Here’s the problem. The once-venerable Virginia Military Academy has announced that they plan to host an event in honor of the brutal Muslim conquest and occupation of Spain in 711 AD. Rodan and I recently blogged about this in VMI Whitewashes Islamic Occupation of Spain.
Yes, General Stonewall Jackson once taught there. Undoubtedly, General Jackson, as a stalwart Christian, would be outraged if he were to learn that his former place of employment is now inviting our Muslim enemies to influence and mislead the youths who are destined to become America’s military officers.
Now, thanks to the detective work of Andrew Breitbart’s war and military reporting site, Big Peace, we can carry out the advice that “Deep Throat” gave in All the President’s Men; namely, “Follow the money.” It’s all about foreign funding for programs that expose future US military officers to enemy propaganda.
VMI Islamic Conference Grant and the Middle East Funding Connection
Posted by Christine Brim Feb. 7, 2011 at 11:10 am
Let’s follow the money trail behind Virginia Military Institute’s plans to host a “celebration” commemoration of the Islamic conquest of Spain.
Previously, Patrick Poole exposed the planned March 23-25 “celebration” entitled “711 AD – 2011: East Meets West” organized by the Virginia Military Institute’s (VMI) Center for Leadership and Ethics. Then he exposed the VMI cover-up, showing that in response to public criticism, the VMI had already changed its language regarding the event on its website. Originally the event was to “celebrate” the 1300thanniversary of “Tariq ibn Ziyad’s crossing of the Straits of Gibraltar” – in fact ushering in nearly eight centuries of oppressive Islamic rule in Spain – while the new version uses the word “commemoration” instead of “celebrate”.
That’s “commemoration” from the Latin commemorationem, meaning “to call to mind.”
So commemorate this: let’s call to mind the money trail behind the conference, and follow it to a much bigger set of questions for VMI and their funders discovered in an interesting little program at the Department of Defense, whose primary administrators and advisers are the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and the Politburo of Communist China. And the trail gets even more interesting after that.
It all starts with the grant for the conference.
In 2008 VMI received a $665,000 grant from the Department of Defense http://www.vmi.edu/NewsCenter.aspx?id=22465 (h/t Patrick Poole) to “enhance its Arabic studies program and provide opportunities for cadets to study the language and culture abroad.” VMI was one of 8 schools to receive funding through the program, called at that time the “Reserve Officer Training Corp (ROTC) Language and Culture Project.” According to VMI:
In addition, the grant will support a cross-cultural conference hosted by VMI that will focus on themes including literature, religion, history, language, politics, pedagogy and Islamic-Christian amity…
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Next step on the money trail: the providers of that grant for the VMI conference, a little known Defense Department project now called Project GO for “Global Officers” (originally titled the Reserve Officer Training Corp (ROTC) Language and Culture Project), started in 2007 as part of the Defense Department’s National Security Education Program (NSEP). Project GO (Global Officers) is the source for funding $665,000 of the new $200 million VMI Center for Leadership and Ethics, faculty and programs, the VMI organization sponsoring this conference.
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However, the Defense Department’s NSEP program doesn’t actually administer Project GO (Global Officers) – that’s done instead by another entity, the private Institute of International Education (IIE). And now the money trail becomes interesting. Here’s how IIE is described at Project GO (Global Officers):The Institute of International Education – The Institute of International Education (IIE) administers the Project GO Institutional Grants on behalf of the National Security Education Program. IIE is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to building international goodwill through educational and cultural exchange among nations. By enabling more than 18,000 outstanding men and women each year to study, conduct research, receive practical training, or provide technical assistance outside their own countries, IIE fosters mutual understanding, builds global problem solving capabilities, and strengthens the international competence of U.S. citizens.
