LGF Archives: June 2006
Koizumi Channels Elvis
Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 8:24:52 pm PDT
Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi gets the LGF Seal of Approval for this excellent move (no sarcasm intended!): Is the world getting weird, or what?
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Friday Night Playlist
Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 7:01:02 pm PDT
The playlist for tonight: [Audio removed...] 1) Joe Pass, from his masterwork Virtuoso, absolutely shredding the standard tune Have You Met Miss Jones. One of the most amazing solo guitar performances ever recorded. Swing to the nth power. 2) A magnificent, pristine recording of the classic hymn Panis Angelicus, from Beth Nielsen Chapman’s ...
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Kidnappers Raise Ransom Demand
Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 5:55:25 pm PDT
Hizballah urges the Palestinian terrorists not to release their kidnap victim without getting a ransom. Lebanon’s Hizbullah terror group, which has swapped kidnapped Israelis for Arab prisoners in the past, urged Palestinian terrorists on Friday to only free an Israeli soldier captured in Gaza exchange for Palestinian prisoners. “There are 10,000 detainees ...
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Streets of Seething
Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 3:52:55 pm PDT
The Arab Street is raging. CAIRO, Egypt - Several thousand protesters at one of Cairo’s main mosques called Friday for holy war against Israel to help the Palestinians in their conflict with the Jewish state. More than 3,000 people packed Al-Azhar Mosque, the most prominent institution in the Sunni Arab world, for ...
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WSJ: Fit and Unfit to Print
Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 3:33:36 pm PDT
A Wall Street Journal Editorial rips the New York Times for letting their hatred for Bush take precedence over the security of their own country: Fit and Unfit to Print. After being asked by several administration officials not to publish the SWIFT story... The Times decided to publish anyway, letting Mr. Fratto ...
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Radical Islamic Conference at Melbourne University
Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 2:56:57 pm PDT
A Melbourne university will host the Annual Australian Dawah Conference, featuring notorious jihadi clerics appearing under phony names: Radical Islamic conference at uni. THE nation’s two most radical Islamic clerics - hardliners described by a rival yesterday as producing “bin Ladens in the suburbs” - will use a three-day conference at ...
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New UN Human Rights Council: Business As Usual
Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 2:39:14 pm PDT
The latest chapter in the dark comedy of hatred and venality masquerading as “human rights” at the United Nations: New UN rights body targets Israel. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) The new UN Human Rights Council voted Friday to make a review of alleged human rights abuses by Israel a permanent feature ...
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Wisconsin's Ward Churchill - Only Worse
Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 1:01:42 pm PDT
Jessica McBride has lots of coverage and commentary on the case of UW-Madison wacademic Kevin Barrett, a Muslim convert and raving 9/11 conspiracy freakazoid, teaching a course called “Introduction to Islam” at UW-Madison this fall. Barrett, who started a national group on 9/11 conspiracy theories, doesn’t believe the terrorists caused the ...
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Bin Laden: "The Degree of Sympathy Muslims Have for the Mujahideen"
Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 12:13:45 pm PDT
In his audiotaped eulogy to mass murderer Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, mass murderer Osama bin Laden actually makes a good point. Bin Laden called on U.S. forces to release the body of Jordanian-born Zarqawi, adding: “What scares you about Zarqawi after his death is that (his funeral) will be huge and will ...
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Changing Times
Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 11:51:29 am PDT
Check out Bryan Preston’s new video, and ask yourself how much you’ve forgotten: Changing Times.
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The Hizballah Kidnapping Connection
Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 11:26:25 am PDT
A fairly unbiased piece at the Christian Science Monitor (for a change) makes a good point about the Palestinian kidnapping of Corporal Gilad Shalit: Israel goes after both Hamas leaderships. [Hamas expert Magnus] Ranstorp also believes that Sunday’s kidnapping of Cpl. Gilad Shalit, which was the catalyst for the heightened hostilities, ...
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'Hadji Girl' Marine Silenced?
Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 10:54:26 am PDT
The Marine Corps Times has a report on Joshua Belile, whose song “Hadji Girl” aroused the seething of CAIR—and it looks as if Cpl. Belile has been gagged: Record producer: Marine will not record ‘Hajji Girl’. (Hat tip: Michelle Malkin.) Belile, in a June 26 e-mail exchange with conservative blogger Michelle ...
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Bosnian Muslim Guilty but Freed
Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 10:10:49 am PDT
Bosnian Muslim commander Naser Oric was convicted by the United Nations court in the Hague of war crimes against the Bosnian Serbs. His sentence was handed down today: two years, already served, and he’ll be released immediately. Correspondents say many Bosnian Muslims regard him as a hero, and believe the decision ...
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AP Repeats: Hamas Ministers "Kidnapped"
Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 9:53:06 am PDT
Amazing! The Associated Press is repeating their bald assertion that Hamas cabinet ministers were “kidnapped” by Israel: Palestinian: Israel aims to topple gov’t. GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said Friday that Israel’s offensive in Gaza — including the kidnappings of some of his Cabinet ministers — ...
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Tour De France Bars Ullrich and Basso
Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 9:31:50 am PDT
The Tour de France, cycling’s epic contest, begins tomorrow—and the two top riders, Jan Ullrich and Ivan Basso, have been barred from the race: Tour favorites barred in doping scandal. STRASBOURG, France - A doping scandal knocked Tour de France favorites Jan Ullrich and Ivan Basso out of the race Friday ...
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Palestinian Female Prisoners Have Blood on Their Hands
Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 9:13:56 am PDT
Hamas is demanding the release of all women and children imprisoned in Israel, as ransom for their hostage Corporal Gilad Shalit. As we demonstrated Wednesday, Western media is obviously sympathetic to this demand—in the case of the BBC, so sympathetic that they will even conceal important information about Palestinian prisoners. But ...
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Ontario Human Rights Commission Warns of "Islamophobia"
Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 8:31:59 am PDT
The Ontario Human Rights Commission isn’t concerned with jihadis plotting mass murder in Canada, enabled by a network of Saudi-funded radical mosques preaching hatred of the West. They’ve zeroed in on the real problem: “Islamophobia.” (Hat tip: WriterMom.) Smashed mosque windows and workers losing their jobs because of their ethnic background, are ...
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MSM Loves Thugs
Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 8:26:57 am PDT
Palestinian Prime Minister and Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh speaks during Friday prayers at a mosque in Gaza city, Gaza Strip June 30, 2006. (Oleg Popov/Reuters)
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AP: Israel "Kidnapped" Hamas Officials
Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 8:11:06 am PDT
Associated Press Palestinian propagandist Ibrahim Barzak manages to insert an absolutely outrageous assertion into this AP release, sans scare quotes: Palestinian PM lashes out at Israelis. GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said Friday that Israel’s offensive in Gaza — including the kidnappings of some of his ...
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Hollywood Abandoning America
Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 8:02:02 am PDT
The Hollywood machine is quite eager to take advantage of the Independence Day crowds, releasing the new version of Superman for the July 4th weekend. But the screenwriters and their studio overseers were so embarrassed by Superman’s American heritage that they changed the famous slogan “truth, justice, and the American way” ...
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Disgusting AFP Story of the Day
Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 7:38:45 am PDT
Agence France Presse uses Nazi terminology to describe Israel’s air attacks against Hamas targets: Israeli jets blitz Gaza, Hamas vows it won’t be crushed. GAZA CITY (AFP) - Israeli fighter jets blitzed Gaza overnight, setting the interior ministry ablaze and striking militant targets in the latest assault aimed at securing the ...
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Iowahawk: Viva Kos Vegas
Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 10:03:10 pm PDT
Iowahawk posts excerpts from his unauthorized screenplay for a dramatization of the year’s biggest Nutroots event: Viva Kos Vegas. Fade In Scene 1: Security monitor room, Swami Oasis Casino, Las Vegas Casino Security Agent Joe, can you come here a sec? Possible security breach on blackjack table number 36. Supervisor Whatta ya have? Casino Security Agent ...
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Egypt Apartheid Wall Breached
Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 9:41:58 pm PDT
What! Egypt has built a big scary wall to protect themselves from their brothers, the noble, oppressed Palestinians? Somebody call Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and the United Nations, quick! Palestinians blow hole in Gaza-Egypt border wall. RAFAH BORDER CROSSING, Gaza Strip (AFP) - Palestinian militants have blown a hole in the ...
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Thailand RoP Feels Left Out
Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 9:29:40 pm PDT
When the Organization of the Islamic Conference met in Azerbaijan, Islamic terrorists in southern Thailand tried to get their attention and sympathy—by launching multiple bomb attacks against infidels and their institutions: Thai militants seek Muslim world’s attention. BANGKOK (Reuters) - A series of bomb attacks in Thailand’s Muslim south were launched ...
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Toronto Sun Stands With Israel
Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 9:22:22 pm PDT
The Toronto Sun stands up: EDITORIAL: It’s time to stand with Israel. (Hat tip: Moe Katz.) The Toronto conference of the United Church yesterday joined the Ontario division of the Canadian Union of Public Employees in calling for economic sanctions against Israel and a boycott of the Jewish state to protest ...
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Osama Appeals to the Netroots
Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 8:37:47 pm PDT
Osama bin Hidin’ whispers sweet nothings in the ear of the American angry left: Text: ‘Bin-Laden tape’. My message to you is about the war in Iraq and Afghanistan and the way to end it. I had not intended to speak to you about this issue, because, for us, this issue is ...
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When Islamic Script Kiddies Attack
Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 7:19:46 pm PDT
The Associated Press calls these clowns “hackers,” but they’re really the lowest link on the net parasite food chain, script kiddies with beards, using commonly available brute force cracking tools to exploit known website vulnerabilities. There’s no poetry to what they do, just cheap low-class vandalism: Arab hackers shut down ...
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Fox News: "Hamas Thugs!"
Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 7:04:57 pm PDT
Wow. Go see the Fox News home page before the PC police do, because the lead-in for this feature story is unusually... honest. (Hat tip: MSMediaCritic.)
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Lebanese TV: The Lies of the "Jewish Holocaust"
Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 6:57:54 pm PDT
Here’s a nauseating slice of Islamic Holocaust denial from Lebanon’s New TV, broadcast on June 21, 2006, and assisted by depraved US author Norman Finkelstein. (Courtesy of MEMRI TV.) [Video] Report: The “Holocaust” is the Jewish term for burning the sacrificial offering to ashes. Never has there been an issue subject to ...
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Hirsi Ali Controversy Brings Down Dutch Government
Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 6:43:14 pm PDT
To Ayaan Hirsi Ali, this must smell a lot like vindication: Dispute over Muslim MP leads for fall of coalition. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) But someone should let the London Times know that Ayaan Hirsi Ali no longer considers herself a “Muslim.” THE centre-right Dutch Government unexpectedly collapsed last night after growing ...
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Ummah.com Campaign to Whine About "Islamophobic" Sites
Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 3:11:53 pm PDT
The terror supporters at British Islamic hate site Ummah.com (lgf: search) are taking a break from posting jihad videos to urge each other to complain to police and other authorities about any sites that are wise to them: organise a campaign to complain about anti-islam websites.
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Future Europe: Solidarity with Oriana Fallaci
Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 3:03:44 pm PDT
A Polish group named Future Europe is organizing a campaign of solidarity with Italian writer Oriana Fallaci, who is now being legally charged with thoughtcrimes by the Muslim Union of Italy: Oriana Fallaci Trial - Proces Oriany Fallaci.
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CAIR to Belile: Don't Do Anything Stupid
Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 2:09:05 pm PDT
Ibrahim Hooper of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) issues a veiled threat to Corporal Joshua Belile about releasing another version of his song “Hadji Girl:” Belile said in a statement Tuesday that he plans to release a professionally recorded version of the song within a few weeks. The Council ...
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Arab Media Lying About Kidnap Victim
Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 2:04:18 pm PDT
The Organization of the Islamic Conference is seething and raging over Israel’s Gaza operation, according to the Khaleej Times: OIC says Israeli arrests are crime. (Hat tip: Barry.) I’ll summarize for you: Blah. Blah. War crimes. Occupation. Blah, blah. International law. Blah blah blah. And they conclude their article (attributed to ...
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Gore: The Right's Responsible for All the Vitriol
Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 1:41:16 pm PDT
Al Gore, who called bloggers “digital brownshirts,” says most of the vitriol in today’s politics comes from ... where else? ... the right. Oh ... and he won the 2000 election, by the way. Allahpundit has video of Gore’s latest pathetic appearance on the Daily Show: Gore says he won Florida. ...
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Turkish PM: 'Islamophobia' is a Crime Against Humanity
Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 8:41:33 am PDT
Speaking to the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, Turkey’s Prime Minister said that criticism of Islam is a crime against humanity: Islamophobia Is a Crime Against Humanity: Erdogan. STRASBOURG, 29 June 2006 — The incitement to hatred of Islam should be considered a crime against humanity, Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip ...
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Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Jihad
Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 8:27:47 am PDT
Supreme Court blocks Bush, Gitmo war trials. WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that President Bush overstepped his authority in ordering military war crimes trials for Guantanamo Bay detainees. The ruling, a strong rebuke to the administration and its aggressive anti-terror policies, was written by Justice John Paul Stevens, who said ...
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Palestinian Kidnappers Mock Israel
Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 8:09:47 am PDT
The kidnappers of Corporal Gilad Shalit are taunting Israel. GAZA (Reuters) - Palestinian militants involved in the kidnapping of an Israeli soldier taunted the Jewish state on Thursday by saying the conscript could be dead or alive. Abu Mujahed, spokesman for the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC), said in a statement that Israel ...
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Hateful Chatter Behind the Veil
Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 7:58:01 am PDT
The wives of the recently arrested Canadian terror suspects left numerous messages on the internet praising terrorism and violence, and expressing revulsion for Western society: Hateful chatter behind the veil. (Hat tip: WriterMom.) MISSISSAUGA — When it came time to write up the premarital agreement between Zakaria Amara and Nada Farooq, ...
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Hamas Leadership in Jail
Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 9:31:43 pm PDT
IDF arrests over 60 Hamas officials. In an unprecedented operation, the IDF arrested overnight Wednesday over 60 senior Hamas members throughout the West Bank, including ministers in the Palestinian Authority parliament. Detainees included such senior figures as Finance Minister Omar Abdel Azek, Labor Minister Mohammed Barghouti, and parliament member Mohammed Abu ...
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Wednesday Night Fence
Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 9:11:46 pm PDT
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US GIves CAIR a Tour of O'Hare Security
Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 8:48:47 pm PDT
Last week, officials of US Customs and Border Protection escorted representatives of the Islamist front group CAIR (who issued a defense of Hamas today) and other Chicago Islamic leaders on a guided tour of the security facilities at O’Hare International Airport: CAIR-Chicago, Muslims, Meet With U.S. Customs & Border Protection ...
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IDF Confirms Hostage Murdered
Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 8:27:48 pm PDT
IDF confirms PRC report of Eliyahu Asheri’s death. The IDF confirmed early Thursday a report the Popular Resistance Committees issued from Gaza that it had executed Eliyahu Asheri, 18, of Itamar, who was kidnapped earlier this week in the West Bank. IDF combat engineers and Shin Bet agents, acting on intelligence, found ...
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BBC Prisoner Sob Story Hides Terrorist Facts
Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 7:55:58 pm PDT
The BBC runs a story related to the Shalit kidnapping, focusing on a Palestinian man who claims his wife and 18-month old son are being held unjustly by Israel: Palestinians back prisoner release call. For Walid al-Houdaly, 46, the capture of an Israeli soldier by Palestinian militants offers the opportunity that ...
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Palestinians Claim Chemical Attack
Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 6:58:51 pm PDT
“Gunmen” from Mahmoud Abbas’ “loosely linked armed wing,” the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, claim that they fired a rocket into Israel tipped with a chemical warhead. GAZA (Reuters) - A spokesman for gunmen in the Gaza Strip said they had fired a rocket tipped with a chemical warhead at Israel early ...
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Yes, the Palestinians Are to Blame
Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 6:12:35 pm PDT
By the way, I’d like to make something clear. When I title a post, “Palestinians Claim Hostage Murdered,” I mean it exactly that way. It’s not a “group” of “militants,” “loosely linked” to Hamas. It’s the Palestinian people. If they want to be a state, that means taking responsibility for ...
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Terrorist Training Facility Hit
Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 5:48:15 pm PDT
Israel bombs Islamic University in Gaza: witnesses. GAZA (Reuters) - An Israeli warplane fired a missile on Thursday at the pro-Hamas Islamic University in Gaza City, setting off a huge explosion, witnesses said. An Israeli army spokesman said the planes had targeted an open area in Gaza City. Witnesses said the missile ...
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Palestinians Claim Hostage Murdered
Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 5:43:28 pm PDT
Palestinian group says Israeli executed. GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - A Palestinian militant group said early Thursday it executed an 18-year-old Israeli settler kidnapped earlier in the West Bank. The statement from the Popular Resistance Committees in Gaza said the settler, Eliahu Asheri, had been executed. The group, which has links to ...
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Arab Media Supports Kidnapping
Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 4:42:37 pm PDT
Bahrain’s Gulf Daily News describes the kidnapped Israeli soldier as “a prize catch.” RAFAH, Gaza Strip: Many Palestinians think a captured Israeli soldier should not be released without major concessions from Israel - despite an Israeli ground and air assault on the Gaza Strip yesterday mean to recover him. Many in this ...
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AP Howler of the Day
Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 4:36:03 pm PDT
Man. The Associated Press really must think their readers are a bunch of naïve, uninformed morons, to try and foist off a ridiculous howler like this. Palestinian plans for high-rise apartments, sports complexes and industrial parks in lands evacuated by Israel have given way to despair, with rising poverty, increasingly violent ...
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Dead Man Talking
Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 3:54:41 pm PDT
ABC News says we can expect a new audiotape from Osama bin Hidin’, singing the praises of defunct head-chopper Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. And as always, the tape will be premiered on the global jihad network, Al Jazeera.
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A Heads-Up for the Chinless Ophthalmologist
Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 3:42:30 pm PDT
Israeli warplanes make ‘warning’ flight over Syria. JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli warplanes flew low over one of President Bashar al-Assad’s palaces on Wednesday to warn Syria against supporting Palestinian militants who captured an Israeli soldier, the Israeli army said. Syrian officials said two Israeli planes flew over Wadi Kandil, 20 km (13 ...
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CAIR Shills for Hamas Again
Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 3:32:06 pm PDT
The latest paid press release from the Council on American Islamic Relations rants about Israeli “war crimes”—without a single mention of the kidnappings and threats of murder from Palestinians: CAIR Says Targeting of Gaza Infrastructure a ‘War Crime’. (Hat tip: Killgore Trout.) WASHINGTON, June 28 /U.S. Newswire/ — A prominent national ...
