LGF Archives: November 2002
Sweden Hits a Double
Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 7:32:49 pm PST
Sweden has awarded the $50,000 Olof Palme Prize to Palestinian terror enabler Hanan Ashrawi. Ashrawi was honored for her "consistent and fearless fight over the years for her people's independence and dignity," the Olof Palme Memorial Fund for International Understanding and Common Security said. Ashrawi was a spokeswoman for the ...
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A Swedish Welcome
Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 5:13:26 pm PST
Sweden has announced they will give political asylum to Palestinians from the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
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UN Admits Tipping Off Iraqis
Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 5:01:10 pm PST
In the latest chapter of this comic opera, our fearless UN inspectors in Iraq now admit they’ve been giving advance warning to the Iraqis that they’re on the way, magnifying glasses in hand. BAGHDAD -- Serious doubts surfaced over the surprise nature of new arms inspections in Iraq when a ...
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Missile Details
Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 4:43:55 pm PST
Details on the type of missiles used in the failed attack against an Israeli charter jet in Kenya: Kenyan Official Hints at al-Qaida Link. Officials close to the investigation said it was likely the rockets were Russian-made Strelas. Sunkuli said the discarded missile launchers, which he said were originally olive ...
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AEL Leader Charged
Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 11:43:10 am PST
Muslim radical Abou Jahjah, an ex-Hezbollah fighter and head of the extremist Arab European League in Belgium, has been charged with inciting two days of Arab rioting in Antwerp. The Belgian prime minister, Guy Verhofstadt, vowed to put a stop to the open lawlessness of Abou Jahjah's militant organisation, the ...
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Palestinian Child Abuse
Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 9:55:37 am PST
Here’s a piece at Ha'aretz about the street battles taking place in the terrorist hotbed of Nablus, where Palestinians are sending their children to do the fighting. When the IDF started its operation in Nablus, officers noted that its success would be measured partly by its ability to avert causing ...
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Start With the Rule of Law
Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 9:34:25 am PST
Robert Pollock says the journey to Middle East peace has to begin by instituting the rule of law. In 1996, Mahmoud el Farra returned to the Gaza Strip. He had lived 30 years in Los Angeles, where he raised a family and built a construction business. He was precisely the ...
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Surrenderville
Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 8:44:30 am PST
Amir Taheri says it’s time for France to take sides. Politics, as Aristotle taught over 2000 years ago, is about making a choice, which means taking sides. The subject of ethics is the choice between right and wrong. That of aesthetics is about beauty and ugliness. In politics the choice ...
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Judy Davis Plays a Blind Woman
Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 7:57:32 am PST
In a way it’s nice to know that American actors and pop stars don’t hold a monopoly on aggressive stupidity: Judy Davis slams Howard government. World renowned Australian actor Judy Davis yesterday slammed the Howard government's stance on involvement in a possible war against Iraq.The multi award-winning Hollywood star launched ...
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Sho’ Is Good Eatin’
Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 4:54:27 pm PST
If the Islamists’ plans for us turn out like they hope, and we all convert to Islam and submit to the law of Allah, next Thanksgiving the family gathering may be feasting on this traditional Saudi Arabian delight, a veritable Chinese box of a meaty banquet meal: Whole Stuffed Camel. ...
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UN Solidarity
Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 3:58:24 pm PST
One day after a bloody string of terrorist atrocities against Israel, the United Nations held its International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. And the UN press release makes no mention of the previous day’s horrific events, only the typical morally bankrupt garbage from Kofi Annan: “This Day of ...
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The Princess and Her 'Charities'
Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 2:42:35 pm PST
Stephen Schwartz writes about the Wahhabi extremism of the House of Saud, and how it permeates all their dealings: The Princess and Her 'Charities'. Prince Bandar and Princess Haifa know that the Wahhabi religious hierarchy in Saudi Arabia preaches hatred and contempt for Christians, Jews, traditional Muslims, Shiites, Hindus, and ...
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Extravagant Accusations
Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 2:30:09 pm PST
This may shed some light on why Henry Kissinger was picked to lead the September 11 panel. (Hat tip: Bala Ambati.)
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Steyn Online
Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 2:25:07 pm PST
Mark Steyn’s web site, promised for decades, has finally launched.
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A Thanksgiving Request
Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 2:17:06 pm PST
LGF reader Jonathan Wishnia has a family friend in need; please take a moment to see if you can help: Friends of Renee Drachman.
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US Citizen Detained
Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 10:43:31 am PST
An American woman and a Spanish man with US passports were detained in Kenya in connection with the Paradise Hotel bombing, but the latest release from the AP says they may have been mistakenly caught in the dragnet.
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Hate Speech, Anyone?
Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 10:00:15 am PST
Since it’s the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan and also the anniversary of the UN vote that led to the creation of Israel, wild-eyed Islamic leaders throughout the Middle East unleashed torrents of vitriol today. In Teheran, Former Iranian president Hashemi Rafsanjani delivered the Friday prayers sermon, ...
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Inspectors in Leather
Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 8:47:15 am PST
The State Department (henceforth to be known as “Floggy Bottom”) recommended an S&M freak with no scientific degree for the Iraq inspection team: Weapons Inspectors' Experience Questioned. The United Nations launched perhaps its most important weapons inspections ever yesterday with a team that includes a 53-year-old Virginia man with no ...
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Inspection Vaudeville
Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 8:09:54 am PST
The official Iraqi paper says the arrogant United States, in league with the devilish Zionists, is concocting an arrogant, devilish scheme against innocent, peaceful Iraq. "No one in the Bush administration will give a fig for optimism expressed by many countries after the start of the inspection process in Iraq," ...
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The Latest Kissinger Outrage
Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 4:55:16 pm PST
Christopher Hitchens is probably not on Henry Kissinger’s Christmas card list. The Bush administration has been saying in public for several months that it does not desire an independent inquiry into the gross "failures of intelligence" that left U.S. society defenseless 14 months ago. By announcing that Henry Kissinger will be ...
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You Don’t Say
Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 4:38:21 pm PST
Since James Taranto is on vacation, I’m going to appropriate his customary title for this bit of Foggy Bottom obviousness: U.S. Cautions Americans in Kenya. WASHINGTON (AP) - Americans in Kenya should exercise "extra caution" at hotels, tourist locations and urban areas, the State Department said Thursday after simultaneous attacks ...
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Postcards from Hell
Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 2:25:35 pm PST
Here’s a photo album of the carnage wreaked today by the Religion of Peace™.
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Put Your Hands Up
Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 10:11:00 am PST
This Cal Thomas column has a brilliant opening: Raise your right hand if you believe the official Saudi Arabian explanation for how money supposedly sent to an Islamic charity in this country by the wife of Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States "unwittingly " wound up in the hands ...
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Debka On the Mark
Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 9:36:10 am PST
I saw this warning at Debka a few days ago, but didn’t post anything about it because let’s face it: Debka’s reliability has been sporadic. But it looks like their credibility has to be upgraded considerably. This was the message posted by “ARAMCO boy” in an Arab discussion forum frequented ...
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Arab Riots in Antwerp
Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 8:50:27 am PST
Another story coming in totally beneath US media radar is the Arab rioting in Antwerp, Belgium, in response to the murder of an Arab immigrant by a 66-year old Belgian with a history of mental problems. Maarten Schenk has lots of info at his blog; he says the mayor of ...
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And Again
Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 8:12:47 am PST
Terrorist swine from Yasser Arafat’s Fatah gang sprayed a crowd of Israeli voters with automatic gunfire today, killing five people and wounding at least 20. A woman who saw the 3 p.m. attack from her home near the Likud office described seeing one gunman in a military-style jacket firing on ...
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Happy Thanksgiving
Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 7:51:17 am PST
To all our readers: best wishes for a happy and safe Thanksgiving day.
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Attacks in Kenya
Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 1:39:52 am PST
At least 11 people are dead in a car bombing at an Israeli-owned hotel in the Kenyan port of Mombasa, and missiles were fired at an Israeli jet taking off from the city’s airport.
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Respecting the Cultural Practices of Others
Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 6:52:04 pm PST
Fatma Abdalla, director of the press office at the Egyptian embassy in Ottawa, defends the Egyptian TV series based on notorious forgery The Protocols of the Elders of Zion: Re: A lesson in hate, Nov. 11.Egyptian media policy ensures equal respect for all religions and beliefs. It also does not ...
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Hezbollah in Canada
Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 6:00:31 pm PST
Hezbollah considers Canada to be very important to its future operations and has infiltrated the country to a terrifying degree, as this article from Stewart Bell makes ominously clear: Hezbollah sent kingpin to B.C. unit. (Hat tip: LGF reader Nina.) The Hezbollah terrorist group dispatched one of its "major players" ...
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Mickey: You Can Have Mine
Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 4:49:34 pm PST
Mickey Kaus isn’t getting enough hate mail. Hate Me, Please! My hate e-mail has all but disappeared, which is vaguely disconcerting. For the past two years (ever since the Florida recount) I've gotten at least two, sometimes 200, abusive missives a day -- until about three months ago, when the stream ...
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Threats and Denials
Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 3:25:44 pm PST
A couple of interesting new items at MEMRI today; first a statement in London-based Arabic-language daily Al-Quds Al-Arabi by a senior Iraqi official, threatening to use weapons of mass destruction if Iraq is attacked. You know, those weapons they don’t have. "A senior Iraqi official who refused to reveal his ...
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Arafat Deputy: Stupidfada Was a Mistake
Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 2:50:20 pm PST
In a meeting with Fatah terrorists, Arafat deputy Mahmoud Abbas apparently said the intifada was a big mistake. I got almost a dozen emails about this; I guess I’m supposed to see it as a positive sign. "What happened in these two years, as we see it now, is a ...
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A Bomber’s Victim
Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 12:37:42 pm PST
Surgeons operating on 22-year old Michal Yaakovson, critically injured in the Jerusalem bus bombing, were shocked to discover a Calvin Klein wristwatch embedded in her neck. During the course of the operation the surgeons also began to deal with the metallic objects that had lodged in Michal's neck, first detected ...
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Patten Dismisses Probe of EU Funds
Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 9:57:24 am PST
Head EUnuch Chris Patten continues to block a probe into Palestinian misuse of European Union funds. EU Commissioner for External Affairs Chris Patten dismissed the call for a probe, saying it would undermine moderates in the Palestinian Authority, and thus scupper any hopes of halting the cycle of violence in ...
