How my eyes were opened to the barbarity of Islam
Is it racist to condemn fanaticism?
Phyllis Chesler

“Le Monde”, a leftist French newspaper, started a campaign against the idea of a French National Identity. The newspaper is also planning to change it’s name to “The World” and using swahili, instead of French, on it’s daily editions. You know why Champs Elysées have trees in both sides? To allow foreign troops to march in the shadow…

“Richard Thompson, President and Chief Counsel of the Law Center said of the Islamic sessions at Excelsior: “No federal court would have permitted a class where public school students were taught to ‘become Catholics’ for three weeks, selected a saint’s name, wore identification tags that displayed their new name and a Crucifix, and engaged in Catholic religious practices. Here, however, students were subjected to Islamic religious indoctrination and propaganda and the courts turned a blind eye.”  in Western Resistence

What? Violent? Islam? I’ll kill you if you say that again!!!!

On February 28th, Mr. Stran made this comment about my post “Why America must win”: “When addressing USA many people commit the same mistake that USA politicians do. They only see black or white. The problem is that the world is almost all grey. In your post you give an unconditional support to USA actions which is what Islam fundamentalist do to their leaders.USA has many qualities. It is country that supports the freedom of speech; it is democratic country, etc… But it has also many flaws, for instance Guantanamo prison, Iraqui War, etc…Just looking to one side of the question is always a huge mistake.”

Well, I don’t see only black and white. I can see many grey shades. But to compare my full support of a Democratic country, and my strong belief in it’s institutions with the attitude of Islam fundamentalists to their leaders is preposterous. America is a beacon of Freedom and Human Rights, period. Give me another exemple example of a country where public opinion is so strong and has so much power in controling controlling and correcting mistakes made by the government. And show me the country where Goverment Government doesn’t make mistakes. It’s curious, people like you doesn’t  don’t accept a small mistake from America, but close their eyes to Darfur and to the plight of women in Arab countries.

I’m sure that you call “torture” of what was done in Abu Ghraib. I call it “abuse”. Torture is pouring melted lead in the genitals of a POW. Or taking out the camouflage paint from the face and arms of a captured special force soldier with a wire brush and alcohol. That, my friend is torture. And the final result it is difficult to look at, even in pictures. And yes, some things are black or white. Good or bad. Wrong or right. Fair or unfair. Some people is are able to make these distinctions because they have what it’s called “values”.

“Máquina Zero” is the size of the haircut young Portuguese conscripts used to get, on their first day in the Army. I choosed this term for the title of my main blog, in Portuguese, because nowadays, anybody that shows some respect for our flag, or say that he/she is proud of being Portuguese, is quickly labeled a fascist or a neo-nazi. There is no room, in European politics, to have a conservative view of the world and be accepted as someone who is willing to follow the rules of a democratic society. Leftists and liberals believe that those who don’t share their ideas are some kind of untermenschen, not entirely humans, probably the so called lost link between humans and apes. This is the main reason why I still post under a pseudonym.

Among a large number of my fellow citizens (in Portugal and European Union…) hating the greatest Democracy of our time, United States of America, is a mixture of a fashion statement and religious belief. It excludes any discussion or debate and doesn’t need facts or evidence to be based upon. Like the ancient Carthagenense, those believers are convinced that sacrificing a few thousands, may be millions of their fellow citizens, they will get mercy from the enemy. You may remember that, as the legions of Rome prepared to destroy and burn the walls of Carthage, priests of Baal Hammon knocked at doors, asking for young men to have their hearts ripped and their bodies burned in it’s bloody altars. Instead of fighting, they committed suicide.

Those like me, who don’t follow this fashionable trend, are looked upon as if they were some sort of serious mentally handicapped person. But I always remember the images of American cemeteries in the fields of France, near those famous Flanders Fields, where the best and bravest of America have fallen, so far away from their Homeland and their beloved ones, to bring Freedom to all of us. In many occasions, during violent discussions, when I hear the most abominable opinions, I repeat to myself: Sword, June, Gold, Omaha, Utah. Many of those that, today, live free in Europe, don’t deserve a single drop of the blood that was shed on all of those beaches of Normandy, many years ago.

