According to the Wall Street Journal, page A9, 8-27/28-2016, there was a major development with the totalitarian religion of Islam. King Mohammed VI of Morocco is reported to have asked in an important speech on August 20 this: "Can anyone of sound mind believe that the reward for Jihad could be some virgins in Paradise? Is it conceivable that anyone who listens to music will be swallowed by the Earth?"
It is not conceivable to me that Muslims aren't demonstrating in the streets over those questions. Such blasphemy! Is it because the king is considered to be a direct heir of Mohammed, the founding prophet of Islam? Ever since the 8th Century, men have been giving their lives more willingly because of the promise of 72 virgins in Paradise. In fact, during battle Mohammed allegedly informed one of his trusted lieutenants of the sexual situation in heaven that he would earn if if he died in battle. The warrior wanted the virgins in perpetuity so much that he went directly to the front line of the battle and got himself killed. Of course. people believe that promise, as low brow and teenage as it is. Was the King really saying people shouldn't believe that there is such a heaven as well as saying they shouldn't believe music listeners would be swallowed by the earth? If he was saying that, I salute him, but where is the response from the Sharia Muslims? Why am I not reading on the Internet of any explosive and of course, threatening, responses to these remarks? Did the Wall Street Journal get it wrong? Or have Muslims all decided that describing a Paradise that sounds more like a whorehouse in the sky was too immature and have discarded it? So what are the Islamo- Fascists offering their suicide bombers now - a free trip to Disneyland before they blow others and themselves up? I don't think that's going to work.
I feel like I'm missing something here. Or was what the king of Morocco said planned deceit? In other words, "We believe in the great whorehouse in the sky and people listening to music being swallowed up by the earth, but we know it makes us look mad or hopelessly primitive to the modern world, so we are going to pretend to the modern world we don't believe in these things so we won't be institutionalized or ridiculed." In other words, is it just like the Arab States signing the United Nations Charter that they will respect the inviolable rights of individuals and then passing resolutions back home taking back those rights?
I can't believe I am so perceptive that there are no other comments about these two amazing things the king said, especially the abrogation of Islamic heaven. I must be missing a lot, but hope not.
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary
"The measure of a man,
Is not what he says,
But what he does,
And what he allows others,
To do in his presence."
- Navy Seal Instructor
"Free Will is your ability to be rational in spite of the irrational urges from your genes and your experiences."
- Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major
Wednesday, August 31, 2016
Tuesday, August 30, 2016
Review of Sharia in Book, "Islam And Democracy" lll
Sharia Islam has a visceral rejection of the equality of human beings in direct violation of the United Nations Charter so instead of being honest, the Arab states, of course, lied by signing the charter and then erected national "reservations," and "amendments" to deny the provisions of the United Nations Charter. If they hadn't done that, these states would have appeared at the diplomatic level to have been primitive and savage, as they really were. So the representatives deceitfully and so manly signed on to the charter while their states negated everything they signed onto. Of course, the diplomats of the other countries were lazy or simply playing along in that they did not see what these states had done and confronted them at the United Nations about their dishonesty. This is only one example of how the Islamic states present a false face of modernity in New York but remain a slaughterhouse at home. Mernissi observes that the Arab nations use the United Nations for manipulation and hypocrisy. p 67
Recently, women have been using academics as a way to escape the harem condition and have taken to the streets to demonstrate. Mernissi applauds their lack of pretension and stilted language, which she finds are bothersome characteristics of the leftists. The educated women are demonstrating against the suffocating Sharia and are contrasting it to the United Nations Charter. The charter, though, has a Trojan Horse that Mernissi doesn't see apparently. It is that after all the rights of the individual are given in the document, there is an escape clause that these rights can be abrogated by the United Nations. They are not inalienable rights as the American Constitution recognizes rights to be. That is an enormous difference: the difference between everything and nothing. So the United Nations Charter has its own despicable, unmanly "reservation" or "amendment" that flushes civil rights down the toilet like a silly, little turd. Bye! Bye, rights! Weren't we clever despots! Amazing how stupid and unassertive people can be not to see our escape clause and kick our lying asses for it! p163
This does not mean Fatema Mernissi misses all the tricks and yes, buts. She catches on that the Islamic countries can declare that the hijab or face mask is mandatory and that will make more jobs available for men as many places will not employ those wearing the mask. Calling for the wearing of the face mask is also a signal that women working outside the home is not legitimate, and in the tyranny of Islam it is vital to recognize what the authorities are signaling before they institute their draconian punishments. Women will quit their jobs to go back to the harem, giving men more jobs. Finally, Mernissi recognizes that oil money has made possible the rigid authoritarianism that is deaf to compassion, a quality that is supposedly so important to Islam. She writes, "A better term for fundamentalism in Saudi Arabia would be petro-Wahhabism, whose pillar is the veiled woman." p166
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary
"The measure of a man,
Is not what he says,
But what he does,
And what he allows others.
To do in his presence."
- Navy Seal Instructor
"Free Will is your ability to be rational in spite of the irrational urges from your genes and your experiences."
-Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major
Recently, women have been using academics as a way to escape the harem condition and have taken to the streets to demonstrate. Mernissi applauds their lack of pretension and stilted language, which she finds are bothersome characteristics of the leftists. The educated women are demonstrating against the suffocating Sharia and are contrasting it to the United Nations Charter. The charter, though, has a Trojan Horse that Mernissi doesn't see apparently. It is that after all the rights of the individual are given in the document, there is an escape clause that these rights can be abrogated by the United Nations. They are not inalienable rights as the American Constitution recognizes rights to be. That is an enormous difference: the difference between everything and nothing. So the United Nations Charter has its own despicable, unmanly "reservation" or "amendment" that flushes civil rights down the toilet like a silly, little turd. Bye! Bye, rights! Weren't we clever despots! Amazing how stupid and unassertive people can be not to see our escape clause and kick our lying asses for it! p163
This does not mean Fatema Mernissi misses all the tricks and yes, buts. She catches on that the Islamic countries can declare that the hijab or face mask is mandatory and that will make more jobs available for men as many places will not employ those wearing the mask. Calling for the wearing of the face mask is also a signal that women working outside the home is not legitimate, and in the tyranny of Islam it is vital to recognize what the authorities are signaling before they institute their draconian punishments. Women will quit their jobs to go back to the harem, giving men more jobs. Finally, Mernissi recognizes that oil money has made possible the rigid authoritarianism that is deaf to compassion, a quality that is supposedly so important to Islam. She writes, "A better term for fundamentalism in Saudi Arabia would be petro-Wahhabism, whose pillar is the veiled woman." p166
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary
"The measure of a man,
Is not what he says,
But what he does,
And what he allows others.
To do in his presence."
- Navy Seal Instructor
"Free Will is your ability to be rational in spite of the irrational urges from your genes and your experiences."
-Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major
Review of Sharia in Book, "Islam And Democracy"lll
Sharia Islam has a visceral rejection of the equality of human beings in direct violation of the United Nations Charter so instead of being honest, the Arab states, of course, lied by signing the charter and erecting national "reservations," and "amendments" to deny the provisions of the United Nations Charter. If they hadn't done that, these states would have appeared at the diplomatic level to have been primitive and savage, as they really were. So the representatives deceitfully and so manly signed on to the charter while their states negated everything they signed onto. Of course, the diplomats were lazy or simply playing along in that they did not see what these states had done and confronted them at the United Nations about their dishonesty. This is only one example of how the Islamic states present a false face of modernity in New York but remain a slaughterhouse at home. Mernissi observes that the Arab nations use the United Nations for manipulation and hypocrisy. p 67
Recently, women have been using academics as a way to escape the harem condition and have taken to the streets to demonstrate. Mernissi applauds their lack of pretension and stilted language, marks of the Marxists. The educated women are demonstrating against suffocating Sharia and are contrasting it to the United Nations Charter. The charter has a Trojan Horse that Mernissi doesn't advise us of. It is that after all the rights of the individual are given there is the caveat that these rights can be abrogated by the state. They are not inalienable rights as the American Constitution recognizes. That is an enormous difference: the difference between everything and nothing. So the United Nations Charter has its own despicable, unmanly "reservation" or "amendment" that flushes human civil rights down the toilet like a little turd. Bye! Bye, rights! Weren't we despots clever! Amazing how stupid and unassertive people can be not to see our escape clause and kick our lying asses! p163
This does not mean Fatema Mernissi misses all the tricks and yes, buts. She catches on that the Islamic countries can declare that the hijab or face mask is mandatory and that will make more jobs available for men as many places will not employ those wearing the mask. Calling for the wearing of the face mask is also a signal that women working outside the home is not legitimate, and in the tyranny of Islam it is vital to recognize what the authorities are signaling before they institute their draconian punishments. Finally, Mernissi recognizes that oil money has made possible the rigid authoritarianism that is deaf to compassion.
She writes, "A better term for fundamentalism in Saudi Arabia would be petro-Wahhabism, whose pillar is the veiled woman."
