LGF Archives: November 2003
Oil Ticks Mock America
Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 8:52:15 pm PST
Arab News, the official English language voice of the House of Saud, mocks President Bush’s visit to Iraq: Imperial Majesty. I watched, as I am sure did most of you, the little skit set up for President Bush this Thanksgiving in Baghdad. Gen. Sanchez and Ambassador Bremer hammed it up on ...
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Dean's Hiding His Records
Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 6:59:18 pm PST
When Howard Dean left office as the governor of Vermont, he took the unusual step of putting a ten-year seal on his official papers: What’s in Howard Dean’s Secret Vermont Files? (Hat tip: Catbert.) DEAN—WHO HAS BLASTED the Bush administration for excessive secrecy—candidly acknowledged that politics was a major reason ...
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Mysterious Explosion Produces Car Swarm
Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 6:19:02 pm PST
Palestinians gather around a car following an explosion in the Rafah Refugee Camp, southern Gaza Strip, Sunday, Nov. 30, 2003. A mysterious explosion ripped through the car, killing Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant Yusuf Matar, witnesses said. The witnesses had no explanation for the blast. No Israeli helicopters were seen ...
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Palestinian Child Abuse
Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 6:01:41 pm PST
This report at the Jerusalem Post describes one of the worst cases of Palestinian child abuse yet noted here at LGF: In one film clip released by the IDF, channel 10 news showed a group of terrorists escaping after having fired upon an IDF post. The group had abducted ...
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Terror Hurts Indonesian Islamists
Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 3:51:12 pm PST
Here’s an interesting and somewhat encouraging story in the Straits Times about political Islam in Indonesia, that suggests the Islamist parties are having a hard time selling the 230 million people of Indonesia on shari'a law and an Islamic state—and that their cause is further undermined by their reluctance to ...
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Debased Death Cult Society
Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 8:46:25 am PST
Last Wednesday every news agency in the world carried a story that a 9-year old Palestinian boy had been shot in the head and killed by the IDF, quoting “Palestinian medical sources:” Palestinian boy shot dead by Israelis in Gaza. Today the Palestinian Authority has been forced to admit that the ...
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The Geneva Farce
Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 8:03:14 am PST
The launch of the “Geneva Agreement” between the Israeli hard left and Palestinian liars is now officially a complete farce: Key Palestinian Negotiators to Skip Summit. At the last minute, the four negotiators — all members of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement — said they were skipping Monday's ceremony ...
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France Bankrolls America's Enemies
Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 8:39:09 pm PST
We knew that France had financial and oil interests in Iraq, but Michael Gonzalez looks deeper and finds that France has been bankrolling America’s enemies for quite a long time. (Hat tip: ploome.) "Follow the money" is an old adage, and it means that economic interest will eventually explain much ...
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Saudi Prince Murdered in Algeria
Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 8:14:31 pm PST
A Saudi prince was ambushed and murdered by “suspected extremists” in Algeria yesterday while hunting rare gazelles in the desert: Saudi prince killed in Qaeda ambush. The reports said the prince, identified as Talal bin Abdelaziz Arrachid, was shot and killed during the night of Thursday-Friday in a confrontation in ...
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DUmmies Raving Again
Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 6:51:00 pm PST
Uh... if anyone cares, you might be interested to see what the Democratic Underground Morlocks are saying about LGF: Right-wing hate site discusses DU. An anger management therapist could make millions, if the raving nutbags at DU could be convinced they have a huge problem and need help. But first, they ...
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Israeli Tech Sector Rebounds
Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 5:31:24 pm PST
Despite being surrounded by millions of sworn enemies doing their best, both openly and secretly, to destroy the relatively tiny Jewish state, Israel’s high-tech sector is becoming a powerhouse of innovation. (Hat tip: E. Nough.) On Tuesday, Eastman Kodak Co. said it was buying Israeli-based Scitex Corp.'s digital printing division ...
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Palestinian Child Abuse
Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 4:47:03 pm PST
When I posted this entry last week, some readers drew an equivalence between the toy guns for sale in Gaza and the toy guns for sale in American toy stores. Then when I posted this entry, some readers said the game of “Arabs and Jews” was no worse than American kids ...
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The Koran Requires Jihad
Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 3:02:03 pm PST
A Jordanian Muslim jihadi who’s in Iraq trying to kill Americans and other infidels talks to the San Francisco Chronicle about his motivation: Foreigners in Iraq say Koran requires fighting U.S. The well-dressed, slight-built mechanical engineering student from the University of Jordan said he was drawn to fight in Iraq ...
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Hatefest at Toronto University
Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 2:45:04 pm PST
The University of Toronto is allowing the Toronto Palestinian Solidarity Conference to be held this weekend, despite the conference organizer’s (a Muslim student group called Al Awda) open support of Palestinian terrorism and denial of Israel’s right to exist: U. of T. allows pro-Palestinian meeting. The conference was originally cancelled ...
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Another Gitmo Soldier Charged
Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 1:05:33 pm PST
A fourth person has now been charged with violating security at the Guantanamo Bay prison: Guantanamo Officer Charged With Breach. U.S. Army Col. Jack Farr was charged Saturday with "wrongfully transporting classified material without the proper security container on or around Oct. 11, and making a false statement in the ...
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Baghdad March Against Terrorism
Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 9:22:13 am PST
Hundreds of Iraqis demonstrated against terrorism and for democracy yesterday in Baghdad, but the world press reports it only as a footnote in their ongoing campaign of negativism: Hundreds protest violence in Baghdad as US soldier killed in mortar attack. AFP uses the word “violence” in their headline, even though ...
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Burchill to Leave Guardian
Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 9:14:35 am PST
Here’s a great column at the Guardian from Julie Burchill, who is leaving the paper because its open editorial antisemitism has finally gotten to be too much for her to stomach: Good, bad and ugly. (Hat tips to all who emailed this.) Not only do I admire the Guardian, I ...
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Christian Fish vs. Muslim Shark
Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 7:58:52 am PST
When Coptic Christians in Egypt began putting fish bumper stickers on their cars as a symbol of their faith, Muslims responded in their well-known peaceful way—with fish-hungry sharks: Stickers Produce Unique Battle in Egypt. (Hat tip: newscaper.) The AP headline is incorrect; there’s nothing unique about this battle. It’s simply ...
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World Socialists: Two Minute Hate
Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 7:28:35 pm PST
Here’s the enemy’s take on President Bush’s visit to Iraq, at the World Socialist Web Site—otherwise known as the last well-funded bastion of the failed genocidal doctrines of Communism: Bush's PR stunt in Baghdad underscores US crisis.
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Back to the Bush Leagues
Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 6:49:43 pm PST
It’s almost funny to watch the Nine Dwarves stumble over their feet as they try to dance the dance of defeatism around President Bush’s visit to Iraq, clumsy and falling out, even with the determined coaching of the New York Times: Democrats Temper Praise for Bush Visit With Criticism. The ...
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You Have Trodden Welcoming Land
Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 6:07:37 pm PST
Reuters and the Associated Press and the rest of the anti-American world media are doing their best to portray President Bush’s Iraq visit as a tiny blip on their radar screen of negativism, but an Iraqi blogger named Alaa has an eloquent post that refutes them all with the simple ...
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Hanging Judge of Iran Dies At Last
Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 5:07:34 pm PST
Ayatollah Sadeq Khalkhali, the infamous Iranian “hanging judge” who desecrated the bodies of US soldiers killed in Jimmy Carter’s failed hostage rescue attempt, has finally died at the age of 77. The tales of his atrocities hold a chilling vision of the birth of the Islamic Republic of Iran—a state ...
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Elder Interviews Spencer, Part Two
Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 4:57:00 pm PST
Part two of Larry Elder’s interview with Robert Spencer has been posted at Town Hall: Islam: A religion of peace? -- Part II. If you missed part one of the interview, it’s here: Islam: a religion of peace?
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Got Another One in Germany
Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 4:17:26 pm PST
Anti-Terror Raids Target Islamists Across Europe. MILAN/BERLIN (Reuters) - Police hunting Islamic militants across Europe capped a dramatic series of anti-terror raids in three countries with the arrest of a suspected Algerian extremist in the German port of Hamburg on Friday. Abderrazak Mahdjoub, 29, was held at the request of ...
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The Squad of Death
Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 4:11:57 pm PST
David Reinhard has a good opinion piece on the trial of the Portland Seven, the jihad group that included Intel software engineer Maher “Mike” Hawash: The Squad of Death: What lies beneath. (Hat tip: Morgan.) The defendants complained that the prosecution trafficked in "distortions and half-truths" but did not dispute ...
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"Arabs and Jews"
Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 12:34:52 pm PST
Palestinian children play a game called 'Arabs and Jews' in the Rafah refugee camp, south of the Gaza Strip, on the third day of Eid al-Fitr. (AFP/Mohammed Abed)
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DUmmies Raving Again
Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 11:44:32 am PST
The Bush-hatred is overflowing at Democratic Underground, where they’ve been driven into a frothing nightmare frenzy over the President’s visit to Iraq, even suggesting that it was an impersonator who made the trip: F_ckin A Bush is a paranoid narcissitic _sshole. He wouldn't even get out of his bullet proof ...
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Saudi Grand Mufti OKs Cyber Terrorism
Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 11:14:53 am PST
Here’s the explanation for why LGF has recently been seeing an increasing number of attempted hack attacks from Arab countries—a fatwa approving cyber terrorism against sites “hostile to Islam,” issued by the highest official cleric of Saudi Arabia. (Hat tip: Thom.) WASHINGTON DC, December 2, 2002 -- The Saudi Information ...
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Ignorance Is Blix
Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 10:22:43 am PST
Speaking, appropriately enough, in Belgium, former UN weapons inspector Hans Blix says he hopes the US learned a lesson in Iraq. BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Hans Blix, the former chief U.N. weapons inspector, was quoted on Friday as saying he hoped Washington had learned its lesson in Iraq about the need ...
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Annan Asks Israel to Die
Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 10:13:02 am PST
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has issued a demand that Israel immediately cease all attempts to defend its citizens, and allow Palestinian suicide bombers easier access to buses and restaurants: UN Says Israel Fails to Meet Demand to Halt Wall.
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These Five Regimes Must Go
Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 10:00:14 am PST
Evil warmonger Mark Steyn lists the five regimes that must go, urging President Bush to stop listening to Tony Blair’s advice to slow down. Profound changes in the above countries would not necessarily mean the end of the war on terror, but it would be pretty close. It would remove ...
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Palestinians Still Seething
Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 8:57:26 am PST
Ariel Sharon warned Palestinian Arabs yesterday that unless they begin making honest steps toward peace, they risk losing more land. Palestinians reacted with rage and duplicitous whining, counting on the world press to ignore that Palestinians have not fulfilled even the very first condition of the “road map:” Palestinians ...
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Telling the Truth, Facing the Whip
Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 8:46:38 am PST
A rare sighting of a possible liberal Muslim in today’s New York Times, with an op-ed that puts the blame for the spread of jihad ideology in the Islamic world squarely where it belongs—on the hatred and incitement that passes for education in Saudi Arabia: Telling the Truth, Facing the ...
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Geneva Sellout
Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 10:50:08 pm PST
Charles Krauthammer, one of Oslo’s strongest critics, has a great column about the so-called Geneva Agreement between the Israeli left (led by discredited, failed politician Yossi Beilin) and the Palestinian Arabs (who have proven time and time again that their word is utterly worthless): Geneva Sellout. On the Palestinian side, ...
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Mr. Holland, We Hardly Knew Ye
Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 2:31:53 pm PST
Richard Dreyfuss, star of the troll repellent masterpiece “Mr. Holland’s Opus,” will be the host at the festivities in Geneva next week as the starry-eyed Israeli left and Palestinian liars trot out their latest bogus “peace plan:” US actor Richard Dreyfuss to host launch of Geneva Initiative. (Hat tip: Allyson.) ...
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Got Two in Britain
Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 2:12:18 pm PST
British police arrested two men today, one of whom may be linked to Al Qaeda: British Anti-Terror Arrest 'Could Be Big'-Source. Officers from Britain's anti-terror branch arrested a 24-year-old man in the western town of Gloucester and said they had evacuated the surrounding area as they hunted for explosives. "It could ...
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Got Four in Italy
Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 2:08:44 pm PST
Italian police have arrested four north African jihadis for attempting to recruit Islamozoid suicide bombers for attacks in Iraq: Italy Arrests Four for Recruiting Suicide Bombers. The four north Africans were all arrested in the financial capital Milan and are expected to be charged with "subversive association aimed at international ...
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Hack Attempts
Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 1:22:46 pm PST
Some nice gentlemen in Kuwait, with the IP address 62.215.3.62, tried their best to hack into LGF today. They hit us hundreds of times between 12 noon and 1 pm with a script that looked for every vulnerability imaginable. Somewhere in Kuwait, an electronic jihadi is cursing in Arabic ... ...
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A Surprise Thanksgiving Visit
Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 1:14:04 pm PST
President George W. Bush carries a platter of turkey and fixings as he visits U.S. troops for Thanksgiving at Baghdad International Airport, November 27, 2003. Bush secretly traveled to Baghdad and paid the surprise Thanksgiving Day visit in a bold mission to boost the morale of forces in Iraq... ...
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Canadian Shari'a Watch
Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 9:04:08 am PST
Canada is embarking on a dangerous and utterly wrong-headed legal adventure: Canada preparing to enforce Islamic law. (Quite a few LGF readers sent me this link; hat tips to all.) Canadian judges soon will be enforcing Islamic law, or Sharia, in disputes between Muslims, possibly paving the way to one ...
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Happy Thanksgiving, LGF Style
Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 8:30:01 am PST
Happy Thanksgiving to all! Try not to eat too much turkey today; go ahead, try. I dare you. Heh. At LGF Central Headquarters, in my nitrogen-filled secret chamber deep beneath Denver International Airport, I’ve got a nice juicy Morlock roasting in the oven right now, stuffed with Indymedia newswire clippings. Bwahahaha! And ...
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Conservative Means Toward Liberal Ends
Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 9:40:05 pm PST
A terrific column from Ralph Peters spells out exactly why I’ll be voting for George W. Bush next year: Bush The Statesman. November 26, 2003 -- HISTORY isn't a popularity contest. It judges by results, not yesterday's opinion polls. And history may prove as generous in its evaluation of George ...
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Happy Eid, Osama!
Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 7:41:05 pm PST
Islamic web sites are providing a much-needed service to their visitors in the Eid al-Fitr holiday season: a simple way to send holiday greetings to Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden. (Hat tip: Ali Al-Beheshti.) The Web sites, which reflect radical Islamic opinion, opened their message forums for Eid greetings ...
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Spammer's BBS
Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 7:35:02 pm PST
Here’s something that will be very interesting to anyone who runs a weblog—referrer spammers talk about their filthy little business: GFY Webmaster Board. One of these creeps accidentally posted a link to LGF at their spammers’ bulletin board, and it showed up in our referrers list; poetic justice at work. ...
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French Antisemitism Watch
Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 5:15:36 pm PST
Vandals Put Swastikas on Graves in France. PARIS - Vandals desecrated tombs at a Jewish cemetery in southern France, carving swastikas and other Nazi symbols into the headstones, officials said Tuesday. Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin condemned the attack in Marseille as a "hateful manifestation of anti-Semitism." Seven tombs at the Trois-Lucs cemetery ...
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A Cute Little Gimmick
Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 5:00:10 pm PST
Dolls depicting Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein (C) are displayed at Israeli customs in the port of Haifa, November 26, 2003 after they were confiscated under a law banning incitement, an official said on Wednesday. Israeli customs have seized a shipment of 450 singing, dancing Osama bin Laden ...
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Israeli Children's Lives Worthless to UN
Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 4:43:42 pm PST
Today Israel was forced to withdraw their UN General Assembly resolution calling for the protection of Israeli children from Arab terrorism, because a series of amendments proposed by the Arab dictatorships that infest the UN would have transformed it into yet another anti-Israel resolution. At the United Nations, the lives ...
