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LGF Archives: November 2005

Wednesday, November 30, 2005

Flight 93 Memorial Still an Islamofascist Shrine

Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 7:58:57 pm PST

Earlier today, mainstream media (aka the New York Times and Associated Press) told us that the Flight 93 “Crescent of Embrace” memorial had been (grudgingly) redesigned to remove its incredibly offensive inclusion of the religious symbol of the 9/11 hijackers. At Error Theory, Alec Rawls says it’s a trick: Redesigned Flight ...

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Whose Internet is It Anyway?

Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 3:32:09 pm PST

At Pajamas Media, a special report by Claudia Rosett looks into the dark future of the Internet—dark, that is, if the United Nations gets their totalitarian paws on it: Whose internet is it anyway? Greetings, and a quick tip: Anyone in favor of censorship and internet taxes can skip the rest ...

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Remarks By The President On The War On Terror

Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 1:27:22 pm PST

Here is the full text of President Bush’s speech today at the Naval Academy on the Iraq War and the broader topic of the War on Islamic Terrorism: Remarks By The President On The War On Terror.

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The Muslim Brotherhood's "Project"

Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 9:29:32 am PST

Scott Burgess is investigating a subject almost no one else seems to have noticed—a Muslim Brotherhood document discovered by Swiss authorities, detailing a vast secret plan to combine jihad, surveillance, infiltration and propaganda (among other techniques) in order to “establish the reign of Allah throughout the world.” The Daily Ablution: The ...

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Crescent of Embrace Grudgingly Redesigned

Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 8:15:28 am PST

Chalk one up for the good guys: Pennsylvania Sept. 11 Memorial Redesigned. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) PITTSBURGH (AP) — Designers of a Flight 93 memorial have made a bowl-shaped piece of land its centerpiece, replacing a crescent-shape design that some critics had said was a symbol honoring terrorists, officials announced Wednesday. The ...

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David Duke's Progressive Pals

Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 8:05:19 am PST

“Dr.” David Duke is apparently popular with the “progressives” at Argentina Indymedia: Dr. David Duke Improves American Image In Arab World. (Hat tip: Reactionista.) Who could have imagined that Argentina and Syria would be so hospitable to Nazis?

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Palestinian Civil War Watch

Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 8:00:10 am PST

Not even Palestinian spokesliar Nabil Shaath can deny that the Fatah (Arabic for “Conquest”) elections were ... ahem ... flawed. RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party scrambled on Wednesday to salvage a primary election rocked by turmoil that has widened internal rifts ahead of a political ...

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Tuesday, November 29, 2005

Misplaced Moonbat Anger

Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 11:15:22 pm PST

The four Westerners kidnapped by an Iraqi terrorist gang belong to an anti-war group that calls itself Christian Peacemaker Teams. Today, Christian Peacemaker Teams released a statement about the kidnappings. They’re angry. Very angry. At the United States and Britain. In a statement, Christian Peacemaker Teams said it strongly opposed the U.S. invasion ...

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Tuesday Night Wheel

Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 6:27:38 pm PST

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Danes Stand Up

Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 6:01:48 pm PST

Bookworm Room has a great story about the Danish government’s plan to meet a NATO request for additional troops in Afghanistan; the difference between the US and Denmark is that even the government’s political opposition is standing up to do the right thing: The decent Danish. The Danish government has found ...

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UN's Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People

Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 4:59:35 pm PST

Sponsored by the same people who want to control the Internet, those guardians of justice and morality known as the United Nations, today is the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. (Hat tip: Buffalo.) (Click picture to expand.)

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Al Jazeera: "Down With Fascist America"

Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 4:44:36 pm PST

In Ramallah, staff members of Al Jazeera TV chant, “Down with fascist America, and with the terrorist administration!” (Hat tip: MEMRI TV.) But remember, according to our homegrown leftists, Al Jazeera is a legitimate media organization, much like CNN or CBS. [Video]

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Irish Antisemitism Watch

Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 3:33:10 pm PST

The Dubliner bills itself as “the definitive guide to Irish culture.” And this November, they published a truly vile piece by Justin Keating, denigrating Jewish history and culture, and stating that Israel has no right to exist. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) I have reached the conclusion that the Zionists have absolutely no ...

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Biased Headline of the Day

Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 12:27:05 pm PST

Mainstream media (Aussie branch) continues to amaze with their insanely open bias: Corrupt Bush ally resigns in shame. (Hat tip: Eric Cartman’s Conscience.)

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LGF Nepotism Watch

Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 11:18:21 am PST

My cousin-in-law has a band that’s doing very well at the Independent Artists Company site, and what’s more, they’re actually pretty good. Check ’em out: Bridge.

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Hostages Identified

Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 11:04:19 am PST

Once again Al Jazeera has aired video of American hostages in Iraq. Rusty Shackleford has images from the video, and has identified the hostages, who belong to a leftist anti-war group that was seeking to document evidence of US war crimes.

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Tuesday the Open

Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 10:33:54 am PST

An open thread for an end-of-November Tuesday...

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Ahmadinejad: I Am the Messiah

Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 9:06:33 am PST

Iran’s madman “president” Ahmadinejad now seems to believe he is the Mahdi, the “divinely guided one” who will lead Islam to triumph over the infidel: Iran: President Says Light Surrounded Him During UN Speech. (Hat tip: Allah.) Prague, 29 November 2005 (RFE/RL) — According the report by baztab.com, President Ahmadinejad made ...

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RoP Strikes in Bangladesh

Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 8:34:09 am PST

Five dead in two suicide bomb attacks in Bangladesh: police. CHITTAGONG, Bangladesh (AFP) - Five people died, including two suicide bombers, and 16 others were wounded in two attacks targeting Bangladesh’s judicial system, police said, following a wave of violence linked to Islamic extremists. “We’re stepping up security around the country and ...

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Monday, November 28, 2005

Monday Night Fence

Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 11:44:12 pm PST

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Massive Throng of Protesters Leaves Crawford

Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 11:36:36 pm PST

All 200 of the “peace activists” who were making nuisances of themselves in Crawford packed up and left today. (Hat tip: Amy.) CRAWFORD, Texas (AP) — Dozens of war protesters packed up their tents and left their campsite in a field near President Bush’s ranch Sunday, vowing to return during Easter ...

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NYT Whitewashes Egyptian Elections

Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 7:41:34 pm PST

The proto-terrorist organization known as the Muslim Brotherhood may have won big in the Egyptian “elections,” but the New York Times wants to make sure we know that it has nothing to do with Islam: In Egypt, a Vote More for Change Than Faith. (Hat tip: NC.) MAZGHOUNA, Egypt, Nov. 28 ...

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Green Party Declares War on Israel

Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 7:03:58 pm PST

Jew-hatred is the new environmentalism: Divest from Israel. (Hat tip: Morgan.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Green Party of the United States has endorsed a statement calling for a comprehensive strategy of boycott and divestment that would pressure the government of Israel to guarantee human rights for Palestinians. The resolution, introduced by the ...

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Phony Psychic Makes Europeans See the Light

Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 6:41:58 pm PST

Somebody pinch me. I guess this is good in a way, but I can’t help feeling like I’ve fallen through a wormhole into an alternate reality. Magic touch, bent spoons help on Israeli-Palestinian deal. GENEVA (AFP) - Entertainer and psychic Uri Geller played an unusual role in breaking the ice during ...

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Martin Gets 86'ed

Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 6:27:29 pm PST

Political chaos in Canada: Canada’s government is thrown out. Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin’s government has been ousted in a no-confidence vote. Canada’s three opposition parties united against his Liberal Party, which has been mired in a corruption scandal. Mr Martin will seek the dissolution of parliament on Tuesday, and a date ...

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Monday Open Thread

Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 9:59:07 am PST

Here we have an open thread...

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Ramsey Clark and the PLO Lose Appeal

Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 8:54:17 am PST

When former Attorney General Ramsey Clark isn’t defending Saddam Hussein, or giving speeches for the crypto-Stalinist International ANSWER, he’s acting as counsel for the Palestine Liberation Organization, trying to prevent families of murdered Jews from collecting on judgments against the PLO. Today he lost: Supreme Court passes up PLO case. (Hat ...

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Shocka of the Day

Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 8:26:04 am PST

Imagine my surprise. Charity cash for Palestinian poor was siphoned to suicide bombers. (Hat tip: Amy.) Millions of pounds donated by British and other European charities to help the Palestinian poor were unwittingly diverted to fund terror and support the families of suicide bombers, Israeli prosecutors claimed yesterday. Ahmed Salatna, 43, a Hamas ...

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Bloggers Save Lives

Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 8:24:23 am PST

Quick-thinking bloggers may have saved the lives of two suicidal soldiers, and in the process prompted the US military into an investigation of the mental health of soldiers returning from Iraq; Matthew Good has the story. (Hat tip: Israellycool.)

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Democracy, Palestinian Style

Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 8:10:30 am PST

Fatah Halts Primaries in Gaza. The Palestinians’ ruling Fatah Party halted its primary election across the Gaza Strip on Monday after angry gunmen shot in the air at several polling stations, stole some ballot boxes and destroyed others. Fatah officials said the votes cast Monday would be nullified, and the primary would ...

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EU Springs Into Action, Condemns US

Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 7:50:58 am PST

Our European guardians of morality are about to slap the United States on the wrist again, while making spineless deals with Islamofascist states like Iran: EU May Suspend Nations With Secret Prisons. BERLIN - The United States has told the European Union it needs more time to respond to media reports ...

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Sunday, November 27, 2005

Sunday Evening Surf

Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 9:05:58 pm PST

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British Dhimmitude Watch

Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 8:08:03 pm PST

Giant mosque for 40,000 may be built at London Olympics. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) What is there to say? A MASSIVE mosque that will hold 40,000 worshippers is being proposed beside the Olympic complex in London to be opened in time for the 2012 Games. The project’s backers hope the mosque and its ...

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The Civilian Casualty Fable

Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 6:22:11 pm PST

An exceptional post at Logic Times totally debunks the leftist myth of high civilian casualties in the Iraq War: The Civilian Casualty Fable. (Hat tip: StarsandStripes.)

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Your Partners in Peace

Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 1:41:15 pm PST

A press release from a Palestinian propagandist, filed from an alternate universe where convicted mass murderers are “activists:” Young Activists May Help Fatah Party. RAMALLAH, West Bank - Palestinian primaries that replaced the ruling Fatah party’s corruption-tainted old guard with young activists could give it a crucial boost in January parliamentary ...

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Sunday Morning Open

Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 9:09:44 am PST

It’s the Sunday morning open thread...

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70% Say Dem Cut-And-Run Strategy Hurts Morale

Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 8:42:07 am PST

A stunning new poll shows that the Democrats are losing the American public, in a very big way: Sympathetic Vibrations. (Hat tip: Balloon Juice.) Democrats fumed last week at Vice President Cheney’s suggestion that criticism of the administration’s war policies was itself becoming a hindrance to the war effort. But a ...

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Clark Comes to Saddam's Aid

Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 8:30:27 am PST

The mass-murdering dictators’ best friend, Ramsey Clark of International ANSWER fame, is in Baghdad to rescue Saddam Hussein. Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark arrived in Baghdad, airport officials said, apparently to aid in Saddam’s defense. Clark has been advising nearly a dozen international lawyers on Saddam’s defense team. He has contended ...

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Do the Dems Really Want Al Qaeda to Win?

Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 8:05:24 am PST

In The American Spectator, Ben Stein is appalled at the behavior of the cut-and-run Democrats. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) I see a frightening pattern here: the Democrats wanted us out of Vietnam, and never mind the genocide that followed. The Democrats want us out of Iraq and never mind that the ...

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Al Jazeera Starts "Don't Bomb Us" Blog

Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 8:01:48 am PST

Oh brother. You know that silly report that the US had a plan to bomb the headquarters of Al Jazeera? Al Jazeera is milking it like a prize Holstein, of course, and American moonbats are falling right in line. The latest absurdity to come from the satellite station with the ...

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Saturday, November 26, 2005

Saturday Evening Open Sea

Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 9:28:42 pm PST

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Militant Islam in the French Workplace

Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 9:01:20 pm PST

As if three weeks of rioting by Muslim youths wasn’t enough evidence, a new study by the Center for Intelligence Research in Paris shows that France is in big trouble: Fundamentalism in French Workplace. (Hat tip: Amy.) PARIS — Employees set up clandestine prayer areas on the grounds of the ...

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The Loneliness of the Long Distance "Peace Mom"

Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 8:00:41 pm PST

Do not miss this one: Mother Sheehan’s Book Signing.

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Daily Kos: The Unvarnished Truth

Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 6:17:57 pm PST

At Daily “Screw Them” Kos, Armando the Progressive accidentally reveals the truth about the left’s sick, twisted position on the Iraq War; they know that their cut and run “strategy” is going to lead to chaos and mass murder, but could not care less as long as they can ...

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RoP Plotted to Kill Aussie Ministers

Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 6:04:59 pm PST

The Islamic terror gang Jemaah Islamiyah was planning to murder two Australian ministers at last month’s memorial service for victims of the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings, but switched to softer targets because security was too tight: JI plot to kill Aussie ministers. (Hat tip: Van Impe.) MINISTERS Alexander Downer and Chris ...

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More Details on Alleged Clash with Syrians

Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 3:45:41 pm PST

Hammorabi has a report from Iraq that backs up that (still unverified) DEBKAfile account of fighting between Syrian forces and US Marines. (Hat tip: Never Yet Melted.)

