The voting is over and I am very happy that Emilio Carlesimo won a Venice City Council seat over the very arrogant Ted Kozarski. God forbid that Venice elected a TV producer for a councilman after the left wing junk we see on TV. However this is not the victory that I wish to discuss; it is the defeat of Harry Walia that is so disturbing. Harry was defeated by lies, innuendo and smear tactics perpetrated by the Democrats and one fanatic who went after Harry for his race. While my friends and I were handing out campaign literature one of the Democrats who were also handing out literature for Kozarski and Bennett accused Harry of not paying the bill to the man with which he is involved in the personal law suit. It was amazing that he knew the story two days before it was printed in the news papers.  While Jim Bennett may not, as he claimed, have directly initiated the lies about Harry; he never did anything to stop them. What were these lies? Harry was an Arab, he had ties to the 9/12 terrorists and is a Muslim. Harry is of Indian birth, is a Christian and is a proud American citizen for 38 years. He has a relative in the armed force who has served two terms in Iraq and another that is applying to the Naval Academy. The other smear tactics used were to drag out an arrest for DUI in 1996 which was later dropped and a civil law suit about a repairman whose work Harry considered substandard. That case is still pending in court as that man is accused of trespassing on Harry’s property. Harry may have business law suits pending but they are part of the business world and not pertinent to the city council race.  I am not one to run around using the word racist but the person who has hounded Harry from day one and gave a comment to my original article certainly seems to qualify for that title. He concentrated on Harry shortening his Indian name but still having to use the original name on bank documents. What he failed to mention was the bank making the loan insisted on him signing both with his Americanized name and his birth name.

Has it come down to this, that the candidates that can smear their opponents the most win the race? Harry did not resort to those tactics and had to take the news media printing articles about the candidates which mentioned the above accusations on the front page but explained that they were not true or a normal course of business on something like page 6. Many people only read the first page and that is the impression of the candidate that they get. Time and time again it has been emphasized that Republicans should not smear Republicans in Primaries or other races. I would expect this from Democrats like Ted Kozarski but it should have been disavowed by someone who claims to be a Republican like Jim Bennett.

Let’s say you have 39% of your income taken from you by the government. Would you be able to hire more people? Would you be able to invest more? If you’re taxed more, you will spend less; this is common sense really. America has the second highest corporate income tax rates on earth (up to 39%). What is the problem with a higher tax rate on business? Well, this is simple economics actually. Businesses will either run away from America or they will increase prices and employ less people.

But why would prices go up? Simple really; when corporate income tax rates go up, two things happen. The industry which supplies businesses will have to increase their prices to make a profit – thus leading to an increase in production costs for other businesses. To keep up with demand, business will have to produce more and hire more. But with a higher cost of production comes higher prices for goods and services. With the higher tax rate, it will also be more costly to employ more people, thus leading to even higher prices for goods and services. The result is a slowdown in economic growth and output. Even if demand is high, a higher tax burden will not give us the maximum growth we seek. We can easily fix this problem by lowering corporate income tax rates.

There are two main reasons for why we should want lower corporate income tax rates. The first reason is because a lower corporate income tax rate means that prices will be lower, thus increasing demand via price adjustments. If a company sells a product for a lower price, consumers will have more incentive to buy because it is cheaper for them to do so. This is just common sense economics. The second reason for lowering corporate income taxes is because a lower tax rate allows business to employ more. This way, if demand is high, businesses can take full advantage of this because the price of production will be less. This will allow them to lower prices, produce more, and hire more employees to keep up with the higher demand. What does this all lead to? A higher standard of living is the end result. It will be cheaper for people to buy products and at the same time more people will be employed. Or in simple terms, the standard of living will increase because of a lower corporate income tax rate.

Does this mean there will be no recessions? Of course not, recessions are natural to the free market. A recession comes about after a boom or peak in output. We call this the business cycle. To get out of that recession, you lower taxes. After the recession, you can raise the tax rate back to the original tax rate.

