LGF Archives: May 2006
Watching the Watchers
Wed, May 31, 2006 at 7:07:25 pm PDT
Now featured in the “Visitors Online” section of our left sidebar: a count of today’s and yesterday’s visits from the Reuters IP address 192.165.213.18. No activity at the moment, because as I write this it’s 3:05 am, June 1st in London. Not Reuters office hours. The counter should start increasing around ...
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RoP Strikes in Kashmir
Wed, May 31, 2006 at 6:05:12 pm PDT
30 injured as militants attack tourist buses in Kashmir. (Hat tip: Robert O.) Srinagar - At least 30 people were injured when suspected Muslim militants hurled powerful grenades at two tourist buses in Srinagar, capital of India’s Jammu and Kashmir state Wednesday, police said. The buses, carrying tourists from eastern West Bengal ...
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Reuters Death Threat Update 8
Wed, May 31, 2006 at 5:21:42 pm PDT
Over at MPACUK, they’ve updated their paranoid rant—with an open admission that my suspicions were at least partly correct: MPACUK - Masajid and ISOCs Silent As Zionists Move In On Inayat Bunglawala! According to MPACUK, the death threat did indeed come from the Reuters facility where Bunglawala works, which I believe ...
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French Intifada Watch
Wed, May 31, 2006 at 1:45:22 pm PDT
For the second night, “youths” rampaged through Paris suburbs: Violence flares again in Paris suburbs. MONTFERMEIL, France - Youths torched a dozen cars and hurled stones at police in a second night of violence in the troubled Paris suburbs, raising memories of rioting that rocked the nation last year. Six police officers ...
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Oriana Fallaci: The Agitator
Wed, May 31, 2006 at 1:04:54 pm PDT
A terrific profile of Oriana Fallaci at the New Yorker: The Agitator. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Fallaci’s interview with Khomeini, which appeared in the Times on October 7, 1979, soon after the Iranian revolution, was the most exhilarating example of her pugilistic approach. Fallaci had travelled to Qum to try to ...
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Reuters Death Threat Update 7
Wed, May 31, 2006 at 9:59:07 am PDT
In our secret base deep underground, our Zionist lizardoid ultrasuperpowers tell us that the Reuters IP address 192.165.213.18 has hit our site 134 times since midnight, and it looks like there may even be one or two Reuters people online right now. We’d like to extend an invitation to them: please ...
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Armstrong Cleared, French Guilty of Misconduct
Wed, May 31, 2006 at 9:35:08 am PDT
Cycling phenomenon Lance Armstrong has been cleared of all doping charges, and the French national anti-doping laboratory may have violated the law in their quest to smear the American champion. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Dutch investigators cleared Lance Armstrong of doping in the 1999 Tour de France on Wednesday, and blamed ...
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Raging Paranoia at Muslim Public Affairs Committee UK
Wed, May 31, 2006 at 8:46:26 am PDT
I think I should be flattered by British Muslim advocacy group MPACUK’s completely insane article about the LGF Reuters death threat incident, because they’ve decided there’s no way LGF could possibly be the work of just one superhuman Zionist madman: MPACUK - Breaking News: Calls From Around The World Demand ...
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Wounded Soldier Sues Michael Moore
Wed, May 31, 2006 at 8:25:32 am PDT
Wounded Iraq War veteran Peter Damon is suing Michael Moore: GI’s Big Fat Suit Vs. Moore. A double-amputee Iraq-war vet is suing Michael Moore for $85 million, claiming the portly peacenik recycled an old interview and used it out of context to make him appear anti-war in “Fahrenheit 9/11.” Sgt. Peter Damon, ...
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Neo-Nazis Elected in Italy
Wed, May 31, 2006 at 8:13:17 am PDT
Here’s a bad translation of a report in Italy’s Corriere Della Sera, about the election of four neo-Nazis to a local Italian legislature. (Hat tip: Pickle.) Hour, after the ballot, reassumes them Francisco Saverio Garofani, of the Daisy, that it expresses “great worry”. The fact that a party of nazi inspiration ...
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CNN Reporter Defends Marines, Guardian Smears LGF
Wed, May 31, 2006 at 8:00:09 am PDT
Embedded CNN reporter Arwa Damon witnessed the restraint of the Marines in Haditha many times: A reporter’s shock at the Haditha allegations. The Guardian’s “news blog,” meanwhile, in the course of an article that assumes the allegations to be true, smears LGF with a ridiculous mischaracterization of my first post about ...
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Islamic Terror Roots in Europe
Wed, May 31, 2006 at 7:38:42 am PDT
Here’s a piece at Radio Free Europe on the network of Islamic terrorists and silent supporters that has put down deep roots in Europe and Britain: Europe: Al-Qaeda Recruitment Efforts Hard To Root Out. Francis Gregory, a terrorism specialist at the University of Southampton, says there is no doubt such groups ...
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Palestinian Death Cult Lynchings
Tue, May 30, 2006 at 9:11:36 pm PDT
A story of utterly appalling savagery, as the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades publicly murder two people for “collaborating” with Israel: Al Aksa kills suspected collaborators. (Hat tip: Ethel.) Masked Al Aksa Martyrs’ Brigades gunmen on Tuesday publicly executed a Palestinian man and woman they suspected of having spied for Israel. The man ...
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ACLU: Working to Make America Less Secure
Tue, May 30, 2006 at 8:57:54 pm PDT
The ACLU was busy today, applauding the EU Court decision striking down the US-EU data-sharing agreement, and at the same time condemning a new law banning state-paid travel to terrorist states. A civil rights group criticized a new law, signed Tuesday by Gov. Jeb Bush, that restricts colleges and universities from ...
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Abbas Names Top Fugitive As Security Head
Tue, May 30, 2006 at 8:29:47 pm PDT
Terrorist thugs pretending to be a government: Abbas names top fugitive head of Force 17 Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas decided on Tuesday to appoint a security officer who had been accused by Israel of involvement in terrorist attacks as overall commander of his Force 17 “presidential guard” in the West ...
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Beltway Sniper Muhammad Convicted
Tue, May 30, 2006 at 8:09:18 pm PDT
Beltway sniper John Muhammad was convicted today, and Robert Spencer reminds us that Muhammad planned a nightmarish jihad murder spree: Beltway sniper jihad update.
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Ted Nugent: Off His Rocker?
Tue, May 30, 2006 at 8:03:55 pm PDT
At The Independent, possibly the funniest interview you’ll ever read with The Nuge: Ted Nugent: Off his rocker? (Hat tip: MemeFirst.) I confess to a grudging respect for the system by which he governs his land, though I’m not sure I’d like to see his reign extended to the state of ...
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Reuters Death Threat Update 6
Tue, May 30, 2006 at 5:49:59 pm PDT
The Reuters IP address 192.165.213.18 has hit our site 110 times since midnight, and once again every single hit is going either directly to the page about the death threat from “zionistpig-at-hotmail.com,” or to our home page. There are four or five different user agent strings, meaning several different browsers ...
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Hamas Hates Us
Tue, May 30, 2006 at 4:14:31 pm PDT
A Hamas terrorist, on the run and hiding from IDF missiles even though he’s been named the Hamas “security chief,” hates us: Hamas enforcer rails against U.S. gov’t. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) RAFAH, Gaza Strip - In a back-alley interview, the top Hamas enforcer in the Gaza Strip railed against the ...
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Der Spiegel Interviews Ahmadinejad
Tue, May 30, 2006 at 3:42:40 pm PDT
Iranian madman Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s interview with Der Spiegel is now online in English. We’ve featured excerpts before, but reading the whole thing conveys a sense of the man’s very deep lunacy—mixed with a disturbing ability to hit the soft spots of the multicultural mythos: Interview with Iran’s President Ahmadinejad: ‘We ...
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Iranian Dissident's Tale of Horror
Tue, May 30, 2006 at 3:18:40 pm PDT
At Britain’s Sunday Telegraph, a horrific tale from Roya Tolouee, a leading Iranian pro-democracy and women’s rights advocate, who was brutally beaten and raped, and threatened with having her children burned to death in front of her, by a man who said he believed in only two things—Islam and the ...
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Chomsky: Hamas is Better Than the US or Israel
Tue, May 30, 2006 at 3:01:00 pm PDT
While in Lebanon visiting Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah, MIT professor Noam Chomsky gave interviews to several Arab media outlets, dispensing his especially virulent brand of moral equivalence to receptive audiences. In this interview, from LBC TV on May 23, 2006, Chomsky says the policies of Hamas are “more conducive to a ...
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Haditha Updates
Tue, May 30, 2006 at 9:02:06 am PDT
Allahpundit has a post packed with information about the alleged massacre at Haditha by US Marines: Haditha: Marine eyewitnesses come forward (Update: Audio and video of the attack?)
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Suggestions for Google
Tue, May 30, 2006 at 8:59:28 am PDT
Seven Stripes has a few tasteful, understated suggestions for a Google Memorial Day logo (if they feel like getting around to it next year): Google refuses to Honor the Fallen (AGAIN).
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British Wacademic Disgrace
Tue, May 30, 2006 at 8:23:58 am PDT
Britain’s main university lecturers’ union, NAFTHE, has voted to boycott Israeli colleges and academics unless they publicly denounce their own country: Israel slams ‘repulsive’ British academic boycott. But the Jerusalem Post points out that this resolution will only be valid for three days: UK ‘regrets’ NATFHE boycott decision. (Hat tip: Carl ...
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Reuters Death Threat Update 5
Tue, May 30, 2006 at 8:06:15 am PDT
The Reuters IP address 192.165.213.18 has visited LGF 20 times since midnight Pacific, going to either our post about the death threat, or to the front page. Once again, this is not random activity; whoever is using this IP is watching our posts about the threat very carefully. Some of ...
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Hamas Says They Have Money
Tue, May 30, 2006 at 7:50:36 am PDT
Hamas terrorists announced today that they are planning to pay salaries to thousands of workers within days. Since international banks are not dealing with Hamas, a newsworthy question might be: where is the money coming from? Al-Reuters seems totally uninterested in the answer. GAZA (Reuters) - Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh pledged ...
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EU Court Says Sharing Airline Info is Illegal
Tue, May 30, 2006 at 7:39:01 am PDT
The unelected anti-American bureaucrats of the European Union have struck down an agreement that requires the EU to share information on European citizens flying to the United States: EU, U.S. Anti-Terror Accord on Airlines Struck Down. (Hat tip: Niall.) May 30 (Bloomberg) — Europe’s highest court struck down an anti-terrorism agreement ...
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Got Four in Gaza
Mon, May 29, 2006 at 10:00:07 pm PDT
The Jerusalem Post reports that four Palestinians have been killed in a Gaza airstrike, as they prepared to launch rockets into Israel. (Hat tip: Carl in Jerusalem.) Among the wounded: two “journalists” and an ambulance driver. Four Palestinians were killed near the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya on Monday night and ...
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French Intifada Watch
Mon, May 29, 2006 at 9:17:18 pm PDT
The “youths” are rioting and burning cars again tonight in the suburbs of Paris: French youths clash with police in Paris suburbs. (Hat tip: karmic_inquisitor.) PARIS (Reuters) - Around a hundred youths clashed with police during the night after setting fire to cars and rubbish bins in a Paris suburb that ...
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Monday Night Paths
Mon, May 29, 2006 at 8:00:45 pm PDT
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Why Women Wear the Burqa
Mon, May 29, 2006 at 7:36:23 pm PDT
Australian model Michelle Leslie, imprisoned in Bali on drug charges, was roundly criticized for showing up in Islamic dress. But her experience is a glimpse into what it’s like for women under Islam if they make one wrong move, and why they consent to wear restrictive clothing like the burqa: ...
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Google and Memorial Day
Mon, May 29, 2006 at 7:00:00 pm PDT
In a post earlier today we noted that Google chose not to recognize Memorial Day with an altered logo, as they do with many other holidays. The HiWired Blog recalls a similar controversy that arose last year. This was Google’s response at the time: We have to balance this rotating calendar with ...
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Cycle of Violence: 148-Mile Weekend
Mon, May 29, 2006 at 6:35:48 pm PDT
Today’s ride: 53 miles. With yesterday’s 51, and Saturday’s 44, that comes to (calculating furiously) 148 miles. The weather was so perfect I felt like weeping. (Not really.) Perfect blue cloudless sky, perfect air temperature just cool enough to keep things perfectly comfortable on a long ride. The wind was ...
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Wounded Warriors
Mon, May 29, 2006 at 5:35:02 pm PDT
Here’s an excellent way to do something concrete for America this Memorial Day, and really help those who have sacrificed the most: by donating to Wounded Warriors. I just gave them $100. (Hat tip: Chicagoboyz.)
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Another "Progressive" Memorial Day Message
Mon, May 29, 2006 at 5:14:53 pm PDT
This thoughtful Memorial Day message is from Firedoglake, where they want us to know their version of the Memorial Day Truth: There Is No “War on Terror”. (Hat tip: Allahpundit.) Ladies, gentlemen, and lizardoids, I give you one of the most infantile, stupidly reductionist examples of “progressive” logic ever posted on ...
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Disgraceful Malaysian Moment of the Day
Mon, May 29, 2006 at 4:20:42 pm PDT
Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi of the “moderate” Islamic state of Malaysia shakes the bloody hand of Hamas terrorist Mahmoud Zahar.
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Reuters Death Threat Update 4
Mon, May 29, 2006 at 3:31:44 pm PDT
Israel’s Ynet News has a story about the death threat we received from an IP address traced to Reuters: Reuters employee issues ‘Zionist pig’ death threat. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Meanwhile, the Reuters IP address 192.165.213.18 has hit LGF 24 times since 12 midnight, and again almost all of the visits ...
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"Loose Change" Violates Filmmakers' Copyright
Mon, May 29, 2006 at 3:03:02 pm PDT
Here’s some excellent news, as Gedeon and Jules Naudet, the filmmakers who captured images of the first plane striking Tower One on 9/11, have sent a “Cease and Desist” letter to the creeps behind the vile conspiracy video Loose Change. (Hat tip: Screw Loose Change.)
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Memorial Day Open Thread
Mon, May 29, 2006 at 8:53:40 am PDT
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A "Reality-Based" Memorial Day
Mon, May 29, 2006 at 8:29:35 am PDT
The Kos Kidz celebrate Memorial Day: Daily Kos: Memorial Day C & J. Disgusting beyond belief.
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Israel Threatened to Bomb Beirut
Mon, May 29, 2006 at 8:26:02 am PDT
Did you wonder why UN peacekeepers acted so quickly to “broker” a cease fire when Hizballah launched a large scale attack against Israel yesterday? Hint: it isn’t because the peacekeepers were disturbed by Hizballah’s actions. Report: Israel threatened to bomb Beirut. (Hat tip: Carl in Jerusalem.)
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Memorial Day 2006
Mon, May 29, 2006 at 8:06:17 am PDT
As we recall the sacrifices made on our behalf by military service members in all branches of the Armed Forces, I wish all LGF readers a safe and happy Memorial Day. (From Cox & Forkum Editorial Cartoons.) UPDATE at 5/29/06 8:16:07 am: Google has a tradition of changing their logo to reflect important ...
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Palestinian Mass Murder Plot Thwarted
Mon, May 29, 2006 at 7:43:26 am PDT
Palestinians were preparing to commit mass murder in Jerusalem this morning, but were caught by an IDF patrol: Major J’lem suicide bombing foiled. Soldiers thwarted a large bombing in Jerusalem today, Haruv Brigades Commander Lieutenant Colonel Arik said, following the arrest of two Palestinians in the Nablus area. Specific intelligence obtained by ...
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Sunday Night Cove
Sun, May 28, 2006 at 9:52:20 pm PDT
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Cycle of Violence: Half Century Hill Work
Sun, May 28, 2006 at 9:10:50 pm PDT
Today’s ride: 51 miles, in exceptional weather. Low 70s, sunny, a bit windy but you’d be hard-pressed to label it “fascist.” The bike path was like a dangerous video game, with hordes of seemingly lobotomized Angelenos (all with their little white ear buds blaring) lurching unpredictably around like refugees from ...
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Reuters Death Threat Update 3
Sun, May 28, 2006 at 8:31:34 pm PDT
The Reuters IP address that was used to send us a death threat has visited LGF 15 times today. This doesn’t necessarily mean that Reuters has not really suspended the person responsible (as they told me), but something odd’s going on here because the hits from this address are not ...
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A Dialog of the Deaf
Sun, May 28, 2006 at 7:45:48 pm PDT
Abbas, Hamas hold talks on Israel recognition plan.
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Sunday Night Playlist
Sun, May 28, 2006 at 7:18:27 pm PDT
Tonight we have two selections from Ry Cooder and Manuel Galban’s Cuban retro twilight zone album Mambo Sinuendo, and some Appalachian (by way of Southern California) gospel goodness from Gillian Welch. (Audio removed.)
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UK Muslim Leader: Preaching Jihad is Our Right
Sun, May 28, 2006 at 5:29:03 pm PDT
A fascinating admission in an article at The Muslim News, a British Muslim paper, reporting a speech by Union of Muslim Organisations (UMO) official Syed Aziz Pasha—who is seething over a new addition to Britain’s anti-terror laws that would prevent them from preaching jihad. Uh. I think that’s supposed to be ...
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Canada's Largest Union Joins Israel Boycott
Sun, May 28, 2006 at 4:58:33 pm PDT
My contempt for the people and groups pushing this abhorrent boycott of Israel knows no bounds. The latest left-wing organization to join the chorus of hatred of Israel and delusional sympathy for terrorists is the Canadian Union of Public Employees, Canada’s largest union: CUPE in Ontario votes to boycott Israel. ...
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The Humiliating TV Network of Blasphemy
Sun, May 28, 2006 at 4:15:10 pm PDT
The futon critic has an image of the logo for upcoming television network CW. (Hat tip: tbk.) When are these infidel Western companies going to learn not to offend billions of Muslims with their humiliating insults? Don’t try to tell me this is an accident. Here’s the CW logo: And here’s the dreaded ...
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Hamas Boasts: Hitler Liked Us
Sun, May 28, 2006 at 2:36:45 pm PDT
The Hamas newspaper Al-Rissala proudly lists foreign leaders who have expressed support for the Palestinians—leaders such as Adolf Hitler. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) The Hamas newspaper this week chronicled with pride the ways in which different foreign leaders singled out the Palestinians as examples of ideal revolutionaries. The first leader cited ...
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RoP Dress Code
Sun, May 28, 2006 at 9:15:39 am PDT
Islamists kill tennis players in Baghdad for wearing shorts. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) BAGHDAD — An Iraqi tennis coach and two of his players were fatally shot last week in Baghdad because they were wearing shorts, authorities said yesterday, reporting the latest in a series of recent attacks attributed to Islamic ...
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Ahmadinejad: "Germans Are Prisoners of the Holocaust"
Sun, May 28, 2006 at 8:48:15 am PDT
More details are emerging about the evil statements made by Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in his interview with Germany’s Der Spiegel: Germans should stop feeling Holocaust guilt: Ahmadinejad. BERLIN (Reuters) - Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told Germans they should no longer allow themselves to be held prisoner by a sense of ...
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What Media Bias?
Sun, May 28, 2006 at 8:33:26 am PDT
Terrorists in Lebanon launched a rocket attack into Israel today. But the BBC’s headline could not possibly be more ridiculous: Lebanon border clash breaks out. In fact, get a load of all these wire services headlines for the story, almost every one of them focused on or emphasizing the Israeli response instead ...
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Mismatch of the Century
Sun, May 28, 2006 at 8:24:18 am PDT
Apparently, Dean Esmay never learned the First Rule of Holes—if you’re in one, stop digging—because amazingly, he’s posted another angry, ad hominem-laced attack on Robert Spencer (and on me, because I had the temerity to point out Spencer’s public debate with him). More than a few commenters have asked why Spencer ...
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Saturday Night Beach
Sat, May 27, 2006 at 10:45:34 pm PDT
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Ahmadinejad to Europe: Support Iranian Nukes or "Suffer the Consequences"
Sat, May 27, 2006 at 9:42:12 pm PDT
In an interview with Germany’s Der Spiegel, Iranian madman Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warned Europe to support Iran’s nuclear program or “suffer the consequences.” And he denied the Holocaust once again. And Germany is apparently not going to stop him from visiting the World Cup if he chooses. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warned Europe ...
