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From Iranian TV, August 13, 2006. (Courtesy of MEMRI TV.) link: 346 comments
Der Spiegel checks with the Iranian in the street to determine whether the radical nature of the mullahcracy has any support from its citizenry. The responses sound depressingly familiar -- wan assurances that the hostile rhetoric and fascist statements are just for show: With Iran likely on the eve of rejecting a European Union incentive package meant to encourage Iran to abandon its nuclear program, ignoring the propaganda is becoming an increasingly tall order. Posted by Captain Ed at 06:19 PM | Comments (12) | TrackBack (1)
Allahpundit has video clips from President Bush’s press conference: “We’re not leaving so long as I’m president.” link: 46 comments
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BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey 8/21/2006 01:11PM PDT |
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And as soon as the Dems take over the House, impeachment hearings will begin. How will that look to the Jihadis? I know that I have been critcial of the President, & esp. at the whole of the GOP of late, but the prospect of President Bush being impeached for fighting this war makes me very afraid. |
The Times Higher Education Supplement has a piece about radical Islamic recruitment efforts at British universities: Extremist groups set to recruit freshmen. link: 30 comments |
18-Wheels of Mass Destruction in America The blogosphere sniffs out another Hezbollywood production--fake charity, fake money. Start at Snapped Shots, LGF, Allah, and ALF. Hizbollah pushes past guards in show of force. (Hat tip: Ethel.) link: 304 comments " And what better time for flag-waving and political-sloganising than a funeral? After all, it is a death cult." NK Missile Warhead Found in Alaska (2003 article) Brooke Gunning: The Japanese atomic bomb http://www.frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=23949 http://www.frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=23982Cash-bollah!
UN Peacekeepers Spring Into Action, Open Gates for Hizballah
"South Florida Intifada"
"The War on Terror at Five"
Iran ‘fires on Romanian oil rig’. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) link: 139 comments
Terror probe nabs 'Tigers' -- Planned to ship weapons to Sri Lanka, police say
Raid In Amherst Nets Terror Suspects
Code Pink formally aligns themselves with Jihad and Terrorism
The Terror Weapons We Won't Use--We're at war with one hand tied behind our back
What if there are ten million and one? Religion of Peace Update from CNN, with thanks to Doug: Posted by Robert at 04:44 PM | Comments (34) | Since when is this news? Back in 2001 AQ former spokesman (who is now in hiding) said they wanted to kill 4 million Americans including 1 million American children. I've heard this before. 10 million dead, 4 million of the dead to be children. http://tinyurl.com/pgugs
Islam is the enemy. Fight.
We have an update on that British Air Passengers Mutiny story from Saturday, as information emerges that the passengers may have had more cause for alarm than first reported: Malaga passenger defends actions. (Hat tip: Allahpundit.) “She said she had heard them saying it was the last 30 minutes of their lives,” link: 146 comments "This episode demonstrates profoundly how critical it is that each of us is vigilant.We truly are the first line of defense against a relentless and ruthless enemy."...it's time to recap this article:
Jihad Comes To Small Town USA
CyberTerror: Threat Assessment--check out the latest edition of Popular Science. It details wicked-cool cutting edge science and future tech to take down terrorists
Exclusive: Israel buys 2 new submarines from Germany ( U212 ) --provide superior second-strike nuclear capabilities...
Israel Has Sub-based Atomic Arms Capability.
Nekama's Troll Hammer (LGF classic comment on the Israel/Arab situation)
A Dutch plane bound for India was forced to return to the Netherlands today, and 12 passengers were arrested on landing.An AP report quotes a witness that the arrested passengers were “of South Asian appearance.” link: 61 comments "Just because we're Muslim does not mean we are suicide bombers." ...in the end it is a war of civilization versus a civilization of death cults.
One of the suspects in the failed Islamic terror plot to bomb German trains may have been connected with the Imam Ali Mosque in Hamburg—believed by German intelligence to be a meeting place for Hizballah supporters: German police identify second train bomb suspect.
The online version of newsweekly Der Spiegel said that the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, the domestic intelligence service, was following a lead to a mosque in the northern city of Hamburg because Youssef Mohammed E.H. had a poster of the institution hanging in his dormitory in Kiel.
The Imam Ali Mosque is believed to be a meeting point for supporters of the Lebanese Shiite Muslim militia Hezbollah.
A spokesman for the mosque denied any contact with Youssef Mohammed E.H.
“We do not know this person at all,” he said.
Hezbollah. On our streets. In our cities. I am NOT making this up. ( Canada )
Blackfive Interviews "Sheik Lion"
What Israeli security could teach us
Max Boot: Israel Should Hit Syria First ('WE ARE walking with open eyes into our next war.")
Zombie’s latest is a massive exposé of a particularly ugly bit of Hizballah propaganda, that was quickly and efficiently circulated by our always-willing-to-be-fooled mainstream media: The Red Cross Ambulance Incident.
