The government is gonna vet the refugees. What could go wrong?

So…you take an American born guy of Pakistani parentage and hook him up through a Muslim dating website with a Jihadi chick from Pakistan,  hiding place of Osama bin Laden and half of Al Qaeda, who was radicalized in a known extremist mosque and posts all kinds of pro-ISIS and jihadi puke on her Facebook page all day (oh, wait, now the FBI is taking that back so as not to alert everyone that they can get into your precious Facebook account)….and then he goes to the Capital of Islam, Saudi Arabia, home of 15 of 19 of the 9/11 hijackers, and brings her back to the Good Old U.S. of A. on a K-1 Fiancée Visa. What could go wrong?

 I mean, the government vetted her, right? They did a background check on this Pakistani citizen coming here from Saudi Arabia to marry an American in a marriage arranged on the Internet, didn’t they? If I’m to believe all the Hollywood rom-com films and sitcoms, the Immigration Forces of Goodness and Light practically waterboard you under a single flickering light bulb in a dank interrogation cell to make sure your marriage is legit before letting a green card holder stay in the country as the spouse of a natural-born citizen. They wanna make sure your stories corroborate as to how well you know each other, where you met, your shared goals and dreams and future plans, etc to show y’all are really In Love Fo-Evahhh….especially if you’re from a bordering allied country like Canada that doesn’t routinely car-bomb and behead our citizenry (see the plot of The Proposal, with Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds. Scored a 44% at Rotten Tomatoes.). 

Oh, wait, this is Obamaland, where we simply cannot ever, for any reason, give even the slightest offense to Mother Islam and the Holy Koran. I mean, even NASA has orders from Obama to give up space flight and instead concentrate on making Muslims feel good about their wondrous contributions to making bombs that look like clocks science and mathematics. Therefore, we sure as hell can’t vet them under close scrutiny, especially not when we’re trying to flood the nation with 100,000 of them escaping Syria with who-knows-what hidden amongst them as sleeper cell agents.

We’re supposed to be running some kind of Obama-inspired Jobs for Jihadis Program because all they really want are jobs and not the destruction of America and Israel…they’ll be all nice and peaceful once they have jobs, right? I mean, our California Boy had a nice government job pulling in some $51K a year as a health inspector (hey, don’t those jobs have background checks too?) and he was all peaceful, with his new wife bundled up like a walking linen closet at home like a good submissive follower of The Religion of Peace, taking care of their new little Blessing from Allah with help from his mom. Factor in his benefits package and he was pulling in closer to $70K a year. Dude was allowed to leave work in the middle of the day for prayer. Most of us catch grief from our boss if we take too many piss breaks. 

So yeah, what could go wrong, other than two Jihadniks pulling some $28,000 in bank deposits together from a loan through an Internet-based bank and getting a useful idiot of a neighbor to buy them a couple AR-platform sporting rifles while they bought a couple handguns in a heavily gun-controlled state with TONS of stringent gun laws, and in their spare time making dozens of professional-caliber pipe bombs and booby traps….Move along, nothing to see here. Neighbors suspected something was up but in Obeezy’s Caliphate you can’t say anything about The Prophet’s Faithful so the neighbors were too shit-scared to speak up. His own co-workers noticed homeboy was growing out his beard and wearing the Happy Pancake hat (a health inspector with a fluffy Jihadi beard? Nobody said anything? Of course not…just ask him nicely to tuck it into a gauzy beard net and let’s don’t rock the boat.)

What could go wrong, other than these two assclowns strapping on surplus mil-spec body armor and taking a rented SUV to his office Christmas party and mowing down everyone in sight? They killed 14 people and wounded a further 22. Had their pipe bombs worked, there would have been a lot more casualties. And then several hours later, they get their Aloha Snackbar moment of glory and get their asses ventilated like block of Swiss cheese when the local constabulary opens up with righteous hellfire and brimstone on their asses.

Dear Terrorists: This is what awaits you. Suck it.

 

And, as expected, right on cue, more calls for gun control, because, well, MORE LAWS!!!! Because the strictest gun laws in the country didn’t keep criminals from being criminals, kinda like in Chicago. Oh, wait, these two shitcrickets were also making pipe bombs in the house too….is anyone calling for the banning of pipes? Noted scumbag Timothy McVeigh used fertilizer mixed with racing fuel to make a truck bomb that killed 168 people, including 19 kids under the age of six, and injured another 680... You can still buy bags of shit at Tractor Supply, racing fuel hasn’t been outlawed, and I passed about 150 to 200 box trucks today. 

