don't have the terminology to describe what is happening yet, we are living it right now, and defining it as we go, which makes the realization of what is happening all the more difficult.
The battle that is the GWOT is a battle of religion, religious wars are common throughout history, and this is another in a long line of religious wars. I believe that this will be the last. Islam is the last "unreformed" universalizing religion. It's highly unlikely that another true religion will arise. Cults will rise and become somewhat legitimate, like those cultist who worship "the envrironment", but these are minor players and not capable or desirous of global war like the Catholics did once and the Islamists do now. This religious war, the GWOT, is one we can fight, and we can win, the endpoint will be the reform of Islam and the rise of Islamic moderates to the positions of power within Islam. Once the moderates gain control of their religion, it's unlikely that it will retain it's extremist appeal for very long, the radicals will be marginalized, and eventually they will fade away. While this might seem a condemnation of the GWOT in favor of an internal Islamic solution, it isn't; the GWOT is a necessary battle, because Islam cannot reform without pressure from the outside, just as the Catholic Church would have never reformed were it not for the Princes of Europe demanding and fighting for it in the Wars of the Reformation.
So we will go forward with the GWOT, we must. I say we in a much larger sense than it is now. The WE in the equasion will grow as more people begin to realize what is at stake and what the other side, the Islamists, are aiming for. The second Caliphate will not rise and any attempt to create it, no matter how severe the attack or action, will be resisted, and as the attacks from THEM increase, the WE component will grow. Eventually the WE's will conquer the THEM's and Islam will reform, it won't end the problem of Islamists, but the threat will be effectively mitigated, and when it gains strength, it will be slapped down hard again, just as Nazism is slapped down when it makes it's periodic resurgences. There is no real threat of a Fourth Reich or a disciple of Hitler arising to take over the world, such a threat would immediately be pounced upon and destroyed if it began to seek conquest of others. Such will be the case when Islamism arises again the future after this battle is won.
Yet The Long War won't be over when Islamism is defeated. Other ideologies will arise or existing ones will decide that the time to strike is at hand. It must be remembered, that it is STILL the goal of Communist China to control the world and bring all of humanity under the banner of Communism. That battle lies ahead. It may be another violent clash, with guns and bombs and death, or it may be a relatively peacefull battle fought in boardrooms and with policy speeches and the will of the masses determining the victor. This battle is coming, we just don't know what shape it will take and whether it will be a HOT part of The Long War, or a COLD part.
Down the road we'll have battles we cannot conceive of now, against enemies we do not know, cannot see and do not suspect malice from, but THEY will challenge the WE and the battle will be fought.
Will The Long War ever end. Yes, it will, but the nature of what the world will be like at the end cannot be forseen, it's simply too far off and to many variables are in the way. What we do know is that it will end one day, and there will be a victor. This planet is simply too small for multiple ideologies and worldviews to exist indefinately. Multi-cuturalism will not be the future of the planet, a single global culture will eventually emerge as transportation and information transfer improves.
We are still in a phase of our development where different groups of people are given different sets of information to base their opinions and actions upon. One day this will not be the place. We are only a few short years away from information access being a uniform global process. Just as fiber replaced copper, WiFi will eventually be replaced by SatFi and any human with a simple device will have access to the same information as every other human with a simple, portable and self-contained device, accessing a global network that cannot be interfered with by local or national governments. If you want to look at the US internetsat, you will be able to, if you want to look at the China internetsat, you will be able to, access points in orbit are coming, and keeping a population in the dark will become impossible. When this occurs, it will be the strength of the ideas and goals of groups that will make them powerful and not merely their access to weapons and their local power over a population.
As transportation evolves, it too will give greater access and greater range to the individual. Highways will be replaced by skyways, and mankind's mobility will both act as a dampening effect and inflamatory effect on the violence and scope of The Long War. Combatants will have greater and greater access to their targets, but those targets will be contaminated more and more by unwanted bystanders. How this will play out cannot be forseen, but transportation will both increase the violence of The Long War and decrease it over time as populations continue to merge and high value single targets become more scarce.
The Long War will determine the future of mankind. Will we take to the the stars seeking out new homes, new science and a greater understanding of the universe? Will we stay earthbound, working like ants to serve the desires of a select few in a Communist utopia? Or will we see a new "religion" preventing us from developing our technology in some warped sense of respect for the planet where we see mass starvations and depopulations before a complete technological collapse that sets us back hundreds or thousands of years because we must not damage our environment for the sake of improving the lives of humans?
The Long War will have an end. There will be an eventual one world culture, there will be one world language, it's inevitable. There will be one world system of government, that too is inevitable. There will be a common set of information and it will be universally accessible, that too is inevitable.
