LGF Archives: December 2002
New Year's in Pakistan
Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 5:57:55 pm PST
US troops have been clashing with Pakistani “paramilitary” groups (read: jihadis) near the Pak-Afghan border, and this report from a Pakistani source says seven Americans were killed yesterday in the fighting. (Hat tip: Bala Ambati.) Notice how, once again, the locals were apparently incited to violence by “spiritual leaders:” A ...
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Mudhead Reminisces
Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 4:54:33 pm PST
My favorite weirdos, the Firesign Theatre, look back at the last palindromic year until 2112. (Real Player format.) And here’s an index of all their NPR performances to date: Firesign Theatre, Now Playing on NPR.
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Arabs Still Seething
Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 2:49:01 pm PST
Reuters says the Kuwaiti Arabs are seething with anger and inarticulate, amorphous hatred for the United States. "We don't like Saddam. But we hate the Americans," said Ramiz Abu Qweidar, a civil engineer who lives in the poor town of Jahra, a 30-minute drive from the capital. ..."The attacks in ...
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Threat to New York Harbor
Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 1:52:56 pm PST
Heightened security in New York Harbor, after an “unspecified threat.” (Hat tip: NC.)
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End of the Year Telethon Staggers On
Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 12:28:25 pm PST
Well, we were really hoping to reach our Grand Projected Total of $800,000 (10 times the amount Andrew raised—is that too much to ask?) in donations before the end of the year, but sadly, it looks like we’re not quite going to make it. Actually, we’re nowhere near. Andrew’s total, ...
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Carter Still Dominates
Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 10:53:18 am PST
We’re coming down to the final hours of our voting for the 2002 Fiskie Award, and unless we have a last minute upset the Idiotarian of the Year is going to be Jimmy “the Dhimmi” Carter, with Michael Moore following closely in 2nd place. (Jimmy! Look out behind you!) UPDATE: In ...
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Who Will Crack They Sides?
Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 9:49:31 am PST
Who will be the most disturbingly intriguing blogger? Who?
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Wanted Men Seen in B.C.
Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 9:26:11 am PST
Two of the five Arab men being sought by the FBI after illegally entering the US from Canada were seen on a British Columbia ferry, carrying a large heavy box and taking numerous photographs of the docks. Among the tips coming to the FBI since its public request for information ...
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What is Jihad?
Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 8:05:19 am PST
Daniel Pipes writes about a word that many academics and apologists for militant Islam attempt to whitewash: What is Jihad? The purpose of jihad ... is not directly to spread the Islamic faith but to extend sovereign Muslim power (faith, of course, often follows the flag). Jihad is thus unabashedly ...
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Kofi Urges Doing Nothing
Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 7:35:11 am PST
Chief UN apologist Kofi Annan says Iraq is cooperating fully, and there is “no excuse” for military action before the end of January. And then, at the end of January, he’ll say there is no justification for military action until, oh, April or so. And then, before we know it, ...
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Philippines Attacked Again
Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 7:17:23 am PST
At least 4 people have been killed and 15 injured in a bomb blast at a New Year’s Eve celebration in the southern Philippines.
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The Well-Armed Baggage Handler
Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 7:04:34 am PST
French police are trying to figure out why an Algerian baggage handler at Charles de Gaulle airport (the same airport Richard Reid used) had five cakes of plastic explosives, two detonators, a fuse, a machine gun and an automatic pistol in his car. "He certainly wasn't going mushroom picking," one ...
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Blowing Up in Lebanon
Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 8:41:55 pm PST
Hizb'Allah is up to no good. A huge explosion was reported today at one of their training camps in eastern Lebanon. DEBKAfile says the blast was caused by an Iraqi missile that misfired.
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Peaceful Religion Watch
Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 6:46:50 pm PST
It’s been a couple of weeks since the last Peaceful Religion Watch, our roundup of the weekly hate speech and incitements to murder disguised as sermons (khutba) in the happening mosques of the Arab world. Let’s see what the imams and sheikhs have been up to over our infidel holidays, ...
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Death Worshippers
Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 1:21:55 pm PST
"There are thousands of the Islamic nation’s youths who are eager to die just as the Americans are eager to live." For more cartoons like this, check out “Black & White World.”
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The True Meaning of "Martyr"
Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 12:04:03 pm PST
Noam Apter was working in the kitchen of the Jewish seminary in Otniel last Friday night, when a Palestinian terrorist entered the room. In an amazing act of selfless courage, Noam locked the door to the dining room, undoubtedly saving many lives—even though he knew he would pay the ultimate ...
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The Wahhabi Fifth Column
Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 11:17:27 am PST
Here’s a disturbing article about the Saudi entity’s intensive efforts to instill a Wahhabi fifth column in the United States—to which end they have spent more than $80 billion in the past 30 years. In America, parochial schools have long been noted for their high educational standards. But Wahhabi schools ...
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What Would Mohammed Drive?
Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 9:53:44 am PST
The secretary general of the Muslim World League is demanding that Pulitzer prize winning cartoonist Doug Marlette apologize to each and every one of the world’s 1.5 billion Muslims, for a cartoon titled “What Would Mohammed Drive?” that implies a connection between Islam and violence. Or they’ll kill him. Abdullah Al-Turki, ...
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Escapee from the Death Cult
Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 8:48:02 am PST
The daughter of an Arab warrior tells her tale.
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Religion of Peace Claims 3 Americans
Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 7:59:50 am PST
A noble warrior of Allah slipped into a Baptist hospital in Yemen today, hiding a gun in his jacket as if cradling a child, and cravenly murdered three American missionaries who had dedicated their lives to helping the people of Yemen. UPDATE: Reader Solomon X points out a Reuters wire story ...
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Grozny Update
Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 5:51:26 pm PST
The death toll from the massive suicide bomb attack in Grozny has climbed to 61, as Russian officials rush to assign blame. I fear that attacks like this one and the Bali nightclub bombing, as horrific as they are, are merely rehearsals for the main event. They’re refining their techniques, testing ...
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Wanted Men
Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 3:50:40 pm PST
The FBI is looking for five Arabs who may have entered the United States illegally through Canada on Christmas Eve. (Hat tip: Mark Young.)
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Haganah vs. Islamic Jihad
Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 2:31:54 pm PST
Aaron Weisburd tracked the web site of Palestinian Islamic Jihad—responsible for the massacre at the seminary in Otniel, and listed as a terror group by the US State Department—to Hostway Corporation, an ISP in Chicago, Illinois. As Aaron writes, that would be the Chicago Illinois that’s in the United States. And ...
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The Awful Truth
Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 1:03:08 pm PST
Tim Blair provides a handy summary of the many errors and distortions in Michael Moore’s Bowling for Columbine: The awful truth? It's a crock.
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The Power of Blunt Nostalgia
Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 10:50:38 am PST
Thanks to all who emailed to recommend this moving essay about a trip to Jerusalem, by playwright David Mamet: 'If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem': The Power of Blunt Nostalgia.
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Carter Landslide Imminent
Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 10:20:28 am PST
The folks at MooreWatch are trying to organize a last minute rally for Michael Moore, but it’s doubtful they’ll be able to muster the votes they need to erase the commanding lead held by history’s greatest monster (as a character on the Simpsons animated TV show once dubbed him). And ...
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Saudi Gifts to You
Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 8:55:03 am PST
To mend the damaged relations between the US and his country, King Fahd of Saudi Arabia would like to give a very large gift to the city of New York. (Hat tip: NC.)
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Indonesian Terror Threats
Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 8:51:08 am PST
The Canadian embassy in Indonesia has issued warnings about impending terror attacks in four Indonesian cities. "The embassy has received credible information that terrorists may be planning attacks in Jakarta, Manado, Balikpapan, and Batam in the near future," an embassy circular to its citizens, dated Friday but obtained in Jakarta ...
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A Not Very Wise Archbishop
Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 7:35:06 am PST
Mark Steyn scourges European church leaders for their knee-jerk appeasement reflex. ...while the Pope and his Archbishop of Westminster confined themselves to a few general observations about the "ominous smouldering of conflict", the Archbishop of Canterbury co-opted the Christmas story itself as support for his views on Iraq. He compared ...
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The Arabs Are Coming
Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 7:39:20 pm PST
Al Jazeera is coming to America. I say: cool. Bring it on. Freedom of speech has survived much more formidable challenges than these room-temperature-IQ jihad enablers can mount. As long as half-assed Arab media outlets like Al Jazeera exist, LGF will never run out of source material.
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Saudis Swallow Hard, Accept Reality
Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 7:02:37 pm PST
Shortly after Joe Lieberman visits Saudi Arabia (demonstrating that we’re not as divided as they wanted to believe), and we announce massive deployments of troops and materiel to the Middle East, the House of Saud sends signals that they’re on our side after all. Coincidence, or acceptance of realpolitik? WASHINGTON, ...
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Carter In Front
Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 6:24:28 pm PST
The final round of voting for our first annual Robert Fisk Award for Idiotarian of the Year (“Fiskie” for short) will close at 12 noon PST on December 31. Jimmy Carter seems to have a comfortable lead; unless we see an unexpected rally from the Michael Moore “fans,” history’s greatest ...
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From the Halls of Academia
Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 4:19:58 pm PST
Daniel Pipes squares off against a couple of Grade A Prime Idiotarian Professors from Columbia and Yale, who predictably equate Pipes’ Campus Watch project with McCarthyism (criticism = censorship), yet fail to answer a single point Pipes makes.
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Merry Christmas = Murder
Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 11:49:11 am PST
A Toronto mosque sent out emails on Christmas Day, warning that wishing non-Muslims a “Merry Christmas” was equivalent to congratulating a murderer for his crime: Mosque warns against saying Merry Christmas. (Hat tip: hedgehog.) The notice went out on the Khalid Bin Al-Walid mosque's Internet message service on Christmas day, ...
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Canadian Creep Flouts Israeli Law
Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 11:31:26 am PST
Grandstanding Canadian idiotarian and riot aficianado Jaggi Singh is in the disputed territories with his beloved terrorist buddies, and he flips the bird to Israeli law in this article for Indymedia: Entering Palestine. (Hat tip: zulubaby.) Technically, I'm now open to arrest and expulsion by the Israeli authorities, not because ...
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Muslim Inmates Get Special Treatment
Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 10:57:53 am PST
At the Solano State Prison in California, Muslim inmates have won an appeals court ruling granting them the “right” to practice Islam in prison—including a special exemption from prison grooming standards that lets them grow beards. Corrections Department spokeswoman Margot Bach said state lawyers were reviewing the ruling for a ...
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Isn’t She Cute?
Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 9:24:29 am PST
I thought the New York Times couldn’t surprise me any more; but I was wrong. Here is an absolutely bizarre puff piece about Randa Ghazi and her novel for young adults, Rever la Palestine (Dream of Palestine): Dreaming of Palestine, Teenager Writes a Novel. Why is it bizarre? Because in the ...
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Allah Made Him Do It
Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 8:50:35 am PST
One reason why there are so few moderate Islamic politicians is that the fanatics kill them—and the killing has been going on for decades. The latest, in Yemen: Yemeni Politician Killed After Speech. A senior official in the Islamic Reform Party said the attacker apparently shot Omar because of the ...
