Showing posts with label Lebanon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lebanon. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 04, 2008

Ahmadinejad continues his Lunatic agenda

Iran's insane president Ahmadinejad visits Iraq, tells the US to get out of the Middle East, claiming that our presence there has brought only destruction and division. He should talk. Through Hezbollah, Iran funds Hamas and other terrorist groups throughout the Middle East, with tentacles spreading even further.


Even now Iran is backing and supplying arms to Hamas for the current rocket attacks on Israel from Gaza, just as it arms Jihadists in Lebanon, all via Hezbollah. His visit to Iraq has nothing to do with peace and everything to do with Iran's pressing needs and Iraq's vulnerability.

Ahmadinejad has plenty of people in Iran worried, even members of the Iranian government. So they should be. Ahmadinejad is a nut-job who believes that a massive war and it's attendant bloodshed is actually needed to bring about the return of the Mahdi, the Hidden Imam.




The situation with Iran today is the direct legacy of Jimmy Carter, which was further abetted and supported by Bill Clinton. The Democrats just make us weaker and more vulnerable each time they're in charge. Shall we put another Democrat in the White House, so they can finish us off?


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Hizbullah TV in Lebanon, courtesy of Iran

Iranian Internet users face blockage during coming election
     

Saturday, May 05, 2007

Hizbullah TV in Lebanon, courtesy of Iran

The following clip shows excerpts from music videos aired by Al-Manar TV during the parliamentary elections campaign in 2005. Al-Manar is the Hizbullah TV station in Lebanon. Hizbollah recieves most of it's funding and support from Iran.


#713 - Hizbullah TV Music Videos during Parliament Elections

Al-Manar TV (Lebanon) - 6/2005 - 00:03:59

Campaign music videos are supposed to inspire voters to vote for the party making the videos; the videos are supposed to show what the sponsoring party is all about, and what they intend to do. These "music" video clips show quite clearly Hizbullah's intentions. It's no coincidence that the following year, they launched missile attacks from Lebanon against Israel.

Up until the 1970's, Christians were a sizable group that wielded a lot of power in Lebanon; Beirut flourished, and was known as the "Paris of the Middle East". It was a prosperous, tolerant country. That all began to change with an influx of Muslims who would not assimilate. From Brigitte Gabriel, a Lebanese Christian who lived through jihad as a child:

[...] In the early '70s, Lebanon was a majority Christian country . . . a republic very much like America. We prospered. We focused on growing our economy. We were multicultural, fair and tolerant, and had an open border policy. We welcomed everybody into our country, because we wanted to share the westernizations we had created in the Middle East. . . . Sadly, many people who came didn't want to assimilate and adopt westernizations, but wanted to drag us down to their tribal Islamic culture. . . . By 1974, Christians stopped traveling. We became prisoners in our homes and cities because Muslims would set up fly-by-night checkpoints. . . . Our religion is written on our national ID. . . . So, Muslims would stop cars, look at their IDs and if a Christian family was traveling, they would shoot them in cold blood. The whole family. . . . Extremist Muslims started coming from all around the Arabic world to fight alongside the Muslims in Lebanon. [...]

The extremist Muslims in Lebanon are now controlled by Iranian supported Hizbullah. Few Christians run for office in Lebanon anymore, because they are assassinated. Nancy Pelosi said during her recent so-called "fact finding" trip to the Middle East, that the road to peace in Lebanon lies through Damascus. Since Syria also supports Hizbullah, how is that supposed to work?

Pelosi's recent visit to Syria, one of Iran's proxies, has gotten widespread press coverage in the Middle East. It's excited many tyrants, as they now believe they no longer have to deal with the Bush Administration, but can appeal directly to the Democrat Party instead. Iran is even talking about inviting Pelosi to come visit and "talk".

Here is a recent clip from Hizbullah TV in Lebanon:


#1433 - Anti-American Filler on Hizbullah TV
Al-Manar TV (Lebanon) - 4/28/2007 - 00:00:29

Looks like they got Pelosi's message loud and clear. No wonder Pelosi and the Democrats think we need to talk to Iran. They have so much in common ideologically.

