Tel-Chai Nation

The Times-Picayune (via Jihad Watch) says that local legislators have followed in the footsteps of New York's, and provided measures to protect against the kind of problems Rachel Ehrenfeld had:

Within minutes Monday a legislative committee repudiated both Islamic and British law.

Neither, perhaps, represents an immediate threat to justice in Louisiana, but it was not entirely an alarmist and xenophobic stunt when the committee approved two bills by Rep. Ernest Wooton, R-Belle Chase. Mostly, but not entirely.

One of Wooton's bills, which provides that no foreign law shall be applied here if it violates a right guaranteed by the American Constitution, is by any rational measure superfluous. But it is not unknown for immigrant litigants to invoke the tenets of Sharia to which, the committee was told, the Maryland courts deferred in a child custody case.

The Louisiana Supreme Court has so far insisted that cases in America are settled according to American law, but the committee figured it was wise to commit future jurists to that sound principle. At least the bill does no harm.

Wooton's other bill may be largely symbolic too, although it is worth passing just in case. It does not single out the Limeys, but its refusal to enforce foreign defamation judgments that are "repugnant to the public policy of this state" is clearly aimed at them. Other states have passed, or are considering, similar legislation in response to a libel award rendered in London against the American writer Rachel Ehrenfeld.

It must be embarrassing for the British when American legislators lump them together with the avatars of medieval repression, but plenty of them are evidently aware it is fair, at least in the context of libel law. As a general election approaches, all three major parties in the UK promise to reform laws that have created "libel tourism" on the very island where John Milton wrote the book on press freedom, "Areopagitica." That was in 1644, so it's about time the government got the hang of it.

You can say that again. Now, maybe some book publishers should consider Louisiana a worthy place to set up business?

Labels: islam, londonistan, United States

In a positive sign on Europe's fighting back against Islamization, Belgium's parliament has voted to ban Muslim veils in public (Hat tip: Prairie Pundit):

PARIS -- Belgian lawmakers on Thursday passed a nationwide ban prohibiting women from wearing full-face Islamic veils in public places, the first move of its kind in Western Europe.

The unanimous vote in the lower house of Parliament came in response to growing irritation in Belgium and other West European countries over the increasing numbers and visibility of Muslims whose customs and attitudes often present a challenge to the continent's largely Christian heritage.

The French government, after months of rancorous debate, has pledged to pass a similar nationwide ban by September, a promise denounced by Muslims as "stigmatization" of their religion. President Nicolas Sarkozy decided last week to introduce the bill despite a warning from the country's constitutional court that a blanket prohibition would probably be unconstitutional.

"The burqa has no place in France," he said.

Similar bills have been introduced in the parliaments of Italy and the Netherlands, where local jurisdictions have already imposed more-limited anti-veil measures. Two dozen communities in Belgium also have decreed local bans, including Brussels, the capital.

According to Human Rights Watch, the U.S.-based advocacy group, political figures in Switzerland and Austria have suggested that legislation such as Belgium's would be a good idea in their countries as well. Farther north, Denmark's government issued a statement in January saying the full-face veil was out of sync with Danish values, but decided against legislation because few women wear such garments.

Swiss voters, in a referendum in December, barred Muslims from building minarets, or towers, to call the faithful to prayer. Their vote, widely decried as anti-Islamic by Muslim and human rights groups, generated favorable comment from conservative French politicians along with suggestions that France should impose a similar minaret ban.

I think the next debate in Europe should be about minarets, but for now, the problems with veils is definitely something that must be confronted. Not to mention the serious case of Muslim males who condone violence against women who don't bow to their alleged superiority.

Labels: belgium, Europe, France, islam, Italy, misogyny, Netherlands, Scandanavia

This is a debut advertisement from Keep Israel Safe, a new organization whose website isn't quite done, but will probably be ready by Sunday. (via the Weekly Standard and Hot Air.) It's modeled in some ways after Keep America Safe.

Labels: Israel

Jerusalem mayor Nir Barkat visited Washington DC, and made clear that housing construction in Jerusalem will continue uninterrupted:

Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat is in Washington this week to meet with senior United States officials. In a news conference held during his tour, Barkat took a firm stance on the Obama administration's pressure to stop building houses for Jews in eastern Jerusalem, saying a construction freeze would be “illegal”.

“There's no freeze... We're going to build, and we're not going to stop it,” Barkat told reporters. “It is illegal to stop it.”

One other reason why? Because it'd be trampling upon the rights of private investors too, who have every right to earn a living with their own construction projects.

Barkat added that the Jerusalem municipality will not change its planning process despite the diplomatic incident regarding Ramat Shlomo. The city will continue to approve construction without involving the prime minister, he said. “It doesn't work like that,” he said. “Each of us has his own authority and his own decisions to make.”

During his visit Barkat met with several US lawmakers, among them House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and House Republican Whip Eric Cantor. Cantor backed Barkat's statement that Jerusalem will remain Israel's united capital, and said that both Democrats and Republicans back that view, despite the position taken by Obama and his staff.

Point here: municipal heads have their own authority and right to deal with local issues, construction included, and higher ranking government cannot monopolize this.

Labels: Israel, Jerusalem, United States

This Jerusalem Post editorial reminds of Austria's own complicitness in the Holocaust, and also writes about how the Jobbik party in Hungary sadly took a bundle in the recent election. Yes, that is bad news.

Labels: anti-semitism, Europe

He apparently forgot to remove his microphone, and embarrassed himself while in a car. Here's what the transcript says (via Hot Air):

Duffy: We had it drummed in when I was a child with mine … it was education, health service and looking after the people who are vulnerable. But there’s too many people now who are vulnerable but they can claim and people who are vulnerable can’t get claim, can’t get it.

Brown: But they shouldn’t be doing that, there is no life on the dole for people any more. If you are unemployed you’ve got to go back to work. It’s six months.

Duffy: You can’t say anything about the immigrants because you’re saying that you’re … but all these eastern European what are coming in, where are they flocking from?

Then, in the car:

Aide: I’m not sure if they [the media] will go with that.

Brown: They will go with that.

Aide: What did she say?

Brown: Oh everything, she was just a sort of bigoted woman. She said she used be Labour. I mean it’s just ridiculous.

Oops! And this'll probably jeopardize his chances in the next election. He deserves it. Not that any replacement he'll get as premier will be any improvement, unfortunately.

Labels: londonistan, Moonbattery

The governor of Arizona recently signed into law a special one to help local authorities deal with illegal immigrants in the state. And if maintaining law and order is important, then it's quite dismaying to see former Bush administration aide Karl Rove opposing it (Hat tip: Moonbattery):

"I think there is going to be some constitutional problems with the bill," Rove reportedly said at a senior community center in The Villages, Forida, where he made a stop on his book tour. "I wished they hadn't passed it, in a way."

That last little part there, in a way, was doubtless his idea of how to deflect more serious criticism. Karl Rove, it's to be remembered, said once that he supported illegal immigration because it would save his children the indignation of hard work. Well gee, in that case, why not build some robots to fill this role? What he said actually tells just what he thinks of these foreign interlopers - specifically, he views them as inferior to himself. Of course, let's not forget that Bush's own record on these same subjects wasn't any better.

Rove also associated himself with Grover Norquist, that most awful Islam-whitewasher, as Frank Gaffney reported 7 years ago; see at Michelle Malkin for more. The best way to respond to such an apologist would be not to buy his new book.

Labels: immigration, islam, RINOs, United States

This news tells about the horrific case of a Chicago man who converted to Islam in prison, and later, when released, murdered his wife and 3 other relatives after the former refused to wear Islamic garb:

A Muslim man has confessed to kill[ing] his wife and three others in Chicago this month because she refused to wear Muslim garb and adopt his new-found faith. He is one of many to have converted to Islam in American prisons.

The confessed murderer is James A. Larry, 31, who confessed to the crime and expressed no remorse. During his most recent prison term, between 2002 and 2007, he began receiving visits by imams through the Islamic prison outreach program. “He became increasingly radicalized with orthodox Islamic beliefs," a detective on the case said, "ultimately demanding compliance to fundamentalist Islam by his wife and family. He [allegedly] killed his wife because she would not wear Muslim attire, and would not follow his beliefs. It was an honor killing, pure and simple…”

In addition to shooting his 19-year-old pregnant wife to death, Larry also stands accused of murdering three other relatives, all aged 16 and under, as well as injuring his mother and nephew and shooting at his niece.

"Prisons are Recruiting Grounds for Islamic Fundamentalism"
“This didn’t have to happen,” the detective said. “But it did, and it will probably happen again in another community, to another family. The reason it happened here and the reason it will happen again is that we’ve allowed our prisons to become recruiting grounds for Islamic fundamentalism that teaches this twisted [expletive deleted]. And our system has become too lenient, too ‘PC,’ and too afraid to confront this problem, so now we have nearly an entire family murdered by a guy quoting Allah and the Qur’an.”

Here's a complete article from Homeland Security US by Douglas Haggman about this serious case. What's also potentially troubling here is that his wife may have been 19 years old. Surely, if and when he married her, he wasn't violating the law by exploiting a minor? The age factor makes me wonder this.

Labels: islam, misogyny, United States

Accuracy in Media's Cliff Kincaid writes about how the British Conservative Party has moved only so far to the left, and that could be why their chances of winning the coming election are growing thinner, while the Liberal Democrats are rising. And if they win, Nick Clegg could become prime minister, and another problem for Israel. Then again, the Tories could win, and there'd be very little difference.

Kincaid also mentions how the Cato Institute is one of the most awful think-tanks in the US. Don't get submerged in that terrible quagmire that is Cato.

Labels: anti-semitism, Israel, londonistan, Moonbattery, political corruption

The US national security adviser James Jones has made a most unfunny joke about a Jewish store manager and a Taliban operative, told to an audience at the Wash. Institute for Near East Policy (Hat tip: Power Line). He's apologized for it now (also via Power Line), but it's too late, he's only let know just how much more awful the Obama administration's choices of staff happen to be.

Labels: anti-semitism, United States

Ruth King interviewed Diana West for Family Security Matters about her problems and disagreements with General David Petraeus. I'm decidedly presenting it here because, although the aforementioned leftard Mark Perry may have been instrumental in distorting info about Petraeus and what he said about Israel, West's argument makes me wonder: did we miss something here?

I guess that's why it's best to let others judge for themselves, and West does have some things to consider, including this:

Why the reticence? I think I know the answer. I've already mentioned some of my thoughts above on counterinsurgency doctrine. Well, Petraeus wrote the book on COIN -- literally. He is the lead author on the COIN manual that has guided the Pentagon in the execution of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, with Iraq in particular being a war that most conservatives and certainly all neoconservatives take immense pride in as a victory for the ages -- another delusional fantasy, in my view (see three part series on whether the "surge" was a success in Iraq here). Some of them have even acted as consultants or architects of this same, again, in my view, utterly disastrous war policy. What I think is impossible for them to face is 1) the possibility that their policy has achieved nothing of lasting value for the United States, and 2) the policy has instead done much to reorient our foreign policy around Arab-Islamic objectives in the COIN pursuit of Arab-Islamic hearts and minds. For what else is the effort, for example, to assuage the "Arab anger over the Palestinian question" as Gen. Petraeus put it to to the US Senate, than the effort to win Arab(-Islamic) hearts and minds?

On the subject of Iraq, she may have a point, which is: if all allied forces could do in Iraq is liberate from its previous tyrant, yet spectacularly fail to confront the problems with Islam itself, and introduce Iraqis to better forms of life, then how can they expect the victory to hold up?

Labels: Iraq, islam, Israel, United States

Let's hope this news will be fruitful, because sooner or later, that horrible law and the accompanying indoctrination that came with it are going to take their toll. China would also do well to start providing more free speech, and even freedom of religion for Christians (and Judaists, since I wouldn't be surprised if they too have encountered similar problems under China's communism).

Labels: China

Obama, kowtowing to the Turks again, has refused to use the word "genocide" when referring to the tragedy that took place during WW1 (via Eye on the World):

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (NYT) — President Obama, who as a candidate vowed to use the term genocide to describe the Ottoman slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians nearly a century ago, once again declined to do so on Saturday as he marked the anniversary of the start of the killings. [...]

When he was running for president and seeking votes from some of the 1.5 million Armenian Americans, Mr. Obama had no qualms about using the term genocide and criticized the Bush administration for firing an ambassador who dared to say the word. As a senator, he supported legislation calling the killings genocide.

“As president I will recognize the Armenian Genocide,” he said in a statement on Jan. 19, 2008, that used the word 10 more times. He said that “the Armenian Genocide is not an allegation, a personal opinion, or a point of view, but rather a widely documented fact.” He added, “An official policy that calls on diplomats to distort the historical facts is an untenable policy.”

Two years later, as president, he used none of that sort of language, though as he did a year ago, he hinted to Armenians that he still felt the same way. “I have consistently stated my own view of what occurred in 1915, and my view of that history has not changed,” he said. “It is in all of our interest to see the achievement a full, frank and just acknowledgment of the facts.”

We need a poll to learn just how many Armenian-Americans are going to vote for him now that he's shown some more of his dishonesty, all for the sake of appeasing the Turks.

Chuck DeVore writes about this subject at Red State.

Labels: Armenia, islam, jihad, racism, turkey

These rockets might have been fired by terrorists in Sinai or within Jordan itself, but landed in Jordan's vicinity instead:

Shortly before 11:00 this morning, two or three explosions were heard in Eilat, and reports of rockets fired from Jordan or the Sinai at the southern port city began to surface. The reports took on various shapes and forms, and nearly every permutation of Kassams and Katyushas fired from Jordan and Sinai towards Eilat was reported until around 1 PM, when the army finally announced that no findings of rocket blasts had been located in the city.

It then began to become clear that rockets had landed in the Jordanian city of Aqaba, adjacent to Eilat. Egypt denied that missiles had been over-shot from its territory, while a Jordanian security source soon announced that the rockets had been under-shot from within Jordanian territory, not reaching their target of Eilat.

An official Jordanian government spokesman said only that an explosion had occurred in a warehouse north of Aqaba, causing damage but no casualties.

What's not mentioned here is whether any terror suspects were sought and/or captured, or whether they'll be pursuing the vermin who tried to pull this act.

The same article also mentions something of concern about Jordan itself:

Israel has been officially at peace with Jordan since 1994, though King Abdullah recently said that his country was better off economically before it signed the peace agreement with Israel. "Our relationship with Israel is at an all-bottom low," he added.

There is still serious anti-semitism in Jordan, and one has to wonder if sooner or later, they'll follow in the footsteps of Turkey and do what to make relations erode.

Labels: Israel, jihad, jordan, terrorism

Netanyahu has made it clear to Obama: no freeze of construction in Jerusalem.

JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel's prime minister on Thursday rejected U.S. calls to halt construction in disputed east Jerusalem, clouding a new peace mission by Washington's Mideast envoy.

Benjamin Netanyahu's comments were broadcast on Israel's Channel 2 TV shortly after envoy George Mitchell arrived for his first visit in six weeks. Mitchell's efforts had been on hold due to disagreements over east Jerusalem, the section of the holy city claimed by Israel and the Palestinians.

"I am saying one thing. There will be no freeze in Jerusalem," Netanyahu said. "There should be no preconditions to talks."

There, that's how to put it. A nation surrounded by hostile forces of Islam cannot afford to do things that could damage it even more.

See also this entry at Hot Air.

Update: Sen. Charles Schumer, of all people, has slammed Obama for how he's handled Israel (also via Hot Air).

Labels: Israel, Jerusalem, United States

Finally, a proper ending to an attempt to sacrifice a brave US military official on the alter of political correctness and appeasement (Hat tip: Jihad Watch):

A U.S. military jury Thursday cleared a Navy SEAL of failing to prevent the beating of an Iraqi prisoner suspected of masterminding a 2004 attack that killed four American security contractors.

