Friday, February 25, 2011

We Don't Want You Either

 “An Arizona jury on Tuesday found an Iraqi immigrant – Faleh Hassan Almaleki – guilty of second-degree murder for running down his daughter with a Jeep because she had become too Westernized,” began a Reuters article a couple days ago. Now, I know this is very tragic, but does everyone see the irony here. This man immigrated to a Western country and now commits an “honor killing” because he’s ashamed of his daughter’s Western beliefs. Well, if Western beliefs “defy Muslim values,” then maybe he should have just stayed in his desert instead of coming to ours. Almaleki reportedly told people that if his daughter died he would kill himself, yet following his daughter's death, he fled to Mexico and then London. It seems that only daughters are held to “honorable” standards, because Almaleki is a very dishonest man, as he is still breathing.
In other news, Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari, a Saudi national, was recently hindered in his jihad by an FBI arrest. He had been here in America acquiring chemicals which he planned to use to destroy dams, nuclear power plants, American soldiers, and George W. Bush. I want to know why people like Aldawsari and Almaleki are allowed entrance into this country. We see time and time again Middle Eastern immigrants come here just to cause problems. Wouldn’t our immigration clearance policies look like even more of a joke right now if Bush had been assassinated? Homeland Security and the INS would be the laughing stock of the entire Muslim world.
Fortunately, law enforcement agencies in Western countries are doing a better job than Immigration and Customs. Zachary Chesser, a jihadist from Virginia, was just arrested for communicating threats of violence and providing material support to terrorists. Traitors like Mr. Chesser are an internal threat that we cannot seem to purge, but at least the police are keeping tabs on these people. (People say the PATRIOT ACT and similar policies violate the privacy of citizens, but that’s fine by me if it lets the government track material support going to terrorists). Mr. Chesser was about to board a plane that would take him to Uganda, which would allow him to then join the terrorist group al-Shabab in Somalia. While in America, he called for the deaths of Trey Parker and Matt Stone, creators of South Park, in response for an episode showing Muhammad dressed like a bear. He also promoted violence against cartoonists who planned to participate in the aborted “Everybody Draw Muhammad Day.” (I would have drawn him with his nine year old concubine; I’m glad I don’t worship a pedophile). Related to this, cartoonists in Copenhagen were saved by law enforcement last month, when a plot to shoot up the newsroom of the paper that published the cartoons of Muhammad was stopped the morning of the planned assault. Two Tunisian men, an Iraqi seeking asylum, and a Lebanese man were behind the conspiracy and had in their possession submachine guns with silencers.
I’m still struggling to understand why Iraqis seek visas and asylum to countries that they despise. They don’t want to be here and we don’t want them there, so one would think they would just stay in the Middle East.