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Iranian "President": Try Bush for War Crimes

Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 10:35:43 am PST

Iran President: Charge Bush for War Crimes. (Hat tip: Carl.) Iran’s hard-line president said Saturday the Bush administration should be tried on war crimes charges, and he denounced the West for pressuring Iran to curb its controversial nuclear program. “You, who have used nuclear weapons against innocent people, who have used uranium ...

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Saturday Morning Open

Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 8:34:49 am PST

It’s the open thread for a sunny Saturday morning...

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Fighting a Politically Correct War

Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 8:17:37 am PST

Our leaders continue bending over backward to appease the Dark Ages mentality of the enemy: Troops Who Burned Taliban Face Discipline. Four U.S. soldiers face disciplinary action for burning the bodies of two Taliban rebels, but they will not be charged with crimes because their actions were motivated by hygienic concerns, ...

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Democracy, Palestinian Style

Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 8:09:36 am PST

Convicted terrorist Marwan Barghouti has won the Palestinian primary election for Fatah. RAMALLAH, West Bank - Jailed Palestinian uprising leader Marwan Barghouti and other younger activists swept Fatah primaries, signaling a change of generations that could make the corruption-tainted ruling party more attractive to voters in Jan. 25 parliament elections, according ...

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Friday, November 25, 2005

David Duke, Live in Syria

Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 9:29:04 pm PST

MEMRI TV shows us white supremacist David Duke spewing his vile hatred, aired live on Syrian television on November 24, 2005: [Video]

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British Dhimmitude Watch

Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 8:36:43 pm PST

A classic Christopher Marlowe play has been censored in London, out of fear that it might provoke a violent reaction from followers of the Religion of Peace™: Marlowe’s Koran-burning hero is censored to avoid Muslim anger. (Hat tip: Silhouette.) IT WAS the surprise hit of the autumn season, selling out for ...

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AP's Daily Death Count

Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 7:43:35 pm PST

A new feature at the Associated Press: Daily Look at U.S. Military Deaths in Iraq. (Hat tip: Beagle.) Daily.

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Syria Accuses US of Chasing Terrorists

Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 7:00:56 pm PST

Yesterday we noted a report at the often-maligned (sometimes justifiably) DEBKAfile that US forces were involved in a battle with the Syrian military, after chasing Abu Musab al-Zarqawi “militants” across the border. Here’s the first apparent mainstream media corroboration of DEBKA’s story, at the Telegraph: Syria accuses US of launching lethal ...

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Friday Night Fence

Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 6:39:55 pm PST

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EU Springs Into Action, Downplays Anti-Israel Memo

Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 6:17:12 pm PST

EU downplays leaked memo on East Jerusalem. Well yes, of course they would. Awfully embarrassing, you know, to be caught advocating a Palestinian putsch. Pip pip. Tut tut. BRUSSELS (AFP) - The European Commission downplayed the significance of the leaking of a report accusing Israel of seeking to prevent Jerusalem ...

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Jacko Says the Shahid

Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 6:06:30 pm PST

According to an Arab-Israeli newspaper, Michael Jackson is converting to Islam. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Does this explain the anti-Semitic comments? American pop star Michael Jackson has officially announced that he has been following the five tenets of Islam and intends to convert to Islam, according to a report on the ...

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Palestinians Vote for Convicted Terrorist

Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 4:31:59 pm PST

The Palestinian Authority called a vote to choose people to run for leader of Fatah (Arabic for “Conquest”), the crypto-terrorist organization whose “military wing” (that’s the “wing” that blows up buses and discotheques and pizza parlors) is known as the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades. And one of the most popular candidates ...

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BBC Hits Bottom, Digs

Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 1:55:43 pm PST

The BBC grudgingly, slowly admits what a pile of steaming bias they are, after reporter Barbara Plett waxed maudlin over the final days of a disgusting monster: Arafat report ‘broke BBC rules’. The BBC governors have upheld part of a complaint against a journalist who said she “started to cry” as ...

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Mama Moonbat Weeps

Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 11:54:58 am PST

Cindy Sheehan at Daily “Screw Them” Kos: Open Letter to George Bush. (Hat tip: wingfam mom.) George, My family is spending our 2nd Thanksgiving without Casey thanks to you and your lies. I am spending the day crying on a plane on my way to come to Crawford to again ask you ...

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RoP Leader Arrested in Ohio

Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 11:03:15 am PST

Fawaz Damra (lgf: search) the “spiritual leader” of the Islamic Center of Cleveland, has been arrested in preparation for deportation. (Hat tip: Andrew.) Federal authorities arrested an Islamic religious leader Friday as they began the process of deporting him for lying about ties to terrorist groups. Imam Fawaz Damra, the spiritual leader ...

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And the Winner Is...

Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 10:26:24 am PST

This just in: Greatest Blog Post Ever - Winner. Thanks to all who voted for LGF’s throbbing memo of doom. And mainstream media, almost without exception, continue to insist that the memos were never “proven” to be fakes.

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Post-Turkey Open Thread

Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 10:19:34 am PST

Here’s an open thread for what I’m told is the biggest shopping day of the year...

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The KKK Goes to Syria

Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 9:09:24 am PST

Lots of LGF commenters have pointed out that antisemitic white supremacist (and Cindy Sheehan fan) David Duke has been visiting Syria lately, but here’s a mind-warping article from Arab media in which he’s treated as a respectable US politician: David Duke in Damascus to express solidarity with Syria. Notice how many ...

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Bush Derangement Syndrome in Outer Space

Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 8:40:59 am PST

Yes, Virginia. The moonbats really are this deranged. Former Canadian Minister Of Defence Asks Canadian Parliament To Hold Hearings On Relations With Alien ‘ET’ Civilizations. (Hat tip: gwortz.) (PRWEB) - OTTAWA, CANADA (PRWEB) November 24, 2005 — A former Canadian Minister of Defence and Deputy Prime Minister under Pierre Trudeau has joined forces ...

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Thursday, November 24, 2005

Arabs Ask Jews to Help Get Rid of the ISM

Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 10:38:50 pm PST

The International Solidarity Movement is so disgusting that Arabs in the Hebron region are asking local Jewish leaders to help get rid of them: Hevron Arabs Ask Jews For Help in Banishing Leftist Activists. (Hat tip: Eber.) Arab leaders in Hevron have contacted the city’s Jewish leaders for help in getting ...

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RoP Battles Philippine Troops

Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 10:24:54 pm PST

Philippine Troops Kill 15 Rebels After Air Strike. (Hat tip: Ethel.) The military said six soldiers had been killed and 33 wounded since November 11, when troops hunting a one-armed, horse-riding Abu Sayyaf commander clashed with a large group of militants on Jolo. Last week, an estimated 25 rebels were killed in ...

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RoP Planned Suicide Attack at Bali Memorial Service

Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 10:02:25 pm PST

Jemaah Islamiyah planned to bomb Bali memorial service: report. (Hat tip: Allah.) SYDNEY, (AFP) - Southeast Asian extremist network Jemaah Islamiyah planned to bomb a memorial service in Indonesia for those killed in the 2002 Bali attacks but was deterred by high security, a report said Friday. The Islamic militants instead chose ...

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It's Like the Vietnam Protests, Except Without the Protesters

Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 9:56:39 pm PST

Twelve people show up in Crawford, Texas, and the Associated Press considers it national news: Protesters Arrested Near Bush’s Ranch. CRAWFORD, Texas - A dozen war protesters including Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers, were arrested Wednesday for setting up camp near President Bush’s ranch in defiance of new local ...

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RoP in Australia Preaches Hate and Violence

Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 9:50:05 pm PST

Website aimed at Australians attacks Christians, Jews. A WEBSITE aimed at young Australian Muslims promotes hatred of Jews and Christians, claiming the Jews in the US Government “are like a cockroach infestation — add some to your hit-list”. The website, Mission Islam, is run by the Muslim Information Service, and purports to ...

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Churchill to Journalist: Consider Yourself Warned

Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 9:36:41 pm PST

Don’t miss Grant Crowell’s exchange with Colorado University professor Ward “Little Eichmanns” Churchill, at the Hawaii Reporter. (Hat tip: Jewels.) Churchill is a despicable character, and a hero of the “progressive” movement. Coincidence?

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"Stop Poisoning Our Neighborhoods"

Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 9:08:30 pm PST

Jihad comes to Oakland. The surveillance video is absolutely chilling. This story calls these violent criminals “well-dressed vandals,” without mentioning the very obvious resemblance of their suits and bow ties to the outfits worn by followers of the Nation of Islam.

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More "Progressive" Lies

Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 8:27:30 pm PST

I continue to be amazed (in a not-very-amazed way) about the depths to which the “progressive” left will descend to promote their suicidal anti-American agenda. Confederate Yankee has the latest example: Think Progress Misrepresents Phone Call Between Brothers as ‘Chemical Weapons’ Evidence.

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RoP Glorifies Mass Murder

Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 8:09:14 pm PST

More vile jihad videos, brought to you by the Religion of Peace™, ummah.com chapter: Mujahideen videos. Notice the free download services they’re using for this filth. UPDATE at 11/24/05 8:58:54 pm: Here’s an LGF search page with our previous posts about the foul hate-hole that calls itself ummah.com.

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European Union Notices Iran's Manhattan Project

Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 6:17:59 pm PST

When even the spineless European Union can no longer deny the obvious, you know things are getting dire: EU Alleges Iran Possesses Nuclear Designs. VIENNA, Austria - The European Union accused Iran on Thursday of having documents that show how to make nuclear warheads and joined the United States in warning ...

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Another Palestinian Bomb Factory Discovered

Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 6:03:00 pm PST

The Associated Press makes it clear that they believe it’s Israel’s responsibility to “end the conflict” with the Palestinians, and that Israel is failing at it: Sharon Saying Little About Peace Plans. JERUSALEM - After shaking off the constraints of his hard-line Likud Party, Ariel Sharon is giving away little about ...

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Breaking: Marines Battling Syrian Troops?

Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 3:15:27 pm PST

Currently unverified, but if true this could be huge news: DEBKAfile is reporting that US Marines have crossed the border into Syria, and are locked in battle with Syrian forces. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) November 25, 2005, 12:27 AM (GMT 02:00) Both sides have suffered casualties. US soldiers crossed over after Damascus ...

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Lileks: Deep Inside the Childhood-industrial Complex

Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 1:54:36 pm PST

Ed Driscoll interviews James Lileks for Pajamas Media: Deep inside the childhood-industrial complex.

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The Turkey That Laid a Golden Egg

Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 11:13:12 am PST

Coming up at 12 noon Pacific, another BlogJam at Pajamas Media, featuring an all-star cast composed of PJ Media Advisory Board members Adam Bellow, Tammy Bruce, Clifford May, and Glenn Reynolds. The subject: The turkey that laid a golden egg.

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The Poppy Problem

Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 10:33:19 am PST

This is how bad things are getting in Britain: The First Step to Britishness Is Your Poppy. (Hat tip: Melanie Phillips.) The poppy is a symbol of the terrible loss of life in World War I in the fields of Flanders, where these blood-red flowers sprouted above the acres of corpses ...

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Turkey Day Open Thread

Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 8:28:29 am PST

As the smell of tryptophane fills the air, here’s an open thread...

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Jacko the Expat

Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 7:38:49 am PST

Michael Jackson has finally found a home, among like-minded individuals.

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Gillmor on PJ

Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 6:59:17 am PST

Thanks to Dan Gillmor for the nice words: Pajamas Media, Redux. After a company-naming debacle in which the Pajamas Media folks took a name already in use by people who had better reasons to using it in any event, the new blogging network says with commendable good humor: We are re-assuming our ...

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Happy Thanksgiving!

Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 5:52:08 am PST

At PJ Media, we’re live-blogging the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade in our pajamas. The parts of Regis and Kathy Lee will be played by Jeff Goldstein and Hillary Johnson, with a special appearance by Madeleine Simon. Also appearing: mystery monkeys!

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Wednesday, November 23, 2005

Wednesday Night Mast

Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 10:20:47 pm PST

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Ayaan Hirsi Ali: The Muslim "Life of Brian"

Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 7:11:42 pm PST

Dutch MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali wants to film the Muslim “Life of Brian,” in a test of Western courage. (Hat tip: Fjordman.) You have said that you would like to make a Muslim “Life of Brian”. “Yes, Muhammed is a much more colourful personality than Jesus. Such a film could be a ...

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Lieberman: The Cost of Failure Would Be Catastrophic

Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 6:06:41 pm PST

Joe Lieberman shows that he’s one of the only Democrats left with an ounce of guts: Lieberman: U.S. to Finish Iraq Mission. BAGHDAD, Iraq, Nov. 23, 2005 (AP Online delivered by Newstex) — U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman told Iraq’s prime minister Wednesday that U.S. forces will remain in Iraq until their ...

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What Changed? John Bolton

Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 5:53:22 pm PST

John Bolton (the moonbats’ worst nightmare) gets results: US pressures UN to condemn Hizbullah. Following intense US pressure, the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday issued an unprecedented condemnation of Monday’s Hizbullah attacks on northern Israel. This condemnation - slamming Hizbullah by name for “acts of hatred” - marked the first time ...

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VDH: The Crying Game

Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 5:44:43 pm PST

Victor Davis Hanson continues to bring his considerable intellect to bear on the bizarre defeatism and lunacy that characterizes the modern “progressive” movement and their enablers in the Democratic Party: The Crying Game. “The president misled us.” “Still no WMDs.” “If I had only known then what I do now…” This is ...

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Vanderleun: Midtown Manhattan Madness

Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 3:09:39 pm PST

At American Digest, Gerard Vanderleun turns in an amusing and pointed report on a certain event that took place last week in New York City: Midtown Manhattan Madness.

