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The following is an except from e-mail received in response to my recent column, from a Muslim who lives in London and writes for Al-Jazeerah.        “We will return one day unified as one nation with one army and rest assure that those criminal Jews from the criminal state of Israel will have no sanctuary this time.  Even though Islamic laws give them protection, the sons of those who have been killed may not adhere to that protection.  The world is a witness to the fact that, it is the Jews that are hastening to full fill that prophecy of...

Riyadh Kingdom of Saudi Arabia TV1 in Arabic, official television station of the Saudi Government, carries at 0928 GMT on 14 May 2004 a live sermon from the holy mosque in Mecca. Shaykh Abd-al-Rahman al-Sudays delivers the sermon, which he begins by saying that the nation has faced much sedition in history, but the worst is the current one of charging others with non-belief. "It is an unmatched wanton crime," he says, and wonders how a Muslim can repudiate his fellow Muslim. The imam cites Koranic verses and prophet's traditions that forbid repudiation of fellow Muslims, and asserts that repudiation...

What do we offer the world? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: May 19, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern "So, how do we advance the cause of female emancipation in the Muslim world?" asks Richard Perle in "An End to Evil." He replies, "We need to remind the women of Islam ceaselessly: Our enemies are the same as theirs; our victory will be theirs as well." Well, the neoconservative cause "of female emancipation in the Muslim world" was probably set back a bit by the photo shoot of Pfc. Lynndie England and the "Girls Gone Wild" of Abu Ghraib prison. Indeed, the filmed orgies among...

(IsraelNN.com) In the trial of a British national in Australia, Jack Roche, the defendant’s son announced his father “remains committed to Jihad”. Jack Roche is standing trial for conspiring to perpetrate a bomb attack against an Israeli diplomatic installation in Australia. Roche, a convert to Islam, stands accused of plotting to blow up the Israeli Embassy in Canberra. Roche, 50, denies the charges against him. The district court trial is expected to last up to four weeks and Roche faces a maximum sentence of 25 years if convicted.

NAJAF, Iraq (AP) Not long ago, U.S. officials and senior Shiite clergy viewed radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr as a fringe figure with a narrow base of support. Times have changed. In the six weeks since al-Sadr launched an anti-coalition uprising in Baghdad and across central and southern Iraq, the young cleric has been elevated to heroic status, his movement re-energized. His militiamen now control Najaf, Kufa and Karbala. The uprising has raised fears of eroding support for the U.S.-led coalition among the mainstream of Iraq's Shiite majority, a community emerging from decades of oppression and hoping for political domination when...

Global terrorism is on the rise and is likely to continue unabated for the next 100 years, according to Prof. Yonah Alexander, one of the world's leading analysts on the subject. Alexander, director of the Inter-Universities Center for Terrorism Studies, also believes it is only a matter of time before groups like al-Qaida use non-coventional weapons as part of attempts to promulgate their ideology and undermine western society. In this respect, he anticipates that al-Qaida's next theater of operations will be Europe, where the organization has established a widespread base and network. "If you ask me whether the worst is...

Herb Meyer is calling for a holy war to save western civilization. But the former Reagan CIA official has a problem: Most people don’t know what it is he wants to save. "We’ve forgotten what Western civilization is," Meyer told NewsMax.com. "We no longer teach it in the schools. If you come to the schools where I live and ask a group of high school students ‘what is Western Civilization?’ They’ll tell you it’s slavery, the oppression of women and we don’t recycle.” But Western Civilization is not made up of our faults; all civilizations have those. Meyer contends, “It’s...

The war in Iraq is now over a year old.  Contrary to many media pundits, I believe the war is going as expected, even with the recent increase in fighting at Fallujah and Najaf.  Over a year ago, I was among those who wrote that this war is not simply a war against terrorism, but is in fact a war against militant Islam.  It looks like what we wrote then is coming to fruition today.  Events both in Europe and Iraq seem to confirm our expectations.        The war on terror has now turned into a religious war in Iraq. ...

Jordanian man stabbed his pregnant sister to death, allegedly to "cleanse the family's honor," an official said Thursday. The 25-year-old woman, whom authorities refused to identify, was killed Tuesday by her brother, who slit her throat and inflicted 15 stabs to various parts of her body, said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity. The case marked the latest incident of "honor killings" - a practice not uncommon in traditional, male-dominated Arab societies where women have been killed, mostly by brothers and fathers for having sex outside marriage, dating, simply talking to men or even for being raped. The initial...

