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"Ajami: George W. Bush had made the decision that the Arabs have the possibility of freedom in their DNA. That's the message he will leave --- that liberty can stick on Arab soil"

5/26/2008 12:00:00 AM

Ajami Is An Astonishing Rarity

Kevin Libin, National Post
Published: 5/26/2008 12:00:00 AM

CALGARY -There are countless stories in Iraq that Fouad Ajami considers "heartbreaking."

They are the product of the dozen years that preceded this war.

It was then, not now, he reminds us, when people suffered most cruelly.

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Two for the price of one (National Post, 08 May 2008, Page A20)

IS THE AMERICAN PUBLIC BEING BURIED ALIVE?
Here is the complete article from below.

Two for the price of one

CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
Slate.com

So numbed have I become by the endless replay of the fatuous clerical rantings of the Jeremiah Wright that it has taken me this long to remember the significant antecedent. In 1995, there appeared a documentary titled Brother Minister about the assassination of Malcolm X. It contained a secretly filmed segment showing Louis Farrakhan shouting at the top of his lungs in the Nation of Islam’s temple in Chicago on “Savior’s Day” in 1993. Farrakhan, verging on hysteria, demanded to know of the murdered Malcolm X: “If we dealt with him like a nation deals with a traitor, what the hell business is it of yours?” His apparent admission of what had long been suspected — that it was the Black Muslim leadership that ordered Malcolm’s slaying — is not understood or remembered (or viewed) as often as it might be.

I invite you to look at the film of Farrakhan’s sweating, yelling, paranoid face and to bear in mind that this depraved thug, who boasts of “dealing with” one of black America’s moral heroes, is the man praised by Jeremiah Wright and referred to with respect as “Minister Farrakhan” by the Senator who hopes to be the next president of the United States.

Liberal comment on Wright, and on the incredible damage that this conceited old fanatic has done to the Obama campaign, tends to dwell on the negative effect that black chauvinist rhetoric has on white working-class voters. Fair enough, I suppose. But why should a thinking black member of the working class want any truck with a Farrakhan fan or with a moral idiot who thinks that the drugs and disease in the black community are imposed by an outside conspiracy?

Nettled at last by the way in which this has upset his campaign, Barack Obama last week cut the ties that bound him to his crackpot mentor. Well, high time. But what has kept Obama in Wright’s pews, and at Wright’s mercy, for so long and at such a heavy cost to his aspirations? Even if he pulls off a nomination victory, he has completely lost the first, fine, careless rapture of a post-racial and post-resentment political movement and mired us again in all the old rubbish that predates Dr. King. What a sad thing to behold. And how come? I think we can exclude any covert sympathy on Obama’s part for Wright’s views or style — he has proved time and again that he is not like that, and even his own little nods to “Minister” Farrakhan can probably be excused as a silly form of Chicago South Side political etiquette. All right, then, how is it that the loathsome Wright married him, baptized his children and received donations from him? Could it possibly have anything, I wonder, to do with Mrs. Obama?

This obvious question is now becoming inescapable, and there is an inexcusable unwillingness among reporters to be the one to ask it. If there is a reason why the potential nominee has been keeping what he himself now admits to be very bad company — and if the rest of his character seems to make this improbable — then either he is hiding something or it is legitimate to ask him about his partner.

I direct your attention to Mrs. Obama’s 1985 thesis at Princeton University. Its title (rather limited in scope, given the author and the campus) is “PrincetonEducated Blacks and the Black Community.” To describe it as hard to read would be a mistake; the thesis cannot be “read” at all, in the strict sense of the verb. This is because it wasn’t written in any known language. Anyway, at quite an early stage in the text, Michelle Obama announces that she’s much influenced by the definition of black “separationism” offered by Stokely Carmichael and Charles Hamilton in their 1967 screed Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America. I remember poor Stokely Carmichael quite well. After a hideous series of political and personal fiascos, he fled to Africa, renamed himself Kwame Toure after two of West Africa’s most repellently failed dictators and then came briefly back to the United States before electing to die in exile. I last saw him as the warm-up speaker for Louis Farrakhan in Madison Square Garden in 1985, on the evening when Farrakhan made himself famous by warning Jews, “You can’t say ‘Never Again’ to God, because when he puts you in the ovens, you’re there forever.” I have the distinct feeling that the Obama campaign can’t go on much longer without an answer to the question: “Are we getting two for one?” And don’t be giving me any grief about asking this. Black Americans used to think that the Clinton twosome was their best friend, too. This time we should find out before it’s too late to ask.

CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
Slate.com

So numbed have I become by the endless replay of the fatuous clerical rantings of the Jeremiah Wright that it has taken me this long to remember the significant antecedent. In 1995, there appeared a documentary titled Brother Minister about the assassination of Malcolm X. It contained a secretly filmed segment showing Louis Farrakhan shouting at the top of his lungs in the Nation of Islam’s temple in Chicago on “Savior’s Day” in 1993. Farrakhan, verging on hysteria, demanded to know of the murdered Malcolm X: “If we dealt with him like a nation deals with a traitor, what the hell business is it of yours?” His apparent admission of what had long been suspected — that it was the Black Muslim leadership that ordered Malcolm’s slaying — is not understood or remembered (or viewed) as often as it might be.

I invite you to look at the film of Farrakhan’s sweating, yelling, paranoid face and to bear in mind that this depraved thug, who boasts of “dealing with” one of black America’s moral heroes, is the man praised by Jeremiah Wright and referred to with respect as “Minister Farrakhan” by the Senator who hopes to be the next president of the United States.

Liberal comment on Wright, and on the incredible damage that this conceited old fanatic has done to the Obama campaign, tends to dwell on the negative effect that black chauvinist rhetoric has on white working-class voters. Fair enough, I suppose. But why should a thinking black member of the working class want any truck with a Farrakhan fan or with a moral idiot who thinks that the drugs and disease in the black community are imposed by an outside conspiracy?

Nettled at last by the way in which this has upset his campaign, Barack Obama last week cut the ties that bound him to his crackpot mentor. Well, high time. But what has kept Obama in Wright’s pews, and at Wright’s mercy, for so long and at such a heavy cost to his aspirations? Even if he pulls off a nomination victory, he has completely lost the first, fine, careless rapture of a post-racial and post-resentment political movement and mired us again in all the old rubbish that predates Dr. King. What a sad thing to behold. And how come? I think we can exclude any covert sympathy on Obama’s part for Wright’s views or style — he has proved time and again that he is not like that, and even his own little nods to “Minister” Farrakhan can probably be excused as a silly form of Chicago South Side political etiquette. All right, then, how is it that the loathsome Wright married him, baptized his children and received donations from him? Could it possibly have anything, I wonder, to do with Mrs. Obama?

This obvious question is now becoming inescapable, and there is an inexcusable unwillingness among reporters to be the one to ask it. If there is a reason why the potential nominee has been keeping what he himself now admits to be very bad company — and if the rest of his character seems to make this improbable — then either he is hiding something or it is legitimate to ask him about his partner.

I direct your attention to Mrs. Obama’s 1985 thesis at Princeton University. Its title (rather limited in scope, given the author and the campus) is “PrincetonEducated Blacks and the Black Community.” To describe it as hard to read would be a mistake; the thesis cannot be “read” at all, in the strict sense of the verb. This is because it wasn’t written in any known language. Anyway, at quite an early stage in the text, Michelle Obama announces that she’s much influenced by the definition of black “separationism” offered by Stokely Carmichael and Charles Hamilton in their 1967 screed Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America. I remember poor Stokely Carmichael quite well. After a hideous series of political and personal fiascos, he fled to Africa, renamed himself Kwame Toure after two of West Africa’s most repellently failed dictators and then came briefly back to the United States before electing to die in exile. I last saw him as the warm-up speaker for Louis Farrakhan in Madison Square Garden in 1985, on the evening when Farrakhan made himself famous by warning Jews, “You can’t say ‘Never Again’ to God, because when he puts you in the ovens, you’re there forever.” I have the distinct feeling that the Obama campaign can’t go on much longer without an answer to the question: “Are we getting two for one?” And don’t be giving me any grief about asking this. Black Americans used to think that the Clinton twosome was their best friend, too. This time we should find out before it’s too late to ask.

