Cameron Almost Has it Right

British Prime Minister David Cameron spoke about radical Islam (which is really orthodox Islam) today as more was learned about Islamic State's murderous butchery in Iraq and Syria. Speaking from 10 Downing Street Cameron talked about the problem of home-grown "radical jihadists" who joined other orthodox Muslims in the Middle East and threatened attacks on the West.

"This is not some foreign conflict thousands of miles away that we can hope to ignore," Cameron said. "The ambition to create an extremist caliphate in the heart of Iraq and Syria is a threat to our own security here in the UK.

"We cannot appease this ideology," the Conservative Party leader correctly said. But what he does not seem to have correct is the notion that Islam has been trying to build a caliphate and eventually a world caliphate, for centuries. "It's how we roll," their prophet once said in different words.

The Prime Minister's words came after President Obama told the world that he plans to do nothing about ISIS in Syria for now. "I don't want to put the cart before the horse. We don't have a strategy yet." Then he went off to golf or something, not concerned with the fact that on Thursday, a video showed ISIS marching about 100 Syrian soldiers who only wore their underwear in the desert and then executing them. Obama was also unperturbed that on Friday, ISIS released photos of Kurdish Peshmerga who were captured in Iraq, showing one of the men beheaded.

So the UK raised its terror threat from "substantial" to "severe," or the fourth of five levels in response to ISIS. This level indicates their belief that a terrorist attack is highly likely, but cannot produce evidence that it's imminent. 

"My first priority as Prime Minister is make to sure we do everything possible to keep our people safe," Cameron said, to which Obama might have replied: "My first priority as President of the United States of America is to myself and to improve my slice."

A very presidential: Hang in there, baby

White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said today that we have no current plan to raise our threat level; "that's for pussies." (Okay--he didn't really say that.) But he also bent over backwards to assert that the U.S. is not "at war" with Islamic State and, Allah willing, we never will be. 

That's refreshing to know. The Islamic State is at war with us, but we aren't at war with them. It's like finding yourself in a boxing ring and your opponent is hitting you while you're trying to convince him that you didn't come there to fight.

Cameron plans to bar those who leave the UK to fight in jihad from returning to the homeland, and make it easier to revoke passports of those who would bring harm to the UK.

David Cameron almost has it right. His ideas on how to deal with home-grown terrorists seem viable. His understanding that these scum buckets cannot be appeased is also true. His sense of urgency is refreshing to see at a time when our own president appears to be totally incompetent.

But Cameron needs to understand that what we are seeing in the world and the jihadist movement is the playing out of the Islamic ideology at its core. This is not radical Islam--it is orthodox Islam.These are not a tiny minority of Muslims who believe in sharia law and in a caliphate. Many millions of Muslims have said they would like to see this, and many Muslims have said that 911 was justified.

Now all we need to do is hurry up and wait for Obama to ponder the situation.

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Freedom From Religion Attacks Again

Tried out for waterboy: no luck

Those brave, kooky folks at the Wisconsin atheist group known as Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) are at it again, this time asserting their God-given right to be offended at a teenage football team, called the Seminoles, in Sanford, Florida.

One of the kids got hurt on the gridiron and was being tended to by the coaches and trainers. Upon seeing the severity of the situation, the team took a knee, bowed their heads and silently prayed for their injured teammate.

Well, imagine the insult and mental anguish those poor atheists must have felt knowing that a bunch of kids believed in a higher being. They were offended, outraged, and determined to put an end to the Seminole's Freedom OF Religion.

Palestinian Authority Still Has a Great Sense of Humor

PA Jokes with UN: Get Israel out of W. Bank or we'll seek war crimes charges. No, seriously, a top Fatah official said on Thursday that the P.L.O. would submit an application to the UN Security Council next month with a demand for a concrete "timetable" for an Israeli withdrawal. They are demanding, in fact, that Israel go back to the pre-1967 borders.

Both will wash their hands later

Hey, Israel won that war. With a victory comes the spoils of war (see Mohammad, or Muhammed, or Mohamed, in the Koran; or google "Islamic booty").

Nabil Sha'ath, a former Palestinian Authority minister (not ever to be confused with a Christian minister) told Ma'an News Agency, based in a little town called Bethlehem, that the Arab League will meet on September 5th and discuss how best to support the so-called Palestinian strategy and get Israel to be forced into  its suicidal pre-1967 border. 