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UK "Civil Liberties" Group Seeks to Block SWIFT
Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 2:04:18 pm PDT
Now that the New York Times has appointed themselves America’s shadow government, here come the George Soros-funded international terrorist enablers to make sure Al Qaeda’s privacy isn’t violated: Group Asks Gov’ts to Block Data Release. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) LONDON — A civil liberties group said Wednesday that it had asked ...
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House Resolution Condemning New York Times
Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 9:40:05 am PDT
Lawhawk notes that the House is taking up a resolution to denounce the New York Times for publishing the SWIFT story: SWIFTly Downstream.
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Death Cult Playtime
Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 9:37:39 am PDT
Accidental grenade explosion kills two Palestinians. GAZA CITY (AFP) - Two Palestinians were killed and another seven, including a baby, wounded when a grenade accidentally exploded in the southern Gaza Strip. Family members were playing with a grenade in the town of Khan Yunis when it exploded, killing 23-year-old Qassem Massud and ...
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Mainstream Media Cognitive Dissonance
Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 9:29:44 am PDT
Mainstream media coverage of the latest Palestinian Big Lie (the “prisoner’s document” that does not recognize Israel) has reached a level of delusional doublethink that’s quite disturbing. Here’s an Agence France Presse article that literally refutes itself: Hamas takes defining step towards Israel recognition. The first paragraph: GAZA CITY (AFP) - The governing ...
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Palestinians Using Iranian Weapons?
Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 8:37:53 am PDT
It’s been pointed out by several LGF readers who know more than I do about such things that the explosive devices being planted by Palestinian terrorists—as children stand around—in these two photos (from Reuters and the Associated Press, respectively) resemble the type of shaped anti-tank charges manufactured by the Islamic ...
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Palestinians Claim Another Kidnapping
Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 8:20:20 am PDT
Report: Another kidnapping of Israeli. Palestinian sources claimed that there had been another kidnapping of an Israeli on Wednesday, Channel 2 reported in its 6 pm news broadcast. IDF jeeps surround building in Ramallah. About 30 IDF jeeps surrounded a building in Ramallah on Wednesday. It was not immediately clear why the jeeps ...
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Amazing NYT Hypocrisy
Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 7:48:39 am PDT
Three days after 9/11, the New York Times published an editorial demanding financial tracking to fight terrorism, and Sweetness & Light dug it up to throw it in their lying faces: Organizing the hijacking of the planes that crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon took significant sums of ...
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Operation Summer Rains
Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 7:39:06 am PDT
Israellycool has been covering the IDF Gaza operation minute by minute: Operation Summer Rains.
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Orwell's Newspaper
Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 7:29:50 am PDT
The British press’s bias against Israel is so overwhelming that it leads to insane front pages like this:
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The Media Are the Enemy
Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 9:19:42 pm PDT
The Associated Press isn’t the only wire service that’s way too cozy with terrorists plotting murder. Here’s al-Reuters photographer Ahmed Jadallah, taking pictures while terrorists pose with a large bomb. Palestinian militants from the military wing of Hamas set up an explosive device in preparation for a possible Israeli army ground ...
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Tuesday Night Caption Contest
Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 8:01:15 pm PDT
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Our Friends the Saudis
Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 7:34:30 pm PDT
Heartwarming news, brought to you by the US State Department: Number of US visas to Saudis doubles. (Hat tip: Gregg.) For the first time since the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, the US State Department has begun to sharply increase the number of entry visas granted to ...
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CAIR Fifth Columnists and Multiculturalists
Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 6:45:04 pm PDT
Joe Kaufman’s piece at FrontPage today on the Council on American Islamic Relations is a must-read: CAIR Fifth Columnists and Multiculturalists. On June 5th, the Los Angeles chapter of CAIR sponsored a community town hall meeting at the Islamic Center of Irvine (ICOI), a mosque that propagates venomously anti-Semitic and anti-Israel ...
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Palestinians: Stop or We Kill Him
Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 5:24:05 pm PDT
Palestinians threaten to kill kidnap victim. GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - A Palestinian militant group on Wednesday threatened to kill an abducted Jewish settler if Israel doesn’t stop its raid on the Gaza Strip. The Popular Resistance Committees, which has claimed responsibility for abducting both the settler and an Israeli army corporal, ...
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The 'Screw Them' Party
Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 4:21:13 pm PDT
Forbes Magazine publisher Rich Karlgaard thinks people should remember exactly how radical and mean-spirited the party of Daily Kos really is: The ‘Screw Them’ Party. Playing to his online audience of post-McGovernite neo-commies, Kos enjoys picking fights with Democratic centrists who have the temerity to put America’s security as a top ...
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IDF Preparing for Gaza Incursion
Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 2:30:06 pm PDT
Israeli planes attack bridge in Gaza. Vital Perspective will be live-blogging, and Carl in Jerusalem also has lots of coverage.
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Swiftboated by the Dinos
Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 1:37:04 pm PDT
The Snark of the Day belongs to Jeff Goldstein, responding to a typically ludicrous post from “progressive” blogger Billmon, who says Kos is being Swiftboated by an organized conspiracy of Dinos, using Rovian tactics! Kos, he been SWIFTBOATED! BY KILLARY AND CREW!: Whether the grown ups (Peretz, Lieberman, Hillary) actually ...
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Palestinian Hostage Talks Fail
Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 12:10:41 pm PDT
It looks like the Palestinians have decided they’re ready for large scale conflict: Talks on recovering Israeli hostage fail: TV. (Hat tip: Ariel.) JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Egyptian- and French-led efforts to negotiate for the release of an Israeli soldier abducted by Palestinian gunmen in the Gaza Strip have failed, Israeli television ...
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"Hadji Girl" Marine Will Not Be Punished
Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 11:57:52 am PDT
Great news as Cpl. Joshua Belile will not face any punishment for the “Hadji Girl” video: US Marine exonerated for song about killing Iraqis. But notice, as usual, the insanely biased Reuters opening line: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military will not punish a Marine who performed an obscenity-laced song to a ...
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Honor Killing Family Guilty in Denmark
Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 11:45:11 am PDT
Nine members of a Pakistani family in Denmark have been convicted in the “honor” killing of Ghazala Khan. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) The High Court of Eastern Denmark delivered a ‘guilty’ verdict on Tuesday to all nine defendants in the most far-reaching honour killing ever tried in Europe. The verdict is considered ...
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Religion of Peace Urges War
Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 10:34:00 am PDT
The Muslim Brotherhood seems to be trying to get Egypt to declare war on Israel: Gaza attack threat to Egypt national security: Muslim Brotherhood. CAIRO (AFP) - Egypt’s opposition Muslim Brotherhood said that any aggression on the Gaza strip would be “a threat to Egyptian national security,” and called on Egypt ...
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Elephant Not Sighted in Denver
Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 9:28:51 am PDT
Everyone is baffled. Baffled, I say! Shooting spree baffles those close to 22-year-old Ford. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Michael Julius Ford did not drink. He did not smoke. He did not have conflicts with people. He did not run with gangs. He wasn’t moody. He never was known to carry weapons. What isn’t ...
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Palestinian Work Accident Watch
Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 9:01:28 am PDT
One dead in blast near Abbas’ residence. One person was killed and two reported wounded when massive explosion on Tuesday demolished a car traveling near the Gaza City residence of Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas. The blast scattered debris and body parts up to 200 meters away. It was not known who ...
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The Media Are the Enemy
Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 8:42:02 am PDT
Associated Press photographer Wesam Saleh tags along and takes pictures as terrorists set up bombs. And notice the children all around, providing: 1) human shields for the terrorists, and 2) propaganda fodder if the IDF strikes and accidentally kills them or if the bomb explodes prematurely. Palestinian militants set up an explosive ...
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RoP Strikes in Thailand
Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 8:22:03 am PDT
Thai bombs target teacher convoy. Five security officers have been killed by a roadside bomb in Thailand’s south. They were attacked by a group of suspected insurgents, who ambushed them as they were guarding teachers on their way to a school in Yala province. The attack is the latest in a string of ...
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CNN: Taliban Terrorists Are Victims Too
Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 8:12:17 am PDT
In several battles in Afghanistan, Taliban terrorists have taken a serious beating today, and CNN calls them “victims.” (Hat tip: LawHawk.) Victims include 2 UK soldiers, 4 Afghans, 29 Taliban militants.
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Hamas Tells the Truth
Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 8:01:56 am PDT
Hamas tells the truth about the “prisoner’s document,” but mainstream media refuse to listen. GAZA (Reuters) - The governing Hamas movement reached a political agreement on Tuesday with moderate [Hah! —ed.] Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas but said it would continue to refuse to recognize Israel. ... Hamas insisted it was sticking to ...
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Palestinian Terrorists Kidnap Another?
Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 7:29:22 am PDT
The media has a new scapegoat on which to pin Palestinian atrocities: the so-called “Popular Resistance Committees,” a thinly disguised Hamas front group that is claiming to have kidnapped another Israeli in the West Bank: Israeli soldier held in a ‘secure place’. GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - A Palestinian militant leader ...
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AP: NYT Editors Very Puzzled
Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 6:51:51 pm PDT
They’re puzzled. Puzzled, I tell you! Haven’t a clue. Totally in the dark. Complete mystery. Huh? Did you say something? Argument against report puzzles NYT editors. (Hat tip: ciaospirit.) NEW YORK - The New York Times is defending itself from criticism about a report on secret financial monitoring of terrorists, saying it ...
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Monday Link-o-Rama
Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 5:08:57 pm PDT
The Big Pharaoh - On Muslim Silence. Jeff Jacoby - Life in an Islamist US. New Evidence Emerges in Haditha Case. Khobar Towers - The Clinton administration left many stones unturned. Our Blind Spot - Hamas and Saudi Arabia. Cameraman reveals secrets of al-Qa’eda propaganda war. TCS Daily : Podcast with Chris Muir and Michael Yon. Western ...
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Treasury Secretary Snow Answers Bill Keller
Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 4:44:26 pm PDT
From The Corner: Mr. Bill Keller, Managing Editor The New York Times 229 West 43rd Street New York, NY 10036 Dear Mr. Keller: The New York Times’ decision to disclose the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program, a robust and classified effort to map terrorist networks through the use of financial data, was irresponsible and harmful to the ...
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Churchill's Last Stand
Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 4:06:58 pm PDT
The chancellor of the University of Colorado at Boulder has recommended that professor Ward “Little Eichmanns” Churchill be fired. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) I have carefully reviewed the Report of the Investigative Committee, Professor Churchill’s responses to the Committee, and the Recommendations of the Standing Committee on Research Misconduct. I have ...
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RoP in South Thailand
Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 3:20:10 pm PDT
Brutality and fear in southern Thailand. (Hat tip: RadicalRon.) Thailand has become somewhat inured to the daily violence that has claimed more than 1,300 lives over the past two years, a startling death toll in a country that is still much better known for its beaches and massage parlors than its ...
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Breaking: Port Hueneme Closed
Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 2:19:21 pm PDT
Fox News is reporting that a terror threat has caused the closure of Port Hueneme in California’s Ventura County. A message was found in the cargo hold of a Guatemalan ship: This nitro is for you, Mr. George W. Bush and your Jewish cronies.
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Alternet Hatin' On US Military
Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 2:14:11 pm PDT
It’s like Daily Kos with an extra heaping helping of hate, as “progressive” web site Alternet posts the Center for Media and Democracy’s hit piece on the Marine goof-off video “Hadji Girl”—and the commenters proceed to indulge in an orgy of anti-military rhetoric that’s really quite amazing: American Soldiers’ Hatred ...
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Mujahideen World Cup
Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 1:54:46 pm PDT
A slickly produced, utterly depraved jihad video being passed around Islamic web sites, courtesy of MEMRI TV. [Video]
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Iowahawk Locates Keller First Draft
Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 12:53:54 pm PDT
Iowahawk’s team of dumpster-diving cybernetic Saint Bernards has been busy in the alley behind 43rd Street, and they’ve unearthed the first draft of New York Times editor Bill Keller’s patient explanation for the Times’ repeated exposure of secret security programs: The Banking Report: Let Me Make It Simple For You ...
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Palestinians Demonstrate in Favor of Kidnapping
Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 11:55:07 am PDT
Palestinians turn their children out onto the streets to support murder and kidnapping: Supporters of the Islamic Hamas movement and relatives of Palestinian prisoners being held in Israeli jails hold up a banner that reads, “We refuse to release the Israeli soldier while our sons are still in the Israeli Prisons” ...
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Stop the ISM Gets Results
Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 11:40:20 am PDT
The Western enablers of Palestinian terrorism known as the International Solidarity Movement (Rachel Corrie’s fellow travelers) have been suffering some major setbacks recently; details are at Stop The ISM.
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The Saddam-UN Connection
Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 10:04:20 am PDT
This will be a story to watch, as the links between former UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros Ghali and Saddam Hussein are aired in court. LINKS between Boutros Boutros Ghali, the former UN Secretary-General, and an alleged agent for Saddam Hussein will come under the spotlight when the first American trial ...
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President Bush: NY Times "Disgraceful"
Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 9:44:54 am PDT
President Bush is angry with the New York Times, and Hot Air has video: Bush calls Times’s expose “disgraceful.”
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Palestinian Kidnappers Issue Demands
Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 8:57:58 am PDT
The Palestinian terrorist government that kidnapped a wounded Israeli soldier has issued their demands: Palestinian militants issue demands over hostage. GAZA (Reuters) - Palestinian militant groups that carried out an attack in Israel in which a soldier was abducted issued a series of demands on Monday but stopped short of confirming ...
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Protest at Los Angeles 9/11 Hijackers' Mosque
Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 8:23:11 am PDT
Last Friday a vigil and protest was held at the Saudi-funded King Fahd Mosque in Culver City, Los Angeles. FreeRepublic has a report with photographs: Vigil/Protest at the Culver City Mosque. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Their report contains an allegation that the King Fahd Mosque has constructed a tunnel below the ...
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LA Times: The Decider
Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 8:02:58 am PDT
Patterico transcribes an interview with LA Times Washington Bureau Chief Doyle McManus about why they chose to reveal the secret SWIFT intelligence program—and although McManus’s intent is obviously to put the best spin possible on the story that has outraged so many Americans, his answers are incredibly revealing of the ...
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A Muslim Constitution in Europe
Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 7:52:23 am PDT
Danish LGF reader Ulf translated this jaw-dropping report that the European Council for Fatwa and Research, a Muslim Brotherhood front group led by Tariq Ramadan and Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, is working on a special constitution for European Muslims—that will be “above national legislation.” Europe is turning into Eurabia before our ...
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Sunday Night Ocean
Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 9:20:28 pm PDT
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MPACUK Supports Hamas Terror Attack
Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 8:42:24 pm PDT
This is how the UK’s Muslim Public Affairs Committee describes the Palestinian terror attack and kidnapping inside Israel: MPACUK - Palestinian’s Retaliate for Recent Massacres. (Hat tip: Eric.) A deadly attack on an Israeli Army post near the Gaza Strip on Sunday was a message to Israel to stop killing civilians, ...
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Moonbat Media Launches
Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 7:47:19 pm PDT
LGF operative Nordish has started a new site (sort of a British version of zombietime), called Moonbat Media. I like the name. His first photo report documents the British human rights group Liberty and their demonstration against CIA rendition flights outside the American Embassy in London, Grosvenor Square: Demo Against ...
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Islam's Long History of Tolerance
Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 5:54:06 pm PDT
Hussam Ayloush of the radical Islamist front group CAIR has yet another piece of propaganda, published by the Orange County Register, with all of the standard excuses, lies, and historical distortions: The truth about Islam. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Islam’s long history of tolerance speaks for itself. After more than 14 ...
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Islamists Direct Britain's Terror Debate
Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 4:37:57 pm PDT
Here’s Michael Gove, on the insane, suicidal political correctness that has hobbled Britain’s response to the July 7 bombings, as the most virulent Islamist front groups have been treated as if they were immune from criticism: To allow Islamists to direct the post-7/7 debate was a disaster. THE BRITISH State has ...
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Palestinians Threaten Chem/Bio Attacks
Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 4:19:59 pm PDT
The Palestinian terror gang Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades (the suicide bomber wing of Fatah) now says they have chemical and biological weapons. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) They’re asking to be smacked. Hard. The Aksa Martyrs Brigades announced on Sunday that its members have succeeded in manufacturing chemical and biological weapons. In a leaflet ...
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WaPo Whitewashes JihadTV
Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 4:11:45 pm PDT
The Washington Post runs an unbelievable whitewash of Al Jazeera today, by former Nightline producer Joanne Levine (now a shill for JihadTV), with the headline howler of the week: Al-Jazeera, as American as Apple Pie. Many Americans automatically think “terrorist TV,” or “Osama bin Laden’s network.” They see al-Jazeera, the Arabic-language ...
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Murtha: US More Dangerous Than N. Korea, Iran
Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 10:23:30 am PDT
Murtha says U.S. poses top threat to world peace. (Hat tip: Sweetness & Light.) MIAMI — American presence in Iraq is more dangerous to world peace than nuclear threats from North Korea or Iran, Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., said to an audience of more than 200 in North Miami Saturday afternoon. Murtha ...
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Global Jihad Sets Up Shop in Somalia
Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 10:15:37 am PDT
Somalia is fast becoming a full-fledged Al Qaeda state: Suspected al-Qaida aide leads Somali group. MOGADISHU, Somalia - A fundamentalist Muslim who is listed by the U.S. State Department as a suspected al-Qaida collaborator was named Saturday as the new leader of an Islamic militia that has seized control of Somalia’s ...
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Celebration of Islam Scheduled for 7/7
Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 9:18:11 am PDT
For the anniversary of the London Islamic terror attacks, a huge festival is planned to promote Islam, featuring a cast of radical Islamic superstars and their Western enablers including “Red Ken” Livingstone, Tariq Ramadan, Azzam Timimi, Yvonne Ridley, and many more: IslamExpo. (Hat tip: kasper.) The impressive list of speakers features ...
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Breaking: Explosion at Turkish Resort
Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 8:52:46 am PDT
Explosion rocks Turkish resort: agency. ISTANBUL (Reuters) - An explosion rocked a tourist area near the southern Turkish resort of Antalya and injured some people, state-run Anatolian news agency reported on Sunday. The cause of the explosion was not known. Kurdish separatists, leftist and Islamist militants have all carried out bomb attacks ...
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The Attack of the Nuclear Disarmament Clowns
Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 8:44:00 am PDT
Ladies, gentlemen, and lizardoids, I give you ... the American left: Clowns Sabotage Nuke Missile. On Tuesday morning, a retired Catholic priest and two veterans put on clown suits, busted into a nuclear missile launch facility, and began beating the silo cover with hammers, in an attempt to take the Minuteman ...
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Free Speech vs. Hate Speech
Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 8:17:24 am PDT
At Shire Network News, Meryl Yourish put together an audio recording featuring the sinister, threatening rant at UC Irvine by Amir Abdel Malik Ali (“free speech” according to CAIR), interspersed with clips from the “Hadji Girl” video (“hate speech” according to CAIR): Shire Network News at BlogMatrix.
