Hasan Nidal Triggers A War On Islam
HASAN Nidal, the Fort Hood mass murderer, dominates the news and the newswires. You can read our round-up here.
Is Nidal Hasan a jihadi or a nutter, or both? The press is uncertain, each writer going with their own prejudices. Sky News says as a psychiatrist Nidal would have heard lots of harrowing stories from returning soldiers and may have been sent mad. He’s the victim?
A man who murders 12 people is only one thing: a mass murderer.
While religion and politics merge into a bloody mess, The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the US’s largest Muslim civil liberties and advocacy organization, is to hold a news conference tonight at its Capitol Hill headquarters in reaction to the attack at Fort Hood.
At the news conference, American Muslim leaders will reiterate their condemnation of the shootings and urge calm as the nation reacts to today’s tragic events.
Meanwhile, back in Britain, the Sun delivers this front-page news: “HE WAS THE DADDY – Pregnant Muslim bride salutes her dead hero husband”.
Inside: “Our son will never know his dad but he will know his legacy.”
The Sun gets it right. While no news organisation focusing on any of the 12 murdered US soldiers, with all eyes on their murderer and speculation as to his motives, the Sun looks at a victim. Death in the news is delivered in numbers but it only when we see one life taken that readers can relate to it:
THE wife of massacred soldier Darren Chant yesterday revealed he was due to be a father again. Muslim Nausheen, 30, is six months pregnant.
Chant and four other soldiers was murdered by 26-year-old Gulbuddin – a Afghan police officer who was shot in the leg but remains at large.
But how relevant is Mrs Chant’s religion?
The widow, who is a non-practising Muslim, said: “Our unborn son will never meet his father. But he will know him through his legacy.”
But to the Sun she is “Muslim”. It’s front-page news. But there is no war on Islam. That is what the enemy wants you to believe. There is a war on the Taliban in Afghanistan. There is a war on Al Qaeda in Iraq. Is either group a friend to Islam, or typical of Muslims? Only a fool or bigot would answer “yes”.
Mrs chant’s private grief is in the public sphere. But should religion have any factor in the story? The biggest outrage is hidden later in the article:
His mum Elizabeth, 59, told how he would bark at Prince Harry on parade: “Get your legs up, Windsor!” She tearfully accused the PM of betraying Our Boys, raging: “My son said Afghanistan was a living hell. They need more of everything, more equipment, more troops, more rifles and more clothes and boots which fit properly.“
We send our solders – white, black, Asian, Christian, Jew or Muslim - to fight ill equipped for battle. That is the outrage.
Madeleine McCann: Let’s Blame The Muslims
Posted: 6th, November 2009 | In: Media | Comments (2) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Hurrah For The Blackshirts: Daily Mail Bemoans British Kids’ Ignorance Of War
A SURVEY says that one in six between the ages of nine and 15 believe Auschwitz was a Second World War theme park and one in 20 say the Holocaust was a celebration at the end of the war. They are only partly right.
These are the kind of facts tabloids love. And the Daily Mail’s readers use it to have their prejudices confirmed:
* Labour teachers trying to change history.
* But I bet they can tell answer the really important questions such as who is in the final of X Factor, all about David Beckhams latest tattoo, or what Katie said to Peter. What can you expect? Just about sums this country up doesn’t it?
* Were the questions written? If so it’s probable that at least half the children involved couldn’t read the questions.
Posted: 5th, November 2009 | In: Media | Comments (4) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Fort Hood Shootings Latest News: US Soldier Nidal Hasan Shoots 13 Dead
IN the Soldier Readiness Centre Fort Hood, Texas, 13 are shot dead and 31 are wounded. Nidal Hasan is captured. The news:
At least eight people have been shot in an Orlando, Florida, high-rise office building, CNN affiliates report.
As Chelsy say: “Here we go, now we will be getting a rash of shootings”
Woman saves: Kim Munley, a civilian police officer, is the woman who brought Hasan down by shooting him four times before he could murder more.
Woman killed: Chicago - FOX Chicago News has learned that a 21-year-old pregnant woman from the Northwest Side of Chicago was killed in the Fort Hood shooting spree Thursday.
Francheska Velez, a 2006 graduate of Kelvyn Park, recently had returned from a tour of duty in Iraq.
Reader Cheryl writes: The military/government over here never stops with its deceiving and coverups. Six and a half hours they let the press and hence the public believe the shooter was dead! You two know how reporters would think and react when deliberately led to believe and write wrong information and made look the fools six and a half hours later. Guess the Government and military officials needed those 6 1/2 hours to get their stories straight about what was known or not known about the Major! Now the CNN news is talking about the Major was on the ‘radar’ to be watched over the last months for some blogs or other stuff he had written about suicide bombing, his intense dislike for the Iraqi War, he wasn’t going over, etc, etc. etc. CNN with Larry King and Anderson Cooper are far from happy being deceived.
