No Dhimmitude: Ann Barhardt Speaks, then Burns Bacon-laced Qur'an

Wednesday, April 06, 2011

Ann Barhardt Speaks, then Burns Bacon-laced Qur'an

This just keeps getting better. First watch the videos and then read about Ann Barnhardt and her story.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qeyrp-V3Jvc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riSJcZC89Hc

Burn a Qur'an Day, Fourth of July.

More:

Roger Kimball writes this, excerpted, at Pajamas Media:

A recap: When publicized and condemned by Afghan President Hamid Karzai and officials in Pakistan last week, Jones’s bonfire provided the occasion for the deadly riots in Afghanistan that (so far) have left a dozen people dead, including UN and NATO personnel. The instant response from the liberal establishment was condemnation — not of the rioters who were, as is their wont, murdering for Allah, but of Terry Jones. As I noted in this space Monday, Islamophiliacs from Time’s Joe Klein to Senators Harry Reid and Lindsey Graham blamed Jones for the rampage. Even General David Petraeus condemned the Koran burning as “hateful, intolerant, extremely disrespectful.” On Face the Nation, Lindsey Graham said:
I wish we could find some way to hold people accountable. Free speech is a great idea, but we’re in a war. During World War II you had limits on what you could do if it inspired the enemy. Any time we can push back here in American against actions like this that put our troops at risk, we ought to do it.
Sobering, isn’t it, to realize how quickly folks entrusted with upholding the Constitution are willing to dispense with its protections? I was moderately tart about these latest exhibitions of what I called “preemptive capitulation.” But my response was a veritable valentine compared with Ms. Barnhardt’s eloquent demolition. There are some theatrics in her presentation. She repeatedly calls Graham a “jackass” — a “stupid, stupid jackass” on one occasion. In part two, she reads various passages from the Koran — those memorable bijoux that advocate the murder of Jews, infidels, and apostates, the rape of women prisoners, pedophilia, and beating of insufficiently submissive wives, etc. — and then rips out the offending pages and burns them in a glass fire-bowl. Crowning detail: she has bookmarked the passages with rashers of uncooked bacon. (“Raw bacon,” she explains, “makes the best Koranic bookmark.”)

Ms. Barnhardt describes the reading and burning of the Koran as “the main event.” It is a riveting performance, her declamation and analysis of all those goads to violence and mayhem, followed by the the incineration, one leaf after the next, of the dozen or so pages she chose: “Evil, evil garbage, in it goes and up in flames!”

The whole of Kimball's essay here. Videos included at the bottom of his text.

http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2011/04/06/ann-barnhardt-culture-hero/?singlepage=true

Diana West is here:

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.9174/pub_detail.asp

Here's a bit of Ann Barnhardt herself in conversation:

iOTW- What do you think of General Petreus and his assertion that inciting Islam puts our soldiers in harm's way?

Ann - I have an offer for General Petreus. I'll GIVE him one of my balls. Then I'd still have two, and he would have one. He is a politicking coward who cares only about his pension and cashing in on his rank after he retires. The suicidal, defeatist Rules of Engagement he oversees are the unequivocal proof of that. He should resign in disgrace - yesterday, and then present himself to each and every family of our war dead and BEG their forgiveness for failing in his duty as their son or daughter's commanding officer.