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Moderate Muslims want to silence this infidel!

Pomygranate and Andrew Bolt report on the visit to Australia of ex-MuslimAyaan Hirsi Ali and the typical anti-liberty response of so-called “moderate” Muslim leaders.

Nada Roude, of the New SouthWales Islamic Council:

They (prophets) are not just like you and me, they have special status – you’re supposed to show respect …

… There have to be boundaries in how far you go in respecting other’s beliefs. The reaction from the community is likely to be quite worrying.

But Mohammed is not my prophet.

As an atheist, I don’t recognise him as a prophet. Neither do Christians or Jews. Such a “respect” would only apply to those who recognise Mohammed as a prophet, wouldn’t it?

And how is what Aayan Hirsi Ali writes a form of “disrespect”?

She talks about her experiences, and she presents herunderstanding of the Koran,theHadith, the Sunnah. And she shows that the various terrorists who quote Islamic texts, do so understanding what they mean.

Is criticism of Islam and of Mohammed, “disprespect”? Istalking about horrible things done in the name of Islam a form of “disrespect”?

If the words and actions of Mohammed, the Prophet of Islam, are considered by some to be disgusting, repulsive, violent, psychopathic, or stupid what would “respect” of Mohammed consist of?

Nada Roude says there should be “boundaries in how far you go in respecting other’s beliefs”. Why? What boundaries?

One of my “beliefs” is that of free speech. I maintain that “respecting” free speech means thereshould beno “boundaries” on what can be discussed, examined, and criticised. I find Nada’s proposal to limit Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s and my inalienable right to free speech offensive and apalling. Her words appall me. I am sickened by them. Will she respect my feelings?

Another of my beliefs is that I want toencourage apostasy. I wantto see Muslims leave Islam and move on to something better, more rational. I hope Nada will respect this. Islam won’t. The punishment for apostasy in Islam is death.

How do we “respect” a religion of violence?

Jamila Hussain, Islamic law lecturer at Sydney’s University of Technology

I think she’d be better staying where she came from … I’ve read enough of her thoughts. It’s a narrow and radical opinion, and I don’t agree with it. She’s obviously had some dreadful experiences, but they’re not typical.

Jamila must surely know where Ayaan Hirsi Ali “came from”!

She was born in Somalia, move to Saudi Arabia, on to Ethiopia, then to Kenya, thento the Netherlands, and is now based in the United States.

Along the way she’s witnessed and been subjected to a wide variety of delightful Islamic experiences.

For instance, after making a movie about the inherent violence of Islam, her colleague, Theo Van Gogh, was violently murdered by a Muslim. This is the fate of those who don’t “respect” Islam, right?

Here you go Nada Roude and Jamila Hussain, respect this:

TheoVan Gogh,murdered onNovember 02, 2004

You can’t see from this picture thatthe victimwas nearly decapitated and had 8 bullets shot into him, but you can make outtwo knives in his body.

And you can see that the knives have eachpinned a note into the victim’s chest. These are letters from the killer, Mohammed (peace be upon his life-sentence) Bouyeri who “claims to have murdered van Gogh to fulfill his duty as a Muslim.”

One of these letters is for Ayaan. Here are some excerpts …

Dear Mrs Hirshi Ali,

Since your appearence in the Dutch political arena you have been constantly busy criticising Muslims and terrorising Islam with your statements.

You are hereby not the first and not the last and also won’t be the last to have joined the crusade against Islam.

… It appears that you are blinded by your burning unbelief and in your rage you are not able to see that you are just an instrument of the real enemies of Islam.

You are being used by all the enemies of Islam to siphon all kinds of hostilities towards the most noble person (Mohammed Rasoeloe Alla).

Mrs. Hirshi Ali, I don’t blame you for all of this, as a soldier of evil you are just doing your work.

The fact that you so openly spill out your evil is not because of you yourself, but the Islamic Ummah. She has as her task to resist injustice and has let evil go on and has been blissfully asleep. All of your hostility towards Islam is therefore the fault of the Islamic Ummah.

This letter is Insha Allah (God willing) an attempt to stop your evil and silence you forever. These writings will Inshallah cause your mask to fall off.

… It is a fact that Dutch politics is dominated by many Jews and is a product of the Talmudic Schools, as is also the case with your colleagues in your political party.

