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Jeff Dunetz at Big Peace talks about the recent news of a gang in Egypt that blew up a gas pipeline in Sinai. It's actually the second time this has happened recently, as those jihadists have continued their anti-Israel activities since the revolt against the prior Mubarak regime.

Because of this:

Israeli officials on Wednesday called for the country to find ways to reduce its dependency on other countries for gas, and urged the government to quickly develop newly found gas fields off the coast of Israel. Israel Electric Company said it had enough gas in the pipeline for the next few days and then would switch to alternative fuels such as coal and diesel to produce electricity.

The discovery of natural gas near Haifa is a recent - and fortunate - development, and one that needs to be worked on as soon as possible in order to replace any gas transfers coming from other Arabic countries that are on their way to deterioration. We simply can't rely on countries - certainly not where Islam reins supreme - in times like this for fuel, and that's why it's better to develop our own resources instead.

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

In this Town Hall wire report, one of the UMP's party leaders spoke about why they want the open-borders policy in Europe revised, for good reason:

France cannot afford to take in waves of North African migrants looking for jobs, the head of President Nicolas Sarkozy's party argued Wednesday, as European neighbors spar over what to do with thousands of unemployed Tunisians who have arrived illegally on this border-free continent.

Paris police detained illegal migrants from Tunisia, Egypt and Libya in roundups around the French capital on Tuesday and Wednesday, according to city hall. That angered charity groups who are trying to find them housing and keep them off the streets.

Jean-Francois Cope said in an interview that France wants to revise Europe's open-border system and limit immigration because of economics, not xenophobia.

"Do we have the means to absorb job-related immigration? The answer is largely no," the chief of the UMP party told The Associated Press.

France's government debt is well more than half of its gross domestic product, and unemployment is nearly 10 percent. Joblessness is even higher among unskilled youth, which bodes ill for the largely unskilled young Tunisians clamoring to get here.

France and Italy have been at odds over how to deal with more than 20,000 illegal Tunisian migrants who entered the European Union via the small Italian island of Lampedusa since the longtime president fled a popular revolt in January. Most want to reach France, Tunisia's former colonial ruler, where they can speak the language and have friends or family.

Oh? What if all they're willing to speak is other languages? And while not mentioned, Islamofascism is definitely a problem these infiltrators will bring with them. That's why it's a good thing France has been closing its own borders and turning them away from Italy's side. They're going to have to get serious if they want to bolster the public trust.

Labels: Europe, France, immigration, islam, Italy

World Net Daily says that in California, there's opposition to forcing what could be propaganda lessons about homosexual culture/practice, and even liberals in America object:

An overwhelming majority of Americans say elementary school is no place to promote the homosexual lifestyle, and even among liberals there is the strong belief that such lessons should be left outside the door of the classroom, according to a new poll.

The results are from a WND/WENZEL Poll conducted for WND by the public-opinion research and media consulting company Wenzel Strategies.

"Whether they object on moral grounds or simply out of concern that many U.S. schools are failing in their core missions of teaching basics doesn't really matter – the vast majority of American adults want this type of curriculum kept out of the classroom," Wenzel chief Fritz Wenzel said.

The scientific telephone survey was done April 19-21, and has a margin of error of 3.23 percentage points. It found that 65 percent of all respondents objected to teaching elementary school children that homosexuality is a "normal alternative lifestyle."

The question was, "Do you believe elementary school children should be taught that homosexuality is a normal alternative lifestyle?"

Only 22 percent agreed that would be right, and only 13 percent were unsure.

Nearly 80 percent of the self-identified members of the GOP objected, as did nearly 60 percent of the independents. Even among those who identified with the Democrat Party, more than 55 percent said those lessons are not appropriate.

"Americans are particularly averse to the introduction of gay issues into the curriculum of the nation's elementary schools," Wenzel said. "Two out of every three respondents said they oppose the teaching to elementary school students that homosexuality is a normal alternative lifestyle, an attitude that is mirrored across the political spectrum. Even among Democrats, who have been much more sympathetic to the promotion of gay issues, just 32 percent said they believe this should be taught to elementary school students. Just 11 percent of Republicans and 25 percent of political independents said the same thing."

In California itself, the problems include:

The state previously has implemented laws that provide homosexual-bisexual-transssexual indoctrination by banning in all school teachings, classes, materials, seminars and events anything negative about such lifestyles.

The California schools also provide "confidential" abortion referrals and off-campus "counseling" for students without letting their parents know. There also are programs to distribute condoms and birth control, once again without parental knowledge.

It was just two years ago when SaveCalifornia.com launched the RescueYourChild.com effort to encourage parents to withdraw their children from public schools because of such indoctrination.

That followed work by the legislature and then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to establish Senate Bill 777 and Assembly Bill 394 as law. Those institutionalized the promotion of homosexuality, bisexuality, transgenderism and other alternative lifestyle choices by banning any "adverse" references in schools.

Just call him Arnold the RINOnator. It only takes someone like that to destroy all common sense.

The situation gets even worse:

California also has mandated that public schools honor Harvey Milk – a homosexual activist and reported sexual predator, as well as an advocate for Jim Jones, leader of the massacred hundreds in Jonestown, Guyana.

SaveCalifornia.com led a statewide battle against "Harvey Milk Day" before California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed the S.B. 572.

Yikes, and I thought it was bad enough they were worshiping Mumia abu-Jamal. This is most definitely a problem, and maybe one that the next Republican candidate for president should address.

Labels: Moonbattery, United States

KHOU-TV reports that Gabrielle Giffords, who was shot by a left-leaning moonbat in January, is going to Cape Canaveral in Florida to view a NASA mission her husband, astronaut Mark Kelly, is leading (Hat tip: The Blaze and Mediaite).

I'm very glad to see she's recovering, and will hopefully be back in full action soon.

Labels: United States

Michael Medved* wrote a few weeks ago that the South Park creators came up with a parody of Mormonism. And it went by without any denunciations from the LDS Church.

Unfortunately, chances that Broadway would ever produce a musical parody of the Koran at this particular phase are little to none.

It's similar to this galling case (Hat tip: Betsy's Page).

* My family once knew his late father Dave years ago. A very nice man indeed.

Labels: islam, showbiz, United States

Pajamas Media has an article about Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer's new documentary, The Ground Zero Mosque: Second Wave of 9-11 Attacks. Check here for more info on where you can find a screening.

Labels: anti-americanism, dhimmitude, islam, Moonbattery, New York, political corruption, terrorism, United States

But then, was there ever any true peace to begin with? In this AP article featured on The Blaze:

CAIRO (AP) — More than half of all Egyptians would like to see the 1979 peace treaty with Israel annulled, according to results of a poll conducted by the U.S.-based Pew Research Center released Monday.

The poll highlights the deep unpopularity of the three-decade-old treaty, which is central to U.S. policy in the region and was scrupulously adhered to by former President Hosni Mubarak, who was ousted Feb. 11.

The poll also revealed that most Egyptians are optimistic about where the country is headed following the 18-day popular uprising, and they look forward to greater democracy in their country.

The fall of Egypt’s autocratic leader and the rise of a more democratic system, however, could threaten relations with neighbor Israel.

There's a peculiar contradiction here: a democratic system would harm relations? I thought it was the other way around. Especially if the Muslim Brotherhood gets in, and exploits democracy to pave the way to autocracy.

According to the poll results, only 36 percent of Egyptians are in favor of maintaining the treaty, compared with 54 percent who would like to see it scrapped.

Despite the decades of peace and limited trade between the two countries, most Egyptians view the Israelis poorly, largely because of perceptions that they mistreat the Palestinians.

And what led to that? Decades of propaganda by Mubarak himself, who sure didn't do anything to change the Islamic influenced education curriculum.

Labels: anti-semitism, Egypt, islam, Israel

The governor of Arizona argues that "birtherism" isn't helping the right one bit. That's why it certainly shouldn't be made into a campaign slogan.