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Let’s go to two advisory groups at the IIE, administrator of the grant for VMI’s conference: the International Counselors and the IIE New Leaders Group (NLG) .First, those International Counselors– according to the IIE website, “Dedicated internationalists from all world regions provide advice and counsel to IIE’s senior management on topics related to their geographic areas and their global expertise.” The list of those “dedicated internationalists” includes Saudi Arabia’s Consul General, the Minister of Planning for Jordan, and (my favorite, a bit off topic but just too good not to mention in the context of “Project GO – Global Officers”) Li Yuanchao, Politburo Member of the 17th CPC Central Committee, Head of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee, Beijing China.
You bet they’re “dedicated internationalists.” And what a great group to have administering the primary language and culture programs for ROTC across the nation. What a great group to turn what used to be “United States Officers” into “Global Officers.”
But wait. There’s more. Meet the “New Leaders Group (NLG).” According to the IIE,
“The NLG serves as an idea generation engine for IIE and helps enable the Institute to increase its responsiveness to urgent global needs. By helping to harness and leverage the Institute’s resources and capabilities, the NLG will identify and address pressing global issues and make a meaningful impact upon the world we share.”
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Why ask about that “leverage”? Look who’s on the list : “New Leaders” from just two countries: The New Leaders Group in the USA, and the New Leaders Group in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). In fact, one of the putative “United States” group members is Serra Kirdar-Meliti, Director of the Muthabara Foundation, a UAE entity dedicated to maximizing “the potential of Arab women.”And under the UAE list, those veterans of leverage in all senses of the word, theMohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation. (There are others and all are well-deserving of further research, but let’s just “commemorate” a few facts about the Maktoum empire.)
Second on the UAE section’s list is Samar Al-Shorafa, Manager of Project Development at the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation. The Al-Maktoum family is the ruling dynasty of the United Arab Emirates. The Al-Maktoum family controls the government-owned Dubai Ports World Corporation which caused a major political uproar stateside in 2006 when it was set to take over port security at 22 seaports across the United States.
The Maktoums have also been active in funding Muslim Brotherhood front organizations in the United States, especially the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). In 2002 the Al-Maktoum foundation provided $978,031.34 in the form of a Deed of Trust for CAIR’s (and here at Paul Sperry’s sperryfiles.com) Washington, D.C. headquarters. In 2006 UAE Minister of Finance Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoumendorsed a proposal to build a property in the United States to serve as an endowment for CAIR (h/t Adam Savit, editor at Cairobservatory.org )
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Read it all.
Make yourself heard!
The superintendent of VMI is Gen. J.H. Binford Peay III.
Office Contact:
Lori Parrent, Secretary to Gen. Peay
Ph: (540) 464-7311
Fax: (540) 464-7660201 Smith Hall
Virginia Military Institute
Lexington, VA 24450
In addition, I suggest that everyone who will be anywhere near Virginia Military Academy on March 23-25, 2011, should protest this event in person.
Originally posted on 1389 Blog.
Rodan Note:I called it, that there was a Saudi connection to this on me and 1389′s post!
Why the silence and why is a prestigious organization like VMI insulting a whole culture? Could they be receiving Saudi money?
I hope reports that Saudi Arabia has less oil than what is claimed. They are an evil nation that has brought nothing but misery to the world, the last 1400 years. Nothing good has come out of the Arabian peninsula and they cane at sand for all I care.
Tags: Andrew Breitbart, Big Peace, China, enemy propaganda, Islamists, Progressive-Islamic Axis, Stonewall Jackson, Terrorism, Virginia Military Institute, VMI, Watergate
Nice,
Jim Webb (D) U.S. Senate says he will not run in 2012.
We have to make sure the two party evil money cult is not playing hide the cult by running a RINO in his place and the RINO votes just like a Dam Commie Democrat.
Act Up.
I called it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I said VMI was getting Saudi/Gulf State money!!!!!!1
What is the attraction to be so PC? Why do some people fall all over themselves to be accepted by people that are never going to like or accept them?
