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The Sydney Morning Herald reports that Israel cannot be faulted for death of civilians in Gaza while fighting against Hamas, as a panel has concluded:

JERUSALEM: Nearly nine years after the Israeli assassination of a Hamas leader in Gaza killed at least 13 civilians and led to international condemnation, a government-appointed panel has found the consequences ''did not stem from disregard or indifference to human lives''.

The three-member panel, headed by a retired Israeli Supreme Court justice, found on Sunday that the collateral damage was ''disproportionate''. But it said its examination of the operation according to Israeli and international law ''unequivocally'' ruled out a criminal offence.

It attributed the deadly results of the operation to ''incorrect assessments and mistaken judgment based on an intelligence failure in the collection and transfer of information'' among the different agencies involved.

Naturally, Hamas has condemned these findings, and will not accept any blame on their side, when as it so happens, it's their fault for getting civilians on their side blasted. They've practically used them as human shields and see no value in them except propaganda purposes to undermine Israel. And that's why Hamas has no legitimacy. Speaking of which, just look at some of this data on how they've been enforcing sharia and anti-semitic indoctrination. And then they have the sheer gall to accuse Israel of anything.

Labels: anti-semitism, Israel, jihad, terrorism, war on terror

YnetNews writes about how we can't count democracy coming to the middle east where Islam dominates:

Many festive words had been written and uttered this past month in respect to “democracy” and “popular uprisings.” We were told about the downfall of Middle Eastern tyrants as if this is the 1989 Eastern Europe. A more realistic view may seek new democracies yet discover anarchy, death, aggressive rulers and radical political Islam waiting to take over.

There is not even one beginning of democracy in any of the “revolutions” we are seeing around us.

People are talking about Facebook and Twitter, yet in practice we have violent tribes competing for oil, as is the case in Libya, vengeful sects like in Bahrain, hostile regions that seek to disengage in Yemen, as well as wounded military establishments and severe violence.

[...]

If there is one change in Egypt, it has to do with the blunt emergence of the Muslim Brotherhood, which mocks democracy. The Islamists are already feeling like the state’s future masters.

The provocative return of the Egyptian Khomeini, Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi, was meant to grant this revolution a face and an identity; an Islamist identity. Qaradawi was the one who issued the call for Israel’s destruction last week in his appearance before hundreds of thousands (and possibly millions) of Egyptians in Tahrir Square. He opposes the United States and the Shiites, and is of course in favor of a religious Islamic regime in Egypt. This is a grave blow to anyone who thought that Egypt is moving towards democracy; it is also a sign of things to come.

And what might that be? Just more of the savage same, no more, no less. It's the mideast becoming overrun with blackness.

Labels: Egypt, islam, libya, yemen

The Washington Times writes about a lawsuit that CAIR and the ACLU filed against the FBI for mosque surveillance. The Wash. Times defends surveillance, and there's reason why it's necessary and important:

If anything, federal authorities have been too cautious in dealing with surveillance of mosques. The First Amendment guarantee of freedom of worship does not place mosques, churches, synagogues and other religious structures off-limits to law enforcement when they suspect illicit activity is taking place inside. And while all Muslims may not be violent extremists, those who hate America and dream of carnage do tend to network at centers of Islamic worship.

In the years leading up to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, when the jihadist network was spreading and violence was increasing, the FBI was cautious in investigating domestic Muslim extremist groups. Overly sensitive authorities bowed to political correctness even when dangers were clear and present. The “blind sheikh” Omar Abdel Rahman, who was Osama bin Laden‘s main stateside contact, traveled widely in the United States in the early 1990s giving lectures in which he denounced Americans as “descendants of apes and pigs.” He urged fellow jihadists in Western nations to “cut the transportation of their countries, tear it apart, destroy their economy, burn their companies, eliminate their interests, sink their ships, shoot down their planes, kill them on the sea, air or land.”

This is the same problem that led to the tragedy of the Fort Hood bloodbath. And notice how that "blind" sheik used a slur similar to one used against Jews.

There's plenty of good reason why mosque surveillance is needed, and we cannot allow political correctness to impede upon it any further.

Labels: anti-americanism, CAIR corruption, islam, jihad, terrorism, United States, war on terror

The Washington Times/AP Wire reports that Republicans in Wisconsin have passed a starting bill for shrinking the influence of bad working unions. And I'd say this is exactly what leftards running these particular unions deserve for acting so obnoxiously.

Update: speaking of which, Michelle Malkin sums them up perfectly.

Labels: Moonbattery, United States

The protestors in Libya marked an effigy of Gaddafi with a Star of David. This is simply too much. That repugnant man is no more pro-Israel than they are, and has sent signs of his own anti-Israelism, yet they actually act as though he were? Ridiculous, yet it does tell just what kind of problems are prevalent even in that middle eastern country.

More news on Libya's own uprising at Israpundit.

Update: and here's an article discussing how Gaddafi desecrated a Jewish cemetary in Libya. So again, why would the barbarians in that country want to put a Jewish symbol on him? I just don't understand.

Labels: anti-semitism, islam, libya

Here's an article on Ynet, though only on the Hebrew edition so far, about a couple of Arab Knesset members who paid a visit to the monstrous Libyan dictator just a few months ago. They include, most notably, Ahmed Tibi and Hanin Zoabi, and I'm going to post a few pictures right up front here:
I think the squatting men are members of the Balad party.
The man next to Gaddafi here is none other than Ahmed Tibi.
And that's him on a plane too. I'm not sure who the man next to him is though.
And that's these disgraceful "politicians" sitting at the dinner table in Gaddafi's palace.

Though I couldn't find the exact same article in English, I did manage to find this earlier one from last November, which tells that Tibi got a rebuke for his distasteful actions.

Labels: anti-semitism, Israel, Israeli Arabs, Knesset, libya, political corruption

Here's an account by Tabitha Hale (via Michelle Malkin) of how a union hoodlum struck her. Following this, I think I'm certainly of the mind now that these kind of union "businesses" in the US should be shunned, and you definitely shouldn't have to be a member of one to get a job.

Update: they also espoused anti-semitism and racism. More on which can be found at Atlas Shrugs.

Labels: anti-semitism, Moonbattery, racism, United States

Not only that, this Islamofascist scum had also plotted to target Dubya (Hat tip: Hot Air):

A college student from Saudi Arabia studying chemical engineering in Texas has been arrested by the FBI for allegedly planning a terrorist attack on U.S. targets using explosive chemicals.

Khalid Aldawsari, who is legally in the U.S. on a student visa, allegedly targeted the Dallas home of former President George W. Bush. He was arrested late Tuesday on a federal charge of attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction.

“Yesterday’s arrest demonstrates the need for and the importance of vigilance and the willingness of private individuals and companies to ask questions and contact the authorities when confronted with suspicious activities,” said James T. Jacks, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.

Aldawsari, 20, entered the U.S. in October 2008 from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to study at Texas Tech University, then transferred earlier this year to nearby South Plains College.

