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LGF Archives: February 2006

Tuesday, February 28, 2006

"Europe is Shuffling into Darkness"

Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 9:28:35 pm PST

Douglas Murray attends a conference of Islam critics in the Netherlands, and says “We should fear Holland’s silence.” Holland — with its disproportionately high Muslim population — is the canary in the mine. Its once open society is closing, and Europe is closing slowly behind it. It looks, from Holland, like ...

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Menace in Europe

Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 9:16:59 pm PST

Glenn and Helen Reynolds interview Claire Berlinski about her sobering new book Menace in Europe : Why the Continent’s Crisis Is America’s, Too, on the Islamic takeover of Europe: Claire Berlinski on Europe.

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Cartoon Jihad Comes to Michigan State

Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 8:24:44 pm PST

Muslim groups are seething and raging at Michigan State University, where some members of the journalism department decided to stand up for the First Amendment: Muslim groups criticize MSU for online caricatures. Muslim groups sharply criticized the online publication of controversial caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad on Monday by a Michigan ...

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Battle of the Bloggers

Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 7:54:20 pm PST

Dean Barnett notices a strange “coincidence” in the Battle of the Bloggers. In a strange coincidence, the conservative/libertarian blogosphere’s most prominent denizen has a book coming out at almost the exact same time as the most famous liberal blogger does. Instapundit’s Glenn Reynolds’ “An Army of Davids” is coming out imminently ...

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Al Qaeda Behind Indonesian Terror Attacks

Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 7:41:58 pm PST

New details reveal how deeply Al Qaeda has penetrated the “moderate” Islamic state of Indonesia: Official Ties al-Qaida to Indonesia Terror. JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — The al-Qaida terror network helped fund suicide bombings in Indonesia over the past four years through a courier system set up by the reputed mastermind behind ...

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A Manifesto Against Islamic Totalitarianism

Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 6:49:47 pm PST

At Agora, a translation from Jyllands-Posten of a stirring manifesto against Islamic supremacism: Salman Rushdie, Ayaan Hirsi Ali et al Slam Islamic Totalitarianism. Together facing the new totalitarianism After having overcome fascism, Nazism, and Stalinism, the world now faces a new totalitarian global threat: Islamism. We, writers, journalists, intellectuals, call for resistance to ...

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Religion of 9/11 Conspiracy Theories

Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 6:39:59 pm PST

At the Montreal Muslim News, an article by Meer Sahib titled “What are you going to do about the Muslim Holocaust?” urges Muslims to carry out a “jihad of education”—which in this case means distributing books and DVDs blaming the 9/11 attacks on Israel. (Hat tip: Judeoscope.) Most of us realize ...

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Al-Iraqiya TV: "His Eminence, Sayyid Muqtada Al-Sadr"

Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 6:28:45 pm PST

Zeyad reports that the official Al-Iraqiya TV is now calling Muqtada al-Sadr, “His Eminence, Sayyid Muqtada Al-Sadr, may Allah preserve his glory,” during newscasts. We should have killed this inbred fanatic when we had the chance. (Hat tip: Allah.)

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A Clash Between the Middle Ages and the 21st Century

Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 5:18:11 pm PST

Arab American psychologist Wafa Sultan is a very brave lady, as she confronts a bearded cleric on Al Jazeera television and gives him a severe dose of righteous truth. (Courtesy of MEMRI TV.) [Video] Host: I understand from your words that what is happening today is a clash between the culture of ...

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Danish Consul in Dubai: Europe Will Now Be More Careful

Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 11:34:42 am PST

The Danish Consul in Dubai grovels most unattractively: ‘Controversy helped Europe understand Islam’. (Hat tip: Byg.) DUBAI — The massive protests in the Muslim world against the Danish cartoons have helped Denmark, as also Europe, have a better understanding of, and respect for, Islam, said the Danish Consul in Dubai, Thomas ...

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DP World Doing Covert Business with Israel?

Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 10:02:11 am PST

Here’s a report at Globes Online that appears to contradict the Jerusalem Post story we noted earlier today: Dubai Ports World uses Zim connection in US deal. (Hat tip: Kathleen.) Dubai Ports World, the combined United Emirates (UAE) port management company for the Gulf, has stepped up its challenge to win ...

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Danish Cartoons 'Unveiled' at UC Irvine

Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 9:29:24 am PST

The United American Committee will hold a panel discussion and unveiling of the Danish Mohammed cartoons tonight at the University of California Irvine, at 6:30 pm in the Crystal Cove Auditorium. UC Irvine is a hotbed of radical Islam, and the Muslim Student Union is, of course, seething and trying to ...

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The Orange County Crusade

Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 9:07:01 am PST

Enraged Orange County Christians poured into the streets after morning services today, torching cars and burning effigies of Walt Disney, following the publication by the Orange County Weekly of an offensive Christianophobic article: Jesus Kills. OK, not really.

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Islamic Kids Seethe, EU Grovels

Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 8:48:45 am PST

They’re still seething over the cartoons in Pakistan, and sending their children into the streets to burn stuff and call for murder: Pakistani Kids Rally Over Prophet Cartoons. About 5,000 children chanting “Hang those who insulted the prophet” rallied in Pakistan’s largest city on Tuesday in the latest protest in the ...

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Bush Praises Blogosphere

Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 8:39:23 am PST

President Bush breaks his silence on the Rathergate scandal in an interview for a new book. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) President Bush, for the first time, is hailing the rise of the alternative media and the decline of the mainstream media, which he now says “conspired” to harm him with forged ...

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Dubai Ports World Enforces Boycott of Israel

Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 8:13:05 am PST

According to the Jerusalem Post, Dubai Ports World, the firm that is poised to control major US seaports, participates in and enforces the Arab boycott of Israel—and US law forbids such cooperation: Exclusive: Dubai ports firm enforces Israel boycott. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) The parent company of a Dubai-based firm at ...

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Monday, February 27, 2006

Arab League Chief: Cartoons Are Deadly Threat Against Islam

Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 8:32:59 pm PST

The Secretary General of the Arab League, Amr Moussa, wants the UN to crack down in a very strict manner on those who draw cartoons that offend Islam: Arab League chief says cartoons part of anti-Islam battle. AMMAN - Arab League Secretary General Amr Mussa on Monday considered the Prophet Mohammed’s ...

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Gulf Charities Suddenly Shy

Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 7:11:34 pm PST

Collecting money for Hamas suddenly seems to be a problem: Gulf charities walk tightrope on aid to Hamas. DOHA (AFP) - Gulf charities say they will stick to official channels in offering any aid to the Palestinian militant group Hamas to avoid charges of bankrolling terror which have haunted them since ...

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Osama OK With Hugs

Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 6:58:11 pm PST

According to a Melbourne taxi driver who received money from Al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden had a softer, huggable side. Thomas: Osama didn’t mind hugs. But no kissing, please. The former Melbourne taxi driver convicted this week of receiving cash from al-Qaeda has told of his meetings with Osama bin Laden, ...

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Consequences Coming Due for the PA

Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 6:38:22 pm PST

The closing of the Karni crossing from Gaza into Israel is hurting the Palestinians badly. And they have nobody to blame but themselves. Gaza: Karni closures a ‘catastrophe’. While many of the Gush Katif farmers have yet to plant their crops in new soil, the great hope that the greenhouses they left ...

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Pigs Are Our Friends

Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 3:35:16 pm PST

This March 1, you may want to celebrate National Pig Day... The 1st of March is set aside especially for pigs. It was started by Texas art teacher Ellen Stanley in 1972 to honour and give thanks to our most intelligent domesticated creature. On this day, remember the good things pigs have ...

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Coast Guard: "There Are Intel Gaps"

Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 3:16:05 pm PST

Well, here we go again with the UAE port deal brouhaha: Paper: Coast Guard Has Port Co. Intel Gaps. WASHINGTON - Citing broad gaps in U.S. intelligence, the Coast Guard cautioned the Bush administration that it was unable to determine whether a United Arab Emirates-owned company might support terrorist operations, a ...

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Top Islamic Cleric: "Our War with the Jews Is in the Name of Islam"

Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 2:09:15 pm PST

Here are excerpts from a program aired on Qatar TV February 25, 2006, featuring noted “moderate” Islamic cleric Sheik Yousef Al-Qaradawi, founder of the IslamOnline web site and head of the European Council for Fatwa and Research. (Courtesy of MEMRI TV.) [Video] Everything will be on our side and against Jews on ...

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A Mother from Hell

Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 12:55:33 pm PST

Palestinian Media Watch continues revealing the sick death cult propaganda that airs regularly on Palestinian television: PA TV Star: Mother Upset Her Daughter Failed as Suicide Bomber. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) In spite of PA pledges not to incite, an interview broadcast last week featured the mother of Wafa Al-Bas, the ...

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Jihadi Turns Bulldog

Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 11:51:41 am PST

John Fund had a pre-9/11 encounter with former Taliban spokesman Rahmatullah Hashemi, and the news of Hashemi’s admission to Yale made him “blink with astonishment:” Jihadi Turns Bulldog. There is something to be said for the instinct to reach out to one’s former enemies. America’s postwar reconciliation with the Japanese and ...

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The Accidental Prime Minister

Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 10:19:45 am PST

Here’s a good overview of the man who has assumed control of the Israeli government, with Ariel Sharon incapacitated—Ehud Olmert: The Accidental Prime Minister.

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Portrait of a Cyber-Terrorist

Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 10:09:58 am PST

SITE Institute has released a fascinating PDF document on the career of “Irhabi 007,” an infamous jihadi hacker recently arrested in Britain, responsible for covertly disseminating radical Islamic materials such as weaponry and tactical manuals, videos of jihadist feats including beheadings, and other inflammatory media files: Irhabi 007 Unveiled: A ...

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Warren: Oncoming

Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 9:36:14 am PST

A very sharp essay from David Warren on the rise of Islamism: Oncoming. Even after the experience of the Great War, and the Depression, people on the eve of the Hitler war could not appreciate what was coming. It is only in retrospect that we understand what happened as the 1930s ...

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Calling All Moonbats!

Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 8:53:59 am PST

The far-left group United for Peace and Justice (a name that guarantees their actual agenda has nothing to do with either peace or justice) is calling on all moonbats to storm the White House and take over the government. I’m trying not to laugh, because these types of people are very sensitive. Storm ...

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PA Check Bounces, EU to the Rescue

Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 8:45:25 am PST

The Palestinian Authority is writing bad checks: Palestinian Authority check bounces, petrol cut off. JERUSALEM (AFP) - The private Israeli firm that provides gasoline to the Palestinian Authority said a check for more than 22 million dollars bounced last week and announced it has stopped deliveries. “A check for 103 million shekels ...

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NYT: No Big Deal if Iran Gets Nukes

Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 8:36:15 am PST

The big push from the left is starting, to thwart any action to stop Iran’s Manhattan Project. In the New York Times, MIT political science professor Barry R. Posen argues that Iran is a rational actor, on the way to his conclusion that We Can Live With a Nuclear Iran. Iranian ...

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Sunday, February 26, 2006

Into the Clouds

Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 10:47:38 pm PST

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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Shari'a

Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 9:41:39 pm PST

Wow. Just, simply, wow. Don’t ostracise hardline Muslims: Abbott. Health Minister Tony Abbott has warned against ostracising or “shouting down” hardline Muslims, saying it would be a mistake to dismiss those advocating sharia law as “un-Australian”. In contrast to federal treasurer Peter Costello’s attack on “mushy, misguided multiculturalism”, Mr Abbott praises multiculturalism, ...

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UAE Confiscates Books at American School

Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 9:05:35 pm PST

We have news tonight from our new best friends in the United Arab Emirates: Textbook of American school in capital seized over ‘smell of racism’. (Hat tip: Kilgore Trout.) ABU DHABI — Close on the heels of the cartoon controversy raging across the Muslim world, it is the turn of an ...

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Breaking: Saudis Battle Al Qaeda in Riyadh

Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 8:59:29 pm PST

Saudi police clash with suspects of oil refinery plot. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Saudi police exchanged fire in a Riyadh suburb Monday with suspects wanted in connection with a failed bid to blow up the world’s largest oil-processing plant, the Al-Arabiya television channel reported. Sounds of automatic gunfire and grenades exploding could ...

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Amgen's Tour of California

Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 7:55:42 pm PST

The leaders take the turn (at the top of a nasty little hill we call “RAT Hill”) and prepare to head down Catalina Avenue, on the first lap of the final stage. This is right before the major crash (at 50+ mph) that took out most of the peloton. Congratulations ...

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Kofi Annan: Denmark "Not Yet Sure How to Adjust"

Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 7:09:49 pm PST

In UN Secretary General Kofi Annan’s statements to the “Open Session of the Second Meeting of the High Level Group For the Alliance of Civilizations” (gasp), we find perhaps the best example of multicultural backwardsthink yet recorded: The Secretary-General’s Statements. The offensive caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad were first published in ...

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High Five a Muslim Day

Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 7:02:15 pm PST

February 28 is High Five A Muslim Day! Because giving some slappy makes everybody happy. Do your part, won’t you?

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Taliban Spokesman Now a Yale Student

Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 6:54:46 pm PST

If you already suspect that the world has gone completely insane, here’s a story that won’t help you get over that suspicion: Former Taliban Spokesman Finds New Haven—at Yale. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) NEW YORK — The Taliban’s former spokesman, Rahmatullah Hashemi, is now an undergraduate at Yale University, The New ...

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Hamas Child Abuse

Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 5:08:27 pm PST

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Antisemitic Film a Big Hit in Muslim Germany

Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 4:02:01 pm PST

Gary Busey and Billy Zane are the stars of a sick antisemitic Turkish film—a film that is a huge hit in Muslim areas of Germany: Outcry in Germany as anti-Semitic film sells out. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) A virulently anti-Semitic film about the Iraq war has provoked a storm of protest ...

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Sunday Morning Open Thread

Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 9:51:45 am PST

It’s Sunday, the Amgen Tour of California is finishing today with a circuit race in Redondo Beach, and here’s the open thread...

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Hundreds of Millions to Hamas

Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 9:04:06 am PST

State Department envoy David Welch told Palestinian officials yesterday that the US Will Continue Sending Palestinians Aid. RAMALLAH, West Bank Feb 25, 2006 (AP)— The United States will continue sending humanitarian aid to the Palestinian people even after a Hamas government is formed, a senior U.S. envoy told Palestinian leaders during the first high-level ...

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The Big Hamas Lie

Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 8:34:13 am PST

We saw this coming from a thousand miles away—having set up Hamas kingpin Ismail Haniyeh as a so-called “pragmatist,” mainstream media will now start promoting the Big Hamas Lie: ‘We do not wish to throw them into the sea’: Hamas on Israelis. WASHINGTON(AFP) - Hamas does not feel animosity against Jews ...

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Steyn: One-Worlders Getting Their Wish

Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 8:11:21 am PST

Mark Steyn sounds the call: Needing to wake up, West just closes its eyes. Something very remarkable is happening around the globe and, if you want the short version, a Muslim demonstrator in Toronto the other day put it very well: “We won’t stop the protests until the world obeys Islamic law.” Stated ...

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Malaysian Islamic Repression

Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 7:57:01 am PST

The Islamic government of Malaysia continues cracking down on newspapers that publish the Mohammed cartoons, and on newspapers that publish cartoons about the Mohammed cartoons: Malaysia suspends another newspaper over cartoons. KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia has suspended the operations of another Chinese-language newspaper for publishing one of the controversial cartoons that ...

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Saturday, February 25, 2006

Montreal Muslim News: "The Sickness That Passes for Western Values"

Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 9:33:03 pm PST

Judeoscope.ca notes an article in the Montreal Muslim News on Australian Treasurer Peter Costello’s statement that Muslim immigrants should adapt to Australian values, in which the author expresses utter contempt for Western civilization: Calling on Muslim to embrace western values, or in this case Australian values, is merely coded speech calling ...

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UAE Ports Deal: Strategic Implications

Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 9:14:46 pm PST

At Canada Free Press, an article by David J. Jonsson raises some serious issues with the UAE port deal I have not seen discussed elsewhere: Dubai Ports — Strategic Implications. (Hat tip: Newsbeat1.) The goal of Islamists, following in the footsteps of Muhammad is to create the Islamic kingdom of God ...

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Bolton Blasts UN Corruption

Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 8:46:23 pm PST

No wonder the “progressives” did everything they could to defeat his nomination. John Bolton stands up again: Bolton Blasts U.N. ‘Sex and Corruption’. NEW YORK - The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said Saturday that the world body is hobbled “by bad management, by sex and corruption” and a lack ...

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Behold: The Velvet Prophet

Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 8:15:19 pm PST

One of my IslamoElvis Photoshops is featured at a site that deserves the Lizardoid Stamp of Blasphemy: Velvet Prophet Muhammed. (Hat tip: Kilgore Trout.)

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Cycle of Violence: Punishment Components Upgraded

Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 7:07:01 pm PST

Today’s ride: 54.1 miles. Great cycling weather, not too warm, not too cold, kept wanting to take the arm warmers off but didn’t weather. And the Dura-Ace 10-speed upgrade I installed this week is an incredible difference; those shift levers are amazing, require much less pressure than Ultegra but still ...

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UN Human Wrongs Council

Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 6:45:54 pm PST

Anne Bayefsky, one of the best journalists covering the incredible ongoing corruption at the United Nations, tells why the proposed new Human Rights Council is actually an enormous step backward for the international protection of human rights: The Proposed UN Human Rights Council: The Cure is worse than the Disease. ...

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The Men Don't Know

Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 6:24:16 pm PST

Iraqi women display a poster of a young, pomade-haired Elvis bin Presley before he was eaten alive by Hollywood, after attending Friday prayers in the holy city of Najafville, 160 km (100 miles) south of Baghdad February 24, 2006. REUTERS/Ali Abu Parker (Hat tip: Right Brain.)