But yeah, we’re supposed to be welcoming all these Syrian refugees in with open arms with a guarantee from The Feral Gubmint that they’ve all had a vetting background check (despite the fact they have no way of actually doing it) and we’re all Bad Humans if we even hint that there might be some ne’r-do-well types intermingled amongst them. I, however, don’t exactly trust the government at their word on this. The FBI has openly admitted they have no way to vet incoming refugees and the White House is happy to just outsource it to the United Nations Refugee Agency. Sure, a circus of idiots that owes the City of New York over $16 million in unpaid parking tickets and dropped $23 million a few years ago to paint a mural on the ceiling, paid in part with overseas development aid money, and the same UN that gave itself a $1.9 billion renovation in New York and was looking at a billion dollar facelift to its Geneva offices. But I digress. Welcome, refujihadis….

They In Power won’t even look into the social media posts of visa applicants. Seems that there’s a secret U.S. policy that prohibits immigration officials from reviewing the social media messages of foreign citizens applying for U.S. visas that has reportedly been kept in place over fears of a civil liberties backlash and “bad public relations.” Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson refused in early 2014 to end the policy, even though several other officials in the organization pressed for such a policy change, according to former undersecretary John Cohen, who pushed for a change in the policy.

The Right is lambasted by The Left for suggesting that we not open the doors and herd them all in. Trump is being compared to Hitler for wanting to temporarily halt the immigration of Muslims until we can get a system in place to properly vet them.

The Left seems to forget that Hero of the Democrat Party Comrade Franklin D. Roosevelt rounded up Americans of Japanese, German, and Italian extraction and put them in Internment Camps, a polite term for concentration camps without ovens but still surrounded by razor wire and armed guards with belt-fed automatic weapons. 

But Steve, you silly dumb Conservative bastard…Comrade Rooseveltski was AT WAR and had to do what he did to protect The Motherland…..

Are we not at war with ISIS and Al Qaeda and are we not awarding our troops medals connected to a Global War on Terror? Did not six brave American airmen just give their lives for their country as a suicide bomber detonated himself next to their patrol in Afghanistan a couple days ago, just days before Christmas?

And that other Hero of the Left, The Obama of the 70’s, Comrade Jimmy Carter, did he not block the entry of Iranians to the country during the Hostage Crisis? 

But Steve, Comrade Jimmy was a Democrat and we do what we want when we want. 

Exactly, you Leftist Scumbags.

Look, for the record, I’m not excoriating all American Muslims. I know there’s plenty of good ones out there, good Americans who don’t bother anyone, who live like good, solid American citizens in peace with their neighbors. A lot of good Americans who practice Islam have given their lives in military service to this nation in this war against terror and Radical Islam. They were Americans first and didn’t let religious commonality with our enemies dissuade them, and as a former soldier I salute them and their bravery.  The brother of our SoCal Jihadi is an honorably discharged veteran of the United States Navy who served in the Global War on Terror. So yeah, one guy stays a good American and the other went bad. I definitely do worry about non-American Muslims who don’t ascribe to the western way of life in the Land of the Free, or whatever is left of it after The Left is done with it.

Somebody once asked a guy who had spent 20 years working in Saudi Arabia among die-hard Islamists the question “Can a Muslim be a good American?” The following is his reply:

Theologically - no, because his allegiance is to Allah.

Religiously - no, because no other religion is accepted by His Allah except Islam (Koran 2:256).

Scripturally - no, because his allegiance is to the Five Pillars of Islam and the Koran.

Geographically - no, because his allegiance is to Mecca, to which he turns in prayer five times a day.

Socially - no, because his allegiance to Islam forbids him to make friends with Christians or Jews.

Politically - no, because he must submit to the mullahs (spiritual leaders) who teach the annihilation of Israel and the destruction of America, the great Satan.

Domestically - no, because he is instructed to marry four women and beat his wife when she disobeys him (Koran 4:34).

We won’t even go into the Afghan practice of Bacha bazi, or screwing young boys. (although it goes against Sharia Law, they live by the adage that “Women are for babies, boys are for pleasure.”)

Intellectually - no, because he cannot accept the American Constitution since it is based on Christian Biblical principles and he believes the Christian Bible to be corrupt.

