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I'd heard some arguments already, mostly from European TV, that Dominique Strauss-Khan may not be guilty - or at least not as guilty - as the woman accusing him wants us to think. In this latest report:

Questions about the credibility of a hotel housekeeper who has accused former International Monetary Fund leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn of raping her are leading prosecutors to seek a substantial reduction in his bail, a person familiar with the case said Thursday.

The person, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss matters not yet made public in court, told The Associated Press that prosecutors have raised issues about the accuser's credibility in the case against Strauss-Kahn, but would not elaborate on what those issues were.

A separate law enforcement official who is familiar with the case, but not authorized to speak about it publicly, told the AP that the issue was not necessarily about the rape accusation itself, but about troubling questions surrounding the alleged victim's background that could damage her credibility on the witness stand. The official refused to elaborate. [...]

The New York Times first reported that investigators uncovered major inconsistences in the woman's account of her background, citing two law enforcement officials. One of the officials told the Times that the woman has repeatedly lied since making the initial allegation May 14.

The discoveries include issues stemming from the asylum application of the 32-year-old woman, who is from Guinea, and possible links to criminal activities such as drug dealing and money laundering, one of the officials told the newspaper. The Times reported that senior prosecutors and Strauss-Kahn's lawyers are discussing whether to dismiss the felony charges against him.

If these are trumped charges being leveled against him, then we owe an apology to DSK. I did wonder at one point if this was another case not unlike the Tawana Brawley nonsense from 1989, or even the Duke LaCrosse case which sounded fishy from the start and got the prosecutor jailed after he abused his position in the proceedings.

Update: here's more from the NYT (via Hot Air):

The sexual assault case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn is on the verge of collapse as investigators have uncovered major holes in the credibility of the housekeeper who charged that he attacked her in his Manhattan hotel suite in May, according to two well-placed law enforcement officials…

According to the two law enforcement officials, the woman had a phone conversation with an incarcerated man within a day of her encounter with Mr. Strauss Kahn in which she discussed the possible benefits of pursing the charges against him. The conversation was recorded.

That man, the investigators learned, had been arrested on charges of possessing 400 pounds of marijuana. He was among a number of individuals who made multiple cash deposits, totaling around $100,000, into the woman’s bank account over the last two years. The deposits were made in Arizona, Pennsylvania, Georgia and New York.

They also learned that she was paying hundreds of dollars every month in phone charges to five different companies. The woman insisted she only had a single phone and said she knew nothing about the deposits except that they were made by a man she described as her fiancé and his friends.

In addition, the official said, she told investigators that part of her application for asylum included a previous rape, but there was no such account in the application. She also told them that she had been subjected to genital mutilation, but her account to the investigators differed from what was contained in the asylum application.

Good grief. She's involved with criminals? That's not very helpful to her side.

Update 2: the NY Post did some very offensive coverage of this case: as you'll notice in the headlines here and here, they use "frog" which is considered a racist slur against French. On the comments for their latest article, some people from France have chimed in on how offended they are, and I have to agree. This is a perfect embarrassment when you take that particular tabloid coverage into consideration. Is that how to talk about a nation that gave the US the Statue of Liberty? The paper owes an apology for setting such a bad example.

Labels: France, United States

A jihadist website was wiped out:

WASHINGTON (AP) - A popular jihadist Internet forum has been knocked off the Internet, and counterterrorism experts say it appears it was hacked.

Cybersecurity analysts say the al-Shamukh forum appears to have been taken down by a fairly sophisticated cyberattack that hit not only the website, but the server - which is the main computer that enables people to access the site over the Internet.

Evan Kohlmann, a counterterrorism expert who tracks jihadist websites as a senior partner with Flashpoint Partners consultancy in New York, described the site as a key al-Qaida propaganda forum.

He said it bounces around between Internet hosts every few months, but has seemingly been allowed to exist as an open secret, possibly allowing a Western government to use it as an intelligence resource.

"These sites can be like spy satellites, they're great ways of gathering information about your adversaries," he said in an interview late Wednesday. "Bringing them down is like shooting at your own spy satellites. But there are others who don't agree with that."

He said there's been a "struggle behind the scenes" in the U.S. government about whether to allow the site to stay up.

Other cyber experts agreed that the site is a popular jihadist forum.

"The al-Shamukh website had become the most trusted and exclusive haunt for e-jihadists," said Jarret Brachman, a terrorism expert who has spent a decade monitoring al-Qaida's media operations and advises the U.S. government. "If it doesn't come back up soon, the forum's registered members will start migrating to the half a dozen other main forums, all of whom are probably chomping at the bit to replace Shamukh as the pre-eminent al-Qaida forum."

The Defense Department said late Wednesday that it was aware of reports that al-Qaida's Internet operations had been disrupted, but could not comment on the specific incident.

Kohlmann raised the possibility that a government could be behind the website's problems.

If true, this would not be the first time that government officials have sabotaged an al-Qaida website.

U.S. and British officials have acknowledged that British intelligence authorities launched a cyberattack against al-Qaida's English-language Internet magazine, Inspire, taking down directions for bomb-making and replacing them with cupcake recipes.

U.S. authorities had considered knocking the magazine off the Internet but realized it would just go down for a few days, then reappear, according to one U.S. official. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue, said the U.S. believed it was more productive to keep an eye on the site and glean intelligence from it.

Kohlmann said chatter from another message board known to be frequented by al-Qaida members confirmed that there was a technical problem with the al-Shamukh forum website and that the outage wasn't intentional, such as performing site maintenance.

The fact that the forum wasn't knocked out sooner is revealing. Forcing a website offline can be a relatively easy matter. A so-called denial-of-service attack, which floods a website's servers with enormous amounts of webpage requests is a popular hacking activity. But it apparently wasn't used in this instance. Instead, cyber experts said it was a more complex attack.

Keynote Systems Inc., a San Mateo, Calif.-based company that specializes in measuring Internet and cellphone network response times, confirmed that the site was completely down from 14 cities around the world.

Based on the kind of error the site was giving people who tried to view the site, it is likely that someone stole the domain name and caused traffic to go to the wrong server, or that someone got access to the system and directed it to not return content, said Dan Berkowitz, spokesman for Keynote.

Kohlmann said it appears that the people who control the website were diligent about backing up the content, so it could be back online soon.

NBC News first reported the site was hacked Wednesday.

If the al Qaeda terrorists who were running the site are ready to load it again, that's why all concerned must be ready to stop them again.

Labels: communications, jihad, war on terror

Pamela Geller reports at Big Government that in Strasbourg, the authorities capitulated to threats of violence from Muslims and leftists, and would not guaruntee safety for the conference they wanted to hold there. They will be working at rescheduling their conference, but until then, they're announcing a "freedom flotilla" (or, as also named "the audacity of the infidel") to counter the one carrying pro-jihadists mainly from Turkey, which anyone from anywhere opposed to Islamofascism is invited to join, and will be launched during Sept. 11 from the New York harbor.

Labels: dhimmitude, Europe, France, islam, jihad

Andrew Bostom at Big Peace gives a few more notes on Tayyip Erdogan's crackdown on dissenters with his increasingly pro-sharia line, which includes his arrest of at least 34 generals. Since they're among the defenders of secularism in the country, that's why Erdogan and his gang of darkness see them as among the first who need to be brought down so that nothing can stand in their way of reestablishing a caliphate similar to the Ottoman empire.

These are dark days indeed for Turkey.

Labels: islam, turkey

The Israeli government is working on toughening the conditions for terrorists in prison. This also includes cracking down on cellphones that were smuggled into prisons, if you can believe it:

Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch on Wednesday said that the government is considering the use of electronic devices to stop the operation of smuggled cell phones by Hamas prisoners in Israeli jails.

The announcement came after Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu vowed last week to toughen the conditions of Hamas prisoners following the Gaza leadership's refusal of a Red Cross request to receive proof that captured IDF soldier Gilad Schalit is alive.