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New York Times Hits Bottom, Digs

Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 4:58:13 pm PST

If you’re unaware of its context, this New York Times editorial might seem amazingly clear-headed: Silenced by Islamist Rage. It is time for moderate Muslims to abandon the illusion that they can placate the Islamists by straddling the fence. It is they who must explain to their people that the ...

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Abu Mazen Says...

Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 4:36:26 pm PST

Abbas hints may resign if peace hampered under Hamas.

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Debka: FBI Raids Yemen Airlines in Dearborn

Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 4:04:04 pm PST

DEBKAfile is reporting that “suspicious documents” were seized in an FBI raid on the offices of Yemen airline Yamaniya in Dearborn, Michigan. (Hat tip: Allah.) The raid was carried out after Yemeni president Ali Abdallah Salah refused a White House request to arrest the prominent radical Sheikh Abdul Majid Zindani, head ...

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Saturday Morning Open

Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 8:59:19 am PST

It’s a sunny Saturday, and it’s time to try out the new gear...

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The UAE Port Deal: 21 Ports Involved

Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 8:37:42 am PST

According to UPI, United Arab Emirates company DP Ports World is poised to take control of not 6, but 21 American ports. (Hat tip: Hulugu.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 (UPI) — A United Arab Emirates government-owned company is poised to take over port terminal operations in 21 American ports, far more than ...

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Iranian Madness Watch

Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 8:16:22 am PST

Professor Hasan Bolkhari, Iranian “mass media expert” and cultural advisor to the Iranian Education Ministry, explains why the evil Jewish Walt Disney company unleashed the ultimate weapon against the Islamic world—Tom and Jerry cartoons. (Courtesy of MEMRI TV.) [Video] Hasan Bolkhari: There is a cartoon that children like. They like it very ...

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BBC: Only the Bumper Stickers Remain

Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 7:54:52 am PST

Things must be getting pretty desperate for the American “progressive” movement if even the BBC notices it. The Democrats need a message and a new way of communicating that message to a mass audience. They have neither. And do not be fooled by those who say this malaise is structural, at this ...

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Friday, February 24, 2006

Friday Night Ocean

Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 9:21:29 pm PST

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Jyllands-Posten Wins Award, Turkey Seethes

Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 8:11:38 pm PST

In Denmark, a journalism award that actually means something: Cartoon-newspaper wins prize. Copenhagen - Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, which angered the Muslim world by publishing cartoons of Prophet Muhammad last year, has won a Danish critical journalism award for its initiative, the jury said. Denmark’s largest daily was honoured with the Victor Prize ...

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Cartoon Madness on Video

Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 7:36:37 pm PST

From The NEFA Foundation, video of the Islamic demonstration in London earlier this month outside the Danish embassy. Absolutely chilling. (Running time 11:23.) [Video]

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UN Peacekeepers' Ongoing Sexual Abuse Scandal

Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 6:41:54 pm PST

The head of United Nations peacekeeping operations says the incidence of sexual abuse in areas supervised by his organization is ... uh ... “too high.” There are still too many complaints of sexual abuse against United Nations troops, the head of peacekeeping operations has said. Jean-Marie Guehenno said the UN had investigated ...

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For What We Are, Not What We Do

Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 6:00:20 pm PST

Julie Burchill pulls no punches in her latest op-ed for Ha’aretz: Straight Talk / For what we are, not what we do. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) For fear of appearing racist, many Britons suspend their normal judgments when dealing with the behavior of ethnic minorities. Not only is this totally racist ...

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INSI Tells Journalists Not to Carry Guns in Iraq

Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 5:12:25 pm PST

The International News Safety Institute is urging journalists in Iraq not to carry guns, because it might involve the appearance of “taking sides” against the sort of people who kill journalists: Journalists ‘must resist call to carry arms’. (Hat tip: Allah.) “Journalists increasingly are being targeted in conflict largely because they ...

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Did UAE Save Bin Laden?

Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 4:58:03 pm PST

After reading and listening to huge amounts of debate on the UAE port deal, I’ve decided that although I am definitely not a supporter of the deal, I’m cautiously OK with it provided there is strict security supervision of the operations of DP World. (And I’m singularly unimpressed with those ...

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Iran Threatens to Attack Israel

Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 4:10:59 pm PST

Iran threatened today to respond to any US military strike by attacking Israel’s nuclear facility at Dimona. If the United States launches an attack on Iran, the Islamic republic will retaliate with a military strike on Israel’s main nuclear facility. Dr. Abasi, an advisor to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, said Tehran would respond ...

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My Wife the Goat

Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 3:45:44 pm PST

Here’s a story of tribal love in Sudan that might get your goat: Sudan man forced to ‘marry’ goat. A Sudanese man has been forced to take a goat as his “wife”, after he was caught having sex with the animal. The goat’s owner, Mr Alifi, said he surprised the man with ...

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New Straits Times Bows and Scrapes

Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 2:35:30 pm PST

Malaysia’s New Straits Times has issued an embarrassing, groveling apology for publishing a cartoon satirizing the worldwide Islamic rage over the Danish Mohammed cartoons: We Apologize, Unreservedly. UPDATE at 2/24/06 2:45:10 pm: It didn’t work: Muslim protesters stage a rally against the publishing a cartoon about the Prophet Muhammad in front of New ...

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Healing Iraq: Fierce Streetfighting

Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 2:15:06 pm PST

A very distressing report from Zeyad at Healing Iraq. Fierce streetfighting at my doorstep for the last 3 hours. Rumor in the neighbourhood is that men in black are trying to enter the area. Some armed kids defending the local mosque three blocks away are splattering bullets at everything that moves, ...

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A Rally for Freedom

Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 11:48:28 am PST

At Vital Perspective, photographs from the rally supporting Denmark in Washington DC: A Rally for Freedom. UPDATE at 2/24/06 2:01:39 pm: Reader IWuvLGF emailed another great photo from the rally: UPDATE at 2/24/06 2:05:39 pm: More pictures at Age of Hooper (The). UPDATE at 2/24/06 2:06:26 pm: And still more pictures at Corsair the Rational Pirate. ...

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Friday Open Thread

Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 9:20:46 am PST

It may not amount to more than a hill of beans in this crazy mixed up world, but here’s an open thread...

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PJ Interview: Rep. Tom Lantos

Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 8:45:53 am PST

Democratic Representative Tom Lantos rakes Yahoo and Google over the coals for their collaboration with the repressive policies of the Chinese government, in a video interview at the Pajamas Media China Syndrome blog.

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Ben Stein on the Cartoons of Blasphemy

Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 8:40:23 am PST

At The American Spectator, Ben Stein says We’re Losing. Greeting, fellow Americans. I have some serious news for you about the war against the terrorists, the war we are fighting to protect our liberties and our Constitution against Islamic totalitarianism. We’re losing, big time. I don’t mean we’re losing in Iraq, ...

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VDH: Standoff in Iraq

Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 8:30:01 am PST

Victor Davis Hanson, on the Standoff in Iraq. One of the great lapses in world journalism is investigating what happened to the 100,000 criminals let out by Saddam Hussein on the eve of the war. Thus the terrorists have succeeded in making all the daily mayhem of a major city appear ...

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Terrorist Government Vows Revenge

Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 8:24:26 am PST

The IDF killed two terrorists as they were planting bombs today, and Hamas is vowing revenge. GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli soldiers shot dead two Palestinian militants planting bombs along the Israeli border on Friday, drawing vows of revenge from the militant Islamist group Hamas as it prepared to form a Palestinian ...

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Saudi Oil Facility Targeted

Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 8:18:20 am PST

The Saudis claim that they have thwarted an attempted terror attack against a major oil production facility. Saudi security forces have foiled an apparent suicide car bomb attack on a major oil production facility in the eastern town of Abqaiq. Guards opened fire on at least two cars carrying explosives as they ...

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Red Ken Suspended

Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 8:00:15 am PST

London mayor “Red Ken” Livingstone has been suspended from office for four weeks, for his ugly antisemitic comments to a Jewish reporter: Mayor suspended in Nazi jibe row. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) The three-man Adjudication Panel for England unanimously ruled that Livingstone had been “unnecessarily insensitive and offensive” to Evening Standard reporter ...

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Thursday, February 23, 2006

UAE Backs Away

Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 8:32:48 pm PST

Dubai Ports Word backs away from the deal: UAE Company Agrees to Delay Ports Takeover. WASHINGTON - A United Arab Emirates company offered Thursday to delay part of its $6.8 billion takeover of most operations at six U.S. ports to give the Bush administration more time to convince skeptical lawmakers the ...

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"US Peace Activist" Wounded in Nablus

Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 8:14:34 pm PST

In today’s battles between Palestinian terrorists and the IDF, this AFP story says a “US peace activist” was wounded: Five Palestinians shot dead in Israeli incursion. A US peace activist was also shot in her hand, medical sources said.

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Possible Coup in Philippines

Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 7:17:10 pm PST

At Pajamas Media: Coup rumors swirl in Manila.

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Top Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades Terrorist Killed

Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 7:03:22 pm PST

Yesterday he dared the IDF to catch him. Today he’s dead. Israeli Army Kills Top Militant. BALATA REFUGEE CAMP, West Bank - Israeli troops on Thursday killed five Palestinians, including a top militant who said just a day earlier that he would never be caught, in the largest West Bank military ...

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PM Howard Won't Back Down

Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 6:43:33 pm PST

Australian Prime Minister John Howard is a good man to have on our side: PM backs Muslim comments. Prime Minister John Howard has refused Muslim calls to censure Treasurer Peter Costello over comments he made about Islamic extremists. And Mr Costello has challenged Muslim leaders to pledge their allegiance to Australia before ...

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Muslims Killing Muslims in Iraq

Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 6:03:25 pm PST

The age-old blood feud between Sunni and Shia has erupted again in Iraq: Iraq rocked by worst violence since fall of Saddam. The bombing of one of the most sacred mosques in Shia Islam has triggered Iraq’s worst wave of sectarian violence since Saddam Hussein was removed from power. At least 111 ...

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The Web Jihad

Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 5:30:57 pm PST

Islamic “hackers” (who are really just script kiddies, using commonly available hacking tools developed by smarter people) are escalating their stupid war of cyber-vandalism (Michelle Malkin apparently got hit today): Muslim hackers hit 3,000 Danish Web sites. (Hat tip: Zonie.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 (UPI) — Muslim hackers angered by the publication ...

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The UAE Port Deal Debate Continues

Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 5:17:19 pm PST

Rachel Ehrenfeld and Paul E. Vallely don’t think much of the UAE port deal, given the United Arab Emirates’ unstinting support for Hamas: Welcoming Terror to U.S. Ports. On July 27, 2005, the Palestinian Information Center carried a public HAMAS statement thanking the UAE for it’s “unstinting support.” The statement said: ...

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Security Vulnerability in Safari

Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 4:11:52 pm PST

A newly identified security vulnerability in Apple’s Safari web browser can actually let a program (a shell script) execute on your computer merely by clicking a link on a malicious web site—or in the worst case, merely by visiting a malicious page. If you’re a Safari user, the problem and the ...

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Denial in the Islamic World

Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 3:08:22 pm PST

Iranian “president” Mahmoud Ahmadinejad today blamed the attack on Iraq’s Askariya mosque on the US and Israel: Ahmadinejad: US, Israel attacked shrine. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Speaking to a crowd of thousands on tour of southwestern Iran, the president referred to the destruction of the Askariya mosque dome in Samarra on ...

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Declassified Al Qaeda Documents

Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 2:37:37 pm PST

A fascinating declassified Al Qaeda document at Austin Bay’s blog, in which an Al Qaeda foot soldier disses Osama bin Laden for the calamities that befell the terror gang following the September 11 attacks.

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Vatican Slams Muslim Intolerance

Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 1:43:05 pm PST

Vatican to Muslims: practice what you preach. (Hat tip: Allah.) PARIS (Reuters) - After backing calls by Muslims for respect for their religion in the Mohammad cartoons row, the Vatican is now urging Islamic countries to reciprocate by showing more tolerance toward their Christian minorities. Roman Catholic leaders at first said Muslims ...

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Thursday, the Open Thread

Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 9:24:09 am PST

Here we see the Thursday open thread in its natural habitat...

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Nigerian Archbishop Denounces Jihad

Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 8:46:38 am PST

Anglican Archbishop Peter Akinola has issued a powerful statement about the ongoing jihad in Nigeria. (Hat tip: Dhimmi Watch.) Having watched with sadness and dismay the recent development in some States in the Northern part of this Country where many Christian Churches and other property have been wantonly destroyed ...

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Biased Headline of the Hour

Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 8:30:31 am PST

Outrageous anti-Israel bias, still business as usual at Agence France Presse: Three more Palestinians shot dead in West Bank. So what were these three more Palestinians doing when they were “shot dead?” They were Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terrorists, shooting at Israeli troops from inside a house full of bombs. The three ...

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DP World Chairman Not Overly Concerned with Terrorism

Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 8:09:28 am PST

Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem, the chairman of DP World and one of the UAE’s leading businessmen, ranks the threats that concern him, on a scale of 1 to 10, in an interview at the 2003 World Economic Forum. Notice where “terrorism” and “proliferation of weapons of mass destruction” come in: Interview ...

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PJ Profiles: Kevin Korenthal and Dean Barnett

Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 7:57:07 am PST

Featured today in our ongoing series of blogger bios at the Pajamas Media Information Site: Kevin Korenthal of SoCalPundit and Dean Barnett of Soxblog.

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German Blasphemy Law Conviction

Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 7:50:02 am PST

Here’s a nauseating story from Germany, where they’ve apparently already accepted their new masters: German court convicts man for insulting Islam. (Hat tip: mglazer.) DUESSELDORF, Germany (Reuters) - A German court on Thursday convicted a businessman of insulting Islam by printing the word “Koran” on toilet paper and offering it to ...

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A Failure of the Press

Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 7:37:49 am PST

Bill Bennett and Alan Dershowitz agree—American media has completely failed in their duty to defend free speech, caving in to Islamist intimidation and issuing transparently phony statements praising themselves for “sensitivity:” A Failure of the Press. For the past month, the Islamist street has been on an intifada over cartoons depicting ...

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Wednesday, February 22, 2006

Wednesday Night Bay

Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 8:42:45 pm PST

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Stand Up for Denmark Rally

Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 6:27:11 pm PST

An update to Christopher Hitchens’ call for a rally at the Danish embassy in Washington DC: Update, Feb. 22: Thank you all who’ve written. Please be outside the Embassy of Denmark, 3200 Whitehaven Street (off Massachusetts Avenue) between noon and 1 p.m. this Friday, Feb. 24. Quietness and calm are the ...

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Twelfth Imam's Longterm Bolthole Bombed

Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 6:13:17 pm PST

One of the mosques attacked today in Iraq is not just any shrine, it’s the hiding place of the so-called “twelfth imam” who will return at the end of days to restore the world to a perfect Islamic society before Yawm al-Qiyamah—the day of resurrection: Al-Askariya shrine: ‘Not just a ...

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Meet Ali bin-Zabar

Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 4:33:13 pm PST

In a surprise move, the New York Times has hired a new public editor: Ali bin-Zabar. Dear Ali bin-Zabar: All praise to Allah. Peace be upon him. My question is threefold: 1) Wasn’t it just a little hypocritical of The Times to illustrate the story of the Danish cartoons by using ...

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Saudis Support Hamas

Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 3:30:33 pm PST

Our friends the Saudis joined Egypt today in snubbing Condoleezza Rice: Saudis Reject U.S. Plan to Isolate Hamas. RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Saudi Arabia on Wednesday became the second Arab ally in as many days to reject the U.S. strategy of financially isolating Hamas if the militant group does not moderate ...

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The Etymology of the Moonbat

Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 2:12:44 pm PST

At the New York Times, William Safire is looking for the origin of the term “moonbat:” Blargon. (Hat tip: Michael.) The prevailing put-down of right-wing bloggers is wingnuts; this has recently been countered by the vilification of left-wing partisans who use the Web as moonbats, the origin of which I currently ...

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Breaking: FBI Raids Middle-East Owned Service Stations in Louisiana

Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 1:20:44 pm PST

From TV8 news in Monroe, Louisiana: FBI Raids Middle Eastern Owned Service Stations. (Hat tip: USA.) TV 8 News has learned the FBI and local law enforcement authorities are conducting a statewide raid of service stations and businesses owned by Middle Easterners. Agents executed search warrants today at businesses from Tallulah ...

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Daily Tar Heel Now Targeted for Cartoon Jihad

Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 12:21:36 pm PST

University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill student newspaper The Daily Tar Heel is now embroiled in a Krazy Kartoon Kontroversy of their own, after publishing an original cartoon showing a politically correct, balanced and non-violent Mohammed denouncing both Denmark and Islamic protesters: Cartoon for February 9 - Opinion. The Muslim Students Association ...

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UAE Think Tank Founder Hails Mothers of Suicide Bombers

Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 11:00:54 am PST

Courtesy of MEMRI TV, the founder of the “Creative Thinking Center” in the United Arab Emirates salutes the mothers of suicide bombers. [Video] Al-Hamadi: Haven’t we heard about the blessed mothers in Palestine who go to their sons and prepare them for martyrdom for the sake of Allah? The son sets out ...

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Lileks: "Instinctively Wrong"

Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 10:00:19 am PST

James Lileks makes an excellent point in the UAE port deal debate. The specifics don’t matter; arguments about the specific nature of the Dubai Ports World organization’s global reach and responsible track records don’t matter. Because it feels immediately, instinctively wrong to nearly every American, and that isn’t something that can ...