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Saturday Night Playlist
Sat, May 27, 2006 at 9:12:18 pm PDT
Amanda Marshall’s first album is a classic, and Birmingham is the best song on it, with a wonderfully understated vocal performance. With the second track we move from the sublime to the ridiculous, featuring the Bonzo Dog Band’s highly influential and cerebral piece, Ali Baba’s Camel, from their album Tadpoles. (Audio now ...
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Reuters Death Threat Update 2
Sat, May 27, 2006 at 6:54:36 pm PDT
At the Guardian, Inayat Bunglawala responds again: I notice that we appear to have attracted some rather unpleasant Muslim-haters via the detestable LGF website. Is there a reason you lot (Nick223, HarryFlashman, NaturalLaw etc) are not willing to display some courage and clearly identify yourselves before making serious accusations instead of ...
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Palestinian Civil War Watch
Sat, May 27, 2006 at 6:42:26 pm PDT
This is priceless. Yesterday: Hamas pulls private militia off streets. Today: Hamas militia returns to streets of Gaza.
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Palestinian Duplicity Watch
Sat, May 27, 2006 at 6:38:45 pm PDT
Remember that Hamas official who was caught smuggling nearly a million dollars in cash through the Egyptian border? Remember what Palestinian “president” Mahmoud Abbas said (through his spokesliar Saeb Erekat) at the time? GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - President Mahmoud Abbas has asked the Palestinian attorney general to investigate a ...
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FBI Investigations in Orange County
Sat, May 27, 2006 at 6:26:28 pm PDT
At the Orange County Register, columnist Frank Mickadeit writes about a meeting with FBI officials in which they revealed that the FBI is ramping up their investigations in Orange County, creating three new anti-terrorist units focusing on Al Qaeda, non-Al Qaeda foreigners and domestic suspects—and they appear to be very ...
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Canadian Bookseller Afraid of Cartoon Jihad
Sat, May 27, 2006 at 2:54:51 pm PDT
The largest bookseller in Canada has pulled the latest issue of Harper’s Magazine off their shelves, out of fear of the Religion of Peace™: Indigo pulls controversial Harper’s off the shelves. (Hat tip: Gnida.) Canada’s largest retail bookseller has removed all copies of the June issue of Harper’s Magazine from its ...
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Reuters Death Threat Update
Sat, May 27, 2006 at 9:01:29 am PDT
Last night I requested more information about the person Reuters says they “suspended” for sending me a death threat, but so far there has been no response. Meanwhile, the Reuters IP address 192.165.213.18 (from which I received the threat) has hit LGF 9 times today, most recently at 8:48:04 Pacific. And ...
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Spencer Replies to Apologists
Sat, May 27, 2006 at 8:44:20 am PDT
Dean Esmay is smearing Robert Spencer again, and Spencer has another devastating response, on the bigger issues raised by ill-informed (and/or deliberately deceptive) apologists for Islam: On assertions without evidence.
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CNN Lies About Iraq Minister's Iran Support
Sat, May 27, 2006 at 8:30:50 am PDT
Yesterday CNN ran a story titled: Iraqi minister defends Iranian nuclear program. Iran has a right to develop nuclear technology and the international community should drop its demands that Tehran prove it’s not trying to build a nuclear weapon, Iraq’s foreign minister said Friday. ... “Iran doesn’t claim that they want to ...
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Palestinian Darwin Award
Sat, May 27, 2006 at 8:20:31 am PDT
The always charming Gulf Daily News of Bahrain headlines the story: Four killed by Zionists. (Hat tip: Tim Blair.) But was it Zionists ... or their own stupidity? GAZA CITY: Four Palestinians were killed in northern Gaza yesterday as Israel fired dozens of artillery shells into the territory. Three men died and five ...
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Italians Disturbed by Mosque Plan
Fri, May 26, 2006 at 9:13:57 pm PDT
For unknown reasons, the Italian town of Colle di Val d’Elsa is very nervous about plans to build a gigantic mosque—one of the largest in Italy—in their midst: Italians fear mosque plans. COLLE DI VAL D’ELSA, Italy — For hundreds of years, Colle di Val d’Elsa has been renowned for its ...
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NPR Notices Saudi Textbooks Teaching Hatred
Fri, May 26, 2006 at 9:06:05 pm PDT
Amazingly, the usually laughable left-wing NPR takes a relatively unbiased look at the duplicity of our friends the Saudis: Saudi Textbooks Still Teach Hate, Group Says. The Center for Religious Freedom at Freedom House has studied some of the textbooks currently in use in Saudi public schools, from grades one through ...
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Friday Night Umbrellas
Fri, May 26, 2006 at 8:33:39 pm PDT
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Attack in Berlin
Fri, May 26, 2006 at 6:58:07 pm PDT
Man stabs 20 at opening of Berlin train station. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) BERLIN (Reuters) - A knife-wielding man attacked people streaming out of a gala ceremony for Berlin’s new central rail station on Friday night, injuring up to 20 before being arrested, police said. “A crazy man ran down the street ...
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The Latest UK Academic Israel Boycott Attempt
Fri, May 26, 2006 at 6:33:47 pm PDT
Israel-hating British academics are trying once again to push through a boycott, with the National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education: British academics revive dispute on Israel. LONDON - Members of Britain’s largest college teachers’ union have reignited a fierce debate about academics and politics by asking colleagues to ...
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Abu Ghraib Squared
Fri, May 26, 2006 at 5:01:02 pm PDT
There are very few verified details yet, but if the basic outline of this story turns out to be true we’re in for a mainstream media festival of guilt that will make the Abu Ghraib story look like a Vanity Fair piece on Al Gore: Official: Iraq civilian deaths unjustified. WASHINGTON ...
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Dear Mama Moonbat
Fri, May 26, 2006 at 3:34:38 pm PDT
An open letter from Cathy Seipp to Cindy Sheehan: Dear Useful Idiot. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) My teenage daughter, who is a more sympathetic person than I am, thinks baldly calling Cindy Sheehan an idiot is a bit harsh, so I’ll amend: Cindy Sheehan is a useful idiot, a rattle-headed tool ...
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Hizballah Death Cult Propaganda
Fri, May 26, 2006 at 2:26:41 pm PDT
From Lebanon’s Al-Manar TV (the Hizballah mouthpiece that qualifies as a Google News source), Hizballah kingpin Hassan Nasrallah explains that the nation’s strength is “its willingness to sacrifice blood, souls, children, fathers, and families”—to destroy Israel. (Courtesy MEMRI TV.) [Video]
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VDH: Looking Back at Iraq
Fri, May 26, 2006 at 10:48:05 am PDT
An essay for Memorial Day by Victor Davis Hanson: Looking Back at Iraq. There may be a lot to regret about the past policy of the United States in the Middle East, but the removal of Saddam Hussein and the effort to birth democracy in his place is surely not one ...
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Got Two in Lebanon
Fri, May 26, 2006 at 9:21:38 am PDT
No raisins for Abu and Nidal: Bomb kills two Islamic Jihad officials in Lebanon. SIDON, Lebanon (Reuters) - A senior Islamic Jihad official and his brother were killed in southern Lebanon on Friday in a car bombing the Palestinian group blamed on Israel. An Israeli government source said the Jewish state “has ...
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Breaking: Shots Reported at House Building
Fri, May 26, 2006 at 8:28:08 am PDT
Capitol police probing reports of gunfire.
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A Death Threat from Reuters (Bumped)
Fri, May 26, 2006 at 8:01:55 am PDT
See below for important updates... Early yesterday morning at about 3:00 am on the West Coast, someone in Sweden Britain connected to the Internet and browsed over to this article at the Guardian by Inayat Bunglawala, media secretary of the Muslim Council of Britain: This code could open doors. Bunglawala’s piece (about ...
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Thursday Night Beach
Thu, May 25, 2006 at 7:53:58 pm PDT
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Galloway: Murdering Blair Would Be "Morally Justified"
Thu, May 25, 2006 at 7:32:30 pm PDT
Malevolent British MP George Galloway is praising Fidel Castro as a ‘lion of world politics.’ HAVANA - An outspoken British lawmaker appeared on Cuban television praising Fidel Castro as a “lion” of world politics and defending the Cuban leader against a magazine report naming him one of the world’s wealthiest rulers. George ...
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We Got Mail from Reuters (Bumped)
Thu, May 25, 2006 at 5:33:21 pm PDT
This article has been bumped up to the top of the page, with new evidence further implicating Inayat Bunglawala.
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Michigan DOE 'America' Update
Thu, May 25, 2006 at 5:03:36 pm PDT
At the Detroit News, here’s an update to yesterday’s story about the Michigan DOE banning the use of the word “America” to describe the United States. The DOE issued a denial, but it turns out there’s more than a little truth to the tale after all: Keep our schools safe ...
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Brit Terror Cell Planned Nightclub Bombing
Thu, May 25, 2006 at 4:08:31 pm PDT
A secret security service recording was played in the trial of an alleged British terror cell today, in which this group of misunderstanders of Islam discussed blowing up a large British nightclub. An alleged British terror cell talked of blowing up London’s Ministry of Sound nightclub, the Old Bailey heard today. Jurors ...
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We Got Mail (from the MSM)!
Thu, May 25, 2006 at 3:00:43 pm PDT
This post has been bumped back up to the top, after a possibly explosive update.
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Riots at Tehran Universities
Thu, May 25, 2006 at 2:14:47 pm PDT
Gateway Pundit has updates on the disturbances at Iranian universities, as students protest against the Islamic terror masters: Tehran Universities Erupt in Violence Overnight!
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Aerial Pursuit in NYC?
Thu, May 25, 2006 at 1:24:56 pm PDT
LGF reader Right Brain emails with a report of a disturbing incident in New York City: This morning circa 11:00 am in NYC 4-5 jet planes, including a civilian plane large enough to be an airliner, roared over Manhattan east to west at about 300 ft over the buildings, crossing exactly ...
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Israeli Advice on the Mexico Fence
Thu, May 25, 2006 at 9:02:39 am PDT
As America begins to discuss building walls to stop illegal immigration, here’s some harsh but very pragmatic advice from an Israeli expert, at Ha’aretz: Israeli advice on the Mexico fence: be ruthless. (Hat tip: Jim.) Money: It will probably cost more than you think. Why? Because that’s always the way it ...
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Palestinian Civil War - AP Euphemism Watch
Thu, May 25, 2006 at 8:47:49 am PDT
You can feel the Associated Press struggling and straining to come up with new euphemisms in this one: Officer killed in Palestinian fighting. GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - A gunfight between a Palestinian security force and a Hamas militia Thursday killed one police officer and wounded four others in the latest ...
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Speaking Truth to Gullibility
Thu, May 25, 2006 at 8:33:32 am PDT
Always on the watch for a hot, steamy business opportunity, Iowahawk has launched a new 900 service for lonely progressives: The Following is a Paid Reality-Based Message. ANNOUNCER Are you bored? Sitting at home alone, scouring basic cable news for impeachment updates? Well now you don’t have to wait for the 3 ...
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Convicted Killers Draft Peace Plan
Thu, May 25, 2006 at 8:05:36 am PDT
The Palestinian good cop/bad cop routine is really getting hackneyed. Today Mahmoud Abbas/Abu Mazen “threatened” to call for a referendum on a new peace plan drafted by his advisors. His “advisors” are a group of convicted mass murderers, imprisoned in Israel: Abbas threatens to call a referendum. (Hat tip: BusinessGuy.) The referendum ...
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The Ice Cream Jihad
Thu, May 25, 2006 at 7:46:50 am PDT
For some reason, Harper’s Magazine has suddenly printed an interview that took place last March, with a 27-year old British Muslim who says the “defining moment of his life” occurred when he had a close encounter with ... the dreaded ice cream dessert of blasphemy! I’m Hatin’ It. Out of ...
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Wednesday Night Ocean
Wed, May 24, 2006 at 9:44:26 pm PDT
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Death Cult Fundraiser
Wed, May 24, 2006 at 9:19:55 pm PDT
Hamas tries to raise money by auctioning off a jacket owned by “martyred” (read: terminated by an Israeli missile) mass murderer Salah Shehada. (Courtesy MEMRI TV.) [Video]
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CAIR "Islamophobia" Propaganda at VOA
Wed, May 24, 2006 at 8:23:46 pm PDT
Voice of America was founded to help promote the ideology and spirit of America to foreign audiences. At least, that’s what I always thought. But somewhere along the way, it became a mouthpiece for Islamist propaganda. A VOA report by Mohamed Elshinnawi about a Pew poll showing increasingly negative opinions of ...
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Columbus Newspaper Covers Up for Islamofascist
Wed, May 24, 2006 at 7:47:05 pm PDT
Last Sunday we featured a MEMRI TV video of Salah Sultan, preaching Islamic supremacism and anti-rational conspiracy theories on Al-Risala TV. Salah Sultan lives in Columbus, Ohio, and lectures at the area’s Islamic school, the Sunrise Academy. Today at FrontPage, Patrick Poole relates the story of what happened to him when ...
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What Media Bias?
Wed, May 24, 2006 at 3:24:39 pm PDT
TimesWatch reports on New York Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger’s wild left-wing rant at a graduation ceremony in New York:. As keynote commencement speaker, Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger “apologized” to graduates at the State University of New York at New Paltz on Sunday for the failure of his generation to stop the Iraq ...
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Atlas Shrugs: Olmert's Speech
Wed, May 24, 2006 at 3:12:06 pm PDT
Atlas has a great account of Ehud Olmert’s Speech to the Joint Session of Congress: Witnessing history.
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Al Aqsa Martyrs Defect to Hamas
Wed, May 24, 2006 at 2:45:07 pm PDT
Are they dissidents? Militants? Activists? Defectors? Disadvantaged youths resisting oppression? Only Allah knows for sure: Dissident Fatah militants join Hamas force. GAZA CITY (AFP) - More than 1,000 Fatah dissidents marched through Gaza City declaring their allegiance to a rival Hamas security force, two days after deadly clashes between the Palestinian ...
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Operation Gratitude's 3rd Annual Patriotic Drive
Wed, May 24, 2006 at 2:36:37 pm PDT
Operation Gratitude is running its Third Annual Patriotic Drive, with a goal to deliver more than 40,000 care packages to troops deployed overseas by July 4th.
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Michigan DOE No Longer Part of America?
Wed, May 24, 2006 at 2:31:39 pm PDT
At the Detroit News, an op-ed about the latest unbelievable example of multicultural insanity, as the Michigan Department of Education decides “it’s ethnocentric for the United States to claim the entire hemisphere:” Keep ‘America’ in Michigan schools. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Censoring the word “America” from our own schools is something ...
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Palestinian Civil War Watch
Wed, May 24, 2006 at 2:21:32 pm PDT
Following the attack earlier today by Fatah on a group of Hamas “activists” (killing one), a car bomb has taken out a top commander of Fatah’s “Preventive Security” force: Palestinian security chief killed in blast. GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - A Gaza security chief loyal to the Palestinian president was killed ...
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Istanbul Airport Fire Claimed by TAK
Wed, May 24, 2006 at 2:12:10 pm PDT
A radical Kurdish group calling itself the Kurdish Freedom Falcons has claimed responsibility for a huge fire at Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport: Kurdish group claims Istanbul airport fire. A radical Kurdish group said it was responsible for a fire at the cargo section of Istanbul’s Ataturk airport, the hub of international ...
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Debunking a Fake Soldier
Wed, May 24, 2006 at 11:24:29 am PDT
Michelle Malkin recaps the Jesse/Jessie Macbeth/Al-Zaid tale, at Town Hall: Another fake soldier tale debunked.
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World Powers Spring into Action
Wed, May 24, 2006 at 10:51:57 am PDT
Responding to Iran’s mocking rejection of their package of incentives, the UN Security Council fires back with ... some more incentives: 6 world powers in London to discuss Iran. LONDON - Six world powers searched for common ground Wednesday on rewarding Iran if it gives up uranium enrichment, and U.N. Secretary-General ...
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Al Gore: Selfless Oracle
Wed, May 24, 2006 at 10:36:07 am PDT
In an article giddy with admiration, Howard Fineman asks the question, “Is Al Gore happy to be a selfless oracle?” (Hat tip: Amer1can.) Compare to any MSM article, chosen at random, about George W. Bush. WASHINGTON – In Washington the other day, I got a chance to tell Al Gore something I’d ...
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Protest Planned at Egyptian Embassies
Wed, May 24, 2006 at 10:14:21 am PDT
Sandmonkey has updates on the Egyptian crackdown on bloggers and dissidents, including information on a planned international protest at Egyptian embassies.
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Another Honor Killing Victim Dies
Wed, May 24, 2006 at 10:02:48 am PDT
Fourteen-year old Pakistani girl Noor Jehan, shot by her cousins and dumped in a ditch in Karachi, has died alone in the hospital. Her parents are apparently in hiding, and have not claimed the body. KARACHI, Pakistan: A 14-year-old girl who was allegedly shot by her cousins in southern Pakistan ...
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Catholic Group Invites Radical Islamic Speaker
Wed, May 24, 2006 at 9:41:21 am PDT
Tonight at the Catholic Information Center in Washington DC, another misguided attempt at one-way “interfaith dialog” featuring a speaker from the International Institute of Islamic Thought. (Hat tip: TheLeague.) Wednesday, May 24th “Revering Mary: Islamic & Catholic Perspectives in Dialogue” Time: 6:00-8:00 pm (two 20-25 minute presentations, followed by Q&A, and a ...
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Protests in Iran
Wed, May 24, 2006 at 9:01:46 am PDT
The Spirit of Man is covering the breaking story of protests against the mad mullahs at the University of Tehran.
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Got Seven in Britain
Wed, May 24, 2006 at 8:57:16 am PDT
Seven members of the Religion of Peace™ have been arrested in Britain: Seven held in anti-terror raids. (Hat tip: Kalle.) Seven people are being held following an anti-terrorist police operation across England to target people they suspect of plotting attacks abroad. The raids, which began at 0300 BST and involved 500 officers, ...
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Palestinian Civil War Watch
Wed, May 24, 2006 at 8:39:51 am PDT
Looks like Hamas and Fatah are caught in the dreaded cycle of violence: Gaza gunmen kill one Hamas member, wound four. GAZA (Reuters) - Gunmen in Gaza shot and killed one Hamas member and wounded four others from the Islamic militant group on Wednesday in renewed violence after Prime Minister Ismail ...
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Iowahawk: Stop the Lies
Tue, May 23, 2006 at 9:39:00 pm PDT
Jesse Macbeth is tonight’s celebrity guest blogger at Iowahawk, and he’s raging against the truth: Stop the Lies. Iowahawk Guest Commentary by Jesse Macbeth Iraq War Veterans Against Google Breakfast Shift Associate, Wendys of Tacoma (Photo courtesy Sears Portrait Studios) As a decorated combat veteran of Bush’s Iraq misadventure, I am all too familiar with the ...
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Tuesday Night Beach
Tue, May 23, 2006 at 9:18:07 pm PDT
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UCLA Will Host Israel-Hating Professor
Tue, May 23, 2006 at 8:43:58 pm PDT
The next stop on Israel-hating professor Norman Finkelstein’s tour of sympathetic US college Islamic supremacist groups: University of California, Los Angeles. (Hat tip: Terp Mole.) And note that the Reconquista crowd has found new allies. Finkelstein, a professor of history at DePaul University in Chicago, has published several books on Zionism, the ...
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Iran Test-Fires Long-Range Missile
Tue, May 23, 2006 at 7:35:58 pm PDT
On April 7, we noted a report that Iran was preparing to test a nuclear-capable ballistic missile named the Shihab-3. Today they tested it, but apparently there were some problems: Jerusalem Post: Iran test-fires long-range missile. Iran conducted a test launch Tuesday night of the Shihab-3 intermediate-range ballistic missile, which is capable ...
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LGF Experiment Watch
Tue, May 23, 2006 at 7:05:29 pm PDT
I’ve been experimenting with a beta feature of Amazon’s associate program, that pops up a little window with extended information when your mouse pointer hovers over a link to an Amazon product, like the album covers in our “Now Playing” section. The window shows a link to the product page ...
