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PRODOS Film Study Group: An evening of Pat Condell’s Godless Comedy
For the enlightenment, advancement, and inspiration of its members
PRODOS FILM STUDY GROUP
Proudly presents
With the kind permission of Pat Condell
A selection of his most interesting
and/or
controversial monologues.
Acts17Apologetics on what Breivik is and is not
Documentary: CULT OF THE SUICIDE BOMBER (part 1)
For the enlightenment, advancement, and inspiration of its members
PRODOS FILM STUDY GROUP
Proudly presents
With the kind permission of
Kevin Toolis, Many Rivers Films
A documentary featuring Robert Baer (pictured below)
(Case officer in the Directorate of Operations for the CIA from 1976 to 1997)
Produced & directed by David Batty and Kevin Toolis
CULT OF THE SUICIDE BOMBER
(part one)
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James W Ceaser: What Would Tocqueville Say About America Today?
For the enlightenment, advancement, and inspiration of its members
PRODOS FILM STUDY GROUP
Proudly presents
With the kind permission of
Hillsdale College (founded 1844)
and its Center for Constructive Alternatives
A filmed talk from 2009 in which
Dr James W Ceaser
explores and ponders the question:
What Would Tocqueville Say
About America Today?
Abbas Milani: The History of the West’s Relations with Iran
For the enlightenment, advancement, and inspiration of its members
PRODOS FILM STUDY GROUP
Proudly presents
With the kind permission of
The Commonwealth Club & The Hoover Institution
Two filmed talks in which
ABBAS MILANI
DISCUSSES
THE HISTORY OF THE WEST’S
RELATIONS WITH IRAN
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Israeli Ambassador Michael B. Oren: The Future of Israel
For the enlightenment and advancement of its members
PRODOS FILM STUDY GROUP
Proudly presents
With the kind permission of the Aspen Institute
the following videotaped interview from July 2009
THE FUTURE OF ISRAEL
A Conversation with Historian & Israeli
Ambassador, Michael B. Oren (2009)
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Ground Zero Mosque: A 15-story middle finger to America
Thomas Sowell writes:
There is no question that Muslims have a right to build a mosque where they chose to. The real question is why they chose that particular location, in a country that covers more than 3 million square miles.
If we all did everything that we have a legal right to do, we could not even survive as individuals, much less as a society.
So the question is whether those who are planning a Ground Zero mosque want to be part of American society or just to see how much they can get away with in American society?
Do you understand Islam better than Anjem Choudary?
He says ….
You can’t say that Islam is a religion of peace because “Islam” – it does not mean “peace” … Islam means … is “submission” … the Muslim is the one who submits … there’s a place for violence in Islam, there’s a place for Jihad in Islam
… the Koran is full of – you know – Jihad is the most talked about duty in the Koran after Tawhid – belief. Nothing else is mentioned more than the topic of fighting.
PRODOS Film Society 2010 program
List of films the PRODOS Film Society (Melbourne, Australia) will be including in its 2010 programme: HERE (2 MB PDF file)
The PRODOS Film Society is a member of the Federation of Victorian Film Societies. Our constitution is HERE.
Our purpose is to present and study movies that promote and explore free market thinking, capitalist ideals, the history of ideas, the life and work of creative heroes.
PRODOS meetings 2009
Israel ready willing and more than able to strike Iran
A brief sample of the Israeli Air Force
The New York Times reports on an Israeli military exercise conducted in the first week of June, involving over 100 F-15 and F-16 fighter jets, and covering a distance of more than 900 miles – able therefore to hit Iran.
An unnamed Pentagon official explained the exercise was intended …
… to send a clear message to the United States and other countries that Israel was prepared to act militarily if diplomatic efforts to stop Iran from producing bomb-grade uranium continued to falter.
“They wanted us to know, they wanted the Europeans to know, and they wanted the Iranians to know,” the Pentagon official said.
IslamOnline.net, however, offers a warning or two.
“It’s a nightmare scenario for any contingency planner, and I think you really enter the twilight zone if you strike Iran,” Magnus Ranstorp at the Center for Asymmetric Threat Studies at the Swedish National Defense College in Stockholm, told The Christian Science Monitor on Friday, June 20.
