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LGF Archives: August 2007

Friday, August 31, 2007

Zombie: Walt and Mearsheimer, Right Where They Belong

Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 8:09:47 pm PDT

A book that deserves to be flushed. (Hat tip: zombie.) UPDATE at 9/1/07 6:34:50 pm: No books were harmed in the making of this photograph.

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Tags: Antisemitism, Mearsheimer, Walt

Flying Monkeys from Wireless Network Hell

Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 6:10:13 pm PDT

Flying monkeys from the dark side of wireless network hell plagued me all afternoon. Climbing under desks, plugging the same Ethernet and power cables, in and out, over and over. Configuring DHCP. Reconfiguring DHCP. Messing with the IP range(s). Reverting to factory defaults. Rinse and repeat. 802.11b. WEP. WPA Personal. ...

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Tags: Technical Info, Airport, Wireless Networking, DHCP, Wireless Router

LGF Technical Detour: More Javascript Updates

Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 12:45:30 pm PDT

Since some Firefox users have been reporting problems with the new popout menu code (the menus are in the left sidebar), I’ve revamped and simplified the Javascript for that feature, and removed the animated effect and timed delays. I’ve also added some Javascript that will let the menus work in ...

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Tags: Javascript, Technical Info, Ajax, Refactoring, JQuery, Suckerfish, Superfish, Menu

Ellison Keynote Speaker at ISNA Conference

Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 11:01:08 am PDT

As we noted yesterday, several Republican lawmakers have called on the Justice Department not to participate in a conference held this weekend by the Islamic Society of North America—a Muslim Brotherhood front group named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terror trial. Despite those troubling connections, Muslim Congressman ...

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Tags: CAIR, Muslim Brotherhood, MAS, ISNA, Keith Ellison, MFA

HuffPo Hate Speech, Continued

Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 10:26:26 am PDT

The announcement that Tony Snow will leave the White House soon has provoked yet another incredibly ugly thread of comments at Arianna Huffington’s hate site: Snow To Leave White House In Two Weeks - The Huffington Post. Here’s just one comment, out of dozens that are similar. bostongreen NYCIC, i should show ...

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Tags: Huffington Post, BDS, Hate Speech

Did Ellison Bail Out of Muslim Day Parade?

Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 9:46:24 am PDT

A poster announcing that Congressman Keith Ellison would lead the Muslim Day Parade in New York City has quietly disappeared from the Muslim Foundation of America web site: Organizers of Muslim Day Parade Remove Keith Ellison Flyer from Website, Fueling Speculation. (Coral Springs, FL) The Muslim Foundation of America.(MFA) has ...

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Tags: CAIR, Muslim Brotherhood, MAS, Keith Ellison, MFA

Second Temple Remnant Discovered by Islamic Diggers

Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 9:00:38 am PDT

Archaeologists: Muslim dig damaged Temple wall. A month-old Islamic dig on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount to replace faulty electrical cables has damaged an ancient wall that is likely a remnant of the Second Temple, Israeli archaeologists said Thursday. The work, which is being carried out with the approval of Prime Minister Ehud ...

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Tags: Israel, Land For Peace, Temple Mount

Swedish PM Responds to Iran and Pakistan

Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 8:27:08 am PDT

The Prime Minister of Sweden, Fredrik Reinfeldt, responds to the Muslim world’s ridiculous rage over the dreaded roundabout dogs of blasphemy: SvD: Reinfeldt om Muhammedprotesterna. A reader emailed a translation of his statement: I think it is important to say two things. The first is that we have been very keen ...

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Tags: Danish Cartoons, Mohammed, Cartoon Jihad, Sweden

AFP Pushes Antisemitism

Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 8:18:58 am PDT

Walt and Mearsheimer’s vile antisemitic book is about to be released to the public, and Agence France Presse is promoting it for all they’re worth: New book challenges US support for Israel. NEW YORK (AFP) - An upcoming book that challenges whether diplomatic and military support for Israel is in ...

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Tags: Antisemitism, Media Bias, Mearsheimer, Walt, AFP

Thursday, August 30, 2007

Myrick, Hoekstra, and King Slam ISNA Convention

Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 6:09:07 pm PDT

There are still some politicians who haven’t forgotten the lessons of September 11: Republicans slam Islamic Society convention. They happen to be Republicans, but if there were Democrats among them, their names would also be highlighted here. Republican lawmakers are urging the Justice Department not to participate in a convention held ...

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Tags: Radical Islam, Hamas, CAIR, Council On American Islamic Relations, Holy Land Foundation, ISNA

Thai PM Frustrated

Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 5:47:21 pm PDT

He’s made good will gestures. He’s made concessions. He’s reached out. But the jihadis keep slaughtering people indiscriminately. What’s a military-installed prime minister to do? BANGKOK (AFP) - Thai Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont said Wednesday that separatists fighting in Muslim-majority provinces have refused to take up his offer to launch peace talks. “As of ...

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Tags: Jihad, Islamic Supremacism, Thailand, South Thailand

Taliban: 'We Have Found This Way to Be Successful'

Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 5:15:42 pm PDT

On Tuesday I wrote about South Korea’s deal with the Taliban to release Korean hostages: Thereby guaranteeing that the Taliban will continue to kidnap and murder foreigners. Why shouldn’t they? It’s obviously achieving their goals. But don’t take my word for it. Taliban vows more abductions as hostages freed. The ...

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Tags: Terrorism, Taliban, Afghanistan, RoP, Kidnapping, South Korea

Thursday Afternoon Open

Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 1:09:16 pm PDT

It’s a heat wave in Los Angeles open thread...

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Tags: Open Thread

Aussie Islamic Leader: Mary in a Burqa is 'Not At All Offensive'

Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 11:18:19 am PDT

Australian Christians are offended, but not murderously so, about a statue of the Virgin Mary in a burqa and an image of Jesus Christ that morphs into Osama bin Laden. The Anglican bishop of South Sydney, Robert Forsyth, said he was surprised by offended reactions to the artwork. “Christians are not ...

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Tags: Islam, Art, Australia, Christianity

CNN Drops Reuters

Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 10:33:05 am PDT

News from the world of huge transnational media organizations: CNN is dropping the Reuters news service. NEW YORK (Reuters) - The CNN cable television news network said on Thursday it would stop using the Reuters news service, ending a 27-year relationship, to contain costs and invest in its own news ...

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Tags: Reuters, CNN

Nerve Gas Discovered at United Nations Building?

Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 9:52:38 am PDT

According to ABC News, UN weapons inspectors have finally discovered some weapons of mass destruction—at a United Nations building in Manhattan: Nerve Gas Scare at U.N. Headquarters. United Nations weapons inspectors discovered six to eight vials of a dangerous nerve gas, phosgene, as they were cleaning out offices at a ...

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Tags: WMD, United Nations, Nerve Gas

Pakistan Whines to Sweden About Mohammed Sketches

Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 9:15:03 am PDT

Our ally Pakistan is now getting into the “billions of offended Muslims” act, whining to the Swedish government about the dreaded roundabout dogs of blasphemy: Pakistan slams Sweden for Muhammad cartoon. And it seems that the Swedish government is already beginning to cave in. Pakistan has added its voice to that ...

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Tags: Danish Cartoons, Mohammed, Cartoon Jihad, Sweden

IAEA Springs Into Action, Praises Iran

Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 9:04:43 am PDT

I’m sure it’s just coincidence that the UN’s toothless nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, chose to praise Iran (for what appears to be very minimal cooperation, at best) immediately after a speech by President Bush about Iran’s nuclear threat: IAEA: Iranian cooperation significant. VIENNA, Austria - The U.N. ...

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Tags: Iran, Nuclear Proliferation, Nuclear Weapons, United Nations, UN, IAEA

Plane Bound for Chicago Grounded After Argument

Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 8:38:55 am PDT

Be prepared for the next episode of CAIR’s grievance theater; I’m surprised they’re not all over this one already: Plane bound for Chicago held after dispute involving Arabic-speaking men. SAN DIEGO - All passengers on an American Airlines redeye flight to Chicago were ordered off a plane after complaints about ...

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Tags: Radical Islam, CAIR, Propaganda, Council On American Islamic Relations, Chicago, Grievance Theater

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

And Now for Some Harmonics

Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 9:16:32 pm PDT

Tommy Emmanuel, Somewhere Over the Rainbow. [Video]

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Tags: Open Thread, Acoustic Guitar, Tommy Emmanuel

Iowahawk: Find of the Century

Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 6:12:01 pm PDT

Ed “Big Daddy” Roth’s Orbitron show car has been found, sadly dilapidated and reduced to serving as a trash receptacle in front of an adult book store, but still retaining traces of its former bubble-domed glory: Iowahawk: Find of the Century. Oh ... and registration is now open for a little ...

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Tags: Iowahawk, Registration

Investigative Project on Terrorism Launches Web Site

Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 4:39:26 pm PDT

Steven Emerson’s research group, founded in 1995, has finally launched their web site: The Investigative Project on Terrorism. Bookmark this one; it’s a great resource, packed with information on many of the radical Islamic front groups now in the news.

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Tags: Steven Emerson, IPT

Wednesday Afternoon Open Thread (Now Without Drunken Astronauts)

Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 1:46:52 pm PDT

Brown shoes don’t make it. — Frank Zappa UPDATE at 8/29/07 1:49:51 pm: And by the way, there were no drunken astronauts. WASHINGTON (AFP) - NASA’s safety chief Wednesday dismissed sensational claims that astronauts had been drunk on flight missions, boosting the US space agency’s battle to repair its tarnished credibility. A month-long review ...

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Tags: Open Thread

Massive Christian Riots Rock Australia (Not Really)

Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 12:20:04 pm PDT

Australian Christians poured out of churches across the country, smashing store windows and setting fire to cars, chanting “Death to the Blake Society!” after an art competition included images of the Virgin Mary in a burqa, and Osama bin Laden morphing into Jesus Christ. Oh, wait. No they didn’t. CONTROVERSY has erupted ...

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Tags: Islam, Art, Australia, Christianity

Marketing Terror Symbols to Teens

Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 11:27:06 am PDT

Urban Outfitters called their version an “anti-war scarf.” UK clothing store ARK was a little more honest; they called it an “Arafat scarf.” When Kirsten Dunst showed up with one in Teen Vogue magazine, they called it a “breezy global-chic scarf.” Delias.com called it a “peace scarf,” but when people protested they changed ...

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Tags: Palestinians, Anti-war, Fatah, Intifada, Kaffiyeh

The Mainstream Media and Iraq

Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 10:32:27 am PDT

Here’s a terrific post from Karl at Protein Wisdom, a monumental, heavily-sourced overview of the establishment media’s coverage of the Iraq War: The Big Picture(s). There’s so much malfeasance, sloppiness, propaganda, and outright bias on display here that it’s a little overwhelming—but this is why so many of us are unhappy ...

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Tags: Media Bias, Iraq, Military, Mainstream Media

Video: Dissident Frogman Helps Out AFP

Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 10:03:29 am PDT

Here’s a French mime who won’t make you want to run screaming out of the room: Like a suppository, only a bit stronger.

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Tags: AFP, Media Incompetence, Blooper

London-Based Arab Editor: I'll Dance in Trafalgar Square When Iran Nukes Israel

Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 9:52:29 am PDT

Abd Al-Bari Atwan, editor-in-chief of the UK-based Arabic daily Al-Quds Al-Arabi, told a Lebanese TV interviewer he will dance in Trafalgar Square when Iran nukes Israel. Bari Atwan is also a contributor to the BBC and Sky News, neither of whom seem to have much of a problem with this. Bari ...

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Tags: Radical Islam, Israel, Islam, Iran, Nuclear Proliferation, Ahmadinejad, Britain

WaPo Staffers Get Emotional

Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 9:43:20 am PDT

The Nose On Your Face has an inside look at the Washington Post staff meeting at which the Opus cartoon mocking radical Islam was shown to Muslim employees: Washington Post Muslim Staffers’ “Emotional” Reaction To Opus Cartoon.

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Tags: Danish Cartoons, Free Speech, Washington Post, Dhimmitude, Cartoon, Berkeley Breathed, Opus

Japanese Internet Access: Really Really Fast

Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 9:19:26 am PDT

The Japanese are getting download speeds of 61 mbps over fiber optic cable: Japan’s Warp-Speed Ride to Internet Future. I feel cheated. TOKYO — Americans invented the Internet, but the Japanese are running away with it. Broadband service here is eight to 30 times as fast as in the United States — and ...

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Tags: Internet, Fiber Optic

Terrorists Angry at Human Rights Watch

Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 8:44:48 am PDT

The extremely anti-Israel NGO Human Rights Watch is releasing a report that, for a change, actually criticizes Hizballah for its deliberate targeting of civilians and use of human shields during the Lebanon War—and both Hizballah and the Lebanese government are freaking out: Lebanon slams rights report on Hezbollah war with ...

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Tags: Hizballah, Lebanon, Human Rights Watch

Wednesday Morning Rush Hour

Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 8:25:20 am PDT

Here’s an open thread for Wednesday morning, as we feed electrolytes to the server hamsters to help them recover from the latest traffic surges...

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Tags: Open Thread

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

And Now for Some Virtuosity

Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 8:52:05 pm PDT

Allan Holdsworth, Tokyo, 1984. [Video]

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Tags: Open Thread, Music, Allan Holdsworth

LGF Registration Open (Update - Shut)

Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 5:37:25 pm PDT

Yes, the doors are open again, for the proverbial “limited time.” NOTE! The most common cause of failure to receive our activation emails is the dreaded spam filter. Before registering, please make sure any spam filtering is turned off. If you’re using a challenge-response system (such as Earthlink’s), add littlegreenfootballs.com to ...

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Tags: Registration

LGF Creeping Feature-itis Watch

Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 4:16:02 pm PDT

To free up some screen real estate and get things organized a little better, all those little boxes full of links in our left sidebar have now been replaced with a series of popout menus, right below the login area. These menus were created with jQuery and the Superfish plugin, along ...

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Tags: Javascript, Technical Info, Ajax, Refactoring, JQuery, Suckerfish, Superfish, Menu

Operation Soccer Chopper

Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 3:54:39 pm PDT

Here’s the web site for Operation Soccer Chopper, the group of soldiers and families who are bringing soccer balls to the children of Afghanistan—yes, those very same dreaded soccer balls of blasphemy. Some great photos here. Previously at LGF: The Dreaded Balls of Blasphemy Transnational Soccer Balls of Blasphemy, the Sequel Military Apologizes for Dreaded ...

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Tags: Afghanistan, RoP, Soccer, Blasphemy

Islamist Wins Turkish Presidency

Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 9:45:16 am PDT

Very bad news from Turkey, but not unexpected: Former Islamist wins Turkish presidency. (I’d like to know what a “former” Islamist is, besides another example of media mendacity.) ANKARA, Turkey - A devout Muslim with a background in political Islam won the Turkish presidency on Tuesday, in a major triumph for the ...

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Tags: Radical Islam, Turkey, Islamism, Secularism

Washington Post Bows to Their New Islamic Overlords

Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 9:32:20 am PDT

As we reported last Friday, the Washington Post and several other newspapers decided not to run a new Opus comic strip by Berkeley Breathed, because it mocked radical Islam. As always, everyone involved is talking about “sensitivity,” when the real motivation behind this craven incident of pre-emptive self-censorship is very obviously ...

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Tags: Danish Cartoons, Free Speech, Washington Post, Dhimmitude, Cartoon, Berkeley Breathed, Opus

Korean Hostages to Be Released After Seoul Capitulates

Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 8:49:57 am PDT

South Korea has reached a deal with the Taliban: Taliban: Korean hostages to be released. The “deal?” Complete surrender by South Korea. SEOUL, South Korea (CNN) — South Korean negotiators in Afghanistan have reached a deal with Taliban militants holding 19 South Korean Christian aid workers for over a month, a presidential ...

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Tags: Terrorism, Taliban, Afghanistan, RoP, Kidnapping, South Korea

TIME Magazine in Full BDS Mode

Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 8:24:47 am PDT

The TIME Magazine headline reads: Bush Motorcade Kills Cop. So the evil neocons must have run over this poor cop with their gas-guzzling limousines, right? Well, not exactly. The 40-year-old Rio Rancho officer, whose name was not released pending notification of relatives, crashed at the Albuquerque airport at a point where a road ...

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Tags: Moonbats, TIME, BDS

Daily Kos 'Seize Bush's Assets' Post Deleted

Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 8:11:57 am PDT

The Daily Kos diary we noted yesterday titled “George W. Bush’s Property Should Be Seized” has now disappeared, along with all its comments: Daily Kos: George W. Bush’s Property Should Be Seized. Imagine the reaction from the left if I (or any other center-right blogger) started deleting entire posts and all ...

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Tags: Moonbats, Daily Kos, BDS, Useful Idiots, Progressives

Monday, August 27, 2007

Zombie: The Al-Haramain Surveillance Hearing, v2.0

Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 7:48:57 pm PDT

Zombie’s coverage of the Al-Haramain Surveillance Hearing has been greatly enhanced and updated since we linked to it last Wednesday; kudos to the z-creature for this inside look at a momentous terrorism trial being ignored by mainstream media.

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Tags: Zombie, Islamic Charity, Al-Haramain

Monday Afternoon Open

Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 5:00:25 pm PDT

Here’s an open thread for a warm Monday afternoon turning into evening, as I install and configure a new 802.11n wireless router in my office... UPDATE at 8/27/07 7:06:40 pm: I recently installed Parallels Desktop to run Windows XP on my Mac laptop, and after struggling to get XP to recognize the ...

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Tags: Open Thread

Military Apologizes for Dreaded Soccer Balls of Blasphemy

Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 11:39:07 am PDT

Yes, that’s right, our military is publicly apologizing today to the usual gang of hyper-sensitive Dark Ages morons, for the crime of trying to bring some fun into the lives of Afghan children: U.S. military regrets ‘blasphemous’ balls for Afghans. KABUL (Reuters) - The U.S. military in Afghanistan on Monday expressed ...

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Tags: Afghanistan, RoP, Soccer, Blasphemy

Cartoon Jihad, Swedish-Style

Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 10:57:54 am PDT

Swedish artist Lars Vilks created a series of sketches showing Mohammed as a “roundabout dog,” and I’ll bet you can already guess where this is headed: Iran protests over Swedish Muhammad cartoon. Iran summoned a Swedish diplomat to its foreign ministry on Monday to protest against a cartoon in a Swedish ...

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Tags: Danish Cartoons, Mohammed, Cartoon Jihad, Sweden

A Lifelong Inspiration

Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 10:48:27 am PDT

Go read this. You won’t be sorry. My cousin Frankie.

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Tags: Vietnam

Kos Kid: George W. Bush's Property Should Be Seized

Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 10:08:18 am PDT

Today’s message from the new mainstream voice of the modern Democratic Party: Daily Kos: George W. Bush’s Property Should Be Seized. OK, so how did I get to this conclusion? The war itself is threatening peace and stability in Iraq. Our current regime has, in fact, undermined efforts to promote economic reconstruction ...

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Tags: Moonbats, Daily Kos, BDS, Useful Idiots, Progressives

Traffic Surge Open Thread

Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 9:33:13 am PDT

Our server hamsters are sprinting like furry demons, because of a link at FARK.com. The initial surge of traffic overwhelmed Apache, but we seem to be clinging to connectivity now.

