Canada's Coat of Arms

Happy New Year to all!

A Mari usque ad Mare: "From sea to sea."

Desiderantes Meliorem Patriam: "Desiring a better country." (Order of Canada Ribbon)

Music Rules

Music Rules is a blog to channel and record my interests in music† and anything music-themed. I love searching for and hearing new music and old music that's new to me.

There are hundreds of excellent but unknown young artists on various free download sites. I list some on the blog. Listen and and download what you like; what's not to like?

Thanks to a collection of rock music encyclopedias and guides, I've also learned there are hundreds of great older, unknown songs. I find hidden music gems, songs that for one reason or another never became well known but should have.

Music appreciation can be more than just an endless search for the next big act or top 40 list; there's lots of forgotten treasures and excellent but unknown new musicians.

Music can improve your mood and inspire your imagination.

arlo


† rock, alternative, indie, pop, blues, jazz, reggae; hits from classical, country, jazz, swing,  No rap (sorry, not sorry: it's not music).



http://musicruels.blogspot.ca/

Merry Christmas

Islam At Its Finest

INSIDE EVERY LIBERAL IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT

The slogan of Front Page Mag is the title of this post, and it's true. If they aren't destroying us financially and pillaging our freedoms, they're ceaselessly searching for new ways to run our lives by dictating what we may or may not say or do.

This article draws similarities between the left's infatuation with the communists in Russia and their continued excuse-making for and defence of all the evils that Islam has launched against the rest of the world.

"The West is making many of the same mistakes with Islamism that it did with Communism. And it’s making them for the same reasons.

Islamic terrorism is excused on the same grounds that Communist terror was excused; as a response to our imperialistic foreign policy, as the outcry of the oppressed and an attempt to secure equality. Some atrocities are dismissed as myths, worries over terrorism are written off as fearmongering and terrorists are transformed into victims who were singled out by paranoid politicians for their political beliefs.

The left is using the same exact playbook on Islamic terrorism as it did on Communism."

http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/261003/can-left-learn-love-isis-daniel-greenfield

Don't bite the hand that feeds you

A song from Australia that makes it crystal clear for Muslim immigrants that it's our sandbox and our rules, or please get lost.

I wish every Canadian could watch this.

Canada's left is leading us down the path of appeasement to Islam, just as did Europe, now wracked by Islamic terrorism. Europe's left appeased and made concessions, and all they did was to feed the radicals and make them stronger. This wilfully blind approach was and still is in spite the honour killings, the routine subjugation of women and genital mutilation of girls.* All of which so-called "moderate" Muslims condone via their silence. 

(*and not to mention the hacking off of heads, live burnings, gays being tossed off buildings, etc. To the left, these too are trivia.)

Meanwhile their schools in the west continue to preach that their hosts are infidels under our very noses.

https://youtu.be/yZZlo0WZ_iU

Provocation for provocation's sake #3

The Facts of Islam

All Together Now:

The Holy Grail

KLM Customer Service

KLM Airlines goes the extra mile to get forgotten items back to their owners. Very cool.

Fritz learns to catch

Funny video of Fritz the golden retriever learning to catch food. You might laugh out loud like I did.

The Art of F/O

The Wreck of the Maple Leafs Season

Off the wall humour in a commercial by Valu City Furniture

The Truth About The Crusades

(Click image to enlarge)

We are STILL being challenged by Islam

I found this September 2001 magazine in a keepsakes box the other day. Based on what happened in Paris at Charlie Hebdo (a challenge to our culture of free speech) it appears that we have learned nothing from 9/11. More accurately stated, the huge progressive brains that dominated the response to 9/11 STILL know nothing about Islam. The radicals were challenging our culture on 9/11 and they still are. 

In 2001 progressives said we should not blame so called moderate muslims for 9/11, yet these same moderates have done virtually nothing since to help us stem the evil tide that is radical Islam.

Thank you, bleeding hearts of the world, for thwarting efforts to protect ourselves from those who want to kill us. 

The War with Islam

George Friedman - Stratfor Publisher and editor, says (as I feel) that the problem with Islam is the sheer numbers. Even though most Muslims aren't jihadists, enough are to hurt us.