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CAIR at UPenn: "The Right to Free Speech is Not Absolute"

Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 9:51:30 am PST

At the University of Pennsylvania, a representative of the Council on American-Islamic Relations demands limits on free speech. (Hat tip: Terp Mole.) Six local Islamic figures gathered Saturday for a panel to address the recent controversy over the Danish cartoons that negatively depict the Islamic prophet Muhammad The Philadelphia chapter of the ...

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The UAE Port Deal Debate

Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 9:32:27 am PST

Jim Geraghty says we’ve been snookered by Schumer, and that the UAE port deal is not a security problem because the Coast Guard will still be responsible for securing the ports. But Michelle Malkin isn’t buying it: Missing. The. Point. The issue is not whether day-to-day, on-the-ground conditions at the ports would ...

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UW-Madison Paper Publishes Cartoons, Faces Wrath

Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 9:20:23 am PST

The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Badger Herald published the heinous cartoons of heresy, and is now facing the wrath of the (Salafist) Muslim Students Association and the MultiCultural Student Coalition: Cartoon debate heats up at forum. “I believe a newspaper, when possible, should give people the information they need to conduct intelligent, ...

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Canadian Journals Not Charged with Hate Crimes

Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 8:20:24 am PST

Canadian journals The Western Standard and The Jewish Free Press published the dreaded cartoons of blasphemy recently, and saw booksellers and newsstands refuse to carry those issues out of fear. Canadian Muslim front groups have been trying to get the government to file “hate crime” charges against the publications, but today ...

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AFP Shills for Palestinians

Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 8:08:33 am PST

Insane anti-Israel bias—business as usual at Agence France Presse: Palestinians denounce roadblocks outside Jericho. JERICHO, West Bank (AFP) - Palestinian officials denounced Israel for reimposing two roadblocks outside Jericho, saying the move violates a 2005 deal giving them security control over the West Bank city. The Israeli army confirmed that the roadblocks, ...

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The UAE Port Deal Controversy

Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 7:51:44 am PST

The White House said today that President Bush did not know about the sale of shipping operations to a UAE company until the deal had already been approved: Bush Didn’t Know About Ports Deal. WASHINGTON - President Bush was unaware of the pending sale of shipping operations at six major U.S. ...

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American Law Professor Calls for Punishment of Danish Editors

Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 7:38:30 am PST

We knew this was coming; an American law professor at Seton Hall University calls for the punishment of the Danish editors, and for shari’a restrictions on free speech in the US. The Shari’a demands that we must condemn any statement that vilifies someone’s religion, where the statement is made for no ...

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Tuesday, February 21, 2006

Toonophobia

Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 8:51:12 pm PST

From Cox & Forkum Editorial Cartoons.

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Harvard Pres Steps Down

Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 7:26:54 pm PST

The president of Harvard University has succumbed to the pressure: Summers to Step Down As Harvard President. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Lawrence H. Summers ended his tumultuous stint as Harvard University president Tuesday, choosing to resign June 30 rather than fight with a faculty angered by his management style and comments that ...

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Jyllands-Posten: No "Support," Please

Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 6:50:28 pm PST

At Agora, a translation of an editorial at Denmark’s Jyllands-Posten newspaper, on the Danish dairy firm Arla and their deals with Arab countries: We wouldn’t take your money if you paid us to do so! EDITORIAL: No “support”, Please FOOD FAIR in Dubai: A man with a tight smile announces that Arla ...

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Hands Are OK

Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 6:34:36 pm PST

A St. Paul charter school is quietly caving in to Islamic supremacism, changing the school’s art curriculum to avoid drawing human figures. Or animals. Geometric shapes are OK. The Art of Compromise. As violent protests over caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad continue around the world, a St. Paul charter school is quietly negotiating ...

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UN Guard "Scolded" for Drawing Swastikas

Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 6:29:26 pm PST

The amazing thing about this story is the utter vagueness of it: UN guard scolded for drawing swastikas on security log. Where did this incident take place? Who was involved? You won’t find out by reading the AP’s article. The United Nations has reprimanded a security guard for drawing swastikas on a ...

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UAE Company Hosts Hamas Web Site

Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 6:01:50 pm PST

According to Israel’s Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center, a company in the United Arab Emirates provides hosting services for one of the leading web sites of Hamas: Hamas - Marketing terrorism by Internet. (Hat tip: JammieWearing Fool.) An examination performed in January 2005 1 revealed that five of Hamas’ seven leading ...

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Egypt Will Support Hamas

Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 5:28:12 pm PST

Open support of genocidal terrorism; just the latest example of disgusting behavior from a country that gets more than $2 billion a year of foreign aid from the United States: Egypt rebuffs Rice on denying Hamas aid. CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt rebuffed U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s appeal on Tuesday ...

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Hitchens: Stand Up for Denmark!

Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 5:19:28 pm PST

An excellent piece from Christopher Hitchens today, excoriating the mainstream media and the Bush administration for failing to do the obviously right thing: Stand up for Denmark! - Why are we not defending our ally? Within a short while—this is a warning—the shady term “Islamophobia” is going to be smuggled through ...

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A Harriet Miers Moment?

Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 4:45:50 pm PST

Frank Gaffney says the secretive decision by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States to allow a UAE-based company to control US sea ports is a Harriet Miers moment for the President. Since a column raising an alarm about CFIUS’ decision appeared in this space last week, three new ...

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Kos Kidz Horrified at Agreement with LGF

Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 2:00:04 pm PST

One of the Kos Kidz notes that LGF and Daily Kos seem to be mostly in agreement that it’s probably not a good thing for a United Arab Emirates company to control US sea ports—but they quickly emphasize that at the morally superior Daily Kos, they’re opposed to it for ...

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Hamas to Israel: We'll Nuke You

Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 1:50:23 pm PST

On one of their web sites Hamas is now featuring an animated graphic of Israel being destroyed by a nuclear bomb. (The link goes to a Google cached version of the page, so you don’t have to visit the site directly.)

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Got 3 in Ohio

Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 1:31:09 pm PST

Three charged with planning attacks on troops in Iraq. (Hat tip: Tex.) WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three men were charged in Ohio with conspiracy to kill people and planning attacks against U.S. forces overseas, a federal law enforcement official said on Tuesday. The official said the men were involved in a conspiracy to ...

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Nigerian Christians: Appeasement is Killing Us

Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 9:19:10 am PST

Nigerian Christians apparently tried appeasement in the face of Islamic cartoon rage. Now they’re being hacked to death with machetes in their churches. Judith Apter Klinghoffer has the story: Nigerian Christians: Our Appeasement and MSM Silence is Killing Us.

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Tuesday Open Thread

Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 9:12:47 am PST

Here’s an open thread for Tuesday morning...

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Palestinian Public Supports Mass Murder

Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 8:51:52 am PST

A new poll of Palestinians shows that over 80% either support or only mildly oppose suicide bombings against Israeli civilians: JMCC Poll of Palestinians: 56.2% support suicide bombing operations against Israeli civilians. (Hat tip: Bloodthirsty Liberal.) Q18. How do you feel towards suicide bombing operations against Israeli civilians? Do you support ...

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Sweden Increases Palestinian Aid

Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 8:31:02 am PST

The Swedish government, fresh from issuing abject apologies to the Muslim world, will now increase their payouts to Hamas: Sweden increases Palestinian aid. (Hat tip: Evil Pundit.) Sweden’s state-run aid group on Monday pledged more than five million euros in additional aid to the Palestinian territories as Israel and the United ...

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France Admits Brutal Murder Was Antisemitic Attack

Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 8:27:50 am PST

The French government is reluctantly admitting that the horrific torture-murder of Ilan Halimi was an antisemitic attack. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Notice how al-Reuters does their best to downplay the Islamic connection. PARIS (Reuters) - A young Jewish man who died after being kidnapped and tortured for weeks may have fallen victim ...

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PJ Media Interviews

Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 8:22:06 am PST

Video interviews with translator Bill Tierney, former CIA director James Woolsey, and author Richard Miniter, all from the intelligence summit in Arlington, are now available for viewing at Pajamas Media’s WMD Files.

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Monday, February 20, 2006

Monday Night Ocean

Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 8:16:34 pm PST

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Arabs to Control US Ports?

Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 8:08:29 pm PST

On Sunday February 12, 2005 we noted the sale of control over several American sea ports to a company based in the United Arab Emirates, with the apparent approval of the Bush administration. Tonight the governors of New York and Maryland are not happy about this deal: GOP Governors Question ...

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Canada Stands Up

Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 7:39:39 pm PST

Canada is standing firm tonight, but the pressure on the new government must be immense: Change stance or lose funding, Canada tells Hamas. OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada will not help fund a new Hamas-led Palestinian government unless the militant group rejects violence and agrees to recognize Israel, Foreign Minister Peter MacKay ...

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The Wages of Appeasement

Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 7:25:24 pm PST

Last month I noted that some of the Danish companies being hurt by the Islamic boycott had signed bargains with the devil—they agreed not to trade with Israel in exchange for having their products sold in Islamic countries. Hodjas blog notes a report in Jyllands-Posten in which one of the boycotted ...

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Danish Lutherans Apologize to Radical Islam

Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 6:16:47 pm PST

A delegation of dhimmis from the Danish Lutheran Church has gone to Egypt to meet with senior Islamic clerics (some of whom have openly endorsed suicide bombing and jihad against infidels) and apologize for the cartoons of blasphemy: Danish Church in Egypt to Apologize. (Hat tip: Karl.) A delegation of bishops ...

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Saudis Shut Down Paper for Printing Cartoons

Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 6:05:52 pm PST

Our friends the Saudis have shut down a youth-oriented newspaper that printed the dreaded cartoons of blasphemy: Saudi paper ‘shut’ in cartoon row. The paper apparently published the cartoons to incite anti-Danish sentiment in Saudi youths, but the Saudi establishment simply doesn’t want them published for any reason. A newspaper in Saudi ...

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The Latest MSM Fiction: Hamas "Pragmatism"

Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 5:46:39 pm PST

The wire services are pushing a blatant fiction again. This time it’s the completely absurd characterization of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh as a “pragmatist.” Here’s one example of many, an AP article that also makes numerous references to Hamas “activists:” Hamas’ Choice for PM Seen As Pragmatist. Honest Reporting also noticed ...

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Muslim Brotherhood Raising Funds for Hamas Branch

Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 4:38:51 pm PST

Muslim Brotherhood Raising Funds for Hamas. Well, of course they are. Hamas is the Muslim Brotherhood. CAIRO, Egypt - Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood called for Muslims on Monday to give money to a Hamas-led Palestinian government, disregarding the U.S. campaign to stop the flow of cash to the militant group. ... Two ...

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LGF Connection Problems, the Sequel

Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 4:31:22 pm PST

Today I suddenly received several emails that had been sent days ago, complaining of trouble connecting to LGF. The fact that they all came through within minutes of each other makes me think that some ISPs’ DNS caches have possibly been updated, and some of those who were having trouble ...

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Fort Myers News-Press Publishes Danish Cartoons

Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 4:02:35 pm PST

Big media in the US are too scared to do it, but a few local papers like the Fort Myers News-Press have published the cartoons of blasphemy. (Hat tip: heather.)

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David Irving Gets 3 Years

Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 1:56:38 pm PST

Holocaust denier David Irving (who hates to be called a Holocaust denier) has been sentenced to three years in an Austrian prison: Holocaust Denier Gets Three Years in Jail. VIENNA, Austria - Right-wing British historian David Irving was sentenced to three years in prison Monday after admitting to an Austrian court ...

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Reuters Recognizes Nonexistent Country

Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 1:35:45 pm PST

The al-Reuters wire service is now apparently in the business of granting legitimacy to terrorist states: Rice consults with Quartet partners on Palestine.

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Behold: The Dreaded Cartoons of Blasphemy

Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 8:37:52 am PST

It’s important that we all stand together with Denmark and refuse to let the purveyors of an intolerant ideology strip us of one of the West’s most fundamental principles, freedom of speech. Web site owners who post the Mohammed cartoons from Jyllands-Posten are being threatened if they don’t remove them, ...

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Worldwide Islamic Cartoon Jihad Update

Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 8:30:28 am PST

Ink and pencil scratches on paper have now enraged the entire Islamic world, from Nigeria to Denmark to New York City to Jalalabad: Afghan cartoon protesters threaten to join al Qaeda. JALALABAD, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Hundreds of Afghans shouted support on Monday for Osama bin Laden and threatened to join al ...

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Totten: The Kurds Are Packing Their Bags

Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 8:19:21 am PST

Michael J. Totten sees Iraq breaking into two countries: Our Jerusalem. ERBIL, IRAQ – Iraq may not survive in one piece. The overwhelming majority of Iraqi Kurds are packing their bags. Most have already said goodbye. Erbil (Hawler in Kurdish) is the capital of the de-facto sovereign Kurdistan Regional Government. Baghdad ...

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Khamenei Orders Muslims to Fund Hamas

Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 7:51:02 am PST

The “supreme leader” of Iran urges all followers of the Religion of Peace™ to send money to the genocidal terrorist gang Hamas: Iran leader urges Muslims to fund Palestinians. TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called on Muslims worldwide to provide money to the Palestinians during his talks ...

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Steyn: It's Easy to Be Tough About Nothing

Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 7:43:49 am PST

Mark Steyn on the craven cowardice of Western media: Cheering tidbits lighten otherwise grim week. It’s easy to be tough about nothing. The press corps that noisily champions “the public’s right to know” about a minor hunting accident simultaneously assures the public that they’ve no need to see these Danish cartoons ...

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Carter: Don't Punish Hamas

Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 7:41:38 am PST

Ex-president Jimmy Carter goes to bat for Hamas in today’s edition of the Washington Post: Don’t Punish the Palestinians. UPDATE at 2/20/06 7:47:57 am: Hamas is really getting their money’s worth out of Jimmah.

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Aussie PM Speaks Truth, Muslims Offended

Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 7:36:10 am PST

Australian Prime Minister John Howard is now the target of Muslim offense and rage, for comments in a new book: PM’s Muslim comments ‘offensive’. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Prime Minister John Howard’s suggestions that some Muslims are extremists who cannot embrace the country’s ways are offensive and ignorant, the Islamic Council ...

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Sunday, February 19, 2006

Bernard Lewis: The New Antisemitism

Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 8:22:15 pm PST

A must-read new essay from Bernard Lewis, posted at History News Network by Judith Klinghoffer: The New Antisemitism. The Western form of anti-Semitism—the cosmic, satanic version of Jew hatred—provided solace to wounded feelings. It came to the Middle East in several stages. The first stage was almost entirely Christian, brought by ...

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The Faucet is Closing

Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 7:42:32 pm PST

The consequences of electing a terrorist government will now be felt by the Palestinian people; democracy at its purest and most unforgiving: Israel Halts Payments to Palestinians. JERUSALEM - Israel branded the Palestinian government a “terrorist authority” Sunday and halted the transfer of hundreds of millions of dollars in tax money ...

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Trouble Connecting to LGF

Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 7:12:12 pm PST

Several readers have contacted me to say they’re having trouble connecting to LGF recently; they get an error saying “the document contains no data,” or a connection failure. Often they’re able to connect from the work computer, but not from home (or vice versa). In all the cases where people have ...

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Sunday Night Seagull

Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 6:56:21 pm PST

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Gaming Western Liberalism

Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 6:31:55 pm PST

John Leo has a good piece on the growth of Islamic supremacism in Europe: Islamic Radicals Take Advantage of Western Civilization. Much of the Muslim assertiveness is an outgrowth of Europe’s disastrous love affair with multiculturalism. In theory, immigrants were to be encouraged to maintain their own identity and traditions in ...

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Agora Translates Jyllands-Posten

Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 6:01:39 pm PST

At Agora, a translation of a new column for Jyllands-Posten by Per Nyholm: Jyllands-Posten: “My Day in Florence”. On the train, I read an article by the President of Indonesia, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, in which he encourages the values of respect, tolerance and diversity, all very fine values which I am ...

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The Incredibly Strange Graduation of the Palestinian Police Cadets

Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 11:27:15 am PST

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Bonfire of the Inanities

Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 10:41:06 am PST

A great piece by John Burtis on the media’s latest ridiculously overblown pseudo-scandal: Bonfire of the inanities. (Hat tip: Newsbeat1.) When Harry Whittington strode out of the Christus Spohn Memorial Hospital in Corpus Christi, Texas, wearing a blazer, a crisp white shirt and a smile, as well as a bruise and ...

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ElBaradei Springs Into Action, Suggests Capitulation

Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 10:26:09 am PST

Mohamed ElBaradei, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and head of the UN’s blind nuclear watchdog the IAEA, says we just need to stop worrying and learn to accept some Iranian atom work. VIENNA (Reuters) - The crisis over Iran’s atomic agenda is deepening, but the world’s nuclear watchdog chief has ...

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Muslim Gang Kidnaps and Murders Jewish Man in Paris Suburb

Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 10:09:17 am PST

Allison Kaplan Sommer posts about a horrific story from France, where a gang of Muslims kidnapped, tortured, and murdered a young Jewish man—and French authorities claim there is no antisemitism involved: A Jew Is Tortured and Killed in Paris...But Is it Anti-Semitism? Mais, non! UPDATE at 2/19/06 10:11:59 am: More information at ...

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A Cartoon Carnival

Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 10:01:44 am PST

Step right up and experience Dr. Sanity’s Carnival of the Cartoon Insanities.

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CAIR Defended KindHearts

Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 9:52:45 am PST

Steven Emerson has been looking into the Hamas-linked NGO Kind Hearts for Charitable Human Development, whose assets were frozen today by the US Treasury, for quite some time. In the December 14, 2005 edition of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, here’s how the Council on American-Islamic Relations responded to an article about ...

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Even the Apologies Are Faked

Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 9:19:53 am PST

Our friends the Saudis are publishing full-page advertisements in their government-controlled newspapers, containing a purported apology to the Islamic world from Danish paper Jyllands-Posten: Saudi papers publish Danish paper’s cartoon apology. RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabian newspapers on Sunday printed an apology by the Danish paper whose cartoons lampooning the Prophet ...