That language does not have to be English, I'd sure like it to be, because I feel that it's got the greatest headstart and would be the most efficient direction to take and retain the most knowledge along the way. That system of government does not have to be Democracy, I'd sure like it to be, because Democracy empowers the individual, and does not reduce man to slave. That set of information does not have to be science and truth, it could be a political information set a la Orwell's 1984, or a religous set that teaches only one fantasy worldview, I'd sure like it to be the science and truth set, and I think the reasons are obvious.
So what is the whole point of this. The point is to realize that things are going to get worse before they get better when it comes to the GWOT, the point is to realize that the GWOT is just a battle, or a theatre, in the larger war for humanity, The Long War, which will determine where we, as a species (think about that: WE, as a SPECIES) decide to go with our opposable thumbs and big brains. The point is for people to realize that we are in a War that we have not yet named, a war that we do not yet see it's full scope, a war that will make past wars seem unimportant and a war that will change the very nature and scope of what is considered humanity.
The point is to hopefully spark other discussions about the future, and how it will be shape by the new interconnected small world we now live in as opposed to the old disconnected large world we inhabited just a few short decades ago. Where once we could have oceans and deserts as barriers, we now have everyone thrown together in one big bowl, and we must hash out our differences and come to a realization of what humanity is and what our purpose will be. Are we to be ants? Are we to be worshippers? Are we to be individuals? What will it mean to be human at the end of The Long War? What will we have to endure to get to that end?
This is survival of the fittest, who will it be? Athens or Sparta? (See the PS below for an explanation of that.)
Comments are welcome and will be responded to.
--Jason
PS, This screed, rant, commentary, post, whatever you want to call it, was sparked by a reading of this fictional piece by Dan Simmons. If anything in this post sparked interest, and even if it did not, I highly suggest you take the time to read the April 2006 Message from Dan. It's interesting, it's thought provoking, it's scary, and it's enlightening, take the time to read it, make the time to read it.
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August 29, 2006
These people are nuts, but it's OK. . .
Because we get to make fun of them.
If you're unfamiliar with Yisrayl Hawkins or the House of Yahweh, take a few minutes to click the links and find out about this cult o' nuts who believe that nuclear war has been prophesized and will begin on September 12th, 2006.
Now I won't go through all of their "back up" for their claims, I'll leave that to you, but I will post this very informative video about the cult of the House of Yahweh and let you see for yourself.
--Jason
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August 22, 2006
Required Viewing. . .
I, a Muslim is a Czech documentary from a series called "infiltrator", it's runs about 30 minutes and is Czech with English subtitles. The documentary uses hidden cameras, microphones and a "potential convert" to Islam to enter Czechoslavakia's Muslim culture.
I believe the program speaks for itself. Watch it now, I'm sure it won't last long on the big public video servers.
--Jason
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May 23, 2006
The Python of the Christ. . .
As an atheist, I do have a healthy realization that I could in fact be wrong. It's possible, not probable but possible there is a God.
So this is one of those posts that I'll have to apologize for profusely for in order to avoid going to hell.
Great that if need be, I can just say, sorry, didn't believe it, now I do, please forgive me, and I'm in!
Presenting. . . .The Python of the Christ. (Some graphic content, you've been warned!)
--Jason
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March 7, 2006
Behold, the Dhimmitude of Europe continues. . .
Somedays I just look at my inbox and shake my head slowly. I can't believe where the world is going sometimes.
Of interest to me today is a report coming from Islam Online that says that the top rock act in Germany will be prohibited from appearing at Berlin's ECHO Music Festival after a television station announced they would not broadcast the performance because to do so would be an "irresponsible act".
Read the article and decide for yourself if the organizers are doing the right thing by banning the top rock band in Germany (named Oomph!, by the way) from the festival to appease potential religious troublemakers.
For my part I'm going to do something "irresponsible" and post a sample of the "offending song" entitled "Gott ist ein Popstar (God is a pop star)." Click the title for a sample.
I hope all those who would be offended by such music are profoundly offended. I'm still waiting for that Fatwah folks, I keep checking, but I don't think anyone has decared a jihad on me yet.
More musical interludes later tonight folks, and I promise that this next one will be a howler!!!! You're gonna have to wait for it though, cause I'm like that.
--Jason
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February 28, 2006
A Manifesto for the new millennium. . .
Originally published by Jyllands-Posten
MANIFESTO:Together facing the new totalitarianism
After having overcome fascism, Nazism, and Stalinism, the world now faces a new totalitarian global threat: Islamism.
We, writers, journalists, intellectuals, call for resistance to religious totalitarianism and for the promotion of freedom, equal opportunity and secular values for all.
The recent events, which occurred after the publication of drawings of Muhammed in European newspapers, have revealed the necessity of the struggle for these universal values. This struggle will not be won by arms, but in the ideological field. It is not a clash of civilisations nor an antagonism of West and East that we are witnessing, but a global struggle that confronts democrats and theocrats.
