Simple Questions

Earlier this month, a student at UNC-Chapel Hill, who had been raised in this country since the age of two, turned into an islamic murderbot and tried to run down a crowd of people with his SUV.

Luckily no-one was killed, though many were injured.

His intent was to murder as many innocent students as possible, as his religious duty.

Now, it turns out, he left behind a very interesting note, reproduced below.

It is utterly fascinating for what it reveals about the thinking of the jihadist, and the logic of the muslim religion that directs its adherents to kill.

After reading it, I pose two simple questions.

Question the first: Should this person be charged with a crime and treated as a simple criminal, and be out in maybe a few years on on attempted murder charges?

Or should he be seen as an illegal enemy combatant and sent to Guantanamo forever?

Scalia, or course, has the answer right:

"War is war, and it has never been the case that when you captured a combatant you have to give them a jury trial in your civil courts. Give me a break," Newsweek quoted Scalia as saying.

Question the second: Given his accurate explication of the koranic justification for his actions, straight from the mouth of the holy man mohammed, can the problem be rationally claimed to be with a few radicals who have "hijacked" a "great religion", or is the problem with the fundamental tenets of islam itself?

Now the letter:

In the name of Allah, the merciful, the compassionate.

To whom it may concern:

I am writing this letter to inform you of my reasons for premeditating and attempting to murder citizens and residents of the United States of America on Friday, March 3, 2006 in the city of Chapel Hill, North Carolina by running them over with my automobile and stabbing them with a knife if the opportunities are presented to me by Allah.

I did intend to use a handgun to murder the citizens and residents of Chapel Hill, North Carolina but the process of receiving a permit for a handgun in this city is highly restricted and out of my reach at the present, most likely due to my foreign nationality.

I am a servant of Allah. I am 22 years of age and I was born in Tehran, Iran. My father, mother and older sister immigrated to the United States in 1985 when I was two years of age and I’ve lived in the United States ever since.

I attended elementary, middle and high school in North Carolina and I was accepted into the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I began my college career in August 2001 and graduated in December 2005 with a bachelor’s degree in psychology and philosophy with Allah’s help.

I do not wish to pursue my career as a student any further because I have no desire to amass the impermanent and temporary fame and material wealth this world has to offer. However I made the decision to continue my studies and to graduate from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill so that the world will know that Allah’s servants are very intelligent.

Due to the killing of believing men and women under the direction of the United States government, I have decided to take advantage of my presence on United States soil on Friday, March 3, 2006 to take the lives of as many Americans and American sympathizers as I can in order to punish the United States for their immoral actions around the world.

In the Qur’an, Allah states that the believing men and women have permission to murder anyone responsible for the killing of other believing men and women. I know that the Qur’an is a legitimate and authoritative holy scripture since it is completely validated by modern science and also mathematically encoded with the number 19 beyond human ability. After extensive contemplation and reflection, I have made the decision to exercise the right of violent retaliation that Allah has given me to the fullest extent to which I am capable at present.

I have chosen the particular location on the University campus as my target since I know there is a high likelihood that I will kill several people before being killed myself or jailed and sent to prison if Allah wills. Allah’s commandments are never to be questioned and all of Allah’s commandments must be obeyed. Those who violate Allah’s commandments and purposefully follow human fabrication and falsehood as their religion will burn in fire for eternity in accordance with Allah’s will.

Sincerely yours,
Mohammed Reza Taheri-Azar

Anyone note the evil irony of calling allah the "merciful" and "compassionate", then talking about his unending imperatives to kill the unbelievers?

And for all those "the Bible is violent!" morons, there's a difference between the mere recording of bronze-age history, and the actual teachings of Jesus Christ.

For the logic-impaired, it is the explicit teachings of mohammed that are damning.

Read for example these questions asked by Investor's Business Daily:

Is Islam the only religion with a doctrine, theology and legal system that mandates warfare against unbelievers?

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Is the “test” of loyalty to Allah not good acts or faith in general, but martyrdom that results from fighting unbelievers (47:4) — the only assurance of salvation in Islam (4:74; 9:111)?

Are the sins of any Muslim who becomes a martyr forgiven by the very act of being slain while slaying the unbelievers (4:96)?

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Does Islam advocate expansion by force? And is the final command of jihad, as revealed to Muhammad in the Quran, to conquer the world in the name of Islam (9:29)?