… What do you think of the fact that you are part of a government that supports a State [Israel] which pleads for genocide ?

… With these hostilities you have unleashed a boomerang effect and you know that it is only a question of time until this boomerang will seal your fate.

…And yet, Mrs. Hirsi Ali, I would bet on my life that you will break into a SWEAT OF FEAR when you read this.

You, as unbelieving fundamentalist, of course don’t believe in a Higher Power who runs the universe.

You dont believe in your heart, with with you repudiate the truth, that you must knock and ask this Higher Power for permission .

…I shall wish this wish for you:

Mijn Rabb (master) give us death to give us happiness with martyrdom. Allahoemma Amien.

… AYAAN HIRSI ALI YOU WILL BREAK YOURSELF TO PIECES ON ISLAM!

You and your friend know full well that the present day Islamic youth are raw diamonds that need to be polished, so that they can diffuse the light of Truth.

Your intellectual terrorism will not prevent this, on the contrary, it will hasten this.

Islam will be victorious through the blood of the martyrs.They will spread it’s light in every dark corner of this earth and it will drive evil with the sword if necessary back into it’s dark hole.

… There will be no mercy shown to the purveyors of injustice, only the sword will be lifted against them. No discussions, no demonstrations, no petitions: on DEATH will separate the Truth from the Lies.

[ ... ]

“I surely know that you, O America, will be destroyed “.

“I surely know that you O Europe, will be destroyed”

“I surely know that you O Holland will be destroyed”

“I surely know that you, O Hirshi Ali will be destroyed”

Courageous,devout,head-bangingMuslim
martyr (murderer) Mohammed Bouyeri

Where did Mohammed (peace be upon his life-sentence) Bouyeri get all this stuff? Did he just make it up? If he got it from Islamic teachingsshould we “respect” his beliefs? If he respects the Prophet of Islam, does that make him a good guy?

But maybethe “moderate” Muslims are right.

Mohammed and Islam should be respected – in the full sense of the term!

To quoteErich Fromm:

To respect a person is not possible without knowing him; care and responsibility would be blind if they were not guided by knowledge

Which means we should all be saying a graat big …

Thank you, Ayaan!

We Will Not Submit T-shirt

The brilliant, Robert Spencer

One of my favorite writers on all things Islam, Robert Spencer, has just commenced a new seriesat Hot Aircalled blogging the Qur’an!

Robert Spencer will go through the whole Koran …

… over the course of the next few months, I’m going to read it, and discuss it in a series of columns. All of it. Not “cherry-picked” or “out of context.” The whole thing, beginning to end.

…I will …refer to commentaries – all Muslim ones – on the Qur’an. I’ll try to explain how mainstream Muslims who study the Qur’an will understand any given passage, and what its import might be for non-Muslims.

Highly recommended!

Let the Global Warming meltdown begin!

Many former believers in catastrophic man-made global warming have recently reversed themselves and are now climate skeptics

So writes, Marc Morano, Communications Director for the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works in an article reported by THINKER TO THINKER™ blog, PlanetMars.

Marc Morano

Marc Morano’s article is titled, Climate Momentum Shifting: Prominent Scientists Reverse Belief in Man-made Global Warming – Now Skepticsand lists an impressive array of experts who once were strong supporters of man-made global warming but who are now speaking out against it.

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One of the PRODOS servers has been down for the last 9 hours. This means mailing lists, chat room, and some campaign websites are currently not connecting.

Update -3.40 PM (Cincinnati time): Server is connecting again. Websites and chatroom connecting again. However, one campaign website is bringing up an older version, rather than the version I uploaded to it a few days ago. Bad news so far regarding mailing lists: They’re still not connecting. I’ve written again to the server technicians.

Update – 11.30 PM (Cincinnati time): Mailing lists seem to be working again. I just tested them.

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Here’s a short video of stand-up comedian, Carlos Mencia, doing a piece about dealing withthe taunts of an anti-American Middle Eastern guy who supports terrorism – including the destruction of the World Trade Center. This is my first exposure to this comedian.

Most interesting to me was the BIG positive audience response. What Carlos Mencia deals with in this clip is really about “attitude”. Instead of being “understanding” towards those who want to kill you, or apologetic for being American, Carlos fights fire with nukes.