Introduction
On the night of July 23, 2006, an Israeli aircraft intentionally fired missiles at and struck two Lebanese Red Cross ambulances performing rescue operations, causing huge explosions that injured everyone inside the vehicles. Or so says the global media, including Time magazine, the BBC, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and thousands of other outlets around the world. If true, the incident would have been an egregious and indefensible violation of the Geneva Convention, and would constitute a war crime committed by the state of Israel.
But there's one problem: It never happened.
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Winslow Leach, the composer 8/23/2006 10:38PM PDT |
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The Zombie Infidel (Rev. 1) They seek him here, they seek her there; He photographs the leftist freaks; He looks like them, she talks like them, Here zombie comes, there zombie goes, His photos, now, are seen on Fox; He analyzes media fraud; He now uncloaks the Red Cross hoax; |
Here’s an update on that Hitler-themed Indian restaurant, as the manager of the place complains that nobody’s objecting to all those other Hitler-themed businesses.
Those who run the 1,000 sq ft restaurant have removed a poster of Hitler and the swastika pasted in the restaurant following the outrage from the Jews. But they are refusing to bend further and change its name.
“I have no sympathy for Adolf Hitler. The name was just chosen because it seemed so radically different from any other restaurant name. I don’t understand why no one has raised objections to at least a dozen such brand names,” 26-year-old managing director Punit Sabhlok said.
Furiously rattling off the names of kid’s fashion labels, liquor brands and tobacco products bearing Hitler’s name, Sabhlok said similar standards would have to be applied to everybody.
“I don’t wish to change the name of my restaurant, but if they insist, I would want them to change the names of all these other brands as well. Why only me?”
Hello Mother... Hello Fathah... Greetings from Camp... Jihad fi sabil Allah.
Somali Jihad Update from the Hizballah News Agency, aka Reuters:
The mujahideen have apparently realized how simple, quick, and private it is to set up a blog on the Google-owned Blogspot. Here are three Blogspot sites being used to distribute jihad announcements and videos:
Globale Islamische Medien-Front.
Press Release. link: 167 comments
JFK (airport) illegally targeting Muslims, groups say [ACLU/CAIR Alert]
Waterloo man held in Tamil Tiger missile plot (Canada)
Muslim Converts in Britain Seen as Among Most Extreme (interesting perspective)
The radical Islamic front group calling itself CAIR is seething again, and joining forces with the ACLU: U.S. family says racially profiled at NY airport. link: 186 comments
| Blame America First, and Israel a Close Second |
--Lately I have heard Leftists ask "what if there was no Israel?" | ||
Pakistani lawmakers trying to change their insane Dark Ages hadood laws ran afoul of the Religion of Peace™: Pakistan opposition MPs protest change to rape laws. link: 91 comments
WHY DID BILL CLINTON IGNORE TERRORISM?
Do we really want Democrats in charge?
Hezbollah - Coming to a Town Near You?
Israel may 'go it alone' against Iran--"Iran knows world will do nothing.
Kudos to zombie, whose exposé of the Lebanese Red Cross Ambulance hoax was featured on Brit Hume’s show today; Allahpundit is always first with the vidclips: Video: Fox reports on Zombie’s expose of the ambulance incident.
UPDATE at 8/24/06 7:34:15 pm:
Dan Riehl is looking closely at Lebanese ambulance license plates.
Israel Buys Two More Nuclear Submarines
From the DNC's Associated Press:
In this image released by the Israeli Defense Force the crew of Israel's Dolphin submarine, stand on deck during a ceremony Sunday, July 25, 1999.
Israel buys 2 nuclear-capable submarines
By RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI, Associated Press Writer
With the purchase of two more German-made Dolphin submarines capable of carrying nuclear warheads, military experts say Israel is sending a clear message to Iran that it can strike back if attacked by nuclear weapons.
Richard North at EU Referendum has completed his massive report on media coverage of the “Qana” incident on July 30, 2006: The Corruption of the Media. | link: 75 comments |
In Britain, if you can believe it, many feel threatened by Islam. (Hat tip: Killgore Trout.) link: 103 comments
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Bad Penny 8/24/2006 06:41PM PDT |
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Amazing how long it takes for people to become aware of what's going on. While we're throwing polls around how about 40 percent of Indonesian muslims ready to wage war for their faith? |
Germans, Spared Until Now, Awaken to Reality of Terror Threat. (Hat tip: J.D.) link: 54 comments
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Julie 8/24/2006 07:18PM PDT |
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I have read that when WWII started, Britain undertook a process of defeating resident enemies. It went something like this: |
Denmark Charges 4 With Plotting Attack
Further Arrests Made in LTTE Charges (Tamil Tigers)
The failure of multiculturalism--Instead of offering up things that the Muslim community itself could do, the groups presented the government with a list of demands...
