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Lessons on Counter-Terrorism From a Missing Bird
How the Maltese Falcon saved civilization (really).
Detective Tom Polhaus: [picks up the falcon] Heavy. What is it?
Sam Spade: The, uh, stuff that dreams are made of.
Detective Tom Polhaus: Huh?
—The Maltese Falcon (film)
To ignore history is reckless. To invert its lessons is suicide.
As we continue to fight for our existence as a free people, we are crippled by two impulses that one would think are mutually exclusive. Regarding the thousand year continuing threat to Western Civilization, we display amnesia, incapable of integrating the present attacks into a much larger arc of action. Yet, when determining a response to our current enemies, our literal, overly precise concept of what constitutes a “crusade” precludes adding any overt spiritual/moral/religious component to our effort.
Which is it? Confronting a remarkably patient enemy, how can we both forget and over-remember at the same time? Our lives depend on squaring this circle.
WITH A TIP OF THE HAT to another great American scandal, we begin with a third rate burglary:
Dateline: San Francisco (February 13, 2007) — The Maltese Falcon is stolen.
Not “the” Maltese Falcon. Rather, this time it’s a duplicate of the prop from the movie. The bird sculpture had been displayed for many years in a corner cabinet on the second floor of the legendary John’s Grill, a restaurant that is briefly mentioned in the novella by Dashiell Hammett as a place that detective Sam Spade used to frequent.
For an object with no intrinsic or artistic value — and limited resale value — an outside observer would find it curious that any thief would take any risk to obtain this lump of clay. Yet that outside observer would only be revealing his ignorance of the magic of the falcon. The 1930 publication describes an obsession by many people to own a jeweled version of the bird. This passion then jumps into the 1941 movie starring Humphrey Bogart. Because of both the book and the movie’s narrative brilliance, this fictional obsession then jumps into public consciousness, where it remains to this day.
Everybody knows, at least vaguely, that there is a “Maltese Falcon,” and almost as many know that you’re supposed to want it. While most of us would be not as proactive as the San Francisco thief, the passion endures. In fact, last year, an alternate epoxy falcon prop from the movie was discovered and authenticated, then sold at auction by Guernsey’s to actor Leonardo DiCaprio for $300,000.00. “The stuff that dreams are made of,” indeed.
FOR ALL THE MANIA, however, our culture remains thoroughly ignorant about the exciting and compelling history of the real Maltese Falcon and the real life role the bird played in saving and continuing Western Civilization.
In the Hammett story, the Sydney Greenstreet character explains that the crusaders of the “French Hospitaller” were given the Island of Malta in perpetual fiefdom by King Charles of Spain, then head of the Holy Roman Empire. In return, these “Knights of Malta” were to annually provide the king with one of the prized falcons from Malta. This capsule summary is correct, but deficient in explaining why this group of idealists received the island. While not germane to the story’s plot, there is much more to understand about the real falcon and the real knights. The mysterious fat man does not explain why this particular group of idealists had earned the Island.
Malta is a tiny island — but in its strategic position south of Sicily it is big enough to constitute a barrier to any Mediterranean invasion of Western Europe from the east. The Knights were given Malta after their heroic though unsuccessful defense of the Island of Rhodes from the Ottoman invaders in 1522. Then, in a famous battle on Malta in 1565, 600 knights successfully stopped the progress of Suleiman the Magnificent and 40,000 of his Ottoman fighters. Right there on that island, Western Europe was, at least for a time, saved from Moslem conquest.
Given this history, we are losing a spectacular opportunity by not treating the Maltese Falcon as a trophy of the successful resistance to Islamism. The bird is no less an icon of successful defense than is (ignoring motives) the Old North Church is to the invading British. In a rational world, schoolchildren in Europe and North America would be making falcons stuffed with candy.