Will lowering the corporate income tax rate increase the deficit? If it does, it won’t increase it by much. In 2008, the government received $2,523.6 Trillion dollars in revenues. Out of that $2,523.6 Trillion dollars, only $304.3 Billion came from Corporate Income Taxes. So statistically speaking, we get 12% of our national revenues from corporate income taxes. In retrospect, Personal Income Taxes account for more than 45% of our total revenues. So if we did lower the corporate income tax rate, the deficit would not increase by much.

Another argument could be made for lowering corporate income taxes. If tax rates are lower, the incentive to open new businesses will increase. That is because the cost of maintaining a business will be lower. That will allow more small businesses to open up. This can actually lead to more revenues. If you have a tax rate of 35% for 1000 businesses, you will get some revenue. But we all know that 25% of 1500 businesses is greater than 35% of 1000. So in theory, you could actually increase revenues. In real life, this has actually happened. Under President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, corporate income taxes were lowered from 52% to 48%. The result was an increase in revenues…

Overall, I come to the conclusion that lowering corporate income taxes will defiantly help business in America prosper. In Germany, corporate income taxes have been lowered and the result is that business is not only doing great, but businesses all over Europe are flocking towards Germany! So I hope you can see the reason for why lowering corporate income taxes is critical to the success of American business in our near future…

Before you read the sources, I personaly challenge someone to prove me wrong...

Sources: My Blog: http://albertsamerica.wordpress.com/

Government Records:

http://www.bls.gov/cps/prev_yrs.htm Unemployment 1950s to now.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2009/pdf/hist.pdf Deficits/Revenues/Surpluses/budget

http://www.bea.gov/scb/pdf/2008/08%20August/0808_gdp_nipas.pdf GDP Growth 40s – Present

http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/100xx/doc10014/March2009_HistoricalTables.pdf Revenues, Deficits, Budget 1965-2008

Last week in Detroit, Michigan, a group of Muslim immigrants engaged the FBI in a gun battle. 

Journalists Paul Egan and Oralandar Brand-Williams of The Detroit News wrote, “The leader of a Detroit mosque who allegedly espoused violence and separatism was shot and killed Wednesday by the FBI in a gun battle at a Dearborn warehouse. Luqman Ameen Abdullah, imam of the Masjid Al-Haqq mosque in Detroit, was being arrested on a raft of federal charges including conspiracy, receipt of stolen goods, and firearms offenses. Charges were also filed against 11 of Abdullah's followers. Eight were in custody Wednesday night awaiting detention hearings today; three remained at large. A federal complaint filed Wednesday identified Abdullah, 53, also known as Christopher Thomas, as "a highly placed leader of a nationwide radical fundamentalist Sunni group." His black Muslim group calls itself "Ummah," or the brotherhood, and wants to establish a separate state within the United States governed by Sharia law, Interim U.S. Attorney Terrence Berg and Andrew Arena, FBI special agent in charge in Detroit, said in a joint statement.”

While most Americans ignore that minor incident in Detroit, it proves indicative of a larger dilemma facing the United States’ immigration policy.  Former President Bush in 2008, began importing 1,000 Iraqi immigrant refugees into the USA monthly.  He jumped that to 19,000 a year for 2009.  President Obama, earlier this year, signed a bill to add thousands more from  Palestine.

How long can a country maintain its own language, culture and identity in the wake of endless immigration from cultures that do not assimilate into the host country?  What happens when immigrant numbers grow greater than the native people?

For a simple example, look to North America in 1492 where 522 Indian tribes lived upon the land for centuries without change to their languages, religions and cultures.  They enjoyed their ‘space’ all around America. The Blackfeet ‘ruled’ Montana.  The Apache occupied Arizona, etc. The Seminoles lived in Florida.  The Chippewa owned Michigan, etc.

By 1850, white settlers slaughtered millions of them and sent them to reservations.  In the Smithsonian Indian exhibit in Washington DC, gives the reason for the destruction of the indigenous people of North America: “After first contact, the main destruction of the red man stemmed from guns, disease, the Bible and alcohol.”

