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Via new blogger Jim O’Sullivan:
It’s a link to an Arab News account of camel beauty pageant. This is what happens to a culture that covers up and oppresses its women.
Ships of the desert cat-walked their way into the hearts of thousands of spectators before a panel of judges who evaluated them for their dignified gait; original Arabian bloodlines; whole physique; response to the slightest direction of the drivers and overall comeliness.
The camel pageant contest starts at 6:30 a.m. and lasts until 11 a.m. everyday with a colorful procession of decorated camels in a ring with their owners while specialized judges evaluate the entrants. The kind of mouth, how long and strong is the neck, the hump, big lips, and the beauty of the hair are among the criteria applied to determine the best looking camel.
...Camel owners take good care of their precious creatures. They are scrubbed and shampooed every day, said Metle Al-Otaiby who enters the contest every year.
Doesn’t that sound a little odd? Don’t miss the photo in the linked article.
If we dropped leaflets of movie babes in their Oscar dresses over Iran, Syria, and Lebanon, it would probably contribute to the burgeoning movement toward democracy in those states. Perhaps with text that says, “Democracy leads to this.”
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Chrenkoff has a great interview with Victor Davis Hanson. Here are two excerpts:
Chrenkoff: How do you see the future of the trans-Atlantic relationship? Is it salvageable in the short term, or is the Old Europe likely to continue to see the United States as a greater threat than Islamofascism, nuclear Iran or imperial China?
VDH: So we are on to them at last; here is the rule regarding these strange folk who peddle weapons to communist China, whitewash Hizbollah, fund Hamas, and looted Iraq: the degree to which Europe is amoral by either its commission or negligence is directly proportional to the degree we see in its media and state spokesmen moral posturing and invective against the United States.
So… we sit tight, praise them, and keep our powder dry, looking to see the fall out from Islamicism on their shores, and whether they curb anti-Semitism, get their birthrates up, rearm and make a real alliance, avoid antagonizing a surrounded Russia, and buy off an Iran or crazy former Soviet Republic. We cannot do much in all that and so should expect very little from them and get ready for some pretty crazy things coming out of Europe in the next few years. NATO as we know it is dead, and we have no idea what will followso we praise it to the skies.
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VDH: In my case, I’ve met in America, mostly on campuses and among students, one too many Europeans, Chinese, Indians, Mexicans, Arabs, or Koreans who after becoming a naturalized US citizen or a legal resident alien, begin praising the country they under no circumstance wish to return to while damning the country that they most certainly will not leave under any circumstance. I am sure the psychotherapists have various names and classifications for this sick syndrome; but abstract identification of it does not make it any easier to stomach in the here and now. So that is the burden of our diplomats and so far they are doing wonderfully.
“The fall out from Islamicism on their shores—” that’s something I’ve been posting about a lot lately.
(via Instapundit. )
The former presidential candidate told party faithful at a Kansas fund-raiser last week that the party’s conservative opponents are “evil,” according to the Lawrence Journal-World.
“This is a struggle of good and evil,” he told the gathered activists, who paid $100 apiece to hear the new Democratic chairman. “And we’re the good.”
The Islamic beheaders and murderers don’t seem to be on Dean’s list of evil. Just those who want to rid the world of them. Dean appears to be making a statement Osama bin Laden would be proud of.
The NY Times is busted again:
When the weaker-than-expected preliminary report on gross domestic product was first published in late January, the New York Times featured a story about it on the front page of its Saturday morning business section. The author was left-of-center Louis Uchitelle, a reporter who groused in his story about soft business investment (outside of computers and software) as well as weak export sales to foreign countries.
A month later, however, we have the revision of the GDP report for the last three months of 2004. The new data show a much stronger economy.
The initial estimate of 3.1 percent GDP growth for last years fourth quarter was revised upward to 3.8 percent. Business investment was revised higher to 18 percent from 14.9 percent. Included in this, the rise in non-high-tech business investment outstripped high-tech investment (by 15.2 percent to 13.7 percent, both at annual rates) for the first time since 1994. Private-sector domestic output what Economics 101 students might remember as consumption plus investment (or C+I) came in at an outsized 5.5 percent growth.