Like all totalitarianisms, Islamism is nurtured by fears and frustrations. The hate preachers bet on these feelings in order to form battalions destined to impose a liberticidal and unegalitarian world. But we clearly and firmly state: nothing, not even despair, justifies the choice of obscurantism, totalitarianism and hatred. Islamism is a reactionary ideology which kills equality, freedom and secularism wherever it is present. Its success can only lead to a world of domination: man’s domination of woman, the Islamists’ domination of all the others. To counter this, we must assure universal rights to oppressed or discriminated people.
We reject « cultural relativism », which consists in accepting that men and women of Muslim culture should be deprived of the right to equality, freedom and secular values in the name of respect for cultures and traditions. We refuse to renounce our critical spirit out of fear of being accused of "Islamophobia", an unfortunate concept which confuses criticism of Islam as a religion with stigmatisation of its believers.
We plead for the universality of freedom of expression, so that a critical spirit may be exercised on all continents, against all abuses and all dogmas.
We appeal to democrats and free spirits of all countries that our century should be one of Enlightenment, not of obscurantism.
12 signatures
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Chahla Chafiq
Caroline Fourest
Bernard-Henri Lévy
Irshad Manji
Mehdi Mozaffari
Maryam Namazie
Taslima Nasreen
Salman Rushdie
Antoine Sfeir
Philippe Val
Ibn Warraq
As an atheist, it makes perfect sense for me to agree with this. As an American, it makes even more sense. As a product of Western Civilization, it makes even more. As one human among 6.5 billion others, even more. In fact, I can't find a single solitary reason to disagree with any of this.
So I'll make it mine and add my name to the list.
Mr. Rushdie and others, I'm proud to stand with you.
Jason F. Coleman
PS - Brief bios of the orignal signers in the extended post.
The signers:Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, from somilian origin, is member of Dutch parliement, member of the liberal party VVD. Writter of the film Submission which caused the assasination of Theo Van Gogh by an islamist in november 2004, she lives under police protection.Chahla Chafiq
Chahla Chafiq, writer from iranian origin, exiled in France is a novelist and an essayist. She’s the author of "Le nouvel homme islamiste , la prison politique en Iran " (2002). She also wrote novels such as "Chemins et brouillard" (2005).Caroline Fourest
Essayist, editor in chief of Prochoix (a review who defend liberties against dogmatic and integrist ideologies), author of several reference books on « laicité » and fanatism : Tirs Croisés : la laïcité à l’épreuve des intégrismes juif, chrétien et musulman (with Fiammetta Venner), Frère Tariq : discours, stratégie et méthode de Tariq Ramadan, et la Tentation obscurantiste (Grasset, 2005). She receieved the National prize of laicité in 2005.Bernard-Henri Lévy
French philosoph, born in Algeria, engaged against all the XXth century « ism » (Fascism, antisemitism, totalitarism, terrorism), he is the author of La Barbarie à visage humain, L’Idéologie française, La Pureté dangereuse, and more recently American Vertigo.Irshad Manji
Irshad Manji is a Fellow at Yale University and the internationally best-selling author of "The Trouble with Islam Today: A Muslim’s Call for Reform in Her Faith" (en francais: "Musulmane Mais Libre"). She speaks out for free expression based on the Koran itself. Née en Ouganda, elle a fui ce pays avec sa famille musulmane d’origine indienne à l’âge de quatre ans et vit maintenant au Canada, où ses émissions et ses livres connaissent un énorme succès.Mehdi Mozaffari
Mehdi Mozaffari, professor from iranian origin and exiled in Denmark, is the author of several articles and books on islam and islamism such as : Authority in Islam: From Muhammad to Khomeini, Fatwa: Violence and Discourtesy and Glaobalization and Civilizations.Maryam Namazie
Writer, TV International English producer; Director of the Worker-communist Party of Iran’s International Relations; and 2005 winner of the National Secular Society’s Secularist of the Year award.Taslima Nasreen
Taslima Nasreen is born in Bangladesh. Doctor, her positions defending women and minorities brought her in trouble with a comittee of integrist called « Destroy Taslima » and to be persecuted as « apostate »Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie is the author of nine novels, including Midnight’s Children, The Satanic Verses and, most recently, Shalimar the Clown. He has received many literary awards, including the Booker Prize, the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel, Germany’s Author of the Year Award, the European Union’s Aristeion Prize, the Budapest Grand Prize for Literature, the Premio Mantova, and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature. He is a Commandeur of the Ordre des Arts et Lettres, an Honorary Professor in the Humanities at M.I.T., and the president of PEN American Center. His books have been translated into over 40 languages.Philippe Val
Director of publication of Charlie Hebdo (Leftwing french newspaper who have republished the cartoons on the prophet Muhammad by solidarity with the danish citizens targeted by islamists).Ibn Warraq
Ibn Warraq , author notably of Why I am Not a Muslim ; Leaving Islam : Apostates Speak Out ; and The Origins of the Koran , is at present Research Fellow at a New York Institute conducting philological and historical research into the Origins of Islam and its Holy Book.Antoine Sfeir
Born in Lebanon, christian, Antoine Sfeir choosed french nationality to live in an universalist and « laïc » (real secular) country. He is the director of Les cahiers de l’Orient and has published several reference books on islamism such as Les réseaux d’Allah (2001) et Liberté, égalité, Islam : la République face au communautarisme (2005).