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Two for the price of one
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Slate.com
National Post
08 May 2008

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Re: I cannot believe it

[This article was a response to an individual who has been blinded by the light... his light. In typical liberal fascist style, he blames Israel for the problems of the Palestinians. Totally ignoring Pallywood, Obsession:Radical Islam's War against the West, Mark Gabriel, former teacher of Muslims who had memorized the whole Quran by the age of 12 and MANY others. His idea is right even if the facts don't support it. His name is Roedy Green]

At 10:01 AM 2008-05-07, you wrote:

Roedy, Roedy Roedy.
Instead of answering my points, you avoid them like a politician.

-That is usually done when there is NO answer.

-You also use the technique known being a sesquipedalian [using large words in order to confuse the issue]

-Also blaming religion for everything is a little old. Reminds me of the 60's!

YOU are religious!
Can you believe it?
Yes you are. The Latin word, 'religas' meaning 'bind to' from which the word religion comes is talking about your belief system.

Roedy, you obviously have a belief system, therefore YOU ARE RELIGIOUS! Don't blame yourself now. It is SIMPLY HUMAN to have a belief system.

If I make any more points I am sure you will answer them in the same manner avoidance and passing the buck. So again Good Luck and Have a Happy Life in truth. So don't expect any more answers for you to feed to your blog. Resistance is futile! Only expect answers which you can actually email to me and allow a discussion of. Not going to happen I know,

Oh and just in case you don't believe in truth, try walking across from the top of the CN tower to the Empire State Building in New York City and see if the truth of gravity works whether you Believe in it or NOT. [and your name doesn't have to be Ripley!

Truth is truth.
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Re: I cannot believe it

Roedy, Roedy Roedy.
Instead of answering my points, you avoid them like a politician.

-That is usually done when there is NO answer.

-You also use the technique known being a sesquipedalian [using large words in order to confuse the issue]

-Also blaming religion for everything is a little old.

YOU are religious!
Can you believe it?
Yes you are. The Latin word, 'religas' meaning 'bind to' from which the word religion comes is talking about your belief system.

Roedy, you obviously have a belief system, therefore YOU ARE RELIGIOUS! Don't blame yourself now. It is SIMPLY HUMAN to have a belief system.

If I make any more points I am sure you will answer them in the same manner avoidance and passing the buck. So again Good Luck and Have a Happy Life in truth. So don't expect any more answers for you to feed to your blog. Resistance is futile! Only expect answers which you can actually email to me and allow a discussion of. Not going to happen I know,

Oh and just in case you don't believe in truth, try walking across from the top of the CN tower to the Empire State Building in New York City and see if the truth of gravity works whether you Believe in it or NOT. [and your name doesn't have to be Ripley!

Truth is truth.
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Hamas to Israel: Accept the truce or else

See how they thirst for peace! "Hamas threatens Israel to accept truce," from the Jerusalem Post (thanks to all who sent this in): Hamas has threatened an "unprecedented escalation" against Israel if it does not agree soon to the Egyptian-mediated...

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"You can't take the Islam out of Islamic terrorism"

The fearless and insightful Andrew McCarthy tells the truth, truths we have been repeating here for years, on the bully pulpit of the Rush Limbaugh Show. Don't miss Andy's important new book about the Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman case...

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Strategic Collapse in the War on Terror

Joseph C. Myers at The American Thinker eviscerates the surrender that the new DHS policy forbidding use of the word "jihad" represents: [...] War is a complex endeavor, there are no silver-bullet weapons, theories, words or phrases that will disarm...

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Who is teaching Chertoff and the DHS about jihad?

Here is a passage from the DHS memo "Terminology to Define the Terrorists: Recommendations from American Muslims," which rules out use of terms like "jihadist" to refer to, well, jihadists. (Background here.) On May 8, 2007, Secretary Chertoff met with...

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The battle for secularism in Turkey

Henrik Ræder Clausen reports on the ongoing battle between secularists and Sharia supremacists in Turkey: Largely underreported in Western media, a significant constitutional battle is taking place in Turkey these days. On March 14th 2008, the Chief Prosecutor filed suit...