Samuel P. Huntington said, "The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do."

Today, American Indians suffer on reservations with 80 plus percent alcoholism, lost languages, loss of religion, cultures and ways of life.  We subdued them, so much so, they could not respond to our onslaught.

But enter the 21^st century and enter Islam.  Muslims now fan out around the world with one “prime directive” to “…convert or kill non-believers.”  Muslims, whether peaceful or radical, they all follow the same edict in their Koran.  Given enough numbers, they overwhelm their host country.

Example: Holland fights for its life today.  It suspended any further immigration by Muslims last year. They pay immigrants to go back home.  France mandated that all immigrants must speak French and no more wearing of the burka.  Great Britain cowers under growing Sharia Law and more emboldened numbers of Muslims.  They will not recover from their immigration dilemma nor will their culture as it becomes overwhelmed by immigrants: projections show them adding 11 million more within two decades.  British society and British culture will not survive.

If you would like to learn more, visit www.thesocialcontract.com

“The English philosopher John Locke, whose thinking helped inspire the American Revolution, said that society should be governed by an understood set of values he termed the social contract. Under the social contract, governments have obligations to their citizens, and citizens have responsibilities to society,” the website reads, “Most public issues are basically moral and ethical ones. What is the right thing to do? How do we decide what we think is right? When rights collide, which ones take precedence? The concept of the social contract helps us sort out the difficult issues confronting American society today and helps us find balance.”

Each quarter THE SOCIAL CONTRACT journal examines trends, events, and ideas that have an impact on America's delicate social fabric. This journal addresses the following key topics: Human Population issues; including absolute size, rate of growth, and distribution. Do cherished American ideals prosper or suffer through further population growth?

• Immigration issues. In order to best facilitate meeting the highest goals of the American people, (1) how many immigrants should we admit? (2) who should he admitted? And (3) how can we humanely enforce the rules?
   
• Language, assimilation, culture, and national unity considerations. What shared values are necessary to the maintenance of our social contract?
   
• The balance of individual rights with civic responsibilities. Since the previous issues are so often framed in terms of rights, what are the balancing obligations?
   
• Other nations' efforts at creating and guarding their own social contracts. What practical insights can be gained. from observing the failures and successes in nation-building by other societies?

THE SOCIAL CONTRACT explores these complex and interrelated issues with articles, essays, and book reviews that vary greatly in outlook and philosophy. They encourage a wide spectrum of opinion as they publish contributions from many vantage points.

If you want to learn more, spend $25.00 a year for the “Social Contract Quarterly”.  It educates beyond anything you will hear in the main stream media.  MSM only reports accelerating consequences, but it’s better to solve the problems rather than to continue racing into them.

Just as the ‘tiny’ incident in Michigan will be dismissed, like a cancer, it will grow and it DOES grow without attention, until, it will become a tumor that destroys the ‘social contract’ that successfully served this civilization for 233 years.  But, like what happened to the Aborigines of North America, we will become victims of our own immigration policies. 

How do we stop what is happening to us?  Empower your collective strengths by joining www.NumbersUSA.com ; www.capsweb.org ; www.alipac.us ; www.firecoalition.com ; www.fairus.org ;  www.thesocialcontract.com.

Symbolic politics without strategy is precisely chosen, designed the new U.S. president a foreign policy program, said the by war, terror and George W. Bush-weary Western public opinion from the heart. A year after Barack Obama's election victory in America's foreign policy lacks a clear line - and many questions unanswered.

The massacre at Ft. Hood yesterday has stunned and grieved America. Everywhere people are asking questions. How could this happen on a secure military installation? What drove him to do it?

Our heavy hearts go out to the families who have suffered this shocking loss.

