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January 1, 2009 By Fausta

Two photos

Via the Baron, an article on anti-Israel demonstrations in Belgium, Pas de mandat d’arrêt pour les 13 personnes arrêtées à Anvers, yields an interesting photo:

The man on the left holds a sign that reads “WE NEED YOU OSAMA” on his left hand, and on his right hand a photo… of whom?

When the official photo was released on February, AP described it,

In this photo released by Miraflores Press Office, Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez salutes during the commemoration of his 1992 coup attempt in Valencia, Venezuela, Monday, Feb. 4, 2008. As an Army lieutenant colonel, Chavez led a coup attempt in 1992 against then-President Carlos Andres Perez. More than 80 civilians and 17 soldiers were killed before troops loyal to Perez quelled the short-lived putsch. (AP Photo/Miraflores Press Office) (AP Photo/Miraflores Press Office)

But then, as we know, Hugo {hearts} Hamas, and love is a two-way street.

UPDATE
Welcome, Jihad Watch readers. Please visit often.

UPDATE, Friday 2 January
The AEL Incites Riots in Antwerp

UPDATE, Saturday 3 January
Welcome, Gateway Pundit readers. Please visit often.

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Filed Under: Belgium, Gates of Vienna, Hamas, Hugo Chavez, Israel, terrorism, Venezuela Tagged With: Fausta's blog

October 24, 2007 By Fausta

The CounterJihad Summit in today’s Podcast

In tonight’s podcast, Siggy and Gates of Vienna join us to talk about the CounterJihad summit.

The call-in number is (646) 652-2639, and there’s also chat.
Join us at 9PM Eastern!
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Filed Under: Blog Talk Radio, Gates of Vienna, Sigmund Carl and Alfred

September 19, 2007 By Fausta

Tonight at 9PM: The Modoggie Cartoons

BlogTalkRadio Listen Live
In tonight’s prime-time Blog Talk Radio podcast, our monthly roundtable with Siggy of Sigmund, Carl and Alfred and Dymphna and Baron Bodissey of Gates of Vienna will discuss al-Qaeda’s $150,000 bounty on Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks.

Please join us!

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Filed Under: Gates of Vienna, Lars Vilks, Sigmund Carl and Alfred, Sweden, terrorism

August 31, 2007 By Fausta

Newspapers finally report on the new cartoon protests, a month after Gates of Vienna

The Telegraph has a story today on the current cartoon protests:

Fears grew of a new confrontation over images deemed blasphemous by Muslims as Pakistan joined Iran in protest over a sketch by a Swedish artist portraying the prophet Mohammed as a dog.

Pakistan’s foreign ministry said it had summoned the Swedish charge d’affaires to condemn “in the strongest terms, the publication of an offensive and blasphemous sketch of the Holy Prophet”.

The move adds to a chorus of criticism over the series of drawings, by artist Lars Vilks, one of which was published earlier this month by a regional Swedish newspaper.

Lars Vilks‘s website (link in Swedish) has all the offensive and blasphemous drawings.

What I find interesting is not the protests, which of course are expected, but that it’s taken this long for the papers to get around to it.

Gates of Vienna has been covering the Moondoggie story since July 23, including the cartoons, more recently here.

Baron Bodissey and Dymphna were my podcast guests last Monday. Next Monday at noon Siggy and I will be talking about work in the USA and in the EU. Don’t miss it.

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Filed Under: Gates of Vienna, Mohammed cartoons

August 27, 2007 By Fausta

Today’s podcast. the Dissident Frogman explains it all, and today’s items

UPDATE
You can listen to today’s podcast here

blog radio
In today’s Blog Talk Radio podcast, it’s time for Fausta’s Blog Talk Radio monthly roundtable with Dymphna and and Baron Bodissey of Gates of Vienna and Siggy. Today we’ll be discussing the SIOE’s proposed demonstration on September 11 in Brussels.

Please join us at noon Eastern. The call-in number is (646) 652-2639.

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Liars outdoing liars: Huffington Post ups Iraqi deaths past 1 million
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Via Linda, The Dissident Frogman has an educational video.
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Via Larwyn,
Ten Worst Branding Decisions of All-Time
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Obama’s not welcome among this crowd.

I don’t expect he’d be welcome with open arms in Pakistan, either.

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Elvira‘s still at it, as expected.
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King/Drew Medical Center: Reparations Paid Back In Blood
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As I mentioned yesterday, The Official Berkeley Breathed Website announced,

Note to Opus readers: The Opus strips for August 26 and September 2 have been withheld from publication by a large number of client newspapers across the country, including Opus’s host paper The Washington Post.”

Salon has the strip in question.
Atlas Shrugs, Linda, Q&O, SCSU and Captain Ed have commentary.

How do you spell dhimmitude?

