Europeans Are Racist; Let's Form the Anti-Racist European Union

Mark Richardson at Oz Conservative has posted a promotional poster for an organization that calls itself Europe4All.


Richardson writes:

[The poster] seems to have been produced by the European Social Forum, a movement made up of various left-wing organisations. But what's significant is that it is displayed in the European Commission, the executive arm of the European Union.As you can see the poster says "We can all share the same star. Europe 4 All." The star is made up of the symbols of a wide variety of religions, including Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Taoism, Shintoism and Buddhism.

Richardson continues:

[T]he poster is not just calling for tolerance amongst religions. It is announcing that Europe is "for all". With a stroke of a pen, the idea of Europe being at least primarily for Europeans and European culture has been erased.

And finally Richardson ends his post by comparing the ethnocentric African Union banners with the all-inclusive European Union poster:

If you compare the poster being displayed by the European Union to the poster currently being promoted by the African Union the difference is striking: The Africans are calmly asserting their identity, in contrast to the Europeans whose focus is more negatively on the deconstruction of their own unique identity and tradition.

According to this wesbsite, Europe4All is:

a quasi-EU group whose main purpose is to ease the progress of immigrants into the various EU states. Their main website (Project for a Charter of Principle for Another Europe) is here. The translation into English is atrocious, but that mirrors the inanity of its progressive content.

The latest on the poster is that the EU has removed it from its website:

The European Commission has removed a poster displaying the communist hammer and sickle symbol from its Brussels headquarters after former Soviet-ruled EU member Lithuania expressed outrage, an official said Monday [October 22].

Below that are a series of posters by the African Union, showing predominantly black African faces.

I have one quibble with the African Union ads.

The Arab woman who is featured as African doesn't belong there.


Arabs do not consider themselves African. They either categorize themselves as Middle Eastern, or more directly as Muslim nations.

Africans also don't generally accept North African Arabs (from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and even Egypt) as Africans. Muslims and Northern Africans also don't generally consider themselves as Africans, and again would rather categorize themselves through Islam, or as a different category of people from North Africa.

If the AU wanted a genuine North African African, they should have put an Ethiopian on their ad. I have made that ad, and here it is below:


Below are the rest of the ads for African Union:

Bending Over For Foreign Policy

Tonight is the "Foreign Policy" debate between Obama and Romney.

Drudge has a collage of photos with Obama bowing low to various non-American dignitaries. Above the collage, he as a link which he titles: "Chavez, Castro, Putin endorse Obama..." which leads to a Washington Times article. The full title of the article is: "Chavez, Castro, Putin: Four more years!"

I blogged about Obama's bows here (at the 2012 G20 Summit), and here (to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia).

It will be interesting to see what Obama has to say (or not say) tonight. I will read between the lines.

Women Have to Start Boycotting the Products of Greedy, Unimaginative Designers

DKNY, Spring RTW 2012

DKNY, Spring RTW 2012

Donna Karan is another contemporary designer with unexceptional clothes. She occasionally comes up with attractive enough items, but nothing that cannot be found at Target, Walmart or Sears for a fraction of her designer label prices.

The top outfit from her DKNY Spring 2012 Ready-to-Wear collection is a pretty floral dress, yet it has a strange train that drags in the back. In the same collection, she gives us a formless kaftan, which is clearly a formal number given that the model has an odd clutch/bag wrapped around her hand.

This is the inconsistency of these pseudo-avant-garde designers. I think they are really trying hard to create original outfits, but their imaginations are pretty much dead. And because of their names, they still successfully convince wealthy women that spending thousands of dollars on dowdy kaftans is worth their money.

Karan also designs perfume. Her most popular perfume, Cashmere Mist, came out in 1994. It is a strong scent, but its sweet bergamot top note doesn't make it overwhelming.

The 1994 Cashmere Mist Perfume Bottle

Here are the notes to Cashmere Mist:
Top: Bergamot
Middle: Jasmine, Lily of the Valley
Base: Musk, Sandalwood, Vanilla

Woman came out earlier, in 1992. The bottle is a squat and short, and presumably the shape of a woman's back.

