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In this new Weekly Standard article, Gary Bauer talks about how "persecution" of Muslims in America is simply absurd. Yet this same article brings up some problems, how people who practice Islam are being allowed to immigrate to the US otherwise unexamined:

The years of highest immigration from the Middle East, moreover, have occurred since 9/11. Nearly 96,000 people from Muslim countries became legal permanent U.S. residents in 2005, the highest number in any year in the previous twenty years.

Some immigrants from the Middle East are Christians escaping persecution (about which more later). But the vast majority are Muslims. Plausible estimates of the number of Muslims in America vary widely, from 1.3 million to five million. But there is a consensus that Muslim Americans’ share of the population is climbing.

And if it's climbing, so too is the potential of shari'a and demand for religious accomodations, something that's been a problem over the past decade, to say nothing of dhimmitude, if you look at Michigan and Dearbornistan in private as an example.

Now, onto what I alluded to at the top:

Consider Iraq. As America’s “combat mission” concludes there, life has improved for many Iraqis. Yet conditions have deteriorated for Iraq’s Christians, mostly Chaldean Catholics and Protestant Assyrians. They have seen their churches destroyed and their leaders kidnapped, murdered, or both.

Hundreds of Iraqi Christians have been killed because of their faith over the last seven years. They have been forced to pay higher taxes than Muslims and been barred from voting. Chaldean Archbishop of Kirkuk Emil Nona recently said, “We are seeing another, the umpteenth, attack against Christians. The violence continues without relief.”

The Iraqi constitution, ratified in 2005, institutionalizes discrimination against non-Muslims. It states, “Islam is the official religion of the state and is a foundation source of legislation” and that “No law can be passed that contradicts the undisputed rules of Islam.”

The so-called constitution of Iraq also forbids Jews from residing there, not unlike how Jordan doesn't allow Jewish resident either. Yet this article makes no attempt to suggest that Dubya's administration had a fault, that it failed to do anything proper to defend Christians. In fact, it doesn't even mention that Obama's administration has a fault for not making improvements. Sometimes it's just totally ironic that an allegedly conservative government can be even more guilty of disaster than a liberal one can, or caused the problems beforehand.

Labels: dhimmitude, immigration, Iraq, islam, racism, United States

Ayaan Hirsi Ali, co-writing with Daniel Huff in the LA Times (via Hot Air Headlines) has addressed the serious problem of Islamofascists making death threats and why there needs to be a law to counter it:

Earlier this year, after Comedy Central altered an episode of "South Park" that had prompted threats because of the way it depicted Islam's prophet Muhammad, Seattle cartoonist Molly Norris proposed an "Everybody Draw Muhammad Day." The idea was, as she put it, to stand up for the 1st Amendment and "water down the pool of targets" for extremists.

The proposal got Norris targeted for assassination by radical Yemeni American cleric Anwar Awlaki, who has been linked to the attempted Christmas Day bombing of a Northwest Airlines flight and also to several of the 9/11 hijackers. This month, after warnings from the FBI, Norris went into hiding. The Seattle Weekly said that Norris was "moving, changing her name, and essentially wiping away her identity."

It's time for free-speech advocates to take a page from the abortion rights movement's playbook. In the 1990s, abortion providers faced the same sort of intimidation tactics and did not succumb. Instead, they lobbied for a federal law making it a crime to threaten people exercising reproductive rights and permitting victims to sue for damages. The Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, or FACE, passed in 1994 by solid bipartisan margins. A similar act is needed to cover threats against free-speech rights.

A federal law would do two things. First, it would deter violent tactics, by focusing national attention on the problem and invoking the formidable enforcement apparatus of the federal government. Second, its civil damages provision would empower victims of intimidation to act as private attorneys general to defend their rights.

Such an act is overdue. Across media and geographies, Islamic extremists are increasingly using intimidation to stifle free expression.

I fully agree that a law is needed everywhere in the west to ensure that Islamofascists cannot make threats of violence. At the same time, Muslim communities must be monitored to make sure they're not inciting in mosques and such in Arabic or other languages.

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

From Sky News (via Sister Toldjah), a disturbing report of a plot to commit a terrorist attack similar to that in Mumbai that may or may not have been thwarted (and notice how they'd rather use "militant" than "terrorist" as description):

Sky's foreign affairs editor Tim Marshall said militants based in Pakistan were planning simultaneous strikes on London and major cities in France and Germany.

He said the plan was in the advanced but not imminent stage and the plotters had been tracked by spy agencies "for some time".

Intelligence sources told Sky the planned attacks would have been similar to the commando-style raids carried out in Mumbai.

Then, Pakistan-based Islamist group Lashkar e Taiba killed 166 people in a series of gun and grenade attacks in the Indian city.

Marshall said the European plot had been "severely disrupted" following intelligence sharing between Britain, France, Germany and the US.

It is not known whether the attackers are already in Europe.

If they are, they could be hiding out in one of the Muslim enclaves that are already dominant in some of Europe's major cities. And that's why, if they don't want a major terrorist attack taking place, they're going to have to raid those enclaves. And they're going to have to call in the army if needed too.

Labels: Asia, Europe, France, germany, islam, jihad, londonistan, pakistan

Jihad Watch announces that on October 9, the FDI and SIOA will be organizing a protest against Ground Zero mosque builder Sharif el-Gamal, who's going to be speaking at a banquet for Hamas-linked CAIR. Atlas Shrugs has more details.

Labels: anti-americanism, anti-semitism, islam, jihad, New York, terrorism, United States

According to the information provided here (via The Jawa Report), Disney has caved to CAIR, being one of the few who still bend over backwards to that unindicted co-conspirator, and agreed to allow a Muslim woman to wear her headscarf for the public job.

I'd say this is as good a reason if any to boycott that awful "entertainment" corporation right into the ground.

Labels: CAIR corruption, dhimmitude, islam, showbiz, United States

The Jerusalem Post reports that the Hamas' leader, Khaled Mashaal, has threatened more murder against Jews in an interview aired on CNN. The problem with that, of course, is how it can serve to incite more hate across the airwaves. Simply disgusting.

Labels: anti-semitism, communications, islam, Israel, jihad, msm foulness, terrorism

It's past September 26, and the construction freeze in Judea/Samaria has ended. What's interesting is that deputy PM Silvan Shalom has admitted it was a mistake:

As the 10-month settlement freeze expired at midnight, Vice Premier Silvan Shalom toured the West Bank city of Hebron on Monday and called the prime minister's initial decision to freeze the settlements a "mistake."

Speaking at Hebron's Cave of the Patriarchs, Shalom responded to the Palestinian request to extend the settlement moratorium by three months, saying that even the 10 month freeze had been excessive.

Shalom said that the decision to end settlement building in the West Bank was a "mistaken" and "unwarranted" decision. Shalom said that he had been opposed to the settlement freeze from the beginning, and that it was a decision that no past prime minister ever agreed to.

Addressing Sunday's West Bank shooting after which a woman gave birth, Shalom said that the Jewish child which was born is proof of the Jewish nation's eternality, which will only continue to grow and develop.

That incident where mother and child survived to live a new life and another day was miraculous.

In their responses to this, some world leaders may have respected the end of this nonsense, but still manage to disappoint. William Hague, for example, has acted quite predictably and gallingly. On the other hand, Fatah dictator Abbas has "delayed" the decision whether to quit the talks. Don't think however, that this means he's willing to admit defeat. Update: Abbas and company are going to wait at least a week before deciding.

Labels: Israel, jihad, terrorism

Newsbusters reports that the disgusting journalist who used to work for Newsweek and has since become a reporter for CNN has lied about Hezbollah's reception to Israel as part of a "lesson" for Ground Zero mosque opponents. All this without mentioning Hassan Nasrallah's anti-semitic speeches. What's he doing is not just offensive to Israelis, it's also offensive to Americans.

Labels: anti-americanism, anti-semitism, Israel, msm foulness, terrorism, United States

Jamal Zahalka, an Arabic MK, has joined with the terrible professor Ilan Pappe in a quest to damage relations with India:

An Arab MK and a Jewish Israeli professor were among those in India last week for a conference that aimed to put an end to Israel-India ties. MK Jamal Zahalka (Balad), professor Ilan Pappe, and Palestinian Authority official Mustafa Barghouti traveled to New Delhi to speak in favor of boycotting Israel.