Federal prosecutors say Aldawsari had been researching online how to construct an improvised explosive device using several chemicals as ingredients. Authorities say Aldawsari's diary indicated the young man had been plotting an attack for years and obtained a scholarship so he could come directly to the United State to carry out jihad.

Translation: he didn't want a real scholarship, though we can definitely say that anyone with such a demonic mindset doesn't deserve one.

Here's more on the case from National Review.

Labels: anti-americanism, House of Saud, islam, jihad, terrorism, United States, war on terror

This is coming a bit late, but is still important to tell about. The Church Report (via The Jawa Report) tells about how Rifqa Bary, almost a year after the case finished, has asked people to help her lawyer John Stemberger defend himself from Islamic lawyer Omar Tarazi's grievance lawsuit and lawfare tactic. You can find more about this at Stemberger's website.

Disgraceful people like Tarazi cannot be allowed to continue with these lawfare tactics that are practically intended to drain the defendants of money. I think this is one more reason why it'd be greatly appreciated that the Republicans bring up that bill they'd proposed to protect against frivolous lawsuits, and I hope that's one of the things they'll be doing now, post-election.

Labels: CAIR corruption, islam, United States

A most savage, repulsive act has been committed by the jihad pirates of Somalia. From the LA Times (via Michelle Malkin):

Four Americans, including a couple from Southern California, who were taken hostage by Somali pirates were fatally wounded by their captors while negotiations between the pirates and U.S. military forces were underway in the Gulf of Aden, U.S. Central Command said Tuesday.

The four were aboard the vessel Quest, which was captured last week.

“We express our deepest condolences for the innocent lives callously lost aboard the Quest,” said Marine Gen. James N. Mattis, commander of Central Command.

[Updated, 6:45 a.m.: The bodies of the four Americans are on board the carrier Enterprise off the Horn of Africa, according to Central Command. The names of the Southern California couple are Scott and Jean Adams, boaters who were based out of Orange County.]

Four U.S. Navy ships had been shadowing the Quest after it was taken over by the pirates, Mattis said. While negotiations were underway to gain the release of the Americans, U.S. forces responded to gunfire aboard the Quest. The four Americans had been shot, Mattis said.

Two of the pirates were killed by U.S. forces and 13 captured, Mattis said. After boarding the Quest, military personnel found the bodies of two other pirates. The incident occurred about 1 a.m. EST.

“Despite immediate steps to provide lifesaving care, all four hostages ultimately died of their wounds,” according to a statement from Central Command.

We must pray for their families. The victims were Christian missionaries. The worst part, according to John Hayward at Human Events, is that the Obama administration will not take any proper action.

More on this at CDR Salamander.

Labels: Africa, anti-americanism, islam, jihad, Somalia, terrorism, United States

Some have probably already heard about the latest earthquake on the globe, in New Zealand. Many people were tragically killed, and even some Israelis were apparently among the victims.

We must offer our prayers for all involved, and hope that as many people, both local and foreign can be saved from this horror.

Labels: Asia, Israel

Big Hollywood writes about Disney's "educational" programs for teaching social values. After reading this, I can say that I would never want my children watching their subtle propaganda. Especially not if they feature ideas like this:

One of Disney’s new shows, “Jake and the Neverland Pirates”, makes a point to teach what Disney considers to be an important social lesson: at the end of each episode Jake still invites Hook to play with him even thought Hook is a bad guy. How is this a good thing? It reminds me of the residents of Berkeley wanting to invite the Gitmo detainees to be their neighbors. I think it’s foolish and naive to teach a child that mean people won’t be mean if you are nice to them.

So do I. This is disgusting. Disney's never been a very honest entertainment producer, and their programs have little social value, as the above should tell. And I'll never forgive them for producing "The Love Bug" either, and promoting one of the ugliest, shittiest cars the nazi regime vomited out, the Volkswagen Beetle. What was so great for them about that excrement that wasn't so great about the Citroen 2CV anyway?

Labels: Moonbattery, showbiz

Israel National News writes about the Muslim Brotherhood's Yusuf al-Qaradawi, and his operations in Boston:

The spiritual leader of the Egyptian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood has a long history in Boston, Massachusetts.

And the relationship continues, despite denials by the leaders of the Boston mosque – the largest in New England -- where Yusuf al-Qaradawi once reigned as trustee.

According to a report released Friday by the Americans for Peace and Tolerance (APT) organization, the imam who long preached his hatred of Jews, homosexuals and women, is currently the leader of the Islamic American University -- a major project of the Muslim American Society (MAS), the organization that runs the Boston mosque. However, any mention of al-Qaradawi is carefully omitted from the site. In fact, there is no information at all about any of the university's leadership on its site, other than a brief videotaped message by an unnamed "director."

Federal prosecutors have named the MAS as the arm of the American branch of the Muslim Brotherhood.

“I will shoot Allah's enemies, the Jews, and they will throw a bomb at me, and thus I will seal my life with martyrdom. Praise be to Allah,” Qaradawi once prayed publicly, according to the APT.

I don't think I'll ever want to go to Boston, if these are the kind of people they'll allow to roam there.

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

David M. Weinberg writes about how, in the wake of the protest riots in Egypt, Bahrain and Libya, Iran's menace has been all but forgotten, and the so-called leaders of the west are again acting as though the Israeli-palestinian conflict is the problem:

Two insidious arguments make up this emerging mythology: that Israeli unwillingness to speed towards peace with the Palestinians threatens to further destabilize the Mideast at a sensitive time; and that Israel is on the wrong side of history because it seeks to chill Western enthusiasm for glorious Tahrir Square-style Moslem revolutions.

The first contention is being advanced both by Western leaders and the Israeli Left. We’ve heard it from German Chancellor Merkel and former U.S. national security advisor Jones: The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the core dispute that inflames all others. Israel’s failure to settle with Abbas strengthens and amplifies the appeal of the radicals. Palestine must be created now to contain the Islamist threat and placate Arab public opinion.

The Israel Left has a twist on this argument: Israel needs to settle rapidly with the Palestinians because we can’t hack so many confrontations simultaneously. We need to divert our military and diplomatic resources from the Palestinian arena to the new frontlines emerging in Lebanon and Egypt. Settle with Abbas now, so that we can better confront Nasrallah and the next Ayatollah of Egypt.

Of course, both groups ignore that fact that nobody is demonstrating in Cairo or Sana because of Palestine; they ignore the fact that Israel has nobody with whom to negotiate reasonable concessions (Abbas prefers a UN battering ram to negotiations); and they ignore the fact that Tahrir Square squalls are likely to yet blow in Ramallah’s Manara Square. The latter fact only reinforces Israel’s insistence on secure borders, something that Abbas’ shaky, temporary regime is unlikely to be able to provide.

So don’t lay the blame on Israel, please, for instability across the Middle East, or expect Jerusalem to take wild leaps in order to calm the protestors in Cairo.

And don't start taking actions that could encourage the Muslims in Judea/Samaria/Gaza to riot either. What they need to be doing is urging them not to do so. But sadly, the western "leaders" probably won't.

Update: in related news, check this disturbing post at IsraeliGirl about how Germany's still maintaining ties with Ahmedinejad.

