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Group's ‘mainstream’ Islamist convention last weekend featured hate speech and Hezbollah Defense A top aide to President Barack Obama provided a keynote address at last weekend's 46th Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) national convention, a gathering that attracted thousands of people and also featured anti-Semitic, homophobic rhetoric and defense of the terrorist group Hezbollah. In her remarks, Senior Advisor for Public Engagement and International Affairs Valerie Jarrett noted she was the first White House official to address ISNA. She spoke in general terms about interfaith dialogue and cooperation. She praised her hosts for "the diversity of American organizations, and...

NEW YORK Did "B.C." cartoonist Johnny Hart take another swipe at Islam in his July 3 comic? Several blogs -- including ComicsReporter.com and DailyCartoonist -- are wondering. In the comic , Hart shows his turtle character asking: "What makes a bite that's shaped like a crescent moon?" The bird standing on the turtle's shell answers: "A lunatic." A star is drawn near the turtle's "finger" to illustrate the location of the bite. A star/crescent moon is a symbol of Islam. There's also the possibility that Hart was making a "luna tick" pun instead of, or in addition to, making a...

EVEN by the stupefying standards of Iraq’s unspeakable violence, the murder of Atwar Bahjat, one of the country’s top television journalists, was an act of exceptional cruelty.Nobody but her killers knew just how much she had suffered until a film showing her death on February 22 at the hands of two musclebound men in military uniforms emerged last week. Her family’s worst fears of what might have happened have been far exceeded by the reality. Bahjat was abducted after making three live broadcasts from the edge of her native city of Samarra on the day its golden-domed Shi’ite mosque was...

Libyans protesting the Prophet Muhammad cartoons set fire to the Italian consulate in Benghazi on Friday in a riot that killed at least 10 people, an Italian diplomat said. Libyan security officials said 11 people were killed or wounded during the six-hour riot when police firing bullets and tear gas tried to contain more than 1,000 demonstrators hurling rocks and bottles. The casualties included police officers, but the officials declined to say how many people had died. Italian diplomat Domenico Bellantone said between 10 and 11 people had died, and all were Libyan _ either police or protesters. He spoke...

HOT TOPICS  LEE RECOMMENDS THIS PHOTO 23 June 2004 - Muslim children play at beheading Just when you think it can't get any worse, it does. A video located today on Sheik Abu Hamza's website, , features four children, doing what as children the world over do: pretending. But what is completely unnerving about this video is what they are pretending. One young boy kneels in front of three other children, in the same manner of the condemned man; Three other children stand behind him in the same way that the terrorists stood over the men prior to their beheading....

Michael Savage has a video, photos of Paul Johnson's beheading at this site. I suspect the Alphabet News will think it is too graphic to show to We the People, but frankly, we HAVE to know our enemies. The Truth will set you free.

<p>Explosion in German City of Cologne Probably a Bomb (Update1) June 9 (Bloomberg) -- An explosion today that occurred in the German city of Cologne, Germany's fourth largest town, was probably caused by a bomb, a police spokeswoman said.</p> <p>The bomb exploded outside a three-story house located in a street where the majority of inhabitants are Turkish, German television channel N-TV said, citing unidentified people at the site of the explosion. The bomb consisted of a device filled with more than 1,000 nails and injured 16 people, several of them severely, N-TV said.</p>

PARIS - A man reportedly crying "God is great" stabbed a Jewish teenager in the thorax on Friday, seriously injuring the victim, officials said. The young man, not identified by name, was attacked about 4 p.m. as he left a Jewish school in Epinay-sur-Seine, north of Paris in the rough Seine-Saint-Denis district, officials of the local prefecture said. The victim was transferred to a hospital and the attacker fled the scene. Interior Minister Dominique de Villepin visited the site where the attack occurred. Witnesses said a man shouted "God is great" then plunged a knife into him before fleeing. Prime...

Special Dispatch Series - No. 610 November 18, 2003 No.610 Syrian Produced Hizbullah TV Ramadan Series - Video Clip of Ritual Murder During the month of Ramadan, Hizbullah's satellite television channel Al-Manar, which is viewed worldwide, is broadcasting a 30-part antisemitic Syrian-produced series titled Al-Shatat ("Diaspora"). According to a November 11, 2003 report by the Syrian daily Syria Times, it is "a Syrian TV series recording the criminal history of Zionism." [1] The series purports to tell the story of Zionism from 1812 to the establishment of the state of Israel and depicts a "global Jewish government" similar to...