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Dutch museum removes controversial Muhammad exhibit after death threats

I don't like "art" like this. I don't approve of "art" like this. But do not be deceived: if Sooreh Hera had exhibited a series of photographs of homosexual men wearing masks of Jesus and the Apostle John, no one...

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"Death to the blasphemer": 5,000 demonstrate against Fitna in Pakistan

Yes, they're still angry. "Pakistan demo against Islam film," by Carl Dinnen for Channel4 (thanks to Twostellas): Thousands of people have taken to the streets of Pakistan to protest against a controversial film about Islam made by a Dutch MP....

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Al-Qaeda: We committed "blessed operation" against Italian embassy in Yemen

"I will expel the Jews and Christians from the Arabian Peninsula and will not leave any but Muslim." -- Muhammad (Sahih Muslim 19.4366) "Qaeda claims attack on Italian embassy in Yemen," from Reuters (thanks to Twostellas): DUBAI, May 3 (Reuters)...

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Australia: accused jihadist praised Allah for attack on Australian troops in Iraq

Here is yet another case in which a jihadist does not consider himself a citizen of the infidel polity in which he resides, but as a citizen of the umma, the global Islamic community. This is a mainstream Islamic belief,...

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Hizballah: We're proud to be on terrorist list

Terrorist pride Hizballah takes pride in its murderous work. "Hezbollah says 'proud' to be on the U.S. terrorist list," from Deutsche Presse Agentur (thanks to Sr. Soph): The Iranian-backed Lebanon-based guerilla movement Hezbollah said on Friday it prides itself...

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Islamophobia strikes again: bomb kills 18 outside Yemen mosque

Actually, Islamophobes didn't set this one off. It appears to be jihadists of one type or another, but who exactly did it is as yet unclear. "Motorcycle bomb explodes outside Yemen mosque, killing 18," by Ahmed Al-Haj for Associated Press...

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Woman from Mali who underwent genital mutilation fights for asylum

Alima Traore should be granted asylum at once, and U.S. opposition to this practice -- so often justified by reference to Islamic teaching -- made clear. "Woman from Mali who underwent circumcision fights for asylum," by Stephen Manning for Associated...

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Italy: Arabic translation of Constitution

"We have translated the constitution to increase immigrants' awareness of the laws that govern civic life in Italy." That's good. In Europe today, even the idea that Muslim immigrants have an obligation to obey the laws of the land is...

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ATF's Terrorism Update Newsletter