On this VMI deal, the two party evil money cult in D.C. does fear U.S. due to the right to and use of arms. They also know we the people most likely in a real down and dirty fight with them later the military will side with U.S.. So they attempt to inplant Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine leaders to be the Generals who will put out orders to fire on we the people if it comes to that.
Think John F. Kerry, Jimmy Carter, if you think there are not leaders on the cult side who will side aginst U.S..
I have no doubts that our “leaders” would hesitate to fireon We The People. Look no further than the bonus army demonstrations and other events like that when troops were ordered to fire on their own. Oh, and of course the Civil War, thank you Mr. Lincoln.
@ taxfreekiller:
They are just 2 of the traitors in Washington. There are others! You know this very well!
@ Rodan:
Without a doubt. Man, this is unreal.
I distrust anything that has the word “Global” in it. Too often, that is code for transnational and/or UN. Our troops are (or should be) American fighting men and women, not UN bluebonnets or any other kind of transnational quasi-mercenary force.
@ taxfreekiller:
Damn, his internal poll numbers must be abyssmal for him to call it this far out. You are 100% right, we need a 100% Conservative Tea PArty candidate. If this is a gimme seat, we want to get all we can from it.
@ Iron Fist:
I knew the Arabs were behind this. We need to get rid of Islamic influence form the US government.
The average polititian will do anything for cash, this has to change.
The R cult will run the re-tread George Allan.
Could be the D’s have some one else who can beat him like Webb did.
The R leadership is a big problem. They have their hands in both pies.@ Iron Fist:
Drill baby Drill
U.S. only
Nuke Power Plants, U.S. compaines only.
U.S. non union workers only.
Screw the commie Democrat union thugs.@ Rodan:
@ Iron Fist:
Webb is feeling the effects of the Obama Boom.
taxfreekiller wrote:
Exactly, lets drill (Oil and gas), digg (coal) and build (nuke plants!
taxfreekiller wrote:
The R leadership believe themselves to be American Aristocracy, entitled to their seat at the ruling table by virtue of their birth into certain families and social classes. Witness John McLame’s imbecilic and clueless daughter Meghan. No more Bush’s, No more Kennedy’s no more American Political dynasties.
@ Iron Fist:
@ taxfreekiller:
@ Prebanned:
Miss Lindsey is in trouble!
Never forget who enabled this Obama.
Without union money and votes, no Obama.
Elections have results.
Union dues come due now from we the people.
@ Rodan:
Joe Wilson would be an excellent replacement for Graham. I didn’t think Graham was up until 2014 though. It is way far out to be calling him over with. But damn, wouldn’t it be nice. We’ll take the Senate, most likely, in 2012 regardless of how the Presidential contest comes out unless the Republicans just completely fuck up the next two years.
Well well welly. What a shock//
Rodan wrote:
Their money is irresistible to people with no integrity.
The muzz are buying off universities all over this country. Adding ‘muzz studies’ programs to deceive students and soft sell the screed. Follow the money. I am betting that muzz money is behind every pro-muzz program in academia.
But the gov., allowing them to infiltrate the Military is a new low. The message we send is that the muzz are our friends. How chilling.
@ taxfreekiller:
George Allen will run, but could be someone else from our side could beat him. I don’t know enough about him to judge for sure, but he fucked it up last time. I am not a big believer in second chances in politics. If he wants it, he should have to prove himself, not just be the Establishment’s annointed boy. I am tired of the do-nothing Republican Establishment.
It looks to me like a well intentioned effort to train soldiers in the language and culture of our enemies has been co-opted into a celebration of our enemies.
I am all for language and cultural training for our fighting men and women. But we have to be careful how we go about it.
Rodan wrote:
And fix our tax code so stuff can be manufactured here!
We would be living high on the hog and have enough to pay Social Security too.
Iron Fist wrote:
Which the R leadership I believe will gleefully attempt if they think a Palin Presidency is inevitable. This is why I now place my hope and faith not in the Republican Party, it’s leadership is utterly and totally corrupt, but in the TEA Parties to overwhelm the Republican Parties corrupt leadership.