Note also that the “Maltese cross” is associated with firefighting, such as the badge of the NYFD. This tradition has come down from the heroism of the Knights of Malta — 1900 years before the World Trade Center burned — when attempting to scale the walls of Jerusalem, the Saracens threw down naphtha and fire.
THIS INABILITY TO RECOGNIZE the current turmoil in the broader context of the march of Islam is of one piece with the moral paralysis which prevents public proclamation of the urgency and superiority of our cause. Right after the 9/11 attack, President G.W. Bush implicitly acknowledged the broader historical and moral context of the event. In fact, he said that our response would be a “crusade” — but he only used that term once. He was criticized for being hateful, for judging all Muslims. Soon after, he said that he regretted using the language.
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Dee See| 5.13.11 @ 7:27AM
"We are using MASSIVE third world
(mainly muslim) immigration to destroy
British culture once and for all ---forever."
-TONY BLAIR
(Daily Mail cited by ALAN WATT)
-------------------speaking of 'terrorism'.
Speaking of solutions -----HUAC meets NUREMBERG 2012.
Tomas| 5.13.11 @ 4:43PM
Excellent piece. Thank you.
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J.C.Eaton| 5.14.11 @ 5:02PM
Second that.
martin j smith| 5.13.11 @ 7:59AM
Our culture has been destroyed from within by a variety of LEFTISTS AND THEIR SUPPORTERS SOME OF WHOM CLAIM TO BE REPUBLICANS.
The timidity of GWB and now the current Republican leaders is quite destructive.
The 2012 election is the crucial test. I say this for those who really want to get rid of the Obama regime and their Marxist allies. Forget about Polls.
Many are lies. Forget about pundits. Many are liars,ignorant or self serving.
Forget about many of post on various blog sites. Many are trolls or operatives--seminar callers or posters if you will.
If you really want to WIN. Monitor the Candidate choosing process. Monitor the Left behavior in the media. Let the Repubs know that you are opposed to a bad choice.
And: ORGANIZE GET OUT THE VOTE AND STOP VOTER FRAUD. THERE WILL BE LOTS OF THAT TO BE SURE.
Atokaite| 5.13.11 @ 9:06AM
Amen and Amen.
Semper Fi
We WILL Prevail
Norman Conquest| 5.14.11 @ 2:44PM
Indubitably!
Louis Jenkins| 5.13.11 @ 8:34AM
The battle for Maltese was a bloody one alright. The chief knight, who's name evades me at this time, went into the fight already wounded, and other knights were fighting while bound in chairs to remain upright. It was a general melee that went on for weeks. People, if we don't take care and aren't ever watchful towards our Muslim "brothers", we too will be in a fight for our lives. Only it will be on our home turf, and those people already know how to game the system so that's not going to save us. That doesn't leave many options.
Ken (Old Texican)| 5.13.11 @ 8:48AM
Judd,
Well spoken, sir.
I delve into the Islamic world war in my book. I hope you will check it out at
www.americaalonesaidno.com
(be sure to check out the book reviews on the website)
Occam's Tool| 5.13.11 @ 9:22PM
It is an awesome book.
Atokaite| 5.13.11 @ 9:04AM
"Then, in a famous battle on Malta in 1565, 600 knights successfully stopped the progress of Suleiman the Magnificent and 40,000 of his Ottoman fighters."
Casual conversation with any Maltese person will elicit a history lesson, re this event. Malta is alive with history.
The Crusade aspect.
Because we no longer live in a B and W world, clear cut values tossed long ago, we live in a Grey world of existenalism. What is right or wrong is never clear. The Libs imposed this in academia right after the WW 2 win.
So. To launch a clear cut Crusade is impossible. All we can morally, knowledgeable do, in our collective Grey Conscience is react. If we are struck we blindly strike back.
The Code of the West is long gone. Right is now wrong, bad is good, errors are not made, only mistakes are made.
end
Semper Fi
Occam's Tool| 5.13.11 @ 10:43AM
Clarity will come, unfortunately. I just hope it doesn't take millions of casualties on our part for clarity to come.