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Saudis Still Funding Al Qaeda
Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 9:48:39 am PST
A cadre of Saudi businessmen with close ties to the royal family has funneled tens of millions of dollars to Al Qaeda within the last year. (Via Drudge.) The CIA has traced transfers of tens of millions of dollars from the Saudis to Al Qaida over the last year, U.S. ...
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Fanaticism As Usual
Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 9:29:13 am PST
A great piece from Salman Rushdie recaps the week’s victims of the Religion of Peace™: No More Fanaticism as Usual. Ayaan Hirsi Ali was accused of being "the Dutch Salman Rushdie," Mr. Aghajari of being the Iranian version, Isioma Daniel of being the Nigerian incarnation of the same demon.A couple ...
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NYT Feels the Saudis’ Pain
Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 8:54:52 am PST
The New York Times joins the Washington Post in promoting Saudi propaganda today, with an obsequious article about Prince Bandar and his wife. The tone is summed up in the headline: Explaining Gift, Saudi Envoy Voices Pain for Strained Ties. Oh the humanity. Princess Haifa, for her part, said ...
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A Funny Sort of Empire
Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 8:36:54 am PST
Ladies and gentlemen ... Victor Davis Hanson: A Funny Sort of Empire.
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Award from a Murderer
Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 8:10:28 am PST
UNRWA Commissioner Peter Hansen takes the “Al Quds Sharif” award from decrepit old murderer Yasser Arafat, apparently proud to have UNRWA worker Iain Hook labeled a “martyr” by these thugs.
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UN Denials Ring False
Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 5:01:45 pm PST
People from UNRWA are screaming about the death of Iain Hook, brushing aside Israeli claims that Palestinian gunmen were firing at IDF troops from inside the UN compound: U.N. Death Reopens Israeli Allegations. Rene Aquarone, a spokeswoman for the U.N. agency, said Tuesday in Geneva that Hook was shot in ...
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Israel Gets Two More Terrorists
Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 4:16:25 pm PST
Israel Air Raid Kills Two Top Palestinian Militants: JENIN, West Bank (Reuters) - Israel killed two top Palestinian militant commanders in an air strike on a house in Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank on Tuesday, witnesses said. Hospital officials identified the dead men as Ala'a Sabbagh of the ...
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Palestinian Child Abuse
Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 3:53:22 pm PST
I guess the Palestinian journalists’ union gave up trying to enforce their ban on photos of kids holding guns. This touching family portrait was taken at Islamic Jihad’s celebration of a suicide attack on an Israeli patrol boat.
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Got Some More
Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 12:58:35 pm PST
Malaysia arrests suicide bombers amid concerns over surviving terror network. KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Malaysia announced the arrest of three would-be suicide bombers Tuesday, but grappled with mounting worries over the extent that an Islamic terror network has survived intensive efforts to destroy it.The suspects were part of a plot ...
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Saudi Whining
Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 11:14:45 am PST
The Washington Post has an outrageously slanted article today that could have appeared in the Arab News, exploring the horrible humiliation and paralyzing fear being inflicted on Saudi Arabia by the United States: 'I'll Never Go Back'. Like so many other young Saudis, Dmaitri, 26, has been kicked out of ...
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Poetic Justice
Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 10:51:03 am PST
Five Israelis detained after 9/11 for visa violations are planning to sue the state of New Jersey and poet laureate Amiri Baraka for libel, because of these lines in his monumental work of genius, “Who Blew Up America?” Who know why Five Israelis was filming the explosion And cracking they sides ...
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Understanding Nigeria
Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 9:55:39 am PST
At least a million people (OK, maybe only a couple thousand) have emailed me about this great Dennis Prager column: Understand Nigeria and you understand the Islamic threat. To understand the threat the non-Muslim world faces, you need to understand the way in which Western news agencies report Islamic violence. ...
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Fueling Terror
Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 9:42:14 am PST
James S. Robbins has a good piece today on the new accusations of Saudi involvement in 9/11. He makes the point—and I think he’s right—that the only long-term solution to the problem of Arab Islamic terrorism is a proactive, coherent energy policy. Without oil money, there would be no Al ...
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A Religious Duty
Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 8:45:14 am PST
The author of the phrase that enraged the followers of the Religion of Peace™ in Nigeria has fled the country after the deputy governor of Zamfara called on all Muslims everywhere to kill her. Zamfara's deputy governor Mamuda Aliyu Shinkafi told religious leaders in the state capital, Gusau: "Like Salman ...
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The Cocoon Effect
Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 7:57:47 pm PST
Steven Den Beste on the strange Internet phenomenon known as the Rittenhouse Cocoon.
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C4 Inside
Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 5:57:58 pm PST
Today the IDF intercepted two Hamas suicide bombers on their way to Jerusalem, smuggling a large quantity of explosives inside computers.
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Down with (Human) Beauty
Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 5:05:37 pm PST
As they bury the dead in Nigeria, back in London various British celebrities and high-profile nitwits are falling over each other in the rush to blame the Islamic rioting on the Miss World beauty pageant itself, and urging surrender. Oscar-winning actress turned parliamentarian Glenda Jackson led calls for the contest ...
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Nigerian Music Under Shari'a
Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 4:34:48 pm PST
World Press Review—an interesting site I just discovered— has an excellent, scary look at the devastating effects of shari'a on Nigerian musicians: 'Shariahphrenia' Reigns in Northern Nigeria. Nigeria has its own version of the Islamic religious police known as the hisba, who patrol the streets making sure no one is ...
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Hezbollah Threatens US
Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 2:46:41 pm PST
In the official weekly journal of Hezbollah, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah threatens the United States and calls for the worldwide spread of the culture of suicide bombing. "We view America as an enemy of the [Islamic] nation yet we have not engaged it directly in a military act (as of yet)". ...
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How Tyrannies Fall
Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 12:44:36 pm PST
At National Review, Michael Ledeen continues to pursue the great untold story of 2002: How Tyrannies Fall. If the American government, or the chatterers, or the academy were at all serious about trying to understand the real world, we would be in the midst of a discussion of the potentially ...
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Arab Muslim Anti-Semitism
Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 11:16:48 am PST
Several folks emailed about this great piece by Andrew Bostom on the roots of Arab Muslim Anti-Semitism.
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True Love
Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 11:08:25 am PST
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Got Another One
Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 9:35:17 am PST
Algeria says they killed Al Qaeda’s North Africa leader on September 12. ALGIERS, Nov 25 (Reuters) - Algerian security forces have killed the top al Qaeda official in North Africa and the Sahel region in Batna province, 320 km (200 miles) east of Algiers, the official Algerian news agency APS ...
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The House of Saud Squirms
Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 9:16:56 am PST
Saudi denials of involvement in 9/11 are becoming increasingly strident; and now they’re blaming the latest accusations on you-know-who: "These are nothing but lies and baseless words," Interior Minister Prince Nayef said in comments carried by the official Saudi Press Agency.He said it was normal for Saudis to offer financial ...
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Egyptians Praise Child Murder
Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 8:22:43 am PST
Even as senior Egyptian officials met with representatives from Hamas and Fatah (supposedly trying to get them to cease suicide bombings), the Egyptian government press was spewing some of the most debased hate speech I have yet seen, hailing the Jerusalem bus bombing. An editorial in the Egyptian government paper ...
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Osama’s Latest Deranged Rant
Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 7:27:26 am PST
Here’s the latest letter from “Osama bin Laden,” who writes remarkably well for a dead man. Reached for comment, Michael Moore said, “Hey! Now we know what we gotta do, right? How do you like my kaffiyeh?” UPDATE: More details about the origin of the letter: The translated letter was originally posted ...
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Palace Intrigue
Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 7:16:41 am PST
In the New Republic, Jason Zengerle writes about the Bush administration’s troubling silence on the new revelations of Saudi government involvement in 9/11: Palace Intrigue. The issue of Saudi Arabia may turn out to be George W. Bush’s Achilles heel.
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Safe in My Warm Cocoon
Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 7:09:25 pm PST
Rick Heller says the Rittenhouse Review is trying to spin an “internet cocoon.” UPDATE: Rick says I don’t link to positive stories from the Arab press—but that’s not true. Any regular will attest that when I discover an article that shows signs of rationality, I do feature it. Unfortunately, though, the ...
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Nuclear Barter
Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 1:23:50 pm PST
Reader Bala Ambati alerted us to this NYT article about the double game Pakistan is playing, using American C-130s to smuggle ballistic missiles from North Korea: In North Korea and Pakistan, Deep Roots of Nuclear Barter.
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In Search of Al Qaeda
Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 11:59:59 am PST
LGF reader William pointed out this excellent new PBS Frontline documentary: In Search of Al Qaeda. You can watch the entire show on this page, in either Windows Media or Real Player format.
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Disgusting as Usual
Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 9:59:58 am PST
The Arab News has no doubt about who’s responsible for the riots in Nigeria. It couldn’t be the rampaging Muslims who killed hundreds because of a sentence in a newspaper article, burning people alive with gasoline-filled tires. No way. They were justifiably enraged, and when Muslims are enraged, they kill ...
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The Monsters Are No Longer Under the Bed
Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 9:41:54 am PST
There’s some kind of bizarre blood-cult negative reinforcement cycle going on among the Islamic Arabs of “Palestine.” Faced with increasing international condemnation of suicide bombings and attacks against Israeli civilians, rather than moderate their speech (not to mention their barbaric actions) their response is to hold huge officially sanctioned parties ...
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Who Is the Islamic Bomber?
Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 8:37:45 am PST
Professor Louis Rene Beres writes about the Islamic suicide bomber. (Hat tip: M. Simon.) "Suicide" killing of American men, women and children in New York stemmed from the very same sentiments that continue to animate "suicide" killings of Israeli men, women and children. Consider the statement by Jamal Abdel Hamid ...
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A UN Martyr
Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 8:12:08 am PST
Israel says a UN official killed during a West Bank firefight was shot because Palestinian gunmen were firing from inside the UN compound. JERUSALEM - Israel said Saturday its troops fatally shot a U.N. official during a West Bank firefight with Palestinian gunmen because Palestinians were firing at troops from ...
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RoP: Down with Beauty
Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 7:22:51 am PST
Attempting to quiet the followers of the Religion of Peace, the Miss World pageant has been moved to London. But Muslims in Nigeria are having too much fun spreading their message of love to stop now: Nigerian Miss World Riots Kill 175. Emmanuel Ijewere said that violence continued on Sunday, ...