Labels: United States

In a rare show of responsibility, The Washington Post (via The Weekly Standard) says that Obama's approach to the Syrian revolt has been simply shameful:

Massacres on this scale usually prompt a strong response from Western democracies, as they should. Ambassadors are withdrawn; resolutions are introduced at the U.N. Security Council; international investigations are mounted and sanctions applied. In Syria’s case, none of this has happened. The Obama administration has denounced the violence—a presidential statement called Friday’s acts of repression “outrageous”—but otherwise remained passive.... The administration has sat on its hands despite the fact that the Assad regime is one of the most implacable U.S. adversaries in the Middle East. It is Iran’s closest ally; it supplies Iranian weapons to Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in the Gaza Strip for use against Israel. Since 2003 it has helped thousands of jihadists from across the Arab world travel to Iraq to attack American soldiers. It sought to build a secret nuclear reactor with the help of North Korea and destabilized the pro-Western government of neighboring Lebanon by sponsoring a series of assassinations.

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As a practical matter, these considerations are misguided. Even if his massacres allow him to survive in power, Mr. Assad will hardly be a credible partner for Israel. And no matter what happens, Syria will not return to the police-state stability it has known during the past several decades.

As a moral matter, the stance of the United States is shameful. To stand by passively while hundreds of people seeking freedom are gunned down by their government makes a mockery of the U.S. commitment to human rights. In recent months President Obama has pledged repeatedly that he would support the aspiration of Arabs for greater freedom. In Syria, he has not kept his word.

Of course, there's a drawback to the Post's editorial - would they say the same for the PLO's own assault on Israelis at Joseph's Tomb? Why do I get the feeling they would take the polar opposite track on that issue?

And running a police state is a very negative way of handling things. The Post did not conduct a very good argument for the sake of democracies there.

Labels: islam, political corruption, syria, United States

They are not allowed to vote in their so-called elections. Nor are they allowed to drive cars. And we cannot expect that to change any time soon, so long as western politicians allow this to go on unchallenged.

Labels: House of Saud, islam, misogyny

There was a shooting and a murder at Joseph's Tomb, with one dead and 5 others injured:

Palestinian Authority police Sunday morning shot and killed one Israeli and wounded five others after they prayed at Joseph's Tomb (Kever Yosef) around 6 a.m. Sunday (11 p.m. Saturday night EDT).

One of the wounded is in serious condition, and Army helicopters evacuated the injured to a hospital for emergency care. A group of 15 worshippers from the Breslov Chassidic sect had driven to the site and were returning when they were gunned down by Pal police in a jeep.

The PA security forces continued to fire at the cars as they fled.

The IDF hurriedly issued a statement that the trip to Kever Yosef was not coordinated with Israeli security forces.

Kever Yosef is a Jewish holy site that was supposed to be under Israeli control and open to worshippers as stated in previous agreements. However, the government has surrendered the area to Palestinian Authority control, and local Arabs have desecrated it several times.

The Breslov group was known to Palestinian Authority authorities as people who frequently prayed at Kever Yosef without any other intentions, according to Gershon Mesika, chairman of the Shomron (Samaria) Regional Council. He called the shooting attack a "massacre at close range."

National Union Knesset Member Dr. Michael Ben-Ari indirectly blamed the American government for having “trained and armed the enemy army that is called the ‘Palestinian Authority police’ and is directly responsible for the murder at Kever Yosef.”

The victim was the nephew of Limor Livnat:

The victim of the attack by PA police on Jews at the Tomb of Joseph Sunday morning is Yosef Ben-Livnat, the nephew of government minister Limor Livnat. He was 24 years old, and a father of four. Ben-Livnat was a resident of Jerusalem.

Keep him and his family in your prayers.

Ben-Ari and anyone else angry that the American government trained these monsters have every right to feel that way.

Update: as told by YnetNews, the monsters even yelled "allahu akbar" when they fired on the group (via Jihad Watch and Atlas Shrugs).

Update 2: Limor Livnat says that her nephew was murdered by a terrorist disguised as a policeman.

Update 3: here's Power Line's post on the subject, and more from INN. And here's P. David Hornik's report on Pajamas Media, where he also notes that MK Danny Danon has called on the US to stop funding the PLO.

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

Pamela Geller writes on Big Government about how Henry Ford's bastion has been keeping Terry Jones, the controversial pastor, from leading a demonstration there, all for the sake of the Muslim entity that's turned it into their enclave. Now I don't think much of Jones for his burning of Korans, since as Geller's argued, it is setting a bad example, but compared to assault on human life, is still peanuts.

If whatever Jones wants to do in Dearborn isn't violent, then by all means, he should be allowed, and the Islamists there would do well to ignore it. The city's kowtowing is something that cannot be allowed, and should be fought against.

Update: here's Diana West's take on the subject, and more from Hot Air too.

Labels: dhimmitude, islam, United States

Mel Gibson gave a long interview to Deadline (via The Daily Caller), but once more, comes off very unsatisfyingly, and makes an awfully absurd statement:

DEADLINE’S ALLISON HOPE WEINER: Were people angry at you about what you said on tapes?
GIBSON: I was angry at me. But, no one expressed any anger at me. They may have felt it.

Earth to Gibson: if I'm any suggestion, there are people who're angry at you, even for what you said to your former girlfriend. In Hollywood, unfortunately, most fools in the business probably wouldn't be. And it doesn't matter if she was trying to lure you into the open deliberately; those vulgar cracks you made were still unacceptable.

WEINER: People didn’t understand how you could say the things you did on these tapes. They wondered, what kind of person says those things. Right now, many people think you’re a racist and that you hate women from listening to those tapes.
GIBSON: I’ve never treated anyone badly or in a discriminatory way based on their gender, race, religion or sexuality -- period. I don’t blame some people for thinking that though, from the garbage they heard on those leaked tapes, which have been edited. You have to put it all in the proper context of being in an irrationally, heated discussion at the height of a breakdown, trying to get out of a really unhealthy relationship. It’s one terribly, awful moment in time, said to one person, in the span of one day and doesn’t represent what I truly believe or how I’ve treated people my entire life.

Stuff it, Gibson, it's just not helping. You already set a bad example with your questionable take on the history of Jesus that Dennis Prager saw for what it was, and have all the earmarks of a flake.

I guess the following is something to be impressed by though:

WEINER: Are you worried that audiences will hold what happened against you, and you won’t be able to act anymore?
MEL GIBSON: I don’t care if I don’t act anymore.

WEINER: Really? Is that true?
GIBSON: It really is true.

Well let's hope it is. I suggest he go and live like a hermit for all I care. But sadly, he'll probably try and get into politics, which is unsuitable for people like him.

Labels: anti-semitism, misogyny, racism, showbiz, United States

A demonstration against Islam in Russia took place in Moscow, and as you'll see at The Jawa Report, a picture even shows some using nazi salutes.

Now, it could be that the AFP exaggerated that part, and the majority of the demonstrators didn't espouse in nazism. But if they did, then that's a textbook example of how not to lead a protest against Islam, and considering that the nazis did ally themselves with the ummah, it seems absurd that they would want to use anything connected to such a repulsive ideology.

And many Muslims have condoned socialism - what the nazis built their ideology on - if that's what'll help to achieve their vile goals, so why don't the Russians consider how this long time concept they've supported is just what's helping many Islamists?

Using fascist tactics is exactly what the MSM is hoping to see, so they can undermine the fight against the very fascist ideologies we're concerned about. Those Russians who did that are not helping the western case against Islamofascism one bit.

Labels: islam, Russia

In coverage of Syria, we find that Bashar Assad is giving a display of savagery:

AMMAN - Security forces shot dead at least 25 pro-democracy protesters in Syria on Friday, human rights campaigners said.

They were killed in suburbs and towns surrounding Damascus, in the central city of Homs and in the southern town of Izra'a, two established Syrian human rights organizations keeping a tally of civilian deaths told Reuters. Witnesses reported dozens injured in the deadly clashes.

They are really turning into a living hell there.

Update: more on the subject at Commentary.

Labels: islam, jihad, syria

Sean Hannity is running a special on FOX about the history of liberal media and what kind of double standards and groundless attacks they've led (via Media Research Center, who provided some of the info for the documentary). Brent Bozell was one of the interviewees.

Update: Newsbusters and The Blaze have video files for this available too.