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Biased Headline of the Day
Tue, May 23, 2006 at 6:36:30 pm PDT
From Agence France Presse, of course, hyping the anti-Israel parts of Amnesty International’s dishonest new report: Israel turns blind eye to attacks on Palestinians: Amnesty. JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israeli security forces and settlers are being allowed to perpetrate abuses against Palestinians with no real fear of being brought to justice, Amnesty ...
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A Kick From Britain
Tue, May 23, 2006 at 6:31:35 pm PDT
Here’s a kick in the head (or somewhere further south) from Martin Samuel at The Times, who’s utterly appalled at the idea of using steel from the World Trade Center towers for ... imperialist warships! Don’t we realize we’re caught in the dreaded cycle of violence? Of course we don’t. ...
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The Anti-War Myths That Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Democratic Talking Points
Tue, May 23, 2006 at 5:39:00 pm PDT
Presidential aide Peter Wehner, director of the White House’s Office of Strategic Initiatives, has a strategic initiative I wish the administration had taken long ago—a relentlessly logical, fact-based rebuttal to the anti-war myths that refuse to die: Revisionist History. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) The first one: The president misled Americans to convince ...
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Lawmakers Call for Border 'Tipping' Inquiry
Tue, May 23, 2006 at 3:50:32 pm PDT
A group of congressional leaders is calling for an investigation into reports that US government officials are ‘tipping off’ the Mexican government about civilian patrol groups like the Minutemen. Twenty-one congressional leaders have called for an independent investigation into reports that officials from the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Customs ...
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Bin Laden Says Moussaoui Not Connected to 9/11
Tue, May 23, 2006 at 3:19:44 pm PDT
There’s a new audio tape supposedly from Osama bin Laden, in which he (or an amazing facsimile) says that Zacarias Moussaoui was not part of the 9/11 plot. CAIRO, Egypt - Osama bin Laden purportedly said in an audio tape Tuesday that Zacarias Moussaoui — the only person convicted in the ...
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German Shari'a Watch
Tue, May 23, 2006 at 3:00:36 pm PDT
More than 32,000 Islamist extremists in Germany. (Hat tip: Fjordman.) Anyone think this might be cause for concern? But Germany’s domestic security agency, the Verfassungsschutz, thinks they’ve bought some time by not participating in the Iraq War. BERLIN - The number of Islamist extremists based in Germany increased slightly last year but the ...
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Horrific Honor Killing in Hamburg
Tue, May 23, 2006 at 2:37:23 pm PDT
German Eurabia has a translation of a story in a German paper of a gruesome honor killing in Hamburg. (Hat tip: zombie.) Hamburg - In Hamburg, a 40-year-old man beheaded his wife. Afterwards, he ran, his wife’s head in his hand, to a nearby gas station and turned himself in to ...
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The Obsessions of the Nutroots
Tue, May 23, 2006 at 2:13:42 pm PDT
It’s got it all. Deranged Bush hatred, Karl Rove being frog marched, smears against the military, 9/11 conspiracies, and blog names lettered on military hardware. It’s the Yearly Kos Kook Konvention promo, and all the Kidz think it’s a Really Kewl Video. This is why we call them “nutroots.” Allahpundit has more ...
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US Blasts Amnesty International Hypocrisy
Tue, May 23, 2006 at 1:14:57 pm PDT
Another day, another dishonest Amnesty International report blasting the United States. But this day’s a little different. For a change, the US is fighting back. WASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States went on the counter-attack against Amnesty International, rejecting its charges of the torture of terror suspects and criticizing its lack of ...
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Got a Big Fish in Ramallah
Tue, May 23, 2006 at 9:08:15 am PDT
The IDF has arrested one of the most wanted Hamas mass murderers: IDF seizes Hamas bomb mastermind. After an eight-year manhunt, Israeli security forces early Tuesday seized the Ramallah-area commander of Hamas’ military wing, Israel’s most wanted man in the West Bank. Sheikh Ibrahim Hamed, 41, has been wanted since 1998 for ...
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US Army: Jessie Macbeth Has No Service Record
Tue, May 23, 2006 at 8:25:33 am PDT
Just Citizens has a statement from a US Army spokesperson about Jessie Macbeth and his vile allegations of war crimes by the US military. (Hat tip: The Neoconservative Madrassa.) Today, the Army ran a check on Mr. MacBeth’s credentials. It turns out, not surprisingly to anybody with half a mind, that ...
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The Hamas Lobby
Tue, May 23, 2006 at 8:17:18 am PDT
The Council on American-Islamic Relations was created to lobby for Hamas, and their latest press release (through US Newswire, a pay service) does exactly that: CAIR: U.S. Muslims Say ‘Siege’ of Palestinians Must End... (Hat tip: SoCalJustice.) They’re clearly tickled that Hamas was elected, because now they can refer to the ...
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More "Conservative" Bloggers Thrown Out by Google
Tue, May 23, 2006 at 8:08:16 am PDT
Two more “conservative” bloggers are reporting today that Google has inexplicably dropped them from their index: Outside The Beltway and Dan Riehl.
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Palestinians Helped with Egypt Attacks
Tue, May 23, 2006 at 8:03:50 am PDT
After first claiming they were the work of Bedouins, Egypt now says that the terrorist mass murders in Dahab last month were carried out by Palestinians: Egypt says Palestinians involved in Sinai attacks. CAIRO (AFP) - Egypt for the first time revealed that Palestinian militants had taken part in planning suicide ...
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Anti-War "Ranger" Editing History
Mon, May 22, 2006 at 7:47:45 pm PDT
Jessie Macbeth (the “former Army Ranger” who alleged horrific crimes by the US military) has removed the bogus awards from his Military.com profile. A little too late, because Allahpundit got screenshots. UPDATE at 5/22/06 10:02:14 pm: And now the videos of Jessie Macbeth that were posted at YouTube have been removed.
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Monday Evening Beach
Mon, May 22, 2006 at 7:00:48 pm PDT
And always, lurking, looming on the horizon, the supertankers.
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Letter to Ahmadinejad
Mon, May 22, 2006 at 6:18:43 pm PDT
Michael Ledeen posted a fantasy letter (sadly, only a fantasy) by “a former Reagan administration official” that’s so good I’ve got to re-post the whole thing: Letter to Ahmadinejad. (Hat tip: Instapundit.) Dear President Ahmadinejad, Please forgive this tardy response to your letter of early May. We did not reply at ...
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One-Way Illegal Immigration
Mon, May 22, 2006 at 5:58:09 pm PDT
The hypocrisy of the Mexican government is stunning, on a global scale: Mexico Works to Bar Non-Natives From Jobs. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) MEXICO CITY - If Arnold Schwarzenegger had migrated to Mexico instead of the United States, he couldn’t be a governor. If Argentina native Sergio Villanueva, firefighter hero of ...
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Moby: "A Remarkable Document"
Mon, May 22, 2006 at 4:35:59 pm PDT
Music recycler and loopy left (obscure music pun intended) spokesDJ Moby has posted the letter to George W. Bush from Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at his blog, and although he makes sure to say he doesn’t “endorse” it, the shaven-headed raver is clearly quite captivated: it’s worth taking 10 minutes ...
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Newsbusters: Is Google Purging Conservative News Sites?
Mon, May 22, 2006 at 11:51:48 am PDT
Newsbusters has a piece on Google News and their continuing exclusion of “conservative” sites: Is Google Purging Conservative News Sites? To be sure, there have been complaints in the past from conservative bloggers that Google seems to have dubious requirements to be a part of its News Crawl. In February 2005, ...
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali on UK Channel 4
Mon, May 22, 2006 at 11:20:30 am PDT
Here’s another impressive interview with Ayaan Hirsi Ali, broadcast on British Channel 4 and made available at YouTube by Sugiero. UPDATE at 5/22/06 12:09:14 pm: And don’t miss Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s new book: The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam.
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CAIR Attacks LGF
Mon, May 22, 2006 at 9:27:45 am PDT
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (lgf: search), at least five of whose employees and board members have been arrested, convicted, deported, or otherwise linked to terrorism-related charges and activities, has sent out one of their infamous “Action Alerts” about ... the Lizardoid Nation: Incitement: Threats on Internet Hate Site. Cherry-picking through ...
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Palestinian Civil War Watch
Mon, May 22, 2006 at 9:10:22 am PDT
Deadly gunbattle erupts near Palestinian parliament. GAZA CITY (AFP) - One Jordanian was killed and at least seven Palestinians wounded as rising tensions between the rival Hamas and Fatah factions erupted into heavy fighting near the parliament in Gaza. A driver at the Jordanian representation was killed in the running gunbattle close ...
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Rove Frog March Indefinitely Postponed
Mon, May 22, 2006 at 9:04:05 am PDT
Howard Kurtz at the Washington Post reports on the spurious “Karl Rove indictment” story that appeared on moonbat site Truthout.org: Rove Lawyer Has a Pet Peeve. The author of the Truthout piece, Jason Leopold, is a self-admitted liar and convicted felon with a history of drug and alcohol addiction. I hope ...
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Hunting Hizballah
Mon, May 22, 2006 at 8:52:39 am PDT
According to the New York Post, the FBI and Justice Department have launched urgent investigations into Hizballah cells in the United States. (Hat tip: SoCalJustice.) May 22, 2006 — WASHINGTON - The Hezbollah terror group - one of the most dangerous in the world - may be planning to activate sleeper ...
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Toronto Star Islamist Threatens LGF Reader with Lawsuit
Mon, May 22, 2006 at 8:05:14 am PDT
LGF reader “Pro-Bush Canuck” says he’s received a threat from Toronto Star editor, Haroon Siddiqui, to sue him for libel for pointing out Siddiqui’s very obvious Islamist agenda. Case in point: here’s an LGF entry from last year about an editorial by Siddiqui condemning the nonexistent desecration of Korans at ...
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"Progressives" Supporting the Troops Again
Mon, May 22, 2006 at 7:43:00 am PDT
OK, lizardoids—it’s time to do some fact-checking. Here’s the latest outrageously slanderous video to make the rounds of the moonbat sites (who eat this stuff up like hallucinogenic candy), featuring an “Iraq veteran” named Jessie Macbeth who claims to be a former Army Ranger, and alleges that the US military ...
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RoP Strikes in Kashmir
Sun, May 21, 2006 at 10:01:46 pm PDT
Seven die in Muslim ‘suicide attack’ on Kashmir rally. Islamic militants hurled grenades and fired assault rifles into a ruling Congress Party rally in Indian-administered Kashmir yesterday, killing at least seven people, including two policemen and injuring another 22. Officials said the attackers, who were dressed as policemen, were killed in the ...
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"9/11 Was Planned Within the US"
Sun, May 21, 2006 at 9:57:05 pm PDT
Here are excerpts from a speech on Kuwait’s Al-Risala TV by Dr. Sallah Sultan, president of the American Center for Islamic Research in Columbus, Ohio, who tells the Arab audience that America planned the 9/11 attacks in order to control and terrorize the entire world. And it was all based ...
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The Swedish Anthrax Case
Sun, May 21, 2006 at 9:29:35 pm PDT
I missed this when it was posted at Gates of Vienna last Thursday, but according to a translated article from Denmark’s Jyllands-Posten, someone in Jordan wants to buy Swedish anthrax. Attempted theft of anthrax from Swedish University Persons from the Middle-East have attempted to con the University of Gothenburg (Göteborg Universitet) out ...
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Trespasser Killed at Selfridge ANG Base
Sun, May 21, 2006 at 8:52:07 pm PDT
At Selfridge Air National Guard Base, where the 107th Fighter Squadron’s F-16 aircraft are housed, there have been two reported break-ins in two months: Trespasser killed after security breach on Selfridge ANG base. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) May 18, 2006 (by Lieven Dewitte) - Last night, a driver sped through a ...
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Sunday Night Mavis
Sun, May 21, 2006 at 8:08:16 pm PDT
Mavis Staples digs deep for this powerful performance of the Stephen Foster classic, Hard Times Come Again No More, from one of my all-time favorite recordings: Beautiful Dreamer - The Songs of Stephen Foster. (Audio available for a limited time.) [Audio now removed.]
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Two Saudis Board Schoolbus, Kos Kidz Laff
Sun, May 21, 2006 at 6:24:49 pm PDT
A disquieting story from Tampa, Florida, where two Saudis acting very strangely boarded a schoolbus and (thankfully) were arrested: Saudi Men Who Rode School Bus Arrested. TAMPA - Two Saudi men were arrested Friday after they boarded a school bus and rode to Wharton High School in New Tampa. Students on the ...
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Toronto Star Islamist Propaganda
Sun, May 21, 2006 at 1:44:57 pm PDT
The Toronto Star’s resident Islamist, Haroon Siddiqui, attacks Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Why the jig is up for Hirsi Ali in Holland. The Scientific Council for Government Policy had simply stated the obvious: Islam, like any religion, has many strands, conservative to liberal, with varying attitudes toward gender parity, and that Muslim ...
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Bostom: Badging Infidels in Iran
Sun, May 21, 2006 at 1:00:45 pm PDT
Andrew Bostom provides some historical context in the controversy over Badging Infidels in Iran. The Iranian Majlis or Parliament has reportedly passed (now disputed) a law requiring that, “Jews would have to sew a yellow strip of cloth on the front of their clothes, while Christians would wear red badges ...
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Wouldn't You Like to Be a Hitler Too?
Sun, May 21, 2006 at 12:06:17 pm PDT
Congratulations to Alexandra at All Things Beautiful, who joins the elite group of anti-idiotarian bloggers who have been labeled “Nazis” for writing about the true heirs of the Third Reich—the mullahs of Iran: Truth Or Dare. (Scroll down for her link to the idiotblogger’s venomous rant.) In all modesty, however, I ...
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Hamas: Israel Can't Use PA Tax Money for Medicine
Sun, May 21, 2006 at 11:31:35 am PDT
Israel said today they would use Palestinian tax money, currently being withheld, to buy medical supplies for Palestinian hospitals. Hamas says, “You can’t expect us to buy bullets with penicillin.” (Hat tip: Carl in Jerusalem.) Hamas on Sunday stated that Israel did not have the right to use money taken from Palestinian ...
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Political Correctness Run Amok
Sun, May 21, 2006 at 10:35:37 am PDT
A Texas elementary school decided to use an image of a US five cent coin for the cover of their yearbook—but removed the “offensive” words “In God We Trust:” Coin image omits ‘In God We Trust’. (Hat tip: GWH.) A Keller school district parent said political correctness has run amok at ...
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Hip, Edgy Racism at Wonkette
Sun, May 21, 2006 at 9:49:27 am PDT
Appalling offhanded racism and sexism, brought to you by the hip, edgy, enlightened lefties at Wonkette. wonkette: OMG I AM WATCHING MICHELLE MALKIN’S INTERNET VIDEOS FOR THE FIRST TIME operative: she has internet videos? operative: does she do the thing with the ping-pong balls?*
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The Anti-Minutemen
Sun, May 21, 2006 at 9:35:02 am PDT
The open borders crowd is getting more aggressive, recruiting hundreds of moonbats to help illegal immigrants enter the United States. A surge in the number of volunteers fanning out across Arizona’s southern deserts to aid illegal immigrants is expected this summer. The increase comes despite the ongoing prosecution of two volunteers arrested ...
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Britain is in Big Trouble
Sun, May 21, 2006 at 9:26:51 am PDT
The latest story of mind-boggling multicultural insanity from Britain: More than 230 terror suspects free to stay in Britain. (Hat tip: Geepers.) MORE than 230 foreigners identified by MI5 and Scotland Yard as suspected terrorists have been allowed to stay in Britain as asylum seekers. Home Office records show that nearly a ...
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Malaysia Will Fund Terrorists
Sun, May 21, 2006 at 8:37:16 am PDT
The “moderate” Islamic state of Malaysia has promised to give $16 million to Hamas to help them kill Jews. (Hat tip: Sugiero.) SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt - Malaysia pledged $16 million on Sunday in humanitarian aid and budget support to the Palestinian Authority to compensate for the loss of US and European ...
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Child Slavery Funds Al Qaeda
Sun, May 21, 2006 at 8:20:53 am PDT
If you needed any more evidence that the “holy warriors” are some of the most vile creatures on Earth: Reunited: boys saved from slavers. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) A SENIOR member of an Islamic organisation linked to Al-Qaeda is funding his activities through the kidnapping of Christian children who are sold ...
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Abu Mazen Says...
Sun, May 21, 2006 at 8:06:45 am PDT
Abbas Calls Civil War ‘Forbidden.’
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Hamas Expects Money to Start Flowing Soon
Sun, May 21, 2006 at 7:59:36 am PDT
Even though they’re trying to murder their Palestinian opponents, and even though they refuse to back down one inch from their genocidal goals, Hamas is confident that international aid money will start flowing again soon. And they’re probably right. As Palestinians queued up at the doors of Palestine National Bank branches across ...
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The Palestinian Political Process
Sun, May 21, 2006 at 7:49:24 am PDT
Palestinians Foil 2nd Assassination Effort. GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Palestinian security foiled the second attempt in two days to kill top commanders loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas in what officials in his Fatah party said Sunday was a “clear conspiracy” against their leaders. Fatah officials stopped short of openly accusing the ...
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Saturday Night Fence
Sat, May 20, 2006 at 8:42:24 pm PDT
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Islamic Terror Plot in Switzerland
Sat, May 20, 2006 at 8:11:30 pm PDT
An Islamic terror cell in Switzerland plotted to blow up an El Al plane in Geneva. And in a bizarre twist, the Swiss secret service agent who revealed the plot by going undercover at an Islamic center in Geneva is now working for the Islamists. A plot to blow up an El ...
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Saturday Night Stunt Guitar
Sat, May 20, 2006 at 6:30:26 pm PDT
Just for the halibut (sorry, I still have Koranic tuna on the brain), here’s an amazing example of what Frank Zappa dubbed “stunt guitar,” by the insanely gifted Steve Vai from his EP Alien Love Secrets, titled Juice. Turn it up. [Audio now removed.] UPDATE at 5/20/06 7:15:26 pm: Added Erotic Nightmares from the ...
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Saudi Arabian Gender Apartheid
Sat, May 20, 2006 at 6:10:14 pm PDT
A glimpse at the unhealthy effects of an unhealthy misogynist culture: Exercise a Challenge for Saudi Women. There are no laws against women exercising outside their homes, but in this conservative society many are influenced by scholars and clerics who argue against it. In Riyadh, hotel gyms and pools are off limits ...
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We Don't Need No Stinking Badges
Sat, May 20, 2006 at 5:49:09 pm PDT
Iranian blogger Arash at Kamangir looked into yesterday’s National Post story that Iran planned to force Jews to wear yellow badges: Kamangir: Badges for Jews, A Hoax! (Hat tip: Adloyada.) The National Post has also backed down from the story: Experts say report of badges for Jews in Iran is untrue. LGF ...
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Melanie Phillips on Book TV
Sat, May 20, 2006 at 5:16:11 pm PDT
Melanie Phillips is on C-Span’s Book TV, discussing her book Londonistan: C-SPAN: Watch LIVE. (Hat tip: leftover54.)
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No More Appeasement, Please
Sat, May 20, 2006 at 4:18:45 pm PDT
People keep asking me for my opinion on Ehud Olmert’s plan to redraw Israel’s borders and expel more Jewish settlers from their homes in the West Bank. Here’s an AP story on the controversy raging over the plan: Israeli Plan Divides U.S. Conservatives. I don’t consider myself a “conservative” (whatever that ...
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Our Friends the Saudis
Sat, May 20, 2006 at 3:37:40 pm PDT
Nina Shea, director of the Center for Religious Freedom at Freedom House, has a piece for the Washington Post on the hatred and Islamic supremacism that fills Saudi Arabian schoolbooks—and the lies told by Saudi shills to cover it up: This is a Saudi textbook. (After the intolerance was removed.) ...
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Palestinian Car Swarm Watch
Sat, May 20, 2006 at 2:05:27 pm PDT
In Gaza, a top Islamic Jihad terrorist responsible for firing rockets into Israel has gone to meet Allah: Israeli air strike kills four Palestinians in Gaza. GAZA (Reuters) - An Israeli air strike in Gaza killed four Palestinians, including a top Islamic Jihad militant, on Saturday, prompting calls of revenge by ...