Recently, women have been using academics as a way to escape the harem condition and have taken to the streets to demonstrate. Mernissi applauds their lack of pretension and stilted language, marks of the Marxists. The educated women are demonstrating against suffocating Sharia and are contrasting it to the United Nations Charter. The charter has a Trojan Horse that Mernissi doesn't advise us of. It is that after all the rights of the individual are given there is the caveat that these rights can be abrogated by the state. They are not inalienable rights as the American Constitution recognizes. That is an enormous difference: the difference between everything and nothing. So the United Nations Charter has its own despicable, unmanly "reservation" or "amendment" that flushes human civil rights down the toilet like a little turd. Bye! Bye, rights! Weren't we despots clever! Amazing how stupid and unassertive people can be not to see our escape clause and kick our lying asses! p163
This does not mean Fatema Mernissi misses all the tricks and yes, buts. She catches on that the Islamic countries can declare that the hijab or face mask is mandatory and that will make more jobs available for men as many places will not employ those wearing the mask. Calling for the wearing of the face mask is also a signal that women working outside the home is not legitimate, and in the tyranny of Islam it is vital to recognize what the authorities are signaling before they institute their draconian punishments. Finally, Mernissi recognizes that oil money has made possible the rigid authoritarianism that is deaf to compassion.
She writes, "A better term for fundamentalism in Saudi Arabia would be petro-Wahhabism, whose pillar is the veiled woman."
Monday, August 29, 2016
A Review of Sharia in "Islam And Democracy" Part ll
In the time of the Mutazila, the time of reason, peace, and intellectual advances ended with the Abbasid dynasty embracing sharia and stripping it of it's questioning, speculative dimension and imams became blood-thirsty tyrants. Reasoning died to mean faith wielded by a tyrannical sharia. pp 36-7
Sharia became a strict interpretation based on Allah's revealed knowledge in the Arabic language only. This continued to weld reason and personal opinion -thinking aloud- to charges that these activities were weakening Islam and aiding the enemy. p 39 Since these activities were not discussed in Islamic culture, when other Western ideas were brought to the Islam world such as democracy and constitutions, the Islamic people weren't prepared for them and these ideas were rejected and suppressed by the imams.p 48
Mernissi says the the Koran is for Islam what the United Nations Charter is for democracy. She is wrong for the United States is the fountainhead and main supporter of democracy, but let us go on with Mernissi. She says this charter is a superlaw that gives citizens the freedom to think. We Americans say that is an inalienable right. It comes before birth, and is a part of our being, not something that a mere and pompous government confers upon us. Then she says that sharia condemns freedom of thought. This is another vindication of what I have told you: Sharia means death. In this example, it kills even an unborn baby, and demands that he come out of the womb brain-dead, and like a robot do and "think" only what the total war religion of Sharia Islam tells him to do and think.
He has no freedom to have thoughts. His thoughts are what he's told to think. Is this your idea of yourself - as Sharia's brain-dead person who will be guided not by your own thoughts, not by rationality, but by dictates commanded by force including torture and death. If Sharia Islam is so good, so perfect, why does it have to spread by force, by the sword? If it were really a good religion, wouldn't people flock to it willingly? God knows, the world is certainly aware of Sharia!
If it's good, its goodness will speak to all of us, far and wide. It will not need force or the sword. It needs force and the sword, and the gun and the cowardly bomb that kills innocents because Sharia is bad and despicable! That is why!
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary.
"The measure of a man,
Is not what he says,
But what he does,
And allows others to do,
In his presence."
- Navy Seal Instructor
"Your free will is your ability to be rational in spite of your genes and your
experiences including the one you are having right now." Peter Nickerson, William and Mary Philosophy Major.
P.S. I know we use the bomb that kills innocents too. If you read me, You know I don't support drone use that kills innocents. As far as trying to take back cities from ISIS using bombs, I wonder instead about alternative methods such a war between snipers - but then how do you defend your soldiers against the bombs from ISIS? - and I think about other weapons hinted at in the Wall Street Journal as a pulse gun. But I read there that the Red Cross is against them. If they work, why don't we have the spine to use them anyway? Is it because our president is best understood as an Iranian Islamist? Are our military-industrial-government people against less lethal, more discriminate ways to wage war? Why do our whistle-blowers suffer so much, and why is there less transparency after whistle-blowers blow? We are not perfect, but we have the freedom to think and question what the powerful are doing, and change what they are doing through voting. Sharia Islam does not have that. We are largely self-correcting. Sharia is not. It is still back in the most barbaric part of the Medieval Times and is trying to remain there. Its only defense of itself is death. It can't defend itself except through the death spectrum - frowns, warnings, insults, violence, torture, mutilations, and finally the end of the spectrum: death. It has to conquer the world to survive- to quell all dissent, all freedom of thought. I pity you.
Sharia became a strict interpretation based on Allah's revealed knowledge in the Arabic language only. This continued to weld reason and personal opinion -thinking aloud- to charges that these activities were weakening Islam and aiding the enemy. p 39 Since these activities were not discussed in Islamic culture, when other Western ideas were brought to the Islam world such as democracy and constitutions, the Islamic people weren't prepared for them and these ideas were rejected and suppressed by the imams.p 48
Mernissi says the the Koran is for Islam what the United Nations Charter is for democracy. She is wrong for the United States is the fountainhead and main supporter of democracy, but let us go on with Mernissi. She says this charter is a superlaw that gives citizens the freedom to think. We Americans say that is an inalienable right. It comes before birth, and is a part of our being, not something that a mere and pompous government confers upon us. Then she says that sharia condemns freedom of thought. This is another vindication of what I have told you: Sharia means death. In this example, it kills even an unborn baby, and demands that he come out of the womb brain-dead, and like a robot do and "think" only what the total war religion of Sharia Islam tells him to do and think.
He has no freedom to have thoughts. His thoughts are what he's told to think. Is this your idea of yourself - as Sharia's brain-dead person who will be guided not by your own thoughts, not by rationality, but by dictates commanded by force including torture and death. If Sharia Islam is so good, so perfect, why does it have to spread by force, by the sword? If it were really a good religion, wouldn't people flock to it willingly? God knows, the world is certainly aware of Sharia!
If it's good, its goodness will speak to all of us, far and wide. It will not need force or the sword. It needs force and the sword, and the gun and the cowardly bomb that kills innocents because Sharia is bad and despicable! That is why!
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary.
"The measure of a man,
Is not what he says,
But what he does,
And allows others to do,
In his presence."
- Navy Seal Instructor
"Your free will is your ability to be rational in spite of your genes and your
experiences including the one you are having right now." Peter Nickerson, William and Mary Philosophy Major.
P.S. I know we use the bomb that kills innocents too. If you read me, You know I don't support drone use that kills innocents. As far as trying to take back cities from ISIS using bombs, I wonder instead about alternative methods such a war between snipers - but then how do you defend your soldiers against the bombs from ISIS? - and I think about other weapons hinted at in the Wall Street Journal as a pulse gun. But I read there that the Red Cross is against them. If they work, why don't we have the spine to use them anyway? Is it because our president is best understood as an Iranian Islamist? Are our military-industrial-government people against less lethal, more discriminate ways to wage war? Why do our whistle-blowers suffer so much, and why is there less transparency after whistle-blowers blow? We are not perfect, but we have the freedom to think and question what the powerful are doing, and change what they are doing through voting. Sharia Islam does not have that. We are largely self-correcting. Sharia is not. It is still back in the most barbaric part of the Medieval Times and is trying to remain there. Its only defense of itself is death. It can't defend itself except through the death spectrum - frowns, warnings, insults, violence, torture, mutilations, and finally the end of the spectrum: death. It has to conquer the world to survive- to quell all dissent, all freedom of thought. I pity you.
Thursday, August 25, 2016
Pigs and Islamist Terrorists lll
In 1682 and again in 1683, French Admiral Abraham Duquesne visited Algiers with a new and terrible weapon, the mortar. The French consul in town, an old, saintly Vincentine priest by the name of Jean Le Vacher was not able to persuade the French admiral to stop the bombing. He only promised to returned the next year. He returned the second time with the intention of destroying Algiers. His presence caused a shakeup in the government of the town, and the new dey or governor was the captain of the galleys, Mezzo Morto. He warned the French admiral that every Frenchman in town, beginning with the saintly Jean Le Vacher would be strapped across the muzzle of a huge cannon and the cannon fired if the French admiral did not leave. The admiral began using the terrifying mortars, and the dey began having Frenchman splayed across the huge cannon and splattered into the bay. About twenty innocent French were killed by the murderous Muslims using the mouth of the cannon. The gunner, a renegade from Holland, who actually fired the cruel cannon reportedly suffered from nightmares the rest of his life.
This could be one of the unintended consequences of decapitating captured Muslim terrorists. The issue of whether someone could do such bloody executions without suffering PTSD would have to be addressed. Is this why the Muslim terrorists like beheading their prisoners- because to other Muslims it means that that person is not going to Paradise if he were a Muslim? If it is, the West may have a tool for the war on Muslim terrorism if we have the resolve to use it on them. It will only take a couple of suicide bombings in America, before we Americans will be strong enough to do it. Again we have a great responsibility to the Special Forces, whom I give the alternate title of the Wolverines, because of their great courage, ferocity, determination, endurance, and the love they have for their children. We do not want to cripple the Wolverines in their service to the country and their buddies whom they depend upon for their lives. All too often in the military being macho gets confused with being stupid. For example, I give you the" clank-clank, I'm a tank" mentality.That mentality was dead set against the autonomy and improvisation of the special operator. The tankers held to a rigid central command and control format which was way too slow and uninformed by today's fluid battlefield. Having Special Forces and other military groups performing beheadings needs study to be sure we're not asking our men and women to lose their minds doing it.
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary
References:
1. The Pirates of Barbary (2010) by Adrian Tinniswood
2. The Wolverine Way (2010) by Douglas Chadwick
"The measure of a man
Is not what he says,
But what he does,
And what he allows others
To do in his presence."
