"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler
The inexorable logic of liberalism:
Extra small condoms for boys as young as 12 could soon be on our shelves.
The Hotshot condoms are going on sale in Switzerland after research found that not enough 12 to 14-year-old boys were having protected sex.
We cannot market cigarettes using a camel for fear of influence on children but marketing condoms to kids is just fine?
Next: Dora the Explorer Personal Lubricant!
Can you guess who said that about Australia’s most popular blogger? Maybe you need some clues:
That last quote was from ex-sycophant Wild Irish Rose, who was responsible for the banning of Zombie. Still no guess? Maybe if I told you he was recently the subject of a Los Angeles Times column and a New York Times profile? OK, well, how about this clue?
So if “irrational anti-science lunatics” like Tim Blair are the biggest threat in Australia, what about Zachariah Matthews?
Elements of Islamic law – the sharia – should be legally recognised in Australia so that Muslims can live according their faith, a prominent Muslim leader says.
Addressing an open day at Lakemba Mosque on Saturday, the president of the Australian Islamic Mission, Zachariah Matthews, said parts of sharia could be recognised as a secondary legal system so that Muslims were not forced to act contrary to their beliefs. ”Sharia law could function as a parallel system in the same way that some traditional Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander law was recognised in the Northern Territory,” Dr Matthews told the Herald after the session. . . .
“I don’t think we are so unsophisticated that we cannot consider a multilayered legal system as long as it doesn’t conflict with the existing civil system.”
The “unsophisticated” Robert Spencer at JihadWatch has more. And Tim Blair’s colleague Piers Akerman has a report about the Lakemba Mosque from former Reuters reporter Alison Bevege:
[B]ooks on sale in the basement below the mosque reflected the awful truth about the values broadly supported by those who fully embrace Islam and its holy book, the Koran.
Bevege found most of the books on offer were in Arabic but among those in English were publications which exposed the wide cultural gap that would be legalised under sharia law: Islamic intolerance for homosexuality, for equal rights of women and for individual freedoms.
She quoted from the “The Lawful and the Prohibited in Islam” by Yusuf al-Qaradawi, which says: “Because of his natural ability … the man is the head of the house … He is entitled to the obedience and cooperation of his wife, and accordingly it is not permissible for her to rebel against his authority.”
And what happens if she does? . . .
The book then quotes Imam al-Hafiz ibn Hajar who says “To be specific, one may beat only to safeguard Islamic behaviour and if he (the husband) sees deviation only in what she must do or obey in relation to him.”
Bevege, who has worked in North Africa, said despite Dr Matthew’s public support for multiculturalism and diversity, the books in the basement state Muslim women are not allowed to marry non-Muslim men.
Obviously, you’d have to be some kind of white supremacist to believe that the Islamicization of Australia is more dangerous than “irrational anti-science lunatics like Tim Blair,” right?
UPDATE: Hey, remember that “libertarian extremist” who went nuts at the Pentagon last week? What’s up with him using Arabic script on his Internet page?
That was before they hired David Brooks, Frank Rich and Maureen Dowd.
Just sayin’ . . .
The Oscar-winner for Best Actress is, after all, a Southerner — her father is from Alabama and she attended Washington-Lee High School in Arlington, Virginia — and her Academy Award was based on the true story of a football player at Briarcrest Christian Academy in Memphis, who subsequently signed a scholarship at Ole Miss to play for the Rebels.
The South, Christianity, football . . . and I’m sure Sandra Bullock would agree with me: Atavar sucks.
At any rate, Roger Simon celebrates this year’s Oscars as a big victory for conservatism:
With the pro-military “The Hurt Locker” winning over the enviro-pabulum of “Avatar” and Sandra Bullock garnering the Best Actress Oscar for a Christian movie, the times are a-changin’ at least somewhat, maybe even a lot.
But one thing is now certain. It is time for conservative, center-right and libertarian filmmakers to stop feeling sorry for themselves and go out and just do it. Their “victocrat” days are over. No more excuses. “The Hurt Locker” and “The Blind Side” have proven that it can be done. Get out of the closet, guys and gals. If you want to make a film with themes you believe in, quit whining about Industry prejudice and start writing that script and trying to get it made. That’s not an easy thing, no matter what your politics.
by Smitty
Sitemeter caught Stacy McCain after a recent Insta-lanche for the Krauthammer for President post, and profiled Stacy as he lay on the couch…pontificating:
Go, Stacy!
by Smitty (via Ukulele & ATJ via The Agitator)
One one level, the whole notion of ObamaCare could make it the most expensive suppository in human history. On the other hand, the pros from Dover, who couldn’t lead two nuns in one minute of silent prayer, are guaranteed to accidentally wreck any sort of local business. Customer service being unfair and antithetical to bureaucracy, you know.
Thanks to Michael Tunison at the New Ledger for this:
It was for many years my duty, as Sunday night editor on the national desk at the Washington Times, to compile and update our “from combined dispatches” stories about the Oscars, Grammys and Emmys — through three editions.
I don’t miss that at all. Awards shows are a stupid waste of time. Worse than a Frank Rich column, but not worse than a David Brooks column. Nothing is a worse waste of time than a David Brooks column.
by Smitty
American Power has a post on radicals abandoning BHO over foreign policy. Here’s a quote from the International Socialist Review, emphasis mine:
The escalation of the war by a Democratic administration underscores the necessity, and the opportunity, for building a clearer and more consistent antiwar movement that is independent of both parties and willing to take on both.
Now, I can respect a consistent, principled pacifist, e.g. the Amish.
The easiest way to curb American war making capacity, i.e. actually be anti-war, is to support Federalism and the Constitution. American gunboat diplomacy is as simple as Checkov’s gun. If we concentrate power in DC, and debase the separation of powers by having Congress hand blank checks to the Executive, isn’t military adventurism an obvious consequence?
Perhaps cynically, I think that most of the leadership on the Left makes dovish noises to help lure in the more granola-head troops. The Che Guevara t-shirts, besides pointing out what dupes people can be, also remind one that the Left is perfectly willing to flex a bit of muscle when helpful.
Separation of Powers, as with the 10th Amendment, point out that the country needs restoration now, more than hopium and changeeba. Quite a bit of wisdom in that document, which may help explain the Left’s rejection thereof.