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Erekat in the New York Times
Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 8:26:36 am PST
Palestinians like Saeb Erekat seem to possess a credibility deflector field that lets them tell outrageous lies about easily checked facts, yet never suffer any consequences. Erekat was one of the main promoters of the “Jenin massacre” Big Lie, among countless other deceptions, yet he continues to be interviewed on ...
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No Complaints
Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 4:21:59 pm PST
An Indonesian Islamic magazine has chosen the spiritual leader of Jemaah Islamiyah, the terror gang suspected of the Bali nightclub bombing, as Man of the Year. Abu Bakar Bashir's "charisma" and "stand against the United States" were the main reasons why Sabili magazine honored him in its December edition, its ...
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Religion of Peace Claims 12 More
Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 3:41:55 pm PST
Suspected Muslim rebels kill 12 mining workers. MANILA, Philippines - In a second deadly attack in four days, suspected Muslim rebels in the southern Philippines on Thursday ambushed a vehicle transporting Filipino workers of a Canadian mining company, killing 12 and injuring 10, the military said. Moro Islamic Liberation Front ...
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Friedman Has Ilk?
Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 3:26:03 pm PST
It’s always worth a chuckle or two when the Arab News takes a slap at Thomas Friedman (which they do every other month): Friedman and his ilk. Friedman has ilk? What I do not like is for translated articles to be published without a comment or reply. This saves the ...
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Religion of Terror
Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 2:28:52 pm PST
The spiritual leader of Hamas, in his element. The freaks are getting a lot of mileage out of that inept murder painting.
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Iraqi Aftershocks
Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 2:05:19 pm PST
Victor Davis Hanson ruminates (and boy, can he ruminate) on the far-reaching effects of an Iraqi regime change. Something strange is happening, as if all the old conventional wisdom proves daily insolvent. Each hour Saudi Arabia appears a more untenable ally, panicky as the light of truth shines into its ...
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And Again
Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 2:02:25 pm PST
In a typical act of filthy cowardice, a pair of Palestinian mass murderers sneaked into a Jewish seminary today and opened fire on students gathered for a Sabbath dinner, killing at least four. A leader of Hamas, Abdel Aziz Rantisi, said Friday that "it is natural for the Palestinians to ...
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AT&T Flunks Geography
Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 9:58:24 am PST
According to AT&T Wireless, Palestine is a country in the Middle East.
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Religion of Incitement to Murder
Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 8:15:00 am PST
Hamas swine Sheik Ahmed Yassin vowed that the murder of Jews will continue, in front of a cheering crowd of 30,000 Palestinians in a soccer stadium in Gaza today. These guys are so schtoopid they can’t keep their PR straight; at the same time Hamas is trying to pull the ...
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N. Korea Acting Up
Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 7:43:09 am PST
North Korea is taking advantage of the Iraq situation to cause trouble, and Jimmy Carter’s flimsy nuclear disarmament deal with them is coming apart like a cheap Hong Kong suit as the North Koreans expel UN inspectors and reactivate plants that process spent fuel rods into plutonium for nuclear bombs. ...
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Religion of Big Bombs
Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 7:23:34 am PST
At least 35 people are dead in Grozny after suicide bombers drove two trucks filled with explosives through security cordons around the government headquarters.
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French Get Four More
Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 7:59:21 pm PST
French police have arrested four more would-be jihadis near Paris. The source said the latest arrests were made on Tuesday in the northeast suburb of Romainville by France's DST anti-espionage unit but gave no more details. Neither the Interior Ministry nor the Paris prosecutor's office could immediately confirm the new ...
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Palestinian Child Abuse
Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 3:50:39 pm PST
More photos from the psychotic death cult, showing the unforgivable brainwashing of young children by the terrorist monsters of Yasser Arafat’s Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades. The hardest thing to understand is that these creatures actually seem proud of this stuff; they post it on their web site for the whole ...
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Lebanon Begs Canada to Reconsider
Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 3:08:23 pm PST
The Lebanese have asked the Canadian government to take back their decision to put Hizb'Allah on the Canadian list of terrorist groups. From the furious attempts by Hizb'Allah and their allies to spin this issue fast enough to confuse the Chrétien administration, it’s clear the Canadian connection must have been very ...
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Lance Wins AOTY
Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 2:46:38 pm PST
The Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year: Lance Armstrong.
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Conversation on the Beach
Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 2:17:16 pm PST
Here’s the disturbing tale of a Conversation on the Beach between an Israeli Holocaust survivor and a young Arab Islamist, with an introduction by the author. "Communism, Nazism, Fascism, they all were defeated by the Western Democracies, what system do you propose to replace it with?" I asked. I was ...
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Lieberman Goes to Riyadh
Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 1:28:30 pm PST
Senator Joe Lieberman is in Saudi Arabia, meeting with King Fahd and Crown Prince Abdullah. No word on whether the subject of “monkeys and pigs” was broached.
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Congrats to New Messiah’s Parents
Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 12:39:01 pm PST
Congratulations to kosher blogger Aaron and wife, who are the proud parents of a brand new son.
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Carter Upset Looms
Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 12:07:53 pm PST
Jimmy Carter is way out in front in the final round of the Idiotarian of the Year contest, with 35% of the vote so far. After coming in first in the preliminary round, Michael Moore is now in second place with 16.2%, followed by the United Nations, Noam Chomsky, and ...
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Democracy for Muslims—Sort Of
Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 11:54:48 am PST
At the Weekly Standard, Reuel Marc Gerecht writes that for all the high-flown rhetoric issuing from the Bush administration about promoting democracy in the Middle East, we’re not walking the walk: Democracy for Muslims—Sort Of. Secretary Powell summed up the ethos of our new pro-democracy initiative in an interview with ...
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Islamic Murderers Arrested in Pakistan
Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 10:01:56 am PST
Three members of the Army of Mohammed (Jaish-e-Mohammad) have been arrested in Pakistan, for spreading their message of peace and tolerance by throwing a bomb into a church full of women and children on Christmas Day. The Wednesday blast, which police initially blamed on a grenade, killed two of the ...
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WaPo Whitewashes Saudi Extremism
Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 9:29:27 am PST
They’re going through gallons of whitewash at the Washington Post today. Here we have an article by “Saudi oil and security analyst” Nawaf Obaid, saying the Saudis are being unfairly “bashed” (the word people use when they want to deligitimize the opponent’s arguments) for supporting terrorism: The Saudis' Fight Too. ...
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WaPo Whitewashes AEL
Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 8:49:54 am PST
If you’ve read any of our entries about Abou Jahjah, the leader of the violence-prone, confrontational Arab European League in Belgium, this very sympathetic article about him at the Washington Post will come as a bit of a surprise. One of the disheartening things about our current situation is ...
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Islamic Bomb an Obligation
Wed, Dec 25, 2002 at 9:09:14 pm PST
Two days ago the Islamic Ruling Committee in Al-Azhar, considered the highest religious authority for Sunni Muslims, announced that the acquisition of nuclear weapons is a religious obligation for Islamic states: New Islamic Ruling Calls for Nuclear Weapon Armament. According to a member of the Islamic Ruling Committee, Sheikh Ala ...
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Robbed on Christmas Eve
Wed, Dec 25, 2002 at 11:01:53 am PST
Howard Fienberg had an unpleasant surprise yesterday evening—he was robbed. He asked for any of our readers who are knowledgeable about identity theft issues to contact him; go read the story and you’ll see why. I’m glad he and his wife weren’t physically harmed.
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Journey of the Magi
Wed, Dec 25, 2002 at 8:37:39 am PST
Merry Christmas, everyone. As I was browsing through a book of poetry last night, I rediscovered a poem by T.S. Eliot that seems right for this uncertain season. Journey of the Magi T.S. Eliot (1927) "A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a long ...
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Arab Hate Cartoons
Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 8:15:07 pm PST
MEMRI has a new section devoted to the hate-filled political cartoons published in the newspapers of the Arab world—imagery that’s indistinguishable from the worst Nazi propaganda.
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Another Mohammed
Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 1:51:19 pm PST
Here’s an in-depth article about the little-known operational leader of Al Qaeda: Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. (The article originally appeared a few days ago in the LA Times, but I’m starting to be reluctant to link to them, due to their intrusive registration and multiple annoying popunder ads.) Mohammed has been ...
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Got Another One
Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 1:34:37 pm PST
A 37-year old Qatari “graduate student” has been charged with lying to the FBI about his contacts with a main financier of the September 11 attacks. Ali Saleh Kahlah Al-Marri was charged in federal court in New York, where he was already scheduled to go to trial Jan. 13 on ...
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Got Another in Michigan
Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 1:17:49 pm PST
A 31-year old Yemeni man has been arrested near Springfield Michigan, after a tip from his ex brother-in-law. (Hat tip: wordwarp.) DETROIT - A tip to New York police from a man who said his ex-brother-in-law was a terrorist linked to al-Qaida and "was getting ready to bomb you guys" ...
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Thank You, Soldiers
Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 12:34:51 pm PST
A lot of Americans will be spending this holiday season far from their families, and may soon be asked to risk their lives in the service of their country. Mere words seem inadequate, but I’m sure I speak for the entire LGF community when I say thank you to the ...
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Religion of Peace Claims 13 More
Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 10:57:07 am PST
A Christmas Eve bomb in the Philippines has killed 13 people. The bomb went off near the home of Mayor Saudie Ampatuan in Datu Piang in Maguindanao province, said army spokesman Maj. Julieto Ando. Ampatuan died of injuries to his head and chest. Among those killed were a town councilor, ...
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The Final Round
Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 9:34:52 am PST
The LGF readership has spoken, and our finalists for the Robert Fisk Award for Idiotarian of the Year are now online! In this round you get only one vote, so consider your choice carefully. May the best (?) idiotarian win.
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No Boycott at Rainbow
Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 6:57:25 pm PST
The profit motive triumphs over schtoopid ideology at San Francisco’s Rainbow Grocery.
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Rock the Vote!
Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 5:38:47 pm PST
You only have a few hours left to vote in the preliminary round of the Fiskie Awards; after nearly 8,000 votes, the top 10 idiotarians of 2002 are pretty well established, but there are some very deserving candidates hovering just outside the first round winner’s circle, and your vote could ...
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Xmas in Ramallah
Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 4:57:24 pm PST
Oh cruel universe, that contains sights such as these!
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British Catholics Riot (Not)
Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 3:19:52 pm PST
Following the broadcast of a BBC documentary suggesting that Jesus may have been conceived as the result of an illicit affair or of Mary's rape by a Roman soldier, enraged British Catholics poured out of churches after evening mass, smashing store windows, overturning cars, and attacking anyone of Middle Eastern ...
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Interview with an Apologist
Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 2:05:22 pm PST
Obviously intended to accompany PBS’s recent commercial for Islam, Legacy of a Prophet, here’s an interview with one of radical Islam’s chief deniers, Karen Armstrong (hat tip: LGF reader Susan)—who actually uses the often-mocked words “religion of peace.” According to Armstrong, the 9/11 attacks were “totally unrepresentative of the Islamic ...
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Did Pakistan Help Iraq?
Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 11:56:26 am PST
Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan, the man called the father of Pakistan’s nuclear program, may have tried to sell his knowledge to Iraq before the first Gulf War.
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Jenin Jane Gets Heckled
Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 11:14:00 am PST
Reader J. Lichty forwarded this priceless story about Jane Fonda’s encounter with the Women in Green.
