Rehmat returns (again)!
September 2, 2008
I had noticed that the rather pompously-named Rehmatpedia
, the blog of Hezbollah supporter (and Pickering, Ontario nuclear power plant worker) Shaukat Khawja, had fallen silent in recent weeks.
It turns out that Shaukat has moved to a new blog (Rehmat’s World), and that he’s been posting there on a fairly regular basis since August 7th of this year.
Welcome back, Shaukat! We missed you and your Jew hatery!
For reference, O Reader, this is the second major move for the blogger who calls himself Rehmat (Arabic: “mercy”). He was at IslamUnity.com earlier this year, before GoDaddy shut that domain down. He then moved to IslamUnity.net, which is still active, but appears to have since moved on again.
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Hezbollah “hero” praises Israel
July 22, 2008
Weird, I know, but there it is.
Consider, for a moment, one of the celebrities the Israelis turned over. Sumil Kuntar murdered an Israeli family including a little girl in a terror operation at Nahariya in 1979. The details are horrific, and I won’t revisit them.
On Thursday, this man told Hezbollah’s al-Manar TV network, “To tell you the truth, we envy our enemies — the way they care for a body and will go to the end of the world in order to get it back.” He added that, reading in jail, he had come to feel, by comparison, the “disregard for human beings’ value in Arab countries,” mentioning specifically Egypt’s indifferent attitude towards its own soldiers, missing in action.
I intended the paradoxical conclusion, which I invite my reader to puzzle over. Here is one terrorist who may possibly have benefited from taking stock in jail, and has at least shown a particle of real courage in mentioning something that he learned. All of Lebanon may have gone to hell, yet this one man could be worth saving.
Israel made a bad deal in releasing these five murderers back to Hezbollah, but it is perhaps hopeful to see at least one of them recognizing that his captors not only are reasonable, decent human beings, but that his own Arab and Islamic compatriots do not value human life, nor human dignity, in anywhere near the same fashion that the people of Israel do.
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Shaukat responds!
July 22, 2008
As predicted*, Pickering, Ontario nuclear power plant worker Shaukat Khawja has responded to my post from yesterday by calling me a Zionist. Dude’s gotta get some new material…
…anyhow, since it seems that Shaukat is the only one who ever really comments on his blog (there was a Jewish guy who posted a few comments here and there, but I haven’t seen any new material from him and can only assume that he’s packed up and moved on rather than attempting to sort through the lies and stupidity — Shaukat’s death threat against him also stands out as a possible reason for the departure), his follow-on commentary concerning what I said yesterday appeared in a comment on his site. Dude must feel lonely and unloved or something…is there any other reason to be your own sole commentator?
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Anyhow, this post is certified non-halal, as it is accompanied by a byline picture of pork chops. With that in mind, let’s see what Shaukat has to say, shall we?
The other day I received another comment from Kenneth, the Zionist scum at Time Immortal — whining about my post pointing toward the real thugs behind 9/11 — and his great ignorance about Hizb’Allah — the fool doesn’t know that Israel, the US and Canada are the only three countries in the entire world, which have labeled Hizb’Allah a terrorist organization under Jewish Lobby’s pressure.
Now, the Reader may recall that my comment was specifically that Hezbollah is considered to be a terrorist organization in…Canada. I wasn’t commenting on anywhere else in the world because, well, I wasn’t talking about anywhere else in the world. And to be perfectly frank, I don’t care what any other government in the world thinks at the moment — I live in Canada, and Canada is a country which considers Hezbollah to be a terrorist organization. End of story.
Also, Shaukat really needs to learn a thing or three about the Wordpress blogging platform. As it is, I didn’t leave a comment on his site, but by linking to Rehmatpedia I probably did generate either a trackback or pingback, which is what Shaukat would have seen arrive. These look like comments from an administrative perspective, but are quite different animals indeed.
However, I was surprised Ken did not attach his usual porn link.
Immature playground mentalities aside, does it sound to anyone else as though Shaukat is disappointed by the absence of porn in correspondence directed to him?
Here is a news item for the fool – in which 500 Canadian has questioned the US ‘official story’ of 9/11.
And here, in turn, is news for Shaukat: 500 Canadians is approximately 0.0015% of the country’s population. Quite frankly, I don’t care one iota what 500 Canadians think — I’m sure one can easily find 500 Canadians who believe that they have personally been anal-probed by aliens. I’m sure one can easily find 500 Canadians who believe that Winston Churchill was a myth. I’m even sure that one can easily find 500 Canadians who think that honour killing is a legitimate form of discipline for errant daughters.
