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LGF Archives: May 2005

Tuesday, May 31, 2005

RAND Study: Americans Support the War

Tue, May 31, 2005 at 8:04:01 pm PDT

Americans Will Back Military Action Overseas If They Believe The United States Has ‘Important Stakes’ in a Battle. (Hat tip: Mich.manatee.) Americans support the global war on terror because they believe the United States has “important stakes” in the conflict, and will support other military actions overseas as well if they ...

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Tuesday Boat Thread

Tue, May 31, 2005 at 6:11:50 pm PDT

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Rice: Nuclear Material Intercepted Headed to Iran

Tue, May 31, 2005 at 4:45:13 pm PDT

Rice Says Nuclear Material Headed to Iran Intercepted. (Hat tip: Regime Change Iran.) May 31 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. and its allies in a program to stop the spread of weapons of mass destruction prevented Iran from obtaining material for its nuclear weapons program within the past nine months, Secretary of ...

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Alleged Al Qaeda Follower Also Churchill Fan

Tue, May 31, 2005 at 4:22:38 pm PDT

The Bronx “martial arts expert” who played bass and was arrested by the FBI last weekend (not for playing bass, for terrorism), boasted that being a musician was “great cover.” May 31, 2005 — A Bronx man who wanted to set up an al Qaeda training camp in the United ...

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Palestinian Work Accident Watch

Tue, May 31, 2005 at 2:21:19 pm PDT

Palestinian children collect body parts of two Palestinian militants of the Al Aqsa Martyrs brigades killed east of Gaza city, Sunday, May 29, 2005. The two militants were killed and three seriously wounded when explosives they were carrying detonated in their car, Palestinians said. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

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RoP Kills Six in KFC

Tue, May 31, 2005 at 1:16:51 pm PDT

Following a suicide bombing attack by Sunni Muslims on a Shi’ite Muslim mosque in Karachi, Pakistan, a mob of enraged Shi’ites attacked (what else?) a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant, killing six employees. KARACHI — Pakistan Police on Tuesday recovered bodies of six employees of a KFC restaurant that was set on ...

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LGF on Web Radio

Tue, May 31, 2005 at 1:02:17 pm PDT

At about 1:40 pm Pacific, I’ll be calling in to Rightalk to chat with the bloggers known as “Ace of Spades” and Karol from Alarming News; you can listen over the web here: Rightalk.com - live radio broadcasts. UPDATE at 5/31/05 2:47:24 pm: The Political Teen has audio.

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The Media Are the Enemy

Tue, May 31, 2005 at 12:54:09 pm PDT

Here’s one of those New York Times pieces of “investigative journalism” that raises the serious question: in a time of war, is there anything the Times wouldn’t publish? Do they even discuss it? CIA Expanding Terror Battle Under Guise of Charter Flights. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) SMITHFIELD, N.C. - The airplanes ...

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Miscellaneous Links Thread

Tue, May 31, 2005 at 8:07:13 am PDT

Here’s the open linkage thread for Tuesday, for any links/articles/etc. that aren’t related to an existing thread.

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There Is An Unholy Alliance

Tue, May 31, 2005 at 7:41:38 am PDT

British MP George “Burn in Hell” Galloway calls for an alliance between global “progressives” and radical Muslims: There Is An Unholy Alliance. Mohammad Basirul Haq Sinha: “You often call for uniting Muslim and progressive forces globally. How far is it possible under current situation?” Galloway: “Not only do I think it’s ...

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Metafilter's Memorial Day

Tue, May 31, 2005 at 7:33:41 am PDT

A Memorial Day post at MetaFilter. Don’t read this if you’re easily upset by evil children.

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De Villepin Returns

Tue, May 31, 2005 at 6:57:16 am PDT

Anti-American politician Dominique de Villepin (who is a man) has been appointed by head weasel Jacques Chirac as the new Prime Minister of France: De Villepin appointed French PM. Dominique de Villepin has been named as France’s new prime minister, following the country’s rejection of the EU constitution in Sunday’s referendum. ...

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The ACLU Axis

Tue, May 31, 2005 at 6:46:38 am PDT

Muslims, anarchists, and “peace activists” join together with the ACLU in denouncing the FBI and demanding access to their files. (Hat tip: unclebubba.) They are Muslims, anarchists and peace activists. They may not have much in common, but two dozen groups and individuals in the St. Louis area united this month ...

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Monday, May 30, 2005

Lawyers Inexplicably Attracted to Gitmo

Mon, May 30, 2005 at 6:44:38 pm PDT

Lawyers Converge on Guantanamo Bay. WASHINGTON, May 29 - In the last few months, the small commercial air service to the naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has been carrying people the military authorities had hoped would never be allowed there: American lawyers. And they have been arriving in increasing numbers, providing ...

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A Nightmare Wedding

Mon, May 30, 2005 at 6:36:16 pm PDT

Pakistan’s Daily Times reports an exceptionally repellent tale of honor and revenge: Jury-decreed marriage: Groom lets friends rape his bride. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) MULTAN: In an act of revenge, a woman was gang-raped with the consent of her in-laws by three people on her wedding night in Dera Ghazi Khan, ...

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Memorial Day Ocean Thread

Mon, May 30, 2005 at 5:58:57 pm PDT

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French Business Not Happy with EU Vote

Mon, May 30, 2005 at 4:49:09 pm PDT

It would be nice to believe that the French non vote on the bloated European Union Constitution was a reaction against its highly intrusive nature, the way it tries to micro-manage every aspect of life in Europe like a dynasty of nit-picking clerks. But it’s questionable how many French voters even ...

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Get Ready for the Hamas State

Mon, May 30, 2005 at 4:10:34 pm PDT

Hamas will keep on killing. GAZA CITY (AFP) - The radical Islamist group Hamas rejected calls from Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas for the movement to renounce violence and hold dialogue with the ruling Fatah party. “We think that the past experience of our people with the Israeli occupation confirms that resistance is ...

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Miscellaneous Links Thread

Mon, May 30, 2005 at 9:12:35 am PDT

Here’s a new recurring feature — a thread for people to post links to stories, articles, etc., that aren’t related to an existing topic. It’s intended to be a place where we can post these off-topic links, without interrupting the flow of on-topic discussions. Have at it!

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The Giant Teapot of Humiliation

Mon, May 30, 2005 at 8:54:37 am PDT

A giant teapot at the ‘Sky Kingdom’ religious sect’s commune at Kampung Batu 13 near Jerteh. The deviationist sect led by Ariffin Mohamad, better known as Ayah Pin, has refused to demolish the teapot and other giant structures - including a vase, an umbrella and a concrete boat - on ...

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Myers Blasts Amnesty International

Mon, May 30, 2005 at 8:00:04 am PDT

In a world where millions of people rage over the nonexistent “abuse” of a book, and where Amnesty International compares Guantanamo Bay to the Soviet gulag, Gen. Richard Myers tries to bring some sanity back into the discussion: Top General Defends Treatment of Detainees. WASHINGTON (AP) - Terrorism suspects held in ...

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Memorial Day, 2005

Mon, May 30, 2005 at 7:13:21 am PDT

The purpose of Memorial Day is to remind us that the freedoms we enjoy in the United States (and often take for granted) have a price—a price that is paid by the uniformed men and women of our armed forces. Take a moment today to reflect, and remember those who ...

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Sunday, May 29, 2005

Operation Lightning: The Battle of Baghdad

Sun, May 29, 2005 at 6:05:43 pm PDT

Battles are raging in the streets of Baghdad, as 40,000 Iraqi police root out the head-chopping holy warriors: Insurgents Kill 30 As Iraqis Crack Down. BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqi police fought pitched battles with insurgents Sunday as thousands of security forces backed by American troops swept through Baghdad’s streets to ...

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Sunday Open Thread

Sun, May 29, 2005 at 4:15:49 pm PDT

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Florida Doctor Arrested on Terrorism Charge

Sun, May 29, 2005 at 3:02:14 pm PDT

Doctor faces terror charges in Palm Beach County. (Hat tip: SoCalJustice.) West Boca - A 50-year-old doctor was arrested Saturday morning on a federal terrorism charge. Dr. Rafiq Abdus Sabir was charged with conspiracy to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization. He was being held in the ...

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France Rejects EU Constitution

Sun, May 29, 2005 at 2:26:44 pm PDT

French Reject Europe’s First Constitution. PARIS - French voters rejected the European Union’s first constitution Sunday, President Jacques Chirac said — a stinging repudiation of his leadership and the ambitious, decades-long effort to further unite the continent. Chirac, who urged voters to approve the charter, announced the result in a brief, televised ...

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UN Boosters: Bush is "Slighting the American People"

Sun, May 29, 2005 at 12:29:24 pm PDT

What if they gave the United Nations a sixtieth anniversary party and nobody came? UN boosters in San Francisco are already feeling slighted, even though the celebration hasn’t happened yet: U.N. Party Planners Wonder, Will Bush and Friends Attend? SAN FRANCISCO, May 28 - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has indicated ...

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Abu Mazen Says...

Sun, May 29, 2005 at 10:35:25 am PDT

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Palestinian Work Accident Watch

Sun, May 29, 2005 at 9:46:37 am PDT

Gaza City car blast kills 3 Hamas members. (Hat tip: manker.) Three members of a Hamas cell were killed and two were wounded seriously Sunday evening when a car exploded in the Sagiyah neighborhood in Gaza City, Palestinians said. Israeli security officials said that Israel had nothing to do with the explosion ...

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Zarqawi in Iran?

Sun, May 29, 2005 at 9:36:07 am PDT

The London Times reports that the wounded Abu Musab al-Zarqawi may have been moved to Iran: Wounded terror chief flees Iraq for emergency surgery. (Hat tip: NY Nana.) IRAQ’S most wanted terrorist has fled the country for emergency surgery after an American airstrike left him with shrapnel lodged in his chest, ...

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Voting a la Francaise

Sun, May 29, 2005 at 9:13:32 am PDT

The French are voting on the European Union Constitution, and polls suggest it has a good chance of being rejected. Young Katia Volman chose a very French way to avoid feeling any regrets over her vote: Katia Volman, a 22-year-old student, was among them, but she cast a blank ballot, saying the ...

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EU Won't Take 'No' For an Answer

Sun, May 29, 2005 at 8:09:11 am PDT

Mark Steyn on the unelected bureaucrats of the European Union: EU just won’t take ‘no’ for an answer. Following Sunday’s vote in France, on Wednesday Dutch voters get to express their opinion on the proposed “European Constitution.” Heartening to see democracy in action, notwithstanding the European elite’s hysterical warnings that, without ...

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Saturday, May 28, 2005

France May Say Non

Sat, May 28, 2005 at 9:08:49 pm PDT

The people of France may be about to reject the bloated, dysfunctional European Union Constitution, and Dhimmi Watch has a fascinating piece by Nidra Poller on the implications: Referendum On A Constitution For A Patchwork Nation Without Borders.

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Everything Wears

Sat, May 28, 2005 at 8:14:41 pm PDT

1,500 miles on this pair of Michelins, now retired.

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Tehran’s Killing Fields

Sat, May 28, 2005 at 7:10:39 pm PDT

Tehran’s Killing Fields. What can any human being say?

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And Now, The Rest of the Story

Sat, May 28, 2005 at 7:03:26 pm PDT

On the subject of media bias, intentional and/or unintentional, Michael Yon points out some important issues most people don’t know about: And now, for the rest of the story....

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VDH: High Noon for High News

Sat, May 28, 2005 at 6:33:06 pm PDT

I don’t know how he finds time to write all these brilliant essays, but Victor Davis Hanson has another in today’s Washington Times, on a subject near and dear to our hearts: High noon for high news. With each expose the harm has been cumulative, driving the public away from a ...

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Being an Online Joe Friday

Sat, May 28, 2005 at 3:29:47 pm PDT

Thanks to all LGF readers who responded to our first PJ Media question; your comments were terrifically helpful and illuminating. Taking off from the first question, Roger L. Simon asks for input on another important issue: Pajamas Media Question #2 - ‘How can we be an online Joe Friday?’ A rather ...

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Out of the Mosque, Into the Street

Sat, May 28, 2005 at 8:42:47 am PDT

Photos of the protests that took place yesterday, following Friday sermons by the imams and sheikhs of the Islamic world. From the evidence, it appears that most of the sermons weren’t about tolerance and peaceful coexistence.

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ADC Meeting on C-SPAN

Sat, May 28, 2005 at 8:13:06 am PDT

Now on C-SPAN: the annual meeting of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, featuring representatives of mainstream media, Al Jazeera and Islamic advocacy groups: C-SPAN: Watch LIVE. (Hat tip: Rayra.)

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Holy Warriors Murder Another Hostage

Sat, May 28, 2005 at 7:50:10 am PDT

Jihadists have slaughtered another helpless hostage, but al-Reuters still labels the killers with the relatively innocuous word “insurgents:” Insurgents say killed Japanese hostage in Iraq. BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Insurgents said on Saturday they had killed a Japanese hostage seized in Iraq and posted footage on the Internet apparently showing his ...

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The H Factor

Sat, May 28, 2005 at 7:38:44 am PDT

The Big Pharaoh looks at the continuing rage in the Islamic world over a “desecration” story that turned out to be untrue.

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Friday, May 27, 2005

Malaysian Moonbat Raves Again

Fri, May 27, 2005 at 9:26:00 pm PDT

Retired Malaysian moonbat Mahathir Mohamad still has plenty of venom left: ’Father’ of Malaysia savages Bush and Blair. Reflecting the rage felt across the Muslim world over abuse scandals in Afghanistan and Guantánamo Bay, and continuing violence in Palestine and Iraq, Mr Mahathir said President George Bush and other US politicians ...

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Terror Attack in Indonesia

Fri, May 27, 2005 at 8:39:44 pm PDT

There has been a major terrorist attack in a crowded Indonesian market: Death toll from Indonesia market blasts at 19 - radio. JAKARTA (Reuters) - The death toll from two explosions that ripped through a crowded market place in eastern Indonesia on Saturday rose to 19, El Shinta radio reported. “Based on ...

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Saudi Despot Reported Dead

Fri, May 27, 2005 at 8:28:48 pm PDT

I was waiting for confirmation before posting about this: King Fahd of Saudi Arabia reported dead. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, May. 27 (UPI) — Reliable sources in the Saudi capital Riyadh said Friday King Fahd is dead, reports the Saudi Institute. King Fahd of Saudi Arabia has been dead since late Wednesday, according ...

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Web Site Shows How to Attack US Embassy

Fri, May 27, 2005 at 8:18:08 pm PDT

Internet Haganah reveals the details behind a plot to attack the US Embassy in Indonesia.

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Friday Night Path

Fri, May 27, 2005 at 6:56:35 pm PDT

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A Rock 'n Roll Security Expert

Fri, May 27, 2005 at 6:30:42 pm PDT

Here is the tale of Jeff “Skunk” Baxter, former guitar player for Steely Dan, now a whacked-out, beret-wearing defense and counter-terrorism consultant. Great reading. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Mr. Baxter, who joined his first band when he was 11, began studying journalism at Boston University, but dropped out after a year ...