When I started my blog in Portuguese, I did it just for curiosity and, at the same time, begin what I intended to be a resumed English version of the main page. I had around 164,000 visits, one year after my first post – not bad, for a blog in Portuguese (not “Brazilian”…). But I couldn’t update the English version (“Jarhead”, which has the same meaning of “Máquina Zero”) so often as I wanted.

Now, I intend to give more attention and time to “Jarhead”, in an attempt to show that some people, in this small European country, knows that, on the other side of the sea, there is a Land of the Free, which is also the Home of the Brave. And we believe that this free men will win their battle, because they fight for something more that a strange God who treats women like cattle, having thousands of them, in Paradise, ready to reward coward killers who detonate bombs in schools and kindergartens (A God that acts on a way that is similar to a pimp, is something difficult to understand, for me…)

Victory of the United States of America and it’s allies, in the war against terror, means that I can continue to live in Freedom. It means that my sons will be free citizens of a democratic country. But keep in mind that this war is not a clash of civilizations. This is not a confrontation between West and Islam. This is a war between a civilization that brough the best Humankind ever had and a large group of fanatics that is helding as hostages hundreds of millions of muslims.

So, my American friends, I hope and pray that the flag of your fathers remain, proud and defiant, as a beacon for all of those around the world that not only praise Freedom, but are also willing to fight and die for it.

Best regards,

Jarhead, a.k.a. “Máquina Zero”

PS – My command of English is not bad, but I’m sure I have a couple of mistakes, in this post. But I think that the message I wanted to give is clear. Please, feel free to correct my English (Helps me to write better…)

“Real” tittle: “Bush more dangerous to world peace than Kim Jong-Il, Ahmadinejad: poll”. According to The Guardian, “ICM interviewed a random sample of 1,010 adults by telephone from October 27-30. Interviews were conducted across the country and the results have been weighted to the profile of all adults. Polling was by phone in Canada (sample 1,007), Israel (1,078) and Mexico (1,010)”. It’s not clear, in The Guardian or AFP/Yahoo news, who asked for the poll and who payed for it.

Somebody asked me, here (in the Portuguese versionof this blog) why I considered that Islam authorizes pedophilia. I gave a long answer, in Portuguese, but I’ll make it more simple, in English. If Islam was against pedophilia, pictures like the above , from the New York Times, wouldn’t be possible.

Right. So, I hope that, in a near future, no black, indian, pakistani, chinese journalist, from BBC, is authorized to report about United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and all european countries. After all, we need “valid and culturally accurate voices speaking.” Mrs Mary Fitzpatrick should think about giving a helping hand to Burkina Faso TV. They don’t have white faces. But they do report about white countries…

Never heard about it? Read it. Or read it again. Always good to remember great people and great ideas.

(The Economist, Editorial, Volume 380, Number 8491)

Another thing Faranaz Keshavjee considers urgent, is to find a plausible explanation for the reason why people like the young british arrested last week want to kill other people. Because, as Faranaz Keshavjee tell us, Portuguese like her, the only given explanation, until now, is “idiot and childish”. Because that explanation points to Islam as the source, inspiration and reason to kill “kaffirs”, or non-muslims (and sometimes, by accident, a few muslims…)

Faranaz Keshavjee explains that racism and nationalism in Europe has alienated young immigrants, creating the manpower needed for terrorists and suicide bombers. The money, she says, comes from Saudi Arabia, the most praised ally of USA – so, George Bush is helping to finance Bin Laden, I presume. So, is it wrong for young men born in Europe, by accident muslims, to put bombs on planes and trains, and kill us? It seems that it depends, according to Faranaz Keshavjee, a Portuguese like me, as she stressed in the full page given to her on the daily Público.

If we, Portuguese like her, don’t agree to fight against the terrorism of the United States, those neglected young kids have the right to blow us in pieces. Because those poor kids grew up in Europe, victims of our “racist nationalism”. So, it’s acceptable that they have those radical views. Our fault, of course. So, we, Portuguese like her, with a little help from Mr. George Bush and Saudi Arabia, are responsible for what Bin Laden is doing.

But I’m afraid of something. For how long will Faranaz Keshavjee, a Portuguese like me, a muslim, tolerate the view of dead children in the Bagdad streets, the casualties in Lebanon cities, the palestinian beeing murdered by Jews, the racial insults from “white” europeans, without puting a bomb in the same subway train that my sister uses everyday, to take her two year old son to the child care center?