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Unless you are living under a rock, you have heard the controversy surrounding the “ground zero mosque.” Essentially, a group of Muslims want to build an “Islamic community center,” that will house a mosque, two blocks away from the former World Trade Center. This has sparked a firestorm of protest from the right, claiming it is everything from insensitive to the next terrorist attack itself. This has annoyed me greatly.

One of the founding principles of this country was religious freedom. This means that you can support any religion you want, or no religion, and not be molested by the government. Increasingly, those on the right construe this as, “You can be any religion you want, as long as it’s Christian.” If you are a Buddhist, a Hindu or, (God forbid!) a Muslim, (I’m not sure if they consider atheists better or worse than Muslims), then your rights and desires are not relevant. This is a clear case of religious freedom: these people want to built a house or worship, on private property, using private funds. There is no compelling reason why they should not be allowed to do it. Unless you believe that all Muslims are terrorists.

And that’s exactly what most of the commentators on the right seem to think. Listen to the statements of Newt Gingrich, that moron Sarah Palin, or any of the talking heads on Fox News. They are all screaming about how “it just isn’t right” to build this Mosque “at ground zero” where so many lost their lives. Yes, 3,000 people did lose their lives at the WTC site, and yes, the attack was carried out by Muslim extremists, but that does not mean that all Muslims are terrorists.

Now, if you were to search my blog, you would probably find some inflammatory statements made by me about Muslims. Statements that might indicate that I considered all Muslims to be terrorists. I wish to publicly repudiate those statements right now. (Or “refudiate” them, as the learned Sarah Palin would say.) I’m not making excuses for my former statements, (well, maybe I am…) but I don’t think I was thinking about the situation rationally. I was caught up in a patriotic ferver, that I now see was incorrect. I’ll say it again: not all Muslims are terrorists.

In fact, a very small minority of them are terrorists, or support the actions of terrorists.

“But wait,” you say, “the Koran is ‘full of violence’ and commands by their ‘god’ to kill the unbelievers.” Indeed. May I then direct you to your bible to that part called the “old testament.” That’s the part that lots of Christians seem to forget about. There’s more violence in there than you can shake a stick at. Does that make us a violent religion? No. See what I’m getting at?

“But wait,” you say again, “those Muslims want to spred Islam all over the world! They want everyone to be a Muslim.” Indeed. Now, may I direct you to your bible, to Matthew 28: 19-20, which reads: “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

What this all comes down to is a bunch of Christians who are scared of Islam and don’t like to see it spreading. Despite their claims of “But I have a Muslim friend!” or “I don’t care if they build another Mosque, just build it somewhere else!” or “I don’t have a problem with them building it, but building it there is just insensitive!” it all amounts to the same thing. They don’t like Muslims, and they want them to go away.

I think they should be allowed to build it. I think the protesters are wrong, but I support their right to protest and make their opinions known, as long as they remain non-violent. That is my main concern. I wonder how long it will take, after construction begins, before the site is vandalized (or worse) by those who oppose it. “But that wouldn’t be very Christian!” you say. Indeed, it would not.

I heard about this the other day, but SecDef Gates has mentioned it again, and I liked this quote

“Any soldier who goes into battle against the Taliban in pink boxers and flip-flops has a special kind of courage. I can only wonder about the impact on the Taliban. Just imagine seeing that – a guy in pink boxers and flip-flops has you in his crosshairs.”

via NPR: Gates Defends Soldier’s Pink Undies.

You simply must see these images. It’s a pictorial of “life” in the “Democratic” Republic of Congo. As in many African countries, long-running civil wars between enemy tribes take an almost unbelievable human toll. The photos in this pictorial show what a truly miserable existence these people have.

The little boy in the photo to the right is eight. He, his mother and seven siblings were attacked with machetes by a militia of the Lendu tribe. He was left for dead in a pile of bodies. His father found him still alive and hid him in the jungle. Later, the same militia found the father and hacked him to death, too. The child now lives in an orphanage with scars to remind him of what happened to his family.

It’s so hard to comprehend, sitting here in comfort in the United States, that suffering like this exists, but I know it does. What can we do to stop it? Can an outside force have an effect, of do we have to wait for those people to have a change of heart? The UN is clearly impotent in situations like these, and the US would be seen as some sort of interloper based on current world opinion, so who can help? Do we simply have to let it continue until one side wins, or both sides lose enough blood?

The world after Day Zero.

