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About 500 faith-hate and race-hate crimes — ranging from arson attacks on mosques to Muslim women being spat at in the street — have been reported in Britain since the London bombings, writes Dipesh Gadher.According to police sources, about 200 of these incidents are deemed significant enough to have potential repercussions within communities. They include mosques being set alight in Birkenhead, Merseyside, Telford, Shropshire and Leeds. “We have definitely seen a spike, but these are not co-ordinated incidents,” said Assistant Chief Constable Rob Beckley, head of the Association of Chief Police Officers’ community tensions team. The authorities normally deal with...

It is time some Americans get off their blather and get real. Every day we here ad nauseam coming from the far left. Instead I am personally calling it for what it is, hate speech. Little regard is shown for America's safety when the far left uses inflammatory words to attack the president of the United States. This is not healthy political discourse that we are hearing. The radical ridiculous rhetoric has got to stop for the good of all America. Where is the American spirit to overcome the real problem called Islamic radical terrorism? It is now more than...

We knew they would happen, the murderous attacks in London. But we knew something else would happen even before the last wisp of foul smoke dissipated into the London sky and the last casualty was counted. And happen it did when British MP George Galloway rose in the House of Commons to declare that the terrorist attacks in London resulted from Britain’s refusal to withdraw its forces from Afghanistan and Iraq to focus instead on finding a “real solution” to conflicts in the Middle East. We knew it would happen because in America our minds and our hearts have long...

I've made up my mind. I don't like Bernie Goldberg. Matter of fact, I hate him. Who does this man think he is? I've spent the better part of two decades exposing the outrages of the liberal media, and during most of that time, Bernie Goldberg was earning a comfortable living in that very industry. Along the way I'd thought about writing a book about media bias, but before I could do that, Goldberg decided there was a problem with bias and decided to write a book about it, and "Bias" shot to the top of the New York Times...

Once again, the world can see the barbarism, the recklessness, and the cruelty of what we have come to refer to generally as terrorism. The question however is, "what has changed?" Even still, there are those crying retreat. This, to me, is both incomprehensible and indefensible. A group endorsing a murderous ideology blows up several public transportation networks, killing scores of people and injuring hundreds more who are guilty of nothing more than being in the wrong place at the wrong time, and some people still have the audacity to say that these savages are right and we should retreat...

ASPEN, Colo. (AP) - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton went on the attack against President Bush in a speech Sunday, accusing him of damaging the economy by overspending while giving tax cuts to the rich. The Democrat from New York also accused Bush of depriving U.S. soldiers of equipment needed to fight the war in Iraq and cutting funding for scientific research. "I sometimes feel that Alfred E. Neuman is in charge in Washington," Clinton said referring to the freckle-faced Mad magazine character. She drew a laugh from crowd when she described Bush's attitude toward tough issues with Neuman's catchphrase: "What,...

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton went on the attack against President Bush in a speech Sunday, accusing him of damaging the economy by overspending while giving tax cuts to the rich. The Democrat from New York also accused Bush of depriving U.S. soldiers of equipment needed to fight the war in Iraq and cutting funding for scientific research. ``I sometimes feel that Alfred E. Neuman is in charge in Washington,'' Clinton said referring to the freckle-faced Mad magazine character. She drew a laugh from crowd when she described Bush's attitude toward tough issues with Neuman's catchphrase: ``What, me worry?'' Clinton, who...

THE LAST WORDThere is a certain strain of expert who believes that Osama bin Laden is a political genius who is using terrorism to accomplish political aims. If true, it follows that, while the West should pursue Islamist terrorists militarily, we should also seek politically to alleviate the conditions which so inflame them. Okay, let's just name names--I'm talking about Michael Scheuer who suggests in his books that bin Laden is a genius on par with America's Founding Fathers and that in order to win the war on terrorism, America needs to stop agitating Islamists by stationing troops in Saudi...

I'm surprised the British are surprised they were attacked by Muslim terrorists, today. It's not surprising, given the following (and we should learn some lessons here): 1) Abu Hamza Al-Masri and his Finsbury Mosque: Sheikh Hamza, a/k/a Captain Hook (he has hooks for hands, as he lost both in an explosion), regularly preached hate at his mosque. And surprise, surprise, it produced Richard Reid, the Shoe Bomber, among the mosque's other "luminaries." Masri was involved with Muslim extremist group, Al-Muhajiroun (affiliated with Al-Qaeda), and planned to host "The Magnificent 19" celebration, honoring the 9/11 hijackers. Brits pay over a million...

It's not going to work, boys. I know how much you enjoy blowing up innocent people, people whose only crime is going to work in the morning. I can't imagine how much fun it must be to meet secretly while building bombs and coordinating cold-blooded murder. I can't imagine the thrill of carefully executing your plan and how the head fellows in your organization — not the unfortunate slobs who wrapped bombs around their torso in exchange for 72 virgins — likely watched the explosions from a safe distance. "Britain is now burning with fear, terror and panic in its...