What is not shocking is the spin the “establishment media” is trying to put on this horrific massacre. For instance, Fox News this morning interviewed a “criminal profiler” who asserted definitively that this attack had nothing to do with religion, that the man was “troubled.” (In fairness to Fox News, they are at least raising the questions about jihadism as a motive.)

Others are suggesting he had some kind of post-traumatic stress syndrome — an insult to all our brave soldiers who have actually served in combat (Hasan hasn’t).

CAIR (the Council on American-Islamic Relations) immediately jumped into the fray last night, arguing that no religion or ideology could justify this, in spite of the hundreds of passages in Islam’s holy books calling for jihad against non-Muslims. (As our readers know, ACT! for America recently launched a petition calling for a government investigation of CAIR.)

What is largely being ignored is that Hasan was a devout Muslim. An internet post in his name earlier this year compared suicide bombers to soldiers who throw themselves on a grenade to save their comrades. A former colleague, Col. Terry Lee, recalls Hasan arguing “Muslims have the right to rise up against the U.S. military.”

Hasan passed out Korans the morning of the attack and “donated his furniture to anyone who would take it” (see story below). This certainly appears to be the actions of someone preparing for martyrdom.

The story below also notes that he once listed his nationality as “Palestinian” rather than America.

Perhaps Hasan had emotional problems. But there appears to be an abundance of evidence that he was ideologically predisposed to do what he did yesterday. Survivors of the attack said Hasan shouted “Allahu Akbar” before opening fire.

The tragedy at Ft. Hood yesterday deeply grieves us and we mourn with those who are mourning. But the tragedy will only be deepened if a politically correct narrative is once again foisted on the American people.

After the succession of Islamist terror plots were recently foiled, many in the media and law enforcement said they could not find any “connection” between the plots — overlooking the obvious jihadist connection. When a Detroit imam was shot to death last week, law enforcement and many in the media went to great lengths to downplay any connection to militant Islam.

And now we see the same pattern taking shape today, in the aftermath of this terrible tragedy.

After the sickening news of yesterday when a Muslim American soldier’s clothing brazenly opened fire into a crowd of other American soldiers and citizens, killing at least 13 and wounding nearly 30 very innocent non-Muslim American citizens I’m ready for some GOOD CHANGE. 

This has got to stop. We have to start cleaning house of this vermin that call themselves “peaceful Muslims.” We know now that THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A PEACEFUL MUSLIM. Even this Army Officer was probably thought to have been a “peaceful Muslim” proved to us that they don’t exist. They are filled with hate and violence toward all of what they, in their minds, call decent peace loving people, ‘infidels.’   If we are infidels, they are ‘hatefidels’ and we should take aim on them for a change. 

Let’s start a new trend here in what was once relatively peaceful America. We should begin purging our federal government of ALL known Muslims and any others who associate themselves with any thing remotely Islamic. They are not fit to be our neighbors or even be in the same country with us. Their initial intent is to make us bow to THEIR will in OUR country. 

I say, “To hell with them” and I mean that literally. They aren’t fit to be around good honest, God-loving people, and I mean the God that is good and loving Himself; not the one that tells his followers to go and KILL others so they can come to him in his heaven. Good! Go to him and I doubt you’ll see any heaven where he resides; more like the fires of Hell are in his so-called heaven. There they will pay for their sins of killing innocent people just because those innocents didn’t conform to their unholy and dastardly way of life.

And perhaps we should start at the top; the place where our lying leader says he loves America. Yeah, he loves it alright; he’d love to see it in the hands of his murdering Muslim brothers and sisters. Obama once said that he had visited all 57 states and we all snickered a bit over this bit of what we thought was erroneous information. 

But guess what? He was probably right. The Islamic world does in fact consist of 57 states and Islam is what is on the mind of this usurper who holds hostage our most revered political office once populated by George Washington, a TRUE and devout leader. 