Hamas prisoners are forbidden from using cellular phones but the Prison Service has been only partially successful in preventing the phenomenon, Aharonovitch said. Prisoners use the devices to communicate with Hamas leadership as well as prisoners in other jails.

In response to a query by Likud MK Danny Danon on the Hamas prisoners' conditions, Aharonovitch said that "at the moment we are considering implementing an advanced system that would prevent completely the possibility of prisoners using cellular telephones."

Aharonovitch added that the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) also intended on performing more thorough searches of those visiting the prisoners to prevent further smuggling.

Danon said that the moves were not harsh enough. "We must stop the celebrations inside of our jails," he stated.

So from what we can glean here, they didn't run through enough searches of the visitors' parcels? Good grief. Now, they'd better get on the ball and start acting more responsible.

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

The talk show host who's now forming his own cable channel will be paying a visit to the Knesset in Israel:

Glenn Beck, who is planning a "Restore Courage" rally in Jerusalem this summer, will also tell the Immigration, Absorption and Diaspora Affairs Committee his thoughts about fighting the anti-Zionist campaign to make Israel seem illegitimate.

Knesset Member Danny Danon, chairman of the committee, explained that Beck’s talents can help Israel counter the “delegitimization” campaign.

I think it could be helpful. So when the time comes, I'll look and see if his speech is televised.

Labels: communications, Israel, Knesset, United States

The former Illinois governor is now the 2nd man of his standing in that state to be convicted of crimes in recent years:

Rod Blagojevich, who rode his talkative everyman image to two terms as Illinois governor before scandal made him a national punch line, was convicted Monday of a wide range of corruption charges, including the incendiary allegation that he tried to sell or trade President Barack Obama's Senate seat.

The verdict was a bitter defeat for Blagojevich, who had spent 2 1/2 years professing his innocence on reality TV shows and later on the witness stand. His defense team had insisted that hours of FBI wiretap recordings were just the ramblings of a politician who liked to think out loud. He faces up to 300 years in prison, although sentencing guidelines are sure to reduce his time behind bars.

The decision capped a long-running spectacle in which Blagojevich became famous for blurting on a recorded phone call that his ability to appoint Obama's successor to the Senate was "f---ing golden" and that he wouldn't let it go "for f---ing nothing."

Blagojevich becomes the second straight Illinois governor convicted of corruption. His predecessor, George Ryan, is now serving 6 1/2 years in federal prison.

He also set quite a bad example by cursing. Not someone you'd want working in a public school either.

See more at Michelle Malkin.

Update: here's a video about the case:

Via Newsy.

Labels: political corruption, United States

An interview Phillips gave several months ago about the madness of Britain.

Labels: anti-semitism, islam, Israel, londonistan

Here is an op-ed Geert Wilders has written for the Wall Street Journal (via Ruthfully Yours and Atlas Shrugs) following his acquittal:

Yesterday was a beautiful day for freedom of speech in the Netherlands. An Amsterdam court acquitted me of all charges of hate speech after a legal ordeal that lasted almost two years.

The Dutch people learned that political debate has not been stifled in their country. They learned they are still allowed to speak critically about Islam, and that resistance against Islamization is not a crime. I was brought to trial despite being an elected politician and the leader of the third-largest party in the Dutch parliament. I was not prosecuted for anything I did, but for what I said.

My view on Islam is that it is not so much a religion as a totalitarian political ideology with religious elements. While there are many moderate Muslims, Islam’s political ideology is radical and has global ambitions. I expressed these views in newspaper interviews, op-ed articles, and in my 2008 documentary, “Fitna.”

I was dragged to court by leftist and Islamic organizations that were bent not only on silencing me but on stifling public debate. My accusers claimed that I deliberately “insulted” and “incited discrimination and hatred” against Muslims. The Dutch penal code states in its articles 137c and 137d that anyone who either “publicly, verbally or in writing or image, deliberately expresses himself in any way that incites hatred against a group of people” or “in any way that insults a group of people because of their race, their religion or belief, their hetero- or homosexual inclination or their physical, psychological or mental handicap, will be punished.”

I was dragged to court for statements that I made as a politician and which were meant to stimulate public debate in a country where public debate has stagnated for decades. Dutch political parties see themselves as guardians of a sterile status quo. I want our problems to be discussed. I believe that politicians have a public trust to further debates about important issues. I firmly believe that every public debate holds the prospect of enlightenment.

My views represent those of a growing number of Dutch voters, who have flocked to the Party for Freedom, or PVV. The PVV is the fastest-growing party in the country, expanding from one seat in the 150-seat House of Representatives in 2004, to nine seats in 2006 and 24 seats in 2010. My party’s views, however, are so uncommon in the Netherlands that they are considered blasphemous by powerful elites who fear and resent discussion.

That’s why I was taken to court, even though the public prosecutor saw no reason to prosecute me. “Freedom of expression fulfills an essential role in public debate in a democratic society,” the prosecutors repeatedly said during my trial. “That comments are hurtful and offensive for a large number of Muslims does not mean that they are punishable.”

The Netherlands is one of the few countries in the world where a court can force the public prosecutor to prosecute someone. In January 2009, three judges of the Amsterdam Appeals Court ordered my prosecution in a politically motivated verdict that focused on the content of the case. They implied that I was guilty. The case was subsequently referred to the Amsterdam Court of First Instance.

The judges who acquitted me yesterday already had a peremptory ruling from the appeals court on their desk. They decided, however, to follow the arguments of the public prosecutor, who during the trial had once again reiterated his position and had asked for a full acquittal.

Though I am obviously relieved by yesterday’s decision, my thoughts go to people such as Danish journalist Lars Hedegaard, Austrian human rights activist Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff and others who have recently been convicted for criticizing Islam. They have not been as fortunate. In far too many Western countries, it is still impossible to have a debate about the nature of Islam.

The biggest threat to our democracies is not political debate, nor is it public dissent. As the American judge Learned Hand once said in a speech: “That community is already in the process of dissolution . . . where faith in the eventual supremacy of reason has become so timid that we dare not enter our convictions in the open lists to win or lose.” It has been a tenet in European and American thinking that men are only free when they respect each other’s freedom. If the courts can no longer guarantee this, then surely a community is in the process of dissolution.

Legislation such as articles 137c and 137d of the Dutch Penal Code disgraces our democratic free societies. On the basis of such legislation, I was prevented from representing my million-and-a-half voters in parliament because I had to be in the courtroom for several days, sometimes up to three days per week, during the past year and a half. Such legislation should be abolished. It should be abolished in all Western countries where it exists-and replaced by First Amendment clauses.

Citizens should never allow themselves to be silenced. I have spoken, I speak and I shall continue to speak.

And a warm congratulations on your victory in court, Mr. Wilders. He is throughly correct that the penal codes under which the left and Islamists in Holland tried to stifle him must be thrown out, just like several other poorly calculated laws in various other countries across Europe that have served to damage their liberty. It's a mission that must be undertaken immediately to ensure Europe's safety.

Labels: dhimmitude, Europe, islam, Netherlands, Scandanavia

This horrific story is one of various black-on-white hate crimes the MSM does not consider worthy of wide coverage (via Gateway Pundit):

All eight suspects are in custody after a brutal attack in Five Points early Monday morning which left the teenage victim in critical condition, according to Columbia police.

Columbia Police Department spokeswoman Jennifer Timmons said 19-year-old Thyeem Henrey was charged with second degree assault and battery by mob, common law robbery, and criminal conspiracy. He appeared in court Friday afternoon where the judge set bond at $750,000. That bond does not allow Henrey’s release upon posting only 10%, which is sometimes permitted by the court.

At his first court appearance on the latest charges against him, Henrey gave no indication what might have led to Monday morning’s savage assault. But he cried as the frustrations of the victim’s parents boiled over. “I’m having to give you my right to judge whether he deserves freedom or not,” said Strange’s mother Vicki. “That’s hard for me. But since Carter didn’t fight against them eight Sunday, I’m going to fight for him now. I’m going to fight for him until my last breath.”