To beat Japan and Germany required bombing them back into primitiveness. This battle against political Islam will require the same. War is killing until the enemy loses the will to fight. You cannot pretty it up.
donserge| 5.13.11 @ 9:23AM
Good article. The Maltese Falcon , one of the great movies of all time, is a remake of BeBe Daniels' movie, Dangerous Female. One instance where a remake is much better than the original.
Occam's Tool| 5.13.11 @ 10:40AM
And Satan met a Lady, as well, Donserge.
donserge| 5.13.11 @ 10:49AM
You are right. I had forgotten. I should have said "better than the previous ones"
Outis| 5.13.11 @ 1:01PM
Satan Met A Lady (available on Netflix by the way) is one of those hilariously terrible films that makes jaded youngsters (such as myself) wary of anything filmed before 1974.
Occam's Tool| 5.13.11 @ 9:27PM
Outis,
Then you are missing Casablanca, The Big Sleep, all the great 50s noir, etc. I used to be like you, then my wife taught me better.
Might I recommend the films of: Vincent Minelli, Alfred Hitchcock, John Huston, Nicolas Ray, Fritz Lang, and John Ford (X 20); in addition, some other excellent films: The Third Man, A Touch of Evil, The Naked City, and Where the Sidewalk Ends.
My goodness, dear man.
tatosian| 5.13.11 @ 12:48PM
Uh. John Huston's The Maltese Falcon was adapted from the book of the same name by Dashiell Hammett.
tatosian| 5.13.11 @ 12:58PM
As was the earlier version of Hammets story directed by that roy del ruth guy.
Which, frankly, I never knew existed. So thanks for that.
tatosian| 5.13.11 @ 1:10PM
Damn. It was a remake.
Sorry. My bad.
Cro-magnon| 5.13.11 @ 9:38AM
Don't mean to fact-check you Judd but I was interested in the history.
From Wikipeadia:
The cross of Saint Florian, used by firefighters is often confused with the Maltese cross...
Judd Magilnick| 5.13.11 @ 12:15PM
Don't mean to spit back, Cro-magnon - but - take it up with the NYFD
http://www.nyc.gov/html/fdny/h.....ross.shtml
Damien Champagne| 5.13.11 @ 11:51PM
Cro-magnon is correct. The "Maltese cross" is the symbol used in Europe. Each point of the cross represents one of the homorable traits of knighthood. In the US the St. Florian is typically called the Maltese but any FF outside the US won't see it that way. BTW: New York's fire department is NEVER called "NYFD". It is FDNY for good reason. Google it.
Judd Magilnick| 5.15.11 @ 1:17AM
FDNY it is. Thanks.
ConantheContrarian| 5.13.11 @ 9:55AM
They (whoever they might be) ought to make movies of the Battle of Malta and the Battle of Lepanto.
SpiralArchitect| 5.13.11 @ 1:05PM
Always good for a laugh in here. You really think there will ever be a film showing the defeat and throwback of Muslims made, none the less released, in the States?
Joe Redfield| 5.13.11 @ 2:14PM
El Cid, 1959, with Charlton Heston.
Renaissance Nerd | 5.13.11 @ 2:39PM
And an excellent parallel to our times as well. The Cid had lots of Muslim friends who didn't want to bow to the fanatics from the desert. I think it's hilarious and horrible that bin Laden always talked about al Andalus as the perfect Muslim society when he and his bad of cutthroats were all desert fanatics, not urbane leaders of a land full of Christians and Jews as well as Muslims. His ilk destroyed al Andalus before the Reconquista ever got started. Much easier to swallow taifas than the whole Caliphate.
Great movie by the way. Sophia Loren...Sophia Loren...