Labels: anti-semitism, Europe, islam, Israel, Israeli Arabs, jihad, Moonbattery, United States

And you can be sure it's not a good thing. There's been mayhem in Libya, for example, and even in Bahrain, and Yemen, and Jordan may not be far behind either.

On top of all that, it's not good for Israel, or the rest of the west, for that matter.

Labels: islam, jordan, libya, yemen

In this article, we're told:

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 20 (AP) - (Kyodo)—Japanese and Muslim American communities called Saturday for the protection of all Americans' civil rights as they recalled the treatment of Japanese Americans during World War II and the hostility faced by Muslim Americans since the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks in the United States.

[...]

Saturday was the 69th anniversary of the signing by President Franklin D. Roosevelt of an executive order that led to the internment of around 120,000 Japanese Americans.

Keynote speaker Norman Mineta, who was transportation secretary at the time of the September 2001 attacks, recalled his experience in 1942 when he first saw the posters notifying Japanese Americans that they would be sent to internment camps.

"They were not even willing to acknowledge that we were citizens of the United States," he said, noting that terrorists and Muslims should not be seen as identical.

Another keynote speaker, Imam Hamza Perez, a Muslim American from Pittsburgh, recounted his post-9/11 experiences, including being followed by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents at his workplace and having his mosque in Pittsburgh raided at gunpoint during a prayer service.

Oh, so now, Muslims are claiming additional victimhood in the vein of Japanese-Americans. As it so happens, there were spies during WW2 for Japan. Was the US not supposed to be concerned? And do the leaders of the Japanese-American community not realize how they're making themselves look like they fail to recognize the problem regardless of whether they were cooperative on their part with authorities or not?

And it's not mentioned if the imam named Perez actually cooperated with authorities. If he didn't, that's just one more show of victimhood.

There is no comparison between race and religion, and thus, the Japanese community's willingness to associate themselves with the Muslim community is shameful.

Labels: dhimmitude, islam, United States

Actor Danny Glover recently appeared in a Turkish film rife with anti-Americanism. Now, he's appearing in a homegrown form of movie dealing with "Islamophobia", which might derive from the same places that coined the phrase "homophobia", the Muslim world's own hostility to gays and lesbians notwithstanding.

I can only conclude from this latest mess that Glover's of a standing just as reprehensible as Mel Gibson, his Lethal Weapon co-star. It makes me wonder what Mel's take on Islam is like too. I've got a feeling I wouldn't like what I might discover, were I to do some research on that awful actor who grew up in Australia.

And this is just one more reason why I don't want to see the Lethal Weapon movies ever again.

Labels: dhimmitude, islam, showbiz, United States

The US may have vetoed the UN's resolution condemning "settlements", but before that, Hilary Clinton called them "illegitimate". More on this subject over here. If that's how they're going to act, then they've basically validated the UN's standing anyway. In that case, the "veto" is very little help.

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

The Daily Mail ran a shocking report on a secret filming that uncovered how children in at least 2 Islamic centers in Birmingham were being indoctrinated and molested by the "teachers" in charge:

We recorded a number of speakers giving deeply disturbing talks about Jews, Christians and atheists. We found children as young as 11 learning that Hindus have ‘no intellect’ and that they ‘drink cow p***’.

And we came across pupils being told that the ‘disbelievers’ are ‘the worst creatures’ and that Muslims who adopt supposedly non-Muslim ways, such as shaving, dancing, listening to music and – in the case of women – removing their head scarves, would be tortured with a forked iron rod in the afterlife. [...]

In just two days of filming in December 2010, the camera recorded the teacher hitting children as young as six or seven at least ten times, in less than three hours of lessons.

From what we could see, every single blow was pretty much unprovoked. We soon realised that the beatings were routine. The behaviour of the boys, the way they flinched and backed away when he approached, indicated that they were long-accustomed to being hit and kicked as they studied.

Oh my god, this is truly disgusting. But as Melanie Phillips and Robin Simcox note, John Hemming of the Liberal Democrats has tried to downplay this whole affair and stifle discussion. No surprise that people like him are enabling this kind of savagery to go on in a doomed country.

Read also the following info on Atlas Shrugs, about how the police are investigating abuse at 3 Glasgow mosques. If Hemming thinks this is just at merely a handful, I'd suggest he think again. It's the fault of negligent people like him that these horrors have succeeded in taking place.

Labels: islam, londonistan, political corruption

The Jawa Report talks about how Omar Tarazi, the disgraceful Muslim lawyer who represented the parents of Rifqa Bary, is now targeting at least one blogger from their staff to get his identity revealed. They've gone to court to seek a protective order for themselves, since what Tarazi's doing could be harmful to the families of the bloggers.

This Tarazi must not be allowed to continue with his grievance-driven motions, and I do think it would be advisable to seriously challenge his law license.

Also, please help John Stemberger's legal defense fund.

Labels: CAIR corruption, islam, political corruption, United States

Foreign Policy (via Hot Air) tells of something that won't be surprising, if it goes through:

The U.S. has informed Arab governments that it will support a U.N. Security Council statement reaffirming that the 15-nation body “does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlement activity,” a move aimed at avoiding the prospect of having to veto a stronger Palestinian resolution calling the settlements illegal. [...]

Susan E. Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, outlined the new U.S. offer in a closed door meeting on Tuesday with the Arab Group, a bloc of Arab countries from North Africa and the Middle East. In exchange for scuttling the Palestinian resolution, the United States would support the council statement, consider supporting a U.N. Security Council visit to the Middle East, the first since 1979, and commit to supporting strong language criticizing Israel’s settlement policies in a future statement by the Middle East Quartet.

The U.S.-backed draft statement — which was first reported by Al Hurra — was obtained by Turtle Bay. In it, the Security Council “expresses its strong opposition to any unilateral actions by any party, which cannot prejudge the outcome of negotiations and will not be recognized by the international community, and reaffirms, that it does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlement activity, which is a serious obstacle to the peace process.” The statement also condemns “all forms of violence, including rocket fire from Gaza, and stresses the need for calm and security for both peoples.”

For the millionth time, we also spot moral equivalence in motion in several ways. Politico reports that Rep. Anthony Weiner, has announced that pro-Israel Democrats aren't going along with this. Let's hope not. He says:

This is too clever by half. Instead of doing the correct and principled thing and vetoing an inappropriate and wrong resolution, they now have opened the door to more and more anti-Israeli efforts coming to the floor of the U.N. The correct venue for discussions about settlements and the other aspects of a peace plan is at the negotiating table. Period.

Ahem. There's NO negotiating with Islamists or anyone else over things like these. Period.

Update: as told over here, the consensus on Capitol Hill is that Obama really screwed up on this issue.

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

The government education minister has made a vital point about why we must maintain a strong tie to Hevron:

Israel must make it clear that Jews will remain in the city of Hevron, Education Minister Gidon Saar (Likud) said Tuesday. “We must not mislead the Arabs into thinking that one day there will be no Jews living in Kiryat Arba and Hevron,” he said during a tour of Judea.