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LGF Weblog System Rules
Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 6:23:01 pm PST
I went on a serious coding binge today and implemented something that’s been on the to-do list for quite some time—a PHP archiving system that backs up all the LGF weblog entries, along with all their comments, by compressing them into a series of ZIP files that are easily downloadable. Our ...
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Coincidence?
Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 10:06:11 am PST
An op-ed in Lebanon’s Daily Star fills in some important details on what’s happening in the city of Maan, where Jordanian forces are cracking down hard on the Abu Sayyaf terror gang: Clashes in Maan are no coincidence.
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Havel’s Amazing Swan Song
Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 9:58:03 am PST
Here’s a great Matt Welch column on the historic NATO summit, the crowning achievement of Vaclav Havel. When Havel addressed a joint session of the U.S. Congress in February, 1990, as the new president of a wrecked country that would surely be asking for handouts, he raised quite a few ...
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A Bombing Pause?
Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 9:22:00 am PST
I’m getting to it a day late, but the latest Mark Steyn column is a gem, sure to raise the blood pressure of the PoMoMultiCulti Krew: A bombing pause -- for 12 months? ...in his month-long Ramadan-a-ding-dong, George W. Bush is relentlessly on message: as he told Islamic bigwigs at ...
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Where’s the Fear?
Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 8:31:54 am PST
If innocent Palestinian civilians are being “massacred” by the hundreds by the monstrous Zionist Nazis (as Saeb Erekat and various British journalists are fond of alleging), and IDF soldiers are routinely firing on unarmed children out of sheer malice, would someone please tell me why these noble rock throwers, in ...
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Lost Children
Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 2:25:12 am PST
Wearing the headbands of an openly genocidal terrorist group and waving a Koran while celebrating the mass murder of Israeli children, these Palestinian girls don’t seem to agree with President Bush that “Islam is peace.”
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Saudi Bombshell
Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 8:43:29 pm PST
Is this the smoking gun of Saudi involvement in 9/11? The FBI is investigating whether the Saudi Arabian government—using the bank account of the wife of a senior Saudi diplomat—sent tens of thousands of dollars to two Saudi students in the United States who provided assistance to two of the ...
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’Za For the IDF
Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 6:18:41 pm PST
Michele has set up a donation page where you can send pizza and doughnuts to the IDF, the men and women who are on today’s front line of the fight against militant Islam.
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Palestinian Culture
Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 5:15:40 pm PST
In the mostly Jewish neighborhood of Williamsburg, New York, an art exhibit for the Muslim month of Ramadan showcases Palestinian culture. Almost every item has an anti-Israel slant. One item shows an Arab kafiyah (headdress) trapped in a Magen David made of barbed wire. Others are more graphic in depicting ...
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MESA and Sins of Omission
Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 4:58:35 pm PST
At Campus Watch, Jonathan Calt Harris points out that at the entire 2002 Middle East Studies Association conference in Washington DC this weekend, not one scholar will present a paper on militant Islam’s jihad against America. Other topics are also conspicuous by their absence from the meeting: Palestinian suicide bombing, ...
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A Troll Confesses
Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 3:05:54 pm PST
Someone who obviously considers himself a very important person has decided it’s not enough to bash LGF any more. He’s also going to punish everyone who links to us, by delinking them on his site. I wouldn’t even mention this, except that in the course of his rant about how racist, ...
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Muslim Group Tries to Quiet Dershowitz
Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 11:30:43 am PST
According to Rod Dreher, a Muslim legal group in California is trying to have Alan Dershowitz censured by the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers: The complaint centers on a March 11 op-ed in the Jerusalem Post in which Dershowitz advocates a new counterterrorism measure for Israel. Under the Dershowitz plan, ...
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Grasping at Straws?
Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 11:12:01 am PST
Stefan Sharkansky discovered an editorial in the Lebanese Daily Star that actually seems to recognize Israel’s right to exist, and calls for an end to suicide bombings—even though the call is based on purely utilitarian grounds: The choice Israeli voters are being asked to make is a clear one, so ...
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Removing Saddam from Baghdad
Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 10:28:34 am PST
Victor Davis Hanson looks at the tactics we can expect Saddam Hussein to use, and what the US can do to counter them. Recommended.
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Egyptian Embassy Responds
Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 10:17:44 am PST
The Egyptian embassy responds to a Washington Post article critical of the anti-Semitic TV show Knight Without a Horse. The Post holds the Egyptian government responsible for everything in the Egyptian press, in spite of the information minister's public opposition to intolerant references to the three monotheistic religions. Yet The ...
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Victims of Arab Terror
Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 8:48:03 am PST
Here are the faces of the victims of yesterday’s suicide bombing in Jerusalem.
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Rantisi Tells It Like It Is
Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 8:23:12 am PST
The Pediatrician of Death, Hamas leader Abdel Aziz Rantisi spelled out his organization’s genocidal goals quite clearly again, minutes after the mass murder of children on a Jerusalem bus: "By order of Allah, the Palestinian nation must clear its soil of its occupying intruders. We must hunt the Zionists until ...
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Religion of Slaughter
Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 7:39:46 am PST
Muslim “worshippers” came out of Friday prayers in Nigeria and went on another slaughter spree. More than 100 people are now known to be dead.
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Talbot Flails Again
Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 6:56:21 am PST
Australian dirtbag Neale Talbot has launched another typically dishonest attack against our readers, selecting a bunch of angry sentence fragments totally out of context from this discussion and featuring them prominently on his homepage. For a look inside the confused mind of Neale Talbot, see this thread where he pats himself ...
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Innovative Solutions
Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 6:41:04 pm PST
Here’s a non-governmental organization to which I’d be happy to donate money.
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Harvard Does the Wrong Thing
Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 5:53:43 pm PST
Jew-hating Irish poet Tom Paulin has been reinvited to speak at Harvard University. Harvard University English professors have reinvited a controversial Irish poet to speak on campus, one week after his appearance was canceled because of his strong anti-Israeli comments.Professors met for two hours Wednesday and voted to reinvite Tom ...
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Was It Worth It?
Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 4:16:44 pm PST
An absolute must-read article in (of all places) the Guardian by Polly Toynbee, who went back to Kabul one year after the fall of the Taliban to ask, “Was the war on Afghanistan worth it?” The answer is a resounding yes. There’s too much in this lengthy article to pull out ...
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The Fifth Column
Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 3:30:13 pm PST
Hisham Sharabi, a professor of Arab Culture at Georgetown University in Washington DC, told an audience of students and teachers at Balamand University in Lebanon that Jews and Americans want to control the world. The “international Zionist movement” is leading the United States to wage war against the Arab world ...
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Religion of Peace Kills 50 More
Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 1:57:55 pm PST
At least 50 people have been killed and churches burned in anti-Christian rioting by followers of the Religion of Peace™ in Nigeria, after a newspaper published a story suggesting that Mohammed might have chosen one of the recent Miss World contestants as a wife. Many of the dead were burned ...
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So Many Infidels, So Little Time
Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 9:48:06 am PST
Followers of the Religion of Peace™ sure have been working hard at spreading their message of love and tolerance for the past couple of days. In addition to murdering children on a bus, Islamic peacebots have murdered a female charity worker in Lebanon, and tried to murder two US soldiers in ...
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McInfidel Barbecue
Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 8:25:27 am PST
Yesterday another devotee of the Religion of Peace in Saudi Arabia torched a McDonald’s restaurant because it stayed open during Ramadan.
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About Concessions
Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 7:40:39 am PST
It’s become a truism that Islamic terror groups see concessions as weakness. Now the evil slug Rantisi, in the course of confessing his guilt in today’s bus bombing, says it outright: Hamas leader Abdel Aziz Rantisi was quoted today as justifying the bus bombing in Jerusalem because such attacks ...
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And Again
Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 12:03:05 am PST
Another filthy Palestinian mass murderer: At Least 11 Killed as Homicide Bomber Blows Up Jerusalem Bus. UPDATE: the bus was full of schoolchildren.
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Pakistani Nuke Threat
Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 6:38:15 pm PST
Why are we hearing all these nebulous orange alerts? Why did the government quarantine a freighter (that had picked up cargo in Pakistan) off the coast of New Jersey while Special Forces, CIA, and FBI teams searched it from top to bottom? Because, according to the Times of India, Bush ...
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Egyptian Anti-Semite Gloats
Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 6:17:58 pm PST
The headline on this AP story (for once, mincing no words) says it all: Anti-Semitic TV Star Vows More Shows. CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - The star of an Egyptian television series based in part on an anti-Semitic work drew cheers and applause Wednesday when he vowed to produce similar programs ...
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Know Thy Terrorists
Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 11:20:41 am PST
It’s a subject Daniel Pipes has visited before, but the message still needs to be heard: Know Thy Terrorists. Why the readiness to confront Iraq head-on but reluctance to do so when it concerns militant Islam? Because militant Islam benefits from two factors - political correctness and lobbying - that ...
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Blix the Superpower
Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 11:12:07 am PST
Kenneth Adelman says Hans Blix is the most powerful man in the world. How did we get here? How did we get to Hans Blix, the power of the superpower? How did we get to the point where a Swedish lawyer -- whose entire career has been in the United ...
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Religion of Slavery
Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 10:32:29 am PST
FrontPage has more interesting excerpts from Dr. Serge Trifkovic’s new book The Sword of the Prophet: A Politically-Incorrect Guide to Islam, focusing on Islam's wretched record on slavery. As the recent campaign for reparations has shown, the West is still being taken to task for the fact that it used ...
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Reactions to the Protocols
Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 9:02:00 am PST
The Egyptian Human Rights Organisation is urging all Arab TV stations showing Knight Without a Horse to broadcast a warning that the show contains anti-Jewish lies. The head of the human rights group, Hafez Abu Seida, told the BBC that spreading views hostile to Jews breeds hatred which in turn ...
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Red Alert
Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 8:15:35 am PST
Mark Riebling says Tom Ridge is not taking the latest Al Qaeda threats against New York and Washington seriously enough. What strategic purpose is served by naming New York and Washington as targets — and then attempting to attack them? The answer is probably twofold.1. By saying what they are ...
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Asia Times Salutes LGF
Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 7:55:16 am PST
Someone from the Asia Times left a very nice comment last night, thanking us for helping debunk the Al Qaeda hoax they printed: Little Green Footballs and its bloggers can be proud. Amid all the hysteria generated by our blunder, they remained calm, shrewd and witty. We are flattered that ...
