Month: May 2009

Ahmadinejad Can Speak on a US Campus, But Netanyahu Cannot

By Edward Olshaker/American Thinker

Imagine it’s 1940, and picture Adolf Hitler speaking at a US university, receiving a polite reception, while Winston Churchill is barred from speaking because his safety cannot be guaranteed.

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It’s unthinkable, yet the very same pro-fascist dynamic is a reality in 21st Century America.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu comes to America knowing he is a second-class citizen who is denied the free-speech rights enjoyed even by prominent jihadists, having been violently prevented from speaking on campuses in the US and Canada in recent years.  
Protestors at Berkeley, the campus once synonymous with the term “free speech,” forced the cancellation of Netanyahu’s speech there, as well as two subsequent speeches, in November 2000. The Jewish Bulletin of Northern California reported:

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Iranian sources: Obama to free four Iranian "diplomats" as swap for US journalist

* You knew this was gonna happen: Debka Report

Roxana Saberi's release part of US-Iran swap?

Roxana Saberi’s release part of US-Iran swap?

According to DEBKAfile‘s Iranian sources, US journalist Roxana Saberi was released Tuesday, May 12, as part of an exchange deal under which Washington agreed to free four senior Iranian Revolutionary Guards intelligence officers captured in Irbil, northern Iraq in January 2007. Defined as “diplomats” by Tehran, they ran terror operations and covert arms supplies from Iran then to al Qaeda and Sunni insurgent networks.

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Obambi leads, KRudd follows…

Next they’ll have to pay for their coffins

  • The history of Australian politics is that Labor gives us deficits and Liberals pay it off. Not too different to the rest of the world in which the left insists on spending the next generation’s wealth to pay for supposedly progressive policies in the here and now. It’s completely immoral, of course. But being left has never been about morals…

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* No wonder they accuse our soldiers to be terrorists in the making:

Andrew Bolt – Next they’ll have to pay for their coffins

Why must Diggers pay if their life insurance isn’t enough?

AUSSIE Diggers being deployed to Afghanistan are being warned by the Defence Department topay for extra life insurance because existing compensation has been deemed “inadequate”.

A day after 600 troops from Townsville left for the warzone, The Courier-Mail can reveal hundreds of soldiers have been issued with letters from the department advising of the need for “appropriate insurance”.

“The additional accident insurance cost for basic cover is less than a night out on the town for a few beers with your mates each month,” the letter reads.

If it’s that cheap, why does the Government pay it? It has billions for pink batts, so why not a few millions for soldiers risking death in the line of duty?

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whatever it takes to smear the troops and to destroy the war effort. And the country along with it:

RUMOUR PERSISTS, DAMAGE DONE

Tim Blair – Sunday, May 10, 09 

The Sun-Herald‘s Conrad Walters on Joe Rosenthal’s celebrated photograph of the landing at Iwo Jima: 

The original photo, which was later revealed as having been staged, inspired a memorial statue in Washington and was central to the 2006 Clint Eastwood films Flags Of Our Fathers and Letters From Iwo Jima. 

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Rosenthal, who died three years ago, spent more than half a century defending that image. It wasn’t staged, as this 1995 Associated Press piece tried to make clear: 

The man responsible for spreading the story that the picture was staged, the late Time-Life correspondent Robert Sherrod, long ago admitted he was wrong. But still the rumor persists.

In 1991, a New York Times book reviewer, misquoting a murky treatise on the flag-raising called “Iwo Jima: Monuments, Memories and the American Hero,” went so far as to suggest that the Pulitzer Prize committee consider revoking Rosenthal’s 1945 award for photography.

And just a year ago [in 1994], columnist Jack Anderson promised readers “the real story” of the Iwo Jima photo: that Rosenthal had “accompanied a handpicked group of men for a staged flag raising hours after the original event.”

Anderson later retracted his story. But the damage, once again, had been done. 

Evidently.

(Via Alan R.M. Jones)

UPDATE. The Sun-Herald knows all about staged shots. So do the experts at sister publication the Sydney Morning Herald.

