Was there nothing more amusing in the world that had greater consequence? How about this by way of Brussels Journal: In the UK they are rebuilding toilets in jails so Muslim inmates can use them without facing Mecca (2).

Why can't they sit sideways? I am normally in favor of making prisoners' lives tolerable and humane (I will have to blog why in a future post). But let me explain why this should not be accommodated: they don't do it in their homes. How many UK landlords have been asked to rearrange the toilets in Muslim neighborhood apartment buildings? What do Muslims do when they visit hotels all over the world - remain constipated? No, they sit sideways if that is really an issue.

As a bit of trivia: Religious Jews are instructed to bring books about anything except religion into the toilet for reading. This is to prevent one from thinking about God or religious matters while defecating. They take in books on Mathematics, Physics, Astronomy, Linguistics, foreign languages, etc. Because we Jews spend so much time in the toilet, perhaps this is the reason that we outnumber all others in Nobel Prizes (3).

And since Muslims can't sit in the crapper correctly, I suggest they stop worrying about where Mecca is and follow the Jewish mode of learning so that Muslims can start to contribute something to modern civilization.

But back to lefty myopia:

The MSM and riots of Bushbashing sites were all over the place back on April 25, 2005 when The Iraq Survey Group published its final report of 1,000 pages including 92 pages of addenda that tied up loose ends on Syria and other topics.

The gist seemed to conclude that they have found no evidence that such material was moved to Syria for safekeeping before the war. However, it should be noted that although Syria helped Iraq evade U.N.-imposed sanctions by shipping military and other products across its borders, the investigators "found no senior policy, program, or intelligence officials who admitted any direct knowledge of such movement of WMD." Because of the insular nature of Saddam Hussein's government, however, the investigators were "unable to rule out unofficial movement of limited WMD-related materials."

All the lefties were shouting, "BUSH LIED! bwhahaaahaaahaaa". But until three months ago the ISG was unable to rule out WMD’s being sent to Syria. In January 2006 we have:

Iraqi general, Georges Sada, makes the charges in a new book, "Saddam's Secrets," that those Weapons of Mass Destruction YES existed, and that they were taken out of Iraq to Syria in two airplane shipments (he details, the plans used etc.,) and also in one land shipment (in semi trucks).

The man who served as the no. 2 official in Saddam Hussein's air force says Iraq moved weapons of mass destruction into Syria before the war by loading the weapons into civilian aircraft in which the passenger seats were removed. He detailed the transfers in an interview with The New York Sun. "There are weapons of mass destruction gone out from Iraq to Syria, and they must be found and returned to safe hands," Mr. Sada said. "I am confident they were taken over." Mr. Sada's comments come just more than a month after Israel's top general during Operation Iraqi Freedom, Moshe Yaalon, told the Sun that Saddam "transferred the chemical agents from Iraq to Syria."

• Last March, John A. Shaw, a former U.S. deputy undersecretary of defense for international technology security, said Russian Spetsnaz units moved WMD to Syria and Lebanon's Bekaa Valley.
  "While in Iraq I received information from several sources naming the exact Russian units, what they took, and where they took both WMD materials and conventional explosives," Mr. Shaw told NewsMax reporter Charles Smith.
• Retired Marine Lt. Gen. Michael DeLong was deputy commander of Central Command during Operation Iraqi Freedom. In September, 2004, he told WABC radio that "I do know for a fact that some of those weapons went into Syria, Lebanon, and Iran."
• In January, 2004, David Kay, the first head of the Iraq Survey Group, which conducted the search for Saddam's WMD, told a British newspaper there was evidence unspecified materials had been moved to Syria from Iraq shortly before the war.
  In an addendum to his final report last April, Charles Duelfer, who succeeded David Kay as head of the Iraq Survey Group, said he couldn't rule out a transfer of WMD from Iraq to Syria.
  "There was evidence of a discussion of possible WMD collaboration initiated by a Syrian security officer, and ISG received information about movement of material out of Iraq, including the possibility that WMD was involved. In the judgment of the working group, these reports were sufficiently credible to merit further investigation," Mr. Duelfer said.
• In a briefing for reporters in October, 2003, retired Air Force Lt. Gen. James Clapper, Jr., who was head of the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency when the Iraq war began, said satellite imagery showed a heavy flow of traffic from Iraq into Syria just before the American invasion.

I must have missed it when The MSM and riots of Bushbashing sites confessed, "Mea Culpa - our bad". At the minimum there should have been a "perhaps we were a bit hasty in concluding that there were absoluteley no WMDs."

We are approaching a World War against Islam, but our media are worried about hunting accidents, political trites and general camel dung.

ENDNOTES

(1):

NewsBusters, Ginsburg Falls Asleep: Media Pretend Not to Notice

Not one of the three broadcast evening news programs sought fit to mention Ginsburg's nap, although both NBC Nightly News and the CBS Evening News covered the hearing.

But pretend for a moment that this had happened to a conservative member of the Supreme Court. Let's say Thomas, Alito or Roberts took an unscheduled rest during a hearing. Think that would have been a story? After all, Clarence Thomas is criticized for not talking enough and Scalia is attacked for tennis related issues.

(2):

The Sun, 20 Apr 2006, Jail loos turned from East

Thousands of pounds of taxpayers money are being spent to ensure lags are not offended.

The Islamic religion prohibits Muslims from facing or turning their backs on the Kiblah ? the direction of prayer ? when they visit the lav.

Muslim lags claimed they have had to sit sideways on prison WCs.

But after pressure from faith leaders the Home Office has agreed to turn the existing toilets 90 degrees at HMP Brixton in London.

The Home Office refused to reveal the cost of the new facilities ? part of an “on-going refurbishment”.

One Muslim former inmate said: “The least the Prison Service can do is make sure people can practise their religion correctly in prison.”

But a Brixton jail officer said: “If they didn’t get locked up for committing crime they would not have this problem. Yet we have to sort out their loos. If we weren’t paying for it as taxpayers I’d laugh my socks off.”

Around a quarter of prisoners at the Category B jail are Muslims.

(3):

Planck's Constant, Muslim Inventions - Nobel Prizes

So three Muslims won the Nobel Prize in Science and literature. Out of 1.2-1.5 billion Muslims.

...

JEWISH NOBEL WINNERS

0.2% OF WORLD'S POPULATION (16-19 Million Jews)

Total 169 (I am not counting Peace Prize winners)

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