Labels: communications, Moonbattery, msm foulness

WBIR reported about the protests staged by Muslims in Tennessee against the legislation to ban sharia in US courts, and one person certainly didn't help matters there (Hat tip: Jihad Watch):

"People have this idea that Shariah is just chopping people's hands, but Shariah is a way of life for us," said Arshia Shah, a lawyer originally from Britain who now lives in Sparta and came to the Capitol with her husband and two daughters. "It's prayer. It's how we deal with our spouses. And to tell people that they can't practice this - that they're doing something wrong - is a great concern."

Notice how she didn't say that sharia didn't involve chopping. Nobody said it was only about that, but if it does involve amputation, that's definitely one thing that must be made illegal.

In the Koran, this is certainly taught in the following: "As for the thief, both male and female, cut off their hands. It is the reward of their own deeds, an exemplary punishment from Allah. Allah is Mighty, Wise." -- Sura 5:38 Is that something we want in a civilized country? The Tennessee legislation would do well to make clear that this kind of savagery is simply unacceptable in any society.

Labels: islam, United States

Walter Hudson at News Real Blog writes about an inciteful leftist named Jim Lendall who called for executions of businessmen and conservatives:

The French, inspired by our American Revolution, knew how to deal with the wealthy arrogant aristocrats. The French people built guillotines. Maybe we can park a guillotine in front of every chamber of commerce, corporate headquarters, bank, investment house, and Republican Party headquarters to remind them that democracy is about people, not profits. We need to tell them in one clear voice, ‘No more greed.’

And we need to tell that repugnant man "no more anti-conservative hatred". He might also want to ponder that the guillotines were built to deal with criminals like murderers, not to murder business people. And he has the abominable gall to incite against innocent people's rights to make money? A man like Lendall should be ostracized by sane society. Here's a page from Breitbart TV with the video.

Labels: jihad, Moonbattery, United States

The Daily Caller reports that Rep. Peter King is demanding answers on why the Justice Department would not prosecute 3 cases involving Hamas funders:

Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, New York Republican Rep. Peter T. King is demanding answers from Attorney General Eric Holder, calling on Holder to explain to why the Justice Department decided not to prosecute the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) and the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT) in a Hamas terror finance case.

In a letter to Holder, King questions the credibility of Justice Department for deciding not to prosecute the aforementioned actors in United States v. Holy Land Foundation.

“I have been reliably informed that the decision not to seek indictments of the Council on American Islamic Relations (“CAIR”) and its co-founder Omar Ahmad, the Islamic Society of North America (“ISNA”), and the North American Islamic Trust (“NAIT”), was usurped by high-ranking officials at Department of Justice headquarters over the vehement and stated objections of special agents and supervisors of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, as well as the prosecutors at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Dallas, who had investigated and successfully prosecuted the Holy Land Foundation case,” King wrote. “Their opposition to this decision raises serious doubt that the decision not to prosecute was a valid exercise of prosecutorial discretion.”

King requests that Holder respond to his questions by April 25th, including the reason Justice did not pursue cases against the three groups and Omar Ahmad (co-founder of CAIR and former head of a Muslim Brotherhood branch); the person behind the decision to drop the case and if the decision involved anybody from the executive branch; and how will concerns about these groups funding terrorists be handled in the future.

Better still, why don't they organize another hearing in Congress and call in Holder to testify? That could make for a very challenging discussion.

Labels: CAIR corruption, islam, jihad, political corruption, United States, US Congress

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (via Jihad Watch) reports on another show of anti-dhimmitude in the USA:

JEFFERSON CITY • A bill prohibiting state courts from using or recognizing Sharia law passed the Missouri House Wednesday on a 102-51 vote.

The legislation, which was sponsored by state Rep. Paul Curtman, R-Pacific, bans Missouri courts from utilizing foreign law or legal code in any ruling. Although it never specifically mentions the words “Sharia” or “Islam," Wednesday’s debate focused almost exclusively on Sharia law, which is the religious law of Islam.

“This bill is not all about Sharia Law,” Curtman said. "It’s Sharia Law, French law, Dutch law or anything else.”

Since the beginning of 2009, numerous states have considered proposals to ban Sharia. During last year's elections, Oklahoma voters passed a referendum banning state courts from considering international or Islamic law. However, it was later blocked by a federal judge who said that the law was unconstitutional.

Legislation similar to Curtman’s was introduced in the Missouri Senate by Republican Brian Nieves but has yet to gain traction. The House bill picked up momentum earlier this session when House Speaker Steve Tilley threw his support behind it, saying “the laws of this country should trump any other laws regarding the citizens of our country within our borders."

This is very good.

Labels: islam, United States

In a followup to this earlier news, the US Congress has passed a bill calling for cancellation of Goldstone's blood libel.

The Congress voted unanimously for the bill, which passed Tuesday. It calls on U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to prevent the U.N. Human Rights Council from accusing Israel of committing war crimes by making changes to the current structure of the Council. Such a move would prevent the Council from using the Goldstone Report to cause further damage to the Jewish State in the international arena.

[...]

The report accused Israel of committing possible war crimes and barely mentioned the role of Hamas in targeting Israel's civilians with constant rocket and mortar attacks.

The PLO has declared itself an enemy of Congress following this news, and is even calling on Obama not to support the bill from Congress. It just shows how remorseless they are for causing all the trouble they're going to cause.

Labels: anti-semitism, islam, Israel, jihad, terrorism, UN corruption, United States, US Congress

The Blaze has noted how, in allegedly wishing Israel a happy Passover, Obama did it by comparing to uprisings in the Muslim world.

As Glenn Beck has said, Obama's message is a slap in the face to Israel.

Labels: islam, Israel, United States

Giyus.Org interviewed Benny Begin, now a minister again in the Netanyahu government, on the situation in the middle east. I guess the part to highlight is his note on Turkey:

Giyus.org: 2011 has been a stormy year across the Middle East – How do these revolutions and changes impact Israel?

Minister Begin: I'll say something that everyone knows which is that is that no one knows. No one knows where things are headed, people guess and estimate, research institutions guestimate, intelligence services have their own assessments, but no one really knows. The Egyptian leadership didn't know a week before the revolution happened, and the same goes for the Tunisia leadership. It's all in an embryonic stage and I, according to my scientific background, am trying to guess as little as I can. So what I usually do in situation like this is put some constraints on my imagination. The way I proposed to do that is through observation of 3 democracies in the Middle East, since Democracy is what we're told these events lead to.

I start with Turkey, a long term democracy, even an improved version of democracy compared to Israel since they have a constitution. So Turkey has a constitution, an independent judicial system, elections that take place on time and are to a large degree orderly and transparent, a parliament, coalition and opposition, coalition crises from time to time,. So, it's a fine democracy. Turkey is also a member of NATO. But now we have to take into account that in the year 2002, a new government was elected. The AKP party ascended to the throne and this Islamist government voluntarily elected to turn their ambitions east wards towards Iran under Ahmadinejad instead of Europe and the European democracies, despite the fact that Turkey is a NATO member. They have aligned themselves publicly with the new bloc comprising Iran, Syria, Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza. They have been supportive of all these bodies. Let's remember that AKP have their roots in the Muslim Brotherhood in Lebanon in the 20s of the last Century. These are the same roots; they are off shoots of the same plant. This will explain to you why the current Turkish government so readily supports Hamas. The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, which could not hold their conventions openly in Egypt under Mubarak, held them freely in Turkey for years. Finally, Turkey's alignment with Ahmadinejad, whose ambitions to eradicate Israel are well known, is repulsive. That's Turkey, a democracy – how far does it contribute to peace and stability in the Middle East today?

What led to the rise of the AKP, one could observe, was the secular Turkish community's underestimation of their particular influence. Now, the damage has been done and train's left the station on a collision course.

And then, we may have all overlooked something else: were the governments running Turkey really "secular"? It's not easy to tell, but if they were so opposed to recognition of the Ottoman empire's massacre of 1.5 million Armenians during WW1, something is definitely wrong, no matter what kind of governments were minding the store over the past couple decades.

Labels: anti-semitism, iran, islam, Israel, jihad, racism, terrorism, turkey

The New York Post says that overrated Robin Williams was given a free pass, and you can probably guess why:

Two star-struck cops who are big fans of Robin Williams spotted their beloved comedian illegally biking on a sidewalk and gave him a free pass -- instead of a $100 ticket.

Even if Williams hadn't been such a turnoff as he definitely was when he first came to prominence in Mork & Mindy, it still wouldn't be right to be lenient on him for riding his bike on a sidewalk where it wasn't permitted. The officers who acted careless have a lot of explaining to do.

Labels: New York, showbiz, United States

It's not often I do it these days, but since it's the holiday, let me say Happy Passover to everyone. Here's an article related to the subject too.

Labels: Israel

The leftist Time writes about the policy Iran's planning against dog ownership, and very possibly against cat ownership too:

For much of the past decade, the Iranian government has tolerated what it considers a particularly depraved and un-Islamic vice: the keeping of pet dogs.

During periodic crackdowns, police have confiscated dogs from their owners right off the street; and state media has lectured Iranians on the diseases spread by canines. The cleric Gholamreza Hassani, from the city of Urmia, has been satirized for his sermons railing against "short-legged" and "holdable" dogs. But as with the policing of many other practices (like imbibing alcoholic drinks) that are deemed impure by the mullahs but perfectly fine to many Iranians, the state has eventually relaxed and let dog lovers be. (See the top 10 animal stories of 2010.)

Those days of tacit acceptance may soon be over, however. Lawmakers in Tehran have recently proposed a bill in parliament that would criminalize dog ownership, formally enshrining its punishment within the country's Islamic penal code. The bill warns that that in addition to posing public health hazards, the popularity of dog ownership "also poses a cultural problem, a blind imitation of the vulgar culture of the West." The proposed legislation for the first time outlines specific punishments for "the walking and keeping" of "impure and dangerous animals," a definition that could feasibly include cats but for the time being seems targeted at dogs. The law would see the offending animal confiscated, the leveling of a $100-to-$500 fine on the owner, but leaves the fate of confiscated dogs uncertain. "Considering the several thousand dogs [that are kept] in Tehran alone, the problem arises as to what is going to happen to these animals," Hooman Malekpour, a veterinarian in Tehran, said to the BBC's Persian service. If passed, the law would ultimately energize police and volunteer militias to enforce the ban systematically.

You should be glad you don't live in that horrid country, or your child's pet dog - and very possibly cat - could be decreed haram. And don't be surprised if what they're planning for now will result in the animal being not only confiscated, but also exterminated. Without even a word from western animal rights groups, I'm guessing, sadly enough.

Labels: iran, islam

Daniel Flynn at Human Events writes about how the California Teachers Federation has supported Mumia abu-Jamal, the murderer of policeman Daniel Faulkner in Philadelphia in the 1980s. They completely refuse to recognize that there were tons of witnesses who saw what abu-Jamal did:

The pantheon of leftist saints includes the Haymarket Square bombers, responsible for the deaths of eight Chicago cops, Joe Hill, murderer of former police officer John Morrison in Salt Lake City, Huey Newton, murderer of Oakland policeman John Frey, and Leonard Peltier, murderer of FBI agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams. Notice a pattern?

Like the radical saints in whose footsteps he trod, Abu-Jamal is guilty. Numerous witnesses identified him as Faulkner’s killer. Police found Abu-Jamal, nursing a wound inflicted by his victim’s service revolver, sitting just a few feet from Faulkner’s body. By Abu-Jamal’s side was a gun, which he lunged for when a policeman approached, registered in his name and containing five spent shell casings of the same caliber as the bullets found in the slain policeman. Cops, a hospital worker, and a prison outreach activist sympathetic to Abu-Jamal’s politics heard admissions of guilt.

Eyewitnesses, ballistics, confessions—is it any wonder that a jury took just three hours to convict?

What the CFT is doing is also obscene to Faulkner's own family, whom they've obscured as well. I would think there's room for a lawsuit against the CFT for lionizing a cop-murderer like abu-Jamal. And these are the people teaching the public's children in California? It's clear that their education system is completely corrupted, and needs to undergo considerable alterations.

Labels: islam, Moonbattery, United States

Following France's ban on veils in public, the Muslim Council of Britain, in the country where protests against the ban across the pond were far more noticeable (there was a demonstration in front of the French embassy), has declared that nobody's got an option (via Big Peace):

The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) said that not covering the face is a "shortcoming" and suggested that any Muslims who advocate being uncovered could be guilty of rejecting Islam.

In a statement published on its website the MCB, warns: "We advise all Muslims to exercise extreme caution on this issue, since denying any part of Islam may lead to disbelief.

"Not practising something enjoined by Allah and his Messenger… is a shortcoming. Denying it is much more serious."

The statement quotes from the Koran: "It is not for a believer, man or woman, that they should have any option in their decision when Allah and his Messenger have decreed a matter."

The statement will add to controversy about the veil after France earlier this week banned the full-face covering.

Umm, I think only Muhammed and other fiends like him decreed it a matter, since they think they're so smart they actually know what the Lord wants. That's pretty much what the whole RoP was built upon - the fantasies of a man who considered himself so smart he thought he knew everything.

And alas, we can't count on Britain to join any country on the mainland who support banning the chador. They've always been so dismaying.

Labels: islam, londonistan, misogyny

Caroline Glick wrote that there's a lesson to be learned in how Recip Tayyip Erdogan's so-called political party cunningly exploited democracy for the sake of autocracy:

Today's Turkey is a cautionary tale for the West. But Western leaders are loath to consider its lessons.

Ever since Turkey's Islamist Justice and Peace AKP party under Recip Tayip Erdogan won the November 2002 elections, Western officials have upheld the AKP, Erdogan and his colleagues as proof that political Islam is consonant with democratic values. During Erdogan's June 2005 visit to the White House for instance, then president George W. Bush praised Turkish democracy as "an important example for the people in the broader Middle East."

Unfortunately, nine years into the AKP's "democratic" regime it is clear that Erdogan and his colleagues' embrace of the language and tools of democracy was a mile wide and an inch thick. They used democracy to gain power. Now that they have power, they are systematically destroying freedom in their country.

Turkey ranks 138th in the international media freedom group Reporters Sans Frontiers country index on press freedom. 68 journalists are languishing in Turkish jails for the crime of doing their job. The most recent round-up of reporters occurred in early March. And it is demonstrative of Turkey's Islamist leaders' exploitation of democratic freedoms in the service of their tyrannical ends.

As Der Spiegel reported last week, veteran journalists Ahmet Sik from the far left Radikal newspaper and Nedim Sener from the highbrow Milliyet journal were among those rounded up. As radical leftists, both men oppose the AKP's Islamist politics. But they shared its interest in weakening the Turkish military.

The Left opposed the military's constitutional role as the overseer of Turkish democracy because the military used that role to persecute leftists. The AKP party opposed the military's power because it blocked the party's path to Islamizing Turkish society and politics. When the AKP turned its guns on the military it used leftist journalists to support its actions.

This collusion came to a head in 2007. In a bid to destroy the legitimacy of the military, the AKP regime has engaged in unprecedented levels of wiretapping of the communications of senior serving and retired generals.

This wiretapping operation preceded the exposure in 2007 of the so-called Ergenekon conspiracy in which senior military commanders, journalists, television personalities, entertainers and businesspeople have been implicated in an alleged attempt to topple the AKP government. As part of the Ergenekon investigation, over the past four years, hundreds of non-Islamist leaders from generals to journalists have been arrested and held without trial.

Interestingly enough, notice how some of the victims of this sharia process in Turkey have been leftists, yet at the same time, they and the military made serious mistakes of acting against each other. But does the left in western countries care? Apparently not.

Labels: islam, political corruption, turkey

The Jerusalem Post reports that the IDF has captured 2 culprits in the bloodbath of the Fogel family in Itamar (Hat tip: Jihad Watch):

Two Palestinian youths from the village of Awarta were arrested in recent days for the brutal slaying of five members of the Fogel family in their Itamar home last month, the IDF and Shin Bet said on Sunday following the lifting of a media ban on the investigation.

The suspects have been named as Hakim Maazan Niad Awad, an 18-year-old high school student, and Amjad Mahmud Fauzi Awad, 19, both from the West Bank village of Awarta, located 2 kilometers south of the settlement of Itamar.

The suspects have confessed to the stabbings and re-enacted the murders, security forces said on Sunday. According to Army Radio, they did not express remorse for their crimes.