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Germans Negative on Islam, Poll Shows
Sat, May 20, 2006 at 8:34:59 am PDT
Despite relentless governmental attempts to promote tolerance and multiculturalism, a new study shows that an overwhelming majority of Germans mistrust Muslims and Islam. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Experts fear new conflicts after a study published this week showed most Germans doubt the Western and Islamic worlds can peacefully coexist. Mistrust of ...
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Media Asks, "Why Didn't You Invite the Terrorists?"
Sat, May 20, 2006 at 8:10:24 am PDT
The World Economic Forum is meeting in Egypt, and the media are outraged that terrorist gangs and the states who support them were not invited: Guest list raises questions at Mideast forum. Who’s raising these “questions?” Well, those would be the ones writing the articles. SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (Reuters) - World Economic ...
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Reality-Based Community Isn't Fooled By Neo-Con Propaganda
Sat, May 20, 2006 at 8:04:00 am PDT
The reality-based community at Daily Kos isn’t going to be fooled by any propaganda about Iran. Here they name the evil scheming neo-cons (including Charles Krauthammer and Victor Davis Hanson) who are trying to perpetrate another hoax just to satisfy their war-lust: Daily Kos: The Iranian “badge” story: Neo-con propaganda? So, ...
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Palestinian Civil War Watch
Sat, May 20, 2006 at 7:38:52 am PDT
Bomb Wounds Palestinian Intelligence Chief. GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - The Palestinian intelligence chief, Tareq Abu Rajab, an ally of moderate President Mahmoud Abbas, was seriously wounded by a bomb packed with metal pellets at his headquarters Saturday in what security officials called an assassination attempt. There was no claim of responsibility, ...
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Rove Frog March Watch Postponed
Fri, May 19, 2006 at 8:27:44 pm PDT
Flash! BDS-afflicted moonbats apologize for making up news! The Rove Indictment Story as of Right Now. (Hat tip: sngnsgt.) Frog march!
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Friday Night Playlist
Fri, May 19, 2006 at 8:19:54 pm PDT
In the second track of this playlist, Alison Krauss introduces Jerry Douglas as “the greatest dobro player the world has ever known,” and that isn’t hyperbole. Here are two versions of A Tribute to Peador O’Donnell by Jerry Douglas, the first from his studio album Restless on the Farm, and the ...
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Koranic Tuna: Recovered?
Fri, May 19, 2006 at 6:57:50 pm PDT
The BBC reports that Kenyan ofishals say they’ve recovered the Koranic tuna, but I’m not buying their crappie story. I think they’d say anything to avoid possible angler, and might even resort to finny forgery just for the halibut. A fish with markings that resembled a Koranic text has been found ...
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Palestinian Civil War Watch
Fri, May 19, 2006 at 6:29:19 pm PDT
Tensions rise after Hamas aide caught with cash. GAZA (Reuters) - Rival Palestinian forces faced off at Gaza’s border crossing with Egypt on Friday after border guards loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas caught a Hamas official trying to smuggle in 639,000 euros ($804,000), authorities said. Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh vowed during ...
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MSU Hate Week at UCI, A Report
Fri, May 19, 2006 at 6:00:18 pm PDT
LGF reader Mardukhai emailed this report from the Muslim Student Union hatefest at the University of California Irvine: What was it like at UCI last night? How about Nuremburg redux. Virtually the entire crowd, which I estimated at roughly 200, consisted of Islamists, most dressed entirely in stormtrooper black. A few campus police stood ...
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Gitmo Prisoners Ambushed Guards with Fake Suicide
Fri, May 19, 2006 at 5:18:06 pm PDT
The earlier report that Guantanamo guards were attacked by inmates while trying to stop a detainee from committing suicide was inaccurate. The guards were lured into a cell by a staged suicide attempt, then ambushed by the prisoners: US guards battle Guantanamo inmates in wild fight. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ten Guantanamo prisoners ...
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Ahmadinejad: "EU Thinks They're Dealing With a 4-Year Old"
Fri, May 19, 2006 at 4:16:29 pm PDT
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad openly mocks and sneers at the European Union’s “incentive” plan, on the Iranian News Channel, May 17, 2006. (Courtesy MEMRI TV.) [Video] Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: The enemies of the Iranian people should know: Confronting this people will bring them nothing but defeat, humiliation, and misery. [...] As I stand before you, I’d like ...
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Lewis: Ahmadinejad Believes His Apocalyptic Language
Fri, May 19, 2006 at 3:25:22 pm PDT
At a recent event at the Pew Forum, Professor Bernard Lewis answers a question about Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: Islam and the West: A Conversation with Bernard Lewis. JAY TOLSON, U.S. NEWS AND WORLD REPORT: Professor Lewis, you mention a fascinating fact, which is how effective Osama bin Laden’s talk was, ...
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali Will Not Lose Dutch Citizenship
Fri, May 19, 2006 at 3:00:34 pm PDT
There’s some good news for Ayaan Hirsi Ali today: Ayaan Will Be Dutch, No Matter What. NOS Journaal reports that both the international pressure and national pressure in support of Ayaan has worked. Minister of Integration Rita Verdonk announced tonight that Ayaan Hirsi Ali will receive a Dutch nationality, no matter ...
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VDH: Anti-Anti-Americanism
Fri, May 19, 2006 at 12:57:25 pm PDT
Here’s another thoughtful piece by Victor Davis Hanson on how we should deal with the world’s cheap anti-Americanism: Anti-Anti-Americanism. How does the United States deal with a corrupt world in which we are blamed even for the good we do, while others are praised when they do wrong or remain indifferent ...
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Jihadis Attempt Suicide, Riot at Gitmo
Fri, May 19, 2006 at 11:37:56 am PDT
Guantanamo Prison Guards, Inmates Clash. SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Prisoners wielding improvised weapons clashed with guards trying to stop a detainee from committing suicide at the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the military said Friday. The fight occurred Thursday in a medium-security section of the camp as guards were responding ...
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Totten: The Other Side of the Green Line
Fri, May 19, 2006 at 11:23:51 am PDT
Here’s an excellent post by Michael J. Totten, who visited Ramallah, talked to quite a few Palestinians, and brought back a batch of interesting photographs: The Other Side of the Green Line. I beg to differ with Michael, however, on his characterization of Arafat mouthpiece Saeb Erekat as “one of the ...
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Thousands of Turks Rally for Secularism
Fri, May 19, 2006 at 10:19:48 am PDT
Michael Rubin at The Corner has news of an amazing development in Turkey, following the Islamist attack in an Ankara courthouse. (Hat tip: Jim in Virginia.) I spoke at length with Turkish officials last night. What is happening in Ankara is amazing. Crowds booed Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul—the ruling party’s representative ...
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House Votes for Energy Dependence
Fri, May 19, 2006 at 9:55:08 am PDT
What happened to all that strong language about energy independence and the need to wean ourselves from foreign oil, and all that whining about the price of gasoline? When push came to shove, the House voted to continue the offshore drilling ban. Because oil wells are so ugly. (Hat tip: ...
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London Mayor Attacks Venezuelan Bloggers
Fri, May 19, 2006 at 9:11:47 am PDT
London mayor “Red Ken” Livingstone, who welcomed Venezuelan thug Hugo Chavez with open arms, is now attacking Venezuelan dissident bloggers based in Britain: Ken Livingstone: ‘Aleksander Boyd is a supporter of terrorism’.
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Pravda West Caught in a Lie
Fri, May 19, 2006 at 8:28:28 am PDT
The Beyond Borders Blog catches the Los Angeles Times in a blatant lie (yes, again) in an immigration story focusing on a woman described as “ambivalent” about immigration reform—when in reality, she’s a committed activist: The LA Times’ Dishonest Feature on Immigration. An all too common form of hack journalism consists ...
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Iraq Backs Israel Boycott
Fri, May 19, 2006 at 8:09:11 am PDT
This is simply disgusting, and the US should not stand for it. But we will: US fumes as Iraq backs Israel boycott. The US-backed Iraqi government sent an official representative to this week’s meeting of the Arab League Boycott Office in Damascus, The Jerusalem Post has learned, prompting criticism from members of ...
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Hamas Caught Smuggling Cash
Fri, May 19, 2006 at 7:54:37 am PDT
Hamas Official Caught Smuggling $817,000. GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - President Mahmoud Abbas has asked the Palestinian attorney general to investigate a senior Hamas official who was caught trying to smuggle $817,000 into the Gaza Strip, a senior presidential adviser said Friday. Sami Abu Zuhri was caught trying to smuggle the money ...
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Another Day, Another Smear
Fri, May 19, 2006 at 7:38:21 am PDT
Here’s a shock. When Dean Esmay’s ad hominem, straw man attacks against Robert Spencer are demolished, he responds with ... more distortions and straw men. And because I applauded Spencer’s overwhelmingly rational, fact-based rebuttal to Esmay’s scurrilous charges (which included calling Spencer a “traitor”), it’s time for Esmay to ...
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Yellow Badges for Iranian Jews
Fri, May 19, 2006 at 7:21:27 am PDT
Horrific news from Iran, where the Islamic supremacists are following in the footsteps of the Third Reich: Iran eyes badges for Jews. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Iranian expatriates living in Canada yesterday confirmed reports that the Iranian parliament, called the Islamic Majlis, passed a law this week setting a dress code ...
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Thursday Night Industrial
Thu, May 18, 2006 at 9:59:09 pm PDT
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Don't Whine for Me, Abu Mazen
Thu, May 18, 2006 at 7:28:15 pm PDT
Pleading financial hardship, Palestinian representatives in Washington are asking a judge not to make them pay damages to the victims of one of their “martyrdom operations:” Palestinian groups seek relief from court order in terrorism case. (Hat tip: Ethel.) WASHINGTON —The Palestinian Authority is asking a federal judge to reconsider an ...
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The Koranic Fish Caper
Thu, May 18, 2006 at 6:19:45 pm PDT
We have civil war in Gaza, North Korea threatening to light off a long-range ballistic missile, Iran threatening nuclear holocaust, and now, on top of all that, the Koranic tuna has been stolen, pilfered right out from under the noses of Islamic experts trying to determine if it was a ...
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Immigrant Youths Freed After Gang-Rape
Thu, May 18, 2006 at 6:07:37 pm PDT
Four “youths” who brutally gang-raped a 16-year old girl in a Berlin park and filmed it with a cell phone have been freed by a German judge: Shock in Berlin as suspected rapists freed. The youths, aged 13 to 15, allegedly attacked their victim as she walked home from school in ...
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NK Preparing Long-Range Missile Launch?
Thu, May 18, 2006 at 5:57:28 pm PDT
Welcome to the new nuclear standoff: N.Korea may be preparing missile launch. TOKYO (Reuters) - North Korea may be preparing to launch a long-range Taepodong ballistic missile that could have the capacity to reach all of the United States, Japanese national broadcaster NHK reported on Friday. Quoting unidentified South Korean government officials, ...
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"The Civil War Has Begun"
Thu, May 18, 2006 at 3:55:51 pm PDT
Palestinian police, Hamas clash in Gaza. GAZA (Reuters) - Palestinian police fought gunbattles in Gaza City on Friday with a rival Hamas-led security force set up by the Islamist government in defiance of President Mahmoud Abbas. At least four people were wounded in the first fighting between the groups — two police, ...
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Overheard on the Streets of Gaza
Thu, May 18, 2006 at 3:20:34 pm PDT
As rival terrorist armies parade around with weapons: One elderly man wasn’t sure who was who. “Are you police or are you Hamas?” 65-year-old Abu Ahmed asked some gunmen. “We are the executive force,” a bearded young man from Hamas replied...
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Borders No Longer Worried About Cartoon Jihad
Thu, May 18, 2006 at 2:53:23 pm PDT
LGF reader Paul G. emailed this note a little while ago, about the edition of Harper’s magazine with the Danish Mohammed cartoons. Apparently Borders Books is no longer worried about the safety and security of their customers and employees. This morning (Thursday, May 18), I just picked up a copy of ...
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Palestinian Civil War Watch
Thu, May 18, 2006 at 1:40:52 pm PDT
Civil war feared as Palestinian factions flex muscle. GAZA CITY (AFP) - Hamas and Fatah paramilitaries staged mass shows of strength amid warnings that the Islamists’ decision to deploy its gunmen on the streets of Gaza could trigger a Palestinian civil war.
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The Freshmaker!
Thu, May 18, 2006 at 1:29:41 pm PDT
Put down any drinks before watching this one; my description of the Daily Kos-Ned Lamont spot as a “political Mentos ad” obviously struck a freshmaking chord with the great and powerful Allahpundit: Kos’s political ad — remixed. [Video]
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A Political Mentos Ad
Thu, May 18, 2006 at 9:07:19 am PDT
The creepiest political ad ever made, for Ned Lamont, features Markos Moulitsas “Screw Them” Zuniga sneaking around and peeping through a window as Lamont gives a cut-and-run speech, then bursting into the room with a bunch of weirdly jacked-up progressive pals and grinning into the camera like a lunatic. Really. You’re ...
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Jihad Airlines Making a Pickup at Gitmo?
Thu, May 18, 2006 at 8:52:13 am PDT
Here’s some interesting news (unconfirmed at this writing) at Airliners.net, where they’ve noticed that a 747 is on its way from Saudi Arabia to Guantanamo Bay. (Hat tip: woodstock.) UPDATE at 5/18/06 9:01:40 am: Saudi Says 16 to Be Freed From Guantanamo. The United States will release 16 Saudi Arabian nationals this week ...
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NC Officials: Let Illegals Vote
Thu, May 18, 2006 at 8:44:44 am PDT
Officials in Carrboro, North Carolina, want to let illegal immigrants vote. RALEIGH, N.C. — Immigration is arguably the most controversial topic in American today. Thousands of immigrants come to this country every year illegally. But some Carrboro town officials want to give those immigrants the right to vote. “Immigration is a really positive ...
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Jewish Graves Desecrated in Milan
Thu, May 18, 2006 at 8:23:06 am PDT
In Milan, where Israeli flags were burned during Milan Liberation Day: Grave desecration shakes Milan’s Jewish community. Forty Jewish gravestones were damaged, five of them completely destroyed, in the Jewish section of the Via Jona cemetery in Milan late Monday night. The graves had been overturned, though no graffiti or anti-Jewish ...
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Italy To Turn Tail
Thu, May 18, 2006 at 8:13:38 am PDT
Under new communist Prime Minister Romano Prodi, Italy will cut and run: Prodi vows to pull Italian troops out of Iraq. (Hat tip: Politics and Religion.) Romano Prodi promised today to withdraw Italian troops from Iraq, saying that the allied invasion had been a grave mistake. Signor Prodi was making his first ...
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Mainstreaming 9/11 Conspiracy
Thu, May 18, 2006 at 8:00:28 am PDT
The 9/11 conspiracy kooks are trying to legitimize their evil delusions, and mainstream media seems only too willing to help. This week Richard Curtis, Ph.D., a professor of philosophy at Seattle University and certified barking moonbat, was given op-ed column space by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer to spew nonsense about the ...
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Spencer Dissects Esmay
Wed, May 17, 2006 at 9:27:46 pm PDT
Robert Spencer completely deconstructs a series of straw man attacks by Dean Esmay (who knows a lot less about Islam than he would like us to believe): Esmay’s dismay, and his response. Read the whole thing; Esmay’s ad hominem rants don’t really deserve such a thorough rational response, but the ...
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Bolton Warns, MSM Yawn
Wed, May 17, 2006 at 8:12:17 pm PDT
The US Ambassador to the United Nations warns that the threat from Iran is comparable to “September 11, only with nuclear weapons,” and it isn’t page one news. In fact, search Google, Yahoo, etc., and you’ll discover it isn’t page anything news.
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Peace Talks with North Korea?
Wed, May 17, 2006 at 7:28:14 pm PDT
Drudge says... Bush’s top advisers have recommended a broad new approach to dealing with North Korea that would include beginning negotiations on a peace treaty, NYT planning to report in Thursday Page Ones... Developing...
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Ferrigno: Ahmadinejad and the Hidden Imam
Wed, May 17, 2006 at 6:36:10 pm PDT
Don’t miss this terrific blog post from Robert Ferrigno, author of Prayers for the Assassin (a novel I recommend highly): Ahmadinejad and the Hidden Imam. Yesterday, a collection of European nations offered to give Iran a light-water nuclear reactor in an attempt to persuade Tehran to permanently give up uranium enrichment ...
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Castaway
Wed, May 17, 2006 at 6:20:28 pm PDT
(From Cox & Forkum, whose aim is true.)
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Hamas Representative Visits Germany, Merkel Vexed
Wed, May 17, 2006 at 6:02:40 pm PDT
As we wrote earlier this month, by granting a visa to Hamas “refugee minister” Atef Edwane, Sweden enabled the terrorist representative to visit any other European country who signed the Schengen Accord. One of them was Germany, and Chancellor Angela Merkel is vexed. Me? I’m just disgusted. BERLIN (AFP) - Chancellor Angela Merkel ...
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Iran to Hang Teenager Attacked by Rapist
Wed, May 17, 2006 at 5:40:06 pm PDT
A web site has been set up to spread the word about 18-year old Iranian girl Nazanin Mahabad Fatehi, sentenced by an Islamic court to be hanged to death for the “crime” of defending herself against a would-be rapist: Save Nazanin. LGF posted about Nazanin’s plight earlier this year: The Wonder ...
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UC Irvine Student: "Apartheid State of Israel Carries Out Holocaust"
Wed, May 17, 2006 at 4:42:32 pm PDT
A Muslim student at UC Irvine, where MSU Hate Week is now under way, explains in an article for the school’s New University paper that he’s sick and tired of being labeled an antisemite just for saying Israel is carrying out an apartheid Holocaust: Apartheid State of Israel Carries Out ...
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Bush on Howard: Bald, Ugly, One Hell of a Guy
Wed, May 17, 2006 at 3:48:07 pm PDT
This is how I talk to my friends too: Bald, ugly, one hell of a guy. NORMALLY, when one world leader implies that another is bald and ugly, it would be safe to assume they do not get on so well. Unless those leaders happen to be the US President, George Bush, ...
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Security, Palestinian Style
Wed, May 17, 2006 at 3:04:04 pm PDT
Gunmen Loyal to Hamas Deployed Across Gaza. In the southern city of Khan Younis, about 40 members of the new force pulled up to the Education Ministry, jumped from their jeeps and fired in the air to break up a peaceful protest of recent college graduates who want teaching jobs. The ...
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Palestinian Civil War Watch
Wed, May 17, 2006 at 12:51:53 pm PDT
Abbas, Hamas mount rival shows of force. GAZA (Reuters) - President Mahmoud Abbas ordered the deployment of thousands of Palestinian police in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday after the new Hamas government, in a challenge to his authority, posted its own armed contingent on the streets. A senior Palestinian security official said ...
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Jawdropper of the Day
Wed, May 17, 2006 at 12:43:42 pm PDT
President Bush announced a plan to station National Guard troops at the Mexican border, and Vicente Fox said he respected US sovereignty. But if those National Guard troops actually do anything to stop the flow of illegal immigrants, Mexico says they will file a blizzard of lawsuits. Lawsuits. Legal action to stop ...
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"Kadafi Killed My Child"
Wed, May 17, 2006 at 12:02:57 pm PDT
Daniel Cohen, whose daughter Theodora was one of 270 people murdered when Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, feels utterly betrayed by the Bush administration’s plan to normalize relations with the Gaddafi regime: Kadafi killed my child. Has Libya helped the U.S. in its fight against terrorism? Yes, the ...
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ECRI: Denmark's Intolerance of Intolerance Proves Danish Intolerance
Wed, May 17, 2006 at 11:16:14 am PDT
The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance has a new report on Denmark—and in yet another mind-bendingly Orwellian bit of European multiculturalism, it states that Danish support for free speech is proof of a Danish “climate” of intolerance. Allahpundit has the twisted tale.
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Syria Connected to A. Q. Khan
Wed, May 17, 2006 at 10:46:46 am PDT
Pakistani nuclear salesman Abdul Qadeer Khan and his traveling Armageddon Roadshow apparently made a stop in Syria: Pakistani nuke supplier tied to Syria. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) U.S. intelligence agencies suspect Syria was offered and received nuclear weapons technology from the covert Pakistani supplier group headed by A.Q. Khan, according to ...
