who is the clarion fund?

As you’ve probably heard, a mysterious group called the Clarion Fund has been waging a propaganda war through the media, distributing millions of copies of the extremist DVD Obsession through paid advertisement supplements in major newspapers throughout swing states. The movie, in case you haven’t seen it, is a modern day Der Ewige Musselman, featuring high-value propapaganda tactics, quickly interspersed shots that clearly link through adjacentness Islam and Fascism, and lots of neocon talking heads debating the seriousness of the Muslim presence on earth and how best to deal with it (Mark Steyn’s “if you can’t outbreed ‘em, cull ‘em!” Final Solution seems to be a popular option). Here’s a sample cutscene:

• Shot one: Actors in pantomime Arab costume feast on Jewish babies while shaking their scimitars.
• Shot two: Overview of the Nuremburg Rally.
• Shot three: A fifteen minute solliloquay by Robert Spencer screaming through spittle-encrusted beard that Muslims are Nazis who eat babies.

It’s been a while since I’ve seen it so I may have made some of that up.

Regardless, coming this close to the US elections, where our neighbors to the south will carefully look over each candidate, evaluating individual policies for the good of their families and neighbors, and then vote for the white guy, the timing is suspect. So who’s doing it, anyway?

Hard to say. The Carion Fund sure ain’t saying. Their site doesn’t have much on it. They do list a 888-number (1-888-610-2221) for “general information and screening requests,” but when I called to see if they’d show it at my mosque they hung up on me. Their “Online Education” section just links to a site called radicalislam.org (naturally). There, you’ll find all kinds of fun facts, including:

• Fuelling Terror, which directly links fossil fuels to radical Islam and terror
• Sharia Law, which explains that your Muslim neighbors are really just waiting for the right opportunity to impose hand-amputatin’, woman-beatin’, dhimmi-bootin’ Sharia on you…so watch out!
• The Death Sentence for Converts, which kind of backs up Mark Steyn’s position that the only good Muslim’s a dead Muslim
• Where are all the Liberal Muslims? See above–they’re dead! Haha!
• Set America Free, a gripping Q&A on why America is currently dhimmified, and what you can do about it

And probably the most important one, which I’ll quote outright:

• Vote 2008: As the 2008 Presidential election approaches, the threat of radical Islam is the defining issue of the campaign. What are the positions of the Presidential candidates?

Wanna guess which side they’re on?

More fun stuff: The radicalislam.org site includes a link to Tell Your Story: Post your experiences with radical Islam, but alas, the link’s dead letter. I had a doozy for them too, about how this one time, I was riding a bus, and I saw these terrorist Arabs, and they were talking Muslim, and I snuck up behind them and knelt behind their seat and recorded their conversation on my cell phone, but then this LIEberal dhimmi feminazi who was sitting there got mad and accused me of taking upskirt photos and I got kicked off the bus even though its THEM who should be kicked off the bus!

But I’ve got hopes the link will be up again soon, and once it is, please feel free to share.

charming…

And just in time for Ramadhan, we have Muslim Massacre:

Fig 1: USA! USA! USA!

A computer game in which players control an American soldier sent to “wipe out the Muslim race” has been condemned as offensive and tasteless by a British Muslim group. The goal of Muslim Massacre, which can be downloaded for free on the internet, is to “ensure that no Muslim man or woman is left alive”, according to the game’s creator.

Players control an “American Hero” armed with a machine gun and rocket launcher who is parachuted into the Middle East. Users progress through levels, first killing Arabs that appear on screen and later taking on Osama bin Laden, Mohammed and finally Allah.

The game’s creator, a freelance programmer known as Sigvatr, described the game on the SomethingAwful.com website as “fun and funny”. In a “How you can help” section, he writes to visitors: “Don’t whinge about how offensive and ‘edgy’ this is.”

And in MMORPG format, you can choose between Mark Steyn, Robert Spencer, Pam Atlas, or Debbie Schlussel avatars.

Notes for Version 2: Run an infinite loop of Mark Steyn’s most famous tagline along the bottom of the screen during gameplay, “If you can’t outbreed ‘em, cull ‘em.”

time to move to the kootenays

My new BFF, Flaming Fat Cur, reached out and touched me in a poignant comment, electrifying me with scary words like pseudo-leftist and Cairo. Entranced, I couldn’t help but traverse the tubes and pop on in to see what’s what on the wingnutty side of the internets. And looky here, it’s an alarmist countdown to Armageddon called “How Is Our Civilization Headed For Defeat”! Oh brave keyboard soldier, can’t you semper fi enough strength and conviction to persist in the battle ‘gainst the swarthy hordes, slavering on our scimitars? Has it come down to this? The vast Western civilization brought to its knees, because Random House excercised its hideous freedom not to publish a book it didn’t want to publish?

