the camel's nose*

If you believe that a Muslim woman who suffers weekly beatings from her husband, has endured martial rape on demand, and who desperately wants a divorce and the custody of her children does not deserve the exact equal protection under the law as your sister or your best friend then, by all means - please keep insisting that permitting Sharia into any one of these United States is about freedom of religion.**

However, you'd do well to keep in mind that Sharia doesn't allow freedom of religion.
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*the camel's nose

**go ahead, ask Britain how well Sharia has worked.

Okay, TSA...

Let's review, shall we? I know that this might be difficult stuff for you incompetent mouthbreathers to understand, but I'll try to make it as simple and as clear as possible. Pay attention.

Terrorists:

(from the FBI. Only one person on that list was not a Muslim man.)

Not a terrorist:

M.O.

I have no idea why anyone is surprised or alarmed that Obama is going to nominate Andrew Traver as the head of BATFE.

After all, this guy was given a high level job for the TSA.

free encyclopedia (you get what you pay for)

Wikipedia is a decent starting point if you're mildly curious about a topic and just want a general overview, but any reference librarian will tell you that it is not acceptable material for real research. This is due to the unreliable, and possibly untrustworthy, source of the information. Wikipedia can be edited by anyone and so might be biased, have errors, or even be completely (and intentionally) untrue.

A glaring example of this was discovered over the weekend when a reader happened to do a wikisearch for the title of one of my recent posts.

We'll need a little demonstration. Please play along.

1. Go to wikipedia's homepage.

2. Type "lan astaslem" in the search box.

3. Your first and second results will contain links. Click on either.

4. Now read the very first line.

See? If you search wikipedia for "I will never submit" in Arabic, it will send you to an untargeted redirect - the top of the page for "accept Islam and you will be saved."

I'm sure it's also a coincidence that just last year someone had to go in and edit out all the PBUHs.

lan astaslem

Do not ever forget. Do not ever surrender.

conflagration

In an age where I can carry the complete works of William Shakespeare on a device small enough to fit in my pocket, book burning is primitive and irrelevant. I can download and delete the Qur'an over and over, all day long. It means nothing. And in the end, all books will succumb to the rot of time, crumbling to dust, without the help of a zealot's flame. There are no sacred objects.

That we are even having this debate shows how far we have fallen. We are now appeasing the barbarians who have always intended to slaughter us all, anyway.

Let it burn.

emboldened Iran

Guess what, kids? While our dear leader was on his sixth vacation of the year, Iranian President I'm-a-Dinner-Jacket revealed his shiny new toy - conveniently labeled "bomber jet" on its side just in case anyone missed the fact that ol' Mahmoud went and got himself a BOMBER JET. And it's big! and it's gold! (wow, what is this guy compensating for?) Anyway...amidst confetti, applause and one of the strangest examples of military stagecraft* I've ever seen, he proclaimed it to be, "the messenger of salvation and dignity for humanity.”

So, for those who aren't fluent in Sharia-ese, allow me to translate that for you:

"Islam or die, bitches."

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*In Iran, only the bombs get unveiled.

PBUH

Clearly not my best work, but hey!
It's "Everybody Draw Mohamed Day!"

BONUS! Alan is making a list of Mohameds! Add yours today!

will the earth move for you?

In an effort to further the cause of Science!, honor the beauty of the female form, and annoy primitive Muslim screwheads everywhere, today The Breda Fallacy will be celebrating Boobquake.

(shake your booty, Booby!)

(I also have the day off and need blogfodder.) Stay tuned!

Rule 3 violation

Oh, wait. Never mind.

(the only good terrorist...etc)

rollergirls rock

I went to my first rollerderby. My coworker and friend Holly was on the first league in the Cleveland area, the Burning River Rollergirls. I hadn't made it to a bout until recently despite the fact that I felt I practically knew most of the players already from hearing stories from Holly.

Doctors, dentists, teachers, scientists, and yes, even a few librarians all get together, lace up their skates, strap on their helmets, adjust their mouthguards and hit the track, ready for battle.



Despite the cute uniforms, fishnets and pigtails, they're not gentle with each other - bones can get broken, rink rash is common and bruises are badges of honor.

It's a spectacle all right, and great fun to watch once you know the rules, but all I could think was, "Wow. Here's a bunch of professional, accomplished women, some with tattoos and piercings, skating in miniskirts, crashing into each other, listening to rock and roll and being celebrated for it...because they can, because we're free. Is this a great country or what?"