Tim Blair: The evasiveness of media in the immediate wake of the Fort Hood murders is astonishing. The ABC’s Lisa Millar opened her midday report claiming to have “learned quite a lot about the gunman”, then revealed very little of it – apart from that Malik Nadal Hasan had “attracted a lot of harassment because of his last name” and “family background”. This came about, Millar reported, despite Hasan being born and raised in the US. Not mentioned in eight minutes of coverage: Hasan’s faith, which in a case like this is surely of interest.
Posted: 5th, November 2009 | In: Back pages, Key Posts, Media | Comments (16) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Flexetarians Are Meat-Eating Vegetarians
IN the forums, Yampster writes of the rise of the Flexetarians -”Coined to describe Vegetarians who ermmmm eat meat”
I am a baconsarniarian. I prefer to eat bacon sarnies. If there are no bacon sarnies available I will eat other meats and occasionally, some vegetables. Purely for health reasons of course
Q. What is the best thing to put on a Bacon Sarnie
A. More bacon
Anorak for media-lovers who hate the media
Creme Betweens Present More Smutty Food Names
Posted: 5th, November 2009 | In: Media | Comments (9) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
True Blood Porn, Oral Sex And Vampire Orgies, In Pictures
THE Mail’s latest ‘ban this sick filth’-type article comes in the form of a rant against HBO vampire series True Blood. Olivia Lichtenstein - who else? - writes:
True Blood is a shocking tale of depravity, explicit sexuality (bordering on pornography) and vile language.
Even before the opening credits have rolled in the first episode, we see a young woman pleasuring a young man while driving her car.
That’s just before a picture of the two leads having sex. Just so you can see how depraved it is.
Posted: 5th, November 2009 | In: Key Posts, Media | Comments (6) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Shannon Matthews Returns As Aunt Is Jailed
NO sooner has Our Maddie risen to prominence once more than Shannon Matthews is sought and found. Amanda Hyett is at Leeds Crown Court. She is a neighbour of abducted schoolgirl Shannon Matthews. She now neighbour of Karen Matthews, having been jailed for illegally claiming £35,885 in income support and housing benefit.
Hyett is also niece to Michael Donovan, in whose home Shannon was located. Hyett is also the sister of Karen Matthews’ ex-lover, Craig Meehan.
Karen Matthews and Michael Donovan are each into an eight year sentence in for kidnap, false imprisonment and perverting the course of justice.
Shannon Matthews has yet to come of age and write a book or appear in a one-and-one with Jeremy Kyle.
spotter: June
Posted: 5th, November 2009 | In: Media | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
British Law Elevates Climate Change Belief To Same Status As Relgion
AL Goreans can delight that their green beliefs are now an official religion, in the eyes of the law. One day on from the climate change spiritualists knocking at the door, global warming belief is granted the legal status of a religion.
The messenger is Tim Nicholson, 42, from Oxford, former head of sustainability at property firm Grainger plc. He tells Mr Justice Michael Burton that he was made redundant in July 2008 due to his “philosophical belief about climate change and the environment“.
Mr Burton rules that “a belief in man-made climate change … is capable, if genuinely held, of being a philosophical belief for the purpose of the 2003 Religion and Belief Regulations“.
Posted: 5th, November 2009 | In: Global Warming | Comments (3) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Nutt And The Call For Cocaine To Be New Gold Standard
PROFESSOR David Nutt, has been sacked as the Government’s chief advisor on drugs’ misuse policy for saying that booze is worse for you than LSD and hash.
“Alcohol ranks as the fifth most harmful drug after heroin, cocaine, barbiturates and methadone. Tobacco is ranked ninth. Cannabis, LSD and ecstasy, while harmful, are ranked lower at 11, 14 and 18 respectively.”
Posted: 4th, November 2009 | In: Media | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
British Shop Bans Poppies And Poppy Day Over Drugs Fears
TO Wigan, where the Bodycare outlet, located in The Galleries has banned the remembrance day poppy.
Wigan Borough Veterans’ Council calls it a “disgrace“. Their spokesman says:
“I was told the pin would damage their uniform. I even offered to send the company poppies with a magnetic clip so as not to damage their tabards. They refused, saying it was their policy not to allow any staff to wear any badge relating to any charity.”
And what are poppies if not a gateway drug? In Afghanistan it will soon be No Poppy Day, when the British forces strip off the petals hand out only the central plastic stems in a bid to wean the locals off cultivating the source of opium and heroin.
