Don't expect much comment or reporting about this one:

"VATICAN CITY - Italy's most prominent Muslim, an iconoclastic writer who condemned Islamic extremism and defended Israel, converted to Catholicism Saturday in a baptism by the pope at a Vatican Easter service."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080322/ap_on_re_eu/pope_muslim_convert;_ylt=AvHOnxwn3OKKyQ0eCtzSOd934T0D

Bring it on.
http://uncommonsensecanada.blogspot.com/2008/03/religion-of-litigation.html

"Muslims - have some fictional right not to be criticised or mocked for publicly airing absurd and objectionable beliefs..."

Like keeping the cucumbers separate from the tomatoes in the vegetable stands of Iraq, for example. Or, perhaps, goat diapers.
Not to mention that Muslims have the inalienable right not to be punished for killing a kaffir, according to the Hadith and shariah. They also have the very special and holy privilege to lie, denying all of the above to infidels.

Deportation is such a simple process. Thank you Turdeau for gifting us with these liberal voters here in Canada, we can hardly wait for the litigation bills to start flooding in. As for the AIDS vaccine, HIV is a retrovirus as is swamp fever in horses, visa-madre, I think, in hogs, there will be no vaccine. A high ranking official in the WHO said in the early seventies, wouldn't it be nice if there was a retrovirus that would infect humans to slow population. At that point there was no retrovirus known to be in humans. Shazam what happens a few years later. Keep it in your pants like Kate says or check out the way they control retrovirusus in the animal world, this disease will break our health care system soon.

Precrime alert! Network Solutions has a subsection 13.1 as well.

"Network Solutions censors Fitna website"

The website www.fitnathemovie.com is taken off-line by it's United States based hosting provider "Network Solutions". The website only announced the Islam critical film Fitna of Dutch parliamentary member Geert Wilders and had no content besides a single page with the text: "Fitna, coming soon". Still Network Solutions claims it needs to investigate if the site violates Network Solutions acceptable use policy and replaced the website with a page with the following text:

This site has been suspended while Network Solutions is investigating whether the site's content is in violation of the Network Solutions Acceptable Use Policy. Network Solutions has received a number of complaints regarding this site that are under investigation. For more information about Network Solutions Acceptable Use Policy visit the following URL: http://www.networksolutions.com/legal/aup.jsp

Taliban Jack Layton-NDP grieves.
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Air, ground battles kill dozens of Taliban
http://tinyurl.com/3d5rp6 (G-M)

Excellent discussion on Islam at David Thompson's blog, as linked by Kate. His blog, by the way, is one of the most articulate and intelligent around.

The Muslim assertion of their religion as inviolate and ultimate truth, beyond analysis and question and therefore change is a phase, I'm going to claim, of an ideology under siege from within and without.

That is, as a belief system in the modern world, it is failing from within; it can't sustain its beliefs as productive, stabilizing, strengthening its peoople. To the contrary, the beliefs are limiting the ability of the people to engage constructively in the modern world.

And, it is being attacked from without, for its irrationality, its inability to enable its people to participate in the modern world.

Its first reaction is to freeze its beliefs as sacred and beyond questioning and analysis. Its concomitant reaction is to fight any loss of membership by repressive tactics against any questions by its members, any changes in belief and behaviour. And, to attack Other Views held by other people.
The Al Qaeda reaction is to attempt to prevent the people from modernizing, prevent them from moving into the modern industrial world and insist on an 'original era' of the 7th century mode.

Christianity went through a comparable phase in the medieval era, when its beliefs had been taken over by a bureaucracy (the scholastics) who moved ideology outside of questioning and analysis, and froze the population into 'no questions, no analysis, only blind faith'. It didn't work; change moved in from the ground up.

The same is happening within Islam. However, they don't have the time frame of four and more centuries that was available to the Western world. They have to change fast. In one generation. That's not easy.

And, their change isn't simply an internal economic need to permit questions so that the society can change its technology - as it was in the West. Their change includes that but above all, it's an economic and political need so that they can support their population in an industrial mode and also, collaborate with the other industrial nations.

It will come. But, it requires from the West a consisitent and total refusal to abandon our rationality, our questioning, our scientific method, our focus on reason, on the individual, on freedom of speech and thought. And a consistent and total refusal to permit a medieval ideology, which is Islam, to harm that mode of life.