Pesonally I fear a little for these individuals safety as this document begins to spread. I sincerely hope that no harm comes to them.
--Jason
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February 23, 2006
Two tales of a city. . .
Ok, not quite a city, more just a place, and a people. The place is Lalish, Iraq (Kurdistan Iraq, for whatever that's worth), the people are the Yezidi. The tales are from Michael Totten, who focuses more on the religion, and Michael Yon, who focuses more on the people.
--Jason
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February 17, 2006
Did I say hell? ? ?
Freigh-train, I tell ya, freight-train!!!!
Where's my jihad?!?!?!
First caught this at California Conservative, then at Cake or Death.
It's a must see, but be warned, Not Necessarily Safe for Work (Language, and if you're an easily offended jihadist wannabe Muslim, you'll really hate it.). You've been warned.
Courtesy of Zipperfish.
--Jason
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November 12, 2005
Here's an interesting development in France. . .
Two Molotov cocktails were tossed at a mosque Friday evening in the southern town of Carpentras, but it was not immediately clear whether the attack was linked to the unrest that has wracked the poor suburbs and small towns of France since Oct. 27. President Jacques Chirac demanded that investigators quickly find out who was behind the attack.
When I first read this, my thoughts centered around "Hmmm, looks like some Frenchie's fighting back against the violence that's sweeping their nation by dishing a little back." After all it's only a matter of time before the general public gets fed up with the violence and the government's seeming lack of ability to deal with it.
After reading it again, I was struck by the "demand" from President Chirac. Ok, so I get it. When these "youths" burn down police stations, drag handicapped women from a bus and set her on fire, drag a man trying to put out a fire into the street and beat him to death, or burn thousands of businesses and cars, the French President urgest restraint and understanding. When the "youths" spread to other cities and even nations, Chirac offers bribes and appeasment.
BUT WAIT, when Frenchmen who have gotten fed up with the entire situation toss a couple of molotov cocktails at a Mosque, there are DEMANDS for immediate investigation.
It's this very double standard that put Chirac and France in this situation.
I'll stop now and let you draw your own conclusions.
--Jason
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November 9, 2005
In case you were wondering. . . .Islam's Not for Me
Here's reason number 376383472 that:
Islam's Not for Me
IF, the copy above doesn't work, OR, you want to be really nice and save me some bandwidth, please click the player below and listen to the song via InfidelsRock.com (I've asked and they say it's OK.)
Here's the lyrics so you can sing along:
They try to tell me my religion is wrong
They try to tell me to follow Islam
They said their prophet was a righteous dude
But I found out none of their words were true
I read the Quran and I read the Hadith
And the sickness of Muhammad was apparent to me
He justified perversion in the name of Allah
When he married a girl too young for a bra
She was playing with dolls when the prophet came
Her childhood was stolen in Allah’s name
Aisha was nine when he took her to bed
Don’t tell me that fool’s not sick in the head
Ain’t gonna follow no child molester, sex offender, prophet pretender.
Aint gonna follow no child molester
Islam's not for me.
Islam's not for me.
The sickness of the Islamic mind
Has caused the Mullahs to be blind
To justify their prophet they would justify sin
So the sins of the prophet are repeated again
All over the world in Islamic states
9 year old girls suffer cruel fate
Sold into marriage to twisted men
And Aisha’s sad story is repeated again
Ain’t gonna follow no child molester, sex offender, prophet pretender.
Aint gonna follow no child molester,
Islam's not for me.
Islam's not for me.
Do you care about women all over the world?
Do you care about those little girls?
Then stand up and fight for human rights
Speak out against the laws of Islam
Ain’t gonna follow no child molester, sex offender, prophet pretender.
Aint gonna follow no child molester,
Islam's not for me.
Islam's not for me.
Islam's not for me.
Of course, in case you didn't know what my #1 reason was. . . I'm an atheist.
--Jason
UPDATE: I included this in The Political Teen's Open Trackback Thursday as well as the midweek trackback fest from Stop the ACLU and GM's Corner.
UPDATE 2: Help keep this clip on the internet! You may or may not know that services like YouTube! and Google Video have been pressured often to remove "objectionable" content from their services. While sites like the Internet Archive and their "Wayback Machine" have done wonders for archiving content on the web, when it comes to file resources like this, it comes to individuals to keep the file alive as blogs come and go, personal sites get abandoned and more. I want to keep this site active and keep this file alive, but that requires purchasing bandwidth, so I've included Amazon ads into this page in the hopes that some of you might consider starting one of your Amazon searches here and support the site and the cost to keep this file alive. Just thought I should mention why I added the ads to the original post.