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Iraq’s Crazy Uncle
Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 5:37:57 pm PST
Rufus Jones reviews a new documentary by a French filmmaker who gained unprecedented access to Saddam Hussein’s inner circles. But there is perhaps no portrait of Saddam Hussein that has more effectively explored the non compos mentis angle than "Uncle Saddam," a documentary by French filmmaker Joel Soler, which Cinemax ...
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Outrage of the Day
Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 2:26:47 pm PST
A German tabloid says Winston Churchill was a war criminal. Winston Churchill was effectively a war criminal who sanctioned the extermination of Germany's civilian population through indiscriminate bombing of towns and cities, an article in the country's biggest-circulation newspaper claimed yesterday.In an unprecedented attack on Allied conduct during the Second ...
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Colin Wants More
Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 1:43:56 pm PST
Colin Powell wants more Muslims in the US. WASHINGTON (AP) - Secretary of State Colin Powell said Monday he is trying to expand programs to bring educators, journalists and political and religious leaders from Islamic countries to the United States."We are committed to ensuring that our programs reach out to ...
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Unbelievable
Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 12:19:57 pm PST
We’re going way off topic here, but Michael Jackson’s tenuous hold on sanity has finally snapped completely, and he should be in custody before he hurts anyone else. In this picture he is dangling an infant over the balcony of his fourth-floor hotel room in Berlin, with one hand.
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A Soldier of Islam
Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 11:18:12 am PST
The Pakistani jihadi creep convicted and executed for the 1993 murders of two CIA agents in Virginia has been given a hero’s funeral in Pakistan. QUETTA, Pakistan—Thousands of people packed a soccer stadium on Tuesday for the funeral of Aimal Kasi, a Pakistani man executed in Virginia last week for ...
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LGF Swag Question
Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 9:37:39 am PST
Everyone seems to want Little Green Footballs T-shirts, and I do too. So it’s question time again for our readers. I have a connection for silk-screening T-shirts; these would be good quality cotton shirts, Hanes or an equivalent brand. But since I’d have to commit to an order, and I don’t ...
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The Saga of Blix the Wimp
Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 8:52:05 am PST
In an article reeking of stale anti-American bias, the Guardian says that UN chief weapons inspector Hans Blix (known at LGF as “Blix the Wimp”) is accusing “US hawks” of conducting a smear campaign against him. The United Nations chief weapons inspector, Hans Blix, yesterday accused hawks in Washington, who ...
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Inspection Scam
Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 8:19:08 am PST
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has no problem with Iraq firing on US and British planes. This is a precursor of what’s going to happen when evidence of weapons is discovered in Iraq; Annan will obfuscate and deny and make light of the findings. Kofi Annan stood and watched and dithered ...
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Retreats Into Fantasy
Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 7:23:57 am PST
Here’s an excellent essay by David Pryce-Jones on the Arab/Islamic world’s retreats into fantasy, when confronted with the reality of their failed societies. Returning home from a journey to Arabia in the latter part of the eighteenth century, the explorer and historian Carsten Niebuhr put in at Alexandria. Once ashore, ...
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Sleek as a Jaguar
Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 5:36:09 pm PST
My brother always convinces me that OS upgrades are going to be much less painful than they turn out to be in reality. I started upgrading my Mac to the latest version of OS X (Jaguar) this morning, and now, at last, 6 hours later I see the light at ...
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The Tape is Authenticated
Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 10:31:49 am PST
After comparing the latest Bin Laden audiotape with previous recordings, CIA and NSA experts are now convinced the tape is genuine.
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Germany Sentences Palestinian
Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 10:18:58 am PST
The Palestinian SOB who dressed his six-year old daughter as a suicide bomber for an anti-Israel demonstration in Berlin has been sentenced to five months’ probation by a German court. The 33-year-old, identified only as Mohammed ell., was convicted by a district court of condoning criminal acts, and also was ...
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Gaza is Lousy with Terrorists
Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 9:58:41 am PST
When the IDF raided the Gaza headquarters of the Palestinian Authority Preventative Security Forces, an organization formed to prevent terrorist activity, they discovered an explosives laboratory inside the building. Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz said the army's discoveries in the Palestinian security headquarters "have again proven the strong link between the ...
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Back in Business
Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 8:29:23 am PST
Devoted followers of the religion of peace are training to kill Americans in Afghanistan again, according to Newsweek. Jalal Shah, 30 (also a disguised name), is a Taliban bureaucrat who fled to Peshawar when the Americans took Kabul. In August he traveled with four other Afghan exiles to a largely ...
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Iraq Charades
Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 7:53:44 am PST
The charade begins, with Blix the Wimp already rushing to assure the Iraqis that he’ll be sensitive to their wishes, and make sure none of the inspectors get too aggressive. David Kay was chief nuclear weapons inspector in the last go-round, and in a Washington Post article he looks back at ...
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The Pakistani Connection
Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 6:04:02 pm PST
The NYT has interesting details about the latest “Bin Laden” audiotape, which was delivered (unsurprisingly) in the country that should be a member of the Axis of Evil, but isn’t: Pakistan. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Nov. 14 — The audiotape that appears to be Osama bin Laden's latest message to the world ...
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El Al Hijack Details
Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 5:50:59 pm PST
Here’s a detailed account of today’s El Al hijack attempt.
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NY LGF Bash
Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 3:33:45 pm PST
Here’s a topic where our readers in New York can share stories about today’s get-together in Manhattan. It’s a shame that Anil and Rasheed couldn’t make it.
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Al Qaeda Exposed
Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 2:54:03 pm PST
The mysterious Johnathan Galt has obtained rare Al Qaeda training videos from the Finsbury Park mosque in London, including one that I believe shows James Ujamaa, the Seattle man currently under arrest for terrorist connections, saying Osama bin Laden was framed. There is a lot of really creepy stuff here; ...
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Abba Eban, 1915-2002
Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 1:52:56 pm PST
One of the great orators of the modern era, Abba Eban has died. This New York Times article looks back at his extraordinary career.
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El Al Hijack Attempt
Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 1:35:29 pm PST
An Israeli Arab man armed with a knife attempted to hijack an El Al flight from Tel Aviv to Istanbul today, but was foiled by security guards.
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Portrait of the Idiot as a Nude
Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 10:22:27 am PST
A group of West Marin County women decided the best way to show “solidarity with the people of Iraq” was to strip off their clothes and lay in a baseball field, spelling the word “PEACE” with their corpulent white bodies: West Marin women strip for peace. "Women from all ages ...
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Osama bin Dead?
Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 8:35:57 am PST
Jeff Cooper points out this interesting interview with Mamoun Fandy, an Egyptian political scientist who has spoken with Osama bin Laden and is convinced that the voice on the audiotape aired recently by Al Jazeera is not his. Note: the interview with Fandy is the third one on the page; NPR ...
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Peaceful Religion Watch
Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 8:08:42 am PST
This week’s Peaceful Religion Watch (our summary of the insane hate speech that infests the Friday sermons of the Arab world) features two countries with intimate connections to Osama bin Laden, who are now supposed to be sorta-kinda helping the US—although you wouldn’t know it by the 100-proof vitriol spewing ...
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No Golden Age
Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 7:30:06 am PST
Several readers have emailed about this article at FrontPage, consisting of excerpts from a book by Dr. Serge Trifkovic titled The Sword of the Prophet: A Politically-Incorrect Guide to Islam: The Golden Age of Islam is a Myth.
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Religion of Peace Says: Convert or Die
Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 7:23:13 am PST
I’m lucky. I live near a mosque (the one Irv Rubin was allegedly planning to bomb) so I won’t have far to walk on Fridays, after we all convert to Islam. DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - A statement attributed to al-Qaida threatened more attacks in New York and Washington ...
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Question Time
Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 5:59:24 pm PST
A question for our readers. I’ve written a new application that creates a weekly summary of the posts at LGF, with a table of contents at the beginning followed by all the articles with their links in footnoted form, similar to what happens if you “email an article.” I’m thinking of combining ...
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Cyanide Plot Foiled in UK
Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 2:37:23 pm PST
Three men (who just happen to be Muslims) from North Africa have been charged in a plot to release cyanide gas in the London Underground. The men are north African muslims said to belong to a group linked to al Qaeda.The alleged plot was foiled after the group was infiltrated ...
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MEMRI Videos
Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 1:21:19 pm PST
If you feel like visiting Bizarro World, check out MEMRI’s new page of videos from IQRAA TV. IQRAA TV is an Arabic-language satellite TV station which describes itself as a channel dedicated to bringing "the teachings of Islam into the homes and hearts of Arabs world wide." It is owned ...
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Flit Debunks Herold
Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 9:05:46 am PST
Bruce Rolston is on a crusade (am I still allowed to use that word?) to make sure that professor Marc Herold’s transparently bogus Afghan civilian casualty estimates are thoroughly debunked.
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Palestinian Child Abuse
Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 8:14:39 am PST
Nine-year old Suheib Saade wants to be an Islamic Jihad warrior when he grows up, just like his brother. His brother is the dead guy.
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The Rats Are Scurrying
Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 7:51:50 am PST
At the beginning of this month we wrote about a visit to Libya by Saddam Hussein’s cousin “Chemical Ali.” Today the Times Online reports that the purpose of the visit was to plan a safe haven for Saddam’s family—purchased with $3.5 billion that Saddam apparently found in the pocket of ...
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Violation One
Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 6:46:12 pm PST
The first violation of the resolution has happened, less than 24 hours after Iraq’s “acceptance.”
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Palestinians Celebrate Cold-Blooded Murder
Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 4:06:27 pm PST
The terrorist atrocity perpetrated by Islamic Jihad today in Hebron has now claimed 12 lives. It was deliberate cold-blooded murder; after the initial attack, the Palestinian swine waited for the ambulances and rescue personnel to arrive, and ambushed them. Then they had a big party.
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Senior Al Qaeda Freak Captured
Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 12:49:22 pm PST
Breaking: A senior Al Qaeda leader has been arrested and is in US hands. Sources said the suspect was neither Usama bin Laden nor his number two man, Ayman Al-Zawahiri, but he is one of the "top handful of Al Qaeda leaders.""Someone who knows al Qaeda would know his name," ...
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And Again
Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 12:04:21 pm PST
Islamic Jihad has admitted their guilt in an ambush against Jewish worshippers in Hebron that killed 11 people and injured more than 20.
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Suicide Bomber Chic
Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 10:18:40 am PST
James Lileks has a great piece today on the skewed reporting about a truly repulsive award-winning painting titled “Self Portrait of a Martyr.” UPDATE: Here’s the artist’s web site.