Like many pro-boycott conferences, the event in New Delhi featured criticism of the Jewish presence in Judea and Samaria, the growing Jewish population of Jerusalem, and the clash in late May between Israeli soldiers and pro-terror Turkish activists aboard a Gaza-bound ship. It also included criticism of the Jewish presence in the Negev, which Arab activists claimed is rightfully Bedouin land.

MK Zahalka told Indians to stop purchasing Israeli arms because they are, he claimed, ineffective. “India should end its defense ties with Israel because it is buying equipment that failed during Israel's aggression on Lebanon,” he said.

Ilan Pappe, one of the few Israeli professors to support an academic boycott of Israel, focused on the flotilla incident, which he said “exposed Israel for who and what they are [sic].” He criticized the Arab world for “not doing anything” against Israel.

Both Pappe and Zahalka were critical of Israel's ongoing talks with the Palestinian Authority, saying the talks are unlikely to succeed since they do not include Hamas, which governs Gaza.

The former doesn't belong in the Knesset, while the latter doesn't deserve to have a degree as a college professor.

Labels: anti-semitism, Asia, islam, Israel, Israeli Arabs, jihad, terrorism

The Washington Times (via The American Thinker) reports that the left-wing group J-Street is just another front for the traitorous George Soros:

The Jewish-American advocacy group J Street, which bills itself as the dovish alternative to the influential American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) lobby, has secretly received funding from billionaire George Soros despite previous denials that it accepted funds from the Hungarian-born financier and liberal political activist.

Tax forms obtained by The Washington Times reveal that Mr. Soros and his two children, Jonathan and Andrea Soros, contributed a total $245,000 to J Street from one Manhattan address in New York during the fiscal year from July 1, 2008 to June 30, 2009.

The contributions represent a third of the group's revenue from U.S. sources during the period. Nearly half of J Street's revenue during the timeframe - a total of $811,697 - however, came from a single donor in Happy Valley, Hong Kong, named Consolacion Esdicul. [...]

Mr. Ben Ami [J-Street's executive director] said his group had no qualms about getting money from Mr. Soros.

"I am very, very proud that our movement and what we are trying to do is aligned with the values and principles of George Soros and we are proud to have his support," he said.

Mr. Ben Ami said Mr. Soros "made the public decision not to support us once we launched. Once we got started, he provided us with some money." Mr. Ben Ami's words on Thursday contrasted sharply with statements on the J Street website concerning the group's receipt of funding from Mr. Soros.

In a section of the website called "myths and facts," the group includes a passage that reads: "George Soros very publicly stated his decision not to be engaged in J Street when it was launched - precisely out of fear that his involvement would be used against the organization."

After Mr. Ben Ami spoke with The Times, the website was abruptly amended Thursday night with an addition that stated: "J Street has said it doesn't receive money from George Soros, but now news reports indicate that he has in fact contributed."

Any group associated with Soros must be completely avoided. Who is Esdicul though? Could she be another crony of Soros?

Labels: Israel, Moonbattery, political corruption, United States

As he continues to deteriorate in mind, the former POTUS has attacked Israel's Russian-born population:

Israeli leaders have sharply criticized Bill Clinton over comments the former U.S. president made this week calling Russian immigrants in Israel an obstacle to peace.

Clinton, who is generally a well-loved figure in Israel for his efforts to broker a Mideast peace deal in the 1990s, also said at a round-table group this week in New York that the most recent arrivals in Israel have the hardest time agreeing to share the land with the Palestinians.

A well -loved figure? I think that's been a long-lived lie. He certainly won't be much now, after what he said this week. His stupidity only led to murder and made things even harder for Arabs in Israel too.

“An increasing number of the young people in the IDF (Israel Defense Force) are the children of Russians and settlers, the hardest-core people against a division of the land. This presents a staggering problem,” Clinton said. “It’s a different Israel. Sixteen percent of Israelis speak Russian.”

The remarks were first reported by Foreign Policy Magazine’s Cable blog.

Clinton couldn’t be reached for comment Thursday.

The comments, which come amid recently renewed Israeli-Palestinian peace talks sponsored by President Barack Obama, have sparked an uproar in Israel.

Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, whose Yisrael Beitenu party relies heavily on immigrant support, lashed out at Clinton, slamming his remarks as “crude generalizations” and accusing him of meddling in Israel’s internal affairs.

“The people of Israel are one nation and the Russian immigrants, like the other citizens of Israel, want true peace based on the recognition of Israel’s right to exist as the national state of the Jewish people,” Lieberman said in a statement.

“Unfortunately, it appears that Clinton has forgotten that the one who refused the far reaching offer that meant harsh Israeli concessions was actually Palestinian Authority chairman Yasser Arafat.”

In 2000, at the end of Clinton’s tenure, peace talks broke down when the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat rejected Clinton’s proposal.

In a flurry of violence too. He never wanted peace, and in the end, all he wanted was jihad.

But Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu sought to downplay the former president’s remarks, saying in a statement Wednesday that he “regrets” the comments and that Clinton, as a friend of Israel, was well aware of the great contribution of its Russian immigrant community.

Clinton called the Russian immigrant population in Israel the group least interested in a peace deal with the Palestinians. “They’ve just got there, it’s their country, they’ve made a commitment to the future there,” Clinton said, according to Foreign Policy. “They can’t imagine any historical or other claims that would justify dividing it.”

Clinton added that those who have been in Israel the longest and “have the benefit of historical context” were those most supportive of peace in Israel.

“They can imagine sharing a future,” he said.

Yes, a future without listening to people like him tell everybody what to think and believe, that's what! I have ancestors who came from Russia, including my late great-grandmother. And he has the gall to insult people like her? Oh yes, he most certainly is. This shows that Clinton is not worth paying any attention to, and never was.

Labels: anti-semitism, islam, Israel, Israeli Arabs, military, Moonbattery, Russia, United States

Phyllis Chesler writes on News Real Blog about something that I first noticed in Makor Rishon a few months ago: women who took part in leftist demonstrations against Israel, in support of palestinians, and yet, they were sexually harrassed, raped, and taken hostage in forced marriage by Muslims. And yes, even forced to convert to Islam. And their leftist directors and leaders make no attempt to help them whatsoever, treating them as expendable. This article gives more details:

Two activists have exposed a disturbing phenomenon that they say is an open secret within the “peace camp”: female “peace” activists are routinely harassed and raped by the Arabs of Judea and Samaria with whom they have come to identify. They say the phenomenon has gotten worse lately and that many foreign women end up as wives of local Arabs against their will, but cannot escape their new homes.

Roni Aloni Sedovnik, a feminist activist, penned an article in News1 – an independent website run by respected investigative reporter Yoav Yitzchak – under the heading “The Left's Betrayal of Female Peace Activists Who were Sexually Assaulted.”

“A nauseous atrocity has been going on for a long time behind the scenes at the leftists' demonstration at Bil'in, Naalin and Sheikh Jarrah [Shimon HaTzaddik],” she writes. “A dark secret that threatens to smash the basic ideological values upon which the demand to end the occupation of the Territories rests.”

It turns out, she explains, that when female peace activists from Israel and abroad come out to Judea and Samaria and demonstrate against the Israeli “occupation,” they are assaulted sexually by the Arab men whom they have come to help. These are not isolated incidents, Aloni-Sedovnik stresses. Rather, this is an “ongoing and widespread” phenomenon that includes verbal and physical abuse. She accuses the 'peace' camp of purposely covering up the trend so as not to offend “the Palestinians and their heritage, which sees women as sexual objects.”

Media cover-up
Aloni-Sedovnik cites two specific cases which she has knowledge of – one is a case of rape and another is “severe sexual harassment.” The attackers in both cases, she stresses, were familiar with the victims and knew that they were “peace activists.”

The rape occurred several months ago in the village of Umm Salmona, near Bethlehem. The victim, an American activist, wanted to press charges but leftist activists put pressure on her not to do so, so as not to damage the struggle against the 'occupation.'

The second case involved an Israeli activist who took part in the demonstrations at Shimon HaTzaddik neighborhood in eastern Jerusalem, where the High Court ruled that Jewish families may move into homes that they have owned for generations. This woman filed a complaint with the police but retracted it after “severe and unfair pressure” from the demonstrations' organizers, according to Aloni-Sedovnik. Furthermore, the organizers appealed to demonstrators to dress modestly when they come to the Arab neighborhoods and suggested that they wear head scarves.

