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Homeland Security protecting Islam’s good name

Homeland Security bans the term ‘jihadists’. They’ll just call them ‘violent extremists’.

Al Queada, by their own words, is the sworn enemy of America. Many other Muslim groups and unaffiliated individual Muslims claim the same nefarious status.

We truly cannot afford to allow the nicety of protecting Islam’s ‘good name’, to govern our recognition of what motivates terrorists and their attacks. Their murderous actions stem from their beliefs in Islam.

Whether those beliefs are heretical or not is a question for Islam to resolve, we infidels have enough trouble ducking their bombs, swords and bullets.

Tiptoeing and dancing daintily around the simple fact of stating who and what they are offers no security, but rather makes it harder to unify efforts against a common recognition of who we’re fighting.

If Homeland Security can’t stand up to moderate Islam, how are they planning to handle their ‘violent extremists’ brand.

Well, virtual fences for our borders, virtual names for our enemies, at least their ineffectiveness has consistency.

Anti-semitic comments

Daphna Edwards Ziman, chairperson and founder of Children Uniting Nations spoke at a Kappa Alph Psi fraternity gathering.

She writes a very disturbing letter about her experience.

TrackSolomonia.

Update: Read more from the JewishJournal.com.

Freedom of Speech - Going - Going - ???? .

Did your father or mother ever call to you to “stop climbing up that tree like a damn monkey ”

Same report from Chicago Sun-times

Is the schools reaction to this more Zero Tolerance policy or political correctness in action.

Todays price for expressions of unapproved thought:

Cultural intimidation.
Racist labeling.
The application of Special laws for special groups of people.
Stifling or banning of differing viewpoints.

We’d better decide soon, as a society, if we are willing to give up one of Americas unique rights -the freedom to speak our thoughts without fear of retribution- for the self delusion that universal pandering is an admirable societal achievement.

That’s the road were traveling and its a downhill run.

We can only change direction, if we can manage to re-awaken our once proud regard for and protection of individual expression.

Zero Tolerance or Zero common sense.

A teachers aide reports a 4 year old in Texas for sexual harassment. He pressed his face into her breasts when he hugged her. The 4 year old is given an in school suspension and his permanent record will carry a notation of -inappropriate physical contact.

A six year old in Vigrinia, has an elementary school record of sexually harassing a first grade classmate. He saw another classmate slap a female classmate on the behind and run away giggling. He thought it was pretty funny and tried it himself. The girl reported him to the teacher. They called the police and he ended up with a permanent record of sexual harassment.

In the same article cited above from the Boston Globe, the Virginia Department of Education reports 255 elementary students suspended last year for offensive sexual touching or improper physical contact.

I don’t know the details of these incidents, except for whats noted in the published reports, but I do know that 4,5 and 6 year olds and a bit older, unless severely misguided in development by bad or nonexistent parenting, are not sexually oriented or knowledgeable. They do, of course, mimic the behavior of others quite readily, without necessarily understanding what significance it might have, if any.

Enforcing harassment policies against innocent childish acts such as these is a further symptom of an educational system lacking in the simple ability to exercise adult judgement. An educational system in disarray and one that confuses it’s basic mission to teach versus it’s obsession with social re-engineering.

Fitna - Available again - now on Google -

Don’t know how long it will be up this time….but there are probably inumerable copies around. This one is googles embed link:

Fitna -film released ( UPDATE )– Fitna - Removed - Statement from Host Liveleak.com substituted.

Fitna - a documentary film by Geert Wilders concerning Islam and the Koran. Some very graphic images. Many people may have seen these images or heard of these events over the past number of years, but the film gathers these separate and varied images of events and statements from various Muslims around the globe and relates them to an ideology.

Track posted: Michelle Malkin

Wafa Sultan

Born in Syria a Sunni Muslim, living now in California, a practicing psychiatrist, she previously appeared on Al-Jazeera n a much viewed program where she debated with Ibrahim Al-Khouli on the Clash of Civilizations (S.P.Huntington).

Again, on the Al-Jazeera program Opposite Direction Wafa Sultan debates an Egyptian Islamist, Tal’at Rmeih, on Western-Islamic relations

Part One:

Part Two:

Skittles and schools

New Haven, Conn. student Michael Sheridan was stripped of his title as class vice president, barred from attending an honours student dinner and suspended for a day after buying a bag of Skittles from a classmate.

