THE MORMON & THE ATHEIST

Update on 21's M4 project

2011-01-23T23:42:00.000-05:00

This is the current state of my rifle. Since the last post I have also added a red/green dot scope(no pics yet). And I added another interesting bit.

Notice the difference? I acquired a complete AR57 upper. There is no magazine hanging underneath because the 50 round mag is up top. This configuration ejects the shells out of the bottom of the mag well. So I now have the capability of shooting either 5.56 Nato or 5.7 x 28 mm rounds. I'm quite sure that sometime in the future I will add another upper which will be in 6.8 SPC. There may never be an end to this project.

The A

Coddling Islam

2011-01-21T05:01:00.000-05:00

By now everyone who knows me, knows how I feel about Islam. So I will spare you a rehash of all my hatred of the followers of Mohamed. I've put my mind to other less important things recently, but I always come back to the barbaristic cult that is slowly taking over the world. One only has to look to Europe to see what horrible things are coming our way.

The Brits have been playing an appeasement game with their Koranimals. The French, well.......they're French so anyone with balls could take what they have. In Denmark the local Jewish population is leaving faster then the speed of light. The E.U. has gotten so brazenly P.C. that the minority now rules the majority. I guess they think if they let the muslims have their way.....they won't have to worry about getting blown up. Unfortunately, this kind of thinking is completely wrong and will have a detrimental effect on our ancestral homelands.

The French and the Germans line their pockets with money from Iran and Syria for providing military hardware and nuclear engineering. The Russians, Chinese and even the North Koreans are now do much the same. The question is why? For the French the simple answer would be money; any money is good when you are bankrupt both morally and economically. The Germans? Well, Hitler did work out quite a few relationships with anyone that hated the Jews. For the North Koreans it just comes down to "the enemy of my enemy is my friend".

The real problem with these arraingements belongs to the Russians and the Chinese. All either of these two is doing is buying more time for themselves. They just don't realize that they are hastening their own destruction.
The cancer that is Islam spreads slowly but surely. Europe has been the main target for over a thousand years so it will be the first conquered. Once Europe has been infiltrated (give it twenty more years or so) Russia is next. China will follow shortly thereafter.

These are broad assumptions on my part but I'm pretty sure that that's where we're headed. All you have to do is look at a map. Now I want you to follow closely. Once the U.S. leaves Iraq and Afganistan, Iran will make it's move. The consolidation of Iran and Iraq into one nation will happen. When it does, it will become the most powerful country in the Middle East. Once this union occurs and the two societies integrate....more dominoes will fall. Kuwait and the other small Gulf countries will be easily taken and soon enough so will Saudi Arabia. Even if the Saudis can hold them off, the Russians will be shitting their pants. Looking at a map you will see all these little countries that provide a buffer between Mother Russia and Iran all have one thing in common. Their names end in 'stan. Muslims uniting against the "unbeleivers" as proscribed in that most unholy of books.

The Chinese have the same problem, they are just a bit further out. Good ole John Chinaman deals weapons and technology to the same people they persecute/execute within the boundaries of their own country. I got news for China......Koranimals have a long freaking memory and they will want retribution for their Uighur brothers.

Both President Bush and the Kenyan have both repeatedly said that "the U.S. is not at war with Islam". The problem is that Islam has been at war with every non-muslim for the last thirteen-hundred years. Unfortunately, until we in the U.S. and everyone else around the world face the facts, their war will continue.

The A

21's M4 Project

2010-11-16T05:07:00.001-05:00

One of the more enjoyable undertakings in my life has been modifying some of my firearms. This particular project has been both enlightening and a whole bunch of fun for me. While sitting in my car at work one night, I decided to look up gunbroker.com on my laptop. It had been well over a year since I had perused the site and I had an itch that needed scratching. While I was unemployed I sold one of my most prized possessions, that being my M4 Bushmaster assault rifle. It was time to replace it. So, I proceeded to bid on and win a DPMS Lo-pro Classic flat-top M4 type AR-15. This is a rather low priced model but it lends itself well to modification. My winning bid was $685.00 which is right around dealer cost. Now, consider this, the average retail price for a decked out M4 is well north of $900.00. So, I figured on buying lots of accessories for it. I believe I got a little carried away, but what the hell you only live once and might as well enjoy yourself.

The list of accessories and mods is as follows:
1. Magpul M.O.E. handguard in Flat Dark Earth (FDE)                        $29.95
2. Magpul M.O.E. pistol grips both front and rear in FDE                     $40.90
3. Magpul M.O.E. telescoping butt stock in FDE                                  $59.99
4. Daniel Defense front and rear iron sights                                           $122.00
5. Yankee Hill Machine half inch riser for installing the front sight           $15.95
6. BCM Gunfighter charging handle                                                      $44.95
7. BCM mil-spec buffer tube                                                                $36.95
8. CMC tactical trigger group                                                               $229.99
9. Spikes Tactical ST-T2heavy buffer                                                 $29.95
10. Magpul P-Mags 30rd 4 ea                                                             $59.96
11. Magpul trigger guard                                                                       $8.99
12. Magpul B.A.D battery assist device                                                $28.45
                 (not installed yet)

Grand Total: $1,393.03    See I did go a bit overboard, didn't I? And this is not counting the cost of ammo which I haven't purchased yet. Sheesh. This is quite an investment I admit. But if you pay full retail price for a flat-top, heavy barreled M4 that comes with all the Magpul stuff and then add the trigger and stuff from BCM and Daniel Defense you will pay much more than I did. And to top it all off, I did all the installs myself. If you had a gunsmith do it for you, well add in a few more hundred to the grand total.

The installation of parts was done using nothing more than a 1/8" punch and a screwdriver. Care must be taken, you must watch for small springs that may pop out. Other than that, I really had no problems whatsoever installing any part on this rifle. I've got to find another job at a gun shop, this was too easy.

Henchman 21 aka The A

2 Years In

2010-11-05T02:27:00.000-04:00

      For two years we've been saddled with the Manchurian President and I still have a whole bunch of unanswered questions. Here's a question- am I a birther? Yes, I am and if you aren't you have your head in the sand. We are told that Congress has seen his birth certificate yet not one member has come forward and confirmed this. His African Grandmother was quoted as saying he was born in Kenya. The only evidence is locked up in Hawaii under lock and key, and we will probably never see it. So, my question is this: Is the Grand Emperor of the Free World even eligible to be the President? We know he sure as hell is not qualified to lead us, considering he has never held a real job.

    We were told on a daily basis for eight years how stupid George W. Bush was. When Obummer was running for POTUS we were told how brilliant the man was. And yet, we still have not seen any of his college transcripts. We have absolutely no idea how even managed to get into Harvard or Columbia or even Occidental. You would think that if the United Negro College Fund had anything to do with this, that they would be screaming it from the rooftops. Yet, we have silence. Brilliant? I think not. Oh, he can tell a good tale when reading of a teleprompter but catch him without TOTUS and then you'll see brilliance! The only person in the world who uses ''umm" and "uhh" more than Barak the Magic Negro is his press secretary Robert Gibbs.

   We were promised "the most transparent government ever" by King Hussein and Nancy Pelousey. Yet we got Socialized Medicine through a bill that nobody in Congress read. They tried and thankfully failed on Cap and Trade. They pushed "stimulus" funds on us that stimulated nothing. Hussein had said all through the campaign that there would be no lobbyists in his Cabinet, yet the majority are in fact lobbyists. For years the Dems cried about Czars appointed by Bush and yet the Emperor has almost 40 of them. Can you scream HYPOCRITE??

Another question that comes to mind is; what religion does POTUS follow? He claims to be a Christian and backs that up by citing a 20 year membership in Rev. Jeremiah Wright's church. Now, here we have a problem. You see Rev. Wright's church espouses "black liberation theology", which in essence makes it NOT a Christian church. Christmas of 2009 was celebrated by the Emperor's family by exchanging no gifts and NOT going to any church. So, I think we have established that POTUS is in no way a practicing "Christian". We can be absolutely sure that "The One" is not Jewish. He makes no claims on Buddhism, Hinduism, Scientology or any other religion. The mere fact that he was born "Barak Hussein Obama" gives rise to more than one theory that he is Muslim. I cannot confirm nor deny this. His speech in Egypt gave us a glimpse that he holds Islam in high regard and my thinking on that is he probably is Muslim or at the very least a Muslim sympathizer/enabler. His forthcoming trip to India will be very telling. He called off plans to visit a Sikh shrine but will be visiting a mosque. This in itself has to make you wonder. He sure doesn't make an effort to visit churches or synagogues, does he?

   Two more years and hopefully we can be put out of this misery. I wonder if we'll have more answers or just that many more questions. I'm betting on more questions myself. They used to say "Bush Lied" all the time. Well, I believe Obama has everyone beat in that category. In fact, I will fro hereon out refer to him not as POTUS but POL short for Prince of Lies. I think that is much more fitting.

The A

Exploring The Liberal Mind

2010-10-29T04:17:00.001-04:00

Something occurred to me today. Liberals should be pitied (NO NOT REALLY). Their minds obviously don't work quite right. Rational thought eludes them. Simple logic and reasoning completely escape them. Scientists recently discovered what they believe to be a "liberal gene". This could prove to be very beneficial. Imagine, having the capability to insure your children would be Conservatives no matter what Professor So-and-So tried to teach them. Imagine, no more political correctness. What a truly wonderful thing that would be.

The thought had occurred to me, if I try to use the Liberal rationale and apply it fairly; what would happen? Using Lib logic:
If I oppose Unions, does that mean I hate the working class?
If I oppose teachers getting tenure, does that mean I hate children?
If I believe we should keep the Bush tax cuts for everyone, does that make me rich?
If I don't believe that universal health care is a right, does that mean I want the poor to die?

If I don't support the Ground Zero Mosque, does that mean I'm an Islamophobe?(well actually I am)

In the Liberal way of thinking the answers to the above questions are an unequivocal "yes". You see.....I'm an evil Conservative who can think for myself. I don't need any help from George Soros or anyone else in knowing how to live my life. We Conservatives don't want or need Big Brother telling us what we can or can't have, or what to do. It's quite a shame that this Liberal gene takes away the drive to succeed on your own merits from these poor pathetic souls. AHH Who cares....I say fuck 'em.

The A

Will The Real Joker Please Stand Up?

2010-10-24T17:01:00.001-04:00

The resemblance is downright scary. If only Joe had half the brains Jack does....on second thought Joe is more than dangerous enough.

The A

Isn't Tolerance Wonderful

2010-10-15T21:52:00.000-04:00

The sticker above was left posted outside a park near Whitehall in London recently. The same left-wing libtards that want gay marriage also defend the "Ground Zero Mosque". I guess some people are so fucking blind to how the real world is that it doesn't matter to them that the fringe groups they defend cannot co-exist. Somewhere buried in the unholy Koran a passage seems to exist denouncing homosexual activities.(even though it is a widely held belief that Mohammed had some rather strong feelings for one of his male followers) The penalty for being gay in an Islamic Society is of course the death.

The hypocrisy of the Left is truly astounding. If I called for the execution of all gays, I would be hounded night and day by these idiots. Whereas the Mohammedans not only get a free pass on this type of "hate-speech"(gotta love using a libtard classification against them) but the Left actually supports known terrorists with money. I'm talking specifically about you Barbara Boxer and Code Pink. treason-in-america

The Left has a problem. Beside the fact that they are brain dead morons, they don't know how to pick a side. Either you support Gay rights or you support Islamic Sharia Law. How fucking hard is that? The Left claims to be all about Women's rights yet they still support the Islamofascists. How do Mohammedans treat their women you ask? Try these links:Woman and children killed, No such thing as rape in marriage, part of daily life.

Let me blunt with my final point and the reason for this post. I have ignored posting on this issue long enough. There is no fucking way we as Americans can sit idly by and let a Mosque be built at "Ground Zero". But it's two blocks awaaay, cry the Libs. NO actually it is NOT. The landing gear from the first plane to hit the Twin Towers landed in that building, making that part of GROUNDFUCKINGZERO! End of discussion, debate and whining. A line from the movie "Field of Dreams" comes to mind here. "If you build it....they will come." You bet your ass they will. This is nothing short of a victory mosque showing Islamic superiority over America.

The problem for them is If they do build it...WE WILL COME and DESTROY it.

The A

Orwell's 1984 in 2010

2010-10-03T01:35:00.000-04:00

I keep seeing "hate speech" and "hate crime" every time I look at the news. ABC,CBS,NBC,CNN,MSNBC, The New York Times and The Washington Post have all been lap dogs of the Obama administration from the beginning. Leftist programs rammed down our throats whether we want them or not. All bitter pills to swallow for those of us who love this country and believe in the Constitution. While the U.S. is far from being England, it is on it's way.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/09/30/secret-sex-video-linked-nj-students-suicide/?test=latestnews

It seems that anytime some minority group is harmed or god forbid "offended", someone out there claims it is a hate crime or hate speech. First and foremost, hate is not illegal. Under the Constitution of the United States of America you have the unalienable right to think or say anything you damn well please. We now live in a time where we must bow down to the "minders of political correctness" and the "thought police". Anyone not toeing the Liberal Democrat party line is instantly branded a racist. Hate is a powerful thing, but it is just a feeling, it can't harm anything unless you act on it. I am filled with hate. I hate many things and many people. I am not a bad person for this, in fact most people who know me would say I'm a pretty good guy.

The idea that laws can be passed that take your thoughts and feelings into account is quite frightening. If the Socialist Democratic Party really wants automotons then they should've mandated frontal lobotomies for all when they passed Obamacare.

The A

What happens when we leave Iraq and Afghanistan?

2010-10-01T06:01:00.001-04:00

Answer= All hell will break loose. Don't believe it? Wait a few years. With the Left-wingers still crying for us to leave and yet still unwilling to allow for oil drilling in the U.S.,a doomsday scenario is shaping up for the Western world. Just think about this. The most dangerous sect of Islam is the Shia branch which controls Iran and Syria at this moment. Iraq's population is majority Shia Muslim and would be easy pickings for Achmedenashit and the Ayatollahs.

What would happen if Iran absorbed Iraq? Well simply put, the new country would be the largest and most militarily strong country in the Middle East. Logically following this scenario, we can assume that the next targets would be the smaller, richer countries bordering them - Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain and the UAE. But why stop there? Saudi Arabia would also be ripe for plunder by this new Islamic led Persian Empire. Now, if that were to happen, they could very well blockade the Strait of Hormuz and hold Middle Eastern oil shipments hostage. Imagine 1/3 of the world's oil being cut off. This is not as crazy as many would as it sounds.

As the plague that is Islam slowly invades Europe and our leaders insist that Mohammedans are peaceful and mean us no harm, we allow them to hold our economy hostage by not exploiting our own natural resources. Jimmy Carter did nothing while they held out on the oil in the 70's and the green enviro-goons have made it damn near impossible to drill for the vast oil reserves in North and South Dakota, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado and Alaska. The pie in the sky idea of "GREEN TECHNOLOGIES" will do us in just as fast as the "PEACE AT ALL COSTS" libtards promote. The line in the sand was drawn by the prophet Mohammed(may he burn in hell for all eternity) over 1,000 years ago. Unfortunately, the West has ignored the fact that Islam crossed the line and never pushed them back to the 13th century where they belong.

The A

Radical or Moderate?

2010-09-30T22:36:00.002-04:00

Most Americans and especially the idiotic mouth-breathers on the Left make a very simple mistake on a daily basis. I am here to rectify that mistake. The terrorists that wish to do us harm are often referred to as "radical Islamists" , while the peaceful muslims who do not engage in "jihad" are called "moderates". This is quite wrong. These so-called radicals are actually fundamentalists and are following their religion quite correctly. True believers must engage in "jihad" against the infidels as prescribed in the teachings of both the Koran and the Sunnah. This is not a mere suggestion but a requirement for all able bodied Mohammedans. The so-called "moderates" are either apostates not following Islam according to the Koran or they are practicing "taqiya" which is religious deception which is a truly muslim practice. Under Islamic law any and all agreements with infidels are not binding, believers only have to be honest with other believers.

It has been the policy of the Obummer administration to not make any references to "radical Islam" at all in the last year. This is done so as not to offend all those supposedly "peace-loving muslims" out there. It is political correctness gone amock. It is time for all red-blooded Americans to stand up and give the finger to the mainstream media and the President and say no more. Screw the Mohammedans and everything they stand for. The fight is not over by a long shot my friends, it started over 1,350 years ago and may not end for another thousand years if we don't regard this bastardization of a religion as the threat it is qnd wipe it out.

The A

Another Enemy Among Us

2010-07-11T11:56:00.000-04:00

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caribou-coffee-sharia

The second largest coffee chain in the U.S. has direct ties to the Muslim Brotherhood! Click the above links for proof.

We infidels pay the "jizya" every time we buy anything petroleum related, but that is not enough for our friendly peace-loving Islamic masters. I for one, don't waste money on overpriced coffee from these trendy boutique coffee shops but millions of Americans do every single day. It seems that anytime you buy Caribou Coffee, you are giving your hard earned money directly to terrorist enablers.

There are plenty of places to buy coffee that are owned and operated by Americans. I urge everyone to avoid Caribou Coffee. Church's Chicken is also owned by the same group, so, that goes for them too.

The A

A Patriot Speaks

2010-07-05T18:33:00.001-04:00

This is a man that get's it. Lt. Col. Alan West is a Tea Partier. Does that make him racist? Even though he is black? What would Jeanine Garofalo or Keith Olberman say? Is he just another ignorant tea-bagger?

I for one, hope that he wins by a landslide in the Congressional race for District 22 in Florida. Maybe, just maybe, he will pull a Barack Obama and run for POTUS in 2012. I would sure as hell give him my vote. It is quite interesting that the MSM is pretty much ignoring Lt. Col. West, considering that he is a black tea party member. I guess they still want everyone to believe that all us tea-baggers are klansmen. (even though the Dems are the party of the KKK.

Classless, Clueless and Definately Un-American

2010-07-01T18:34:00.001-04:00

Do you notice anything missing from the "One's" only press conference of the year so far? Where is Old Glory in this picture? Yes, that's it, the emperor with no clothes doesn't have a flag either. I dare you to find a picture of any POTUS in history giving a press conference in the White House that did not have the flag prominently displayed. Want more?

Here is Obummer tossing a flower into the center of a memorial as Sen. John McCain properly bends over and places his rose on the memorial. Not done by a long shot.

Protocol dictates that the POTUS bows to no man. Yet, here we have seen him do it not once but twice. Did he bow to the Queen of England? I doubt it since it will be proven one day that Barrak Hussein Obama is in fact a Muslim. Keep going there is one more.

What would you expect the President of the United States to do when the national anthem is played? Certainly not what this slack jawed interloper is seen doing in the above photo.

The longer this atrocity is allowed to go on, the more the rest of the world will lose the respect this great nation has earned over the past two hundred years. I am truly sickened.

The A

Oh Glory Day!!!

2010-06-28T11:23:00.002-04:00

OMFG! I woke up this morning to some of the greatest news EVER when I turned on the boob tube.

First and foremost, West Virginia Senator Robert "KKK" Byrd has departed this life and is now enjoying a wonderful, eternal dirt nap. I am willing to bet that the length of his dirt nap will far exceed the number of years he served as a U.S. Senator in this country. I am pretty sure The A is dancing around his house this fine morning and will probably chime in later on this subject.

Here's a couple of shots of the fine Senator in the prime of his life:

The second big breaking story this morning is that the United States Supreme Court in a major ruling, invalidated the City of Chicago's ban on handguns. What this ruling does is basically acknowledges that the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms was a right the Founders specifically delegated to individuals.

If you want to read the ruling itself from the SCOTUS website, here is a direct link: McDonald -v- City of Chicago

And just an FYI - Justices Stephen Breyer, John Paul Stevens, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor were the dissenters in this opinion.

-The Mormon

Senator Byrd you are welcomed with open arms into Hell. Teddy, Saddam, John Murtha and Satan knew this day was coming, so they gathered up a bunch of Negroes and quite a bit of rope in anticipation of your arrival. Let the celebration begin.

-The A

No Whites Allowed

2010-06-16T09:45:00.001-04:00

What group is most discriminated against in the New Liberal World Order? Yep, you guessed it white people. Living in the Metro Atlanta area as the Mormon and I do, we see it every single day. You may ask yourself, what brought this post on? Why should I care what this racist has to say? Well, keep reading and you may just agree with me.

Two articles got my attention today. Where Apartheid lives on. and 6 votes each to help Hispanics got me going this morning.

I will address Apartheid in South Africa first. For those of you who have never researched this subject and only listened to the Liberal MSM, you have been deceived. The country of South Africa as we know it was started by WHITE Dutch settlers in an area of Africa which was considered by Black Africans as a wasteland and was unwanted by the blacks. After the white settlers made something of the place, the blacks came rushing in to overtake and destroy what had been built up over many generations. So, in the 1940's, the white leadership instituted Apartheid to discourage blacks from coming. Obviously, this experiment failed. Considering the fact that where the blacks were coming from was a worse situation than S. Africa, they kept coming in droves. Fast forward 40+ years. Under international pressure Apartheid is eliminated and the blacks take over. Today, South Africa is just another impoverished shithole and most of the whites have moved out of the country after being subjected to black rule. (Many white farmers were murdered and their farms taken) The rightful owners of the land were run out in the name of "the greater good". You must remeber that in the eyes of the Liberals and MSM white =bad black=oppressed. The above link illustrates this point perfectly.

As for the second link, I am just dumbstruck as to how this can be permitted in the U.S.A. The courts here have been overrun by libtards. To help out minorities we now have to give them more votes than we have!?!?!? WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON HERE? This is based on one of those great liberal mantras "We have to be FAIR". Well this is just BULLSHIT! The Founding Fathers would be sooooo proud. As my father taught me from an early age "Life is not fair" "Fair does not exist" .

The ideas proposed in these two articles are of the same tripe that will lead to the destruction of this once great nation. I am truly disgusted in all of mankind.

The A

Say It Ain't So Dalai

2010-05-23T11:27:00.000-04:00

http://www.torontosun.com/news/world/2010/05/21/14031596.html

Found this article today on Drudge. And people wonder why I have no faith in organized religion. The frikkin' Dalai Lama is no better than Sean Penn and his ilk. I should have seen this coming since he is a "Peace at all costs" liberal, but I always got a good vibe from the Holy Father of Buddhism. My mistake. Won't happen again. I now hold him with the same contempt that I reserve for the Pope.

The A

I Think Black People Owe Us Reparations

2010-05-18T09:41:00.000-04:00

I often find a lot of good stuff on Craigslist Rants and Raves when I am feeling bored and uncreative. This little tid-bit struck a chord with me this morning over my morning bowl of fiber. Enjoy! - The Mormon
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I hear a lot of talk from Louis Farrakhan and Al Sharpton and other black leaders about whites owing blacks reparations for slavery, even though there are no blacks living in this country today, who were born into bondage. slavery was abolished in 1865, when the last secessionist states surrendered to the Union Army.

I look at it this way, blacks owe the white race reparations for the following reasons;

Blacks owe us reparations for freeing them from slavery by fighting a horrible war among ourselves that cost the lives of almost two million of our own race.

Blacks owe us reparations for forcing the rest of the world to outlaw the slavery which their ancestors had practiced for thousands of years, even though many nations on their home continent still practice it today.

Blacks owe us reparations for teaching them to add and subtract (what little they can), thereby enabling them to run a household and pay their bills (what few of them will) and count their children other than on their fingers and sometimes toes when they have so many they run out of fingers.

Blacks owe us reparations for providing them with medical care instead of leaving them under the witch doctors they used before we arrived, as a result of which they have been able to survive all sorts of diseases to multiply in massive numbers beyond what they could have without these aides.

Blacks owe us reparations for building schools for them which we have had to repair over and over after they vandalized them beyond use.

Blacks owe us reparations for building factories and businesses that employ them, if they so desire to work.

Blacks owe us reparations for placing them in our movies and TV shows and elevating them to a fictional, heroic level that they have never reached in real life. We realize after 400 years of trying to help them that they cannot solve problems and provide leadership and create original thoughts; and the image we’ve placed in their minds causes them to live in a delusional world.

Blacks owe us reparations for creating quota systems and forced employment programs to make sure they have the best jobs, if they so desire to work. Blacks obviously have only the ability to tear down and take from others.

Blacks owe us reparations for giving them trillions of dollars of welfare and food stamps, with the result that for four generations over half of their race has not had to work, except in makeshift type of jobs in our governments and bureaucracies.

Blacks owe us reparations for promoting their children in school as if they could understand basic arithmetic and grammar, such as multiplication and past participles, when we should have made sure they were accustomed to manual labor so that we would not have had to make up jobs for them in our governments dusting seats with their butts.