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Tags: Open Thread, Traffic

Mujahideen Child Abuse

Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 8:53:42 am PDT

This kind of monstrous depravity is now to be expected from Islamic “holy warriors:” Boy shown beheading Pakistani soldier in video. DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan - Pro-Taleban militants have released a video of an apparently teenage boy beheading one of 16 Pakistani soldiers kidnapped in a restive tribal area bordering Afghanistan. The ...

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Tags: Militant Islam, Pakistan, Al Qaeda, Taliban, Afghanistan, Beheading, Child Abuse

Gonzales a Goner

Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 8:36:00 am PDT

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has resigned.

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Tags: Politics, Gonzales

HuffPo Military Coup Writer: It Was Satire, Wingnuts

Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 8:28:40 am PDT

Martin Lewis, who wrote that twisted article at Huffington Post calling for Gen. Peter Pace to stage a military coup and arrest President Bush, now says he was only kidding. Wingnuts are “smearing” him for nothing more than a little joke: Martin Lewis: ‘Let’s Twist Again’: Right-wing Bloggers Smear HuffPost. Here’s ...

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Tags: Huffington Post, BDS, Hate Speech

Justice Dept. Sponsors Radical Islamic Front Group

Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 8:11:14 am PDT

Political correctness and self-imposed blindness running amok at the Justice Department: U.S. sponsors Islamic convention. The Justice Department is co-sponsoring a convention held by the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) — an unindicted co-conspirator in an ongoing federal terrorist funding case — a move that is raising concerns among the ...

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Tags: Radical Islam, Hamas, CAIR, Council On American Islamic Relations, Holy Land Foundation, ISNA

Sunday, August 26, 2007

Iraqis Protest at Saudi Embassy

Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 6:28:55 pm PDT

We need more of this. A lot more: IRAQIS PROTEST TERROR- Hold Rally at Saudi Embassy.

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Tags: Saudi Arabia, Demonstration, Iraq, Jihad

Transnational Soccer Balls of Blasphemy, the Sequel

Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 6:01:39 pm PDT

When I posted earlier about the dreaded balls of blasphemy, I had forgotten that I own such a transnational soccer ball (actually, a miniature hacky-sack style promo version), acquired at a forgotten tour party in Europe, sometime while the Soviet Union was still in existence. No Saudi Arabian flag on this ...

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Tags: Afghanistan, RoP, Soccer, Blasphemy

Daily Kos Diary: Mainstream Marxism

Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 5:05:46 pm PDT

Marxism has only killed 100 million people, so naturally at the new voice of the mainstream center Democratic Party, they’re ready to give it another chance: Daily Kos: Is Marx relevant to American politics? I think so. Karl Marx has, paradoxically, a bad name amongst the political mainstream and yet an ...

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Tags: Moonbats, Daily Kos, Useful Idiots, Marxism, Progressives, Karl Marx

Sunday Afternoon Open

Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 4:09:45 pm PDT

To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself. — Albert Einstein

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Tags: Open Thread

Emerson: The HLF-CAIR Connections

Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 3:29:20 pm PDT

It’s disgraceful how little coverage the Holy Land Foundation trial—the largest terror financing trial in history, implicating some very high-profile Islamic advocacy groups—is getting in US mainstream media, and Steven Emerson tries to fill some of the gaps: HLF and CAIR, a Supplement to Mainstream Reporting. CAIR was founded by high ...

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Tags: Radical Islam, Hamas, CAIR, Council On American Islamic Relations, Holy Land Foundation

Dutch Bible Museum Goes 'Multicultural'

Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 1:37:59 pm PDT

Money from the Persian Gulf state of Oman is being used to expand a famous Roman Catholic museum in The Hague—to include a mosque, a House of Koran, and a House of Mohammed: Former Bible Museum Opens House of Koran. THE HAGUE, 22/08/07 - The former Open Air Bible Museum near ...

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Tags: Islam, Dhimmitude, Allah, Netherlands, Catholicism

Newsweek: The Ongoing Hunt for Osama Bin Laden

Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 11:55:56 am PDT

Newsweek comes in for plenty of well-deserved criticism around here, particularly for their egregious whitewashes of radical Islam and their blatantly leftist bias, but here’s an article they did right: The Ongoing Hunt for Osama bin Laden. It’s a little difficult to read, because it confirms all our worst fears about ...

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Tags: War On Terror, Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, Newsweek

The Dreaded Balls of Blasphemy

Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 9:23:54 am PDT

US troops are accused of “insulting Islam” again, for distributing soccer balls bearing the flag of Saudi Arabia: ’Blasphemous’ balls anger Afghans. A demonstration has been held in south- east Afghanistan accusing US troops of insulting Islam after they distributed footballs bearing the name of Allah. The balls showed the Saudi Arabian ...

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Tags: Afghanistan, RoP, Blasphemy

Religion of Peace Strikes Again in Somalia

Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 8:48:05 am PDT

A bombing at a school killed two teenaged boys in the Somalia jihad: Bomb blast kills 2 Somali schoolboys. MOGADISHU, Somalia - A bomb blast in the war-wracked Somali capital of Mogadishu killed two school boys and wounded a man on Sunday, the manager of their school said. Mohamed Ahmed Farah, ...

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Tags: Terrorism, RoP, Somalia

Religion of Peace Strikes Again in Pakistan

Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 8:35:53 am PDT

Four more dead in a suicide bombing in Pakistan: Suicide bomber kills four Pakistani policemen. ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A suicide bomber in a car killed four policemen and wounded two in an attack in northwestern Pakistan on Sunday, police said. Violence has escalated in Pakistan since a peace deal with tribal ...

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Tags: Militant Islam, Pakistan, RoP, Red Mosque

Religion of Peace Strikes Again in Thailand

Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 8:25:28 am PDT

Four more dead in the south Thailand jihad, as media reports use every possible euphemism to describe the killers: Four killed, 2 wounded in Muslim Thai south. To avoid calling the killers “terrorists,” this short article manages to cram in four different words: “militants,” “insurgents,” “rebels,” and “separatists.” YALA, Thailand (Reuters) - ...

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Tags: Jihad, Islamic Supremacism, Thailand, South Thailand

Saturday, August 25, 2007

And Now for Some Finger Picking

Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 9:17:12 pm PDT

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Tags: Open Thread, Andy McKee, Acoustic Guitar

Bluegrass Musician is Temporary Ambassador to Germany

Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 5:46:16 pm PDT

Jamie Daley: America’s first bluegrass ambassador. Jamie Dailey left yesterday functioning in the role of temporary Ambassador and serving as Chairman of the Delegation for the ACG (American Council on Germany). The twelve day trip begins in Munich, tours the country of Germany, and culminates in Berlin. Jaimie is known to bluegrass ...

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Tags: Germany, Ambassador, Jamie Daley

Hitchens: A Blunder Too Far for Bush

Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 5:23:38 pm PDT

Here’s Christopher Hitchens on President Bush’s unfortunate and ill-advised mangling of the Vietnam metaphor: To invoke Vietnam was a blunder too far for Bush. ...Here is a man who believes the ‘jury’ is still ‘out’ on whether we evolved as a species, who regards stem cell research as something profane, who ...

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Tags: President Bush, Christopher Hitchens

HuffPo Writer Calls for Military Coup in US

Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 3:45:02 pm PDT

The Huffington Post continues to produce the craziest of left-wing writing; now there’s an idiot calling for Peter Pace to stage a military coup. Will this stellar example of moonbat thought also be featured at Yahoo News?

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Tags: Huffington Post, BDS, Hate Speech

Palestinian Mass Murder Attack Thwarted

Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 2:48:54 pm PDT

They were probably trying to kidnap more Israelis, or at least kill as many as possible: Israel thwarts Palestinian infiltration. JERUSALEM - Under the cover of fog, two heavily armed Palestinian militants used a rope and ladder to scale a border wall Saturday and enter Israel from Gaza, attacking an army ...

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Tags: Palestinians, Hamas, Terrorism, Fatah, Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades

Hyderabad Attackers: Not Buddhists

Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 12:33:47 pm PDT

HuJI behind twin blasts in Hyderabad. NEW DELHI: Central security agencies on Saturday night said that banned Harkat-ul-Jehadi Islami militant outfit of Bangladesh was possibly behind the twin blast in Hyderabad in which 30 people were killed. Sources in New Delhi said that there could be similarities between the explosives used ...

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Tags: Terrorism, Bombings, India

LGF Technical Detour: Javascript Updates

Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 11:23:51 am PDT

A new version of the jQuery Javascript library has been released, and I’ve installed it to check it out. It’s supposed to have some very big speed improvements, which should result in faster loading LGF pages. Since some of you have reported problems with previous versions of jQuery, especially with 1.x ...

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Tags: Javascript, Technical Info, Ajax, Refactoring, JQuery

Major Terror Attack in India

Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 9:55:06 am PDT

Here’s the Times of India report on two simultaneous bombings in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad today: 30 killed, 60 wounded as terror strikes Hyderabad. HYDERABAD: In a major terror strike, at least 30 persons were killed and about 60 injured in two powerful near-simultaneous blasts at a crowded park ...

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Tags: Terrorism, Bombings, India

New Zealand Nazi Pizza

Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 9:35:11 am PDT

The owners of a New Zealand restaurant chain thought it would be amusing to use an image of one of history’s worst mass murderers to sell pizza. After complaints, they removed Hitler from their ads and replaced him with Pope Benedict. New Zealand restaurant chain Hell Pizza is currently under fire for ...

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Tags: Hitler, New Zealand, Pizza

Yon: The Ghosts of Anbar

Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 8:56:00 am PDT

An excellent piece of battlefield writing from Michael Yon: The Ghosts of Anbar, Part 1 of 4.

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Tags: Iraq, Michael Yon, Anbar

Fisk Joins the Troofers

Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 8:29:05 am PDT

From Cox & Forkum Editorial Cartoons. Meanwhile, British crackhead journalist Robert Fisk shows once again why he inspired the LGF Idiotarian of the Year Award (the “Fiskie”), with a screed in the Independent that embraces the Troofer view of reality: Robert Fisk: Even I question the ‘truth’ about 9/11. A classic title—“even ...

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Tags: 9/11, September 11, Moonbats, Truthers, Robert Fisk, Conspiracies

Belgian Muslims Demand Ban on Easter Eggs

Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 8:05:23 am PDT

Muslims in Belgium are angry (yes, really!) about a ban on the radical Islamic symbol of domination over women, the hijab, for employees of the city of Antwerp. So they’re demanding that the city also ban Christmas trees and Easter eggs. ANTWERP – “If headscarves are banned for employees who work at ...

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Tags: Radical Islam, Misogyny, Hijab, Women's Rights, Belgium

Religion of Peace Strikes Again in Thailand

Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 7:39:32 am PDT

Another woman killed and 12 more people wounded in the south Thailand jihad: One dead, 12 injured in Thai bomb attack. BANGKOK (AFP) - A Buddhist woman was killed and 12 others wounded, including six soldiers, when a roadside bomb exploded Saturday in Thailand’s restive Muslim-majority south, police said. The seven-kilogram ...

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Tags: Jihad, Islamic Supremacism, Thailand, South Thailand

Friday, August 24, 2007

LGF Registration Open (Update: Closed)

Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 6:54:16 pm PDT

Registration is now open. Does “limited time” sound familiar? UPDATE at 8/24/07 7:15:30 pm: Now closed, wth 99 hatchlings.

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Video: The Nuge Goes Off

Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 6:34:27 pm PDT

Ted Nugent: the next Don Imus?

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Tags: Politics, Ted Nugent, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama

Opus Censored by MSM Fear of RoP

Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 6:12:36 pm PDT

Cartoonist Berkeley Breathed has inked his share of anti-Bush episodes, but tonight he’s run afoul of an enemy that really does want to destroy his free speech. And I’m not talking about radical Islamic front groups this time. Berkeley Breathed is being preemptively censored by our very own Western mainstream media. Note ...

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Tags: Danish Cartoons, Free Speech, Cartoon, Berkeley Breathed, Opus

Castro Death Watch Open Thread

Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 5:49:59 pm PDT

Since so many members of the lizard army have emailed about the rumors that Fidel Castro has finally joined the Choir Invisible (read: is dead), here’s an open thread to kick the gossip around. I’m doubtful; too many false alarms. But the old crocodile can’t live forever, and one of these ...

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Tags: Open Thread, Cuba, Fidel Castro

The Most Secure Place in the World

Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 3:34:00 pm PDT

It seems like there’s another Palestinian “graduation ceremony” for “security forces” every few days lately. Why, with all those highly trained security personnel, the West Bank and Gaza must be the most secure places in the world! Just last week we had the Return of the Son of the Incredibly Strange ...

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Tags: Palestinians, Fatah, Security Forces, Graduation Ceremony

iPhone Liberated from ATT?

Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 2:56:33 pm PDT

One of the big downsides to Apple’s otherwise very cool iPhone is that it’s locked to the AT&T network. Or I should say, it was locked in to AT&T; there are two companies now claiming to have software solutions that allow the iPhone to be activated with SIM cards from ...

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Tags: Technology, IPhone

Savagery in St. Paul

Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 10:17:10 am PDT

Michelle Malkin has the details of a horrific assault in a Somali neighborhood of the Twin Cities, witnessed by neighbors who did nothing to help: The ghost of Kitty Genovese in St. Paul ... and breaking the silence in Afghanistan. As many as 10 people witnessed a man raping and beating ...

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Tags: Somalia, Minneapolis, St. Paul

Daily Kos Diary: Iraq is Like Cuba, Sort Of

Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 9:40:48 am PDT

Penetrating political analysis from the new home of the mainstream Democratic Party: Daily Kos: Everything Changed on 1/8/1959. Figuring it all out, from the perspective of the basement in mom’s house. For some time, I have contemplated how so many Americans have been frozen in the moment of the 9/11 attacks. That ...

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Tags: Moonbats, Daily Kos, Cuba, Useful Idiots, Progressives

Roggio: The Eastern Afghanistan Offensive

Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 9:36:48 am PDT

Bill Roggio reports on the major offensive in eastern Afghanistan, with much more detail than you’ll get from the wire services: The eastern Afghanistan offensive. The battle at the Tora Bora mountains in Nangarhar province has completed its first week, the fighting has intensified as Afghan Army and US forces hunt ...

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Tags: Al Qaeda, Taliban, Osama Bin Laden, Afghanistan

Video: Hamas Lion vs. Fatah Rats

Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 8:43:15 am PDT

From Hamas’ Al Aqsa TV, a cheerful little animated episode (it’s all about the children) featuring Hamas as a lion, and Fatah as a gang of rats. (Courtesy of MEMRI TV.) [Video]

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Convicted Al Qaeda Terrorist Sues US Officials

Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 8:29:51 am PDT

Jose Padilla may face life in prison after being convicted of conspiracy with Al Qaeda to wage jihad, but his lawyers are still seeking to sue the government over what they call “gross physical and psychological abuse:” Padilla sues US officials over confinement. Convicted Al Qaeda operative Jose Padilla is seeking ...

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HLF Trial: Fearing the Law They Face

Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 8:09:27 am PDT

Yesterday at the Holy Land Foundation trial in Dallas, the government introduced more evidence of HLF’s connections to Hamas—and their panic when the US outlawed support to the radical Islamist group: Counterterrorism Blog: Fearing the Law They Face. Congressional plans to outlaw material support for designated terrorist groups and their leaders ...

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Tags: Radical Islam, Hamas, CAIR, Council On American Islamic Relations, Holy Land Foundation

Thursday, August 23, 2007

And Now for Some Vaporware

Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 7:47:03 pm PDT

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Breitbart Interviews Dollard

Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 7:26:54 pm PDT

Andrew Breitbart interviews Pat Dollard: Dollard Talks Iraq Media Coverage, Upcoming Surge Report.

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Tags: Iraq, Military, Dollard

LGF Registration Open (Update: Closed)

Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 6:19:29 pm PDT

Notoriously dilettantish, as always, we open registration for the proverbial “limited time” on a Thursday evening. Inconceivable. UPDATE at 8/23/07 6:50:02 pm: Now closed, after 30 minutes and 125+ hatchlings.

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Burned Iraqi Boy Will Receive Free Treatment

Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 5:44:43 pm PDT

Great news: that five-year old Iraqi boy who was horribly disfigured in an attack by mujahideen will get free treatment from the California-based Children’s Burn Foundation: Help is on the way for Youssif. The Children’s Burn Foundation — a non-profit organization based out of Sherman Oaks, California, that provides support for ...

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Tags: War Crimes, Iraq, Children

Video: Brokeback Taliban

Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 2:25:33 pm PDT

“When a crow flies over Kandahar, he only flaps one wing. With the other wing he covers his tail.” Slate V - The Taliban’s Secret Photos. %%VIDEO=%% (Hat tip: meMarc.)

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Tags: Taliban, Afghanistan, RoP, Homosexuality

Thursday Afternoon Open, with CSS

Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 2:15:36 pm PDT

Here’s an open thread for Thursday afternoon as I toil away at the semi-antiquated CSS/HTML code that displays our content pages. If you reload and the page looks all whacked out, it’s because I’m trying something that didn’t quite work out; wait a few seconds and load it again.

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Hizb ut-Tahrir Rising

Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 12:50:01 pm PDT

Here’s a pretty decent piece by Mark MacKinnon at the Globe and Mail, on the rise of the insidious Islamic supremacist group Hizb ut-Tahrir: Growing Muslim movement offers alternative to Hamas. Founded in 1953, Hizb ut-Tahrir has for decades troubled governments from the United Kingdom to Uzbekistan with its calls for ...

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Tags: Islamic Supremacism, Hizb Ut-Tahrir

Video: Taliban Kids

Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 12:45:01 pm PDT

Here’s a new Channel 4 report on the Taliban, with footage from a recently-released jihad video showing children being trained for battle. [Video]

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Tags: Terrorism, Taliban, Afghanistan, RoP, Child Abuse

Spencer Responds to Derbyshire

Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 12:22:44 pm PDT

At PJ Meda, Robert Spencer responds to John Derbyshire’s review of his new book, Religion of Peace?—Why Christianity Is and Islam Isn’t. It’s an excellent rebuttal, and a great example of debating an important subject without descending into ad hominem arguments. Mano a mano: Spencer v Derbyshire. Derbyshire’s review, while marvelously written ...

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Tags: Islam, Robert Spencer, John Derbyshire

CAIR Running Somali Schools in Ohio

Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 12:02:14 pm PDT

Patrick Poole uncovers another CAIR-related outrage in central Ohio: CAIR Goes Back to School. As children all over the country prepare for the annual American rite of the beginning of school, hundreds of school children and their parents from the Columbus, Ohio Somali refugee community may be getting far less than ...

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Tags: Radical Islam, Hamas, CAIR, Council On American Islamic Relations, Holy Land Foundation, Ohio

YouTube Lousy with Jihadis

Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 11:47:03 am PDT

The amount of jihad video footage available at YouTube is shocking and disgraceful, as we’ve reported here with examples on many occasions, and it’s getting worse. The Jawa Report: NYC Muslim Calls Korean Hostages ‘Terrorists’, Smiles at thought of Daniel Pearl Style Beheading. The American Pundit: JihadTube.