Philosophically - no, because Islam, Muhammad, and the Koran do not allow freedom of religion and expression. Democracy and Islam cannot co-exist. Every Muslim government is either a dictatorial or autocratic theocracy despite outward trappings of Western democracy.

Spiritually - no, because when we declare “one nation under God”,” and “In God we trust”, we are referring to the Christian God and not Allah.

Therefore, perhaps we should be very suspicious of any and all Muslims trying to enter into this country from without... They struggle at being both 'good' Muslims and good Americans; they cannot and will not integrate into the great melting pot of America easily and willingly without great effort and thorough vetting to weed out the radicals.

This religious-based war is bigger than we know or understand. Muslims everywhere have said they will destroy us from within and are actively seeking to radicalize our American Muslims, especially prion converts to Islam, who by and large are violent criminals and . And simply asking them to play nice and get along is dangerous, because you can’t exactly trust them at their word.

Oh, Steve, you horrible racist man!!!! How can you say such things? 

Well, for starters, Islam is a religion, not a race. So STFU. And secondly, it is part of the core of Islam to deceive and outright lie to those who do not practice Islam.

Get familiar with these terms:

al-Taqiyya/ Taqiyya -

Deception; the Islamic word for concealing or disguising one’s beliefs, convictions, ideas, feelings, opinions, and/or strategies.

Kitman - Lying by omission. An example would be when Muslim apologists quote only a fragment of verse 5:32 (that if anyone kills "it shall be as if he had killed all mankind") while neglecting to mention that the rest of the verse (and the next) mandate murder in undefined cases of "corruption" and "mischief." Muslims lie not because they are liars by nature, but by choice. Systematic lying as a religious policy is deadly, and if our politicians do not understand this, thousands could die.

Prayers for Kafirs -

Since over half of Islamic doctrine is about Kafirs (non-Muslims), it follows that prayers would include Kafirs too, so every day, a Muslim prays for the punishment and suffering of all Kafirs. The prayers also follow the Koranic doctrine that Muslims are not to be a true friend of them. Muslims are to forsake and turn away from Kafirs. Not only are all Kafirs to suffer punishment in Hell, but Christians and Jews are singled out to be worthy of Allah’s anger and are condemned in their beliefs. In the end, all references to Kafirs in Islamic prayer are negative, demeaning and hateful.

They have no problem lying to and deceiving those who are Infidels in their eyes. It’s expected that they do so. Waging war against the Infidel is part and parcel and death is a reward. Read more about the lying here. Read more about jihadi martyrdom here. 

So when the snake says it is cold and promises not to bite you if you would just put it inside your shirt to warm it, don’t be surprised when it buries its fangs in your flesh. You knew what it was when you picked it up.

After all…what can go wrong?

Aloha Snackbar!

Hey, Britons...Take back your country!

That’s it. I give up.

England, I renounce you as the ancestral homeland of the bulk of my gene pool. I grew up with a deep love of the U.K., but I’m really disillusioned now.

Once upon a time, the sun never set on the British Empire. You used to run half the world. And now you’ve become a ridiculous shell of your former glory because your government bends over backwards in its absolutely asinine efforts to kiss every Muslim ass on the island. You may as well just close Number 10 Downing Street and turn it into a mosque. Wrap the Queen in a burka and change your name to the United British Emirates.


You can have a separate Emir for England, Scotland, and Wales…and then when the Islamics kill off all the Catholics and Protestants, Ireland will be united once again as the Islamic Emerald Emirate.


Where France has banned Muslim women from swimming in public pools whilst wearing “burquinis”, you idiots not only support the burquini, but British swimming pools have begun hosting special Muslim swim sessions during which swimmers — including non-Muslims — are banned from entering the pool if their swimming attire doesn't comply with dress code required by Islamic custom. One British lawmaker defended the Muslim swim sessions, stating that they show an appreciation for certain religious groups, like Muslims, who have strict rules on segregation for activities including sports.


Hey, snapperhead…what about the fact that England is NOT a Muslim country and that the Muslim minority should adapt to the country they willingly moved to instead of imposing their will on their hosts and expecting everyone to acquiesce else they get a car bomb?

How about this little tidbit? It seems that many customers of Lloyds TSB banks are being hit with charges of up to £200 a month if they go into the red and overdraft their accounts, while Muslims who use the bank are only being charged £15.

The partly-nationalized bank has been accused of religious discrimination over the disparity between overdraft charges on its standard current account and its Islamic account. The Islamic account was set up by the High Street bank to attract Muslim customers by allowing them to keep faithful to their religion. It seems that Sharia law does not permit the payment of interest so the 'typical' Islamic account at Lloyds TSB has been set up without an overdraft facility.