“If you attack Iran you are unleashing a firestorm of reaction internally that will only strengthen revolutionary forces, and externally in the region.”
Analysts believe that Tehran would use its rocket capabilities to strike US forces in the Gulf region.
… Analysts believe that Iran’s response to a US or Israeli military strike could be unpredictable.
It “could be” …. “unpredictable”? Doesn’t that also mean it “could be” …”predictable”? Or does this mean that these “analysts” are unable to “analyse” the situation? Or are they saying it’s somehow un-analyseable?
It “could be” …. “unpredictable” … Yeah, I must remember to use that phrase some day.
“One very important issue from a US intelligence perspective, [the Iranian reaction] is probably more unpredictable than the Al Qaeda threat,” said Ranstorp.
Maybe we should also stop hunting downAl Qaeda in that case?
He said Iranian revenge attacks in the past have been marked by “plausible deniability” and have had global reach.
“I doubt very much our ability to manage some of the consequences.”
What about the consequences of allowing Iran to keep on its current quite “predictable” course? Analyse that.
Speaking ofIslamOnline.net, I see that thesitenow brings up an error page where before it had some interesting notes under the heading: “Apostasy: Definition & Ruling” which statedthat apostates (those who leave Islam) should be murdered.
Here is the text from that now missing page:
A questioner asks …
If a Muslim leaves Islam, what do Muslims call him? And what is the Islamic prescribed sentence for the one who leaves Islam. Please send me as soon as possible. Thank you very much.
In a reply dated March 21, 2004 IOL Shari`ah Researchers reply …
In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.All praise and thanks are due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger.Dear questioner! Thank you very much for this question that reflects deep insight and true search for knowledge. May Allah grant you success in this life and the Hereafter.
It goes without saying that, leaving Islam is the ugliest and the worst form of disbelief (kufr) in Almighty Allah. It is technically called ridda (apostasy from Islam), and someone who leaves Islam is called a murtadd (apostate).
The Qur’an makes it clear that the one who leaves Islam, hinders people from the path of Allah and then dies as such will be a loser on the Day of Judgment. His eternal abode will be Hell, where he/she will suffer severe torture and endless chastisement. Allah will not forgive him/her, nor will any of his/her good deeds be accepted from him/her. Allah Almighty says: (Lo! Those who disbelieve and turn from the way of Allah and then die disbelievers, Allah surely will not pardon them.) (Muhammad 47: 34)
Also, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) is reported to have said:
“The blood of a Muslim who testifies that there is no god but Allah and that I am the Messenger of Allah is not lawful to shed unless he be one of three: a married adulterer, someone killed in retaliation for killing another, or someone who abandons his religion and the Muslim community.”
The prescribed punishment for a murtadd:
If a sane person who has reached puberty voluntarily apostatizes from Islam, he deserves to be punished.
In such a case, it is obligatory for the caliph (or his representative) to ask him to repent and return to Islam. If he does, it is accepted from him, but if he refuses, he is immediately killed.
However, don’t worry because here’s the “Religion of Peace” bit …
No one besides the caliph or his representative may kill the apostate. If someone else kills him, the killer is disciplined (for arrogating the caliph’s prerogative and encroaching upon his rights, as this is one of his duties).
[ ... and so on ... ]
i.e. The killer of the apostate is not treated as a regular murderer. He is not subject to capital punishment or life imprisonment- not even by the caliph or his representative.
And his crime when killing the apostate is not that he killed a man, but that he was “arrogating the caliph’s prerogative” to kill the apostate.
Warning to Canadians: Do not criticize any of the aboveor you may end up in breach of Canada’s Blasphemy Laws!
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Although the above text and the page from Islam Online is gone, you can in fact still see a copy HERE= http://tinyurl.com/467g47
And should that go missing too, I’ve got a nice screenshot of it rightHERE.
Shalom.
John Pasquarelli: The Enigma (Channel Nine)
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John Pasquarelli with his fiance
Watch John Pasquarelli on Channel Nine’s Sunday program:
Listen to my interview (from 2006) with John Pasquarelli:
CIA video confirms Syrian nuclear weapon facility destroyed by Israel
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Damn good work lads!