Both men are affiliated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PLFP) terror group and received significant assistance from family members and friends after the attack, security forces added.

The suspects planned the stabbings days ahead of time. On the night of March 11, after unsuccessful attempts to obtain firearms from a local PFLP representative in their village, the two set out toward Itamar on foot, armed with knives, a wirecutter and masks to cover their faces.

The two culprits must receive the death sentence for their horrifying obscenity against humanity. It's high time the authorities made serious use of it to send a message what will happen if they commit hate crimes this abominable and obscene.

Update: according to this report, the 2 evil filths were allowed into the town for olive harvesting, and knew the area.

Update 2: there are calls coming for establishing the death penalty in cases like these.

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

FOX News (via The Jawa Report) tells that another case like this has come up in Illinois:

Illinois police are searching for a missing teenage girl who authorities say ran away from home to avoid an arranged marriage, MyFoxChicago.com reports.

Zaineb Chaudhary, 16, was last seen March 11 at Niles North High School in Skokie, Ill.

Officer Tammy Jacobsen of the Skokie Police Department told the station that Zaineb's father visited his native Pakistan in October to arrange a marriage for his daughter.

"He has stated that he was there, looking for marriage arrangement for his daughter," Jacobsen said in an interview.

Police said the girl's disappearance could be viewed as a disgrace by her family and want to protect her from any possible "honor crime," according to the station.

While it's amazing that this mentions "honor crime", it does not mention Islam's involvement. That's another clue that even FOX cannot be trusted to deliver a proper report on these kind of cases.

Labels: islam, misogyny, pakistan, United States

Phyllis Chesler writes about the sentence Faleh Almaleki has received - 34 and a half years - for murdering his daughter Noor with a Jeep Grand Cherokee 2 years ago. A sentence most justly deserved, though it would have been far better if he'd been sent to the chair or gotten a lethal injection.

And those who were accomplices in the murders must be tried as well.

Labels: islam, misogyny, United States

The UK Mail (via Big Peace) tells that some of the royal palace guards hid under their beds rather than answer a distress signal warning that a member of the royal family was in danger.

The Vikings may have been barbarians, but I don't think they would have hid under their beds. Boy, we sure have come a long way since they dissolved in the 10th century.

Labels: Scandanavia

Politico reports that Rick Santorum concurs with Glenn Beck about the dangers of a caliphate rising in the middle east (via The Blaze):

Rick Santorum told Glenn Beck Thursday that he doesn't disagree with Beck's ominous assertions that Islamic extremists in the Middle East are working with leftists to establish a caliphate across the region.

"I have talked about a caliphate and how these extremists are working with communists and socialists — they are all working together. Whether you believe it or not, this is happening. And people want Sharia law all over the globe," Beck said during an interview with Santorum.

"I don't disagree with anything you've said," Santorum responded.

I'm glad someone on the right has acted responsibly, unlike the awful Bill Kristol, whom Ben Barrack reported nearly 2 weeks ago betrayed his positions from 2006, when he actually spoke against any jihadist who would rampage over the Muhammed cartoons. Kristol owes an apology for mimicking leftist scoffers who don't recognize why it pays to be concerned.

Labels: islam, jihad, terrorism, United States

In an example of how some moonbats never consider how the enemies they're helping are not grateful, an Italian pro-palestinian activist who was living in Gaza for several years was murdered, seemingly by a rival faction to Hamas:

Vittorio Arrigoni, 36, who had been living in the Gaza Strip for much of the past three years, was seized on Thursday by a radical group that has been in conflict with Hamas. [...]

In a video posted on YouTube, the kidnappers said Arrigoni had been taken hostage in order to secure the release of an unspecified number of their members detained by Hamas security forces, including a jihadi leader called Sheikh Hisham al-Suedani.

The kidnappers, who identified themselves as belonging to The Brigade of the Gallant Companion of the Prophet Mohammed bin Muslima, said they would execute Arrigoni if their demands were not met by 5:00 pm (1400 GMT) on Friday.

But who does Hamas accuse of responsibility? Israel, of course:

Accordingly, Hamas accused Israel of being behind the attack, noting that Arrigoni had often spoken out against Israeli policies in Gaza, going so far as to compare what he called "Israeli crimes against Palestinians" to Nazi crimes. Additionally, he was twice arrested by Israeli authorities.

I don't expect them to conduct any serious investigation into this murder, nor any serious arrests made. But maybe this'll send a message to some would-be peace activists that to live in such a violent, racist, misogynist society can be very fatal.

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

Charles Krauthammer's latest exercise in defeatism and telling the Israeli public what to think and believe found him telling Mordecai Twersky that Israel's given up its claim to what he calls the "west bank", because he doesn't want to use the Hebrew names; it'd be too politically incorrect for an awful man of his sort (Hat tip: Israpundit):

Charles Krauthammer, the Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist and political commentator, believes Israel has “given away” its claim to the West Bank and may also be 'losing' what he called the “battle to hang on to Jerusalem.”

“Israel's diplomacy, unfortunately, tragically, catastrophically ... has given away the legitimacy of its claim on the West Bank,” Krauthammer told “Inside Israel's” Mordechai Twersky in a wide-ranging phone interview, April 12. “Now you have to face reality; now you live in a new world, and you have to accept it.”

In a highly controversial column last September titled, “Your Move, Mr. Abbas,” Krauthammer wrote of Israel: “No serious player believes it can hang on forever to the West Bank.”

A week later, in her column for the Jerusalem Post, Senior Contributing Editor Caroline Glick assailed Krauthammer for his remarks. “Given Krauthammer’s tremendous influence in shaping public opinion and policy in the US, his arrogant and false portrayal of reality is debilitating,” Glick wrote.

But in his interview with Twersky, Krauthammer removed himself from the equation.

“Once Israel conceded the Palestinian narrative in Oslo – this is Israeli concessions, this is not me,” said Krauthammer. “This is Israel as a nation. It conceded the legitimacy of the Palestinian revolution; it sort of accepted the Palestinian narrative, denigrated its own narrative of 1948-49. It got the world to accept Palestinian nationalism, nationhood – that's what Oslo did.” he said.

Recent events in the Middle East have not changed Krauthammer's view that Israel will have to relinquish parts of the West Bank.

“No, I think that nothing has changed in that respect,” said Krauthammer, who also cited the issue of Arab demographics as a key reason.

So even that horrifying murder in Itamar and continued bombings of Sderot and Ashkelon do not convince him of what a catastrophe could follow if Israel continues to make concessions? No surprise a man who works for an awful paper like the Wash. Post would be so cold. It's atrocious how he tells us we must accept this period, and does not seem to understand that the world, which he doesn't even explain clearly, already wanted a palestinian state to undermine Israel, as Britain's mindset could tell. Nor does he realize the Arab demographics he cites are fairly exaggerated, as Israel Matzav notes.

To make matters worse:

...Krauthammer said Israel cannot take on the world.

“Your dealing with a world that has already changed its mind, sort of accepted it as a given that there will be a Palestinian state,” he said. “I think Israel has the right to say Oslo is torn up and let’s go back to 1992, but you cannot have that in history. That’s just not how the world works. If Israel were a great power it could probably enforce that over the world. Israel is a tiny state. It can’t enforce it over anyone. And the world will not accept that. They came under Israel’s tutelage in 1993 to accept this claims.”

When Twersky suggested that Arab demographic arguments were based upon figures not universally accepted, Krauthammer responded: “Let’s say that I would accept your numbers, what would you have? A bi-national state, with 53-55 percent Israelis and the other Arabs who don’t believe in a Jewish state…you want to govern that for the rest of eternity?” Krauthammer asked.

“The world is not going to allow it, number one,” Krauthammer continued. “And secondly, its infinitely more desirable to cut yourself off, to do what a Ben-Gurion would have done, to live in a state that is overwhelmingly Jewish, and to live the way Israel was intended to be. History is going to leave you no choice, anyway. But even if it did, I think it would be the unwise choice.”

There's something very unpleasant in what Krauthammer is saying about Israel's size, which reeks of a "master race" theory. And aside from that, he even condones segregation. And just how does he know Ben-Gurion actually supported his whole notion? His remarks are offensive to any sensible Christian to boot, and come to think of it, he's even being insulting to black African descendants of Israel; will he next say that, when there's a larger community of blacks in Israel, that whites and blacks should be separate as well?

