he prophet Muhammed would be tickled piggy-pink with this, as will the millions of subhuman terrorist swine who proudly carry his name, although the rest of the world will recoil in horror:
A Pakistani Federal Minister Monday said that militants were using kidnapped children as suicide bombers across the country.
Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik talking to newsmen here said that the militants were buying innocent children for few hundred thousand rupees and using them to carry out suicide attacks. (Kuwait News via ROP)
By way of contrast, the Son of God taught us:
Then he put a little child among them. Taking the child in his arms, he said to them, “Anyone who welcomes a little child like this on my behalf welcomes me, and anyone who welcomes me welcomes my Father who sent me.” (Mark 9:36-37)
I’ve read that scripture a whole bunch of times, and I just can’t find anything there about blowing the child up.
HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) – Taliban militants publicly executed a man and girl on Monday for eloping when she was already engaged to marry someone else, an official said, in a sign of the grip the Islamists have over parts of Afghanistan.
Hashim Noorzai, head of Khash Rud district in southwestern Nimruz province, said the two were executed by gun shots in front of a crowd of villagers.
aituallah Mehsud, a Taliban leader in Pakistan who’s holding the rapt attention of these reporters, would have us believe that yesterday’s killings in Binghamton were the work of his gang of tribal thugs, in retaliation for drone missile attacks on Taliban and al-Qaeda leaders in Pakistan’s tribal border region.
“I accept responsibility. They were my men. I gave them orders in reaction to U.S. drone attacks,” Mehsud told Reuters, which is choosing not to discuss where or how they tracked this self-described mass murdering terrorist down.
Personally, I think it’s nothing more than bravado, since the killer was apparently Vietnamese – where the Muslim population is one-tenth of one percent – and apparently was alone, a “man” not “men.” (Atlas Shrugs, who live-blogged the massacre, says that for a while there was speculation of two gunmen, however.)
Whether this was a Taliban attack or not really isn’t the significant matter here; what’s significant is that this is exactly the sort of attack they would like to mount on US soil. We know this because it was the sort of attack they carry out in places crowded with innocents wherever and whenever they can. And that leads to a larger question: Are we as protected today from these sorts of attacks as we were when Bush was in office?
Now, because we have elected a president more concerned with popularity and political correctness than with effectively dispatching terrorists to the horrors that await them after death, we are no longer fighting terrorists and are no longer engaged in a global war on terror. It’s all been slathered in gobblydegook, as we undertake operations against man-caused disaster causers.
But more significantly, we have a president who, even as he (thankfully) keeps up the drone attacks, cannot address terrorism, let alone stare down the terrorists and give them reason to fear America. Listen to this question from the post-G20 press conference, when an Indian correspondent he selected so he’s ”not showing gender bias” asks him what he and India’s prime minister discussed about how to deal with the terror that comes out of Pakistan. After gaffing through a gag – hardly the appropriate response to such a question – he gets to his answer:
Did you catch the answer? Or did you miss it in the endless blather about carbon footprints and poverty? Here it is, in its entirety:
“We did discuss, uh, the issue of terrorism. uh, and, uh, we discussed it not simply in terms of terrorism eminating from Pakistan although,uh, we are very concerned about extremists and terrorists [not "man-caused disaster causers?"] who have made camp in, uh, the border regions, uh, of Pakistan as well as those in Afghanistan.
“But we spoke about it more broadly, in terms of how we can coordinate effectively on, uh, issues of counterterrorism ….”
And then he was off on a quick jaunt through poverty and into a long, rambling and boring talk about global warming, which included a statement that if the Chinese and Indians had the per-capita carbon footprints of Americans, “We all would have melted by now.” It’s not funny, this flip damning of America out of the mouth of our president.
So we got six words on terrorism – “coordinate effectively on issues of counterterrorism” – and several minutes on the terror posed by global warming, proof positive that the man is more concerned about what might happen over the next century or thousand years -a concern hundreds of scientists and nearly half the population now disagree with – than he is about Baituallah Mehsud and his jihadist compatriots, who would kill us tomorrow if they had the wherewithall. Bush kept the Talibums and al-Queerdas from getting that wherewithall – but Obama’s priorities, obviously, are elsewhere.
So while Binghamton was probably nothing more than a disgruntled Vietnamese going tragically haywire, we have less reason than ever to discount the possibility that Mehsud or Mohammed or Abdul might not pull something like this off here soon.
h, the Religion of Peace is at it again, this time flogging a teenage girl, who screams and cries as a circle of men watch intently. Does anyone else feel that this appears to be more like a sick sexual perversion, and not a religious event.
