LGF Archives: January 2007
Muslim-Only Bathrooms at Aussie College
Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 9:11:16 pm PST
More special treatment for Muslims in the name of multiculturalism, at a university in Australia: Row over washrooms. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) A ROW has erupted over Muslim-only washrooms at La Trobe University that can be accessed only with a secret push-button code. Muslim students have exclusive access to male and female ...
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The Nuance of Jacques
Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 8:24:36 pm PST
French president Jacques Chirac let the truth slip out in an interview on Monday; he’s OK with Iran having one or two nuclear weapons. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) PARIS, Jan. 31 — President Jacques Chirac said this week that if Iran had one or two nuclear weapons, it would not pose ...
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Glick: Welcome to Palestine
Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 7:15:20 pm PST
Caroline Glick writes about the bizarre mass delusion that refuses to die: Our World: Welcome to Palestine. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) In the world of international diplomacy few issues receive more wall-to-wall support than the notion that it is essential to establish a Palestinian state. Leaders worldwide are so busy speaking ...
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Anti-Military Screed at the Washington Post
Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 5:20:34 pm PST
Today’s ugly leftist anti-military rant is published by the Washington Post. And “anti-military” is no exaggeration in this case; as William Arkin spells out quite clearly, he believes that the raping, murdering, torturing US troops are lucky they aren’t being spat upon: The Troops Also Need to Support the American ...
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UK Islamist Students Sponsor "War on Terror Week"
Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 2:18:28 pm PST
At the UK radical Islamic bulletin board Ummah.com, the kids take a break from celebrating terror attacks and passing around links to beheading videos, to promote something that’s not really an “anti-war” event: War on Terror Week. One of the Islamist/left-wing celebrities appearing at this event, Moazzam Begg, is also a ...
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AP Updates, Doesn't Correct
Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 1:16:05 pm PST
Here’s the Associated Press’s latest attempt to quietly correct one of the “Jamil Hussein” stories without really correcting it: Sunni mosques still show damage in Iraq. Complete with an egregious mischaracterization of the US military’s reaction to the AP story. Michelle Malkin responds.
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Breaking: Several Suspicious Devices Discovered in Boston
Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 12:04:02 pm PST
Suspicious Devices Found In Four Areas In Boston. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) (WBZ) BOSTON Police are investigating four suspicious devices found at four separate locations throughout Boston. Officials are telling WBZ the devices are similar to the one found this morning in Sullivan Square attached to a beam supporting I-93 north. The four ...
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Biden: Patronizing Enough?
Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 11:37:24 am PST
Drudge Report is headlining this one: Biden Unbound: Lays Into Clinton, Obama, Edwards. Mr. Biden is equally skeptical—albeit in a slightly more backhanded way—about Mr. Obama. “I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy,” he said. “I mean, that’s a ...
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NYT Posts 4Q Loss: $648 Million
Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 10:44:21 am PST
New York Times Reports 4Q Loss of $648M. Ouch. That’s a lot of Starbucks frappucinos. (Hat tip: Geepers.) NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Times Co. posted a $648 million loss for the fourth quarter on Wednesday as it absorbed an $814.4 million charge to write down the value of ...
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Petition to Indict Ahmadinejad
Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 10:27:40 am PST
Aish.com is hosting a petition to indict Iranian madman Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for incitement to commit genocide, under the UN Genocide Convention: Stand Up To Ahmadinejad.
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CBS's Logan Working with Al Qaeda?
Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 10:06:10 am PST
Bryan Preston looks at the latest example of US mainstream media disseminating the propaganda of Islamic terrorists: Lara Logan and her terrorist footage: It is too important to ignore. If you’re not familiar with it, here’s the gist: CBS News reporter Lara Logan, currently the network’s correspondent in Baghdad, used clips ...
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British MPs Meet With Hamas in Defiance of Ban
Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 9:18:32 am PST
The appeasers of the world are really pushing the limits of acceptable behavior. Even as another Islamic terror plot is revealed in Britain, we learn that a group of Members of Parliament have visited Ramallah and held talks with Hamas—in clear violation of UK law: MPs defy ban on contact ...
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LGF Surges Continue
Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 8:58:05 am PST
We went offline for a few minutes again this morning; sorry for the inconvenience. We’ve been experiencing huge waves of (legitimate) traffic, and it’s overwhelming our single dedicated server every morning at about the same time, as people show up for work across this great land of ours and log ...
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Another Islamic Terror Plot in Britain
Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 8:52:02 am PST
Nine arrested over alleged kidnap and beheading plot. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) A ninth person has been arrested in connection with an alleged plot to kidnap and behead a member of the public live on the internet, West Midlands Police said this afternoon. The arrest, on a motorway in the Birmingham ...
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Barack Obama's "Racial Obsessions"
Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 9:18:39 pm PST
Here’s a piece on Barack Obama’s past, based on his own account of his shockingly racist anti-white attitudes, in a biography written before he entered politics: ‘Trapped between two worlds’. After his sophomore year, Obama transferred to Columbia University. Later, looking back on his years in New York City, he recalled: ...
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Iowahawk: Historically Speaking
Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 8:45:39 pm PST
Iowahawk has discovered the first draft of Professor David Bell’s piece on America’s knuckle-dragging overreaction to 9/11: Historically Speaking, Sh-t Happens. [Found in a dumpster behind the Encino Galleria: first draft of historian David Bell’s gripping L.A. Times OpEd] by David A. Bell IMAGINE THAT on 9/11, six hours after the assault on ...
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$86 Million to Suicide Bombing Terrorists
Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 6:43:05 pm PST
Presented without comment: Bush unveils security aid for Palestinian ally. WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President George W. Bush has ordered the transfer of about 86 million dollars in aid to strengthen security forces loyal to Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, the White House said. Confirmation of the US aid came a day after ...
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Pelosi's Daughter and the Comment Swarm Phenomenon
Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 6:23:36 pm PST
Didn’t anyone ever tell Allahpundit that to mention evolution is to risk the dreaded escalating comment swarm? Video: Pelosi’s daughter covers creationism. “Creationism?” I believe the term currently in favor is “intelligent design.” I don’t know about “intelligent design,” but I think there’s plenty of evidence for “stupid design.” And I’ll take any ...
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The Wise Democrats
Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 5:40:25 pm PST
When Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said last week that there are “many wise people in America” who won’t stand in the way of Iran’s Manhattan Project, he was reading the Great Satan like a book: Senators warn against war with Iran. (Hat tip: Stuart.) WASHINGTON - Republican and Democratic senators warned Tuesday against ...
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Zombie: Chubby Brutality in Berkeley
Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 3:45:36 pm PST
Zombie’s new photo essay looks at the UC Berkeley unveiling of Fernando Botero’s overheated imaginary scenes of US brutality: Abu Ghraib Paintings at Berkeley. Here we see the dreaded women’s undergarment torture. Previously at LGF: Colombian Artist Agitprop.
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Shari'a Law and British Muslims
Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 3:21:49 pm PST
Here’s another video from UK TV, YouTubed by operative kasper, discussing the newly released study that shows 40 percent of young Muslims want shari’a law in Britain—and 13 percent “admire” organizations like Al Qaeda who are prepared to “fight the West”. [Video]
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Behold: The Little Green Zionist Balloons of Death
Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 2:37:28 pm PST
In this photo released by the Hezbollah’s media office, green balloons with Hebrew writings were found in the southern market town of Nabatiyeh, Lebanon Sunday, Jan. 28, 2007. Mysterious balloons drifting in from Israel to Lebanon are unnerving people, with some south Lebanon villagers reportedly feeling ill and authorities warning ...
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MPACUK: "Bin Laden Gave Angry Young Muslims a Blueprint"
Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 12:59:39 pm PST
The UK’s Sky News recently aired this charming propaganda piece by the Muslim Public Affairs Committee (MPACUK), ostensibly arguing for Muslim involvement in democracy. But MPACUK’s goal, as Asghar Bukhari explicitly says in a jaw dropper of an introduction, is outlined in a blueprint given to “angry young Muslims” by Osama ...
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Associated Press Mystified by 12th Imam Cult
Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 11:33:04 am PST
Associated Press analyst Robert H. Reid is greatly mystified by the sudden appearance in Iraq of an apocalyptic cult devoted to bringing about the return of the so-called “12th Imam,” from a well where the little rascal’s been hiding for centuries: Analysis: Najaf battle raises questions. BAGHDAD, Iraq - Accounts of ...
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NYT Rebukes Reporter for Thinking US Can Win
Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 11:14:41 am PST
New York Times public editor Byron Calame (aka The Empty Suit) has publicly admonished the Times’ chief military correspondent, Michael Gordon, for saying he thinks the US can win in Iraq.
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UK Prison Toilets Now Shari'a-Compliant
Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 10:52:41 am PST
Some British Muslim prison inmates will now be able to Just Poop™ while facing Mecca. (Hat tip: Ladycatnip.) Toilets in one London prison are getting a face-lift — or rather, a change in direction — to accommodate Muslim inmates who can’t use them while facing Mecca, a British newspaper reported. Government officials ...
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Giant Duck of Peace Denied
Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 9:18:00 am PST
An outraged anti-war protester writes about our post on the Moronic Convergence in Washington DC: You might want to correct your subtitle for the anti-war protest duck. It is a PEACE DOVE! I know, I was there. Also, the sign that says “Just Poop” is a nice way of saying “Sh-t or get ...
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Islamic Grievance Theater Goes to Film
Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 9:06:27 am PST
The big push is on to force, coerce, and cajole Americans to go back to sleep, forget all about those not-so-bad 9/11 attacks, and stop paying any special attention to Muslims on airplanes. And they’re using the language of “human rights” to do it: ’Flying While Muslim’: ‘Racial’ Profiling Post-9/11. ...
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Islamic Jihad Pimps Carter's Book
Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 8:20:30 am PST
Former president Jimmy Carter’s disgraceful new book may have been panned all over the Western world (even in the New York Times), but there’s at least one organization giving it rave reviews. Islamic Jihad. (Hat tip: Internet Haganah.)
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Antisemitism Rising in Germany
Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 8:55:04 pm PST
Holocaust memorials defiled by neo-Nazis. The German authorities were preparing for criticism from the Jewish community after it was revealed that a Holocaust memorial in Berlin was being used as a public lavatory by tourists and by neo-Nazi sympathisers. The disclosure, in a Berlin newspaper, will trigger a new debate about how ...
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By Popular Request: The 24 Open Thread
Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 8:16:41 pm PST
Here’s an open thread to discuss tonight’s episode of 24...
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Palestinian Cease Fire Watch
Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 7:58:00 pm PST
Apparently, we’re not supposed to laugh: Hamas, Fatah declare new cease-fire. GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Warring Hamas and Fatah factions in the Gaza Strip declared a cease-fire early Tuesday in an effort to end factional fighting that has left more than 60 Palestinians dead in the past two months. The cease-fire ...
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CAIR: Silent Again
Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 6:22:44 pm PST
In an idle moment I wondered whether the Council on American Islamic Relations had anything to say about the suicide bombing today in Eilat, with all that Saudi money and all those staff members watching for any Islam-related stories. Let’s browse over to their site, shall we? Nope. Not a single ...
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Bomber's Family: Very Happy for "The Hero"
Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 5:44:02 pm PST
It’s a death cult family moment, as the Eilat suicide bomber’s brother exults in mass murder: Bomber’s brother: We’re happy Muhammad is the hero. You see, Allah wanted this noble shahid to commit a sneak attack and kill unsuspecting people in a bakery. “The whole family was very happy when it heard ...
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Bernard Lewis: Muslims "About to Take over Europe"
Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 4:44:50 pm PST
Islamic scholar Bernard Lewis doesn’t have a hopeful outlook on Europe: Muslims ‘about to take over Europe’. Unless, of course, you think that sounds hopeful. Islam could soon be the dominant force in a Europe which, in the name of political correctness, has abdicated the battle for cultural and religious control, ...
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Anti-War Freak Show Roundup
Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 3:44:36 pm PST
In no particular order, links to various posts on the weekend’s anti-war circuses: The Moonbat Recon Project: United for Peace and Justice ‘Anti-War’ Rally. This moonbat, clearly a tree-climbing species from the Pacific Northwest, got a bit spooked when the crowd started to march and sought refuge in this old oak tree. ...
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Video: Islamic Terrorist Strikes in Eilat
Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 2:48:33 pm PST
Ynet News has a report on the mass murder attack today in Eilat: Eilat terror victim identified. (Hat tip: zombie.) Includes this surveillance camera video from a nearby restaurant: [Video]
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More Surveillance Video of Failed London Attack
Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 12:45:05 pm PST
More surveillance camera video from the failed London 7/21 bombings, as two of the would-be mass murderers disperse to carry out their attacks with devices filled with nuts and bolts. (Hat tip: kasper.) [Video]
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Hizballah Has a Copy of Photoshop
Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 11:02:08 am PST
It’s the photograph that was too good to fake just once, as Hizballah and Michel Aoun try to pull off a blatant frame-up using the gunman from the infamous “burning garbage dump” fauxtograph. Michael J. Totten has the details: Busted.
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Dissing the Truthers in Michigan
Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 10:47:28 am PST
Kudos to the Michigan YAF, who gave a meeting of 9/11 Truthers exactly the right amount of respect: Conspiracy theorists stir controversy at Union. (Hat tip: Terp Mole.) Claims like Bowman’s are “absurd,” said Ryan Fantuzzi, vice president of the University’s chapter of the Young Americans for Freedom, a far-right group ...
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Islamic Blood Ritual Season
Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 10:12:15 am PST
It’s time for the yearly ritual of Ashura, in which Shi’ite Muslims flagellate themselves with chains and slash themselves with knives and swords in a 7th century-style blood ritual. This lovely custom, about which we are not allowed to make any judgments in the 21st century, starts at a very ...
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AP Quietly Backpedaling on Jamil Hussein?
Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 9:41:26 am PST
It looks as if the Associated Press is beginning to quietly backpedal on another rather hot topic, removing the article from their web site that claims to prove the existence of “Jamil Hussein:” Walkback? UPDATE at 1/29/07 12:25:13 pm: Bob Owens updates: AP says technical issues caused the article to temporarily disappear. ...
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BBC Unbans LGF
Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 9:06:43 am PST
Have the BBC Message Board administrators acknowledged that Little Green Footballs will not cause mutation in their readers? (Little do they realize the terrible secret...) Have we gone ... “mainstream?” It looks that way; they’ve reopened the closed topic and even restored our name in the title: BBC - MESSAGE BOARDS - ...
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Monday Morning Surge
Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 8:55:52 am PST
Our server’s starting to heat up from a major Monday morning traffic surge. We’re working on it... here’s an open thread while we disassemble the flux capacitors and diagnose the problem...
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And Again
Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 7:51:27 am PST
It’s taken them months to do it (and dozens of failed attempts), but the Palestinians managed to sneak another mass murderer into Israel today to attack civilians: Suicide bomber kills 3 in Israel’s Eilat. EILAT, Israel (Reuters) - A Palestinian suicide bomber killed three people in a bakery in the Red ...
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RoP Strikes Again in Thailand
Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 8:28:19 pm PST
Despite the “peace-building efforts” of the military coup-installed government: Four shot dead in Thailand’s restive Muslim south. YALA, Thailand (AFP) - Four people have been shot dead and two others injured in attacks by suspected Islamic militants in Thailand’s insurgency-torn southern provinces, according to police. A 33-year-old Muslim was gunned down in ...
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Kerry Then and Now
Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 8:26:16 pm PST
At Brutally Honest: John Kerry: I was against Iran’s Nuclear program before I was for it. This was John Kerry just one year and two weeks or so ago: “Ultimately if we are not able to find any diplomatic resolution in the next weeks I don’t think we have any choice ...
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Hillary: "Evil and Bad Men"
Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 6:22:09 pm PST
Who do you think Hillary was talking about? My first impression (which hasn’t gone away) was that she was talking about her husband. I think Hillary Clinton compared her husband to Osama bin Laden today. And her evasive answers at the press conference afterwards only reinforced the impression. My goodness. UPDATE at 1/28/07 ...
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And Now For Something Completely Different...
Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 5:12:37 pm PST
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Davos Video Gold Rush
Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 4:39:06 pm PST
Given the tendency of attendees at Davos to have attacks of foot-in-mouth disease, I think I’ll have a closer look at all these lovely videos the World Economic Forum has made available: World Economic Forum - Podcasts and Webcasts. I see Thomas Friedman, Mahmoud Abbas, Shimon Peres, Angela Merkel, King Abdullah ...
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Hizb Ut-Tahrir in Sydney Calls for Jihad to Create Caliphate
Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 4:20:55 pm PST
The militant Islamic group Hizb ut-Tahrir, banned from one venue in Sydney, found another one willing to rent them space for their convention, at which they promptly called for jihad to create an Islamic state. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) AN extremist Islamic group has called on Australian Muslims to prepare for ...