The crowdloves it. I love it.

Update: I thought I’d do a quick transcript. It’s not 100% accurate. Crowd cheering made it difficult to hear clearly at times. But I think you’ll get the gist.

[a friend says to me] “Hey man, you should kinda chill on the Middle Eastern stuff.”

I said “What!?”

[Friend says] “You know they’re crazy, Carlos.”

[Carlos replies] “Shut up! You need to be a real American and read your history and know who you are and don’t be ashamed.”

Then this Middle Eastern guy overheard and goes, “Hey, you should listen to him.”

I said “What!? I wasn’t talking to you.”

[Middle Eastern guy] “Well, I’m just saying.”

[Carlos] “Well, I’m just saying. You wanna scare me? You don’t know who I am. I’m not white. I don’t apologise for what my country did to become great! You understand that? I know what they’ve done, and you don’t know me.”

[Middle Eastern guy] “Oh no, my people are crazy”

I said “Bitch, your people ain’t crazy. You don’t know what crazy is. My people are crazy. So you’d better rest assured that if you don’t chill you gonna get it. You understand me?”

And then he got pissed off and went “No, I don’t get it. You better remember, we blew up two of your buildings.”

[Carlos] “Oooh, and we blew up two of your [indicating quote marks] countries. You wanna play this game bitch?! You wanna [crowd noise obscures] against the USA, bitch?”

[crowd going wild] [back before] when he blew us up, the Blacks and the Hispanics and the White people would fight. But look at me. We’re united. We just fight with each other because we got nothing better to do and we like drama. But as soon as Ahmed blows something up, it was like “Blacky, Darky, Cracker, [ .... ] twin powers, activate! Get Aahmeeeed!! Aghhhhh” [crowd even wilder, cheering and whistling]

You don’t know me!

He goes “We have killed thousands of people”.

I’m like [camping it up] “We’ve killed millions.”

He goes, “My people are looking for an atomic bomb and when we get it we might just use it.”

“Oooh, [mocking] you’re looking for an atomic bomb and you might use it? Look at me you dumb, ignorant piece of [bleep]. My people do have those bombs that you seek. And guess what bitch, we already used them. Twice. And if you don’t believe me, call Japan. They’ll connect you with a man with three penises and five balls. That’s how we play the game baby!”

We just dropped two bombs, on Nagasaki and Hiroshima. And the name of the plane that delivered the weapons was Enola Gay. You know why? Because we wanted them to know they were about to get boned in the [bleep].

That’s how we play the game!

Some excerpts from Speigal’s Olaf Stampf and Gerald Traufetter interview with Biologist, Josef Reicholf. . .

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On Tuesday, my wife and I are heading off to the United Statesfor 6 weeks.

In Melbourne, registered CPL (Creative Project Leader) Mario Panopoulos, will be running our International Capitalism Day event @ Laikon Restaurant(Sunday June 03).

I’ll be conducting a Capitalism Day event in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Update: Sydney Kendall will be the CPL for Cincinnati.

On our way back to Australia we’ll be stopping for a day or two in California – around July 08.

Love America! Love Americans!

Update: I’ll be without internet connection for a couple of days, while we’re in flight.

Matthew Warren’s article in The Australian, Capitalism clears the air, is full of enthusiasm about how big business, market forces, and carbon emission credits [i.e. anti-market forces] will tackle global warming more efficiently, effectively, and innovatively than any government could.

In fact carbon “trading” represents a deep undermining of the free market – which is the whole point of it of course. It’s an attempt to tame (i.e. destroy) the free market.

The threat of climate change has been around for more than a decade; however, clouded by complex and uncertain science, it is only in the past few years, even months, that the inherent risks to business have been sheeted home.

At an intellectual level there is the risk of an unacceptably warm planet by the end of the century. But even more pressing is the growing risk of a high price on carbon emissions and the impact that may have on their competitiveness, even survival. Self-interest is a powerful motivator for change.

Whodetermines this “high price on carbon emissions”? It’s not the interaction of buyers and sellers, producers and consumers. It’s government, led by technocrats.

The world’s biggest corporations are currently falling over themselves to get in on this.

What we are seeing is the rise of the new Carbonocracy.