Amid a major crackdown, eleven Protestants in Nukus were questioned at the public prosecutor's office and pressured to convert to Islam. They were also threatened with being shot, though the city prosecutor, M. Arzymbetov, subsequently denied this to Forum 18 News Service. The prosecutor also tried to have a Protestant, Iklas Aldungarov, expelled from his university medical course, but the university rector, Oral Ataniyazova, has resisted the pressure. "How and what Aldungarov believes is his own personal business, and we do not have the right to interfere with it," she told Forum 18. She added that a very large number...

In the face of Islam's infatuation with terror and religious imperialism – perhaps the biggest threat to Western civilization since World War II – Catholic prelates seem afflicted with a severe case of moral confusion, as recent statements demonstrate. On April 10, Cardinal Cormac Murphy O'Connor, head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales, told Britain's GMTV that he agreed with Lord Carey, the former archbishop of Canterbury, who criticized moderate Muslims for failing to condemn terrorism in Allah's name. At the same time O'Connor said the West must confront what he believes to be terrorism's root causes: poverty...

LISBON (Reuters) - Several Islamic militant groups are preparing attacks on London, making such a strike unavoidable, a radical Muslim cleric said in an interview published Sunday. "It's inevitable. Because several (attacks) are being prepared by several groups," Sheikh Omar Bakri Muhammad told Lisbon's Publica magazine from London where he is based. One "very well organized" group in London calling itself al Qaeda Europe "has a great appeal for young Muslims," he said. "I know that they are ready to launch a big operation." The firebrand cleric, who has outraged moderate Muslims and non-Muslims alike with his uncompromising views, gave...

Abdel Aziz Rantisi, the new leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, sought to reassure the US that his group would not attack American targets. He said Hamas would not deviate from its long-standing policy of confining its attacks to Israel and the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Speaking to reporters in Gaza City, he said, "If they are worried, then they are stupid, because we have said many times that we will target only our enemy, the occupiers." Hamas had threatened to attack US targets immediately after the assassination of Ahmed Yassin, Rantisi's predecessor, on Monday morning. Statements it...

BUDAPEST - Hungarian police said Tuesday afternoon they had detained a Hungarian citizen of Palestinian origin who had planned to blow up a Jewish museum in Budapest and two Syrian men also suspected of links to the plot. Police also said there was no connection between the arrests and the current visit to Budapest by President Moshe Katsav, who is set to inaugurate the Holocaust Memorial Center in Budapest on Thursday to mark the 60th anniversary of the day Hungary's pro-Nazi regime started rounding up Jews to confine them in ghettos. Police Lt. Col. Attila Petofi, deputy director of the...

In 1992, the socialist government in Madrid promoted legislation that recognized Islam's ancient tradition in the country, considering Spanish identity harmoniously interwoven with the Koranic religion. But the Muslim interpretation of Islam in Spain, beginning with conquest in 711 and ending in 1492, had a more militant twist. Scholar M. Amir Ali commented that Spain had actually been liberated by Muslim forces and its tyrants removed. Reflecting on March 11, as Muslim terrorism killed 200 and wounded 1,400 in Madrid, one wonders whether one day this event will also not be commemorated as a liberating moment. Central to the attitude...

London - Police deployed several hundred officers outside a London mosque on Friday to keep far-right demonstrators away from Muslims attending a regular prayer meeting. There was no violence and there were no arrests, said London's metropolitan police. About 60 supporters of the extremist National Front Party turned up to demonstrate outside Finsbury Park Mosque in north London. Some held signs that read "Islam out" and "Shut down all mosques in Britain." Finsbury Park Mosque was made a centre of radical Islam by preacher Abu Hamza al-Masri and was shut down by its trustees after a police anti-terrorist raid in...

Nowadays, most of the leadership of the Islamic and Arab world is currently preoccupied with an occupation. I am not talking about the Israeli “occupation” or the American occupation, but the current occupation of the minds of those individuals leading the Arab and Islamic world – those who practice and spread militant Islam, an ideology which brands all those who are non-Muslims as infidels. This is a terrorist interpretation of Islam and its text, the Koran. This consists of a world outlook which believes the green Islamic flag should rise above the entire world. This enemy the free world is...