"But while the Europeans have particular issues with Islam, and have had them for more than 1,000 years, there is a more generalizable problem. Christianity has been sapped of its evangelical zeal and no longer uses the sword to kill and convert its enemies. At least parts of Islam retain that zeal. And saying that not all Muslims share this vision does not solve the problem. Enough Muslims share that fervency to [kill and] endanger the lives of those they despise, and this tendency toward violence cannot be tolerated by either their Western targets or by Muslims who refuse to subscribe to a jihadist ideology. And there is no way to distinguish those who might kill from those who won't. The Muslim community might be able to make this distinction, but a 25-year-old European or American policeman cannot. And the Muslims either can't or won't police themselves. Therefore, we are left in a state of war. French Prime Minister Manuel Valls has called this a war on radical Islam. If only they wore uniforms or bore distinctive birthmarks, then fighting only the radical Islamists would not be a problem. But Valls' distinctions notwithstanding, the world can either accept periodic attacks, or see the entire Muslim community as a potential threat until proven otherwise. These are terrible choices, but history is filled with them. Calling for a war on radical Islamists is like calling for war on the followers of Jean-Paul Sartre. Exactly what do they look like?"

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"But the idea of shared principles other than their own is offensive to the religious everywhere, and at this moment in history, this aversion is most commonly present among Muslims. This is a truth that must be faced.

"The Mediterranean borderland was a place of conflict well before Christianity and Islam existed. It will remain a place of conflict even if both lose their vigorous love of their own beliefs. It is an illusion to believe that conflicts rooted in geography can be abolished. It is also a mistake to be so philosophical as to disengage from the human fear of being killed at your desk for your ideas. We are entering a place that has no solutions. Such a place does have decisions, and all of the choices will be bad. What has to be done will be done, and those who refused to make choices will see themselves as more moral than those who did. There is a war, and like all wars, this one is very different from the last in the way it is prosecuted. But it is war nonetheless, and denying that is denying the obvious."

http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/war-between-two-worlds#axzz3P37dLCfp

Read more: A War Between Two Worlds | Stratfor 

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The true purpose of Islam (Lipstick on a pig)

As has been said here before, NVMs (non violent Muslims) do not factor into the threat we face from Islam. The millions of violent Muslims are the problem we face. 

Wild Bill explains the Islamic threat so simply even the most politically correct, profusely bleeding heart will understand.

Where are the voices of moderate muslims?

You cannot escape the cavalcade of progressive voices making excuses for Islam, and covering up or ignoring the thousands of horrific acts of violence it commits against us every day. I don't care how many moderate Muslims there are when their sick, violent relatives are murdering us.

I guess that's my point. Where are the moderate Muslims?

We keep hearing that most of them are moderates/non-violent etc., yet the murdering of innocents continues. Why are these non-violent Muslims (NVMs) not marching and protesting like we are? Why are they not demanding that punishment be brought to bear on radicals? I have an theory based on these points about Muslims in western countries:


-They are taught that they are superior to non Muslims, and that it is paramount for them to maintain their old country ways, and to shun the customs of countries to which they emigrate. They are taught to build communities that exclude their hosts. Think of the many no-go zones in Europe, where Muslim violence has scared politicians and even the police away from applying the country's laws (think sharia).

-They are taught to follow strict rules without question, with the threat of violent reprisal. Freedom of thought and expression is a foreign concept even to moderate NVMs.

-They are exposed to to negative messages about their hosts when they go to their mosque. In some cases the messages are and have been proven to be advocating violence against us. In other cases they are being conditioned to not integrate with us but to impose themselves on us. (The column by Tarek Fatah in the Toronto Sun today is a brilliant and brave attempt to wake up the NVMs - see asterisk * below).


I think NVMs are so cowed and afraid of their elders and imams that they are currently incapable of rising up and demanding that Islam be made non violent. NVMs know that those who diverge from the approved way of thinking are killed. Sometimes by a spouse, sometimes a parent, and sometimes a stranger. What other group has a book that says if you leave or misbehave we can kill you?

If western progressives prevail, I think our way of life is doomed. They believe that apologizing and bowing to Islam (as Obama did) is a good idea. They believe that Islam wants to share the world. They ignore the fact that even moderate Muslims are trained to shun our ways and in fact change us.

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*BY TAREK FATAH, TORONTO SUN

FIRST POSTED: TUESDAY, JANUARY 13, 2015 05:20 PM EST | UPDATED: TUESDAY, JANUARY 13, 2015 05:41 PM EST

http://www.torontosun.com/2015/01/13/muslims-shouldnt-pray-to-defeat-non-muslims

One of the reasons I avoid attending Friday congregations at mosques is a specific ritual supplication uttered by Imams at many mosques in Canada and around the world, just prior to our formal Friday community prayer, the Juma’a.

