When a young Muslim man comes to live with an American family November 29, 2007

I just found this beautiful article from Christian Science Monitor, ”New friend, new views of the world”. On another September 11, a young Muslim man lands on US soil straight from Egypt. September 11 sounded like an ominous day to Pamela Freundl Kirst. She was anxious and felt ‘’somewhat threatened”. But the true story unfolds into a lesson in friendship and tolerance. 



I personally found Abdul’s customs and his strong will to stick to them, even though when he was by himself in America, somewhat strange. But as we see it works out well. It is not about converting each other but understanding each other. That’s pretty much my philosophy for world peace.  CLICK HERE TO  READ FULL STORY

It’s not the Muslims but it’s the Mexicans Stupid! And say no to Swiss Cheese. November 17, 2007

Ok, this is further progression of my blog posts that started with Mark Steyn’s Book, America Alone’s review on my blog, which as you may already know (or can know looking at the recent posts) led to further discussion/debate on Muslims, Immigration, Xenophobia and the so called conservative writers, politicians who are shouting ”deport all the illegal immigrant now!!!” slogans.

 

I also happened to see a detailed interview with Michele Malkin on C-Span, conducted by Brian Lamb. Of course, the basic points she raises are valid. Criminals (Immigrants or American born citizens) must not have the freedom to roam the streets so they can commit their horrible crimes. But Michele Malkin just like her brother in brain & spirit, Mark Steyn and other little xenophobic cry babies in Western Europe seem to link all things bad and criminal with immigrants, legal or illegal. So, Michele Malkin goes on and on and yet…. on about MUSLIM immigrants. Mark Steyn’s book too is also all about how Muslim immigrants are taking over the West.

 

But Immigration, especially into USA is hardly of made up of predominantly Muslim origins. Mexicans by far form the one big gigantic tide of immigration into America. I just read an amazing article, ”A Blended People”>> (CLICK HERE)<< from The Economist. This short article- which taught me more about Mexican immigration into America than anything I ever set my eyes upon- is a book review of ”Mongrels, Bastards, Orphans, and Vagabonds: Mexican Immigration and the Future of Race in America”

 

 

After reading that article, I indeed realize that the biggest immigration wave into America has always been the Mexican one and will always will be by the sheer design of God’s geography (It should serve as a lesson and an epiphany for Republican Jesus people). Latinos are the second largest racial/ethnic group in USA today, nudging Afro-Americans to the third place in 2001 for the first time in American history. Most of the Latinos now are well Americanized or at least well settled American citizens. This is the single most powerful phenomenon changing the American landscape for good or as some might grumble, bad.

 

 

 

Scram the Swiss Cheese– The most important point is that Immigration is America’s destiny and will always remain so. Immigration is America’s power, Immigration is America’s soul, Immigration is American history and is America’s future. This is what sets America apart from the rest of the ”immigrant countries” (with Possible exceptions of Canada and Australia) who are tiny ethnic countries and get jolted by waves of migrants, leading to mass xenophobic hysteria. This mass hysteria- much exploited by sad little political parties who have nothing original or useful to talk about- produces Michele Malkin like stupid myopic vision. I was reading another Economist article that noted how in Switzerland ***The incident happened in Italy as the comment below notes,” >>Click Here<< for related story, this was a factual error made by several related articles opened in tens of tabs of my browser, but the argument stands, unaltered, read my response to the comment below*** when a Romanian gypsy raped and murdered a Swiss (read Italian) woman the Swiss (read Italian) masses demanded deportation of all Romanians from Switzerland (read Italy). I mean, crime is bad but irrational panic is well, irrational. ***Further Note: I have just discovered how that factual mistake was made, I was actually reading this article as well ”Fear of foreigners- Denmark and the far right” (CLICK HERE). In this article there is a passing mention of the rise of anti-immigration right wing parties in other parts of Europe. Switzerland gets a special mention, and so does Italy in the very next paragraph. As I mentioned, my point really was how right wing elements exploit a situation and this is very much same all over Western Europe today from Denmark, Switzerland, Austria to Italy. In any case, if my remarks on Switzerland’s xenophobia sounded very unwarranted, here is what the above on Danish elections article (dated November 17) says about modern Switzerland:

 

 

 

 

 

“Europe is still in a paroxysm of anti-immigration anxiety, if not downright hostility. Last month the Swiss People’s Party won the best result of any Swiss party since 1919, with a hateful campaign that included a poster of several white sheep kicking a black sheep off a field made of a Swiss flag. It also produced a video (“Heaven or Hell”) contrasting typical Swiss scenes with others of violence, drug use and foreigners. The party’s leader has promised referendums on deporting foreigners if they commit crimes (even juveniles, and the criminal’s families might be thrown out too), as well as a ban on building mosque minarets.”

 

Now, Let’s say if that rape was committed by a French Swiss in Switzerland, would there be calls for kicking out all French Swiss to France? Are there no rapists, drug dealers among the Swiss (or Italians for that matter) nationals? Or they’re all busy making Swiss Cheese, Cuckoo Clocks and providing secret banking for the Billions of $$$$$$$$ of the most corrupt third world leaders who are also mass embezzlers, murders, rapists, genocidal demons. How come for years and years Swiss nation’s morality and conscience never told them to ask their politicians and government to stop providing secret banking facilities for blood money from the third world? Once again, maybe the Swiss were too busy making cheese. Swiss hypocrisy is indeed much loftier than their Alps…

 

But America is different from these pathetic little socialist countries most of whom were happy to colonize the third world for loot when they got a chance but now want to shut their doors on the ”third world immigrants”. In contrast America still is a free world, the land of opportunity where Individual is the king. America is the new world. America absorbs new imagination, new blood and turns it into Americana.

 

 

This is what I have learned from years of reading and listening to people’s personal experiences. When people go to Canada, Australia, UK, Sweden, New Zealand (I live here and know it very well) etc. they form a multi- cultural environs, clusters, groups, ethnic schools for their children, ethnic food stores, they desperately plant the seeds of their own language, culture amidst their progeny. AND before people from these aforementioned ”immigrant countries” start smiling and say, Yeah that’s right, we’re multi-cultural, let me tell you, IT IS SAD. Nothing is more depressing and puke inducing that ” LEGAL Immigrants” coming into a new country, LEGALLY and try to form foreign cultural, culinary, lingual, social ghettos completely insulated and protected from everything that belongs to their new ”home”. I often hear stories how these ”immigrants” are homesick and nostalgic about their homeland even after years of legally living, working, earning money in the new country. Their eyes fill with tears and heart with pain to remember their mother country or fatherland. Why o Why then they just can’t go back?? What stops them? It’s the MONEY right? But I am definitely digressing so I will save it for another time.

 

In contrast, the immigrants to America are most likely to get Americanized, thanks in large part to American capitalism, strong emphasis on individualism and little dependence on social security (which exists in other Western countries like a crippling disease and addiction that even immigrants often get so dependent on) For these reasons, immigrants to America have to fight (work) for survival and personal gains. Sure they may get into extreme consumerism and all too but eventually they end up shaking off their cultural, language baggage because America rubs off on you too fast once you’ve reached its shores. This is the reason that even Latinos’ kids shed the language of the countries of their origin and speak English as their first, if not their only language. Not so with other ”multi-cultural” countries. I have noticed that the 2nd and sometimes even 3rd generation immigrants retaining their tribal ties as evident in many European countries, Germany (The Turks) UK and even in Canada and Australia, NZ too.

 

 

Let’s end this post with Illegal Immigration. It’s easy for people like Michele Malkin to scream at the ”illegals” because she happened to be the kid of parents who came to America ”legally”. I’m sure Filipinos immigrants do form huge number of ”illegals” all over the world, including the US. The truth is ”legal” immigration is simply impossible to match the real human impulse to migrate to other lands for better life. Most people won’t wait for years for their applications to be accepted (or rejected after years of ”being processed”) Vikings never applied for Visas, if you reflect on it. Even during the age of colonialism European traders never applied for business visas or competed with each other as per the principles of free and fair trade. They brought military, guns and canons with them. They slaughtered everyone who did not give them entry or visa. Today’s illegal immigrants seem much more civilized to me, they meekly enter a rich country and work their butt off for years in modern day slavery mode without any rights or protections or security available to native nationals.