We have no information as to what the PA and Arab League have planned for Israel's future if these crazy demands are met, but my gut and their Koran tells me that it doesn't look good for Israel.

Sha'ath warned that if the request is turned down, the PLO would approach the International Criminal Court requesting they hold Israeli leaders accountable for "war crimes" during Operation Protective Edge. He did not specify the specifics of what those "war crimes" were, but from what sources have gathered, it is considered a crime by Islam for the Jews to exist (see Koran).

Sha'ath said "Israel fears losing its allies given the ongoing unrest in the region," using the word "unrest" as a handy substitute for "anti-Semitism."

Last weekend, PA President Mahmoud Abbas announced that he planned a "diplomatic and political surprise" that would make the US unhappy." It has now been learned, after much speculation, that the surprise is NOT the appointment of Al Sharpton to the Senate's Nuclear Armed Services Committee as he is neither a Senator nor aware of the term "nuclear." In any case, Abbas said that he when he met with John-Swift boat-Kerry, next month, he would let him in on the surprise, and the scuttlebutt around the water cooler is that Abbas will propose a timetable for Israel's destruction.

Obama and Kerry are keeping their fingers crossed. Well, not so much Obama--that's a Christian thing.


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Hamas's Mashaal Warns Latest Fighting Isn't the Last We've Seen

Khaled Mashaal head of Hamas, said on Thursday, "We will not restrict our dreams or make compromises to our demands," and added that reconstructing Gaza is the duty of the Palestinian national consensus government and the free world. (He sounds a bit like a socialist putting the burden of rebuilding on others.)

Mashaal (pronounced Mohammed) speaking in Doha, said that the latest round of trying to kill Israeli women, children and the slow-to-get-to-cover-elderly would not be the end of conflict but a "milestone to reaching our objective." That objective, he did not verbalize, is to overtake all of Israel, kill all the Jews, and establish yet another Islamic caliphate. He said, " . . . we know that Israel is strong and is aided by the international community. We will not restrict our dreams or make compromises to our demands," he said, taking Obama's strategy when working both sides of the aisle.

Hamas Bleeds All Over Itself While Claiming Victory

Right now, just as I write this, Israel and Hamas have begun a cease-fire. I wouldn't bet the house that this will last beyond my writing this post, but let's hope it does.

Hamas has suffered great losses in this conflict. Three of their top terrorist leaders have been killed (may they rest after they finish with their 72 virgins) and much of the infrastructure of Gaza has been leveled. On the terror side of the fence, over 2,000 people have been killed in spite of Netanyahu doing everything humanly possible to target only Hamas-holes.

There is a funny part to this story. It seems that Hamas is taking cues from the Obama administration and declaring victory in spite of the beating they took. It doesn't matter however, because Hamas will not disarm and Islam will not give up on their anti-Semitic beliefs.

I believe it's just a matter of time when this all begins again. Hamas is to Israel as ISIS is to America. If we do nothing, we will find ourselves "subdued." 

As it stands now, we are complying with the Islamic demands out of political correctness as we saw in Vermont this week when a restaurant removed an ad for bacon because it offended a Muslim woman. I don't see Jews doing the same and bacon is also taboo (non-kosher) to them. Islam has become the annoying salesperson who rings your bell and refuses to take their foot out of the door.


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Jimmy Carter Goes for His Highest Honor

Jimmy Carter has lost his number one spot as "America's Worst President Ever" to incumbent Barack Obama, but don't count Jimmy out just yet. 

Carter stands to win what he considers the highest award one can hope for: "Anti-Semitic Schmuck of the Century," when he delivers the keynote address to the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) at their 51st annual convention in Detroit's Cobo Center starting Friday and ending on September 1st. The 2nd worst American president ever will talk about his latest book, A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power. 

The outgoing ISNA president, Imam Mohamed Magid along with 4 other Muslim speakers, will discuss Muslim-American advancement over the next 5 years. A "secret special guest" is also on the bill, and some are betting it will be Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Just kidding--Abu is busy killing assorted infidels.

There will be many workshops over the 4 day event and there will be an Islamic Film Festival and a Quran-reciting competition. I wonder if they will ask about the "Sura of the Sword" (9:5) "So when the sacred months have passed away, then slay the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them captive and besiege them and lie in wait for them in every ambush, then if they repent and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate, leave their way free to them.