Climate facts to warm to

CATASTROPHIC predictions of global warming usually conjure with the notion of a tipping point, a point of no return.
Last Monday - on ABC Radio National, of all places - there was a tipping point of a different kind in the debate on climate change. It was a remarkable interview involving the co-host of Counterpoint, Michael Duffy and Jennifer Marohasy, a biologist and senior fellow of Melbourne-based think tank the Institute of Public Affairs. Anyone in public life who takes a position on the greenhouse gas hypothesis will ignore it at their peril.

Duffy asked Marohasy: "Is the Earth stillwarming?"

She replied: "No, actually, there has been cooling, if you take 1998 as your point of reference. If you take 2002 as your point of reference, then temperatures have plateaued. This is certainly not what you'd expect if carbon dioxide is driving temperature because carbon dioxide levels have been increasing but temperatures have actually been coming down over the last 10 years."

Duffy: "Is this a matter of any controversy?"

Marohasy: "Actually, no. The head of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) has actually acknowledged it. He talks about the apparent plateau in temperatures so far this century. So he recognises that in this century, over the past eight years, temperatures have plateaued ... This is not what you'd expect, as I said, because if carbon dioxide is driving temperature then you'd expect that, given carbon dioxide levels have been continuing to increase, temperatures should be going up ... So (it's) very unexpected, not something that's being discussed. It should be being discussed, though, because it's very significant."

Duffy: "It's not only that it's not discussed. We never hear it, do we? Whenever there's any sort of weather event that can be linked into the global warming orthodoxy, it's put on the front page. But a fact like that, which is that global warming stopped a decade ago, is virtually never reported, which is extraordinary."

Duffy then turned to the question of how the proponents of the greenhouse gas hypothesis deal with data that doesn't support their case. "People like Kevin Rudd and Ross Garnaut are speaking as though the Earth is still warming at an alarming rate, but what is the argument from the other side? What would people associated with the IPCC say to explain the (temperature) dip?"

Marohasy: "Well, the head of the IPCC has suggested natural factors are compensating for the increasing carbon dioxide levels and I guess, to some extent, that's what sceptics have been saying for some time: that, yes, carbon dioxide will give you some warming but there are a whole lot of other factors that may compensate or that may augment the warming from elevated levels of carbon dioxide.

"There's been a lot of talk about the impact of the sun and that maybe we're going to go through or are entering a period of less intense solar activity and this could be contributing to the current cooling."

Duffy: "Can you tell us about NASA's Aqua satellite, because I understand some of the data we're now getting is quite important in our understanding of how climate works?"

Marohasy: "That's right. ...-
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23411799-7583,00.html

While the Very Reverend Wright fills Obama's mind with the thought that the US Government created AIDS to wipe out minorities, we discover the "cure" for AIDS is US Government funded and does contribute to increase in the disease: the Amerikkkans are actually promoting genocide on those same minorities.

A self fulfilling prophecy! The man is inspired.

The saying in mortgage circles is you need two jobs and an illegal suite to qualify.

How un-responsible, and a little bit dense can you be, to think that you can provide a decent environment for your child alone. Not only un-responsible but inconsiderate of those around you, and your parents who quite often windup looking after them. No parents? No problem, down load the problem on the tax payer, make society pay for your selfishness. Create all these false jobs in government to look after you, why not if their dumb enough to pay and society is stupid enough to condone it.

I guess the question I have to ask is, are we creating a stable self-sufficient society or an ant hill?

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c'mon... you emulate the sexual antics of a pack of
wild dogs... what could possibly go wrong?

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Back in the 1990's when I went to PT school, I knew a bunch of PhD candidates and doctors who were doing a variety of AIDS research in NY.

At that time it was explained to me at some length, lowly PT student though I was, that because of the way HIV works there cannot be a "vaccine" like the one for smallpox. The reason is because the virus doesn't really do anything to you. But it triggers your immune system to attack itself, because the virus looks exactly like part of a T-cell.

Therefore, if you develop antibodies to the HIV virus, they attack both the virus AND your own t-cells. Without T-cells, something else comes along and kills you. Like pneumonia, usually.

Antibodies developed from exposure to an HIV "vaccine" will give you AIDS just like the actual virus would. You got antibodies to HIV, you got AIDS, virus present or not. That's how it works.