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"Kind Hearts for Charitable Human Development" = Hamas

Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 9:01:20 am PST

The assets of a group called “Kind Hearts for Charitable Human Development” have been frozen by the US Treasury, for ties to Hamas: U.S. Treasury - Recent OFAC Actions: 02/19/2006. (Hat tip: SoCalJustice.) A reader forwards this press release from the Treasury Department with more details: Treasury Freezes Assets of Organization Tied ...

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RoP Worldwide Rage Update

Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 8:36:47 am PST

The insanity continues to boil: Muslims Assault U.S. Embassy in Indonesia. JAKARTA, Indonesia - Hundreds of Muslims protesting caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad tried to storm the U.S. Embassy on Sunday, smashing the windows of a guard post but failing to push through the gates. Several people were injured. Pakistani security forces, ...

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"We've All Learned to Accept That"

Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 8:22:08 am PST

The Chicago Tribune’s article on Muslim girls who play basketball has a completely inappropriate cheery tone for its disturbing subject—the dark ages repression of young girls, now in a Chicago suburb: They’ve got game—and hijab. (Hat tip: Ethel.) Duaa Hamoud holds a basketball to her hip. She is standing in a ...

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Saturday, February 18, 2006

British Muslims: 40% Want Shari'a Law

Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 8:35:47 pm PST

Poll reveals 40% of Muslims want sharia law in UK. (Hat tip: Mara.) Four out of 10 British Muslims want sharia law introduced into parts of the country, a survey reveals today. The ICM opinion poll also indicates that a fifth have sympathy with the “feelings and motives” of the suicide bombers ...

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Danish Paper Responds to Guardian Slam

Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 8:22:57 pm PST

Danish blog Agora translates an article from the newspaper B.T., responding to a Guardian op-ed columnist’s accusations that Denmark has become a racist country: “Danes most openminded.” An embittered political minority with a very loud voice claims that Denmark - and especially now during the ongoing cartoon crisis - has only ...

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VDH: Why No Nukes for Iran?

Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 8:05:38 pm PST

Another bracing dose of clarity from Victor Davis Hanson: Why No Nukes for Iran? How many times have we heard the following whining and yet received no specific answers from our leaders? “Israel has nuclear weapons, so why single out Iran?” “Pakistan got nukes and we lived with it.” “Who is to say the ...

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Saturday Night Island

Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 8:01:13 pm PST

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Infidel Bloggers' Cartoon Contest Winners

Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 6:26:13 pm PST

The winners have been announced in the Infidel Bloggers Alliance Cartoon Contest, and the results are sure to offend, uh, somebody.

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Turkish Reporter Attacked by Cartoon Mob

Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 3:05:36 pm PST

While covering the cartoon protests for a Turkish newspaper, journalist Aliye Cetinkaya was attacked and stoned by a group of demonstrating Muslims because she was not wearing a head-scarf. (Hat tip: uncle_monkey.) Aliye Cetinkaya, a journalist from the Turkish daily Sabah newspaper, who was reporting on the recent protests over the ...

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Cartoon Jihad Erupts in Nigeria

Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 2:59:07 pm PST

More violence and killing in Nigeria, where mobs of enraged Muslims attacked Christians and burned churches: Cartoon Protests Leave 15 Dead in Nigeria. (Hat tip: Right Brain.) MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian Muslims protesting caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad attacked Christians and burned churches on Saturday, killing at least 15 people ...

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A Religion of Peace, Not Weakness

Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 1:35:20 pm PST

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Muslim Protesters: "God Bless Hitler"

Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 9:44:14 am PST

At Germany’s n-tv.de, a photo from an Islamic rally in Pakistan. (Hat tip: hans ze beeman.) (It’s not a Photoshop job.) UPDATE at 2/18/06 10:03:51 am: The caption at n-tv.de reads: Was genau sie mit dem Plakat sagen wollen, bleibt unklar. Translated to English: What these women want to say with the sign is unclear. ...

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Gaddafi: One Day Islam May Rule Europe

Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 9:09:08 am PST

An Italian minister’s shirt is being blamed for Islamic rioting in Libya, and he’s been forced to resign. Meanwhile, Western media completely ignore this statement from Libyan strongman Muammar Qaddafi: Muammar Gaddafi: One Day Islam May Rule Europe. (Hat tip: Andrew Bostom.) Tripoli - In his first public statement after the braking ...

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The Dreaded T-Shirt of Blasphemy

Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 9:02:21 am PST

Eleven people die in riots in Libya, and an Italian minister’s T-shirt is blamed for it: Italy minister resigns after Libya cartoons riot. (Hat tip: rednaxela.) ROME, Feb 18 (Reuters) - An Italian minister who wore a T-shirt on state television featuring cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad that have outraged Muslims ...

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Cathy Seipp Gets LGF

Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 8:53:19 am PST

Thanks to Cathy Seipp for her much-appreciated words of support at National Review Online, responding to a hit piece on yours truly that appeared in Los Angeles magazine: Catherine Seipp: Los Locos. What really irritates me is Smith’s received wisdom about Pajamas Media partner Charles Johnson, the Los Angeles web designer ...

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Guardian Slams Denmark

Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 8:43:14 am PST

Britain’s Guardian, the paper that employed a Hizb ut-Tahrir propagandist (lgf: The Guardian’s Pet Islamofascist), says Denmark is intolerant, xenophobic, and racist: Denmark’s new values. Denmark has at last managed to catch the world’s eye, after so many years of failing to get credit for being at the cutting edge of ...

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Scenes of Peace and Tolerance

Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 8:27:34 am PST

A cartoon of Mohammed with a bomb-shaped turban is deemed offensive enough for dozens to be killed, embassies to be burned, and weeks of violent demonstrations calling for murder of Danish citizens. But exposing Muslim children to psychotic imagery like this is OK?

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Abu Mazen Says...

Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 8:14:49 am PST

Don’t punish Palestinians for electing Hamas: Abbas.

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Harvard Paper Prints Cartoons of Blasphemy

Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 8:00:41 am PST

With very few exceptions, American media’s response to the Cartoon Jihad has been to preemptively surrender and refuse to support freedom of speech, leaving those few exceptions to stand alone against a world-wide tide of intolerance and violent thuggishness. Now a student newspaper at Harvard has joined the fray: Harvard ...

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NYT: Appeasement is the American Way

Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 7:44:39 am PST

New York Tmes op-ed contributor Robert Wright counsels appeasement in response to the Mohammed cartoon craziness; he says it’s a “quintessentially American response:” The Silent Treatment. (Hat tip: Riding Sun.) Amid the cartoon protests, some conservative blogs have warned that addressing grievances expressed violently is a form of “appeasement,” and will ...

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Friday, February 17, 2006

Cartoon Rage in New Mexico

Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 8:05:58 pm PST

The rage has spread even to little Gallup, New Mexico: Independent - February 17, 2006: Vandal stones office. (Hat tip: Ger.) GALLUP — Someone shattered The Independent’s glass entrance doors late Wednesday. At about 10 p.m., an unknown individual threw a pair of fist-sized rocks at the doors, which caused the ...

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Friday Night Palms

Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 6:24:32 pm PST

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Hamas Does the Head Tilt

Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 5:25:08 pm PST

Khaled Mashaal, on the lam in Turkey, says Hamas really isn’t bad, they’re just misunderstood: Hamas Leader Says Group Misunderstood. ISTANBUL, Turkey - The exiled political leader of Hamas said Friday the world has the wrong image of the Islamic militant group and he urged the international community to stop viewing ...

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Cartoon Rage Kills 9 in Libya

Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 5:17:59 pm PST

A new outbreak of Kartoon Kraziness in Libya: Nine Killed in Libyan Cartoon Protest. TRIPOLI, Libya - Libyans protesting caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad set fire to the Italian consulate in Benghazi on Friday and clashed with police in a riot that killed at least nine people, an Italian diplomat said. Libyan ...

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CAIR Director at Al-Arian Fundraiser

Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 5:12:06 pm PST

Tomorrow in Tampa, Florida, the executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations will take part in a fundraiser for accused Islamic Jihad kingpin Sami Al-Arian: PR-Nihad Awad & Eric Vickers Speaking at Al-Arian Release Fundraiser. (Coral Springs, FL) According to an e-mail that was sent out by Ahmed Bedier, the ...

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Signs of Sanity in Denmark

Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 3:09:10 pm PST

Brussels Journal has a report on Denmark’s “Democratic Muslims,” a group of non-fanatic Muslims who are speaking out against the radicals: More and More Moderate Muslims Speak Out in Denmark. Dozens of Danish Muslims are joining the network of moderate Muslims, the Demokratiske Muslimer (Democratic Muslims). About 700 Muslims have already ...

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Muslims Demonstrate at Danish Consulate, NY

Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 2:31:53 pm PST

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Reality-Based Mullahs

Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 8:51:18 am PST

Iran’s “president” may sound like a madman, but today’s statement from the mullahs shows that they have a firm grasp on reality. TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran shrugged off mounting world pressures over its nuclear program on Friday, giving no hint it was ready to halt sensitive atomic work to enable next ...

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UN Springs Into Action, Denounces US

Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 8:45:43 am PST

The United Nations, disgusting as always, issued a call to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility and set free all the prisoners. Among other things, they’re upset because the US has force-fed some hunger strikers. Letting them starve themselves to death would have been better? But to really finish this story ...

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The Cartoon Jihad Bears Fruit

Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 8:21:41 am PST

Indian tennis star Sania Mirza has refused to join in a doubles match with an Israeli player, out of fear of the Religion of Peace™. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Indian female tennis player Sania Mirza, 19, who is ranked 39th in the world, announced that she would not play with Israeli ...

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RoP Puts Out a Contract on Danish Cartoonist

Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 8:02:23 am PST

Murder for hire, in the name of Allah: Cleric Offers Bounty on Cartoonist. In the northwestern city of Peshawar, where riots left two dead and scores injured on Wednesday, prayer leader Mohammed Yousaf Qureshi announced the bounty for killing a cartoonist to about 1,000 people outside the Mohabat Khan mosque, where ...

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Thursday, February 16, 2006

Thursday Night Beach

Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 9:51:39 pm PST

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The Dream City of the Kurds

Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 9:14:01 pm PST

Don’t miss Michael J. Totten’s report on The Dream City of the Kurds.

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Europe's Dilemma

Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 7:45:53 pm PST

The ghosts of the Spanish warriors of the Reconquista are restless tonight, as their modern day countrymen willfully forget their sacrifices: Don’t Burn Muhammad | The Brussels Journal. In 711 Muslim armies crossed the Strait of Gibraltar. They took Spain by force and remained there until they were thrown out during ...

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Hamas Wants Off the List

Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 7:28:08 pm PST

You almost have to laugh. Then you remember that this is a genocidal, fanatically Islamist terrorist organization openly dedicated to finishing the job the Nazis started, by any means possible. And then it doesn’t seem so funny. Hamas Wants Off Terror List. DAMASCUS, Syria - A senior Hamas official called on the United ...

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The Photos You Won't See On CBS

Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 7:18:20 pm PST

Prisoner Abuse Photos from Iraq that MSM Won’t Show You.

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ElBaradei Springs Into Action, Suggests Compromise

Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 6:55:15 pm PST

Utterly beyond parody at this point: IAEA warns may need compromise on Iranian enrichment: diplomats. VIENNA (AFP) - UN atomic watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei has warned it will be hard to strike a compromise on Iran’s nuclear program without letting it do small-scale enrichment work — something the West firmly rejects, ...

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Preemptive Censorship at the BBC

Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 6:17:00 pm PST

According to The Sun, BBC management will now be pre-screening their original content to make sure it doesn’t offend anyone who might be sympathetic to Al Qaeda: BBC Spooked by al-Qaeda. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) BBC bosses are ready to AXE a £1million episode of hit drama Spooks in which an ...

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Oxford Hosts Anti-Israel Conference

Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 2:59:47 pm PST

This week at one of Britain’s most prestigious academies: a pro-Palestinian hatefest titled “Israeli Apartheid Week.” (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Hosted by the Palestinian Society, and sanctioned by the university’s student union, flyers state it is to commemorate the “30th anniversary of the international convention on the suppression and punishment of ...

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Iranian Nuclear Fatwa

Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 1:32:18 pm PST

A new fatwa from Islamic clerics in the city of Qom, Iran, says that Allah would have no problem if Iran decided to nuke someone—as long as it’s for a good reason. “The spiritual leaders of the ultra-conservatives [in Iran] have accepted the use of nuclear weapons as lawful in the ...

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Canada: No Aid to Hamas, Unless...

Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 9:17:12 am PST

Canada’s new government aligns with the US and says no aid to Hamas. OTTAWA (AFP) - Canada will only provide aid to the new Palestinian government if the leadership recognizes Israel and renounces all forms of violence, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said. “Future assistance to any new Palestinian government will be reviewed ...

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PJ Media: WMD Files

Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 8:30:13 am PST

Pajamas Media is covering the Intelligence Summit in Arlington where new revelations about Saddam Hussein’s WMD plans are promised, with video interviews and blogosphere coverage at the WMD Files.

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Scenes of Peace and Tolerance

Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 8:06:31 am PST

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Norway and Sweden Enforce Shari'a

Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 8:02:48 am PST

Bruce Bawer tells the story of a stunning Norwegian capitulation in the face of sinister initimidation. (Hat tip: Simon.) On February 10, in Oslo, came a dramatic capitulation that seemed a classic case of sharia in action. For days, Velbjorn Selbekk, editor of the tiny Christian periodical Magazinet – the first ...

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Danish Editor Not Sorry

Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 7:48:01 am PST

Flemming Rose, editor of Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, is not apologizing for publishing the dreaded cartoons of blasphemy. “There was a legitimate news story we had to cover and we chose to cover it in a not very ordinary way,” he said, referring to the letter he sent in September to 40 ...

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RoP in Thailand

Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 7:43:57 am PST

The Religion of Peace™ is nothing if not resourceful: Thai militants learn from Iraq insurgency. (Hat tip: Ethel.) WASHINGTON, DC, United States (UPI) — Islamic separatists in violence-wracked southern Thailand have begun to employ weapons and tactics that appear to be imported from the insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to ...

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The Media Are the Enemy

Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 7:37:57 am PST

Salon’s Walter Shapiro does his best to justify publishing the Abu Ghraib rerun photos. (Hat tip: Allah.) Abu Ghraib cannot be allowed to fade away like some half-forgotten domestic political controversy, which may have prompted newsmagazine covers at the time, but now seems as irrelevant as the 2002 elections. Abu Ghraib ...

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Wednesday, February 15, 2006

Norway Criminalizes Blasphemy?

Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 8:23:34 pm PST

Islam Online says Norway Criminalizes Blasphemy, and I’m hoping this is just another Islamofascist fantasy. DOHA, February, 15 2006, (IslamOnline.net) – The Norwegian parliament has amended the Penal Code to criminalize blasphemy in the wake of the republication of Danish cartoons that lampooned Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) ...

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Onion: Hamas Calls for Summit

Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 8:18:29 pm PST

Hamas Calls For ‘Giant Summit’ With All Israelis. RAMALLAH, WEST BANK—After his militant Islamic party took the majority in Palestine’s recent elections, Ismail Haniyeh called for a “giant summit with all living Israelis” Monday, rekindling international hopes for peace in the war-torn region. Haniyeh characterized the one-day summit as “the final solution ...

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The Long Overdue Music Thread

Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 7:02:56 pm PST

Some of the best acoustic guitar playing you’ll ever witness is documented in the RealPlayer videos on this page at the Kennedy Center web site: Preston Reed.

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Iran's Envoy to Portugal Questions Holocaust

Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 6:47:28 pm PST

Sensing weakness, the enemies of civilization are pushing the envelope of multicultural tolerance in Europe: Iran’s envoy to Portugal questions Holocaust. LISBON (Reuters) - Iran’s ambassador to Portugal told a Portuguese radio interviewer it would have taken the Nazis 15 years to burn the corpses of 6 million people, a remark ...

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"Our Martyrdom-Seeking Forces Will Be Uncontrollable"

Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 6:25:49 pm PST

Here’s a report that seems to have gone completely unnoticed amid the media’s bloated puffer-fish posturing over Dick Cheney’s hunting accident: Iran’s suicide bombers threaten to “burn down” U.S. interests. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Tehran, Iran, Feb. 13 – A senior commander of Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) vowed ...

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New Plateaus in Appeasement

Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 5:49:07 pm PST

Yes, it really has gotten this bad: ‘Weed out textbooks offensive to Muslims’. (Hat tip: Allah.) School textbooks should be reviewed for intolerant depictions of Islam and other faiths by experts overseen by the European Union and Islamic leaders, the European Parliament was told yesterday. The call for a special committee to ...

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No Aid for Hamas

Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 5:06:19 pm PST

Some good news in the global fight against radical Islam: US House votes to withhold Palestinian aid. The House measure approved Wednesday states that “no United States assistance should be provided directly to the Palestinian Authority if any representative political party holding a majority of parliamentary seats within the Palestinian Authority ...

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The UK Arm of the Muslim Brotherhood

Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 11:27:03 am PST

Scott Burgess takes a close look at the so-called “moderate” Islamic advocacy group, the Muslim Association of Britain: Today a Small Glasgow School, Tomorrow... Although the group - which organised last weekend’s march against “Islamophobia” in London - is often presented in the press as “moderate”, the MAB is widely regarded ...

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Abu Ghraib, the Endless Hamster Wheel

Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 9:53:43 am PST

Here’s a shock: New Abu Ghraib abuse photos anger Arabs. SYDNEY (Reuters) - An Australian television station broadcast on Wednesday what it said were previously unpublished images of abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison, fuelling more Arab anger against the United States. The Special Broadcasting Service’s “Dateline” current affairs program ...