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Prayer Rooms and Pigskins

Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 11:29:37 am PST

Giants Stadium sets aside prayer spaces, reacting to Muslims’ complaints. (Hat tip: sandspur.) NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - A special area for people who want to pray will be set aside at Giants Stadium, where several Muslim fans were detained and questioned by the FBI in September, the stadium operator said Tuesday. Sohail ...

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Hamas Won't "Renew" Bogus Truce

Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 11:05:24 am PST

Hamas: No plan to renew truce. Of course, there never really was a truce anyway. But little pesky reality-based details like that never stop al-Reuters from spreading the propaganda. GAZA (Reuters) - The militant Islamic group Hamas said on Wednesday it did not plan to renew a truce at the end of ...

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Wednesday Pre-Turkey Open Thread

Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 10:59:30 am PST

Turkeys across the nation woke up this morning with a feeling of nameless dread and impending doom. And this is an open thread...

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CNN's Big Mistake

Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 9:48:57 am PST

Bill Quick at Daily Pundit has a report on CNN’s airing of an ‘X’ over live video of Vice President Cheney—including an audiotape that, if verified, is a real bombshell.

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Al Qaeda Plotter Convicted

Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 9:06:11 am PST

Yesterday Ahmed Omar Abu Ali was convicted of plotting with Al Qaeda to kill the President. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 - An Arab-American student from Virginia was convicted today of plotting with Al Qaeda operatives to assassinate President Bush and hijack airplanes, concluding a terrorism trial that the ...

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Chris Matthews: Murky is Good

Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 8:31:13 am PST

I’ve received a few emails criticizing this post about Chris Matthews’ outrageous comments at the University of Toronto, saying that I exaggerated and misconstrued Matthews’ points. But go listen to him on the Dennis Prager show, at the great Lileks Bleat, and you’ll be amazed at how deeply Matthews believes in ...

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It's Alive!

Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 8:23:33 am PST

Heh™. Pajamas Media - The Monster of the Blogosphere.

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Tuesday Night Blue

Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 12:05:52 am PST

I don’t know about you, but I’m ready for a long look out at a blue horizon.

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Tuesday, November 22, 2005

Transnational Democrats Make Deal with Venezuelan Thug

Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 10:18:55 pm PST

You’ve got to be kidding. Venezuela sending cheap oil to Massachusetts. QUINCY, Massachusetts (AP) — Thousands of low-income Massachusetts residents will receive discounted home heating oil this winter under an agreement signed Tuesday with Venezuela, whose government is a political adversary of the Bush administration. Citgo Petroleum Corp., a subsidiary of Venezuela’s ...

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An Idea Whose Time Has Come

Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 5:35:32 pm PST

Once again, we see the Islamofascist mullahs of Iran on the same side as our own Democratic Party. Go figure. Khameni to Talabani: Seek date for US withdrawal. (Hat tip: NC.) Iran’s supreme leader urged the Iraqi president on Tuesday to seek a timetable for the withdrawal of US troops from ...

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World's Ugliest Blogger Dies

Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 5:27:15 pm PST

Today is a sad day, because Sam, the world’s ugliest blogger, has passed away.

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Nice Words from /.

Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 5:11:46 pm PST

Be still my heart. LGF has had a couple of run-ins with the denizens of the übergeek site Slashdot, but today they’ve posted something about the OSM brouhaha that’s actually quite gracious: Open Source Media Changes Name. SPYvSPY writes “In a move that emphasizes the differences between the blog media and ...

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Saudi Account 98

Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 1:44:19 pm PST

Account 98 is the bank account used by the Saudis to collect donations for the jihad. They’ve been telling the US that this account no longer exists, but take a look at this video (courtesy of MEMRI TV) and see if you believe them. [Video]

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Steyn: Listen to the Word on the 'Arab Street'

Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 1:23:49 pm PST

Mark Steyn is listening to the word on the ‘Arab street,’—but it’s the left side of the American street we really need to worry about. Happily for Mr Zarqawi, no matter how desperate the head-hackers get, the Western defeatists can always top them. A Democrat Congressman, Jack Murtha, has called for ...

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Tuesday the Open

Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 12:18:30 pm PST

It’s Tuesday, I’ve been cleaning up the aftermath of today’s LGF server meltdown, and this here thing is what we call yer open thread...

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Was Mohammed Atta in Prague?

Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 11:28:49 am PST

More evidence of serious problems with the 9/11 Commission’s report, by Edward Jay Epstein at OpinionJournal: Atta in Prague? PRAGUE—On Oct. 27, 2001, the New York Times reported (erroneously) that 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta “flew to the Czech Republic on April 8 and met with [an] Iraqi intelligence officer,” helping to ...

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Israeli Warplanes Attack Hizballah

Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 10:44:05 am PST

The Hizballah terror gang has been increasingly emboldened of late, with Iran’s help, and today Israel struck back: Israeli Warplanes Hit Targets in Lebanon. JERUSALEM - Israeli said its warplanes struck in Lebanon on Tuesday in what Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz described as the largest-scale Israeli response to cross-border attacks ...

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The Return of the Son of the Pajama People

Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 12:04:20 am PST

We interrupt this program for an important announcement: Excuse us while we change back into our pajamas.

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Monday, November 21, 2005

Monday Night Bird

Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 11:47:13 pm PST

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Michael Yon: Show and Tell

Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 7:51:55 pm PST

Michael Yon shows us the brilliant faces of the children of Iraq—faces that mainstream media doesn’t want us to see. Don’t miss this.

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Guardian Cartoonist Hits Bottom, Digs

Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 4:50:54 pm PST

Probably the most deranged cartoonist outside of the Arab world (at one of the most deranged newspapers in the UK), Martin Rowson hits bottom and breaks out the power tools: George Bush’s visit to China. (Hat tip: NC.)

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The Theoretical Nuclear Two-Step

Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 1:42:27 pm PST

The buffoonish dance of the nuclear mullahs and their diplomatic enablers enters its latest phase—and it looks just like the last phase: U.S., Europe Won’t Push for Move on Iran. VIENNA, Austria - Washington and its European allies will forgo pushing for Iran’s referral to the U.N. Security Council later this ...

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A Veterans Day to “Honor” Our Troops

Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 9:20:31 am PST

LGF operative Rayra has a photo report on the moonbat festivities in Santa Monica, California, that took place on Veterans Day 2005, Day 1. (Whatever you do, don’t question their patriotism. Their feelings are very easily bruised.)

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PJ Editorial Board Profile: Adam Bellow

Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 9:13:43 am PST

And the profiles just keep on comin’ at Pajamas Media (yes, it still exists). Today we’re featuring executive editor-at-large for Doubleday and OSM editorial board member Adam Bellow.

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OSM: Look Back, in Pajamas

Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 8:46:01 am PST

At OSM today, we’re featuring an enormous Blog Carnival compiled by Glenn Reynolds, with fact, opinion, and analysis from every corner of the blogosphere on the issue of pre-war intelligence: Look back, in pajamas.

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Chris Matthews: Anti-American Rhetoric in Toronto

Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 8:29:17 am PST

Blow-dried raver Chris Matthews told students at the University of Toronto that the United States is blinded by hatred, and that we have no enemies—just people with different perspectives. (Hat tip: Damian Penny.) You can’t make up this kind of stuff. Four years after 9/11 and the “crazy zeitgeist” that permeated the ...

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White House: Zarqawi Death Reports "Not Credible"

Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 8:24:41 am PST

No definitive word yet on whether Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed in Mosul, but the White House is discounting the reports. Iraqi and US troops were continuing to hunt for the Jordanian-born Zarqawi, who has a 25 million dollar US bounty on his head, after commanders dismissed reports that he had ...

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France Back to Normal

Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 8:17:27 am PST

French Guard Dies Trying to Put Out Cars. PARIS - A high school guard suffered a heart attack and died Monday while trying to extinguish cars set aflame by vandals in the latest unrest in troubled French suburbs, police said. The guard collapsed southwest of Paris in Trappes, one of about 300 ...

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France: Not Safe for Jews

Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 8:00:11 am PST

We’ve all heard about the thousands of torched cars, but here’s a shocking look at how bad things have gotten in France: Barricaded in Paris. (Hat tip: i.j.) Mr. Barthel walks me through the school, which was built three years ago to what he calls “new specifications for a new reality.” “All ...

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Sunday, November 20, 2005

Sunday Blue Horizon

Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 11:38:00 pm PST

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Muslim Fanatics Terrorize a Nation

Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 8:15:52 pm PST

At The Australian, Anthony Browne has a must-read piece about the murderous intimidation being practiced in the Netherlands by Islamic jihad groups: Muslim fanatics terrorise a nation. And if I haven’t mentioned it lately, Dutch MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a heroine of the highest magnitude. A FILM about gay rights should ...

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What's Got Into TIME Magazine?

Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 5:20:40 pm PST

Oh man. Is CAIR ever going to be seething over this one: TIME.com Cartoons of the Week. (Hat tip: Laurence Simon.)

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Sharon Leaving Likud Party

Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 4:07:31 pm PST

Huge news from Israel, where Ariel Sharon is going to announce he will be leaving the Likud to start a new “centrist” poitical party. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon will announce on Monday that he intends to quit the Likud and form a new centrist political party, sources close to Sharon ...

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Breaking: Zarqawi Killed?

Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 9:15:34 am PST

Report: al-Zarqawi killed by explosions in Mosul. (Hat tip: Carl.) At least one Arab television media outlet reported that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the head of the al-Qaida in Iraq, was killed in Iraq on Sunday afternoon when eight terrorists blew themselves up in the in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. The ...

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Sunday Morning Open Thread

Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 8:25:07 am PST

This is a thread that is open...

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Krauthammer: Phony Theory, False Conflict

Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 8:16:15 am PST

The sharpest columnist at the Washington Post, Charles Krauthammer, has an excellent piece on the pseudo-science formerly known as “creationism:” Phony Theory, False Conflict. Let’s be clear. Intelligent design may be interesting as theology, but as science it is a fraud. It is a self-enclosed, tautological “theory” whose only holding is ...

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Bobby Mugabe Wants the Bomb

Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 8:08:08 am PST

Here’s a story to make you feel really safe and secure—another deranged dictator with access to uranium: Zimbabwe to Process Newly Found Uranium. (Hat tip: warbicycle.) HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - President Robert Mugabe has said Zimbabwe will process recently discovered uranium deposits in order to resolve its chronic electrical power shortage, ...

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Indonesia's "Religious Hatred"

Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 7:58:38 am PST

The Observer’s headline is: Machete killings fuel Indonesia’s religious hatred. The “religious hatred” they’re talking about is all coming from one side—the Islamic jihad gangs who kidnap and decapitate helpless Christian schoolgirls. For peaceful Christians many of them refugees from Poso, the existence of Ninja-clad attackers brings back memories of 2001 when ...

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Steyn: An "Exit Strategy" from Reality

Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 7:53:07 am PST

Senate adopts ‘exit strategy’ from reality. Any great power — never mind the preeminent power of the age — should be engaged with the world. That means, among other things, that it has a presence in those parts of the globe that are critical to its interest. For two years, the ...

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Saturday, November 19, 2005

What Media Bias?

Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 9:56:57 pm PST

The agenda of the al-Reuters news service is revealed beyond all doubt in this jaw-dropper of a headline: Car bombs kill 48 in Iraq; Bush says war on track. BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Car bombs killed 48 people in Iraq on Saturday, a day after more than 80 died in suicide blasts ...

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Palestinian Financial Abuse

Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 8:28:57 pm PST

Very interesting. The rats are deserting the sinking ship. Palestinian finance minister submits resignation. RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinian Finance Minister Salam Fayyad, who has battled parliament to force it to carry out fiscal belt tightening measures, has submitted his resignation ahead of legislative elections due in January. Fayyad, a former ...

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Cycle of Violence: No Climbing, Deep Lessons

Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 6:45:58 pm PST

Today’s ride: 49 miles, under a cloudless azure Southern California sky, suffering somewhat from the sort of jet lag you get when you fly across the country in both directions within three days. Dang, but it sure felt good to get out in that polluted Santa Ana windblown air! Down ...

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Mama Moonbat, Word Wrangler

Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 4:30:23 pm PST

Here’s a nauseatingly slobbery puff piece from the Associated Press about Mother Sheehan’s book. (Hat tip: Andrew.) After spending scorching August days with hundreds of war protesters at her makeshift camp near President Bush’s Crawford ranch, Cindy Sheehan slipped away each night to her tent or RV for a few quiet ...

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Saturday Open

Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 9:13:43 am PST

A bright and sunny Saturday open thread...

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Huge Anti-Terror Protest in Jordan

Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 9:10:49 am PST

The Washington Times is apparently the only newspaper in America that thinks a story like this is important: 200,000 protest Amman attacks. AMMAN, Jordan — At least 200,000 persons demonstrated yesterday against the recent bombings of three luxury hotels, while a new online statement attributed to terrorist leader Abu Musab Zarqawi ...

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College Thrills and Chills

Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 8:45:33 am PST

Now playing at a university campus near you: The Tunnel of Oppression. (Hat tip: Chicken Kiev.) Since its original development in the mid-1990s, the Tunnel of Oppression has become a nationally recognized program offered at a number of college campuses including The Ohio State University, the University of Wisconsin at Eau ...

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Breaking: Hollywood Star Notices Reality

Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 8:25:11 am PST

Johnny Depp is appalled by the behavior of the hoi polloi, and wants to leave France. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Hollywood star JOHNNY DEPP is so shocked by the riots raging through France, he’s considering abandoning his home in the country. The FINDING NEVERLAND heart-throb moved to Europe when life in Los ...