Again, what in the bloody hell are you doing by allowing Sharia Law to sink its teeth into British life?

You sold out when BP and the government made a deal with Libya…and then the Scots allowed that terrorist scumbag to go home to a hero’s welcome. Way to go, guys.
Your newspapers bitch and complain about your soldiers being killed in Afghanistan and clamor for their return home? Well, maybe they SHOULD come home, so they can fight off the Islamic Invasion from within?


I notice that there’s nary a word from the Queen on any of this. I realize that she’s merely a figurehead, but why give the woman any deference when you won’t defer to her for any leadership? Where’s Prince Charles, the nominal successor to the throne? Why hasn’t he said anything? Because he’s off at Balmoral riding that polo pony he married. Prince of Wales, yet he spends more time in Scotland than in his own principality. Go figure. Maybe he can’t pronounce the name of his estate at Wnsgttevskklspsksnbebegtsgbgh or some other impossible-to-say Welsh-ism?


At least Prince Harry, bless his soul, was trying like hell to deploy with his unit to go fight the enemy. He may have made some youthful errors in judgment before he went into the Army, but he seems to be the last Royal with his priorities straight.

HRH, Prince Harry....Lieutenant Windsor if you prefer.

Keep it up, England. Pretty soon you won’t be able to go sit with your mates for a pint at the local…because Muslims don’t drink…and Sharia Law will outlaw pubs. Maybe when they come for your lager you’ll wake up.

PaleoCon Command Center: Dhimmitude on the Down-Low:

PaleoCon Command Center: Dhimmitude on the Down-Low:

Ya'll gotta go read this posting from my friend Brooke. She's got the nail whacked right on the head.

I see your true colors shining through...

Again and again the Religion of Peace shows its true colors, and as always I’m amazed at how conciliatory the Brits are to their minority Muslim population, condemning their actions on one hand while using the other hand to pat them on the head and make policy changes to British life to pacify Islam.

A British man being held hostage in Mali has been executed, his captors said this past Wednesday, prompting strong condemnation from Britain of a "barbaric" act. Afterwards, they went back to kissing Islam’s ass.

Edwin Dyer was one of four European tourists kidnapped on January 22 as they returned from attending the "Festival in the Desert," a celebration of music and nomad culture at Anderamboukane in Mali, near the border with Niger.

Messages posted on Islamic web sites indicated that they were being held by Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), a 300-strong Islamist terror group splinter cell offshoot that operates in the desert borderlands of Mali, Algeria, Niger and Mauritania.

Edwin Dyer in film footage taken by his captors

England’s Prime Minister Gordon Brown said there was "strong reason" to believe that the report was true. "I utterly condemn this appalling and barbaric act of terrorism. My thoughts are with Edwin Dyer’s family. I offer them the condolences of the whole country."

A few weeks after the abduction, the hostage-takers issued an ultimatum, warning they would kill Dyer unless the U.K. freed the radical cleric Abu Qatada within 20 days. The good cleric is being held in Long Lartin prison in Worcestershire while he fights extradition to Jordan, where he faces terrorism charges.

Abû-Qatâda al-Filisṭînî (sometimes called Abû-Omar) is the author of Islamic Movements and Contemporary Alliances, which argues essentially for no affiliation whatsoever between Muslim and non-Muslim countries. Under the name Omar Mahmoud Othman he is under worldwide embargo by the United Nations Security Council for his affiliation with al-Qaeda. He is wanted on terrorism charges in Algeria, America, Belgium, Spain, France, Germany, Italy, and his native Jordan. Seems that he was implicated in the July 2005 London bombings, and Qatada is reported to have been a preacher or advisor to noted al-Qaeda terrorists Zacarias Moussaoui and failed asstard shoe-bomber Richard Reid.

When questioned in the UK in February 2001, Abu Qatada was in possession of £170,000 cash, including £805 in an envelope labelled "For the Mujahedin in Chechnya". That’d be $271,643.00 in his posession, and a terrorist donation envelope with a paltry $1286.34, hardly enough to buy some Semtex for bomb-making.

Uncle Abu is such a jolly fellow. Looks like an Arab Santa Claus...with a sackfull of hate.

Nineteen audio cassettes of Abu Qatada's sermons were found in the apartment of Mohamed Atta when it was searched after the September 11 attacks. I’m sure ya’ll remember Atta, right? The dude who led the attacks? Such a nice fellow.

