Foehammer’s Anvil

15 Responses to “From the ashes...”

1. 1 Always On Watch  |  
     
   Feb 23rd, 2008 at 5:45 am

   Glad to see you back!

2. 2 Foehammer  |  
     
   Feb 23rd, 2008 at 12:16 pm

   Thanks, Always.

3. 3 Mosmomzazionstho  |  
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   Feb 23rd, 2008 at 1:20 pm

   Great to see you back!

   Your presence brings me a sense of relief because when you are up and running, I know that the 1st Amendment is alive and well.

   Scary thing, in our little out of the way central PA town here, I saw last night two or three Muslims in our local Blockbuster. They were very well dressed. The young woman quite obviously pregnant wore a very nice hijab or head scarf. Her male companion wore nothing that bespoke Islam other than a beard. What is scary that they looked and spoke just like any other middle class white American from the burbs.

   My conclusion is that this garbage is everywhere ensnaring one and with its tentacles.

   Rage against the Islam because it represents the dying of the light.

4. 4 Foehammer  |  
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   Feb 23rd, 2008 at 1:46 pm

   Well, it might interest you to know that I plan on driving the Anvil into a direction slightly different from previous years. I will be tackling not just Islam, but ANY enemies of the one item that most of us should be concerned with first and foremost: the U.S. Constitution.

   I now view those that refuse to protect our borders, the CFR, the NAU and Muslims all versions of the same type of threat. There are undoubtedly many other enemies that will enjoy similar examination as 2008 unfolds…

5. 5 Sounder  |  
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   Feb 23rd, 2008 at 3:57 pm

   Way to go Foehammer!

6. 6 Patricia  |  
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   Feb 23rd, 2008 at 5:21 pm

   Thank goodness you are back! And ditto Mosmomz!
   Gee have I been missing you, I am thrilled to see you up and running, strong and determined as ever! Let’s roll!

7. 7 1389  |  
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   Feb 23rd, 2008 at 9:38 pm

   Yaaaayyy! Foehammer is back!

8. 8 Foehammer  |  
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   Feb 23rd, 2008 at 11:26 pm

   Thank you all very much. This time around, I suppose Anvil 2.5, I plan to optimize this site to take advantage of the superior hosting/server. I can promise you that you will never see a repeat of what transpired over the course of the past 6 months of decline.

   I now have the much needed room to expand my readership to previously impossible levels and there should be far better performance by this blog for all even as those numbers increase.

   It’s also time to retake my blog ranks — a guy has a certain reputation to uphold.

   The plan (from New Year’s Eve) to not blog as often, still is in place, but I will make sure that when I do update the Anvil that it is always worth reading. Best of all, my time can now be devoted to actually blogging and podcasting and not fighting my hosting company!

   Who’d have thunk?

9. 9 heroyalwhyness  |  
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   Feb 23rd, 2008 at 11:47 pm

   . Good to see the site is back up! Missed ya!

   BTW . . . a really good video is up on Google ==>

   Islam: What the West Needs to Know
   FULL LENGTH ENGLISH VERSION
   Quixotic Media
   1 hr 38 min 41 sec

   Main IdeaVirtually every major Western leader has over the past several years expressed the view that Islam is a peaceful religion and that those who commit violence in its name are fanatics who misinterpret its tenets. This claim, while widely circulated, rarely attracts serious public examination. Relying primarily on Islam’s own sources, this documentary demonstrates that Islam is a violent, expansionary ideology that seeks the destruction or subjugation of other faiths, cultures, and systems of government.

   Content
   The documentary consists of original interviews, citations from Islamic texts, Islamic artwork, computer-animated maps, footage of Western leaders, and Islamic television broadcasts. Its tone is sober, methodical, and compelling.
   Featuring noted scholars:

   Robert Spencer
   JihadWatch.org
   The Truth About Muhammad

   Walid Shoebat
   Why I Left Jihad

   Bat Ye’or
   The Decline of Eastern
   Christianity Under Islam

   Serge Trifkovic
   The Sword of the Prophet

   Abdullah Al-Araby
   The Pen vs. Sword Publications

   Outline of the Documentary
   Introduction
   We hear from prominent Western leaders that Islam is peaceful and that those who commit violence in its name are heterodox fanatics.

