The Amboy Times

What Every American Needs to Know About JIhad

Frontpage has a new video, "What Every American Needs To KNow About Jihad" to promote the Terrorism Awareness Project. It's well worth watching, and best of all, You Tube can't delete it!

Iowahawk claims to have a bigger carbon footprint than Gore, and has a vid to prove it.

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Taliban Attack on Cheney Failed: Left Saddened

The left wing of the blogosphere has shown it's true face after news that Vice President Dick Cheney survived a terrorist attack carried out by the Taliban while visiting Afghanistan.

A suicide bomber attacked the entrance to the main U.S. military base in Afghanistan Tuesday during a visit by Vice President Dick Cheney, killing up to 23 people and wounding 20. The Taliban claimed responsibility and said Cheney was the target.

Cheney’s spokeswoman said he was fine, and the vice president later met with President Hamid Karzai in the capital, Kabul, before leaving the country.

The Daily Kos post is titled; Oh crap! Cheney is about to get even more paranoid and insane!

Damn! Not damn because they missed the giant Dick, I don't wish him dead(okay maybe I do, but I'm working really hard on being a kinder, more forgiving person.) but because this is just going to fuel his paranoid delusional fantasies that the terrorists are coming to get him.

It's treasonous, plain and simple, to wish that the VP be assassinated by the same people who carried out 9/11. Malkin has a huge round-up, including lots of the vile and profane comments at Huffpo, DU, and Kos. Question their patriotism? They have none to question.

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The First Warning

Thirteen years ago today, Osama bin Laden struck his first blow against the United States. His henchmen drove a rental truck full of explosives into the underground parking garage of the World Trade Center. The resulting terrorist attack killed six and injured over a thousand people.


Ramzi Yousef masterminded the plot in four months while spending about ten thousand dollars on the sceme. First thought to be an accident, ivestigators found the vehicle identification number on a three hundred pound piece of metal remains of the rental truck. The FBI traced the number to the rental agency and arrested Mohammed Salameh when he returned to collect a four hundred dollar deposit on the truck. The four men direcly involved were all arrested and sentanced to 240 years of prison. Read it all.

Al Gore: Gross Polluter

Let's talk about carbon footprints, really BIG footprints. Ladies and gentlemen, the winner for best performance by an eco-lefty...

Al Gore’s Personal Energy Use Is His Own “Inconvenient Truth”
Gore’s home uses more than 20 times the national average

Last night, Al Gore’s global-warming documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, collected an Oscar for best documentary feature, but the Tennessee Center for Policy Research has found that Gore deserves a gold statue for hypocrisy.

 

Gore’s mansion, located in the posh Belle Meade area of Nashville, consumes more electricity every month than the average American household uses in an entire year, according to the Nashville Electric Service (NES).

 

In his documentary, the former Vice President calls on Americans to conserve energy by reducing electricity consumption at home.

 

The average household in America consumes 10,656 kilowatt-hours (kWh) per year, according to the Department of Energy. In 2006, Gore devoured nearly 221,000 kWh—more than 20 times the national average.

 

Last August alone, Gore burned through 22,619 kWh—guzzling more than twice the electricity in one month than an average American family uses in an entire year. As a result of his energy consumption, Gore’s average monthly electric bill topped $1,359.

 

Since the release of An Inconvenient Truth, Gore’s energy consumption has increased from an average of 16,200 kWh per month in 2005, to 18,400 kWh per month in 2006.

 

Gore’s extravagant energy use does not stop at his electric bill. Natural gas bills for Gore’s mansion and guest house averaged $1,080 per month last year.

 

“As the spokesman of choice for the global warming movement, Al Gore has to be willing to walk the walk, not just talk the talk, when it comes to home energy use,” said Tennessee Center for Policy Research President Drew Johnson.

 

In total, Gore paid nearly $30,000 in combined electricity and natural gas bills for his Nashville estate in 2006.

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Would you Shake Hands with a Jew?

Hat tip, NeoCon Command Center

Ayaan Hirsi Ali on Bill Maher

Hat tip, Hot Air
Bill Maher is remarkably cogent in this video and seems to agree with Hirsi-Ali. Issa is a Repulican House representative from my old district (North San Diego County), who is also a Muslim. Issa was instrumental in removing Gray Davis from the govenor's seat, making room for Arnold, but he is out-matched here.

Related;
Beck Interviews Hirsi-Ali

Christian Science Dhimmi

Kenneth Ballen, the founder and President of Terror Free Tomorrow, has written a puff piece for Islamic radicalism. Predictably, he makes his case with polls conducted by an American University and never bothers to mention jihad. But surprisingly, Ballen makes this blunder,

""Americans are more approving of terrorist attacks against civilians than any major Muslim country except for Nigeria.""

