The Bear Goes Walkabout

National Review / Steyn Online ^ | 12/18/06 | Mark Steyn

[dennisw]

Lots of well read posters at JihadWatch. They can type and post ten paragraphs within a few minutes. Hugh can do twenty

[XR7]

Scary.
They'll control the Ruskie nukes.

[Pyro7480]

Fatima is a name of a town in Portugal. As you probably figured, it's name after the daughter of the False Prophet.

[neverdem]

thanks, bfl

[Mind-numbed Robot]

The Communists, no matter the name they use, and the Islamists are together seeking the destruction of the West in their move toward world domination. The USA is their primary obstacle. However, each seeks domination and cannot tolerate the existence of the other once we are gone.

Each uses stealth, the Communist by disguising their intent and quietly infiltrating and destroying our cultural standards; The Islamist by quietly becoming baby factories to build a majority to use votes to get what they want. (The Democrats support illegal immigration for the same reason.)

Either way, they know they cannot defeat us militarily so they infiltrate and subvert us from within.

I don't understand why the Communists support the Islamists. Surely they know this. I suppose they intend to use their superior fire power and brutality to annihilate them as they have always done once they gain power and control.

We are civilizations last best hope and we must destroy them her at home , legally of course, and return to our roots. The rest we can handle.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Dajjal.

[Fred Nerks]

thanks for the pings.

Here's another angle from Leonid Ragozin
bbcrussian.com, Moscow

excerpt -

The country's Muslim community makes up more than 10% of the total population. Demographers predict that by 2020 one out of five Russians will be Muslim. But the question is: How Muslim will they be?

The end of communism found many Muslims dispersed among the non-Muslim population and living a lifestyle nearly indistinguishable from their fellow citizens of Russia. In the 1990s, millions of them turned back to their roots, but many soon grew disappointed with mainstream Islam and called for reforms...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4341648.stm

[RusIvan]

On his deathbed, the former KGB agent ==

FYI Litvinenko was never KGB agent no spy. Latter job requires the high intellect and education. Litvinenko didn't have both.
He once was the FSB operative for few years the high crimes department. Before that he was the officer of Warden service who guarded the prisoners in former Gulag. So you see.

[Berosus]

1,020 years ago, the Russian leader, Grand Prince Vladimir I, was looking for a modern religion, and eventually chose Orthodox Christianity. He turned down Islam because it would have meant giving up drinking: "Drinking is the joy of the Rus. We cannot exist without that pleasure." Oh, how the country has changed, if Russia is likely to become Moslem now (by demographics, if not by wholesale conversion).

[MadIvan]

In 1552, Tsar Ivan IV, sacked the city of Kazan and forced its inhabitants to convert to Christianity. You can hook a turbine to his corpse now, and generate enough electricity to power Smolensk, I think.

Regards, Ivan

[Capt. Tom]

As I always say, there is no “stability”. We thought we’d “contained” Soviet Communism. Instead, the social pathologies that took hold during the Russian people’s half-century of “containment” will have profound consequences for us and the rest of the world long after the last Commie is dead and buried.

An example of "Today's solution is tomorrow's problem." - tom

[dennisw]

Fatima is a name of a town in Portugal. As you probably figured, it's name after the daughter of the False Prophet.

And Fatima was married to Ali who was assassinated. Same as 3 of the 4 Caliphs after Muhammad were. Ali is who the Shiites revere. Their Ali was cheated out of his chance to rule the Muslim empire of that time. This when the Sunni Shiite split took place

[Tailgunner Joe]

There are ten million people in Moscow. Do you know how many of them are Muslim? Two and a half million. Or about a quarter of the population.

The ratio of muslims is about the same for the country as a whole. Russia is estimated to be home to approximate 25 million muslims. That is why Putin says things like, "Russia has always been Islam's best friend."

[Amsam]

PLEASE..IT HAS NEVER BEEN IMPORTANT THAT FATIMA happens to be a name of a female. MARIAN APPEARANCES AND MIRACLES AND PROPHESY THAT WE SEE COMING TRUE ARE THE TRUE GOLD HERE

[Amsam]

ODD that SHE showed and we do not listen. ODD THAT ..HUMANITY