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Palestinian Civil War Watch

Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 8:17:12 am PST

The peaceful, oppressed Palestinian people are murdering each other in Gaza: Palestinian Teen Killed in Gun Battle. KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip - Two rival clans and Palestinian police exchanged fire in a dispute over land in the area of a former Israeli settlement in Gaza, killing a 17-year-old civilian and wounding ...

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Never Send a Man to Do a Boy's Job

Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 8:14:30 am PST

Army arrests Palestinian youths carrying weapons. One youngster, whom a spokeswoman said was 17, was stopped with two pipe bombs at Salem checkpoint at the northernmost tip of the West Bank. A short while later, three other youngsters were stopped at the Huwwara checkpoint outside Nablus carrying two knives, a loaded ammunition ...

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French Muslim Leaders Blame Everyone Else

Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 8:10:55 am PST

As usual, French Muslim leaders reject blame for riots. (Hat tip: zulubaby.) PARIS (Reuters) - French Muslim leaders denounced on Thursday efforts to blame Muslims and Islam for recent riots in the country’s rundown suburbs and said they saw worrying signs of growing prejudice against their faith here. Many young rioters may ...

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Friday, November 18, 2005

Kurt Vonnegut: Moonbat

Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 11:22:07 pm PST

A formerly great writer goes off the deep end: US author lauds suicide bombers. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) ONE of the greatest living US writers has praised terrorists as “very brave people” and used drug culture slang to describe the “amazing high” suicide bombers must feel before blowing themselves up. Kurt Vonnegut, ...

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UN Department of Chutzpah

Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 11:16:36 pm PST

The United Nations wants America to pay more than 350 million dollars to renovate their Manhattan headquarters: Cost of U.N. Renovation Rises $400 Million. UNITED NATIONS - A review of ways to cut the cost of a long-overdue renovation of U.N. headquarters instead found that the project will need $400 million ...

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The French Intifada: A Second Look

Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 9:12:37 pm PST

A very perceptive post at ShrinkWrapped explores the disturbing psychological roots of The French Intifada: A Second Look. The most important of the several developmental steps that are required to move from late adolescence into early adulthood is the surrender of the adolescent fantasy of omnipotentiality (the idea that all future ...

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The Democrats' Plan for Iraq

Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 5:51:54 pm PST

(Photoshop courtesy of LGF reader David L.)

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France Back to Normal

Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 5:06:25 pm PST

According to Agence France Presse, the situation in France has returned to normal. “Normal,” in this case, means that a mere 98 cars are being torched every night. PARIS (AFP) - The situation throughout France has returned to normal after nearly three weeks of urban violence that left 9,000 vehicles torched and ...

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Bin Laden Revisionism at Duke

Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 4:47:38 pm PST

Yesterday we linked to a report in the Telegraph that a Duke University professor was releasing an “annotated, scholarly collection” of the words of mass murderer Osama bin Laden. The Telegraph quoted the author, Bruce Lawrence, describing bin Laden as “one of the best prose writers in Arabic.” But this article ...

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Iran's Manhattan Project

Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 2:59:55 pm PST

Only Rip Van Winkle could possibly be surprised by this news: Iran Received Black Market Nuclear Designs. Rip Van Winkle ... or a United Nations diplomat. VIENNA, Austria - The U.N. atomic watchdog agency revealed Friday that Iran received black market nuclear designs that diplomats say appear to be blueprints for the ...

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Zarqawi Threatens King Abdullah of Jordan

Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 1:12:51 pm PST

Al-Zarqawi Tape Threatens Jordan’s King. AMMAN, Jordan - An audiotape in the name of al-Qaida in Iraq threatened on Friday to chop off King Abdullah II’s head and bomb more hotels and tourist sites. The speaker on the tape, identified as Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, also said the group’s suicide bombers did ...

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RoP in Milan

Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 1:08:32 pm PST

From Tapes, a Chilling Voice of Islamic Radicalism in Europe. MILAN - Playing an Internet video one evening last year, an Egyptian radical living in Milan reveled as the head of an American, Nicholas Berg, was sawed off by his Iraqi captors. “Go to hell, enemy of God!” shouted the man, Rabei ...

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What You Need to Know About OSM

Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 9:58:44 am PST

Iowahawk, helpful as always, offers a guide to OSM for those puzzled by any of the tempests currently raging in internet teapots: The Blockbuster OSM Deal: What You Need to Know. As many of you have no doubt heard, there is a major new blog business thing that was started up ...

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Friday Rolls Around

Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 9:50:48 am PST

Huh? What? Friday morning? How did that happen? If I’d woken up five minutes earlier, I would have caught that guy pounding my temples with a ball peen hammer...

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Thursday, November 17, 2005

The Ghost of Linkage Past

Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 10:13:59 pm PST

At Protein Wisdom, the great and powerful Allah weighs in on the OSM “controversy.”

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Abu Mazen Says...

Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 10:05:55 pm PST

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Open Pajamas Thread

Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 9:51:58 pm PST

Here’s an open thread with a theme: it was quite amazing to meet and communicate directly with many of the bloggers I’ve previously known only through their writing, at the launch of OSM in New York this week. If you were at the launch event, or at one of the ...

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British MP: Ban Inbreeding Before It's Too Late

Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 8:51:07 pm PST

Mind-blowing statistics on the horrible effects of Muslim inbreeding in Britain, from The Telegraph: Ban Asian marriages of cousins, says MP. (Hat tip: Alex.) Marriages between cousins should be banned after research showed alarming rates in defective births among Asian communities in Britain, a Labour MP said last night. The report, commissioned ...

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Ahmadinejad Continues Purging "Moderates"

Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 8:14:20 pm PST

Radical Islamic Iranian “president” Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is eliminating his opponents: Iran in political turmoil as president purges opponents. (Hat tip: NC.) Iran is facing political paralysis as its newly elected president purges government institutions, bringing accusations that he is undertaking a coup d’état. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s clearout of his opponents began last month ...

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Ayaan Hirsi Ali Won't Back Down

Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 7:15:46 pm PST

Dutch MP to make gay Islam film. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) A Somali-born Dutch MP who collaborated on the film that led to the murder of director Theo van Gogh has written a sequel, about Islam’s attitude to gays. Ayaan Hirsi Ali received death threats after her work on Submission, a film ...

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Thursday Open Thread

Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 6:42:31 am PST

Here’s an open thread for Thursday morning...

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Bin Laden's World O' Fun

Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 6:33:21 am PST

Just what the world needs: an “annotated, scholarly collection” of the words of a mass-murdering Islamic fanatic: The world of bin Laden: no drinks, no gambling, no pictures of women. Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama bin Laden is billed as the first accurate compendium of the terrorist leader’s ...

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Louis Freeh on Able Danger

Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 6:25:13 am PST

Former FBI director Louis Freeh takes a look at the persistent, growing scandal of “Able Danger:” An Incomplete Investigation. It was interesting to hear from the 9/11 Commission again on Tuesday. This self-perpetuating and privately funded group of lobbyists and lawyers has recently opined on hurricanes, nuclear weapons, the Baltimore Harbor ...

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Are Muslim Leaders Derelict?

Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 5:58:02 am PST

Here’s a rarity (unfortunately)—a mainstream media op-ed that doesn’t mince words about the agenda of Islamic advocacy groups: Are Muslim leaders derelict in not denouncing acts of terrorism? Yes. (Hat tip: Sarah D.) When a suicide bomber from the Islamic Jihad killed five Israelis and wounded dozens more in the coastal ...

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Wednesday, November 16, 2005

Call on the Clue Phone for the Philly Inquirer

Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 2:55:14 pm PST

Jeff Goldstein live-blogged the OSM launch event from an alternate universe, and managed to fool more than one clueless detractor: Liveblogging the Pajamas Media launch festivities from the W Hotel in New York.

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French Intifada Getting Better All the Time

Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 2:05:41 pm PST

Only 163 cars were burned by Muslim rioters in France last night, in only 79 towns. French Arson Attacks Continue to Fall. Maybe they’re just running out of cars?

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Ain't Multiculturalism Grand?

Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 1:56:55 pm PST

According to France’s Employment Minister, one of the causes of the French intifada is polygamy. Polygamy among immigrants is one cause of the rioting that has plagued France for the past two weeks, according to Gerard Larcher, the Employment Minister. M Larcher was quoted as saying that large, polygamous families sometimes led ...

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The Epitome of Taste

Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 1:52:51 pm PST

Althouse jumps the shark. Open Sores Media. Swapping semen for pus, bodily fluids-wise. Classy.

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Muslim Brotherhood Rising

Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 1:16:36 pm PST

The prototype for Al Qaeda, and perhaps the most influential group in promoting the global jihad, the Muslim Brotherhood is winning big in the Egyptian legislative elections. The leading Islamic group is scoring high in Egypt’s legislative elections where, with only a third of polling completed, it has more than doubled ...

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Judith Miller: OSM Keynote Speaker

Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 10:51:42 am PST

Featuring the right side of the back of John Podhoretz’s head.

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View From a Height

Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 5:02:12 am PST

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OSM Launch Open Thread

Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 4:11:35 am PST

Pajamas Media is launching today under our new name, and here’s an open thread for the occasion...

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Tuesday, November 15, 2005

Pre-Launch Open Thread

Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 8:47:02 pm PST

Psst. I have it on good authority that the lizardoid alien from planet Aidemydni who runs this site has left his secret nitrogen-filled chamber underneath Denver International Airport (a very rare occurrence) and is currently fending off hordes of crazed bloggers, somewhere on the east coast. This droid has been ...

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Tuesday the Open

Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 8:22:38 am PST

It’s an open thread for an open Tuesday ...

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No Debating Their Hatred

Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 7:57:05 am PST

Clifford May shows why we we call these people “moonbats,” in a piece on an America- and Israel-hating conference in Ireland: No debating their hatred: Some just see U.S., Israel as focus of all that’s evil. We had gathered at the venerable University Philosophical Society of Trinity College in Dublin to ...

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Sleepwear Is In This Year

Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 7:34:02 am PST

All the best-dressed people are wearing them: Pajama-Clad Revolutionaries.

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Wouldn't It Be Loverly?

Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 7:30:21 am PST

Wouldn’t it be nice if this deal actually led to peace? Israel, Palestinians OK Gaza Border Deal. JERUSALEM - Prodded by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Israel and the Palestinians agreed Tuesday on details for opening the borders of the Gaza Strip and allowing freer movement for Palestinians elsewhere, a significant ...

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Arafish Revisionism

Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 7:03:29 am PST

British rag al-Guardian continues to surprise us with their astonishing depravity. Here we have a piece lauding one of the world’s most disgusting murderous despots as a moral titan: Arafat the obstacle has been exposed as a myth. One year after Yasser Arafat’s death, and he has passed into silent myth ...

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Monday, November 14, 2005

RoP Attacks KFC in Pakistan

Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 11:26:25 pm PST

Blast Outside KFC in Pakistan Kills Three. KARACHI, Pakistan - A powerful car bomb exploded outside the front entrance to a KFC restaurant in the southern Pakistan city of Karachi early Tuesday, killing at least three people and injuring 12 others, police said. The blast, which went off about 8:45 a.m., badly ...

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The Independent Eulogizes a Terrorist

Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 8:44:23 pm PST

I hope you’re sitting down for this one: Brit paper’s terrorist obituary. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) What do ballet dancer Fernando Bujones, science fiction author Michael Coney, royal photographer Earl of Lichfield and arch terrorist Azahari Bin Husin have in common? All four apparently belong on the same obituaries page, according ...

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Dozens of Evil Jihad Videos

Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 7:00:36 pm PST

This may blow your mind: a collection of sickening jihad videos at Ummah.com: Chechnya Archive. This is our enemy, folks.

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Our Pals the Saudis

Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 5:43:22 pm PST

The Saudis may want us to believe they’re “cracking down on terrorism,” but stories like this show how deeply the culture of jihad and hatred permeates their society: Teacher Charged With Mocking Religion Sentenced to Jail. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) JEDDAH, 14 November 2005 — The controversial case of Muhammad Al-Harbi, ...

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RoP in Indonesia

Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 11:01:37 am PST

The mastermind of the Bali bombings, who committed suicide when cornered by Indonesian police, had stockpiled at least 30 bombs. THIRTY bombs have been found in the house where accused Bali bombing mastermind Azahari Husin blew himself up. Federal Police Commissioner Mick Keelty said Azahari’s head remained intact after he blew himself ...

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RoP in Bangladesh Kills Judges to Force Shari'a

Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 10:57:41 am PST

JMB suicide bomber kills 2 judges. (Hat tip: Baldy.) Outlawed Islamist outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) has struck again, this time killing two senior assistant judges and wounding three people in a suicide bomb attack in Jhalakathi yesterday. The JMB operatives launched two attacks on judges and courts last month and vowed ...

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Thai Government Arms Civilians Against Islamists

Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 10:19:49 am PST

The government of Thailand will arm and train residents of the southern provinces, to defend against attacks from Islamic groups. About 20,000 residents will be trained and armed in the three southernmost provinces enabling them to defend their villages and spy on the movements of insurgents in the restive region, commander ...

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Monday Morning Open

Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 8:42:19 am PST

Heeeeeeeere’s Monday...

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Death Cult Child Trafficking

Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 8:29:25 am PST

Children orphaned by the earthquake in Pakistan are being conscripted by followers of the Religion of Peace™ to be turned into soulless killing machines: Quake orphans ‘adopted’ for jihad. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Pakistan’s leading human rights organisation, the Ansar Burney Welfare Trust, said jihadi groups fighting the Indian government were ...

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PJ Profile: Roger L. Simon

Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 8:15:00 am PST

Todays featured profile at Pajamas Media: some guy named Roger L. Simon.