Those who are learning to play the Carbon Game, and profit by it. The Carbonocracy will be a global community of gutless, subservient corporations.

Carbon emissions”trading” and carbon credits are completely incompatible with Capitalism, free markets, and freedom.

The Business Council of Australia (BCA) is leading the charge on Green Dhimmitude. They just can’t get enough of it!

• Make the scheme long-term (at least 30 years) to increase greenhouse gas emissions reduction and investor certainty;
• Set both annual and long-term emissions reduction targets;
• Include a first phase which involves the establishment of information collection and measurement and verification mechanisms for businesses and the secondary market;
• Include as many greenhouse gases as possible;
• Maximise the number of sectors that are included in the scheme. If it is not possible to include a particular sector, introduce policies which ensure commensurate emissions reductions in that sector;
• Allow maximum offsets (national and international) to meet abatement targets;
• Establish a ‘Reserve Bank-like’ permit issue authority;
• Issue free permits to compensate enterprises for the economic loss from the change in the ‘rules of the game’;
• Offset the competitiveness impact of the scheme on ‘trade-exposed’ industries for as long as necessary, providing transitional arrangements through the permit issue process;
• Cap the price of permits and consider other relevant ‘safety valve’ mechanisms;
• Ensure the scheme facilitates an active secondary market to provide a rising but reasonably stable forward permit price curve; and
• Ensure effective governance structures that enable confidence in the market.

And they love being Green so much, they want to share it with the world.

While Australia is developing a national response, the BCA believes Australia can and should, through its international relationships and networks, push for the development of a far-reaching global market response.

PS: I consider the notion of man-made global warming to be a load of rot. Just in case you were wondering.

Mikko Ellila (Ellilä) has written on this blog and on his own blog that Aapo Puhakka’s English translation of the originalSociety Consists of People was “awful” and “misleading”.

However, Kenneth Sikorski who is fluent in both English and Finnish has now proof-read Aapo’s translation and found it to be largely accurate with “very few discrepencies” between Aapo’s translation and Mikko’s original article.

Below, I provide Kenneth’s notes. As you’ll see, the corrections/adjustments are quite minimal and do NOT result in a different understanding of Mikko’s article.

First, here’s what Mikko wrote about the translation.

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Update, Sunday June 10 2007, Cincinnati time: Mikko hasprovided an authorized English translation of his article, Society Consists of People, which I’ve postedHERE

Over several posts I will carefully examine,step-by-step,the reasoning and the claims made by Finnish blogger Mikko Ellila(also spelt:Ellilä and Ellilän) in his article “Society Consists of People” (See original in Finnish here, or English translation here.)

[By the way, Sydney Kendall is also doing a detailed analysis of the Mikko article. Highly recommended!]

Let’s get started ….

Society Consists of People
By Mikko Ellila

In the discussion of immigration and multiculturalism many people seem to forget, that every society and culture is created and upheld by certain kind of people.

European culture and modern western society is created by white people.

One could see in Africa societies and cultures created by black people, if there were no railroads, airplanes, streets with asphalt, stone houses, electricity, telephone, television, etc.

Even if it’strue that some or many or even most of the people who “created” modern Westernculturewere “white”. They were also many other things too.

Why is the “white” bit relevant?

Is “white” a distinguishing attribute? Or is there some more fundamental attribute/characteristic at work?

New concepts andnew ways of doing things, defining and defending and promoting freedom, and creating wealth are functions of independent, individual thinking.

Volition/Free Will has nothing to do with race or biology. All humans, regardless of race have inherent free will and therefore the capacity for creative thought.

Many of the best defenders of free speech and individual rights today are not “white”.

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ReasonRules.ThinkerToThinker.com links to aWikipedia article about a book called IQ and the Wealth of Nations by Dr Richard Lynn, Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, and Dr. Tatu Vanhanen, Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland.

Wikipedia:

… The book argues that differences in national income (in the form of per capita gross domestic product) correlate with differences in average national IQ. The authors interpret this correlation as showing that IQ is one important factor contributing to differences in national wealth and rates of economic growth, but that it is not the only determinant of these differences.

… The authors believe that average IQ difference between nations are due to both genetic and environmental factors. They also believe that low GDP can cause low IQ, just as low IQ can cause low GDP

… For 104 of the 185 nations, no studies were available. In those cases, the authors have used an estimated value by taking averages of the IQs of neighboring or comparable nations.

