Comments on: Video Of The Day

By: Nicolas

Nicolas — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 09:22:59 +0000

can I just say right now Roger looks a little TOO old to be the boy's father? anyway, interesting speech Rush gave, and I about laughed my ass off at the 'words' of the muslim usurper..good lord. I KNEW that idiot uncle tom was a muslim

By: n.n

n.n — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 02:13:20 +0000

Off-topic: Quote of the Day Jefferson sentenced to 13 years in freezer cash case At the sentencing, U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis said "there must be some sort of greed virus that infects those in power," referring to other politicians serving prison sentences Hilarious! Ellis refers to a "greed virus", but I would prefer to refer to it as the "power corruption virus" or PCV, not to be confused with the "political correctness virus", which is just as virulent and just as lethal.

By: Mauser

Mauser — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:17:08 +0000

Re the Rush video: I have to echo what the man says about the Scouts. I was in the scouts for the whole 7 years, and made it to Eagle Scout just before I turned 18. It definitely had an effect on the kind of person I am and my bond with my father.

By: MissJean

MissJean — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:31:12 +0000

Oh, and at the risk of your wrath, Bob, I came across a review of a book I’m going to look for today: Samir Khalil Samir’s 111 Questions on Islam.

The reviewer wrote, in part: “I found the book rather frightening in its honest and direct presentation of what Islam does, holds, and seeks, of what it does when it conquers, and of the intensity of its beliefs, which in so many ways are so ill-founded. Basically, if it could, Islam would convert the world, one way or another, by peace or by war, as precisely the “will” of Allah. It really has little place for anything else, except when Islam cannot prevent its presence. (…) The voluntarism of Islamic thought enables it, apparently, to justify means of advancement that are by any reasonable or democratic standard immoral.”

http://hprweb.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=217%3Athe-ambiguity-of-islam&catid=34%3Acurrent-issue&Itemid=1

By: MissJean

MissJean — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:21:24 +0000

Oh, I should add that I DO appreciate the Alhambra, the Spanish palace built by a Muslim. He was restricted from depicting the human form, but he covered the walls with flowers, birds, etc. It’s a beautiful place still.

By: MissJean

MissJean — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:14:48 +0000

I ask: WHAT Muslim culture and innovation? Why didn’t he name something specific? He’s glossing over how pre-Islamic art and architecture is often destroyed or co-opted. There were the statues of Buddha which were blown up (with advance notice to the world) and the ancient Persian sites that were targeted for demolition or purposely flooded. The Haggia Sophia was turned into a mosque (now a museum, but never returned to the Orthodox Christians). There is a cathedral in Spain that Muslims “want back” because it was a mosque – not mentioning that the mosque replaced a church which the Moorish invasion of 711 destroyed.

Islam discouraged depictions of the human body, so that you have to look at European collections to find old manuscripts that had drawings of scenes from the Koran (albeit with Mohammed’s face scratched out or blank).

And it certainly wasn’t a contribution in the judicial system. Give me Western forensics over a discovery process in which a man’s testimony is given preference over a woman’s testimony and physical evidence!