LGF Archives: March 2006
McKinney: "Being in Congress While Black"
Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 7:39:12 pm PST
Captain’s Quarters sums up the Cynthia McKinney cop-punching tale, as the Moonbat Representative decides to take it to the line: Cynthia McKinney may cause a security crisis all on her own in the nation’s capital before she gets done with her moment of infamy. Instead of apologizing for failing to wear ...
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Borders Responds - It's All About Fear
Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 6:45:21 pm PST
LGF reader ‘USA’ has posted the email form letter he received from Borders Books, about their decision to avoid offending their new overlords. It reeks of a hurried consultation with a highly paid PR firm, who have decided on this approach as the best way to handle the storm in which ...
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The Cartoon Jihad Bears Noxious Fruit
Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 6:06:51 pm PST
A direct result of Europe’s surrender to the cartoon jihad: Muslim neighbours force censorship on Paris cafe. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) PARIS, March 31, 2006 (AFP) - A gang of young Muslims wielding iron rods has forced a Paris cafe to censor an exhibition of cartoons ridiculing religion, the owners of ...
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9/11 Tapes Released
Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 5:08:02 pm PST
New York City officials have released recordings and transcripts of the 9/11 emergency calls made by people trapped in the World Trade Center. The recordings are available here: Chilling Recordings Of 9/11 Calls Are Made Public. But in a move that’s sure to get the conspiracy theorists all worked up, the ...
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Iowahawk: Operation Steel Gazelle
Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 3:04:37 pm PST
Iowahawk brings you the Democrats’ astounding new Operation Steel Gazelle: A Smart, Multi-Slide Plan For Toughening American Security with Smartness. HARRY: Hello, I’m Harry Reid, leader of the Democrats in the United States Senate. NANCY: And me Nancy Pelosi. HARRY: Like millions of patriotic Americans, Nancy and I, along with our Democratic colleagues ...
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Moonbat McKinney Press Conference
Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 1:38:00 pm PST
Rep. Cynthia McKinney (Moonbat-Ga.) is in big trouble for striking a police officer, and she’ll be giving a press conference at 5:30 pm Eastern that will be broadcast over the web at WSB-TV: McKinney Addresses Slapping Charges. UPDATE at 3/31/06 2:42:11 pm: A notice on the WSB-TV front page: McKinney’s News Conference Has ...
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An Open Letter from ... uh ...
Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 1:24:04 pm PST
Heh™. UPDATE at 3/31/06 1:30:57 pm: And by the way, I don’t disagree with Gerard’s overall point. It shouldn’t be the responsibility of Borders Books to stand up against radical Islam. But you know, when every other major institution in America (colleges, newspapers, television, magazines, and government) has preemptively surrendered to the ...
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David Project Posts Boston Mosque Documents
Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 12:38:37 pm PST
The David Project has posted a series of recently disclosed Boston Redevelopment Authority (‘BRA’) documents, related to the Islamic Society of Boston’s efforts to build a huge mosque (lgf: search) in Roxbury. A quick look reveals some very suspect maneuvering, including unauthorized use of BRA letterhead by the Islamic Society. ...
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Iran's Manhattan Project: Stealth Missile
Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 10:48:55 am PST
Iran’s nuclear weapons programs are on track, and the international community doesn’t seem to have the will to do anything about it. Today they tested their latest delivery system—a multiple warhead stealth missile: Iran fires missile that can evade radar-TV. TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran’s Revolutionary Guards on Friday successfully test fired a ...
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Carroll Threatened Before Release?
Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 10:32:42 am PST
The Christian Science Monitor is reporting that Jill Carroll was threatened before her release, and that her video interview with the mujahideen in which she made anti-American statements was coerced. BAGHDAD, Iraq - Jill Carroll’s kidnappers reportedly warned her before her release that she might be killed if she cooperated with ...
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VDH: When Cynicism Meets Fanaticism
Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 9:58:50 am PST
Another excellent column that cuts right through the left’s cloud of unknowing, by Victor Davis Hanson: When Cynicism Meets Fanaticism. Opponents of the war in Iraq, both original critics and the mea culpa recent converts, have made eight assumptions. The first six are wrong, the last two still unsettled. 1. Saddam was ...
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Questions About Carroll's Captivity
Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 9:41:41 am PST
Howard Kurtz sums up the Questions About Carroll’s Captivity, and even he thinks her statements about how well she was treated are “rather odd.” Carroll is a 28-year-old freelancer who went to Baghdad on her own, became a stringer for the Christian Science Monitor and clearly was bent on understanding Iraqi ...
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"My Faith As an Instrument of Butchery"
Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 8:50:55 am PST
Yesterday the Washington Times ran an impassioned column by M. Zuhdi Jasser, chairman of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, calling for a counter-movement within Islam: Cancer in its midst. (Hat tip: Bubbaman.) During the dark days of our Revolution, Thomas Paine wrote, “That these are the times, that try men’s ...
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Terrorist Leader "Sick and Tired" Of West's Racism
Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 8:43:15 am PST
Hamas kingpin Ismail Haniyeh finds a home at The Guardian: A just peace or no peace. We are sick and tired of the west’s racist approach to the conflict, in which the Palestinians are regarded as inferior. Though we are the victims, we offer our hands in peace, but only a ...
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War Kids Relief
Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 8:30:54 am PST
Jeff Harrell has the wonderful story of Captain Jon Powers, formerly of the 2/3 of the 1st Armored Division (the “Gunners”), who returned from Iraq and started a program called War Kids Relief. I had the opportunity to talk with Captain Jon Powers tonight. He came to Edelman’s D.C. office with ...
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Chaos Theory
Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 8:19:43 am PST
From the always on-point Cox & Forkum Editorial Cartoons.
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Palestinian Civil War Watch
Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 7:58:04 am PST
Two dead, 20 wounded in Gaza clashes. GAZA CITY (AFP) - Two Palestinians were killed and 20 wounded as clashes broke out between rival factions after the killing of a top militant commander, medics said. Four of the wounded were in a serious condition, hospital sources added. The clashes opposed supporters of the ...
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Thursday Night Beach
Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 8:04:52 pm PST
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Here's Your Chance to Email Hamas
Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 7:08:14 pm PST
Britain’s al-Guardian prints another propaganda piece from Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh: A just peace or no peace. (Hat tip: Nathan.) The interesting bit is that Haniyeh has apparently published his email address. This terrorist kingpin is using Microsoft’s Hotmail, the choice of jihadis worldwide. I normally don’t post email addresses at ...
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Albanian Muslims Seething Over Mother Teresa
Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 6:55:27 pm PST
Albanian Muslims are seething over plans for a statue of Mother Teresa: Planned Mother Teresa statue irks Albania Muslims. (Hat tip: Van Impe.) SHKODER, Albania (Reuters) - Muslims in Albania’s northern city of Shkoder are opposing plans to erect a statue to Mother Teresa, the ethnic Albanian Catholic nun in line ...
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US Voting Machines Controlled by Venezuela
Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 6:35:46 pm PST
You have got to be kidding me. Forget Dubai — worry about Smartmatic instead. The greater threat to our nation’s security comes not from Dubai and its pro-Western government, but from Venezuela, where software engineers with links to the leftist, anti-American regime of Hugo Chavez are programming electronic voting machines that will ...
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The Mujahideen Interview Jill Carroll
Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 5:35:34 pm PST
A video has appeared on the internet, apparently showing ex-hostage Jill Carroll in an interview conducted by her kidnappers before they released her. (Hat tip: jimo.) “Did you think the American army or the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) would save you at any time,” a muffled male voice asked Ms Carroll ...
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9-11 Conspiracy Theorists Going Mainstream
Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 4:34:16 pm PST
Here’s an advertisement now appearing at several popular leftist ranters’ blogs, including Crooks and Liars. (Blogads, by the way, are explicitly approved by the site owner.)
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ElBaradei to Iran: Arm Me with Information
Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 4:20:00 pm PST
What a complete joke. World powers say Iran must curb nuclear ambitions. BERLIN (Reuters) - The world’s major powers told Iran on Thursday it must heed a U.N. call to curb its nuclear program or face isolation, but Tehran refused to budge. [Who could have forseen it? —ed.] Britain said Iran could ...
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Thugs in Expensive Suits
Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 4:05:06 pm PST
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An Open Letter to Borders
Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 3:36:32 pm PST
Robert Bidinotto has an open letter to Borders Books about their refusal to carry a magazine showing the Danish Mohammed cartoons.
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Islamic Terror Cell Trained to Deceive
Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 2:45:26 pm PST
An informer testified today that the Islamic terror cell members on trial in Britain were instructed by a top Al Qaeda freakazoid to act like Western tourists, and refrain from praying in public. The men, some of whom are on trial accused of planning bomb attacks on Britain, bought a camera ...
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And Again
Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 1:28:22 pm PST
There’s been another barbaric Palestinian suicide bombing: Four killed in suicide bombing attack at West Bank settlement. At least four people were killed when a Palestinian suicide bomber exploded after nightfall Thursday at the entrance to the West Bank settlement of Kedumim. The vehicle blew up around 9:45 P.M. next to ...
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Thursday Open Thread
Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 9:27:38 am PST
Here we have a Thursday morning open thread...
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Hostage Jill Carroll Freed
Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 8:49:13 am PST
Here’s a great post with lots of links on the freeing of American journalist Jill Carroll, at The Jawa Report. UPDATE at 3/30/06 8:52:14 am: She says the terrorists treated her well. Her interpreter, murdered during the kidnapping, was not available for comment.
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Moderate Indonesian Clerics Blame Blair
Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 8:46:01 am PST
Islamic leaders in Indonesia told Tony Blair yesterday that he’s causing extremism, and urged him to deal with Hamas. (Hat tip: Ethel.) INDONESIA and Britain agreed yesterday to strengthen anti-terror ties, but Islamic leaders told visiting Prime Minister Tony Blair that his policies were breeding extremism. The five Islamic leaders, known as ...
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More Hamas Propaganda from AP
Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 8:31:55 am PST
Associated Press Arab propagandist Sarah El Deeb would like us to know that Hamas terrorists think the US is biased toward Israel. GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Newly installed Palestinian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Zahar said the United States is biased toward Israel, guilty of crimes against Muslims and Arabs and is ...
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Cartoon Jihad: The Legal Sequel
Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 8:28:10 am PST
The [Popup] are still wreaking havoc around the world, as Danish Muslims sue Jyllands-Posten newspaper: Danish Muslims Sue Newspaper Over Drawings. (Hat tip: Kilgore Trout.) A group of 27 Danish Muslim organizations have filed a defamation lawsuit against the newspaper that first published the carricatures of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad, their lawyer ...
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Western Standard Sued for Publishing Dreaded Cartoons
Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 8:21:24 am PST
Canadian political journal The Western Standard is being sued for hate speech by the Alberta Human Rights Commission, doing the bidding of Syed Soharwardy, a radical Calgary Muslim imam: Western Standard sued for publishing cartoons. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Imam Soharwardy first tried to have the police arrest the Western Standard’s ...
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Borders Appeases Radical Islam
Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 7:58:20 am PST
Following up on last night’s post about Borders Books and Waldenbooks refusing to carry a magazine with a cover showing the [Popup], an LGF reader who works at Borders emailed the following story: I work for Borders Books and after reading the article you posted on Wed. 3/29 about our company ...
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Borders and Waldenbooks Cave In to Islamist Intimidation
Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 6:51:45 pm PST
The big bookstore chains will not be standing up for free speech: Borders, Waldenbooks Won’t Carry Magazine. (Hat tip: Brenda Walker.) Borders and Waldenbooks stores will not stock the April-May issue of Free Inquiry magazine because it contains cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that provoked deadly protests among Muslims in several ...
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Abu Ali Gets 30 Years
Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 1:39:44 pm PST
Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, convicted in a plot to assassinate the President, was sentenced today to 30 years in prison. (Hat tip: SoCalJustice.) The charges against him included conspiracy to assassinate Bush, conspiring to support al Qaeda, and conspiracy to hijack aircraft. Who’s laughing now?
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NYT PC Blindness
Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 1:13:20 pm PST
The New York Times doesn’t even seem to see the Palestinian flag and kaffiyeh on this statue at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va.: George Mason Won, and Now It’s Found. FAIRFAX, Va., March 27 — George Mason stood in the center of the campus that bears his name wearing a ...
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19 RoP Teachers Arrested in Thailand
Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 1:03:18 pm PST
Another day, another nineteen Islamic teachers arrested in southern Thailand: Nineteen Muslim teachers held in restive Thai south. (Hat tip: Jihad Watch.) BANGKOK (Reuters) - Nineteen teachers at an Islamic school founded by a top fugitive insurgent in the Thai south have been held on suspicion of involvement in two years ...
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Taheri: The Last Helicopter
Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 12:15:44 pm PST
A must-read from Amir Taheri: The Last Helicopter. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Hassan Abbasi has a dream—a helicopter doing an arabesque in cloudy skies to avoid being shot at from the ground. On board are the last of the “fleeing Americans,” forced out of the Dar al-Islam (The Abode of Islam) ...
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Youths vs. Youths, Part Deux
Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 11:05:31 am PST
Moms, don’t let your daughters go to a French protest. There might be youths there.
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Are They All Mad?
Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 10:38:23 am PST
Here’s a great piece at Australia’s Herald Sun by Andrew Bolt, on that self-loathing icon of the idiotarian left, Robert Fisk ... appropriately titled: Are they all mad? (Hat tip: Simon.) Many of Tony Blair’s former comrades defend not democracy but mass-murdering fascists and head-lopping Islamists. Yes, Tony Blair did sound good ...
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Talk Radio Jihad in Pakistan
Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 9:21:41 am PST
Pakistan’s radio rivalry kills 24. BADSHAHKILI, Pakistan (AP) — A battle for the airwaves between two Islamic preachers with their own FM radio stations in Pakistan escalated into bitter fighting that killed at least 24 people. The government threatened action unless tribal militiamen vacated the scene of the heaviest clashes Tuesday in Khyber Agency, ...
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NYU Muslim Groups: "Cartoons Have Led to Riots"
Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 8:55:28 am PST
An LGF reader has forwarded the email being circulated among Muslim groups at New York University, which apparently frightened NYU’s administration into suppressing the Danish cartoon event scheduled for tomorrow evening. Notice the veiled threats. Date Mon, 27 Mar 2006 22:43:35 -0800 Subject Action Alert - Racist Cartoons at NYU Dear ...
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Abdul Rahman Granted Asylum by Italy
Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 8:29:31 am PST
Christian Convert Abdul Rahman has left Afghanistan, and been granted asylum in Italy. KABUL, Afghanistan - The man who faced the death penalty after converting from Islam to Christianity left Afghanistan on Wednesday, and Italy said it granted him asylum and expected him to arrive “soon.” Big LGF kudos to the ...
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What Media Bias?
Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 8:25:17 am PST
Hamas, the radical Islamic terror gang that delights in death and bloodshed and has murdered hundreds of innocent people with nightmarish suicide bombings, is complaining that Israel is hostile to them: Hamas: Israeli Policies Remain Hostile. And the Associated Press is happy to give them the megaphone to broadcast their inverted ...
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NYU Surrenders to Islamist Intimidation
Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 8:10:57 am PST
New York University shows that remarkable cowardice masquerading as “sensitivity” that characterizes the modern American university, by shutting down the NYU Objectivist Club’s event displaying the Danish Mohammed cartoons: NYU Surrenders to the Heckler’s Veto in Mohammed Cartoon Dispute. NEW YORK, March 29, 2006—In violation of its own policies, New York ...
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US Bans Contacts with Hamas-Led Government
Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 8:06:31 am PST
As soon as the terror gang Hamas is sworn in as the new Palestinian government, US contacts will cease. JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The United States has ordered its diplomats and contractors not to have any contacts with Palestinian ministries once a Hamas-led government is sworn in on Wednesday, U.S. officials said. The ...
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Taylor Caught
Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 7:47:12 am PST
Fugitive former dictator Charles Taylor (who aided Al Qaeda in their attacks on US embassies in Africa) has been apprehended, and taken to Liberia to face war crimes charges. ABUJA, Nigeria - Former Liberian President Charles Taylor, who vanished in Nigeria after authorities reluctantly agreed to transfer him to a war ...
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Media, Enemy: What's the Difference?
Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 8:57:47 pm PST
Here’s TIME Magazine’s Baghdad bureau chief Michael Ware, interviewed by Hugh Hewitt, and you won’t believe how deeply he’s in business with the jihadis. Or maybe you will: Time Magazine’s Michael Ware from Baghdad. (Hat tip: Baldy.) HH: Have you spent time with the jihadis? MW: I have. I have. It’s certainly ...