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Iraqi Police Sympathize with Guerillas
Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 4:25:39 pm PST
The Associated Press has been on a mission to make the coalition’s efforts in Iraq look as bad as possible, so it’s hard to know how representative the Iraqi police quoted in this article are of the wider population; but it does ring true as an illustration of Islamic hatred ...
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Islamic Antisemitism in Philly
Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 1:30:03 pm PST
A Pakistani “Islamic scholar” visiting Philadelphia for a Muslim Eid al-Fitr event took the opportunity to spew hate and antisemitism: Muslim scholar's remarks criticized. (Hat tip: Morgan.) "Muslims are the peaceful nation," Muhammad Al-Qasami told the press conference. "The Jews are the biggest terrorists of the world." The six local Muslim ...
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Our Friends the Saudis
Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 11:33:40 am PST
MEMRI has a special report today on the Islamic Affairs Department of the Saudi embassy in Washington, and it’s a real eye-opener. Here is the section on jihad and the rewards that await “martyrs” who are killed in a holy war: The IAD explains that any system opposed to Islam ...
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UN Springs Into Action
Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 8:09:47 am PST
The United Nations demonstrated its power this morning, flexing its mighty muscles of rhetoric by strongly deploring Iran’s hidden nuclear weapons program: U.N. 'Strongly Deplores' Iran Nuclear Cover-Up. That’ll show ’em. And of course it wouldn’t be the UN if it didn’t immediately follow with a compliment for Iran’s “active ...
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Our Allies the French
Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 7:55:56 am PST
French magazine publishes photos of attack on DHL plane in Iraq. PARIS (AFP) - French weekly magazine, Paris Match, is to publish exclusive pictures of what it says are Iraqi rebels launching a missile attack on a German DHL cargo plane over Baghdad that led to a shutdown of commercial ...
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Outrage of the Day
Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 7:48:50 am PST
Well, it’s still early, but I doubt there will be a more outrageous and disgusting story today than this: the British Political Cartoon Society has awarded first prize in their annual competition to Independent cartoonist Dave Brown’s appallingly antisemitic drawing, depicting a naked Ariel Sharon eating a Palestinian baby while ...
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Islamic Jihad Women Know Their Place
Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 9:33:57 pm PST
Palestinian girls sit behind the men as they take part in the Ramadan prayer, marking the beginning of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr, at a prayer organized by the militant group Islamic Jihad in Gaza City, Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2003.
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JihadTV Films as Jihadis Kill
Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 9:25:39 pm PST
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said today he has seen evidence that Arab media channels Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya have been cooperating with Iraqi jihad fighters to get footage of coalition soldiers being murdered, to broadcast to the Arab world: Rumsfeld: Arab TV Worked With Insurgents. Rumsfeld said the effort ...
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Spencer Attacked at Amazon
Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 9:04:59 pm PST
An Amazon reviewer of Robert Spencer’s book Islam Unveiled presents evidence of the endemic Jew hatred of the Islamic world, tossing an “accusation” that reveals much about the accuser: This Jewish writer Spencer was making the most blatant generalizations about Islam, and in fact, he was feverishly smearing the religion ...
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Anti-Israel Panel in Washington DC
Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 1:31:39 pm PST
A panel discussion on American Middle East policy in Washington DC tomorrow, at the Rayburn House Congressional Office Building, will feature an incredibly biased group of terror sympathizers, including none other than Adam Shapiro of the International Solidarity Movement: The 'Clean Break' Plan: Implications for US Middle East Policy. (Hat ...
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Identifying Muslim Moderates
Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 8:42:21 am PST
Daniel Pipes lays out some helpful criteria for Identifying Muslim Moderates. - Violence : Do you condone or condemn the Palestinians, Chechens, and Kashmiris who give up their lives to kill enemy civilians? Will you condemn by name as terrorist groups such organizations as Abu Sayyaf, Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya, Groupe islamique ...
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SF Chronicle to Hire Sean Quisling?
Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 8:21:47 am PST
The San Francisco Chronicle is tossing around the idea of signing up a new foreign correspondent—Sean Penn, the “anti-war” actor whose pre-war visit to Iraq was sponsored by Norman Solomon’s Institute for Public Accuracy, a Marxist, anti-American group with ties to Islamic extremists. (Hat tip: RIP Ford.)
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BBC Sneer Quote Watch
Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 7:46:16 am PST
Radical Islamic nutbag Mamour Fall, deported from Italy for ties to terrorists, is quoted by the BBC accusing Italy of being “racist” ... but please note, the BBC seems to have turned off their sneer quote generator for this headline: Italy racist says deported imam. (Hat tip: zaza.) Do we ...
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NYT Chastises Iran
Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 7:26:48 am PST
In a New York Times editorial about Iran’s nuclear weapons program, the Times editorial staff reveals a level of foolishness and naivete previously only hinted at: Iran’s Nuclear Menace. (Henry S.) Iran has long been suspected of nuclear weapons ambitions, but it came as a shock to learn in recent ...
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Nothing to See, Move Along
Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 6:41:46 pm PST
On Saturday I noted a report of Muslim rioting in the Belgian port city of Antwerp, in which police fought street battles with gangs of Islamists who were smashing store windows and burning cars. Tonight I searched for more news about these riots, and discovered ... nothing at all. The ...
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Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew: Anti-Idiotarian
Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 5:43:22 pm PST
The Senior Minister of Singapore criticizes Europe for its dangerous naivete about radical Islam, and its overdeveloped appeasement reflex: Europe hasn't faced up to 'new terror'. THE Europeans have got it wrong in thinking the terrorist threat can be contained by taking a localised, kid-gloved approach. What the world is grappling ...
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Islamists Planning Christmas Terror
Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 5:27:35 pm PST
Jakarta on alert for bloody Christmas. (Hat tip: TS.) JAKARTA - The countdown to Christmas has begun and it is giving security officials here sleepless nights. What they fear is that Dec 25 will be ushered in with another terrorist bombing blitz. There are signs that preparations are under way, and ...
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Islam in Switzerland
Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 4:55:08 pm PST
A political battle is underway in Switzerland, over controversial new laws that would lead to official recognition of Islam: Zurich's Right fears rise of 'Koran schools'. One of the most controversial parts of the new legislation, which is due to be voted on in a referendum on November 30, is ...
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A Definitive History of the Crusades
Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 4:02:39 pm PST
At the Catholic Encyclopedia, here is more than you ever wanted to know about the Crusades. (Hat tip: Seymour Paine.) This is a terrific resource, packed with links to other fascinating historical articles. UPDATE: Glen Wishard points out another great resource for information on the Crusades: Medieval Sourcebook: The Crusades.
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Victims of Saddam
Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 3:35:34 pm PST
The Mass Graves—victims of Saddam Hussein’s regime. (Hat tip: ralph.)
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Turkish "Tolerance" of Jews
Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 2:18:22 pm PST
Andrew Bostom has a piece in the French journal Revue Politique on the status of Jews in pre-Ataturk Turkey, revealing that the so-called “tolerance” for Jews in Islamic Turkey is very much a case of historical revisionism: Turkish “Tolerance” of Jews. (The link is to a PDF file, not a ...
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French Shari'a Watch
Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 1:47:20 pm PST
France will be appointing Muslims to several high-level state assignments, including one governor: France to Appoint First Muslim Governor. Paris, November 24, 2003 - [Minister of Internal Affairs Nicolas] Sarkozy stated that Muslims living in the country have had many difficulties both in business and social life and he said ...
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Egypt Prefers Saddam to Democracy
Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 12:45:29 pm PST
President Bush’s November 6 speech calling for the democratization of the Arab world has led to an outpouring of rage from the Arab press, and the nastiest of it seems to be coming from Egypt—you know, that country to whom we give more than $2 billion a year in foreign ...
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Ramadan Crime Wave in Jakarta
Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 11:21:27 am PST
In Indonesia’s capitol city of Jakarta, police have called out the military to help deploy more than 15,000 personnel around the city, to combat a crime wave as Ramadan comes to a close: Armed robberies soar as end of Ramadhan festivities begins. (Hat tip: Nancy.)
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NYT: Jihad? What Jihad?
Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 8:39:29 am PST
Dhimmi Watch has a good piece on a sneering New York Times article that mocks Europeans who are concerned about admitting Muslim countries like Turkey to the European Union: In an article about the European Union's reluctance to admit Turkey, the New York Times piles on the sneer words and ...
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Al Qaeda Warns of Big Attack in US
Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 8:30:38 am PST
DEBKAfile reports a new message published on Al Qaeda web sites, warning that the final countdown has begun for the biggest operation ever carried out in the United States. Monday, November 24, Al Qaeda marked Eid al Fitr, the festival closing the Muslim festival of Ramadan, with a dramatic warning. ...
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Candy Grenades in Gaza
Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 8:20:35 am PST
Toy hand grenades filled with candy; what better way to acclimate your children to the real grenades they’ll be using later in life? Toy hand grenades sit at a street vendor as people shop in preparation for the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr in the main market in Gaza City, ...
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Al Arabiya Shut Down in Iraq
Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 7:45:39 am PST
Arab satellite TV channel Al Arabiya has been shut down by the Iraq Governing Council, because of its blatant incitement to murder. "We have decided to ban Al-Arabiya in Iraq for a certain period of time because it broadcast an invitation to murder, an incitement to murder by the voice ...
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The Holy Fasting Month of Weaponry
Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 9:30:20 pm PST
Palestinian Arabs prepare to celebrate the end of Ramadan with their children, by giving them fluffy bears and cuddly rabbits, and replicas of military assault rifles, handguns, and grenades. Palestinian boys watch over childrens' toys for sale in preparation for the Muslim holiday of Eid at an outdoor street vendor ...
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Holy War 101
Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 8:06:48 pm PST
Pakistan’s Islamic madrassas continue to churn out students of jihad, eager to try out what they’ve learned on the nearest infidel. Newsweek proves tonight that they’re not totally given over to Dean-flavored appeasement, with a hard-hitting and scary look at Pakistan’s Universities of Jihad: Holy War 101. A far greater ...
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Israeli Scientists Create DNA-Based Nano Transistor
Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 6:47:10 pm PST
While the Arab world tries to figure out why Jews—even though they are pigs and monkeys cursed by Allah—still manage to rule the known universe, Israeli scientists are busy creating self-assembling transistors by attaching carbon nanotubes to strands of DNA; the coolest new technology I’ve seen this month: DNA used ...
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Rall Jumps Aboard Sinking Ship
Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 5:36:13 pm PST
The nastiest, most anti-American (and least talented) writer and cartoonist in the business has come out in favor of Howard Dean—and the Deaniacs actually seem to think this is a good thing: Ted Rall: Howard Dean for President. From the comments at the Howard Dean fan club blog: I saw ...
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Iraq Now
Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 1:02:09 pm PST
Here’s a new blog (well, new to me, anyway) by a US Army Officer serving in Iraq, Jason Van Steenwyk: IRAQ NOW ...... A Soldier Looks Right Back at the Media. Check out his great putdown of übermoron Robert Scheer: Here's Robert Scheer, writing for the progressive/left magazine The Nation--continuing ...
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Culture Clash
Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 11:31:56 am PST
LGF reader Bob B. forwards this photograph from San Francisco, and asks, “Do you think the ummah gets discounted tickets?” UPDATE: OK, so it’s a Shriner’s temple. But the joke’s still funny...
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Hate to Win?
Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 11:06:22 am PST
Here’s a good interview with Kenneth R. Timmerman, author of Preachers of Hate: Islam and the War on America, by Kathryn Jean Lopez at NRO: Hate to Win? Lopez: How many imams are actually preaching hate — here and abroad? And where are the exceptions? Timmerman: There is a struggle underway ...
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AMECA Protests Islamic Indoctrination of US Kids
Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 10:42:07 am PST
The American Middle-East Christian Association is protesting the outrageous Islamic indoctrination taking place in America’s public schools: American Middle-East Christian Association (AMECA) has learned of Royal Oak Intermediate School, Covina, California, teaching the Islamic religion to America's young, naive, impressionable school children. In a letter sent home to parents, the teacher ...
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Sydney Terror Attack Revealed
Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 10:24:31 am PST
Former French marine Willie Brigitte, captured in Sydney on October 9 after French authorities warned Australia that he was a terror risk, told a fellow Islamozoid in France that he was planning to launch a terror attack in Australia: Sydney terror attack revealed. (Hat tip: Ethel Carol.) Judicial officials in ...
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An Order to the Mosques
Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 9:26:54 am PST
The Turkish government has ordered Turkey’s imams to preach an antiterrorism sermon. The Directorate for Religious Affairs, which controls all mosques in Turkey, said the anti-terrorism sermon should be preached Tuesday, the first day of a three-day Muslim holiday marking the end of Ramadan. "Terrorism, violence and anarchy have nothing to ...
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BBC Sneer Quote Watch
Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 9:20:25 am PST
Whenever I point out a sneaky, disingenuous use of sneer quotes by the BBC, pedants pop up to tell me there’s nothing wrong; that the BBC uses them to indicate a direct quote from a person. So, pedants—please explain this: Israeli barrier guards 'killed'. (Hat tip: Overwatch.) Is the BBC trying to ...
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Boyz 'N The Hudna
Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 8:26:54 am PST
This is why the Palestinian terror gangs are suddenly talking about another hudna (Arabic for “temporary truce to regroup and rearm”): Hamas spends 90% of its time in hiding. Shin Bet chief Avi Dichter told the Cabinet at its weekly meeting Sunday that Hamas leaders are spending 90 percent of ...
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What the Hell is Wrong With Colin Powell?
Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 8:03:08 am PST
This is too much. Palestinian Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath is crowing that Colin Powell has sent him a letter asking for Palestinian support of the transitional Iraqi government. That’s right! The same people who walk on our flag, burn our flag, mock our war dead, cheered on September 11 and still sell ...
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"Like a Muslim Sister"
Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 11:08:23 pm PST
The son of an Al Qaeda member being held at Guantanamo Bay has been arrested in Australia, for kidnapping a family relative and shaving her head: Suspect's son charged with kidnap. (Hat tip: Paul.) Ahmed Mandouh Habib, 18, of Birrong – eldest son of terror suspect Mamdouh Habib – was ...
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Saudi Bank Records Scrutinized
Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 9:46:32 pm PST
Important breaking news, just coming to light now; earlier this summer, the FBI subpoenaed records for dozens of bank accounts owned by the Saudi Embassy, to try to discover how much of the millions of dollars the Saudis spend in the US each year has gone into the hands of ...
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Arx Americana
Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 6:30:05 pm PST
Please welcome Shawn Deats’s Arx Americana to the blogosphere. (Full disclosure: Shawn’s site was designed by LGF.)
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Israel Whips All of Europe
Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 5:59:42 pm PST
Why does Europe hate Israel? Israel beats Europe in seed funding again. (Hat tip: Ethel Carol.) Israel outperformed all European countries in investments in young technology companies in the third quarter, according to the results of the quarterly Ernst & Young/VentureOne global venture capital survey. Thirteen Israeli start-ups in the ...
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You Can Check In Any Time You Like
Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 5:36:29 pm PST
Converting to Islam is ridiculously easy. Just say (in Arabic, of course) “Allah is the one true god” three times, and you are officially a Muslim. But leaving the Religion of Peace and Tolerance is not so simple, as four Malaysians who renounced Islam 5 years ago have discovered. Because a Malaysian ...
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The Real History of the Crusades
Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 3:39:20 pm PST
Here’s a fascinating essay by Thomas F. Madden, associate professor and chair of the Department of History at Saint Louis University, on The Real History of the Crusades. With the possible exception of Umberto Eco, medieval scholars are not used to getting much media attention. We tend to be a ...
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"Anti-War Militants" in Trafalgar Square
Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 1:09:26 pm PST
David Frum reports from the British Moonbat Festival in Trafalgar Square: David Frum's Diary. The organizers of the protest installed a mobile jumbotron at the front of the square. On it, images of the speakers were interspersed with herky-jerky art-school style film clips. Just before the toppling of the effigy ...
