Barbarism! Afghans kill 12 at UN compound over Florida Koran burning

The New York Times: MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan — Stirred up by three angry mullahs who urged them to avenge the burning of a Koran at a Florida church, thousands of protesters on Friday overran the compound of the United Nations in this northern Afghan city, killing at least 12 people, Afghan and United Nations officials said.

The dead included at least seven United Nations workers — four Nepalese guards and three Europeans from Romania, Sweden and Norway — according to United Nations officials in New York. One was a woman. Early reports, later denied by Afghan officials, said that at least two of the dead had been beheaded. Five Afghans were also killed. [...]

Unable to find Americans on whom to vent their anger, the mob turned instead on the next-best symbol of Western intrusion — the nearby United Nations headquarters. “Some of our colleagues were just hunted down,” said a spokesman for the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, Kieran Dwyer, in confirming the attack. [MORE]

There is only one word to describe this and the word is barbarism! As expected some on the left are blaming that crazy pastor Terry Jones for provoking this.

Absolute nonsense!

Whatever you want to think about the crazy Koran burning pastor, in America he was well within his free speech rights doing what he did. There is no difference between his Koran burning sideshow and some hack artist making feces smeared pictures of the Virgin Mary. Both seek the limelight by shocking and offending.

What is different between Jones and the hack artist are the people they offended. For the hack artist, he only offended a bunch of passive Christians who only fume, fuss and boycott. Terry Jones on the other hand, offended a group that has long ago embraced a culture of death and intolerance, and they act out on both with alarming regularity.

Many in Western civilization want to put on their moral equivalence glasses and see Islam as no better or worse than Christianity or Judaism. This my friends is nothing but wishful thinking taken to the nth degree. Pick up a newspaper on almost any given day and somewhere in the world Muslims are killing each other or someone they disagree with, all in the name of Islam. Even their women and children have embraced a culture of death.

When I think of all the national treasure we spend to give the Afghans a shot at freedom and then read about these killings, I cannot help but feel we have completely wasted efforts. How can true democracy with and passion for individual freedom ever take hold in a place like that? Methinks not.

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VIDEO: Three Things You Did Not Know About Islam

I wonder if NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg and the other Ground Zero Mosque supporters would ever take the time to actually learn about Islam? I doubt it. Perhaps if they did, they would reconsider the whole “religious tolerance” angle.

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VIDEO: NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s emotional defense of Ground Zero Mosque

After watching this video, I have decided to keep my eyes peeled to see if Mayor Bloomberg keeps to his words the next time the Christian faith requires the same defense. Somehow, I doubt Mr. Bloomberg will be able to see things so clearly.

While Bloomberg is correct in his words about America defending religious freedom, he like so many liberal elites refuses to understand and believe that the Islamic faith currently has a cancer. That cancer is Islamic extremism. To pretend that this problem doesn’t exist is an invitation to disaster.

What most Americans want is for our elected officials to show some caution when dealing with the Islamic faith. Since peaceful Muslims seem unwilling or incapable of eradicating the extreme elements within their faith, then caution is the order of the day. Treating the Islamic faith with caution may not jive with the sacred doctrines of diversity or tolerance, but attacks like 9-11 make it a necessity.

Home of Mohammed Cartoonist Lars Vilks attacked

Less than a week after being attacked at a university, Lars Vilks home was attacks with an attempted firebombing.

Washington Post: STOCKHOLM -- The home of a Swedish artist who once drew a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad as a dog has been hit by a suspected arson attack, police said Saturday.

Lars Vilks, who lives in Nyhamnslage in southern Sweden, was not at home during the attack late Friday night and no one was reported injured.

It was the latest in a week of attacks on the 53-year-old cartoonist, who was assaulted Tuesday by a man while he lectured at a university and saw his Web site apparently attacked by hacker on Wednesday.

Police were alerted just before noon Saturday, as people passing by the artist's house noted that several windows had been smashed. When officers arrived, they discovered plastic bottles filled with gasoline and fire damage on the surface of the building. Attackers are also suspected of having tried setting the inside of house on fire, but the flames are thought to have fizzled out. […]

Vilks is on record saying he is not afraid and claims to be ready for these attacks:

Daily Caller: Vilks has faced numerous death threats over the controversial cartoon, but said in March he has built his own defense system, including a “homemade” safe room and a barbed-wire sculpture that could electrocute potential intruders.

He said he also has an ax “to chop down” anyone trying to climb through the windows of his home in southern Sweden.

“If something happens, I know exactly what to do,” Vilks told The Associated Press in an interview in Stockholm.

Vilks also owns a guard dog named Mohammad.

Personally, guard dogs, axes and safe rooms are nice, but nothing stops fanatics faster than good old fashion hot lead! If I were Lars, I would pack it up and move to the States were you are still allowed to defend your life with deadly force.

Via: Memeorandum

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How many times can Eric Holder make a fool of himself?

I have lost count of the number of times Eric Holder has made a fool of himself in front of Congress. I am not sure if it is because he is trying to get the law to support Obama’s wrong headed policies or is it because Holder himself is a stone cold ideologue who refuses to bend to reality. Either way, the man comes off as one big fool and yesterday Holder acted the fool twice!

Acting the fool, Scene One:

Here is Eric Holder’s response to Rep. Ted Poe’s (R-TX) direct question "Have you read the Arizona law?"

You must be joking, the bill in only 17 pages long, how many people are needed to review it? As the Attorney General of the United States, Holder should be able to read and review that tiny law himself inside the time of a coffee break. To make matters worse, Holder is on record attacking the bill, he now admits to never reading. 

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Acting The Fool, Scene Two:

Here is Holder desperately trying not to say radical Islam is the cause behind the three terror attacks over the last year. What the hell can possibly be gained by such a stupid song and dance? Compare Holder’s foolishness with the video of Lt. Col. Allen West on the same subject. Now ask yourself who would you prefer to keep you safe.

Whatever the cause is behind Eric Holder’s foolishness, we as a nation will be the ones to suffer for it. If Obama were half the chief executive he pretends to be, he would have asked for Holder’s resignation right after Lindsey Graham made a fool of him.

Via: Memeorandum

Via: The Washington Times

Via: National Review 

Video: Lt. Col West on radical Islam

This video is from February (h/t The Right Scoop). In it a guy (off camera) from Red State asks a panel about the motivations of radical Islam. Two gentlemen give vague answers and then Lt. Col. West cuts to the chase.

I am hard pressed to think of anyone in politics today who would have to courage to say anything like that. I am pretty amazed that Lt. Col. West hasn’t made it big in politics yet. I hope, after getting elected to the House, he immediately finds a governorship somewhere and then make a run for the White House. I would vote for him in a second.