 

 

And there will always be unskilled migrants who WILL NEVER be able to migrate legally. BUT THEY ARE NEEDED. Legal immigration proponents say, ”only skilled migrants” are needed in America. They all forget in the old times most migrants (their own forefathers) who came from Europe to North America were mostly unskilled immigrants. They sailed to North America from Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, Poland and every other God-forsaken land in Europe. But now people would say, ”The times are different today. We need only skilled immigrants” But this is not so. Middle class Americans may not like poor ”wetbacks” but the economy and businesses need them for their very survival as another Economist article >>>>>‘‘Illegal but Useful- Where would Arkansas be without immigrants?’<<<<<reports.

 

 

Tons of such examples can be drawn from several different American states. For these very reasons, I personally support amnesty to long settled immigrants. Because they’ve certainly not been here for years by stealing food, raping women, mugging people on the streets. They’ve survived and supported their families by very hard work, working very long hours and doing the most needed rugged jobs that Americans won’t do. And in so doing these immigrants have proved their mettle and usefulness to the American society, economy and Americana. They deserve amnesty and so do their children most of whom were born in America.

In the end, it’s all about human survival on both ends of the immigration bridge regardless of crying foul and playing the blame games on TV shows.

 

 Links to interesting further readings **Added on 24th of November** 

 

 1.)  **CLICK HERE TO READ** The Los Angeles Times article by Joel Stein, ”My taco with Tancredo– The anti-immigration candidate is all for assimilation, but he sure loves authentic Mexican food.”

 

2.)  **CLICK HERE TO READ** The recent New York Times editorial on America’s immigration crisis, ” The Immigration Wilderness”.

Let’s talk Islam and the World-1 November 6, 2007

**This blog may be edited or expanded later for typos and better coherence**

This debate seems inevitable. It began with my Blog post (CLICK HERE TO ACCESS) that was meant as a review of Mark Steyn’s book, ”America Alone- The end of the world as we know it” . Book review became an excuse for tackling hackneyed Islamophobic notions, consiracy theories and rhetoric, often fanned by ”conservatives” and dirty little right wing political parties in Europe and the rest of the world. I welcome all the comments from anyone, anywhere in the world and I promise I will try my best to include your comment, even if you may have very strong opinions about anything, pro Muslim or Anti- Muslim. It is time we become very honest about our secret spaces of heart and mind and once and for all express what is it that we really think or want?

 

First of all I am no friend of ANY RELIGION, let alone Islam. But it just hurts my nerves to see religion being used as an excuse to vent people’s own personal prejudices, grudges and narrow mindedness. Follwing is one comment to my above mentioned Post and my comment in reply that I wish to be the start of this debate. If you’re out there and feel strongly about it. Now, is the chance to vent it or express yourself. This post is available both on my WordPress and Blogger blogs. So, feel free to check both to keep track of comments.

 

Comment Received from ”Blue Devil” on my WordPress blog post–

 

”Your comments edge on the overly PCism mentioned in the book. Your rantings are equal to the European politicos and literati that chant anti-American slogans, even though without American help in WWII, all of Europe would be speaking German.
BTW, there are over five million Muslims living in the Philippines. Do you live in a cave? I think I could find one of them that is pro-Islam. You mention India, which is 80+% Hindu. Do you realize that there are over 100 MILLION Muslims in India? China has around 50+ MILLION. Indonesia has the largest Muslim population in the world at about 200 MILLION.

 

Also, Steyn was not talking about the procreation of Muslims worldwide, but he was comparing their procreation in Europe compared to ethnic Europeans. However, Muslims in predominantly Muslim countries procreate at a greater rate than other races. For instance, in Malaysia, the gov’t (predominantly Muslim) encourages Muslims to have many children. Although, they do stop giving tax breaks after six children. So, a Muslim with 4-6 kids pays little or no taxes and non-Muslims with a couple of kids, but less income, will pay more taxes.