The global war on terror cannot be won through counterterrorism alone; it also requires convincing the terrorists and their sympathizers that their goals and methods are faulty and failing. But how is this to be done? By focusing on the ideological and religious sources of the violence, say I: "The immediate war goal must be to destroy militant Islam and the ultimate war goal the modernization of Islam." I have not worked out the detailed implications of this policy, however. Which explains my delight on finding that the RAND Corporation's Cheryl Benard has done just this, publishing her results in...

Michael Rubin is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and was a governance team advisor for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq. April 4, 2004 WASHINGTON — Last summer, as Iraqis sweltered outside, the Coalition Provisional Authority met in the marbled corridors and air-conditioned offices of one of Saddam Hussein's former palaces to hash out how to fund political parties. The State Department was adamant, insisting that the CPA should maintain "an even playing field" and should not favor one party over another. Parties affiliated with the Iraqi Governing Council's militant Islamists and liberal secularists should receive the...

Former Al-Azhar Fatwa Committee Head Sets Out the Jews' 20 Bad Traits As Described in the Qur'an On March 22, 2004 Sheikh 'Atiyyah Saqr, former head of the Al-Azhar Fatwa Committee who in the past issued a Fatwa declaring Jews "apes and pigs,"(1) was asked the following question this week in an online chat room: "What, according to the Qur'an, are the Jews' main characteristics and qualities?" The following is his answer:(2) The Bad Traits of the Jews Outweigh Their One Good TraitSheikh Saqr lists one positive trait of the Jews(3), and then 20 bad traits: fabricating; listening to lies;...

Lebanon's top Shiite Muslim cleric condemned on Monday the "horrible massacres" committed by US occupation forces in Iraq, saying their actions expose America as lying about its intention to work for Iraqis' freedom. Grand Ayatollah Sheik Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah also called on Iraqis to show self-restraint in the face of what he described as a new tyranny by U.S. occupation forces after getting rid of the Saddam Hussein's tyrannical regime through the US-led war on Iraq last year. More than 50 Iraqis, plus eight US soldiers and a Salvadoran soldier, were killed in fierce clashes Sunday between U.S. forces and...

"This is what I wished to advise you as our prophet, peace be upon him, taught us that advising one another is a religious duty.." Following is the letter sent to the Arab summit meeting in Tunis by late Sheikh Ahmed Yasin shortly before he was extra-judicially assassinated by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) on Monday March 22, 2004: “Your majesties and highnesses, Assalamu Alaikum wa Rahmatullahi wa Baraktuh The statement saying that glory of Islam is dependent on powerful Arabs places a great responsibility on your shoulders for you are the ones entrusted by Almighty Allah to cater for...

Gliding his straight razor over a client's face, Ahmed Kadduri, of the Kadduri barber shop in the largely Sunni neighborhood of Adamiyeh, lifted his eyes long enough to spit out, "It was the Zionists and the foreign organizations that did it." He was, of course, referring to Wednesday's murder of four and the mutilation of two American contractors in Fallujah. The lynchings, referred to by many here as the "accident," remain a much-debated topic, slicing down the center of Iraq's political and ethnic divide and pitting Sunni against Shi'ite. Despite the mutilations' denunciation of by some Fallujah clerics, over the...

<p>Sooner or later, the United States, with Pakistan's help, will kill or capture Osama bin Laden. In recent days, U.S. military officers and Pakistani leaders have said they have intensified their hunt for the al-Qaeda leader, converging from opposite sides of the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, where he is believed to be hiding.</p>

Arab MK Abdel Malek Dehamshe explained on Monday why he filed a no-confidence motion in the government. Mentioning Halakhah [Jewish Law] several times, Dehamshe said as follows: "...A minister sits in the government and makes demands that are against not only the law, but also against the Jewish Halakhah. Minister Elon, as quoted in Maariv on Feb. 8, told Christian missionaries... to 'go from mosque to mosque and bring the light to Moslems.' Thank you very much, Mr. Minister. The Moslems brought the light to the entire world even before you were born and studied and knew... This religion needs...