This is a quote from ‘InfoPlease.com’ “The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) is an international organization grouping fifty seven states which have decided to pool their resources together, combine their efforts, and speak with one voice to safeguard the interests and secure the progress and well-being of their peoples and of all Muslims in the world.” (Emphasis mine.) Yeah, I would bet that Obama has been to all 57 states; he didn’t make a mistake, he was just not thinking about American states. A psychologist would call that a “Freudian slip.”

So let’s grease the track for the quick departure from the United States and a very quick arrival to the “holy” 57 Islamic states. Let’s get all of the socialistic liberals out of our Congress next November and then when normal Americans are in place we can start impeachment proceedings to rid us of the head of the beast. Or as an alternate so we won’t have to contend with the empty-headedness of Joe Biden, just let Obama stay on but with no powers for two years while our new Congress draws up new legislation abolishing all the harmful actions the current Congress and Administration have wreaked on our fair country.

Then we can also take on the anti-American MainStream Media (MSM); those head up their ‘you-know-whats’ that have aided and abetted the sorry bunch of socio/communistic that have been trying to lead us into the corrupt embraces of the United Nations.

What say America? Are your ready for some ‘Country First Actions’?

The Captain's AMERICA Radio Show For Nov. 6th...

 

Hello Folks and welcome to "The Captain's AMERICA" radio show hour #3 podcast, heard LIVE on AM 1220 and FM 106.9 WSRQ Radio in Sarasota, FL. and LIVE on WSRQ Radio.com weekday mornings from 6-9 AM ET.

We start out talking to 'Chrissy' the FL. State Director of Patriotic Resistance which was one of the groups protesting at the Great American TEA Party is Washington, DC back in July and also was in the Nation;s Capitol again yesterday to protest the upcoming Health Care Bill vote being forced by Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Then we listen to FL-13 Cong. Vern Buchanan as he addressed the Congress about his recent trip to Afghanistan. Following that we read some of the email we get each week and then go to Sally Tibbetts, FL-13 District Director for Cong. Vern Buchanan.

Sally talks about this week's vote and the message it sent to Washington. She also talks about Cong. Buchanan's trip to Afghanistan, his Sunshine Proposal keeping the doors open while the Health Care Bill is being discussed, the 72 Hour Bill proposed by Cong. Buchanan and where he'll be on Veterans Day November the 11th.

Time next for 'Earl Pitts' and our 'Strange But True' news before we bring the lovely 'Kat' in for a morning chat.

Get in on the FUN and tell your friends about "The Captain's AMERICA" radio show. We can be heard streaming LIVE on WSRQ Radio.com and Talkstream Live.com weekday mornings 6-9 AM ET and on AM 1220 and FM 106.9 WSRQ Radio in beautiful Sarasota, FL.

God Bless AMERICA and ALL those who defend, protect and serve her keeping all of us FREE and SAFE! A special prayer goes out to the Ft. Hood, TX victims and their families. You are all in our heart!

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The earliest indications are that Major Malik Nadal Hasan, the alleged killer of thirteen soldiers who wounded 30 more at Fort Hood, broke under the stress of his forthcoming deployment to Iraq in his capacity as a psychiatrist. Up to the shooting on November 5, he was reportedly doing everything he could to avoid being sent to the Middle East.

Native-born and deemed a good American who enlisted in the U.S. Army, Hasan is the son of Jordanian immigrants and a Muslim. Reportedly, he had encountered some difficulties as the result of that and there are reports, unsubstantiated at this point, that he had posted some thoughts on a personal website regarding his feelings about the role of the U.S. in the Middle East.

If the early news reports are any indication, most will avoid the fact that Major Hasan is a Muslim. Neither CBS Evening News, nor NBC Nightly News in their East Coast feed made any mention of it. As the story continues to develop, it will be instructive to see how the U.S. news media deals with this obvious fact.

On Fox and Friends, Friday morning, it was reported that he shouted “Allah Akbar”, God is great, as he fired at his trapped and helpless victims. There is, in addition, the factor of premeditation.

There are some four to five million Muslims of Arab descent in America, some native born, others who have immigrated. One presumes their patriotism, but there are also too many troubling incidents of these citizens and of converts to Islam to ignore.