The contractors' burned bodies were dragged through the streets and two were hanged from a bridge over the Euphrates river in the former insurgent hotbed of Fallouja, in what became a major turning point in the Iraq war.

The trial of three SEALs, the Navy's elite special forces unit, has outraged many Americans who see it as coddling terrorists.

Petty Officer 1st Class Julio Huertas, 28, of Blue Island, Ill., was found not guilty by a six-man jury of charges of dereliction of duty and attempting to influence the testimony of another service member....

Huertas is the first of three SEALS to face a court-martial for charges related to the abuse incident. All three SEALs could have received only a disciplinary reprimand, but insisted on a military trial to clear their names and save their careers....

The Iraqi prisoner who was allegedly abused, Ahmed Hashim Abed, testified Wednesday on the opening day of the trial at the U.S. military's Camp Victory on Baghdad's western outskirts that he was beaten by U.S. troops while hooded and tied to a chair.

Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Kevin DeMartino, who was assigned to process and transport the prisoner and is not a SEAL, testified he saw one SEAL punch the prisoner in the stomach and watched blood spurt from his mouth. Huertas and the third SEAL were in the narrow holding-room at the time of the incident, he added.

But defense attorneys tried to cast doubt on the beating claims, showing photographs of Abed after the alleged beating in which he had a visible cut inside his lip but no obvious signs of bruising or injuries anywhere else.

In her closing arguments, Huertas' civilian attorney Monica Lombardi pointed to inconsistencies between DeMartino's testimony and nearly every other Navy witness. She also reminded the jury of the terrorism charges against Abed, who is in Iraqi custody and has not yet been tried, saying he could not be trusted and may have inflicted wounds on himself as a way of recasting blame on American troops.

But prosecutor Lt. Cmdr. Jason Grover said DeMartino said the SEALs were itching to abuse Abed as payback for the killings of the Blackwater guards -- two of whom were former SEALs.

All I can say is that master Grover is not fit for his job. This is a savage beast they were accused of bashing up, not some innocent bystanders. A terrorist who commits evil acts like what Abed did deserves no liberties.

The other 2 SEALS should be acquitted as well, and all 3 SEALS should be given medals of honor now, and not only that, the senior officers who failed to thank them earlier must apologize for their betrayal.

Others on the subject include Doug Powers, Backyard Conservative, Pirates' Cove, Hyscience, Flopping Aces, Patterico.

Labels: Iraq, jihad, Moonbattery, United States, war on terror

Very fortunate. The Miami-Dade transit has restored the advertisements for the Leaving Islam campaign (Hat tip: Jihad Watch):

MIAMI, April 21, 2010 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- SIOA applauds end to 'campaign of hatred and intolerance'

The Freedom Defense Initiative (FDI) and Stop the Islamization of America (SIOA) today announced that Miami-Dade Transit is restoring bus advertisements in defense of religious freedom that had been taken down after an anti-free speech campaign by a Hamas-linked Islamic hate group.

Join SIOA on Facebook:

The CBS Outdoor bus ad company restored the ads after Miami-Dade Transit bowed to a threatened lawsuit by its attorneys David Yerushalmi and Robert Muise (the latter of the Thomas More Law Center) on behalf of SIOA executive director Pamela Geller and associate director Robert Spencer for breach of contract and infringement of their First Amendment free speech rights.

The South Florida chapter of the Hamas-linked Islamic supremacist hate group Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) had pressured Miami-Dade Transit to drop SIOA's religious liberty ads, which offer aid to Muslims threatened for leaving Islam.

The SIOA ad at issue, which will now run on thirty buses, not just on the original 10 buses on which it ran originally in Miami-Dade County, stated: "Leaving Islam? Fatwa on your head? Family or community threatening you? Got questions? Get answers! RefugefromIslam.com."

SIOA has evidence that, all over the world, Muslims trying to leave Islam are regularly threatened and even murdered. Recently, apostates from Islam have been killed in Bangladesh, Chad, Somalia, and threatened with death in Afghanistan, Egypt, Iran, and Nigeria - as well as in Australia, Britain and the United States, where the teenage Christian convert Rifqa Bary has been threatened and victimized. Saudi Arabia also subjects apostates to capital punishment.

Yet the Executive Director of the South Florida chapter of the CAIR hate group, Muhammed Malik, made a patently false and misleading statement in a Miami Herald story about Miami-Dade Transit's capitulation to Sharia: "Islam guarantees freedom to and freedom from religion. . . . [We] reject as un-Islamic any extremist interpretation that sanctions the killing of any individual because she decided to 'leave Islam.'"

Malik's statement is explicitly contradicted by the command of Muhammad, the prophet of Islam and supreme example of conduct for the Muslim: "Whoever changes his Islamic religion, then kill him." (Bukhari 9.84.57) Contrary to Malik's claim, all the schools of Islamic jurisprudence teach that a sane adult male who leaves Islam must be killed. As pointed out above, this is not some theoretical Sharia dictate; this is extant law in every Muslim country that follows Islamic law.

Thus, the internationally renowned Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi of Al-Jazeera has said that "Muslim jurists are unanimous that apostates must be punished...The majority of them...agree that apostates must be executed."

Ironically, the Council on American-Islamic Relations presents itself as a civil rights organization, a claim often parroted by media outlets; but in reality, CAIR is an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror funding case -- so named by the Justice Department. In this trial, the evidence demonstrated that CAIR founders Omar Ahmad and Niwad Awad (who still serves as CAIR's executive director), were present at a Hamas planning meeting in Philadelphia in 1993 where they and other Hamas operatives conspired to raise funds for Hamas and to promote jihad in the Middle East. CAIR has steadfastly refused to denounce Hamas and Hizballah as terrorist groups.

It's always a good idea to inform people of CAIR's own terrorist connections. No alleged civil rights group that engages in the kind of evil that they have should be recognized as legitimate.

Labels: CAIR corruption, islam, United States

The president of France is continuing to work on legislation to ban the niqab:

PARIS (AP) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Wednesday ordered legislation that would ban women from wearing Islamic veils that hide the face in the street and other public places.

In seeking to forbid the garment from public view, Sarkozy defied the advice of experts sought by the government who warned that such a broad ban risked contravening France's constitution.

Such a measure would put France on the same track as Belgium, which is also moving toward a complete ban in a similar reaction as Islamic culture has come in conflict with native European values. Sarkozy has repeatedly said that such clothing oppresses women and is "not welcome" in France.

Government spokesman Luc Chatel said after Wednesday's weekly Cabinet meeting that the president decided the government should submit a bill to parliament in May on an overall ban on burqa-like veils.

"The ban on veils covering the whole face should be general, in every public space, because the dignity of women cannot be put in doubt," Chatel said.

The decision to seek a full ban, rather than a limited ban, came as a surprise. After a Cabinet meeting just a week ago, the government spokesman announced a decision for legislation that bans the veil but takes into account conclusions on the matter by the Council of State, France's highest administrative office.

I think they're doing the right thing to try and obtain as wide a ban on that oppressive garment as possible. And the sooner this can be managed, the better.

Update: as explained in this article (via Jihad Watch), this will apply to tourists as well. A good idea, I'd say, since tourists too have to learn about upholding the law.

Labels: Europe, France, islam, misogyny

There's a new network coming up called RightNetwork, spoken about here in the Phila. Inquirer (via Hot Air Headlines). It just might be the very thing to take up from where FOX has slowly left off after Murdoch went out of his mind and associated himself with Saudi prince bin Talal. We just got to hope then that the owners of this venture know better than to make the same mistakes Murdoch has.

Labels: communications, United States

I just took part in another bloggers conference hosted by One Jerusalem with pollster John McLaughlin.

McLaughlin did a survey of Jewish voters in the USA asking what their opinion is now of Obama, and it does appear that many are disillusioned with him, and dismayed with how he's treated Israel, and there's many (46 percent) who would rather choose another candidate in the next election than Obama. If so, it could be that finally, after many years, American Jewish voters are beginning to change their minds about the Democrats.