For example, the authors arrived at a figure of 84 for El Salvador by averaging their calculations of 79 for Guatemala and 88 for Colombia. Including those estimated IQs, the correlation of IQ and GDP is 0.62.

Finnish blogger, Mikko Ellila, has written the following:
See original in Finnish here, or English translation here.

Bringing Negroes to Europe lowers the mean intelligence level of European population, because Negroes have lower median-IQ than whites.

There is a positive correlation between intelligence and standard of living.

… When the mean intelligence level decreases, the standard of living of the country decreases.

… So bringing Negroes to Europe would lower the standard of living in Europe, even if Negroes wouldn’t be social bums living on taxpayers money.

These are examples of shoddy science and fuzzy reasoning coming together.

In the view of Dr Anna Blainey (Melbourne, Australia) the following statement by Mikko Ellila demonstrateshis denial of free will and moral faculty for Negroes:

Negroes obey laws regulated by white society only, when they are concretedly upkept with harsh discipline. If discipline softens, Negroes african biological character of people is manifested in their behaviour.

My own view is that complianceto governmental laws which relate to respect of person and property (in contrast to laws which seek to regulate people or laws which plunder citizens) requires: The ability to think in principles – which isintegral to human nature. And a respect for self-ownership.

Biology (including genetics) is not involved in either case. It’s completely irrelevant.

I tend to be emotionally more “volatile” than my wife. For instance, I tend to get upset faster and to a greater degree than she does. It’s possible there may be some biology/genetics involved in this.

But I don’t need to be reminded of any strict laws against rape, murder,or plunder, to remain steadfast in my respect of others – even of those who I feel have wronged me.

Why not? Because I act morally. In fact my moral thinking limits my range of potentially harmful actions far more than any laws.

My moral principles are not in any way derived from my biology.

Nor is my dedication to truth and justice.

Which parts of Mikko’s thinking are based on his European biology?

Come on Mikko, tell us.

My SOLID VOX interview with Gerard Jackson examining some of the claims made by Chris Berg and Andrew Kemp (Institute of Public Affairs, Australia) in their article, Islam’s Free Market Heritage is NOW ONLINEat PRODOS Worldwide.

Previous PRODOS Blog items on this issue are here and here.

Following up on recent discussion concerning an article by Mikko Ellila/Ellilä,Sydney Kendall Says links to 3 excellent articles by Thomas Sowell on Race and IQ.

Reporting that, regrettably, for personal reasons,I’ve withdrawn my nomination to stand for preselection (Liberal Party of Australia) for the District of Melbourne in the forthcoming federal election.

I remain dedicated to working with the Party and wish the candidate who gets chosen great success.

Thanks to the many wonderful people who supported my application.

Notice for tonight’s DISCOVER CAPITALISM meeting in Melbourne, Australia, with guest speaker, Steven Shamrak

UNDERSTANDING ZIONISM
Speaker: Steven Shamrak

Some of the issues we’ll explore include …

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In an earlier post scrutinising the Islamic Free Market Institute Foundation, which has been praised by Australia’s Institute of Public Affairs, I wrote:

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The Islamic “Free Market”Institute Foundation also quotes this item by George Bernard Shaw:

I believe that if a man like him [Muhammad]
were to assume the dictatorship of the
modern world, he would succeed in solving
its problems in a way that would bring it
much needed peace and happiness.

Oh, I get it! A free market dictator! Brilliant.
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In case the reader isn’taware, the 1925 Nobel Prize winning author, George Bernard Shaw, was a Socialist and a big fan of Stalin, Lenin, Mussolini, and Hitler.

… By 1933 he was calling Stalin and Mussolini “the most responsible statesmen in Europe”

… He applauded his [Stalin's] annexation of Finland, recommended him for the Nobel Peace Prize …

… Shaw’s view after he spent nine days in Russia in 1931 … congratulated slave-labourers on their public-spiritedness, said he would settle “in the most fortunate country on earth” if he were younger and, in a hall later used for show trials, declared he would die happy now he knew that the communist system could “save mankind from complete anarchy and ruin”.