Aloni-Sedovnik accuses the Israeli media of complicity in the cover-up.

Read the rest of the article. I think this is proof perfect why women shouldn't even be politically active in movements like these, if they're going to lead to their slavery. Here's some advice: any woman who goes through an experience like this must distance herself from the "peace movement" she was taking part in immediately, and not only that, when pressing charges, she must issue a subpoena for the organizers to testify, if they refused to help her. If the "peace activists" are going to betray their own members, then they must be held accountable as complicit in a crime, which they are indeed.

Labels: anti-americanism, anti-semitism, Europe, islam, Israel, misogyny, Moonbattery, msm foulness

So now Mahmoud Abbas is hinting - but only hinting - that he's willing to continue talking with the Israeli government even if they don't extend the building freeze:

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is leaving the door open to continue peace negotiations with Israel — even if the settlement construction resumes in the West Bank.

Abbas told American Jewish leaders in New York late Tuesday it would be "very difficult" to continue the talks if building resumes but added that he "cannot say" definitively that he would walk away.

I wonder whom these "leaders" are he spoke with? Because, should they even be speaking with someone like him? Someone who makes statements like the following:

"I cannot say I will leave the negotiations, but it's very difficult for me to resume talks if Prime Minister Netanyahu declares that he will continue his activity in the West Bank and Jerusalem," Abbas said, according to a transcript of the event obtained by The Associated Press.

He urged Israel to extend the building restrictions for several months while the sides negotiate the final borders between Israel and a future Palestine. "At that time, Israelis will be free to build in their territory and the Palestinians the same," he said

Moral equivalence, clear signals he doesn't like Netanyahu, and propaganda use of the country name the Romans came up with, that's Abbas for you. He doesn't fool me, though one has to wonder how much longer he can expect the really rancid members of his public to support him.

Labels: islam, Israel, Jerusalem, United States

Israel Today has found why Gazans are still having problems: because Hamas is pocketing the money!

A foreign journalist writing for the United Arab Emirates newspaper The National recently visited the Gaza Strip and discovered the reason many Gazans are still struggling despite the enormous influx of aid. That reason, as most already knew, is because Hamas is stealing the bulk of what your tax dollars are buying.

And isn't that why it's better then not to waste money on such monstrosities?

Labels: islam, Israel, jihad, terrorism

Caroline Glick has written her latest take on the phony peace process, and points out how Charles Krauthammer is actually harming Israel, which made me very angry last week. She says:

Krauthammer is widely perceived by the American public as a firm supporter of Israel. His many readers — who by and large are not close observers of Middle East events — defer to his judgment.

Unfortunately, his latest column shows that trust is unfounded. Krauthammer wrote, "No serious player believes [Israel] can hang on forever to the West Bank."

Not only do many serious players believe Israel can — and indeed should — hang on forever to Judea and Samaria, most close observers of events in the Middle East recognize that the central lesson of the past 17 years is that Israel must hang on to Judea and Samaria. The partial territorial surrenders Israel conducted in the 1990s led to the murder of more than a thousand Israel. Ceding these areas entirely would imperil the country. Even Clinton acknowledged this week that the current situation can continue for thirty years. And as all close observers and serious players in the Middle East know, thirty years is tantamount to forever.

Given Krauthammer's tremendous influence in shaping public opinion and policy in the US, his arrogant and false portrayal of reality is debilitating. This is particularly true in the current electoral season where Americans are seriously questioning the received wisdom of their policy elite for the first time in a generation. Now not only will Israel's supporters need to battle the administration for the US to adopt a rational policy towards the Palestinians and Israel. They will need to battle their supposed allies on the Right.

If Krauthammer cannot support Israel's rights to its birthrights properly, he shouldn't be commenting on the subject. He owes an apology for implying that I can't live where I want in Jerusalem, and that it's okay to remove Israelis from their residence for the sake of "peace". We probably shouldn't expect much from a columnist who works for the Wash. Post, but he's still a writer most unworthy of anyone looking for a hard-hitting commentary on mideast matters.

Labels: Israel, msm foulness, United States

You may have heard about this story in the Roxbury area, of a public school field trip in Wellesley, Massechussettes, to a Roxbury mosque where the students ended up praying in an Islamic sermon.

And the video shows some more. The school has apologized for doing this and their utter disrespect for the pupils and parents. But here's another real shocker: a Jewish student was among the fools who prostrated themselves, and to make matters worse, the dhimmi leftist rabbinical congregation of Boston has not only refused to condemn this, they've even attacked those rightfully concerned! The following sums up my angry feelings too about alleged reps of the Jewish community who collaborate with enemies:

For years, you have reviled and attacked those few brave souls who tried to alert the community of the danger of radical Islam. You called them bigots, haters, and Islamophobes, and you censored their information from reaching your congregants.

On May 25, 2010, when Wellesley public school kids were prostrating to Allah on the taxpayers' dime, what were you doing to protect the Jewish community? Well, seventy Boston rabbis were burning up the phone lines, planning an assault on Dr. Charles Jacobs, the founder of American for Peace and Tolerance, which released this hair-raising video.

And so, on June 10, you publicly issued a "Jewish fatwa" against Charles Jacobs in the Jewish Advocate, in which you demanded that "Mr. Jacobs discontinue his destructive campaign against Boston's Muslim community, which is based on innuendo, half-truths and unproven conspiracy theories. We call upon members of our community to reject the dangerous politics of division that Mr. Jacobs fosters ... We refuse to allow Mr. Jacobs to spread his calumnies and paralyze our community in fear."

Seventy of your most "distinguished" rabbis signed their names to this vomit-inducing twaddle!

You actively conspired to harm Dr. Jacobs rather than face the disturbing facts he was unearthing: the founder of the Islamic Society of Boston, Abdurahman Alamoudi, is in jail for 23 years for al-Qaeda-linked terrorist pranks; the loathsome Sheik Yusuf al-Qaradawi, "spiritual" leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, who's banned from the U.S., served as ISB Trustee; and Osama Kandil, ISB Trust President, is director of an Islamic charity designated as terrorist by the U.S. government.

So here's where your sharia-loving, self-induced, feel-good blindness leads us. You gave the rabbinical seal of approval to this freakshow at the Boston mosque -- and now we have bar mitzvah boys on the floor, praying to Allah.

And gosh, aren't we lucky? Your rabbi pals in New York are busy pulling the same bone-headed trick! They're bashing 9/11 families for not loving a Victory Mosque to the Nineteen Martyrs erected on the ashes of their dead, and for not wanting to hear "Allah Akbar" when they visit Ground Zero. And whom do these dignified rabbinical giants slobber over? The rat's nest of violent felons, criminal landlords, and 9/11 truthers who want to build the mosque, and who are this year's must-have, radical-chic fashion accessory for the "social justice" crowd.

Well, the day has finally come when we are not going to take it anymore.

We're proud American Jews, and we're not trading in our Constitution and Torah for the Koran, now or ever -- no matter how many red-faced temper tantrums you throw.

Here's sentiment I fully agree with. Of course, I think it would help to know - just what sects do these rabbis belong to? Orthodox? Conservative? Reform? Maybe even - gasp! - the anti-Zionist Satmar? I don't know, although I do realize that even today, sadly, it is possible for some Orthodox and Conservative reps to be dhimmis in America; I wouldn't underestimate them.

This has me feeling so disgusted, I'm practically wondering: if a Muslim woman wanted to convert to Judaism would these alleged rabbis agree to take her under their wing and accept her into their community, or, would they reject/betray her, which would be in complete violation of what the Judaist religion stands for?

Stella Paul, writer of this op-ed, is quite right to be angry at the "rabbis" who are acting traitorous. When exactly will they get the drubbing they deserve for their failure to serve humanity's better interests properly? It's got to be now.

Update: Big Peace also notes that the school officials violated anti-discrimination policies.

Labels: dhimmitude, islam, United States

Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and human rights activist, has said that the Ground Zero mosque site should be made an interfaith center:

Holocaust survivor and human rights advocate Elie Wiesel spoke last week to the Charlotte Observer about current events. Among other things, Wiesel spoke of the “Ground Zero mosque" planned for downtown Manhattan.

Wiesel suggested that the mosque and Muslim community center, which is to be built a short distance from the site of the World Trade Center terrorist attack, be made into an interfaith project.

