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.”

on ezra levant, mark steyn, and the canadian hrc

Okay, I’ve had dozens of requests from people–media, advocacy groups, etc–looking to get a soundbite on the current tizzy about Ezra Levant and Mark Steyn, and their current tussle with Canada’s Human Rights Commissions. Until now, I’ve been politely refusing comment, saying that the Muslim community as a whole probably has a mosaic of individual opinions on the subject and it’s unfair to ask lil ole me to speak to it. I’m starting to lose hope that that’s the case. So let me give out one Muslim’s opinion:

Ezra Levant is a mealy-mouthed jerk. Mark Steyn is an ill-educated clown who realised some time ago that genocidal musings about the sand people was a more profitable line of inquiry than reviews of musical theatre. And neither of them have done anything that should cause any government anywhere to interfere with their right to free speech. In simpler terms, being a jerk or a clown isn’t against the law, and nor should it be. They’re not yelling “Fire” in a crowded theatre–”Sandnigger” maybe, but there’s no crime in that.

I let this opinion slip in a private conversation. “But what about our rights?” was the predictable reply. What rights? The right not to be offended? We don’t have that. No, this person was thinking about our freedom of religion, which we do have. But I fail to see how insulting my spiritual sensitivities, which both Levant the turd and Steyn the clown have done, infringes on my right to practice my religion. It makes me angry that these two neocon shills are given licence from the conventional media to bring the stupid as prolifically as they do. But again, making me mad isn’t against the law.

Levant, that inconsolable boob, really pulls on our heart strings as he bitches about the process he’s undergoing in his latest column in the Globe and Mail. He’s asked about his intentions. And, curse the little bugger, he makes a powerful point: His intentions, his private emotions, thoughts and feelings, aren’t any business at all of the government. I firmly believe he’s full of crap when he tells the world he was only interested in fleshing out the news story when he made the decision to publish the insulting, demeaning cartoons from the Jyllands Posten in his now-defunct print magazine the Western Standard. He did it to insult the Muslim community, and to provoke a response, in which he was successful, in order to keep his magazine alive, in which he was an utter failure.

I don’t want my government investigating either Levant or Steyn, because I don’t want to live in a country where I can’t say what I want for fear of insulting or offending someone. I feel so strongly about it, I’m half-tempted to donate to Levant’s legal fund, and probably would if it were zakat-elligible. I hate the fact that Imam Sowahardy and the Canadian Islamic Congress have decided to make these two utter goofs into heroes of liberty.

What the CIC and Imam Sowahardy seem to oppose is exactly what I want, and exactly what I would argue the vast majority of Canadians want, which is an open marketplace of ideas. Put Steyn and Levant in that marketplace, and put reason, common sense, facts, and truth in opposition to them, and they’ll fail. Ask their customers, the thinking public, exactly why they should go to an obvious racist with a high-school education who used to write about show tunes for “informed comment” (and we’ll use that phrase loosely) on multiculturalism, and ask them to give that comment the credence it deserves, which is exactly none. Levant’s inconsequential little rag has gone bust, so the marketplace has already spoken to him. Fighting words with government bureacracy doesn’t work, and we don’t want it. I don’t think the Canadian Muslim community is prepared to live in a world in which it does anyway, and if it is, and that’s what it wants, I’ll fight it every step of the way, because I need an open marketplace of ideas.

And that’s what the spirit of freedom calls for–the freedom I, as a Canadian, cherish and want for myself. That freedom allows us to add our own input into the debate, and if we do, and are smart enough at it, these two media darlings, bastions of liberty, will sink. But if Canada tries to drown them in a pool of Kafka-esque bureaucracy, they’ll just bob, like turds, to the top.