“I pray that you get your life right,” said Strange’s father John. “Find God. If you pray for forgiveness, he will forgive you. I don’t have that in my heart right now. Maybe one day, but not today.

The 19-year-old is the only adult in a group of eight being held by Columbia police. The other seven suspects are all juveniles, according to Timmons. Their names cannot be released.

She said a 14-year-old, 15-year-old, and 16-year-old were charged with strong arm robbery, second degree assault and battery by a mob, and criminal conspiracy.

A 13-year-old and three other 16-year-olds were all charged with criminal conspiracy, according to Timmons.

Similar hearings will be held for the juvenile suspects. One of the 16-year-olds also had a bond hearing Friday afternoon, but reporters were not allowed inside.

Timmons said most of the suspects turned themselves in with their parents after the surveillance footage was shown on the news.

Police Chief Randy Scott said the 18-year-old victim, later identified as Carter Strange, was jogging through a parking lot near the intersection of Blossom Street and Saluda Avenue just after midnight on Monday when the assault happened. “This teenager was minding his own business, trying to make his curfew when he was brutally attacked and robbed,” said Scott.

Police said Henrey and the seven juveniles he was with were roaming Five Points, targeting others until they came across strange. In fact, investigators said the group tried unsuccessfully to rob or assault at least four other people.

They’ve been dealing with a flood of angry reactions from the public. “I’ve been on the phone all day fielding calls from the community about increasing patrols in Five Points, and what I have to explain is I’m responsible for Columbia, not just Five Points, not just the Vista,” said Chief Randy Scott.

Vicki said her son was headed home after visiting a friend slightly past his midnight curfew. “At 12:07 he wasn’t home, I called him and said ‘Carter where are you?’” recounted Vicki. “He said ‘Momma, I’m almost home. I’ll be there in just a minute.’ At 12:15 I called, but the phone was dead.”

Timmons said surveillance video taken in the area shows four of the suspects running towards Carter, though police only released video of the suspects walking on Harden Street. Investigators believe the suspects assaulted Carter and stole his cell phone before leaving him in the parking lot.

After the assault, Scott said Carter managed to make it a block down the road to Edisto Avenue, where a passerby found him two hours later and called 9-1-1. Carter was taken to a local hospital, where he is still in critical condition.

Vicki said she rushed to the hospital and found a son she could barely recognize. “I literally bent over him; I recognized his hand and his hair, and I said ‘that’s my son,’” Vicki told WIS News 10.

Carter’s family told police the beating was so severe he required emergency surgery to remove a brain clot.

I don't they say, but there needs to be a call for the black community to start taking responsibility for their children to educate them not to engage in this kind of abominable behavior as they grow up. Only that way will this kind of violent crime ever be curbed.

Labels: racism, United States

Laura Rambeau Lee announces at Big Peace that the Florida Medical Examiner's Commission has given their agreement to reopen their investigation into the death of Fatima Abdallah.

Let us be clear: practicers of Islam CANNOT be made into a protected class, any more than any other group. Murder is wrong and obscene, and if the girl was murdered as part of an "honor" murder, the family cannot be allowed to get away with their crime. The dead woman deserves much better from Florida authorities.

Labels: islam, misogyny, United States

An update on the earlier story about Yonathan Melaku. From the Pocono Record (via IBA):

WASHINGTON -- A Marine Corps reservist arrested for suspicious activity near the Pentagon last week has been charged in connection with a spate of shootings at military sites in the Washington, D.C., area last fall, federal officials said Thursday.

Yonathan Melaku videotaped himself shouting "allahu Akbar" after firing shots at the US Marine Corps museum and documents concerning bomb-making were found in his home, FOX News reported.

He is charged with two counts of willfully injuring property of the United States, and two counts of carrying and discharging a firearm, FOX said.

In a press conference Thursday, Neil MacBride, the US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, said that the investigation is ongoing and additional charges are possible.

The 22-year-old Marine Corps reservist, who is a Muslim believed to be a naturalized US citizen originally from Ethiopia, was arrested by US Park Police last week with a backpack full of suspicious items.

Melaku fled from law enforcement when he was approached at Arlington National cemetery early Friday. During the chase, he dropped a backpack, which contained spent 9mm shell casings, clear plastic bags containing a powdery substance, spray paint, and a spiral notebook containing references to the Taliban, al Qaeda and Usama bin Laden, among other references to terrorism.

An FBI chemist found that the powdery substance was mostly ammonium nitrate, FOX said.

A search of his home turned up a list of items used to make an improvised explosive device, or IED, as well as a laptop computer holding documents concerning bomb-making, FOX reported. Officials also found a videotape showing Melaku repeatedly firing a handgun while driving near the National Museum of the Marine Corps.

According to FOX, he says in the video: "That's what they get. That's my target. That's the military building. It's going to be attacked." He also yells, "allahu Akbar" repeatedly after firing.

Forensic evidence linked him to five shootings at four military buildings in October and November of 2010, FOX News reported Wednesday.

This tells that it really can be very dangerous to allow people like to serve in the army.

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

The Blaze has a troubling story about Delta Airlines going into a business deal with Saudi Arabia that could lead to discrimination against Jews flying on their flights:

Imagine the protests in the streets if Delta Airlines were to tell Muslims that they could not fly somewhere because the local customs would not permit them to enter that country? And just how quickly would Rev. Al Sharpton be able to gather thousands to march against Delta Airlines if they would not allow black people onto their planes because the country where they were flying would not permit people of color to enter?

Those situations are impossible to conceive because they could never happen, right?

But Delta Airlines is facing a similar moral dilemma as they get are about to complete an alliance with Saudi Arabia. The Delta-Saudi deal means adding Saudi Arabian Airlines (SAA) to Delta’s SkyTeam Alliance. For the first time, this would allow Delta passengers to fly direct into Saudi Arabia, as long as passengers are not Jewish, do not have a passport from Israel or a passport that is stamped from Israel.

There are some copies of letter exchanges available at the link, and former Congressman Fred Grandy has taken up the case, among others. If Delta, which at least intially, refused to comment on the matter, goes through with this, then I think there's a worthy case to be made that they're worth boycotting and saving a lot of money over. No less important is why the House of Saud is still being allowed to conduct their dictatorial sharia policies without comment. I think this represents a very good opportunity to start taking the Saudis to task for their vicious mindsets, which even forbid women to drive, though as some may have noticed, there does appear to be resistance to this kind of law rising up there recently.

Labels: anti-semitism, dhimmitude, House of Saud, islam, United States

Israel National News has an alarming report with a video included about a new police report from Norway detailing that just about every rape in Oslo was committed by followers of Islam:

Defenders of Islam call it a "religion of peace" but Norwegian women are learning that Islam is the religion of rape. According to an amazing police report released there this month, every single solved case of assault-rape in the country in 2010 was carried out by a Muslim immigrant.

The report was cited by an official Norwegian television station. According to the report there was a total of 186 of known rape cases in 2010. These fall into various categories, the largest one of which is assault-rape, carried out by sheer physical force, of which there were 86 cases. In 83 of these cases the perpetrator could be identified by the victim. In all 83, the attacker was described as having "non-western appearance," a laundered euphemism for Muslim immigrants from Africa, the Middle East, or Asia.

In other categories of rape there were Norwegian attackers as well, but they were still in the minority (Note: the translation of the Norwegian TV report embedded here does not make a distiction between "assault rape" and other forms of rape, and appears to confuse the statistics for 2010 with those for 2006-2010).

A female police officer who commented on the report explained that “Many of the perpetrators who commit these rapes are on the edge of society often unemployed, arriving from traumatized countries. In the past five years it has often been asylum seekers.”

This is the result of uncontrolled immigration, multiculturalism, and dhimmitude. But this being a country that clearly hasn't evolved much past the remote days of the Vikings, there's no telling if they'll do anything to curb the crisis.