“I would speak to the imam and tell him, 'Look, I don't doubt that your intentions are good. Nevertheless, you've divided the community. Why not unite it?'” Wiesel said. He added that someone from his foundation had been sent to speak to the imam, Feisal Abdul Rauf, and get his opinion.

Wiesel usually has some good ideas, but this is something I must disagree on, if only because leftists are likely to use that whole notion of interfaith for propaganda purposes, which in fact, interfaith is, depending on how you see it.

And he shouldn't be recognizing a man like Rauf who's supported terrorism either.

The site must be a memorial center for the victims of 9-11.

Labels: anti-americanism, islam, jihad, New York, terrorism, United States

On Big Peace as well as the accompanying video, lawyer David Yerushalmi gives a speech about the differences between Islamic shari'a and Jewish law, taken from a press conference he was at called Shariah: The Threat to America. It's a must-read for everyone.

Labels: islam, Israel, jihad, terrorism, United States

From MSNBC, another case of Islamofascism plotting to ply its evil trade, and thankfully failing here (Hat tip: Doug Powers at Michelle Malkin):

LONDON — Five men were arrested in London over an alleged threat to the pope and police searches were under way at locations across the British capital, police said Friday.

Pope Benedict XVI is in London on the second day of a four-day visit to Britain.

London’s Metropolitan Police said the men, between the ages of 26 and 50, were arrested under the Terrorism Act at a business in central London. Police declined to say whether the men were British or give details of their ethnicity. However, the BBC reported the men were not British nationals. According to Sky News, the suspects were believed to be of Arabic origin.

Sky also reported the men are Algerian.

The UK is a very dangerous place to be, thanks to their obsession with multi-culturalism.

Labels: islam, jihad, londonistan, terrorism, war on terror

In a positive sign, some members of Congress have spoken out against the arms deal being made by the US government with the House of Saud:

WASHINGTON – Several members of Congress are opposing the planned American arms sale to Saudi Arabia and have written US President Barack Obama to express their concerns.

“Saudi Arabia is not deserving of our aid, and by arming them with advanced American weaponry we are sending the wrong message,” wrote Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY), the lead author of the letter.

“Saudi Arabia has a history of financing terrorism, is a nation that teaches hate of Christians and Jews to their schoolchildren, and offered no help to the US as gas prices surged during the spike in oil prices.”

The deal reportedly includes up to $60 billion in sales of advanced fighter jets and helicopters, including F- 15s, Apaches and Black Hawks. The deal could also include expanded missile defenses and naval capabilities for Riyadh.

Once the administration officially informs Congress of the details, which is expected to take place in the next few weeks, the body will have 30 days to pass a resolution blocking the sale.

Fellow Democrats Shelley Berkley of Nevada and Christopher Carney of Pennsylvania joined Weiner in signing the letter to the president, and several Republican members have also separately voiced criticism of the deal.

Now if Saudi Arabia gets arms, what could they do with them one day? Could they declare war against another Islamic country, and could they even attack Israel too? Yes, they could do that, and mustn't be underestimated. That's why as much opposition is needed to this planned sale - and sellout.

Labels: anti-americanism, anti-semitism, dhimmitude, House of Saud, islam, Israel, jihad, terrorism, United States, US Congress, war on terror

If there's any thankful news about curbing Islam over in Israel, here it is near Beit El:

The High Court issued an immediate stop work order Thursday against builders of a mosque at Jelazoun near Beit El.

The order was issued in response to a motion filed by Regavim, an NGO that specializes in fighting illegal Arab construction. The motion was originally filed as what Regavim calls a “mirror motion” following the state's destruction of a synagogue at El Matan. A “mirror motion” is one that is filed against an Arab building after a nearby Jewish building is razed or slated for demolition, forcing the state to take similar action against the Arab building or to try and explain why it only enforces the law against Jews.

There's also another mosque mentioned near Yitzhar, with the challenge being to know who are the people behind its illegal construction.

Regavim is doing the right thing to oppose the construction of mosques like that one on this side of the globe. It's been a problem here long before it became a problem in America.

Labels: islam, Israel

In an important move, the French senate has followed up on the lower house's prior vote, and voted overwhelmingly to ban the niqab in public. Here's another article on this at Vos iz Neias, and another at The Globe and Mail (via Gateway Pundit).

This is a very important step in dealing with the Islamist encroachment in Europe. America would do well to get special laws introduced that could ban the veil from public places like banks and shopping malls, because there too, a need to prohibit veils is going to be necessary.

Labels: France, islam, misogyny

I may be late on this, but as I've discovered, Rifqa Bary has recieved a green card, providing her with the right to live and work in the US (Hat tip: The Jawa Report). See also at What's Wrong with the World.

With that told, however, there's sad news involving her lawyer, and Pamela Geller, who've been sued by the parents' lawyer, Omar Tarazi, on absurd grounds. Worse, actually, is that a Muslim hacker broke into the website of Stemberger's company, turning it to rubble (via Weasel Zippers). If you can, please make a donation to Stemberger's company to help fix the site.

Labels: islam, misogyny, United States

Jennifer Rubin at Commentary found Christine Amanpour hosting a biased panel on the state of Islam, hosting 3 panelists who all supported the Ground Zero mosque. And:

Even worse, Amanpour — with not a shred of evidence — claimed that mosque opponents are taking the position that al-Qaeda is building the Ground Zero mosque. Huh? Is anyone making that argument? She also takes as fact that the Ground Zero incident was ”whipped up by certain political interests.”

Nobody is saying that al Qaeda is the one building it, but let us be clear: they'd want it built, and it would be a victory for them as much as any other mosque built throughout the world. And the imam Abdul Rauf has already given clear signs he supports their kind of atrocities, as well as those of Hamas.

ABC News is antiquated, and doesn't deserve an audience, and Amanpour should become a has-been due to this latest dumb stunt of hers.

Labels: communications, dhimmitude, islam, jihad, msm foulness, New York, terrorism, United States

In Turkey's latest "election", a would-be referendum, the horrible Tayyip Erdogan has been given more power:

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan scored a major political victory in Sunday's closely watched constitutional referendum when voters approved a package of amendments in a landslide, handing his Islamic-rooted party a boost ahead the country's 2011 elections.

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The judicial reforms will increase the number of justices on the nation's historically secular Constitutional Court from 11 to 17 while giving AKP-dominated institutions such as the parliament more power in appointing them.

"The judicial branch — the last secular fortress, as many call it — will be neutralized by the new appointees," predicted Ilhan Tanir, a columnist for Turkey's Hurriyet Daily News. "Turkey now can be identified as Erdogan's country, much like [President Hugo] Chavez's Venezuela. His winning streak continues, and he's once more proven that he has an instinct for picking the right fights and avoiding the others."

Mr. Erdogan's successful moves on the judiciary follow years of AKP's steady effort to chip away at the influence of the country's politically powerful military, which had served as a bulwark against encroaching religious influence since the establishment of modern Turkey, at times overthrowing governments — as recently as 1997 — when the military leaders thought it drifted too far from the secularist vision of the republic's founder, Kemal Ataturk.

The referendum results, while not having much bearing on the military, are widely seen as a rebuke to the country's secular establishment.

But that's just the problem: with this, Islamism has only gained another foothold in Turkey. And what if the elections were rigged? And note the comparisons made to Chavez's regime in Venezuela. That's why Erdogan's increasing power is only reason to worry.

Labels: islam, turkey

The Bulletin reports that a special channel for conservative showbiz has been launched in the USA:

NEW YORK — Kelsey Grammer is an investor and public face supporting a new network that launched last week with entertainment designed to appeal to political conservatives.

RightNetwork, whose first series, “Running,” follows the fortunes of some Tea Party-backed candidates for public office, is also trying a new model to establish itself. It is initially making programming available through video-on-demand services, the Internet and through mobile phones, bypassing the approach of a traditional television network with a spot on channel lineups.

Investors hope the support of a conservative audience that has made Fox News Channel and radio hosts like Rush Limbaugh successful could also work for entertainment programming, said Kevin McFeeley, RightNetwork’s president.

“We feel the precedent has been set,” he said.

Yes, maybe it has! Better still, what if they were to buy the rights to some liberal-owned showbiz sources and see if they could inject some new life into them as well? That might work too.

