Today's Stuff.

THE former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey of Clifton has issued his own challenge to “violent” Islam in a lecture in which he defends the Pope’s “extraordinarily effective and lucid” speech.

Lord Carey said that Muslims must address “with great urgency” their religion’s association with violence. He made it clear that he believed the “clash of civilisations” endangering the world was not between Islamist extremists and the West, but with Islam as a whole.
"Muslims must address with great urgency their religion's association with violence." Really? Ya think?!

Refer to my previous post regarding the "Religion of Peace"...

Here is a brave lad:










Salman Rushdie
Rather outspoken critic of Islam. Still has a death threat hanging over his head...

Gotta love the Aussies!
Muslim animosity strange: Howard

THE Islamic world's angry reaction to comments by Pope Benedict was disproportionate, strange and disappointing, the Prime Minister, John Howard, said last night.

"We should take a deep breath on these things and all have a sense of proportion. We seem to be living in a world where people have no sense of proportion," he told the ABC's Lateline program. "OK, they don't like what was said. I'm sure the Pope was not intending to attack Islam. He's expressed his regrets, and I think we should really move on."

Do you really think they'll move on?
I think they'll keep up this charade that Islam has been attacked by the "bearers of the cross" and Islam will once again continue to prove that it is NOT A RELIGION OF PEACE!


Christians in Indonesia
Allowing persecution to happen.

I first became aware of central Indonesia eleven years ago,
when I bought a map in an airport shop in Cebu, in the middle of the Philippines.
A portion of this 17,000-mile archipelago was taken up by a huge island shaped like a
pinwheel: Sulawesi. In 1999, horrific stories about Christian persecution in that part
of the world started to leak out. A radical Islamic group called Laskar Jihad was
terrorizing Christians in a group of islands called the Moluccas, just east of Sulawesi.
Christians who refused to convert to Islam were killed; those who did convert were then
separated from their families, given Muslim names, and forcibly circumcised —
without anaesthetic, and with dirty instruments. Scissors were used on the adults.
They were then told to wash in the sea to disinfect their wounds. The women underwent
female genital circumcision.

Why, I wondered, weren't journalists reporting on this tragedy?
It turns out that getting a journalist's visa to enter that part of the country
is next to impossible. One has to first go to Jakarta to state the purpose of one's
trip, and then wait for approval. But there are planes or ferryboats to these islands
daily, so a truly dedicated reporter could slip in. One gets the impression that, when
it's Christians being murdered or tortured, the international press isn't really
interested.

Where is the outrage? Where is the coverage in the MSM? I hear crickets...

From Hot Air
It's long, but worth the read...

I probably shouldn’t wade into this, but it does dovetail with something I’ve been pondering lately. Namely, that an essentially post-Christian West comes to the battle with Islamism, Islamofascism, caliphascism, or whatever you want to call the demon that animates al Qaeda and apparently millions of Muslims across the globe to hate the West and work toward our destruction, ill-equipped to understand and confront the foe. This inability to get into the enemy’s head and heart makes it harder for us to win. Yes, for all our weapons and the superiority of our forces versus theirs, we are ill-equipped to fight because we’re increasingly incapable of understanding what motivates them and therefore are less likely to find the means of removing that animator. Those who say the Islamists can’t defeat us militarily miss the point entirely, and those who throw out a quote from Leviticus to counter quotes from the Koran miss the point even more. And the point is this: If a holy writ holds sway in the life of an enemy, then that writ and its authority need to be understood on their own terms by us or we won’t formulate an adequate response to it.