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Tags: Islam, Propaganda, Jihad, Mujahideen, Youtube

Video: Hamas MP Threatens Abbas

Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 9:53:27 am PDT

Shown on Al Aqsa TV (the Hamas channel) on August 10, 2007, Hamas member of Parliament Fathi Hammad threatens to use “martyrdom operations” (read: suicide bombers) against “moderate” Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas. (Courtesy of MEMRI TV.) [Video]

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Tags: Palestinians, Hamas, Fatah, Civil War

Clinton Lied, Bin Laden Didn't Die

Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 9:18:22 am PDT

The latest CIA inspector general report shows that Bill Clinton lied in that infamous red-faced interview with Chris Wallace; he never ordered the CIA to kill Osama bin Laden.

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Tags: Osama Bin Laden, CIA, Bill Clinton

UN to Israel: Open Your Borders

Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 9:11:48 am PDT

Hamas has set up a totalitarian Islamist government in Gaza, building stocks of weaponry and ammunition and preparing for war with Israel. Poisonous propaganda floods the airwaves of their Al Aqsa TV channel. Their goal of destroying the state of Israel has not changed. In the past two months, Hamas ...

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Tags: Israel, United Nations

Radical Islamic Group Plans 'Islamophobia' Demonstration on 9/11

Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 8:32:46 am PDT

The extremist Arab European League, a pro-Hizballah radical front group that rioted in the streets of Antwerp in 2002, is planning a demonstration in Brussels on September 11 “against Islamophobia and racism in Europe.” The Arab-European League (AEL), a pro-Hezbollah organization of Arab immigrants in Belgium and the Netherlands, is rallying ...

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Tags: Radical Islam, 9/11, Belgium, Islamophobia, SIOE, AEL

Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Wednesday Overnight Thread

Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 9:17:07 pm PDT

The maintenance we warned you about earlier is now completed, and it only took a few minutes. That gives us a perfect excuse for an overnight open thread. UPDATE at 8/22/07 9:30:58 pm: Meanwhile, ask yourself what’s missing from Jay Rosen’s ridiculously slanted piece in the LA Times: The journalism that bloggers ...

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CNN Moral Equivalence Marathon, Part 2

Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 6:06:11 pm PDT

Here’s a thread to discuss tonight’s episode of CNN’s extended exercise in moral equivalence, titled God’s Muslim Warriors.

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Tags: Islam, Media Bias, CNN, Moral Equivalence, Religion

Zombie: The Al-Haramain Surveillance Hearing

Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 5:58:52 pm PDT

Zombie reports on a very important legal battle in the war on militant Islam, currently flying completely under the mainstream media’s radar: Al-Haramain Surveillance Hearing. Not many people have heard of a court case that goes by the name Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation v. George W. Bush. But it’s at the center ...

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Tags: Zombie, Islamic Charity, Al-Haramain

Seattle Ferry Bong Threat Update

Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 5:47:49 pm PDT

The bomb threat aboard a Seattle ferry earlier today turns out to have been a bong threat. SEATTLE (AP) — This bong threat was legitimate. The FBI has confirmed that a suspicious package that idled one of the largest ferries in the Washington state fleet for about an hour Wednesday morning was ...

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LGF Maintenance Notice

Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 5:28:31 pm PDT

Sometime in the vicinity of 9 pm Pacific, we’ll be shutting down LGF for some long overdue backup and maintenance chores. Here’s your first notice that it’s coming up, doing double duty as a Wednesday evening open thread...

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Miss Slackistan and the Burka Beauties vs. the Racism Police

Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 5:23:11 pm PDT

What’s gone wrong with Britain’s sense of humor? How Miss Slackistan and the Burka Beauties fell foul of the racism zealots. It probably seemed like a good idea at the time. Stuck for inspiration about what to wear at their village carnival, one group made a last-minute decision to dress up ...

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Tags: Islam, Dhimmitude, Britain, Multiculturalism, Londonistan, Carnival

Our Friends the Saudis Arrest Battered Maid in Hospital

Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 4:25:03 pm PDT

Slavery is alive and well in the religious apartheid kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the slaves are often beaten and abused by “employers.” But a hospital offers no sanctuary from the religious police: Battered Indonesian Maid Held for Questioning. JEDDAH/RIYADH, 22 August 2007 — One of the Indonesian maids allegedly beaten ...

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Tags: Islam, Saudi Arabia, Wahhabism, Muttawa, Theocracy, Muttaween

Google Sky Launched

Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 2:49:21 pm PDT

This new feature of Google Earth is insanely addictive: Viewing the Sky - Google Earth User Guide. Includes Hubble Space Telescope “deep field” imagery. Wow factor: way up there. A Reuters report: Google Earth to launch new service for stargazers.

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ABC: 'Iraq Like Vietnam... Bush's New Talking Point As 14 Americans Die'

Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 2:38:02 pm PDT

ABC News: not exactly subtle.

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Tags: Anti-war, Media Bias

HLF Trial: Fundraising Speakers Include Hamas Leaders, Cat Stevens

Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 1:06:28 pm PDT

At the Holy Land Foundation trial in Dallas yesterday, the FBI introduced a list of the Foundation’s foreign fund-raising speakers, seized from their offices in 2001. The list includes numerous Hamas leaders and foot soldiers, Muslim Brotherhood figures, and related groups. And Cat Stevens, aka Yusuf Islam. The Counterterrorism Blog has a ...

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Tags: Radical Islam, Hamas, CAIR, Council On American Islamic Relations, Holy Land Foundation, Cat Stevens, Yusuf Islam

Non-Flying Imams Drop 'John Doe' Suits

Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 12:38:13 pm PDT

The six imams in the US Airways case have dropped all charges against “John Doe” passengers who reported their suspicious behavior: Imams drop ‘John Doe’ suit. And this time, it’s for real. A group of Muslim imams today dropped all charges in a federal lawsuit levied against “John Doe” airline passengers for ...

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Tags: Radical Islam, CAIR, Propaganda, Council On American Islamic Relations, Flying Imams, Grievance Theater

Carter Enabled Mugabe's Land Grab

Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 11:25:58 am PDT

Here’s a reminder that Jimmy Carter didn’t just go simple recently; he’s been very wrong for a very long time: Carter Sought to Underwrite Zimbabwe “Land Reform”.

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Tags: Jimmy Carter, Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe

Derbyshire Reviews Spencer

Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 11:10:23 am PDT

John Derbyshire has a thought-provoking review of Robert Spencer’s new book, Religion of Peace?—Why Christianity Is and Islam Isn’t: Christianity Good, Islam Bad? I haven’t read Spencer’s book yet, but the review is a great read. I’m passing it along without any response for now, except to note that Derbyshire makes some ...

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Tags: Islam, Robert Spencer, John Derbyshire

There Are No Words

Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 10:40:58 am PDT

Savagery. Boy, 5, doused in gas, set on fire by masked men. BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — Five-year-old Youssif is scarred for life, his once beautiful smile turned into a grotesquely disfigured face — the face of a horrifying act by masked men. They grabbed him on a January day outside his ...

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Tags: Radical Islam, Iraq, Terrorists, Insurgents, Savagery

Seattle Ferry Evacuated

Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 10:04:18 am PDT

Seattle authorities are obviously on edge. A ferry was evacuated this morning when a suspicious package was discovered in the men’s room; it turned out to contain sparklers. SEATTLE — The Washington state ferry Puyallup was evacuated Wednesday morning at Colman Dock in Seattle after a crew member found what they ...

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Wednesday Morning Open

Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 9:43:34 am PDT

When the news is slow, grasshopper, post an open thread. — Stinky Beaumont

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TNR's Chait Goes After Bill Kristol

Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 8:49:21 am PDT

At The New Republic, Jonathan Chait tries to divert attention from TNR’s continuing unwillingness to admit serious journalistic misconduct in the Scott Beauchamp scandal, with one of the oldest tricks in the Book of Sleaze—a hit piece on an ideological opponent: The Thuggery Of William Kristol. It’s the usual leftist smokescreen; ...

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Tags: Iraq, Military, New Republic

Let's Give Them More Training

Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 8:11:51 am PDT

The “moderate” terrorists of Fatah boast openly that training provided by the US has helped them enormously in their goal of murdering Israelis: Fatah Militant: U.S. Training Was Key to Intifada’s Success. So, of course, we’re going to provide them with more training. RAMALLAH — American-run programs that train Fatah militias were ...

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Tags: Palestinians, Hamas, Fatah, Civil War

Islamic 'Charity' Drops Libel Suit Over Terror Claim

Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 7:47:49 am PDT

Another libel lawsuit by another Hamas-linked Islamic charity has been dropped, right around the point where they would have had to grant discovery requests: Libel suit over terror claim is dismissed. At the request of the group that filed it, a libel lawsuit against a former Bush administration official and others ...

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Tags: Radical Islam, Hamas, CAIR, Council On American Islamic Relations, KinderUSA, Holy Land Foundation

Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Heavy Metal Madness in Tehran

Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 6:51:24 pm PDT

Iran’s mullah-approved Channel 2 looks at the “heavy metal” scene in Tehran, in an Islamic Republic version of “Reefer Madness.” (Courtesy of MEMRI TV.) [Video] Iranian youth: This is the symbol of the devil worshippers. Iranian youth: I don’t know foreign languages. Iranian youth: You should hang out here and see how trendy it ...

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Tags: Iran, Propaganda, Islamic Supremacism

CNN Moral Equivalence Marathon, Part 1

Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 5:28:08 pm PDT

CNN’s Christiane Amanpour is inflicting another extended exercise in moral equivalence on the TV viewers of the world, with the series “God’s Warriors.” Man, does that ever set off warning bells. Tonight’s episode, starting at 6 pm Pacific, is titled “God’s Jewish Warriors.” Uh oh. To promote the series, CNN has ...

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Tags: Islam, Media Bias, CNN, Moral Equivalence, Religion

USA Today Shills for ISNA

Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 5:09:35 pm PDT

How in the world could anyone write a lengthy article about the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), without mentioning once that the group has been named an unindicted co-conspirator in the nation’s largest terrorism trial? Like this, as USA Today publishes a gushing press release for ISNA leader Ingrid Mattson: ...

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Tags: Radical Islam, Hamas, CAIR, Council On American Islamic Relations, Holy Land Foundation, ISNA

Flying Imams Legal Skirmish Report

Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 4:43:47 pm PDT

LGF operative Douglas Bass reports from a hearing in the Non-Flying Imams case in Minneapolis, at which the lawyers for US Airways maintained that they acted responsibly by removing the imams from that flight, and the CAIR-affiliated lawyers for the imams floated the usual smorgasbord of victimhood claims: Flying ...

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Tags: Radical Islam, CAIR, Propaganda, Council On American Islamic Relations, Flying Imams, Grievance Theater

Moderate Terrorists Call Off Deal

Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 4:33:11 pm PDT

The terrorist wing of “moderate” Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah Party is calling off their “deal” with Israel: Aksa Martyrs Brigades: We’ll no longer honor agreements with Israel. Fatah’s armed wing, the Aksa Martyrs Brigades, announced Tuesday it would no longer honor understandings reached with Israel, and called on its members ...

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Tags: Palestinians, Hamas, Fatah, Civil War

Video: Emerson on Muslim Day Parade

Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 3:08:22 pm PDT

Imam Shamsi Ali and Steven Emerson, on the Hannity and Colmes show, discussing the September 9 Muslim Day Parade in New York. The imam plays dumb. [Video]

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Tags: Emerson, Video, Hannity, Colmes, Muslim Day Parade

CAIR Flip-Flop Watch

Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 1:12:18 pm PDT

In the Holy Land Foundation trial in Dallas, CAIR is trying to be removed from the list of unindicted co-conspirators by arguing that the “stigma” has caused their membership to decline—and to support their case they cite the very same Washington Times article they originally denounced as “biased” and “false.” The ...

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Tags: Radical Islam, Hamas, CAIR, Council On American Islamic Relations, Holy Land Foundation

More Stiletto Heel Racing Than You Ever Wanted to Know About

Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 11:39:37 am PDT

I should have known that The Manolo would be all about the European stiletto heel races. Here we see what must inevitably happen when the laws of nature are so hideously abused.

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Tags: Germany, Odd News, High Heel Race

Religion of Peace Strikes Again in Thailand

Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 10:53:00 am PDT

Two more dead in the Thailand jihad: Land reform official killed, guard beheaded. An official of the local Land Reform Office was gunned down in Pattani municipality on Tuesday, while a security guard was attacked and beheaded Monday night in his home in Narathiwat. In Pattani, an official of the local Land ...

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Tags: Jihad, Islamic Supremacism, Thailand, South Thailand

Tuesday Morning Toy Soldier

Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 10:46:49 am PDT

Buried in the back yard, for who knows how long.

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Tags: Photograph, Open Thread, Toy Soldier

HLF Trial: A Reporter's Surprise Visit to Gaza

Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 9:08:01 am PDT

Mainstream wire services and the large newspapers are pretty much ignoring the Holy Land Foundation trial in Dallas—and obviously not because it’s boring. Yesterday Dallas Morning News reporter Steve McGonigle testified about a surprise visit he paid to the office of the Holy Land Foundation in Gaza: Counterterrorism Blog: An Unexpected ...

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Tags: Radical Islam, Hamas, CAIR, Council On American Islamic Relations, Holy Land Foundation

Video: Return to Gaza

Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 8:42:08 am PDT

BBC’s Panorama goes to Gaza, with typical blatant bias. It’s still an interesting (and appalling) show, though. Spot the reporter’s “peace scarf.” Part 1: [Video] For parts 2 through 5:

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Tags: Palestinians, Hamas, Fatah, BBC, Gaza

EU Springs Into Action

Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 8:07:58 am PDT

Yesterday the European Union showed a tiny flash of courage and stopped paying for Hamas’ electricity needs in the Gaza Strip, saying they suspected Hamas was diverting the money for “other purposes.” You don’t say. Today the EU sprang into action and caved in: EU to resume payments for Gaza power. GAZA ...

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Tags: Palestinians, Hamas, European Union, Fatah, Gaza

FBI Searches for Suspicious Ferry Passengers

Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 7:26:02 am PDT

The FBI has issued a bulletin asking Seattle residents to help identify two men seen acting suspiciously on Washington ferries. SEATTLE – The FBI is asking for the public’s help to identify two men who have been seen acting suspiciously aboard Washington State ferries recently. The FBI released a bulletin late Monday, ...

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Monday, August 20, 2007

Troofer Smackdown Commences

Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 8:25:06 pm PDT

Here’s an open thread to discuss the History Channel’s Troofer Takedown, as the Dylan Avery crew implodes: 9/11 Conspiracies - Fact or Fiction.

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Tags: 9/11, Truthers, Conspiracies, Troofers

LGF Registration Open (Update: Closed)

Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 6:39:14 pm PDT

Yes, it’s open and the clock is ticking... UPDATE at 8/20/07 6:59:11 pm: Now closed, with 52 hatchlings in 20 minutes.

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And Now For Some Frauleins, Racing in Stiletto Heels

Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 5:57:07 pm PDT

Driving and striving, and hugging the turns. Competitors in a stiletto high-heels race run in Berlin, Germany, Saturday, Aug 18, 2007. The winner was rewarded with a 10,000 euro voucher. (AP Photo/Miguel Villagran) (Hat tip: JammieWearingFool.)

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Tags: Germany, Odd News

LGFDS Outbreak at Reddit

Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 5:16:43 pm PDT

We have an outbreak of LGF Derangement Syndrome in this post at Reddit.com: Hypocrisy thy name is Little Green Footballs. Some LGF lizards get their comments cherry-picked (and we all know how painful that can be), by someone who says Ahmadinejad is against violence and only wants to increase outreach to ...

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Tags: Anti-LGF

Dark Ages Rising in Malaysia

Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 1:33:26 pm PDT

Islam’s war on sin dims bright lights in a nation torn between cultures. To the south, in Kuala Lumpur, the capital, celebrations are starting for Malaysia’s 50th year as an independent state. Its proud achievements are modern universities, a buoyant economy and a respected place in the world as a moderate ...

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Tags: Islam, Islamic Supremacism, Malaysia

Holy Land Defendant: 'This Trial is an Extension of a Zionist Conspiracy!'

Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 1:08:12 pm PDT

The Hamas funding trial isn’t going well for former Holy Land Foundation chairman Ghassan Elashi, and today he started yelling about a “Zionist conspiracy.” In time-honored radical Islamist fashion. U.S. District Judge A. Joe Fish threatened to bar one of the Holy Land trial defendants from the courtroom Monday after he shouted ...

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Tags: Radical Islam, Hamas, CAIR, Council On American Islamic Relations, Holy Land Foundation

History Channel Debunks 9/11 Troofers

Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 12:47:00 pm PDT

The History Channel has a documentary on the moronic Troofer movement, and the Troofers aren’t gonna like it: 9/11 Conspiracies - Fact or Fiction. Examines the various conspiracy theories espoused on the Internet, in articles and in public forums that attempt to explain the 9/11 attacks. It includes theories that the ...

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Tags: 9/11, September 11, Moonbats, Truthers, Conspiracies, History Channel

Bawer: The Peace Racket

Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 12:17:12 pm PDT

Bruce Bawer has a great piece in the City Journal about The Peace Racket. We need to make two points about this movement at the outset. First, it’s opposed to every value that the West stands for—liberty, free markets, individualism—and it despises America, the supreme symbol and defender of those values. ...

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Tags: Anti-war, Bawer, Progressives, Peace Activists, City Journal

The New Mainstream Voice of the Democratic Party

Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 11:41:41 am PDT

The original title of this Daily Kos diary was “It’s Unrealistic and I’m F*cking Drunk.” It has since been changed to: Daily Kos: Fat and Happy and No One Trying to Blow Us Up. It has become a compulsion, though I do not consider it an unhealthy one, for me to ...

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Tags: Moonbats, Daily Kos, Useful Idiots, Progressives

Monday Morning Open

Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 11:20:36 am PDT

If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something. — Steven Wright

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The Lights Go Out in Gaza

Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 9:58:15 am PDT

The European Union has stopped paying for Gaza’s electricity. GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Electricity in Gaza on Monday became the latest battleground in the struggle between the coastal strip’s Islamic Hamas rulers and their Fatah rivals, who have accused Hamas of pocketing electricity revenues. The losers are hundreds of thousands ...

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Tags: Palestinians, Hamas, European Union, Fatah, Gaza

Ahmadinejad: 'Enemies Trying to Replace Divine Faiths with Misleading Thoughts'

Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 9:30:33 am PDT

Iran’s Islamic Republic News Agency has an article about Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s latest philosophical musings at the opening ceremony of The Fourth Ahl-ul-Bait General Assembly, on the need for Islam to take over the world: President: Enemies trying to replace divine faiths with misleading thoughts. There was a whole lot of stressing ...

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Tags: Iran, Ahmadinejad, Islamic Supremacism

PJ Media: How The New Republic Got Suckered

Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 8:44:59 am PDT

At PJ Media, Richard Miniter takes a look behind the scenes of the Scott Beauchamp scandal that The New Republic is trying so hard to pretend never happened: How The New Republic Got Suckered. Miniter has interviews with Beauchamp’s German ex-girlfriend, and with (Th)Robert McGee who blew the whistle on this ...

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Tags: Iraq, Military, New Republic

Fear Rules the BBC

Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 8:10:31 am PDT

Afraid of “offending Muslims” again, which is code language for “afraid of provoking a violent reaction:” BBC drops fictional terror attack to avoid offending Muslims. The BBC has dropped plans to show a fictional terror attack in an episode of Casualty to avoid offending Muslims. The first show of the hospital drama’s ...

