Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Goodbye once again

Dear All,

I have to leave blogging again and as stated on previous
occasions I don`t know if I will return or not. I`m sorry.

Best Wishes,

IceViking

Quote by Cal Thomas

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jan/30/once-more-into-the-breach/

Once more into the breach
by Cal Thomas
Friday, January 30, 2009
Washington Times

Quote:
Back to the Somalians in Minneapolis, and growing Muslim communities throughout the country. In the forthcoming book "Al-Hijra: The Islamic Doctrine of Immigration: Accepting Freedom or Imposing Islam?"(Pilcrow Press), written by two former Muslims, Sam Solomon and Elias Al Maqdisi, "The Hijra was enshrined by Muhammad from the outset within Islam as the 'Doctrine of Immigration,' or the 'peaceful' means of extending the Islamic political state garbed and girded in religious terminology. Hijra and military conquest are two components of Islamic expansion." The cover art is of a Trojan horse. We can awaken to this twin threat, or we can, like Linus, keep waiting for the Great Pumpkin.
This book has since become available and you can order it here, for instance and you can read a review here.

Why Beauty Matters

"Why Beauty Matters", written and presented by philosopher and writer Roger Scruton.

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Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Bluffen om sjukskrivningsexplosionen skymmer fortfarande den viktiga frågan?

Klicka här för att besöka hemsidan för "Aktionsgruppen för de sjukförsäkrades rätt" angående sjukförsäkringen.

Från Newsmill:

http://www.newsmill.se/artikel/2010/03/15/bluffen-om-sjukskrivningsexplosionen-skymmer-fortfarande-den-viktiga-fr-gan

Bluffen om sjukskrivningsexplosionen skymmer fortfarande den viktiga frågan

av Björn Johnson
Publicerad: 2010-03-15, Uppdaterad: 2010-03-15

Björn Johnson är forskare vid Malmö högskolas Centrum för tillämpad arbetslivsforskning och aktuell med boken "Kampen om sjukfrånvaron" (Arkiv förlag).

Citat:
I min nya bok "Kampen om sjukfrånvaron" har jag visat att varken arbetsmiljöförklaringen eller överutnyttjandeförklaringen håller streck. De kan inte förklara den kraftigt ökade sjukfrånvaron, helt enkelt eftersom de utgår från att denna hängde samman med att allt fler människor sjukskrev sig.

Men så var inte fallet. Sverige upplevde aldrig någon "explosion" av nya sjukskrivningar. Mellan 1996 och 2002 fördubblades visserligen antalet sjukdagar, men merparten av denna ökning - 80-85 procent enligt flera oberoende beräkningar - berodde på längre sjukskrivningsperioder, inte på att fler blev sjukskrivna. Den höga sjukfrånvaron var till allra största delen en effekt av att människor fick svårare att ta sig tillbaka till arbetslivet efter sjukskrivning.

Orsaken till detta var ett havererat system för arbetsanpassning. Sociologen Tor Larsson har visat att statliga beslut - fattade i bred enighet över blockgränserna - och kommunala besparingar under krisåren på 1990-talet tillsammans bidrog till att anpassnings- och rehabiliteringsåtgärderna ute på arbetsplatserna fungerade allt sämre.
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Tor Larssons förklaring pekar alltså ut förändringar på arbetsmarknaden som avgörande för nivån på sjukfrånvaron. Staten frånsade sig sitt ansvar för aktiva rehabiliteringsinsatser och drog in statsbidragen till företagshälsovården, samtidigt som arbetsgivarna genomförde stora nedskärningar och slimmade organisationerna.
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Före de förändringar Tor Larsson beskrivit var det inte aktuellt med någon bortre gräns i den svenska sjukförsäkringen - de allra flesta långtidssjukskrivningarna var ändå avslutade inom ett år, den gräns som är vanlig i de utländska systemen. Men när rehabiliterings- och anpassningsarbetet slutade fungera fortsatte de långa sjukfallen, år efter år.
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När sjukskrivningsdebatten var som hetast i början av 2000-talet påpekades det ofta att ökad sjukfrånvaro inte är samma sak som ökad sjukdom. Det är förvisso korrekt. Men det kan vara på sin plats att påminna om att det omvända också gäller: minskad sjukfrånvaro innebär inte automatiskt att fler personer blivit friskare och kunnat återvända till arbetslivet.
Klicka här för att läsa hela texten.

Weapon Of Mass Instruction

http://www.politicalislam.com/blog/a-weapon-of-mass-instruction

Weapon Of Mass Instruction
(Printed in the New English Review)
by Bill Warner (May 2008)

The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism: From Sacred Texts to Solemn History
By Andrew G. Bostom
Prometheus Books, 768 pp.

Andrew Bostom's new book, The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism, is an historic work. It is an encyclopedia of both the doctrine and practice of Islamic Jew hatred. Jew hatred is Bostom's usage and it is accurate. The word Semitic refers to the Semitic language group, which includes both Arabic and Hebrew. No one hates the Hebrew language; so the term, antisemitism is a misnomer.

The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism is a reference book that is divided into eight sections with two grand divisions—sacred texts (doctrine) and history (the result of the doctrine).

SACRED TEXTS

Dr. Bostom does not use his own essays to persuade the reader. He lets Mohammed and Islam tell the story by using the actual source documents. In the first half of the book, we see how the Koran, the Sira (the life of Mohammed) and the Hadith (the Traditions of Mohammed) lay out a complete doctrine of Jew hatred.
Mohammed originally used the Jews as a proof of his prophet-hood. At first, Mohammed is portrayed as the last in the line of Jewish prophets. Noah, Abraham, Moses, and even Jesus are figures used to establish that all of their work pointed to the arrival of the true prophet, Mohammed.

