So It Is Written

… so it is done.

The Olympics... or something....

Why are ridiculous head and body coverings such bones of contention not just for the socially and sexually frustrated Islamist male but for the West, as well?

Marseille police say three of its officers were injured in the early hours of July 25 when a mob of some 50 people tried to prevent them from checking the identity of a woman who was wearing a full Islamic veil.

Under a controversial law passed in 2010, wearing a full veil or covering one’s face in a public place is illegal in France and offenders must submit to ID checks.

According to the police, the woman was stopped just after midnight near a city mosque and refused to cooperate with the officers.

A man accompanying her as well as a large group of bystanders came to her aid and three officers were “lightly injured” in a scuffle.

After police reinforcements arrived, four people, including the 18-year-old woman named only as “Louise-Marie”, were arrested for allegedly assaulting the officers – but were promptly released with a warning on the orders of the city prosecutor.

According to an AFP source, the decision was “a gesture of appeasement during the holy [Islamic] month of Ramadan.”

To wit:

O Ye who believe! Enter not the dwellings of the Prophet for a meal without waiting for the proper time, unless permission be granted you. But if ye are invited, enter, and, when your meal is ended, then disperse. Linger not for conversation. Lo! that would cause annoyance to the Prophet, and he would be shy of (asking) you (to go); but Allah is not shy of the truth. And when ye ask of them (the wives of the Prophet) anything, ask it of them from behind a curtain. That is purer for your hearts and for their hearts. And it is not for you to cause annoyance to the messenger of Allah, nor that ye should ever marry his wives after him. Lo! that in Allah's sight would be an enormity.

And:

The practice of hijab among Muslim women is one based on religious doctrine, although the Qur'an does not mandate it. Instead, it comes from the Hadith of Sahih Bukhari. The Hadith, the "tradition of Mohammed," reveals the teachings of the Prophet to believers. Bukhari's version of this text is generally regarded as the standard one, although numerous versions exist. In a very broad sense, the relation the Hadith has to the Qur'an resembles the New Testament's to the Old in Christian scriptures.

According to the Hadith, "My Lord agreed with me ('Umar) in three things... (2) And as regards the veiling of women, I said 'O Allah's Apostle!  I wish you ordered your wives to cover themselves from the men because good and bad ones talk to them.' So the verse of the veiling of the women was revealled" (Bukhari, v1, bk 8, sunnah 395).

Surah XXXIII, Verse 59 of the Qur'an is most often cited in support of veiling. It states "O Prophet! Tell thy wives and thy daughters and the women of the believers to draw their cloaks close around them. that will be better, so that they may be recognized and not annoyed. Allah is ever forgiving, merciful...." (from A.Yusef Ali's translation of the Qur'an; other versions translate the original Arabic as "veils" where Ali uses "cloaks").

The coverings (in whatever form one chooses) are loosely referred to and not Koranically mandated as such. Why, then, such violence and the double standard when a Muslim woman wears any of these coverings? It is a thumb in the eye of not just Western culture and law but of the very social bonds of trust and identity we rely on. Poking decadent Western culture with a proverbial stick is good enough if the hypocritical Islamist is unwilling to leave the West for environs in which misogynist coverings are the norm. The lack of personhood for the woman and trust in her presumed identity is only part of the problem. It is the identity the Islamist male and even the woman assert in the face of the West. Islamofascism is their true face and alliance, not the West which has given them refuge and succour. One cannot serve two masters. The crowd in Marseilles has shown who they truly serve.

You don’t say.

Related: I suppose it hadn’t occurred to the professional haters to just not go there. No, I guess not.

Just so we’re clear, Islam isn’t a race, the Palestinians are, in a way, an invented people and the cowardly appeasement of the affluent yet woman-hating Arab states is yet another example of the abandonment of the will:

The Palestinian Authority is against the moment of silence at the Olympics to commemorate the Israeli athletes murdered at the Munich Olympics in 1972. According to the headline in the official PA daily, "Sports are meant for peace, not for racism."

According to Jibril Rajoub, President of the Palestinian Olympic Committee:

"Sports are meant for peace, not for racism... Sports are a bridge to love, interconnection, and spreading of peace among nations; it must not be a cause of division and spreading of racism between them [nations]."

[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, July 25, 2012]

These words appeared in a letter sent by Rajoub to the President of the International Olympic Committee, Jacques Rogge. The letter "expressed appreciation for [Rogge's] position, who opposed the Israeli position, which demanded a moment's silence at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in London."