Is Islam the only religion that does not teach the Golden Rule (48:29)? Does the Quran instead teach violence and hatred against non-Muslims, specifically Jews and Christians (5:50)?

There are other questions, but these should do for a start.

Yes, that's quite enough.

How many more examples are needed???

Send Taheri-Azer to Gitmo with a sack over his head for the duration.

Giving Up

It is disheartening, how so many are just giving up.

For example, it looks like Congress wants to give up on controlling the borders -- I keep hearing politicians and pundits claim you "just can't" detain or deport the illegal invaders so we might as well not try.

This from the only country that ever actually sent, and safely returned, men to the surface of the freakin' Moon!

Russia and China want to give up on stopping Iran, watering down the U.N. statement.

Censorship due to intimidation also abounds.

Who knew our cherished freedoms really rested on such shaky foundations?

How does it feel to know that backward medieval pinheads are controlling our bookstores and Universities?

Oh what smug defenders of "Free speech" they were when it involved "offending" Christians or white middle America!

Item one:

NEW YORK, March 29, 2006—In violation of its own policies, New York University (NYU) is refusing to allow a student group to show the Danish cartoons of Mohammed at a public event tonight. Even though the purpose of the event is to show and discuss the cartoons, an administrator has suddenly ordered the students either not to display them or to exclude 150 off-campus guests from attending.

Item two:

Borders and Waldenbooks stores will not stock the April-May issue of Free Inquiry magazine because it contains cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that provoked deadly protests among Muslims in several countries.

“For us, the safety and security of our customers and employees is a top priority, and we believe that carrying this issue could challenge that priority,” Borders Group Inc. spokeswoman Beth Bingham said Wednesday.
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“What is at stake is the precious right of freedom of expression,” said Paul Kurtz, editor-in-chief of Free Inquiry. “Cartoons often provide an important form of political satire ... To refuse to distribute a publication because of fear of vigilante violence is to undermine freedom of press — so vital for our democracy.”

The enemies of civilization are counting on the American Voter to give up:

For the past several weeks Mr. Abbasi has been addressing crowds of Guard and Baseej Mustadafin (Mobilization of the Dispossessed) officers in Tehran with a simple theme: The U.S. does not have the stomach for a long conflict and will soon revert to its traditional policy of “running away,” leaving Afghanistan and Iraq, indeed the whole of the Middle East, to be reshaped by Iran and its regional allies.

To hear Mr. Abbasi tell it the entire recent history of the U.S. could be narrated with the help of the image of “the last helicopter.” It was that image in Saigon that concluded the Vietnam War under Gerald Ford. Jimmy Carter had five helicopters fleeing from the Iranian desert, leaving behind the charred corpses of eight American soldiers. Under Ronald Reagan the helicopters carried the corpses of 241 Marines murdered in their sleep in a Hezbollah suicide attack. Under the first President Bush, the helicopter flew from Safwan, in southern Iraq, with Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf aboard, leaving behind Saddam Hussein’s generals, who could not believe why they had been allowed live to fight their domestic foes, and America, another day. Bill Clinton’s helicopter was a Black Hawk, downed in Mogadishu and delivering 16 American soldiers into the hands of a murderous crowd.

According to this theory, President George W. Bush is an “aberration,” a leader out of sync with his nation’s character and no more than a brief nightmare for those who oppose the creation of an “American Middle East.”

In some places, like Sweden, they've already given up their country to the invading barbarians:

“When we are in the city and robbing we are waging a war, waging a war against the Swedes.” This argument was repeated several times. “Power for me means that the Swedes shall look at me, lie down on the ground and kiss my feet.” The [muslim] boys explain, laughingly, that “there is a thrilling sensation in your body when you’re robbing, you feel satisfied and happy, it feels as if you’ve succeeded, it simply feels good.” “It’s so easy to rob Swedes, so easy.” “We rob every single day, as often as we want to, whenever we want to.” The [muslim] immigrant youth regard the Swedes as stupid and cowardly: “The Swedes don’t do anything, they just give us the stuff. They’re so wimpy.” The young [muslim] robbers do not plan their crimes: “No, we just see some Swedes that look rich or have nice mobile phones and then we rob them.”

You know what?

If we don't fight back, we deserve to die.