The point is, the consensus of a few — or even a few hundred — people does not a truth make; there are many people in the world who will gladly, for one deluded reason or another, buy into even the most absurd of conspiracy theories.
Some of them, as Shaukat points out, are even in government:
New Democratic Party Deputy House Leader Libby Davies delivers a Parliamentary Petition signed by over 500 Canadians demanding a new 9/11 investigation, in Canada’s House of Commons during Routine Proceedings at 1:10 pm on June 10, 2008.
“We, the undersigned citizens of Canada draw the attention of the House to the following:
THAT, scientific and eyewitness evidence shows that the 9/11 Commission Report is a fraudulent document and that those behind the report are consciously or unconsciously guilty of covering up what happened on 9/11/2001. This evidence overwhelmingly supports the conclusion that World Trade Center Towers 1, 2 and 7 were brought down by demolition explosives and that the official theory of the towers collapsing from the airplanes and the ensuing fires is irrefutably false.
We further believe that elements within the US government were complicit in the murder of thousands of people on 9/11/2001. This event brought Canada into the so-called “War on Terror,” it changed our domestic and foreign policies for the worse, and it will continue to have negative consequences for us all if we refuse to look at the facts.
THEREFORE, your petitioners call upon Parliament to:
(1) Immediately launch its own investigation into the events of 9/11/2001 on behalf of the 24 Canadian citizens murdered in New York City.
(2) Act lawfully on the findings of its own investigation by helping to pursue the guilty parties in the international courts.”
So what does this prove, exactly, apart from the fact that a few people in Canada’s opposition parties might just be conspiracy nutters and “Troofers”? Well…it proves nothing, really. The various 9/11 conspiracies, especially those surrounding the WTC 7 tower, have been debunked — only madmen — or those who will embrace any convenient lie in pursuit of a strictly pacifist agenda — need cling to them.
And Shaukat — being a fan of Hezbollah — doesn’t strike me as a pacifist.
Sleep tight, Pickering. Your nuclear power plant is in good hands.
Interestingly, I notice that Shaukat goes after me on the basis of my comments about Hezbollah and September 11th conspiracy nonsence. But there was a third component to my posting, which was to call out as bunk his comments that Islam was somehow fair to women, that women under Islam somehow enjoyed higher standards of equality than in the West. Strangely, Shaukat has let this point stand uncontested.
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* My prediction was more of a question, to be fair — I wondered how long it would be before Shaukat called me a Zionist again (implication: he was going to call me a Zionist again). The answer, as it turns out, is “about fourteen hours” (assuming that Shaukat’s blog’s timestamps reflect the time-zone difference between Pickering and Edmonton)
More Rehmatpedia goodness!
July 21, 2008
You know, I thought that Hezbollah was classified as a terrorist organization in Canada — is it really such a good thing than an open supporter of said terrorist organization works at a nuclear power generation facility in Pickering, Ontario?
That’s right, ladies and gents: Shaukat Khawja is up to his usual tricks.
Let’s review, shall we?
First, he claims that the September 11th attacks were the work of…Israel! Yes, those evil Joooooos were really behind the towers coming down. Because we all know that choice quotes from less-than-sympathetic Israeli politicians remarking that the attacks would be beneficial to U.S./Israel relations positively proves that the Mossad were behind it all. No Muslims were killed in the making of this terrorist attack!
Next, he sings the praises of Hezbollah and celebrates their latest “victory” over Israel. Remember — this guy works at a nuclear power plant. Sleep tight, Pickering!
For a third entry, he pens an article celebrating the “gender equality” that Islam offers. That would probably come as news to this 10-year old girl whose husband was ordered by a court to wait until she is 15 before he propositions her for sex, to these eight women condemned to death by stoning for the crime of adultery (where are the men?), to the young woman whose brother killed her for being a “bad Muslim girl”, and to the two Christian girls who were kidnapped, “forcibly converted” to Islam, and married off.
(Please note that these four examples are all newsbits from within the last five days.)
The most amusing part of Shaukat’s article on women is, I think, that he claims that Muhammad had only one wife — Khadija. So now Shaukat is lying to us.
I wonder how long it will be before Shaukat calls me a Talmudic Zionist Joooooo hacker again?
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Yes, yes, yes…everyone is ganging up on the Muslims
July 8, 2008
Shaukat Khawja seems not to realize that the regions depicted on the map at the head of this blog post all got along more or less peacefully for several centuries prior to the arrival of Islam on the scene, and that since then the parts of the map denoted in various shades of green have been hotbeds of instability, roughly in proportion to the depth of the green hue.