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Homeland Insecurity
Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 12:07:33 pm PST
Even as the United States issues a worldwide alert for terror attacks... The State Department highlighted "recent terrorist attacks" in Saudi Arabia and Turkey and said the government "remains deeply concerned about the security of US citizens overseas." The department issued what it called a "worldwide caution" against attacks and plane ...
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Hamas: Peace Negotiators are "Traitors"
Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 11:16:03 am PST
Once again, Palestinian Arab terrorists make no secret of their intentions, as a Hamas leader calls Palestinians who try to negotiate peace agreements “traitors.” In Gaza's Jebaliya refugee camp, about 4,000 Hamas and Islamic Jihad supporters, some wearing black hoods and holding up hand grenades, protested the agreement Friday. "Those behind ...
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Belgian Shari'a Watch
Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 10:49:28 am PST
Muslims in Belgium are rioting in the streets to “mark the anniversary” of the shooting of an Arab immigrant by a 66-year old mentally ill Belgian man: Belgian police clash with Muslim youths, arrest 35. (Hat tip: TS.) As a helicopter hovered overhead, police fought sporadic street battles with groups ...
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British Muslims Rage Over Foreign Minister's Remarks
Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 8:09:57 am PST
British Foreign Office minister Denis MacShane has issued a strong statement calling on British Muslims to renounce violence and terrorism: "It is time for the elected and community leaders of British Muslims to make a choice: it is the British way - based on political dialogue and non-violent protests - ...
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Palestinian Arabs Skeptical, Seething
Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 7:58:15 am PST
Ariel Sharon plans to remove some Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Gaza, but Reuters reporter Wafa Amr writes that Palestinians are skeptical. Israel's Channel 2 television said Friday that Sharon planned to uproot some Jewish settlements by the summer of 2004 to make way for a Palestinian state. Officials ...
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"We Know Who the Murderers Are"
Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 7:32:35 am PST
Despite multiple attacks in Istanbul, the appeasement reflex is alive and well in Turkey: PM Says Bombers Were Turks, Protesters Rap US. "People think what's happened in Istanbul was a result of America's policies in the world," said one demonstrator in Ankara who asked not to be named. He said ...
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MCB Blames Terrorism on Bush
Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 7:29:59 am PST
The Muslim Council of Britain condemns the terrorist attacks in Turkey—then blames them on President Bush and says the solution is to stop fighting the terrorists: MCB --- LATEST --- Press Release. The Muslim Council of Britain condemns yesterday's twin bombings in Istanbul, Turkey, which has killed at least 27 ...
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Religion of the Holy Hand Grenade
Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 5:51:36 pm PST
A masked member of the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad walks with live hand grenades at a joint demonstration with the militant group Hamas in the Beit Lahia refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip, Friday, Nov. 21, 2003.
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Flying Pig Moment of the Day
Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 5:29:00 pm PST
Egypt's Chief Blames Health on Himself. CAIRO, Egypt - Egypt's president blamed himself for a public scare over his health this week, saying he should have listened to doctors and stayed home instead of trying to give a televised speech while stricken with the flu. In his first interview since he ...
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Euro-Dhimmis Suppress Antisemitism Report
Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 4:46:24 pm PST
A report on antisemitism in Europe commissioned by the European Union’s “racism watchdog” has been shelved, because it dared to conclude that Muslims and pro-Palestinian groups were behind many of the incidents it examined—and to the unelected dhimmis who run the EU, that just wouldn’t do: EU body shelves report ...
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Papier-Mache Bush Head Fells Hundreds
Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 4:01:45 pm PST
LGF regular David Burge (known amongst the lizardoid minions as “iowahawk”) has an exclusive report from London on the terrible tragedy that occurred at the anti-war moonbat festival during President Bush’s visit. _____________________________ Papier-Mache Bush Head Fells Hundreds at London March By David Burge, LFG Foreign Satire Correspondent London -- A massive antiwar march ...
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Hizb'Allah Child Abuse
Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 3:31:10 pm PST
From a huge Hizb'Allah (Arabic for “Party of God”) demonstration in Beirut, children goosestepping like cute little Arab Nazis: A young boy's unit of Hezbollah group take part in a military parade to mark Al-Quds Day 'Jerusalem Day', in a suburb south of Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Nov. 21, 2003, which ...
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Rumsfeld Tells the Truth
Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 2:46:04 pm PST
Today Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld announced that a new US-run satellite TV channel will begin broadcasting to the Arab world, to counter the blatant anti-American, pro-jihad bias of Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya: Rumsfeld Slams Two Arab TV Stations. "At the present time, two of the most popular stations, ...
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France's Rushdie Affair
Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 2:07:31 pm PST
The French translation of Robert Spencer’s book Islam Unveiled: Disturbing Questions About the World's Fastest Growing Faith has been cancelled—after the publisher and translator received death threats from representatives of the Religion of Peace™: France's Rushdie Affair. Soon after the book’s publication was approved in France last April, its translator, ...
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Annan: No Need to Search UN Ambassadors
Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 11:01:27 am PST
It’s no secret that the United Nations is host to some of the world’s ugliest dictatorships, Islamic terror sponsors, and repressive thugs, with its headquarters right in the heart of New York—arguably the city most likely to be the target of the next attack inside the US by Islamic terrorists. Nevertheless, ...
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US Slams UN Over Iran Nukes
Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 10:49:20 am PST
The US is standing up and condemning the blatant whitewash the United Nations is trying to apply to Iran’s nuclear weapons program; the UN is clearly on the side of Iran, and wants to let them have all the time they need to complete their Islamic Manhattan Project: U.S. Slams ...
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Terrorist PAC
Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 9:55:51 am PST
Here’s an enlightening investigation into the political contributions made by radical Islamic groups and individuals, by J. Michael Waller: Terrorist PAC. According to Federal Election Commission (FEC) records, Abdurahman Alamoudi wrote two checks that day totaling $3,000 to the campaign committee of Rep. Cynthia McKinney, the Georgia Democrat who would ...
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Blaming the Victims
Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 9:31:42 am PST
Melanie Phillips has a great post today at her weblog, on Blaming the victims. Having just listened to yet more claims, reported on BBC radio's The World at One, that the British consulate in Istanbul wouldn't have been bombed had we not helped attack Iraq, I am struck even more ...
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CAIR Goes Ballistic Over B.C., Dr. Laura
Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 9:26:20 am PST
The Council on American Islamic Relations (leading front group for radical Islam in America, masquerading as a “civil rights” organization) is blowing a gasket (yes, again) over a B.C. cartoon by Johnny Hart: Cartoon Raises a Stink. Did Johnny Hart -- the beloved creator of "B.C." and one of the ...
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Tapes of the Portland Seven
Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 9:01:13 am PST
Prosecuters in the trial of the Portland Seven, an Islamic jihad group that included software engineer Maher “Mike” Hawash, have released some of the hundreds of recorded conversations between members of the group—and it’s a glimpse into a horrifying Dark Ages mentality, right here in the United States: Recordings reveal ...
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The Famous Giggly Blogger
Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 8:14:06 am PST
James Lileks winds up, throws a beautiful fastball, and smacks Salam Pax right in his smarmy, thankless anti-American face: The Famous Giggly Blogger.
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Another Communist Front
Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 9:19:13 pm PST
Scroll down to the bottom of this article to discover another fifth column cause sponsored by the unreconstructed Stalinists of International ANSWER, the “anti-war” front group of the Worker’s World Party: Driver's license repeal stalled. (Hat tip: J. Meyer.)
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I Want to Scream
Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 7:47:11 pm PST
If you’re disgusted by the US media’s obsessive focus on trivial, inconsequential garbage like the Michael Jackson case, and the Laci Peterson case (soon to be relegated to the back burner now that Jacko has done something stupid again), please use our Media Contacts page to let these people know ...
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Possible Attack on LGF from Qatar
Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 4:55:13 pm PST
In the past two days, some of you may have noticed periods of slow response here at LGF; I’ve discovered that someone in Doha, Qatar has been apparently attempting to overload our server logs (or something) with a program that keeps requesting pages from our weblog over and over. The ...
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Larry Elder Interviews Robert Spencer
Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 4:43:23 pm PST
Larry Elder interviewed Robert Spencer, author of Onward Muslim Soldiers and director of Jihad Watch, on November 10; here are some excerpts from the interview: Larry Elder: Islam: a religion of peace? Larry Elder: Is Islam a religion of peace that's been hijacked by Islamic extremists, as George W. Bush ...
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The Month of Jihad
Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 8:38:15 am PST
Islamic terror gangs and mainstream groups are escalating their incitement to terrorist violence during Ramadan, and we are seeing the results. MEMRI has a selection of appalling examples from Arab media: Ramadan: Month of Jihad. In an article titled, "The Great Month of Ramadan: The Oasis of the God-Fearing and ...
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Definition of a Target-Rich Environment
Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 8:01:05 am PST
Murderers, thugs, and their puppets. Notice the banner with Palestinian flag colors and a picture of a baby—and no Israel. Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia, left, sits with Hamas spiritual leader Sheik Ahmed Yassin, 2nd left, Zacharia Al Agha of the Palestinian Authority, 2nd right, and Hamas leader Abdel Azizi ...
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RoP Burns Family Alive in Bangladesh
Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 7:24:32 am PST
More Ramadan killing: Eleven Hindus burnt alive by dacoits in Bangladesh. (Hat tip: Anant.) In a gruesome incident, at least 11 members of a Hindu family, including a four-day-old baby and seven women, were burnt to death by armed dacoits after they were prevented from robbing the house in southern Chittagong ...
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RoP Burns Churches in Nigeria
Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 7:22:44 am PST
More Ramadan violence: Muslim rioters burn 13 churches in north Nigeria. LAGOS, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Islamic militants burned to the ground thirteen churches and several houses in a remote northern Nigerian town after a Christian student was accused of blasphemy, police said on Thursday. Irate youths torched churches, houses and ...
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Religion of Peace Strikes Again
Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 7:11:50 am PST
Turkey Terror Bombing Kills 26 People. ISTANBUL, Turkey - Trucks packed with explosives blew up at a London-based bank and the British consulate Thursday, killing at least 26 people and wounding nearly 450. The worst terrorist bombing in Turkey's history coincided with President Bush's trip to Britain and were blamed ...
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Let's Give Them a State!
Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 8:41:04 pm PST
Cute little toys for sale by Palestinian Arabs on the streets of Gaza and Ramallah. (Hat tip: StrategyPage.com.)
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Bush's Speech at Whitehall
Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 4:12:24 pm PST
Here’s the terrific speech President Bush gave today at Whitehall Palace, outlining in more detail his radical vision for change in the Middle East, a region that has been for too long a sinkhole of despots and misery: President Bush Discusses Iraq Policy at Whitehall Palace in London. On September ...
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Disgusting Link of the Day
Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 10:59:04 am PST
The anti-war militants at Britain’s Warp Records have brought the “peace movement” to a new low, by editing together speeches by George Bush into an unfunny, amazingly twisted piece of video that has to be seen to be believed. Here’s the link to the Quicktime video; imagine these troglodytes snickering ...
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Arab News Hits Bottom, Digs
Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 10:00:44 am PST
Arab News, in an article praising Europe for the poll that recently showed a majority of EU citizens believing Israel is the greatest threat to world peace, has one of the more disgusting opening paragraphs I’ve seen in quite a while—even for them: Will EU Yield to US-Israeli Pressure? (Hat ...
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If It Weren't For America
Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 9:47:57 am PST
Victor Davis Hanson has a typically excellent piece on the dimwits protesting President Bush’s visit to Britain: If It Weren't for America, You Wouldn't Be Free to Protest. (Hat tip: Parabellum.) America reads daily about this growing anti-American sentiment and I wonder whether those abroad stop to ponder the effect ...
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French Antisemitism Watch
Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 9:28:27 am PST
French Rabbi Warns of Anti-Semitism. After a weekend arson attack on a Jewish school, Rabbi Joseph Sitruk urged young men to be extra cautious, saying they could become targets of violence if they wear the yarmulke, or skullcap. "I ask young Jews to be alert, to avoid walking alone, to avoid ...
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Run! It's the Pink Tank!
Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 8:26:04 am PST
Nothing says “thoughtful, committed peace activist” like a pink cardboard tank decorated with skulls, and a frowning little girl sitting inside. More pictures from the London Moonbat Extravaganza. The giant puppet with the “Hands Off Cuba!” slogan is also a keeper.
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Moonbat Threats
Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 8:08:20 am PST
Another British Muslim moonbat has graced us with his presence this morning—this time with an explicit threat: World Gone Nuts. You wonder why you're called losers. Just wait a little longer and you'll soon find out. This one is in the city of Birmingham.
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Hawkins Interviews Spencer
Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 7:45:02 am PST
John Hawkins has an excellent interview with Robert Spencer about radical Islam.
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Hilarious Item of the Day
Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 7:21:31 am PST
According to Nazimedia UK, a group of British “anti-war militants” are going to attempt to have President Bush confined to a mental institution: Campaign To Section Bush. (Hat tip: Ms. Andi.) Armed with a doctor’s certificate, recommendations from two psychiatrists and a straight-jacket, a group of campaigners will attempt to ...
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Shooting at Jordanian Border
Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 7:01:03 am PST
Even as Palestinians begin another round of bogus “truce talks,” a gunman has opened fire on tourists at a border crossing with Jordan, near Eilat in Israel: Gunman Wounds 5 at Israel-Jordan Border Crossing. The Jerusalem Post quotes a “senior security official” who says the attack may be the work of ...
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Hizb'Allah TV Shows "Ritual Killing"
Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 10:19:06 pm PST
Every time you think the Arab world’s antisemitism and psychotic hate can’t get any worse—it does. MEMRI has a video clip of the Syrian-produced TV series Diaspora; a little light entertainment for the Ramadan season depicting “the criminal history of Zionism,” and featuring Jews graphically torturing and killing a man ...
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Those Peaceful Tolerant Saudis
Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 9:27:57 pm PST
A Saudi woman and her husband have been sentenced to 500 lashes each because they married too soon after the woman divorced her former husband: Woman Sentenced to 500 Lashes for Immoral Conduct. JEDDAH, 18 November 2003 — A Jizan court has sentenced a young woman to 500 lashes for ...
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Arab World Psychosis At Its Worst
Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 9:12:33 pm PST
How warped and psychotic is the antisemitism of the Arab world? This warped and psychotic. Warning: you may need a series of hot showers after visiting the Albawaba forum. And you still may not feel clean. (Camel Prophet brought this one to our attention.)
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John Allen Muhammad: an al-Fuqra Soldier?
Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 9:03:52 pm PST
Buried at the bottom of an AP story about the trial of John Allen Muhammad is a very revealing passage, showing Muhammad’s rabid antisemitism: Malvo Says 'I Intended to Kill Them All.' Another witness, Earl Lee Dancy of Tacoma, Wash., who let Muhammad and Malvo stay at his home, testified ...
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The Tide Is Turning
Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 7:32:53 pm PST
After the sad, infuriating news about the CANDLE Holocaust Museum being firebombed, here’s a piece of good news; the Ford Foundation has finally admitted that their money has been used to fund antisemitic, terror-affiliated causes, and they have vowed to change their anti-Israel ways: Ford announces new funding guidelines as ...
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Groundhog Day
Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 6:56:57 pm PST
Is there a reason why I should give a flying frankfurter about the latest phony “truce deal” offered to Israel by Palestinian terror gangs? You know, the murderers who will violate the truce almost immediately and then be excused by the Associated Press and Reuters in articles that ignore the ...
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Prager Interviews Hayes
Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 5:31:10 pm PST
Dennis Prager interviewed Stephen Hayes—the Weekly Standard author of Case Closed, the article that exposed the intelligence memos documenting connections between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden—on his radio show today. You can listen to it for another few hours here: News Talk 870 KRLA.
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Moonbat Alert!
Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 5:10:26 pm PST
A British Muslim moonbat, probably from cageprisoners.com, took time out from his busy schedule of du'a qunoots praying for my destruction, to come over to LGF and tell me I “sound like such a woman” (oooh! a deadly insult!) and Americans are the “thickest most narrow minded people on earth.” ...
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Lord Haw Haw's Descendant
Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 3:52:52 pm PST
Get a load of Agence France Presse’s blatantly misleading caption for this photo of British Bush hater Brian Haw (any relation to Lord Haw Haw?): Brian Haw sits outside Parliament square next to his banner calling for peace in Iraq and to demonstrate against President Bush's visit in London.(AFP/Eric Feferberg) ...
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Majority of Brits Back Bush
Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 3:42:30 pm PST
To the Guardian, printing this article must have been nearly as painful as passing a kidney stone: Protests begin but majority backs Bush visit as support for war surges. A majority of Labour voters welcome President George Bush's state visit to Britain which starts today, according to November's Guardian/ICM opinion ...
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Holocaust Museum Firebombed in Indiana
Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 2:34:24 pm PST
This is just awful: Indiana Holocaust Museum Hit by Arson, Graffiti. A side door was forced open and an unidentified accelerant was used to start the blaze, Allenbaugh said. Inside the storefront museum were charred books and pamphlets, twisted metal chairs and ruined artifacts in smashed glass display cases. "From what ...
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British Islamists Identify the LFG Conspiracy
Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 8:03:38 am PST
The terrorist supporters at cageprisoners.com are on to us: Zionists mock the 'Bring a Smile' Campaign. I suggest we all remember these idiots in our du'a qunoots. "The people here..sold everything except their religion. They sacrificed everything except their honour and their respect. They raised their heads high and did ...
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UN Springs Into Retreat
Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 7:28:38 am PST
Oh yes. Let’s immediately withdraw all coalition troops from Iraq and Afghanistan and hand these countries over to the tender care of the United Nations. What a smashing idea! U.N. Agency Begins Afghan Withdrawal. (Hat tip: Kragar.) KABUL, Afghanistan Nov. 18 — The U.N. refugee agency began pulling foreign staff ...
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Amnesty International: Why We Have to Be Schtoopid
Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 9:24:49 pm PST
Kate Allen, the UK director of Amnesty International, joins “Red Ken” at the Idiotarian Banquet: Why We Have to March Against Dubya. THOUSANDS of people will take to the streets in Britain next week to voice their anger, frustration and political opposition to President George W Bush's policies. Some will criticise ...
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London Mayor: Idiotarian Par Excellence
Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 7:28:10 pm PST
“Red Ken” Livingstone, the communist mayor of London, is doing his best to whip British anti-war militants (love that phrase, very apt, I’ll be using it often, thanks BBC) into an anti-American lather: Livingstone says Bush is 'greatest threat to life on planet.' (Hat tip: Kyle.) Mr Livingstone recalled a ...
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Say "Cheese"
Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 1:08:47 pm PST
A soldier in Baghdad shows an Associated Press photographer the proper level of respect (hat tip: Carl): The best part: AP was utterly clueless. US Army soldiers take rest during patrol in Baghdad suburb, Monday Nov. 17, 2003. U.S. forces have reacted to the increasing attacks in which dozens of Americans ...
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Palestinian Savagery Watch
Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 12:54:09 pm PST
A sickening tale of Arab honor/shame barbarism: Daughter, raped by brothers, killed by mother. ABU QASH, West Bank - Rofayda Qaoud - raped by her brothers and impregnated - refused to commit suicide, her mother recalls, even after she bought the unwed teenager a razor with which to slit her ...
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Letters from Turkey
Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 11:55:31 am PST
LGF reader WaS has posted three powerful letters from a friend in Turkey, dealing with the horrific Islamic terrorist bombings of two Turkish synagogues. Start here, and also read comments 16 and 17.
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Italian "Anti-War Militants"
Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 11:43:14 am PST
An Italian group that calls itself “anti-war” is raising money to give to Iraqi guerilla fighters: Italian group backs Iraq fighters. (Hat tip: Mordred.) This story proves once again that many of these so-called “anti-war” groups are simply anti-American—and pro-war if it means killing Americans and American sympathizers. The "Antiimperialista" ...
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Spencer on Medved
Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 11:18:10 am PST
Remember that Robert Spencer, author of Onward Muslim Soldiers: How Jihad Still Threatens America and the West, and director of Jihad Watch and Dhimmi Watch, will be on the Michael Medved radio show today along with Salam Al-Marayati, Executive Director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council. Expect seething and frantic whitewashing ...
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Muhammad Guilty of Murder
Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 10:43:20 am PST
Sniper John Allen Muhammad was found guilty of murder today. So why does the Associated Press still use the word “suspect” to describe him? Sniper Suspect Muhammad Guilty of Murder. VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - A jury convicted John Allen Muhammad of capital murder Monday, concluding he used a rifle, a ...
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Al Muhajiroun Warns British Muslims
Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 10:32:17 am PST
The radical Islamic freakazoids at al-Muhajiroun, linked to Al Qaeda, are warning British Muslims to stay away from the protests against President Bush’s visit to London, because of the “threat of an operation similar to 9/11.” (Hat tip: Colt.) PRESS RELEASE DATED 14TH NOVEMBER 2003 - It is entirely understandable ...
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Have a Dhimmi Christmas
Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 8:42:34 am PST
In their stores, the British Red Cross has banned all references to traditional Christmas imagery featuring nativity scenes, the Virgin Mary, or the city of Bethlehem—because they need to appear neutral: Christmas Chaos Kicks Off. (Hat tip: Connecticut Yankee.) Red Cross stores in Britain have been told not to display ...
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EU Trusts Iran
Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 8:33:16 am PST
EUroweenie foreign policy chief Javier Solana, often seen grinning like a fool at photo-ops with bloody-handed murderer Yasser Arafat, has announced that he trusts Iran to be honest about their nuclear weapons program: EU's Solana Says Iran Honest on Nuclear Program. BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union foreign policy chief Javier ...
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World Gone Nuts
Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 8:18:30 am PST
From the World Gone Nuts file: eighty children at a mosque madrassa in London have written cards and letters to the imprisoned jihadis at Guantanamo Bay—terrorists who were caught on the battlefield trying to kill coalition soldiers: cageprisoners.com. (Hat tip: Tal G.) Here you can see some of these hand-drawn cards, ...
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UN: Tool of the Arabs' Revenge
Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 11:35:27 pm PST
Barbara Amiel hits the nail squarely on the head in a depressing but true piece about the UN’s appalling bias against Israel: In the UN, Arabs have the ultimate revenge over Israel. (Hat tip: ploome.) The delegates were polite as Ambassador Dan Gillerman spoke. He asked for security for Israeli, ...
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The Truth About Those Shin Bet Heads
Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 11:07:58 pm PST
On Friday, the world press trumpeted that four former Shin Bet security heads had come out saying that Israel was “headed for a catastrophe,” and endorsing the “Geneva Agreement” between the Israeli hard left and Palestinian terror chieftains. Today the Jerusalem Post points out that all four of these former Shin ...
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The Cars of Death
Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 4:49:21 pm PST
A new message from Al Qaeda claiming responsibility for the atrocities in Turkey also contains threats against the US, Britain, Italy, Japan, and Australia: Al-Qaeda threatens Aussie attacks. "We say to the criminal Bush and his valets among the Arabs and foreigners, in particular Britain, Italy, Australia and Japan: you ...
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Lockerbie Bomber Living in Luxury
Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 3:59:12 pm PST
Libyan terrorist Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi was sentenced to life in prison in Glasgow Scotland, for the Lockerbie bombing that killed 270 people. He got life, all right—the life of Reilly: Insult to the dead. (Several people emailed about this. Thanks, all.) His rooms are kitted out with a colour ...
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DUmmies Make a Poll
Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 2:38:16 pm PST
The America-hating Morlocks at Democratic Underground are running a poll with the topic “Who Is Most Evil?” The choices are Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, and ... you guessed it ... George W. Bush. Now guess who’s running away with the lead? Who is most evil? (Hat tip: Jheka.) Here’s ...
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Hamas: Kill Jews and Americans, Not Arabs
Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 2:25:51 pm PST
Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal, head of the terror gang’s bureau in Damascus, gave a speech in Beirut to a group of Lebanese legislators, Cabinet ministers, and Muslim clerics, urging Al Qaeda and the other Islamofascist groups not to attack Saudi Arabia—when they could be killing Jews or Americans instead: Hamas: ...
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Two Views on London
Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 12:55:18 pm PST
Mark Steyn is concerned that President Bush’s London visit isn’t going to turn out well: All this just for a photograph with the Queen? Having successfully reinvented himself as an easygoing Crawford rancher, Bush has nothing to gain by palling around with royalty. Besides, he always looks like a goofball ...
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It's a Puppet Show!
Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 12:39:53 pm PST
Newsweek interviews Arafat’s latest puppet prime minister Ahmed Qurei, who makes the stunning revelation that—he’s Arafat’s puppet! and he plans to do absolutely nothing to stop the terrorism! Imagine my surprise. A Ceasefire: ‘The First Step.’ What happens if a bomb explodes in Jerusalem tomorrow and the Aksa brigades take ...
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The Geneva Conspiracy
Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 9:45:27 am PST
I couldn’t agree more with this op-ed piece by Arno Weinstein, about the outrageous and suicidal “Geneva Agreement” negotiated by the Israeli left with unreconstructed Arab terrorists: The Geneva Conspiracy. Imagine this: a group of Americans, say presidential candidate Howard Dean, Senators Ted Kennedy, Fritz Hollings and Robert Byrd, go ...
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New Saddam Tape Calls for Self Improvement
Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 9:32:21 am PST
Arabic TV station Al Arabiya, eager to do their part to help kill Americans, is airing (over and over, no doubt) a new audiotape supposedly from Saddam Hussein—you remember him? the one the loony left always describes as a “secular” dictator?— calling for jihad: Alleged Saddam Tape Urges 'Road of ...
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Pakistan Bans Some Jihad Groups
Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 9:11:52 am PST
Pakistan is rounding up the usual suspects again, and al-Reuters calls these Islamofascist murderers “activists:” Pakistan Holds Muslim Militant Head and Activists. ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan rounded up dozens of Islamic activists, including a militant leader, in raids across the country after three outlawed militant outfits that had regrouped under ...
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Reuters Makes Me Sick
Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 8:52:43 am PST
Yes, it’s true. The al-Reuters all-quagmire, all the time news service makes me want to vomit sometimes, and this astonishingly calloused headline is a perfect example of their emetic effect: U.S. Troops Pull Bodies from Iraq Chopper Wrecks.
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What the Hell is Wrong With These People?
Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 11:09:30 pm PST
As the Saudis grudgingly, belatedly take baby steps toward reforming the hatred and Dark Ages insanity that dominates their educational system (not to mention their entire society), the Associated Press says that “extremists” in Saudi Arabia are not happy about it: Extremists Decry Saudis' Reform Moves. RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - ...
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And the Winner Is: Al-Azhar University
Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 10:34:41 pm PST
A bizarre award ceremony in Dubai honored Egypt’s Al-Azhar University as the International Holy Quran Award’s “Islamic Personality of the Year,” for spreading the peaceful, tolerant message of Islam: Al Azhar feted for teaching tolerance. Al Azhar University in Cairo was last night honoured as the Dubai International Holy Quran ...
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Palestinian Arabs Honor Child Killer
Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 9:53:07 pm PST
The Palestinian Authority held a rally in the town of Tulkarem on Friday, honoring Sirhan Sirhan—the Fatah mass murderer who infiltrated Kibbutz Metzer and cold-bloodedly slaughtered five people, including a mother and her two children: PA pays tribute to Metzer terrorist. Sirhan, a resident of the Tulkarem refugee camp, cold-bloodedly ...
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Texas Prisoners Monitored for Terrorist Links
Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 8:59:15 pm PST
Here’s some good news that shows our officials may not be sound asleep after all; inmates at Texas’s 114 prisons are being watched for ties to Islamic terrorist groups after a video was intercepted showing a Muslim imam spewing anti-American hatred: Inmates monitored for possible terrorist links. "Our interest ...
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Give The Media a Piece of Your Mind
Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 6:38:12 pm PST
Here’s a great resource for the e-warriors of the blogosphere: Media Contact Information. (Hat tip: Kyle.) This link is going into the “Never Forget” section of our right sidebar.
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UK Peaceniks Stalking Bush
Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 6:28:20 pm PST
A shady group of British peace creeps is planning to electronically stalk President George W. Bush during his visit to the UK: Chasing Bush. Isn’t that lovely. Maybe they’d also like to help Al Qaeda build their car bombs.
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The Jihad Against the Jews
Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 4:18:00 pm PST
In an enlightening and prescient essay written nearly ten years ago, Martin Kramer identifies the roots of Muslim antisemitism, following the Hizb'Allah bombing of the Jewish center in Buenos Aires: The Jihad Against the Jews. The Islamic fundamentalist position has now been thoroughly penetrated by classic European anti-Semitism. This has ...
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CNN Removes Biased Terror List
Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 2:59:26 pm PST
Earlier today I wrote about a disgustingly biased list of “the worst terror attacks since 9/11” at CNN’s web site, based on a Reuters story that did not mention a single attack committed by Palestinian Arabs in Israel. Now it seems that CNN has removed the page, although a link to ...
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Case Closed
Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 8:19:15 am PST
I don’t usually do this, but a reader sent me the complete transcript of the secret memo published by the Weekly Standard, and since their web site is still off line I’m going to mirror the article here, because it’s incredibly important news. ____________________________ Case Closed From the November 24, 2003 issue: The ...
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CNN/Reuters: Another Disgusting Omission
Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 7:43:13 am PST
CNN has published a Reuters compilation of the worst terror attacks since 9/11. And you probably know what I’m about to write. Not one attack by Palestinian Arab terrorists in Israel is listed. This is, purely and simply, lying by omission.
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Jewish School Burned in Paris Suburb
Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 7:35:17 am PST
Arsonists torch Jewish school near Paris. Fire gutted the Merkaz HaTorah Jewish secondary school in the Paris suburb of Gagny in the Seine-Saint-Denis region Saturday morning at 3am. There were no injuries. Fire started simultaneously in two separate places on the first floor of the school where works were under way. ...
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Religion of Peace Strikes Again
Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 7:24:16 am PST
Car Bombs at Turkey Synagogues Kill 20. ISTANBUL, Turkey - Twin car bombs exploded outside Istanbul synagogues filled with worshippers during Sabbath prayers Saturday, killing at least 20 people and wounding more than 257, officials said. Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul said there were "international connections" to the near-simultaneous attacks, one of ...
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Weekly Standard Has Smoking Gun
Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 9:46:12 pm PST
The Weekly Standard has published a secret memo detailing cooperation between Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein—but their web server has been brought to its knees by a link from the Drudge Report, so you can’t read it yet. When their host manages to pull it together, Stephen Hayes’ article ...
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Moussaoui Meltdown Continues
Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 9:31:57 pm PST
US District Judge Leonie Brinkema has revoked terror suspect Zacarias Moussaoui’s right to represent himself, for reasons of sheer moonbattitude: Moussaoui Loses Right to Represent Self. U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema said Moussaoui's latest motions "include contemptuous language that would never be tolerated from an attorney and will no longer ...
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Funny Dog of the Night
Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 6:05:10 pm PST
It’s Friday evening, I’ve had a glass of Italian Barolo in honor of the brave Italian soldiers who are showing the UN the meaning of courage and valor, and I think it’s time for a funny dog picture.
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The Dangers of Fisking
Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 5:56:22 pm PST
Someone please let David Pryce-Jones know that in this otherwise excellent evisceration of the always execrable Robert “Hit Me Again!” Fisk, he gets the definition of “fisking” completely wrong: The dangers of Fisking. (Hat tip: Melanie Phillips.) In the www arena where the world speaks invisibly to itself, a new ...
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Our Friends the Saudis
Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 5:37:05 pm PST
The slimiest of the Saudi shills, Adel al-Jubeir, was rapidly dispatched to the US for some frantic damage control, following reports that the Royal Family was opening dialog with Al Qaeda to renew their protection payoffs. Of course, the Saudis deny it. Today al-Jubeir said the Riyadh bombing may have been a ...
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Terrorists Love Donkeys
Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 2:37:39 pm PST
According to columnist Uri Dan, Yasser Arafat has a dream. He dreams of seeing a Democrat in the White House: Arafat Stalls Peace in Hope Bush Loses. (Hat tip: Steven Zak.) November 14, 2003 -- JERUSALEM - Yasser Arafat is playing for time - for 2005, to be exact, when he ...
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Islamic Culture for Eleventh Grade
Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 10:42:31 am PST
Jihad. We’ve all seen Islamic spokesmen on American TV, telling us we have a “misunderstanding” of the word; that in the peaceful religion of Islam, jihad is really an inner struggle for personal improvement, and has nothing to do with “holy war” or violence. Perhaps those spokesmen would like to explain the ...
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Congo Rebels Sold Al-Qaeda Uranium
Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 10:02:41 am PST
A French newspaper has quoted sworn testimony from an unnamed former soldier from the Democratic Republic of Congo, saying that a representative of Al Qaeda bought two bars of enriched uranium from the Congolese opposition at a meeting in Hamburg in 2000: Congo rebels sold Al-Qaeda uranium. (Hat tip: Merde ...
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UN: It's Too Scary in Iraq
Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 9:28:34 am PST
The loony left’s tiresome mantra is that we should immediately pull our soldiers out of Iraq, and let the United Nations handle the untidy mess. Then all the countries of the world will start to love us again, like they did in those long lost days of yore. Just one problem ...
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Palestinian Child Abuse
Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 9:11:14 am PST
Flaming hoops—they’re not just for Palestinian police. A Palestinian boy jumps through a blazing ring during a rally of the militant Hamas movement in Gaza City on November 14, 2003.
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Recipe for Disaster
Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 7:42:12 am PST
Amir Taheri has a chilling article at the National Review on Iran’s indisputable preparations for nuclear war: Recipe for Disaster. (Hat tip: scaramouche.) After the revolution, Iran's national defense doctrine has been based on the assumption that it will, one day, fight a war with the United States plus its ...
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Our Friends the Saudis
Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 7:33:58 am PST
Here’s another heaping helping of victimhood, paranoia, antisemitism, and anti-Americanism, brought to you by our allies in the War on Terror, the oil ticks of the House of Saud: Israel, America & Al-Qaeda. (Hat tip: USMC VV.) People are being killed in Palestine, Afghanistan, Iraq and Saudi Arabia. The victims ...
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Why Israel Negotiates With Terrorists
Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 9:40:00 pm PST
An interesting (and depressing/maddening) op-ed on Israel’s lopsided prisoner exchange deal with Hizb'Allah, by Neill Lochery at the National Post: Why Israel negotiates with terrorists. Sadly, it appears the war is not over for the Hezbollah and Palestinian prisoners which Israel is about to unleash back into the free world. ...
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CAIR Official Sentenced
Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 9:35:12 pm PST
Bassem Khafagi, former community affairs director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and founding member of the Islamic Assembly of North America, has been sentenced in his bank and visa fraud case after pleading guilty, and will be deported to Egypt: Former head of Islamic charity sentenced in fraud ...
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Arab News Whack Jobs Raving Again
Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 8:44:14 pm PST
At Arab News, they’re as insane as ever, still obsessing over the evil Jewish World Conspiracy like a country full of mental patients: What US Should Do to Be Friends With Muslim World. It is well known that America has for decades been working with Israelis against the Muslims. The ...
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The Chickenhawk Fallacy
Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 8:30:06 pm PST
By coincidence, I happened across two excellent posts on the subject of “chickenhawks”—the insulting ad hominem flung at pro-defense people by the loony left. 1) Armed Liberal at Winds of Change: Chickenhawks And Other Interest Group Politics. I had an "aha" moment about the chickenhawk debate this morning.It wasn't about the ...
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The Domino Effect
Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 7:03:26 pm PST
From the Piney Woods Journal in Louisiana, here’s a story showing how the September 11 attacks continue to affect the US economy and countless small businesses, in unexpected ways: Bosch selling nursery. (Hat tip: Jetstorm.) The Bosch Pine Tree Nursery, a few miles outside Jonesboro, Louisiana, once named in the ...
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A Code Tweak
Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 6:25:10 pm PST
Earthshaking news from the LGF Department of CSS Coding: if you use the <blockquote> tag in a comment, to indent a quote from an article or another comment, you no longer need to surround each paragraph with its own <blockquote> to maintain the font size. Those of you who are ...
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Bush the Radical
Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 5:52:37 pm PST
Daniel Pipes writes about the epochal shift in American Middle East policy: Bush the radical. "Sixty years of Western nations excusing and accommodating the lack of freedom in the Middle East did nothing to make us safe." This sentence, spoken last week by George W. Bush, is about the most jaw-dropping ...
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Young Muslims UK Advocates Assassination
Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 3:52:04 pm PST
In another message thread at the Young Muslims UK forum (linked earlier for their whining about South Park), a member suggests signing a petition to stop President Bush from visiting Britain—and another member mocks the petition and makes an alternate suggestion: assassination. (Hat tip: Bill Jefferson.) I think we’ve discovered the ...
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Iran Enters the Threat Cycle
Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 3:30:30 pm PST
Iran warned the United Nations that declaring Iran in violation of the Non-Proliferation Treaty could lead to “unpredictable consequences.” The United States wants the board to declare Iran in violation of its obligations under the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which would require it to report Iran to the U.N. Security ...
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Peaceniks Laugh at Italian Deaths
Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 3:25:00 pm PST
The gentle, peaceful souls at Nazimedia UK gloat and laugh about the Italian soldiers killed in Iraq: Bomb at Italian base in Iraq kills six. (Hat tip: Robert Hinkley.) Even the pig TV is full of lot of injured civilians. Still a lot of laughs for the many Caribeneri scum who ...
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Another Al Qaeda Warning
Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 3:16:08 pm PST
An Islamist web forum has posted an interview with a man identified as Abu Salma Al-Hijazi, an Al Qaeda “commander,” who threatens a huge attack during Ramadan that will kill more than 100,000 people. In regard to rumors about a large-scale attack against the U.S. during the month of Ramadan, ...
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YMUK Seethes About Cartoon
Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 8:39:44 am PST
A group called Young Muslims UK is completely bent out of shape about ... wait for it ... South Park: Complain Against Mockery Of Prophets In South Park On Channel 4. (Hat tip: James.) The episode of South Park broadcast on 10th October 2003 at 11.40 pm featured the Prophets ...
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Faulty, Unrealistic, Unacceptable
Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 8:32:10 am PST
In late October, Democrats in Washington DC hosted a delegation of Palestinian Fatah leaders. (“Fatah” is Arabic for “Conquest.”) MEMRI has reports from the Arab press on what these creeps said when they returned to the Middle East—and it’s about what you’d expect: MEMRI: Latest News The London-based Arabic daily ...
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Unclear on the Concept of "Following Rules"
Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 8:25:40 am PST
The Washington Post has a piece today decrying the arrest and deportation of illegal immigrants from countries that pose a security risk to the US: Groups Decry Immigration Rule. (Hat tip: Laxmi.) The last two paragraphs are classic WaPo “liberalism at any cost” writing: Nishat Islam, 21, bade goodbye to ...
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Malaysia Contemplates Return to Dark Ages
Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 10:14:40 pm PST
The Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party has declared its goal of turning Malaysia into an Islamic hellhole, with amputations and stoning and dhimmi status for non-Muslims: Muslims seek Islamic state. GOMBAK, Malaysia — Malaysia's biggest opposition party yesterday declared its goal of forming an Islamic state, with punishments such as stoning and ...
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Gitmo Translator Indicted
Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 9:51:31 pm PST
Ahmed Fathy Mehalba, the Guantanamo Bay translator arrested on his return from Egypt for possession of classified documents, has been indicted by a grand jury. BOSTON - A former Guantanamo Bay translator arrested after he was found with classified documents at Logan International Airport was charged Wednesday with gathering ...
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FBI Hate Crime Report
Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 9:16:19 pm PST
Despite CAIR’s best efforts to hype the numbers, a new FBI report shows that Jews are about 6 times more likely to be the targets of anti-religious “hate crimes” than Muslims. What the report doesn’t say: how much of that anti-Jewish bias is from Muslims: Jews bigger target of anti-religious ...
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Ted's First Draft
Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 7:05:24 pm PST
LGF correspondent and dumpster diver Iowahawk has been digging around in the trash bins of the Universal Press Syndicate, and came up with the first draft of the Ted Rall excrescence we wrote about earlier today: ___________________________ WHY WE KILL JARHEADS by Red Thrall NEW YORK--Dear Recruit: Thank you for joining the ...
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JihadTV: In It Up To Their Necks
Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 6:22:14 pm PST
Two Al Jazeera employees have been detained by coalition forces in Iraq, for having prior knowledge of a car bombing in Baghdad: Al-Jazeera cameraman, driver accused of having knowledge of Iraqi blasts. (Hat tip: whaledog.com.) Coalition military officials in Baghdad said they understood some journalists had been detained but had ...
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Military Blog Ring
Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 4:26:42 pm PST
Greyhawk at the Mudville Gazette has set up a web ring for military bloggers, with the slogan “Free Speech From Those Who Help Make It Possible:” MilBlogs.
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Rall: A Loathsome Creep
Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 4:17:29 pm PST
Like a spoiled hyperactive child, Ted Rall is continuing to act out his hatred for America in print, getting more and more outrageous as he is more and more ignored. His latest excretion is the foulest he’s written yet; reading this ugly thing is like crawling through a sewer in ...
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Boyz 'N The Hudna
Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 3:50:49 pm PST
Hamas and Islamic Jihad say they’re willing to talk about a new phony cease fire agreement with the new Palestinian puppet prime minister—but they’d prefer to continue killing Jews: Hamas, Jihad consider new Hudna. Adnan Aspur, a Hamas spokesman in the West Bank, has announced that the organization is prepared ...
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"Reich Girls Want Return of Nazism"
Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 11:49:34 am PST
New York Times pessimism about American war efforts is not a recent phenomenon; the CounterRevolutionary went to the New York Public Library and found an incredible stash of negativity—in New York Times articles about the occupation of Germany following World War II. Great work, Eric.
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Spencer on Medved Rescheduled
Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 10:55:33 am PST
Robert Spencer’s appearance on the Michael Medved radio show (mentioned yesterday) has been rescheduled for 1 pm Pacific time, 4 pm Eastern, this coming Monday, November 17. Mark it on your calendar.
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British Police: Al Qaeda Threat
Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 10:42:57 am PST
Al-Qaeda threat to Bush during Britain trip. (Hat tip: scaramouche.) LONDON : Al-Qaeda terrorists using the cover of anti-war protests are a real threat to the safety of US President George W. Bush during his state visit to London next week, Britain's most senior policemen have warned."We are not so ...
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Italy Will Stay in Iraq
Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 9:40:19 am PST
A big LGF cheer for Silvio Berlusconi, who makes the United Nations and the International Red Cross look like the cowardly weenies they are: Italy to Keep Troops in Iraq Despite Deaths. The killings looked likely to revive anti-war sentiments in Italy, where some opposition parties have demanded a troop ...
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Iran: "Optimistic" on Bomb Chances
Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 7:18:29 am PST
Iranian “president” Mohammad Khatami is optimistic that the United Nations will give Iran the time they need to build nuclear weapons. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said in a report obtained by Reuters Monday it had found no evidence of a secret arms bid but that Tehran had dabbled ...
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Hamas Sucks Up to Saudis
Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 7:12:33 am PST
Trying to make sure the flow of money from the Saudis doesn’t dry up, Hamas condemned the Riyadh bombing today: Hamas Condemns Riyadh Bombing as Harmful to Islam. Right; “harmful to Islam” because, after all, it didn't kill any Jews. GAZA (Reuters) - Hamas, a Palestinian faction that has spearheaded ...
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Weird Email of the Day
Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 7:04:50 am PST
Waiting in my Inbox this morning was this odd little note, sent via our contact form from an IP address in Iran, with the subject: “MODIFYING & appologize from IRANIAN.” DEAR SIR! Dont Forget this note for ever:The Name of the GOLF always is PERSIAN not ARAB or any other ...
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World Gone Nuts
Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 7:53:54 pm PST
From the “World Gone Nuts” files: Iran’s recent disclosures that they blatantly lied about their nuclear ambitions have only served to reinforce their position as blameless Islamic victims at the United Nations: Iran's Nuclear Disclosures Undermine U.S. Iran's diplomatic maneuvering before the meeting appears to be shifting the 35-nation board ...
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You're Too Dumb For This
Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 7:40:43 pm PST
The self-obsessed people to whom we give our money, every time we go to the movies or buy a CD, think we’re all morons: You (and Bush) are likely too dumb for this. (Hat tip: fiery celt.) WASHINGTON, Nov. 11 — If you’re an American, chances are there’s a celebrity ...
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Spencer vs. MPAC on Medved
Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 6:27:47 pm PST
Robert Spencer, author of Onward Muslim Soldiers: How Jihad Still Threatens America and the West, and director of Jihad Watch and Dhimmi Watch, will be on the Michael Medved radio show tomorrow along with Salam Al-Marayati, Executive Director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council. Expect fireworks. You can listen over the Innernut ...
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British Peaceniks Whine
Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 5:01:04 pm PST
Oh the seething! Oh the whining! The “Stop the War Coalition” won’t be allowed to make fools of themselves in front of Parliament, performing their asinine “street theater” when President Bush visits London: British Protesters Decry Interference. (Hat tip: zulubaby.) LONDON - Protesters planning a mass demonstration against President Bush ...
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JihadTV: In It Up To Their Necks
Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 4:40:50 pm PST
According to the MEMRI news ticker, Al Jazeera (known not-very-affectionately at LGF as JihadTV) is helping jihadis from Syria perpetrate attacks in Iraq against coalition forces. (Hat tip: ördög.) AL-JAZEERA CORRESPONDENT SATTAR KARIN ADMITTED THAT HIS OFFICE IN THE MAHMOUDIYA, BABIL PROVINCE OF IRAQ HAS BEEN USED TO COORDINATE ATTACKS ...
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PA Police Break Up Demonstration
Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 3:37:55 pm PST
Palestinian Authority police dispersed a crowd of women and children protesting a decision to freeze the bank accounts of charities linked to Hamas and Islamic Jihad—dispersed them with live ammunition and stun grenades. Expect no outcry from the usual suspects—human rights organizations, the United Nations, Arab News, etc.—because after all, ...
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Palestinians Spit On Our War Dead
Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 8:21:03 am PST
Palestinian media laughs at the deaths of American soldiers in Iraq: Pals Mock Dead Americans.
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Veterans Day at the AP
Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 7:39:10 am PST
It’s Veterans Day, and as thoughtful Americans say thank you for the sacrifices our military personnel make to keep us all safe and free, the Associated Press serves up a helping of Bush-bashing quagmire soup: Bush Honoring Veterans at Arlington. The bashing starts in the second paragraph, after a perfunctory ...
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WaPo Bashes Israel
Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 7:18:38 am PST
Wacko Jew-baiting Rabbi Michael Lerner and wacko race-baiting professor Cornel West team up for a double dose of loony left moral equivalence and Israel bashing, and the Washington Post is happy to give them the podium: Unfair Tilt Toward Israel. (Hat tip: Steven Zak.) This one reads like a slightly ...
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Soros: Bush = Hitler
Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 7:07:13 am PST
Billionaire idiotarian George Soros joins the Indymedia crowd and compares George Bush to Hitler. Soros believes a “supremacist ideology” guides this White House. He hears echoes in its rhetoric of his childhood in occupied Hungary. “When I hear Bush say, ‘You’re either with us or against us,’ it reminds me ...
