The Original Musings

A few little things to tickle your fancy …

Justin Bieber:  I made the statement on FB that I would be perfectly content to never hear about Justin Bieber again. Stump sent me this link, for which I was going to smite him, but I wound up laughing too hard.

Zombies: Since no one was seriously injured, this one makes me giggle.

Barry: Aww, heck, it’s just his middle name!

[...] Wednesday, when confronted with the anxiety that some Israelis feel toward him, Obama said that “some of it may just be the fact that my middle name is Hussein, and that creates suspicion.”

“Ironically, I’ve got a Chief of Staff named Rahm Israel Emmanuel. My top political advisor is somebody who is a descendent of Holocaust survivors. My closeness to the Jewish American community was probably what propelled me to the U.S. Senate,” Obama said.

“I think that sometimes, particularly in the Middle East, there’s the feeling of the friend of my enemy must be my enemy, and the truth of the matter is that my outreach to the Muslim community is designed precisely to reduce the antagonism and the dangers posed by a hostile Muslim world to Israel and to the West,” Obama went on to say.

Obama added that he believed a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians could be achieved within his current term. “I think [Netanyahu] understands we’ve got a fairly narrow window of opportunity… We probably won’t have a better opportunity than we have right now. And that has to be seized. It’s going to be difficult.”

He cannot be that naive. I want whatever it is he’s smoking. Seriously. No, wait.  On second thought, I *don’t* want it.

More Barry:  Speaking of our Commander In Chief, he’s staying on top of that Gulf situation.  Honest.

Well, guess who actually IS a former Jew?

How ’bout none other than Mahmoud Ahmadinejad?

Following a link I found over on TROP led me to this October 3 article in the Telegraph:

A photograph of the Iranian president holding up his identity card during elections in March 2008 clearly shows his family has Jewish roots.

A close-up of the document reveals he was previously known as Sabourjian – a Jewish name meaning cloth weaver.

The short note scrawled on the card suggests his family changed its name to Ahmadinejad when they converted to embrace Islam after his birth.

The Sabourjians traditionally hail from Aradan, Mr Ahmadinejad’s birthplace, and the name derives from “weaver of the Sabour”, the name for the Jewish Tallit shawl in Persia. The name is even on the list of reserved names for Iranian Jews compiled by Iran’s Ministry of the Interior.

Experts last night suggested Mr Ahmadinejad’s track record for hate-filled attacks on Jews could be an overcompensation to hide his past.

[...snip!...]

Relatives have previously said a mixture of religious reasons and economic pressures forced his blacksmith father Ahmad to change when Mr Ahmadinejad was aged four.

[...snip!...]

Mehdi Khazali, an internet blogger, who called for an investigation of Mr Ahmadinejad’s roots was arrested this summer.

Mr Ahmadinejad has regularly levelled bitter criticism at Israel, questioned its right to exist and denied the Holocaust. British diplomats walked out of a UN meeting last month after the Iranian president denounced Israel’s ‘genocide, barbarism and racism.’

Benjamin Netanyahu made an impassioned denunciation of the Iranian leader at the same UN summit. “Yesterday, the man who calls the Holocaust a lie spoke from this podium,” he said. “A mere six decades after the Holocaust, you give legitimacy to a man who denies the murder of six million Jews while promising to wipe out the State of Israel, the State of the Jews. What a disgrace. What a mockery of the charter of the United Nations.”

Mr Ahmadinejad has been consistently outspoken about the Nazi attempt to wipe out the Jewish race. “They have created a myth today that they call the massacre of Jews and they consider it a principle above God, religions and the prophets,” he declared at a conference on the holocaust staged in Tehran in 2006.

So, he hates Jews for whatever happened to his father and he doesn’t want anyone to know he is himself a Jew. After all, who would think he was, with the way he denounces them? Really, it explains a lot, doesn’t it?

telegraph.co.uk

The phrase “Arab World’s Reasoning” is something of an oxymoron

So, what do Jews and Swine Flu have in common?

Front Page Magazine: Jews as Viruses

“The swine flu epidemic has provided fodder for newspapers in the Muslim and Arab world to continue their broadsides against Israel,” the ADL notes. “Editorial cartoonists for large circulation Arab and Muslim newspapers in several countries have picked up the swine flu theme as a means to depict Israeli leaders as racist pigs.”

The report goes on to offer a sample of these caricatures, available at the linked page. Most of them come from Qatar, a country currently aligning with the radical, Iranian-led bloc, but there are also examples from the United Arab Emirates, a popular financial and tourist center in intensive contact with the West; Jordan, which signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1994; and Al-Quds Al-Arabi, a pan-Arab daily published in London.