On May 15 the deadline was extended by a further two weeks to May 30, and a second demand was issued, this time for a ransom of $142 million in exchange for Dyer and another hostage.

In a statement issued Wednesday AQIM said: "The British captive was killed so that he, and with him the British state, may taste a tiny portion of what innocent Muslims taste every day at the hands of the Crusader and Jewish coalition to the east and to the west."

Dude, wtf? Just move to England and they’ll give you whatever you ask for…the Archbishop of Canterbury himself will be your butler, along with Lord Chief Justice Phillips as your legal counsel.

Brown said: "This tragedy reinforces our commitment to confront terrorism. It strengthens our determination never to concede to the demands of terrorists, nor to pay ransoms. I want those who would use terror against British citizens to know beyond doubt that we and our allies will pursue them relentlessly, and that they will meet the justice they deserve.”

That translates from politico-speak as “We’ll keep sitting on our thumbs acquiescing to your wishes and hope that you’ll go away while you continue to blow people up and cut off their heads. But we support our American ally Obama as he runs about apologizing to Muslims for America’s reaction to Islamic terror attacks”.

In other news, last month Iran executed a 23-year old woman without due process and after she retracted her forced confession for murder. This is the same Iran that Obama is just itching to be friends with, remember.

Delara Darabi made a frantic phone call to her mother begging for help before Iranian authorities held a rushed execution, disregarding a stay-of-execution order and allegedly without informing her lawyer.

'Mother they are going to execute me, please save me,' Delara Darabi
screamed, before a prison official grabbed the phone and told her mother: 'We are going to execute your daughter and there's nothing you can do about it.'

Delara Darabi: another victim of Islam

She was just 17 when she confessed to the killing of her father's cousin, before retracting her confession, saying she had been defending her 19-year-old boyfriend. She told a judge that she had initially confessed because her boyfriend, who she said carried out the killing, told her that, as a minor, she would not be executed and she could save him from being put to death.

Lawyer Mohammad Mostafaei said Darabi called her parents just moments before the execution on Friday. He quoted her as saying, 'Oh, Mother, I see the hangman's noose in front of me. They are going to execute me. Please save me.'

Iranian law requires authorities to inform a prisoner's lawyer at least 48 hours before an execution, but Mostafaei said he was not given warning that the sentence was to be carried out. The woman's parents were not allowed inside the prison to meet her for a last time, Mostafaei said.

'She was denied a legal right guaranteed under the law,' he said. 'The hasty execution and the ignoring of legal provisions suggests that some authorities were happy to put an end to her life,' he said. Mostafaei further said the court did not seriously consider his arguments in the woman's defense. For example, he said, Darabi was left-handed, while all the evidence suggests the crime was committed by someone who was right-handed.

I guess CSI: Teheran didn’t cover that part in their forensics classes. Gotta love Islam and Sharia Law. Good times.

And yet, President Obama rushed forth to semi-bow to the Saudi King before jetting to Cairo to address “The Muslim World”. Um, dude…of the world’s 1 BILLION-plus Muslims, barely 25% are Arabs, so you probably would have reached out to more Muslims by speaking in Indonesia, the country with the largest Islamic population on Earth. Instead you go to Egypt, a country whose leader is generally detested world-wide for human rights violations. Then again, Egypt at least recognizes the existance of Israel so perhaps your real reason was to speak from a somewhat-moderate (or at least less-openly-hostile) Arab Islamic nation to appease Arab Muslims and keep the oil flowing while the Democrats keep us from drilling our own.

While I applaud Obama for speaking at the site of the Buchenwald concentration camp and stating that it’s impossible to deny the events that took place there, I’m still not sure why we keep reaching out to Mahmoud Ahmedinijad and Iran’s imams and Ayatollahs. The man keeps denying that the Holocaust ever happenned. Would you be so quick to reach out if he denied that African slavery in America ever existed? (This question was posed by a caller to The Schnitt Show this week). I’m sure that Black America would be all up in arms over it if he did that, but folks make less of a fuss over it when it’s just Israel and the Jews, right?

At least this time you got the right camp. Last Memorial Day you claimed your uncle liberated Auschwitz, which was in Poland and was captured by the Soviet Red Army. In fact, Obama's great-uncle offered a pretty blunt appraisal as to why his nephew was visiting Buchenwald during his trip to Europe and the Middle East.