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Palestinians Attack IDF Post, Kidnap Injured Soldier
Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 8:07:25 am PDT
Palestinian terrorists attacked an IDF post inside Israel near the southern Gaza Strip early this morning, killing two soldiers and kidnapping a third who is seriously injured: Halutz: Abducted soldier alive. IDF chief of staff Lieutenant-General Dan Halutz said during a press conference at Kibbutz Kerem Shalom that “as far as ...
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Saturday Night Trail
Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 9:47:07 pm PDT
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The Kingpin and His Little Kos Peeps
Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 9:33:42 pm PDT
An illustration from LGF reader The Fountainhead, for the David Brooks article on Markos Moulitsas “Screw Them” Zuniga: The Keyboard Kingpin, aka Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, sits at his computer, fires up his Web site, Daily Kos, and commands his followers, who come across like squadrons of rabid lambs, to unleash their ...
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CAIR Complaining to FBI About Blogs
Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 6:25:33 pm PDT
The Council on American-Islamic Relations has begun filing complaints with the FBI about comments on this blog and others (not front page posts). I know this because I’ve spoken with two different agents recently about LGF comments that were reported to the FBI by CAIR. Just thought you might like to ...
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David Brooks vs. Daily Kos
Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 5:50:03 pm PDT
One of the only sane voices at the New York Times, David Brooks, does a deadly accurate character study of Markos Moulitsas “Screw Them” Zuniga in tomorrow’s edition, according to Raw Story: NY Times columnist Brooks attacks ‘Kingpin’ of Daily Kos. In Sunday’s paper, conservative New York Times columnist David Brooks ...
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New York Times Publishes More Classified Info
Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 5:12:22 pm PDT
I don’t even know what to say. The New York Times is a rogue agent, completely out of control: U.S. General in Iraq Outlines Troop Cuts. (Hat tip: roddy.) WASHINGTON, June 24 — The top American commander in Iraq has drafted a plan that projects sharp reductions in the United States ...
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Why Are Muslims Silent on Terrorism?
Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 3:23:36 pm PDT
Here’s an eye-opening article from the Associated Press, who have suddenly noticed the question sane people have been asking for years: Why are European Muslims silent on Islamic terrorism? (Hat tip: LGF readers.) AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - Europe’s Muslims have remained largely silent in the face of terrorist attacks that have ...
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Progressives "Supporting" the Troops Again
Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 1:57:39 pm PDT
Here’s another “progressive” web site absolutely horrified at the “Hadji Girl” song, and even more horrified that LGF would (gasp!) defend it: Hadji Girl - Center for Media and Democracy. A typical paragraph: It would be a mistake to imagine that the casual brutality of “Hadji Girl” is coming from people ...
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MyDD Sanitizes Archives
Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 8:57:48 am PDT
Wizbang has caught the MyDD crowd going through their blog archives and removing all references to astrology, following the revelation that Kos partner Jerome Armstrong had a career as an astrologist: Jerome Armstrong’s Nutroots. Hmm. This sounds familiar.
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The Tariq Ramadan Case
Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 8:20:23 am PDT
Radical Islamic propaganda site IslamOnline really wants Tariq Ramadan to get into the United States. And a US federal judge is helping them: US Judge Slams Foot-dragging on Scholar Visa. (Hat tip: sr_soph.) NEW YORK — A US federal judge issued on Friday, June 23, a three-month deadline for the Bush ...
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Guardian Lies About Palestinian Big Lie
Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 8:08:09 am PDT
Guardian Palestinian propagandist Chris McGreal isn’t stupid. He knows the “prisoner’s document” does not recognize Israel’s right to exist, and that it never mentions the phrase “two-state solution.” McGreal is simply lying about it, to make it seem as if Hamas is doing an about-face. Hamas has made a major political ...
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New York Times Aids Al Qaeda
Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 7:51:14 am PDT
Investor’s Business Daily says the actions of the New York Times and other papers, exposing secret national security programs in wartime, are inexcusable. (Hat tip: Newsbeat1.) Now the same Times reporters, Eric Lichtblau and James Risen, are back with the SWIFT story. They took a lot of flak for the NSA ...
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Irish Moonbat "Arrests" US Soldiers
Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 7:38:10 am PDT
Now sit right back and you’ll hear a tale, a tale of a self-righteous moonbat. When an Irish “anti-war” activist spied some US soldiers walking around in their uniforms, hilarity ensued. SIX United States soldiers on their way home from service in Iraq were placed under citizen’s arrest after an anti-war ...
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Friday Night Fence
Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 9:27:11 pm PDT
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Martin Peretz Takes Kos to School
Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 6:24:22 pm PDT
The New Republic’s owner demonstrates why TNR is one of the few remaining relatively intellectually honest outlets for “liberal” ideas (and why I still read it, unlike, say, The Nation): A Message from TNR’s Lieberman-Loving Neocon Owner. (Hat tip: RadicalRon.) Forgive me. But I never read Daily Kos until today. Well, ...
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Economist: Don't Fear Eurabia
Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 6:10:13 pm PDT
The Economist says this “Eurabia” bother, although slightly vexing, is really nothing to worry about and can easily be fixed by deregulating Europe’s labor markets: Tales from Eurabia. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Is Eurabia really something to worry about? The concept includes a string of myths and a couple of hard ...
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Cox & Forkum: Soldier's Burden
Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 5:41:06 pm PDT
(From Cox & Forkum Editorial Cartoons.)
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Krauthammer: Why I Love Australia
Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 5:32:00 pm PDT
Charles Krauthammer has a great column on America’s staunchest ally: Why I Love Australia. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) WASHINGTON — In the Australian House of Representatives last month, opposition member Julia Gillard interrupted a speech by the minister of health thusly: “I move that that sniveling grub over there be not ...
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Luckovich Replies
Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 3:35:19 pm PDT
Atlanta Journal-Constitution cartoonist Mike Luckovich responds to the revulsion most viewers expressed for his latest anti-military work: mike’s take on the torture cartoon. His response has the same bumper-sticker moral equivalence as his cartoon. if we want to succeed in iraq, we have to remember that our most powerful weapon, greater than ...
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Palestinian Medical Practices
Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 3:29:49 pm PDT
Augean Stables looks at the Gaza beach bombing incident and its similarities to the Mohammed al-Dura affair: Palestinian Medical Practices and Mark Garlasco’s Beggared Imagination.
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Anti-Israel Divestment Collapses
Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 1:57:42 pm PDT
After covering the efforts of the leftist-dominated Presbyterian Church to divest from firms doing business with Israel, it’s gratifying to note this American Spectator report: Anti-Israel Divestment Collapses. WASHINGTON — The movement to divest in firms doing business in Israel is collapsing. Even leftist-governed mainline Protestant denominations are backing away from ...
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We Got Mail from the Muslim Brotherhood
Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 1:28:26 pm PDT
Today a visitor from Egypt discovered LGF by searching the Egyptian version of Google (yes, there’s an Egyptian Google) for “muslim brotherhood,” which led him to this LGF post: The Truth About the Muslim Brotherhood. This prompted our Egyptian reader to send the following message through our contact form, assuring us ...
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Hamas: Islam Will Conquer US and Britain
Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 11:28:02 am PDT
From Palestinian Media Watch, a video posted at a Hamas web site shows terrorist leader Yasser Ghalban, killed last week by Palestinians in internal fighting, talking about the wider Palestinian Islamic ideology: to conquer and subjugate the world under Islam. [Video] We will rule the nations, by Allah’s will, the USA will ...
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Pew Survey: World's Muslims in Denial About 9/11
Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 10:35:47 am PDT
The New York Times does their best to shill for moral equivalence, in their report on a new Pew survey that finds majorities of the world’s Muslims are in the grip of conspiracy theory derangement: Muslims ‘Still in Denial’ About 9/11, Pew Survey Finds. But who are we to judge? They ...
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Turkish Hate Film to Be Shown at Bay Area Muslim Film Festival
Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 10:08:20 am PDT
The San Jose Mercury News has a short article about a Muslim Film Festival being held Saturday, July 29 in Fremont. (Hat tip: sharkman.) The second Bay Area Muslim Film Festival is being held Saturday at the Naz8 Cinema in Fremont, featuring films that explore diverse images of Islam. One of ...
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Swedish Journalist Murdered at Islamist Rally in Somalia
Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 9:32:07 am PDT
Swedish journalist slain in Somali capital, security fears mount. MOGADISHU (AFP) - A Swedish journalist was shot and killed in the Somali capital while attending a mass demonstration organized by the Islamic courts union that seized the city this month after fierce battles. Witnesses said Friday an unknown gunman shot the journalist, ...
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The Scrum of the Incredibly Strange Fully Garbed Iranian Female Rugby Trainees
Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 9:26:11 am PDT
Wearing Islamic scarves, Iranian women, play rugby during a training session at the Azadi (freedom) sport complex, in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, June 22, 2006. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi) (Hat tip: zombie.)
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Palestinian Terrorists Call a Press Conference
Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 8:37:05 am PDT
The “armed wing” of Hamas joined the “loosely affiliated with Fatah” Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and the “armed wing” of Islamic Jihad (huh?) today, and called a press conference to threaten more mass murder. Time to rewrite another headline: Palestinian terrorists scream for revenge. RAMALLAH, West Bank (AFP) - Palestinian militant ...
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Saudi Terror Cell Raid
Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 8:10:00 am PDT
Saudi Arabia claims to have raided an Islamic terror cell in Riyadh, killing six; AKI reports the cell was linked to online propaganda. (Hat tip: sr_soph.) Riyadh, 23 June (AKI) - The discovery by Saudi police of an alleged al-Qaeda terrorist cell in the capital Riyadh has also led to ...
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Update: Miami Terror Arrests
Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 7:09:58 am PDT
The Islamic terror suspects arrested yesterday in Miami intended to launch an attack “as good or greater than 9/11:” Indictment: Suspects wanted to ‘kill all the devils we can’. MIAMI, Florida (CNN) — A federal indictment against seven men revealed Friday details of what the government said was a plan intended to ...
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The Media Are the Enemy
Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 7:05:20 am PDT
The New York Times blows open another secret program: Bank Data Is Sifted by U.S. in Secret to Block Terror. Well, it isn’t “secret” any more, is it? WASHINGTON, June 22 — Under a secret Bush administration program initiated weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks, counterterrorism officials have gained access to financial ...
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Saddam's Hunger Strike
Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 6:59:19 am PDT
Is it still a hunger strike if you only miss lunch? Saddam ends hunger strike after missing one meal. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Saddam Hussein ended a brief hunger strike after missing just one meal in his U.S.-run prison, a U.S. military spokesman said Friday. The former Iraqi leader ...
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Huffington Post Blocks Whistleblower
Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 8:56:47 pm PDT
Markos Moulitsas isn’t the only moonbat blogger on the spot tonight, as one of the Huffington Post bloggers charges that the Post’s technology manager was trolling his own site: Huffington Post blogger blocked. (Hat tip: ben_nur.) Influential website the Huffington Post tried to ban one of its bloggers after he discovered ...
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Thursday Night Beach
Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 8:47:16 pm PDT
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Breaking: Terror Arrests in Miami
Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 4:56:03 pm PDT
Terror Suspects Arrested In Miami Housing Project. (AP) MIAMI — After an operation that started about four months ago, the FBI has arrested several suspects of domestic terrorism in a Miami low-income housing project. The arrests took place Thursday afternoon at the Scott Housing Projects in the area of NW 68th street ...
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Rachel Corrie Exploiters Relentless
Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 4:11:21 pm PDT
The Rachel Corrie exploiters never stop trying to push her story into the mainstream, or at least the hagiography they want gullible people to believe: Controversial Mideast play to be performed in NY. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) NEW YORK (Reuters) - A play about an American human rights activist who died ...
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Daily Kos: The Townhouse Affair
Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 1:56:24 pm PDT
At TNR’s The Plank, Jason Zengerle has another update to the Ko$ola Kontroversy, with much more about the leftist blogosphere’s coordinating committee, the private email list called “Townhouse.” I’ve noticed on many occasions that all the lefty blogs will suddenly go into lockstep, echoing the same talking points, whenever a breaking ...
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Palestinian Terrorist Sues Britain for Not Protecting Him
Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 8:46:32 am PDT
The definition of chutzpah: Palestinian terrorist sues UK gov’t. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) A Palestinian terrorist leader held by Israel filed a lawsuit against the British government for pulling wardens out of a West Bank prison that was later stormed by Israeli forces, his lawyer said Wednesday. Attorney Kate Maynard said she ...
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Kofi Annan Shills for Iran
Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 8:10:32 am PDT
Iran seriously considering offer: Annan. GENEVA (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Thursday that Iran’s foreign minister had told him Tehran was seriously considering an offer of incentives aimed at defusing a row over its nuclear program. The United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany have offered Iran incentives, ...
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Kos: Betrayed by the New Republic
Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 7:45:30 am PDT
Stand back! He’s gonna sue! Daily Kos: TNR’s defection to the Right is now complete. People talk about the need for the left to work together and have a unified message in the face of a unified conservative noise machine. So a google group was created called “Townhouse”, and it included ...
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International Red Cross Accepts Israel
Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 7:28:44 am PDT
After 60 years of foot-dragging and cowardice by the Red Cross, today Israel’s Magen David Adom has been allowed into the organization: Israeli, Palestinian relief groups join Red Cross. GENEVA (Reuters) - The Red Cross and Red Crescent humanitarian movement accorded membership on Thursday to the Israeli and Palestinian relief organizations, ...
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Radical British Imam Invited to Toronto
Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 9:20:13 pm PDT
A radical British imam will visit Toronto, at the invitation of a Scarborough mosque, and the Toronto Star does their level best to whitewash his hate speech and history of extremism: Imam’s visit raises concerns. A charismatic British imam who has been accused of publicly vilifying Hindus, Jews and liberal ...
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Wednesday Night Kayak
Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 8:43:03 pm PDT
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Surviving the Farkalanche
Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 7:37:34 pm PDT
Well, we had a Farkalanche today and remained online. Got a bit sluggish when the link first went up on the Fark.com front page, and PHP started acting cranky, but the server never crashed. Dedicated servers are a beautiful thing.
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Luckovich Anti-Military Cartoon
Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 7:12:07 pm PDT
Atlanta Journal-Constitution cartoonist Mike Luckovich gets way out ahead of the “progressive” anti-military curve with this despicable cartoon: Pot to kettle. Lizardoids: note presence of poll.
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Palestinian Terrorists Responsible for More Civilian Deaths
Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 5:35:33 pm PDT
I’m going to start rewriting biased, morally bankrupt MSM headlines like this one (hover over the link to see AFP’s version, or click if you don’t mind being subjected to a barrage of badly written propaganda): Palestinian human shields killed, terrorists escape. The reason for these air strikes: UPDATE at 6/21/06 6:09:19 ...
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WAMY Kids' Camps: "On This Day of Jihad, Are You Miserly with Your Blood?"
Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 5:01:47 pm PDT
As a followup to our item earlier today about CAIR and the World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY), Rod Dreher shares some WAMY promotional literature about their Islamic camps for children: Fun at jihad summer camp. This item sent me to my files, where I pulled out a WAMY pamphlet called ...
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500 Sarin, Mustard Gas Shells Confirmed in Iraq
Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 4:19:26 pm PDT
Oh, by the way ... there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq: Document Details WMD Recovered In Iraq, Santorum Says. (CNSNews.com) - Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) and Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich.) announced Wednesday the finding of over 500 munitions or weapons of mass destruction, specifically “sarin- and mustard-filled projectiles,” in ...
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Saudi Billionaire Prince's Hate TV
Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 4:12:25 pm PDT
Earlier this year, billionaire Saudi prince Al-Waleed bin Talal Abd Al-Aziz launched a new satellite TV channel, Al-Resalah, to “project Islam as a religion of moderation and tolerance.” Today in the New York Sun, Steven Stalinsky of MEMRI looks at the kind of moderate, tolerant messages that are being broadcast ...
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UNC Jihadi Will Plead Guilty
Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 3:40:39 pm PDT
Mohammed Taheri-Azar, who drove a rented SUV into a crowd of students at UNC-Chapel Hill intending to kill as many as possible “to avenge Muslim deaths around the world,” is planning to plead guilty. (Hat tip: Confederate Yankee.) HILLSBOROUGH — The man accused of driving a rented SUV onto the UNC ...
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Daily Kos Directs Followers to Keep Mouths Shut
Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 3:25:29 pm PDT
The talk of the blogosphere is the Ko$ola Kontroversy, in which Markos Moulitsas and his partner Jerome Armstrong are alleged to be running a pay-for-play scheme: hire Armstrong as a consultant and get the support of Kos. Uh, well, it’s the talk of the right-leaning blogosphere, that is. Because Markos directed ...
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Zombie: Israel Haters in SF
Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 2:31:14 pm PDT
A new zombietime photo report has just been released on an unsuspecting world, showing the festivities as the Israel-haters turn out in San Francisco for the ’Stop the Killing of Palestinian Children’ rally, Berkeley, June 20, 2006.
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Melanie Phillips vs. MPACUK
Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 1:54:42 pm PDT
Melanie Phillips calmly faces down an angry nutjob from the UK's Muslim Public Affairs Committee (MPACUK), who makes excuses for terrorism and rants that Muslim voices aren't being heard even as he monopolizes the interview. The amazing thing is that MPACUK put this video online themselves--and they actually seem to think ...
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Flying Pig Sighted
Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 11:20:04 am PDT
Europeans back Bush on Iran, North Korea.
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CAIR, WAMY Announce $50M Propaganda Effort
Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 10:48:30 am PDT
The Arab News reports on a press conference in Saudi Arabia at the headquarters of the World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY), founded by the nephew of Osama bin Laden in the US, and under investigation since 1999 for links to terrorist groups including Hamas. Attending this meeting were antisemitic ex-Congressman ...
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Aussie Muslims Give Big to Suspects' Families
Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 9:54:10 am PDT
Australian Muslims turned out for a fundraiser for 13 Melbourne terror suspects, and donated more than $50,000 for the suspects’ families—even though the families are already receiving more than a million dollars in government handouts: Muslims give big to suspects’ families. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) A HARDLINE Islamic organisation has helped ...
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Paris Imam Arrested for Money Laundering
Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 9:16:28 am PDT
A well-known Paris imam has been arrested, along with 20 members of his family, for laundering money for terrorists. (Hat tip: Robert.) PARIS — The arrest of Daw Meskine, Secretary General of the French Council for Imams, and his son on suspicion of money laundering activities linked to a “terrorist” organization ...
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Two Flavors of Hatred at Toronto Terror Mosque
Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 9:01:09 am PDT
Jihad propaganda was being distributed openly at the Scarborough mosque where several of the Canadian terror suspects met: Video distributed outside mosque praised 9/11. TORONTO — A video lionizing the 9/11 hijackers as martyrs for Islam was distributed outside a Scarborough mosque by the alleged ringleader of a bomb plot against ...