Blacks owe us reparations for developing farms in our own lands which they have never been able to do, and that to this day feed most of their race still living in Africa. Blacks owe us reparations for going to Africa and building farms, from which they have now run us off of and have devastated beyond use, forcing us to continue feeding them.

Blacks owe us reparations for giving them the right to vote so they could take over all our major cities and turn them into high-taxed, crime-ridden cesspools that no civilized human being can live in.

Blacks owe us reparations for trying to come up with an AIDS vaccine to stop the epidemic spread of AIDS in Africa, AIDS being a disease that they created and passed on to us after having sexual intercourse with monkeys and then with one of our idiotic race-mixers who then passed it on to the rest of the world.

Blacks owe us reparations for inventing sports so that they can make millions of dollars and live like kings, then kill and rape people with impunity, as O.J. Heisman-Trophy-Winner Simpson and Mike Heavy-Weight-Champion-of-the-World Tyson have done, as well as many others among their race.

Blacks owe us reparations for building thousands of prisons around the nation to house dangerous criminals, of which their race makes up over sixty percent even though they’re only thirteen percent of the U.S. population, and this at an expense of billions of dollars and manpower every year.

Just a thought......................

RIP Ronnie James Dio

2010-05-17T18:34:00.001-04:00

Usually, when we, here at "The Mormon and The Atheist" do a death post it is to delight in the passing of a total piece of shit like Ted Kennedy or Michael Jackson. This is NOT one of those posts. Today a rock and roll legend passed away. Dio was without a doubt one of the preeminent metal singers of all time. His career started in high school playing bass and then becoming lead singer for "The Vegas Kings" in 1957. His musical odyssey took him on a long and winding career singing in some of the greatest metal bands of all time. In 1975 he joined Ritchie Blackmore's band "Rainbow" and belted out the vocals to such hits as "Stargazer" , "The Man On The Silver Mountain" and my personal favorite "Gates Of Babylon". In 1979 he left Rainbow to replace Ozzy Osbourne as the lead singer of "Black Sabbath". In 1980 Black Sabbath released "Heaven and Hell" and followed a year later with "Mob Rules". IMHO these were the two best albums "Sabbath" ever recorded. Finally in 1983 he formed "Dio" and put out 10 studio albums, many of which are in the media player on my computer. I highly recommend owning "The Last In Line" and "Holy Diver" to anyone who considers themselves a music lover. Losing Ronnie James Dio makes this a very somber day for me. I've listened to his music on a regular basis for the past 25 years and will continue to do so. Many musicians have passed over the years but this one's passing hurts. Hopefully Ronnie's music will live on forever and his status should be revered far more than the likes of Kurt Cobain and other no-talent hacks who died young and didn't accomplish 1/1000th of what Dio did.

The A

One More Reason To Hate Muslims

2010-05-08T01:09:00.001-04:00

As if it wasn't enough to have these camel piss drinking, child raping sand people trying to blow us up. Now comes the news that they will get free health care from us. http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/03/amish_muslims_to_be_excused_fr.html Fox News has reported about the Amish but conveniently left out the Muslims. I seriously doubt any of the major newspapers or T.V. news outlets will breath a word of this tripe. Obowma wasn't kidding about all that "hope and change" was he? Instead of doing the right thing and sending them all to hell, let's just give them free health care instead.

The A

Patriotism Offends Immigrants

2010-05-07T13:00:00.001-04:00

Links to why this post is necessary: http://www.ktrh.com/pages/michaelberry.html
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local-beat/School-District-American-Flag-Clothing-Incident-Extremely-Unfortunate-93065324.html

First and foremost, if the sight of "Old Glory" offends you in any way, leave this country right now. This used to be the greatest nation in the limited history of mankind, and it will be again after the leftists are booted from Congress and the Presidency. American exceptional-ism has taken a serious hit over the last 20 years, with the biggest hit being the election of Chairman Obamao. Now we have schools sending kids home for wearing shirts with the "Stars and Bars" on them...

The P.C. police have gone waaay too far this time. This action was taken to keep from offending children of Mexican heritage on "Cinco de Mayo". So let's get to the meat of this shit stew. First, the fact that Cinco de Mayo is a made up holiday in America to sell Mexican sounding beers at bars and restaurants means it should have no business in a public school. If the schools were doing their frigging jobs the students would be taught that "Cinco de Mayo" is only celebrated in the town of Puebla, Mexico for a victory over the French in 1862. The majority of Mexicans don't even know this and that is why they don't celebrate it.

I'm quite sure this is backlash from the passing of Arizona's illegal immigration law.(which will be covered in a separate post) Now, by using this flawed premise established by idiot educators, we should not fly the flag or wear patriotic clothing on St. Patrick's Day as to avoid offending the Irish. Would this not hold true for Black History Month, Boxing Day, May Day and Chinese New Year???

Real Americans fly "Old Glory" all day everyday and should not worry about offending anyone. To fly our flag honors the men and women who have fought and died for our freedoms. Flying a foreign flag on on sovereign U.S. soil is both a disservice and an insult to our troops and should be dealt with by removing such flags and replacing them with the only appropriate flag for this nation.

Lastly, there is no "right to NOT being offended" in the Constitution or any holy book, so this P.C. bullshit needs to end. This is not North Mexico, this is the United F'n States of America and new immigrants should do like the immigrants who built this country did and integrate into our society. If they don't want to be American than they can go back Mexico or wherever they came from.

The A

I thought he was supposed to be the chosen one LOL

2010-04-09T22:13:00.000-04:00

No Nukes! No Nukes!!!!!!!

2010-04-09T21:17:00.002-04:00

Chairman Maobama in all of his glory and wisdom has decided that the U.S. should dismantle our nuclear arsenal. His idea that if we do it everyone else will follow our lead. Did anyone not see this coming? This idiot is the most radical left-wing moonbat to ever sit in the oval office. He stated we would not use nukes even in a retaliatory strike. What frikking planet does this guy come from? Are we sure his name isn't Moonbeam Love Is All We Need Obama? Could Obama be Neville Chamberlain reincarnated?

Of all the idiotic things he could do, this one is just plain dangerous. Let's get anecdotal shall we? If you lived in a dangerous area and put a sign in your yard stating you had no weapons and would not fight back, what the hell do you think would happen? How long would you survive?

This whole premise is so flawed that defies any form of rational thought. This is like the great state of Texas coming out and stating that law enforcement officers would no longer carry guns and they were abolishing the death penalty.

What ever happened to walk softly but carry a big stick? Does Obama think bowing and carrying an olive branch will gain the respect of our enemies?

While the greatest threat to mankind (the Islamic Republic of Iran) is hard at work developing nuclear weapons to use against Israel and possibly the U.S. The sitting POTUS takes away the one deterrent we have. This should be considered treason and we should be impeaching him right now.

The A aka HENCHMAN21

Collateral Murder My Ass

2010-04-07T01:32:00.001-04:00

Wikileaks released this this video today via YouTube under the site name of collateralmurder.com. After watching all 39 minutes of this extraordinary footage shot from the gun sight camera of the Apache helicopter that did the shooting all I can say is.......GREAT SHOOTIN' BOYS! The pilot and gunner did exactly what they were supposed to do in that situation. They received a call from troops on the ground informing them of incoming rounds from that area and went to work.

They identified what appeared to be hostile targets and asked for permission to fire on those targets. Permission was given and they annihilated those targets. You will clearly see in the video that there was a wounded man trying to crawl away. While I probably would have finished him off they did not at that point. Moments later a van comes along and starts to retrieve the wounded and dead. As our ground troops had not arrived on the scene to assess the casualties, our helicopter crew once again asks for and receives permission to fire. Why you ask? These could be insurgents trying to whisk away valuable info that could be obtained from questioning survivors and also to keep them from recovering weapons. The gunner took out these people and their van, just as he should have.

After the shooting was over the chopper remained on station until ground troops arrived to secure the area. As this situation was wrapping up, the Apache crew was informed of more insurgents in the streets fairly close by. So they went and observed several armed hostiles entering a building under construction. Our intrepid helicopter crew again asked for and received permission to fire upon the enemy. Three Hellfire missiles hit the target and our enemies in the building were headed off to paradise and their 72 virgin(olives).

So why all the fuss? It seems that the insurgents on the street had with them two reporters from Reuters who were killed in the shooting. Also two children were wounded. As someone over the radio said "they shouldn't have brought their kids". As for the reporters, I have no sympathy. If you are in a war zone keep your fuckin' head down and stay out of the line of fire if you ain't gonna participate. There are now people calling for the heads of this helicopter crew. You know the same anti-war, anti-America, peace at all cost, hippie, liberal morons that I hate with every fiber in my being.

What were they supposed to do? Fly down and get out of the chopper and ask if they were hostiles?? They received intel and observed what appeared to be hostiles with men on the ground under fire. They did their job....very well and should be given medals. Fuck Reuters and every other news source that is trying to screw these fine American fighting men.

The A

Nancy Pelosi and Healthcare

2010-03-01T10:37:00.001-05:00

The White House said over the weekend that it wants a "simple up-or-down" vote on health-care legislation. What does this mean? According to Nancy Pelosi, it means that lawmakers should vote for the bill ... even if it means losing their jobs in Washington. She says, "We're not here just to self-perpetuate our service in Congress ... We're here to do the job for the American people."

That, my friends, is a crock. This isn't about doing a job for the American people. This is about getting control of the American people. The Democrat push for health care has never been about improving the delivery of health care to the American people. It has always been about gaining control.

Since 1994 the Democrats vowed that if they ever got complete control in Washington again they would immediately move to make sure that they never lost that control again. To do this they would move immediately to make as many more Americans dependent on government as possible. That's what this push for government health care has been about ... and that's all it has been about; making Americans dependent on government for their health care. Why do you think they aren't willing to discuss private sector solutions, like allowing insurance companies to sell across state lines? Reason? Because that doesn't increase their power one bit. This is about a grab for power ... nothing less. They control your health care; they control you.

If you people go to sleep on this you will regret it until your dying day .. .and your children and grandchildren will curse you for it ... asking themselves how this generation allowed so much of once was America to slip away.

-The Mormon

AP HEADLINE: DEMOCRATS WORRIED ABOUT OBAMA TRACK RECORD

2010-02-22T15:30:00.001-05:00

It took 'em a while didn't it? The question I have is are they worried about his pre-presidential record or his lackluster presidential record? The dhimmicrats pushed the most unqualified man in the history of politics on us as the "savior of all mankind". So far, "The One" has shown only that the emperor truly has no clothes or clues.

With a commanding majority in Congress behind him he has accomplished ZERO, NADA, NOTHING. With the Global Warming house of cards falling faster than a bucket of chicken disappearing in front of Michelle, his Cap and Trade legislation is DEAD. His bid to take over health care, while not quite dead, is on serious life-support. Obamao and his progressive cronies in Congress are threatening to use the "nuclear option" to pass this abomination, which could lead in to a very dangerous place both for their political careers as well as their very existence. One only needs to look at the public opinion polls to know that destroying our health care system will bring about heavy resistance.

The Chicago-land style politics may still work in Chicago, but the rest of America won't tolerate this bullshit much longer. Obamao suffers from the same problem G.W.Bush suffered from. He has blinders on and his course is set. He has to do health care whether we want it or not. It is just too bad we don't have a system like the Japanese do, we could just have a vote of "NO CONFIDENCE" in the emperor and his party that would bring about new elections faster than waiting for 2012.

The A

This Should Be The Manifesto For The American People

2010-02-18T15:29:00.002-05:00

Early this morning, Joseph Andrew Stack, a fed up American Citizen took his IRS matters into his own hands. He burned his house in Austin, TX to the ground and flew his airplane in the Austin, TX IRS building. This is his manifesto, as published on his website before it was taken down. Read every word and understand what everyone in America is fed up with. Big government. Big business and the corruption within. Bailouts and Obama and GW Bush.

While I do not agree with his flying into a building in a downtown metropolitan city, I understand what the man was going through.

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If you’re reading this, you’re no doubt asking yourself, “Why did this have to happen?” The simple truth is that it is complicated and has been coming for a long time. The writing process, started many months ago, was intended to be therapy in the face of the looming realization that there isn’t enough therapy in the world that can fix what is really broken. Needless to say, this rant could fill volumes with example after example if I would let it. I find the process of writing it frustrating, tedious, and probably pointless… especially given my gross inability to gracefully articulate my thoughts in light of the storm raging in my head. Exactly what is therapeutic about that I’m not sure, but desperate times call for desperate measures.

We are all taught as children that without laws there would be no society, only anarchy. Sadly, starting at early ages we in this country have been brainwashed to believe that, in return for our dedication and service, our government stands for justice for all. We are further brainwashed to believe that there is freedom in this place, and that we should be ready to lay our lives down for the noble principals represented by its founding fathers. Remember? One of these was “no taxation without representation”. I have spent the total years of my adulthood unlearning that crap from only a few years of my childhood. These days anyone who really stands up for that principal is promptly labeled a “crackpot”, traitor and worse.

While very few working people would say they haven’t had their fair share of taxes (as can I), in my lifetime I can say with a great degree of certainty that there has never been a politician cast a vote on any matter with the likes of me or my interests in mind. Nor, for that matter, are they the least bit interested in me or anything I have to say.

Why is it that a handful of thugs and plunderers can commit unthinkable atrocities (and in the case of the GM executives, for scores of years) and when it’s time for their gravy train to crash under the weight of their gluttony and overwhelming stupidity, the force of the full federal government has no difficulty coming to their aid within days if not hours? Yet at the same time, the joke we call the American medical system, including the drug and insurance companies, are murdering tens of thousands of people a year and stealing from the corpses and victims they cripple, and this country’s leaders don’t see this as important as bailing out a few of their vile, rich cronies. Yet, the political “representatives” (thieves, liars, and self-serving scumbags is far more accurate) have endless time to sit around for year after year and debate the state of the “terrible health care problem”. It’s clear they see no crisis as long as the dead people don’t get in the way of their corporate profits rolling in.

And justice? You’ve got to be kidding!

How can any rational individual explain that white elephant conundrum in the middle of our tax system and, indeed, our entire legal system? Here we have a system that is, by far, too complicated for the brightest of the master scholars to understand. Yet, it mercilessly “holds accountable” its victims, claiming that they’re responsible for fully complying with laws not even the experts understand. The law “requires” a signature on the bottom of a tax filing; yet no one can say truthfully that they understand what they are signing; if that’s not “duress” than what is. If this is not the measure of a totalitarian regime, nothing is.

How did I get here?

My introduction to the real American nightmare starts back in the early ‘80s. Unfortunately after more than 16 years of school, somewhere along the line I picked up the absurd, pompous notion that I could read and understand plain English. Some friends introduced me to a group of people who were having ‘tax code’ readings and discussions. In particular, zeroed in on a section relating to the wonderful “exemptions” that make institutions like the vulgar, corrupt Catholic Church so incredibly wealthy. We carefully studied the law (with the help of some of the “best”, high-paid, experienced tax lawyers in the business), and then began to do exactly what the “big boys” were doing (except that we weren’t steeling from our congregation or lying to the government about our massive profits in the name of God). We took a great deal of care to make it all visible, following all of the rules, exactly the way the law said it was to be done.

The intent of this exercise and our efforts was to bring about a much-needed re-evaluation of the laws that allow the monsters of organized religion to make such a mockery of people who earn an honest living. However, this is where I learned that there are two “interpretations” for every law; one for the very rich, and one for the rest of us… Oh, and the monsters are the very ones making and enforcing the laws; the inquisition is still alive and well today in this country.

That little lesson in patriotism cost me $40,000+, 10 years of my life, and set my retirement plans back to 0. It made me realize for the first time that I live in a country with an ideology that is based on a total and complete lie. It also made me realize, not only how naive I had been, but also the incredible stupidity of the American public; that they buy, hook, line, and sinker, the crap about their “freedom”… and that they continue to do so with eyes closed in the face of overwhelming evidence and all that keeps happening in front of them.

Before even having to make a shaky recovery from the sting of the first lesson on what justice really means in this country (around 1984 after making my way through engineering school and still another five years of “paying my dues”), I felt I finally had to take a chance of launching my dream of becoming an independent engineer.

On the subjects of engineers and dreams of independence, I should digress somewhat to say that I’m sure that I inherited the fascination for creative problem solving from my father. I realized this at a very young age.

The significance of independence, however, came much later during my early years of college; at the age of 18 or 19 when I was living on my own as student in an apartment in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. My neighbor was an elderly retired woman (80+ seemed ancient to me at that age) who was the widowed wife of a retired steel worker. Her husband had worked all his life in the steel mills of central Pennsylvania with promises from big business and the union that, for his 30 years of service, he would have a pension and medical care to look forward to in his retirement. Instead he was one of the thousands who got nothing because the incompetent mill management and corrupt union (not to mention the government) raided their pension funds and stole their retirement. All she had was social security to live on.

In retrospect, the situation was laughable because here I was living on peanut butter and bread (or Ritz crackers when I could afford to splurge) for months at a time. When I got to know this poor figure and heard her story I felt worse for her plight than for my own (I, after all, I thought I had everything to in front of me). I was genuinely appalled at one point, as we exchanged stories and commiserated with each other over our situations, when she in her grandmotherly fashion tried to convince me that I would be “healthier” eating cat food (like her) rather than trying to get all my substance from peanut butter and bread. I couldn’t quite go there, but the impression was made. I decided that I didn’t trust big business to take care of me, and that I would take responsibility for my own future and myself.

Return to the early ‘80s, and here I was off to a terrifying start as a ‘wet-behind-the-ears’ contract software engineer... and two years later, thanks to the fine backroom, midnight effort by the sleazy executives of Arthur Andersen (the very same folks who later brought us Enron and other such calamities) and an equally sleazy New York Senator (Patrick Moynihan), we saw the passage of 1986 tax reform act with its section 1706.

For you who are unfamiliar, here is the core text of the IRS Section 1706, defining the treatment of workers (such as contract engineers) for tax purposes. Visit this link for a conference committee report (http://www.synergistech.com/1706.shtml#ConferenceCommitteeReport) regarding the intended interpretation of Section 1706 and the relevant parts of Section 530, as amended. For information on how these laws affect technical services workers and their clients, read our discussion here (http://www.synergistech.com/ic-taxlaw.shtml).

SEC. 1706. TREATMENT OF CERTAIN TECHNICAL PERSONNEL.

(a) IN GENERAL - Section 530 of the Revenue Act of 1978 is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection:

(d) EXCEPTION. - This section shall not apply in the case of an individual who pursuant to an arrangement between the taxpayer and another person, provides services for such other person as an engineer, designer, drafter, computer programmer, systems analyst, or other similarly skilled worker engaged in a similar line of work.

(b) EFFECTIVE DATE. - The amendment made by this section shall apply to remuneration paid and services rendered after December 31, 1986.

Note:

·      "another person" is the client in the traditional job-shop relationship.

·      "taxpayer" is the recruiter, broken, agency, or job shop.

·      "individual", "employee", or "worker" is you.

Admittedly, you need to read the treatment to understand what it is saying but it’s not very complicated. The bottom line is that they may as well have put my name right in the text of section (d). Moreover, they could only have been more blunt if they would have came out and directly declared me a criminal and non-citizen slave. Twenty years later, I still can’t believe my eyes.

During 1987, I spent close to $5000 of my ‘pocket change’, and at least 1000 hours of my time writing, printing, and mailing to any senator, congressman, governor, or slug that might listen; none did, and they universally treated me as if I was wasting their time. I spent countless hours on the L.A. freeways driving to meetings and any and all of the disorganized professional groups who were attempting to mount a campaign against this atrocity. This, only to discover that our efforts were being easily derailed by a few moles from the brokers who were just beginning to enjoy the windfall from the new declaration of their “freedom”. Oh, and don’t forget, for all of the time I was spending on this, I was loosing income that I couldn’t bill clients.

After months of struggling it had clearly gotten to be a futile exercise. The best we could get for all of our trouble is a pronouncement from an IRS mouthpiece that they weren’t going to enforce that provision (read harass engineers and scientists). This immediately proved to be a lie, and the mere existence of the regulation began to have its impact on my bottom line; this, of course, was the intended effect.

Again, rewind my retirement plans back to 0 and shift them into idle. If I had any sense, I clearly should have left abandoned engineering and never looked back.

Instead I got busy working 100-hour workweeks. Then came the L.A. depression of the early 1990s. Our leaders decided that they didn’t need the all of those extra Air Force bases they had in Southern California, so they were closed; just like that. The result was economic devastation in the region that rivaled the widely publicized Texas S&L fiasco. However, because the government caused it, no one gave a shit about all of the young families who lost their homes or street after street of boarded up houses abandoned to the wealthy loan companies who received government funds to “shore up” their windfall. Again, I lost my retirement.

Years later, after weathering a divorce and the constant struggle trying to build some momentum with my business, I find myself once again beginning to finally pick up some speed. Then came the .COM bust and the 911 nightmare. Our leaders decided that all aircraft were grounded for what seemed like an eternity; and long after that, ‘special’ facilities like San Francisco were on security alert for months. This made access to my customers prohibitively expensive. Ironically, after what they had done the Government came to the aid of the airlines with billions of our tax dollars … as usual they left me to rot and die while they bailed out their rich, incompetent cronies WITH MY MONEY! After these events, there went my business but not quite yet all of my retirement and savings.

By this time, I’m thinking that it might be good for a change. Bye to California, I’ll try Austin for a while. So I moved, only to find out that this is a place with a highly inflated sense of self-importance and where damn little real engineering work is done. I’ve never experienced such a hard time finding work. The rates are 1/3 of what I was earning before the crash, because pay rates here are fixed by the three or four large companies in the area who are in collusion to drive down prices and wages… and this happens because the justice department is all on the take and doesn’t give a fuck about serving anyone or anything but themselves and their rich buddies.

To survive, I was forced to cannibalize my savings and retirement, the last of which was a small IRA. This came in a year with mammoth expenses and not a single dollar of income. I filed no return that year thinking that because I didn’t have any income there was no need. The sleazy government decided that they disagreed. But they didn’t notify me in time for me to launch a legal objection so when I attempted to get a protest filed with the court I was told I was no longer entitled to due process because the time to file ran out. Bend over for another $10,000 helping of justice.

So now we come to the present. After my experience with the CPA world, following the business crash I swore that I’d never enter another accountant’s office again. But here I am with a new marriage and a boatload of undocumented income, not to mention an expensive new business asset, a piano, which I had no idea how to handle. After considerable thought I decided that it would be irresponsible NOT to get professional help; a very big mistake.

When we received the forms back I was very optimistic that they were in order. I had taken all of the years information to Bill Ross, and he came back with results very similar to what I was expecting. Except that he had neglected to include the contents of Sheryl’s unreported income; $12,700 worth of it. To make matters worse, Ross knew all along this was missing and I didn’t have a clue until he pointed it out in the middle of the audit. By that time it had become brutally evident that he was representing himself and not me.

This left me stuck in the middle of this disaster trying to defend transactions that have no relationship to anything tax-related (at least the tax-related transactions were poorly documented). Things I never knew anything about and things my wife had no clue would ever matter to anyone. The end result is… well, just look around.

I remember reading about the stock market crash before the “great” depression and how there were wealthy bankers and businessmen jumping out of windows when they realized they screwed up and lost everything. Isn’t it ironic how far we’ve come in 60 years in this country that they now know how to fix that little economic problem; they just steal from the middle class (who doesn’t have any say in it, elections are a joke) to cover their asses and it’s “business-as-usual”. Now when the wealthy fuck up, the poor get to die for the mistakes… isn’t that a clever, tidy solution.

As government agencies go, the FAA is often justifiably referred to as a tombstone agency, though they are hardly alone. The recent presidential puppet GW Bush and his cronies in their eight years certainly reinforced for all of us that this criticism rings equally true for all of the government. Nothing changes unless there is a body count (unless it is in the interest of the wealthy sows at the government trough). In a government full of hypocrites from top to bottom, life is as cheap as their lies and their self-serving laws.

I know I’m hardly the first one to decide I have had all I can stand. It has always been a myth that people have stopped dying for their freedom in this country, and it isn’t limited to the blacks, and poor immigrants. I know there have been countless before me and there are sure to be as many after. But I also know that by not adding my body to the count, I insure nothing will change. I choose to not keep looking over my shoulder at “big brother” while he strips my carcass, I choose not to ignore what is going on all around me, I choose not to pretend that business as usual won’t continue; I have just had enough.