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Where Have All the Flowers Gone?
Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 10:09:19 pm PST
From Cox & Forkum.
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Religion of Peace Likely to Attack London
Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 9:53:00 pm PST
A newly released study from the UK’s Control Risk Group says that London is more at risk of a terror attack than New York or Washington. (Hat tip: Midas Mulligan.) British Prime Minister Tony Blair's support for the United States during the war in Iraq had helped increase the likelihood ...
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Dershowitz: Euro Trash
Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 9:05:56 pm PST
Alan Dershowitz writes about the disgraceful European Union poll that shows a majority of Europeans believing that Israel is the biggest threat to world peace: Euro trash. Can the Europeans who believe that Israel is the greatest danger to world peace name another country that has ever given back land ...
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Will Britain Convert to Islam?
Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 7:23:53 pm PST
Peter Hitchens (yes, the brother of Christopher) asks the disturbing question: Will Britain convert to Islam? (Hat tip: xenophon.) Could Islam one day become the established church of Britain? Might English women adopt the headscarves and enveloping robes of their Asian sisters, as the call to prayer rises and falls ...
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MPAC Seethes, Threatens
Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 5:46:38 pm PST
The Muslim Public Affairs Council in Britain is blowing a gasket over a painting of Mohammed illustrating the topic of shari'a in a book called The History of Punishment, because it shows some barely visible naked women in the background: Publishers insult Prophet! (Hat tip: Scandinavian infidel.) Here’s the picture: And here’s ...
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No Evidence, Except for That, Uh, Plutonium
Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 5:06:40 pm PST
Earlier today the wire services were all reporting that the IAEA had found “no evidence” of an Iranian nuclear program. No evidence. Just some plutonium, and a secret laser uranium enrichment plant. Oh, and “a large number of conversion, fabrication and irradiation activities involving nuclear material.” Apart from that, the IAEA found no evidence. ...
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Attacks Against Jews Don't Count
Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 4:51:17 pm PST
The Associated Press has a compilation of Recent (Islamic) Terror Attacks Around the World. And not one attack in Israel is mentioned. (Hat tip: ism_truth.) _ Aug. 5, 2003. A suicide bombers kills 12 people and injures 150 at the J.W. Marriott in Jakarta, Indonesia. Authorities blame Jemaah Islamiyah, a ...
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Arabs in Favor of Child Murder
Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 4:34:40 pm PST
Last week the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution demanding that Israel “protect Palestinian children.” It’s obvious to any unbiased observer that Israel never deliberately targets Palestinian children, although it is true that sometimes children are caught up in battles or, more often, used as shields by terror gangs. ...
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Unleash the Hounds!
Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 3:18:02 pm PST
Gerard Van Der Leun’s caption for this one: Palestinian Leadership Confusion Intensifies
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Give Us the Money and Shut Up
Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 2:49:43 pm PST
Indonesia wants our money for their Islamic schools, but we’re not allowed to say a word about the curriculum—which has turned out such prize students as the Bali nightclub bombers and the Jakarta hotel bombers: Hasyim tells U.S. not to intervene in 'pesantren'. (Hat tip: Nancy.) "Education can eliminate radicalism ...
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Rajoub to Arabs: Resist US in Iraq
Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 2:33:22 pm PST
Palestinian Authority National Security Adviser Jibril Rajoub, otherwise known as a “terrorist thug,” called for Arabs to rise up and kill as many Americans as possible in Iraq: Rajoub to Arabs: Resist US in Iraq. Such lovely people. Let’s send them some more money. "This US administration is unreliable and ...
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A Delicious Koran
Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 1:36:41 pm PST
Surely this must violate some fatwa? Imagine the seething if Emeril did this. (Hat tip: SoCalJustice.) Indonesian chef Agus Roba'i makes a finishing touch on a model of a holy book of Koran made of 337 kilograms of white chocolate, at a hotel in Jakarta Monday, Nov. 10, 2003. The ...
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That's a Load Off My Mind
Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 12:24:00 pm PST
What a relief! I can go back to watching Greta Van Susteren’s obsessive fixation on the Laci Peterson case now, because the UN Sees No Sign of Iran Nuke Bomb Plans. I was actually starting to get worried there.
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New Feature
Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 12:08:53 pm PST
Please notice over there in our right sidebar, under the heading “News/Opinion,” a new feature: Yahoo News RSS headlines. Right now I’m only parsing the World News feed from Yahoo, but I may add others.
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Hack Attempt
Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 11:54:22 am PST
Someone tried to hack our referrers page today, attempting to insert a system call that would delete all LGF files on our server. Somewhere a frustrated Morlock is cursing, while I laugh. Bwahahaha!
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Existence of Israel Makes Iran Seethe
Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 9:17:58 am PST
Once again Iran makes their intention to destroy Israel appallingly clear: Existence of Israel contrary to Iranian interests. (Hat tip: Israellycool.) TEHRAN, Nov 10, (AFP) -- The mere existence of Israel is contrary to Tehran's national interests, press reports said Monday, quoting former Iranian foreign minister Ali Akbar Velayati, now ...
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Terrorist Supporters in LA
Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 9:12:46 am PST
Good lord. This happened yesterday at Palisades Park in Los Angeles: Bringing down the wall protest photos. (Hat tip: Commiewatch.)
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Calling PDM...
Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 8:59:46 am PST
Note to LGF’s resident artist, PDM: now see what you’ve done, young man? Rutgers 'advertisement' a hoax. ADL has received many inquiries regarding an alleged advertisement for an anti-Israel conference being held off the campus of Rutgers University in New Jersey October 10-12. This alleged advertisement states: "At Rutgers you ...
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Their Staunchest Supporters
Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 8:47:26 am PST
The Bush administration keeps pushing the fiction that the Arab world is full of peaceful, tolerant people, with a tiny minority of radical extremists who hate America. But the Arab world keeps telling us what they really feel, with no apologies. This story about Arab reaction to the Riyadh bombing contains ...
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Islamists Hate Beauty
Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 8:33:55 am PST
At the Miss Earth beauty pageant in Manila, Miss Afghanistan has won the “Beauty For A Cause” award: Beauty prize for Miss Afghanistan. (Hat tip: Rayra.) But—surprise!—the Islamozoids back in Afghanistan are seething, and want to see her punished. Miss Afghanistan Vida Samadzai took home the inaugural prize at the ...
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Behind Enemy Lines
Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 8:01:34 am PST
Reports from the pro-Palestinian hatefest at Ohio State University are at The Blue Octavo Notebooks. Looks like this little show of support for terrorist causes was just that—little. Far from gaining in strength, the divestment campaigns and Palestinian solidarity festivals are losing ground on the campuses of the US.
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Idiotarians on the Run at OSU
Sun, Nov 9, 2003 at 7:20:35 pm PST
LGF reader Geepers has another report from today’s pro-Palestinian hatefest at Ohio State University, giving us hope that the idiotarians are on the run. Of particular interest: the attendee who wouldn’t denounce suicide bombings ... and turned out to be a reporter for NPR.
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Our Friends the Saudis
Sun, Nov 9, 2003 at 6:46:09 pm PST
Well, it didn’t take the Arab News very long to insinuate that the United States was somehow responsible for yesterday’s terrorist attack against a palace worker’s compound in Saudi Arabia. (Hat tip: K.) And I have to wonder if the hand drawing a target on the blameless Arab’s back is supposed ...
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"Iraq Will Be the End of America"
Sun, Nov 9, 2003 at 6:22:24 pm PST
In Iraq, radical Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr is suddenly changing his tune, after getting a call on the CluePhone from the US Army: Does the Shi'ite turban fit? Muqtada al-Sadr ... issued a conciliatory statement on Saturday, November 1. The young Sadr and his followers in the Army of the ...
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From Radical to Moderate in 14 Hours
Sun, Nov 9, 2003 at 2:49:17 pm PST
Earlier today I posted a link to this AP story on Islamic violence during Ramadan, but didn’t notice that the Saudi cleric the Associated Press touts as a “moderate”... Saleh al-Fauzan, a member of Saudi Arabia's senior clerics committee, told Saudi radio that attacks in his capital Saturday blamed on ...
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Another Al Qaeda Warning
Sun, Nov 9, 2003 at 2:33:56 pm PST
LGF reader CrusaderGirl informs us that a new warning apparently from Al Qaeda has been posted at Northeast Intelligence Network: To all coasts cells 50, 55, 55, the water, the water, the water The goal open, they rely on Allah2. Tomorrow O Bush is ...
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Jihad Watch URL Change
Sun, Nov 9, 2003 at 2:07:28 pm PST
This is to let people know that Robert Spencer's Jihad Watch site has moved from robertspencer.org to jihadwatch.org. Please update your bookmarks! The old domain is being forwarded to the new address, but because of the way some ISPs cache domain name lookups, you may not be able to use ...
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The Benevolent Conquerors
Sun, Nov 9, 2003 at 1:07:11 pm PST
British radical Islamic web site 1924.org has an article that exemplifies the twisted thinking and illogical mindset of these people: Terrorism is domestically produced by the western world. (Hat tip: Nancy.) Nizam Khan’s odd rant argues that all “terrorism” comes from the West, in the form of gun crime and ...
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The Chosen Person
Sun, Nov 9, 2003 at 11:37:19 am PST
Melanie Phillips has a very interesting analysis of the election of Michael Howard as the first Jewish leader of the British Conservative Party since Benjamin Disraeli: The chosen person. The idea that British Jews are not really ‘one of us’ is deeply rooted in British society. Even though prejudice based ...
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It’s a Puppet Show!
Sun, Nov 9, 2003 at 11:32:23 am PST
To nobody’s surprise, Yasser Arafat will retain complete control over the Palestinian Authority’s “security forces” (read: thugs and enforcers), and the latest puppet prime minister Ahmed Qurei has dropped his “objections” and “threats of resignation.” After weeks of wrangling, Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat and PA Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei ...
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Ramadan and Jihad
Sun, Nov 9, 2003 at 11:07:22 am PST
The Associated Press comes up with a real surprise: Some See Ramadan As Chance for Jihad Acts. Who could have guessed? CAIRO, Egypt - Ramadan, the month on the Islamic calendar devoted to fasting and self reflection, has also been a time of war and, this year, suicide attacks in ...
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Friedman Humiliates Himself
Sun, Nov 9, 2003 at 10:00:59 am PST
Roger Simon has a good post on Thomas Friedman’s latest column. Friedman has really slipped off the rails in this one, pandering to “Muslim humiliation” like a good dhimmi. My favorite line: “The single most underappreciated force in international relations is humiliation.” Underappreciated? When every Arab columnist, leader, and terrorist, as ...
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The Worst Possible Decision
Sun, Nov 9, 2003 at 8:54:01 am PST
Today the Israeli Cabinet made a very bad decision: Israel OKs Prisoner Swap With Hezbollah. JERUSALEM - Israel's Cabinet on Sunday narrowly approved a hotly contested prisoner swap with Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas, by a 12-11 vote, Israel TV said.Prime Minister Ariel Sharon had staked his prestige on the deal, which ...
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"Peace and Freedom" Party Picks Killers for Pres
Sun, Nov 9, 2003 at 8:35:13 am PST
Life is good for convicted murderer Mumia Abu-Jamal. Not only is he the darling of the loony left, and an honorary citizen of Paris, now he is a candidate for President of the United States—for the “Peace and Freedom Party:” Mumia madness. (Hat tip: Joel G.) His name was among ...
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Iran Blows More Smoke
Sun, Nov 9, 2003 at 8:14:51 am PST
Oh, this is rich. After traces of enriched uranium were discovered at several places in Iran, they told the always-gullible IAEA, “That’s not ours! It must have been on the machines when we bought them!” Today they say they’re going to suspend their uranium enrichment program. You know, the one they ...
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"We Might Destroy the Planet"
Sat, Nov 8, 2003 at 10:31:51 pm PST
Munir Al-Mawari, a Yemenite columnist for the London Arabic-language daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, tells the plain unvarnished truth about what will happen if an Arab Islamic state ever obtains nuclear weapons: " ... The danger inherent in WMD is the possibility that such weapons will be within the reach of reckless ...
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Human Rights Watch Supports Islamists
Sat, Nov 8, 2003 at 9:57:58 pm PST
Human Rights Watch comes out strongly in favor of the Saudi “dissident group” MIRA—a hardline radical Islamic group linked to Al Qaeda, who want to see an even more fundamentalist regime in Saudi Arabia than already exists: Arrest of Protesters Belies Reform Pledges. HRW apparently has no problem with MIRA’s ...
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"Slavery Is a Part of Islam"
Sat, Nov 8, 2003 at 9:17:22 pm PST
The main author of Saudi Arabia’s religious school curriculum comes out unequivocally in favor of legalizing slavery. (Hat tip: AD.) And this raving freak’s books are also used in Islamic schools in Washington DC. Leading government cleric Sheikh Saleh Al-Fawzan is the author of the religious books currently used to ...
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ISM Bulldozer Junkies
Sat, Nov 8, 2003 at 8:35:37 pm PST
Activists from the international solidarity movement try to stop an Israeli army bulldozer from closing the entrance to the Balata refugee camp, near the West Bank city of Nablus, November 7, 2003. I saw this photo earlier today, but left the window open and kept coming back to it, ...
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The True Colors of the ADC
Sat, Nov 8, 2003 at 7:47:00 pm PST
Daniel Pipes shares his perspective on the story I posted yesterday about Imad Hamad of the ADC and his threatening letter to Ron Panetta of the Crestwood Board of Education in Dearborn Heights, Michigan: The American-Arab Anti Discrimination Committee Reveals Its True Colors. This incident is most instructive, for in ...
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OSU Hatefest: Attendance Sparse
Sat, Nov 8, 2003 at 7:14:13 pm PST
LGF reader Geepers has an account of his experience at the pro-Palestinian hatefest at Ohio State University today, right here. Sounds like attendance was somewhat, uh ... sketchy. Another reader who goes by the name “OSU Guy” posted this account, showing the foul attitudes of the creatures who go to these ...
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Photos of the Riyadh Bombing
Sat, Nov 8, 2003 at 6:55:54 pm PST
Photographs from today’s suicide car bomb attack in Riyadh.
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Terror Supporters Celebrate Kristallnacht
Sat, Nov 8, 2003 at 5:57:25 pm PST
Here’s the list of worldwide activities planned for November 9th, by a group calling itself “PENGON/Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign:” Stop The Wall. (Hat tip: Jheka.) November 9th is, as I’m sure these terrorist supporters led by Nigel Parry of Electronic Intifada are aware, Kristallnacht.
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UN: Disgusting As Always
Sat, Nov 8, 2003 at 5:49:24 pm PST
Well, it’s November, and that means it’s time for the United Nations to take down the exhibit in the General Assembly Visitors’ Lobby on the International Year of Mountains—and put up the one exalting the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. That special day, when we’re all expected ...
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Brits: "High Threat" in Bahrain
Sat, Nov 8, 2003 at 4:08:43 pm PST
Britain issues attack alert in Bahrain. MANAMA (AFP) - The British embassy in Bahrain warned nationals of "a high threat from terrorism" as US missions in neighboring Saudi Arabia shut for a security review amid fears of a terror attack in the oil-rich Gulf region."We judge that there is a ...
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Entire Compound Flattened
Sat, Nov 8, 2003 at 3:49:51 pm PST
Here’s DEBKAfile’s report on today’s terrorist bombing in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Major terrorist attack in western Riyadh Mahaya compound confirmed by Saudi interior ministry. Unconfirmed reports of at least 40 killed, 100 injured including many children and entire compound flattened. Riyadh hospitals on emergency. Witnesses report car full of gunmen ...
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New Attack Warnings
Sat, Nov 8, 2003 at 3:46:49 pm PST
The Northeast Intelligence Network has a translation of an Arabic message with further warnings about imminent attacks inside the United States. (Hat tip: rosh at Internet Haganah.)
