Comment of the Day: Degenerate Secular Liberal Jihadist Terrorism in Alaska

Gerald Warner in The Daily Telegraph:

If - and it is still a big if - arson was committed by militant homosexuals or liberals simply driven by hatred of Palin, then that is a phenomenon that should greatly concern the American public. Anti-Christian jihadism fuelled by secularism is as unacceptable as that driven by militant Islam. If Wasilla Church was burned by arsonists making an ideological point, that is terrorism....

If what is suspected turns out to be true, the burning of Wasilla Bible Church is a metaphor for the onslaught against Christianity that aggressive secularism has mounted in Europe and which, under the influence of the morally degenerate Democrat Party, is now invading the United States. This may be a significant warning to complacent Christians.

Fact x Importance = News (Dec 8)

• American counterterrorism officials say Pakistan's ISI provided assistance to the Mumbai attackers.


• Lebanon is immune to the global financial collapse.


• One blogger fears a Yugoslavia-style break-up for Canada.


• Fox News is up in arms about "A Lego-style figurine resembling an Islamic terrorist strapped with explosives and made by a small American company." The company, which also produces Nazis, spies, World War 2 marines and a plethora of tiny weaponry, has currently stopped taking orders due to overwhelming demand.

[Photo via BrickArms]

Pilot Podcast: The (Continuing) War on Terror

Enduring America history: following up on yesterday's post about The (Continuing) War on Terror: Kill All the Crazies, this is our pilot podcast.

The Washington Post proposes, in the wake of the Mumbai attacks, “a crackdown on terrorists”.

But how shall we crack down on terrorists? Certainly not by treating them as rational and thus understanding how they could justify these killings.

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India's 9/11?

BAGnewsNotes had an interesting piece up over the weekend on 'Mumbai And The Visual Legacy Of 9/11':

In a number of news stories, there have been references (by media or by the Indians themselves) to the attacks in Mumbai as "India's 9/11."

If a terror attack's number of deaths and injuries have been the primary determinant of severity, it seems more likely the Mumbai event will acquire distinction for its geographic footprint as well as its maddeningly long duration.

Beyond those two attributes, however, either of which can diminish in static images and two-dimensional space, I believe the distinction of the Mumbai attack could well be its resonance -- in the individual scenes -- with the imagery of 9/11.

The comparisons are certainly striking but personally I can't stand the implication that September 11 2001 was Year Zero for terrorist attacks.

Full article and more photographs here.