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A Muslim woman who was photographed taking selfies in front of a Belgian protest last week, earning her widespread praise for her cheerful stance against bigotry, reportedly praised Hitler and called for the killing of Jews in past Facebook posts. Zakia Belkhiri was photographed taking the selfies as she flashed a peace sign in front of Vlaams Belang protesters at the third annual Muslim Expo in Antwerp.The protests were part of the increasing resistance in Belgium and elsewhere in Europe to the flood of Muslim refugees pouring in from war-torn and poverty stricken countries in the Middle East and Africa.

The Bush administration, meanwhile, spoke out forcefully for Israel. “These people are nothing but thugs, so Israel is going to defend its people against terrorists like Hamas that indiscriminately kill their own people,” said Gordon Johndroe, a spokesman for the National Security Council. “They need to stop. We have said in the past that they have a choice to make. You can’t have one foot in politics and one foot in terror.”

Israel's air force fired around 20 missiles at targets in Gaza City on Saturday, causing heavy damage, a Reuters witness said. The IDF has confirmed the report. (Hanan Greenberg and Reuters)

Islamic Supremacists Throw Acid in Schoolgirls’ Faces by Bill Levinson William Shakespeare underscored the true horror of the Jack Cade rebellion (despite the comic relief with which he describes the events) by depicting Cade’s hanging of a man who could write his name instead of making his mark like a self-respecting illiterate peasant. Militant Muslims have brought similar practices into the 21st century by throwing battery acid into the faces of Afghan girls because the girls were going to school, presumably to learn how to read and write. Per Al Jazeera–hardly an infidel news source Five Afghan schoolgirls have been...

Will the horrors unleashed by Islamic terrorists in Mumbai cause any second thoughts by those who are so anxious to start weakening the American security systems currently in place, including government interceptions of international phone calls and the holding of terrorists at Guantanamo? Maybe. But never underestimate partisan blindness in Washington or in the mainstream media where, if the Bush administration did it, then it must be wrong. Contrary to some of the more mawkish notions of what a government is supposed to be, its top job is the protection of the people. Nobody on 9/11 would have thought that...

"Militants" and "Gunmen"   By HonestReporting.comHonestReporting.com | Friday, December 05, 2008 The murderous terrorist attack in Mumbai, India has shocked all decent human beings around the world. Armed men targeting civilians, taking hostages and shooting and murdering indiscriminately can only be described as an act of terror carried out by terrorists. HonestReporting has long campaigned for the media to call terror by its name. Too many times, media outlets report on terrorist acts in Israel referring to "militants", "activists" or any number of other descriptions, meticulously avoiding the "T" word."MILITANTS" & "GUNMEN"We took a look at some of the...

India has put all of its major airports on high alert after receiving threats that planes may be about to be hijacked. Airport security has been tightened and travellers are being asked to check in three hours before their flights. Air force chief Fali Homi Major said: "This is based on a warning, which has been received and we are prepared as usual." Indian TV reported that the alert was issued after an email from Deccan Mujahideen, the same group that claimed the Mumbai attacks. Sky's India correspondent Alex Crawford said: "The Indian Bureau for Civil Aviation has warned of...

TEL AVIV, Israel – Members of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah organization were involved in planning a foiled attack targeting Tel Aviv’s central bus station yesterday, terrorist sources told WND. Information obtained also indicates specific Fatah terrorists granted amnesty in recent months by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert plotted the attack. That detail is significant because, according to Palestinian sources speaking to WND, Olmert is slated to announce the pardon of dozens more Fatah terrorists ahead of a Muslim holiday this weekend. Yesterday, Israeli police, acting on specific intelligence, thwarted what they said would have been a large-scale terrorist bombing...

It was obvious to observers around the world that one of the designated targets of the Pakistani Islamist terrorists was the Mumbai Chabad House, the one Jewish center in Mumbai. The 10 Islamic terrorists who came from Pakistan to India chose their targets with great care. If one assumes that the terrorists primary goals were to destabilize India, weaken growing Indian-Pakistani cooperation in fighting terrorism, and greatly increase Indian-Pakistani tension, hopefully to the point of military war between the two countries, every one of the targets made strategic sense. Slaughtering as many people as possible in Indias major economic center,...

Arguably the most successful act of revolutionary terror was the June 1914 assassination of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand in Sarajevo. Believing his mission to murder the heir to the Austrian throne had failed, Gavrilo Princip suddenly found himself standing a few feet away from the royal car. He fired twice, mortally wounding the archduke and his wife. Tactically, that act of terror eliminated the reformist Ferdinand, who meant to address the grievances of his Slav subjects by granting them greater autonomy and equality with Austrians and Hungarians inside the empire. Strategically, the assassination succeeded beyond the wildest dreams of its...

