At least that’s how it appears now. Of course, they’re still only alleged bombers, but people with nothing to hide seldom get killed in shootouts with police.
I wonder if we’ll finally hear Obama say the words “Muslim Terrorist.” I rather doubt it…
Posts Tagged ‘Islam’
Boston Bombers: Muslim Brothers from Chechnya
Friday, April 19th, 2013Pat Condell: Why Do We Give Palestinians a Pass on Barbarism? “We’re Racists.”
Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013Once again the irreligious, bracing Pat Condell tackles another PC shibboleth, namely our giving Palestinian barbarism a free pass. Why? “Because we’re racists.”
Too broad a brush? Well, it is a shame that 90% of Palestinians give the other 10% a bad name…
Pat Condell on “Islamophobia”
Monday, December 3rd, 2012Just as he did a few months ago, British atheist Pat Condell takes aim on another mockable aspect of modern radical Islam and their politically correct enablers: “Islamophobia”.
(Hat tip: Urban Grounds.)
LinkSwarm for October 15, 2012
Monday, October 15th, 2012Doing a bunch of stuff, so here’s a more-or-less random linkSwarm:
Tell Us What Your Really Think
Thursday, September 27th, 2012British atheist commentator and comedian Pat Condell let’s Islam have it with both barrels:
I doubt any of these sentiments will be new to anyone following attempts to contain Jihadism, but are seldom expressed with such pithy concision and free of even the slightest nods to PC sensibilities.
There was a time when Islam was given the benefit the doubt by many people in the west. Now we think it’s poison and we wish we’d never heard of it, because 20 years of baseless grievance mongering and knee-jerk offense have shown us this religion for what it really is. Now we don’t like it, we don’t trust it, and we are never going to respect it. And we don’t care how Muslims feel about that.
And to think how many liberals got their panties in a knot over Elizabeth Moon’s far milder criticisms.
Watch the whole thing.
(Hat tip: Roger Kimball via Instapundit.)
Benghazi Attack Mastermind Released from Gitmo?
Wednesday, September 19th, 2012According to reports, former Guantanamo Bay detainee Sufyan Ben Qumu (AKA Sofiane Ibrahim Gammu) “was likely involved in the attack [on Benghazi], and even may have led the attack on the consulate.”
“Qumu—a Libyan—was released from the US prison at Guantanamo Bay in 2007 and transferred to Libyan custody under the condition that he would be kept in jail. He wasn’t.”
Another glaring example of why Obama’s pie-in-the-sky promises to close Guantanamo Bay were a bad idea. And so far Obama’s response to an act of war that involved the murder of American government officials has been muted and incoherent.
Like many liberals, Obama just can’t seem to wrap his head around the fact that, whether we want to be or not, we’re at war against radical Islam around the globe. These weren’t “spontaneous protests” by random Arabs mysteriously radicalized by a YouTube video, they were planned attacks by radical Islamic terrorists. That is one of the many reasons Obama makes a singularly poor Commander-in-Chief, and why he should be replaced with Mitt Romney.
Democrats Take the War on Catholics to the Next Level
Tuesday, August 28th, 2012Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the Senior Catholic official in America, generously offered to lead a prayer at the Democratic National Convention.
The Democrats declined.
They decided that they would rather have a two hour Islamic prayer ceremony instead.
Given how heavily Catholics outnumber Muslims amidst the electorate, this is, at the very least, bad optics and worse politics. But it’s so ham-handed that it suggest Democrats are doing it out of conviction rather than political calculation.
Two thoughts:
- If Obama wanted to quash those “secret Muslim” rumors, this wasn’t the way to do it.
- The constant hostility Democrats have shown to Catholics during this Administration suggests yet again that forcing Catholics to fund abortion wasn’t a side issue for ObamaCare, but in fact the central issue. Every knee must bend.
Today is Everyone Draw Mohammed Day
Sunday, May 20th, 2012With less publicity than in 2010 it sort of snuck up on me this time. (I looked around in 2011 and couldn’t find anything.)
Sadly, most of the main blogs participating in 2010 seem to have died, though there is a Facebook page dedicated to it, as well as a Tumblr page. (As with the last Draw Mohammed Day, some of the images aren’t safe for work.) But there doesn’t seem to be a main blog for the effort this year.
Here are some in video form.
And Pakistan is evidently blocking Twitter over mere mentions of the event.
LinkSwarm for April 23, 2012
Monday, April 23rd, 2012I have a few major posts in various stages of gestation, so here’s a LinkSwarm to tide you over in the meantime:
You keep using that word…
Monday, April 2nd, 2012…I do not think it means what you think it means.
The word, in this case, is “moderate,” which seems to be particularly tricky to define. Especially when it comes to Middle Eastern political parties. Since you can support Hamas and promise to wipe Israel off the map and still be considered “moderate”…