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Hamas Plays Victim Card

Fri, May 27, 2005 at 6:05:07 pm PDT

If you can believe this, Hamas is playing the victim card: Hamas slams Bush condemnation as ‘unjust’. GAZA CITY (AFP) - The Islamist fundamentalist group Hamas said renewed condemnation from US President George W. Bush calling the organisation a “terrorist” outfit was unjustified. “We in Hamas reject Bush’s statement as unjust and ...

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Al-Arian Trial Update

Fri, May 27, 2005 at 5:33:35 pm PDT

Activities of Tampa Terror Cell Outlined. TAMPA, Fla. - The Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a terrorist group responsible for scores of killings in suicide attacks in Israel, once had 40 percent of its overall leadership operating out of a cell in Tampa, a federal prosecutor said Thursday. The Tampa cell was primarily responsible ...

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Iranian Imam: "Islam Always Spoke with Sword in Hand"

Fri, May 27, 2005 at 4:35:48 pm PDT

Here’s a nice, clear statement of intent from a representative of Iran’s highest “spiritual leader:” Vote for Rafsanjani and We Will Have Nuclear Bombs, Says Religious Leader. (Hat tip: Regime Change Iran.) Tehran, 27 May (AKI) - Hojatolislam Gholam Reza Hasani, a representative of Iran’s supreme spiritual leader, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali ...

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Sacred Words

Fri, May 27, 2005 at 4:32:09 pm PDT

Mudville Gazette on the meaning of Memorial Day. UPDATE at 5/27/05 4:45:56 pm: Also see this extraordinary article at NRO: The Commanders.

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10,000 People Flee City of Peace

Fri, May 27, 2005 at 2:42:32 pm PDT

The southern Thailand city of Yala was named a “City of Peace” by UNESCO; now residents of Yala are leaving because they’re afraid of the Religion of Peace™: 10,000 people flee city of peace in fear of lives. Yala — Fear for their safety has pushed more than 10,000 people out ...

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Hizballah in America

Fri, May 27, 2005 at 2:30:17 pm PDT

The Hizballah terrorist gang continues to profit from criminal activities in the United States: Knockoff Dealers Could Have Designs on Terror. WASHINGTON — When Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Lt. John Stedman was booking a clothing store owner last year on charges of selling counterfeit high-fashion merchandise, his attention was drawn to ...

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Card: The Riots of the Faithful

Fri, May 27, 2005 at 2:10:09 pm PDT

Here’s a terrific column by Orson Scott Card: The Riots of the Faithful. (Hat tip: Lynn B.) Impossible to summarize; just go ye and read of it, for it is good.

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Our Spoiled and Unhappy Global Elites

Fri, May 27, 2005 at 12:22:50 pm PDT

Victor Davis Hanson reads the riot act to Our Spoiled and Unhappy Global Elites. There are easily identifiable constants in these sad examples. Rhetoric is always at odds with lifestyle: A novelist who tours and writes in English is the epitome of the Western liberal tradition that allows freedom of expression, ...

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Zarqawi an Ex-Terrorist?

Fri, May 27, 2005 at 11:16:03 am PDT

Hammorabi in Iraq is reporting a rumor that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has died. (Unverified, of course.) Gateway Pundit has more.

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Bush Administration Wobbles Backward

Fri, May 27, 2005 at 10:45:15 am PDT

I hope this was a misstatement, and that the White House will issue a clarification, because in his meeting with Abu Mazen yesterday, President Bush said that changes to Israel’s 1948 armistice borders (the cease-fire line following the genocidal war launched by Arab states) must be agreed to by the ...

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The Clown Eucharist

Fri, May 27, 2005 at 10:07:45 am PDT

The Clown Eucharist. Now I’ve seen everything. Let’s hope this story doesn’t provoke mobs of seething Christian fundamentalists into a week of maniacal rioting. If it does, we may be forced to issue a non-apology, followed by a retraction, followed by a claim of neutrality.

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What Is 'Fair and Balanced'?

Fri, May 27, 2005 at 8:06:44 am PDT

Roger L. Simon calls for input from the blogosphere, on a subject that goes to the root of media bias and responsibility: Pajamas Media Question #1 - What Is ‘Fair and Balanced’?

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EU: Jimmy Carter Certified Rigged Elections

Fri, May 27, 2005 at 7:56:30 am PDT

European Union election observers in Ethiopia say that the national electoral board has lost control of the vote counting—and the EU is criticizing Michael Moore admirer Jimmy Carter for rushing to certify the election: EU report cites concerns on Ethiopian vote counting. (Hat tip: Mark J.) The EU report also said former ...

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Thursday, May 26, 2005

Star Columnist Condemns Nonexistent Desecration

Thu, May 26, 2005 at 8:28:06 pm PDT

The Toronto Star’s resident Islamist, Haroon Siddiqi, gives us the inverted reality view of the phony “Koran desecration” story: Blaming the victim for Qur’an desecrations. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) It is hard to believe but there are commentators who are berating those who protested the desecration of the Qur’an, not those ...

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Thursday Sandy Thread

Thu, May 26, 2005 at 8:16:31 pm PDT

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Amnesty International Urges Prosecution for US Officials

Thu, May 26, 2005 at 6:39:49 pm PDT

Amnesty International is urging foreign governments to arrest and prosecute the President of the US and other top US officials: Bush, Other Top Officials Should Face Torture Probes, Says Amnesty; Urges Arrests if Warranted. (Hat tip: sngnsgt.) WASHINGTON, D.C., May 26 (OneWorld) - Rights watchdog Amnesty International urged foreign governments Wednesday ...

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Eighteen Things You Can't Say About Muslims in Italy

Thu, May 26, 2005 at 6:31:14 pm PDT

The 18 things you can’t say about Muslims in Italy.

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Koran Desecration Didn't Happen

Thu, May 26, 2005 at 3:48:19 pm PDT

The Koran-in-a-commode story never passed the sniff test, for a multitude of reasons, and now the detainee who made an allegation similar to Newsweek’s report (an allegation trumpeted to the media yesterday by the ACLU) has retracted it: Pentagon says detainee retracts Koran allegation. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Guantanamo detainee ...

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George Galloway's Internet Deception

Thu, May 26, 2005 at 3:02:47 pm PDT

Here’s some excellent web detective work from Seixon, uncovering the truth about one of the outrageous claims George Galloway made to Congress: With all due RESPECT, Mr. Galloway...

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A Sign of Sense in Quebec

Thu, May 26, 2005 at 1:58:19 pm PDT

This is something of a surprise, but Quebec is apparently not quite ready to submit to shari’a: Quebec rejects sharia for legal system. (Hat tip: Rob.) Quebec — Quebec has rejected the use of Islamic tribunals, which can be used to settle family disputes, in the province. In a unanimous vote ...

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The Laughing Mullahs

Thu, May 26, 2005 at 1:46:02 pm PDT

Iran gets immediate reward after renewing no-nuke pledge. (Hat tip: zulubaby.) GENEVA: The reward to Iran for renewing its pledge to refrain from developing nuclear weapons came swiftly Thursday; Tehran won approval to begin talks aimed at membership in the World Trade Organization. A day after Iran reassured key European ministers that ...

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AUT Overturns Boycott

Thu, May 26, 2005 at 8:20:37 am PDT

Signs of moral intelligence in British academia: AUT overturns boycott by two thirds in a re-vote. British Lecturers overturned their decision to boycott Haifa and Bar-Ilan universities in a vote on Thursday. Britain’s 40,000-member Association of University Teachers voted last month to boycott the academic institutions for actions that it said undermined ...

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Who Are Those Dead Afghans?

Thu, May 26, 2005 at 8:14:17 am PDT

If you thought the Newsweek “Koran desecration” story was already as weird as it was going to get, think again. WorldNetDaily says there’s a possibility that the stories of deaths caused by rioting in Afghanistan were false: Who are those dead Afghans? (Hat tip: lawhawk.) Welcome to the rabbit hole. Virtually every ...

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UN Springs into Irrelevance

Thu, May 26, 2005 at 7:41:43 am PDT

Another pointless United Nations conference draws to a close, having achieved absolutely nothing: Diplomat Tries to Salvage U.N. Conference. UNITED NATIONS - The job of trying to salvage a monthlong conference to tighten controls on nuclear arms, now down to its final two days, rested in the hands of its Brazilian ...

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Spencer Replies to CSM

Thu, May 26, 2005 at 7:35:58 am PDT

Robert Spencer has a devastating response to a vapid, blinkered exercise in religious equivalence at the Christian Science Monitor’s blog: Dhimmitude at the Christian Science Monitor: Islam not only religion marred by violence.

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UN Springs into Action, Condemns US

Thu, May 26, 2005 at 7:21:53 am PDT

Once again the United Nations ignores the peril of a nuclear-armed Iranian Islamic state, choosing to focus instead on the “signals” sent by the evil United States and its irresponsible desire for self-defense: U.S. under fire at nuclear arms control meeting. UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States is sending the ...

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Wednesday, May 25, 2005

MAS's Muslim Brotherhood Problem

Wed, May 25, 2005 at 9:02:13 pm PDT

The Muslim Brotherhood is active in the United States, under the umbrella of the Muslim American Society, and Daveed Gartenstein-Ross has an article about their long-term goals: MAS’s Muslim Brotherhood Problem. ON MAY 14, 2005, PAX-TV’s Faith Under Fire broadcast a debate that I took part in against Mahdi Bray, the ...

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Media Slander

Wed, May 25, 2005 at 6:51:44 pm PDT

A web site whose time has come: Media Slander.

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Hamas Wants to Keep on Killin'

Wed, May 25, 2005 at 6:15:38 pm PDT

Hamas “political leader” Khaled Mashaal went on Jihad TV today and told the Arab world that Hamas will not lay down their weapons “before the occupation leaves our land.” One little problem: Hamas considers the entire nation of Israel to be occupied land. Hamas’ political leader Khaled Mashaal said Wednesday that Hamas ...

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Conspiracy Theory Keeps Polio Alive

Wed, May 25, 2005 at 6:06:14 pm PDT

Remember our old friend, the polio virus? It’s coming back in a big way, thanks to a pre-rational conspiracy delusion that has taken hold of the Muslim population of northern Nigeria, with help from local imams and Islamic “scholars:” Conspiracy theory keeps polio alive. (Hat tip: noshariaincanada.) A worldwide campaign begun in ...

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The Media Are the Enemy

Wed, May 25, 2005 at 5:35:46 pm PDT

Amazing. Mainstream media is determined to give the jihadis a weapon they can exploit to the fullest, and the ACLU is right with them: FBI memo reports Guantanamo guards flushing Koran. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Notice once again: this story originates with an anonymous source whose complaint was investigated and not ...

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IISS Report: US Policies Pay Off

Wed, May 25, 2005 at 11:19:30 am PDT

The Amnesty International report condemning the US and Israel comes the day after another report (a report that mainstream media in both Britain and the US almost totally ignored), from the often-critical International Institute for Strategic Studies: US policies pay off in global security, says think-tank. (Hat tip: Scott.) LONDON (AFP) ...

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Prayer Room at UM-Flint Sparks Clash

Wed, May 25, 2005 at 11:09:27 am PDT

Non-Muslim students at the University of Michigan-Flint are complaining that Muslim students are monopolizing the school’s “Meditation Room,” filling it with Islamic paraphernalia and anti-Israel literature: Prayer room at UM-Flint sparks clash. (Hat tip: IDF Dave.) The Muslim students countered that they were being unfairly targeted and appealed to the ...

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Hizballah Weapons Rant

Wed, May 25, 2005 at 10:52:40 am PDT

The Hizballah terror gang, unsurprisingly, has no immediate plans to disarm: Lebanon’s Hizbollah says will fight to keep its arms. BEIRUT (Reuters) - Under mounting international pressure to disarm, Lebanon’s Hizbollah said on Wednesday it would fight anyone who tried to take away its weapons. “Any hand that reaches out to our ...

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ETA Car Bomb in Madrid

Wed, May 25, 2005 at 10:34:07 am PDT

Barcepundit has information on today’s car bombing in the center of Madrid, claimed by Basque separatist group ETA.

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Operation Charm Offensive Towards Islamists

Wed, May 25, 2005 at 9:44:28 am PDT

One of the risks of introducing democratic reforms in the Middle East is that repressive Islamist parties will gain power, because in many areas they have substantial popular support. It would be the classic example of “one man, one vote, one time.” But is this the right way to mitigate that ...

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Zarqawi, Al Qaeda, and Saddam

Wed, May 25, 2005 at 9:31:52 am PDT

Here’s an interesting post from Austin Bay, tying together reports that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has been wounded with Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi’s new information on connections between Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein: What do we know and when do we know it? Zarqawi, Al Qaeda, and Saddam. Unfortunately a vast ...

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The Media Are the Enemy

Wed, May 25, 2005 at 8:42:46 am PDT

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer’s Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist David Horsey demonstrates once again the deep respect America’s media elites have for our armed forces. (Do I need a sarcasm tag?)

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Amnesty International: Guantanamo = Gulag

Wed, May 25, 2005 at 7:50:13 am PDT

The voice of the international appeasement left, Amnesty International, apparently believes the United States is responsible for a worldwide decline in human rights: Amnesty International Takes Aim at US. LONDON - Amnesty International branded the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay a human rights failure Wednesday, calling it “the gulag of ...

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Tuesday, May 24, 2005

Tuesday Dusk Thread

Tue, May 24, 2005 at 10:31:58 pm PDT

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US Shari'a Watch

Tue, May 24, 2005 at 7:17:37 pm PDT

Here is the text of the resolution proposed to Congress by US Representative John Conyers, Jr., a Detroit Democrat, taking a first tentative step toward a blasphemy law in the United States: Text of My Resolution Regarding Relgious [sic] Intolerance. (Hat tip: many LGF readers.) Expressing the sense of the ...

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Japanese Newsweek Cover Gallery

Tue, May 24, 2005 at 6:46:44 pm PDT

Rick Adams points out a page at Newsweek’s Japan web site that maintains an index of cover art, in case anyone was tempted to believe their “US flag in a trash can” picture was altered in Photoshop. (And I’ve seen a few blogs raise the issue today.) The flag cover ...

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Newsweek's Message to the Arab World

Tue, May 24, 2005 at 2:17:11 pm PDT

When the White House “encouraged” Newsweek to help repair the damage to America’s image caused by Newsweek’s false Koran-in-a-commode story, I don’t think this is what they had in mind. Newsweek’s Washington Bureau Chief Daniel Klaidman appeared on Al Jazeera TV on May 19, and told the Arab world that, despite ...

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Oriana Fallaci to be Tried for Thought Crimes

Tue, May 24, 2005 at 2:03:47 pm PDT

The Italian city of Bergamo is going to put author Oriana Fallaci on trial—for defaming Islam. (Hat tip: SoCalJustice.) (AGI) - L’Aquila, Italy, May 24 - In Oriana Fallaci’s book “The Force of Reason” there are expressions that are “unequivocally offensive to Islam and Muslims,” said the Bergamo preliminary investigative judge, ...

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Syria Stops "Cooperating"

Tue, May 24, 2005 at 8:30:05 am PDT

When the representative of a Ba’athist dictator wants to make an announcement, where else would he go but to the New York Times? Syria Stops Cooperating With U.S. Forces and CIA. WASHINGTON, May 23 - Syria has halted military and intelligence cooperation with the United States, its ambassador to Washington said ...