I can only hope that the numbers quickly get too big to be white washed and ignored that the American zombies wake up and revolt; it will take nothing less. I would only hope that by striking a nerve that stimulates the inevitable double standard, knee-jerk government reaction that results in more stupid draconian restrictions people wake up and begin to see the pompous political thugs and their mindless minions for what they are. Sadly, though I spent my entire life trying to believe it wasn’t so, but violence not only is the answer, it is the only answer. The cruel joke is that the really big chunks of shit at the top have known this all along and have been laughing, at and using this awareness against, fools like me all along.

I saw it written once that the definition of insanity is repeating the same process over and over and expecting the outcome to suddenly be different. I am finally ready to stop this insanity. Well, Mr. Big Brother IRS man, let’s try something different; take my pound of flesh and sleep well.

The communist creed: From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.

The capitalist creed: From each according to his gullibility, to each according to his greed.

Joe Stack (1956-2010)

02/18/2010

A Special THANK YOU to Obama, Pelosi and Reid

2010-02-12T15:34:00.001-05:00

Thank you for showing the American people that your promise of "Hope and Change" is coming. With the deaths of Kennedy and Murtha coupled with the many retirements of Democrats in Congress, that change is soon to be a reality. The very public displays of elitism made by Obamao and his cronies have brought many Americans out of their sleep. The Tea Parties have been successful in polarizing the conservatives of America to stand up and say "NO MORE!" What awakened the sleeping giant?

Chairman Obamao has championed policies that are in direct conflict with the very fabric of our values and our Constitution. Cow-towing to the U.N., Cap and Trade, and government controlled health care are not acceptable to the vast majority of America. The MSM has been complicit in trying to force these "fundamental changes" on us. One only has to look at the ratings and polls to know that we aren't falling for it anymore.

The election of Scott Brown to the "Kennedy" seat from Massachusetts proves change is coming. Just not the change the Emperor and Queen Nancy wanted. The Dems are circling their wagons but, we can only hope it is too late. November is coming quickly and will mark the first time in over 50 years that there will not be a Kennedy in any national office. Yes the economy still sucks major ass but things are starting to look up. Thank you again President Obamao, Speaker Pelosi and Senator Reid. Keep it up! We will run your asses out on a rail.

The A

Congressman John Murtha takes the Eternal Dirt Nap

2010-02-08T15:23:00.001-05:00

Today we lost a great American.....haha just kidding. Congressman John Murtha (D) of Pennsylvania died and leaves a legacy of corruption that all Democrats aspire to achieve. For many years he was on the Judicial Watch top ten most corrupt politicians. Many will hail his decorated service as a U.S. Marine, I will not. During the war against Saddam Hussein he disgraced the Corps and all of our men and women serving in the military.

His corruption runs so deep that it would take me days to list all of his transgressions, so I won't. He isn't worth my time. Feel free to look him up if you doubt me. Being that I am not religious and am not bound to any dogma. I am free to speak ill of this pathetic excuse of a man. If there is a hell.....I truly hope that he has joined Teddy Kennedy and all those like him for a nice flesh burning party.
My final thought on the passing of John Murtha......Good riddance to bad rubbish.

The A

Why? Why? Why?

2010-02-03T22:20:00.001-05:00

I've been complaining for a couple of weeks about advertisements for the upcoming "Census". Today news broke that the Census Bureau had bought a 30 second spot during the "Super Bowl". What is the cost of this ad ??? 2.5 MILLION DOLLARS!!!! People are now starting to wake up and question this waste of taxpayer money. The questions are many and all very simple.

1. Why do they need to advertise the census at all?
2. How much did they pay Christopher Guest to write and direct these commercials?
3. How many commercials have been shot?
4. Did they really need to get Ed Begley Jr. and other Hollywood actors to be in these ads?
5. How much did they pay Ed Begley Jr. and the others?
6. How much of OUR money was paid out for other production costs?
7. How many times are they going to run these ads?
8. How much are we paying for these ads every time they are run?

You can think of more questions, I'm sure. With the financial situation the country finds itself in at this point in time, I sure as hell can think of better ways for that money to be spent. On second thought , here's an idea: QUIT SPENDING MONEY WE DON"T FRIGGING HAVE FOR SHIT WE DON"T NEED.

END OF RANT The A

Black History Month? Bah!

2010-02-01T13:15:00.004-05:00

The month Black people anxiously await for is nearly upon us, and February can barely contain the narration we are soon to be inundated with as Black History Month prepares for 28 days of chronicling the trials, tribulations and overcoming against all odds that Black people continue to endure on a daily basis.

We believe Black History Month to be a special time to reflect upon the contributions of Black people to the United States of America. However, the endless and comical quest of locating individuals worthy of admiration and remembrance is a task on par with cleaning the Augean Stables.

Peanut butter? Traffic lights? Compared to the people who built rockets that have sent man-made objects out of our solar system, conquered the atom and created the iPhone, stories of refusing to get off of a bus in Montgomery appear a tad overblown in their historical importance.

It seems Black History Month is an exercise in futility, an endless search for relevance in a sea of achievements by other people of surprisingly monochromatic color.

The Mormon a racist? Naw, just stating the facts as I see them.

-The Mormon

Could he be any less presidential?

2010-02-01T11:10:00.001-05:00

Are these really bows? Or could it be that Barry has a HUGE foot fetish? Anyone else notice that he didn't bow to the Queen of England? Not that he should have, considering the fact that protocol says the President of the United States of America bows to no one. Every breath Barry takes offends me, 2012 or an assassin's bullet can't come soon enough.

The A

You gotta be kidding me

2010-01-31T11:56:00.000-05:00

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/01/us-pledges-11-million-toward-jihadist-rehab-in-yemen.html

File this under more money spent that we don't have for stuff we don't want or need. This will surely come back to bite us in the ass. I am now doing deep breathing exercises to keep my head from exploding.

The A

California is going to run out of money.......I am Shocked

2010-01-29T13:10:00.001-05:00

http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_14249833?source=rss

What a shocker! The Peoples Socialist Democratic Republic of California is running out of money. The Left-wing Libtards have completely ruined California with all of their Socialist programs and will again be asking Chairman Maobama for a bailout.

California is the model that Obummer, Pelosi and Reid are basing the national economy on. Everyone in the country should take a very close look at California. What exactly is California doing to go broke?
Do they have extremely high tax rates? YES.
Do they provide public services to illegal immigrants? YES
Do they protect worthless species of fish to the detriment of their own citizens? YES
Do they pass environmental laws that cause wild fires and mudslides? YES
Do they keep electing radical progressives to the U.S. House and Senate? YES
Do they have very restrictive gun laws that disarm law-abiding citizens while street gangs run rampant? YES

Are they in tune with the rest of America? NO
Should the American taxpayer bail them out for not being fiscally responsible? NO
Do I care if California fails? NO as long as I don't have to pay for it.

For years now the people of California have brought this upon themselves, by electing the likes of Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer, Maxine Waters, Henry Waxman and Diane Feinstein. How could someone with any semblance of a brain elect these dimwits?

California must be held up as the poster child of the Progressive Movement. Until the people of California get their heads out of their asses, I say let them suffer.
You reap what you sow.

The A 21

FIRED for Political (un)Correctness

2010-01-27T17:42:00.002-05:00

http://www.flipcollective.com/2010/01/26/if-you-rebuild-it-they-will-come-by-paul-shirley/

Former professional basketball player and writer for ESPN blogs Paul Shirley posted a very well thought out blog today. (Very much like my Haiti post on the 13th) Although this was not posted at ESPN, he was fired. Paul should have learned from John Rocker. I can post things like this, because nobody knows who the hell I am. Paul on the other hand, was tempting fate. In the "Age of Political Correctness" there are things you just can't say or even think without being fired or called a racist. Never mind that I and many others wholeheartedly agree with every last word he wrote. I salute Paul Shirley for putting his true thoughts out there and hope that he apologizes for nothing.

The A (aka Henchman21)

Hitler Finds Out Scott Brown Won Massachusetts Senate Seat

2010-01-21T12:29:00.003-05:00

Beginning of the End?

2010-01-21T11:10:00.001-05:00

Have a great time watching the Democrats distance themselves from Martha Coakley after last nights special election to fill the now rotting corpse of Ted Kennedy's Senate seat. The excuses are flying around like the proverbial "shit hitting the fan".

Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y. was quoted as telling Fox News, "We had a candidate who wasn't very good." Politico.com also reported that White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel was blaming Coakley for failing to act against Brown's surge even before polls opened.

Her apparent gaff about Curt Schilling being a "Yankee Fan" certainly didn't help her cause and the sheer fact that the labor union her hubby was a part of voted for Brown was the icing on the cake in the election!

What it all boils down to however, is the fact that the American people are starting to get fed up with the double talk, the double standard, the backstabbing, and the back room deals that are becoming more prevalent in the Democratic Party today. We've had enough and we have the power of the vote behind us.

The Democrats need to start watching their backs now. "Change" they don't want is creeping up behind them in the form of the November 2010 mid-terms. This is indeed the beginning of the end.

BOO!

-The Mormon

Moonbattery at it's finest

2010-01-17T13:06:00.001-05:00

2010 is starting off so brilliantly. The left-wing moonbats are all going off the deep end. In the past week Ed Shultz of one of the irrelevant NBC news networks came out saying that he would cheat the elections in Massachusetts to keep Scott Brown form winning. Danny Glover blamed our failure to get something done in Denmark for the devastating earthquake in Haiti. And my favorite happened over the weekend: Cindy Sheehan (former darling of the Left) held a protest against the CIA and then later tried to protest in front of former V.P. Dick Cheney's house.

Sheehan's new focus is on our use of drones to fight the Al-qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan. How does Dick Cheney have anything to do with what is happening now? This is all on Obamao now. Sheehan has gone so far over the edge, she should be put down like a sick pet. Every time she opens her mouth she disgraces the memory of her son who gave his life in service of our country in a time of war.

The Left seems to be coming apart at the seams. If Scott Brown wins "Ted Kennedy's seat" in the Senate, unlikely as that would seem, it could help destroy the dangerous Left-wing cabal controlling Congress. Chairman Maobama's health care takeover could be stopped in it's tracks which would cause such a hissy-fit that could very well break the Dems.

As depressing as everything going on in our country is right now, I feel real "hope and change" coming. Just not the socialist kind Obamao had envisioned. I am so looking forward to more of the mental breakdowns of the Left in the coming months.

The A

The Atheist explains

2010-01-13T14:21:00.000-05:00

First and foremost I must explain that the title of the blog was picked for a little shock value. I'm actually agnostic. I believe there is something out there, just not willing to commit to one religion. I believe that everyone has an inalienable right to believe in what ever floats their boat. Except Muslims LOL. Well, Scientologists too, but for a far different reason.

This blog was established by the Mormon and myself as way to vent our frustration with the world as we see it. Although we differ greatly on religion everything else is pretty much the same, kind of like we're brothers from other mothers. So, what do we agree on?

1. The 2nd Amendment to the Constitution is the most important thing in the Constitution. Without the right to keep and bear arm all others can easily be taken away.

2. That less is more regarding government. All hail Ronald Reagan!

3. That the death penalty is not used enough. And that pedophilia and rape should both be capital offenses.

4. We both strongly believe that the Federal Government is constantly overstepping it's bounds and should only be doing what our founding fathers envisioned when the Constitution was written.

5. That the Venture Brothers is the greatest cartoon ever.

I could go on for days but I won't. The mere fact that we get along famously without letting a small difference get in the way provides me with great hope for the future. Now if we could just kill off all of Congress and every lawyer on the planet life would be so much better.

The A

Should our tax dollars go to Haiti?

2010-01-13T13:33:00.001-05:00

A massive earthquake leveled most of what are called towns and cities in the Banana Republic of Haiti yesterday. Our president has pledged "unwavering support" for the people of Haiti. The problem is that Haiti is already a welfare country sucking at the teats of the U.S. and U.N. With our national debt at an all time high and massive unemployment in the U.S. can we afford to give money to rebuild one of the most backward and corrupt countries to have ever existed?

I'm all for people helping other people. Why not let the Red Cross and other charitable groups take care of this? We as a nation are the most generous country in the world when it comes to helping the poor in times of crisis. Our government should not use money taken from us to rebuild Haiti. If as individuals we would like to donate to this cause that would be the thing to do. But I'm quite sure that our "Great Leader" will soon be announcing BILLIONS of dollars that we don't have to help the poor downtrodden people of Haiti.

Where will all this money go? If you think the vast majority will not end up being pocketed by corrupt politicians and generals you are sadly mistaken. One only needs to look at the history of this tiny island nation and you will see that Haiti has been a lost cause since it's inception. Want further proof? Look at the Haitian immigrants in any major city in the U.S. Their culture of crime and corruption is taken everywhere they go.

Most liberals would look at this blog and conclude that I am a racist. Maybe I am, but I really wouldn't care if Haiti was a lily white nation or yellow , blue or red. Let the corrupt nations go down under their own power. Sink or swim, survival of the fittest and all that jazz. The greatest nation in the world(Ours) didn't get this way from hand outs from other stronger nations. We rolled with the punches and got things done. It is quite time for Haiti and every other country to stand on their own.

The A

Fighting Terrorism The Obama Way

2010-01-09T12:50:00.000-05:00

"We are determined not only to thwart those plans but to disrupt, dismantle and defeat their networks once and for all." Barak Hussein Obama 2010

You gotta love the Narcissist In Chief. He really is the most egotistical, smug, asshole we've ever had as POTUS. The statement made above comes after the failed bombing attempt of an airliner in U.S. airspace in Christmas Day. The fact that he was more concerned with his friend's child getting hit with a surfboard on that very day or that it took him three days to comment on this incident should make you wonder. Chairman Maobama has made it abundantly clear throughout his first year in office that his highest priorities are destroying our health care system and climate change.

If the "One" is really serious about taking the fight to the enemy (which I sincerely doubt). We should be hearing about missile strikes on terrorist training camps in Iran, Pakistan, Syria, Chad, Sudan, Yemen and Somalia. Strikes on Hezbollah and Hamas should undoubtedly be happening as well. Will any of these things come to pass? No, I'm afraid not. This is stuff Bush should have done as well, but then again as the media tells us Obama is the smartest man on the planet and Bush was an idiot.

We just might get a token strike against a training camp or two, just nothing substantial. We as Americans have put a so-called intellectual in the most powerful seat at the table. Thus we must remember talking about peace is more important than fighting for peace. As long as we have an Islamic apologist running our country we will not be safe. His speech in Cairo last year proved he may have been raised a Muslim but he has no practical understanding of their belief system. Like Bush his misunderstanding of the enemy leaves not only us but the whole world at risk.

As history has shown us a thousand times and then some, the actions or inaction of a few can lead to the deaths of many. Unfortunately, in this time of political correctness America is and will always be the bad guy to the intellectuals of the world. I'm O.K. with that, if we would just step up and do what must be done. What must be done, will not happen in our lifetimes and our children and their children will be fighting this enemy long after we are dead.

The A

I'm sick of the Bush bashing......

2010-01-06T12:14:00.001-05:00

If George W. Bush had been the first President to need a teleprompter installed to be able to get through a press conference, would you have laughed and said this is more proof of how he inept he is on his own and is really controlled by smarter men behind the scenes?

If George W. Bush had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to take Laura Bush to a play in NYC, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had reduced your retirement plan's holdings of GM stock by 90% and given the unions a majority stake in GM, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had made a joke at the expense of the Special Olympics, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had given Gordon Brown a set of inexpensive and incorrectly formatted DVDs, when Gordon Brown had given him a thoughtful and historically significant gift, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had given the Queen of England an iPod containing videos of his speeches, would you have thought this embarrassingly narcissistic and tacky?

If George W. Bush had bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia , would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had visited Austria and made reference to the non-existent "Austrian language," would you have brushed it off as a minor slip?

If George W. Bush had filled his cabinet and circle of advisers with people who cannot seem to keep current in their income taxes, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had been so Spanish illiterate as to refer to "Cinco de Cuatro" in front of the Mexican ambassador when it was the 5th of May (Cinco de Mayo), and continued to flub it when he tried again, would you have winced in embarrassment?

If George W. Bush had mis-spelled the word "advice" would you have hammered him for it for years like Dan Quayle and potatoe as proof of what a dunce he is?

If George W. Bush had burned 9,000 gallons of jet fuel to go plant a single tree on Earth Day, would you have concluded he's a hypocrite?

If George W. Bush's administration had okayed Air Force One flying low over millions of people followed by a jet fighter in downtown Manhattan causing widespread panic, would you have wondered whether they actually get what happened on 9-11?

If George W. Bush had failed to send relief aid to flood victims throughout the Midwest with more people killed or made homeless than in New Orleans , would you want it made into a major ongoing political issue with claims of racism and incompetence?

If George W. Bush had created the position 32 or more Czars who report directly to him, bypassing the House and Senate on much of what is happening in America , would you have approved.

If George W. Bush had ordered the firing of the CEO of a major corporation, even though he had no constitutional authority to do so, would you have approved?

If George W Bush had proposed to double the national debt, which had taken more than two centuries to accumulate, in one year, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had then proposed to double the debt again within 10 years, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had spent more than all the Presidents combined since George Washington, would you have approved?

So, tell me again, what is it about Obama that makes him so brilliant and impressive? Can't think of anything? Don't worry. He's done all this in 10 months -- so you'll have 3 years and 2 months to come up with an answer. Until then, shut the fuck up.

-The Mormon

Jihad is not terrrorism????

2010-01-04T13:25:00.001-05:00

One of the 5 captured American Muslims in Pakistan revealed his defense in court.
Ramy Zamzam told the AP outside the courtroom "We are not terrorists. We are Jihadists and Jihad is not terrorism." Now that is a novel approach. Just think about that statement for a moment.

What is Jihad? The very basic tenets of Jihad coincide extremely well with terrorism. In fact the whole expansion of the cancer that is Islam was spread through jihad/terrorism. According to the Koran and the Hadiths and the Sura, Jihad is the duty of all Muslims. That duty is to kill, convert or enslave all non-believers. The Islamic enablers in the West have distorted the meaning of "Jihad" to make you think that this is some sort of "inner spiritual struggle". This is easily disproved by going to any Muslim country and asking the question. They will tell you "Jihad" is war on the infidels.

According to the so-called holy books of Islam, there are no limits to what can be done to the infidels. In fact, it says in the Koran "to slay them(infidels) wherever you find them". So in the minds of the uneducated masses of Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria, Gaza, the West Bank and all other Islamic countries it is perfectly acceptable to blow up innocent women and children on buses and planes or anywhere else you can find them, as long as they are infidels.

The books that guide our Islamic enemies do not abide by the modern or even ancient rules of war. This is a big problem for all free societies in that because we hold ourselves to a higher standard we can't fight them with the same vigor. It will take something, perhaps many things, worse than 9/11 for the Western world to accept the fact that this war will not be pretty or tidy or fast. Make no mistake, Islam is at war with us. The white guilt ingrained in us, begs us not to repeat the Crusades. Should we should feel bad about the necessary evils our ancestors undertook centuries ago? Seeing as how they didn't finish the job and wipe the Mohamedans off the face of the Earth. I say NO.

The enemy is Islam and all that it stands for. Our right to believe in something other than Allah is at stake. We have funded Islam with money for oil for too long now. The easiest way to cripple them would be to drill for our own vast reserves of oil on our own freaking continent and bomb the rag heads back to the 7th century(where they want to live anyway).

The A

Photoshopped picture of the Decade

2010-01-04T12:42:00.000-05:00

No explanation needed. The A

Political Correctness Will Kill You

2009-12-28T18:20:00.001-05:00

On Christmas day a 23 year old Nigerian Muslim "extremist" aided by Al-qaida in Yemen attempted to blow up an airliner. Even though he was on a U.S. terrorism watch list and his father had alerted authorities that his son was up to no good he managed to get on a U.S. bound flight with explosives on his person. How does something like this happen? This is an issue of national security and falls under the purview of the Dept. of Homeland Security. You would think that DHS would be run by someone with a military or law enforcement background. You and I would be absolutely 100% wrong in thinking that way. This is of course, the Obama Administration. The One, in all his glory, put a bureaucrat(lawyer) in charge of keeping America safe from terrorist attacks. Janet Napolitano is the former Governor of Arizona. She did a pretty good job there with all those illegals coming across her border from Mexico didn't she? I would laugh but this ain't funny.

The first time we heard from "Nappy" she had sent out a memo to be on guard against right-wing extremists (white American males who believe in God and have guns). Now, after this attempt by another follower of "the Religion of Peace", we must realize that the powers that be are not concerned for our safety. Maobama put out a statement saying that this was the actions of one isolated extremist. Nappy came out and said that the system worked. Of course she was high on meth when she said this and did a 180 the following day saying that the system failed. And of course after the statement by the Teleprompter-In-Chief made his asinine statement that this was the work of one man, Al-qaida in the Arabian Peninsula claimed responsibility.

Supposedly, the airports are now on heightened states of alert and readiness. What this means is, in our world of political correctness, more little old white Christian ladies will be strip searched at the airports while the dress wearing camel-jockeys carrying the Koran can go about their business. The ACLU and CAIR complain about racial profiling and discrimination against peace loving Muslims. The problem is that Muslims are not a race, therefore there can be no racial profiling in this case. Secondly, the only people in the world that target innocent civilians with these terrorist attacks are all MUSLIM.

Since September 11th, 2001 there have been almost 15,000 jihadist terror attacks around the world. All of these attacks have been carried out by the followers of Mohamed. Another attack along the lines of 9/11 is coming. Don't say you weren't warned.

The A

Common Sense No Longer Exists

2009-12-24T16:00:00.000-05:00

The Socialists in Congress seem to think that we as Americans must have "universal health care" or we are doomed. The thought of the poor dieing in the streets makes their poor little hearts bleed. The fact that no one can be turned away for a medical emergency from any hospital in America escapes all on the side of granting the government more power to determine our fate is completely ignored.

Now, I will be the first to admit that health insurance is way to frigging expensive. However, there are many things that could be done to make health care affordable to the masses without giving up our freedoms and destroying the best health care system in the world. How about making all health care expenses tax deductable? Wouldn't that make a little more sense than adding on to the largest national debt in history? Oh, but wait, that wouldn't be fair to the poor would it? You see Congress MUST get tax revenues from the wealthy/working class to pay for all of it's silly ass programs to keep the poor on their plantations. How about Congress not spending so much frikken money?!!

There are solutions to all of our national problems. Unfortunately, we don't have enough dedicated, strong-willed people in our government to do what must be done. The House passed their bill and now the Senate has passed their own. Fortunately for us, both bills are different and it will take an act of God for them to come to an agreement to pass such an abomination. The main similiarity in these bills is their lack of common sense and logic. Never mind the fact that over half the country is against both bills or any type of government take-over of health care.

I truly believe that any socialized health care system implemented by Congress would be absolutely unconstitutional. We can only hope if something like this is passed the Supreme Court would finally step up to the plate and actually do it's job. Yes, I'm well aware that people need good health care. The most glaring problem with the idea of these congressional plans is there is not one thing in the Constitution of these United States of America that says you have the right to free health care.

This whole subject thoroughly irritates me and now I have a headache or is it a tumor?! an aneurysm?! Oh crap, what will I do without the help of Obamao, Pelostink and Reid?!!!

The A

Hope and Change?

2009-12-16T22:00:00.002-05:00

During the political campaigns of 2008 our country was promised among other things "honest leadership" and "transparency". So far that hasn't happened and won't happen until the likes of Sen. Harry Reid and Rep. Nancy Pelosi are well below ground. They promised to deliver jobs. Didn't happen. They promised to curb the deficit. Didn't happen. They promised health care for all, without adding to the deficit. Didn't happen and sure as hell will increase the deficit. They promised us they would post bills online so we could read them before they voted. Didn't happen much. They promise the Sun, the Moon and the stars and the people keep buying these empty promises.

Here's an idea. Vote every last one of them out in 2010 and 2012. I don't have an Ivy League education but the fact of the matter is I could do a hell of a lot better than any of the assclowns in Congress. How would I make the system better? Well, first and foremost, I would follow the Constitution to the letter. Something these morons have forgotten how to do. That being said here is a list of things that I feel we need to have happen to revitalize our nation.

1. Term limits on Congress. 2 terms equaling 8 total years in either the House or the Senate. Once you've served you are done. If you've served your allotted time in the House you will not be permitted to serve in the Senate and vice-versa.

2. Lobbyist groups will no longer be able to present gifts of any kind to any member of Congress or their families. Nor will they be able to contribute in any way to any campaign funds either on behalf of their group or personally. All lobbyists must be registered if they are found to be working as one and are not registered they should be fined up to 10 million dollars or face incarceration of up to 10 years. Their choice.

3. Concerning conflicts of interest. There are far too many in Congress that help pass bills that benefit themselves and their families directly(I'm talking about you John Murtha). Anything that appears to be a conflict of interest must be treated as one. Period.