I just did a segment of the Laura Ingraham Show, debating Dr. Esam Omeish, president of the Muslim American Society. I didn't get the chance to give prior notice here, but I understand it will be broadcast again later today.
A few observations: I pointed out that every school of Islamic jurisprudence teaches that it is the responsibility of the Muslim community to wage war against unbelievers in order to establish the hegemony of Islamic law. Dr. Omeish in response said that yes, Islam must be spread all over the world, but the primary way to do this was through preaching. I responded, referring to the hadith Sahih Muslim 4294, that Muhammad commanded preaching first, but warfare against those who rejected the message. Dr. Omeish said this was a misrepresentation of Islam, but offered no supporting evidence for his position.
A little while later Laura Ingraham referred to the case in Malaysia where Lina Joy, a convert to Christianity, is having such a hard time, including death threats. I explained that this resulted from the traditional Islamic death penalty against apostates, and quoted Muhammad's dictum, "If anyone changes his religion, kill him." Ingraham then asked Dr. Omeish if Sharia indeed mandated death for apostasy. He said flatly that it didn't, whereupon I said, "He's lying!" but I don't know if my mic was on.
Dr. Omeish offered no evidence for his position. Here is evidence for mine:
1. Muhammad legislated for his community that no Muslim could be put to death except for murder, unlawful sexual intercourse, and apostasy: "The blood of a Muslim who confesses that none has the right to be worshipped but Allah and that I am His Apostle, cannot be shed except in three cases: In Qisas for murder, a married person who commits illegal sexual intercourse and the one who reverts from Islam (apostate) and leaves the Muslims" (Bukhari 9.83.17). He said flatly: “Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him” (Bukhari 9.84.57).
2. Muslim governments and people seem to understand this well. Here are some recent pertinent news items -- leaving aside the famous Abdul Rahman case in Afghanistan:
Wave of arrests of Christian converts from Islam for apostasy in Egypt
Malaysia: Mufti urges action against apostates from Islam
Pakistan: Woman Raped for Leaving Islam
Pakistan's top cleric: “if a state is truly Islamic” it would have to kill the apostate
Nigeria: Pastor faces arrest for harboring convert from Islam
Qaradawi endorses death penalty for apostasy
Muslim apostates cast out and at risk from faith and family
I would, of course, be happy to debate Dr. Omeish at greater length. If Dr. Omeish or his representatives are reading this, you can reach me at director@jihadwatch.org.
If a Muslim cannot fight in jihad himself, Islamic law stipulates that he must aid in the jihad in some way if a Muslim land is attacked. Hence many do so through monetary donations, which, as we have seen in recent years, are often funneled through Islamic charities.
From the New York Times, with thanks to Jeffrey Imm:
LONDON, Aug. 23 — Once again, with another alleged terror plot that has a possible connection to a charity, the question is being asked here, with more urgency: To what extent do Muslim charities — on the surface noble and selfless — mask movements and money for terrorists and extremist groups?The question has a long history, here and in the United States, but no precise answer. A quick bottom line, though, seems to be this:
Charitable groups, experts agree, continue to play a role in the financing and operations surrounding terrorist groups and plots. But with more scrutiny since the Sept. 11 attacks — demonization, the charities say — the role of charities seems to be changing: diminishing somewhat but also growing more subtle and harder to detect.
“Anyone who has bothered to study terrorist financing at the most shallow level knows the role that charities have played since 1985,” said Evan F. Kohlmann, an American expert on terrorism who acts as a consultant to American and British prosecutors. “Even if charities aren’t playing a primary role, it is almost certain that they are playing a secondary role.”
Read it all.
Here’s Annia Ciezadlo at the New Republic on Hizballah’s staging of news from Beirut: Exploring scenic South Beirut, the Hezbollah way. link: 203 comments
The usual suspects are lining up to defend Javed Iqbal for illegally providing access to the Hizballah hate network Al-Manar: Islander in TV terror link. (Hat tip: LawHawk.)
Earlier this year, the U.S. Treasury Department designated al-Manar as a global terrorist entity, freezing its U.S. assets and contending it supported Hezbollah’s fund-raising and recruiting activities. Hezbollah, a Shiite Muslim militant group, has been at war with Israel in Lebanon.
Authorities charged Javed Iqbal with conspiring to violate the International Emergency Economic Protection Act — which is designed to prevent terrorist groups from conducting business by blocking transactions and freezing assets — after federal agents executed search warrants at two storefronts in Brooklyn and Iqbal’s Mariners Harbor home. If convicted, he could spend up to five years in prison.
At least eight satellite dishes — some of them several feet tall — were visible behind a white garage in back of Iqbal’s nondescript house on Van Name Avenue yesterday. A surveillance camera hung from the second story of Iqbal’s house, aimed at the front door and the adjacent sidewalk. ...