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Human Rights Watch Enables Palestinian Propaganda
Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 8:10:02 am PDT
Contrary to yesterday’s report, the anti-Israel, anti-America, George Soros-funded Human Rights Watch is not backing down on their claims about the Gaza beach bombing. In fact, they’re stepping up their attacks: Rights group says Israel beach death probe not credible. JERUSALEM (AFP) - A US-based rights group has accused Israel of ...
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Victims of the Palestinian Death Cult
Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 7:48:55 am PDT
Palestinians screaming for revenge again: Palestinians vow revenge for kids’ deaths. GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Hundreds of mourners shouted for revenge Wednesday at the funeral for three Palestinian children killed in a botched Israeli missile strike. Israelis, meanwhile, debated the effectiveness of targeting wanted militants from the air as Palestinian ...
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Terror Mosque in Queens
Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 7:35:08 am PDT
New information links one of the Islamic terrorists who perpetrated the 7/7 mass murder in London to a mosque in Queens, New York: British suicide bomber ‘in link to New York mosque’. (Hat tip: sr_soph.) AN AMERICAN al-Qaeda operative who was a close associate of the leader of the July 7 ...
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CBS: China, Japan, What's the Difference
Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 9:04:30 pm PDT
Professional journalistic standards are on display tonight at CBS News, where they don’t seem to know the difference between China and Japan: China Plans To Land On Moon By 2024, Top Scientist Says Mission Will Include Walk On Lunar Surface. (Hat tip: louminatti.) UPDATE at 6/21/06 6:55:55 am: Several readers have pointed ...
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Think Progress Hopes for Failure
Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 7:48:07 pm PDT
Think Progress hopes the US missile defense system fails: Administration Responds to North Korea Missile Stunt With Missile Defense Stunt. (Hat tip: Motleygunner.) Really. That’s what they wrote. The North Korean test is a political stunt designed to grab some attention. The same can be said of the decision to activate the ...
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PA Doctors Cut Victim Needlessly
Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 6:25:34 pm PDT
Not only did Palestinian doctors dig out every bit of reachable shrapnel from the victims of the Gaza beach explosion, they were apparently in such a rush (“militants” standing over their shoulders, perhaps?) to remove the evidence before turning the victims over to Israel (to save their lives) that they ...
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The Net Neutrality Debate
Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 5:59:20 pm PDT
I admit I’m conflicted on the “net neutrality” debate and having a hard time deciding which side to back. I’m in favor of internet innovation and capitalism, but feel slightly queasy about trusting cable/telco companies not to abuse the power of a “tiered services” internet. Here are two pretty good summations ...
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Daily Kos: "We've Lost the Moral High Ground"
Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 5:09:53 pm PDT
Here’s rising Democratic star Markos Moulitsas “Screw Them” Zuniga on the torture, mutilation, and murder of two US soldiers: Daily Kos: Midday open thread. There’s a reason the Geneva Conventions exist. We’ve lost the moral high ground. What a fucking waste of a war.
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Murdered Soldiers Were Booby-Trapped
Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 3:45:57 pm PDT
These two soldiers made the ultimate sacrifice, confronting an enemy whose barbarity knows no bounds. We solemnly honor their service, and express our condolences to their families in this time of grief. And we should not ignore or look away from the depth of the depravity of the enemy. This is ...
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Got Another Big Al Qaeda Fish
Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 3:32:50 pm PDT
Candygram for Mansur Suleiman al-Mashhadani: US troops kill Zarqawi’s ‘right-hand man’. (Hat tip: Sugiero.) The US military says it has killed the “right-hand man” of slain Al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Major General William Caldwell says Iraqi Mansur Suleiman al-Mashhadani was killed on Friday by US forces in Yusifiyah, ...
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Turkey's Anti-American Pop Culture
Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 1:50:27 pm PDT
At Slate, Richard Morgan has a piece on the rise of virulently anti-American popular entertainment in Turkey: Turkey’s anti-American pop culture. (Hat tip: Fjordman.) Allies aren’t supposed to behave like this. In Turkey—a stable secular Muslim democracy that’s practically European—the country’s biggest-budget-ever movie, Valley of the Wolves: Iraq, is preparing to ...
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US Activates Missile Defense
Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 8:57:37 am PDT
Note to Kim Jong-Il: US makes missile defense system operational. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has moved its ground-based interceptor missile defense system from test mode to operational amid concerns over an expected North Korean missile launch, a U.S. defense official said on Tuesday. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, ...
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Canadian PM: The Answer is More of the Same
Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 8:39:23 am PDT
Unbelievable. And this was Canada’s “extreme right-wing” candidate for Prime Minister in the last election. Stephen Harper says the answer to the threat of unassimilated immigrants who preach hatred and plot murder is ... lots more immigration. (Hat tip: mich-again.) VANCOUVER — Prime Minister Stephen Harper issued a ringing defence of cultural ...
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Islamic Nations Block Israel from Red Cross
Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 8:16:34 am PDT
Despite Israel’s acceptance of an insultingly PC logo, following almost 60 years of foot-dragging and cowardice from the Red Cross, Islamic nations are blocking Israel’s membership once again: New Red Cross emblem hits snag. An attempt to end Israel’s long isolation from the Red Cross humanitarian movement hit a snag Tuesday ...
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Worst Idea of the Century
Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 7:46:49 am PDT
Pinch me. I must be having a nightmare. Saudis Offered Scholarships for Aviation Courses in US. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) JEDDAH, 20 June 2006 — The Ministry of Higher Education and the General Authority of Civil Aviation are offering scholarships to Saudi men and women to study various majors related to civil aviation ...
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Daily Kos: "How Quaint"
Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 7:39:44 am PDT
Two US soldiers kidnapped in Iraq have been found: Bodies of missing U.S. soldiers recovered. BAGHDAD, Iraq - The bodies of two U.S. soldiers reported captured last week have been recovered, and an Iraqi official said Tuesday the men were “killed in a barbaric way.” Al-Qaida in Iraq claimed responsibility for ...
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Monday Night Ocean
Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 8:51:30 pm PDT
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Egyptian Statue Fatwa Bears Fruit
Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 8:43:09 pm PDT
In April the most senior Islamic jurist in Egypt issued a fatwa forbidding statues of any kind. Now the first Islamist attack on Egyptian statues has occurred—and the perpetrator is a woman: Statue attack fuels fears of an Islamist Egypt. A religiously motivated attack on statues at a museum in Cairo ...
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Guardian Profiles Melanie Phillips
Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 6:22:21 pm PDT
Even by the Guardian’s low standards, this is an amazingly condescending and petty piece on Melanie Phillips and her book Londonistan: Jackie Ashley meets Melanie Phillips. Multiculturalism, she writes, “has become the driving force of British life, ruthlessly policed by a state-financed army of local and national bureaucrats enforcing a doctrine ...
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Human Rights Watch Backs Down
Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 3:57:32 pm PDT
After initially leaping to the conclusion that Israeli artillery was responsible for the explosion that killed several Palestinians on a Gaza beach, Human Rights Watch and their “military expert” Marc Garlasco are now backtracking: Human Rights Watch admits unable to contradict IDF. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) While sticking to its demand ...
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Islamic Extremism "Prevalent" in Toronto
Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 2:14:04 pm PDT
A Toronto Muslim who worked in a shelter in Scarborough, Ontario, and knew some of the suspects in the Canadian Jihad case, says extremism is prevalent in the Toronto area. He should know. He says he was an extremist himself, but he’s all better now. A Toronto-area man who knew some of ...
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Ghana Football Association Apologizes
Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 12:55:58 pm PDT
Many were surprised and pleased when a player for the Ghanaian soccer team waved an Israeli flag during World Cup victory celebrations. Others were surprised and not happy at all. Today the Ghana Football Association issued an abject apology to the world’s Israel-haters: Ghana FA apologizes for Israeli flag. (Hat tip: LGF ...
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Khomeini's Grandson Calls for US to Overthrow Iran
Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 12:02:34 pm PDT
The grandson of the Ayatollah Khomeini has called for the US to intervene in Iran. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) The grandson of Ayatollah Khomeini, the inspiration of Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution, has broken a three-year silence to back the United States military to overthrow the country’s clerical regime. Hossein Khomeini’s call is ...
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Worst Marchers Ever
Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 10:28:32 am PDT
Palestinian trainees from the Fatah Movement march during training at a camp near Gaza City, Sunday, June 18, 2006. Fatah strongman Mohammed Dahlan has recruited 4,000 Fatah loyalists to his security forces in the volatile Gaza Strip, Israeli media reported. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)
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AP Jawdropper of the Day
Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 9:45:20 am PDT
A 20-year old man goes on MySpace.com and talks a 16-year old girl into running away from home to meet him. The usual media treatment of stories like this is to portray the man as a sexual predator, and rightly so. But because in this case the predator is a Palestinian, ...
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Italy Wants to Indict US Soldier
Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 9:21:39 am PDT
Italian prosecutors are trying to charge a US soldier with murder, in the Giuliana Sgrena (lgf: search) checkpoint incident: American GI’s indictment sought in Italy. (Hat tip: Ward Cleaver.) ROME - Prosecutors have requested the indictment of a U.S. soldier over the shooting of an Italian intelligence agent at a checkpoint ...
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Palestinians Attack School Bus
Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 8:59:03 am PDT
Three wounded in shooting near Ofra. MDA reported that a school bus carrying a group of 16-year old girls was making its way Monday afternoon to the Ofra settlement near Jerusalem when shots were fired at the bus from the direction of the neighboring Arab village of Kafr Sinjil. An MDA paramedic ...
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Forked Tongue
Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 8:34:05 am PDT
(From Cox & Forkum Editorial Cartoons.)
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Human Rights Watch Comes to Aid of Radical Islamists
Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 8:16:08 am PDT
The George Soros-funded NGO Human Rights Watch, always eager to come to the aid of terrorists and their enablers, is condemning the Jordanian government for arresting four MPs who expressed support for (in HRW’s words) “alleged” terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi: Jordan: Rise in Arrests Restricting Free Speech. (Hat tip: Gateway ...
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Talk, Walk, and Rock with Israel in Boston
Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 10:24:48 pm PDT
A great photo essay on the Talk, Walk, and Rock with Israel rally, in Boston’s Copley Square, at Solomonia. The anti-war, anti-Israel, anti-America, pro-beheading crowd showed up as usual: UPDATE at 6/18/06 10:31:29 pm: LGF reader Gaby posts about the Boston Celebrates Israel event.
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Aussie Terrorist Convicted
Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 10:03:42 pm PDT
In Australia, Faheem Khalid Lodhi has been convicted of three Islamic terror-related charges: Lodhi guilty of terror plot. A man accused of planning to blow up the national electricity grid or a Sydney defence site has been found guilty of serious terror offences. Faheem Khalid Lodhi, 36, is the first person in ...
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Whittle: Rafts
Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 9:46:01 pm PDT
Bill Whittle pulls together many disparate threads in his long-awaited new essay (also the introduction to a new book): RAFTS.
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Islamists Launch Offensive in Thailand
Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 8:45:19 pm PDT
Seventy-two bomb attacks in the past two days in southern Thailand, according to AKI: Indonesian militant arrested over bomb attacks. (Hat tip: Fjordman.) Seventy-two coordinated attacks by Islamic terrorists, and not a single word in Western media. Bangkok, 16 June (AKI) - Police in the southern Thai city of Narathiwat have arrested ...
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We Got Stats
Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 6:52:49 pm PDT
I was reading Dean Barnett’s excellent account of the political boat anchor known as the left-wing blogosphere, and this section got my attention: The blogosphere’s growth has flat-lined, and in many cases shrunk. Last October, the Daily Kos had approximately 23 million visitors. By last month, the number had sunk to ...
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British Euphemism Watch: "Positive Discrimination"
Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 6:20:50 pm PDT
The chairman of the British Commission for Racial Equality is in favor of “positive discrimination” to increase the number of Muslims in the police force: Race law update needed, Phillips. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Britain’s race laws need updating to help in the battle against terrorism, the chairman of the Commission ...
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Kos: Proud of "Screw Them"
Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 4:41:13 pm PDT
Expose the Left has video of Markos Moulitsas “Screw Them” Zuniga appearing on CNN’s Reliable Sources, offering the lamest possible excuse for his foul comment about murdered US citizens: Kos: Republicans Upset About “Screw Them” Remark Because It Got People “Engaged In Politics”. KURTZ: Now as you know, “National Review’s” Byron ...
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Hamas is Buying Weapons "Like Crazy"
Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 4:06:38 pm PDT
As the international community wails about the desperate plight of the “cash-starved” Palestinian people, arms dealers in the PA can’t keep up with the demand for tools of violence: Palestinian Chaos Spreads. A Palestinian arms dealer in Ramallah, who wished to remain anonymous as he offered to sell NEWSWEEK an unsolicited ...
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A War That Isn't
Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 3:41:03 pm PDT
Washington Times columnist Diana West on the insane enervating political correctness that has marked every step of the “war on terror:” A war that isn’t. Discussing the war on “terror” has been endlessly awkward. Terror — like blitzkrieg, sneak attack or even disinformation — is a tactic not an enemy. But ...
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David Project: A Call for Action
Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 3:34:29 pm PDT
Charles Jacobs and Seth Klarman call for a new Jewish leadership to fight back against the rising tide of hatred: Jews Are Under Siege: A Call For Action. Anti-Semitism is a virus that morphs. In the West now, hostility to Jews has little to do with the familiar hatreds – of ...
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Breaking: UK Imam Supports Attacking Blair, Bush
Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 9:48:48 am PDT
A reporter for the Times of London went undercover at a British mosque, and guess what he discovered? Breaking News: U.K. Imam Supports Attack On Tony Blair. (Hat tip: Sugiero.) BRIGHTON, England - June 18, 2006 (UPI) — A militant British Muslim imam says both Prime Minister Tony Blair and U.S. ...
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No Consequences for British Muslim Hate Speech
Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 9:38:06 am PDT
The Nordish Portal reports that all charges against the radical Muslims who took part in the Cartoon Jihad demonstration in London have been dropped.
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Orange County Muslims Worried
Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 9:12:39 am PDT
Orange County Muslims are nervously seething over a report that the FBI is monitoring their activities around Irvine: Muslims leery of FBI activity. Marya Bangee doesn’t know what to believe. The UC Irvine sophomore thinks the fact that she’s Muslim is the reason she’s been singled out for searches at airports ...
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NY Post: Kos Partner Was Shill for Worthless Stock
Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 8:53:57 am PDT
As someone who has been targeted by mean-spirited attacks from the site run by the subject of this article, I’m not surprised at all by this revelation about the co-author of Markos Moulitsas “Screw Them” Zuniga’s book: Shill to Hack. (Hat tip: Killgore Trout.) June 18, 2006 — Jerome Armstrong, the ...
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Hirsi Ali Vs. Tariq Ramadan
Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 8:41:12 am PDT
Ayaan Hirsi Ali squared off against Islamist point man Tariq Ramadan at a discussion in Sweden: Muslim pundits clash over future of Islam in Europe. (Hat tip: Fjordman.) Ms Hirsi Ali, who has taken an atheist position and lives under secret service protection because of threats to her life, told the ...
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Saturday Night Flight
Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 9:35:01 pm PDT
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Palestinian Child Abuse
Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 9:21:29 pm PDT
A boy holding a gun is carried by Fatah militants during a march against the Hamas-led Palestinian government, in the West Bank town of Jenin, Tuesday June 13, 2006. (AP Photo/Mohammed Ballas)
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New York Subways Targeted by Al Qaeda
Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 8:46:49 pm PDT
A new book by Ron Suskind says that shortly before the Iraq War, Al Qaeda was planning to attack New York subways with poison gas similar to that used in Nazi death camps—and this information came from an informer in Al Qaeda’s ranks: How an Al-Qaeda Cell Planned a Poison-gas ...
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Mama Moonbat Greets Deserters
Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 8:34:16 pm PDT
Mother Sheehan is trying to grab some more headlines in Canada, by supporting US deserters. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) FORT ERIE, Ontario — A group of American military deserters publicly embraced their new lives in Canada Saturday with the support of “peace mom” Cindy Sheehan, who said she wished the son ...
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Saturday Night Playlist
Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 7:47:22 pm PDT
Tonight’s playlist: 1) From Patty Griffin’s debut album Living With Ghosts, recorded as a demo but so amazing that it was released as it stood, Poor Man’s House. 2) King’s X again, from their album Ear Candy: Fathers. 3) Donald Fagen’s slice of expatriate uneasiness with a Caribbean swing, from The Nightfly: The ...
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Caterpillar Still Not Stopped
Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 6:28:40 pm PDT
The Rachel Corrie crowd is still pursuing their ridiculous “progressive” jihad against Caterpillar, Incorporated. The Chicago Tribune has a report on the recent shareholder meeting, featuring Rachel’s parents: Palestinian issue dominates Caterpillar meeting. Caterpillar Inc. Chairman and Chief Executive Jim Owens told shareholders at the company’s annual meeting Wednesday that because ...
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Jawa Report Attacked by Islamist Hackers
Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 5:55:55 pm PDT
The Jawa Report is the latest victim of Islamic “web terrorism,” a Distributed Denial of Service attack originating in Turkey. Details at Munuviana: Splat, Again.
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Murtha: A History of Being Dead Wrong
Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 5:34:27 pm PDT
An excellent post at Sweetness and Light points out that Rep. John Murtha, now advocating a cut and run policy for Iraq, was one of the prime movers in getting President Clinton to do exactly that in Somalia. And the retreat from Somalia, far from being the victory Murtha claims, was ...
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NYT Shills for Islam
Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 4:23:09 pm PDT
The New York Times would never publish such a glowing endorsement of any other religion, as in this puff piece about a pair of “moderate Muslims:” U.S. Muslim Clerics Seek a Modern Middle Ground. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) As with any article by the Times promoting Islam, you need to read ...
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The Palestinian Big Lie
Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 3:30:36 pm PDT
Here’s another AFP article that promotes the latest Palestinian Big Lie: Abbas says EU funding mechanism ‘not adequate’. Abbas rejected any talk of naming a new prime minister to replace incumbent Ismail Haniya as a way out of the crisis. “It is still too too early to talk about this,” he ...
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Toronto Star: A Broad Strata
Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 8:31:40 am PDT
The Toronto Star congratulates themselves for their laughably awful coverage of the Toronto terrorism arrests: TheStar.com - A difficult news story well told. On A3 that day was a story that prompted other letters. “The ties that bind 17 suspects?” was the headline. An introductory paragraph said: “Aside from the fact ...
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Honor Killing in Britain
Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 8:27:15 am PDT
Appalling savagery in the heart of Britain, brought to you by decades of multicultural insanity: Sister stabbed to death for loving the wrong man. A BUSINESSMAN is facing a life sentence for stabbing his sister to death in front of his two young daughters in a so-called honour killing. Azhar Nazir, 30, ...
