In My Backyard?

On the evening of Tuesday, January 1--New Year's day--something horrible happened in my state of Texas. Two sisters, 18-year-old Amina and 17-year-old Sarah Said were found shot to death in a taxi cab. The suspected killer? Their father, Yaser Abdel Said. Any time a parent murders a child it's tragic, but what makes the murder of Amina and Sarah even more horrific is that it's probably an honor killing.

Yaser Said is an Egyptian immigrant and devout Muslim who was known to be upset with his daughters' Westernized lifestyle. He was particularly angered by the fact that the sisters both had non-Muslim boyfriends. In fact Sarah, the younger sister, told a friend that if her Dad found out about her boyfriend he'd kill her. The girls' mother was scared enough to flee with them to Kansas and then to Tulsa, Oklahoma where she rented an apartment under an assumed name, according to the sisters' great aunt Gail Gattrell. How and why Amina and Sarah ended up back in Texas is a mystery, at least for now.

The murder of the sisters hasn't been officially ruled an honor killing. Yaser Abdel Said is still at large so all the facts of the case are not yet known. In spite of his religious devoutness Said may just be one of those ultramacho, ultracontrolling, latently incestous, psycho dads and would've killed his daughters even if he'd been an atheist. The circumstantial evidence, though, screams honor killing.

It's shocking that an honor killing may have happened in my state, close to my city. Frankly, I always thought that we Texans were too "narrow-minded"--in a good way!--for a backward, Islamic custom to be practiced here. I always expected this sort of thing to happen in liberal, "enlightened", meccas of multiculturalism like California or Massachusetts. But now that it appears that the barbaric practice of honor killing has reared its ugly head in the Lone Star state I hope that my fellow Texans will join me in saying loudly and with firm resolve, "NOT IN OUR BACKYARD!!!!" We owe it to Amina and Sarah to make sure this diabolical crime NEVER happens again.

Rest in peace, beautiful sisters.

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year to the Hammer Folk! May 2008 bring many blessings to all of you and a renewed commitment to defend our sacred Realm from the dangers arrayed against her. Be proud! Be brave! Be strong!

God Bless the Hammer Folk!
God Bless our Realm!

A Tribute to Australian Soldiers in Iraq

Here's a moving tribute to the Aussies Diggers fighting side by side with the Americans and the Brits for freedom and against tyranny and terrorism in Iraq. Hesperia salutes another branch of Her Majesty's finest!

Tribute to the British Army in Iraq

Here is a moving to the British forces fighting in Iraq. Many of the Brits have been "redeployed" from southern Iraq since this video was made. Hesperia salutes the bravery of Her Majesty's soldiers and honors those who gave their fullest measure.

The Crusades, An Introduction

Here's a short introduction to the Crusades. Hopefully, this will whet your appetite to learn the REAL story of Europe's much maligned attempt to defend Christian civilization against Islam.

Remembering the Victims of Stalin

I can't believe I forgot about this, but I did. This year, 2007, marks the 70th anniversary of Stalin's Great Purges, which resulted in the deaths of millions of people. While this blog was created primarily to combat the Islamist threat to the West, Hammer Folk Woman is a forum of resistance to ALL enemies of Western Christian civilization. One of the most viscious, murderous, and insidious of those enemies is Communism.

The Godless, totalitarian scourge that is Communism first gained hold of a nation, Russia, in November* 1917, and the Soviet Union was born. After WWII the Soviets spread the disease into Eastern Europe, China, and other parts of the world. Communists murdered mercilessly everywhere they gained total power. The model for the killing was the Soviet Union, especially under Stalin. The Great Purges, also known as The Great Terror, was Stalin's masterpiece of totalitarian madness.

The Purges, or the Terror, didn't began in 1937 but reached a fever pitch in that year. It's purpose was to crush all opposition to Stalin's power and personality cult. Initially, only "traitorous" Communist Party members were targeted but the killing quickly spread to all walks of life. When it reached it's peak The Terror had consumed millions of lives and given birth to the world's most infamous prison system: the Gulag.

As horrifying as Stalin's Terror was most people today know little or nothing about it. It was a time in Hesperia's past when more people were slaughtered than in the Holocaust, yet it's all but hidden from history. The Hammer Folk will not let this crime against humanity be forgotten. We will remember it. We will remember the victims. Their blood cries out to us from their graves: Never again! Never again the Gulag! Never again The Terror! Never again. Never again. With every fiber of our being we will make it so.

*The Communists' seizure of power took place in October according to the old Julian calender then in use in Russia, that's why it's called the October Revolution.

Charles Martel Day

October is, or should be, a very important month for Hesperians. It is important to the Hammer Folk, who understand what happened on a special day in this month over 1000 years ago.

On October 10, 732 A.D. Charles Martel, the Hammer of the Franks, defeated the Muslim horde, led by Abd-ul Rahman, at the Battle of Tours, aka the Battle of Poitiers. You read that right. Muslims were invading Europe over 300 years BEFORE the First Crusade, which began in 1091. Charles Martel, grandfather of the great emperor Charlemagne, saved Western Christian civilization from Islamic subjugation. Every achievement of the West is ultimately attributable to Martel because his victory preserved Western culture from the retrograde influence of Muhamad's religion. Yet, to my knowledge, there isn't a city, a school, a park, or even a street named for this hero anywhere in the West except, maybe, for France. The Hammer Folk are going to change this dishonorable oversight.

From this year on all Hammer Folk will mark October 10 unofficially as Charles Martel Day. We will do this until October 10 is officially recognized for the historic day it is in ALL of the Realm. We Hammer Folk will mark October 10 as both a somber day of remembrance and reflection, where we examine ourselves to see how much we embody the fighting spirit of Martel, AND as a joyous day of celebrating the West's crucial victory over the Muslims.

As this will be the first Charles Martel Day there are no celebratory traditions for us to follow as there are for other holidays such as Christmas and Thanksgiving. Instead, we get to create our own. To start off, I propose that all Hammer Folk wear red armbands on October 10. Wear the armbands to work, to school, to the store, even to church ( this year Charles Martel Day is on a Wednesday, when many churches have prayer meetings). The armbands should be red to symbolize both the shed blood of Christ and the shed blood of the Muslim invaders fighting to eliminate Christian Europe.

The armbands will inevitably attraction attention; that's what we want. The bands will be tools of "evangelization", opening the door for the Hammer Folk to educate our fellow Hesperians on Islam's historic aggression against the West. Doing that will get at least some of us in trouble. Wearing the armbands on some public school or university campuses will no doubt result in charges of racism from the pc police. When that happens, be strong; stand firm. Show the resolve, determination, and fighting spirit that Charles Martel Day is about to begin with. Just as The Hammer didn't back down in the face of a numerically superior foe so the Hammer Folk, his spiritual descendants, must not back down in the face of our numerically superior foe. For the multiculturalist, self-hating Western liberals do outnumber those of us who love our civilization. But our foes' numbers don't guarantee them victory, just the Muslims' numbers didn't prevail over Martel.

That's all I've come up with for this Charles Martel Day this year. My hope is for the armbands to become a yearly thing. Other Hammer Folk can create other activities that the larger Hammer Folk community can duplicate. Maybe those of us who have kids can take them out of school to celebrate. Or send them to school armed with the historical truth--and the armbands!

It's time we gave Charles Martel the honor he deserves. It's time we jettisoned multiculturalism and political correctness in favor of Western culture, OUR culture. Western Christian civilization is good. It's worth fighting for. It's worth dying for. That's the lesson Charles Martel has to teach us.

In the Spirit of Martel may we live!