“This is a trip that he chose, not because of me I'm sure, but for political reasons,” Charles Payne told the German magazine Der Spiegel (The Mirror). “Perhaps his visit also has something to do with improving his standing with (German Chancellor) Angela Merkel. She gave him a hard time during his campaign and also afterwards.”

He said he had never spoken with Obama about the matter, nor did Obama ever express any interest in Payne's experience.

“I was quite surprised when the whole thing came up and Barack talked about my war experiences in Nazi Germany,” Payne said. “We had never talked about that before.”
That’s because it wasn’t politically expedient before, Mister Payne.

Also, I seem to recall that during the election campaign that if anyone mentioned that his middle name was Hussein or that he grew up with a Muslim parent, Obama would go bonkers apeshit over it, but this week all anyone in the administration could do, from Barack on down through to the gardening staff, embraced it and advertised it as part of the Apology Tour. Look at me, guys, I’m sorta Muslim too! Can I be in the club? Let’s be friends!

Dude, the 25% of them you’re sucking up to wants to kill us all for no other good reason than that we aren’t Muslims…and of course they might just kill us for not being the right kind of Muslim if we were Muslims. And hey, Gordon Brown, the more you let your Muslim population dictate how your country lives and breathes, the less English England becomes until HRH the Queen will be swathed in a burka if Philip asserts his Manliness and allows her to leave Buckingham Palace at all.

Marital Rape is Okay!!! Allah Says So!!!

Boy, it must truly suck to be Hamid Karzai.

In case you’ve been living under a rock, His Islamic Excellency The Honorable Hamid Karzai is the President of The Islamic Republic of Afghanistan.

On one hand he’s trying to bring his nation out of the Stone Age and at least into being Third World and not Sixth World, but he has to deal with tribes and clans and warlords and an economy based upon the sole cash crop being opium poppies to make heroin, and a society based upon an insanely strict adherence to Islam that keeps his country’s women enslaved and men too afraid to do anything remotely Western or modern so that they may as well still be living in caves as hunter-gatherers looking for a herd of Baluchatherium to spear for dinner. Oh wait, it’s 2009; they’d hunt wooly mammoths with an RPG.

He’s trying to help America fight the Taliban and Al-Qaeda, but he can’t be seen to help too much because if he does he’ll get a truck bomb delivered to his doorstep in the name of Allah and Mohammed his Prophet, blessed be their names, yadda yadda yadda.

And it’s really hard to be taken seriously on the world stage when you have asshats like Mohammad Asif Mohseni making your country and Islam as a whole look like total uncivilized douchebags by publicly supporting a law that critics say legalizes marital rape and rolls back women's rights and who rejected an international outcry as foreign meddling, insisting the law offers women many protections.

The law, passed last month, says a husband can demand sex with his wife every four days unless she is ill or would be harmed by intercourse, and regulates when and for what reasons a wife may leave her home alone. Yeah, Allah forbid that a woman should slip her chains, unhook her collar and leash, and actually go outside. And since when has Islam cared a whit whether a woman was harmed?

"It is essential for the woman to submit to the man's sexual desire," the law says. (By force, I guess.)

The legislation raises again the specter of the militant Taliban regime, which fell in 2001 after the U.S. invaded Afghanistan. The Taliban required women to wear all-covering burkas and banned them from leaving home without a male relative. Of course, that relative might not be the right relative and both might be killed out of hand, depending upon which insane cleric has a bug up his ass that day.

Following an international uproar over the new law President Karzai put it under review. The move puts enforcement on hold, at least until some more car bombs can be built.

Mohammad Asif Mohseni, the aforementioned top Afghan cleric and one of the law's main drafters, said the legislation cannot be revoked or changed because it was enacted through a legislative process — passed by both houses of parliament and signed by Karzai. Oops. Shit, oh dear.

"The Westerners claim that they have brought democracy to Afghanistan. What does democracy mean? It means government by the people for the people. They should let the people use these democratic rights," Mohseni told reporters in the capital, Kabul.

Well, shitfire. Using our own democracy against us. We just got served.

Surrounded by supporters, Mohseni unfurled reams of paper with hundreds of women's signatures and thumbprints backing the law. The legislation came out of three years of debate and revision involving both Islamic scholars and members of parliament, Mohseni said. Most of those thumbprints came from thumbs hacked off of women whose hands were showing from under their burkas, though.