The 1992 Woman Perfume Bottle

Despite its ugly container, Woman is still an interesting, layered perfume. The perfume site Fragrantica describes its notes as:

Fresh passions of apricot, bergamot, green notes, neroli, osmanthus, peach and pineapple burst out at the top, followed by a floral rhythm of carnation, cassia, heliotrope, jasmine, lily, orchid, rose and ylang-ylang at the heart of the fragrance. Bottom notes bring amber, benzoin, cedar, citruses, tonka bean, vanilla, vetiver, sandalwood, musk, suede, patchouli and incense.

I tried the latest perfume by Karan, also called Woman and presumably a 2012 variation on the 1992 version, at my local department store. "It has a sweetish/citrusy smell," I said to the salesman, who gave me a sample.

Fragrantica's description of the perfume is: "The fragrance is built around the core of sandalwood and vetiver from Haiti, including notes of orange blossom..." So orange blossom was was the sweet, citrusy smell I detected.

The short list of notes in the new version of Woman is nothing compared to the original. And this is yet another example of how contemporary redesigns of original perfumes are dilute and weak.

And now on the bottle. Karan's husband worked on Cashmere Mist, his most successful flask design. His later design for Woman isn't as interesting as Cashmere Mist, but it isn't a complete failure.

Karan went to another designer to launch her newest variation of Woman. It is a cold, dark granite object, which doesn't resemble a flask. Where is the opening of the "flask"? where are is the liquid? Why is there a hollow center - doesn't it waste much needed space? Why is it black and sleek? Is that what modern women have become, cold as stone? These were the questions that went through my mind when I saw the flask.

The designer is Zaha Hadid, an Iraqi-born architect who calls herself British. She has taught at prestigious schools, and has won numerous international awards, but why does that leave me unimpressed? She is part of the architectural style that I call the Architecture of Death, which includes the contemporary architects Daniel Libeskind and Frank Gehry. Here's an article I wrote which I titled: Conquering the Architecture of Death. I suppose Hadid is trying to connect with her feminine self in designing this atrocity, which no feminine woman would want to put in her purse, let alone hold in her hands.

Women have to start refusing these ugly and clumsy interjections into their lives, and boycott these unimaginative, but greedy, modern designers. Let's start by telling our department store perfume salesmen what we really think of their unattractive goods.

Donna Karan's 2012 Woman Perfume Bottle

And The Dhimmis Keep Marching On

I was looking for information on Bat Ye'or, whose book Europe, Globalization, and the Coming of the Universal Caliphate I've reviewed here, to read about her latest commentary on Islam. The most recent information I found online was her interview with Christine Tasin and Pierre Cassen, posted on their website Riposte Laïque on October 10, 2012.

Christine Tasin writes for the French publication Riposte Laïque and is the founder of Résistance Républicaine. Pierre Cassen is editor-in-chief of Riposte Laïque. Both are active in the movement to stop the Islamization of France, and more precisely, the attempt to shut down voices that criticize Islam.

Tiberge, the blogger at Gallia Watch, has posted the first of the two-part video of Bat Ye'or's interview, with a transcript of the interview in English. Both parts are available (in French) at Riposte Laïque's website here.

Bat Ye'or says in the interview:

Now we are back in an era of very active jihad and sharia, and now sharia, with the so-called Arab Spring, will be applied in all Muslim countries. We are in a period of jihad in all of its forms, some peaceful, such as immigration, such as certain Islamic precepts and concepts that are very important, for example, what we Westerners would call the destruction of history. For us history consists of events that can be proven, dated, and verified by archeological evidence, or some other kind. But in Islam, history is whatever confirms the Koran. It is religious history, not history in the sense of Greek, Western or Cartesian rationalism. And we are in the process of renouncing our history, our conception of history to adopt an Islamic conception of history. Obviously this has repercussions on our identity, on our culture, and so gradually, without realizing it, we are entering into a process of intellectual Islamization. Through the schools, the teaching, and this is promoted by our own State authorities. There is also another very important element in the transformation of Christian nations into Islamic nations, this is what I call dhimmitude, a system of laws regulating the status of populations conquered by Islam: Christians, Jews, and non-Muslims, and these laws established a permanent feeling of insecurity. That is to say, these populations were protected by Islamic law in a status of permanent insecurity, and humiliation and violence...