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Outrage of the Day
Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 10:57:19 am PST
Here’s a jawdroppingly outrageous story flying totally beneath US media radar. William Farish, US ambassador in London, recently hosted the first-ever Ramadan reception at the official residence in Regents Park, describing it as an attempt to “build bridges following the September 11 terror attacks”—and one of the guests was Azzam Tamimi, ...
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Israeli Fifth Column Watch
Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 10:18:22 am PST
Two Israeli Arabs have been arrested for helping the terrorist swine who murdered five people—including two young children and their mother—in Kibbutz Metzer. (Hat tip: zulubaby.) The shooter, Sirhan Sirhan, remains on the loose despite an intensive manhunt by Israeli security forces. Earlier in the week troops blew up his ...
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Saudi Weasels
Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 9:11:17 am PST
The loveable Saudis, who have spent countless billions of dollars (perhaps trillions over several decades) to export their bloody version of Islam around the world and were the prime supporters of the Taliban, are now trying to renege on their promise to donate $50 million to help rebuild the main ...
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Lieberman Does Politics
Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 8:40:10 am PST
Joe Lieberman is mouthing platitudes in Israel: Lieberman Touts Palestinian Statehood. RAMALLAH, West Bank, - Sen. Joseph Lieberman expressed support for Palestinian statehood during a visit to Ramallah on Monday and called conditions in the West Bank town "desperate." ...On his first trip to Israel and the Palestinian territories since ...
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British Fifth Column Watch
Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 3:04:37 am PST
Despite the best efforts of Tony Blair and George Bush to reassure Muslims that the war on terror does not target Islam, 70% of British Muslims disagree, according to a new poll. And the same poll contains further evidence of a profound pathological break from reality: more than half believe ...
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Saudis Still Funding PLO Terror
Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 2:52:20 am PST
A bland one-sentence story at the Arab News reports that the Saudis gave 4.4 million Saudi Riyals (over $1 million) to the PLO yesterday: SR4.4m remitted to PLO. “RIYADH, 23 December 2002 — A sum of SR4.4 million from the funds of the Popular Committee for Assistance to the Palestinians ...
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Iraq Uses OJ Defense
Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 6:53:19 pm PST
Iraq says the US is “rushing to judgment” about the weapons report. If you’re tempted to take Iraq’s words seriously, please read The Threatening Storm by Kenneth Pollack. Then we can talk.
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Talibanization of the PA
Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 11:23:25 am PST
The Palestinian Authority police force, corruption-riddled and terror-abetting even before the start of the stupidfada, has now almost completely fallen apart, and barbarism and crime are running rampant. Yasser Arafat’s Fatah organization has a solution, approved by the Koran: amputation, Taliban-style. "The punishment will be enforced against anyone who is ...
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Whitewashing Jihad
Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 10:50:36 am PST
Reader davesax forwarded this NY Daily News Special Report on New York’s public school textbooks, in which kids are encouraged to ask, “Why do they hate us?” At least three schools have bought copies of "The American Vision," a 2003 high school history textbook, published by Glencoe McGraw-Hill, that was ...
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TIME’s Person of the Year
Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 9:07:58 am PST
This has to be one of the weakest selections for Person of the Year in the history of TIME Magazine: the whistleblowers who broke the Worldcom, Enron, and FBI stories. With everything that happened this year, that’s the best they could do? TIME used to make bold statements when they ...
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Clash of the Titan
Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 8:15:07 am PST
With over 5500 votes already, our race for Idiotarian of the Year is turning into a Clash of the Titans ... well, one titan anyway, who seems to be establishing a solid lead over “history’s biggest monster.” Here are the top ten so far: Michael Moore: 668 12.2%Jimmy Carter 577 10.5%Noam Chomsky 358 6.5%Ted Rall 284 5.2%Jean Chretien 238 4.3%The ...
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Happy Birthday Frank
Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 3:48:21 pm PST
Reader Craig Shipley reminds me that today is Frank Zappa’s birthday. In remembrance of Zappa’s unique musical genius, here’s an article by Frank that originally appeared in Stereo Review’s June 1971 issue, titled Edgard Varese: The Idol of My Youth.
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A Reminder from VDH
Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 2:26:13 pm PST
Victor Davis Hanson on why we fight. How will we know when the war is over?When Europeans and Americans are no longer rounding up terrorists in their countries, when mullahs and sheiks are quite afraid to broadcast calls to kill Americans, and when so-called allies volunteer their help without our ...
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About Those Liberal Muslims
Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 1:26:31 pm PST
Martin Kramer writes about a new open letter from American academics, condemning Israel in advance for war crimes that haven’t happened. The latest absurdity to emanate from Middle Eastern studies is an open letter suggesting that Israel might exploit a war against Saddam to engage in "ethnic cleansing" against Palestinians. ...
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Pakistan Bus Bombing
Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 10:12:46 am PST
A bomb on a public bus in Hyderabad, Pakistan, has killed at least two people—the third bus bombing in the city in four months.
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Religion of High Explosives
Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 9:20:22 am PST
When Sydney police arrived yesterday morning to evict South African-born “committed Muslim” Gill Daniels, they discovered an apartment full of Islamic literature and deadly bombs. POLICE were interrogating a South African-born Muslim man last night after 14 bombs and Islamic literature were found in a dramatic raid on his western ...
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Paul Martin Sues Star and CBC
Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 8:12:05 am PST
British journalist Paul Martin, who published quotes from Hizb'Allah leader Sheikh Nasrallah calling for the worldwide spread of suicide bombing, is standing by his story—and he intends to sue the Toronto Star and the Canadian Broadcasting Company for defamation after they claimed he fabricated Nasrallah’s words. Writing in the Washington ...
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First Round of Fiskie Voting
Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 1:22:05 pm PST
The first round of polling for the Robert Fisk Award for Idiotarian of the Year is now in our left sidebar. The top ten Idiotarians will go on to the final round, to determine who gets to experience the ineffable majesty of the very first Fiskie. UPDATE: Because the list is ...
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End of the Year Telethon
Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 11:29:10 am PST
At the risk of sounding like Tiny Tim (the Dickens one, not the “Tiptoe Through the Tulips” guy): if you have any room left in your holiday budget, don’t forget about LGF; we spend more hours each day than we care to admit combing the net, answering email (and falling ...
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US TV Spots Banned in Beirut
Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 11:02:19 am PST
Saudi advertisements appear in our newspapers and TV, and PBS runs extended commercials for Islam. But Lebanon has banned our State Department-funded, hyper-PC TV spots that show Muslims being treated with respect as they take advantage of the opportunities of the United States. BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon has banned the broadcasting ...
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If He Had Trains, They’d Be On Time
Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 9:53:31 am PST
Senator Patty Murray tells high school students the US needs to learn to be a “better neighbor” to the world—like Osama bin Laden. "We've got to ask, why is this man (Osama bin Laden) so popular around the world?," said Murray, who faces re-election in 2004. "Why are people so ...
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Messages to the ICA
Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 9:39:06 am PST
Aaron Weisburd is featuring exclusive translations from the Al Qaeda web site, in which they puff themselves up like threatening toads and fantasize about murdering infidels. We think it strange that the Americans and their supporters in the western world think that they can negotiate with people who wish for ...
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How the West Will Be Lost
Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 9:12:13 am PST
Excerpts from a talk by Oriana Fallaci at the American Enterprise Institute, October 22, 2002: How the West Was Won and How It Will Be Lost. (Hat tip: dennisw.) I accuse ourselves also of another crime: the loss of passion. Haven’t you understood what drives our enemies? What permits them ...
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Palestinians Cheat Del Monte
Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 9:03:33 am PST
A lawsuit alleges that a Palestinian company cheated Del Monte investors by bribing a Mexican official: Lawsuit Says Del Monte Sale Was Rigged. (Hat tip: M. Simon.)
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French Anti-Semitism Watch
Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 8:47:30 am PST
Nelson Ascher alerted us to another breaking story from France, where a cable TV operator has shown a chapter of the Egyptian anti-Semitic TV series Knight Without a Horse. Here is Google’s translated version of the story at France’s Proche-Orient.
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Religion of Misogyny
Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 8:33:47 am PST
Muslim terrorists murdered three women in Kashmir for the crime of showing their faces. Two of the women, both aged 21, were shot dead in their house in the Rajouri district in the south of the revolt-torn Muslim-majority state.An official says a third woman, 22, was taken away and beheaded.Police ...
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Lott Bails
Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 8:26:11 am PST
Well, it looks like LGF isn’t the only Trent Lott Free Zone.
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French Shari'a Watch
Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 8:16:01 am PST
France has agreed to the creation of an Islamic Council that includes members of a group related to the Muslim Brotherhood (the BBC doesn’t mention this, of course): France creates Muslim council. A final round of talks began on Thursday near Paris after Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy persuaded the country's ...
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Palestinians Still Want More
Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 5:36:38 pm PST
Even now, with their economy destroyed and their society debased, a new poll shows that 63% of Palestinians still think suicide bombings should continue. JERUSALEM - Most Palestinians believe suicide bombings against Israel are justified and only a handful support ending the violent uprising that has claimed nearly 2,700 lives ...
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Powell: Iraq in Violation
Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 1:54:14 pm PST
Colin Powell says Iraq has flagrantly violated the UN disarmament resolution. "Our experts have found it to be anything but accurate, full or complete," Powell said. Iraq's declaration is "a catalogue of recycled information and flagrant omissions," he said. "The world should view this with great skepticism." John Negroponte, the ...
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FBI Whistleblowers
Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 12:07:35 pm PST
Two veteran FBI investigators claim they were told to stop looking into an Al Qaeda terror cell linked to Bin Laden in the mid 1990s: FBI Called off Terror Investigations. (Hat tip: Scott Sendrow.) In a dramatic interview with ABCNEWS, FBI special agents and partners Robert Wright and John Vincent ...
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Idiotarian of the Year
Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 11:43:30 am PST
It’s end of the year list time, and I think we’ll launch a new tradition: the LGF Idiotarian of the Year Award. I already have plenty of ideas for the list: Michael Moore Ramsey Clark Yasser Arafish Pilger Fisk Chomsky Penn ...etc. Please post nominations for this soon-to-be-coveted trophy here, and when we have a representative list of ...
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INS Crackdown in SoCal
Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 10:55:29 am PST
INS spokespeople have not released actual numbers, but Reuters reports hundreds of Muslim immigrants have been arrested in Southern California. LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hundreds of Iranian and other Middle East citizens were in southern California jails on Wednesday after coming forward to comply with a new rule to register ...
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The Tale of the Holiday Crank
Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 10:09:51 am PST
Go ye and read of this glorious Lileks rant about that shrivel-souled Canadian couple who licensed a billboard on the Pat Bay Highway near Victoria to display a cheerful holiday message: “Gluttony. Envy. Insincerity. Greed. Enjoy Your Christmas.”
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The Boomerang of “Multiculturalism”
Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 9:55:33 am PST
Here’s a good piece (although it could have used some grammar checking) on the situation in the Islamic confrontation zone known as Belgium, by Michael Radu: Belgium, Islam and the Boomerang of “Multiculturalism.” (Hat tip: dennisw.) In the last few months, under the pretext of the murder of an Arab ...
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Islam Soft and Hard
Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 9:11:58 am PST
I saw the PBS documentary Legacy of a Prophet last night, and I must say it was even worse than Daniel Pipes made it sound. Today at National Review, Robert Spencer also critiques this publicly funded whitewashed commercial for Islam. UPDATE: David Klinghoffer also weighs in on the documentary, focusing on ...