Labels: immigration, islam, misogyny, Scandanavia

It looks like I may be able to regain some faith in Apple: they've removed that intifada app for the iPhone that was listed on their online store earlier:

Apple Inc has removed at Israel's request an Arabic-language application from its iTunes store that called for a Palestinian uprising, an Israeli government statement said on Thursday.

Public Diplomacy Minister Yuli-Yoel Edelstein wrote to Apple on Tuesday, complaining that the "ThirdIntifada" application -- a reference to a future uprising -- conveyed information about protests, some violent, planned against Israel.

A statement issued by Edelstein's ministry on Thursday welcomed "Apple's swift action" in removing the application and praised the company's decision as "another important step in preventing violent incitement in the new media."

A search for "ThirdIntifada" in the iTunes store found no matches.

The application offered users a stream of news stories and editorials in Arabic, announced upcoming protests and included links to nationalistic Palestinian videos and songs.

Edelstein said the developers of the application had opened a similar page on Facebook three months ago that called for an uprising against Israel through the use of lethal force.

He said he had complained to Facebook, which subsequently removed the page.

In the ministry statement announcing Apple's move, Edelstein was quoted as saying the company, like Facebook, "had proven it shared values that stand in opposition to violence, incitement and terror."

But will they stick with the positive and responsible steps they're taken? If we continue to be vigilant, maybe they will.

Labels: anti-semitism, communications, islam, jihad, terrorism, United States, war on terror

Aryeh Deri, the former Shas leader of Sephardic background, has announced he's going to return to politics, possibly in a different party. There's a couple good reasons why he should not be welcomed back. First:

Knesset members from different factions expressed opposition Thursday to former Shas leader Arye Deri's announcement that he will return to politics, leaving the possibility open of leading Shas in place of Eli Yishai or heading a new faction that is neither religious nor Sephardi.

MK Arye Eldad (National Union) attacked Deri's criminal record, telling Israel Radio that he opposed any previously convicted person from running for office.

Deri served 22 months in prison for accepting $155,000 in bribes during his tenure as director-general of the Interior Ministry and then as Interior Minister.

Eldad said he supports a bill written by MK Tzipi Hotovely (Likud) that would prevent any civilian from running for office or holding a ministerial position who was convicted of an ethical crime or served at least one year of prison time.

The National Union MK claimed Deri's candidacy would be a corruption of the political system.

Shas MK Haim Amsalem did not warmly welcome Deri's announcement that he would consider running outside of Shas, explaining that Deri represents an older generation of the faction's history, and could easily fit in today, Army Radio reported Thursday.

And just what generation is that? The one that doesn't believe in self-reliance, which Amsalem argued earlier needs to be changed.

Another reason why Deri is bad news is because he's otherwise a leftist:

Not hiding his dovish views, he said it was wrong to miss out on a chance for peace with Syria in 1993 and that he never voted in favor of military action during his years as a minister.

I assume he doesn't care about the tyranny Assad's displayed recently towards the public either? Deri also supported the Oslo accords, and never showed any genuine opposition to Israel making concessions to the PLO. That's probably an even more important reason why Israeli voters should stay away from him.

Labels: Israel, political corruption

Another fortunate turn of events: the Dutch court has acquitted Geert Wilders of any hate speech charges:

A Dutch court on Thursday acquitted populist politician Geert Wilders of charges of inciting hatred against Muslims, in a case that tested freedom of speech in the traditionally liberal country.

The court case has attracted attention, not just because of Geert Wilders' controversial comments about Islam -- which he compared to Nazism -- but also because of the increasing influence of his political party, which supports the minority Dutch government on economic and other issues.

The Dutch court late last year approved a request from Wilders to have new judges for his trial on charges of inciting hatred against Muslims, forcing the court to start the case again.

Wilders' lawyer had asked the court to replace the current judges, raising concerns about bias after they did not immediately approve a request to hear an expert witness.

"This gives me a new chance of a new fair trial. I am confident that I can only be acquitted because I have broken no law, but spoken the truth," Wilders told Reuters at the time, arguing that his comments were covered by freedom of speech.

Unusually, the prosecution team have also asked for an acquittal, arguing that politicians have the right to comment on problem issues and that Wilders was not trying to foment violence or division. However, the judges have the power to convict regardless of the prosecution's stance.

He's very lucky that justice has prevailed. However, there's still a lot more work to be done. They need to start pushing for improving the laws of the country to provide more freedom for criticism of religion.

Labels: Europe, islam, Netherlands

A cause for celebration, as the IRS acts responsibly and cancels something they shouldn't have had before. From Investigative Project (via Jihad Watch):

Donations to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) no longer are tax deductible after the organization was among 275,000 tax-exempt organizations purged earlier this month by the Internal Revenue Service.

The groups failed to file required annual reports, known as form 990s, detailing their revenues and expenses, for three consecutive years. CAIR had been a non-profit on its own, but in 2007, the IRS approved a separate tax-exempt CAIR Foundation. The foundation never filed any subsequent reports. Both the foundation and CAIR national are on the purge list.

CAIR has 30 state chapters throughout the country, many of which have their own non-profit designations which remain active.

While the IRS believes most of the organizations stripped of status have shut down, those still operating can apply for reinstatement. Meanwhile, CAIR's web site continues to solicit donations by touting them as tax deductible two weeks after the IRS issued the list and notifications were sent to all 275,000 purged groups.

They could still be a problem now, which can be solved by bringing them to court and fining them severely for their violations.

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

It appears Apple doesn't want us to be customers for their iPhone, because they're allowing some very filthy apps in their store:

Israeli officials were up in arms Monday after Apple cleared for release into the iPhone App Store an application that encourages violent uprising against Israel, and advocates violence against “settlers,” generally defined by Arab anti-Israel groups as all residents of Israel.

Called “The Third Intifada,” the Arabic-language app features articles and stories by radical Arab members of Fatah and Hamas, as well as members of the Palestinian Authority. They discuss strategies to use in fighting IDF soldiers, and glorify acts of violence that have already taken place.

The app also features photos and images of Arab youths throwing stones and bombs at Israelis, and a collection of “intifada music” popular in the PA. In addition, it has a social media component, designed to allow activists to organize “flash mobs” on the go, gathering quickly at specific times and places to attack Israelis.

The app was developed by the same group that created the Facebook “Nakba Day fan page,” that was used in May to organize demonstrations and riots against Israeli police and soldiers. The page was taken down after mass complaints to Facebook.

Information and Hasbara Minister Yuli Edelstein called on Apple to withdraw the app from its online store. In a letter to Apple executives, including company director Steve Jobs, Edelstein wrote that after examining the app, “we can clearly point to this app as being anti-Israel and anti-Zionist. It clearly calls for an uprising against Israel. One of the app's objectives is to allow Palestinians to gather quickly for protests – some of them violent – that are planned."

How and why is it that so many of these major companies building these kind of devices seem to be run by leftists who tolerate this kind of abominable stuff? If this is what they're going to allow, don't buy the iPhone. Buy Samsung's similar gizmos instead, and certainly if they know better than to allow this kind of propaganda.

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

Neil Braithwaite at Canada Free Press presents some reasons why NJ governor Chris Christie won't run for president, and shouldn't (Hat tip: Israpundit):

Back in January of this year, Gov. Christie appointed attorney Sohail Mohammed to a state Superior Court judgeship.

On the surface, this judicial appointment by Gov. Christie doesn’t seem like much of a story, except for the fact that Sohail Mohammed just happens to be an attorney who defended several Muslims shortly after 9/11 who had ties to terror organizations.

And it’s also the same Sohail Mohammed whose most high-profile case was trying to keep the government from deporting Mohammed Qatanani, the Palestinian imam of the Islamic Center in Passaic County, NJ, who also happens to be a documented member of the radical American Muslim Union, a staunch supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood and an admitted member of Hamas.

