From the heart of Jolly Olde we bring you this representative of the oxymoronically-named Institute of Islamic Thought, courtesy of LGF.
27 July, 2006
Kofi Annan: When merely corrupt won’t do
Guess what year this cartoon was published.
Visit Michelle Malkin for the shocking answer.
Meanwhile, Michelle is also all over the story I heard this morning about those UN “observers” who got hit by Israel. One of them, a Canadian solder, had been emailing a general back home about how Hezbollah was “all over” their position in an obvious attempt to draw Israeli fire. Prepare yourself for another shock: According to Lee Rodgers this morning, the only person who could order them out of that position was… Go on. Guess.
Of course he’d be profusely and publicly grateful if, say, the IDF were to save the life of a UN soldier. Right?
The 20th Terrorist
Michael Yon links to this story in the Washington Post (of all places – congrats to the MSM on this one) about a young man who almost became one of the 911 hijackers, but has since gone straight.
Thabit continues to receive death threats. “They are like a mafia, a gang, and I am revealing their secrets. They want to silence me,” he says.
It’s encouraging to see that not all the reaction has been negative.
Since his book came out, Thabit has gotten favorable fan mail, and in March Prince Khalid al-Faisal, governor of Asir province, where the majority of the Saudi hijackers came from, bought 50 copies of “The 20th Terrorist” in Lebanon. The prince then invited the heads of Asir’s education departments to his weekly salon and distributed it to them as mandatory reading.
Read the whole thing to learn about how the Islamofacists manipulate young men.
The Right Stuff
One of my favorites, from a movie chock-a-block full of great lines:
“We’re not saying anything new here today. We’re just saying what needs to be said, again and again, with fierce conviction.”
According to Myrna Blythe, Senator Rick Santorum has enough of the right stuff to say what needs to be said.
There was no buoyant “campaign speak” that the group might have expected to hear. Instead, he was sober and very intense as he talked about what he said was “the biggest issue facing our children’s future, the world war we are now fighting, which, at its heart, is just like the previous three global struggles.”
Unlike the president, he said, he does not call our current conflict the War on Terror. That, he maintained, would be like saying the Second World War was just “a war against blitzkrieg.” Rather, he said we should name the enemy we are fighting, not the tactics they employ. “Our world-wide enemy is Islamic Fascism.” But, he also said, “we are unable to come to terms with this terrible reality.”
And K-Lo calls him Senator Do-the-Right-Thing.
He could have fewer headaches — and less public ones at that — as a well-paid lobbyist or lawyer. But when you ask him why the heck he wants a job that entails so much abuse and so much frustration — some of the latter caused by his own party — he responds knowingly, but with an obvious humility: “Right now is an important time in the history of our country,” he explained to me recently, with a sense of something bigger than himself he is participating in and being guided by. He believes he has made a positive contribution as a senator and has something more to offer. Going from Iraq discourse to just talking American to American, he explained that, for him, political service is just the right thing to do. And that’s what he knows he ought to do. Because that’s what we do.
The War Zone
Michael Yon likes him. So does BLACKFIVE.
So, naturally, Buttle’s World had to check him out. He’s a filmmaker from Hollywood, but on our side. He’s doing documentary filmmaking right with the troops in Iraq. I mean close enough to be able to give a first-hand account of an IED attack.
With a warning for language (you expected soldiers to talk like Kindergarten teachers?) Buttle’s World invites you to bookmark:
