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Friday Early Morning Open

Fri, May 16, 2008 at 3:10:11 am PDT

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

— Oscar Wilde

Tags: LGF, Open Thread

Thursday, May 15, 2008

An LGF Experiment at Carnegie Mellon?

Thu, May 15, 2008 at 10:44:31 pm PDT

Anyone know what this page at Carnegie Mellon means? It’s some kind of experiment that involves comments posted at LGF, and I have a feeling it’s not friendly.

Here’s a directory index.

Tags: LGF, Carnegie-Mellon, Mystery, Comments

Obama: The Decider

Thu, May 15, 2008 at 10:01:51 pm PDT

On April 11, 2008, Reuters reported: Obama declines to criticize Carter on Hamas.

INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said on Friday it was not his place to criticize former President Jimmy Carter if he were to meet with Hamas, although Obama said he would not meet with the militant Palestinian group. ...

“I’m not going to comment on former President Carter. He’s a private citizen. It’s not my place to discuss who he shouldn’t meet with,” Obama told reporters while campaigning in Indianapolis.

Five days later, on April 16, 2008, Reuters reported: Obama criticizes ex-President Carter’s Hamas meeting.

PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Democratic White House hopeful Barack Obama on Wednesday disagreed with former President Jimmy Carter’s overtures toward Hamas, saying he would not talk to the Islamist group until it recognized Israel and renounced terrorism. ...

“That’s why I have a fundamental difference with President Carter and disagree with his decision to meet with Hamas,” Obama said.

Change!

It’s “stick your finger in the wind” politics, from someone who is actually close to becoming the President of the United States. And he’s playing these lame opportunistic games with terrorist groups.

(Hat tip: Locke/Demosthenes.)

Tags: LGF, Election 2008, Barack Obama, Hamas, Jimmy Carter

Thursday Evening Open

Thu, May 15, 2008 at 9:08:09 pm PDT

It’s the traditional Thursday evening thread, for a week in which the freaks are coming out of the woodwork...

Tags: LGF, Open Thread

Obama's Diplomatic Partner: 'The Hidden Imam Manages All the Affairs of the World'

Thu, May 15, 2008 at 6:49:19 pm PDT

Barack Obama wants to sit down and have tea and discuss the issues (using his amazing diplo-fu) with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. It’s all about hope! and change! and waffles!

I hope they have plenty of extra syrup if/when they meet, because here’s the mini-Hitler himself, explaining that “the Hidden Imam manages all the affairs of the world.”

Diplomacy is the only answer, obviously.

(Courtesy of MEMRI TV.)

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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: Some people see only the external aspect of the enemy, and not its ulterior motives. The people who came to occupy Iraq – it seemed as if all they wanted was to take over the region and its oil. But when you peel off the outer layer, you see that their analysis is different. They have realized that something is about to happen in the region. The hand of God is about to emerge and eradicate the injustice in the world. They discuss this among themselves. Look how much attention they have given it. Some people believe the Hidden Imam is living his life somewhere, without any concern for the problems of humanity. If this were the case, there would be no existence at all. Everything would be in chaos. The Hidden Imam manages all the affairs of the world.

Tags: LGF, Iran, Ahmadinejad, Obama, Barack Obama, Election 2008, Diplomacy, hidden imam, Militant Islam

Pro-Al Qaeda Revisionist History from AFP

Thu, May 15, 2008 at 5:16:12 pm PDT

This week, the week of Israel’s 60th anniversary, is the week when the mainstream media completely dropped its mask with an unprecedented deluge of anti-Israel propaganda that has astounded even me. And it shows no sign of letting up.

Here’s a pro-Al Qaeda piece from AFP: Bin Laden to release speech for Israel anniversary: reports.

Bin Laden last issued a message on March 20, urging Muslims to support the insurgency in Iraq as the best way to support the Palestinians, and accusing Arab leaders of backing Israeli attacks on the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip

Bin Laden has claimed responsibility for the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, which killed nearly 3,000 people and prompted the US-led invasion of Afghanistan.

Despite a massive manhunt and a 25-million-dollar bounty on his head, he has evaded capture and has regularly taunted the United States and its allies through warnings issued via video and audio, mainly on the Internet.