… In October 1939 he published an article urging Britain and France to make peace with Germany, suggesting that Churchillism be abolished before Hitlerism and declaring that “we should cease railing at our own creation” and recognise the ability with which the Führer had undone “our wicked work” at Versailles.

… as late as 1942 that the Führer was “a remarkable fellow” who had taken “the courage of his convictions to a sublime height”.

… As late as 1938 Shaw wrote to Beatrice Webb: “I think we ought to tackle the Jewish question by admitting the right of the State to make eugenic experiments by weeding out any strains they think undesirable.” The result of those experiments was, of course, the Holocaust, in which Shaw always refused to believe.

Interesting?

Below, is an Englishtranslation by Aapo Puhakkaof the article which Mikko Ellila wrote (I’ve only included the text and have left out the accompanyingpictures from his original article) and which the Finnish authorities are investigating him about.

Also, there’s a translation of the charges being made against Mikko.

I got both these texts from Laiva On Taynnavia a link from Thoughts on Freedom, The Official Blog of the Australian Libertarian Society.

Both of these are confirmed as being genuine by Mikko Ellila himselfon his blog.

But first, let me state or remind the reader that when Mikko originally wrote to me he said…

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Mikko Ellila of Finland: Outspoken critic of Islamo-fascists

Little Green Footballs has posted a much commented item on Fellow Thought Criminal, Mikko Ellila:

Finnish blogger Mikko Ellilä has been notified that he will be interrogated by police under Finland’s “incitement against groups” law.

Gates of Vienna is providing valuable updates on this issue.

Tundra Tabloids is doing very nice work.

Sydney Kendall Says is tracking this issue as well as the Sandmonkey Shrugs issue in Egypt.

The THINKER TO THINKER ™ blogger who is to be interrogated by Finland’s Thought Police is:

Mikko Ellila of Finland who’s blog is at:

http://mikkoellila.thinkertothinker.com

The following is my un-edited reply to Mikko’s note which I received at Wednesday 11.07 PM, Melbourne time and replied at 11.39 PM …

From: Prodos
To: Mikko Ellila

Dear Mikko,

Good evening.

>
> I am writing to you because I received a letter from the municipal
> police department saying they want to interrogate me because of the
> anti-Muslim, pro-Israeli, pro-European, pro-American posts in my
> blog.

Bloody hell!!!

> According to the letter, I am suspected of “hate speech” merely
> because I have pointed out that Islam is a fascist ideology that
> advocates killing Jews, atheists, homosexuals etc.
>

I applaud and support your views!

> I hope you will not submit under the yoke of censorship that the
> Muslims want to impose on us.

Certainly not!!

Here’s a new T-shirt and website I’m about to launch:
http://WeWillNotSubmit.spreadshirt.com

> Do not delete any of my blog posts
> without an explicit order from an Australian court of law. I am
> assuming your server is based in Australia and is therefore under
> Australian jurisdiction.
>

My server is in the USA, even though I’m in Australia.

> I live in Espoo, a suburban municipality in the Helsinki metropolitan
> area in Finland, and I am certain that the municipal police will
> never take tis case to court in Australia. But they might send you
> some e-mail “politely” asking you to delete my blog. Don’t do this if
> you value freedom.
>

I will tell them to FUCK OFF.

> This is a very important symbolic case, the first of its kind in
> Finland. Noone has ever been interrogated before in this country for
> blog posts criticising Islam. Probably thousands of people will be
> following this case already before I will visit the police station
> for the interrogation next Monday, because I have told about the
> ongoing police investigation to several other bloggers whose pages
> get thousands of visitors per day.
>

When are you able to discuss this matter on my radio show?

I have done a number of interviews on this issue, including
one with Pastor Daniel Nalliah who was charged with
hate speech here in my state.

http://prodos.solidvox.com/?p=11

Let’s talk about it before Monday.

Do I have permission to inform THINKER TO THINKER bloggers about this?

Do I have permission to post this information on my blog @
http://prodos.thinkerothinker.com ?

> This is an extremely important case, a litmus test for the freedom of
> speech, a landmark case, a historical milestone.
>

You have my total support.