Candy sales were banned in 2003 in conformance with a district school wellness policy, according to a school spokeswoman.

Well, the purchase was wrong if it violated school policy, but educational policy should concern itself with teaching academic subjects rather than social re-engineering. Candy or not candy is a parental concern.

Appropriate discipline for school rule violations is necessary, but removing a student as class VP, banning him from attendance at an Honours dinner and suspension for day is a truly extreme level of punishment even for the dastardly crime of Skittle purchasing.

Zero Tolerance policy applications in our schools is an extension of the worst extremist tendencies of our current society, when they are implemented wanting common sense.

Centenarians

Here’s a bit of information you can read and then move on without storing in a valuable memory slot. I saw an ad, I think from an insurance company touting the fact, if is factual, that Hallmark anticipates selling 85,000, 100th Birthday Cards. The ad’s point was that many may live longer than previous generations and must prepare for that longevity with appropriate coverage.

Certainly if the new Centenarians receive multiple cards, from family and friends, on this unique occassion, then the ad’s Hallmark figure doesn’t have a lot of real meaning. But it did pique my curiousity to do a quick search for the numbers and come across this from the U.S. Census Bureau:

Projected Number of Centenarians in the United States 2000 to 2050 US Census Bureau
Year	Total (lowest series)	Total (middle series)	Total (highest series)	Percent Male	Percent Female
2000	69,000	72,000	81,000	16.7	83.3
2010	106,000	131,000	214,000	15.3	84.7
2020	135,000	214,000	515,000	15.4	84.6
2030	159,000	324,000	1,074,000	16.4	83.6
2040	174,000	447,000	1,902,000	17.4	82.8
2050	265,000	834,000	4,218,000	18.0	82.0

So, we’re not exactly close to breaking Methusela’s record of 900 years, but, at least for now, we’re moving in a direction of increasing longevity. Hallmark’s site also noted that they will provide a “personalized” 100th Birthday card with a few weeks notice. A perk to look forward to.

Fitna - status

The attempt by Geert Wilders to get Fitna,his short documentary film on Islam and the Koran, shown either on television or on the Internet is hitting an international wall of fear and an astonishing willingness in the West to bury freedom of expression under the continuing intimidation of political correctness.

Wether one ultimately agrees with the issues given light in Fitna (I haven’t seen it, of course ) or not, focusing world attention on those tenets of Islam and Shariah religious law effecting women, western democracy in general and terrorism in particular, is surely a positive step.

The west’s current collection of public assumptions regarding both Islam and Shariah Law are fueled less by informed evaluation of the source of Islam and Shariah then the desire to accomodate a new –to the west– religious anomaly.

While Network Solutions, a hosting organization had originally agreed to host the film on the net they have since reneged and have the following notice posted on the site:

This site has been suspended while Network Solutions is investigating whether the site’s content is in violation of the Network Solutions Acceptable Use Policy. Network Solutions has received a number of complaints regarding this site that are under investigation. For more information about Network Solutions Acceptable Use Policy visit the following URL: http://www.networksolutions.com/legal/aup.jsp

Noted in the Wall Street Journal this morning, in an Opinion piece by PETER HOEKSTRA, “…Czech National Party has reportedly agreed to host the video on its Web site.…”

Happy Easter

To all who celebrate this day - A Happy and Joyous Easter!

If it quacks it’s not a duck.

The elimination of failure in our educational system would be a great thing. No child ever failing to acheive her or his heightest potential. No teacher failing to teach to the highest standards. No school ever failing recognition as other than meeting all expectations.

How to gain those lofty goals is always the continuing question. The Massachusetts Board of Education has an answer.

Find a new word for failure.

Boston Globe - 03/22/2008: “Seeking a kinder word for failure” by Tracy Jan

To soothe the bruised egos of educators and children in lackluster schools, Massachusetts officials are now pushing for kinder, gentler euphemisms for failure.

New words will be used for schools now categorized as “Underperforming” and “Chronically underperforming”, as these labels undermine self-esteem and are dispiriting to teachers.