After 9/11, government authorities uncovered Mohammed Qatanani’s ties to radical Islamic groups and began official proceedings to have him deported. Fortunately for Qatanani, a board member of the American Muslim Union happened to be attorney Sohail Mohammed, who agreed to represent the imam in the government’s deportation case.

Interestingly, the American Muslim Union had enough influence to somehow persuade then U.S. attorney Chris Christie, to intervene on behalf of imam Qatanani during his deportation trial.

Now aside from the fact that Gov. Christie appointed a radical Islamist sympathizer as a state Superior Court Judge, what U. S. attorney Chris Christie actually did to help imam Qatanani during his deportation trial should be cause enough to raise the eyebrows of any conservative trying to encourage the governor to run for president.

I fully agree here. Based on this disturbing news, Christie is unfit to be president and conservatives should not encourage him to run either.

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

Bill Roggio at the Long War Journal points to an AP article telling that:

US officials say Pakistan has apparently tipped off militants at two more bomb-building factories in its tribal areas. The officials say that allowed the militants to flee after U.S. intelligence shared the locations with the Pakistani government.

One U.S. official said this was intended to give Pakistan another chance to build trust after the U.S. raid on May 2 that killed Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad.

And the Obama administration still considers these reliable partners in the war on terrorism? Good grief. The AP says this is the 4th time in several weeks they've done this. Pakistan cannot be considered an ally, not even politically.

Labels: islam, jihad, pakistan

From ABC News (via Michelle Malkin):

Police detained a man near the Sept. 11 memorial at the Pentagon this morning after he was reportedly found carrying a suspicious device and pro-al Qaeda literature, officials said.

The man appears to be a U.S. citizen of Ethiopian ethnicity. He would not make any admissions to the police.

The man’s backpack contained what officials believe is ammonium nitrate and spent 9mm shells as well as written material that contained statements including: “al qaeda taliban rules,” sources told ABC News.

One source told ABC News that they need final confirmation on whether it is ammonium nitrate and it’s not clear whether this was a workable device.

The suspect's been identified, and what do you know:

The man in custody for carrying a backpack with “suspicious items and products” inside Arlington National Cemetery overnight is a U.S. Marine Corps reservist, military and law enforcement sources tell Fox News.

Yonathan Melaku, a Lance Corporal Marine corps reservist who lives in Virginia and who is Muslim, has been identified as the suspect in custody, Fox News has learned.

There's just one quibble: if his name tells something, is he an Ethiopian with Jewish ancestry who converted to darkness? It's very scary to think about.

Update: The Wall Street Journal (via One Jerusalem) writes about the political correctness the MSM conducts, keeping millions of Americans from knowing the clearer details involved.

Labels: anti-americanism, jihad, United States

I thought most Canadians were civilized enough not to go berserk over loss of a hockey game and a trophy to an opposing team. Clearly, I was mistaken. A whole riot broke out in Vancouver after the Canucks lost the game and Stanley Cup to the Boston team, and there was looting, injuries and smashed windows left in the wake of the horror. Here's what the mayor said afterwards:

“We have a small number of hooligans on the streets of Vancouver causing problems,” Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson said. “It’s absolutely disgraceful and shameful and by no means represents the city of Vancouver. … We have had an extraordinary run in the playoff, great celebration. What’s happened tonight is despicable.”

You said it, pal.

“It’s terrible,” Canucks captain Henrik Sedin said, shaking his head. “This city and province has a lot to be proud of, the team we have and the guys we have in here. It’s too bad.”

I'm glad the team's head spoke out. This is an utter embarrassment and it's truly offensive that some violent hoodlums and vandals would commit violence in their name. What in blue blazes is it that causes some people to go insane over losing a mere sport game? Even in Europe, there've been cases like this, and it's something that's got to be seriously addressed.

Update: Searching for Bright Light has some more commentary about this.

Labels: Canada, Europe, Moonbattery

The New York Post (via The Blaze) reports on jihadist graffiti found in a plane flying from Newark, NJ:

Chilling graffiti found in the bathroom of a jet due to take off from Newark Airport was inexplicably erased by a cleaner after the Transportation Safety Administration waited 47 critical minutes to contact cops, Port Authority sources told The Post yesterday.

"By the beard of Mohamed and mighty sword of Allah," read the message found on a Continental Airlines jet Saturday night. It was scrawled in black ink, just above the mirror.

The message was discovered by a flight attendant who took a cellphone picture and notified the captain. He called his operations center, which notified the TSA.

Port Authority cops said they didn't hear from the TSA for 47 minutes. The TSA said it notified the PA "within a few short minutes."

The cleaner deserves a severe reprimand for tampering with evidence, just as the TSA does for their own incompetence. Atlas Shrugs is correct, the TSA has got to go.

Labels: islam, jihad, terrorism, United States

According to the poll, there's also less support for negotiations:

According to the results of a public opinion survey presented on Thursday at the 21st conference of Judea and Samaria Studies at the Ariel University Center of Samaria, about half of Israel’s citizens who are not residents of Judea and Samaria (47%) would not accept evacuations of Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria.

The survey also found that 20% of Israel’s citizens are prepared to evacuate a few illegal communities, while only 12% of Israeli citizens are willing to evacuate a small number of communities in exchange for ending the conflict with the Arabs.

The number of those citizens who are prepared to evacuate a large number or all the communities in Judea and Samaria has gone down from 27% in 2010 to 14% today. Only 5% of Israelis are ready to evacuate all the communities and return to the 1949 armistice lines, found the survey.

The survey also found that most Israelis no longer believe in the political process. A large majority of those polled (64%) believes that Israel’s accepting the solution of “two states for two peoples” would do nothing to solve the Israeli-Arab conflict, or would only briefly prevent it from escalating.

There you have it. Many Israelis have woken up and recognized the taqqiya behind the PLO's motives, and even how concessions only make things more dangerous for Israelis and easier for jihadists. That's a show of understanding realism.

Labels: islam, Israel, jihad, terrorism

I guess it was to be expected. Weiner has taken responsibility and resigned his post:

Embattled New York Rep. Anthony Weiner quit this afternoon, three weeks after the scandal about his Twitter pictures exploded.

The humiliated New York congressman took the stage in his Brooklyn office at 2.21 p.m. to announce the end of his 20-year political career. His news conference was over within four minutes. The fiery left-wing Democrat walked away without answering any questions.

His pregnant wife, Huma Abedin, who had returned yesterday from an overseas trip with her boss, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, was noticeably absent. She was spotted entering the couple’s home in the New York borough of Queens shortly before her husband made his announcement.

“I apologize for the personal mistakes I have made and the embarrassment I have caused to my neighbors, my constituents and particularly to my wife, Huma,” Weiner said.

Interestingly enough, his wife may be Muslim, and a not too common case of a Muslim marrying a non-Muslim, and a Jew! Yep, Weiner is Jewish, and sadly, a poor example-setter with his antics online. I'm glad he's on his way out.

Labels: Moonbattery, New York, United States

The Daily Caller writes about the committee hearing Rep. Peter King gave on Muslim recruitment in prisons, and the rebuttal he had to give to Rep. Laura Richardson who tried to term it as "racist", making her yet one more person who cannot distinguish between religion and race:

During King’s Wednesday hearing on “The Threat of Muslim-American Radicalization in U.S. Prisons,” Democratic committee member Rep. Laura Richardson alleged that the inquiry could “be deemed as racist and as discriminatory.”

King did not take kindly to the charge, telling the committee that political correctness has gotten in the way of safety.

“I disagree 100 percent with the gentlelady. She is entirely wrong,” King said. “The fact is this committee was set up to combat terrorism. It was set up after September 11. As the Gentleman Mr. [Lamar] Smith [R-TX] has testified, there are already procedures in place which follow gangs when they leave prison. We have protocols in place for that. Unfortunately because of too many instances of political correctness, we do not have protocols in place to follow those who were trained in jihad in the prisons. That is why this is unique.” [...]