Labels: communications, showbiz, United States

Michelle Malkin points to how, 9 years since the tragedy of 9-11, almost none of the buildings meant to replace those lost have been completed, and that includes some of the memorial structures. Only a handful have been completed. The Bergen Record says:

We are supposed to be pleased that One World Trade Center is rising, that work on that national Sept. 11 memorial is well under way, as is the transportation hub and one of three additional commercial towers. And we are pleased that these projects are moving along. But it has been nine years. Nine years and nothing is completed.

The New York Post says:

The chief culprits of the go-slow were the Port Authority and then-Gov. George Pataki — whose absent leadership, absurd design directives and destructive meddling are ancient history to site-watchers.

Until Ward’s arrival in 2007, the agency’s six-year delay in excavating the site’s eastern side was entirely to blame for Larry Silverstein’s inability to build.

But there were many enablers of the PA’s dereliction and of Pataki’s fecklessness. In the aftermath of 9/11, many leading business advocates sounded willing to cede Downtown planning to Mohamed Atta. Even New York City Partnership head Kathryn Wylde unfathomably argued that Downtown’s commercial-center days were over before 9/11 (despite all-time low vacancy as of Sept. 10, 2001) — so why bother rebuilding offices?

The let’s-go-slow crowd included the think tanks like the Regional Plan Association, for whom no rebuilding would do without a utopian fantasy of parks and transit amenities.

Mayor Bloomberg (who’s since bravely changed his tune) undermined Silverstein and Downtown. He assailed the developer for asking proper rents for his new 7 WTC, neglected horrendous street conditions and proposed a “vision” for the area that included everything but new offices.

Rudy Giuliani, a great mayor (and great wartime mayor), lent the obstructionists a patina of moral authority by absurdly advocating to make a memorial of the whole 16-acre site.

Nervous real-estate developers, fearing competition, lobbied behind the scenes to delay reconstruction. Only one had a very public instrument of propaganda: Boston Properties Chairman Mort Zuckerman, who is also publisher of the Daily News.

Zuckerman never got over Boston’s early 2001 loss in a bidding war for the Twin Towers to Silverstein…

…The New York Times, meanwhile, made such a stink over preliminary reconstruction plans in 2002 that it cowed Pataki into yanking them for a time-consuming design competition. That set everything back a year and yielded Daniel Libeskind’s unworkable master site plan — which had to be revised again and again.

Gee whiz. Reading this, I gotta say, I'm really disappointed in a lot of the politicians cited here. It is this astonishing political correctness that's ruining America and denying justice to millions of victims of terrorism in America and other parts of the world. The time has come to make it clear to the politicians holding these memorial projects to the victims of 9-11 up that it's time already to stop the excuses and start building them seriously, with facts on the ground. A special movement is needed, and it must be made clear that there can be no whitewashing, and no political correctness getting in the way.

More on the subject at Hot Air.

Labels: anti-americanism, dhimmitude, islam, jihad, New York, terrorism, United States, war on terror

Frank Gaffney has noticed something very disturbing in Obama's latest speech, besides his denial of Islam's responsibility in 9-11, and his repeat of support for the mosque at Ground Zero:

He was prepared as “Commander-in-Chief” to prevent the burning of Qurans by a pastor in Florida.

While it's actually fortunate that the pastor didn't do it in the end (as Betsy Newmark notes, the MSM now feels Rev. Terry Jones used them, which should've been painfully obvious centuries before it happened), as Gaffney noted earlier:

...it is absolutely the “inalienable” right of any American citizen to do it – whether the book is the Bible (which we now know the U.S. military has burned in Afghanistan, lest it be used to proselytize there), the U.S. Constitution or, yes, the Quran.

And to criminalize koran-burning would only embolden America's enemies into thinking they'll have their way.

...as such brilliant commentators as Andy McCarthy, Diana West, and Debra Burlingame have observed, there is something peculiar about the remarkably contrasting concern being expressed by Barack Obama and his friends over Muslims’ rights and sensitivities on the one hand, and his seeming indifference to those of Americans who are not Muslims. The only common denominator between his attitude toward a megamosque that offends more than 70% of our countrymen and women and his attitude toward the prospect of an “insensitive” book-burning is that he wants to ensure nothing is done that would offend Muslims.

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Here’s the bottom line: If at any point President Obama invokes his power as Commander-in-Chief to prevent Quran burnings in America, he will have taken a massive step towards the institution of shariah law in this country. At the very least, his enforcement of shariah blasphemy codes will be seen by our enemies who adhere to that doctrine as evidence of our collective submission – a step that invites more violent efforts to complete our conquest, and inevitably, more mosques celebrating our defeat.

Quite right. That's why we must remain awake and pay careful attention.

Labels: anti-americanism, dhimmitude, islam, jihad, terrorism, United States

Krauthammer, one of the most pretentious writers for the Wash. Post, whom I consider a right-wing moonbat, has slipped propaganda into his latest column on Israel again, implying that there's nothing wrong with Israel making concessions to Fatah, again. For example, his newest balderdash begins with:

Until Palestine is ready to offer concessions, peace talks will accomplish nothing.

So he's invoking that lie that derived from a derogatory name the Romans conceived, that the British later shifted to the Arabs of Israel? And he doesn't even at least say "Fatah"?

Among the victims was the Israeli peace movement and its illusions about Palestinian acceptance of Israel. The Israeli Left, mugged by reality, is now moribund. And the Israeli Right is chastened. No serious player believes it can hang on forever to the West Bank.

This has created a unique phenomenon in Israel — a broad-based national consensus for giving nearly all the West Bank in return for peace. The moment is doubly unique because the only man who can deliver such a deal is Likud prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu — and he is prepared to do it.

Hence the wisdom of how the Obama administration has shaped the coming talks: No interim deals, no partial agreements. There are no mutual concessions that can be made separately within the great issues — territory, security, Jerusalem, the so-called right of return — to reach agreement. The concessions must be among these issues — thus if Israel gives up its dream of a united Jerusalem, for example, the Palestinians in return give up their dream of the right of return.

And I guess he's saying that I should give up my wish to live in Jerusalem, and sees nothing wrong with segregation, or even Islam? What a disgusting, blatant moron he is. And he also implies - or lies - that Israeli citizenry is willing to make concessions, even "last" ones, in order to achieve "peace" with Islamofascism?

Most important is the directive issued by U.S. peace negotiator George Mitchell: What’s under discussion is a final settlement of the conflict. Meaning, no further claims. Conflict over.

Who does Krauthammer represent anyway? The Obama administration? And does he really think this'd be a "final" settlement? That man is such an atrocity on 2 feet.

What’s standing in the way? Israeli settlements? Foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman, one of Israel’s most nationalist politicians, lives in a settlement and has said openly that to achieve peace he and his family would abandon their home. What about the religious settlers? Might they not resist? Some tried that during the Gaza withdrawal, clinging to synagogue rooftops. What happened? Jewish soldiers pulled them down and took them away. If Israel is offered real peace, the soldiers will do that again.

OOOOOOHHHH, I see! So he's saying it's quite fine if the Israeli government does that yet again, and even parrots something that may have been taken out of context about Lieberman? Again, Krauthammer, is a most atrocious, shameless man. And you know what? I don't think he's a conservative at all. I will say however, that "conservatives" who advocate exactly what the left wants fill me with absolute horror. Why exactly do concessions by Israel matter? Such propaganda only trivializes the problems with Islamofascism. We could even add some of the shari'a and Islamic hatemongering that's already been established under Fatah/Hamas, which Krauthammer shows little to no interest in here.

Krauthammer is a shameless tool for the left who deserves to be a pariah. Yet this man gets his foul smelling trash published in allegedly dignified publications like NRO. He is nothing but a fraud, and owes an apology for pushing dangerous propaganda that can be harmful not only to Israel, but even to America.

Labels: dhimmitude, islam, Israel, jihad, Moonbattery, msm foulness, terrorism

It's been nine years, almost a decade, since the horror of 9-11 took place. Let's add a couple of items on the issue. For example, here's what Robert K. Wilcox has to say. And here's a very heartbreaking video (via Tammy Bruce):

Never forget.