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Poll: 40% of Young Muslims Want Shari'a in Britain
Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 3:50:43 pm PST
The Daily Mail cites a new poll with results that will come as no surprise (but are horrifying nonetheless), given the kind of anti-Western hate speech we saw in Undercover Mosque being preached at so-called mainstream Islamic facilities: A generation of outsiders. (Hat tip: kasper.) The doctrine of multi-culturalism has alienated ...
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Video: Pipes vs. Livingstone in London
Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 3:29:02 pm PST
Here’s an amateur video at YouTube of the debate between Daniel Pipes and Red Ken Livingstone in London at the conference, “A World Civilisation or a Clash of Civilisations.” The camera’s pretty shaky and sound isn’t the best, but if you really want to see the debate you’ll be able ...
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Three Pieces on Idiotarianism
Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 3:14:33 pm PST
Here are three more articles you should read about America’s worst former president, Jimmy Carter: Commentary Online Article - Our Worst Ex-President (Is there an echo in here?) CAMERA: Jimmy Carter’s ‘Settlement Freeze’ Deception My Problem with Jimmy Carter’s Book - Middle East Quarterly
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US-Iraqi Forces Kill Scores of Jihadis
Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 1:54:49 pm PST
A major battle still raging in the “holy city” of Najaf: U.S., Iraqi forces kill 250 militants in Najaf. NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. and Iraqi forces killed some 250 gunmen from an apocalyptic Muslim cult on Sunday in a battle involving U.S. tanks and aircraft near the Shi’ite holy city ...
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Mughniyeh Making a Comeback?
Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 1:07:17 pm PST
Newsweek, not the most reliable of sources, says that Lebanese master terrorist Imad Mughniyeh may be back in action. (Hat tip: soph.) Feb. 5, 2007 issue - Before Osama bin Laden, there was Imad Mughniyeh. The Lebanese terrorist from Hizbullah was considered the most dangerous in the world. Now the White ...
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Dark Ages vs. Modern Medicine
Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 12:57:02 pm PST
When Islamic fanaticism meets the 21st Century British health system, it’s the children who suffer: Muslims urged to shun ‘unholy’ vaccines. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) A MUSLIM doctors’ leader has provoked an outcry by urging British Muslims not to vaccinate their children against diseases such as measles, mumps and rubella because ...
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It's a Puppet Show!
Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 12:21:59 pm PST
C-SPAN obviously doesn’t know what’s important at “anti-war” demonstrations. Yesterday they spent all their time focused on the ranting gasbags on stage, and completely missed all the good stuff. I’m talking puppets! Giant puppets! Age of Hooper scoops the mainstream media yet again, with the blogosphere’s best puppet coverage. UPDATE at 1/28/07 ...
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John F. Kerry: Big in Tehran
Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 11:28:59 am PST
Senator John F. Kerry made the front pages today. In Tehran. And yes, that’s Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi in the upper right. The caption: Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of US House of Representatives, supports the transfer of responsibility to Iraqi forces Senator John F. Kerry is also popular with the Fars ...
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"They Had Machine Guns Welded in Windows"
Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 10:53:54 am PST
Here’s an outstanding post from Michael J. Totten, doing the kind of investigative work the media just doesn’t care about, and interviewing an IDF soldier about Hizballah’s militarization of civilian areas in Lebanon: “They Had Machine Guns Welded in Windows.” MJT: An article was recently published in the Washington Times, and ...
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UK Antisemitism Watch
Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 10:13:18 am PST
One of the more nauseating stories of dhimmitude and groveling appeasement mixed with blatant antisemitism is the tale of the UK’s Bolton Council, who decided to ban Holocaust Remembrance Day and institute a new “Genocide Day” that will also commemorate Israel’s nonexistent “genocide” against Palestinians. And a poll at the ...
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Reality-Based Community Hallucinating Again
Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 9:58:18 am PST
The biggest pile of self-aggrandizing hooey I’ve read today at Daily Kos: Daily Kos: My Six Months On Right Wing Blogs. (Hat tip: Killgore Trout.) It’s full of ridiculous, unsupported accusations that people are banned wholesale, with great fanfare, at Little Green Footballs, any time they express disagreement—which is, of course, ...
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The Second Coming of the Non-Flying Imams
Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 9:06:05 am PST
The true purpose of the highly publicized, highly staged incident with the six non-flying imams becomes apparent: it was a stalking horse for the far-left Democrats’ and Islamists’ plan to destroy the effort against radical Islam inside the United States: Advocates push Congress to ban profiling. WASHINGTON - The repercussions of ...
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Digg Antisemitism Watch
Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 8:41:48 am PST
Raging antisemitism at Digg.com, in a post that accepts as fact the ridiculously paranoid Arab report about mysterious Little Green Zionist death balloons: Digg - Israel Planes Dump ‘suspicious Green Balloons’ On Southern Lebanon. (Please digg this post.)
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UN Hypocrisy Watch
Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 8:34:01 am PST
Rule Number One of the United Nations political cartoon contest: While cartoonists may send in what ever they please, the contest does not encourage maligning member nations or their leaders. Winning cartoons will be chosen for their ability to enhance, explain and even help direct the spirit and principles of the ...
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The Infantilization of the Democrat Party
Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 8:25:48 am PST
Senator Joe Biden says it’s not the Democrat’s resolution to oppose the President that emboldens the enemy. No. As usual, it’s Bush’s fault, like everything else wrong in the universe. Biden: ‘Failed policy’ emboldens enemy. It’s an argument a five-year old might make. WASHINGTON - The Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman on ...
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BBC Message Boards Ban Another LGF Thread
Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 8:12:52 am PST
The anti-LGF Stalinists at the BBC Message Boards have shut down another thread that mentions Little Green Footballs, about the decision by the Bolton Council to ban Holocaust Remembrance Day. Apparently this is information the BBC doesn’t want the British public to know: BBC: Banning Little Green Footballs.
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LGF at Davos
Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 9:05:08 pm PST
Look who’s on the front page of the Davos Conversation web site right now: The rich and powerful are getting an earful tonight.
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Iran Denounces New US Policy
Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 8:18:35 pm PST
Iran doesn’t seem to like this new US policy of fighting back: Iran denounces U.S. raids in Iraq. (Hat tip: Killian Bundy.) Maybe they should complain to John F. Kerry. TEHRAN, Iran - A top Iranian lawmaker denounced the United States on Saturday for allowing its troops to kill or capture Iranians ...
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LGF on Tammy Bruce Show
Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 5:06:32 pm PST
I’m scheduled to be on Tammy Bruce’s radio show in about 10 minutes; here’s the page with links to listen over the web: Talk Radio Network: Listen Live! UPDATE at 1/27/07 6:53:35 pm: Audio at Hot Air: Tammy Bruce and Charles Johnson on Kerry, the great moonbat convergence, and poop. UPDATE at 1/27/07 ...
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Video: Best of the Moronic Convergence
Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 4:39:30 pm PST
Here’s a selection of rough clips from today’s tantrum at the National Mall, featuring “progressive” celebrities such as CODEPINK’s Medea Benjamin and her troupe of harpies, a British Stop-The-War moonbat who advocates impeaching America’s president, a cheer from the crowd at the mention of American Taliban traitor John Walker Lindh, ...
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Little Green Balloons Cause Panic in Lebanon
Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 3:41:01 pm PST
Today the official Lebanese news agency warned people in the south to beware of the diabolical Zionist poisoned death balloons: Balloons released in Israeli promotion sow panic in south Lebanon. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) An Israeli promotional campaign involving balloons caused panic among Lebanese civilians Saturday when the wind carried them ...
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Palestinian Civil War Watch
Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 2:43:00 pm PST
The fighting between Hamas and Fatah is no longer being called a “shaky truce” by the wire services: Hamas-Fatah violence continues; 20 dead. GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Gunmen armed with mortars and grenades fought in several areas of Gaza City on Saturday, killing two men on the third straight day ...
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RoP Strikes Again in Pakistan
Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 1:06:55 pm PST
Pakistan bomb blast kills 14. ISLAMABAD (AFP) - At least 14 people including two senior police officers were killed in a suspected suicide bombing in northwest Pakistan’s main city, police and officials said. About 30 people were also injured in the explosion that targeted a police contingent guarding a procession of ...
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Iran's Manhattan Project Rushes Ahead
Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 12:29:37 pm PST
While John F. Kerry sat onstage in Switzerland discussing America’s failings with Ayatollah Mohammed Khatami, Iran continued installing nuclear centrifuges: Iran says it’s installing centrifuges. TEHRAN, Iran - Iran is currently installing 3,000 centrifuges at a uranium enrichment plant, an Iranian lawmaker said Saturday, a day after a senior U.S. diplomat ...
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Kerry's Anti-US Remarks: Kos Kidz Spinning Like Crazy
Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 12:20:18 pm PST
Sensing impending disaster at the Daily Kos, the Kidz waste no time rushing to spin John F. Kerry’s Davos remarks: Daily Kos: John Kerry’s Pariah Bomb. It’s great. They’re trying to simultaneously argue that: 1) Kerry’s remarks are being taken out of context, and 2) Kerry’s remarks are completely accurate and bursting with ...
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New Anti-War Slogan: "Just Poop"
Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 11:42:14 am PST
Judging from today’s “anti-war” demonstration in Washington DC, the quality of moonbat puppeteering has declined drastically. Here’s the backbone of peace, a giant spine. Poignantly representing the yearning of the Moonbat Nation for something they will never have: Next, the giant duck of peace. Quack. And a catchy new anti-war slogan makes its ...
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John F. Kerry, Iran's Best Friend
Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 11:15:06 am PST
Allahpundit has video from Fox of John F. Kerry’s disgraceful statements in Davos: Kerry rips Bush in front of former Iranian president at Davos; Update: Video added.
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BBC Update: Entire LGF Thread Now Closed
Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 11:06:10 am PST
The BBC Message Board has now completely closed the thread about Little Green Footballs, and even removed our name from the thread’s title: BBC - MESSAGE BOARDS - Five Live - Removed - Conversation - No Discussion Title. One of the last messages posted before the thread was closed: Message 27 - ...
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Stalinists, Democrats, Moonbats and Islamists Converge on DC
Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 10:04:59 am PST
The nuts are ranting in Washington DC, and if you can stomach it, it’s live on C-SPAN.
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John Kerry With the Enemies of America
Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 9:14:27 am PST
The man who was almost president shares a stage in Davos, Switzerland, with a rogue’s gallery of enemies, including the former president of Iran and his Iraqi puppet. Nearly beyond belief. But this is John F. Kerry, doing what he does—giving aid and comfort to the enemies of America during wartime. Amr ...
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BBC Shuts Down LGF Discussion, Deletes Forbes Link
Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 8:36:29 am PST
In that BBC discussion about Little Green Footballs, they’ve now hidden the link to Forbes Magazine, so that none of their readers will risk being exposed to lizardoid contamination, even indirectly: BBC - MESSAGE BOARDS - Five Live - Removed - Conversation. This posting has been temporarily hidden, because a member ...
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Muslim Council of Britain Shuts Down Holocaust Memorial
Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 8:26:21 am PST
The Bolton City Council in Manchester has bowed to the vile demands of the radical Islamic front group calling itself the Muslim Council of Britain, and banned Holocaust Day. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) IN A move widely seen to be bowing to Muslim pressure, Bolton Council has scrapped its Holocaust Memorial ...
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Moonbats Acting Out Tomorrow
Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 7:06:54 pm PST
The usual Stalinist, leftist, and Islamist groups are sponsoring an “anti-war” protest tomorrow in several cities, including Los Angeles. I hope they have some giant papier mache puppets. I miss the days when the moonbats were motivated enough to construct those scarily inept oversized costumes. UPDATE at 1/26/07 7:16:12 pm: Cindy Sheehan was ...
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Radical Islamist vs. CNN Airhead
Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 5:28:48 pm PST
Sententious airhead Christiane Amanpour takes a stroll with Anjem Choudray, the founder of the group so far over the line it was actually banned in Britain, Al Muhajiroun, and chats about murdering infidels, hating the Pope, and shari’a law. Includes scenes of the disgusting Islamist demonstration outside Westminster Cathedral: [Video] Some of ...
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We Got Mail!
Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 3:43:51 pm PST
With an IP address that traces to The British Study Group (an organization that aids international students in Britain) and seems to be located in Birmingham, an admirer with the probably phony email address “ahmedhussian@yahoo.com” sent the following note of peace and tolerance with the subject line “Hey you” at ...
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LGF Banned by the BBC
Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 2:52:36 pm PST
Apparently, links to LGF have been banned by the BBC Message Boards; here’s a discussion about it, asking whether the policy should be reevaluated in light of my placement on the Forbes list of top 25 web sensei: BBC - MESSAGE BOARDS - Five Live - littlegreenfootballs - Conversation. (Hat ...
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Al Jazeera: "Al Qaeda" As Brand Name
Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 2:28:46 pm PST
To JihadTV, Al Qaeda is a brand name, and the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat has just signed a killer licensing deal with the CEO: Al Jazeera English: Algerian group joins al-Qaeda brand. (Hat tip: Bill Amos.) An Islamic group in Algeria has changed its name to al-Qaeda after getting ...
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Moonbats Defend AP's Right to Lie
Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 1:31:05 pm PST
Thanks to Dan for the links, but whew! You’ve got some serious barking moonbats infesting your open comments, pal: Riehl World View: al-AP Strikes Again. UPDATE at 1/26/07 6:09:26 pm: That’s what it looked like at Little Green Footballs in the prehistoric era, before registration. Anonymity really unleashes the moonbats’ hate impulse. Monsters ...
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UN Approves Resolution Condemning Holocaust Denial
Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 1:04:54 pm PST
The United Nations General Assembly has unanimously approved a resolution condemning Holocaust denial. Unanimously except for Iran, of course. (Although I’d wager that several other OIC countries would have objected too, if they thought they could avoid the political fallout.) The UN General Assembly approved unanimously a bill to condemn Holocaust denial, ...
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More Surveillance Video of Failed London Attack
Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 12:37:21 pm PST
LGF operative kasper has posted another video clip from UK TV, with more surveillance video and eyewitness accounts of one of the failed 7/21 Islamic terrorists. [Video] UPDATE at 1/26/07 1:08:07 pm: Notice the kaffiyeh (also known as an “anti-war scarf”) in his rucksack, appropriately right next to the explosive mixture.
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Iran Demands Removal of IAEA Head
Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 12:16:59 pm PST
No, they don’t want to behead him (yet), but Iran is tossing out the IAEA’s chief nuclear inspector: Iran wants senior atom inspector out. It’s a purely symbolic gesture. He wasn’t doing anything anyway. VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran, cranking up a war of nerves with the West, has demanded the removal of ...
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AP Forgets to Mention They're Quoting Terrorists
Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 10:07:09 am PST
Step right up for yet another almost unbelievable example of Associated (with Terrorists) Press propaganda. In an article on the President’s State of the Union speech, AP writer Melissa Eddy tosses off this final paragraph. (Hat tip: Paul.) The comments also hit a nerve in Lebanon, where lawmaker Nawar Saheli told AP ...
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Gutfeld Identifies New Trend: Patriotic Terrorism
Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 9:38:14 am PST
Greg Gutfeld rattles the moonbats’ cages at Huffington Post: New Trend On The Rise: The Patriotic Terrorist. The comments are almost funnier than Greg’s post.
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Associated Press Backing Away from "Execution" Report
Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 9:11:46 am PST
The Associated Press’s latest article on the downing of a Blackwater security contractors’ helicopter is beginning to back away from their possibly false report that four of the Americans were killed “execution style.” Iraqi and U.S. officials said earlier that four of the five Americans who died in the downing of ...
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Broder: Hurray! We're Capitulating!
Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 8:39:54 am PST
Spiegel Online has a must-read excerpt from the book “Hurray! We’re Capitulating!” by Henryk M. Broder, who argues that Europe has already lost its second major battle with Islam: The West and Islam: ‘Hurray! We’re Capitulating!’ (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Objectively speaking, the cartoon controversy was a tempest in a teacup. ...
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US Troops Have Permission Not to Be Killed By Iranians
Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 8:26:19 am PST
This is a good statement, I suppose. But why in the world should it even need to be said? Bush: U.S. troops may protect selves from Iranians. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush said on Friday U.S. forces in Iraq have authority to protect themselves against Iranians attempting to launch ...
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Islamic Groups Try to Shut Down Anti-Jihad Voices
Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 8:00:41 am PST
Now why in the world would these so-called “mainstream” Islamic advocacy groups protest the hiring of a strong anti-jihad voice on ABC’s Good Morning America? Arab groups protest Beck’s hiring. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) You might almost conclude that they’re opposed to free speech, especially free speech that tells the truth ...
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Thursday Night Supertanker
Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 9:08:49 pm PST
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Batman Artist No Moonbat
Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 6:30:50 pm PST
It’s nice to know that Frank Miller, the creator of [Amazon Link] and the unique comic book/film [Amazon Link], is not a moonbat. From NPR (click the play button below to listen): [Audio]
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Ain't Multiculturalism Grand?
Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 5:51:16 pm PST
The 7th century collides with a Paris gynecologist; jail time ensues: French Muslim jailed for attacking gynaecologist. (Hat tip: WriterMom.) PARIS: A French Muslim who attacked a male gynaecologist for examining his wife just after she had given birth, saying it was against Islam, has been jailed for six months by ...
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New Surveillance Video: Failed Bomber Flees
Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 12:05:05 pm PST
New surveillance video of the moment when another of the failed 7/21 bombers tried to set off his bomb on a London tube train. The actual explosion is off camera, but you do see the would-be terrorist fleeing through the station. Eyewitnesses report that his “primer” charge (that was supposed ...
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Black Market Armageddon
Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 11:38:53 am PST
This is the kind of story that gives me nightmares: Russian uranium smuggler caught in Georgian-US sting. TBILISI (AFP) - Georgian authorities have imprisoned a Russian citizen for attempting to sell 100 grams (3.5 ounces) of weapons-grade uranium after a joint operation with the FBI, officials announced. Georgia’s security services arrested Oleg ...
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Score One for Reuters
Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 10:51:59 am PST
In the Reuters page for feedback from online readers, a moonbat writes in with the now-standard leftist apology for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s genocidal statements: The Good, the Bad & the Ugly. (Hat tip: Frank.) Iran president says Israel’s days are numbered “Just as the Soviet Union was wiped out and today does ...
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Lebanon Students Riot at University
Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 10:23:42 am PST
The violence is getting worse in Lebanon, as the terror gang Hizballah tries to bring down the Lebanese government and Sunni-Shi’ite rivalries erupt at Beirut Arab University: Lebanon students clash; 2 reported dead. BEIRUT, Lebanon - Government and opposition supporters clashed at a Beirut university campus Thursday, battering each other with ...
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Another False Associated Press Story from Iraq?
Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 8:55:15 am PST
Yesterday LGF noted the Associated Press report on the crash of a US security contractors’ helicopter in Iraq. According to the AP, four of the five Blackwater employees killed were “shot execution style in the back of the head.” Today I received an email from an unnamed person in Baghdad with ...
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Honor Killing in Jordan
Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 8:30:16 am PST
Another “honor killing” reported today in Jordan, the showcase “moderate” Arab Islamic state, where Islamist legislators have consistently blocked tougher laws to deal with the barbaric practice: Father kills daughter; doubted virginity. This poor girl was killed because her father was an obsessed paranoid freak, who refused to believe she was ...
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Orwellian Headline of the Day
Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 6:36:26 pm PST
At some point, even if you’re willing to give the Associated Press the benefit of the doubt and assume that many of their mistakes are due to sheer incompetence instead of agenda-driven intent, don’t you have to wonder why their mistakes always result in headlines like this? U.S., Iraqi troops clash ...
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Stranger Than Fiction
Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 6:09:21 pm PST
From Cox & Forkum Editorial Cartoons, of course.
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Osama Agrees with Al Gore
Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 5:39:15 pm PST
At a London conference on climate change, scientists have identified one of the root causes of terrorism: global warming. (Hat tip: nonic.) And to support this diagnosis, UK chief scientist John Mitchell cites the studies of the noted environmentalist, Osama bin Laden. John Mitchell, chief scientist at Britain’s Met Office, noted al ...
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British Tiny Problem Watch
Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 3:40:47 pm PST
That unnamed “conference on Islamophobia” that has been the subject of several stories today seems to have been a real barnburner. Now comes word that at this same dhimmifest, Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair announced plans for the UK Police to share intelligence with Muslims before launching anti-terror operations. Wow. The police ...
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Militant Nationalist Makes Nationalistic Threats
Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 2:47:42 pm PST
Militant nationalist murderer Yasin Hayal, who murdered Armenian journalist Hrant Dink for reasons of nationalism, threatened today to nationalistically murder a Turkish intellectual: Suspect in journalist death makes threat. Also for nationalistic reasons. ISTANBUL, Turkey - A man who confessed to inciting the murder of a prominent journalist shouted what appeared to ...
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UK Police Not Trusted by Muslims, "New Thinking" Needed
Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 1:14:51 pm PST
Also at the unnamed “conference on Islamophobia,” UK police revealed that they’re considering dropping the “stop and search” policy: Police rethink use of ‘stop and search’. LONDON (Reuters) - Police are holding a review of much-criticised “stop and search” powers over concerns the tactic used to target possible terrorists was causing ...
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Ludicrous Claim of the Week
Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 12:44:58 pm PST
Oh please. Bomb suspects ‘radicalised in weeks’. LONDON (Reuters) - A group of British Muslims suspected of plotting to blow up U.S.-bound airliners flying from Britain had been radicalised in just weeks or months, London’s police chief said on Wednesday. British detectives announced last August they had foiled a suicide bomb plot to ...
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They Always Come Back
Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 12:07:53 pm PST
Last October, in noting the case of Ginnnah (yes, three Ns) Muhammad of Detroit, whose small claims case was thrown out when she refused to take off her niqab to let the judge see her face, I wrote: They lost this one, but they’ll be back. Well, they’re back. She’ll keep ...
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CAIR on Hamas: "I Don't Understand the Relevance"
Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 11:19:31 am PST
The Council on American-Islamic Relations has declared a jihad against radio host Dennis Prager, and now are demanding that a Chabad Center invite a Muslim speaker to “balance” Prager’s planned talk: Controversy follows Dennis Prager to Yorba Linda. Now, the tumult is extending to Prager’s scheduled appearance at the North County ...
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Pitts: Religious Intolerance? Baloney.
Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 11:07:47 am PST
Leonard Pitts Jr. has a good column on the Islamic cabdrivers at Twin Cities Airport: Muslim dispute: religious intolerance? After simmering for years, the issue has come to a boil. Last week, the local airport commission scheduled a public hearing to discuss stiffening penalties for the wayward cabbies. As things now ...
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Misunderstood Jokester Bows Out
Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 10:33:50 am PST
Apparently, John F. Kerry’s plan to run for President in 2008 was another misunderstood joke: Kerry won’t run for president in ‘08. (Hat tip: Eric.) WASHINGTON —Senator John F. Kerry plans to announce today that he will not run in the 2008 presidential race, and will instead remain in Congress and ...
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Elevated Political Discourse on ABC
Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 10:06:53 am PST
Warning: watching the video on the following page may lead to permanent IQ loss. A black hole of stupidity so massive that it sucks the brain right out of your head: Video: Rosie calls for Bush’s impeachment on “The View”. If you should notice a sudden inability to understand simple concepts, ...
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Democrats Into Failure
Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 9:26:34 am PST
So much for that “bipartisan spirit” the Democrats promised. They’re getting ready to come out of the closet, stop pretending to “support the troops,” and admit they want America to fail: Senators eye rejection of Bush war plan. WASHINGTON - Democrats took the first step toward a wartime repudiation of President ...
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The Night of the Blinking Pelosi (aka, SOTU Thread 4)
Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 9:11:47 am PST
I just took another look at my recording of the State of the Union speech, to see if I was imagining the amazingly rapid blinking of Nancy Pelosi. Nope. During one segment when the camera stayed on President Bush and Pelosi, I clocked her at 60 to 90 Blinks Per Minute. Impressive. ...
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Contractors Killed in Iraq, HuffPo Celebrates
Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 9:03:37 am PST
At least four of the civilian contractors killed in Iraq when their helicopter crashed were shot in the back of the head. BAGHDAD, Iraq - Four of the five Americans killed when a U.S. security company’s helicopter crashed in a dangerous Sunni neighborhood in central Baghdad were shot execution style in ...
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Jacoby: Democrats' Silence on Jihad is Deadly
Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 8:44:10 am PST
A great piece by Jeff Jacoby on the appalling silence of the Democrats in the war against militant Islam: Democrats’ silence on jihad is deadly. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) They’re going to get us all killed. For McCain, a Republican presidential hopeful, the struggle against the Islamists is the paramount issue of ...
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Augean Stables at Herzliya
Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 8:34:53 am PST
Here’s the text of blogger Richard Landes’ interesting address to the Herzliya security conference in Israel: The Media and the Dysfunctions of the 21st Century. First of all, as a historian of civil society, of the millennium-long struggle in the West to achieve this extraordinary marvel of the modern world, this ...
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At Least They Spelled My Name Right
Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 9:16:57 pm PST
Uh... it’s always nice to be recognized by Forbes Magazine as one of the web’s top bloggers. But apparently that recognition doesn’t extend to actually being... recognized. Who the heck is this in their picture? In Pictures: The Web Celeb 25 - Forbes.com. Gotta love it. UPDATE at 1/23/07 9:47:08 pm: The picture came ...
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Carter: "Our Country Has No Reason To Be Afraid"
Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 8:24:59 pm PST
America’s absolute worst former president says, “Our country has no reason to be afraid.” ATHENS, Ga. - With the zeal of a Baptist Sunday School teacher, Jimmy Carter ended a conference on his presidency Sunday morning by telling Americans they should not fear and they should not hate. On a weekend in ...
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Yglesias Defends Wesley Clark's Zionist Conspiracy
Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 8:17:26 pm PST
Even the New Republic boys are beginning to notice that Matthew Yglesias is a barking moonbat.
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The Night of the Blinking Pelosi (aka, SOTU Thread 3)
Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 6:33:28 pm PST
Another thread for the State of the Union speech, as President Bush addresses the oil issue and Nancy Pelosi’s eyelids are clocked at about 100 BPM (Blinks Per Minute).
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SOTU Thread 2
Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 6:01:11 pm PST
The President’s 6th State of the Union address is just about to start. Here’s a transcript of the speech: SOTU, January 23, 2007.
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SOTU Thread 1
Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 5:09:47 pm PST
Here’s a first open thread to discuss the State of the Union speech. Jules Crittenden isn’t the President’s speechwriter, but he wrote a good speech anyway: The State of the Union is a Disaster. There will be live webcasts at the White House web site and at C-SPAN. UPDATE at 1/23/07 5:28:26 pm: For ...
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Ahmadinejad: "Wise" Dems Will Prevent Attack
Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 4:46:54 pm PST
Iran’s madman president is sure he can count on the Democrats to keep Iran safe: Iran says ‘wise’ Americans will bar any attack. TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday he did not expect a U.S. attack on Iran because there were plenty of “wise people” in the ...
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Former IDF Chief: Palestinian State Will Solve Nothing
Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 3:31:34 pm PST
This is exactly right, and it’s quite sad that the prevailing Middle East dogma won’t let more people admit it: Palestinian state won’t solve conflict, says Israeli ex-army chief. HERZLIYA, Israel (AFP) - A two-state solution based on Israeli territorial concessions to the Palestinians will not lead to broader stability in ...
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Report: Gulf States Prepared to Back US Military Strike on Iran
Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 2:00:37 pm PST
A new paper issued by an influential Dubai think tank suggests that Gulf states may be prepared to back a US military strike on Iran. The paper, written by GRC program director, Dr. Christian Koch, makes it clear that the Gulf States view Iran as an existential threat and the paper ...
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Failed London Bomber Video Released
Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 1:00:07 pm PST
LGF operative Kasper has posted a video just released by UK police, showing one of the failed 7/21 London bombers on the tube train, at the moment he tries to set off the bomb: [Video]
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LGF Technical Update - Reuters Video Feeds 2
Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 12:05:43 pm PST
LGF now offers video on demand, thanks to Reuters’ decision to make some of their news video available through RSS: lgf: Reuters Video Feeds. There are some big improvements since I first launched this page yesterday; video operation has been debugged (no more simultaneous playback of different feeds), and playlists ...
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Islamic Prejudice, Islamic Denial
Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 11:03:45 am PST
Shamefully (and tellingly), the so-called “mainstream” Islamic organizations of Britain have responded to the Channel 4 documentary Undercover Mosque by attacking critics and denying the very obvious problems: Islamic Prejudice, Islamic Denial. For last week’s “Dispatches” program on Britain’s Channel Four, a reporter with a hidden camera entered Birmingham’s Green Lane ...
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Hizballah Not Really Interested in Rebuilding
Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 9:24:15 am PST
After the Lebanon War, Hizballah’s propagandists staged a giant show, turning up in bombed neighborhoods with wads of American cash (dutifully photographed hundreds of times by mainstream media), and promising to rebuild homes and businesses. But now that the media heat is off, the propaganda is shown to be empty theatrics: ...
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Lebanon Ready to Explode
Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 8:55:57 am PST
The standoff in Beirut between the Lebanese government and the Hizballah terror gang is beginning to turn violent: Protests paralyze Lebanon, two killed, 100 hurt. BEIRUT (Reuters) - Protesters trying to topple Lebanon’s cabinet blocked highways with blazing tires on Tuesday, sparking clashes with government loyalists in which two people were ...
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The Sound of Silence
Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 8:25:07 am PST
Did you hear something? Was that a pin dropping, or was it mainstream media and left-wing blogs completely ignoring the debunking of Jamil Hussein and the Associated Press? Jamilgate: Eerie silence from E&P about Hot Air’s Hurriya mosques report. Editor and Publisher’s Greg Mitchell and his friends in the loony left blogosphere ...
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Monday Late-Night Open Thread
Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 10:37:01 pm PST
Here’s an open thread for the night owls...
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LGF Technical Update - Reuters Video Feeds
Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 7:58:51 pm PST
Al-Reuters has begun providing their video reports (sometimes raw and unedited, and possibly more interesting than the massaged reports that end up on TV) in the form of RSS playlists, and I’ve set up a new page to view these video feeds here: Reuters Video Feeds. This is the first version of ...
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Anyone but a Bush or a Clinton
Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 3:14:34 pm PST
Here’s an interesting perspective on presidential politics by James Burkee at the LA Times: Anyone but a Bush or a Clinton. HAVING REFUSED a third term as president, George Washington offered the nation a farewell address in 1796, urging Americans to cherish the Union and to avoid the “baneful effects” of ...
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The Egyptian Physician Rants Again
Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 2:53:03 pm PST
Laura Mansfield has the new video from the Egyptian physician, Ayman al-Zawahri. (Hat tip: Rusty.) Another yawner. You know the drill: “Send 10 of your armies, the mighty mujahideen will destroy them all!” Here’s the video (with tiny, not very readable English subtitles). [Video]
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No Honor Among Jihadis
Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 1:57:33 pm PST
Now, who in Gaza City could possibly want to send a message to the Arab jihad channel Al-Arabiya? Blast damages offices of Arab TV service. GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - A huge blast damaged the offices of the Arabic satellite channel Al-Arabiya Monday evening, witnesses said. No one was hurt, because ...
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Associated Press Discovers Terror
Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 1:27:38 pm PST
The Associated Press never uses the word “terror” without enclosing it in quotes; they don’t use it to describe beheading videos, they don’t use it to describe Palestinian suicide bombings, and even Osama bin Laden is now regularly labeled a “Saudi dissident.” This is a deliberate policy; as they have ...
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New Details on Al Qaeda US Attack Plan
Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 12:39:05 pm PST
ABC News is reporting new details about an Al Qaeda plot to attack inside the United States, discovered in Iraq about 6 months ago but only now being revealed: Details Emerge About Possible Terror Threat. Sources tell ABC News that the plot may have involved moving between 10 and 20 suspects ...
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Iran Bars IAEA Inspectors
Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 11:42:14 am PST
You can tell that Iran is simply terrified by the United Nations’ sanctions: Iran bars 38 U.N. IAEA inspectors. TEHRAN, Iran - Iran said Monday it has barred 38 members of a U.N. nuclear inspection team from entering the country, in what appeared to be retaliation for sanctions imposed last month ...
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Qantas Deplanes Moonbat
Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 11:33:35 am PST
Kudos to Qantas Airways, for taking a stand against the irrational hate speech of the moonbat left: Man kicked off flight for Bush-bashing T-shirt. CANBERRA, Jan 22 (Reuters Life!) - An airline passenger barred from a flight for wearing a T-shirt labeling President Bush a terrorist has threatened legal action against ...
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Monday Post-Crash Thread
Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 10:41:46 am PST
Looks like our server collapsed for a short time; the poor thing’s exhausted after last week’s Drudge link, and needed a break. But now we’re back and we’re proud, the server had a nice restful 30-minute nap, and here’s an open thread while the gauges start spinning again...
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Pipes vs. Livingstone in London
Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 9:18:44 am PST
On Saturday in London, Daniel Pipes faced off with Mayor “Red” Ken Livingstone in the opening debate of a conference titled, “A World Civilisation or a Clash of Civilisations.” Excellent reports on the event are to be found at several British blogs: Sharon Chadha: Clash of civilizations? (Sharon’s not British, as ...
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Another Palestinian Big Lie Spread by MSM
Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 8:52:59 am PST
Here we go again, as the mainstream media helps Palestinians spread anti-Israel propaganda on demand. The latest example is the case of 10-year old Palestinian girl Abir Aramin, supposedly killed by an Israeli rubber bullet during confrontations with a stone-throwing Palestinian mob, reported dutifully by all the wire services and ...