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Millions of Missing Women
Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 8:46:09 pm PST
Dutch MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali has an article in Saturday’s International Herald Tribune that contains a shocking statistic: Women go ‘missing’ by the millions. As I was preparing for this article, I asked a friend who is Jewish if it was appropriate to use the term “holocaust” to portray the worldwide ...
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We Got Mail!
Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 7:20:19 pm PST
Here’s an email from a visitor apparently using a dial-up account in St. Catherine, Jamaica, who searched Google’s UK branch for the phrase, “have discusion online with muslims encouraging me to become a muslim,” which led him to this LGF post from July 2005: Blair Begs Muslim Leaders for Help. Severe ...
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Olmert's Unstunning Victory
Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 7:10:12 pm PST
Ehud Olmert will be the new Israeli Prime Minister, in the lowest election turnout in Israel’s history, and he wasted no time announcing further pullouts from the West Bank. JERUSALEM - Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert declared victory for his centrist Kadima party in Israel’s elections Tuesday, vowing to act on ...
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Youths vs. Youths
Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 6:12:55 pm PST
In this report on the ongoing socialist tantrums in France, we learn that “youths” from the suburbs are preying on the demonstrators: Hundreds arrested in Paris protests. (Hat tip: Aussiemagpie.) POLICE arrested more than 100 people during disturbances on the fringes of the Paris demonstration against a new youth jobs law, ...
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Remains Found at Ground Zero
Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 5:44:38 pm PST
It may be all that’s left of someone who went to work on a [Popup] in September: Bone fragments found near World Trade Center site. NEW YORK (Reuters) - Construction workers cleaning a vacant building near the World Trade Center site have found bone fragments and human remains, officials said on ...
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Islamic Somniloquent Divorce
Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 5:34:29 pm PST
I used to believe it was too easy to get divorced in California, but this is ridiculous: Man Accidentally Divorces Wife in Sleep. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) NEW DELHI - Village elders ordered a Muslim man in eastern India to leave his wife after he accidentally divorced her in his sleep, ...
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Our Friends the Nuclear Saudis
Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 3:51:48 pm PST
German magazine Cicero is reporting details on Saudi Arabia’s secret nuclear program: Saudis, with Pakistani help, working on nuclear programme. (Hat tip: Allah.) BERLIN (AFP) - Saudi Arabia is working secretly on a nuclear programme, with help from Pakistani experts, a German magazine reports in its latest edition, citing Western security ...
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Saddam: Still Bloodthirsty
Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 3:32:33 pm PST
From MEMRI TV, Saddam Hussein gives a telephone interview from prison and demands that former Iraqi VP ’Izzat Al-Duri be punished by having his tongue and ears cut off. [Video] UPDATE at 3/29/06 8:59:24 am: MEMRI has updated their post about this video to indicate that the interview shown above was a hoax ...
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Head of Arab League Pushes Nuke Programs
Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 2:46:01 pm PST
Amr Moussa, head of the Arab League, called on the Arab world today to get their nuclear programs going “with all speed and momentum.” You know ... for peaceful purposes. Nudge. Wink. KHARTOUM, Sudan - The head of the Arab League called on Arab states Tuesday to work toward “entering the nuclear ...
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Christiane Amanpour: The Good Side of Hamas
Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 2:14:38 pm PST
At CNN’s Anderson Cooper “blog,” Christiane Amanpour shills for the Hamas terror gang: From terrorism to trash collection. (Hat tip: Jon.) When people ask: “Why did the Palestinian people elect a terrorist group?” The answer is because they see them as a lifeline. Each time I go to the Palestinian territory of ...
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Tuesday Open Thread
Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 9:31:08 am PST
“Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.” — Sir Winston Churchill
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Israel Election Coverage
Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 9:18:28 am PST
There’s a lot of good coverage of the Israeli elections at Allison Kaplan Sommer’s place: An Unsealed Room.
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Hamas: "Death for the Sake of God is Our Highest Aspiration"
Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 8:56:20 am PST
Meet the new terror bosses: Hamas government approved, vows to fight Israel. GAZA (Reuters) - A Hamas-dominated Palestinian parliament approved the Islamic militant group’s cabinet and program on Tuesday, clearing the way for it to take control of the government two months after its shock election victory. Chanting “God is Greatest” after ...
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Religious Rooster Avoids Death
Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 8:46:50 am PST
All the little fishies in the sea, and all the roosters on the chopping block, all Allah’s critters gotta testify!
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IBD: A Religion of Peace?
Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 8:30:22 am PST
It’s taken mainstream media an incredible amount of time to reach this point (and the New York Times never will), but an Investor’s Business Daily editorial is finally asking some of the right questions: Religion Of Peace? What better time for CAIR and other Muslim leaders to step up, cut through ...
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Nigeria Springs Taylor
Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 8:13:46 am PST
Former Liberian dictator Charles Taylor has been allowed to escape from house arrest by Nigeria: Ex-Liberian President Taylor Disappears. (Hat tip: Doss.) ABUJA, Nigeria - Former Liberian President Charles Taylor disappeared from his Nigerian haven, days after his hosts agreed to transfer him to a war crimes tribunal for the murder, ...
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Ballad of a Useful Idiot
Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 6:24:17 pm PST
I don’t know exactly what’s prompted the latest revival of idiotarian interest in Rachel Corrie, but the most monumentally silly manifestation yet is Billy Bragg’s paean to the terror-enabling ISM member, provided by (who else?) the Grauniad in MP3 form here: The lonesome death of Rachel Corrie. (Hat tip: Loch ...
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The Miracle Fish of Allah
Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 5:18:26 pm PST
Liverpool is now famous for something other than the Beatles: Muslim holy fish draw faithful in British city. (Hat tip: Terp Mole.) LONDON (AFP) - Muslim worshippers are flocking to see a pair of fish in the British city of Liverpool which appear to bear the words “Allah” and “Mohammed”, their ...
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The Man Who Knew Too Little
Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 5:02:16 pm PST
Last Thursday Martin Kramer noted a very telling piece of information about University of Chicago professor John Mearsheimer, co-author with Stephen Walt of “The Israel Lobby”—he signed a bizarre document in 2003 that urged the world community to condemn Israel in advance for ethnically cleansing Palestinians under cover of the ...
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85 Terror Warnings in Israel
Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 3:29:03 pm PST
As Israel prepares to go to the polls, Ynet reports that the defense establishment is dealing with 85 terror warnings, 14 of them concrete. Islamic Jihad is the main culprit; they’ll be the ones carrying out most of the attacks, now that Hamas needs to keep a slightly cleaner image. ...
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Yale's New Middle East Major
Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 3:16:12 pm PST
Yale is apparently considering the addition of a new major in Modern Middle Eastern Studies, and some students think the problem with the current program is that it’s too pro-United States. NELC major Tammer Qaddumi ‘06 said he thinks the current NELC program is “totally outdated” due to its emphasis on ...
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Dore Gold Replies to Harvard Israel Lobby Paper
Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 1:22:10 pm PST
Former Israeli ambassador to the UN Dore Gold responds to the Walt-Mearsheimer anti-Israel piece, and concludes with a very compelling point: The Basis of the U.S.-Israel Alliance: An Israeli Response to the Mearsheimer-Walt Assault. Does Israel have supporters in the U.S. that back a strong relationship between the two countries? Clearly, ...
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Moussaoui Says He Knew About 9/11
Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 10:47:20 am PST
Zacarias Moussaoui announced in his sentencing trial today that he knew about the 9/11 attacks—and that he was scheduled to hijack a fifth plane and fly it into the White House. ALEXANDRIA, Virginia (CNN) — Al Qaeda conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui testified at his sentencing trial Monday that he knew about the ...
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Source Document: The Pitch for Yale's Taliban Student
Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 10:22:00 am PST
The group who facilitated Taliban spokesman Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi’s funding and acceptance to Yale is The International Education Foundation, and here’s a PDF document from their web site that shows the fuzzy-headed fluffy bunny reasoning behind it: International Education Bridge: The Pitch for Hashemi. (Hat tip: gs.) OUR PLAN ...is to create ...
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Comically Understated Headline of the Day
Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 9:47:22 am PST
From the Christian Science Monitor: Conversion a thorny issue in Muslim world. How thorny? Well... Most mainstream schools of Islamic jurisprudence call for converts to be executed. Though the Koran promises only hellfire for apostates and also says “there should be no compunction in religion,” Islamic jurists have typically argued that execution ...
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Monday Open Thread
Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 9:34:25 am PST
“Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.” — George Santayana
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Krauthammer: Today Tehran, Tomorrow the World
Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 8:39:25 am PST
Here’s a frightening look into our possible futures, if/when Iran’s Manhattan Project reaches fruition, from Charles Krauthammer: Today Tehran, Tomorrow the World. (Hat tip: WriterMom.) Depending on your own beliefs, Ahmadinejad is either mystical or deranged. In either case, he is exceedingly dangerous. And Iran is just the first. With infinitely ...
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Thugs in Expensive Suits Begin Charm Offensive
Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 8:15:27 am PST
The terrorists of Hamas, who know that if they keep pushing they’ll get further concessions from the spineless “international community,” are consulting with their image people and getting their Italian suits freshly laundered: Hamas ready for international Mideast peace push. GAZA CITY (AFP) - Incoming Palestinian prime minister Ismail Haniya said ...
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A Talib at Yale
Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 8:05:38 am PST
On Saturday we had a post about a speech at Yale by female Afghan parliamentarian Malalai Joya, who condemned the college for admitting a former spokesman for the monstrous Taliban government as a special student. Today John Fund looks at the story of Ms Joya’s translator for the evening, Makai Rohbar—who ...
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Steyn: Facing Down Insanity
Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 7:46:04 am PST
Mark Steyn wonders when we’re going to start facing down a culture where they talk like crazies. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) The reality is our society pays enormous respect to minorities — President Bush holds a monthlong Ramadan-a-ding-dong at the White House every year; the immediate reaction to the slaughter of ...
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The Scimitar of Damocles
Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 8:18:41 pm PST
Abdul Rahman faced death for converting to Christianity—but should we have been surprised? Andrew Bostom examines the Islamic roots of the death penalty for apostasy: Under the Scimitar of Damocles.
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Ever Onward
Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 7:10:17 pm PST
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Cycle of Violence: Weekend Rehab
Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 6:38:05 pm PST
Total distance over the weekend: 87 miles, on some different routes, up north into the Palisades (past the house of a woman cyclist I knew who was killed by a motorist) for some difficult climbing. Very chilly in the morning, warming up in the afternoon to the point where I ...
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Australian RoP Convert Charged in Bomb Plot
Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 5:57:01 pm PST
An Australian woman who converted to Islam has been charged with plotting to bomb Sydney. (Hat tip: Jihad Watch.) A woman charged at the weekend with plotting to bomb Sydney was a convert to Islam who planned the attack at the behest of a jailed murderer angered over anti-Muslim race riots ...
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BBC Agenda Surfaces Again
Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 5:37:59 pm PST
Of all the excellent, well-written, passionate and intelligent blogs by Iraqis, which one does the BBC nominate for its non-fiction award? The most anti-American one. Of course. (Hat tip: Allah.) An anonymous blog by a young woman in war-torn Iraq has been longlisted for BBC Four’s Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction. Baghdad ...
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The Crocodile Smiles
Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 4:27:07 pm PST
Like a crocodile with a big friendly grin, Hamas is now saying: Palestinians yearn for peace. GAZA CITY (AFP) - Hamas prime minister designate Ismail Haniya said that the Palestinian people yearned for peace and an end to the cycle of bloodshed in the Middle East. Meanwhile in the real world, ...
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Saudi Students Coming to US Will Quadruple
Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 2:07:38 pm PST
From this article about an increase in Saudi enrollment at the University of Arizona, we learn that the number of Saudi Arabian students coming to the United States will quadruple this year: 100 more Saudis to enroll at Arizona. The UA will enroll about 100 new Saudi Arabian students this summer, ...
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Iraq Embassy: CPT Tools Are "Phony Pacifists"
Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 9:01:18 am PST
The Iraqi embassy in Canada has released a statement about the useful idiots of Christian Peacemaker Teams: Hostages were ‘dupes,’ Iraq says. (Hat tip: Tim Blair.) TORONTO - Iraq’s embassy to Canada lashed out at the Christian Peacemaker Teams Friday, calling them “phoney pacifists” and “dupes” after the antiwar group responded ...
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The Myth Of Palestine
Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 8:43:27 am PST
Here’s an excellent post from Alexandra at All Things Beautiful: The Myth Of Palestine Part II. The “Palestine” lovers are so concerned with a right to a state for a completely new and unprecedented nationality, whereas for some reason the right to self-determination for the world’s oldest nationality— one which has ...
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Fear the Camels of Mass Destruction
Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 8:33:02 am PST
The Iraq War might have turned out very differently if Saddam had been able to deploy his dreaded camels of mass destruction. (Hat tip: Soph.) Earlier this month the Pentagon published on its website original documents in Arabic, hoping to find someone who could translate them. The official, hand-written documents detailed outlined ...
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Afghan Court Drops Case Against Christian Convert
Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 8:16:58 am PST
The apostasy case against Afghan Christian convert Abdul Rahman has been dismissed: Afghan Court Drops Case Against Christian. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) KABUL, Afghanistan - An Afghan court on Sunday dismissed a case against a man who converted from Islam to Christianity because of a lack of evidence and he will ...
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Saturday Night Fence
Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 8:18:53 pm PST
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Put Black and Thick Packet on the Head
Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 6:42:37 pm PST
I’m feeling a serious migraine coming on, trying to follow the shady math, bad grammar, and surreal timelines in this English press release from the news agency of a country that doesn’t exist: MPA: Israel Arrested 40,000 Palestinian during Al-Aqsa Intifada. GAZA, March 25, 2006 (WAFA)- Ministry of Prisoners Affairs (MPA) ...
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Jimmah Wins Lifetime Achievement Shmendrik
Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 6:08:08 pm PST
I hope Jimmy Carter still has room on the mantle next to his Fiskie for his shiny new Shmendrik Award. Shmendrik: (shmen- drik) n. (Yiddish) a pathetic and foolish small time ineffectual loser, a jerk.
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Dems Dump Arab-American Candidate
Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 5:32:41 pm PST
Imagine if you will the hyperbolic outrage from the left if the Republican party pulled something like this: N.J. Dems Dump Arab-American Candidate. TRENTON, N.J. - Democrats pulled an Arab-American candidate from their election ticket on Saturday amid a furor over comments he made four years ago that some interpreted as ...
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Gaddafi Supports Hamas, Still on Terror List
Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 5:16:37 pm PST
Wacky Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi (may his spellings be legion) is doing what every Arab country so far has done—giving vague promises of “support” to Hamas: Libya says it supports Palestinian Hamas. TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi pledged support for Palestinian militant group Hamas, which faces cuts in Western ...
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UNC-Chapel Hill Attacker's Islamic Justification
Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 2:10:59 pm PST
Here’s the full text of the UNC-Chapel Hill car-attack jihadi’s suicide letter, found in his apartment after the attack: Mohammed Taheri-Azar’s letter to police. (Hat tips: rayra and zombie.) In the name of Allah, the merciful, the compassionate. To whom it may concern: I am writing this letter to inform you of my ...
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Female Afghan MP Blasts Yale for Taliban Student
Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 1:47:31 pm PST
Female Afghan parliamentarian Malalai Joya gave a speech at Yale University on Thursday night criticizing US policy in Afghanistan, and had very strong words about Yale’s admission of a former Taliban spokesman: Joya talks on Afghanistan, Hashemi. (Hat tip: Hulugu.) Joya said there has been no fundamental change in democratization and ...
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Saturday Morning Open
Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 9:22:57 am PST
“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.” — Mark Twain
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Christian "Peacemaker" Teams in Hebron
Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 9:02:53 am PST
Here’s a “statement of conviction” at the Christian Peacemaker Teams web site from 1996, when they were aiding the Palestinian terrorist cause by (in their own words) “getting in the way:” CPT in Hebron. (Hat tip: Heather.) We reject the use of force to save our lives should we be caught ...
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UK Jihadis Sold Poisoned Food
Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 8:23:18 am PST
Britain has a very large problem: Bomb plot suspect sold poisoned burgers. AN ISLAMIST terrorist sold poisoned burgers from a street-corner van and planned to contaminate beer at a football stadium, the Old Bailey was told yesterday. The alleged extremist, one of seven on trial for plotting to blow up British targets, ...
