Careful Thought

I’m not a big Paul McCartney fan.  After, all, rock-n-roll’s been going downhill since Buddy Holley died, right?  (I think he was in a few bands and did a few albums since his glory days with the Beatles, but I may be wrong.)

Anyway, Sir Paul braved the death threats from whacko islamists and gave a concert in Israel:

There have already been specific threats against McCartney’s concert in Israel.  Omar Bakri Mohammed, the radical Muslim preacher based in Lebanon after being banned from Britain, said recently that suicide bombers could attack the gig in protest against the singer’s patronage of Israel. He declared McCartney to be “the enemy of every Muslim”.

“If he values his life, Mr McCartney must not come to Israel. He will not be safe there. The sacrifice operatives will be waiting for him,” the hardline preacher told the Sunday Express.

Gotta love those ’sacrifice operatives’ from the religion of peace.  But he held firm and performed in Tel Aviv in honor of Israel’s 60th anniversary as a free and sovereign nation.

Paul McCartney gave his first concert in Israel on Thursday before tens of thousands of cheering fans, 43 years after the Beatles were barred from singing there because of fears they could corrupt youngsters. McCartney opened the Tel Aviv gig with Beatles song “Hello Goodbye,” and addressed the 40,000 fans in Hebrew and Arabic as well as English throughout the evening. “Shalom Tel Aviv!” he said, using the Hebrew word for “peace” and “hello.” The ex-Beatle also wished the crowd a happy new year in Hebrew ahead of Jewish celebrations next week and wished Muslims a good Ramadan, the month of fasting, in Arabic.

Among the favorites were “Give Peace a Chance” and “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” the closing number. McCartney’s visit to Israel prompted a fresh wave of Beatlemania, with radio stations playing the band’s tunes almost non-stop in the past few days. “All we need is peace in the region and a two-state solution,” McCartney told reporters and tourists outside the Bethlehem shrine revered as the site of Jesus’s birth. “I am bringing a message of peace and I think that’s what the region needs. It’s my own small way I can bring my message.”

I guess he’s trying to be a politician as well, but he deserves credit for not letting himself be railroaded by the anti-Israel crowd.

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Tags: gwot, Israel, music, Paul McCartney

Given the current state of affairs in England and Europe, I would say that Mrs. Thatcher was amazingly prescient.

“I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.”

(Margaret Thatcher)

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Tags: appeasement, Margaret Thatcher

On the heels of this, comes this - In Sheffield, England, you can’t bury a loved one on Saturday unless you’re a muslim.

The family of a 75-year-old man has accused the local council of religious discrimination after being refused permission to bury him on a Saturday because he is not a Muslim.

Harold ‘Charlie’ Lemaire died last week from pneumonia and his family wanted the burial service to be held on Saturday to make it easier for relatives living across the country to attend.

But plans for a memorial service followed by a burial in the City Road cemetery in Sheffield had to be changed because the local authority has a policy only to allow Muslim and Jewish funerals at weekends and bank holidays.

The ‘extended service’ is offered to Muslims because their faith requires the dead to be buried as soon as possible and Jewish people usually bury their dead within 24 hours.

Family barred from burying their dead stepfather on a Saturday… because he isn’t a Muslim | Mail Online.

(HT: Report on Arrakis, via Jawas)

Technorati Tags: death of Europe, England, Eurabia, Eurabistan, islam

Tags: death of Europe, England, Eurabia, Eurabistan, islam

Sharia victims

Last week I posted about the British decision to allow muslims to practice and enforce Sharia law within the kingdom.  Now the Jawa Report passes on this tidbit about Yasmine Larbi-Cherif, 22, and her 19-year-old sister Sabrina, the latest victims of Sharia ‘justice’.  The girls’ brother was apparently upset that the two were becoming too westernized.  Here’s Jawa:

The brother [of] two sisters [who] were murdered in their flat last week has been arrested for their murder.

Via BBC: A man from Birmingham has been charged with the murder of two women who were found dead at their flat in the city.The bodies of Yasmine Larbi-Cherif, 22, and her 19-year-old sister Sabrina were discovered on Monday.

Forensic tests revealed the pair, who lived at Jupiter Apartments near the city centre, died of stab wounds.

The original BBC report about the murders described the scene as…

challenging, forensically”.  He added there was a “substantial amount of blood” inside many of the rooms.