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Condi's Evil "Plot"

Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 9:46:35 am PST

It’s good to see the administration holding their ground on this important point: Rice Says No U.S. Aid for Hamas-Led Gov’t. WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice informed Congress on Wednesday that no U.S. assistance will be provided to a Hamas-led Palestinian government. Rice told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee the ...

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Laser Pointer Incidents in Dearborn

Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 9:33:38 am PST

Here’s a disturbing note from the Dearborn (lgf: search), Michigan area: Pilots Report Seeing Laser Lights While Flying. (Hat tip: Abu Maven.) Police are on alert after more than a dozen pilots reported someone shining a laser light at the plane while descending into Metro Airport. The incident occurred in the Dearborn ...

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Cartoon Jihad Kills 3 More in Pakistan

Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 9:13:20 am PST

More people killed (including a child) today in Pakistan over the Danish cartoons, as 70,000 screaming madmen rioted in the streets: Three Killed in Massive Cartoon Protests. PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Gunfire and rioting erupted Wednesday as tens of thousands of people took to the streets in Pakistan’s third straight day of ...

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Hamas Video: "We Will Drink the Blood of the Jews"

Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 9:01:29 am PST

Bloodthirsty savages with video recorders: Hamas Video: We will drink the blood of the Jews. The Hamas website this week presented the parting video messages of two Hamas suicide terrorists. One message was for Jews, whose blood Hamas promises to drink until Jews “leave the Muslim countries,” and the second to ...

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Hizballah Funds Hamas

Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 8:41:27 am PST

Finally, proof that Hizballah and Hamas are working together—and it comes straight from the terrorists’ mouths: Hamas Web site says group received Hizbollah money. GAZA (Reuters) - A Hamas Web site disclosed on Wednesday that fighters from the Palestinian militant group had received funding and training from the Iranian-backed Hizbollah movement ...

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The Islamists' War on the Internet

Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 8:31:31 am PST

Muslims are increasingly using easily available scripts to launch hacking attacks against web sites that criticize Islam; Michelle Malkin has been targeted: The Islamists’ War on the Internet.

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Abu Ghraib, the Sequel

Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 8:02:52 am PST

It’s Abu Ghraib part 2, with what looks like more photos of the same incidents, and international media are of course immediately airing the pictures with no concern whatsoever: New graphic Abu Ghraib images. I’m only surprised the New York Times doesn’t have them on the front page yet. Do I need ...

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Tuesday, February 14, 2006

Tuesday Night Beach

Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 9:13:30 pm PST

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It's In the Koran

Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 7:42:56 pm PST

Google Video (beta), like Angelfire, has submitted to radical Islam and removed it from view. You are now at one of the only remaining sites on the web that will let you see it: [Video] UPDATE at 2/14/06 8:14:02 pm: And it’s also available here, for now: Patrick Henry.

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Welcoming His New Overlords

Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 7:24:30 pm PST

Dhimmitude, thy name is Jens Byskov. Jens Byskov holds up a sign apologizing to Muslims in front of the Danish parliament building in Copenhagen, Denmark Tuesday Feb. 14, 2006 for cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad published in a Danish newspaper late last year. The uproar over the Prophet Muhammad cartoons was ...

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The Canadian Appeasement Contingent

Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 6:16:31 pm PST

Yesterday we noted the brave decision of Canadian political journal The Western Standard to print the dreaded cartoons of blasphemy, and the subsequent threats by Islamist groups to have them prosecuted for “hate crimes.” Canadian booksellers, however, are proving to be amazingly gutless: Magazine pulled from Saskatoon store. (Hat tip: LGF ...

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Live from New York: Jackie Mason and Raoul Felder

Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 6:00:52 pm PST

Jackie Mason and Raoul Felder on the dreaded cartoons of blasphemy: Insult Law. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) The Muslims have pronounced their verdict. The cartoon man has been found guilty. The real crime is, of course, not being a Muslim. Now that they have established the crime, they have also pronounced ...

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Larry Flynt on the Danish Cartoons

Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 5:57:26 pm PST

Steven Weiss talks to Hustler publisher Larry Flynt about the dreaded cartoons of blasphemy: Larry Flynt on the Danish Cartoons. What do you think of the situation of the Danish cartoons? It’s scary, to say the least. Freedom of speech is involved in this, and I’ve always been an absolutist when it ...

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PJ Profile: Pejman Yousefzadeh

Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 5:42:38 pm PST

At Pajamas Media’s info site today, a blogger bio of the inestimable Pejman Yousefzadeh.

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The Israeli Anti-Semitic Cartoons Contest

Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 4:57:22 pm PST

Taking the Kartoon Kraziness to a completely new level, and mocking the Holocaust deniers with their own insanity: Israeli Anti-Semitic Cartoons Contest. (Hat tip: David.) Amitai Sandy (29), graphic artist and publisher of Dimona Comix Publishing, from Tel-Aviv, Israel, has followed the unfolding of the “Muhammad cartoon-gate” events in amazement, until ...

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"Like Any Other Land Muslims Have Conquered By Force"

Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 4:26:33 pm PST

MEMRI has done a remarkable service for civilization, providing an accurate and complete translation of the Hamas covenant that should be required reading for anyone deluded enough to believe (or dishonest enough to try to convince the West) that Hamas will renounce terrorism and recognize Israel. The Islamic Resistance Movement maintains ...

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Coming Soon: Photoshop Intifada

Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 1:12:30 pm PST

Next in line for a big juicy fatwa: FARK.com: Sitcom situations for Mohammed.

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RoP Killing and Burning in Pakistan

Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 9:06:35 am PST

They’re attacking the graven image of the infidel colonel again in Pakistan: Protesters Ravage Two Pakistani Cities. LAHORE, Pakistan - Thousands rampaged Tuesday through two Pakistani cities to protest cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, burning buildings housing a hotel, banks and a KFC and breaking windows at a Holiday Inn and ...

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What Will Europe Really Do?

Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 8:59:29 am PST

The cartoon intifada has put Europe squarely in the crosshairs of radical Islam, and Victor Davis Hanson asks, “What Will Europe Really Do?”

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Cartoon Jihad, Part Deux

Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 8:53:35 am PST

Oh brother. Here we go again. Anger in Iran over German football cartoon. TEHRAN - The general secretary of the Iranian press association called Sunday for action over a football cartoon printed in a German newspaper showing the Iranian national team standing in a World Cup stadium with bomb belts strapped ...

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Muslims Advised Not To Celebrate Valentine's Day

Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 8:40:35 am PST

Did you know that St. Valentine (lgf: search) was an enemy of Islam? Muslims Advised Not To Celebrate Valentine’s Day. (Hat tip: Jihad Watch.) KUALA TERENGGANU, Feb 13 (Bernama) — Muslims in the country, especially lovers, have been advised not to celebrate Valentine’s Day tomorrow. State Islam Hadhari Development Committee Deputy Chairman, ...

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Islamic Leader: Cartoons Are a "New 9/11" Against Muslims

Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 8:16:10 am PST

European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana is in Saudi Arabia, pandering to the Organization of the Islamic Conference and advocating new blasphemy laws in Europe: Solana Seeks to Quell Cartoon Rage. Top on the agenda of the meeting between EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana and Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu at the ...

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More Lying from Our Friends the Saudis

Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 7:52:44 am PST

Saudi ambassador to the US Turki al-Faisal is spinning outrageous lies to the Council on Foreign Relations: Saudi Ambassador Comments on Bombings. (Hat tip: Carl.) Al-Faisal said that for all the shock in the Western world about the suicide attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, and in Iraq, most Muslims were even ...

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Monday, February 13, 2006

Gallup Poll Shows Dramatic Drop in Support for Palestinians

Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 6:22:38 pm PST

A new Gallup poll shows that more Americans than ever before are beginning to face reality, after the Hamas landslide victory in Palestinian elections: Expectations of Middle East Peace Drop Following Hamas Victory. (Hat tip: Vital Perspective.) PRINCETON, NJ — Following the election of Hamas as the Palestinian Authority’s ruling ...

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Islamofascists Have a Friend in Venezuela

Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 6:00:58 pm PST

Islamic terrorists and thuggish South American strongmen, the match made in hell: Venezuela Would Welcome Hamas Leaders. CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuela’s vice president said Monday his country would welcome leaders from Hamas “with pleasure” if they visit the country as part of a South American tour following their victory in Palestinian ...

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Sure-Shot Cheney's Major Media Meltdown

Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 5:52:27 pm PST

Watching the mainstream media try every trick in their dog-eared book to promote Dick Cheney’s minor hunting accident into a major scandal has provided lots of amusement today: Cheney Apparently Breaks Key Hunting Rule.

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Accused of a "Hate Crime" for Publishing Cartoons

Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 5:25:06 pm PST

Canadian political magazine The Western Standard is publishing the cartoons of Danish blasphemy, and the publisher explains why: Media runs scared. In our magazine’s news judgment, you can’t properly report that story without showing the cartoons. So we’re publishing eight of the cartoons. As far as I am aware, that makes ...

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Allah Springs Into Action

Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 4:09:53 pm PST

Allah strikes back against the infidel cartoonists of Denmark, with the horrible holy mammal of eponymous skin folds. (Hat tip: Ethel.) THOUSANDS of people flocked to southern Egypt today to seek blessing from a calf they believe was born as God’s reply to the publication in Europe of cartoons depicting the ...

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Overboard

Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 4:00:00 pm PST

From Cox & Forkum Editorial Cartoons.

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Ahmadinejad: "Don't Make Us Lose Our Patience"

Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 3:32:12 pm PST

Courtesy of MEMRI TV, the madman of Iran in a television address broadcast on February 11, 2006: [Video] Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: The affront to the honor of the Prophet of Islam it is in fact an affront to the worship of God, and to the seeking of truth and justice, and an affront ...

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Spine Sighted in Seattle

Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 3:11:47 pm PST

Seattle’s “alternative” paper The Stranger publishes the dread cartoons of blasphemy, accompanying a blasphemous article by Bruce Bawer: All the Rage.

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A Letter from the Mayor of Tall 'Afar

Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 3:07:22 pm PST

Mudville Gazette has an exceptional letter from the Mayor of Tall ’Afar, Iraq to the men and women of the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment and their families. In the Name of God the Compassionate and Merciful To the Courageous Men and Women of the 3d Armored Cavalry Regiment, who have changed the ...

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Death Cult School Play

Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 2:04:26 pm PST

How to turn a child into a violent death-loving fanatic: Palestinian school children carry a mock coffin draped in a Danish flag during a Hamas rally in the West Bank city of Hebron February 13, 2006. UPDATE at 2/13/06 2:07:09 pm: The Jerusalem Post has an AP story on this demonstration by ...

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Last Ones Standing

Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 1:39:02 pm PST

The only two people in France with the courage to stand up to Islamist anti-cartoon demonstrators: Brigade de l’Argent des Francais.

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Spencer: Fallaci Beheaded

Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 1:21:32 pm PST

Here’s another example of utter moral blindness, in an Italian art exhibit featuring a painting of Oriana Fallaci Beheaded. A disgraceful art exhibit in Milan has illustrated once again the deep affinity between the Left and the forces of the global jihad. In these days of Muslims the world over calling ...

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RoP Rampaging in Pakistan

Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 9:20:42 am PST

Pakistanis rampage over cartoons. Police in Pakistan have fired tear gas to disperse at least 3,000 students demonstrating against cartoons satirising the Prophet Muhammad. Sixteen people were held for damaging public property in the protest in the north-western city of Peshawar. Students also smashed hoardings advertising the Norwegian telecom giant, Telenor, and chanted ...

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The Betrayal of Denmark

Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 9:10:06 am PST

Brussels Journal has an English translation of an extraordinary article by Per Nyholm, a writer for Jyllands-Posten newspaper. Don’t miss it: The Betrayal of Denmark (and of Us All). We are being pissed upon I think it was the long departed H.C. Hansen, one of the great Danish statesmen of the last ...

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An Editorial Cartoonist with a Spine

Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 9:00:20 am PST

Chip Bok, editorial cartoonist for the Akron Beacon Journal, stepped right into the middle of the Mohammed Kartoon Kraziness with a recent piece for the newspaper, poking fun at CNN’s decision to “pixelate” the Danish cartoon. He was promptly served with several fatwas at his blog: Bokbluster.

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Rabidly Conservative Warblog Wins JPost Awards

Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 8:55:10 am PST

A big LGF thank you to all those who voted to put us at the top of two categories in the 2005 Jewish and Israel Blog Awards sponsored by Israellycool and the Jerusalem Post: Best Overall ‘Mega’ Blog, and Best Israel Advocacy Blog.

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New York Magazine's Favorite Blogs

Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 8:45:57 am PST

New York Magazine is featuring blogs on their cover; on this page they refer to LGF as a “rabidly conservative warblog,” and make sure to point out the anonymous LGF stalkers’ blog as well. No mention is made of LGF’s key role in debunking the phony CBS National Guard documents. At ...

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Sunday, February 12, 2006

Sunday Night Fence

Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 8:42:37 pm PST

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Al Gore Hits Bottom, Digs

Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 7:24:03 pm PST

Al Gore, former vice president of the United States, in Saudi Arabia: Gore Laments U.S. ‘Abuses’ Against Arabs. JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia - Former Vice President Al Gore told a mainly Saudi audience on Sunday that the U.S. government committed “terrible abuses” against Arabs after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and that ...

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French Retail Chain Passes Islamic Test

Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 7:00:31 pm PST

French retail giant Carrefour is submitting to the demands of radical Islam. (Hat tip: zulubaby.) And of course, denying it at the same time: French retailer denies it ordered Danish boycott.

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Cycle of Violence: The Punishment Never Stops

Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 6:21:47 pm PST

Today’s ride: 52.73 miles, south into the wilds of Palos Verdes, on a beautiful Southern California summer day. What? It’s not summer? Tell that to my sunburn. That PV ride is packed with long rolling hills that can really hurt you, especially if you did 50 miles the previous day, ...

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Why Is Georgetown Providing a Platform for a Pro-Terrorist Group?

Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 5:38:34 pm PST

It’s kind of a surprise to see the Washington Post (who recently let their paper be used by a deported terrorist to spread Hamas propaganda) publish this hard-hitting op-ed by Eric Adler and Jack Langer on the terror-supporting hate group known as the Palestine Solidarity Movement (lgf: search), scheduled to ...

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Western Weakness Watch

Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 4:12:25 pm PST

The president of Ireland is in Saudi Arabia, condemning the publication of the dreaded cartoons of blasphemy: Irish president condemns Prophet cartoons, violence. RIYADH (Reuters) - Irish President Mary McAleese on Sunday condemned the publication of cartoons depicting Prophet Mohammad but said violence was unacceptable as a way of protesting. “We abhor ...

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Arab Company May Run East Coast Ports

Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 3:06:53 pm PST

Great. Just great. Arab Biz May Run NYC port. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) The city’s ports, considered a major target of terrorists, are about to be taken over by a firm based in the United Arab Emirates, a country with financial links to the Sept. 11 hijackers. Dubai Ports World is set ...

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Leftist Lie of the Day

Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 2:43:59 pm PST

In a deadly dull semi-coherent rant about “Bush followers,” Glenn Greenwald (who describes himself as a champion of free speech) ineptly attempts to smear LGF: The rhetoric of Bush followers is routinely comprised of these sorts of sentiments dressed up in political language – accusations that domestic political opponents are subversives ...

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Sunday Morning Open Thread

Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 8:59:39 am PST

Here’s an open thread for a sunny Sunday... (unless you’re on the east coast, that is...)

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Notre Dame Expert: Cartoon Jihad Has Nothing to Do with Islam

Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 8:30:54 am PST

Huge crowds turned out in Turkey to scream and vent their rage and throw rocks at the French (a pretty safe pastime): Tens of thousands in Turkish protests at Mohammed cartoons. ISTANBUL (AFP) - Tens of thousands of Turks have rallied in protests against the publication of cartoons of the Prophet ...

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Muslim Association of Britain's Terror Links

Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 8:18:07 am PST

About those “moderate” Muslims who demonstrated against the Danish cartoons in London yesterday: Terror link of ‘moderate’ Muslims at London rally. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) The Muslim campaigners behind a mass rally in Trafalgar Square today have close links to Islamic terror groups, the Daily Mail can reveal. Despite promoting itself as ...

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First Cartoons, Now Graffiti

Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 8:11:48 am PST

The Agence France Presse headline screams: Settlers scrawl Mohammed insults on West Bank mosque. And the first line asserts this as a fact. NABI ALYAS, West Bank (AFP) - Hundreds of Palestinians have staged demonstrations in villages in the northern West Bank after hardline Jewish settlers scrawled insults against the Prophet Mohammed ...

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Steyn: Toon-Deaf Europe

Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 8:02:45 am PST

Mark Steyn, brilliantly on-target again: Toon-deaf Europe is taking the wrong stand. When Samuel Huntington formulated his famous “clash of civilizations” thesis, I’m sure he hoped it would play out as something nobler than shaggers vs. nutters. But in a sense that’s the core British value these days. If it’s inherent ...

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Saturday, February 11, 2006

Mosque Leader Praises London Bombers

Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 9:18:09 pm PST

Bravo to the Sunday Times for the kind of investigative work most mainstream media is afraid to do: British imam praises London Tube bombers. A LEADING imam in the mosque where the July 7 bombers worshipped has hailed their terrorist attack on London as a “good” act in a secretly taped ...

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A Lesson in Hate

Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 6:40:09 pm PST

Here’s an excellent piece at Smithsonian Magazine by David Von Drehle, about a man most Americans have never heard of—Sayyid Qutb (lgf: search), the foremost ideologue of radical Islam and violent jihad, whose seminal work Milestones has been called the “Islamic Mein Kampf:” A Lesson In Hate. (Hat tip: The ...