-JC
Posted by JasonColeman at 12:50 AM
September 5, 2005
It's long past time to choose. . .
And I choose to be a Sheepdog.
Read the whole thing, come back later if you have to, but read the whole thing.
Then please take note of this:
In the absence of information and outside assistance, groups of rich and poor banded together in the French Quarter, forming "tribes" and dividing up the labor.As some went down to the river to do the wash, others remained behind to protect property. In a bar, a bartender put near-perfect stitches into the torn ear of a robbery victim.
While mold and contagion grew in the muck that engulfed most of the city, something else sprouted in this most decadent of American neighborhoods - humanity.
"Some people became animals," Vasilioas Tryphonas said Sunday morning as he sipped a hot beer in Johnny White's Sports Bar on Bourbon Street. "We became more civilized."
--Jason
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August 17, 2005
In case you're unsure why the Islamists are so bad. . .
You should take a deep breath, prepare yourself, then read this:
Of 1,554 women and girls over 10 years old interviewed by WADI’s local medical team, 907, or more than 60 percent, said they had had the operation [FEMALE CIRCUMCISION]. The practice is known to exist throughout the Middle East, particularly in northern Saudi Arabia, southern Jordan, and Iraq. There is also circumstantial evidence to suggest it is present in Syria, western Iran, and southern Turkey.
It amazes me that groups like the National Organization for Women are against the war in Iraq. In the world the Islamists want, women are little more than chattle, subjected to every sadistic whim of their male "owners", forced into the burka and given no chance to advance their place in the world.
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have quite literally "freed" millions upon millions of women who have long been denied education, personal freedom and even the most basic of human rights. Yet groups supposedly supportive of women's rights and women in general, call for an end to the war and neglect to recognize that George W. Bush has given more women the franchise, and therefore the right and ability to control their own destinies, than any other figure in history. You'd think that that would be something the NOW would be pleased about, ironically, they don't even acknowledge it.
It's long time that the hypocrisy end. It's time that those groups on the left that constantly harp that this war was "all about WMD", WAKE UP and realize what we are really fighting over there. We're fighting groups of people with a warped world view, one that would roll back the freedoms of women worldwide and reduce them from human beings to property.
--Jason
PS - If you're looking for a gift to give that certain someone in your circle of friends who still doesn't understand what we're really fighting against, consider this:
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam
-JC
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August 4, 2005
Snuppy, the franken puppy. . .
Ok, that's a little harsh on a puppy that really doesn't deserve it, but seriously, if we as a somewhat "cogent" species can't get the abortion debate settled have got NO BUSINESS cloning anything.
--Jason
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June 30, 2005
I gotta say it.
You know, it's pretty easy to see who the bad guys are when they're out there beheading Buddhists. I mean come on people. BUDDHISTS???
If there's ever a group of people that you SHOULD NOT have problems with, it's Buddhists. It really goes to show how just plain wrong these Muslim Extremists are, and why they need to be dealth with.
--Jason
Posted by JasonColeman at 3:16 AM
June 21, 2005
Really Mixed Feelings
Killen convicted on all 3 counts.
#1 - EXTREMELY HAPPY THAT JUSTICE HAS BEEN DONE
#2 - EXTREMELY DISTURBED WITH THE ADDED DRAMA OF THE CONVICTION BEING HANDED DOWN ON THE 41ST ANNIVERSARY OF THE CRIME ITSELF.
#3 - I'll toss in the "Anti-Lynching" Vote in the Senate.
My Point? This contrived drama seems to be coming together better than a Hollywood script. I'm not sure I like the idea that our courts and mediascape have now combined to present morality plays.
Or perhaps they should.
Let's hold a public trial and televise it for the 20th hijacker guy. Pull a jury of 12 plus 88 alternates (100 or 2 from each state) lets lay it all out on the table. Let's talk about the USS Cole, the 1st Trade Center bombing, Bali, Israel, and then 9-11. Then we can talk about air-conditioning, Christina Aguillera and handling books THAT WE GAVE THEM IN THE FIRST PLACE with rubber gloves and surgical masks. Then lets talk about Nick Berg and countless other beheadings. Connect them all up with the guy that WANTED to be a part of the Twin Towers attack. <-- Video you might want/need to see again. If you start, WATCH THE WHOLE THING!
On the side we can have a smaller trial televised from Europe (Italy), the one where the woman is on trial for "defaming Islam". Oops, looks like the guy that complained just got convicted for "defaming Christianity".
Oh yeah, don't forget, it's ok to sleep with little boys.
--Jason
Posted by JasonColeman at 11:24 AM | TrackBack
May 17, 2005
Mythbusting
When I first heard of the "Koran flushing" incident falsely reported by NEWSWRONG, I wanted to test the theory behind it.