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Philly Inquirer Praises Hamas Terrorist
Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 7:59:19 am PST
Today the Philadelphia Inquirer has a nauseating puff piece on Hamas terrorist Abdel Aziz Dweik, headlined: Hamas leader has strong tie to West Phila. (Hat tip: flavadave.) And they say that as if it’s a good thing. Dweik, who wears his moustache short and sports a white beard, is highly educated. He ...
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Karzai Intervenes, Clerics Blame Jews
Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 7:48:19 am PST
Afghan president Hamid Karzai is intervening in the case of the Christian convert threatened with death, but the clerics are not happy about it. And they know who’s really to blame for this. Senior clerics condemned Rahman as an apostate. Rahman had “committed the greatest sin” by converting to Christianity and deserved to ...
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Shameless Lies from James Zogby
Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 7:39:55 am PST
The attempted canonization of ISM terror enabler Rachel Corrie continues relentlessly. The latest is a shamelessly distorted article at the Huffington Post from Arab propagandist James Zogby: Rachel Corrie’s Words. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Three years ago Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old American peace activist was murdered. She sat down in front ...
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Friday Night Beach
Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 7:53:07 pm PST
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Peace Creeps Shun Debriefing
Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 7:02:16 pm PST
Some of the Christian Peacemaker Teams members freed by coalition forces are refusing to share information with their rescuers. The three peace activists freed by an SAS-led coalition force after being held hostage in Iraq for four months refused to co-operate fully with an intelligence unit sent to debrief them, a ...
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Presenting Hamas
Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 6:50:58 pm PST
Meet the new neighbors: Hamas. (Hat tip: Newsbeat 1.)
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If MSM Ran the Country
Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 5:31:38 pm PST
Ben Shapiro envisions a nightmarish future: If the mainstream media ran the country. April 1, 2006, WASHINGTON — Helen Thomas took her oath of office today, officially becoming the 44th president of the United States. The horror.
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Hey Bin Laden
Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 4:43:42 pm PST
If “Patrick Henry’s” new song doesn’t get him a fatwa, nothing will: Hey Bin Laden.
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Russia Gave Saddam War Intel
Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 4:38:35 pm PST
Here’s some new information from those recently released Iraqi documents that’s not exactly surprising—but it will be interesting to watch the diplomatic fallout now that it seems to be confirmed: Pentagon: Russia Gave Saddam War Intel. BAGHDAD, Iraq — The Russian government had sources inside the American military command as ...
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Barsoom in High Res
Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 4:29:34 pm PST
The first photographs from the new High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera orbiting Mars are now posted: Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter: Multimedia.
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Danish Imam Knew of Suicide Operation
Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 4:21:36 pm PST
Agora reports breaking news from Denmark: Imam Abu Laban, the Islamic cleric who toured the Middle East whipping up the Arab Street over the Danish Mohammed cartoons, apparently knew about a planned “martyrdom operation.” Smile! You’re on candid camera. Why haven’t any American journalists done similar kinds of exposés?
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CAIR vs. Anti-CAIR
Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 1:56:43 pm PST
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has dropped their libel suit against Andrew Whitehead of Anti-CAIR: CAIR Settles A Libel Suit Against Critic. No one will say much, under the terms of the settlement, but it looks like CAIR decided to bail out when it appeared the judge might force them ...
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Friday Open Thread
Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 11:34:56 am PST
Here’s an end o’ the week open thread...
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Hamas Security Head Pledges Law and Order, Terror Attacks
Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 10:24:59 am PST
One thing you must admit about Hamas: they’re relatively up-front and honest, as murderous terrorist gangs go. Hamas says won’t arrest militants behind attacks. GAZA (Reuters) - Incoming Palestinian interior minister Saeed Seyam, chosen by Hamas to oversee three security services, said on Thursday he will not order the arrest of ...
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French Antisemitism Watch
Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 9:53:39 am PST
One of the most popular comedians in France is Dieudonné—an antisemitic, hate-spewing lunatic fond of dressing up in Nazi uniforms. When the curtain rises, he is greeted with roars and whoops by a packed, multi-racial audience, which is young, trendy, intellectual and left-wing. Many of them have come straight from the ...
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Maloney Persona Non Grata at Yale
Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 8:28:22 am PST
Yale is really circling the wagons over the case of former Taliban spokesman/now Yale student Syed Rahmatullah Hashmi. Evan Coyne Maloney was thrown off campus yesterday when he tried to get a statement from administrators.
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US Muslims Gaining Foothold in Politics
Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 8:23:29 am PST
Meanwhile, back at home, American Muslims are gaining a foothold in politics. The 9/11 attacks have had a curious double-edged impact on the political emergence of American Muslims. They are up against more stereotyping and backlash, which they perceived recently in the furor over a Dubai company’s thwarted plan to take ...
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Muslim Youth Camp in Iowa Revisited
Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 8:04:39 am PST
In 2003, LGF had a series of posts about Muslim Youth Camps of America, a Saudi-connected Wahhabist group, and their plans to set up a Muslim camp in Iowa with help from the US Army Corps of Engineers. MYCA has now signed the 25-year lease and work will begin soon. (Hat ...
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Thursday Evening Sunset
Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 8:39:21 pm PST
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The David Duke/Radical Islam Convergence
Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 8:25:51 pm PST
Posted at an Australian Islamic site: an open letter supposedly from an American soldier in Iraq, to David Duke.
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Yale's Pet Islamofascist, Post-9/11
Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 7:43:39 pm PST
Courtesy of the September 19, 2001 edition of the New York Times, here’s a picture of Taliban ambassador Syed Rahmatullah Hashmi, now attending Yale University, as he exhibits evil Christian literature confiscated from Western relief groups: Taliban: From Vigilantes to Strict Rulers. (Hat tip: JammieWearingFool.)
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George Galloway: "Show Us the Shekels, Richard"
Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 6:51:44 pm PST
You may already know that malevolent British MP George Galloway is a creep, but you may not realize how much of a creep, until you see this outrageous March 18 appearance on Abu Dhabi TV featuring Galloway’s antisemitic jibes at Richard Perle, courtesy of MEMRI TV. [Video] As you watch, notice how ...
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Taliban Man at Yale
Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 6:07:40 pm PST
John Fund follows up on the case of Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi, former ambassador-at-large for the murderous Afghan Taliban, admitted to Yale as a special student: Taliban Man at Yale. Former Yale president Benno Schmidt says admitting Mr. Hashemi is an exercise in “amorality and cynicism.” He told me that “diversity simply ...
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Reuters Stealth Rewrite Alert
Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 5:48:47 pm PST
Earlier we pointed out this end-of-the-line absurd piece from al-Reuters, arguing that the controversy over the Afghan convert is just like the Muslim world’s reaction to the Danish Mohammed cartoons. ROME (Reuters) - The strong Western response to a threatened death sentence for an Afghan convert to Christianity looks something like ...
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Religion of Tolerance Threatens Dismemberment
Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 5:34:12 pm PST
Nothing less than the death of Christian convert Abdul Rahman will do for the clerics of Afghanistan, and they’re warning that if Hamid Karzai caves in to Western pressure they’ll incite people to pull Rahman into pieces. And those are the moderates. “Rejecting Islam is insulting God. We will not allow God ...
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Gaddafi at Columbia University
Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 4:05:28 pm PST
Columbia University’s Middle East Program had a very special guest for their conference today, noted Libyan strongman/babe magnet/erstwhile terrorist Muammar Gaddafi, who lectured them on democracy. (Hat tip: Ethel.) NEW YORK (Reuters) - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi lectured a U.S. audience on democracy on Thursday and said Libya is the only ...
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Top ABC Producer: "Bush Makes Me Sick"
Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 2:25:54 pm PST
Stories like this one at Drudge Report make it very clear that the pervasive anti-Bush bias of mainstream media is not a figment of our imaginations. A top producer at ABC NEWS declared “Bush makes me sick” in an email obtained by the DRUDGE REPORT. John Green, currently executive producer of the ...
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Harvard Anti-Israel Paper Actually Targets American Public
Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 2:21:37 pm PST
Here’s an excellent response from Ruth Wisse to the Walt/Mearsheimer anti-Israel paper; she makes an essential point about the true target of this scurrilous work: Harvard attack on ‘Israel lobby’ is actually a targeting of American public. Organized as a prosecutorial indictment rather than an inquiry, the essay does not tell ...
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Doctor from the Dark Ages
Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 1:19:45 pm PST
Here’s today’s story of utter depravity: Insurgent doctor killed dozens of wounded soldiers. And notice: Western media has morally neutered themselves so thoroughly that not even a doctor who murders wounded patients is called a “terrorist.” When policemen, soldiers and officials in Kirkuk who were injured in insurgent attacks arrived in the ...
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Melanie Phillips on Walt's Protocols
Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 8:40:12 am PST
Melanie Phillips is spot on, in this comment on the Walt/Mearsheimer anti-Israel article: You have to laugh, though, when the authors try to wrap themselves in the mantle of heroic fighters against the attempt by the ‘Israel lobby’ to stifle them: Anyone who criticizes Israeli actions or says that pro-Israel groups ...
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Peaceful Religion Watch
Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 8:35:40 am PST
At the end of February, in a sermon at the mosque on Temple Mount in Jerusalem, Sheikh Ismail Nawahda called for Islamic world domination. Good luck with that. Sheikh Ismail Nawahda, preaching to Moslem masses on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem on Friday, has brought it out into the open: the call ...
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Freed Peace Creeps Insult Rescuers
Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 8:18:14 am PST
US and British forces located and freed the remaining three hostages from Christian Peacemaker Teams. In return, officials of CPT blamed the coalition for the kidnapping: Three Christian Activists Rescued in Iraq. The Christian Peacemaker Teams said the activists went to Iraq “motivated by a passion for justice and peace.” Group ...
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Danish Imam Caught Making Death Threat on Hidden Camera
Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 7:49:03 am PST
Agora has good coverage of this astounding breaking news from Denmark: Danish Imam Ahmed Akkari: Kill Naser Khader. Imam Ahmed Akkari has issued death threats against Naser Khader of the Social Liberals. Naser Khader founded the organisation “Democratic Moslems” in February, as an organisation for moderate, Democracy-minded Moslems to join. See ...
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Mainstream Media Moral Equivalence Day
Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 7:37:50 am PST
This seems to be Mainstream Media Moral Equivalence Day; Israellycool notices that AP and Reuters are now using the same word to describe Hamas terrorists and Kadima party members—they’re all “militants.”
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Palestinians/AFP Seethe, Whine About Israeli Election
Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 7:30:27 am PST
The LGF Sympathy Meter is still registering absolute zero: We’ll be big losers of Israeli elections: Palestinians. GAZA CITY (AFP) - Palestinians fear they are likely to emerge the real losers of next week’s Israeli election if it paves the way for the ruling Kadima party to push on with its ...
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Insane MSM Comparison of the Day
Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 7:23:17 am PST
Possibly the most insane case of extreme moral equivalence ever seen in mainstream media: Afghan convert controversy mirrors cartoons row. (Hat tip: jj.) ROME (Reuters) - The strong Western response to a threatened death sentence for an Afghan convert to Christianity looks something like a mirror image of the Muslim reaction ...
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Wednesday Night Shoreline
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Cartoon Jihad, Round Two
Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 7:09:12 pm PST
The radical Islamic front is not finished testing the West’s resolve—round two coming up: Muslim scholars gather to defend Prophet after cartoon row. MANAMA (AFP) - Some 300 Muslim religious figures opened a two-day conference in Bahrain in support of the Prophet Mohammed following the row over his depiction in cartoons ...
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Cartoon Jihad Comes to University of Virginia
Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 6:43:06 pm PST
Imam Siraj Wahajj, an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 WTC bombing, gave a speech about America’s need to restrict free speech at the University of Virginia yesterday, as part of the school’s “Muslim Awareness Week” festivities: Imam addresses Islam and the media. (Hat tip: Terp Mole.) At the kickoff event for ...
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Dershowitz Challenges Walt/Mearsheimer to Debate
Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 6:10:12 pm PST
Alan Dershowitz is righteously pissed off about the Walt-Mearsheimer anti-Israel article published in the London Review of Books: ‘AIPAC study is ignorant propaganda’. Prominent Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz is taking on the authors of the study, which blasted the pro-Israel lobby in the United States, AIPAC. Dershowitz, one of Israel’s strongest ...
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Switzerland: Hamas is a Partner
Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 1:53:50 pm PST
Le Mont De Sisyphe reports that the Swiss government has announced they consider Hamas a partner.
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Berkeley Prof: Whiny Babies Don't Hang Loose
Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 1:12:58 pm PST
Oh, for Pete’s sake. Don’t Berkeley wacademics have better things to do than try to prove that “liberals” are genetically superior to “conservatives?” How to spot a baby conservative. (Hat tip: Ethel.) Remember the whiny, insecure kid in nursery school, the one who always thought everyone was out to get him, ...
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UN on Wrong Side of Cartoon Jihad
Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 11:50:15 am PST
Danish toy maker Lego is upset with the United Nations, after the Office of the UN High Commissioner on Human Rights published an “anti-discrimination” poster that uses a Lego building block to smear Denmark: Lego Caught Up In Racism Poster Row. “We feel that the message of this poster can be ...
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Daily Ablution: Proper Handling of a Muslim Offense Emergency
Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 10:47:06 am PST
Scott Burgess outlines the new procedures put in place by the Church in Wales for dealing with sudden outbreaks of dangerous free speech: Case Study: How a Muslim Offence Emergency was Defused by Experts. The Archbishop of Wales, Barry Morgan, still sounds a bit shaken as he recalls his reaction to ...
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UAE Will Fund Hamas
Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 9:57:42 am PST
Our friends in the United Arab Emirates have assured Khaled Meshaal that their oil money will keep flowing to Hamas: Hamas assured of continued UAE aid for Palestinians. DUBAI (AFP) - The militant group Hamas said it was assured that the United Arab Emirates would continue to provide financial aid to ...
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Girl "Loses Right" to Repress Self
Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 9:24:50 am PST
Who writes these headlines for Reuters, anyway? Girl loses right to wear Muslim clothing in school. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) How could she “lose” a “right” she never had? In point of fact, she was suing for a special exemption to school regulations—at a school that had already partly surrendered to ...
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Harvard Distances Itself from Israel Lobby Paper
Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 8:40:02 am PST
At The American Thinker, Ed Lasky notices that the Harvard Kennedy School of Government is retreating from dean Stephen Walt’s anti-Israel paper: The Harvard Kennedy School of Government logo has mysteriously disappeared from the disgracefully shoddy paper recently co-authored by its academic dean Stephen Walt. (The “logo” remains in the Harvard ...
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Afghanistan Human Rights Commission Calls for Death
Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 8:32:13 am PST
Afghanistan is now saying that the Christian convert on trial for his life under barbarous shari’a law is mentally unfit. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) KABUL, Afghanistan - An Afghan man facing a possible death penalty for converting from Islam to Christianity may be mentally unfit to stand trial, a state prosecutor ...
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Hamas Will Keep On Killing
Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 8:15:46 am PST
The leader of Hamas is visiting our friends in the capital of the United Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi, and he says Hamas is going to keep on slaughtering Jews: Hamas leader says won’t renounce ‘armed resistance’. ABU DHABI (Reuters) - Hamas leader-in-exile Khaled Meshaal said on Wednesday the Palestinian militant group ...
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British Buddhists Busted?
Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 8:07:42 am PST
In several wire stories about the capture of a British Islamic terror cell planning attacks in the UK, neither the words “Islam” nor “Muslim” are anywhere to be found. Maybe they were Scientologists? Gang Allegedly Eyed British Bombings. (Hat tip: Steven Den Beste.) LONDON - Suspected terrorists planning attacks in Britain ...
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Tuesday Night Fence
Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 8:59:51 pm PST
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UN Springs Into Action, Stymied
Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 6:36:14 pm PST
Actually, today the UN Security Council sprang into inaction. In fact, the United Nations is now officially “stymied.” UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council failed to reach an accord on Tuesday on how to respond to Iran’s nuclear programs even as President George W. Bush warned Tehran could blackmail ...
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Damned Lies and Statistics
Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 5:53:41 pm PST
I received this email from a reader on Sunday evening (but as usual my email is so backed up that I didn’t get to it until now). I’m going to post the whole thing, because it gives the lie to much of the incessant defeatism of the left/media in a ...
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Industrious Moonbats Work Wonders with Papier Mache
Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 4:41:42 pm PST
Age of Hooper has a funny video from yesterday’s fizzled moronic convergence in Washington DC, and since he knows I love the moonbats’ papier mache puppets (they work so hard at them!) he sent along five great photos of the radical puppet squad, which I have turned into a small ...
