Bill O'Reilly screamed his point of "View"

C'mon, Mr. Bill!  You had a valid point on the View last week, but you stooped to Whoopi's and Joy's level by yelling too.  I know Bernie Goldberg (no relation) said that you should have been more specific, but in my humble opinion you already had the big stick.  Mr. O'Reilly, you should have talked softly.

As do all leftist ideologues, Whoopi Goldberg pulled out what she considers a trump card - Timothy McVay.  Yes, he was a terrorist.  Yes, he used weapons of mass destruction to kill innocents on US soil.  Yes, he was a white supremacist nut job. 

See!  Whoopi's right!  There are radical extremists who are white!  But hold on, funny lady.  Although McVay and his heinous accomplices have hordes of fanatical followers across the country, they are merely a grain of sand on a beach covered with Islamic radicals AROUND THE WORLD. 

Yes, this view of Islam does inspire nut jobs and not job rulers alike, but the question really is, "Allah who?"  See, it is a religious war - and the perpetrators are Muslim.  And they have started recruiting in the US.  For government overthrow, like McVay?  Not exactly.  For racist hierarchy?  Kinda.  To convert the whole world to Islam, or suffer the brutal and bloody death of the infidel?  Bingo!  If Jewish "heathens" Daniel Pearl and Nick Berg could speak, they would so from experience.  Get the drift, Ms. Johnson (She took on Goldberg to cash in on the Jewish connection to comedy)?  It seems your trump card has shmutz all over it.

As your ancestors know, if you don't fight back - you're fucked.  And if you do fight back - the cowards among you will sell you out, and you're still fucked.  Your culture disappears, your religion disappears, and you're in a foreign land - assimilating... slowly and painfully.  This is what the radical Muslims want. 

The whole wide world is being sold out by cowards who hide behind a wall of political correctness, meanwhile, they laugh - oh how they laugh.  Google it some time.  It's only a matter of time for the rest of us.  Go ahead, Behar, go to Spain and tell them it wasn't Muslims who blew all those people up.  Go to Israel and tell them that the idiot who wants to wipe them off the map isn't a Muslim.  Go to the 23 countries that have lost 703 lives to the cries of "Allahu Akbar!" (last month alone) and tell the 5 religions targeted that it isn't a religious holy war.

Okay, now I'm just pissed.  It's as if Major Nidal Hassan never blew away his compatriots on US soil, or as if  Faisal Shahzad didn't set a bomb in Times Square!  Radical Islam is here already.  Honor killings and all.  How close does this shit have to hit before elitist Hollywood learns a lesson?  Until moderate Muslims show their disapproval?  Until American Mosques are not used as recruiting places. 

Global Islamic terror didn't start with 9/11, and it won't end with a Mosque in New York.  They want you dead, ladies.  You represent all they hate about the West.  Understand?  Women speaking publicly?  Showing contempt for men - and dressing like them too?  Oh, Joy, you are truly stupid.  Whoopi, I thought you were smarter.  Oh fucking well.

Reform - wha?

Don't get me wrong.  Sukkot is here and I'm as giddy as a yiddy, however, something is up my gartel in the worst way... REFORM!

I just heard that a "temple" rabbi told a friend of mine that a kosher kitchen was the last thing on his agenda.  Now, he wasn't talking about his kitchen at home, 'cause that's his own beeswax, but the synagogue one!

Sure, Reform Jews are lax on some things - like homosexual rabbi's when the Torah specifically says no buggering - but I digress.  Wouldn't a place of Jewish worship want to accommodate Jews?  A synagogue without a kosher kitchen?  Is this goy guy stoned?

They can bring in a truckload of Streitz and have nowhere to heat it up!  Oy fricken vey...

I know, some people like me obey kashrut to a certain degree.  I buy everything I can with a kosher seal on it, and everything else is veggies and fish.  No halachic slaughter houses 'round here.  Hey, rav, when you drive through Micky D's, you avoid meat and cheese even though it's not kosher, right?  No pork for you.  No shellfish.  So why be a slacker?  You run a fricken synagogue, do it right for G-d's sake!  Not a metaphor, my friends, not at all.

Chag sameach, invite those Holy Ushpizin, but don't feed 'em from a Reform kitchen.

Anthony Bourdain, Israel Hater... Damn it!

Who can travel the world over and over again and only eat Asian?  Anthony Bourdain of course!  That's really cool about this Travel Channel host, and I LOVE that about him!  I think he is witty, and though more than slightly self absorbed, even a bit charming.  Though, as I watched his Travel Channel show "No Reservations" (if Rolling Stone had a travel-food show), It became increasingly clear there was something missing.  Then, I became increasingly aware of the demographic mix of some of his favorite locations, and the places he avoided. 

For example, I watched as he did a walkabout in the smorgasbord that is the Five Burroughs, waiting for the blintzes... nope, it would seem that there are no more Jews in New York. 

This gave me an inkling I was a tad uncomfortable with - did he just think Jewish cooking was bland, greasy, and just plain yucky?  Or was it something more sinister... Well, he is a foodie. Who knows, possibly just not his cup of green tea.  I mean, he can't hate Jews... he has Jewish friends.  I bet some of his best friends are... oh Lord.  Wait for the click.  Shit.

