Tolerance: Mohammed Style

I love Islamic tolerance.............

Fitna the Movie Geert Wilders' film (English)
by groepwilders

Naturally this video has been pulled from the original website due to death threats. So much for an open and honest examination.

What this guy said.......

Free Speech: Hawaii Style!

Free Speech vs. Political Correctness

A government department of the State of Hawaii is demanding the retraction of a political cartoon published Jan. 18 on the satirical web site http://www.zeroshibai.com/ and reprinted Jan. 21 on http://www.hawaiireporter.com/ The demands come in response to images and text ridiculing the Office of Hawaiian Affairs' Kau Inoa campaign as "Cow Inoa." Kau Inoa, Hawaiian for "place your name" is building a roll of Hawaiians to participate in a Hawaiian tribal government. Haunani Apoliona, writing in her capacity as "Chairperson, Board of Trustees, Office of Hawaiian Affairs" (OHA) in a Jan. 24 statement demands: "The cartoon should be pulled and the secret author publicly identified."

Read it all over at The American Thinker.

A quote from Animal Farm comes to mind.....

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

Apparently it’s now ok to base a national government exclusively on race as long as that race is not white. I love political correctness.

Why cant American TV be this crazy...........

Way funnier than MXC.........bare through the first minute to get to the funny stuff.


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The fruits of political correctness

If you haven't heard yet the University of Delaware has been subjecting students in its residence halls to a shocking program of ideological reeducation that is referred to in the university’s own materials as a “treatment” for students’ incorrect attitudes and beliefs. The Orwellian program requires the approximately 7,000 students in Delaware’s residence halls to adopt highly specific university-approved views on issues ranging from politics to race, sexuality, sociology, moral philosophy, and environmentalism.

In one-on-one sessions with RAs (Resident Assistants), University of Delaware students were questioned: “When did you discover your sexual identity?” In dorm meetings, they were pressured to pledge their allegiance to university-approved views on race, sexuality and environmentalism. When FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights in Education) spotlighted the indoctrination, a university official defended the “free exchange of ideas.” A few days later, the program was canceled.

A chilling description was provided by freshman Brooke Aldrich in a Wilmington News-Journal story: “Students were asked if they approved of such things as affirmative action or gay marriage. If they did, they would join students on one side of the room. If they didn’t, they would join students on the other side of the room. They were not permitted to explain their reasons or to answer ‘I don’t know,’ she said.”

I guess I never understood why diversity indoctrination comes only in the form of race differences, cultural differences, or sexual differences? Instead of urging students to think about what they have in common — perhaps a shared interest in poetry, science fiction, football, ecology, entrepreneurship, the Gospels, Harry Potter, video games, etc. — ResLife pushed them to focus on their oppressor or victim status.

I have to borrow a quote from Pat Buchanan on this issue:

In the politically correct book of “progress,” man is no longer judged by the content of his character - but by the color of his skin, class, income, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other secondary attribute. The trick is that when a secondary attribute becomes the primary one, man loses his unique individuality and becomes a mere social function, a drone in a collective, a peg in the machine, a sacrificial animal on the altar of “progress.”

The roots of political correctness

I have discussed somewhat my feelings that many topics I feel are important for our society have become taboo to even discuss or have any opinion that might even slightly disagree with the PC line. Diana West, who wrote “The Death of the Grown-Up: How America’s Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization" tries to discover the root of how our society got to the point where it is today concerning political correctness. She borrows a theory from author Peter Brimelow's book Alien Nation: Common Sense about America’s Immigration Disaster.......

There is a sense in which the current immigration policy is Adolph Hitler’s posthumous revenge on America. The U.S. political elite emerged from the war passionately concerned to cleanse itself from all taints of racism and xenophobia. Eventually, it enacted the epochal Immigration Act (technically, the Immigration and Nationality Act Amendments) of 1965. And this, quite accidentally, triggered a renewed mass immigration, so huge and systemically different from anything that had gone before as to transform – and ultimately, perhaps, even to destroy – the one unquestioned victor of World War II: the American nation, as it had evolved by the middle of the twentieth century.

Read a much more in depth review here. An excerpt from the article......