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French Politicians Subsidize Islamist Groups
Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 4:18:14 pm PST
It’s a week old, but this little story of French dhimmitude has not been reported anywhere else (to my knowledge): French politicians subsidize Islamist Groups. (Hat tip: Doss.) After Nord-Eclair, France-Echos and Caroline Fourest, the weekly newspaper Marianne reveals one of the biggest scandals of modern France: in Roubaix and in ...
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Hamas Finance Minister to EU: We Don't Need Your Infidel Money
Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 2:54:07 pm PST
The new finance minister for Hamastan, recently released on parole from an Israeli prison, says Palestinians can live without EU aid. BERLIN (AFP) - The Palestinian territories could survive without aid from the European Union and would find funding elsewhere if necessary, the German press reported the Palestinian finance minister designate ...
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Prospects of Terror: An Inquiry into Jihadi Alternatives (1)
Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 2:30:20 pm PST
Here’s Part One of a provocative, closely reasoned and very readable essay by J.R. Dunn, former editor of the International Military Encyclopedia: Prospects of Terror: An Inquiry into Jihadi Alternatives. This [the cartoon jihad] was not a conspiracy against Denmark, but against the West and all its values. The only way ...
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Tuesday Open Thread
Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 9:09:03 am PST
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Archbishop of Wales Grovels, Censors Magazine
Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 8:28:55 am PST
Utterly embarrassing groveling from the Archbishop of Wales today, after the church’s magazine printed a completely inoffensive cartoon—a cartoon that actually had a message of tolerance: Church recalls ‘Prophet’ magazine. The Church in Wales has recalled 500 copies of its magazine featuring a cartoon caricaturing the Prophet Muhammad. The editor has resigned ...
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Swedish Foreign Minister Quits
Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 8:09:47 am PST
Sweden’s foreign minister Laila Freivald resigned today, after accusations that she acted unconstitutionally by shutting down a web site that published the [Popup]. (Hat tip: Sugiero.) Laila Freivald resigned as Sweden’s foreign minister on Tuesday with immediate effect, after accusations that she acted unconstitutionally by closing a far-right web site that ...
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Malaysia Threatens Islam Critics
Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 8:02:11 am PST
Today the “moderate” Islamic government of Malaysia issued a sinister warning to non-Muslims. MALAYSIA’S de facto law minister has threatened to jail or fine non-Muslims who insult Islam, amid concern over recent articles perceived as attacking the religion. Mohamad Nazri Abdul Aziz said the country’s sedition act could be used on non-Muslims ...
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Major Terror Attack Stopped
Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 7:44:37 am PST
Those poor oppressed Palestinians were caught today trying to bring a suicide bomb belt into Israel to commit mass murder: Highway drama: Terror attack foiled. Major attack foiled: Security forces recovered a 5-kilogram (11 pounds) explosive belt in a vehicle on the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv Highway Tuesday, bringing to an end a ...
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Monday Night Shoreline
Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 9:05:30 pm PST
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"The Embodiment of All That Good and More"
Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 7:40:30 pm PST
In a monumental wall of text published by the Yemen Times, Hassan Al-Haifi pays tribute to the American useful idiot: Of course, we remember Rachel Corrie. For all the ugliness that the current White House administration and the Neo-con/Zionist Establishment represent, there are indeed shining beacons that remind us and the ...
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EU Will Fund Hamas
Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 6:13:18 pm PST
The European Union will be giving $78 million to Hamas: EU to sign aid for Palestinians. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) — The European Union will sign a deal Monday with the United Nations granting euro64 million (US$78 million) in urgent aid for Palestinians, but much more in future funding ...
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The World's Smallest Anti-War Protest, Chanting Just for You
Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 6:06:06 pm PST
War protest at Hayworth office draws 2. (Hat tip: zombie.) SCOTTSDALE - It was a very small army that protested the Iraq war Friday outside the Scottsdale offices of U.S. Rep. J.D. Hayworth. Only two peace activists stood near Raintree Drive and Northsight Boulevard, holding anti-war posters for passing cars to see. The ...
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Hitchens: My Ideal War
Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 5:41:52 pm PST
Great column from Christopher Hitchens on the international dysfunctional community: My Ideal War. As for the “terror” connection, Hayes in a series of unrebutted articles has laid out a tranche of suggestive and incriminating connections, based on a mere fraction of the declassified documents, showing Iraqi Baathist involvement with jihadist and ...
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What If They Gave an Anti-War Rally and Nobody Came?
Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 3:24:12 pm PST
Today’s protest in Washington DC drew a whopping 166 people. Don’t let anybody lie to you. Age of Hooper counted them. From the looks of it, there were almost more giant papier mache puppets than people.
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Iran's Nuke Project Could Be Destroyed in 2 Days
Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 2:43:07 pm PST
Conventional wisdom asserts that Iran’s nuclear facilities are so dispersed throughout the country and have such well-hardened defenses that it would be very difficult to take them out quickly. But a former senior CIA operative has told The Jerusalem Post that the United States could put a stop to Iran’s ...
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Stephen Walt's War with Israel
Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 9:19:38 am PST
The left is frothing over a new article from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government that will no doubt be featured in every CAIR press release from now on, a lengthy diatribe about the Israeli lobby’s control of the United States, and our need to have closer ties with Islamic nations. The ...
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The Cartoon Jihad Is Not Finished
Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 8:59:07 am PST
The Danish imams who incited the Islamic world into a frenzy by touring the Middle East with the Mohammed cartoons (and a few fakes to make them seem worse) are going to the Middle East again, after the Danish government refused to charge the cartoonists with blasphemy. It was arranged by ...
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Dark Ages Story of the Day
Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 8:36:12 am PST
Afghan Christian Could Get Death Sentence. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) KABUL, Afghanistan - An Afghan man is being prosecuted in a Kabul court and could be sentenced to death on a charge of converting from Islam to Christianity, a crime under this country’s Islamic laws, a judge said Sunday. The trial is ...
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The Glory of Shari'a
Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 8:25:56 am PST
More than 6,000 women are facing charges under Pakistan’s “Hudud” laws for the crime of being raped: Thousands of Pakistani women face charges under Islamic laws. Islamabad: Nearly 80 percent of the more than 6,000 women and girls on trial in Pakistan are facing charges under the controversial “Hudood” Islamic laws ...
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Palestinian Civil War Watch
Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 8:06:52 am PST
Gunmen besiege Gaza ministries, three wounded. GAZA CITY (AFP) - Palestinian gunmen laid siege to two government ministries in the Gaza Strip in shootouts with police officers that left three people wounded. Demanding jobs, members of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a faction loosely affiliated to the defeated former ruling Fatah party, forced ...
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What Didn't the President Say?
Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 8:03:02 am PST
Ever since President Bush violated the mainstream media’s script by winning the 2004 election the wire services have been in a non-stop frenzy of retaliatory reporting. Now it’s reached the point where they’ve completely stopped pretending to be “impartial,” and instead release one ludicrous “news” piece after another—like this one ...
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American Muslims Hating US Troops
Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 9:00:25 pm PST
A pro-US article posted on an Islamic web site by a Muslim serving in the US armed forces provokes some very disturbing responses: You are the biggest idiot I have ever met. You arent loyal to Muslims? What God do you believe in? Our God in Islam states that we have to ...
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Swastikas Are Trendy in Cairo
Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 7:42:20 pm PST
At Rantings of a Sandmonkey, we discover that swastikas are trendy in Cairo. (Hat tip: Kilgore Trout.) Two weeks ago, while riding in a car with a friend, I saw something that made my mouth drop in awe. I saw this guy on a motorcycle who was wearing a black Jacket ...
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Vatican Change of Heart over Crusades
Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 6:31:13 pm PST
We’ve been noticing that the Vatican under Pope Benedict XVI has been taking a much stronger stance against the global jihad, and today the Times reports that this new attitude is leading to a reexamination of the Crusades: Vatican change of heart over ‘barbaric’ Crusades. (Hat tip: Allah.) THE Vatican has ...
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Iraqi Cleric Promotes Jihad on Saudi TV
Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 6:02:31 pm PST
On the new Saudi Arabian channel Al-Risala TV (a project of Saudi Prince Alwaleed ibn Talal), an Iraqi cleric promotes violent jihad for two reasons: to take revenge on the West, and spread Islam. (Courtesy of MEMRI TV.) [Video] Host: Dr. Ahmad, do you think that international treaties can resolve the West’s conflict ...
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Moronic Convergence in Hollywood
Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 4:44:31 pm PST
LGF operative Ringo the Gringo was at yesterday’s moronic convergence in Hollywood with his camera, and emailed more than 80 photos of the reality-based community doing the anti-war mambo. The crowds are getting smaller at these demonstrations, but as you’ll see in this slideshow I put together, the remaining moonbats ...
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One in 10 Indonesians Back Suicide Bombings
Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 4:02:53 pm PST
In Indonesia, the showcase “moderate” Islamic state, eleven percent of Muslims say suicide bombings are justifiable, and almost half support stoning adulterers to death: One in 10 Indonesians back suicide bombings-survey. The survey, based on 1,200 respondents across Indonesia’s 33 provinces, showed 11.2 percent believed suicide bombings were justifiable on occasion ...
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AP's Democratic Operative Strikes Again
Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 2:10:48 pm PST
Well, the blogosphere has already chewed over this latest example of astoundingly brazen bias masquerading as “news,” from Associated Press Democratic operative Jennifer Loven, but here it is just for the record—to mark one more grim milestone on mainstream media’s descent into irrelevance: Bush Using Straw-Man Arguments in Speeches. WASHINGTON - ...
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Sunday Morning Open Thread
Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 9:07:40 am PST
“Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.” —W. C. Fields
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Saudis Helped Destroy Giant Afghan Buddhas
Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 8:57:12 am PST
One of the most infamous acts of the Taliban when they ruled Afghanistan was the destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas, giant 1500-year old statues carved into the side of a mountain. At the time, all the members of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, including Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, condemned ...
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SF Chronicle Hypes Mama Moonbat
Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 8:26:53 am PST
The San Francisco Chronicle is still trying to promote Cindy Sheehan, long after most of the country has seen through her naïve/cynical “anti-war” shtick: Cindy Sheehan’s year of living famously. (Hat tip: Ethel.) The sun is rising over a house in the Berkeley Hills, and in its modest studio apartment, America’s ...
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Iran's Secret Talks with Iraqi Terrorists
Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 7:45:06 am PST
The Telegraph reports that Iran has been holding secret meetings with Iraqi extremists, preparing to wage a proxy war against the West: Iran’s secret talks with Iraqi militants spark fears of proxy war. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Iran held secret talks with Shia militant leaders from Iraq and Lebanon only days ...
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Pull the Plug on UNRWA
Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 7:42:44 am PST
Jonathan Tobin says it’s time to pull the plug on the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, that hopelessly corrupt agency that exists solely to perpetuate the Arab-Israeli conflict. FOR 56 years, UNRWA has been the symbol of the world’s double standard about the war on Israel by the Arab world. ...
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Another Ho-Hum Moronic Convergence
Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 8:38:26 pm PST
So I’m all like, watching the Iraq War protests today, and what do I see? American flag with a peace symbol in place of the stars? Check. Aging Marin County hippies who think CODEPINK is groovy? Check. Angry chicks dressed in bed sheets? Check. It all seems so familiar. So tedious. What keeps these moonbats interested, march ...
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The Lodi Jihad Trial
Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 6:41:08 pm PST
Another case that seems to be under a media blackout is the Lodi terror cell trial in Sacramento. The American press seems to have collectively (either deliberately or with a dumb herd animal mentality) decided to downplay and/or ignore all evidence of terrorist activity inside the US, because this trial ...
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Huge Amount of Explosives Near Egyptian Border
Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 5:14:31 pm PST
The smugglers have been busy since Israel turned over control of the Egyptian border to the Palestinian Authority: Egypt uncovers explosives near border. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Egyptian security forces recently uncovered 1.5 tons of TNT explosives near the border with Israel. A report on the discovery was relayed to Israel while ...
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Egyptian Blogger Expelled from Al-Azhar
Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 3:37:15 pm PST
One of the reasons we see so few rational Muslims speaking out against the tide of jihad is that when they do, this happens. (Or worse.) Abdel Karim Suliman, the Egyptian blogger who was arrested then released for his controversial views, was expelled from his university Al Azhar. Abdel Karim Nabil ...
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How I Learned to Love the Wall
Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 12:00:48 pm PST
After blasting the New York Times for their latest episode of iniquity earlier, it’s only fair to point out that they also published a great piece by Irshad Manji today: How I Learned to Love the Wall. They’re right that Palestinians are virtually wailing at “the wall.” When I went to ...
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Al Qaeda Visits the Palace of Westminster
Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 8:41:22 am PST
This week the first Muslim to receive a life peerage from the British government, Lord Ahmed, invited a terror suspect linked to Al Qaeda to visit him—inside the Houses of Parliament: Al Qaeda in Commons. (Hat tip: Dodgeblogium.) A TERROR suspect allegedly linked to al Qaeda has visited the Houses of ...
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Ummah.com Internet Radio Show
Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 8:35:45 am PST
Listen to the seething of the ummah live, on Noor Radio. (Hat tip: M.) Currently featuring an African-American revert from New Jersey.
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Hamas Set to Launch Terrorist "Government"
Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 8:11:25 am PST
The death cult is going through the motions of announcing a government... GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Hamas said Saturday it has formed a government two weeks before a deadline but apparently without coalition partners that might have softened the Islamic militant group’s image. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who has to approve ...
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Gray Lady Admits Being Willingly Taken In
Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 7:53:22 am PST
As we noted earlier this week, the New York Times was so eager to splash another Abu Ghraib story all over Page One that they let themselves be hoodwinked by a fraud: Cited as Symbol of Abu Ghraib, Man Admits He Is Not in Photo. In the summer of 2004, a ...
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Friday Night Cove
Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 9:09:12 pm PST
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Dreamworks Library Sold to Soros
Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 8:22:31 pm PST
Left wing billionaire übermoonbat George Soros has purchased the Dreamworks film library from Viacom: DreamWorks films sold for $900m to Soros consortium. (Hat tip: Newsbeat1.) GEORGE SOROS, the billionaire financier, has taken control of the film library of DreamWorks SKG from Viacom, the entertainment giant, in a deal worth $900 million ...
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Religion of Peace and Tolerance Watch
Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 6:51:21 pm PST
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VDH: Teflon Europe
Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 6:11:23 pm PST
Some good points about the eternal double standard, from Victor Davis Hanson: Teflon Europe. The prison at Guantanamo Bay was designed to interrogate terrorists and jihadists swept up from the battlefield: the idea was to keep them as prisoners of war in a war that was undeclared, and as enemy combatants ...
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Arafish Evolves
Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 4:46:17 pm PST
Allow me to introduce you to a distant cousin of the species Arafish, a land-dwelling mammal we’ll call “Arachimp.” (Hat tip: MikeO.) (From a Russian art exhibit; other chimp characters are here.)
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CAIR Calls for Probe of US Role in Israeli Prison Attack
Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 4:20:58 pm PST
The Council on American-Islamic Relations today called for an investigation into Palestinian accusations that America helped Israel in the Jericho prison operation: CAIR Calls for Probe of U.S. Role in Israeli Prison Attack. WASHINGTON, March 16 /U.S. Newswire/ — A prominent national Islamic civil rights and advocacy group today called for ...
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Sistani: "Gays Should Be Killed in Worst Way Possible."
Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 4:09:17 pm PST
Here’s a disturbing report at Healing Iraq: Sistani: “Gays Should Be Killed in Worst Way Possible.” His Eminence, Grand Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani, the supreme religious authority for Shi’ite Msulims in Iraq and worldwide, decrees that gays and lesbians should be killed in the worst manner possible, according to this news article ...
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Left Still Trying to Canonize Corrie
Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 3:55:23 pm PST
Here we go again with another attempted hagiography of Rachel Corrie (lgf: search), the International Solidarity Movement member killed by an Israeli bulldozer, at the Seattle PI of course: Rachel’s story needs to be told, now. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) They never stop trying to turn her into an American ...
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RoP Debates Best Method of Genocide
Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 3:01:49 pm PST
At Britain’s Ummah.com, the friendly inhabitants are trying to figure out why Westerners object to them wiping Israel off the map, preferably with nukes. In a hellish parody of leftist moral equivalence, they ask: If the atomic bombings of Japan can be justified, then why not bombing of Israel? Abdullah al-Muhajir Muwahhid ...