In my book I examine the mechanisms that led our nations to self-destruct and to betray their own people. How did this happen? What collusion took place? What forces were at play? There are of course many elements in this Titanic, this culture and civilization that are in the process of collapsing before our eyes.

This is the most recent commentary, actually warning, that Bat Ye'or provides about Islam.

My google search for Bat Ye'or also resulted with this article: Do Muslim Immigrants Really Threaten the West. Bat Ye'or's name is mentioned only once in the article, and is listed with a group of anti-jihad writers:

The successful integration of Catholic Europeans [and] Jews...all of whom formerly huddled in ethnic neighborhoods under a cloud of suspicion, is ignored by our current alarmists. Authors like Mark Steyn, Niall Ferguson, Pamela Gellar, and Bat Ye’or warn that western civilisation is about to be submerged by a tide of Muslims seeking to Islamise us all.

The author of the article is Eva Sajoo, who is a research associate at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. Her biography at the university's website reads:

Eva Sajoo has taught at the University of Science and Technology in Beijing as well as the University of British Columbia, and currently lectures at Simon Fraser University in the Continuing Studies Program. She has published work on gender, development, and education in Muslim societies, including “Modern Citizenship, Multiple Identities” in Muslim Modernities, ed. Amyn B. Sajoo, (I.B Tauris, 2008) and a co-authored chapter entitled “Gender and Identity” in the forthcoming Companion to Muslim Cultures (I.B. Tauris, 2011). Her research won first place in a 2010 competition sponsored by the Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (Geneva). In addition to her academic work, she is a regular contributor to the news media, notably on Afghanistan.

She has an odd last name, for someone who looks like she has Irish or Scottish ancestry. Further search of her name reveals that she is somehow related to an Amyn Sajoo.

Looking around the Simon Fraser website, I found that an Amyn Sajoo also works at Simon Fraser University as a scholar-in-residence, and whose biography informs us that:

Before joining the CCSMSC [Centre for the Comparative Study of Muslim Societies and Cultures, in Simon Fraser University] as a Visiting Scholar in the summer of 2009, he was a research associate at the Institute of Ismaili Studies in London, UK, where he was also founding editor of the Muslim Heritage Series. Previous appointments included lecturing in political science and history at the University of British Columbia and SFU, and visiting affiliations at Cambridge and McGill universities.

Amyn Sajoo's facebook site has a photo section filled with shots of a woman who very closely resembles Eva Sajoo. So this is the Eva Sajoo, Muslim apologetic, who is married to an Ismaili Muslim, who has written several books defending Islam. Sajoo has also happily posted photos of a young child, clearly their daughter. Sajoo's "struggle for civic spaces among Muslim migrants in the West," as described by a reviewer of his book Muslim Modernities, will clearly transfer to his half-Canadian, half-Muslim child.

However much Muslims and non-Western immigrants appear to adopt Western culture and beliefs, the truth always comes out in existential moments, as when they are forced to choose between the cultures and religions they supposedly left behind and the new ones they encounter wherever they immigrate. This existential dilemma is resolved when they have offspring, whom they inculcate from an early age with those great attributes of the cultures and religions which they fled. Children of Muslim immigrants often grow up to be even stricter Muslims than their parents.

Amyn Sajoo may have a strong excuse. How can he abandon the religion and culture he grew up with? But Eva Sajoo is the ultimate dhimmi, abandoning her religion and culture for one which clearly would destroy her, her family and her country. Such is a strategy of Muslims, to enter a country peacefully and invited, as are immigrants in the West, and to lock in the loyalty of its citizens by marrying its men and women. Their half-Muslim children will grow up to militantly ensure civic spaces for the Muslim culture in these Western lands.

Conservative Women Are More Attractive Than Liberal Women

Helen Hunt at the British Film Institute
premiere of her film The Sessions

With her creepy co-star John Hawkes

Helen Hunt got reasonably famous in the sitcom Mad About You, about a New York couple. She fits right in with modern liberal women who have an ambiguous relationship with beauty.

She is one of those Hollywood liberals who regularly voice their opinions on politics, mostly by supporting the running Democrat. She made campaign contributions in 2011 and 2012 to "Obama For America," and she has contributed to Democratic candidates since 1998.