Slingshot| 5.14.11 @ 1:29PM
The best movie would be the original Alamo: Constantine defending the walls of Constantinople with fewer than 8000 men against a quarter of a million Muslims. He rejected his chances to escape by sea, and instead held out for 50 days, then went down fighting on the walls with his men. It was the end of the Roman Empire, a great blow to Christendom and Western Civilization, and therefore probably very attractive to Hollywood. See the book "1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West." A dramatic, forgotten story of true heroism.
Petronius| 5.13.11 @ 10:21AM
Grounding one's case in history carries no weight with our Rulers who consider it a cardinal sin to be lived down and reviled. Statists focus on reshaping the world as they would have it. So does Al Quaida. Both entities want to hold the port of the Deity. And both claim that we have no rights. To what end?
The Big E| 5.13.11 @ 11:26AM
In the minds of men like Barack Obama, history is whatever they want it to be at the moment to justify whatever outrage they want to perpetrate upon us next. Facts are, to them, the real McGuffins, as they distract people from what they view as truly important - i.e. - maintaining and expanding their control over people so as to reshape into what they, the all-knowing supermen, wish them to be.
The fundamental tenet (and fundamental fallacy) of liberlism is the idea that Man is the only true god, and that a great leader, through force of his will, can force other men to be better. Inevitably, this fallacy leads to horror in the name of "improving the breed," as it were, whether that horror manifests itself through eugenics, or genocide of one form or another, or in some other nightmarish scenario. It is inherently Evil, for it all starts with a denial that there is any power higher than Man, and it will always end in death and suffering on a massive scale.
buckeyeman| 5.13.11 @ 12:18PM
"It's a fake of a fake of a fake,"
You shouldn't talk about our president (or his birth certificate) that way.
tatosian| 5.13.11 @ 12:50PM
Excellent piece.
Louis Jenkins| 5.13.11 @ 1:25PM
Here is a story about Malta and the Muslims.
http://newswithviews.com/Stang/alan181.htm
De Lay Valetta was the main man's name. And he was French (?).
cicero| 5.13.11 @ 2:09PM
DeLayValetta was 70 years old at the time of the battle for Malta in 1565. Andrea Doria, the admiral who won the Battle of Lepanto 6 years later was at least that old.
Maybe we make a mistake in electing such young men to leadership position - they are more consumed with ambition that honor.
I've often thought of writing a novel wherein the country is forced into war, and instead of sending the young men into combat, the seniors take it on themselves to spare the young, and head off into the fray.
Jackie| 5.15.11 @ 12:36PM
Cicero: That would fit well in Japan. Note a recent news story about a worker who died at the crippled nuclear power plant in Japan. He died not of radiation, but perhaps his age and the owrk he was doing. He was in his 60s.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories.....2987.shtml
mjfin| 5.13.11 @ 5:05PM
Andrea Doria was five years dead at 93 during the siege of Malta in 1565. The Lepanto naval battle took place in 1571, and was a great victory by the European Catholic holy league over the Ottoman Empire and effectively ended the Muslim Mediterranean naval dominion of the previous 30 years or so. Over that time they, and their western Mediterranean pirate allies continually raided the southern European shoreline from Spain to Greece, taking thousands of Christian slaves and destroying towns, ships and forts.
The Catholic League (a collection of alliances of southern European Mediterranean states) galley fleet was commanded by John the Austrian, illegitimate son of Charles V of Spain and half brother of the then current Spanish King Frederick II.
I'm with Contrarian. I would love to see the movie.
Occam's Tool| 5.13.11 @ 9:33PM
Didn't Don Juan of Austria have a pet lion on board?
Occam's Tool| 5.13.11 @ 9:37PM
I found a video, but no movie.
Skippy| 5.14.11 @ 8:19PM
Help me here, Spectator brethren.
I believe Charles the Hammer Martel whupped the Muslims in France at Tours, but didn't the great elected King John Sobieski of Poland stomp some Mohammedan butt himself, and divert a conquering force from attaining E. Europe?