If we don't reclaim pride in our culture, it deserves to die.

The traditional and effective response to jihad is of course the Crusade.

I had been thinking lately, as a daily reminder (and to annoy the mohammedans), that it would be fun to find some kind of "Crusader Cross" lapel-pin and start wearing it.

Wouldn't that be interesting if everyone of a like mind began to do so?

The New Templars!

Or something like that.

Even the Pope has recently re-opened the issue of the Crusades, to not see it as a bad, shameful thing to apologize over!

THE Vatican has begun moves to rehabilitate the Crusaders by sponsoring a conference at the weekend that portrays the Crusades as wars fought with the “noble aim” of regaining the Holy Land for Christianity.

The Crusader Cross Pin would remind us to relentlessly demand of our elected officials that they enforce and toughen the laws. Educate them to the threat. Don't let them see the invaders as just more cheap votes.

Write to the local paper. Attack all idiotarians in the op-ed pages with sharp rebuttals.

Express unpopular, non-PC opinions proudly.

We need to re-learn how to be rude, cultural chauvinists or else we will perish. The over-feminization of our society has to be moderated.

But now here's a group that already beat me to the idea of being a New Crusader!

I have no idea if they're kooky or not. Third parties tend to have a crackpot factor to them. Although, upon reflection, the Democrats and Republicans have crackpot elements to them as well, they are just usually masked by the job of governance. But the Democrats are really faltering in that regard.

But at first glance, this party looks rather interesting.

They use as their symbol, the Crusader Cross of Jerusalem!



The Christian Falangist Party of America is, it seems, a right-wing Christian nationalist party -- but with a twist!

Usually such parties are the realm of neo-Nazi skinheads.

But the CFPA is explicitly pro-Israel, anti-racist, and -- best of all -- militantly anti-islam!

The C.F.P.A. was founded in Philadelphia, Pa. on September 14th, 1985 as the first Falangist Party in America and is dedicated to fighting the "Forces of Darkness" which seeks to destroy our Western Christian Civilization. The C.F.P.A. is not a hate organization and it does not condone acts of violence or hatred towards those of differing or opposing viewpoints and lifestyles nor does it condone racism or anti-Semitism in any form. Our organization has no ties or connection whatsoever to the Spanish Falange nor any other neo-Nazi / anti-Democratic groups who use the name Falange or Falangist. The C.F.P.A. believes in Jesus Christ, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and nationalistic loyalty to the United States of America.

From their Declaration of Principles,

Another rock of foundation of the CFPA is our support and defense of Israel and our belief that the Jews returning to their land and bringing Israel back into existence is Bible prophecy being fulfilled which precedes the return of the Messiah our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. We also reject any form of anti-Semitism or Racism and hereby resolve that neither of these will ever be a policy, tenant or belief of this political party or Christian Falangist Movement so help us God. We forever base our political convictions on the Holy Bible, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights of these United States of America.

Their core beliefs are listed here. Even as a pro-morality religious party, they have a surprisinly refreshing take on certain subjects, for example:

10. Public displays of homosexual behavior should be outlawed.

11. That what consenting adults do in private is between them and God and not the government's business no matter how filthy, perverted and disgusting it is.

A little dose of libertarianism, I see!

Many of their items I agree whole-heartedly with, and you'd never see a mainstream politician making such forceful statements, such as:

2. In maintaining and defending "Western Judeo-Christian civilization" both here and abroad.
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6. The right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
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12. The immediate end to the onslaught of illegal immigration and a cap on all legal immigration.

13. In fighting against Communism, Socialism, Radical Islam and the New World Order.

14. That English should always remain our national language and that to become a citizen of the U.S. one should have a working knowledge of English.

15. That non-citizens should not have the same rights, privileges and benefits that citizens have.

16. That being against something is not hate, it is free expression.
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22. That illegal immigrants are breaking the law and therefore are criminals and that an honest aggressive effort should be made to deport them.

23. That the U.S. should boycott and stop all foreign aid to nations that persecute or permit the persecution of Christians and Jews.

24. That as of September 11th. 2001 these United States of America are at war with terrorists in particular but not limited to Radical Islamic Terrorists and that every effort should be made to insure the safety of our citizens both here and abroad. That the National Guard be used to patrol and protect the integrity of our borders.
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28. In using all of our resources to break us away from foreign oil dependency by tapping into our vast oil reserves in Alaska and other places. We look to the eventual replacement of fossil fuels with hydrogen, the most plentiful element in the universe. The U.S. must be self sufficient in energy.