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Cycle of Violence: Fifty Mile Haze

Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 6:23:52 pm PST

Today’s ride: 50.62 miles, on a beautiful day with a touch of foggy haze hugging the coast of the South Bay, keeping the temperature slightly on the cool side. Stopped at a bike shop and talked to their service guy about replacing the drivetrain on the Cycle of Violence, worn ...

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Iran's Manhattan Project Gaining Speed

Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 4:03:39 pm PST

The International Atomic Energy Agency has removed their surveillance equipment from Iran’s nuclear sites: Iran Leader Threatens New Nuclear Policy. TEHRAN, Iran - Iran’s hard-line president threatened to revise his policy of working within international atomic frameworks, as diplomats in Europe said the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency had stripped most of ...

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Ahmadinejad: Israel 'Will Be Removed'

Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 3:48:38 pm PST

The evil throwback who rules Iran was spewing more racist hate speech today, at a mass demonstration where spectators chanted “Death to America,” “Death to Israel,” and “Nuclear energy is our undisputable right:” Ahmadinejad: Israel ‘will be removed’. Tehran (dpa) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Saturday that the Palestinians ...

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Islamic Rage, Western Weakness

Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 2:39:18 pm PST

It’s a day of Islamic rage, all over Europe. Appeasement has gotten Europe nothing—no good will, no forgiveness, only more rage—but Tony Blair is still at it: Muslims rally in Europe as worldwide cartoon protests rage on. PARIS (AFP) - Muslims are set to rally across Europe to vent their anger ...

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Saturday Morning Open

Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 9:15:12 am PST

Atlas Shrugs is a year old today! Happy blogoversary, Pamela. And this might as well be the Saturday open thread...

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BBC: A "Rally Against Islamophobia"

Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 8:54:40 am PST

The BBC has photos from today’s anti-cartoon, anti-freedom Islamic demonstration in London; but they have a rather different description of the event: Pro-Islam protests. And the description provided in their RSS feed makes the BBC’s sympathies even clearer: Images of the rally against Islamophobia in London’s Trafalgar Square. UPDATE at 2/11/06 9:00:18 ...

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Our Friends the Saudis

Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 8:32:24 am PST

Apologies are not good enough, according to one of the top Islamic clerics in the world, in the heart of Islam’s “holiest” site. The cartoonists must be put on trial, convicted (a foregone conclusion), and severely punished. And then we must enact laws to prevent any further blasphemy: Saudi Cleric ...

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Japan Appeases, Muslims Still Threatening

Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 8:18:53 am PST

Riding Sun reports that the Egyptian Ambassador to Japan has issued a not-very-veiled threat against Japan if the cartoons are published there: Attacks like the ones on the Danish embassies in Syria and Lebanon last weekend could take place in Japan if the media here insult Muslims by reprinting cartoons depicting ...

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Islamist Writer: "Western Leaders Cringing and Begging"

Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 8:08:30 am PST

The cowardly appeasement and self-abasement of Western leaders and media in the face of Islamic threats and intimidation over the Danish cartoons has not gone unnoticed by Islamists—and it bodes very ill for the future: Modernity and protests by Muslims. (Hat tip: David.) The cartoons were transmitted world-wide via a network ...

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Friday, February 10, 2006

PJ Profile: Mark Coffey

Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 9:45:34 pm PST

Our featured blogger at the Pajamas Media Information Site tonight is Mark Coffey of Decision '08.

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Friday Night Bricks

Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 9:42:24 pm PST

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Jackson Persona Non Grata in Bahrain

Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 9:01:50 pm PST

The Prince of Bahrain is fed up with the Imam of Pop: Jacko Kicked Out, Cut Off by Arab Prince. Today will be the seventh week in a row that employees at Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch have not received paychecks. And now I have really bad news for them: Jackson has been ...

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Dutch PM Cowers, Renounces Hirsi Ali

Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 8:05:14 pm PST

The Prime Minister of the Netherlands made it very clear today that he wishes Islam critic Ayaan Hirsi Ali would just go away. AMSTERDAM — Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende said on Friday he did not think much of the contribution of outspoken MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali to the debate about ...

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The Mohammed Dance

Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 7:57:33 pm PST

Like the hamster dance, but with 100% more blasphemy: Mohammed Dance. (Hat tip: Kesher Talk.)

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The Return of the Claw

Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 7:22:13 pm PST

It’s the return of the giant metal claw:

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Pajamas Goes for the Gold

Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 5:50:06 pm PST

Pajamas Media has a new blog covering the Torino Olympics as they happen: Gold Rush.

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Muslim Protest Photo Gallery

Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 5:19:53 pm PST

The Jawa Report has a photo gallery of the Danish cartoon protests, in more than a dozen countries around the globe. Really brings home the extent of this cosmic temper tantrum.

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RoP Attacks in Russia

Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 4:00:14 pm PST

Islamic terrorists in the southern region of Stavropol are fighting gun battles with Russian police; Russia’s Itar-Tass (not the most reliable of sources) says the “militants” were planning to seize a school. STAVROPOL, February 10 (Itar-Tass) - A police officer died of his wounds after the operation to destroy militants in ...

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Cartoon Jihad is Winning

Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 11:08:01 am PST

The real reason behind the suppression of the Danish cartoons is becoming appallingly clear, as a British political magazine publishes and then un-publishes them: Political magazine pulls cartoon after police warning. The reason is fear. Politics magazine the Liberal has followed the Spectator in publishing then hastily withdrawing from its website one ...

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Prayers of Dominance and Submission

Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 8:00:13 am PST

Around the world, Muslims are being incited to vent their rage and assert their dominance over the West, at “traditional Friday prayers:” Seething protests around world over Mohammed cartoons. KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - Thousands of Muslims have vented their anger in seething protests around the world over satirical caricatures of the ...

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Krauthammer: Not Moderates, But Hypocrites

Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 7:55:23 am PST

Charles Krauthammer dispenses the straight truth about Muslim “moderates” who share the goals and ideology of the radicals: Curse of the Moderates. What passes for moderation in the Islamic community — “I share your rage but don’t torch that embassy” — is nothing of the sort. It is simply a cynical ...

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Putin Knifes Israel in the Back

Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 7:33:49 am PST

Israeli officials react to Vladimir Putin’s disgusting decision to invite the bloody-handed terror gang Hamas to visit Moscow: Putin Hamas invite ‘knife in the back’: Israel. JERUSALEM (AFP) - Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to invite leaders of the Islamist group Hamas to Moscow is a “knife in the back” for ...

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Danish Cartoon Editor on "Indefinite Leave"

Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 7:26:26 am PST

Europe is caving in to the global cartoon jihad: Cartoons editor sent on leave. The Danish editor at the centre of the prophet caricature furore has been sent on indefinite leave after a disagreement with management about whether their newspaper should also print cartoons of the Holocaust. Flemming Rose, the culture editor ...

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RoP Still Raging

Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 7:15:03 am PST

From Malaysia to Belgium to South Africa, the Religion of Peace™ is burning flags, marching in the streets, and threatening those who refuse to submit: Muslims Offended by Danish Cartoons on Yahoo! News Photos.

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AP Continues to Lie About Niger Uranium

Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 7:08:06 am PST

The Associated Press is lying again about Niger, moonbat ambassador Joseph Wilson, and the President’s State of the Union speech; Rand Simberg corrects the record, but these people are absolutely relentless.

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Swedish Government Surrenders to Islam

Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 7:05:02 am PST

The Swedish government has completely knuckled under to radical Islam: Sweden shuts website over cartoon. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) The Swedish government has moved to shut down the website of a far-right political party’s newspaper over cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. The site’s host, Levonline, pulled the plug on the website of ...

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Thursday, February 09, 2006

CAIR vs. Free Speech

Thu, Feb 9, 2006 at 8:17:29 pm PST

The Radio Equalizer has updates on radical Islamic front group CAIR’s vendetta against KFI talk show host Bill Handel: Questions Remain About Spat Between Talk Host, Fringe Islamic Group.

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Daily Illini Publishes the Dreaded Cartoons of Blasphemy

Thu, Feb 9, 2006 at 7:54:13 pm PST

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s student newspaper the Daily Illini has published the Danish Mohammed cartoons, showing the guts that most of America’s mainstream media lack: Cartoons as published in the Danish Jyllands-Posten. As you might expect, they’re coming under a lot of fire for this decision; The Next ...

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Tampa Jihadi Olympics

Thu, Feb 9, 2006 at 7:36:53 pm PST

The Muslim American Society is sponsoring a sporting event for kids in Tampa, Florida—and Joe Kaufman points out that this group is an arm of the Muslim Brotherhood, with an “e-library” full of jihad literature: Tampa Jihadi Olympics. (Hat tip: SoCalJustice.) Regarding jihad, one can view the following quotes in MAS-Tampa’s ...

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Radical Islamic Role Model

Thu, Feb 9, 2006 at 6:41:30 pm PST

Hook and a hooker. (Hat tip: Beautiful Atrocities.) HOOK-handed cleric Abu Hamza cheated on his first wife with a HOOKER, The Sun can reveal. And it was the fall-out from his fling that transformed terrorist “recruiting sergeant” Hamza — jailed for seven years yesterday — into a religious fanatic. Jurors at his Old ...

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Is "Old Europe" Doomed?

Thu, Feb 9, 2006 at 5:34:35 pm PST

Here’s a bracing dose of clarity from Theodore Dalrymple, at Cato Unbound: Is “Old Europe” Doomed? (Hat tip: LGF readers.) The late Professor Joad, a popularizer of philosophy rather than a philosopher in the true sense, used to preface his answer to any question by saying, “It depends on what you ...

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Hamas Plays Good Cop

Thu, Feb 9, 2006 at 5:13:10 pm PST

This is what passes for realpolitik in the world of radical Islam: Hamas joins call for calm in cartoon row. DOHA (AFP) - The radical Palestinian group Hamas joined voices for calm in the international furore sparked by cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, as a Taliban commander in Afghanistan said 100 ...

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The LA Shoe Bomb Plot

Thu, Feb 9, 2006 at 4:20:03 pm PST

We finally know the reason why TSA screeners are still asking airline passengers to take their shoes off: President Bush Says Cooperation Thwarted 2002 Attack. He said that Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks who was captured in 2003, had already begun planning the West Coast ...

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"Buy Danish" Campaign is Working

Thu, Feb 9, 2006 at 4:15:22 pm PST

Judith A. Klinghoffer reports that the “Buy Danish” campaign, started on a completely ad hoc basis by blogs (including LGF), is making a real economic difference. A translation of an article from Danish paper Jyllands-Posten: Buy Danish campaign exploding on the Internet On Google more than 100.000 pages is the result when ...

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100,000 Angry Muslims in London

Thu, Feb 9, 2006 at 7:55:07 am PST

Britain’s Muslim Action Committee is promising that more than 100,000 angry Muslims will turn out in London this weekend to vent their rage over the dreaded cartoons of blasphemy. A mass demonstration of 100,000 Muslims will take place in London next weekend as anger continues over publication of cartoons of the ...

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Putin: Hamas is Not a Terrorist Group

Thu, Feb 9, 2006 at 7:36:19 am PST

Disgusting behavior from Vladimir Putin: Putin says will invite Hamas leaders to Russia. The Russian apparatus is apparently still defining itself by opposition to the West—even if it means alliances with enemies of civilization. “Maintaining our contacts with Hamas, we are ready in the near future to invite the Hamas authorities to ...

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CSM: Muslim Americans "Split"

Thu, Feb 9, 2006 at 7:30:37 am PST

This article from the Christian Science Monitor says, “Muslim Americans split on cartoons.” But read the whole thing and you’ll discover that the only “split” is between those who want the cartoonists executed, and those who might be satisfied with an abject apology. NEW YORK - Muhammed Zahny is upset - and ...

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Spineless EU Rushes to Surrender

Thu, Feb 9, 2006 at 7:10:58 am PST

The European Union is rushing to appease the Religion of Peace™, proposing a “media code of conduct” that will prevent any further dangerous outbreaks of freedom of speech: EU mulls media code after cartoon protests. LONDON (Reuters) - The European Union may try to draw up a media code of conduct ...

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RoP Still Raging

Thu, Feb 9, 2006 at 6:53:58 am PST

Today we have more infantile murderous rhetoric from the leader of the Hizballah terror gang, who says “we are a nation that can’t forgive,” and tells Condoleezza Rice and President Bush to “shut up.” (Hat tip: LGF readers.) BEIRUT, Lebanon - Hundreds of thousands of Shiite Muslims transformed a religious ...

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Wednesday, February 08, 2006

Wednesday Night Mast

Wed, Feb 8, 2006 at 8:48:26 pm PST

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Fighting Hate With Humor

Wed, Feb 8, 2006 at 8:00:51 pm PST

Israeli kids fight back against the Cartoon Jihad—with humor. (Hat tip: bjqt.) The World Union of Jewish Students in conjunction with editorial cartoonists, Edward Margolis and Noah Crissey, has announced an International Editorial Cartoon Competition for students called “Fight Hate with Humor.” Inspired by an Iranian contest where students around the world ...

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Angry Cartoon Protesters In State of Rage

Wed, Feb 8, 2006 at 7:52:18 pm PST

Cartoon Protesters Direct Anger at US. QALAT, Afghanistan - Police killed four people Wednesday as Afghans enraged over drawings of the Prophet Muhammad marched on a U.S. military base in a volatile southern province, directing their anger not against Europe but America. The U.S. base was targeted because the United States “is ...

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International Observers Bail Out

Wed, Feb 8, 2006 at 7:21:07 pm PST

Palestinian mobs in the grip of Cartoon Hysteria have driven away some of their best friends: International Observers Leave Hebron. HEBRON, West Bank - In the most violent Palestinian protest yet against cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad, crowds smashed windows and threw stones Wednesday at the headquarters of international observers, prompting ...

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Islamic Rage Jumps the Shark

Wed, Feb 8, 2006 at 6:32:42 pm PST

More Islamic rage, unrelated to the cartoon jihad: Copies of Koran found lying in a drain in Pakistan. Lahore, February 8: At least 3,000 protesters enraged by the alleged desecration of the Koran clashed with police and torched two cinemas in Pakistan’s second largest city Lahore, police said on Wednesday. The city, ...

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Marzook: Hamas Will Not Recognize Israel

Wed, Feb 8, 2006 at 5:18:09 pm PST

Leading Hamas terrorist Mousa Abu Marzook, last seen as a columnist in the Washington Post, repeated his absolute rejection of Israel’s right to exist again this week. Who is Marzook (sometimes spelled Marzouk)? In a very real sense, he’s one of the grandfathers of CAIR. Mousa Abu Marzook was deported from the ...

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PJ Profile: Orrin Judd

Wed, Feb 8, 2006 at 4:57:09 pm PST

We’re resuming our blogger bios at the Pajamas Media Information Site, and we’re currently featuring Orrin Judd of the excellent BrothersJudd Blog.

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Mohammed Cartoons in Egyptian Paper - October 2005

Wed, Feb 8, 2006 at 12:21:26 pm PST

Egyptian Sandmonkey has scanned images of Egyptian newspaper Al Faqr—who published the infamous cartoons of blasphemy last October, at the height of Ramadan, in the heart of the Islamic world, with not a single squeak of outrage. (Hat tip: Solomonia.)

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Top Islamic Cleric: "We Must Rage"

Wed, Feb 8, 2006 at 12:09:25 pm PST

Courtesy of MEMRI TV, here’s a film clip from Qatar TV, aired on February 3, 2006, of Sheik Yousef Al-Qaradhawi (often described as a “moderate” cleric) ranting, shrieking, threatening, and citing Holocaust denier Roger Garaudy: [Video] Sheik Yousef Al-Qaradhawi: The nation must rage in anger. It is told that Imam Al-Shafi’ said: ...

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KFI, Handel Cave to CAIR

Wed, Feb 8, 2006 at 11:15:50 am PST

In January, radio host Bill Handel was attacked by the Council on American-Islamic Relations for a comedy bit about this year’s Mecca stampede. At first, Handel and his station KFI seemed to be standing up to the radical Islamic front group: lgf: Handel Fires Back at CAIR. Today they caved in: ...

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The Lying Danish Imams

Wed, Feb 8, 2006 at 11:01:46 am PST

The cartoon jihad was not purely a spontaneous outbreak of Islamic rage, as we’ve noted in several LGF posts; it was deliberately incited by a delegation of Danish Muslims who toured the Middle East and met with many of the highest Islamic clerics, showing them faked images in addition to ...

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The Women of Ashoura

Wed, Feb 8, 2006 at 10:27:45 am PST

Muslim men in many parts of the world are engaging in the blood ritual known as Ashoura, flagellating and cutting themselves in bizarre public displays of religious frenzy. The women carry the swords. More photos here. UPDATE at 2/8/06 10:36:03 am: An oldie but a not-so-goodie from two years ago: a man beating himself ...

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NYT Runs Elephant Dung Mary Picture

Wed, Feb 8, 2006 at 9:20:17 am PST

The New York Times won’t print the Danish cartoons of Mohammed, out of sensitivity to Muslim readers. But they don’t hesitate to reach back seven years and publish the picture of the Virgin Mary made out of elephant dung: A Startling New Lesson in the Power of Imagery. (Hat tip: ...

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We're Back and We're Proud

Wed, Feb 8, 2006 at 9:01:36 am PST

The server upgrade is completed and the DNS change is propagated, and it looks like we’re back in business after several hours of downtime. Here’s an open thread while I get settled in the new house. UPDATE at 2/8/06 9:24:09 am: As I write this, we have close to 4,000 visitors online, ...

