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Saturday, July 19, 2014 It's Another "Death to the Jews" Weekend Posted by Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog From Berkeley to Boston and from Paris to Sydney, the season is upon us again. Hipsters twirl  Keffiyahs from some Shanghai factory around their necks, don army surplus jackets and Decembrist t-shirts and head to the nearest Israeli embassy to scream about a new Holocaust. Shiites and Sunnis temporarily put aside their blood feuds and entire families of Syrian Alawites and Turkish Sunnis stand in London or Berlin screaming "Death to the Jews". Joining them are elderly Trotskyists and aging...

From behind a smoking sniper rifle high atop his ivory tower peers the secular-”progressive.” He surveys his many victims, strewn across the American landscape below and mockingly sneers, “War on Christianity? What war on Christianity?” He then resumes shooting, all the while insisting that those uncooperative Christians who scatter for cover behind the word of God and the U.S. Constitution somehow suffer from a “persecution complex” (the baker, the photographer, the florist, the innkeeper, the Christian school administrator, etc.). Though there are many, it is plain for all to see that abortion and “sexual liberation” remain the two principal...

Why should people who take a bus or Tube train in London be in fear for their lives from a bomb attack? Is it right that air passengers should be afraid of terror threats when they board a plane and also be subjected to continuous disruptions for the same reason? Every day we hear news of more young Muslims – often born and bread in the UK but not “British” in any true sense of the word – travelling to Iraq and Syria to join groups fighting in a jihad (Islamic holy war) to establish an Islamic state over...

Pope Francis recently said "the measure of the greatness of a society is found in the way it treats those most in need." Today, undocumented children and families — who are our neighbors, service providers, co-workers and friends — are among those most in need. They are living on the margins of society, often in fractured families and vulnerable to exploitation. The current humanitarian crisis of unaccompanied children fleeing to the U.S.-Mexican border due to the violence in their countries of origin is a stark reminder of how desperate the situation has become. While specific policy questions may remain as...

There has not been much good, or encouraging, news in America over the past months, and it is due to the perpetual assault on the people by a cabal of un-American groups led by Republicans and empowered by conservatives on the Supreme Court. To their credit, Democrats have attempted to assuage the damage imposed by the conservative Court, particularly the Hobby Lobby ruling, but Republicans dutifully protected the religious right and betrayed American women. There were plenty of Americans concerned the religious right would use the Court’s ruling as freedom to discriminate against the gay community, and within 24 hours...

Friday, July 18, 2014 Friday Afternoon Roundup - Posted by Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog HAMAS IS A 7TH CENTURY PROBLEM To understand why, let’s step into a time machine and go back to the spring of 632. The Byzantine Emperor Heraclius is engaged in the first of a series of wars with Mohammed’s maddened followers. England is divided into seven quarreling kingdoms. Across the water, the Merovingians are killing each other in ways that would give George R.R. Martin nightmares. Meanwhile in a more civilized part of the world, China’s fading Sui Dynasty fields an army of...

Back in the 1980s, when I was a good ol' liberal Democrat (sort of in the Kennedy mold), I kept hearing those Bible Thumpers in the Moral Majority bandy about a word: Secularist. What the heck was that? Nobody I knew (and everyone I knew was a person of the sort-of Left) called him or herself a "secularist."What in the world did those zealots mean by labeling me that way and pretending that I'm doing something damaging to them? I understood what was really going on: Very religious people were abnormal, and then there were the rest of us who...

Wednesday, July 16, 2014 Winning the Moral High Ground is a Loser's Game Posted by Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog In our modern age, things no longer exist to perform their function. Washing machines aren't designed to clean clothes, but to save water and energy. Food isn't there to be eaten, but not eaten. And armies aren't there to win wars, but to be moral. And the truly moral army never fights a war. When it must fight a war, then it fights it as proportionately as possible, slowing down when it's winning so that the enemy has...

The UK's anti-Israel frenzy knows no bounds. My best friend's wife "Charlotte" (a 5 feet tall 57-year old lady who wants this story publicised but wishes to remain anonymous) was surrounded and assaulted by several Muslim anti-Israel fanatics in the middle of Oxford Street in broad daylight. She was shopping there when the demonstrators came marching down the road shouting "Free Free Palestine and Zionists murderers". The photos she took here are from just before the assault (next bit is an update to the original posting). Charlotte (who is a proud Jew) said: "As they passed by with their disgusting chants I...