Labels: conferences

The World Bible Quiz is held every year on Independence Day in Israel, and this is the first time I know of that a girl has won the contest:

Or Ashual, a 17-year-old student at the Kfar Saba Amana girls’ school, became the 2010 winner of the World Bible Quiz competition on Tuesday, which took place on Israel’s 62nd Independence Day at the Jerusalem Center for the Performing Arts.

The first runner-up was Elad Nachshon of the De Shalit high school in Rehovot, while third place went to Avner Netanyahu, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s 15-year-old son, who is a ninth-grader at a school in the capital. The younger Netanyahu was also the winner of last month’s National Bible Quiz.

Ashual bested 15 other finalists from all over the world, including the Americas and Australia.

That's right, even the PM's own son was a contestant here. This was quite an amazing contest this year.

Labels: Israel

Scott McKay at Pajamas Media writes about how Allee Bautsch, an employee of Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal and her boyfriend, Joe Brown, were violently assaulted by members of a leftist group called Iron Rail, and beaten so badly they'll need at least 3 months to recover from broken bones. For the umpteenth time, most tragically, the MSM has no interest in this horrific case, and to make matters worse, the mayor of New Orleans hasn't even offered a get well soon message to the victims.

It's to be hoped that the Iron Rail gang will be banned and those perpetrators of this violent crime will be arrested and imprisoned. Since the local police may not even be willing to take any serious action, that's why I'd say the state police will have to be brought in to deal with this.

Others rightfully outraged include Rhymes With Right, Red State, Michelle Malkin, Cassy Fiano, Around the Sphere, The Snooper Report, Hot Air, The Other McCain, Tennessee Conservative, Big Government.

Labels: misogyny, Moonbattery, msm foulness, United States

Israel has turned down a request by Turkey to buy military systems, including a new anti-tank weapon. And they've refused to do so with good reason: with Islamofascism and anti-semitism on the rise/return in that country, those same weapons could very easily be used against Israel and other allies. Israel should not take the risk of giving Turkey a rope with which to hang itself.

Labels: anti-semitism, islam, Israel, terrorism, turkey

For being stupid enough to host Grover Norquist on her radio show. As has been noted by a couple others before, he is basically an Islamist mole, and probably even a CAIR agent. It doesn't matter what he knows about taxes that he probably even uses to fund Islamist causes, he has caused serious harm to America, and Ingraham is not making it any better by giving him even a financial platform.

Update: and what on earth is National Review doing posting an invitation he wrote to one of the meetings he was managing? No wonder I don't particularly care to read their site now.

Labels: communications, islam, United States

Nonie Darwish writes on Front Page Magazine that Obama's policies could lead to Egypt falling to the Muslim Brotherhood, just like under Carter in 1979, Iran fell to the Ayatollah. Indeed, one can only wonder how long it'll be before this could happen, even though Mubarak, still the current dictator, is much worse than the Shah of Iran ever was.

Labels: Egypt, islam, jihad

Now, with Independence Day coming in, why not add several items on this very amazing subject.

Let's begin with an interview the Jerusalem Post has given to Moshe Yaalon, strategic affairs minister, where he talks about how the war of independence hasn't ended.

And next, the ceremonies start.

Some notes on the history of Israel.

Short but sweet: the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle has said that local Independence Day celebrations are worth attending.

From Danny Ayalon...

We have a video message to the Diaspora, plus transcript (Hat tip: Solomonia).

And here's a short one on how this day celebrates two miracles.

Labels: Israel

The Bulletin lets us know why we can't let down our guard on Iran:

Jerusalem — The head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali Akbar Salehi announced this week that Iran plans to unveil a series of new achievements on Iran’s annual National Day of Nuclear Technology, saying that “Concurrent with the National Day of Nuclear Technology, a number of our country’s achievements would be unveiled in the presence of the president,” Mr. Salehi stated.

We're going to have to be on the alert, and I hope Israel's ready to deal with the monsters behind this looming nightmare.

Labels: iran, islam, jihad, terrorism

Here are several items to coincide with War Remembrance Day, which is also a memorial day for victims of terrorism.

Netanyahu says that peace requires strong defense. This also mentions that his brother Jonathan was one of the army operatives who was murdered during the Entebbe Raid. And here's some more from YnetNews (via Isreally Cool). Update: here's one extra about Netanyahu's speech on Ammunition Hill.

Police honor 1,249 who've died since independence.

The foreign ministry honors at least 16 who died in terror attacks.

A special post from Life in Mitzpe Ramon about this day, and also from Yaakov Lozowick.

Labels: islam, Israel, jihad, terrorism

On Big Government, Adam Savit writes about how, in CAIR's latest scheme to smear Republican Sue Myrick and Act for America, they've recruited a female pastor named Wilifred Allen-Faiella - in fact, the only would-be spokesperson they've been able to recruit for this. Allen-Faiella, as reported 6 years ago in the Miami New Times, allowed a convicted pedophile named Steven Sypnieski to work at a thrift shop connected with her church's K-6 elementary school. This same criminal, astonishingly enough, was only given 10 years probation for his crime. As Savit tells here (via The Jawa Report):

In October, 2003 – 11 years after the confession, just after his probation sentence ended – Sypnieski was brought into the Church School’s thrift shop as a volunteer by Allen-Faiella. Allen-Faiella admitted “I was made aware of his record on the sixteenth of December [a Tuesday in 2003],” but because the Christmas break was to begin Friday, she stated that “I intended to take care of the situation as soon as we got back. In fact I put it on the calendar for January 7 to talk with my priest assistant how we were going to handle the matter.” According to the Miami New Times, “When parents discovered the man’s criminal record, Allen-Faiella failed to take immediate action, so the school’s principal, Carol Shabe, forcefully confronted the pastor, demanding that the man’s school access be revoked at once….” According to the report, the school principal had to ask Allen-Faiella two more times to take Sypnieski’s keys away from him before Allen-Faiella would take action. Parents and donors withdrew support for the school in reaction to the pastor’s behavior; and Pastor Allen-Faiella fired the school principal Carol Shabe later that year for “divisiveness.”

So on the one hand, Allen-Faiella initially refused to get rid of the lubricant, until the parental withdrawal of donations probably forced her to. On the other hand, she fired the principal, who was much more responsible, possibly in revenge. Just what kind of pastor is this who refuses to take responsibility? A disgusting person like that should have her own degree as a pastor revoked.

As for CAIR, it's worth noting, besides the fact that they have recruited a most utterly reprehensible person for their smear campaign, and have been most obnoxious in their assaults on free speech, that they are an unregistered foreign agent, and have not reported what they're doing to the Foreign Agents Registration Act. And that, as Savit says, is breaking the law.

Savit and company have sent a letter to Allen-Faiella about this, but I won't be surprised if she ignores their arguments just as much. Anyone who could put up with a child rapist as much as she has cannot be expected to understand the seriousness of the subject of Islamofascism and terrorism either.

Labels: CAIR corruption, dhimmitude, islam, Moonbattery, United States, US Congress

The situation surrounding the Obama administration's relations with Israel is getting worse, if the following is any indication (via Boker Tov Boulder):

Mr. Obama said conflicts like the one in the Middle East ended up “costing us significantly in terms of both blood and treasure” — drawing an explicit link between the Israeli-Palestinian strife and the safety of American soldiers as they battle Islamic extremism and terrorism in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere.

So now he's turning to something that's very reminiscent of blood-libel tactics? This is becoming even more disturbing now.

At NRO's Media Blog, Guy Benson says:

What immediately struck me about this remark was our commander-in-chief's apparent ambivalence about America's vast and ongoing military superiority.

Some of his defenders argue the "whether we like it or not" clause was actually referring to the end of his sentence — the bit about getting "pulled into" various skirmishes around the world. That result of our strength, they say, is what may or may not be a good thing in his eyes. Perhaps.

It certainly would have been helpful for this great orator to make his point — to borrow a phrase — "absolutely clear." We're all guilty of sloppy and imprecise speech on occasion, but the president should have been more conscientious when publicly discussing American power at a large international gathering.

[....]

I do not know precisely what President Obama meant when he made the statement in question — nor do I pretend to. But based on his own past rhetoric, actions, and associations, I think it's entirely reasonable to draw attention to this remark, and to carefully examine this president's view of the country he was elected to lead.

Eric Cantor has spoken out against Obama for doing this (via Israel Matzav):

The true barrier to ending the Mideast conflict is the widespread Palestinian refusal to accept and to live alongside Israel as a Jewish state. While Israel continues its search for a reliable partner in peace, Palestinian terrorism is still celebrated in the West Bank and Gaza. Despite this reality, since day one the White House has applied a severe double standard that refuses to hold the Palestinians accountable for their many provocations. It makes one wonder where the responsible adults are in the administration?

The administration’s troubling policy of manufacturing fights with Israel to ingratiate itself with some in the Arab world is no way to advance the cause of Mideast peace. What kind of message is sent to the world when our country appears to turn its back on key strategic allies who share our values?

“The list of grievances supposedly stoking the hatred of Islamic terrorists is endless and evolving. Before Al Qaeda used our support for Israel against us, Bin Laden’s main grievance was the presence of U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia and sanctions against Saddam’s Iraq – both of which no longer exist. The suggestion that terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan will lay down their weapons if we distance ourselves from Israel is blindingly naïve. We know this because it’s been tried before. For example, Russia has sided with Israel’s Arab enemies since the days of the Cold War, and today it condemns Israel at the U.N., sells arms to Israel’s arch-enemies Syria and Iran, and is attempting to block meaningful international sanctions against Iran’s nuclear program. Did this stop Islamist suicide bombers from murdering 38 in an attack on two Moscow subway stations last month?

“With each passing day, more Americans are becoming increasingly concerned about the deteriorating state of U.S.-Israel relations. This concern was expressed succinctly by a letter today from World Jewish Congress President Ron Lauder to President Obama, who wrote, ‘Our great country and the tiny State of Israel have long shared the core values of freedom and democracy. It is a bond much treasured by the Jewish people. In that spirit I submit, most respectfully, that it is time to end our public feud with Israel and to confront the real challenges that we face together.’ I couldn’t agree more.

American Jews are now going to have to seriously contemplate this politician they put into power.

Labels: anti-semitism, islam, Israel, United States

John Hinderaker at Power Line features a letter from a correspondent who'd been at a Tea Party rally, and had the displeasure of finding Ron Paul, the rotten apple of the Republican party who's had connections with racism and anti-war insanity, a featured speaker there.

Reading this, I feel very dismayed. Indeed, as the correspondent asks, what were the organizers - including the head of Freedom Works - thinking? Do they realize that if they continue to associate themselves with people like Ron Paul, they might very well give the left a weapon to use after all in their absurd, less-than-altruistic desire to smear the Tea Party as racists?

The organizers of the Tea Party have a lot of explaining to do, because if John's item is any suggestion, it's that people with common sense are going to start becoming alienated sooner or later. Like many Tea Party activists, I'm also against Obamacare. But to allow people like Ron Paul to be involved is maintaining a double-standard and making perfect fools out of themselves.

Update: just two months ago, Red State, run by Erick Erickson, who may be a Tea Party activist, banished truthers and birthers from his site (Hat tip: Doc Rampage and Instapundit). While this is applaudable, I'm afraid more, very serious work, is going to have to be done, if John's post is any signal, in order to ensure that they aren't associating themselves with racists and such. Even if the Tea Party doesn't want to tackle issues like terrorism, racism, and Islamofascism, that doesn't mean they should allow people like that to dwell in their midst, and if they realize that people like Ron Paul are the very problem they want to avoid, they'd better distance themselves from them as quickly as possible.

Labels: anti-semitism, Moonbattery, political corruption, racism, RINOs, United States

Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and renowned author, has come to the defense of Jerusalem in a special advertisement published in the Wall Street Journal, Wash. Post and Intl. Herald Tribune.

Labels: Israel, Jerusalem

The American Thinker discovers startling news that a Turkish Islamic movement has gained access to US schools (via Molten Thought):

Gülen has been criticized as the puppet master for the current Turkish government headed by the "soft Islamist" Justice and Development Party, known by its Turkish initials as the AKP, in its slow-motion showdown with the secularist Turkish military. But Gülen is also known in Muslim countries for his network of 500-700 Islamic schools around the world, according to differing sources favorable to his movement. A more critical view of Gülen's emphasis on education asserts that his international network of thousands of primary and secondary schools, universities, and student residences is a key element in solidifying an Islamist political agenda in Turkey.

But in startling news for Americans, the Gülen movement operates more than 85 primary and secondary schools on our soil. A roster of the Gülen schools and of the numerous foundations that support them has been released to the public by the patriotic group Act! for America. The Gülen schools are often designated as "science academies" and are concentrated in Texas, Ohio, and California -- with others scattered across the rest of the country.

Parents who don't want their children being indoctrinated by any propaganda these jihadists could inject must take action and protest.

Labels: anti-americanism, dhimmitude, islam, turkey, United States

Almost forgot to mention, but, Obama has bowed a third time . . . to the Chinese premier, Hu. Not as deep as for the Japanese Emperor, but still, quite a shame.

I wonder whom he'll do it for next? The premier of Korea, maybe? Or even the monarchies of Scandanavia?

Labels: China, United States

Jihad Watch and Atlas Shrugs bring you the advertising campaign for Stop Islamization of America that's needed to counter one done by CAIR. It begins with a bus advertising campaign in Miami reading as "Leaving Islam", and provides the contact info needed for those seeking help.

Update: and now we sadly learn that the Miami-Dade transit service has caved. I think all concerned should contact the service and complain.

Update 2: Atlas Shrugs and Jihad Watch are suing the Miami transit company for breach of contract. If you can, help them in this fight for freedom of speech.

Update 3: good luck, the campaign has been restored.

Labels: islam, United States

The Independent says that several Jews from Yemen who've been persecuted by the Religion of Peace there will be given asylum (via The Jawa Report):

Britain is on the verge of signing a secret deal to allow a small number of Yemeni Jews facing severe persecution in their home country to move to the UK, The Independent has learnt.

[...]Assaults against the country's small Jewish community intensified to such a level last year that the US State Department organised a series of airlifts to evacuate more than 100 Jews with connections to the Yemeni community already living in America.

[...]Once out of the country, the Raida Jews will be able to claim refugee status, although each application will still be considered on an individual basis, unlike in the US where all Yemeni Jews are guaranteed asylum.

Yes, it's amazing the UK would allow this, but even so, I'm still puzzled why they would seek refuge there instead of here. Seriously, what's the use of going to a country that could one day become as bad as it is back in Yemen?

Labels: anti-semitism, islam, londonistan, yemen

MSNBC reports that the Department of Defense has made the following statement (Hat tip: The Weekly Standard):

-- DOD's commitment to the Joint Terrorism Task Force is “inadequate,” which results in “inconsistent” coordination with the FBI. The Joint Task force knew well before the shooting that Hassan was in communications with an al Qaeda sympathizer and recruiter, but that was not reported to DOD or the military.

-- Commanders and supervisors do not always receive information about individuals who may commit violent acts.

-- Counterintelligence training does not address “emerging threats including self-radicalization,” which may contribute to potential violence. Hasan was known to have gone off on Islamic-related religious rants, and expressed strong opposition to Muslims in the U.S. military serving in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

-- DOD policy prohibiting certain supremacist or extremist behavior is “unclear” and “limited” when it comes to individual behavior.

-- DOD does not have a comprehensive cyberspace counterintelligence program to alert authorities to “non-foreign intelligence” on potential threats.

The DoD is also going to have to start ensuring that monsters like Hasan will not be allowed to serve in the military ever again, nor that political correctness will get in the way. They have a considerable amount of repairs to make.

Labels: jihad, terrorism, United States, war on terror

Aw, poor Richard Goldstone. The awful, Israel-bashing judge working at the UN, who ignored the real findings and bigger picture surrounding Operation Cast Lead, and who's clearly a self-hater, has been banned from attending his grandson's bar-mitzvah:

Justice Richard Goldstone, whose UN report on Operation Cast Lead accused Israel of committing war crimes in Gaza, has been prohibited from attending his grandson's bar-mitzvah by the South African Zionist Federation, the Writing Rights blog reported Thursday.