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It’s Not About Oil
Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 9:56:03 am PST
In the National Post, an op-ed by Mark Proudman makes a strong case that it’s not about oil. Those who believe that the United States is a rapacious imperial power might be surprised to learn that the U.S. has never deployed its forces in order to seize oil wells. That ...
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Secular Martyrdom in Iran
Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 9:35:13 am PST
In Reason Online, Charles Paul Freund writes about the extraordinary courage of Iranian professor Hashem Aghajari: Secular Martyrdom in Iran. Aghajari has the right to appeal his verdict, presumably allowing a deal to be worked out that could defuse the crisis. (Similar death sentences have been reduced on appeal.) But ...
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Religion of Peace, Iran Branch
Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 9:06:06 am PST
Iranian students continue to protest Tehran University professor Hashem Aghajari’s death sentence for blasphemy. But in a rather ominous development, a group of hard core Islamofreaks came out of Friday prayers today screaming for the death of Aghajari—and of Salman Rushdie. "Iran's Salman Rushdie should be executed," the hard-liners chanted ...
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Asia Times Prints Retraction
Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 8:08:17 am PST
The Asia Times has published the following retraction on the front page of their web site: The Big Hoax: We Fell For It. Asia Times Online uploaded an article in this space entitled Apocalypse Now, or Alottanukes soon. The article has been withdrawn as it was based on the transcript ...
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Our Gordian Knot
Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 7:39:21 am PST
This morning I received a lovely email of support from a gentleman in the Netherlands: I been reading thru your website and its messages. You guys really make me proud well done! But wait! All is not as it seems! In a hilarious stroke of wit, this person sent the ...
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Objectivity
Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 5:38:18 pm PST
A thought-provoking, poetic essay by Hillel Halkin makes the compelling argument that objectivity is morally overrated. How often do we hear of someone who, struck by personal tragedy (the death, say, of a child), loses his or her religious faith - and yet if the death of innocent children could ...
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Got Another One
Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 2:51:54 pm PST
Muhammad Naifeh, the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades commander believed to be the mastermind of the Kibbutz Metzer atrocity, has been arrested. Early Thursday morning, naval commandos and paratroopers surrounded the house and called on Naifeh to surrender. Occupants of the house came outside, but Naifeh, fearing he would be shot, ...
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Al Qaeda Nuclear Threats
Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 11:50:34 am PST
The publicity spotlight is on the new audio tape purportedly from Osama bin Laden. But the Asia Times reports today on another recent Al Jazeera interview, with Mohammed al-Usuquf (allegedly al-Qaeda's number three man), that is so frightening I debated with myself whether I should post it. I sincerely hope and ...
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Nought in Our Brain
Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 11:12:37 am PST
There was nothing in the local Los Angeles papers about it, but at the recent “Not In Our Name” rally in Westwood a pro-Israel group encountered the anti-Jewish hatred that lurks just beneath the surface of so many of these so-called “peace” demonstrations: From Peace to Hate. It was a ...
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The “Protocols” Surface
Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 10:10:54 am PST
The Palestinian Media Watch mailing list has a lot of interesting stuff about the Egyptian TV series Knight Without a Horse, based on the infamous anti-Semitic forgery The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. After the first six chapters aired, Arab viewers were getting impatient for the anti-Israel themes: At ...
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Hospital Threat
Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 8:58:13 am PST
AP reports that the Houston branch of the FBI is warning of possible terrorist threats against US hospitals. HOUSTON (AP) - Hospitals in Houston, San Francisco, Chicago and Washington have been alerted they may be targets of a terrorist threat, the Houston FBI says. FBI agent Bob Doguim said Wednesday ...
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Europeans of the Year
Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 8:27:52 am PST
Here’s your chance to vote for the Europeans of the Year. Hey! How did Pym Fortuyn’s name get in there? (Hat tip: M. Simon.)
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Concordia to Block Mideast Talk
Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 7:58:01 am PST
After the disgraceful riot by Arab students that forced the cancellation of a speech by Binyamin Netanyahu, Concordia University in Montreal enacted a moratorium against public discussion of events related to the Israel-Palestinian conflict. The Concordia Student Union, which has denied any wrongdoing in the riot (even though 12 students are ...
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What the Hell is Wrong With These People?
Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 8:54:14 pm PST
I don’t even know what to think about this: The laughing Bali bomber tells of his delight. The chief suspect in the Bali bombing joked and laughed with Indonesia's police chief last night during a bizarre public interrogation in which he told of his "delight" at the carnage caused by ...
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Kuwaiti Sought By FBI
Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 5:17:24 pm PST
The FBI says to be on the lookout for Amer El-Maati, a Kuwaiti-born man sought for possible terrorist threats against the United States. Here’s the official FBI Alert. (Hat tip: Spoons.) UPDATE: Please do not get this photograph confused with the one in the previous entry. Thank you.
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Arafish!
Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 3:26:42 pm PST
Shut up! You must be accurately when you are speaking to General Arafish!
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Separated at Birth?
Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 2:14:17 pm PST
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Iran on the Brink
Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 1:37:58 pm PST
For the fourth straight day, thousands of Iranian students have taken to the streets to protest the death sentence given to history professor Hashem Aghajari: Prof's death sentence outrages many. The students' message yesterday was unusually bold: "This is our last warning to you," 5,000 students chanted in unison at ...
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Referrer Spamming
Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 11:18:40 am PST
Last week, I read about an incredibly obnoxious new advertising technique. Today we’re being hit by it. In a hellish cubicle somewhere, an advertising droid with the soul of a dung beetle and the IQ of a blue soap dish figured out that some websites have a visible list of referrers. ...
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The Glitter of Contempt
Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 10:45:24 am PST
Martin Walker recounts an extraordinary conversation with a senior US State Department official: The American view of Europe. WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- "You want to know what I really think of the Europeans?" asked the senior State Department official. "I think they have been wrong on just about every ...
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The New Tape
Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 10:25:12 am PST
I guess I should start a topic for the latest “bin Laden” tape, but as you can probably tell from the scare quotes I’m still very skeptical about its authenticity: Bush Takes 'bin Laden' Tape Seriously.
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Iraq Allows Wimp to Inspect
Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 10:07:22 am PST
Surprise. Iraq has accepted the UN resolution, and an advance team of inspectors led by chief wimp Hans Blix will arrive in Iraq on Monday.
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Opposition to Hate
Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 10:02:39 am PST
Another great column from Dr. Bala Ambati in the Duke University Chronicle, calling for the Muslim community to take out their garbage: Opposition to hate should cut both ways.
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Harvard Does the Right Thing
Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 9:55:43 am PST
I missed this piece by Tom Gross yesterday, on Harvard’s disgraceful invitation of anti-Semitic “poet” Tom Paulin, who advocates the murder of Jews in the disputed territories: Welcome Voice? Gross’s article got results; yesterday’s Best of the Web reported that Harvard has “uninvited” Paulin. But their announcement of the cancellation ...
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Enemy Sightings
Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 8:37:17 am PST
Here’s a good piece by Tom Nichols on the inherent stupidity of Al Qaeda: Enemy Sightings. Why are our opponents so politically ungainly, so unable to comprehend the consequences of their actions? There are several possibilities, chief among them that they have been so insulated from the West for so ...
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Child Abuse in Berkeley
Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 8:13:55 am PST
As Palestinians and Gulf Arabs teach their children to hate and kill, in Berkeley the parents are teaching their children to be good targets, and cynically using them to promote the loony left agenda: Pre-schoolers protest possible war in Iraq. Two hundred students from Berkeley schools met local dignitaries, including ...
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IDF in Nablus
Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 7:46:43 am PST
The IDF has launched a large operation into the home of An-Najah University (known unaffectionately at LGF as Suicide Bomber U), Nablus—where Palestinians partied in the streets on September 11, 2001. NABLUS, West Bank (Reuters) - Dozens of Israeli tanks backed by helicopter gunships swept into the West Bank city ...
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The Life of a Liberal Muslim
Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 1:51:28 am PST
UCLA law professor Khaled Abou El Fadl has been speaking out against the Wahhabi extremism that is poisoning Islam around the world—and as a result, his life has been threatened and he has been ostracized by the Muslim community in the US. An excellent piece in the New Republic makes ...
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Unforgiven
Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 6:24:38 pm PST
A powerful essay by Steven Zak: Some Things Must Never Be Forgiven.
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Peaceful Religion Watch
Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 6:01:02 pm PST
This week our Peaceful Religion Watch consists of only one country: Iraq. It’s no surprise that the imams in Baghdad are screaming jihad right now, but the sheer over-the-top insanity of this stuff makes it noteworthy. From Abd-al-Qadir al-Jaylani mosque in Baghdad: The imam alludes to Islamic jihad in early ...
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The Murderous Sirhan Clan
Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 12:16:50 pm PST
DEBKAfile is reporting that the Palestinian terrorist who murdered five people in an Israeli kibbutz last weekend is named Sirhan Sirhan. An operative of Arafat’s Fatah, he belongs to the same Sirhan family and carries the same name as the man who murdered Robert Kennedy on June 5, 1968.Military sources: ...
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Say Goodbye to Moreover
Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 9:38:37 am PST
Well, the time has come to say “Sayonara!” to our news feeds from Moreover. They recently changed their terms of use, and free XML feeds are now available only to “accredited charitable organizations.” Which isn’t us, as a polite email from Moreover pointed out this morning. Too bad. Another free ...
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Fortune Sponsors Arab Anti-Semitism
Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 8:55:12 am PST
At a high-profile meeting in New York co-sponsored by Fortune Magazine and the Saudi-backed Arab Thought Foundation, Arab News editor Khaled Al-Maeena defended his newspaper’s description of the pro-Israel lobby as “subhuman.” Speakers at the symposium included America’s ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Robert Jordan; a former Republican nominee for vice ...
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Religion of Hate
Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 8:15:13 am PST
The Discover Islam Centre in Bahrain is sponsoring a four-day visit by a certain well-known former state senator from Louisiana: David Duke due in Bahrain for lecture. David Duke, who represented Louisiana in the U.S. Senate from 1989 to 1991 [this is false; Duke was a state senator, not a ...
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FBI Not Ready
Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 7:47:11 am PST
The Washington Post reports that government officials are worried that the FBI is dangerously unprepared to detect and prevent terrorist attacks in the US. "They still don't know where the terrorists are, how many are here, what their intentions are, what kind of support network they have," said Sen. Bob ...
