Here’s a long (but as usual, worthwhile) essay from Dr. Dalrymple on the future of Islam. He’s not optimistic.

One sign of the increasing weakness of Islam

For some reason, they think that “pressure on Iran may spur attacks“:

As tensions increase between the United States and Iran, U.S. intelligence and terrorism experts say they believe Iran would respond to U.S. military strikes on its nuclear sites by deploying its intelligence operatives and Hezbollah teams to carry out terrorist attacks worldwide.

This will make a big boom:

The test, named “Divine Strake,” will involve nearly 40 times the amount of commercial ammonium nitrate and fuel oil explosive set off in the largest open-air, non-nuclear blast at the site to date. In 2002, 18 tons of explosives were set off at the Nevada Test Site.

700 tons of explosives. This isn’t a weapons test–there’d be no way to deliver that size of ordnance. I’ve got to think that they’re trying to figure out just how small they can size a nuke to (pardon the inadvertent alliteration) bust a bomb-building bunker.

…need to be fired for monumental, criminal incompetence. In fact, I’d go further, and say that the entire organization needs to be overhauled from the top down. Same thing for the CIA.

While Samit was spending a solid three weeks trying to get Washington to act on his pre-9/11 terror fears, future 9/11 hijacker Hani Hanjour was raising suspicions with his flight training in Phoenix (suspicions Samit was not told about until after 9/11). Margaret Chevrette of the Pan Am International Flight Academy reported her worries to the FAA and somehow those concerns also made their way to CIA chief Tenet and into CIA memos of August 2001, but the FBI never acted on them. Yet on September 12, FBI agents interviewed Chevrette for more information on Hanjour

Well, not so new–it’s probably as old as history, and it’s against women. And it’s aided and abetted by the cultural relativists, who can never bring themselves to judge anything, except the (obvious) evil that is Amerikkka:

Cultural and moral relativists sap our sense of moral outrage by claiming that human rights are a Western invention. Men who abuse women rarely fail to use the vocabulary the relativists have provided them. They claim the right to adhere to an alternative set of values – an “Asian,” “African” or “Islamic” approach to human rights.

This mind-set needs to be broken. A culture that carves the genitals of young girls, hobbles their minds and justifies their physical oppression is not equal to a culture that believes women have the same rights as men.

So-called “feminists” who complain about western gender oppression and “dead white European males,” but turn a blind eye to this out of a misguided but fashionable leftist sensibility, brutally betray the ideals they pretend to, and their supposed “sisters.”

This is an interesting pre-war Iraqi document, if the translation is accurate:

He mentioned that a meeting in Beijing in the beginning of this month was held between the Prime minister of China and the German Chancellor Schroeder in the occasion of the opening project for the fast train and the latter was asked about the information that was obtained by the Chinese intelligence and it says that Iraq has moved his mass of destruction weapon to Syria and the German Chancellor told him that the German intelligence did indicate this. And after two days the US state secretary went to Damascus to check on this with the Syrian government that in turn denied this news…

Well, the fact that they denied it provides no information as to whether or not it’s true.

[Update at 11:20 AM EST]

Colonel Gordon Cucullu writes about the tipping point of truth:

Reams of documents

This is an interesting pre-war Iraqi document, if the translation is accurate:

He mentioned that a meeting in Beijing in the beginning of this month was held between the Prime minister of China and the German Chancellor Schroeder in the occasion of the opening project for the fast train and the latter was asked about the information that was obtained by the Chinese intelligence and it says that Iraq has moved his mass of destruction weapon to Syria and the German Chancellor told him that the German intelligence did indicate this. And after two days the US state secretary went to Damascus to check on this with the Syrian government that in turn denied this news…

Well, the fact that they denied it provides no information as to whether or not it’s true.

[Update at 11:20 AM EST]

Colonel Gordon Cucullu writes about the tipping point of truth:

Reams of documents

This is an interesting pre-war Iraqi document, if the translation is accurate:

He mentioned that a meeting in Beijing in the beginning of this month was held between the Prime minister of China and the German Chancellor Schroeder in the occasion of the opening project for the fast train and the latter was asked about the information that was obtained by the Chinese intelligence and it says that Iraq has moved his mass of destruction weapon to Syria and the German Chancellor told him that the German intelligence did indicate this. And after two days the US state secretary went to Damascus to check on this with the Syrian government that in turn denied this news…

Well, the fact that they denied it provides no information as to whether or not it’s true.

[Update at 11:20 AM EST]

Colonel Gordon Cucullu writes about the tipping point of truth:

Reams of documents

I’m glad that the case has been dismissed, but for lack of evidence?

An Afghan court has dismissed case against a man who converted from Islam to Christianity for lack of evidence, an official said Sunday…

…Rahman had…been begging his guards to provide him with a Bible.

Something does not compute here. Clearly this was a political decision, taken to deal with the international firestorm (though there wasn’t enough of one, in my opinion, from either the State Department or some of our allies). The problem is that it only deals with this one case, and doesn’t address the underlying issue–Sharia law. Why won’t this come up again?

It’s almost impossible to parody stuff like this:

“Islam is a religion of peace, tolerance, kindness and integrity. That is why we have told him if he regrets what he did, then we will forgive him…”

Yes, we’re tolerant, so as long as he renounces his religious beliefs, we won’t kill him.

Is this what we liberated them for, and what American troops continue to die for?

[Update at 4:17 PM EST]

As I said, you can’t parody these folks. I was reading this Scott Ott post over at Free Republic, and at first took these first two paragraphs seriously:

(2006-03-24)