Appeasement - Social Change to make you more like "Them"

[American Patriot]

Culture Watch, Vol. 22

Culture Watch, Vol. 22
Nancy Morgan
RightBias.com
July 7, 2008 Last week saw more progress in Iraq. Totally ignored by ABC, CBS and NBC, was the release of the May 2008 report card. The Iraqis met 15 of the 18 benchmarks. Only two, enacting and implementing laws to disarm militias and distribute oil revenues, are unsatisfactory. Draw your own conclusions. And shame on the media for failing to inform the American people.

Regards the media: The increasingly rapid and broad decline of the newspaper business in recent months has surprised even the most pessimistic financial analysts. Most recent example: The Los Angeles Times cut 250 jobs, including 150 news jobs, in the face of declining ad sales. Going and soon forgotten. Cry me a river.

Some disturbing trends from

ACROSS THE POND:

In Britain, Muslims have been making astounding advances in their strategy of 'conquering from within.' Sniffer dogs trained to spot terrorists at railway stations may no longer come into contact with Muslim passengers - after complaints that unclean dogs offend their religion. And in UK schools, two schoolboys were given detention after refusing to kneel down and 'pray to Allah' during religious education lessons.

Topping these lunacies, the UK's most senior judge just gave his blessing to the use of Sharia law to resolve disputes among Muslims. Question: How long will a sovereign country last with more than one rule of law? Appeasement, thy name is Britain.

Speaking of appeasement, Forbes has reported that the leaders of the Columbian FARC terrorists were paid millions of dollars to free those hostages last week.

ECO UPDATE:

The old media has ignored the embarrassing anniversary of "The Population Bomb." For you youngsters out there, The Population Bomb was a best-selling book written by Paul Erlich that predicted, well, the same thing the eco-crazies are predicting today. Melting seas, famines, global catastrophe, etc. if the crisis of global cooling wasn't addressed. That's right, global cooling. Fast forward 40 years and, gee, the earth has more resources and the air is cleaner. Turned out not to be a crisis after all. Hmmm....

Government solutions to this non-crisis, however, are creating a few crisis of their own. A confidential report by the World Bank estimates that biofuels have forced global food prices up by 75% - far more than previously estimated. An aid agency also reports that the use of biofuels has dragged more than 30 million people world-wide into poverty. Thank-you Algore and all you compassionate progressives.

In San Francisco, what some believe is the greenest building in the nation's history also has the worst work environment. Workers in the building say it is 'a nightmare.' Oops. Meanwhile, France is getting ready to build a second third-generation EPR nuclear plant.





GOVERNMENT AT WORK:

Unreported (again) by the media was the first congressional hearing ever held on alleged 'transgender discrimination' in the workplace. And continuing their hard work on behalf of the people, Congress just passed a new law that will stop your capitol - or at least a good portion of it - at the border, should you decide not to be a U.S. citizen anymore. (Please don't let Alec Baldwin or Susan Sarandon in on this tidbit.)

In a bit of good news, the National Governors Assoc. reported that deteriorating economic trends might, gasp, require states to all but freeze spending growth. I'm smiling.


CULTURE:

Max Sanders, 19, has been charged with a felony for trying to sell his vote on EBay. And singer Rene Marie, who had been chosen to sing the Star Spangled Banner in Denver, decided to show how empowered she was by instead singing the words to the Black National Anthem. Zany, huh?

Speaking of zany, Thomas Beatie, the transgendered man who was impregnated by a sperm donor gave birth to a baby girl. My question: Is he/she the child's mother or father? Expect more of these conundrums as the left continues its successful redefining of the traditional family.

A growing band of Obama supporters are expressing solidarity with him by changing their middle names to Hussein. God Bless America.

The Fourth of July is a fitting time to test your knowledge of this great country of ours. In October, a new version of the U.S. citizenship test will be introduced. Can you pass it? Click here for test.

ESSENTIAL TRIVIA:

When you cheat on your partner you add to the heartbreak, pain and jealousy in the atmosphere. Cheatneutral.com offsets your cheating by funding someone else not to cheat.

