Month: April 2010

Qaradawi meets Mandela

Islamic scholar Sheikh Yousuf al-Qaradawi, who is on a visit to South Africa, met South African leader Nelson Mandela and gifted him some of the books he authored on Islam and the Holy Qur’an.

Qaradawi, who arrived in Johannesburg on Friday, hailed the South African leader as the “hero of Africa”.

He also gave lectures at the Muslim Judicial Council on duties of Muslim minorities in the world. The scholar also met with leading figures from the Muslim community in South Africa as well as some Arab diplomats. Gulf Times/via Bunglawussi Watch

Other news:

Obama’s poll numbers are now worse than ever.

Australia:

Here we go again:

A GROUP of Sri Lankan and Afghan asylum seekers at a Sydney detention centre have begun a hunger strike over the Federal Government’s toughened policy on claims.

KRudd contradicted

Smuggler confirms what KRudd denies

…….

UK: Election Panic Grips Nullabor

All public sector workers will be expected to speak English… under manifesto pledges to be announced by Gordon Brown today.

Poland:

• Together with his twin brother Jaroslaw, Lech Kaczynski shaped Polish politics for years — at times keeping the rest of the European Union on tenterhooks over its next political moves. On Saturday, the Polish president died in a tragic plane crash — on his way…The Death of a President: The Tragic End of Kaczynski’s National Mission
• Polish President Lech Kaczynski, his wife and high-ranking members of the Polish government died in a plane crash on Saturday morning in heavy fog in Smolensk, Russia. The government in Warsaw has called an emergency meeting.’This Is a Wound Which Will Be Very Difficult to Heal’: Polish President, Senior Politicians Killed in Plane Crash

Tomorrow I paint a pussy on my cheek and call it my religion.

Thanks to all who sent this in:

UK police bow to “Islamic sensitivities,” allow Muslim protesters to throw shoes

What’s a little shoe throwing got to do with Muslims? Nothing to do with Islam, you Islamophobe, you!. They are loyal, law-abiding citizens and its only a tiny, tiny minority of extremists that causes trouble. (did anybody blame the Jews yet?)

So what have we got here: shoe throwing? Not a problem! Why didn’t you tell us its part of your culture?!

Oh, it’s a custom from the old country?! Why didn’t you say so!

It’s a “ritual form of protest,” you see, and therefore “not a criminal act of violence.” That means the shoes won’t hurt as much.

Well, what’s next?

Killing infidels? Check.

FGM? Check.

Polygamy? Check.

Honor Killing? Check.

Throwing acid on women, wife beating, child marriage, terrorizing the kaffir, extracting the jiziya, (protection racket) raping infidel women, hey: who are we to judge? Aren’t all cultures equal? Gotta respect it, folks!

Absurd Britannia Alert: “Met allows Islamic protesters to throw shoes,” by David Leppard for The Sunday Times, April 11, via JW:

SCOTLAND YARD has bowed to Islamic sensitivities and accepted that Muslims are entitled to throw shoes in ritual protest — which could have the unintended consequence of politicians or the police being hit.News of the concession by the Metropolitan police has come to light amid a series of trials of more than 70 mostly Muslim demonstrators who were charged with violent disorder after last year’s Gaza protests outside the Israeli embassy in London.

Aquib Salim, 21, an IT student at Queen Mary, London University, who was involved in a shoe-throwing incident, is almost certain to avoid a prison sentence as a result.

Chris Holt, Salim’s solicitor, said he was likely to get a suspended sentence after he pleaded guilty to a single charge of throwing a stick at police lines.

“The court accepted that the earlier shoe-throwing incident was simply a ritual form of protest and therefore not a criminal act of violence,” Holt said.

Judge Denniss agreed that the act of shoe-throwing should not be considered in a charge of violent disorder against the student because it was “a symbolic” political gesture.

That means the bruises of the victims will be symbolic, also.

Shoes, and particularly the soles of shoes, are regarded as ritually unclean in the Islamic world. An Iraqi journalist became a folk hero for throwing a shoe at President George W Bush during a press conference in December 2008.The president ducked, but Muntadhar al-Zaidi was jailed for three years and allegedly tortured by the Iraqis. He was released after nine months and his gesture inspired many imitators….

The concession has already been taken up enthusiastically by Muslim demonstrators, who pelted Downing Street with shoes in protest at the Israeli bombing of Gaza last year.

Dozens of ski-boots and clogs were also hurled at the US consulate in Edinburgh in a related protest, in which three policemen sustained minor injuries….

Ah, but the injuries were only minor! Ain’t multiculturalism grand?