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Berkeley Paper Prints Dreaded Cartoons
Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 2:14:32 pm PST
Berkeley’s conservative student paper, the California Patriot, is humiliating and offending 1.2 billion Muslims with their latest edition: The little cartoons that started a great big war ... and why they have to be published. Seething to follow. UPDATE at 3/17/06 2:22:40 pm: Cancel the seethe alert; the MSA in Berkeley is getting ...
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RoP Murder in Trinidad?
Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 11:57:09 am PST
We’ve covered two stories in the past year about jihad activity in the Caribbean Republic of Trinidad and Tobago; today we have the curious news that a Muslim man has been found beheaded there: Murder victim beheaded. (Hat tip: Ringo the Gringo.) The slaying of Rasheed Ali was the sixth murder ...
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Danish Islamists Appeal to UN
Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 9:59:39 am PST
Islamist front groups in Denmark, having failed to get the Danish government to punish Jyllands-Posten newspaper for publishing the dreaded cartoons of blasphemy, are now calling out the big guns—the United Nations Human Rights Commission: Danish Muslims sue over Muhammad cartoons. (Hat tip: Allah.) Danish Muslim groups are to report Denmark ...
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Hate Like an Egyptian Pop Star
Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 9:46:08 am PST
Sexy Egyptian pop idol Sha’ban Abd Al-Rahim (lgf: search) is back, with a new song and video about the heinous cartoons of heresy. (From MEMRI TV.) Catchy stuff. [Video] We are completely fed up. We are completely fed up. We are completely fed up. But there are no solutions. Humiliation has reached even the religion and the ...
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Terror Threat Causes University Evacuation, MSM Yawns
Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 8:58:50 am PST
Here’s a story that shows just how complacent and uncaring mainstream media has become about the possibility of terror attacks inside the United States, as New Mexico State University is evacuated after a bomb threat from a man with an Arabic accent using the words “Al Qaeda”—and the only place ...
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Iraq Documents Show Saddam Terror Connections
Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 8:37:53 am PST
The trove of documents discovered in Iraq has been released to the public, and we’re now starting to see the results; Michelle Malkin has some early translations that are already making clear Saddam Hussein’s connections to terrorists—including Osama bin Laden.
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Useful Idiot Writes Home
Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 9:27:11 pm PST
Here’s an email from happy hostage Douglas Johnson, at the Louisville Peace Community. I’m not going to talk about the blow by blow account of the abduction. The bottom line is that I walked away that day while several poor souls perished in Jericho while fighting for their freedom and ...
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Jerusalem Mayor Offers Child Peddlers Education, Training
Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 8:43:43 pm PST
This is how Israelis treat Arab children turned out onto the streets by their parents: Jerusalem to offer child peddlers training, money for studying. (Hat tip: hg.) Dozens of junctions between French Hill and the outskirts of Ramallah have in recent years become a job site for children hawking their wares ...
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Thursday Moonlight Thread
Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 8:26:24 pm PST
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Jihadi Propaganda on HAM Radio?
Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 8:17:30 pm PST
An interesting email from an LGF reader who’s still using his HAM radio: I was tuning in to my radio scanner, and heard this on one of the HAM radio repeaters (as much as I can remember): “How many have died today in Iraq looking for Weapons of Mass Destruction that do ...
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Laughably Biased Headline of the Day
Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 8:11:10 pm PST
I mean, really. Reuters isn’t even trying to hide it any more: Bush clings to pre-emptive force. And the first paragraph reinforces the message in case you missed it: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush clung to his doctrine of using preemptive force against threats of weapons of mass destruction on ...
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Caterpillar Siege Continues
Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 7:29:35 pm PST
One thing you’ve got to admit about the anti-Israel forces (left-wingers allied with radical Palestinians)—they’re relentless. The groups assigned to keep pressure on Caterpillar (lgf: search) are at it again in Michigan: Protesters in Novi pressure Caterpillar to stop sales to Israel. (Hat tip: Vortec.) NOVI — About 50 Palestinian-Americans and members ...
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RoP Strikes in Southern Thailand
Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 3:13:17 pm PST
Violence hits southern Thailand. (Hat tip: Luigi.) At least five people have been killed in southern Thailand after suspected Islamic militants attacked a government building, police said. The attackers riddled the office with bullets in the village of Pado in the Pattani province, they said. ... The gunmen attacked the office during a ...
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The Fallaci Code
Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 2:50:46 pm PST
At LA Weekly, Brendan Bernhard does an excellent review of Oriana Fallaci’s new book The Force of Reason: The Fallaci Code. In the 1960s and ’70s, when she was a Vietnam War correspondent and a legendarily ferocious interviewer — going mano a mano with the likes of Henry Kissinger and Yasser ...
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Aznar: Iran's #1 Priority is "Setting Israel on Fire"
Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 2:13:35 pm PST
Iran’s “supreme leader,” the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, told former Spanish prime minister Jose Maria Aznar in 2001 that Iran’s number one priority was “setting Israel on fire.” (Hat tip: mich-again.) Former Spanish prime minister Jose Maria Aznar said Tuesday that Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told him five years ago that “setting ...
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Denmark Won't Charge Jyllands-Posten
Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 9:14:39 am PST
Denmark still refuses to give in to Islamic intimidation: Danish paper faces no charges over Muhammad cartoons. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Denmark’s chief prosecutor says that he will not press charges against the newspaper that first published the Prophet Muhammad cartoons that angered Muslims worldwide. The Foreign Ministry warned that the decision ...
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The Nutroots Manifesto
Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 8:44:57 am PST
A reality-based book review by Mark Coffey: The Nutroots® Manifesto. The following is a summation of the exciting new bestseller, Crushing The Hedge: Nutroots®, Nutmeg, and Other Spicy Political Diversions: 1. It’s All About the Winning “They want to make me into the latest Jesse Jackson, but I’m not ideological at all,” ...
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Massive Air Assault in Iraq
Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 8:31:02 am PST
A massive assault is now underway against terrorist strongholds in the Sunni Triangle of Iraq: Largest Iraq Air Assault Since ‘03 Begins. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. forces, joined by Iraqi troops, on Thursday launched the largest airborne assault since the U.S.-led invasion, targeting insurgent strongholds north of ...
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Death Cult Prison Time
Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 8:16:38 am PST
The Palestinian terrorists apprehended yesterday by the IDF in Jericho were living in luxury, in what was supposed to be a “jail.” (Hat tip: Joel.) BRITAIN made a robust defence yesterday of its decision to pull out of Jericho prison before an Israeli raid, citing fears that its monitors would be ...
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Did Pakistan Tilt the 9/11 Report?
Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 8:02:39 am PST
Hard to know how much credibility to give this report in an Indian paper (citing a Pakistani paper), but it might help explain the numerous inadequacies and blind spots in the 9/11 Commission report: Pakistan weekly spills 9/11 beans. (Hat tip: Allah.) New Delhi, March 12: The Pakistan foreign office had ...
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Palestinian Economy in Big Trouble
Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 7:53:45 am PST
There must be something wrong with my LGF Sympathy Meter; I can’t seem to get any reading on this story: World Bank warns of dire outlook for Palestinian economy. WASHINGTON (AFP) - The Palestinian economy risks implosion from an Israeli crackdown and threatened cuts in foreign aid following the election victory ...
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Geeks for the Ethical Treatment of Robots
Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 6:25:30 pm PST
Isaac Asimov is spinning in his grave: Slashdot | U.S. Army Robots Break Asimov’s First Law.
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Clooney Don't Blog
Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 5:37:11 pm PST
George Clooney would like us all to know that he did not “blog” at Arianna Huffington’s site. Oscar winner George Clooney may make politically provocative films like “Syriana.” But he doesn’t write politically provocative blogs. So imagine his ire when Arianna Huffington used some of his recent answers to political questions in ...
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Loony ArabNews Rant of the Day
Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 3:05:53 pm PST
One of the craziest writers at the ArabNews site is Saudi princess Reem Mohammed al-Faisal (lgf: search), and yesterday she uncorked a fine example of state-of-the-art Islamic ranting, with a veneer of globalism and socialism to appeal to Western moonbats: Can a Value System Supposedly Primitive Pose a Threat to ...
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LGF Audio: Jail Imam's Speech to MSA
Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 1:13:15 pm PST
We’ve had several reports on the head of Islamic chaplains in the New York City Department of Corrections, who gave a speech to a Muslim Students Association meeting in which he said the “greatest terrorists in the world occupy the White House,” Jews control the media, and Muslims are being ...
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UK Police Arrest 5 Cartoon Jihadists
Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 10:04:24 am PST
The British have arrested five of the demonstrators who took part in the astonishing display of savagery outside the Danish embassy in London last month: Five arrested over London cartoons protest. (Hat tip: Ethel.) Five men were arrested today over their alleged role in protests outside the Danish Embassy in ...
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Daily Illini Surrenders to Cartoon Jihad, Fires Editor
Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 9:33:43 am PST
The editor of the University of Illinois’ student paper, the Daily Illini, has been fired for publishing the Danish Mohammed cartoons. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) CHAMPAIGN, Illinois (AP) — An editor who chose to publish caricatures of Prophet Mohammed in the University of Illinois’ student-run newspaper last month has been fired, ...
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Ahmadinejad: West Doesn't Want Us to Nuke Israel
Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 9:29:04 am PST
Iranian madman Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has figured out the secret reason why the West is so opposed to Iran’s nuclear ambitions: because they don’t want him to nuke Israel. Iran’s Ahmadinejad: West opposes our nukes to let Israel live on. (Hat tip: Allah.) “Our enemies on the one hand oppose our nation’s acquisition ...
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EU Toads Seethe, Whine
Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 8:09:23 am PST
The unelected Jew-hating bureaucrats of the European Union are seething and whining, after being deprived of their opportunity to hear the great and powerful Abu Mazen speak: Euro deputies round on Israel after jail raid ends Abbas visit. Keep in mind that both Mahmoud Abbas and the Hamas thugs taking power ...
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Islamic Leaders Support Hamas, Hate Israel
Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 7:58:44 am PST
The first act of the evil hypocrites of The Organization of the Islamic Conference in their meeting with Hamas terrorist leaders in Saudi Arabia: Islamic FMs condemn Israel’s ‘state terrorism’. In other words, business as usual. Obsessed, sick, death-loving business as usual.
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Abu Mazen Says...
Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 7:30:04 am PST
Abbas Calls Raid an ‘Unforgivable Crime’.
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UNC Attacker: "Allah Gives Permission in the Koran..."
Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 8:37:34 pm PST
The former University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill student who drove an SUV into a crowd, intending to kill as many people as possible, has written a letter to a local TV channel: Taheri-azar Writes to Eyewitness News. (Hat tip: SoCalJustice.) Eyewitness News received the letter Monday, in response to our request ...
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Moonbat Photo of the Day
Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 5:52:29 pm PST
The photo was taken at International Women’s Day festivities in Venezuela. Don’t ask me what Chimpy McSatan has to do with International Women’s Day. (Hat tip: Allah. This picture is popular during South American moonbat mating rituals; I believe I’ve featured it at LGF previously—those US flags flying from comically exaggerated ...
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Wildly Inappropriate Hostage Reaction Watch
Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 3:42:56 pm PST
An American professor who works in Jenin (aka “the city of the bombers”) and was kidnapped by Palestinian thugs sympathizes with their rage: Palestinians Attack Foreigners After Raid. In Gaza, gunmen went from room to room in hotels, looking for foreigners. By mid-afternoon, they had taken a Swiss Red Cross worker, ...
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60 Minutes: On the Wrong Side of the Cartoon Jihad
Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 3:24:07 pm PST
One of Denmark’s most distinguished journalists, Samuel Rachlin, debunks Bob Simon’s incredibly distorted piece for 60 Minutes, “The State of Denmark:” The Correspondent’s New Clothes. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) WASHINGTON - The picture of Denmark presented by CBS and its 60 Minutes magazine on American TV as a country of aggrandizing, ...
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Harvard Students Launch Iran Freedom Concert
Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 3:13:07 pm PST
A coalition of students at Harvard is leading a new drive to support the Iranian student movement for reform, and this Saturday, March 18, they’re kicking off the campaign with an Iran Freedom Concert.
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Bloomberg Won't Fire Radical Prison Imam
Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 2:02:16 pm PST
Unbelievably idiotic statements from New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, who today equated jihad recruitment in prisons to “free speech,” and refused to fire Umar Abdul-Jalil even after he was caught on tape sounding just like a radical Saudi preacher: Imam under fire for incendiary remarks keeps city job. (Hat tip: ...
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Tuesday, the Open Thread
Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 9:05:11 am PST
Here we have the Tuesday open thread...
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NY Times Peddles Phony Abu Ghraib Story
Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 8:32:29 am PST
The New York Times has been caught peddling a phony front page story about Abu Ghraib, an interview with a man who said he was the infamous hooded prisoner: N.Y. Times’ Iraq Detainee Story Challenged. NEW YORK - The New York Times is investigating questions raised about the identity of a ...
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JihadTV Coming to a Station Near You
Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 8:09:04 am PST
The propaganda arm of the global jihad is preparing to launch an English version: Al Jazeera aims to go global - in English. And they’ve paid off some Westerners to shill for them. DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - Five years after Al Jazeera shot to public attention during the US invasion of ...
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Death Cult in a Rage
Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 7:55:45 am PST
The IDF has raided a Palestinian jail in Jericho, to stop the Palestinian Authority from releasing the murderers of Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavam Zeevi: Israeli Raid on Jail Enrages Palestinians. In response, Palestinian thugs are attacking British and US assets, looting, burning, and kidnapping. Palestinian militants set fire to the British ...
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Monday Night Shoreline
Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 9:04:30 pm PST
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CAIRful
Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 7:53:21 pm PST
From Cox & Forkum Editorial Cartoons.
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Join Hamas, You Lose Too
Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 6:49:30 pm PST
So far the US is standing firm against international pressure that wants us to deny the genocidal nature of Hamas: Fatah faces US cutoff if it joins Hamas government. JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Washington plans to curtail contacts with President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah faction and other parties if they join a Palestinian ...
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Captured Documents to Be Released
Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 5:43:09 pm PST
Stephen Hayes reports that the documents captured in post-war Afghanistan and Iraq will finally be released. The Bush administration has decided to release most of the documents captured in post-war Afghanistan and Iraq. The details of the document release are still being worked out, according to officials with knowledge of the ...
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Sheehan Doc Nixes Euro Jaunt
Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 5:39:50 pm PST
Mother Sheehan has canceled her trip to the Continent of Enlightenment, after an encounter with the brutal Gestapo-like tactics of Chimpy McHitlerstein’s fascist regime: Sheehan Cancels Trip to Europe. PARIS - Peace activist Cindy Sheehan has canceled a trip to Paris and other European cities because of injuries she allegedly sustained ...
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Review: Eurabian Nightmares
Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 5:06:18 pm PST
Here’s an interesting review of Bruce Bawer’s new book While Europe Slept, by Andrew Bostom: Eurabian Nightmares. The final two sections of While Europe Slept elaborate how even two cataclysmic events—the 9/11/01 and 3/11/04 mass murdering acts of jihad terrorism—failed to alter Western Europe’s self-destructive capitulation to Islamic atavism. Bawer recalls ...
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"We're the Ones Who Will Change You"
Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 2:26:13 pm PST
Mullah Krekar, an Al Qaeda-linked Islamic leader who was granted refugee status in Norway, told a Norwegian newspaper today that Islam will win. (Hat tip: Jihad Watch.) Norway’s most controversial refugee, Mullah Krekar, told an Oslo newspaper on Monday that there’s a war going on between “the West” and Islam. He ...
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You've Got Mail (It's From Yale)
Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 1:59:25 pm PST
Yale’s response to the criticism over their admission of a Taliban representative is to say nothing and hope it blows over. But John Fund looks at one Yale official’s unofficial response, in the latest episode of When Wacademics Attack! You’ve Got Mail (It’s From Yale). (Hat tip: Ethel.) The president’s alma ...
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TSA Lawyer Compromises Moussaoui Trial
Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 10:59:02 am PST
Oh brother. Judge Unexpectedly Halts Moussaoui Trial. ALEXANDRIA, Va. - An angry federal judge considered Monday whether to dismiss the government’s death penalty case against confessed al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui after a federal attorney coached witnesses in violation of her rules. “I do not want to act precipitously,” U.S. District Judge Leonie ...
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Monday Morning Open Thread
Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 9:41:06 am PST
Monday thread now open for verbosity...
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The Nightmare This Time
Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 9:29:23 am PST
Here’s an excellent piece by Graham Allison on the catastrophic consequences for the US if Iran is allowed to become a nuclear state: The nightmare this time.