4. Congressional pay must be capped and Congress must not have the power to raise their own pay. Talk about handing a loaded gun to a toddler, only bad things can happen. If the idiots in Washington were really concerned with "serving the people", they wouldn't mind getting paid like a regular working stiff. Salary for both the House and the Senate should be no more than 60,000 a year. Hell you have to be rich to get elected in the first place, and since they don't actually work 5 days a week for at least 50 weeks a year they sure as hell don't deserve over 100,000 a year now do they?

That is just a little that could be done to fix Congress. And if you don't think these are worthwhile changes, just take a look at the approval ratings on our dear sweet morons in Congress. More to come from me on fixing our failed Republic.

The A

Another 9/11 WILL Happen

2009-12-07T18:43:00.001-05:00

The failure of both our government and our media will lead us to another 9/11 sooner rather than later. In our politically correct society it is better to present falsehoods to the masses rather than slander a religion based on brutality. What does the media do when Islamists carry out an attack? They fall all over themselves trying to interview Muslim scholars. The problem is that they interview Muslim scholars here in America. The Muslims here living in the "House of War" will lie to put Islam in a better light. This is a practice known throughout Islam as "Taqiyya".
"Taqiyya" is the religiously-sanctioned doctrine, with its origins in Shi'a Islam but now practiced by non-Shi'a as well, of deliberate dissimulation about religious matters that may be undertaken to protect Islam, and the Believers. A related term, of broader application, is "kitman," which is defined as "mental reservation." An example of "Taqiyya" would be the insistence of a Muslim apologist that "of course" there is freedom of conscience in Islam, and then quoting that Qur'anic verse -- "There shall be no compulsion in religion." {2:256} But the impression given will be false, for there has been no mention of the Muslim doctrine of abrogation, or naskh, whereby such an early verse as that about "no compulsion in religion" has been cancelled out by later, far more intolerant and malevolent verses. In any case, history shows that within Islam there is, and always has been, "compulsion in religion" for Muslims, and for non-Muslims.

It would make far better sense for the media to actually interview real-world experts on Islam such as: Noni Darwish, Robert Spencer, Hugh Fitzgerald, Bat Ye'or or Geert Wilders. But alas, the media is far too lazy which is why the vast majority of America and the rest of the civilised world remain unaware of the true threat we face.

There are currently somewhere between 26 and 40 active compounds of Jihadists training right here in the U.S. RIGHT NOW! Most people believe that Homeland Security and/or the FBI have them under surveillance. This could be true, but then again the powers that be knew about Maj. Nidal Hassan and the Fort Hood attack still happened. May I remind you that the Attorney General of these United States was part of the law firm that is helping defend many of the detainees held in GITMO? Has AG Eric Holder not given the masterminds of 9/11 the same constitutional rights that all American citizens enjoy? Even though none of them have ever been here.

Now here is where you say "but not all Muslims are bad." To which I say "DON'T FOOL YOURSELF". Jihad is the duty of all righteous Muslims and can be best explained by the founder of The Muslim Brotherhood Hasan Al-Banna.
"All Muslims Must Make Jihad Jihad is an obligation from Allah on every Muslim and cannot be ignored nor evaded. Allah has ascribed great importance to jihad and has made the reward of the martyrs and the fighters in His way a splendid one. Only those who have acted similarly and who have modeled themselves upon the martyrs in their performance of jihad can join them in this reward. Furthermore, Allah has specifically honoured the Mujahideen {those who wage jihad} with certain exceptional qualities, both spiritual and practical, to benefit them in this world and the next. Their pure blood is a symbol of victory in this world and the mark of success and felicity in the world to come.
Those who can only find excuses, however, have been warned of extremely dreadful punishments and Allah has described them with the most unfortunate of names. He has reprimanded them for their cowardice and lack of spirit, and castigated them for their weakness and truancy. In this world, they will be surrounded by dishonour and in the next they will be surrounded by the fire from which they shall not escape though they may possess much wealth. The weaknesses of abstention and evasion of jihad are regarded by Allah as one of the major sins, and one of the seven sins that guarantee failure.
Islam is concerned with the question of jihad and the drafting and the mobilisation of the entire Umma {the global Muslim community} into one body to defend the right cause with all its strength than any other ancient or modern system of living, whether religious or civil. The verses of the Qur'an and the Sunnah of Muhammad (PBUH {Peace Be Unto Him}) are overflowing with all these noble ideals and they summon people in general (with the most eloquent expression and the clearest exposition) to jihad, to warfare, to the armed forces, and all means of land and sea fighting."
I will continue to try and enlighten as many people as possible to the threats we face from the so-called "Religion of Peace". Hopefully more people can wake from their slumber.

The A

Quotes taken from Islam 101.

A Day To Remember -December 7th, 1941

2009-12-07T08:21:00.001-05:00

Today is the 68th Anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The act that finally got the U.S. off it's ass and into WWII. It was the beginning of a war that would eventually cost 416,000 American military members their lives. Please, if you know any of the surviving members of our armed forces from the Great War, thank them for their service and sacrifices.

The A

The Atheist's Man Of The Year- Andrew Breitbart

2009-12-07T08:09:00.000-05:00

What a year it has been for Mr. Breitbart. With the success of Breitbart.com , BigHollywood.com and BigGovernment.com a new "King of All Media" has been crowned. If you didn't notice it was Breitbart who along with Glenn Beck shined a light on the infamous community organiztion known as ACORN. It is quite clear from his visits to FoxNews, The Glenn Beck Show and RedEye that Andrew shares my hatred of all things Obamao. For those of you not in the know, Mr. Breitbart helped get The Drudge Report going and then worked for The Huffington Post. His endeavors with BigHollywood and BigGovernment, I am sure are works of atonement for having anything to do with Arianna Huffington. I truly hope there are more people like Andrew Breitbart among us that will hold the media to the higher standards of the former greats like Edward R. Murrow.

The A

18 Months Until the White Flag Waves

2009-12-04T15:39:00.000-05:00

The Chairman has spoken ...we will send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan to take care of Al-qaeda. Never mind the fact that he gave Al-qaeda and their brothers in arms the Taliban a timetable on our withdrawal. Gee, is this how wars are won? In the real world you don't frigging tell the enemy when you are going to leave. I beleive our troops would agree that not giving the enemy your plans is rule #1 in warfare. What a complete dumbass...and the Libs said Bush was an idiot??!! Excuse me for being a little simple minded, but can we not all agree that surging troops and announcing our intention to leave in 18 months is a REALLY BAD IDEA. The ragheads we are fighting will be more than happy to stand down or at least scale back their attacks for the next 18 months. The wunderkind that is POTUS shows how little he actually knows about the rest of the world every time he makes a speech(or the teleprompter does it for him). Where is Lee Harvey Oswald when you need him? 2012 is auch a long way away. The damage this quota-baby does now will take decades to undo if we don't retake Congress from the Dems in 2010. I'm so thoroughly disgusted with the government and the sheeple who see Obamao as the great savior. Most of us saw something bad coming but this is gettin' downright scary.

The A

Happy Eid al-Adha

2009-11-27T14:27:00.005-05:00

There are currently 3 million Muslims(Islamic fanatics) in Mecca, Saudi Arabia this week. The annual hajj is here again and all devout Muslims must attend this gathering at least once in their lifetime. Since this event coincides with the start of our Holiday gift giving season, I propose we send them some gifts. Like several nuclear tipped cruise missiles from one of our Navy subs in the gulf. Am I being harsh? For me the answer is no, not really. This is a very practical and well thought out solution to two different dilemmas we currently face here in the U.S.

First and foremost this act would begin the inevitable war between Islam and the rest of the free world. This is going to happen sooner or later, so lets get it over with before Europe has been taken over without a shot fired. We are Americans after all and we are the ones who do the dirty work when our Eurotrash brethren get in over their heads.

Secondly and you probably didn't see this coming but it forces us to drill for our own oil right here in the good ole U.S.A. By wiping Mecca off the map we have very efficiently cut our ties to the foreign oil supply, FOR GOOD. And as an added bonus we can now remove our troops from Iraq and Afghanistan so our whiny left-wing moonbats can stop crying about war for oil.

If we as a nation are to survive we must be willing to do what must be done. Make no mistake in thinking that a new crusade against Islam is not needed. The enemy is here on our soil as evidenced by the Ft. Hood shooting. They are going to control Europe within the next 20 to 30 years; if you don't believe that just check the population growth stats. They have been working for this for the past 1,350 years and they're not stopping now.

The death cult that is Islam must be obliterated. Do I support this genocide? You bet I do, with every fiber in my being. I know the simple truth that our leaders and the pseudo-intellectuals want to deny. Read the Koran and the Hadiths if you can stomach the insane ramblings of a murderous pedophile. This is not just a religion it is way of life(servitude) that demands complete and total obedience. The very meaning of the word Islam is SURRENDER. Jihad against infidels is a requirement of this death cult.

If you believe me to be wrong just keep your head in the sand. If you think possibly that I might be right do yourself a favor and visit the following websites: jihadwatch.org, terrorismawareness.org, historyofjihad.com, meforum.org, and frontpagemagazine.com. Educate yourselves and everyone else you know. Our current POTUS is a muslim sympathiser who has already put muslims in high ranking positions in the Dept. of Homeland Security. You will see the terrorist masterminds of 9/11 spewing their hatred of us when they stand trial in New York. Their beliefs ARE the widely held beliefs of the rest of the Islamic world. We are kaffirs and must die, submit to slavery or convert there is no alternative in their eyes.

The A

I would vote for this guy

2009-11-12T14:56:00.002-05:00

http://www.mywtxchatter.com/video/gov-rick-perry-at-midland

Gov. Rick Perry of Texas laying out some truth.

The A

New Yorkers are gutless

2009-11-09T15:03:00.004-05:00

I found this clip on Jihad Watch. How could any American walk by and not react in a violent fashion with these dimwits spouting off. The very fact this goes on in broad daylight on the streets of New York City astounds me. The American city hardest hit by terrorists just lets this shit go on?? Sure they have freedom of speech and freedom of religion. But this type of thing cannot be allowed to happen. To dishonor our troops and praise their attacker is something I would not allow to go unanswered. This type of behavior can not be tolerated and would definitely be dealt with in an extremely violent response had this happened in the South. Come on New Yorkers! Where are your balls? The enemy is here on our shores and they must be dealt with.

The A

Classless? Clueless? Or just an Asshole?

2009-11-06T16:01:00.003-05:00

The absolute disdain Maobama has for our troops is truly sickening. When I saw the first video last year honoring 9/11 victims, I knew he had no class or at least was ignorant of how things are supposed to be done. At least McCain showed him how to do it properly. The video from last night just completely blew my mind. This is what happens when you elect an elitist left-wing moonbat. The total lack of respect for our dead and wounded soldiers and civilians on our home soil. Absolutely disgusting.

The A

Bald Is Beautiful......

2009-11-04T20:42:00.001-05:00

Well it is most of the time.

The A

Judge Him By The Company He Keeps

2009-11-01T17:15:00.003-05:00

The visitor log to the White House was released on Oct. 30th. Some notables include- William Ayers(Weather Underground terrorist), Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and Jeremiah Wright(race baiting anti-Semites), Malik Shabazz(head of the New Black Panther Party), George Soros(convicted of insider trading and hero to the left wing), Andrew Stern(head of SEIU) and finally John Podesta(Board member of the Apollo Alliance and President of the Center for American Progress. Now, just mix in the members of the "Chicago political machine" Rahm Emmanuel, Valerie Jarrett and all their cronies and you get one hell of a rancid smell coming from Pennsylvania Ave. I wonder how much it will cost the taxpayers to fumigate the White House in 2012?

The A

The Greatest American - Part 3

2009-11-01T13:34:00.004-05:00

Why do so many of have such love in our hearts for Dutch? Watch the video!

The A

The Greatest American - Part 2

2009-11-01T13:24:00.002-05:00

Ronnie on the most important issue of our current POTUS and Congress.

The A

Death Wish for Generations X and Y

2009-10-30T18:51:00.004-04:00

A mere ten years after the release of one of my favorite movies ever, Boondock Saints 2 - All Saints Day hits theaters in New York and L.A. tonight. The reviews have been harsh to say the least. I for one say f**k the reviewers and their opinions. The first Saints movie was panned as a horrible attempt at a Tarantino flick. I don't see it that way at all and am quite sure there are plenty of people who would agree with me. I see the original Boondock Saints as my generations "Death Wish". I'm quite sure the critics would hate Death Wish if it was released today too. This is not a movie franchise that will win Academy Awards, it's just good old fashioned blood "n" guts American movie making at it's finest.

Can this movie be as good as the first? Will it live on in infamy on DVD like it's predecessor? Could Director Troy Duffy possibly top the outrageous gay FBI agent Smecker, played completely over the top by Willem Dafoe? These questions will be answered soon enough and for all of the elitist movie reviewers already panning this flick.....take a chill pill and let's have some fun with a few laughs and a whole lot of dead bad guys.

The A

The Greatest American

2009-10-27T12:51:00.004-04:00

Amazing to think that his words spoken over 40 years ago apply so well with what is happening today.

The A

Economic Stimulus

2009-10-21T12:37:00.000-04:00

Sometime this year, we taxpayers may again receive an Economic Stimulus payment. This is a very exciting program.

I'll explain it using the Q and A format:

Q. What is an Economic Stimulus payment?

A. It is money that the federal government will send to taxpayers.

Q. Where will the government get this money?

A. From taxpayers.

Q. So the government is giving me back my own money?

A. Only a smidgen.

Q. What is the purpose of this payment?

A. The plan is for you to use the money to purchase a high-definition TV set, thus stimulating the economy.

Q. But isn't that stimulating the economy of China ?

A. Shut up.
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The Mormon

So Bush was evil and controlled by Karl Rove huh?

2009-10-12T13:48:00.008-04:00

For 8 years I heard the nonsensical ramblings of the Bush-hating Left crying that Karl Rove and Halliburton were controlling Pres. Bush. Hmmm, If Bush was a puppet, can it also be assumed that Obama is one as well?

Who got the New Messiah elected? A grand coalition of left-wing nut jobs that pretty much starts with George Soros and ends with A.C.O.R.N.

During the debates the question of experience and policy making was posed to Obama. He replied that he would surround himself with the greatest minds on every subject. Boy oh boy, did you guys fall for that one, hook, line and sinker. Lets look at who he has surrounded himself with.

The following are Obama's BIG THREE:

1. The Apollo Alliance: A so-called grass roots organization dedicated to the "energy independence" of the U.S. Founded by Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Leo Gerard International President of the United Steelworkers, Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-IL) and Carl Pope Executive Director of The Sierra Club. The group has worked tirelessly to make sure that NO drilling for oil offshore or on is done here in the U.S. So much for energy independence. The Apollo Alliance is the group that wrote the stimulus package for Obama.

2. A.C.O.R.N. : Do I really have to say anything about these idiots? LOL

3. SEIU (Service Employees International Union): A union originally set up for custodial service workers that was hijacked by left-wing fanatics with the help of the aforementioned A.C.O.R.N. The members of SEIU have been the foot soldiers in Obama's war to nationalize healthcare.

The three outfits above have a very generous benefactor by the name of George Soros. Soros is responsible for the Centers For American Progress, MoveOn.org, FactCheck.org, and America Coming Together- all of which are radical left-wing groups. His net worth is believed to be 11 billion dollars and he uses millions of that to promote his left-wing ideology.

Now for the people Obama surrounds himself with.

1. William Ayers: The former Weather Underground leader who bombed police stations and the Pentagon. This unrepentant piece of human filth should have been executed decades ago. Ayers recently admitted to ghost-writing one of Obama's books. So much for Obama saying he knew Ayers but that they weren't close.

2. Van Jones: Self proclaimed communist and black radical. He was outed by Glenn Beck of Fox News and Breitbart and resigned his position as Green Jobs Czar for the Obama administration.

3. Kevin Jennings: A crusader for all things gay, lesbian or trans-gender. He violated state law as a teacher for not reporting sex between an underage student and an adult. He is still working for Obama and is the Safe Schools Czar.

Unfortunately, this is just the tip of the iceberg. There will be more radical leftist ideologues outed in the coming months. Each one could be even more repulsive than the last. We needed unions and radicals running this country about as much as I need another hole in my head.

The A

Nobel Peace Prize Has No Meaning

2009-10-09T12:20:00.003-04:00

I woke up today with a semi-positive outlook on the world as whole. Then I checked the news. Have I been transported to an alternate universe, where up is down, and black is white? In my youth I was certain that only the most deserving and highly qualified were ever given a Nobel Prize. After some internal debate with the many voices in my head, I checked the list of winners of the Nobel Peace Prize. Honestly, I think Obama belongs on this list. Let's take a look at a few recent winners, shall we?

In 1994 the P.L.O terrorist Yassir Arafat won. This was awarded to him for his work in spreading peace(suicide bombers) in the Middle East.

In 2001 the prize was awarded to Secretary General of the U.N. Kofi Annan. This must have been for his quashing of the Rwandan Genocide. Oh wait, he didn't stop that did he? In fact it is still going on. Isn't it?

In 2002 (the worst president in U.S. history) Jimmy Carter got the award as a slap to the face of then current president George W. Bush. I guess you get the prize for defending brutal dictators like Saddam Hussein, Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez.

In 2005 Dr. Mohamed Mostafa ElBaradei the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency won for his outstanding efforts in denying North Korea and Iran the capability of producing nuclear weapons. Oh wait that's not right is it?

In 2007 former Vice President of the United States of America Al Gore won for his tireless work to fight global warming. LMAO. Good ole Al, he who invented the internet and profits from pollution on the family land in Tennessee. I could write for days on this asshole.

Now, here we are today POTUS Barrack Hussein Obama has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. For what? Has he accomplished anything? It must be for apologizing for all the past evil that we as Americans have perpetrated on the rest of humanity.

I thought when I woke up I was in an alternate universe, after further review I must conclude that I'm just living the nightmare that is our world.

The A

History Repeating Itself.....

2009-10-05T13:25:00.002-04:00

The fight goes on in Afghanistan, whether people agree with it or not. U.S. General McChrystal is asking for a surge in the number of troops to keep the Taliban from regrouping. Chairman Maobama has let two weeks go by since the request was made, with no answer. Our Dear Leader's National Security Adviser (ret)Gen. James Jones has come out against McChrystal.

My questions are simple. Do we have that short of a memory? Did we learn nothing from the disaster that was Vietnam? The answer to both questions is a resounding NO. However, we must now look at our civilian leadership a little more closely. The people in the White House and in Congress right now , are the same people who were spitting on my father when he returned from Vietnam. The Left is against all forms of violence, even when justified. They were against the invasion of both Iraq and Afghanistan from the beginning.

The Obama Administration has followed in the grand footsteps of Lyndon B. Johnson since they took over. The most important lesson that should have been taken from the Vietnam War is that politicians should let the commanders on the battlefield make the decisions. Afghanistan will get completely out of control and we will lose way to many troops if the idiots in Washington stay the course. We have the most well trained and technologically superior fighting force the world has ever known. I fear that the Libtards will let this turn in to another cluster-fuck like Somalia and we will turn tail and run, empowering our enemies overseas even more. Here's hoping I'm wrong.

The A

Hollywood defends the indefensible

2009-09-29T17:02:00.008-04:00

After 32 years of hiding in plain sight, convicted child rapist Roman Polanski is being held in Switzerland awaiting extradition back to the U.S. In 1978 Polanski plead guilty to one count of unlawful sexual conduct with a minor. The plea deal was facilitated with the help of the victim's family, as they did not want the child to have to testify in open court. Make no mistake THIS was RAPE plain and simple. Is there anyone other than the "Prophet Mohammed" who would defend a man in his 40's having forced sex with a 13 year old? Believe it or not but the answer is YES.

Liberal Hollywood has rallied to defend this disgrace of a man. A quote from the talented and brilliant(sarc) Whoopie Goldberg- " It wasn't rape-rape. " So in Whoopie's mind giving a 13 year old little girl champagne and a Quaalude and then forcing both vaginal and anal sex on her is not rape??!!! I am shocked , I was almost certain that that would be the very definition of rape! My whole value system must be completely out of kilter.

Many have said over the blogosphere that it is time for Roman to face prosecution, they must be either stupid or misinformed. He plead GUILTY!!! He must be brought back to California to begin serving his prison sentence. The Attorney General of California should make damn sure the this sick, twisted piece of shit serves every single day of the sentence that was handed down. To HELL with Hollywood and anyone else that would dare defend Polanski. Go here if you think maybe I got it wrong:

www.thesmokinggun.com
The A

The Pot Calling The Kettle...Well You Know

2009-09-16T13:25:00.005-04:00

The former POTUS (and The A's least favorite relative) has opened his idiotic mouth AGAIN. He stated that Rep. Joe Wilson's outburst at Chairman Maobama "YOU LIE!!" was based on racism and followed that sentiment off with stating that most of the opposition to the grand exalted leader is due to bigotry. Well if anyone knows about bigotry and hatred it's good ole Jimmah. The man that funds his "Carter Center" with millions of dollars from Arab(Muslim) backers. Considering Jimmy is the preeminent Jew hater among non-muslims on the planet, maybe he knows a thing or two about bigotry. The thing is, for myself and virtually everyone I know, the hatred we have for Obama has nothing to do with his race and everything to do with his policies and motives. Cousin Jimmy needs to just sit down and STFU.

The A

Evan Sayet is my Hero

2009-09-15T18:39:00.002-04:00

This is a speech on how the Liberal mind works. I am truly in awe of how he has captured the true essence of the "Modern Liberal". The video is roughly 48 minutes long and worth watching every single second.

The A

The Cultural Elite Of Hollyweird

2009-09-14T19:39:00.002-04:00

Do these dimwits actually think any rational human being would listen to anything they say? Only a complete idiot would follow the lead of Charlie (I'm a 9-11 truther) Sheen or Sean (Saddam is a great guy) Penn. The problem is that there are a small minority of people in this country that do think as these morons think. I believe one has been elected POTUS.

It is quite a shame that Danny Glover has turned out to be just another America hating left-wing moonbat. I used to watch his movies (not anymore). Susan and Tim have been on my boycott list for many years. I just wish Hollywood would learn to keep it's mouth shut. My boycott list has gotten so long I hardly watch t.v. or movies anymore.

The A

9/11 National Day of Service My Ass

2009-09-10T17:14:00.006-04:00

Tomorrow will be September 11th, 2009; the eight year anniversary of the most horrible terrorist attack in U.S. history. Dear leader and his minions in Congress have decided to change this date on our calender from a National Day of Remembrance to a National Day of Service. This is a completely unacceptable action. Every year that goes by, more and more Americans seem to forget what happened, especially New Yorkers, who were the hardest hit.

3,000 people were wiped off the face of the earth by muslim terrorists. Notice I did not say radical or extremist muslims. The reason for that is they were not radical or extreme, they were in fact devout muslims following the orders of the Quran. We have been in a so-called "War on Terrorism" since that day in 2001. However, our enemy has been at war with us non-stop for the last 1,350 years. Our government has been blinded by the oil rich muslim countries of the Middle East. Bush did not understand that the Saudis and Pakistanis only appear to be our allies; they are not. Chairman Maobama was raised as a muslim- he knows they are not, but that won't stop him from playing their game.

Our enemies use our freedoms against us. We have groups living in our own country planning and training to carry on this jihad against us. And of course they have mouthpieces such as C.A.I.R. to tell us Islam is a religion of peace. Our Left-wing media falls all over themselves defending Islam. We cannot defeat terrorism until we as a people understand that the religion of Islam and all that adhere to it's philosophies are the true enemy of freedom and the American way of life.

I will never serve the Chocolate Jesus or any of his followers just like I would never believe anything uttered by the Prophet Mohammed(may he burn in everlasting hell). I will mourn the loss of my countrymen every 11th of September until the day I die.

The A

We Don't Need Obama Care

2009-09-09T19:49:00.004-04:00

I had surgery today. For the second time in two years I had a lipoma (fatty benign tumor) removed from the back of my head. The first time I had medical insurance, the second time I did not.

Which surgery cost more?? The sheep of the land would naturally say the first was.....and they would most definitely be wrong. At the time of my first surgery I was paying $232.00 a month for this wonderful medical insurance that Chairman Maobama and Nancy Pelosi seem to think is so necessary for all Americans. Due to the conditions laid out by my insurance company, I had to see my regular doctor first and get a referral. This cost me another $30.00 plus time away form work that cost me at least $45.00. The visit to see the surgeon to schedule the procedure cost me $25.00 and at least another $50.00 from missing work. The surgery was performed at a hospital and the bill was over $3000.00. The Insurance covered all but $800.00. So out of pocket expenses were a grand total of $1132.00. Wow! Where would I be without the oh so very important medical insurance?