And Vlad Dracula; he stomped the invading Islamists as well, correct?
What were the timeframes for these events?
Perhaps our youth should be taught these facts as well.
Thanks in advance.
The Big E| 5.15.11 @ 8:46AM
The Battle of Tours, where Charles Martel halted the Muslim advance into western Europe, was fought on October 10, 732. The Battle of Vienna, where King John of Poland turned back the Ottomans, was on September 11 and 12, 1683, though Vienna had been under siege in July. Vlad fought the Ottomans throughout much of his life in the 1400's.
Google "muslim conquests" and you will see, as I have said in these comments so many times before, that Islam has been at war with the rest of the world since its founding. Read the Koran and you will see, as I have also said so many times before, that Islam will be at war with the rest of the world till its destruction.
Margie| 5.15.11 @ 12:30PM
Until its destruction, when Christ the King returns.
John II| 5.15.11 @ 2:27PM
Or its replacement by a force equally Satanic, even before Christ returns.
Strange. I was waiting for some of my kids in the international lounge of a major airport a few months ago, and a stream of passengers were coming in from the Middle East. Among the otherwise nondescript business types there was a woman dressed up (or down) in a full-length dark blue burqa. She was accompanied by a thin swarthy man of medium height whose face seemed stamped with an expression of permanent anger; the woman's eyes, visible through the burqa slit, were wide and terror-stricken.
How tolerant and multicultural is secular liberal America, if a tad history-challenged. And rather suicidal.
Margie| 5.15.11 @ 8:07PM
I once lived in NYC in an old pre-war building where the building next to ours was only about a foot away and our windows therefore practically connected. One night I heard a man strangling a woman. After I slammed open the old window, busting the glass out of it, yelling at the man to STOP, which he did not, I called the police. I listened by the window as the officer questioned the man, He denied it. I heard not a peep out of the woman.
This was in the early 90's, before I realized anything about Islam and before I was what I call "politically aware". I only started listening to Rush about '92 or so and began voting against the Dems around this time as well. I am a late bloomer.
Any how, I remembered later that there was a woman in that building who wore a burka, and that that was probably her that was being strangled. And I knew that the man who lived in that apt. was middle eastern.
How sad that these women put up with this abuse, but perhaps they are trapped.
All I know is that God's recompense will be swift.
Akaky| 5.13.11 @ 5:10PM
One quibble here: there is no organization called the NYFD anywhere in New York. The organization that protects New York and New Yorkers from the the threat of fire is the FDNY, the Fire Department of New York, which was incorporated under that name in 1865.
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Tina B| 5.13.11 @ 6:03PM
Why is European history so much easier to learn from you guys than it was from Sister Rolondo back in the 60s. She and most of her cohorts made history so d---ed boring I never went near Western Civ in college (which, I admit, attended off and on for 25 yrs, from Cali to Fla, just to get my B.S. in Lib Studies, Science and the Humanities.
I am European born and raised by well educated Europeans and you'd think I would have cared. However the nuns in SoCal, at one of the Mission High Schools, did nothing but boringly touch on the great fight against the Ottomans.
I had to hear about it from a brilliant and beautiful Muslim girl who made the Ottoman Empire her History Fair project one year. She told me, from her viewpoint, "exactly what happened." I respected her drive and though she wore no headscarf when she entered 8th grade, by the end of the school year she had decided to cover her gorgeous thick black hair everyday in public.
To my way of thinking, that in itself was a tragedy, not to mention the possible loss of her soul for eternity if she didn't accept the Truth. In an era where we can barely get middle school girls to cover their bodies properly, this lovely young lady was choosing to cover it all, even her hair. Oh that some of the girls who attend church or youth groups regularly would cover themselves as protectively as Nabilla did. And yet she might stay lost.