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Tags: Islam, Dhimmitude, Britain, BBC, Multiculturalism, Londonistan

Christian Science Monitor Shills for Hamas

Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 7:51:31 am PDT

Terrorist groups like Hamas hardly have to work to get their propaganda into Western media; publications like the Christian Science Monitor are happy to help legitimize Hamas’ evil child abuse, with perky little human interest stories about utter depravity like this one: Hamas’s approach to jihad: Start ‘em young. Gaza City, ...

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Tags: Islam, Hamas, Propaganda, Hate Speech, Media Blindness, Mickey Mouse, Farfour Mouse, Nahoul, Terror Bee, CSM

Sunday, August 19, 2007

More Nukes for Pakistan

Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 9:43:28 pm PDT

Warm, reassuring news report of the evening: Pakistan to accelerate nuclear program. ISLAMABAD: After the finalization of nuclear deal between India and the United States, Pakistan has decided to accelerate the development of its nuclear and missile program and President Pervez Musharraf and the government in this regard have issued directives ...

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Tags: Militant Islam, Nuclear Proliferation, Pakistan, Al Qaeda

And Now For Some Dog Music

Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 7:42:12 pm PDT

Here’s a song about a dog. [Video]

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Tags: Open Thread, Music, James Taylor

LGF Technical Detour: Windows Open Thread

Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 5:27:58 pm PDT

My old Mac laptop up and died on me, so today I got a new MacBook Pro with Parallels Desktop and Windows XP Pro. Parallels works great. It’s impressive to see Windows running in a Mac window, right alongside all the other Mac windows, and I’ve installed Explorer 7 to be ...

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Tags: Technical Info, Windows

Democratic Debate Thread (Better Late Than Never?)

Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 3:56:57 pm PDT

I guess there was another in the mind-numbing, endless series of presidential debates today; anybody watch?

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Tags: Politics, Democrats, Poll, Debate

Video: UK Islamist vs. Arab Liberal

Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 1:11:18 pm PDT

Here’s a wacky “debate” between a raving Islamist (currently living on the dole in Britain), and an Arab intellectual who totally rocks. The moderator of the show is clearly on the side of the raving Islamist. (Courtesy of MEMRI TV.) [Video]

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Tags: Radical Islam, MEMRI TV, Britain, Video, Islamism

Graphing the Islamist Network

Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 9:32:29 am PDT

Counterterrorism Blog has another fascinating graph by Aaron Mannes, produced with the Semantic Web software at the University of Maryland: CAIR’s Legal Gambit (and another Graph). Ultimately, the question will come down to the evidence – was the U.S. Attorney wrong in naming CAIR (and the other organizations) as unindicted co-conspirators. ...

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Tags: Radical Islam, Hamas, CAIR, Council On American Islamic Relations, Holy Land Foundation

CAIR Attacks ADL

Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 8:55:22 am PDT

The Saudi-funded radical front group calling itself the Council on American Islamic Relations, an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation trial in Dallas, has launched a major attack against the Anti-Defamation League: CAIR Says ADL Seeks to Hinder Legal Rights of U.S. Muslims. A prominent national Islamic civil rights and ...

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Tags: Radical Islam, Hamas, CAIR, Council On American Islamic Relations, Holy Land Foundation

More Hate Speech at BBC Message Boards

Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 8:27:43 am PDT

The BBC is in trouble today for once again allowing ugly antisemitic and anti-Christian slurs to remain posted at the BBC 5 message boards, while instantly deleting any criticism of Islam: BBC forced to removed ‘bastard’ slur about Jesus from its website. The BBC has been forced to remove statements from ...

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Tags: Antisemitism, Media Bias, BBC, Hate Speech

Saturday, August 18, 2007

And Now For Some Skunk Funk

Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 6:00:11 pm PDT

Live in Barcelona in 1992, the Brecker Brothers rip through their classic high-energy, harmonically twisted fusion tune Skunk Funk. A lot faster than the original recorded version. Sacrificing some of the funk for a little more skunk. [Video]

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Tags: Open Thread, Brecker Brothers, Music

Saturday Afternoon Open

Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 4:00:19 pm PDT

Shin: a device for finding furniture in the dark. — Steven Wright

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Tags: Open Thread

Blonde Bombshell Contracts BDS

Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 2:58:20 pm PDT

Sex goddess Mamie Van Doren, co-star of one of my all-time favorite films—Francis Joins the WACs—is still alive and kicking, but unfortunately she’s contracted a raging, possibly terminal case of Bush Derangement Syndrome. As you read this quote from her blog, try imagining Francis the Talking Mule saying it. It’s ...

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Tags: Moonbats, BDS, Mamie Van Doren

Kos Kid: We're Not Vicious Enough

Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 1:55:16 pm PDT

Utterly beyond parody: Daily Kos: What the Left Lacks. Viciousness. We are too nice. Maybe it comes from the generally pacifist leanings that progressives tend to hold, perhaps we are just more civilized than our fellow conservatives, but whatever it is we need to learn to become more ruthless. ... Take the ...

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Tags: Moonbats, Daily Kos, Useful Idiots, Progressives

Fresh Fatwa Watch

Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 1:42:20 pm PDT

Yes, there’s a brand new, sparkling fresh fatwa against Bangladeshi women’s rights activist Taslima Nareen. The fatwa mills are running overtime on this one. Kolkata, August 17: The Imam of Kolkata’s Tipu Sultan Masjid of Kolkata has provided Taslima Nasrin a month’s time to leave the country. A fatwa to that ...

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Tags: Fatwa, Jihad, RoP, India

Drunken Anti-Israel Climate Change Hooligans Who Love Hamas

Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 1:32:03 pm PDT

Coming this weekend to the UK: 24 hours of direct action by “climate change” weirdos. Police were confident of being able to contain the expected climax of the climate camp at Heathrow Airport. Protesters, buoyed by an influx of new arrivals, promised 24 hours of direct action, starting from midday on Sunday. The ...

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Tags: UK, Britain, Anti-Israel, Climate Change, Anarchists

New York Times on Wikipedia Editing

Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 1:10:12 pm PDT

Twenty-six paragraphs into the article, the New York Times mentions the ... uh ... questionable edits made by someone in their offices: Lifting Corporate Fingerprints From the Editing of Wikipedia. They’re just getting around to covering the story—by sheer coincidence on the weekend, when it will be noticed the least. And The ...

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Tags: New York Times, Wikipedia

Fatwa Watch 2

Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 10:49:13 am PDT

Muslim “scholars” in India have issued a death fatwa against author and women’s rights activist Taslima Nareen. NEW DELHI, Aug 18 (APP): Taslima Nasreen, an exiled controversial Bangladeshi writer, who is in India, has asked the Indian government to provide her security in the wake of the Fatwa for death to ...

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Tags: Radical Islam, Islam, Misogyny, Women's Rights, India

Fatwa Watch

Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 10:31:17 am PDT

We have a fatwa sighting in Pakistan, as another leader of the Religion of Peace™ calls for violence against those who work for the US or the Jews. A radical cleric in Pakistan has issued a fatwa (decree) against those working in multi-national companies warning them to quit their jobs or ...

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Tags: Pakistan, Fatwa, Jihad, RoP

RPG Found in Stolen Van in Orange County

Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 9:53:00 am PDT

Discovered in a stolen van in Orange County: a rocket-propelled grenade. LAGUNA NIGUEL - A military-style rocket-propelled grenade found in a customized van was disarmed and hauled off to the Orange County Sheriff’s headquarters in Santa Ana. The sheriff’s bomb squad called the Marines’ Explosive Ordnance Detail from Camp Pendleton to disarm ...

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Tags: Orange County, RPG

Philippines Battles Religion of Peace

Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 9:35:54 am PDT

Thirteen Filipino troops and dozens of Islamic terrorists dead, in fierce fighting with Abu Sayyaf on the southern island of Basilan: Philippines clashes kill 13 soldiers, dozens of extremists. ZAMBOANGA, Philippines (AFP) - Thirteen troops and dozens of Muslim extremists were killed Saturday in clashes between government forces and Al-Qaeda-linked rebels ...

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Tags: Militant Islam, Terrorism, Philippines, Abu Sayyaf, MILF

Religion of Peace Strikes Again in Afghanistan

Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 9:31:59 am PDT

Fifteen dead and 26 wounded in the jihad in Afghanistan: Suicide blast in Afghanistan kills 15: police. KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AFP) - A suicide car bomber attacked a US convoy in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing 15 people, including 11 civilians, and wounding 26 others, police said. Police said the attack took ...

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Tags: Terrorism, Taliban, Afghanistan, RoP, Suicide Bombing

Oh No, Here Come the Euro-Troofers

Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 9:13:18 am PDT

As we reported last week, the mayor of Brussels has banned a peaceful demonstration to commemorate 9/11 with a minute of silence, fearing the reaction of the Muslim community. But an insane left (as opposed to just “far left”) demonstration on September 9, featuring the European branch of the Truther idiots, ...

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Tags: Radical Islam, 9/11, Belgium, SIOE

Line of the Day

Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 8:43:51 am PDT

Two men hijacked a plane flying to Istanbul this morning, apparently as a “protest” against the United States. The incident ended without violence, thankfully, but one of the hijackers produced our line of the day. Turkey’s Transport Minister Osman Gunes said one hijacker is Turkish, while the other is believed to ...

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Tags: Radical Islam, Turkey, Islamism, Hijacking

Friday, August 17, 2007

Huffington Post Hate Speech, Continued

Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 8:48:01 pm PDT

At Huffington Post, hundreds of astoundingly vile comments about Tony Snow’s resignation announcement: Comments for Snow: I’m Leaving Before Bush Finishes - The Huffington Post.

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Tags: Huffington Post, BDS, Hate Speech

UK TV Welcomes New Islamic Overlords

Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 7:28:57 pm PDT

TV airing for Islam’s story of Christ. There was no manger, Christ is not the Messiah, and the crucifixion never happened. A forthcoming ITV documentary will portray Jesus as Muslims see him. With the Koran as a main source and drawing on interviews with scholars and historians, the Muslim Jesus explores how ...

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Tags: Islam, Dhimmitude, Britain, Multiculturalism, Christianity, Londonistan

Hizb ut-Tahrir at YouTube

Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 6:31:15 pm PDT

The Islamic supremacist group Hizb ut-Tahrir, banned in many Middle Eastern countries because they understand the danger, but permitted in Western countries because we don’t, is posting slick, professionally-produced Islamist propaganda at YouTube.com: YouTube - For How Much Longer? Part 1, Hizbut Tahrir Malaysia.

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Tags: Islam, Hizb Ut-Tahrir, Youtube

Abu Sayyaf at YouTube

Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 6:12:19 pm PDT

The Al Qaeda-linked Filipino Islamic terrorist group Abu Sayyaf, known for decapitating helpless hostages, is now posting videos at YouTube.com: YouTube - Abu Sayyaf Group: ‘The Filipino Lions are Coming’.

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Tags: Militant Islam, Terrorism, Philippines, Abu Sayyaf, Youtube, MILF

Return of the Son of the Incredibly Strange Hamas Security Graduates

Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 5:39:19 pm PDT

Another peculiar propaganda tradition of Palestinian terrorists and their Western wire service enablers is the “graduation exercise,” at which Hamas or Fatah “security forces” demonstrate their amazing skills at weird, pointless activities, photographed from Riefenstahl-esque dramatic angles intended to show... what? What “school” are they “graduating” from? What kind of “security” will ...

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Tags: Palestinians, Hamas, Fatah, Graduation

Bali Bombers Get More Time Off

Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 5:04:37 pm PDT

The “moderate” Islamic state of Indonesia keeps shaving time off the already light sentences of the Bali mass murderers—for good behavior. JAKARTA, Indonesia - Ten Islamic militants jailed for suicide bombings on Bali that killed more than 220 people — many of them foreign tourists — had several months shaved off ...

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Tags: Radical Islam, Indonesia, Bali Bombings

Friday Afternoon Open Thread

Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 3:50:30 pm PDT

If you’ve got the time, everything is within walking distance. — Steven Wright

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Emerson: New York Times Covers for CAIR, Again

Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 2:10:38 pm PDT

Steven Emerson: New York Times Covers for CAIR, Again. In what has become practically a routine, whenever bad publicity for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) surfaces, in an almost Pavlovian response, the New York Times leaps to its defense. As I wrote about last March in The New Republic, when CAIR ...

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Tags: Radical Islam, Hamas, CAIR, Council On American Islamic Relations, Holy Land Foundation

Cologne Mosque Faces Opposition from Ex-Muslims

Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 12:28:44 pm PDT

Turkish born author Arzu Toker, co-Chair of the Central Council of Ex-Muslims of Germany, talks about an Islamic group’s plan to build an imposing mosque within sight of the historic Cologne Cathedral; translated by World Politics Review: Islam in Europe: An Interview With Arzu Toker on the Cologne Mosque. Konkret: Why ...

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Tags: Radical Islam, Islam, Mosque, Germany

HLF Trial: HAMAS Propaganda Discovered In Offices Of HLF Beneficiaries

Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 11:54:01 am PDT

Here’s the latest from the Holy Land Foundation trial in Dallas, where Israeli counterrorism agent “Avi” testified about Hamas connections to zakat (charity) organizations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip: HAMAS Propaganda Discovered In Offices Of HLF Beneficiaries. The terror support trial of the Holy Land Foundation (HLF) continued this ...

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Tags: Radical Islam, Hamas, CAIR, Council On American Islamic Relations, Holy Land Foundation

Chavez: President for Life

Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 10:26:13 am PDT

Several times when I’ve referred to Hugo Chavez as a “dictator,” I’ve received indignant emails from Chavez supporters protesting that he was democratically elected and shouldn’t be labeled that way. Well, I hope the Venezuelans who voted for Chavez enjoyed that election, because it’s the last one they’ll have for a ...

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Tags: Venezuela, Hugo Chavez

Update: CAIR Wants to Be Removed from 'Unindicted Co-Conspirator' List

Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 10:00:41 am PDT

The Council on American Islamic Relations has filed their Amicus Curiae brief (PDF file) in the Holy Land Foundation trial, asking the court to take the unprecedented step of removing them from the list of unindicted co-conspirators. Reading the document makes it clear that CAIR really doesn’t like having their status ...

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Tags: Radical Islam, Hamas, CAIR, Council On American Islamic Relations, Holy Land Foundation

'Moderate' Palestinians Name Soccer Tourney After Murderer

Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 8:20:33 am PDT

The “moderate” terrorist government of Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party has named a children’s soccer tournament in the West Bank after a mass murderer. A school in the West Bank town of Tulkarm this week organized a soccer tournament named after Ziyad Da’as, a Fatah terrorist, Palestinian Media Watch reported on Thursday. Da’as ...

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Tags: Palestinians, Islam, Hamas, Fatah

Thursday, August 16, 2007

Yahoo Syndicates Huffpo's Hateful Smears

Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 9:34:44 pm PDT

Again tonight at Yahoo News, a heaping helping of incoherent ranting mixed with libelous smears, courtesy of the Huffington Post and their syndication deal with Yahoo: GOP Declares Open War on Brown People. Let the pogroms begin good times roll! Maybe this will be part of Newt’s grand strategy to campaign ...

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Tags: Huffington Post, BDS, Hate Speech

Fox News Also Playing Wikipedia Games

Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 7:23:50 pm PDT

Yep, someone at Fox News is editing Wikipedia too. (Hat tip: LawHawk.)

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Tags: Fox News, Wikipedia

And Now For Some Classic Tom Waits

Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 5:54:58 pm PDT

Just discovered this classically weird video by Tom Waits at YouTube: I Don’t Wanna Grow Up. [Video] When I’m lyin’ in my bed at night I don’t wanna grow up Nothin’ ever seems to turn out right I don’t wanna grow up How do you move in a world of fog That’s always changing things Makes me wish ...

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Tags: Open Thread, Music, Tom Waits

Israeli Agent Testifies in Holy Land Trial

Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 2:56:57 pm PDT

In the Hamas funding trial in Dallas, another Israeli agent testified under a pseudonym yesterday about the worldwide structures that provide funding to Hamas through Islamic charities and NGOs. The Holy Land Foundation was part [of] a global network of organizations that raised money from Muslims throughout the world and funneled ...

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Tags: Radical Islam, Hamas, CAIR, Council On American Islamic Relations, Holy Land Foundation

Thursday Afternoon Open

Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 2:31:15 pm PDT

On the other hand, you have different fingers. — Steven Wright

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Tags: Open Thread

Video: Depraved Hamas TV Show - The Extended Version

Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 1:46:10 pm PDT

MEMRI TV has an extended clip from the Hamas TV show Pioneers of Tomorrow in which Nahoul the Killer Bee torments live animals, featuring the ever-creepy child zombie host Saraa. [Video] Nahoul, a giant bee: My friends, Al-Aqsa awaits you. My dears, Al-Aqsa is very sad. My friends, Al-Aqsa is being ...

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Tags: Islam, Hamas, Propaganda, Hate Speech, Mickey Mouse, Farfour Mouse, Nahoul, Terror Bee, PETA

Poland Will Boycott UN Anti-Israel Conference

Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 1:36:47 pm PDT

Kudos to the Polish members of the European Parliament, who are boycotting another anti-Israel UN conference. And shame on the rest of the Europeans who are eager to participate. A conference of UN NGOs (non-governmental organizations) on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, to be hosted at the European Parliament this month, will be boycotted ...

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Tags: Israel, United Nations, NGO, Poland

Hughes: Still Reaching Out to Radicals

Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 12:47:55 pm PDT

Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy Karen Hughes will be a speaker this weekend at an event in Dallas sponsored by Mohamed Elibiary. Rod Dreher asks, “If she knew, would she care?” But I do wonder why Hughes is getting mixed up with Elibiary and his organization. Elibiary was one of ...

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Tags: Dallas, State Department, Elibiary, Karen Hughes

Kos Kidz Hoping for Padilla Acquittal (Update - Guilty!)

Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 11:04:50 am PDT

As we wait for the verdict to be read in the Jose Padilla Al Qaeda case, the Kos Kidz are feeling Padilla’s pain: Daily Kos: Verdict Reached in Padilla Case. As soon as there’s a verdict I’ll post it in this topic. UPDATE at 8/16/07 11:31:33 am: Padilla and co-defendants are guilty on ...

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Tags: Al Qaeda, Jose Padilla

Which is Worse: Kos or Huffpo?

Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 10:46:35 am PDT

The Daily Kos web site is coming in for a lot of criticism recently for its hateful content, but I’ve long believed that the Huffington Post is much worse, with a commenting “community” that thinks nothing of open antisemitism, conspiracy theories, or calling for assassination of public figures. Case in point, ...

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Tags: Huffington Post, BDS, Hate Speech

CAIR Wants to Be Removed from 'Unindicted Co-Conspirator' List

Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 10:23:08 am PDT

Saudi-funded radical front group CAIR is trying to pressure the government into removing them from the list of unindicted co-conspirators in the Hamas funding trial in Dallas: Muslim Groups Oppose a List of ‘Co-Conspirators’. The New York Times has not covered any of the evidence linking CAIR to Hamas that’s come ...

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Tags: Radical Islam, Hamas, CAIR, Council On American Islamic Relations, Holy Land Foundation

A Verdict for Padilla

Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 10:00:58 am PDT

Coming up at 11 am Pacific time, the verdict in the trial of Jose Padilla: Verdict reached in Padilla terror case. MIAMI - A verdict was reached Thursday in the trial of Jose Padilla and two co-defendants charged with supporting al-Qaida and other violent Islamic extremist groups overseas. The jury ...