Thomas and I started our first game of Risk last night. We got everything setup, I explained the rules, and then we began. As I was reading him the rules, when I got to the one that states that during an attack, a draw always goes to the defender, his response was, “Aww. That stinks.” Little did we know how much his opinion of that rule was about to change.

After we placed our initial armies, he moved first. He placed his new armies and decided to attack me in New Guinea from Eastern Australia, and it was bloody. I lost and he moved in. He then tried to take Indonesia from me, but there, he failed. He decided to end his turn, and then it was my turn to start a war.

I placed my new armies, and immediately set out to take Congo from him. I attacked from Egypt, we rolled and it was a draw. I lost an army. Undeterred, I decided to attack Congo from North Africa. Again we rolled, and again it was a draw. I then attacked Congo from South Africa. Again, a draw. I tried once again to take Congo, this time attacking from East Africa. Against all odds, it was another draw. I was stunned. He was highly amused.

We played through, I believe, four turns each, and then called it a night. Since we have cats, I decided to take a picture of the board, so that when we continue the war, we’ll know if anything has gotten moved.

I am thrilled that Thomas enjoyed the game. I had fun, too. But I’m no longer sure I like that “defender wins all draws” rule…

I hate that some police officers were killed, but it makes me smile to know that two mullahs, affectionately referred to as “prayer leaders” in the article, were killed when a suicide vest they were making went off prematurely. I’ll bet scores of people were saved by these two asshats getting blown to bits. And if you keep reading, you’ll see that two other “millitants” were killed while trying to plant a mine.

Khaleej Times Online – Police, bomb-makers among a dozen killed in Afghanistan.

According to this story, a short “anti-Koran” film has been taken offline due to death threats against the site hosting the film. On this Digg thread, there are lots of asinine comments about this story, and Islam in general, but also one gem. In response to the (probably facetious) question, “How could anyone feel threatened by someone who adheres to the religion of peace?”, one digger replied

“It’s the religion of peace and we will kill anyone who says it isn’t.”

That, friends, is becoming an axiom. Yes, I know there are billions of Muslims around the world who aren’t participating in violence. But there are increasing numbers who are threatening violence against anyone who says anything about their cult^H^H^H^H religion, and far too many willing to carry out those threats.

All I’ve ever heard about the Tet Offensive was that it was a massive failure for the Allies and that it signaled the beginning of the end for Allied forces in Vietnam. Over the past couple of years I’ve read several stories contradicting the conventional wisdom about Tet. From these readings, it seems that far from a defeat for Allied forces, it was actually a stunning, massive defeat for the Communists. Here’s the latest story from the Wall Street Journal explaining exactly that. Essentially, the media mis-reported what happened during Tet, and the American people swallowed it. Most still believe it. I believe the same thing is happening with media reporting in Iraq. Objective figures show the troop surge is working, but most Americans think we’re “in a quagmire.” Will it take 40 years before we see that the reporting on Iraq was wrong?

Members of the great and wonderful “Religion of Peace” have been spotted hanging posters lionizing the latest Islamic cult-fanatic suicide bomber. Dig the photo. Pay special attention to the kids looking at these photos. The Reuters text is

Palestinian men put up posters proclaiming 18-year-old suicide bomber Sami Salim Hamad as a martyr outside Hamad’s family’s house in the West Bank village of Arakah near Jenin April 18, 2006. Hamad killed nine people and wounded 60 others in a suicide attack in Tel Aviv, Israel on Monday.

Do you think if I went up to New Fallujah and slaughtered a bunch of Muslims sitting around a coffee shop (or wherever those people go for fun) I would be praised as a hero? That’s a rhetorical question. The answer, of course is “no.” Because, except to a few “kill ‘em all, let God sort ‘em out” type wackos, this sort of thing is anathema to us, with “us” defined as “those in the civilized non-Stone-age world.” But praising suicide bombers seems to be the favorite pastime in the Muslim world.

“Abdul Rahman must be killed. Islam demands it,” said senior Cleric Faiez Mohammed….

Read the story.

More evidence that practitioners of the so-called “religion of peace” are twisted, sadistic barbarians.

Malaysia’s de facto law minister has threatened to jail or fine non-Muslims who insult Islam, amid concern over recent articles perceived as attacking the religion.

Mohamad Nazri Abdul Aziz said the country’s sedition act could be used on non-Muslims who make comments construed as belittling Islam.

“We will not think twice about using this law against anybody who incites,” Mohamad Nazri, a minister in the prime minister’s department, was quoted as saying in the Star newspaper today.