I took a big chance and I offered her a book by Ravi Zacharias, as she was a voracious reader like me. She had read all the Chronicles of Narnia, and peppered me with questions about Aslan, so I handed her the book, Jesus Among Other Gods, and she snatched it.
It wasn't too long after she gave me the book back that she began wearing the headscarf. Soon the year was over and she was gone. She's come back to visit me and we hug and she knows I love her. ( I still love 'em all)
Anyway, thanks Judd, for a truly great perspective article, and to the posters, again, thanks for the Western Civ lessons I had missed.
Occam's Tool| 5.13.11 @ 9:30PM
The reason may be that History is too often taught as bloodless dates. It should be taught in a journalistic style, an in media res approach, whenever possible.
John II| 5.13.11 @ 7:33PM
Perhaps the keynote of our response to 9/11 was sounded by a well-intentioned and good-hearted (and, thank God, crusader-inclined) President Bush when, for whatever political reasons, he referred to Islam ignorantly as "a religion of peace." A nice American boy--which is to say, a man utterly oblivious to history.
Bush's healthy instincts saved us all from what would have surely been the disastrously anemic response of a smug President Gore, but good instincts alone aren't enough for survival in a struggle that Bush himself acknowledged, early on, would last far beyond his own presidency.
It is not at all clear to me how the soft nihilism of a secularized utilitarian West (so aptly symbolized by Professor Obama) will be able, over an extended time, to stand up to the hard nihilism of Islamic jihad. All one can do, I suppose, is to make certain that one's children and grandchildren know enough history to know what the hell happened when their own Christian faith and culture are driven underground.
And now back to "El Cid" (1961).
Occam's Tool| 5.13.11 @ 9:31PM
Dear John II: I really think you would like Tom Kratman's Caliphate. I really, really do.
John II| 5.14.11 @ 12:11AM
Oh. Hi Occie. Yes, you told me about the Kratman before, and I checked it out. Looks interesting. I'll have time this summer to get it and read it. It may give me some ideas about how I'd like to use my retirement before cashing in my chips.
My own sense of the Islamic resurgence comes from my teaching, which includes the Qur'an in one of my survey courses (a sobering bit of reading) and the whole Medieval thing, which the West started to lose sight of some time late in the Renaissance.
By the 18th century, Gibbon was fiercely anti-Christian and, simultaneously, making goo-goo noises about Islam. (There's a connection.) As a Catholic, I think I can get away with saying this to a Jew: the Protestant Reformation, with its incipient rationalism, eventually gave us the Enlightenment, which gave us a Western soft-headedness about Islam, which in turn only began to change in the late 19th century, with a renewal of serious medieval scholarship.
But the wake-up has been slow. As late as the mid-20th century, for example, Runciman was composing his elegant distortions about the Crusades, which have only lately been exposed by scholars like Thomas Madden.
Anyhow, I am old enough to know how suddenly and unexpectedly things change, and I have huge reserves of faith in the good sense of the American character: how many Americans really, really knew what Communism and Nazism were about when they were busily making mincemeat out of the commies and the Nazis? So I have good reason to hope I'm wrong in my misgivings about American staying power against the Islamist thing. We shall see what we shall see.
Anyhow, I seem to recall that, many moons ago, you and I went toe-to-toe on the therapeutic ethos. Some weeks ago, I dropped a link in a reply to one of your comments, but I presume you didn't catch it. Here's the link again. I just wanted to know what you thought about it from your professional perspective as a practicing shrink:
http://www.christianitytoday.c.....renic.html
And now back to "Harvey" (1950), the film version of the wise Mary Chase play in which Jimmy Stewart and Josephine Hull upstage one another in their definitive demonstration of the primacy of the human heart over clumsy ideas about the human soul.
Tina B| 5.13.11 @ 8:21PM
You make an excellent point. I will concentrate on my grandchildren's knowledge of history. My kids are learning along with me as we converse about the current crises. We do talk about it all.