Surgery #2 comes today, long after I cancelled my medical insurance and a few months since I lost my job. The horror of it all! I have to borrow money from my mother to pay for this procedure. How much is it going to cost??? First off, I know what the problem is so I skip the visit to my regular doctor (savings $70.00). I go see my dermatologist, who also does surgical procedures just like this one (cost $70.00). We schedule the procedure for the following week. That day is today. I have the procedure in the surgical room in his office and my mother pays the bill. She takes me home and gets my prescription for Tylenol 3 for me. The cost is?? $550.00 for the surgery and $12.00 for the prescription. Sooooo, the grand total without insurance: $632.00.

So, now , the real questions are : Do we really need to bankrupt this country for the Dumbocrat socialized health care plan? Would I have been able to get this done in such a timely fashion? If their plan to destroy our system goes through would my highly skilled and seasoned doctor have even performed this surgery for me?

The answer to those three questions is the same. A resounding NO! My doctor has already informed me that if we end up with a "single payer" system he will retire from practice. I'm quite sure he wouldn't be the only one. I have quite a headache from not only the surgery but just the thought Congress controlling my every medical need.

The A

Michael Moore is a LOSER

2009-09-06T16:57:00.005-04:00

Michael Moore's new "documentary" will open in October. It will be just another left-wing America hating work of fiction by the most acclaimed "documentary film maker" of our time. This moonbat has become a multi-millionaire making left-wing propaganda films that are bereft of any real facts. This film will be nothing new.

This fat slob has the lunatic fringe salivating over his latest work of shit. (oops that was supposed to say art. My bad!) The box office numbers will surely tell the tale as to whether or not America has truly seen through the Libtard way of thinking that has blinded it for the last few years. The mindless sheep that would actually spend money to see any of "Fat Bastard's" work should be culled from our herd IMHO.

I'm quite sure the film critics of our esteemed MSM will fall all over themselves with praise for this piece of America hating shit. (both the film and Michael Moore) I just hope this morbidly obese troll dies of the heart attack that is surely coming soon. Maybe we'll get lucky and he'll have one premiering the film in Cuba.

The A

NATIONAL SKIP DAY

2009-09-04T15:33:00.006-04:00

Mark down September 8th on your calender, not because that is the day of The Atheist's birth, but for a far more sinister reason. The White House has a special message for all public schoolchildren. They say it is about education but this has the looks of a "Hitler Youth" type program written all over it.

Many would say I'm overreacting to this, but what would they say if this had been former POTUS George W. Bush. The "left-wing moonbats" would have raised an unbelievable ruckus. With the information that keeps coming out about all the Marxist/Socialist/Communist/America haters that Chairman Maobama has appointed as Czars does this kind of activity not scare you a little?

The Chocolate Jesus has already said he wants a national civilian security force to be as big, powerful and well funded as the military. This could be viewed very much the same as Hitler's Brown Shirts. The vast majority of this new organization is already in place as members of ACORN and SEIU. So the idea of the "Obama Youth" doesn't sound so far fetched to me. Imagine your children "captive audience" in public "government" school being asked to serve their President aka The Superintendent In Chief. The White House has already tried to get citizens to report other citizens for having dissenting views of their cherished leader. Is this where they have your children inform on you?

September 8th should be National Skip Day for all of America's youth. Keep your children home in protest of Chairman Maobama and his cabal of America hating left-wingers. Show them that WE THE PEOPLE STILL HAVE THE POWER.

The A

DO YOU TRUST THE GOVERNMENT?

2009-08-28T12:14:00.005-04:00

The CDC is rushing trials of the H1N1 flu virus vaccine and trying along with the government and the W.H.O. to cause a panic over this supposed imminent "pandemic". I for one will have nothing to do with this vaccine or their fear-mongering.

Before you get the idea that I'm a bit loony. hear me out. This whole thing smells quite fishy to me. The fact that this virus is spreading right when the Democrats are pushing so hard for Government run health care, just doesn't sit well with me. Would they? Could they use this whole situation to their advantage? Do YOU trust this government to truly have YOUR best interests at heart? Do you know anyone with the "swine flu"?

I cannot and will not trust this government to protect me from anything or anyone; be it the flu or terrorists. If you or your loved ones take this vaccine and something bad happens; don't say you weren't warned.

The A

Trashing The Dead Is What I Do

2009-08-27T01:07:00.003-04:00

The love-fest for dear old Teddy is in full swing in the media. (I might just toss my cookies.)
Let's look at some of Edward's accomplishments, shall we?

1. Got kicked out of Harvard for cheating. Hmmm rule/law breaking ran in the family. Look up Joe Kennedy.
2. Got off with 2 months probation for driving into a lake (most undoubtedly drunk) and leaving Mary Jo Kopechne to drown in the vehicle while he went back to his hotel to work on an alibi.
3. Was instrumental in Congress pulling all funding of the South Vietnamese after our troops were pulled out. This action directly led to the slaughter of thousands upon thousands of innocent people by the North Vietnamese.
4. He was a Kennedy, that in and of itself is enough to earn my scorn.

Do not be fooled; the world is a far better place without the esteemed "Lion of the Senate".

The A

Teddy Joins His Brothers In Hell

2009-08-26T01:54:00.003-04:00

Oh, I'm gonna have a good day today! I'm quite sure the Mormon will do a jig when he hears that Senator Slimeball from Mass. is taking the eternal dirt nap. Let the media frenzy begin!! It will be such a joy to hear how we should all be saddened by the passing of this fatass piece'o'shit. I'm quite sure that Joe, John, Robert and Satan have welcomed him properly into Hell. Now if only the rest of Congress would follow Teddy's lead and drop fucking dead...

The A

The END of the World is Approaching.....

2009-08-12T13:28:00.004-04:00

Headline for "The Drudge Report"- UN Climate Warning- "We have only 4 months to secure the fate of planet" OMFG!!!! I am soooooo scared.

So, let me get this straight. If we don't curb the production of CO2 and other so-called "greenhouse gases" the planet will die. Even with my public/government school edumacation, I know for a fact that CO2 aka carbon dioxide is a good thing for our planet. It is the life giver to all plants, which by the way, produce the very Oxygen we breathe. For the past couple of decades we have been spoon fed this idea that man (the United States of America) is responsible for Global Warming/Climate Change. I say- BULLSHIT! We have let this pseudo science go on on long enough.

The MSM would have you believe that the U.S.A. is the biggest source of environmental pollution on the planet. Here is a fact that they seem to disregard on a daily basis. The U.S. has been at the forefront of curbing pollution for over 40 years. We have pollution standards already in place since the 1970's that the majority of the rest of the world can't even begin to match. You want real pollution?? Go to China, India or Russia.

As far as "Global Warming" goes, well, they have changed the name to "Climate Change". Why?? Because the planet has been in a cooling phase since the late 1990's. Supposedly this is all man kinds fault. We will just have to ignore the fact that this planet revolves around the Sun and has it's own cycles that we have NO control over.

The U.N. (otherwise known as "The Crazy Dictator's Club"), our government and thousands of corporations keep on with this joke for one reason and one reason only. $$$MONEY$$$. The weather will change whether we like it or not. Anyone ever heard of the Ice Age?? Trust me when I say "It ain't gonna happen in our lifetime or even in your children's children's lifetimes." Go research for yourself. You WILL find that over half of the experts in the field of "Climate Change" consider this all a bunch of alarmist bunk.

The A

Douchebags in Flip-Flops

2009-08-10T12:06:00.001-04:00

At least shave your toe knuckles you degenerate.

When did wearing flip-flops to a bar or night club become socially acceptable? Flip-flops use to be worn in public showers to prevent jock itch, but now they are popping up in bars, clubs, and restaurants as evening wear. Flip-flops have replaced popped collars as the calling card of today's douche bag.

Flip-flops were brought to popularity by hippies in the 1970's. Hippies also popularized many other cultural phenoms such as B.O. and venereal disease, so clearly they are trend setters. Somehow the appeal of wearing a shoe that exposes the dirtiest appendix of one's body has not only resurfaced but somehow become fashionable.

Is there anything dirtier than a person's foot? Even your ass gets wiped a couple of times a day. Aren't shoes what separate us from animals? When you are wearing flip-flops at a night club you might as well take a Hershey squirt in your hand and hurl it at passers-by because you are pretty much a primate. Even homeless people wear shoes and they shit on the sidewalk.

Guys mainly wear flip-flops when they go out because someone did it in 2006 and got laid. Therefore, by male reasoning, anyone can wear flip-flops to the club and get laid too. If there was a guy at a club with a dildo strapped to his forehead, but surrounded by hot chicks, chances are you'd see three or four dildo clad men the following week. It's a sickness.

Women could easily end the causal relationship between flip-flops and sport sex by raising their standards, but as long as bars still sell Jager it is unlikely that will ever happen.

The flip-flop epidemic will unlikely be resolved by me pointing out what a ridiculous and asinine idea it is, but maybe we can at least establish some guidelines:

If your toe nails are the color of French's mustard they need to be covered.
If there's enough residue under your toe nails to make homemade blue cheese dressing you may want to consider a closed toe shoe.
If your toes have more hair than your balls, it's time to cover them up.

As long as there are frat boys, there will be stupid fads. Flip-flops in bars and night clubs is yet another sign that the "Apocalypse of Douche" is upon us.

-The Mormon

A slightly improved version of the infamous Obama poster

2009-08-05T11:07:00.004-04:00

Just my feeble attempt at art. Thank you, thank you no applause necessary.

The A

A MUST READ FOR ALL FREE THINKING PEOPLE

2009-08-03T13:01:00.003-04:00

Islam 101

by Gregory M. Davis
author, Religion of Peace? Islam's War Against the World
producer/director, Islam: What the West Needs to Know -- An Examination of Islam, Violence, and the Fate of the Non-Muslim World

Islam 101 is meant to help people become better educated about the fundamentals of Islam and to help the more knowledgeable better convey the facts to others. Similarly, my book and documentary are meant to serve as concise explanations of the major moving parts of Islam and their implications for Western society. Islam 101 is a condensation of the book and documentary with the aim of lending clarity to the public understanding of Islam and of exposing the inadequacy of prevailing views. All should feel free to distribute and/or reproduce it.

Table of Contents

1) The Basics

a) The Five Pillars of Islam
b) The Quran -- the Book of Allah
c) The Sunnah -- the "Way" of the Prophet Muhammad
i. Battle of Badr
ii. Battle of Uhud
iii. Battle of Medina
iv. Conquest of Mecca
d) Sharia Law

2) Jihad and Dhimmitude

a) What does "jihad" mean?
b) Muslim Scholar Hasan Al-Banna on jihad
c) Dar al-Islam and dar al-harb: the House of Islam and the House of War
i) Taqiyya -- Religious Deception
d) Jihad Through History
i) The First Major Wave of Jihad: the Arabs, 622-750 AD
ii) The Second Major Wave of Jihad: the Turks, 1071-1683 AD
e) The Dhimma
f) Jihad in the Modern Era

3) Conclusion

4) Frequently Asked Questions

a) What about the Crusades?
b) If Islam is violent, why are so many Muslims peaceful?
c) What about the violent passages in the Bible?
d) Could an Islamic "Reformation" pacify Islam?
e) What about the history of Western colonialism in the Islamic world?
f) How can a violent political ideology be the second-largest and fastest-growing religion on earth?
g) Is it fair to paint all Islamic schools of thought as violent?
h) What about the great achievements of Islamic civilization?

5) Glossary of Terms

6) Further Resources

1. The Basics

a. The Five Pillars of Islam

The five pillars of Islam constitute the most basic tenets of the religion. They are:

1. Faith (iman) in the oneness of Allah and the finality of the prophethood of Muhammad (indicated by the declaration [the Shahadah] that, "There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah").
2. Keeping of the five scheduled daily prayers (salah).

3. Almsgiving (zakat).

4. Fasting (sawm).

5. Pilgrimage (hajj) to Mecca for those who are able.

The five pillars in and of themselves do not tell us a lot about the faith or what a Muslim is supposed to believe or how he should act. The second through fifth pillars -- prayer, almsgiving, fasting, pilgrimage -- are aspects shared by many religions. The finality of the prophethood of Muhammad, however, is unique to Islam. To understand Islam and what it means to be a Muslim, we must come to understand Muhammad as well as the revelations given through him by Allah, which make up the Quran.

b. The Quran -- the Book of Allah

According to Islamic teaching, the Quran came down as a series of revelations from Allah through the Archangel Gabriel to the Prophet Muhammad, who then dictated it to his followers. Muhammad's companions memorized fragments of the Quran and wrote them down on whatever was at hand, which were later compiled into book form under the rule of the third Caliph, Uthman, some years after Muhammad's death.

The Quran is about as long as the Christian New Testament. It comprises 114 suras (not to be confused with the Sira, which refers to the life of the Prophet) of varying lengths, which may be considered chapters. According to Islamic doctrine, it was around 610 AD in a cave near the city of Mecca (now in southwest Saudi Arabia) that Muhammad received the first revelation from Allah by way of the Archangel Gabriel. The revelation merely commanded Muhammad to "recite" or "read" (Sura 96); the words he was instructed to utter were not his own but Allah's. Over the next twelve or so years in Mecca, other revelations came to Muhammad that constituted a message to the inhabitants of the city to forsake their pagan ways and turn in worship to the one Allah.

While in Mecca, though he condemned paganism (for the most part), Muhammad showed great respect for the monotheism of the Christian and Jewish inhabitants. Indeed, the Allah of the Quran claimed to be the same God worshipped by Jews and Christians, who now revealed himself to the Arab people through his chosen messenger, Muhammad. It is the Quranic revelations that came later in Muhammad's career, after he and the first Muslims left Mecca for the city of Medina, that transformed Islam from a relatively benign form of monotheism into an expansionary, military-political ideology that persists to this day.

Orthodox Islam does not accept that a rendering of the Quran into another language is a "translation" in the way that, say, the King James Bible is a translation of the original Hebrew and Greek Scriptures. A point often made by Islamic apologists to defang criticism is that only Arabic readers may understand the Quran. But Arabic is a language like any other and fully capable of translation. Indeed, most Muslims are not Arabic readers. In the below analysis, we use a translation of the Quran by two Muslim scholars, which may be found here. All parenthetical explanations in the text are those of the translators save for my interjections in braces, { }.

Those Westerners who manage to pick up a translation of the Quran are often left bewildered as to its meaning thanks to ignorance of a critically important principle of Quranic interpretation known as "abrogation." The principle of abrogation -- al-naskh wa al-mansukh (the abrogating and the abrogated) -- directs that verses revealed later in Muhammad's career "abrogate" -- i.e., cancel and replace -- earlier ones whose instructions they may contradict. Thus, passages revealed later in Muhammad's career, in Medina, overrule passages revealed earlier, in Mecca. The Quran itself lays out the principle of abrogation:

2:106. Whatever a Verse (revelation) do We {Allah} abrogate or cause to be forgotten, We bring a better one or similar to it. Know you not that Allah is able to do all things?

It seems that 2:106 was revealed in response to skepticism directed at Muhammad that Allah's revelations were not entirely consistent over time. Muhammad's rebuttal was that "Allah is able to do all things" -- even change his mind. To confuse matters further, though the Quran was revealed to Muhammad sequentially over some twenty years' time, it was not compiled in chronological order. When the Quran was finally collated into book form under Caliph Uthman, the suras were ordered from longest to shortest with no connection whatever to the order in which they were revealed or to their thematic content. In order to find out what the Quran says on a given topic, it is necessary to examine the other Islamic sources that give clues as to when in Muhammad's lifetime the revelations occurred. Upon such examination, one discovers that the Meccan suras, revealed at a time when the Muslims were vulnerable, are generally benign; the later Medinan suras, revealed after Muhammad had made himself the head of an army, are bellicose.

Let us take, for example, 50:45 and Sura 109, both revealed in Mecca:

50:45. We know of best what they say; and you (O Muhammad) are not a tyrant over them (to force them to Belief). But warn by the Qur'an, him who fears My Threat.
109:1. Say (O Muhammad to these Mushrikun and Kafirun): "O Al-Kafirun (disbelievers in Allah, in His Oneness, in His Angels, in His Books, in His Messengers, in the Day of Resurrection, and in Al-Qadar {divine foreordainment and sustaining of all things}, etc.)!
109:2. "I worship not that which you worship,
109:3. "Nor will you worship that which I worship.
109:4. "And I shall not worship that which you are worshipping.
109:5. "Nor will you worship that which I worship.
109:6. "To you be your religion, and to me my religion (Islamic Monotheism)."

Then there is this passage revealed just after the Muslims reached Medina and were still vulnerable:

2:256. There is no compulsion in religion. Verily, the Right Path has become distinct from the wrong path. Whoever disbelieves in Taghut {idolatry} and believes in Allah, then he has grasped the most trustworthy handhold that will never break. And Allah is All-Hearer, All-Knower.

In contrast, take 9:5, commonly referred to as the "Verse of the Sword", revealed toward the end of Muhammad's life:

9:5. Then when the Sacred Months (the 1st, 7th, 11th, and 12th months of the Islamic calendar) have passed, then kill the Mushrikun {unbelievers} wherever you find them, and capture them and besiege them, and prepare for them each and every ambush. But if they repent and perform As-Salat (Iqamat-as-Salat {the Islamic ritual prayers}), and give Zakat {alms}, then leave their way free. Verily, Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.

Having been revealed later in Muhammad?s life than 50:45, 109, and 2:256, the Verse of the Sword abrogates their peaceful injunctions in accordance with 2:106. Sura 8, revealed shortly before Sura 9, reveals a similar theme:

8:39. And fight them until there is no more Fitnah (disbelief and polytheism: i.e. worshipping others besides Allah) and the religion (worship) will all be for Allah Alone [in the whole of the world]. But if they cease (worshipping others besides Allah), then certainly, Allah is All-Seer of what they do.
8:67. It is not for a Prophet that he should have prisoners of war (and free them with ransom) until he had made a great slaughter (among his enemies) in the land. You desire the good of this world (i.e. the money of ransom for freeing the captives), but Allah desires (for you) the Hereafter. And Allah is All-Mighty, All-Wise.

9:29. Fight against those who believe not in Allah, nor in the Last Day, nor forbid that which has been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger and those who acknowledge not the religion of truth (i.e. Islam) among the people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians), until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.

9:33. It is He {Allah} Who has sent His Messenger (Muhammad) with guidance and the religion of truth (Islam), to make it superior over all religions even though the Mushrikun (polytheists, pagans, idolaters, disbelievers in the Oneness of Allah) hate (it).

The Quran's commandments to Muslims to wage war in the name of Allah against non-Muslims are unmistakable. They are, furthermore, absolutely authoritative as they were revealed late in the Prophet's career and so cancel and replace earlier instructions to act peaceably. Without knowledge of the principle of abrogation, Westerners will continue to misread the Quran and misdiagnose Islam as a "religion of peace."

c. The Sunnah -- the "Way" of the Prophet Muhammad

In Islam, Muhammad is considered al-insan al-kamil (the "ideal man"). Muhammad is in no way considered divine, nor is he worshipped (no image of Muhammad is permitted lest it encourage idolatry), but he is the model par excellence for all Muslims in how they should conduct themselves. It is through Muhammad's personal teachings and actions -- which make up the "way of the Prophet," the Sunnah -- that Muslims discern what is a good and holy life. Details about the Prophet -- how he lived, what he did, his non-Quranic utterances, his personal habits -- are indispensable knowledge for any faithful Muslim.

Knowledge of the Sunnah comes primarily from the hadiths ("reports") about Muhammad's life, which were passed down orally until codified in the eighth century AD, some hundred years after Muhammad's death. The hadiths comprise the most important body of Islamic texts after the Quran; they are basically a collection of anecdotes about Muhammad's life believed to have originated with those who knew him personally. There are thousands upon thousands of hadiths, some running to multiple pages, some barely a few lines in length. When the hadiths were first compiled in the eighth century AD, it became obvious that many were inauthentic. The early Muslim scholars of hadith spent tremendous labor trying to determine which hadiths were authoritative and which were suspect.

The hadiths here come exclusively from the most reliable and authoritative collection, Sahih Al-Bukhari, recognized as sound by all schools of Islamic scholarship, translated by a Muslim scholar and which may be found here. Different translations of hadiths can vary in their breakdown of volume, book, and number, but the content is the same. For each hadith, the classifying information is listed first, then the name of the originator of the hadith (generally someone who knew Muhammad personally), and then the content itself. While the absolute authenticity of even a sound hadith is hardly assured, they are nonetheless accepted as authoritative within an Islamic context.

Because Muhammad is himself the measuring stick of morality, his actions are not judged according to an independent moral standard but rather establish what the standard for Muslims properly is.

Volume 7, Book 62, Number 88; Narrated Ursa: The Prophet wrote the (marriage contract) with Aisha while she was six years old and consummated his marriage with her while she was nine years old and she remained with him for nine years (i.e. till his death).
Volume 8, Book 82, Number 795; Narrated Anas: The Prophet cut off the hands and feet of the men belonging to the tribe of Uraina and did not cauterise (their bleeding limbs) till they died.

Volume 2, Book 23, Number 413; Narrated Abdullah bin Umar: The Jews {of Medina} brought to the Prophet a man and a woman from amongst them who have committed (adultery) illegal sexual intercourse. He ordered both of them to be stoned (to death), near the place of offering the funeral prayers beside the mosque.

Volume 9, Book 84, Number 57; Narrated Ikrima: Some Zanadiqa (atheists) were brought to Ali {the fourth Caliph} and he burnt them. The news of this event, reached Ibn 'Abbas who said, "If I had been in his place, I would not have burnt them, as Allah's Apostle forbade it, saying, "Do not punish anybody with Allah's punishment (fire)." I would have killed them according to the statement of Allah's Apostle, "Whoever changes his Islamic religion, then kill him."

Volume 1, Book 2, Number 25; Narrated Abu Huraira: Allah's Apostle was asked, "What is the best deed?" He replied, "To believe in Allah and His Apostle (Muhammad). The questioner then asked, "What is the next (in goodness)?" He replied, "To participate in Jihad (religious fighting) in Allah's Cause."

In Islam, there is no "natural" sense of morality or justice that transcends the specific examples and injunctions outlined in the Quran and the Sunnah. Because Muhammad is considered Allah's final prophet and the Quran the eternal, unalterable words of Allah himself, there is also no evolving morality that permits the modification or integration of Islamic morality with that from other sources. The entire Islamic moral universe devolves solely from the life and teachings of Muhammad.

Along with the reliable hadiths, a further source of accepted knowledge about Muhammad comes from the Sira (life) of the Prophet, composed by one of Islam's great scholars, Muhammad bin Ishaq, in the eighth century AD.

Muhammad's prophetic career is meaningfully divided into two segments: the first in Mecca, where he labored for fourteen years to make converts to Islam; and later in the city of Medina (The City of the Apostle of God), where he became a powerful political and military leader. In Mecca, we see a quasi-Biblical figure, preaching repentance and charity, harassed and rejected by those around him; later, in Medina, we see an able commander and strategist who systematically conquered and killed those who opposed him. It is the later years of Muhammad's life, from 622 AD to his death in 632, that are rarely broached in polite company. In 622, when the Prophet was better than fifty years old, he and his followers made the Hijra (emigration or flight), from Mecca to the oasis of Yathrib -- later renamed Medina -- some 200 miles to the north. Muhammad's new monotheism had angered the pagan leaders of Mecca, and the flight to Medina was precipitated by a probable attempt on Muhammad's life. Muhammad had sent emissaries to Medina to ensure his welcome. He was accepted by the Medinan tribes as the leader of the Muslims and as arbiter of inter-tribal disputes.

Shortly before Muhammad fled the hostility of Mecca, a new batch of Muslim converts pledged their loyalty to him on a hill outside Mecca called Aqaba. Ishaq here conveys in the Sira the significance of this event:

Sira, p208: When God gave permission to his Apostle to fight, the second {oath of allegiance at} Aqaba contained conditions involving war which were not in the first act of fealty. Now they {Muhammad's followers} bound themselves to war against all and sundry for God and his Apostle, while he promised them for faithful service thus the reward of paradise.

That Muhammad's nascent religion underwent a significant change at this point is plain. The scholarly Ishaq clearly intends to impress on his (Muslim) readers that, while in its early years, Islam was a relatively tolerant creed that would "endure insult and forgive the ignorant," Allah soon required Muslims "to war against all and sundry for God and his Apostle." The Islamic calendar testifies to the paramouncy of the Hijra by setting year one from the date of its occurrence. The year of the Hijra, 622 AD, is considered more significant than the year of Muhammad's birth or death or that of the first Quranic revelation because Islam is first and foremost a political-military enterprise. It was only when Muhammad left Mecca with his paramilitary band that Islam achieved its proper political-military articulation. The years of the Islamic calendar (which employs lunar months) are designated in English "AH" or "After Hijra."

i. The Battle of Badr

The Battle of Badr was the first significant engagement fought by the Prophet. Upon establishing himself in Medina following the Hijra, Muhammad began a series of razzias (raids) on caravans of the Meccan Quraish tribe on the route to Syria.