   Part 1: ‘There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is his Prophet’Our interviewees affirm their belief that Islamic violence is entirely orthodox behavior for Muslims and stems directly from the teachings and example of the Prophet Muhammad and the commands of the Koran. We learn that the example of Muhammad is one of a violent warlord who killed numerous people. The Koran – the verbatim words of Allah – prescribes violence against non-Muslims and Muhammad is the perfect example of the Koran in action.

   Part 2: The StruggleWe learn that jihad, while literally meaning ’struggle’, in fact denotes war fought against non-Muslims in order to bring the rule of Islamic law to the world. Violent death in jihad is, according to the Koran, the only assurance of salvation. One of our interviewees tells of his personal involvement in terrorism and his leaving Islam.

   Part 3: ExpansionFollowing the death of Muhammad, his ‘rightly-guided’ successors carried his wars to three continents, fighting, enslaving, and massacring countless Christians, Jews, Zoroastrians, Hindus, and others. Islam did not spread through evangelism or through its natural appeal, but through aggressive wars of conquest. The Crusades were largely a belated response on the part of Christian Europe to rescue Christians in the Holy Land suffering under Muslim oppression. The Muslim world today, while no longer the unified empire of the Caliphs, is exceptional for being responsible for the vast majority of conflicts around the world and for almost all of international terrorism.

   Part 4: ‘War is Deceit’A great problem with Western efforts to understand Islam is due to the Islamic principle of ‘religious deception’, which enjoins Muslims to deceive non-Muslims in order to advance the cause of Islam. Muslim groups today in the West employ deception and omission to give the impression that ‘Islam is a religion of peace’, an utter fiction.

   Part 5: More than a ReligionThe most important characteristic of Islam not understood by the West is that it is more a system of government than a personal religion. Throughout its history, Islam has never recognized a distinction between the religious and the secular/political. Islamic law governs every aspect of religious, political, and personal action, which amounts to a form of totalitarianism that is divinely enjoined to dominate the world, analogous in many ways to Communism.

   Part 6: The House of WarIslamic theology divides the world into two spheres locked in perpetual combat, dar al-Islam (House of Islam - where Islamic law predominates), and dar al-harb (House of War - the rest of the world). It is incumbent on dar al-Islam to fight and conquer dar al-harb and permanently assimilate it. Muslims in Western nations are called to subvert the secular regimes in which they now live in accordance with Allah’s command. Due to political correctness and general government and media irresponsibility, the danger posed by observant Muslims in the West remains largely unappreciated.

10. 10 Always On Watch  |  
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    Feb 23rd, 2008 at 11:49 pm

    Your plans as delineated here in the comments section sound excellent.

    Looking forward to reading you again on a regular basis!

11. 11 Always On Watch  |  
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    Feb 25th, 2008 at 6:55 am

    Heroaylwhyness,
    Shoebat’s second book, Why We Want to Kill You, is even better than his first one.

    On March 14, Mr. Shoebat is scheduled to be interviewed on The Gathering Storm Radio Show, which I cohost every Friday. We plan to discuss with him his second book and the controversy now surrounding his “credentials.” Not that I buy the attacks on his character and veracity. I don’t!

    The film Islam: What the West Needs to Know is a must see! I’ve actually shown excerpts from the film to history classes.

    I also believe that Quixotic Media is planning a second film. Watch for it!

12. 12 Nikita  |  
      
    Feb 26th, 2008 at 1:24 am

    Welcome back Foehammer. The light of the First Amendment was shining a little less brightly in your absence. Glad you are up and kicking again.

13. 13 Foehammer  |  
      
    Feb 26th, 2008 at 9:21 pm

    That Shoebat interview should be very interesting. Walid has tremendous insights into the Islamist enemy.

    And thanks, Nikita.

14. 14 Athos  |  
      
    Feb 28th, 2008 at 7:29 pm

    Bravo and well done. Saw you cited at Infidel Bloggers and quickly checked — hoorah.

15. 15 Always On Watch  |  
      
    Feb 29th, 2008 at 10:00 am

    Athos,
    My way of getting the word out that Foehammer is back!

    I crossposted that same article at my site and at THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS.

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