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EU Springs Into Action, Considers Toothless Sanctions
Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 8:27:57 am PST
The EU is breaking out the big guns in their arsenal—strongly worded warnings that they might have to consider holding meetings to discuss the possibility of sanctions. Although they don’t actually use the word “sanctions.” EU threatens Sudan with sanctions over Darfur. BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union threatened Sudan with ...
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Open Source Subversion
Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 8:21:38 pm PST
A new web site promises to help moonbats subvert Western civilization without suffering personal inconvenience: Website offers whistleblowers chance to go global. Any wiki-savvy whistleblowing volunteers want to help expose the plans of the Muslim Brotherhood and Hizb ut-Tahrir? Didn’t think so. THE internet could become even more difficult for governments to regulate ...
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Who's Minding the US?
Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 8:04:55 pm PST
At Newark’s Liberty International Airport, one of the officials charged with protecting us from another 9/11 attack has allegedly been helping applicants cheat on security examinations: Airport security official quits after leaked test. (Hat tip: LawHawk.) The assistant security director in charge of screening at Newark Liberty International Airport has resigned, ...
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Hitchens: Facing the Islamist Menace
Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 7:16:48 pm PST
At City Journal, Christopher Hitchens has a thoughtful criticism of Mark Steyn’s excellent book [Amazon Link]: Facing the Islamist Menace. In the prologue to his new book, America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It, Mark Steyn sarcastically alludes to two people whom, in different ways, I know well. ...
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SNL Suffering from Islamophobia
Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 4:23:57 pm PST
Has CAIR complained about Saturday Night Live yet? If not, why not? Come on, guys, get in the game! You can’t let this grievous insult against the world’s 18 billion Muslims go unanswered: SNL on Islamophobia, redux.
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Rent a Moonbat Cheap
Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 3:51:34 pm PST
Judging from the sparse attendance at recent International ANSWER demonstrations, maybe they should avail themselves of the services of Erento.com: Need a Demonstrator? Now You Can Rent Them Online. (Hat tip: Larry.) A German Web site has come up a novel niche market — renting out demonstrators for public protests. Good-looking ...
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AP Makes Chavez Racism the Headline
Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 3:43:20 pm PST
The Associated Press would never publish a racist word like “gringos” (as the headline, yet!) if it were directed at one of their protected groups: Chavez to U.S.: ‘Go to hell, gringos!’ CARACAS, Venezuela - President Hugo Chavez told U.S. officials to “Go to hell!” on his weekly radio and TV ...
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Benny Morris: The Next Holocaust Will Be Different
Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 1:38:09 pm PST
You must read this powerful essay by Israeli historian Benny Morris: This Holocaust will be different. The second holocaust will be quite different. One bright morning, in five or 10 years, perhaps during a regional crisis, perhaps out of the blue, a day or a year or five years after Iran’s ...
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UK Muslim Cop Refuses to Touch Police Chief
Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 12:02:08 pm PST
A female Muslim police officer refused to shake hands with London’s Metropolitan police chief at a parade, and refused to allow her picture to be taken for “propaganda purposes” (her words): Police respond to handshake snub. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) I’ll repeat that. A British police officer refused to shake hands ...
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The Islamic Society of Boston and Intimidation 101
Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 11:34:09 am PST
At Solomonia, here’s a guest post from Charles Jacobs of The David Project on the litigious Islamic Society of Boston: Exclusive: The Islamic Society of Boston and Intimidation 101.
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Riehl vs. Stark, the Movie
Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 11:25:14 am PST
Here’s the video of Reliable Sources with Dan Riehl facing a creepy sanctimonious Mike Stark (the guy who pushed through a crowd to stand behind Allan Colmes with a sign reading “Hannity Sucks Ass”) lecturing Howard Kurtz about the awful level of discourse on right-wing radio. (Courtesy of Hot Air.) [Video] Watch ...
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Media Blackout Continues: "I Shot the Infidel"
Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 10:19:10 am PST
The media are still pushing the “Turkish nationalist” angle in the assassination of Armenian editor Hrant Dink, as if “Turkish nationalism” were completely unconnected to its Islamic roots: Teen ‘shot editor for insulting Turks’. AN unemployed teenager has told investigators he shot dead editor Hrant Dink because he had insulted Turks, ...
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UK Islamic Groups Organized Campaign Against "Undercover Mosque"
Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 9:18:40 am PST
Perhaps more disturbing than the radical Islamic ranting revealed by Dispatches: Undercover Mosque is the reaction to the documentary by British government. There was none. Not a single MP has spoken out against the misogyny and Islamic supremacism we see is being preached in Britain’s supposedly “mainstream” mosques. The UK Daily Pundit ...
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Whose Credibility Is Gone Now?
Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 7:58:30 am PST
The Associated Press’s credibility lies on the ground in tatters this morning, because none of their claims about “Jamil Hussein’s” reports check out: Destroyed - Not. The bottom line: the only facts that weren’t fabricated were greatly exaggerated. AP Executive Editor Kathleen Carroll indignantly attacked those who had questioned the global news ...
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Road to Everywhere
Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 8:28:33 pm PST
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Riehl vs. Stark
Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 8:13:09 pm PST
Tomorrow on CNN’s Reliable Sources, Dan Riehl faces off with moonbat dirty trickster Mike Stark: The Left’s War On Free Speech.
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Hizballah Documentary on Fox News (Update: Video Added)
Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 4:58:28 pm PST
The Fox News documentary Hezbollah Inside America is starting in just a few minutes. Here’s an open thread... UPDATE at 1/20/07 6:00:45 pm: I have to say congrats to Fox News and David Asman on this one; an excellent show with new information, including a memorable interview with a weeping deported Hizballah ...
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There Goes the Neighborhood
Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 4:37:06 pm PST
Yes, that’s right. In addition to her just-announced Presidential Exploratory Committee, Hillary Clinton is going to be inflicting herself on the blogosphere. Movable Type or WordPress? Open comments? Will she enable trackbacks? UPDATE at 1/20/07 4:53:29 pm: She’s running a contest right now for the first guest post at her blog. (First ...
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Idiotarian Gets Defensive
Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 4:30:29 pm PST
America’s worst former president is feeling the heat, and bristling at the criticism of his disgraceful book: Carter defends controversial book. “I have been called a liar,” Carter said at a town hall meeting on the second day of a three-day symposium on his presidency at the University of Georgia. “I ...
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BBC: What Do We Need Professional Reporters For?
Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 1:40:33 pm PST
Bill Thompson’s a BBC writer who actually seems to, as they say, “get it:” Going local across the globe. (I nearly broke out the flying pig for this one.) The students in my online journalism class at City University this year must be wondering whether they have made the right choice. Getting a ...
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Hamas Will Let Us Give Them a State
Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 11:56:44 am PST
Head Hamas thug Ismail Haniyeh says he’ll accept that Palestinian state everyone seems to want to give them, on one condition. We need to understand that they’re still going to wipe out the Jews. He figures it will take about 10 years. Haniyeh: We’ll accept a state for a 10-year ...
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Media Blackout: "I Shot the Non-Muslim"
Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 10:52:50 am PST
The assassination of Turkish-Armenian writer Hrant Dink is being universally portrayed as ethnic strife, a political act by Turkish nationalists against an Armenian critic. Call me Mr. Suspicious, but when I see the entire media monolith pushing an idea like that with so much enthusiasm, I start looking for the real ...
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Another Perspective, or Jihad TV?
Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 10:18:44 am PST
Judea Pearl has a good piece on the media arm of the global jihad, Al Jazeera: Another perspective, or jihad TV? LOS ANGELES: In late 2001, three months before my son, the Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, was kidnapped, he interviewed the influential Qatari cleric Sheik Yusuf al-Qaradawi, and asked ...
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Hizballah Inside America
Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 9:23:29 am PST
Here’s a show on Fox News that promises to be enlightening: Hezbollah Inside America. (Airs today at 8 pm ET.) (Note: I always spell the name of this terror gang as “Hizballah,” because it shows the meaning of their name: “The Party of Allah.”) The shocking answer to that question unfolds this ...
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Hans Blix and the Religion of Peace
Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 8:51:39 am PST
Working with the Islamic group “Ibn Rushd,” the government of Sweden is sponsoring a trip to Egypt “to highlight Islam as a Religion of Peace™,” featuring the peaceful, Jew-hating, jihad-inciting clerics of Al-Azhar University (lgf: search), “peace researchers” (whatever that means), and none other than the peace superstar himself, recently ...
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CAIR Pitching a Major Fit About "24"
Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 9:00:42 pm PST
The Muslim Brotherhood front group calling itself the Council on American Islamic Relations is engaged in a major push to force Fox Television to apologize for depicting Muslims as terrorists: Hit US television show ‘24’ under fire from Muslim group. They’ve been spending a lot of their Saudi money on this ...
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Kos Kidz Enforcing the Groupthink
Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 8:32:04 pm PST
The First Rule of Daily Kos: link to a source that’s considered “right-wing” and you’ll be deleted. Daily Kos: The First Rule. Currently there is a diary near the top of the recent diary list that attacks Hillary Clinton for a supposed bigoted comment. The sources the diarist cites are not ...
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Newsweek Blames America (As Usual)
Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 6:35:25 pm PST
Newsweek knows who to blame for the Islamic world’s [Popup] into a life of jihad. UPDATE at 1/19/07 8:45:37 pm: Previously at Newsweek:
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Buckets of Blood Readied for Peace Swim
Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 6:07:37 pm PST
Martin Strel plans to swim the length of the Amazon River for world peace. But this peace mission is different than most; it requires buckets of blood. Ironic enough? LIMA (Reuters) - Few would even dare swim the Amazon river bank to bank but Slovenian Martin Strel plans to swim 3,375 miles ...
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Hizballah Planning Surge
Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 5:19:37 pm PST
Big. Very big. Important. And big. Hezbollah vows ‘very big action’ ahead. BEIRUT, Lebanon - Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah promised Friday that his opposition alliance would intensify its campaign to bring down the government, pledging to mount an “effective” action in the coming days. In an interview with his group’s Al-Manar television, ...
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Crafty New Worm Attack
Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 5:07:42 pm PST
A new PC worm employs some sneaky psychology to get people to open malicious emails: Storm Worm Pummels World’s PCs. As if hundred-mile-per-hour winds aren’t bad enough, a malicious worm is making the rounds in Europe and elsewhere, using e-mailed storm warnings as a way to propagate itself. In the latest sign ...
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The Peace That Only Nukes Can Bring
Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 4:13:29 pm PST
I’ve been checking back on that weirdly Orwellian AP headline from earlier today (“Report: Jordan king wants nuclear peace”), expecting to find that an editor had quietly rephrased it. Wouldn’t be the first time. And sure enough, the AP rephrased it. And kept the term “nuclear peace.” Who the hell is writing ...
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Hizballah Planning to Escalate Against UNIFIL
Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 2:49:29 pm PST
The MEMRI Blog has a translated report from a Lebanese daily about Hizballah’s plans for the next escalation in their push to take over Lebanon; rather than start something in Beirut, where they would risk serious conflict with government forces, the terror gang is doing what it always does—going after ...
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London Bomber Surveillance Video: Connection to 7/7?
Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 1:32:07 pm PST
The official line so far has been that there was no connection between the London bombings of July 7, 2005, and the failed attacks of July 21, 2005. We’re told the 7/21 bombers were “copycats,” emulating the mass murderers of 7/7. But here’s a surveillance video showing two of the 7/21 ...
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Democrat Leaders Play Politics with Nuclear Threat
Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 10:34:44 am PST
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad smiles: Dems seek to bar U.S. attacks on Iran. WASHINGTON - Democratic leaders in Congress lobbed a warning shot Friday at the White House not to launch an attack against Iran without first seeking approval from lawmakers. “The president does not have the authority to launch military action in Iran ...
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Orwellian Headline of the Day
Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 9:13:49 am PST
The nightmare of hyper-proliferation is becoming a reality in the Middle East. The latest country to express a desire for nuclear weapons is Jordan. And the Associated Press calls it “nuclear peace:” Report: Jordan king wants nuclear peace. JERUSALEM - Jordan’s King Abdullah II told an Israeli newspaper his country wants its ...
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CNN Hits Bottom, Digs
Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 9:02:15 am PST
CNN’s air-headed dunce Christiane Amanpour has figured out the reason behind Islamic supremacism. It has nothing to do with what’s written in the Koran, and nothing to do with Sayyid Qutb, or the Wahhabi sect, or centuries of expansionist warfare. Forget history. Forget that Osama bin Laden declared war on ...
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Muslims Want Mosque in Football Stadium
Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 8:53:08 am PST
Yet another demand from Muslims for special treatment—special treatment that would be denied to any other religious group: Seeking timeout for prayer. (Hat tip: Ethel.) As the Ohio State Buckeyes pummeled the Northwestern Wildcats on Ryan Field last November, senior Amir Siddiqui and his friends slipped below the bleachers, removed their ...
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Australian Jihad Preacher Issues Predictable Excuse
Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 8:41:06 am PST
Islamic hatemonger Sheik Feiz Mohammed, very predictably, is now whining that his evil remarks about martyrdom and jihad, recorded on DVDs and distributed to mosques and Islamic bookshops around the world, were simply “misconstrued:” Fiery Australian cleric claims jihad remarks were misunderstood. They never get tired of that “jihad is a ...
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Israel Grants Windfall to Terrorists
Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 8:17:41 am PST
One of the worst ideas so far this year, as Israel arms her enemies: Israel transfers $100 million to Abbas. How many times has this little trick been pulled on Israel? I’ve lost count. It’s beyond pathetic.
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Al-Guardian: "The Infamous Little Green Footballs"
Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 8:13:07 am PST
The anti-American, anti-Israel, Islamofascist-supporting UK rag The Guardian says Little Green Footballs is “infamous.” Of course, it’s a badge of honor to be labeled “infamous” by a writer for one of the most deranged leftist newspapers in the world.
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Enemies Influencing US Foreign Policy
Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 8:37:55 pm PST
Our friends the Saudis, the main financiers of the global jihad, are putting major pressure on the US government to change our foreign policy: Saudis Push Bush Team On Peace Plan. Washington - Saudi Arabia is stepping up efforts to make its peace initiative — based on a quick Israeli return ...
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Reuters Quietly Fired Top Editor During Photoshop Scandal
Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 6:23:28 pm PST
A very interesting report at Photo District News has new information about the Reuters Photoshop scandal: Reuters Investigation Leads To Dismissal Of Editor. (Hat tip: Mark.) Reuters fired a top photo editor for the Middle East during an internal investigation of two doctored photos from the Israel-Lebanon war that were published ...
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Mahdi Army Whining?
Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 4:54:12 pm PST
At this point I’m afraid to hope that we might actually be on the brink of crushing Muqtada al-Sadr and his nasty gang of thugs, but this is possibly good news: Mahdi Army expressing siege mentality. BAGHDAD, Iraq - Mahdi Army fighters said Thursday they were under siege in their Sadr ...
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Anthrax in Afghanistan?
Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 3:45:45 pm PST
This report came out yesterday from Agence France Presse. Oddly enough, it has received almost zero notice from the rest of the mainstream media: Governor Suggests Taliban Spokesman Caught ‘With Anthrax’. (Hat tip: WordWarp.) Maybe if Rosie O’Donnell mentioned that biological weapons of mass destruction had been allegedly found in Afghanistan, ...
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Another Aussie Sheikh in Trouble (Update: Video Added)
Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 3:06:48 pm PST
The scenes in Undercover Mosque featuring Australian Islamic leader Sheik Feiz Mohammed spewing hatred and incitement to violence have provoked outrage in Sydney: Radical cleric sparks fury in Australia. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) [Video] SYDNEY, Australia - A radical Australian cleric drew widespread condemnation Thursday over a series of videos in which ...
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Islamic Advocacy Groups Seething About "24"
Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 12:56:03 pm PST
If you saw the first episodes of the new season of Fox’s anti-terrorism drama 24, it wasn’t hard to predict that all the usual Islamic advocacy groups would soon be seething, whining about victimhood, and organizing media campaigns to shut down anything approaching realism in the depiction of Islamic terrorism: ...
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Jimmy Carter Interceded for Nazi Murderer
Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 12:13:23 pm PST
I received at least a dozen emails from readers about an article that appeared in Israel National News, claiming that former president Jimmy Carter had issued a plea for leniency for a Nazi SS guard proven to have taken part in numerous murders of Jews. I was a little skeptical ...
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The Arab Lobby in America
Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 11:22:26 am PST
This is what the West is up against: Discover the Arab Lobby “Network”. According to terrorism expert Steven Emerson, “Assessing the influence and breadth of the Arab/Muslim lobby would be a difficult thing to do, since the metrics for assessing such things are not easily available. The lobby’s real strength is ...
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IAEA Springs Into Action, Advocates Doing Nothing
Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 10:57:26 am PST
We all know that the UN’s blind, toothless nuclear watchdog, Mohamed ElBaradei, is vehemently opposed to the very thought of any sort of military action to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. But he’s also opposed to any sort of sanctions against Iran, even the weak, meaningless ones now in place: ...