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Tags: Al Qaeda, Jose Padilla

LGF on Dennis Prager

Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 9:03:35 am PDT

I’ll be calling in to the Dennis Prager radio show at approximately 9:20 (Pacific), to discuss the outrageous edits at Wikipedia by major media corporations. You can listen over the web: News Talk 870 KRLA.

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Tags: Radio, Prager, Wikipedia

Taxi Jihad in Vancouver

Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 8:45:51 am PDT

Another city we can add to the list of places where Muslim cab drivers are trying to make their passengers submit to shari’a law: Vancouver. Taxi firm settles with blind man refused ride because of guide dog. And the British Columbia human rights tribunal is tying themselves into a pretzel trying ...

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Tags: Radical Islam, Shari'a, Canada, Taxi, Cabdrivers

Radical Front Groups Seething Over NYPD Terror Report

Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 7:52:57 am PDT

The New York Police Department’s report on the radicalization of US Muslims has enraged the Saudi-funded unindicted co-conspirators calling themselves the Council on American Islamic Relations; they’d prefer that no one ever investigate these matters: CAIR: NYPD Terror Report Casts Suspicion on All U.S. Muslims. WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The ...

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Tags: Radical Islam, Hamas, CAIR, Council On American Islamic Relations, Holy Land Foundation

Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Giuliani's Foreign Policy Statement

Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 6:16:15 pm PDT

Rudy Giuliani’s pre-election foreign policy statement has been published at Foreign Affairs: Foreign Affairs - Toward a Realistic Peace - Rudolph Giuliani. Big LGF kudos to Rudy for being first out of the gate with a serious, reasoned examination of the important foreign policy issues facing the US. Here’s the refreshingly ...

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Tags: Election, Rudy Giuliani, 2008, Foreign Policy

Wednesday Open Thread

Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 5:16:52 pm PDT

Here’s a Wednesday afternoon open thread...

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Tags: Open Thread

Mass Murder in Iraq

Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 4:55:25 pm PDT

Another horrifying mass murder by Al Qaeda “holy warriors” killed more than 250 members of the Yazidi sect (a pre-Islamic, pre-Christian pagan faith), in a sneak attack against a defenseless and remote target to achieve high casualties with little risk: Death toll in Iraq blasts rises to 250. BAGHDAD - Rescuers ...

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Tags: Iraq, Al Qaeda, Suicide Bombing, Yazidi

Wikipedia EditGate: Wired's List of Juicy Edits

Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 2:42:49 pm PDT

Here’s a page at Reddit.com set up by Wired magazine to keep track of interesting stuff revealed by the Wikiscanner: wikidgame. The Israeli government editing the Hezbollah page? Say it ain’t so!

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Tags: Wikipedia

Marine Corps Slammer Interviewed at Blackfive

Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 2:30:50 pm PDT

At Blackfive, Uncle Jimbo has tracked down the Marine whose terrific spoken word video we featured Monday. His name is SSgt Lawrence E. Dean II, and the video was inspired by his grandmother.

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Tags: Video, Marines, Pro-America

Wikipedia EditGate: United Nations Edits Fallaci: 'Racist Whore'

Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 1:48:03 pm PDT

Here’s another jaw-dropper of an edit, from someone using an account at the United Nations, who edited the Wikipedia page for “Oriana Fallaci:” Oriana Fallaci - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. (Hat tip: Liberrocky.)

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Tags: United Nations, Wikipedia

Wikipedia EditGate: BBC Edits

Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 12:18:33 pm PDT

LGF reader Wicksy points out some more telling edits at Wikipedia, this time by someone using an IP address belonging to the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). First, in the entry for George W. Bush: And in the entry for D-9 Caterpillars, a BBC employee changed the word “terrorists” to:

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Tags: BBC, Wikipedia

PETA Springs Into Action, Drafts Strongly Worded Letter to Hamas

Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 11:19:07 am PDT

It’s PETA vs. Hamas. I’m not taking bets on who’ll come out on top. Animal rights group slams Hamas TV clip of man abusing cats, lions. International animal rights group PETA on Wednesday condemned a “shocking and sickening” video clip produced by a Hamas-run TV station and posted on the YouTube ...

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Tags: Islam, Hamas, Propaganda, Hate Speech, Mickey Mouse, Farfour Mouse, Nahoul, Terror Bee, PETA

Wikipedia EditGate: NYT Vandalism, Continued

Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 10:45:56 am PDT

Here’s another edit made by a New York Times employee, at the Wikipedia page for Condoleezza Rice: Wikipedia scanner results.

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Tags: New York Times, Wikipedia

Magic Bullets Discovered in Sadr City by AFP Photographer

Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 9:45:56 am PDT

Sometimes the propaganda is so obvious it’s almost funny. An elderly Iraqi woman shows two bullets which she says hit her house following an early coalition forces raid in the predominantly Shiite Baghdad suburb of Sadr City. At least 175 people were slaughtered on Tuesday and more than 200 wounded when ...

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Tags: Propaganda, Agence France Presse, Fauxtography

The Beauchamp Controversy: Many Feet in Many Mouths

Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 9:20:19 am PDT

Here’s an excellent post at Shield of Achilles, recapping the many leftist bloggers and pundits who blindly supported Scott Beauchamp even as his fables began to unravel; includes quotes from Andrew Sullivan, Matthew Yglesias, Glenn Greenwald (aka Socky the Sockpuppet), Kevin Drum, Joshua Marshall, John Cole, and on and on: ...

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Tags: Iraq, Military, New Republic

Iranian Revolutionary Guard Labeled 'Terrorist'

Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 9:06:27 am PDT

In a move with potentially large implications, the US is putting Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps on the list of specially designated global terrorists. The United States has decided to designate Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, the country’s 125,000-strong elite military branch, as a “specially designated global terrorist,” according to U.S. officials, a ...

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Tags: Islam, Iran, Ahmadinejad, Revolutionary Guard

Kos Goes for the Dishonest Smear

Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 8:50:36 am PDT

Markos “Screw Them” Moulitsas must be feeling a little beleaguered about the hateful content at his web site. He’s spent the last week protesting to the media that 1) the hateful content doesn’t exist, or 2) it’s “democracy at work.” But today he’s going around cherry-picking unregistered comments from Republican blogs, ...

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Tags: Moonbats, Daily Kos, Useful Idiots, Progressives

LGF Traffic Surge Open Thread

Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 8:01:29 am PDT

A link to LGF is on the front page of fark.com (and Instapundit, and Michelle Malkin, and others) this morning, and again our server hamsters are running themselves silly. The CPU load is very high, but we’re staying online so far. I’m monitoring the situation, and here’s an open thread ...

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Tags: Open Thread, Traffic

Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Obama Not Ready for Prime Time Watch

Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 6:09:37 pm PDT

“We’ve got to get the job done there and that requires us to have enough troops so that we’re not just air-raiding villages and killing civilians, which is causing enormous problems there.” — Barack Obama

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Tags: Politics, Election, Barack Obama

Video: Muslim Brotherhood Leader Prohibits Vaccination of Children

Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 5:21:13 pm PDT

The leader of the Muslim Brotherhood in Sudan prohibits the vaccination of children, and declares that the Darfur crisis is a conspiracy among Jews and Freemasons. (Courtesy of MEMRI TV.) [Video]

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Tags: Antisemitism, MEMRI TV, RoP, Sudan, Genocide

Wikipedia EditGate: Al Jazeera's Antisemitism

Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 3:41:08 pm PDT

Someone using an account at Al Jazeera Television (the Arab network influenced by the Muslim Brotherhood, now being heavily promoted at YouTube.com) made the following edit to the Wikipedia page for Israel: Wikipedia scanner results: Al Jazeera.

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Tags: Al Jazeera, Wikipedia

Mosque Torched in East Bay

Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 3:05:07 pm PDT

A mosque in the East Bay area was the target of a possible arson attack, and the Council on American Islamic Relations is already doing what they always do: Islamic group calls for hate-crime investigation in mosque arson. So far, officials say there’s no evidence of a religiously motivated attack. It ...

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Tags: Islam, CAIR, Mosque, Hate Crime

Ahmadinejad: Islam Must Rule the World

Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 2:30:26 pm PDT

Iran’s designated madman president said today that the only salvation for mankind is the rule of Islam. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said here Tuesday that rule of Islam on mankind is the only way for salvation of human beings. “There is no truth on earth but monotheism and following tenets of Islam and ...

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Tags: Islam, Iran, Nuclear Proliferation, Ahmadinejad

Tuesday Afternoon Open

Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 2:16:32 pm PDT

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. — Albert Einstein

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Hamas Child Star: 'Every Palestinian Hopes to Be a Martyr'

Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 1:34:12 pm PDT

A profile of the creepy 11-year old zombie girl who hosts the Hamas TV show Tomorrow’s Pioneers, one of the most depraved Islamist propaganda efforts in the world today: Hamas TV’s child star says she’s ready for martyrdom. GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Saraa Barhoum picked at the buttons on her ...

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Tags: Islam, Hamas, Propaganda, Hate Speech, Mickey Mouse, Farfour Mouse, Nahoul, Terror Bee

NYT Bias Graphically Illustrated

Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 11:31:44 am PDT

Someone at the New York Times contributed the following edit to the Wikipedia page for “George W. Bush:” Wikipedia scanner results. UPDATE at 8/14/07 11:50:54 am: Just to verify, here’s a WHOIS lookup on the IP: 199.181.174.146. UPDATE at 8/14/07 2:44:37 pm: Auspundits has another gem of an edit, also by someone at the ...

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Tags: Media Bias, New York Times, George W. Bush

Scottish Shari'a Watch

Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 10:58:04 am PDT

Doctors and health workers in Scotland have been banned from eating lunch at their desks during the Ramadan fast. Willful blindness has now become standard practice in cases like this; the officials who instituted the ban openly admit they did it out of fear, even while parroting the usual tolerance-speak. DOCTORS and ...

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Tags: Terrorism, Shari'a, Glasgow, Ramadan

Dutch Catholic Bishop: Christians Should Pray to Allah

Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 9:57:47 am PDT

The Roman Catholic bishop of Breda in the Netherlands wants Christians to start praying to Allah. To promote healing and tolerance. The Bishop of Breda, Tiny Muskens, wants people to start calling God Allah. He says the Netherlands should look to Indonesia, where the Christian churches already pray to Allah. It is ...

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Tags: Islam, Dhimmitude, Allah, Netherlands, Catholicism

Muslim Footbaths at University of BC

Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 9:46:01 am PDT

The radical front group calling itself the Muslim Students Association has succeeded in getting another university to install special facilities for Islamic foot-washing: Muslim students to get footbaths at UBC. Muslim University of B.C. student Hesham Alsalaman hopes the days of cleansing his feet in the small washroom hand basin near ...

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Tags: Radical Islam, Shari'a, Canada, Footbaths, University Of British Columbia, Wudu

Who's Editing Wikipedia and Why?

Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 8:52:45 am PDT

Here’s a very interesting tool built by Caltech graduate student Virgil Griffith, which searches the list of edits at Wikipedia and correlates them with known IP addresses of groups and organizations—revealing edits made by The New York Times and Al Jazeera, among others: List anonymous wikipedia edits from interesting organizations. The ...

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Ujaama Pleads Guilty to Terror Camp Charges

Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 8:11:31 am PDT

James Ujaama, the Seattle Muslim convert who collaborated with hook-handed UK hate preacher Abu Hamza to establish Islamic terror training camps in Oregon, recently violated his plea agreement by traveling to Belize on a fake Mexican passport—allowing the government to bring more serious charges against him: Man pleads guilty to ...

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Tags: Al Qaeda, Seattle, Oregon, Ujaama

Monday, August 13, 2007

Update: Morocco Terror Attack

Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 6:52:01 pm PDT

More details on the failed suicide attack against tourists in Morocco today: RABAT (AFP) - An attempted suicide bomb attack in Morocco missed its intended target, a bus-load of foreign tourists, but seriously wounded the suspected bomber, a Moroccan security chief told AFP. The explosion, which occurred in the former imperial ...

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Tags: Militant Islam, Terrorism, Morocco

LGF Registration Open (Update: Closed)

Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 6:17:25 pm PDT

Registration is now open, at one of our mysteriously enigmatic intervals... Tick... tick... tick... UPDATE at 8/13/07 6:35:45 pm: Now closed with more than 80 hatchlings.

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No Virgins for Mahmoud

Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 2:54:58 pm PDT

A would-be mass murderer in Morocco tried to take out a bus full of tourists today, but only succeeded in blowing up himself. RABAT (Reuters) - A suspected radical Islamist tried to blow up himself near a bus carrying tourists in the Moroccan city of Meknes on Monday but he detonated ...

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Tags: Jihad, Morocco, Jihadia

Video: Contentions Interviews Max Boot

Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 2:46:49 pm PDT

From Commentary Magazine’s Contentions blog, here’s an interview with Max Boot on the war in Iraq and the troop “surge,” and the overall war against jihadism and Islamic supremacism. [Video]

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Tags: Militant Islam, War On Terror, Iraq, Islamic Fascism, Surge

Monday Afternoon Open

Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 1:20:11 pm PDT

I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering. — Stephen Wright

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Our Friends the Saudis: Man Arrested for Washing Car Dies of 'Fright'

Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 12:33:00 pm PDT

Our pals in Saudi Arabia are trying the “died of fright” excuse for this latest example of their Dark Ages practices: Man dies of fright in Saudi vice police custody: report. RIYADH (AFP) - A Bangladeshi man died of fright after being arrested by Saudi Arabia’s controversial religious police for washing ...

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Tags: Islam, Saudi Arabia, Wahhabism, Muttawa, Theocracy, Muttaween

Religion of Peace (and AK-47s)

Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 12:23:41 pm PDT

UPDATE at 8/13/07 12:34:04 pm: Hamas militiamen beat Gaza protesters. GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Hamas militiamen beat protesters with clubs and rifle butts to try to stop a demonstration by political opponents in the Gaza Strip on Monday, but hundreds chanting “We want freedom” defied the ban. Hamas routed forces loyal to ...

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Tags: Palestinians, Islam, Hamas, Fatah

Pro-Terrorist Billboard Removed in Ontario

Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 11:03:43 am PDT

The billboard featuring Hizballah terrorist leader Hassan Nasrallah in Windsor, Ontario, has been quietly removed today. WINDSOR, Ont. - The billboard depicting Hezbollah’s controversial leader, which caused an uproar across Windsor, was quietly replaced Monday morning with an advertisement for a car dealership. The sign was erected Friday morning and immediately drew ...

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Tags: Radical Islam, Propaganda, Canada, Hizballah, Hezbollah

Video: Marine Corps Poetry Slam

Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 10:38:53 am PDT

Even if you’re not a fan of the poetry slam, here’s one you’re gonna love. (AP says it’s going viral, so I thought I’d do my part to help.) [Video]

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Tags: Video, Marines, Pro-America

Rove Bails, Moonbats Rejoice

Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 9:58:36 am PDT

Karl Rove says he’s resigning, but he’s not fooling anyone. We all know it’s only another carefully laid piece in one of his nefarious schemes.

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Tags: Politics, Karl Rove

Video: Hamas Kids' TV Host Abuses Animals

Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 9:11:09 am PDT

In an episode of the Hamas TV show Tomorrow’s Pioneers that’s apparently intended to teach children not to abuse animals, Nahoul the bee torments and inflicts genuine pain on live animals at the Gaza zoo. As children burst into laughter. Sick, sick, sick. [Video]

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Tags: Islam, Hamas, Propaganda, Hate Speech, Mickey Mouse, Farfour Mouse, Nahoul, Terror Bee

UK Governed by Moonbats

Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 8:36:38 am PDT

The British Parliament is now in the hands of the worst kind of terror-appeasing moonbats: Boycott of Hamas is counterproductive: British MPs. We’re about to witness what happens when a country is governed by the “progressive” Kos mentality. And it’s going to be ugly. LONDON (Reuters) - Britain’s and the international community’s ...

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Tags: Hamas, Appeasement, Britain, Gordon Brown

Sunday, August 12, 2007

Terror Supporters Defend Pro-Hizballah Sign

Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 9:01:25 pm PDT

“Brazen” doesn’t even begin to describe the attitude of the Hizballah supporters in Windsor, Ontario: Backers defend controversial sign. The people responsible for a controversial billboard depicting Hezbollah’s leader said they did it to honour their freedom fighting families back home — and it’s their Canadian right to do so. “In Canada ...

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Tags: Radical Islam, Propaganda, Canada, Hizballah, Hezbollah

Legal Jihad in India

Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 6:14:01 pm PDT

Writer and women’s rights activist Taslima Nasreen, attacked by an Islamist mob in India, has been charged with “promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race, place of birth, residence, language etc and doing acts prejudicial to maintenance of harmony.” Hyderabad City Police have booked a case against controversial ...

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Tags: Radical Islam, Islam, Misogyny, Women's Rights, India

CAIR: Youngest Member of Hamas Family Tree

Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 5:50:36 pm PDT

At Counterterrorism Blog, a look at the damning revelations about the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) that have come out in the past week, at the Holy Land Foundation trial in Dallas: CAIR: Youngest Member of Hamas Family Tree. An organization headquartered in Washington, DC, tasked with political activism, born ...

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Tags: Radical Islam, Hamas, CAIR, Council On American Islamic Relations, Holy Land Foundation

Kos Kid Goes the Distance

Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 5:44:09 pm PDT

Tonight a Kos Kid has gone on a mad cherry-picking spree through LGF’s comments, flinging ad hominem insults at the lizardoid army like that French guy in that Monty Python movie: Daily Kos: LGF on Ford v Kos: grasping at straws. When I think of the hours ‘nota bene’ spent going ...

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Tags: Moonbats, Daily Kos, Useful Idiots, Progressives

SC Pipe Bomb Suspects Linked to Sami Al-Arian?

Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 5:25:56 pm PDT

Some interesting new information about the South Carolina pipe bomb guys, Ahmed Mohamed and Yousef Megahed (does ‘Megahed’ = ‘Mujahid’?), at Michelle Malkin’s place: Mystery at Goose Creek: Who are the accused Pipe Bomb Boys? Update: Yahia Megahed’s Hi5 profile is gone. Dan Riehl has more details: SC 2 Linked To ...

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Tags: CAIR, South Carolina, Pipe Bombs, Megahed

The Mysteriously Enigmatic Death of Arafish

Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 3:35:04 pm PDT

Yasser Arafat’s personal physician says, “Oh, sure, the old monster had HIV. But it was the Jews who killed him." Not in so many words, of course. Late Palestinian Authority chairman Yasser Arafat’s blood contained the deadly HIV virus, Arafat’s personal physician told Jordanian media over the weekend. Dr. Ashraf al-Kurdi stressed, ...

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Tags: Hamas, Fatah, PFLP, Yasser Arafat, Corruption, PLO, AIDS

Video: The Ford-Kos Convergence

Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 12:00:49 pm PDT

Clips from Andrew Marcus’ interview with Kommandante Kos provide some context in Allahpundit’s PJ remix of today’s Meet the Press weaselfest. [Video]

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Tags: Moonbats, Daily Kos, Ethics, Useful Idiots, Progressives, DLC

70,000 Hizb Ut-Tahrir Supporters in Jakarta

Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 11:05:18 am PDT

This doesn’t strike me as a positive development in the “moderate” Islamic state of Indonesia: Hardline group rallies for world Islamic rule. But who are we to judge? JAKARTA (AFP) - More than 70,000 members of a hardline Muslim group held a rally in Indonesia that heard calls for a caliphate — ...