The girl was accused of “illicit relations” with a man, which the WSJ tells us was nothing more than appearing in public chaperoned by her father-in-law. Of course, you will find no video of the father-in-law being flogged; it doesn’t exist because he wasn’t – the sin is just not his problem. And as more evidence of the low regard Islam has for women, near the end of the clip, the girl stands up and a man can be heard shouting in the background. According to BBC, he was angry that a mere female should be allowed to stand in the presence of men.
The clip was shot in Afghanistan, where we’re fighting the “good” war.
bama’s Justice Department, unhinged in general and unfettered by the need to do real work like the inept Obama Treasury Department, decided today to play word games with terrorists. Henceforth, Justice Department briefs will not use the word “enemy combatant,” says a statement:
In a filing today with the federal District Court for the District of Columbia, the Department of Justice submitted a new standard for the government’s authority to hold detainees at the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility. The definition does not rely on the President’s authority as Commander-in-Chief independent of Congress’s specific authorization. It draws on the international laws of war to inform the statutory authority conferred by Congress. It provides that individuals who supported al Qaeda or the Taliban are detainable only if the support was substantial. And it does not employ the phrase “enemy combatant.”
In other words, an “enemy combatant” is on its face a person who has provided “substantial” support to al Qaeda or the Taliban. By removing the word from the federal lexicon, Holder & Co. are saying that the assumption of substantial support no longer exists.
The memo does not provide alternative nomenclature, so maybe we can help:
Guys found wandering around battlefields with AK 47s.
People named in al Qaeda and Taliban documents as guys who gave them substantial report.
Guys who repeatedly told Guantanamo personnel that if they’re released, the first thing they’re going to do is try to kill some Americans.
Camel-jockeys who know how to fly airliners.
People known to frequent crowded marketplaces with C4 vests.
FOBs (Friends of bin Laden)
Guys voted “most likely to succeed” upon matriculating from madrassa.
So Holder won’t hold al Qaeda and Taliban sympathizers who just had “insignificant or insubstantial support of al Qaeda or the Taliban.” That, of course, will be determined by evidence; more specifically, lawyers for jihadists who will tell Obama-appointed judges their guys just don’t reach the significant/substantial threshhold. “Your honor, he just attended the same mosque and it was an unfortunate coincidence that he was picked up just after that major Taliban pow-wow. Just a case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.”
And then, after the guy’s four or five years of hanging out in Guantanamo with jihadiacs, the guy will get sprung … and will turn up next Tuesday with Abdullah Ghulam Rasoul, doing his best to be significant and substantial.
e hear a lot about the prisoners in the war on terror, folks like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his buddies in Guantanamo, but we hear precious little about people like Piotr Stanczak, who suffer the great misfortune of being captured by the other side.
As the new administration moves forward with its plan to close the prison that is the world’s best option for holding the world’s most disgusting criminals, it does so in the face of reason, ignoring the threat jihadists pose, which they demonstrated most recently with their handling of Stanczak. Why is this crazed charade moving forward?
Well, as near as I can tell it’s because the Leftists of the world have united in orange jumpsuits to howl in protest that America is protecting the West from those who would destroy it.
After years of reading Leftist drivel against Guantanamo, it’s all really boiled down to policy – the trials aren’t happening fast enough. Sure, the hardcore left still equates Guantanamo with torture – against overwhelming evidence of humane treatment and limited, temporary use of techniques that are not life-threatening against only a few of the most important intelligence targets … who happen to also be the most deadly of the prisoners. Yet the symbol-driven Obama admin proceeds with its focus on the facility – the perceived need to close the prison – giving itself a terribly thorny problem that is nothing more than Leftist hype.
This situation is uniquely driven by the left. No one else is protesting or raising issues. Oh, sure, there’s a periodic peep of protest from the U.N., but do a search for “Guantanamo” at the U.N. News Center and you get nothing. Even though the housing of prisoners in Guantanamo doesn’t shake the world, it particularly shakes the American anti-Bush, anti-war Left, and Obama is listening.
Do you think the American anti-Bush, anti-war Left will protest how another prisoner in the war on terror, Piotr Stanczak, was handled?
A Taleban group in Pakistan is reportedly claiming to have killed a Polish engineer, Piotr Stanczak, who was kidnapped in September last year.