(The green countries are, of course, those with higher concentrations of Muslims in the national populations. Deeper hues mean higher concentrations.)
It’s an interesting study in pathos, reading Rehmatpedia. One would think that not a single Qassam rocket had ever been fired into Israel by Muslims, that the Mossad was somehow behind it all. One would also think that the leaders of Hezbollah were Nobel Peace Prize winners, the wisest of thinkers and men of truly peaceful intentions. And one might half expect to see The Protocols of the Elders of Zion cited as truthful scholarship (although, perhaps disappointingly, this has not yet happened).
Let’s all watch Canada’s new favourite raving Muslim/power-generation engineer rant and rave about how great Hezbollah is, shall we? It’s another pitch-perfect piece that fuses anti-Zionism paranoia with fears of Christian conspiracy, all the while praising Hezbollah as “Lebanon’s Islamic Resistance militia” and noting their commendable “religious dedication, discipline, military skills, large public support base, high morale, good communication and [supply of the] enemy’s military information.”
Yup, he’s a Canadian. Apparently.
Over at Ace of Spades, LauraW and Ace joined the group of folks who have wondered aloud at the strange connection between engineering as an educational discipline and the tendency to become embroiled in radicalism — Ace, in particular, wonders if it’s a “personality type” issue, assuming I read him correctly. And certainly, there has been something of an established trend that has been observed in the past that suggests that engineers are prime recruiting targets for the global jihad.
It’s not hard to see why terrorist groups would want to recruit engineers — backpack nukes and Qassam rockets work so much better when someone with solid, relevant technical know-how has been involved/instrumental in their creation and setup. What’s perhaps harder to see is why engineers would be as apt as they are to sign on with the radicals.
Ace might just be on to something when he notes:
I’m asking because the engineer’s mindset — and likely then the personality type most strongly attracted to the profession — is much concerned with streamlining, simplifying, cutting through bullshit, cutting down on wasteful steps, etc. And I wonder if then doesn’t result in a tendency towards rejection of Politics entirely as simply irrelevant to one’s day-to-day life or else a strong identification with one political faction due to identifying one of any key factors (freedom, security, what have you) as primary and discarding most others as secondary at best.
Certainly, the above describes most engineers I know, including most of the ones I went to school with. But there’s a bit of a problem can emerge in all the simplifying and cutting out. Oh, one expects (as things like Dilbert have reminded us ad nauseum) a certain degree of social isolation to accompany any foray into engineering as a discipline, and certainly most of the people I went to school with could easily be said to fall under the category of “social misfit” — a category I myself an easily a part of.
There was an incident I can think of related to one engineering student in particular who wound up being banned from the University of Alberta campus, in no small part because his life had basically been trimmed to the point where all he had was his engineering, to the point of having forgotten the rules of basic human interaction. Suffice to say, he was banned for stalking a few women (some of whom I know), and I suppose that his doing so shouldn’t have come as the surprise that it did: having cut out all other aspects of normal human-to-human interactive ability from his life, he really had no idea what the proper way to express interest in a member of the opposite sex was anymore.
I think the sort of excessive social isolation that can accompany an education heavy in numbers and equations (untempered by the occasional bold expedition into writing or art) is not particularly different from the sort of social isolation that the young, exciteable men of…say…Palestine feel. Many of the same tensions are present, in fact…especially sexual tension, which fanciful tales of an endless harem of virgins in Paradise appeals to only too easily, and often with deadly results.
It’s a two-fold problem, then. On one hand, terrorist groups in need of people with solid technical training and education, who have only martyrdom and the lure of virgins in Paradise to offer. On the other hand, socially isolated, shy, technically gifted (and highly trained) professionals who’ve spent too much time in their books and wouldn’t mind a little companionship, but who may have next to no idea how to go about finding a companion.
Hmmn…and people wonder why there’s a natural connection here?
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Reader Mail: Rehmat
April 4, 2008
BCF follows up on this article by commenting on misguided Muslim industrial/power-generation engineer Rehmat and noting the following:
You oughta see his chat forum:
Great googly-moogly! The forum referenced is an insane mix of 9/11 conspiracy theories, Jewish conspiracy theories, denials that what is happening in Darfur is genocide, America bashing, and Pope bashing. It’s going to take weeks to get the moonbat scent off of this shirt.
And one of the random news clips that rotate through the site header just told me that it is the duty of every Muslim “to support Hezbollah.” Boy, that makes me glad I’m Catholic!
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