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Riots in Greece: The undercover news 09 Dec 2008 Ioannis Michaletos ...The culprits in the higher level are Islamic netowrks in the Middle East, hand-in-hand with corrupted Western officials that are selling their services for the highest bidder.... The anarchist-radical network of disoriented youth is very strong in Europe as the riots in 2005 showed where the radicals and the Muslims joined forces to damage Sarkozy’s image to no avail. In France recently it was announced by the Ministry of Interior that French anarchists that were in contact with Greek and Italian counterparts, tried to sabotage the railway network (TGV...

No one takes the environmentalist’s mantra “think globally, act locally” more to heart than the jihadi. With his eye on the future global caliphate, and his gun trained on the nearest infidel enclave, he is a patient servant to his cause. Westerners have a hard time understanding Islamic terrorists, in part, because we go about it the wrong way round. Rhetoric aside, good liberals think locally and act globally. That is, they take the supremacy of reason and humanity found in their immediate environs, and mistakenly apply it to death cultists on the other side of the world. Paul Berman...

I do not wish to coddle the enemy, nor do I wish to change his grim outlook on life. I want to lay waste to the enemy and rend his will to fight. That, my friend, is the only indisputable way to win a war. Otherwise, with his faculties intact and any shred of will left to resist, you have only brought into being another generation of adversary that will be born of resentment and spite, and when left to his devices, will devise alternate methods to strike back at his antagonist. To leave the enemy intact, though bruised and...

"MOSCOW: Terrorists holed up inside Mumbai's Taj and Trident-Oberoi hotels allowed 17 Russian hostages, including nine defence contractors, to leave after checking their passports, following which they were safely evacuated. Earlier on Thursday, spokesman of Russian arms exporting company 'Rosoboron export' had confirmed that nine of its specialists working on various defence projects in India were safely evacuated from the Taj hotel. According to the 'Kommersant' daily, eight crew members of Russian Aeroflot airlines dining in the restaurant of Trident-Oberoi were also “politely asked'' to follow the hotel staff, who guided them to safety outside the hotel."

Two events in the same week may explain the strange asymmetry between the global threat of terrorism and America’s prevailing attitude toward it. In Mumbai, India, more than 100 people are slain by radical Islamists. Although the target is overseas, the principal targets are Americans, Britons and Israelis. President Bush sends Secretary of State Rice to India to do what she can to assist the Indians in their response while trying to prod the neophyte government of Pakistan – the presumptive origin of the plot – to get serious about investigating and apprehending the perps. On Long Island, New York,...

Doctors at the Mumbai hospital who treated the victims of the past week's jihadist attacks were rendered nearly speechless by the carnage. As two doctors explained to the Indian news Web site rediff.com, violent gang wars and previous terror attacks didn't hold a candle to what happened. The bodies of the victims showed clear signs of preexecution torture. The worst tortured, they said, were the Jewish victims. As one doctor put it, "Of all the bodies, the Israeli victims bore the maximum torture marks. It was clear that they were killed on the [first day of the assault]. It was...

Mumbai Massacre: Everyone’s Fault?   By Phyllis CheslerFrontPageMagazine.com | Tuesday, December 02, 2008 The Islamic terrorists keep telling us that their barbaric massacres and homicide bombings are being done in the name of Islam. Muslim organizations keep insisting that Islam is a religion of peace. Even as civilian blood cries out for justice, or for security, the intelligentsia warn us that Muslims and Islam are not the problem, that American foreign policy and Zionism are the real problem. The Western mainstream media refuse to take the barbarians at their word lest they be accused of “racism” or “Islamophobia.”For example,...

For purposes of self-justification, Azam Amir Kasab, the only terrorist taken alive in last week's Mumbai massacre, offered that the murder of Jews in the city's Chabad House was undertaken to avenge Israeli atrocities on Palestinians. Two other terrorists cited instances of anti-Muslim Hindu violence as the answer to the question, "Why are you doing this to us?" before mowing down 14 unarmed people at the Oberoi Hotel. And if dead terrorists could talk, we would surely hear Abu Ghraib mentioned as among their reasons for singling out U.S. and British hostages. One suspects the terrorists spent far too much...

VIDEOSteve Baldwin, Author of "From Crayons to Condoms", talks about the indoctrination of school children in American public schools.

THE HAGUE, 09/12/08 - MP Geert Wilders has started an international tour with his anti-Islam film Fitna. Countries where the Party for Freedom (PVV) leader will show the film include Israel, the United States, the United Kingdom and France, he announced yesterday in television programme Goedemorgen Nederland. The seventeen-minute film was released on the internet on 27 March. The government had investigated the possibility of a preventative ban. Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende warned repeatedly that the film could cost the lives of Dutch nationals abroad. But Wilders can count on more moral support abroad - in the US and...