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Reuters Tightens Photo Rules, Ignores Elephant in Room
Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 9:49:18 am PST
Reuters congratulates themselves on toughening up their photography rules, after being caught publishing at least two blatant fakes. They’ve established to their own satisfaction (and I guess we’re supposed to just accept) that there were only two fake photos. LONDON (Reuters) - Reuters named a new chief photographer for the Middle ...
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EU's Solana Wants to Get Down to Business
Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 9:36:57 am PST
Have the Palestinians ever kept an agreement with Israel? In all my reading and research I haven’t found one example, since the founding of the state of Israel in 1948. So naturally, after nearly six decades of bad faith, broken agreements, and terrorism, the European Union wants to skip all the ...
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Dershowitz to Rebut Carter at Brandeis
Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 8:45:04 am PST
Jimmy Carter will speak about his disgraceful new book at Brandeis University next week, and Brandeis has worked out a deal to have Alan Dershowitz present a rebuttal (even though Carter still refuses to debate): Brandeis University to Allow Rebuttal After Carter Speech. WASHINGTON — Former President Jimmy Carter won’t ...
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MAS Spokesman Defends Islamic Intolerance
Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 8:39:38 am PST
Khalid Elmasry, spokesman for the Muslim Brotherhood front group calling itself the Muslim American Society, whines that Americans have become intolerant of Islamic intolerance: Tolerance takes a back seat. Amazingly, he really is defending the “right” of Muslim cab drivers to refuse service to people carrying alcohol. He doesn’t mention that ...
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Northwest Airlines Kneels to Radical Islam
Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 8:54:50 pm PST
The cave-in of Northwest Airlines is quick, and complete: Northwest apologizes, vows to reimburse Muslims barred from flight. (Hat tip: shug.) DEARBORN — Reacting swiftly to allegations of discrimination, Northwest Airlines apologized to a group of 40 Muslims today for barring them from a plane in Germany on their return trip ...
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CAIR Going After "24" Again
Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 7:18:03 pm PST
The new season of “24” is not sufficiently neutered for the Council on American Islamic Relations: Fox Says ‘No Ethnic Group Has Been Singled Out’ on ‘24’. FOX SAYS ‘NO ETHNIC GROUP HAS BEEN SINGLED OUT’ ON ‘24’ Fox Entertainment Group sent the following statement to CAIR: 24 is a heightened drama about ...
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Misogyny Goes Mainstream
Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 6:51:35 pm PST
“Oh my god, there must be something better than this,” the designer cried: Australia’s burkini set to put Muslim women in the swim. SYDNEY (AFP) - What do you get when you cross Australian beach culture with a desire to remain clothed in a way acceptable to Muslim women? If you’re ...
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Does Hinchey Need Another Flying Monkey Attack?
Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 5:59:39 pm PST
It’s almost beyond belief, but Congressman Maurice Hinchey (Moonbat-NY) is still raving about Karl Rove “planting” the Rathergate memos. Perhaps Maurice needs another visit from the dreaded flying monkeys?
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The Multi-Purpose Black Sack
Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 5:05:33 pm PST
It’s a way to oppress women, an in-your-face political statement to the infidels, and a disguise for fleeing terrorists! One of the alleged July 21 bombers fled London after the attempted attacks disguised as a woman wearing a burka, their trial heard. Yassin Omar was captured on CCTV at Golders Green coach ...
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LGF Technical Update - Technorati Tags
Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 4:00:06 pm PST
The newest addition to the LGF Blog Engine is support for Technorati-style “tags,” which is another way of saying “categories.” The tags are embedded in each post, but are not visible by default; this lets Technorati find and use them when indexing LGF posts, but avoids cluttering up the page. ...
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Malkin Blogs Iraq Trip
Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 11:00:57 am PST
Here’s Michelle Malkin’s first report following her return from Iraq: Back from Baghdad. UPDATE at 1/17/07 11:25:49 am: More from Bryan Preston at Hot Air: Assessing Iraq. And video here: Hot Air TV in Baghdad.
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Millennium Bomber to Be Resentenced
Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 10:31:56 am PST
The 9th Circuit Court has reversed one of the convictions against Ahmed Ressam, the Islamic terrorist caught by sheer luck (and a vigilant border guard) as he entered the US from Vancouver with a car full of high explosives and a plan to blow up Los Angeles International Airport: Court ...
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Terror Apologist in Detroit News
Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 9:59:17 am PST
The Detroit News publishes an op-ed by Shi’ite terror apologist Imam Mohammad Ali Elahi, the former spiritual leader of Ayatollah Khomeini’s Iranian navy (a fact the Detroit News doesn’t mention), about the recent incidents of Islamic sectarian violence in Dearborn, Michigan: Metro Muslims must stop distrust, unite to save faith. It’s ...
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CAIR's Grievance Theater Stages New Whinefest
Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 8:47:53 am PST
The Council on American Islamic Relations set up a Grievance Theater Hotline to solicit complaints about airlines from Muslims traveling to Mecca for the hajj pilgrimage. Apparently, the hotline served its purpose. The next episode of the grievance theater will feature 40 Muslims who showed up 20 minutes before their flight ...
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London Bomber Aimed Failed Bomb at Mother and Child
Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 8:21:15 am PST
The face of evil, caught by a security camera: ‘Failed suicide bomb’ moment shown in London court. LONDON (AFP) - Dramatic CCTV footage of the moment an alleged would-be suicide bomber tried to blow up a London Underground train was shown at the trial of six Muslims accused of a failed ...
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Got a Big Fish in the Philippines
Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 8:13:20 am PST
It’s always nice to start the day with news of a dead jihadi leader: Philippines says Abu Sayyaf leader killed in clash. MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines said on Wednesday that troops had killed the top planner of the country’s most deadly Islamic militant group in a clash at a rebel ...
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Drudge Avalanche Subsides
Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 6:42:43 pm PST
It’s amazing how much traffic a link at Drudge Report generates. LGF has been hard to reach for most of the day, but we still managed to record close to a quarter of a million page views during that 8 hours. The link is no longer on Drudge’s front page, ...
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DUmmies Notice Problem, Go Back to Sleep
Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 6:18:22 pm PST
Someone at the left-wing hate site Democratic Underground wakes up for a few minutes and notices a possible problem: Disturbing report from the UK. And is quickly slapped down for departing from the reservation, of course. LeftSider (13 posts) Tue Jan-16-07 08:59 PM Disturbing report from the UK This is a very disturbing report out ...
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Busted Islamic Leader Reacts
Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 5:25:53 pm PST
Abu Usamah, featured in the British documentary Dispatches: Undercover Mosque making casually misogynistic statements, reacts to being busted in a video posted at Google Video by the Muslim Public Affairs Committee UK (MPACUK). He ends up basically saying the same 7th Century BS in a lot more words. (It’s nearly 30 ...
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Incoming: Drudge Report
Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 10:30:51 am PST
The Drudge Report just directed a huge blast of traffic at our post on the Undercover Mosque videos. It’s a lot like a Denial of Service attack, even for our dedicated server. All we can do is hunker down and wait for the deluge to pass.
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Jimmy Carter on Al Jazeera: Palestinian Missiles Are Not Terrorism
Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 10:11:29 am PST
This video clip speaks for itself, as America’s worst former president is interviewed by the Muslim Brotherhood’s media mouthpiece, Al Jazeera, on January 14, 2007. (Courtesy of MEMRI TV.) [Video]
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"Anti-War" Terrorist Scarf Removed by Urban Outfitters
Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 8:59:05 am PST
Urban Outfitters has removed the Palestinian kaffiyeh (ludicrously labeled an “anti-war scarf”) from their catalog: Anti-War Woven Scarf. (Hat tip: littleoldlady.) They also removed the picture of the kaffiyeh-wearing slacker from their Accessories catalog cover: Men’s Accessories.
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Former Carter Center Member: Jimmy Supports Palestinian Terrorism
Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 8:52:55 am PST
Don’t miss the interview with Steve Berman, who resigned from the Carter Center in protest at Jimmy Carter’s nauseating anti-Israel bias, in which Berman suggests that Carter is on the take from Middle Eastern countries: Former Carter Center Member Says Jimmy Carter Condones Palestinian Terrorism.
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Blair Defends Appeasing the Saudis
Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 8:30:48 am PST
British defense firm BAE has been engaged in a corrupt and fraudulent relationship with our friends the Saudis, and Tony Blair knuckled under to the Saudis’ demands that he drop an investigation: Blair defends dropping of BAE-Saudi probe. LONDON (AFP) - Prime Minister Tony Blair has defended the dropping of a ...
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Monday Night Supertanker
Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 9:34:07 pm PST
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Breaking: Peace Agreement Between Israel and Syria?
Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 7:15:09 pm PST
Unverified as of this writing, and the devil is in the details, but Haaretz is reporting a historic agreement between Israel and Syria: Secret understandings reached between representatives of Israel, Syria. In a series of secret meetings in Europe between September 2004 and July 2006, Syrians and Israelis formulated understandings for ...
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Dispatches: Undercover Mosque
Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 4:51:57 pm PST
This is the much-anticipated UK Channel 4 documentary Dispatches: Undercover Mosque, exposing evidence of Islamic supremacism, shocking misogyny, and support for violence at a number of Britain’s leading mosques and Muslim institutions. (Thanks again to LGF operative kasper.) [Video] Also see: Busted Islamic Leader Reacts.
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The Wonders of Shari'a
Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 3:01:39 pm PST
Nazanin Fatehi, the teenage Iranian girl on trial for her life (for the crime of defending herself and a niece from gang rape), has been acquitted of the murder charge—but the Islamic court ruled that she must now pay “blood money” to the family of the would-be rapist. (Hat tip: ...
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Video: The Failed London Bombing Plot
Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 2:27:47 pm PST
British TV reports on the trial of the failed London bombers, including the connection with Abu Hamza. (Hat tip: kasper.) [Video]
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UN Telecom Head: No Intention to Control Internet
Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 1:36:35 pm PST
This is good news, after previous reports that the United Nations was moving to challenge US control of the web’s root servers: UN Telecom Not Eying Internet Control. The United Nations will not try to take the lead in determining the future of the Internet, the head of the U.N. telecommunications ...
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Danish Cartoonist Not Murdered
Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 12:39:28 pm PST
I’ve received several emails about a story originating in Italian media, that one of the cartoonists who drew caricatures of Mohammed for Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten had been murdered. Jyllands-Posten officially quashes the rumor: No Danish cartoonist has been murdered. A rumour among international news organisations says that one of the Danish Muhammad-cartoonists ...
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Jihad Ideology in Ireland
Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 12:21:29 pm PST
Imam Shaheed Satardien is brave to speak out this way, but his statements on the pervasiveness of militant Islamic ideology in Ireland are ominous indeed: Dublin imam takes on the fanatics. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Imam Shaheed Satardien is taking a stand against those Muslims in Ireland whom he claims are ...
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Rangel: Saddam Was "Lynched"
Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 11:20:18 am PST
There goes Charlie Rangel again: Video: Rangel rues Saddam’s “lynching” on MLK Day.
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LGF Technical Update - Playing with Percentages
Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 9:40:57 am PST
Over the weekend, I made a significant change in the way fonts are displayed at LGF, in order to allow Internet Explorer users to easily resize our text to their own preferences. If things look different around here, that’s why. Here are the posts with more info about the change, and ...
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When Moonbats Attack
Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 9:04:01 am PST
Noel Sheppard tells the tale of a malicious, deceptive, and utterly stupid nutroots campaign to shut down Northern California radio station KSFO: Liberal Blogs Attack Conservative Radio Station.
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Failed London Bomber Trial Begins
Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 8:58:31 am PST
The trial of the alleged Islamic terrorists who tried to stage a second series of London bombings began today: ‘Failed London bombers’ accused of extremist Muslim plot. LONDON (AFP) - British prosecutors have accused six suspects of mounting “an extremist Muslim plot” using suicide bombers to try to kill masses of ...
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Marketing "Peace" to the Clueless
Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 8:38:55 am PST
The Palestinian kaffiyeh, symbol of the intifada and decades of violence and terrorism, is being marketed by Urban Outfitters as an “Anti-War Woven Scarf.” (Hat tip: LGF readers.) UPDATE at 1/15/07 2:49:56 pm: The terrorists’ favorite peace symbol is even featured prominently around a daydreaming moonbat’s neck on the cover of their ...
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Oren: Realists Misunderstand America's History
Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 8:23:58 am PST
Michael Oren says the foreign policy “realists” arguing for negotiations with Syria and Iran are ignorant of American history in the Middle East: Apple pie and the Middle East. (Skip the LA Times registration by following the link from this page: ‘Apple pie and the Middle East’ - Google News.) THE ...
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Pittsburgh Trib-Review Investigates Rail Security
Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 9:29:04 pm PST
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review exposes serious vulnerabilities in our railroad system: Terror on the Tracks. Five years after terrorists murdered 2,996 people in the Sept. 11 attacks, the Trib embarked on a probe to see how well railroads and their customers secure lethal hazardous materials — termed “hazmat” by first responders. The ...
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The Much-Requested "24" Thread
Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 7:58:22 pm PST
By popular request, here’s an open thread to discuss tonight’s debut of Fox’s comic book version of the War on Terror, 24. Advance word is that the show takes a giant detour in favor of political correctness tonight.
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AP Holds Pity Party for Deported Terror Sympathizer
Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 6:20:37 pm PST
Associated Press writer Joe Milicia feels the pain of deported terror sympathizer Fawaz Damra: Deported imam rejected by 72 nations had nowhere to turn. PARMA, Ohio - The former imam of Ohio’s largest mosque became a man without a country. Fawaz Damra, now jailed by Israeli authorities, for months sought a nation ...
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Muslim Council of Britain Seething About Undercover Documentary
Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 5:34:20 pm PST
Britain’s Channel 4, normally a den of moonbats, will broadcast a show tomorrow night that goes undercover to expose the prevalence of militant Islamic ideology in Britain’s mosques. Predictably, the Muslim Council of Britain is seething and whining—in this case, in an article published on Iran’s mullah-approved news site: ...
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Video: Michael Brecker Solos on Electronic Wind Instrument
Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 5:19:53 pm PST
“Astounding” doesn’t even begin to describe this. [Video]
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Gaddafi Goes for the Shakedown
Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 4:28:49 pm PST
News of the reformation of Libyan strongman “Colonel” Muammar Gaddafi (He of the Many Spellings) may have been premature. He now says he’ll release the doctor and nurses ludicrously convicted of injecting children with AIDS, if the EU and the US compensate the “victims’ families,” and release the terrorist convicted ...
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UK Islamic Forum Incites Somalia Jihad
Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 1:44:40 pm PST
One of the UK’s most unapologetic Islamic supremacists, Anjem Choudary, has been caught inciting violence (again!) on a password-protected web site: UK preacher in secret web call for jihad. ONE of Britain’s most vocal, extremist preachers has been using a false name on a secret website to incite Muslim followers to ...
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LGF Technical Update - Percentages 2
Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 1:26:09 pm PST
So far I’ve gotten only positive comments about LGF’s new font sizing method. A change this fundamental, however, has lots of ramifications for a site this large, and there may still be some rough spots. So here’s another thread for you to let me know if anything doesn’t look the ...
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Bolton to Ki-Moon: Trust Your Instincts, Not UN Theology
Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 11:23:57 am PST
Fallaci Award winner John Bolton has a piece in the Washington Post evaluating UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon’s first week on the job: Don’t Ban Your Instincts, Ban Ki-moon. Even more problematic than the death penalty debate was another matter Ban raised during his first week on the job. In an ...
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Reuters: Terrorist's Family Worried
Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 10:02:21 am PST
Al-Reuters wants us to feel sorry for the family of one of the world’s most dangerous Al Qaeda terrorists, the killer who perpetrated the bombings of US embassies in Africa: Family worry for Qaeda suspect after Somalia strike. MORONI, Jan 10 (Reuters) - Relatives of fugitive al Qaeda suspect Fazul Abdullah ...
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Iran and Venezuela Launch Anti-US Fund
Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 9:29:05 am PST
While America falls asleep in front of the TV watching Rosie and Donald, the terror masters join forces to work toward our destruction: Iran and Venezuela Plan Anti-U.S. Fund. CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez and Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad _ fiery anti- American leaders whose moves to extend their influence ...
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US Panders to Abbas
Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 8:49:06 am PST
Absolutely disgusting. Condoleezza Rice pandering to a Holocaust-denying thug like Mahmoud Abbas—and Abbas has the sheer gall to throw it right back at us: Abbas: No ‘temporary’ Palestinian state. RAMALLAH, West Bank - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Sunday that he opposes the establishment of ...
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Religion of Peace Strikes Again in Thailand
Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 8:17:14 am PST
Insurgents Behead Buddhist in Thailand. BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) — A Buddhist man in restive southern Thailand was beheaded by suspected Muslim insurgents who left a note by the body warning Buddhists to leave the area that has been gripped by bloody violence for three years, police said. The man and his wife ...