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Sharon: Arab Agreements Worthless, Deeds Matter

Tue, May 24, 2005 at 8:11:21 am PDT

Agence France Presse clearly wants this to be seen as an insult; it’s the headline and first graf of their story: Agreement signed by Arabs not worth paper its written on: Sharon. JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has said that agreements signed by Arab leaders are not worth ...

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Ayaan Hirsi Ali on the 'Left' and 'Multiculturalism'

Tue, May 24, 2005 at 7:47:44 am PDT

At Transatlantic Intelligencer, John Rosenthal has translated part of an interview in French with Somali-born Dutch MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali, on why she broke with the Dutch multicultural left. Because the left is exactly like the Muslims! I wanted to give priority to the defense of immigrant women who are victims ...

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Holy Warriors Bomb Girls' School

Tue, May 24, 2005 at 7:32:57 am PDT

These are the people the reactionary left calls “Minutemen” and “freedom fighters”—gangs of barbaric savages: Deadly Car Bomb Explodes Near Iraq School. Residents called police about a suspicious-looking car parked opposite the Dijlah Junior High School for Girls in Alwiyah, near eastern Baghdad’s well-known Withaq Square, a Christian neighborhood. As bomb ...

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Monday, May 23, 2005

Monday Night Pier

Mon, May 23, 2005 at 8:06:53 pm PDT

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Bradlee: "If You Don't Know, You Shouldn't Have Printed It"

Mon, May 23, 2005 at 8:02:17 pm PDT

Former Washington Post executive editor Ben Bradlee has words for Newsweek: Ben Bradlee Criticizes ‘Newsweek’ on Sourcing Debacle. (Hat tip: Newsbeat 1.) NEW YORK - Ben Bradlee, former executive editor of The Washington Post and a onetime Newsweek D.C. bureau chief, criticized the news magazine for taking too long to retract ...

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Uday's Oil-for-News Program

Mon, May 23, 2005 at 4:52:08 pm PDT

Daveed Gartenstein-Ross and Eric Stakelbeck point out the financial links between Saddam Hussein’s regime and the Arab media, revealed earlier this year on US-sponsored Al Hurra television and almost completely ignored by Western media: Uday’s Oil-for-News program. (Hat tip: No Pasaran!) On January 6, 2005, the U.S.-funded Arabic satellite network Al ...

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Al-Arian Trial Stays in Florida

Mon, May 23, 2005 at 3:00:28 pm PDT

The Sami Al-Arian trial will not be moved out of Florida, and is set to begin June 6 in Tampa: U.S. judge refuses to move professor’s terror trial. (Hat tip: SoCalJustice.) ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (Reuters) - A federal judge on Monday rejected a request to move out of Florida the trial ...

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Good News from Iraq, Part 28

Mon, May 23, 2005 at 11:18:53 am PDT

Chrenkoff has posted part 28 of his essential Good News from Iraq series.

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Newsweek's Latest Account

Mon, May 23, 2005 at 10:38:01 am PDT

Newsweek’s latest statement on the Koran-in-a-commode controversy, by Evan Thomas and Michael Isikoff, is notable for two things: 1) there are apparently many more cases of Koran-dissing by detainees themselves than by US interrogators, and 2) fewer than a dozen questionable incidents involving US interrogators can be found in some ...

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A War the New York Times Likes

Mon, May 23, 2005 at 8:07:38 am PDT

Here’s a very striking contrast, as the New York Times covers the activities of United Nations peacekeepers in Congo, praising the blue-helmeted heroes for “getting tough” and damning the “militants” for their barbaric tactics—an exact mirror image of any given New York Times article about the American military in Iraq: ...

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Newsweek's Anti-Americanism

Mon, May 23, 2005 at 7:29:46 am PDT

In his Washington Post column this morning, Howard Kurtz seems to take the position that it’s debatable whether Newsweek really has an anti-American bias, asking “Has Newsweek’s retracted [Koran] story simply handed the right a new club with which to beat journalists?” It may be a fake story, you see, but ...

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Sunday, May 22, 2005

Dean: Osama ... Saddam ... What's the Difference?

Sun, May 22, 2005 at 9:15:40 pm PDT

DNC chairman Howard Dean doesn’t seem to know the difference between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden; Trey Jackson has the video of Dean’s bizarre, disconnected appearance on Meet the Press: Sunday Insanity - Howard Dean. Did Dean simply misspeak? Maybe. But if so, he did it twice. And imagine how ...

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The Islamic Political Party of America

Sun, May 22, 2005 at 6:39:32 pm PDT

The “Islamic Political Party of America” calls for A National Day of Outrage over Newsweek’s retracted “Koran-in-a-commode” story. On Monday, May 23, 2005, the Islamic Political party of America is calling on every Muslim, Man, Woman, in the United States of America to call the Office of the President of the ...

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Is Venezuela Going Nuclear?

Sun, May 22, 2005 at 6:29:54 pm PDT

Is Venezuela going nuclear? (Hat tip: Regime Change Iran.) The most prominent development in U.S.-Venezuelan relations these days involves the case of Luis Posada Carriles and whether he should be extradited from the United States to Venezuela. There he would stand trial for a third time for his alleged involvement in ...

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Cycle of Violence: Wind=Hitler

Sun, May 22, 2005 at 6:05:26 pm PDT

Today’s ride: 35.14 miles, through a fascist coast-hugging fog, with a hegemonic headwind in both directions. You may ask, “How can a cyclist have a hegemonic headwind in both directions?” Answer: when the wind changes direction at the same time you do. Gotta hate that. Nonetheless, I maintained a 16.8 ...

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MSM Fails Again

Sun, May 22, 2005 at 4:41:12 pm PDT

“Lebanon.Profile” at the Lebanese Political Journal blog takes the Washington Post to school, and gives them a failing grade: MSM Fails Again: Factually Incorrect Propaganda Printed in the Washington Post.

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Palestinian Teenage Would-Be Mass Murderers

Sun, May 22, 2005 at 3:05:44 pm PDT

What does it say about Palestinian society that stories like this are no longer shocking? Israelis arrest teenage suicide bomber. NABLUS, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli soldiers arrested a Palestinian teenager with a bomb belt tied around his waist at a checkpoint near the West Bank city of Nablus on Sunday, ...

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Newsweek: "The Day America Died"

Sun, May 22, 2005 at 1:57:43 pm PDT

If you thought Newsweek’s phony Koran-in-a-commode story was bad, hold onto your hat. Riding Sun shows us what Newsweek is doing overseas, and you won’t believe it. Or maybe you will. Newsweek: America is dead. UPDATE at 5/22/05 2:38:02 pm: Note that the cover for the equivalent American edition of this issue was a ...

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The Million and a Half Person Gap

Sun, May 22, 2005 at 1:47:33 pm PDT

Here’s a very interesting project led by Bennett Zimmerman, examining the population data for the Palestinian Authority and coming to a surprising conclusion that raises serious questions about the assumptions driving Israeli and US policies in the Middle East: PA Demographics - The Million and a Half Person Gap. Arab Population ...

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Muslims Show Respect for First Lady

Sun, May 22, 2005 at 9:08:41 am PDT

Laura Bush Heckled at Islamic Holy Shrine. JERUSALEM - Anti-U.S. protesters heckled Laura Bush at a major Islamic holy shrine on Sunday, during a Mideast tour meant to defuse growing anti-American sentiment in the region. As she approached the gold-capped Dome of the Rock Mosque, Muslim worshippers shouted, “How dare you come ...

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Sen. Smith Goes to Jordan

Sun, May 22, 2005 at 8:37:21 am PDT

Here’s something you don’t read every day—straight talk about the Arab-Israeli conflict: U.S. Senator Tells Arabs to Focus on Home. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Gordon Smith, a Republican senator from Oregon, said the peace process aimed at bringing about an independent Palestinian state is unlikely to win serious backing from the ...

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Mainstream Media Trips Over Own Feet

Sun, May 22, 2005 at 8:06:09 am PDT

Today the Washington Post issues a retraction for their incorrect “Koran desecration” story, which they floated last week in an attempt to defend Newsweek’s “fake but accurate” story: CORRECTIONS. (Hat tip: Mudville Gazette.) A May 18 article incorrectly stated that former Army translator Erik Saar said in previous media interviews that ...

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Saturday, May 21, 2005

Saturday Night Shoreline

Sat, May 21, 2005 at 11:10:22 pm PDT

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British Shari'a Watch

Sat, May 21, 2005 at 6:52:09 pm PDT

Calls for Israel’s destruction in London. (Hat tip: SoCalJustice.) A central London rally organized by the British Palestine Solidarity Campaign on Saturday heard Respect Party MP George Galloway advocate a general boycott of Israel, as well as other speeches calling for Israel’s destruction. Dark gray clouds poured heavy rain on London’s Trafalgar ...

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Mujahideen Training to Kill Journalists

Sat, May 21, 2005 at 1:06:58 pm PDT

A web-based training manual for Islamic holy warriors specifically advises targeting journalists: Iraqi Insurgent Sniper Training. (Hat tip: Bill Roggio.) From the section titled, “Who Would You Kill First?” The first one is the Soldier… because he has a MG [machine gun]. Then is the stupid soldier on the left. He is ...

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Breaking News: Koran Discovered in Toilet!

Sat, May 21, 2005 at 12:59:55 pm PDT

We’ve got a sighting of another toilet-dunked Koran, at San Joaquin Delta College: Student reports Quran in campus toilet. (Hat tip: Bill.) STOCKTON — A San Joaquin Delta College student discovered a copy of the Quran in a library toilet Wednesday evening, an incident similar to one described in a now-retracted ...

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Palestinian Child Abuse

Sat, May 21, 2005 at 8:13:14 am PDT

A boy holds a machinegun as masked Palestinian militants of the Popular Resistance Committees, a militia linked to the Fatah movement, march in the streets during a rally in Gaza City, Friday May 20, 2005. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa).

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Palestinian Authority Publishes "Protocols" in Arabic

Sat, May 21, 2005 at 7:46:43 am PDT

The notorious antisemitic forgery titled “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” was available until very recently on an official Palestinian Authority web site directly affiliated with Holocaust-denying Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas: Official PA site publishes ‘Protocols’ in Arabic. (Hat tip: American Infidel.) JERUSALEM — An official Palestinian Authority information website ...

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On Operation Matador

Sat, May 21, 2005 at 7:25:13 am PDT

LGF reader Joe G. forwarded this letter from Marine Colonel Bob Chase, about his experiences in Operation Matador; note the section about his interview with NBC News: *** Was talking to Gino and he asked for some details on the MATADOR fight. Figured, by now since many of you might have caught ...

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The Media Are the Enemy

Sat, May 21, 2005 at 7:18:32 am PDT

The New York Times continues its disgraceful full-court press to delegitimize the War on Terror, in a story masquerading as “news” in their international section: Guantanamo Comes to Define U.S. to Muslims. Accounts of abuses at the actual American detention center at Guantanamo Bay, including Newsweek magazine’s now-retracted article on the ...

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Abu Mazen Says...

Sat, May 21, 2005 at 7:04:35 am PDT

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Friday, May 20, 2005

Indonesian Muslims Seethe Over Miss Universe

Fri, May 20, 2005 at 9:57:05 pm PDT

Miss Indonesia has a ‘swimsuit problem’. Artika Sari Devi, Indonesia’s first Miss Universe hopeful in nine years, is a bit frustrated at all the fuss over her “swimsuit problem”. The 25-year-old petite law graduate would prefer to talk about children’s rights or education issues. But she faced a barrage of questions ...

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German Shari'a Watch

Fri, May 20, 2005 at 9:33:22 pm PDT

German state to offer Islam class in every school. The western German state of Hesse expects to offer instruction in Islamic religion for Muslim students in every school in the state, a state official said Friday. At least one school in every district in the state will offer Islamic instruction in the ...

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Whittle: Sanctuary

Fri, May 20, 2005 at 7:27:40 pm PDT

SANCTUARY (part 1), by Bill Whittle. Need I say more?

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Why Islam is Disrespected

Fri, May 20, 2005 at 5:45:24 pm PDT

Jeff Jacoby gets it exactly right in this one: Why Islam is disrespected. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Then there was Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who announced at a Senate hearing that she had a message for ”Muslims in America and throughout the world.“ And what was that message? That decent ...

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Friday Night Open Flight

Fri, May 20, 2005 at 5:32:14 pm PDT

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Ex-Dictator Threatens Lawsuit

Fri, May 20, 2005 at 1:34:23 pm PDT

Saddam to sue over prison photos. Saddam Hussein plans to take legal action after a British newspaper published photos of him half-naked in his prison cell and doing his washing. “We will sue the newspaper and everyone who helped in showing these pictures,” said Saddam Hussein’s chief lawyer Ziad Al-Khasawneh, speaking ...

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Cease Fire, Palestinian Style

Fri, May 20, 2005 at 11:29:41 am PDT

Notice the active phrase in this typically biased headline from the Associated Press: Troops Kill Palestinian After Attack. Also notice: the headline gives no indication of who was attacked by whom. I suppose we should be grateful it wasn’t simply “Troops Kill Palestinian.” JERUSALEM - Israeli troops killed a Palestinian Friday after ...

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Do Not Drink Idiotic!

Fri, May 20, 2005 at 10:59:39 am PDT

This story erupted yesterday and was discussed at length in LGF’s comments, but I was deep in some super-secret PHP code and didn’t have a front page post about it; now Hugh Hewitt has posted the apology from Pepsi Cola’s COO Indra Nooyi for her outrageous anti-American remarks at Columbia ...

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Hypocrisy Most Holy

Fri, May 20, 2005 at 10:53:42 am PDT

At OpinionJournal, a good piece by Ali al-Ahmed on Hypocrisy Most Holy. The Bible in Saudi Arabia may get a person killed, arrested, or deported. In September 1993, Sadeq Mallallah, 23, was beheaded in Qateef on a charge of apostasy for owning a Bible. The State Department’s annual human rights reports ...

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The Al-Arian Jury is Seated

Fri, May 20, 2005 at 9:03:38 am PDT

The jury has been seated in the trial of alleged Islamic Jihad US leader Sami Al-Arian, and we can look forward to a barrage of discrimination and bias claims from the defense. TAMPA, Fla. - A jury was seated Thursday for the trial of a former college professor accused of supporting ...

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VDH: Our Two-Front Struggle

Fri, May 20, 2005 at 8:20:45 am PDT

In his Friday column, Victor Davis Hanson makes an essential point about the Newsweek jihad: Our Two-Front Struggle. Everything from CDs to Starbucks that we take for granted is a representation of millions of past Western lives. These forgotten scientists, inventors, and entrepreneurs, along with other reformers in politics, journalism, economics, ...

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UK Muslims: "Bomb, Bomb New York"

Fri, May 20, 2005 at 7:53:39 am PDT

Mainstream media’s allies demonstrated outside the US Embassy in London today. (Hat tip: unclebubba.) More than 100 hardline Islamic protesters chanted the name of Osama bin Laden outside the US Embassy in London today. The crowd, which is expected to grow during the afternoon, included many men whose faces were covered by ...