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The Crime of Being a Muslim Charity
Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 8:56:59 am PST
Last month we had a press release from the Treasury Department, announcing the freezing of the assets of an Islamic charity named KindHearts for Charitable Human Development, because of their many well-documented links to Hamas in Lebanon and the West Bank, and their connections to a US-based Hamas leader. Yesterday the ...
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How Islamic Inventors Changed the World
Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 8:14:07 am PST
Several readers emailed over the weekend about an article in Britain’s The Independent, telling us “How Islamic inventors changed the world.” It’s the standard pro-Islam fare, recounting inventions such as coffee and fountain pens without dwelling much on the fact that all of the inventions took place in the Middle ...
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RSS Improvement Committee Report
Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 6:47:29 pm PST
I’ve been authorized to let you know that the Little Green Footballs RSS feeds have been streamlined and improved and brought up to date with the latest demands from our fascist RSS overlords. This involved separating the feeds into two different flavors of RSS; one that includes most of the ...
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We Got Mail!
Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 6:28:25 pm PST
This morning a creature using an Alaskan ISP happened across Little Green Footballs while searching Google for pictures of Yasser Arafat. Must have been quite a shock. He (somehow I’m confident it’s a “he”) loaded up on exclamation points and fired off the following email through our contact form, with the subject ...
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Cycle of Violence: Ineffable Weather
Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 5:51:01 pm PST
I wasn’t going to ride today, because the forecast was rain and I’m not that hardcore. (It isn’t the rain that bothers me, it’s cleaning the bike afterward.) But when it became clear that the almighty weatherbot had short-circuited again and the rain wasn’t going to materialize, I threw the ...
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Google Purges People's Cube
Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 5:12:58 pm PST
Has Google purged Marxist parody site The People’s Cube from its search index? It certainly looks like it, while jihad sites openly advocating for Al Qaeda continue to be included, both in Google’s search index and as legitimate news at Google News. UPDATE at 3/13/06 2:57:48 pm: Matt Cutts suggests a more ...
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Holocaust History Project Attacked
Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 2:39:35 pm PST
Disturbing news from San Antonio, where an office of the Holocaust History Project was targeted by arsonists earlier this week: Trial By Fire: The Holocaust History Project Won’t Be Silenced. There doesn’t seem to be one word about this story in mainstream media.
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Sunday Morning Open Thread
Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 10:26:43 am PST
Stand back, it’s the Sunday morning open thread...
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British Press Shuts Out Mark Steyn
Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 8:09:55 am PST
Mark Steyn’s column is no longer available in the British press; according to the Guardian’s Lionel Shriver, Steyn has now been dropped from both the Sunday Telegraph and the Spectator. (Hat tip: Tim Blair.) And there’s very little doubt that it’s because of his clear-headed, uncompromising writing about Islam. UPDATE at 3/12/06 ...
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Al Qaeda and Google
Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 7:52:48 am PST
Al Qaeda is using a service run by Google to spread propaganda and recruit killers for the global jihad—and Google (who censors search results for the Chinese government) won’t shut them down: Bin Laden Fan Clubs Go Online. Al-Qaeda sympathizers are using Orkut, a popular, worldwide Internet service owned by Google, ...
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Islamic Murder Bounty
Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 7:31:01 am PST
Agora reports that a Bar Association in Pakistan is offering a $120,000 reward for murdering a Danish cartoonist: Another Bounty on 12 Cartoonists’ Heads. Pakistan: Bounty for killing Muhammed Cartoonists March 12, 2006 13.28 Foreign News The men behind the Danish Muhammed cartoons are today faced with another bounty on their heads from ...
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The Hounds of Hamas
Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 8:56:50 pm PST
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US Peace Activist Tortured Before Death
Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 7:48:52 pm PST
American “peace activist” Tom Fox was apparently tortured before his death. BAGHDAD, Iraq - An American aid worker taken hostage with three other peace activists was apparently tortured before he was shot in the head and chest and his body dumped near a railroad line in Baghdad, Iraqi police said Saturday. Tom ...
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Wafa Sultan Interviewed
Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 3:48:45 pm PST
From Israel National Radio, here’s Wafa Sultan on the Tovia Singer radio show. (Running time: 13:27.) The full show is 48 minutes long, so I’m including only the section with Sultan; follow the link above to hear the rest of the show. [Audio]
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Chechnya "Encourages" Islamic Headscarves
Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 3:27:02 pm PST
Chechnya’s Islamic prime minister Ramzan Kadyrov has been pushing the government in the direction of shari’a, and now they are demanding that women wear headscarves. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) GROZNY, Russia, March 10 (Reuters) - The pro-Moscow Chechen government has started to demand that female state workers wear headscarves, women in ...
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Saudis Openly Support Terrorists
Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 3:09:48 pm PST
Our allies the Saudis will continue funding Hamas: Hamas says gets Saudi promise on continued aid. RIYADH (Reuters) - Palestinian militant group Hamas said on Saturday that Saudi Arabia had vowed to remain one of the biggest financial backers of the Palestinians, despite U.S. and European threats to cut aid. The United ...
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The Iranian Holocaust Cartoon Contest
Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 11:07:01 am PST
From MEMRI TV, an Iranian television show featuring some of the entries in their Contest for Holocaust Cartoons, accompanied by bland elevator music from hell. [Video] UPDATE at 3/11/06 1:48:45 pm: And as counterpoint to the Iranian insanity above, the Israeli Anti-Semitic Cartoons Contest.
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Wheelchairs For Iraqi Children
Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 9:59:46 am PST
I missed this report from Michael Yon when he published it a couple of weeks ago, but it’s never too late to show a side of the Iraq War our media don’t seem to care about: Wheelchairs For Iraqi Children.
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Death Threats at Ummah.com
Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 9:41:36 am PST
At British radical Islamic hate site Ummah.com, denizens advocate murdering the writers who signed the recent manifesto against Islamic totalitarianism. Abu Hurairah The Father of a Kitten Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Catistan Religion: Dean’ul Islaam Posts: 2,635 Points: 4695 Rep Power: 49 Excellent- makes killing the kuffar all that bit easier..... Quote: Originally Posted by Mary Carol 12 ...
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Muhammad’s Dead Poets Society
Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 9:09:37 am PST
At The American Thinker, James Arlandson has a harrowing look at the life of Mohammed, and what happened to those who failed to show him the proper submissive attitude: Muhammad’s Dead Poets Society. (2) March 624: Uqbah bin Abu Muayt A similar story as that of Nadr can be told about Uqba ...
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RoP Calls for Another Author's Death
Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 8:49:58 am PST
The author of a book about Islamic repression of women is the latest target of a death sentence from the Religion of Peace™: Call for Internet Publication of Sex, Sharia and Women in the History of Islam. (Hat tip: Paul.) This is a call for the Internet publication (and eventual translation) ...
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Wafa Sultan in New York Times
Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 8:33:05 am PST
Wafa Sultan is profiled in today’s New York Times: Muslim’s Blunt Criticism of Islam Draws Threats. LOS ANGELES, March 10 — Three weeks ago, Dr. Wafa Sultan was a largely unknown Syrian-American psychiatrist living outside Los Angeles, nursing a deep anger and despair about her fellow Muslims. Today, thanks to an unusually ...
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Milosevic Found Dead
Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 8:10:18 am PST
The war crimes trial of Slobodan Milosevic is over: Milosevic found dead in his cell. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic has died in the detention centre at The Hague tribunal. The tribunal said he was found dead in his cell on Saturday morning and that although the cause ...
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The United States of Islam
Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 8:54:22 pm PST
A disturbing vision of a possible future: The United States of Islam.
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Diplomacy, Hamas Style
Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 6:52:26 pm PST
Hamas is lurching through some pro forma diplomatic moves to try to make it seem like they’re a real government, and not just a bunch of terrorist thugs: Hamas gives vision for governing to Abbas. GAZA (Reuters) - Hamas’s prime minister-designate Ismail Haniyeh said on Friday the militant Islamic group had ...
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Breaking: American Hostage Killed
Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 6:15:35 pm PST
The American “peace activist” ominously missing from the latest Islamic hostage video has apparently been found murdered: State Dept.: US Hostage Tom Fox Killed. (Hat tip: LSD.) An American who was among four Christian activists kidnapped last year in Iraq has been killed, a State Department spokesman said Friday. The FBI verified ...
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CAIR Supports Jail Imam's Hateful Views
Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 6:03:30 pm PST
Yesterday we noted the New York Post’s report on an anti-Government, anti-Semitic speech made by the chief Imam of New York City’s Department of Corrections, to a meeting of Islamic leaders. Today at The Counterterrorism Blog, Brian Hecht of Steven Emerson’s Investigative Project on Terrorism has a piece on the ...
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UCLA Cartoon Event Tonight
Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 5:14:11 pm PST
Remember that tonight, this event is featured at UCLA in Dodd Hall room 147, at 7 pm: Unveiling the Danish Cartoons: A Discussion of Free Speech and World Response. Maybe they’ll warm up the crowd with a Tom & Jerry cartoon...
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Death Cult Maternal Instinct
Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 5:04:37 pm PST
From MEMRI TV, here’s Palestinian Council member Maryam “Umm Nidal” Farhat, sharing her favorite methods for raising children to be cold-blooded killers, aired on Saudi Arabia’s Iqra TV on February 19, 2006: [Video]
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EU Ministers Considering Arab Demands
Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 12:09:29 pm PST
Mainstream media may have gotten tired of the subject, but fallout from the Danish cartoon jihad is continuing as the European Union now “considers” whether to submit to Muslim demands for blasphemy laws: EU-Ministers “considering” Arab demands. Jyllands-Posten, March 10, 2006 EU-Ministers considering Arab demands It may no longer be enough to just ...
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Self-Censorship at the Telegraph?
Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 11:14:12 am PST
The Telegraph has apparently removed a story about shari’a law from their web site: This story has been removed for legal reasons. (Hat tip: No Pasaran!) Notice the URL of the article: .../news/2006/02/19/nsharia219.xml The story has also been deleted from Google’s cache. UPDATE at 3/10/06 11:36:27 am: Here’s the article they removed: ENGLAND: The ...
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Dutch Terrorists Convicted
Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 11:08:32 am PST
Nine of the Islamic terrorists in the infamous “Hofstad group,” who plotted to murder filmmaker Theo Van Gogh and others, have been convicted in the Netherlands. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) A court has convicted nine Muslims of belonging to a terrorist group and planning to attack Dutch politicians. Two men in the ...
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Danish Muslims Demand Apology, Laws Changed
Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 10:03:01 am PST
Muslim clerics in Denmark are demanding an apology from the Danish government: Clerics demand cartoon apology. (Hat tip: Gabriela.) And they’re also demanding that Danish and European laws be changed to criminalize everything that offends them. ONLY an official apology by the Danish government to all Muslims for offence caused by the ...
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Hamas Wants War
Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 9:39:26 am PST
Hamas is spoiling for a fight, and it probably won’t be long before they get it: Israeli plan to finalise borders is act of war: Hamas chief. DAMASCUS (AFP) - The Palestinian Islamic radical group Hamas’s supremo Khaled Meshaal slammed the Israeli government’s plan to finalise the country’s borders by 2010 ...
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Jimmy Carter Hits Bottom, Digs
Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 9:17:56 am PST
Here’s an astounding anti-Israel article by America’s most disgraceful former president, Jimmy Carter, published in Pakistan’s Daily Times: Colonisation of Palestine precludes peace. (Hat tip: Allah.) The pre-eminent obstacle to peace is Israel’s colonisation of Palestine... Acting prime minister Ehud Olmert and others pointed out years ago that permanent occupation will ...
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LGF Improvement Committee Report
Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 8:52:10 am PST
Yesterday I made a big improvement to the “Bold, Italics, Quote, Link” features in our comment form, but I suppose it would help if I let people know about it. Here’s the deal: to use the new buttons, first highlight the word or phrase that you want to format by dragging ...
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The Three Ts
Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 8:35:02 am PST
From Cox & Forkum Editorial Cartoons.
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Spanish Dhimmi Watch
Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 8:30:16 am PST
Artists try not to offend Muslims as satire festival treads softly. An annual festival of satire in Valencia has fallen foul of censorship after more than four centuries following the furore over Danish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed. In the Fallas festival, giant sculptures of the high and mighty are placed in ...
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Thursday Night Sun Ring
Thu, Mar 9, 2006 at 9:09:08 pm PST
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A Perfect Batting Record
Thu, Mar 9, 2006 at 8:26:50 pm PST
Zero for seventeen, and proud of it: Daily Kos: TX-28: Post mortem. (Hat tip: Environmental Republican.)
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Doctors Urge US to Let Gitmo Prisoners Starve
Thu, Mar 9, 2006 at 5:09:53 pm PST
US urged to abandon force-feeding at Guantanamo. The alternative, of course, is to simply let them starve to death. LONDON (Reuters) - More than 250 doctors from seven countries urged the U.S. government on Friday to abandon force-feeding and the use of restraints on hunger strikers at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp. The ...
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Negative Perceptions Of Islam Are Increasing
Thu, Mar 9, 2006 at 4:21:07 pm PST
The Washington Post reports that Negative Perceptions Of Islam Are Increasing. (Hat tip: Ed Mahmoud.) The Post seems to think it’s entirely because of prejudice and “demonization,” and not at all because of beheadings, suicide bombings, insane conspiracy theories, antisemitism, misogyny, death threats, airplanes flown into buildings, and other minor annoyances. Get ...
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CAIR: Islamists Fooling the Establishment
Thu, Mar 9, 2006 at 3:27:16 pm PST
Daniel Pipes and Sharon Chadha have an excellent in-depth look at radical Islamic front group CAIR, an article that should be required reading for any journalist tempted to blandly describe the Council on American Islamic Relations as a “civil rights organization:” CAIR: Islamists Fooling the Establishment. The Council on American-Islamic Relations ...
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Dubai Backs Down?
Thu, Mar 9, 2006 at 2:05:12 pm PST
The news today is that Dubai Ports World is backing out of the deal: Dubai Port Company to Divest Itself of American Holdings. The United Arab Emirates company that was attempting to take over management operations at six U.S. ports announced today that it will divest itself of all American interests. The ...
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Danish Cartoons at Columbia
Thu, Mar 9, 2006 at 1:32:27 pm PST
When mainstream media and government fail to stand up for free speech, Americans will do it themselves: The Battle Continues.
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UCLA to Unveil Dreaded Cartoons
Thu, Mar 9, 2006 at 9:08:03 am PST
An objectivist organization at UCLA is planning an event at which they will display the dreaded cartoons of blasphemy, this Friday at 7 pm on the UCLA campus: Unveiling the Danish Cartoons: A Discussion of Free Speech and World Response. Predictably, the Muslim Student Association has steam coming out of their ...
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A Tale Told By an Idiot, Full of Sound and Fury, Signifying Nothing
Thu, Mar 9, 2006 at 8:56:17 am PST
Drudge is quoting a Nielsen Bookscan report that Markos “Screw Them” Moulitsas Zuniga, the “progressive” thought leader whose web site gets a reported half million visits per day, has sold a whopping 253 copies of his book Crashing the Gate.
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French Muslims Take Cartoon Jihad to Human Rights Court
Thu, Mar 9, 2006 at 8:43:51 am PST
French Muslims are trying to use the European Court of Human Rights to criminalize infidels who criticize Islam: French Muslims go to human rights court in cartoons row. STRASBOURG, March 9, 2006 (AFP) - The European Court of Human Rights said Thursday that it had received a request by a French ...
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New Fallaci Book Released
Thu, Mar 9, 2006 at 8:33:06 am PST
TigerHawk has a lengthy excerpt from Oriana Fallaci’s new book, The Force of Reason. (My copy is on the way from Amazon.)
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Top Jail Imam in Hate Tirade
Thu, Mar 9, 2006 at 8:29:53 am PST
The head of Islamic chaplains in the New York City Department of Corrections has been caught on tape at a conference of Islamic leaders, spewing hatred for America and infidels: Top Jail Imam in Hate Tirade. (Hat tip SoCalJustice.) March 9, 2006 — WASHINGTON - The head of Islamic chaplains in ...
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Indepundit: Three Minutes Hate
Wed, Mar 8, 2006 at 6:35:51 pm PST
If you thought high school geography teacher Jay Bennish was nuts, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet. Citizen Smash put on his protective gear and obtained audio from an event hosted by the UC San Diego College Democrats that takes Bush Derangement Syndrome to a new level. Here’s an edited tape featuring ...