-Navy Seal Instructor
This could be one of the unintended consequences of decapitating captured Muslim terrorists. The issue of whether someone could do such bloody executions without suffering PTSD would have to be addressed. Is this why the Muslim terrorists like beheading their prisoners- because to other Muslims it means that that person is not going to Paradise if he were a Muslim? If it is, the West may have a tool for the war on Muslim terrorism if we have the resolve to use it on them. It will only take a couple of suicide bombings in America, before we Americans will be strong enough to do it. Again we have a great responsibility to the Special Forces, whom I give the alternate title of the Wolverines, because of their great courage, ferocity, determination, endurance, and the love they have for their children. We do not want to cripple the Wolverines in their service to the country and their buddies whom they depend upon for their lives. All too often in the military being macho gets confused with being stupid. For example, I give you the" clank-clank, I'm a tank" mentality.That mentality was dead set against the autonomy and improvisation of the special operator. The tankers held to a rigid central command and control format which was way too slow and uninformed by today's fluid battlefield. Having Special Forces and other military groups performing beheadings needs study to be sure we're not asking our men and women to lose their minds doing it.
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary
References:
1. The Pirates of Barbary (2010) by Adrian Tinniswood
2. The Wolverine Way (2010) by Douglas Chadwick
"The measure of a man
Is not what he says,
But what he does,
And what he allows others
To do in his presence."
-Navy Seal Instructor
Wednesday, August 24, 2016
Pigs and Islamist Terrorists ll
Serendipitously, I found another alleged way to stop attacks by Islamists. I read this last night in Adrian Tinniswood's Pirates of Barbary: Corsairs, Conquests, and Captivity in the 17th -Century Mediterranean, and it began with "The Moroccan qaid, or chieftain, Umar ben Haddu, was camped with an army of 7,000 men less than a mile from town, and his troops were digging a network of trenches and cross-trenches which was coming closer and closer to the forts that defended the English lines....Just before dawn the Moors retreated without having managed to breach the wall, and Wilson, still not daring to open the gates of the fort, let down five men on ropes to clear away the timber seigeworks and burn them. They also decapitated two of the corpses left behind by Umar's army and raised the heads on poles 'in sight of the Moorish camp, which all of the nation hold for the greatest indignity that can be put upon them, because according to their Mahometan superstition, they hold that when they die, their bodies immediately are translated into paradise, but if they are dismembered they can in no wise enter.'"
To a literalist, this is confusing: the Muslims' head weren't severed immediately so they are already in the supposed great whorehouse in the sky by the time the English dared to get to their dead bodies the next day. So why bother to decapitate them and display their heads? Is it possible they were hoping that the Muslims would think their comrades had been killed by decapitation and therefore weren't going to the whorehouse in the sky?
But this may give us something to use. If it is true that death by decapitation denies entrance into the Great Whorehouse In The Sky, we can exploit this by killing and decapitating Islamic terrorists and putting the proceedings on YouTube videos for the world to see. Instead of sending drones with missiles that kill innocents- a grievous wrong as well as a huge mistake as it causes hate for us all over the world [Is this why President Obama insists on using drones over Special Forces?] and it increases the recruitment of terrorists, we can send in Special Forces where possible. Special Forces shoot as accurately kill and discriminately as man can, and they can possibly capture or wound the terrorists, decapitate them, record the proceedings and put the videos on YouTube as proof. Then ISIS and all the other Muslim terrorist groups could no longer guarantee their fighters paradise if they were killed in jihad. This should make jihad dramatically less appetizing.
Reference: Pirates of Barbary (2010) by Adrian Tinniswood. pages 217-8.
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary
"The measure of a man,
Is not what he says,
But what he does,
And what he allows others,
To do in his presence."
-Navy Seal Instructor
To a literalist, this is confusing: the Muslims' head weren't severed immediately so they are already in the supposed great whorehouse in the sky by the time the English dared to get to their dead bodies the next day. So why bother to decapitate them and display their heads? Is it possible they were hoping that the Muslims would think their comrades had been killed by decapitation and therefore weren't going to the whorehouse in the sky?
But this may give us something to use. If it is true that death by decapitation denies entrance into the Great Whorehouse In The Sky, we can exploit this by killing and decapitating Islamic terrorists and putting the proceedings on YouTube videos for the world to see. Instead of sending drones with missiles that kill innocents- a grievous wrong as well as a huge mistake as it causes hate for us all over the world [Is this why President Obama insists on using drones over Special Forces?] and it increases the recruitment of terrorists, we can send in Special Forces where possible. Special Forces shoot as accurately kill and discriminately as man can, and they can possibly capture or wound the terrorists, decapitate them, record the proceedings and put the videos on YouTube as proof. Then ISIS and all the other Muslim terrorist groups could no longer guarantee their fighters paradise if they were killed in jihad. This should make jihad dramatically less appetizing.
Reference: Pirates of Barbary (2010) by Adrian Tinniswood. pages 217-8.
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary
"The measure of a man,
Is not what he says,
But what he does,
And what he allows others,
To do in his presence."
-Navy Seal Instructor
Tuesday, August 23, 2016
Pigs and Islamists
Having seen how government employees and their lackeys, by and large, the professionals, handled the question of the panthers' existence including the black panther in both Florida and Vermont, I am skeptical of any statements from them, especially ones that also deride anyone with contrary thoughts as happened in Florida. It did not happen in Vermont, by the way. Vermonters were very polite and much more reflective. Hence, I'm going to open the old question of whether pigs will deter Islamic violence. I have great respect for people on the front lines particularly versus the pompous blowhards at their desks with their degrees on the walls. In looking at some of the Internet comments about this topic, I saw one allegedly from a soldier who claimed that when he was serving in Iraq, he was asked by the Iraqi if his bullets were tipped with pig blood.
Supposedly, Army Colonel Alexander Rodgers under General Pershing in 1911 used pig parts usefully to deter the fanatical, and all too successful swordsmen, the Juramentos, in the Philippines. More recently, an Israeli official is said to have suggested pig use.
There seems to be no deterrent for Islamic suicide bombers especially when the explosives can be carried beneath a woman's body bag. At this point, training Labradors to detect them by smell seems the best detection, leading one to think that the responsible citizens now needs not only to carry a gun and knife and be trained in the martial arts and weight lifting, but also to be accompanied by a lab trained in explosives detection. I wonder if a Muslim suicide bomber knew his remains would be buried in a pigskin sack, if that would that make him wonder if he were really going to that supposed giant whorehouse in the sky and thus cause him to stop his plans or even give him some hesitation and unease so his stress might be visible out on the street as he was about to blow himself up as well as kill - what was the latest one, 51 people enjoying a wedding?- and mutilating many others.
If this is going to provoke the sniffers and the screamers, bring it. I'll love it. But if anyone has anything that is evidence-oriented that pigs would be effective against Islamist suicide bombers, I'd like to see it in my comments section of this blog.
Thanks.
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary
"The measure of a man,
Is not what he says,
But what he does,
And what he allows others,
To do in his presence."
-Navy Seal Instructor
Supposedly, Army Colonel Alexander Rodgers under General Pershing in 1911 used pig parts usefully to deter the fanatical, and all too successful swordsmen, the Juramentos, in the Philippines. More recently, an Israeli official is said to have suggested pig use.
There seems to be no deterrent for Islamic suicide bombers especially when the explosives can be carried beneath a woman's body bag. At this point, training Labradors to detect them by smell seems the best detection, leading one to think that the responsible citizens now needs not only to carry a gun and knife and be trained in the martial arts and weight lifting, but also to be accompanied by a lab trained in explosives detection. I wonder if a Muslim suicide bomber knew his remains would be buried in a pigskin sack, if that would that make him wonder if he were really going to that supposed giant whorehouse in the sky and thus cause him to stop his plans or even give him some hesitation and unease so his stress might be visible out on the street as he was about to blow himself up as well as kill - what was the latest one, 51 people enjoying a wedding?- and mutilating many others.
If this is going to provoke the sniffers and the screamers, bring it. I'll love it. But if anyone has anything that is evidence-oriented that pigs would be effective against Islamist suicide bombers, I'd like to see it in my comments section of this blog.
Thanks.
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary
"The measure of a man,
Is not what he says,
But what he does,
And what he allows others,
To do in his presence."
-Navy Seal Instructor
Monday, August 22, 2016
Slavery And Saudi Arabia
Just as the Western feminists have vilified the white man, the most compassionate men in the world and completely ignored the sexual mutilation of Islamic girls and women, now the crybullies on American campi are villifying long-dead white men for being slaveholders but turning a cowardly, blind eye to the fact that the Saudi Arabian government was still selling slaves in 1964, the year I entered William and Mary. The crybullies who are also demanding "safe areas" on campuses where they won't have to see anything or anyone they might disagree with obviously lack courage. They won't attack Saudi Arabia for having slavery well within my lifetime because there are people and more importantly, organizations that will push back and possibly threaten them or worse. The students - actually non-students because they don't want to learn - are afraid of confrontation. They are bullies who only want to attack dead men who have no one and no organization to defend them.
I have no problem demanding that vestiges of slavery be obscured in public places. I would not want to have streets, monuments, or other public places named after communists. At the same time, the crybullies' selectivity of targets shows their cowardliness. I understand that universities are designing "safe areas" for the crybullies. I hope these areas are giant wombs, and the crybullies will go into them and grow up.