Sure they are. Those Americans are always handing out candy to children after terrorist attacks, celebrating after 9/11, naming streets after terrorists and referring to suicide bombers as "martyrs". It never dawns on Ballen that the poll is worthless, but he does concede this,

"Do these findings mean that Americans are closet terrorist sympathizers? Hardly."

But before Ballen lapses into reality, he launches into his countrymen who are always jumping to conclusions,

Yet, far too often, Americans and other Westerners seem willing to draw that conclusion about Muslims. Public opinion surveys in the United States and Europe show that nearly half of Westerners associate Islam with violence and Muslims with terrorists. Given the many radicals who commit violence in the name of Islam around the world, that's an understandable polling result.

No kidding. Ballen peers carefully into the wrong end of the telescope and sees Muslims victimized by Americans. Like a lot of pundits in the media, Ballen takes the view that not all Muslims are terrorists, therefore, it's religion of peace. This is like saying 50 years ago that not all Germans are soldiers, therefore fascism is peaceful. We are dealing with a totalitarian ideology then as now. It's not a matter of how many Muslims turn to jihad, it's a matter that jihad exists as a pillar of Islam. Until Islam undergoes a major reform, there will always be more muhajideen willing to kill infidels for the sake of Allah,

The idea the American's acknowledgment of Islam as the source of terrorism is some sort of prejudice is a crude understanding of the national mood and does nothing but serve those who wish to destroy us and our way of life.  To make matters worse, Ballens makes the absurd claim that those who support Osama bin Laden aren't really supporting terror at all,

For most people, their professed support of terrorism/bin Laden can be more accurately characterized as a kind of "protest vote" against current US foreign policies, not as a deeply held religious conviction or even an inherently anti- American or anti-Western view.

So OBL murders 2,996 Americans, becomes a hero in the Muslim world, but there's nothing anti-American about it and  the people who support him are just issuing a "protest vote". It all makes sense now. So if you can buy that, you love this little gem,

In truth, the common enemy is violence and terrorism, not Muslims any more than Christians or Jews. Whether recruits to violent causes join gangs in Los Angeles or terrorist cells in Lahore, the enemy is the violence they exalt.

This logic dictates that a policeman subduing a criminal is just as evil as the unmitigated violence committed by a murderer. Pacifism only works if everyone participates, and freedom will only survive if we defend it. Ballen needs to realize that  jihad isn't going to go away on it's own, no matter how nice we are to Muslims. The Muslim theocracies believe they have one thousand years to convert, kill or dhimmify the entire planet, and they will use any means to attain these goals. Perhaps the next "protest vote" will convince him.

Related: American Muslims Surveyed

Blogger Jailed for Insulting Islam

A new one to add to the List.

An Egyptian who enraged his government with outspoken views on Islam and politics expressed in his internet diary was jailed yesterday amid an international outcry.

The 22-year-old former law student, whose own father has disowned him and called for his execution under Islamic law, was sentenced to four years by a court in Alexandria.

The convictions resulting from the views published on his weblog included counts for "spreading information disruptive of public order and damaging to the country's reputation"; "incitement to hate Islam" and "defaming the President of the Republic".

Abdelkareem Suleiman was also found guilty of criticising Al-Azhar University. He was expelled from the university last March after writing in his blog that the "professors and sheikhs at Al-Azhar who stand against anyone who thinks freely" would "end up in the dustbin of history".

The sentence, which was condemned by human rights groups, is widely seen as the latest attempt by the government to punish internet activism. The interior ministry recently established a new intelligence unit, called the department for confronting computer and internet crime, and new laws have made it easier for the police to shut down websites deemed subversive.

Identification is now a requirement to use the internet in public places and state security issues proprietors with black lists of those forbidden from going online. The state-controlled press often accuses bloggers of defaming Egypt's reputation abroad or of being in the pay of foreign powers.

Seven bloggers were among dozens of people arrested last year during student demonstrations, but Suleiman was the first to be convicted. Blogging about Muslim-Christian riots that took place in Alexandria in October 2005, Suleiman wrote in typically provocative fashion: "The Muslims have taken the mask off to show their true hateful face, and they have shown the world that they are at the top of their brutality, inhumanity, and thievery.

"Some may think that the actions of the Muslims does not represent Islam and has no relationship with the teachings of Islam that was brought by Mohammed fourteen centuries ago, but the truth is that their action is not different from the Islamic teachings in its original form."

Until two years ago there were still only about 30 blogs written in Egypt, which has a population of 80 million. Now more than 3,000 men and women from across the social spectrum can be found blogging in every major town and city in Egypt.

Weekend Open Trackback

Your basic weekend long open trackback post.
I took a picture of this mural in 29 Palms, CA. (click to enlarge)

 

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Taliban Suicide Recruits

Hat tip, LGF. A report from Al Jazeera, recorded and translated by MEMRI TV (http://memritv.org). Very young suicide bomber explains that he isn't poor or desperate, in fact he could be a doctor if he wanted.