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Kulterkrieg

Recently, the judges of the 9th Circuit ruled that a war memorial cross was unconstitutional due to the separation of church and state. However, Islam, Summum, and a host of other evil or strange religions have been protected by the government, and even been ruled as part of it. For example, the United States government won’t allow the Ten Commandments to be shown in our court buildings, though that is what our legal system was founded on. But courts have recently ruled that Sharia law must remain part of our legal system, though last time I checked we weren’t an Islamic state.
            The first question I have concerning the recent federal court decision is: what are we going to do with all those little white crosses in Arlington cemetery? Crosses are used as a way to remember the dead and mark their burial site. The use of memorial crosses is not a surreptitiously organized conspiracy by Christians across the country, yet judges are actually deciding cases concerning it. Yet these judges are releasing Muslim terrorist recruiters living in America on bail, even after they bite and assault FBI agents. These judges need better clerks to organize their priorities. A cross in a cemetery won’t kill you, terrorist suspects very well might.
Joe Infranco of the Alliance Defense Fund, a Christian legal group, stated in response to hearing the decision in this case, that “the memory of those who sacrificed their lives for our freedom shouldn't be dishonored because the ACLU finds a small number of people who are merely offended.” I agree whole heartedly, because lots of things offend me, but I can’t do a thing about that. Hell, building a center with a mosque in it near ground zero offends me, as does allowing Muslims to beat their wives because of their religion (S.D. v. M.J.R., 2010), but most judges would just ignore my complaints. And what about the Korean War veterans, do their feelings not get taken into consideration. If American war veterans want a cross, how can a minority tell them they can’t have it? What has that minority done for the country?
But crosses are not the only thing being targeted. The Christian, and sometimes also American, way of life is being threatened. This is because of the kulturkrieg – culture war – led by the Muslim, Summum, Atheist, and whack job minorities in this country.
When Germany’s Angela Merkel said, “those who don’t respect our values, don’t have a place here,” she was right. Well, the minorities in the United States do not want to join us or respect our values, so they’ve decided to try to beat us. They take us to court over long established traditions, while forcing their new radical culture on us. They justify their extreme beliefs in courts built on Christian values. The United States federal government recently sued a Chicago school for refusing to grant a Muslim teacher unpaid leave to take a trip to Mecca for the Hajj. The contract the teacher signed did not provide for extra vacation days, but the government said that they had to give in to her demands anyways. However, if I wanted to take a trip to Cumorah, a Mormon holy site, I’m fairly certain that the federal government would not fight a legal battle on my behalf. If a Catholic teacher wanted to go to Rome to see the Pope, I doubt the ACLU attorneys would get outraged and call dozens of press conferences.
Outside of court, minorities use their status as a growing minority to change our way of life. Movie producers, CEOs, and other people are afraid to honor God, because they don’t want to offend customers, especially atheists and Muslims. Now some businesses have started catering to Muslims, changing their menus and store schedules. McDonald’s and KFC both released Muslim friendly menus. Slaughterhouses have started to follow halal standards. Best Buy even recognized Eid al-Adha. This is unacceptable. These businesses are aiding the enemy in this kulturkrieg.
I pray to God the next round of federal judges are appointed under a conservative president, that Christians file more of their own suits, and that businesses recognize that appealing to a minority may not be such a good idea if you shun a large group of people in doing so.

The Unions Strike Back

Mitch Daniels (R – IN), the recently empowered Governor of Indiana, revoked public sector employees’ right to collective bargaining as soon as he took office. Other states have followed suit, the most recent being Wisconsin. In Wisconsin, protestors took to the capitol and Democrat lawmakers fled to Illinois so that the recent legislation could not be passed, as the remaining lawmakers cannot constitute a quorum. (At least with Rahm Emanuel in office the Democrats will have a hospitable place to stay in Chicago.)
            The public sector workers are different from private sector workers in that their boss is not some rich, monopoly seeking, tycoon that wants to pay his workers next to nothing for back breaking work. Public sector workers report to the government. (Yes, the government does have monopolies, but it is by no means rich.) If public sector jobs were so horrible as to need powerful unions to protect the workers, why are they so frequently sought? I don’t hear public sector workers complaining about unreasonable hours. And the benefits, well, those aren’t anything to complain about, either. Yet union workers have launched a continual string of protests across America. They claim they want the power to demand wages that they can live on. I don’t understand why they would need this power seeing that public sector employees start at around $26,000 for even the lowest of jobs; most of the jobs start around $35,000. This isn’t wage slavery.
But until now, the protests have been civil. Today, however, a Communication Workers of America assaulted Tabitha Hale, a conservative activist working for FreedomWorks. The attack occurred when she was filming the protestors outside of FreedomWorks’ office in DC. The mustached brute even had the audacity to say that the union way was “to get a little bloody.” (I guess he wasn’t kidding when he said he was going to strike). Of course, none of this was reported by mainstream – or liberal – news stations. Fox analysts did give Ms. Hale a voice, though, so her story did not go unreported. The crime, which is on video, will also not go unreported. I must entreat Ms. Hale to also seek legal action in civil court, because the assault must have been jarring and emotionally disturbing.
Liberal journalists and talk show hosts are fanning the flames as I write this. Daily Beast reporter Rick Outzen said about elderly Tea Party supporters – who he calls “teabaggers” – that the country was “just a few funerals away from a good government.” This came after an elderly Tea Party protester was beat by Irish-American union thugs during a rally in Boston. (Now we know why Democrats work so hard to help criminals avoid punishment.)
It is alarming that public service unions are this up in arms over something they clearly do not need. The only reason for fighting this hard, that I can think of, is that they like the extra cushion that our taxpayers’ dollars provides them. One thing, however, is clear – the unions will resort to violence to intimidate conservatives. I would not be surprised if Mitch Daniels wakes up tomorrow to find a dead fish on his front porch next to the morning paper.