Author Christopher Hitchens videotaped himself undergoing waterboarding. Check it out.

That scream you hear isn't Hitchens', or mine. Its the earth. A new recording from space reveals the earth emits an ear-piercing series of chirps and whistles that could be heard by any aliens that may be listening.Even liberals can hear it.

IDIOT OF THE WEEK:

Another tie this week. PETA and actress Sharon Stone share the idiot box. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has offered Sharon Stone a free brain scan in an apparently sincere effort to discover why she "demonstrates a lack of empathy" towards animals by wearing fur. Ah, such interesting times.

I don't know about you, but I've had enough.

Till next Monday, keep smiling,

Nancy Morgan

RightBias.com

[American Patriot]

Surrender!
Townhall.com ^ | July 8, 2008 | Cal Thomas

So this is how it ends: not with a bang, but a whimper.

The most senior judge in England has declared that Islamic legal principles in Sharia law may be used within Muslim communities in Britain to settle marital arguments and regulate finance. Lord Chief Justice Lord Phillips said, "Those entering into a contractual agreement can agree that the agreement shall be governed by a law other than English law."

In his speech at an East London mosque, Lord Phillips said Muslims in Britain could use Islamic legal principles as long as punishments - and divorce rulings - comply with English law. Sharia law does not comply with English law. It is a law unto itself.

And so the English who gave us the Magna Carta in 1215, William Blackstone and the foundation of American law are slowly succumbing to the dictates of intolerant Islam and sowing seeds of their own destruction.

The Iranian and Kurdish Women's Rights Organization (IKWRO), an umbrella group of activists who work in Muslim countries to liberate women from the dark side of this oppressive force, according to Womensphere.wordpress.com, identifies Sharia family law as the fundamental basis for discrimination against women in the Muslim world, including communities in the United Kingdom.

Here are just some of the "benefits" British Muslim women can look forward to if Sharia law replaces English law: The Muslim woman cannot marry without parental approval, worsening the problem of forced marriage; marriages can be conducted without the presence of a bride, as long as the guardian consents, creating a climate for underage and early marriage; Muslim women may only marry Muslim men.

It gets worse. A Muslim man can divorce his wife by repudiating her; they have no obligation to support a former wife, or her children after the divorce; women are prohibited from divorcing husbands without his consent; abuse is not grounds for a woman to end a marriage; in matters of inheritance, sons are entitled to twice as much of an estate as daughters.

Divorced women must remain single. If they remarry they can lose custody of their children. There is no similar requirement for a man. Child custody often reverts to the father at a preset age, even if the father has been abusive.

It is impossible to reconcile this antiquated "law" with English law, so what could Lord Phillips mean when he says that Sharia law can be used in Muslim communities as long as such laws comply with English law? This will mean English law must become subordinate to Sharia law. This is Dhimmitude, an Islamic system of religious apartheid begun in the 7th century that forces all other religions and cultures to accept an inferior status once Muslims become the majority.

Maryland's Court of Appeals recently denied a Sharia divorce to a Pakistani man. The man's wife of 20 years had filed for divorce. To circumvent having to share their $2 million estate and other marital assets, he went to the Pakistani embassy and applied for an Islamic divorce. The man wanted to invoke what is known as talaq, in which the husband says, "I divorce you" three times and it's done.

The Maryland court said, "If we were to affirm the use of talaq, controlled as it is by the husband, a wife, a resident of this state, would never be able to consummate a divorce action filed by her in which she seeks a division of marital property" and the talaq "directly deprives the wife of the due process she is entitled to when she initiates divorce litigation. The lack and deprivation of due process is itself contrary to (Maryland's) public policy."

British Muslims who wish to live under Sharia law might have stayed in the countries from which they came - or return to them. But their objective appears to be domination of England, not assimilation. This also seems to be the goal for Muslims in other countries with large and growing Muslim populations.

There is no due process under Sharia law. Lord Phillips has signed the death warrant for his nation if his opinion becomes the law of England. It's one thing to fight a war and lose it. It's quite another to willingly surrender without a struggle.