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Saturday Night Bay
Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 8:29:30 pm PST
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Al Jazeera Reporter Fabricating Torture Scenes?
Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 8:07:41 pm PST
There’s a reason why Al Jazeera is promoting the same “torture” accusations against Egypt as they regularly do against the US and the West in general: because they know it plays well with the West’s squishy left, and our mainstream media. Egypt has long recognized the danger of the Muslim Brotherhood ...
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Rest in Peace, Michael Brecker
Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 4:03:04 pm PST
One of the greatest musicians of our age, Michael Brecker, has passed away after a long battle with MDS. I had the privilege of working with him on several occasions, and he was a huge inspiration. When Michael finished soloing, every musician’s jaw would be on the floor—in awe at ...
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LGF Technical Update - Percentages
Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 10:50:07 am PST
The latest revision to the LGF blog code addresses a recurring issue that I hear about in email quite frequently, in which users of Internet Explorer for Windows are unable to resize our text. Other browsers (Mozilla, Firefox, Safari) don’t have this problem. It’s caused by a weird bug/quirk of IE ...
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Totten in Lebanon
Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 10:17:37 am PST
Michael J. Totten has been filing a series of excellent reports from Lebanon, including lots of photographs. Just click through to his site and start reading.
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"Moderate" Becomes a Meaningless Word
Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 9:57:53 am PST
The latest Big Lie universally promoted by the mainstream wire services is that Palestinian Authority chairman/president/etc. Mahmoud Abbas is in some sense a “moderate.” (The word “secular” is also used often.) A search of Yahoo’s wire stories for “moderate Abbas” turns up about 373 stories in the past 30 days. In ...
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Smarmy Weasel Words of the Week
Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 9:13:17 am PST
I might have more respect for Barbara Boxer if she stood by her personal attack on Condoleezza Rice, instead of trying to unctuously weasel out: Senator says she won’t apologize for ‘strong message’. (Hat tip: Bookworm Room.) The smarmiest political statement of the week: Boxer, defending herself against critics from the right, ...
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Muslims Want Special Treatment from UK Health Service
Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 8:58:32 am PST
Yet another demand for special treatment for Muslims, accompanied by claims of victimhood: NHS ‘should treat Muslims differently’. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) LONDON (Reuters) - Muslims should be given different treatment on the National Health Service to take account of the requirements of their faith, a doctor said on Friday. Britain’s 1.6 ...
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Mass Murderers of a Feather
Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 6:48:10 pm PST
The convergence of Communism and militant Islam is graphically illustrated in this photo from the ongoing Hizballah “menace-in” (the 21st Century version of the “sit-in”) in Beirut: Lebanese flag and portrait of Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara are displayed on the tents as Lebanese men relax smoking water-pipes in the tent camp erected ...
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US Deficit Drops By a Third
Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 6:31:08 pm PST
A very interesting report from the Treasury Department shows that the deficit is down by almost 33% compared to last year. (Hat tip: Geepers.)
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Reuters: US Troops Are Fat Drunks
Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 5:42:49 pm PST
The Dripping Bias and Contempt Award for the evening goes to Reuters: Pentagon survey says troops fatter, drinking more. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. troops were fatter and drank harder in 2005 than before the Iraq war started, according a Pentagon survey of more than 16,000 service members released on Friday. Still, the ...
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Death Cult Carnival in Qalqilya
Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 2:22:08 pm PST
A little light-hearted after-mosque fun for the whole Hamas family. Women kept separate, of course. Have you ever seen people more deserving of a state?
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Pakistan Al Qaeda Shock!
Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 1:45:03 pm PST
Major-General Shaukat Sultan is shocked—shocked!—to hear that there may be terrorists in Pakistan: Pakistan takes issue with Negroponte over al Qaeda. ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan said on Friday the United States had not given it any information about the presence of al Qaeda leaders after U.S. intelligence chief John Negroponte said ...
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Turkey Takes Action Against Honor Killings
Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 12:46:55 pm PST
Turkey’s government and ruling elites are eager to be admitted to the European Union, but there are certain cultural/religious traditions that could be deal breakers for the Europeans. Such as “honor killing.” So the Turkish government has launched an unprecedented campaign against the barbaric practice: Turkey works to stop ‘honor’ killings. It remains ...
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VDH: The Surge Gamble
Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 12:14:53 pm PST
Here’s Victor Davis Hanson’s take on The Surge Gamble. Will these “benchmarks” work? Only if the Maliki government is honest when he promises that there will be no sanctuaries for the militias and terrorists. So when the killing of terrorists causes hysteria — and it will, both in Iraq and back ...
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Egyptian Researcher Blinded by Science
Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 10:43:13 am PST
Dr. Abd Al-Baset Al-Sayyed of the Egyptian National Research Center explains the “science” behind his call to abolish Greenwich Mean Time and replace it with ... you guessed it ... Mecca time! (Courtesy of MEMRI TV.) [Video] Abd Al-Baset Al-Sayyid: When British colonialism or the British kingdom were in control, and it ...
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The 800-Pound Guerrilla
Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 10:29:24 am PST
From Cox & Forkum Editorial Cartoons.
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IAEA Springs Into Action, Relaxes About Iran
Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 10:10:37 am PST
Whistling past the thermonuclear graveyard: Iran’s caution under sanctions eases heat at IAEA. VIENNA (Reuters) - Talk of staging a special U.N. nuclear watchdog meeting to pile pressure on Iran has abated because of its moderate response to new U.N. sanctions and a wish to avoid damaging strife within the agency, ...
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Wire Services Concealing Abbas' Call for Attacks
Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 9:58:43 am PST
Not a single mainstream wire service is telling the truth about the speech Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas gave yesterday in Ramallah. As reported by the Jerusalem Post, Abbas explicitly called for Palestinian weapons to be used against Israel. Here’s what he said: “When Fatah was established, it was accused of treason ...
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Anti-War Antisemitic Moonbats Take to the Streets
Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 9:13:11 am PST
The “anti-war” movement in all its glory: Protesting Gitmo, Praising Castro, and Attacking the Jewish Influence - All Here in Manhattan. UPDATE at 1/12/07 9:16:36 am: Berkeley moonbats at zombietime: No to Troop Escalation. UPDATE at 1/12/07 9:19:49 am: San Diego Truthers at Go Pundit Go: Video: San Diego Anti-War Protesters.
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Iraqi Government Sides with Iranians Arrested by US
Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 8:49:25 am PST
The Iraqi government has sided with the Iranians arrested yesterday by US troops, and one Iranian has already been freed.
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Babs Boxer Goes for the Low Blow
Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 8:33:10 am PST
Judging from Barbara Boxer’s disgusting comments yesterday, we’d better get ready for two years of political grandstanding, ugly personal attacks, and undercutting America’s security in time of war. In other words, business as usual for the modern progressive Democrats: Boxer’s Low Blow. January 12, 2007 — Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer, an appalling ...
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Breaking: Explosion at US Embassy in Athens
Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 9:11:58 pm PST
Blast rips through U.S. embassy compound in Athens. ATHENS (Reuters) - An explosion ripped through the U.S. embassy compound in central Athens on Friday, a police source said. It was not clear what caused the blast and there was no immediate word on whether there were any casualties. Police cordoned off all ...
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Thursday Night Fence
Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 8:43:17 pm PST
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Danish Cartoons and FGM
Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 6:40:45 pm PST
Two must-reads from the Middle East Quarterly: After the Danish Cartoon Controversy Is Female Genital Mutilation an Islamic Problem?
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A Panoply of Self-Loathing
Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 4:59:37 pm PST
The Art Directors Club of New York is holding an art contest sponsored by Yahoo, MediaTemple, Adobe, and Corbis. An LGF reader emailed a shot of the promotional poster for the contest. It’s an impressive panoply of moonbat leftist self-loathing, a desolate nuclear wasteland populated by Republican political leaders holding hands ...
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Abbas Calls to Attack Israel, AP Ignores It
Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 3:17:16 pm PST
Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) has issued a call for Palestinians to refrain from internal fighting and turn their guns against Israel: Abbas: Aim guns against occupation. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) “When Fatah was established, it was accused of treason and we were chased in every place,” Abbas told ...
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Indonesian Cop Beaten to Death at Terrorist's Funeral
Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 1:03:50 pm PST
In a shootout with Indonesian police, one of the Islamic terrorists responsible for the awful beheading murders of three Christian schoolgirls was killed. Later at his funeral, a mob of Muslim “mourners” caught a policeman and beat him to death: Police officer killed during funeral of terrorist involved in beheading of ...
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Does This Burqa Make Me Look Fat?
Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 10:49:43 am PST
In New Zealand, another Islamic demand that the West accommodate misogynistic practices, accompanied by a claim of victimhood: Muslim women seek their own swimming pools. (Hat tip: warbicycle.) There are calls for special pool facilities to be set up for Muslim women so they can swim without compromising their religious beliefs. Naaz ...
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The Big Fish Got Away
Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 10:36:28 am PST
The reports of the death of senior Al Qaeda freakazoid Fazul Abdullah Mohammed appear to have been premature: No top Al-Qaeda suspects killed in Somali air strike, says US official. NAIROBI (AFP) - A US airstrike in Somalia killed “eight to 10” alleged Al-Qaeda affiliates, but none of the three top ...
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LGF Technical Update - Tech News Added
Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 10:14:27 am PST
Check out a new feature in our left sidebar: a selection of computer/technology-related news headlines, using the RSS feed from Top Tech News.
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US Forces Storm Iranian Consulate
Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 9:41:15 am PST
A possible first move against the Iranian jihadi support network in Iraq: US forces storm Iranian consulate. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) US forces have stormed an Iranian consulate in the northern Iraqi town of Irbil and seized six members of staff. The troops raided the building at about 0300 (0001GMT), taking away ...
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Mass Resignation at Carter Center
Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 9:05:13 am PST
Quite a blow to America’s worst former president today, as 14 members of the advisory board of the Carter Center resign en masse: Carter Center Board Members Resign Over Palestine Book. (Hat tip: Rednek.) ATLANTA — Fourteen members of an advisory board at the Carter Center resigned today, concluding they could ...
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Hamas Prof Caught Through Phone Calls
Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 8:56:59 am PST
An interesting report on the trial in Chicago of Abdelhaleem Ashqar and Muhammad Salah, charged with fundraising for Hamas in the United States: Student was terrorist, prosecutor says. (Hat tip: IRIS Blog.) CHICAGO - A graduate student living in Mississippi was an important Hamas terrorist leader directing thousands of dollars to ...
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AFP: US Marines = Terrorists
Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 8:25:59 am PST
Agence France Presse explicitly calls US Marines terrorists in a report on Haditha: US Marines build sand walls in latest Iraq tactic. Scores of American soldiers have been killed around Haditha in the four years since the US invasion. The area has been terrorised by Al-Qaeda fighters who reportedly roam large, ...
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Rape Sheik: Muslims Have More Right to Australia
Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 7:42:22 am PST
The Australian Islamic leader who compared women without veils to “uncovered meat” is back in the news, appearing on Egyptian television and calling Australia “a convict nation of liars.” (Hat tip: LGF readers.) In Arabic, of course. AUSTRALIA’S controversial mufti Sheik Taj al-Din al-Hilali has landed himself in hot water again, this ...
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Mysterious Spy Coins Discovered
Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 9:00:50 pm PST
US defense contractors are apparently being tracked by an unknown entity: Defense workers warned about spy coins. WASHINGTON - Can the coins jingling in your pocket trace your movements? The Defense Department is warning its American contractor employees about a new espionage threat seemingly straight from Hollywood: It discovered Canadian coins ...
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Hot Air in Baghdad
Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 7:33:06 pm PST
Bryan Preston and Michelle Malkin are in Iraq, and here’s Bryan’s first dispatch: On Patrol in Baghdad.
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Wednesday Night Beach
Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 7:21:46 pm PST
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Bush: The Way Forward Speech 1
Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 6:01:51 pm PST
Here’s an open thread to liveblog President Bush’s Iraq speech... UPDATE at 1/10/07 6:25:10 pm: Correction from earlier post: Dick “US Troops Are Nazis” Durbin will give the Democrats’ response, not Keith “Allahu Akbar” Ellison.
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Hamas: Reuters is Faking the News
Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 5:22:19 pm PST
The Reuters wire service is being accused of twisting and distorting the news (again), but this time the accusers are Hamas—who are going for the reverse double backflip terrorist PR move: Hamas denies Meshal spoke of recognizing Israel. (Hat tip: It Shines For All.) Hamas denied Wednesday that its Damascus-based political ...
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Maliki Tells the Mahdi Army to Disarm or Else
Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 4:51:23 pm PST
In advance of President Bush’s speech, Iraqi PM Nouri al-Maliki has (very) belatedly told the Shi’ite militias to disarm or face an all-out assault. BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq’s prime minister has told Shiite militiamen to surrender their arms or face an all-out assault by U.S.-backed Iraqi forces, senior Iraqi officials said ...
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Video: Kaufman vs. Iftikhar (CAIR)
Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 2:24:05 pm PST
From Neil Cavuto’s show, Joe Kaufman of Americans Against Hate debates (I use the term loosely) CAIR official Arsalan Iftikhar. Notice how Iftikhar dodges every significant point, interrupts, and launches personal attacks against Kaufman; the conclusion of this one is must-see TV. [Video]
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Jihadi Dating Service
Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 1:29:14 pm PST
At Islamic Networking, the new home of the Clear Guidance kids (lgf: search), a brother from Nigeria is searching for a muslimah with the right aqeeda. Her adab is also important. Brother from Nigeria: I am a 28 year old bother upon the qeedah of ahlul sunna wal jamaah. People describe me ...
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Egyptian Weekly: How Many Times Must Bush Be Executed?
Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 12:47:50 pm PST
The cover of the January 6 issue of Egyptian mainstream weekly Roz al-Yousef featured a photograph of the execution of Saddam Hussein—with George W. Bush’s head superimposed on Saddam’s body, and titled “Bush’s Execution.” If Saddam Was Executed for the Murder of 148 Iraqi Citizens, How Many Times Must Bush Be ...
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Jacoby: Boston Mosque's Saudi Connection
Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 12:18:37 pm PST
Jeff Jacoby has new details on the Saudi funding of the Islamic Society of Boston’s $24 million mosque project: The Boston mosque’s Saudi connection. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Questions have been raised about the Islamic Society’s past and present leaders, some of whom have supported Islamist terrorism or indulged in virulently ...
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Nazis and Jihadis on YouTube
Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 10:58:18 am PST
I’m not going to post this vile video, but have a look at what YouTube is allowing on their service, while anti-jihad videos are routinely flagged as inappropriate and often removed: The Kosher Tax. (Hat tip: Carl in Jerusalem.) The video is credited to “michbubba88.” The number 88 is code in ...
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Got a Big Fish in Somalia?
Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 9:55:53 am PST
It’s unconfirmed as of this writing, but we may have gotten a very big fish in Somalia: Al-Qaida chief in Somalia may be dead. MOGADISHU, Somalia - A senior al-Qaida suspect wanted for bombing American embassies in East Africa was killed in a U.S. airstrike, a Somali official said Wednesday, a ...
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Religion of Peace Strikes in Philippines
Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 9:15:50 am PST
Bombings kill 6, hurt 27 in Philippines. MANILA, Philippines - Three bombs within hours of each other rocked the southern Philippines on Wednesday, killing at least six people and wounding 27 others, officials said, amid warnings that Muslim militants may try to disrupt this weekend’s Asian regional summits. ... The first explosion ...
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BBC Internal Briefing: Israel Has Killed Hope
Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 9:13:15 am PST
Stephen Pollard has obtained a briefing for BBC staff from the BBC’s Middle East Editor, Jeremy Bowen, that reveals the BBC’s insane bias against Israel. (As if it weren’t already incredibly blatant.) In Bowen’s world (and the BBC’s), the Palestinians are completely blameless, and Israel completely contemptible: Stephen Pollard Jeremy ...
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Reuters Shills for Hamas (Again)
Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 8:51:11 am PST
Al-Reuters, shilling for Hamas again: Hamas leader Meshaal acknowledges Israel exists. It’s to laugh. Meshaal says, “sure, there’s an entity called Israel, that we want to destroy,” and Reuters trumpets it like a breakthrough. DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Hamas acknowledges the existence of Israel but formal recognition by the group will only be ...
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Ellison: Cut and Run, Ban Profiling
Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 8:10:36 am PST
The Associated Press interviews Muslim Congressman Keith Ellison, and of course they don’t ask him about his Nation of Islam membership or his associations with the Islamic radical front group CAIR, or about how he plans to reconcile the Koran’s mandate of shari’a law with his oath to uphold the ...
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Islamic Supremacists Shut Down in Sydney
Tue, Jan 9, 2007 at 7:22:22 pm PST
Good news from Sydney, Australia, where that hatefest sponsored by Islamic supremacist group Hizb ut-Tahrir has been shut down by the Bankstown City Council. The following link goes to the Australian Hizb ut-Tahrir web site, where the Seethe-O-Meter is pegged: www.risala.org. (Hat tip: Meryl Yourish.) Sydney, Australia - The decision taken ...