In the supplication, the cleric prays to Allah for, among other things, to grant “Muslims victory over the ‘Qawm al-Kafiroon,’” the Arabic phrase that lumps all non-Muslims — Jews, Hindus, Christians, Atheists, Buddhists and Sikhs — into one derogatory category, the “Kuffar”, or non-Muslims.

This supplication is not obligatory. Not uttering this prayer would in no way adversely affect the holiness or solemnness of the collective community prayer.

I have long argued with my orthodox and conservative Muslim friends and family that at least when living among non-Muslims, we should avoid praying for their defeat at the hands of Muslims.

They agree, but it comes down to the challenge: Who will bell the cat?

Last Friday, the world was still in shock over the Charlie Hebdo massacre when news came that another jihadi terrorist had killed French Jews inside a kosher grocery store in Paris.

Enough, I said. I decided to ask friends to take the challenge to a local mosque and stand silently with “I am Charlie Hebdo” placards.

I wanted to encourage Muslims entering the mosque to join those Muslims who renounce jihad, denounce Islamist terror and stand by the right of free expression, even of people who insult our Prophet.

Only a handful responded to my call.

Most of my comrades from our life-long struggle against Islamism were terrified and bailed out at the last minute.

Only the president of the Muslim Canadian Congress, writer Munir Pervaiz, and two Kurdish exiles, Keyvan Soltany and Hadi Elis, braved the snow to stand beside me.

Inside the mosque, I was hoping that in wake of the Charlie Hebdo massacre, the cleric would have the good sense not to speak about non-Muslims as adversaries or enemies, but my hopes were dashed.

Far from condemning the acts of terror, the cleric, speaking in English, thundered that Islam “will become established in the land, over all other religions, although the ‘Disbelievers’ (Jews, Christians, Hindus and Atheists) hate that.”

I could not believe my ears.

There was no indignation expressed at the taking of Jews as hostages by a French jihadi that morning.

The imam did ask us Muslims, that in reacting to insults we should take the example of Prophet Muhammad himself and follow in his footsteps.

The problem with that suggestion is that while there were indeed times when Prophet Muhammad forgave those who mocked him, there were others when he ordered them killed.

At the end of his “khutba” (sermon), the cleric repeated the ritual praying to Allah to grant Muslims victory over non-Muslims.

That prayer is: “O Allah, pour patience upon Muslims, strengthen their feet and give them victory over ‘Qawm -el Kafiroon’ (Non-Muslims).

“O Allah, give victory to our brothers the Muslims, the oppressed, the tyrannized and the ‘Mujahedeen’ (those who fight jihad against non-Muslims)”.

Then we all stood up in orderly rows, turned towards Mecca and followed the imam as he led us in the ritual prayer that is obligatory for all Muslims.

As I left, I knew I would not be returning to that mosque again.

http://www.torontosun.com/2015/01/13/muslims-shouldnt-pray-to-defeat-non-muslims

Some Muslims regard any depiction — even positive ones — of their prophet as blasphemous. The two gunmen who killed 12 people at the magazine's offices last Wednesday claimed they had "avenged the Prophet Mohammed" as they left the scene.

The new issue, which will be released Wednesday, will also contain other images of Prophet Muhammad.

"We will not give in," Richard Malka, the magazine's lawyer, told France Info radio about the plan to print the cartoons. "The spirit of 'I am Charlie' means the right to blaspheme."

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/01/12/376773822/charlie-hebdos-next-issue-will-feature-prophet-muhammad-cartoons

Je Suis Charlie

The Islamic goat fuckers that assassinated employees of Charlie Hebdo are the best signal we westerners will ever get about the war we are in. We are being led to destruction by liberals and progressives that have neither the brains nor the courage to realize that we are in the latest phase of the war on the rest of the world declared by the child molester (9 year old bride Aisha), Mohamed. He was a bloodthirsty soldier who enjoyed killing non Muslims. He is the basis for Islam, the same group that keeps calling themselves peaceful while their members continue to slaughter non Muslims every day around the world.

It doesn't matter how many peaceful Muslims there are in this world. The only ones that matter are the human garbage, defective-DNA Muslim animals that are attacking us.

So here you go, Islam. I have every right to criticize you and mock the child molesting pervert that founded the inherently violent, stone age cult called Islam.

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JE SUIS CHARLIE