Says a spokeswoman for POPP-ER – the anti-poppy charity supported by Her Majesty The Queen:
“Poppies cause irreperabel damage and heartache tio thofhsand sof addicts and their families. We urge a govenemtn rethink.”
When asked what poppies should be replaced by, she suggested a French Tickler, a plate of chicken and chips or a German holding a football.
Posted: 4th, November 2009 | In: Media | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Supreme Master TV Is The Future Of News
SUPREME Master TV is on Sky TV (Sky Channel 835) is news that focuses on the positive. On personal note, I was once asked to work on a website all about positive news. I didn’t think it stood a chance. But on Supreme Master TV, it works.
SUPREME MASTER TV is a free-to-air satellite channel broadcasting 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with a variety of engaging programs in English with over 42 subtitles and 60 languages. Being the ideal television channel that brings to your life Nobility and Spirituality.
As Robert Popper says: “I think this message should be played before and after every single news programme. Wouldn’t that be amazing…?”
It would.
Posted: 4th, November 2009 | In: Media | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Child’s Dog ‘Kicked To Death’ By Virus
THE Daily Express’ front-page screamed “THUGS STAMP A CHILD’S DOG TO DEATH”, and asked “What has happened to our country?”
ANIMAL welfare campaigners were left shocked and stunned last night after a teenage yob stamped a puppy to death in front of its owner.
They described the mindless attack, which happened in broad daylight, as “sickening” and urged the public not to turn a blind eye to such vile behaviour.
The RSPCA, a vested interest group, said it was disgusted. Another vested interest group waded in:
But social commentators warned that such behaviour was only symptomatic of the wider problem of Britain’s hooligan culture.
Shadow Home Secretary Chris Grayling said: “Many communities and many people’s lives are being wrecked by anti-social behaviour, but when things turn to mindless brutality it’s time we dealt with the offenders with the full force of the law otherwise people will not have faith in our justice system.”
Posted: 4th, November 2009 | In: Media | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Saudia Arabian Paedophile Beheaded, Crucified And Advertised
TO Hail, Saudi Arabia, where a 22-year-old man convicted of raping five children – he left a three-year-old in the desert to die - will be beheaded and crucified.
The body will then be displayed as remind to paedos that they should be certain they are not caught.
“So far this year about 40 people have been executed in Saudi Arabia,” says Reuters.
“Saudi Arabia has executed 56 people this year under laws that allow the death penalty for rape, murder, apostasy, armed robbery and drug trafficking,” says the Mail, for whom 40 is not enough.
Posted: 4th, November 2009 | In: Media | Comments (5) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Al Goreans Sell Inconvenient Truth Sequel As The Bible Code
GLOBAL warming is no longer the terror it once was. Even rebranding it as climate change is not having the desired efect. What we need is a religious approach. Al Gore is on it.
George Monbiot tells us:
There is no point in denying it: we’re losing. Climate change denial is spreading like a contagious disease. It exists in a sphere which cannot be reached by evidence or reasoned argument; any attempt to draw attention to scientific findings is greeted with furious invective. This sphere is expanding with astonishing speed.
Posted: 4th, November 2009 | In: Global Warming | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
X Factor Stars Do A Christmas Carol, In Pictures
ANORAK was at the world premiere of Disney’s A Christmas Carol in Leicester Square last night.
All the big stars were giving a remake of a remake of what once was book of a cartoon the weight it deserves: Olly Murs, Stacey Solomon, Danyl Johnson, Jedward, Lucie Jones, Lloyd Daniels, Joe McElderry, Jamie Archer and anyone else you had never heard of a few months ago.
Peter Andre was also there, trying not to outshine the talent and doing his now trademark impression of Bob Cratchit to Katie Price’s Scrooge…
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Posted: 4th, November 2009 | In: Key Posts, Media | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Robert Mugabe Supports Sugabes’ Decision To Reform
GOOD news for Sugababes fans is that the three-piece girls group is reforming as… Well, we’re not sure. In light of the blurring between celebrity and politics, we pick up on new that Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe is a big fan.
Keisha Buchanan, Mutya Buena and Siobhan Donaghy can’t be the Sugababes while the new Sugababes are sill in existence.
If one band alters their name they run the risk of looking like a tribute act (see The Bee-yach Boys, The Bee Jays or the Rolling Bonas) or just plain desperate.
Robert Mugabe is not gay – and he has no friends who are neither.
