Looking at a map of Egypt, one must wonder where the military threat to that nation lies. Hillary Clinton’s (aka Mrs. Macbeth) reign as Secretary of State (one of the worst in my lifetime- starting with the Eisenhower Administration) has been nothing but one apologia for Islamists after another.
by Andrew C. McCarthy
When Mohamed Morsi dehumanizes Jews as “the descendants of apes and pigs,” there’s an elephant in the room. We find it here:
Those who incurred the curse of Allah and His wrath, those of whom some He transformed into apes and swine, those who worshipped evil — these are many times worse in rank, and far more astray from the even Path!
You see, Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood mahoff–turned–president did not conjure up the apes-and-pigs riff on his own. When Morsi fulminates that Muslims “must not forget to nurse our children and grandchildren on hatred towards those Zionists and Jews, and all those who support them,” he is taking his cues straight from the Koran. Or rather, from the Holy Koran, as “progressive” American politicians take pains to call it in the off hours from their campaign to drive every last vestige of Judeo-Christian culture from the public square.
The excerpt above is not from the Life and Times of Mohamed Morsi. It originates with that other Mohammed. Specifically, it is Sura 5:60 of the Koran, the tome Muslims take to be the immutable, verbatim commands of Allah, as revealed to the prophet. And as Andrew Bostom illustrates (with a disquieting amplitude of examples), the verse is not an outlier. It states an Islamic leitmotif.
Contrary to the fairy tale weaved by apologists for Islamists on both sides of America’s political aisle, Jew hatred is not a pathogen insidiously injected into Islam by the Nazis (with whom Middle Eastern Muslims enthusiastically aligned). Nor did the ummah come by it through exposure to other strains of anti-Semitism that blight the history of Christendom. Jew hatred is ingrained in Islamic doctrine. Consequently, despite the efforts of enlightened Muslim reformers, Jew hatred is — and will remain — a pillar of Islamist ideology.
You may recall hearing this little ditty from the Hamas charter — often echoed by ministers of the Palestinian Authority and in the preachments of Brotherhood jurist Yusuf al-Qaradawi, on whose every word millions hang weekly on al-Jazeera (or is it al-Gore?):
The Day of Resurrection will not arrive until the Muslims make war against the Jews and kill them, and until a Jew hiding behind a rock and tree, and the rock and tree will say: “Oh Muslim, Oh servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him!”
Again, these are not sentiments dreamt up by “violent extremists” waging a modern, purely political “resistance” against oppressive “Zionists.” The prophet’s admonition that Muslims will be spared the hellfire by killing Jews is repeated in numerous authoritative hadiths (see, e.g., Sahih Muslim Book 41, No. 6985; Sahih Bukhari Volume 4, Book 56, No. 791).
Hadiths, it is worth emphasizing, are the recorded actions and instructions of Mohammed, who is taken by Muslims to be the “perfect example” they are to emulate. And in case you suppose, after years of listening to Bill Clinton, George Bush, and Barack Obama, that the prophet must ultimately have come around on the Jews, you might want to rethink that one. Another hadith, relating Mohammed’s dying words, recounts his final plea: “May Allah curse the Jews and the Christians.” (Sahih Bukhari Volume 1, Book 8, No. 427.)
Now of course, none of this is to say that it is impossible for Islam to evolve beyond anti-Semitism. As individuals, millions of Muslims want no part of the ancient hatreds. As scholars and activists, a number of Muslim reformers admirably endeavor to erase this legacy by limiting it to its historical context, reducing it to allegory, or casting doubt on its provenance. [........]
Nevertheless, the humility with which we must acknowledge this history is not an excuse for failing to grapple with what it means. Elite Western opinion came to condemn what it once practiced by correctly reasoning that those noxious practices cut against the grain of our guiding doctrine, which is predominantly Christian. Evolution was in no way easy, but it was logical.
In Islam, to the contrary, the doctrine itself is the most daunting barrier against evolution. And now, with the self-defeating encouragement of the West, Islamic-supremacist ideology has, throughout the Middle East, broken out of the shackles that kept it in check. [........]
The answer to this challenge is to take the Islamists head-on. It is to show them for what they truly are: enemies of civil rights, totalitarian tormentors of women and non-Muslims. The answer is not to arm them — as the Obama administration, with the maddening support of some leading Republicans, is arming Morsi’s regime — with a score of F-16 fighter jets and a couple of hundred Abrams tanks.