Iqbal’s lawyer Mustapha Ndanusa yesterday called the accusations “completely ridiculous” and said he was unaware of any other instance in which someone was accused of violating U.S. laws by enabling people to access news outlets with a satellite dish.
Farhan Memon, who was assisting Ndanusa on the case, likened the charges to Iran or China banning major U.S. news stations and branding them terrorist outlets. Americans would “be hopping up and down crying, ‘Freedom of speech! Freedom of the press!’” Memon said. ...
A few houses down the block, neighbors questioned why broadcasting al-Manar was illegal. “It’s just giving two sides to the story,” said one man, who also wouldn’t give his name. “He wasn’t taking the popular position in this country.”
The ACLU says terrorist propaganda is protected speech under the First Amendment.
Donna Lieberman of the American Civil Liberties Union said she is “deeply troubled” that a television distributor is being prosecuted for the content of a broadcaster. Such a prosecution, she said, “raises serious First Amendment concerns.” She said she thinks that the law under which Iqbal has been charged has a First Amendment exception for news communications.
MEMRI TV has an extensive collection of video clips from Al-Manar, if you’re unfamiliar with the genocidal, racist hatred they espouse.
The Huffington Post (your one stop shop for the looniest of the moonbatosphere) today features a piece by Russell Shaw wishing for a major terrorist attack on America.
Because it will allow Democrats to regain power: I Hope And Pray We Don’t Get Hit Again-BUT... (Hat tip: Killgore Trout.) Also at HuffPo today: Thoughtful anti-Zionist commentary of the day. link: 38 comments
The Salt Lake Tribune headlines this piece about a disturbing request for a demonstration permit: Protest permit alarms Utah’s Jews. (Hat tip: LGF readers.)
But it isn’t only Utah’s Jewish community who should be alarmed. link: 1 comment
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Who Watches the Watchmen? 8/25/2006 03:34PM PDT |
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Spokesman Joe Cyr said the group sponsoring the rally - listed as Center to Prevent Corporate Media Lying -has held demonstrations before. So it's one of those open-minded, patriotic leftist groups. Sort of like Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting, or Squeaky Wheel Productions, or Pacifica. Or perhaps United for Peace & Justice (but not for Jews). Today's left wants Jews as dead as any Nazi did in 1938. |
An Islamist web site recently published this handy guide for jihadis: How to Kill a Westerner in the Arabian Peninsula. link: 137 comments
Turns out that Greg Mitchell, the Editor & Publisher editor who has been attacking the blogosphere like a rabid ferret for pointing out the bogus news from the Middle East, has first-hand experience with staging news. (Hat tip: Confederate Yankee.)link: 7 comments " So, he could not bring himself to talk to regular people outside of his little elitist circle.
The arrogance is just so disgusting. "
For the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 Islamic terrorist attacks, CNN.com is going to replay their coverage.
NEW YORK - CNN will mark the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks by replaying on the Internet the cable network’s coverage of that day’s events.
Viewers can watch how events unfolded starting at 8:30 a.m., minutes before the first reports of an airplane hitting the World Trade Center. The feed will run in real time, as the network showed it five years ago, until midnight.
For the day, CNN will make its online video service, CNN Pipeline, available for free. Normally, viewers pay $2.95 a month or $24.95 a year for four separate video feeds.
Online viewers will be able to watch live reports of memorial services through one of the feeds. So that viewers won’t accidentally stumble upon graphic footage from 2001, the replay feed will be covered with a notice instructing users to click only if they want to watch.
“Our users may choose to view the stream of coverage from Sept. 11, 2001, or live coverage of memorial services at Ground Zero, or they may click through the numerous interactive elements on the site,” said David Payne, senior vice president and general manager of CNN.com. “They have the power to determine the best way for them to remember the anniversary.”
It will be interesting to see if they replay this report from the Palestinian Authority, one of the only existing records of the celebrations that took place on that day, after Palestinians threatened news agencies into pulling all their photos and video from the wires.
"...the film clips of celebrations in Gaza on 9/11 cemented my opinion for good. There are no words that could ever rationalize that disgusting display by evil people." This LGF thread about the experiences of readers on September 11, 2001 is the most compelling, intense reading that I have ever experienced.
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I'm going to watch to see if they sanitize it of the jumpers. #38 Canadian guy above said it was like people just pouring out of buildings, and literally, after a certain point there really were people just constantly falling through the sky. That was a major part of what got people's blood into a roiling boil, and I'll know (well, anyone who remembers watching CNN that day) immediately if they've sanitized the coverage or not. And I distinctly remember those motherf%ckers laughing and cheering and dancing in the streets when CNN showed it, so I'll definitely be looking for that part too (although I know Charles provides that video anyway). They only showed it a few times and then stopped. |
AH, THE FAMOUS DAMNING BUT: I Hope And Pray We Don't Get Hit Again-BUT.....
