The Face of Islam

The woman above shows herself long enough to demonstrate support for the Muslim cleric who in defense of rapists, likened Western women to meat. Who can blame a cat if it eats meat exposed for all to see?
In other Islamic news:

Canada Warned

"OTTAWA - An al-Qaeda strategist has warned Canada to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan or face terrorist attacks similar to 9/11, Madrid and the London transit bombings.

The threat, attributed to a member of the al-Qaeda information and strategy committee, condemns Prime Minister Stephen Harper for refusing to pull out of Afghanistan.

It also refers to Canada's "fanatic adherence to Christianity" as well as its purported attempts to "damage the Muslims" and its support for the "Christian Crusade" against al-Qaeda."

Finally, from Tehran comes criticism of Bush and the republicans, who it seems are to blame for the disquiet in the world. One supposes Pelosi et al agree.

Check It Out

Gateway Pundit

Now This Makes the Terrier Mad

Indian Dowry Violence
"The burden both of dowry payments and lavish weddings is one of the main reasons why female feticide - the practice of aborting female fetuses - remains widespread in India. Earlier this year a report in The Lancet, a British medical journal, indicated that as many as 10 million female fetuses may have been aborted in India over the past 20 years by families trying to avoid the expense of having a daughter and hoping to secure themselves a male heir."
"People are getting more greedy and aggressive in their dowry demands," said Jha, of the Delhi Commission for Women. "You might expect that as the country becomes more and more Westernized, this traditional practice would be dying out, like other traditions, but actually the reverse is true. The old habits remain."

"The men say, 'I'll just ask the girl's parents to get me a Honda.' But they forget that then they have to buy the petrol, so they go back to the bride's family to ask for the petrol money. It's not a one- step system; it's a continuous process."

"Kamlesh's father had been saving for his daughter's wedding and dowry for 16 years before she married, and was squirreling away as much as he could from his daily earnings as a carpenter of around 125 rupees. The total cost of the wedding and dowry came to around 250,000 rupees, 60,000 of which he borrowed from his boss. When the demands for further dowry payments from the groom's side began coming, it was impossible for him to meet them.

Misrilal said his daughter was being bullied for an increased dowry payment from the start. After her husband attacked her in August, he left her, tied up, in the shed for several days, without food or water, until relatives came to her rescue.

"Within a year of marriage he was beating her because of dowry," Misrilal said, sitting with his daughter in a hospital corridor, waiting for her head wound to be examined."
The Terrier has always believed that it is the man who should pay the dowry.

French Intifada Still Going Strong

"An average of 112 cars a day have been torched across France so far this year and there have been 15 attacks a day on police and emergency services. Nearly 3,000 police officers have been injured in clashes this year. Officers have been badly injured in four ambushes in the Paris outskirts since September. Some police talk of open war with youths who are bent on more than vandalism.

“The thing that has changed over the past month is that they now want to kill us,” said Bruno Beschizza, the leader of Synergie, a union to which 40 per cent of officers belong. Action Police, a hardline union, said: “We are in a civil war, orchestrated by radical Islamists.” "
I suppose we'll hear more about this after the election, when the MSM needn't fear it will cause security and the war on Islamic fascism to sway the voters. Then again, maybe they'll never mention it. There is another election coming up in 2008.

Depressing

America Alone © 2006 by Mark Steyn
Nothing new here, but Steyn says it so well. If any of this comes as a surprise to you, I suggest you have not been paying attention.

No Coercion in Islam Except If You Try to Leave...

or refuse to join, or ...oh, you get the point.
Reuters is reporting that Islamic terrorists are demanding the return of convert Abdul Rahman who excapsed to Italy to avoid being executed for the crime of leaving Islam. To make their point they have kidnapped an Italian journalist, who will be realesed when they get Rahman.
What is wrong with these people?

Time to Confront Radical Islam, Says MP

Confronting Islam
"At long last, the debate on Islamism as politics, not Islam as religion, is out in the open. Two weeks ago, Jack Straw might have felt he was taking a risk when publishing his now notorious article on the Muslim veil. However, he was pushing at an open door. From across the political spectrum there is now common consent that the old multicultural emperor, before whom generation of politicians have made obeisance, is now a pitiful, naked sight.

The 10,000 Muslims in my constituency of Rotherham can only benefit from removing the dead hand of ideological Islamism – allowing their faith to be respected and their children to flourish in a Britain that finally wakes up to what must be done. Despite the efforts of extremists to prevent any sort of rational debate about the place of Islam in Britain, it is at last happening.

A fight-back is beginning to reclaim Britain from the grip of those who refuse to acknowledge the centrality of British values of tolerance, fair play and parliamentary democratic freedoms – notably those of free speech and respect for all religions, but supremacy for none. Voltaire noted this attribute of the English three centuries ago, when he wrote: "If there was just one religion in Britain there would be despotism. If two, there would be civil war. But as there are 30, they all live at peace with each other." "

Newsweek Has Fallen on Hard Times

Newsweek

Time was the big three of news magazines were Time, Newsweek and US News and World Report limping in a distant third. It was with surprise that The Terrier learned of Newsweek's utter ignorance about Islamic plans to establish a worldwide caliphate, mocking Bush for using the word. The word is used frequently, usually by Muslims who plan on establishing one. Does Newsweek not know of the utterances promising Islamic world-wide rule? Is this the result of believing that jihad refers to a spiritual struggle to master oneself?