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Foreign Aid Goes Directly to Palestinian Terrorism
Wed, May 17, 2006 at 10:11:33 am PDT
Anybody with more than one functioning synapse knew this was happening, but now we have confirmation from the chief of finances for Arafat’s Palestinian “security” force: Ex-PA paymaster: Arafat used foreign aid to buy weapons. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Former Palestinian Authority chairman Yasser Arafat ordered millions of dollars, taken from ...
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Iran Mocks the European Union
Wed, May 17, 2006 at 9:27:37 am PDT
Iranian designated madman Mahmoud Ahmadinejad thumbed his nose at the European Union’s monumentally unserious “incentives” today. TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran’s hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ridiculed a European Union plan to offer trade and technology incentives in exchange for his country agreeing to halt sensitive nuclear work. “They say they want to ...
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Palestinians Get Frisky in Lebanon
Wed, May 17, 2006 at 8:33:36 am PDT
Clashes break out as Palestinians kidnap Lebanon soldier. HALWA, Lebanon (AFP) - Clashes broke out between the Lebanese army and pro-Syrian Palestinian guerrillas near the Syrian border, wounding two people, and a soldier was detained for several hours, police said. The soldier, Khaled Ibrahim, was snatched and then freed by guerrillas of ...
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Harper's Publishes the Heinous Line Drawings
Wed, May 17, 2006 at 8:22:22 am PDT
Now that Muslim rage has quieted somewhat over the [Popup], American media are suddenly finding the courage to publish them. The new edition of Harper’s features the cartoons with commentary by leftist illustrator Art Spiegelman: US satirist takes on Danish cartoons. (Hat tip: Michelle Malkin.) NEW YORK - Controversial Danish cartoons ...
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Rita Verdonk Backs Down on Hirsi Ali
Wed, May 17, 2006 at 7:44:21 am PDT
In a marathon debate that lasted until early in the morning, Netherlands Integration Minister Rita Verdonk has been forced to back down from her position that Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s citizenship should be revoked. Here’s a report at Liberty and Justice: Verdonk Caves In While Holland Is Divided About Ayaan. New poll: ...
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Islamic Appellate Court
Wed, May 17, 2006 at 7:18:01 am PDT
Raging and seething over a Turkish court’s decision to ban the hijab on public employees at work, a Muslim attorney tried to commit mass murder in Ankara today: Lawyer shoots judges in Turkish court. (Hat tip: Right Brain.) ANKARA, Turkey (CNN) — At least five judges were wounded when an attorney ...
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Palestinian Terror Gang Threatens US, Europe
Tue, May 16, 2006 at 10:09:39 pm PDT
The Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades think they’re ready to play with the big boys: Aksa Brigades threatens US, Europe. (Hat tip: Carl in Jerusalem.) The Aksa Martyrs Brigades, the armed wing of Fatah, on Monday threatened to strike at US and European interests in response to international sanctions on the Palestinian ...
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Tuesday Night Beach
Tue, May 16, 2006 at 9:35:30 pm PDT
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Honor Killing Family Goes on Trial in Denmark
Tue, May 16, 2006 at 7:54:35 pm PDT
Nine Pakistanis stand trial in Danish ‘honour killing’. (Hat tip: Baldy.) COPENHAGEN: Nine Pakistanis living in Denmark went on trial on Monday accused of participating in the so-called honour killing of an 18-year-old woman who had married without parental consent. Ghazala Khan’s brother shot her dead by firing two bullets into ...
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The Death of the Intelligent Left
Tue, May 16, 2006 at 7:39:43 pm PDT
Environmental Republican mourns The Death of the Intelligent Left. As a quick example, let’s look at what is on the frontpage of Daily Kos: On ABC News, Call Records, And The Protection of Sources Air America Coming to YearlyKos, With Wireless! Feds Tracking Press/Source Phone Calls Now let’s go to the right-wing equivalent, LGF: Dutch Muslim ...
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali Updates
Tue, May 16, 2006 at 7:35:44 pm PDT
Lots of new info about Ayaan Hirsi Ali at Liberty and Justice, including the news that if Netherlands Integration Minister Rita Verdonk succeeds in revoking Hirsi Ali’s Dutch citizenship, she may have serious difficulties in getting a visa for the United States. Peaktalk had an insightful post on Monday: Hirsi Ali’s ...
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Abu Mazen Says to the EU...
Tue, May 16, 2006 at 7:02:17 pm PDT
The big push is on to legitimize Hamas, and Abu Mazen brought his dog and pony show to the European Parliament today: Abbas Urges EU to Give Hamas a Chance.
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Palestinians Hunkering Down
Tue, May 16, 2006 at 6:06:42 pm PDT
Palestinians Hunker Down As Cash Runs Out. Right. They hunkered down and fired this Katyusha rocket (which they somehow found cash to buy) into Israel: Israeli explosives experts stand next to the remains of a Katyusha rocket that landed next to a chicken coop in the farming community of Netiv Haasara north ...
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Tales of the Lazy Elephant
Tue, May 16, 2006 at 5:59:40 pm PDT
I’ve been watching for confirmation of that moonbat rumor about Karl Rove being frog-marched off to jail, but all I can find is: Elephant Not Interested in Using Treadmill.
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Jimmy Carter Shills for Hamas Again
Tue, May 16, 2006 at 5:53:40 pm PDT
Another vicious attack against Israel in USA Today by the worst president ever, Idiotarian of the Year Jimmy Carter, echoing every single Palestinian propaganda point about Israel’s security barrier: Israel’s new plan: A land grab. Notice: in the entire piece, he never once mentions Palestinian terrorism, even in his little promo ...
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Sweden Increases Money for UNRWA
Tue, May 16, 2006 at 5:43:16 pm PDT
And speaking of Sweden, tonight there’s news that they will increase their financial support to the United Nations’ hopelessly corrupt and terror-connected UNRWA: Sweden increases Palestinian aid. (Hat tip: Bubbaman.) SWEDEN, a major donor for the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, will increase its financial support for the agency, Foreign Aid ...
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Swedish Women Converting to Islam
Tue, May 16, 2006 at 5:02:08 pm PDT
Here’s a newspaper article (in Swedish) about Swedish women converting to Islam, partly translated below by the ubiquitous Fjordman: DN - Mer ur DN - Islam attraherar kvinnor. They convert to protest against the fixation with looks in our modern society. The tougher living conditions for women, who are supposed to ...
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Chutch Committed "Serious Misconduct"
Tue, May 16, 2006 at 4:29:42 pm PDT
Pirate Ballerina reports that the University of Colorado Investigating Committee has found professor Ward “Little Eichmanns” Churchill committed serious “research misconduct” in six out of the seven allegations against him: Churchill Misconduct Investigation Report Released. Inside Higher Ed has another report: The Ward Churchill Verdict. For the MSM version, here’s the Rocky ...
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Conservative Blogs React To President's Immigration Speech
Tue, May 16, 2006 at 4:18:42 pm PDT
Extreme Mortman looks at the reaction of “conservative” blogs to President Bush’s immigration speech, including Little Green Footballs (even though LGF is not a right-wing blog).
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Oil Ticks Nix Chick Pix
Tue, May 16, 2006 at 2:25:07 pm PDT
Because the “youth” might be led astray: Saudis Nix Pictures of Women in Newspapers. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - King Abdullah has told Saudi editors to stop publishing pictures of women as they could make young men go astray, newspapers reported Tuesday. The king’s directive, made in a meeting ...
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Reality-Based Community Isn't Fooled By Pentagon Video
Tue, May 16, 2006 at 2:01:56 pm PDT
The video of American Airlines Flight 77 hitting the Pentagon has been released, and the “reality-based community” at Daily Kos is reacting in thoroughly predictable fashion: Daily Kos: Pentagon Video Answers Exactly 0 Questions For Me. This is my first post, so forgive my “master of the obvious” comments, but does ...
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Palestinian Civil War Watch
Tue, May 16, 2006 at 1:33:48 pm PDT
The “activists” are murdering each other again: Palestinian gunmen kill senior Hamas member. (Hat tip: SoCalJustice.) GAZA (Reuters) - Unidentified Palestinian gunmen shot dead a senior Hamas activist in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, Palestinian medics and a security source said, in a further escalation of lawlessness in the coastal strip. They ...
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Resignation Statement
Tue, May 16, 2006 at 9:02:00 am PDT
In English, at Trouw, hetNieuws.
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EU Springs Into Action
Tue, May 16, 2006 at 8:53:10 am PDT
The unelected bureaucrats of the European Union want to give Iran a nuclear reactor. You know, a safe one. BERLIN (Reuters) - The EU’s three biggest powers plan to offer Iran a light-water nuclear reactor as part of a package of incentives if Tehran agrees to freeze its uranium enrichment program, ...
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Beslan Mass Murderer Found Guilty
Tue, May 16, 2006 at 8:50:25 am PDT
The only surviving Islamic terrorist from the Beslan school massacre has been found guilty of murder and terrorism. And the word “Islam” does not appear once in this article from Agence France Presse.
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Unseen 9/11 Video to Be Released
Tue, May 16, 2006 at 8:41:11 am PDT
Judicial Watch has obtained video of American Airlines Flight 77 striking the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, and they will make it available on their web site early this afternoon. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) (Washington, DC) Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today ...
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Abu Mazen Says...
Tue, May 16, 2006 at 8:32:27 am PDT
Abbas warns of Palestinian anger “explosion” on aid. No word on how we’re supposed to distinguish this extra-special anger explosion from the routine daily anger explosions.
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Mutiny in the Hague
Tue, May 16, 2006 at 8:18:56 am PDT
Zacht Ei reports from the Hague, where there is a mutiny going on in Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s political party (the VVD) over Netherlands Integration Minister Rita Verdonk’s move to revoke Hirsi Ali’s citizenship: All-out war in The Hague. (Hat tip: grayp.) Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s fellow members of the VVD free-market party ...
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CNN Tries to Embarrass Bush
Tue, May 16, 2006 at 7:59:08 am PDT
CNN did it again last night, cutting from a commentary by CNN political contributor Jeff Greenfield to a live feed of President Bush rehearsing his speech: CNN Runs Live Bush Rehearsal, Calls It ‘Mistake’. (Hat tip: RaiderDan.) Video of CNN’s “mistake” is at Expose the Left.
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Chavez: Bush is Worst Person Ever
Mon, May 15, 2006 at 8:38:25 pm PDT
London mayor Ken Livingstone played host to grinning Venezuelan thug Hugo Chavez today, with an all-star cast including deranged playwright Harold Pinter: US President Bush is ‘genocidal assassin’ says Chavez. London - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez branded US President George W Bush Monday a ‘genocidal assassin’ and the ‘worst criminal in ...
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The Launch of Milblogs
Mon, May 15, 2006 at 8:27:17 pm PDT
Here’s a great new site started by Greyhawk of Mudville Gazette and a host of other military bloggers: MilBlogs.
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Islamic Jihad Says...
Mon, May 15, 2006 at 8:10:37 pm PDT
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US Releases Gitmo Names
Mon, May 15, 2006 at 7:46:35 pm PDT
The US has released a list of Gitmo detainees’ names, but Human Rights First and Amnesty International want to find out where the top terrorists are being held, and tell the world. And they’re hinting darkly at still unrevealed secret prisons. The release will help lawyers and other advocates track who ...
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MSU Hate Speech Gets Free Pass at UC Irvine
Mon, May 15, 2006 at 6:28:56 pm PDT
As we’ve noted many times before (lgf: search), the California city of Irvine seems to be a locus of radical Islam, often centered around the activities of the Muslim Student Union at UC Irvine. Here’s a piece at Inside Higher Ed looking at the situation, revealing that the administration at ...
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Video: Chomsky with Hizballah Leaders
Mon, May 15, 2006 at 6:00:50 pm PDT
MIT professor Noam Chomsky visits with leaders of the Hizballah terrorist gang, broadcast on Lebanon’s New TV, May 14, 2006. (Courtesy MEMRI TV.) [Video] Apparently the Israelis were paying attention: Anchor: The leftist Jewish American intellectual Noam Chomsky toured Al-Khiyam Prison at the end of his visit to Lebanon. He declared that the ...
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Liveblogging the Immigration Speech
Mon, May 15, 2006 at 4:54:04 pm PDT
President Bush’s address on immigration reform is due to start in about 5 minutes. You can watch live over the web at C-SPAN, or at the White House web site. UPDATE at 5/15/06 5:25:14 pm: Dick Durbin, who compared US soldiers to Nazis, the KGB, and Pol Pot, gave the Democratic response. UPDATE ...
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Holland Will Revoke Hirsi Ali's Citizenship
Mon, May 15, 2006 at 2:55:05 pm PDT
Leon de Winter reports that Netherlands Integration Minister Rita Verdonk is going to begin the legal procedure to have Ayaan Hirsi Ali stripped of her citizenship.
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Lights Going Out in Europe
Mon, May 15, 2006 at 1:17:43 pm PDT
The jihadis couldn’t do it, but the entitled multiculturalists of Europe succeeded in driving out Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Now they’re setting their sights on Paul Belien of Brussels Journal, blaming him for the recent shootings in Antwerp: If I Get Hurt, Blame Father Leman. (Hat tip: LGF readers.)
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Journalism, RoP Style
Mon, May 15, 2006 at 12:55:25 pm PDT
Melanie Phillips has been the victim of a journalistic jihad by a reporter for Pakistan’s Daily Times: Mr Hasan’s distortion. Last Wednesday, I spoke on the themes of my book Londonistan to a meeting of the Heritage Foundation think-tank in Washington. After my presentation finished, I was asked a question by ...
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Bush Immigration Speech, Topic One
Mon, May 15, 2006 at 11:16:01 am PDT
President Bush’s address on immigration reform is scheduled for 8 pm Eastern, and the White House will be webcasting it. I expect no surprises, just the same watered-down non-solutions. But the Heritage Foundation has a report on the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act that should make Americans very uneasy: Senate Immigration Bill ...
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Dutch Muslim Group Celebrates Hirsi Ali's Departure
Mon, May 15, 2006 at 10:42:15 am PDT
Dutch liberal politicians and Islamic front groups are smiling at the news of Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s departure. Apparently Hirsi Ali was the only thing standing in the way of a utopian harmonious society: Hirsi Ali - reactions. She’s no loss to Netherlands - Wiegel The coming departure of Ayaan Hirsi Ali from ...
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Palestinians Whining About Naqba Again
Mon, May 15, 2006 at 9:57:42 am PDT
Agence France Presse Palestinian propagandist Hossam Ezzedine uncorks one of the most biased, anti-Israel lead sentences I’ve seen in, oh, the last few days: Palestinians commemorate ‘catastrophe’ of Israel’s creation. RAMALLAH, West Bank (AFP) - Palestinians marked the worst day in their history, determined to lift damaging economic sanctions and warning ...
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Iraqi Cleric on Al Jazeera: "This Arab Islamic Nation Must Obtain a Nuclear Bomb"
Mon, May 15, 2006 at 9:46:00 am PDT
Iraqi Ayatollah Ahmad Al-Baghdadi discusses the annihilation of America, Muslim conquest of the world, and his support for nuclear weapons for Islamic nations, on Al Jazeera television. (From MEMRI TV.) Another one of the tiny handful of fanatics who completely misunderstand the meaning of the word jihad. [Video] Ayatollah Ahmad Husseini Al-Baghdadi: Jihad ...
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Javier Solana Springs into Action
Mon, May 15, 2006 at 9:16:59 am PDT
The European appeasement reflex is as powerful as ever: EU promises ‘generous’ offer to Iran. BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union pledged on Monday to make Iran a generous offer of technology, economic and other incentives but stressed Tehran must comply first with international demands to halt sensitive nuclear activities. The 25-member ...
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State Dept: Libya's Better Now
Mon, May 15, 2006 at 8:47:19 am PDT
Breaking news: U.S. to Renew Diplomatic Ties With Libya. WASHINGTON - The Bush administration has decided to restore normal diplomatic relations with Libya for the first time in over a quarter century after taking Moammar Gadhafi’s country off a U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism, State Department officials said Monday. “This ...
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Noam Chomsky's Love Affair with Nazis
Mon, May 15, 2006 at 8:22:31 am PDT
Here’s David Horowitz and Jacob Laskin on MIT professor Noam Chomsky’s disgusting endorsement of one of the world’s most virulent, dangerous terror gangs, Hizballah: Noam Chomsky’s Love Affair with Nazis. Today as its Iranian patron calls on the Muslim world to exterminate the Jews and finish Hitler’s job, Hezbollah is blessed ...
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali Moving to US
Mon, May 15, 2006 at 8:06:34 am PDT
More than 20 people emailed this morning about the report that Dutch MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali is resigning from Parliament and moving to the United States, to work at the American Enterprise Institute. Liberty and Justice has translations of the Dutch report: Ayaan Hirsi Ali Heading To The US. The dhimmis ...
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Sunday Night Fence
Sun, May 14, 2006 at 10:08:14 pm PDT
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Idiotfest in DC
Sun, May 14, 2006 at 8:33:10 pm PDT
I’m guessing the total number of brain cells on this stage as ... well ... one. Two max. Sarandon Joins Vigil Against Iraq War. WASHINGTON - Susan Sarandon lent her star power to a Mother’s Day protest against the Iraq war Sunday. “I can’t think of a better way to spend my ...
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British Media Invade US
Sun, May 14, 2006 at 8:02:53 pm PDT
The two British media organizations most responsible for spreading crypto-socialist anti-Americanism (and sometimes open antisemitism) around the world are setting their sights on the American audience: British Media Invade the US. Two immensely influential and politically motivated British news organizations are currently establishing serious bridgeheads in the United States, namely: the ...
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Cycle of Violence: The Hills of Pain
Sun, May 14, 2006 at 7:17:12 pm PDT
Today’s ride: 48.89 miles, in weather so perfect for cycling the Gods of Wind wept in frustration. I heard them weeping. Or maybe that was the mountain biker who thought he could sit in my draft going north through Palos Verdes, just before I dropped him. Today was another climbing ...
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Koranic Tuna Discovered
Sun, May 14, 2006 at 6:51:50 pm PDT
Behold: the Kenyan wonder fish, whose scales reveal a deep porpoise! It’s not koi, and it’s not “Cod Bless America” ... it’s a sole-stirring verse from the Koran! (Hat tip: LGF readers.) MOMBASA, Kenya (AFP) - A tuna fish caught in the Indian Ocean this week has excited Kenyan Muslims who ...
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Gore's Crazy Fans
Sun, May 14, 2006 at 5:32:42 pm PDT
Earlier today I titled a post about Al Gore’s appearance on Saturday Night Live: Al Gore Panders to Crazy People. Little did I know that the crazy people were watching LGF: MetaFilter. Fortunately I’ve mapped littlegreenfootballs.com to 127.0.0.1 in my hosts file so I don’t accidentally click on a link and visit ...
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AP Photographer's Terrorist Connections
Sun, May 14, 2006 at 4:29:05 pm PDT
Associated Press photographer Mohammed Ballas hangs out with his terrorist pals in the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, and gets some great propaganda action shots. A Palestinian militant from the Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, a group linked to the Fatah Movement, leaps during a training session in the West Bank town of ...
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The Muslim Brotherhood 'Project'
Sun, May 14, 2006 at 4:05:58 pm PDT
Here’s a detailed article by Patrick Poole about The Muslim Brotherhood Project, a far-reaching secret plan to establish worldwide Islamic rule by means of infiltration, jihad, and propaganda. I know, it sounds like another wacky conspiracy theory. But the evidence is substantial, and very compelling: What Western intelligence authorities know about The ...
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Denmark 'Islamophobia' Conference
Sun, May 14, 2006 at 10:20:10 am PDT
From Uriasposten, a nightmarishly surreal look at a conference held yesterday in Copenhagen, Islamophobia in the West, featuring an all-star cast of Islamic dissemblers and Western dhimmis: Islamofobi-konference i Bella Centret. (Hat tip: Fjordman.) 09:30-10:30 Arrival drinks Session 1: Welcome 10:30-10:35 Words of Welcome Kristiane Backer & Basharat Ali- host of the day Session 2: ...
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Aussie Authorities Won't Ban Jihad Manuals
Sun, May 14, 2006 at 9:51:23 am PDT
Australian authorities see nothing particularly dangerous about virulent Islamic jihad literature being sold openly in Muslim communities: Police alarm on hate books. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) BOOKS of hate promoting suicide bombings, anti-Australian conspiracies and racism can be freely sold in the Muslim community after a ruling that they don’t breach ...