Mohammed is portrayed in Islamic scripture as the “real” Jew and the Koran is the real Torah. Of course, Allah is portrayed as the real Yahweh.

It may be said that, while in Mecca, Mohammed stole both Yahweh and the Torah.

Then when Mohammed moved to Medina, he found a town that was half Jewish, unlike Mecca where there were no Jews to contradict him. There the Jews did something that they would not repeat over the next 1400 years. They stood up to Mohammed and denied his messiah-ship. When Mohammed could not persuade the Jews of his message or what he thought was his divinely ordained status, he showed the world that the sword is mightier than the Jewish pen.

In about a year’s time, as the Jews refused to help each other, Mohammed kidnapped, raped, enslaved, tortured, assassinated, robbed and mass murdered the Jews who denied him. His dying words were to get the Jews and Christians out of Arabia.

Hitler was a student of Jew hatred, but Mohammed was the master. Jews are still found in Germany, but not a single one is in Arabia.

All of this accounting is taken from Islam's sacred texts; the actual source material doctrine of Islam found in the Koran, Sira and Hadith.

THE HISTORY OF JEW HATRED

Well, that was then and this is now, right? Nobody really believes sacred texts, do they? Well, as the last half of The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism shows, Muslims believe every single syllable of the sacred texts and follow the example of the perfect pattern of Islam, Mohammed to the letter.
The historical documents show that the pattern of Islamic Jew hatred is seamless from Mohammed to the present.

Bostom provides massive documentation of 1400 years of Jewish suffering as dhimmis under Islam. In the process he annihilates a favorite Jewish myth of how great Jews had it during the so-called Islamic “Golden Age.” Islam's grand culture was built on the slavery and dhimmitude of non-Muslims. Why was that so golden for Jews and Christians?

Again The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism does not argue about the Golden Age, but lets its victims speak the truth buried under the historic fantasy of Islam's glory. The truth is that of grinding humiliation for the Jews, who have been so spiritually crushed that they are now one of the biggest defenders of their oppressors.
Another Jewish myth is that modern Islamic Jew hatred was derived from the Nazis and those terrible European Christians. Part of this myth is how well Islam treated the Jews before modern times. Even Bernard Lewis, the patriarch of the dhimmi-scholars, actively promotes this historical lie today. Dr. Bostom lets the source documents show that Islam has been violently involved with Jew hatred since 613 A.D. and that Muslims can give lessons on antisemitism and do not need any help from latecomers.

The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism is overpowering in its detail. The history lessons start right after Mohammed's death and go forward in time until today. Dr. Bostom lets Islam speak for itself and it is a very ugly story.

THE READERS

The tragedy of this book, is that it is such powerful medicine that the patient is unlikely to swallow. Its message is the only key to saving Israel. The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism shows the very foundation of Israeli thought and its doctrine of war with the Arab world is wrong. It shows that it is jihad, not intifada, and it is Muslims, not Palestinians, who are fighting Jews and the Jewish state. Jihad is not a war between nation states. Israel is in a state of denial and dhimmitude and is fighting and losing the wrong war. Israel cannot beat Mohammed because they will not declare war on Mohammed. Hamas and the PLO are not the enemies; Mohammed is the enemy. Hamas and the PLO are his children.

The only way to win a war is to know the enemy and by the evidence, Israel and the Jews do not have any idea of who their enemy is. The most valuable strategic strike would be to give every rabbi, the ADL, the Jewish Federation, the ACLU and every Jewish professor a copy of Bostom's The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism, a weapon of mass instruction. At the very least, the ignorant rabbis who now claim that Muslims and Jews worship the same god would be silent. The question every Jewish person in a position of influence must now answer is: “How do you, as a Jew, justify your ignorance about the doctrine and history of Islamic Jew hatred?”

Bill Warner is spokesman for Political Islam.com

Monday, March 15, 2010

US Representative Ted Poe on Dutch party leader Geert Wilders

From Diana West`s blog:

http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/1316/US-Representative-Poe-on-Dutch-Parliamentarian-Wilders.aspx

US Representative Poe on Dutch Parliamentarian Wilders
Mar
12 Written by: Diana West
Friday, March 12, 2010 7:59 AM

On the floor of the House yesterday, Rep. Ted Poe, Texas Republican, had this to say about Geert Wilders:
Mr. Speaker, freedom of speech continues to be shouted down by the politically correct police. In the Netherlands, it is against the law to say something that offends someone else’s religion. That is why Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders is on trial for hurting people’s feelings.He made a movie about terrorists and radical Islamic clerics encouraging violence in the name hate. Now he is on trial for insulting Islam.
He is charged with discrimination and incitement to hatred. Because Dutch law is intolerant of intolerance.The Dutch courts say even truthful insult speech is a crime. Sounds like the law has become the enemy of free speech and a protector of the radicals.
Geert Wilders boldly brings to the world’s attention the dangers of religious radicals who believe in hateful violence, and he gets in trouble for it. He ought to be commended rather than condemned and charged with a crime.
Freedom of speech is a universal human right, granted by God, especially if that speech is political, religious or truthful. A free people won’t tolerate intolerance for freedom for very long.
And that's just the way it is.