Reports quote a Taleban spokesman as saying he was killed after a deadline expired for the Pakistani government to free captured militants.
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Warsaw had received “informal confirmation” that the man was killed.
Pakistani security officials said they could not confirm the Taleban claim.
A Taleban spokesman said Mr Stanczak was beheaded after a deadline expired on Friday for the release of a number of militants in government hands, Reuters reported.
“We have killed the man after authorities refused to release our colleagues,” the spokesman, calling himself Mohammed, told Reuters. (BBC)
Let’s review this terrible news. Stanczak was not an enemy hostile; he was abducted while doing survey work for the Pakistani oil ministry 40 miles from Islamabad, far from the front. He was held under conditions we will never know because the Red Cross/Crescent was not allowed access to the facility … if we can even call it a “facility.” He was held without trial – and murdered without trial. His death was, to put it mildly, inhumane. Say what you will, that is not the portrait of a Guantanamo detainee’s life.
The Left will not mourn the death of Piotr Stanczak. Obama will not consider the contrasts between his ordeal and the daily life of Guantanamo detainees. He won’t compare the innocence of Stanczak to the evil in the heart of the detainees.
Will nothing will be learned from Stanczak’s death? A few of us might memorialize him, but do any among us think his death will lead to more rational decision-making by the Obama administration?
Amoebas glide toward their prey with the help of a protein switch that controls a molecular compass, biologists at the University of California, San Diego have discovered.
Their finding, recently detailed in the journal Current Biology, is important because the same molecular switch is shared by humans and other vertebrates to help immune cells locate the sites of infections.
The amoeba Dictyostelium finds bacteria by scent and moves toward its meal by assembling a molecular motor on its leading edge. The active form of a protein called Ras sets off a cascade of signals to start up that motor, but what controlled Ras was unknown.
Amoeba have a sense of smell? They know how to build a molecular motor? Darwin certainly never suspected a single-cell critter could have all that!
It requires more faith to believe such a complex system can evolve out of the primordial mud than it takes to believe the amoeba is part of God’s design. Continue Reading »
ood old Yankee know-how has been on display in Waziristan lately, as drone-fired missiles are slamming into rat-filled hovels. The latest report claims 20 “militants” – al-Qaeda and taliban terrorists – were killed.
A fine thing indeed, but what’s with this paragraph?
One attack in Mohammadkhel village about 28 miles west of Miran Shah, the region’s main town, killed about 19 people, most of them alleged militants but also including about a half-dozen foreigners, the officials said, citing agents in the field.
You mean the foreigners weren’t also terrorists? Were they perhaps European tourists on an eco-tour? Hollywood stars and Parisian fashion models on a round-the-world Smug Quest?
More likely they were jihadis from Saudi Arabia and Yemen, or Euro-Muslims on the only real kind of tour that reaches those parts, jihad madrassa tours. A half-dozen foreigners? A half dozen more dead terrorists, most likely.
Since this is evidence of stepped-up efforts to win the war in Afghanistan by taking out the terrorist dregs that dragged that sorry butts back to the mountains after we took out most of their compadres in Iraq, one would think that Barack “The Kabul Kid” Obama will be singing the praises of the attack. Bets anyone? Anyone think he’ll actually praise a successful military action?
The Obama administration told us that not only would they be very good at spending unfathomable sums of money, but they’d also be maestros at turning that cash into jobs for a job-hungry America. Like so many White House words, the Big Job Promise is turning out to be nothing more than hype-fuel for the [...]
With Obama winning the presidency by seven percent, we can't blame the media. Their laudatory coverage and refusal to extensively probe into Obama's background and [lack of] experience was at best responsible for five percent of his vote, the pundits tell us. Here is a compilation of over 100 significant instances of pro-Obama/anti-McCain bias during the 2008 campaign.
"Thank you for the Voice of the Victims films. The students really liked it, and it means so much to them to hear real stories and not watch a cheesy drama like so many other videos."
— a high school teacher.
Well, as near as I can tell it’s because the Leftists of the world have united in orange jumpsuits to howl in protest that America is protecting the West from those who would destroy it.
A Taleban group in Pakistan is reportedly claiming to have killed a Polish engineer, Piotr Stanczak, who was kidnapped in September last year.
Amoebas glide toward their prey with the help of a protein switch that controls a molecular compass, biologists at the University of California, San Diego have discovered.