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The Media Are the Enemy

Fri, May 20, 2005 at 7:40:53 am PDT

The incidents of abuse at Bagram detention center in Afghanistan have already been investigated, publicized, and prosecuted by the US military (two years ago!), but that doesn’t stop the New York Times from publishing another lurid, book-length, insanely overheated America-is-evil piece, complete with crude stick figure drawings (presumably because they ...

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Thursday, May 19, 2005

Bibliocide

Thu, May 19, 2005 at 9:23:51 pm PDT

From Cox & Forkum Editorial Cartoons.

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Newsweek "Fake But Accurate" Watch

Thu, May 19, 2005 at 8:18:23 pm PDT

UCLA professor Tom Plate is pushing the “fake but accurate” line, in The Seattle Times: Story that might not be true paints a sadly accurate picture. (Hat tip: Bryan.) This is not to exculpate Newsweek, to be sure. It is to suggest that the administration, which is now calling on News-week ...

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Al Qaeda-Linked Terrorists Active in Gaza

Thu, May 19, 2005 at 7:51:37 pm PDT

I hope no one is surprised that Al Qaeda has reportedly gone to ground in the place where they are still openly supported: PA: Al-Qaida-linked terrorists active in Gaza. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) A new Muslim terrorist group linked to al-Qaida has started operating in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian Authority security ...

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'Dresden Bombing Is To Be Regretted Enormously'

Thu, May 19, 2005 at 6:52:26 pm PDT

The millions of Americans who fought, worked, and died to defeat Nazi Germany are dishonored beyond measure by this kind of ignorant, scurrilous, revisionist nonsense, becoming ever more prevalent in the modern multicultural world: ‘Dresden Bombing Is To Be Regretted Enormously’. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) The Feb. 13, 1945 bombing of ...

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MoveOn.org Works the "Star Wars" Angle

Thu, May 19, 2005 at 6:30:18 pm PDT

MoveOn.org’s latest advertisement tries to hitch a ride on George Lucas’s new Star Wars flick, just in case you missed the news that the movie contains a not-very-subliminal anti-Bush message: MoveOn PAC: Save the Republic. (Hat tip: LGF readers.)

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PA "Condemns" Islamic Supremacist Hate Speech

Thu, May 19, 2005 at 1:35:12 pm PDT

In a transparently obvious attempt at damage control, the Palestinian Authority is “calling for” the suspension of the imam we showed you two days ago, who said that Islam will conquer the world and Jews are a virus: Senior Palestinian slams cleric for anti-Semitism. GAZA (Reuters) - A top Palestinian minister ...

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Weapon of Mass Gustation

Thu, May 19, 2005 at 8:46:24 am PDT

Now they’re throwing food at Nick Denton. (Hat tip: sngnsgt.)

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CAIR's Hate Crimes Nonsense

Thu, May 19, 2005 at 8:36:13 am PDT

Daniel Pipes uncovers a ridiculously blatant pattern of exaggeration, distortion, and dishonesty in CAIR’s Hate Crimes Nonsense. Of twenty “anti-Muslim hate crimes” in 2004 that CAIR describes, at least six are invalid – and further research could likely find problems with the other fourteen instances. Nor is this the first unreliable CAIR ...

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MPAC Works the Desecration Angle

Thu, May 19, 2005 at 8:24:05 am PDT

The term for this behavior is “pressing the advantage:” L.A. woman finds hate message in copy of Koran. LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A Muslim group on Wednesday demanded a public apology from online bookseller Amazon.com for its part in delivering a used copy of the Koran with the words “Death to ...

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Stop the Presses!

Thu, May 19, 2005 at 8:03:09 am PDT

I hope you’re sitting down, because the Associated Press and the Council on Foreign Relations have a disturbing revelation for us: Report: Muslim World Largely Anti-American. NEW YORK - Anti-American feelings are widespread in the Muslim world and extend to U.S. consumer brands, according to a report released Wednesday. It ...

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005

Iranian Television Blood Libel

Wed, May 18, 2005 at 9:08:39 pm PDT

MEMRI TV forwarded this horrifying compilation of clips from the Iranian television series “Zahra’s Blue Eyes,” an antisemitic horror show that has to be seen to be believed. The producer of the show sets the scene: Ahmad Mir-’Alawii: We have presented only a small portion of the Zionists’ crimes. During our ...

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Tribe Disowns Churchill

Wed, May 18, 2005 at 8:28:03 pm PDT

The saga of Ward “Little Eichmanns” Churchill takes another left turn: Tribe, Churchill At Odds Over Indian Ancestry. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) DENVER (AP) An Oklahoma Indian tribe said Wednesday embattled University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill, whose claim of Indian heritage is under investigation, “could not prove any Cherokee ancestry.” In ...

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March of the Living

Wed, May 18, 2005 at 6:26:58 pm PDT

A very kind reader sent a link to these photos of the March of the Living at the former site of the Auschwitz death camp. Tel Aviv-Jaffa Chief Rabbi Yisrael Lau – a survivor – said that every day in the camps, while facing the terror and watching the torture, he ...

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Flag Hijinx at MIT

Wed, May 18, 2005 at 2:53:15 pm PDT

Joseph Barillari draws our attention to this example of art abuse, at the Wiesner Art Gallery in the student center at MIT: ... accompanied by this deliberately incomprehensible justification from the artist: Protest Flags These were the confluence of two separate plans - one to dye flags black, in order to convey ...

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Cease Fire, Palestinian Style

Wed, May 18, 2005 at 9:20:11 am PDT

Reuters Palestinian propagandist Nidal al-Mughrabi files another maddeningly biased, morally obtuse report on an Israeli air strike against Palestinian terrorists: Surge of Israeli-Palestinian violence strains truce. GAZA (Reuters) - Israel launched an air strike against Gaza Strip militants shelling Jewish settlements on Wednesday in what the Islamic Hamas group said was ...

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Saudis Have Eliminated Terrorism

Wed, May 18, 2005 at 8:40:41 am PDT

Here’s some very good news from Saudi Arabia, where Deputy Interior Minister Prince Ahmed bin Abdul Aziz says they have almost completely eradicated terrorism. (Hat tip: Mark in Mexico.) Ahmed was quoted Wednesday by the Saudi Press Agency as saying, “The Saudi society is a peaceful one and aware of the ...

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Arab Press Doesn't Believe Newsweek Retraction

Wed, May 18, 2005 at 8:00:50 am PDT

Arabist shill Linda S. Heard has a piece in Gulf News, in which she refuses to believe Newsweek’s retraction and threatens the West with more violence unless someone is turned over to the Islamic world and punished. For something that didn’t happen. Did Newsweek really err? A war on terror cannot ...

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MSM's Cynical Charades

Wed, May 18, 2005 at 7:18:50 am PDT

CBS Cancels Its Wednesday Edition of ‘60 Minutes’. (Hat tip: lawhawk.) And the person who brought dishonor and shame on Edward R. Murrow’s network is applauded and rewarded: Rather accepts media award with nod to allies. “They did most of the work, bore the heaviest burdens and took most of the criticism,” ...

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The Smug Delusion of Base Expectations

Wed, May 18, 2005 at 7:11:14 am PDT

Here are two pieces that point out the essential absurdity of mainstream media’s response to the violence and killing provoked by Newsweek’s “Quran desecration” story—the ridiculous, politically correct refusal to lay the blame where it really belongs. Robert Spencer: The Real Lesson of Newsweekgate. The question here is one of proportionate response. ...

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Tuesday, May 17, 2005

Tuesday Night Ocean Thread

Tue, May 17, 2005 at 9:30:16 pm PDT

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PA Sermon: Muslims Will Rule the World, Jews Are a Virus

Tue, May 17, 2005 at 4:07:34 pm PDT

In a Friday sermon (khutba) broadcast by official Palestinian Authority television on May 13, 2005, Sheik Ibrahim Mudeiris told the Muslim brothers that one day Islam will rule America, Britain, and the entire world—and wipe out the Jews. [Video] Subtitled video courtesy of MEMRI TV, where you can find a full transcript ...

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The Progressives Have a New Hero

Tue, May 17, 2005 at 2:01:48 pm PDT

I just haven’t been able to bring myself to visit the lefty blogs to see what they’re saying about George “Burn in Hell” Galloway’s appearance before the Senate today, but I’d be willing to bet they’re doing handstands of joy and singing hosannas in Galloway’s name. OK, let’s pop over to ...

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The Lutefisk Jihad

Tue, May 17, 2005 at 1:45:05 pm PDT

Iowahawk reveals another Newsweek blunder, and this one’s even worse than the “Quran desecration” story—because it involves lutefisk: Newsweek Lutefisk Story Sparks Fury Across Volatile Midwest. Decorah, IA - The debris-strewn streets of this remote Midwestern hamlet remain under a tense 24-hour curfew tonight, following weekend demonstrations by rock- and figurine-throwing ...

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Galloway Rants for Senate, Part Two

Tue, May 17, 2005 at 8:41:06 am PDT

Pro-terrorist MP George Galloway is now testifying to the Senate; watch live over the web here: Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

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Karl Rove Poisoned Newsweek

Tue, May 17, 2005 at 8:21:28 am PDT

Here’s some more hysterical thrashing over Newsweek’s now-retracted “Quran desecration” story at Daily Kos. You can tell they really, really wanted this story to be true.

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Holding Newsweek's Feet to the Fire

Tue, May 17, 2005 at 8:17:35 am PDT

White House Urges Newsweek to Do More. WASHINGTON - The White House says Newsweek took a “good first step” by retracting its story that U.S. investigators found evidence interrogators at Guantanamo Bay desecrated the Quran, but it wants the magazine to do more to repair damage caused by the article. Newsweek on ...

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Europe Unites in Hatred of French

Tue, May 17, 2005 at 8:15:40 am PDT

The UK Telegraph has discovered the one thing that unites Europe: hatred of the French. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Typically, the French refuse to accept what arrogant, overbearing monsters they are. But now after the publication of a survey of their neighbours’ opinions of them at least they no longer have any ...

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NPR's Reign of Error Nears End

Tue, May 17, 2005 at 8:13:48 am PDT

Someone is finally noticing the overwhelming leftist (and pro-Palestinian) bias at National Public Radio: A Battle Over Programming at National Public Radio. (Hat tip: Amy.) WASHINGTON, May 15 - Executives at National Public Radio are increasingly at odds with the Bush appointees who lead the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. In one of ...

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Bias at the Beeb

Tue, May 17, 2005 at 8:08:38 am PDT

As a former BBC reporter comes clean about the obvious leftist slant of Britain’s government-subsidized news service, Melanie Phillips has a great piece about the Bias at the Beeb.

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Galloway Rants for Senate

Tue, May 17, 2005 at 7:46:58 am PDT

Today, pro-terrorist antisemitic MP George Galloway will confront the “Christian fundamentalists and Zionist activists” of the United States Senate: Showdown looms on Capitol Hill as Galloway talks tough. A BRITISH MP will make an unprecedented appearance on Capitol Hill this morning to confront a panel of US senators who have accused ...

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Monday, May 16, 2005

Kos Kidz Love LGF

Mon, May 16, 2005 at 10:31:30 pm PDT

Yes, it’s true! The Daily Kos Kidz love Little Green Footballs, with that special brand of “progressive” love we’ve come to know so well.

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CNET: Hate = Right Wing

Mon, May 16, 2005 at 7:25:49 pm PDT

CNET apparently believes that “hate messages” and “right wing messages” are exactly the same: Sober.Q spreads hate messages in German, English. (Hat tip: Peg.) A new variant of the Sober virus appeared over the weekend, spreading right-wing messages in German and English. Security companies are warning that they received hundreds of thousands ...

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ABC Nightline: Newsweek Report Fake, But Accurate

Mon, May 16, 2005 at 2:22:54 pm PDT

Oh brother. Here comes the very predictable “fake but accurate” canard, right on schedule, courtesy of ABC News Nightline: An International Incident. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) One small item, not a full-blown investigative or cover story, just one small 320-word item inside Newsweek has caused reverberations across the globe. Now, two ...

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Breaking: Newsweek Retracts Quran Story

Mon, May 16, 2005 at 2:17:41 pm PDT

Just over the wire, but no online link yet: WASHINGTON, May 16 (AFP) - Newsweek magazine on Monday issued a retraction of an article alleging abuse of the Koran at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility which sparked deadly protests in Afghanistan and other Muslim countries. UPDATE at 5/16/05 2:35:57 pm: Newsweek Retracts ...

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The Profile in Courage Award

Mon, May 16, 2005 at 11:09:32 am PDT

Out of the 150,000 Americans serving in Iraq, the Kennedy Library Foundation chose to give their Profile in Courage Award to Sgt. Joseph M. Darby, who revealed the first photos of Abu Ghraib to military investigators: On Abu Ghraib: One sergeant’s courage a model for US leaders. (Hat tip: hector.) “To ...

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Newsweek Jihad Fallout

Mon, May 16, 2005 at 10:44:35 am PDT

White House Says Report of Koran Insult Should Be Retracted. “It’s puzzling that while Newsweek now acknowledges that they got the facts wrong, they refused to retract the story,” Mr. McClellan, the White House spokesman, said, according to Reuters. “I think there’s a certain journalistic standard that should be met and ...

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The Other Side of the Story

Mon, May 16, 2005 at 10:09:18 am PDT

As Islamist groups rage and riot and declare holy war over Newsweek’s now-retracted “Quran desecration” story, it may be helpful, for the sake of clarity, to remember what happened in April 2002 when Palestinian terrorists took over Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity and held priests and nuns hostage for weeks. On ...

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Prager on the Newsweek Jihad

Mon, May 16, 2005 at 9:59:47 am PDT

Dennis Prager is on fire this morning about the Newsweek story; listen live to his radio show here: News Talk 870 KRLA.

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Hizb ut-Tahrir Teams Up With Newsweek

Mon, May 16, 2005 at 9:24:48 am PDT

According to an Indian security analyst, the Islamist rioting in Afghanistan is being deliberately incited by well-organized agents of the Hizb ut-Tahrir terror gang, who quickly recognized the Newsweek “Quran desecration” story as a propaganda windfall. (Hat tip: eschew_obfuscation.) South Asian political and security analyst Bahukutumbi Raman said the protests in ...

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Iran's Manhattan Project Still On Track

Mon, May 16, 2005 at 8:31:30 am PDT

Responding to the European Union’s strategic deployment of the dreaded toughly worded letter, the mad mullahs have announced that they’re going to give Europe one last chance. TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran said Monday it will give the European Union a last chance to salvage a nuclear deal at talks on May ...

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Cognitive Dissonance Near and Far

Mon, May 16, 2005 at 7:53:22 am PDT

Radical Islamic clerics and their followers are refusing to accept Newsweek’s apology for printing unsourced lies about Gitmo investigators “desecrating the Quran:” Muslims skeptical over Newsweek back-track on Koran. Can you blame them? There hasn’t been a story this useful for whipping up anti-American rage since Abu Ghraib. KABUL (Reuters) - ...

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Canadian Moonbat "Journalist" Now Blogging

Mon, May 16, 2005 at 7:28:50 am PDT

A new useful idiot has joined the blogosphere: the blog-bashing, Hizballah-supporting, anti-American Canadian harpy Antonia Zerbisias. (Hat tip: The Cyber Menace.) Zerbisias, of course, is a professional journalist, as this series of comments at LGF amply demonstrates.