But it'll be worth it if it gets rid of the damnable Bushitler regime.(Via Ace. He's got a related post here.) "Heroism aboard that plane makes sense to some, because when they consider the story, and look inside their own hearts, they say yes, that rings true. To others, in the place that holds their deepest, most visceral truths, heroism does not-- cannot-- exist. There are only schemes and lies and misdirection. So that is what they seek and, given enough time, what they will find. That is all you ever need to know about the right and the left."
UPDATE: A more extensive Fisking from Caerdroia. "Shaw's "But" Proves Him an Ass"
Painful article in The New York Sun. Joseph Wahed is a co-founder of Jews indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa. Here he recounts the beastly rantings of Palis last month at a San Francisco protest and goes on to peel back the layers of the history of Jew hatred among Muslims in the Middle East(well before the creation of the state of Israel) to which he was a witness; Jews are our dogs" More on this mental illness from CAMERA; Permalink | Comments (1)
Diana West inks Part 2 of the speech she would like President Bush to give to the American people (Part 1 is here).
The speech would announce two new policies around which to re-direct the war on terror: (1) a ban on further Islamic immigration, beginning with immigration from "Shariah states" -- i.e., those whose governing traditions derive wholly or in some important from from the edicts of Islam...
Over the weekend, I will mention some of the books currently on my desk, in various states of review. However, I just received a new book, The Blog of War, that deserves a special mention. It's a collection of milblog essays compiled by one of the best milbloggers in the 'sphere, Blackfive -- under his real name, Matthew Currier Burden. Simon & Schuster Paperbacks just released it in the "trade-book" format. It looks like an excellent read, and I'm hoping to get to it as soon as I get through a prior commitment to another author.
In the meantime, however, CQ readers can beat me to the punch by ordering the book for themselves. Let's support one of our own in his new venture.
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christheprofessor 8/26/2006 06:09AM PDT |
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Embrace the Clash by Doug Giles The Islamofascists would love nothing more than to turn the American Dream into a nuclear nightmare. And this Islamic ill will is wished upon all Americans, not just the hawkish conservatives. Get it right, you who still don’t get it, these bug-eyed, helix-missing, religious zealots (someone must have pee’d in their gene pool), do not, I repeat, do not give a camel poop about: Whether you’re gay or straight, Whether you drive a Hybrid or a Hummer, Whether you are a svelte Paris Hilton or a roomy Southern Baptist, Whether you lean politically left or right, Whether you’re Bill Clinton or Bill O’Reilly, Whether you wear a cross, a star of David or a pentagram, and lastly, Whether you’re black, white, yellow, red or brown. All of these oxygen thieves have one desire for the American collective and that is . . . our death. |
The poster girl for Stockholm Syndrome, Yvonne Ridley, interviews the incredibly vicious former prime minister of Malaysia, Mahathir Mohammad [lgf: search], discussing the best ways to harm: 1) Israel, and 2) America, not necessarily in that order. From Islam Channel in Britain, August 23, 2006. (Courtesy of MEMRI TV.) link: 127 comments
Iran opens heavy-water nuclear reactor
Russia rules out UN sanctions against Iran
For Gd's sake, DO SOMETHING. This is painful to watch. The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it, so said Einstein.| Permalink | Comments (0)
Haredi writer accused of racism, slander [Called Muslims "savages"]--apparently, attacking a radical group (other than a select few) is slander. The ultimate objective is to silence all pro-West discourse.
Israel Is Accused Of Using New Gruesome Weapons -- Death Ray?
Lights Out: My Two Cents on What We Stand to Lose--If America goes dark, so will the rest of the world.
Terrorist assaults on schools? Could happen here, book says (Frightening of America?)
Great Interview Response by Benjamin Natanyahu [vanity]--Right now, most people consider terrorism to be sort of a law-enforcement problem and not something that warrants a military response, hence the disappointment and horror expressed towards Israel's self-defense. For Americans, a near-simultanious nuclear explosion in NYC and San Francisco will change all of that.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006390616,00.html
"Terror monster: Blitz UK
AN al-Qaeda chief has ordered more attacks on Britain ahead of the anniversary of 9/11."
http://mensnewsdaily.com/2006/08/24/michigan-seen-as-home-to-criminal-conspiracy-to-fund-hezbollah/
"Michigan Seen as Home to Criminal Conspiracy to Fund Hezbollah"
http://www.jamestown.org/terrorism/news/article.php?articleid=2370109
TERRORISM FOCUS
August 22, 2006
"London Plot Draws Attention to Potential Female Suicide Bombers"
CONVERTED TO ISLAM AT GUNPOINT: It's not a religious war to us, but it is to them. More here.