@ Rodan:
Nuclear power should be the power of the future. We are finally building a new nuke plant here. It is the first new one in at least a decade. Japan and France have lots of nuke plants running. The safety of the systems is assured. Opposition to nuke power is a manifestation of the neo-Luddite movement that the Greens are really fronting for.
@ Rodan:
They need to fix that open primary foolishness.
Iron Fist wrote:
What if we can scare the RINO’s reasonably straight?
It is worth a try.
Prebanned wrote:
Yup, we desperately need to go to a flat tax, 10% on individuals and 15% on corporations/Businesses, no deductions, no loopholes.
We also desperately need to eliminate probably 70 percent of business regulations and for God’s sake eliminate the fucking EPA.
Bureaucat wrote:
Exactly.
Here, the VMI is glorifying the barbarian muzz horde and their brutality in Spain.
I want to see educational programs that tell the truth abt. islam, explain the koran, investigate their motivation and intentions, and discuss the awful history of the muzz imperialism.
It should never be called the rop.
@ doriangrey:
It is not too late.
Iron Fist wrote:
I agree 100%! I respect him, he called out Obama for what he was, a liar!
doriangrey wrote:
Agreed totally. We also should adopt the Chilean Social security model.
Navy lays out DADT training timelines
By Sam Fellman -- Staff writer
Posted : Wednesday Feb 9, 2011 9:35:00 EST
All hands will receive instruction on the lifting of the military’s ban on gays serving openly by the end of June, the Navy’s lead agent for the policy change announced in a message to Navy leaders issued on Monday and obtained by Navy Times.
The message from Adm. John Harvey, head of Fleet Forces Command, wrote that training for senior leaders and commanders must be completed by April 30 and, in turn, training for all hands must be completed by June 30. “Master mobile training teams” will kick off the training for commanders, executive officers and command master chiefs, who will then be expected to train their commands over the next two months on the “spirit and intent of the [don’t ask, don’t tell] repeal.”
What a freaken waste of time
House rejects Patriot Act extensions
By Jim Abrams -- The Associated Press
Posted : Wednesday Feb 9, 2011 5:47:28 EST
WASHINGTON — The House on Tuesday failed to extend the life of three surveillance tools that are key to the nation’s post-Sept. 11 anti-terror law, a slipup for the new Republican leadership that miscalculated the level of opposition.
This is an inexcusable lapse of competence by the Republican leadership or lack there of.
@ Nevergiveup:
Come on, you need training to tell you how to act when you are showering with 10 other guys and two of them start giving each other blowjobs and shit. That is a social situation you’ve likely never had to deal with before, and it might be a little awkward if you don’t know how to react…
The Obama bounce is dead.
His State of the Union speech backfired.
Iron Fist wrote:
Pebble-Bed reactors are so insanely safe it’s nearly frightening. They cannot go critical, they cannot release radioactive material and they can use any fissile material including Thorium 90 and Strontium 90 which means that just a few fast breeder reactors could increase the nuclear fuel cycle by nearly 80 percent.
@ Nevergiveup:
They are bringing it back to the floor. They tried some procedure that required 2/3 majority. The next vote is just a simple majority.
Iron Fist wrote:
The minute Allen announced he would run I knew Webb would decide to (*cough*cough*) spend more time with his family. Toast.
Allen ran a terrible campaign last time, mainly because he took his re-election for granted and was blind-sided. He won’t repeat that mistake.
Allen will not face a significant challenge for the nomination, but if he does, it will come from the left. He’s no RINO.
Rodan wrote:
It was still stupid to do if they did not have the votes. real amatuerville
Queef Olberdouche resurfaces with a new job on the ManBearPig Network…
@ wolfie:
Great news. He seems like a good conservative. I don’t think the left will be able to take him down with a single word in this political climate.
Jim Webb, a supposed blue dog dem was way too in love with zero. What a poor judge of character.