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Sunday, May 15, 2005

Daily Kos Takes the Jihadi Line

Sun, May 15, 2005 at 10:17:23 pm PDT

Those Kooky Kos Kidz are convinced that the “rightwing machine” is unjustly smearing Newsweek magazine, and they come out strongly in favor of taking the word of released jihadis whenever they complain of mistreatment: Daily Kos :: The Newsweek Backtrack: Did the Right Win a Game of Chicken? Of course, it ...

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Flushed

Sun, May 15, 2005 at 8:21:39 pm PDT

From Cox & Forkum Editorial Cartoons.

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Sunday Evening Ocean Thread

Sun, May 15, 2005 at 8:11:40 pm PDT

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Saudi Arabia: Center of the Death Cult

Sun, May 15, 2005 at 6:10:46 pm PDT

Ladies and lizards (and lizards who are ladies) I give you ... our allies, the House of Saud: ‘Martyrs’ In Iraq Mostly Saudis. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Before Hadi bin Mubarak Qahtani exploded himself into an anonymous fireball, he was young and interested only in “fooling around.” Like many Saudis, he was ...

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Palestinian Gang Plots to Kill Ft. Worth Cop, Federal Agent

Sun, May 15, 2005 at 5:46:57 pm PDT

Scott Campbell, a police detective in Fort Worth, Texas, sleeps with a Glock .45 because he and his family have been targeted for assassination by a Palestinian gang. (Hat tip: James.) FORT WORTH — At home and off duty, Fort Worth Police Detective Scott Campbell never lets two semi-automatic Glock .45s ...

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Video: Reynolds and Huffington

Sun, May 15, 2005 at 4:53:10 pm PDT

Trey Jackson has video of Arianna Huffington and Glenn Reynolds appearing with Howard Kurtz on CNN.

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The Speech Nobody Heard

Sun, May 15, 2005 at 4:21:17 pm PDT

LGF reader Mike forwarded a video of a very interesting speech by Professor Khaleel Mohammed, at Saturday’s rally sponsored by the Free Muslims Against Terrorism. (The video is not the highest quality, but the audio is fine.) [Video] UPDATE at 5/15/05 5:21:42 pm: Matzoh Cojones has some observations on the Free Muslims Against ...

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Turkish Tabloid Enrages Germany

Sun, May 15, 2005 at 4:10:08 pm PDT

A Turkish tabloid newspaper notorious for Holocaust denial demonstrates the peculiar mental flexibility of the antisemite, the odd cognitive kink that allows glorifying and excusing Nazi ideology while simultaneously using it as a symbol of ultimate evil: Turkish Tabloid Enrages Germany with Nazi Comparisons. Turkey is suffering something of an image ...

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But the Jihad Will Go On

Sun, May 15, 2005 at 11:11:31 am PDT

Newsweek editor Mark Whitaker admits their “Quran desecration” report was false. (Hat tip: Michelle Malkin.) Last Friday, a top Pentagon spokesman told us that a review of the probe cited in our story showed that it was never meant to look into charges of Qur’an desecration. The spokesman also said the ...

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Abu Mazen Says...

Sun, May 15, 2005 at 11:01:50 am PDT

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Newsweek In Damage Control Mode

Sun, May 15, 2005 at 10:26:32 am PDT

Newsweek’s Evan Thomas tries to put a Band-Aid on their credibility, with a non-apology for their use of an anonymous source in the “Quran desecration” story: How a Fire Broke Out. (Hat tip: Roger L. Simon.) Part of Newsweek’s defense involves the word of released jihadis, who seem to be more ...

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The Jihad Newsweek Inspired

Sun, May 15, 2005 at 8:33:23 am PDT

Afghan clerics threaten Muslim holy war over Koran. FAIZABAD, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A group of Afghan Muslim clerics threatened on Sunday to call for a holy war against the United States in three days unless it hands over military interrogators reported to have desecrated the Koran. The warning came after 16 Afghans ...

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Jihad Cleric Accuses US of "Great Crime"

Sun, May 15, 2005 at 8:07:25 am PDT

Newsweek author Michael Isikoff’s unsourced (and apparently false) allegation that US interrogators “desecrated” a Quran in Guantanamo Bay continues to provoke Islamic rage and insanity around the world; now Sheikh Mohammed Sayed Tantawi of Cairo’s Al-Azhar University (previously on record calling for suicide bombings against Jews and US soldiers) gets ...

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Saturday, May 14, 2005

Free Muslims Against Terrorism

Sat, May 14, 2005 at 9:08:10 pm PDT

Free Muslims Against Terrorism held their demonstration today in Washington DC’s Freedom Plaza. LGF reader “IWuvLGF” emailed this picture of the crowd.

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Uzbek Unrest Spreads

Sat, May 14, 2005 at 9:00:12 pm PDT

Publius Pundit has a different, slightly more optimistic perspective on the civil unrest in Uzbekistan.

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Peaceniks on Crack

Sat, May 14, 2005 at 8:35:25 pm PDT

This seems to be the day for mainstream media emissions that you just can’t believe. From the New York Times: The Day After Peace: Designing Palestine. (Hat tip: ted.) His high-speed railway would run for 70 miles along the West Bank ridges, linking Jenin in the north with Hebron in the ...

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RIP: Alexander Johnson

Sat, May 14, 2005 at 7:49:34 pm PDT

LGF reader Chip (known to all as “Beagle”) and his wife Jennifer suffered the worst loss a parent can imagine, and our hearts go out to them. Here is the memorial website in memory of Alexander Johnson (2005-2005).

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DePaul's Jihad-Friendly Double Standard

Sat, May 14, 2005 at 4:44:42 pm PDT

The glaring double standard at DePaul University, where instructor Thomas Klocek was fired for “offending” student Muslim and pro-Palestinian groups, is finally beginning to get noticed by mainstream media—and again, blogs are driving the story: DePaul Dispute Has Blogs Buzzing. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) CHICAGO - A longtime DePaul University instructor ...

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Amsterdam Shari'a Watch

Sat, May 14, 2005 at 2:54:15 pm PDT

Europe’s most liberal city is becoming a very dangerous place to be gay. WHEN the editor of one of America’s leading gay magazines visited the world’s gay capital a fortnight ago, he assumed that he would be safe. But as Chris Crain, editor of the Washington Blade, was walking hand in hand ...

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The Media Are the Enemy

Sat, May 14, 2005 at 8:16:47 am PDT

What the hell is wrong with CBS News? You’re not going to believe their headline on a story about the Islamist riots in Uzbekistan: U.S. Ally Fires On Its People. (Hat tip: Steven Den Beste.) Because after all, that is the kind of thing that US allies do, isn’t it?

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Saddam Offered to Help Get Chirac Re-Elected

Sat, May 14, 2005 at 7:35:27 am PDT

Mass-murdering dictators aren’t stupid. They know who their friends are: Saddam spies ‘offered to help Chirac get re-elected’. Saddam Hussein’s spies planned a wide-ranging scheme to bribe members of the French political elite in the run-up to the Anglo-American invasion, including an offer to help fund President Jacques Chirac’s 2002 re-election ...

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Berg's Sister Blasts Media

Sat, May 14, 2005 at 7:23:43 am PDT

When Nicholas Berg was decapitated and his death videotaped by Michael Moore’s Iraqi “Minutemen,” his father promptly blamed the President and went on a speaking tour for the Stalinist group International ANSWER. But Berg’s sister appears to be made of stronger stuff, and in a letter to the Philadelphia Inquirer she ...

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Friday, May 13, 2005

Abu Mazen Says...

Fri, May 13, 2005 at 7:05:49 pm PDT

And he’s coming soon to a town near you.

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch Committed to Five More Years

Fri, May 13, 2005 at 6:05:19 pm PDT

In case anyone was concerned, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch will Remain Liberal Under Lee. (Hat tip: Sarah D.) CHICAGO When Lee Enterprises Inc. agreed to purchase Pulitzer Inc. for $1.46 billion, it also agreed that the flagship St. Louis Post-Dispatch will keep its longstanding liberal editorial slant for at least the ...

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The BRAC List

Fri, May 13, 2005 at 5:48:30 pm PDT

Former Spook was the first to contact me about the Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) list. This affects a lot of American families, and when something this large goes down we all hope there’s a strategic plan to make the sacrifices worthwhile.

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Friday Night Roots

Fri, May 13, 2005 at 5:03:49 pm PDT

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Got One in Pakistan

Fri, May 13, 2005 at 4:33:21 pm PDT

CIA Aircraft Kills Terrorist. (Hat tip: Meryl Yourish.) May 13, 2005 — A senior al Qaeda operative was killed by a missile fired from a CIA Predator aircraft on the Pakistani side of the remote area near the Afghan border earlier this week, U.S. intelligence officials told ABC News. The CIA refused ...

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AUT Boycott Falling Apart

Fri, May 13, 2005 at 4:10:04 pm PDT

3 UK universities nix boycott. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) The faculties of Oxford, Warwick and Sussex universities faculty has rejected he boycott of Haifa and Bar Ilan universities by Britain’s Association of University Teachers, reported Israel Radio on Friday morning. The decision by Oxford faculty to reject the boycott came in advance ...

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George Galloway US Tour

Fri, May 13, 2005 at 12:22:19 pm PDT

I just received an email from Tony Snow at Fox News, to let me know that pro-Saddam British MP George “Burn in Hell” Galloway is serious about coming to the United States, and that he has agreed to appear live in the studio on Tony’s radio show next Wednesday.

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New German Holocaust Memorial Vandalized

Fri, May 13, 2005 at 10:57:52 am PDT

New German Holocaust Memorial Vandalized. (Hat tip: mollyshark.) BERLIN - Within hours of the opening of Germany’s national Holocaust memorial to the public, a vandal scratched a swastika into one of the 2,711 gray slabs, a spokesman for the memorial said Friday. The small swastika was spotted by security guards and quickly ...

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Kashmir Children: "Don't Be Cruel to Us"

Fri, May 13, 2005 at 10:48:11 am PDT

Yesterday representatives of the RoP bombed a Christian school in Kashmir as children were leaving. Srinigar, India - Suspected Muslim rebels detonated a grenade on Thursday as children left a Christian missionary school in Indian Kashmir, killing two women and wounding about 50 people including 20 pupils, police said. “Please save me, ...

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Newsweek Report's Death Toll Rising

Fri, May 13, 2005 at 10:16:57 am PDT

Newsweek’s unsourced allegation that interrogators at Guantanamo Bay “desecrated the Quran” has provoked a storm of Islamic fury across the world, according to al-Reuters: Protests across Muslim world over Koran report. KABUL, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Angry protests raged across the Muslim world from Gaza to Indonesia on Friday over a report ...

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Oily Brit to Testify for UN Probe?

Fri, May 13, 2005 at 9:13:02 am PDT

This report at the New York Post seems a bit overstated (I’m not sure Galloway really did say he was going to testify), but it sure would be great theater: Oily Brit to Testify for UN Probe. (Hat tip: lawhawk.) May 13, 2005 — WASHINGTON — Controversial British Parliament member George ...

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Muslim Riots in Uzbekistan

Fri, May 13, 2005 at 9:00:10 am PDT

Violent Uprising Breaks Out in Uzbekistan. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) ANDIJAN, Uzbekistan - Thousands of people, many of them armed, took to the streets of an eastern Uzbek city on Friday, demanding freedom for 23 prominent businessmen on trial for alleged ties to an Islamic terror group. The protest quickly turned ...

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About the Free Muslims March

Fri, May 13, 2005 at 8:53:26 am PDT

At Jihad Watch, Robert Spencer has some thoughts about the march taking place tomorrow in Washington DC, sponsored by the Free Muslims Against Terrorism, with comments from representatives of the FMAT. The response FMAT received from CAIR is very interesting: It would be refreshing if FMAT could be more specific and host ...

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VDH: Remembering World War II

Fri, May 13, 2005 at 7:51:33 am PDT

Victor Davis Hanson’s Friday column is about the new wave of World War II revisionism: Remembering World War II. There are two disturbing things about the current revisionism that transcend the human need to question orthodoxy. The first is the sheer hypocrisy of it all. Whatever mistakes and lapses committed by ...

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Islam is All About Peace

Fri, May 13, 2005 at 7:17:55 am PDT

An Islamic group uses the technology of the West to spread propaganda in a Flash presentation titled This is Islam, opening with a juxtaposition of the September 11 attacks and a crying Afghan child, and the text, “In dedication to the innocent victims of cowardice ... everywhere.” The soundtrack is an ...

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Border Patrol Told to Stand Down

Fri, May 13, 2005 at 7:10:24 am PDT

If this Washington Times report is correct, the Border Patrol is reacting to the success of the Minuteman Project in time-honored bureaucratic fashion: Border Patrol told to stand down in Arizona. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) U.S. Border Patrol agents have been ordered not to arrest illegal aliens along the section of ...

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Thursday, May 12, 2005

This Snake's Gonna Bite

Thu, May 12, 2005 at 6:34:48 pm PDT

Not all of the rattlesnake warning signs in Southern California are politically correct. Here’s one featuring a very scary snake with big freakin’ fangs, standing up on its coils, eyes narrowed in rage. Ready to bite cha. Now there’s a sign that gets your attention—unlike the one we posted last month. ...

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ArabNews Wishful Thinking

Thu, May 12, 2005 at 5:59:20 pm PDT

Today’s cartoon at ArabNews is one of those seemingly involuntary eruptions of hatred that periodically issue from the official English voice of the Saudi royal family. (Hat tip: Frank_Mtl.) UPDATE at 5/12/05 6:51:12 pm: Please note: on September 11, 2001, Saudi citizens hoped to create the exact scenario you see above. Apparently, ...

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CBS Does It Again

Thu, May 12, 2005 at 4:08:02 pm PDT

Ken Starr says that CBS News edited an interview that aired Monday night, to completely change the meaning of his statements and make it seem like he was responding to a question about the “nuclear option” to break the filibuster, when he was making an entirely different point. I know, it’s ...

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Got Two in Boston

Thu, May 12, 2005 at 3:46:42 pm PDT

Former officers of Islamic charity indicted on federal charges. (Hat tip: billindc.) BOSTON — Two former officers of an Islamic charity were indicted on federal charges accusing them of lying to authorities investigating the charity’s alleged ties to terrorist organizations. Emadeddin Muntasser, the former head of Care International, and Muhammed Mubayyid, the ...

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Michael Doran Picked for National Security Council

Thu, May 12, 2005 at 2:00:36 pm PDT

Tigerhawk reports a piece of good news; Michael Scott Doran, Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton, has been picked by the Bush Administration to head the Israel-Palestine desk at the National Security Council. It’s good news because, as Tigerhawk points out, Doran is much more grounded in reality ...

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Air France Flight Diverted from Boston

Thu, May 12, 2005 at 1:42:52 pm PDT

Air France flight to US diverted over suspect passenger. WASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States ordered an Air France flight from Paris to Boston diverted after a passenger whose name is on a terrorism watch list was found to be on board, US security officials said. Flight AF-332 was told to go ...

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Tiny Minority: "They Are Everywhere"

Thu, May 12, 2005 at 8:13:12 am PDT

In Cairo, the tiny minority of radical extremists who have hijacked the Religion of Peace are everywhere. (Hat tip: SoCalJustice.) The opposition newspapers show, for example, that the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood (“the Guide-General”), Mahdi Akef, does not rule out a political coalition with the Christian Copts. Akef’s people can ...