 

I would suggest that you read “While Europe Slept”, written by a gay American that moved to Europe because of (what he thought) their liberalism and found that he and his partner were frequently verbally (and once physically) attacked by Muslims because of their sexual leanings. He has lived in Europe (Amsterdam and Oslo) for the past decade and has a better firsthand insight than you have.”

 

My reply

 

Thanks for your comment. There are lots of points I must address vis-a-vis your comment **I will also blog this comment to be expanded later**

 

But first of all I must underline I AM NOT PRO EUROPEAN AT ALL. Not even A European fan as opposed to many so called American Conservatives who pine for a 100% White race European society (where people will not only speak German but also French, Italian, Greek etc.) all the time , whether they admit it or not.

 

Second, once again you’re buying into ”Muslims Attack planet earth” rhetoric. But before I go into it, what possible objection we can have if the whole world population converts to Islam and Muslims make tons of babies, USING THEIR FREE WILL and DEMOCRATIC FREEDOM AND GOD GIVEN SPERMS AND OVARIES?? Freedom: I mean isn’t it what America stands for? I may not like overwhelmingly religious or Muslim world but if it does become so, what can I or you do about it? And what right we have to tell the world what friggin religion THEY CHOOSE or NOT?

 

I mean in the old times when Christianity was as tyrannical (or more) as fundamentalist Islam today, nothing could stop the spread of Christianity into Europe like an aggressive Cancer. Islamist Christianity of those days was uncivilized, undemocratic, homophobic, misogynist, genocidal, homicidal, persecutory, corrupt, violent, illiberal and and all things Islamist.

 

And even today we have Christian cults like Mormons and in extreme form, Camp Davidians or doomsday cults whose members’ religious fervor, polygamy, Pedophilia etc. is legendary. Indeed they’re so sick that American federal government has to send military to kill these weirdos. My solution is: any fundamentalism within any religion or philosophy must be annihilated. I don’t care what these weirdos may call themselves: Muslims, Christians, Buddhists, Shamans, Hindus, New Age. They should be shot dead on sight or arrested and sent to nut houses.

 

But there is nothing we can do about people’s right to choose a religion as long as they’re not going in the extremes or seriously harming the life, liberty and security of others. Going by that logic, Islamist terrorists do not represent Islam. End of story. They’re like any other cult and I’ve discussed above what we should do with them.

 

And as for human rights violations and crimes against humanity, innocent Muslims (men, women and children) get butchered all the time but it does not bother us. Why??? Indian police and army has been butchering them in Kashmir. In all other parts of India from time to time mobs or hooligans enter their homes to rape their women and slaughter their men and children in India (don’t ask me to give examples, you should keep up with news). So, 100 million Muslims in India are not having a jolly good time. They’re persecuted and bullied. Same is true with Uzbekistan, China, Russia (Chechnya)

 

And your star writer Mark Steyn also notes the massacre of Muslims in the modern territories of Yugoslavia. But he says something like, ”If you can’t outnumber ‘em, you cull ‘em.” Cull what?? Chickens? This is how stupid Mark Steyn is and nobody wants to notice. Is that your solution for the rest of Europe and the world??? ”CULL ‘EM”??

 

Mark Steyn (as someone with Jewish race) must remember that Nazi party too had said something like that about 60 years back. ”Cull ‘em” And then you got holocaust. I wonder– AND MARK MY WORDS– if with all of this vitriolic propaganda Europe is being groomed for another holocaust. This time ”cull ‘em” for Muslims. It will happen, if this stupid scaremongering keeps gaining momentum.
And by the way, Who is the best U.S. friend, outside the United States? Is it not Saudi Arabia? (Now, even Britain says it has ”Shared values” with Saudi Arabia) How come? And what possible liberation of Muslims and especially women is being carried out by the American military in Saudi Arabia? Please, keep me updated.

Review of ”America Alone- The End of the world as we know it” by Mark Steyn October 20, 2007

 

 

 

‘**NOTE**– I noticed I became ”Reader of the day” on Mark Steyn’s website for making him reminisce his Hollinger days when despite his lack of formal education as a journalist Hollinger group launched his career because he had the foxy element that is usually good for ratings.