What a sap.
generals marshall and patton are spinning in their graves
@ Rodan:
Lemme do it.
@ Nevergiveup:
Don’t overreact here.
@ The Osprey:
They are calling it the “Blowhard Bromance”. No word on whether Gore asked Olberman for a blowjob, but you have to assume…
@ Nevergiveup:
yeah they should of just went through the normal procedures and then put it up for a simple majority vote.
Current TV? I have Dish and have never watched anything on Current. Sounds like a winning network.
Bureaucat wrote:
The first rule is to refuse funding from foreign sources and from religious institutions of any kind. I would insist that all such programs be funded and run by government with full transparency and accountability.
You don’t contract the Communist Party USA to educate officers during the Cold War.
Iron Fist wrote:
If I assume anything, it’s that Olberman was begging for the opportunity.
@ The Osprey:
Heh. Olbermann and Manbearpig can combine their powers and compete with the Oprah Network for that .0003% of the cable market.
@ chickadee:
Wasn’t he the sob who refused to shake Ws hand at a ceremony? How uncivil!
father_of_10 wrote:
It basically looks like it’s run by college students. SO LAME!
@ wolfie:
We should ban all funding or political contributions from Islamic nations.
taxfreekiller wrote:
the trades didnt support obama, in fact, they damn near walked out of afl/cio
@ Bureaucat:
How the mighty do fall. Never watched Goracle network,but Oprah is just plain awful. What a self absorbed,tedious,obnoxious diva. Bleccch.
wolfie wrote:
we had college profs for that
@ Bureaucat:
I expect this partnership to be as successful as Air America. It all depends on how much of his conisderable fortune anti-Capitalist Al Gore is willing to sacrifice to make this operation a losing proposition. I wouldn’t object to seeing him homeless and broke from it, but something tells me he won’t be that dedicated to the cause. Still, he should lose boatloads of money supporting losers like Olberman that would otherwise have to get jobs working at McDonalds or something similar that was comminsurate with their productive capability…
@ coldwarrior:
I don’t think the police did either,or one of their big unions didn’t. The firefighters,less said the better. It was the last straw in my hubby deciding to retire.
coldwarrior wrote:
It makes me sick.
Barbour: Iran biggest threat to global security
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
02/09/2011 19:09
Mississippi Governor and 2012 Republican presidential hopeful Haley Barbour on Wednesday said that Iran is the world’s top threat to peace and stability. Barbour made the comments while speaking at the Herzliya Conference.
Barbour stated that world leaders should be judged by their success in responding to Iran’s nuclear program and what he says is its support for terrorism and destabilizing governments abroad.
The popular governor received a warm ovation from the prestigious security conference.
Barbour also congratulated Israel on its recent offshore gas discoveries.
Barbour, whose own state is an energy producer, criticized an American moratorium on drilling put in place by the Obama administration after last year’s BP oil spill. He said the ban “is inflicting a disaster on America.”
I wonder if Barbour is learning any hebrew for the campaign to come at home? Shalom chaverem sheli
Iron Fist wrote:
Heh heh heh, you mean like the 200 million Soro’s lost trying to prop up Air America?
Iron Fist wrote:
The only job I can think of that is equivalent to KO’s abilities is shoveling cow shit at a dairy.
@ wolfie:
Good idea.
coldwarrior wrote:
Yes, we did, but at least we made them jump through all the hoops of institutional infiltration.
This is interesting:
Gee, doesn’t that mean that things have gotten worse since Bush stepped down? And one thing that they are seriously downplaying is the Ideology that spawns this. These people aren’t Tea PArty people or Militia of Montanna. They are Muslims, every last one of them. Think that merits a mention? They kind of do, but only with the most PC circumlocutions possible.