I believe this person. There is no sense holding on for nothing–in mere weeks, nay minutes or even seconds, the pseudoleftislamocommiefascist LIEberals will break down our doors and with their scimitars held to our naked flesh will force us to eat halal hamburgers. It’s lost. Move to the Kootenays, fighting keyboardists! There, we’ll meet again, to grow long beards, obtain firearms, and wait out the coming Apocaplyse. And, of course, to continue the fight underground, our laptops as our swords, our mustard-stained Stanfield vests our armour. Semper fi, fighting keyboardists, and Godspeed!

the hopes and dreams of simpletons…

So I’m looking out for coverage of last weekend’s Islamophobia conference at Masjid as-Salaam in Burnaby, and I find this wee summary. Not a bad, if loaded, summary, focussing mostly on why a guy like Greg Felton would’ve been there, which is a good question because he certainly wasn’t on any of the promotional material and didn’t really seem like he wanted to be there anyway, although I left before salaat so I didn’t hear him talk. So anyways, I’m peeking through the comments and all of a sudden I’m drowning in epic fail. Check it:

But does a self-professed peace activist like O’keefe understand how he is a “useful idiot” for murderers? Do they understand that a renewed Caliphate and the kind of economy and science it would support would have to entail first a mass die off and a return to some kind of medieval order? O’Keefe must have some inkling. But what about the 150 ordinary mosque members who just showed up for a talk on “Islamophobia”? Are these people, our neighbors, best considered an “enemy”?

This from a BC hack called truepeers. He goes on to say he’s not quite there yet to call me his enemy–for which I’m eternally grateful, because I’ve no idea what I’d do if he did.

And then, from an apparently unemployed schoolteacher named Dag:

I understand that it’s probably more difficult and even physically dangerous for Muslims to stand publicly against the likes of Elmasry, given the nature of Islam, given the nature of jihad, so I won’t claim all “moderate” Muslims should stand against him and his likes in public. But I do stand and cheer for those among our friends who will take the risk of physical violence or even death to do what can be done to stand up against jihad and Left dhimmi fascism. Maybe, if enough of us stand firm in public, some day Muslims will find the same courage. There is hope.

Brave, dim Dag–keep cheering, dear brother, for those people intrepid enough (apparently more intrepid than you) who suffer themselves unto the swarthy hordes to stand up to dangerous BadMen like Mohamed Elmasry. Fight on, keyboard soldiers, fight on!

that’s how it’s done

A little stale, but still.

Around 30 people gathered at the Islamic Foundation in Brno, south Moravia, May 5 for the screening of Fitna, a controversial new film by Dutch right-wing Deputy Geert Wilders.

The film starts off with the first lulling tones of the Arabian Dance from The Nutcracker ballet as a mock-up of a page from the Koran appears onscreen, along with an English translation of an excerpt from a verse: “Prepare for them whatever force and cavalry ye are able of gathering / to strike terror … into the hearts of the enemies, of Allah and your enemies.”

After several seconds, the Nutcracker music stops, replaced by news clips depicting the destruction of the events of Sept. 11, 2001. The remainder of the film follows a similar pattern, interweaving violence-oriented excerpts from the Koran with footage of terrorist attacks, beheadings and Islamic extremist rhetoric…

[T]he Islamic Foundation in Brno organized its own screening of Fitna.

“We wanted to illuminate the parts of the Koran that were left out of the movie,” said Brno Islamic Foundation Chairman Muneeb Hasan, an Iraqi immigrant who has lived in the Czech Republic for 23 years. “The film depicts Muslims as people who are rigid in their views, so we wanted to show that we are not afraid of criticism, that we are open to discussion.”

For Hasan, Fitna is particularly dangerous because it instills the idea of a link between Islam and terrorism into the audience’s subconscious. “The film alleges that Muslims lack the ability to live in peace with other cultures, that women have an inferior position in society than men,” he said. “It’s biased and xenophobic.”

That’s how you respond to speech you don’t like and you think is dangerous.  You engage it and show it for what it is.  Geert Wilder’s publicity stunt is a dismal failure, endorsements from Robert Spencer, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Mel Phillips, and the rest of the xenophobic alphabet soup notwithstanding. Shaking fists at the Dutch government is stupid, not in the least because it shows a fundamental misunderstanding of what open societies are and do.