But the grandchildren need to be taught, and what they are learning needs to be monitored. I am a teacher but I am a Christian and a Conservative. I know I am in a tiny minority, and I don't trust the average Social Studies teacher to teach the Truth. Some have their heads on straight, but more often than not they are a liberal mess.
Occam's Tool| 5.13.11 @ 9:32PM
Dear Tina,
check out Bill Bennett's books. Good stuff.
Kristal| 5.13.11 @ 8:47PM
Remember, 91% of the women in Egypt have had their genitals mutilated.
Know your enemy.
Skippy| 5.14.11 @ 8:28PM
I just threw up a little.
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spoofproof| 5.14.11 @ 11:30AM
@Judd Magilnick
Thank you for explaining more about the Knights of Malta and the Maltese Falcon. Thank you for helping us get these pieces into place. The Left has been working hard to keep us divided and confused. Here's hoping We All can pull together enough to fend off the Forces of Darkness & Evil. God Save The United States of America. God Save The Queen.
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Margie| 5.14.11 @ 12:54PM
Justice is turned back, and righteousness stands afar off; for truth has fallen in the public squares, and uprightness cannot enter.
Truth is lacking, and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. The LORD saw it, and it displeased Him that there was no justice.
He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no one to intervene; then His own Arm brought Him victory, and His righteousness upheld Him.
He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of Salvation upon His Head; He put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and wrapped Himself in fury as a mantle.
According to their deeds, so will He repay, wrath to His adversaries, requital to his enemies; to the coastlands He will render requital.
So they shall fear the Name of the LORD from the west, and His Glory from the rising of the sun; for He will come like a rushing stream, which the Wind of the LORD drives.
"And He will come to Zion as Redeemer, to those in Jacob who turn from transgression, says the LORD.
"And as for Me, this is My covenant with them, says the LORD: My Spirit which is upon you, and My Words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, or out of the mouth of your children, or out of the mouth of your children's children, says the LORD, from this time forth and for evermore." Is. 59:14-21.
Tina B| 5.14.11 @ 1:22PM
Margie,
I am crying out. . . Maranatha, Lord Jesus,
Margie| 5.15.11 @ 8:09PM
Praise His Holy Name. Come, Lord Jesus.
Norman Conquest| 5.14.11 @ 2:47PM
How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy.
The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.
A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.
Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it.
No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.
-- Sir Winston Churchill (The River War, first edition, Vol. II, pages 248-50 [London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1899]).
How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy.
The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.
A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.
Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it.
No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.
-- Sir Winston Churchill (The River War, first edition, Vol. II, pages 248-50 [London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1899]).
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Dee See| 5.15.11 @ 2:19AM
AS the CON-serving 'right' in our POST American
'political scene' refuses to take ANY action against
those exploititng the cheap ILLEGAL labor --which BTW has its services underwritten by we
the taxpayers ---consider this
"Gordon Brown has himself admitted
he opened the floodgates to third world
immigration to humiliate the native right."
-ALAN WATT
(devastating online coverage of 'the agenda')
NOTE: both here and in London they're ALLLL
controlled, groomed, and pushing the
globalism and EUGENICS agenda of
the RIIA/CFR. The 'continuity of agenda'
is absolutely UNDENIABLE.
Their stated, near completed aims?
Subversion of the genuine culture
Conspiracy AGAINST the Republic and
sovereignty
EUGENICS weaponization of water, food, meds
and air
HUAC meets NUREMBERG 2012
---------------GET YOUR TICKETS!
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Dacron Mather| 5.16.11 @ 2:07AM
Alas for Magilnick, the maguffin in question never figured in Levantine politics , and the leaden prop made for the movies was sold at public auction to Harry Winston Inc. heir Ronald Winston some decades ago.
When O lord, will TAS return from the realm of fantasy to the world of fact ?
Adult toys | 7.4.11 @ 1:21AM
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Adult toys | 7.4.11 @ 1:21AM
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