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary.
"The measure of a man,
Is not what he says,
But what he does,
And what he allows others,
To do in his presence."
- Navy Seal Instructor
I have no problem demanding that vestiges of slavery be obscured in public places. I would not want to have streets, monuments, or other public places named after communists. At the same time, the crybullies' selectivity of targets shows their cowardliness. I understand that universities are designing "safe areas" for the crybullies. I hope these areas are giant wombs, and the crybullies will go into them and grow up.
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary.
"The measure of a man,
Is not what he says,
But what he does,
And what he allows others,
To do in his presence."
- Navy Seal Instructor
Friday, August 19, 2016
France and Burkinis
The French are not brave with glorious exceptions like the valiant men, women, and children who fought in the French Underground during WW ll. The French are not free either if we look at the distaste the French premier has for Mulim women wearing the so-called burkini at the beach. It appears to be simply the regular body bag that Muslim Sharia women are forced to become captives under. Wall Street Journal carried a picture of a woman wearing one in the water off a beach in Marseille yesterday. The French premier supported local bans on the garb, making himself against freedom. Freedom would be allowing women to wear their body bags at the beach and in the water. Premier Walls said it was against the values of France and the Republic [and everything else good in the whole wide world too!] for women to cover themselves entirely. Really? If that's even true, the value of France should be freedom to cover yourself if you want to. Whose business is it anyway? We know it is the business of the dress police, the hooligans who harass people for their dress or lack of it in Sharia states, but does France want to ape Sharia? But then again, maybe it's just as well that the French premier seems to be no friend of freedom, because the French have repeatedly shown they don't have the guts to keep themselves free. Again with glorious exceptions.
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary
"The measure of a man,
Is not what he says,
But what he does,
And what he allows others,
To do in his presence."
- Navy Seal Instructor
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary
"The measure of a man,
Is not what he says,
But what he does,
And what he allows others,
To do in his presence."
- Navy Seal Instructor
Thursday, August 18, 2016
Sharia Death In Patents
Death comes in many forms. One is the lack of creation and innovation of a nation. Freedom supports the greatest growth, and since Sharia is utter submission [a form of death in itself], let's look at some of the Sharia world.
In 2015 the U.S. Patent Office had 3,804 patents from Israel. Compare that to 364 from SaudiArabia, 56 from the United Arab Emirates, and 30 from Egypt. This came from "The Meaning of an Olympic Snub" by Bret Stephens in the Wall Street Journal.
Another source credits the entire Arab world in 1998 as producing a pitiful 3 technology patents. The Republic of Korea had 779 in comparison. Between 1980 and 2000, the Arab World had 370 but South Korea had 16,000. This comes from Brigitte Gabriel's book, Because They Hate (2006). Freedom speaks volumes and many patents too.
If you take away the oil from the Arab world, all they export is death. Compare that to Arab Renaissance in the 8th Century the democratic Mutazila Islam was in ascendancy before being smashed by the Sharia- loving Kharijites. In that era, Muslims invented algebra and trigonometry.
Last week, I started walking into The Roost when I heard an elderly couple yelling at their patient German Shepherd in the parking lot. The woman screeched, "I hate you and your f.... dog!" I stopped and watched to see if either struck the poor dog. They didn't, but I called 911 anyway. A smooth, sincere voice told me they would take care of it. Other people were watching too, and we waited for the cops. When one drove by The Roost, I knew they weren't coming. I did not enjoy the prospect of walking over to the SUV of an old, highly irritated, hateful man and telling him to be kind to his dog, but the Seal Instructor poem came to mind, and I did it. The shouting, angry man did not pull a gun. He calmed down immediately, looking around him for the cop I had fruitlessly called. The woman walked over and glued herself to me until I was able to shake her off inside The Roost. She complained, "We've been homeless in Maine for five days, and he gets $3,000 a month, and all he does is buy a dog for $37!" I told her that was no reason not to be kind to the dog, and if the dog got too much for her to call 911 and ask for a dog officer. She was telling me about someone in Afghanistan when I was finally able to escape her. The poor dog has to listen to that and the man's diatribes every day with no way out!
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary
"The measure of a man
Is not what he says,
But what he does,
And what he allows others,
To do in his presence."
- Navy Seal Instructor
In 2015 the U.S. Patent Office had 3,804 patents from Israel. Compare that to 364 from SaudiArabia, 56 from the United Arab Emirates, and 30 from Egypt. This came from "The Meaning of an Olympic Snub" by Bret Stephens in the Wall Street Journal.
Another source credits the entire Arab world in 1998 as producing a pitiful 3 technology patents. The Republic of Korea had 779 in comparison. Between 1980 and 2000, the Arab World had 370 but South Korea had 16,000. This comes from Brigitte Gabriel's book, Because They Hate (2006). Freedom speaks volumes and many patents too.
If you take away the oil from the Arab world, all they export is death. Compare that to Arab Renaissance in the 8th Century the democratic Mutazila Islam was in ascendancy before being smashed by the Sharia- loving Kharijites. In that era, Muslims invented algebra and trigonometry.
Last week, I started walking into The Roost when I heard an elderly couple yelling at their patient German Shepherd in the parking lot. The woman screeched, "I hate you and your f.... dog!" I stopped and watched to see if either struck the poor dog. They didn't, but I called 911 anyway. A smooth, sincere voice told me they would take care of it. Other people were watching too, and we waited for the cops. When one drove by The Roost, I knew they weren't coming. I did not enjoy the prospect of walking over to the SUV of an old, highly irritated, hateful man and telling him to be kind to his dog, but the Seal Instructor poem came to mind, and I did it. The shouting, angry man did not pull a gun. He calmed down immediately, looking around him for the cop I had fruitlessly called. The woman walked over and glued herself to me until I was able to shake her off inside The Roost. She complained, "We've been homeless in Maine for five days, and he gets $3,000 a month, and all he does is buy a dog for $37!" I told her that was no reason not to be kind to the dog, and if the dog got too much for her to call 911 and ask for a dog officer. She was telling me about someone in Afghanistan when I was finally able to escape her. The poor dog has to listen to that and the man's diatribes every day with no way out!
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary
"The measure of a man
Is not what he says,
But what he does,
And what he allows others,
To do in his presence."
- Navy Seal Instructor
Wednesday, August 17, 2016
The Evil Kharijites ll
The Kharijites frightened the Muslim people for centuries, and they were the ones who initiated terrorism. They would kill the imam if they didn't agree with him, and of course, the imam knew this and would be influenced by that dreadful threat hanging over their heads. Instead of using democracy - trying to achieve support for their view and using the power of the free and secret vote of each adult or man for the narrow-minded Muslims- the Kharijites responded to dissension by violence. And so it remains. Philosophically, Islam is divided into two sects with very different behaviors. The Kharijites are the rebels, and they resort to the sword. The Mutazilas are the philosophers and they use democracy. Though Fatema Mernissi, the author of Islam And Democracy doesn't seem to say so, the sine qua non of democracy is free and secret elections. America had an election where a Black Panther criminal showed up at a voting place with a baseball bat in his hand and walked around displaying it. This was an election for the President of the United States and the weak, unprincipled president in power at the time said nothing about it, pandering to the black voters. But black voters should have been mature enough not to want a black man or any person around a voting station brandishing a baseball bat.
Due to palace intrigues, the Abbasid Dynasty became corrupted in the tenth century and turned on the Mutazilas who had given Islam a century of enlightenment with scientific inventions that put it at the front of the world. The Kharijite tradition took over and suddenly positive values such as reason, personal opinion, and private initiative including creation and innovation were declared anti-Islamic, foreign, and any other smear the hateful, close-minded rebels with swords could think of. They also hunted down killed all the Mutazilas, whom they now denigrated as philosophers, they could find. The curtain of hate and willful ignorance had fallen. And so it remains.
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary
"The measure of a man,
Is not what he says,
But what he does,
And what he allows others,
To do in his presence."
-Navy Seal Instructor
Peter
Due to palace intrigues, the Abbasid Dynasty became corrupted in the tenth century and turned on the Mutazilas who had given Islam a century of enlightenment with scientific inventions that put it at the front of the world. The Kharijite tradition took over and suddenly positive values such as reason, personal opinion, and private initiative including creation and innovation were declared anti-Islamic, foreign, and any other smear the hateful, close-minded rebels with swords could think of. They also hunted down killed all the Mutazilas, whom they now denigrated as philosophers, they could find. The curtain of hate and willful ignorance had fallen. And so it remains.
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary
"The measure of a man,
Is not what he says,
But what he does,
And what he allows others,
To do in his presence."
-Navy Seal Instructor
Peter
Tuesday, August 16, 2016
The Evil Khariijites
On the other side of the good, democratic, rational, individualistic Mutazilas, we apparently have the evil Kharijites. I was introduced to them in Fatema Mernissi's Muslim psychology book, Islam And Democracy; Fear Of The Modern World. I would like to move through her book to see who these people are and where they came from because they apparently run Islam today and have made it into a death religion.
I realize that the same could be said of Christianity since Christ is supposedly cited as saying we should be in this world but not of it. Our behavior should not be for living in this world but for getting into heaven. Islam does the same but adds the ridiculous reward of seventy-two virgins. That's a whorehouse, not paradise. What is sacred or holy about fornicating? And seventy-two? What man over forty wants seventy-two supposedly lustful women hounding him?