Unfortunately, Silent Running beat me to it.
--Jason
Posted by JasonColeman at 1:20 PM
February 21, 2005
Ah, feel the sympathy from the Democrats
I'm an atheist. I don't believe in God, and I certainly don't support organized religion. However, I could be wrong about my beliefs; I realize that. I firmly support the right of anyone to worship any God they so please as long as they don't interfere with or harm others in the practice of their beliefs, that includes crashing planes into buildings, selling Child-Crusaders into slavery or refusing to have a doctor set your child's broken leg.
That being said, I also have a certain amount of compassion for all human beings. I think that our relationships with each other should be respectful and sympathetic for the good of all mankind.
That also being said, I want to direct your attention to a site that just makes me shake my head and wonder every time I visit it. The site is DemocraticUnderground, by far the best collection of moonbattery on the planet. In particular I would like to point your attention to this thread about Jerry Falwell's recent hospitalization. It simply boggles the mind.
To think that DU was touted (by Dean and others) throughout the election as the "internet home" of the Democrat heart and soul, is simply. . . well. . . read through the thread and form your own opinions. While I'm not a fan of Falwell, I would NEVER wish what these people do on him in light of his illness. In fact, I wouldn't even wish some of this or feel this way about Saddam Hussein, Pol Pot, Hitler or anyone (although I would wish these, in particular, a speedy recovery so they could be justly executed).
Lemmings they are. . . . and we all know what happens eventually to lemmings.
--Jason
Posted by JasonColeman at 11:24 PM
December 23, 2004
Somethings VERY wrong here.
Ok, first off let me make a couple of things perfectly clear. First, I am an atheist. Fully, and without qualms or doubt, I am an atheist. I also have no problems with homosexuality. I feel that a person's sexual orientation is their business, PERIOD.
What I'm INFURIATED about is what I see in THIS VIDEO. (10 Megs / 7 min.)
What I see here is a peaceful protest by members of an organization with a message, the message is a religious one. I see them exercising their constitutionally protected right to assembly and speech. The event in the video is a festival called OutFest held in Philadelphia. The festival is a gay pride celebration and a Christian group called Repent Now staged a protest during the festival which occurred over 15 city blocks, and did not charge admission.
What I also see in this video is a group of people DENYING those constitutional rights. The group doing the denying happens to be a homosexual advocacy group called the "Pink Angels". What I see in this video is one group of people denying another group of people access to public streets and thoroughfares. I see them surrounding them and denying them their right to move freely and speak freely.
This is VERY disturbing, but it gets better. The activity of the "Pink Angels", denying others their constitutional rights was announced in advance.
But it gets better. The police wind up arresting the Christian group. YES. They sure as heck do, and it's all right there in the video. The police watch as the "Pink Angels" surround the Christians, the police whatch as the "Pink Angels" harrass the Christians. The police also watch as the "Pink Angels" impede the Christians on public thoroughfares, and deny them their right to assembly and speech. Then the POLICE arrest the Christians.
Ok if you haven't watched the video yet, HERE IT IS again.
This is HIGHLY HIGHLY disturbing to me. I could care less if one group wants to parade their gay pride around in a street festival, and I could care less if a group of Christians want to preach gospel at the same festival in protest. That is the CONSTITUTIONALLY PROTECTED right of BOTH parties. What I DO CARE ABOUT is that the Constitutionally protected rights of one group was denied to them repeatedly by another group of people in PLAIN view of the police.
You'll see in THE VIDEO, that the POLICE even acknowledge briefly that the Christians are being impeded and harrassed. But when the Christians finally put their foot down and exercise their CONSTITUTIONALLY PROTECTED RIGHTS. They are arrested.
This is an OUTRAGE. But it's not over yet. The Christians that were arrested are now in danger of being sentenced to 47 years in prison for the activities shown in THE VIDEO. Please, I implore you, my readers, few that you may be to please watch THE VIDEO and then decide for yourselves. I'll put up more about this OUTRAGE as I investigate it further. Here are a few links about the incident so you can start investigating yourself. As I learn more about this I'll be updating this, as well as commenting on the larger implications of what's going on. PLEASE view THE VIDEO and read the links below to learn more.
Link 1 - Bill of Rights/Amendments to the US Constitution
Link 2 - Announcement of the intent of the "Pink Angels" published in advance of the event. NOTE: DEAD LINK, either this site has been getting hammered with hits in the last 24 hours or it has been removed by the owners. Below is a relevant quote from festival organizer Chuck Volz. I will try to find another source for the advance anouncement of the groups plans.
"We'll have a moving pink wall around them [protesters]," Volz continued. "Hopefully, they [protesters] will be so frustrated, they won't come again. Talking to a piece of Styrofoam is not the same as talking to a crowd of people."