WASHINGTON [MENL] -- The United States has approved a program to support a United Arab Emirates's missile program. The Defense Department has awarded Raytheon Peninsula Systems a $5 million contract for technical assistance to support the UAE's Honing All the Way Missile System Program. The program is one of several UAE missile programs being supported by the Pentagon. In October 2002, the UAE Air Force signed an agreement for the procurement of Raytheon's AIM-9M Sidewinder air-to-air missiles. These missiles were meant to equip the new F-16 fleet of the UAE. Officials said the latest Pentagon award will be conducted at...

<p>MINA, Saudi Arabia - The cleric who delivered the sermon on Friday at the annual hajj pilgrimage had a simple request: God grant victory to Muslims fighting around the world.</p> <p>The prayer by Sheik Saleh al-Taleb to 500,000 people in Mecca's Grand Mosque and nearby streets came as the hajj neared its climax.</p>

Although Indonesia has the world's largest Muslim population, Islamist political parties in the country have been unable to attract widespread support. Since the 1998 fall of the autocratic Suharto and the beginning of a transition to democracy, support for Islamist parties has not risen above sixteen percent, while their secular and pluralist rivals earn large majorities, writes Indonesian journalist Endy M. Bayuni. Although they control the vice-presidency and have scored some legislative victories, he argues, Indonesia's Islamists have discovered that their goals - the establishment of an Islamic state with Islamic law - do not appeal to the majority of...

Another Scholar Recants Khaled Al-Awadh, Special to Arab News   BURAIDAH, 23 November 2003 — Sheikh Nasser ibn Hamad Al-Fahd has recanted and withdrawn his controversial fatwas, describing them as “a grave mistake” in an interview broadcast yesterday.Fahd was the second Saudi scholar detained for promoting militancy this year who took to the airwaves to renounce his support for militants and condemn terrorist attacks.Fahd, 35, is one of three scholars arrested in Madinah last May following the Riyadh bombings for issuing fatwas declaring killing security personnel during confrontations “halal” or permissible.He had also ruled against giving information to security...

<p>JAKARTA, Indonesia — The imprisoned Islamic cleric thought to be a guiding force behind the Indonesian terrorist group Jemaah Islamiyah warned that all Muslim countries with close ties to the United States were targets for attack.</p> <p>"As long as Muslim countries have close ties or support the U.S. government or U.S. policy, [they] will be threatened by a Muslim militant attack," said Abu Bakar Bashir, as he sat on the rough floor of the Salemba Prison, the Jakarta prison where he has been held for the past year.</p>

Edward Said, the American scholar (born in Jerusalem) who died last week, is often regarded as the man who invented the "blame-it-on-the-West" theory. His "Orientalism," a polemical pamphlet masquerading as historical analysis, presented the study of the Muslim world by European scholars as a "colonialist plot." The premise of the polemic is simple: The West is an "imperialist" monster out to dominate the world, devour its resources, impoverish other nations, and plunge mankind into perpetual war. The conclusion is equally simple: The only relationship possible between "the West" and "the rest" is one of perpetual conflict. Almost two decades before...

The producers of the television documentary on extreme Islam shown on Channel 2 on September 22 should be complimented for entitling it In the Name of God. For many viewers it might have afforded their first extended glimpse of how militant Islam indoctrinates its followers to wage jihad against heretics. The film showed how the same educational systems are used in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran, where there are no Israelis thus clearly refuting the popular notion that suicidal murderers, including the Palestinian variety, are driven by despair caused by the Israeli "occupation." In the Name of God stressed, rightly, Islam's...

The second anniversary of the 9/11 attacks was a bad day for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which has been struggling to overcome its reputation as a front group for Islamist terrorists. Senators at a September 10 terrorism and homeland security hearing ripped into CAIR for its ties to the Hamas suicide bombers. As if that wasn’t bad enough, on the same day CAIR’s former community affairs director pled guilty to committing bank and visa fraud while running an Islamic charity that the US calls a front for associates of Osama bin Laden. CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad canceled...

Three ways to hate By Eliahu Salpeter Several weeks ago, the American Jewish Committee published a study entitled "Anti-Americanism and Anti-Semitism: A New Front of Zealotry," written by Prof. Alvin Rosenfeld. As the title indicates, says Prof. Rosenfeld, "there is a certain structural similarity between anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism - they are closely connected, so much so that sometimes it seems that the growing hatred of America is none other than a new form of Judeophobia and vice-versa as well." While the examples in the chapter on Germany are not the most convincing (in contrast to Rosenfeld's view, in Germany,...

