The Four Dimensions of Violence in a Muslim’s Life

These four dimensions are taken from the book The Roots of Jihad (2005) by Dr. Tawfik Hamis:

1. When a Muslim’s child reaches the age of 10, he/she should be beaten to force him/her to practice the five prayers. The prophet Mohammed had said: “Order your children to pray when they are seven years old and beat them to force them on the prayer when they are ten years old…”
2. If a Muslim wife disagrees with you or disobeys you then it is your responsibility to discipline her. Discipline such as admonishing her, avoid making sex with her, and beating her. From the Koran: “Men are superior to women because Allah has made so. Therefore good women are obedient, and (as to) those (women) on whose part you fear desertion, admonish them, and leave them alone in the sleeping-places and BEAT them; then if they obey you, do not seek a way against them; surely Allah is High, Great.” (Sura 4, verse 34).
3. If your neighbor does not pray in the mosque then burn his house down.
4. Kill any infidel (non-believer). An infidel is someone who does not believe there is no God except Allah and Mohammed is the prophet of Allah. He doesn’t do the five prayers, and does not fast on Ramadan.

The author says most Muslims are afraid if they don’t follow these rules Allah will send them to burn in hell for eternity. Nice.

The Second Coming of Christ?

Are we in the end of days as prophesized by Jesus? Well, let’s see what Jesus said what the signs are. Here are his exact words in boldface:

And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars. There is fighting over in Libya for starters. Although Obama is not calling it a war. And the leader of Iran wants to blow Israel off the face of the earth and start wars to bring back the 12th Imam.

For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. The nation against nation hasn’t happened yet. Famines has happened either, but we are burning food (corn) for fuel. Pestilences haven’t happened yet. Japan had a major earthquake and several aftershocks.

Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. This is nothing new. Christians have always been persecuted. Here I believe Jesus is talking about the Antichrist killing people when the new world order is created.

And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. This sounds like the total breakdown of civility. Of morality. This is exactly what the far-Left radicals wants. Total chaos so they can re-create society in their own sinister image.

And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. The false prophets are the ones that say follow me blindly and without question and I will save you during the chaos. And when you don’t follow them you be treated as a traitor and will be dealt with.

So are we in the end of days? Hard to say. Some of the signs are there but not all.

Senator Durbin wants Internet sales taxes

From CNET News.com (April 12):

A Democratic senator is preparing to introduce legislation that aims to end the golden era of tax-free Internet shopping.

The proposal--expected to be made public soon after Tax Day--would rewrite the ground rules for Internet and mail order sales by eliminating the ability of Americans to shop at Web sites like Amazon.com and Overstock.com without paying state sales taxes.

Dick Durbin of Illinois, the second most senior Senate Democrat, will introduce the bill after the Easter recess, a Democratic aide told CNET. [read more]

It must be true a Democrat never met a tax he or she did not like. Isn’t this a state issue? Then again that doesn’t matter to The Left. They are so addicted to power it’s ridiculous.

I am just waiting for Congress to tax money found on the street. After all it is income you know. Have you seen all the things that are taxed on the IRS forms? It’s got to be like 20 items or so.

Then you have a wealthy real estate millionaire on The O’Reilly Factor wanting to give more to the gov’t to make the debt smaller he said. You’ve got to be kidding me! He said he would give more but thought the gov’t would waste it. They are already doing that now!

The Measures of Restoration

In his 1954 book A Program for Conservatives, American conservative founder Russell Kirk mentions six ways to restore America’s boredom:

1. Renewing the power of religious faith, and piety, among the mass of men. Men must always be bored, if they can find nothing better in the universe than their own little mean selves; they suffer the punishment of Narcissus.
2. Reviving the concepts of honor and dignity which gave motive to honest desire for emulation-in short, reminding men that there are some persons who are more, and better, than "just ordinary guys," and that mediocrity is not the norm for civilized beings.
3. Returning to individuals the responsibilities which bring a decent satisfaction, the duties of self-reliance, and the rights and actuality of private property and inheritance.
4. Reaffirming the right of men to what is their own, and to whatever they can make their own without injustice to others-rewarding ability and honesty and diligence with those material satisfactions which most men always must hunger for.
5. Reminding modern society of the truth that security, though a good thing, is not a better thing than freedom-and that, indeed, security does not long survive the extinction of prescriptive freedom.
6. Reawakening men's minds to the eternal contract of society, which affirms that we do not live simply for ourselves, in the fleeting moment, but instead live to justify the faith and labor of our ancestors, and to transmit life and justice to our posterity.

Not bad advice.

Lawsuit wants to dissolve some Georgia city charters

From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution website (March 28):

The Georgia Legislative Black Caucus filed a lawsuit Monday against the state of Georgia seeking to dissolve the city charters of Dunwoody, Sandy Springs, Johns Creek, Milton and Chattahoochee Hills. Further, the lawmakers, joined by civil rights leader the Rev. Joseph Lowery, aim to dash any hopes of a Milton County.

The lawsuit, filed in a North Georgia U.S. District Court Monday, claims that the state circumvented the normal legislative process and set aside its own criteria when creating the “super-majority white ” cities within Fulton and DeKalb counties. The result, it argues, is to dilute minority votes in those areas, violating the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution. [read more]

This lawsuit is completely stupid. It would be like suing the state because there is not enough women in a city for example or not enough Republicans. How does a city stop anyone from entering itself? Unless they have a law against black people entering I don’t see how this is done.