BARBARA'S TCHATZKAHS

by Johann Hari This is a column condemning cowardice – including my own. It begins with the story of a novel you cannot read. The Jewel of Medina was written by a journalist called Sherry Jones. It recounts the life of Aisha, a girl who was married off at the age of six to a 50-year-old man called Mohamed ibn Abdallah. On her wedding day, Aisha was playing on a see-saw outside her home. Inside, she was being betrothed. The first she knew of it was when she was banned from playing out in the street with the other children. When she was nine, she was taken to live with her husband, now 53. He had sex with her. When she was 14, she was accused of adultery with a man closer to her own age. Not long after, Mohamed decreed that his wives must cover their faces and bodies, even though no other women in Arabia did. You cannot read this story today – except in the Koran and the Hadith. The man Mohamed ibn Abdallah became known to Muslims as "the Prophet Mohamed", so our ability t...

Not only do extremists continue to threaten to control our freedom of expression, control women - they are trying to control our sense of humor. As I have expressed on this blog before, bullies usually have NO sense of humor about themselves - while feeling free to attack others. It's too bad these animals wouldn't get it even if we aired "THE MADNESS OF KING GEORGE" for them. This country and most Americans got sick of being threatened and pushed around over 230 years ago. This rhetoric could be easily tossed aside as a schoolyard screaming match, except in this case - some of these fanatics have nukes. Time to stop singing Kumbaya to people who are THIS far off the reservation, President Obama! by John Avlon An effort by the show's creators to satirize the threatening attitudes of Islamic extremists has resulted in... threats from Islamic extremists. Don’t screw with South Park—and don’t ever try to intimidate us into accepting Sharia law. That’s the message...

WHY I MURDERED 13 AMERICAN SOLDIERS AT FORT HOOD: NIDAL HASSAN EXPLAINS IT ALL TO YOU by Barry Rubin How do we know that the attack at Fort Hood was an act of Islamist terrorism? Simple, Major Nidal Hassan told us so. You've seen reports of a long list of things he did and said along these lines. But what's most amazing of all is this: Hassan is the first terrorist in history to give an academic lecture[1] explaining why he was about to attack. Yet that still isn't enough for too many people — including the president of the United States — to understand that the murderous assault at Fort Hood was a Jihad attack. It was reported that the audience was shocked and frightened by his lecture. He was supposed to speak on some medical topic yet instead talked on the topic: "The Koranic World View as it Relates to Muslims in the U.S. Military." All you have to do is look at the 50 Power Point slides[1] and they tell you everything you need to know. It is quite a good talk...

By Imogen Foulkes Swiss voters go to the polls later to decide on a proposal to ban the building of minarets in their country. The proposal is backed by the Swiss People's Party, the largest party in parliament, and by Christian groups. They say minarets would be the first sign of the Islamisation of Switzerland. The Swiss government is urging voters to reject a ban. There are 400,000 Muslims in Switzerland, and just four minarets across the country. Islam is the most widespread religion after Christianity, but it remains relatively hidden. There are unofficial Muslim prayer rooms, and planning for new minarets is almost always refused. The proposal is for a one-line addition to the Swiss constitution, stating that the construction of minarets is forbidden. Supporters of a ban claim allowing minarets would represent the growth of an ideology and a legal system - Sharia law - which are incompatible with Swiss democracy. Opinion polls ahead of the vote are close, with signs that a s...

When I believe they're right - I am happy to give these opinions more bandwith on my blog: TERROR IN TEXAS The nation today ponders the irony of the slaughter of US soldiers, not on a battlefield in some dusty and distant land -- but on an Army base deep in the heart of Texas. But there is no irony. In the terrorists' war on America, every square inch of the nation is a potential battlefield, including Ft. Hood, Texas. The point of terrorism is to terrorize. It matters not at all whether the victims are soldiers on a military base, or office workers in downtown Manhattan, as long as the results are so shockingly bloody that they sap the will of Americans to stand up for their way of life. But is the alleged gunman -- Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan -- really a terrorist? Well, with no warning and less provocation, Hasan on Thursday suddenly shouted "Allahu Akbar!" (Allah is great!) and opened fire on soldiers and civilians at a Ft. Hood deployment center. Thi...

Leave it to UppityWoman to ferret this stuff out!

You gotta watch this: Or CLICK HERE to view. sickening...

The Islamofascists Would Kill Me First Last holiday season, my ex and the kids all asked me what I wanted, since I rarely ask for anything. I told them one thing. A Sirius Radio and a 1 year subscription. I love it. While sitting in the car waiting for my kids outside my lessons or their schools I can turn on a variety of targeted music or talk. As a talk-radio addict for years, it has to be one of the best gifts I have ever gotten. Feeding my head. And it was on Sirius that I first hear Cenk Uygur. This article of his is well worth a read, so I repost it here: By Cenk Uygur I am a Muslim who has renounced Islam. I am an apostate. I have had very unflattering things to say about the Prophet Mohamed [1](number one no-no of all time in the eyes of radical Islam). If an Islamic theocracy were to take over, I would be the first one strung up. Islamic radicals are not known for their patience for Muslims who denounce Islam and the Prophet Mohamed. They're known for killing them. N...

NONE SO BLIND... The piece below is pure satire ( just in case after reading it, it wasn't obvious to you. ) But it does lampoon something that is pure stupidity. The U.S. thinking that being so politically correct to Islamofascists is going to make them play nice. I posted an article here the other day about the Sickness Inside an Abusive Marriage. It was right on point. Believe me. I've lived it. Not just with my ex but with friends and guys I dated for a nano-second. At first everything is hunky dory. They may even actually care about you for a second. Then they get tired, bored or just plain cruel and nothing you say or do is right. Nothing you try is enough for them. NOTHING. Everything you say and do is wrong. You are wrong for breathing and you are even MORE wrong for having feelings. They should be able to tap dance all over you with stilletos and you should get up and smile about it. They blame you for everything from global warming to telling you the p...

ED KOCH SEES THE LIGHT! Unfortunately it may just be a flashlight held by Tom (sociopathic pundit) Friedman. "Highly regarded?" By who, Ed? Garbagemen and Flat Earth sychophants? But he gets the rest of it right!! Good job, Ed! I'm Done Defending the Iraq Policy By Ed Koch I'm bailing out. I will no longer defend the policy of keeping U.S. troops in Iraq to assist the Iraqi central government in the ongoing civil war. While our men and women in the military suffer casualties daily, the Iraqi government refuses to take the major political actions required to end the civil war. The U.S. government told the Iraqi leaders that it needed to achieve 18 goals. Our administration's recent report to the U.S. Congress on how close the Iraqis have come to achieving those goals states that eight have been achieved, no progress has been made on eight others, and two have had mixed results. With regard to the most important goals, which include bringing the Sunni population...

POLITICAL CORRECTNESS CAN BE TOXIC Chaim over at Freedom's Cost had a great post that really got me thinking about political correctness. ( Chaim , by the way, is a superb writer and very knowledgeable - its a blog to read even from my side of the aisle!) One of my children has a serious problem being bullied. A very sensitive, good looking, tops in class, wins awards at school kid so, hmmm... wonder why? Be that as it may, it's very hurtful. I have been talking with them about it, giving them things to read and doing as much as I can to raise my kids' self esteem. It's hard when the other parent is overly critical, as he was when we were married. He wasn't the first person to do this to me. The abuser gets you defending yourself about things you didn't do, never said and have no clue about and thereby successfully diverts you from their behavior. As my child said, "what did I do to them to make them do this to me?" I don't know because I...