There’s a reason why Barack Obama, Eric Holder, and agencies like the DHS/IRS are not the least bit concerned with defeating Islamic extremism or protecting our borders against those who only wish to infiltrate and exploit America. It’s because they too despise this country and welcome the erosion of our society to forge their progressive utopia which stands in direct opposition to every ideal this nation was founded upon. Yes, this is also why our so-called President and his brainwashed minions are only concerned with using government resources, taxpayer money and property, to destroy THEIR, not America’s, political enemies; AKA,...

This reminds me of the song from A Chorus Line forty years ago. The musical had a song - which I will not post now because it's the three weeks of mourning for the Holy Temples - that described what a woman needs to make it in show business. The lyrics are here. Here's another story that proves you don't need a brain to be a popular entertainer. Just the things described in the song. Pop superstar Rihanna caused a social media firestorm this week when she tweeted "#FreePalestine" from her official account before deleting it eight minutes later. In...

I did a video last year to share what I have learned. Having studied this topic for the last 25 years, it is my desire to help others to wake up to the lies within our trusted systems. The church will fall into apostacy. Are you awake? Please watch the video http://unifiedserenity.wordpress.com/2013/12/28/the-hour-of-temptation-are-you-sleepy/

If this doesn't move you, you are made of stone. I mean, you won't believe it either. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=254129501442239&fref=nf

Fender benders and minor traffic stops aren't supposed to send someone to jail. But that's the risk faced by immigrants living in Palm Beach County without U.S. citizenship, local religious activists say. A coalition of nearly 30 religious congregations maintains that too often identification problems and citizenship questions result in the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office taking someone to jail who otherwise just would have faced a ticket or a requirement to appear in court.People Engaged in Active Community Efforts, or PEACE, maintains that jailing immigrants after minor traffic offenses because of citizenship questions is unfair, adds costs for taxpayers...

Monday, July 14, 2014 A Game Changer in Gaza Posted by Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog Terrorism is a game. The rules are simple. You have three choices. 1. Destroy the terrorists. 2. Live with terrorism. 3. Give in to the terrorists. There are no other choices. The first choice comes from the right. The third choice comes from the left. The second choice is what politicians choose when they don’t want to make a decision that will change the status quo. Despite all the explosions in Gaza, Israel is still stuck on the second choice. The air...

By Joel Leyden Israel News AgencyJerusalem --- July 14, 2014 ... I have worked in Jewish PR and public affairs since the 1980's. Have worked directly for and with the Israeli government since the 1990's. There's very little that I have not seen. Today, Israel is engaged in defending herself once again from Islamic Jihad. It's a war of bullets and words. The war of words define public opinion and Israel can do much better. Many will say that Israel's PR is weak, ineffective and just plain bad. I totally disagree. This may have been the case before Internet arrived....

While the British government is making its own citizens pay for the jihadis allowed to return to the UK from Syria and Iraq, both in terms of money – through the £1.1 billion cash injection for defence announced today, £800 million of which will fund an extra investment in intelligence and surveillance to deal with the threat of terrorism – and in terms of intrusion and greater state power – through emergency laws to monitor phone and internet records “to stop terrorists" –, people hear of the establishment of a caliphate in the Middle East without the media –...

The phrase “The Religion of Peace” is a lie perpetrated by Islamists and repeated over and over by cowardly western politicians in an effort to avoid confronting Sharia’s seventy century savages. When you hear the phrase, “The Religion of Peace,” remember that “The Religion of Peace” is run by Sharia Law. To understand what people who are not born Muslims, especially women, are walking into consider these features of Sharia Law that are never mentioned to prospective converts. Also keep in mind what you are about to read pertains to YOU as well. Sharia Law presumes even non- Muslims will...

From a far-flung from the Vatican, lonely post in Canada, Canada Free Press (CFP) is asking Pope Francis where did all the money go to help the “poorest of the poor” in El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala before their mass exodus to the southern borders of the United States of America?

Paris - Clashes erupted in Paris on Sunday as thousands of people protested against Israel and in support of residents in the Gaza Strip, where a six-day conflict has left 168 Palestinians dead. Several thousand demonstrators walked calmly through the streets of Paris behind a large banner that read "Total Support for the Struggle of the Palestinian People". But clashes erupted at the end of the march on Bastille Square, with people throwing projectiles onto a cordon of police who responded with tear gas. The unrest continued early Sunday evening as police announced six arrests had been made. A small...