> The Finnish government is apparently trying to impose Chinese-style
> totalitarian censorship on the internet. Since the parliament would
> not approve of any new censorship laws, the government is trying to
> impose censorship ILLEGALLY by abusing existing laws against hate
> speech. Such laws were originally obviously meant to be used against
> Nazi-style “kill all Jews” rhetoric, but since the Muslims use that
> kind of rhetoric all the time, and THEY are not being interrogated by
> the police, whereas people who say things like “Islam is a
> totalitarian ideology” ARE interrogated, the hate speech laws are
> obviously being used AGAINST their original purpose.
>
> Again, this is an extremely important issue. Do not give in.

Allow me to help.

What’s your phone number please?

My number is: +613 9428 1234 (Melbourne, Australia) but I’m about to go to bed.

I look forward to your reply.

Best Wishes,

PRODOS

Read more about this issue at Gates of Vienna

We Will NOT Submit

One of our THINKER TO THINKER bloggers has just informed me – a few minutes ago – that he is to be interrogated by Police for “hate speech”.

His thought crime consists of exposing – on his THINKER TO THINKER blog – the violent nature of Islam and supporting America, Israel, and Western Values.

As soon as he gives me permission to reveal his details I’ll post a note about it.

I’ve invited him to speak on my show about it.

I just found out that controversial Australian blogger and mega-stirrer, Andrew Landeryou, already knows that I’ve just nominated for Liberal Party Pre-selection for Melbourne for the forthcoming Federal election!

I’m impressed.

Here’s the article

Colourful internet identity Prodos is throwing his hat into the ring for Liberal preselection for the federal seat of Melbourne.

Previously he has been persuaded to withdraw but to paraphrase the great English Prime Minister, this time this Prodos is not for turning.

Sources close to the behatted one declare that he will not withdraw under any circumstances and even if the chieftains of 104 Exhibition Street look like prevailing, he’ll be pressing on regardless to make his point.

We understand that he will be opposed by an Owen Dixon (not the former Chief Justice who died in 1971 presumably).

Prodos seems like a good stick, an unusual person in politics who actually thinks about his political philosophy rather deeply. Political parties don’t generally reward such folk which is why in ALP circles it’s sometimes quite a surprise to hear a strong view about something where there’s no internal agenda just a sincerely held opinion, like Conroy and Fiona Richardson against uranium mining or Tanner in favour of really open markets with much less government red tape on foreign investment. Unpredictable views are all too rare.

And Prodos isn’t so much unpredictable as consistent philosophically, which is even rarer. Good luck to him, he’ll need it.

John Pasquarelli has the following letter aboutformer Australian Liberal Party Prime Minister, Malcolm Fraser, in Crikey today.

I first met Malcolm Fraser in Port Moresby in 1976 when he was there with Andrew Peacock and John Howard as part of an Australian delegation celebrating the first anniversary of PNG’s Independence.

Even then I gained the impression that here was a man well and truly up himself.

He was of course in full cry at the time, paving the way for Lebanese Muslims to come to Australia as well as establishing the first office of Multicultural Affairs presided over by his lickspittle Petrogeorgiou.

Fraser helped purge his own perceived guilt over the Vietnam War by welcoming the Boatpeople.

The Australian people were never consulted at any level about such dramatic changes to their cultural makeup – and of course they never have been by subsequent governments on the vital issues of immigration and refugees.

To read Fraser prattling on about the “Rule of Law” and his equation of Australia and the US with “tyrannical regimes” is simply sickening given the history of his relationship with the monstrous Robert Mugabe.

When will a journo with balls take this pompous git on and ask him what he thinks now of his murderous mate?

Australians should be reminded that Malcolm Trousers is still there with his snout in the trough spending their tax dollars on his ex-Prime Ministerial perks. It’s time we were advised of the total of his spending spree for the last financial year – and by the way, who were the fools who proposed he be granted life membership of the Liberal Party?

Hat tip to Cryptic Cat Lover.

The cover story of Australia’sInstitute of Public Affairs magazine, IPA Review,is:

“Islam’s free market heritage”
written by Chris Berg and Andrew Kemp.

One of the groups that’s praised in that article is the Islamic Free Market Institute Foundation.

Among other things, this group claims that:

… the life of Prophet Muhammad provides a perfect example.

… The law of God, as enunciated in the Qur’an and exemplified in the life of the Prophet is supreme in all cases.

