The Descent of the Decent

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Radical islamists
Not hiding their intentions
09.03.2009.

The 8 minute video Military Coup In The UK is worth watching. Not only are these kinds of radical islamists a danger to Westerners, they are also putting pressure on moderate Muslims, accusing them of not being proper Muslims.
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Detroit:
Elect a crazy council, get crazy results
06.03.2009. Excerpts from a commentary by Nolan Finley in

The Detroit News

(italics in original, boldface added by HT):
Nowhere is Michigan's brain drain on greater display than in the Detroit City Council chambers. My hopes for Detroit's future faded as I watched the tape of last Tuesday's council meeting, the one that considered the Cobo Center expansion deal. It was a tragic circus, a festival of ignorance that confirmed the No. 1 obstacle to Detroit's progress is the bargain basement leaders that city voters elect. The black nationalism that is now the dominant ideology of the council was on proud display, both at the table and in the audience. Speakers advocating for the deal were taunted by the crowd and cut short by Council President Monica Conyers, who presided over the hearing like an angry bulldog; whites were advised by the citizens to, "Go home".

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Don't say a word
A U.N. resolution seeks to criminalize opinions that differ with the Islamic faith
03.03.2009.

The Muslim religion makes unusually large claims for itself. All religions do this, of course, in that they claim to know and to be able to interpret the wishes of a supreme being. But Islam affirms itself as the last and final revelation of God's word, the consummation of all the mere glimpses of the truth vouchsafed to all the foregoing faiths, available by way of the unimprovable, immaculate text of "the recitation," or Quran. If there sometimes seems to be something implicitly absolutist or even totalitarian in such a claim, it may result not from a fundamentalist reading of the holy book but from the religion itself. And it is the so-called mainstream Muslims, grouped in the Organization of the Islamic Conference, who are now demanding through the agency of the United Nations that Islam not only be allowed to make absolutist claims but that it also be officially shielded from any criticism of itself.
Continue reading this article by Christopher Hitchens in Slate.

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Our knight in shining armour:

Wilders in Washington
His speech in the U. S. Senate Capitol Building
27.02.2009.

February 26th 2009, Geert Wilders gave a speech in the Lyndon B. Johnson Room of the U. S. Senate Capitol Building. The event was sponsored by The Center for Security Policy’s Frank Gaffney and The International Free Press Society’s Lars Hedegaard. Both men were in attendance during the speech.

Continue reading at Gates of Vienna.