It said recent negotiations between the federation, the Sandton synagogue at which the ceremony will take place, and the bar-mitzvah boy's family concluded that the judge will be banned from attending the event.

A synagogue official who refused to be named confirmed in an interview with Ynet that the bar-mitzvah would take place there and that Goldstone would not be in attendance.

"We only suggested that he refrain from coming in order to prevent a scene. No one forced him not to come," the official said. "If he arrives extensive security measures will have to be taken, and no one wants that. Apparently he doesn't want a scene at his grandson's bar-mitzvah either. There are many people who don't want him there, and if he comes it could cause problems, as people are very angry with him."

Rabbi Shalom Bacher, a native of Johannesburg and the chief rabbi of the Blairgowrie Synagogue in the city, was not surprised by the news.

"The vast majority of Jews here don't like him, and are very angry with him," he told Ynet. "The vast majority here are Zionists, love Israel unconditionally, and have excellent ties with Israel that go beyond politics."

Goldstone himself has claimed he's a Zionist. But considering the word is synonymous with patriot, which he clearly is not, he thus cannot claim to be so. I don't feel sorry for him being unable to attend, he doesn't deserve to.

Labels: Africa, anti-semitism, dhimmitude, Israel, UN corruption

The courts have cleared for publication that former PM Olmert is considered the numero uno suspect in a real estate scam:

They referred to him as "the senior personality," "the main suspect abroad," and even E.O. Now, the missing link is finally official. Ehud Olmert, former prime minister and former mayor of Jerusalem during the licensing of the Holyland real estate project, is slated to be investigated under caution in coming days in what has been called by one judge, "one of the worst corruption cases in the history of the country."

This information was cleared for publication Thursday morning by the courts. It was also cleared for publication that the State Prosecutor's Office and the police have at a State witness at their disposal. The identity of the witness remains confidential.

The National Fraud Investigations Unit suspects that Olmert, currently on trial for three other corruption cases, pocketed hundreds of thousands of shekels from businessmen, entrepreneurs, and stakeholders in the affair. In return, the latter received a cash cow, recently labeled "an ugly real estate monstrosity" by the court.

It was also cleared for publication that the police suspect that as a result of the bribes the Holyland real estate development was expanded 1,200% beyond the limit authorized in the original plan. The police suspect that the bribes were systematically handed out to various officials in the Jerusalem Municipality and other public bodies.

As the Holyland affair broke last week and part of it were first made known to the public, Olmert was abroad. This was no coincidence. Ynet learned that the arrest warrants for the six arrested suspects waited until Olmert's plane took off, and then the police jumped on the opportunity.

"The fact that he was abroad served the investigation overall," explained the police. "After all, he couldn't disrupt it from there, and this also prevented unnecessary unpleasantness for him. Such a senior personality is not so easily arrested."

That's the sad part of it. He can't be permitted immunity from trial and arrest just because he was such a bigshot. He's planning to go on TV to insist he's innocent. But all he's doing is making himself look utterly pathetic, and unable to face the reality of his wrongs. Olmert is simply a very disgraceful man, unwilling to admit to any guilt in the wrongdoings he's committed over the years. Now, he's hopefully going to pay a heavy price for his deeds, which include, lest we forget, his attempts to sell Israel down the river to the Religion of Peace. If he does pay the price, it will be most richly deserved.

Labels: Israel, political corruption

The head of the World Jewish Congress has written a letter to Obama asking him to stop his feud with Israel and work on real problems like the Iranian nuclear crisis (via One Jerusalem):

Lauder also queries President Obama on America’s wider strategy for the Middle East: “The Administration's desire to improve relations with the Muslim world is well known. But is friction with Israel part of this new strategy? Is it assumed worsening relations with Israel can improve relations with Muslims? History is clear on the matter: appeasement does not work. It can achieve the opposite of what is intended.”

It will be published tomorrow in the Wall Street Journal and Wash. Post. Lauder's done the right thing to speak up.

Labels: anti-semitism, iran, islam, Israel, United States

Michael Medved writes a short item on Town Hall's blog noting that shedding its nuclear weaponry research won't make America safer, and only leaves it open to easier attacks by its enemies abroad.

Labels: anti-americanism, United States

I heard about this on the radio last night. An advertisement for the Volkswagen Polo, mainly for British sales, that shows a terrorist attempting to blow himself up near a cafe, but the car is supposedly so steely built that it withstands the bomb and just the terrorist is disintegrated.

Well sorry to say, but it isn't funny, and I can understand why this drew outrage, causing them to withdraw the commercial. The car company that began as part of the nazi regime, and I wouldn't be surprised if it were a governmentdictatorship-backed company when it began (and Ferdinand Porsche himself was a nazi collaborator who later got deservedly imprisoned), has sunk to a new low. I always thought their cars and trucks were some of the ugliest I'd ever seen, not the least being their first junkpile, the "Beetle". And we thought the Audi A3 commercial was bad!

This calls for a boycott, I'd say. To my knowledge, Renault may return to selling cars in the US, and if they do, that could be the best alternative to VW's cheap, crappy cars and trucks.

Via Eriteatteri.

Update: of course, my preferred vehicle maker would be Citroen, and car of choice would have to be the C6 luxury car. Now isn't that a masterpiece?

Labels: germany, londonistan, Moonbattery, terrorism

The European Union Times (via The Astute Bloggers and Gateway Pundit) tells something very surprising:

A new report circulating in the Kremlin today authored by France’s Directorate-General for External Security (DGSE) and recently “obtained” by the FSB shockingly quotes French President Nicolas Sarkozy [photo top right with Obama] as stating that President Barack Obama is “a dangerous[ly] aliéné”, which translates into his, Obama, being a “mad lunatic”, or in the American vernacular, “insane”.

According to this report, Sarkozy was “appalled” at Obama’s “vision” of what the World should be under his “guidance” and “amazed” at the American Presidents unwillingness to listen to either “reason” or “logic”. Sarkozy’s meeting where these impressions of Obama were formed took place nearly a fortnight ago at the White House in Washington D.C., and upon his leaving he “scolded” Obama and the US for not listening closely enough to what the rest of the World has to say.

Apparently, as this report details, the animosity between Sarkozy and Obama arose out of how best the West can deal with the growing threat posed by rising Islamic fundamentalism.

It's clear the relations between the French government and the US government are eroding rapidly.

More at Moonbattery.

Labels: Europe, France, islam, terrorism, United States

The Hill reports that Joe Lieberman has slammed Obama's administration for taking out references to Islam and jihad from the national security policy (via Hot Air):

Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) on Sunday called the administration’s proposal to avoid the term “Islamic extremism” in national security references “absolutely Orwellian and counterproductive.”

Lieberman revealed on “Fox News Sunday” that he had sent a letter to the president’s top counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan, saying in part: “The failure to identify our enemy for what it is, violent Islamist extremism, is offensive and contradicts thousands of years of accepted military and intelligence doctrine to know your enemy.” [...]

Lieberman said that the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks were not carried out by “some amorphous group of violent extremists or environmental extremists or white supremacist extremists.”

“It’s absolutely Orwellian and counterproductive to the fight that we’re fighting at risk of great life every day to stop violent extremism of an Islamist base,” he said.

Without knowledge, there's no defense, and the Obama administration sure isn't helping by omitting these crucial facts.

Labels: islam, jihad, terrorism, United States, war on terror

Anat Kam, the journalist and former army member who gave classified documents to Haaretz journalist Uri Blau, now appears to be trying to cooperate with authorities and fix the damage before it's done:

Journalist Anat Kam, who is accused of stealing thousands of classified IDF files, has waived her claim to journalistic immunity. Kam is calling on the reporter to whom she gave the files, Haaretz writer Uri Blau, to bring them back to Israel.

Kam is accused of stealing over 2,000 classified IDF documents during her service in the IDF, where she worked in the office of the GOC Central Command. She gave many of the documents to Blau, who used them to write an article in 2008 accusing Israel of killing terrorists who could have been arrested.

