Greater Liberia

From the New York Times:

"Taylor had a map he carried around with him called Greater Liberia," said Douglas Farah, an analyst and author who has written extensively about Mr. Taylor's links of criminal and terrorist networks.

Find me this map.

Anthem For A Sharia State

Somali Jesus: Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.
[Barrage of stones]

The Somali morality police don't fuck around.

Bob Dylan - Rainy Day Kafir #12 & 35

Well, they'll stone you when you're trying to be so good
They'll stone you just like they said they would
They'll stone you when trying to go home
And they'll stone you when you're there all alone
But I would not feel so all alone
Everybody must get stoned

Well, they'll stone you when you're walking on the street
They'll stone you when you're trying to keep your seat
They'll stone you when you're walking on the floor
They'll stone you when you're walking through the door
But I would not feel so all alone
Everybody must get stoned

They'll stone you when you're at the breakfast table
They'll stone you when you are 'oung and able
They'll stone you when you're trying to make a buck
They'll stone you and then they'll say "Good Luck"
Yeah, but I would not feel so all alone
Everybody must get stoned

Well, they'll stone you and say that it's the end
Then they'll stone you and then they'll come back again
They'll stone you when you're riding in your car
And they'll stone you when you're playing your guitar
Yes, but I would not feel so all alone
Everybody must get stoned (alright)

Well, they'll stone you when you are all alone
They'll stone you when you are walking home
They'll stone you and then say they are brave
They'll stone you when you're sent down in your grave
But I would not feel so all alone
Everybody must get stoned

How To Lose Friends & Alienate People

Show them your blog. (No one really wants to know what you think.)

North American Disclaimer

In response to the news story about "a 20-year-old woman from Iraq whose father allegedly hit her with his car because she had become too Westernized," I offer the following open letter.

DEAR MIDDLE EASTERN FATHER,

You wish to gain a higher standard of by living in the West while keeping your family's cultural and moral values intact. Know that this is impossible. Your daughter and, if not your daughter, your granddaughter will be entranced by the Babylonian circus of hip-hop, reality television and pants that say Juicy on the ass. She will experiment with lesbianism, have sex with black men who call her "shorty," buy vibrators and reveal her silky hair to any and all comers. If the mere thought of any of these things is already driving you into a murderous rage, DO NOT MOVE TO NORTH AMERICA. I repeat, it is not just possible that your daughter will make out with another woman on a sweaty dancefloor to the cheers of cro-magnon men in baseball hats if you move to North America, IT IS GUARANTEED. You can have material prosperity in a free society or a chaste daughter who keeps her eyes to the floor in the presence of her bearded superiors. You cannot have both. Make an informed decision before deciding to immigrate, for your and her sake.

Sincerely,
A Concerned Westerner

Beyond Left & Right: Prelude To A Politics Of The Future

The usually better Spengler writes:

"Peasant blacksmithing in Indonesia: surviving against all odds", was the title of Dunham's doctoral dissertation. Dunham's sympathy for the traditional life of Indonesians fighting against the encroachment of the global economy evidently left a huge impression on young Obama, for he thought their lives better than those of poor people in the United States. As he (or Bill Ayers) wrote in Dreams of My Father:

"And yet for all that poverty [in the Indonesian marketplace], there remained in their lives a discernible order, a tapestry of trading routes and middlemen, bribes to pay and customs to observe, the habits of a generation played out every day beneath the bargaining and the noise and the swirling dust. It was the absence of such coherence that made a place like [the Chicago housing projects] so desperate."

That paragraph is a precis of his mother's doctoral dissertation, and may be the most the most important point of self-revelation in Obama's collective utterances. The words may have come from Bill Ayers, but the sentiment is doubtless Obama's. In mature adulthood, Obama continued to identify with the leftist sentiments of his mother.

The above is an example of why I've abandoned the left-right Eurasia-Oceania pole game. Sympathy for traditional life is leftist!? The Indonesian marketplace Obama describes is an essentially conservative institution. The Chicago housing project, and African-American culture in general, is such a mess precisely because too little has been conserved. Africans were stripped of their traditional culture by slaveowners. A consistent conservative should support efforts by all peoples to resist the malicious effects of "the encroachment of the global economy." Yet the bizarre situation has arisen in which to support third world traditionalism is leftist, while to support first world traditionalism is rightist. The rightist must be pro-American tradition while calling for the erosion of all other traditions through the global marketplace. The leftist must be anti-American tradition while calling for the preservation of all other traditions through multiculturalist ideology. Then there are the far-righters who believe all traditionalists should unite - to eliminate the Jewish or Muslim tradition. Three cheers for Indonesia-loving conservatives, America-loving leftists, philo-Semitic fascists and everyone else who throws a wrench in Spengler's neat-fit ideological world.