Afghanistan is an Islamic state and its constitution defers to the Koran as the ultimate authority, of course, regardless of what the Western world would prefer. Mohseni said the law simply reiterates rules from Islam's holy book.

"In Shariah law, it states that a woman cannot go out without the permission of her husband," he said. He argued that the law is permissive because it allows a woman to go out for a medical emergency or other urgent reason without asking. She’ll just be beaten or stoned after she gets out of the hospital. But hey, she was allowed to go to the hospital, right? That’s progress!

Mohseni said much of the uproar has come from people misinterpreting the law. He said a woman can refuse sex with her husband for many reasons beyond illness, including fasting for Ramadan, preparing for a pilgrimage, menstruating, or recovering from giving birth. Refusal, however, will result in death, or worse.

Though the law only applies to the country's Shiite population, which is 10 percent to 20 percent of Afghanistan's 30 million people, Mohseni, the country's top Shiite cleric, said most of the articles could also be applied to Sunnis. A prominent Sunni cleric, Mawlawi Habibullah Ahsam, said the rules about women submitting to sex and leaving the home would also be acceptable to Sunnis. Well, holy shit. You mean we finally get Sunni and Shiite Muslims to agree on something besides hating each other and hating Jews and hating us, and it’s to say okay to treating your women as slaves? Yeah, that’s progress, baby!

Dozens of Afghan lawmakers and officials condemned the legislation, saying it encourages re-Talibanization. And then they immediately began fearing for their lives for speaking up.

Much has improved for women since the fall of the Taliban. Millions of girls now attend school, and many women own businesses. Of 351 parliamentarians, 89 are women. But in the conservative country, critics fear those gains could easily be reversed. Of course they can…governmental overthrow is always just a few car bombs away.

Mohseni argued that women and men are very far from equal in today's Afghanistan and should not be treated as such. He said many rural women are illiterate and would not be able to find work. Men are typically expected to provide for their wives and children.

"For all these expenses, can't we at least give the right to a husband to demand sex from his wife after four nights?" he said.

Dude, the reason women and men aren’t equal is because of people like you who keep them chained up as cattle. They’re illiterate because you Sharia Law dickbags keep them from going to school, or to work, or beyond the 19th century.

Religion of peace…whoo hooo!!!!

Will Teacup Yorkies be the Downfall of Islam?

As usual, I’m slightly ahead of the power curve in reporting how effed-up things are in IslamoLand. Back in March, I reported that a man in Iran had been beaten by Islamic Morals Police thugs for walking his dog, and that the government there considered dogs “impure”. (Read my pearls of wisdom here: (http://mojosteve.blogspot.com/2008/03/still-more-sharia-law-crapola.html)

Well, now the Saudis are getting into the mix, for even stranger reasons. It seems that the Mutaween are concerned that single men are using pets as bait to lure women into immorality, so they want to ban pets. What utter bullshit.

In Riyadh, the capital, Saudi Arabia's Islamic religious police, in their zeal to keep the sexes apart, want to make sure the technique of pets-as-babe-magnet doesn't catch on there. Their solution: Ban selling dogs and cats as pets, as well as walking them in public.

The prohibition went into effect last Wednesday in Riyadh, and authorities in the city say they will strictly enforce it, unlike previous such bans in the cities of Mecca (the holiest of holy cituies) and Jiddah, which have been ignored and failed to stop sales.

Violators found outside with their pets will have their beloved companions confiscated by agents of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, the official name of the Mutaween religious police, tasked with enforcing Saudi Arabia's strict Islamic code. After the Olympics, maybe China will buy them?

The commission's general manager, Othman al-Othman, said the ban was ordered because of what he called "the rising of phenomenon of men using cats and dogs to make passes at women and pester families" as well as "violating proper behavior in public squares and malls."

Dude…when’s the last time someone walked a cat on a leash through a shopping mall? Ever try to leash a cat? It’s not a wise move, Othie.

"If a man is caught with a pet, the pet will be immediately confiscated and the man will be forced to sign a document pledging not to repeat the act," al-Othman told the Al-Hayat newspaper. "If he does, he will be referred to authorities." (Those same authorities will no doubt declare an anti-kitty jihad, and strap a bomb to the cat for use as a kittybomb. The owner will then be flogged, stoned, and have a limb severed, ostensibly the limb most used to pet the pet.)



The Saudi-owned Al-Hayat newspaper announced the ban in its Wednesday edition last week, saying it was ordered by the acting governor of Riyadh province, Prince Sattam (Blessed Be His Name, of course), based on an edict from the Council of Senior Islamic Scholars and several religious police reports of pet owners harassing women and families.