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Watch Galloway Squirm

Thu, May 12, 2005 at 7:56:36 am PDT

New Oil-for-Food allegations against the founder of the “Respect” party, George Galloway, have prompted a vitriolic denial from the pro-terror MP: Galloway denies new oil-for-food allegations. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) George Galloway, the former Labour MP who started his own party, has denied fresh accusations from a US Senate committee that ...

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European Union Springs into Action

Thu, May 12, 2005 at 7:41:50 am PDT

The European Union has broken out their most feared weapon to threaten Iran—the dreaded toughly worded letter: Europeans warn Iran not to resume nuclear work. (Hat tip: Ethel.) VIENNA (Reuters) - France, Britain and Germany have warned Iran they will break off talks and join Washington in seeking U.N. Security ...

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Wednesday, May 11, 2005

Indonesia's Tiny Minority

Wed, May 11, 2005 at 7:07:33 pm PDT

Indonesia seems to have a problem. Accused Indonesian Cleric Preaches Jihad. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) JAKARTA, Indonesia — Dressed in flowing brown robe and turban, Abu Jibril raised his fist and promised worshippers in a packed suburban mosque that every coin they donate to overthrow Indonesia’s secular government will be ...

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Wednesday Horizon Thread

Wed, May 11, 2005 at 6:44:26 pm PDT

This Wednesday night open thread is a study of the very near and the very far. This post is dedicated to Alexander Locke Johnson.

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The Chomsky Effect

Wed, May 11, 2005 at 5:34:20 pm PDT

Petty Officer 3rd Class Pablo Paredes, convicted of missing his ship’s deployment to Iraq due to a sudden attack of conscience, credits his “awakening” to America-hating wacademic Noam Chomsky: Military judge convicts sailor who refused to deploy. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Chomsky is flattered. Paredes says he was a different person when ...

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Chester's Matador Coverage

Wed, May 11, 2005 at 4:43:42 pm PDT

For news about Operation Matador, the anti-jihadi offensive near the Syrian border, The Adventures of Chester is the place.

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Terror Alert on BA Flight

Wed, May 11, 2005 at 1:00:21 pm PDT

A scary moment aboard a British Airways flight taking off from Cyprus: Holiday jet passenger tells of terror alert. A DUNDEE University graduate told last night how he and his family found themselves at the centre of a terror alert when a passenger on board their holiday flight started shouting slogans ...

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A Saudi Doomsday Plan?

Wed, May 11, 2005 at 12:26:03 pm PDT

Daniel Pipes looks at a new book by investigative writer Gerald Posner, who alleges that the Saudi royal family has a “Doomsday plan:” Will the Saudis Blow Up Their Own Oil Infrastructure? Investigative writer Gerald Posner reveals something most extraordinary in Secrets of the Kingdom: The Inside Story of the Saudi-U.S. ...

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Italian TV to Show 'Submission'

Wed, May 11, 2005 at 11:29:25 am PDT

Italian state television will broadcast the Theo Van Gogh film Submission despite protests and veiled death threats from Muslim groups: Italian TV to screen Dutch film despite Muslim protests. (Hat tip: Ringo.) Italy’s state broadcaster, RAI, will tomorrow defy protests from Muslims and reported threats to one of its executives ...

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DU Inmates Vote on "Al Qeada"

Wed, May 11, 2005 at 11:18:53 am PDT

At the inverted-reality-based community of Democratic Underground, the inmates take a poll: What do you believe Al Qeada [sic] is? (Hat tip: freedomplow.) * A real terrorist organization (25 votes, 19%) * A once real terrorist organization that the administration is now using to get what they want (30 votes, 22%) * A ...

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Muslims Upset Over Maryland School Calendar

Wed, May 11, 2005 at 10:08:10 am PDT

New School Calendar Omits Muslim Holidays, and Muslim activists are seething and demanding special treatment. (Hat tip: unclebubba.) TOWSON, Md. (AP) - A school calendar that omits two Muslim holidays has been presented to the Baltimore County board of education. Muslim activists say they will continue to press school officials to amend ...

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RoP Riots Over Newsweek Article

Wed, May 11, 2005 at 9:26:03 am PDT

A Newsweek magazine report of alleged “desecration of the Quran” at Guantanamo Bay provoked a mob of Islamic extremists into rioting today in Kabul: Afghan Protest Over Quran Turns Deadly. KABUL, Afghanistan - Shouting “Death to America,” demonstrators angry over the alleged desecration of the Quran at Guantanamo Bay smashed car ...

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Anti-Muslim Bias Rising: Islamic Group

Wed, May 11, 2005 at 8:43:00 am PDT

Speaking of professional victims, the Council on American-Islamic Relations is once again claiming that “anti-Muslim hate crimes” are increasing drastically. (Hat tip: lawhawk.) May 11, 2005 — Reported bias crimes and civil-rights violations committed against Muslims in the United States during 2004 soared to its highest level since the period immediately ...

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Theater of the Absurd

Wed, May 11, 2005 at 8:20:41 am PDT

Austin Bay has a good post this morning on the absurd meeting of professional victims and dictators’ cronies called the South American-Arab Nations Summit: Anti-American Conference Flips and Flops.

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Tuesday, May 10, 2005

Madrid Bombers Trained in Bosnia

Tue, May 10, 2005 at 7:51:14 pm PDT

Bulgaria’s Sofia News Agency reports that the Islamic terrorists who perpetrated the Madrid train bombings were trained at Al Qaeda camps in Bosnia. (Hat tip: efuseakay.) The terrorists that carried out the Madrid bombings in March 2004 have been trained at special Al Qaeda based in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The news was ...

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Tuesday Dangerous Condition Thread

Tue, May 10, 2005 at 6:27:01 pm PDT

The open thread for this fine West Coast Tuesday evening features a photograph of a very serious sign. UPDATE at 5/10/05 6:30:31 pm: And why is it dangerous?

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Assassination Attempt in Georgia

Tue, May 10, 2005 at 6:19:24 pm PDT

ABC News: Officials Say Grenade Thrown at Bush in Georgia, No One Hurt. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) May 10, 2005 — A device identified as a grenade was thrown within 100 feet of the stage where President Bush was giving a speech today in the former Soviet republic of Georgia, local authorities ...

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Fisking Meathead

Tue, May 10, 2005 at 6:14:01 pm PDT

Lou Minatti fisks Meathead down to the bone.

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WMD Mysteries

Tue, May 10, 2005 at 5:22:59 pm PDT

Christopher Brown of the Hudson Institute examines the ominous connections between Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Al Qaeda’s WMD program, and Abdul Qadeer Khan’s nuclear black market: WMD Mystery. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Zarqawi’s arrival in Jordan and his subsequent travel on a Syrian passport, which was the reason Iran refused to extradite ...

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Galloway: Crusaders Will "Burn in Hell"

Tue, May 10, 2005 at 4:52:48 pm PDT

George Galloway, recently elected in east London’s heavily Muslim Bethnal Green & Bow area, gave an insane ranting interview to Abu Dhabi television in November 2004 in which he likened Fallujah to Stalingrad and said the “criminals who invaded” Iraq would burn in hell. (Video courtesy MEMRI TV.) [Video] The people who ...

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US Forces Encounter Uniformed Fighters

Tue, May 10, 2005 at 2:54:50 pm PDT

This report on Operation Matador, the US offensive against the mujahideen holed up near the Syrian border, contains some interesting details about the fighters: U.S. Punches Through Deserts in Iraq. (Hat tip: twictor.) U.S. forces believe the main body of insurgents in Iraq have moved from their former strongholds in Fallujah ...

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Outrage of the Day

Tue, May 10, 2005 at 2:02:51 pm PDT

Jenny Tonge, the disgusting British legislator who outraged the world with her statements about suicide bombers, has been nominated to the House of Lords. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Dr. Jenny Tonge, a British legislator who was fired last year after expressing sympathy for Palestinian suicide bombers and comparing Gaza’s Arabs to ...

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Pastor: No Apology to Muslims

Tue, May 10, 2005 at 8:26:51 am PDT

Convicted of thoughtcrimes at the behest of the Islamic Council of Victoria, an Australian pastor has stated that he would rather go to jail than apologize. (Hat tip: cosmicview.) One of two Australian pastors found guilty of vilifying Muslims in December of 2004 says he will rather go to jail than ...

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Ignorance is Blix

Tue, May 10, 2005 at 7:43:37 am PDT

Hans Blix says the United States isn’t taking nuclear non-proliferation seriously, by which he means we aren’t rushing to unilaterally disarm. According to Blix, the US is to blame for North Korea’s and Iran’s nuclear programs; if we really wanted to stop these rogue states, we’d be working harder to ...

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Monday, May 09, 2005

Kindness Beyond Reason

Mon, May 9, 2005 at 9:26:00 pm PDT

LGF operative zombie’s latest photo essay is an exclusive report on a heartening event in Phuket, Thailand: Jewish Groups Donate Toys for Phuket Victims.

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The Media Are the Enemy

Mon, May 9, 2005 at 6:21:20 pm PDT

You are not going to believe this mind-bending report from “photojournalist” Molly Bingham, who snuck into Iraq shortly before the war hoping to record American “war crimes,” was arrested by Saddam’s goons and imprisoned at Abu Ghraib, then spent months hanging out with the mujahideen: Home from Iraq. (Hat tip: ...

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Report: 'Jihadist Returnees' May Plan Attacks

Mon, May 9, 2005 at 5:28:58 pm PDT

At the National Post, Stewart Bell continues to do an exemplary job of keeping attention focused on Canada’s dangerously lax immigration policies: Influx of terrorists. A number of “jihadist returnees” have arrived back in Canada from other countries and some may intend to commit acts of terrorism, according to a declassified ...

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PJ Exclusive: A Letter to Paul Volcker

Mon, May 9, 2005 at 4:58:24 pm PDT

We have a web exclusive via Roger L. Simon, now at the PJ Media web site (which is still very much under construction): a lengthy letter to Paul Volcker, Chairman of the Independent Inquiry Committee into the United Nations Oil-for-Food Programme, from Adrian Gonzalez-Maltes, attorney for Oil-for-Food witness Pierre Mouselli. ...

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Moonbats of Mass Destruction

Mon, May 9, 2005 at 3:38:48 pm PDT

Loony Dutch moonbats tried to get into President Bush’s hotel in Maastricht yesterday, claiming they wanted to inspect the nuclear football. (Hat tip: TS.) They had binoculars. MAASTRICHT, Netherlands (Reuters) - Dutch police arrested six activists on Sunday who said they wanted to enter President Bush’s Netherlands hotel and look for ...

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Australian Mufti Praises Jihad

Mon, May 9, 2005 at 9:39:48 am PDT

The Mufti of Australia, Sheik Taj Aldin Alhilali, appealed for the release of Australian hostage Douglas Wood by expressing support for the jihad. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) A Sunni Muslim, like the suspected kidnappers, Sheik Alhilali has been in contact with Sunni scholars in Iraq. “We value your jihad and your efforts ...

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Robot Camel Jockeys

Mon, May 9, 2005 at 9:09:06 am PDT

UAE to rehabilitate child camel jockeys. (Hat tip: Baldy.) ABU DHABI, May 8: The United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Sunday signed an agreement with the United Nations children’s fund UNICEF to rehabilitate child camel jockeys after banning their use in the region’s popular sport. Under the pact, a social welfare institution ...

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What Media Bias?

Mon, May 9, 2005 at 8:33:02 am PDT

US forces in Iraq have launched an offensive near the Syrian border, to put a stop to the constant flow of jihadis from Syria. CNN’s report on this attack cites a long-discredited radical left-wing web site for data on Iraqi civilian casualties. (Hat tip: William.) The number of Iraqi civilians killed ...

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Atlantic Mentions Hate Ideology in US Mosques

Mon, May 9, 2005 at 8:14:36 am PDT

The most under-reported story of the year so far is the Freedom House study of Saudi-funded mosques in the United States, in which numerous examples of shocking, murderous hate speech and Islamic supremacism were discovered. Mainstream media took a quick look at the study, yawned, then decided their time was best ...

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Sunday, May 08, 2005

Feel the Love

Sun, May 8, 2005 at 8:05:37 pm PDT

Leaders of South America and the Arab world are talking about a summit meeting, and the United States is not allowed. BRASILIA, Brazil - Ministers from 33 South American and Middle Eastern nations on Sunday began preparing the groundwork for the first-ever summit of leaders from the two regions. Their talks ...

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AUT Prof Attends Conference at Haifa U

Sun, May 8, 2005 at 5:24:39 pm PDT

Here’s to professor Gregory Gutin of the University of London, for standing up against the thugs of the British AUT: AUT prof. arrives at Haifa Univ. for conference. (Hat tip: zulubaby.) Professor Gregory Gutin, of the University of London’s Royal Holloway, is in Israel for a two-week visit in order to ...

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Canadian Scientists Denounce Kyoto Protocol

Sun, May 8, 2005 at 2:22:01 pm PDT

Here’s a very interesting story at Canada Free Press about a large group of Canadian scientists who have made a documentary speaking out against the Kyoto Protocol—only to find that Canadian television isn’t interested: Kyoto Protocol—Propaganda or Censorship? I asked some routine questions at first: Did they have a letter of ...

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Everybody Loses in Sharon's Gaza Plan

Sun, May 8, 2005 at 2:04:32 pm PDT

Jeff Jacoby points out that among the hardest hit when Israel withdraws from Gaza will be ... Arabs themselves: Everybody loses in Sharon’s Gaza plan. (Hat tip: Carl in Jerusalem.) At Tnuvot Katif, a large produce-packaging plant here, I watch for a while as about two dozen workers, most of them ...

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German Neo-Nazi March Stopped

Sun, May 8, 2005 at 1:37:30 pm PDT

Here’s a scary report from Berlin, where neo-Nazis turned out in the thousands; the only bright spot is that they were confronted by a crowd twice as large: German neo-Nazi march stopped on WW2 anniversary. BERLIN (Reuters) - A neo-Nazi march in Berlin was stopped by thousands of anti-fascist demonstrators on ...

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Murrow's VE Day Report

Sun, May 8, 2005 at 11:56:17 am PDT

Edward R. Murrow reports from Piccadilly Circus in London amid a crowd of jubilant Britons celebrating the Victory in Europe. (Hat tip: Ethel.)

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The New York Times is Concerned About Ethics

Sun, May 8, 2005 at 11:51:23 am PDT

The New York Times’ Adam Cohen is the latest in a long line of mainstream journalists who simply don’t get it: The Latest Rumbling in the Blogosphere: Questions About Ethics. The most outrageous section: The blogs that demanded Dan Rather’s ouster accused him of old-school offenses: not sufficiently checking the facts about ...

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Mommy Day Greetings

Sun, May 8, 2005 at 11:10:42 am PDT

Happy Mother’s Day to all LGF moms!

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Report: Islamic Group Claims NY Grenade Attack

Sun, May 8, 2005 at 10:50:14 am PDT

I can’t vouch for the credibility of the site that carries this item (Adnkronos International), but they say the grenade exposions at the British Consulate in New York have been claimed by a little known Islamic group. (Hat tip: DK.) Dubai, 6 May (AKI) - A little known group known as ...