When not manufacturing history, tears, and indignation this week during her long-overdue testimony on the Benghazi massacre, outgoing secretary of state Hillary Clinton stunned careful listeners by repeatedly mentioning the “global jihad” against America. These were stark violations of Obama-administration strictures against any reference to Islam in discussions of the threat to the West.
They also marked quite a departure for Mrs. Clinton. She has played no small part in propagating the “Islamophobia” canard. She has championed the imposition of sharia blasphemy standards on speech that is protected by the First Amendment. And, with an assist from Senator John McCain, she has cowed 99 percent of Beltway Republicans into silence over the longstanding ties of her top adviser, Huma Abedin, to the Muslim Brotherhood and to an al-Qaeda financier, Abdullah Omar Naseef, whose now-defunct “charity” (the Rabita Trust) was designated as a global terrorist organization under American law. [.........]
In the Clinton tradition, there was more calculated confusion than clarity in the secretary’s meandering testimony. Mrs. Clinton frets over the “jihadists” but insists that we must be able to “partner” with the region’s Islamists . . . like Morsi and the Brotherhood. Do you suppose she’s noticed that the Muslim Brotherhood demands the release of the Blind Sheikh, just like al-Qaeda does? That Morsi and Hamas (the Brotherhood’s Palestinian terror branch) publicly yearn for the destruction of Israel, just like al-Qaeda does? [........]
Alas, this is not a series of strange coincidences. These are the major points that define a Muslim — violent or nonviolent — as an Islamist. When you “partner” with Islamists, you are abetting the global jihad, not opposing it. When you arm Islamists, you become a willing participant in your own undoing.
Read the rest – Apes, pigs and F-16s
Tags: Andrew McCarthy, Mohammad Morsi
Speaking of apes and Muslims:
Anyone seen Dinnerjacket lately?
@ lobo91:
Andrew McCarthy is one of the few Conservatives who is intellectually honest about how both parties support the Muslim Brotherhood.
Rodan wrote:
Assuming that story is even true (which it probably isn’t) that means they’ve caught up to our late 1950s technology.
Bearck Obama doesn’t trust the Average American with an M-4, and asks what we “need” with an AR_15, but is unafraid to trust the Muslim Brootherhood with fighter jets and main battle tanks. And he doesn’t ask them what they need them for…
@ lobo91:
But our mid-’40s technology was sufficient to build and deliver the Hiroshima Bomb. Just because they are primitive in comparison to us doesn’t mean that they can’t gravely injure us. We take Iran lightly at our peril.
Iron Fist wrote:
I think it’s interesting to note that we were able to develop nuclear weapons--including the hydrogen bomb--using paper and slide rules, while they struggle to repeat the same feat with the help of 21st century technology. And it’s not like they have to actually invent anything. It’s already been done.
Yet they call us apes…
Iron Fist wrote:
Both of those systems are rather complex in operation and maintaining, which brings up the question of whether technical support from the US will also be provided.
We can give our children cars, but can they keep them going on their own?
@ Tanker:
That maintenance would be done by western contractors, of course, just like it is in Saudi Arabia.
It would be pretty easy to cut off that support if we needed to.
Andrew McCarthy opposed the Libya War, the Arab Spring and getting involved in Syria. I wish republicans would listen to this guiy and not McCain.
@ lobo91:
Yeah, but some of them can last som e time without it. I remember that we shredded the F-14s when we took them out of commission for fear the Iranians would get their parts as spares for the F-14s we gave the Shah. Looks like that taught us exactly nothing.
The Chair is really a Stool.
@ Iron Fist:
Unlike the Saudis, the Egyptians do have some capability to do their own maintenance, as well. They have a plant that’s been building Abrams tanks for awhile now, so they at least have a basic undertanding of how they operate.
The Saudis, on the other hand, have no interest in even learning. They just figure that they’ll always be able to bribe enough westerners to come in and keep their stuff running. Doing the work themselves isn’t something that even crosses their minds.
It is not a coincidence, but rather calculated malfeasance.
@ lobo91:
I reckon it is the same for their oil fields and even their de-salinazation plants. All they care about are maintaining Mecca and Medina. Everything that actually matters is work for the hired help.
@ Iron Fist:
The Saudis couldn’t keep a Toyota Camry running on their own.
@ lobo91:
Egypt has engineers.
Rodan wrote:
He sure is.
MOre on the Joy that is Egypt after the Arab Spring®:
Riots over riots! What a riot! And it goes on:
Just as Morsi is worse than Mubarak, whatever follows the Muslim Brotherhood is likely to be worse. I don’t see a happy ending for this, but Obama must since he’s sending them all that advanced military hardware. Look, a squirrel!