Julia Gorin discusses the WSJ's James Taranto's gingerly distaste for Dutch freedom warrior Geert Wilders, and related matters: Over the weekend, Robert Spencer called out Wall St. Journal drone James Taranto on his cynicism about the intentions of the man who is most adamant about preserving Western civilization, Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders. Specifically, as Spencer points out, Taranto finds Wilders’ views on Islam “problematic” and isn’t sure whether or not Geert Wilders is simply an "anti-Islamic provocateur." To which Spencer replies, “It is a pity that Taranto would characterize speaking accurately about how Muslims use Islamic texts and teachings to...

More evil and violence from the ‘religion’ of ‘piece’. No wonder muslim kids grow up so full of hate and venom, the very people charged with protecting them are beating them down in the name of allah. Gee what a shocker there… Muslim children are being beaten and abused regularly by teachers at some British madrassas - Islamic evening classes - an investigation by The Times has found. Students have been slapped, punched and had their ears twisted, according to an unpublished report by an imam based on interviews with victims in the north of England. One was “picked up...

Risk Specialists Companies, Inc. (RSC), a subsidiary of AIG Commercial Insurance, is introducing what it says is a first in the U.S.: a homeowners insurance product that is compliant with key Islamic finance tenets and based on the concept of mutual insurance. Advertisement The Takaful Homeowners Policy is underwritten through RSC member company A.I. Risk Specialists Insurance, Inc., in conjunction with Lexington Insurance Co. and in association with AIG Takaful Enaya. Headquartered in Bahrain, AIG Takaful Enaya was established in 2006 to provide Takaful products, including accident and health, auto, energy, property and casualty products. The Takaful home policy is...

Nine things the police in Columbus, Ohio, need to know being taught the police in Columbus, Ohio by members of CAIR] covered included the basic beliefs and practices of Islam, practical advice to help future law enforcement personnel develop cultural competency when interacting with the Muslim community." -- from this article What the police force in Columbus, Ohio and all over the country need to be taught is this: 1. They need to know what the texts of Islam -- Qur'an and Hadith and Sira -- inculcate in Believers about non-Muslims, and in particular, about the central notion that Islam,...

Israel has warned that Iran could try to attack the US if it acquired a nuclear weapon. Ehud Barak, the Israeli defence minister, appealed to world leaders to act now to prevent Iran from continuing its nuclear programme. "If it built even a primitive nuclear weapon like the type that destroyed Hiroshima, Iran would not hesitate to load it on a ship, arm it with a detonator operated by GPS and sail it into a vital port on the east coast of North America," Mr Barak told a conference of the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University....

PUNE: When Tina (name changed) lost her father in the 7/11 Mumbai train blasts, she became a recluse. For over 10 months Tina refused to leave her mother's side, till one day she let go of her mother's hand to hug a dog. Her tears on hugging the dog left Tina's mother astonished and relieved...she was now sure that her daughter would come out of the trauma. This is but one of the many instances where animal-assisted therapy (AAT) has helped victims of trauma recover and resurrect their lives. City-based Animal Angels Foundation (AAF) headed by Minal Kavishwar, has offered...

Asghar Bukhari is a founding member of the Muslim Public Affairs Committee (MPAC), which is the British equivalent of CAIR. Bukhari is the "go to" spokesman of Muslim rights for the British Media. Back in 2006 it was revealed that this "civil rights" advocate is a supporter of David Irving, holocaust denier: .....Asghar Bukhari, a founder member of the Muslim Public Affairs Committee (MPAC), which describes itself as Britain's largest Muslim civil rights group, sent money to Irving and urged Islamic websites to ask visitors to make donations to his fighting fund. Bukhari contacted the discredited historian, sentenced this year...

LONDON (AFP) — A Bosnian Muslim waitress has demanded compensation from the London bar where she worked over a red dress she was asked to wear, British media reported Thursday. Fata Lemes, 33, told an employment tribunal that she felt forced to wear the sleeveless dress with a low neckline and an open back, thought the Rocket bar was run like a "sex club" and filed for 20,000 pounds in compensation......

The United States and Russia are bidding hard against each other to give the Lebanese army heavy weapons, a contest which Israeli diplomacy has failed to deter, DEBKAfile's military sources report. Defense ministry official Amos Gilead arrived in Moscow Friday, Dec. 19 only to watch his train leaving the station: Sophisticated Russian S-300 air defense systems were already speeding toward Tehran to guard its nuclear sites and MiG-29 fighter jets had been pledged to Lebanon. In Washington, too, Israeli diplomats pleaded in vain with Bush administration leaders to refrain from giving Lebanon tanks and a fleet of combat helicopters. Ten...

The upcoming U.S. movie "The Wrestler" is upsetting the Iranian media, the British newspaper Daily Telegraph said on Saturday. Apparently, one of the characters is the reason why Iranian newspaper have labeled the movie as “offensive”BSnip In his quest for glory, Randy 'the Ram' Robinson, the character played by Mickey Rourke is fighting against a wrestler called the Ayatollah. After Randy defeats the Aytollah, he breaks the Iranian flag and it throws it to audience members, who chants “USA, USA”