Allah and Stalin and Christ! Oh My!

Just a few quick thoughts today....

Where's a Daisy Cutter when you Need One?

That was my first thought on seeing images like the one on this page on Fox News this morning and hearing about how security had to be beefed up for all the "peaceful Moslems." The article leads with what sounds like a denunciation of religious violence on the part of a cleric, but the following passage should make you think again.

“The greatest affliction to strike the nation of Islam came from some of its own sons, who were lured by the devil,” he said. “They have called the nation [of Islam, remember] infidel, they have shed protected blood and they have spread vice on earth, with explosions and destruction and killing of innocents.”

He pointedly asked of Muslim youth: “How would you meet God? With innocent blood you shed or helped shed?”

Al-Sheik also said that campaigns were being waged against the people of Islam [emphasis added] — “military campaigns, thought campaigns, economic campaigns, and media campaigns.

“They are all against this religion. The nation was described as a terrorist nation, that we are terrorists and backward,” he said. “Conferences have been held and conspiracies have been woven ... all unjustly and unfairly.”

Al-Sheik urged worshippers to abide the words of God and his prophet and not be “fooled by a civilization known for its weak structure and bad foundation.”

Makes me think of how "peace" really means "the end of Israel" to the "Palestinians". Count me in on any "campaign" against a bunch of people whose stated beliefs give me the "choice" of servitude or death.

If you Can't Install a Puppet, Erect a Statue ...

... to one of the greatest villains of history.

RNC Caves to Social Conservatives?

This is bad news, especially on top of something I've already blogged about here before: that one strain of thought among Democrats is that they should try harder to win the Christian evangelical vote. The Republican plan presented by the new RNC chairman doesn't sound so bad, but then, just as you start thinking that you're reading another "news report" by a sloppy, liberal reporter, the other shoe drops:

As for conservatives, [Ken Mehlman, RNC chairman] said, "When we debate who should sit on the judiciary, we have an opportunity to deepen the GOP by registering to vote men and women who attend church every week but aren't yet registered voters."

Most ominously, the head of the RNC explicitly showed his Bill Bennett-like disdain for the fact that Bush won on the war!

In the text of Mehlman's remarks released by the RNC, he took a veiled shot at Bush rival Sen. John Kerry, saying voters were asked to choose between "victory and vacillation" in the war on terror. But Mehlman deleted the remark [emphasis added] when giving the address.

The secular wing of the Republican party had better wake up, and fast!

Some Updates

For those who may not have noticed, I have recently updated two posts. Hat tip to Andy on the second of these.

-- CAV