Volume 5, Book 59, Number 287; Narrated Kab bin Malik: The Apostle had gone out to meet the caravans of Quraish, but Allah caused them (i.e. Muslims) to meet their enemy unexpectedly (with no previous intention).
Volume 5, Book 59, Number 289; Narrated Ibn Abbas: On the day of the battle of Badr, the Prophet said, "O Allah! I appeal to You (to fulfill) Your Covenant and Promise. O Allah! If Your Will is that none should worship You (then give victory to the pagans)." Then Abu Bakr took hold of him by the hand and said, "This is sufficient for you." The Prophet came out saying, "Their multitude will be put to flight and they will show their backs." (54:45)

Having returned to Medina after the battle, Muhammad admonished the resident Jewish tribe of Qaynuqa to accept Islam or face a similar fate as the Quraish (3:12-13). The Qaynuqa agreed to leave Medina if they could retain their property, which Muhammad granted. Following the exile of the Bani Qaynuqa, Muhammad turned to individuals in Medina he considered to have acted treacherously. The Prophet particularly seems to have disliked the many poets who ridiculed his new religion and his claim to prophethood -- a theme evident today in the violent reactions of Muslims to any perceived mockery of Islam. In taking action against his opponents, "the ideal man" set precedents for all time as to how Muslims should deal with detractors of their religion.

Sira, p367: Then he {Kab bin al-Ashraf} composed amatory verses of an insulting nature about the Muslim women. The Apostle said: "Who will rid me of Ibnul-Ashraf?" Muhammad bin Maslama, brother of the Bani Abdu'l-Ashhal, said, "I will deal with him for you, O Apostle of God, I will kill him." He said, "Do so if you can." "All that is incumbent upon you is that you should try" {said the Prophet to Muhammad bin Maslama}. He said, "O Apostle of God, we shall have to tell lies." He {the Prophet} answered, "Say what you like, for you are free in the matter."
Volume 4, Book 52, Number 270; Narrated Jabir bin 'Abdullah: The Prophet said, "Who is ready to kill Kab bin Al-Ashraf who has really hurt Allah and His Apostle?" Muhammad bin Maslama said, "O Allah's Apostle! Do you like me to kill him?" He replied in the affirmative. So, Muhammad bin Maslama went to him (i.e. Kab) and said, "This person (i.e. the Prophet) has put us to task and asked us for charity." Kab replied, "By Allah, you will get tired of him." Muhammad said to him, "We have followed him, so we dislike to leave him till we see the end of his affair." Muhammad bin Maslama went on talking to him in this way till he got the chance to kill him.

A significant portion of the Sira is devoted to poetry composed by Muhammad's followers and his enemies in rhetorical duels that mirrored those in the field. There seems to have been an informal competition in aggrandizing oneself, one's tribe, and one's God while ridiculing one's adversary in eloquent and memorable ways. Kab bin Malik, one of the assassins of his brother, Kab bin al-Ashraf, composed the following:

Sira, p368: Kab bin Malik said: Of them Kab was left prostrate there (After his fall {the Jewish tribe of} al-Nadir were brought low). Sword in hand we cut him down By Muhammad's order when he sent secretly by night Kab's brother to go to Kab. He beguiled him and brought him down with guile Mahmud was trustworthy, bold.

ii. The Battle of Uhud

The Meccan Quraish regrouped for an attack on the Muslims at Medina. Muhammad got wind of the Meccan force coming to attack him and encamped his forces on a small hillock north of Medina named Uhud, where the ensuing battle took place.

Volume 5, Book 59, Number 377; Narrated Jabir bin Abdullah: On the day of the battle of Uhud, a man came to the Prophet and said, "Can you tell me where I will be if I should get martyred?" The Prophet replied, "In Paradise." The man threw away some dates he was carrying in his hand, and fought till he was martyred.
Volume 5, Book 59, Number 375; Narrated Al-Bara: when we faced the enemy, they took to their heel till I saw their women running towards the mountain, lifting up their clothes from their legs, revealing their leg-bangles. The Muslims started saying, "The booty, the booty!" Abdullah bin Jubair said, "The Prophet had taken a firm promise from me not to leave this place." But his companions refused (to stay). So when they refused (to stay there), (Allah) confused them so that they could not know where to go, and they suffered seventy casualties.

Though deprived of victory at Uhud, Muhammad was by no means vanquished. He continued making raids that made being a Muslim not only virtuous in the eyes of Allah but lucrative as well. In an Islamic worldview, there is no incompatibility between wealth, power, and holiness. Indeed, as a member of the true faith, it is only logical that one should also enjoy the material bounty of Allah -- even if that means plundering it from infidels.

As Muhammad had neutralized the Jewish tribe of Bani Qaynuqa after Badr, he now turned to the Bani Nadir after Uhud. According to the Sira, Allah warned Muhammad of an attempt to assassinate him, and the Prophet ordered the Muslims to prepare for war against the Bani Nadir. The Bani Nadir agreed to go into exile if Muhammad permitted them to retain their movable property. Muhammad agreed to these terms save that they leave behind their armor.

iii. The Battle of Medina

In 627 AD, Muhammad faced the greatest challenge to his new community. In that year, the Quraish of Mecca made their most determined attack on the Muslims at Medina itself. Muhammad thought it advisable not to engage them in a pitched battle as at Uhud but took shelter in Medina, protected as it was by lava flows on three sides. The Meccans would have to attack from the northwest in a valley between the flows, and it was there that Muhammad ordered a trench dug for the city's defense.

Volume 4, Book 52, Number 208; Narrated Anas: On the day (of the battle) of the Trench, the Ansar {new converts to Islam} were saying, "We are those who have sworn allegiance to Muhammad for Jihad (for ever) as long as we live." The Prophet replied to them, "O Allah! There is no life except the life of the Hereafter. So honor the Ansar and emigrants {from Mecca} with Your Generosity."
And Narrated Mujashi: My brother and I came to the Prophet and I requested him to take the pledge of allegiance from us for migration. He said, "Migration has passed away with its people." I asked, "For what will you take the pledge of allegiance from us then?" He said, "I will take (the pledge) for Islam and Jihad."

The Meccans were foiled by the trench and only able to send small raiding parties across it. After several days, they turned back for Mecca. Following his victory, Muhammad turned to the third Jewish tribe at Medina, the Bani Quraiza. While the Bani Qaynuqa and Bani Nadir had suffered exile, the fate of the Bani Quraiza would be considerably more dire.

Sira, p463-4: Then they {the tribe of Quraiza} surrendered, and the apostle confined them in Medina in the quarter of d. al-Harith, a woman of Bani al-Najjar. Then the apostle went out to the market of Medina and dug trenches in it. Then he sent for them and struck off their heads in those trenches as they were brought out to him in batches. Among them was the enemy of Allah Huyayy bin Akhtab and Kab bin Asad their chief. There were 600 or 700 in all, though some put the figure as high as 800 or 900. As they were being taken out in batches to the Apostle they asked Kab what he thought would be done with them. He replied, "Will you never understand? Don't you see that the summoner never stops and those who are taken away do not return? By Allah it is death!" This went on until the Apostle made an end of them.

Thus do we find the clear precedent that explains the peculiar penchant of Islamic terrorists to behead their victims: it is merely another precedent bestowed by their Prophet.

Following yet another of the Muslims' raids, this time on a place called Khaibar, "The women of Khaibar were distributed among the Muslims" as was usual practice. (Sira, p511) The raid at Khaibar had been against the Bani Nadir, whom Muhammad had earlier exiled from Medina.

Sira, p515: Kinana bin al-Rabi, who had the custody of the treasure of Bani al-Nadir, was brought to the Apostle who asked him about it. He denied that he knew where it was. A Jew came to the Apostle and said that he had seen Kinana going round a certain ruin every morning early. When the Apostle said to Kinana, "Do you know that if we find you have it I shall kill you?" he said, Yes. The Apostle gave orders that the ruin was to be excavated and some of the treasure was found. When he asked him about the rest he refused to produce it, so the Apostle gave orders to al-Zubayr bin al-Awwam, "Torture him until you extract what he has," so he kindled a fire with flint and steel on his chest until he was nearly dead. Then the Apostle delivered him to Muhammad bin Maslama and he struck off his head, in revenge for his brother Mahmud.

iv. The Conquest of Mecca

Muhammad's greatest victory came in 632 AD, ten years after he and his followers had been forced to flee to Medina. In that year, he assembled a force of some ten thousand Muslims and allied tribes and descended on Mecca. "The Apostle had instructed his commanders when they entered Mecca only to fight those who resisted them, except a small number who were to be killed even if they were found beneath the curtains of the Kaba." (Sira, p550)

Volume 3, Book 29, Number 72; Narrated Anas bin Malik: Allah's Apostle entered Mecca in the year of its Conquest wearing an Arabian helmet on his head and when the Prophet took it off, a person came and said, "Ibn Khatal is holding the covering of the Kaba (taking refuge in the Kaba)." The Prophet said, "Kill him."

Following the conquest of Mecca, Muhammad outlined the future of his religion.

Volume 4, Book 52, Number 177; Narrated Abu Huraira: Allah's Apostle said, "The Hour {of the Last Judgment} will not be established until you fight with the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say. "O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him."
Volume 1, Book 2, Number 24; Narrated Ibn Umar: Allah's Apostle said: "I have been ordered (by Allah) to fight against the people until they testify that none has the right to be worshipped but Allah and that Muhammad is Allah's Apostle, and offer the prayers perfectly and give the obligatory charity, so if they perform that, then they save their lives and property from me except for Islamic laws and then their reckoning (accounts) will be done by Allah."

It is from such warlike pronouncements as these that Islamic scholarship divides the world into dar al-Islam (the House of Islam, i.e., those nations who have submitted to Allah) and dar al-harb (the House of War, i.e., those who have not). It is this dispensation that the world lived under in Muhammad's time and that it lives under today. Then as now, Islam's message to the unbelieving world is the same: submit or be conquered.

d. Sharia Law

Unlike many religions, Islam includes a mandatory and highly specific legal and political plan for society called Sharia (pronounced "sha-rï¿½e-uh"), which translates approximately as "way" or "path." The precepts of Sharia are derived from the commandments of the Quran and the Sunnah (the teachings and precedents of Muhammad as found in the reliable hadiths and the Sira). Together, the Quran and the Sunnah establish the dictates of Sharia, which is the blueprint for the good Islamic society. Because Sharia originates with the Quran and the Sunnah, it is not optional. Sharia is the legal code ordained by Allah for all mankind. To violate Sharia or not to accept its authority is to commit rebellion against Allah, which Allah's faithful are required to combat.

There is no separation between the religious and the political in Islam; rather Islam and Sharia constitute a comprehensive means of ordering society at every level. While it is in theory possible for an Islamic society to have different outward forms -- an elective system of government, a hereditary monarchy, etc. -- whatever the outward structure of the government, Sharia is the prescribed content. It is this fact that puts Sharia into conflict with forms of government based on anything other than the Quran and the Sunnah.

The precepts of Sharia may be divided into two parts:

1. Acts of worship (al-ibadat), which includes:
Ritual Purification (Wudu)
Prayers (Salah)
Fasts (Sawm and Ramadan)
Charity (Zakat)
Pilgrimage to Mecca (Hajj)

2. Human interaction (al-muamalat), which includes:

Financial transactions
Endowments
Laws of inheritance
Marriage, divorce, and child care
Food and drink (including ritual slaughtering and hunting)
Penal punishments
War and peace
Judicial matters (including witnesses and forms of evidence)

As one may see, there are few aspects of life that Sharia does not specifically govern. Everything from washing one's hands to child-rearing to taxation to military policy fall under its dictates. Because Sharia is derivate of the Quran and the Sunnah, it affords some room for interpretation. But upon examination of the Islamic sources (see above), it is apparent that any meaningful application of Sharia is going to look very different from anything resembling a free or open society in the Western sense. The stoning of adulterers, execution of apostates and blasphemers, repression of other religions, and a mandatory hostility toward non-Islamic nations punctuated by regular warfare will be the norm. It seems fair then to classify Islam and its Sharia code as a form of totalitarianism.

2. Jihad and Dhimmitude

a. What does "jihad" mean?

Jihad literally translates as "struggle." Strictly speaking, jihad does not mean "holy war" as Muslim apologists often point out. However, the question remains as to what sort of "struggle" is meant: an inner, spiritual struggle against the passions, or an outward, physical struggle.

As in any case of trying to determine Islamic teaching on a particular matter, one must look to the Quran and the Sunnah. From those sources (see above) it is evident that a Muslim is required to struggle against a variety of things: laziness in prayer, neglecting to give zakat (alms), etc. But is it also plain that a Muslim is commanded to struggle in physical combat against the infidel as well. Muhammad's impressive military career attests to the central role that military action plays in Islam.

b. Hasan Al-Banna on jihad

Below are excerpts from Hasan Al-Banna's treatise, Jihad. In 1928, Al-Banna founded the Muslim Brotherhood, which today is the most powerful organization in Egypt after the government itself. In this treatise, Al-Banna cogently argues that Muslims must take up arms against unbelievers. As he says, "The verses of the Qur'an and the Sunnah summon people in general (with the most eloquent expression and the clearest exposition) to jihad, to warfare, to the armed forces, and all means of land and sea fighting."

All Muslims Must Make Jihad
Jihad is an obligation from Allah on every Muslim and cannot be ignored nor evaded. Allah has ascribed great importance to jihad and has made the reward of the martyrs and the fighters in His way a splendid one. Only those who have acted similarly and who have modeled themselves upon the martyrs in their performance of jihad can join them in this reward. Furthermore, Allah has specifically honoured the Mujahideen {those who wage jihad} with certain exceptional qualities, both spiritual and practical, to benefit them in this world and the next. Their pure blood is a symbol of victory in this world and the mark of success and felicity in the world to come.

Those who can only find excuses, however, have been warned of extremely dreadful punishments and Allah has described them with the most unfortunate of names. He has reprimanded them for their cowardice and lack of spirit, and castigated them for their weakness and truancy. In this world, they will be surrounded by dishonour and in the next they will be surrounded by the fire from which they shall not escape though they may possess much wealth. The weaknesses of abstention and evasion of jihad are regarded by Allah as one of the major sins, and one of the seven sins that guarantee failure.

Islam is concerned with the question of jihad and the drafting and the mobilisation of the entire Umma {the global Muslim community} into one body to defend the right cause with all its strength than any other ancient or modern system of living, whether religious or civil. The verses of the Qur'an and the Sunnah of Muhammad (PBUH {Peace Be Unto Him}) are overflowing with all these noble ideals and they summon people in general (with the most eloquent expression and the clearest exposition) to jihad, to warfare, to the armed forces, and all means of land and sea fighting.

Here Al-Banna offers citations from the Quran and the reliable hadiths that demonstrate the necessity of combat for Muslims. The citations are comparable to those included in Islam 101 section 1b and are here omitted.

The Scholars on Jihad
I have just presented to you some verses from the Qur'an and the Noble Ahadith concerning the importance of jihad. Now I would like to present to you some of the opinions from jurisprudence of the Islamic Schools of Thought including some latter day authorities regarding the rules of jihad and the necessity for preparedness. From this we will come to realise how far the ummah has deviated in its practice of Islam as can be seen from the consensus of its scholars on the question of jihad.

The author of the 'Majma' al-Anhar fi Sharh Multaqal-Abhar', in describing the rules of jihad according to the Hanafi School, said: 'Jihad linguistically means to exert one's utmost effort in word and action; in the Sharee'ah {Sharia -- Islamic law} it is the fighting of the unbelievers, and involves all possible efforts that are necessary to dismantle the power of the enemies of Islam including beating them, plundering their wealth, destroying their places of worship and smashing their idols. This means that jihad is to strive to the utmost to ensure the strength of Islam by such means as fighting those who fight you and the dhimmies {non-Muslims living under Islamic rule} (if they violate any of the terms of the treaty) and the apostates (who are the worst of unbelievers, for they disbelieved after they have affirmed their belief).

It is fard (obligatory) on us to fight with the enemies. The Imam must send a military expedition to the Dar-al-Harb {House of War -- the non-Muslim world} every year at least once or twice, and the people must support him in this. If some of the people fulfill the obligation, the remainder are released from the obligation. If this fard kifayah (communal obligation) cannot be fulfilled by that group, then the responsibility lies with the closest adjacent group, and then the closest after that etc., and if the fard kifayah cannot be fulfilled except by all the people, it then becomes a fard 'ayn (individual obligation), like prayer on everyone of the people.

The scholarly people are of one opinion on this matter as should be evident and this is irrespective of whether these scholars were Mujtahideen or Muqalideen and it is irrespective of whether these scholars were salaf (early) or khalaf (late). They all agreed unanimously that jihad is a fard kifayah imposed upon the Islamic ummah in order to spread the Da'wah of Islam, and that jihad is a fard 'ayn if an enemy attacks Muslim lands. Today, my brother, the Muslims as you know are forced to be subservient before others and are ruled by disbelievers. Our lands have been besieged, and our hurruma'at (personal possessions, respect, honour, dignity and privacy) violated. Our enemies are overlooking our affairs, and the rites of our din are under their jurisdiction. Yet still the Muslims fail to fulfill the responsibility of Da'wah that is on their shoulders. Hence in this situation it becomes the duty of each and every Muslim to make jihad. He should prepare himself mentally and physically such that when comes the decision of Allah, he will be ready.

I should not finish this discussion without mentioning to you that the Muslims, throughout every period of their history (before the present period of oppression in which their dignity has been lost) have never abandoned jihad nor did they ever become negligent in its performance, not even their religious authorities, mystics, craftsmen, etc. They were all always ready and prepared. For example, Abdullah ibn al Mubarak, a very learned and pious man, was a volunteer in jihad for most of his life, and 'Abdulwahid bin Zayd, a sufi and a devout man, was the same. And in his time, Shaqiq al Balkhi, the shaykh of the sufis encouraged his pupils towards jihad.

Associated Matters Concerning Jihad

Many Muslims today mistakenly believe that fighting the enemy is jihad asghar (a lesser jihad) and that fighting one's ego is jihad akbar (a greater jihad). The following narration [athar] is quoted as proof: "We have returned from the lesser jihad to embark on the greater jihad." They said: "What is the greater jihad?" He said: "The jihad of the heart, or the jihad against one's ego."

This narration is used by some to lessen the importance of fighting, to discourage any preparation for combat, and to deter any offering of jihad in Allah's way. This narration is not a saheeh (sound) tradition: The prominent muhaddith Al Hafiz ibn Hajar al-Asqalani said in the Tasdid al-Qaws:

'It is well known and often repeated, and was a saying of Ibrahim ibn 'Abla.'

Al Hafiz Al Iraqi said in the Takhrij Ahadith al-Ahya':

'Al Bayhaqi transmitted it with a weak chain of narrators on the authority of Jabir, and Al Khatib transmitted it in his history on the authority of Jabir.'

Nevertheless, even if it were a sound tradition, it would never warrant abandoning jihad or preparing for it in order to rescue the territories of the Muslims and repel the attacks of the disbelievers. Let it be known that this narration simply emphasises the importance of struggling against one's ego so that Allah will be the sole purpose of everyone of our actions.

Other associated matters concerning jihad include commanding the good and forbidding the evil. It is said in the Hadeeth: "One of the greatest forms of jihad is to utter a word of truth in the presence of a tyrannical ruler." But nothing compares to the honour of shahadah kubra (the supreme martyrdom) or the reward that is waiting for the Mujahideen.

Epilogue

My brothers! The ummah that knows how to die a noble and honourable death is granted an exalted life in this world and eternal felicity in the next. Degradation and dishonour are the results of the love of this world and the fear of death. Therefore prepare for jihad and be the lovers of death. Life itself shall come searching after you.

My brothers, you should know that one day you will face death and this ominous event can only occur once. If you suffer on this occasion in the way of Allah, it will be to your benefit in this world and your reward in the next. And remember brother that nothing can happen without the Will of Allah: ponder well what Allah, the Blessed, the Almighty, has said:

'Then after the distress, He sent down security for you. Slumber overtook a party of you, while another party was thinking about themselves (as to how to save themselves, ignoring the others and the Prophet) and thought wrongly of Allah - the thought of ignorance. They said, "Have we any part in the affair?" Say you (O Muhammad): "Indeed the affair belongs wholly to Allah." They hide within themselves what they dare not reveal to you, saying: "If we had anything to do with the affair, none of us would have been killed here." Say: "Even if you had remained in your homes, those for whom death was decreed would certainly have gone forth to the place of their death: but that Allah might test what is in your hearts; and to purify that which was in your hearts (sins), and Allah is All-Knower of what is in (your) hearts."' {Sura 3:154}

c. Dar al-Islam and dar al-harb: the House of Islam and the House of War

The violent injunctions of the Quran and the violent precedents set by Muhammad set the tone for the Islamic view of politics and of world history. Islamic scholarship divides the world into two spheres of influence, the House of Islam (dar al-Islam) and the House of War (dar al-harb). Islam means submission, and so the House of Islam includes those nations that have submitted to Islamic rule, which is to say those nations ruled by Sharia law. The rest of the world, which has not accepted Sharia law and so is not in a state of submission, exists in a state of rebellion or war with the will of Allah. It is incumbent on dar al-Islam to make war upon dar al-harb until such time that all nations submit to the will of Allah and accept Sharia law. Islam's message to the non-Muslim world is the same now as it was in the time of Muhammad and throughout history: submit or be conquered. The only times since Muhammad when dar al-Islam was not actively at war with dar al-harb were when the Muslim world was too weak or divided to make war effectively.

But the lulls in the ongoing war that the House of Islam has declared against the House of War do not indicate a forsaking of jihad as a principle but reflect a change in strategic factors. It is acceptable for Muslim nations to declare hudna, or truce, at times when the infidel nations are too powerful for open warfare to make sense. Jihad is not a collective suicide pact even while "killing and being killed" (Sura 9:111) is encouraged on an individual level. For the past few hundred years, the Muslim world has been too politically fragmented and technologically inferior to pose a major threat to the West. But that is changing.

i. Taqiyya -- Religious Deception

Due to the state of war between dar al-Islam and dar al-harb, reuses de guerre, i.e., systematic lying to the infidel, must be considered part and parcel of Islamic tactics. The parroting by Muslim organizations throughout dar al-harb that "Islam is a religion of peace," or that the origins of Muslim violence lie in the unbalanced psyches of particular individual "fanatics," must be considered as disinformation intended to induce the infidel world to let down its guard. Of course, individual Muslims may genuinely regard their religion as "peaceful" -- but only insofar as they are ignorant of its true teachings, or in the sense of the Egyptian theorist Sayyid Qutb, who posited in his Islam and Universal Peace that true peace would prevail in the world just as soon as Islam had conquered it.

A telling point is that, while Muslims who present their religion as peaceful abound throughout dar al-harb, they are nearly non-existent in dar al-Islam. A Muslim apostate once suggested to me a litmus test for Westerners who believe that Islam is a religion of "peace" and "tolerance": try making that point on a street corner in Ramallah, or Riyadh, or Islamabad, or anywhere in the Muslim world. He assured me you wouldn't live five minutes.

{A} problem concerning law and order {with respect to Muslims in dar al-harb} arises from an ancient Islamic legal principle -- that of taqiyya, a word the root meaning of which is "to remain faithful" but which in effect means "dissimulation." It has full Quranic authority (3:28 and 16:106) and allows the Muslim to conform outwardly to the requirements of unislamic or non-Islamic government, while inwardly "remaining faithful" to whatever he conceives to be proper Islam, while waiting for the tide to turn. (Hiskett, Some to Mecca Turn to Pray, 101.)
Volume 4, Book 52, Number 269; Narrated Jabir bin 'Abdullah: The Prophet said, "War is deceit."

Historically, examples of taqiyya include permission to renounce Islam itself in order to save one's neck or ingratiate oneself with an enemy. It is not hard to see that the implications of taqiyya are insidious in the extreme: they essentially render negotiated settlement -- and, indeed, all veracious communication between dar al-Islam and dar al-harb -- impossible. It should not, however, be surprising that a party to a war should seek to mislead the other about its means and intentions. Jihad Watch's own Hugh Fitzgerald sums up taqiyya and kitman, a related form of deception.