The Top Ten Tribute Band Names:
AD/She (all-girl tribute act)
Beatallica (combining Beatles and Metallica songs)
The Bootleg Beatles
The Fab Faux
Sample Minds
Pete Loaf
Dread Zeppelin
Rabbi Williams
Pink Fraud
Mick Jogger & the Rolling Zones
Posted: 3rd, November 2009 | In: Media | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Muhammed The Movie: The Gays Die, A Saturday Morning Cartoon And John Travolta Stars
ISLAM’S Prophet Muhammad is to star in film by Barrie Osborne, producer of The Matrix and The Lord of The Rings.
Don’t Call Me Mo will be an “international epic” aimed at “bridging cultures“. It will also make, we imagine, “loadsa money”, be a “monster smash” and cross over into merchandise with “mountains” pendants, mugs and a Saturday morning cartoon.
The BBC says that Islamic laws states that The Prophet cannot be depicted on screen, doing so is blasphemous. This might create a problem as the star of the show is not seen. Although Osborne did work on Face Off, so maybe the Prophet’s face can be portrayed by John Travolta, Nicholas Cage and pretty much anyone else who might not look like he did. If Michael Jackson can do it…
Says Osborne:
“The film will educate people about the true meaning of Islam.”
Posted: 2nd, November 2009 | In: Media | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Laughing At The Ranting Champions Of Sharia Law
RIDICULE the fantatics. Laugh at the mad mullahs. Do not monster them - humanise them. Make them all-too human. Do not rant and rave and take their words to heart. Satirise them. Lampoon them. Make them a joke. Hold up a mirror their their inanity, hypocrisy, machismo, onanism and inadequacy. They want sharia law. They don’t even know what it means. Like the worst kind of copper, they understand the letter of the law but not the meaning.
Their version of the law is something that exists only as a threat, not as a tool of the people.
They are law groupies. And how rebellious and controversial is that?
A group opposed to a muslim preacher who had been set to preach in London today, turns out to show their opposition by the Eros statue, Piccadilly Circus in central London. Enjoy. It’s a start:
Posted: 1st, November 2009 | In: Media | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Man Beaten To Death On Sri Lankan TV Show
MORE murder as entertainment now, as we follow the video of a man being slain in Naples and a man being assassinated in India with Sir Lankan TV’s footage of a man being drowned by the police.
A “large crowd” looks on as a man being beaten in the water by police jumps into the Indian ocean to escape and drowns.
For those of you can’t make it to the live show, TV cameras roll.
Posted: 31st, October 2009 | In: Media | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Drugs And A Toddler Implicated In Mafia Murder Caught On Camera
PSST! Wanna see a man being murdered in Mafia hit in Naples?
Having already brought you the death of murder of Chongkham Sanjit by Indian police, we now present for your enjoyment the murder of another man in broad daylight.
Murder is not to be confused with the images that “some viewers might find distressing” of peoples screaming in pain on the nightly news as they pick flail in the bloody aftermath of a car bomb. This is murder. This is really gruesome. That is merely war.
So here is “the horrific footage”, of a man being shot three times by an assassin outside a Naples bar.
Says the Telegraph, on whose site this is the most popular story right now:
As the victim slumps to the ground, the hitman then finishes him off with a bullet to the head and calmly walks away. Blood can be seen spreading onto the pavement from the head of the dead man, who is still holding a cigarette in his hand.
Roll credits. It’s not real. It’s the media. It might be a viral video for a new detergent or the new shoot-em-up video game Mafia VI: Fukka Yous-a. You are invited to look. Look. Look.
The man on t he pavement – the one you are gawping at - is called Mariano Bacio Tarracino. And, as reported, he is “believed to have been connected to a mafia clan involved in a drug trafficking turf war with a rival group”.
Posted: 30th, October 2009 | In: Media | Comments (20) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
James Arthur Ray And The Cult Of Death Makes Martyrs Of The Sedona Three
JAMES Arthur Ray Watch: Three poples die at a Sweat Lodge in Sedona, Ariziona. The leader of the group, James Arthur Ray, survives. But the talk is of death. Anorak’s Man in the heat of LA, looks on:
THERE’S a new piece at people.com about James Arthur Ray and the Sedona sweat lodge disaster. The apparent thesis is both chilling and fascinating.
Essentially, James Ray appears to be obsessed with death:
“If you review Ray’s writing and lectures, you will find many references such as: ‘If you’re not growing, you’re dying’ and ‘for anything new to live, something first must die,’” says the source. “He speaks a great deal about dying to limitations, dying to the old self, (dying to old) ways of thinking,” and breaking free.”
That source tells People that they don’t think Ray’s death references were meant literally… only in the context of killing off what holds you back.
Posted: 30th, October 2009 | In: Media | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
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