Image from "In Denial" at The Weekly Standard
I just came across this very well written piece in The Weekly Standard on the current Climategate scandal. Seven F. Hayward does a fabulous job of summation on the scandal itself, as well as the current impact on climate science and the looming implications the growing mess creates.
Most definitely worth the time to read.
This simple description does not do the video justice. The scene shown, where three supposed spies are savagely butchered by the Taliban in Pakistan in early April of this year, show the utter, despicable horror which is Islamic Sharia law in practice. The brutality is nearly immeasurable and almost impossible to watch. Like the video of the vile murder of Danial Pearl, it will stay with you forever. It is the stuff of nightmares!
I view all religion as dangerous to rational, humane thought, but fundamentalist Islamic tradition rivals the Inquisition and witch hunts of the mediaeval Christian church in its poisonous attack against decency itself. The major difference is not in the brutality it conjures, for all middle eastern religions have their fair share of horrid behavior in the past. The difference is that fundamentalist Islamic Sharia law is alive and well in the otherwise enlightened 21st century and there are many who push the Islamic goal of world conquest under its barbaric rule!
Not as a Westerner, nor as a citizen of the United States, but as a human who believes in true justice, liberty and peaceful coexistence as the ultimate goal of the human species; this cannot be allowed to continue, or to grow. We have to stop avoiding the issue and see it for what it is.
There is a concerted effort on the part of the European Union and to a lesser extent in the United States, to side-step facing the issue. Islamic groups in Europe, especially Britain and Denmark, have been making great strides in receiving special status in the law. Britain, in a move of inexplicable insanity, has already embraced official Sharia courts, and there are some areas in Europe which are quite literally becoming Islamic sub-states, where the local authorities do not tread. The United Nations even had such gall as to allow Islamic nations to attempt to pressure for a world law against blasphemy!
It would seem there are those in western governments who are willing to concede parts of their law and custom, in order to appease the Islamic curate, as if such action will remove or lesson the chance of terrorist activity or other civic violence.
Such thinking is stupid. It allows fear to rule over us.
The West practiced the same kind of horrific violence and torture through its embrace of Christianity and there is no excuse for it. Similarly, there is no excuse not to recognize the dangers of a religion which has not transcended these blatantly evil practices. We have been there and we should know better.
We can no more allow the vile workings of Sharia law to pollute the cultural progress of the enlightenment, than we can allow the Catholic Church to reinstate the witch hunts and the Inquisition.
There is no place in a free world for Sharia law. It is the modern epitome of religious evil and cannot be allowed to gain any further footing in the world. In fact, if the goal of the human race is to achieve true peace and liberty, Sharia law must be completely eliminated from the face of the planet.
To handle Sharia law with kid gloves, only enables its foul grip on the world to grow.
Rejoice in the western world’s glory, oh unenlightened ones. As the west has embraced (led by the British Empire and the United States) the ideal of Freedom of Speech! This is an uncompromising view, that the human species should be able to say anything, to express themselves in any way, whether that offends someone or not. It is the cornerstone of the very concept of liberty.
It is unfortunate that Molly Norris, a Seattle cartoonist, has felt the need to distance herself from her own viral creation, but when a good idea catches hold of the imagination, personal comfort often flies off with it.
In this case, it came in the form of a cartoon she drew, proclaiming May 20th as “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day”. It took off like wildfire.
And why wouldn’t it? The very idea that the “religion of peace”, as Islam claims it is, would even threaten to kill people for creating images of their prophet, spits in the face of liberty! As we in the west hold freedom of speech as dear to our hearts as the Muslim people hold their prophet – you’re asking for a fight.
Search engines will certainly lead you to many depictions of the Islamic prophet, but zombietime.com has the most extensive collection I could find. Check them out.
I received another email today with a bold footer exclaiming the email’s confidentiality. I have to laugh every time I see one of these utterly moronic banners.
NOTICE: This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message.
Think about what this notice is claiming. Putting aside for the moment that the recipient has not signed a confidentiality agreement, you don’t even get to this notice until you’ve already read the previous material! How in the world can one be held responsible for reading the material, when the notice not to is at the bottom of the message? Furthermore, if you contact the sender, you have also reviewed the material, as the sender’s identification is not in the disclosure statement. In responding to the sender, you have proved that you broke the supposed agreement.
Such are merely minor points, however. That you never signed a confidentiality agreement of any kind is enough to utterly render this notification legally null and void. You cannot insist that someone has entered a contract agreement simply by receiving email from you.
Imagine having a footer which stated, “NOTICE: This email is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential information. If you are not one of the intended recipients and you read this email, you owe Boneheads, Inc. $20,000,000 in contract fees and must pay this amount immediately.”
Any such ludicrous attempt at establishing a contract with a non-signing recipient would be laughed out of court and end up as a footnote on Failblog.org.