Nancy Pelosi, the good dhimmi


Nancy needn't bother to cover her head when she visits Middle East Tyrants; they will still think she is a whore. But they will like her anyway, because she is THEIR whore.

If you think that's harsh, note that I'M not saying that ANY woman is a whore for not covering her head. I do however see a political element of prostitution in letting yourself be used by misogynistic tyrants to further your own political ends.


If the Democrats succeed at assuring we lose the war, they will also have to deal with the aftermath and all that follows. If they win the Whitehouse in 2008, they will have to deal with the consequences directly. Just as they have no plan now, they seem to have no clue as to what would follow. What would they do? I hope we don't ever have to find out.
     

Sunday, April 15, 2007

Yet Another War in Lebanon: Belly Dancers!

Lebanese belly dancer Margo Caliphian: "Imagine
a man in a bra, a scarf, and a belt coming out to dance..."

Clip #1422 - New TV (Lebanon) - 2/12/2007.

Looking through the videos at MEMRITV.org, one sees an assortment of video clips from Middle Eastern TV. Many of the topics are heavy or horrific. But some of them are more mundane, and sometimes even amusing. This show fell into the later category. Here are some samples from the transcript:

- Lebanese Male Belly Dancers Incur the Wrath of Fellow Female Dancers
Belly dancer Margo Caliphian: Once I was invited to a party, I saw a guy wearing dancing clothes, with full make-up, with earrings down to his belly... How can anyone accept this?!

[...]

He wore red lipstick and glossy make-up, as if he was in Paris. This is unnatural.

Male belly dancer Alaa': You are right. Many people ask me: "Why don't you change the way you dress?" I tell them that I don't care what people think I am doing. All I care about is what I am actually doing. Things like pants, T-shirts, and jeans are fine, because this is how I am. People say: "But you have long hair." I'm not growing my hair because of the dancing, but because it is my style. I began four years ago, and I am still growing it.

Moderator: There's nothing wrong with it...

Margo Caliphian: Let me explain something. It is becoming shameful. Things are deteriorating. A woman is a woman, and a man is a man.[...]

They cannot write in an invitation to a party: "Featuring a singer, an artist, and the belly dancer X," and then it turns out to be a guy. Can you imagine what would happen? Imagine a classy party...

Moderator: What do you mean by "classy"?

Margo Caliphian: Take, for example, an important festival, with well-known singers and a belly dancer. Imagine a guy coming out to dance with a belly-dancing outfit... It is unheard of. What would you say you if you came to a festival with a large band to do your job...

Moderator: But Ms. Margo, he is there to do his job as well.

Margo Caliphian: I'm talking about a festival, and you're talking about a nightclub. There is a difference. I'm talking about the level and status of the belly dancer. Today, we've begun to appear all over the world. Today, many belly dancers go to America or France, and dance in the most important theaters in the world. Imagine a man in a bra, a scarf, and a belt coming out to dance...

Moderator: But he doesn't wear those things. He dances normally.

Margo Caliphian: Even so, there can be no perfection in it.

[...]

The video clip starts out with a sample of the dancing in question, with a voice over narative. Then a panel discussion ensues. The video has good subtitles in English.

As of this date, the video clip is at the top of the linked page above, but if scrolls away and you need to find it at a later date, go to the MEMRI seach engine here, and type in the clip number, 1422.

This debate reminded me of the kind of TV you would see in the West. People were laughing and smiling, it seemed so normal. Lebanon is still a multicultural society, but there are forces at work that want to change that.

Lebanon also has a Hezbollah TV station, which is a sharp contrast:

Clip #1304 - Children in Gaza Imitate Hizbullah Secretary- General Hassan Nasrallah and Hamas Founder Ahmad Yassin
(Archival Material) Al-Manar TV (Lebanon) - 5/29/2001


They have a very different idea of "fun".

I doubt you would have any belly dancers at all working publicly in a Sharia Law state, like Iran, which sponsors Hezbollah.