May 02, 2008

US air strike kills al-Qaeda boss in Somalia Mail & Guardian A United States air strike killed an Islamist commander thought to be al-Qaeda's leader in Somalia and at least a dozen other people on Thursday, the insurgents and witnesses said. Aden Hashi Ayro, who led al Shabaab militants blamed for near daily attacks on government troops and their Ethiopian allies, died in the latest of several US bombings in recent months to have targeted Somali rebel leaders. "Infidel planes bombed Dusamareb," Shabaab spokesperson Mukhtar Ali Robow told Reuters by telephone, referring to a small town in central Somalia. "Two of our important people, including Ayro, were killed."  [read more] Terrorist attacks rising in Pakistan: US State Dept report:   NewKerala.com Washington, May 1: Terrorist attacks against noncombatants have more than doubled in Pakistan from 2006 to 2007, while deaths from such attAcks have quadrupled to 1,335 fatalities, according to a report released by the US State Department. The new statistics showed that terrorist strikes against nonmilitary targets worldwide remained virtually unchanged in 2007 from 2006, at roughly 14,500 attacks, but the number of deaths from those attacks increased to 22,685 from 20,872, according to statistics compiled by the National Counterterrorism Center.  ''It's a fair statement that around the globe, people are getting increasingly efficient at killing other people,'' Russ Travers, deputy director of the counterterrorism center, told reporters.[read more] Terrorist acts in India probably intended to incite Hindus, Muslim NewKerala.com Washington, May 1: The attacks, which killed and injured both Muslims and Hindus in India last year, were probably conducted by extremists hoping to incite anger between the Hindu and Muslim communities, according to the US State Department.  The Department's annual report on terrorism, released here yesterday notes, Indian officials claim that the perpetrators of these attacks have links to groups based in Pakistan and Bangladesh, particularly Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, Jaish-e-Mohammad, and Harkat-ul-Jihad Islami, among others.  These groups are also involved in terrorist activity in Jammu and Kashmir. [read more] Court sees aftermath of London bombings CNN.com LONDON, England (CNN) -- Videos of the chaos and horrified reactions after the July 7, 2005, London transit bombings were shown to jurors Thursday in the trial of three men charged with conspiracy in the case. One of the videos shows the explosion of a train seconds after it leaves the Liverpool Street Station heading for Aldgate East. As dust and smoke fill the tunnel, people on the platform rush away, and police head toward the blast.  Another shows bystanders running and ducking for cover after one of the bombers detonated his rucksack on the No. 30 bus. Riders on a nearby bus jump from their seats. Four bombs were detonated on underground trains at Liverpool Street, Russell Square and Edgware Road, and on a double-decker bus at Tavistock Square. Fifty-two people and the four bombers were killed, and at least 900 people were injured. Links to the edited videos were posted on the Web site of London's Metropolitan Police, and were played in Kingston Crown Court where Mohammed Shakil, 31, Waheed Ali, 24, and Sadeer Saleem, 27, are accused of aiding the bombers. [read more] U.S. claims Iran remains active state sponsors of terrorism Peoples Daily Online A U.S. State Department report issued on Wednesday claimed that Iran remains the "most significant state sponsors of terrorism."  "It will come as no surprise to hear that Iran remain the most significant state sponsor of terrorism," the annual report said. [read more] Israeli intelligence chief warns of massive attack on 60th anniversary People's Daily Online Palestinian militant groups are seeking to launch a wide-scale attack on Israel's 60th Independence Day in May, Israeli Military Intelligence chief Amos Yadlin warned Tuesday.   The major general told the cabinet that his agents have detected signs indicating the militants are planning an ambitious attack, which might resemble the one the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) foiled ten days ago at the border with the Gaza Strip, local daily Ha' aretz reported.  [read more] Israeli ministers oppose truce with Hamas People's Daily Online A majority off Israeli security cabinet ministers on Wednesday voiced their objection to the Egypt-brokered ceasefire deal with Palestinian militant groups, Israeli media reported.  The truce Agreement equals legitimizing Hamas, the Gaza strip ruling movement which Israel regards as a terrorist organization, and would only allow Hamas to regroup, rearm and recruit more operatives before it continues its attacks on Israel, local daily Yediouth Ahronoth cited the ministers as arguing during a security cabinet meeting. [read more]   Iran denounces Hillary Clinton's threat in letter to UN chief Peoples Daily Online   Iran strongly condemned Wednesday U.S. presidential contender Hillary Rodham Clinton for threatening to destroy the country, vowing to respond to any attack. In a letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon dated April 30,Mehdi Danesh-Yazdi, Iran's deputy permanent representative to the United Nations, slammed Clinton for making "such a provocative, unwarranted and irresponsible statement," which constituted "a flagrant violation" of the UN Charter.  [read more] Double suicide blast kills dozens in Iraq Mail & Guardian Online Two suicide bombers killed 30 people and wounded 65 others when they detonated explosive vests in a busy market in a town north-east of Baghdad on Thursday, Iraqi police said. Police said the second bomber struck as crowds rushed to evacuate the wounded from the first attack, a common tactic used by bombers to maximise casualties  [read more] Hamas leader killed in air strike NEWS.com.au An air strike has killed a Hamas military leader in Gaza who took part in the 2006 capture of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. The Israeli military said it "targeted and identified hitting Nafiz Mansur, a Hamas terror operative who was involved in terror attacks against Israel".  "Mansur was involved, among other attacks, in the capture of Gilad Shalit", the Israeli soldier seized by Palestinian militants in a cross-border raid from Gaza claimed by Hamas and two other armed groups. Israel said the militant also bore responsibility for the killing of two Israeli soldiers in a July 2006 attack, and took part in setting up a suicide assault on a border post on April 19 this year. The Islamist Hamas movement confirmed Mansur's death and said it would "respond to this crime at the adequate time and place".  [read more] Deployment of aircraft carrier a US 'reminder' to Iran, says Gates:   Iran Focus The US defence secretary, Robert Gates, said yesterday the deployment of a second aircraft carrier to the Gulf could serve as a "reminder" to Iran of American resolve to defend its interests in the region. Gates denied the arrival of a new carrier represented an escalation, pointing out that US naval strength in the Gulf rises and falls constantly with routine naval deployments, but it comes at a time of heightened rhetoric from Washington about Iran's role in the Iraqi insurgency. In the next few days US officers in Baghdad are expected to mount a display of recently-made Iranian arms alleged to have been seized from insurgents.  CBS News reported the Pentagon has ordered commanders to explore new options for attacking Iran and that the state department was formulating an ultimatum calling on Iran to stop arms smuggling into Iraq. The reports were denied by US officials. [read more] Chávez accuses Colombia of war crimes Mail and  Guardian Online   Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez accused his Colombian counterpart of war crimes as Venezuela and Ecuador turned up the heat on Bogotá over its military strike on an insurgent camp inside Ecuador. "A war crime occurred there," Chávez charged late on Wednesday at a joint press conference with Ecuadorian counterpart Rafael Correa in Caracas, where the two men discussed the crisis.  "We also want peace, but we cannot accept under any pretext that the Colombian government uses Ecuadorian territory to implant imperialist doctrines," added Chávez in reference to Colombia's ally, the United States.  [read more] Venezuala mobilizes forces to Colombia bordere Mail & Guardian Venezuela deployed tanks and its air and sea forces toward the Colombian border in its first major military mobilisation in a crisis with Colombia, the country's defence minister said on Wednesday. The move escalates tensions in a dispute over a Colombian weekend raid inside another of its neighbours, Ecuador, to kill rebels in an operation that Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez says could spark a war in the Andean region. While Ecuador and Venezuela had poured soldiers toward their borders with Colombia in recent days, there had previously been no sign of a noticeable movement of heavy firepower. [read more]