This was -known- back in 1995, the way we know the sun rises in the East. A vaccine trial at that time was stopped because people were getting AIDS from it.

Presumably the current trials were supposed to be targeting some part of the HIV virus that wasn't thought to trigger the AIDS T-cell death cascade. Probably worth a try, bummer it didn't work.

But considering the sheer technical problems involved in producing a vaccine stock -clean enough-, as in having none of the undesirable HIV protein fragments present, it is no surprise. "None" is a relative term in molecular chemistry, you can't get to -really none- except in a computer simulation.

The ongoing scandal of the HIV epidemic is that simple, obvious public health measures still have not been taken. Measures that ARE taken regarding other infectious diseases like TB. Getting on an airplane while under treatment for TB will get you chucked in jail, but attending a sex club while under treatment for HIV? Not so much. If you get food poisoning at a greasy spoon the Health Department will close it. Catch HIV at the bath house? Nuh uh.

While I would actively fight against any attempt to curtail the freedom of movement, association, blah blah of HIV carriers (because its a brutal, stupid, unworkable socialist idea and nothing more than an excuse to persecute homosexuals), would it be too much to ask that disease spreading businesses be shut? Killing customers shouldn't be a career path, know what I mean?

bob: From "Norman's Spectator", today "ON MY MIND":

"--Under-reported

Pope baptizes prominent Italian Muslim"

Same story you reference. I think Mr Spector is making the same point as you.

Mark
Ottawa

WOW, The Phantom, most excellent post on AIDS. I know this 'cos I actually undertood it. :).
What's PT school?

ET: That's an excellent summary of the problem with Islam (I read the Thompson item and some of the links). I'm sure your various nemeses (is that a correct plural form?) would concur with every word. Well done. Me No Dhimmi layman summary: the violence is the desperation to make something work which all can see is failing. A re-doubling of effort for a doomed enterprise.

BTW, I've finished Karl Popper's Vol 1, The Open Society and Its Enemies (Plato). I can barely remember being in such a state of intellectual excitement. Great clarity and nearly conversational in tone. For example, no re-reading paragraphs of nested subordinate clauses to mine the meaning. One of the best reading tips I've ever received. THANKS.

Now, at the same time, I'm reading FA Hayek's The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism (Chicago, Vol 1 of the Collected Works). I almost didn't bother 'cos I pretty well understand why socialism doesn't work -- but glad I took it on; giving me a much deeper understanding of WHY it can't work: the logical errors, the misunderstanding of cultural evolution, i.e., civilization didn't arise from reason, but the other way around. I believe you would great enjoy this very short book.

Both books have given me a much better understanding of why most intellectuals hate the notion of spontaneous order and favour socialism.

important for SDA readers according to WK.

http://www.slatev.com/player.html?id=1390022082

ET,

"Christianity went through a comparable phase in the medieval era, when its beliefs had been taken over by a bureaucracy (the scholastics) who moved ideology outside of questioning and analysis, and froze the population into 'no questions, no analysis, only blind faith'. It didn't work; change moved in from the ground up."

I will agree with you with regards to the institutional aspects of the church at one time. However, you continue to ignore that Christianity is not foundationally violent. It does not command its adherents to kill, rape, enslave and to conquest.

Islam does this and more. These commands and rewards are futher institutionalized into law.

Islam is not the same as Christianity, or any other religion for that matter. Neither is it centralized in a body that can bring about reform.

So, to compare and predict a similar outcome is unprecedented. However, I think as Islam is being exposed and ridiculed, it will weaken and adherents will leave, not fearing it any longer. This is being seen in Iran. Currently, the estimates are that one million have left Islam for Christianity alone. This, despite the new death law for apostacy implemented there. Same for Africa.