@ Nevergiveup:
hmmmm…sounds like someone is thinking about running…
wolfie wrote:
true that…true that
coldwarrior wrote:
I bet a guy like Barbour had a great time in Israel. I am sure they treated him like a King and he was received great there.
doriangrey wrote:
Nah, Olberman is so incompetant he’d try and milk the bull…
Iron Fist wrote:
True, but you know that when Janet Incompentatino speaks of homegrown threats she is specifically referring to TEA Party people and various militia’s.
@ Nevergiveup:
those are some fairly wide ranging remarks from the gov.
he could make the race rather interesting
doriangrey wrote:
and white male veterans, you forgot about that terror group the she identified very very early on.
Iron Fist wrote:
Which is why his sole responsibility should be shoveling shit, it is after all the only thing he knows how to do.
Iron Fist wrote:
eeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww……
coldwarrior wrote:
I don’t know all that much about him, but every time I see or hear him I like what he says and how he says it
@ doriangrey:
He is a bullshit specialist…
coldwarrior wrote:
Opp’s you are right, the “White veterans” are obviously the most dangerous…
doriangrey wrote:
That is far above his abilities. His skills are sarcasm and lying.
He made millions doing nothing. This job is a step down, that is a punishment right there.
vagabond trader wrote:
Yes.
And this is the same POS who swore he would never shake the hand of John Kerry, whom he knew to be a real traitor. He
changed his mind about that one, though. As soon as the party bosses told him he had to give up his principles, he groveled like a slave.
I never expected Webb to be conservative or even moderate, but I did think he was a tough cookie and a man of character. What a bitter disappointment he has been.
coldwarrior wrote:
Well, on the positive side, it is something both KO and the Bull would undoubtedly enjoy…
Dear RJC Members and Friends,
I wanted to take this opportunity to give you an update on the RJC trip to Israel with Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour.
We arrived in Israel 5 days ago and we have not stopped moving. We have had high-level meetings with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Shimon Peres, Vice Prime Minister General Moshe Ya’alon, opposition leader Tzipi Livni, and many others.
We have also built in time for the Governor to take in the sights and sounds of the Old City in Jerusalem, to tour cutting edge Israeli businesses, and to go out on an oil platform to see the Leviathan natural gas field off Israel’s coast.
This morning’s front-page article in the POLITICO highlights the importance of visiting Israel for potential Republican presidential candidates. (Click here to read.) Such trips are especially important for governors, who have not necessarily had previous opportunities to immerse themselves in foreign policy issues.
Taking top Republican leaders to Israel has been an important part of the RJC’s work over the last 25 years, with terrific results. RJC-hosted visits to Israel for governors, GOP chairmen, Senators and others have encouraged greater understanding and support of Israel among top Republican officials, most notably President George W. Bush, who visited Israel on an RJC-hosted trip for governors in 1998.
The success of those efforts is your success, because it is our members’ support that makes these trips and our other outreach work possible. With your ongoing support we can continue to have a major impact on issues concerning the Jewish community here at home and our strongest ally in the Middle East, Israel.
Prebanned wrote:
Not enough punishment. Hell is not enough punishment for Kieth Olberman…
@ doriangrey:
I don’t know about that. Olberman is more of a sucks donkey dick for a dime a herd kind of guy…
Nevergiveup wrote:
well…time to read up on da gov i guess
doriangrey wrote:
Ahhh, got it now.
Just put him in a pit with a constant flowrate coming in. I want consequences if he slacks off.
U.S. official: Israel’s actions in East Jerusalem go against Mideast peace efforts
Comment by U.S. State Department official comes after Israel approves construction of new buildings in Sheikh Jarrah, declares foundation of a new East Jerusalem Jewish neighborhood.
Hey asshole, worry about Egypt maybe and not a few bathrooms in Jerusalem
coldwarrior wrote:
Organizations like the RJC and UJA do a great job bringing American Politicians ( both Jewish and non-Jewish ) to Israel and turning them into Zionists
Prebanned wrote:
ROTFLMAO… Works for me and seems sooooo appropriate…
@ Nevergiveup:
Next you will expect him to worry about opium poppy fields in Afghanistan. It should be obvious to anyone that a new Jewish neighborhood in Judea is a much greater threat to world peace…
[/Is This Thing Necessary?]