Much, much more here. Plus this: "I’m glad these guys are safe and free. I wish them well. But I hope there will be some attention paid by Fox and other media to the way in which kidnappings and similar threats coerce and intimidate journalists, and may influence their coverage."
Here’s a documentary from BBC2, on the appalling execution by Iran of a 16-year old girl, Atefah Sahaaleh, for violating shari’a law. LGF covered this story of medieval misogyny in 2004: Justice in the Islamic Republic. (Hat tip: truth_seeker.) link: 173 comments "In the west, her young man might have been the good thing that got her out of the bad situation at home. In Iran, it got her dead." The original story from iranfocus. link And this is exactly why Islam is evil. And all those who support HizbAllah are evil. And all those who think Iran should be "negotiated with" are idiots.
Hanging women and girls in Iran. Under Revolutionary law, young girls who were sentenced to death could not be executed if they were still virgins. Thus, they were "married off" to Revolutionary Guards and prison officials in temporary marriages and then raped before their execution, to prevent them going to heaven ...
This item by Geneive Abdo accurately notes the proverbial "circling of the wagons" that has taken place in Muslim communities in America since September 11, 2001...From the Washington Post:...Hamza Yusuf is not, however, the bold reformer he's cracked up to be; for example, in the aftermath of 9/11, he said:...Again, the outlook is not quite so rosy. Amr Khaled's writings can be found on his website, including his "Message to the World regarding the Danish Cartoons," in which he says, among other things:...Posted by Marisol at 01:42 AM | Comments (1)
Commander: Not many tanks harmed during war---This video shows the machine engaging other tanks, artillery and even a helicopter.
Better dust these off.
9/11 so nearly didn’t happen--Read these articles:
http://www.allanfavish.com/the_9_11_commission_report.htm
Read the books "1,000 Years for Revenge" and "Cover-up" at http://www.peterlance.com
A reminder: the radical Islamic front group calling itself the Council on American Islamic Relations is hosting a show to discuss the discredited Walt and Mearsheimer paper, “The Israel Lobby,” in about five minutes on C-SPAN. You can watch over the web at this page: C-SPAN: Watch LIVE. link: 251 comments |
What are we seeing when we watch events from the Middle East on our television screens? Is it news or is it terrorist theater?
Caroline Glick writes in her column today "Our World: Terrorist theater tricks" here:
As each day passes, the governments, formal and informal legal apparatuses, and media of free societies show themselves to be less and less capable of contending with the information operations conducted against their societies by subversive forces seeking their destruction.
The blogosphere, and particularly Little Green Footballs, Powerline, Zombietime, Michelle Malkin, and EU Referendum, have relentlessly exposed the systematic staging of news events, fabrication of attacks against relief workers, and doctoring of photographic images by Hizbullah with the active assistance of international organizations and the global media.
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As each day passes it becomes clear that the responsibility of protecting our nations and societies from internal disintegration has passed to the hands of individuals, often working alone, who refuse to accept the degradation of their societies and so fight with the innovative tools of liberty to protect our way of life. The vigilance of just a handful of bloggers brought us the knowledge of the corruption of our media and the network of global NGOs that we have come to rely on to tell us the "objective" truth.It is up to all citizens of the free world, who value our freedom to recognize this corruption, applaud the bloggers and join them in refusing to allow these corrupt institutions to cloud our commitment to freedom
Glick describes the media as jihad tool;
AS IS the case with the Palestinian war against Israel, one of the most notable aspects of Hizbullah's latest campaign against Israel has been the active collaboration of news organizations and international NGO's in Hizbullah's information war against Israel. Like their rogue state sponsors, subversive sub-national groups like Hizbullah, Fatah and Hamas, see information operations as an integral part of their war for the annihilation of Israel and defeat of the West. And their information operations are more advanced than any the world has seen. As becomes more evident with each passing day, they have successfully corrupted both the world media and the community of NGOs that purportedly operate in a neutral manner in war zones READ IT ALL HERE
Fauxtography Scandal updates:
EU Referendum: The Corruption of the Media
About Those Israeli 'Chemical Weapons...'
All Your Fakes Are Belong To Us
Zombie: The Red Cross Ambulance Incident
BBC Admits Engaging in Staged Photos
Perlmutter: Photojournalism in Crisis
Green Helmet Admits Staging Photos
Still More Photo Staging Identified
Lebanese Autos Miraculously Survive Airstrikes
Photographer Alleges Unearthing of Bodies
LA Times: Take a Closer Look
CAIR's Fauxtography Scandal
AP Stands Behind Green Helmet Guy
LGF Exclusive: How Much Does It Cost to Buy Global TV News?
Multi-Use Buildings
Reuters Doctoring Photos from Beirut?
And not because of soccer yobs. From The Telegraph, with thanks to Roseanne:
Britain now presents a greater security threat to the United States than Iran or Iraq, an American magazine said yesterday.In an article on Islamists headlined "Kashmir on the Thames", the New Republic painted Britain's Muslim communities as a breeding ground for violent extremism.