She is wearing the required glamor dress, a Chagoury couture, at the 2012 premier for the film The Sessions, but her face is that of an older woman who cannot (will not) make the extra effort to beautify herself. She has pretty, girlish curls (most likely dyed blonde), but her forty-nine-year-old face is pale and sallow and with no make-up. Her battle with her appearance is layered with curly girlishness and a stubborn avoidance of beauty aids, as though she is channeling some inner-child-puritan. Her mature designer dress is lost in her half-finished get-up.

The film she's starring in is morbid and pornographic:

The Sessions (originally titled The Surrogate) is a 2012 American independent drama film written and directed by Ben Lewin. It is based on the true story of Mark O'Brien, a poet paralyzed from neck down due to polio who hired a sex surrogate to lose his virginity. John Hawkes and Helen Hunt star as O'Brien and sex surrogate Cheryl Cohen Greene respectively [Source: Wikipedia].

Hunt says about the film, and her role:

I read the script for this beautiful movie and I didn't realize what a great part it was at first, I just knew that the story was great.

Then I met the woman that I play, who is still working as a sex surrogate and she has devoted her life to helping men and women realize their sexual potential in a positive, non-judgmental, non-shamey kind of way. I just couldn't believe it existed in real life, or that I would get to embody it for a few months

This is typical of current movies, where extreme grotesqueness is the script. And Hollywood actors, rather than rebelling en masse, are simply accepting these roles.

Below is a photo of much younger Hunt, which I cannot date. Hunt was never a beauty, but she was reasonably attractive and even pretty in a homely sort of way. But youth is much kinder than middle age, and Hunt can no longer get away with the bare face of her twenties,


or the cute innocence of her childhood.


Her battle with beauty is palpable in her forty-nine-year-old expression.


Perhaps if she had been more attractive rather than homely, she might have also been more rigorous about her demands, and would not have accepted her leading role in this horror film. Her current film, The Session, looks like a cry out for attention, and if she cannot grab it with beauty, she may as well do so with ugliness.

Her previous film roles are not as grotesquely demeaning as this one, but they are bland and dreary. Her more memorable roles are as an over-worked waitress alongside a misanthrope in As Good As It Gets, an overworked careerist woman in What Women Want, and a secondary role as an abandoned wife in Castaway. Actresses chose their roles (or more commonly, at can least refuse roles they don't want). Either Hunt felt she couldn't get anything better, so she settled for less, or she felt these parts really embodied her ability and personality. I can't imagine Elizabeth Taylor, Ava Gardner, Ingrid Bergman or any others of that ilk accepting, let alone campaigning for, such roles.


But Hollywood is still Hollywood, and still feeds off it glamorous history. It requires glamor from its movie stars at the Oscars and Golden Globes. But when away from the Hollywood studios, contemporary actresses bringing out their drab and dreary clothes as though it is their entitlement. Hunt is no different.

Old jacket and gym pants for a quick break.
But the paparazzi is always there.

Ava Gardner in the 1930. Even a cigarette break merited style.

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Below I respond to a correspondent who sent me a link to:
Study: Female GOP politicians are better looking than liberal politicians

I think this carries over to ordinary people (or at least non-politicians like Hunt). Conservative women, in general, are much more attractive than liberal women. I think this is not just superficially due to their clothing choices, but because they are fundamentally more attractive.

I comment:

This is a very interesting idea.

I don't know if it is that conservative women groom themselves to be more attractive, and that leftist liberal women don't care (or are conditioned not to care) about how they look. Or if being more beautiful makes one more conservative (and exclusive, as in being beautiful makes one aware that there are hierarchies in life, as in wealth, intelligence, physical prowess, and why not beauty), and that conservative women are indeed more beautiful.

I think it is probably a mixture of both.

One thing I've blogged about is that leftist women are envious of anything that is beautiful, and want to bring this ephemeral thing called beauty down several notches. I think their aim is "equality," but equality with ugliness as the common denominator. And this notion equality is based on envy.

It is much easier to look ugly than to look beautiful.

I think, more than an altruistic, "common woman" solidarity, it is based on envy.