Blau made a deal with the Israel Security Agency to turn over the files he received from Kam, and in September 2009 he gave agents dozens of files. However, agents later realized that Blau had hundreds of other files which he had not returned.

Blau, who had traveled to London in the meantime, refused to return to Israel and hand over the other files, apparently due to concerns that the files could be used to implicate Kam.

"I think he didn't reveal the documents because he wanted to protect her,” said Kam's attorney, Avigdor Feldman. “Now she has waived her immunity as a source. She's asking him to return, and as I understand it, his return will help bring this matter to a close.”

Okay, this I have to question. Is this some sort of trick to obscure the offense Blau has committed by taking the stolen items and holding them illegally? And if some of the documents have already been given back, doesn't that implicate her anyway? Sorry, not buying those cheap excuses. She's doing the right thing just now to at least call on baddie Blau to return the illegally taken documents.

Update: after reading this article titled "Kam: History forgives those who expose war crimes" I think I'll have to look down my nose at Kam again, and see her as someone who's really just a disgrace and shame indeed.

Update 2: here's what Caroline Glick has to say about the case.

Labels: Israel, Moonbattery

Carol Gould at Pajamas Media discovered that the US Olympics group, which comprises as many as 1000 people, will be staying at the University of East London, which has been quite chummy with jihadists.

In answer to the question, I'd say no, they shouldn't be staying there, but rather, in a hotel in a safer neighborhood, assuming any are left.

Labels: islam, jihad, londonistan, United States

For Holocaust Memorial Day, here's a post for several articles and such about it, starting with this one about the ceremonies.

Shlomo Avineri writes about the Arabic connections to the Holocaust (via Yourish and Ruth King). And here's an extra item at Jihad Watch.

Special art exhibition.

The March of the Living will be taking place, and Rabbi Meir Lau and Natan Sharansky will be among the leaders.

Mordecai Nisan writes about this day at The American Thinker.

And here's an article by Jonathan Foreman about a huge nazi scandal that's engulfed Human Rights Watch. Very disturbing indeed.

Plus a special topic from Boker Tov Boulder.

Labels: anti-semitism, Europe, germany, islam, Israel

He practically listened to some news writers on the right who advised it. One of the reasons why (via Hot Air):

The PM made the decision Thursday after finding out that several Muslim states intend to bring up Israel’s failure to sign the Non-Proliferation Treaty. Earlier, the PM’s Office issued an official statement announcing the trip.

“In the last 24 hours we received reports about the intention of various states that will be present at the Washington conference to go beyond the issue of preventing nuclear terror,” a senior source in Jerusalem said. “These states intend to exploit the occasion in order to slam Israel. The prime minister expressed his displeasure over these intentions, and he will therefore not be traveling to the summit.”

It's for the best. Obama has given nothing to ensure Netanyahu can be confident at such a summit.

Others on the subject include Joshuapundit, One Jerusalem, Solomonia, Fausta's Blog.

Labels: anti-semitism, islam, Israel, Moonbattery, United States

A tragedy has occurred just as the Polish president and some of his staff, including military officials, were trying to land in Russia to commemorate the 1940 Katyn massacre of 22,000 Poles by the Soviets (H/T: Legal Insurrection):

Polish President Lech Kaczynski and some of the country's highest military and civilian leaders died Saturday along with dozens of others when the presidential plane crashed as it came in for a landing in thick fog in western Russia.

Russian and Polish officials offered conflicting death tolls but agreed there were no survivors on the Soviet-era Tupolev, which was taking the president, his wife and staff to events marking the 70th anniversary of the massacre of thousands of Polish officers by Soviet secret police.

The Army chief of staff, Gen. Franciszek Gagor, National Bank President Slawomir Skrzypek and Deputy Foreign Minister Andrzej Kremer were also on board, the Polish foreign ministry said.

This is certainly sad, because as far as I know, president Kaczynski was a friend of Israel's, and it means that someone who could've been a worthy ally has been lost too. Update: here's an extra article about this part.

Others on the subject include The Anchoress, Rhymes With Right, Michelle Malkin, The Snooper Report, Kim Priestap, Hot Air, Maggie's Farm, EU Referendum, Betsy's Page.

Labels: Europe, Russia

A most astonishing espionage case has just emerged, in which a left-wing journalist named Anat Kam, who's employed by Haaretz and the online Walla news service, has been indicted for treason:

A top secret case involving national security that was long kept under wraps by the IDF censor but was published in the international media was finally authorized for publication this morning. It involved the alleged theft of 2,000 secret IDF documents by a former soldier who worked as a journalist for the left-leaning Hebrew language news website Walla.

[...]

The facts that are permitted for publication are as follows:

Journalist Anat Kam, 23, is accused of stealing over 2,000 IDF classified documents, many hundreds of which are termed “secret” and “top secret.” The alleged crimes occurred when she served as a soldier clerking in the IDF military - specifically, in the office of the Commander of the Central District - between 2005-2007.

She allegedly handed over many of the “top secret” and “secret” documents to Haaretz reporter Uri Blau. Blau, who was abroad when the investigation started, has refused thus far to return to Israel for investigation. It is suspected that many of the classified papers are still in his possession – despite an offer made to him that the returned documents would not be used to prosecute him or his source, Anat Kam.

Kam, who was secretly arrested during the investigation, has been indicted in the Tel Aviv District Court. She stands accused of collecting secret information, giving it to unauthorized individuals, and attempting to harm state security.

There's more over here. Another absolutely shocking case of betrayal against the state that needs to be dealt with very seriously.

Update: and be sure to take note of Caroline Glick's news on how Haaretz has turned to the MSM in other countries to see that this is distorted as badly as possible to make it look as though the gag order was done for the wrong reasons. One of the most reprehensible people who took up on this for the sake of Israel-bashing was none other than Shepard Smith of FOX.

Others on the subject include A Soldier's Mother, Israel Matzav, Yaakov Lozowick.

Labels: anti-semitism, Israel, msm foulness

I'd almost neglected to take note of this important op-ed by Dore Gold wrote for the Wash. Examiner, where he writes about Israel's long history since the Cold War of providing help for the US military, which many PC-advocates, now that I think of it, have never wanted to thank Israel for.

But there's another something that the Obama administration has only served to obscure with its artificial row over legal construction in Jerusalem.

Update: on a related note, here's Netanyahu's speech to AIPAC.

Labels: anti-semitism, Israel, Jerusalem, United States

No sooner did the Obama administration decide to delete references to Islamic extremism from the national security policy (via Hot Air), and even hinted it would impose a peace plan upon Israel (also via Hot Air), now, there's been another airline terrorism scare after a diplomat from Qatar caused a scare when he went into a bathroom to smoke. According to this item (via Ace of Spades HQ):

FBI agents say no explosives were found in the shoes of a Qatar diplomat who was subdued by federal air marshals on a United flight to Denver Wednesday night after allegedly telling the marshals, "I'm lighting my shoes on fire."

And if he was joking, let's just say it's not funny. In this article (via Michelle Malkin) we're told that:

The suspect was identified by authorities as a diplomat in the Qatar embassy in Washington, Mohammed al Modadi. The FBI said the man had full diplomat immunity as the 3rd secretary and vice-consul.

Is diplomatic immunity the new strategy in use by Islamofascists for testing airline security, and causing scares to help their alleged cause? Let's note that smoking on airlines is now a federal offense, and diplomats can't be immune to this either. Nor should they be excused for causing trouble like this arrogant would-be diplomat did, and should have their immunity revoked. But alas, the Obama administration probably won't do that.

Update: and as Town Hall's blog reports, it looks like al Modadi's going to get off scot-free. Truly a disgrace indeed.

Others on the subject include Paxalles, Fire Andrea Mitchell, Patterico.