 

 

Anyhow, it is not about personal attacks and I want to stick to his work, in this case his book. I want to make a special mention that the ideas brought up in his book are not even original in the least. How easy it must have been to write this book… Just collect recent articles from conservative or right wing publications, read speeches, pamphlets of pathetic little right wing political parties all around Europe… and off you go stunning the world. At the back of the book Michelle Malkin (Another neurotic, xenophobic story, but we won’t go there and leave this Islamophobic Philipino-American alone…) writes, ”America Alone will open your eyes. You can’t afford to look away.” She also writes, ”Steyn strips away intellectual rust and PC rot to uncover the writing on the wall.” I think she would hit Bull’s eye if she had written, ”…to uncover the urine on the wall. And it’s his own urine.”

 

 

First of all, this mawkish rave about this book is ONLY FOUND in the so called Conservative media (or writers) who also seem to be the only ones who took care to review this book positively. The mainstream media- New York Times, Washington Post, L.A. Times, The Guardian etc..- just ignored this book as trash (or at least I could not find any reviews by them)Mark Steyn website also mentions that Mr. Joe Lieberman is clutching this book to his chest as dearly as the holy Bible (The Old Testament only) and giving it away to all other American Senators. Funny. I guess he also has gold inscription on his copy saying, ”An idiot’s guide to become even a bigger idiot.” This all rave made me laugh so hard and it continues to do so (guess what I am doing now). As I said, these ideas have been bandied about by each and everyone for such a long time.

 

 

One of my favorite authors and THE master essayist Gore Vidal talked about this dying out and other demographics of the White race DECADES ago as passing remarks in his essays. Please read it again, DECADES AGO. But Vidal never wrote a full essay or a book on the subject because he knew that there are about a million more real alarming threats to human race, peace, prosperity and freedom that we face every day.

 

 

I wanted to write a review on this little red book (red for Republican or Red Maple Leaf ?…) on Amazon.com but they would let you write a review only if you have bought books from them. Hmmm.. So well, I am writing this review on my blog. This book is a hot best seller now and many people have gotten carried away by it. Out of 5 stars I give it 2 stars for motley of interesting facts and some humor (P.J. O’ Rourke has been doing the humorous conservative writing for Decades), the rest is fluffy cheap journalism. You may say it is FOX NEWS IN PRINT.

 

 

Many mainstream liberals have refused to discuss the book because it is simply too childishly crass. And I can see why. Mark Steyn presumes that just because he can hurl racist, sexist and cultural insults, he gets to be pro-American. Not only this book reeks of xenophobia but also notice cheap comments about ”European slatternly women” on pages 67,68. What Steyn seems to be saying is that all White women who have anything to do with Islam or Muslims are SLUTS. Also, he mentions Luxemborg as a country slightly bigger than a rec room. How would he feel if he is ridiculed with jokes about his Canadian roots (Often delightful favorite American national pastime) and also about his pseudo Frenchie connections through Quebec (he even confesses his love for French food and naked French women who are angelic as opposed to the Slatternly ones?) Bad taste. Cheap.

 

The Demographics of Europe and Muslims– Well, this seems to be the founding (read foundering) pillar of this book and Steyn has used it as an interesting scare-mongering tactic. In short, he opines, the Whites of Europe are not making enough babies whereas Muslims all over the world and in Europe are breeding like nightmarish green bunnies (i.e. green for Islam) So, he says, naturally in due time, Europe will become ”Eurabia” where Muslims will call the shots. It is such an infantile and pathetic logic. He makes Muslim birth rates sound like some kind of Mars Attacks Hollywood flick, where all these little green evil souls will take over the world like millions of Locusts devour everything in their way. Not so.