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RoP Attacks Aussie Media

Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 8:04:30 am PST

When the members of the recently-exposed Australian Islamic terror cell were arraigned in a Sydney court, their supporters gathered outside the building and savagely attacked reporters: We don’t want to work with these thugs. (Hat tip: LGF readers.)

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BBC Hits Bottom, Digs

Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 7:58:52 am PST

In an admiring photo essay on the making of suicide bomber propaganda film “Paradise Now,” the BBC reaches a new low in the caption of a photo of Palestinian child abuse: Shooting Paradise Now. (Hat tip: Mainah.) Palestinian children learn at a young age about the struggle for freedom. To ...

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Islamic Terror Cell Targeted Sydney Nuclear Reactor

Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 7:48:10 am PST

Sydney nuclear reactor terror plot target. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) SYDNEY (Reuters) - Eight Sydney men arrested on terrorism charges may have been planning a bomb attack against the city’s nuclear reactor, police said on Monday. Their Islamic spiritual leader, also charged with terrorism offences, told the men if they wanted to ...

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Sunday, November 13, 2005

RoP Rampage in Somalia Kills 12

Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 10:28:31 pm PST

To demonstrate their moral superiority over decadent Western films, Islamic militias in Somalia went on a rampage, killing at least 12 people. (Hat tip: Ethel.) HEAVY fighting apparently sparked by an Islamic militia’s moves to close cinemas and video stores in the lawless Somali capital has killed at least 12 people ...

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TIME Magazine's Terrorist Sources

Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 10:16:47 pm PST

TIME Magazine apparently has very low standards for being a “source.” How low? This low. (Hat tip: efuseakay.) While insurgent sources in Iraq told TIME they had no prior knowledge of the Amman attacks, the fact that al-Zarqawi would strike Jordan wasn’t surprising.

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French Intifada, Day 18

Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 8:53:31 pm PST

France insists that things are returning to normal. As dozens of cars and two schools are set ablaze by Muslim youths: Two Schools Ablaze As French Unrest Persists. (Hat tip: Beagle.) PARIS - France’s national police chief said Sunday that the country’s worst rioting since the 1960s seemed to be nearing an ...

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Moonbats on the Web

Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 8:48:43 pm PST

Here there be moonbats: World Can’t Wait | Drive Out the Bush Regime.

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Five Questions Non-Muslims Would Like Answered

Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 8:34:30 pm PST

I’m not sure what’s gotten into the Los Angeles Times (maybe it’s related to their plummeting circulation?), but today they published an amazing op-ed by Dennis Prager that asks Five questions non-Muslims would like answered. THE RIOTING IN France by primarily Muslim youths and the hotel bombings in Jordan are ...

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PJ Profile: Yay Sports!

Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 6:41:53 pm PST

Tonight at Pajamas Media, a profile of one of the coolest sports bloggers on the web, The Cavalier of YAY Sports!

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He's Bad, in a Hijab

Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 5:41:53 pm PST

The man who redefines the term “stark raving loony” sets a new standard: Michael Jackson’s toilet faux pas in Dubai. (Hat tip: Ed Mahmoud.) DUBAI — When she went to the ladies washroom in the Egyptian Court of Ibn Battuta Mall at 9.30 last night, 37-year old Latifa M. never imagined ...

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I Hope You're Sitting Down

Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 4:42:59 pm PST

You almost have to admire the sheer bald-faced audacity of Palestinian spokesliar Ahmed Qureia: Palestinians foiled 48 anti-Israeli attacks last month: Qorei. RAMALLAH, West Bank (AFP) - Palestinian security forces foiled 48 attempted attacks against Israeli targets last month, prime minister Ahmed Qorei said as US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice ...

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Sunday Morning Open Thread

Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 7:55:16 am PST

Stand back ... it’s the Sunday open thread ...

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Death Cult Chivalry

Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 7:44:32 am PST

Jordan Captures Wife of Suicide Bomber. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) AMMAN, Jordan - Jordanian security forces on Sunday arrested an Iraqi woman, whose husband is suspected of blowing up one of three Amman hotels, after being tipped off by an al-Qaida claim that a husband-and-wife team participated in the attacks that ...

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Saudis Suddenly Want to Help Iraq

Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 7:42:56 am PST

Saudis Pledge $1 Billion to Rebuild Iraq, but Iraq would be foolish to take it. Saudi money always comes with Wahhabist strings attached. Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister said he is less worried that U.S. policies in Iraq will bring on a civil war there, and pledged anew to contribute $1 billion ...

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Palestinians Want UN to Validate Their Lunacy

Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 7:08:08 am PST

The evil creeps who run the PLO are pulling the UN’s antisemitic strings again: PLO Calls for UN Probe Into Arafat’s Death. DAMASCUS, Syria - A senior Palestinian official has called for a U.N. investigation into the death of Yasser Arafat, reiterating allegations that the Palestinian leader was poisoned by Israel. Farouk ...

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Saturday, November 12, 2005

Saturday Night Beach

Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 10:58:08 pm PST

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Muslim Extremists in Fierce Battle with Philippine Military

Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 10:36:33 pm PST

There’s hardly a word about it in US media, but Islamic terror gang Abu Sayyaf has been battling a Philippine task force for three days. From Yahoo News Australia: Twenty slain as soldiers, Muslim extremists battle in Philippines. ZAMBOANGA, Philippines (AFP) - As many as 20 people are believed to have ...

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French Intifada, Day 17

Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 7:58:41 pm PST

The Muslim intifada in France shows no signs of ending: French Police Clash With Youths in Lyon. PARIS - Thousands of Parisian police guarded the Eiffel Tower, the Champs Elysees and train stations on Saturday, as part of emergency measures enacted in response to text messages and Internet postings that called ...

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Al Qaeda Hates Queen Elizabeth

Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 7:47:01 pm PST

Queen Elizabeth top al-Qaeda enemy: report. (Hat tip: Van Impe.) London — Al-Qaeda has named Queen Elizabeth “one of the severest enemies of Islam,” the British Sunday Times newspaper reported, citing a video message allegedly obtained by Britain’s security service. The Sunday Times said the remarks were contained in a video message ...

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Mary Mapes Has a Defender

Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 6:42:31 pm PST

There’s at least one MSM journalist willing to go on the record to support Mary Mapes’ risible claims: Like a good neighbor, Mary Mapes’ defender is there... I’m an anti-Bush guy, and I know Mary Mapes a little. She’s a neighbor. But I hope you’ll stick with me even if you’re ...

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Your Moment of BDS

Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 6:31:33 pm PST

Here’s your moment of Bush Derangement Syndrome, delivered courtesy of the “progressive” idiotarians at commondreams.org: Answer to Bush’s Speech: It’s our Foreign Policy, Stupid. What do you do when your Administration is losing in the second half? You talk “terror.” And what an opportunity for the President on Veterans Day. It was ...

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Stolen Computer Reveals Iran's Manhattan Project

Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 4:58:13 pm PST

The New York Times reveals more US intelligence secrets: Relying on Computer, U.S. Seeks to Prove Iran’s Nuclear Aims. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) In mid-July, senior American intelligence officials called the leaders of the international atomic inspection agency to the top of a skyscraper overlooking the Danube in Vienna and unveiled ...

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The Misguided Church

Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 4:41:48 pm PST

At the Jerusalem Post, an on-target piece by Joseph D’Hippolito on the astounding moral bankruptcy of the Church of England’s decision to apologize to Muslim leaders for the invasion of Iraq: The misguided church. The Church of England’s latest opinion on Middle Eastern affairs ranks among its most bankrupt. A recent report ...

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How the Left Supports the Troops

Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 9:08:19 am PST

Here’s another wonderful example of how the so-called “progressive” movement supports our troops: Leave My Child Alone. (Hat tip: Maggie.)

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Saturday Morning Open

Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 8:59:01 am PST

Here’s the Saturday morning open thread, in all its glory; I promise not to bring up Pat Robertson today. (Oops. I just did.)

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French Intifada Continues to Rage

Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 8:53:02 am PST

Police enforce Paris rallies ban. In the city of Lyon, police fired tear gas to break up groups of youths who hurled bins and other objects at them. Disturbances erupted on the city’s central Place Bellecour early on Saturday evening and police made one arrest, AFP news agency reports. The rioting which erupted ...

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RoP Riots Over "Koran Burning" Rumor

Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 8:51:07 am PST

Violence follows ‘Koran burning’. Police in the Pakistani province of Punjab have arrested 90 people after protests against an alleged desecration of the Koran. Police officials say the unrest began after rumours spread that a Christian man had set fire to a library containing copies of the Koran. The crowd set fire to ...

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Jordanian: "Something Not Even a Jew Would Do"

Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 8:35:33 am PST

Such lovely people. In Zarqa, Munder Moomeni, a 38-year-old former soldier who lives next to Zarqawi’s house, 13 Ramzi Street, described his former neighbour as “a bastard”. “By killing Jordanians here in Jordan, civilian Jordanians going to a wedding, they did something that not even a Jew would do,” he said. ...

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Newsweek: Never Mind Iran

Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 8:30:31 am PST

Newsweek tells us to just ignore that “tough talk” coming from Iranian “president” Ahmadinejad—you know, when he called for the destruction of Israel? yes, that “tough talk”—because they don’t really mean it. In fact, the mullahs are quite moderate, and getting more so. (Hat tip: Soxblog.) Nov. 10, 2005 - Is ...

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Friday, November 11, 2005

Iowahawk: Les Risibles

Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 10:30:30 pm PST

Opening soon on off-off-off-Broadway, Iowahawk’s acclaimed new musical tragicomedy: Les Risiblés. ACT I Split stage. On the right, a group of immigrant street toughs mill outside a bleak suburban banlieu. On the right: President Jacques Chirac’s office in Elysee Palace, where Chirac is toasting another French diplomatic victory with Prime Minister Dominique ...

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RoP in Jordan: Israel Responsible for Hotel Bombings

Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 9:49:20 pm PST

It didn’t take very long for the usual vile antisemitism of the Arab world to rear its ugly head: Many in Jordan See Old Enemy in Attack: Israel. ZARQA, Jordan, Nov. 11 - The Maktoum Mosque was crowded with worshipers for Friday Prayer as the imam sharply criticized the suicide attacks ...

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Veterans Day, 2005

Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 9:33:18 pm PST

On this Veterans Day, we should all take a moment to remember and honor the valor and bravery of the men and women in America’s military, and the sacrifices they make to let us live in comfort and safety. There are no better human beings on this earth. Some among us ...

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What's On Dead Arafat's Desk?

Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 8:26:25 pm PST

It’s been quite a while since our last episode of “What’s On Arafat’s Desk?”, but thanks to international media’s worship of this mass-murdering monster, we have a new installment tonight. Courtesy of the museum dedicated to immortalizing one of the worst creatures of the 20th century, here’s a look at ...

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Suicide Bombers Are People, Too

Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 7:45:11 pm PST

MSNBC/Newsweek says, Suicide Bombers Are People, Too, as they promote an ugly, blatant, morally bankrupt piece of Palestinian propaganda. Yes, they’re people too. Psychotic people who blow themselves up to commit mass murder. Shame on MSNBC. Shame.

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France Burning

Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 5:59:46 pm PST

Via The Bad Hair Blog, here’s a map from The Economist showing the true extent of the French intifada: Fausta’s question is right on the mark: Now ponder that map, and ask yourselves what kind of European (and American) media noise would we be hearing if we’ve had fifteen continuous days of ...

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French Intifada, Day 16

Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 5:27:38 pm PST

As the French intifada enters its 16th night, Some in France Ask: Where Are the Parents? (Hat tip: Jeremy.) And the AP provides an easy answer. The parents are afraid of disciplining their little monsters. Many parents are struggling to make ends meet, leaving them little time for their children. They often ...

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CBS Document Examiner: Mapes is Lying

Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 1:27:14 pm PST

Emily Will, the document examiner who expressed serious misgivings about the infamous CBS News National Guard memos even before they were definitively proven to be fakes, takes apart some of the false and misleading claims in ex-producer Mary Mapes’ ridiculous book: MemoGate - Duty to Tell the Truth. (Hat tip: ...

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PJ Editorial Board Profile: Larry Kudlow

Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 12:51:02 pm PST

Pajamas Media is very pleased to announce another distinguished member of our editorial board, host of CNBC’s Kudlow & Company and a fine blogger himself, Larry Kudlow.

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Breaking: Saddam Aide Al-Douri "Dies"

Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 10:30:39 am PST

‘Key fugitive Saddam aide dies’. One of Saddam Hussein’s most trusted aides, Ezzat Ibrahim al-Douri, has died, his Baath party says. “The leader of the resistance... died on Friday, 11 November, at 0220 [Thursday 2320 GMT],” the statement said. There are no other details. Mr Douri was the most senior figure in the ...

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Robertson Does It Again

Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 9:28:35 am PST

Some LGF readers get upset when I point this out, but Pat Robertson is the very epitome of an idiotarian, and he’s proving it once again: Pat Robertson warns Pa. town of disaster. VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson warned residents of a rural Pennsylvania town Thursday that disaster ...

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"Peace and Justice" = Surrender

Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 9:19:55 am PST

Any time a group uses the words “Peace and Justice” in their name, you can be sure that they have absolutely nothing to do with either. The latest disgusting action by the “Peace and Justice” crowd—a display of white flags at a veterans’ cemetery in Maine. And the Associated Press is ...

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Friday Open Thread

Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 9:09:08 am PST

Another week draws to a close, and another thread becomes open...