Concluding with a breathtaking little bit of revisionist history right out of the Arab propaganda playbook:

Israel proclaimed its independence on May 14, 1948, which it consolidated in a brief war with its neighbours that led to the expulsion or flight of some 700,000 Palestinians.

Absolutely astounding.

Tags: LGF, Media Bias, Israel, Agence France Press, AFP, Osama bin Laden

Thursday Afternoon Open

Thu, May 15, 2008 at 4:21:30 pm PDT

When it’s time for an open thread, there’s no stopping it...

Tags: LGF, Open Thread

UC Irvine Muslim Student Union Openly Supports Hamas

Thu, May 15, 2008 at 4:00:44 pm PDT

At UC Irvine, where a school investigation found “no evidence” of any antisemitism among the Islamic student groups, open support for Hamas from the Muslim Student Union: MSU-UCI: Campus Supporters of Terror Group Hamas.

A photo of the mock “Israeli wall” at their Nakba hatefest:

This has been going on at UC Irvine for years.

Tags: LGF, UC Irvine, CAIR, MSU, Antisemitism, Nakba, Hamas, Wacademia

MSNBC Joins the Nakba Chorus

Thu, May 15, 2008 at 2:20:44 pm PDT

Still more insanely over the top “Nakba” propaganda from the mainstream media at MSNBC, by yet another Arab writer: As Israelis celebrate, Palestinians mourn.

This is how the media are almost universally spinning Israel’s 60th anniversary. It’s nauseating.

JERUSALEM – Women screaming and children trying to escape a village on fire.

These are just two of the images that two Palestinian sisters, Fatima and Zeinab Jaber, 65 and 71, live with from an event they witnessed 60 years ago. They are haunted, too, by the memory of their mother, Nuzah, who they recall crying as she rushed members of their family to safety.

And they are their last recollections of their home, the village of Deir Yassin, as it was being overrun and destroyed by armed Jewish militant groups.

It gets worse. You won’t believe how much worse.

UPDATE at 5/15/08 2:24:01 pm:

The truth about Deir Yassin.

UPDATE at 5/15/08 2:44:51 pm:

At Google News, there are currently 1,956 results in a search for Nakba.

UPDATE at 5/15/08 4:08:07 pm:

In the last 90 minutes, the number of “Nakba” articles found at Google News has more than doubled, to 4,611. Propaganda is flooding the newswires.

Tags: LGF, Nakba, Propaganda, MSNBC, Palestinians, Israel

Thursday Afternoon Open

Thu, May 15, 2008 at 1:42:38 pm PDT

God defend me from my friends; from my enemies I can defend myself.

— Proverb

Tags: LGF, Open Thread

The Worst Reuters Article Ever

Thu, May 15, 2008 at 1:07:23 pm PDT

I’m sitting with my mouth dropped open, reading what has to be the single most biased mainstream media article I have ever encountered. Reuters has completely dropped the mask, and their Arab propagandists are doing everything in their power to demonize Israel and promote the big lie of “Nakba.”

Just look at this headline: Bush hails Israel’s ‘chosen people’ as Arabs lament.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - President George W. Bush told Israelis on Thursday they were a “chosen people” who can forever count on American support against enemies like Hamas and Iran.

On a day when Palestinians remembered homes and land lost as Israel was created in 1948, Bush made only fleeting reference to their aspirations for a state of their own in a speech marking Israel’s 60th anniversary that was laced with references to God.

Basking in ovations on the second day of a farewell visit to a country where his presidency is hailed as a golden age, Bush again said little of the talks he has sponsored in recent months between Israel and the Palestinians, which he hopes can bring a deal on a Palestinian state before he leaves office in January. ...

Letting Iran have nuclear weapons would be an “unforgivable betrayal of future generations,” he said. By comparing talking with such foes to appeasement of Hitler, he sparked a debate at home among those campaigning to succeed him as president.

Bush described the “bonds of the Book” — faith in the Bible shared by Christians like himself and Jews — as bolstering an “unbreakable” alliance between Israel and the United States.

Of the Palestinians, half of whom were pushed into exile to make way for the Jewish state, Bush said that, looking ahead another 60 years in the future, “the Palestinian people will have the homeland they have long dreamed of and deserved.”