C’mon. I’ve watched COPS for almost 20 years. I used to *be* a cop. In all my 39+ years of converting O2 into CO2, I have yet to run into dude harassing single women, let alone entire families, by waving a Cockapoo at them and making lewd suggestions. Sure, I’ve seen guys casually sit on benches with ferrets, yellow Lab puppies, an occasional snake, and maybe once a kinkajou, and girls would walk up to them and coo over the little beasties, but never have I seen the same people harass anyone with the animals. If they were bait, then it was subtle bait, not overt. Maybe the guys in Saudi Arabia haven’t learned subtlety yet?

Commission authorities often do not formally announce to the public new rules that they intend to implement. That way, you can stone and cane dozens to help get the word out, I guess. Officials from the commission and Riyadh city government could not be reached for comment on Thursday, which is a weekend day in Saudi Arabia. The English-language Arab News reported on the ban on Thursday. Wow…Thursday is a weekend day? When do these guys find the time to make billions of dollars? Oh wait, Sunday is a Christian thing…..Saturday’s a Jewish thing……Our weekends are Zionist Infidel days and therefore don’t count.

So far, the new prohibition did not appear to have any effect in Riyadh. It's extremely rare, anyway, to see anyone walking a dog, much less carrying a cat in public, in the capital, despite the authorities' claims of flirtatious young men luring girls with their pets in malls. Salesmen at a couple of Riyadh pet stores on Thursday said they did not receive any official orders from the commission banning the sale of pets. Cats and dogs were still on display.

"I didn't hear of the ban," said Yasser al-Abdullah, a 28-year-old Saudi nurse, who was at one pet store with his 3-month-old collie, Joe. Al-Abdullah, who also owns an 8-month-old Lab, said a couple of Western friends had been told to get off the streets by the religious police for walking their dogs. But of course. Harass the Western Infidels.

"I won't allow the commission to take my dogs from me," he said. Brave words, dude. Good luck.

The religious police prowl streets and malls throughout the kingdom, ensuring unmarried men and women do not mix, confronting women they feel are not properly covered or urging men to go to prayers. They also often make attempts to plug the few holes in the strict gender segregation that innovations bring. In 2004, they tried to ban cameras on cell phones, fearing that men and women would exchange pictures of each other, though the prohibition was quickly revoked. Every year, religious police warn against marking Valentine's Day, even trying to prevent people from wearing red clothing on the holiday, which they consider a Western creation that encourages vice. These dudes have WAY too much time on their hands.

There was no word whether commission authorities intend to expand the dog and cat ban beyond the capital. The prohibition may be more of an attempt to simply stop the owning of pets, which uber-conservative Saudi Islamists view as a sign of our insidious corrupt Western Infidel influence, like the fast food joints, shorts, jeans and pop music that have become more common in the kingdom. You’ll gladly take our money, but not anything else?

From what I gather, pet ownership has never been very common in the Arab world, though it is increasingly becoming fashionable among the upper class in Saudi Arabia and other countries such as Egypt. The rich and privileged can act decadently Western, but not the average everyday Achmed on the block.

In Islamic tradition, dogs are shunned as unclean and dangerous, though they are kept for hunting and guarding. Several breeds originated in Muslim countries, such as the Afghan Hound (Afghanistan), the Pharaoh Hound and Saluki (Egypt), the Sloughi Hound and Aidi (Morocco), and no fewer than twelve breeds from Pakistan. In large cities around the Middle East, stray dogs often wander the streets and are considered pests, the same as in almost any large city.

The ban on cats is more unusual, since there's no similar disdain for them in Islamic tradition. Cats are everywhere in ancient Egyptian art, although much of that predates Islam’s arrival. One of the Prophet Mohammed's closest companions was given the name Abu Huraira, Arabic for "the father of the kitten," because he always carried a kitten around with him and took care of it.

A number of hadithas, traditional stories of the Mohammed, show him encouraging people to treat cats well. Once, according to legend, he let a cat drink from the water that he was going to use for his ablutions before prayers.

So, contrary to public desires and modern sensibility, the clerics of Islam continue to keep the Muslim people locked in the Dark Ages out of zealotry. I wonder how the Brits will take to the curbing of pet walking and ownership once they start allowing more and more Sharia Law and Wahabism and Islamist control take a foothold in the United Kingdom.