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Philip Daniel

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The Sack of Baltimore

Thomas Osborne Davis (1814–45)

THE SUMMER sun is falling soft on Carbery’s hundred isles,
The summer sun is gleaming still through Gabriel’s rough defiles;
Old Innisherkin’s crumbled fane looks like a moulting bird,
And in a calm and sleepy swell the ocean tide is heard:
The hookers lie upon the beach; the children cease their play; 5
The gossips leave the little inn; the households kneel to pray;
And full of love, and peace, and rest, its daily labor o’er,
Upon that cosy creek there lay the town of Baltimore.

A deeper rest, a starry trance, has come with midnight there;
No sound, except that throbbing wave, in earth, or sea, or air! 10
The massive capes and ruin’d towers seem conscious of the calm;
The fibrous sod and stunted trees are breathing heavy balm.
So still the night, these two long barques round Dunashad that glide
Must trust their oars, methinks not few, against the ebbing tide.
Oh, some sweet mission of true love must urge them to the shore! 15
They bring some lover to his bride who sighs in Baltimore.

All, all asleep within each roof along that rocky street,
And these must be the lover’s friends, with gently gliding feet—
A stifled gasp, a dreamy noise! “The roof is in a flame!”
From out their beds and to their doors rush maid and sire and dame, 20
And meet upon the threshold stone the gleaming sabre’s fall,
And o’er each black and bearded face the white or crimson shawl.
The yell of “Allah!” breaks above the prayer, and shriek, and roar:
O blessed God! the Algerine is lord of Baltimore!

Then flung the youth his naked hand against the shearing sword; 25
Then sprung the mother on the brand with which her son was gor’d;
Then sunk the grandsire on the floor, his grand-babes clutching wild;
Then fled the maiden moaning faint, and nestled with the child:
But see! yon pirate strangled lies, and crush’d with splashing heel,
While o’er him in an Irish hand there sweeps his Syrian steel: 30
Though virtue sink, and courage fail, and misers yield their store,
There ’s one hearth well avenged in the sack of Baltimore. Read the rest of this entry »

Philip Daniel

http://western-civ-here-to-stay.blogspot.com/

Read the article here: Germans Cringe at Hitler’s Popularity in Pakistan

“The Mufti was one of the initiators of the systematic extermination of European Jewry and had been a collaborator and advisor of Eichmann and Himmler in execution of this plan…He was one of Eichmann’s best friends and had constantly incited him to accelerate the extermination measures. I heard him say, accompanied by Eichmann, he had visited incognito the gas chamber of Auschwitz.”–SS-Hauptsturmführer Dieter Wisliceny, to Endre Steiner in Bratislava (June 1944)

Philip Daniel

http://western-civ-here-to-stay.blogspot.com/

The different varieties of that most egregious of sins — kufr (rejection of Allah, Muhammad, and the Shari’a) — according to Ibn Kathir for future reference:

Types of Kufr (Disbelief)
Imaam ibn Katheer rahimahullaah
Adapted from ‘Tafseer ibn Katheer’

The following information was excerpted from the appendices to the English translation of TAFSEER IBN KATHEER.

The Qur’aan uses the word Kufr to denote people who cover up or hide realities. The Qur’aan uses this word to identify those who denied Allaah’s favors by not accepting His Dominion and Authority. Kufr thus is an antonym for Iman or disbelief in Allaah and a Kaafir is a non-believer. This type of Kufr is called AL-KUFR UL AKBAR or major kufr. There are many types of Al-Kufr ul Akbar: Read the rest of this entry »

Philip Daniel

http://western-civ-here-to-stay.blogspot.com/

Alec Rawls noticed something not quite about Jihad Jamie’s mother and father. Compare these two snippets from their Wall Street Journal interview:

Ms. Paulin-Ramirez’s interest in Islam “came out of left field,” said her mother, Christine Holcomb-Mott, in an interview at her home Friday, wearing a blue sweatsuit with a silver cross around her neck.

How out of left field?

Mr. Mott, a convert to Islam himself, says he went to Denver to find his stepdaughter but couldn’t track her down.

This woman is married to a Muslim, but neither she nor her husband can grok where in the world their murder-plotting daughter/step-daughter ever got exposed to this worrisome religion that subducts so many of its followers into terrorism.

Their disgust at daughter Jamie sounds sincere, but their blatant dishonesty about how she could have gotten interested in Islam suggests otherwise. It is possible, however, that the Journal’s paraphrase is not precise. If put on the spot, Holcomb-Mott would likely clarify that she has no idea how her daughter ever got interested in murder-cult Islam.

There is a way that this could actually happen: if Mr. Mott is some kind of multiculturalist do-gooder who converted to Islam in sympathy with the idea that “Islam was hijacked too” on 9/11. Such a person could have converted without comprehending the well established Islamic pedigree of violent aggressive jihad.

Don’t scoff. This same “Islam is a victim too” sentiment is right now allowing a giant Mecca oriented crescent to be built on the Flight 93 crash site. After all, it would just be too horrible to reject the Crescent of Embrace memorial simply because it is in the shape of a giant Islamic crescent, not when Islam itself was amongst the victims on that terrible day. No, we must do the opposite and embrace Islam.

If Mott is thinking the same way, he has hardly gone any further than the Memorial Project. But then it seems that his step daughter took one step further still and actually read the Koran, with its endless commands to slaughter the unbelievers. Thus did an unhappy misfit finally find a home for the vicious vindictiveness that the religion of her birth had kept in check.

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Philip Daniel

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STOP caLLing MUSLIMS TERRORISTS!”–Thus saith JihadJamie

Sorry, Jamie, a mujahed=a terrorist. This isn’t my opinion, it’s Sunna, and to reject Sunna — the “sublime moral example” (c.f. Qur’an 33:21) of uswa hasana/al-insan al-kamil Rasul’allah Muhammad (what he, inspired by Allah, deems halal and haraam, al-ma’ruf and al-munkar, from the smallest details of bathroom behavior to the highest echelons of state policy — for the origination of the legislation regarding such actions cannot be left up to one of Allah’s Slaves, to one of his Abd’allahin [whose sole purpose on Earth is to serve and glorify Allah through his every thought and action sans exception], but must be ordained and enforced [preferably via the Khalifat system] to prevent chaos and “oppression” and thus ensure global Pax Islamica [and to prevent individuals from "assuming aspects of godhead" by drafting & enjoining laws contrary to those of Allah and thus refusing to acknowledge Allah's absolute despotic supremacy over his creations]) — for an individual cog enmeshed within the collective organism called the Ummat al-Muslimin (let alone a kaffir) to not unquestioningly follow and to not command complete adherence to the divinely-inspired fiats of the Sunna is an act of Kufrul-Nifaaq (hypocrisy) and Kufrul-Istibdaal (rejection of Allah’s law, his Shari’a), at the very least! Read the rest of this entry »