CAIR Commences 'Share the Quran' Campaign

Conflict, IMMIGRATION, Islam, Jihad, Multiculturalism, Propaganda

“Today,” reports Daniel Pipes, “CAIR took what is probably the most major step ever in the direction of da’wa (call to Islam) with the announcement of a ‘Share the Quran’ campaign. It involves sending free copies of the Koran over the next six months to 100,000 leaders: ‘governors, state attorney generals, educators, law enforcement officials, state and national legislators, local elected and public officials, media professionals, and other local or national leaders who shape public opinion or determine policy.'”

Dr. Pipes continues:

The Hamas-founded Council on American-Islamic Relations has long pretended to be a civil rights organization, comparing itself at times to the NAACP, but a close look at its record reveals the real CAIR agenda to be – in common with all Islamists – promoting the Shari’a. This can be achieved two ways. The more circuitous method influences American public opinion through the educational system, the media, the arts, the courts, and the political process. The more direct method converts Americans to Islam.
Route #1 is CAIR’s stock-in-trade, what it does most of the time. But every so often it tries route #2. For example, in 2004, CAIR published an advertisement titled “More in Common Than You Think” that argued for the similarities between Christian and Islam: “Like Christians, Muslims respect and revere Jesus. … Like Christians, every day, over 1.3 billion Muslims strive to live by his teachings of love, peace, and forgiveness.”

Here’s the part I’m not clear on. Pipes adds that “testimony by converts to Islam reiterates that putting the Koran into the hands of non-Muslims is the best bet for winning them to the faith.”

But to read the Kuran is to know it for the manual for murder it is. The good messages therein are plagiarized. Why would that be attractive?

Oops: ilana, what’s come over you? Need you ask—in the Age of the Idiot of all stripes—what it is about a political system masquerading as a religion, sanctioning blood-letting, and promising supremacy and power; what is it about such a belief system that a base, brutal idiot would find attractive? Okay, okay; you made your point.

CAIR Commences ‘Share the Quran’ Campaign

Conflict, IMMIGRATION, Islam, Jihad, Multiculturalism, Propaganda

“Today,” reports Daniel Pipes, “CAIR took what is probably the most major step ever in the direction of da’wa (call to Islam) with the announcement of a ‘Share the Quran’ campaign. It involves sending free copies of the Koran over the next six months to 100,000 leaders: ‘governors, state attorney generals, educators, law enforcement officials, state and national legislators, local elected and public officials, media professionals, and other local or national leaders who shape public opinion or determine policy.'”

Dr. Pipes continues:

The Hamas-founded Council on American-Islamic Relations has long pretended to be a civil rights organization, comparing itself at times to the NAACP, but a close look at its record reveals the real CAIR agenda to be – in common with all Islamists – promoting the Shari’a. This can be achieved two ways. The more circuitous method influences American public opinion through the educational system, the media, the arts, the courts, and the political process. The more direct method converts Americans to Islam.
Route #1 is CAIR’s stock-in-trade, what it does most of the time. But every so often it tries route #2. For example, in 2004, CAIR published an advertisement titled “More in Common Than You Think” that argued for the similarities between Christian and Islam: “Like Christians, Muslims respect and revere Jesus. … Like Christians, every day, over 1.3 billion Muslims strive to live by his teachings of love, peace, and forgiveness.”

Here’s the part I’m not clear on. Pipes adds that “testimony by converts to Islam reiterates that putting the Koran into the hands of non-Muslims is the best bet for winning them to the faith.”

But to read the Kuran is to know it for the manual for murder it is. The good messages therein are plagiarized. Why would that be attractive?

Oops: ilana, what’s come over you? Need you ask—in the Age of the Idiot of all stripes—what it is about a political system masquerading as a religion, sanctioning blood-letting, and promising supremacy and power; what is it about such a belief system that a base, brutal idiot would find attractive? Okay, okay; you made your point.

Updated: Palin Could Outrun Obama (Image Alert)

Celebrity, Healthcare, Sarah Palin, Sport

As a runner, I can never get enough of interviews with runners. This is a neat exchange in Runner’s World with Sarah Palin, whose fabulous figure attests to her disciplined habit. Here (July 1):

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Unlike Sarah Palin, I’ve kept to moderate distances and have thus preserved my knees. I do ice them, as do I cross train on the elliptical and work with weights. (Also very moderately)

Palin indicates she intends to “get an elliptical.” She states that she likes “it more than the treadmill and it’s easier on my knees.” Good thinking: I would never run anywhere but outdoors. Nor will you catch me on the treadmill. Never. But cross training on the elliptical is very beneficial. Exercising with weights on the ankles at home does wonders for the muscles supporting the knees too.

She likes running in the heat; I love the soft rain.

We both can’t abide running early in the morning (traumatic; not therapeutic), and prefer running alone. Palin says: “I don’t like to talk while I’m running.” Ditto.

Palin, who has a wonderful figure, is also “into Asics runners right now.” I’ve been using Asics top-of-the line Gel for years. It’s a wonderful shoe. I’m sticking with it.

She says running gets harder with age. Sure it does. But running is about mental persistence. Also, it revives the mind like nothing else. While running, I problem solve. It’s quite uncanny. Synaptic connections in the brain must get flooded with neurotransmitters. Or something. This does not happen—to me at least—within the confines of the gym. (I visit the gym, because I must.)

The president is apparently a runner, but Palin ventures: “I betcha I’d have more endurance. What I lacked in physical strength or skill I make up for in determination and endurance.” Very likely, although Obama looks pretty fit. Man power always overtakes in an initial burst, but if the guy is not as fit as the woman, he will fall behind on a longer or tougher run.

Sarah listens to “old Van Halen” during a run. Good choice. I’m impressed. I, however, prefer to stay aware of my surrounds, but then I don’t have a security detail.

Did I say Sarah Palin has a figure to die for? I think I did. Twice. Although I can run, I am unable to steer clear of the chocolate (whole slabs of it at a time). I don’t think Sarah Palin indulges.

Brussels Unbans Ugly Fruit & Veg

EU, Europe, Free Markets, Regulation

If from the title of this post you’ve deduced that the newly christened European Onion (EU) had been regulating produce—then you are perfectly correct. “Curly cucumbers, crooked carrots and mottled mushrooms – odd-looking fruit and vegetables” had been barred from Europe’s markets and supermarkets by the Brussel sprouts that run that Continent.

BBC News: “July 1 marks the return to our shelves of the curved cucumber and the knobbly carrot,” said Agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel.

“We don’t need to regulate this sort of thing at EU level. It is far better to leave it to market operators,” said the Patron Saint of the “wonky” vegetables.