 

To begin with, I have long wondered about Europe’s falling birth rates and that is a concern, especially for Eastern Europe. But it is not some kind of demographic suicide. I believe in Western Europe it simply exists because of individual selfishness, where people want all their time, money and resources for themselves whereas in Eastern cultures people always want to make plenty of babies and also want to see their kids, grandchildren grow. Not to mention the contraceptives are not only in little supply in many poor conservative countries ( ANYWAY, NOT ALL OF THEM ARE MUSLIM COUNTRIES) but are shunned for social, religious and personal reasons. But I don’t think Europeans will just die out. As The Economist once mentioned, this greying of Europe is not a bad thing if people can have healthier older age, can delay their retirement age, stay more productive, creative and have better standard of living than those who starve in the Eastern countries and watch their tons of children starve as well (forget about proper upbringing, education etc.)

 

On the other hand I am sure, in Western Europe birth rates among Whites will pick up sometime, when they realize things are going real bad. At the moment, the Eastern Europe is a real concern but it is not that they’re indifferent to making babies but they are just very aware of the pain they would end up causing every baby that they bring into a nightmarish world they are living in now: corruption, crushing poverty, crippling violence, crime, civil wars, unemployment (all this does not encourage wise men and women to have babies). I believe- as Steyn himself notes regarding the close relationship between high birth rates and robust market economies- that when economies in these countries become better (a good possibility with EU enlargement) their birth rates will pick up.

 

Steyn sees the world population growth from a stupidly bipolar vision: Muslim and non Muslim. He totally, disregards huge populations of non Muslims in Africa, Latin and Central America, East and South East Asia and that huge country called India whose population is about 82% Hindu. Steyn also makes a stupid blanket statement in the book saying Delhi’s (India’s capital city) population itself is declining. Someone should go to Delhi and any of India’s big (or even small) cities and see for themself the truth of people inhabiting a landscape like termites do timber!!!

In any case, it is the OVER- POPULATION that kills and cripples people and turns them into insects without education, resources, skills to survive… Something, I believe West European kids will Never face. How lucky a West European kid is not to have 5 other siblings who will only make life hell for everyone. If Europe has a population growth rate of some of the tribal nations Steyn fearfully mentions, it will turn into Eurabia much sooner than low birth rates will ever cause it to, if ever. So, shut up Steyn, You’re just the Hollinger media group’s foxy bitch.

 

No special, unusual and shocking threats from Muslim immigrants–

Steyn makes a big deal about Muslim immigrants raising hell in pretty European cities and Europeans cowering in fear. Total Bull-shit.***Added on 24th November, Check this out: CLICK TO Read this Blog post, ”NOT SO DIFFERENT” from a British blogger about Muslims in London***. As for European cowering before Muslims, what about French government’s militaristic stubbornness outlawing the wearing of Muslim head-scarves in schools even when many Muslim girls themselves wish to wear them? Interestingly schoolchildren can still wear small crosses/crucifixes. No multiculturalism or Western freedom of choice there.

 

 

Of course, Muslim immigrants (like any other immigrants) may have resentment because of bad integration, racism, discrimination, NO JOBS. And yes, when things like Paris riots happen, it is sad. But is it not the same kind of thing that goes on in USA vis-a-vis its former slave populations, today known as the Black or Afro Americans? My point is that, such anti- social, destructive or criminal behavior occurs only when there are inhuman disparities and schisms in the economic and social fields. Other than that, Muslim Immigrants may not be worse than any other immigrants from non Muslim countries that refuse to integrate with their new home country even when they’re given the opportunities.

 

I think Muslim immigrants have done a marvelous job integrating within the American society. Many of them actually, came to American shores as refugees: Iraqis, Iranians, Kurds, Palestinians etc. They themselves were the victims of horrendous persecution at the hands of neurotically violent and persecutory Islamist forces in their home countries.

As for religious fundamentalism, it is bad news in any part of the world. People make fun of Muslims being opposed to any modernity and they got Amish folks at home, people make fun of Muslims for having heaps of wives and children and they forget the Mormons at home, people talk about Muslim suicide bombers and they forget about Timothy McVeigh. Besides they forget to condemn NATO bombers dropping bombs over Wedding parties in Afghanistan mistaking them for terrorists, killing innocent children, women and old men.