Sounds like these girls brother used the standard humane ROP method of killing. He beheaded them or cut their throats.

Which makes the questions in this weekly standard article all the more relevant.

That being said, I see three significant issues. First, there is a question about rights that are due to specific political communities. Are the rights provided to women under British marriage or inheritance law a baseline that they are due, or can they freely contract to be given fewer rights? We have in fact already seen this happen under the sharia tribunals. In a recent inheritance dispute described by the Muslim Arbitration Tribunal’s Siddiqi, a deceased man’s estate was divided between his three daughters and two sons. The Times reports: “The judges on the panel gave the sons twice as much as the daughters, in accordance with sharia. Had the family gone to a normal British court, the daughters would have got equal amounts.”This fact raises a question about how voluntary individuals’ accession to the sharia tribunals will actually be. Are women (for example) going to be forced by their families into marriages under sharia that provide them with fewer rights than they would have under British law?

Well the women could obviously choose to not use the Sharia court. Of course there will be, er, uh, reactions from the Muslim community for choosing British common law over Sharia. A girl who wants to keep her head needs to keep that in mind.

Has Britain become so fearful of the devils in their midst that they abandon any remaining shred of dignity - and sovereignty?  Where’s Margaret Thatcher when you need her?  Look for Sharia law and more ‘honor killings’ coming to a country near you.

Technorati Tags: Britain, death of Europe, Eurabia, Eurabistan, gwot, honor killings, islam, sharia law, UK

Tags: Britain, death of Europe, Eurabia, Eurabistan, gwot, honor killings, islam, sharia law, UK

Unfortunately, this is not a joke, not even a bad joke.  The formerly sovereign UK has ceded authority over its muslim populace.  The new Caliphate of Eurabistan marches on…

FOXNews.com - Britain Adopts Islamic Law, Gives Sharia Courts Full Power to Rule on Civil Cases.

Islamic law has been officially adopted in Britain, with sharia courts given powers to rule on Muslim civil cases.

The government has quietly sanctioned the powers for sharia judges to rule on cases ranging from divorce and financial disputes to those involving domestic violence.

Rulings issued by a network of five sharia courts are enforceable with the full power of the judicial system, through county courts or the country’s High Court, a part of its Supreme Court system.

Previously, the rulings of sharia courts in Britain could not be enforced, and depended on voluntary compliance among Muslims.

Politicians and church leaders expressed concerns that this could mark the beginnings of a “parallel legal system” based on sharia for some British Muslims.

Dominic Grieve, the shadow home secretary, said: “If it is true that these tribunals are passing binding decisions in the areas of family and criminal law, I would like to know which courts are enforcing them because I would consider such action unlawful. British law is absolute and must remain so.”

(More info at Brussels Journal)

Technorati Tags: death of Europe, England, Eurabia, Eurabistan, UK

Tags: death of Europe, England, Eurabia, Eurabistan, UK

Where were you on that day?  I was driving to work after dropping the boys at school.  My wife called to say that a plane had crashed into a building in New York.  I flipped on the news and listened to the horrific details.  By the time I reached the gate at work the second plane had impacted the other tower.  Details of the hijackings came out.  The Pentagon was hit.  Madness.  We watched and listened that day and the next and the next as more details came to light.  Rescues from the wreckage of the Towers and then just bodies.

I’m still shaken by those events and I hope I never lose that capacity to weep for those who were lost and for those who lost loved loved ones.  I feel anger as, even today, ‘truthers’ claim that it was an inside job, that BushCo staged the whole scenario to launch a war or to grab the oil or to make a few bucks.  What calloused hearts those people have.

9-11 was not the judgment of God on a sinful nation or ‘the just desserts of a prideful nation’.  But it shows me that we do live in a fallen, sinful world where people shake their fists at God and mock His name.  We are allowed to live with the consequences of that rejection of God.  9-11 was just a symptom of that rejection.

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Here’s an update on the previous post about the terrorist bulldozer attack (actually, it was a front-end loader) in Jerusalem.

The copycat attack occurred on the corner of Keren Hayesdod and King David streets in downtown Jerusalem, down the road from the hotel where U.S. Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama was to be staying later in the day.

“The bulldozer driver left a construction site, and hit two cars,” a police spokesman said.

