It Is Islamofascism Awareness Week

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Not too surprisingly, certain people are objecting to being associated with fascism.

Too bad.

The Shoe fits them too well.

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The term Islamofascism was first used in 1990 in Britain's Independent newspaper by Scottish writer Malise Ruthven, who was writing about the way in which traditional Arab dictatorships used religious appeals in order to stay in power. I didn't know about this when I employed the term "fascism with an Islamic face" to describe the attack on civil society on Sept. 11, 2001, and to ridicule those who presented the attack as some kind of liberation theology in action. "Fascism with an Islamic face" is meant to summon a dual echo of both Alexander Dubcek and Susan Sontag (if I do say so myself), and in any case, it can't be used for everyday polemical purposes, so the question remains: Does Bin Ladenism or Salafism or whatever we agree to call it have anything in common with fascism?
http://www.slate.com/id/2176389/

The Egypt of the Muslim Brotherhood.

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More on Egypt and the Muslim Brotherhood.

The future looks very bleak for Egypt.

When Mubarak dies, Egypt will fall into darkness.

Not that Mubarak was much of a bright light to begin with.

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Perhaps the most alarming feature of the draft platform is the call to create a Majlis Ulama, or Council of Islamic Scholars, that could end up being elected by Islamic clerics, not through free and fair elections. Reminiscent of Iran's Guardian Council, this undemocratically selected body could have the power vested by the state to veto any and all legislation passed by the Egyptian parliament and approved by the president that is not compatible with Islamic sharia law.

The Muslim Brotherhood, established in 1928 by Hassan al-Banna, has been outlawed by the Egyptian government since 1954. Today, it packages itself as a moderate organization, and its members hold 88 seats (about a fifth) in the Egyptian parliament as independents. Many Egyptians have long sympathized with the Muslim Brotherhood in its struggle against an increasingly authoritarian regime. It was hard not to feel for the banned organization when its members faced the harsh treatment of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's military tribunals.

Still, having gone since 1928 without releasing any official party platform, the Muslim Brotherhood has escaped an honest and critical review – until now. In publishing this draft, it missed a golden opportunity to prove its pro-democratic stance.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1012/p09s02-coop.html

"Our children will ask 'what did our fathers do', and their answer will be - they did nothing."

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That will most likely be Europe's epitaph. Maybe the epitaph of the whole of the West.

Will Europe and the West rediscover its relationship with the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob, or will it submit willingly to Islam's god of the pedophile prophet of war and death?

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But in Wangen, that message falls on deaf ears. "First it was a cultural centre, then a prayer room, and now a minaret," says Mr Kissling. "It's salami tactics. The next thing it will be loudspeakers and the calls to prayer will be echoing up and down the valley. Our children will ask 'what did our fathers do', and their answer will be - they did nothing."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/religion/Story/0,,2188274,00.html

An Ignoble Nobel Peace Prize.

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Science is not about consensus. Politics is.

Anthropogenic Global Warming is a fraud created to give Socialist totalitarian control over ever aspect of your life. The hucksters that promote it want to control everything you do and everything you think.

Dr William Gray calls "bullshit" on Gore and his movie.

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ONE of the world's foremost meteorologists has called the theory that helped Al Gore share the Nobel Peace Prize "ridiculous" and the product of "people who don't understand how the atmosphere works".

Dr William Gray, a pioneer in the science of seasonal hurricane forecasts, told a packed lecture hall at the University of North Carolina that humans were not responsible for the warming of the earth.

His comments came on the same day that the Nobel committee honoured Mr Gore for his work in support of the link between humans and global warming.

"We're brainwashing our children," said Dr Gray, 78, a long-time professor at Colorado State University. "They're going to the Gore movie [An Inconvenient Truth] and being fed all this. It's ridiculous."

At his first appearance since the award was announced in Oslo, Mr Gore said: "We have to quickly find a way to change the world's consciousness about exactly what we're facing."
http://www.smh.com.au/news/environment/gore-gets-a-cold-shoulder/2007/10/13/1191696238792.html