Iran's Stolen Election

By Jan McDaniel | 06/14/09

According to Daniel Pipes, the Iranians should have been protesting election theft long ago, when the Ayatollah Khamenei and his mullahs of the Guardian Council sifted through the prospective candidates and eliminated any who would offer true reform.    Ahmadinejad and Mousavi are tweeedle dee and tweeedle dum because they have been vetted on all issues that matter.  Iranians never had the chance to vote for anything the... read more »

Two Proposals

By Jan McDaniel | 06/14/09

1. MEMRI for Europe   The Middle East Media Research Institute translates major speeches by influential Islamic leaders in the Middle East for researchers in the West.  It is an invaluable service which has shown how often these leaders have been saying one thing to the West in English, the opposite to their constituencies in Arabic.  Yasser Arafat was the master of the technique.  President Ahmadinejad has obliquely... read more »

The Third Wave

By Jan McDaniel | 06/13/09

It has never been more important for America to watch and learn from Europe than it is now.    Our focus should be on Britain.  It is the first European state to openly confront the twinned issues of immigration and Islam.  Now that the issue has been breached, the continental states of Europe will feel more comfortable in speaking publicly of the problem that has been kept private by marginalizing and criminalizing... read more »

Trees and Religions

By Jan McDaniel | 06/12/09

I installed a drain pipe in my yard seven years ago.  I buried it five inches.  One section of it is now above ground and I know why.  It is near a rubber tree and they make a massive root system.  There is a root under my pipe, pushing it up.    Some species of trees are even more dangerous to have around.  The kapok tree in the Ecuadorian Amazon basin sends out buttress roots that wedge neighboring trees... read more »

America and Islam, Part 2

By Jan McDaniel | 06/11/09

We are in the middle stages of a religious war instigated by Muslims who take literally the Koranic commands (K. 9: 5-16, 29)  to fight the infidel until Islam is supreme.   Their war is also a last ditch effort to turn the tide of history and avoid being swallowed by the forces  of:   Globalized commerce   Secularization of human rights standards  Reform within Islam Liberal... read more »

America and Islam, Part 1

By Jan McDaniel | 06/10/09

Lawrence Auster, a man with whom I disagree more often than not, gave an important speech to the Preserving Western Civilization Conference at Baltimore, Maryland on 2/8/09.  In it he made some proposals to counter the Islamic jihad in America.  The essence of his proposals is:    A.  The American Freedom From Islam Act: 1.      No more Muslim immigration 2.     ... read more »

President Obama: Dhimmi or Kafir?

By Jan McDaniel | 06/09/09

President Obama, Dhimmi or Kafir?   Christopher Hitchens, writing at Slate, describes some of the conditions at Guantanamo prison.  Mr. Hitchens covers it with style, as usual, and one sentence jumps out:  “To the huge list of reasons to close down Guantanamo, add this: It's a state-sponsored madrasah.”    Now about President Obama…..  No, it’s too easy.  Like shooting fish in a... read more »

Replies

By Jan McDaniel | 06/08/09

Following the posting of a piece called “Dhimmi or Kafir?” today, I sent a copy of it with the introduction shown below to the twenty two churches, synagogues and one mosque in Sarasota County that have email addresses. I will occasionally post replies when given permission, but honors for first reply goes to Bill Webster of Holy Trinity Anglican.   My name is Jan McDaniel and I write for Red County, a national blog.... read more »

Dhimmi or Kafir?

By Jan McDaniel | 06/08/09

If you are not a Muslim, there are only two choices.  Islam demands that unbelievers either accept the submissive attitude of the dhimmi or the role of kafir.  It is up to the unbeliever to choose.  I want you to choose the attitude of self respect and the role of kafir as I have.    Bill Warner of politicalislam.com says of kafirs:   Non-believers are so important that they have several names. Christians and... read more »

A Saudi Reaction to Cairo

By Jan McDaniel | 06/07/09

Tariq Alhomayed, Editor-in-Chief of Asharq Al-Awsat, a Saudi online news site, was very happy with President Obama’s speech.  (The square brackets are in the original text.)      Obama's speech addressed those that we have always described as the silent majority, in other words the ordinary citizen who abhors extremism, backwardness and attrition [e.g. war of attrition fought between Egypt and Israel] where the... read more »