So what did the New York Times do with this upbeat economic story? It buried it. Rather than place the news on the front page of the business section, the Times editors shoved it on page B4. Instead of carrying a senior reporters byline, the copy came from Reuters News Service.
I’ve said it before. Mainstream media is no longer serious reporting: it’s an experiment in mind control.
Abu Ali is the American-born Muslim who has confessed as follows:
U.S. Magistrate Judge Liam O’Grady issued the order after a detention hearing in U.S. District Court in Alexandria in which an FBI agent testified that Mr. Abu Ali, 23, of Falls Church, confessed “multiple times” that he had allied with al Qaeda to plot the Bush assassination.
Per Daniel Pipes, Abu Ali was schooled in a Saudi-funded high school on U.S. soil:
Born in the United States to immigrant Jordanian parents, Abu Ali, 23, [...] attended the Islamic Saudi Academy in Alexandria, Virginia, graduating in 1999 as class valedictorian. As an outpost of Saudi values on American soil, the academy enjoys Saudi government funding, is chaired by the Saudi ambassador in Washington, and boasts a curriculum imported straight from Riyadh.
Thus, the first grade teachers’ guide at the Islamic Saudi Academy instructs that Christianity and Judaism are false religions. When one realizes that the curriculum is overseen by Saleh Al-Fawzan, who in 2003 endorsed the institution of slavery, this comes as less than a grand shock.
While still living in the United States, Abu Ali developed ties to the “paintball jihadists” of northern Virginia, nine of whom have served time in jail.
Pipes links to this report on that high school:
WASHINGTON DC – Six-year-old children at the Saudi Islamic Academy in Alexandria, Virginia are taught to disparage Christianity and Judaism, according to a first-grade textbook obtained by the Saudi Institute.
The book, which is authored and published by the Saudi Ministry of Education, teaches Saudi and American children that Judaism, Christianity, and other faiths are false religions.
Lesson nine on page 19 of the textbook “Monotheism and Figh” instructs the teacher to explain to students that the religions of Jews and Christians are false. The book, printed in 2003, is part of the new Saudi curriculum, taught both in the Kingdom and the United States, which was changed following criticism of religious hatred in the education system.
Is the Saudi-funded high school in Virginia the only such high school in America? Not according to this report:
There are thousands of Saudi-funded Islamic schools in America. While we have been aware of this for years, Americans were ignorant about what was being taught in those schools to American children who just happen to be Muslim. The Saudi Ministry of Education has been creating a network of sleeper-cells right in the heart of America.
For a modest investment, the Saudi government has had total access to thousands of young American minds and has used that opportunity to corrupt and mold those young minds into its view of the perfect Muslim. The perfect Muslim is full of hate for all non-Muslims, has no loyalty to the United States, and is convinced that only radical Islam—Wahhabism (the dominant sect of Islamic teaching in Saudi Arabia)—is the correct interpretation of Islam. There are now thousands of pre-programmed terrorists in America, waiting for the war against the American infidel to begin in earnest. These soldiers do not consider themselves free: they know they are loyal Muslims in the army of Islam.
The American flag waves in front of each Saudi-supported American school, but the students continue to be taught that someday it will be replaced with the flag of Islam. They believe it is just a matter of time. These young people have been totally indoctrinated in the Wahhabism belief that has been taught in Saudi Arabia for two centuries. Children are not born terrorists. Terrorists are created. The Saudis have been very busy doing just that—right here in America.
There are two major questions that remain: How much longer will Americans tolerate this Saudi hate-filled school system in our midst and how much damage has been done? One has to assume that the hate-everyone-not-Muslim curriculum is standard in all of them.
Conclusions: Saudi-funded high schools on U.S. soil are teaching American children Jihad, which is, to attack the surrounding American culture, and to attack Americans physically, which this student has carried out by attempting to kill the President.
And a question:
Where is the ACLU on this? The ACLU, which famously opposes all association of schools and religion. Do they only support religion when it is used to teach people to attack Americans?