A Jewish presence in the Biblical city is crucial “in order to maintain our ability to visit and pray in the Tomb of the Patriarchs, one of the most important places to the Jewish people,” Saar explained.

He said he would act to bring all Israeli students to visit Hevron, particularly the Tomb of the Patriarchs. Currently, all Israeli students are to visit Jerusalem at least once during their school career.

There's more you can read at the link, and I'm glad he's spoken out on a crucial issue.

Labels: islam, Israel, Israeli Arabs

Just a short time ago, a most abominable crime took place, perpetrated against a CBS news reporter (Hat tip: Scared Monkeys):

In the crush of the mob, she was separated from her crew. She was surrounded and suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers. She reconnected with the CBS team, returned to her hotel and returned to the United States on the first flight the next morning. She is currently home recovering.

Absolutely repugnant. This is whom the MSM consider "freedom fighters", including Bill Kristol? After this, I think Kristol had better apologize for aligning himself with the left and sugarcoating such violent, misogynist behavior. These are not the kind of people the west should be helping at all. Even with Iran, the west may have to be careful in case there's savage brutes among the crowd that's supposedly against Ahmedinejad.

Update: there's more to this case than meets the eye. From the New York Post (via Jihad Watch and Weasel Zippers):

A network source told The Post that her attackers were screaming, "Jew! Jew!" during the assault. And the day before, Logan had told Esquire.com that Egyptian soldiers hassling her and her crew had accused them of "being Israeli spies." Logan is not Jewish.

In Friday's attack, she was separated from her colleagues and attacked for between 20 to 30 minutes, The Wall Street Journal said. [...]

As part of the anti-media backlash, CNN's Anderson Cooper had also been roughed up, and ABC correspondent Brian Hartman had been threatened with beheading.

All this is most likely the result of being indoctrinated with Koranic verses like "Therefore, when ye meet the Unbelievers (in fight), smite at their necks..." -- Qur'an 47:4 But will this experience serve as a wakeup call to the victims? Who knows?

Others on the subject include Fire Andrea Mitchell, Michelle Malkin, The Jawa Report, Fact Real, Atlas Shrugs, Big Peace (plus, another one), Power Line, The Daily Caller.

Labels: communications, Egypt, islam, misogyny, United States

Here's another example of a foreign politician who's making more sense than an American one:

LONDON — Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Tuesday that the US and Western allies should not stir up pro-democracy protests in the Middle East following the uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia.

After meeting with members of Britain's government, Lavrov warned against any attempts by other nations to fuel public dissent.

In recent days Iran's opposition has taken to the streets of central Tehran, while demonstrators have held protests in Bahrain and Yemen.

"We are convinced that calls for revolutions are counterproductive. We have had more than one revolution in Russia, and we believe that we don't need to impose revolutions on others," Lavrov told reporters. "We don't think that we need to tighten the screw, or take sides."

They could do a little bit better by making clear that we don't need to take the side of the Islamists, that's for sure. This is exactly why they're not pro-democracy protests, and if the demonstrators in Egypt, for example, have signaled anti-Israelism, that too should be telling something.

Labels: Egypt, islam, Russia, United States, yemen

Young Americans for Freedom has set a very good example - they've taken moonbat RINO Ron Paul off their advisory board for his refusal to keep away from 9-11 truthers, not to mention his anti-war stance (Hat tip: Hot Air). Here's something worth noting:

“Rep. Paul’s refusal to support our nation’s military and national security interests border on treason, aside from his failure to uphold his oath to the United States Constitution and defend our country and citizens against all enemies, foreign and domestic,” Marks continued.

“Rep. Paul has strayed to the left of Obama and allied himself with the radical anti-war left by laying the blame on America for the unprovoked attacks of Sept. 11th. Additionally, Rep. Paul has not condemned the 9/11 “Truther” conspiracy theorists that support him, and he has repeatedly insisted, that the United States not bring justice to those who have murdered thousands of our civilians and soldiers at home and abroad. This is simply unacceptable. Clearly Rep. Paul cares more about a doomed presidential run than he does our country,” Marks added.

You can say that again! It's bad enough that Charles Krauthammer and William Kristol are speaking with forked tongues. We certainly don't need someone as awful as Paul, who's also attacked Israel, within the GOP. I hope Rand Paul learns a lesson or two from this as well, and avoids making the same mistakes as his father still is.

Labels: anti-americanism, anti-semitism, RINOs, United States

Reuters reports that Libya's dicatator has called for palestinians to attack Israel. As Newsbusters notes though, they fail to note the irony of an iron fisted dictator calling for violence elsewhere on the map.

This does tell though, how Gaddafi is a most revolting lot himself, and shouldn't be recognized by common sense society.

Labels: Africa, anti-semitism, islam, Israel, libya

9-11 Families visited CPAC to protest the mosque that corrupt Michael Bloomberg is backing. What surprises me is that Rep. Peter King, who refuses to invite the true experts on Islamic terrorism to testify at the Congress committee he's holding, is giving his support to them. Is this some sort of a trick to obscure the damage he's causing? Well let us be clear: he cannot and will not fool us, and while his act of kindness here is welcome, it does not clear away the problem he's led to on Capitol Hill.

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

Jeffrey Jena at Big Journalism gives a few examples of how AOL's business and journalistic ventures - including their purchase of the Huffington Post - have only made them all the more obsolete in this day and age. How about that, AOL runs trashy sites that can only think of how to degrade America, and even attack Glenn Beck for the gazillionth unjust time, as David Corn's just done.

So yes, I do think AOL's time is long gone, and everyone who cares about cohesion for America should distance themselves from their services already. That said, while I won't say who, I do know one leftarded journalist who probably won't cancel his AOL account. But then, I haven't wasted time on him in years, so it's really just nothing.

Labels: communications, Moonbattery, msm foulness

The Orange County Register (via Jihad Watch) got at least 46 letters from people who support bringing charges against 11 Muslim students who antagonized Israeli ambassador Michael Oren. I'm going to specially cite this letter here:

I was appalled at UC Irvine Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky’s opinion piece Feb. 9 saying that the District Attorney’s office should not pursue criminal charges against UCI Muslim Students Union members [“Don’t prosecute UCI hecklers,” Orange Grove].

Chemerinsky acknowledged that, “The school’s Muslim Student Union orchestrated a concerted effort to disrupt the speech, “ and “the students behavior is wrong and deserves punishment.” He then offers the most perverse objections to the DA defending the First Amendment rights of the speaker and the public. He says they should not be prosecuted because of “scarce resources” that “criminal prosecution makes the students into martyrs” and, the worst objection, “criminal prosecution should be a last resort and used only when there are injuries or destruction of property of serious threat of harm.”

As a law professor he should know that violating civil rights rarely involves destruction of property of physical harm. Using his logic anyone could come into Chemerinsky’s classroom and shout him down on a daily or weekly basis and be confident knowing that they will never be arrested or prosecuted.

