Struggling to stay above water in the ratings race, Christiane Amanpour tackled the hot topic of Islam on This Week, ABC’s rapidly sinking program. She invited some outstanding talking-heads for the non-Islamist, pro-West side – Robert Spencer, Rev. Franklin Graham and Gary Bauer in a cameo appearance. Though the in-studio audience was stacked with apologists for Islam and gullible lefties and despite her self-righteous “crusade” against “Islamophobia,” Amanpour did let the “Islamophobes” finish their sentences, resulting in the audience actually receiving useful information.

“I understand what the Muslims want to do in America. They want to build as many mosques and cultural centers as possible so they can convert as many Americans as they can to Islam. Look, I love the Muslim people, but I have great difficulties with the Religion, especially with Shariah law, what it does to women and to non-believers and the violence that is given under Shariah law.” — Rev. Graham

Daisy Khan, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf’s wife, found her mission of doing taqiyya (the Islamic practice of lying to infidels for the sake of Allah), complicated by Imam Anjem Choudary, who appeared via a live video feed from London. He truthfully explained the global ambitions of Shariah. “Proof of Islam’s diversity,” exclaimed Daisy. Of course, Choudary was the only Imam on the panel and his “views” are not only best informed, but also most authoritative.

“We do believe as Muslims, the East and the West will one day be governed by the Shariah. Indeed we believe that one day the flag of Islam will fly over the White House. Indeed there  is even an oration of the Prophet (Muhammad, Ed.) when he said the Day of Judgment will not come until a group of my Ummah (Nation, Ed.) conquers the white house.” — Imam Anjem Choudary, live from London.

Few people dare to speak the truth about Islam in public, because Muslims have a nasty habit of beheading those who stand in their way. That’s why Robert Spencer and Franklin Graham are such heroic figures in this clash of civilizations. However, beyond any doubt, the bravest warrior for the West is Geert Wilders. You may recall his inspirational speech at Ground Zero.

Wilders spoke in Berlin yesterday, alerting Europe, yet again, to the existential danger Islam poses to our way of life. He spoke German, but here is the complete English transcript.

Dear Friends,

I am very happy to be here in Berlin today. As you know, the invitation which my friend René Stadtkewitz extended to me, has cost him his membership of the CDU group in the Berlin Parliament. René, however, did not give in to the pressure. He did not betray his convictions. His dismissal prompted René to start a new political party. I wish him all the best. As you may have heard, the past weeks were extremely busy for me. Earlier this week we succeeded in forging a minority government of the Liberals and the Christian-Democrats which will be supported by my party. This is an historic event for the Netherlands. I am very proud of having helped to achieve this. At this very moment the Christian-Democrat Party conference is deciding whether or not to approves this coalition. If they do, we will be able to rebuild our country, preserve our national identity and offer our children a better future.

Despite my busy schedule at home, however, I insisted on coming to Berlin, because Germany, too, needs a political movement to defend German identity and to oppose the Islamization of Germany. Chancellor Angela Merkel says that the Islamization of Germany is inevitable. She conveys the message that citizens have to be prepared for more changes as a result of immigration. She wants the Germans to adapt to this situation. The Christian-Democrat leader said: “More than before mosques will be an integral part of our cities.”

My friends, we should not accept the unacceptable as inevitable without trying to turn the tide. It is our duty as politicians to preserve our nations for our children. I hope that René’s movement will be as successful as my own Partij voor de Vrijheid, as Oskar Freysinger’s Schweizerische Volkspartei in Switzerland, as Pia Kjaersgaard’s Dansk Folkeparti in Denmark, and similar movements elsewhere. Read more >

Imam Harry Reid extols the virtues of Islam. Apparently, Reid knows two Muslim doctors who actually treat patients, unlike Muslim doctors who blow up on subways in London. This is good news, of sorts, but burning the Koran is at least as legal as planting an Islamic supremacist mosque at Ground Zero.

Just what we needed. This will have the Israeli extremist Lefty media wallowing in self righteous moral equivalency. Not to mention the apologists for Islam. It is to Islamic intolerance what Timothy McVeigh was to Islamic terrorism. It gives the Islamists and their apologists a place to hide.