“I would say to the gentlelady, your party had control of this committee for four years. Not one hearing at all on anything involving Skinheads, on Nazis, on the Ayran Nation, on white supremacists at all. Certainly this issue emerges when we start talking about Muslim radicalization. That is the purpose of this committee. We have a Judiciary Committee to deal with other issues in the prisons.”

Sad as it is, there may actually be some neo-nazis on the loose in the mid-south, like during the time of the murder of Christopher Newsom and Channon Christian by a black gang in Tennessee, and some neo-nazis, clearly intent on undermining the effort to combat black-on-white violence, exploited the situation for hatemongering. I have no doubt they were actually trying to help the villains. Were villains like those neo-nazis ever the focus of the committee when the Democrats controlled it? If not, then we have to wonder if they really are concerned about even those monsters.

But aside from this, is Peter King going to be more respectable and responsible when it comes to inviting witnesses and experts, and not shun people like Steve Emerson and Ayaan Hirsi Ali who could have some vital info to offer? If he continues what he did last time he was running this committee, then he'll only be performing what he accuses the rivals of stooping to.

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

Nonie Darwish has written on Front Page Magazine (via The Blaze) about sex-slave advocation in the Muslim world, and a Kuwaiti woman has already "prostituted" herself for the sake of this vulgarity:

When Muslim Sheikhs discuss the topic of sexual slavery of women, which is allowed in the Qur’an, it comes out a bit politically incorrect even to the taste of the majority of Muslims, who have long forgotten that slavery is a well-established institution in Islam. Saudi Arabia officially abolished slavery as late as 1962, not because Islam made the Saudis do it, but because the Saudis wanted to save face after an international cry against slavery. But now some Muslims are demanding its return. So Muslim spin misters are advocating the embarrassing, but legal, topic through the mouths of Muslim women.

A Kuwaiti woman who is called an “activist” and former candidate to the Kuwaiti parliament, spoke to the Kuwait Times about the establishment of a new law permitting men to buy and sell non-Muslim girls, captured in jihad, as sexual slaves in order to protect Muslim men against seductive sexual immorality. The Arabic Al Arabiya had more details on what that woman, Salwa al-Mutairi, is advocating:

Ms. Mutairi who was nice enough to put the minimum age of 15 for slave girls, Christian Jews or other, to be sold. She demanded the immediate establishment of slave agencies just like agencies for maids, where the slave girls will earn a whopping 50 Kuwaiti Dinar monthly and in return will cook, clean, take care of the kids and be the slave of the wife during the day. But her job does not end there; at night, whenever Mutairi is not in the mood, then her husband will not stray too far away from the house, since it is halal (kosher) for the husband to have sex with the slave girls without any marriage or unnecessary paper to satisfy his sexual pleasures. Better do it at home under the watchful eyes of the wife and kids only for 50 Dinars. Wow, what a deal!

Mutairi was especially interested in Russian slave girls since Muslim men do prefer them blond. Russian, European and American blond women, better watch out, the Muslims are coming! The plan is for Muslims in Chechnya to kidnap Russian girls after a jihadist operation and then will sell them to the Kuwaitis. The price of the sale per her suggestion would be 2500 Kuwaiti dinars.

By any chance, does this sound like "aryan worship" in reverse? In a way, I figure, it is. This is also coming soon after the equally gross news of a cleric in Egypt who declared it okay to take infidel women as sex slaves. It's even more disturbing though, when a Muslim woman condones the practice, courtesy of the Islamic indoctrination, of course.

Labels: Egypt, islam, misogyny, Russia

Big Peace (via The Jawa Report) has a disturbing report about how 81 percent of the prayer texts in USA mosques are promoting violent jihad. Frank Gaffney appeared on FOX News to discuss the matter.

Labels: islam, jihad, United States

Ryan Mauro writes on Front Page Magazine about Recep Tayyip Erdogan's predictable victory in the Turkish elections. Even if they didn't quite get the majority they're coveting, they'll still be in a very fearsome position to rewrite the country's laws to fit sharia:

The election actually results in a slight loss for the AKP. The party currently holds 331 of the 550 seats in parliament, and is projected to now only have 325. The Islamists must win the support of only five non-AKP seats to put up a draft constitution for a referendum. The popularity of Prime Minister Erdogan and his party means that such a referendum is very likely to pass. The AKP may not have the two-thirds majority that would have allowed for a unilateral writing of the constitution, or even enough to unilaterally submit a draft for a referendum, but not much stands in its way.

I didn't think so either. Eventually, there's every chance they'll do away with what's left of the democratic system and establish a full dictatorship.

Labels: islam, political corruption, turkey

I think it's about time I had my say on Democratic Congressman Anthony Weiner, who's been discovered sending out crotch shots of himself to a college student. Now, more news has come out that he's even been taking pics of himself cross-dressing!

In what could be the final straw for Rep. Anthony Weiner’s political career, new embarrassing photos are surfacing — including one showing Weiner as a cross-dresser.

The photos, said to have been taken when Weiner was a college student, show him dressed as a woman in a black bra, panties and leotards.[...]

“These new photos make Weiner’s current scandal even more disturbing,” said one industry source.

Oh god. He really is one sick, demented man, and should be impeached. Why bother to wait for him to resign? The sooner he's gone from office, the better. The Democrats really do know how to keep all the kooks around. Even after this, there's no telling they'll learn a lesson.

Labels: Moonbattery, New York, United States

First, a disturbing case of an IDF commander who targeted soldiers living in Judea for the following:

Brigadier General Nitzan Alon, commander of the IDF’s Judea and Samaria division, has distributed a letter to commanders in his division in which he asks them to investigate soldiers who are residents of Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria. The reason for the request, according to Alon, is a concern that these soldiers may leak information regarding future evacuation of outpost communities.

[...]

Benny Katzover, chairman of the Samaria Residents’ Committee, also responded to Alon’s letter, saying: “Only a leftist officer such as Brigadier General Nitzan Alon would push away from military service soldiers who have different political views from his own. This is an intolerable discrimination between soldiers simply because of political affiliation, and it should be examined by the officials in charge of the division commander.”

Following this, what happened? The police went and raided a Shomron news agency in a kind of "revenge" raid:

Early this morning, hours after a Shomron news agency publicized an internal anti-settler IDF directive, a large police force raided its offices, confiscated computers, and made two arrests.

An unusually large force of 100 policemen arrived in Yitzhar, north of Tapuach in Samaria, and swooped down on the offices of HaKol HaYehudi (the Jewish Voice). Officials in Yitzhar say the raid is most certainly linked directly to the agency's publication of an IDF Division Head's memo against soldiers who live in Judea and Samaria (Yesha).

[...]

Yitzhar: Freedom of Expression Under Attack
The Jewish Voice issued this statement in response to today's police action: "Freedom of expression has once again been trampled by the Shabak (Israel Security Agency) and Shai Nitzan. Their use of secret information against the media that acts openly shows who is in the right."

The agency stated that Shai Nitzan's behavior is "problematic, as shown by the document publicized yesterday. Reports like yesterday's frighten the establishment, which would rather hide its activities from the public."

MK Michael Ben-Ari (National Union) condemned this morning's arrests, saying, "The arrest of those who revealed the document calling for the distancing of Yesha residents in the IDF is a strong blow to our democratic rule. Instead of trying to figure out where they went wrong, they send the police to settle accounts with the Jewish Voice."

I'm afraid this is a very serious case of attacking someone's right to report on what they feel is a concerning matter. The police and army alike owe an apology, and the Knesset would do well to pass a law preventing this kind of galling behavior from occurring.

Labels: Israel, political corruption

Here is a report with video included of a rock-throwing jihad riot at the Western Wall site almost 2 days ago:

Muslims threw rocks at Jewish worshipers praying at the Kotel after Friday’s Muslim prayers. No one was reported hurt.

The incident was captured on the Western Wall Keritage Fund’s Kotel cam, which transmits live video of the Kotel Plaza over the Internet. Worshipers at the Men's Section are seen scattering and returning to the Wall a short time later.