If this is how Chemerinsky is going to behave on his part, that's why I would like to make a suggestion of my own to the good people of Orange County and the Irvine district: if you own a resturant and he wants to eat there, turn him away. Come to think of it, turn him away from the local amusement park to boot; he doesn't deserve any entertainment. That would be an effective way of sending a message to such a disgraceful man that if he's going to act so poorly, he should only expect that sooner or later, the public will ostracize him for upholding lawbreaking.

Labels: islam, United States

If this article tells anything, the Egyptian dictator for 3 decades has left his post. And for all we know, he could very soon be replaced by another dictator, who could be in very close relations with the Muslim Brotherhood, which remains lying in wait for their chance to take over. If history tells anything, this will not go over well at all.

Update: speaking of which, did I mention how atrocious it is that the US National Intelligence director James Clapper basically trivialized the seriousness of the subject by referring to the Brotherhood as a "secular" movement (via Betsy's Page)? Truly disgraceful.

Others on the subject include Hyscience, Michelle Malkin, The Jawa Report, Northern Thoughts and Reflections, Fire Andrea Mitchell, MoreWhat, Radio Vice, Fact Real, Hot Air, Theodore's World.

Labels: Egypt, islam, terrorism

First, he says he's leaving. Now, he says he's staying. I guess that was predictable. But it tells that this is going to get very, VERY repugnant soon, as the riots are likely to increase. If they've gone on this long, they'll continue for certain.

Update: this article says Mubarak may have fled the country with his family members, maybe to Sharm el-Sheik, suggesting for now, he's governing from a distance.

Labels: Egypt, islam

Pamela Geller will be going to the District of Columbia to attend the latest CPAC - as an unofficial event, of course - because of how it's managers are absolutely dhimmified. She'll be screening a documentary called The Ground Zero Mosque: The 2nd Wave of 9-11 Attacks.

That this dhimmi act by the CPAC organizers is continuing - with Grover Norquist still a likely influence - is very troubling.

Update: as Jihad Watch tells here, it's very important that everyone who can help out please do so.

Labels: dhimmitude, islam, political corruption, United States

These plans by the education department in Texas were thankfully canceled. Why would it not have worked? If it was planned by the Obama administration, well then...you can only guess.

I do have to debate one thing featured in this article though:

"Part of the grant language brings in targeted instruction that will be embedded in the classes," Escovedo explained. "Algebra comes from the Arabic world. You talk about things while you’re doing your lessons. Instead of a Valentine's cake, you might make a Moroccan dessert."

I'm not sure that's true. Algebra, as it so happens, may have originated in India, and just traveled through to other places via the Arabic world. In that case, the dummy who brought this up is not a very educated person.

Labels: dhimmitude, islam, United States

Mississippi's governor has come to visit:

Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, who was visiting Israel this week, made a speech at the Herzliya Conference on Wednesday.

Barbour noted his visit to the Leviathan natural gas field, located off the coast of Haifa. He called the field “a marvelous feat of engineering, science and technology,” and compared the discovery of Israel’s natural gas reserves as well as its many other discoveries to “a second Israeli declaration of independence.” He noted that “energy self sufficiency is crucial for any country but it has to be a positive prospect for this country.”

I'm glad to see he also honors our business projects like the natural gas development.

Labels: Israel, United States

Jalopnik is asking what car would make the best for a villain in movies. I can provide very good answers to such questions. For example:
Volkswagen Phaeton, especially the 4-door sedan.
Mercedes-Benz SLR.
Maybach 57.
Opel Insignia.
Lada Priora.
BMW series 5, and that includes the station wagon variant.
Volvo S80.
Saab 9-3.
Ford Crown Victoria.
Oh, and lest we forget, the Rolls-Royce Phantom.

A perfect color for them, as you can expect, is pitch black. These are the cars that make for a perfect villain's travelling fare, in movies and TV.

Labels: showbiz

Ned May reports on Big Peace that Geert Wilders' troubles are far from over. As he warns, with good reason, the lights are going out all over Europe.

But then isn't this exactly why a campaign is needed now to call on politicians to change the laws so that criticism of religion, if anything, cannot be criminalized? It's crucial time now to do that.

Labels: dhimmitude, Europe, islam

Rep. Peter King has just made a key concession - and told everyone why he should not be reelected in the next Congress: he's decided not to invite Ayaan Hirsi Ali to the upcoming hearings on Islamic terror (via Atlas Shrugs and Logan's Warning).

I strongly recommend all concerned about Islamofascism to start writing to him to complain.

I'd also like to say that at the same time, I'm surprised and disappointed that Steve Emerson apologized to King when he didn't have to. King made it clear there was a bias against him by just citing his name when he went the appeasement route. That was very dumb of Emerson, and I think he owes people like you and me an apology, for what he said to King, a most disgraceful politician indeed. I guess we can't expect much of a man who went to dinners sponsored by Islamists.

Labels: dhimmitude, islam, jihad, terrorism, United States, US Congress

Muzzammil Hassan, the so-called bridge builder who murdered his wife Aasiya, has been convicted of 2nd degree murder (Hat tip: Jihad Watch, who's got a court video, and Weasel Zippers):

BUFFALO, NY - The jury in the Muzzammil Hassan trial has reached a verdict. Muzzammil Hassan is guilty of 2nd degree murder in the death of his wife, Aasiya Hassan.

The jury deliberated for a little over an hour before reaching their verdict.

The judge has scheduled Hassan's sentencing for March 9, 2011, where he faces a sentence of up to 25-years-to life behind bars. [...]

Jurors were told that Aasiya Hassan may have been conscious when the defendant started to behead her on February 12, 2009.

Curtin Gable started off strong telling the jury that Hassan wants them to believe that what he did was in self defense, "not a chance, not even close."

"There is absolutely no doubt that the defendant killed his wife intentionally," said the prosecutor. "He was carefully and deliberately planning to kill her."

The prosecutor told jurors Hassan was efficient and deliberate in killing his wife in just "thirty-seven seconds." While describing the murder, Curtin Gable described how Aasiya was stabbed in the head and from the mouth to her ear. "How is that self defense, stabbing an unarmed woman from behind," she asked jurors.

"He was in control," she told jurors. "Cool, calm, collected and calculating every step of the way."[...]

Hassan admitted to the courtroom that he did, in fact, have physical altercations with his wife, but that he never beat or abused her. "Men are never put in the victim's box," he said.

The abuser, says Hassan, often comes across to the outside world as charming and friendly, but to the victim it is a very different story. "A victim often feels like a hostage to a terrorist, a slave to an overbearing master."

On multiple occasions, Hassan claims he attempted to move out, but that false promises by his wife brought him back home. He wonders why Aasiya would continuously beg him to return "if I was such a horrible wife beater."

"Think of a dog with an invisible fence," Hassan tells the jury. "He tries to escape, he gets a shock, he keeps getting shocked and eventually stops trying." Hassan likens himself to the dog, saying he received so many shocks through abuse and threats that he simply stopped trying to escape.

He goes on to identify flaws in "the system," attempting to indict it by saying that his enemy is false beliefs in religion. He compares this with the experiences of Nelson Mandela and Gandhi.

"My enemy are not these people, it is in the false belief in the religion of patriarchy that has unleashed a blood bath on American women."