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Dixie Chick: "I Don't Understand Patriotism"
Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 8:17:15 am PDT
In an article that casually bashes and stereotypes Americans, The Telegraph interviews the Dixie Chicks, and singer Natalie Maines continues to spew left-wing lunacy. (Hat tip: Mr. Neutron.) “The entire country may disagree with me, but I don’t understand the necessity for patriotism,” Maines resumes, through gritted teeth. “Why do you ...
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Al-Arian's Co-Defendant Pleads Guilty
Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 8:10:23 am PDT
Sami al-Arian’s co-defendant has pleaded guilty to funding Islamic Jihad: Grocer pleads guilty in food-stamp fraud. (Hat tip: SoCalJustice.) CHICAGO — A 33-year-old man facing charges in Florida of funding the Palestinian terrorist group Islamic Jihad pleaded guilty in federal court Friday to illegally exchanging cash for food stamps at his ...
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Winnie the Pooh Banned in Turkey
Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 8:07:30 am PDT
Islam has a raging case of swinophobia: Piglet keeps Pooh off air. (Hat tip: hans ze beeman.) TURKEY’S public television TRT, controlled by the Islamist-rooted government, has barred the popular Walt Disney cartoon Winnie the Pooh from air because it has a piglet as one of its main heroes, the Turkish ...
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Friday Night Beach
Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 8:41:48 pm PDT
And always on the horizon, the double-hulled supertankers.
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McKinney is Allowed to Hit Cops
Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 7:14:13 pm PDT
Cynthia McKinney (Moonbat, Ga.) is getting a pass for her outrageous behavior again: Grand jury declines to indict McKinney. The encounter began when McKinney, D-Ga., tried to enter a House office building without walking through a metal detector or wearing the lapel pin that identifies members of Congress. McKenna did not recognize ...
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Sullivan Hyperventilation Watch
Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 6:49:16 pm PDT
The worst the Associated Press and the ACLU can come up with (and I’m sure they tried, hard), in more than a thousand pages of declassified reports: Pentagon details abuse of Iraq detainees. WASHINGTON - U.S. special operations forces fed some Iraqi detainees only bread and water for up to 17 ...
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British Dhimmitude Watch
Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 6:41:53 pm PDT
You’ve got to be kidding. Police may let Muslims see terrorism intelligence. (Hat tip: Sugiero.) The police are considering a proposal to let selected British Muslims examine the intelligence used to mount anti-terrorism raids before they take place, the Guardian has learned. The proposal will be considered as part of a review of ...
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Religion of Child Slavery
Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 6:26:20 pm PDT
There are no words: Koranic schools in Senegal fuel child trafficking. (Hat tip: zombie.) DAKAR, Senegal (Reuters) — In a dirty white T-shirt hanging down to his knees, 4-year-old Harouna Balde begs for coins in bare feet among the traffic on the polluted streets of Dakar. Holding a rusty begging tin that ...
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Radical Cleric Planning to Sue Berlusconi
Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 6:19:08 pm PDT
Al-Qaeda-linked radical Egyptian cleric Abu Omar, currently in prison in Cairo, is trying to return to Italy and sue former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi for helping the CIA kidnap him. (Hat tip: Fjordman.) Cairo, 16 June (AKI) - Abu Omar, an Egyptian cleric reportedly kidnapped by CIA agents in Milan ...
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Palestinian Car Swarm Watch
Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 5:48:42 pm PDT
Two Islamic Jihad terrorists killed in Israel air strike in Gaza, resulting, of course, in a car swarm.
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RoP Strikes in Kashmir
Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 5:17:33 pm PDT
Militants hack off noses, tongues. SUSPECTED Islamist militants killed a villager in Indian Kashmir by slitting his throat and cut off the tongues and noses of four others, accusing them of being police informers, authorities said today. The attackers also beat up seven other villagers and set several houses ablaze late on ...
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Friday Night Elephant
Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 4:41:42 pm PDT
Phew. Tough week. I think it’s time for an elephant.
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The Truth About the Muslim Brotherhood
Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 2:32:27 pm PDT
Here’s an informative and well-researched piece on the shadowy jihad organization dedicated to establishing a global Islamic order, the Muslim Brotherhood, by Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen: The Truth about the Muslim Brotherhood. On October 28, 2005, President George W. Bush denounced IslamoFascist movements that call for a “violent and ...
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Bashir Urges Muslims to Jihad
Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 1:39:59 pm PDT
In yesterday’s story about Indonesian radical cleric Abu Bakar Bashir’s call for George W. Bush to convert to Islam, the Associated Press quoted an “expert” who assured us that although Bashir may be very popular among Indonesian youths, she didn’t believe his freedom increased the risk of terrorism. Sidney Jones, a ...
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Jordanian Islamists React to Death of Zarqawi
Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 1:19:09 pm PDT
MEMRI TV gathers video clips of Jordanian Islamists, members of Parliament and jihadist groups reacting to the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, broadcast on most of the major Arab satellite networks including Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya. [Video] Reporter: You pronounced Al-Zarqawi a martyr and a mujahid, but left the victims of ...
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MSM Comfortable As CAIR's Mouthpiece
Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 11:21:04 am PDT
Not a single wire service or news organization has issued a correction to their blatantly incorrect stories about the “Hadji Girl” controversy, in which they parroted the false claims made by the Council on American-Islamic Relations, and probably damaged a young Marine’s military career. Instead they’ve all simply moved on to ...
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British Knife Amnesty
Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 10:16:30 am PDT
British society is getting safer all the time: Knife amnesty nets 17,700 weapons. (Hat tip: Ralph.) Home office minister Vernon Coaker said the results were “encouraging”. The five-week amnesty, running until 30 June, allows people to surrender knives at police stations without fear of punishment. Mr Coaker urged those who had not yet ...
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Somalia Jihad Advances
Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 9:33:41 am PDT
Somali Islamists overrun towns in northward push. MOGADISHU (AFP) - Islamic militias now controlling swathes of southern Somalia pushed north, as their supporters protested against plans to deploy African peacekeepers in the lawless nation and an international forum began talks in New York. Areas under the sway of the Joint Islamic Courts ...
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NYT: Rocket Attacks Clumsy, Inaccurate, Not So Bad Really
Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 9:08:04 am PDT
The New York Times wants us to know that those hundreds of Qassam rockets Palestinian terrorists are firing into Israel, in a deliberate attempt to murder civilians at random, are clumsy and inaccurate. (Hat tip: Occasional Reader.) And the MSM Template is applied again, quoting an “official” of the George Soros-funded, ...
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VDH: Betting on Defeat?
Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 8:49:45 am PDT
Victor Davis Hanson’s latest column provides much food for thought (as always), taking the long view of the Iraq War: Betting on Defeat? The costs in Iraq have been high and the losses tragic. But nothing in the past three years has convinced me otherwise than that: 1. in a post-September-11 world ...
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Ledeen: The Zarqawi Document is a Fake
Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 8:16:52 am PDT
Michael Ledeen thinks the “planning document” discovered after the bombing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is Iranian disinformation, designed to make us believe Iran is being framed by Sunni insurgents: Nonsense.
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Palestinian War Crimes
Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 7:42:01 am PDT
Charles Krauthammer dispenses some hard truths about the Gaza beach bombing: Who Is to Blame for Grief on a Beach? An expert at a local chapter of a human rights group disputes the Israeli claims. Okay. Let’s concede for the sake of argument that the question of whether it was an ...
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MSM's Expert Drops His Mask
Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 7:41:03 am PDT
The oh-so-compassionate, holier-than-thou “progressive” left at its ugliest and most vindictive, as the mainstream media’s go-to guy for all things related to Valerie Plame drops his mask: Larry Johnson: “No Wonder Rove’s Mom Killed Herself”.
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Covering Up for Arafat
Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 8:50:27 pm PDT
The Jerusalem Post says recently released documents prove that the State Department covered up Yasser Arafat’s responsibility in the murder of American diplomats in Khartoum, Sudan, in 1973: Covering up for Arafat. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Last week it was reported in the United States that among the secret documents that ...
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Kofi Annan Eats Crow
Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 6:36:54 pm PDT
This must be International Crow-Eating Day. First Andrew Sullivan, now UN Secretary General Kofi Annan: Annan retracts remarks on IDF’s Gaza blast probe. (Hat tip: WriterMom.) United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan retracted remarks he made on Israel after the incident in which seven Palestinian family members died in Gaza. Annan said Israel’s ...
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LGF Operative Confronts CAIR
Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 5:14:28 pm PDT
With this photo/video report, hosted by zombie, LGF reader ciaospirit is hereby dubbed an operative: Eyes Wide Open, Columbus, Ohio. “Eyes Wide Open” is the American Friends Service Committee’s (lgf: search) ugly traveling exhibit exploiting the deaths of US soldiers to promote a far left pacifist agenda. They don’t bother getting ...
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Al-Qaradawi: Kerry Was Supported by Homosexuals and Nudists
Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 4:18:03 pm PDT
Sheik Yusuf al-Qaradawi, founder of the IslamOnline web site and head of the European Council for Fatwa and Research, is a very influential Islamic cleric often described as a “moderate.” From our pals at Al Jazeera, broadcast on June 5, 2005, here’s the moderate sheikh on the subject of gay marriage. Actually, ...
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Grim Milestone Watch
Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 3:53:34 pm PDT
American deaths in Iraq reach 2,500 mark. WASHINGTON - American deaths since the invasion of Iraq have reached 2,500, marking a grim milestone in the wake of recent events that President Bush hopes will reverse the war’s unpopularity at home. Senate rejects U.S. troop pullout in Iraq. As the debates got under ...
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A Case Study in Media Bias
Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 2:54:54 pm PDT
Hamas says they’ll stop firing rockets into Israel, and the wire service headlines are a case study in pro-Palestinian propaganda. By Nidal al-Mughrabi, at al-Reuters: Hamas govt says it wants ceasefire with Israel. By Ibrahim Barzak, at the Associated Press: Hamas offers to renew truce with Israel. Agence France Presse’s uncredited story, probably ...
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Senate Rejects Troop Pullout
Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 2:02:14 pm PDT
A cut-and-run proposal has been thoroughly defeated in the Senate: Senate rejects U.S. troop pullout in Iraq. WASHINGTON - The Senate rejected a call for the withdrawal of U.S. combat forces from Iraq by year’s end on Thursday as Congress erupted in impassioned, election-year debate over a conflict that now has ...
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The Protocols of the Daily Kos
Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 1:48:23 pm PDT
Sickening antisemitism from the Kos Kidz, in a “diary” entry suggesting that mysterious Jewish groups have bought control of Yale University, and are responsible for blocking the hiring of Juan Cole: Isryale. (Hat tip: Quella.)
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Hadji Girl Update
Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 1:02:18 pm PDT
In this article about the “Hadji Girl” controversy, notice how the Saudi-funded radical Islamic propaganda site IslamOnLine describes the Haditha incident: Last November, US soldiers killed 24 Iraqi civilians, including seven women and three children, near Haditha as they had gone on rampage after their patrol was attacked. At Hot Air, ...
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No Room for Rather, CBS Still Dodging
Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 8:51:08 am PDT
Dan Rather is being pushed out of the picture at CBS: No Future for Dan Rather. And of course, CBS executives say it has nothing to do with the fraudulent National Guard documents used by Rather, Mary Mapes, and who knows how many others at CBS to try to tilt a ...
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EU Springs Into Action
Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 8:30:12 am PDT
The European Union is miffed that Palestinian “officials” like Mahmoud Zahar are smuggling millions of dollars across the Rafah border with impunity: EU monitors protest Hamas cash flow across border. And when the European Union is miffed, you know what that means—it’s time for the dreaded very severe letter. RAMALLAH, West Bank ...
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Sullivan Eats Crow
Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 8:14:29 am PDT
Andrew Sullivan swallowed CAIR’s lies about the “Hadji Girl” video, and repeated them with great outrage and horror, and now he’s eating crow: The Daily Dish: ‘Hadji Girl’ Revisited. Of course, he still takes a sanctimonious little slap at LGF in the process.
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Are Islamists Writing for the Associated Press?
Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 8:00:05 am PDT
Here’s an astounding example of the Associated Press shilling for radical Islamic cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, who has no sympathy at all for infidels murdered by his terrorist friends: Cleric Calls on Bush to Convert to Islam. (Hat tip: torahmike.) The AP’s moral equivalence has never been more blatant, or more ...
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Zarqawi's Plans: Use the Media
Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 7:48:03 am PDT
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s planning document, discovered in the safe house (oxymoron of the day) where he died: Text of al-Zarqawi Safe-House Document. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) His first recommendation to deal with the increased success of coalition forces: use the media. 1. To improve the image of the resistance in society, increase ...
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Wednesday Night Mast
Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 9:28:26 pm PDT
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RoP Strikes in Thailand
Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 8:44:58 pm PDT
Bombs rock south Thailand. A SERIES of bombs rocked police stations, a government office and a tea shop in southern Thailand early today, wounding at least two people, police said The first of at least four blasts hit the Yala provincial police office at 8am (1100 AEST), wounding one traffic police officer, ...
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Hamas Smuggling Cash Openly
Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 5:03:06 pm PDT
The $20 million smuggled into Gaza by Hamas thug Mahmoud Zahar apparently came from Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, China, Pakistan, Iran and Egypt: Palestinian FM brings in $20M in luggage. Foreign Minister Mahmoud Zahar, a Hamas member, returned to Gaza after visiting Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, China, Pakistan, Iran and Egypt. Palestinian security ...
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DiManno: Guantanamo! Torture! Suicide!
Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 4:48:55 pm PDT
The Toronto Star’s lonely sane columnist, Rosie DiManno, looks at the proceedings in the courtroom of the Canadian jihad case: Many ironies as case unfolds. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Guantanamo! Torture! Suicide! The exclamatory buzzwords were all over the place in, of all places, a Brampton courtroom yesterday. Aliens alighting from another planet ...
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Hadji Girl Update
Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 2:43:28 pm PDT
Reuters begins their latest piece on the “Hadji Girl” controversy by repeating CAIR’s smears and distortions about the video once again: Marine being probed over song on killing Iraqis. (Hat tip: Allahpundit.) WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Marine Corps is investigating whether a Marine did anything wrong by singing an ...
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Mass Murdering Cleric Gets Hero's Welcome
Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 1:19:35 pm PDT
Indonesian Islamic cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, released from prison after serving only 26 months for his role in the mass murder 0f more than 200 people in Bali, returned to the infamous Al Mukmin radical Islamic school in central Java, to a hero’s welcome from the next generation of Islamic ...
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40% of Young Dutch Muslims Reject Democracy
Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 11:45:14 am PDT
A researcher for the Netherlands Ministry for Immigration and Integration has found that 40% of young Moroccan Muslims in the Netherlands reject Western values and democracy. And six to seven percent are prepared to use force to “defend” Islam. (Hat tip: Fjordman.) The study found 40 percent of the Moroccan youth ...
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Islamic Prayer Center at Quantico
Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 11:02:42 am PDT
At Quantico, the Marine Corps recently opened their first-ever Islamic prayer center: Marines open Islamic prayer centre. General Mike Hagee, the Marine Corps’ commandant, was among the top military leaders who attended the dedication of an Islamic prayer centre at the Corps’ Quantico base in Virginia on Tuesday. Yesterday at a press ...
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Pew Global Attitudes Poll: Arab Countries Favor Iranian Nukes
Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 10:31:20 am PDT
TigerHawk has an excellent analysis of the new Pew survey on global attitudes. It’s not all bad news, but Tigerhawk points out one very disturbing result: majorities in many Arab countries not only favor Iran’s development of nuclear weapons, they believe Iran will use them against Israel.
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BBC: Youth, Man Charged in Terror Probe
Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 10:11:39 am PDT
Tiptoeing around the issues like a thief in the night, the BBC reports that a “youth” and a “man” have been charged with conspiracy to commit mass murder: Pair charged after terror probe. A youth, 16, and a man, 21, have been charged with conspiracy to murder and conspiring to cause ...
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Hamas 'Foreign Minister' Smuggles Millions in Cash
Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 9:41:14 am PDT
Hamas thugs are smuggling money in suitcases like Mafia bag men: Palestinian carries millions in suitcase. GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Palestinian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Zahar, who has been seeking to raise money for the financially strapped government, returned to the Gaza Strip on Wednesday with a suitcase full of cash, ...
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Marine Tells Story of 'Hadji Girl'
Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 9:26:00 am PDT
The Marine who wrote and performed “Hadji Girl” tells his story to the Jacksonville Daily News: Humor attempt falls flat. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Cpl. Joshua Belile, a 23-year-old who lives in Jacksonville and serves with Marine Light/Attack Helicopter Squadron 167, said the song was meant only as a joke, based ...
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What's Wrong with Marine Brass?
Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 8:06:22 am PDT
Why is the Marine Corps repeating and caving in to the lies of the Council on American Islamic Relations, without putting up even a token defense of the Marines being smeared? Corps condemns video mockery. The four-minute video contains images of what is said to be a Marine in Iraq singing ...
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Mass Murdering Islamist Cleric Freed by Indonesia
Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 9:32:15 pm PDT
For his part in the mass murder of 202 people in Bali, Abu Bakar Bashir served 26 months in prison. And today he walked out a free man: Indonesia releases militant Islamic cleric. JAKARTA, Indonesia - A militant cleric alleged to be a top leader in an al-Qaida linked terror group ...
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Tuesday Night Ocean
Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 9:14:58 pm PDT
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Alarming Palestinian Crisis Watch
Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 8:19:48 pm PDT
UNICEF says there’s a major crisis with medical supplies for children in the Palestinian Authority: Aid needs to triple to counteract ‘alarming’ Palestinian crisis: UNICEF. UNICEF said that most staff were continuing to turn up for work despite receiving little or no pay but that supplies were running dangerously short. The UN ...
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Mainstream Media Disgrace of the Month: Hadji Girl
Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 6:00:19 pm PDT
We’ve been watching this develop, as earlier today the Council on American Islamic Relations sent out one of their infamous email alerts about an amateur music video of a song about a Marine lured into an ambush by a “Hadji girl.” At this point there’s no verification that the singer ...
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Over a Million Spaniards Protest Appeasement, MSM Yawns
Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 5:32:04 pm PDT
Two days ago, more than a million people turned out in Madrid to protest the Spanish socialist government’s plan to negotiate with terror gang ETA. What? You didn’t hear about it? That’s because a million people protesting against a far left government is not news, silly! Publius Pundit has a report on ...
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Biased Headline of the Day
Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 4:47:41 pm PDT
The mainstream media are relentless. At least 36 killed as Bush makes surprise Baghdad visit.
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Israel Denies Beach Bombing, Human Rights Watch Wants It to Be True
Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 4:32:29 pm PDT
The Gaza beach bombing libel has now been definitively debunked and denied: Israel says it didn’t cause deadly blast. So who does the media consult when they need an opinion? The George Soros-funded far-left “NGO” Human Rights Watch and their shill Mark Garlasco, who (surprise!) think Israel is lying: Rights group ...