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We’re Here to Help
Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 7:22:03 am PST
Political correctness isn’t exactly a priority in Russia. Contrast Dubya’s “Islam is peace” with this statement from Russian President Vladimir Putin: He said Western civilisation faced a mortal threat from Muslim terrorists, who planned to create a "worldwide caliphate". ..."They talk about the need to kill all non-Muslims, all cross-bearers," ...
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Hawkins Interviews Hanson
Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 11:26:26 am PST
John Hawkins scored a great interview with one of LGF’s most admired writers, Victor Davis Hanson. Go ye and read of it.
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Scary News of the Day
Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 11:19:02 am PST
Today the Washington Post reports that an unknown number of powerful radioactive devices were dispersed throughout the Soviet empire during the 1970s, to test the effects of nuclear war on agriculture. The radioactive substance in these devices was cesium 137, and each one contained enough to contaminate a small city. ...
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Iraq “Parliament” Scorns UN
Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 11:08:27 am PST
When the UN Security Council approved the resolution demanding that Iraq disarm or face the consequences, I thought Saddam Hussein would probably wait the full seven days, then accept the inspectors and continue playing his obfuscation games to buy more time; he could have stretched things out for months that ...
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Terror Talks in Cairo
Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 9:42:35 am PST
At a meeting of the murderers in Cairo, Egypt, leaders of Hamas reaffirmed their intention to continue killing Jewish men, women, and children wherever they can: Hamas refuses to halt suicide attacks in Israel. In Cairo, representatives of Hamas and Fatah held another round of talks at an undisclosed venue ...
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Why Won’t Patten Investigate?
Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 7:57:48 am PST
European Foreign Affairs Commissioner Chris Patten is flatly refusing to investigate the Palestinian Authority’s blatant misuse of EU aid money. In response to a question by Charles Tanner, Conservative foreign affairs spokesman in the European Parliament, about charges that European aid to the Palestinians currently running at 10 million euros ...
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NYC Get-Together
Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 7:34:16 am PST
A group of LGF readers in New York City are planning a get-together this weekend. If you’re interested in going, please email David for the details.
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Veterans Day
Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 1:34:10 am PST
IN FLANDERS FIELDS by John McCrae In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we ...
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Fisk Downhearted
Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 6:16:51 pm PST
The US and its allies are going to stop Saddam Hussein’s quest for the Arab Bomb, and the Arab League is powerless to stand in our way. Robert Fisk gets it. And his disappointment is palpable.
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And Again
Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 4:11:07 pm PST
Once again Palestinian mass murderers have slaughtered Israeli children in their homes: Terrorist attack in kibbutz kills five, wounds three. One or more terrorists entered Kibbutz Metzer in the Wadi Ara region on the Israeli side of the Green Line. At least two Israelis have been killed, including one woman. ...
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“Peace Activists” Get Violent
Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 3:01:25 pm PST
In Brussels, an anti-American, anti-Israel protest march got ugly when Palestinian Arab supporters showed up: 29 protesters arrested in Brussels: Masked, stone-throwing youths broke windows at a McDonald's fast food restaurant and a Marriot hotel, as well as a local temporary employment agency. Only minor damage was done however as ...
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Intelligence Warnings
Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 2:41:43 pm PST
Mansoor Ijaz, the Pakistani businessman who helped negotiate a deal turned down by the Clinton administration for Osama Bin Laden’s extradition, told Fox News yesterday that major Al Qaeda attacks are expected by the end of this month.
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A WWII Veteran’s Story
Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 12:40:18 pm PST
South Knox Bubba has posting a moving story for Veterans Day. Highly recommended. (Hat tip: Laurence Simon.)
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Whitehall Evacuated
Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 9:54:37 am PST
Buried in this story about tightening security in Britain is the surprising revelation that government offices in Whitehall were evacuated last week due to an anthrax scare—while Tom Ridge was meeting with British environment secretary Margaret Beckett. How did they keep this quiet? (Hat tip: LGF reader “wordwarp.”)
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Return of the Taliban
Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 9:35:59 am PST
The Islamist parties that recently won 59 seats out of 342 in Pakistan’s parliament are telling the US to get out of Pakistan, and openly expressing support for the Taliban and Al Qaeda. The six-party alliance of religious parties, of which [Fazl-ur] Rahman's party is a dominant partner, campaigned ...
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No Virgins for Them
Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 8:41:18 am PST
Two homicidal Palestinians on their way to commit mass murder blew themselves up near a West Bank checkpoint today, when the explosive belt they were smuggling into Israel went off prematurely.
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Anti-Semitism on Campus
Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 8:31:10 am PST
In the Montreal Gazette, Cynthia Yacowar-Sweeney gives a wake-up call to the campuses of Canada and the US: Stamping out anti-Semitism in universities. (Hat tip: LGF reader Elizabeth.)
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Kuwaiti Suspects Recant
Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 8:18:55 am PST
Six Kuwaitis arrested for the attack on US Marines are recanting their confessions, saying they were beaten by police. The young men, including a 17-year-old suspect, said they had nothing to do with the Oct. 8 attack by two Muslim fundamentalist Kuwaitis but had to confess because they were beaten ...
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MoDo Meets the Mutawwa
Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 7:06:17 am PST
If the Saudis were hoping she’d write favorably about their godforsaken country when they invited Maureen Dowd to visit, they must be starting to feel a bit disappointed: Frederick's of Riyadh. I made some notes on Harvey Nichols's lingerie apartheid — racks of sheer zebra and leopard Dolce & Gabbana ...
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National Military Appreciation Month
Sat, Nov 9, 2002 at 6:51:55 pm PST
Here’s a website where you can quickly and easily (although they deserve more than that) send a message of support to the men and women who are committed to defending the United States: National Military Appreciation Month.
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Fallaci on Florence
Sat, Nov 9, 2002 at 6:07:43 pm PST
Oriana Fallaci makes it very clear how she feels about the hordes of anti-globo bozos befouling Florence. (Gracias: El Pundito Instante.)
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Arab News vs LGF, Round Two
Sat, Nov 9, 2002 at 4:24:54 pm PST
Since the last two threads about Rasheed Abou-Alsamh’s attack on LGF filled up in a matter of hours, I’m starting one more (the last). To kick it off, I’ll make sure we’re on the same page by reprinting what Abou-Alsamh actually wrote for the Arab News: Attacking Muslims is the ...
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New Feature
Sat, Nov 9, 2002 at 1:26:19 pm PST
For the HTML-phobic among us, I’ve added a new feature to the comment form. At the top right of the comment entry area are three new options: Bold, Italic, and Quote. Clicking any of them brings up a Javascript prompt, in which you can enter the text you wish to ...
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Got Another One
Sat, Nov 9, 2002 at 11:10:48 am PST
Another mass murderer bites the dust: the most senior Islamic Jihad freakazoid on Israel’s wanted list, Iyad Sawalhe, responsible for more than 30 killings. Israel said that Sawalhe, 28, is directly responsible for attacks that killed 31 Israelis and wounded scores, including the recent car bomb at Karkur junction that ...
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Get the Military Out of the Drug War
Sat, Nov 9, 2002 at 8:47:02 am PST
A great idea whose time has come: U.S. may divert Special Forces from drug war. Freeing up some of the military's highly skilled forces for assignment in the war on terrorism has become a major effort for [Andre] Hollis since he became deputy assistant secretary for counternarcotics in August 2001. ...
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A Muslim Woman Speaks Out
Sat, Nov 9, 2002 at 8:28:14 am PST
When Somalian political scientist Ayaan Hirsi Ali (who fled from Somalia to the Netherlands as a young woman) spoke out publicly against the hidden abuse of Muslim women, she received a flood of hate mail and death threats. Islamic web sites in the Netherlands called for her to be beheaded ...
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From the Arab News to LGF
Sat, Nov 9, 2002 at 7:07:20 am PST
After attacking LGF in the Arab News, Rasheed Abou-Alsamh has replied to LGF. Since the thread in which he posted is getting quite long, I’m reposting his comment here. I’ll reply immediately after.
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Of Colas and Propaganda
Fri, Nov 8, 2002 at 5:05:40 pm PST
The official Mecca-Cola site has a charming montage of photographs of Palestinian children stupidly courageously throwing rocks at tanks, being oppressed, and showing off their Nikes and soccer shirts. All the Big Lies are represented here, including Mohammed al-Dura (who was killed by Palestinians, not Israelis) and this semi-famous Reuters ...
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Knight Sans Horse
Fri, Nov 8, 2002 at 2:21:07 pm PST
MEMRI has a summary of discussions in the Arab press about Egypt’s broadcast of A Knight Without a Horse, the TV series based on anti-Semitic forgery The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. A few writers were critical of Egypt for the show; one of the critics makes an interesting ...
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Do Not Drink Idiotic!
Fri, Nov 8, 2002 at 1:36:15 pm PST
Zamzam Cola’s hold on the Islamic cola market is being challenged by a new upstart: Mecca Cola, with the catchy slogan Ne buvez plus idiot, buvez engagé! Which Google translates as “Do not drink idiotic any more, drink engages!” The photo caption says that ten percent of Mecca Cola’s profits will go ...
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Saddam's Brain
Fri, Nov 8, 2002 at 12:03:12 pm PST
Here’s a great piece by David Brooks on the historical origins and Arab supremacist ideology of Iraq’s (and Syria’s) Baath party: Saddam's Brain.
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The End of An Era
Fri, Nov 8, 2002 at 8:45:54 am PST
Today Victor Davis Hanson dissects the anti-American left in an excellent, devastating new column: The End of an Era. We are learning that resistance never really entailed opposition to fascism at all, much less the need for intervention to support democracy, but was simply a strange desire to vent displeasure ...
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Tick, Tock
Fri, Nov 8, 2002 at 7:37:49 am PST
The UN Security Council has approved a resolution demanding that Saddam Hussein disarm or face “serious consequences.” Iraq has seven days to indicate acceptance of the resolution.
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Rosenbaum Fisks Vidal
Fri, Nov 8, 2002 at 1:32:52 am PST
In the New York Observer, Ron Rosenbaum utterly destroys Gore Vidal’s pathetic conspiracy essay: Protocols of Elder Named Gore Vidal: Wacko 9/11 Piece. (Rosenbaum calls it a MiSTing, but actually it’s a fisk. You can’t have a MiSTing without robots. Everybody knows that. And Rosenbaum’s essay, excellent as it may ...