WASHINGTON, July 8, 2005 – Iraqi security forces in and around Baghdad are making progress in their training and will be ready to assume responsibility for security measures for the October elections, the area's top U.S. commander said today. Speaking by satellite from Baghdad in a Pentagon news briefing, Army Maj. Gen. William Webster, commander of Task Force Baghdad and the 3rd Infantry Division, said two Iraqi brigades already are operating on their own in Baghdad, and two more will be operational in about two months. The remaining two brigades that will make up the Iraqi army division in Baghdad...

Yesterday's bombings in London, coupled with the attacks on the United States, Spain and Australia (through the Bali nightclub bombings), may increase the likelihood of Canada becoming a target for terror. Although it is not yet proved that an al-Qaeda group was responsible for yesterday's destruction, Canada is now one of a dwindling number of nations named as a target by Osama bin Laden that has not been directly hit. "Human targets sorted by level of importance," reads a list in the al-Battar Military Manual, a training manual masterminded by Saif al-Adel, one of al-Qaeda's most senior leaders, and distributed...

Pittsburgh man at helm in London Gazing at scenes of carnage on his television screen yesterday morning, Brother Gerald Molyneaux said his first chill of fear was for his friend and former student, Tim O'Toole. Molyneaux knew that O'Toole, a Pittsburgh native who now heads London's Underground subway, rides his system's trains to work each day. "I was scared, really scared,'' he said. But after a relative alerted him that O'Toole had appeared unharmed in news reports from London, Molyneaux said the relief that swept through him was not just for O'Toole, but for millions of Londoners who rely on...

With the London bombings, the world terrorist organizations have told us that they have no intention of stopping. They have notified us, in no uncertain terms, that their attacks on all Western countries will continue. Still blaming virtually everything on Israel and “Israeli Zionism,” it is the Muslims who are actually diligently working to take over the world and are bound and determined to force it into a repressive Islamic society. They have been sending all of us this message for years. Yet, much of the world still blames these attacks on the ‘comfortable excuse’…the liberation of Iraq. This is...

With the London bombings, the world terrorist organizations have told us that they have no intention of stopping. They have notified us, in no uncertain terms, that their attacks on all western countries will continue. Still blaming virtually everything on Israel and “Israeli Zionism”, it is the Muslims who are actually diligently working to take over the world and are bound and determined to force it into a repressive Islamic society. They have been sending all of us this message, for years. Yet, much of the world still blames these attacks on the ‘comfortable excuse’…the liberation of Iraq. This is...

I've been at work and received several emails from friends of mine that are very liberal thanking George Bush for this (including one that has a brother in London and they haven't heard from them). Made me very angry, but I responded to him anyway. First, I hope his brother is ok obviously. Second, there is one common denominator here and why the left continues to avoid this is mind boggling. MUSLIM EXTREMISTS are the common denominator. Not George Bush, Muslim Extremists. I had to remind him of a little history: 1972 Olympic Games by Muslims 1979 US Hostages taken...

(Washington, D.C.) This morning, the world learned of multiple terrorist attacks that have killed dozens of men and women in London and wounded hundreds more. National Libertarian Party Executive Director Joe Seehusen issued the following statement: "Today is not a day for politics or posturing. Instead we should focus our thoughts and prayers on the victims and their families. As the people of the United Kingdom mourned our losses on September 11th, we do the same for them today. Our hearts go out both to those who have lost loved ones today and to all of the victims who remain."...

“You ask what is our policy? I will say: it is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: Victory – Victory at all costs, Victory in spite of all terror, however long and hard the road may be; for without Victory there is no survivor.” Winston Churchill, 1940.

The attacks of 9/11 have nothing to do with the war in Iraq, say some congressional critics of President Bush's speech this week urging the citizenry to have patience with efforts to quell an insurgency so that a liberated people can govern themselves. But, of course, the main reason we are in Iraq and the main thing keeping us there is what we learned through the dramatic, murderous foreshadowing of the attacks four years ago - that Islamic-fascist terrorists could bring an end to American civilization. The fiction propagated by war opponents has been that the invasion of Iraq had...

Since 1999, Furey and the Massachusetts National Guard team he commands have been dedicated to responding to potential domestic attacks involving chemical, biological or nuclear weapons in the Boston area. Such planning may surprise the public, but since 9/11, police and fire departments increasingly regard such preparations as routine. And agencies in the Boston area have had a lot of practice in the past calendar year, beginning with the Democratic National Convention, the Fourth of July, the Boston Marathon, baseball playoffs and a World Series for the Red Sox, and a successful NFL championship by the New England Patriots. "Every...