Some points here: Mandela and Ghandi were both false "saviors" considering that the former adhered to communism and the latter was a defeatist.

It's weird that a man with such vehement belief in Islamofascism could try to use "false beliefs" as a defense.

And I hope he gets the death sentence, the only truly good sentence in horror cases like this. Send him to the chair.

Labels: islam, misogyny, New York, United States

In another very pleasant note of how Israel is slowly reclaiming its heritage from Muslim grasp, the Jerusalem municipality has helped approve 13 more houses for Jewish families:

The Shimon HaTzaddik neighborhood in Jerusalem has received another boost towards regaining its Jewish status: The Jerusalem Municipality has approved the construction of 13 housing units for Jews there.

Two plans for the construction of two buildings near the ancient gravesite of Simon the Just were approved on Monday, and the Ministry of Interior will make the final decision as to whether to accept this “recommendation.”

Populated by many Jewish families before the War of Independence, the last remaining Jews of the neighborhood were banished by Arab violence and British “neutrality” in December 1947 and January 1948. The infamous Hadassah convoy massacre, implemented by murderous Arabs with the help of that same British “neutrality,” occurred just around the corner, killing 78. The Jewish-owned properties were populated by Jordanian Arabs following the War of Independence, and they continued living there even after the area was liberated, with the rest of Jerusalem, during the Six Day War in 1967.

Now, we're standing up and reclaiming our heritage, and slowly bringing back a much more welcome atmosphere to boot.

Labels: Israel

The New York Times says that Hilary Clinton is now warning against a rushed departure by Hosni Mubarak:

MUNICH — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton warned on Sunday that removing President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt too hastily could threaten the country’s transition to democracy.

Her remarks were the Obama administration’s most explicit sign yet of its growing emphasis on averting instability in Egypt, even at the expense of the key demand from the Egyptian protest movement: Mr. Mubarak’s immediate removal.

So now, at least in theory, they're backing off their earlier stance that Mubarak should leave instantly, even at the risk of allowing the Muslim Brotherhood to take over. But they'll only really convince when they're willing to say the Brotherhood is a danger.

Labels: Egypt, islam, jihad, political corruption, United States

Atlas Shrugs catches William Kristol following on the trail to wreckage Charles Krauthammer's taken, with a galling op-ed in the Weekly Standard where he denies the facts on the ground about Egypt. What an embarrassment the following is:

The United States has played a role in helping those transitions turn out (reasonably) well. America needn’t be passive or fretful or defensive. We can help foster one outcome over another. As Krauthammer puts it, “Elections will be held. The primary U.S. objective is to guide a transition period that gives secular democrats a chance.”

Now, people are more than entitled to their own opinions of how best to accomplish that democratic end. And it’s a sign of health that a political and intellectual movement does not respond to a complicated set of developments with one voice.

But hysteria is not a sign of health. When Glenn Beck rants about the caliphate taking over the Middle East from Morocco to the Philippines, and lists (invents?) the connections between caliphate-promoters and the American left, he brings to mind no one so much as Robert Welch and the John Birch Society. He’s marginalizing himself, just as his predecessors did back in the early 1960s.

Nor is it a sign of health when other American conservatives are so fearful of a popular awakening that they side with the dictator against the democrats. Rather, it’s a sign of fearfulness unworthy of Americans, of short-sightedness uncharacteristic of conservatives, of excuse-making for thuggery unworthy of the American conservative tradition.

Mr. Kristol, we all want freedom, and we are not siding with dictators, not even Mubarak. But to deny what's really at stake here - the horror story the Muslim Brotherhood will write if they take over - is to absolutely miss the boat. Most importantly besides that, those rioters are savage Islamofascists, and he pretends otherwise? I guess the Ayatollah's own minions were just "secular democrats" too, weren't they?

On top of all that, he's added himself to the list of dummies who've attacked Glenn Beck. Of course Beck isn't perfect (someday, I'll tell you how angry I am that he hosted a two-faced author named Brad Meltzer on his show, who scripted the misogynist screed spoken about in this article), but to say his concerns on the spread of Islamism have no weight is laughable in the extreme. Kristol has proudly ranked himself right down there alongside Krauthammer as another RINO whom the conservative movement will have to pan for his weakness, and distance themselves from before he really screws things up and then acts as though he's got no responsibility to take.

Labels: anti-americanism, anti-semitism, Egypt, islam, jihad, Moonbattery, terrorism, United States

IO9 writes about why we may be seeing the demise of what's been known as the blockbuster movie ever since Jaws coined the concept in 1975. This is largely due to how by the turn of the century, every American family was buying TV sets and VCRs, and home viewing replaced theater viewing. And not only that:

...instead of counting on people to go to the movies every week without fail, studios were forced to blitz consumers with advertising, trying to turn every movie into an "event." The hope was that tons of people would show up opening weekend, lured by ubiquitous TV ads, and then these masses of movie-goers would generate word-of-mouth. The huge opening weekend would turn into "legs" in the following weeks, so the film would become a massive hit. But this seldom happens with most movies — they drop like safes in their following weeks.

Or like a piano - BONG! This is very similar to another subject I write about, on my comics blog. The similarities are indeed very amazing. Another reason, however, is because they became increasingly leftist, to say nothing of disrespectful of the audience.

That's why I won't be missing the blockbuster too much.

Labels: showbiz

The Washington Post (via Moonbattery) reports that the awful Jimmy Carter is being sued by 5 people over the screeds he published in his latest garbage book:

More than four years after its publication, five disgruntled readers have filed a class-action lawsuit against President Jimmy Carter and his publisher, Simon & Schuster, alleging that his 2006 book "Palestine Peace Not Apartheid" contained "numerous false and knowingly misleading statements intended to promote the author's agenda of anti-Israel propaganda and to deceive the reading public instead of presenting accurate information as advertised."

The five plaintiffs named in the lawsuit are seeking at least $5 million in compensation. The hard cover edition cost $27.

The suit accuses Carter and his publisher of violating New York consumer protection laws because they engaged in "deceptive acts in the course of conducting business" and alleges that they sought enrichment by promoting the book "as a work of non-fiction."

Simon & Shuster were once a very decent publisher. But if I'm correct, they were later bought by a German business, and have plummeted badly.

In a press release, one of the attorneys, Nitsana Darshan-Leitner stated: "The lawsuit will expose all the falsehoods and misrepresentations in Carter's book and prove that his hatred of Israel has led him to commit this fraud on the public. He is entitled to his opinions but deceptions and lies have no place in works of history."

And Carter fully deserves to get slapped with this lawsuit. I hope it's successful. In fact, many conservatives should be suing liberals who write slanderous lies like what Carter's written against them.

