Has The Gadfather Got Religion?

This blogs favourite life time dictator and African "Big Man", Col Muammar Gaddafi aka "The Gadfather" was in Rome (again) with his female body guards for a UN food conference. He then asked for 500 'beautiful Italian girls' to be supplied for a gala evening. He also requested that they 'were aged between 18 and 35 years old, did not wear mini skirts or plunging necklines' - but high heels 'were OK'

The girls, a mixture of 'blondes, brunettes and black-haired beauties', were dressed in heels and three-quarter length coats in the Roman winter (like a British summer, but warmer) were taken to the Libyan Ambassador's residence in the city. Some were turned away after being told they were inappropriately dressed ... or they were too short.

Disgruntled Roman Party Girls Leaving The Party

So far the story is typical Gadaffi but, and I can hardly credit this bit, he then proceeded to try to convert them to Islam! Yes, according to many reports (so I have to believe it), he lectured the girls on the superiority of Islam and said they should all convert.

He also gave a talk on the Koran and gave all the girls a copy as a gift, as well as a signed version of his 1975 (when he wasn't so 'Islamic') Green Book on democracy and political philosophy.

Actually, now I think on it, this is typical "Gadfather" ....... keep on truckin Muammar

African Big Man Architecture

Remember the copy of the St Peters Basilica that African President (aka Life Dictator) Felix Houphouet-Boigny had built (at a cost of $300m) in the Ivory Coast capital of Yamousoukro?

(Actually the Basilica of Our Lady of Peace Church isn't a 'copy' of the St Peters, but is very similar and actually the worlds biggest Church)

Here's the real one

Well not to be out done in the self aggrandisement stakes, Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade has started a gigantic, multi-million dollar bronze statue named "African Renaissance".

When it is finished, the statue will be taller than New York's Statue of Liberty (or the Eiffel Tower in Paris, depending upon the version of the story).

However, what makes this just a little bit more than just another bad governance African 'big man' story are the sub plots ......

Firstly, this statue is meant to represent African 'self reliance' but at a price of $27m (£17m) it is being made by North Koreans.

Secondly, the financial demands of the president are that "The land is state property and the fees to build the statue have been paid by the state... but I am the designer, the one who conceived it," said President Wade. "So we should see how we share the benefits. The state will go with 65% and l shall take 35% for myself."

Whoever said Africa was governable?

UN Irony? Egyptian Infamy

Proving once again that Muslims and the UN don't do irony, Egypt, the land of the imprisoned blogger and non bastion of free speech has got its own Internet domain name, which was announced at a UN sponsored the OpenNet Initiative (ONI) during a session at the Internet Governance Forum held in Egypt.

Tarek Kamel said the new domain name would be ".masr" written in the Arabic alphabet. It translates as ".Egypt". "It is a great moment for us... The Internet now speaks Arabic," Mr Kamel said.

Just so long as they don't criticise a mullah or the President, or well anyone in power, like Abdel Kareem Soliman the Egyptian blogger who languishes in jail.

At the forum, the UN Security teams demanded that a free speech poster be torn down (as I said, they don't do irony) ....

because the Chinese objected too it mentioning the "Great Firewall Of China"

"If we are not allowed to discuss topics such as Internet censorship, surveillance and privacy at a forum on Internet governance, then what is the point of the IGF?" Ron Deibert, co-founder of the OpenNet Initiative told reporters.

The freedoms of the net are not entrenched in most of the world.

Free Kareem! Free the Web

Another Day, Another Stoning

Once again the Mullahs have shown the world what "Sharia" really means, with reports that a 20-year-old woman divorcee who was convicted of committing adultery in Somalia, has been stoned to death by Islamists in front of a crowd of about 200 people. We have to assume that the Koranic required 'four witnesses' were found (or is that only when a woman's raped?).

It is totally beyond me how any rational people can continue to defend this 'religion' ...... its backward looking and beyond the norms of the civilised world. Oh, the 'boyfriend'? He was given a public flogging, but wasn't killed. This is the fourth reported stoning in Somalia this year (and to be fair it has included a man, and the pregnant woman has been spared the stoning until after she gives birth).

We move ever closer to this being accepted as of equal cultural value to western liberal values.

Arabs Yearn To Get To West

On this blog we have discussed before the hypocrisy of Arabs chanting for the deaths of Americans and Britons, while at the same time queuing for visa's to get into Europe or America. They see no irony in claiming that Islam is perfect while trying to move to "Crusader lands" because there's more freedom, opportunity etc etc

Of course all might not have been too bad if they actually appreciated the freedoms, opportunities etc etc, and supported the pluralistic, tolerant democracies that granted them this chance to escape the Islamic world, but no, as soon as they get here and find that they actually have to start at the bottom and work, they start marching on the streets and chanting "Death to America, and Death to Britain" again.

Given long enough, they could easily turn Europe into the same state as the Islamic world, where people yearn for freedom and opportunity, but there will be nowhere free left.

In this video from Fort Lauderdale in the US, an 'american' Arab Girl shouts out "You need a Big Oven!" to a Jewish group ..... is this what we want for our streets?

Africans Demand Slavery Apology From Africans

Yes, for the first time since the first begging bowl was shook in western faces fifty years ago, the Africans are finally looking at each other and asking the question "What was your great grand daddy's role in slavery?"

The answer is of course very uncomfortable for those tribes where they were the slavers, or those where their own rulers sold them into slavery. It's one of those black myths, that it was only the whites who were the slavers, and that slavery was only carried out on blacks by non-blacks, or even that it never happened before it happened to them.

I have posted before on the fallacy of these beliefs, and the role that PC idiots have in propagating them. So its good to finally see Africans facing up to the reality of what really went on.

I will take this chance to point out again that "Whites enslaved other whites in Europe for centuries before the first black was brought to the Western hemisphere. Asians enslaved Europeans. Asians enslaved other Asians. Africans enslaved other Africans, and indeed even today in North Africa, blacks continue to enslave blacks".- Thomas Sowell, a black sociologist, author and columnist