The first reference I find in Mernissi's book about the Kharijites is that they come from a tradition of political subversion in which their idea of changing the political situation is simply rebel against the imam and even kill him. Unlike, the good Mutazilas, they have nothing to do with democracy. They hate it. The Kharijites created the rebel tradition in the first decades after the death of Muhammad over the question of whether you must be obedient to the imam if he is not protecting your rights. Do you have to show blind obedience or can you use your own judgment? This is a very Western question which America, for one huge example, answered by breaking away from King George lll and England and becoming America after a long, dicey Revolution. Indeed, the Kharijites answered their own question long before America was formed by declaring that you are not obliged to obey. You can "go out" (kharaja) from obedience. In America too, the rebel tradition was strong and remains so today. Look at the huge popularity of the socialist Bernie Sanders and the celebrity Donald Trump.
Peter Nickerson. Philosophy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary
"The measure of a man
Is not what he says....
I realize that the same could be said of Christianity since Christ is supposedly cited as saying we should be in this world but not of it. Our behavior should not be for living in this world but for getting into heaven. Islam does the same but adds the ridiculous reward of seventy-two virgins. That's a whorehouse, not paradise. What is sacred or holy about fornicating? And seventy-two? What man over forty wants seventy-two supposedly lustful women hounding him?
The first reference I find in Mernissi's book about the Kharijites is that they come from a tradition of political subversion in which their idea of changing the political situation is simply rebel against the imam and even kill him. Unlike, the good Mutazilas, they have nothing to do with democracy. They hate it. The Kharijites created the rebel tradition in the first decades after the death of Muhammad over the question of whether you must be obedient to the imam if he is not protecting your rights. Do you have to show blind obedience or can you use your own judgment? This is a very Western question which America, for one huge example, answered by breaking away from King George lll and England and becoming America after a long, dicey Revolution. Indeed, the Kharijites answered their own question long before America was formed by declaring that you are not obliged to obey. You can "go out" (kharaja) from obedience. In America too, the rebel tradition was strong and remains so today. Look at the huge popularity of the socialist Bernie Sanders and the celebrity Donald Trump.
Peter Nickerson. Philosophy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary
"The measure of a man
Is not what he says....
Monday, August 15, 2016
Islam And the British
Two years ago, Paul Weston was running for election to the British Parliament and giving speeches to gain support. He was arrested after a speech in Winchester. He had talked about the "curses" of Islam saying it was "dreadful" for the people who believed in it. He had spoken against the truth that "every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property." So slavery for Islam didn't end with the closing of the slave markets in 1964 when I went to college but continues more covertly with women. The book I read during orientation - it had nothing to do with my college - was Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique. It made me so guilty about men taking advantage of women, that when my girlfriend of six months said she thought it was time we started having sex like adults did, I replied, "I don't want to push you into it." With that, she changed from sitting next to me, which she had just done for the first time and which I loved, to resume sitting on the far side of the car. Of course, she could have said, "I'm not pushing you into anything. I want it too." We were very timid and unassertive back then. But I do not recall the great Betty Friedan, who was supposedly looking after the world of women, saying a thing about how Islam treated women. It was simply the beginning of the feminists' cowardly trick- beat up the white guys who are already the nicest to women of all the males in the world. And white men have been beaten ever since until if you look at an American couple today, it seems that women with their boots, long hair, tight derrieres, and big chests. and tight pants are the strong, martial ones of the pair while the white man pads along with his skinny legs, loose t-shirt, no chest, shorts,flip-flops, and no hair. He looks like his partner's clown.
So a white man stands up in England and gives a gutsy, accurate speech about Islam, and the other white men who have been canned into submission and milquetoast discourse can't stand it and have him arrested. His charge is "suspicion of religious/racial harassment." How can you harass a religion? Did Islam say "ouch!" when Weston revealed its nature. Of course, it didn't. Islam is a concept: it is not a living organism. Something has to have life to harass it. Islam has no life. In fact, it is anti-life, wanting to keep everyone culturally in the burning sands of Arabia in the 7th Century. It cannot deal with life except through death and the threat of death. It is a death religion. The only thing it can do is encourage and demand death. By "Islam," I am speaking of the present, dominant form of Islam - alas!- the Kharajite or Sharia strain. The pusilanimous white British didn't say he was wrong because the real facts were ..... No, like children, they called him names like "Islamophobe." So he was arrested, but fortunately the police dropped the charges.
Thankfully, the Sharia cat in Europe is belling itself now rather than later when there would be too many Muslims to fight and win. The British can see, if they have become stronger in the last two years that the description Paul Weston made of the Islam sect presently in power was spot on. England must lead. The French are gutless. The Germans are passive because of the Nazis. There is fog in the Channel. The continent is cut off.
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '64, William and Mary
"The measure of a man
Is not what he says,
But what he does,
And what he allows others,
To do in his presence."
- Navy Seal Instructor
Peter Nickerson,
So a white man stands up in England and gives a gutsy, accurate speech about Islam, and the other white men who have been canned into submission and milquetoast discourse can't stand it and have him arrested. His charge is "suspicion of religious/racial harassment." How can you harass a religion? Did Islam say "ouch!" when Weston revealed its nature. Of course, it didn't. Islam is a concept: it is not a living organism. Something has to have life to harass it. Islam has no life. In fact, it is anti-life, wanting to keep everyone culturally in the burning sands of Arabia in the 7th Century. It cannot deal with life except through death and the threat of death. It is a death religion. The only thing it can do is encourage and demand death. By "Islam," I am speaking of the present, dominant form of Islam - alas!- the Kharajite or Sharia strain. The pusilanimous white British didn't say he was wrong because the real facts were ..... No, like children, they called him names like "Islamophobe." So he was arrested, but fortunately the police dropped the charges.
Thankfully, the Sharia cat in Europe is belling itself now rather than later when there would be too many Muslims to fight and win. The British can see, if they have become stronger in the last two years that the description Paul Weston made of the Islam sect presently in power was spot on. England must lead. The French are gutless. The Germans are passive because of the Nazis. There is fog in the Channel. The continent is cut off.
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '64, William and Mary
"The measure of a man
Is not what he says,
But what he does,
And what he allows others,
To do in his presence."
- Navy Seal Instructor
Peter Nickerson,
Friday, August 12, 2016
17th Century Islam ll
Christian Europe was scared of the Islamic Empire. After Constantinople was taken by the Muslims in 1453, the major Catholic powers in the Mediterranean, Spain and Venice, were very anxious about Islam replacing Christianity in Europe by conquest. Protestants in northern Europe were anxious too. Congregations in Germany prayed for protection from the Turks, and their ministers warned the married men that the Muslims would rob them of their families whom they would mistreat and rob them of their possessions, and finally rob them of their belief in Christ and replace it by force with the Islamic devil, Mahomet. People were warned repeatedly that the Muslims and Saracens were not far from their doors. By the beginning of the 17th Century, Islam was being called "the present terror of the world."For centuries later, we could now say that Sharia Islam was the present terror of the world.
I'd like to move to the Criminal vs Jerk national elections to say that Trump was correct in calling President Obama the founder of the Islamic State because he created the vacuum in Iraq and Syria by withdrawing the American counter-
Crusaders. He was so adamant about a light bootprint and no American fighting in the Sandbox that he refused to send troops to rescue the American Ambassador, two Seals, and a State Department communications experts at the besieged CIA station in Benghazi. He murdered these men, and Hillary went along with it in return for a pass from the FBI and the "Justice" Department on her criminal use of a private, unsecured email server. After Obama cleared out the counter-Crusaders in Iraq and Syria, a vacuum was created, and ISIS rushed into the vast, empty area and declared it a caliphate named the Islamic State. So you see how Trump is right: President Obama is the founder of the Islamic State in that he made the land available for it. I have repeatedly written that the best way for Americans to understand why Obama acts as he does is to see him as a lone-wolf, Islamic soldier. But how many sheep are tough-minded enough to see that. It didn't come easily to me.
This week I was working on my book at The Roost (fictional name) late one night, when a little man at another table, suddenly asked, "What are you struggling with?"
"My book," I replied.
"Someone as brilliant as you should have no problem with that," the stranger said sarcastically.
"F- you very much!"
"Someone with your brilliance should be able to say something more erudite than that," he countered as he got up and walked away.
"Goodbye, ass- ," I said.
He turned toward me, started to say something and left. I waited a minute or so to see if he were returning with a gun, and then went back to work, brilliantly of course.
Late nights in a public place, you never know what the cat will drag in.
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary
"The measure of a man,
Is not what he says,
But what he does,
And what he allows others.
To do in his presence."
- Navy Seal Instructor
I'd like to move to the Criminal vs Jerk national elections to say that Trump was correct in calling President Obama the founder of the Islamic State because he created the vacuum in Iraq and Syria by withdrawing the American counter-
Crusaders. He was so adamant about a light bootprint and no American fighting in the Sandbox that he refused to send troops to rescue the American Ambassador, two Seals, and a State Department communications experts at the besieged CIA station in Benghazi. He murdered these men, and Hillary went along with it in return for a pass from the FBI and the "Justice" Department on her criminal use of a private, unsecured email server. After Obama cleared out the counter-Crusaders in Iraq and Syria, a vacuum was created, and ISIS rushed into the vast, empty area and declared it a caliphate named the Islamic State. So you see how Trump is right: President Obama is the founder of the Islamic State in that he made the land available for it. I have repeatedly written that the best way for Americans to understand why Obama acts as he does is to see him as a lone-wolf, Islamic soldier. But how many sheep are tough-minded enough to see that. It didn't come easily to me.