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Australia, Jew-hatred and Racism

Australian Jews shocked by anti-Semitic YouTube videos

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 Offensive videos posted on YouTube by Perth man Brendon O’Connell send shockwaves through local Jewish community. ‘People said they didn’t know such things still existed, certainly not in Australia,’ Jewish Agency emissary relates

* This is a case of  assault, stalking, verbally battering  and savaging two young Jews, who just happened to be in a supermarket minding their own business. The fact that O’Donnell actually punched one of them in the face (which was not shown on the video) makes it a first degree hate crime. Therefore its not  a free speech issue and we don’t need racial vilification laws to deal with this.

The video of the actual confrontation was taken down by YouTube for it’s antisemitic tirade.

Youtube  still has a few O’Donnell  vid’s which haven’t been removed since the time of this writing, via Jawa Report:

His youtube account is here.

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Daniel Edelson/Israel News

VIDEO – Anti-Semitic videos posted by an Australian man, Brendon O’Connell from Perth, on YouTube have sent shockwaves through the Jewish community in the city.

O’Connell, 39, was arrested Thursday and is set to appear before a court next week and be charged with conduct likely to incite animosity or racist harassment. If convicted, he faces a possible maximum penalty of 14 years in prison plus a fine of $18,000.

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ISLAMOPHOBIA BIGGEST OBSTACLE FOR WORLD PEACE, SAYS HEAD OF TURKISH RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS

More of the same; translation:  if we would just lie down and submit, everything would be just swell. Of course, it’s always entirely up to the West to stop Islamophobia. Muslim countries couldn’t possibly consider a few simple steps of their own.

* Somebody whack this Turkey upside the head with a lead-filled snow shoe, before the enraged soldiers of Allah peacefully cut our throats…

Curiously, Muslims have no problem with  hate-filled garbage like this:

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ISTANBUL (A.A) – via ZIP – Islam is against all kinds of violence, and Islamophobia is the biggest obstacle for global peace, head of Turkey’s Religious Affairs Directorate said at the closing meeting of the 7th meeting of Eurasia Islamic Council.

“As a universal message, Islam is against all kinds of violence, extremism, pressures and intolerance. We announce that we are standing against violence and terrorism no matter who the perpetrators are and which religion they believe in,” Ali Bardakoglu told the council meeting that gathered representatives from 42 countries in Istanbul.

“And we are hopeful,” Bardakoglu said. “Because Eurasia has a big heritage of religious sciences.”

Bardakoglu said the Eurasian geography –from Istanbul to Sarajevo, Samarkand and Tashkent– was home to several important scholars in history.

“We must be aware of our rich heritage,” he said, adding that the Islamic world should overcome prejudices.

Bardakoglu also said Eurasian countries should work together to teach Islam and form a common calender for religious days.

Pakistan, Talibanistan…

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Good news first:

Taliban jihadists shaving their beards and trying to flee

The great courageous mujahedin crumble at the first sign of resistance. “Taliban men shaving beards to flee: Army,” from the Times of India, May 16 (thanks to Jihad Watch):

KOTA: Taliban fighters are shaving off their beards and trying to flee from a Pakistani army offensive in their Swat bastion, the military said on Friday.Clashes had erupted in various parts of the region, the military said on Friday, adding it was achieving successes. It also appealed to civilians to identify Taliban fighters trying to flee.

“We have confirmed reports that these Taliban terrorists, after shaving off their beards and cutting their hair, are fleeing from the area,” the military said. “We request the people of Swat to identify them,” it said, while providing a telephone number for informants to call or send text messages….

Bad news next:

Al-Qaeda diversifying its alliances with Pakistani jihadist groups

“‘During recent fighting in Bajaur, senior Pakistani officers repeatedly insisted that the local villagers had been led astray by shadowy international militants,’ the correspondent said…”

Funny how these alleged misunderstanders of Islam keep finding each other and uniting under a shared set of goals. Despite the claims below that the conflicts inside Pakistan are “essentially local,” the common thread among these groups and acts of jihadist violence from London to Algeria to the Philippines is the imperative to subjugate the entire world under Islamic law. If they were into bumper stickers, they might read: “Think jihad globally, wage jihad locally.”