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Palestinian Civil War Watch
Sun, May 14, 2006 at 9:07:53 am PDT
Several of the marvelous high-tech greenhouses in the Gaza town of Morag, which were bought for the Palestinians by Bill Gates, were destroyed by Palestinian “gunmen” on Friday. Several greenhouses belonging to the former settlement of Morag in the Gaza Strip were destroyed over the weekend during an attempt by dozens ...
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Al Gore Panders to Crazy People
Sun, May 14, 2006 at 8:48:34 am PDT
Hot Air has video of Al Gore’s pathetically unfunny appearance on Saturday Night Live: Gore plays pretend POTUS on SNL.
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MI5 Taped 7/7 Leader Discussing Bomb-Making
Sun, May 14, 2006 at 8:40:44 am PDT
Did Britain’s MI5 intelligence service try to cover up the extent of their failure to prevent the 7/7 bombings? Spies ‘hid’ bomber tape from MPs. MI5 is being accused of a cover-up for failing to disclose to a parliamentary watchdog that it bugged the leader of the July 7 suicide bombers ...
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RoP Gives Attempted Murderer Hero's Funeral
Sun, May 14, 2006 at 8:33:25 am PDT
Pakistani student Amer Cheema hung himself in his cell after attempting to murder the publisher of Germany’s Die Welt, for printing the Danish Mohammed cartoons. And yesterday in Pakistan, a tiny handful of extremists hijacking a peaceful religion more than 50,000 followers of the Religion of Peace™ attended Cheema’s funeral, ...
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US Teen Murdered by Palestinians
Sun, May 14, 2006 at 8:13:47 am PDT
Daniel Wultz, the 16-year old Florida teenager who was eating lunch with his father at a Tel Aviv restaurant when a Palestinian mass murderer attacked, has died of his injuries. JERUSALEM - A Florida teenager wounded in a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv last month died Sunday from his injuries, a ...
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The Brandeis Mosque Project
Sat, May 13, 2006 at 9:37:50 pm PDT
Brandeis University, founded by the Jewish community in 1948 partly as a response to Jewish quotas at Ivy League schools, is considering combining its two Christian chapels to make room for a mosque. The renovation was discussed at a board of trustees meeting last month and then reported in a story ...
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Netherlands Elites Calling for Hirsi Ali to Be Deported
Sat, May 13, 2006 at 9:24:32 pm PDT
Netherlands media and the clueless dhimmified Dutch political class are really going after Ayaan Hirsi Ali tonight: Critics Want Dutch Lawmaker Deported. This is just appalling. AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali-born Dutch legislator who has championed the rights of Muslim women, is returning from a book tour to a ...
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Jimmy Carter's Legacy
Sat, May 13, 2006 at 9:07:51 pm PDT
The Albuquerque Tribune is the only place you’ll find this AP story, with an unusually forthright and accurate headline: Iran uses Israel as hostage. Pakistan’s former army chief says Iranian officials came to him for advice on heading off an attack on their nuclear facilities. He in effect advised them to ...
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Saturday Night Industrial
Sat, May 13, 2006 at 8:43:21 pm PDT
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RoP, Somalia Branch
Sat, May 13, 2006 at 7:53:37 pm PDT
Somalia descends into nightmare: Fighting convulses Somali capital amid calls to stop bloodshed. MOGADISHU (AFP) - Warlords deployed hundreds of fighters in the Somali capital to battle rivals from the Islamic courts as heavy artillery, rocket and mortar fire pounded the blood-soaked city for the seventh day, leaving more than 100 ...
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Jihad on O'Reilly
Sat, May 13, 2006 at 7:34:06 pm PDT
Andrew Bostom goes head to talking head on Bill O’Reilly’s show with an MPAC (lgf: search) shill, about one of the most important issues of our time, and encounters the same obfuscation we’ve witnessed so many times. (Hat tip: Friends of Micronesia.) UPDATE at 5/13/06 8:15:19 pm: Atlas has a followup interview. ...
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Netherlands 'Looking Into' Hirsi Ali's Past
Sat, May 13, 2006 at 6:49:06 pm PDT
Netherlands Integration Minister Rita Verdonk is “looking into” the citizenship status of Ayaan Hirsi Ali. As Bruce Bawer wrote in an email, first they drove her out of her house, now they’re trying to drive her out of the country. On Friday Verdonk said Hirsi Ali had nothing to worry about: Liberals ...
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'Israeli Lobby' Authors Howl With Umbrage
Sat, May 13, 2006 at 5:58:52 pm PDT
Daniel Pipes’ exchanges with John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt in the letters page of The London Review of Books are a very revealing look at the slipshod research and paranoid thinking of the authors of The Israeli Lobby: Is Campus Watch Part of a Conspiracy? In their now-notorious pamphlet, ...
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McKinney: Publicly Unhinged and Proud
Sat, May 13, 2006 at 5:46:12 pm PDT
Another cry for help from Cynthia McKinney: A Very Strange ‘Bone Report’. Featuring 14 pages of pictures of the skull of Jamie Gomez.
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RoP Strikes in Kyrgyzstan
Sat, May 13, 2006 at 5:40:35 pm PDT
Kyrgyzstan says 13 killed in raid by Islamists. And not an Israeli in sight. BISHKEK, May 13 (Reuters) - Kyrgyzstan’s security forces said on Saturday Islamist “international terrorists” had launched a raid on its border that left 13 people dead. An interior ministry spokesman said the guerrillas, most of whom were killed ...
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NSA Nonsense: Not Illegal
Sat, May 13, 2006 at 3:47:32 pm PDT
As soon as USA Today leaked news of the NSA’s phone record database program, the “reality based” blogosphere began yelling that the program was illegal. This has become the Left’s standard response to any policies, programs, or people they don’t like. They’d criminalize hangnails if they could find a way ...
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Dubai: Bin Laden's "Back Home" in the US
Sat, May 13, 2006 at 10:24:12 am PDT
In US “ally” Dubai, a majority of the population thinks Osama bin Laden is “probably back home in the US.” You know, with his pals in Washington, DC. (Hat tip: pat.) Dubai: If you ask people where they think Osama Bin Laden was hiding, the answer would inevitably be Afghanistan or ...
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Dem Holocaust Denier Runs for Alabama AG
Sat, May 13, 2006 at 9:45:00 am PDT
An antisemitic white supremacist is running for Attorney General in the state of Alabama. In the Democratic Party. Ala. Candidate’s Views Startle Democrats. BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Democratic Party leaders are wondering what to do about a candidate for attorney general who denies the Holocaust occurred and wants to “reawaken white racial ...
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Hizballah's Presence in the United States
Sat, May 13, 2006 at 9:18:50 am PDT
Penraker asks the question: if war breaks out between Iran and the United States, how effectively could Iran launch attacks inside America? The answer is not comforting. Hezbollah’s Presence in the United States. (Hat tip: stuiec.) From another article, this one from 2004: In early 2002, the FBI concluded in an internal ...
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Islamic Nations Silent on Iran's Nukes
Sat, May 13, 2006 at 8:47:28 am PDT
A summit of Islamic nations in Indonesia had nothing to say about Iran’s Manhattan Project. NUSA DUA, Indonesia (Reuters) - A summit of eight Muslim-majority nations did not specifically discuss the dispute over Iran’s nuclear programme, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said on Saturday. The Developing Eight’s final declaration did not refer ...
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Chomsky Supports Hizballah
Sat, May 13, 2006 at 8:44:29 am PDT
Mainstream media have totally ignored the meeting of MIT professor Noam Chomsky with the leader of the Hizballah terrorist gang, Hassan Nasrallah, in which Chomsky called the US a “leading terrorist state.” The only media outlet in the world (besides Drudge Report) that carried a report on this meeting is ... ...
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Voices from the Past, More Relevant Than Ever
Fri, May 12, 2006 at 10:02:45 pm PDT
Atlas emailed about this incredibly moving rediscovered BBC recording from April 20, 1945, featuring newly liberated inmates of the Bergen-Belsen Nazi death camp singing “Hatikvah” — for the first time in 6 years. [Audio] UPDATE at 5/13/06 3:25:52 pm: (From Israelreporter.com.)
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Friday Night Beach
Fri, May 12, 2006 at 9:38:18 pm PDT
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I Was an Icelandic "War Criminal"
Fri, May 12, 2006 at 8:41:39 pm PDT
Michael Rubin visited Iceland, and stepped into the middle of a festival of anti-Americanism (and thinly veiled antisemitism): I Was an Icelandic “War Criminal.” I looked forward to returning to Iceland. It had been seven years since I last lectured there, and I remembered it as a beautiful, rugged country, great ...
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"The Mother in Our Arab and Islamic History Has Always Sacrificed Her Children"
Fri, May 12, 2006 at 7:50:35 pm PDT
Here’s a Bizarro world TV show from Syrian television, in which ordinary-looking people sit around a table in a cheesy Western-style set, and smile as they talk about how much Arab mothers love it when their sons commit mass murder in the name of Allah. (Courtesy MEMRI TV.) [Video] Ibrahim Z’arour, History ...
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MSM Blackout: Chomsky Meets Hizballah
Fri, May 12, 2006 at 7:26:19 pm PDT
Yesterday we noted a story at Drudge Report about MIT professor Noam Chomsky’s meeting with the leader of Hizballah in Lebanon, at which he called the United States “one of the leading terrorist states.” This story, based on a Reuters report (according to the grapevine), has completely vanished from mainstream media. Google ...
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Letters from a Mujahid
Fri, May 12, 2006 at 6:44:23 pm PDT
Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar, the University of North Carolina student who drove an SUV into a crowd trying to kill as many people as possible (and fortunately, only injuring a few), has sent several letters to the school’s student newspaper, the Daily Tarheel, explaining his motivations for his attempted act of ...
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MSM Screwup of the Day
Fri, May 12, 2006 at 4:43:25 pm PDT
Agence France Presse seems to be experimenting with a William Burroughs-style “cut-up” approach in this story about John Bolton, with a headline and leading paragraph exactly opposite to reality: US urges Syria to stop pretending Lebanon is an independent nation. (Hat tip: Tom.) UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - US Ambassador John Bolton ...
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Chavez: Oil For No One if Iran is Attacked
Fri, May 12, 2006 at 3:48:30 pm PDT
Speaking in Rome yesterday, Venezuelan thug Hugo Chavez said that if Iran is attacked, the oil supply for the entire world will be shut off: Chavez: Oil for no one if Iran attacked. (Hat tip: Ringo.) Rome, May 12, IRNA-Visiting Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said in Rome on Thursday in case ...
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Pakistani Ex-Chief of Staff: Iran Probably Has the Bomb
Fri, May 12, 2006 at 2:52:00 pm PDT
Buried deep in the middle of this AP release is a frightening assessment of Iran’s nuclear capabilities from retired General Mirza Aslam Beg, Pakistan’s chief of staff during their bomb development program: Iran Sought Advice in Pakistan on Attack. (Hat tip: Allahpundit.) Although analysts are divided on how soon Iran might ...
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Corruption Investigation at CIA
Fri, May 12, 2006 at 11:29:37 am PDT
The FBI has raided the home and office of the CIA’s #3 man, Kyle “Dusty” Foggo, who quit unexpectedly shortly after CIA Director Porter Goss. The FBI raid on the home and office of the Executive Director of the CIA took place this morning, seizing business records, computer hard drives and ...
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Drudge: Bush Plans National Guard on Border?
Fri, May 12, 2006 at 10:54:16 am PDT
An interesting headline at Drudge Report: “Sources: Bush Plans National Guard on Border...” (Nothing else on the wires about this. Could be a rumor. 24 hour rule in effect.) UPDATE at 5/12/06 11:14:33 am: ABC News: Pentagon Exploring Border Control Patrols. Michelle Malkin has more.
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Mullahs: Ahmadinejad's Letter "Inspired By Allah"
Fri, May 12, 2006 at 10:00:53 am PDT
Iranian madman Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is developing quite a cult following; his cronies claimed they saw him surrounded by white light in his UN speech, and now the mullahs are saying his letter to President Bush was inspired by Allah. (Hat tip: right wing zephyr.) Substitute Friday Prayers Leader of Tehran Ayatollah ...
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WaPo/ABC Poll: Americans Support NSA Program
Fri, May 12, 2006 at 9:15:31 am PDT
Watch as the latest in a long line of MSM/Angry Left attacks against President Bush now slides off the radar: Poll: Most Americans Support NSA’s Efforts. (Hat tip: Ethel.) A majority of Americans initially support a controversial National Security Agency program to collect information on telephone calls made in the United ...
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Angry Left to Get Angrier
Fri, May 12, 2006 at 9:05:03 am PDT
Are they shrieking with outrage at Daily Kos yet? Democrats Won’t Try To Impeach President. Seeking to choke off a Republican rallying cry, the House’s top Democrat has told colleagues that the party will not seek to impeach President Bush even if it gains control of the House in November’s elections, ...
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ElBaradei: Iran Has Legitimate Reasons for Wanting Nukes
Fri, May 12, 2006 at 8:45:25 am PDT
On a day when news comes out supporting the theory that Iran has a secret parallel program for enriching uranium to bomb-grade level, the UN’s blind, toothless nuclear watchdog says Iran has “legitimate” security concerns and valid reasons for wanting nuclear weapons: US must address Iran security concerns: IAEA. (Hat ...
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Weapons-Grade Uranium in Iran, MSM Yawns
Fri, May 12, 2006 at 8:31:42 am PDT
The IAEA says it has found highly enriched uranium in Iran: More Uranium Reportedly Found in Iran. The U.N. atomic agency has found traces of highly enriched uranium at an Iranian site linked to the country’s defense ministry, diplomats said Friday. The finding added to concerns that Tehran was hiding activities ...
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CAIR Spreads Fear About 'United 93'
Fri, May 12, 2006 at 8:26:42 am PDT
Radical Islamic front group CAIR is at it again, spreading bogus “backlash” fears about the film United 93. Apparently, Americans can’t be trusted to watch the film without getting their primitive racism stirred up. And in an amazing coincidence, the office manager for CAIR Arizona just happened to be the target ...
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Cartoon Jihad Escalation
Thu, May 11, 2006 at 10:04:37 pm PDT
The insanity over the [Popup] continues to escalate, as an Al Qaeda video calls on Muslims to commit murder in Denmark, Norway, and France, to avenge Mohammed: Al-Qaeda video calls for attacks over Mohammed videos. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) PARIS (AFP) - A video by an Al-Qaeda member posted on the ...
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A Model Citizen Martyr
Thu, May 11, 2006 at 9:21:49 pm PDT
The Times has chilling new details about the London train bombers, based on the reports released by the British government: They aroused no suspicion. They were hugging and happy — but had bombs. Khan, who at 30 was the oldest of the group, appears to have been the ringleader. He had ...
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The Scott Ritter Show
Thu, May 11, 2006 at 8:37:58 pm PDT
Oh no, not Scott Ritter again. San Diego’s “alternative” newspaper slobbers: American patriot. (Hat tip: James Lileks.) The world according to Ritter: “The American people are stupid, Bush lied, Bush is stupid, Iran is peaceful, the peace movement is stupid ... why, everybody is stupid, except me. Oh yes ... and buy ...
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Muslim Holy Quran Book Treatment of the Honey and Bee Stings
Thu, May 11, 2006 at 8:07:20 pm PDT
GAZA CITY, GAZA STRIP - MAY 10: Palestinian bee and honey expert Rateb Samor, stings a girl (no name) with a bee in her foot to treat her from swelling May 10, 2006 at his clinic in his home in Gaza City, Gaza Strip. Samor and his wife Oum Ebrahem ...
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The Lies of Howard Dean
Thu, May 11, 2006 at 6:53:29 pm PDT
Howard Dean went on Pat Robertson’s show today and blatantly lied about the Democratic Party’s platform on gay rights (can you say “pandering?”), and for once the MSM calls him on it (because he left the reservation): ABC News: Dean Misstates Party Platform on Gays. (Hat tip: attentionseeker.) WASHINGTON - Democratic ...
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AP Shills for Ahmadinejad
Thu, May 11, 2006 at 6:26:08 pm PDT
Absolutely astounding. Jawdropper of the day. This kind of suicidally naïve, woefully uninformed, totally devoid-of-context writing is apparently what passes for political commentary at today’s Associated Press: Why Won’t U.S., Iran Hash Out Differences? (Hat tip: solomonpanting.) VIENNA, Austria - As the United States toughens its stance on Iran’s nuclear program, ...
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Google Trends: Jihad
Thu, May 11, 2006 at 6:19:32 pm PDT
LGF reader Per emailed about this search page at Google Trends, showing the frequency and origins of searches for the word jihad: UPDATE at 5/11/06 6:46:55 pm: Google News, by the way, still includes Hizballah’s terrorist propaganda channel Al-Manar as a legitimate source for news: al-manar source:al_manar
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Ahmadinejad: Big in Indonesia
Thu, May 11, 2006 at 5:39:35 pm PDT
With his talk of genocide and destroying Israel, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has captivated the hearts of students in the “moderate” Islamic state of Indonesia, at two of the country’s most prestigious universities: Iran’s leader a new hero among Indonesians. (Hat tip: Allahpundit.) HE’S tiny, wears a perfectly groomed beard and waves to ...
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Madrid Train Bombing Suspect Freed By Incompetence
Thu, May 11, 2006 at 5:03:51 pm PDT
Yesterday Spain released one of the Islamic terrorists suspected of involvement in the Madrid train bombings. By mistake. Madrid train bomb suspect freed after court mix-up. (Hat tip: Barcepundit.) MADRID (Reuters) - Spain’s High Court released one of the 29 suspects charged in connection with the 2004 Madrid train bombings on Wednesday ...
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No Consequences
Thu, May 11, 2006 at 3:33:25 pm PDT
From Cox & Forkum, of course.
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An Islamic Declaration of War
Thu, May 11, 2006 at 2:38:39 pm PDT
Only a few blogs (and almost no mainstream media) have realized the truth about Iranian madman Ahmadinejad’s letter to President Bush. It was not an offer to negotiate, and it was not simply a lunatic’s rant. It was a calculated invitation to convert to Islam, a da’wa—an Islamic requirement (commanded ...
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Seething Euroweenies
Thu, May 11, 2006 at 2:17:27 pm PDT
Unelected European Union bureaucrats are seething and whining over US refusals to reveal national security secrets: EU lawmakers complain US stonewalls on torture. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Members of the European Parliament, in Washington to investigate reports of secret CIA prisons and detainee transfers in Europe, complained on Thursday Bush administration officials ...
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Norway Will Roll Out the Bloody Red Carpet for Hamas
Thu, May 11, 2006 at 1:37:07 pm PDT
The next gutless European state to welcome Hamas “refugee minister” Atef Edwane will be Norway. STOCKHOLM (AFP) - A senior Hamas official, Atef Edwane, is expected in Oslo in the next few days on a controversial visit during which he might meet Norwegian foreign ministry officials, Palestinian and Norwegian officials said. Edwane, ...
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Noam Chomsky Supports Hizballah, Iran
Thu, May 11, 2006 at 1:23:54 pm PDT
In a lifetime filled with despicable statements and support for history’s worst regimes, MIT professor Noam Chomsky has finally hit absolute bottom as he visits the leader of the Hizballah terror gang, calls the United States a “leading terrorist state,” and supports Iran’s quest for nuclear weapons—to deter “Israeli aggression.” ...
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Abu Mazen Says...
Thu, May 11, 2006 at 9:35:29 am PDT
Jailed Palestinian leaders propose end to attacks in Israel.
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Cartoon Jihadist Leaving Denmark
Thu, May 11, 2006 at 9:25:12 am PDT
Imam Ahmed Abu Laban, a radical Islamic dissembler who has been living as a “refugee” in Denmark for decades and was one of the prime movers in whipping up Islamic rage over the Danish Mohammed cartoons, is leaving Denmark for the green hills of Gaza: The Grass is Greener in ...