With my suspicions no longer in check, I watched as No Reservations visited just about every Arab and Muslim country around the world, without ever setting foot in Israel.  Hmm.  What's wrong with Mediterranean and Israeli cuisine?  He's no stranger to chickpeas, right? 

Oh, and the sad day came... Bourdain in Beirut. 

Beirut, the Paris of the Middle East... until extremists took over.  A beautiful city that the world would blame Israel for destroying - forget that they were overrun with Hezbollah who practice pot shots from within innocents.  A once flourishing Christian majority country now awash with angry Muslims - now the majority.  Bourdain was there just in time to document the heinous war crimes of Israel's self defense.

It is true, my one time favorite show features a kafiah wearing, pork eating, vegan hating, anti-Israel asshole.  Crap!

Though the court of TV opinion isn't exactly out on this rarely discussed topic, I'm hoping to help it out a bit.  Why?  Because I believe he would LOVE the Tel Aviv nightlife, the fine dining, the cultural mix, the up country... well maybe not the north, no bombs on Bourdain, please.  But you get my point. 

Please, prove me wrong Tony!  Help me watch No Reservations with a clear conscience!

Shanah Tovah u Metukah!

To all my readers, warmest wishes for a wonderful new year - this, as my teacher tells me, is the year of wealth and prosperity.  So may you, whether you're with me or not, enjoy a beautiful 12 months of joy and riches.

A Sweet New Year, Chaverim Shelim!

~ Simcha the angry Jew

Islamophobia - the new anti-Semitism?

With this nut-job crusader, Terry Jones and all of his "Islam is of the Devil" haters, down in Florida ready to burn a pile of Muslim holy books on the anniversary of 9/11, it makes you wonder.

Is the rising tide of anti-Islam sentiment taking over the Jews top spot in the world of religiously motivated hate crime?

One only need look around. There have got to be five or ten instances of vandalism against Muslim centers and construction sites since the recent controversy over the "Ground Zero Mosque." And now this! Fifty or so crazies having a weirdo BBQ on "Burn a Koran Day!" Is Islamophobia the new anti-Semitism?

Just the facts, ma'am.

According to the most recent FBI numbers, hate crimes against Jews still top the list, at a staggering (but quite normal) 65.7%. Look at the numbers regarding anti-Islamic motivated hate crimes.

Religious bias

There were 1,606 hate crime offenses motivated by religious bias in 2008. A breakdown of these offenses shows:

65.7 percent were anti-Jewish.
13.2 percent were anti-other religion.
7.7 percent were anti-Islamic.
4.7 percent were anti-Catholic.
4.2 percent were anti-multiple religions, group.
3.7 percent were anti-Protestant.
0.9 percent were anti-Atheism/Agnosticism/etc.

Mr. Jones and his lunatic fringe have the White House giving them all of the press they need to spark even MORE Jihad around the world. All the while, of course, Israel has an Islamic madman of their own ready to "wipe Israel off the map." Back door, Bibi?

No worries, Ahmed, you won't see any pogroms coming your way. We Jews, we still pay the price for whatever the fuck we did so long ago. I can't help but wish, even just a teensy bit, that the tide would really honestly turn toward you... because while you may not be the barbarian your brothers are - you do nothing to stop them.

I'm Jewish, I'm Angry

Welcome to my blog, chaverim - and I mean it.  I value friends.  Whether you agree with my sentiments or not, I plan on blogging by the rules.

Nothing I say here is the gospel (I could've found a better word, yeah) but I'll do my damnedest to cite my sources and keep everything above board.  I won't quote any source that is questionable, unless of course they are the assbutt of my joke.  We square?  Good.

Today is two days away from Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year.  Of course, if you're a gentile you wouldn't know it - unless you watch Fox News.  Ramadan, on the other hand, we ALL know about Ramadan.  Hell, it's all over the bloody mainstream media!  President Obama gave his historic "Build your Mosque HERE!" speech at a White House sponsored Ramadan dinner.  According to CNN, here's what our American idol said:

"Let me be clear," Obama said at a White House dinner celebrating the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, "as a citizen, and as president, I believe that Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as anyone else in this country.

That includes the right to build a place of worship and a community center on private property in lower Manhattan, in accordance with local laws and ordinances."

Of course the next day he questioned "the wisdom" behind building the mosque there - then changed his mind again - but I digress...

I believe the subject of this blog was how no one knows (or cares) that the Jews have a New Year.  In keeping with that, I'd like to point out that TIME Magazine doesn't even care about JEWS let alone their silly simchas.  Their latest cover story, including illustration of Magen David made of daises, says "Why Israel Doesn't Care About Peace."

I do believe it's more than a tad tre chi chi these days to loath Israel and those pesky Jews, especially if you're in with a certain clique of illuminated types.  Funny though, "writer" Karl Vick depicts Israeli people that way, emphasis added:

"...the truth is, Israelis are no longer preoccupied with the matter (of peace). They're otherwise engaged; they're making money; they're enjoying the rays of late summer. A watching world may still define their country by the blood feud with the Arabs whose families used to live on this land and whether that conflict can be negotiated away, but Israelis say they have moved on"

So it's really people of Israel who are oblivious, not Hollywood or DC.  Hmmm.  Seems to me that Helen Thomas went to the same school of journalism a Karl.  On the left, all you have to do is call the opposition "racist" and you've won - unless you're the racist, then you retire into a cozy tommorow... let's wish Karl a sweet new year in retirement.  Putz.