The one from the Jordanian daily Ad-Dustur, for instance, carries the headline “The Swine Flu Arrives to Israel” and shows a Star of David with one of its points the head of a pig. A cartoon from Qatar’s Al-Watan, called “The Peace Process,” shows a dismayed Arab doctor sitting across the table from a pig with a Star of David on its flank. The same paper, in an opus called “The World Health Organization Is Warning of a World Epidemic—the Swine Flu,” shows Netanyahu with a pig’s snout beside a Star of David. In “The Racism Flu” in the UAE’s Al-Khalij, it’s Lieberman with the pig’s snout. And London’s Al-Quds Al-Arabi shows a panel of animals—a mad cow, a bird stricken with bird’s flu, and—the two pigs, Netanyahu and Lieberman.

Not surprisingly, and as the ADL mentions, this wave of swine-flu caricatures did not arise in a vacuum and is merely a latest variant of endemic anti-Israeli, anti-Semitic incitement in the Arab world (sites that keep track of it include those of MEMRI, Palestinian Media Watch, and the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center). As Itamar Marcus, head of Palestinian Media Watch, noted in a recent op-ed, “In Darfur and Rwanda, all that was necessary to turn a society of ordinary people into killers was to convince them that they were in danger, and that the people endangering them were less than human.” That Israel/Jews endanger them and are less than human is a message drummed into people’s heads throughout the Arab world, with—among many other modalities of hate—Jews/Israel regularly depicted, in addition to pigs, as snakes, cockroaches, rats, and the like.

These are the people Obama wants to reason with. Yeah. Good luck with that, O.

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This is sad

And no one cares.

Pakistan is one of at least five Muslim countries in which the number of Muslims deliberately murdered by Islamic fundamentalists in the past year exceeds the number of Palestinian civilians killed in the Hamas conflict with Israel.  In the last 12 months, Islamists killed over thirty Muslims for every civilian casualty of Cast Lead.

Source: TROP

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Peace Talks Won’t Resume (at least not for now)

Over the weekend, the Palestinian Authority and Hamas rejected Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s demand that the Palestinians recognize Israel as the state of the Jewish people as a precondition for resuming the stalled peace talks between the two sides.  Not only will they not recognize the Jewish state, US special Middle East envoy George Mitchell met on Friday in Ramallah with PA President Mahmoud Abbas and other top PA officials, who urged him to instead pressure the new Israeli government to accept the two-state solution and honor all past agreements as a precondition for resuming the peace talks.

Chief PA negotiator Saeb Erekat pointed out that the PLO had already recognized Israel’s right to exist when it signed the Oslo Accords, and Azzam al-Ahmed, a senior Fatah official closely associated with Abbas, said that the Palestinians would not return to the negotiating table until Netanyahu publicly accepted the two-state solution.

“We reject Netanyahu’s demand to recognize Israel as a Jewish state. This demand illustrates the racist nature of Israel and the extremist policies of its government. It also shows that Israel is not serious about making peace with its neighbors.”

Omar al-Ghul, an adviser to PA Prime Minister Salaam Fayad, added “No Palestinian leader can ever accept this demand even if the whole world recognizes Israel as a Jewish state. The state of Israel belongs to all its citizens, the Palestinian owners of the land and the Jews living there.”

Hafez Barghouti, editor of the PA’s daily mouthpiece, Al-Hayat Al-Jadeeda, said that Netanyahu’s demand was aimed at expelling the Arab citizens of Israel and turning Jerusalem into a Jewish city.  “Netanyahu wants to replace the Palestinian kaffiyeh with a Jewish kippa. This is an irrational and absurd request.”

Barghouti added that by making the new demand, Netanyahu was “reigniting a religious conflict and providing fuel to radical Islamic and Jewish groups.”

Hamas also rejected the demand, calling it a “dangerous idea” and warning the PA leadership against accepting it.  Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said that accepting the demand was tantamount to legitimizing the “radical terrorist Zionist entity.”

So much for that.

Jerusalem Post

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And Dr. Pepper too!  And Mountain Dew!