...the Heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes

This comet, Swan, first discovered in June, will be at its closest to Earth at the end of October, then will fly off into space, never to be seen here again. Very interesting. If this were the Middle Ages, and I were a prince, I'd be getting my affairs in order.

It's Only A Game

Here's Mike Fancesa speaking with Cory Lidle two days before Lidle crashed his plane into an NY high rise:
Mike

"It was silly talk radio fodder, but in retrospect two sequences stand out and were difficult for Francesa to shake 31/2 hours after he and Russo initially told listeners of Lidle's reported death.

The first began with Lidle saying that he was "sitting here trying to enjoy my day in New York" when a friend's text message alerted him to the criticism. Russo's response to that was, "First off, no Yankee fan should enjoy the day in New York ... If I'm a Yankee right now I'm in hiding. I'm not enjoying any day in New York."

Lidle: "Hold on. I have friends in and I'm not allowed to go and enjoy this day in New York?"

Russo: "I don't know any Yankee fan who's enjoying the day, to be honest with you."

Lidle: "I want to win as much as anybody, but what am I supposed to do, go cry in my apartment for the next two weeks?"

Russo: "I know a lot of Yankees fans who are doing that, that's for sure."

Russo had been critical of Lidle previously, and got into a heated discussion about his merits (or lack thereof) with Yankees GM Brian Cashman the day after he was acquired from the Phillies.

Later in Monday's interview, Lidle told the hosts, "I'd like to meet you sometime and we can sit down and you guys can really get to know me instead of just what you think about me."

Said Francesa, "I haven't thought much about you at all, to be honest with you." "


I love the Yankees as much as anyone, and have done since the days Rizzuto was playing. I cried over a World Series loss in 1960, not since.
With all that goes on in the world, or in a single life, we are supposed to mourn losses on the ball field? Sorry, I can't go there. I hope Cory Lidle enjoyed his last two days despite the Yankees loss and Francesa's words.
Enjoy the days you have Mike, despite the scoreboard.

Northern European Front

I'm told this story speaks of Ramadan riots in Sweden, meanwhile in Belgium the backlash seems to have begun:
Swedish riots
Belgian Elections

Meanwhile, here in the USA the coming election may be turned by word of a Congressman's misbehavior online with a page.

None So Blind As Those Who Will Not See

Apparently its quite the thing among Muslim cabbies to refuse service
to those carrying alcohol or accompanied by a dog, even a guide dog.
Why on earth would I want to ride in a cab driven by a Musselman?

Australia

Norway

Battle of Lepanto

On this date in 1571 Western civilization was saved from the Muslim-would be-conquerors, thanks to the Spanish and Italian fleets and the prayers of Christendom for victory. The pope called for roaries and they were prayed. October 7th has ever after been the feast of Our Lady of the Rosay (although at one time it was called Our Lady of Victory. Say a rosary today.

If you won't serve the public, don't drive a cab

A Muslim cabbie in Britain has refused to carry a blind woman because he didn't want her guide dog in his Muslim cab. Why doesn't this clown lose his license?

Cabbie

Meanwhile, in Other News

While the press fixes on Foley, Hastert, and the nobility of Democrats compared to nasty Republicans this from the UK:

Riots Near Windsor Castle
"Extra police are being drafted into the Windsor area today after three nights of violent clashes between white and Asian youths.

Gangs have fought battles in the streets using baseball bats and pitchforks. A Muslim-run dairy which wants to build a mosque was petrol bombed.

Dozens of officers have been deployed to stop and search youths and mounted police are being brought in.

The Queen usually spends weekends at Windsor Castle and no decision has yet been taken over whether she would change her plans. A senior source said: "We are aware of what is happening and all appropriate security measures are in place." "

Survived the Day of Rage...

...at least the part of it that passed through my neighborhood. The usual signs Bush war crimes blah blah blah, Condi knew blah blah blah, 9/11 was an inside job blah blah blah, impeach Bush blah blah blah
The usual complaints about free speech, while they march down Second Avenue, virtually ignored except for the horde of police (being paid handsomely) protecting their line of march. What fantasyland do they live in? They all looked like refugees from fantasyland, the nightmarish neighborhood.
And they could be home watching the Yankees. Go figure.
I wonder if they ever root, root, root for the home team?

The Mahdi Watch

HE followers of Moqtada al-Sadr believe that the US invaded Iraq to prevent the return to Earth of their sect’s messiah-like figure, the Mahdi, or 12th imam.

Hojatoleslam al-Sadr claims that his militia is preparing for the day when the Mahdi, the last direct descendent of the revered Shia figure Ali, reappears. Shia believe that the Mahdi, who disappeared in 868, will bring justice to Earth.

At a prayer service in the central Iraqi city of Kufa on September 15, the cleric told a crowd of thousands that the Americans were collecting a dossier on the Mahdi to prevent his return. “Did you ever ask yourself about why all of this, the bloodshed and the prisons? Why are the brothers fighting each other for a political game planned by the Americans? This all happened because they (the Americans) are waiting for the Mahdi. This planning started ten years ago. They have a big file for Imam Mahdi and they just need his picture to complete it.”

Hojatoleslam al-Sadr and his advisers are convinced that the Americans want to destroy Islam and stop the Mahdi. “The Americans are trying to hijack Islamic movements. They think that these are serving the Mahdi’s interests. Whatever they did in Afghanistan and Iraq are all attempts to hijack the Mahdi’s return.”