Rodan wrote:
Egypt has not had good engineers since the Pharoahs.
@ Iron Fist:
Obama and McCain wanted this. They own this monster.
@ Speranza:
he’s not with the whole spread Democracy crap.
#MyJihad in Egypt: Muslim group threatens Christians, tells them to pay jizya
mskelly wrote:
Crickets from the State Department.
Rodan wrote:
“Islam” prevents democracy.
Rodan wrote:
“My friends the rebels, they are my heroes”.”
@ Speranza:
They are Christians so they do not count.
@ Speranza:
I hate that senile old fart.
Speranza wrote:
Though I often wonder if the State Department is simply purchased lock stock and barrel by arab and islamic interests, I wonder if the great minds running the show think that the way to quell jihadist violence against the US is to help birth a new caliphate thinking that will satisfy the muslim horde.
This is a joke!
Continuing Our Resilient Economic Recovery
Much is being made of the Islamist rebels in Mali torching a library in Timbuktu with ancient manuscripts.
Appalling as this act of vandalism is, remember that our own Congress has done something very similar by outlawing all children’s books printed prior to 1985 on the basis of bogus “safety” concerns, because of alleged traces of lead in the printing ink.
As a result of this sale ban, older children’s books—many out of print, many containing superb illustrations—are no longer sold by used bookstores or by secondhand stores, which do not want to risk fines. Thousands of books, classics which most people here probably grew up on, are being discarded and pulped. And this act of cultural vandalism is all under the guise of “safety,” and being “for the children.”
The Mali savages engaging in an act of violent destruction is deplorable. But it is also deplorable that a similar destruction is being accomplished by our own government after due deliberation under the guise of law.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Likewise they have destroyed hundreds of thousands, maybe even millions, of valuable historic firearms rather than sell them to the unwashed masses. Thompson submachineguns, BARs, even 1911 .45s have been sent to the torches in the name of gun control. And that is just American weapons. Obama turned back efforts to re-import hundreds of thousands of M-1 Garands from South Korea. These are weapons that collectors would love to have. They aren’t weapons that are particularly well-suited to crimes of any type, and they only take an 8-round clip. Remember that when Obama claims that he is only against magazines that hold more than ten rounds.
Iran has engineers
Iran unveils finger amputating machine for use on thieves
@ citizen_q:
Sorry, forgot to mention that the pictures in the linked article are a bit graphic just might not be nsfw.
@ Speranza:
Crickets or cheers. One or the other.
citizen_q wrote:
“Engineers?” All they did was take the guillotine—a Western invention—and downsize it.
@ citizen_q:
Such a shame considering the history of the Persian people.
Rodan wrote:
They need a masked crusader to ride to their rescue. He could be called Zorro-aster, maybe…
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Sorry, thought the sarcasm was implied.
Saw this reported in another article last night where they spoke about this being a new invention, but did not have photographs.
@ Rodan:
Wasn’t it Churchil who said in his book The River war of islam that there was no stronger retrograde force on the planet?
citizen_q wrote:
I’m slow sometimes…
@ citizen_q:
Churchill hated Nazism, Communism and Islam.
Delaware governor wants to make temporary tax increases permanent
re in the same boat and if it starts springing leaks, you all have to bail.
Unreal!
Rodan wrote:
Maybe he should change his name to “Markup”…
Rodan wrote:
Churchill hated and opposed all forms of Totalitarianism.
He was a true believer of Freedom and Liberty.
@ Rodan:
This sucks for me since I work in DE. I live in PA but have to pay the higher tax rate. PA is 3.15% but DE is 6.95%. Only good thing about DE is that they have no sales tax and they allow all the federal deductions on their tax forms. Still… I love paying tax in a state I don’t live in.
@ Rodan:
The Tax-and-Spend Democrats have returned in full force from wherever Bill Clinton exiled them to. Not that Clinton had anything against taxes, mind you, but we’ve gone for “The Era of Big Government is over” to the “Era of Bigger Government starts now”. Even Slick Willy didn’t rob a trillion dollars of “Stimulus” money a year out of the Treasury. Obama is a true Grand Master of the Art of Graft.
@ MikeA:
Tennessee has no State ncome tax. We have a pretty high sales tax, but no income tax. I think we have a dividend tax as well.
@ Iron Fist:
They are emboldened by their victory in 2012 and having no credible opposition. If anyone ever wondered how it is to live in a one party state, here ya go!
@ MikeA:
in.
That’s horrible.