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Tags: Radical Islam, Indonesia, Hizb Ut-Tahrir, Caliphate

Emerson: ISNA's Lies Unchallenged Again

Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 10:23:16 am PDT

In addition to the Council on American Islamic Relations, a second “mainstream” Islamic advocacy group named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Hamas funding trial is the Islamic Society of North America, a group with which Steven Emerson is very familiar: Counterterrorism Blog: ISNA’s Lies Unchallenged Again. Newsweek put a call ...

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Tags: Hamas, CAIR, Holy Land Foundation, Funding, Dallas, ISNA

Video: Terror Attack in Jerusalem

Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 9:33:26 am PDT

Via the Jerusalem Post, security camera footage of an Arab terrorist in a running gun fight with security guards through Jerusalem’s Old City, after grabbing a weapon from one of the guards. [Video] The security tapes show the terrorist following the security guards, approaching them from behind and grabbing a weapon from ...

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Tags: Terrorism, Video, Jerusalem

Hizballah Buying Large Tracts of Land in S. Lebanon

Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 9:25:58 am PDT

Right under the noses of the United Nations “peacekeeping force” (a force that’s explicitly prohibited from using force), the terrorist gang Hizballah is buying large areas of land in south Lebanon, preparing for another war with Israel. Hizbollah is buying up large tracts of land owned by Christians and other non-Shias ...

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Tags: Terrorism, United Nations, Hizballah, Lebanon, UNIFIL

Kos Klaims Mainstream Mantle, Ford Fawns

Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 8:29:16 am PDT

The supreme egotist Markos “Screw Them” Moulitsas appeared on Meet The Press today with DLC chairman Harold Ford, denying and backpedaling furiously away from the hateful, ugly content on his site, and crowing about becoming the new Democratic “mainstream.” Of course, he’s being given a complete pass for his obscene, ...

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Tags: Moonbats, Daily Kos, Ethics, Useful Idiots, Progressives, DLC

Saturday, August 11, 2007

Scott Beauchamp Declines to Speak to Media

Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 9:14:01 pm PDT

At The Weekly Standard, a statement from the Army on Scott Beauchamp, and The New Republic’s claim that he’s being prevented from communicating: We are not preventing him from speaking to TNR or anyone. He has full access to the Morale Welfare and Recreation phones that all the other members of ...

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Tags: Iraq, Military, New Republic

Iowa Straw Poll Results

Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 5:12:32 pm PDT

Those Paulians sure do know how to hold a grudge. Just received from a reader in Canada: Where’s your fork tongue talking about Ron Paul and Iowa Straw Poll today? Are you afraid of another failed prophecy ? We’re waiting right now for the Straw Poll results; and of course, this ...

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Tags: Moonbats, Democrats, 9/11 Conspiracies, Ron Paul, Internet Polls, Iowa Straw Poll

Saturday Afternoon Open

Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 2:55:00 pm PDT

I was in the first submarine. Instead of a periscope, they had a kaleidoscope. “We’re surrounded.” — Stephen Wright

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'No Compulsion in Islam'

Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 1:10:59 pm PDT

The Washington Post and Newsweek have been publishing a series of articles by Islamic advocates (in one case, a Hizballah terrorist) denying, among other things, that the penalty for leaving Islam is death. But Egyptian Mohammed Hegazy, who converted to Christianity, isn’t much interested in the academic arguments; he’s too busy ...

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Tags: Islam, Shari'a, Egypt, Apostasy, Death Penalty, Sharia

LGF Technical Update: Navigation by Days 2

Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 12:25:31 pm PDT

This is a quick update on the changes in navigating LGF that I’ve made in the past few days. To keep everything as straightforward as possible, the front page now will show only the current day’s worth of posts. There’s a setting in the LGF Blog Engine for the number ...

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Tags: Javascript, Technical Info, Comments, PHP, Archives, Ajax, Refactoring, JQuery, Calendar

Al Qaeda Camps in Pakistan Abandoned?

Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 11:44:44 am PDT

Bill Roggio has a disturbing report from Pakistan, where Al Qaeda training camps in the Waziristan regions have suddenly emptied out: Pakistan: Concern over nukes as al Qaeda camps empty. The Fourth Rail interviewed a senior military intelligence official and a military officer, both of whom are familiar with the situation ...

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Tags: Militant Islam, Pakistan, Al Qaeda

DEBKAfile Report Leads to High Alert in NY

Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 10:44:38 am PDT

DEBKAfile really wound up the NYPD yesterday with an alarmist report on a “dirty bomb” attack: Israeli website sends US media into frenzy. WASHINGTON – The high alert declared by the New York Police on Friday night following a report on the Israeli website DEBKAfile that al-Qaeda might be plotting to ...

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Tags: Terrorism, Dirty Bomb, New York, DEBKAfile

LGF Registration Open (Update: Closed)

Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 9:37:09 am PDT

A very limited window of opportunity... tick... tick... tick... UPDATE at 8/11/07 9:57:37 am: Now closed, with 62 hatchlings in 20 minutes...

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Egyptian Cleric Teaches Kids It's OK to Lie

Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 9:28:44 am PDT

From a children’s program on Egypt’s Al-Nas TV, Egyptian cleric Mahmoud Al-Masri instructs children on the times when it is appropriate to lie: to a wife, to Jews, and to reconcile two arguing Muslims. (Courtesy of MEMRI TV.) [Video] Mahmoud Al-Masri: We should not teach our children to lie, because it is ...

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Tags: Islam, Egypt, Taqqiya, Deception

Hizballah Marketed in Ontario As 'Peaceful'

Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 8:51:24 am PDT

A billboard has suddenly appeared in Windsor, Ontario, openly supporting the genocidal radical Islamic terrorist group Hizballah, including a statement in English about “peace” and a statement in Arabic about “fighting.” Members of the Jewish and Lebanese Christian communities in Windsor are outraged by the appearance of a billboard that appears ...

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Tags: Radical Islam, Propaganda, Canada, Hizballah, Hezbollah

Friday, August 10, 2007

Friday Night Cloud

Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 9:52:39 pm PDT

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Tags: Photograph, Open Thread, Clouds

LGF Technical Update: Navigation by Days

Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 5:52:59 pm PDT

At the top and bottom of our front page you will now see a navigation panel that lets you step back by days from the last day on the front page. If you click the link to go back a day, you’re in our “daily viewing” mode, and there will ...

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Tags: Javascript, Technical Info, Comments, PHP, Archives, Ajax, Refactoring, JQuery, Calendar

Totten: An Iraqi Interpreter's Story

Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 5:43:00 pm PDT

Michael J. Totten interviews an Iraqi translator for US forces, in another of his must-read reports from the ground in Iraq: Michael J. Totten: An Iraqi Interpreter’s Story. MJT: Why do you work with Americans? Hammer: When I was 14 years old all I liked was American cars and American movies. America ...

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Tags: Iraq, Michael J. Totten, Totten

A Minute of Silence for 9/11 - Banned in Brussels

Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 3:18:32 pm PDT

The socialist mayor of Brussels has banned a peaceful demonstration to commemorate September 11—out of fear of the Religion of Peace™. A group called “Stop the Islamization of Europe” is promoting the event, and here’s their open letter to the mayor. The Brussels mayor, the Socialist Freddy Thielemans, has, on 9th ...

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Tags: Radical Islam, 9/11, Belgium, SIOE

TNR Reveals Another Insignificant Detail

Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 2:07:01 pm PDT

The New Republic editors have another statement on the Scott Beauchamp scandal: A Scott Beauchamp Update. It’s mostly more of the same (critics are driven by ideology, critics hate truthiness, you know the drill), but there’s one little brand new detail in what they’re telling us now: Here’s what we know: On ...

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Tags: Iraq, Military, New Republic

Murtha Doesn't Want to Talk About Haditha (Now)

Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 1:38:03 pm PDT

At Hot Air: Rep. Murtha’s office hangs up when asked about the Haditha Marines.

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Tags: War Crimes, Haditha, Marines, Murtha

Foggy Bottom Reprimands Barak for Honesty

Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 12:58:00 pm PDT

In “private” conversations, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak dared to speak frankly about reality, instead of indulging in loopy pie-in-the-sky fantasies about a quick peace deal with Palestinians—and promptly received a diplomatic slap from the State Department. WASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States said Friday that Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak’s ...

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Tags: Israel, State Department, Arabs, Land For Peace, Rice, Ehud Barak, Peace Deal

Traffic Surge Open Thread

Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 11:45:57 am PDT

We’re on the front page of fark.com, Instapundit, Hot Air, and a whole lot of other places right now and traffic is raging. Here’s an open thread while the hamsters spin furiously in their little wheels...

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Y2K Bug Drastically Changes US Climate Data

Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 10:38:56 am PDT

According to the DailyTech blog, the NASA temperature data used to estimate the advance of global warming has been shown to be way off the mark, due to a Y2K bug in the graphing software—and the corrected charts tell a very different story: Blogger Finds Y2K Bug in NASA Climate ...

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Tags: Global Warming, Environment, Climate Change

Krauthammer: The Baghdad Fabulist

Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 10:12:27 am PDT

In his column on The New Republic Scott Beauchamp scandal, Charles Krauthammer zeroes in on the important aspect, the little detail that The New Republic tried to pass off as a simple mistake: The Baghdad Fabulist. Except that it is now revealed that the mess-hall incident happened before he even got ...

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Tags: Iraq, Krauthammer, New Republic, Scott Thomas, Scott Beauchamp

Religion of Peace Strikes Again in Philippines

Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 9:46:46 am PDT

In the Philippines jihad, at least 57 people have been killed and scores injured, in fierce battles between troops and Abu Sayyaf terrorists. MANILA, Philippines — Clashes between troops and suspected Al Qaeda-linked militants have killed at least 57 people and wounded 42 others on volatile southern Jolo island this ...

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Tags: Militant Islam, Terrorism, Philippines, Abu Sayyaf, MILF

Religion of Peace Strikes Again in South Thailand

Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 9:43:38 am PDT

In south Thailand, the severed head of a Buddhist slaughtered by jihadis was discovered on a provincial road—booby-trapped. Jitr Techawanto was one of two local men killed and beheaded at home in Pattani’s Yaring district Wednesday night. The homes of the two were set afire and burned to the ground ...

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Tags: Jihad, Islamic Supremacism, Thailand, South Thailand

Reuters Busted by a 13-Year Old

Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 9:18:53 am PDT

The top-quality fact-checking that can only be achieved by large media corporations is on fine display today, as Reuters is caught by a 13-year old Finnish schoolboy representing photos from the movie “Titanic” as pictures from the Russian North Pole expedition: Reuters gets that sinking feeling. News agency Reuters has been ...

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Tags: Reuters, Fauxtography

Unbelievable Leftist Hate of the Day

Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 9:12:17 am PDT

Here’s our jaw-droppingly sick 2-minute leftist hate of the day, at the Guardian’s “Comment is free” pseudo-blog, where journalist Neil Clark argues that Iraqi translators working for UK forces are “traitors,” and should not be allowed asylum in Britain. Instead, Clark hopes they’ll be slaughtered by the “true heroes” of Iraq. ...

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Tags: Anti-war, Iraq, Guardian, Progressives, Leftists, Neil Clark, Translators

Gadafi's Son Blithely Admits Torturing Foreign Medics

Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 8:56:58 am PDT

The son of Libyan dictator Muammar Gadafi has admitted they tortured the foreign medics they were holding hostage, and threatened their families: Libya ‘tortured’ Bulgarian medics. Real torture, not Andrew Sullivan-style torture. The European Union would be outraged, but they’re too busy making deals with Libya. Saif al-Islam Gaddafi told Al Jazeera TV ...

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Tags: European Union, Libya, Torture, EU, Lockerbie, Kadafi, Qadhafi, Gadafi, Bulgarian Nurses

Thursday, August 09, 2007

Thursday Overnight Thread

Thu, Aug 9, 2007 at 9:40:50 pm PDT

As day turns to night, and the lonesome yell of the coyote echoes over the high desert, here’s an overnight open thread...

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TNR's 'Expert' Located

Thu, Aug 9, 2007 at 6:27:35 pm PDT

Bob Owens continues doing the fact-checking The New Republic should have done: Confederate Yankee: When Hidden Experts Are Found. The money grafs: In other words, BAE System’s Head of Communications over the division than manufactures the Bradley IFV was never specifically asked to comment on the claims made in “Shock Troops” ...

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Tags: Iraq, Military, New Republic

And Now For Something Completely Different...

Thu, Aug 9, 2007 at 6:13:49 pm PDT

Surrealistically extruded pompadours, proto-Southern rock, and the Red Army Choir singing backup. Blame Finland for this one. [Video]

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Tags: Open Thread, Video, Music, Finland

Video: Islamist Mob Attacks Bangladeshi Writer

Thu, Aug 9, 2007 at 5:06:27 pm PDT

Bangladeshi writer and women’s rights activist Tasleema Nasreen was in Hyderabad to promote a new book when she was attacked—by a mob led by elected Islamist members of the Indian Senate. Hindu journalists formed a protective ring around her and she was able to escape unharmed; here’s video of the ...

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Tags: Radical Islam, Islam, Misogyny, Women's Rights, India

All Charges Dropped Against 2 Haditha Marines

Thu, Aug 9, 2007 at 4:41:45 pm PDT

All charges have been dropped against two of the Marines in the Haditha case. LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A U.S. Marine general dropped all charges on Thursday against two Marines in the shooting deaths of 24 civilians in Haditha, scene of what Iraqi witnesses said was a massacre by American troops. ...

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Tags: War Crimes, Iraq, Haditha, Marines

The Many Loves of Arafish

Thu, Aug 9, 2007 at 3:45:13 pm PDT

I admit it, I’m just juvenile enough to LMAO at this one. [Video]

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Tags: Hamas, Fatah, PFLP, Yasser Arafat, Corruption, PLO, AIDS

Kos Co-Author Fined $30K by the SEC

Thu, Aug 9, 2007 at 1:28:44 pm PDT

Jerome Armstrong, partner of Markos Moulitsas of Daily Kos ... fame ... has agreed to pay $30,000 to the SEC to settle allegations of unethical stock touting; PJ Media has a good overview of the story: Stock-in-Trade.

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Tags: Moonbats, Daily Kos, Ethics, Useful Idiots, MyDD, Progressives

Thursday Afternoon Open

Thu, Aug 9, 2007 at 12:59:20 pm PDT

I bought a dog the other day... I named him Stay. It’s fun to call him... “Come here, Stay! Come here, Stay!” He went insane. Now he just ignores me and keeps typing. — Stephen Wright

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Religion of Peace Strikes Again in South Thailand

Thu, Aug 9, 2007 at 12:28:07 pm PDT

Seven more dead and two more schools burned down, in the south Thailand jihad: Two beheaded, clinics attacked in Thailand. Two Buddhist health workers have been gunned down in a clinic in Thailand’s restive south, while two others were beheaded in a grisly killing spree blamed on separatist rebels, police say. Three ...

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Tags: Jihad, Islamic Supremacism, Thailand, South Thailand

Dutch MP: Ban the Koran

Thu, Aug 9, 2007 at 12:03:05 pm PDT

Dutch MP Geert Wilders, whose hair is even more magnificently sculpted than the silky tresses of John Edwards, wants to ban the Koran. The leader of the Netherlands’ right-wing Freedom Party, Geert Wilders, has called for a ban on the sale and distribution of the Qu’ran. He would also outlaw the ...

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Tags: Islam, Koran, Netherlands, Geert Wilders

Black Muslim Bakery Bilked Oakland

Thu, Aug 9, 2007 at 11:09:28 am PDT

Oakland politicians are in hot water over their support for the “Your Black Muslim Bakery,” now implicated in several murders: Black Muslim Bakery squandered job-training money. Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums and Rep. Barbara Lee of Oakland found themselves in the unwelcome spotlight this week over the letters of support they wrote ...

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Tags: Murder, Nation Of Islam, Oakland, Your Black Muslim Bakery

Phares: An Idealistic Alternative to the Saudi Arms Deal

Thu, Aug 9, 2007 at 10:50:43 am PDT

An interesting piece by Walid Phares lays out some idealistic alternatives to the Saudi arms deal. So what should the US advise the Saudis to do instead of spending hugely on arms? First, if no serious political change is performed in Arabia, the 20 billion dollars’ worth of weapons would most likely ...

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Tags: Islam, Saudi Arabia, Wahhabism, United States, Theocracy, Arms Deal

Terrorist Sympathizer Tossed from Homeland Security Panel

Thu, Aug 9, 2007 at 9:53:58 am PDT

Patrick Poole has a followup article on the case of Abukar Arman, a supporter of terrorist groups who has finally been tossed off a central Ohio Homeland Security panel. We initially reported Arman’s statements of support for the al-Qaeda-backed Somali Islamic Courts Union, HAMAS, Hezbollah and designated terrorist Youssef Al-Qaradawi. One ...

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Tags: Ohio, Abukar Arman

AP on TNR 'Shock Troops' Fabrications

Thu, Aug 9, 2007 at 8:38:55 am PDT

Yesterday the New York Times and Washington Post published reports on the New Republic’s disintegrating credibility, and today it’s the Associated Press’s turn: New Republic Iraq stories questioned. NEW YORK - A magazine gets a hot story straight from a soldier in Iraq and publishes his writing, complete with gory details, ...

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Tags: Iraq, Military, AP, New Republic

Wednesday, August 08, 2007

Shocka! Religious Apartheid Kingdom Confiscates Bibles!

Wed, Aug 8, 2007 at 7:36:44 pm PDT

Saudi Arabia’s been doing this for decades, but let’s all pretend we’re just beginning to notice: Saudis might take Bibles from tourists. Despite a series of initiatives aimed at generating foreign tourism, the Saudi Arabian government continues to bar Jews and Christians from bringing items such as Bibles, crucifixes and Stars ...

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Tags: Saudi Arabia, Religious Freedom, Wahhabism, Apartheid, Theocracy

CAIR: Part of the Muslim Brotherhood's Palestine Committee

Wed, Aug 8, 2007 at 5:02:52 pm PDT

There was a real bombshell of a revelation yesterday in the Hamas funding trial in Dallas, as an FBI agent testified about the roots of the Council on American Islamic Relations: Counterterrorism Blog: CAIR Identified by the FBI as part of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Palestine Committee. Dallas—In testimony Tuesday, FBI Agent ...

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Tags: Radical Islam, Hamas, CAIR, Council On American Islamic Relations, Holy Land Foundation

Wednesday Afternoon Open Thread

Wed, Aug 8, 2007 at 3:49:26 pm PDT

Sometimes you wear the pants, and sometimes the pants wear you...

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Non-Flying Imam in Phoenix Acid Attack

Wed, Aug 8, 2007 at 2:46:09 pm PDT

One of the non-flying imams is in the news again, in an apparent attack with a caustic substance at a mosque in Phoenix: Arizona mosque targeted in acid bomb attack. It goes without saying (but I’ll say it anyway) that if the circumstances described in the article are correct, the ...