Still, nothing—least of all a mass shooting—happens in a vacuum. That is why the November 10th execution of John Allen Muhammad is going to be another occasion for the nation’s media to avoid the fact that he, too, is Muslim. Muhammad, along with Lee Boyd Malvo, were the Beltway snipers who, for three weeks in October 2002, randomly killed ten people and critically wounded three others.

No one is suggesting that all Muslims are killers. What is not being addressed, however, is the way Islam and its holy book, the Koran, is a call to battle.

Starting in 1972, ten members of a local mosque in New York ambushed responding officers, killing one of them. Some fifty-five incidents, including 9/11, have Islam as a component. In the 1970s, adherents of the Nation of Islam, Oakland, California, were particularly active.

As Iran celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of the hostage taking of American diplomats, one is reminded of a July 1980 killing in which a political dissident living in Bethesda, Maryland was assassinated in front of his home by an Iranian agent who was an American convert to Islam.

In the 1990s, events began to pick up. In January 1993, for example, a Pakistani with Mujahideen ties gunned down two CIA employees outside its headquarters. In 1997, a Palestinian left an anti-Semitic suicide note behind, went to the top of the Empire State Building, and shot seven people. Events continued apace in the present decade. In March 2000, a local imam gunned down a deputy sheriff in Atlanta and, in Los Angeles, in July 2002, a Muslim killed two people at the Israeli airline counter at the Los Angeles airport.

The 2001 attack on the Twin Towers was Muslim in conception and fulfillment, dependent on the wish for martyrdom by its perpetrators and over three thousand Americans lost their lives.

Honor killings became part of the news stream. In 2004, a Muslim father killed his wife and attacked his two daughters. In 2008, a Muslim father strangled his 25-year-old daughter and this year in Glendale, Arizona, on November 2nd a Muslim father ran over and killed his daughter, fearing she had become too westernized.

Earlier this year, in February, the founder of a Muslim television station beheaded his wife who was seeking a divorce. The manner of the killing is worth noting.

Terrorism experts continue to warn us that some Muslims here in America are engaged in plots to advance jihad. Curiously, the Department of Homeland Security just named two Muslims to top posts. If an American Muslim who rose to the rank of major could commit mass murder, one has to wonder about the wisdom of those choices, admitted to the inner sanctum of the agency charged with protecting the nation.

The signs were there with Major Hasan, but it is likely that the political correctness that infects common sense in America allowed his unhappiness to erupt in a brutal, senseless act.

No religion is exempt from a history of warfare or individual acts of violence, but today’s world is a reminder that of all the killings taking place in the Middle East these days, it is Muslims killing Muslims. Initially spread by warfare, Islam is the newest of the most populous religions of the world and is distinguished by its zeal to impose a global caliphate.

Islam is not a religion of peace. It is a battle plan that divides the world between the world of Islam, Dar al-Islam, and the world of war, Dar al- Harb. Guess which part of the world that puts most of us?

Caruba blogs daily at http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com.

Ever hear this argument:

Ancient religious texts like the Koran contain outdated ethical concepts. The Old Testament has brutal laws and violent passages. As a result Christians and Jews don't follow them. Muslims are the same as Christians and Jews; they pick what works and reject what doesn't work. Why should Islam be considered any worse than other religion or cult?

The short answer is that Islam is not similar to anything else, including religions such as Christianity. As far as the Koran having any outdated ethical concepts, that is impossible. According to Islamic doctrine, the Koran is perfect, eternal and universal. It does not contain the slightest error since contains the exact words of Allah. Hence, it can never be outdated.

Also, the Koran is a derivative book. Every idea in the Koran, with two exceptions, can be traced to earlier works. The two novel ideas in the Koran are that Mohammed is the last prophet of god and that violent force, jihad, can be used to harm those who don't agree with Mohammed. Violence against kafirs is systemic in all of Islam's texts and forms a central theme.