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University Recommends Firing Churchill
Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 4:14:08 pm PDT
A University of Colorado committee has recommended firing Ward “Little Eichmanns” Churchill. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) The panel’s recommendation now goes to university officials for a final decision. Ward Churchill, a tenured professor of ethnic studies, denied the allegations. He has vowed to fight his dismissal with a lawsuit. “Baloney. That’s my one-word-response,” ...
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Gordon Nickel on the Koran's Calls for Violence
Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 1:59:18 pm PDT
An astonishingly direct and honest look at the Koran’s commands to fight and kill infidels, by Gordon Nickel in the National Post: Islam: A religion of peace? Since the London bombings of 7/7, there has been a renewed effort among Muslims in the West to present Islam as a religion of ...
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Bush Addresses Troops in Baghdad
Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 1:30:59 pm PDT
Hot Air has video: Bush addresses the troops in Baghdad.
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Anti-Israel Demonstrators at Parliament Square
Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 1:00:03 pm PDT
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is visiting Britain, and of course the London moonbat community turned out to protest. Nordish was there at Parliament Square: Demo Against Olmert, London 13 June 2006.
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CAIR Conducts Email Jihad Against Marines
Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 8:43:48 am PDT
The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) is at it again, with a deceptive email campaign smearing US Marines over an amateur music video posted at YouTube. From Pipeline News: Hadji Girl - CAIR Conducts Email Jihad Against Marines. (The video has been removed from YouTube by its owner.) The CAIR email ...
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What Would We Do Without International Think Tanks?
Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 8:34:28 am PDT
Palestinian power struggle risks civil war: report. JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The Palestinian territories are in a state of near civil war and just one act of violence, such as a high-profile assassination, could trigger mayhem, an international think tank said on Tuesday.
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Canadian Jihadis Play by the Book
Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 8:24:06 am PDT
It isn’t being reported, but David Kolinsky, lawyer for Canadian terror suspect Zakaria Amara, is a convert to Islam: Imprint: March 10, 2006. (Hat tip: WriterMom.) On Wednesday night, David Kolinsky-a law firm member from Toronto-led a presentation entitled “In the Steps of Abraham: An Introduction to Islam.” Kolinsky focused on ...
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Christian Peacemaker Loney Defends Jihadis
Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 8:02:46 am PDT
Christian Peacemaker Teams moonbat James Loney is in the Canadian news again, supporting the Canadian Muslims accused of plotting mass murder: Former Iraq hostage joins protest over security certificates. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Loney stood at the steps of the building that houses the Prime Minister’s Office in the nation’s capital ...
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Rove Frog March Called Off
Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 7:45:46 am PDT
The moonbats are inconsolable this morning, as their dreams of a frog march Fitzmas vanish in the reality-based mist: Rove won’t be charged in CIA leak case. WASHINGTON - Top White House aide Karl Rove has been told by prosecutors he won’t be charged with any crimes in the investigation into ...
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Monday Night Pelicans
Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 8:43:04 pm PDT
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The Usual Allegations
Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 7:48:27 pm PDT
Invariably, inevitably, in every single case involving accused Islamic terrorists, they play the torture card early and often. The claims of the Canadian jihadis are especially ludicrous: CityNews: Lawyers Allege Terror Suspects Being Tortured In Jail. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) The terror case has taken another bizarre twist in a Brampton ...
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Cynical Palestinian Exploitation Watch
Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 6:02:54 pm PDT
The IDF probe into the circumstances of the Gaza beach bombing incident has concluded: chances are slim that an IDF shell was responsible. The most likely explanation is that the Palestinians killed their own children by accident, with explosives buried on the beach to repel Israeli “infiltrators,” then cynically exploited the ...
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Scoundrels Meet, Women Beaten
Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 3:24:37 pm PDT
As Mad Mahmoud Ahmadinejad pressed the flesh with our friends the Saudis.... Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, left, shakes hands with Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal, at the start of their meeting in Tehran, Iran, Monday, June 12, 2006. (AP Photo) ... down the street, his female goon squad was beating women’s ...
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Palestinian Civil War Watch
Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 3:22:58 pm PDT
It may be starting in earnest: Fatah gunmen go on anti-Hamas rampage. RAMALLAH, West Bank - Palestinian forces loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas went on a rampage against the Hamas-led government Monday, riddling the parliament and Cabinet buildings with bullets and setting them afire to protest an attack on their comrades ...
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Zombie Horror Show: SF Naked Bike Ride
Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 2:29:21 pm PDT
Zombie uncovers a horror beyond description: World Naked Bike Ride 2006 in San Francisco. (Warning: not work safe. Also not sanity safe.)
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Arab Groups Complain of Persecution, Meet with Syrian Dictator
Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 1:54:42 pm PDT
The New York Times says that Arab-Americans feel victimized and persecuted by US law enforcement. Arab-Americans reported an increasing sense of victimization, suspicion of government and law enforcement, and concerns about protecting their civil liberties, according to the study, which was paid for by the National Institute of Justice, a research ...
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Zarqawi Lived for 52 Minutes
Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 10:17:55 am PDT
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s autopsy results are in, and he lived for 52 minutes after the bombing, undoubtedly in great pain due to massive internal injuries. BAGHDAD, Iraq - Abu Musab al-Zarqawi lived for 52 minutes after a U.S. warplane bombed his hideout northeast of Baghdad, and he died of extensive internal ...
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Palestinian Propaganda Watch
Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 9:36:56 am PDT
The official television station of the Palestinian Authority has been repeatedly broadcasting a falsified video clip of the Gaza beach bombing incident, with unrelated scenes of Israeli gunboats spliced into the video (and cheesy echo effects). The indispensable Palestinian Media Watch has made the PA video available online, with an ...
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Media Ignore Nutroots Extremism
Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 8:54:11 am PDT
Byron York looks at media reaction to the Yearly Kos moonbat festival in Las Vegas, and notes that so far Markos Moulitsas “Screw Them” Zuniga has been getting a pass for his hateful, vindictive writing—but that’s likely to change: What Fame Will Bring to DailyKos. At some point, coverage of the ...
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Palestinian Civil War Watch
Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 8:34:30 am PDT
“Gunmen” versus “security forces” in Gaza: Hamas gunmen fire rockets at forces loyal to Abbas. GAZA (Reuters) - Hamas gunmen fired rocket-propelled grenades and anti-tank rockets at the Gaza headquarters of the preventive security force loyal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday, witnesses said. Two people were wounded in the clash ...
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WaPo Attacks Bolton
Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 8:26:46 am PDT
At the Washington Post, Sebastian Mallaby attacks UN Ambassador John Bolton: At the U.N., Bluster Backfires. Last week the U.N. deputy secretary general, a pro-American Briton named Mark Malloch Brown, went public with his Bolton frustrations. He pointed out that the United Nations serves many American objectives, from deploying peacekeepers to ...
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Sunday Night Fence
Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 9:01:24 pm PDT
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AP Opening North Korea Bureau
Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 8:39:30 pm PDT
The Associated Press is opening a new branch of their television news service, APTN, in Pyongyang, North Korea. The bureau will be manned by three local North Koreans who “will adhere to the AP’s reporting standards.” AP’s TV arm opens bureau in Pyongyang. (Hat tip: Medgadget.com.)
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Steyn: Saudis Still Getting Away with Murder
Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 8:26:36 pm PDT
The line of the day, from Mark Steyn: If you think the idea of some kook beheading prime ministers on video is nutty, maybe you’re looking at things back to front. What’s nutty is that, half a decade on from Sept. 11, the Saudis are still allowed to bankroll schools and ...
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Behind the Scenes of the Gaza Beach Incident
Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 8:08:02 pm PDT
Getty Images has quite a few pictures from the Gaza beach bombing incident that haven’t made it onto the mainstream wires for some reason, including this appalling image. (Warning: graphic content.) One image that did make it onto the wires: Palestinian and International peace activists, wearing shirts with red painted marks to ...
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Iran's Manhattan Project Rushes Forward
Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 6:31:33 pm PDT
The International Atomic Energy Agency’s Board of Governors is meeting in Vienna this week to discuss whether they should propose a motion to hold another meeting at another Olde World capital, at which they might draft another strongly worded letter to Iran, possibly even a harshly worded letter but with ...
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Zarqawi's Wife: 16 Years Old
Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 6:22:51 pm PDT
TIME Magazine tosses it off as if it were insignificant, in the midst of a lengthy article about the killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, but one of the people killed when the US Air Force made a special delivery to a house in Baqubah, Iraq (hat tip: distwalker), was Zarqawi’s ...
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Cycle of Violence: The Hammer of June
Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 6:05:57 pm PDT
Cumulative total for yesterday and today: 105 miles and some change. The infamous Los Angeles “June gloom” has set in and mornings are invariably overcast and cool—ideal for cycling. I’m trying to do more climbing so I can lose those extra winter pounds and take the endurance up another notch, ...
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Islamists Hate World Cup
Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 5:12:33 pm PDT
How can anyone resist the allure of shari’a law? Two die as hardline Islamists ban World Cup. Hardline Islamic courts shut cinema halls and barred residents from watching the World Cup, prompting scores of civilians to protest the ban in which two people were killed, court officials and residents have said. The ...
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Our Friends the Saudis
Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 4:10:36 pm PDT
In a classic case of projection (a psychological defense mechanism in which one’s own unacceptable desires or actions are attributed to others), our friends the Saudis think the US tortured the Gitmo detainees to death. RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — The reported suicides of two Saudi detainees at Guantanamo Bay intensified ...
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Gaza Beach Bombing: Another Pallywood Hoax?
Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 3:43:01 pm PDT
Evidence is mounting that the explosion on a Gaza beach that killed an indeterminate number of Palestinians was not caused by Israel: Israel denies firing shell that killed Palestinians. (Hat tip: PartisanTimes.) A top Israeli general says the country’s armed forces didn’t cause the explosion that killed eight Palestinians on Friday ...
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The Heroes of the Left
Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 3:25:06 pm PDT
The BBC is shrieking about the suicides at Guantanamo Bay, and this article quotes a “human rights” representative who calls the dead jihadis “heroes.” William Goodman from the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights told AFP news agency the three dead men were “heroes for those of us who believe in ...
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Are Islamists Writing for the Associated Press?
Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 8:57:50 am PDT
LGF reader Amer1can pointed out an astounding phrase in an Associated Press article, published at MSNBC: ‘Major attacks’ threatened in Iraq. The phrase echoed the words used by the Prophet Muhammad’s successor, Abu Bakr, after the prophet’s death in the 7th century to urge Muslims to continue spreading Islam. Notice, it’s ...
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Did Foggy Bottom Intervene in Khobar Suit?
Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 8:19:15 am PDT
A judge in the District Court of Washington DC has dismissed a lawsuit by survivors and families of victims of the Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia, that sought millions of dollars in damages from Iran: Judge Dismisses Khobar Towers Case Against Iran. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) And she rejected the ...
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Haditha Marine Says Rules Were Followed
Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 8:02:05 am PDT
The “Haditha massacre” story continues unraveling: Marine Says Rules Were Followed. A sergeant who led a squad of Marines during the incident in Haditha, Iraq, that left as many as 24 civilians dead said his unit did not intentionally target any civilians, followed military rules of engagement and never tried to ...
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Toronto Star Islamist Propaganda
Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 7:54:30 am PDT
The Toronto Star’s resident Islamist shill, Haroon Siddiqui, has a piece mocking Canadian efforts to get the Islamic community to do more about the radicals in their midst: Muslim-bashing dilutes our democratic values. Where were the democratic values of the Canadian jihadis when they were plotting mass murder? Any time some Muslims ...
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Saturday Night Playlist
Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 8:42:44 pm PDT
The playlist for the evening: 1) From the album Beautiful Dreamer - The Songs of Stephen Foster, Suzy Bogguss’s gorgeous performance of Ah, May the Red Rose Live Always! 2) Michael Brecker’s tour de force version of the standard The Meaning of the Blues from his album Now You See It...Now You ...
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Don't Wanna Be Zarqawi
Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 8:28:30 pm PDT
A Jewish student foolishly hanging around the Palestinian town of Nablus was briefly kidnapped by Palestinian “activists” today, but when the kidnappers realized he was an American they dropped him like a hot potato: Palestinians hand over kidnapped American citizen to IDF. (Hat tip: Writer Mom.) Members of an armed Fatah ...
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Cynical Palestinian Exploitation Watch
Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 6:35:34 pm PDT
From yesterday’s post about the incident on a Gaza beach that left an indeterminate number of Palestinians dead or wounded (“indeterminate” because there have been so many conflicting reports on the number of victims we don’t know which one to trust) : It’s incredibly common for Palestinian terrorists to put civilians ...
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Gitmo Prisoners in Coordinated Suicide
Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 6:06:31 pm PDT
I know we’re supposed to be horrified at the tragedy, and that any man’s death diminishes me et cetera, but knowing that the remaining detainees at Guantanamo are the hardest of the hard core, the first thought I had was, “Do they still get their 72 virgins?” SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico ...
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A Member of Canada's Roundtable on Security
Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 5:25:22 pm PDT
In yesterday’s post about the Canadian authorities’ kid-glove treatment of the Islamic community, there’s a quote from Hussein Hamdani, a lawyer and member of the government’s cross-cultural roundtable on security: [Hussein Hamdani] and others tried to explain to police why they had to engage the Muslim community. “We would say, ‘Look, you’re ...
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Dallas Islamic Leader: "Expect Someone to Put a Banana in Your Exhaust Pipe"
Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 4:01:00 pm PDT
Rod Dreher of the Dallas Morning News has been corresponding with Mohamed Elibiary, a determined apologist for radical Islam, and in their latest email exchange Elibiary issues a veiled threat to tamper with Dreher’s car: Responding to Mohamed. I, my wife and now my kids are examples of those home grown ...
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Message From Above
Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 8:18:53 am PDT
(From Cox & Forkum Editorial Cartoons, of course.)
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MCB Leader: British Should Try Arranged Marriages
Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 7:56:00 am PDT
Dr. Muhammad Abdul Bari, newly elected leader of the “moderate” Muslim Council of Britain, says the UK should adopt Muslim ways—including arranged marriages. (Hat tip: CAGE: news.) Dr Bari, a 52-year-old science teacher and author of several books on Islam in Britain, became arguably the most influential Muslim voice in the ...
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Anonymous AP Source Says US Soldiers Beat Wounded Zarqawi
Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 7:21:35 am PDT
The Associated Press will report absolutely anything that makes America look bad, even the unsubstantiated accusations of an unidentified person who supposedly lived in the area where Zarqawi was hiding: Iraqi claims U.S. GIs beat wounded man. BAGHDAD, Iraq - An Iraqi man who was one of the first people on ...
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Canadian Terrorist Passport Update
Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 7:04:58 am PDT
As reported yesterday, Abdurahman Khadr, son of an Al Qaeda terrorist, is free to re-apply for a Canadian passport after the Federal Court ruled that Canada was wrong to deny his application for national security reasons: Court victory for Khadr. This story notes that the Canadian government can revoke the passport ...
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Friday Night Beach
Fri, Jun 9, 2006 at 8:53:33 pm PDT
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Secret UK Report: Muslim Police Corrupt
Fri, Jun 9, 2006 at 7:02:31 pm PDT
The Guardian says they’ve seen a secret report by the Metropolitan Police concluding that Muslim officers are more likely to become corrupt. (Hat tip: robert.) A secret high-level Metropolitan police report has concluded that Muslim officers are more likely to become corrupt than white officers because of their cultural and family ...
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"Progressives" Definitely Not Supporting the Troops
Fri, Jun 9, 2006 at 5:29:59 pm PDT
The “diaries” at Daily Kos are where the Nutroots base tests new ideas to see if they’ll float in the wider moonbat community, and two new diary posts (prompted by the Zarqawi smash) are jumping right out there and admitting (get ready for a shock) they don’t support the troops ...
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Zarqawi's Infidel-Got-Me Moment
Fri, Jun 9, 2006 at 5:04:40 pm PDT
More details about the last moments of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi: A dying al-Zarqawi tried to get away. “The last moments of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.” Sorry if it offends anyone, but I do enjoy writing that. BAGHDAD, Iraq - Abu Musab al-Zarqawi could barely speak, but he struggled and tried to get away ...
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UK Muslims: "British Police Go To Hell"
Fri, Jun 9, 2006 at 4:24:41 pm PDT
A group of about 100 radical Islamists protested outside Forest Gate police station in east London today over last week’s anti-terror raids, with their usual flair for hateful signage, stylish face masks, and children: UPDATE at 6/9/06 4:47:29 pm: The Times of London has more on the demonstration, where open threats were ...
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Saudi Linked to 9/11 Found in NZ, Deported to KSA
Fri, Jun 9, 2006 at 4:12:14 pm PDT
Rayed Mohammed Abdullah Ali, who lived with 9/11 hijacker Hani Hanjour in Phoenix Arizona, has been discovered taking flying lessons in New Zealand, and deported—to Saudi Arabia. (Hat tip: Jihad Watch.) A Saudi Arabian linked to one of the September 11 hijackers spent four months in New Zealand before being expelled ...
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IDF Artillery Accidentally Kills 7, Palestinians Raging
Fri, Jun 9, 2006 at 3:56:59 pm PDT
Targeting an area from which Palestinians were firing rockets into Israel, an IDF artillery shell hit a group of Palestinians on a Gaza beach, killing at least 7 (the numbers have been fluctuating wildly), including several children. It appears to be a sad and regrettable accident, and the Israeli Army ...
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Is the Haditha Story Falling Apart?
Fri, Jun 9, 2006 at 1:38:48 pm PDT
Clarice Feldman at The American Thinker (with assistance from Sweetness & Light) has put together a narrative report of what’s known so far about the Haditha incident—and the story seems to be unraveling at the edges: Haditha: Is McGirk the New Mary Mapes? And here’s more: US father visiting Haditha saw ...
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ABC News Blog Opens the Door
Fri, Jun 9, 2006 at 12:10:52 pm PDT
ABC News blog The Blotter is pretty bold for the mainstream media; they’re apparently using Movable Type with open comments. And they’re getting slammed by their own readers for a story about the informant (a captured terrorist) who dropped the dime on Zarqawi: Captured Zarqawi Aide Spilled the Beans.
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Canadian Court: Terrorist's Son Gets a Passport
Fri, Jun 9, 2006 at 11:41:38 am PDT
Seventeen people arrested, allegedly planning to blow stuff up with three tons of ammonium nitrate fertilizer, and Canada’s supreme court (loaded with Liberal Party appointees) does this: Federal Court says Ottawa can’t deny Abdurahman Khadr a passport. TORONTO (CP) - The Federal Court says Ottawa can’t deny the son of an ...
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Sexy Summer Swimwear
Fri, Jun 9, 2006 at 11:05:22 am PDT
This year’s new swimsuits are out, and they’re some of the most revealing and raunchy yet: Don’t bother with the sunscreen.