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Muslim clerics to condemn suicide attacks! (Against fellow Muslims, that is)

We have seen this before. Qur'an 4:92 forbids a Muslim to kill another Muslim intentionally, and there have even been demonstrations in various majority-Muslim countries against Al-Qaeda when the jihadists have the temerity to kill other Muslims, knowingly or inadvertently....

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Freed from Gitmo, he blows himself up in Iraq

We have seen Gitmo recidivism before, and it's no surprise. When the inmates there see American soldiers handling the Qur'an with gloves, in implicit acknowledgment of their unclean status as non-believers as per Qur'an 9:28, what is disabusing those inmates...

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Jihadists shoot rocket from Gaza into Israel, hit school

The city is exhausted, and the politicians are pursuing false remedies that will only bring the remaining residents more of the same. Truce Update: "Gaza: Rockets On Sderot; Hit School, City Worn Out," from ANSAmed (thanks to Insubria): (ANSAmed) -...

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Iraqi pols to Iran: Stop meddling

Pals no more? Does Maliki's Iraqi government no longer regard Iran as a "close ally"? "Official: Iraqi delegation goes to Iran to discuss militias," by Qassim Abdul-Zahra for Associated Press (thanks to all who sent this in): BAGHDAD -...

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US gets jihad leader in Somalia -- but "the penetration by al Qaeda in Somalia is so great that he will be replaced"

Last year in The Journal of International Security Affairs I chronicled the jihadists' brief rule in Mogadishu, their displacement of the relatively less virulent and violent cultural Islam of Somalia, and the international media's breathless enthusiasm for their brutal regime....

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"Jihadists" or...?

The new State Department/DHS guidelines forbidding use of the words "jihad" and "jihadist" have generated a great deal of discussion. When I wrote this article about it in Human Events, many people wrote to me to say that this was...

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Iranian Supremo: We ain't afraid of no stinking sanctions

The dance continues. One day, however, it will end, one way or another. "Iran not afraid of nuclear sanctions: Khamenei," from AFP (thanks to Jeffrey Imm): TEHRAN (AFP) - Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday declared Iran was "not...

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Sarkozy aims for July 13 launch of Eurabia -- oops, "Mediterranean Union"

Last month, the EU's counterterror czar said "a real threat is developing at our borders" with respect to jihadist activity in North Africa. No problem: Just cut back on the borders. That'll solve it. Eurabia Alert. "Mideast conflict must not...