The violence occurred after security forces decided to allow Muslims under the age of 50 to participate in the Friday prayers. Usually, men younger than 45 or 50 are barred from praying on the Mount if there is an intelligence assessment that riots are being planned.

Police stormed into the Mount, used means of riot dispersal against the Muslim attackers and arrested three of them.

It's clear that no younger jihadists can be allowed onto the Temple Mount area at all.

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

Yahoo News has some info telling that Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, victim of a violent, repugnant worshiper of marxism last January, is recovering in Texas:

Images of a smiling Rep. Gabrielle Giffords were posted Sunday on her Facebook page, two photos that show her with shorter, darker hair but few signs that she suffered a gunshot wound to the head.

The photos were taken May 17 outside the Houston rehabilitation facility where Giffords has been undergoing treatment since she was wounded five months ago at a meet-and-greet event with constituents. Six people died and a dozen others were hurt in the Jan. 8 attack in Tucson, Ariz.

Since then, access to the Arizona congresswoman has been tightly controlled. Until Sunday, no clear images had been released.

The only recent sign of Giffords came in late April, when grainy television footage showed her slowly ascending a flight of steps to a NASA plane that took her to Florida to watch her astronaut husband rocket into space. The image was so blurry that it was impossible to confirm it was Giffords until doctors did so at a news conference in mid-May.

Giffords spokesman C.J. Karamargin said staff members released the photos Sunday to help satisfy "intense interest in the congresswoman's appearance."

The timing coincides with plans to release Giffords from the hospital later this month or in early July. Her staff hopes the images will help curb unwanted photography when she begins visiting an outpatient clinic in a more public setting.

"What we wanted to avoid was a paparazzi-like frenzy," Karamargin said.

They're right to be concerned about paparazzi, who'd surely be more interested in mere photos than in her own state of health. She's very lucky to survive what that demented monster did to her and several other people at the market location she was speaking at. Culprit Jared Loughner should receive the death sentence for his abomination. It makes no difference whether he's insane or not; he is utterly worthless.

Labels: Moonbattery, United States

According to this information, their supplies may have been greatly overstated. If it's so, they deserve it, what with their embrace of Islamofascism indoctrination, anti-semitism and anti-Americanism. Western countries shouldn't be relying on their oil either if that's how they're going to operate. Let them enjoy what they've got for themselves while it lasts, because nobody needs their tainted slop.

Labels: anti-americanism, anti-semitism, House of Saud, islam

Khaled abu Toameh at the Jerusalem Post reports that a large shopping mall is being built in Gaza. And Melanie Phillips reports that another flotilla is planned to sail to Israel.

Which of these do you think will garner more attention? I'm afraid the latter is the likely answer.

As for the former, what good is it really if the Hamas sets up sharia law in Gaza?

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

The former Mr. Spock of Star Trek has done just what Peace Now was doubtlessly hoping he'd do, and spoke in favor of 2-state solutions:

The Americans for Peace Now (APN) organization published Tuesday a letter written by actor Leonard Nimoy, best known for his role as Spock in the original Star Trek series and movies, in which the actor supports the establishment of a two-state solution.

The 80-year-old actor called upon the American people to support the peace initiative.

"I reach out to you as someone who is troubled to see the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians continue apparently without an end in sight," Nimoy wrote.

"In fact, there is an end in sight. It's known as the two-state solution - a secure, democratic Israel as the Jewish State alongside an independent Palestinian state. Even Israel's nationalist Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, has come to see this as the shape of the future. The problem is how to reach that end point. It's something we should be concerned about - not only as world citizens, but as Americans."

He went on to write that he supports the division of Jerusalem, mentioning 50 other prominent Israelis, including former heads of the Mossad, the Shin Bet and the military who support a two-state solution.

"There is a sizable number of influential voices in Israel saying the same thing… a call for two states for two nations. Their plan includes a Palestinian state alongside Israel with agreed-upon land swaps. The Palestinian-populated areas of Jerusalem would become the capital of Palestine; the Jewish-populated areas the capital of Israel."

Clearly, he has been orbiting for a long time now, is uninformed, and clearly uninterested in the polls showing that %77 oppose withdrawals (Hat tip: One Jerusalem). He may not be lying, but he definitely is an uninformed space-head, and his statement is insulting to Americans too.

Scotty, beam him up to the sickbay, please! Captain, set warp drive for level 10 highest speed to somewhere we won't need to hear his boring blubbering again.

Labels: dhimmitude, islam, Israel, Moonbattery, showbiz, United States

Big Hollywood and The Blaze have brought attention to 2 movies with anti-abortion themes. Or so it would seem. The one called "The Life Zone" has to do with 3 pregnant women kidnapped from abortion clinics to force them to deliver for a pro-lifer played by Robert Loggia.

Even if, at the end, they admit that kidnapping is a reprehensible offense, I think this is the wrong way to convey any objections to abortion. Let us be clear: abortion is bad, but then so is kidnapping, and the filmmakers are taking a risk of offending kidnap victims, including Elizabeth Smart and even Jaycee Dugard, who was kidnapped by a madman named Phillip Garrido and his wife in California in 1991 and held hostage for 18 years, during which time she was forced to bear 2 children for him (is anyone else as irritated as I am that very few major conservatives said anything about this? Phyllis Chesler was one of the few to bring this up). What would they say if they learned about a movie that justifies kidnapping over something you don't agree with? There are as many as 700,000 women and children who've been victims of abduction and rape in the US every year. How does this make things any better?

I suppose some of the comments from the sites would help make a case here:

I don’t get it. If the horror of it is that the women get abducted by a pro-life doctor and are forced to have their children, how is that a pro-life message?
There are some genres that will just never make a good vehicle for certain messages.
Try showing a horror movie where the guilt of conscience for having an abortion drives a woman insane.
Try showing a love story about how a hardened woman learns the preciousness of children and learns that the reward of birth and motherhood far outweighs the rewards of her former life.
So much bad “art” on the Blaze today!

And:

I truly hate bad Christian “art”. It’s earnestness and sense of righteousness often gets in the way of being either good art or really convincing and convicting. These movies often only end up preaching to the choir because the makers never bother to think about the differenvce between the truth as a Christian understands it and the truth that a non-Christian is able to understand.

Kidnapping women to MAKE them give birth? At first it sounded like a pro-CHOICE film. Who on earth is the intended audience for this film? Will women seeking abortions watch it, and after watching it will they think better of pro-life arguments?

Maybe not. Maybe they'll think some crazy "pro-lifer" thinks aborting an unborn life automatically justifies holding a woman hostage, regardless of whether the woman's committed crimes against other people, and even worrying the woman's family to death of their whereabouts.

Also:

I’m very much pro life and I agree also, this is beyond stupid. And just for the record, I really enjoy a good horror flick….I like the zombie movies. Funny for a 50 plus woman, huh? In all reality though this is stupid, stupid, stupid. Not only should you NOT use abortion as a horror movie to start with, it casts a bad light on pro life folks. Its not an issue to be used so cavalier as this movie does. I also want to make it clear I totally condem the violence used by some against pro abortionists. I believe in reason and education. I aso think its a good idea to show women what their baby looks like (like sonograms) and how they act inutero before these women have abortions. I believe in the power of prayer and I pray for these women and their babies. “Every knee will bow and every tongue confess”

Let us be clear: is abortion objectionable? Yes, but let's remember: it's not like the average woman who has an abortion has tried to kill people already born or people unrelated to her. Nor has she robbed any pedestrians at gunpoint or committed aggravated assault, terrorist bombings or committed racial discrimination, and if not, I'm not sure why the filmmakers are going to such extremes.

So if this stinky item "The Life Zone" tanks at the box office, I won't be one bit sorry. Conservatives need to learn when it pays to convey their own messages in a sensible manner. This sure ain't it.

Labels: misogyny, Moonbattery, showbiz

Via Big Peace. But don't expect Obama to pay any attention.