"Taqiyya" is the religiously-sanctioned doctrine, with its origins in Shi'a Islam but now practiced by non-Shi'a as well, of deliberate dissimulation about religious matters that may be undertaken to protect Islam, and the Believers. A related term, of broader application, is "kitman," which is defined as "mental reservation." An example of "Taqiyya" would be the insistence of a Muslim apologist that "of course" there is freedom of conscience in Islam, and then quoting that Qur'anic verse -- "There shall be no compulsion in religion." {2:256} But the impression given will be false, for there has been no mention of the Muslim doctrine of abrogation, or naskh, whereby such an early verse as that about "no compulsion in religion" has been cancelled out by later, far more intolerant and malevolent verses. In any case, history shows that within Islam there is, and always has been, "compulsion in religion" for Muslims, and for non-Muslims.
"Kitman" is close to "taqiyya," but rather than outright dissimulation, it consists in telling only a part of the truth, with "mental reservation" justifying the omission of the rest. One example may suffice. When a Muslim maintains that "jihad" really means "a spiritual struggle," and fails to add that this definition is a recent one in Islam (little more than a century old), he misleads by holding back, and is practicing "kitman." When he adduces, in support of this doubtful proposition, the hadith in which Muhammad, returning home from one of his many battles, is reported to have said (as known from a chain of transmitters, or isnad), that he had returned from "the Lesser Jihad to the Greater Jihad" and does not add what he also knows to be true, that this is a "weak" hadith, regarded by the most-respected muhaddithin as of doubtful authenticity, he is further practicing "kitman."

In times when the greater strength of dar al-harb necessitates that the jihad take an indirect approach, the natural attitude of a Muslim to the infidel world must be one of deception and omission. Revealing frankly the ultimate goal of dar al-Islam to conquer and plunder dar al-harb when the latter holds the military trump cards would be strategic idiocy. Fortunately for the jihadists, most infidels do not understand how one is to read the Quran, nor do they trouble themselves to find out what Muhammad actually did and taught, which makes it easy to give the impression through selective quotations and omissions that "Islam is a religion of peace." Any infidel who wants to believe such fiction will happily persist in his mistake having been cited a handful of Meccan verses and told that Muhammad was a man of great piety and charity. Digging only slightly deeper is sufficient to dispel the falsehood.

d. Jihad Through History

In 622 AD (year one in the Islamic calendar, AH 1), Muhammad abandoned Mecca for the city of Medina (Yathrib) some 200 farther north in the Arabian peninsula. In Medina, Muhammad established a paramilitary organization that would spread his influence and that of his religion throughout Arabia. Because there has never been a separation of the political-military and the religious in Islam, this development was entirely natural by Islamic principles. By the time of his death in 632 AD, Muhammad had extended his control in a series of raids and battles over most of southern Arabia. The conquered populations of these areas either had to submit to Muslim rule and pay a protection tax or convert to Islam.

i. The First Major Wave of Jihad: the Arabs, 622-750 AD

Near the end of his life, Muhammad sent letters to the great empires of the Middle East demanding their submission to his authority. This dispels any notion that the Prophet intended Islam's expansion to stop with Arabia. Indeed, it is only logical that the one true religion, revealed by the final and fullest prophet, should have universal sway. Thus, as Muhammad had fought and subdued the peoples of the Arabian peninsula, his successors Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman, and Ali (known as "the four rightly-guided Caliphs") and other Caliphs fought and subdued the people of the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Europe in the name of Allah.

Volume 4, Book 53, Number 386; Narrated Jubair bin Haiya: Umar {the second Caliph} sent the Muslims to the great countries to fight the pagans. ? When we reached the land of the enemy, the representative of Khosrau {Persia} came out with forty-thousand warriors, and an interpreter got up saying, "Let one of you talk to me!" Al-Mughira replied, ? "Our Prophet, the Messenger of our Lord, has ordered us to fight you till you worship Allah Alone or give Jizya (i.e. tribute); and our Prophet has informed us that our Lord says: "Whoever amongst us is killed (i.e. martyred), shall go to Paradise to lead such a luxurious life as he has never seen, and whoever amongst us remain alive, shall become your master."

Unleashing upon the world the blitzkrieg of its day, Islam rapidly spread into the territories of Byzantium, Persia, and Western Europe in the decades after Muhammad's death. The creaking Byzantine and Persian powers, having battled each other into mutual decline, offered little resistance to this unanticipated onslaught. The Arab Muslim armies charged into the Holy Land, conquered what is now Iraq and Iran, then swept west across North Africa, into Spain, and finally into France. The Muslim offensive was finally halted in the West at the Battle of Poitiers/Tours, not far from Paris, in 732 AD. In the east, the jihad penetrated deep into Central Asia.

As Muhammad had plundered his foes, so his successors also stripped the conquered areas -- incomparably richer both materially and culturally than the desolate sands of Arabia -- of their wealth and manpower. Almost overnight, the more advanced civilizations of the Middle East, North Africa, Persia, and Iberia saw their agriculture, native religions, and populations destroyed or plundered. Save for a handful of walled cities that managed to negotiate conditional surrenders, the catastrophes those lands suffered were very nearly complete.

Bat Ye'or, the leading scholar of Islam's expansion and its treatment of non-Muslims, has provided an inestimable service through the compilation and translation of numerous primary source documents describing centuries of Islamic conquest. She includes these documents in her works on Islamic history and the plight of non-Muslims under Islamic rule. In the history of jihad, the slaughter of civilians, the desecration of churches, and the plundering of the countryside are commonplace. Here is Michael the Syrian's account of the Muslim invasion of Cappodocia (southern Turkey) in 650 AD under Caliph Umar:

… when Muawiya {the Muslim commander} arrived {in Euchaita in Armenia} he ordered all the inhabitants to be put to the sword; he placed guards so that no one escaped. After gathering up all the wealth of the town, they set to torturing the leaders to make them show them things [treasures] that had been hidden. The Taiyaye {Muslim Arabs} led everyone into slavery -- men and women, boys and girls -- and they committed much debauchery in that unfortunate town: they wickedly committed immoralities inside churches. They returned to their country rejoicing. (Michael the Syrian, quoted in Bat Ye'or, The Decline of Eastern Christianity under Islam, 276-7.)

The following description by the Muslim historian, Ibn al-Athir (1160-1233 AD), of razzias (raiding expeditions) in Northern Spain and France in the eighth and ninth centuries AD, conveys nothing but satisfaction at the extent of the destruction wrought upon the infidels, including noncombatants.

In 177 <17>, Hisham, prince of Spain, sent a large army commanded by Abd al-Malik b. Abd al-Wahid b. Mugith into enemy territory, and which made forays as far as Narbonne and Jaranda . This general first attacked Jaranda where there was an elite Frank garrison; he killed the bravest, destroyed the walls and towers of the town and almost managed to seize it. He then marched on to Narbonne, where he repeated the same actions, then, pushing forward, he trampled underfoot the land of the Cerdagne {near Andorra in the Pyrenees}. For several months he traversed this land in every direction, raping women, killing warriors, destroying fortresses, burning and pillaging everything, driving back the enemy who fled in disorder. He returned safe and sound, dragging behind him God alone knows how much booty. This is one of the most famous expeditions of the Muslims in Spain. In 223 <2>, Abd ar-Rahman b. al Hakam, sovereign of Spain, sent an army against Alava; it encamped near Hisn al-Gharat, which it besieged; it seized the booty that was found there, killed the inhabitants and withdrew, carrying off women and children as captives. In 231 <6>, a Muslim army advanced into Galicia on the territory of the infidels, where it pillaged and massacred everyone. In 246 <27>, Muhammad b. Abd ar-Rahman advanced with many troops and a large military apparatus against the region of Pamplona. He reduced, ruined and ravaged this territory, where he pillaged and sowed death. (Ibn al-Athir, Annals, quoted in Bat Ye'or, The Decline of Eastern Christianity under Islam, 281-2.)

This first wave of jihad engulfed much of the Byzantine, Visigothic, Frankish, and Persian Empires and left the newborn Islamic Empire controlling territory from Southern France, south through Spain, east across North Africa to India, and north to Russia. Early in the second millennium AD, the Mongol invasion from the east greatly weakened the Islamic Empire and ended Arab predominance therein.

ii. The Second Major Wave of Jihad: the Turks, 1071-1683 AD

Some twenty-five years before the first Crusading army set out from central Europe for the Holy Land, the Turkish (Ottoman) armies began an assault on the Christian Byzantine Empire, which had ruled what is now Turkey since the Roman Empire's capital was moved to Constantinople in 325 AD. At the battle of Manzikert, in 1071, the Christian forces suffered a disastrous defeat, which left much of Anatolia (Turkey) open to invasion. This second wave of jihad was temporarily held up by the invading Latin Armies during the Crusades (see Islam 101 FAQs), but, by the beginning of the 14th century, the Turks were threatening Constantinople and Europe itself.

In the West, Roman Catholic armies were bit by bit forcing Muslim forces down the Iberian peninsula, until, in 1492, they were definitively expelled (the Reconquista). In Eastern Europe, however, Islam continued in the ascendant. One of the most significant engagements between the invading Muslims and the indigenous peoples of the region was the Battle of Kosovo in 1389, where the Turks annihilated a multinational army under the Serbian King, St. Lazar, though their progress into Europe was significantly slowed. After numerous attempts dating back to the seventh century, Constantinople, the jewel of Eastern Christendom, finally fell in 1453 to the armies of Sultan Mahomet II. Lest one ascribe the atrocities of the first wave of jihad to the "Arabness" of its perpetrators, the Turks showed they were fully capable of living up to the principles of the Quran and the Sunnah. Paul Fregosi in his book Jihad describes the scene following the final assault on Constantinople:

Several thousand of the survivors had taken refuge in the cathedral: nobles, servants, ordinary citizens, their wives and children, priests and nuns. They locked the huge doors, prayed, and waited. {Caliph} Mahomet {II} had given the troops free quarter. They raped, of course, the nuns being the first victims, and slaughtered. At least four thousand were killed before Mahomet stopped the massacre at noon. He ordered a muezzin {one who issues the call to prayer} to climb into the pulpit of St. Sophia and dedicate the building to Allah. It has remained a mosque ever since. Fifty thousand of the inhabitants, more than half the population, were rounded up and taken away as slaves. For months afterward, slaves were the cheapest commodity in the markets of Turkey. Mahomet asked that the body of the dead emperor be brought to him. Some Turkish soldiers found it in a pile of corpses and recognized Constantine {XI} by the golden eagles embroidered on his boots. The sultan ordered his head to be cut off and placed between the horse's legs under the equestrian bronze statue of the emperor Justinian. The head was later embalmed and sent around the chief cities of the Ottoman empire for the delectation of the citizens. Next, Mahomet ordered the Grand Duke Notaras, who had survived, be brought before him, asked him for the names and addresses of all the leading nobles, officials, and citizens, which Notaras gave him. He had them all arrested and decapitated. He sadistically bought from their owners {i.e., Muslim commanders} high-ranking prisoners who had been enslaved, for the pleasure of having them beheaded in front of him. (Fregosi, Jihad, 256-7.)

This second, Turkish wave of jihad reached its farthest extent at the failed sieges of Vienna in 1529 and 1683, where in the latter instance the Muslim army under Kara Mustapha was thrown back by the Roman Catholics under the command of the Polish King, John Sobieski. In the decades that followed, the Ottomans were driven back down through the Balkans, though they were never ejected from the European continent entirely. Still, even while the imperial jihad faltered, Muslim land- and sea-borne razzias into Christian territory continued, and Christians were being abducted into slavery from as far away as Ireland into the 19th century.

e. Dhimmitude

Islam's persecution of non-Muslims is in no way limited to jihad, even though that is the basic relationship between the Muslim and non-Muslim world. After the jihad concludes in a given area with the conquest of infidel territory, the dhimma, or treaty of protection, may be granted to the conquered "People of the Book" -- historically, Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians. The dhimma provides that the life and property of the infidel are exempted from jihad for as long as the Muslim rulers permit, which has generally meant for as long as the subject non-Muslims -- the dhimmi -- prove economically useful to the Islamic state. The Quran spells out the payment of the jizya (poll- or head-tax; Sura 9:29), which is the most conspicuous means by which the Muslim overlords exploit the dhimmi. But the jizya is not merely economic in its function; it exists also to humiliate the dhimmi and impress on him the superiority of Islam. Al-Maghili, a fifteenth century Muslim theologian, explains:

On the day of payment {of the jizya} they {the dhimmi} shall be assembled in a public place like the suq {place of commerce}. They should be standing there waiting in the lowest and dirtiest place. The acting officials representing the Law shall be placed above them and shall adopt a threatening attitude so that it seems to them, as well as to others, that our object is to degrade them by pretending to take their possessions. They will realize that we are doing them a favor in accepting from them the jizya and letting them go free. (Al-Maghili, quoted in Bat Ye'or, The Decline of Eastern Christianity under Islam, 361.)

Islamic law codifies various other restrictions on the dhimmi, all of which derive from the Quran and the Sunnah. Several hundred years of Islamic thought on the right treatment of dhimmi peoples is summed up by Al-Damanhuri, a seventeenth century head of Al-Azhar University in Cairo, the most prestigious center for learning in the Muslim world:

… just as the dhimmis are prohibited from building churches, other things also are prohibited to them. They must not assist an unbeliever against a Muslim … raise the cross in an Islamic assemblage … display banners on their own holidays; bear arms … or keep them in their homes. Should they do anything of the sort, they must be punished, and the arms seized. … The Companions [of the Prophet] agreed upon these points in order to demonstrate the abasement of the infidel and to protect the weak believer's faith. For if he sees them humbled, he will not be inclined toward their belief, which is not true if he sees them in power, pride, or luxury garb, as all this urges him to esteem them and incline toward them, in view of his own distress and poverty. Yet esteem for the unbeliever is unbelief. (Al-Damanhuri, quoted in Bat Ye'or, The Decline of Eastern Christianity under Islam, 382.)

The Christian, Jewish, and Zoroastrian peoples of the Middle East, North Africa, and much of Europe suffered under the oppressive strictures of the dhimma for centuries. The status of these dhimmi peoples is comparable in many ways to that of former slaves in the post-bellum American South. Forbidden to construct houses of worship or repair extant ones, economically crippled by the jizya, socially humiliated, legally discriminated against, and generally kept in a permanent state of weakness and vulnerability by the Muslim overlords, it should not be surprising that their numbers dwindled, in many places to the point of extinction. The generally misunderstood decline of Islamic civilization over the past several centuries is easily explained by the demographic decline of the dhimmi populations, which had provided the principle engines of technical and administrative competence.

Should the dhimmi violate the conditions of the dhimma -- perhaps through practicing his own religion indiscreetly or failing to show adequate deference to a Muslim -- then the jihad resumes. At various times in Islamic history, dhimmi peoples rose above their subjected status, and this was often the occasion for violent reprisals by Muslim populations who believed them to have violated the terms of the dhimma. Medieval Andalusia (Moorish Spain) is often pointed out by Muslim apologists as a kind of multicultural wonderland, in which Jews and Christians were permitted by the Islamic government to rise through the ranks of learning and government administration. What we are not told, however, is that this relaxation of the disabilities resulted in widespread rioting on the part of the Muslim populace that killed hundreds of dhimmis, mainly Jews. By refusing to convert to Islam and straying from the traditional constraints of the dhimma (even at the behest of the Islamic government, which was in need of capable manpower), the dhimmi had implicitly chosen the only other option permitted by the Quran: death.

f. Jihad in the Modern Era

Following its defeat at the walls of Vienna in 1683, Islam entered a period of strategic decline in which it was increasingly dominated by the rising European colonial powers. Due to its material weakness vis-à-vis the West, dar al-Islam was unable to prosecute large-scale military campaigns into infidel territory. The Islamic Empire, then ruled by the Ottoman Turks, was reduced to fending of the increasingly predatory European powers.

In 1856, Western pressure compelled the Ottoman government to suspend the dhimma under which the Empire's non-Muslim subjects labored. This provided hitherto unknown opportunities for social and personal improvement by the former dhimmis, but it also fomented resentment by orthodox Muslims who saw this as a violation of the Sharia and their Allah-given superiority over unbelievers.

By the late 19th century, tensions among the European subjects of the Empire broke out into the open when the Ottoman government massacred 30,000 Bulgarians in 1876 for allegedly rebelling against Ottoman rule. Following Western intervention that resulted in Bulgarian independence, the Ottoman government and its Muslim subjects were increasingly nervous about other non-Muslim groups seeking independence.

It was in this atmosphere that the first stage of the Armenian genocide took place in 1896 with the slaughter of some 250,000 Armenians. Both civilians and military personnel took place in the massacres. Peter Balakian, in his book, The Burning Tigris, documents the whole horrific story. But the massacres of the 1890s were only the prelude to the much larger holocaust of 1915, which claimed some 1.5 million lives. While various factors contributed to the slaughter, there is no mistaking that the massacres were nothing other than a jihad waged against the Armenians, no longer protected as they were by the dhimma. In 1914, as the Ottoman Empire entered World War I on the side of the central powers, an official anti-Christian jihad was proclaimed.

To promote the idea of jihad, the sheikh-ul-Islam’s {the most senior religious leader in the Ottoman Empire} published proclamation summoned the Muslim world to arise and massacre its Christian oppressors. “Oh Moslems,” the document read, “Ye who are smitten with happiness and are on the verge of sacrificing your life and your good for the cause of right, and of braving perils, gather now around the Imperial throne.” In the Ikdam, the Turkish newspaper that had just passed into German ownership, the idea of jihad was underscored: “The deeds of our enemies have brought down the wrath of God. A gleam of hope has appeared. All Mohammedans, young and old, men, women, and children must fulfill their duty. … If we do it, the deliverance of the subjected Mohammedan kingdoms is assured.” … “He who kills even one unbeliever,” one pamphlet read, “of those who rule over us, whether he does it secretly or openly, shall be rewarded by God.” (quoted in Balakian, The Burning Tigris, 169-70.)

The anti-Christian jihad culminated in 1922 at Smyrna, on the Mediterranean coast, where 150,000 Greek Christians were massacred by the Turkish army under the indifferent eye of Allied warships. All in, from 1896-1923, some 2.5 million Christians were killed, the first modern genocide, which to this day is denied by the Turkish government.

Since the breakup of the Islamic Empire following World War I, various jihads have been fought around the globe by the independent Muslim nations and sub-state jihadist groups. The most sustained effort has been directed against Israel, which has committed the unpardonable sin of rebuilding dar al-harb on land formerly a part of dar al-Islam. Other prominent jihads include that fought against the Soviets in Afghanistan, the Muslim Bosnians against the Serbs in the former Yugoslavia, the Muslim Albanians against the Serbs in Kosovo, and the Chechens against the Russians in the Caucasus. Jihads have also been waged throughout northern Africa, the Philippines, Thailand, Kashmir, and a host of other places throughout the world. In addition, the overwhelming majority of terrorist attacks around the world have been committed by Muslims, including, of course, the spectacular attacks of 9/11/01 (USA), 3/11/04 (Spain), and 7/7/05 (UK). (For a more comprehensive list of Muslim attacks, visit www.thereligionofpeace.com.)

The fact is, the percentage of conflicts in the world today that do not include Islam is pretty small. Islam is making a comeback.

3. Conclusion

The chief barrier today to a better understanding of Islam -- apart, perhaps, from outright fear -- is sloppy language. Let us take, to start with, the much-vaunted "war on terror." Upon scrutiny, the phrase "war on terror" makes as much sense as a war on "blitzkrieg," "bullets," or "strategic bombing." The "war on terror" implies that it is perfectly fine if the enemy seeks to destroy us -- and, indeed, succeeds in doing so -- as long as he does not employ "terror" in the process.

"Terrorism," it should be obvious, is a tactic or stratagem used to advance a goal; it is the goal of Islamic terrorism that we must come to understand, and this logically requires an understanding of Islam.

As we have seen, contrary to the widespread insistence that true Islam is pacific even if a handful of its adherents are violent, the Islamic sources make clear that engaging in violence against non-Muslims is a central and indispensable principle to Islam. Islam is less a personal faith than a political ideology that exists in a fundamental and permanent state of war with non-Islamic civilizations, cultures, and individuals. The Islamic holy texts outline a social, governmental, and economic system for all mankind. Those cultures and individuals who do not submit to Islamic governance exist in an ipso facto state of rebellion with Allah and must be forcibly brought into submission. The misbegotten term "Islamo-fascism" is wholly redundant: Islam itself is a kind of fascism that achieves its full and proper form only when it assumes the powers of the state.

The spectacular acts of Islamic terrorism in the late 20th and early 21st centuries are but the most recent manifestation of a global war of conquest that Islam has been waging since the days of the Prophet Muhammad in the 7th Century AD and that continues apace today. This is the simple, glaring truth that is staring the world today in the face -- and which has stared it in the face numerous times in the past -- but which it seems few today are willing to contemplate.

It is important to realize that we have been talking about Islam -- not Islamic "fundamentalism," "extremism," "fanaticism," "Islamo-fascism," or "Islamism," but Islam proper, Islam in its orthodox form as it has been understood and practiced by right-believing Muslims from the time of Muhammad to the present. The mounting episodes of Islamic terrorism in the late 20th and early 21st centuries are due largely to the geostrategic changes following the end of the Cold War and the growing technical options available to terrorists.

With the collapse of Soviet hegemony over much of the Muslim world, coupled with the burgeoning wealth of the Muslim oil-producing countries, the Muslim world increasingly possesses the freedom and means to support jihad around the globe. In short, the reason that Muslims are once again waging war against the non-Muslim world is because they can.

It is paramount to note, however, that, even if no major terrorist attack ever occurs on Western soil again, Islam still poses a mortal danger to the West. A halt to terrorism would simply mean a change in Islam’s tactics -- perhaps indicating a longer-term approach that would allow Muslim immigration and higher birth rates to bring Islam closer to victory before the next round of violence. It cannot be overemphasized that Muslim terrorism is a symptom of Islam that may increase or decrease in intensity while Islam proper remains permanently hostile.

Muhammad Taqi Partovi Samzevari, in his “Future of the Islamic Movement” (1986), sums up the Islamic worldview.

Our own Prophet … was a general, a statesman, an administrator, an economist, a jurist and a first-class manager all in one. … In the Qur’an’s historic vision Allah’s support and the revolutionary struggle of the people must come together, so that Satanic rulers are brought down and put to death. A people that is not prepared to kill and to die in order to create a just society cannot expect any support from Allah. The Almighty has promised us that the day will come when the whole of mankind will live united under the banner of Islam, when the sign of the Crescent, the symbol of Muhammad, will be supreme everywhere. … But that day must be hastened through our Jihad, through our readiness to offer our lives and to shed the unclean blood of those who do not see the light brought from the Heavens by Muhammad in his mi’raj {“nocturnal voyages to the ‘court’ of Allah”}. … It is Allah who puts the gun in our hand. But we cannot expect Him to pull the trigger as well simply because we are faint-hearted.

It must be emphasized that all of the analysis provided here derives from the Islamic sources themselves and is not the product of critical Western scholarship. (Indeed, most modern Western scholarship of Islam is hardly “critical” in any meaningful sense.) It is Islam’s self-interpretation that necessitates and glorifies violence, not any foreign interpretation of it.

4. Frequently Asked Questions

There are a handful of questions that invariably arise when the point is made that Islam is violent. These questions for the most part are misleading or irrelevant and do not contest the actual evidence or arguments that violence is inherent to Islam. Nonetheless, they have proven rhetorically effective in deflecting serious scrutiny from Islam, and so I deal with some of them here.

a. What about the Crusades?

The obvious response to this question is, "Well, what about them?" Violence committed in the name of other religions is logically unconnected to the question of whether Islam is violent. But, by mentioning the Crusades, the hope of the Islamic apologist is to draw attention away from Islamic violence and paint religions in general as morally equivalent.

In both the Western academia and media as well as in the Islamic world, the Crusades are viewed as wars of aggression fought by bloody-minded Christians against peaceful Muslims. While the Crusades were certainly bloody, they are more accurately understood as a belated Western response to centuries of jihad than as an unprovoked, unilateral attack. Muslim rule in the Holy Land began in the second half of the 7th century during the Arab wave of jihad with the conquests of Damascus and Jerusalem by the second "rightly-guided Caliph," Umar. After the initial bloody jihad, Christian and Jewish life there was tolerated within the strictures of the dhimma and the Muslim Arabs generally permitted Christians abroad to continue to make pilgrimage to their holy sites, a practice which proved lucrative for the Muslim state. In the 11th century, the relatively benign Arab administration of the Holy Land was replaced with that of Seljuk Turks, due to civil war in the Islamic Empire. Throughout the latter half of the 11th century, the Turks waged war against the Christian Byzantine Empire and pushed it back from its strongholds in Antioch and Anatolia (now Turkey). In 1071, Byzantine forces suffered a crushing defeat at the Battle of Manzikert in what is now Eastern Turkey. The Turks resumed the jihad in the Holy Land, abusing, robbing, enslaving, and killing Christians there and throughout Asia Minor. They threatened to cut off Christendom from its holiest site, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, rebuilt under Byzantine stewardship after it was destroyed by Caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah in 1009.