Re State taxes. Financial companies flee New York
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/wall_st_flees_ny_for_tax_free_fla_Q6e4qSDMUethpylfznC4tO
Some jackass is no Rush right now saying that a collapsible stock will make an AR fully automatic.
Who knew? Mine does not do that. I guess I got ripped off! //////
Sultan Knish has a great article on Conservatives building their own media.
http://sultanknish.blogspot.ca/
@ Rodan:
See my #52, if you have the opportunity now.
Buttcrack’s destruction of National Security continues:
Barack Obama To Shut Down Southern Air Defense Systems
@ citizen_q:
They do make what is called a “bump-stck” that is supposed to simulate full-auto firing, but it isn’t a collapsable stock. It pulls the trigger for every round fired, though. It is simply a mechanism for (theoretically) pulling the trigger really fast. Because spray-and-pray really works…
@ Da_Beerfreak:
Obama is, from all the evidence, pro-smuggler, both of the drug and human kind. And I think you can probably include the human traffickers in that equasion. He’s done everything in his power to make the Southern Border more porous to all kinds of smuggling.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008D4WFEO?ie=UTF8&link_code=as3&camp=211163&creative=375279&creativeASIN=B008D4WFEO&tag=httpwwwblac07-20
This book is free on Amazon today. Everyone should grab it for their PC, tablet, Ipad, phone, kindle, whatever. It’s simplistic and goofy, but it details the insanity around O with good humor and fun.
Plus it helps encourage a former democrat that has started to see the light.
I’ll try to catch a later busy thread too.
Unless one is using a crew-served weapon, full-auto firing is vastly overrated.
Iron Fist wrote:
Spray-and-pray is the sperm-distribution system in certain neighborhoods.
yenta-fada wrote:
He’s right and wrong at the same time. Yes we need a better ground game. But, to disregard the power of the media offhandedly is a mistake we keep making.
For a dying media they sure do seem to influence public opinion and awful lot. Taking what we can to spread the message is never a bad thing. The more low info voters that hear the message the better, I don’t really give a damn how they hear it.
Knish is a genius, but on the media being unimportant, he’s dead wrong.
Hypocrite!
Brock’s Glock: In anti-gun DC, Media Matters for America gave bodyguard illegal weapons to guard founder David Brock
@ Mars:
Trump is trying to buy the NY Times. If he can pull that off, it can have a big impact.
Iron Fist wrote:
He likes to smuggle up to Michelle, too. Buckets of ribs, mostly, but also tamales, kobe-beef burgers, french fries—all sorts of stuff.
@ yenta-fada:
Just did and agree with Mars.
Rodan wrote:
@ Iron Fist:
decriminalize drugs and problem solved. But too many Conservatives love the Police State. You and I are a minority on the Right on this.
@ Mars:
I don’t even call them Liberal. They are Progressives.
Rodan wrote:
Yep, Knish is wrong. The NYT even with it’s huge drops in readership has a massive influence on the rest of the press, and it would be hard for them to switch to another quickly. Also, everyone keeps talking about how the newspaper readership has gone away and television viewers have gone away. Where do the talking heads think they went?
They went to the internet versions of the SAME DAMN PAPERS AND TELEVISION NEWS they were already watching.
@ Mars:
Exactly!
Rodan wrote:
“Hipstercrite,” maybe?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_Party_%28United_States,_1948%29
Or communist.
Even the earlier Progessive parties were people who split off from the Republicans because they wanted to Nationalize industry.
Communists. Fascists.
@ Iron Fist:
I would not be surprised. However as we both know, it does not change the operation of the AR action, like maybe putting a new sear that allows full auto. Personally, not so sure about the auto-sear business. I am not a gunsmith, and have not looked at trying to make an AR full auto. I am not interested, while very fun to do (Issued a M16 when I was in the Army) I am more interested in what each bullet I fire is going, and am not rich enough to support a full-auto habit.
Did you ever see that viral youtube video of that obese guy bump-firing his glock?
Da_Beerfreak wrote:
See above. Pretty much agree. Like I said though fun as heck, but not something I could afford. There are guys at a range that I sometimes go to, even in the Peoples Republik of MD, that legally own full-auto firearms that have allowed me to put a few rounds down range. One guy had M2 .50 cal. He wanted $5 a round I people wanted to give it a try. Adds up quick.
@ Mars:
American progressives like Teddy Roosevelt where National Socialists. The Democrats like Woodrow Wilson adopted International Socialism.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
The Hipsters are very dangerous.