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Got 9 in Pakistan
Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 8:51:00 am PST
Nine suspected Al Qaeda members have been arrested in Pakistan, including three Americans and two Canadians. (Hat tip: NC.) Those arrested were Dr. Javed Ahmad, his two sons, two brothers, three nephews and one uncle. Ahmad and his two sons, Umar Karar and Khyzer Ali, are naturalized Americans and residents ...
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For the Rest of Her Life
Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 8:40:47 am PST
Oriana Fallaci talks to the Washington Times: No fatwa has been declared for Miss Fallaci, but she is determined to endure the backlash against her stone-hard conviction: that Islam is a blight on the world, a serious threat to a superior Western culture, which does not realize the danger to ...
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How Do You Spell A-P-P-E-A-S-E?
Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 1:17:57 am PST
There aren’t enough mosques in France, and this of course enrages and humiliates French Muslims: Muslims in France Worship Underground. A representative body "will make Islam visible and get Muslims away from praying in cellars where they feel frustrated and victimized," said Antoine Sfeir, an author and expert on Islam. ...
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Terror Plotters Acquitted in Netherlands
Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 4:39:31 pm PST
A Dutch court threw out all evidence and acquitted four Islamic radicals today, on what looks like the slimmest of technicalities: Four Acquitted in Dutch Terrorism Trial. THE HAGUE, Netherlands - A Dutch court acquitted four men Wednesday of involvement in a plot to blow up the U.S. Embassy in ...
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Bordering on Obsession
Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 2:20:37 pm PST
A great piece by Michael Freund says the international community’s obsession with Israel causes it to ignore other serious problems, such as Morocco’s occupation of the Western Sahara: Bordering on obsession. It is a cruel and ruthless military occupation, one which has persisted for decades and been declared illegal by ...
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Who is Prince Nayef?
Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 1:59:24 pm PST
The Weekly Standard has an excellent piece by Bill Tierney on the most powerful man in Saudi Arabia: Who is Prince Nayef? Lately, following the revelation that a member of the royal family had indirectly funded a 9/11 hijacker, Prince Nayef has resurrected the view that the Jews were behind ...
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Little Green Hallucinations
Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 10:53:19 am PST
James Lileks got hit with the Norwalk Virus, and had some truly disturbing fever dreams. For approximately 10 hours, nearly every single fever-induced plotline, image, character and non sequitar was funneled through the metaphor of the Little Green Footballs webpage. That’s what my poor overclocked brain used to sort and ...
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Bidness
Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 10:45:21 am PST
Posts may be a little light today; I’ve got work to do that will take some time. (Trolls, please post to this topic to avoid leaving unsightly messes on the carpet. Thank you.)
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AMC Vice Pres Arrested
Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 9:14:47 am PST
Three men have been arrested for illegally transferring money to Yemen. Federal prosecutor Timothy Lynch said the men sent the money out of the country between October and December. He said Mohamed Albanna has been transferring money illegally for two to three years. During a series of raids Tuesday, $130,000 ...
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Got Some in Texas
Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 8:12:08 am PST
A number of Muslim men with ties to a Richardson Texas computer company have been arrested in Dallas for terrorist fund raising. The arrests are the result of a multiyear FBI investigation into Richardson computer company Infocom, and a Palestinian charity across the street, Holy Land Foundation. FBI agents arrested ...
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It’s All a Big Misunderstanding
Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 2:30:32 am PST
Send home the inspectors and call off the war. Sean Penn has confirmed that Iraq is “clear of weapons of mass destruction.” What a relief. I was getting a little worried.
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Blix Is Too Late
Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 7:06:02 pm PST
DEBKA reports that Saddam Hussein is ordering the murder of scientists (and their families) involved in his WMD programs, to get rid of the evidence: Blix Is Too Late. (Hat tip: Ms Lively.) UN Security Council resolution 1441 of November 8 gave the arms inspectors in Iraqi the right to ...
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Islamic Rant Generator
Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 3:38:33 pm PST
Solly Ezekiel should license his Islamic Rant Generator to the mullahs and imams; the output from his Java program is eerily close to the real thing. Could be a real timesaver when they’re stuck deciding between “shake the ground under their feet” and “destroy the descendants of monkeys and pigs.” ...
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Iraqi Report Damaging to Germany
Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 3:06:44 pm PST
A major scandal is breaking in Germany, where Iraq’s weapons dossier is revealing that Germany has been the number one supplier of weapons technology to the Iraqis. (Hat tip: ploome.) On Tuesday, the Berlin-based left-wing paper, Tageszeitung reported that aspects of the 12,000-page Iraqi report on Iraq's weapons programs, submitted ...
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Drunken Elephant Rampage
Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 2:48:47 pm PST
Who knew elephants were such mean drunks? GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) - A herd of wild elephants driven berserk by country liquor trampled to death six people, among them four children, during a rampage in India's northeastern state of Assam, police said Tuesday. The animals came out of the forest Sunday, ...
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Attack at Brooklyn School
Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 2:42:07 pm PST
Yesterday at a middle school in Brooklyn, an Arab girl assaulted a Jewish girl after weeks of anti-Semitic taunts: Brooklyn Assemblyman Dov Hikind, who spoke with the victims' parents, said he believes the assault was bias-related - although it was not reported as a hate crime. "The attack was the ...
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Nitwit Troll Day
Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 2:24:04 pm PST
LGF commentator E. Nough asks, “What is this, Nitwit Troll Day at LGF? Sheesh.” Why, yes. Yes, I believe it is. At this point I would normally remind everyone of Internet Rule #2: Do Not Feed The Trolls. And ordinarily, that will still be the best advice—because it’s attention they crave. Deprive them ...
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Canadian Creep Defiant in Israel
Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 9:11:08 am PST
Trouble-making Canadian riot junkie Jaggi Singh says he intends to defy the Israeli court and enter the disputed territories, if his murderous pals invite him. Canadian Jaggi Singh says he is prepared to violate an Israeli court ruling and illegally enter the West Bank or Gaza Strip if Palestinians want ...
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Got 3 More
Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 8:58:16 am PST
Three Islamic radicals have been arrested in suburban Paris, with $5000 in cash, a computer, Islamic death-cult propaganda, and an undisclosed quantity of unidentified chemicals. The officials did not disclose the identity of the suspects but said it was believed they had spent time in training camps in Afghanistan and ...
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Saudi Decapitation Watch
Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 8:54:24 am PST
Our enlightened allies in the Saudi entity lopped off three more heads today, in public, with a sword, and plenty of blood and suffering. Just the way they like it. Khalaf bin Ramadan al-Anzi, Nayef al-Hazemi and Thaher al-Anzi were found guilty of taking drugs and robbing an exchange company, ...
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Al Qaeda Sleepers in Ottawa
Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 8:36:54 am PST
Mohamed Harkat lived in Ottawa after being granted refugee status by Canada, working as a gas station attendant and delivering pizzas—while allegedly belonging to an Al Qaeda sleeper cell connected to top Al Qaeda operatives: CSIS links Ottawa man to al-Qaeda. According to the CSIS file, Mr. Harkat came to ...
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Bali Explosives Discovered
Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 8:09:47 am PST
Acting on a tip-off, Indonesian police raided the home of a friend of confessed Bali bomber Amrozi, and discovered a ton of potassium chlorate—a chemical used to manufacture high explosives. The discovery has greatly eased fears of a renewed Christmas terror attack in the archipelago, although police still believe about ...
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PBS, Recruiting for Islam
Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 8:01:17 am PST
Daniel Pipes slams PBS for a new publicly-funded documentary that blatantly proselytizes for Islam: PBS, Recruiting for Islam. The heart of the film consists of nine talking heads competing with each other to praise Muhammad the most extravagantly. Not one of them criticizes him. Some of their efforts are laughable, ...
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Nobody Wants Them
Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 7:06:11 pm PST
The Palestinians’ Arab brothers in Jordan don’t seem to want them around any more than the Israelis do, in spite of the thugocracy’s Western female sock puppet: Jordan queen's decree stirs tempest over citizenship rights. Three generations after Israel's war of independence sent the first Palestinian refugees spilling into Jordan, ...
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The UN’s Blind Spot
Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 6:17:23 pm PST
Palestinians are well known for programming their children from birth to be empty-eyed jihad suicide missiles, although you’d never know it from the latest UN Report on Child Soldiers. The report by U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan listed 23 parties that recruit and use child warriors in violation of internationally accepted ...
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Satanic Western Responses
Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 5:46:59 pm PST
One of Mark Steyn’s best columns looks back at the disgraceful history of the Salman Rushdie fatwa, from a post-September 11 perspective: Satanic Western responses. I was reading a Salman Rushdie column the other day and, not for the first time, agreeing with 95 percent of it. In fact, I ...
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Religion of Bloodlust
Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 11:23:53 am PST
Apparently Hamas has a few jihadis who possess rudimentary Photoshop skills. Here’s a lovely illustration from their web site, of an eagle pecking at the severed head of Ariel Sharon; the slogan reads: “We will use the skulls of Zion's sons (Jews) to build a bridge to Heaven.”
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Fisk Slobbers Over Assad
Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 10:50:48 am PST
Robert Fisk has never met a dictator or terrorist he didn’t love, madly and deeply. In his latest self-parodying column for the Independent, he frets that Syria’s getting a bad rap for supporting “terror:” President Assad receives a warm welcome into Blair's mutual admiration club. Syria is in great danger. ...
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Support for Terrorists
Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 10:07:15 am PST
A prominent Canadian Muslim “activist” comes out unreservedly in support of the Hizb'Allah terror gang, in a letter to the Toronto Star: Hey CSIS, come get me. (Hat tip: Randy Schwartz.)
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Camels on the Catwalk
Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 9:35:45 am PST
Imagine the screams from Anil and his buds if I wrote something like this as a parody: Camels catwalk to glory. (Hat tip: the Viking.) RAFEEA, 16 December 2002 — More than 1,000 camels, presented by 185 proud breeders, paraded in a major camel beauty contest held in Rafeea, 300 ...
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What’s On Arafat’s Desk?
Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 8:59:05 am PST
More than 3 months after we first noticed it, the red binder is still in the same position in Arafat’s towering stack of unfinished paperwork! Looks like he’s added a couple more inches of paper since this photo from two and a half months ago. No sign of the baby wipes ...
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Somebody Needs to Get Over It
Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 6:30:11 pm PST
The key to solving the clash of civilizations may have been provocatively dropped into a sports bra in Afghanistan. A Western military attaché told me how grenades and rockets were often retrieved from beneath the odd burqa. Women must be checked during routine arms inspections and this presents a quandary: ...
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Outrage of the Day
Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 6:12:53 pm PST
At least a dozen people emailed about this outrageous story today. I admit I had no idea that rabid anti-Semitism was a problem among native Saskatchewan Indians: Leaders distance FSIN from anti-Semitic rant. SASKATOON -- A respected Saskatchewan Indian leader said Friday Hitler did the right thing when he "fried" ...
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Peace Creep Sleeps at Airport
Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 5:40:07 pm PST
For a so-called “peace activist,” Canadian troublemaker Jaggi Singh gets involved in an awful lot of riots. We wrote about him last September, when the Globe and Mail published his sneering piece claiming that the Concordia University students who rioted to prevent Benjamin Netanyahu from speaking were actually enforcing free ...