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Filed Under: Barak Obama, Blog Talk Radio, censorship, Democrats, Gates of Vienna, illegal immigration, Islam, politics, Sigmund Carl and Alfred

August 10, 2007 By Fausta

Culture, or civilization? Sarko, and today’s items

Culture, or civilization?
How to Distinguish Your Friends From the Barbarians (h/t Larwyn)

I attempt to draw a distinction between “culture” and “civilization,” the former being local and contingent, the latter nonlocal and universal. A culture can be good or evil, depending upon how civilized it is.

“Civilization” is an archetype that, by its very nature, can never be fully attained on earth. It is the perfection and the totality to which this or that culture — to the extent that it is healthy — orients itself. In a sense, you might say that it is analogous to Augustine’s distinction between the “City of Man” and “City of God.” Evolution and progress can only occur in light of the “movement” toward civilization, which is why “progressives” are so curiously named, since their ideology specifically eliminates the possibility of objective progress toward this nonlocal telos.

One of my many objections to leftism is that it eliminates the idea of civilization and replaces it with culture. Multiculturalism explicitly maintains that various cultures are uniquely beautiful and valuable, and that there are no objective standards — i.e., civilization — by which we may judge them. Thus, because of this metaphysical pathology at the heart of leftism, it is not possible for them to notice, for example, that Israel is civilized and that it is surrounded by savages. To any civilized person, this observation is a banality of the first rank, but one of the most pernicious effects of leftist political correctness is that it outlaws civilization, generally equating it with “racism” or some other form of oppression.

Go read the rest.

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The Brits are Voting with their feet,

Britain is facing a mass exodus of people looking to escape the crime and grime of modern living. The country’s biggest foreign visa consultancy firm has revealed that applications have soared in the last seven months by 80 per cent to almost 4,000 a week. Ten years ago the figure was just 300 a week.

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France/ Sarkozy so far
The new French president is popular. He is a genuine friend of the United States (and Israel). The real tests are yet to come.
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In foreign matters, he garnered several successes in less than three months. One, his initiative for a new European governance, two years after the popular rejection of the so-called European Constitution both in France and the Netherlands, is genuine and impressive. A second success, the release of five Bulgarian nurses and one Palestinian doctor held in Libya for eight years, has been fraught with criticism and suspicion. According to some critics, his special envoy to Libya – who happened to be his wife, Cecilia – stole the show from an European Union diplomatic team that had been working about the issue for months. According to other critics, the six State prisoners have been traded for a far-reaching arms and technology contract that will provide dictator Muammar Kadhafi with a new strategic edge in the Mediterreanean.

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Filed Under: France, Gates of Vienna, immigration, UK

August 4, 2007 By Fausta

Did you listen to GoV and SC&A yet?

In last Monday‘s podcast Gates of Vienna‘s Dymphna and Baron Bodissey, Siggy and I discussed immigration,

Baron Bodissey: “We have a problem that law is not enforced, and our president and our own administration have made wanting to enforce the law a symptom of bigotry, racism, and unkindness and lack of compassion”

We also discussed France’s nuclear deal with Libya, the EU, and anti-Americanism, and you must listen to the rest of the podcast. As a follow-up, during the week Sigmund Carl and Alfred posted about a Gates of Vienna‘s commenter on the subject of the EU’s constituion.

It is a privilege to have these conversations with Dymphna, Siggy and the Baron, and I look forward to having one of these podcasts every month.

On a related subject, Siggy once said,

For every prayer that is extended our way when most needed, there are an equal numbers of prayers that we must extend because those prayers are needed.

Dymphna is recovering from shoulder surgery and I invite all my visitors to pray for her speedy and complete recovery.
blog radio
Next Monday, August 6 my guest will be the excellent Captain Ed Morrissey


I have been reading daily Captain’s Quarters for years and it was a real thrill to meet Ed last March (that’s my hand over his shoulder). Ed’s the podfather of BTR political podcasts and it’s a real pleasure to talk to him. Don’t miss the podcast Monday at noon Eastern time.

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Filed Under: Blog Talk Radio, bloggers, Captain's Quarters, Gates of Vienna, podcasts, Sigmund Carl and Alfred

August 2, 2007 By Fausta

The forest from the trees, and Fred

In yesterday’s post, My neighbor and Fred I ridiculed the rumors that have come out in the media (specifially the press) about Fred Thompson, and I said taht if you listen to all that garbage you end up thinking that,

He’s a gun-toting womanizing twice-married gay guy who is loved by his children and liked by attractive women lawyer -who might have lobbied on abortion sixteen years ago -Senator movie star on horseback.

There is one thing, however, that I didn’t know about but that is a serious issue with some of us, namely, Fred’s hiring of Spencer Abraham as his campaign manager.

Dymphna has a great post explaining why this is

a fatal mistake for anyone concerned with the infiltration of this country by Islamists.

Abraham is an apologist for Isalmists. Follow Dymphna’s links and you’ll see that.

So while we are all looking at the forest of cosmetic accusations, we are missing the trees. Take a few minutes and go though the links at Right Truth.

What you don’t know does matter.

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Filed Under: elections, Fred Thompson, Gates of Vienna, Islam, Republicans

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