The minister said he was concerned over recent articles written about Islam by non-Muslims, and warned there was a limit to what could be said in the Muslim-majority country.

Wow. Read the rest.

That wonderful, peace-loving religion known as Islam makes it, shall we say, rather difficult on anyone who decides to forsake the bloody sword and convert to Christianity. Details here. You need to read this.

From this Kuwait News Agency Story, comes this little gem

Abu Qatada, described as al-Qaeda’s spiritual ambassador in Europe, is believed to be among the ten held today, the British media said.

Don’t you just love the fact that worthless Muslim terrorists have a “spiritual ambassador?” Isn’t that sweet? I guess he gets to tell them that Allah loves it when a guy detonates a bomb and takes out as many innocent children as possible. The bloodier, the better, baby!

The British are finally getting tough on Islamic terrorism. They have recognized what lots of other people have recognized for some time now: the major threat to civilization is Islamic terrorism. While the British have had lots of trouble with the IRA, the Muslim threat is much worse. And they are doing things about it. The article linked above is about the first round of deportations of people who are considered supporters of the “cause” of Islamic bombers. These “people” may not be carrying out the attacks, but they are supporting them in other ways. They need to get rid of all of those weird beards that congregate at the big mosque in downtown London. That would solve quite a few of their problems.

I just have to say “Good on ‘em!” The Brits are doing what we should be doing. We also should be guarding our borders and profiling, but all the whiny liberals in this country won’t let us…

It’s happened again. Representatives of the “Religion of Peace” have brutally murdered another innocent man. I’m becoming more and more convinced every day that Islam is a false religion. “But it’s only the fringe that is doing this!” you say. It may be true that “the fringe” are the ones carrying out these atrocities, but the “mainstream” Muslim world sits idly by, tacitly accepting what is being done in their name. They are, therefore, complicit. It took three years for any Muslim organization to “apologize” for 9/11, meanwhile there are murals in Iraq, Saudi Arabia and other Muslim dominated countries heralding the attacks. The leading Imam in the UK held a rally on 9/11/2004 commemorating the attacks.

The Muslim world needs to step up and decry these atrocities that are being done under the guise of “Allah.” If they don’t, they are giving aid and comfort to those who would murder innocents to further their goals.

Yesterday two airliners took off from the same Moscow airport. At nearly the same moment, one crashed and the other apparently broke apart in mid-air. This new story claims that the plane which broke up radioed in that they were being seized. All reports I’ve seen state that “terrorism hasn’t been ruled out.” Well, yeah. Given that Chechnya has been sending Muslim terrorists into Russia for some time now, terrorism should be ruled in until there is irrefutable proof that it wasn’t terrorism. The timing of the events seems a little too… well… timed.

It seems media darling Joe Wilson has a problem telling the truth. At least according to the Senate report released last week. Here is some info on that report and Wilson’s idea of facts.

Here is an excellent article from US News & World Report about our Islamist enemy. You should read it. So should the supposedly peace-loving members of the “religion of Peace” and decide to condemn those who have “hijacked” their religion once and for all.

Here’s a good article on the Senate report that so many leftists, and the media, seem to think “proves” that “Bush Lied!” Wrong again.

Go here if you want to see how some of our Marines feel about that ass-hat Michael Moore, and how they feel about our President.

Over the past few months the left-wing media has been playing The Name Game with us regarding terrorists. They went from being “terrorists” to “insurgents.” Then last week, they went from “insurgents” to being “rebels.” Now, the We’re-No-Friends-of-America French are calling them “activists.” Don’t believe me? Here’s the original Reuters story, and here’s where I first read about it. Notice that with each renaming, these worthless, godless shit-pigs are being graced with an ever-increasing notion of legitimacy and respectability. To the left, the term “terrorist” is a far too judgmental word. No, the always-impartial news media can’t “show favoritism” and so must keep coming up with words that don’t really express what these WGSPs are really up to.

From The Mesopotamian, an Iraqi blog, comes this:

Glory and honor to the U.S. and Allied men and women whose blood is irrigating the tree of freedom in this land; and their sacrifices, suffering, and toil is laying the foundation for a future renaissance of the Mesopotamian People. Hail soldiers of freedom and enlightenment. Do not be dismayed by the trouble and turbulence of the present, for the future generations will remember and appreciate.

And last but not least; Hail, Great El Bush, a leader not only of the U.S. but a true hero of mankind.

Read the rest here.