Occasional readers will be glancingly aware of the fact that your correspondent has a certain love/hate relationship with the New York Times – an emotion to which the Gray Lady herself remains regally indifferent. But “paper of record” and deeply imprinted biases aside, the Sunday Times, especially, is a rare and – at five clams our here on the left coast, expensive – treat.
Rip out the opinion page straightaway and burn it in the fireplace. Then read the news (as much for what isn’t said) before heading to the Weekend magazine and the NYT Review of Books and you have a very pleasant, and I might even say, educational Sunday afternoon in front of you.
Like, for example, this weekend’s review of the ruleset governing jihad – when it is and isn’t permissible to slaughter non-combatants generally, and women and children specifically according to the Holy Qu’uran. (Here’s a hint for those who are in a hurry this morning: It’s pretty much always permissible.)
Since your presence here is indicative of a self-selecting degree of higher discernment, none of these rules will come as much of a surprise to you, but they may curdle the lattes of the Times more customary client?
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“But militant Islamists including extremists in Jordan who embrace Al Qaeda?
“But militant Islamists including extremists in Jordan who embrace Al Qaeda’s ideology teach recruits that children receive special consideration in death. They are not held accountable for any sins until puberty, and if they are killed in a jihad operation they will go straight to heaven. There, they will instantly age to their late 20s, and enjoy the same access to virgins and other benefits as martyrs receive”
Hmmmm… just wondering if dead little girls get to grow up real quick and enjoy access to male virgins, along with the other benefits.
I get it.
Sorta, kinda like “reading” Playboy fer the articles/interviews, eh?
Fishwrap is fishwrap.
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For the Sunday Times, my mythical parrot will make an exception, and permit it to be placed in the cage.
Along with a very large meal of bananas, figs and lots of yogurt. Lots. of. yogurt.
Weekend Magazine and the NYT Review of books are perfect for –well, if you hold your nose you’ll eventually see a very contented bird taking a nap.
It being so ‘absorbent’ and all.
I’m with Lex – I also read the Sunday NY Times. And he’s right, it’s as much a treat for what you DON’T read as what you do. Sometimes their attempts at trying to seem unbiased are really quite amusing.
The referenced article did give me pause this morning as well – as much for the contradictions built into as for anything else. Especially the part about it being OK to kill others as long as you are in the country of your birth…which makes the events of the first WTC bombing, the USS Cole, 9/11…all the more puzzling. That and the fact that a Muslim spokesman indicated the the 9/11 hijackers “…did not violate this rule since the hijackers came from outside the United States…”
Oh yeah, and that banks are acceptable targets because “…they charge interest, and this is in violation of Islamic law…”
Yeah, that’s the ticket. Butchers.
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I think I’m going to be ill.
Etiquette? Emily Post is spinning like a spit roast.
As much as this article must have upset the urbane Sunday brunches of so many NYT readers, it in fact hides more than it reveals. See Robert Spencer at the following:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/016851.php
I quit reading newspapers when I went back to school and had no time for anything except for studying and driving 40 miles each way. Haven’t missed much except for the store sales ads. Now I check out different sources online for my news fixes.
I’m glad someone can stand to read them….
Nations go to war to win, not to lose. They develop the know-how to win, like we did when we developed the a – bomb to defeat Japan, which we did, saving 1 million yank lives. Billions were spent to develop the bomb and create a nuclear arsenal to protect ourselves and the free world. It worked. Those kamikaze-minded suiciders quit after two nukes showed them who’s who. Now islam is going after us the same way, killing, to date more than 4000 yanks as they perpetrate suicide bombings and sniper attacks..
We possess nuclear arms; our enemies do not, at least not yet. Yet they behead us, kill us, mutilate our dead bodies ,drag them thru the streets of their cities, threaten us if we bomb their so called “holy cities”, and subject us to humiliation for “abusing” the terrorists we have captured as if we were supposed to coddle them instead. As this goes on we huddle in fear of what terrorists will do next.
So what do we do? The unelected U.S. Supreme Court gives them “terrorists rights”
to sue in our courts while “back home” they behead us. And we prosecute our own soldiers for not coddling them.’
That’s real intelligence, isn’t it? But this isn’t the start of this insanity -
We could have won in Korea with nukes, but the liberals, panicking the administration, claimed Russia and China would nuke us if we nuked korea. The result: nukes sat idle, the war was a stalemate, 33,000 yanks died and now korea has come back with its own nukes, threatening us which wouldn’t have happened had we nuked them back then. Real good military strategy, isn’t it?
We could have won in Vietnam, but the liberals claimed nukes weren’t nice because too many of our enemy should die. the result: we lost the war, and 59,000 yanks died, instead.
Real smart.
We went to war in Iraq in 1990, but pulled out when it was half over, leaving the regime in power. The result: another war had to be begun all over, which we thought we won. but yanks die daily while nukes sit idle. Some victory we “won”. Real smart
Now we are led blindly down the path to believe moslem nations such as Pakistan will assist us in rooting out alqueda. Al queda is paying everyone off to be on their side. Even if they weren’t, moslems wouldn’t act for us. Pakistan has nukes, supplied with red mercury and technology by the Russian mafia. And do you think al queda has no access to their nukes? Why do you think they operate out of the Pakistan-Afghan border? Because the weather is nice there or do they have a different reason for being in that location, in mind? When the Pakistani regime is overthrown by Islamic terrorists and fundamentalists, where will we hide? Or do you think the Pakistani nukes will be aimed at Monaco instead of at us?
Hw long will this “pearl harbor – 9/11 mentality” of sitting back, doing nothing decisive and procrastinating, persist? Must we wait until they blow us up, kill our children, brothers, sisters and parents one by one before we finally realize that we are justified in totally annihilating them and ending their threat for once and for all?
In the meantime as al queda works incessantly to bring down the Pakistani government and get their nukes, other bandit and terrorist nations are clamoring to build their own nukes. Do you think these kamikaze minded maniacs will consider fallout or any similar considerations when they can and will nuke us, to make them hesitate to nuke? The liberals show photos of burnt Jap children to move us not to nuke. But what will our children look like if they nuke us? Do we have to await a third Pearl Harbor-9/11 before our sense of self-preservation and the preservation of our posterity is awakened and we excise the malignancy of islam from the face and body of mankind for once and for all? Must we sit idly by until al queda overthrows the Pakistani regime and seizes their nukes or gets the red mercury and know how from the Russian mafia to make their own?
Must we apologize to them and coddle these terrorists and excuse ourselves for conducting war? And must they get rights to sue in our courts while they behead us?
Did we spend those billions for marching down Main St. on the fourth of July, while yanks die daily and the arsenal sits idle or was there a more appropriate purpose to build the nuclear arsenal and protect ourselves? How long must we keep on huddling in fear and worry of what they will do to us next, while nukes sit idle? Must we wait until they nuke us before we come to our senses and wake up? Now that N. Korea has nukes, will their firing nukes at us or one of our allies wake us up, or will we just sit there and shake a finger at them?
Are we idiots or merely fools?
And if we’re fools, then what kind of fools are we?