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House Panel Votes to Block Dubai Ports Deal
Wed, Mar 8, 2006 at 6:04:18 pm PST
Republicans in the House just voted not to let Democrats get to the right of them: GOP House Panel Votes to Block Ports Deal. (Hat tip: dustyroadguy.) WASHINGTON - In a congressional election-year repudiation of President Bush, a House panel dominated by Republicans voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to block a Dubai-owned firm ...
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Yemen Editor Faces Death Penalty for Cartoons
Wed, Mar 8, 2006 at 5:12:28 pm PST
A Yemeni newspaper editor is on trial for his life after publishing the Danish Mohammed cartoons: Yemen editor ‘faces death calls’. Yemeni prosecutors have called for a newspaper editor to be sentenced to death for showing cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad, his paper says. Muhammad al-Asadi was arrested after his publication, the ...
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CODEPINK Acting Out
Wed, Mar 8, 2006 at 2:54:35 pm PST
Because nothing says “thoughtful, committed peace activist” like pink hair and a giant papier mache puppet with a nose ring.
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Saudi Prince Launches Propaganda Channel
Wed, Mar 8, 2006 at 1:25:19 pm PST
Prince Alwaleed ibn Talal, whose $10 million donation was rejected by Rudy Giuliani after 9/11, is now spending a tiny part of his immense oil wealth to launch another Islamic satellite channel: Al-Resalah Launched. RIYADH, 7 March 2006 — Prince Alwaleed ibn Talal, CEO of Kingdom Holding Company, officially launched yesterday ...
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Abu Mazen Says...
Wed, Mar 8, 2006 at 9:12:35 am PST
World should give Hamas a chance to moderate: Abbas.
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Hamas For Kids
Wed, Mar 8, 2006 at 8:48:35 am PST
The headline for this story of death cult child abuse is inaccurate; in fact, the Hamas children’s web site the article describes has been in operation for at least a year: Hamas Launches Web Site Encouraging Kids to Become ‘Martyrs’. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) The Hamas-run Al-Fateh.net glorifies shahada, martyrdom, and ...
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French Spine Sighting
Wed, Mar 8, 2006 at 8:21:23 am PST
In the French Alpine town of Saint-Genis-Pouilly, seething Muslims demanded that a municipal center cancel a play by Voltaire—but instead of submitting, the mayor called out the police: Muslims ask French to cancel 1741 play by Voltaire. A municipal cultural center here on France’s border with Switzerland organized a reading of ...
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NSA Probe Rejected, Moonbats Dejected
Wed, Mar 8, 2006 at 7:58:50 am PST
The Senate has decided not to investigate the NSA program, and there is no joy in moonbatland today; The Real Ugly American has a look at the pitiful thrashing and moaning at our pal Glenn Greenwald’s blog.
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Iran Threatens US With 'Harm and Pain'
Wed, Mar 8, 2006 at 7:40:49 am PST
Iran fears the blind, toothless United Nations so much that today an Iranian delegation threatened the United States in a meeting of the IAEA. “The United States has the power to cause harm and pain,” said a statement delivered by the Iranian delegation. “But the United States is also susceptible to ...
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UK May Arrest Cartoon Protesters
Wed, Mar 8, 2006 at 7:34:00 am PST
Muslim protesters outside the Danish embassy in London on February 3 carried signs openly calling for murder and jihad, while British police did nothing but stand and watch. No, that’s not quite true; the police did arrest two counter-demonstrators carrying pictures of the Danish Mohammed cartoons. Now, more than a month later, ...
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Waiting for Summer
Tue, Mar 7, 2006 at 6:21:33 pm PST
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Hollywood, Now and Then
Tue, Mar 7, 2006 at 5:31:37 pm PST
An LGF reader forwarded this revealing look at Hollywood, now and then: *** In contrast to the opinions and feelings of today’s Hollywood, the real actors of yesteryear loved the United States. They had both class and integrity. With the advent of World War II, many of our actors went to fight ...
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Ben Stein: Missed Tributes
Tue, Mar 7, 2006 at 5:23:16 pm PST
Don’t miss Ben Stein’s look at the Academy Awards and Hollywood’s Missed Tributes. The idea that it is brave to stand up for gays in Hollywood, to stand up against Joe McCarthy in Hollywood (fifty years after his death), to say that rich white people are bad, that oil companies are ...
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Dubai Ports Deal Misperceptions and Mysteries
Tue, Mar 7, 2006 at 5:04:32 pm PST
At National Review, Barbara Lerner has another disquieting fact to throw into the mix, in the Dubai Ports deal controversy: Misperceptions & Mysteries. We should reject the Dubai Ports deal, not just because it is risky to have a hostile country managing critical parts of our infrastructure, but because the claim ...
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Wafa Sultan Interviewed Tonight
Tue, Mar 7, 2006 at 4:59:16 pm PST
Wafa Sultan, the Arab American psychologist who’s the talk of the blogosphere after appearing on Al Jazeera in a fearless encounter with an Islamic cleric, will be interviewed tonight on the Tovia Singer show and Ted Belman has details: Tovia Singer to interview Wafa Sultan and Ted Belman tonight. You can ...
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A Rant to Make Bennish Proud
Tue, Mar 7, 2006 at 11:53:48 am PST
The barking moonbats of World Can’t Wait would like you to sign a petition in favor of Jay Bennish, the high school teacher caught on tape in a crazed anti-American rant: World Can’t Wait | Drive Out the Bush Regime. (Hat tip: John.) The firing of Bennish would represent a step ...
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The Satanic Precedents
Tue, Mar 7, 2006 at 10:19:29 am PST
Agora has translated an interesting piece by Danish writer Helle Merete Brix, looking back at the Muslim world’s rage over Salman Rushdie’s novel The Satanic Verses: The Satanic Precedent of the Muhammed Cartoons. How is it that 12 cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammed published in a Danish newspaper can lead to ...
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Guantanamo - Torture Revealed
Tue, Mar 7, 2006 at 9:22:36 am PST
Scott Burgess has been combing through the newly released Guantanamo hearing transcripts, uncovering a horror beyond words: Guantanamo - Torture Revealed. During his time in Guantanamo, Mr. Abbasi (writing in the third person) alleges that he was: * subject to [unspecified] “mental stress and pressure” * “willfully misdirected ... to pray north” * deprived ...
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Our Friends the Lying Saudis
Tue, Mar 7, 2006 at 8:59:45 am PST
When the apartheid regime of Saudi Arabia was granted admission to the World Trade Organization last year, they promised to stop supporting the economic boycott of Israel. They lied. Saudi Arabia to host Israel boycott event. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Despite a promise made to Washington last November to drop its economic ...
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Chinese Data Mining
Tue, Mar 7, 2006 at 8:42:02 am PST
For the second day in a row I’m seeing a lot of inbound links from various blogs, with old blog posts as referring pages, and the IP of the visitor traces to China. Someone in China (or someone using Chinese zombie servers) is apparently mining blogs for data.
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JihadTV Airs New Hostage Video
Tue, Mar 7, 2006 at 8:16:44 am PST
Always first to air the propaganda of the global jihad, Al Jazeera has shown a new videotape of three of the moonbat hostages being held in Iraq—ominously missing the American hostage: Peace activist hostages in Iraq plead for help. Their organization, Christian Peacemaker Teams, is using the abductions as an opportunity ...
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No Leads in 7/7 Bombings
Tue, Mar 7, 2006 at 7:50:37 am PST
Eight months after the London train bombings, British police have a lot of information but no suspects—because the Muslim community in Britain is covering up for the plotters: Who Guided London’s Attackers? (Hat tip: Allah.) In the eight months since Hussain and three other suicide bombers killed 52 people on the ...
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Abu Mazen Says...
Tue, Mar 7, 2006 at 7:44:42 am PST
Abbas to Free Cabinet Minister’s Killer. RAMALLAH, West Bank - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Tuesday he would free from prison the mastermind of an Israeli Cabinet minister’s assassination, but he would not be responsible for any Israeli actions against him. Ahmed Saadat, head of the radical Popular Front for the Liberation ...
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RoP Strikes in India
Tue, Mar 7, 2006 at 7:19:17 am PST
One of the Hindus’ holiest places of worship in India was attacked today: Triple blasts in Varanasi, 12 killed. At least 12 people have been killed after triple blasts rocked parts of Varanasi on Tuesday evening. Several others have been injured in the blasts, which took place between 6:15-6:30 pm (IST). The Home ...
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Saudi Cleric: "To Defend the Honor of a Female Camel"
Mon, Mar 6, 2006 at 6:08:58 pm PST
Jaw, say hello to floor. An interview with Saudi cleric Sheik Muhsen Al-’Awaji, aired on Ein TV on February 26, 2006, courtesy of MEMRI TV. [Video] Sheik Muhsen Al-’Awaji: Before Islam, the Arabs fought for 40 years to defend the honor of a female camel. This was in the Busous War. A female ...
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Monday Night Cove
Mon, Mar 6, 2006 at 5:45:38 pm PST
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Wafa Sultan Reprise
Mon, Mar 6, 2006 at 4:54:52 pm PST
So many people have been emailing about the MEMRI TV video clip of Arab American psychologist Wafa Sultan (without realizing LGF was one of the first to feature it) that I think we should have a reprise—because there’s something wonderful about seeing a smart, fearless woman totally owning a bearded ...
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Democracy, Hamas Style
Mon, Mar 6, 2006 at 4:30:13 pm PST
Today the Hamas majority in the Palestinian parliament voted to strip Abu Mazen of the powers his cronies granted him in the last session of the Fatah parliament. GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Hamas headed into a full-blown confrontation with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday, voting to strip him of ...
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Czech TV Documentary Enrages Muslims
Mon, Mar 6, 2006 at 1:37:59 pm PST
A television documentary has enraged Muslims in the Czech Republic by taking a hidden camera into a mosque and filming the real opinions of the local Muslim community: CTV documentary angers Muslims. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Ambassadors to the Czech Republic from Arab nations and members of the Czech Muslim community ...
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Even Hamas Has Heroes
Mon, Mar 6, 2006 at 12:12:55 pm PST
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UNC Attacker Will Use Trial to Proselytize
Mon, Mar 6, 2006 at 10:42:56 am PST
The Muslim psychology graduate who allegedly drove an SUV into a crowd of students at UNC-Chapel Hill appeared in court today and said he intends to use his trial to tell people about Allah: UNC attacker appears in court. HILLSBOROUGH — Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar, the 22-year-old former UNC student charged with ...
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Atlas Shrugs: The Bolton Interview
Mon, Mar 6, 2006 at 9:37:07 am PST
Pamela has an interesting chat with the US ambassador to the United Nations: Atlas Shrugs: The Bolton Interview.
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Palestinian Car Swarm Watch
Mon, Mar 6, 2006 at 9:02:31 am PST
Israelis Blow Up Car Carrying Militants. Starting countdown to car swarm... GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Israeli aircraft on Monday fired a missile into a car carrying Islamic Jihad militants, killing two Palestinians and wounding seven, Palestinian doctors and witnesses said. One of those killed apparently was a field operative of Islamic Jihad, ...
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Does Helmut Kohl Agree with Ahmadinejad?
Mon, Mar 6, 2006 at 8:51:26 am PST
Several LGF readers have emailed this story at Iran Focus about outrageous remarks ostensibly made by former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, reported in an Iranian government daily: Helmut Kohl agrees with Ahmadinejad on Holocaust - Iran. Tehran, Iran, Mar. 06 – Former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl reportedly told Iranian businessmen in ...
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Aussie Mufti Slams Howard Government Council
Mon, Mar 6, 2006 at 8:43:37 am PST
Sheik Taj Din al-Hilali, the mufti of Australia, is planning to have a little get-together with “radical” and “moderate” Muslim leaders, because the Islamic advisory board picked by Prime Minister John Howard doesn’t meet his high standards: Muslim advisory group stillborn: Mufti. THE nation’s Islamic spiritual leader has demanded a meeting ...
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Mohamed Says...
Mon, Mar 6, 2006 at 8:27:35 am PST
Watchdog Optimistic About an Iran Deal.
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The Rachel Corrie Pancake Breakfast
Sun, Mar 5, 2006 at 8:58:34 pm PST
Truly, reality has come full circle, as Indymedia unwittingly imitates Little Green Footballs: Rachel Corrie Pancake Breakfast. (Hat tip: IDF Dave.) No, it’s not a joke. The Rachel Corrie Memorial Committee of Victoria Invites you to a pancake breakfast at Denny’s Restaurant Sunday March 12 , 2006 10 am. The Public is invited ...
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A Message to Britain
Sun, Mar 5, 2006 at 8:27:41 pm PST
The British welfare state, funding its own destruction: Hate-filled Muslim returns. (Hat tip: Kilgore Trout.) A FANATICAL Muslim who ranted against Britain has moved back here from Pakistan — to live on benefits. Hate-filled Zeeshan Siddiqui, 26, who once called London an “organ of the devil”, is enjoying life in a suburb ...
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Sunday Night Beach
Sun, Mar 5, 2006 at 7:16:21 pm PST
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Oscar Night Open Thread
Sun, Mar 5, 2006 at 4:15:25 pm PST
Well, it looks like we have something called the Academy Awards that’s happening tonight, and sucking all the air out of Los Angeles. Here’s an open thread for those who aren’t quite completely finished with Hollywood yet... UPDATE at 3/5/06 4:17:02 pm: Pajamas Media is also hosting a star-studded blogjam tonight: PJ ...
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Hate Denmark, Crush America, Love Prophet, Save Islam
Sun, Mar 5, 2006 at 3:08:58 pm PST
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Sunday Open Thread
Sun, Mar 5, 2006 at 9:10:14 am PST
It’s the sunny Sunday open thread...
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Assad Gives Advice to Hamas
Sun, Mar 5, 2006 at 8:46:41 am PST
The chinless ophthalmologist of Syria urges Hamas to stick to their guns—literally: Assad urges Hamas not to recognize Israel. DAMASCUS (AFP) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad urged the radical movement Hamas, which now holds a majority in Palestinian parliament, not to recognize Israel unless Palestinians’ rights are restored. “Recognizing Israel is linked ...
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Iran's Nuclear Negotiator: How We Duped the West
Sun, Mar 5, 2006 at 8:40:45 am PST
The Islamic terror masters of Iran simply can’t help revealing their intentions, especially when an opportunity to gloat presents itself: How we duped the West, by Iran’s nuclear negotiator. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) The man who for two years led Iran’s nuclear negotiations has laid out in unprecedented detail how the ...
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Ties Between Hamas and Al Qaeda Should Surprise No One
Sun, Mar 5, 2006 at 8:22:32 am PST
At the San Francisco Chronicle of all places, an article by Dore Gold on the ideological ties between Al Qaeda and Hamas. In 2003, an Israeli ground unit in Gaza, seeking Hamas suspects, went into a school established by the founder of Hamas, Sheikh Ahmad Yassin. Written materials that Israeli soldiers ...
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Steven Emerson’s World
Sun, Mar 5, 2006 at 8:17:38 am PST
Israpundit reproduces an Australian article that profiles one of the most serious (and effective) enemies of radical Islam: Steven Emerson’s World. Despite broadly supporting the work done by US law enforcement agencies, Emerson alludes to an underlying malaise. “If I were to publicly disclose the degree to which there is a ...
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Cartoon Jihad Goes All the Way to the Top
Sat, Mar 4, 2006 at 9:21:49 pm PST
Al Qaeda’s number two honcho, Ayman al-Zawahiri, calls for mass murder. Yes, again. Al Qaeda’s Zawahri calls for strikes against West. And by the way, those Danish cartoons really irked ol’ Ayman, too. As well as physical attacks on the West, Zawahri, who is deputy to al Qaeda’s leader Osama bin Laden, called for ...
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Saturday Night Beach
Sat, Mar 4, 2006 at 9:12:05 pm PST
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Self-Imposed Blasphemy Laws at OSU
Sat, Mar 4, 2006 at 9:02:52 pm PST
Oregon State University is the latest staging area for the cartoon jihad, this time in response to a student’s column titled “The Islamic Double Standard.” And to atone for the pain they have caused, the Daily Barometer is now having their articles checked for blasphemy by Muslim students. CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) — ...
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Publish or Perish
Sat, Mar 4, 2006 at 4:14:11 pm PST
Robert Tracinski makes an essential argument about the violent Islamist intimidation that poses an unprecedented threat to free speech: Publish or Perish: The Lessons of the Cartoon Jihad. The central issue of the “cartoon jihad”—the Muslim riots and death threats against a Danish newspaper that printed 12 cartoons depicting Mohammed—is obvious. ...