Of course, if memory serves, Krauthammer also hasn't researched the Koran, another fatal flaw in his standings, and that's why no sensible European should look to him for good advice.

Labels: dhimmitude, islam, Israel, Moonbattery, msm foulness, United States

There's no guarantee it'll happen, but in good news, Anthony Weiner and several other Congressman have stated to the US ambassador to the UN that they want her to call on the awful world political organization to withdraw the Goldstone libel on Israel.

Update: the US Senate has unanimously called for the rescinding of the libel.

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

First, let's note this report from The Patch (via Weasel Zippers), which reveals something most disturbing discovered a day or so ago:

A suspicious package containing a letter and a stuffed animal bearing the Star of David was opened at state Sen. Greg Ball’s Albany office Tuesday afternoon.

The letter begins with “Asa Lamu Laikum Dead Man Walking,” (the first part of which some sources translate as “peace be upon you” in Arabic) refers to Ball (R, C – Patterson) as a “crazy, Christian cracker” who lacks political correctness, citing Friday’s hearing on homeland security, veterans and military affairs. The letter, whose signer identifies him or herself as a messenger of Allah and a defender of Islam, calls the hearing a “declaration of war against Muslims.”

According to this report on MSNBC.com, the hearing, which was aimed at assessing New York’s readiness for terrorist attacks, featured speakers who “argued that Islam is a threat to the U.S.” and spoke of terrorist training camps.

A statement released by Ball’s office Tuesday afternoon did not mention any other items in the package, but other news outlets reported the arrival of hazardous materials teams at the office.

Ball is looking forward to the next hearing, which is slated for May 17 in Albany.

Now, guess who sent both that and the threat letter with a pig's foot to Rep. King (via Newsbusters):

A Muslim woman has admitted to mailing a bloody pig’s foot and a threatening letter to Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.), as well as another bizarre package to a New York state senator.

The woman, Jameela Barnette, of Marietta, Ga., says she sent the package to King earlier this month to voice her dismay with the hearing he held last month on what he calls the “radicalization” of American Muslims.

“I thought the letters explain themselves,” she told the New York Post, speaking not only of the anti-Semitic note to King, but the one she says she sent to state Sen. Greg Ball, a Republican who has held his own hearings on Muslims and hosted King at the most recent hearing last week.

Just after the package to King was intercepted at a Maryland mail facility earlier this month, a congressional source told POLITICO the accompanying letter was “a rambling type” of message that referred to the congressman as a “Jew,” though he is Catholic.

King told POLITICO on Thursday that Barnette “obviously has problems” and “appears to be a disturbed person who seems to be getting carried away with herself.”

He wouldn’t speculate about what might come next, saying only: “I’ll let the police know how serious this is.” Capitol Police did not immediately respond to a request for comment. They said earlier this month that the investigation was ongoing.

The package sent to Ball included a Curious George stuffed animal with two Stars of David taped to it and a note that said, “FINAL DESTINATION: AUSCHWITZ.” Barnette told The Journal News that she sent the monkey because “I knew the Jews were behind the hearings. A monkey is a representation of who the Jews are.” The “Curious George” series of children’s books were written by Holocaust survivors.

If this woman did indeed send packages, not only will CAIR have to eat their own words victimology, but this shows how some Muslims are not faithful to their restrictions against pork, if that's what it takes to assault infidels.

Update: extra item from The Blaze.

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

Patrick Poole at Pajamas Media reports that Obama and Eric Holder appear to have scuttled prosections of terror financing for political gain. This is very disturbing, and Congress needs to address it.

Update: Frank Gaffney has commented on this case too.

Labels: CAIR corruption, dhimmitude, islam, political corruption, terrorism, United States, war on terror

The country that doesn't even allow homeschooling is now facing another problem: Islamic education in public schools by the ones least qualified (via Weasel Zippers and The Blaze):

BERLIN — The German Minister of Education Annette Schavan wants imams teach courses in Islamic religions in schools, in an interview with the weekly Die Zeit to be published Thursday.

In Germany, where church and state are not separate, the schools provide religious instruction, Catholic or Protestant to students.

They could be “used in schools” at halftime, as “priests,” said Schavan to Die Zeit. She nevertheless conditioned their hiring that they are trained at university in Germany.

Like most European countries, Germany, with one third of Catholics, Protestants and all the rest being of another religion or no religion, is confronted with the thorny issue of integration of this population.

According to a study published by Die Zeit in December, two out of five Germans feel threatened by Islam, more than the French, Dutch, Danish or Portuguese.

There may be a reason for that: if France and Holland, for example, are taking steps to defend against the ummah, but Germany's not, and if some schools are facing an influx of Muslim students as the indigenous German birthrate plunges, is it any wonder the German population could feel that way?

And training at local colleges, I'm afraid, isn't helping much if the training happens to come from other imams in turn. It's like the blind leading the blind.

Labels: dhimmitude, germany, islam

But then, he never really did retract himself anyway. From FOX News:

The co-authors of a scathing report on Israel's conduct during its 2008-2009 invasion of Gaza said Thursday they stood by their work, hitting back at critics who've pushed to have its findings withdrawn after the report's lead author, Richard Goldstone, aired doubts about one of its central conclusions.

In a statement published on the website of Britain's Guardian newspaper, Goldstone's three colleagues said there was "no justification" for any move to review or rescind the 575-page report — which among other things accuses Israel of deliberately targeting civilians in its campaign against Hamas militants. The report also condemned Hamas for targeted Israeli civilians by firing rockets at Israeli cities.

Or does it? Moral equivalence does not solve anything. They can only choose one side or the other, and sadly, no matter what they say in the sham report, they're on the Hamas side.

Yigal Palmor, a spokesman for Israel's Foreign Ministry, said the Israeli position about the Goldstone document remains the same.

"The whole process was deeply tainted by political bias and an extremist dominance over the U.N. Human Rights Commission by nondemocratic countries," he said, adding that the Israelis are still studying the "implications" of Goldstone's newspaper article.

"We will try to take whatever steps are possible in order to minimize the unjust damage caused by the original report," he said.

Thursday's statement from Goldstone's colleagues — Pakistani human rights lawyer Hina Jilani, former Irish peacekeeper Desmond Travers, and international law professor Christine Chinkin — was even more categorical, suggesting that Goldstone had split with his co-authors by writing in the Post.

Jilani confirmed to The Associated Press that she and her colleagues disagreed with Goldstone's latest assessment, saying in a telephone interview that she could not see "anything of substance now in the public domain that merits a rethinking on the findings of the report."

Translation: she and her cronies don't even want to listen to the public. Another example of the damage-is-done situation. Goldstone knew quite well that Hamas is a terrorist group, and could've avoided doing anything to side with them. That he hasn't even sought an actual retraction at the UN on his part shows how phony his whole personal retraction is.

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

The Providence Journal (via Andrew Bostom at the American Thinker) reports that a Muslim military officer from the UAE who kept a Filipino woman as a slave was arrested trying to escape:

The United Arab Emirates military officer accused of forcing his Filipino servant to work unpaid caring for his five children and cleaning his house in East Greenwich while he studied at the Naval War College was arrested late Monday at Kennedy Airport in New York aboard a direct flight back to his country.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested Arif Mohamed Saeed Mohamed Al-Ali around 11 p.m. Monday after authorities flagged his information when he checked in with his family to catch a flight to the United Arab Emirates, in violation of the terms of his release, according to Jim Martin, spokesman for U.S. Attorney Peter F. Neronha's office.

[...] Prosecutors say Al-Ali took away the woman's passport, told her not to talk to anyone outside of the family and banned her from attending religious services. He warned her not to escape. The woman did and is now in hiding, they say. The Filipino woman, Elizabeth Ballesteros, has sued Al-Ali and his wife, Samah Alharmoodi, in U.S. District Court in Rhode Island. The suit alleges the couple recruited her to America, imprisoned her and forced her into involuntary servitude. They did not uphold a contract saying they would pay her $1,600 a month for a 40-hour work week, the suit says. Instead, it alleges they sent $410 to her family in the Philippines for four months of work beginning last July.