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A Strange Sort of Stability

Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 9:07:59 am PST

At No Pasaran: This is ‘stability’. 463 vehicles burned, 201 arrests, 7 police injured, and 8 police suspended for doing their job. In Lyon, 4 police were hurt by thrown rocks. Violence in the greater Paris area ticked up a bit. 12,000 police are being kept on duty through the weekend (including the ...

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RoP Leader Arrested in Trinidad

Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 8:54:05 am PST

Trinidadian Police Arrest Islamic Leader. PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad - Trinidadian police have arrested an Islamic leader, whose group stormed Parliament 15 years ago and took the prime minister and his Cabinet hostage. Yasin Abu Bakr, 64, leader of Jamaat al-Muslimeen, was arrested Monday and charged on Wednesday with sedition and violent incitement. On ...

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Remember the French Riots? They're Still Going

Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 8:09:40 am PST

News from France about the continuing Muslim riots seems to have been shut off like a spigot—even though nearly 500 cars were torched again last night. Here’s one of the few reports available, at canada.com: Residents to march in Paris to call for end to unrest. (Hat tip: Gerald.) PARIS — Police ...

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NYT Notices: Suicide Bombings Are Evil

Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 8:03:45 am PST

Column after column from Maureen Dowd and Frank Rich and Paul Krugman, mocking the President for using the word. News report after news report about Palestinian suicide bombings and Al Qaeda atrocities couched in carefully measured language, no matter how repellent the act, never mentioning the word. And suddenly, in a ...

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Terrorism Close to Home

Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 7:53:14 am PST

Andrew Breitbart remembers his friend Rima Akkad, one of the victims of the Jordanian hotel bombings: Al Qaeda killed my friend.

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Thursday, November 10, 2005

Overnight Open Thread

Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 11:08:03 pm PST

Here’s a late night open thread for the insomniacs...

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Palestinians Mourn Foul Beast

Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 11:00:35 pm PST

Palestinians paid tribute today to one of the most evil murderous monsters of the 20th century: Thousands Attend Arafat Memorial in Gaza. GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Several thousand people joined a rally of the ruling Fatah movement on Thursday to mark the first anniversary of the death of longtime Palestinian ...

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UK Muslim Groups Seethe, Whine

Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 10:54:40 pm PST

Absolutely astounding Orwellian doublespeak from British Muslim advocacy groups: Terror bill chilling for Muslims, Blair warned. (Hat tip: NC.) The Muslim community’s police and security working group report makes clear that many believe the present anti-terror regime is already excessive, and that the measures risk provoking further radicalisation of young British ...

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Shoe on Other Foot

Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 8:25:17 pm PST

Jordan Attacks Claim 17 From One Family, and Palestinians are grief-stricken. SILET AL-THAHER, West Bank - In this Palestinian village, the Akhras clan mourned 17 relatives killed by a suicide bomber in Jordan — the first time Palestinians have been a target in a suicide attack. “Oh my God, oh my God. ...

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Is the US Making Suicidal Deals with an Implacable Enemy?

Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 8:10:31 pm PST

You have got to be kidding me: West offers uranium deal to Iranians. America and the European Union have agreed to offer Iran a “last ditch” concession in an attempt to avoid a showdown over its nuclear ambitions. The compromise would allow Iran to produce the gas used for making enriched uranium, ...

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Happy 230th Birthday, US Marines

Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 7:50:22 pm PST

It’s the 230th birthday of one of the finest fighting organizations in history: The Marines at 230.

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Kurdistan: The Other Iraq

Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 7:40:11 pm PST

Don’t miss this: Kurdistan - The Other Iraq. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) The Kurdistan Region in Iraq is a good news story that seldom gets told. With a population of 5 million in an area larger than Switzerland or twice the size of New Jersey, it is surprising that this region remains ...

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CODEPINK Plans Veterans Day Desecration

Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 6:27:58 pm PST

The privileged ghouls at CODEPINK are planning a large number of events in Los Angeles this Veterans Day weekend, to show how much they support the troops, and how much they value living in a country that doesn’t imprison and torture them for expressing such “patriotism:” Veterans Day LA. (Hat ...

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Aztlan: The French Muslim Rebellion

Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 5:12:22 pm PST

The hate-filled freaks at La Voz de Aztlan are not hiding their designs, as they express admiration for the French Muslim rioters and predict similar violence in the US: The French Muslim Rebellion of 2005. (Hat tip: overwatch.) Today, here in Los Angeles, we are already seeing ominous signs of an ...

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Hate Like an Iranian

Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 3:28:03 pm PST

The conference at which Iranian “president” Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced his intention to “wipe Israel off the map” has a web site: The World Without Zionism. And it’s unbelievably foul. This is the face Iran chooses to show to the world. (Hat tip: View From a Height.)

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Thursday Open Thread

Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 9:56:14 am PST

Here’s an open thread for a Thursday morning...

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French Media Covering Up the Intifada

Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 9:48:10 am PST

Riot coverage ‘excessive’, says French TV boss. (Hat tip: Ralph.) One of France’s leading TV news executives has admitted censoring his coverage of the riots in the country for fear of encouraging support for far-right politicians. Jean-Claude Dassier, the director general of the rolling news service TCI, said the prominence given to ...

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Sydney Terror Cell Was Stockpiling Bomb Material

Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 9:37:49 am PST

The terror cell raided in Australia this week had compiled enough chemicals to make at least 15 large bombs. (Hat tip: Ethel.) The Sydney arm of the alleged Islamic terrorist group raided this week had stockpiled enough chemicals to make at least 15 large bombs to be used against selected targets, ...

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Iran Government Press Interviews Holocaust Denier

Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 9:14:08 am PST

The vile antisemitism that dominates Islamic discourse is on full display at the Tehran Times, as they interview French Holocaust denier Robert Faurisson: Zionist power stems from West’s belief in “Holocaust” myth: Faurisson. (Hat tip: The Viking.) UPDATE at 11/10/05 9:21:30 am: And please note Faurisson’s most prominent American defender: Noam Chomsky. ...

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Aussie Islamic Leader Fears "Redneck" Backlash

Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 8:27:48 am PST

Following the breakup of an Islamic terror cell in the final stages of planning a large attack in Australia, Muslim leaders are once again more concerned about “backlash” than about the presence of mass murderers in their communities: Warning on ’redneck backlash’. A KEY Muslim leader has warned radical clerics to tone down ...

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Wednesday, November 09, 2005

RoP Kills 57 in Jordan

Wed, Nov 9, 2005 at 11:34:44 pm PST

Suicide Bombers Kill 57 at Jordan Hotels. AMMAN, Jordan - Suicide bombers carried out nearly simultaneous attacks on three U.S.-based hotels in the Jordanian capital Wednesday night, killing at least 57 people and wounding 115 in what appeared to be an al-Qaida assault on an Arab kingdom with close ties to ...

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PJ Editorial Board Profile: Clifford May

Wed, Nov 9, 2005 at 7:56:23 pm PST

Tonight we’re pleased to announce another distinguished member of the Pajamas Media Editorial Board, president of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, Clifford May.

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USA Today: Burning and Looting = Civil Disobedience

Wed, Nov 9, 2005 at 5:32:11 pm PST

In USA Today, contributing editor Souhelia Al-Jadda perpetrates a first degree language crime: In French riots, a lesson for Europe. (Hat tip: da.) The riots in France that started in the Parisian suburbs are ringing alarm bells throughout Europe. These incidents of civil disobedience should serve as lessons to neighboring countries ...

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How Credible is Jeff Englehart?

Wed, Nov 9, 2005 at 5:25:34 pm PST

On the subject of the left’s latest cause du jour, the “white phosphorus” fairy tale, Michael Moynihan asks a question to which LGF readers probably already know the answer: How Credible is Jeff Englehart? The RAI film offers little in the way of evidence—gruesome photographs of “non-combatants” (who might or might ...

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French Intifada, Day 14

Wed, Nov 9, 2005 at 3:54:24 pm PST

The Associated Press declares: Rioting Begins to Slack Off in France. Overnight Tuesday-Wednesday, youths torched 617 vehicles, down from 1,173 a night earlier, police said. Incidents were reported in 116 towns, down from 226. Police made 280 arrests, raising the total to 1,830 since the violence broke out. Firefighters responded to ...

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Mary Mapes: Rathergate Revisionist

Wed, Nov 9, 2005 at 1:24:04 pm PST

Ousted CBS Producer Comes Out Swinging, and connects with absolutely nothing. Mary Mapes’s pathetic attempt to continue the charade that the CBS National Guard memos were genuine documents is simply destroyed by this animated GIF graphic, showing my version created in minutes with the default settings in Microsoft Word for ...

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Terror Attacks at 3 Hotels in Amman

Wed, Nov 9, 2005 at 11:40:15 am PST

There’s been a major terrorist attack at the Radisson Hotel in Amman: Several killed in hotel blast in Jordan. AMMAN (Reuters) - At least five people were killed and more than 12 others were wounded on Wednesday in a blast at an international hotel in the Jordanian capital, Amman, Reuters witnesses ...

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Wednesday Open Thread

Wed, Nov 9, 2005 at 11:11:20 am PST

An open thread for a rainy Wednesday...

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Weapons Expert Challenges White Phosphorus Claims

Wed, Nov 9, 2005 at 9:12:24 am PST

The latest story floated out to the ever-willing mainstream media by the “anti-war” crowd is that the US military used “chemical weapons” in Fallujah; Scott Burgess has a report that casts serious doubt on this claim: Ablution Exclusive: Weapons Expert Challenges White Phosphorus Claims.

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Podhoretz: Who Is Lying About Iraq?

Wed, Nov 9, 2005 at 7:46:36 am PST

An amazing piece by Norman Podhoretz, utterly devastating to the dishonest left and their false “narrative” about the Iraq War: Who Is Lying About Iraq? Among the many distortions, misrepresentations, and outright falsifications that have emerged from the debate over Iraq, one in particular stands out above all others. This is ...

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Tuesday, November 08, 2005

Our Friends the Saudis

Tue, Nov 8, 2005 at 9:28:21 pm PST

Four years after the atrocities of September 11, the Senate Judiciary Committee begins to notice the hatred radiating from Saudi Arabia: U.S. Lawmakers Told of Saudi-Funded Anti-West Rhetoric. (Hat tip: Newsbeat1.) The government of Saudi Arabia is distributing books and pamphlets across the United States in an effort to recruit American ...

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Tuesday Night Beach

Tue, Nov 8, 2005 at 9:20:04 pm PST

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Iowahawk: French Shower of News

Tue, Nov 8, 2005 at 9:07:05 pm PST

The riots in France take a turn for the worse. God help us all. WIDESPREAD PANIC AS JERRY LEWIS RAMPAGES IN PARISIAN STREETS The riots engulfing France took a dangerous new turn today, as diners and shoppers along the Champs Elysees were accosted by enraged madcap American comedian Jerry Lewis. In a daring ...

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De Villepin Fiddles As France Burns

Tue, Nov 8, 2005 at 8:46:23 pm PST

France Continues to Burn Despite Security. France declared a state of emergency Tuesday to quell the country’s worst unrest since the student uprisings of 1968 that toppled a government, and the prime minister said the nation faced a “moment of truth” over its failure to integrate Arab and African immigrants and ...

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A Rose Amidst Ashes, Revisited

Tue, Nov 8, 2005 at 7:32:54 pm PST

Arab blogger Karim Elsahy notices the story of Ahmed Khatib, the 12-year old Palestinian boy who was shot by IDF soldiers while carrying a toy gun in a war zone: Unbelievable. And he specifically calls out LGF: Can you imagine? Your 12 year old son dies at the hands of an Israeli ...

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"I Am Not a Terrorist, I'm a Victim"

Tue, Nov 8, 2005 at 7:24:33 pm PST

The Washington Post really wants us to see the French Muslim rioters as victims: Violence Erupts As Its Roots Are Debated in Plaza. TOULOUSE, France, Nov. 8 — On the broad concrete slab that is the main plaza in Reynerie, a neighborhood of Arab and black African heritage in this high-tech ...

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Zombie: Artists Consider Imaginary Country

Tue, Nov 8, 2005 at 7:11:57 pm PST

LGF operative zombie’s latest photo report deals with another outrageous pro-terrorist “art exhibit” in (where else?) Berkeley: Justice Matters: Artists Consider Palestine.

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CAIR Goes After Another Islam Critic

Tue, Nov 8, 2005 at 7:09:40 pm PST

CAIR goes after Robert Spencer.

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De Villepin Springs Into Action

Tue, Nov 8, 2005 at 2:02:39 pm PST

French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin has a plan for stopping the orgy of destruction and violence in his country—give the rioters lots of money, preferential treatment, and expanded social services, and crack down on discrimination against them: French PM announces raft of measures for riot-hit poor suburbs. The intiatives are: - ...

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"A Professor by Day and a Terrorist by Night"

Tue, Nov 8, 2005 at 11:31:35 am PST

The prosecution’s closing arguments in the trial of accused Islamic Jihad kingpin Sami Al-Arian: Al-Arian Likened To Don In Mafia. TAMPA - — After five months of sometimes dense and confusing testimony, jurors in Sami Al-Arian’s terror-support trial look as if they have mastered the complex maze of foreign names and ...

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Tuesday Open Thread

Tue, Nov 8, 2005 at 9:30:50 am PST

The Tuesday thread of openness...

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EU Springs into Action

Tue, Nov 8, 2005 at 8:39:50 am PST

EU demands nuke compliance from Iran. BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union insisted on Monday that Iran comply with an international resolution that it freeze all sensitive nuclear activities but said it was studying a new offer of talks from Tehran. British Foreign Minister Jack Straw said the EU had not “so ...