“SLAP IN THE FACE”

The president’s language in Israel has dismayed Palestinians looking for the U.S. superpower to mediate in their negotiations with Israel. Islamist Hamas, which spurns such talks, said Bush sounded “like a priest or a rabbi” and had delivered a “slap in the face” to those Palestinians who placed their hopes in him.

Tags: LGF, Media Bias, Reuters, Anti-Israel, Propaganda

Crybaby Says What?

Thu, May 15, 2008 at 12:19:48 pm PDT

What’s that high-pitched, furious whining sound I keep hearing?

Oh, I see. It’s just Barack Obama complaining again. This time he’s throwing a tantrum about a boilerplate anti-terrorism statement by President Bush that doesn’t even mention him by name.

ABC News’ Ed O’Keefe Reports: The Obama campaign is taking issue with a comment President Bush made while speaking to the Knesset on the 60th anniversary of Israel’s statehood.

“Some seem to believe we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along,” the President said to the country’s legislative body, “We have heard this foolish delusion before. As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: ‘Lord, if only I could have talked to Hitler, all of this might have been avoided.’ We have an obligation to call this what it is –- the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history.”

In a statement, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., shot across the bow: “It is sad that President Bush would use a speech to the Knesset on the 6Oth anniversary of Israel’s independence to launch a false political attack. It is time to turn the page on eight years of policies that have strengthened Iran and failed to secure America or our ally Israel. Instead of tough talk and no action, we need to do what Kennedy, Nixon and Reagan did and use all elements of American power — including tough, principled, and direct diplomacy - to pressure countries like Iran and Syria. George Bush knows that I have never supported engagement with terrorists, and the President’s extraordinary politicization of foreign policy and the politics of fear do nothing to secure the American people or our stalwart ally Israel.”

ABC News’ White House troops point out that the President has made similar statements in the past and Bush did not specifically cite Obama by name, though he did reference Sen. William Borah’s immortal reaction upon hearing that Hitler had invaded Poland and begun World War II, something he has not highlighted in the past.

“(The President) has said similar things before,” a White House official told ABC News’ Martha Raddatz. “But it is in reference to a number of people, think Carter, others who have engaged in this or suggested it.”

White House spokesperson Dana Perino was asked if Bush’s line was a slam against Obama and she insisted, “It is not.”

“I understand that when you are running for office sometimes you think the world revolves around you. That is not always true and it is not true in this case,” Perino added.

UPDATE at 5/15/08 12:35:11 pm:

The Huffington Post is going bat guano crazy, with a typically dishonest headline: Bush Compares Obama To Nazi Appeasers.

Tags: LGF, Election 2008, Barack Obama, Crybaby

California Legalizes Gay Marriage

Thu, May 15, 2008 at 11:11:18 am PDT

In an election year, the California Supreme Court has legalized gay marriage.

Hang on to your hats.

Tags: LGF, Gay Rights, California, Gay Marriage

The Protocols of the Daily Kos

Thu, May 15, 2008 at 10:49:30 am PDT

Yes, it’s another ridiculously verbose anti-Israel diary at Daily Kos by “jon the antizionist jew:” Daily Kos: The Nakba at 60; Protest, Commemoration, and Solidarity.

And unlike the openly antisemitic diary we noted Tuesday, the commenters are almost all approving.

You won’t find a single diary or front page post at Daily Kos wishing Israel well on her 60th anniversary.

Not one.

And that vile antisemitic diary from Tuesday, by the way, has not been removed.

Tags: LGF, Daily Kos, Progressives, Antisemitism, Anti-Israel

CAIR's Image Makeover

Thu, May 15, 2008 at 9:43:19 am PDT

Tyler Hurd is a St. Cloud State University student plagued by seizures following a childhood accident, and has a service dog who is trained to sit on him when a seizure strikes, to prevent him from hurting himself.

A Muslim student at the school threatened to kill the dog.

Now the Hamas-linked, Saudi-funded radical Islamic front group calling itself the Council on American Islamic Relations is getting out in front of the press to support Tyler Hurd: Islamic group supports student teacher.

The only reason they are on the right side of this issue is because they need to rehabilitate their image, after being listed as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism trial. Expect to see more empty gestures like this from CAIR.