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Iowahawk: Paradise Is Overrated
Fri, Jun 9, 2006 at 10:09:43 am PDT
Iowahawk has a world exclusive, possibly the final communiqué from the former senior VP of Al Qaeda in Iraq, who’s finding martyrdom to be a bit different from what he expected: Paradise Is Overrated. Okay, Thursday morning. I clock in at the office, pour a mug of tea, fire up the ...
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Zarqawi Knew He Was Toast
Fri, Jun 9, 2006 at 9:52:43 am PDT
In a case of poetic justice, Zarqawi remained alive long enough to know that we got him: Zarqawi lived briefly after attack. BAGHDAD, Iraq - A mortally wounded Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was still alive and mumbling after American airstrikes on his hideout and tried to get off a stretcher when he ...
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Yearly Kos: Boring and Weird
Fri, Jun 9, 2006 at 9:42:12 am PDT
At Hot Air: Infiltrating Yearly Kos: Now with photos! Byron York also attended what sounds like one of the most stultifying events of the year: You Wanna Be a Pundit? UPDATE at 6/9/06 10:55:39 am: Byron York’s latest report from Yearly Snooze: The Two Worlds of the Liberal Blogosphere. Las Vegas—“There’s no doubt we’re ...
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Canadian Authorities: "Savvy"?
Fri, Jun 9, 2006 at 9:06:16 am PDT
Canadian police bent over backwards to pander to the Islamic community, in the most politically correct terrorism bust in history: Authorities confronted ‘wall of silence’. The Canadian Security Intelligence Service and the RCMP met with members of the Canadian Muslim community every month for a year to discuss security concerns before ...
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VDH: Vietnam, After All?
Fri, Jun 9, 2006 at 8:47:37 am PDT
Victor Davis Hanson on Haditha: Vietnam, After All? As with the formulaic type scenes of Homeric epic, there now arises a sense of familiarity with the current outcries over Haditha. We do not really know yet what happened in that terrorist-infected hellhole, but it seems not to matter. Those who customarily decry ...
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Saudis Spreading Jihad in Canada
Fri, Jun 9, 2006 at 7:59:57 am PDT
Canadian Sufi Muslim teacher Sayyid Ahmed Amiruddin is blowing the whistle on Saudi Arabia, who have been flooding Canada with “free” Korans full of exhortations to jihad: Teacher witnessed transformation of some bomb-plot suspects. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Amiruddin says Khalid used to come to his mosque to pray, sometimes in ...
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Saudi Cleric Hates World Cup
Thu, Jun 8, 2006 at 9:27:21 pm PDT
Saudi cleric Nasser bin Sliman Al-Omar explains why watching the World Cup may cause you to be condemned to eternal torment. (Courtesy MEMRI TV.) [Video] Nasser bin Sliman Al-Omar: With regard to the World Cup... Let me ask you, brother Muhammad... May Allah protect your daughter and sons, but imagine that you ...
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The Revival of Cultural Life in Iraq
Thu, Jun 8, 2006 at 9:06:23 pm PDT
Here’s an eye-opening report on the surprising strength of the Iraqi cultural scene: The Revival of Cultural Life in Iraq Under Stress. The revival of the Iraqi cultural scene reveals a strong current in support of indigenous Iraqi culture, secularism, women’s rights, and opposition to terrorism and violence. As in the past ...
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Al Jazeera Reporter Arrested In Jordan with Zarqawi Relative
Thu, Jun 8, 2006 at 8:39:31 pm PDT
At the Counterterrorism Blog: Jordan arrests Zarqawi’s brother-in-law and an Al Jazeera journalist live! A few hours ago, while an Al Jazeera journalist was interviewing Abu Kadama, Zarqawi’s brother-in-law in Zarqa, Jordan, the broadcast was suddenly interrupted, most probably by Jordan. Because when the journalist came back on the air, he ...
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Moonbat Campaign Tactics
Thu, Jun 8, 2006 at 7:42:53 pm PDT
A fragrant glimpse of what we can expect from the frustrated angry left in the 2006 campaign season: Dog Feces Left at Congresswoman’s Office. (Hat tip: zombie.) Greeley, Colo. (AP) — Republican U.S. Rep. Marilyn Musgrave’s re-election campaign was already heated, and it just got smelly as well: Her staff accused ...
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Another Day in Paradise
Thu, Jun 8, 2006 at 7:36:48 pm PDT
As an Al Qaeda martyr, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is entitled to 72 virgins in Heaven, the same 72 for all eternity, miraculously re-virginized at the beginning of each day, forever and ever: Zarqawi Dead; Most Beautiful of His 72 Virgins Light Candles, Put on KennyG Album. UPDATE at 6/8/06 8:28:09 pm: I ...
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The Reuters Template
Thu, Jun 8, 2006 at 5:45:50 pm PDT
Al-Reuters has a standard template for good news in the war on Islamic terrorism—locate and promote the angle that makes a victory look like a defeat. This example of the template has the classic headline: Zarqawi found, BUT bin Laden still eludes US. The article ends with a quote from George ...
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A Laptop for $100
Thu, Jun 8, 2006 at 4:16:48 pm PDT
The $100 laptop computer is here (well, a working model anyway, running Red Hat Linux), and boy is it ugly.
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Palestinians Support Headchopper Zarqawi
Thu, Jun 8, 2006 at 3:13:51 pm PDT
Palestinians demonstrate in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip late Thursday, June 8, 2006 to protest a US air raid in which Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the al-Qaida-linked militant who led a bloody campaign of suicide bombings, kidnappings and hostage beheadings in Iraq, was killed. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra) Such lovely people. Let’s ...
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A Bad Day for Hamas
Thu, Jun 8, 2006 at 3:02:18 pm PDT
Hamas, the terror gang that wants our money, has denounced the killing of head-chopping madman Abu Musab al-Zarqawi: Hamas mourns death of Al Zarqawi in ‘savage crusade campaign’. The ruling Palestinian faction Hamas on Thursday deplored the killing by U.S. warplanes of the al Qaeda leader in Iraq Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, ...
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Ahmadinejad Gloats
Thu, Jun 8, 2006 at 2:48:18 pm PDT
Iranian designated madman Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is gloating: Ahmadinejad: Iran to talk, U.S. gave in. TEHRAN, Iran - Iran’s president said Thursday his regime is ready for talks over its nuclear capabilities, but he sent mixed signals on how much is open for negotiation and suggested Tehran has the upper hand in ...
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Hitchens: Why Zarqawi's Death Matters
Thu, Jun 8, 2006 at 2:31:52 pm PDT
A great piece on why Zarqawi’s death matters, by Christopher Hitchens, concluding with this astute observation: If we had withdrawn from Iraq already, as the “peace” movement has been demanding, then one of the most revolting criminals of all time would have been able to claim that he forced us to ...
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Nutroots Babbling over Zarqawi
Thu, Jun 8, 2006 at 8:57:52 am PDT
It’s always a hoot to watch the “reality-based community” thrashing around after an important victory such as the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Before they get their talking points lined up, they babble uncontrollably like hyperactive foul-mouthed children with glossolalia. Dr. Sanity has a round-up of the reactions from the ...
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RoP Strikes in Thailand
Thu, Jun 8, 2006 at 8:46:58 am PDT
Five police killed in bomb blast. (Hat tip: Aussiemagpie.) A BOMB killed five policemen and wounded three in Thailand’s rebellious Muslim south today, police said. The bomb went off as the eight officers were travelling to pick up teachers from a school in Narathiwat, one of the three southernmost provinces where more ...
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Candygram for Zarqawi
Thu, Jun 8, 2006 at 8:36:01 am PDT
A reader emailed this CENTCOM aerial video of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s final moments: [Video]
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Islam Incompatible with Europe, Say Dutch
Thu, Jun 8, 2006 at 8:18:19 am PDT
A new poll in the Netherlands shows that 63% of Dutch adults believe Islam is incompatible with modern European life. (Hat tip: warbicycle.)
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Reuters: Still Hope for the Terrorists
Thu, Jun 8, 2006 at 7:57:21 am PDT
Al-Reuters immediately starts pushing the usual “it will only create more terrorists” canard: Zarqawi leaves gap but insurgency will outlive him. BERLIN, June 8 (Reuters) - The killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi removes the man who took Iraq’s insurgency to new heights of savagery but it also creates a martyr whose ...
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Nick Berg's Father Weeps for Zarqawi
Thu, Jun 8, 2006 at 7:53:47 am PDT
The father of Nick Berg is a tool of MoveOn.org and International ANSWER, and he responds in predictable moonbat fashion to the death of the man who decapitated his son: Father of Zarqawi victim draws no comfort from his death. NEW YORK (AFP) - The father of Nick Berg, a US ...
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Zarqawi is an Ex-Headchopper
Thu, Jun 8, 2006 at 7:45:17 am PDT
Very good news to start the day: Abu Musab al-Zarqawi killed in air raid. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) BAGHDAD, Iraq - Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the most-wanted terrorist in Iraq who waged a bloody campaign of beheadings and suicide bombings, was killed when U.S. warplanes dropped 500-pound bombs on his isolated safehouse, ...
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Wednesday Night Inlet
Wed, Jun 7, 2006 at 10:07:17 pm PDT
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"Progressives" Supporting the Troops Again
Wed, Jun 7, 2006 at 9:25:13 pm PDT
Hollywood Liberal was one of the moonbat bloggers invited to a special meeting with John F. Kerry. Here’s Hollywood Liberal reviewing the movie The Road to Guantanamo, showing us how the angry left really sees the American men and women serving in our armed forces: This film illustrates in crystal clear detail ...
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Briton Arrested in Canadian Terror Investigation
Wed, Jun 7, 2006 at 7:58:59 pm PDT
A British Muslim with possible connections to both the London 7/7 bombings and the alleged plots in Toronto has been arrested at Manchester airport. A BRITON said to be a key figure in an alleged plot to bomb public buildings in Canada, including the Parliament, was arrested by counter-terrorist police as ...
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Kofi Annan Agrees with Deputy's Anti-American Comments
Wed, Jun 7, 2006 at 7:07:08 pm PDT
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan gets all up in John Bolton’s face, and agrees with the anti-American remarks made by his Deputy Secretary-General Mark Malloch Brown at a meeting of transnational progressives: Annan rejects US plea that he repudiate his deputy. UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan refused on ...
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Yale Bails on Cole
Wed, Jun 7, 2006 at 6:52:34 pm PDT
Just realized I forgot to note that anti-Israel wacademic Juan Cole will not be teaching at Yale after all; I believe Power Line was first to report it: No teacher for Taliban Man. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Inside Higher Ed has reactions from Cole’s colleagues in the wacademy, at least one ...
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Gitmo Prisoner Plays the Koran Card
Wed, Jun 7, 2006 at 6:31:10 pm PDT
The hardcore terrorists left at Guantanamo Bay think they’ve identified a propaganda soft spot: Gitmo detainee says clash involved Qurans. SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - A Guantanamo Bay detainee who participated in a clash with U.S. military guards last month said it was sparked when guards tried to search prisoners’ Qurans, ...
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Ayatollah Khomeini, Circa 1942: RoPMA
Wed, Jun 7, 2006 at 2:49:17 pm PDT
From the book Anti-American Terrorism and the Middle East (a collection of source documents and statements from key militant Islamic figures), the late unlamented Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (subject of a recent gushing photographic tribute at the BBC) answers the question, “Is Islam a religion of peace?” (Hat tip: Brazilian Neocon.) Islam ...
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Haditha: Reasonable Doubt
Wed, Jun 7, 2006 at 2:24:07 pm PDT
Here’s a very interesting piece on Haditha at the Hawaii Reporter by Andrew Walden: Haditha: Reasonable Doubt. (Hat tip: Blackfive.) Only now—two and a half months after the story broke in the March 19 issue of Time magazine— are the voices of soldiers who question the charges beginning to be heard. Marine ...
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UK Suspect's Brother at Cartoon Jihad Hatefest
Wed, Jun 7, 2006 at 1:42:17 pm PDT
The brother of one of the suspects arrested in last week’s British anti-terror raids was photographed at the Cartoon Jihad demonstrations in February, wearing a Palestinian kaffiyeh as a mask and waving a black flag, with an associate dressed as a suicide bomber: Brother of terror raid men took part ...
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Blix Denies Technological "Point of No Return"
Wed, Jun 7, 2006 at 11:37:33 am PDT
Yesterday the Vital Perspective blog attended an Arms Control Association press briefing by former IAEA head Hans Blix, who now leads the independent WMD Commission, and they got to ask Blix an important question about his “arms control” philosophy. His answer is very revealing: Blix Denies Existence of ‘Technological Point ...
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Antisemitism at MPACUK
Wed, Jun 7, 2006 at 10:26:31 am PDT
The peaceful, tolerant Muslim Public Affairs Committee is attacking Melanie Phillips again, and many of the comments posted by Muslims below this nasty article reek of antisemitic hatred: MPACUK - The Bungled Terror Raids. It seems now, as information slowly leaks out that the intelligence was wrong. Rather than finding Magneto ...
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UN Springs Into Action, Lashes Out at US
Wed, Jun 7, 2006 at 10:05:23 am PDT
Speaking to a meeting of “progressive” transnationalists connected with billionaire moonbat George Soros, the United Nations’ second in command Mark Malloch Brown said the United States is undermining the UN with that hegemonic tool of neocolonialist oppression—criticism: Official of U.N. Says Americans Undermine It With Criticism. UNITED NATIONS, June 6 — ...
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Our Friends the Pakistanis
Wed, Jun 7, 2006 at 9:13:18 am PDT
Three million dollars to Hamas from our “allies” in Pakistan: Pakistan gives 3 million dollars ‘to alleviate Palestinian suffering’. ISLAMABAD (AFP) - Pakistan pledged to donate three million dollars to the Palestinian Authority which is facing a financial crisis after a western aid freeze to its Hamas-led government. The gift was announced ...
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Mapes: Crazy or Lying?
Wed, Jun 7, 2006 at 8:30:35 am PDT
Mary Mapes is in the Huffington Post (your one-stop source for the craziest of the loony left) today, insisting once again that the fraudulent CBS National Guard memos were genuine typewritten documents from the 1970s: Mary Mapes: In Defense of Dan Rather. Page Six restates the conservative canard that our report ...
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Peace in Our Time
Wed, Jun 7, 2006 at 8:17:20 am PDT
Rival Palestinian factions agree to end clashes. GAZA (Reuters) - The Fatah faction of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and the Hamas group agreed on Wednesday to halt their clashes even as they headed for a showdown over Abbas’s threat to hold a referendum on a statehood proposal. Why does this story ...
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Forced Marriages OK in the UK
Wed, Jun 7, 2006 at 8:07:42 am PDT
The custom of forced marriages, practiced almost exclusively by Britain’s Muslim community, is given an official pass by the British government: Forced marriage law ‘not needed’. (Hat tip: Niall.) The Home Office has decided a specific law to ban forced marriages in the UK is not needed. Ministers had asked groups and ...
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The Kos Kiss of Death Claims Another Victim
Wed, Jun 7, 2006 at 7:38:55 am PDT
Republican Brian Bilbray won his race for California’s 50th Congressional District yesterday. That gives ace Democratic operative Markos Moulitsas “Screw Them” Zuniga a perfect record for candidates he’s backed: zero for 20. UPDATE at 6/7/06 10:45:30 am: Instapundit notes that Markos backed Jon Tester in Montana, who won last night’s Democratic primary. I’m ...
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Final Virginia Jihadi Guilty
Tue, Jun 6, 2006 at 9:31:23 pm PDT
The final defendant in the “Virginia Jihad” case has been convicted of three counts of providing material support to Pakistani terror gang Lashkar-i-Taiba: Final Defendant Guilty in ‘Va. Jihad’. (Hat tip: SoCalJustice.) A federal jury yesterday convicted the last man charged as a member of the “Virginia jihad network,” deciding that ...
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Bernard Lewis and Islam
Tue, Jun 6, 2006 at 9:24:53 pm PDT
Andrew Bostom takes an interesting look at the career of Bernard Lewis: Bernard Lewis and Islam.
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Tuesday Night Beach
Tue, Jun 6, 2006 at 8:55:33 pm PDT
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CBS News: An Imminent Threat
Tue, Jun 6, 2006 at 8:32:06 pm PDT
CBS News says unnamed US officials and analysts have told them Another Terrorist Attack May Be Coming Soon. (CBS) U.S. officials believe Canadian arrests over the weekend and three recent domestic incidents in the United States are evidence the U.S. will soon be hit again by a terrorist attack. Privately, they say, ...
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Islamic Extremism, in a Classroom Near You
Tue, Jun 6, 2006 at 7:44:24 pm PDT
Via Concerned UCI Student, here's another video from the Muslim Student Union's hatefest at the University of California Irvine, in which Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's brother, Yossi Olmert, confronts a group of MSU Hamas supporters. UPDATE at 6/6/06 8:04:04 pm: If the video doesn't play above, here's the page at ...
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Muslim Hate Speech at UC Irvine
Tue, Jun 6, 2006 at 6:53:12 pm PDT
Here are excerpts (via StandWithUs.com) from a mind-blowingly hateful speech at UC Irvine on May 18, 2006 by Amir Abdel Malik Ali, sponsored by the Muslim Student Union, titled “Israel: the Fourth Reich.” [Video]
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Canadian Police Got Sensitivity Training
Tue, Jun 6, 2006 at 5:55:25 pm PDT
Before launching the anti-terror raids in Ontario, Canadian police were carefully instructed in Islamic traditions such as handling the Koran, the use of prayer mats, and blowing oneself up in the course of an arrest: Raid officers learned about Muslim traditions. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Before the raids came the sensitivity ...
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Google "Compromised Principles"
Tue, Jun 6, 2006 at 4:47:51 pm PDT
Following worldwide criticism, Google co-founder Sergey Brin admits they compromised their principles by allowing the Chinese government to censor search results. WASHINGTON - Google Inc. co-founder Sergey Brin acknowledged Tuesday the dominant Internet company has compromised its principles by accommodating Chinese censorship demands. He said Google is wrestling to make the ...
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AP Promotes Palestinian Big Lie
Tue, Jun 6, 2006 at 3:29:57 pm PDT
The Associated Press is responsible for promoting an outright lie in this article: Abbas rejects changes to Israeli proposal. RAMALLAH, West Bank - President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday said he would not accept any changes to a proposal calling for a two-state solution with Israel, raising the stakes in a dispute ...
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Blix's Neocolonialist Blather
Tue, Jun 6, 2006 at 2:42:45 pm PDT
Hans Blix says it’s the “contemptuous tone” and “neocolonialist attitude” of the United States that causes terrorism: Former weapons inspector decries U.S. tone against Iran. And humiliating Iran causes them to want nuclear weapons. TORONTO - The contemptuous tone of United States admonishments to Iran over its nuclear ambitions is but one ...