The recent massacre in Mumbai underscores the effectiveness of gun control laws such as those supported by ...the Brady Campaign, the Violence Policy Center, and others. India's strict gun control laws were quite effective in killing more than a hundred innocent citizens and police officers, per "India Security Faulted as Survivors Tell of Terror."B.S. Sidhu, head of the Railway Protection Force for the Mumbai region, says that while some officers tried to fight back, there was little his force could do. Most police officers at the station -- as they are throughout India -- were unarmed or carried only bamboo...

The cabinet decided on Sunday to authorize the release of 250 terrorist prisoners from Israel's jails, as a goodwill gesture to the Palestinian Authority (PA) ahead of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha. In statements to the media, both the extra-parliamentary Women In Green organization and the Likud's Manhigut Yehudit (Jewish Leadership) faction linked the decision with the Mumbai Massacre perpetrated by Muslim terrorists last week. Women In Green said that the "criminal and murderous terror attack [in Mumbai] by Islamic terrorists against non-Muslims, Jews and non-Jews alike, should have made the government of Israel understand that time has come...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India will increase security in the country and on its borders to a "war level" in the wake of the deadly attacks in Mumbai that killed nearly 200 people, a government minister said on Sunday. "Our intelligence will be increased to a war level, we are asking the state governments to increase security to a war level," Sriprakash Jaiswal, India's minister for state for home affairs, told Reuters in an interview. India said on Sunday it had proof of a Pakistani link to the Mumbai attacks, while officials in Islamabad said it would move troops to the...

Hamas is supposedly a devout, orthodox Muslim group. If that were true, Hamas would fully comply with Sharia (Islamic law). The group would be halal, “an Arabic word meaning lawful or permitted.” In fact, Hamas is acting quite haram, which “means unlawful or prohibited.” Haram is the opposite of halal. In the last few days, we find that Hamas is prohibiting certain Muslim Palestinians from leaving Gaza to attend the “Hajj or pilgrimage to Mecca [which] is one of the five pillars of Islam. … An adult Muslim of a sane mind, an able body and having means to bear...

Doctors shocked at hostages's torture Krishnakumar P and Vicky Nanjappa in Mumbai They said that just one look at the bodies of the dead hostages as well as terrorists showed it was a battle of attrition that was fought over three days at the Oberoi and the Taj hotels in Mumbai. Doctors working in a hospital where all the bodies, including that of the terrorists, were taken said they had not seen anything like this in their lives. "Bombay has a long history of terror. I have seen bodies of riot victims, gang war and previous terror attacks like bomb...

The Taliban leader tried to escape the scene in women's clothing. But, when he tried to kill US soldiers he was shot dead in his burqa. US troops today killed a Taliban Commander clad in a burqa in Afghanistan. FOX News reported, via LGF: Gunbattles and airstrikes by NATO and Afghan troops killed 53 militants in Afghanistan, including a wanted Taliban commander who tried to hide from soldiers under a woman's burqa, officials said Saturday.

Not much follows...on the ticker on Times of India site. This probably relates to the situation at Nariman House where Israeli nationals are taken hostage. Will post more if more known....

Mumbai: Acting swiftly and decisively, Indian commandos launched a clinical operation on Saturday to eliminate two militants holed up in the iconic Taj hotel in Mumbai to end a 59-hour terror drama, the country's longest, which claimed 148 lives and soured ties with Pakistan. The militants had attempted to create a diversion by torching two ground floor shops in the hotel's northern wing, hoping the thick black smoke would conceal their movements but this didn't work as the security forces required just over 20 minutes to eliminate them. "The operation is over," an extremely pleased Mumbai Police Commissioner Hasan Gafoor...

NEW DELHI: The gang of terrorists who wreaked mayhem in Mumbai for three days were made to believe by their Lashkar bosses that they were not being sent on a suicide mission and that they would be coming back alive. In a sensational disclosure made by Ajmal, the jihadi nabbed alive by Mumbai cops, the group had planned to sail out on Thursday. Their recruiters had even charted out the return route for them and stored it on the GPS device which they had used to navigate their way to the Mumbai shoreline. This suggests that the terrorists were willing...

As the world watches the horrors of the Islamic terrorist attacks in Mumbai India, other Islamists are training to carry out the same kind of operation and it could easily happen here in America, Canada, or Europe. Most recently in March of this year, about 20 male Muslims where seen shooting handguns, assault rifles and a sniper rifle off of a dirt road in Phoenix.