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Tags: CAIR, Flying Imams, Phoenix

Video: UK Police Investigate Journalists, Hate Preachers Get a Pass

Wed, Aug 8, 2007 at 1:08:07 pm PDT

British police have decided not to pursue charges against any of the Islamic hate preachers exposed by the Channel 4 documentary “Dispatches: Undercover Mosque.” Instead, they’re reporting Channel 4 to the media regulatory agency. Just when you think it can’t get any more insane. Here’s Channel 4’s report, in two parts. You’re not ...

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Video: John Mearsheimer At Yearly Kos 2007

Wed, Aug 8, 2007 at 12:30:23 pm PDT

Here’s University of Chicago professor John Mearsheimer, co-author of “The Israel Lobby,” interviewed by Andrew Marcus at the YearlyKos convention, explaining that Iran is not at war with the United States and that we need to work with them—because, after all, they’re only killing a tiny percentage of US soldiers ...

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Tags: Juan Cole, Mearsheimer, Walt, Progressives, YearlyKos

Hamas Funding Trial: The CAIR Connection

Wed, Aug 8, 2007 at 10:51:46 am PDT

At Counterterrorism Blog, some insight into the nature of the Council on American Islamic Relations, as jurors in the Hamas funding trial heard about the participation of CAIR executive director Nihad Awad and chairman emeritus Omar Ahmad in a 1993 meeting of Hamas members and supporters—at which they discussed forming ...

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Tags: Radical Islam, Hamas, CAIR, Council On American Islamic Relations, Holy Land Foundation

The Protocols of the YearlyKos

Wed, Aug 8, 2007 at 10:11:56 am PDT

Also at the YearlyKos convention: a panel featuring an all-star cast of anti-war Jew-haters and wacademics, led by Juan “Ahmadinejad was mistranslated” Cole, and co-starring John “Jews control the US” Mearsheimer: Daily Kos: Juan Cole Leads Iraq Panel at YearlyKos. Last year we had a video clip showing Mearsheimer appearing at ...

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Tags: Juan Cole, Mearsheimer, Walt, Progressives, YearlyKos

Foot-and-Mouth Disease Deliberately Released?

Wed, Aug 8, 2007 at 9:34:41 am PDT

Was the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in Britain an act of bio-terrorism? The deliberate release of viral material, possibly in an act of sabotage, may have caused the foot-and-mouth disease outbreak, officials said last night. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) said in a report ordered by the Prime Minister that “release ...

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Tags: Terrorism, Britain, Disease

Fatah 'Inadvertently' Gives Millions to Hamas

Wed, Aug 8, 2007 at 9:20:00 am PDT

The “moderate” terrorists of Fatah “inadvertently” paid 2.3 million dollars to the “outlawed” terrorists of Hamas, out of the funds they were given by Israel. (And at this rate, I’m going to run out of scare quotes.) It’s a complete mystery how such a thing could have happened. Probably a computer ...

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Tags: Palestinians, Hamas, Fatah

Tuesday, August 07, 2007

Beauchamp Battle Royale: TNR vs. Weekly Standard

Tue, Aug 7, 2007 at 10:49:08 pm PDT

Well, I’m back in my top-secret chamber beneath Denver International Airport, and tonight it looks as if The New Republic plans to drive their flaming jalopy right off the cliff. They’re disputing the Weekly Standard’s report that Scott Beauchamp recanted his stories, and editor Franklin Foer is demanding apologies from ...

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Tags: Iraq, Military, New Republic

Video: Radicalized British Muslims

Tue, Aug 7, 2007 at 11:06:27 am PDT

A British TV investigation into the frightening extent of radical Islam in the UK, in five parts; here’s part one: [Video] The other four parts of this well-done show are available here.

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Tags: Radical Islam, Britain, Video

Tuesday Open Thread

Tue, Aug 7, 2007 at 10:31:27 am PDT

Here’s an open thread for the remains of Tuesday morning; as noted in the previous topic, I’m traveling and will have sporadic access to the web today.

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'Shock Troops' - Gone from TNR?

Tue, Aug 7, 2007 at 9:38:17 am PDT

A search on The New Republic for “Shock Troops” turns up no results; they’ve apparently removed Scott Beauchamp’s articles without a word. So here’s an open Tuesday morning thread to discuss the dog that didn’t bark in the night. (Note: expect another day of sporadic posting; I’m traveling and won’t have access ...

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Tags: Iraq, Military, The New Republic

Our Friends the Saudis 'Appear' To Back Us

Tue, Aug 7, 2007 at 9:22:02 am PDT

Reuters does their best to spin the latest Saudi garbage as though it were fine jewelry, but this is very obviously no change at all: Saudi says Palestinian state should be ‘viable’. RIYADH, Aug 7 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia voiced support on Tuesday for a U.S.-sponsored Middle East peace conference and ...

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Tags: Israel, Palestinians, Saudi Arabia

Another Islamic Charity Funding Terrorism

Tue, Aug 7, 2007 at 9:15:53 am PDT

Yet another Islamic “charity” secretly funding Hamas has had its assets frozen by the Treasury Department: Treasury moves against Al-Salah. WASHINGTON - The Bush administration moved Tuesday to clamp down financially on a large charitable organization in Gaza for allegedly raising money and providing other support to Hamas, which the U.S. ...

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Tags: Hamas, Terrorism, Islamic Charity, Al-Salah Society

Overnight: Beauchamp Recants 'Shock Troops'

Tue, Aug 7, 2007 at 12:54:46 am PDT

Not to worry, I still exist in the corporeal realm. The business I mentioned earlier ended up taking all day. So here’s a thread for the latest in the Scott Beauchamp scandal ... and I do mean “scandal:” Breaking: Beauchamp signs military statement recanting TNR pieces; Update: “armylawyer” comments. Also see ...

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Tags: Iraq, Military, The New Republic

Monday, August 06, 2007

Kos Kid: Kill Me Now

Mon, Aug 6, 2007 at 9:53:51 am PDT

Here’s another open thread, with a gratuitous link to yet another jaw-droppingly whacked out Kos Kid diary: Daily Kos: I would rather die in a terrorist attack. This one would rather die in a terrorist attack than see Valerie Plame outed. Yes, really. (Hat tip: Killgore.)

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Monday Morning Open Thread

Mon, Aug 6, 2007 at 9:29:22 am PDT

Here’s an open thread for a Monday morning. (I have some business to attend to today, and posting will be light for the rest of the afternoon.)

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Daily Kos: I Still Support the Troops! (Not Really)

Mon, Aug 6, 2007 at 9:27:11 am PDT

Here’s A. Whitney Brown’s latest embarrassingly puerile rant against the military; even though they know they’re under scrutiny, the Kos Kidz are addicted to this kind of stuff: Daily Kos: I Still Support Our Troops! For this view, I have been called Anti-Military. My response is this: Who on earth could be ...

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Further Confirmation: No 'Burned Woman'

Mon, Aug 6, 2007 at 8:46:24 am PDT

More from Bob Owens on Scott Beauchamp story, which now appears to be a full-blown Stephen Glass-style scandal: Further Confirmation: No Burned Woman Here. Adding to the debunking of The New Republic’s new claim that “burned contractor” story took place in Kuwait before PV-2 Scott Thomas Beauchamp deployed into a combat ...

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Tags: Iraq, Military, The New Republic

Explosive Sheep Discovered in Moderate West Bank

Mon, Aug 6, 2007 at 8:41:42 am PDT

Don’t worry; once they have a state, and all Israelis are driven out of it, these little incidents will stop and there will be peace: Explosive device hidden in dead sheep. An IDF force operating in the West Bank on Monday morning uncovered an explosive device weighing 40 kilograms (88 pounds), ...

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Tags: Palestinians, Abbas, Olmert, Statehood

Al Qaeda Cell in US?

Mon, Aug 6, 2007 at 8:15:40 am PDT

The only good thing about this news is that if they’re connected to the failed London/Glasgow bombers, they may be too incompetent to pull off a serious attack: Al Qaeda Cell May Be Loose in U.S., British Plot Hints. WASHINGTON — As an American-born spokesman for Al Qaeda threatens to blow ...

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Tags: Terrorism, Al Qaeda, London, Glasgow

Let's Give Them a State

Mon, Aug 6, 2007 at 8:02:38 am PDT

When the Palestinian state is set up, and receiving billions of dollars in aid, and all the politicians have taken their bows and pronounced peace in our time, what will happen when the killing continues? Olmert hopes talks can lead to Palestinian state. JERICHO, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister ...

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Tags: Palestinians, Abbas, Olmert, Statehood

Sunday, August 05, 2007

Sunday Overnight Thread

Sun, Aug 5, 2007 at 11:27:03 pm PDT

Some business and technical issues forced me away from the computer for most of the day, and tomorrow will be more of the same... so posting will be a bit less than full-tilt for a little while. In the meantime, here’s an overnight open thread for the lizards of the night... ...

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Georgetown U Imam: Muslims Gaining Strength in US

Sun, Aug 5, 2007 at 2:06:37 pm PDT

Speaking in the world center of Wahhabism, the home country of most of the 9/11 hijackers, Imam Yahya Hendi of Georgetown University said the September 11 attacks helped Muslims to gain strength in the United States. RIYADH, Aug 5 (Reuters) - Muslims are steadily improving their position in U.S. society, contrary ...

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Tags: Islam, Saudi Arabia, Wahhabism, United States, Theocracy, Yahya Hendi

Two Arrested with Explosives Near Charleston

Sun, Aug 5, 2007 at 1:10:46 pm PDT

It happened last night, but there’s still very little information out there; two men of “Middle Eastern descent” were arrested after police discovered explosives in the trunk of their car. Goose Creek - Berkeley County police pulled over a vehicle in a routine traffic stop near Meyers Road and Highway 176 around ...

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Tags: Terrorism, Charleston

Sunday Afternoon Open

Sun, Aug 5, 2007 at 12:03:10 pm PDT

Here’s a thread for verbiage, loquacity, and logorrhea...

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Al Qaeda's Pumping Out the Videos

Sun, Aug 5, 2007 at 11:50:54 am PDT

Pudgy traitor Adam Gadahn has another video threatening the United States and showing off his mad multimedia skillz; Rusty has screenshots and details at The Jawa Report: New al Qaeda Video Shows Zawahiri, Adam Gadahn, Threatening U.S. Homeland.

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Daily Kos Tries to Explain Censoring Soldier (Update - Now with Extra Hypocrisy)

Sun, Aug 5, 2007 at 11:43:05 am PDT

It took them a couple of days to get the spin together, but we now have an official position on the incident at the ‘Military and Progressives’ panel at YearlyKos, from an employee of VoteVets, whose founder shouted down and threatened that soldier: Daily Kos: What Really Happened at the ...

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Daily Kos Kids Swoon Over Terrorist Poetry

Sun, Aug 5, 2007 at 11:16:21 am PDT

Poetry by terrorists—a big hit with the Nutroots: Daily Kos: Poem from Guantanamo. A sample comment: It’s heart-breaking... ...to think we’ve turned into the inspiration for the Anne Franks of the 21st century.

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Tags: Moonbats, Daily Kos, Useful Idiots, Anti-Military, Progressives, YearlyKos

GOP Debate Poll

Sun, Aug 5, 2007 at 9:47:16 am PDT

Here’s a poll for the GOP debate held this morning in Iowa. Just to see what will happen, the dreaded Ron Paul is included, despite our overwhelming fear of his mind-blowing charisma. Surely the Paulians won’t be silly enough to stack our poll the way they’re currently doing at Drudge ...

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Tags: Politics, Poll, Republicans, Debate

YearlyKos Meltdown Watch: Hillary Booed

Sun, Aug 5, 2007 at 9:03:07 am PDT

The Nutroots are doing what they do best: Liberal Bloggers Boo Hillary Clinton at DailyKos Convention. CHICAGO — Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton refused Saturday to forsake campaign donations from lobbyists, turning aside challenges from her two main rivals with a rare defense of the special interest industry. “A lot of those ...

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Tags: Military, Progressives, YearlyKos

Saturday, August 04, 2007

LGF Registration Open (Update: Closed)

Sat, Aug 4, 2007 at 6:20:18 pm PDT

Again, for a very limited time. Tick... tick... tick... UPDATE at 8/4/07 6:32:19 pm: 54 hatchlings in approximately 10 minutes. And the gate closes for the evening.

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Daily Kos Playing Whack-a-Mole

Sat, Aug 4, 2007 at 5:58:30 pm PDT

The first Daily Kos diary on the subject of the Soltz Shoutdown has disappeared from their site. Gone missing, along with more than 50 comments. Here’s where it used to be: Daily Kos: What happened to this soldier?!?!? Another diary post has now turned up to discuss this incident, from another Kos ...

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Tags: Moonbats, Daily Kos, Useful Idiots, Anti-Military, Progressives, YearlyKos

Tepid Palestinian Car Swarm Watch

Sat, Aug 4, 2007 at 5:38:20 pm PDT

Another Israeli missile strike against Islamic Jihad in Rafah, and the usual strange wire service photo captions about “gathering” and “examining.” Compared to past swarms, though, this crowd seems very sedate. There’s a distinct air of defeat about this motley swarm.

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Tags: Palestinians, Islamic Jihad, Car Swarm

Video: HAMAS Underground

Sat, Aug 4, 2007 at 4:23:00 pm PDT

This is one of several video exhibits released in the terrorist-financing case against the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF); it was found buried in the backyard of the former home of Fawaz Mushtaha, an unindicted co-conspirator in the case: HAMAS Underground. [Video] The video features one of the defendants ...

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Tags: Hamas, CAIR, Holy Land Foundation, Funding, Dallas

Saturday Afternoon Open Thread

Sat, Aug 4, 2007 at 2:16:17 pm PDT

As the title says, here’s a Saturday afternoon open thread...

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PJ Video: YearlyKos Military Panel Meltdown

Sat, Aug 4, 2007 at 11:49:11 am PDT

Pajamas Media has video by Andrew Marcus from YearlyKos, showing the full confrontation we reported yesterday, and more—interviews with both the soldier and moderator John Soltz: Pajamas Media: Soldier Censored at Kos Convention. UPDATE at 8/4/07 12:27:01 pm: The front page posters at Daily Kos are all doing their best to completely ...

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Tags: Military, Progressives, YearlyKos

Update: Oakland Muslim Bakery Linked to Killings (Update: Suspect Confesses)

Sat, Aug 4, 2007 at 10:17:21 am PDT

The latest news on “Your Black Muslim Bakery” in Oakland: weapons seized at the bakery have been connected to several murders, including the daylight assassination of journalist Chauncey Bailey. One of seven men arrested on Friday was Yusef Bey IV, the son of the bakery’s founder, Yusef Bey, a well-known local ...

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Tags: Murder, Nation Of Islam, Oakland

Thug, Dictator, and Useful Idiot (Clockwise from Top)

Sat, Aug 4, 2007 at 8:46:11 am PDT

Sean Penn is The Useful Idiot. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez holds up a picture of rebel hero Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara while driving his vehicle, as U.S actor Sean Penn sits in the back, in the western state of Tachira August 3, 2007. REUTERS/Jorge Silva (VENEZUELA) (Hat tip: Geepers.)

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Tags: Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, Che Guevara, Sean Penn

Jemaah Islamiyah in San Jose

Sat, Aug 4, 2007 at 8:29:50 am PDT

Californian Arrested on Terror Charges. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 3 — Federal authorities said Friday that a California man has been arrested on terrorism-related charges and indicted along with his Malaysian brother, a fugitive and suspected leader of Jemaah Islamiyah, the group blamed for killing 202 people in the 2002 bombing of ...

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Tags: Islam, Terrorism, Islamic Supremacism, Malaysia, San Jose, Jemaah Islamiyah

Religion of Peace Strikes Again in South Thailand

Sat, Aug 4, 2007 at 8:01:38 am PDT

Soldier shot dead, seven wounded in bomb attack in Thai south. NARATHIWAT, Thailand (AFP) - A soldier was shot dead by suspected rebels and at least seven civilians were wounded in a bomb blast at a food stall Saturday in Thailand’s restive Muslim-majority south, police said. The attacks underlined ongoing violence in ...

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Tags: Jihad, Islamic Supremacism, Thailand, South Thailand

Friday, August 03, 2007

Game Over for Beauchamp

Fri, Aug 3, 2007 at 10:11:31 pm PDT

Bob Owens has been in contact with the Public Affairs Officer for General David Petraeus: It’s Official: Beauchamp’s Claims Debunked by Army Internal Investigation. Col. Steven Boylan, Public Affairs Officer for U.S. Army Commanding General in Iraq David Petraeus, just emailed me the following in response to my request to confirm ...

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Tags: Iraq, Military, New Republic

Khalifate Conference Tomorrow in London

Fri, Aug 3, 2007 at 7:32:10 pm PDT

Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain - Thousands to attend Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain’s National Khilafah (Caliphate) Conference in London. London, UK , July 30 2007 – Thousands of delegates will attend Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain ‘s national Khilafah (caliphate) conference at Alexandra Palace in London on Saturday 4th August 2007. The conference is part of ...

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Tags: Radical Islam, Britain, Hizb Ut-Tahrir, Caliphate

LGF Registration Open (Update: Closed)

Fri, Aug 3, 2007 at 6:38:46 pm PDT

We don’t feel like satan, but registration’s open. For a limited time only. UPDATE at 8/3/07 6:58:40 pm: With more than 100 new hatchlings in about 20 minutes, registration is now closed. Current total of registered lizards: 20,029.

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Amazing Grace in Minneapolis

Fri, Aug 3, 2007 at 6:28:47 pm PDT

Toll from bridge collapse could be low. MINNEAPOLIS - More than 100 cars and trucks and a school bus crawling bumper-to-bumper on a bridge that suddenly crashes into the Mississippi River seemed like a recipe for a massive death count. But on Friday came what this city’s fire chief called a ...

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Tags: Minneapolis, Bridge Disaster

When Lefties Drop the Mask

Fri, Aug 3, 2007 at 5:18:44 pm PDT

Isn’t that nice. Creepy Max Blumenthal’s smear job is now showing up at Yahoo News, via The Nation: The Weekly Standard’s Strange Sources. Blumenthal can smell teh ghey all over this story, and in the course of figuring out that former TNR staffer ‘Throbert McGee’ is not heterosexual (hey, no kidding) ...

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Tags: Iraq, Military, New Republic

Friday Afternoon Hamster Watch, The Sequel

Fri, Aug 3, 2007 at 4:00:06 pm PDT

Here’s another open thread for a Friday, as we recover from another large traffic spike (server load 417.88)...

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Video: YearlyKos Military Panel Moderator Shouts Down Soldier

Fri, Aug 3, 2007 at 2:16:02 pm PDT

Here’s the video — the section in question begins at around 41:00, and they apparently turned off the recording while the soldier was speaking. (Hat tip: Killgore.) Earlier at LGF: Serviceman Shouted Down at YearlyKos UPDATE at 8/3/07 2:41:00 pm: I want to thank YearlyKos for thoughtfully providing this video in a form that can ...

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Tags: Moonbats, Daily Kos, Useful Idiots, Anti-Military, Progressives, YearlyKos

Friday Afternoon Hamster Watch

Fri, Aug 3, 2007 at 1:33:45 pm PDT

A couple of big traffic spikes overwhelmed the hamsters for a little while (system load went over 300), and what better time for an open thread?