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ElBaradei Talking About Carrots
Thu, May 11, 2006 at 8:58:44 am PDT
On the same day that Iran’s radical Islamic leader is threatening Israel’s existence again, the UN’s blind, toothless nuclear watchdog whines: ElBaradei urges compromise on Iran. AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog welcomed on Thursday moves to avert possible U.N. sanctions against Tehran over its nuclear program ...
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Ahmadinejad: "Israel One Day Will Vanish"
Thu, May 11, 2006 at 8:40:35 am PDT
Iranian madman Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, speaking in “moderate” Islamic Indonesia, is issuing genocidal threats again: Israel ‘one day will vanish’, Iranian president says. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said that Israel “one day will vanish” as he ramped up his anti-Western rhetoric in a speech to university students ...
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Britain is in Big Trouble
Thu, May 11, 2006 at 8:32:58 am PDT
This AP release on statements by British officials about the London train bombers gives you an idea how badly the UK dropped the ball on this investigation; they are clearly in a state of complete confusion: British Say 3 Terror Attacks Prevented. And perhaps the most shocking bit of news: even ...
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USA Today Leaks More NSA Secrets
Thu, May 11, 2006 at 8:15:20 am PDT
Mainstream media (with evident assistance from traitors in the CIA) is doing it again, releasing leaked details of classified national security plans in a time of war—and the Democrats are jumping aboard the train, demonstrating once again how serious they are about defending the country: Paper Reports NSA Collecting Phone ...
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NY Sun: Iran Declares War
Thu, May 11, 2006 at 8:09:23 am PDT
The New York Sun may be the only mainstream newspaper in America that has figured out the real meaning of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s letter to President Bush: Iran Declares War. President Ahmadinejad’s letter to President Bush, widely interpreted as a peaceful overture, is in fact a declaration of war. The key sentence ...
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Wednesday Night Ocean
Wed, May 10, 2006 at 10:04:38 pm PDT
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Hijackers Have British Refugee Status
Wed, May 10, 2006 at 7:48:36 pm PDT
Yesterday Britain’s High Court ruled that hijacking an airplane should be no barrier to legal refugee status: Hijackers have a right to live in Britain. (Hat tip: stuiec.) Nine Afghan asylum seekers who hijacked a plane at gunpoint to get to Britain should have been admitted to the country as genuine ...
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Our Friends the Saudis
Wed, May 10, 2006 at 7:13:03 pm PDT
The Annual Report of the United States Commission on Religious Freedom does not shy away from criticizing the world center of Islam, Saudi Arabia. (Hat tip: Politics and Religion.) Saudi Arabia The government of Saudi Arabia engages in systematic, ongoing, and egregious violations of the right to freedom of religion or belief. ...
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Dana Priest's Troubling Connections
Wed, May 10, 2006 at 6:43:24 pm PDT
Jennifer Verner points out a number of Pulitzer-winning Washington Post reporter Dana Priest’s Troubling Connections. In a National Public Radio interview just days after the Washington Post published her Pulitzer Prize winning article on the CIA’s “secret prisons,” Dana Priest predicted that her work would cause “political embarrassment” for the Bush ...
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Free Alaa
Wed, May 10, 2006 at 5:42:17 pm PDT
Here’s a new site that makes it very simple for you to send an email with one click to Egypt’s Ambassador to the US Nabil Fahmy, Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif, Egypt’s Interior Minister Habib El Adly, US Ambassador to Egypt Francis Ricciardone, and US Assistant Secretary of State David ...
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Iowahawk: Postmarked Qom
Wed, May 10, 2006 at 3:40:11 pm PDT
Iowahawk’s been dumpster-diving again (again!? yes, again!), this time in the bin out behind the Well of the 12th Imam in Qom, and he struggled to the surface clutching the first draft of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s letter to President Bush: You’ve Got Mail. Mr George Bush, President of the United States of ...
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali to AJC: "I Used to Hate You"
Wed, May 10, 2006 at 2:50:51 pm PDT
Here’s audio of Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s speech to the American Jewish Committee on May 4, 2006, accepting their award for moral courage. (The introduction is also interesting, but to conserve bandwidth I cut it out of this version; to hear the full recording click the link above.) [Audio]
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Jordan: Hamas Preparing for Attacks
Wed, May 10, 2006 at 2:08:32 pm PDT
Jordan has revealed new information about the Hamas “activists” they arrested last month; there were 20 of them: Jordan says Hamas trains recruits in Syria and Iran. AMMAN (Reuters) - Jordan said on Wednesday that Hamas had tried to recruit activists for military training in Syria and Iran to stage possible ...
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Conference of Terrorists in Qatar
Wed, May 10, 2006 at 2:04:04 pm PDT
From the “tiny handful of fanatics hijacking a peaceful religion” file: Qatar’s influential Egyptian-born cleric Sheikh Yussef Al-Qaradawi (2nd L), Hamas leader Khaled Meshal (L), Islamic Jihad Secretary General Ramadan Abdullah Shallah (R) and Sheik Qazi Hussain Ahmad attend the opening session of the gathering of Muslim scholars in support of ...
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The Return of the Incredibly Strange Graduation of the Palestinian Police Cadets
Wed, May 10, 2006 at 1:53:05 pm PDT
In the latest episode we see a graduation ceremony in Jenin (known as “The City of the Bombers”), in which proud new police officers demonstrate their skills at... Matrix-like Kung Fu anti-gravity leaps! Surprising combinations of previously-unseen-by-man boxing moves! And of course, the ever-popular... Nazi salute!
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Disneyland It Ain't
Wed, May 10, 2006 at 1:39:48 pm PDT
Sounds like a nice place to take the whole family: ‘Great Satan Park’ planned. (Hat tip: Earl.) Tehran - The former US embassy in Tehran could soon see a new chapter in its troubled history, with a top Iranian commander calling for the downtown compound to be turned into a “Great ...
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Hamas Urges Muslims to Send Arms, Fighters, Money
Wed, May 10, 2006 at 12:48:03 pm PDT
Speaking at a conference in Qatar (supposedly a US ally), Hamas kingpin Khaled Meshaal urged Muslims around the world to send arms, fighters, and money to help Hamas kill Jews. (Hat tip: Ethel.) DOHA, May 10 (Reuters) - Palestinian militant group Hamas urged supporters around the world on Wednesday to send ...
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali: "Look at the Prophet's Words and Deeds"
Wed, May 10, 2006 at 10:56:19 am PDT
Here’s another interview with Ayaan Hirsi Ali from Danish TV, November 16, 2005. This one is powerful stuff, as Ms Ali refuses to back down from some of her more “controversial” statements. (Hat tip: Sugiero.) [Video] UPDATE at 5/10/06 11:08:11 am: If the video won’t play for you by clicking above, try this ...
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Loose Change and Loose Screws
Wed, May 10, 2006 at 10:42:38 am PDT
The inept 9/11 conspiracy film Loose Change is apparently a hit in at least one mosque in Springfield, Massachusetts; Logical Meme reports on glossy postcard-sized flyers left on cars in the area. UPDATE at 5/10/06 12:07:43 pm: A blog has started up to refute the chuckleheaded “theories” (I use the term loosely) ...
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Ayaan at Harvard, Tsai Auditorium
Wed, May 10, 2006 at 9:02:09 am PDT
LGF reader ‘looking closely’ forwards this photo of the panel discussion with Ayaan Hirsi Ali, at Harvard’s Tsai Auditorium: Any LGF lizardoids who were at the discussion are invited to post accounts here; I’ve posted the report from ‘looking closely’ as the first comment. UPDATE at 5/10/06 9:23:40 am: Allahpundit has audio (not ...
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Congress Wants to Change the Internet
Wed, May 10, 2006 at 8:17:40 am PDT
If this op/ed in the Baltimore Sun states the case accurately, Internet service providers are pushing legislation through Congress that may have a direct effect on which web sites you are allowed to access. The big ISPs are proposing to divide the internet into high- and low-rent districts: Proposed rule ...
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Britain Has a Big Problem
Wed, May 10, 2006 at 8:08:13 am PDT
It only took 19 terrorists to launch the attacks of 9/11: Security services identify 700 potential al-Qa’ida terrorists at large in Britain. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) At least 700 people suspected of being involved in al-Qa’ida terrorist plots have been identified by MI5 and the police, The Independent understands. There has been ...
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Tuesday Night Beach
Tue, May 9, 2006 at 10:04:35 pm PDT
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Iranian Nuclear Dance
Tue, May 9, 2006 at 9:09:31 pm PDT
MEMRI TV has video of the ominous Iranian celebration featured at LGF last month, in which dancers perform with samples of enriched uranium, chanting “Allah akbar.” [Video]
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Ayaan at Harvard
Tue, May 9, 2006 at 8:39:19 pm PDT
LGF reader Bridget saw Ayaan Hirsi Ali at the JFK School of Government at Harvard today, and forwarded this interesting account, along with a photo I shall treasure and the comment, “She sends her regards and thanks for your support over at LGF.” Here are some of my impressions: The audience was ...
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AP Smitten with Ahmadinejad
Tue, May 9, 2006 at 7:38:10 pm PDT
You are not going to believe this one, as Associated Press writer Nick Wadhams delivers one of the most astounding pieces of mainstream media backwardsthink I have ever read: Letter Shows Iran’s President Seeking Bond. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) UNITED NATIONS - With his 18-page letter, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad delivered ...
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MSU Hate Week at UCI
Tue, May 9, 2006 at 7:18:24 pm PDT
The Muslim Student Union is holding a week-long event titled “Holocaust in the Holy Land” at the University of California Irvine, with a lineup of Jew-hatred that is almost beyond belief—featuring speeches with titles such as “Hamas: the People’s Choice” and “Israel: The 4th Reich,” and speakers including Norman Finkelstein ...
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Fisking the 'Islamophobes?'
Tue, May 9, 2006 at 6:18:39 pm PDT
Earlier today Glenn linked to this post by Dean Esmay, tearing apart a remarkably stupid email he received: Fisking The Islamophobes. Problem is, even though the particular email received by Esmay is indeed worthy of scorn (and someone forwarded it to me too), in the course of “fisking” it Esmay makes ...
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Peace in Our Time
Tue, May 9, 2006 at 5:54:57 pm PDT
Associated Press Palestinian propagandist Ibrahim Barzak reports without a hint of skepticism: Palestinian Militants End Internal Fights. GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Militants linked to Hamas and Fatah have agreed to work together to end the internal violence that has plagued Gaza, the Palestinian prime minister said Wednesday, after two days ...
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali: "I Wonder What You Are Doing Here?"
Tue, May 9, 2006 at 4:53:36 pm PDT
Miss Kelly turns in an excellent report on Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s appearance at Harvard’s JFK School of Government: Ayaan Hirsi Ali: ‘I Really Wonder What You Are Doing Here at Harvard’. The Q&A afterwards demonstrated the forces that Ayaan is working against. Most questions were to her were fairly ...
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BBC: Egyptians Look to Islam for Answers
Tue, May 9, 2006 at 3:47:18 pm PDT
The BBC helpfully informs its readers that Egyptians are looking to Islam for answers. I’m not sure what the question was, but one answer they’re getting is that they must ban all statues. A religious ruling condemning the display of statues has angered Egyptian liberals and intellectuals who fear it could encourage ...
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Second Outrage of the Day
Tue, May 9, 2006 at 3:19:40 pm PDT
Very distressing news from the meeting of the Quartet, where the US has apparently caved in to the pressure to fund the same Palestinian people who voted for this: Quartet agrees to channel aid to Palestinians. UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The quartet of Middle East peace brokers agreed on Tuesday on a ...
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali Answers Muslim Students
Tue, May 9, 2006 at 3:14:28 pm PDT
Michelle Malkin has a first report from Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s presentation at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, where she was confronted by several seething Muslim students. Near the end, somewhat exasperated, it seems, by the wave of denial that Harvard’s Muslim community had brought to the forum, she commented ...
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Anti-Israel European Parliament Member Quits
Tue, May 9, 2006 at 2:49:13 pm PDT
Chris Davies, leader of the Liberal Democrats in the European Parliament, has resigned after he let his hatred for Jews show a little too much: Lib Dem leader in Europe resigns following anti-Israel remark. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) The row dates back to a trip that Mr Davies made to the ...
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Death Cult Parade Float
Tue, May 9, 2006 at 2:38:40 pm PDT
Palestinian women supporting the Hamas government carry a mock knife cutting through a makeshift combination of a U.S. and Israeli flags during a demonstration in the West Bank town of Nablus, Tuesday, May 9, 2006. (AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh)
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Hamas European Tour
Tue, May 9, 2006 at 2:30:30 pm PDT
By granting a visa to Hamas “refugee minister” Atef Edwane, Sweden has made it possible for him to visit any other European country that belongs to the Schengen Accord—and Edwane said today that he’s planning to visit four more European countries after Sweden. STOCKHOLM (AFP) - A minister of the Hamas-led ...
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Ahmadinejad Calls Bush to Islam
Tue, May 9, 2006 at 2:17:09 pm PDT
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s letter to President Bush is here, in PDF form. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Robert Spencer points out that, contrary to media’s nearly universal spin, the letter is neither the ravings of a lunatic nor a genuine overture toward negotiations. This is a da’wa, a call to accept Islam, and ...
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Free Alaa
Tue, May 9, 2006 at 2:01:29 pm PDT
Egyptian blogger Alaa is still being held by the Egyptian government (along with several other bloggers and reform activists), and we need to keep the pressure on—otherwise they’ll soon be arresting other members of the Egyptian blogosphere too. Here’s a site that’s been set up to keep the issue alive, ...
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Saudi Arabia Wants to Be on UN Human Rights Council
Tue, May 9, 2006 at 1:22:23 pm PDT
The religious apartheid kingdom of Saudi Arabia, where women must wear burqas and are not allowed to drive, where criminals are executed by having their heads hacked off in public, where they have a government agency called The Ministry for the Protection of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (just ...
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Outrage of the Day
Tue, May 9, 2006 at 9:49:35 am PDT
From Drudge Report: U.S. tipping Mexico to Minuteman patrols. While Minuteman civilian patrols are keeping an eye out for illegal border crossers, the U.S. Border Patrol is keeping an eye out for Minutemen — and telling the Mexican government where they are. According to three documents on the Mexican Secretary of Foreign ...
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali at Harvard Today
Tue, May 9, 2006 at 9:18:12 am PDT
In an event open to the public, Ayaan Hirsi Ali will be speaking from 2:30 to 4:00 PM at Weiner Auditorium, Taubman Building, just off Harvard Square. Details here: Center for Public Leadership :: John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. (Hat tip: NuclearTinkerbell.) UPDATE at 5/9/06 9:26:54 am: Allahpundit has ...
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A Vacation with Al Qaeda
Tue, May 9, 2006 at 9:12:24 am PDT
Visit beautiful Saudi Arabia, and experience the religious apartheid kingdom in all its glory! Witness beheadings in Riyadh’s picturesque Execution Square! Stroll down crime-free Jeddah’s fabulous Corniche! And ah! The nightlife! (Jews not allowed.) FOR the first time, Saudi Arabia is looking to encourage non-Muslim tourists, touting a unique experience and ...
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Quartet Talks Aid, Palestinians Smuggle Explosives
Tue, May 9, 2006 at 8:31:49 am PDT
The so-called “Quartet” is meeting today, and there will be huge pressure from Russia, the UN, and Europe for the United States to stop worrying and learn to love giving money to Hamas: Middle East power brokers hammer out Hamas strategy. NEW YORK (Reuters) - Middle East peace brokers meet on ...
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Al Qaeda in Gaza
Tue, May 9, 2006 at 8:16:17 am PDT
Al Qaeda is officially in business in Gaza, under the auspices of Hamas: Al-Qaeda distributes first communique in Gaza. Gaza - A hitherto unknown Palestinian militant group announced Tuesday it was an off-shoot of the terror network al-Qaeda. In leaflets telefaxed to reporters and pasted on street corners in Gaza City, the ...
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RoP Bomb Attack in Denmark
Tue, May 9, 2006 at 8:14:03 am PDT
A Danish politician was the target of a firebomb attack last night, after threats signed “Al Qaeda” were received: Bomb attack targets local politicians. (Hat tip: Fjordman.) And Danish sociologists know who to blame: Danish society. Elected officials fear that a culture of political violence is emerging in Denmark after a firebomb ...
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Palestinian Civil War Watch
Mon, May 8, 2006 at 10:15:39 pm PDT
Nine hurt in new Palestinian gunbattle: witnesses. GAZA (Reuters) - Nine people were wounded in a gunbattle between Fatah and Hamas fighters in Gaza on Tuesday, a day after three gunmen were killed in clashes, witnesses said. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, backed by Fatah, and Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, head of a ...
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Monday Night Orbs
Mon, May 8, 2006 at 9:33:06 pm PDT
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The International Religious Court
Mon, May 8, 2006 at 8:50:27 pm PDT
It takes a lot to make my jaw drop these days, but here’s an op-ed in Baltimore’s Jewish Times that achieved this near-impossible feat: Preventing New Cartoon Crisis. (Hat tip: Soccer Dad.) While the Danish cartoonists may have sought to show, through their cartoons, that some Muslims were citing the Koran, ...
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Stupidest Lefty Meme of the Day
Mon, May 8, 2006 at 8:16:26 pm PDT
Markos Moulitsas “Screw Them” Zuniga is yelling “Bush lied! Fish died!” about a remark President Bush made to the German weekly Bild, but the only things dying around here are the embers of Kos’s Kredibility: Kos Goes Fishing.
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Moussaoui Wants to Withdraw Guilty Plea
Mon, May 8, 2006 at 6:45:11 pm PDT
It took only a few days for Zacarias Moussaoui to begin trying to work the American legal system again: Moussaoui asks for new trial. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Less than a week after he was jailed for life over the September 11 attacks, Al-Qaeda plotter Zacarias Moussaoui submitted a motion asking ...
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New Zarqawi Video
Mon, May 8, 2006 at 5:23:11 pm PDT
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (Zarkie for short) just loves to ham it up for the cameras. Italy’s La Repubblica Online has posted a previously unseen video of Zarqawi giving his blessing to a suicide bomber, who then blows himself up in Ramadi in an attack purportedly against an American base. (Hat ...
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Frontline: Looking Inside Hamas
Mon, May 8, 2006 at 4:06:27 pm PDT
Tomorrow night on PBS Frontline at 9 pm Eastern, a special about Hamas that (judging from this review) seems like it may be accurate: Looking Inside Hamas: Search for Martyrdom, Hatred of Israel. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Reporter Kate Seelye begins in Gaza, “a 6-by-25-mile sandbox” that doubles as a powder ...
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Egypt Arrests Blogger
Mon, May 8, 2006 at 1:46:27 pm PDT
Reformist Egyptian blogger Alaa has been arrested by the Egyptian government, and fellow bloggers are urgently appealing for help. Rantings of a Sandmonkey has more details and contact information for you to make your voice heard.
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Atwar Bahjat Beheading Video a Hoax
Mon, May 8, 2006 at 12:26:59 pm PDT
The gruesome video reported by the Sunday Times to show the beheading of Iraqi journalist Atwar Bahjat is a cruel hoax; the video does depict an Islamic torture killing, but the victim is not Atwar Bahjat. Rusty has the details: The Jawa Report: Atwar Bahjat Beheading Video a Hoax. (Warning: graphic ...
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Hate Speech at CSULB
Mon, May 8, 2006 at 11:34:51 am PDT
Last week the Muslim Student Association at California State University, Long Beach sponsored a speech by Amir-Abdel Malik-Ali. LGF featured video clips of Malik-Ali’s anti-American and antisemitic speech at UC Irvine in 2005. In last week’s speech at CSULB he explicitly supported terrorism and suicide bombing—and clearly, by inviting this hate-spewing lunatic, ...
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The Legacy of Jihad
Mon, May 8, 2006 at 10:18:05 am PDT
If you’re in the Washington DC area here’s an event you may want to attend, as Andrew Bostom and Laurent Murawiec give a talk entitled The Legacy of Jihad: Islamic Holy War and the Fate of Non-Muslims, at the Heritage Foundation’s Lehrman Auditorium.
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali at Harvard Bookstore
Mon, May 8, 2006 at 9:27:22 am PDT
Courageous critic of Islam Ayaan Hirsi Ali will be at the Harvard Bookstore tomorrow at noon, in an event open to the public: Harvard Coop. (Hat tip: Andrew Bostom.) Her talk later in the evening requires a Harvard ID: Ayaan Hirsi Ali at Harvard, May 9, 2006.