ET at 10:53 AM

ET, excellent post, but it leaves me a little confused, as I ain't certain whether you are posting about extremist muslims, or just plain garden variety Lieberals:-)))))))

Mao Stlong say, Bob Rae, Liberal leader, my nephew, not my big blothel.
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Headed for Olympics? Beware of Big Brother
Olympic Attendees Will Be Bugged and Searched, U.S. State Department Says
http://tinyurl.com/352gba (abcnews)
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Tibetan revolt has China's empire fraying at the edge
Michael Sheridan in Chengdu
http://tinyurl.com/34cdkr (timesUK)

Damn, irwin daisy, beat me to it: Yes, on further reflection, I'm not sure I agree with the "Terrible Two's" notion of Islam which is going "through a phase". Christianity is not foundationally violent, does not see the world through a supremacist lens, does not wish to conquer the world, does not want to subjugate and or kill infidels, does not want to fuse religion and the state.
I had a friend once who basically made this argument. You know, we'll just wait it out and they'll come around -- like we did. He also made the same point about slavery, but of course, there was never, ever, a principled stand against slavery in the Islamic world. Anywhere. That came from the West entirely. He also didn't worry 'cos we had the biggest military. Gasp!

However, ET does say change needs to come in a hurry and DOES make the point that we must NOT apppease Islam in any way.
However, again, what about shutting down muslim immigration. Why not keep the best and the brighest in their own milieu where they might lead in the modernization of Islam?

BUT, it's not a phase and I worry about the risk of passivism that phrase may engender.

Also referencing my own comment, Islam is doomed, but perhaps we'll be doomed along with it. That's what it looks like to me, not being able to find any political leader in the world, including Bush-Rice, who have yet NOT named the enemy. In fact the latter have now joined the jihad (as of course have Olmert-Livni-Barak). America AND Israel are now arming the PA "security forces". Abbas must be delirious, rubbing his eyes in total amazement, wondering if he's gonna wake from the dream. (see Carlyn Glick on the Iraq surge - jihad enabling disconnent of the Bush-Rice admin).

Beeby/CanPress doing a service to Canadians. More, please.

The problem is that academic rigor mortis set in: ""McCoomb cited a "total lack of academic rigor""

TO/GTA threatened U-Know-What: "Should you decline this request, I see no other recourse than to pursue all means at our disposal to receive fair treatment," Lloyd McCoomb warned"
"
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"An analysis of the scorecards by the non-partisan lobby group Transport 2000 found that Pearson ranks poorly on efficiency when measured against comparable airports, such as Calgary and Vancouver."

Toronto Pearson airport erased from critical report after complaint from CEO

OTTAWA - Toronto's Pearson airport is being dropped from a global review of airport efficiency after a complaint about its embarrassingly low ranking.

The president and CEO of the Greater Toronto Airports Authority demanded the removal of Pearson from the annual survey of more than 150 major airports in a toughly worded letter last August.

"Should you decline this request, I see no other recourse than to pursue all means at our disposal to receive fair treatment," Lloyd McCoomb warned the lead researcher at the University of British Columbia.
http://tinyurl.com/34ghy6
By Dean Beeby, THE CANADIAN PRESS

A good post here at the Belmont Club on the strategic necessity of repeating things like the Motoons and Geert Wilders' film, mocking Islam in general and Mohammed in particular, as a critical front in the war on radical Islam.

http://fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/2008/03/weve-got-him-now.html

Another good take on AIDS and immigration,

Doug: I've heard it said that a politician's career was toast when it showed up in the 'monolgue' of the Johnny Carson/Jay Leno Shows.
Yeah, be kind to them -- mock 'em at every opportunity, help them to thicken the skin, and to adapt. And clobber them senseless when they react with violence. That's the ultimate kindness -- like our ultimate kindness to Japan in dropping those nukes.

OBL's latest outing was pure Monty Python, eh? Hilarious.

Forget it, Gerard. It's Chinatown*. Be careful; they are unreasonable accommodationists. Maybe the stuff is in the garbage.
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Quebec accommodation inquiry papers being sought after being left in taxi

MONTREAL - Documents relating to Quebec's commission on reasonable accommodation have vanished after being left in a taxi by inquiry co-chairman Gerard Bouchard.

Bouchard realized he forgot his briefcase in a cab after getting out in Montreal's Chinatown district last week,"
http://tinyurl.com/2nyoo5 (canpress)
*H/T J. J. "Jake" Gittes.

This is what happens in countries that have no Knife Registry.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/03/23/japan.stabbings.ap/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

TIBET
Should Canada Boycott Beijing Olympics ?
Yes (1921) 64%
No (780) 26%
I don't know (117) 4%
I don't care (201) 7%

Total Votes: 3019

http://bourque.freepolls.com/cgi-bin/pollresults/091

irwin daisy - the fact that Christianity is not foundationally violent, and I agree that it is not, while Islam is indeed foundationally violent, is actually irrelevant to the societal use of both religions as powerful tactics to control a population.