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Pakistan Blocks Cartoon Blogs
Sat, Mar 4, 2006 at 3:33:39 pm PST
Our friends in Pakistan are cracking down on cartoon-related web sites: Pakistan blocks blogs on cartoons. Pakistan telecom authorities have blocked several websites inviting people to draw cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, it has emerged. Instructions were issued to internet service providers across Pakistan on 27 February to block about a dozen ...
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Saturday Open Thread
Sat, Mar 4, 2006 at 8:46:36 am PST
It’s the open thread for Saturday morning...
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Boston Mosque Lawsuit Developments
Sat, Mar 4, 2006 at 8:24:20 am PST
The Islamic Society of Boston has suddenly offered a stay in their suit against critics of their terrorist-linked mosque project: Islamic group offers stay in defamation suit. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) BOSTON —An Islamic society that sued for defamation after local news outlets linked it and its stalled mosque project to ...
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British Reporter: See No Evil
Sat, Mar 4, 2006 at 8:05:26 am PST
British Channel 4 News has sent reporters to Iran to “get to grips with Iran’s perspective,” and it looks like Jon Snow has already done a smashing job of it: Axis of evil? Doesn’t feel like it from here. (Hat tip: dustyroadguy.) All 13 of us are now on site in ...
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Arab League Aligns with Terrorists
Sat, Mar 4, 2006 at 7:41:04 am PST
The Arab League has declared its open support for the Hamas terror gang. CAIRO (AFP) - The Arab League is to vow support for the radical Islamist movement Hamas amid “unjust conditions” on the Palestinians at its summit planned for the end of March, the 22-member body revealed. The Arab League “calls ...
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LA Times Shills for Terror Supporters (Again)
Fri, Mar 3, 2006 at 7:10:53 pm PST
Katharine Viner, features editor at Britain’s far-left Guardian newspaper, complains in the Los Angeles Times about the horrible American suppressive climate that has shut down her play glorifying Rachel Corrie: A message crushed again. THE FLIGHTS for cast and crew had been booked; the production schedule delivered; there were tickets advertised ...
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A Place of Rest
Fri, Mar 3, 2006 at 6:51:51 pm PST
If you ride a bicycle for long distances around Southern California, this is one of the beautiful places you might discover—Wayfarers Chapel, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright’s son Lloyd.
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The Bloody Borders Project
Fri, Mar 3, 2006 at 5:22:48 pm PST
Baron Bodissey has a new project, simultaneously fascinating and appalling, using animated images to visualize Samuel P. Huntington’s statement that Islam has “bloody borders:” The Bloody Borders Project.
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UNC-Chapel Hill Attack Motive: Islamic Rage
Fri, Mar 3, 2006 at 5:09:51 pm PST
Last week we had a report on University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill student newspaper The Daily Tar Heel, which ran an original cartoon of Mohammed that enraged Muslim groups: lgf: Daily Tar Heel Now Targeted for Cartoon Jihad. Now it appears that a Muslim psychology graduate from UNC-Chapel Hill may have ...
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Leftie Infiltrates UC Irvine Discussion
Fri, Mar 3, 2006 at 4:47:44 pm PST
An irony-challenged leftist student who lied about his identity to infiltrate the UC Irvine panel discussion on the Danish cartoons tells a heart-stopping tale of terror: The Disgruntled Chemist. (Hat tip: M.I.M.) Attending that meeting tonight has had a profound effect on me, one that I feel won’t be soon forgotten. ...
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Mussolini vs. Gaddafi
Fri, Mar 3, 2006 at 3:15:21 pm PST
Nutbar Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi (may his spellings be many) tried to shake down Italy for some protection money following riots in Libya, and Beautiful Atrocities notices this eye-opening response from Benito Mussolini’s granddaughter Alessandra. Mussolini was speaking after Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi threatened further attacks on Italians if Tripoli’s compensation ...
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Denmark Solidarity Rally in the Apple
Fri, Mar 3, 2006 at 1:51:10 pm PST
Kesher Talk has a photo report on the Denmark Solidarity rally in New York City: Speaking Out for Free Speech in New York. Here’s a photo emailed to me by LGF reader Mpax, with a great way to support our coalition partners: UPDATE at 3/3/06 2:04:06 pm: Another photo report at organizer Snarksmith. And ...
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The Revenge of the Editorial Cartoonists
Fri, Mar 3, 2006 at 12:07:12 pm PST
Die Karikaturisten schlagen zurück! (Hat tip: mglazer.)
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Life and Limb
Fri, Mar 3, 2006 at 11:33:37 am PST
From Cox & Forkum Editorial Cartoons.
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Friday Open Thread
Fri, Mar 3, 2006 at 9:40:21 am PST
It’s Friday, and this thread is now open for verbiage...
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All For One
Fri, Mar 3, 2006 at 9:20:00 am PST
Amit Ghate has a powerful essay on the larger meaning of the cartoon jihad, and the Islamic supremacist ideology that fuels it: All For One.
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VDH: Rocks and Ripples
Fri, Mar 3, 2006 at 9:03:56 am PST
A great piece on playing it smart in the Middle East, by Victor Davis Hanson: Rocks and Ripples. Decades of supporting right-wing authoritarians did nothing to ameliorate a dysfunctional Middle East. Perhaps support for democratic reform will usher in Hamas in Palestine, the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, something worse than Gen. ...
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Carter Seeks Vote in UN Against US
Fri, Mar 3, 2006 at 8:29:19 am PST
Ex-president Jimmy Carter is undermining the United States at the United Nations, making back room deals with totalitarian regimes including Cuba, Egypt, and Pakistan: Carter Seeks Vote in UN Against US. President Carter personally called Secretary of State Rice to try to convince her to reverse her U.N. ambassador’s position on ...
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Hamas Charm Initiative
Fri, Mar 3, 2006 at 8:26:43 am PST
Russia is pulling back from Hamas: Russia: No Future for Hamas Without Change. (Hat tip: Hulugu.) MOSCOW - Russia’s foreign minister said Friday that Hamas will have no future if the Palestinian militant group fails to transform itself into a political party. Sergey Lavrov made the statement ahead of his talks ...
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Abu Mazen Says...
Fri, Mar 3, 2006 at 8:06:55 am PST
Abbas says still suspects Arafat was poisoned.
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Totten: The Head of the Snake
Fri, Mar 3, 2006 at 7:57:52 am PST
Michael J. Totten continues his reports from Kurdistan with a visit to the headquarters of the mukhabarat, the secret police, where thousands of Kurds were tortured and executed under Saddam’s rule: The Head of the Snake.
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Jewish Leaders Resign from Illinois Commission
Thu, Mar 2, 2006 at 8:46:20 pm PST
In the spirit of enervated multiculturalism, an Illinois “anti-discrimination” panel included a representative of the Nation of Islam—and tonight Jewish leaders have quit. (Hat tip: Allah.) CHICAGO - Two prominent Jewish leaders resigned from a state anti-discrimination commission Thursday, as controversy escalated over another commissioner who is an official with the ...
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Green Veins
Thu, Mar 2, 2006 at 8:28:13 pm PST
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Solidarity with Denmark Rally in NYC
Thu, Mar 2, 2006 at 8:15:06 pm PST
Tomorrow in New York there will be a rally at the Danish consulate, to show Denmark that there are still Americans who know the value of freedom of speech; Judith Weiss has the details: Solidarity with Denmark rally - NYC.
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Controversy Du Jour Falls Flat
Thu, Mar 2, 2006 at 7:39:00 pm PST
The Amazing President Bush Katrina Tapes are the latest here-today, gone-tomorrow controversy du jour cooked up by mainstream media, and Wizbang notes the Rathergate connection.
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A Reminder from the Civilized World: Your Bill is Due
Thu, Mar 2, 2006 at 6:59:39 pm PST
The bill for electing a terrorist government is now coming due. Palestinian salaries delayed as Israel stops funds. Palestinians Return Some U.S. Cash. Palestinian leader warns of Al-Qaeda threat. Israel will use ‘iron fist’ against terrorism: Olmert.
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UAE Repatriates Abused Children
Thu, Mar 2, 2006 at 6:52:43 pm PST
The United Arab Emirates is really a wonderful place. I say we let them run our ports! UAE repatriates over 1,000 under-age camel jockeys. Dubai - The interior ministry of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has repatriated more than 1,000 young camel jockeys, mostly from the Indian subcontinent, over the past ...
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Director of "Paradise Now" Would Be a Suicide Bomber
Thu, Mar 2, 2006 at 6:16:13 pm PST
Hany Abu-Assad, the director of Paradise Now (the sick Palestinian film glorifying suicide bombers that is up for an Academy Award), says that Israelis are “hated for a reason”—and that he would gladly be a suicide bomber himself: Oscar nominee: People hate Israelis for a reason. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) If ...
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Opinion Duel: Can Islam Be Reformed?
Thu, Mar 2, 2006 at 3:29:01 pm PST
At Opinion Duel, a debate between Andrew C. McCarthy and Mansoor Ijaz (who was last noted at LGF when he labeled those of us asking questions about the UAE ports deal “Islamophobic”) on the subject, “Can Islam Be Reformed?” (Hat tip: Raziel.) The debate demonstrates a very common tactic of Islamic ...
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RoP Menaces Cartoonist's Daughter
Thu, Mar 2, 2006 at 2:49:46 pm PST
The Danish Mohammed cartoonists are now living in hiding after numerous death threats—and according to a Danish politician, a daughter of one of the cartoonists has been stalked by jihadists at her school.
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116 Beheadings in the Name of Islam
Thu, Mar 2, 2006 at 1:57:09 pm PST
An Al Qaeda terrorist captured in Iraq has confessed to carrying out 116 beheadings: Suspected Kidnapper Arrested in Baghdad. (Hat tip: Rusty Shackleford.) BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqi security forces have arrested a suspect in the 2004 kidnapping and beheading of a Japanese backpacker, officials said Thursday. The Interior Ministry identified the suspect ...
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Thursday Open Thread
Thu, Mar 2, 2006 at 9:12:43 am PST
Here’s a shiny new open thread for Thursday morning...
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The New Geography
Thu, Mar 2, 2006 at 8:47:22 am PST
Here’s today’s argument in favor of home schooling, as a geography teacher in Colorado is caught on tape in an astounding anti-American rant: High school teacher’s comments investigated by district. (Hat tip: Generation Why?) AURORA - A 16-year-old boy at Overland High School doesn’t want to hear what he calls his ...
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Leading British Architect Leaves Anti-Israel Group
Thu, Mar 2, 2006 at 8:25:26 am PST
One of Britain’s leading architects, Lord Rogers of Riverside, has been forced to distance himself from the anti-Israel group he helped set up, after New York politicians threatened to cancel funding for one of his projects: Lord Rogers leaves anti-Israel group after anger in US. (Hat tip: Joel.) The architect of ...
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Palestinian Civil War Watch
Thu, Mar 2, 2006 at 7:59:05 am PST
Palestinian militants fire guns near parliament. RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinian gunmen fired shots in the air outside parliament in the West Bank town of Ramallah on Thursday to demand a greater role in decision making for the former ruling Fatah movement, witnesses said. They said about 20 masked militants of ...
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Saudi Terror Financiers Complain About Being Exposed
Thu, Mar 2, 2006 at 7:57:56 am PST
An amusing aspect of the UAE ports deal controversy has been watching the Democrats try to get to the right of Republicans on national security. They have a big problem with this latest cynical ploy, because at the same time as they’re castigating the Bush administration for not securing ports, ...
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RoP Strikes in Pakistan
Wed, Mar 1, 2006 at 9:38:50 pm PST
As President Bush is on his way to Pakistan, the Religion of Peace™ strikes: Blasts near US Karachi consulate.
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Wednesday Night Beach
Wed, Mar 1, 2006 at 9:01:28 pm PST
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Free Speech is Our Birthright
Wed, Mar 1, 2006 at 8:49:27 pm PST
Texan John Caffery stands up in his neighborhood for the principles that make America exceptional: Cartoon flap no joke for resident. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) BEAUMONT - John Caffery called it an act of cowardice by U.S. newspapers for not publishing controversial Muslim-based cartoons, so the local resident decided to take ...
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Clinton Triangulation
Wed, Mar 1, 2006 at 8:16:04 pm PST
Are the Clintons double-dealing with the United Arab Emirates? It certainly seems like it. (Hat tip: LawHawk.) Bill Clinton, former US president, advised top officials from Dubai two weeks ago on how to address growing US concerns over the acquisition of five US container terminals by DP World. It came even as ...
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Al Qaeda's Rules on Attacking Oil Facilities
Wed, Mar 1, 2006 at 7:52:56 pm PST
The entity known as “Al Qaeda” has released its latest ideological tract, spelling out the Religion of Peace™’s Rules on Attacking Oil Facilities.
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UC Irvine Danish Cartoon Panel Report
Wed, Mar 1, 2006 at 3:57:58 pm PST
An excellent report with photos from the UC Irvine Danish Cartoon Panel and Protest, by Omri Ceren. UPDATE at 3/1/06 4:02:55 pm: Another photo report from LGF reader rayra: UCI Cartoons Panel.
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UC Irvine MSU Seething, Playing the Hitler Card
Wed, Mar 1, 2006 at 1:46:34 pm PST
UC Irvine’s Muslim Student Union turned out in force to scream insults at last night’s panel discussion on the Danish Mohammed cartoons: Showing of cartoons of Muhammad riles UC Irvine campus. IRVINE – A student panel discussion on Islamic extremism that included the “unveiling” of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, including ...
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Wednesday Open Thread
Wed, Mar 1, 2006 at 9:23:18 am PST
Here’s an open thread for Wednesday, thread #19,476 to be precise...
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EU: Let's Put This 'Bitterness' Behind Us
Wed, Mar 1, 2006 at 8:19:45 am PST
The European Union continues capitulating by inches to Islamic supremacism: EU calls for end to ‘bitterness’ with Muslim world. BRUSSELS - The European Union on Monday said it was time for an end to “bitterness” between Europe and Islamic countries over the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed. “We must concentrate ...
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Hamas: Show Us the Money, Dhimmis
Wed, Mar 1, 2006 at 8:13:59 am PST
Hamas kingpin Khaled Meshaal lays it on the line for Europe—no amount of money is going to change their murderous ways: European aid cannot buy Hamas: Meshaal. MOSCOW (AFP) - European aid to Palestine could not persuade the Palestinian group Hamas to change its policy positions, a leader of the radical ...
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CAIR's Dubai Sugar Daddy
Wed, Mar 1, 2006 at 8:04:29 am PST
One of the supporters of the UAE ports deal is none other than the Council on American Islamic Relations, and Paul Sperry tells us why: CAIR’s Dubai Sugar Daddy. As a Muslim-rights pressure group, CAIR’s own knee-jerk response in defending the UAE is not surprising — after all, it’s populated by ...
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Weird Photos of the Day
Wed, Mar 1, 2006 at 8:00:38 am PST
Here’s the Mayor of New Orleans, wearing decorated Army fatigues in a Mardi Gras parade: General Nagin, On Horseback. (Hat tip: LGF readers.)
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Palestinian Work Accident Watch
Wed, Mar 1, 2006 at 7:56:30 am PST
Oops, Khaled. No virgins for you. Explosion Kills Islamic Jihad Figure. GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Islamic Jihad’s top military commander in Gaza was killed Wednesday in a car blast that rocked a busy street in Gaza City, knocking out electricity and wounding two other people. The Israeli military, which carries out ...
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NYT Whitewashes Hamas (Again)
Wed, Mar 1, 2006 at 7:41:41 am PST
Today the New York Times has another installment in their long-running series of glowing portraits of Palestinian terrorists: Hamas Member Returns From an Israeli Jail, Head Held High. His daughter, Hanin, 12, was in tears, burying her face in his waist; he lifted his son Basel, 5, a serious boy in ...
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SF Supervisors Pass Resolution to Impeach Bush
Wed, Mar 1, 2006 at 7:22:37 am PST
San Francisco’s deranged board of “progressive” supervisors has passed a resolution calling for the impeachment of President Bush: S.F. supervisors ask lawmakers to impeach Bush. (Hat tip: Andrew.) San Francisco’s supervisors jumped into national politics Tuesday, passing a resolution asking the city’s Democratic congressional delegation to seek the impeachment of President ...
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