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FBI Says Muslim Student Groups Not Monitored
Tue, Jun 6, 2006 at 1:40:48 pm PDT
On May 27 we noted a report in the Orange County Register that the FBI was ramping up investigations of Islamic extremism in Orange County, specifically at UC Irvine. Last night the FBI met with Islamic student groups from the University of California Irvine (lgf: search) and the University of Southern ...
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Canadian Jihadi Accused of Planning to Behead Harper
Tue, Jun 6, 2006 at 12:59:37 pm PDT
Muslim convert Steven Chand (aka Abdul Shakur, although this Reuters report doesn’t mention it) was allegedly planning to decapitate Canada’s Prime Minister. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) BRAMPTON, Ontario (Reuters) - One of 17 men accused of plotting bombings in major Canadian cities and of training militants also faces an allegation that ...
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US Offers Throat to Iran
Tue, Jun 6, 2006 at 8:58:13 am PDT
Someone please tell me I’m still asleep, and having a nightmare about a world where John Kerry was elected in 2004: US to give Iran nuclear technology.
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Qayyum Abdul Jamal Profile
Tue, Jun 6, 2006 at 8:49:05 am PDT
At YouTube, a CBC profile on one of the alleged ringleaders of the Canadian jihadis: The National Qayyum Abdul Jamal Profile. (Hat tip: gumble.)
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Muslim Council of Britain Threatens Violence
Tue, Jun 6, 2006 at 8:34:56 am PDT
The Muslim Council of Britain’s new general secretary Muhammad Abdul Bari is threatening violence over last week’s British anti-terror raid: Muslims could take ‘law into own hands’ over terror raid: MCB. (Hat tip: Allahpundit.) LONDON (AFP) - The police were under pressure to clear up the confusion over last week’s massive ...
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D-Day Remembered
Tue, Jun 6, 2006 at 8:21:38 am PDT
Blackfive has a roundup of excellent blogosphere posts on D-Day: D-Day Remembered. And Confederate Yankee takes a look back at General George S. Patton’s Normandy Invasion speech: A Link In A Great Chain.
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BBC Still Angry About Osirak Reactor Bombing
Tue, Jun 6, 2006 at 8:12:13 am PDT
Twenty-five years later, the BBC is still trying to figure out whether it was a good thing that Israel stopped Saddam Hussein from gaining nuclear weapons: Have Your Say: Was Israel right to bomb Osirak? (Hat tip: Mark.) Idiotic comments abound.
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The Phony Palestinian Referendum
Tue, Jun 6, 2006 at 8:03:13 am PDT
The mainstream media is spreading absolute nonsense about the so-called “referendum” Mahmoud Abbas is pushing on Hamas: Abbas extends Hamas deadline on Israel. RAMALLAH, West Bank - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas gave the governing Hamas party on Tuesday three more days to accept a document that implicitly recognizes Israel, threatening to ...
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Angry Left Not Angry About Islamic Terrorism
Tue, Jun 6, 2006 at 7:46:28 am PDT
The profoundly unserious, serial tantrum-throwing angry left blogosphere has almost totally ignored the anti-terror raids in Canada; Ace of Spades and Seixon both tried to find some concern among the fools and hate-spewers, and came up empty. Probably too busy watching Truthout for news of Karl Rove being frogmarched to prison. ...
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Monday Night Meadow
Mon, Jun 5, 2006 at 8:39:29 pm PDT
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Javier Solana Springs into Action
Mon, Jun 5, 2006 at 6:17:51 pm PDT
The world waits with bated breath, as super-diplomat Javier Solana flies to Tehran to present the mullahs with the international community’s atomic proposals! TEHRAN (Reuters) - EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana will present Iran on Tuesday with proposals from six world powers aimed at persuading it to rein in a ...
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Palestinian Civil War Watch
Mon, Jun 5, 2006 at 5:08:26 pm PDT
“Gunmen” versus “media:” Gunmen storm Palestinian TV in challenge to Abbas. GAZA (Reuters) - Dozens of gunmen stormed into Palestine Television on Monday in a show of strength against President Mahmoud Abbas in the final hours before his deadline to Hamas to accept a manifesto implicitly recognizing Israel. Employees at a broadcasting ...
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Toronto Star: Hard to Find a Common Denominator
Mon, Jun 5, 2006 at 4:58:15 pm PDT
LGF reader WriterMom emailed a scan of page A3 of Sunday’s Toronto Star, featuring a classic case of willful blindness: UPDATE at 6/5/06 6:04:17 pm: Here’s the online version of the article: The ties that bind 17 suspects? (Hat tip: LGF readers.)
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Rather Told Marines He'd Shoot Morley Safer
Mon, Jun 5, 2006 at 3:46:41 pm PDT
Newsbusters notes a New York Post story on an unauthorized biography of Dan Rather, with some choice quotes from CBS executives: Rather is also raked over the coals by co-workers for the dubious handling of his report on President George W. Bush’s alleged lousy Air National Guard service record. Rather continued ...
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Palestinian Car Swarm Watch
Mon, Jun 5, 2006 at 3:28:59 pm PDT
An Israeli airstrike has killed a senior security officer Palestinian terrorist in Gaza: Israeli airstrike kills Palestinian militant. And that means ... car swarm! It also means another batch of weirdly off-key photo captions from the wire services, telling us Palestinians were “looking at,” “inspecting,” and “gathering around” the charred vehicle. And as ...
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A Message of Peace for the Yearly Kos
Mon, Jun 5, 2006 at 3:04:15 pm PDT
Here’s another reader-submitted promotional video for the Yearly Kos Konvention. (Hat tip: jimmy.) This is why we call them “the angry left.” [Video]
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The Biggest Elephant
Mon, Jun 5, 2006 at 12:22:37 pm PDT
Here’s a no-punches-pulled commentary at the Globe and Mail by Christie Blatchford: Ignoring the biggest elephant in the room. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) The full article is available only to registered readers, but you can read it even if you aren’t registered by using this link at Google News. I drove back ...
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Kerry Kourting Kos Kidz
Mon, Jun 5, 2006 at 10:11:20 am PDT
John Kerry is courting the angry left blogosphere, whispering sweet words of Bush-hatred to them off the record that he would never repeat in public (not yet, anyway): John Kerry: Bush A Criminal, Looting Country. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Luckily for us the moonbats on the loony left have no sense ...
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Sullivan Off the Rails Again
Mon, Jun 5, 2006 at 10:00:20 am PDT
Jeff Goldstein responds to yet another “torturing rogue nation” rant from Andrew Sullivan, prompted by the news that the Pentagon wants to rewrite training manuals to remove Geneva Convention rules against “humiliation:” Conservative Stalwart Andrew Sullivan is More Moral Than Thou.
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Dalrymple: All or Nothing
Mon, Jun 5, 2006 at 9:49:46 am PDT
At City Journal, Theodore Dalrymple suggests that the search for a moderate Islam may be futile: All or Nothing. The week following the Muslim protests in London against the Danish cartoons—with marchers carrying signs calling for the beheading of infidels—other Muslims demonstrated to claim that Islam really meant peace and tolerance. ...
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MCC Expresses Relief, Conspiracy Theories
Mon, Jun 5, 2006 at 9:32:24 am PDT
A reader emailed to suggest that I acknowledge when Muslim leaders explicitly condemn terrorism, pointing out this statement by the Muslim Canadian Congress expressing relief at the anti-terror arrests in Toronto. TORONTO - The Muslim Canadian Congress has expressed relief at the arrest of suspected members of a terror cell in ...
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Palestinian Work Accident Watch
Mon, Jun 5, 2006 at 9:19:41 am PDT
Explosion kills Hamas militant in Gaza. GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - A large explosion ripped through a house in northern Gaza on Monday, killing a member of the Hamas militant group and wounding two other people, including his 8-year-old son, hospital officials said. There were no details on the cause of the ...
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Jihad Camp in Ontario
Mon, Jun 5, 2006 at 9:03:41 am PDT
Residents in the rural area of Washago, Ontario, had a feeling something wasn’t right about the Muslims showing up with bags of heavy gear and camouflage clothing, and the bursts of automatic gunfire in the night. WASHAGO, Ont. — It was the bursts of automatic gunfire that made the farmer in ...
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Canadian Terror Supporters Turn Out
Mon, Jun 5, 2006 at 8:33:27 am PDT
The superstars of Canada’s radical Islamic community turned out at the courthouse in Brampton, Ontario, to support their brothers accused of planning mass murder: A gathering of familiar faces at Brampton courthouse. The subject matter isn’t the only disturbing thing about this report; note Globe and Mail journalist Colin Freeze’s bizarre ...
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The Impeccable Timing of the Loony Left
Mon, Jun 5, 2006 at 8:16:28 am PDT
At Small Dead Animals, video of Canada’s leftist NDP leader Jack Layton pandering to radical Islamic front group The Islamic Society of North America on May 20, calling for Canada to throw out its anti-terror legislation: Timing Is Everything.
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Islamic Web Site: "Remove All British Values"
Mon, Jun 5, 2006 at 8:00:43 am PDT
Following the anti-terror raids in London, Islamic web sites in Britain and other countries are seething with hatred for the kuffar: UK site: Can we help dying infidel? Internet sites run by young extremist Muslims in Britain and other Western countries have begun reacting to the anti-terror operation in London in ...
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Steyn: The Salivating Vietnam Culture
Mon, Jun 5, 2006 at 7:46:26 am PDT
Mark Steyn tries valiantly to provide some perspective amid the media feeding frenzy over the alleged massacre at Haditha: Events at Haditha don’t change need for victory. For three years, coalition forces in Iraq behaved so well that a salivating Vietnam culture had to make do with the thinnest of pickings: ...
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Sunday Night Flight
Sun, Jun 4, 2006 at 8:17:50 pm PDT
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Wires Ignoring Canadian Terror Arrests?
Sun, Jun 4, 2006 at 7:12:52 pm PDT
The only article about the Canadian terror arrests that currently shows up in Yahoo’s “Top Stories” RSS news feed: Toronto mosque vandalized after terrorism arrests. TORONTO (Reuters) - Vandals smashed 30 windows of a Toronto mosque and damaged nearby cars after the arrest of 17 suspected al Qaeda sympathizers accused of ...
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"The Middle of World War Three"
Sun, Jun 4, 2006 at 6:52:30 pm PDT
Hard-headed analysis at Ynet: Ex-Mossad chief warns of Muslim European cities. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Former Mossad Director [Ephraim Halevy] said Sunday during a meeting of the board of trustees of the Technion in Haifa that in his estimation “by the middle of the century major cities in Germany will have ...
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High Fashion Bush Derangement Syndrome
Sun, Jun 4, 2006 at 5:36:47 pm PDT
The upscale Marc Jacobs fashion outlet at 2142 Fillmore Street in glamorous San Francisco has unveiled a new window display: seven-foot high blue letters spelling out, “Worst President Ever!” The San Francisco Chronicle reported: The windows were ordered up by the visual department of Jacobs’ New York office, which tells me they ...
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Sunday Night Playlist
Sun, Jun 4, 2006 at 5:25:24 pm PDT
Tonight we have an odd mix of pop tunes: 1) Crowded House’s debut album contained Don’t Dream It’s Over, with a stately classical-tinged organ solo reminiscent of Procol Harum’s A Whiter Shade of Pale. An inspirational song. 2) Little Feat’s Willin’. One of the greatest trucker songs ever written. This is the ...
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MCB Elects New Front Man
Sun, Jun 4, 2006 at 4:37:42 pm PDT
The Muslim Council of Britain has elected a new general secretary, as the boycotter of Holocaust Remembrance Day, Sir Iqbal Sacranie, steps down: Muslim Council picks new leader. (Hat tip: sojourner.) The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) has elected Dr Muhammad Abdul Bari as its new general secretary at its annual ...
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Canadian Islamic Congress Blames Canada
Sun, Jun 4, 2006 at 2:39:33 pm PDT
Dr. Mohamed Elmasry of the Canadian Islamic Congress blames the Canadian government for the jihadis suspected of plotting mass murder: Canadian Islamic Congress | Media Communique. Following a wave of arrests overnight on June 3 that led to more than a dozen Toronto-area men and teens being held on charges of ...
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Palestinian Civil War Watch
Sun, Jun 4, 2006 at 2:22:30 pm PDT
“Gunmen” versus “militants:” Five bystanders killed in Gaza shootings: medics. GAZA (Reuters) - Palestinian gunmen killed five bystanders in two separate shooting incidents in the Gaza Strip on Sunday as tension between rival factions in the impoverished territory deteriorated even further. In the southern Gaza Strip town of Khan Younis gunmen killed ...
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The Inexplicable Radicalization of a Tiny Minority
Sun, Jun 4, 2006 at 2:11:33 pm PDT
Yesterday we noted a Canadian report on the jihadis arrested in Toronto, expressing shock that these young Canadian-born Muslims had “somehow become radicalized.” Well, as details emerge about the suspects, the shocks just keep on comin’. Because amazingly, astoundingly, in some inexplicable way that surpasses all understanding, some of the suspects ...
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European Support for Palestinians 'Crashes'
Sun, Jun 4, 2006 at 1:44:29 pm PDT
New polls taken in Europe by leading international pollster Stan Greenberg show that European support for Palestinians has fallen very dramatically: European support for Palestinians ‘crashes’. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Greenberg, a key pollster for president Clinton who also worked with former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak, conducted the surveys for ...
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DiManno: Here is Your War
Sun, Jun 4, 2006 at 1:11:10 pm PDT
Rosie DiManno, one of the Toronto Star’s few sane columnists, wants Canada to Take a good, hard look at what’s going on here. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) If the accusations prove true, this isn’t just slumming with jihad. For the benighted who claim that the war on terrorism is terrorism: Here ...
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Palestinian Civil War Watch
Sun, Jun 4, 2006 at 8:52:48 am PDT
Palestinian death cults threaten banks. GAZA CITY (AFP) - The armed wing of Hamas and three other groups have threatened Palestinian banks if they do not transfer salaries to civil servants, who remain unpaid since late February. “The national banks were created to serve the interests of the Palestinian people. If their ...
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The Dead End of Multiculturalism
Sun, Jun 4, 2006 at 8:43:50 am PDT
This is just sad: England afraid to fly its own flag. (Hat tip: BabbaZee.) Following warnings by extremist Islamic group al-Muhajiroun, in which the group said that the red cross in the England flag symbolizes the ‘blood thirsty crusaders’ and the occupation of Muslims, some of the largest companies in England ...
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Melanie Phillips at the New York Post
Sun, Jun 4, 2006 at 8:39:04 am PDT
Melanie Phillips has an op-ed in today’s New York Post, about the British “cultural vacuum” that has transformed London into Londonistan. Because British Prime Minister Tony Blair has been such a staunch friend to the United States, Americans assume that - unlike Europe - Britain generally is on side. They could ...
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What the Hell is Wrong with the BBC?
Sun, Jun 4, 2006 at 8:20:21 am PDT
As radical Islamic terrorists plot and scheme in Britain to launch nerve gas attacks, the BBC runs this gushing photographic tribute to one of the most disgusting, hate-filled icons of the worldwide jihad: In pictures: Remembering Khomeini.
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Europe's Politics of Victimology
Sun, Jun 4, 2006 at 8:11:29 am PDT
It’s a few days old, but if you haven’t read it yet I highly recommend Jyllands-Posten editor Flemming Rose’s essay on Europe’s Politics of Victimology. In Europe’s failure to grapple realistically with its dramatically changing demographic picture, I see a new parallel to that Cold War journey. Europe’s left is deceiving ...
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British Terrorists Planned Sarin Attack
Sun, Jun 4, 2006 at 8:06:35 am PDT
The Telegraph reports that the homegrown jihadis arrested in London were planning a sarin nerve gas attack for the anniversary of the July 7 bombings. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Terrorists were planning a chemical attack in London similar to the outrage on the Tokyo underground, according to police and the security ...
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Saturday Night Bay
Sat, Jun 3, 2006 at 8:57:16 pm PDT
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Religion of No Fun
Sat, Jun 3, 2006 at 8:53:25 pm PDT
Student organizations at Pakistan’s Punjab University are demanding that the school abolish music and drama courses. (Hat tip: Ixnay.) LAHORE: A handbill widely distributed by the Islami Jamiat Talaba (IJT) in the Punjab University denounced Punjab Governor Lt Gen (r) Khalid Maqbool and Punjab government’s policy to start music and drama ...
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CTV Report on Canadian Jihad
Sat, Jun 3, 2006 at 7:46:43 pm PDT
Here’s an interesting video report from Canada’s CTV on the terror arrests in Ontario. (Hat tip: Judeoscope.) [Video]
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CSIS Secret Document at National Post
Sat, Jun 3, 2006 at 7:37:08 pm PDT
Here’s a link to what seems to be a Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) top secret document, at the National Post: Sunni Islamic Extremism. If it really was secret, then obviously it isn’t secret any more—but it was probably classified because it’s double plus politically incorrect.
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Iran's Manhattan Project Continues
Sat, Jun 3, 2006 at 6:37:06 pm PDT
The mullahs and their designated madman seize another opportunity to play their favorite game: Cheat and retreat. Two steps forward, one step back. TEHRAN (Reuters) - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Saturday Iran would consider incentives from six world powers to persuade it to abandon plans to make nuclear fuel, but ...
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Canadian Jihad's Worldwide Links
Sat, Jun 3, 2006 at 6:13:07 pm PDT
The National Post says the Canadian terror arrests are linked to investigations in at least six other countries: Alleged Ontario terror plot has worldwide links. (Hat tip: Allahpundit.) TORONTO - A Canadian counter-terrorism investigation that led to the arrests of 17 people accused of plotting bombings in Ontario is linked to ...
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Cycle of Violence: Climbing in the Heat
Sat, Jun 3, 2006 at 5:19:42 pm PDT
Today’s ride: 51.20 miles, with two cycling friends, on several undisclosed routes ending up in Palos Verdes where we did two of the more difficult climbs in the area. The weather was exceptional and the wind was not fascist, but some of those hills were exerting hegemonic oppression on my ...
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Canadian Jihad's US Connection
Sat, Jun 3, 2006 at 5:13:30 pm PDT
A possible connection between the Canadian terror suspects and two US citizens from Georgia: Canada Nabs 17 Terror Suspects in Toronto. (Hat tip: Killgore Trout.) FBI Special Agent Richard Kolko, in Washington, D.C., said there may have been a connection between the Canadian suspects and a Georgia Tech student and another ...
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Canadian Terror Suspects Demand Korans
Sat, Jun 3, 2006 at 3:07:43 pm PDT
Family members dressed in burqas are seething and whining, Muslim lawyers are already talking about suing the police, and the suspects arrested on terror-related charges in Ontario are demanding to be given copies of the Koran. Family members of some of the men facing terrorism-related charges - wives, mothers and fathers ...
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