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Gore to Get Lifetime Award for Internet

Sun, May 8, 2005 at 9:57:57 am PDT

Al Gore, the formerly boring politician who has morphed into a screaming whackjob, will get a lifetime award for contributions to the internet, from the left-wing Webby Awards: Gore to Get Lifetime Award for Internet. (Hat tip: Hulugu.) NEW YORK - Al Gore may have been lampooned for taking credit in ...

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On the AUT Boycott

Sun, May 8, 2005 at 9:19:21 am PDT

OpinionJournal has a good piece on the British Association of University Teachers’ disgraceful boycott of Israeli schools, by senior lecturer in history at the University of Haifa Fania Oz-Salzberger. She points out that the boycott of Haifa is based on a blatant lie: Israelis Need Not Apply. (Hat tip: Bruce.) The ...

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Palestinians: US Handout a "Slap in the Face"

Sun, May 8, 2005 at 8:07:32 am PDT

One achievement to which the Palestinians can point is their elevation of whining chutzpah to an art form: PA: US aid offer a ‘slap in the face’. (Hat tip: manker.) Palestinian officials are calling a US House of Representatives offer of $200 million in tentative aid for the Palestinians passed on ...

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Saturday, May 07, 2005

German Open Program Features Goering

Sat, May 7, 2005 at 11:42:26 pm PDT

Reuters calls this a “Nazi blunder,” but it’s pretty clear that it was no mistake: Nazi blunder casts shadow over German Open. BERLIN, May 7 (Reuters) - A photograph of Nazi Hermann Goering in the programme of the German Open tennis tournament and reference to the host club’s “golden times” ...

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Saturday Lighthouse Thread

Sat, May 7, 2005 at 6:11:22 pm PDT

It’s not a single-syllable object, but then, rules are made to be broken. (And I promise never to use that cliché again.)

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Hamas Victorious in Cities

Sat, May 7, 2005 at 5:45:37 pm PDT

In Palestinian elections, Fatah (Arabic for “conquest”) is ahead in towns and municipalities, but the terror gang Hamas dominated in the major cities: Fatah ahead in Palestinian polls, Hamas victorious in cities. “Hamas has taken 34 constituencies, particularly in the denser population zones,” one of the movement’s principal leaders, Mahmud al-Zahar ...

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Cairo a Breeding Ground for Militants

Sat, May 7, 2005 at 5:15:02 pm PDT

Here’s a report on an area near Cairo that has become a breeding ground for militants, with a strong Muslim Brotherhood influence. SHUBRA EL-KHEIMA, Egypt — Heading north along the Nile, Cairo’s skyscrapers, modern restaurants and glittery shopping malls give way to a different world _ a dense neighborhood of rugged ...

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Islamic Jihad Murders 18-Year Old Palestinian

Sat, May 7, 2005 at 4:29:18 pm PDT

Today, the terror gang Islamic Jihad murdered a Palestinian teenager for giving information to Israel that helped track down a wanted killer. (Hat tip: zulubaby.) Islamic Jihad members on Saturday killed a Palestinian youth suspected of collaborating with Israeli intelligence, the group said. The body of the 18-year-old youth, identified as Rami ...

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Cycle of Violence: Hammering Out the Miles

Sat, May 7, 2005 at 3:45:33 pm PDT

Today’s ride: 55.12 miles, south all the way to the Point Vicente lighthouse park, in brilliant sunny weather with nice clean air. We hammered out a good hard pace most of the way, except when it was necessary to slow down through Manhattan Beach and make sure all those California ...

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Palestinians Try to Murder Children

Sat, May 7, 2005 at 8:30:11 am PDT

Palestinians tried to commit mass murder yesterday, firing an anti-tank rocket at a school bus full of children. Palestinians on Friday morning fired an anti-tank rocket on Friday morning at school bus carrying children outside the southern Gaza Strip settlement of Kfar Darom, shaking the fragile lull in violence. The rocket ...

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The Rumblings of an Atomic Avalanche

Sat, May 7, 2005 at 8:15:38 am PDT

Here’s an antidote to yesterday’s mind-numbingly backward article by Robert S. McNamara, a sharp piece on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty by James Pinkerton: The Rumblings of an Atomic Avalanche.

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A Mother's Day Antisemitic Rant

Sat, May 7, 2005 at 8:06:14 am PDT

Today the Ithaca Journal carries several columns for Mother’s Day, including this unhinged tirade from yoga instructor Sandy Wold: Mothers can make healing a priority. (Hat tip: Rob S.) Wold experiences a long dark night of the soul, but breaks through into love and understanding: As I enter the fourth year of ...

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Friday, May 06, 2005

Europe's Liberal Humanism: Learned from Islam

Fri, May 6, 2005 at 8:57:39 pm PDT

According to this review of Ridley Scott’s Kingdom of Heaven by Meryl Wyn-Davies at The Scotsman: The liberal humanism that modernised Europe, and to which Ridley Scott is perhaps making diffuse reference, was learned and acquired from Muslim philosophy. I did not know that. (Hat tip: rosh.) Here’s a bit more info ...

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Friday Evening Fence

Fri, May 6, 2005 at 8:17:59 pm PDT

Tonight’s open thread features a photograph of a picket fence, somewhere in Central California.

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Remembering Fortuyn

Fri, May 6, 2005 at 6:31:46 pm PDT

Things might have been very different in Europe if Pim Fortuyn had not been assassinated, and Peaktalk has a great post on the third anniversary of his death: Remembering Fortuyn. Today it is three years ago that Pim Fortuyn was shot by an animal rights activist, ending the life of a ...

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March Against Terror - May 14, 2005, Washington DC

Fri, May 6, 2005 at 5:40:39 pm PDT

On Saturday, May 14, the Free Muslims Against Terrorism are holding a rally in Washington DC to support freedom and democracy in the Middle East: March Against Terror - May 14, 2005, Washington, D.C. The Free Muslims Against Terrorism are proud to announce that on May 14, 2005, ...

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Barrier Test

Fri, May 6, 2005 at 5:15:42 pm PDT

How to stop a suicide truck bomber. (Hat tip: Geepers.)

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Simon, Reynolds, LGF on Kudlow

Fri, May 6, 2005 at 1:31:24 pm PDT

I’ll be on the Kudlow & Co. show this afternoon on CNBC with Roger L. Simon and Glenn Reynolds, at approximately 2:40 Pacific time (5:40 Eastern), to discuss the state of pajamas in the modern world. UPDATE at 5/6/05 4:55:00 pm: The Political Teen has a video capture. UPDATE at 5/6/05 5:09:56 pm: Radio ...

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Daily Kos: Ronald Reagan Caused 9/11

Fri, May 6, 2005 at 12:54:48 pm PDT

Every once in a while, those Krazy Kos Kidz manage to put together something so surpassingly strange that it’s like a glimpse into another universe, where nothing is as it seems, hidden enemy forces determine the course of history, and only the Kidz are smart and perceptive and brave enough ...

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McNamara: Apocalypse Will Be US Fault

Fri, May 6, 2005 at 11:19:43 am PDT

India and Pakistan have nuclear weapons. Russia still has thousands of them. North Korea probably has at least one or two. Iran is rushing to join the nuclear club, and recent discoveries in Arab countries like Libya and Egypt make it clear that the Arab Middle East wants in too. But ...

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Terrorists Scouting Hospital Security?

Fri, May 6, 2005 at 9:37:53 am PDT

Government Alert: Hospital Security Breach. This really has federal authorities puzzled - intruders masquerading as doctors and inspectors probing hospital security. But there is no evidence the cases are connected, including two in New Jersey. Hospital officials and security experts say the similarities are disturbing. It happened on Easter Sunday. Three men ...

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Jihad Begot the Crusades

Fri, May 6, 2005 at 9:25:36 am PDT

Here’s a good piece at the American Thinker by Andrew Bostom, to counter the revisionist narrative of the Crusades that is now almost universally accepted by the historically ignorant: Jihad begot the Crusades.

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Wake Up Washington!

Fri, May 6, 2005 at 8:55:21 am PDT

Caroline Glick takes the Bush administration to task for the glaring inconsistencies in their approach to the Arab-Israeli conflict: Wake up Washington! On a psychological level, the images of an Israeli retreat from Gaza and northern Samaria will be footage for jihadi recruitment videos for years to come. In Iraq, a ...

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Daniel Johnson's Election Diary

Fri, May 6, 2005 at 8:09:28 am PDT

At the New Criterion blog Armavirumque, Daniel Johnson has been posting excellent reports from London about the British election; today’s entry (his third) has this troubling note about The Muslim factor. (Hat tip: Power Line.) The Muslim factor played a bigger part than ever before — and a damaging one for ...

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VDH: Democratic Suicide

Fri, May 6, 2005 at 7:55:27 am PDT

This Friday morning Victor Davis Hanson has another look at those wacky dysfunctional Democrats: Democratic Suicide. Philosophically, two grand themes explain the Democratic dilemma. One, the United States does not suffer from the sort of oppression, poverty, or Vietnam nightmares of the 1950s and 1960s that created the present Democratic ideology. ...

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Thursday, May 05, 2005

Google Wants News Scraping Patents

Thu, May 5, 2005 at 7:42:22 pm PDT

Interesting. Google reacts to criticism of their obviously biased news division by placing a big bet on mainstream media: Google trying to patent news ranking by quality. (Hat tips: many LGF readers, over the past week.) Web search leader Google Inc. has applied for U.S. and international patents on technology to ...

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Al Qaeda Kingpin Had British Cell

Thu, May 5, 2005 at 7:20:01 pm PDT

According to the London Times, the Al Qaeda kingpin caught recently in Pakistan had a network of terror operatives in Britain. (Hat tip: Havoc.) AL-QAEDA’S third-in-command, being interrogated after his capture in Pakistan, was in close contact with ten militants working for him in Britain, according to investigators. So far Abu Farj ...

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Exit Polls: Blair Wins Historic Third Term

Thu, May 5, 2005 at 6:46:11 pm PDT

Good news from Britain, where according to exit polls, Tony Blair is going to have a historic third term as Prime Minister. LONDON - Tony Blair won a historic third term as prime minister Thursday but his Labour Party suffered a sharply reduced parliamentary majority in apparent punishment for going to ...

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Why Was Hasan Akbar in the Army?

Thu, May 5, 2005 at 6:34:33 pm PDT

At the Detroit Free Press, Rochelle Riley examines the strange case of Hasan Akbar, the Army sergeant who murdered his fellow soldiers at the beginning of the Iraq War, and whose diaries reveal a fanatic with murderous intentions: Why was sergeant still in the Army? In 1992, he wrote: “I ...

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Thursday Cloud Thread

Thu, May 5, 2005 at 1:32:50 pm PDT

Clouds, birds, and wires.

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Alleged Hizballah Operative Nabbed in Dearborn

Thu, May 5, 2005 at 12:31:01 pm PDT

Dearborn man to be tried in terror case. (Hat tip: SoCalJustice.) DEARBORN — A 41-year-old Dearborn businessman sought to support the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah by collecting at least $600 to send to relatives of suicide bombers, the FBI said Tuesday. FBI agents arrested Nemr Ali Rahal on April 20 at his ...

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Holland Won't Arrest Bush

Thu, May 5, 2005 at 12:18:44 pm PDT

America can now relax; a Dutch court has decided not to throw President Bush in the clink. THE HAGUE (AFP) - A court in The Hague turned down a demand by a dozen plaintiffs who wanted to force the Dutch government to arrest US President George W. Bush when he visits ...

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UT-Austin Thug: "I Am a Jackass"

Thu, May 5, 2005 at 11:33:06 am PDT

An email from Ajai Raj, the thuggish moron who disrupted Ann Coulter’s speech at UT-Austin, is published today at that shining light of progressive thought, the Daily Kos—and the Kos Kidz treat him like a rock star. (Hat tip: Soxblog.) His borderline-illiterate, profanity-laced rant can be summed up in this sentence: I ...

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DUmmies: We've Been Waiting for This

Thu, May 5, 2005 at 10:54:35 am PDT

The inmates of Democratic Underground have already figured out who’s responsible for today’s grenade attacks in New York: Democratic Underground Forums - TWO EXPLOSIONS in NYC—MSNBC. (Hat tip: WaS.) radfringe (1000 posts) Thu May-05-05 05:45 AM Response to Reply #4247. we’ve been waiting for this since bush*’s numbers started tanking... just enough of a “boom” ...

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Suicide Blimp

Thu, May 5, 2005 at 10:44:21 am PDT

Flags and pictures of Palestinian candidates from the extreme Islamic group Hamas fly in the sky during a rally two days before the Palestinian local election at Rafah camp in Gaza Strip. (Hat tip: LGF readers.)

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The Burqa Trap

Thu, May 5, 2005 at 8:44:10 am PDT

Here’s some poetic justice, as the misogyny of the Islamists is turned against them: Burqa trap set for terror suspect. (Hat tip: Eric Cartman’s Conscience.) Pakistani agents wearing burqas seized al-Qaeda suspect Abu Faraj al-Libbi by ambushing his motorbike in a rural town, police told the BBC. ... Pakistani officials have ruled ...

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British Consulate in NY Attacked

Thu, May 5, 2005 at 8:14:54 am PDT

Grenades Damage British Consulate in New York. NEW YORK - Two makeshift grenades exploded outside a building housing the British Consulate early Thursday, Election Day in Britain, causing slight damage but injuring no one, officials said. Officials stressed that it was not clear whether the consulate itself had been targeted. The ...

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The Tolerant, Peaceful Left

Thu, May 5, 2005 at 8:12:02 am PDT

More CafePress gear advocating the murder of Republicans: Save America, kill Republicans! (Hat tip: Tom McMahon.)

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The Story Behind "There Are No Words"

Thu, May 5, 2005 at 8:03:43 am PDT

Here’s the story behind the US Army photo we posted yesterday, showing a US soldier comforting a mortally wounded Iraqi child, by the photographer who took the picture: Michael Yon : Online Magazine: Little Girl. (Hat tip: maryann.)

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Wednesday, May 04, 2005

Iraqi, U.S. Forces Capture 84 Terrorists

Wed, May 4, 2005 at 11:34:16 pm PDT

Did you know that Iraqi and US forces have captured at least 84 terrorists since the beginning of May? BAGHDAD (Army News Service, May 3, 2005) – The Iraqi Army, police and U.S. Soldiers apprehended 84 suspected terrorists in 19 different combat operations conducted in and around Baghdad May 1 and ...

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Italian Indymedia Ordered to Shut Down

Wed, May 4, 2005 at 11:16:40 pm PDT

The Italian branch of the leftist hate site Indymedia has run afoul of Italian law: Italian website banned over ‘Nazi’ pope picture. (Hat tip: Lykos.) An Italian website that published a photo montage of Pope Benedict XVI dressed in a Nazi uniform was told to suspend its activities on Wednesday for ...

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Mujahideen Sniper Movies

Wed, May 4, 2005 at 8:36:57 pm PDT

At the popular Muslim web site ummah.com: Mujahdeen snipers (Part 2) : the hunting of 6 Amerikkan soldiers.