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T-Shirt Design
Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 2:25:36 pm PST
We’re putting in our first order for T-shirts this week, and I’ll be setting up a Paypal shopping cart for online orders. Here are the final designs for the front and back of the shirt: T-shirt front. T-shirt back.
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Psycho Babble
Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 11:53:03 am PST
Last Thursday the Palestinian Authority’s “Minister of Supplies” (whose duties probably consist mostly of supplying EU funds to Swiss bank accounts) was interviewed on official Palestinian TV, and offered up an interestingly insane new racist libel for the Palestinian public to consume and digest: Jewish Religion sees Arabs as Subhuman. ...
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Spielberg Donates $1M
Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 11:26:17 am PST
Hallelujah! An artist who isn’t an idiot. Hollywood filmmaker Steven Spielberg has pledged $1 million to aid Israeli victims of terrorism and has named five Israeli and American organizations as the initial recipients of the donation. Spielberg's Righteous Persons Foundation cited its benefactor's "concern for the current crisis in Israel ...
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Islam’s Medieval Outposts
Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 11:18:16 am PST
At Foreign Policy, here’s a terrific (and rather frightening) piece about Pakistani Islamic schools (madrassas) by Husain Haqqani—an author with personal experience of the subject: Islam’s Medieval Outposts. A must read. (Hat tip: reader m12edit.)
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Is Riverdale A Settlement?
Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 10:26:15 am PST
Terror apologist Stanley Cohen wants to put Israel on trial in a Bronx courtroom, for producing the horrible despair that caused his Arab-American clients to throw Molotov cocktails into a synagogue in Riverdale: Is Riverdale A Settlement? The intifada is on trial this week in Bronx County Court House. It’s ...
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Egyptian Hate Conference
Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 9:48:21 am PST
After first saying they would ban it, Egypt will now allow an anti-American, anti-Israel conference to take place, featuring some of the leading dim bulbs of the Vast Left Wing Lunacy. The two-day conference — "Together Against U.S., Globalization and War in Iraq" — was organized by an international group ...
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Such Lovely People
Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 9:22:03 am PST
The unrepentant thugs of the Palestinian Authority recently told Israeli insurance companies they would return as many as 10,000 automobiles stolen from Israel by Palestinians—if the companies forked over $900 per car. Apparently chutzpah is also an Arabic concept. (Hat tips: adam and ploome.)
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Israel on Campus
Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 9:07:33 am PST
Harvard professor Ruth Wisse makes some excellent points in this article at OpinionJournal: Israel on Campus. (Hat tip: reader Lou Averbach.) The divestment campaign did not just happen, and speakers assaulting Israel do not appear of themselves. This antipathy toward Israel grows from a campus culture that is selectively repressive. ...
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Religion of 40kg Bombs
Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 8:37:32 am PST
Three murderous creeps working for Islamic Jihad were arrested several weeks ago in Jerusalem for planning a series of high profile attacks, including bombing the prime minister’s house. According to the charges Ziad Atrash suggested planting a large explosive device near the Prime Minister's residence in Jerusalem's Rehavia neighborhood. Atrash ...
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Palestinians Call for More of the Same
Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 7:47:15 am PST
Can an entire society suffer from paranoid delusional mania? Some 70 prominent Palestinian figures have signed a petition calling on the Palestinian Authority to abolish the Oslo Accords, and warning that the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq would place all the Arab countries under the control of Israel ...
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Syria Votes for Al Qaeda
Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 6:54:35 pm PST
I got about a dozen emails yesterday about this story: U.N. Condemns Terror Acts Against Israel. The Security Council voted 14-1 to condemn the Al Qaeda attacks in Kenya—and the only vote against the resolution was cast by Syria.
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Al Qaeda's Media Coordinator
Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 6:27:28 pm PST
More bizarre news from the Middle East: Al Qaeda’s media coordinator (nicknamed—I kid you not—“Reuters”) is reportedly under arrest in Egypt. The officials identified the man as Mohammed Nagah Abdel Maqsoud, saying he was the media coordinator of the terror group responsible for the September 11, 2001 attacks on the ...
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Backpack Nuclear Threat
Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 6:14:45 pm PST
England’s Sunday Express is claiming that Al Qaeda possesses 20 backpack nuclear bombs. (Via Drudge.) UPDATE: LGF reader “Dirk Diggler” points out this article at WorldNet Daily with more details: Bush, Blair warned of bin Laden nukes.
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Comment Size Limit
Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 5:32:16 pm PST
Something new: I’ve installed an 8K limit on the size of comments, because for some reason trolls like to post entire articles instead of links, and I’m tired of cleaning up after them. Beneath the comment entry area is a counter that is updated as you type, showing how many ...
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Through the Looking Glass
Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 2:01:40 pm PST
How bizarre is this? The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament is petitioning Britain’s High Court to stop the UK from disarming Iraq. Rabinder Singh, QC, representing the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, told three senior judges that last month's UN Security Council Resolution 1441 did not authorise using force in the event ...
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Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves
Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 1:30:16 pm PST
A new subtitled video in MEMRI’s IQRAA TV series features a Saudi program on Imposing Discipline in the Family, hosted by Jasem Muhammad Al-Mutawah, an “expert on family matters.” Al-Mutawah begins the program by lovingly displaying the different types of rods used by good Saudi Muslims to beat their disobedient ...
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British Academic Anti-Semitism
Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 1:01:21 pm PST
If Al Guardian is to be believed, the British academic boycott against Israel is gaining strength, producing disgusting stories like this: Dr Oren Yiftachel, a left-wing Israeli academic at Ben Gurion University, complained that an article he had co-authored with a Palestinian was initially rejected by the respected British journal ...
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Fact-Checking the Fact-Checkers
Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 10:33:03 am PST
In the Toronto Star, Antonia Zerbisias boasts that CBC’s excellent fact-checking has exposed the bias at the National Post and the Washington Times, who reported Hizb'Allah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah’s call for the worldwide spread of suicide bombing without properly researching the source: Curious silence greets discredited Hezbollah tale. But ...
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Got Two More
Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 9:44:01 am PST
Jordanian police have arrested two admitted members of Al Qaeda in the shooting death of US diplomat Laurence Foley. Laurence Foley, 60, was shot at close range Oct. 28 in front of his home in Amman in a brazen killing that shocked Jordanians and the American diplomatic community in the ...
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Reasons to Oppose
Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 9:37:08 am PST
Joseph Alexander Norland has been compiling a list of reasons to oppose the creation of a second Palestinian Arab state (the first is Jordan) in Judea, Samaria and Gaza. In Part 15 of 23, he focuses on the vitally important problem of water rights.
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Get These Robots Off Me!
Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 7:39:57 am PST
Here’s an interesting find from our server log; last night LGF got hit by a robot from Turnitin.com, a service that helps educational institutions prevent plagiarism by comparing student papers with web content.
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Kissinger Resigns
Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 7:14:55 pm PST
Henry Kissinger has resigned from the panel investigating the 9/11 terror attacks. WASHINGTON - Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger stepped down Friday as chairman of a panel investigating the Sept. 11 attacks, citing controversy over potential conflicts of interest with his private-sector clients. I wonder which “private-sector clients” he’s ...
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Pinter Goes Mental
Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 7:03:33 pm PST
The United States frightens Harold Pinter, author of countless unwatchable plays: The American administration is a bloodthirsty wild animal. America believes that the 3,000 deaths in New York are the only deaths that count, the only deaths that matter. They are American deaths. Other deaths are unreal, abstract, of no ...
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Appeasement Then and Now
Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 6:41:40 pm PST
Here’s a fascinating discussion at FrontPage featuring Victor Davis Hanson, Pat Buchanan, Michael Ledeen, Dr. Charles Kupchan, and Danielle Pletka: Appeasement Then and Now.
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Our Islands in the Storm
Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 1:37:30 pm PST
Another stellar column from Victor Davis Hanson, a sort of paean to America’s aircraft carriers: Our Islands in the Storm. Our aircraft carriers are this nation's phalanxes, at once frightening weapons and symbols of American freedom. Few countries can build such behemoths; fewer still operate them with any degree of ...
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Hamas Parades in Gaza
Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 12:53:24 pm PST
Hamas is playing genocide dress-up games in Gaza again. At a stadium in Khan Younis, thousands of cheering Palestinians watched the Religion of Peace™ strut its stuff. By the way, the Koran that our photogenic friend is proudly shoving at the camera has nothing whatsoever to do with the bomb belt ...
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Death Cult TV
Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 11:47:43 am PST
This week Palestinian Television (PATV) broadcast an interview with a Palestinian mother who boasted that while on pilgrimage to Mecca, she prayed for her son to die in the act of killing Jews. Such lovely people. "[My second son Naji] became a Shahid on Mar. 23, 2002, at the age ...
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Hasta la Vista
Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 11:22:20 am PST
Jim Hoagland says, “So Long, Saddam.”
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Another First for France
Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 10:31:49 am PST
Next year, France will open its first Islamic high school. Makhlouf Mameche, the man who has fought so many years to impose the idea and who will quite appropriately become Ecole Averroes’ first director, says that as far as he’s concerned, an Islamic lycee for France was a dire necessity, ...
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Useful to a Point
Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 9:47:41 am PST
For more cartoons like this, check out “Black & White World.”
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Pablo Pigcasso
Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 9:28:35 am PST
Forget Sean Penn. Here’s some real talent. Ladies and gentlemen, Smithfield the Painting Potbellied Pig.
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Sean Penn: Idiot
Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 8:21:26 am PST
Sean Penn is directing and starring in a new film now being shot on location in Baghdad, titled Useful Idiot. BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. actor and director Sean Penn, starting a three-day visit to Baghdad, said Friday he wanted more insight into "this frightening conflict."The former Hollywood bad boy and ...
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Hizb'Allah Tries to Rewrite History
Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 6:19:35 pm PST
According to CBC News, Hizb'Allah is now claiming that Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah’s speech calling for the worldwide spread of “the culture of suicide bombing” never happened, and that Canada was duped into calling them terrorists. We wrote about Nasrallah’s speech on November 25, when the IDF published this report on their ...
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Scary News of the Day
Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 2:44:16 pm PST
New satellite photographs reveal that Iran has been secretly building large nuclear facilities—that can have only one purpose. Commercial satellite photographs taken in September show a nuclear facility near the town of Natanz and another one near Arak, the officials said. The International Atomic Energy Agency said its inspectors have ...
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Warblogger—the Game
Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 2:28:04 pm PST
John Hawkins has a new board game for the blog-obsessed: Warblogger—the Game.
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Reuters Bias Watch
Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 1:02:34 pm PST
Reuters again. They’re on a roll today, with still another shamefully biased article from Nidal al-Mughrabi: 6 Palestinians, 2 Israelis Killed in Gaza, W.Bank. GAZA (Reuters) - Six Palestinians, five of them unarmed, and two Israelis were killed in separate incidents on Thursday in the Gaza Strip and the West ...
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The Heart of Darkness
Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 12:44:57 pm PST
Michael Ledeen on a German investigation that is uncovering links between Hezbollah and al Qaeda, facilitated by the EU’s friends in Iran: The Heart of Darkness. — Sarkawi is a Palestinian with a Jordanian passport, and he supervises terrorist training camps near Herat and Kabul, thus confirming the ongoing role ...