 

They forget, they forget, they forget. They also forget and refuse to remember that both Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden were American (CIA etc.) tag team partners during The Cold War. If Cold war had lasted a bit longer than it did, you could bet your American dollar that Osama Bin Laden would get honorary American citizenship by now. But they forget and this is why Mr. Gore Vidal aptly called the USA as the ”United States of Amnesia”.

 

Please don’t get me wrong after reading this review. Though I am not American, I am pro-American. I do believe that America is the only country in the world who will carry the torch of human freedom in the world and it should. I just hate diatribe built around misinformation like Mark Steyn’s book. People like that are the ones who actually, do a great deal of harm by destroying American goodwill in the world. They also forget that all societies are not like Vietnam. You can’t bomb them and then suppose they will never seek revenge. If killing of innocent American civilians in mad terrorist attacks can enrage Americans. Why should it be assumed that American bombs that end up killing civilians anywhere in the world will stay unaccounted for?

 

 

Does an Afghani or Iraqi mother love her children any less than an American mother? Think again.

 

 

I believe the most important thing we need is tolerance (respecting as well as leaving each other alone), spread of prosperity, education, employment, trade in the Muslims countries and societies. As Steyn himself notes, Malaysia is one Muslim country that can be considered prosperous. Though in his blind- ”all Muslims are shit”- faith he gives all credit for Malaysia’s prosperity to its Chinese population. He forgets to mention that Malaysian Muslims don’t go around the world exploding bombs. So at least there are Muslim nations that do not breed terrorists. I believe it is because they’re not threatened by any foreign military or controlled by some blood sucking multi- national corporations. Their sovereignty, sense of honor and self- determination is not hurt. That I think is something that Mark Steyn should read up on. But maybe he already knows that. Maybe Western- Muslim animosity (real and imagined) is not only something he just reports on but it’s something he passionately promotes. It’s his business. It’s all about the ratings… Sad.

Satanic Iran and hypocritical angels. March 30, 2007

I made this comment on a friend’s blog about the latest Iranian faux pas of detaining British sailors. I will throw in my alternative opinion about the politics surrounding Western world/ media berating Iran on everything that the neurotic Iranian government does or says. I thought it would be nice to air this opinion through my blog.

Firstly, Iranian government is behaving rashly, no doubt. The official Iranian stands about denying holocaust, wiping off Israel from the face of the planet, death on America sound ludicrous. But then I remember: populism and demagoguery are the oldest tricks in the books of power hungry, slimy politicians. Best example would be the Germans rallying behind Hitler with all their mind, heart and soul: ”Yay! Fuhrer is daaa bessstt! Butcher the effin’ Jews” Methinks Ahmadinajed is quite the Nazi when you focus on his passionate anti-Semitism.

But let’s peep into our own (or our governments’) righteous souls. Supporting human rights and opposing evil in the convenient places seems to be the trick. China slapped and grabbed Tibet and the world looked on silently. Where was the U.N., International law and our righteous armies? Now, Free Tibet is such a boring subject really, because now it’s an inseparable part of China. Let’s not talk Tibet, it’s China’s domestic affairs. Truth is annoying China is not an option, especially now that it produces everything CHEAPLY for us from underwears to battery operated toys (yep those ones too ) and Computers. Same with Uzbekistan. What was Andijan Massacre? Craig Murray ? (Sacked British Ambassador to Uzbekistan who has documented government hypocrisy in his book, ”Murder in Samarkand”)

As for rogue nations: Nothing scares me more than North Korea. The dictator running that country is a Psycho of the most dangerous sort. North Korea is impoverished. Famines there lead people to kill street dogs and eat them. Cannibalism has been reported. North Korean government is happy to sell nuclear technology and other weapons to any dick, harry or Osama for hard cash. But Let’s not mess with North Korea too much, they are backed by Russia and China.

As for Iran, look what a convenient target it is, already weakened by almost a decade long war with Iraq which was tacitly supported by the U.S. at the time. But here is the biggest secret: Iran is not only hated by almost everyone in the world but also it is the only Shiite (Shia) Muslim majority country, bitterly hated by Sunni Arab or other Sunni Muslims already. After all for the vultures it’s always easy to pounce upon the wounded, the dead and the dying.