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What’s In a “No?”
Fri, Nov 8, 2002 at 1:17:26 am PST
When asked last weekend whether the Saudi entity would let the US launch attacks against Iraq from Saudi soil, prince Saud said, “No.” But apparently, their “no” means “maybe.” In a telephone interview with the Times, Prince Saud said there was a misunderstanding when he answered "no" when asked in ...
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Notes After a Meltdown
Thu, Nov 7, 2002 at 7:55:14 pm PST
In the Great Email Meltdown today, I lost a few messages that I need to mention. If you’ve donated to LGF in the past week through Amazon or Paypal, I’ve lost the notification email and can’t send you a personal thank-you note—as I normally would. Please accept my sincere gratitude ...
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About Rasheed
Thu, Nov 7, 2002 at 6:31:54 pm PST
In today’s Arab News, Rasheed Abou-Alsamh attacks Little Green Footballs. That’s how Rasheed repays us for featuring his columns several times at LGF, as a voice of Arab sanity. That’s how he repays me for taking special notice of his comments, and letting him know when he was being blocked by ...
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Aarrgghh
Thu, Nov 7, 2002 at 12:31:35 pm PST
Computers. Can’t live with ’em, can’t live without ’em. Can’t shoot ’em either. But keep the guns away from me right now, or I just might. Microsoft’s lovely Entourage email program decided to throw a tantrum this morning, rendering my email database unreadable. I’ve been in computer hell all morning trying ...
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Religion of Tolerance
Thu, Nov 7, 2002 at 6:58:41 am PST
An Iranian university professor has been sentenced to death for blasphemy. In his speech, Aghajari had said clerics' teachings on Islam were considered sacred simply because they were part of history, and he questioned why clerics were the only ones authorized to interpret Islam.
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M. Kahil Gloats for Egypt
Wed, Nov 6, 2002 at 5:47:07 pm PST
Arab News cartoonist M. Kahil gloats that the cowboy president of the United States (wearing a 'CENSOR' badge) was unable to stop Egypt from broadcasting their Nazi-like anti-Semitic television series based on The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Gloat while you can, M.
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News Junkies Need a Fix
Wed, Nov 6, 2002 at 4:58:21 pm PST
I just wanted to mention that Google News is starting to become an indispensable resource. If you haven’t looked at it in a while (like me), you’ll be surprised at how far it has come. Also, I’ve added a brand new, gentle on your stomach, guaranteed fat-free search function at the ...
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Egyptian Criticizes Al-Azhar U
Wed, Nov 6, 2002 at 4:12:31 pm PST
As a postscript to our entry about the homicidal scholars of Al-Azhar University, MEMRI has translations from several recent articles by Egyptian intellectual Ahmad Abd Al-M'uti Higazi, sharply criticizing the University for “producing terrorism.” "...Those who quote [religious scriptures] and impose the word [namely, the chief clerics] are the ones ...
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Holocaust Denial in French Encyclopedia
Wed, Nov 6, 2002 at 1:52:47 pm PST
The publishers of a French encyclopedia-like reference book known as The Quid have been ordered to remove a Holocaust revisionist’s claim that the figure of six million deaths was exaggerated. In a section on World War II extermination camps, the book says that the official number of deaths at Auschwitz-Birkenau ...
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A Religion of Peace?
Wed, Nov 6, 2002 at 1:38:37 pm PST
Kenneth R. Timmerman interviewed top Islamic scholars in Egypt about suicide bombings and terrorism, and encountered a shockingly alien moral code: A Religion of Peace? The Egyptian state appoints the Grand Mufti, the highest religious authority in the land and a man who has the power to issue fatwas and ...
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Al Qaeda in San Diego
Wed, Nov 6, 2002 at 12:20:28 pm PST
In San Diego the FBI has uncovered an Al Qaeda plot to exchange heroin and hashish for Stinger anti-aircraft missiles. Agents posing as drug lords followed the case to Hong Kong, where the deal was consummated. As a result, two Pakistanis and an Indian-born U.S. citizen are in custody there ...
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WTF????
Wed, Nov 6, 2002 at 10:01:37 am PST
We received an intriguing, thought-provoking email from the UK yesterday. But after pondering it for countless hours, I must admit I’m at a loss for a reply. So I’m going to toss it out to our readers, hoping that maybe you can show this gentleman the way out of his ...
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Dowd Visits Saud
Wed, Nov 6, 2002 at 9:47:40 am PST
MoDo goes to Jiddah: Under the Ramadan Moon. I went to see the minister of education at his home in Riyadh. Mohammed Ahmed Rasheed and half a dozen deputies, men in long white robes and headdresses, arrayed themselves on chairs against the walls and worried their beads. They talked fondly ...
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So-Called Liberals
Wed, Nov 6, 2002 at 8:48:57 am PST
LGF reader Bala Ambati has another great op-ed in the Duke University Chronicle today: So-called liberals need to address the facts about terrorism. Judging from yesterday’s election results, Dr. Ambati is far from the only one disenchanted with liberal Democrat positions.
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Netanyahu: Expel Arafat
Wed, Nov 6, 2002 at 8:02:11 am PST
Binyamin Netanyahu has been sworn in as Israel’s foreign minister, and again he is calling for the expulsion of Yasser Arafat. Responding to Netanyahu, Arafat said Wednesday: "No one can deport me from my homeland ... They have to remember that they are dealing with Yasser Arafat."
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Wed, Nov 6, 2002 at 7:47:09 am PST
The State Department is sponsoring a series of advertisements in Malaysia and Indonesia, showing American Muslims living and worshipping freely. But Islamic scholars and leaders in the region say the ads won’t help America’s image, because even in Indonesia, a country thousands of miles away from the Middle East with ...
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The Smallpox Factor
Tue, Nov 5, 2002 at 6:14:21 pm PST
A new intelligence report says that four nations possess smallpox. One of them is France. Oh man. That means everybody has it.
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Repent, Sinners
Tue, Nov 5, 2002 at 4:22:00 pm PST
The president-for-life of Yemen is calling on Al Qaeda members to repent. "We call on everyone from among our countrymen who have been entangled in membership of the al-Qaida organization to repent ... and renounce all means of violence," President Ali Abdullah Saleh said in a statement read by a ...
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SOTW at Israpundit
Tue, Nov 5, 2002 at 4:15:18 pm PST
Gracias and shalom to Israpundit for making us one of their sites of the week.
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Vote! Vote Now! Vote!
Tue, Nov 5, 2002 at 3:55:32 pm PST
LGF: The blog that doesn’t hector you to vote. I assume our readers already know the importance of exercising your constitutional rights. Right? Of course you do. But I must say, it’s damned hard to give much of a #%*! about the California governor’s race. Where’s the Anti-Idiotarian candidate?
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Don’t Mess with Deir Yassin
Tue, Nov 5, 2002 at 3:47:30 pm PST
Lynn B has some very interesting stuff about Palestinian Arab claims of a massacre at Deir Yassin in 1948.
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No Alternative
Tue, Nov 5, 2002 at 3:34:46 pm PST
Hamas tells the Palestinian Authority there is no alternative to suicide bombings. "Those who are criticizing suicide operations don't have an alternative," said a statement issued by the Eziddin al-Qassam group. "They can't even stop the killing of innocent Palestinians. These people don't believe in any form of resistance. Our ...
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An Egyptian Visitor
Tue, Nov 5, 2002 at 1:54:40 pm PST
A visitor from Cairo, Egypt comments on American outrage about the Egyptian TV show based on the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. i dont know why u people r making a huge deal out of this? dont u believe in the freedom of speech...or is this just a cliche ...
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Racism as the Will of Allah
Tue, Nov 5, 2002 at 10:07:58 am PST
Yesterday the Palestinian Media Watch mailing list contained an extensive translation of the Friday sermon (khutba) from Shaykh Ijlin mosque in Gaza, one of the subjects of this week’s Peaceful Religion Watch. This is nothing less than religious incitement to murder—poisonous racism disguised as piety. I’m publishing the longer translation ...
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Shari'a Housing in America
Tue, Nov 5, 2002 at 8:50:37 am PST
Freddie Mac, the stockholder-owned corporation established by Congress in 1970 to support homeownership and rental housing, is now offering “Islamic mortgages.” MCLEAN, Va., March 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Freddie Mac announced today it is investing in home financing contracts that are acceptable under both Islamic and American law, paving the way ...
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Outrage of the Day
Tue, Nov 5, 2002 at 8:31:57 am PST
Arab Voice, an Arabic-language newspaper published in Paterson, New Jersey, featuring James Zogby as a columnist, is running a serialized version of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Daniel Pipes says it all: That a forgery that helped cause the Holocaust is now openly published in New Jersey points ...
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Columbia U Tries to Hire Terror Apologist
Tue, Nov 5, 2002 at 8:09:28 am PST
New York’s Columbia University has offered a position (the “Edward Said” chair) to Rashid Khalidi, a pro-Palestinian professor who has compared the creation of Israel to Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor. While Mr. Khalidi is respected among his fellow Middle East scholars, many of whom share his hostility toward Israel, ...
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Edmonton Sun: Murderer = Martyr
Tue, Nov 5, 2002 at 7:44:01 am PST
Edmonton, the capital city of Alberta, has a large Arab population. That’s the only explanation for the outrageous headline the Edmonton Sun put on this AP story about yesterday’s suicide bombing: Martyr bomber kills 2 in Israel. Unbelievable. UPDATE: Here’s the original AP story at Yahoo: Suicide Bomber Kills 2 in ...
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New CNN Poll
Mon, Nov 4, 2002 at 6:49:27 pm PST
CNN is running a poll asking whether the US was “right” to fire missiles at an Al Qaeda chief wanted for the bombing of the USS Cole: Was the U.S. right to execute terror suspects without a trial? Please let CNN know how you feel.
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Blind Side
Mon, Nov 4, 2002 at 5:34:21 pm PST
Courtesy The Intellectual Activist. For more like this, check out Cox and Forkum’s book “Black & White World.”
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Shariatopia Sweepstakes Update
Mon, Nov 4, 2002 at 12:09:04 pm PST
LGF reader Susan points out this report from multi-culti group the Open Society Institute, that says children should be taught Arabic in British state schools, to prevent Muslim children from “feeling isolated.” Teaching the language alongside French or German, would help Muslim children to feel less cut off from their ...