I feel lucky everyday to have been born here and now.

hog heaven

Bacon apple pie, chocolate bars with bacon in them, pig candy, pig candy dipped in chocolate...search my blog for the word "bacon" and there are an embarrassing number of results. I just really like bacon.*

And today, my friends, I found the bacon mecca (hee hee. Haraam!) of Al Gore's world wide web. Allow me to introduce J&D's, the home of bacon salt and now baconnaise. Passionate about cured, smoked pork products, J&D have created a product that will make everything taste like bacon. Bacon salt is zero calorie, low sodium, vegetarian, certified kosher (!) and comes in 9 different flavors - with the original being referred to as a "straight bacon punch in the mouth."

And if all this bacony goodness isn't enough for you, J&D have exponentially increased their awesomeness by creating Operation Baconsalt. You can send bacon salt to soldiers stationed overseas at a 50% discount - a taste of home, a reminder of what they're fighting for, and a wonderful way to say thank you to those who are serving in faraway places where bacon is not allowed...

The taste of bacon is the taste of freedom - thank a veteran today.

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*& it might be genetic. Just the other day, my mother was telling me how she had a sausage and bacon sandwich for breakfast. Sausage AND bacon, people. Both. She's such an inspiration. And once, when she was pregnant with me, she ate a whole pound of bacon by herself throughout the course of a day. I'm practically made of bacon.

Also, I just saw a bacon salt gift pack that I would like very, very much. A jar of baconnaise, 6 flavors of bacon salt and a bacon flavored lip balm! A dab Hoppe's behind the ears, a liberal application of bacon flavored lip balm and any shy violet will be instantly transformed. You'll be the tastiest dish on the block, guaranteed.

bullet proof burka

Ladies, want to feel safe? Cover up! (because it's obviously you that is the problem.)

*more burkas in fashion here

This post from Marko has bothered me since 9:30 this morning. I keep going back and looking at that photo...a woman, a human being, reduced to nothing. She stands behind her husband like a shadow - shapeless, colorless, nameless, and faceless.

I don't know if it's culture or religion, but it is abhorrent. Perverse. Evil.

And where are the feminists? Where are the protests? Where is the UN's Division for the Advancement of Women? Where are the shouts of outrage from the universal sisterhood, demanding choice and freedom? It was making me heartsick.

And then this afternoon, thanks to Michelle Malkin, I realized that hope will soon come for these women. Women who for so long have lived like someone else's property and walked through life in a shroud, will get a glimpse at freedom. They will know the full, pure, beauty of it...


...and they will spread the word.

keffiyeh kerfuffle

There seems to be a bit of confusion concerning Rachel Ray's choice of accessories. Spokesperson for Dunkin' Donuts, she appeared in an ad wearing a scarf that looked very much like the type chosen by terrorists and anti-war protesters.

So, let me clear things up once and for all.

Everyone can relax. It's just a scarf.

(I can has bacon?)

Isn't it?

numerology

Earlier this week, news sites were circulating a report on a study about the misconceptions Westerners have about Islam. Muslims were polled and it turns out a majority of them condemn terrorism, want democracy, and considered themselves moderates.

In fact, out of the 1.3 billion Muslims in the world, only 7% of them could be considered radical. Only 7%? Great! (right?)

Unfortunately 7% of 1.3 billion is 91 MILLION.

The population of Australia is almost 20,500,000.

The number of radical Muslims in the world is about 4 and a half times the entire population of Australia.

So, 91 million people want to kill you. Yes, you. Your would-be murderers don't know your name and have never seen your face but it is still you that stars in their blood soaked fantasies. 91 million people dream of having the pleasure of decapitating you.

(let's pause here to note that I would be just as worried about 91 million Buddhist monks wanting to kill me. Or 91 million Ursuline nuns. Or 91 million Amish farmers. I didn't make up these statistics, I just did the math.)

The population of the U.S. is 301,139,947.

The number of radical Muslims in the world is approximately one third of the population of the U.S.

Let's pretend for a moment that the U.S. is a little model for the whole of the Islamic world. Go outside and walk out into the street. Turn around and look at your warm happy little house, then look at the houses of your neighbors, standing directly next to yours. Now imagine one of those houses filled with radical Muslims, building bombs in the basement and plotting your death.

How comforting is that 7% now?

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As Marko points out in the comments, my example is flawed. It should really be something more along the lines of:"Go stand in the middle of your street, and imagine that there are 100 houses on your street. 7 of those houses would be inhabited by radical Muslims." I did not try to be intentionally misleading. I am the first one to admit that if you put a mess of numbers in front of me, my brain shorts out. It still does not negate my main point of 91 million being a really big fucking number and I'm not comfortable with it.

That said, I am a little baffled at how some are so quick to give these self-proclaimed radical Muslims the benefit of the doubt. These 7% who responded to the poll are the ones who readily admit their radicalism. They are the ones who are openly proud of their beliefs. I'll take them at their word.