Category Archives: Islam

UPDATED: Princess Ameerah Al-Taweel

Aesthetics, Business, Celebrity, Classical Liberalism, Economy, Etiquette, Feminism, Free Markets, Islam, Middle East

Is Princess Ameerah Al-Taweel the most beautiful woman in the world? Indisputably. Her face is simply exquisite. Poise and manners are perfect too. Mrs. Al-Taweel’s simple, rich-girl solutions to endemic unemployment sound more left-liberal than classically liberal, but her heart is pure and she is bright. Married to “Buffett of Arabia,” Ameerah Al-Taweel is also terrifically wealthy. I hope she does not pick up any ho-like mannerisms while in America.

Ameerah Al-Taweel’s Interview With CNN’s Piers Morgan

UPDATE (Sept. 25): It would seem that Princess Al-Taweel is a “micro-credit cultist.” The role of the NGO, as she see it, is to encourage economic growth by doling out loans to plucky people who want to start a business. Her belief in the “Micro-Credit Cult” is understandable. Saudi Arabia is a rentier state, where an aristocratic, authoritarian upper-class manages the country’s vast natural resource of oil. In the Saudi situation, this custodian class is probably more benevolent than a democratic despotism would be.

The Real Atomic Bomb

Business, Debt, Economy, Federal Reserve Bank, Founding Fathers, Inflation, Islam, Jihad, Pop-Culture, The Zeitgeist

“There is something horrible about to explode,” said Patrick Byrne, the CEO of O.Co, formerly Overstock.com.

AND IT’S NOT A JIHADI BOMB.

In fact, for special effects, insert here a series of Beavis and Butthead grunts to simulate the Jihad-obsessed. It is misguided to convince Americans, living in “The Age of the Idiot,” that the primitives who inhabit the Muslim world will eliminate the freest, most prosperous civilization, when it is American leadership—43 & 44, and all those Dems and Republicans who went before: They are the architects of American ruination.

If Islam poses a danger to our communities, it’s because of anti-private property laws mandated over the decades by the Traitor Class. These laws prohibit most forms of voluntary, peaceful dissociation and effective self-defense.

Patrick Byrne’s economic acumen comes from his Austrian thinking. He knows what’s upon us: Great Depression # 2. “Something very bad is coming. … We’re at the edge of a catastrophe,” he has warned. Byrne understands, as his philosophical ancestor Thomas Jefferson did, what unprecedented levels of public and private debt will do to a republic.

“We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude.” Debt is the “fore horse for oppression and despotism,” after which “taxation will follow, and in its train wretchedness and oppression.”

So said Thomas Jefferson.

Below is the sage from O.Co (as well as “The Brothers Grunt” from MTV):

Grunt if you agree.

Flying Sorties For Peace (The Latest From Libya)

Democracy, Foreign Policy, Islam, Left-Liberalism And Progressivisim, Middle East, Neoconservatism, War

Make no mistake, and Obama’s denials notwithstanding, “Rebels fighting their way towards the Libyan capital” are “backed by Nato aircraft [ostensibly enforcing a UN resolution to protect civilians from Col Gaddafi’s forces.”]

NATO=The US. And the US being the US (a warrior nation); it is not pressing for peace talks, even though Libyan officials have “urged the rebels to open talks. ‘If you want peace, we are ready,’ Information Minister Moussa Ibrahim has said.

Rather than encourage a peaceful solution to the Libyan conflict from which democracy (as bad as that is) is unlikely to spring, our English allies—A UK Foreign Office spokesman, in particular, who appears to have responded on behalf of the oh-so independent Libyan Rebels—promised that “Nato action will continue … Our overriding priority has always been to protect Libyan civilians and to enable them to choose their own future.”

By flying sorties over their homes?

In July, Mrs Clinton, a member of the President’s Womb Warrior team, announced that, “Until an interim authority is in place, the United States will recognise the TNC [Transitional National Council] as the legitimate governing authority for Libya, and we will deal with it on that basis. … The United States views the Gaddafi regime as no longer having any legitimate authority in Libya,” Mrs Clinton had said.

As the BBC observed, by recognizing the Libyan opposition as the country’s “legitimate governing authority,” the US ensured that “billions of dollars of Libyan assets frozen in US banks could be released to the rebels.”

Have you ever wondered to whom this US confiscated (oops, “frozen”) property belonged in the first place? One loses track of all the “good” things America does in the name of freedom.

An Egyptian Revolutionary Tribunal?

Democracy, Islam, Justice, Law, Middle East

The Egyptian court sitting in judgment of former Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak will oblige the masses. It’ll masquerade as a court of law, but this tribunal will more closely resemble the French Revolutionary Tribunal, meting justice mercilessly by popular demand.

The Washington Post describes a rather cruel spectacle: “The first day of the ousted president’s trial transfixed Egyptians across the country as they watched a man who had once commanded respect and fear lying on a hospital gurney inside a metal cage installed in a makeshift courtroom. … His two sons, Alaa and Gamal Mubarak, hovered over him, blocking the view of their father from television cameras and the court. Gamal Mubarak twice kissed his father and frequently leaned in to confer with him as his brother stood erect, holding the Koran in his hand.”

AND:

… most Egyptians seemed enthralled by the spectacle of the former president in a cage. Some replaced their Facebook profile photo with a screen grab of Mubarak lying on the gurney. Others voiced indignation that the trial would take longer than a day. His crimes were clear, they said. They pointed to his dyed jet-black hair and what they described as his smug manner, his arms often crossed behind his head, as evidence that his health was fine.