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Explosion in Riyadh
Sat, Nov 8, 2003 at 2:06:26 pm PST
Blast Heard in Saudi Capital Near Diplomatic Area. RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - A Western diplomat said a blast was heard near the diplomatic quarter in the Saudi capital Riyadh on Sunday, a day after the United States warned of terrorist attacks and shut its missions in the kingdom."I heard ...
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Saudis: US Is "Over-Reacting"
Sat, Nov 8, 2003 at 8:42:25 am PST
Yesterday we reported that US diplomatic missions in Saudi Arabia were being closed, following new information about “credible threats” of an imminent terror attack. Today al-Reuters has more information about what those threats entailed: U.S. shuts missions in Saudi after "crusader" warning. The closure of the U.S. missions, for the ...
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Our Friends the Saudis
Sat, Nov 8, 2003 at 8:25:42 am PST
The Saudis have never hidden their hatred of the US (or Israel) but lately they’re even more blatant about it; in fact, they’re positively exulting in their paranoid psychosis. Here’s today’s Arab News cartoon; notice the black smoke behind the image of the Capitol building.
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Arafat Gives $50K a Month to Terrorists
Sat, Nov 8, 2003 at 8:00:36 am PST
A BBC investigation has discovered that the Palestinian Authority, with Yasser Arafat’s agreement, has been paying the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terror gang at least $50,000 a month: Palestinian Authority funds go to militants. The Palestinian Authority, headed by Yasser Arafat, is paying members of a Palestinian militant organisation which ...
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Pro-Palestinian Groups Seethe at Stanford
Fri, Nov 7, 2003 at 9:37:35 pm PST
Pro-Palestinian groups at Stanford are whining, seething, and screaming “racism!” because of advertisements placed in the student newspaper, telling the plain truth about Palestinian death cult society: Ads spark controversy throughout campus. A group of students began circulating an e-mail petition yesterday asking for the recall of Daily Editor in ...
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Dearborn Dhimmitude
Fri, Nov 7, 2003 at 9:15:23 pm PST
This is absolutely amazing. Not only does every public official in Dearborn Michigan deny that there was anything wrong with the letter quoted in the entry below... Dearborn Heights Police Chief Michael Gust said that police took an "incident report" from Panetta on the matter and will keep it on ...
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Dearborn School Official Apparently Threatened
Fri, Nov 7, 2003 at 4:55:27 pm PST
Ron Panetta, president of a school board in Dearborn Michigan, recently received a letter from Imad Hamad, head of the Michigan chapter of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, urging him to declare the Muslim festival of Eid a school holiday and give students the day off. (Hat tip: TS.) The letter contained ...
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US Diplomatic Missions in Saudi Arabia Closed
Fri, Nov 7, 2003 at 4:42:17 pm PST
American diplomatic missions in Saudi Arabia will be closed indefinitely, as warnings of an imminent terrorist attack mount. The embassy said in a message on its Web site that the missions in Riyadh, Jiddah and Dhahran would close to assess their "security posture."They will advise the American community when the ...
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Translator Faces Court Martial
Fri, Nov 7, 2003 at 2:59:00 pm PST
Ahmed Al-Halabi, arrested in the ongoing investigation of radical Islamic infiltration of the Guantanamo Bay prison camp, will be court martialed by the Air Force: Guantanamo Translator Faces Court-Martial. (Hat tip: Big Smoke.) Al-Halabi had said that he is innocent. One of his lawyers, Air Force Maj. James Key III, ...
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Negotiating With Terrorists
Fri, Nov 7, 2003 at 2:52:48 pm PST
Another clear-thinking essay from Caroline Glick, on Negotiating With Terrorists. ...Why would Hizbullah want to negotiate with Israel if its purpose is to cause our physical liquidation? ...The answer is quite simple.Hizbullah wishes to negotiate with Israel because it views negotiations as another tactic in its overall war. It views ...
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Muslim Brotherhood Spews Hate
Fri, Nov 7, 2003 at 11:21:49 am PST
The leader of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt says that Muslims hate the United States because of its support for Israel. But this hate-filled freak can’t even bring himself to use the word “Israel.” Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood says Bush has missed the point. (Hat tip: Dom.) The “point” that Bush ...
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Global Intifada Comes to OSU
Fri, Nov 7, 2003 at 11:14:04 am PST
Students for Academic Freedom has placed an advertisement in Ohio State University’s student newspaper, protesting the terror-enabling conference being held this weekend at OSU:A Pro-Terrorist Rally at Ohio State? On November 7-9, Ohio State University is planning to host the Third National Conference On Palestine Solidarity.The second conference held at the ...
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A Koran at the NYPD
Fri, Nov 7, 2003 at 10:13:44 am PST
The New York Police Department has installed a Koran in a glass case at One Police Plaza in New York City: Koran Controversy At One Police Plaza. (Hat tip: Dhimmi Watch.) The Koran is displayed atop a brass pedestal and ensconced in a glass cube in front of the official ...
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Saudis: No "Militants" Here
Fri, Nov 7, 2003 at 9:46:21 am PST
The Saudis have no trouble using the word “terrorist” when a suicide bomber blows himself up in Mecca. Riyadh, Nov 7, SPA -- Two terrorists involved in the incident of Al-Shara'ei quarter in Makkah on Thursday, have blew themselves up, according to an official source. 'On Thursday morning, the security ...
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Saudis Case Jewish Girls School
Fri, Nov 7, 2003 at 9:35:44 am PST
A Saudi citizen is being investigated by the FBI for doing surveillance on a Jewish girls’ school in Baltimore: FBI probes suspicious incident at Jewish girls middle school. (Hat tip: Internet Haganah.) Officials at a Jewish girls middle school in Mount Washington told parents last week that the FBI is ...
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Arab Seething Increases
Fri, Nov 7, 2003 at 8:56:36 am PST
Arab whining about Bush’s speech increases: Many Arabs Skeptical of Bush's Speech. Their main beef: they just can’t seem to understand why the US supports Israel’s right to exist, instead of the Arabs’ racist, genocidal jihad.
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Iraqi Jihad Kills Six More US Soldiers
Fri, Nov 7, 2003 at 8:48:24 am PST
A Black Hawk helicopter has gone down near Tikrit in Iraq, probably attacked by a jihadi’s RPG. Six soldiers lost their lives. It was not immediately clear whether the chopper was brought down by hostile fire or a mechanical failure, a spokeswoman said. But several officers who asked not to ...
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The Truth Will Set Us Free
Fri, Nov 7, 2003 at 8:42:51 am PST
I love Fridays, because I know that Friday brings another great read from Victor Davis Hanson, and this one’s no exception—as Hanson makes a plea for honesty in the pursuit of our war against radical Islam: The Truth Will Set Us Free. In the last two years, on each occasion ...
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The Perfect Liberal Storm
Fri, Nov 7, 2003 at 7:39:00 am PST
Charles Krauthammer writes about Howard Dean’s terminal foot-in-mouth disease, and the ongoing Democratic meltdown: The Perfect Liberal Storm. Howard Dean wants the white trash vote. That's not exactly what he said, but that's clearly what he meant when he said he wanted the votes of "guys with Confederate flags in ...
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Anthrax Scare in DC
Thu, Nov 6, 2003 at 9:38:26 pm PST
Eleven postal facilities in the Washington DC area have been closed after sensors detected a substance that could be anthrax: Anthrax scare hits Washington mail. (Hat tip: Dom.) WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Postal Service has shut down 11 postal facilities in the Washington area after preliminary tests indicated possible ...
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Muslim Slaves Have it Good
Thu, Nov 6, 2003 at 9:33:12 pm PST
Saudi princess Reem Mohammed Al-Faisal, who wrote the twisted article America the Forgiven, arguing that America should be asking Saudi Arabia for forgiveness, has an even more bizarre rant in today’s Arab News that says Arab slavery is much better than the evil American kind of slavery, even if slavery ...
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The Western Fraud of Democracy
Thu, Nov 6, 2003 at 6:57:15 pm PST
In his speech today, President Bush said: It should be clear to all that Islam -- the faith of one-fifth of humanity -- is consistent with democratic rule. I hope he’s right. The President’s speech is a remarkable departure from decades of Middle East policy, in which the main concern of ...
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Lynch's Ordeal
Thu, Nov 6, 2003 at 5:23:34 pm PST
The animals fedayeen who captured Private Jessica Lynch in Iraq brutally raped her while she was unconscious. Jessica Lynch was brutally raped by her Iraqi captors.That is the shocking revelation in "I Am a Soldier, Too," the much-anticipated authorized biography of the former POW. A copy of the book was ...
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Bush Suggests Democracy, Arabs Seethe
Thu, Nov 6, 2003 at 4:04:04 pm PST
Initial reactions from Arab countries to the President’s call for the Middle East to embrace democracy are sadly predictable: Arabs Wary of Bush's Democracy Message. But shortly before his address, Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa told reporters in Cairo the "reason for the strong hatred of the United States is ...
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The Age of Liberty
Thu, Nov 6, 2003 at 4:01:29 pm PST
A terrific speech today from President Bush; here’s the complete transcript at the White House web site: President Bush Discusses Freedom in Iraq and Middle East.
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Foggy Bottom Fixes a Map
Thu, Nov 6, 2003 at 3:00:32 pm PST
Last month we had an entry about a State Department map of Saudi Arabia that included the name of every nearby country, except one: Israel. Reader Andy K. just emailed to notify me that the map has now been corrected; yes, they abbreviate it (Is.) and make it as tiny ...
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Peace Travesty in Sydney
Thu, Nov 6, 2003 at 8:48:07 am PST
The Sydney Peace Foundation, funded by the local government, gave its Sydney Peace Prize today to a terror-enabling propagandist for the PLO—Hanan Ashrawi (who is a woman): Palestinian Ashrawi receives Sydney peace prize amid controversy. Disgraceful. And of course, she whined about the “attacks” on her “peaceful” facade. SYDNEY ...
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No Terrorists in Canada, Part 74
Thu, Nov 6, 2003 at 8:33:27 am PST
A Canadian federal agency has released a report showing that $22 million was funneled through Canada to terrorist groups last year: Terrorists funnel millions. Nearly one-quarter of the total suspicious transactions reported to police last year by the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada, or Fintrac, involved terrorist ...
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Where Are They?
Thu, Nov 6, 2003 at 8:26:58 am PST
Robert Spencer has some important questions for a Muslim scholar who tries to promote the by-now very familiar “Islam is a religion of peace and tolerance” line: Oh Moderate Muslims, Where Art Thou? The article quotes Dr. Badawi: “It is a common misconception, especially after the tragic events of September ...
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Somalia: Still Ugly
Wed, Nov 5, 2003 at 9:19:24 pm PST
Somalia—still a hellhole, still harboring Islamic terrorism: Informants Hunt Terrorists in Somalia. One of the most-wanted al-Qaida suspects, Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, is thought to be hiding in Somalia, a senior Kenyan security official told AP on Wednesday.Mohammed, a native of Comoros, has been indicted by a U.S. court in the ...
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Zell: "Perhaps Treasonous"
Wed, Nov 5, 2003 at 6:57:18 pm PST
Zell gives ’em hell: Miller on Politicized Intelligence Memo: Heads Should Roll. “I have often said that the process in Washington is so politicized and polarized that it can’t even be put aside when we’re at war. Never has that been proved more true than the highly partisan and perhaps ...
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My Favorite Protester Too
Wed, Nov 5, 2003 at 5:52:22 pm PST
Evan Coyne Maloney’s favorite protester proves once again that stupidity is a personal achievement that transcends ideology.
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Russian-Israel Pipeline Deal
Wed, Nov 5, 2003 at 5:21:38 pm PST
This could be absolutely huge; Israel and Russia have made a deal to begin shipping Siberian oil to North America: Sharon in Moscow to Line up with Bush-Putin Global Strategy. This colossal project entails the building of a major new pipeline to ship West Siberian crude through a deepwater terminal ...
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Nazis on the Way Out (In the US)
Wed, Nov 5, 2003 at 12:36:21 pm PST
Aging Nazi Richard Butler has lost his bid to become mayor of a small Idaho town; he got only 38 votes. (Hat tip: msimon.) The former head of the neo-Nazi Aryan Nations, Butler never contested that Hayden, population 9,000, is a well-administered city. Yet he hoped the campaign would further ...
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Clash of the Deities
Wed, Nov 5, 2003 at 12:30:12 pm PST
Allah now has competition in the blogosphere: Yahweh Is In The House.
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Searching for Churchill
Wed, Nov 5, 2003 at 10:57:04 am PST
An excerpt from Zell Miller’s new book says it all: In pursuit of an American Churchill. I fear that some of the Democratic presidential candidates are treading on very dangerous ground for the party and, more importantly, for the country.I do not question their patriotism; I question their judgment. They ...
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Religion of Death Threats
Wed, Nov 5, 2003 at 9:48:41 am PST
Iranian Nobel Laureate Given Bodyguards. (Hat tip: SoCalJustice.) TEHRAN, Iran - Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi has been given bodyguards by police following a number of death threats since she returned to Iran last month, a close associate said Wednesday.Mohammad Ali Dadkhah, spokesman for the Center for Protecting Human ...
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A New 9/11 Suspect
Wed, Nov 5, 2003 at 9:46:48 am PST
The FBI has a new suspect in the 9/11 hijackings. (Hat tip: zulubaby.) The FBI has identified an al-Qaeda operative who agents believe tried as late as August 2001 to join the 9/11 terrorist plot as the "20th hijacker," a top federal law enforcement official said Tuesday."We are fairly confident ...
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Jihad in France
Wed, Nov 5, 2003 at 8:48:06 am PST
French Muslims who want to join the jihad and kill infidels don’t even need to leave the country to be trained: Meet the French terror connection. (Hat tip: Merde in France.) Much of the new information on the French terror connection comes from intelligence and law-enforcement sources in Australia, Pakistan, ...
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An American First
Wed, Nov 5, 2003 at 8:29:05 am PST
A great post by Steven Den Beste compares the World War II behavior of Thomas Dewey, who was an American first and a Republican second, and Senator Jay Rockefeller—who, based on the memo leaked yesterday, appears to be ... well, something else: Investigating an intelligence failure.
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Asinine Comment of the Day
Tue, Nov 4, 2003 at 10:06:14 pm PST
Canadian “political activist” and International Solidarity Movement tool Mustafa Henaway went to Israel with the ISM to cause trouble in July, and spent most of his time in Jenin (a hotbed of Islamic Jihad) “escorting Palestinians who were breaking curfew.” Now he’s suing Israel for detaining him because he looked like ...
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Pakistan's Jihad Factories
Tue, Nov 4, 2003 at 9:08:05 pm PST
While the Democratic candidates are arguing about who smokes pot, and who’s the best partier, and the Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee are scheming how to use their information to influence the election, and Greta Van Susteren obsesses over Scott Peterson ... in Pakistan the jihad factories are churning ...
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It's Hot! It's Hip! It's a Debate!
Tue, Nov 4, 2003 at 8:30:10 pm PST
The meltdown continues: Dems Press Dean on Confederate Flag Flap. "Were you wrong, Howard? Were you wrong to say that?" Sen. John Edwards challenged the former Vermont governor in a hot, hip campaign debate."No, I wasn't, John Edwards," Dean shot back, adding that to win, Democrats must appeal to working-class ...
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Democrats' Intel Memo
Tue, Nov 4, 2003 at 5:23:59 pm PST
Sean Hannity had a bombshell revelation on his radio show today; a leaked memo showing that Democrats on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence have been plotting to use classified information against the White House in next year’s Presidential campaign: Dem Intel Committee Memo Reveals Anti-Bush Plot. (Hat tip: Trumanite.) ...