This week I was working on my book at The Roost (fictional name) late one night, when a little man at another table, suddenly asked, "What are you struggling with?"
"My book," I replied.
"Someone as brilliant as you should have no problem with that," the stranger said sarcastically.
"F- you very much!"
"Someone with your brilliance should be able to say something more erudite than that," he countered as he got up and walked away.
"Goodbye, ass- ," I said.
He turned toward me, started to say something and left. I waited a minute or so to see if he were returning with a gun, and then went back to work, brilliantly of course.
Late nights in a public place, you never know what the cat will drag in.
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary
"The measure of a man,
Is not what he says,
But what he does,
And what he allows others.
To do in his presence."
- Navy Seal Instructor
Thursday, August 11, 2016
Seventeenth Century Islam
During the seventeenth century, about one million Europeans were taken by Muslims or their proxies and either killed, ransomed, or sold into slavery. One tenth of them were chosen by the sultans of the ports they came into as their share of the booty. Another one million North Africans were treated similarly. How do the high school graduates at many of our top schools- the crybullies- want to respond to that? Are we going to see them say that their universities can't accept money from Muslims, most particularly in the Middle East Chairs that have been established on campuses to promote a white-washed picture of Islam? Or don't white slaves count for these pampered little brats who have probably never held a job except for resume builders? Do they realize Saudi Arabia didn't close its slave markets until 1964, the year I started college? Do they realize how much of the world Islam controlled, and that it almost took Europe too?
The dominant power in the Mediterranean, and the biggest market, was the immense Ottoman Empire, a huge aggregate of conquered territories and vassal states which went thousands of miles from the Caspian Sea in the East where it is on the western border of today's Turkmenistan all the way to the Atlantic Ocean, and then south as far as the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf. Its center was Istanbul, and citizens of Algeria, Athens and Armenia paid taxes to the Ottoman sultan at the Topkapi Palace as did Bulgaria, Baghdad, Cairo, and the Crimea, Hungary, and the Yemen. But did the Muslims control the Mediterranean rather than the Europeans? Stay tuned. This comes from the Pirates of Barbary: Corsairs, Conquests, and Captivity in the 17th Century Mediterranean by Adrian Tinniswood.
A word about the Criminal vs Jerk election: It appears to me that Trump did allude to gun-owners taking violent action against Hillary, not voting as Trump tried to cover up his statement. If she were president, the voting would be over, and he was referring to her as being president in his statement. She is a criminal, but the jerk has no business promoting vigilantism. Look at the process though: Trump says or does a jerk event, and instantly the democratic media
( that is, 96% of the media is made of Democrats) is all over the gaffe, and then Trump backs down and changes. This shows that Trump is responsive to the people -the government. This cannot be said of Hillary as she is such a pathological liar or she is so delusional that she doesn't accept that she is wrong or has done wrong. The latest example of that is her lie that FBI Director Come didn't say she had been untrue in her statement about her unauthorized email server. She is intransigent while Trump can be brought to heel, as he should.
She then is more dangerous as President than Trump which which is what you would expect a criminal to be over a mere jerk.
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary.
"The measure of a man.
Is not what he says,
But what he does,
And what he allows others,
To do in his presence."
- Navy Seal Instructor
The dominant power in the Mediterranean, and the biggest market, was the immense Ottoman Empire, a huge aggregate of conquered territories and vassal states which went thousands of miles from the Caspian Sea in the East where it is on the western border of today's Turkmenistan all the way to the Atlantic Ocean, and then south as far as the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf. Its center was Istanbul, and citizens of Algeria, Athens and Armenia paid taxes to the Ottoman sultan at the Topkapi Palace as did Bulgaria, Baghdad, Cairo, and the Crimea, Hungary, and the Yemen. But did the Muslims control the Mediterranean rather than the Europeans? Stay tuned. This comes from the Pirates of Barbary: Corsairs, Conquests, and Captivity in the 17th Century Mediterranean by Adrian Tinniswood.
A word about the Criminal vs Jerk election: It appears to me that Trump did allude to gun-owners taking violent action against Hillary, not voting as Trump tried to cover up his statement. If she were president, the voting would be over, and he was referring to her as being president in his statement. She is a criminal, but the jerk has no business promoting vigilantism. Look at the process though: Trump says or does a jerk event, and instantly the democratic media
( that is, 96% of the media is made of Democrats) is all over the gaffe, and then Trump backs down and changes. This shows that Trump is responsive to the people -the government. This cannot be said of Hillary as she is such a pathological liar or she is so delusional that she doesn't accept that she is wrong or has done wrong. The latest example of that is her lie that FBI Director Come didn't say she had been untrue in her statement about her unauthorized email server. She is intransigent while Trump can be brought to heel, as he should.
She then is more dangerous as President than Trump which which is what you would expect a criminal to be over a mere jerk.
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary.
"The measure of a man.
Is not what he says,
But what he does,
And what he allows others,
To do in his presence."
- Navy Seal Instructor
Wednesday, August 10, 2016
Islam Is War
The caliph or ruler of Obama's creation The Islamic State is Abu Bakr al-Baghadadi. He is a very secretive man, especially with drones frantically flying about trying to find him. He is reported to have made a speech quoting verses from the Quran and finishing his speech with a pithy statement of his own. The first verse was "And He (the Mighty and Majestic) said, 'So let those fight in the cause of Allah who sell the life of this world for the Hereafter [ any evidence of that hereafter? - my question]. And he who fights in the cause of Allah and is killed orachieves victory- We will bestow upon him a great reward [any evidence of that either? - my question]. Quran 4:74
The other Quranic quote is "And He (the Glorified) said, 'And those who are killed in the cause of Allah- never will he waste their deeds. He will guide them and amend their condition, and admit them to Paradise, [evidence? - my question] which He has made known to them [how? - my question]. Quran 47:4-6
The caliph's pithy statement (before the drones came) was "O Muslims, Islam was never for a day the religion of peace. Islam is the religion of war."
I ask you who are already there to look around you and look at the war Islam has brought the area you are in. Look at the destruction of human lives, physically and emotionally, look at the destruction of buildings built so slowly with scarce resources but destroyed in a second. Look at the hell around you and think of the grim future here and the poverty because individual freedom is denied. Think of the pain, the screams, and the hate. Be a human and feel sympathy for these people. They could be people you love in another place and time. Or one of them could be you. Do you want to buy into this horror? For those thinking of going into it - Don't. Your countries won't want you back. Facial recognition programs will spot you on cameras. Only the rich - your
leaders- will be able to alter their faces enough to fool the camera programs. You will be stuck in a hell hole where you can't think for yourself, will be killed by your own people if you get caught trying to leave and could be bombed by a drone any time of the day or night. Look at socialism in the real world not from the words of smooth snakes. Look at pure socialist countries- Venezuela and North Korea- and see what happens to Marxists and their victims in the real world. Be real because reality is. You're too good for this. Study and get ahead in life. Base your life on free choices for others and yourself. Don't become a hateful, unthinking robot of the caliphate. Find counseling or therapy especially cognitive if you find yourself being wooed by the smooth snakes and their presents. Let people know you're being wooed. Discuss it. Be open.
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary
"The measure of a man,
Is not what he says,
But what he does,
And what he allows others,
To do in his presence."
- Navy Seal Instructor
The other Quranic quote is "And He (the Glorified) said, 'And those who are killed in the cause of Allah- never will he waste their deeds. He will guide them and amend their condition, and admit them to Paradise, [evidence? - my question] which He has made known to them [how? - my question]. Quran 47:4-6
The caliph's pithy statement (before the drones came) was "O Muslims, Islam was never for a day the religion of peace. Islam is the religion of war."
I ask you who are already there to look around you and look at the war Islam has brought the area you are in. Look at the destruction of human lives, physically and emotionally, look at the destruction of buildings built so slowly with scarce resources but destroyed in a second. Look at the hell around you and think of the grim future here and the poverty because individual freedom is denied. Think of the pain, the screams, and the hate. Be a human and feel sympathy for these people. They could be people you love in another place and time. Or one of them could be you. Do you want to buy into this horror? For those thinking of going into it - Don't. Your countries won't want you back. Facial recognition programs will spot you on cameras. Only the rich - your
leaders- will be able to alter their faces enough to fool the camera programs. You will be stuck in a hell hole where you can't think for yourself, will be killed by your own people if you get caught trying to leave and could be bombed by a drone any time of the day or night. Look at socialism in the real world not from the words of smooth snakes. Look at pure socialist countries- Venezuela and North Korea- and see what happens to Marxists and their victims in the real world. Be real because reality is. You're too good for this. Study and get ahead in life. Base your life on free choices for others and yourself. Don't become a hateful, unthinking robot of the caliphate. Find counseling or therapy especially cognitive if you find yourself being wooed by the smooth snakes and their presents. Let people know you're being wooed. Discuss it. Be open.
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary
"The measure of a man,
Is not what he says,
But what he does,
And what he allows others,
To do in his presence."
- Navy Seal Instructor
Criminal vs Jerk ll
CNN was blasting Trump for employing foreign workers at his businesses. It is a good point being far better to employ Americans. But Americans would want more per hour and probably not be so compliant and flexible about their scheduling. In addition, the hospitality service is very competitive, and you cannot afford to raise your prices significantly above others and be sure your customers won't go to cheaper rates.
