If the internet had existed in the 1930s, Sophie Scholl, murdered by the Nazis at 22 years of age, would have been using it to fight the tyranny of her times. Who knows, if her White Rose Society had been able to use a global computer network to counter the deceit and deception of the […]
With apologies to Max Ehrmann, who wrote the original text in Desiderata in 1927, “whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the communist plan for New Zealand is unfolding as it should”. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the failure of law and order and the political perversion of the police, […]
If Jimmy Shaw suddenly became leader of National there would be an outcry from the party’s supporters. The man in the street supporter that is. The hard core of the party, the same people who have let it drift steadily left for forty years, would probably be flat out on Kiwiblog and other social media […]
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If you thought the radicalisation of followers of Islam in an effort to encourage them to commit terrorism was a Middle-Eastern and First-World, Western problem:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Indian-Mujahideen-claims-responsibility-for-Varanasi-blast/articleshow/7062454.cms
One infant dead and forty injured (which strangley the article didn’t mention)…
Many member of the Indian Mujahideen (IM) come from the group Student Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), which itself is an offshoot of Jamaat-e-Islami (Jamaat-e-Islami having seperate groups in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, formed in Pakistan):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_Islamic_Movement_of_India
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaat-e-Islami
Both groups have association with the group that carried out the 2008 Mumbai attacks, Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lashkar-e-Taiba
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_2008_Mumbai_attacks
There are an estimated 160 million Muslims in India and these groups hope to radicalise Indian Muslims by targetting Hindu religious sites, holidays, events, etc to spark communal religious violence and retaliation…
In just the last four years, this one group, the Indian Mujahideen, have carried out bombings in, Varanasi, Pune, three cities in Utter Pradesh, Jaipur, Bangalore, Ahmedabad and Delhi…
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Any one else troubled with the defence lawyer for the father of the physically and sexually abused nine year old – a piece of shit called Brenda Donald – has blamed the abuse on … wait for it … THE NINE YEAR OLD.
Gotta LOVE those socialist taxes.
I hope the bitch gets breast cancer.
Soon.
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The concept that some evil act can be mitigated by shifting the responsibility to the victim is a common defence tactic of late and one that often pisses me off immensely, but adopting this strategy in such an appalling case and with a 9 year old girl would appear to be a particularly nasty example.
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I’ve got a comment in mod Red, not sure if you’ve seen it…
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. . . a good Melanie Phillips post on the Wikileaks events here…
http://www.melaniephillips.com/articles-new/?p=787
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“Such a pitiless spotlight couldn’t be shone upon a more priceless bunch of idiots.”
Damn right, as Melanie so often is.
Thanks for the tip Angus.
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