Citing recent opinion poll evidence suggesting that one in four British Muslims believed that last year's London Tube bombings were justified, the magazine said: "In the wake of this month's high-profile arrests, it can now be argued that the biggest threat to US security emanates not from Iran or Iraq or Afghanistan, but rather from Great Britain, our closest ally."...
Many have been appalled both by the existence of enthusiastic jihadis in British cities and by the call from some of their leaders for a change in the country's foreign policy.
Other publications and the think-tanks that shape public debate in America have also issued stern criticism both of Britain's Muslims and of the Government. Nile Gardiner, of the Right-wing Heritage Foundation, told The Daily Telegraph yesterday that Americans were coming to view Britain as "a hornet's nest of Islamic extremists" and thought it posed ''a direct security threat to the US".
He said that if British-based terrorism continues, America is likely to respond harshly.
"A major concern would be the tightening of travel restrictions unless the authorities start to crack down on Islamist militancy," he said. More than four million Britons enter America annually using the visa waiver programme. Any change would force Britons wishing to visit the US into lengthy queues at American diplomatic missions....
Investor's Business Daily has already demanded an end to the programme because it "allows Pakistani Britons to dodge security background checks".
Much of the outraged American response this month was sparked by the call from Muslim leaders for a change in British foreign policy. The letter from six Muslim MPs and 38 community leaders said "current British Government policy risks putting civilians at increased risk both in the UK and abroad".
The theme was taken up by the Wall Street Journal, which said: "It is typical of some of Britain's so-called moderate Muslims, who seem less concerned with fighting extremists in their midst than in excusing them."
The newspaper went on to attack Tony Blair's government for "cultivating and promoting such pseudo-moderate Muslim organisations". The BBC and the Foreign Office, described as "a preserve of Arabists", were also lambasted both for quoting extremists and allowing them into Britain.
But as I have noted before, Blair doesn't have a large genuinely moderate Muslim organization with which he could work.
A planned attack in Manila foiled. "Philippines: Security Forces Foiled Terror Attack," from AKI, with thanks to Cindy: Posted by Robert at 01:06 AM | Comments (0)
If even the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank notices the ... problems in today’s CAIR-sponsored event with Stephen Walt and John Mersheimer, you know CAIR may have finally pushed their agenda a bit too far: Pronouncing Blame on the Israel Lobby. link: 409 comments
Nihad Awad, Executive Director of the Council on American Islamic Relations, appeared on C-SPAN today hosting Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer. In his speech, Awad highly recommended a book by antisemitic ex-Congressman (and Saudi puppet) Paul Findley, praising Findley as “a pioneer in promoting America’s interests in the Middle East.” Here’s the vidclip:
The book that Nihad Awad described as “an eye-opener,” They Dare to Speak Out, is oddly not for sale at Amazon. (Correction: it is at Amazon.)
So, being the curious type, I searched Google—and discovered that Findley’s book is highly regarded not just by CAIR.
The Google search reveals a squirming nest of neo-Nazis, Holocaust deniers, radical Marxist/leftists, and radical Islamists: ‘paul findley’ ‘they dare to speak out’.
They’re all here: Stormfront, Counterpunch, Whatreallyhappened.com, Ernst Zundel, Vanguard News Network, Soundvision, and MPACUK, just to name a few. They all seem to think Findley’s book is a work of genius.
Just like CAIR’s Nihad Awad.
UPDATE at 8/28/06 5:26:46 pm:
And isn’t this lovely; Findley’s book is also available at Reuters Books. link: 125 comments
In the "somehow, it figures" department: "...Muslim clerics launching a shrill attack..."
PNP: Metro bombing thwarted with suspects' arrest (underreported story)
Toronto Police investigating possible link between debit-card scam and FBI-led LTTE probe
Here’s a nasty scenario imagined by Niall Ferguson: What if the Heathrow Bombers Succeeded?
We cannot assume, for obvious legal reasons, that the suspects who were charged in London are anything other than innocent, as they themselves maintain. Nor should we speculate about those who haven’t yet been released or charged. So let us merely hypothesize that some young British Muslims really were plotting to assemble bombs out of liquid-based explosives and iPod-shaped detonators and to detonate them aboard multiple transatlantic planes. Suppose it had happened yesterday. Imagine yourself, in a parallel universe, turning on the radio and hearing the following bulletin:
“Five passenger aircraft have blown up in midair and crashed into the Atlantic. The planes — believed to be operated by American Airlines and United Airlines — left this morning from Heathrow Airport, bound for the United States. There are no reported survivors.”
Such a calamity would at once have been dubbed “8/27.” But the political consequences would have been very different from those that followed 9/11.