Peter sent this one — he found it on LGF — and I just about needed a new keyboard when I first saw it.  It’s from a rally in Manhattan on the 28th.  Before I fill in the rest of the commentary, here’s the shot:

My first thoughts included the words “moron,” “illiterate” and “dumbass.”  Then I went looking for the original of the photo and found this, as well:

Along with this commentary:

When I posted this picture Monday of a Muslim in New York holding a sign saying, “Death to All Juice,” a lot of people took it as the comical error of an illiterate. Jihad Watch commenter Urban Infidel knew better, and wrote this:

The sign is funny, but he’s not kidding.

It’s not the work of an illiterate. In fact the sign was probably made by jouseff al-khattab, a member of the Islamic Thinkers Society, or one of his cohorts.

You can see the sign and others at his webpage:

http://www.revolutionmuslim.com/index.php?option=com_morfeoshow&task=view&gallery=2&Itemid=13

It is his way of calling for genocide without getting busted for hate speech.

Today Pamela has some of the photos from Revolution Muslim, and here is another.   Note the caricature of the Jew straight out of Nazi literature, and the reference to the Qur’an’s designation of the accursed Jews as apes (2:62-65; 5:59-60; 7:166):

Suddenly the “illiterate moron” seems not to be quite as stupid as I thought. ::sigh:: In fact, the first one up top seems to think *we* might be stupid — he inserted the word “zionist” in there to be sure we understood his little play on words.

Following the various links up above, incidentally, brought me this shot, about which the poster mentioned the irony of the red hand “don’t walk” sign in light of the second shot below.

All brought to you by those fun-loving folks from the Religion of Peace.

Courtesy of Peter, aka: Mr. PseudoPsalms

Here was the question from the audience:

Q: “If, despite your best diplomatic efforts, Iran attacks Israel, would you be willing to commit U.S. troops in support and defense of Israel? Or would you wait on approval from the U.N. Security Council?”

Obama: “…And that’s why I have consistently said that, if we can work more effectively with other countries diplomatically to tighten sanctions on Iran, if we can reduce our energy consumption through alternative energy, so that Iran has less money, if we can impose the kinds of sanctions that, say, for example, Iran right now imports gasoline, even though it’s an oil-producer, because its oil infrastructure has broken down, if we can prevent them from importing the gasoline that they need and the refined petroleum products, that starts changing their cost-benefit analysis. That starts putting the squeeze on them…”

I listened to that one sentence and while Sen. Obama was rambling through this terrible run-on sentence I realized that he had completely forgotten not only the question he was answering but that he had actually forgotten the beginning of his sentence:

1) “And that’s why I have consistently said that, if we can work more effectively with other countries diplomatically to tighten sanctions on Iran…that starts changing their cost-benefit analysis. That starts putting the squeeze on them.”

2) “if we can reduce our energy consumption through alternative energy, so that Iran has less money…that starts changing their cost-benefit analysis. That starts putting the squeeze on them.”

3) “if we can impose the kinds of sanctions that, say, for example, Iran right now imports gasoline, even though it’s an oil-producer, because its oil infrastructure has broken down…that starts changing their cost-benefit analysis. That starts putting the squeeze on them.”

4) “if we can prevent them from importing the gasoline that they need and the refined petroleum products, that starts changing their cost-benefit analysis. That starts putting the squeeze on them.”

comments:

1) Fine, except for the whole Russia/China veto thing on the Security Council

2) Don’t forget to properly inflate your tires while you’re at it, we all know how properly inflated tires scares the bejeebus out of Ahmadenijad

3) WHAT?  That clause wasn’t even complete within the run-on sentence, as though not only did he forget the question and the beginning of his sentence but he forgot the middle of the sentence too.  Yes, Iran imports gasoline…but what does that have to do with the ‘say, for example,’ part of this clause?  Not only that but ‘sanctions’ was clause 1 AND clause 3.

4) ‘cost-benefit analysis’?  Really?

Tel Aviv is radioactive and Obama’s opened up a spreadsheet?  ‘the squeeze on them’?  Channeling his inner Joe Pesci?

It’s a Twilight Zone answer, Israel’s been bombed and Obama falls back on a stump speech that he’s mis-remembered.  No anger towards the murders of hundreds of thousands of Israelis, just a metaphoric shrug followed by financial statements at dawn, not too early, it was a late night drinking Chardonnay with the Ayers and a fierce game of Pictionary by the fireplace (unused, too much damage to the atmosphere from the smoke, not to mention the horrendous deaths of millions of innocent trees simply for human warmth.  We turned the thermostat up instead, kept us nice and toasty).  And didn’t you love what we did with the Lincoln bedroom?  That picture of Che, with that cute little beret, was a perfect complement to the room, though Bernadine was right, as always, when she mentioned that Ol’ Abe’s dour expression really put a damper on the room, so now it’s just Che.  Where were we?  Oh, Pictionary, right?