Link 3 - Press Release from the AFA
Link 4 - Press Releases from the arrested group [ONE] [TWO]
Link 5 - Coverage of the incident by Ex-Gay Watch
Link 6 - WorldNetDaily Coverage - [ONE], [TWO], [THREE]
Link 7 - Philadelphia Inquirer coverage of the recent court decision.
I'll be adding more to this tomorrow when I've learned more about it, please check back and a special hat-tip to Geek Blonde Girl. Please feel free to save the video (right-click and "save target as. . .") and email it to concerned parties or direct them here to view the video.
The permanent link for this post is:
http://www.jasoncoleman.com/BlogArchives/2004/12/somethings_very.html
--Jason
UPDATE: Unrelated but equally egregious is this item from California
Posted by JasonColeman at 12:10 AM
October 29, 2004
Usama chimes in on Election
Well we knew something was coming, and it broke today. Usama bin Ladin, public enemy number one, stuck his head up out of his personal spider hole and released his first confirmed videotape message since September 11th.
WHY? WHY NOW?
Well the answer is obvious, UBL wants to infect the election process it the US with his sick and twisted world view. UBL must hope that his visage will encourage Americans to recoil in horror from their TV sets and hide in dark corners of our homes fearing this Evil man.
Well, for months now, I'd assumed that UBL was dead. Vaporized in the caves along the Afganistan/Pakistan border. It now appears that we weren't so lucky and that UBL, the great terror leader, has been hiding like a coward somewhere, waiting to spring his latest trap.
It must be hard for UBL to sit in his hole watching as more and more of his lieutenants are captured or killed by US forces, he must be extremely wary of the Bush Administrations efforts to scour the globe for this criminal mastermind. Otherwise we would have heard from him sooner, but he recognizes that this is probably the one and only chance he has to relieve the pressure on him, by trying to swing the election for John Kerry.
But the reality of the situation is simple, and common sense reass it's ugly head again when viewing this tape. UBL says that it's our fault that the towers came down, that it was our denial of freedom to the Arab world, that it was our oppression of the Arab people that caused the hate and rage of the al-Queda network to strike the United States. This is all manner of B.S. no matter how you look at it.
UBL and the al-Queda network hate America with a passion unseen before in human history. Their hatred is not with the United States as a nation, or even an government, it's with the very people of the United States who don't follow the tennants of Islam, the very people of the United States who don't bow to Mecca and pray under the watchful eye of Muslim clerics. UBL and al-Queda have stated that they will not rest until there is a grand Mulim revolution, where Allah is worshipped by all and Islamic Law is the law of all lands.
To HELL with you Osama. Your attempts to spread fear and undermine our way of life will be laughed at by most Americans of substance. We look at your videotape message to us and see a corrupt, insane ideologue who wants nothing more than to oppress women, deny children an education, deny science, crush free will and force people to live in daily fear for their lives.
We look at things a little differently here Osama. We look at the world through glasses that only see liberty and freedom spreading, we look at the world as a place where free will, independence, choice and religious freedom are the tennants, not the where corruptions of a once peaceful Muslim religion can take over and deny all peoples of the world the freedoms inherent in human nature.
Make no mistake Osama, you probably thought that we'd appreciate your message, that we'd listen to you and your suggestions that we're on the wrong path to wipe you and your bretheren from the face of the planet. Showing your face and trying to tamper with our elections only reminds each and every one of us of the hatred and contempt that we hold in our hearts for you and only you.
Your message has most probably been the greatest benefit to the Bush campaign yet, we see you're alive and we won't stop until we find you and crush you like the insect you are. American forces will now begin anew to search the Afganistan/Pakistan border, we will look for you in Syria, Iran, Saudi Arabia, even France, whereever you may be hiding, we are coming for you. It may take a week, a month, a year, or 10 years, but we will find you and kill you and dismantle your network of cowards and assassins. You have probably guaranteed Bush his second term and this will be your fatal mistake. A second term president is now unbound by the politics and timidness of one who must secure another nomination and election. You've untied Bush's hands to unleash the full might of the military and intelligence community of the United States, hell bent to find you now, no matter what the cost. If you hide in a mosque, we will destroy it, if you hide in a country, we will invade it. We will come and keep coming for you until you don't have any friends left to hide behind, until you have no place to go, and until you are brought to justice, dead or alive.
Seeing this video in it's entirety simply infuriates me. I hope that each and every one of you look at it as well and realize that this psychotic wants to kill you, enslave your wife or sister or daughter, deny you basic and unalienable rights, force you to give up your god and worship a sick and demented version of a religion hijacked in the name of hate.
Thank you Osama, for making the decision so much clearer for Americans. If this is some silly coded message for your agents here to attack us again, you'd better think twice. For each snip you make at our heels, we will cut the head off the offending animal. Your 'video terrorism' failed Osama, you just pissed us off and made us want your head all the more.
--Jason
Posted by JasonColeman at 6:13 PM
October 23, 2004
New Flag Flying in the Middle East (and it's not the New Iraqi one, or is it?)