Now, granted, they lose me when they talk about reverting back to the "silver standard", and "freeing Pollard", but on the whole it's one of the better platforms for the problems we face today.

The major parties should take note.

And never give up!

Great Sentence

Hitchens sure knows how to end an essay:

I shall go on keeping score about this until the last phony pacifist has been strangled with the entrails of the last suicide-murderer.

The rest is quite good too.

Evolution

On LGF, commenter Pro-Bush Canuck observes

Look, it wasn't the Muslims that radically changed all the rules since 1968. They didn't suddenly embrace multiculturalism and cultural relativism. We in the West decided to embark on that change of course. Muslims are just doing what they have always done: trying to find ways to undermine the kuffar while advancing Islam.

It is we who have changed, not them. If you want to get angry at someone, how about the people who decided that mass immigration from cultures known to be openly hostile to the West would be a good idea. Or the people who fill our children's heads with the idea that the West is a moral abomination and that the likes of the Palestinian "martyrs" are noble freedom fighters?

I am a complete enemy of Islam. However I don't hate them in the way I hate our own leftists. I hope we defeat the Islamists; I have no idea how we will deal with the left in the long run (except perhaps their failure to breed may phase them out over time).

I was thinking today how the insanity in our society (or, as history shows, in any "advanced" and hence soft civilization) makes it almost impossible to resist determined barbarians.

And it's even worse when the gates are being thrown open to them willingly.

Commenter Cartman states the obvious conclusion, that the craziness won't go away until things get really bad, and only the people with guns survive:

Unfortunately, the left will always be amongst us, in any society, Democratic or otherwise. The evolution of human nature dictates that there will always remain a segment of any society that is unwilling to contribute to the greater good, as long as that concept is tollerated. Subsistence and support for these unfortunates absolutely depends upon the notion of ideological handouts. It's become a well-oiled machine, thanks to the Democratic party in this country, and the liberal agendas in Canada, the EU and Australia. Yet we must take heart. According to Darwin, in times of extreme eco-stress, only those who retain the instincts for survival through self-perpetuation and creativity will survive. Those who are not able to take care of themselves through no fault of their own, will only be cared for and nurtured through the protection of their peers who pass this evolutionary test. When the going really gets tough, the sycophants will wither on the vine. Natural selection at its finest.

It's just so wasteful and tragic.

If only these people would grow up and see beyond their self-absorbed myopic protests to the real threats, a lot of potential chaos and destruction can be avoided.

I think that's what makes me the angriest at the socialist left.

The utter waste -- increased by their selfishness, and cloaked in moral superiority!

P.S. I just bought another gun.

Justice Ginsburg, Traitor

Found via Bernoulli Effect.

Speaking of judicial over-reach, first we need to impeach Justice Ginsburg, who continues to defend her position that legal precedents from foreign countries can and should be used in determining Supreme Court cases, instead of relying entirely upon the U.S. Constitution, which is supposed to be the Highest Law of the Land, which she took an oath to uphold.

An oath she is openly breaking.

Powerline opines,

I've tried to be measured in this critique of Ginsburg's speech, but the truth is that it is more reprehensible than I have suggested. You really have to read it to appreciate how far removed it is from American laws and traditions, and how demagogic it is in both tone and substance.

Remove these un-American idiots now.

Ginsburg, by the way, came via the communist-front ACLU.

No surprise there.

She's a dangerous traitor:

One last comment, on the title of Ginsburg's speech: "A decent Respect to the Opinions of [Human]kind." This more or less sums up her position: the Declaration refers to "Mankind," but that is out of step with what Ginsburg views as the 21st century liberal consensus. So she changed Thomas Jefferson's words to accord with her own usage. And, I suppose, with the usage of various foreign courts. Which is what she and her fellow Democrats propose to do to the Constitution: where the language doesn't match their opinions, change it.

PAUL adds: It won't happen, of course, but I think there's a case to be made for impeaching Justice Ginsburg.

Yes, there is.

I take issue with references to "witchhunts" for communists during the 1950s.

Witches, as understood by their hunters of the times, weren't actually real, let alone threats.

Communists are and were both.