Here are a couple of blogs I've written:

Downsizing beauty

Elimination of beauty

Adept attackers of beauty

Flinging dirt at beauty

Beauty vs. Expression

He who seeks beauty will find it

Below is from my post Pretty Hip[py]:

Modern people have a visceral, negative, reaction to beauty...They hate it. I see it every day in the clothes women wear in the streets: black, gray, formless coats, ugly boots. And in what fashion magazines prescribe for us...

Ugliness rules. In clothing, in films, in art and even in our "representatives" of beauty. I don't think it is a lack of knowledge about beauty. We've developed standards and often unanimous agreement about what constitutes the beautiful...What's going on is that people are hating beauty. It is a form of envy. If I cannot be beautiful, then why is she beautiful." It is like wealth, or intelligence or a sense of entitlement to live anywhere one pleases.

Pristine Interiors, Exotic Exteriors: Paintings by John Singer Sargent

Left: Mrs Henry White, 1883
Right: Madame X, 1884

In an earlier post, I wrote about the contrasting images of the American painter Winslow Homer. I said:

It is hard to imagine that Winslow Homer paints pristine portraits of society women when I see his Northeaster. It is similar with his contemporary John Singer Sargent, about whom I will be posting in my next blog.

Below are the Sargent's interiors, exteriors, and cultivated ladies. His exotica came from numerous places, included from his travels to the Middle East and the Mediterranean.

I think that truly artistic painters can tackle any landscape, or any portrait. Their genius lies not just in depicting these views, but also in infusing their own "vision" in the paintings. Sargent and Homer did that.

Left: Spanish Dancer, 1880-1881
Right: Capri Girl, 1878

Capri, 1878

Open Doorway, Morocco, 1879-80

Donkeys in a Desert, 1880

Bedouins, 1904 - 1905

Gourds, 1905-8

Pomegranates, 1908

Frederick Law Olmsted, 1895

Mid-Ocean, Mid-Winter, 1876

A Dinner Table at Night, 1884


Mrs. Cecil Wade, 1886


Mrs. Fiske Warren and Her Daughter Rachel, 1903

Mrs. William Crowninshield Endicott, 1901

Correction Included: Sarah Palin at Dancing With the Stars

Sarah Palin was at Dancing With the Stars with her
eighteen-year-old daughter Willow to support Bristol.
Other than the weirdness of a former vice-presidential
candidate showing up at a variety show, couldn't she at
least wear a more appropriate outfit? Her teen-age daughter
is more modest, although I think Palin might just be trying
out for a future spot at DWTS. Usually "celebrities" sit
in the front seats of the show to be considered for a
future running. From presidency to ball room dancing,
I guess a competition is a competition.

Does Sarah Palin have nothing better to do? She showed up at Dancing With the Stars last night, and sat in full view in the front seats, to "support" her daughter Bristol Palin as she competed in the show.

I like DWTS. It is a rigorous show. The dancers who train the celebrities, then perform weekly dances with them, are professional ballroom dancers. The celebrities go through grueling months to prepare their dances for competition, and almost all of them deliver. Their costumes are a bit skimpy, but this is modern television we're talking about. They perform some old dance numbers such as the jive, the waltz, the Charleston, and the foxtrot. Latin styles like the mambo and the tango are also popular.

Having said that, a variety show is no place for a former presidential candidate. Why doesn't she stay home and write her memoirs?

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Correction: Palin has already written two books. But the joke is still on her. She plans to "release a book on fitness and proper diet" according to the Christian Science Monitor.

Here is what she says about her upcoming book in an interview in People Magazine (and a former vice-presidential candidate being interviewed for People Magazine is as bad as the trend we're now seeing of political candidates going on late night talks shows):

Our family is writing a book on fitness and self-discipline focusing on where we get our energy and balance as we still eat our beloved homemade comfort foods!

From political memoirs to a how-to book for finding favorite comfort foods. Yes, Palin has come long way!
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Or why doesn't she try for another run at governorship in Alaska? Instead, she shows up in a skimpy dress to "support" her daughter in a television variety show.

Bristol Palin got kicked off the show last night. Even Sarah Palin fans couldn't save her. She was a spoiled contestant, and gave her partner/instructor a hard time with her sloppy style and self-pitying, narcissistic crying.


Good riddance.

Cheeky bloggers are parodying Sarah Palin and her dancing skills. Below, they've teamed her up with Obama.