Maybe now that a New York Times headline says a "Rising Tide" of Al Qaeda-inspired Islamic militants has come to view Iraq as the "Ultimate Battlefield" against the United States, it will be harder for the Bush-haters, the history-challenged and, of course, the politically correct to ignore the centrality of the Iraqi battlefield in the wider war on Islamic terrorism. Riding The New York Times' rising tide is Mullah Mustapha Kreikar, a man the newspaper somewhat mildly calls the "founding spiritual leader" of Ansar al-Islam. This northern Iraq organization -- the murderous "affiliate" of Al Qaeda, as Jonathan Schanzer of...

The Terrorist Next Door by Daniel Pipes New York Post August 12, 2003 Howls of rage went up after the Joint Terrorism Task Force, guns drawn, arrested Maher Hawash in the parking lot of an Intel Corp. facility in March and placed him in solitary confinement. The protests intensified as prosecutors detained him without charges for more than a month in an Oregon jail while they pored over the evidence. This all came as a particular shock, for Maher Mofeid "Mike" Hawash personified the American success story. A Palestinian born in Nablus in 1964 and reared in Kuwait, he arrived...

Once upon a beautiful balmy autumn day, expansionist Islam, ever spreading by pointing its sword at suitably weakened sections within countries, staged a dramatic debut across virgin North America, forcing us to watch as nineteen of its fanatics murdered thousands of our Mr. Rogers ‘neighbors’ in fiery, crashing, hellish infernos; a black, smolderingly sadistic Machiavellian example of performance art. “Why are you calling me now about your appointment? The world is coming to an end! The World Trade Centre has been bombed and the Pentagon is in flames,” said the person at the other end of my telephone line. “Excuse...

Thousands of Iraqi Shi'ites chanted "No to America, No to Saddam, Yes to Islam" a few days ago, during pilgrimage rites at the holy city of Karbala. Increasing numbers of Iraqis appear to agree with these sentiments. They have ominous implications for the coalition forces. Gratitude for liberation usually has a short shelf life, and Iraq will be no exception. As a middle-aged factory manager put it, "Thank you, Americans. But now we don't need anybody to stay here anymore." However delighted they are to be rid of the Saddamite nightmare, Iraqis mentally live in a world of conspiracy theories,...

As a former 'radical,' I see the threat of militant Islam on American campuses http://www.NewsAndOpinion.com | When I was a college radical and anti-war activist forty years ago, I was quite the intellectual and (in my estimation) cautious and sober. Though I became an editor and then co-editor of the leading radical magazine of the Sixties, Ramparts, I never threw a rock during the entire era. I never joined a radical sect and never went to Communist Cuba or North Vietnam, which were then the meccas of the radical faith. Although I was a founder of an organization called the...

Feb. 25, 2003 The professor is a terrorist By Daniel Pipes It was quiet in [Cooper Hall] 464 Thursday night, where [Sameeh] Hammoudeh's 6 p.m. Arabic IV class was scheduled to meet. Two students who hadn't heard of his arrest came to class, and a substitute was assigned to teach in Hammoudeh's place. Hammoudeh missed teaching his Arabic class last week due to a slight inconvenience: he had just been charged with racketeering and conspiracy to murder. In fact, he was one of eight men indicted at a US District Court in Florida as "material supporters of a foreign terrorist...

Riyadh: Goal of the US is not Limited to Iraq Linchpin to a new religious orderBy Syed Saleem Shahzad KARACHI - With a constant increase in the deployment of US forces in the Persian Gulf, the war against Iraq looks set for February. However, the paradigms of the military build-up so far suggest that the goal of the West in the Gulf region is by no means limited to the borders of Iraq. Indeed, the concentration of forces is also well suited to undermining the resurgent fundamentalist branches of Islam and their bases in the Muslim world. The fact is,...