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The Lizard is Watching

Wed, May 4, 2005 at 7:45:46 pm PDT

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USAID Accomplishments Overview

Wed, May 4, 2005 at 7:32:14 pm PDT

An amazing list of accomplishments in Iraq, at the web site of the US Agency for International Development: USAID: Assistance for Iraq - Accomplishments Overview. (Hat tip: denbike.)

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Marine Corps Does the Right Thing

Wed, May 4, 2005 at 6:29:09 pm PDT

The Marine Corps has announced, as anyone of sound mind knew they should and would, that the Marine videotaped doing his job by Kevin Sites will not be court-martialed. The Al-Associated Press is careful to mention in their headline that the shooting took place in a mosque: No Court-Martial in Iraq ...

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Holocaust Remembrance Day

Wed, May 4, 2005 at 11:32:55 am PDT

Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day begins this evening, marking one of the 20th Century’s most shameful atrocities. Caroline Glick’s column for this day looks at the new wave of Holocaust trivialization and revisionism: The Holocaust Fetish.

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Law Enforcement, Palestinian Style

Wed, May 4, 2005 at 11:11:56 am PDT

Palestinians say they won’t disarm militants. GAZA (Reuters) - The Palestinian Authority reiterated Wednesday it had no intention of disarming militants despite constant Israeli calls for such a move and a recent pledge to crack down on unlicensed weapons. The announcement came amid growing friction between armed factions and security forces following ...

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VE Day Remembrance Column

Wed, May 4, 2005 at 10:41:35 am PDT

Austin Bay’s VE Day Remembrance Column is a must-read.

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Ann Coulter at UT-Austin

Wed, May 4, 2005 at 10:22:21 am PDT

At a speech at the University of Texas at Austin, Ann Coulter encountered that special brand of foul-mouthed totalitarian tantrum-throwing that dominates the campus leftist movement: Arrest made at Coulter speech. (Hat tip: Rob Z.) Incessant heckling and shouting culminated in an arrest Tuesday night during a speech by Ann ...

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Caught a Big Fish in Pakistan

Wed, May 4, 2005 at 9:07:09 am PDT

Suspected Senior Leader of Al Qaeda in Pakistan Is Captured. ISLAMABAD, May 4 - Pakistani authorities said today that they had arrested a senior Al Qaeda operative suspected of orchestrating two assassination attempts against the Pakistani president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf. Abu Faraj al-Libbi, described by some counterterrorism officials as the third-most senior ...

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Palestinian Birthday Greetings

Wed, May 4, 2005 at 8:48:19 am PDT

The official Palestinian Authority daily newspaper, Al Hayat Al Jadida, published an advertisement from Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party, sending birthday greetings to a mass-murdering dictator: Birthday Greeting to Saddam Hussein from Fatah Officials in PA Daily Ad. Headline: “Blessings to the leader of the masses, Saddam Hussein the faithful, the legal ...

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Guardian Bites the Bullet, Pigs Take Wing

Wed, May 4, 2005 at 8:06:11 am PDT

I hope you’re sitting down, because today the Guardian’s Max Hastings dares to voice the left’s ultimate heresy: Perhaps the neocons got it right in the Middle East. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) The greatest danger for those of us who dislike George Bush is that our instincts may tip over into ...

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Tuesday, May 03, 2005

Ba'athists Pop Up Down Under

Tue, May 3, 2005 at 8:33:55 pm PDT

Some of the Ba’athist rats who deserted Saddam’s sinking ship are showing up in New Zealand. (Hat tip: Deadmaus.) The Government has been forced to admit serious problems with New Zealand’s border security after two men with links to deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein slipped through the same overseas immigration post. An ...

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Hamas vs. America

Tue, May 3, 2005 at 4:38:43 pm PDT

Daniel Pipes warns the US not to relax our guard against one of the Middle East’s most virulent terror gangs: Hamas vs. America. The Bush administration’s push for quick democracy in the Middle East has an increasingly clear implication: if Islamist organizations such as Hamas are to be likely electoral winners, ...

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Who Killed Marla Ruzicka?

Tue, May 3, 2005 at 3:37:32 pm PDT

At FrontPage, a fair and interesting piece on Marla Ruzicka, the anti-war activist killed in Iraq by a suicide bomber, asking the question: Who Killed Marla Ruzicka? (Hat tip: LGF readers.)

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An Open Letter to Holland

Tue, May 3, 2005 at 2:57:25 pm PDT

An open letter to the Dutch people by Theo Van Gogh’s murderer warns of blood and revenge. (Hat tip: Seafarious.) AMSTERDAM — Mohammed B., the man arrested for the murder of Theo Van Gogh, wrote an “open letter to the Dutch people” before the attack warning they will pay in ...

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Jihad Watch Billboard Project

Tue, May 3, 2005 at 9:53:25 am PDT

A very unusual billboard is currently being featured in a prominent place on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles: The Los Angeles Billboard Project. A knowledgeable and generous benefactor has enabled Jihad Watch to place a billboard in Los Angeles, and has asked that it feature three words unfamiliar to most ...

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Breaking: CNN Publishes Good News

Tue, May 3, 2005 at 9:00:17 am PDT

This isn’t good news for the inmates of Democratic Underground or useful idiots like Mike Whitney, but the “insurgency” is falling apart: US military: Letter to al-Zarqawi complains of low morale. (Hat tip: jon_force.) The letter — which never refers to al-Zarqawi by name — is written to Sheik Abu Ahmad, ...

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Palestinian Law Enforcement

Tue, May 3, 2005 at 8:31:26 am PDT

The Palestinian Authority plays “Revolving Prison Door” again: PA frees Hamas rocket squad member. Palestinian police released a Hamas rocket squad operative Tuesday, despite a pledge to get tough with those who break a non-formal cease-fire with Israel. The release came after intervention by outraged Hamas leaders and Egyptian diplomats. The suspect ...

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Google Says No to Conservative Ads

Tue, May 3, 2005 at 7:47:28 am PDT

RightMarch.com conducted an experiment with Google ads; they took one of the anti-Tom DeLay ads that Google runs when you search for “Tom DeLay,” and simply replaced DeLay’s name with Nancy Pelosi’s name. Then Rightmarch.com paid Google to place their ad—and Google rejected it. But the anti-DeLay advertisement they copied word-for-word ...

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Monday, May 02, 2005

"What Is He, Dracula?"

Mon, May 2, 2005 at 7:25:45 pm PDT

A member of Iraq’s Ansar Al-Sunna terrorist gang confesses to an astoundingly vile crime, on Al-Iraqiya television courtesy of MEMRI TV. ’Adnan Elias: They told us to take him to the house of Habib ‘Izzat Hamu. We took him out there. We said to him: “Why did you do this and ...

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Like a Pendulum Do

Mon, May 2, 2005 at 6:45:30 pm PDT

There seems to be a need at both extremes of the political spectrum to continually push the envelope of rhetoric, by picking a truly horrific occurrence (like Nazi Germany or 9/11) and comparing it with something that’s not even in the same league, in order to denigrate their latest object ...

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Omar Bakri: Blair's to Blame

Mon, May 2, 2005 at 3:07:40 pm PDT

Dubai’s Gulf News interviews former Al-Muhajiroun freakazoid Omar Bakri Mohammad, who says that Tony Blair will be to blame if Islamic terrorists attack Britain: Cleric: Blair’s policies creating militants. (Hat tip: K.) London : An Islamic cleric who admits to supporting Al Qaida has warned that thousands of Muslims could ...

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Canadian Islamic Hate Speech

Mon, May 2, 2005 at 12:47:53 pm PDT

The National Post documents yet another case of vicious paranoid hate speech from the Canadian Islamic Congress: Canadian Muslims deserve better. (Hat tip: Kathy Shaidle.) Like many journalists, we regularly receive the CIC’s “Friday bulletins.” These e-mail messages typically consist of clippings from left-wing publications such as Britain’s Guardian. But they ...

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Peace Activist Supports Head-Choppers

Mon, May 2, 2005 at 10:44:36 am PDT

Here’s some refreshing (yet thoroughly repellent) honesty from a “peace activist” in Washington State, who dispenses with the usual tortured rationalizations (I support the troops, man! bring them home!) and comes right out and says he wants Americans dead at the hands of the noble Iraqi “resistance:” Why America needs ...

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Philippine Vigilantes

Mon, May 2, 2005 at 10:18:10 am PDT

Filipinos frustrated by their government’s failure to combat Islamic terror gangs have resurrected a feared anti-Muslim vigilante group: New vigilante group targets Muslims. (Hat tip: Ringo.) DAVAO CITY-A group calling itself Bag-ong Ilaga warned Muslims against joining or supporting terror groups, saying it was starting an “active defense.” The group, obviously patterned ...

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Sharansky Resigns in Protest

Mon, May 2, 2005 at 9:24:32 am PDT

Natan Sharansky has quit the Israeli government in protest over the Gaza disengagement plan. Diaspora Affairs Minister Natan Sharansky resigned Monday morning from the government, due to his opposition to the disengagement plan. In a long letter of resignation, Sharansky cited the need for democratization of Palestinian government in Gaza as a ...

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Nazi-Islamist Hatefest in Boca Raton

Mon, May 2, 2005 at 9:12:55 am PDT

Despite numerous complaints, the Boca Raton Marriott Hotel allowed a radical Islamist group to hold a convention this past weekend, with notorious neo-Nazi William Baker as featured speaker: Neo Nazi William Baker Tells Crowd at Boca Marriott that 9-11 Hijackers Weren’t Muslims. (Hat tip: Jihad Watch.) BOCA RATON, FL (April 30, ...

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Good News from Afghanistan, Part 12

Mon, May 2, 2005 at 8:53:38 am PDT

Have you noticed that mainstream media has almost completely stopped reporting on developments in Afghanistan? That’s because there’s nothing but good news these days—and lots of it.

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Memorial Commemorates Mosque Murder

Mon, May 2, 2005 at 8:20:20 am PDT

Long before September 11, 2001, the New York Police Department had a lethal run-in with the Religion of Peace™. (Hat tip: JWL.) May 2, 2005 — The family of a cop murdered in an infamous Harlem mosque melee 32 years ago was honored aboard the USS Intrepid yesterday. ... Officer Cardillo and ...

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Sunday, May 01, 2005

A Preferred Destination in the Human Smuggling Marketplace

Sun, May 1, 2005 at 10:02:51 pm PDT

What’s the favorite North American destination of international crooks and terrorists? Canada: Study released on human-smuggling market. OTTAWA (CP) - Almost 12 per cent of people who arrived in Canada without proper documents during a six-year period were directly linked to a smuggler or escort, a federal intelligence study reveals. “Canada has ...

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AUT Boycott Leader Links to Neo-Nazi site

Sun, May 1, 2005 at 8:57:39 pm PDT

Sue Blackwell, one of the prime movers behind the British AUT’s boycott of Israeli universities, is apparently a Nazi sympathizer: The academic ban - Nazi connection. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) The Web site of Sue Blackwell, the Birmingham lecturer who presented motions calling for boycotts of Israeli universities, contains ...

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Kingdom of Heaven: Propaganda Film?

Sun, May 1, 2005 at 7:30:00 pm PDT

LGF operative zombie has posted a must-read report on the Ridley Scott film about the Crusades, with information you haven’t seen elsewhere: Ridley Scott’s Kingdom of Heaven: Propaganda Film? * The film distorts history to portray Muslims in a good light. * Nevertheless, Muslims at first attacked the film while it was ...

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Minuteman First Phase Ends Without Violence

Sun, May 1, 2005 at 6:37:35 pm PDT

Despite the media’s dire predictions, the month-long first phase of the Minuteman Project has ended with no violence, and only one threat—a threat against the Minuteman volunteers. Confederate Yankee has more.

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A Request from Austin Bay

Sun, May 1, 2005 at 2:02:13 pm PDT

May 8 is the 60th anniversary of VE Day, and Austin Bay is looking for people who remember May 8, 1945 — especially WWII vets: VE Day Remembrance. Where were you when you heard that the war in Europe was over? What did you think and how did you feel? If ...

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The Swedish Threat

Sun, May 1, 2005 at 1:46:48 pm PDT

Internet Haganah reports that Islamic extremists have issued very explicit threats to launch terror attacks against Sweden: The Swedish threat.

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South Park Conservatives on Book TV

Sun, May 1, 2005 at 1:31:45 pm PDT

Now on Book TV: Brian Anderson, author of the excellent South Park Conservatives: The Revolt Against Liberal Media Bias. Watch live over the web here.

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NY Times Seethes, Whines

Sun, May 1, 2005 at 12:38:33 pm PDT

The New York Times bemoans the plight of Muslims in the United States, being forced to endure the overwhelming humiliation of removing hats and veils for ID photographs and public service jobs: Muslim Converts Face Discrimination. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) This weird article makes no mention of the hate-mongering, antisemitism, and ...

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Vietnam Protesters, 30 Years After

Sun, May 1, 2005 at 10:01:45 am PDT

An article at a San Francisco ABC affiliate sheds some light on why American universities continue to be centers of muddle-headed pacifism and self-loathing anti-Americanism. Where are the leading lights of the Bay Area anti-Vietnam war movement, 30 Years Later? Jeff Lustig. Then an undergraduate student at the University of California ...

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Cease Fire, Palestinian Style

Sun, May 1, 2005 at 9:32:26 am PDT

Israel arrests would-be suicide bomber. (Hat tip: Mark.) Israeli security forces have arrested a suspected would-be suicide bomber in the West Bank city of Tulkarm. It is the first Israeli operation in the area since Tulkarm was handed over to Palestinian control a month ago. Israeli soldiers moved into Tulkarm to arrest Muhammed ...

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Muslim Brotherhood "Condemns" Cairo Attacks

Sun, May 1, 2005 at 9:13:48 am PDT

Egyptian police have arrested 200 people in connection with yesterday’s terror attacks; the Muslim Brotherhood “condemned” the attacks in one breath, and justified them in the next. In an official statement Sunday, the opposition Al-Ghad Party said the violence was the result of the “environment of oppression and depression,” a reference ...

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British AUT Getting 'Down Wiv the Kidz'

Sun, May 1, 2005 at 8:47:53 am PDT

A great piece by Julie Burchill on the British Association of University Teachers’ disgraceful decision to boycott Israeli colleges: British AUT getting ‘down wiv the kidz.’ (Hat tip: zulubaby.) A couple of weeks ago, on April 22nd, Britain’s Association of University Teachers - an organization representing over 48,000 professional swots - ...

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LA Times Shills for Sgrena Again

Sun, May 1, 2005 at 8:16:56 am PDT

It’s No Accident: L.A. Times Editors Have Done It Again, deliberately editing a wire story to remove evidence that US soldiers were justified in shooting at the car carrying Giuliana Sgrena. UPDATE at 5/1/05 8:41:20 am: Slashdot has a link to what they claim is an uncensored copy of the classified report ...

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Saturday, April 30, 2005

Hugo Chavez: A Hero at Democratic Underground

Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 10:04:00 pm PDT

Venezuelan kleptocrat Hugo Chavez calls for a revolution in America: HAVANA, Cuba (AP) — Saying that U.S. citizens are oppressed by their own government, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez promised Friday that he would not visit the United States again until Americans “liberate” their nation. Chavez, in Havana for trade talks, told an ...

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