“We always intercede to save life, limb, or eyesight”

MNF-Iraq – He’s 16 years old, and only weighs 60 pounds. Marwan Ahmad Mohammed doesn’t spend his days like most teenage boys. He stays in military care facilities where they constantly work to repair his wounds sustained in an attack from more than a year ago.

His brother, Omar Ahmad Mohammed, has been camping out next to his bedside during his current stay at Camp Al Asad’s 325th Combat Support Hospital where medical providers have been giving him all the medical attention he needs.

The Marines have arrived!

FOX News – Dramatic photos show a Marine’s narrow escape from death Sunday while facing insurgent gunfire in Afghanistan. The Marine, part of the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), was exchanging gunfire with Taliban fighters near Garmser in Afghanistan’s Helmand Province when a Reuters photographer captured the soldier’s very close call.

A series of six photos show the Marine, wearing a T-shirt and fatigues but no combat helmet, ducking as insurgent gunfire tears through the top of a mud wall he’s using for cover. Remarkably, the Marine escaped the gunfight without injury. “The insurgents are finding that every time they engage with the Marines, they lose,” Col. Peter Petronzio, commander of the 24th MEU, said in a statement issued May 10.

“The Marines are gaining ground every day and securing more of the routes through the district. The support we have received from our allied partners has contributed to our many successes thus far.” [snip] Troops have targeted this region on the Pakistan border that has served as a route for supplies and reinforcements for insurgents since April 28.

“Garmser is a planning, staging and logistics hub. Once lost it will mean a severe defeat for them,” he told the agency. “That is why they are reinforcing with insurgents coming from other places, both north and south.” Branco told the AFP that the insurgents had suffered “heavy” losses.

Geez, I sure hope they caught the marines off guard or something, otherwise what the hell was he doing without his gear on. These aren’t losers and half-hearted tossbags, they’re dealing with the Taliban here, these are hard bastards. They saw off them commie sumbitches back in the day, albeit with our help. Anyway, glad to hear the marines have arrived and are spreading the “love” around liberally.

So the British are helping out too eh, they should look up the Aussies too, make it a trifecta. Heck just get hold of our diggers and they can share tips and tricks, our boys have had experience with the Taliban and have been giving it back to them with compound interest recently. The cherry on top would be getting our SAS in on it too, it’ll be open season on the Taliban then. Semper Fi goat humpers!

Burkas banned from Danish courts

BBC – Danish diplomats to Muslim countries are preparing themselves for another wave of anti-Danish protests after the government announced it would bar judges from wearing headscarves and similar religious or political symbols in courtrooms. Although the ban will include crucifixes, Jewish skull caps and turbans as well as headscarves, the move is seen as being largely aimed at Muslim judges.

Funny how we keep being told that this is the religion of peace and tolerance, we are told oh it’s just a few extremists here and there. And they are only there because of those bastard righties who just won’t sing kumbaya, there is no problem, nothing to see, true meaning of ‘Jihad’, move along. Yet every time something happens, diplomats are bracing and people are taping the windows. Embassies are put on alert, cops are getting the armor on, politicians are stretching their backs and preparing speeches to beg, grovel and sell out their subjects. Where does this conflicting message come from, didn’t they get the memo, are we being lied to, one of life’s great mysteries folks.

Coming back to the subject in question, I don’t see a problem with this, I’m surprised there are actually female Muslim judges in Denmark. What happened to Sharia and a woman’s testimony being of lower value? Does a muslim man who appears before a female judge get to request a different one, because how dare that cur judge him! One reason I can think of to ban this veil thing is who’s know if the female judge is the judge she says she is. How do we know she isn’t at home watching Judge Judy while some ball-busting leftist slimeball is standing in for her. Good on the Danes, let’s see if the religion of peace and tolerance will surprise us, for once.