And of course, in this article at the St. Cloud Times, you won’t find any of this context, as once again CAIR is simply (and dishonestly) described as “the nation’s largest Islamic civil liberties group.”

A Muslim civil rights group on Wednesday said it supports a St. Cloud State University student’s right to use a service dog while teaching at a high school with a growing Muslim population.

The statement comes after 23-year-old Tyler Hurd of Mahtomedi left a teacher-training assignment before its completion at Technical High School in April.

Hurd said he left because he was concerned for the safety of his service dog.

He said he was told a student at the high school threatened to kill the dog, a black Lab named Emmitt.

The student is Muslim. The Minnesota Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations said in a statement that the need to accommodate people using service dogs far outweighs the discomfort an individual Muslim feels about coming in contact with a dog. CAIR is the nation’s largest Islamic civil liberties group.

“We were just shocked to see that. He (Hurd) was treated with disrespect,” Lori Saroya said in an interview.

She lives in Minneapolis and is chairwoman of the Minnesota chapter.

Muslims believe the saliva of dogs invalidates the ritual washing before prayer. It has become a cultural norm for individuals not to have dogs in their houses, according to Minnesota CAIR.

UPDATE at 5/15/08 10:24:07 am:

Here’s how CAIR describes the Islamic prohibition against dogs, and the SC Times accepts it at face value:

Muslims believe the saliva of dogs invalidates the ritual washing before prayer. It has become a cultural norm for individuals not to have dogs in their houses, according to Minnesota CAIR.

This description is ludicrously incomplete, to the point of being a deliberate deception. The hadith says that Muslims should not only avoid touching dogs—they should kill them.

(Hat tip: SpringheelJack.)

Tags: LGF, CAIR, Council on American Islamic Relations, Saudi Arabia, Radical Islam, Propaganda, Dogs

Olbermann to Bush: 'Shut the Hell Up'

Thu, May 15, 2008 at 8:56:27 am PDT

MSNBC should be ashamed of themselves for promoting this insane, ranting freak as some kind of legitimate commentator: Olbermann Accuses Bush of ‘Murderous Deceit,’ Should ‘Shut the Hell Up’.

I guess this kind of hate speech sells advertisements. I remember when talking this way about a President of the United States would guarantee losing advertisers.

Tags: LGF, MSNBC, Keith Olbermann, Moonbats, Hate Speech

Dirty Tricks and Gutter Politics

Thu, May 15, 2008 at 8:42:58 am PDT

Get ready for gutter politics at its lowest, as lunatic preachers attack: The Trinity of Hell.

Just so nobody thinks I’m approving this message: this guy is completely off his rocker.

Tags: LGF, Election 2008, Barack Obama

Daily Kos and Others on Jihad

Thu, May 15, 2008 at 8:23:08 am PDT

Jeffrey Imm has a detailed report on the efforts to disguise and redefine the word “jihad,” taking place at the Department of Homeland Security, the National Counter Terrorism Center — and the Daily Kos.

What do the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), National Counter Terrorism Center (NCTC), and the Daily Kos all have in common? They are all seeking to define the enemy as other than “jihadists”.

A. Daily Kos: Jihad Not Terrorism

Three weeks after AP’s report of the NCTC/DHS recommendations to eliminate the term “jihadist” (among others) from the lexicon describing Jihadist terrorism, the latest salvo in this “war of ideas” was published on the popular Daily Kos web site by “Amad” on May 12: “Who Speaks for Islam? Part 3b: Jihad, Religion & Politics”. The Daily Kos author states that to “most Muslims, jihad implies honor and sacrifice for others”, and “[u]sing jihad and terrorism as synonyms is wrong and counterproductive” — seeking to define the threat as “extremism”. The article also expands on the real cause of “extremism” as “disrespect for Islam”, “aggressive” U.S. foreign policy, and “double-standards exhibited by the US on democracy and human-rights”. It quotes a student at the American University of Cairo as condemning U.S. foreign policy: “Bush has given Israel carte blanch to attack Palestinians and Lebanese. The war on terror is an open-ended war on Muslims.”

