"This is what he says and this is what he means down to the last lingering atom of his being. Believe him and remember what he looks like and sounds like. You have heard it for years. You will hear it again.

Men like Hassan Bolkhari cannot be persuaded out of their madness. Hassan Bolkhari believes he is sane and his views are right. Men like this cannot be appeased. They will take the time and the space and the money and any other bribes offered them by the weakened culture of the West, and use every second, every inch and every penny of it to prepare the grave of the West."

David Warren, "Oncoming":

"I do not doubt the great majority of Muslims, in Canada and around the world, are decent, “moderate” people, who want no part in a “clash of civilizations”. But it has become obvious they can do nothing to stop the triumph of “Islamism” internationally, or oppose the fanatics proselytizing in their own communities.

Germany was full of moderate Germans, as Hitler rose; Stalin drove his oars through a sea of moderate Russians. While we must not forget that the Muslims are the first victims of “Islamism”, and may suffer most from its triumph, we are beyond the point where we can do more for them than destroy the tyranny by which they are enthralled.

Indeed, many Muslims, by birth or faith, remain our best allies, warning us as many fine Germans did of what is coming our way."

Gary Metz: A few pictures worth 1,000 words or more.

Gerald Van Der Leun, "The First Terrorist War" (October 2003):

"Beyond victory in the First Terrorist War is a greater goal. What we must seek is not merely the "control" and "containment" of terror, for terror in this guise cannot be controlled or contained. We must come to the deeper understanding that only a complete victory over the global Radical Islamic forces can prevent the onset of a confrontation more terrible than the current war.

What we must press for in the Terrorist War is a victory so decisive that we can, in the end, avoid the larger war lurking on the not-so-distant horizon - - a true war between civilizations. That war, should it come, will not take the name of The Terrorist War, but of The Islamic War."

Jim Geraghty, "Polls, Ports, Governments, and Cartoons":

"This strikes me as the fallout of the Tipping Point™ - my sense that in recent weeks, a large chunk of Americans just decided that they no longer have any faith in the good sense or non-hostile nature of the Muslim world."

Robert Tracinski, "Publish or Perish: Lessons from the Cartoon Jihad":

"Now, seventeen years later, the Muslim fanatics are making it clear: you don't have to come to our country, you don't have to be a Muslim. Even in your own countries and under your own laws, you will not be safe from our intimidation.

For the whole Western world, this is an opportunity to learn an important truth about the goal of the Islamists. Their goal is not to achieve any specific political demand or settlement. Their goal is submission: our submission to their will, to their laws, to their dictatorship—our submission, not just to one demand, but to any demand the Muslim mobs care to make."

Doubt it? Try this:

"A student's column in the Oregon State University campus newspaper has prompted protests by Muslim students, who say it is offensive to their faith. The piece headlined "The Islamic Double Standard" was written by OSU microbiology student Nathanael Blake and published in the Daily Barometer on Feb. 8.

...Senior editors have met with the Muslim Student Association.... [the Barometer's editor-in-chief] said editors have been checking copy with Muslim students, and on Tuesday deleted one paragraph from a piece scheduled to be published the next day."

Islamism's auxiliaries on the Left have prepared the ground well. Of course, The "Muslim Students Association" is a Saudi-created group that espouses their hate-filled Wahabbi version of Islam and advocates Shari'a Law. Which brings us to this note of mine from "Trans-Shipments, Toons, and Tipping Points":

"Wittman [of the DLC] is dead-on. The alternative to moral seriousness will be growing anger stemming from a correct belief that we are under attack, and facing a very real threat to our way of life here that will only end when our enemy does. But if the "sensitivities" (which is now read as "threats") of undifferentiated "Muslims" are all it takes to get the North American media to submit to religious edicts and lie by omission and commission about a major public controversy - then the source of the threat to our way of life isn't just al-Qaeda, is it? It's precisely the opposite of the behaviour the media had intended to mold, of course. But it's also completely logical, and completely their fault. As voices like Karim Elsahy are lost in the wind."

John Farren, commenting in "Trans-Shipments, Toons, and Tipping Points" (c#52):

"...some figures from a You.gov poll in the UK from 12 February in the Sunday Times [1,600 respondents]:

[snip]...52% were now less tolerant of Muslims
63% believed relation between Muslims and others would grow worse
62% expect violence by non-Muslims against Muslims
45% believe the West can never co-exist peacefully with mainly Muslim nations.

Gerald Van Der Leun, "The Dulcet Tones of the Iranian Fascist":

"....The viral madness of the Muslims is not subject to being reasoned with when it is surrounded by millions who share the same dementia. We've seen their deep cultural insanity manifest itself around the world for weeks now. It is not the sad plaint of the "victim," but exactly what it appears to be -- a willful festival of unrestrained violence against any and all that do not share their ghastly vision of a stunted and medieval religion; a religion of peace and toleration, but of brutality and subjegation. And what they learn with every passing day is that the world, so far, is more than willing to let them get away with it. What the world learns with every passing day is that the moderate Muslim is the one who will not burn you until tomorrow or the day after. This is the message that is coming out of this culture in word and deed, while many are deaf and blind to it.

And so their voices and their actions grow ever bolder. This is always the case with Fascists. History is clear on this point. History is also clear that, when it comes to the Fascists of Spain, Italy, Germany, Russia, Iraq, Iran, and a host of other countries large and small, nothing but fire will finish them.

Bolkhari is the suave face and voice of the new postmodern Holocaust. He embodies, with his talent for emulating Western smarm, the enemy of all that we value and our fathers fought to preserve. This is our enemy not because we wish it so, but because he wishes it so. What he wants most now is to possess nuclear weapons. When he has those everything else will follow and follow quickly."

IAEA Report, a body much inclined to understatement:

"Although the Agency has not seen any diversion of nuclear material to nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices, the Agency is not at this point in time in a position to conclude that there are no undeclared nuclear materials or activities in Iran. The process of drawing such a conclusion, under normal circumstances, is a time consuming process even with an Additional Protocol in force. In the case of Iran, this conclusion can be expected to take even longer in light of the undeclared nature of Iran's past nuclear programme, and in particular because of the inadequacy of information available on its centrifuge enrichment programme, the existence of a generic document related to the fabrication of nuclear weapon components, and the lack of clarification about the role of the military in Iran’s nuclear programme, including, as mentioned above, about recent information available to the Agency concerning alleged weapon studies that could involve nuclear material.

54. It is regrettable, and a matter of concern, that the above uncertainties related to the scope and nature of Iran's nuclear programme have not been clarified after three years of intensive Agency verification. In order to clarify these uncertainties, Iran’s full transparency is still essential. Without full transparency that extends beyond the formal legal requirements of the Safeguards Agreement and Additional Protocol — transparency that could only be achieved through Iran’s active cooperation — the Agency’s ability to reconstruct the history of Iran’s past programme and to verify the correctness and completeness of the statements made by Iran, particularly with regard to its centrifuge enrichment programme, will be limited, and questions about the past and current direction of Iran’s nuclear programme will continue to be raised."

Did we mention those pictures?

"Who's in charge of the clattering train?
The axles creak and the couplings strain
And the pace is hot and the points are near
And Sleep has deadened the driver's ear
And the signals flash through the night in vain
For Death is in charge of the clattering train."