But the larger picture interested me more. Here is Trump building businesses that employ people and draw tourists from all over the world. That means we have foreigners spending money in America. That is, bringing in more money into America for the economy and direct money for Americans or indirect money through job creation.
Then look at Hillary. First, she is a consumer of Americans' tax money as Secretary of State. More importantly, although she is a multimillionaire from her businesses of writing books, giving essentially blackmail speeches to Big Business - if you want protection from me when I'm president, you better pay me a huge "speech fee," and getting "donations" to her fund in return for hidden
government favors. It's not anyone's duty to contribute a penny to the economy, and she doesn't. But Trump does. In addition, Hillary is anti-business. She's pro-business for herself, of course, but anti-business for the rest of the country because of her stupid Marxist leanings.
You don't want the Criminal to make the economy worse, hire three Supreme Court judges who will make our life less free and prosperous, and try to do away with our gun rights. Vote for the Jerk. Obama anti-business policies have created a situation right now where more businesses are folding than being created. This has to be stopped. Hillary won't stop it. Trump is already personally doing his part to halt the slide into Venezuela territory. Let him do more as president.
But the larger picture interested me more. Here is Trump building businesses that employ people and draw tourists from all over the world. That means we have foreigners spending money in America. That is, bringing in more money into America for the economy and direct money for Americans or indirect money through job creation.
Then look at Hillary. First, she is a consumer of Americans' tax money as Secretary of State. More importantly, although she is a multimillionaire from her businesses of writing books, giving essentially blackmail speeches to Big Business - if you want protection from me when I'm president, you better pay me a huge "speech fee," and getting "donations" to her fund in return for hidden
government favors. It's not anyone's duty to contribute a penny to the economy, and she doesn't. But Trump does. In addition, Hillary is anti-business. She's pro-business for herself, of course, but anti-business for the rest of the country because of her stupid Marxist leanings.
You don't want the Criminal to make the economy worse, hire three Supreme Court judges who will make our life less free and prosperous, and try to do away with our gun rights. Vote for the Jerk. Obama anti-business policies have created a situation right now where more businesses are folding than being created. This has to be stopped. Hillary won't stop it. Trump is already personally doing his part to halt the slide into Venezuela territory. Let him do more as president.
Tuesday, August 9, 2016
Angels Fight For Muhammad?
Muhammad and Islam became a recognized force after the Battle of Badr. According to the Quran, Muhammad told his men that three thousand angels had been fighting at that battle with them. Really? What did they use, their harps? Since angels are supernatural, why were there 3,000? Wouldn't one do? If God wanted Muhammad to win the Battle of Badr, why didn't he just will it and it would be done? What were Muhammad's men to do? Be honest and say, "Boss, we didn't see any angels."? If you say that the angels was a figure of speech, then you slide into saying everything in the Quran could be a figure of speech as there is no evidence for any of it, just like the Jewish and Christian bibles. They, as well as the other religions, are all the word of men saying they have seen and talked to God or his representative. They can't all be right, can they? Can you handle the idea that they may all be wrong? That they either sincerely thought it was happening or deliberately made it up?
There was a time in my life when I slept with my Bible placed on the other side of my bed where my wife used to sleep. It wasn't that I believed the Bible was true or correct but because so many people had read it in the pursuit of truth and goodness and because so many people had died for simply reading and believing in it. Of course, people seeking to have the power of violence over other people used the Bible - they will use whatever works!- to justify their torture and killing of many people. Will the Kharajites allow you to use the Quran for goodness and reflection or is it just control and hate with them? Are you really planning to put yourself into a situation where you could be killed for not believing 3,000 angels fought alongside Muhammad's men at the Battle of Badr? That would be absurdity piled on top of absurdity! Think, man! Think, woman!
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary
"The measure of a man,
Is not what he says,
But what he does,
And what he allows others,
To do in his presence."
- Navy Seal Instructor
There was a time in my life when I slept with my Bible placed on the other side of my bed where my wife used to sleep. It wasn't that I believed the Bible was true or correct but because so many people had read it in the pursuit of truth and goodness and because so many people had died for simply reading and believing in it. Of course, people seeking to have the power of violence over other people used the Bible - they will use whatever works!- to justify their torture and killing of many people. Will the Kharajites allow you to use the Quran for goodness and reflection or is it just control and hate with them? Are you really planning to put yourself into a situation where you could be killed for not believing 3,000 angels fought alongside Muhammad's men at the Battle of Badr? That would be absurdity piled on top of absurdity! Think, man! Think, woman!
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary
"The measure of a man,
Is not what he says,
But what he does,
And what he allows others,
To do in his presence."
- Navy Seal Instructor
Criminal vs Jerk
During an interview with Chris Wallace on Fox News, Wallace informed Hillary that none of the things she had told America ( We, the people) was true according to what FBI Director, Comey, said in his legendary press release in which he laid out how Hillary was a criminal, but wasn't going to charge her. Hillary said to Wallace: "Director Comey said that all my answers were truthful."
This was either a blatant lie or Hillary is delusional or she is such a pathological liar that she believes her lies are true and is thus delusional.
Hillary denied to us receiving or sending classified email. Comey said not true. Hillary said to us that there was nothing marked classified emailed. Comey said not true. Hillary said to us she had returned all her work-related emails. Comey said not true, thousands were not returned.
Hillary is bringing up the fitness of the Jerk to serve as president. She has a good point, but the question is two-edged. What about her fitness? There's no question that she's a pathological liar, but is there more? Does she believe her lies and is therefore delusional? It appears to me that Hillary does know when she lying because I watched her face as she tells her lies, and she gets a characteristic "Little Miss Innocent" look. Her eyes get bigger and her eyebrows go up. I am sure she is working hard with her consultants to do away with this tell, but if she's able to do that people will wonder if she's come to believe her copious lies and is now delusional. Then we will have a delusional Criminal vs a Jerk for president of the United States. Isn't the Hippity Hop culture wonderful? This information was taken from "Clinton Short-Circuits the Truth" from the Wall Street Journal, August 8, 2016.
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary.
"The measure of a man,
Is not what he says,
But what he does,
And what he allows others,
To do in his presence.
-Navy Seal Instructor
This was either a blatant lie or Hillary is delusional or she is such a pathological liar that she believes her lies are true and is thus delusional.
Hillary denied to us receiving or sending classified email. Comey said not true. Hillary said to us that there was nothing marked classified emailed. Comey said not true. Hillary said to us she had returned all her work-related emails. Comey said not true, thousands were not returned.
Hillary is bringing up the fitness of the Jerk to serve as president. She has a good point, but the question is two-edged. What about her fitness? There's no question that she's a pathological liar, but is there more? Does she believe her lies and is therefore delusional? It appears to me that Hillary does know when she lying because I watched her face as she tells her lies, and she gets a characteristic "Little Miss Innocent" look. Her eyes get bigger and her eyebrows go up. I am sure she is working hard with her consultants to do away with this tell, but if she's able to do that people will wonder if she's come to believe her copious lies and is now delusional. Then we will have a delusional Criminal vs a Jerk for president of the United States. Isn't the Hippity Hop culture wonderful? This information was taken from "Clinton Short-Circuits the Truth" from the Wall Street Journal, August 8, 2016.
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary.
"The measure of a man,
Is not what he says,
But what he does,
And what he allows others,
To do in his presence.
-Navy Seal Instructor
Monday, August 8, 2016
Defanging Islam ll
The Mutazia were condemned as philosophers who were corrupting Islam with the Greek heritage. They were hunted down and killed being labeled infidels and atheists. The end of the Mutazia appeared to come as the imams tried to consolidate their power and "sharia" lost its reflective dimensions and emphasized the laws of the immams to reorient Muslims to the power and control of the leader instead of the "ummah", the people. The Mutazia had been very democratic insisting that the imman be established by free votes. Naturally, the immans in power wanted to remain that way, and "sharia" was modified to give them tyrannical power.
However, the ninth century belonged to the democratic and rational Mutazias, and this was the century of freedom which meant that people were let alone to make their choices. Great men made great inventions, such as algebra and trigonometry. Reason, openness, democracy, thinking, freedom, honesty, and any other human virtue was prohibited as the Iron Curtain fell on the Mutazia Renaissance. Sharia demanded that Islam become a religion for compliant simpletons, if you toed the present party line which of course was "divinely ordained" and everything else too. The Iranian Shahrastani in his twelfth century book, Revealed Religions and Fabricated Beliefs put it succintly: "A Muslim is he who believes and obeys. Religion is obedience. An obeying Muslim is religious. He gives who gives priority to his own opinions is a modernizing innovator and a creator." Horrors! The Renaissance was over. During the ninth century, Islam had defanged itself and flourished. But people desperate for the power of violence over others could not leave a peaceful Islam alone.
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary.
"The measure of a man
Is not what he says,
But what he does,
And what he allows,
Others to do in his presence."
- Navy Seal Instructor
However, the ninth century belonged to the democratic and rational Mutazias, and this was the century of freedom which meant that people were let alone to make their choices. Great men made great inventions, such as algebra and trigonometry. Reason, openness, democracy, thinking, freedom, honesty, and any other human virtue was prohibited as the Iron Curtain fell on the Mutazia Renaissance. Sharia demanded that Islam become a religion for compliant simpletons, if you toed the present party line which of course was "divinely ordained" and everything else too. The Iranian Shahrastani in his twelfth century book, Revealed Religions and Fabricated Beliefs put it succintly: "A Muslim is he who believes and obeys. Religion is obedience. An obeying Muslim is religious. He gives who gives priority to his own opinions is a modernizing innovator and a creator." Horrors! The Renaissance was over. During the ninth century, Islam had defanged itself and flourished. But people desperate for the power of violence over others could not leave a peaceful Islam alone.