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Tuesday, February 07, 2006

An Evident Cultural Cringe

Tue, Feb 7, 2006 at 7:24:09 pm PST

BBC site guilty of ‘cringeing’. (Hat tip: Van Impe.) The BBC said last night that it would review a religious website after being accused by a former head of the corporation of an “evident cultural cringe” in a section on Islam. Will Wyatt, the chief executive for three years until 1999, examined ...

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Hamas Will Demonstrate Realism

Tue, Feb 7, 2006 at 6:44:40 pm PST

The latest Hamas talking point: Hamas supremo pledges realism. CAIRO (AFP) - The hardline movement Hamas talked of realism and flexibility as it kicked off an international tour in Cairo aimed at mustering support and preparing to form the next Palestinian government. “I am convinced that thanks to our meetings in Arab ...

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Islamic Supremacism on Parade

Tue, Feb 7, 2006 at 4:17:31 pm PST

These pictures are not Photoshopped. In Pakistan: In Indonesia, the showcase “moderate” Islamic state: The sign above reads: “A Muslim’s faith is above Western values.”

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Abu Hamza Mosque: A Terror Arsenal

Tue, Feb 7, 2006 at 4:11:07 pm PST

Abu Hamza, the hook-handed freakazoid imam from the UK’s Finsbury Park mosque, has been convicted on “race hate” charges. And now that his trial’s over, British police have revealed what they found when they raided the mosque: Terrorist weapons were seized in raid. Britain has a big problem. Police risked offending delicate ...

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Monster Traffic Thread 2

Tue, Feb 7, 2006 at 3:42:53 pm PST

We’ve been getting hit so hard with search requests and links from all over the world that smoke is beginning to come out of the server room at Hosting Matters. But I’ve gotten some very good news—there’s a solution on the way. We’re moving to a faster server with more ...

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Ayaan Hirsi Ali: "Everyone is Afraid to Criticize Islam"

Tue, Feb 7, 2006 at 9:04:53 am PST

Dutch MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a woman with an Islamic death sentence hanging over her head, speaks to Germany’s Spiegel Online: SPIEGEL Interview with Ayaan Hirsi Ali: ‘Everyone Is Afraid to Criticize Islam’. (Hat tip: Ethel.) Hirsi Ali: That’s exactly the reflex I was just talking about: offering the other cheek. ...

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London Mayor: Palestinian State is the Answer to the Munich Massacre

Tue, Feb 7, 2006 at 8:53:49 am PST

Here’s one of the more vile statements made by London mayor “Red” Ken Livingstone, who says the way to commemorate the Munich massacre is to give Palestinians a state “without barriers.” (Hat tip: Pooh.) London Mayor Ken Livingstone rarely misses an opportunity to criticize Israel. His latest verbal hostility towards the Jewish ...

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Iran Leader: Cartoons Are a "Zionist Conspiracy"

Tue, Feb 7, 2006 at 8:42:03 am PST

In his latest display of mental illness, Iran’s “supreme leader,” the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, says the Danish cartoons are a Zionist conspiracy. Iran’s supreme leader on Tuesday accused Western newspapers of an Israeli conspiracy for publishing caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told Iranian air force personnel the drawings were ...

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Danish Imams Busted!

Tue, Feb 7, 2006 at 8:31:30 am PST

One of the pictures displayed around the Middle East by a Danish Islamic group seeking to whip up anti-infidel rage supposedly showed Mohammed as “a pig.” Neandernews has discovered the source for this picture—and it has nothing to do with Mohammed: Danish Imams Busted! Amazing.

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Stop the ISM

Tue, Feb 7, 2006 at 8:27:20 am PST

Here’s a new web site designed to blow the whistle on the terrorist-enabling group known as the International Solidarity Movement: Stop The ISM.

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NSA Hearings at Pajamas Media

Tue, Feb 7, 2006 at 8:12:59 am PST

Today at Pajamas Media’s NSA Files blog, we have an extended video segment from the NSA hearings, featuring an interview with Debra Burlingame, sister of Charles Burlingame, the pilot of hijacked Flight 77. Also, Paul Mirengoff of Power Line has a rather heated exchange with Ted Kennedy and Dick Durbin. ...

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Monday, February 06, 2006

Iran's Holocaust Cartoons

Mon, Feb 6, 2006 at 9:26:36 pm PST

The Iranian regime responds to the Mohammed cartoon controversy, by holding a contest to find the “best” Holocaust denial cartoons from the Islamic world: Iranian paper runs Holocaust contest. Iran’s biggest-selling newspaper has chosen to tackle the West’s ideals of “freedom of expression” by launching a competition to find the 12 ...

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Tehran Protest Rally

Mon, Feb 6, 2006 at 3:49:56 pm PST

Associated Press writer Nasser Karimi says, “Hundreds in Iran Protest Muhammad Drawings.” “Protest,” in this case, meaning to throw rocks and firebombs. TEHRAN, Iran - Hundreds of angry protesters hurled stones and fire bombs at the Danish Embassy in the Iranian capital Monday to protest publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad. ...

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RoP Complaint Box

Mon, Feb 6, 2006 at 2:43:01 pm PST

Leave a Message in the Anonymous Muslim Man Complaint Box. (Hat tip: Jim Treacher.)

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Danish Embassy in Tehran Attacked

Mon, Feb 6, 2006 at 1:29:12 pm PST

The cartoon jihad has spread to Iran, where a mob of raging Muslims firebombed the Danish embassy in Tehran: Protesters besiege Danish embassy in Tehran. TEHRAN (Reuters) - A crowd of about 400 demonstrators threw petrol bombs at the Danish embassy in Tehran and tried to break into it on Monday ...

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The NSA Files

Mon, Feb 6, 2006 at 12:55:28 pm PST

At Pajamas Media we’ve set up a special blog to cover the NSA hearings that start today; currently featured is a video by Andrew Marcus and Paul Mirengoff of Powerline, confronting Sen. Dick Durbin—who seems a bit confused about this whole ‘pajamas’ thing: NSA Files.

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Radical Cleric: Cartoonist Should Be Executed

Mon, Feb 6, 2006 at 11:33:10 am PST

Omar Bakri Mohammed, who resided in the UK until shortly after the July 7 bombings, says the Danish cartoonist(s) should be given a fair trial under shari’a law and then executed. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Omar Bakri Mohammed, the radical Muslim cleric, has said the cartoonist behind caricatures of the Prophet ...

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Monday Monster Traffic Thread

Mon, Feb 6, 2006 at 10:48:09 am PST

You may have noticed that LGF is, er, sluggish today. That’s because our server’s getting slammed with a monstrous amount of traffic this morning; it’s not a denial of service attack, according to our host, but legitimate traffic. So to try to ameliorate the situation, I’ve turned off some of ...

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Leftist Warmonger Rant of the Day

Mon, Feb 6, 2006 at 8:09:09 am PST

(We’re getting absolutely hammered with traffic this morning, and the site is very sluggish.) Riding Sun notices a rant at Eschaton by our pal Duncan Black (Atrios): Certainly an Iran-with-nukes could blow the hell out of a city or two, but an Iran that did such a thing would pretty much cease ...

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Sunday, February 05, 2006

Cartoon Jihad in New Zealand

Sun, Feb 5, 2006 at 9:02:31 pm PST

Hundreds of angry Muslims in Auckland: Cartoon rage spreads to New Zealand. New Zealand became the latest nation unwillingly drawn in at the weekend, after two newspapers ran the cartoons in a move likely to cost the country its $NZ100 million ($A92 million) sheep trade with Iran. ... Tim Pankhurst, editor of ...

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Catholic Priest Murdered in Turkey

Sun, Feb 5, 2006 at 8:21:10 pm PST

Catholic Priest Shot, Killed at Church in Turkey. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) ANKARA, Turkey — A teenage boy shot and killed the Italian Roman Catholic priest of a church in the Black Sea port city of Trabzon on Sunday, shouting “God is great” [“Allahu akbar!” —ed.] as he escaped, according to ...

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The Infidel Bloggers Alliance Mohammed Cartoon Contest

Sun, Feb 5, 2006 at 7:06:54 pm PST

Hey, kids! It’s The Infidel Bloggers Alliance Mohammed Cartoon Contest! (Enter early to avoid the fatwas. Local laws regarding free speech may apply.)

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Hamas Leader: Recognizing Israel Was a Mistake

Sun, Feb 5, 2006 at 3:30:01 pm PST

Leading Hamas terrorist Mousa Abu Marzook, last seen as a columnist in the Washington Post, told reporters in Cairo that the Palestinian Authority’s recognition of Israel under the Oslo Accords was a mistake. Senior Hamas member Musa Abu Marzuk described the Palestinian Authority’s recognition of Israel as “an error, which can ...

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Palestinian Knife Attack Kills One, Wounds Five

Sun, Feb 5, 2006 at 1:08:13 pm PST

If there’s anything good about this latest appalling incident of Palestinian terrorism, it’s that the murderer wasn’t wearing an explosive belt: Palestinian stabs Israeli to death, wounds five. JERUSALEM (AFP) - One Israeli has been killed and another five injured after being stabbed on a minibus in Petah Tikva near Tel ...

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Religion of Tolerance

Sun, Feb 5, 2006 at 12:44:30 pm PST

From Filibuster Cartoons, via zombie’s Mohammed Image Archive.

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The Enemy Within

Sun, Feb 5, 2006 at 12:12:33 pm PST

The socialist cretins at World Can’t Wait held an “impeachment” rally yesterday in Washington DC, but some of these lovely people think impeachment doesn’t go far enough: World Can’t Wait February 4. (Hat tip: Robin.)

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Bethlehem Christians Whistling in the Dark

Sun, Feb 5, 2006 at 11:57:13 am PST

Bethlehem Christians fear for future under Hamas. BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AFP) - The shrinking Christian population of Bethlehem is struggling to conceal its fears for the future after the victory for Islamists of Hamas in the Palestinian general election. The blue skies of a perfect Sunday morning in the birthplace of ...

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The Consequences of Sensitivity

Sun, Feb 5, 2006 at 11:22:18 am PST

Stand back, because Mark Steyn is on fire: ‘Sensitivity’ can have brutal consequences. One day, years from now, as archaeologists sift through the ruins of an ancient civilization for clues to its downfall, they’ll marvel at how easy it all was. You don’t need to fly jets into skyscrapers and kill ...

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Pathetic Leftist Post of the Day

Sun, Feb 5, 2006 at 11:08:23 am PST

Steve Gilliard welcomes his new Muslim overlords. (Hat tip: Link Mecca.) This is the same guy who did a Photoshop of Michael Steele as Sambo, now preaching about respecting other people’s sensitivities.

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Australian Cleric: We Wouldn't Want Anything to Happen to Your Nice Little Country

Sun, Feb 5, 2006 at 11:04:46 am PST

A warning to Australian media, from the general secretary of the Board of Imams of Victoria: Don’t reprint cartoons: Sheik. A senior Islamic cleric has called on Australia’s media not to publish the cartoons which have sparked riots across the Muslim world. Sheik Fehmi El-Imam, the general secretary of the Board of ...

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RoP Strikes in Southern Philippines

Sun, Feb 5, 2006 at 10:38:11 am PST

Gunmen kill 6 people in southern Philippines. (Hat tip: Ringo.) MANILA, Feb 3 (Reuters) - At least six people were killed on Friday when gunmen opened fire at a Christian home on a mainly Muslim island in the southern Philippines, an army general said. Brigadier-General Alexander Aleo, an army commander, said the ...

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CNN: Craven Hypocrites

Sun, Feb 5, 2006 at 10:10:20 am PST

CNN has been accompanying every story about the cartoon jihad with the boilerplate message: CNN has chosen to not show the cartoons out of respect for Islam. But they apparently have no such “respect” for Christianity; they didn’t hesitate for a second to show this image of the virgin Mary made ...

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More Lies from Danish Imams

Sun, Feb 5, 2006 at 10:00:58 am PST

Western media are missing a huge story in the Danish cartoon madness—the revelation that this insanity was deliberately incited by a group of Danish Muslims, led by Copenhagen imam Abu Laban, who toured the Middle East in December and showed fabricated cartoons that never appeared in Jyllands-Posten. The Counterterrorism Blog ...

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We're All Danish Now

Sun, Feb 5, 2006 at 9:34:21 am PST

Remember to buy Danish goods, to show your support for free speech against the insane rampaging mobs; here’s a list of Danish products: End the boycott.

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Arab European League Cartoon Campaign

Sun, Feb 5, 2006 at 9:27:47 am PST

The European fifth column jihad group calling itself the Arab European League has hit on a way to respond to the Danish cartoons of Mohammed—they’ll publish sick anti-Jewish cartoons on their web site. (Hat tip: LGF readers.)

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The Hatred That Can't Be Suppressed

Sun, Feb 5, 2006 at 9:20:31 am PST

Muslims in Turkey respond to the Danish cartoons with open expressions of Jew-hatred.

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Cartoon Jihad Violence Spreads

Sun, Feb 5, 2006 at 9:05:09 am PST

The seething and screaming and torching continues to spread, as a Muslim mob attacks the Danish embassy in Beirut: Danish consulate in Beirut ablaze. (CNN) — Islamic anger over newspaper cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed continues to spread internationally, with thousands of protesters rallying while some of their number torched the ...

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Saturday, February 04, 2006

"The Black Standard-Bearer of Islam in Europe"

Sat, Feb 4, 2006 at 9:04:28 pm PST

The Islamic assassin who butchered Dutch filmmaker Theo Van Gogh on an Amsterdam street, Mohammed Bouyeri, says the prophet justifies his deed. AMSTERDAM, 03/02/06 - The prophet Mohammed justifies Islamic violence in the battle between the faithful and unfaithful. Paradise awaits the faithful who die as a result, Mohammed Bouyeri claimed ...

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Get Yer Danish Cartoons Here

Sat, Feb 4, 2006 at 6:47:14 pm PST

Here’s another source where you can view the dread cartoons of blasphemy, at Human Events Online.

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Where Did All the Danish Flags Come From?

Sat, Feb 4, 2006 at 6:45:28 pm PST

An excellent point by Charles Moore, who wonders why there were suddenly so many Danish flags ready to be torched in Islamic nations: If you get rid of the Danes, you’ll have to keep paying the Danegeld. It’s some time since I visited Palestine, so I may be out of date, ...

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Danish Queen: "We Have to Show Our Opposition to Islam"

Sat, Feb 4, 2006 at 3:06:55 pm PST

Last year Queen Margrethe II of Denmark said, “We must show our opposition to Islam.” In overtly political passages from an official biography published yesterday Queen Margrethe makes comments certain to complicate her nation’s relationship with Muslims. She said: “We are being challenged by Islam these years - globally as well as ...

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Editorial Meeting at the Dhimmi Times

Sat, Feb 4, 2006 at 2:45:22 pm PST

From Jawa Report.

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Meanwhile, Back at the Front

Sat, Feb 4, 2006 at 1:59:28 pm PST

Greyhawk’s weekly compilation of news from the war in Iraq is up at Mudville Gazette.

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It's In The Koran

Sat, Feb 4, 2006 at 1:38:14 pm PST

[Video] About the song: It’s In The Koran, by ‘Patrick Henry.’ From the author: Commenters have argued that the Koran doesn’t say what this song claims the Koran says. To everyone who holds this view, I answer - and this is very important, so I’ll be stating it again below - that I ...

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Security Council Springs into Action

Sat, Feb 4, 2006 at 12:26:25 pm PST

The matter of Iran’s Manhattan Project has been referred to the UN Security Council, who want to let it sit until oh, about March, at which point they’ll discuss the possibility of having meetings to work toward a decision on whether or not to issue a strongly worded ...

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Democracy in a Cartoon

Sat, Feb 4, 2006 at 12:10:48 pm PST

Muslim apostate writer Ibn Warraq defends the West: Democracy in a Cartoon. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) The great British philosopher John Stuart Mill wrote in On Liberty, “Strange it is, that men should admit the validity of the arguments for free discussion, but object to their being ‘pushed to an extreme’; ...

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Muslim Holocaust Denial = Free Speech

Sat, Feb 4, 2006 at 11:19:19 am PST

Irrational hatred leads to twisted cognitive dissonance: What Would Jesus Do? (Hat tip: PirateBallerina.) Where are the pictures of the dead soldiers, the dead women and children in the Western media? Some governments won’t allow it and other media outlets just fear the backlash. When I need journalistic honesty, I have ...

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Danish Muslims Threaten Violence if Koran is Burned

Sat, Feb 4, 2006 at 10:55:37 am PST

At the radical Islamic propaganda center IslamOnline.com, we learn of a Danish nationalist group’s plans to burn a Koran at a rally: Danish Muslims Warn of Burning Qur’an in Planned Rally. (Hat tip: Link Mecca.) CAIRO, February 4, 2006 (IslamOnline.net) – Danish Muslim leaders warned on Saturday, February 4, of grave ...

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Our Friends the Saudis

Sat, Feb 4, 2006 at 10:38:17 am PST

Our friends the Saudis are at the forefront of the effort to whip up the faithful: Cartoons Infused Muslims With a Spirit of Defiance. JEDDAH, 4 February 2006 — An influential imam of the Grand Mosque in Makkah proclaimed a new spirit of defiance among Muslims after worldwide protests over cartoons ...

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Scenes of Peace and Tolerance

Sat, Feb 4, 2006 at 10:36:02 am PST

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Why Muslims Are So Sensitive

Sat, Feb 4, 2006 at 9:42:22 am PST

At The Scotsman, a spokesman (definitely not a spokeswoman) for the Muslim Council of Britain explains Why Muslims are so sensitive to images of Prophet being used. It’s simple, really. But, on the whole, Muslims do not like photographs or idols. Veneration starts from the photographs and causes idolatry. It will never change ...