The medieval church moved into a position of supreme political, economic and intellectual power, from the 4th through 10th centuries in Western Europe. Its dictates, not the biblical text, not the foundational beliefs of Christianity, effectively ruled the population. And this rule, like the current Islamic rule, rejected reason, individual freedom, questions, exploration of the material world, science, and so on. It effectively froze the population into serfdom and led to a societal inability to deal with population growth, food production, health care, etc.

It took several hundred years to change this infrastructure - and the church fought with every tactic it had - and it had all the power - economic control of the land, of the lords, political control of the governance.

But, the old economic and political mode simply couldn't sustain the population. Change was needed, and this change could only come from individual reason, questions ,dissent. When it came, particularly in te 14th-17th c, an explosion of invention took place.

I'm saying that the Islamic ideology is in the same position as the medieval ideology of the west in the 9th c; frozen. Rejecting the individual, yet, as it is, unable to enable its population to survive and participate in the industrial world.

Forget the text; that's not the point. The scholastics of medieval Europe collapsed and had to open the knowledge base to the people. It will happen with Islam. As I said, Islam is fighting to retain its old tribal mode. The Church hierarchy fought as well, back in the 10th c.

What changed the West? Necessity. Its inability to sustain its constantly increasing population meant poor nutrition, and plague after plague after plague. It needed to 'do things differently'.

What will change Islam? Necessity. Now, Islam is protected from 'plague after plague' because the West has already industrialized and western technology has enabled the oil of the ME to sustain the population. But they are sustained in serfdom; they have food but no power to make decisions. The internet, television, media systems are exposing these people to industrialism, and capitalism. This is opening up their feudal system 'from then inside'.

But, the West has to consistently reject their frozen ideology, reject their beliefs as overturning Western freedoms. It has to reject multiculturalism and insist on integration. That's the 'necessity' that confronts Islam. It cannot make the world into a 7th c. belief system.

More on AIDS, immigration, and health budget, http://calsun.canoe.ca/News/Columnists/Robinson_Ian/2008/03/23/5081556-sun.php

That's odd...the index page of www.fitnathemovie.co.uk/

is now a redirect page (to islamway.com ) which contains the text:

It will be as stated in the title Mr Maichel Los

Religions are ment to be respected (whatever they are, or whatever their believers think they are).

If you are so young to understand or pay such respects, then let me know in your comming feedback
But if you are doing this for the sake of google adsense, bear in your mind, you choose the wrong way indeed

Make A choice Buddy ...

for the sake of google adsense?? Strange idea indeed

Forgot to mention the page "title" was...

My Last Warning ...

btw... the page has been removed now. I noticed it up for only the time it took me to write my previous post. Cheers and Happy Easter everyone.

Importing aids into Canada makes as mush sense as funding cheap aids drugs to Africa to prolong the epidemic indefinitely.
Why pay to keep HIV infected Africans alive an extra 20 years to allow them to produce even more infected children? Why not let the virus run it’s course and nature will take care of itself. People who don’t engage in unprotected sex or share needles will survive and move one, the gene pool will remain healthy both physically and intellectually as well as risks of the virus mutating through drug manipulation will be eliminated. No costs involved.

Further to fitna.co.uk ...

Seems it was a hoax site all along (or all a hoax?)

via Hotair

Has anybody seen hide or hair of CTV's David Akin or CBC's Bonner - they have been missing since they were implicated in the so called leak about Obama's real position on NAFTA.

Are they in Toronto with the other CBC reporter who was caught spinning and inventing the news?

Man fined, forfeits boat for illegal seafood sales.

http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/westcoastnews/story.html?id=b841f71d-dd07-428a-879a-ef5221fb2c3b

“I don’t think freedom of expression should mean freedom from Islam,” said Senegal’s President Abdoulaye Wade, the chairman of the 57-member Organization of the Islamic Conference. “There can be no freedom without fences.”

There, corrected in bold.

this guy or the nutter in mexico , which do you save?

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080323/kohail_protest_080323/20080323?hub=Canada

Maz2 # 1.25

Moe Stlong say: "Man who hide in China is UN Friend"

ET: Afterhought.