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Democratic Underground Wants Blood
Tue, Nov 4, 2003 at 4:40:10 pm PST
The far left’s psychotic hatred of George Bush is revealed in all its naked ugliness, in a post at Democratic Underground: I Hope the Bloodshed Continues in Iraq. (Hat tip: Jheka.) Well, that should bring the bats out of the attic with fangs dripping. I won't be hypocritcal. It is ...
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Egyptian Media Seethes and Spews
Tue, Nov 4, 2003 at 3:58:46 pm PST
US Ambassador to Egypt David Welch has been criticizing the Egyptian press for their antisemitic and anti-American hatred. In response, Egypt’s government-controlled media launched a series of vicious attacks against Welch, and against the US: The Arrogant Ambassador Representing the Imbecile Bush. Al-Gumhuriya columnist Gamal Badawi wrote " ... ...
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Stop Terrorists, Not Their Targets
Tue, Nov 4, 2003 at 3:49:04 pm PST
The National Post has strong words for the Canadian Transport Minister’s possible plan to stop allowing El Al flights to land in Toronto, following last week’s warnings of missile attacks: Don't ground El Al. (Hat tip: So?) David Collenette, the Transport Minister, appeared to suggest last week that the future ...
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Grandmother From Hell
Tue, Nov 4, 2003 at 3:13:23 pm PST
Yesterday, after his son blew himself up, Palestinian Kamal Abu Saud spoke to the press: "He was just a little boy and those who sent him should have left him alone," the father told the media yesterday.Saud said that before yesterday, he had contacted the Palestinian security forces and reported ...
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Alamoudi Charges
Tue, Nov 4, 2003 at 12:55:43 pm PST
New details about the charges against Abdurahman Alamoudi, the founder of the American Muslim Council who was caught trying to smuggle $340,000 in cash from Libya’s Jihad Fund: U.S. links money laundering, terrorists. Federal authorities said money was forwarded to terrorist groups from offices in Alexandria that housed a number of ...
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Saudi Slavery
Tue, Nov 4, 2003 at 11:18:14 am PST
A Saudi man puts an ad in the newspaper to exchange a 1991 Dodge automobile for a female slave. (Hat tip: Norwegian kafir.)
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Iran Races Toward Nukes, IAEA Dithers
Tue, Nov 4, 2003 at 10:46:04 am PST
According to Mohamed El Baradei, the International Atomic Energy Agency has found new Iranian transgressions of nuclear regulations: IAEA finds new nuclear safeguard breaches in Iran. International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei told the Spanish newspaper El Pais that new breaches will be detailed in a report the IAEA ...
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Only U.S. Strength Can Defeat Islamism
Tue, Nov 4, 2003 at 9:45:52 am PST
Here’s a great piece by David Gutman, exploring the shame-driven cultures of the Middle East, and explaining why Only U.S. Strength Can Defeat Islamism. (Hat tip: ploome.) Military commanders from Julius Caesar to Norman Schwarzkopf have paid as much attention to the group psychology of their opponents as to the ...
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Guardian Hits Bottom, Digs
Tue, Nov 4, 2003 at 8:23:42 am PST
Tariq Ali, in the Guardian (where else?), comes out strongly in favor of the murderers and terrorists of the Arab world: Resistance is the first step towards Iraqi independence. (Hat tip: Occasional Reader, via Andrew Sullivan.) Few can deny that Iraq under US occupation is in a much worse state ...
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The Michael Medved Interview
Tue, Nov 4, 2003 at 7:36:36 am PST
John Hawkins interviews Michael Medved, who gives a very nice plug to yours truly.
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A Burden Too Heavy
Tue, Nov 4, 2003 at 7:28:36 am PST
David Brooks (perhaps the only sane columnist at the New York Times) has a clear-sighted op-ed today on Iraq; who we’re fighting, what’s at stake, and how to win: A Burden Too Heavy to Put Down. Um Haydar was a 25-year-old Iraqi woman whose husband displeased Saddam Hussein's government. After ...
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Israel Tests the UN
Mon, Nov 3, 2003 at 8:14:51 pm PST
For the first time ever, Israel has submitted a resolution to the United Nations General Assembly, calling for the protection of Israeli children against Palestinian terrorist attacks: Israel Circulates Resolution at U.N. (Hat tip: lindsay.) The Israeli resolution, a copy of which was given to The Associated Press, calls for ...
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Islamists Hate Love
Mon, Nov 3, 2003 at 7:26:23 pm PST
Al-Azhar University has been busy; in addition to approving of suicide bombing, the tiny minority of fanatics who run the world center of Islam have condemned a book of poetry, because it dares to suggest that women can have feelings of their own. Cairo - Sunni Islam's highest authority, the ...
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French Shari'a Watch
Mon, Nov 3, 2003 at 7:20:37 pm PST
Merde in France continues chronicling France’s depressing descent into shari'a: A 20 year old woman was mugged Friday afternoon near the Chelles train station. Her principal attacker, a 35 year old resident, was arrested yesterday and booked this afternoon along with a 16 year old boy. Of Algerian origin, both ...
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Religion of Peaceful Martyrs
Mon, Nov 3, 2003 at 6:56:54 pm PST
One of the world’s highest authorities of Sunni Islam, the Grand Shaykh of Egypt’s Al-Azhar University, Muhammad Sayyid Tantawi, has stated again that suicide bombers are considered “martyrs” under Islamic law. The Grand Shaykh of Al-Azhar Muhammad Sayyid Tantawi announced on Sunday [2 November] that suicide-bombers who are defending their ...
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Unpunished Failure
Mon, Nov 3, 2003 at 6:00:54 pm PST
Michael Ledeen has a must-read column at the National Review today, summing up my (and, I suspect, a lot of people’s) misgivings about the conduct of the so-called “War on Terror:” Unpunished Failure. Let's start with a simple, albeit apparently unasked question: Who got fired for permitting Wolfowitz to stay ...
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An Open Letter to Osama
Mon, Nov 3, 2003 at 5:35:44 pm PST
One of the last remaining Crusaders, Chevalier James R. Reese of the Knights Templar, challenges Osama bin Laden to a duel: An Open Letter to Osama bin Laden. (Hat tip: Robert Spencer.) We doubt that you really believe there are any Crusaders left, as we doubt that you really believe ...
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Arab News: Loons Forever
Mon, Nov 3, 2003 at 4:42:17 pm PST
Another day, another completely whacked out article at the Arab News: The West's Fake Democracy. This one starts out sounding almost reasonable, if a bit off kilter: The democratic model in the West is based on a principal pillar - freedom. It isn't simply political freedom but also freedom of ...
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Where Things Stand
Mon, Nov 3, 2003 at 3:49:21 pm PST
After several weeks of pessimistic, defeatist cover stories (“Mission Not Accomplished,” “Are We Stretched Too Thin?” etc.) TIME Magazine this week publishes an astonishingly upbeat piece. You know things are improving in Iraq when even TIME can no longer pretend otherwise: Where Things Stand. Security, which almost all Iraqis say ...
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More Disturbing Warnings
Mon, Nov 3, 2003 at 12:58:24 pm PST
A jihad message board at Yahoo (why are they hosting these people?) corroborates the earlier report from DEBKAfile about possible imminent attacks against New York, Washington, and Los Angeles. Here’s the front page of this group, and here is the message warning Muslims in these areas to leave: this is ...
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Clueless Comment of the Day
Mon, Nov 3, 2003 at 11:30:07 am PST
In a story about a US border crackdown (that the AP in typical style says hasn’t caught a “single known terrorist,” as if that’s supposed to be reassuring), we find this quote from a “migration activist:” No terror suspects nabbed on border. (Hat tip: Michael S.) “If there are concerns ...
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Nigerian RoP Hates Beauty Pageants
Mon, Nov 3, 2003 at 11:03:54 am PST
Nigerian Muslim students rioted and beat women attending a beauty pageant—even though it was an invitation-only event held behind closed doors: Beauty pageant riot leaves one dead. (Hat tip: Camel Prophet.) The head of Maiduguri University's student union, Baba Shehu, told AFP that trouble broke out late on Saturday when ...
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New Al Qaeda Attack Warnings
Mon, Nov 3, 2003 at 9:37:29 am PST
DEBKAfile reports on a new Al Qaeda warning of imminent major attacks in New York, Washington, and Los Angeles: A new message was posted in the last few hours by the Jeddah-based al-Qaeda-linked Al-Islah (Reform) society calling on Muslims to flee New York, Washington and Los Angeles in advance of ...
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RoP Celebrates Ramadan
Mon, Nov 3, 2003 at 9:03:53 am PST
Iraqi Villagers Celebrate U.S. Helicopter Hit. BAISA, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqis in the village of Baisa say they couldn't have asked for a better present during Ramadan -- a U.S. helicopter shot down in their fields."We usually celebrate Ramadan at the end of the month. Now we are celebrating in ...
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CAIR Goes After Kaufman
Mon, Nov 3, 2003 at 8:39:08 am PST
Joe Kaufman has been busily exposing the connections of Islamist front groups and mosques to terrorist groups, in the United States in general and Florida in particular. Now the Hamas-linked terror front group masquerading as a “civil rights organization” is going after him: Muslims Demand Probe of Jewish Organizations. (Hat tip: ...
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Balfour Declaration Day
Mon, Nov 3, 2003 at 8:25:47 am PST
Here’s a great post at Israpundit by Joseph Alexander Norland, commemorating Balfour Declaration Day. Palestinian Arabs, meanwhile, are whining, seething, and demanding an apology from Britain. (Hat tip: NC.) Palestinians throughout the West Bank and Gaza Strip marched in the streets and held rallies to condemn the role Britain played in ...
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A Treasure Trove of Intelligence
Mon, Nov 3, 2003 at 8:17:25 am PST
Iraqi Intelligence Service files seized by the CIA in Baghdad contain the names of nearly every Iraqi spy, as well as information on bribes to prominent personalities and political figures in the Arab world—and “elsewhere:” Seized Intelligence Files Spur U.S. Investigations. The Iraqi files are "almost as much as the ...
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George Bush vs. the Naive Nine
Mon, Nov 3, 2003 at 7:54:48 am PST
Democratic Senator Zell Miller explains why he will be voting for George Bush next year: George Bush vs. the Naive Nine. Believe me, I looked hard at the other choices. And what I saw was that the Democratic candidates who want to be president in the worst way are running ...
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Premature Explodulation
Mon, Nov 3, 2003 at 7:34:02 am PST
Another case of Palestinian premature explodulation: Palestinian Suicide Bomber Blows Up in West Bank. No virgins for you, Abu. GAZA (Reuters) - A Palestinian teenage suicide bomber blew up near Israeli forces in the West Bank on Monday, killing no one but himself, hours after the militant group Hamas ruled ...
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Press in Quagmire Frenzy
Mon, Nov 3, 2003 at 7:27:22 am PST
Well, this was entirely predictable; taking a run around the major media sites this morning reveals the press in full bore Quagmire Mode after yesterday’s missile attack that brought down a US helicopter and killed 16 soldiers. The New York Times: News Analysis: As Casualties in Iraq Mount, Will Resolve Falter? The ...
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Comments Temporarily Disabled
Sun, Nov 2, 2003 at 11:39:34 pm PST
Seems like every moonbat in the world is flocking to LGF today to make trouble, so I’m temporarily turning off comments while I catch some shut-eye. See you in the morning, folks. UPDATE: Good morning! Comments are back on.
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WaPo Starts to Wake Up
Sun, Nov 2, 2003 at 10:43:55 pm PST
At long last, some of the right questions are beginning to be asked: Muslim Troops' Loyalty a Delicate Question. (Hat tip: Jihad Watch.) Just after the 1991 Persian Gulf War against Iraq, huge tents were erected in Saudi Arabia near the barracks of U.S. military personnel. Inside, day and night, ...
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Palestinians Spit on US Again
Sun, Nov 2, 2003 at 3:33:47 pm PST
The US has offered a $5 million reward for information about the October 15 attack on a US convoy in Gaza that killed three Americans. The Palestinian Authority welcomed this offer, expressing hope that it would help them apprehend the murderers responsible for that cowardly attack. Wait. What am I saying? I ...
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Palestinian Parenting
Sun, Nov 2, 2003 at 9:14:10 am PST
Here’s a touching story illustrating the deep love Palestinian Arabs feel for their children: Troops arrest Hamas fugitive, foil suicide bombing. A Hamas fugitive arrested by Shin Bet and IDF forces of the armored corps in the village Hizme near Jerusalem on Thursday, admitted to investigators that he planned to ...
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Berkeley Prof Tries to Figure It Out
Sun, Nov 2, 2003 at 8:38:37 am PST
America’s capitol of extreme left “thought” has been in a quandary. Since they clearly are the font of received knowledge and enlightenment, why do conservatives keep winning elections? What’s wrong with the unwashed masses? Don’t they know what’s good for them? Now UC Berkeley linguistics professor George Lakoff has discovered the ...
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Hard Left Hates Free Speech
Sun, Nov 2, 2003 at 8:12:31 am PST
Hard left Israeli politician Zahava Gal'on has been carrying on a pogrom against news outlet Arutz Sheva, succeeding in getting their radio station closed down. Now she has turned her repressive intentions toward the Arutz Sheva web site, demanding a criminal investigation targeting Flash artist and commentator Gil Ronen: Next ...
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The Jayson Blair Syndrome
Sat, Nov 1, 2003 at 6:11:43 pm PST
On October 26, the Washington Post published a story by Barton Gellman titled Search in Iraq Fails to Find Nuclear Threat, claiming that no evidence of a nuclear program had been found by inspectors in Iraq. Gellman attributed this conclusion largely to Australian Brig. Gen. Stephen D. Meekin, described as ...
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On Hating the Jews
Sat, Nov 1, 2003 at 5:35:13 pm PST
The good folks at Power Line notified me about this absolutely terrific essay at Commentary by Natan Sharansky, illuminating the historical context and modern manifestations of antisemitism in a way I’ve never seen before, and exposing the connections between antisemitism and anti-Americanism. This is a real revelation; if you read ...
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The Controversy of Israel
Sat, Nov 1, 2003 at 1:05:29 pm PST
An incisive Bret Stephens essay in yesterday’s Jerusalem Post says a line has been crossed; the very existence of Israel is now considered a respectable topic for debate. And he dissects Tony Judt’s appalling article for the New York Review of Books by way of example: Eye on the Media: ...
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Haven for the Taliban
Sat, Nov 1, 2003 at 11:05:48 am PST
Here’s a Washington Post editorial on Pakistan’s outrageous and continuing support for the Taliban: Haven for the Taliban. (Hat tip: Bala Ambati.) THE PAKISTANI CITY of Quetta lately has become more than a provincial capital; it might also be described as the new headquarters of the extremist Taliban movement, which ...
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Arab News Making the Funny Joke
Sat, Nov 1, 2003 at 10:51:09 am PST
This has to be some sort of wacky Saudi sarcasm. The Arab News can’t be serious, can they? Dubai Damaging Arab Reputation. (Hat tip: Thom.) Dubai has the effect of making other Arab countries look bad. Quite a few visitors set foot in Dubai and think that this is the ...
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Religion of Peace Drafts Religious Tolerance Bill
Sat, Nov 1, 2003 at 10:26:42 am PST
The Religion of Peace and Tolerance is trying to push through the Indonesian Parliament an Orwellian piece of legislation they’re calling the Religious Tolerance Bill—which is the exact opposite of what it sounds like. (Hat tip: Garcon Bizarre.) JAKARTA - Muslim hardliners, fearing the spread of Christianity, are pushing ...
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NYT: Mystery Jihad
Sat, Nov 1, 2003 at 7:35:31 am PST
The New York Times has a report on “hundreds” of stupid young Muslims being lured to Iraq by visions of glorious murder and grand jihad. Looks like the flypaper strategy is working: Calls to Jihad Are Said to Lure Hundreds of Militants Into Iraq. (Hat tip: NC.) LONDON, Oct. 31 ...
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