I wonder if Chris and Andrew have studied the Hadith in order to be clear about what this means exactly. I really think they should.

Islam is not a new religion, but a re-presentation of the same message and guidance that Allah revealed to all of His prophets.

What this means is that Jesus and Moses (and others) were all Muslims. It also means that Islam is the rightful owner/origin/source of both Christianity and Judaism.

The Islamic “Free Market”Institute Foundation also quotes this item by George Bernard Shaw:

I believe that if a man like him [Muhammad] were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world, he would succeed in solving its problems in a way that would bring it much needed peace and happiness.

Oh, I get it! A free market dictator! Brilliant.

At this evening’s Discover Capitalism meeting Margot Bruton talked about the new phonics program she’s been developing.

We also compared the phonics approach with the whole language approach.

“Done”

Perceptive, entertaining, freedom-loving Egyptian blogger, TheSandmonkey, calls it a day.

How he describes himself:

Be forewarned: The writer of this blog is an extremely cynical, snarky, pro-US, secular, libertarian, disgruntled sandmonkey. If this is your cup of tea, please enjoy your stay here. If not, please sod off.

And here’s the farewell post…

Today is going to be the day that I’ve been dreading for quite sometime now. Today is the day I walk away from this blog. Done. Finished.

There are many reasons, each would take a post to list, and I just do not have the energy to list them. As anyone who has been reading this blog for the past month, I think it is apparent that things are not the same with me. There are reasons for that:

One of the chief reasons is the fact that there has been too much heat around me lately. I no longer believe that my anonymity is kept, especially with State Secuirty agents lurking around my street and asking questions about me since that day. I ignore that, the same way I ignored all the clicking noises that my phones started to exhibit all of a sudden, or the law suit filed by Judge Mourad on my friends, and instead grew bolder and more reckless at a time where everybody else started being more cautious. It took me a while to take note of the fear that has been gripping our little blogsphere and comprehend what it really means. The prospects for improvment, to put it slightly, look pretty grim. I was the model of caution, and believing in my invincipility by managing not to get arrested for the past 2 and a half years, I’ve grown reckless. Stupid Monkey. Stupid!

And speaking of the state of the egyptian blogsphere, it has been pretty depressing in its own right. One has to wonder at some point the futulity of being a keyboard warrior in a country where nothing seems to matter to its people anymore. At the same time, there has been those amongst us who have loved the fame and the attention, and are now becoming the egyptian blogsphere’s equivelant of Paris Hilton: They are famous for being famous, peddling the same stories and not really presenting anything of value to the debate. And then there is the fact that we are entering the “Iconogrphy” phase : We are becoming Icons. Too much Media attention, too many american organizations claiming to champion our causes while they are cashing out in donation from people gullible enough to believe them, too much hype generated by us and others, so many of us tooting our own horns and even crying wolf at times has made Icons of us. We now have young bloggers who come up to many of us “Old Guard” and tell us how they are such great fans of ours, and how we are their role models and heroes and how they are starting to blog because of our “courageous example”. And there are those of us who are buying into it, taking in undertsudies to placate our big heads, hooking up with groupies to feed our egos, acting as if we are the warriors for change we are made up to be and forgetting why we started blogging to begin with. It seems that we are entering a state of transformation, and we should either 1) evolve, take the next step whatever it is, 2) stay the way we are and risk becoming carricatures of ourselves or 3) quit. Not knowing what the next step is, and needing time and space to figure it out, I chose the only other option that made sense: I quit!

So here comes my apology to those of you who read me: I am sorry. I really can’t continue to do this. You guys have been the best readers anyone could hope for, altough there are some of you who made me come close to shutting down the comments section many many times. I love you all for everything you have done for me, for all of the egyptian blogsphere. When I asked for your help, you gave us more than a helping hand. You cared. You gave a damn about a bunch of egyptians who had a dream to be free and stood by us in our houres of need. For that you are my heroes, and I can not possibly thank you enough.

May the day comes when I rant once again….

Love you all,

The Sandmonkey

Best Wishes to you Sandmonkey.

Take your timeandwork out what you need to do next in order to stay safe and sane.

“Done?” We’ll see.

But so far, the verdict of your fans and supporters is clearly:

“Well Done!”

Thanks mate.