<p>MILITANT Islam keeps on killing, but politicians and journalists still avert their eyes.</p> <p>There have also been many more non-lethal assaults on churches and church services, the most recent this past Sunday.</p> <p>There is no doubt about the motives of the perpetrators: Militant Islamic groups brazenly speak their minds, declaring their goal is "to kill Christians" and afterwards bragging of having "killed the nonbelievers."</p>

<p>LONDON — Radical Muslims at a London mosque marked September 11 last night by urging young men to become foot soldiers in the struggle for Islamic victory against "American efforts to dominate the world and snatch Gulf oil fields."</p> <p>A crowd of several hundred at the Finsbury Park mosque in north London applauded when Sheik Abu Hamza al-Masri said that the FBI had blown up the World Trade Center and the Pentagon as an excuse to swing world opinion against Islam and allow the United States and allies to "turn the world into a war zone."</p>

The Church’s Five WoundsBy Scott HahnExpectations run high, these days, whenever Catholic bishops gather. Group the cardinals around the Pope, and you have the makings of a front-page story in all the major media, with a headline that screams the word “crisis.”It’s a shame, however, that the media turned to the crisis so late in thegame, because the Church’s crisis — along with other world crises justrecently come to bloom — was diagnosed in painful, prophetic detail in ameeting held, some years ago, on this very date. If we had heeded the call then, perhaps we would not be facing...

The Dobbs List: "Militant Islam Reaches America" CNNfn: Moneyline News Hour August 29, 2002 http://www.danielpipes.org/article/455 LOU DOBBS, CNNfn ANCHOR, LOU DOBBS MONEYLINE:: Also tonight, why radical Islamists have declared war against the United States. Author Daniel Pipes and his new book "Militant Islam Reaches America," on the "Dobbs List." * * * * DOBBS: Now our regular Thursday night look at books on "The Dobbs List," the books that I've found fascinating, informative and strongly believe that you will as well. Tonight the book is "Militant Islam Reaches America." This book deals with one of the most controversial topics we've...

The Evil Isn't Islam by Daniel Pipes New York Post July 30, 2002 http://www.danielpipes.org/article/437 http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/53624.htm "Islam is evil." That's the message a U.S. Secret Service agent illicitly left on an Islamic prayer calendar on July 18 as he was raiding a suspected al Qaeda operative in Dearborn, Mich. His crude graffito sums up a point of view increasingly heard since 9/11 in the United States. It's also one that is troubling and wrong. Here is the rub: It is a mistake to blame Islam (a religion 14 centuries old) for the evil that should be ascribed to militant Islam (a...

The latest suicide bomb attacks in Jerusalem are just another consequence of the Israeli occupation of Arab lands. This was the standard line of all Arab countries -- including the so-called moderate states. Suicide bombers now enjoy such a degree of legitimacy in the Arab world that each attack is accepted as a military operation rather than a barbaric act of a deranged individual supported by a sinister web of extremists. This shocking fact is representative of not only Israel's problems with its neighbours, but also of the West's increasingly difficult relationship with the Arab world, both of which are...

PALESTINIAN RADICALISM AND ARAB ANTISEMITISM by Srdja Trifkovic That a majority of Arabs, and especially Palestinians, want the destruction of Israel is something we assume and intuit. It is therefore unsurprising to have this assumption confirmed by the results of a major opinion poll released on June 11. The poll, by the Jerusalem Media and Communication Center (JMCC), highlighted a radicalization of views as we near the third year of unabated Israeli-Palestinian violence. The JMCC interviewed 1,179 people in the West Bank and Gaza in late May and early June. Fifty-one percent of people surveyed said the end result of...

<p>AMBON, Indonesia--For violent religious conflict--especially between Muslims and non-Muslims--the world's attention is directed at the Mideast and the threats emanating from al Qaeda.</p> <p>But this archipelago nation has its own share of bloody discord, and like other countries facing such trouble it is attempting its version of a peace process, with mixed results so far.</p>

How delusional do you have to be to insist that the only Palestinian you can negotiate with is Yassir Arafat? Does anyone find it strange that the European Union reportedly will send millions of dollars to the Palestinian Authority to sustain its terrorist war on Israel? Or does this simply reflect the same European anti-Semitism that killed millions of Jews during WWII? Earlier this week, Arafat ordered the Palestinians holed up in Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity to stay there, holding priests and nuns as hostages. This isn't just a Jewish versus Muslim war. It is one in which...