The man and his wife should be imprisoned and custody of their children taken away. This is just like scumbags like them.

Labels: islam, misogyny, UAE, United States

Predictably, even as Goldstone still signaled a negative sentiment towards Israel in his supposed retraction, the Islamic world reacted quite repugnantly:

The Arab world has reacted with vicious anti-Semitism to retired Judge Richard Goldstone's change of heart about his report to the United Nations on Israel's 3-week counter terrorism war against the Hamas rulers of Gaza two years ago. [...] A post on the website of the New York-based Anti-Defamation League gives examples of numerous anti-Semitic cartoons published in newspapers across the Middle East.

Some show Goldstone being bribed with “gold” by an Israeli soldier. Others feature Jews with stereotyped features such as a beard and a hat controlling the judge.

Let that be a lesson how, even if the libel perpetrator doesn't apologize seriously, the enemy can and will still turn against him for depriving them of a libel weapon they'd hoped to use against Israel, even if he didn't backtrack in actuality.

Labels: anti-semitism, islam, Israel, UN corruption

Here's a politician who's hopefully taking a bold stance on a serious issue (via The Jawa Report):

WASHINGTON U.S. Rep. Sue Myrick will hold her first hearing today as an Intelligence subcommittee chairwoman under the new, Republican-controlled Congress.

The hearing on the Muslim Brotherhood comes now because of the political uprisings in Egypt and its neighbors this winter.

But witnesses probably will address Myrick's concerns about what effects the Muslim Brotherhood could have not only in Egypt, but also the rest of the Middle East, and even in the United States.

Myrick, a Charlotte Republican, has long warned that U.S. national security forces should focus more energy on homegrown terrorism, including Islamic extremism and whether terrorist groups could recruit young people through American mosques.

Others question whether the Muslim Brotherhood is responsible for radicalizing youth and caution against Congress' probing activities protected by the First Amendment.

Myrick routinely cites the hometown example of Samir Khan, a onetime Charlotte resident who once edited an extremist website from the basement of his parents' home. Khan now is thought to be operating from Yemen.

At an open Intelligence Committee hearing in February, Myrick pointed out that according to evidence introduced by the Justice Department at a trial four years ago, the Muslim Brotherhood has historic ties to several Islamic groups in the United States.

And don't be surprised if CAIR is one of them. I hope they intend to invite some really good names from the conservative side, unlike Peter King, who wimped out.

Labels: CAIR corruption, Egypt, islam, jihad, terrorism, United States, US Congress, war on terror, yemen

As former Egyptian dictator Mubarak's health deteriorates, he even has to cope with interrogation:

CAIRO – Egypt's ousted President Hosni Mubarak was put under detention in his hospital room Wednesday for investigation on accusations of corruption, abuse of power and killings of protesters in a dramatic step Wednesday that brought celebrations from the movement that drove him from office.

Mubarak's two sons, Gamal and Alaa, were also detained for questioning and taken to Cairo's Torah prison, where a string of former top regime figures — including the former prime minister, ruling party chief and Mubarak's chief of staff — are already languishing, facing similar investigations on corruption.

Whoa, stop the presses; what's the name of that clink? Torah?!? That's kinda weird how it sounds like they named it after the ultimate guide to Judaism, isn't it? It sure sounds like it in the English language spelling.

The move was brought by enormous public pressure on the ruling military, which was handed power when Mubarak stepped down on Feb. 11. Tens of thousands protested in Cairo's central Tahrir Square on Friday, the biggest rally in weeks, demanding Mubarak and his family be put on trial. Many in the crowd accused the military of protecting the former president.

The detention is a new landmark in the stunning fall of the 82-year-old Mubarak, who only months ago appeared unquestioned in his control of Egypt after nearly 30 years of rule. Even after his fall, he seemed untouchable, living with his family at a palace in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.

On Tuesday night, Mubarak was taken to a hospital in Sharm el-Sheikh because of heart troubles, and so that his health could be monitored as he submitted to the first round of questioning by investigators. Hours later, the public prosecutor announced early Wednesday that Mubarak was ordered put under detention for 15 days for investigation. He was to be flown later in the day to a military hospital outside Cairo, where he would remain in detention, a security official in Sharm el-Sheikh said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the press.

The detention also marks a new chapter in Egypt's still unsure transition to what protesters hope will be a democratic post-Mubarak future.

Unfortunately, so long as they worship the Religion of Peace, true democracy will not be possible, and the Muslim Brotherhood's ascension may be very possible.

Yet I'm not so sure we should feel sorry for Mubarak. He's done some most reprehensible things against Israel, was an ally of Arafat, and I don't think his personal fate need concern us too much, now that's been ousted.

Labels: Egypt, islam

Michelle Malkin's cousin is still missing, and America's Most Wanted has a report about her.

I hope Marizela can be found. I too find this a very scary situation.

Labels: United States

The ban on the burka has begun in France, and William Langley writes in the UK Telegraph that it's justified and helpful:

Despite some high-profile protests, France’s banning of the burka is enormously popular with the public. Unfortunately, as in Britain, almost anything politicians do that the voters approve of tends to be denounced as populisme – a particularly dread charge among the over-earnest French political class – and instead of enjoying the deserved benefits, President Nicolas Sarkozy has found himself on the defensive. [...]

Almost anything, in fact, than an acknowledgement that the public overwhelmingly sees the ban as right for France, beneficial to its Muslim communities and justified – if on no other grounds – as a statement in support of liberalism against darkness. Approval runs right across the spectrum, with Fadela Amara, the Algerian-born former housing minister in Sarkozy’s government, calling the burka “a kind of tomb, a horror for those trapped within it”, and André Gerin, the Communist MP who headed the commission investigating the grounds for a ban, describing it as “the tip of an iceberg of oppression”.

So what do we get in Britain? Theresa May, the Home Secretary, rules out a ban because “it would be out of keeping with our nation’s longstanding record of tolerance”, while the Leftist commentariat continues – with apparent seriousness – to suggest that the face veil is a “lifestyle choice” and essentially no different from a balaclavas worn by middle-class types on the ski slopes of Courcheval. I suspect this thinking is going to have to change.

Yes, but in Britain, who knows how easily that'll come? There's no telling if they'll even cancel the laws allowing libel tourism suits in the UK. If they haven't done so already, there's no telling if they ever will. Such is to be expected, sadly enough, in Britain.

In related news, 2 women were arrested for wearing the veil in public on day one of the ban during a demonstration. You'll notice though, that the article predictably makes an effort to defame Sarkozy and is hostile to him, because the AFP, which did the main reporting, doubtlessly condones the veil. Update: the Guardian's article about this is even worse.

Speaking of which, it's high time already that a FOX News equivalent was formed in France.

Labels: France, islam, misogyny

World Net Daily reports that CAIR is continuing to harrass Dave and Chris Gaubatz through the legal system for exposing them. It's getting truly disgusting already, and I think a restraining order is needed, not to mention a serious demand to change CAIR's status to officially indicted.

And the GOP is going to need to start working on passing a law again to protect against frivolous lawsuits.

Labels: anti-americanism, CAIR corruption, House of Saud, islam, terrorism, United States

An African-American student organization has found the Islamist description of Israel as apartheidist objectionable:

The African-American student organization Vanguard Leadership Group is standing with Israel when it comes to use of the term “apartheid.” The term is “false and deeply offensive” when applied to Israel, the group said in advertisements published on Thursday.

The Vanguard Leadership Group spoke out in response to “apartheid” claims from the group Students for Justice in Palestine. Under an ad titled, “Words matter,” the group said, “We request that you immediately stop referring to Israel as an apartheid society and to acknowledge that the Arab minority in Israel enjoys full citizenship with voting rights and representation in the government.”

“It is highly objectionable to those who know the truth about the Israelis' record on human rights and how it so clearly contrasts with South Africa's,” the group said.

Students for Justice in Palestine “has chosen to manipulate rather than inform with this illegitimate analogy,” Vanguard Leadership said. “Decency, justice, and the hope of peace and reconciliation in the Middle East compel us to demand an immediate cessation to the deliberate mischaracterizations of Israel.”

Ceasing use of the term “apartheid” when discussing Israel would be a “first step toward raising the level of discourse,” the letter concluded.