“A civilian who saw what was happening, shot him. The bulldozer continued on its way. A Border Police patrol… continued to shoot and the terrorist was killed,” the spokesman said. “Another person was wounded.”

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The heroic civilian who stopped the terrorist is Yakki Asa’el, aged 53, father of 8, grandfather of 6. A teacher and farmer by profession. IDF Company Commander (מפקד פלוגה) in the reserves. Settler from Susya (Har Hevron Hills area).  (HT:The Muqata)

Quick thinking - and a readily available weapon - saved untold lives and put a rapid end to both terrorist and terrorist attack.

Military service is compulsory in Israel and even elementary school field trips require an armed escort.  We visited Israel a few years back and it was not unusual at all to see a group of school kids followed by a teacher or guard with a rifle slung over their back.

This picture was taken at Masada.  Slacker Boy has what looked like a Galil AR 5.56.  I bet he knows how to use it.

Granted, we don’t live under the same threat of imminent attack by mindless terrorists, but how many lives at Columbine or Virginia Tech could have been saved if the bad guys had to guess which bystanders were packing heat?

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Tags: concealed carry laws, Israel, terrorism

Things are still a mess in the Middle East, despite Obamessiah’s presence.

BBC NEWS | Middle East | Israelis hit by new digger attack

A Palestinian in a mechanical digger has rammed traffic in west Jerusalem, injuring at least 10 people before being shot dead, Israeli police say.

A bus and a number of cars were hit during the incident. Some cars were crushed and one was turned on its roof.

Witnesses say an armed civilian first shot at the driver, before he was killed by border police.

Three weeks ago a Palestinian man went on a deadly rampage in a heavy vehicle in Jerusalem, killing three Israelis.

A BBC correspondent says it is thought the 2 July attacker was simply a disturbed man without political motivation - but Israelis will worry Tuesday’s incident was a copycat attack and that this could now be a new tactic.

Police identified the perpetrator as 22-year-old East Jerusalem resident Ghassan Abu Tir. It is not known if he was connected to any militant group.

And in a separate story, yet another Hamas terrorist is wandering aimlessly in the afterlife, looking for his 72 virgins - or do you get virgins if you blow yourself up accidentally without taking non-muslims with you?

BBC NEWS | Middle East | Hamas member killed in explosion

Hamas says one of its members has been killed in an explosion at a house near Gaza City.

The militant group said the man died while on “a holy mission” - a term often used when a member dies accidentally while handling explosives.

Two teenage boys were wounded in the blast at the militant’s home.

In the West Bank, Palestinian officials say Israeli troops have arrested a Hamas member of parliament from the city of Nablus.

Mona Mansour and 19 other people were detained.

Israeli troops have in recent weeks raided Nablus almost daily in a crackdown on Hamas.

Across the West Bank, Israeli forces have closed down several institutions allegedly linked to Hamas.

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Tags: Hamas, Israel, terrorism

Given Iran’s latest saber-rattling photoshopped missile launches, Israel announced today the deployment of the LAMS: Lolcat Anti-Missile System.

(HT: TigerinExile.  More p-shop response here.)

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Tags: humor, Iran, Israel, lolcats

Any guesses which faith this guy professes?  Lutheran?  Episcopal?  Militant Catholic?  No?  Just curious.

Police Say Georgia Man Killed Own Daughter to Protect Family Honor

(Fox News) A Georgia man will appear in court Monday on charges he killed his own daughter for disgracing the family.

Police said 54-year-old Chaudhry Rashad was so angered that his daughter, Sandela Kanwal, planned to divorce her arranged-marriage husband that Rashad killed her after a heated argument at the family’s home, FOX News affiliate MyFoxAtlanta reported.

When police arrived at the scene, police said they found Rashad’s two sons at the end of the driveway and their father smoking a cigarette in the garage. After entering the home, Kanwal’s body was discovered in the bathtub cold to the touch, officials said.

Rashad was taken to the Clayton County jail where he reportedly confessed to strangling his 25-year-old daughter.

The news shocked neighbors and family friends.

“The family is very upset and stressed,” said Shahid Malik of the Pakistani American Community of Atlanta. Malik told MyFoxAtlanta that he met with the family Sunday and said they were all traumatized.

Police said Kanwal hadn’t seen her husband, who lives in Chicago, for months.

Technorati Tags: gwot, islam, religion

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