Openness and acceptance on every and any level – from personal to national, from sexual to religious – are the highest possible virtues of the postmodern Westerner. This makes boundaries and taboos, limits and definition – anything that closes the door on anything else – the lowest possible sins. Judgment, no matter how judicious, is tarred as “prejudice” and, therefore, a neobarbarous act to be repressed and ultimately suspended. Patriotism has been caricatured out of polite society as boorish warmongering. Western civilization itself, which may be taken as the product of both judgment and patriotism, has been roundly condemned for being both prejudiced and warmongering. The overall effect has been to sap the culture’s confidence in its own traditions, even – especially – in the classical liberal tradition that stiffed our spines against Hitler in the first place. The cultural anemia that began to take hold long ago has passively accepted the transformation of America the Western into America the Multicultural (and Western Europe into Multicultural Europe) as a good, or necessary, or even just inevitable thing. And thus – with the practical disappearance of the nation, or perhaps better, the culture, that defeated him – Hitler’s revenge.

I've long felt that the West needs to get over its "white guilt" problem and call a spade a spade. People are too afraid to blame any problems on a particular culture, race, or religion (unless of course it’s Christian) for fear of being called a racist or xenophobe. The fact is we need an open and intelligent debate on immigration, religion, and other topics. Of course any politician who publicly brought into question any of the pillars of political correctness would be a crucified by CAIR, Jesse Jackson, the EU, or the UN.

Based on evidence and observation.......

• I do not believe Islam (in its current form) is compatible with Western societies.
• Islam is NOT a religion of peace.
• Illegal immigration of unskilled workers into the US has A LOT of drawbacks that probably outweigh the advantages of cheap labor.
• An immigrant culture that refuses to assimilate in a host society could have enormous implications in the not so distant future.
• America's black culture has a problem. They need to shed off the imaginary chains of "oppression from the man" and make their own place in America instead of seeing a KKK member around every corner.
• Some cultures are superior to others (yes as humans we are created equal, but that’s where it stops).

I will leave you with a few thoughts for all of you would be "social justice" fighters out there who will pick up a “righteous” cause for any person, people group, or society they feel is getting unfairly repressed. I'm with C.S. Lewis on this subject:

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

Pimp my camel

From cdr.salamander

How can you want a culture to expand and religious sect to thrive that both strive to destroy what little above-ground fun that can be had, in one of the least fun places in the world?

Members of Saudi Arabia's Senior Clerics Association have issued a fatwa banning camel beauty contests.

The fatwa stated that the contests are prohibited because they include perversion, waste money on futility and ostentation, and are similar to games banned by the Koran.

Camel beauty contests have been held annually at this time for the past decade, and are part of Saudi tribal folklore.

They do have some nice looking camels.

You know, the gift of life is too precious to allow people who make Cotton Mather seem like a member of the Rat Pack take over any more square footage.

Define hypocrite.

A quote from EUobserver, 29 October 2007
Russian president Vladimir Putin has suggested setting up a Russian-funded institute in Brussels or another European capital to keep an eye on human rights issues in Europe. “With the aid of grants, the EU helps develop such institutes in Russia,” Mr Putin was cited as saying by Reuters, after an EU-Russia summit on Friday (26 October). “I think the time has come for Russia, given the growth in our financial capabilities, to make its contribution in this sphere as well”, he added.
President Putin’s personal envoy for relations with the 27-nation EU, Sergei Yastrzhembsky, explained Moscow’s intentions further. “This is not going to be a joint venture,” Mr Yastrzhembsky said, underlining “the institute will be monitoring the situation in Europe concerning rights of ethnic minorities, immigrants, media and such”.

So Putin......the current president (and I use this term very very loosely since this man has no apparent plans to ever relinquish power) will be watching over human rights in the EU? The man who assassinates dissidents (see Alexander Litvinenko poisoning) and outspoken reporters critical of his government (see Anna Politkovskaya) , jails "evil oligarchs" read: capitalist (see former boss of Yukos Oil), bullies neighboring countries who try to break from the Soviet influence (see Estonia), uses his countries massive energy reserves as a political weapon (see him turning off gas to neighboring Ukraine and Belarus), the man who thinks Stalin had many admirable qualities, the man who said America's history is no worse than the Soviet Union's (The Soviet Union killed 54.7 million between 1917 and 1987) is going to monitor human rights in the EU?