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Religion of Peace Gets Busy

Sat, Feb 4, 2006 at 9:05:21 am PST

Thousands of angry Syrian demonstrators storm the Danish Embassy in Damascus, Syria on Saturday, Feb. 4, 2006 and set fire to the embassy building in protest of offensive caricatures of Islam’s prophet. The building also houses the embassies of Chile and Sweden. (AP Photo Bassem Tellawi).

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WaPo Cringes

Sat, Feb 4, 2006 at 8:47:54 am PST

Like every other newspaper in the US, the Washington Post is seemingly afraid to comment on the cartoon jihad; today they finally printed an editorial, buried in their “Style” section, and it’s a great example of not getting it: Clash Over Cartoons Is a Caricature Of Civilization. (Hat tip: Bubbaman.) Perhaps ...

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RoP in Damascus

Sat, Feb 4, 2006 at 8:32:03 am PST

To show how much they resent being called violent, Muslims in Damascus have stormed the Danish embassy and torched it. DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Hundreds of Syrian demonstrators stormed the Danish Embassy in Damascus Saturday and set fire to the building, witnesses said. The demonstrators were protesting offensive caricatures of Islam’s Prophet ...

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Friday, February 03, 2006

Friday Night Beach

Fri, Feb 3, 2006 at 8:54:11 pm PST

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Norwegian Muslims Want Blasphemy Law

Fri, Feb 3, 2006 at 8:47:05 pm PST

In Norway, Muslim advocacy groups are pushing for anti-blasphemy laws. Norway needs anti-blasphemy regulations to protect minorities against derisive and hateful expression, says lawyer Abid Q Raja. “The point is not to restrict freedom of speech but to give it direction so that weak groups do not feel insulted or mocked. If ...

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Welcome to the Dark Ages

Fri, Feb 3, 2006 at 8:28:13 pm PST

Islamic totalitarianism in Indonesia, the showcase for moderate Islam: Blasphemy case against Adam and Eve photo exhibit. An obscenity and blasphemy case has been registered here against six people for putting up a pictorial exhibition on Adam and Eve here in which the actors in the photograph were in a state ...

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Islamic Misogyny Watch

Fri, Feb 3, 2006 at 6:36:01 pm PST

The All India Muslim Personal Law Board has released a package of social reforms, and they all have to do with women: Don’t work with men, don’t go shopping, and cover your entire body. Do what we say and nobody gets hurt. Muslim women should not work with men or go shopping ...

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VDH: Three Pillars of Wisdom

Fri, Feb 3, 2006 at 6:30:23 pm PST

Victor Davis Hanson has one of his periodic “lunacy watch” pieces, the view from 20,000 feet over an increasingly whacked-out world: Three Pillars of Wisdom. Ever since that seminal death sentence handed down to Salman Rushdie by the Iranian theocracy, the Western world has incrementally and insidiously accepted these laws of ...

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Deep Thoughts from Pakistan

Fri, Feb 3, 2006 at 5:56:17 pm PST

Here’s a revealing comment in a story about the dread cartoons of blasphemy at the Washington Post, from an editor of a Pakistani newspaper: Tension Rises Over Cartoons of Muhammad. But critics argued that publishers should be more discerning in the battles they choose over freedom of expression. “This is the ...

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State Department Criticism of Cartoons - a Hoax?

Fri, Feb 3, 2006 at 2:50:42 pm PST

What in the world is going on with the story about the State Department condemning the Danish cartoons? LGF reader Ty points out that in three different news wire reports, the same statements are attributed to three different people. Agence France Presse says the State Department spokesman was “Justin Higgins:” US ...

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Peaceful Religion Watch

Fri, Feb 3, 2006 at 1:09:01 pm PST

(Pssst. It’s a Photoshop...)

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More Muslim Death Threats

Fri, Feb 3, 2006 at 11:16:47 am PST

Anger sweeps Middle East over cartoons of Mohammad. ‘We will not accept less than severing the heads of those responsible,’ one preacher told worshippers at the al-Omari Mosque in the Gaza Strip as tensions spread over the publication of the cartoons, first in Denmark and later in Norway, France, Germany and ...

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The Exercise of Free Speech

Fri, Feb 3, 2006 at 10:33:33 am PST

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IAEA Springs into Action

Fri, Feb 3, 2006 at 10:26:25 am PST

Today the UN’s blind, toothless nuclear watchdog did what it does best—nothing: IAEA delays vote to send Iran to Security Council. VIENNA (Reuters) - The U.N. nuclear watchdog deferred until Saturday a vote to report Iran to the U.N. Security Council over fears it is seeking atomic bombs, as the European ...

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Foggy Bottom: "These Cartoons are Indeed Offensive"

Fri, Feb 3, 2006 at 9:51:32 am PST

The State Department has weighed in on the cartoon jihad. And guess who’s side they’re on? US blasts cartoons of Prophet Mohammed. The United States blasted the publication by European newspapers of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed as unacceptable incitement to religious or ethnic hatred. “These cartoons are indeed offensive to the beliefs ...

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British Muslims Threaten Death

Fri, Feb 3, 2006 at 8:51:25 am PST

(Click pictures to expand.)

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Another Attempted Attack

Fri, Feb 3, 2006 at 8:40:19 am PST

Two Palestinians were caught today at a checkpoint, carrying suicide bomb belts: Israeli army seizes two explosive belts at checkpoint. JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israeli troops at a checkpoint outside the northern West Bank city of Nablus arrested two Palestinians carrying explosive belts, an army spokeswoman said. The two Palestinians were stopped while ...

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Terror State Rocket Attacks

Fri, Feb 3, 2006 at 8:38:33 am PST

Palestinians tried again today to commit random murder in Israel; al-Reuters implies that it’s really no big deal: Militants fire rockets into Israel. JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Gaza militants fired rockets into southern Israel on Friday, striking a house and injuring three people including a baby, rescue services said. Militant group Islamic ...

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Muslim Mobs in London: "Europe: Your 9/11 Will Come"

Fri, Feb 3, 2006 at 8:21:22 am PST

Hundreds of angry Muslims demonstrated in London, carrying signs with messages such as, “Massacre those who insult Islam:” Angry Muslims Stage London Protests. (Hat tip: rexie.) Hundreds of Muslims have staged angry protests in London following the publication of cartoons satirising the prophet Mohammed. Scores waved placards bearing angry messages, one declaring: “Behead ...

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Muslim Mob Attacks Danish Embassy in Indonesia

Fri, Feb 3, 2006 at 8:19:00 am PST

A Muslim mob swarmed the Danish embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia today, rampaging and smashing things to show their anger over being portrayed as “violent:” Muslims attack Danish embassy building in Jakarta. JAKARTA (Reuters) - Militant Indonesian Muslims went on a rampage inside the lobby of a Jakarta building housing the Danish ...

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Thursday, February 02, 2006

The Dread Cartoons of Blasphemy

Thu, Feb 2, 2006 at 10:34:58 pm PST

Here is an LGF slideshow of the Mohammed cartoons originally published by Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten: Jyllands-Posten slideshow.

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The Power of the Muslim and Arab Worlds

Thu, Feb 2, 2006 at 9:48:59 pm PST

At ArabNews, “comedian” Ray Hanania gloats over “The Power of the Muslim and Arab Worlds” to bring the West to its knees. This week, we witnessed the power of the Islamic and Arab worlds to bring a Western nation virtually to its knees. I was amazed at that power. This is ...

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Lexington Herald-Leader Columnist: Arabs Justified in Nuking Israel

Thu, Feb 2, 2006 at 8:45:19 pm PST

Larry Webster, a contributing columnist for Kentucky’s Lexington Herald-Leader, says Israel deserves to be attacked with nuclear weapons. (Hat tip: Igor.) Somebody named Elaine Shiber, the smartest person from Van Lear since Loretta Lynn, catalogued in a Herald-Leader commentary some of the terrorist acts committed as Zionists weary of genocide took ...

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Has the New York Times Violated the Espionage Act?

Thu, Feb 2, 2006 at 8:34:47 pm PST

An important piece at Commentary by Gabriel Schoenfeld asks a long-overdue question: Has the New York Times Violated the Espionage Act? What the New York Times has done is nothing less than to compromise the centerpiece of our defensive efforts in the war on terrorism. If information about the NSA program ...

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PJ Fashion Week

Thu, Feb 2, 2006 at 8:19:36 pm PST

Here’s a change of pace at Pajamas Media, as we cover the fashion world’s preeminent conference in New York, with more than 30 bloggers: PJ Fashion Week.

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A Peaceful, Tolerant Day of Anger

Thu, Feb 2, 2006 at 8:10:45 pm PST

Sheikh Yussef al-Qaradawi, best pal of London mayor Ken Livingstone and leading frontman for the global jihad, is calling for a “day of anger:” Day of anger threatened over cartoons of Prophet. You know, a peaceful, tolerant day of anger. A leading hard-line Muslim cleric, Sheikh Yussef al-Qaradawi, called for the day ...

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Ansar Al-Islam Leader: "The War Is On"

Thu, Feb 2, 2006 at 7:55:14 pm PST

Brussels Journal notes a declaration of war against Europe from Mullah Krekar, the Ansar al-Islam leader who was given refugee status in Norway: “The War is On.” Yesterday (Thursday) Mullah Krekar, the alleged leader of the Islamist group Ansar al-Islam who has been living in Norway as a refugee since 1991, ...

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We Got Mail!

Thu, Feb 2, 2006 at 7:11:15 pm PST

Today a gentleman from Morocco searched Google in French for “Jyllands-Posten carton of mohamed,” discovered LGF, and used our contact form to fire off a fan letter with the subject line “mohamed:” f*ck you!!!!! and f*ck to everybody wanna touch our mohamed

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The Dutch Mohammed Photoshop Contest

Thu, Feb 2, 2006 at 4:12:32 pm PST

Tempting fate (and fatwa), Dutch blog Retecool is running the Amazing Mohammed Photoshop Contest. Warning: may cause seething.

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Islamic Terror Gang Goes to South America

Thu, Feb 2, 2006 at 2:20:21 pm PST

The Hamas terror gang is reaching out for new sources of financial aid—in South America: Hamas to send emissaries to South America. RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP) - The Palestinian militant Islamist group Hamas, which won the Palestinian legislative elections last month, plans to send emissaries to South America to seek financial ...

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Busey, Zane Star in Anti-American Film

Thu, Feb 2, 2006 at 1:23:45 pm PST

American actors Gary Busey and Billy Zane are stars in a sick anti-American and antisemitic Turkish film: In Turkish Movie, Americans Kill Innocents. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) ISTANBUL, Turkey (Feb. 2) - In the most expensive Turkish movie ever made, American soldiers in Iraq crash a wedding and pump a little ...

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Thursday, the Open Thread

Thu, Feb 2, 2006 at 9:21:06 am PST

Here we see a fine specimen of an open thread...

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Danish Islamists Fake Cartoons

Thu, Feb 2, 2006 at 8:41:08 am PST

Danish Islamists deliberately fanned the flames of Muslim outrage over the dreaded cartoons of blasphemy, by fabricating insulting cartoons of their own in a booklet presented during a tour of the Middle East. The cartoons were published in September: Why have the protests erupted from Muslims worldwide only now? The person ...

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British Muslims: "Kill Those Who Insult the Prophet Muhammad"

Thu, Feb 2, 2006 at 8:31:37 am PST

No British papers have reprinted the Mohammed cartoons, but British jihad group Al Ghurabaa has issued a call to kill everyone who insults Mohammed. (Hat tip: Judith Apter Klinghoffer.) Scott Burgess has the honor roll of European papers that have reacted to the intimidation by publishing the cartoons: The Daily Ablution: ...

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Muslims Raging Over Cartoons

Thu, Feb 2, 2006 at 8:11:01 am PST

Followers of the Religion of Peace™ are in a blind rage all over the world this morning, after more European papers reprinted the dreaded cartoons of blasphemy: Cartoon blasphemy uproar gathers pace. (Hat tip: Van Impe.) Here’s a perfect example of European tolerance for intolerance, masquerading as cultural sensitivity: European Union External ...

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Wednesday, February 01, 2006

Jimmah: Give Hamas a Chance

Wed, Feb 1, 2006 at 10:37:53 pm PST

Maybe I’m imagining it, but even the anonymous CNN writer who put together this report on Jimmy Carter’s endorsement of Hamas seems a little amazed by the ex-president’s obstinate idiocy: Jimmy Carter: Give Hamas a chance. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) (CNN) — Hamas deserves to be recognized by the international community, ...

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No, Everybody Dance!

Wed, Feb 1, 2006 at 10:18:59 pm PST

Put your hands in the air and say, “The infidel must die!” Iraqi Shi’ite clerics step on flags of Denmark in Baghdad February 1, 2006. More than a dozen Iraqis protested against newspaper cartoons published in a local Danish daily showing Prophet Mohammad wearing a turban shaped as a bomb with ...

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Ironic MSM Juxtaposition of the Night

Wed, Feb 1, 2006 at 10:08:39 pm PST

Arabs Pressure Hamas to Renounce Violence. Saudi Arabia, Qatar to Fund Palestinians.

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Al-Guardian Promotes Hamas

Wed, Feb 1, 2006 at 9:03:01 pm PST

Reeking of barely-concealed malice, Hamas kingpin Khalid Mish’al gets column space in the Guardian to argue the Islamofascist case for mass murder: We will not sell our people or principles for foreign aid. We shall never recognise the legitimacy of a Zionist state created on our soil in order to atone ...

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Prayers for the Assassin

Wed, Feb 1, 2006 at 7:34:09 pm PST

I had the great pleasure of reading an advance copy of Robert Ferrigno’s new novel Prayers for the Assassin, and I highly recommend it. It’s a fast-paced thriller with believable, fully drawn characters, in a future America where most of the country has become an Islamic republic after a nuclear ...

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Now, Nobody Dance!

Wed, Feb 1, 2006 at 7:02:53 pm PST

No matter what else you may say about Hamas, you can’t deny that they know how to partay! Palestinian Hamas supporters celebrate their victory in the Palestinian election at the Islamic University of Gaza City February 1, 2006. Why, these babes can barely contain their celebratory exuberance.

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French Editor Fired for Mohammed Cartoons

Wed, Feb 1, 2006 at 5:18:22 pm PST

The managing editor of France Soir, who published the Danish Mohammed cartoons as a gesture of support for free speech, has been fired, and the owner of the paper has issued a groveling apology. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) France Soir originally said it had published the images in full to show ...

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Mohammed Image Mirror

Wed, Feb 1, 2006 at 1:54:16 pm PST

Since zombie’s site is currently overloaded, here’s a Danish mirror site of the Mohammed Image Archive. UPDATE at 2/1/06 1:59:29 pm: And here’s another sort of image archive, to provide a little perspective on the cartoon jihad: Cartoons from the Arab World.

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WaPo vs. Joint Chiefs of Staff

Wed, Feb 1, 2006 at 1:22:45 pm PST

Speaking of cartoons, the Washington Post and cartoonist Tom Toles managed to get on the bad side of all 6 of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, with a really ugly cartoon: The Joint Chiefs of Staff Speak.

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Bush: US Will "Rise to Israel's Defense"

Wed, Feb 1, 2006 at 1:03:49 pm PST

Bush: US would defend Israel from Iran. NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - President George W. Bush vowed on Wednesday the United States would defend Israel militarily if needed against Iran, and denounced Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for “menacing talk” against Israel. In a Reuters interview, Bush also said he saw a “very good ...

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Zombie in Danish Paper

Wed, Feb 1, 2006 at 12:51:29 pm PST

LGF operative zombie’s Mohammed Image Archive (unavailable at this writing because of heavy traffic) was featured today in the Danish newspaper Ekstra Bladet: Tusindvis af Muhammed-tegninger.

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Vote the Lizardoid Ticket

Wed, Feb 1, 2006 at 11:56:55 am PST

Please vote for LGF in the Jerusalem Post/Israellycool Jewish and Israel Blog Awards, won’t you?

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Iran's Manhattan Project Still Rushing Ahead

Wed, Feb 1, 2006 at 11:47:16 am PST

Military linked to Iran nuclear program. (Hat tip: piehole.) THE International Atomic Energy Agency says it has evidence that suggests links between Iran’s ostensibly peaceful nuclear program and its military work on high explosives and missiles. [Ya think? —ed.] The report refers to a secretive Iranian entity called the Green Salt Project, ...

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Image Problem

Wed, Feb 1, 2006 at 9:57:33 am PST

From the inimitable Cox & Forkum Editorial Cartoons.

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German Papers Print Mohammed Cartoons

Wed, Feb 1, 2006 at 9:20:17 am PST

Don’t look now, but backbones seem to be springing up all over Europe: Germans print Muhammad caricatures. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Two German newspapers on Wednesday reproduced controversial drawings depicting the Prophet Muhammad, with one of them arguing that a “right to blasphemy” was anchored in democratic freedoms. The drawings were among ...

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LGF in Danish, Correction

Wed, Feb 1, 2006 at 8:55:36 am PST

Following up on yesterday’s post about the appearance of LGF in Danish newspapers, I received this email from Karl Erik Nielsen, Washington Bureau Chief of the paper Berlingske Tidende: (Dear Little Green Footballs) Thank you for printing my article on your blog. The story was written Monday and printed in the daily ...

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Spine Sighted in France

Wed, Feb 1, 2006 at 8:50:04 am PST

France enters Muslim cartoon row. A French newspaper has reproduced a set of Danish caricatures depicting the Prophet Muhammad that have caused outrage in the Muslim world. France Soir said it had published the cartoons to show that “religious dogma” had no place in a secular society. Their publication in Denmark has ...

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