Well, boys and girls, it seems that in recent weeks, there’s been some stirring in that Middle East land known as Jordan. While our attention has been focused primarily on Iraq and Afganistan, and casting a wary eye at Syria and Iran, and looking back over our shoulder at the developments in North Korea, Jordan has been making some symbolic maneuvers that aren’t fully understood yet, but could wind up having some major implications for the region.
So what’s all the fuss about? And is it really serious? The answer to the second question is “I’m not sure yet, but it certainly could be an omen of the future.”
The answer to the first, is that there’s now a MASSIVE flag of the Hashemite dynasty flying over Jordan. More specifically, over the Jordanian King’s compound on the Gulf of Aqaba. What was originally thought to be a new watchtower erected to keep an eye on goings on in the gulf, turns out to be a VERY large flag (some 262 x 44 ft.) flying from what is now known to be a 446 ft. tall flagpole.
Big deal you might say? Well, there’s some significance to this flag when viewed in the historical context of the greater Middle East. The Hashemites enter prominence in the region by way of Mohammad. Mohammad’s great-grandfather was a Hashemite, and therefore passed that heritage to the Prophet. The most revered Hashemite line was carried on by Hassan, who was the grandson of the Prophet and son of the fourth Caliph named Ali. Hassan was the last Hashemite to make a claim to the Califate but his descendents became the Emirs of Mecca. The last ruler of this line was Hussein bin Ali, who was also the King of Hijaz.
Hussein bin Ali was conquered by Ibn Saudi (who in 1924 took control of the Holy sites of Islam and founded Saudi Arabia), overt Hashemite rule went into hibernation at this point.
Now the colonial powers stepped in sometime later and put Hashemite rulers back in power, the sons of Hussein, were placed on the thrones of the newly created Jordan (Abdullah) and Iraq (Faisal). Faisal was assassinated in the 1958 coup that led to the rise of the Baathists and Saddam Hussein.
The Hashemite line was gone (somewhat) in Iraq, but continued in Jordan through Abdullah (murdered in 1951), his son Hussein (installed as a boy king and who died in 1999) and finally Abdullah’s grandson, Abullah II who reigns today.
So there’s the history, but what does it all mean.
Well, the flag in itself is a symbolic statement. Such statements are very important in the Arab world. The flag represents an appeal to the people of Iraq who share a common ancestry with Jordan. The Hashemites view themselves as the legitimate Guardians of Islamic Shrines and the true defenders of the Islamic faith. The Hashemites view Saudi Arabia and it’s Wahhabist sect as usurpers, and their spawn, al-Queda, as an offront to Islam. With this flag, the Jordanians seem to be saying to the world that there’s a new historic-religious-political force awakening in the Middle East and it represents the true faith of Islam.
It’s considered improper in the Islamic world for one Muslim to criticize another in the view of non-Muslims, that’s the primary reason you don’t see Muslims the world over rising up to condemn the actions of al-Queda, so you have to look for subtle statements of solidarity, condemnation and support when you look at this world. While not “exactly subtle” this flag is perhaps a very pointed message to the Arab world, Iraq and al-Queda specifically.
The Jordanians seem to be saying to the Iraqis that they support the Iraqi people and their Hashemite heritage. I would suggest that it’s also a message to al-Queda that their version of Islam is not the true faith and teaching of Mohammad and that Jordan is ready to embrace a return to the pre-Ibn Saud era of Islam, it’s also one of the first overt signs in the region that the Arab world is turning against al-Queda.
Al-Queda’s roots are in Saudi Arabia, in 1979, Otheiba tribesmen in Saudi Arabia made a challenge to the throne, these Wahhabists seized control of many areas of Saudi Arabia including the Grand Mosque in Mecca, sensing that they were losing control, the Saudis first appealed to Jordan for help. Jordan agreed to send in commandos to help dislodge the radicals, but insisted that concessions to Jordan be made, namely returning some areas of the Hijaz to Hashemite control. The Saudis recoiled at this suggestion and turned to the French for help, the rebellion wasn’t so much put down, as it was “absorbed” by the Saudis. The Saudis tilted toward the Wahhabi faith and the fundamentalists within the new Wahhabist Saudi Arabia eventually created al-Queda and continue to support them.
Today, Saudis and the Jordanians are allies in the Arab world but each has one hand behind their back and keep their distance. The Jordanians are upset that Islam is being corrupted and it’s world view has turned toward hatred and radical extremism. With the balance of power in the Middle East in flux, it seems that the question may be developing “Which version of Islam is to be supported in the Middle East, Wahhabism or Hashemite. Both claim to be the “Defenders of the Faith” of Islam, and although Saudi Arabia may hold geographic control of the shrines and holy places, it now seems that a Hashemite wind is rising in the Middle East, and it’s now blowing a big flag pointed straight at Baghdad.
Posted by JasonColeman at 11:17 AM