I also read the news about the pastor in Florida who wanted to hold a Koran-burning. It was called off, and I think it's good that it was. I can't help but wonder, having seen a CNN report, if that pastor was a leftist provocateur trying to sabotage the war against Islamofascism (Diana West raises the questions here too). The UK Telegraph has a better idea of what to do: tell the world about the Muslim persecution of Christians. Yes, and the world should also be told about the Muslim persecution of Jews as well. It wouldn't surprise me if there was also Muslim persecution of Buddhists, and that too is something that needs to be noted.

Here's Michelle Malkin's column for the day. And, here's even an important one by Daniel Pipes, about how Americans are waking up to the threat of Islam.

And perhaps most important of all, 9-11 Families for a Safe & Strong America's list of the victims.

Update: be sure to read David Horowitz's article on how the left undermined security for the USA before 9-11.

Labels: islam, jihad, terrorism, United States

Fatah's dictator has made clear he will never change:

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas rejected Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's talk about an "historic compromise" and said there would be no compromises on core issues such as Jerusalem and borders.

Abbas also reiterated his rejection of Netanyahu's demand that the Palestinians recognize Israel as a Jewish state. "We're not talking about a Jewish state and we won't talk about one," Abbas said in an interview with the semi-official Al-Quds newspaper. "For us, there is the state of Israel and we won't recognize Israel as a Jewish state."

He won't make any concessions on his part either:

Abbas said that he made his position clear to US President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Netanyahu during last week’s launch of the direct talks in Washington.

Abbas stressed that he would not make any concessions to Israel.

“If they demand concessions on the rights of the refugees or the 1967 borders, I will quit. I can’t allow myself to make even one concession,” he said.

Really, he'll quit? Frankly, I doubt it. But he will prove to be truly galling, I'm sure of that. He is not someone the sensible person would want to have anything to do with.

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

Rob Miller at Big Peace features one of Time's worst anti-Israel smears to date, which is set to go to press this week, during Rosh Hashana, no less. The abominable story written for the distasteful "newsmagazine" by one Karl Veck implies that Israelis don't care about peace because they're living the great life. Yeah, after Ariel Sharon rendered exiles from Gaza homeless, damaged capitalism and even endangered Sderot by enabling Hamas to fire at them and other parts of southern Israel.

Time has long been on the decline. I haven't read it much in years, if at all, and they certainly don't need anyone's money. Just like their other horrid counterpart, Newsweek, they should be avoided to show just how tired we are of all this anti-Israel propaganda they keep repeatedly shoving down our throats.

Update: Omri Ceren has more about Time's terrible writing on Big Journalism.

Update 2: Some Jewish NGOs have slammed Time's latest atrocity.

Labels: anti-semitism, dhimmitude, islam, Israel, jihad, Moonbattery, msm foulness, terrorism

One Jerusalem has created a special site calling for the dismissal of Feisal Abdul Rauf from the employ of the State Dept, for whom he's been a "goodwill missionary" to the Islamic world. All concerned should sign the petition.

The Wall Street Journal (also via One Jerusalem) has also reported that Rauf, besides his plans for building a mosque to desecrate Ground Zero, has also called for an end to the Jewish state. Most truly disgusting.

Labels: anti-americanism, anti-semitism, islam, Israel, jihad, State Dept, terrorism, United States

The Likud's Knesset member has a plan of her own to counter "two-state solutions":

While Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was in Washington meeting with US President Barack Obama on Wednesday, ahead of Thursday’s summit with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, Likud MK Tzipi Hotovely was in Ariel talking to Likud central committee members about her plan to annex the West Bank and give full Israeli citizenship to all its residents, Jewish and Arab.

The fact that Hotovely is starting to make her plan public now is not coincidental. She wants Netanyahu and the world to know that there is a viable alternative to the creation of a Palestinian state, so it will be on the table when – as she and many others expect – yet another effort to reach an agreement with the Palestinians fails.

To that end, Hotovely has spent her summer vacation not relaxing on European beaches like many of her Knesset colleagues but meeting with top experts on demography and security and drafting an in-depth initiative for what she calls “one state for two peoples.”

She intends to complete the draft by the time the Knesset’s extended summer recess ends in October and publish it in hopes of having the same impact on Netanyahu from the Right that the Geneva Initiative did from the Left on former prime minister Ariel Sharon, who, some say, was pressured to withdraw from Gaza by that plan.

She first heard a presentation on the one-state option from Netanyahu’s former bureau chief and current Makor Rishon deputy editor Uri Elitzur at a conference she organized at the Knesset in May 2009 entitled “Alternatives to the two-state solution.”

Hotovely invited many thinkers on the Right to present their plans, and she at first did not like any of them but eventually decided Elitzur’s idea had the most potential, and she endorsed it at the Jerusalem Conference in February.

Former defense minister Moshe Arens, who also spoke at Hotovely’s event, was similarly persuaded by Elitzur’s argument and came out in favor of it in June.

Among current politicians other than Hotovely, only Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin has been quoted as endorsing a one-state solution. But Rivlin only refers to it as the lesser of two evils when compared to dividing the land of Israel, and he does not see it as a practical solution ready to be implemented that is better than the status quo.

Hotovely, by contrast, believes the Right must have a practical plan now that can be presented to the world to alleviate international pressure at a time when Israel’s right to exist and defend itself is being questioned.

Unlike many on the Right, she agrees with Obama’s assessment that the status quo is unsustainable, but for very different reasons than his.

“The world will continue pushing us,” Hotovely said in an interview in Jerusalem. “The Goldstone report and flotilla incident proved that even though Israel left Gaza, we still must defend every step we take there. We are in the worst situation, whereby we are being delegitimized and no matter what we do, we will still be responsible for the Palestinians. Most Israelis are afraid of the demographic threat and want to be away from the Arabs. They don’t realize we can’t pretend that they are not there.”

She says she does not believe a two-state solution can succeed, because past peace processes have proven that the maximum territory that Israel can give is less than the minimum that the Palestinians would accept, and the issues of Jerusalem and refugees similarly cannot be resolved.

She also fears the Palestinian problem will continue even if there would be two states, because the Palestinians would continue provoking Israel to respond to attacks in hopes of additional investigations that could help them defeat it in the international battle for public opinion.

“David beating Goliath is no longer the exception to the rule,” Hotovely said. “The stronger army is not in the best position anymore. Our strength has become a burden. Israel cannot beat the Palestinians, because the world won’t accept inevitable pictures of dead children.

“The Left always said that if we reached an accord and they attacked us over sovereign borders, we would respond with full force, but that view doesn’t take into account Israel’s public relations failures over the past decade.”

AFTER EXPLAINING WHY both the status quo and two states are unacceptable, Hotovely said the onestate solution can be palatable because it would enable Israel to maintain control over all of Judea and Samaria, which is important to her for Jewish and Zionist reasons, and no one would have to move.

“There has been a cloud hanging over Judea and Samaria for far too long,” she said. “We need to stop thinking that they can be given up in one deal or another. Israelis oppose giving up the Golan, because they have been there. They support giving up Judea and Samaria because they haven’t been there. If we annexed it, it would bring them closer.”

Hotovely suggests annexing the West Bank in stages, starting with the settlement blocs and Jordan Valley in which there are few Palestinians. She would annex the rest after building the “infrastructure” for accepting a million and a half Palestinians.

By infrastructure, she means a constitution or bills guaranteeing Israel’s future as a Jewish state. The bills would encourage aliya in a serious way and require all citizens to perform national service, which could be done in their communities. Israel would return to policing Ramallah and Jenin and would control the Palestinian education system to ensure that it encourages coexistence.

Following discussions with demographers, Hotovely believes Israel can maintain a 70 percent to 30% Jewish majority if aliya was encouraged as a national priority.

She bases this on there currently being nearly 6 million Israeli Jews and 1.5 million Israeli Arabs. There is a debate among demographers whether there are 1.5 million or 2.5 million Arabs in the West Bank. She would not annex Gaza, which she would like to see come under Egyptian control.

Hotovely would not call the result a binational state, because that would necessitate equality in symbols, language, education and historical narratives. That’s what separates her from Israelis on the extreme left who want a one-state solution.

“I call it a Jewish state with a large Arab minority,” she said. “I know the one-state solution has problems and I am thinking about how to solve them, but in the Middle East, every solution has a price. I prefer to fight the Palestinians in parliament and not with tanks, and I would rather have speeches by Ahmed Tibi and Saeb Erekat in the Knesset than missiles on Ashkelon.”