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France's Horrendous Balance Sheet

Tue, Nov 8, 2005 at 8:14:44 am PST

At the New York Sun, the editor of Paris journal Valeurs Actuelles reveals that when rioters are shopping for a car that will look nice in flames, they’re sparing vehicles belonging to Muslims: France Facing ‘Horrendous’ Balance Sheet. (Hat tip: NC.) How ethnic is the present violence in France? Liberal commentators, ...

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Steyn: Early Skirmish in the Eurabian Civil War

Tue, Nov 8, 2005 at 8:04:28 am PST

On target again, Mark Steyn comments on the European intifada: Early skirmish in the Eurabian civil war. Look at it this way: after two weeks, whose prestige has been more enhanced? The rioters? Or Mayor Debré, President Chirac and Prime Minister de Villepin? On every front these past two weeks, the ...

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Monday, November 07, 2005

On the 12th Night of Intifada

Mon, Nov 7, 2005 at 9:27:28 pm PST

Civil Mayhem Rocks France for 12th Night. PARIS - France will impose curfews under a state-of-emergency law and call up police reservists to stop rioting that has spread out of Paris’ suburbs and into nearly 300 cities and towns across the country, the prime minister said Monday, calling a return to ...

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Monday Night Fence

Mon, Nov 7, 2005 at 9:21:00 pm PST

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Daily Kos: Bush Responsible for French Riots

Mon, Nov 7, 2005 at 7:58:30 pm PST

Daily Kos Kidz agree; Bush is to blame for the French intifada: Is Bush to blame for the Riots in Europe? (POLL) (Hat tip: EU Rota.)

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Newsweek: Don't Panic

Mon, Nov 7, 2005 at 7:29:18 pm PST

Newsweek assures the readers that even though the disaffected youths are crying “Jihad!” it’s really nothing to worry about: The Fire This Time. (Hat tip: NC.) Night after night last week rage spread through the ghettos that ring Paris, then beyond—to the slums of Dijon in Burgundy, Rouen in Normandy, Toulouse, ...

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Moment of Dada

Mon, Nov 7, 2005 at 7:16:01 pm PST

This is your moment of nihilistic Dada, brought to you courtesy of disaffected French youths:

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The Violation of Muslim Civil Rights in France

Mon, Nov 7, 2005 at 6:53:33 pm PST

One of the most transparent attempts by an Islamist front group to manipulate Western multicultural assumptions that I have ever seen: Iranian journalists call for probe into unrest in France. (Hat tip: Ringo.) TEHRAN, Nov. 6 (MNA) — Iran’s Association of Muslim Journalists (AMJ) issued a statement on Sunday condemning the ...

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Got 15 in Australia

Mon, Nov 7, 2005 at 3:46:45 pm PST

400 police in anti-terror raids. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) FIFTEEN people, including a prominent Muslim cleric, were arrested in raids involving some 400 officers in Sydney and Melbourne this morning in an operation police said “disrupted ... the final stages of a large scale terrorist attack”. Nine people were arrested in Melbourne, ...

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IDF Dave: Tulkarm Summer 2005

Mon, Nov 7, 2005 at 3:11:33 pm PST

Highly recommended: IDF Dave’s excellent photo essay from his recent tour of duty in the West Bank: Tulkarm Summer 2005.

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PJ Profile: Manuel L. Quezon III

Mon, Nov 7, 2005 at 2:36:53 pm PST

There are so many bloggers in our network that today we’re featuring a second profile at Pajamas Media: thoughtful Filipino correspondent Manuel L. Quezon III.

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"Each Night We Make This Place Baghdad"

Mon, Nov 7, 2005 at 2:07:51 pm PST

Two items for those who continue to insist that the riots breaking out all over Europe are unconnected to the global Islamic jihad: France rioters: ‘Each night we make this place Baghdad’. (Hat tip: Kalle.) The rioters have also started using motorbikes and mobile phones to trace the movements of police riot ...

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Monday Morning Open

Mon, Nov 7, 2005 at 9:12:07 am PST

An open thread for a Monday morning...

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Sen. Coleman: The UN Must Not Control the Internet

Mon, Nov 7, 2005 at 8:53:57 am PST

Senator Norm Coleman has words of warning in today’s Wall Street Journal, as a cartel of repressive dictatorships plans to seize control of the Internet’s root servers: Beware a ‘Digital Munich’. It sounds like a Tom Clancy plot. An anonymous group of international technocrats holds secretive meetings in Geneva. Their cover ...

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Intifada Comes to Europe

Mon, Nov 7, 2005 at 8:13:14 am PST

The riots in France have claimed their first fatality, as violence spreads to other European cities. A man who was beaten by an attacker while trying to extinguish a trash can fire during riots north of Paris has died of his injuries, becoming the first fatality since the urban unrest started ...

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Media Made No Attempt to Verify Anti-US Lies

Mon, Nov 7, 2005 at 8:08:55 am PST

For more than a year, former Marine Jimmy Massey has been telling outrageous stories about “atrocities” committed by US forces, that he claimed to have witnessed in Iraq; LGF noted his accusations at a Canadian refugee hearing last December. Massey was lying. In scores of newspaper, magazine and broadcast stories, at a ...

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An Embedded Blogger

Mon, Nov 7, 2005 at 7:52:20 am PST

Blogger Bill Roggio has announced plans to go to Iraq and embed with the Marines of Regimental Combat Team 2 in the Anbar Province; details are here: The Iraq Trip: Update #2.

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France 3 Solves the Problem of Violence

Mon, Nov 7, 2005 at 7:41:09 am PST

France 3 has hit on a typically French solution to the rioting: don’t announce how many cars were burned.

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Sunday, November 06, 2005

Sunday Night Birds

Sun, Nov 6, 2005 at 9:36:14 pm PST

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French Intifada, Day Eleven

Sun, Nov 6, 2005 at 8:07:49 pm PST

Burning cars and shops is no longer enough for the Muslim mobs rampaging through France: Riot police hurt by shots as France vows order will be restored. PARIS (AFP) - Police were hurt by shots and baseball-bat-wielding youths as rioting raged on for its eleventh night in France despite a vow ...

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A Rose Amidst the Ashes

Sun, Nov 6, 2005 at 6:10:31 pm PST

Bookworm Room notices a rose amidst the ashes, a touching story of simple humanity in a place that isn’t known for it.

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Steyn: Wake Up, Europe

Sun, Nov 6, 2005 at 2:17:25 pm PST

Mark Steyn: Wake up, Europe, you’ve a war on your hands. The French have been here before, of course. Seven-thirty-two. Not 7:32 Paris time, which is when the nightly Citroen-torching begins, but 732 A.D. — as in one and a third millennia ago. By then, the Muslims had advanced a thousand ...

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Sunday Open Thread

Sun, Nov 6, 2005 at 8:27:13 am PST

Now open for verbiage, thread #18,134...

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Kofi Annan: Don't Worry, Be Happy

Sun, Nov 6, 2005 at 7:48:28 am PST

Kofi Annan says he understands our worries, but we needn’t fret, The UN Isn’t a Threat to the Net. They just want to apply their world-renowned, benevolent, highly efficient management skills. The main objective of the World Summit on the Information Society to be held this month in Tunisia is to ...

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"The Only Way to Communicate is by Burning"

Sun, Nov 6, 2005 at 7:39:20 am PST

Urban unrest reaches heart of Paris. The number of cars torched overnight — 1,295 across France — was the highest yet since the unrest began Oct 27, France-Info radio and other French media reported. Police did not immediately confirm the figure after earlier putting the number at 918. (USA Today front ...

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Muammar to the Rescue

Sun, Nov 6, 2005 at 7:29:38 am PST

Here’s just the fellow to come to the aid of France in her hour of need: Gaddafi offers help over riots. (Hat tip: Beautiful Atrocities.) LIBYAN leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi called French President Jacques Chirac overnight to express his concern about rioting in Paris suburbs and other parts of France. The Libyan ...

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Saturday, November 05, 2005

French Intifada, Day 10

Sat, Nov 5, 2005 at 9:57:58 pm PST

Schools burn as Paris riots enter 10th night. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Two schools have been burned down in Paris and hundreds of cars set on fire in cities across France in a 10th night of rioting in poor suburban areas. The Interior Ministry says the schools have been set ablaze in ...

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Intifada Comes to Paris

Sat, Nov 5, 2005 at 6:13:12 pm PST

AP reports that the rioting has reached Paris, in a story that doesn’t mention the dreaded M word. The urban unrest that triggered scores of arson attacks on vehicles, nursery schools and other targets across France reached the capital overnight, with police saying early Sunday that 13 cars were burned. By 1 ...

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Hizb Ut-Tahrir in Australia

Sat, Nov 5, 2005 at 6:00:16 pm PST

Australian Muslims called to arms. AN inflammatory pamphlet urging Muslims to oppose Western governments was handed out at a major Islamic festival in Melbourne yesterday. The flyer, distributed at a family carnival to mark the end of the holy month of Ramadan in Preston, bore the name of the fundamentalist group Hizb ...

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Cycle of Violence: All Your Base

Sat, Nov 5, 2005 at 5:30:11 pm PST

Today’s ride: 51.10 miles, on one of those beautiful sun-drenched days that makes California the envy of the world. I’m doing base training rides, not hammering but keeping a steady pace for medium-long distances, including a fair bit of climbing. Went south into Palos Verdes, up the long climb out ...

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Al Qaeda Work Accident Watch

Sat, Nov 5, 2005 at 2:39:04 pm PST

Six foreign Al-Qaeda suspects killed in Pakistan blast. MIRANSHAH, Pakistan (AFP) - Six foreign Al-Qaeda suspects including a woman were killed when a bomb they were making exploded in Pakistan’s restive tribal region near the Afghan border, the military said. “It seems the explosion occurred when these people were busy making an ...

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Saturday Morning Open Thread

Sat, Nov 5, 2005 at 8:29:53 am PST

You are in an open field west of a big white house with a boarded front door. There is a small mailbox here. > look open thread

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French Intifada Nears Grim Milestone of 1000 Torched Cars

Sat, Nov 5, 2005 at 8:09:52 am PST

Rioting Spreads From Paris Across France. AUBERVILLIERS, France - Marauding youths torched nearly 900 vehicles, stoned paramedics and burned a nursery school in a ninth night of violence that spread from Paris suburbs to towns around France, police said Saturday. Authorities arrested more than 250 people overnight — a sweep unprecedented ...

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An Economic Boom in Iraq

Sat, Nov 5, 2005 at 7:43:32 am PST

Here’s some news that the Washington Post relegated to their “blogs” pages: A Cheerier View of Iraq. Would you believe – an economic boom in Iraq despite the on-going insurgent attacks? Well, you might believe it after you read an analysis by Michael Rubin, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, ...

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Report: Dutch Police Foil Attack on El Al

Sat, Nov 5, 2005 at 7:34:42 am PST

Dutch police have apparently foiled a plot to shoot down an El Al airplane. (Hat tip: Uncle Sticky.) Dutch television announced on Friday that Netherlands police arrested a youth who allegedly intended to shoot down an El Al airplane at Schipool Airport outside of Amsterdam. Samir Azuz, 19, a Dutch citizen of ...

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Film Star Injured in French Intifada

Sat, Nov 5, 2005 at 7:28:25 am PST

A French icon has been caught up in the spreading violence; Iowahawk has the disturbing tail: French Film Star Le Pew Injured in Paris Cat Riots. PARIS - Former French matinee idol Pepe Le Pew was among the hundreds injured last night amid violent feline rioting in the impoverished Parisian suburb ...

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Friday, November 04, 2005

British Honor Killing Watch

Fri, Nov 4, 2005 at 9:44:22 pm PST

Family guilty of ‘honour killing’. A father and his two sons have been found guilty of murdering his daughter’s boyfriend in an “honour killing” after she became pregnant. Arash Ghorbani-Zarin, 19, was found stabbed 46 times in a car in Rosehill, Oxford, on 20 November last year. The Iranian Muslim had been studying ...

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Project Valour-IT

Fri, Nov 4, 2005 at 8:44:43 pm PST

A great cause, in need of our help: Project Valour IT - A Soldiers’ Angels Program. Project Valour-IT, in memory of SFC William V. Ziegenfuss, provides voice-controlled software and laptop computers to wounded Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines recovering from hand and arm injuries or amputations at major military medical centers. ...

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Moronic Convergence in Argentina Turns Violent

Fri, Nov 4, 2005 at 8:31:45 pm PST

Summit of the Americas on Yahoo! News Photos.

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Friday Night Beach

Fri, Nov 4, 2005 at 8:26:13 pm PST

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Hamas Chutzpah

Fri, Nov 4, 2005 at 8:07:49 pm PST

Oh brother. Hamas sets terms to renew truce. GAZA CITY (AFP) - A senior Hamas leader said the Islamist movement would only renew an informal truce at the year-end if Israel stops all aggression and releases Palestinian prisoners. “All Israeli aggression continues. If this is going to stop then we’ll talk about ...

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Zombie: The World Can't Wait

Fri, Nov 4, 2005 at 6:36:07 pm PST

I’ve seen a lot of this craziness, but LGF operative zombie’s latest photo essay from the “World Can’t Wait” demonstration in San Francisco has left me flabbergasted and dumbstruck: The World Can’t Wait. Here’s a closeup of a poster that exemplifies the mentality:

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French Intifada, Day Nine

Fri, Nov 4, 2005 at 5:04:12 pm PST

Violence flares again in France, deepening sense of crisis. This is one of the few wire stories I have seen that explicitly identifies the rioters as young Muslim men. Most of the world’s media are doing their best to look the other way. Overwhelmed police have found themselves powerless to stop the ...