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Steyn: New Coalition of Willing Needed
Mon, May 8, 2006 at 9:13:09 am PDT
Here’s Mark Steyn on the warmongering, interventionist, unilateral American left: New coalition of willing needed in Darfur. The American Prospect’s Mark Leon Goldberg penned an almost comically agonised piece fretting about the circumstances in which he’d be prepared to support a Bush intervention in Darfur: Who needs the Janjaweed when you’re ...
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Mash Note from the Mullahs
Mon, May 8, 2006 at 8:37:43 am PDT
Ever have one of those Mondays when it feels like you’ve woken up in an alternate universe? Iran’s Leader Writes to President Bush. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) TEHRAN, Iran - Iran’s leader has written to President Bush proposing “new solutions” to their differences in the first letter from an Iranian head ...
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali Interview, February 2006
Sun, May 7, 2006 at 9:36:14 pm PDT
Here’s a fascinating interview with Dutch MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali, on Norway’s NRK television in February 2006, talking about her film Submission, Theo Van Gogh, her views on Islam, the Danish cartoons, and her need for constant protection from Islamic threats of death. The clip starts with a short segment ...
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Sunday Night Road
Sun, May 7, 2006 at 9:01:26 pm PDT
This road climbs up out of a section of Palos Verdes we call “the ghetto.”
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Palestinian Civil War Watch
Sun, May 7, 2006 at 8:30:05 pm PDT
Three dead in Hamas-Fatah gunbattle in Gaza: medics. GAZA (Reuters) - At least three Palestinians were killed on Monday during a gun battle between members of the rival Hamas and Fatah groups in the Gaza Strip, medics said. It was the most serious internal Palestinian violence to erupt since Hamas, an ...
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Jimmy Carter Shills for Hamas
Sun, May 7, 2006 at 6:23:51 pm PDT
Good lord. I know Jimmy Carter is a lifetime honoree of the LGF Idiotarian Award, but this is really something else, as he argues in the International Herald Tribune that Hamas is dedicated to peace. He acknowledges that Hamas has refused to recognize Israel’s right to exist, but helpfully adds, “while ...
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Britain Caves In to Hamas
Sun, May 7, 2006 at 4:29:11 pm PDT
I’m very sorry to report that the UK is caving in to Hamas: Britain backs Palestinian trust fund. A PROPOSED trust fund for donors to pay overdue Palestinian salaries would undercut Hamas, not strengthen it, says a British document meant to increase pressure on the US to drop objections to the ...
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Belgian Churches Becoming Mosques
Sun, May 7, 2006 at 2:57:39 pm PDT
To pressure Belgian authorities into allowing illegal immigrants to stay in the country, Belgian Bishops have been inviting the immigrants—most of whom are Muslim—to take up residence in Brussels churches. And the squatters are turning the churches into mosques, moving the altars out of the way, holding Islamic prayer services, hanging ...
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The Nazi-Arab Connection
Sun, May 7, 2006 at 2:34:30 pm PDT
Documents from the British National Archives show that in World War II, Nazi Germany sent weapons to the Palestinian Arabs, by way of our friends the Saudis. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) A British Foreign Office report from 1939 reports of “news of a consignment of arms from Germany, sent via Turkey ...
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Nutroots in the Washington Post
Sun, May 7, 2006 at 2:13:18 pm PDT
It’s NutRoots at the Washington Post, as Markos Moulitsas “Screw Them” Zuniga (in his trademarked hamfisted prose) gives the Democratic Party the kind of advice only a “progressive” with a near-perfect record of backing losing moonbat candidates could give with a straight face. It boils down to, “We gotta get ...
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Sunday Open Thread
Sun, May 7, 2006 at 9:34:45 am PDT
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Iran Laughs at Security Council
Sun, May 7, 2006 at 9:17:45 am PDT
Iran shows the United Nations Security Council the respect it deserves: Iran warns UN of ‘confrontation’ over nuclear programme. “Any action by the Security Council will have a negative influence on our cooperation with the agency,” Asefi told reporters, repeating Iran’s threat to halt International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspections. “The involvement ...
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The Death of an Iraqi Journalist
Sun, May 7, 2006 at 8:59:29 am PDT
Read this account of the depraved torture and beheading of female Iraqi television journalist Atwar Bahjat, and then ask why the entire Islamic world does not rise up to condemn the monsters in their midst: Part of me died when I saw this cruel killing. Bahjat was abducted after making ...
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Hamas Cozies Up to Sweden
Sun, May 7, 2006 at 8:22:06 am PDT
The Hamas “refugee minister” has graciously thanked Sweden for allowing him to visit, in spite of the fact that he represents a genocidal terrorist gang. The Palestinian Authority’s refugee minister Atef Adwan has thanked the Swedish government for allowing him to visit the country, after arriving in Malmö to address a ...
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Saturday Night Daisy
Sat, May 6, 2006 at 8:32:52 pm PDT
At one of the most difficult parts of today’s ride, I stopped to take this photograph of a shameless daisy.
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A Different Sort of President
Sat, May 6, 2006 at 8:11:48 pm PDT
Hugo Chavez wants to be declared El Presidente for the next twenty-five years. CARACAS, Venezuela - President Hugo Chavez said Saturday that Venezuelan voters should have the chance to decide whether he should govern the country for the next 25 years. Speaking at a stadium packed with supporters in central Lara ...
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LGF Statistics Update
Sat, May 6, 2006 at 7:48:07 pm PDT
In the month of April, according to my monthly visit counter (which can only be an approximation), LGF had nearly one and a half million unique visitors. We’re approaching three million comments, responding to 20,225 posts, and according to my comment post reporter we’re averaging between 2500 and 3000 ...
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Democrats Formlessly Giddy
Sat, May 6, 2006 at 7:31:19 pm PDT
This is why third parties continue to be formed. Both the Democrats and Republicans often seem powerless to confront important issues without political pandering: Confident Democrats Lay Out Agenda.
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RoP Strikes in South Thailand
Sat, May 6, 2006 at 7:06:35 pm PDT
Seven police wounded in attack in Thailand’s south. (Hat tip: St. Pancake.) NARATHIWAT, Thailand (AFP) - Seven police officers were injured in bomb explosions and gun fire after they were lured to a village in Thailand’s restive south, police said. Suspected Islamic militants ambushed the officers who were called to Tanyonglimo village ...
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali at Harvard, May 9, 2006
Sat, May 6, 2006 at 6:37:37 pm PDT
Look at her eyes, folks. Muslim student groups are almost certain to react strongly to Ayaan Hirsi Ali, an ex-Muslim who is now one of Islam’s fiercest and most courageous critics. This is one to watch. Any lizardoids in the area are encouraged to send us reports (or post if you’re ...
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Song for Barry
Sat, May 6, 2006 at 6:16:02 pm PDT
The Brecker Brothers are two of the most talented musicians in jazz, and Song for Barry is their tribute to the late trombonist Barry Rogers, featuring one of Barry’s amazing impromptu solos arranged for a horn section with a counterpoint tenor solo by Michael Brecker. This would be one of ...
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Cycle of Violence: Hill Work
Sat, May 6, 2006 at 5:52:22 pm PDT
Today’s ride: 46 miles, with a foggy start that turned quite warm by noon. Ever notice how easy it is to get out of the habit of doing things that cause physical pain? That’s how it’s been with me and hill climbing lately, so I deliberately went up a couple ...
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Five Men Detained Aboard AA Plane
Sat, May 6, 2006 at 4:34:34 pm PDT
Something happened on an American Airlines plane from Dallas to Newark today, and five men were held after the plane landed. No word yet if these were “youths.” NEWARK, N.J. - Authorities boarded an American Airlines plane Saturday and detained five men after it landed at Newark Liberty International Airport, according to ...
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Palestinian Civil War Watch
Sat, May 6, 2006 at 4:17:10 pm PDT
It was just a matter of time before something like this happened; it’s the way Hamas handles obstacles: Israel foils plot to kill Palestinian president. (Hat tip: Ansar al-Kufar.) A HAMAS plot to assassinate Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, has been thwarted after he was tipped off by Israeli intelligence. Hamas’s military ...
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Islamic Scholars to Issue Pro-Hamas Fatwa
Sat, May 6, 2006 at 3:50:03 pm PDT
A tiny handful of religious fanatics preaching a perverted version of Islam... Wait. Let’s start this one over. A group of the top Islamic scholars in the world, headed by Yusuf al-Qaradawi, are going to issue a fatwa obliging the world’s Muslims to support the genocidal terrorist gang Hamas: Islamic scholars to ...
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A Look at the Strait of Hormuz
Sat, May 6, 2006 at 3:13:40 pm PDT
Here’s an interesting post from Austin Bay, an analysis of the military options to respond to possible Iranian actions in the Strait of Hormuz: Iran’s nuclear mullahs and the UN: closer to sanctions?/A look at the Strait of Hormuz.
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UK Charges Two Islamic Leaders in Cartoon Protest
Sat, May 6, 2006 at 8:47:02 am PDT
After disgracefully doing nothing when cartoon demonstrators in London called for murder and terrorism, British authorities have now charged two Muslim leaders in the case: Two charged over cartoon protests. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) The former UK head of radical Islamic group al-Muhajiroun has been charged over the Muslim cartoon protests ...
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NYT Leaps to Zarqawi's Defense
Sat, May 6, 2006 at 8:29:45 am PDT
The New York Times leaps to defend the dignity and praise the terrorist abilities of Al Qaeda head-chopper Abu Musab al-Zarqawi: Not All See Video Mockery of Zarqawi as Good Strategy. (Hat tip: Occasional Reader.) An effort by the American military to discredit the terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi by showing ...
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Spencer: Hope for Reforming Islam?
Sat, May 6, 2006 at 8:25:05 am PDT
Yesterday we had a post about North African anthropologist Malek Chebel, and his 27 Propositions for Reforming Islam. Any sign of change and evolution in Islam is always welcome, but Robert Spencer raises some vital issues that never seem to be addressed by the would-be reformers: Hope for reforming Islam? Will ...
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Lie Like an Egyptian (Or Like AFP)
Sat, May 6, 2006 at 8:08:23 am PDT
You almost have to laugh at this ridiculously transparent maneuver from Egypt, pretending that the Arab-sponsored “road map” is viable, just slightly “outdated:” Egypt says Mideast peace ‘roadmap’ outdated, needs change. CAIRO (AFP) - Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit has said that the Middle East peace “roadmap” needed to be ...
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Religion of Incitement to Murder
Sat, May 6, 2006 at 8:00:55 am PDT
The leader of an Indian Religion of Peace™ political organization has offered “half his properties” to anyone who hacks off the head of a Danish cartoonist: Verma backs bounty for Danish cartoonist. Barabanki: Virtually endorsing an Uttar Pradesh minister’s announcement of a reward for anyone beheading those reponsible for caricatures of ...
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Got Five in Gaza
Fri, May 5, 2006 at 8:06:00 pm PDT
Five more “militants” engaged in firing rockets at random into Israeli civilian areas have gone to meet Allah: Israeli air strike kills five militants in Gaza. GAZA (Reuters) - An Israeli air strike killed five Palestinian militants on Friday at a training camp used by militants in the Gaza Strip further ...
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The Birds of Summer
Fri, May 5, 2006 at 7:46:17 pm PDT
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A Friend in Need
Fri, May 5, 2006 at 6:54:37 pm PDT
Psst. Jeff could use a little help. The second ever Protein Wisdom fundraiser (or, how I learned to stop worrying about begging and love the influx of beautiful greenbacks).
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TIME's Best Guess
Fri, May 5, 2006 at 6:44:03 pm PDT
Scrambling for a scoop, TIME Magazine says Bush’s replacement for Porter Goss is going to be Air Force General Michael Hayden: The Next Head of the CIA?
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Intoxicated Norwegians Commit Blasphemy
Fri, May 5, 2006 at 5:38:42 pm PDT
What do you do with a drunk Norwegian, What do you do with a drunk Norwegian, What do you do with a drunk Norwegian Earl-eye in the morning? Lynch him when he disses Mohammed. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Two Norwegians, part of a group of intoxicated Scandinavian tourists on holiday in Egypt, were nearly lynched ...
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Palestinian Child Abuse
Fri, May 5, 2006 at 5:30:58 pm PDT
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The Greenwald Show: Glenn Leaps to Ray McGovern's Defense
Fri, May 5, 2006 at 5:09:16 pm PDT
Glenn Greenwald is the best man in the blogosphere to leap to the defense of moonbat ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern: Time to smear the latest Bush critic. Brave Sir Glenn informs us that Ray McGovern isn’t a radical leftist at all. Never mind his appearances with Mother Sheehan, his associations with ...
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Twenty Seven Propositions for Reforming Islam
Fri, May 5, 2006 at 4:39:27 pm PDT
There’s so much bad news associated with Islam—hostages, murders, bombings, hijackings, ad nauseam—that it’s always good to find a ray of hope, no matter how small. MEMRI (often accused by the moonbat left of “cherry-picking” Arab media) has a report on North African anthropologist Malek Chebel, and his 27 Propositions ...
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Cartoon Jihad Escalation
Fri, May 5, 2006 at 2:23:28 pm PDT
The web site of Ansar al-Sunna has posted a hit list of German newspapers that printed the [Popup], calling on Muslims to avenge the honor of the prophet Mohammed (propellor beanie upon him): Online Magazine Hints at Attacks on Papers that Ran Muhammad Caricatures. The publication of cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad ...
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Muslim Cartoon Attacker Dies in German Prison
Fri, May 5, 2006 at 2:14:58 pm PDT
A Pakistani Muslim who was arrested for trying to kill the editor of Germany’s Die Welt (for publishing the [Popup]) has been found dead in his Berlin prison cell: Pakistani dies in German prison. (Hat tip: hans ze beeman.) Like clockwork, his family is claiming he was tortured. LGF hereby calls ...
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Political Friday
Fri, May 5, 2006 at 2:01:28 pm PDT
Sheesh. I step away from the computer for a couple of hours and Porter Goss resigns unexpectedly. Lots of theories flying around (the Duke Cunningham scandal? hookers? space aliens?), but very few facts about why he quit, as of this writing. Meanwhile, in other political cage match news, Byron York at ...
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Krauthammer: Never Again?
Fri, May 5, 2006 at 9:34:46 am PDT
Charles Krauthammer, on the lessons of history: Never Again? The establishment of Israel was a Jewish declaration to a world that had allowed the Holocaust to happen — after Hitler had made his intentions perfectly clear — that the Jews would henceforth resort to self-protection and self-reliance. And so they have, ...
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Kennedy Crashes Car, Cops Cover Caper
Fri, May 5, 2006 at 9:04:17 am PDT
LawHawk has a good post with lots of links on the unfolding Patrick Kennedy car crash story: Damage Control. UPDATE at 5/5/06 2:04:50 pm: Kennedy is checking himself into Mayo Clinic’s rehab center. Smart move.
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"Death to America! Now Give Us More Money!"
Fri, May 5, 2006 at 8:42:15 am PDT
Nice Nazi salute you got going on there, Ahmed. Hamas supporters burn the US and British flags during a demonstration in Gaza City. Thousands of Palestinians have demanded death to the United States and rallied behind their Hamas-led government, severely squeezed by a Western boycott, aid cuts and aserious fiscal crisis. ...
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AP Whitewashes Antisemite "War Critic"
Fri, May 5, 2006 at 8:29:40 am PDT
The Associated Press reports that Donald Rumsfeld was verbally assaulted by several moonbats yesterday, but the AP doesn’t think you need to know anything more about them: Hostile War Critics Confront Rumsfeld. The gloss they put on radical leftist, Jew-hating creep Ray McGovern is especially shiny. ATLANTA - Already under fire from ...
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'United 93' and the 20th Hijacker
Fri, May 5, 2006 at 8:06:53 am PDT
Daniel Henninger says the circus trial of Zacarias Moussaoui is evidence that much of America has returned to a pre-9/11 way of thinking: ‘United 93’ and the 20th Hijacker . Defenders of Moussaoui’s life sentence say he will “rot in prison.” Perhaps in a better world Zacarias Moussaoui would share a ...
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Terror Enablers at Brandeis
Thu, May 4, 2006 at 10:10:08 pm PDT
Brandeis University, founded by the Jewish community in 1948 partly as a response to Jewish quotas at Ivy League schools, has now been invaded by the same radical anti-Israel movement seen at so many other US campuses. After the school closed down a bloody pro-Palestinian art exhibit, today the terrorist ...
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Aussie Islamic Leaders Demand Shari'a-Compliant Committee
Thu, May 4, 2006 at 9:46:25 pm PDT
Australian Islamic leaders are rebelling against the recent executive committee elections held by the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils, and demanding a board that is “sharia-compliant:” Muslim groups lash new peak council. (Hat tip: raffi.) ISLAMIC leaders have labelled the nation’s peak Muslim body a “dictatorship” and threatened to break up ...
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Video: El Uno De Mayo
Thu, May 4, 2006 at 9:01:54 pm PDT
Evan Coyne Maloney and Stuart Browning at On The Fence Films have a video report on Monday’s May Day demonstrations in San Francisco and New York, focusing on the hard-left communist backers of these protests, and they have kindly granted us permission to post the video here: [Video]
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United 93 - Open Topic
Thu, May 4, 2006 at 8:35:22 pm PDT
Many LGF readers (lizardoids, if you will) have seen United 93, and this is an open topic to discuss the film. By all accounts, and in spite of the caveats, the movie is a powerful reminder of why we’re fighting a war against radical Islam. I have a ticket to see ...
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Not Anti-War - On the Other Side
Thu, May 4, 2006 at 8:15:24 pm PDT
Gateway Pundit has lots of links on the breaking story that Italian communists may have helped Iranian terrorists to kill Italian soldiers in Iraq. UPDATE at 5/4/06 10:20:44 pm: More at Publius Pundit.
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Bush Supports Israel, Media Shocked
Thu, May 4, 2006 at 7:23:53 pm PDT
The mainstream media always seem shocked when President Bush refuses to back down from a clearly stated position: Bush: US will not deal with Hamas. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush said on Thursday the United States would not waver in its commitment to the security of Israel and would ...
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Sixteen Thousand Apostates Per Day
Thu, May 4, 2006 at 7:14:53 pm PDT
At The American Thinker, here’s a surprising report on Islam in Africa, as a Libyan Islamic scholar reveals that Muslims are converting to Christianity at the rate of 16,000 apostates per day: This translation of a televised conversation reveals a rare glimpse into the outlook of Muslim scholars who are concerned ...
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Australian Archbishop: "Islam Not a Tolerant Religion"
Thu, May 4, 2006 at 6:48:00 pm PDT
Australia’s highest Catholic priest, the Archbishop of Sydney, wants us all to read the Koran and judge for ourselves how peaceful Mohammed’s message is: Pell challenges Islam - o ye, of little tolerant faith. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) The Archbishop of Sydney, Cardinal George Pell, said reading the Koran, the sacred ...
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"Our Number One Enemy is the Criminal America"
Thu, May 4, 2006 at 3:05:53 pm PDT
General Abdorrahim Musavi, Chief of the Joint Staff in the Iranian army, talks about Iran’s preparations for war with America, on Iranian television, April 19, 2005. (Courtesy MEMRI TV.) [Video] Knowing that our number one enemy is the criminal America, we focused on it. We identified its strengths and weaknesses, and prepared ...
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Zarqman's Blooper Reel
Thu, May 4, 2006 at 2:34:59 pm PDT
ABC has clips from a video discovered in an Al Qaeda safe house, showing Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the infamous terrorist head-chopper, unable to handle a machine gun. Apparently, he’s more comfortable with a bound hostage and a big knife. UPDATE at 5/4/06 2:39:12 pm: Lots of updates from Allahpundit at Hot Air.
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Hamas Goes to Sweden
Thu, May 4, 2006 at 1:06:33 pm PDT
Yesterday Sweden said ‘no’ to Hamas. Today they said ‘yes.’ A mere couple of days after Swedish Prime Minister Goran Persson said his country will not welcome Hamas legislators, diplomats in Jerusalem and Palestinian sources told Ynet that the Swedish government has agreed to grant a visa to Palestinian Minister for Refugees ...