Yes, the Old Testament has violence, but there is no real parallel to the Koran and Islam. Look at the numbers. The violence in the Old Testament is limited to a few verses. The violence in the Koran against the kafir (unbeliever) takes up 61% of the text. Every mention of the kafir is brutal, condemning, pejorative, hateful and threatening. The Hadith, the Traditions of Mohammed, has 20% of its text devoted to jihad. The Sira, Mohammed's life, has 70% of the text about Mohammed as prophet devoted to jihad.

These numbers show that the analogy between the violence in the texts of the Jews and Christians is vastly overdrawn.

The next suggested parallel between Islam and Christians is that both pick and choose from their texts. Every Muslim believes that the Koran is perfect down to the last letter. It does not have a single error. This makes it very difficult to ignore.

But a Muslim does have a way to make choices that a Christian, Jew, Buddhist or Hindu cannot. Islam has dualistic ethics. Muslims are all brothers and to be treated as such. But there is no Golden Rule and a Muslim may choose to treat the kafir badly or well, depending upon the situation and needs. That is the nature of dualistic ethics.

Dualism also allows the choice of the Meccan Koran or the Medinan Koran. When Mohammed was in Mecca, he was weak and attempted to get along with the Meccans. This gives us the verses of tolerance. Later, in Medina Mohammed had power and the Koran became cruel and vicious towards any person who denied Mohammed. So every Muslim has the choice of tolerance and coexistence from the Meccan verses, or any of the physical violence or hatred found in the Medinan Koran.

There is another choice that a person who claims to be a Muslim can make. They may choose to be a kafir by ignoring an Islamic doctrinal point. It is very odd, but people assume that every action by one who calls them a Muslim is pure Islam. But the Koran condemns Muslims who make choices to imitate kafirs. This condemnation extends to those who choose to apply the Golden Rule to kafirs.

So there are three kinds of Muslim, depending on their choices: Meccan Muslim, Medinan Muslim and kafir Muslim.

There is a great danger in trying to understand Islam through Christianity or any other Western idea or concept. The underlying assumption is that Islam is similar or has parallels to kafir culture. This means that Islam does not need to be studied, because it is "like" some kafir concept or institution such as freedom and Christianity. This idea is false and has no supporting facts to prove it. Islam is sui generis, unique, and without parallel.

Islam stands entirely on its own with a separate logic, reasoning and ethical system. Islam must be studied on its own. In the end this means understanding the themes of the Koran and the life of Mohammed found in the Sira and the Hadith.

Why is Islam worse than any other religion or cult? Simple, it is not a religion, but a complete civilization that has a political doctrine of annihilating and subjugating all kafir civilizations. This doctrine had been put into action for the last 1400 years and has caused the deaths of 270 million kafirs.

Islam has annihilated entire civilizations. Take Afghanistan as an example. Before, Islam invaded the civilization of Gandharva, it had been peaceful for four centuries and was wealthy. Buddhism flourished and great art was produced. Then came Islamic jihad and Ghandarva was destroyed down to the last work of art and the last Buddhist. Today we have the armpit of the world-Afghanistan, an Islamic nation based upon Sharia law and Islamic politics. Buddhism and Gandharvan culture have been totally destroyed.

The political theory of Islam and its results correlate 100%. Of course, there are some harmful and creepy cults, but, measured by results, they are not in the same league as political Islam. Islam is the ultimate civilizational predator and should receive most of the attention.

Today we have two choices in viewing Islam. We can see it as based upon its doctrine and history or we can choose to see it on the basis of multiculturalism-all cultures are equally valid. But Islam denies that all cultures are equally valid. Islam insists that it is superior all other cultures. All cultures are not equally valid and all other cultures must submit. It is the will of Allah, and it is Sunna (the way of Mohammed). What is odd is that tolerant multiculturalists defend the Islamic monoculture so much.

