Tag Archives: Terrorism

Fashion Statement

Posted in all growd'sd up, et cetera on March 11th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
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Yasser Arafat - Time Magazine photo

“I sure do love suicide bombings. Oh, and young men. Mmmm, young men.”

I saw some tool on campus wearing a kaffiyeh today. Second time in as many weeks I’ve noticed a guy wearing the symbol of the two-faced Palestinian suicide cult — and I don’t leave my office all that often. I know full well that cataloging examples of clueless leftism on a large college campus would be an exhausting task, and it’s not one I plan to undertake. But come on, people. Israel is better than Palestine, and that is a demonstrable fact unless you love people whose claims to fame are losing a war 40 years ago and celebrating the murder of civilians.

Nice scarf, though. Idiots. Dead terrorist photo copyright Time.

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Parody and Pakistan

Posted in all growd'sd up on February 29th, 2008 at 7:01 pm
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If you were a comedian, Pakistan would be a troubling place. What kind of joke could you make up about a country that’s beyond parody? From the Associated Press story “Bombing Kills 35 at Pakistan Funeral“:

Iqbal, the deputy police chief of the Lakki Marwat district, and his driver were killed in a roadside bomb Friday morning. By the time his body was brought to his hometown of Mingora for the funeral, night had fallen.

“Because it was dark, the suicide bomber was able to mingle among the people easily,” said Shahbuddin, an assistant inspector of police who was at the funeral.

Elsewhere in Pakistan, protesters responded in… er… incendiary fashion:

Pakistani protestors - Reuters photo

© Reuters. Run from that fire, guys! Run so fast it’ll never catch you!

Part of Reuters’ caption for the above:

Activists from the Sunni Action Committee run for safety after they caught fire while burning an effigy during a protest in Karachi February 29, 2008. Protesters in Pakistan called on Friday for ties with Denmark to be severed over the republication of one of several cartoons…

While suicide bombers murder Pakistani civilians, Pakistani civilians burn effigies of Denmark — because Danish papers reprinted cartoons mocking Islamic terrorists. The audacity of those Danes!

Speaking of audacity, let’s consider for a second Barack Obama’s stated position on Pakistan (or as Obama would say it, Pah-kee-stahn). The Iraq war is a mistake, a distraction, and a failure of diplomacy, but boy – if there are terrorists in Pakistan, a President Barack would send in the guns. What would he do after that, when Islamist nutbags came pouring in from every direction, as they have in Iraq? Apologize for the inconvenience and begin work on a diplomatic resolution?

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Spectacular

Posted in all growd'sd up, politics on February 18th, 2008 at 11:10 pm
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On the bright side, it sounds like Pakistan held a peaceful, relatively democratic election. Less brightly, the least-bad option for American interests got thoroughly whipped. From The New York Times:

Politicians and party workers from Mr. Musharraf’s party said the vote was a protest against government policies and the rise in terrorism here, in particular against Mr. Musharraf’s heavy-handed way of dealing with militancy and his use of the army against tribesmen in the border areas, and against militants in a siege at the Red Mosque here in the capital last summer that left more than 100 people dead.

As usual, both “militants” and “tribesmen” are euphemisms for “extremist Muslims.” I can understand that some percentage of Pakistani voters would rather their government treat the looniest of their coreligionists with kid gloves than cater to American requests, but that doesn’t make it any less disastrous.

Many educated Pakistanis said they were irritated that the Bush administration chose to ignore Mr. Musharraf’s dismissal in November of the Supreme Court chief justice.

And Americans are irritated that so few Pakistani leaders show any willingness to fight the assclowns training and seeking harbor within Pakistan’s borders. Between their West-hating electorate and our surveillance-hating Democrats, things are certainly not getting any safer. Hey there, would-be martyrs! Want to plot the destruction of America? Just buy yourself a cell phone in the U.S. of A., hitch a flight to Pakistan, and chat it on up with your fellow “tribesmen”!

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…And another Tragic Loss

Posted in all growd'sd up on February 15th, 2008 at 7:33 pm
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Upstanding Islamic Jihad commander Ayman al-Fayed was, in a cruel twist of fate, killed in an explosion today.

Islamic Jihad and witnesses blamed the explosion on an Israeli missile strike, but the Israeli military denied involvement.

Those doggone Israelis, blowing up/maybe not blowing up/facilitating the blowing up of another psycho killer (qu’est que c’est?) whose life’s goal is to murder Israeli civilians.

In other news, the top United Nations humanitarian affairs official, John Holmes, visited Gaza Friday and says he was shocked by the misery he says has been caused by Israel’s closure of the border. He is calling for the crossings to be opened so the people of Gaza can get food, power and other essential supplies.

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1. John Holmes
see also, “The overwhelming majority of United Nations humanitarian affairs officials.”

Who’s to blame for the Palestinian territories being a flaming wreck? Hamas? Fatah? Islamic Jihad? Oh, that’s right… Israel.

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A Cryin’ Shame

Posted in all growd'sd up on February 13th, 2008 at 7:40 pm
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When a terrorist a-splodes, nothing but respect and equal time from the BBC:

“Syria, which condemns this cowardly terrorist act, expresses condolences to the martyr family and to the Lebanese people,” Interior Minister Bassam Abdul-Majeed said in a statement.

Imagine that – Syria condemning a cowardly terrorist attack.

Iran also condemned the killing, praising Mughniyeh as a martyr and describing the attack as “yet another brazen example of organised state terrorism by the Zionist regime”.

Wait, Iran is against brazen examples of organized state terrorism?

Hezbollah was founded in 1982 by a group of Shia Muslim clerics after the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. It has emerged in recent years as a major political and military force in Lebanon, after military successes against Israel.

The BBC does two things in this story that would be pretty startling if they weren’t standard procedure. They quote American, Israeli, Syrian, and Iranian officials in a tonally neutral fashion. And then, after quoting the whiny officials of flagrantly terror-supporting nations, they describe what Hezbollah does as “military successes.” I guess in some circles, hating Israel just never goes out of style.

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Phew(?)

Posted in politics on November 16th, 2006 at 9:41 pm
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Come January, Steny Hoyer will be 2nd-in-command in the U.S. House of Representatives. This is an indication that the Democrats are planning to be at least marginally reasonable about the War on Terror. Right? Maybe not, if Hoyer’s own press release is any indication…

Among other things, we intend to raise the minimum wage, implement all of the bipartisan 9-11 commission recommendations, cut college costs, make prescription drugs more affordable, and urge President Bush to change course in Iraq.

Or in other words: screw the economy, screw the economy, screw the economy, abandon Iraq. The economic monkeying is standard Democrat fare so far as I can tell, but why has it become so vital we “change course” in Iraq? Because having a volunteer military that fights to defend America’s interests is unacceptable?

In the case of Iraq, I am pro-war. Certainly not for war’s sake. Not for oil. But because I’d much rather terrorists rush headlong into martyrdom by U.S.M.C. gunfire than at the controls of a 747 or by self-detonation in downtown Washington. By and large, isn’t that what’s happening in Iraq?

See Mark Steyn’s America Alone and check littlegreenfootballs.com every once in awhile. The world is not a happy place, and our allies don’t seem to mind so long as the United States is the Great[est] Satan atop your average terrorist’s list. If we’re too busy protecting the world from America’s horrible influence, who will protect America from the world’s?

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