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Libel Terrorism Protection Act (Rachel's Law) signed by New York Governor

Great news -- Rachel's Law has been signed by New York's Governor Paterson. Here is the New York Governor's office press release, and here is the announcement from the American Center for Democracy, whose director, Rachel Ehrenfeld, gave her name...

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Baltimore couple sues Church's Chicken: its Sharia rules prohibited them from serving pork, causing franchise to fail

I have no idea whether or not the Beasleys's claim is true that Arcapita allowed white-owned Church's Chicken franchises to continue serving pork, but didn't allow them to. What concerns me about this story is the Stealth Jihad aspect of...

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Iran: 10 lashes and six months in the slammer for..feminism

Feminism, that is, in a form Westerners would consider mild: "Protesters demanded equal rights for women in marriage, divorce, inheritance and child custody." But don't worry: Islam respects women's rights -- the sentences were suspended as long as the perpetrators...

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Thursday, May 1, 2008

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The myth of the Palestinian ceasefire

While we're on the subject of Palestinian myths, here's another. "Palestinian groups shell Israeli areas near Gaza despite news of ceasefire," from the Ma'an News Agency (thanks to Sr. Soph): Gaza – Ma'an – Palestinian military groups continued to launch...

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The myth of Palestinian moderation

In his "Fundamentally Freund" column "The myth of Palestinian moderation" in the Jerusalem Post, Michael Freund rightly skewers the Administration's fantasy-based policymaking regarding Israel: Even for a president prone to misusing the English language, George W. Bush outdid himself last...

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Hamas' newest blood libel: Israel planned the Holocaust to kill handicapped Jews

What will they think of next? A But-They-All-Really-Want-Peace Update -- details at Israel Matzav: Jewish leaders planned the Holocaust to kill "disabled and handicapped" Jews to avoid having to care for them, according to a Hamas TV educational program. As...

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Hamas top dog: we have 200,000 suicide bombers

Why aren't Ibrahim Hooper and Edina Lekovic calling Zahar right now and telling him that suicide is forbidden in Islam? What's that? Because he would probably respond that Paradise is guaranteed to those who kill and are killed for Allah...

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UK: Random Muslim stabs two random Orthodox Jews; no "faith hate" involved

Nothing to see here. Go back to sleep. "Man charged over Golders Green stabbings," by Kevin Bradford for the Hendon Times (thanks to Jerusalem Posts): A man has been charged following a double knife attack on two Orthodox Jews in...

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Islamic Jihad: Sure, let's have a truce, as long as we can keep on killing Israelis

Of course, Islamic Jihad and Hamas portray every jihad attack against Israel as a response to Israeli aggression. So to say this is to say that they will continue to attack Israel even during a truce, and Israel cannot legitimately...

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Osama bin Laden's son barred from Britain

Just a few months ago Omar bin Laden got a great deal of fawning publicity from the mainstream media for rejecting his father's methods. But we pointed out here that he was never even asked if he rejected his father's...

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Watch out for those "negative facts"!

Jihad Watch reader James kindly sent me this from Yahoo Answers: Do you hate Robert Spencer? In the news it stated that Spencer realesed a book that had negiative facts about Prophet Muhammad and about Qur'an. Spencer is a citizen...

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It's that time of year: Iran launches new dress code crackdown for "moral security"

Hot on the heels of last year's program's smashing success at making the Iranian government look busy while doing nothing about issues of corruption and domestic economics. "Iran launches new crackdown on dress code offenders," from Reuters: TEHRAN (Reuters) -...

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United Nations vs. Human Rights: World Church Congress, Augsburg

Every man should think what he likes and say what he thinks – Spinoza Report by David G. Littman: On April 13, I was given the floor at the KIRCHE IN NOT – CHURCH IN DISTRESS 3rd International Congress of...

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Valencia: Immigrants must "respect the laws, the principles and the customs of Spain and Valencia"

Not that much of anything will happen if they don't: the contract "will have no consequences from a legal point of view." And the principles and customs are not clearly defined. Still, this is a small step in the right...

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