@ Da_Beerfreak:
It is a lot of fun, but as a practical matter its usefulness is limited. Not that I think the Federal Government should be making an issue out of it.
citizen_q wrote:
Never saw it. I don’t YouTube much except for music videos. Amature film has never thrilled me.
@ Iron Fist:
Unless it’s the Charles Johnson Juche video!
Rodan wrote:
You get that book yet? You’re going to love that section.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/100412510
Busch: Could a Chicago ‘Quirky’ Democrat Help Rebuild the GOP?
This is an interesting article. Don’t agree with everything that’s being said, but there’s some good substance here.
Rodan wrote:
speaking of the norks
Famine-struck N Koreans ‘eating children’
BTW, That is the UK Telegraph’s headline, not mine.
http://www.space.com/19490-iran-launches-monkey-into-space-report.html
This is not good.
I thought space travel was forbidden because Mo said nothing except heaven exists up there.///
Rodan wrote:
I can see Chuckles as one of those mountain men who live reclusive lives socked up on toiletries bought on Amazon.
Rodan wrote:
Aint.Gonna.Happen.
Iron Fist wrote:
I don’t for an instance deny that full-auto isn’t fun. I wouldn’t pass up an opportunity to fire one myself. My Dad taught me years ago that if you have to take two shots at a target you’re wasting one. Dad was an old farm boy and a WWII vet.
@ citizen_q:
Sorry about that, the article I linked to was from 2003.
Color me embarrassed. I thought I saw an article on Drudge overnight while working late and waiting on my DBA. Did not see it on Drudge and searched.
@ citizen_q:
I just saw that article on Free Republic earlier today.
Now I have to go back and look for it again.
@ Speranza:
Nope. Trump lives to get his name in the papers, but the NYT isn’;t going to be on the auction block for a while. If, however, their readership continues to tank, all bets are off. There’s nothing sacred about the NYT. They’ve already sold their position as a “Paperof Record” for Democrat Party talking points.
@ Mars:
Not yet. I’ll get it this week.
@ Speranza:
Probably not since the NY times has an agenda. See how Al Gore refused to sell Current to Glenn Beck.
Mars wrote:
Thanks for the info! Just downloaded to my Kindle and just from reading the info on it, looks like it’s gonna be a fun read.
Da_Beerfreak wrote:
Found it. New article from the (UK) Sun.
Starving North Koreans ‘are forced to eat their children’
@ Rodan:
But Gore would sell Current TV to al Jazeera. That tells you all you need to know about Al Gore’s agenda. It wasn’t just the money. Current TV had to go to an American enemy so they’d stay focusedon the things that Gore cares about.
New thread.
@ Da_Beerfreak:
Thanks! I knew I saw that article somewhere. Though I must admit I don’t snap back from these 2am work sessions as easily as I used to.
Rodan wrote:
It’s not showing up on the main page.
Da_Beerfreak wrote:
It is showing up with YESTERDAY’S date.
@ Iron Fist:
The Left and Globalist Right (more on that later) is allied with islam.
Check your mail when you get a chance.
@ Da_Beerfreak:
@ 1389AD:
Fixed.
gizbot7 wrote:
It seems to be good from the little bit I checked out. It’s got a really light hearted sense of humor.
Rodan wrote:
Much gooder…
@ 32 Iron Fist:
Book Burning is a good lever for the pro Second Amendment people to use. It has a long established polarity in the American consciousness. The NRA needs to attach the book burner label to Obama and the Mayors doing this. Then ask them if they are going to burn Korans next.
A national straw man. That they have to make up an answer for.
@ darkwords:
Since the entirety of the leftist arguments are straw men, I don’t see why we can’t use our own.
@ 57 Mars: About 10 seconds to obtain it with Amazon Prime one click. no cost after the Prime subscription. Amazon Prime has saved me a lot of money. The $80 pays for itself if one is active.
darkwords wrote:
I suggested it to everyone mainly because it doesn’t require Prime. I like one click shopping. I am using the Prime trial right now, but I haven’t seen a real reason to keep it yet, I don’t order many physical objects from there, the free movie and tv selection isn’t great, and the book checkout is nice, but I get over a dozen free books from amazon every day anyway, so I’m way behind in my reading.
Mars wrote:
Thanks for the heads up. I just ordered it.
@ Speranza:
It looks worth it.
If anyone is interested, I get dozens of free books every day from amazon. In fact I managed over the last few months to get a whole collection of history books from the VFW on there.
Go to http://www.freestufftimes.com and check every day. You’ll never run out of free reading material.