The Globe’s article points out that the Board has spent portions of their last three meetings, debating the linguistic merits of possible new labels.

Such distortion of reality brings to mind George Orwell’s character, Ministry of Truth clerk, Winston Smith and his attempts to use Newspeak, to teach himself that Two + Two = Five ” (2 + 2 = 5).

Perhaps the Board should give Newspeak a try. How about “doubleplusungood” for Chronic Underperforming.

Geert Wilders and FITNA

Geert Wilders, Chair of the Party for Freedom, member of the Tweede Kamer ( Dutch House of Representatives ( since 1998 has a short film in the making titled Fitna (Translation from the Arabic: upheaval and anarchy) which is expected to focus on the more hostile and violent portions of the Koran in a less than laudatory way.

He is a popular public figure, last year being named Politician of the Year (2007) by the NOS, Dutch Broadcasting Foundation (Nederlandse Omroep Stichting)

The imminent ( if it happens ) release of the film has created substantial conern in Europe and the expectance of probable protests (likely violent and otherwise ). Mr. Wilders lives under constant security protection due to threats of violence against him resulting from his public views regarding Islam and related immigration policies of the Dutch government.

This is a clip of a recent interview he gave. (in English).

Rev.Otis Moss III (New Pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ) on NPR

The new pastor, replacing Rev. Jerimiah Wright at Obama’s church (Trinity United Church of Christ) was interviewed on NPR yesterday and asked to comment on Rev. Wright’s conspiracy preachings such as the claim that the US government had created AIDS/HIV in laboratories for dissemination to the black community. The reverend danced, avoiding a direct clear response.

With the general (although not universal) public concern attaching to the Rev. Wright’s anti white America preaching moments, reasonable questions arise.

Does this pastoral change at Obama’s chosen church represent any change at all for the substance of future pulpit teachings or are these radical views if not integral to, at least accepted within Black Liberaton theology churches?

If the latter, and Mr. Obama is comfortable that such views –if not presented in a blatant anti white America manner– have understandable legitimacy for the black community, it is a disturbing revelation.

Israel and Kassams from Gaza

A view from the other side - not often given air time or ink.

Obama’s Grandma - a Typical White Person -

What is there to say. An Obama demonstration of the double standard.

Would using the term - typical black person - in a radio interview be met with a non-reaction?

Obama typical white person
by dollarsandsense123

Thanks Powerline

Should any Church sanction anti-American or anti-white preaching?

A Boston Globe article “Local clergy says pastor’s devotion, deeds overlooked” posits that far too much attention is being paid to the racially bigoted preachings of Jeremiah Wright (recently resigned Pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ) and not enough credit accorded to him for his many good deeds and works.

The performance of good works, as ascribed to Rev. Wright, is exemplary, but good deeds in any number do not confer upon the doer the privilege of preaching hate from the pulpit.

Rev. Wright’s hate filled, conspiracy inspired, tirades aimed at white America should have no public sanction but should have public concern. One of those is their relation to the Presidential Primaries.

Rev. Wright is not a primary candidate, but Mr. Obama is and Mr. Obama has had a 20 year relationship with Rev. Wright, both personally and through his long attendance at the Trinity United Church of Christ.

Mr. Obama would have America understand that, while he doesn’t approve of Rev. Wright’s virulent words, he sees his outpourings of hatred of white America as merely controversial or provocative.

If we are to understand and accept that position, as Mr. Obama’s judgement of such hate filled preachings , then we should also accept that Mr. Obama, for all his bewitching oratory, should not sit in the Oval Office any time soon.

In support of Kurt Westergaard - Jyllands-Posten and Freedom of Speech

Posting these images to show solidarity and support for our Freedoms, which we’ll soon lose if we continue to refuse to exercise them, whether out of fear or multicultism or political correctness.

No matter the reason - when we refuse to stand , we lose each time, and each time the loss is greater and acceptance of the loss is normalized just that much more.

Poisoning young minds

Israel to transfer $400 million to PA

Withheld tax funds may be transferred to emergency Palestinian government following end to international embargo on PA. Transfer to be monitored, ensuring no funds reach terror groups

Perhaps they might also want to ensure that none of the funds supports the Palestinian Authority educational system.

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