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Consider what your taxes buy. 

From the White House website comes this inspirational message to Muslims everywhere on the occasion of Ramadan, that holiest of times when jihadis kill while fasting from sunrise to sunset. 

Ramadan has long been known even to Muslims as “the month of jihad,” as one prominent Islamic cleric called it, when jihad terror attacks increase in numerical frequency.

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Dutch MP Geert Wilders (Google Images)

Despite a plethora of absurd legal complaints against him in the Netherlands, not to mention the recent Jordanian attempt to collect him to stand trial in Amman for blasphemy, courageous Dutch politician Geert Wilders is now planning a sequel to his controversial film FITNA, it was announced Tuesday in an Amsterdam daily.

It remains to be seen what sort of film Mr. Wilders is planning. To be sure, without risking redundancy there remain uncited by Wilders plenty of offensive passages in the Koran to illustrate the canonical source of jihad violence, if his intention is in fact to pick up where he left off. Truly, if Muslims are incensed by the relatively tame FITNA, they may be in for quite a shock, considering all the Islamic scripture that jihadists routinely quote to justify violence and hatred in the name of Allah. The great majority of that material didn’t make the cut in Wilders’ first movie, but he may just be frustrated enough to go for broke this time around.

What would you do if radical Islamists threatened your life while many of your own people and prominent elements in your own government insisted that you are the criminal? Just try to imagine the stress under which Mr. Wilders must operate, with complaints, threats, fatwahs, charges, proceedings, and vile incriminations coming relentlessly from all quarters. Would you pull out your Edvard Grieg records and sit down to create yet more of that which presently has multitudes hating you? Would you thumb your nose at them all? That takes some super-sized cojones.

My lifelong friend Jimmy Ryan, an octogenarian Irish janitor, accustomed in his time to having his cojones under someone or another’s boot, used to call it, defiantly, despite the anguish, no matter the pain—and the consequences be damned—giving the bastards “a bit o’ the nose.”

In all the mail through which I’ve been wading the last several days is one pointed query from a subscriber wondering if my intent is to maintain a well-crafted blog that no one reads. Touché! Yes, I’ve been busy. It’s the end of the fiscal year for us bureaucrats and desk jockeys, and then there’s life—not to mention all this mail. More about the mail in a moment, but above is a playlist of a few things to which I’ve been listening while reading, replying, deleting, and what not. It always helps things along to have a little music in the background, don’t you think? Of course, just as one man’s personal, interior struggle is another man’s violent jihad, one person’s mood music is similarly another’s annoying noise pollution. Nevertheless, there should be something in the list for all but the most obtuse cretins like my friend Jack, who listens to crap that should be illegal. If the whole playlist makes you ill, then you may want to think about it as piped-in sound for the elevator ride you’re sharing with me.

BIMBO’S DATE: “Do you like Billie Holiday?” BIMBO: “I love him!”

As for my intentions as a publisher, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: This blog is a lot like western civilization or even modern life as we know it. Just because it’s here today, that doesn’t mean it will be here tomorrow. Only our love is here to stay. All else may just be passing fancy and in time may go. There may be trouble ahead. Soon we’ll be without the moon, humming a different tune, and then there may be tear drops to shed.

So while there’s music and moonlight and love and romance, let’s face the music and dance.

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YouTube video The Terrorist and the Ticket by ColJimQ

The recent news about a convert to Islam in the UK who blew part of his face off in a botched suicide bombing at a family restaurant is just another in a series of incidents involving would-be jihadists who are more a danger to themselves than to others. I am reminded of the film clip of Zarqawi handing off his malfunctioning rifle to one of his lackeys, who promptly burned himself taking hold of the red-hot muzzle. On video-sharing services across cyberspace, one can view scores of short films featuring inept jihadists burning, shooting, squishing, and exploding themselves before they can carry out their terrible intentions. Almost a year ago now, the “doctor jihad” was crowned by two determined suicide bombers crashing their flaming Jeep Cherokee into the front of the Glasgow airport, injuring no one but themselves, and just a few months ago we were treated to a dual bungling in Afghanistan, where one suicidal nut ball incinerated himself putting on his explosives vest, and then a couple days later, another one blew himself up when he tripped down some stairs on his way to rendezvous with six dozen virgins.

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