Or one of my old favorites, Sura 8:12 "I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them."

Why do I think they will omit all of the 109 Quran verses that promote violence?

Back to Jimmy Carter. 

The Washington Times on August 8th had a headline that read: "Jimmy Carter: the pariah president: Outcast finds a career as a cheerleader for Israel's enemy." They quote Carter writing for Foreign Policy magazine: "There is never an excuse for deliberate attacks on civilians in conflict," and astutely remind us that these words are coming from a man who bragged about working as a "nukular" engineer--weapons that kill civilian populations. Maybe Jimmy forgot about that--after all, he is 89 and his mind certainly hasn't gotten better over the years.

While Carter admits Hamas has also committed war crimes by targeting civilian populations, he cites the discrepancy in the numbers killed by Hamas vs. Israel. The fact that Israel is better at what they do only proves the superior abilities of Israel in war over Hamas in terrorism. Carter would like to have seen those numbers reversed, I suspect.

But when you're an anti-Semite, intentions don't matter. Hamas' intentions are to kill all the Jews they can. It's not a problem to them if they kill children--in fact they cheer when they do.

Israel makes every attempt to target only Hamas. Obviously when Hamas hides behind the Palestinian population while shooting rockets at Israel's civilian population, Israel has no choice but to retaliate. 

Jimmy Carter is still upset that he lost the Jewish vote to Ronald Reagan in 1980, and like Mohammed, the prophet-terrorist of Islam, he has never let it go and still seeks revenge. For Carter and Islam, peace will only come when there are no Jews and when the world is saying "there is no God but Allah."

Alan M. Dershowitz, world renown attorney, in an article to the Jerusalem Post on August 15th said: "Criticizing specific Israeli policies is certainly not intrinsically anti-Semitic. Indeed, many Israelis are critical of some of their nation's policies. But support for Hamas is anti-Semitic because Hamas's policies and actions are based, at their core, on Jew-hatred."

Carter wants Hamas to become a political player on the Middle East stage. They are a terrorist organization and anyone who believes differently is either ignorant or anti-Semitic.

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ISIS May Be Gunned to the Teeth (if they have any)

So the plot thickens. It's likely that ISIS has taken some shoulder-fired missiles known as MANPADS (an acronym for Man Portable Air Defense Systems) from Tabqa, a Syrian airfield, according to the Washington Post. The terrorists attacked the Syrian airbase over the weekend and the Syrians, willing to fight to the death, changed their collective mind and basically gave away these surface-to-air missiles like they gave away American military equipment.

This cannot be a good thing and will likely mean these weapons and others will proliferate across the region if the story is accurate.

But it is difficult to confirm with certainty that the MANPADS were indeed taken. Charles Lister of the Brookings Doha Center has tracked the flow of weapons in the region and tweeted a photo of an ISIS terrorist with what looked like a MANPADS.

Not a lot is known about these weapons but they are quite effective in shooting jets out of the air sending them crashing to earth in a fiery ball as the terrorist yells his "Allahu Akbar!" and thumbs through his Brown-eyed Virgin catalogue, ready to place an order.

Except it really isn't funny.

ISIS was thought to be a Jayvee team by Team Ogolfer. He was wrong and if he only was man enough to ever admit being wrong I might have a modicum of respect for him. But he hasn't and I don't.

General Martin Dempsey said that ISIS is a threat to the USA and that we would need to do more than we are currently doing to destroy them. Today however, he has changed his tune. Now it's best if we wait until they become a real threat to the United States. (I guess we'll know that when they kill a few thousand more Americans on our soil.) I am confident Obama or Valerie Jarrett has spoken to Dempsey telling him to walk it back or they will fire his butt.

Poor president Obama had to cut his vacation short to deal with having to do the job he was elected to do. The really sad part is that I don't think he has a clue on how to do it.

What do you think?



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Reid and Biden: 2 Pods with Pea Brains

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (Duh-NV) spoke on Thursday to a group of Asian businessmen and women at a meeting sponsored by the Las Vegas Asian Chamber of Commerce. The purpose of his being there was to convince the group to endorse Lucy Flores (Duh) for Lieutenant Governor of Nevada.

In true Reid form, his tongue went into gear before he engaged his brain, but because of this, his true feelings were exposed. "I don't think you're smarter than anybody else, but you've convinced a lot of us you are," Reid said in a serious-as-Ebola-tone.