Labels: anti-semitism, islam, Israel

Italian based writer Fiamma Nirenstein has said that Obama shouldn't be trying to influence Egypt's current situation, or act as though he understands anything about it:

US president Obama should stop making a mess in the Middle East and changing his position twice in two days around the most serious situation facing world peace—the future of Egypt. He should stop using Absolute Good as his point of reference, instead of the good of his country and of the rest of the world which, behind the US, believes in freedom, free market, monogamy and rights of women. What does he think he’s playing with? What kind of information has Mrs. Clinton when she tells us, “It doesn’t matter who's in power [however, who knows, maybe Mubarak will pull through, she seems to be hinting—ed.], the point is how we respond to the legitimate needs and complaints of the Egyptian people". Fine, but does Obama—who in offering this line after a number of hours of uncertainty, dumped his long-time ally, his point-of-reference in the Arab world —know that among the “complaints”, the toughest ones (commonly seen in the streets) are not only against Mubarak, but against the US and Israel, and the Western world in general? Does he know that this great revolution in the streets, that according to our cultural parameters has something to do above all with social issues, must instead be evaluated in terms of a completely different Islamic and Arab culture? Or must we continue to pretend that the crowd in the squares is only talking about bread and job?

Well put, and Hilary Clinton should stop acting as though she's fit to deal with the situation too. They're not qualified at all.

Labels: Egypt, islam, Israel, United States

David Solway at Pajamas Media has exposed Charles Krauthammer's weird double-standards, giving some very good examples of why IMO, he really isn't worth the conservative movement's time, and they should be careful of him:

Despite his apparent conservative credentials, Krauthammer had already become somewhat problematic after his stunning denunciation of the intrepid Geert Wilders at National Review Online. This is a great enigma since, extrapolating from his earlier track record as a sober and insightful observer of the world’s combustible transactions, Krauthammer might have been expected to give the Dutch parliamentarian his seal of approval. But to slander Wilders — a vigorous critic of political correctness, a courageous defender of democratic rights, and a man dedicated to resisting the Islamic cannibalizing of Western civilization — as “extreme, radical and wrong” is clearly beyond the pale. So gratuitous a condemnation seems especially mean-spirited when one recalls that Wilders is living under an Islamic death fatwa for speaking his mind. The stigma lies more with the American journalist than the Dutch politician.

And when Krauthammer proceeds to dismiss “Islamism” as merely “an ideology of a small minority,” he loses credibility, revealing a state of denial more plausibly associated with America’s coastal elites, public intellectuals, academic limpets, and media dilettantes like Paul Krugman, Peter Beinart, Thomas Friedman, David Remnick et al. Andrew Bostom takes Krauthammer roundly to task for his “fundamental ignorance of mainstream, classical Islamic Law” and for his “uninformed, incoherent musings on Geert Wilders and Islam.” Diana West, too, in The Death of the Grown-Up, castigates Krauthammer for going “all mushy on us,” passing off as “Islamist” what is plainly part of “Islam as a whole, as a historical continuum, as the theology of what we know as terrorism, as a rationale for dhimmi repression.” How someone as presumably knowledgeable as Krauthammer could become on this matter a charter member of the middlebrow illiterati is troubling.

[...]

He clearly leans toward the conservative standpoint on the major questions of foreign policy and the Constitution; yet on social issues such as abortion, energy taxes, and stealth jihad he seems sympathetic to the liberal perspective. True, he opposes the Cordoba mosque project as a violation of “hallowed ground”; on the other hand, as we have seen, he trashes Wilders who has spoken passionately against the Cordoba mosque. What gives? The same man who came out strongly in Israel’s defense during the 2006 “Lebanon War,” backed by the conservative right, also supported Ariel Sharon’s disastrous “disengagement” from Gaza in 2005, which was naturally encouraged by the liberal-left.

Kudos to Solway for citing these horrific hypocritical tactics Krauthammer has engaged in, which has often made me feel truly disgusted with him. Krauthammer has also implied he doesn't want people like me to live in east Jerusalem, and Caroline Glick rightly took him to task for that too. In that case, is he really worth turning to for worthy commentary? His job at the Washington Post, a left-liberal newspaper, should give a clue how he's merely symbolic.

I think it's time for the conservative movement to stop relying on someone as cynical as Krauthammer for observations on the state of the world. He is no help in the war against Islamofascism, and if he slandered Wilders, then the Dutchman should seriously consider suing him in court, which would decidedly be a big help in dealing with RINOs.

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

Again I'm putting several items in one.

Two Israeli police officers face charges of assault from during the time of Amona. What's told here is so disgusting, I hope those two filthy animals lose their undeserved homes and end up as beggars. Does being a police officer give you the right to commit rape and pedophilia, or mean that you never have to say you're sorry?

The remains of a Byzantine Church have been discovered southwest of Jerusalem, from 1500 years ago.

Look at how the disgraceful Michael Bloomberg is interfering in Arizona's state affairs, this despite the fact he doesn't really have jurisdiction. He really is a most awful politician, and I can see why today, he's got such low ratings as NY mayor.

Here's another report into the investigation of Malik Nidal Hasan's bloodbath in Fort Hood.

Matt Patterson talks about the slow suicide of the west.

Big Peace talks about Ronald Reagan's journey from liberal dupe to conservative cold warrior.

A bomb exploded in an empty church in Egypt. While it's lucky nobody was murdered, it shows how Christians are still in grave danger in that country. Update: and tragically, as this article tells, murders of Christians continue indeed.

IsraeliGirl writes about the topic of revolutions in the mideast.

Labels: immigration, islam, Israel, jihad, Moonbattery, New York, political corruption, United States

The Muslim Brotherhood says it's against Zionism:

A spokesman for the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt on Thursday evening repeatedly refused to commit to maintaining the peace treaty with Israel, or even recognizing Israel, if the Brotherhood becomes a player in the future governance of Egypt.

Asked on CNN if his organization would support the maintenance of the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty, Mohamed Morsy, a spokesman for the Muslim Brotherhood, dodged a direct answer but said Israel had failed to honor the treaty. He said it would be up to the Egyptian parliament to decide on the fate of the treaty, and that the parliament would reflect the will of the people.

Asked next if an Egypt with a Muslim Brotherhood component in government would even recognize the state of Israel, Morsy again evaded a direct answer despite being pressed several times. “It’s ridiculous to ask about the future,” he said at one point, and then responded with the question: “Does Israel recognize a Palestinian state?”

He also accused Israel of “shedding the blood of the Palestinians for more than 60 years.”

Morsy added that the Brotherhood “are not against the Jews. We are against Zionism. We are against torturing the Palestinian people.”

Very predictable. And we are against calling of incitement to jihad against Israel and the Jews, whom you can be sure they're against as much as Zionism. This is the movement Obama is running the danger of allowing to seize control of Egypt? Simply terrible and depressing.

Labels: anti-semitism, Egypt, islam, Israel, jihad, political corruption

YnetNews reports that a bunch of imams and clerics visited Auschwitz. But no matter what they say, I've got a feeling that all they're spouting following this visit is taqqiya. Will they even acknowledge Haj-Amin el-Husseini's collaboration with the nazis? I doubt it, and don't expect them to make any serious attempt to talk about this honestly back in Islamic countries.

Update: here's an extra article on the mufti.