Hotovely said her plan has three main challenges: persuading Israelis, convincing the international community and selling it to the Palestinians. She believes the first would be the hardest of the three, but she said that just as support for a Palestinian state went from the fringes of the extreme left to mainstream in a short period, the reverse can also happen quickly.

She has presented the plan to congressmen in the US and politicians in Europe and Australia. She said they were surprisingly open to it, especially those who realize the two-state solution was doomed. She predicted that the world would accept the plan if the Palestinians did.

A poll of 1,010 Palestinians published in The Jerusalem Post this week that was conducted by the Bethlehem-based Palestinian Center for Public Opinion proves that this quest would not be easy.

The poll found that 86% of Palestinians opposed the annexation of the West Bank to Israel and granting its residents Israeli citizenship, while only 10% favored the idea. Nearly 55% favored a two-state solution, while 26% said they preferred a binational state as part of a one-state solution.

But Hotovely is undeterred. She intends to present the plan to Netanyahu in the near future, despite his newly launched negotiations with the Palestinians.

“Israel must have a Plan B after Plan A blows up,” she said. “We have been through Camp David, disengagement, Olmert’s offer and we are on the way to another failure. Netanyahu is making another effort in Washington, but he knows it will fail. Israel doesn’t have a rabbit in its hat, but this could be it.”

Yes, it just might. But I must disagree on the subject of Gaza. What Ariel Sharon did, banishing many Jews from their homes there, was abominable, and the Hamas cannot be allowed to continue reining there. I advocate restoring it to Jewish sovereignty.

Labels: anti-semitism, islam, Israel, Jerusalem, UN corruption, United States

FOX News NY5 reports that one of the financial backers of the mosque has made contributions to terror organizations like Hamas, and his name is Hisham Elzanaty (Hat tip: Big Peace):

MYFOXNY.COM - Fox 5 News reported Thursday that one of the financial backers of the Islamic mosque and cultural center project in Lower Manhattan once contributed to a terror group, although the investor says the contribution was made because he thought he was giving money to a harmless charity.

One of the key players in Sharif El-Gamal's Mosque near Ground Zero is Egyptian born businessman, Hisham Elzanaty. Fox 5 News has learned exclusively and confirmed with Mr. Elzanaty’s attorney that Elzanaty made a “significant investment” in the development of the mosque near Ground Zero.

Fox 5 has also uncovered Elzanaty has teamed up with El-Gamal on at least two real estate deals: the controversial mosque site and another deal involving a commercial property in the Chelsea section of Manhattan.

In the Chelsea deal, mortgage documents show Elzanaty played a major role signing off as the guarantor on El-Gamal's $39 million mortgage.

When Fox 5 News reporter Charles Leaf tracked down Elzanaty outside his Long Island home in Roslyn Heights last week Elzanaty avoided the camera and did not answer a single question about his business dealings with El-Gamal.

Fox 5 News has also learned that in 1999 Hisham Elzanaty sent money to an organization that would later be deemed by the U.S. government to be a terrorist group.

The organization was the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, also known as HLF. The now defunct group’s 1999 tax records show Elzanaty contributed more than $6,000 to HLF.

Two years later, in 2001, HLF was shut down by the federal government and designated as a global terrorist. After a mistrial in 2007, in 2008 five HLF leaders were convicted of providing material support to Hamas.

The Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) is a non-profit research group that focuses on radical Islamic terrorist groups. The research group shared its information on HLF with Fox 5 News and IPT’s Managing Director, Ray Locker tells us HLF, “masked what their true purpose was, they funneled money to Hamas which used that money to conduct terrorist operations. In many cases they gave that money to the widows and children of so-called martyrs.”

I don't believe a word of the cretin's "defense" that he thought he was only donating to a "harmless" charity. What I do know is that he, just like Feisal Abdul Rauf, should not be welcome in New York or anywhere else in the civilized world.

Labels: anti-americanism, islam, New York, terrorism, United States

Dr. Laina Farhat Holzman has a history article on Family Security Matters about the relations between Germany and Islam prior to and during the 20th century, including:

Even before 1871, German scholars were fascinated by the Muslim world, particularly the Turkic Muslim world of Central Asia and Persia. In Sino-Iranica (1919), Berthold Laufer devoted an entire book to the agricultural gifts exchanged by the Persian and Chinese emperors across the Silk Road (300-600 AD). To do this, Laufer had to read and understand both Persian and Court Chinese—and many of the dialects between. Dazzling German scholarship.

During World War I, the Germans were allies with the Turkish Ottoman Empire—both losers of that war. But the fascination with Turkic Central Asians continued, and one scholar, a devoted Nazi during World War II, recruited Tatar, Uzbek, and Kyrgiz Muslim subjects of the Soviet empire and used them to fight the USSR. They were a fierce and effective fighting force, especially when using German armaments.

Nazi propaganda emphasized Communist irreligion, bolstered the age-old anti-Semitism of Muslims, and attacking Russian, British, and French colonialism. In North Africa, Nazi propaganda promised Muslims freedom from colonialism after the war and the death of all Jews living among them. This was a powerful argument for Muslims supporting Germany.

During that same period, Palestinian Arabs, formerly Turkish subjects and then under British mandate, were chafing at the resurgence of Jewish life there. The Grand Mufti, the chief cleric of the Palestinians, was not only rabidly anti-Jewish, but was also a devout Nazi—even honored with a personal meeting with Hitler (and a flood of German money).

After World War II, Arabs hid Nazi war criminals and absorbed so much fascist doctrine that it is no surprise that the movement of resurgent fundamentalist Islam should be married to fascism—this giving truth to calling Militant Islam “Islamo-Fascism.” This murderous movement threatens not only the West, but also Muslim states in various stages of modernization.

Yes, and what's sad is that even now, Germany may still be running relations with the Muslim world - specifically, but not limited to - Iran. But is anyone telling them to seriously cut it out? Not really.

Labels: germany, islam, jihad, turkey

Across the ocean in America, even there, we have cases of streets being close off for Muslims to pray in the middle of the street, as the pictures provided here on Moonbattery from 42nd and Madison strongly signal. And if this isn't brought up in discussion soon, it's going to happen much more.

Labels: dhimmitude, islam, New York, United States

Jihad Watch presents a press release by 9-11 Parents & Families of Firefighters and WTC Victims about the rally against the mosque at Ground Zero.

All concerned who can reach this important gathering are urged to do so.

Update: and while we're on the subject, Mondo Frazier at Big Journalism has another eyebrow-raising report on Michael Bloomberg's disturbing business relations with the Islamic world and what it could have to do with his dhimmitude.

Labels: anti-americanism, islam, jihad, New York, political corruption, terrorism

So the farcical negotiations between Israel and Fatah have begun with the expected whimper. As this analytical article tells, there are signs this is not going over well:

WASHINGTON – When the ceremonies cease, when the speech-making ends, when the chandeliers in ornate halls are turned off, when Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Jordan’s King Abdullah II go home, and when US President Barack Obama’s attention is diverted elsewhere, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will be left – just the two of them – alone in a room.

And, as the two leaders’ speeches at the ceremony in the State Department’s Benjamin Franklin room on Thursday morning to mark the start of direct negotiations indicated, it is then going to get very, very difficult.

The day before, at the White House, in the presence of Obama, Mubarak and Abdullah, Netanyahu said, “I did not come here to play a blame game where even the winners lose. I came here to achieve a peace that will bring benefits to all.”

But at the State Department on Thursday, just as the two men were to get down to the proverbial brass tacks, the blame game already started. It was polite, civilized, not overheated, but it started. It wasn’t direct, but it started.

You can read the rest to get the signs, and wonder what happens behind closed doors to boot. And, here's Caroline Glick's own analysis:

Despite a multi-million dollar media blitz, Israelis are not buying the US-financed Geneva Initiative's attempt to convince us that we have a Palestinian partner. A week after the pro-Palestinian group launched its massive online promotion urging people to join its Facebook page, a mere 634 people had answered the call.

The US-funded agitprop involved ads in which senior Fatah propagandists were featured telling Israelis we can trust them this time around. The reason for its failure was made clear by a public opinion poll taken Tuesday night for Channel 10. When asked if they believed that Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas is serious about making peace with Israel, two-thirds of Israelis said no. Only 23 percent said he was serious and 17 percent said they didn't know.