Five years ago, the world reacted with astounding unanimity. “Nous sommes tous Américains,” wrote Jean-Marie Colombani in Le Monde. Londoners felt an intense empathy with New Yorkers.
At the same time, 9/11 generated a surge of patriotic feeling in the targeted country. Americans rallied around a president who had been in office less than a year, having come to power by the most contentious of margins.
An 8/27 would have been diametrically different. From an American vantage point, a successful terrorist plot launched from Heathrow would have been doubly Britain’s fault. Its proximate cause would have been a lapse in British security. Its root cause would have been the infiltration of British society by radical Islamism.
Very on-target comments. And eventually, one of these plots will succeed.
UPDATE at 8/29/06 9:05:00 am:
You can read the article without registering by clicking the link on this Google page: ‘What if the Heathrow Bombers Succeeded?’ link: 279 comments
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The Left Wages A Jihad Against Atlas Shrugs --the left can't sit with the simple explanation that Pamela is a good journalist, with connections, who lives in New York, and that these things account for the fact that she gets the interviews she gets. No. |
According to the Washington Post (who are about 5 years behind LGF) Muslims in America are becoming more radical: America’s Muslims Aren’t as Assimilated as You Think. link: 151 comments "OK, don't assimilate. But then you waive your right to whine and seethe about not being accepted and every other little thing under the sun."
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***update 2: Australian Foreign Minister challenges press over coverage of the Qana ambulance incident...Red Cross bristles:
THE International Committee of the Red Cross has rebuked Foreign Minister Alexander Downer for relying on an unverified internet blog to claim an Israeli missile strike on one of its ambulances in southern Lebanon was a hoax.A spokeswoman for the ICRC in Geneva said yesterday there was no evidence to support Mr Downer's assertion that the international media had been duped in reporting that Israel had deliberately targeted the ambulance.
An image of the roof of the ambulance showed what was purportedly an entry hole allegedly made by an Israeli rocket which had pierced the centre of the red cross symbol.
The July 23 incident, in which two ambulances were fired on, injuring six people - including one man who lost his leg in the attack - provoked worldwide condemnation of Israel's apparent direct targeting of an ambulance in breach of the Geneva convention.
Israel apologised for the incident but made no admissions.
The blog site, Zombietime.com, claimed photographs of the interior of the ambulance showed there was not enough damage to have been hit by a missile through the roof, as claimed.
On Monday, in a speech to the National Newspaper Publishers Conference on the Gold Coast, Mr Downer criticised the Australian and international media for sloppy reporting and failing to check facts in their coverage of the Lebanon conflict.
He accused the media of being hoodwinked by Lebanese claims that "Israel had bombed deliberately a (Lebanese) Red Cross ambulance". And he accused "some of the world's most prestigious media outlets", including Time magazine, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times and The Australian of falling for a hoax.
"After closer study of the images of the damage to the ambulance, it is beyond serious dispute that this episode has all the makings of a hoax," he said.
With the exception of Brit Hume, there has been a near blackout from the mainstream media on Zombie's investigation of the Red Cross Ambulance Incident in Cana. Last week, I wrote the Associated Press, ITV, the New York Times, MSNBC, The Age, Time magazine, Cox News, the Guardian, and the Boston Globe asking for a response to doubts raised over the incident. So far, I have received non-response auto-replies from ITV and the NY Times.
Today's in-depth Vent provides the proper context for this important story and the MSM's non-response to it. Islamic terrorists in the Middle East have a long, unchecked history of using ambulances as aids and props for jihad. Watch it here:
Background links and comments here. Keep an eye on Ambulance 782. LGF is.
I'm asking every single reader of this blog to send this YouTube URL to the following three media outlets who reported the ambulance story uncritically and seek a response:
ITV News (see video here) - Contact info here. Email: dutyoffice-at-itv.com
Time magazine - Contact info here. Email letters-at-time.com
The Boston Globe - Contact info here. Ombudsman email - ombud-at-globe.com.
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Send them this excellent column on Terrorist Theater Tricks by Caroline Glick at the Jerusalem Post while you're at it. A snippet: "As each day passes, the governments, formal and informal legal apparatuses, and media of free societies show themselves to be less and less capable of contending with the information operations conducted against their societies by subversive forces seeking their destruction. As each day passes it becomes clear that the responsibility of protecting our nations and societies from internal disintegration has passed to the hands of individuals, often working alone, who refuse to accept the degradation of their societies and so fight with the innovative tools of liberty to protect our way of life."
Don't give up.
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Related: Debbie Schlussel reminds me of JPost reporter Michael Freund's whistle-blowing on the Red Cross's Hezbollah helpers. Something to think about before donating to the Red Cross again.
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I have not blogged a single word about John Michael Karr and the MSM's JonBenet Ramsey mania. This Breitbart/AP photo posted by Kathryn Lopez says everything there needs to be said about media insipidity and twisted journalistic priorities:
Caption contest here.
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