This means that we also have two other choices. Will kafirs ignore the threat of total destruction or go on pretending that Islam is similar to other cultures? Will we foolishly apply the Golden Rule to a civilization based on dualism and hope to create an Islam that respects kafirs and treats them well? But Allah hates kafirs and it is Sunna to immigrate, deceive and make the kafirs submit little by little.

Choices: will we choose life or death for kafir civilization?

On November 4, 1979, some Iranian “students” took 53 American diplomats hostage. This iconic act broke every international law ever set to page or parchment.

As this is written thirty years later, the Iranians are holding three American tourists who wandered across a border between Iraq and allegedly into Iran’s Kurdistan province. They were seized in August.

Taking hostages is what the Iranian government does. Even Iranian-born, naturalized Americans, visiting their family members are subject to arrest and detainment.

We do things differently in America. If you sneak in across our border, you qualify for a driver’s license, food stamps, and free medical care. Can’t speak English? That’s okay, we will print everything in Spanish for you. If two border guards should, in the course of their duty, shoot you in the butt, it is they who get sent to prison.

It took 444 days to get our diplomats returned.

The United States has, rather understandably, not reestablished diplomatic relations with the ayatollahs and mullahs in Tehran and they have been very happy to keep telling their people that the U.S. is the “Great Satan” and to encourage them to shout “Death to America” at every opportunity. It’s become a state-sponsored ritual there as in “I now pronounce you man and wife, and death to America.”

Let me exempt the Iranian “people” from the Iranian thugs running the nation under the guidance of the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei or his vile toady, Mamoud Ahmadinejad. You can always tell the difference because the people are the ones in the streets protesting, being shot dead, arrested, imprisoned, and never heard from again.

I tell you this because, if you haven’t heard, the mad mullahs have been pursuing their dream of homemade nuclear weapons and the missiles with which to deliver them ever since those “students” long ago scampered onto the grounds of our embassy.

They are very close to having both and they think the Americans, the Europeans, and the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) are idiots and all of them have provided amply evidence that they are. The IAEA has never ever found any weapons making facilities that they didn’t think could be converted to peaceful purposes or just ignored entirely.

There is a reason why the Israelis are getting ready to bomb the hell out of the Iranian nuclear facilities. The obvious one is that the mad mullahs have never made any attempt to disguise the fact that they intend to destroy Israel.

Quite coincidentally, on November 3th, the Israeli navy commandeered the Antigua-flagged arms ship which carried 300 containers, 40 of which contained hundreds of Iranian arms bound for use by Hezbollah in Lebanon. Most of it was ammo, grenades, 122-km Katyusha rockets, mortar shells and anti-tank missiles. Experts estimated it would have kept Hezbollah fighting for a month or more. The arms originated in Iran.

The other reason the Israelis will do our job is because the United States, rarely a reliable ally under the best of circumstances, know that we have a President who doesn’t like them or should we just say, prefers his fellow Muslims to them.

Obama has never understood the utter duplicity of the Iranians and overestimated his ability to deal with them. They, conversely, have concluded he was weak and could be easily misled and deterred.

Dore Gold, a former Israeli Ambassador to the UN, has written “The Rise of Nuclear Iran: How Tehran Defies the West.” He points out that, “Given that the Islamic Republic was the first to systematically employ suicide bombing attacks in the present era, it could very well be immune to deterrence and the threat of full scale retaliation should it employ nuclear weapons.”

It is the ultimate game of “chicken” and the U.S. is already showing a big yellow streak as President Obama contemplates whether to put more troops into Afghanistan or leave enough to achieve nothing in particular except to get more of our troops killed.

In basic terms, the mullahs do not fear us because we have given them no reason to, whereas the Israelis have a track record, having destroyed a nuclear facility in Iraq in the 1980s and more recently in Syria.

On the anniversary of the taking of American hostages, America looked scared. The best the President could muster was a photo opportunity saluting the returning dead.

The Israelis will attack Iran because they must and President Obama will denounce them when they do because he can.

Caruba blogs daily at http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com.