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Aussie Saudi Mosque Funding Shock!
Tue, Jan 9, 2007 at 6:56:43 pm PST
Our friends the Saudis are shocked—shocked!—that Australia’s foreign minister would have the audacity to suggest there might be extremists in Saudi Arabia: Downer shocks Saudis with extremist-mosque link. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) FOREIGN Minister Alexander Downer has been forced to smooth over relations with the Saudi Embassy after saying federal authorities ...
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Little Green Nostradamus Watch
Tue, Jan 9, 2007 at 5:57:59 pm PST
On Sunday, when three Middle Eastern men were detained under suspicious circumstances and without proper ID at the Port of Miami, I wrote: UPDATE at 1/7/07 1:50:14 pm: If it turns out to be a false alarm, expect the Council on American Islamic Relations to jump all over it as another case ...
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Hitchens: What Jefferson Really Thought About Islam
Tue, Jan 9, 2007 at 3:23:49 pm PST
Rep. Keith Ellison’s political stunt, in which he took his oath of office on a Koran owned by Thomas Jefferson, garnered lots of adulatory reviews from the left-wing blogosphere and mainstream media. They saw it as an excellent put-down of right-wing Christians and other conservatives who objected to Ellison using ...
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Dick "US Troops Are Nazis" Durbin and Markos "Screw Them" Moulitsas
Tue, Jan 9, 2007 at 12:29:40 pm PST
I suppose we shouldn’t be surprised that Dick Durbin, the Dem politician who casually compared the treatment of Gitmo terrorists to the atrocities of Nazi Germany, would slink over to the web’s premier left-wing hate site, where accusations of Nazism are a dime a dozen, and where Kos once told ...
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Aussie Government Powerless to Stop Hizb Ut-Tahrir Hatefest
Tue, Jan 9, 2007 at 12:16:29 pm PST
Hizb ut-Tahrir, the Islamic supremacist group banned in much of the world, will hold a large hatefest in Sydney this month—and the Australian government says they are powerless to stop it: Radicals can’t be stopped. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) THE Federal Government says it is powerless to ban a Muslim group ...
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Deported Cleveland Islamic Leader Arrested in Israel
Tue, Jan 9, 2007 at 8:55:17 am PST
Israeli security says deported Muslim leader arrested in West Bank. DETROIT — The former imam of Ohio’s largest mosque, who was deported to his native West Bank last week, was arrested by Israeli authorities after crossing from Jordan, his brother says. Israeli authorities confirmed Tuesday that he was in custody. Fawaz Damra, ...
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Sunni-Shia Violence in Detroit?
Tue, Jan 9, 2007 at 8:47:27 am PST
Damage to businesses and mosques in Detroit raises wider fears. (Hat tip: Killgore Trout.) As they repaired the broken windows of at least a dozen businesses and mosques along Warren Avenue in Detroit, many Iraqi Shi’ite Muslims wondered Monday if the vandalism was retaliation by local supporters of Saddam Hussein who ...
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UK Left-Wing Revenge Fantasy
Tue, Jan 9, 2007 at 8:45:21 am PST
Another left-wing revenge fantasy, brought to you by the same British TV channel who made a sick film about George Bush’s assassination: “The Trial of Tony Blair.”
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Pace University Threatens Hillel for Showing "Obsession"
Tue, Jan 9, 2007 at 8:23:04 am PST
At New York’s Pace University, the Jewish student group Hillel says administrators threatened to “sic” the police on them if they showed the critically acclaimed film “Obsession,” after seething and whining by the Muslim Students Association: Pace’s Docudrama. (Hat tip: Mark.) January 9, 2007 — Pace University administrators threatened to sic ...
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What the Hell is Wrong With the Washington Post?
Tue, Jan 9, 2007 at 8:09:21 am PST
Syrian antisemitic propaganda is prominently featured at the Washington Post today, including the usual Nazi imagery and disgusting blood libels: Support Palestine’s Struggle. (Hat tip: WriterMom.) The Israeli journalist Amira Hass once interviewed an Israeli soldier who confessed that the IDF gives orders to kill Palestinian boys and girls aged 12 ...
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Video: CAIR Asked Tough Questions on CNN
Mon, Jan 8, 2007 at 7:01:59 pm PST
On Paula Zahn’s CNN show tonight, about Barbara Boxer’s decision to rescind an award to CAIR official Basim Elkarra, Zahn revealed that the FBI had found the much-trumpeted “death threat” against CAIR’s Basim Elkarra to be “not credible.” Here’s the video, which also features Joe Kaufman of Americans Against Hate, and ...
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Non-Naked Beach Moonbats Shunned
Mon, Jan 8, 2007 at 5:19:06 pm PST
On January 5, moonbats in San Francisco engaged in another of those weird, pointless public magical thinking exercises, spelling out the word “Impeach” with their bodies on a beach. Get it? Impeach ... beach. It rhymes! A clever technique to enhance the incantational properties. Impeach on the beach. This one got almost no ...
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US Strikes Al Qaeda in Somalia
Mon, Jan 8, 2007 at 4:42:27 pm PST
Some excellent news: U.S. Strikes Al Qaeda In Somalia. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) (CBS/AP) A U.S. Air Force gunship has conducted a strike against suspected members of al Qaeda in Somalia, CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports exclusively. The targets included the senior al Qaeda leader in East Africa and an ...
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Subway Bomb Plotter Gets 30 Years
Mon, Jan 8, 2007 at 2:41:54 pm PST
The Pakistani immigrant who plotted to blow up New York’s Herald Square subway station has been sentenced to 30 years in prison. (Hat tip: SoCalJustice.) NEW YORK (AP) — A Pakistani immigrant was sentenced on Monday to 30 years in prison for hatching an unsuccessful plot to blow up a ...
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World Music Gone Horribly Wrong
Mon, Jan 8, 2007 at 1:57:04 pm PST
If you’re into weird inept clarinet/oud and drum playing, and manly men chanting slogans of resistance, the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage has just the thing for you: Palestine Lives!: Songs from the Struggle of the People of Palestine. (Hat tip: Laurence Simon.) Featuring members of the terrorist gang ...
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Breaking: Suspicious Package at Port of Miami
Mon, Jan 8, 2007 at 12:33:20 pm PST
More action at the Port of Miami: Bomb Squad Investigates Suspicious Material at Port of Miami. MIAMI — A suspicious device was found Monday at the Port of Miami, according to officials. A bomb squad was on the scene; officers were seen donning explosive suits. A spokesman for the Miami-Dade Police said ...
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Sunni-Shi'ite War in Microcosm
Mon, Jan 8, 2007 at 11:57:16 am PST
A Saddam loyalist (the owner of Al-Zawraa TV) and a Shi’ite journalist nearly have a knock-down drag-out fight on Al Jazeera (JihadTV), when the Saddam toady tries to say a prayer in honor of the mass murderer. (Courtesy of MEMRI TV.) [Video]
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When Idiots Attack (Again)
Mon, Jan 8, 2007 at 11:14:49 am PST
Another day, another attack from idiots; this time it’s the brazen liar and noted sock puppet user Glenn Greenwald, again at John Amato’s deranged leftist web site: Pajamas Media and “major embarrassment” — connect the dots. Notice that in his latest attempted smear on LGF and PJ Media, Greenwald doesn’t quote ...
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Dershowitz: Why Won't Carter Debate His Book?
Mon, Jan 8, 2007 at 10:58:14 am PST
Alan Dershowitz continues pointing out the incredible hypocrisy of former President Jimmy Carter and his latest work of propaganda: Why won’t Carter debate his book? YOU CAN ALWAYS tell when a public figure has written an indefensible book: when he refuses to debate it in the court of public opinion. And ...
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Rep. Keith Ellison’s Excellent Opportunity
Mon, Jan 8, 2007 at 10:03:36 am PST
Gates of Vienna challenges Muslim congressman Keith Ellison to step up to the plate and speak out against the appalling plight of women under shari’a law: Rep. Keith Ellison’s Excellent Opportunity. UPDATE at 1/8/07 10:26:19 am: Not quite sure what to make of this, but given Ellison’s associations with CAIR and his ...
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Britain's Huge Problem
Mon, Jan 8, 2007 at 9:26:12 am PST
In addition to Channel 4’s undercover exposé, British tabloid People has apparently done their own investigations into the prevalence of militant Islam in the UK, and their findings are not good at all: Brits Who Hate Us. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) One radical ABU WALEED appears in a talk about the ...
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Saddam's Daughter Whines to Daily Mail
Mon, Jan 8, 2007 at 8:50:51 am PST
There’s been a rash of mainstream media stories expressing sorrow at the passing of Saddam Hussein, but this one in the Daily Mail takes the prize: Daughter denied final call to Saddam. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) The pictures of his execution by balaclava-clad figures - and the taunts that accompanied it ...
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Blue Horizon
Sun, Jan 7, 2007 at 8:30:15 pm PST
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UK "Moderate" Islamic Leaders Preaching Hatred
Sun, Jan 7, 2007 at 8:02:32 pm PST
American media works ceaselessly to reveal details of our secret wartime plans to the world, but they’re completely uninterested in conducting investigations like this: Revealed: preachers’ messages of hate. An undercover investigation has revealed disturbing evidence of Islamic extremism at a number of Britain’s leading mosques and Muslim institutions, including an ...
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The Protocols of the Daily Kos
Sun, Jan 7, 2007 at 7:10:32 pm PST
One of the more malevolent “diary” posts at Daily Kos that I have seen: Daily Kos: Iran Has A Right To Attack Israel. (Hat tip: marsl.) Yes, that’s right. A long diatribe/pseudo-logical “thought exercise” that makes the case for Iran to launch a preemptive attack on both Israel and the United ...
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Straight Out of the Seventh Century, Part 3
Sun, Jan 7, 2007 at 6:49:45 pm PST
For the crime of defending herself against a gang rape, an Iranian star chamber sentenced 17-year old Nazanin Fatehi to death by hanging, as we wrote last May: Iran to Hang Teenager Attacked by Rapist. After a huge amount of international pressure, the sentence was overturned by another Ayatollah, and she ...
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Inappropriate Hostage Reaction Watch
Sun, Jan 7, 2007 at 6:31:48 pm PST
Am I the only one who thinks it’s absolutely bizarre how nearly every reporter kidnapped by Palestinians comes out of the ordeal with nothing but praise for their kidnappers? Abducted AFP photographer freed in Gaza. GAZA CITY (AFP) - AFP photographer Jaime Razuri was freed in the Gaza Strip seven days ...
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Sacramento Bee Editorial Shills for CAIR
Sun, Jan 7, 2007 at 4:21:44 pm PST
In an editorial that completely ignores CAIR’s many unsavory statements and terrorist links, Ginger Rutland of the Sacramento Bee defends the Council on American Islamic Relations: Editorial notebook: The CAIR takeaway. (You can read the article without registering at the SacBee by following the link from this Google search: “Editorial notebook: ...
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Stuck Mojo Replies to CAIR
Sun, Jan 7, 2007 at 3:31:25 pm PST
Rich Ward, the guitarist and leader of the band Stuck Mojo, responds to the dishonest smears of CAIR’s Nihad Awad: My Response to CAIR’s Misrepresentation of “Open Season”. As many of you know, the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) has attacked Stuck Mojo by falsely claming that “Open Season” advocates ...
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Port of Miami Under Alert
Sun, Jan 7, 2007 at 1:29:12 pm PST
An alert is in effect at the Port of Miami, after two Iraqis and a Lebanese man were found trying to slip past security in a cargo truck: 3 detained trying to enter Port of Miami. MIAMI - Three men were caught trying to slip past a checkpoint in a cargo ...
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Straight Out of the Seventh Century, Part 2
Sun, Jan 7, 2007 at 9:01:03 am PST
Having a feud with the neighbors? No problem! Just hand over your daughter: Tribesman to hand over daughter to rivals. (Hat tip: silver.) PESHAWAR, Jan 6: A tribal notable in Mohmand Agency is set to hand over his minor daughter to his rivals for settling a feud in accordance with the ...
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Straight Out of the Seventh Century
Sun, Jan 7, 2007 at 8:57:17 am PST
In an article that reads like a review of a new sitcom, ArabNews tells the disturbing story of the business partners who married each other’s teenage daughters: ‘You Marry My Daughter and I’ll Marry Yours!’ (Hat tip: Bubbaman.) RIYADH, 7 January 2007 — With the aim of strengthening business ties, two ...
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Australian Muslim Killed in Somalia Jihad
Sun, Jan 7, 2007 at 8:21:59 am PST
An Australian Somali immigrant who became radicalized in Australia has turned up dead, fighting for the jihadis in Somalia: Death ends migrant’s three-day journey into jihad. (Hat tip: Hamuzi.) A MELBOURNE father’s mission to join Islamic jihad in Somalia ended with his death three days after arriving in the African region ...
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When Idiots Attack
Sun, Jan 7, 2007 at 8:12:26 am PST
Rabid leftist hate-monger and noted insane moonbat John Amato of the ugly, poorly written (but aptly titled) web site Crooks and Liars calls me a bunch of names. Yawn.
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Saturday Night Fence
Sat, Jan 6, 2007 at 8:49:51 pm PST
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Palestinian Civil War Watch
Sat, Jan 6, 2007 at 6:33:47 pm PST
Abbas declares Hamas force in Gaza illegal. Hamas says it will double its armed force.
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The Google Video Jihad
Sat, Jan 6, 2007 at 6:31:05 pm PST
Jihadis using Google Video (again): iraq bomb. (Warning: the video shows US troops being killed by IEDs.)
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CAIR Slams Boxer, Stuck Mojo
Sat, Jan 6, 2007 at 5:26:21 pm PST
This is how the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) is working to turn America’s democratic institutions and natural tolerance against itself. Basim Elkarra, whose award from Barbara Boxer was rescinded after she investigated his group’s many links to convicted terrorists, is now claiming he’s received an email death threat. He ...
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Cycle of Violence: Sackcloth and Ashes Denied
Sat, Jan 6, 2007 at 3:43:54 pm PST
If you read the lefty blogs, I’m supposed to be dressed in sackcloth, rubbing ashes into my hair and wailing, “Oh, how could I have been so wrong! I am worthless! Kill me instead of the noble Jamil Hussein!” Instead I traded the sackcloth for some Pearl Izumi bike clothes ...
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London Times: Israel Planning Nuclear Strike on Iran
Sat, Jan 6, 2007 at 2:59:45 pm PST
A huge red headline at Drudge Report says the Sunday Times will report tomorrow that Israel has drawn up “secret” (not any more) plans to destroy Iranian uranium enrichment facilities with tactical nuclear weapons. I should hope so. But the Times has been wrong before with “secret Israeli plan” stories.
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Spanish Bishops Sound the Alarm
Sat, Jan 6, 2007 at 2:48:06 pm PST
The Catholic bishops of Spain remember the reason for the Reconquista, as Muslims gradually retake through demographics and Arab oil money what they lost on the battlefield: Spanish bishops fear rebirth of Islamic kingdom. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Spain’s bishops are alarmed by ambitious plans to recreate the city of ...
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Breaking: Pork Soup Racist Again in France
Sat, Jan 6, 2007 at 8:39:02 am PST
Looks like we spoke too soon last Wednesday, because pork soup is racist in France after all. PARIS — A top French judge ruled that an extreme-right group cannot serve pork soup to the needy, saying the charitable handouts aim to discriminate against Muslims and Jews who don’t eat pork ...
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CAIR Seethes, Whines, Lies After Boxer Rescinds Award
Sat, Jan 6, 2007 at 8:25:33 am PST
The Council on American Islamic Relations is seething, whining, and lying in response to Barbara Boxer’s surprisingly un-dhimmi-like action: Sen. Boxer rescinds award to Muslim leader after seeing criticism. Boxer’s communication’s director, Natalie Ravitz, said a letter withdrawing the certificate was sent to Elkarra on Dec. 21. Ravitz said two former members ...
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Aussie Multiculturalism Run Amok
Sat, Jan 6, 2007 at 7:53:11 am PST
Australian journalist Martin Chulov has an absolutely bizarre piece treating one of Australia’s most radical Islamic nutbags as a sympathetic figure, unjustly persecuted for his entirely innocent associations with jihadis and convicted terrorists and his Dark Ages misogynistic creed: Treatment has sheik wary of returning home. (Hat tip: Hamuzi.) AUSTRALIA’S ...
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Thomas Jefferson's Koran
Fri, Jan 5, 2007 at 7:16:29 pm PST
Keith Ellison took his oath on the Koran, touching it with his left hand which is most definitely haram: Rep. Ellison swearing in. The lefties are all crowing about the huge political points they think Ellison gained by using Thomas Jefferson’s Koran. But I have a Koran too.