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EU Gets Cozy with Iran
Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 11:06:45 am PST
The European Union proudly announces the start of trade talks with the Islamist mobsters who rule Iran: Iran, EU kick off landmark trade and political talks. (Hat tip: reader m12edit, who comments, “Does the EU now do whatever it can just to piss us off?” Short answer: yes.) BRUSSELS, Dec ...
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Hezbollah Threatens Canada
Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 10:44:27 am PST
This AP story filed in Beirut reads like a press release from Hezbollah. But the not-so-veiled threats against Canada are unmissable: Hezbollah slams Canada's decision to list it as a terrorist group. Under pressure from the Canadian Jewish community and the main opposition group, Canadian Alliance, the Ottawa government added ...
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We Lose
Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 10:20:35 am PST
The Arab News gloats over the return of those North Korean missiles to Yemen: Yemen wins Scud tussle. ADEN/WASHINGTON, 12 December 2002 — The United States backed down from a standoff with Yemen yesterday when it announced the release of a ship carrying Scud missiles intended for the Yemeni Army. ...
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What Happened to the Scare Quotes?
Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 9:49:36 am PST
Reuters again. The news service that calls Osama bin Laden a “dissident” seems to have misplaced their usual quotation marks in the opening sentence of this article about the Iraq inspections: BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.N. inspectors scrutinized more suspected weapons sites on Thursday as an Iraqi daily denounced a U.S. ...
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Fatah Vows Continuing Jihad
Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 8:32:12 am PST
The homicidal maniacs of Yasser Arafat’s Fatah terror gang vow to continue the jihad until the “liberation of Palestine.” The leaflet said: "We will not allow these voices, which are affiliated with Fatah and the PA, to undermine the will of the intifada and resistance. Since its establishment in Palestine, ...
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Israel Kills Five Infiltrators
Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 7:54:34 am PST
The naked anti-Israel bias of Reuters continues to amaze. Case in point: an article by Nidal al-Mughrabi about Palestinians killed while attempting to sneak over a border fence in a prohibited area, titled Israel Kills Five Unarmed Palestinians.
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Terrorist Tactics
Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 7:37:51 am PST
Here’s an interesting article about the fourth generation warfare tactics used by terror gangs like Al Qaeda.
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The Protocols of Paterson
Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 8:34:57 pm PST
An apostate Muslim from New Jersey tells the truth about The Protocols of Paterson. The recent serialization of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion by The Arab Voice of Paterson is a major affront to the Jewish community, and a disgraceful act of bigotry on the part of Walid ...
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Vaccination Time
Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 5:04:42 pm PST
The President is ordering smallpox vaccinations for the military. THE PRESIDENT talked about the broad outlines of his plan Wednesday on ABC’s “World News Tonight.”He said he had decided to make the smallpox vaccine available to Americans on a voluntary basis to guard against a possible biological warfare attack.“I think ...
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Islamism in Europe
Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 2:10:00 pm PST
Michiel Visser has a very disturbing look at the radical Islamic group known as the Arab European League, which started in Belgium (and was responsible for the recent Arab riots in Antwerp) and is now seeking to expand into other European countries.
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Kosher Food Kills LGF
Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 1:39:48 pm PST
It seems weirdly appropriate (in some way I’m not even going to try to explain) that out of almost 5,000 entries, the discussion about kosher food would be the one that brings the LGF weblog system to its knees. Yes, after more than 620 messages, and with no signs of ...
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What Kind of War is This?
Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 9:57:23 am PST
What the hell is wrong with our government? Officials Say Yemen Shipment Released. SAN'A, Yemen (AP) - The U.S. Navy released the shipment of North Korean-made Scud missiles it seized, sending the vessel and its cargo Wednesday on their way to the original destination of Yemen, foreign ministry officials said. ...
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Canada Bans Hezbollah, Arabs Whine
Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 9:30:43 am PST
Canada is finally going to ban Hezbollah, according to the National Post. But shamefully, the Canadian Arab Federation has actually come out against the ban—and openly expresses support for Hamas and Islamic Jihad. In an apparent attempt to head off any move to ban Hezbollah, the Canadian Arab Federation wrote ...
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Yemen Demands Missiles
Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 8:12:41 am PST
Yemen says the US knew in advance about the shipment of Scud missiles from North Korea and that the missiles are only intended for “defensive purposes,” and they are demanding them back. No explanation for why the missiles were concealed in the cargo hold under bags of cement.
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US Vows Harsh Response
Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 7:39:25 am PST
A dire warning from the White House to anyone contemplating the use of WMD against the United States: We’ll Nuke You.
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Saudi Hate Schools
Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 6:42:07 pm PST
ABC News reports that Saudi schools are still teaching (male) students to hate the United States and love Osama bin Laden: Saudi Schools Teach Hatred of U.S. Here's an exchange with Mohammed Al-Osman, another teacher:ABCNEWS' Jim Sciutto: Do you believe Osama bin Laden is a good man?Mohammed Al-Osman: Undoubtedly.Sciutto: He's ...
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No Trent Lott Here
Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 6:07:11 pm PST
I hereby declare this weblog a Trent Lott free zone.
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Sultan of Spin
Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 3:29:09 pm PST
David Tell minces no words about oleaginous Saudi spokesman Adel al-Jubeir. (Hat tip: MadMan.) ...speaking of Princess Haifa: It's lately become news that she has a beautiful soul--such that she routinely gives away huge sums of money to perfect strangers. One such stranger, a year and a half ago, was ...
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N. Korean Missiles in Arabian Sea
Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 3:04:24 pm PST
A shipment of a dozen Scud-type missiles from North Korea was intercepted in the Arabian Sea today, probably on its way to Yemen. The ship was stopped and boarded about 600 miles east of the Horn of Africa, the officials said. U.S. intelligence had been tracking the vessel closely, said ...
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A Well-Respected Man
Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 2:33:39 pm PST
For more like this, check out Cox and Forkum’s great collection “Black & White World.”
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Hijackers Used Gas
Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 2:13:27 pm PST
An FBI agent testifying at the trial of a suspected 9/11 conspirator in Germany said the hijackers probably used gas when they took over the first plane to hit the World Trade Center. FBI special agent Matthew Walsh, giving evidence at the trial of Mounir El Motassadeq, the first suspected ...
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Last Delinking Post Ever
Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 2:06:24 pm PST
Diane E. also had an unpleasant run-in with the sanctimonious creep the fine fellow behind the Rittenhouse Review.
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Remember 1979
Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 12:50:25 pm PST
Jimmy Carter continues his long history of appeasement masquerading as high moral principles. Accepting his Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, he took the opportunity to make a series of outrageous statements, including calling on Israel to capitulate to Palestinian terrorism and fully withdraw from the disputed territories, and calling on ...
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Clueless in Hollywood
Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 11:44:08 am PST
From Kenneth M. Pollack’s compelling and important book The Threatening Storm: This is a regime that will gouge out the eyes of children to force confessions from their parents and grandparents. This is a regime that will crush all of the bones in the feet of a two-year old girl ...
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Religion of Submission
Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 10:53:14 am PST
An Australian Islamic site spells it out for us: What is Islam? What is Islam? Islam means submission, it is the fastest growing religion and the whole world will eventually submit to it. (Hat tip: Tim Blair.)
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Interview with an Italian Imam
Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 10:30:43 am PST
Here’s an interview by Canadian columnist John Downing with Sheikh Abdul Hadi Palazzi, the chief imam of Italy’s Muslim community, in which he condemns suicide bombings, harshly criticizes Saudi Arabia, and even accepts the existence of Israel: Saudis no friends of the West. (Hat tip: LGF reader Elizabeth.)
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Interview with a Tool
Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 9:25:58 am PST
Canadian born philosopher Ted Honderich now teaches at University College London, and he epitomizes the postmodernist’s infatuation with murderous thugs—and tortuously rationalized anti-Semitism. In September we had an entry about his speaking tour of Canadian universities, in which he promoted his idea that suicide bombings are a proper response to ...
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NYC LGF Get-Down
Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 8:10:02 am PST
Here’s an account from Judith Weiss of a get-together of the New York branch of LGF fans. Sounds like a cosmopolitan evening was had by all; it actually made me miss New York.
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Peaceful Religion Watch
Mon, Dec 9, 2002 at 3:33:35 pm PST
Last Friday the sheikhs and imams of the Arab world bade farewell to the month of Ramadan, calling on the faithful to think of the needy, and calling on God to “inflict his might” on the Zionists and make them booty for Muslims. From the holy mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia: ...
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Kill Kurds, Not Mumia!
Mon, Dec 9, 2002 at 1:21:28 pm PST
Napoleon Cole has some good mean fun at the expense of clueless Seattle peaceniks. I pull up alongside a lone 50-something protester walking with his sign folded so I can't see it."Hey, did I miss the protest?""Yes.""Do you know where any other pro-Saddam things are going on?""No I don't. I'm ...
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Moral Superiority
Mon, Dec 9, 2002 at 12:51:53 pm PST
Don’t hate the Canadians because they’re morally superior to us proto-simian US cowboys. It’s not their fault. Quite a few Canadians do feel morally superior to Americans. If that nettles some Americans, good — it might help them to understand how the rest of the world feels about Americans' overwhelming ...
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UN Gives Up the Papers
Mon, Dec 9, 2002 at 11:16:02 am PST
After first pledging to keep the contents of Iraq’s WMD declaration secret from the United States, the UN has decided to give us an uncensored copy after all. Bet there were some interesting meetings over this.
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Shari'a in Australia
Mon, Dec 9, 2002 at 8:57:13 am PST
In his speeches to Muslims in Sydney, the “spiritual leader” of the Jemaah Islamiah terror gang called for global jihad to establish a worldwide Islamic state—beginning with Australia. In an audio-recording believed to feature his voice, and obtained by the Herald, the hardline cleric gives his broad support to jihad ...
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Saudi Eye in the Sky
Mon, Dec 9, 2002 at 8:04:18 am PST
On December 20, with Russian help, Saudi Arabia will launch a spy satellite. JEDDAH, Dec 9, SPA -- Prince Turki bin Saud, supervisor of the Space Research Institute at King Abdul Aziz City of Science and Technology, announced yesterday that the Kingdom will launch its third satellite on Dec. 20 ...
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Saddam’s Blood Money
Mon, Dec 9, 2002 at 7:56:06 am PST
LGF reader Zulubaby points out this report at Ha'aretz that Saddam Hussein has just given a half million dollars to the Palestinian Authority, to be distributed to the families of murderers. And if your loved one blew himself up in a children’s playground, it’s bonus time. Israel Radio, quoting a ...
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Iraq Admits Nuclear Effort
Mon, Dec 9, 2002 at 2:27:37 am PST
Iraq Admits Work On Nuclear Bomb. In Baghdad, President Saddam Hussein's adviser said the declaration proved Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction - but he suggested Baghdad may have been close to developing a nuclear bomb."We have the complete documentation from design to all the other things. We haven't ...
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Search Requests
Sun, Dec 8, 2002 at 1:57:43 pm PST
New feature! Search engine requests for LGF are now listed on their own page, displaying the actual queries that visitors typed into their search forms. These queries are a source of endless amusement and occasional revelation—and/or revulsion.