@ Iron Fist:
Scary. I tend to think that they will be targeting places other than NYC. Scheuer told me that Houston is a big target for them because it’s an energy center.
Iron Fist wrote:
I don’t know, public humiliation is a pretty good punishment, independant of social status. Probably works better on a snob like KO.
I really do not like snobs.
Nevergiveup wrote:
I wonder how those exact same U.S. State Department assholes would react to someone telling them they couldn’t build in DC???
@ Urban Infidel:
Houston, San Fransisco, Chicago, they will want big population centers, I think. Of course, with all of the hysteria attendant to the Tucson shooting they might just go for Anytown, America. If they did something like ten suicide bombings in ten different shopping malls all across the United States in the same day, that would be damn effective…
@ Iron Fist:
Multiple suicide bombings could cripple a city in seconds. Mumbai-style attacks are also a tactic they are considering but probably not in areas where Americans are armed.
@ Nevergiveup:
@ coldwarrior:
There is a good Uncommon Knowledge interview with Haley Barbour at NRO.
Some good news on the anti-jihad front: Alan West lands coveted keynote speaker slot at CPAC.
@ Urban Infidel:
Concealed carry in what, 38 States now? That will somewhat discourage a Mumbai-style attack. In Tucson, there was a guy carrying a gun in one of the shops, but the people around the shooting subdued the shooter before he could get into a position to do anything. The answer to both of these types of attacks is more armed citizens. You can’t make America 100% safe, but you can minimize the kind of damage a lone nut or planned jihadi can do. Suicide bombing, though, is a different animal. There really isn’t any defense against that, except a Muzz free society. No Muslims, know Peace…
The Osprey wrote:
Nice. Definitely one to watch.
Urban Infidel wrote:
Houston has a HUGE Islamic center downtown in what looks like an old bank building. “Islamic D’awa Center” I seem to remember it was called.
vagabond trader wrote:
Yes, the dumb sob really bought the lightworker/messiah meme. He thought the king of all kings would reign forever and he could ride his coattails into perpetuity.
rofl at the big reality check now settling in on these stupid bastards.
@ Iron Fist:
Us folks in NYC and the sitting ducks in SF are just the place for siege-style attacks.
Iron Fist wrote:
I’ve been saying that for years.
Attacks in smaller towns would really be more effective than another 9/11 style operation.
If you can make people fear going to the grocery store, the post office, or getting on a bus, you can pretty much shut down America.
@ Urban Infidel:
Yep. Where I am I don’t worry much. Even over on the Plateau in the Little Mogadishu area I wouldn’t worry much. They’d bring down a world of pain on themselves if they tried anything here.
Nevergiveup wrote:
cool by me!
The Osprey wrote:
I wanna go.
lobo91 wrote:
I am surprised we haven’t seen it, but the Muzz mind doesn’t seem to work strategically. It is something in their training, I suspect. They’ve never really thought strategically. The spread of Islam followed the path of least resistance. In much of the place they were moving into the vacuum left from the collapse of the Roman Empire. We can’t count on them staying incompetant forever…
The Osprey wrote:
Oh, that’s just great………..
@ Iron Fist:
Too bad that seems to be Holder and Napolitano’s strategy…
The Osprey wrote:
excellent choice. i cant wait!
@ Nevergiveup:
Marco Rubio went to Israel after he was elected.
@ Iron Fist:
They do think strategically, but they don’t really understand American society.
They specifically chose the WTC as a target because of its symbolic value as a key part of the financial system. What they didn’t understand is that our economy is driven by consumer spending, not by big business.
They probably spent too much time reading left-wing writings on the subject.