Moreover, most Israelis have had it with the peace paradigm based on Israeli concessions of land and national rights in exchange for Palestinian terror and political warfare. When asked whether the government should extend the prohibition on Jewish construction in Judea and Samaria beyond its Sept 26 terminus, 63 percent said no, it should not. A mere 21 percent of the public believes the government should respond positively to the US demand that Jews continue to be denied our property right in Judea and Samaria.

In his analysis of the results, Channel 10's senior political commentator Raviv Drucker said that if Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu decides to make a deal with the Palestinians, he will have a hard time convincing the public to support him.

Drucker also argued that the results may have been influenced by the Palestinian terror attack on Tuesday night in which four civilians were brutally murdered on their way home from Jerusalem. That is, Drucker implied that the public is driven by its emotions. But what the results actually show is that the public is driven by reason.

When Palestinian terrorists gun down innocent people on the highway simply because they are Jews, the public's reasoned response is to say that the Palestinians do not want peace. The public's wholly rational reaction to this act of anti-Jewish butchery is to insist that Jews should not be denied our basic civil and human rights in a dangerous bid to appease murderers.

I can certainly say that, if Netanyahu fails to bring this as a public referendum vote, he'll be violating the public's democratic right to say what they think.

Even now, we still can't let down our guard as to whether Netanyahu will yet again succumb to the concession virus, as Glick has every right to be worried about. We still need to be very vigilant and on the alert.

Update: there were rallies in New York, in Los Angeles and Israel calling on Netanyahu to just say no to more concessions.

Update 2: John Podhoretz (via The Weekly Standard) estimates that what happened was nothing.

Update 3: Power Line says its a farce, and Mona Charen at NRO says it's doomed.

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

Michael Goldfarb reports at the Weekly Standard that, if there's anyone who refuses to condemn the terrorist attacks that just took place in Israel this week, it's the spokesperson for the Ground Zero mosque. They're even hiding behind the very wobbly defense of "apoliticism", when the very mosque they're planning to build is, in and of itself, a political statement and provocation.

This is one more reason why the mosque must be opposed. There's every chance it'll serve to teach anti-Israel rhetoric just as much as it could serve to teach anti-American rhetoric.

Labels: anti-americanism, anti-semitism, islam, Israel, jihad, New York, terrorism, United States

CBN has a very disturbing article/video about a neighborhood in Paris where the crowd attending a mosque has been pouring out into the street and they're even allowed to block traffic (Hat tip: Big Peace):

PARIS - Friday in Paris. A hidden camera shows streets blocked by huge crowds of Muslim worshippers and enforced by a private security force.

This is all illegal in France: the public worship, the blocked streets, and the private security. But the police have been ordered not to intervene.

It shows that even though some in the French government want to get tough with Muslims and ban the burqa, other parts of the French government continue to give Islam a privileged status.

And what does this tell? That those with more sense in the government are going to have to start reining in those who don't.

A Warning to the West

The French parliament is expected to debate the burqa law in September. Jean-Francois Cope, president of the Union for a Popular Movement political party, has a warning for the West and for America.

"We cannot accept the development of such practice because it's not compatible with the life in a modern society, you see," he said. "And this question is not only a French question. You will all have to face this challenge."

Oh yes they will indeed. That's one more reason why I think a demonstration against this kind of aggression will need to be held - specifically - in front of the French parliament.

If you want to see some more of these videos, visit this YouTube database here.

Labels: dhimmitude, France, islam

No sooner does one terrorist attack take place, it leads to another:

Palestinian Authority terrorist groups are scrambling to claim credit for a second attack that left a Jewish man and woman, both in their 30s, wounded on a road north of Jerusalem late Wednesday night.

Rabbi Moshe and Shira Moreno, residents of the Jordan Rift Valley, were treated on the scene by Magen David Adom medics before being rushed to Hadassah Ein Kerem Medical Center in Jerusalem. Moreno was moderately wounded, and suffered leg injuries; his wife sustained lighter wounds as a result of the vehicle overturning.

Terrorists peppered their car with bullets in a drive-by shooting on Route 60 between the Rimonim Junction and the Jewish community of Kochav HaShachar in the Binyamin region of Samaria, just about 15 minutes north of the capital, at about 11:00 p.m. The vehicle overturned, tumbled down an incline and landed in a ditch.

[...]

Fatah Renegades, Hamas Compete for Credit

A Fatah cell calling itself the Al-Namir cells of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack in a call late Wednesday night to the offices of WorldNetDaily. The group issued a statement promising the attack was “part of a series of more attacks to come.”

According to journalist Aaron Klein, highly placed sources in both Fatah and its affiliate group, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, Al-Namir is a renegade Fatah group that opposes the opening of talks with Israel.

The sources denied the group was coordinating its movements with the political leadership of Fatah and the PA, adding that it had planned and carried out Wednesday night’s attack with Hamas and the Islamic Jihad terror group.

By Thursday morning, Hamas had also claimed responsibility for the attack.

Reading this, I have even more reason to wonder if Hamas is trying to take away heat from Fatah's side deliberately, so they won't have to shoulder responsibility in Washington. But what remains clear is that Israel's government cannot allow borders to be erected that cripple the army/police's ability to effectively track the culprits.

On a side note, as Michael Freund says in the Jerusalem Post, it's time to turn the ignition key in the bulldozers and build/develop the Jewish neighborhoods again, because they help disabuse the Arabs of the notion that Israel is a temporary phenomenon.

Update: and let's also note that Shas is against a building freeze:

"Shas is opposed to freezing building throughout Eretz Yisrael," Yishai said, reportedly before the two attacks on Israelis in the West Bank. Yishai added that Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, Shas's spiritual leader, opposed the building freeze from its beginning, and his opinion has not changed.

That's why they must make this clear to the PM when he comes back, too. See also this topic from News Real Blog.

Update 2: remaining consistent with their usual MO, the NY Times has blamed the victims and called Hamas an "Islamic group" (Hat tip: The American Thinker).

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

Now I will post yet some more items on imam Feisal Abdul Rauf's planned monstrosity. For example:

Atlas Shrugs (via Jihad Watch) provides some more info on Rauf's anti-Israeli statements, including this abomination:

"In a true peace it is impossible that a purely Jewish state of Palestine can endure. . . . In a true peace, Israel will, in our lifetimes, become one more Arab country, with a Jewish minority."

Oh, that's moderate alright! Update: Ilya Feoktistov provides some more notes on the troubling texts of this horrible imam.

In this poll at the NY Daily News, we learn that 71 percent are now opposed to the mosque, and want it moved away from Ground Zero.

Diana West is writing on Big Peace about some of Rauf's other connections, and guess who else is helping him: Saudi prince al Waleed bin Talal. There's a special article on World Net Daily about this too, that tells the following:

The Saudi prince whose post-9/11 relief check was rejected by former New York Mayor Rudy Guiliani has found a more willing recipient in the city for his millions: the head of the Ground Zero mosque project.

The same Saudi potentate, Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, owns the biggest chunk of the parent company of the Fox News Channel outside of the Murdoch family.

Former Bush advisers have similar ties to the prince and the proposed mega-mosque in Manhattan, which may explain why they've asked Republicans to soften their opposition to it.

WND has learned that one of the original board members of the nonprofit group promoting the 13-story mosque and "cultural center" took the job as a favor to James A. Baker III, the former President George H.W. Bush official and lawyer who defended Saudi government officials against a lawsuit filed by families of 9/11 victims. Baker has counted bin Talal as a client.

Now this, if so, is VERY eyebrow-raising, and not only lets more people know about someone whom Rupert Murdoch should not be doing business with, no matter what influence it could have on FOX, it also tells how the Dubya administration may have to shoulder some responsibility for the problems we face now.

In part two of West's research, she finds that a former secretary of state named Condoleeza Rice has attended some events with Rauf, both in Washington and abroad. Another telling clue that, if we're to fix the mistakes made today, we have to look at what previous administrations like Dubya's did wrong.

Michael Bloomberg has actually said that he's against investigating the funding for the mosque (also via Jihad Watch). He really does have something to hide, IMO, and it's his newfound disrespect for his country and the city he represents, all for the sake of relations with the UAE. Again, this is why I think all his businesses should be boycotted.

Labels: anti-americanism, anti-semitism, islam, Israel, jihad, New York, political corruption, RINOs, terrorism, United States