Labels: anti-americanism, anti-semitism, dhimmitude, Israel, terrorism, United States, war on terror

Barry Rubin at the Gloria Center writes about how the former Canadian diplomat Robert Fowler has resorted to blaming Israel for middle eastern problems:

A former senior Canadian diplomat, Robert Fowler, made the main foreign policy speech to the Liberal Party convention there. He voiced the most common myth about the contemporary Middle East. In fact, it is a myth now returning to favor in the United States after many years in the shadows. (The last thing that killed it was the 1990 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait which indicated there were a few other problems in the region.)

Regarding Fowler, let me quote from the Ottawa Citizen editorial about the speech:

"Fowler singled out Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East, as the primary source of instability in the region. Meanwhile, a country like Iran -- a totalitarian theocracy bent on obtaining nuclear weapons, which it has already threatened to use -- didn't get a mention. Is that Fowler's idea of an "even-handed" approach to the Middle East?

"By externalizing blame for Arab-Muslim dysfunction--pinning it on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and on Israeli intransigence in particular-- Fowler is playing into the hands of all the Muslim dictators, autocrats and mullahs who use the "Zionist" threat to win popular legitimacy and to justify their refusal to embrace modernization, democratization and economic reform.

"As eminent Middle East scholar Barry Rubin has put it, attributing the Arab world's problems, including the rise of Islamic extremism, to Israel serves only to prevent "the kind of reappraisal necessary to fix the internal factors at the root of the problems and catastrophes" that have crippled virtually every single Arab country."

By the way, Fowler also blamed the expansion of Islamism into sub-Saharan Africa on Israel and dropped dark hints that Canadian foreign policy was currently so pro-Israel because Canadian Jews--who Fowler implies are somehow interlopers in any position of authority in the country--have too much power in the government. Funny how nobody would dare talk about any other religious, racial, or national-origin group that way. Indeed, if the name of any other such community were substituted in a similar speech, the speaker's career would be over.

Fowler's speech brings to mind some of the blame-game tactics used in Britain, when leftists there accuse Jews of owning the Tory party, completely despite how their respect for Israel is just as doubtful as Labor's. And Canada is sadly still far from maintaining common sense, if all they can think to do is persecute people like Mark Steyn.

Update: and on Canada, did anyone read yet about a machete attack against two Jewish students near Ottawa?

Labels: anti-semitism, Canada, islam, Israel, terrorism

The first Muslim to be in Congress has gone to Gaza:

(IsraelNN.com) Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Mn.), the first Muslim in the U.S. Congress, has completed a tour of Gaza, where he avoided Hamas officials and twitted back home headlines of heart-breaking crises allegedly caused by Israel.

So he's playing 2 sides of the same coin. He avoids meeting Hamas staff, yet he goes along and attacks Israel as the scapegoat nevertheless, and lays no blame upon Hamas - or Fatah - for any of it. I hope Minnesota votes him out soon.

Labels: islam, Israel, political corruption, terrorism, United States, US Congress

The Bulletin reports that Fatah is continuing with its policy of anti-americanism as much as anti-semitism:

Jerusalem - The Palestinian Authority has promoted an officer responsible for killing American citizens.

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has promoted Mahmoud Damra to the rank of major general. Damra was identified as the commander of Fatah's praetorian guard Force 17 and responsible for the security of Abbas's predecessor, Yasser Arafat. In other words, Abbas promoted a man who commands a Palestinian terror unit to the rank of major general.

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Damra was imprisoned by Israel in 2006. He was convicted of killing several people in attacks on civilians, including Americans Esh-Kodesh Gilmore as well as Binyamin and Talia Kahane in 2000.

And why may we not hear any objections from the Obama administration about this? Perhaps because the victims were Jewish too.

Labels: anti-americanism, anti-semitism, islam, Israel, United States

The AP/NY Times is reporting on this case. Aside from the predictable biases, it seems that the parents are still trying their utter reprehensive to sabotage her ability to get an asylum grant:

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- A teenage girl who converted to Christianity and ran away from home is being blocked by her Muslim parents from fighting the possibility of deportation, her attorney told a judge Monday in an ongoing custody dispute.

Rifqa Bary, 17, who fled home last year and stayed with a Florida minister whom she met on Facebook, is an illegal immigrant and does not want to be returned to her native Sri Lanka because she fears being harmed or killed by Muslim extremists.

Notice how they don't actually mention that the only reason she's in the US illegally is because her parents are too. Or that her own parents are said extremists.

Bary and her parents, Mohamed and Aysha Bary, have agreed to follow a counseling plan drawn up by a county child welfare agency to try to resolve the family's conflict. It requires both sides to work with individual counselors and to try to attend join counseling.

But a face-to-face meeting remains unlikely any time soon.

Jim Zorn, a children's services attorney, told the judge that Bary continues to believe that a reconciliation with her parents is impossible. Bary's counselor has indicated that contact with her parents would be premature, he said.

Bary has also complained that her parents have not responded to an emotional letter sent to them through a counselor that explains why their relationship broke down, Lloyd said.

And doesn't that tell that they've clearly stigmatized her and have no intention of respecting her wishes? It doesn't take too much to guess that they're the ones unwilling to undergo counseling. Exactly why she needs refugee status approval.

Update: here's a statement from Jamal Jivanjee on what's going on.

Others on the subject include What's Wrong with the World, Tundra Tabloids, Atlas Shrugs, The Jawa Report, AmerIsrael.

Labels: CAIR corruption, immigration, islam, misogyny, msm foulness, United States

Melanie Phillips writes about the continuing anti-semitic hatred in Britain's leftist ultra-elitists. For example, the UK Telegraph's got a disgusting article by two hatemongers where they say "Labour MPs accuse Tories of being too close to Israel". Oh please. The Tories are really no better nor different from the Labor party and would just as easily turn to the same revolting anti-Jewish stereotypes as the left would.

Why are any British Jews continuing to waste time in that crappy side of the UK known as England? I'll say however that maybe Scotland is a better place for Jews to live, if the JCPA's recent research provides reason for optimism. And maybe even in Wales. But England is hopeless.

Labels: anti-semitism, Israel, londonistan, msm foulness

Their courts upheld a prison sentence against 2 Britons for kissing:

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – A Dubai appeals court on Sunday upheld a one-month prison sentence for a British couple convicted of kissing in a restaurant.

The pair landed in court after an Emirati woman complained about the public kiss, which the couple insisted was just a peck on the cheek. They were arrested in November and convicted of inappropriate behavior and illegal drinking.

Cosmopolitan Dubai has the most relaxed social codes in the conservative Gulf, but authorities enforce strict decency laws and regularly crack down on people accused of pushing the limits, which can include everything from wearing a mini skirt to losing one's temper in traffic.

Last month an Indian couple was sentenced to three months in jail for exchanging steamy text messages. In 2008, two Britons accused of having sex on the beach got three months in jail, though their sentences were later suspended.

Ayman Najafi and Charlotte Adams — both in their 20s — were arrested after an Emirati woman claimed they exchanged a passionate kiss in a restaurant where she and her daughter were having dinner.

Najafi and Adams attended Sunday's hearing, but did not speak. Their lawyer, Khalaf al-Hosany, told the court in a previous hearing that they kissed on the cheek as a greeting and "never intended to break the law."

Appeals court judge Iysar Fouad upheld the conviction, the jail time and a fine of 1,000 dirhams — about $270 — each. They will be deported after serving their sentences.

The couple has 30 days to appeal Sunday's ruling in a higher court.

Their lawyer said Najafi and Adams were not in a relationship, but knew each other before they met in Dubai.

Najafi worked for a marketing firm in Dubai and Adams was visiting the Muslim city-state with a Western outlook that has become famous for its beaches, ever-taller skyscrapers and anything-goes attitude.

I won't be surprised if the UK government doesn't even protest this. But maybe this'll send a message to more Brits - since they're the main Europeans who seem to hang out there - that Dubai is not a place where they belong with its hypocritical oppresiveness. (At the same time, note that the man's got an Arabic name here, suggesting he's Arabic or Pakistani.) And what's this about "anything goes"? I'm afraid that only refers to whomever they care to arrest. No one with common sense should ever spend a vacation there, no matter how cheap they might make their rates.

Labels: Europe, islam, londonistan, UAE