‘Sinner’ singer given 39 lashes by rabbis

Punishment for performance in front of “mixed audience.”

A singer who performed in front of a “mixed audience” of men and women was lashed 39 times to make him “repent,” after a ruling by a self-described rabbinic court on Wednesday.

Rabbi Amnon Yitzhak, founder of the Shofar organization aimed at bringing Jews “back to religion” (hazara betshuva), has made it his recent mission to fight against musical performances for both men and women.

His “judicial panel,” with Rabbi Ben Zion Mutsafi and another member, sentenced Erez Yechiel to 39 lashes in order to “rid him of his sins.”

In a video clip of the court posted on the Shofar Web site, Ben Zion said that those who make others sin (mahtiei rabim), such as artists who make men and women attend performances or dance together, have no place in the world to come.

He displayed a leather strip he said was made by his father from ass and bull skin, with which Yechiel was to have been whipped.

Yechiel, who said, “I accept upon myself the lashing for my sins,” was ordered to stand by a wooden poll with his head facing north (“from whence the evil inclination comes”), his hands tied with a azure-colored rope (“a symbol of mercy”), and served his “sentence.”

“Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society… then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them… We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.”
— Karl Popper

According to Qur’an 3:167, Muslims who refuse to fight in the name of Allah are hypocrites. Believers answer the call of Jihad to fight in Allah’s cause. Muhammad, Islam’s only Prophet, labels non-believers “infidels” – enemies of Allah. He orders Muslims to fight, murder and enslave them until the whole world surrenders to Islam. The order to fight infidels is clear, open ended and retractable only by Allah.

Qur’an 8:039 – And fight them until persecution is no more, and religion is all for Allah.

Qur’an 9:005 – Then, when the sacred months have passed, slay the idolaters wherever ye find them, and take them (captive), and besiege them, and prepare for them each ambush.

No mere present day Imam can abrogate these commandments. In view of the severe consequences, to us, is it not prudent to ask whether Christians and Jews qualify as infidels?

At least one Tea Party activist at Glenn Beck’s Restoring Honor rally seems to believe that Muslims indeed want to kill us because we are infidels. Where did he get such an idea? Can you say 9/11?

For insight into what makes a good Muslim, written by a former good Muslim, read our 2008/1/22 post:

Does the Koran Command Muslims to Fight and Kill Infidels?

Diana West writes about the Ground Zero Mosque and tolerating the intolerant. Read more >

CNN’s John King tries to induce Rev. Franklin Graham to testify to Imam Obama’s Christianity.

Graham sticks to the “he acts like a Muslim, but says he’s a Christian” line. Good for him!

Hilariously, the media elites are disgusted by the stupidity of the American people. How can 18% of Americans believe that Barack HUSSEIN Obama is a Muslim? Even worse, though no one speaks of it in public, when asked about Obama’s religion, 43% of the people say they don’t know (see Pew Poll). In other words, 61% don’t think the President is a Christian. Apparently, only 34% believe that listening to Jeremiah Wright’s sermons for 20 years or befriending the terrorist Bill Ayers qualifies one for salvation. Pretty dumb, eh?

Why would people doubt Obama’s faith? Here are a few possible reasons. Read more >

Islam and the Judeo-Christian world are rival civilizations. How difficult is that to understand? Apparently, very difficult. Pundits, Liberal and Conservative, when asked to comment on the latest Muslim to blow up in public behind infidel lines, all start their reply with “of course, not all Muslims…” or “of course, most Muslims…” or some other inane homage to the gods of political correctness.

Even Conservative icons like Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck back-paddle rapidly when accused of “Islamophobia” in public. They don’t exactly apologize, but they resort to accusing the accuser of playing the race card. Liberals do love to play the guilt game. “Do you hate all Muslims?” or “You are against Islam!” Oh, what we wouldn’t pay to just once hear Sean Hannity respond with “Of course I am against Islam. I am a devout Catholic. Islam is a rival civilization hell-bent on conquering the world for Allah. How could I be for it? How can you be for it? Aren’t you Jewish/Christian?”

But alas, he was asked and he squirmed and he had no answer.

Thank G-d for the creative minds who get what Islam is all about and who can express it so well.