Iran?

Are you sure?  There was Chardonnay, maybe a little too much.  But nothing about Iran that I remember.  Israel?  No, didn’t come up other than Bill’s great drawing for the phrase ‘Shitty Little Country.’  A true artist, he is.  We ALL guessed that one correctly.

And before they left, I made sure they drove over the tire pressure sensor I had them install at the East Gate, no sense in helping the Iranians, you know.

–Peter S.

No. Way. In. Hell.

This is among the most asinine demonstrations of coddling …

The [British] Government has apologised to 200 Muslim inmates at Armley Jail who were offered ham sandwiches during a holy festival.

Jack Straw, the Minister for Justice, who is in charge of the nation’s prisons, has admitted in a letter seen by the YEP that a “regrettable administrative error” led to the blunder and has ordered bosses at HMP Armley to be more diligent.

Prison staff will now be re-trained on inmates’ cultural and religious needs.

The row broke out in October last year during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

On a supposedly ‘halal’ (allowed) Ramadan menu, prisoners were offered ham sandwiches as part of three options. Ham, pork and all pig derivatives are strictly forbidden for Muslims, as well as for Jews.

Armley Jail, a category B facility, holds more than 1,200 male prisoners, of which more than 200 are Muslim.

Now read that again — they weren’t FED the stuff. It was *offered* to them as one of three menu choices. Since when do they get choices in prison? I thought they all got the same slop. I’m not sure I approve of prison being so friendly as to offer menu choices. As far as I’m concerned, they should get one damn choice, if they don’t want to eat it then they go hungry till the next meal. It’s PRISON fer crissakes, it’s supposed to be a little bit uncomfortable!

In a personally signed letter to Leeds MP Hilary Benn on behalf of the prison Governor, Mr Straw said: “A regrettable administrative error occurred at Leeds prison in the printing and distribution of special Ramadan pre-select menu cards, meaning that inappropriate menus were handed out to some prisoners.

“The Governor accepts responsibility for this error and apologies for any offence caused to the Muslim community. He has advised staff to be more diligent and to take more care to ensure errors are not repeated.

“Additional local management checks and staff training will be introduced to the prison before Ramadan 2008.”

Mr Straw’s intervention was instigated by Leeds councillor Kabeer Hussain (Independent/Hyde Park & Woodhouse) when he wrote to the city’s MPs to request an explanation from the top. Coun Hussain said the apology was a “step in the he right direction” adding: “I hope these unfortunate errors can be avoided in the future”.

Kate Maynard, a lawyer representing 16 Muslim inmates from Armley Jail who are suing in a separate case of alleged racial harassment and mistreatment, said the latest incident was clear evidence of the “underlying insensitivity” of the Prison Service towards inmates’ cultural needs.

Underlying insensitivity?! By handing a CRIMINAL a menu that MENTIONS pork products as one of his meal choices, you’re insensitive? Oh please. He’s a freaking CRIMINAL. He did something BAD and he got LOCKED UP for it. Why should we care if we hurt his widdle feewings by handing him a freaking menu that mentions pork?! If it was up to me, I’d say I wouldn’t even care if someone made a little *oopsie* and all three menu choices were pork! Cry me a river, build me a bridge and then get the hell over it.

What’s next? Will they cry about smelling sausage some morning? Maybe the British should let them go, since I’m sure being locked up offends their sense of freedom and interferes with them being close to Allah or some shit. Wouldn’t want to risk upsetting them, would we?

Someone has got to stand up and say “kiss my ass, I don’t CARE if you’re offended.”

These are the same whackjobs who believe it’s a freaking crime to name a class teddy bear “Mohammed.” Hell, they believe that because I’m not a Muslim, I shouldn’t be allowed to say the name “Allah.” They believe people who drew pictures that they didn’t like should be beheaded. Why is anyone pandering to these people?

They’re an insult to the decent Muslims (you know, the ones who freaking LEFT and wouldn’t go back if you paid them) in this world. They’re an insult to humanity. We need to just carpet bomb the whole lot of them and then give it all to Israel and say “here, it’s yours. Fix it up and enjoy it.”

Armley Today.

Remind me how peaceful the Muslims are again?

Imagine the scene: you’re walking through a supermarket, arguing with your sister and her husband as they shop. Finally, you’ve had enough. Your sister has pushed you too far by bickering with you. Time to end this, and put her in her place.

What do you do?

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