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Priorities


The Jerusalem Reclamation Project, which promotes the settlement of Arab and Palestinian areas, recently hosted possible 2012 presidential candidate Mike Huckabee. While he was there, he told his Israeli audience that international criticism should not deter them from building settlements in East Jerusalem because it is Israel’s “eternal capital.” He stated that they have the right to build anywhere in “the place that God gave them.” President Obama, on the other hand, has called the settlements illegal; an opprobrious stance for the President of the United States to take.
            Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently denounced the destruction of the Shepherd Hotel, former residence of the grand mufti of Jerusalem. The Palestinians blow up buses and check points, killing dozens of Jewish people, but Hillary Clinton wants to condemn the Israelis for demolishing a vacant building. After hearing of Secretary Clinton’s rebuke, Huckabee stated, "I think we ought to be more concerned about Iran building bombs than Israelis building bedrooms." He is right in his reasoning – the United States should get its priorities straight.
            According to Israeli intelligence, Iran is just three years away from having a nuclear bomb capable of reaching the West. Pakistan and North Korea already have nuclear missiles, so the United States should be focused on preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear capability. With Iraq out of the way, Iran is the only Middle Eastern country remaining in the Axis of Evil, but Ahmadinejad has been gaining support in recent years, especially from terrorist organizations like Hezbollah. Iran’s power is waxing and it does not look ready to stop. The recent unrest has visibly altered the political landscape and when the dust settles Iran may have even more allies. The balance of power is shifting and we need to apply enough pressure to keep it tilted in our favor.
It is not just up to the United States, though. As the first line of defense against Iran, Israel has a responsibility to use the materials we have given them to execute their duties in protecting Judeo-Christian nations from Islamofascist countries. In 1981, Israel used F-16 fighter jets to lead an air raid on Iraq’ Osirak Nuclear Reactor, preventing Saddam from gaining nuclear weapons. This raid’s codename was Operation Opera. I’m now calling for Operation Encore – an Israeli air strike, sanctioned by NATO, on Iran’s nuclear facilities. Preventative measures like this must be taken; preemptive strikes are necessary in securing our safety. As the old adage goes, it’s better to be safe than sorry. Some worry about lack of concrete evidence, but I feel Israel needs to follow former Vice President Dick Cheney’s one percent doctrine, which states that “even if there's just a one percent chance of the unimaginable coming due, act as if it is a certainty… it’s about response.”
In addition to working on its nuclear program, Iran recently positioned war ships in the Red Sea, near the Suez Canal, in an attempt to provoke Israel. After learning of this, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said to a group of American Jewish leaders that the voyage “proves that the self-confidence and chutzpah of the Iranians are growing from day to day.” I must agree, which is why I support taking direct and decisive action against Iran. One can only pray that Mr. Lieberman and his right wing party – Yisrael Beiteinu – can become the majority in the Israeli government. Mr. Lieberman summed up his speech by saying, "To my regret, the international community is not showing readiness to deal with the recurring Iranian provocations.” I hope that we prove his assertion wrong by speaking up and showing that he has our support against this Iranian threat.