Iron Fist wrote:
No, that’s true. But fortunately, since they have had a 1400-year run on incompetence momentum, if we apply our own potentially more rapid response capabilities, we can minimize the damage.
lobo91 wrote:
It would then be time for serious religious profiling.
I am not advocating anything.
How did Spain avoid a re-reconquista?
lobo91 wrote:
Symbolic thinking gets in the way of successful tactical thinking.
Thank G-d.
@ Iron Fist:
Islam took advantage of the Roman-Persian wars 602-628 AD. They had fought for over 20 years and exhausted themselves. Islam had two ripe natiosn ready for plucking. Had Islam appeared around 590 AD, The Romans and Persians would of crushed them like bugs.
In Spain they ran invaded at an oopurtune time. There was a sucession struggle and the Spanish rebels invited the Muzz in to help them overthrow King Rodrigo. Well as we know, they didn’t leave and sent in massive invasion force to take the place. What they didn’t count on was a resistance!
The rest is history!
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
If they were logical, they wouldn’t be muslims
@ lobo91:
True. The “Osama” tapes have been sopouting off about Global Warminig® and shit, haven’t they? They have mistaken the Left’s narrative for the reality. That is probably made worse by the American defectors that they have. Johnny Taliban and Adam Gadhan were both Lefties before they were Jihadis. Likely other defectors that they get will be the same. You don’t have boys from the South and Mid-west running off to Afghanistan to join the Jihad against the Great Satan…
Rodan wrote:
Kind of what we have going on in the United States with the Leftist-Islamic alliance. They both think they can use the other to catapult them into power. I hope they are both wrong…
@ Iron Fist:
Yeah I have faith we will prevail!
Prebanned wrote:
I’m not talking about “logic.” Every belief system has its own logic, which is perfectly reasonable if you’re in the belief system—even if it doesn’t quite jibe with external reality.
I’m talking about “symbolic thinking,” which has to do with taking down the WTC because it “symbolizes” Western might, when taking it down really does not directly affect it. It’s just like the Leftists who do something ineffectual and stupid in order to symbolically “send a message,” something that the Right is, unfortunately, not entirely immune from either.
You want to send a message, call Western Union—or send an email. Symbolism is not effectiveness, but a proxy for effectiveness.
@ Iron Fist:
There’s almost no chance that a conservative would ever convert willingly to Islam. There’s a reason the only Western converts are moonbats, minority convicts, and the occasional woman who makes the mistake of falling for a Muslim man.
Islam has always been a religion that appeals to the weak-minded and the marginalized…
@ buzzsawmonkey:
I don’t think they really understand the redundancies that exist in our businesses and government, either. They probably thought that destroying the WTC would paralyze the financial community. similarly, they probably thought that destroying the Pentagon would cripple our military (not that hitting that monstrosity with one airplane had a chance of destroying it).
The reality is that destroying the pentagon would probably have increased the efficiency of our military…
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Got it.
It did take a lot of problem solving and organization to hijack the jets.
Our own actions are not that logical regarding WOT.
@ lobo91:
I think they thought the Democrats would launch a coup after 9-11. Fortunately, by the time the Democrats had thought of that we’d moved on and were at war in Iraq…
Prebanned wrote:
I’ve had this discussion with people numerous times with regard to whether or not things like suicide bombings are “rational” acts.
If you actually believe the teachings of Islam, then of course blowing yourself up to kill infidels is rational.
Iron Fist wrote:
They might have thought that at the time it was executed, but it wasn’t part of the original plan.
The planning for 9/11 began sometime in the mid to late ’90s.
lobo91 wrote:
and homicidal criminals…
@ lobo91:
True. Under Clinton, when the world “loved” us. That had slipped my mind.
Iron Fist wrote:
Like everyone else, they probably assumed that Gore would win in 2000.
WE need to collapse Saudi Arabia and let the islamists have it. That will stop some of the erosion.
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Rodan wrote:
GOOD!
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You’re welcome! Thank the folks at Big Peace also!
chickadee wrote:
Exactly.
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