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Update: Turtle Sub in the East Bay

Fri, Aug 3, 2007 at 12:36:53 pm PDT

Odd-looking `submarine’ spotted near QM2. The vessel turned out to be a replica of a Revolutionary War submarine. It wasn’t immediately clear what the men were doing with it. A detective noticed the vessel, with one person inside, and an inflatable boat carrying two people, near a security zone around the luxury ...

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Tags: New York, East River, Submarine

UN Springs Into Action, Plans Another Israel-Bashing Conference

Fri, Aug 3, 2007 at 12:15:23 pm PDT

‘Anti-Israel conference’ slammed. A UN conference of non-government organizations (NGOs) called to discuss “civil society in support of Israeli-Palestinian peace” at the end of August has been described by an Israeli NGO watchdog as an “anti-Israel propaganda conference”. The meeting, set to take place at the European Parliament (EP) on August ...

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Tags: Israel, United Nations, NGO

Serviceman Shouted Down at YearlyKos

Fri, Aug 3, 2007 at 10:36:03 am PDT

The American Prospect: AN ODD CLOSE. As the Military and Progressives panel came to an end, a young man in uniform stood up to argue that the surge was working, and cutting down on Iraqi casualties. The moderator largely freaked out. When other members of the panel tried to answer his ...

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Tags: Military, Progressives, YearlyKos

SWAT Teams Swarm Oakland Muslim Bakery

Fri, Aug 3, 2007 at 10:01:00 am PDT

SWAT Teams Swarm ‘Your Black Muslim Bakery’. EMERYVILLE, Calif. — Oakland and Fremont police have surrounded the Your Black Muslim Bakery in Oakland. NBC11 News has learned that SWAT team negotiators and various high-ranking police officials are at the scene. Officers from Oakland, Fremont, Alameda and Emeryville are at the scene, reported NBC11’s ...

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Tags: Murder, Nation Of Islam, Oakland

A Submersible in the East River?

Fri, Aug 3, 2007 at 9:48:11 am PDT

A Submarine? A Diving Capsule? What Was It Doing in NYC River? Authorities are questioning three men after pulling them from a submersible vessel in the East River in Brooklyn, N.Y., according to reports from ABC affiliate WABC. The men were captured near the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal in downtown Brooklyn, near the ...

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LGF Scoop Still Marked 'Inaccurate' A Year Later

Fri, Aug 3, 2007 at 9:36:40 am PDT

For some reason, we’re getting a lot of referrals from this year-old page at Digg.com, linking to our exposé of the Reuters fauxtography incident: Digg - Fake but accurate: Reuters Doctoring Photos from Beirut? It’s a textbook study in idiot leftist denial. And I’m not only talking about the comments. At ...

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Tags: Progressives, Fauxtography, Leftists, Denial, Diggbats

Romney's Hizballah Gaffe

Fri, Aug 3, 2007 at 9:13:01 am PDT

Mitt Romney has some explaining to do, after appearing to praise the social work of radical Islamic terror gang Hizballah: Mitt Romney’s “Osama momma” moment. Here’s the quote: Romney: ...”Did you notice in Lebanon, what Hezbollah did? Lebanon became a democracy some time ago and while their government was getting underway, ...

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Tags: Hizballah, Hezbollah, Mitt Romney

Beauchamp Investigation: 'Proven to Be False'

Fri, Aug 3, 2007 at 8:00:59 am PDT

Game over for The New Republic: Beauchamp Investigation Concluded. After a thorough investigation that lasted nearly a week the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division has concluded that the allegation(s) made by Private Thomas Scott Beauchamp, the “Baghdad Diarist”, have been “refuted by members of his platoon and proven ...

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Tags: Iraq, Military, New Republic

Thursday, August 02, 2007

CAIR Executive Director Placed at HAMAS Meeting

Thu, Aug 2, 2007 at 9:13:08 pm PDT

CAIR Executive Director Placed at HAMAS Meeting. The executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Nihad Awad, participated in a three-day summit of U.S.-based HAMAS members and supporters in 1993. Until now, he had been identified only as Nihad LNU (last name unknown) in FBI reports and analyses. The meeting ...

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Tags: Radical Islam, Hamas, CAIR, Council On American Islamic Relations, Holy Land Foundation

Oh No, Here Come the Leftist Critics

Thu, Aug 2, 2007 at 8:00:21 pm PDT

Critics take aim at Bin Laden musical. A satirical musical about Islamist terrorism and Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has sparked protests in Britain, with critics blasting it as tasteless. “Jihad: The Musical,” which features songs including “I wanna be like Osama” and is described as “a madcap gallop through the wacky ...

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Tags: Radical Islam, Free Speech, Jihad, Parody, Satire

Signs of Sanity in Unlikely Places

Thu, Aug 2, 2007 at 7:48:11 pm PDT

Forwarded without commentary, for the moment: Shakespeare’s Sister: More Beauchamp.

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Tags: Iraq, Nutroots, New Republic

Olbermann Feels Breath on Neck, Denounces Stark

Thu, Aug 2, 2007 at 6:56:39 pm PDT

Tonight’s big Nutroots loser is Mike Stark: Daily Kos: Keith Olbermann defends BillO on Countdown. Yes, you read that right. (Hat tip: Killgore.)

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Tags: Hate Speech, Nutroots, Olbermann, Stalking

Syria Summer Camp Fun

Thu, Aug 2, 2007 at 6:15:49 pm PDT

Pro-Syria summer camp starts in Golan. A pro-Syria summer camp for Druse children has started on the Israeli side of the Golan Heights, it was reported on Thursday. Syrian flags could be seen in the footage, aired by Channel Two, and children were heard proudly singing the Syrian national anthem. The kids were ...

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Tags: Syria, Nancy Pelosi

Where's the Outrage?

Thu, Aug 2, 2007 at 5:43:17 pm PDT

A horrific, savage lynching witnessed by IDF troops at the Egyptian border, as Egyptian soldiers captured a group of Sudanese refugees trying to enter Israel and beat them to death with clubs and stones. Egyptian soldiers killed four Sudanese refugees near the Egypt-Israel border overnight Wednesday in full view of IDF ...

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Tags: Palestinians, Egypt, Sudan, Lynching

No Virgins for Kafeel

Thu, Aug 2, 2007 at 4:18:37 pm PDT

The Islamic terrorist who tried to blow up Glasgow Airport, and fought off police and bystanders while blazing like a human torch, is an ex-terrorist. LONDON - A man who set himself on fire after allegedly crashing an explosive-laden Jeep into Glasgow Airport died in a hospital on Thursday, Strathclyde Police ...

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Pakistan to Obama: 'Sheer Ignorance'

Thu, Aug 2, 2007 at 4:06:22 pm PDT

That’s gonna leave a mark. Pakistan slams ‘ignorant’ Obama attack warning. ISLAMABAD (AFP) - Pakistan accused Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama of “sheer ignorance” for threatening to launch US military strikes against Al-Qaeda on Pakistani soil. Obama warned Wednesday that if he is elected president, he would order US forces to hit ...

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Tags: Politics, Pakistan, Election, Barack Obama

Video: Spencer-YAF-CAIR Update

Thu, Aug 2, 2007 at 3:42:03 pm PDT

A short clip from Brit Hume’s show. [Video] Also see: Michelle Malkin: Live from the YAF student conference. Fishwrap: Spencer on ‘the wrath of CAIR’ Joel Mowbray: Stifling Spencer

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Tags: Radical Islam, CAIR, Propaganda, Council On American Islamic Relations, Robert Spencer, Jihad Watch, YAF

Saudi Arabia to Save the Day

Thu, Aug 2, 2007 at 3:24:50 pm PDT

At Spiegel Online, a surprising headline: Saudi Arabia Says It May Meet Israel. Surprising, that is, until you read the details. Sure, the Saudis are willing to consider sitting in a room with an Israeli, as long as that Israeli agrees to talk, without pre-conditions, about the possibility of letting the ...

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Tags: Israel, Saudi Arabia, Middle East, Wahhabism, Theocracy

TNR Makes Another Statement

Thu, Aug 2, 2007 at 2:54:04 pm PDT

The New Republic has made another statement on the “Shock Troops” article, and Ace has analyzed the semiotical contextuality, finding it less than compelling. I’ll start with this: In the first, Beauchamp recounted how he and a fellow soldier mocked a disfigured woman seated near them in a dining hall. Three ...

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Tags: Iraq, Military, New Republic

We Got Mail!

Thu, Aug 2, 2007 at 1:37:39 pm PDT

When I posted this entry about raving antisemites and their YouTube videos, I received this from a reader on a dialup network in Los Angeles, using a Media Center PC (coincidence? we don’t think so): Hey Charles from LGF. Hope I could ask you a quick question. Ready. Exactly how far up Jewish ...

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Tags: Hate Mail, Ron Paul

Another Libyan Hostage Quid Pro Quo?

Thu, Aug 2, 2007 at 1:21:03 pm PDT

Libya and French EADS unit sign 168 mln eur arms deal. TRIPOLI (Thomson Financial) - Libya has signed a contract with France to buy Milan anti-tank missiles worth 168 mln eur, an official in Tripoli told AFP. The contract was signed with European missile manufacturer MBDA, a subsidiary of the EADS group, ...

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Tags: France, Libya, Kadafi, Qadhafi, Gadafi

The Chavez-Spicoli Convergence

Thu, Aug 2, 2007 at 1:08:06 pm PDT

Sean Penn praised by Venezuela’s Chavez. CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has praised Sean Penn for his critical stance against the war in Iraq, saying the two chatted by phone and soon plan to meet in person. Chavez said Penn traveled to Venezuela this week wanting to learn more ...

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Tags: Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, Sean Penn

Our Friends the Saudis

Thu, Aug 2, 2007 at 1:02:52 pm PDT

Libel Suit Leads to Destruction of Books. Cambridge University Press has agreed to destroy all unsold copies of a 2006 book by two American authors, “Alms for Jihad,” following a libel action brought against it in England, the latest development in what critics say is an effort by Saudis to quash ...

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Tags: Free Speech, Saudi Arabia, Wahhabism, Theocracy, Legal Jihad

Liberty Advocates Back 'John Does'

Thu, Aug 2, 2007 at 12:58:30 pm PDT

Liberty advocates back ‘John Does’. Gerard Nolting, the lawyer who represents one of the “John Doe” passengers, called the statement “meaningless and disingenuous” because “tomorrow they may contemplate adding the passengers” by name. “If they name my client, I will fight them tooth and nail,” Mr. Nolting said.

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Tags: Radical Islam, CAIR, Propaganda, Council On American Islamic Relations, Flying Imams, Grievance Theater

Thursday Afternoon Open

Thu, Aug 2, 2007 at 12:54:14 pm PDT

Since we have a need for more threads, now that our Ajax-driven commenting system has more than doubled the rate of comments, I’m going to occasionally post threads that consist of a link to an article and a short quote and nothing else. I usually like to make some comment ...

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Tags: Open Thread

Ohio Terrorist's Attorney: 'With All Due Respect to America and Americans...'

Thu, Aug 2, 2007 at 12:20:53 pm PDT

In our earlier post on this subject, the lawyer for the terrorist who pleaded guilty to planning an attack on an Ohio shopping mall was reported to have said some rather inflammatory things. But the Associated Press report didn’t contain any actual quotes from attorney Mahir Sherif, oddly enough. Here’s how ...

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Tags: Terrorism, Ohio, Nuradin Abdi, Mahir Sharif

None Dare Call It Ransom

Thu, Aug 2, 2007 at 11:12:59 am PDT

By sheer coincidence, shortly after Libya freed the Bulgarian nurses, Bulgaria is going to waive $57 million of Libyan debt. Bulgaria is to waive $57m (£29m) of debt it is owed by Libya following the release of six medics convicted of infecting Libyan children with HIV. Instead the money will be diverted ...

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Tags: Libya, Lockerbie, Kadafi, Qadhafi, Gadafi, Bulgarian Nurses

Obama: No Nukes, Ever

Thu, Aug 2, 2007 at 10:31:34 am PDT

Via Drudge, more tough talk from Barack Obama: Obama says use of nuclear weapons to fight al-Qaida ‘not on the table’. WASHINGTON (AP) - Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama said Thursday he would not use nuclear weapons in any circumstance. “I think it would be a profound mistake for us to use ...

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Tags: Politics, Pakistan, Election, Barack Obama

Spencer on Dennis Prager

Thu, Aug 2, 2007 at 9:51:34 am PDT

Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch will be on the Dennis Prager radio show soon, to rebut the slanders of CAIR’s Ibrahim Hooper. You can listen over the web here: News Talk 870 KRLA.

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Tags: Radical Islam, CAIR, Propaganda, Council On American Islamic Relations, Robert Spencer, Jihad Watch

Moderate Terrorists Welsh on Deal

Thu, Aug 2, 2007 at 9:37:51 am PDT

Remember that amnesty deal Israel offered to the “moderate” terrorists of Fatah, if they turned in their weapons and promised not to kill anybody for three months? The deal that was grotesquely promoted all over the mainstream media with glamour shots of murderers? Imagine my surprise. Report: Amnesty deal between Israel ...

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Tags: Palestinians, Hamas, Fatah, Amnesty

Ohio Terrorist: Americans Too Dumb to Understand Nuances of Jihad

Thu, Aug 2, 2007 at 9:16:56 am PDT

Mahir Sherif, attorney for Nuradin Abdi (who pleaded guilty in Ohio yesterday to plotting a terror attack on a shopping mall), says his client only admitted guilt because the ignorant infidel jury would not have grasped the subtle nuances of his plan to commit mass murder. COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - The ...

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Tags: Terrorism, Ohio, Nuradin Abdi

Security Camera Footage of Bridge Collapse

Thu, Aug 2, 2007 at 8:40:52 am PDT

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Tags: Minneapolis, Bridge Disaster

Wednesday, August 01, 2007

Minneapolis Bridge Collapse - Update 3

Wed, Aug 1, 2007 at 9:22:57 pm PDT

Another post for the Minneapolis I-35 bridge disaster, as rescue efforts continue into the night for the more than 50 cars reported to have plunged into the Mississippi River. UPDATE at 8/1/07 9:34:32 pm: They’re not talking about “rescue” any more. It’s “recovery” now. UPDATE at 8/1/07 9:46:33 pm: Photos from eyewitnesses.

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Tags: Minneapolis, Bridge Disaster

Minneapolis Bridge Collapse - Update 2 - Blame Game Begins

Wed, Aug 1, 2007 at 7:01:41 pm PDT

James Lileks is posting about the disaster at buzz.mn. UPDATE at 8/1/07 8:18:06 pm: The media are already trying to assign blame. You’re not surprised, are you? The arc from disaster to blame has now been reduced to less than four hours. UPDATE at 8/1/07 8:24:20 pm: Adam Gadahn and his Al Qaeda handlers are ...

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Tags: Minneapolis, Bridge Disaster

Minneapolis Bridge Collapse - Update 1

Wed, Aug 1, 2007 at 6:15:30 pm PDT

This image from Google Earth shows the section of I-35 in Minneapolis that collapsed, with the approximate area highlighted in red.

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Tags: Minneapolis, Bridge Disaster

Massive Bridge Collapses in Minneapolis

Wed, Aug 1, 2007 at 4:43:48 pm PDT

UPDATE at 8/1/07 4:54:01 pm: The Star Tribune: I-35W bridge collapses. The Interstate Hwy. 35W bridge over the Mississippi River collapsed around 6:15 p.m. today, dumping at least eight cars and a truck into the water and land below. It was not clear how many people might be hurt or killed. ... The ...

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Tags: Minneapolis, Bridge Disaster

'John Doe' Update: CAIR Did NOT Drop the Suits

Wed, Aug 1, 2007 at 4:17:46 pm PDT

I’m informed by a reliable source that the Associated Press report we linked earlier today, that said CAIR and the flying imams had dropped their suits against anonymous passengers who reported the imams’ suspicious behavior, is not correct. Apparently the Associated Press got this wrong. Repeat: CAIR has not dropped the ...

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Tags: Radical Islam, CAIR, Propaganda, Council On American Islamic Relations, Flying Imams, Grievance Theater

Now CAIR Is Going After Video Games

Wed, Aug 1, 2007 at 3:25:03 pm PDT

Yes, that’s right. And the game manufacturer caved. Islamic Phrase Removed from Capcom’s Zack & Wiki. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) announced today that the phrase “Allahu akbar” will be removed from the upcoming Capcom game, Zack & Wiki. Meaning “God is most Great” it is a common prayer in ...

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Tags: Radical Islam, CAIR, Propaganda, Council On American Islamic Relations, Grievance Theater, Video Games

AP Shills for Invading Pakistan

Wed, Aug 1, 2007 at 2:50:59 pm PDT

Associated Press partisan hack Nedra Pickler really digs Barack Obama’s plan to invade Pakistan. Obama talks tough on terror. Nation snickers.

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Tags: Media Bias, Associated Press, Barack Obama

Non-Flying Imams Drop 'John Doe' Suits

Wed, Aug 1, 2007 at 2:27:59 pm PDT

I’d like to know how CAIR and their cronies compute the angles on cases like this. Did they realize that their plan to sue airline passengers who report suspicious behavior wasn’t going over well with the American public? Or were they just afraid of going through the discovery process? Imams ...

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Tags: Radical Islam, CAIR, Propaganda, Council On American Islamic Relations, Flying Imams, Grievance Theater

CAIR Threatens YAF, Robert Spencer

Wed, Aug 1, 2007 at 1:00:27 pm PDT

Hot Air has the details on CAIR’s latest attempt to force Americans to submit to their radical Islamic agenda, as they threaten the Young America’s Foundation with legal action if they allow an event featuring Robert Spencer to take place. This group of Saudi-funded unindicted co-conspirators really is getting bold. UPDATE at ...

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Tags: Radical Islam, CAIR, Propaganda, Council On American Islamic Relations, Robert Spencer, Jihad Watch

Wednesday Morning Open

Wed, Aug 1, 2007 at 9:07:55 am PDT

Here’s a Wednesday morning open thread...

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Tags: Open Thread

Religion of Peace Strikes Again in South Thailand

Wed, Aug 1, 2007 at 8:55:18 am PDT

A wave of bombings and shootings has killed at least 11 people and wounded scores, in the south Thailand jihad: Eleven dead in bomb attacks, shootings in Thai south. YALA, Thailand (AFP) - A series of bomb blasts rocked Thailand’s Muslim-majority south Wednesday, killing one and wounding at least 19, while ...

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Tags: Jihad, Islamic Supremacism, Thailand, South Thailand

Obama Promises to Invade Pakistan, Edwards Promises to Get Tough With Saudi Arabia

Wed, Aug 1, 2007 at 8:40:42 am PDT

The anti-war presidential candidate who vows to pull out of Iraq immediately, then begin unconditional talks with Iran, says if he’s elected he’ll invade Pakistan: Obama vows to hunt down terrorists. WASHINGTON - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Wednesday that he would send troops into Pakistan to hunt down terrorists ...

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Tags: Politics, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Election

A Saudi Embassy in Iraq

Wed, Aug 1, 2007 at 8:15:40 am PDT

The world center of radical Islam, a religious apartheid kingdom that exports and promotes jihad ideology, subverts moderate Islam and destroys local cultures, and supplies more than half of the foreign holy warriors currently in Iraq, is planning to open an embassy in Baghdad: Saudis Begin Talks on Opening Embassy ...

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