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Friday Open Thread

Fri, Nov 4, 2005 at 9:34:58 am PST

The odious Neanderthal rolls away the stone, revealing an open thread...

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VDH: The Real Global Virus

Fri, Nov 4, 2005 at 9:29:06 am PST

Victor Davis Hanson on the spreading plague of jihadism: The Real Global Virus. Either the jihadists really are crazy or they apparently think that they have a shot at destabilizing, or at least winning concessions from, the United States, Europe, India, and Russia all at once. Apart from the continual attacks on ...

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PJ Editorial Board Profile: Claudia Rosett

Fri, Nov 4, 2005 at 9:14:15 am PST

Today at Pajamas Media we’re thrilled to announce another distinguished member of our Editorial Board, whose investigative reporting on the UN Oil-For-Food scandal has earned acclaim from both the blogosphere and mainstream media, Claudia Rosett.

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Italians Demonstrate in Support of Israel

Fri, Nov 4, 2005 at 8:25:51 am PST

This is good news from Italy, where a large crowd of citizens turned out to demonstrate against the Iranian president’s appalling genocidal remarks: Italians demonstrate in support of Israel. However, this demonstration took place without high-level government support; many Italian ministers chose appeasement instead. ROME (AFP) - Around 10,000 Italians, most waving ...

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Paris Intifada Root Causes?

Fri, Nov 4, 2005 at 7:42:19 am PST

Many of the rioters in France are of Algerian descent; perhaps they’re just obeying their sheikhs and imams? Algerian group calls France ‘enemy number one’. (Hat tip: SoCalJustice.) PARIS, Sept 27 (AFP) - An Algerian Islamist organisation, the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), has issued a call for action ...

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Disabled Woman Set On Fire In Riots

Fri, Nov 4, 2005 at 7:38:46 am PST

Muslims rampaging in the Paris suburb of Sevran poured gasoline on a handicapped woman and set her on fire. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) A handicapped woman was doused with petrol and set on fire by youths during another night of rioting in Paris. The 56-year-old suffered third degree burns to 20% of ...

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Paris Intifada Spreading

Fri, Nov 4, 2005 at 7:18:52 am PST

The BBC tiptoes carefully around the issue of exactly who is causing all this destruction in the suburbs of Paris, even as the intifada continues to spread: French riots spread beyond Paris. The violence that has wracked Paris suburbs over the past week has spread to new areas and outside the ...

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Thursday, November 03, 2005

Mapes Pounds the $250K Table

Thu, Nov 3, 2005 at 8:27:50 pm PST

Don’t miss Jim Geraghty’s take-apart of Martyr Mapes. I recall this feeling from arguing with CBS last summer. They would say, “the sky is green, our experts said so.” Bloggers would then go back and check with the experts, who would say, “no, we told CBS the sky is blue.” Days ...

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Egypt Threatened by Geeks with Keyboards

Thu, Nov 3, 2005 at 8:19:50 pm PST

The Egyptian government is cracking down on bloggers.

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Madrid Bomber Nabbed in Pakistan

Thu, Nov 3, 2005 at 6:57:03 pm PST

Barcepundit reports that one of the perpetrators of the 3/11 Madrid bombings has been arrested in Pakistan—after hiding in Venezuela. Mainstream media seems uninterested.

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A Day of Action (That Nobody Noticed)

Thu, Nov 3, 2005 at 6:23:26 pm PST

I guess there was some kind of war protest yesterday; these events are becoming so marginal that if you blink you’ll miss them, but several LGF readers were on hand to document the strange moonbat rituals: Crazy people of the world unite at Union Square, NYC, Nov 2, 2005. Seattle World Can’t ...

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RoP Leaders Still Preaching Hatred in Australia

Thu, Nov 3, 2005 at 10:50:45 am PST

Clerics still preaching hatred of West. MUSLIM clerics in Sydney and Melbourne - led by radicals Sheik Mohammed Omran and Sheik Abdul Salam Mohammed Zoud - are still preaching hatred against the West, urging followers in Arabic to resist peace and support insurgents waging war against Australian soldiers in Iraq and ...

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Islamic Society of Boston Sues Everyone

Thu, Nov 3, 2005 at 9:30:48 am PST

The Islamic Society of Boston is suing everyone who criticizes them, starting with the David Project, a local Fox News channel, the Boston Herald, and Steven Emerson. The Islamic Society of Boston has charged a local Israel advocacy group with defamation and conspiring to violate its civil rights in a lawsuit ...

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Thursday Open Thread

Thu, Nov 3, 2005 at 8:57:04 am PST

Thread #18,100 is now open for bloviation...

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Paris Intifada, Day Eight

Thu, Nov 3, 2005 at 8:27:49 am PST

Violence Intensifies in Suburbs of Paris. Rioting youths shot at police and firefighters Thursday after burning car dealerships and public buses and hurling rocks at commuter trains. France’s government faced growing pressure to curb the violence, fueled by anger over poor conditions in suburban Paris housing projects. Rampaging for an eighth day, ...

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Suicide Bombing Propaganda Films

Thu, Nov 3, 2005 at 8:03:05 am PST

Coming soon to your local theater, a new batch of films that seek to help you understand and empathize with mass murderers: New films ask why suicide bombers kill. LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Making “Paradise Now,” a tale of why two laid-back garage mechanics become suicide bombers, was not easy for ...

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Terror Cell Busted in Canada

Thu, Nov 3, 2005 at 7:36:58 am PST

Canadian intelligence has arrested four Algerians, including an Al Qaeda bomb maker. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) TORONTO - Canadian counter- terrorism investigators have dismantled a suspected terrorist cell in Toronto whose members included an al-Qaeda-trained explosives expert, the National Post has learned. The cell consisted of four Algerian refugee claimants who had ...

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Wednesday, November 02, 2005

RoP Strikes in Thailand

Wed, Nov 2, 2005 at 9:45:28 pm PST

SOUTHERN UNREST: Powerful bomb blacks out central Narathiwat. A bomb blast blacked out the centre of Narathiwat town for three hours last night as Muslims prepared to mark the end of Ramadan. Security troops also found bombs at seven other spots in the troubled southern border province but were able to ...

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Death Cult Cartoon

Wed, Nov 2, 2005 at 9:41:49 pm PST

An Iranian animated children’s film promotes suicide bombing: [Video] (Courtesy of MEMRI TV.)

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Into the Fog

Wed, Nov 2, 2005 at 8:37:21 pm PST

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More Purges in Iranian Government

Wed, Nov 2, 2005 at 7:52:40 pm PST

Iran Continuing Purge of Reformers. TEHRAN, Iran - Iran’s government announced Wednesday that 40 ambassadors and senior diplomats, including supporters of warmer ties with the West, will be fired, continuing a purge of reformers as the regime takes an increasingly tough stance at home and abroad. The diplomatic changes are part of ...

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Seventh Night of Paris Riots

Wed, Nov 2, 2005 at 5:23:12 pm PST

North African Muslim gangs rampaged through Paris suburbs for the seventh straight night, torching dozens of cars. PARIS (Reuters) - Violence broke out in Paris suburbs for the seventh night running overnight on Thursday after French youths set fire to dozens of cars. The continuing unrest compounds pressure on Prime Minister Dominique ...

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Hamas "Activists" Vow Revenge

Wed, Nov 2, 2005 at 4:51:13 pm PST

In the weird inverted reality of AP Palestinian stringer Ibrahim Barzak, the terror gang Hamas has actually been observing a “truce,” despite firing rockets into Israel ... and even weirder, he says Hamas is going to “end” this “truce” and put their “activists” back to work: Hamas: No Renewal of ...

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The Paris Intifada, Day Six

Wed, Nov 2, 2005 at 2:53:44 pm PST

According to this AP report at the Sydney Morning Herald, gangs of Muslim youths rioting in Paris suburbs have started about 100 fires. An Associated Press Television news team reported confrontations between about 20 police and 40 youths in Aulnay-sous-Bois with police firing tear gas and rubber bullets. France-Info said that about ...

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PJ Profile: Michelle Malkin

Wed, Nov 2, 2005 at 1:45:58 pm PST

We’re pleased today to profile another stellar addition to Pajamas Media: the only blogger who gets more colorful hate mail than I do, Michelle Malkin.

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The Ghost City of Cyprus

Wed, Nov 2, 2005 at 11:10:21 am PST

Michael J. Totten has eerie photographs of Varosha, The Ghost City of Cyprus, deserted during the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974 and now fenced off and patrolled by the Turkish occupiers.

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Iranian Expats Demonstrate Against Islamic Republic

Wed, Nov 2, 2005 at 10:55:07 am PST

LGF operative zombie covers a different sort of rally in Berkeley with this new report: Rally Against the Iranian Regime, U.C. Berkeley, Nov. 1, 2005. On November 1, a group of Iranian expatriates (and their supporters) held a rally and press conference at the entrance to the U.C. Berkeley campus, ...

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Australian Terror Threat

Wed, Nov 2, 2005 at 10:00:24 am PST

Australian Prime Minister John Howard has announced that he has information about a ‘specific’ terror threat. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Prime Minister John Howard says the Federal Government has received specific intelligence about a potential terrorist threat in Australia. At a press conference with Federal Attorney-General Philip Ruddock by his side, Mr ...

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"Shari'a Punishment" Photos Misattributed

Wed, Nov 2, 2005 at 8:36:57 am PST

LGF reader Baikal emailed about these upsetting pictures posted by Bareknucklepolitics.com with the title: 8 Year Old Iranian Boy Caught Stealing Bread. Those readers who were skeptical of the title, it turns out, were correct; Baikal contacted the publisher, Peykeiran, and after a confusing exchange received the following reply: Hi! It seems ...

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Wednesday Open

Wed, Nov 2, 2005 at 8:22:04 am PST

The thread de la Wednesday...

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Iran's Manhattan Project Nearing Completion?

Wed, Nov 2, 2005 at 8:15:12 am PST

Disturbing developments in Iran, where “president” Ahmadinejad has purged “reformers” from his government, including the ambassadors who have been negotiating with Europe over Iran’s nuclear scheming: Iran sacks diplomats in purge of reformers. (Hat tip: rantwraith.) THE President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has ordered an unprecedented purge of senior ambassadors who ...

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Fear and Self-Censorship

Wed, Nov 2, 2005 at 7:57:40 am PST

The European jihadis are succeeding in at least one goal—threatening and murdering European officials and media into silence: Fear and self-censorship. (Hat tip: MJ.) One of the consequences of the murder of Theo van Gogh has been that many people in the Netherlands have become more cautious about making statements about ...

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Intifada Comes to Denmark

Wed, Nov 2, 2005 at 7:42:43 am PST

Mainstream media isn’t only ignoring and/or distorting the Muslim rioting in Paris suburbs—Viking Observer points out that Muslims enraged by the newspaper Jyllands-Posten have been rioting in Denmark for at least four days: War in France, War in Denmark.

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Tuesday, November 01, 2005

Mama Moonbat, Commander in Chief

Tue, Nov 1, 2005 at 9:11:47 pm PST

Put down your drink before reading this one; the Village Voice’s Kristen Lombardi actually seems to be serious: Cindy Sheehan for President. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Activists see obvious potential in Sheehan. The movement’s icon did, after all, rescue anti-war activists from hibernation, breathing new life into their cause from the ...

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Sixth Night of Muslim Rioting in Paris Suburbs

Tue, Nov 1, 2005 at 8:27:40 pm PST

The Paris Intifada continues: Sixth Night of Violence Erupts Near Paris. PARIS - Unrest spread across troubled suburbs around Paris in a sixth night of violence Tuesday as police clashed with angry youths and scores of vehicles were torched in at least nine towns, local officials said. Police in riot gear fired ...

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Tuesday Evening Beach

Tue, Nov 1, 2005 at 7:32:42 pm PST

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The Political Battle Over Iraq Turns Nasty (Again)

Tue, Nov 1, 2005 at 5:30:32 pm PST

In one sense, it’s a good thing when the Democratic Party demonstrates to the nation how radicalized and out of touch they have become—but in another sense, it’s depressing, because our political system needs two functioning, sane parties to work well, and one of them is clearly off the rails: ...

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The Suicide Bombers Among Us

Tue, Nov 1, 2005 at 9:24:38 am PST

A powerful and disturbing essay by Theodore Dalrymple: The Suicide Bombers Among Us.

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Tuesday Open Thread

Tue, Nov 1, 2005 at 8:03:31 am PST

The Tuesday thread is now open...

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Al-Guardian: Don't Fear Shari'a

Tue, Nov 1, 2005 at 7:46:29 am PST

Osama Saeed is a spokesman for the Muslim Association of Britain, and in today’s al-Guardian he argues that the West should not fear the coming dominance of Islam: The return of the caliphate. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Terms such as “sharia” and “caliphate” have important meanings to Muslims quite different from ...

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Religion of Peace vs. 8-Year Old Boy

Tue, Nov 1, 2005 at 7:36:38 am PST

The glory of shari’a: 8 Year Old Iranian Boy Caught Stealing Bread. (Warning: disturbing but not gory photos.) UPDATE at 11/2/05 8:39:14 am: The photos linked above are actually of a street stunt, not a shari’a punishment. See this correction: “Shari’a Punishment” Photos Misattributed.

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Intifada Comes to Paris

Tue, Nov 1, 2005 at 7:31:54 am PST

Photographs of the Muslim riots in Paris: Intifada with Clichy-under-Wood: photo gallery. (Hat tip: KM.)

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