Daily Kos provides a biography on “Amad” stating: “Amad runs MuslimMatters.org... [and]... was one of the founders of Texas Dawah.” Amad’s blogroll on Daily Kos promotes MuslimMatters.org and CAIR. What Daily Kos does not mention is who some of the participants at Texas Dawah meetings and at the MuslimMatters.org website are, as they include supporters of jihadist groups, unindicted co-conspirators in U.S. terror trials, and supporters of the Taliban.
Texas Dawah 2007 convention speakers included:

- Siraj Wahhaj - “unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing”. “Blind Sheik” Omar Abdel-Rahman attended Imam Wahhaj’s mosque and gave a lecture at the mosque stating “Muslims should rob banks to benefit Islam”. Siraj Wahhaj has reportedly called for replacing the U.S. government with an Islamic caliphate.

- Imam Johari Abdul-Malik - outreach director for Dar al-Hijrah mosque where “Virginia 11” member Ali Asad Chandia attended (supporter of Lashkar-e-Taiba group) and alleged fund raiser for Ali Asad Chandia. Abdu-Malik supported litigation to stop Israeli attacks on Hamas leaders.

- Dr. Salah As-Sawi - issued refutation of fatwa with the intent to deny that American Muslim soldiers had the responsibility to fight against the Taliban after 9/11 attacks, history of involvement with organizations under investigation, and served as a professor at Al-Azhar in Egypt - reportedly “a bastion of the dangerous Muslim Brotherhood.”

- The December 3, 2007 Jawa Report also provides other details about Texas Dawah speakers.

Another speaker at the Texas Dawah 2007 convention, who is also a regular contributor to MuslimMatters.org, is Musa Maguire. As Musa states in one of his articles on MuslimMatters.org, “I always get a special welcome from the folks at the airport...[t]o be fair, I can understand why I may have ended up on one of their lists”. But MuslimMatters.org’s Musa Maguire does not tell you why. Could it be because Musa (aka Thomas) Maguire is the cousin of American Taliban John Walker Lindh?

In 2006, the Daily Telegraph reported on Musa Maguire and American Taliban John Walker Lindh: “Thomas Maguire, his cousin, also converted as a teenager, but said that Lindh found the rigorous path of Islam easier to follow. ‘John exhibited a glowing innocence that propelled him to openly investigate the truth of Islam,’ Maguire (known as Musa) wrote on a Muslim website. Maguire, who now hosts an English-language talk show on an Egyptian cable television network, praised Lindh’s ‘unswerving’ faith and thoughtfulness. In words that would unnerve many Americans, he also described his cousin as ‘one of the greatest success stories in the modern propagation of Islam in the West’.” Musa Maguire calls American Taliban John Walker Lindh aka “Sulayman” - “a champion of Islam”, has charged that “the case against Sulayman is nothing less than attack against our deen”, and states that he “deserves the support of the Muslim community”.

The ideological influences of those associated with the MuslimMatters.org author and Texas Dawah co-founder writing in Daily Kos provide context behind his attempts to convince millions of Americans that Jihad is not terrorism, and that our only enemy is “extremism”.

Why does it matter what the Daily Kos reports? According to the latest blog traffic statistics for 2008, the Daily Kos is getting between 20 million and 30 million visits per month. Daily Kos has had its own meetings with Democratic primary candidates for president. Daily Kos contributors include current office holders such as: Nancy Pelosi, Richard Durbin, Tom Harkin, John Conyers, Barbara Boxer, Russ Feingold, John Kerry, Ted Kennedy, Jim Moran, and Barack Obama.

Tags: LGF, Daily Kos, Jihad, Propaganda, Terrorism

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Friday Early Morning Open

An LGF Experiment at Carnegie Mellon?

Obama: The Decider

Thursday Evening Open

Obama's Diplomatic Partner: 'The Hidden Imam Manages All the Affairs of the World'

Pro-Al Qaeda Revisionist History from AFP

Thursday Afternoon Open

UC Irvine Muslim Student Union Openly Supports Hamas

MSNBC Joins the Nakba Chorus

Thursday Afternoon Open

The Worst Reuters Article Ever

Crybaby Says What?

California Legalizes Gay Marriage

The Protocols of the Daily Kos

CAIR's Image Makeover

Olbermann to Bush: 'Shut the Hell Up'

Dirty Tricks and Gutter Politics

Daily Kos and Others on Jihad