The PA daily does not refer to the murder of the Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972 as terror. In the article about Rajoub's letter, the killing of the athletes is referred to as "the Munich Operation, which took place during the Munich Olympics in 1972."

The PA is against the moment of silence because they view the murder of Israelis by Palestinians not as terror but as heroism.

Damn straight!

Williams, of course, was referring to the murder of 11 Israeli athletes during the 1972 Olympics.

"It is a much bigger issue this year, as it's the 40th anniversary of Munich. Members of the Canadian government, yesterday, our Governor General, all calling for a moment's silence. Dr Rogge (Jacques Rogge, President of the IOC) says the ceremony is not the place to remember a tragic event, but, uh, it's tragic, however, it's one of the most significant and world changing events in Olympic history. It absolutely should have been done here. The IOC worries about politics. This event is political by its very nature."

His sentiment is shared by many and they must have felt proud of him for saying it during the IOC's big party to begin the Olympic Games. However, as with any issue, there will be detractors who disagree with his opinion, or in his decision to express it during the show.

When Williams was done, his co-host, Lisa LaFlamme, didn't endorse or decry his comments, but added to the narrative by telling viewers of one of the widows of  a victim of the terrible 1972 massacre, who spoke out on Thursday about just this issue of honour and Remembrance.

Immediately following that, Williams finished the conversation by saying:

"And remember, they died as Olympians."

 

Yeah, that’s not funny:

But, if a Muslim police officer does it in Dorset, where Olympic events are being held and where the constabulary is stretched to the limit by the biggest security operation in years, it just shows what a great sense of humor the guy has …

During my free-speech battles in Canada and elsewhere, I was routinely lectured by huffily indignant plonkers whose research began and ended with Bartlett’s For Dummies that “there is no right to shout ‘Fire!’ in a crowded theatre.” But Constable Nezami has just turned a lazy metaphor into reality, and none of the indignant huffers seems to mind.

Listen to Mark Steyn. He knows whereof he speaks.

Syrian rebels are killing off historical Christian populations:

Christians are being targeted by Muslim rebels according to the Vatican and other sources amongst besieged Syrian Christian communities.

According to reports by the Vatican's Fides News Agency, the US-backed Syrian Army are sacking churches and issuing threats that all Christians will be cleansed from rebel-held territory.

"The picture for us is utter desolation," said Bishop Philip Tournyol Clos, a greek-Catholic Melkite Archimandrite. "The church of Mar Elian is half destroyed and that of Our Lady of Peace is still occupied by the rebels. Christian homes are severely damaged due to the fighting and completely emptied of their inhabitants, who fled without taking anything."

Asked whether it was the Free Syrian Army that was telling Christians to get out, Agnes Miriam, Mother Superior of the Monastery of St. James at Qara in the Diocese of Homs, said "yes … it was commander on the ground, Abdel Salam Harba, who decided that there was to be no more negotiations with Christians."

She said Christians refused to back the rebels, so the rebels used them as human shields.

Why are we giving them money?

Watch this rather sound explanation for the use of atomic weapons against Japan to bring about the end of the Second World War.

 

 I’ve blogged about this before.

The Japanese were willing to sacrifice their entire country to the war effort- an imperialist and cruel venture that saw the subjugation of Asia and the Pacific. The Japanese wasted 21,570 men on Iwo Jima and 107,539 soldiers killed on Okinawa with a low estimate of 42,000 civilian deaths, many of whom were directed to kill themselves. That is just TWO battles alone and not even considering what the Japanese did to civilian populations all over the Pacific.  A combined acute death toll for both Hiroshima and Nagasaki is 246,000 deaths. If the militaristic Japanese government was willing to waste nearly one hundred and thirty thousand soldiers AND involve its civilian population, it’s safe to conclude that its regard for human life- its own life- was nil. However tragic the atomic weapons’ outcome was, what was even more tragic was the total disregard for peace and human life so often displayed before and during the Second World War by the Japanese. What then would be the more moral choice- prolonging a war with an implacable enemy or cutting it short with a monstrous weapon?

I bet fifty quatloos Obama has no idea what the US military has or does.

I tried this and apparently I'm most like someone from Ethiopia.

 

And now, this puppy can’t win against the air conditioner.

(With thanks to all)