Of course, Pat Condell is right. It would be totally insane to allow the enemy to run a victory lap on the graves of our friends. With the public overwhelmingly opposed to a mosque rising from the 9/11 ashes, it is surprising that New York politicians are not jumping on the bandwagon.

Carl Paladino, a Republican candidate for Governor of New York, is the only one to come out against the Islamic supremacist mega-mosque at Ground Zero.

“As Governor,” Paladino said Wednesday in a radio ad, “I will use the power of eminent domain to stop this mosque and make the site a war memorial instead of a monument to those who attacked our country.”

I like this guy. I really like this guy. If the Supreme Court could rule, in the notorious 2005 decision Kelo v. City of New London, that the government could seize private property for a private developer and then never develop the property, surely Americans should be able to use eminent domain to designate the Burlington Coat Factory building a war memorial.

That building is a war memorial since part of one of the 9/11 airplanes crashed into it, causing severe damage. That makes the building a war memorial, no less than Gettysburg or Pearl Harbor. There should be no mosque there, and nothing there but a memorial to the people that America lost to that heinous Islamic jihad attack on September 11, 2001.

READ: The Man Who Would Stop the Ground Zero Mosque

Not only does Allen West get it, he is not afraid to say it. Fortunately, he is also the most articulate speaker running for office in 2010. With him and more like him populating the House starting January 2011, there is still some hope for the West.

Lt. Colonel West explains why Muslims do what they do. Note how others shy away from the topic.

Bill Clinton was preoccupied with dropping his pants in front of strange women in hotel rooms. Tony Blair was a typical spineless eurocract (but not spineless enough for the position of EU President). George w. Bush – oh, how it pains us to say this – should have stuck to heavy drinking and never run for political office. As leader of the West during the early stages of a no-holds-barred struggle for survival, he failed to name the enemy, did not articulate a strategy for victory and could not unite the people in battle.

Bush’s mismanagement of the the war did more damage to America than his eight-year spending spree. Fiscal conservatives say that he spent like a drunken sailor. At least sailors spend their own money and when they are not spending they defend us from crazed Jihadis. They know the enemy and are not afraid to name him.

Since the Islamist attack on 9/11/01, many Western leaders have been telling their people that “Islam means peace”, that the terrorists have hijacked the religion and that there are no Islamic terrorists. More recently, Barack Hussein Obama decreed that there are no terrorists. According to Eric Holder and Janet Napolitano, Americans are the terrorists.

So what is the truth about Islam? Is it peaceful or is it violent? Is it a religion, like Judaism and Christianity, or is it a cult with a dangerous supremacist ideology? Does it treat women with dignity and respect or does its institutionalize female subservience and wife beating? Is Sharia Law just or is it a savage dogma that codifies the inferior status of infidels? Does Islam promote Utopian multiculturalism or does it relegate Jews and Christians to Dhimmi status? In Muslim countries, are Jews and Christians accepted as equals or are they forced to pay the jizya tax to their Muslim overlords in willing submission? If Muslims become the majority in America will they really oppress everybody else?

Relying primarily on Islam’s own sources, the documentary What the West Needs to Know shows that Islam is a violent, expansionary ideology that seeks the destruction of all other faiths. Muhammad, founder of the world’s most violent religion, started his career as a prophet by exterminating the Jews of Yathrib (Medina). Later he banished both Judaism and Christianity from Arabia. He personally beheaded hundreds of vanquished Jews, distributing their wives as concubines to Allah’s holy warriors. On his dying bed, he ordered his followers to maintain an apartheid State in Arabia. Read more >

Are you worried that a deeply disloyal soldier, who openly confessed allegiance to the Islamist enemy, managed to attain the rank of Major in the United States military? Chris Matthews isn’t.

Given the predisposition of the media against anything American, Christian or Israeli, it is not surprising that a Jihadi attack on an army base in Texas, by a devout Muslim, inspires (P)MSNBC to worry about rampant Islamophobia. It is impossible to miss Chris Matthews’ pandering to the Muslim overlords. The smirk on Nihad’s face, at the end, shows that he recognizes a subservient dhimmi when he sees one. Read more >