The Washington Post reports:
The Bush administration charged Thursday that a secret Syrian nuclear reactor was within weeks or months of completion before Israel bombed it on Sept. 6 and demanded that North Korea and Syria publicly acknowledge their collusion on a facility that could have produced plutonium for a nuclear weapon.
“It was nearing operational capability,” a senior intelligence official told reporters yesterday at one of a series of briefings on the reactor organized by the administration.
… After the Israeli airstrike, Syria used a controlled demolition explosion on Oct. 10 to destroy the rest of the facility, which exposed reactor equipment that Syria had tried to hide, the U.S. officials said.
Click here to view the CIA video released on April 25 2008 detailing Syria’s covert nuclear reactor and the North Korean involvement in its construction. The reactor was destroyed by the Israelis before it could become operational in September 2007.
If you enjoyed Fitna ….
… you’re going to LOVE this.
Hat tip to CreepingSharia
Stuck Mojo performing Open Season (CAIR remix)
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A July 4th 2007 Message from Stuck Mojo’s Lord Nelson (pictured above)
On July 4,1776 America adopted the Declaration of Independence, declaring independence from Great Britain. We have celebrated this historical event every year since that day.
Today we live in a America that is a diverse melting pot of cultures, a place where so many races and faces of different color call home.
Every July 4th, we celebrate freedom. We celebrate our strong and prideful disposition and unwavering love for country. Oh, what a feeling when we’re at an event and we see the red, white and blue flying. Americans engulfed in patriotism and love for fellow man
From the fireworks to the barbecues, baseball games to swimming pools. We congregate and enjoy each others company like one big family. On this day we share a common thought of prosperity and family values. What it really means to be American. All having that desire to achieve the American dream.
The very reason that millions around the globe long to be a part of this great society. From the smallest towns to the largest cities, we all stand tall and proudly say” I’m American!”
On this July 4, 2007, The Stuck Mojo Family would like to salute those troops who continue to fight for our freedom and way of life, and we would also like to praise and remember those who have fought and died for our beautiful country and for the principles that it stands for.
United we stand. Divided we fall. God bless America.
Creeping Shariah?
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Abu Qatada and Rowan Williams: Sharia creeps?
A commenter on the Andrew Bolt blog, using the nickname Mole of Kambalda shared the following firsthand accounts from within Australian refugee detention centers:
LiveLeak.com removes FITNA due to death threats
The LiveLeak.com video of the Geert Wilders’ short film, Fitna, been taken offline.
Fitna exposes the existence of violent and oppressive passages within Islam’s key text, the Koran (Quran). It also shows footage of violent acts by Jihadists (including 9/11) done, supposedly, in the name of Islam. Plus footage of Muslims and Muslim preachers calling for the killing of Jews, Christians, and non-Muslims.
Fitna
Geert Wilders’ 10 minute film, Fitna, about violence within the Koran and across Islamic culture has just gone online.
Warning: Contains violent and disturbing real-life images and footage.
Hat tip: Jussi Niemela
Following complaints prior to the release of the film, the official domain of the film – FitnaTheMovie.com – was deactivated by Network Solutions the registrar for this domain.
I note that Geert Wilders (a Dutch politician) has been calling for the banning of the Koran. Not in this film however.
Archbishop of Canterbury getting his head around Sharia
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The Archbishop of Canterbury: Let’s try some Sharia!
The recent speech by Dr Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, about allowing British Law to get just a little pregnant with Sharia Law …
There’s a place for finding what would be a constructive accommodation with some aspects of Muslim law …
… is just the tip of the iceberg. The Archbishop is a real piece of work and no friend of moral principles – let alone Christianity.
Danny Nalliah “Satan’s strongholds” leaflet: Clearing up 3 misconceptions
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INTRODUCTION
The purpose of this article isto clear up three misconceptions about a controversial leafletcreated and distributed by Danny Nalliah of Catch The Fire Ministries. These misconceptions have been busily circulating across the mainstream media, and the web.