This adaptation you say is inevitable:
Isn't it true that the West is preventing this adaptation by allowing massive immigration and also appeasing Islam; one of dozens of examples, paying welfare for multiple wives.

Won't it be the West that "adapts" -- dilutes its own culture to accomodate Islam?

Trust Israel to find a way to create volumes of FRESH potable water.

http://tinyurl.com/2jqdjx

Clean Water, the essential world fuel. = TG

lmf

Are they in Toronto with the other CBC reporter who was caught spinning and inventing the news?

Akin has been moved to Toronto. Nothing public or private floating about Bonner.

bob

Islam is not doomed as much as we are if we continue to view this patriarchal death cult as a 'religion'. Islam gives the power to the male who reaps the benefits of the power. The female, must submitto the male or be punished. This will go on and on because of the total mind-control aspects of the 'religion'. FIVE times a day,each and every day,the male superiority is pounded into their brain. FIVE times a day,the woman is told she is inferior,and the male is told he is superior,along with the rest of the death cult crap. I believe that if I was subjected to this mental abuse from puberty onward,you would have a very hard time pointing my thoughts in another direction.

Allowing HIV immigrants into this country has already killed many innocent victims(the Ugandan who infected numerous women in Montreal, a few who have died), and it has to stop.

One majority for the CPC, and we could completely end this travesty(how may infected refugees did we get stuck with after that aids lovefest?).

All I can say is that my family and I are lucky that we do not live in that sewer known as the GTA.

Quiet night tonight. On the subject of single mums. The sttes started a program in the early 70's,I believe it was called Aid for Dependent Children. This program ,rightfully so,provided much needed assistance to single mums raising children. Unfortunately,it also provided the catalyst to improve your bankroll by adding more dependents. If the monies provided to single parents diminished as the brood increased,maybe,just maybe,there would have been better results.Hindsight is 20/20,ignorance is bliss.

I forgot to add the point that is most relevant to Canada.Our reserves,children having children,and isn't it so endearing that the whole community raises the child while mommy goes off to pop out another dependant.

I am utterly disgusted with the MSM coverage being given to the controversy regarding the Canadian Human Rights Commissions. I asked a good friend who works for Parliament and follows the news DILIGENTLY if he was aware of this controversy and he was not. Google coughs up 58 items for "Canadian human rights" -- and 291 for "Brenda Martin" -- I think there is something seriously amiss with how media make judgments about what is in fact newsworthy.

"Network Solutions censors Fitna website"

Network Solutions hosts hizbollah.org !?

h/t commenter at hotair.com

'Speaking of AIDS prevention research:

Responses to the global HIV/AIDS epidemic are often driven not by evidence but by ideology, stereotypes, and false assumptions...Edward C. Green, Director of AIDS Prevention Research Project, Harvard Centre for Population and Development Studies and Allison Herling Ruark, Research Fellow.

From an article, “Ten myths and one truth about generalised HIV epidemics,” by James D. Shelton, in the fall 2007 issue of The Lancet:

“Condoms are the answer—Condom use, especially by sex workers, is crucial to the containment of concentrated epidemics, and condoms help to protect some individuals. But condoms alone have limited impact in generalised epidemics. Many people dislike using them (especially in regular relationships), protection is imperfect, use is often irregular, and condoms seem to foster disinhibition, in which people engage in risky sex either with condoms or with the intention of using condoms.”

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140673607617553/fulltext

Green and Ruark contend that these myths, which are self-evident truths to many HIV/AIDS prevention crusaders (Stephen Lewis, are you listening?) result in efforts which are ineffective and harmful, while the AIDS epidemic continues to spread.

http://www.harvardaidsprp.org/newsletter/winter08.html

Unfortunately, because there has been a massive psychological and monetary investment in so-called “best practices” for the prevention of the spread of HIV/AIDS, it is often not in the interests of a global multibillion-dollar AIDS industry to endorse low-cost, home-grown, simple behaviour change interventions (such as abstinence), which leads to the industry’s continuing to promote myths about HIV/AIDS prevention and to insist on medical products and/or services (condoms, etc.) provided by outside experts—a view promoted in the report from The Berkley Centre at Georgetown University entitled “Faith Communities Engage the HIV/AIDS Crisis” by Katherine Marshall and Lucy Keough.
http://repository.berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/AIDS_final.pdf