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Rubin Attempts Suicide
Mon, Nov 4, 2002 at 11:36:40 am PST
JDL leader Irv Rubin, jailed for allegedly plotting to bomb the King Fahd mosque in LA, has tried to commit suicide.
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Blix a Wimp
Mon, Nov 4, 2002 at 11:10:40 am PST
The former deputy foreign minister of Sweden is warning that Hans Blix, chief of the UN inspection team in Iraq, is a wimp. In surprisingly un-diplomatic language, Per Ahlmark, former deputy foreign minister of Sweden, warns that Blix, whom he has known for 40 years, is "weak and easily ...
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Palestinians React to HRW Report
Mon, Nov 4, 2002 at 10:36:47 am PST
So Human Rights Watch finally does the right thing and labels Palestinian suicide bombings as war crimes. To nobody’s surprise, the HRW report has provoked a reaction from the Palestinians that exhibits the winning combination of raging paranoia, murderous intent, and propensity for outrageous lying that has endeared them to so ...
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Exploding Cars
Mon, Nov 4, 2002 at 9:26:36 am PST
Statistics show that if you’re an Islamic militant, you’re safer hijacking a plane than you are driving a car.
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And Again
Mon, Nov 4, 2002 at 9:05:21 am PST
There’s been an explosion in a shopping mall in Israel. The Ha'aretz news flash: At least 11 people were injured, one seriously, in an explosion just after 6:15 P.M. Monday in a shopping mall in Kfar Sava. Three people suffered moderate injuries and seven were lightly wounded. Channel Two said ...
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About Those Checkpoints
Mon, Nov 4, 2002 at 8:07:17 am PST
Palestinians complain bitterly about the humiliation and hardships they suffer due to Israeli army checkpoints. NGOs continually demand the checkpoints be lifted, so Palestinians can travel freely. The restrictions are routinely held up as examples of Israel’s oppression of the Palestinian population. There’s just one problem with all this whining, one ...
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The Best of Friends
Mon, Nov 4, 2002 at 7:06:06 am PST
Yesterday the oil parasites of the House of Saud told the US and the UN that they wouldn’t participate in action against Iraq. Today Iraq is gloating. BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq hailed Saudi Arabia, a key U.S. regional ally, on Monday for saying it would not allow the United States ...
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Our Allies in the War on Terror
Sun, Nov 3, 2002 at 5:20:15 pm PST
Once again the House of Saud thumbs its nose at the United States. "We will cooperate with the [U.N.] Security Council, but as to entering the conflict or using the facilities as part of the conflict, that's something else," Prince Saud al-Faisal told CNN's Christiane Amanpour in a recent interview, ...
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Who Poison da Atmosphere? Who?
Sun, Nov 3, 2002 at 3:35:55 pm PST
Joseph Alexander Norland asks himself if his attitude toward Saudi Arabia has been poisoned by the International Zionist Conspiracy™, as Saudi foreign minister Saud al-Faisal recently told the Arab Thought Foundation. (No jokes, please.) Joseph’s answer is illuminating.
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Who Shot Mohammed al-Dura?
Sun, Nov 3, 2002 at 2:19:21 pm PST
Phil Essing emailed a link to this excellent German documentary film about the death of Mohammed al-Dura, poster boy for the Palestinian intifada. It’s about an hour long, in Real video format.
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Jordanian Fatwas
Sun, Nov 3, 2002 at 1:22:47 pm PST
Last week US diplomat Laurence Foley was murdered in Jordan. Unless I missed it somehow, the US did nothing in response. Today a gathering of Islamist preachers in Jordan, organized by the Muslim Brotherhood, called for jihad against the United States. Scores of Islamist preachers concluded a gathering in Amman on ...
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Islamists Hate Dogs
Sun, Nov 3, 2002 at 11:30:58 am PST
“Conservative” Iranian cleric (conservative apparently meaning “raving mean-hearted creep” in this instance) Hojatolislam Hassani has called for all dogs to be arrested. A conservative Iranian cleric has denounced the "moral depravity" of owning a dog, and called for the arrest of all dogs and their owners. Dogs are considered unclean ...
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Dictator on the Make
Sun, Nov 3, 2002 at 11:03:23 am PST
These photos from the Libyan beauty pageant mentioned below are such surreal jaw-droppers I had to make copies, because who knows how long they’ll be available on the Miss Net World 2002 site? I’ve included the original captions. This is true comedy gold. Miss @ Net USA Tecca Zendik ...
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Peaceful Religion Watch
Sun, Nov 3, 2002 at 10:27:22 am PST
Once again we visit the mosques of the Arab world and listen to what the spiritual leaders of Islam are saying to the flock. It ain’t “love thy neighbor.” On the official television station of the Palestinian Authority, from Shaykh Ijlin mosque in Gaza: An unidentified shaykh delivers the sermon. He praises ...
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Suddenly He’s Everywhere
Sun, Nov 3, 2002 at 9:32:37 am PST
Saddam Hussein has ordered his agents to murder Iraqi opposition leaders in Britain. He’s also making a last-ditch attempt to get help (the exploding kind) from other Arab leaders, including wacky old Muammar Gaddafi. In the past few months, senior members of his Ba’athist regime have visited a number of ...
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Osama Spawn Nabbed?
Sat, Nov 2, 2002 at 6:01:40 pm PST
One of Osama Bin Laden’s many sons may have been captured in Iran. LONDON (AP) - Iranian security forces have detained one of Osama bin Laden’s sons among several hundred people suspected of links to the al-Qaida terror network, the Financial Times reported on its Web site Saturday. Citing an ...
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Saudis Ready for Jihad
Sat, Nov 2, 2002 at 12:58:45 pm PST
The BBC quotes an anonymous Saudi “religious scholar” who says if the US attacks Iraq, there are whole regions in Saudi Arabia ready for jihad. The religious leader, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said thousands of people in tribal areas in the north and the south of the country ...
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Welcome to the Dark Side
Sat, Nov 2, 2002 at 11:44:10 am PST
I had Michele’s blog in our links from almost the first day LGF was up. She’s a pissed off chick who writes really well, and doesn’t take scheisse from anyone. What’s not to like? Now Michele’s been the target of a smear campaign similar to the one mounted against LGF, with ...
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Inept Arab Hackers
Sat, Nov 2, 2002 at 11:23:23 am PST
Andrew Weisburd noticed some Arab script kiddies trying to hack into his site last week, using a program that searches for more than 500 known vulnerabilities. We saw the same thing at LGF on Monday and Tuesday night; in fact, every day we see script kiddies from Arab countries attempting ...
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A Hostage’s Story
Sat, Nov 2, 2002 at 10:48:55 am PST
Elena Yaroshuk was one of the hostages in the Moscow theater; here’s her story, with lots of new details about the nightmarish ordeal. (Hat tip: Jal Hampson.)
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Angry Cyclist Confronts Weenie Prof
Sat, Nov 2, 2002 at 8:23:41 am PST
Roger Bournival has posted a very amusing (and revealing) email exchange with New Hampshire professor Marc Herold, author of the spurious Afghan civilian casualties study that has been soundly debunked by many sources—yet still continues to be quoted by media. Herold turns out to be (surprise!) quite the weenie.
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Dubious Council
Sat, Nov 2, 2002 at 8:09:55 am PST
The New Republic advocates kicking France out of the UN Security Council. In truth, France's fantasies of grandeur--fantasies that are decades, if not centuries, out of date--would be laughable, except that they are taken seriously in Turtle Bay. And so the Bush administration must endlessly negotiate with a country whose ...
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NPR: Oily As Usual
Sat, Nov 2, 2002 at 7:58:37 am PST
I haven’t listened to NPR (National Palestinian Radio) for quite a while, and the program I just heard reminded me why. In at least a half hour of slobbery pro-Arab coverage, speaker after speaker talked about Arab “anger” at “US policy” toward Israel. No one mentioned specifics. The “news” report ...
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Genocide: Sudan Found Guilty
Sat, Nov 2, 2002 at 7:35:46 am PST
Nat Hentoff writes about the long-overdue passage of the Sudan Peace Act, a landmark document accusing the Sudanese National Islamic Front of genocide. "The National Assembly in Khartoum urged Arabs and Muslims throughout the world to denounce the law, calling it 'a breach of Sudan's sovereignty' . . . The ...
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Too Soft on Pakistan
Fri, Nov 1, 2002 at 4:16:25 pm PST
India’s foreign minister Yashwant Sinha says the West is being too soft on Pakistan. He’s right. New Delhi has been furious that the west has not taken a harder line with President Musharraf, who pledged to crack down on militants crossing into Indian Kashmir before the elections in the state ...
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The Cairo Chronicle
Fri, Nov 1, 2002 at 1:25:44 pm PST
For once the State Department does the right thing. WASHINGTON - The United States has told Egypt and other Arab governments that their state-run television stations should not broadcast a series alleged to give credence to the forged Protocols of the Elders of Zion. "We don't think government TV stations ...
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Hamas in the US
Fri, Nov 1, 2002 at 9:52:17 am PST
Bill Gertz reports that US intelligence agencies have received “uncorroborated” warnings that Hamas is planning attacks inside the United States.
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Jihad and the Professors
Fri, Nov 1, 2002 at 9:39:18 am PST
Recently Daniel Pipes surveyed more than two dozen academic experts on Islam, about the meaning of the word jihad—and the results paint a disturbing picture of near universal falsification and whitewashing. His new essay about the survey is an authoritative history lesson, and a crushing refutation to the apologists: Jihad ...
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Graham Defends Hezbollah
Fri, Nov 1, 2002 at 8:49:25 am PST
Yesterday Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Bill Graham defended his government’s refusal to outlaw Hezbollah, because it would “hurt charity workers.” The Canadian Alliance, questioning Graham in both the Commons foreign affairs committee and in question period, said the government is "irresponsible" for not banning the group.But Graham made a clear ...
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Solidarity with Apologists
Fri, Nov 1, 2002 at 7:54:14 am PST
When Daniel Pipes launched Campus Watch he received a flood of emails from faculty and graduate students requesting to be listed on the site in “solidarity” with the apologists for suicide bombings and militant Islam. So he complied with their requests. Most of the writers are academics from fields other ...
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Al Qaedism
Fri, Nov 1, 2002 at 7:21:49 am PST
Victor Davis Hanson says you don’t need a membership card to work for Al Qaeda.
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