Unfortunately, I doubt that pro-PLO student movement will ever heed their sage advice. But it's good to see that the black community is with us on this subject.

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

Galliawatch translates an entry from Nouvelle de France, informing how an Islamofascist demonstration was being planned to protest banning the burka, whose attendants would include British and Belgian Islamists.

UMP deputy Jacques Myard did not hesitate to qualify as "fanatical fundamentalist rubbish" the aggressive tone of the organizers, and to insist they be taken to court.

Bruno Vendoire, of the Bloc Identitaire, did not know exactly who they were but declared that "it is clear that their assembly is a provocation that aims strategically to create tension in France. I can't imagine that this demonstration of hatred would be authorized by the prefect. (…) They should be arrested and sent home. Their agenda to install sharia in France justifies banning this rally (…) We do not have to tolerate the activism of puppets who are fighting our civilization."

Christine Tasin, president of Résistance Républicaine, is "perplexed" as to why the CFCM (French Council of the Muslim Religion) refuses to condemn the rally. "This means that the Muslim organizations want to install sharia in France." (…) The Mosque of Paris did not answer their phone this afternoon.

Louis Aliot, vice-president of the Front National, expressed his feeling, by the end of the afternoon, that such a rally should be banned. "We are in a Republic, the governing document is the Constitution. If these people are not French, they can go live their umma elsewhere. And if they are French, it's even worse because it illustrates the failure of assimilation."

In the end, the police banned the rally on grounds it could trigger violence.

Well that's certainly saying something. Read more to see what other details were involved.

Now we have to hope that this law will be followed through upon, if they want to maintain credibility.

On the other hand, if you want an example of someone who doesn't seek much admiration, it's the prime minister Francois Fillon, who wouldn't even attend the debate Sarkozy was holding about Islam vs. the secular state. Fillon is clearly a defeatist, and if there's anyone who should resign, it's him.

Update: one of those Islamofascists from Britain banned from demonstrating was none other than Anjem Choudhary (via The Jawa Report). That tells all you need to know that something was wrong.

Labels: France, islam, londonistan

There've been more riots and chaos in Syria as these demonstrations against the regimes continue, and even in Egypt, there's been more:

Unrest continued Saturday in both Egypt and Syria, as protesters in both cities were killed by security forces in each country. Meanwhile, thousands of Egyptians rioted outside the Israeli embassy in Cairo over the IDF's response to Hamas terror attacks, increasing concern in Jerusalem that the protests in the Arab world could begin to focus on Israel, instead of on domestic issues.

In Syria, security forces opened fire Saturday on participants in a funeral procession for protesters killed in another attack Friday. At least 37 people were killed in those protests Friday. A Syrian anti-government protest group, the National Organization for Human Rights, accused the government of committing “crimes against humanity.”

Protests took place in several cities in Syria on Friday, with 30 people killed in Deraa, the epicenter of the protests. Witnesses said that dozens of others were wounded, but refused to go to the hospital for treatment, out of fear that the secret police would arrest them.

World reaction was mild, at best. European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton condemned the violence, urging President Bashar Assad to implement “meaningful political reforms.” On Friday, U.S. President Barack H. Obama issued a statement that “strongly condemned the abhorrent violence committed against peaceful protesters.” and called for “meaningful political and economic reforms.” Israeli observers said they were “disappointed with the mild statement. There was no call for a UN meeting on the murders of innocent civilians, as there would most certainly have been had Israel killed dozens of terrorists at a single time.”

And that's another example of how a lot of would-be westerners don't give a damn about human rights in the Arabic/Islamic world, unless they're committed by Israelis and other westerners.

Labels: Egypt, Europe, msm foulness, syria

It wasn't clear to me at first whether Terry Jones, the controversial pastor in Florida, had actually refrained from Koran burning. But as Daniel Pipes reveals:

Jones, however, did not cancel the ceremonial judgment of the Islamic scripture – he only delayed it by six months. On March 20, in a six-hour ceremony called "International Judge the Koran Day," he convened a mock-judicial process in Florida that deemed the book "guilty of crimes against humanity," then set a copy on fire.

The event was intentionally ignored in the United States, in the hopes of limiting its impact, but little stays secret in the Internet age. Within two days, news of the conflagration had reached Pakistan and Afghanistan, where the country's presidents roundly denounced Jones, bringing his action to wide notice. On April 1, infuriated Afghans lashed out, killing twelve in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif; the next day, suicide bombers dressed in women's clothing attacked a coalition base in Kabul and street mobs in Kandahar again killed twelve.

Now I see why I didn't fully comprehend what was going on; it wasn't officially reported at first.

But as bizarrely stupid as Jones' publicity stunt was, the violence in Afghanistan was worse, and that Obama, along with 2 Democrats and 2 RINOs would consider Jones' incompetent brain the more serious problem just shows how galling a situation we have here.

Fortunately:

In light of this blame-Jones consensus among the elite, the replies to a poll sponsored by a left-wing U.K. newspaper, the Guardian, come as something of a surprise. Asked whether "the Florida pastor who burnt the Qur'an [is] morally responsible for the deaths of UN staff in protests in Afghanistan," only 45 percent blame Jones and 55 percent blame the Islamists.

Indeed, some non-Islamist American Muslim leaders concurred with this sentiment. M. Zuhdi Jasser of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy in Arizona blamed the killings on extremist leaders who exploited the Koran burning as an excuse for violence. The imam of an Ahmadiyya mosque in California, Shamshad Nasir, said his community "rejects any killing in the name of religion anywhere, even if it is done in the name of the most sacred scriptures."

Simply amazing. While Jasser's statements don't change anything about the Koran's features, nor Muhammed's own beliefs, that's good to see that someone in that field understands how violent reactions to Koran burning are worse than burning the book itself.

As Pipes says too, no matter how atrocious Jones' own actions were, he is NOT responsible for the violence; it is the perpetrators in Afghanistan who are, and they could've avoided going on rampages if they'd wanted to. American politicians must recognize that critiquing Islam, whether tastefully or not, is a Constitutional right, and if done with intelligence, is a civilizational importance.

Labels: Afghanistan, islam, jihad, United States

Through this new site formed by Robin Shepherd called The Commentator (found via One Jerusalem), I discovered what'll probably surprise no one:

It now appears all but certain that the controversial report alleging deliberate Israeli atrocities against Palestinian civilians in Operation Cast Lead in Gaza will not be withdrawn from the United Nations despite retractions of key allegations made in the report by its author, Justice Richard Goldstone.

One well-placed European diplomat told The Commentator on Saturday that all the signs this week from major European countries and from the United Nations itself suggested that hostility to the Jewish state remained so strong that even Goldstone’s remarkable comments, made in the Washington Post on April 1, could not stop the report’s momentum in its passage through UN bodies:

“Just look around you,” the diplomat said. “The messages from major European countries as well as what people are saying in the halls of the United Nations all indicate that this thing cannot be stopped.”

“The Europeans in particular are keen not to upset the Arab world at a time of turmoil and as several leading countries are involved in military actions in Libya.”

More to the point, if Arab/Islamic countries control the Human Rights Council, for example, then that's why this blood libel will tragically go through. I've said it before, I'll say it again: the damage was done, and Goldstone should be written in history in disgrace and shame for the demon he is.

Labels: anti-semitism, Israel, jihad, terrorism, UN corruption

Diana West has long maintained a low opinion of Gen. David Petraeus, whom she feels is one of the architects of Arabist/Islamist policies. With this picture worth a thousand words, what else can be said, aside from how he makes himself into a male who wears a Muslim male's type of headwear as a totally unnecessary sign of "respect", but which is more like degradation and definite appeasement, and gives a little more insight into how that degrading "option" was authorized for female soldiers to wear a burka on missions in Afghanistan?

After seeing this, I no longer have any respect for Petraeus, who shouldn't even be wearing what looks like a primitive coat. He doesn't need to wear a military uniform; he could wear a suit and tie, but to wear what may be tribal gear is just as insulting as that headpiece.

Update: and while we're on the subject, Rob Miller's discovered more about just how bad Petraeus and his aides are. This man is not suited to lead the US army, and should resign.

Labels: Afghanistan, dhimmitude, islam, military, United States