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AP Concerned for Jamil Hussein
Fri, Jan 5, 2007 at 6:39:00 pm PST
The Associated Press’s Kathleen Carroll is suddenly concerned about the well-being of Jamil Hussein: AP’s Editor Criticizes Those Who Questioned Iraq Source. NEW YORK Associated Press Executive Editor Kathleen Carroll on Friday criticized those who questioned the existence of an AP Iraq source, who was proven this week to be real, ...
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ArabNews: Mohammed Ordered Killing of Slave Girls Who Mocked Him
Fri, Jan 5, 2007 at 3:20:46 pm PST
Here’s a very interesting piece in Saudi Arabia’s English-language mouthpiece, ArabNews, about Mohammed’s history as a warrior: The Prophet as a Man — 108: War Preparedness. (Hat tip: Fjordman.) Despite what the enemies of Islam say, particularly nowadays, and what impression some fringe groups of Muslim hard-liners advocate, Islam is a ...
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Cat Stevens Refuses to Denounce Hamas
Fri, Jan 5, 2007 at 1:58:41 pm PST
In this Sunday’s New York Times, Deborah Solomon interviews Islamopop star Cat Stevens, aka Yusuf Islam, aka Yusuf—and the way he answers questions about his support for terrorists is incredibly revealing in its shifty evasiveness: Trying to Get Cat Stevens To Back or Bash Hamas. (Hat tip: NJDhockeyfan.) But then she ...
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Kerry Not Shunned, Wingnuts Utterly Humiliated
Fri, Jan 5, 2007 at 1:11:55 pm PST
Greg Sargent at the “progressive” Talking Points Cafe admits he has spent way too much time on a relatively insignificant story, but it paid off. He’s proved the “wingnuts” were wrong about that picture of John Kerry eating breakfast by himself: New Proof That The Wingnut ‘Lonely Kerry’ Story Is ...
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Iran: Threaten Us and We'll Nuke You
Fri, Jan 5, 2007 at 10:36:33 am PST
In Beijing, Iran’s “nuclear negotiator” Ali Larijani reiterated that Iran’s nuclear program is strictly for peaceful power generation. Then he said that if Iran feels threatened, it’s nukin’ time: Iranian official: If threatened, we will use nuclear weapons. Iran’s chief nuclear envoy Ali Larijani said on Friday that Iran is committed to ...
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Cleveland Islamic Leader Deported to West Bank
Fri, Jan 5, 2007 at 8:59:42 am PST
The former leader of the Islamic Center of Cleveland, Fawaz Damra, has finally been deported: Damra deported to West Bank. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Fawaz Damra, the longtime local imam convicted of lying about his links to terrorist groups, was deported to the West Bank Thursday morning, immigration officials said. “It happened ...
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Outrage of the Day
Fri, Jan 5, 2007 at 8:34:23 am PST
The United States is going to give $86 million to terrorists who wish Al Qaeda success in attacking America and assassinating our President. (Hat tip: It Shines For All.) The insanity never stops.
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Palestinian Civil War Watch
Fri, Jan 5, 2007 at 8:00:53 am PST
A Palestinian Muslim cleric who called for an end to fighting between Hamas and Fatah was murdered after Friday prayers. But don’t get the idea this was some kind of pacifist; when you’re fighting among yourselves, you aren’t killing Jews. GAZA (Reuters) - Unidentified gunmen shot dead a Muslim cleric after he ...
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Might As Well Be France
Fri, Jan 5, 2007 at 7:52:35 am PST
A group of armed men stormed a National Guard post on the Mexican border near Nogales yesterday—and the National Guard ran away, which is probably the only thing they are allowed to do under their toothless rules of engagement. Here’s a video report at Arizona’s 12News. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) ...
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Thursday Night Fence
Thu, Jan 4, 2007 at 6:48:01 pm PST
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Yemeni Prince Running with Al Qaeda
Thu, Jan 4, 2007 at 6:07:45 pm PST
Here’s an interesting bit of news for those still tempted to believe the global jihad is being perpetrated by a tiny minority of poverty-stricken misunderstanders of Islam. Five Al Qaeda freakazoids were killed today in Iraq’s Al-Anbar province, and among them was a Yemeni prince. (Hat tip: AJStrata.) Iraqi National – WNA ...
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AP Locates Jamil Hussein?
Thu, Jan 4, 2007 at 4:50:30 pm PST
The Associated Press says the Iraqi Interior Ministry has confirmed the existence of police Capt. Jamil Hussein—and the Iraqis are planning to arrest him for talking to the AP: Iraq threatens arrest of police officer. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) BAGHDAD, Iraq - The Interior Ministry acknowledged Thursday that an Iraqi police ...
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Khamenei Croaked?
Thu, Jan 4, 2007 at 1:47:19 pm PST
Pajamas Media is reporting that the head Iranian mullah, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is dead. On the other hand, here’s a report from yesterday of a statement he supposedly released: Khamenei Urges Moslems to Unite. I think the 48-hour rule should be applied here.
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The 2006 LGF Award Winners
Thu, Jan 4, 2007 at 9:40:35 am PST
I’m pleased as punch to announce the winners of the Idiotarian (the “Fiskie”) and Anti-Idiotarian (the “Fallaci”) Awards for 2006. In a rather felicitous juxtaposition, both of these proud recipients worked at the United Nations. Ladies, gentlemen, and lizards, I give you: John Bolton and Kofi Annan. (Thanks to Cox & ...
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"Britain Should Integrate Into Muslim Values"
Thu, Jan 4, 2007 at 9:33:48 am PST
Writing for the radical Islamist’s best friend, The Guardian, Sarfraz Manzoor says those calling for Muslims to integrate more fully into British society have it exactly backwards: Britain should integrate into Muslim values. (Hat tip: kasper.) Whether the danger is religious extremism, drugs or crime, those involved are largely third-generation Muslims ...
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He Never Calls, He Never Writes
Thu, Jan 4, 2007 at 9:08:19 am PST
Mullah Omar says hasn’t seen bin Laden for years. PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Taliban chief Mullah Mohammad Omar has added to the mystery over Osama bin Laden, saying he hasn’t seen his ally and fellow fugitive since U.S.-backed forces ousted the Taliban from Afghanistan in 2001. “No, I have neither seen him, ...
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A Klan President?
Thu, Jan 4, 2007 at 8:55:11 am PST
Under the Democrats, the person who is now third in line to succeed the President is a former leader of the Ku Klux Klan: Dems Set to Regain Power in Congress. The Senate, as is typical, will get off to a slower start than the House, where rules and practice permit ...
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Twin Cities Airport Refusing to Appease
Thu, Jan 4, 2007 at 8:51:56 am PST
Following the controversy over Muslim taxi drivers who refuse to carry passengers with alcohol or seeing-eye dogs, and the grievance theater of the six non-flying imams, Somali Muslims have demanded their own mosque at Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport. But airport authorities are not being good dhimmis: Twin Cities airport balks at offering ...
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Pork Soup is Not Racist in France
Wed, Jan 3, 2007 at 6:16:07 pm PST
I hope you’re sitting down, because a French court has ruled that pork soup is not racist. PARIS (Reuters) - A French court ruled Tuesday that an organization with far-right links can continue offering pork soup to the homeless, rejecting police complaints that the food distribution was racist. Police banned the soup ...
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LGF Technical Update - Gutters and Rules
Wed, Jan 3, 2007 at 4:51:34 pm PST
Nothing major tonight, but I’m trying a simple change that has a significant effect on the look of the LGF pages, to see if I like it. I’ve removed the vertical dotted line “rules” that separated the left and right sidebars from the main middle content column, and widened the ...
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This Hizballah Moment Brought to You by the Boston Globe
Wed, Jan 3, 2007 at 2:52:23 pm PST
A Hizballah terrorist gets the full idolization treatment from the Boston Globe, with a multi-page character study, a Flash video presentation, and an audio slideshow telling us the story of the fearful but resolute, sensitive yet charismatic Hezbollah fighter who strove to be a martyr. Retch. UPDATE at 1/3/07 3:29:09 pm: If you ...
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Behold: The Concourse of Hypocrisy
Wed, Jan 3, 2007 at 12:55:24 pm PST
Gotta love those 8 mile per gallon jalopies laden with peace and environment bumper stickers, leaking oil faster than the Exxon Valdez. Zombie’s Concourse of Hypocrisy takes a look around San Francisco for the most ridiculous “progressive” junkers.
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AP Misrepresents the Flying Imam Case
Wed, Jan 3, 2007 at 11:46:40 am PST
In an article shilling for the radical Islamic front group CAIR (again), the Associated Press blatantly misrepresents the case of the six non-flying imams: German Muslim Held, Denied U.S. Entry. (Hat tip: It Shines For All.) In October, an Islamic scholar from South Africa was denied entry at San Francisco International ...
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Palestinians Hate Us More Than Al Qaeda Hates Us
Wed, Jan 3, 2007 at 10:43:54 am PST
Broadcast on Palestinian television on January 1, a former Palestinian Authority minister from Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party responds to Ayman al-Zawahri’s criticisms by wishing Al Qaeda success in its attacks against the US and its targeting of President George W. Bush. (Via Palestinian Media Watch.) [Video] I’m sure they’ll relax as soon ...
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Al Qaeda TV
Wed, Jan 3, 2007 at 9:56:10 am PST
Al Jazeera was just the forward wave of jihad media. No doubt emboldened by America’s loss of resolve, we now have Al Qaeda TV, based in Syria and broadcast through a satellite operated by our friends the Egyptians. AL QAEDA AND its allies now have their own 24-hour television station. Based ...
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Iraqis Arrest Saddam Video Maker
Wed, Jan 3, 2007 at 9:33:15 am PST
The person who used his cellphone camera to film Saddam Hussein’s execution has been arrested. The person believed to have recorded Saddam Hussein’s execution on a cell phone camera was arrested Wednesday, an adviser to Iraq’s prime minister said. The adviser to Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, speaking on condition of anonymity ...
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Shocking Koran Abuse! Film at 11!
Wed, Jan 3, 2007 at 9:02:52 am PST
Here we go again: FBI: Guantanamo interrogator squatted over Koran. Oh, the humanity. Has Sullivan called it “torture” yet?
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Malkin Going to Iraq
Wed, Jan 3, 2007 at 8:52:58 am PST
Michelle Malkin is going to Iraq to try to get to the bottom of the AP’s probably nonexistent source Jamil Hussein (and other issues related to media malfeasance). After years of deriding and mocking people like Michelle as “armchair warriors,” the angry lefties are now deriding and mocking her for getting ...
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Clear Guidance's New Home
Tue, Jan 2, 2007 at 7:06:28 pm PST
Given the sleepy complacency that seems to be the new order of the day, I suppose we shouldn’t be surprised to see the militant Islamic Clear Guidance kids popping up again on the internet, in a new home called “Islamic Networking:” Must Read: Why did I take arms against the ...
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Tuesday Night Supertankers
Tue, Jan 2, 2007 at 6:28:04 pm PST
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The Digg Effect
Tue, Jan 2, 2007 at 5:44:04 pm PST
LGF is running a bit slowly at the moment because, in addition to our normal traffic and yesterday’s link at the New York Times (which is still generating hits), our post about the New Year’s Intifada in France made it onto the front page of digg.com. You can see all ...
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Eason Jordan Challenges Associated Press
Tue, Jan 2, 2007 at 3:47:01 pm PST
Former CNN head Eason Jordan calls out the Associated Press: The AP’s Jamil Hussein Scandal. If an Iraqi police captain by the name of Jamil Hussein exists, there is no convincing evidence of it - and that means the Associated Press has a journalistic scandal on its hands that will fester ...
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Fact-Checking the NY Times, Update 1
Tue, Jan 2, 2007 at 3:28:33 pm PST
Since there was nothing in their Corrections section about it today, I’ve emailed the New York Times requesting a correction for their false reporting about LGF in this article: Hard Choices Over Video of Execution. Specifically, this section: No national American television organization has thus far allowed the moment of the ...
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Sovereign Palestine? No Chance
Tue, Jan 2, 2007 at 1:50:56 pm PST
Here’s something you don’t read every day—an op-ed columnist willing to forgo the wishful thinking and tell the direct unvarnished truth: A sovereign Palestine? No chance. For the sake of reality, let’s put aside whatever views and prejudices you may hold on the Palestinian question. Put aside any animosity about grasping ...
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Eau de Mujahideen
Tue, Jan 2, 2007 at 9:32:01 am PST
What does resistance smell like? (Hat tip: Israellycool.) A new perfume carrying the “scent of resistance” and celebrating Hizbullah’s “divine victory” has been released on the market in Lebanon, according to a report which appeared in the Lebanese Daily Star last week. “If you’ve ever wondered what resistance smells like, then try ...
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Canadian Muslims Fighting in Somalia
Tue, Jan 2, 2007 at 8:55:23 am PST
The Islamists routed from Somalia by Ethiopia are fleeing into Kenya, and now Kenyan police have arrested two Canadian citizens among them. Two Somali Islamic fighters who claim to be Canadian have been arrested by Kenyan police, according to a newspaper report on Tuesday. Ten fighters in all were arrested on Monday ...
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400 Cars Torched in France for New Year's
Tue, Jan 2, 2007 at 8:34:12 am PST
Mainstream media is almost completely ignoring it, but “youths” burned four hundred cars in France to ring in the New Year, intifada-style: Hundreds of cars torched overnight. VANDALS set fire to about 400 cars overnight and police said they arrested more than 250 people, as violence marred France’s New Year celebrations. However, ...
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Outrage of the Day
Tue, Jan 2, 2007 at 8:06:58 am PST
Absolutely appalling behavior from the Bush administration, as they hand the keys to America’s air transportation system to the agents of a well-known Saudi-funded radical Islamic front group: Singing CAIR’s Tune, On Your Dime. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) On a weekend when the Bush administration achieved a new CAIR-friendly low, a ...
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Monday Night Mast
Mon, Jan 1, 2007 at 9:32:22 pm PST
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The Eid Festival Around The World
Mon, Jan 1, 2007 at 6:53:03 pm PST
A small selection of images from the worldwide cruel slaughter of animals that takes place during the Muslim Eid al-Adha festival: The Eid Festival Around The World - Graphic Photos. You won’t have to be a member of PETA to feel ill after looking at these photos. Don’t click if the ...
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Declassified Aussie Documents Reveal Palestinian Terror Plots
Mon, Jan 1, 2007 at 6:38:41 pm PST
Astounding revelations about 30-year old Palestinian terrorism plans in Australia, from newly released government documents: Hawke on assassination list. THIRTY years ago, Bob Hawke, then Labor Party and ACTU president, faced assassination at the hands of Palestinian militants for his strong pro-Israel views. He wasn’t alone. The Australian Security intelligence Organisation (ASIO) ...
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AP Eulogizes Saddam's Softer Side
Mon, Jan 1, 2007 at 6:10:53 pm PST
A poignant obituary for a mass-murdering tyrant, based on the recollections of Saddam’s military nurse, brought to you by (who else?) the Associated Press: Military nurse recalls softer Saddam. Get out your hankies. ST. LOUIS - A military nurse who cared for Saddam Hussein in jail said the deposed dictator saved bread ...
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Top Terrorist Cat Fight
Mon, Jan 1, 2007 at 5:32:08 pm PST
Ayman al-Zawahri, the Egyptian physician, says Palestinian figurehead Mahmoud Abbas/Abu Mazen is getting fat on the bribes of the Jews and Americans. CAIRO, Egypt - Al-Qaida’s deputy leader has criticized Palestinian and other Arab leaders, accusing them of betraying Islam and collaborating with the United States and Israel, according to an ...
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Peace Ghouls Celebrate Soldiers' Deaths
Mon, Jan 1, 2007 at 4:50:15 pm PST
Reuters promotes the “anti-war” groups and their cynical, ghoulishly manipulative “3,000 deaths” celebrations: Peace groups rally after 3,000th soldier killed. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. peace groups pledged on Sunday to start the new year with protests and vigils to mark the death of the 3,000th U.S. soldier in Iraq and to ...
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The Year of "Zombietiming" Dangerously
Mon, Jan 1, 2007 at 2:03:03 pm PST
A BBC expert says one of the new trends that will shape the year 2007 is “zombietiming”—the exposure by blogs of bad and/or biased mainstream media reporting. Congrats to LGF operative zombie for graduating to the lofty status of a verb. I’m picturing Dan Rather backed into a corner, snarling, “You ...
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New Year's Day Open Thread
Mon, Jan 1, 2007 at 9:49:36 am PST
Here’s an open thread for the first day of 2007...
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Welcome to 2007: Fact-Checking the New York Times
Mon, Jan 1, 2007 at 8:56:17 am PST
Little Green Footballs is running slower than a mule on Valium this morning, apparently because of a link in an article at the New York Times that’s sending us a deluge of people looking for the cellphone video of Saddam Hussein’s execution: Hard Choices Over Video of Execution. Confronted with a ...
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New Year's Surf
Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 10:22:02 pm PST
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