Labels: anti-semitism, islam, Israel, terrorism

The Islamist who murdered at least one and injured 18 other people in Tel Aviv has been charged by police:

Issa Islam, 22 from Kfar Kassem, was indicted on six attempted murders at the Tel Aviv District Court on Thursday, after causing the "Nakba Day" truck rampage in May.

Islam ran over 29-year-old Aviv Morag and wounded 18 others, including pedestrians and drivers in south Tel Aviv.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center has obtained the first anti-Jewish letter Hitler wrote in the past century, one of the most important items for researching how anti-semitism and racism came about in Germany and Austria, and how evil mindsets work.

Syrian refugees who fled to Turkey tell about Assad and his force's cruelty. I hope they're aware of just what awaits around the corner in Turkey itself though.

Noam Shalit filed suit in French court against the justice system to get them to probe his son Gilad's kidnapping:

1,807 days after his son Gilad was kidnapped in Gaza, Noam Shalit walked into the Paris District Court on Monday to officially file suit, asking the French justice system to investigate and take action against Hamas, which is illegally holding his son.

“I do not know yet what this will accomplish,” admitted Shalit, after slowly reading out a prepared statement in French to the press gathered outside the court house. “But I can do nothing but try every avenue. Hold onto any hope.”

Rassmussen's latest poll tells that only %24 share Obama's views (via Hot Air Headlines).

BBC is reporting that the UK government will cut off funding to Muslim groups who won't renounce extremism (via Shariah Finance Watch). Oh please! If they were serious, they'd terminate all funding to some of the most notorious groups immediately. Again, they fail to recognize the meaning of taqqiya.

Pajamas Media lets know that there's better media now.

Labels: anti-semitism, Europe, France, germany, islam, Israeli Arabs, jihad, londonistan, syria, turkey, United States, war on terror

A few months ago, I'd written a response to a post on Jalopnik (which I've updated with at least one more picture) about what would be the most ideal villain's car in showbiz. Now, I got the idea to follow up to that earlier item with another one featuring the most ideal trucks, vans, and even utility vehicles (which often use the same platforms as regular trucks) for villains in the movies. For example:
Mercedes-Benz Viano.
Volkswagen Amarok.
Ford F-series.
Volvo VN.
Ford Expedition.
Volkswagen Touareg.
Mercedes-Benz Sprinter.
Ford Econoline.
Lada Niva.
M.A.N trucks.
Volkswagen Transporter.
Volvo XC.

These too make for perfect villain's fare in the movies and TV, particularly if, as per 2 examples, they're painted black. I strongly recommend Jalopnik do a post like this, if they haven't yet.

Labels: showbiz

I once posted about FDR's hostility to the Jewish community and how he opposed repealing Vichy-based laws, something still not very well known. But here's something that may not be very well known about Charles de Gaulle either, written by Bat Ye'or:

Eurabia is not Europe, it is its enemy. It does not represent the majority of Europeans nor all its politicians. When I speak of Eurabia I refer to an ideology, a strategy, a policy and a culture whose nerve-centre and way of working are exemplified by the Anna Lindh Foundation in Alexandria, linked to the Swedish Consulate. At the origin of this vision in the 1960s, one can identify Charles de Gaulle and Haj Amin al-Husseini, former Mufti of Jerusalem, whom de Gaulle saved from the Nuremberg trial in 1946. Implemented after the Kippur War, this view promoted an alliance between the European Community and the Arab world – operative at all levels of the European Community, regionally and internationally, and linked with the European Common Foreign and Security Policy. It aimed to create a strategic Euro-Arab pole hostile to Israel, supporting Arafat and the PLO, and opposed to America. Without much difficulty, France was able to carry along the rest of Europe into this programme from 1973, after the Arab oil embargo.

If this is so, and de Gaulle helped that monster to escape, it makes him just as bad as FDR, and in a way, a European variant on that phony. It's also a betrayal of his own country and every decent French citizen of the times, not to mention every decent European elsewhere on the continent.

Here's some more info on Solomonia.

Labels: anti-semitism, dhimmitude, Europe, France, islam

Some pictures have finally been published that vindicate Israel in the flotilla case a year earlier:

Only now, more than a year after the violent flotilla incident in which terrorists tried to run Israel's blockade of Gaza, has it been conclusively shown that some of the "humanitarian" flotilla participants were armed with guns.

Photos of passengers on the Marmara ship sporting the guns were published on Tuesday in the Yediot Acharonot daily. It is not clear why the photos were not published until now.

I'm sure there are a lot of valid questions waiting for answers about why important evidence has been withheld for at least a year before finally being published. Was even Yediot trying to aid Israel's enemies by withholding the data?

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

Israel National News provides some info about Robert F. Kennedy, who was murdered by an Arab terrorist in 1968, which may give some insight to how the Islamic world came up with the al-nakba propaganda:

On June 6, 1968, Robert F. Kennedy succumbed to gunshot wounds inflicted a day earlier by an Arab terrorist, Sirhan Sirhan. His daughter later said that this was because of his support for the Jewish state.

Lenny Ben-David, former head of AIPAC, writes in his blog that “Years later his daughter told me, ‘My father was killed by a Palestinian terrorist [Sirhan Sirhan] because of his strong support for Israel.’ He was killed on the first anniversary of the 1967 Six Day War."

Ben-David links to another blog that contains excerpts from a series of articles written by RFK for a now-defunct Boston newspaper, after his visit to “Palestine” in March 1948.

Be sure to check those out. Among the things told, here's what RFK had to say about the British and their hostility to Israel:

The British government, in its attitude towards the Jewish population in Palestine, has given ample credence to the suspicion that they are firmly against the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine.

When I was in Cairo shortly after the blowing up of the Jewish Agency [March 11, 1948] I talked to a man who held a high position in the Arab League. He had just returned from Palestine where he had, among other things, interviewed and arranged transportation to Trans-Jordan for the Arab responsible for that Jewish disaster. This Arab told him that after the explosion, upon reaching the British post which separated the Jewish section from a small neutral zone set up in the middle of Jerusalem, he was questioned by the British officers in charge. He quite freely admitted what he had done and was given immediate passage with the remark “Nice going.”

I'm glad someone from America recognized the British for what they've been, and so far, still are in their approach to Israel, and their congratulation to that horrorist at the border post certainly tells something.

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

YnetNews reports that Syria's dicator Bashar Assad apparently paid people to rush the border with Israel (via Weasel Zippers and Commentary):

Protestors for hire? Demonstrators along the Syria-Israel border were paid thousands of dollars by President Bashar Assad’s regime to take part in Sunday’s riots, Syrian opposition activists charge.

Israeli officials later reinforced the claims, accusing the Syrian regime of encouraging protests along the northern border.

Sunday’s riots were an attempt “to divert attention away from the massacre in Syria,” one official charged. “The Syrians will be held accountable for these events.”

Late Sunday, Syrian officials claimed that 23 people were killed and 350 were wounded after the IDF fired at protestors aiming to rush the border fence earlier in the day. However, the army dismissed the figures, claiming that they were inflated.

Washington-based members of the Reform Party of Syria said intelligence sources close to the Syrian government in Lebanon informed them that the protesters on the Syrian side of the Druze community of Majdal Shams were in fact poverty-stricken farmers paid by the Assad regime.

According to the sources, the farmers migrated over the last few years from drought-stricken northeast Syria to the south. They reached the Israel-Syria border on Sunday in the aims of reenact “Nakba Day” events, the sources said.

The Syrian opposition group claimed that each farmer was promised $1,000 for showing up at the rally and $10,000 to their families if they are killed by IDF fire.

If he really bribed them in dollar currency, then it's your tax money at work, unless he paid them with dinars. This is apparently how he can deflect some of the flak he gets from within - by turning people against Israel with the anti-semitism that unfortunately can affect even the opposition - and divert attention from the violence he's subjecting the public to in Syria.

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