From Robert Spencer, Jihad Watch:

• “How would it look for Christians to execute a MUSLIM MURDERER who …
• “You cannot kill a Muslim because he killed a Christian” – Jihad Watch
• Iran: Christian life worth only a twelfth that of a Muslim – Jihad …

A good question from Doug Giles — and note, of course, that while Doug is right that the mainstream media did not report on the Muslim bb gun shooting of a gay man in San Francisco, we did here at Jihad Watch:

Let me see if I have this right: Muslims can confess to shooting a man they thought was gay in the face with a BB gun and can plea out and get community service? Well isn’t that special?And a Muslim can smoke a pipe in the bathroom of an airborne 757 and then, when caught, act like a cavalier jackass to the arresting air marshal and walk away because of some diplomatic immunity nonsense? Is that it? Yes? Oh, okay. Well, I have four words for that … la-di-flippin’-da. (Someone help me here: Does diplomatic immunity also extend to terrorism?)

So you heard about the dipstick diplomat from Qatar firing up on a plane, but you didn’t hear about the three Muslims shooting at gays in the Bay area, you say? Well, that’s really weird. I wonder why most of you missed that? Oh, I remember: It’s because the Deranged Stream Media buries and/or severely downplays stories about Islamic whack jobs as well as flag-burning liberal protesters and skewers only those on the right, right? Here’s the untold story.

I wonder if the militant gay community is going raise Cain about these three Muslim cats going out and strafing their buddies because you know they would get righteously irate if three Pentecostal youth ministers were the culprits. But don’t hold your breath, folks….

Other News:

• Anti-Semitic incidents doubled last year, dhimmi AP blames “backlash” for Israel’s incursion into Gaza

Now Obama Wants To Impose His Version Of Peace On Israel Against It’s Will And With No Say

Daled Amos

I don’t know how you can force 2 sides to sit down and live in peace, but then again–I don’t have the years of experience that Obama has in such matters.

Oh, wait…

In any case, Jennifer Rubin does have a good question: How Do You Impose Peace?

Jimmy Carter’s failed National Security Advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski, warns that “If the Israelis refuse to accept Obama’s destruction of Israel plan as the point of departure for negotiations, the Obama administration must be prepared to pursue its initiative by different means.”

Barenaked:

Is Zbigniew Brzeinski advising Obama to attack Israel?

The Obama-bastard brings all the old Jew-haters out of their rat-holes……

Lieberman: Stripping ‘Islamic’ Terrorism From Security Document Dishonest, ‘Offensive’/Fox News

The most famous attempt to impose peace was at the Treaty of Versailles after WWI–and one of the key ingredients was to demilitarize Germany. Of course, that was then: this is now. These days, one of the key ingredients to create peace is to give arms to the Palestinian Arabs and train them on how to use them–ideally on other Arab Palestinians.

Ideally–but not necessarily. Last year Lt. Gen. Keith Dayton, who is training the Palestinian Arabs, spoke to the 2009 Soref Symposium organized by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Robert Dreyfuss, a blogger for The Nation wrote in US General Builds A Palestinian Army:

Recognizing that by organizing and training thousands of Palestinian troops, professionally led, he is creating in effect a nationalist army, Dayton warned the 500 or so WINEP listeners that the troops can only be strung along for just so long. “With big expectations, come big risks,” said Dayton. “There is perhaps a two-year shelf life on being told that you’re creating a state, when you’re not.” To my ears, at least, his subtle warning is that if concrete progress isn’t made toward a Palestinian state, the very troops Dayton is assembling could rebel.

Back in October, Aaron Klein of World Net Daily spoke to some of those receiving that training–and they indicated just what their expectations were:

Continue reading Bogus Potus & Israel

Attorney files motion to link eligibility, health-care lawsuits

By Chelsea Schilling
© 2010 WorldNetDaily

A California lawyer who has led several of the high-profile legal challenges to Barack Obama’s eligibility to be president has filed a motion to intervene in a case by 13 attorneys general contesting the constitutionality of the Democrats’ massive health-care plan.

Attorney Orly Taitz – now a candidate for secretary of state in California – is seeking to link her case and the case against the health-care law, Florida et al vs. United States Department of Health and Human Services.

In legal documents filed April 6 in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida, Taitz requests an oral argument on the motion to take place April 14 at 9 a.m.

As WND recently reported, Taitz argues, “H.R. 3590 was signed into law by Mr. Barack Hussein Obama, who … never proved his legitimacy to the presidency. Therefore the act is invalid, as it was not signed by one legally entitled to sign it.”

Continue reading No birth certificate? No Obamacare!

Sally Neighbour/The Australian

Iranian infiltrators go after regime critics abroad:

• Students held on trips back to Iran
• Iranian embassy ‘spying on activist students’
• On the track of Tehran’s agents
• ASIO cloaks suspicion in secrecy

IRANIAN community members in Australia have reacted with alarm to news that the government in Tehran plans to set up a special court to prosecute Iranians living abroad for taking part in pro-democracy protests against the regime.

In other news:

Iranian Supremo embarks on comedy career, claims that Obama threatened Iran with nukes

You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll be incinerated in a nuclear holocaust. “Iran says new US policy a nuclear threat,” by Ali Akbar Dareini for Associated Press, April 11 (JW)

Continue reading Iranian Thugs Threaten Regime Critics Who Participate in Pro-Democracy Protests DownUnder