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From OK City to the Middle East
Sun, Dec 8, 2002 at 11:14:50 am PST
Jayna Davis is convinced that Timothy McVeigh was in league with Islamic radicals from the Middle East when he bombed the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City, and she’s uncovered a large amount of evidence for her belief. She lays out the case in this audio presentation for Senator Arlen Specter. ...
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A Violent Religion?
Sun, Dec 8, 2002 at 10:26:20 am PST
Charles Krauthammer says the question of whether Islam is a violent religion is meaningless. The real issue is not the essence of an abstraction--who can say what is the real Christianity or the real Judaism?--but the actions of actual Muslims in the world today. And there is no denying the ...
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Murder in Religion’s Name
Sun, Dec 8, 2002 at 10:15:11 am PST
LGF reader Montgomery emailed about this op-ed in the New Haven Register, saying that it looks as if the LGF viewpoint is starting to be heard in the mainstream press: Murder in religion’s name. There are over 1 billion Muslims in the world, so generalizations about their religion are difficult. ...
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Concordia in the News
Sun, Dec 8, 2002 at 10:04:01 am PST
UPI has a report today on Concordia University’s outrageous banning of Hillel: Jewish group fights suspension in Montreal. At a news conference on Friday afternoon, CSU President Sabine Friesinger said the student union might have gone too far in suspending Hillel's funding. The Montreal Gazette reported that she said she ...
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Al Qaeda Claims Kenya
Sun, Dec 8, 2002 at 8:40:36 am PST
Al Qaeda Claims Kenya Attacks, Vows More. "I hereby confirm what has been issued by al Qaeda political office regarding our responsibility for the Mombasa attacks in Kenya," leading al Qaeda member Sulaiman Bu Ghaith said in an audio statement aired Sunday by Qatar's al Jazeera channel. "The Christian-Jewish alliance ...
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Said vs. Makiya
Sat, Dec 7, 2002 at 6:45:50 pm PST
Here’s a fascinating post at Martin Kramer’s weblog about the long-standing feud between Palestinian apologist Edward Said and Iraqi dissident Kanan Makiya. Palestinian "intellectuals" beat loud drums for Saddam; some of them played shrill flutes against American intervention. Edward Said was the first flautist. In the fray, Makiya accused Said ...
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Chaos Spreads in the PA
Sat, Dec 7, 2002 at 5:30:44 pm PST
The chaos and internecine warfare between Hamas and Fatah in the Gaza Strip is intensifying. For the second time in the past three days, Fatah gunmen in Gaza City fired on the home of a Hamas leader, Palestinian sources told The Jerusalem Post on Saturday. They said several masked gunmen ...
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Not Just Anti-Semitic Lies
Sat, Dec 7, 2002 at 4:53:28 pm PST
The Egyptian television series based on anti-Semitic forgery The Protocols of the Elders of the Zion is no aberration. At the Jerusalem Report, Ehud Ya'ari says the essence of the message is that there is no possibility of making peace with the Jews: Not Just Anti-Semitic Lies. "Horseman without a ...
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Presidents May Have Lied
Sat, Dec 7, 2002 at 1:55:34 pm PST
The Onion has an exclusive report on a shocking new scandal in the White House. WASHINGTON, DC—In allegations likely to further erode Americans' faith in the office of the presidency, presidents George Washington through George W. Bush may have lied about key matters of national import during their tenures as ...
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Bush Praises Islam
Sat, Dec 7, 2002 at 12:51:17 pm PST
Bush praises Islam for its 'morality.' President Bush yesterday removed his shoes, entered a mosque and praised Islam for inspiring "countless individuals to lead lives of honesty, integrity, and morality."For the second time since the September 11 terrorist attacks, the president yesterday visited Washington's oldest mosque, the Islamic Center, where ...
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Miss World: Turkey
Sat, Dec 7, 2002 at 12:26:15 pm PST
The Miss World contest, thoroughly battered and maligned from every side, limped to a finish today with a Turkish model and belly dancer taking the prize.
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Whistleblowers Ignored by FBI?
Sat, Dec 7, 2002 at 10:35:19 am PST
The Globe is reporting that the Boston office of the FBI failed to act on two tips that software firm Ptech had ties to a suspected terrorist financier. A whistle-blower from Ptech Inc. told the Boston FBI in October 2001 that the company was being financially backed by Yasin al-Qadi, ...
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Those Wacky Iraqis
Sat, Dec 7, 2002 at 9:52:05 am PST
Ever wonder what 12,000 pages of bullshit might look like? After trotting out this laughable pile of carp, Saddam bashfully apologized to Kuwait for that little invasion thing. No hard feelings. Saddam said he was not apologizing to the Kuwaitis out of weakness but a desire to set the record straight.In ...
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British Fifth Column Watch
Sat, Dec 7, 2002 at 9:32:54 am PST
Jim Miller summarizes part two of the YouGov survey of British Muslims commissioned by the Telegraph. * Only one third agree that Iraq has tried to acquire weapons of mass destruction. This, in spite of Iraq's use of chemical weapons against the Kurds and Iranians, the discovery of chemical ...
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Bombs in Bangladesh
Sat, Dec 7, 2002 at 8:34:24 am PST
Simultaneous bomb blasts at four separate movie theaters in Bangladesh have killed at least 14 people and wounded hundreds. The bombs went off at movie theaters in and around Mymenshingh, 95 miles north of the capital, at 6 p.m. just as they were filling with men, women and children celebrating ...
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No Pigs Allowed
Sat, Dec 7, 2002 at 8:21:05 am PST
Reader Joel Steinke pointed out this amusing article at Paknews, in which they try to use the children’s story of the Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf as a metaphor for the India-Pakistan conflict. The writer wanted to cast Pakistan in the role of the poor oppressed piggies, ...
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French Anti-Semitism Watch
Fri, Dec 6, 2002 at 5:12:12 pm PST
A new bestselling novel for teens in France is Rever la Palestine, the story of a young Palestinian who becomes a suicide bomber. The fifteen-year-old Egyptian author, Randa Ghazi, who lives with her family in Italy, writes about Palestinian teenagers who fight 'bloodthirsty Jews, who assassinate children and old people, ...
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British Muslim Poll
Fri, Dec 6, 2002 at 3:01:17 pm PST
Jim Miller points out this very disturbing poll of British Muslims: * One in five British Muslims have no loyalty to Britain. * Almost one in ten think that the 9/11 attacks and similar terrorist attacks were justified. * Almost half, even now, do not believe that the 9/11 attackers were Muslims. * Nearly two thirds ...
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And Now: Idiots
Fri, Dec 6, 2002 at 2:36:11 pm PST
Some Canadians feel so strongly that Saddam Hussein must remain in power that they’re going to Iraq to be human shields. Irene Vandas and Jennifer Ziemann of Vancouver are heading to Iraq on Friday. Vandas, a 32-year-old registered nurse, and Ziemann, a 30-year-old home-care worker, will fly to Amsterdam, board ...
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Just Go Back to Sleep
Fri, Dec 6, 2002 at 10:04:56 am PST
Here’s a report that the government is already denying there was any security breach in the Ptech software investigation. Government software specialists said the company's software was safe, after studying the software code for evidence it might do anything other than advertised, such as allowing any insiders to read or ...
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British Muslim Poll (Reopened)
Fri, Dec 6, 2002 at 9:03:46 am PST
Jim Miller points out this very disturbing poll of British Muslims: * One in five British Muslims have no loyalty to Britain. * Almost one in ten think that the 9/11 attacks and similar terrorist attacks were justified. * Almost half, even now, do not believe that the 9/11 attackers were Muslims. * Nearly two thirds ...
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Al Qaeda Access to US Secrets?
Fri, Dec 6, 2002 at 8:34:04 am PST
A Massachusetts software firm has been raided by Customs agents as part of a terrorist investigation—and the firm’s clients include Naval air systems, the Air Force, NATO, the FBI, the House of Representatives, and the Energy Department. "We're investigating whether a businessman on the list of alleged or potential terrorist ...
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A Wahhabism Problem
Fri, Dec 6, 2002 at 8:24:18 am PST
Also at National Review today, Andrew Bostom accuses Stephen Schwartz of “misleading historical reductionism” in his assertion that the problems in Islam are due solely to Saudi influence: A Wahhabism Problem.
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America Upside Down
Fri, Dec 6, 2002 at 8:12:19 am PST
Victor Davis Hanson turns the tables on the America haters, in a must read column: America Upside Down. Make sure you aren’t drinking anything while you read. President Bush raised a firestorm today when he talked grandly of "An American Way." The United States, Mr. Bush asserted, as a "modern" ...
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Partners Quit Saudi PR Firm
Fri, Dec 6, 2002 at 7:59:19 am PST
Three of the founding partners of Qorvis Communications, the US public relations firm hired by Saudi Arabia to whitewash their image, have announced they are leaving the firm. WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 — Saudi Arabia's latest public relations problem may be with its public relations firm.Three of the founding partners in ...
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Peaceful Religion Watch
Thu, Dec 5, 2002 at 5:31:53 pm PST
In America we put every childrens’ toy under the microscope, and make sure nothing too violent or unsafe or militaristic gets released. In the Muslim world, one of the hottest kids’ toys for Eid ul Fitr, the festival that marks the end of the month of Ramadan, is an action ...
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French Anti-Semitism Watch
Thu, Dec 5, 2002 at 1:15:26 pm PST
A synagogue in western France was vandalized today—50 yards from the town's police headquarters and municipal offices.
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A Democrat’s Manifesto
Thu, Dec 5, 2002 at 12:29:22 pm PST
Dr. Bala Ambati makes a case against the Bush administration’s coddling of terror masters in Saudi Arabia and Pakistan: Democrats must oppose Islamic dictatorships.
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What’s On Arafat’s Desk?
Thu, Dec 5, 2002 at 11:48:33 am PST
When last we investigated the situation inside Arafat’s lair, the pile of paperwork next to his reading stand was threatening to topple over and smother him in unanswered correspondence and unpaid invoices for suicide belts. In this photo from November 25 the stack stands apparently unchanged, although we can’t see ...
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Love Alert
Thu, Dec 5, 2002 at 10:39:42 am PST
US Marines in Kuwait went on full alert yesterday, after an Arabic love message was found written on a military vehicle. And for once, I’m not being ironic. The marines, unable to translate the simple phrase, which begins many Arabic love songs, called the alert on Wednesday because they thought the ...
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Saudi Financing for Moscow Theater Attack
Thu, Dec 5, 2002 at 10:03:02 am PST
During the Moscow theater siege in October, Russian security officials intercepted several long telephone conversations between the Chechen terrorists and Gulf Arab states—including, of course, the Saudi entity. Senior officials say they have traced a series of telephone calls from the gunmen to their "sponsors" in the Gulf. During one ...
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Iranian Jihad
Thu, Dec 5, 2002 at 9:54:10 am PST
Lebanon’s Daily Star reports that Iranian Islamozoid vigilantes have declared jihad on all moderate Iranians promoting democratic reforms. TEHRAN: Hard-line vigilantes, best known for disrupting reformist gatherings and beating up students, declared a “holy war” Wednesday to rid Iran of reformers who promote democracy and challenge the country’s supreme leader.The ...
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Religion of Peace Promises a Gift
Thu, Dec 5, 2002 at 9:01:59 am PST
MEMRI has a translation of what appears to be an Al Qaeda threat to attack Americans on December 5 or 6, the Muslim holiday of 'Id al-Fitr. "These words are directed at you, oh Americans, you who have made your dear ones [sic] and your monks into a god other ...