To be fair, sometimes it is not the end user, but the email server of the corporation in question which appends these notices. If you work for a company which appears to have its fair share of litigious idiots, you might email yourself to see if this is the case. If so, contact your IT department and demand to know why it is that they want you to look like a blithering idiot with every email you send.
Because that is all these confidentiality notices really say.
One of Vilks' drawings of Muhammed
Lars Vilks is no stranger to controversy involving Islamic imagery. His images portraying the prophet Muhammad as a “roundabout dog” earned everything from international condemnation (read as Islamic nations whining like little girls) to the Islamic State of Iraq (a terrorist organization) issuing a $150,000 reward for his assassination. (One of Vilks’ original drawings is shown at left. If there was any doubt that religion is insanity, realize that this image alone is motivation for the faithful to kill!)
Mr. Vilks was giving a lecture at Uppsala University in Sweden, when images in his lecture display set off the Islamic nut cases in the audience to attack him. He was head-butted in the chest and punched in the face, but did not suffer serious injury.
I have to applaud the Swedish police in this incident, for showing a remarkable level of restraint when dealing with these delusional, violent nuts. Even the one individual who had to be taken to the floor, was not abused in the process. Once he was down and immobile, there were no further actions taken against him. I wish our police could hold the same level of professionalism, but that breed of officer seems few and far between in the US these days.
I also feel that this video shows that at least a portion of the Islamic faithful simply cannot be reasoned with and when even slightly offended, they behave worse than animals in thrashing out at the ones they feel have “attacked their dignity”.
I have news for these people, you have no dignity. You are hollow and worthless and your actions demonstrate it.
Blasphemy is insanity at its worst. The very thought that a god or even a prophet cannot stand up for himself, but that he requires his followers to commit violent acts to defend his honor, is the epitome of delusional thinking. If such a god or saint does exist, he doesn’t need you to defend him.
Just to keep the record clear, there are Christians and Jews who will behave the same way, “protecting” their faith. This isn’t just a Muslim expression. The Muslims simply have the lion’s share of public violent lunacy, as the advent of science has tamed the monster that the Christian movement once was in the west and Jewish lunacy has mutated into Zionist lunacy, with Israel promoting their ire in military focus against Islamic nations, rather than mob violence to scattered events.
However, no matter how you look at it, the equation is pretty obvious: Middle Eastern religions are religions of violence. Read the Koran. Read the Bible. The gods portrayed there are selfish, petty, tyrannical, murderous monsters – and they command, right within the pages of their holy books, that their followers behave the same way.
Religion is insanity and it is very difficult to negotiate or reason with the insane.
The Church of Anthropogenic Global Warming is still trying their damnedest to keep the global warming hype running, but Europe especially (where the press coverage isn’t stifled on the subject) and now the US isn’t buying their bullshit anymore.
Congress shot down the cap and trade legislation that Obama so dearly wanted, postponing the bill indefinitely in the Senate and until 2017 in the House.
Further issues being dug up in the Climategate emails have shown the “science” behind the entire global warming industry to be utterly false. In fact, it is fair at this point, with all the evidence at hand, to state that those involved at the core of the movement purposely lied about all of the proposed crisis and that most of the actual data and their models used for climate prediction are completely wrong. Furthermore, there is direct evidence of a corruption of the peer review process, black-balling any study or paper which conflicted with the desired global warming hype.
The most telling of the hard data released so far, is what is referred to as the “Readme Harry” document, which describes the painstaking attempt by a programmer to make sense of nonsensical data. There is so much in this 247 page document that it’s hard to take it all in at one sitting, but many have done just that and broke down the results.
Flopping Aces covers the Readme Harry document specifically, and Small Dead Animals has a slew of useful links on the document and related material.
For those who want to read the document themselves, find it here or here
I have long doubted the stupidity regurgitated ad nauseum from the Church of Anthropogenic Global Warming, as I’ve called them – but this finalizes my stance. Those pushing the global warming agenda are religionists, with the same asinine mentality of anyone following a faith. No logic, evidence or examination is allowed in their belief system and so I will discard it like any other superstitious nonsense.
My fear at this point, is that the damage is going to be so overwhelming to the scientific community in general, that it will undermine all branches of science – creating an unhealthy, over-reactive public rejection of science itself. Science as a discipline ends up crucified by the actions of a global warming cult.
As if we didn’t have enough religious stupidity trying to drag us back into the Dark Ages as it was.
On a humorous side note, Micheal Mann, creator of the infamously flawed and utterly debunked “hockey stick” graph, has threatened to sue Minnesotans for Global Warming (M4GW), over a parody video they made, called “Hide the Decline”, aired on Youtube.com. (I won’t post a link here, because it comes and goes. Just search for it on Youtube.)
No Cap and Trade, which came to M4GW’s defense, actually desires the lawsuit to come, because it would force Mann to release his data under full disclosure to the court.
Subscribe to this site's RSS feed.
Unless otherwise expressly stated, all material of