It was in this context of a renewed jihad in the Middle East that the Roman Pope, Urban II, issued a call in 1095 for Western Christians to come to the aid of their Eastern cousins (and seems to have harbored the hope of claiming Jerusalem for the Papacy after the Great Schism with Eastern Christianity in 1054). This "armed pilgrimage," in which numerous civilians as well as soldiers took part, would eventually become known years later as the First Crusade. The idea of a "crusade" as we now understand that term, i.e., a Christian "holy war," developed years later with the rise of such organizations as the Knights Templar that made "crusading" a way of life. It worth noting that the most ardent Crusaders, the Franks, were exactly those who had faced jihad and razzias for centuries along the Franco-Spanish border and knew better than most the horrors to which Muslims subjected Christians. At the time of the First Crusade, the populations of Asia Minor, Syria, and Palestine, though ruled by Muslims, were still overwhelmingly Christian. The "Crusading" campaigns of the Western Christian armies were justified at the time as a war liberating the Eastern Christians, whose population, lands, and culture had been devastated by centuries of jihad and dhimmitude. Conquering territory for God in the mode of jihad was an alien idea to Christianity and it should not be surprising that it eventually died out in the West and never gained ascendancy in the East.

Following the very bloody capture of Jerusalem in 1099 by the Latin armies and the establishment of the Crusader States in Edessa, Antioch, and Jerusalem, the Muslim and Christian forces fought a see-saw series of wars, in which both parties were guilty of the usual gamut of wartime immorality. Over time, even with reinforcing Crusades waged from Europe, the Crusader States, strung out on precarious lines of communication, slowly succumbed to superior Muslim power. In 1271, the last Christian citadel, Antioch, fell to the Muslims. No longer having to divert forces to subdue the Christian beachhead on the Eastern Mediterranean, the Muslims regrouped for a 400-year-long jihad against Southern and Eastern Europe, which twice reached as far as Vienna before it was halted. In geostrategic terms, the Crusades can be viewed as an attempt by the West to forestall its own destruction at the hands of Islamic jihad by carrying the fight to the enemy. It worked for a while.

Significantly, while the West has for some time now lamented the Crusades as mistaken, there has never been any mention from any serious Islamic authority of regret for the centuries and centuries of jihad and dhimmitude perpetrated against other societies. But this is hardly surprising: while religious violence contradicts the fundamentals of Christianity, religious violence is written into Islam's DNA.

b. If Islam is violent, why are so many Muslims peaceful?

This question is a bit like asking, "If Christianity teaches humility, tolerance, and forgiveness, why are so many Christians arrogant, intolerant, and vindictive?" The answer in both cases is obvious: in any religion or ideology there will be many who profess, but do not practice, its tenets. Just as it is often easier for a Christian to hit back, play holier-than-thou, or disdain others, so it is often easier for a Muslim to stay at home rather than embark on jihad. Hypocrites are everywhere.

Furthermore, there are also people who do not really understand their own faith and so act outside of its prescribed boundaries. In Islam, there are likely many Muslims who do not really understand their religion thanks to the importance of reciting the Quran in Arabic but not having to understand it. It is the words and sounds of the Quran that attract Allah's merciful attention rather than Quranic knowledge on the part of the supplicant. Especially in the West, Muslims here are more likely to be attracted by Western ways (which explains why they are here) and less likely to act violently against the society to which they may have fled from an Islamic tyranny abroad.

However, in any given social context, as Islam takes greater root -- increasing numbers of followers, the construction of more mosques and "cultural centers," etc. -- the greater the likelihood that some number of its adherents will take its violent precepts seriously. This is the problem that the West faces today.

c. What about the violent passages in the Bible?

First, violent Biblical passages are irrelevant to the question of whether Islam is violent.

Second, the violent passages in the Bible certainly do no amount to a standing order to commit violence against the rest of the world. Unlike the Quran, the Bible is a huge collection of documents written by different people at different times in different contexts, which allows for much greater interpretative freedom. The Quran, on the other hand, comes exclusively from one source: Muhammad. It is through the life of Muhammad that the Quran must be understood, as the Quran itself says. His wars and killings both reflect and inform the meaning of the Quran. Furthermore, the strict literalism of the Quran means that there is no room for interpretation when it comes to its violent injunctions. As it is through the example of Christ, the "Prince of Peace," that Christianity interprets its scriptures, so it is through the example of the warlord and despot Muhammad that Muslims understand the Quran.

d. Could an Islamic "Reformation" pacify Islam?

As should be plain to anyone who has examined the Islamic sources, to take the violence out of Islam would require it to jettison two things: the Quran as the word of Allah and Muhammad as Allah's prophet. In other words, to pacify Islam would require its transformation into something that it is not. The Western Christian Reformation, that is often used as an example, was an attempt (successful or not) to recover the essence of Christianity, namely, the example and teachings of Christ and the Apostles. Trying to get back to the example of Muhammad would have very different consequences. Indeed, one may say that Islam is today going through its "Reformation" with the increasing jihadist activity around the globe. Today, Muslims of the Salafi ("early generations") school are doing exactly that in focusing on the life of Muhammad and his early successors. These reformers are known to their detractors by the derogative term Wahhabi. Drawing their inspiration from Muhammad and the Quran, they are invariably disposed to violence. The unhappy fact is that Islam today is what it has been fourteen centuries: violent, intolerant, and expansionary. It is folly to think that we, in the course of a few years or decades, are going to be able to change the basic world outlook of a foreign civilization. Islam's violent nature must be accepted as given; only then will we be able to come up with appropriate policy responses that can improve our chances of survival.

e. What about the history of Western colonialism in the Islamic world?

Following the defeat of the Ottoman army outside Vienna on September 11, 1683 by Polish forces, Islam went into a period of strategic decline in which it was overwhelmingly dominated by the European powers. Much of dar al-Islam was colonized by the European powers who employed their superior technology and exploited the rivalries within the Muslim world to establish colonial rule.

While many of the practices of the Western imperial powers in the governance of their colonies were clearly unjust, it is utterly unwarranted to regard Western imperialism -- as it often is -- as an endemic criminal enterprise that is the basis of modern resentment against the West. It was only due to the assertive role of the Western powers that modern nation-states such as India, Pakistan, Israel, South Africa, Zimbabwe, etc. came to exist in the first place. Without Western organization, these areas would have likely remained chaotic and tribal as they had existed for centuries.

When one looks at the post-colonial world, it is apparent that the most successful post-colonial nations have a common attribute: they are not Muslim. The United States, Australia, Hong Kong, Israel, India, and the South American nations clearly outshine their Muslim-majority post-colonial counterparts -- Iraq, Algeria, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, etc. -- by just about any standard.

f. How can a violent political ideology be the second-largest and fastest-growing religion on earth?

It should not be surprising that a violent political ideology is proving so attractive to much of the world. The attractive power of fascist ideas has been proven through history. Islam combines the interior comfort provided by religious faith with the outward power of a world-transforming political ideology. Like the revolutionary violence of Communism, jihad offers an altruistic justification for waging death and destruction. Such an ideology will naturally draw to it violent-minded people while encouraging the non-violent to take up arms themselves or support violence indirectly. Because something is popular hardly makes it benign.

Furthermore, the areas in which Islam is growing most rapidly, such as Western Europe, have been largely denuded of their religious and cultural heritage, which leaves Islam as the only vibrant ideology available to those in search of meaning.

g. Is it fair to paint all Islamic schools of thought as violent?

Islamic apologists often point out that Islam is not a monolith and that there are differences of opinion among the different Islamic schools of thought. That is true, but, while there are differences, there are also common elements. Just as Orthodox, Roman Catholic, and Protestant Christians differ on many aspects of Christianity, still they accept important common elements. So it is with Islam. One of the common elements to all Islamic schools of thought is jihad, understood as the obligation of the Ummah to conquer and subdue the world in the name of Allah and rule it under Sharia law. The four Sunni Madhhabs (schools of fiqh [Islamic religious jurisprudence]) -- Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi'i, and Hanbali -- all agree that there is a collective obligation on Muslims to make war on the rest of the world. Furthermore, even the schools of thought outside Sunni orthodoxy, including Sufism and the Jafari (Shia) school, agree on the necessity of jihad. When it comes to matters of jihad, the different schools disagree on such questions as whether infidels must first be asked to convert to Islam before hostilities may begin (Osama bin Laden asked America to convert before Al-Qaeda's attacks); how plunder should be distributed among victorious jihadists; whether a long-term Fabian strategy against dar al-harb is preferable to an all-out frontal attack; etc.

h. What about the great achievements of Islamic civilization through history?

Islamic achievements in the fields of art, literature, science, medicine, etc. in no way refute the fact that Islam is intrinsically violent. Roman and Greek civilizations produced many great achievements in these fields as well, but also cultivated powerful traditions of violence. While giving the world the brilliance of Virgil and Horace, Rome was also a home to gladiatorial combat, the slaughter of Christians, and, at times, rampant militarism.

Furthermore, the achievements of Islamic civilization are pretty modest given its 1300 year history when compared to Western, Hindu, or Confucian civilizations. Many Islamic achievements were in fact the result of non-Muslims living within the Islamic Empire or of recent converts to Islam. One of the greatest Islamic thinkers, Averroes, ran afoul of Islamic orthodoxy through his study of non-Islamic (Greek) philosophy and his preference for Western modes of thought. Once the dhimmi populations of the Empire dwindled toward the middle of the second millennium AD, Islam began its social and cultural "decline."

5. Glossary of Terms

Allah: "God"; Arabic Christians also worship "Allah," but an Allah of a very different sort.
Allahu Akhbar: "God is Great (-est)"; term of praise; war cry of Muslims.

AH: "after Hijra"; the Islamic calendar?s system of dating; employs lunar rather than solar years; as of January 2007, we are in AH 1428.

Ansar: "aiders" or "helpers"; Arabian tribesmen allied with Muhammad and the early Muslims.

Badr: first significant battle fought by Muhammad and the Muslims against the Quraish tribe of Mecca.

Caliph: title of the ruler or leader of the Umma (global Muslim community); the head of the former Islamic Empire; the title was abolished by Kemal Attaturk in 1924 following the breakup of the Ottoman Empire and the founding of modern Turkey.

dar al-Islam: "House (Realm) of Islam"; Islamic territory ruled by Sharia law

dar al-harb: "House (Realm) of War": territory ruled by infidels

dar al-sulh: "House (Realm) of Truce": territory ruled by infidels but allied with Islam; territory ruled by Muslims but not under Sharia law

Dhimma: the pact of protection extended to non-slave "People of the Book", usually Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians, which permitted them to remain nominally free under Muslim rule.

dhimmi: "protected"; people under the protection of the dhimma.

dhimmitude: word coined by historian Bat Ye'or to describe the status of dhimmi peoples

hadith: "report"; any of thousands of episodes from the life of Muhammad transmitted orally until written down in the eighth century AD; sahih (reliable or sound) hadiths are second only to the Quran in authority.

Hijra: "emigration"; Muhammad's flight from Mecca to Medina (Yathrib) in AD 622.

Islam: "submission" or "surrender."

jizya: the poll or head tax prescribed by Sura 9:29 of the Quran to be paid by Christians and Jews in Muslim-held territory.

Kaba: "cube"; the Meccan temple in which numerous pagan idols were housed before Muhammad's conquest of Mecca in AD 632, which is still the most venerated object in Islam; the Kaba's cornerstone, which is believed to have fallen from heaven, is the stone on which Abraham was to sacrifice his son, Ishmael (not Isaac).

Mecca: holiest city of Islam; place of Muhammad's birth in AD 570; its Great Mosque contains the Kaba stone; early period in Muhammad's life where more peaceful verses of the Quran were revealed; site of Muhammad's victory over the Quraish in AD 630.

Medina: "city," short for "city of the Prophet"; second holiest city of Islam; destination of Muhammad's Hijra (emigration) in AD 622; later period in Muhammad's life where more violent verses of the Quran were revealed; site of third major battle fought by Muhammad against the Quraish tribe from Mecca; formerly called Yathrib.

Muhammad: "the praised one."

Muslim: one who submits.

Quran (Kuran, Quran, etc.): "recitation"; according to Islam, the compiled verbatim words of Allah as dictated by Muhammad.

razzia: "raid"; acts of piracy on land or sea by Muslims against infidels

Sira: "life"; abbreviation of Sirat Rasul Allah, or "Life of the Prophet of God"; the canonical biography of the Prophet Muhammad written in the eighth century by Ibn Ishaq and later edited by Ibn Hisham; modern translation by Alfred Guillaume.

Sunnah: the "Way" of the Prophet Muhammad; includes his teachings, traditions, and example.

Sura: a chapter of the Quran; Quranic passages are cited as Sura number:verse number, e.g., 9:5.

Uhud: second major battle fought by Muhammad against the Quraish tribe of Mecca.

Umar: second "rightly-guided" Caliph; ruled AD 634--44, succeeded Abu Bakr; conquered the Holy Land.

Umma (ummah): the global Muslim community; the body of Muslim faithful.

Uthman: third "rightly-guided" Caliph; ruled AD 644--56, succeeded Umar; compiled the Quran in book form.

Yathrib: city to which Muhammad made the Hijra (emigration) in AD 622/AH 1; renamed Medina.

6. Further Resources

Online

Center for the Study of Political Islam

Chronicles Magazine

Dhimmi.org

FaithFreedom.org

WHY SOOO SERIOUS ?????

2009-08-03T00:49:00.004-04:00

These posters have been popping up in L.A. I for one love 'em.
Check out NewsBusters for the article.

The A

Chris Dodd Has Prostate Cancer

2009-07-31T12:21:00.004-04:00

Guess who's the latest to get the "Big C"? You betcha, our friend Chris Dodd of Connecticut. It is my sincerest wish that it is incurable, incredible painful, and that you die really, really soon.

-The Mormon

Separated at birth?

2009-07-27T16:10:00.005-04:00

I honestly did not know that Iggy Pop had undergone a sex change and changed his name to Madonna. I'm not gay but if I had to choose one.... I'd go with Iggy.

The A

Hard Left

2009-07-24T20:03:00.004-04:00

As a child of the Cold War I knew who my enemies were. Any country led by Communists or Leftists dictators. Where have my people gone? The facts are quite clear involving Honduras. Manuel Zelaya had a plan to control the country by grabbing power like Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. The problem for Zelaya is the CONSTITUTION of Honduras. They wrote into that document that the President could not under any circumstance hold more than one term. With his ally in Venezuela he had ballots made up to call for that to be changed. That act in and of itself was an act of treason according to the laws of Venezuela.

Now here is the truly great part. The congress and supreme court of Venezuela did what they were supposed to do. They defended their country by ordering his arrest and and placed the next man in succession to the presidency in power. WOW. Talk about shocking. A government actually looking out for the best interests of it's own constituency.

The truly shocking part in my mind has been the response (to this lawful act) by my own country. The POTUS in his ultimate wisdom has called this a military coup and backed Zelaya. Why is this? Could our fearless leader be afraid of the same thing happening to him if he keeps up his pace of socializing the U.S.? This political stance by the so-called leader of the free world is troubling to say the least.

Final thought. When the President of the United F-ing States of America takes the same side as Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro, Daniel Ortega and every other member of the "crazy dictators club" we should all be scared shitless.

Finding true joy

2009-07-24T15:56:00.007-04:00

What makes the A happy? Well, it is definitely not world news and current events. I spend far too much time on the Internet reading all of the bad news of the day. So what is it that keeps me from going on a tri-state mass murder spree?? The only thing that keeps me reasonably sane is music. Yes music, my one true joy in life right now consists of parking my fat ass in front of my computer and firing up the old windows media player.

My idea of music differs quite a bit from the insufferable crap spewed out by modern radio stations. Sorry, but, Michael Jackson is not on my play list. I tend to listen to music played by real musicians who write and play their own material. Sadly, the idea of a guitar virtuoso has died out for the time being. I'm starting to get away from the main thrust of this post. My bad.

I have recently been adding to my collection of music in a rather unorthodox way that I will not reveal over the Internet. The music being added is pretty much the stuff that I listened to in the late 80's and early 90's. Good old fashioned power ballads from the long expired genre of "hair metal". Why is it that certain songs can have not only an emotional but physical effect on me?

I can listen to Bad Company or Deep Purple and instantly my mind takes me back to hanging out with my best friend from high school (who died shortly after we graduated). This music is just my own special way of time travel.

Certain songs (don't ask, I have no idea why) send a chill down my spine and cause the immediate outbreak of "goosebumps".
Crying by Yngwie Malmsteen
Mission by Rush
Silent Lucidity by Queensryche
High Enough by Damn Yankees
Hurt and The Man Comes Around by Johnny Cash
The Confessor, All Night Long and Help Me Through The Night by Joe Walsh
These songs always have this affect on me. Something in these tunes reaches into my soul and fill me with joy? happiness? I don't quite know how to describe it but, I definitely feel good while listening to them. Since I no longer do drugs and rarely ever drink, I figure this is a pretty good high with little downside.

The A

My disgust for "The One" has no bounds

2009-07-23T02:13:00.004-04:00

Obammy finally pulled a Rev. Wright/Jesse Jackson/Al Sharpton/insert race baiting black activist here. The link to the Fox News article is here- http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/07/22/obama-says-police-acted-stupidly-harvard-professors-arrest/?test=latestnews.

What exactly has my boxers all bunched up???? This statement by the HNIC otherwise known as the "Chocolate Jesus". "Despite racial progress blacks and Hispanics are still singled out unfairly for arrest" he said. Well Mr. Obama do you really need to be reminded that per capita Hispanics and blacks commit waaaaayyyyy more crimes than white folks do, always have, and always will. Just a fact of life that he just can't admit to. Of course nobody in the media would challenge his notion that his friends arrest was anything other than racially motivated. The POTUS finally plays the race card. The true countdown to Armegeddon has begun. Oh well, I'll have alot of company in hell.

The A

Time for the Atheist to lighten up

2009-07-19T13:39:00.004-04:00

I've been rather serious and mean spirited lately. Thought I would post some amusing signs. Enjoy.

Beautiful Irony

2009-07-17T13:14:00.003-04:00

Bomb blasts at the J.W. Hilton and Ritz Carlton in Jakarta this morning. Islamic terrorists to blame . Oh well, guess you really do reap what you sow.

The A

Trouble brewing for Marriott Hotel Empire

2009-07-17T12:27:00.006-04:00

I read about this at JihadWatch and the story has now been picked up by Fox News. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,533525,00.html
Our government seems willing to ignore this group but we cannot. If you want to be lazy and not use the link, I will give you the gist of the article.

A posh Hilton hotel in the Chicago area is the site for a conference entitled "The Fall of Capitalism And the Rise of Islam" run by a group called "Hizb ut-Tahrir". This particular organization has not been listed as a terror group by the U.S. It is however banned in several Arab and Central Asian countries along with Germany and Russia.

The conference will happen on July 19, 2009. A boycott of all things Marriott related seems to be in order. I urge everyone to make this extremely painful for the Marriott Hotel chain and all of it's other businesses.

Here is a list of Marriott hotels:
Courtyard by Marriott
Fairfield Inn
Renaissance
Residence Inn
Ritz Carlton
SpringHill Suites
TownePlace Suites

The A

Hate for Kennedy

2009-07-13T18:36:00.005-04:00

Lee Harvey Oswald supposedly killed J.F.K and Sirhan Sirhan took out R.F.K.
So how in hell is it that nobody has gotten the worst of the bunch??? Ted Kennedy, the fat worthless blowhard of the family, has been permitted to stay in the U.S. Senate for over 40 years! Nobody has even taken a shot at the most dangerous of the Kennedy klan. (yes i spelled it "klan" for a reason.)

Let's go back to where this all began, shall we? The patriarch of America's first family (Joe Kennedy) was a bootlegger during prohibition. Basically the same as some drug lord importing drugs from Mexico, he imported booze from Canada to create his vast fortune. After the repeal of prohibition, the family fortune was used to influence politics. Joe, with the help of the Italian Mafia, bought union votes to get J.F.K. elected. Other than being the first modern POTUS to be assassinated in office J.F.K. accomplished little if anything at all. (the Cuban Missile Crisis is a joke so don't even bring that up)

We were spared any real damage from R.F.K. thanks to a well placed bullet before he could get elected. So "Teddy" was the next in line. Good ole Ted always liked the women and the booze just a wee bit too much. His hopes for the presidency ended with the "incident at Chappaquidik" in July of 1969. Somehow, the powers that be decided, that Ted didn't deserve to do any jail time for what equates to vehicular homicide in this case. You know since he is part of American royalty and all. This should have been the end of this lard ass.

Fast forward to present day 2009. HBO has a new documentary coming out soon that will shine a bright light on all the so-called good Teddy has done for us. Of course we all know you can't say anything bad about a Kennedy, so this will be a nice little love-fest for good ole Ted. With the news of an inoperable brain tumor slowly killing him, the left has been rewriting history to show what a great man Theodore was. I just wish he would kick off soon, because frankly, I'm tired of that whole damn family.

The A

Yes , he is black!

2009-07-10T11:53:00.000-04:00

Finally, we have irrefutable proof that Obama is indeed a black man.

The A

Our justice system ...hard at work

2009-07-10T11:43:00.000-04:00

Donte Stallworth was released from jail after serving 24 whole days in jail for killing a man while driving drunk. Now he must complete his home confinement. Justice is soooo blind.

The A

THE MORMON & THE ATHEIST

Update on 21's M4 project

Coddling Islam

21's M4 Project

2 Years In

Exploring The Liberal Mind

Will The Real Joker Please Stand Up?

Isn't Tolerance Wonderful

Orwell's 1984 in 2010

What happens when we leave Iraq and Afghanistan?

Radical or Moderate?

Another Enemy Among Us

A Patriot Speaks

Classless, Clueless and Definately Un-American

Oh Glory Day!!!

No Whites Allowed

Say It Ain't So Dalai

I Think Black People Owe Us Reparations

RIP Ronnie James Dio

One More Reason To Hate Muslims

Patriotism Offends Immigrants

I thought he was supposed to be the chosen one LOL

No Nukes! No Nukes!!!!!!!

Collateral Murder My Ass

Nancy Pelosi and Healthcare

AP HEADLINE: DEMOCRATS WORRIED ABOUT OBAMA TRACK RECORD

This Should Be The Manifesto For The American People

A Special THANK YOU to Obama, Pelosi and Reid

Congressman John Murtha takes the Eternal Dirt Nap

Why? Why? Why?

Black History Month? Bah!

Could he be any less presidential?

You gotta be kidding me

California is going to run out of money.......I am Shocked

FIRED for Political (un)Correctness

Hitler Finds Out Scott Brown Won Massachusetts Senate Seat

Beginning of the End?

Moonbattery at it's finest

The Atheist explains

Should our tax dollars go to Haiti?

Fighting Terrorism The Obama Way

I'm sick of the Bush bashing......

Jihad is not terrrorism????

Photoshopped picture of the Decade

Political Correctness Will Kill You

Common Sense No Longer Exists

Hope and Change?

Another 9/11 WILL Happen

A Day To Remember -December 7th, 1941

The Atheist's Man Of The Year- Andrew Breitbart

18 Months Until the White Flag Waves

Top Stories Of The Year ....That the MSM Ignored

Happy Eid al-Adha

I would vote for this guy

New Yorkers are gutless

Classless? Clueless? Or just an Asshole?

Bald Is Beautiful......

Judge Him By The Company He Keeps

The Greatest American - Part 3

The Greatest American - Part 2

Death Wish for Generations X and Y

The Greatest American

Economic Stimulus

So Bush was evil and controlled by Karl Rove huh?

Nobel Peace Prize Has No Meaning

History Repeating Itself.....

Hollywood defends the indefensible

The Pot Calling The Kettle...Well You Know

Evan Sayet is my Hero

The Cultural Elite Of Hollyweird

9/11 National Day of Service My Ass

We Don't Need Obama Care

Michael Moore is a LOSER

NATIONAL SKIP DAY

DO YOU TRUST THE GOVERNMENT?

Trashing The Dead Is What I Do

Teddy Joins His Brothers In Hell

The END of the World is Approaching.....

Douchebags in Flip-Flops

At least shave your toe knuckles you degenerate.