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary.
"The measure of a man
Is not what he says,
But what he does,
And what he allows,
Others to do in his presence."
- Navy Seal Instructor
Friday, August 5, 2016
Defanging Islam
Having declared the humble objective of defanging Muslim of its violence, I was relieved to find that there have been non-violent sects in Islam with the best know being the Mutazila. Not only that, the Mutazila were the dominant sect in the ninth century according to the book I am using for this discussion, Islam And Democracy: Fear Of The Modern World (1992 by Fatema Mernissi. Some know her as the psychiatrist of Islam. Unfortunately, her therapy hasn't worked. In fact, since 1992 the patient seems to have become much worse. Some parts of the patient are now floridly psychotic! They have not only taken over the hospital, but established their own country or caliphate, aided by a friendly doctor, Dr. Barrack Obama, who took the hospital staff- American troops- out of the lunatic asylum and assured us that the ones acting out in the loony bin were just "junior varsity."
The Mutazia wanted reason- "aaql"- and personal opinion- "ray'-back into the political process which in the Muslim world means not just the political system but everywhere in the culture since the political system or Islam is totalitarian.
As Stalin said of this totalitarian state, "Everything belongs to the State." so Sharia Islam insists that "Everything belongs to Sharia."
However, the establishment or the power structure went after the Mutazia in an organized way, much like the Criminal going after the Stupid Jerk in America's presidential campaign. The Mutazia were condemned as philosophers-
"falasifa" who were corrupting Islam with
The Mutazia wanted reason- "aaql"- and personal opinion- "ray'-back into the political process which in the Muslim world means not just the political system but everywhere in the culture since the political system or Islam is totalitarian.
As Stalin said of this totalitarian state, "Everything belongs to the State." so Sharia Islam insists that "Everything belongs to Sharia."
However, the establishment or the power structure went after the Mutazia in an organized way, much like the Criminal going after the Stupid Jerk in America's presidential campaign. The Mutazia were condemned as philosophers-
"falasifa" who were corrupting Islam with
Wednesday, August 3, 2016
Reply To Mr. Khan
Mr. Khan, First I am sorry for the death of your son. As a father with one natural child, a son, I think I have some appreciation for the depth of your loss.
Secondly, I'd like to address your hypocrisy in brandishing the Constitution while you attacked Mr. Trump for his position that Muslims not be allowed into this country. I share his postion if the Muslims are Sharia. I am not interested in America being destroyed by Sharia terrorists, and you shouldn't be either. Your hypocrisy lies in the fact that the Constitution does not grant Muslims or anyone else free admission into America. There are immigration laws that are constitutional. You are a trained lawyer and know that. Hence your hypocrisy. You are also insincere asking what sacrifices Mr. Trump has made for America for at least two reasons. First, you did not willingly make the sacrifice of loosing your son, and I guarantee that if you had a choice, you would not have told God
"Go ahead and have him killed today. I'm willing to make that sacrifice." You had to make it; you did not voluntarily make it and wouldn't have. So don't go around demanding that others make sacrifices "like" you because you wouldn't have made it willingly. Second, you are deceiving people in your demand for sacrifices as if that was an American expectation. America is the land of the free and the brave. It is not the land of sacrificial human beings to whatever government employees demand. America is the land of the pursuit of individual happiness. It is not a slaughterhouse for the government employees.
I think you crassly manipulated the heroism and tragedy of your son's death to support Crooked Hillary at her nomination convention. Again you were insincere and conniving because you didn't wave your little Constitution at her as well as at the Stupid Jerk Donald Trump and ask her what sacrifices that pathological liar and millionaire had made for her country. Would you really support a pathological liar over a stupid jerk? As a lawyer and an officer of the court, you should have been ashamed to be seen at Hillary Clinton's nominating convention!
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary College
The measure of a man,
Is not what he says,
But what he does,
And what he allows others,
To do in his presence.
- Navy Seal Instructor
Secondly, I'd like to address your hypocrisy in brandishing the Constitution while you attacked Mr. Trump for his position that Muslims not be allowed into this country. I share his postion if the Muslims are Sharia. I am not interested in America being destroyed by Sharia terrorists, and you shouldn't be either. Your hypocrisy lies in the fact that the Constitution does not grant Muslims or anyone else free admission into America. There are immigration laws that are constitutional. You are a trained lawyer and know that. Hence your hypocrisy. You are also insincere asking what sacrifices Mr. Trump has made for America for at least two reasons. First, you did not willingly make the sacrifice of loosing your son, and I guarantee that if you had a choice, you would not have told God
"Go ahead and have him killed today. I'm willing to make that sacrifice." You had to make it; you did not voluntarily make it and wouldn't have. So don't go around demanding that others make sacrifices "like" you because you wouldn't have made it willingly. Second, you are deceiving people in your demand for sacrifices as if that was an American expectation. America is the land of the free and the brave. It is not the land of sacrificial human beings to whatever government employees demand. America is the land of the pursuit of individual happiness. It is not a slaughterhouse for the government employees.
I think you crassly manipulated the heroism and tragedy of your son's death to support Crooked Hillary at her nomination convention. Again you were insincere and conniving because you didn't wave your little Constitution at her as well as at the Stupid Jerk Donald Trump and ask her what sacrifices that pathological liar and millionaire had made for her country. Would you really support a pathological liar over a stupid jerk? As a lawyer and an officer of the court, you should have been ashamed to be seen at Hillary Clinton's nominating convention!
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary College
The measure of a man,
Is not what he says,
But what he does,
And what he allows others,
To do in his presence.
- Navy Seal Instructor
Tuesday, August 2, 2016
Tribe Israel 1212 B.C.E. Part ll
The Arab Conquest or Crusade did not take place until 638 C.E. This means that the Jews were in the Levant for at least eighteen and a half centuries before the Arabs. So who are the aliens now? Like the Phoenicians of Lebanon, the Jewish people have been conquered many times, but they have persevered as a race in the Levant for thirty centuries. The Arabs and their religion, Islam, have only been there less than fourteen centuries. They also used bloody Crusades to seize their land from the Christians and Jews. This land became part of the Arab's imperialist empire from 638 to 1099 C.E. However, during that time, there was no such thing as an independent Arab nation by the name of Palestine or any other name. Furthermore, when there were nations where Israel is now, and there were two such nations, they were Jewish nations, not Muslim, not Christian even.
As is logically evident and reasonably recognized by anyone of good faith, it is the Arabs who are the Johnnys-come-lately, and a nation by the name of Palestine has never existed. There is no language from Palestine nor is there a Palestinian culture. The language is Arabic, and the culture is Arabic. In other words, "Palestine" is the emperor with no clothes. There is no Palestine, but the Arabs are trying to put clothes on a non-entity. All an honest person has to say is "There is no Palestine except as a concept, and hence no language or culture.
The same can hardly be said of Israel, at least truthfully. People can say anything. So what? This information comes from Because They Hate by Brigitte Gabriel. As I googled parts of it, it appears to be true.
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68, College of William and Mary
The measure of a man
Is not what he says,
But what he does,
And what he allows others.
To do in his presence.
- Navy Seal Instructor
As is logically evident and reasonably recognized by anyone of good faith, it is the Arabs who are the Johnnys-come-lately, and a nation by the name of Palestine has never existed. There is no language from Palestine nor is there a Palestinian culture. The language is Arabic, and the culture is Arabic. In other words, "Palestine" is the emperor with no clothes. There is no Palestine, but the Arabs are trying to put clothes on a non-entity. All an honest person has to say is "There is no Palestine except as a concept, and hence no language or culture.
The same can hardly be said of Israel, at least truthfully. People can say anything. So what? This information comes from Because They Hate by Brigitte Gabriel. As I googled parts of it, it appears to be true.
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68, College of William and Mary
The measure of a man
Is not what he says,
But what he does,
And what he allows others.
To do in his presence.
- Navy Seal Instructor
Monday, August 1, 2016
Tribe Israel 1212 BCE
If you listened to the Arabs, the Palestinians, and Muslims in general, you would think that Israel was an outsider, "the stranger," to the the Middle East, put there by the American and the Europeans during World War ll. This is religious disinformation accorded by the Koran to anything that is the for the "good" of Islam. It is known in the Koran as "taqiyya" and is a constant part of the Koran as well as Muslim politics and behavior. But it is not the truth no matter who says it and how many times it's said. According to Egyptian hieroglyphics carved in stone, the tribes of Israel were established in Canaan, ancient Palestine, as early as 1212 B.C.E. Archaeological diggings showed that there was a proto-Israel in the Jewish presence of South Palestine and present-day Israel as early as 925 B.C.E. If I am doing my math correctly, the Arabs weren't even in Levant then but began massing on the southern border in 632 C.E. preparing for the Arab Conquest of 638 C.E. The ancient records of the Egyptians, the Assyrians, the Babylonians, the Persians, the Greeks, the Roman, the Byzantine, and the Muslim Empires all attest to the Jewish presence then.
To Be Continued
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary College
To Be Continued
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary College
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