Labels: anti-semitism, germany, islam

The Senate Homeland Security Committee has released an independent report (via Hot Air) about the Fort Hood murders committed by Nidal Hasan, telling how, despite their awareness that he was in contact with Anwar al-Awlaki, political correctness sabotaged their ability to investigate him:

The JTTF that had reviewed the initial [REDACTED] communications dismissed the second JTTF’s work as “slim” but eventually dropped the matter rather than cause a bureaucratic confrontation. The JTTFs now even dispute the extent to which they were in contact with each other in this case. Nonetheless, the JTTFs never raised the dispute to FBI headquarters for resolution, and entities in FBI headquarters responsible for coordination among field offices never acted. As a result, the FBI’s inquiry into Hasan ended prematurely.

All this in spite of how he practically acted candid about his standings:

Hasan advanced to a two-year fellowship at USUHS…Less than a month into the fellowship, in August 2007, Hasan gave another off-topic presentation on a violent Islamist extremist subject instead of on a health care subject. This time, Hasan’s presentation was so controversial that the instructor had to stop it after just two minutes when the class erupted in protest to Hasan’s views. The presentation was entitled, Is the War on Terror a War on Islam: An Islamic Perspective? Hasan’s proposal for this presentation promoted this troubling thesis: that U.S. military operations are a war against lslam rather than based on non-religious security considerations. Hasan’s presentation accorded with the narrative of violent Islamist extremism that the West is at war with Islam. Hasan’s paper was full of empathetic and supportive recitation of other violent Islamist extremist views, including defense of Osama bin Laden, slanted historical accounts blaming the United States for problems in the Middle East, and arguments that anger at the United States is justifiable…The instructor who stopped the presentation said that Hasan was sweating, quite nervous, and agitated after being confronted by the class.

Hasan’s promotion of violent Islamist extremist beliefs continued after the presentation. One classmate said that Hasan supported suicide bombings in another class. He told several classmates that his religion took precedence over the U.S. Constitution he swore to support and defend as a U.S. military officer.

Yet they allowed him to continue, or even associate themselves with him after that.

One of the officers who reported Hasan to superiors opined that Hasan was permitted to remain in service because of “political correctness” and ignorance of religious practices. That officer added that he believed that concern about potential discrimination complaints stopped some individuals from challenging Hasan. We are concerned that exactly such worries about “political correctness” inhibited Hasan’s superiors and colleagues who were deeply troubled by his behavior from taking the actions against him that could have prevented the attack at Fort Hood.

That explains everything perfectly; exactly what damaged America considerably during the Dubya administration. Now that this has happened, however, the challenging question is whether Congress is going to do anything to prevent further tragedies like that from happening.

Labels: jihad, military, terrorism, United States, US Congress

According to Barry Rubin:

As I pointed out recently the mass media in America generally presents only one side of the debate nowadays. Then, it publishes nonsense which survives because it is protected from the withering critique it deserves. And even people who should know better are just losing it.

Consider one example (Roger Cohen has gone beyond ridicule so let's focus on someone who should know better). I regret criticizing Robert Kagan of the Brookings Institution as he is one of the smarter, saner people.

Yet the kinds of things he is quoted as saying in the New York Times remind me of why the "neo-conservatives" have been so dangerous because of their naivete about the Middle East. They are fitting counterparts of the apologists for radicals who have demonized them. Both groups are trying to impose their fantasy model on the real Middle East. Of course, if Kagan didn't say things like this he wouldn't be quoted at all in the New York Times.

He may be right. "Neo-cons" are probably the nadir of the conservative movement, and are going to need a lesson in how to convey their arguments better.

The wider MSM won't be very likely to let anyone know what Anne Bayefsky says about the UN either; how they abandoned the people in Egypt for 3 decades:

There is one main reason why the Obama administration misjudged Egypt entirely – they cannot get their facts straight. For the last two years they have been busy defending the U.N. as an effective vehicle for promoting U.S. interests, in the name of engagement.

But for the three decades of Hosni Mubarak’s reign the U.N. has dedicated its human rights apparatus to demonizing the state of Israel and ignoring the human rights victims in Egypt and across the Arab world. As dissatisfaction and unrest have grown in the region over his presidency, the Obama administration failed to recognize the U.N.’s gross negligence or to take responsibility for ensuring an alternative vehicle to promote democracy. Instead, it legitimized the U.N.’s top human rights body, the Human Rights Council (HRC), by joining it.

Notwithstanding the meltdown in Egypt, Esther Brimmer, Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of International Organization Affairs picked Tuesday to give her evidence for the success of the Obama foreign policy of engagement with the U.N. and its human rights world.

At a speech to the Brookings Institution she said: “Since the United States joined the Human Rights Council, it has not held a single special session on Israel.” Except that the U.S. took its seat on the Council September 14, 2009, and the Council held its sixth special session on Israel on October 15-16, 2009. It was a rather unforgettable session, actually, since it was the occasion the Council endorsed the notorious Goldstone report.

It is a mystery why the person in charge of international organizations in this country has no clue what the actual record is of the Council, but here is a short synopsis for her edification:

There have been twelve country-specific special sessions of the Human Rights Council in its history. Half of them have been directed at Israel alone. Half of all the resolutions and decisions of the Human Rights Council critical of a specific states’ human rights record have been about Israel alone, and half on the rest of the world. There are ten permanent agenda items of the Council which govern all of its business. One of those items is only about condemning Israel and one is about any other “human rights situation that requires the Council’s attention” elsewhere on the planet. Ten countries were once subject to a specific human rights investigation, but the Council discontinued them for the likes of Belarus, Cuba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guinea, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Liberia, Maldives, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.

There's more at the link, but don't expect Brimmer to ever consider the true image of the UNHRC, or even care to acknowledge it.

Labels: Africa, anti-semitism, Egypt, Israel, UN corruption, United States

The Jerusalem Post tells of 2nd Temple era coins retrieved from an Arabic village:

Police officers stumbled on a large stash of jugs and coins dating back from the Second Temple era in the Galilee village of Mazara on Thursday, during an arms raid.

The archeological finds were kept in a yard belonging to family suspected by police of keeping arms.

"We're looking to see how it got to this yard," a Galilee police spokesman told The Jerusalem Post.

After finding the artifacts, a representative of the Israel Antiquities Authority was called out to the scene, and he dated the findings to the Second Temple period, the spokesman added.

The artifacts have been transferred to the Nahariya police station.

A young man who was home at the time of the raid was arrested. He told police the artifacts belonged to his father. Police have not yet questioned the father.

Yeah, I'll bet they belonged. More likely they stole them from an excavation site. And what were they planning on doing with the coins? Selling them on the black market, perhaps?

Labels: Israel, Israeli Arabs

So now, there's a clash between movements for and against Mubarak in the streets of Cairo. And if all they can think about is being so savage to one another, then I just can't root for either side. This is best described as a lose-lose situation.

Labels: Egypt, islam

First reported here with pictures, Atlas Shrugs now reports that an attempted mosque building in a Brooklyn neighborhood has been halted, and there had been some illegal steps involved too. The NY Post has a story that, while biased, still gives some insight into how there was illegal activity that took place.

The Bay People group that protested the mosque are to be praised for their bold efforts to stop it.

Labels: islam, New York, United States