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Here are two portraits of her.
2003: http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,909091,00.html
2006: http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1798980,00.html
and she's married to Joshua Rozenberg, who helps fan the flames
of bigotry:
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/inayat_bunglawala/2006/12/whos_afraid_of_shariah_law.html
It's a mazurka, shooter, not a Texas two-step. And the band's still playing.
"because the Chinese Army created an international consortium of rogue states to develop the Islamic Bomb"
Why would the PRC, a nuclear armed nation, need an international consortium to do this? They have immense productive capacity and thousands of highly trained physicists, which is all you need to build a decent bomb. They could just slap a few nukes on a container ship and send them on their way. For that matter, Russia is also a nuclear power and they have a long history of selling military hardware. If they wanted to do something like this (which I am not implying they would), I can't imagine it being that difficult. Of course, you would probably want to keep the shipments secret, but that's still easier than an international conspiracy.
The SANE folks (reminds me of "Honest Al's Used Cars" for some reason) had an entertaining post on the vicious Left* wing blogger Glenn Greenwald, who calls himself a "civil rights" lawyer just like all those ACLU-types, trying to make their dhimmicratimexifemigay agenda seem reasonable.
Anyone interested in theology and the history of Christian thought will find SANE's theology sections amusing; they've apparently managed to absorb some neoplatonic/Thomist thinking from the classics to crticize modernism with, but they fall flat when trying to situate their fundie beliefs in the wider world the classical authors describe. (hrm, not actually that unlike the theological/magical/anti-modern beliefs of another notorious political movement...)
Here's a hint, guys: "allah" means "the ONE." It is the same God as Christ's; although you are welcome to believe the Muslims got everything wrong about that god, it's the same god. The medieval Christian theologians you admire so much (I do too, actually) got their Greek metaphysical ideas THROUGH the Arabs. If the Arabs didn't share the basic fundamental beliefs, this dialogue would have been impossible, yet it is a matter of historical record.
*for full credit in SANE correspondence classes, "Left" must be capitalized. This makes it Scarier.
[...]"In response, one must admit readily that the radical liberal Jew is a fact of the West and a destructive one. Indeed, Jews in the main have turned their backs on the belief in G-d and His commandments as a book of laws for a particular and chosen people. These Jews, the overwhelming majority, have embraced modernity in its entirety. This means that they are wholly committed to the science-democracy reciprocal and this, per Descartes-Klein, Hobbes, Hegel-Kojève, leads to only one state of affairs: World Peace in the form of a World State. (Robert J. Loewenberg’s work on this subject, soon to be published by the Institute of Advanced Strategic & Political Studies, will be the definitive account and critique of the reciprocal and the Redirection conseqent to it.)"
[...]Their goal is the goal of all “progressives”: a determined use of liberal principles to deconstruct the Western nation state in a “historical” march to the World State.
http://www.saneworks.us/JudeoChristian-category-7.htm
[...]Let's now consider the third and last aspect of Judaism. As we have said, it concerns the common, modern, Jew without any special function or action, a part of that formless, levelled, mixture of men without faith, without caste and without tradition, which comprises at least two thirds of so-called 'civil society'. Here the Jew seems to be of the same mind as the non-Jew in a common agnosticism with respect to any higher value, in a common profession of liberalistic, bourgeois, conformist, mercantilist faith ; both seem to consider as really important only profession, profit, social position, and the Jew will be prone to consider his law a dead thing just as the 'liberated' non-Jew mocks and refers to as 'medieval superstition' the dogmas, the rites and the sacraments of the Western faith.
[...]And the fact that the Jewish capitalist, more or less 'legally' and 'honestly', in the liberalistic meaning of these words, has managed to come to power and to become the master of gold cannot mean anything in this connection, nor be a valid argument against a full anti-Semitism.
http://thompkins_cariou.tripod.com/id16.html
She can have her vigilante John Doe team added to the mailing list. Then they can go out and patrol for dangerous Islamofascists and start protecting the US from this imminent invasion John Wayne style. Hell, they won't even need to wear brown shirts or silver shirts or black shirts ... they can all just get that super eagle on steroids with "I will not submit" in arabic tatoo.
Won't that be great. Patriotism in action. Maybe they should tatoo the stars and stripes with a cross on the other arm.
...I'm going to get "I will not submit" tattooed on my arm in English, so neocons can read it.
Actually, maybe I better do it in both English and pictograms.
So China wants the US to be held hostage by nuclear-armed terrorists? That seems like a curious business strategy for a country that has loaned us trillions of dollars and had a $232 billion trade surplus with the United States in 2006 alone.
In response to a question as to why so many of the intelligence agencies around the world thought that Saddam had WMD.
Paraphrase: "because they were all listening to our intelligence agencies."
The argument is that "everyone" thought that Iraq had WMD. And, to pay homage to Glenn: everyone that was "serious" at the time all thought Iraq had WMD.
Was it lies or incompetence that got us where we are? I DON'T FUCKING CARE!!!!!!!!!.
We have destroyed more than just Iraq in this fools errand. Pouring more blood and treasure down the rat hole that we dug is not a solution. The war is not lost, that assumes it happened recently. It was lost the moment we set foot there (more than four years ago) without definable goals and enough troops. And of course, don't forget that we failed to secure the conventional explosives that we did find.
Those that argued that Iraq had or did not have WMD are irrelevant.
What is relevant is ending this gigantic clusterfuck as quickly as possible while trying not to spark a theater-wide conflagration.