“Al Qaeda trying to establish links with jihadi groups,” from Dawn, May 13:

“Long live Taliban! Death to infidels!’” — the rhetoric Pakistani Christians must endure

Not to mention the actual violence. More on this situation. “Spiralling violence targets minorities,” from the Times of India, May 15:

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The West is Naïve, Greedy, and Cowardly When it Comes to Appeasing Islamists

Dr. Sami Alrabaa

Some Westerners, especially politicians, act in good faith toward Islamists and Muslim terrorists. Guantanamo will be closed, and its inmates will be rehabilitated in the U.S. and some European countries – although everybody knows that these men were not accidentally roaming Afghanistan as tourists, but were criminals fighting along side their Taliban comrades when they were arrested.
 
Alongside Hamid Karzei, the Afghan president, and Pakistan’s president, Asif Ali Zardari, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said during a press conference on May 6, 2009, that she “deeply regretted” the death of civilians in a recent clash with Taliban terrorists, and promised a thorough investigation.
But Clinton should by now know that terrorists, whether they are Taliban or Hamas do not value human life. They use civilians as human shields when they fight the “infidels.” This has become a pattern in Afghanistan and Gaza. Besides, as these terrorists do not wear a uniform, it is difficult to tell whether they are civilians or terrorists.
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* Another case of infidel intolerance towards innocent Muslims, who just wanna be ‘different’- a very lucrative racket:

UK: Muslim doctor says she was fired for attending Friday prayers

Here again we see the same phenomenon playing out that we have seen many, many times over the last few years: a Muslim demands that a workplace change its practices to allow for Islamic observance, rather than dealing with the parameters of the job as it is. Every one of these incidents is a test case in the question of which will prevail: Islamic law or Western practice and custom. Will Muslims be established as a privileged class in Western countries, with rights that others don’t have, or will equality of rights and equality of treatment be maintained?

“Muslim doctor blames prayers for sack,” from the Yorkshire Post, May 15 (thanks to JW):

A Muslim doctor who was dismissed from her job claims she was discriminated against on religious grounds because she wanted to attend a mosque for prayers every Friday, a tribunal heard yesterday.

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Amnesia Intentional fails to connect the dots…

* Of course they don’t, because this worthless ‘world body’ is totally infiltrated and corrupted by Muslim agit-props and useful idiots:

Amnesty International condemns amputations in Somalia, but sidesteps the role of sharia

Rather, the report attributes such punishments to the lack of the rule of law, ignoring the fact that amputation for theft is a mainstay of Islamic law. This underscores the obvious but crucial point that one man’s “rule of law” is not necessarily equivalent to another’s. A great deal depends on whose law, and whose idea of “justice” is being enforced. And political correctness aside, they are not all basically the same.

“Watchdog condemns amputations in southern Somalia,” from Agence France-Presse, May 14, via Jihad Watch

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Spencer: Muslim Persecution of Christians

Muslim Persecution of Christians 

By: Robert Spencer /FrontPageMagazine.com 

Christianity, born in the Middle East, is in danger of losing its two millenia-long presence there. If that notion sounds alarmist to Western ears, it is acknowledged by Middle Easterners as a growing likelihood.
 
This precipitous decline is chronicled and explained in a detailed historical video entitled Muslim Persecution of Christians, produced by the Terrorism Awareness Project. The video, which is embedded below, recounts contemporary examples of anti-Christian violence, and the Islamic theology that justifies and intensifies it.
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“I fear the extinction of Christianity in Iraq and the Middle East,” said the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Baghdad, Jean Benjamin Sleiman, as Pope Benedict XVI visited that troubled region this week. The Lebanese Christian columnist Sarkis Naoum added: “Unless there is a turn toward secularism in the Arab world, I don’t think there is a future for Christians here.” In 1909, the Middle East was 20 percent Christian; one hundred years later, that percentage has fallen to five percent.

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