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Outrage of the Day: Gaza U
Thu, Dec 5, 2002 at 8:27:54 am PST
The Concordia University Student’s Union has banned Hillel (the Jewish student’s association) from the campus. But these people are still welcome. On the CSU student newspaper site above, you’ll also find links to not one, but two articles about Noam Chomsky—and a little further down the page, with no apparent irony, ...
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Indonesia McDonald's Bombing
Thu, Dec 5, 2002 at 7:59:25 am PST
A McDonald’s restaurant in eastern Indonesia was bombed today, killing 3 people.
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Got Another One
Wed, Dec 4, 2002 at 6:36:07 pm PST
Today Israel got the terrorist responsible for the massive bombs that destroyed several Merkava tanks. (Hat tip: Jonathan Sperling.)
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Nigerian Free Enterprise
Wed, Dec 4, 2002 at 6:14:26 pm PST
Is there no end to the ingeniously inventive perfidy of the Nigerian email scammers? Now they’re pretending to be from Taiwan: D. B. Clement (External Auditor) 5F,No.109, Min-Sheng E. Rd., Sec. 3, Taipei. Taiwan, R. O. C. Telex: 26354 UBTWIBDI am an external auditor for a Bank in Taiwan.I got your email address while searching ...
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Inspection Charade
Wed, Dec 4, 2002 at 12:11:43 pm PST
Iraq officially says their declaration to the UN will claim they possess no banned weapons. BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq said Wednesday the declaration it will hand to the U.N. will describe its biological, chemical, missile and nuclear technologies, but will not admit to having weapons of mass destruction. "The declaration ...
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CIC Media Research Report
Wed, Dec 4, 2002 at 11:09:32 am PST
LGF reader Glen Wishard points out this page at the web site of the Canadian Islamic Congress, where they judge Canadian media for anti-Islamic bias. The most serious violation in their grading criteria: any mention whatsoever of Islam in connection with violence, for which you receive 100 nasty demerits. 1. Identifying ...
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Morally Neutral Reporting
Wed, Dec 4, 2002 at 9:28:07 am PST
An excellent column from Dennis Prager: Morally neutral reporting is dishonest reporting. Take this typical Reuters report: "A suspected Palestinian militant tried to ram a car laden with explosives into a crowded Tel Aviv nightclub Friday . . . The apparent suicide attack was the latest in a fresh cycle ...
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BBC Bias Watch
Wed, Dec 4, 2002 at 8:31:14 am PST
Here’s another textbook example of how to write a nakedly biased news report, at (where else?) the BBC: Israel 'threatens lives of UN workers.' This is how the BBC describes the killing of Iain Hook: Iain Hook was shot by an Israeli sniper as he negotiated the evacuation of Palestinian ...
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Bombs at Dutch IKEA Stores
Wed, Dec 4, 2002 at 8:03:39 am PST
Bombs were found and defused at two IKEA stores in the Netherlands today. Dutch officials instantly announced that it was not terrorism. AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Police sealed off 10 IKEA stores in the Netherlands Wednesday after bombs found at two branches of the world's biggest furniture retailer were defused at ...
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Got One in Indonesia
Wed, Dec 4, 2002 at 7:44:42 am PST
A senior operative of the Jemaah Islamiyah Indonesian terror gang, thought to be the mastermind of the Bali nightclub bombing, has been arrested in Jakarta. The arrest of the suspect, Ali Ghufron, better known as Mukhlas, was heralded by diplomats and security officials as a significant step in learning more ...
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Government for Sale
Tue, Dec 3, 2002 at 5:13:43 pm PST
Daniel Pipes on the culture of corruption that has let the Saudis quite literally get away with murder: Government for Sale [to the Saudis]. Why this undue solicitude for Saudi feelings? This hedging by the executive branch fits a pattern going back almost 60 years, to when President Franklin D. ...
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Jihad and Dhimmitude
Tue, Dec 3, 2002 at 5:00:15 pm PST
Here’s another good piece by Bat Ye'or, with Andrew Bostom: Jihad and Dhimmitude. A triumphalist jihad literature emerged from a millennium of jihad war military successes. Countless descriptions by Muslim historians recorded in detail the number of slain infidels, the enslavement of the populations, the booty in captives, cattle and ...
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European Countries Ban Kosher Food
Tue, Dec 3, 2002 at 10:56:08 am PST
Under the guise of animal rights activism, five European countries now prohibit the production of kosher food—and Switzerland is considering a total ban on import of kosher meat. Abraham Foxman, the national director of the Anti-Defamation League, said bans on kosher slaughter are the result of activism between animal-rights extremists ...
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Muslims Divided Over Saudi Aid
Tue, Dec 3, 2002 at 9:51:16 am PST
Glenn says we should be noticing and encouraging this development: U.S. Muslims Divided Over Saudi Aid. "Saudi Arabia is a corrupt, dictatorial, fascist state that is an embarrassment to Islam and Muslims," wrote Sarah Eltantawi, communications director of the Los Angeles-based Muslim Public Affairs Council. Accepting foreign donations from such ...
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Saudis Insist Zionists Responsible for 9/11
Tue, Dec 3, 2002 at 8:36:39 am PST
Saudi Arabia’s foreign policy adviser in Washington DC is whining monotonously about how unfairly his country is being treated—while at the same time announcing new measures to prevent Saudi money from reaching terrorists. I just heard a news report that trumpeted, “Saudi Arabia says they stand with the US in ...
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Do You Yahoo?
Tue, Dec 3, 2002 at 7:54:13 am PST
The Palestinians seem to be trying to find ways to align themselves ever more closely with the world’s losers; now they’ve opened a local branch of Al Qaeda. A new Palestinian group calling itself The Islamic al-Qaida in Palestine announced its establishment on the Internet Tuesday, reports Israel Radio. The ...
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Hooper Feels Jewish
Mon, Dec 2, 2002 at 3:39:45 pm PST
When CAIR representative Ibrahim Hooper gets quoted in the Washington Post, rather than denounce the horrific terror attacks being carried out across the world on a daily basis in the name of Islam, he whines about Muslim victimhood and comes out with this mind-numbingly repulsive utterance: "These right-wingers are ...
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Al Qaeda Confession
Mon, Dec 2, 2002 at 3:26:23 pm PST
A statement on an Islamozoid web site purporting to be from Al Qaeda has confessed guilt for the attacks in Kenya. "At the same place where the 'Jewish Crusader coalition' was hit four years ago ... here the fighters ... came back once again to strike heavily against that evil ...
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A Deafening Silence
Mon, Dec 2, 2002 at 2:32:29 pm PST
A great column from the Toronto Star’s Rosie DiManno: Latest Attack on Jews Brings A Deafening Silence. I have been waiting, in the days since Thursday's abominable attack, for just one word of sympathy, of pity, from the Muslim world. One note of commiseration to emanate from inside the thousands ...
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Miss World Grovels
Mon, Dec 2, 2002 at 1:21:31 pm PST
The Miss World Organization completely caves in to Islamic supremacist intimidation, in a groveling, nearly incoherent press release. (Hat tip: Andrew Sullivan.) Press release from the Miss World OrganisationThe Miss World Organisation and all of the Miss World contestants were shocked and deeply saddened by the appalling comments made in ...
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Fallaci: I Stand with Israel: I Stand with the Jews
Mon, Dec 2, 2002 at 10:19:10 am PST
Oriana Fallaci cranks up a great rant today: I Stand with Israel: I Stand with the Jews. I find it shameful that the Roman Observer, the newspaper of the Pope--a Pope who not long ago left in the Wailing Wall a letter of apology for the Jews--accuses of extermination a ...
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Bush and the Saudi Princess
Mon, Dec 2, 2002 at 9:49:37 am PST
Mark Steyn writes about the issue the Democrats should be exploiting—except that it might be hard to reconcile with an anti-war stance: Bush and the Saudi princess. As for Bandar, he seems far more likely than most Washington diplomats casually ensnared in some embarrassment to have had a reasonable idea ...
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Peaceful Religion Watch
Mon, Dec 2, 2002 at 9:16:05 am PST
On the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan, at a mosque in Delhi, India, an Islamic leader called on all Muslim countries to acquire nuclear weapons. In his sermon, Imam Bukhari said "The US, the Zionist regime [Israel], and the United Kingdom will be defeated and expelled to ...
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Patten and Perle Slug It Out
Mon, Dec 2, 2002 at 8:49:27 am PST
FrontPage has a transcript of a fascinating debate between Chris Patten and Richard Perle: The State of the West. (Hat tip: M. Simon.)
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An-Najah Recruits Murderers
Mon, Dec 2, 2002 at 8:46:29 am PST
Ben at Stop Online Terror discovered that the student association at An-Najah University in Nablus (known as the University of Death) has been running a recruitment site for Hamas, and he alerted the IDF—who have posted translations of the student association’s death cult propaganda. In a chapter called "the culture ...
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LGF T-Shirts
Mon, Dec 2, 2002 at 8:09:35 am PST
Those LGF T-shirts we talked about before Thanksgiving are now in the works! If you’re interested, please take a few seconds to fill out this T-shirt survey, to help us estimate how many of each type of shirt we need to order. Here’s the design: T-shirt front. T-shirt back. I don’t want to ...
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Big Lies Exposed
Sun, Dec 1, 2002 at 11:50:30 am PST
Here’s an excellent article with answers to the Four Big Lies promoted by the anti-Israel divestment campaign: The Big Lie: Divest from Israel.
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Outrage of the Day
Sun, Dec 1, 2002 at 10:05:31 am PST
A Newsweek story on the attacks in Kenya contains a nugget that has gone totally unreported elsewhere: Open Season. (Hat tip: NC.) The carefully orchestrated attack on Israelis so far from home suggests that Al Qaeda is no longer satisfied with simply invoking Israel as an enemy of Islam in ...
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Putin Worries
Sun, Dec 1, 2002 at 7:35:02 am PST
Russian president Vladimir Putin warns that Pakistani nuclear weapons could fall into the hands of terrorists. Putin, who arrives for a three-day official visit to India on Tuesday, told the Hindu newspaper that the international community needed "to have a clear picture of where those weapons are, in what status, ...
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Kashmir Terror Activity
Sun, Dec 1, 2002 at 7:23:46 am PST
In Kashmir, followers of the Religion of Peace™ continue to spread their messages of love and tolerance: 15 killed, 17 hurt in Kashmir shootouts, explosions.
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The Quiet American
Sun, Dec 1, 2002 at 7:15:06 am PST
Mark Steyn cuts right to the heart of Euro-Canadian anti-Americanism: John Derbyshire of America's National Review thinks the Middle East needs a massive invasion of psychiatrists. Well, about halfway through this last week in Canada, I realized I was beginning to feel about my homeland exactly the way I'd felt ...
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Haughey Deletes LGF Link
Sun, Dec 1, 2002 at 1:46:03 am PST
Matt Haughey is apparently now deleting Metafilter posts that link to LGF. This is what’s left of a link to the Whole Stuffed Camel entry. Go see it quickly, before Matt gets rid of the rest of the evidence; and note the sick fantasy expressed by one of the lovable ...
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